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|12 Large
|Cherrystone clams
|Chorizos/Other garlic-flavored sausage
|1⁄2 Pound
|Olive oil
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Pork cubes
|1⁄2 Pound
|Chicken breasts thighs and legs
|Green pepper
|Tomato sauce
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Long grain rice
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Saffron powder
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|1 Teaspoon
|Garlic powder
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|1⁄4 Teaspoon
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With kitchen shears, break center of ribs on belly side of lobster shell.
Loosen meat from shell with fingers, leaving meat attached near tail fins.
Shell and devein shrimp.
Scrub clams and mussels.
Soak mussels in cold water 30 minutes to remove salty taste.
Discard any that open their shells while soaking; drain.
Place sausage in shallow skillet.
Cover with water; bring to boil.
Boil 5 minutes; drain.
Remove skin from sausage; cut into 1/4-inch rounds.
Heat 1/3 cup oil.
Fry sausage until browned on each side.
Remove from skillet; drain.
Add pork to heated oil.
Fry until brown on all sides and no longer pink.
Remove from skillet; drain.
Add chicken to skillet.
Fry 45 minutes or until golden brown and meat is cooked.
Remove from skillet; drain.
Add lobster to skillet; fry just until shells start to turn pink.
Remove from skillet; drain.
Add remaining oil to skillet; heat thoroughly.
Peel and chop onion.
Saute in skillet 10 minutes or until tender.
Remove seeds and membranes from pepper; dice.
Add to onions; saute 5 minutes.
Stir in tomato sauce; simmer until mixture thickens and holds its shape in spoon.
Add rice, saffron, salt, garlic powder, and pepper; mix well.
Add boiling water; mix well.
Bring mixture to boil; reduce heat to simmer.
Arrange lobster, shrimp, clams, mussels, sausage, pork, and chicken on top of rice mixture.
Scatter peas and tomato over rice and meat; cover.
Simmer 30 to 45 minutes or until rice is tender, shrimp and lobster meat turns white, and mussels and clams pop open.
Remove from heat.
Cover; let rest 10 minutes for flavors to mingle.


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Hi and welcome to more about me and the person I'm looking for :) I'm pretty easy going and I try to take care of my mind and body. I'm in good health and I try to eat right. Although I do have a little bit of a sweet tooth, but I believe in moderation. Last summer, I started playing golf and really enjoyed getting out and walking around the course chasing my ball. Although with every swing I tried to make a perfect shot, it seldom worked out that way. Kind of like life, so you just have to make the best shot from where ever your ball decided to land. I like to hike, bike (peddle) and I enjoy roller blading. I like the outdoors, basically if it's nice, why not be outside. I've decided to go back to skiing last winter, which I haven't done since 1989. So I got myself some new skis (I figured my 2 decade old skis were probably out of date) and a pass for Holiday Valley. So I went off to hit the slopes and did remarkably well considering I had to shake those cobwebs off. I just got my new HV pass and ready to hit the slopes this year as well. I'm adventurous, willing to try most anything if it looks fun. I have a college degree (masters) but my whole intent of school was to get out of it as fast as I could. I did well and had a good time, but working during the day and going to school at night didn't leave time for much else. If things are important to you, then you make time for them. I have a great career in which I get to help people every day. I can really make a difference in their lives and it makes me feel good knowing I did my part. Although I enjoy the finer things in life, I have learned that its people that are our greatest asset. What am I looking for? Well, looks are important, as people do have to be physically attractive to one another. But that does only go so far. People have to be able to communicate with each other. Carry out a conversation. An education doesn't necessarily mean that a person is smart. Positive mental attitude, goals, desires, dreams are also important. Without these, people might as well be dead. I'm very easy going. It takes a lot to ruffle these feathers. I'm just looking for a loyal honest person to learn, grow, have fun with and enjoy life. I have been divorced for 15 years and am now looking for someone who has the potential for a long-term relationship.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing cards , Playing sports , Religion/Spiritual , Shopping/Antiques , Travel/Sightseeing , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Baseball, Basketball, Billiards / Pool, Bowling, Cycling, Dancing, Football, Golf, Hockey, Inline skating, Martial arts, Other types of exercise, Running, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis / Racquet sports, VolleyBall, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I like Birds, Cats, Dogs, Horses
Middle of the Road
I do not really have a favorite place, but I do enjoy good food and great company. It doesn't necessarily have to by expensive, but it would be nice to find someone to share a good meal with. care to join me?
I do enjoy the movies ... anything but gore ... typical guy stuff but that doesn't limit me to seeing chick flicks as well ... fair is fair
I get up early before I go to work and go to the gym ... although sometimes it is tough to get up ... I feel the freshest and there are less people so I'm able to get more done in less time ... this leave me more time to enjoy the evenings.
I keep up on current events that kind of stuff, iI do enjoy a good book, but I just haven't read anything lately
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|No preference
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I'm very fortunate to have a great career. Monday through Friday with an occasional weekend commitment for an outreach event. I have an office and I get to travel around the WNY area, so I have the best of both worlds.
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Living my Life like its GOLDEN!
Let's see...this is the part I can do without. Words does not necessarily tell all about a person. To know more "about me" would involve spending time with me and gettihg to know who I am on the inside as well as what I represent on the outside. To know me is to look me in my eyes when we talk, after all "eyes are the windows to your soul" (smile) ok, so you wanna know "something"? Here goes, I love music (jazz, R&B, pop, rock, rap, you name it, I love it). I love live music especially and I absolutely love to travel. I am a beach bum and am crazy about the sun. Call me "SUN GODDESS". I can do without the winter - its dark and cold *YUCK*. I am a bundle of energy (98% of the time) and I love to laugh. There you have it! What I am looking for? I am looking for friendship and if the chemistry is there, I am willing to see where things go. I believe my ideal partner will be strong, determined and have a focused sense of direction. together, we MUST be able to communicate, laugh together, pray together, work together and strive together. We all have had trials and tribulations, yes I know, but we are all afforded an opportunity to make positive changes in our lives. My partner will also have a sense of humor, a warm heart and able to engage in stimulating conversations. Yes, I love sports, football, basketball, boxing. My teenaged son plays high school football and believe me I haven't missed a game in 12 years. I am a REDSKINS fan (yeah Baby) I would say I am into fitness - at least 10 months of the year (chuckle) but I am committed to a healthy lifestyle. Musical interests: Kem, Michael Franks, EWF, Sade, Frankie Beverly, Jill Scott, Dwele, you name it, I pretty much love it. Books: Anything that will spark my interest TV: Yea, reality. It confirms that my life is GREAT! Favorite Spots: THE BEACH, any place near water
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Basketball, Bowling, Football, Golf, Other types of exercise, Running, Swimming, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I have Other
I like Birds, Dogs, Fish, Horses
We have a pet snake, Raini. She is harmless and venomless.
Ultra Conservative
Love the outdoors and the beach, love to soak up the sun with a good beach read. I absolutely love the caribbean and have made myself a promise to travel abroad as much as I can.
Seinfeld, Discovery, NFL Network, PGA anything humourous and some reality shows.
Avid jazz lover get togethers with family and friends. Huge spectator sport fan, i.e., boxing, basketball and football. Took up golf a couple of years and look forward to getting into the game. Love to travel, love the beach and weekend getaways
Yes I've read the 50 Shades trilology. Hey it was summer and I needed a beach read! (HA)
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|Black, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
|Light brown
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I am afro-Brasilian, my mom being born in Recife, Pernambuco Brasil and my father right from North Carolina!
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South Park co-creator Matt Stone has offered his take on the censorship of newly released console and PC game South Park: The Stick of Truth, saying what was censored in the game was actually mild enough to be shown on the TV show without issue.
"It does feel like a double standard, a little bit," Stone told The Guardian today. "We weren't willing to change the content, but also it doesn't ruin the game--it's like 40 seconds' worth of the whole game. As long as we could make a joke out of the fact that they made us cut this, that was fine."
Make a joke, they did. For the European and Australian versions of the game, during certain censored scenes an image of a statute making a face-palming gesture appears, along with text describing what you would have seen in the uncut version. Some of the censored scenes depicted anal probing and abortion.
South Park: The Stick of Truth is fully uncensored in North America.
Stone said he believes the interactive nature of video games can make some people more "uncomfortable" with certain subjects, as opposed to simply watching an event unfold. This is why what needed to be cut from the game would have been no problem at all on the show, he said.
"There is an interactiveness that makes it different. In movies and television you can do stuff that's morally grey very easily, because you get to show consequences, you get to show reward, but in a video game there's a reason why everything is a Nazi, zombie, or alien--these are pretty clear moral choices," Stone said. "There are things that make people more uncomfortable in an interactive world, definitely. But that said, what we had in the game, we could have shown that on TV pretty easily, especially now."
South Park: The Stick of Truth was recently delayed in Germany and Austria due to the game's use of an "unconstitutional symbol," which we understand to be a swastika. The game launched in North America this week for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. For more, check out what the critics are saying.


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What's up ewrestlingnews.com viewers, fellow bloggers, and wrestling fans?
I just found out the location for next years Wrestlemania. It's going to take place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. At first I was somewhat ok with this until, (sighs), until I saw the logo.
It's not that I think that the venue is a bad place to host Sports Entertainment's version of the Super Bowl, I think
Greetings all wrestling fans. I'm back, and this time, I've come up with a new draft on a legitimate outline of what I believe should happen on April 1, 2012 at SunLife Stadium in Miami, Florida. Here we go:
Ringside Commentators:
Team A: Jim Ross, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and Josh Matthews
Team B: Michael Cole, Booker T, and Scott Stanford
Greetings Guys,
Sunday Night's Royal Rumble was a great show, and it was a great way to kick off "The Road To Wrestlemania XXVIII."
While we are on the road to South Beach, we still have a PPV in between, Elimination Chamber. How is WWE going to book this Pay-Per-View? This is how I would do it.
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Greetings ewrestlingnews.com community,
There has been something on my mind as of late that I feel I need to discuss.
I was watching some old promos the other day on YouTube, and it got me thinking, what are the 10 Best Shoot Promos in Wrestling History? I came up with my personal favorites, and here they are:
But before you ask, no. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Greetings ewrestlingnews.com community,
I'd normally post an article like this under the forums section, but for some reason my iPAD isn't working right so I'm going to make this a blog.*
Every year, TNA Wrestling hosts (in my opinion) one of the Top 10 Biggest Pay-Per-Views of the year. It is TNA's equivalent of WWE's Survivor Series, and it's name, is Lockdown.*
Greetings EWrestlingNews Community,
I've been thinking a lot about TNA Wrestling lately. Especially with the current state of how bad WWE's booking has been. Now granted, TNA isn't making the best booking decisions either, but I got to thinking; if Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling wanted a legitimate chance to compete with World Wrestling Entertainment on a weekly basis, I believe that this
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The behemoth Airbus A380 has touched down on German soil for the first time, landing at Munich Airport yesterday before departing back to its Toulouse base 5 hours later.
Michael Kerkloh, chief executive at Munich Airport, was naturally effusive: "This is a great day for Munich Airport. We are proud to be hosting a visit by the world's most advanced and largest passenger aircraft." Munich Airport was the first European airport to receive official clearance for traffic operations with aircraft from the new large aircraft generation, which includes the A380.
A relatively modern airport – it started operations in 1992 – Munich Airport was designed to accommodate this next generation of aircraft. It has runways of 4,000 metres long and 60 metres wide, and taxiways of 30 metres wide, meeting all ICAO requirements for A380 operations.
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Who's the hottest property in the record business?
That's not an easy question, but with conglomerates betting zillions of dollars on it, Calendar set out to conduct some independent research.
Michael Jackson to Pearl Jam--a free agent. Then we called 25 movers and shakers in the music business and asked: What acts would you sign?
The issue wasn't favorite artists, but the ones that are likeliest to sell the most records through the remainder of the '90s.
So how did Michael Jackson, Madonna and the other big-money players fare?
Stockholders of Sony, Time Warner and PolyGram aren't going to be pleased to hear how industry insiders described some of their multimillion-dollar acquisitions:
* "In decline" (Madonna).
* "Out of touch" (Michael Jackson).
* "A manifestation of production" (Janet Jackson).
* "Looks a little lost to me" (Prince).
* "Too old" (Aerosmith)
* "Way too old" (the Rolling Stones).
None of those acts finished in the Top 10 in the poll to determine the pop world's hottest properties--and three didn't finish in the Top 20.
About Madonna, one panelist said: "She is probably the marketing genius of all time, but I think she outgenius-ed herself this time around with the book, the movie and the album. There's really a backlash. . . . I feel sorry for her."
Regarding Michael Jackson, the biggest pop star of the '80s, another panelist declared: "Image-wise he has played himself out, and musically he really isn't keeping up with what is happening to kids today. I think he is gone, over, finished."
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The D.C. Council has delivered a final blow to some of outgoing Mayor Vincent Gray's priorities by overriding his veto of the city's $10.6 billion budget.
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In a letter to the Council Friday, Gray said he takes issue with the budget's limited aid for seniors, funding for the city's streetcar project, and the controversial 'yoga tax,' among other items.
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China's rise is overstated, and its financial problems are massive, argues Derek Scissors. Arvind Subramanian disagrees, claiming that Beijing already calls theshots in the global economy.
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Yanzhong Huang argues that in their single-minded pursuit of economic growth, China's leaders have long overlooked public health--which, by some measures, is now worse than under Mao. Despite recent reforms, China's citizens keep getting sicker, threatening the country's health-care system, the economy at large, and even the stability of the regime.
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Bananas contain dopamine and a wealth of B-vitamins which help to boost mood. They are especially rich in vitamin B6 which helps to calm the nervous system. Bananas are packed with magnesium which promotes a positive mood. Blueberries and black berries contain anthocyanins, which are antioxidants that help your brain to produce dopamine.


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1/2 cup kamut flour
2 tablespoons whole-wheat or whole-grain pastry flour
1/8 teaspoon salt substitute
1/3 cup apple juice
1/2 cup plus 1-2 tablespoons water
1 large egg, lightly beaten
4 teaspoons trans-free margarine
1 cup reduced-fat cottage cheese or reduced-fat ricotta cheese, at room temperature
2 cups pitted sweet cherries
1/4 cup sugar-free maple syrup
2 scoops of Vanilla Protein Powder
To make the crepes: In a large bowl, combine the kamut flour, pastry flour, and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together the apple juice, 1/2 cup water, egg, and 2 teapsoons of the margarine.
Whisk into the flour mixture to make a smooth batter. Melt 1 teaspoon of the remaining margarine in an 8" nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Pour 3 tablespoons of batter into the skillet and tilt the skillet to coat the bottom with a thin layer of the batter. (If the batter seems too thick, add 1 to 2 tablespoons water.)
Cook the first side for 1 minute, or until lightly browned. Turn and cook the second side for 30 to 60 seconds. Slide the crepe onto a plate.
Cover with foil to keep warm. Continue making crepes in the same fashion, adding the last teaspoon of margarine to the pan after making the second crepe.
To make the filling and assemble: Place a crepe on a plate, attractive side down. Mix cheese and protein powder & arrange 1/4 cup of the cheese and 1/2 cup of the cherries in a line in the center of the crepe and fold in quarters.
Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 4 crepes. Drizzle with syrup.
Nutritional Information:
283 calories
7 g fat (1 1/2 g sat)
32 g carbohydrate
23 g protein
4 g dietary fiber
300 mg sodium
60 mg cholesterol
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Clint Robinson finally gets the call to Kansas City
Jun 7, 2012, 6:37 PM EDT
After 105 minor league homers, 27-year-old Clint Robinson was promoted to the majors by the Royals for the first time Thursday.
Robinson, a 25th-round pick out of Troy University in 2007, has been tearing up the minors for 2 1/2 years now. In 2010, he hit .335/.410/.625 with 29 homers and 98 RBI in 477 at-bats for Double-A Northwest Arkansas. In 2011, he came in at .329/.399/.533 with 23 homers and 100 RBI in 503 at-bats for Triple-A Omaha. Back at Omaha, he was hitting .314/.418/.500 with eight homers and 37 RBI so far this season.
Still, Robinson has never been taken very seriously. In fact, he was pretty lucky not to be released after such modest seasons in A ball at ages 23 and 24 in 2008 and '09. He finished with OPSs of .806 and .819 those years, and if the Royals had other first base prospects they needed to play, they could have let him go.
Unfortunately, late bloomers with little defensive value generally don't get many chances, if they get any at all. The Royals already have Eric Hosmer at first base and Billy Butler at DH, and those two simply aren't budging. Robinson isn't a candidate to play the oufield, so barring an injury to one of those two guys ahead of him, he'll be little more than a pinch-hitter for the Royals, making it doubtful he'll stick around for long.
Still, it'd be nice to see Robinson get a real chance. Unlike some quad-A players, he's not a big strikeout guy. In fact, this year, he's fanned just 31 times versus 38 walks in 220 at-bats. Robinson probably isn't Bryan LaHair, but he'd deserve a look as a stopgap first baseman or designated hitter should any team need one.
- randall351 - Jun 7, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Unfortunately I doubt if he'll get any more than a few at bats for the few days he'll be up.
I would like him to get a somewhat extended look, but after seeing how badly Kia has played I don't have high hopes for C Rob.
- wetmorepsu12 - Jun 7, 2012 at 7:48 PM
trade him to the phillies for jim thome. he cant be much worse than mayberry/wigginton/luna right now and thome is just eating a roster spot right now.
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This website is all about houses.
If you find yourself frequently dreaming about houses, constantly thinking about houses, and stalking houses on the Internet, then this is the place for you.
My blog is essentially a variety show of houses. You'll see a bit of everything here at House Crazy – I try to mix-it-up by combining the aesthetically pleasing with the downright funky.
How is this website different than other house websites?
If you are a "housie" with a mouse, you've probably been around the web scouring anything you can find that has to do with houses.
Me too. And there are some really great sites out there [see my blog roll on the right side bar for some of my favs]. But I got a little fatigued of all the glossy, staged, high-resolution photos and pretty pastel-y web designs. I got to feeling, well, kind of inadequate just from looking at pictures of perfect homes with seemingly perfect owners (and perfectly behaved children).
Sure, I like the escapism of gazing at flawlessly beautiful, fantasy high-dollar homes, but I also like to keep it real. I like rustic hovels dug into the side of a hill. I like real houses in my price range (which is well under $200,000). I like houses that are weird and wacky and even ugly. I like character. I like houses that the owners actually built themselves – with their own well-worn hands. I like houses that are REALLY old and that have a history – even a gory history. I like houses that are loved by their owners, and I like houses that have seen better days.
I felt there was a gaping hole in the house blogosphere that begged for some real stuff… nothing posed, nothing staged. Just a real person – on a tight budget – who is on an epic house-hunting journey. A real, imperfect (some might even call house crazy) person.
My own house is usually a dusty mess. It's an old money pit and I can't afford to keep it up. My kids are hooligans (cute, but hooligans) and my dog is a little psycho who pees himself sometimes when he gets too excited.
You can poke me and I might cry. I get depressed, I get cranky, I get manic (in a good, productive way). Other people have hobbies like working-out or scrap-booking. My hobby is obsessing over houses. (Sort-of in a crazy, unhealthy way.)
That's why I called this site House Crazy.
We let the crazy flag fly here at House Crazy, and don't really care about the latest fads or design trends. We drool occasionally when viewing a cool house on the 'net. We get the stink-eye frequently when out looking at houses in the neighborhood that are not even for sale. But hey, we keep it real!
I might run some advertisements here from time to time, but that's not because I want to incorporate and become some profit-driven machine. No, it's just because I have kids and a mortgage, and as a femi-nerd, I enjoy the idea of being economically independent from a man.
I'm not a realtor and I'm not a designer. Instead, I waste hours of my time combing the web for unique far-off houses; pounding the pavement and putting miles and miles on my SUV; taking thousands of pictures of random houses; and talking about houses at inappropriate times. (It's what I do for fun.)
I'm told the technical term for this affliction is: "real-estalker". And I know there are other people out there like me. So come join me!
Feel free to leave a comment on any of my posts with your thoughts, rants, corrections, knowledge, links, whatever. I promise I will read every one of them!
I hope you love this site as much as I love putting it all together for you.
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Your blog has such a nice and clean design – great work! Love all the vairety of houses you feature.
I've been perusing and just gotta say I am impressed and intrigued by your witty, wordy house-craziness! If house stalking were my thing, I'm sure I'd be hooked. I like how real you speak and your embracing of imperfection. Never heard the term 'feminerd' before, but relate for sure! Keep up the great blogging! NM
Hi, I'm looking for a positively strange, amazing house in or around NYC. I'm focusing on places built by one obsessed, quasi-visionary person. Like the treehouse guy in Tennessee or the welder in Lubbock.
I'm interested in not only the place but the story of the person who built it, something compelling.
Thanks! Great site btw.
Your website is amazing! Now I know where to come to get my "house fix"! So glad to find you!
love love your blog. i also love houses. i get emails from "hooked on houses" -love them all. I am so excited I found this!!
Impressive website you've created Sarah. Now it's going to take me days to go back and discover all that is in your archives! Keep up the fantastic work!
Oh, oh, just when I thought I could control the amount of time I spend reading blogs, I found yours! My husband and I are also a little house crazy – we've each had more addresses than you can count, and we both loved sketching house plans when we were younger. I still love looking at house plans, and looking at houses. This is a really fun site because it's more than just eye candy. I'm really enjoying the stories and the backgrounds!
hello house crazy Sarah! I really love your website! I also am addicted to houses so I am looking forward to following your blog!
Just found and fell in love with your blog! I am instantly addicted. Can not wait for updates.
I too am a house junkie! Love this blog.
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Brazil coach Dunga insists that past records will count for nothing when they come up against Chile in the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup™ at Ellis Park on Monday. The five-time champions have won the past seven meetings between the two sides dating back almost 10 years and take a major psychological advantage into the game.
However, the Selecao boss, whose side finished top of Group G with two wins and a draw, thinks otherwise. "This is merely a statistic, nothing else," he said. "What is important is our performance on the pitch against Chile. My players always know that it's the next game that is the most important one. For now our next game is going to be against Chile, so we will prepare as we do against any other team. The past is in the past."
The two have also met twice previously at FIFA World Cups - in 1962 and 1998 - with the Brazilians triumphing on both occasions, while Dunga's men also won on both occasions during qualifying. But Dunga believes that reaching the knock-out stage changes the whole mindset of teams.
"During the group stage, there were opportunities to recover over the three games," he said. "Now in the knock-out stages it's all or nothing. Every game can be counted as a championship game. Each team has their distinctive styles of playing. We have to be able to surprise our opponents and stop them from achieving their goals against Brazil. There are no easy opponents today, all of the teams want to succeed."
Now in the knock-out stages it's all or nothing. Every game can be counted as a championship game.
As for their opponents, the 1994 FIFA World Cup winner said: "I believe this is a different Chile. They are a now a different type of team, much faster. They are also a very competitive team, a team that moves really well on the field. It's a team that enters into the pitch to play and in order to overcome a team such as Chile, we would have to respond and play in the same way."
Midfielder Elano, who injured his ankle against Côte d'Ivoire and missed the last group match, is expected to be fit, but Felipe Melo (ankle) and Julio Baptista (knee) are doubtful. Dunga also brushed aside suggestions that his side may struggle if the Chileans play a defensive game.
He added: "Spain has encountered difficulties, Brazil has encountered difficulties, Switzerland has encountered difficulties whenever their opponents are defensive. It is always difficult to come up against a team such as this. One has to take greater risks, one has to dribble a little more, so when anyone plays against teams like these, it always more difficult than normal."


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Although the George W. Bush administration is famous for being "on message," delivering a consistent and polished political perspective no matter what, such consistency apparently does not extend to every member of the conservative universe. In Where the Right Went Wrong, veteran pundit and occasional presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan offers up scathing criticisms of Bush's policies, the arrogance and boorishness of which, he warns, could ultimately dramatically destabilize the United States' superpower status. The problem, in Buchanan's eyes, is the rejection of traditional Reagan-era conservatism by an administration under the sway of the so-called "neoconservatives," who favor a pre-emptive military strategy and big government and don't mind running up dangerously huge budget deficits to support it. The war in Iraq, fought without direct demonstrable threat, alienates America in the eyes of the rest of the world, says Buchanan, squandering the global goodwill earned after the 9/11 attacks and creating exponentially larger numbers of terrorists who will threaten the U.S. for generations to come. The zeal over free trade among elected officials, a feeling notably not shared by Buchanan, Ross Perot, and Ralph Nader, is costing America jobs, Buchanan theorizes, and leading to a de-industrialized service-sector-only economy, an end to American self-sufficiency in favor of a reliance on global corporations, and a looming economic crisis. Refreshingly, and unlike pundits of his day, Buchanan crafts his arguments by examining world history, offering detailed analogies to the Roman Empire, the Civil War, and pre-Soviet Russia among others. Conservatives alienated by the Bush administration will find an eloquent champion in Buchanan and even liberals, who may not have known there was a conservative argument against war in Iraq, stand to learn something from a right side of the aisle perspective so different from that found in the Bush White House. --John Moe
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The future of your company depends not only on whom you leave in charge but also on the tools you create to help transition the business.
By Matt Alderton
Sandra Westlund-Deenihan is a third-generation family business owner. Her grandfather, Louis Yablin, founded Chicago Float Works in 1915, manufacturing industrial liquid controls known as "floats" from his home on the southwest side of Chicago. He created a family legacy that he passed down to his son, Westlund-Deenihan's father, who planned for Sandra to continue the business.
She found out the hard way, however, that things don't always go as planned. Her father died in 1994, and while he wanted her to inherit the business, the lack of a succession plan presented a variety of problems.
"We talked about how I was going to continue the business," Westlund-Deenihan says, "and we thought there was a clear-cut plan for that in my father's estate plan. But there wasn't."
Without a written plan for succession, Chicago Float Works was destined for the auction block. To keep it in the family, Westlund-Deenihan had to cash in everything she had in order to purchase his assets. "It can be emotionally and financially devastating if you don't have a succession plan in place," she says. "I'm living proof of it."
Westlund-Deenihan regained control of the business in 1995 and re-launched it as Schaumburg, Ill.-based Quality Float Works Inc. Her first order of business was to draft a succession plan for transitioning the business to her son, Jason Speer, who is vice president and general manager of the company.
"I don't want my son to go through what I had to go through," she says. "I implore every family-owned business to develop a succession plan."
The Business of Succession
Quality Float Works is just one of more than 24 million family-owned businesses in the United States, according to Boston-based The Family Firm Institute. Of those, it suggests approximately 30 percent survive into the second generation, just 12 percent into the third generation and only 3 percent into the fourth.
Though the odds are against them, family-owned businesses can persist long after their current owner is gone. To survive into succeeding generations, though, each of them needs a clear succession plan, according to Barry Cain, managing director of Chicago's Blackman Kallick Family Business Center and co-founder of the Family Business Council at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"If you don't plan your succession well, they're likely to fail, perhaps sooner than later," he says. "The great tragedy in closely held businesses is that oftentimes [succession] is not thoughtfully planned and then communicated throughout the organization — and the family."
Give Yourself, Your Family Choices
Successful succession planning begins with a frank family survey; you must find out who wants to perpetuate the business and who can perpetuate the business.
"Who are potential successors?" asks Loyd Rawls, founder and CEO of The Rawls Group, a national firm dedicated exclusively to succession planning, headquartered in Orlando, Fla. "It's who's the most available, most capable, most competent and most committed. Not often are there multiple horses in the race."
Be willing to tap children, extended family and even in-laws. The key is to identify early on who is committed to the business and, more importantly, who is actually capable of running it.
Remember, Cain advises, a succession plan doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition — only looking to the CEO or president's role. There's room for everyone, not just a new CEO. Gauge family members' interests — marketing, finance, management — and build a plan that gives them an opportunity to contribute where they're able and willing. For some, that may mean nothing more than owning a piece of the business, as ownership and control often fall on separate shoulders.
"A good plan isn't saying, 'Son, or daughter, in five years you're taking over,'" Cain says. Instead, a good plan is one in which the ownership generation and its successors have options. "A good plan is also one that considers future opportunities for employees who form the backbone of the business."
Put It in Writing
There is no right or wrong in succession planning; there's just planning. "The most important thing about a plan is it's written down," Rawls says. "It's communicated. The detail is not important."
In fact, the detail will change, so business owners should revisit and revise their succession plans often, communicating with their family at every step along the way to make choices regarding financial transactions, business structures, succession strategy, management continuity, successor identification and training, family dynamics and family governance.
"It all comes back to open communication," Cain says. A plan in your head is useless if it's not written down, and a written plan is equally useless if it's not shared. To facilitate sharing, then, Cain suggests having regular family meetings in which you discuss the transition of management and ownership of the business, as well as any sticky issues that may be complicating it.
Focus on Execution
Someday, your plan will cease to be a plan; one day, it will be a maneuver. "Where the really important work is done," Cain says, "is on the execution side," moving from theory to actual implementation.
To help your business weather transitions when the time comes, consider creating an advisory board of non-family members to help you make important decisions and deliver difficult messages. Your board can function as a bridge between old ownership and new.
In fact, so can key, non-family managers, who should also be involved in the succession planning process. "When you transition from one generation to another," Cain says, "you've got to keep your employees. They're the backbone of your business."
Westlund-Deenihan couldn't agree more. When she took over her family business, it was cultivating customer and employee relationships that helped things along most. "Forty percent of family businesses will transition in the next five years," she says. "You owe it to your family, you owe it to your customers, you owe it to your employees to be ready."


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This article is part of the supplement: Selected articles from the IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS) 2011
Efficient calculation of steady state probability distribution for stochastic biochemical reaction network
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2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
3 Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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BMC Genomics 2012, 13(Suppl 6):S10 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-S6-S10Published: 26 October 2012
The Steady State (SS) probability distribution is an important quantity needed to characterize the steady state behavior of many stochastic biochemical networks. In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate approach to calculating an approximate SS probability distribution from solution of the Chemical Master Equation (CME) under the assumption of the existence of a unique deterministic SS of the system. To find the approximate solution to the CME, a truncated state-space representation is used to reduce the state-space of the system and translate it to a finite dimension. The subsequent ill-posed eigenvalue problem of a linear system for the finite state-space can be converted to a well-posed system of linear equations and solved. The proposed strategy yields efficient and accurate estimation of noise in stochastic biochemical systems. To demonstrate the approach, we applied the method to characterize the noise behavior of a set of biochemical networks of ligand-receptor interactions for Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling. We found that recruitment of type II receptors during the receptor oligomerization by itself doesn't not tend to lower noise in receptor signaling, but regulation by a secreted co-factor may provide a substantial improvement in signaling relative to noise. The steady state probability approximation method shortened the time necessary to calculate the probability distributions compared to earlier approaches, such as Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (SSA) while maintaining high accuracy.


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Best NAS blend by far, and I've tried most of them. Love a good Islay, especially in the winter. But in summertime, I like something a tad less phenolic. I used to be in love with Black Bottle, but a couple of years ago they totally ruined (I mean, "reblended" it). So now I'm back to Teacher's for summer Scotch, for economy Scotch, and for anything after my second dram of an evening.
I have had a part used bottle of this for some time and never drunk any. I used it for people that wanted a scotch with a mixer. I just thought I would give it a try. I was just so suprised just how good it was. Not a lot of nose and the taste does not linger but for the money. well worth a try at this price. I am going to buy some more blended to try.
For the price this is perhaps the finest blended Scotch on the market. It really stands out for not being overly sweet and possessing the flavours that to me really define Scotch; fruitiness, smoke and peat. Teacher's is a throwback to the days before single malts when blended Scotch whiskies all had there own recognizable character and weren't necessarily made just for mixing.
Amazingly good for the price! Got a litre bottle for £18. Big Islay influence here, mild peat and woodsmoke aftertaste but doesn't linger. this whisky was made for swirling in the mouth! Just the right amount of heat, sweet, very smooth. But don't like the nose! Too chemical and not defined enough. But Full of character, blows Grants and Bells right out of the water! Superb "economy" whisky
"Palate": The taste is sea salt, smoke, very faint peat and iodine with a bacon/malt backbone. This is a heavy scotch in the mouth, and many enjoy rolling it around a bit before swallowing. Anise, black licorice and lots of malt round this blend out. "Finish": Lingering sea salt, dulse, malt and a faint echo of peat.


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Everything you need to understand or teach Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig.
Kiss of the Spider Woman is the best-known novel of Argentinean writer Manuel Puig. In it, two men, Valentin Arregui Paz, called Valentin, and Luis Alberto Molina, called Molina, are cellmates in an Argentine prison. Valentin is studious, while Molina is far more open and talkative; the beginning of the novel is riddled with brief moments of conflict between the two, and it is clear that they have opposing views on many subjects.
The Kiss of the Spider Woman Lesson Plans contain 110 pages of teaching material, including: