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YOU WILL BE ROBBED! Trust me, I lived here for exactly 7 days before it happened to me. Neighbors have had doors kicked in, and everyone acts like your car being burglarized is the norm. To me, being robbed is not… Full Review ▶
Chardonnay at Wells Branch Apartments Worst apt at wells Branch Area Water bill is the worst, When I left Apt on 30 Nov. 2013 they gave me bill $ 1300 charge, they gave me old Capet but told me they need… Full Review ▶
i have been living in this apartment for a year now and i have to say i will definitely recommend to anybody who is willing to lease a apartment. Though i am about to move in two month due to my… Full Review ▶
I've lived here for a month now. Everyone is generally friendly. Upon moving in we had to have them fix a few things such as the closest door and bedroom door (the top part of the door was literally falling off)!… Full Review ▶
The apartments are very old and have old appliances and no WOW factor.. Come on people update to keep up with the demand up upgrades. The office staff is fairly decent to work with when the manager is not around. She… Full Review ▶
I must say that I am elated to move away from this place. The tenants are very trifling and loud. The staircases look as if someone steps in dog crap or mud daily and tracks it up the stairs. There is… Full Review ▶
These were the worst apartments I've ever lived in. Initially upon move in I thought these would be great because they are good for people just starting out. The main problem I had was with management. They are incredibly rude, racist,… Full Review ▶
I have been here 6 months and I do love it. The rent is affordable and it includes a washer and dryer which I needed. The staff is great and maintenance is great too! I will be renewing at the end… Full Review ▶
We moved in February 2010 and have been renewing every since. The layout is great in our apartment we are in the last building which is very far removed and always has tons of parking. The only complaints I have are… Full Review ▶
I like this place :) No pet rent. One bed room apt is $634. washer and dryer in unit. My apt faces the creek. Nice scenery. Good place to have dogs. Walking trail is very close and very well used by… Full Review ▶
Here at Chardonnay is a great place to live. Friendly workers and maintenance, decent rent. Not too many crazy things happening here, still safe for sure. I recommend this place for anyone to be in a loving scenery. The Apartments may… Full Review ▶
I leased a apartment there for 7 months and I would NOT advise anyone to ever rent there. The apartment was nice enough and the lease price SEEMED like a good deal. Then they hit you with $55-$60 per month for… Full Review ▶
These apartments are such a joke, from their management with their small-brained assistants to the hick pervert maintenance group. My mom and I have lived in these apartments for the last 4 years (joke's on us, right?). Late on rent a… Full Review ▶
This is the most worst apartments. I live on the bottom floor and i can hear every foot steps. This is a dangerous area to live. I think almost everyday there's a break in a car. The staffs here are not… Full Review ▶
Maintenance - distracted all the time, they will forget something and doesn't finish the required work, specially the blonde one. The noise, its horrible when landscapers start working. Every 2 or 3rd month expect to stay without water and the worst… Full Review ▶
My boyfriend and I moved into Chardonnay about a year ago, and so far we've had no problems. We get along with our neighbors, the rent is affordable, there's karaoke next door, and the staff is friendly. When our air conditioning… Full Review ▶
My husband & I lived at Chardonnay for almost 7 years & recently moved out a few months ago to buy our first home. Now that it's been a few months I think I can reasonably list all the good &… Full Review ▶
I've lived here for 5 years. The water bill consistantly keep going up and they won't let you verify how you are billed I've had to file suit and file complaint with the TCEQ, and stll have not gotten verification of… Full Review ▶
I moved to chardonnay awhile back not really doing too much research on a cheaper place. Do not rent from this place you will feel like you are in a cubicle when u could go down the road to sweetwater apartments… Full Review ▶
So I just moved in a few days ago and absolutly plan to do a follow up review 3-4 months from now but I thought it may be beneficial to some to see what my experience has been thus far. The… Full Review ▶
If you're looking for a clean affordable apartment, this is the perfect place. For the price you cannot beat it, and the maintenance was awesome! They have a deep pool, which all the newer complexes don't have and tons of beautiful… Full Review ▶
I have had all bad experiences. I have had a gun pulled on me, car broken into, and seen a home invasion around here. I had to cause a stink to get a new front door, because the previous resident had… Full Review ▶
I've lived here for several years (I'm saving to buy a house) and I would not recommend this apartment complex to my worst enemy. Much like a cheap tart you meet in a dark nightclub, this complex looks good at first.… Full Review ▶
Is nice to see after reading all the other reviews I am not alone in my opinion about this place. After living here for 6 months I am ready to move again. The units all look nice enough at first glance,… Full Review ▶
I lived there for 5 years, it was by far, the best apartment I have ever lived in. I loved that place. If I didn't need a 3 bedroom, we would have never moved. Full Review ▶
I have lived here for a little over a year. It isn't fantastic, but it isn't a bad place. There are a few things I wish could be better, the walls are thin and the water bill is high, but it… Full Review ▶
I really don't know what all these people are talking about. It's a great location - easy access to 35 and the new toll road, plus you have tons of shopping and restaurants right down the street on Parmer. The Wells… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for 1 year. When I looked at the apartment model I fell in love, the office staff, which at the time consisted of 1 girl because it was a Saturday, was nice, and the price was great.… Full Review ▶
I've lived here a little over a year... I can understand how people might think the office staff is rude b/c they're all very young... but I've never had any problems with them... some even know me by my first name… Full Review ▶
I lived here for a year. This place is fine if you work nearby.
Cons - It's not very close to actual Austin. All the girls in the office are rude. The walls are quite thin. The workout room is nice… Full Review ▶
My mother has been living in these apartments for about 1 year now. I've stayed during weekends when I'm home from school. Other than noisy, upstairs neightbors there have been no complaints.
The first day we moved in the dish washer was… Full Review ▶
I don't have much to say except, you could do worse. The apartments are really big, the noise could be less, but thats anywhere. Live in apartments, thats just the lifestyle. All the newer apartments are small, and those of us… Full Review ▶
Worst complex EVER! The water is turned off every other day and the AC breaks at least once a day. If you want your car broken into, this is the place for you! If you want to hear base 24 hrs… Full Review ▶
Granted, the place is kind of a dump. It IS fairly cheap though and not the worst place in the area. There are some gangsta-gangsta type thugs around but they really don't seem to bother anybody. Other than offering to sell… Full Review ▶
When we first moved in, the apartments didn't seem that bad. In the last 2 years, the complex has gone down hill big time. Crime has spiked to the point where I had my licence plates stolen off of my car,… Full Review ▶
My fiance has been here a year and I recently moved in with him. I have to say I'm very disappointed with the apt complex & management. We went in to speak with the management regarding the lease and she was… Full Review ▶
have had my car broken into twice, my girlfriends was broken into once... they come through and break into peoples cars about once a month... plus the apartment itself is cruddy- found mold in the walls which they had to fix-… Full Review ▶
I was led to believe that the 1st month rent was free. I was given my key without paying ANYTHING (no rent, no deposit!) and then told on the 1st of the following month that I had to move out due… Full Review ▶
If you want "perfection" you should buy a house or condo or better still buy your own apartment building and see if you could do better than Lincoln Properties. I hate whiny, irresponsible reviews by tenants who understand little about property… Full Review ▶
I searched and searched for a good, affordable apartment where I wouldn't feel scared to come home at night alone and where I would be proud to entertain guests. Chardonnay cannot be beat. It's a little outside the city, but I… Full Review ▶
Been here almost two years now and would love to leave but cant. The price isn't too bad for the area and it may not be the nicest place in Austin but I'd say it's better than most of the other… Full Review ▶
I've been here several years & used to really like it here. But for the past year or so we've had alot of noisy children screaming outside of our apartment. And God forbid any of the parents in the surrounding apartments… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for almost a year now and couldn't be happier. To the people who say their apartment is too small, didn't you see it before you moved in and YOU made the choice to live there. And the… Full Review ▶
I lived here for 3 years until finally I couldn't take it anymore. The neighbors were incredibly noisy. The cops are here all the time. There's dog crap EVERYWHERE. These used to be one of the best complexes. Not so anymore.… Full Review ▶
I moved in because I had just graduated college and needed a place to live that was cheap... it's cheap but you can find much better places for just a little more. Both my girlfriend's and my car have been broken… Full Review ▶
i always envied friends when i was younger for living in chardonnay, but at 18, i moved in myself.
nothing really wrong with the apartment itself, but the smallest 1 bdm is SO small i felt like i couldn't think, move or… Full Review ▶
I really like this place, i can get to work in a matter of 5 minutes, and so can my husband, everything is close by and easy to get to. so far my interactions with the staff have been pleseant. i… Full Review ▶
i've lived in this apt. for 3yrs but, the more the yrs go the worst the staffing toward the the tenant. in my case i live an apt. with my newly born child and when i want to transfer to another… Full Review ▶
I have lived @ Chardonnay for several years and am completely satisfied! Management/maint has alwalys been kind and professional, I have lived in apartments complexes for most of my adult life and have never had a manager that cares as much… Full Review ▶
I love Chardonnay. Especially the school Northwest Elementary. Austin and Chardonnay is a great place to live. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a nice place to live. The school there are great and so is the place!… Full Review ▶
Great place have no complanits. I have really enjoyed my time here. Maintenance has been great every time I call they are there same day. Office staff has helped me out with anything I need. The price range was in my… Full Review ▶
I have lived here at Chardonnay apartments for over a year now and have had a very pleasant experience. Their maintenance is the best I have ever had, they are always so willing to help and go above and beyond their… Full Review ▶
I have lived in several apartment communities throughout my single life. Chardonnay has been the best yet. Management does matter. Everyone is very professional. I always get the best treatment by the office staff, they even know me by name. The… Full Review ▶
I enjoyed my time with chardonnay apartments. The staff was great anything that I needed they helped me out on. They did a great job with the up keep of the property, landscape was kept nice, Maintenance was great every time… Full Review ▶
i was only at these apartments for 7 mos...7mos too long...Mgmt sucks - I gave my notice to move 45 days prior to me moving and because i was such a good tenant - they waited until the week that I… Full Review ▶
This place was terrible, i lived there a year before moving out. I also paid more per month to a view of the pool. What they didn't say was the amount of noise generated by 25 kids screaming who didn't even… Full Review ▶
These ------- at Chardonnay have a habit of entering your apartment without even warning you. Twice this month they have entered without my authorization and I have had several CDs missing by one of those ------- employees and several things moved… Full Review ▶
Yeah the place is old but you get a great price and the neighbors aren't bad. My wife and I lived there for a year and have made several life long friends. Maintenance was very freindly and willing to work with… Full Review ▶
management sucks. first floor apts subject to flooding with hard rains because grounds not level. overrated 'creek'--('hole').management unwilling to sacrifice $150 to replace carpet that reeks of mildew, rather, they have the 'genius' idea of spraying top layer with 'mildew retardant',… Full Review ▶
It's very cheap to live here. That's because the wood is rotting, the major appliances mess up frequently, and they take their time coming to fix it. Don't ask for more than one thing at a time, because they'll come and… Full Review ▶
I am a new resident and I have been so happy. The office staff is very friendly and always ready to help. I had troublw with the cable company and they called them for me and resolved the situation. Also they… Full Review ▶
Okay so it's cheap....and I did like the neighborhood. We lived there for 4 years, moved out to a bigger place. These jokers sent me a bill for stuff that was damaged when I moved in! Thank God I saved my… Full Review ▶
Very sneaky, crooked, deceiving, racial office personnel at this place!!! Cheap rent prices each month translates into HUGE payback on not only what they feel the apt is worth, but also reletting fees, plus whatever B.S. utility and apt cleaning bill… Full Review ▶
its hilarious to read these reviews and realize which ones were written by the staff of this horrendous apartment. Plain and simple...your money would be better spent to buy that toilet paper to wipe said asses in the previous review. the… Full Review ▶
i think that most of the people whining couldn't buy thier own light bulb much less change it.if they paid their rent on time management wouldn't have to send letters to their door to remind them to pay.also maybe if all… Full Review ▶
I lived here for 3 years. At first the place was great and it went downhill quickly. There are homeless that roam through the complex and approach you for money and when you advise management, the tell you to call the… Full Review ▶
We lived here for quite a few years, 5 to be exact. It was the incovenience of moving that kept us here. We finally moved a few months ago, and we admit that we should have moved sooner. The apartment constantly… Full Review ▶
All these people complain about all the bad things, I haven't had many problems here other than the little things with management, but you pay for what you get, they've been good to us. And if your looking for a decent… Full Review ▶
I made the mistake of coming to stay here, leasing from Seattle thru an apartment finder. The management has constantly created problems, I have had to show my receipts repeatedly to prove I paid. My experience is they are dishonest and… Full Review ▶
I've lived here for a little over 2 years and can't wait to leave. The place has gone ghetto in a hurry. Numerous notes left on the door from management warning of criminal activity and telling you to lock yourself in… Full Review ▶
I've lived at Chardonnay for over 6 years. At first they were great. For the past 2 years it's been nothing but BAD! I had drug dealer neighbors, neighbors that screamed outside in the hallway at ALL hours of the night… Full Review ▶
Yes, it's cheap...and yes, they have some good deals. But use your money and go someplace nicer. The crime rate in this complex is unreal, and the maintenance staff take their sweet time fixing stuff.
They recently had the parking lot… Full Review ▶
It was a good deal for a person on a very tight budget. Would I reccommend it? Well, the one thing I did hate was the inconsiderate neighbors. They didn't care how loud they jumped around or how loud they snore.… Full Review ▶
I took over someone´s lease here because it was cheap and they looked nice. And yes, they ARE cheap, and they LOOK nice. Whenever it rains, water comes under my front door. After weeks of complaining, maintenance said there´s nothing they… Full Review ▶
This complex USED to be very nice, but has since gone downhill. The property is no longer well-maintained, the staff is rude. Forget going to the pool in the summer, when it´s not closed for "repairs", it´s ALWAYS packed! There also… Full Review ▶
We´ve lived here for almost 4 years. Our experience has been both good and bad. I don´t care for the management staff and had to report the maintenance staff for being "surly" when they came to repair something. It took a… Full Review ▶
Me and my husband moved into chardonnay in the summer of 2003, so far we have not had too many problems, and when there were problems, we had no problem with getting them fixed. The place is clean, and not really… Full Review ▶
I lived at Chardonnay for 7 months. There were fruit flies coming from the drain pipes and ants coming in the cracks around the front door. I had several friends in the complex who had the same problems. The walls creaked… Full Review ▶
I had a nice apartment by the pool. It was noisy but I expected that. Everything was fine until it rained...
What the management failed to tell me was that my apartment had previous history of flooding when it rained.… Full Review ▶
I have lived here since 8-01, moved from out of town and it was close to my job. Had water pouring in every time it rained heavy, that was fixed in only a year . Apartment always smells musty, because there… Full Review ▶
Since I moved in they must have lowered the rates again. The parking lot has filled with riced-up Hondas, whose owners are probably responsible the deafening bass as they drive through in the morning.
Or maybe it´s the daily party… Full Review ▶
THE MOVE IN "COME ONS" ARE GREAT. BUT WHEN YOU DECIDED TO MOVE ON OR STAY A WHILE LONGER AND RENEW THE LEASE, THEY STICK IT TO YOU. THATS HOW THE MOVE IN RATES SEEM AFFORDABLE. THE COMMUNITY IS NOT SUPERVISED… Full Review ▶
I´ve lived here since 1999, and I´m glad to be leaving in May of 2002. When I moved in, it was a nice place, but its going downhill.
I have a lot of maintenance issues (leaking roof, weak A/C, etc)… Full Review ▶
Well, ok, so the appliances are a little old, but they work. The staff is great. I´ve never lived in a complex with a more responsive team. Rent is very reasonable and the apartments are clean and quiet. I can always… Full Review ▶
The complex itself is decent and some of the apartments in the back have nice, quiet views. But be cautious of the staff. For the majority of the time I was there, the apartments were under construction and the area by… Full Review ▶
I lived at the Chardonnay Apts. approx. 5 years. The managment staff was incompetent and the apartment had many problems. I do not ask for much, but the apt. I was in leaked constantly (with constant complaints to managment) the problem… Full Review ▶
I lived at this apartment for about 2 1/2 years before leaving Austin. The neighboorhood was pituresque and safe, in fact it´s across the street from an elementary shcool. Full size wash/dry was convenient. Plus the apartment was very clean. They… Full Review ▶
Helpful staff.
Had upstairs apt, difficult to manuever large furniture up stairway.
Found ungrounded 3-prong electrical outlets, problem was repaired quickly though.
During ice storm, had power out for 36 hours (no heat!), staff was unknowledgable about a fix date, but… Full Review ▶
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POTTERSVILLE - A world-class, million-dollar exhibit of model trains complete with lavish layouts is planned for development in Pottersville, and area officials say may have a significant impact on tourism in Northern Warren County.
"Railroads on Parade," a project of the internationally acclaimed set designer Clarke Dunham, is on its way to become a reality in Pottersville, Dunham said.
Well-known as the creator of train exhibits across the country, Dunham is acquiring the former Great Northern Auto Parts outlet in Pottersville, and he plans to set up four major, intricate model train displays that feature detailed, realistic, lighted model cityscapes and automated operation of dozens of trains.
Dunham is the creator of the famed Citicorp train display in New York City as well as extensive model train layouts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Omaha and Williamsburg, Va. that have been viewed by more than 5 million people. The Cincinnati display is a national attraction that exceeds 7,000 square feet.
Steve Parisi, director of the Warrensburgh Museum of Local History, has seen Dunham's displays in Manhattan and Cincinnati. The latter layout is housed in the city's former train station that was restored to its original grandeur.
"Clarke Dunham's work is just brilliant - it portrays the role trolleys and trains played in the cities' development," Parisi said. "This will draw people from across the nation - particularly with train lovers. It will put Pottersville on the map."
Dunham said he will be formally acquiring the Great Northern in January, and the target date for opening the train museum will be July 1. He now has a lease agreement in place for the property.
In a business plan that has spurred considerable investment in his Railroads on Parade enterprise, Dunham said his train exposition will spur development of other cultural projects in downtown Pottersville, which in recent decades experienced the closure of a number of businesses.
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MINNEAPOLIS - As millions struggle with Hurricane Sandy's wrath in the dark, their issues shine a bright light on the problem of our nation's power grid.
A record number of people are dealing with power outages as the storm continues to impact the east coast and some of that could have been prevented, say experts.
Massoud Amin is a University of Minnesota professor and expert on infrastructure issues, especially as it pertains to electricity.
In some cases, Amin says investments to our power grid are not keeping up with our demands placed on it.
"What it means in plain language is we are milking the cow dry," said Massoud Amin, Ph.D.
No more is that the case than out east.
From power lines to water pipes, he says the east coast has one of the oldest infrastructures in the country and it's making the impact of Hurricane Sandy even worse.
Amin has consulted with both private organizations and the United States government on power grid and security issues.
He has been analyzing power outage data since 1980 in North America during periods when conditions were normal and weather or other disasters were not a factor.
"They experience 240 minutes of outages per customer per year," he said of the east coast.
He says Minnesota fares much better.
"We live in the most reliable part of the country," he said. "In the Midwest and upper Midwest, we experience 92 minutes of outages per customer per year."
In contrast, he says Japan experiences 4 minutes of outages per customer each year.
So how can we make our nation's power grid better?
In part, look to the 35-W bridge. During construction after the collapse, Amin says sensors were placed on the new bridge that indicates when things are not going well.
"Those sensors sense ice buildup, chemical changes and the cost of those sensors was less than half of one percent of the total cost of the bridge," he said.
Amin advocates using the same technology on the nation's power grid. He also believes constructing "micro grids" in neighborhoods that could serve as backup when power is lost.
He admits these improvements will cost tens of billions of dollars, but he also believes making these changes will save money in the future. Demand for power in the U.S. grows about 1-percent a year, he says.
Some of the "smart grid" technology is already in the works across the country, including here in Minnesota, he says. But Amin believes more has to be done.
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Golf is probably the most addictive game on the planet. Let me give you an example of just how addictive it is. Last Saturday, a group of guys went to play at a course in Geauga County. The forecast was for thunderstorms and the sky was pitch black when they got into their cars. Do you think this weather fact stopped them? Heck no, like soldiers on a mission, they drove faithfully to the course. Forty minutes later, they arrived, and unloaded their bags, went into the clubhouse and paid their green fees. Disregarding the cashiers warning that storms were coming in from the west, they headed straight to the first hole. The one concession they made to the weather was cancelling their routine of going to the driving range to warm up. As they stood on the first tee, they looked to the northwest and observed the darkening sky. The clouds were so ominous that if Noah had been around, he may have started gathering the animals two by two. But for our brave foursome, the clouds might as well have been sunbeams. Each member of our foursome (whose names we're withholding to avoid embarrassment) went to the tee and hit a towering drive, drives that would have made Tiger Woods jealous. As they drove off for their second shots, the rain drops began to fall. No big deal, rain suits and umbrellas came out of the golf bags and they were off and running. They played the second hole without any weather drama. As they made their way to the third hole, however, things began to change. The drops were coming with a little more frequency and the wind began picking up. Now, the clubhouse was still in sight and it was just a short drive away. But our brave band, in spite of every meteorologist in the region warning that severe weather was in the area, decided that the weather was going to blow over. Big mistake! They finished the third hole, then the fourth and the fifth. By now they were at the farthest point away from the clubhouse, and at that moment, Mother Nature made a decision for them. As they approached the sixth hole, which puts you down in a valley, the sky turned pitch black and the rain came as if someone had put the shower on blast, and it was at this point that our group of wayfarers concluded, " it was either time to go in or drown." Of course by now, the rain had become a torrential thunderstorm. The only things missing were houses and cars floating past as the fairways and bunkers began to fill with water. The cart paths turned into little rivers and our guys were rapidly second guessing themselves for thinking that the weather warnings were meant for people other than them. Once they made it back to the clubhouse, they sat on the porch and convinced themselves that the storm was passing by. After an hour of rain with no let up, they reluctantly realized that the worst thing that could happen to a golfer was happening to them. They would have to get a rain check. How depressing. Fortunately for them, Sunday dawned bright and sunny, and first thing after kissing their wives and saying goodbye to the babies and dogs, they were right back at the golf course. So is golf addictive? Nope. It just causes you do strange things.


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Chicken Tikka Masala
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Chef: Saundera
This is a really popular curry dish which loads of people in the UK order from their local curry house at the weekend. The great thing about it is that if you don't fancy chicken you can try using chicken instead, because it is cooked separately from the sauce.
6 garlic cloves, peeled
7 cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled
3 fresh red chillies, deseeded
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
1 tablespoon paprika
2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander
3 tablespoons Garam Masala
200 grams Natural yoghurt
4 medium chicken breasts, skinned and cut into large chunks
1 tablespoon butter
2 medium onions, peeled and finely sliced
2 tablespoons tomato puree
1 small handful of cashew nut or almonds
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
115 ml double cream
1 handul of fresh coriander, chopped
2 limes, juiced
Grate the garlic and ginger on the finest side of a cheese grater and put to one side in a bowl. Chop the chillies as finely as you can and mix them in with the garlic and ginger. Heat a good splash of olive oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. When they start to pop, add them to the ginger and garlic mixture along with the paprika, cumin, ground coriander and 2 tablespoons of the garam masala. Put half of this mix in a bowl, add the yoghurt and the chicken pieces to it, stir and leave to marinate for half and hour or so.
Melt the butter in the saucepan the mustard seed were in and add the sliced onions and the remaining half of the spice mix. Cook gently for 15 minutes or so without browning too much – it should start to smell fantastic! Add the tomato puree, the ground nut, half a litre/1 pint of water and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. Stir well and simmer gently for a few minutes. Let this sauce reduce until it thickens slightly and then place to one side.
Put the marinated chicken on a hot griddle pan or barbecue and sear until cooked through – you can also do this under a preheated grill if you like.
Warm the sauce and add the cream and the other tablespoon of garam masala. Taste and correct the seasoning if necessary. As soon as it boils, take off the heat and add the grilled chicken. Check the seasoning once more and serve sprinkled chopped coriander, and the lime juice. Then all you need is a huge bowl of steaming basamati rice, some poppadums and lots of cold beer.
Taken from Jamie Oliver – Jamie's Dinners (page 29)
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Oh gimme a break; for a woman with two children, two ex husbands, a public stint going batshitcrazypants and a sponsorship from Starbucks, whose father has to live with her to make sure she bathes everyday, she looks just amazing.
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Marathoners' continuing saga.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Tomorrow's the day
Wednesday. A typical run day, except with no running. Today I opted for yoga and a prayer that I will be able to finish what I start tomorrow. There is no way around how much an injury sucks the life out of a training program, but I can say that I am being smarter than […] [Read More]
A topic of conversation
When asked, a lot of my friends and acquaintances would be quick to label me as a runner. Even though as a runner, quick is not really an appropriate word to describe me. I enjoy distance running, and perhaps that strikes some as unusual and interesting — a sort of jumping-off point for idle conversation. […] [Read More]
Stop Signs
Too much of a good thing is sometimes not a good thing. As my running mileage has increased over the last few months in preparation for the half-marathon, I have on occasion gone too far. Some people run over 30 miles a week training for a big run. That would not be me. My body […] [Read More]
What Am I Thinking?
This is my first marathon — well, half-marathon. And I'm not running it — I'm walking. I've already read and been told by my oh-so-supportive cousin that walking a half-marathon both doesn't "count" and ticks off some of the more serious runners. All I can say is that I'm sorry and I'm feeling pretty confident […] [Read More]
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
No, William Shakespeare was not a marathoner as far as we know, but as he noted in Hamlet, we need to rest. In preparing for a marathon, we train ourselves to run further, or faster, or both. And more is not necessarily better. The body, particularly, the older body, requires rest. Without it, we risk […] [Read More]
Knowing when to stop
When I say stop, I don't mean quit, I mean identifying ones physical limits and recognizing when pushing your body too far will carry serious consequences. This weekend I knew I had to stop. It is amazing to me what my body can do if I let my mind believe it can do it. Of […] [Read More]
On hope and a promise
My hip. Oh how I have cussed my injured hip. Like a trusted friend who told my mom all my secrets. It sold me out. So far I have missed two runs. Short training runs, yet important runs. One run was to train my body for speed and one was where I watch my form […] [Read More]
Running in 78209
As a warmup to the Rock-N-Roll SA Marathon, many runners participated in the Fleet Feet Sunrise 10K last week in Alamo Heights. There's a reason they call it Alamo Heights. If there was a flat stretch of road on that course I must have missed it. It was great to run by all those beautiful […] [Read More]
Heavens to Murgatroyd — the Marathon!
I'm not a first timer. In fact this will be my 151st marathon! But I still get butterflies before the gun goes off. I have aches and pains, and hurt a lot before, during, and after. And I always start out too fast. My best time was a couple of decades ago when I ran […] [Read More]
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Nokia has launched a premium music service called Nokia Music+ that builds on the existing Mix Radio available to Lumia users and takes the fight to streaming services like Spotify
A Scandinavian smackdown could be on the way thanks to the new Nokia Music+ service that the Finnish company has unveiled - tempting Lumia users away from the likes of Spotify and Last.fm.
The service will sit on top of the already outstanding Nokia Mix Radio and let users cache an unlimited number of playlists as well as skipping and downloads - all for the princely sum of £3.99 a month.
"Nokia Music is great for discovering new music, and we've found that there's a core of users that want even more of it. This is how Nokia Music+ came about. By introducing features like infinite skips and unlimited downloads, we're opening the doors for unlimited music discovery," said Jyrki Rosenberg, Nokia's vice president of entertainment.
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The new service also lets you listen at eight times the audio quality and access lyrics for those impromptu on-the-fly karaoke sessions.
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Investors lifted market volume and value on the HCM City Stock Exchange on April 26 afternoon, despite stocks faltering towards the end of the session.
In HCM City, the VN Index settled previous session down 0.56 percent at 470.21 points, although advancers outnumbered decliners by 135-106.
Blue chips tumbled as 20 of the 30 leading shares by market value and liquidity declined, sending the VN30 Index to 538.1 points, down 0.86 percent from April 25.
Market value jumped 35 percent, however, totalling 1.75 trillion VND (83.3 million USD) with 96.3 million shares exchanged.
The market remained upbeat but many investors decided to sell shares to take profits ahead of the holiday next week, FPT Securities Co analysts wrote in a research note.
"Like previous corrections, the profit-taking sales turned out to be buying opportunities for others," they said.
Shares in minerals companies were again the heaviest gainers, with most hitting their ceiling prices on April 25. They included Binh Dinh Minerals (BMC), Nari Hamico Minerals (KSS), Ha Giang Minerals (HGM), Tay Bac Minerals Investment (KTB), Binh Thuan Hamico Mineral (KSA) and TTA2704. Lao Cai Mineral Exploitation & Processing (LCM).
These shares gained a lot since last week, and analysts said that high cash dividends were the main reason for this speculative wave. HGM paid last year's cash dividend at a rate of 80 percent while BMC paid 50 percent.
SACOM Development and Investment Corp (SAM) was still the most active stock on a volume of 4.8 million shares, rising 4.3 percent to end at VND 9,700.
On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index lost over 1 percent to close the previous session at 78.74 points. Trading value decreased slightly to 776.6 billion VND (37 million USD) on a total volume of 75 million shares.
Losers edged gainers by a margin of 149-126.
Habubank (HBB) again secured its position as the most heavily-traded stock nationwide with nearly 13.3 million shares changing hands, closing up 1.4 percent at 7,100 VND.
Foreign investors continued to be net buyers on both exchanges, picking up a combined 46.6 billion VND (2.2 million USD) worth of shares.
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A FORMER Plymouth Argyle manager appeared as a special guest as city students picked up prizes.
Neil Warnock, who guided the Pilgrims to Wembley glory in 1996, was the special guest at Plymouth Guildhall for the Plymouth College senior awards evening.
The independent school's annual prize-giving event recognises and celebrates the academic and extra-curricular achievements of senior pupils.
Neil, who now manages Championship club Leeds United but still has a home in South East Cornwall, presented the prizes and gave a talk about making the most of opportunities and never giving up to the audience of sixth-formers, 2012 leavers, staff, families and friends.
Head teacher Dr Simon Wormleighton, said: "The senior awards evening allows us to celebrate our achievers from last year, including academic scholars, sportsmen and women and musicians, to name but a few. We were delighted that Neil was able to join us to present the prizes, and give such an engaging speech."


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This year I participated in a cookie swap and not just some amateur local one. This my friends was put together by the lovely ladies over at Love and Olive Oil and The Little Kitchen. The idea is genius really. Combine the powers of the amazingly talented food bloggers all over the country, ship a box of cookies to three different people, you get three different boxes of cookies, and in the end everyone writes a nice little post about! Fun! [If you're interested in participating next year, sign up for their emails here]
Well here I am at stage three writing a nice little post about this event. This event was a lot more than just shipping your cookies to random people around the country. Blogging about anything can seem really closed off sometimes. You don't get to see the people who are reading your blog or interact with them like you would if you were cooking for a group of friends. This event brought together about 500 food bloggers over the common love of cookies. Personally, I went on Twitter way more just to look through all of the tweets about the cookie swap. It was nice to bond virtually over the trials and errors of making the perfect cookie, and through the process I found a few more people to follow online.
I want to give a shout out to the three blogs that I sent cookies too:
KarmaCucina – my new go-to "real" cooking site! Lots of different variations on delicious food.
Life of a Bama Girl – another young chef blogging about life and food
From My Sweet Heart – a lovely woman living her life the best way possible – through sugar
The bloggers that I received cookies from:
Addicted to Recipes – she sent some yummy Gingerbread Snickerdoodles which was so appropriate. I love the two of them separately this season, so combined it was heavenly.
Grumpy's Honey Bunch – she sent two different types of cookies [a nice result from reading directions when stressed :)] One was a peppermint bark filled bon bon (Mom loved these!) and some Cardamon Sugar cookies (yum!)
Decadent Philistines Save the World – she sent Maple Walnut cookies, which sadly must have been man-handled by the USPS because the box of cookies was opened inside when i got it and the cookies were a little hard BUT I did try them and they tasted good regardless! There should be a stamp for packages that says "HANDLE WITH CARE – COOKIES INSIDE"
I should probably tell you about the cookies I made now, huh? Recently I have fallen in love with the idea of sea salt on desserts, like cookies and chocolates. I know some people who havent experienced it yet are a little hesitant about the idea, but trust me, you'll be hooked.
I was going to make a chocolate chip cookie with sea salt, but that was too simple. So these cookies ended up as a mixture of a few different cookies. I only got to eat one of them because I didn't make enough to devour myself, but that one cookie was mouthwatering. These will be made a few more times this holiday season, that's for sure.
Make sure you use chopped up chocolate and not chocolate chips. It makes a difference! Adapted from Anne Burrell's recipe from Food Network
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 sticks unslated butter, room temp
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 oz dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup toasted pecans, chopped
- Sea Salt (I use Fleur de Sel)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with silpat (or parchment paper)
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, and kosher salt.
- In the bowl of a mixer, combine both sugars and the butter and beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, letting combine fully between each one. Add vanilla.
- Gradually add in the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Take the bowl off the mixer and mix in by hand the chocolate chunks and pecans.
- Scoop batter onto sheet, placing them about 2 inches apart. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Immediately sprinkle cookies with sea salt and let cool.


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I don't know if this is the best of all possible worlds, but it's certainly the most expensive (Woody Allen). If you are one of those types who don't enjoy writing a prodigious check to "U.S. Treasury" come April 15th, here are a few tips, tricks and licks you might try for kicks on Route 66. I am not a tax attorney so this is for your amusement only: check with your own tax consultants before you try this at home, or the IRS will come get you and your little dog, too.
Harvest Tax Losses
Do you have any stocks that have lost money? What – even in a year when the U.S. stock market is up over 25%? Ha! Loser!
Actually, not. If everything is up, it probably means that you are underdiversified. You might well have stocks and mutual funds where your cost basis is higher than where they sit today, even if you are an extremely successful investor. By selling them now, at least you can harvest a tax loss, taking lemons and making lemon meringue pie. This is especially valuable if you can scrounge up any short-term capital gains to be applied against ordinary income. The best places to hunt this year are in commodity, precious metals, bond, and emerging market funds. Obviously this wisdom only applies to your taxable accounts, not your IRAs, 401ks, etc.
P.S. Secret Value Proposition: people selling their closed-end funds to harvest tax losses have driven them to deeper discounts to their net asset values than they usually trade at. This could represent a bargain as prices regress to the mean over the coming months, if they do, and if you are "into" closed-end funds. My genius nephew Chris DeMuth, Jr. has alerted me that Central Fund of Canada (ticker: CEF) is presently selling at a 5% discount to the price of the gold and silver that it holds. In other words, you have a window where you can buy precious metals at a discount. (Disclosure: I own a little bit of CEF).
Harvest Tax Losses – a Deeper Dive
Even in positions where you have a net long-term gain, there may still be some tax lots within your total position that you purchased at a higher price than the security is selling for today. This especially holds where you have been reinvesting dividends and capital gains in mutual funds over time. Go online to your custodian and examine the individual tax lots, specifying that you are selling just the ones that are currently underwater.
Check Your Account's Tax Settings
Remember all those application pages you signed without reading when you opened your brokerage account? Historically, most brokerages put you in "average cost basis" or "first in-first out" tax cost accounting when calculating your capital gains. Recently, though, newer and better options have appeared on the menu – but you have to update your account settings to tell them which one you want them to use. Look for "tax optimized" or "best tax" or "short-term tax-sensitive" among your choices. That way, they will scan the individual tax lots when you sell and automatically select the ones with the least damaging tax consequences.
Roth IRA Conversions
If you anticipate even higher taxes in retirement, or if a Roth IRA will likely end up in your estate, it might make sense to do a partial Roth conversion, at least up to the top of your current tax bracket. Check with your accountant for how much that might be.
Charitable Donations
Instead of writing a check to your favorite charity, make them a gift of whatever stock you own that has the lowest cost basis (ergo the highest embedded capital gains) that you've held for at least one year. There is a lot to love about the donor-advised funds from Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab that let you make tax-deductible charitable donations during your working years when they count, and then distribute the proceeds to charities on a timetable of your choosing (such as during retirement when the tax deduction might be less valuable to you but the desire to give is still there).
Contribute to a 529 Plan
Do you know someone who could benefit from a college education (your child?), and is your state is one of the 34 that offer a tax deduction for contributing to a 529 Plan? Check here. If you are lucky enough to live in Arizona, Kansas, Maine, Missouri or Pennsylvania, they will give you a deduction for contributions to ANY state's plan. If you are fortunatae enough to live in a state that does not have an income tax, this is irrelevant (but maybe Junior should go to college anyway).
Most of these plans are not great, in terms of options and expenses. Last time I checked I liked the Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan the best, because of its access to low-expense Vanguard funds and its asset-protection provisions, but others may be just as good or better. Being the rogue that I am, I might be tempted to donate to my own state's plan to get the tax deduction, then wait a year and move the money to another state's plan that I liked better. Provided this were kosher. But of course I live in California, which offers no deduction at all despite having the highest state income taxes in the U.S.
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May 2, 2009
Lobo Softball
Saturday: Lobos 6, Colorado State 4
Up Next: Lobos at BYU (May 7); At Utah (May 8-9)
Online: GameTracker, recaps on GoLobos.com
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
She held her bundle of roses soft and gentle the way a first-time mother might cradle her newborn. A few minutes earlier senior Analise Rubalcava clutched a bat and swung it like a lumberjack attacking a tree.
The victim of Rubalcava's not-so-soft swing was a pitch thrown by Colorado State's Kelli Eubanks. The ball snapped off Rubalcava's bat and soared high into an evening sky washed with sunrays and weakened rain clouds.
There was nothing weak about this hit. The ball disappeared over the left-center wall and Rubalcava disappeared into the joy of a walk-off, two-run homer in her final at-bat at Lobo field.
On Senior Day, it was perfect ending for a senior.
"I'm in a different place right now," Rubalcava said after New Mexico's dramatic, never-say-die 6-4 Mountain West Conference win over the CSU Rams Saturday at Lobo Field. "The ending was perfect for me.
"I came out like it was another day at the ballpark and that's how I felt until I hit that ball and rounded second and saw coach and all my teammates over there cheering. I teared up just from the joy of seeing them."
There was a lot of joy coming back Rubalcava's way, too. The Lobos had dodged a bullet when CSU scored the apparent go-ahead run in the top of the seventh. But the run was washed off the board when the home-plate ump decided the CSU runner left third base early on a tag.
UNM's leadoff hitter, Cristin Anderson, opened the bottom of the seventh by neatly dropping a bunt between the CSU pitcher and the catcher and Anderson didn't even have a throw to beat in her dash down to first.
"If there is nobody on, I give them the green light, if they see something," said Lobo coach Ty Singleton. "She saw something and that was her decision to bunt. It was a great decision and a great bunt."
Then it was Rubalcava's turn. She turned on a pitch on the outside corner, killed it, and disappeared into her final jog of joy at Lobo Field. On deck, the Lobos' other senior, Samantha Hughes, dropped her bat almost the instant the ball left the stick of her roommate.
"I was so excited for Analise. She deserves something like this," said Hughes. "She has done so much for the team this year. When she hit it, I just dropped my bat. I knew it was gone."
The emotional ending to the game added to the emotional ending for Hughes and Rubalcava. The two seniors were surrounded by family and friends and swamped by hugs and kisses and pretty flowers.
It's been a great season for Hughes and Rubalcava, too. They are No. 1 and No. 1 respectively in batting average. Hughes is a strong candidate for MWC First-Team honors. Rubalcava, an infielder for three seasons, became UNM's pitching ace after Singleton's pitching staff was decimated by the loss of three young hurlers, who didn't return for the 2009 season.
The win upped UNM's record to 12-33 and 3-9 in MWC play. CSU fell to 24-23 and 5-6 in league. The Lobos end their season on the road at Brigham Young (May 7) and at Utah (May 8-9).
"It was a fun way for the seniors to go out," said Singleton. "It's been a tough year and they had a fun day and we all had a fun day. Analise came in relief, got out of the inning, and then steps up and hits a walk-off."
The Lobos led the game 3-1 after three innings, but CSU clawed back ahead 4-3 with a three-run fifth. UNM tied the game 4-4 in the bottom of the sixth. Shaunte Duarte doubled and Andria Martinez came in to pinch run. Martinez scored on a single by Jessica Garcia.
The Lobos got a single run in the first on a home run by Anderson, who went 2-for-4 with one RBI and two runs scored. UNM got another dinger in the bottom of the second, a solo shot by Tianna George.
Rubalcava got the third Lobo run in the third after reaching base on a single and getting knocked in on a single by Duarte.
The Lobos had multi-hit games from Anderson, Rubalcava and Duarte. UNM also got hits from Garcia, George and Kerry Hodgins. Of course, the big blow was the one by Rubalcava.
"I have no idea what I hit," said the 5-3 senior. "I swung and just kind of blacked out. I don't remember it at all.
"Today was a cherry on top, but this is really about the whole experience of being a Lobo. I can't thank my team or my coaches or Sammi (Hughes) enough for the experience they have given me over the past four years."
Rubalcava paused to look out over Lobo Field and noticed Hughes wiping tears from her face. It was a small shift for the two seniors. Rubalcava is known for being more emotional; Hughes is more of the toughie.
"It's weird seeing Sammi like this," said Rubalcava. "Usually, I'm the one who is all emotional."
Said Hughes: "I'm usually not that emotional at all. It's weird. This is my last game here after four years and it just kind of hit me. I don't know what to say."


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Rideshare programs like Uber and Lyft are one step closer to getting a new set of rules more along the lines of ride-for-hire services like a taxi cab.
Carl Gaskins, a driver with Thunder Cab, said "They're kind of plugging up all of the loop holes so that and bringing them into the regulations."
City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with rules for ridesharing companies.
The proposal would require an annual license and permit from the city as well as an annual inspection and more thorough background check.
"What we've asked these companies to do is to assure to is that those background checks would include a check of a person's criminal history and traffic history through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation," Assistant City Manager M.T. Berry said.
Currently rideshare programs operate through a smartphone app. Drivers pick up riders using their personal vehicle. It's a lot like carpooling.
No money is exchanged between the driver and the rider, and the fees are charged straight to a credit card through the app.
"Rideshare is a misnomer," Gaskins said. "They're not sharing anything. They're vehicles for hire."
Currently they don't comply with the same rules as limousines, taxis and other ride-for-hire services, but that's changing.
"There are cities all around the country that are looking at this and some that have passed it," Berry said.
City officials realize the changes won't be popular, but say the rideshare companies are cooperating.
A Lyft representative released a statement saying "…we look forward to continuing to work with the Council to preserve the safe rides and economic opportunity ridesharing provides to the residents of Oklahoma City."
City leaders like the overall compliance in creating a safer experience for the public.
"We believe their business model and we hope that they understand our business model and we're trying our best to merge those two," Berry said.
A public hearing will be held August 26 at City Hall. After that a final decision to approve the proposed ordinances will be made Sept. 9.


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First, the new meanings for words we all know and regularly use. It seems there were 16 winners but six are particularly clever. They appear as you would expect to find them in a dictionary if the new meanings overtake the original ones. (1) Coffee (n.): the person upon whom one coughs. (2) Flabbergasted (adj.): when you are appalled at how much weight you have gained. (3) Willy-nilly (adj.): impotent. (4) Negligent (adj.): the condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown. (5) Balderdash (n.): a rapidly receding hairline. (6) Circumvent (n.): an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by jewish men.
The second half of The Washington Post contest is, no doubt, more demanding. The contestants are asked to both alter an existing word and then suggest a meaning for it. Obviously the second has to connect with the first. That is the difficult part.
This time the paper chose 17 winners but nine are outstanding. Here they are as you would expect to find them in a dictionary if ever they become real words: (1) Bozone (n.): the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. (2) Foreploy (v.): any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of achieving sexual intercourse. (3) Cashtration (n.): the act of buying a house which renders the buyer financially impotent for an indefinite period. (4) Sarchasm (n.): the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. (5) Decafalon (n): the gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only what is good for you. (6) Glibido (v.): all talk and no action. (7) Beelzebug (n.): satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. (8) Caterpallor (n.): the colour you turn after finding half a grub or worm in the fruit you are eating. (9) Ignoranus (n.): a person who is both stupid and an asshole.
I've rarely heard neologisms trip off Indian tongues. Perhaps the editor of Hindustan Times might organise a contest to judge how inventive and witty we are?
But a neologism we badly need is a word for almost the opposite — that is using a word to mean something it did decades ago although today it means something very different.
For example, take the word 'gay'. Mummy, who's just turned 93, still uses it to describe the men she knows. This is how she introduced an 80-year-old general the other day: "He was quite a gay lad in his time." As he blushed, I wondered if Mummy had stumbled on the truth.
The prize, however, goes to the sub-editor of one of our more highly regarded English newspapers. Subbing an analysis of Chief Justice Shah's Section 377 judgement decriminalising homosexuality, he rang a colleague for advice: "The word gay appears twice in the same sentence. Do you think I should change the second to cheerful?"
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Sep 14 2012
"The Bee That Thought Things Over"
"La Abeja que Recapacitó" or, "The Bee That Thought Things Over" by Carlos Carrera is a fable from Ecuador. How is this fable like the ones you heard growing up?
Sep 17 2009
From Sponsored Child to Compassion Employee
Veerachai Nimmitthamrongkul, more commonly called Bee, was sponsored by Compassion when he was growing up. But now Bee has been working as a Partnership Facilitator (PF) for Compassion Thailand for six years.
Bee still recalls the letters he received from his sponsor from Canada. The letters always encouraged him to keep on studying and stressed…


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The Rev. Laverne A. Wilson of Silver Spring will celebrate 25 years of ministry Nov.15 at the Sheraton Town Center Hotel in Columbia.
Wilson is owner of Tomorrow's Future, a Christian child and family care service, and senior pastor of Charis Worship Center in Burtonsville.
Wilson was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to a single mother and was influenced by her grandmother, who she said was "instrumental in holding up the banner of faith and serving others."
Her career began in 2001 at People's Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring; she joined Charis in 2006.
"I got involved in ministry when I saw the disparity of training and acceptance of women within the body of believers. It became apparent to me that my life's work would be to train and mentor all persons from a grass roots level," Wilson wrote in an email to The Gazette.
In 25 years, she said, being a female minister was challenging.
"It was often lonely and isolating, but support came from those who saw the value of inclusivity in ministry," she said.
Wilson enjoys reading, traveling and dancing, and has begun to write her first book.
The public is invited to the celebration and dinner. To purchase tickets, call 301-356-3779.


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Updated Jan 14, 2013 - 10:40 am
Nike pits Tiger Woods vs. Rory McIlroy in funny new commercial
What happens when you pair Tiger Woods with fellow golfer Rory McIlroy?
Well, besides some excellent golf, you get a pretty good commercial that even manages to make Woods look like a fun person to be around.
Nike, which has sponsored Woods for years and McIlroy for days (the commercial is meant to announce the agreement), has released a spot that has the two at a driving range participating in a golfer's game of "anything you can do I can do better".
Check it out, but keep in mind this isn't really possible in real life. At least, we'd like to think it isn't since there's no way we can pull off anything as cool as this on a golf course.


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Montgomery County Public Schools has announced an initiative that would eventually bring 40,000 laptops and tablets to students in classrooms at all schools around the county.
The $15.03 million purchase of the devices must be approved by the Board of Education, which meets on Tuesday and will see a presentation on the technology rollout.
The multi-year effort to provide all students with access to mobile computers on a cloud-based network started last school year. Nine MCPS schools piloted the use of Chromebook laptops and Android-based tablets to create videos, podcasts and websites for assignments, allow students and their parents to review lessons at home and let teachers provide real-time assistance to students doing homework.


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Driving R&D through supercomputing
When Titan is available to users in 2013, it will likely be the fourth time ORNL has hosted the world's fastest computer. The first was the Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine (ORACLE), created in the 1950s in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory to tackle problems in nuclear physics, radiation effects, and reactor shielding.
In 1995, ORNL acquired the Intel Paragon XP/S 150. At 150 GFlops (billion floating point calculations per second), it used 3,000 processors to deliver world-record speed in research areas including climate and groundwater modeling.
In 2000, ORNL became the first DOE laboratory to break the teraflop barrier (one trillion calculations per second), and sprinted through generations of increasingly powerful machines culminating in Jaguar, a petaflop (quadrillion calculations per second) computer in 2010. Jaguar, today with 300,000 processors, has generated world-class R&D across multiple disciplines including materials science, combustion, nuclear physics and astrophysics, biology, climate, and energy.
Of course, computing speed does not translate into great science without softwarealgorithms to perform the calculations and applications that convert scientific problems into computer simulationsand ORNL has an impressive history of software development, too. In the 1960s, ORNL theorists Dean Oen and Mark Robinson used computer modeling to discover ion channeling. The discovery was critical to understanding ion implantation in a variety of applications including integrated circuit fabrication, and it provides a compelling example of scientific discovery through computer simulation.
In the 1980s, ORNL made numerous breakthroughs in parallel computing, research that anticipated the future of high performance computing. ORNL's Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) software, with more than 400,000 users, became the worldwide standard for clustering computers into a virtual supercomputer. In the 1990s, ORNL teamed with other national labs and IBM to develop an ultrafast data storage system, now the standard for supercomputers across the nation. That same decade, Jack Dongarra of UT/ORNL led the development of the Message Passing Interface as well as linear algebra algorithms now used on virtually all supercomputers.
Since 2000, progress at ORNL has continued at a blistering pace. Titan will be more than 10,000 times more powerful in hardware, and more than a thousand times more powerful in softwarea million-fold increase in capability in little more than a decade. This spectacular advance in performance is unprecedented, and is likely to be followed by another factor of a thousand or more over the next decade.
So what does this mean for science?
This issue of the Review provides a glimpse of that future, from the enabling hardware role of Titan's graphics processing units (GPUs), to crucial software advances at the ORNL Center for Accelerated Applications Readiness, to transformative applications including virtual reactors, extreme nuclei, climate modeling, biofuels and materials physics.
Titan will drive R&D in two ways. First, Titan will provide access to a set of problems that are impractical to attack with current supercomputing resources. Second, Titan will accommodate increased complexity in existing computer models, increasing accuracy and fidelity. As a result, we anticipate advances across broad reaches of science and technology including climate, seismology, combustion, materials, nuclear physics, biology, fluid dynamics, and fusion and fission energy.
These advances foresee an era where computer simulations stand alongside theory and experiment as a third leg of science and engineering, accelerating both discovery and design. ORNL is providing leadership for this revolution by fielding the most capable machines, developing the enabling software and applying supercomputing across a broad spectrum of science and technology challenges.
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Throw a Strawberry Party!
YES. It's what we say to things that are awesome. Yes.
Photo credit: Jennifer Causey for DesignSponge
Arguably the most charming of all spring's glories is the humble strawberry. What is more wonderful than a fat, ruby-red one, ripe and sweet and piled into a square green basket at the market?
For years I've been throwing strawberry parties, and the menu is always very simple: Bourbon strawberry mint lemonade, strawberry balsamic panna cotta, one savory strawberry dish, and red-and-white decor as far as the eye can see.
It's one of the easiest shindigs to pull off in the middle of a sunny May or June afternoon, and no one ever declines the invitation. Because everybody loves strawberries, from babies to the elderly, hipsters to hotshots. All you need is red napkins or plates, maybe some red-and-white swirled straws, one big punch brimming with berries, and a couple of snacks. Pick from the ones we feature here, or bring your own knockout recipe to the table. Do you make a stunning strawberry shortcake? Make it the centerpiece.
Leave a little bit of time for chopping strawberries, ask people to bring rosé (of course!), put on your best red dress or tie, and prepare to be 2000 percent more popular than you already are.
If that's even possible.
Strawberry Bourbon Mint Lemonade Punch
Photo credit: Alex Van Buren
Sweet, tart, and very springy indeed, this punch can be made with however much bourbon you think your guests can handle. Bonus: Doesn't it look amazing?
Bourbon Strawberry Mint Lemonade Punch
Serves 6-8
375ml good-quality bourbon, or to taste
10-15 cups store-bought lemonade (we like Newman's Own), or to taste
1/4 cup fresh mint, plus 2 Tbsp for garnish
1/2 cup strawberries, hulled and sliced
Ice ring
Combine bourbon, lemonade, mint, and strawberries a large punch bowl. Stir well to mix. Adjust bourbon and lemonade to taste. Carefully add ice ring to bowl. Garnish with fresh mint. Serve.
Photo credit: Jennifer Causey for DesignSponge


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That controller still looks a bit painful too me i mean both joysticks are up there im sure the left one is ok but the one on the right side of the controller... Doesnt seem right to me, they should've kept xbox style (which they stole from nintendo gamecube thank you very much) the only thing the 360 did was add a couple of extra buttons.
Hmm is it worth people using older devolution to update to the latest? or it wouldnt really matter? I honestly cant wait to get a wiiu myself but to be able to play gamecube games on that too would be pretty sweet


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Honor Flight Northwest Ohio takes final flightWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | email@example.com
After seven seasons, 37 flights and 2,071 veterans served, Honor Flight Northwest Ohio has taken its last flight.
The local hub formed in 2008 to fly World War II veterans to their memorial in Washington, D.C., free of charge. The organization has since opened to Korean and Vietnam veterans as well.
The group's final flight was originally scheduled for September but an anonymous donor financed one more trip on Oct. 29, carrying 118 Vietnam and Korean veterans.
Kent Greenlese, 66, of Walbridge was among the veterans on that flight.
Greenlese, who served in the Navy, said when he returned from Vietnam there were protesters at the airport in California and only his mother to greet him in Toledo. Honor Flight's welcome home ceremony at Grand Aire terminal was a little different.
"I admit I was crying when that happened," he said. "I didn't expect so many people to be there. It was really emotional to see everyone screaming and waving and the band playing. The part that got me the most was when they started chanting, 'USA! USA!' I kind of lost it there. There wasn't a dry eye in the place."
MORE PHOTOS: Click here for more photos of Honor Flight Northwest Ohio's final flight.
His favorite part was seeing the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He also made rubbings at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of the names of two neighbors who were killed.
"I'm sorry it was the last trip," he said. "There are a lot of people who didn't get to go. But it was really terrific."
Vietnam veteran Howard Yunker of Swanton was also on the Oct. 29 flight. His twin brother, Harold, was there to welcome him home.
Harold, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Air Force, was on an Honor Flight trip two years ago. Howard served in the Army.
"He talks about it all the time," Harold's wife, Kathryn, said. "It was such an important day. I think it's that way for everyone who goes. He was so excited."
Marine Corps veteran Peter Brown, 65, of Toledo learned in August he would be on the Oct. 29 flight, but died two days later of complications of Agent Orange exposure during his service in Vietnam, his wife Conni Urbanski-Brown said. Honor Flight took Brown's flag on the flight.
"That was such an honor for them to do that," she said. "It's the next best thing since he couldn't go."
Board member David Chilson, a Navy veteran, said closing the hub was a "difficult and emotional" decision, but the organization felt its original mission was complete. He declined to comment further as did other board members.
"We have taken really all of the World War II veterans who have applied," Chilson told Toledo Free Press earlier this summer. "Many of the other hubs around the country have shut down once they took the WWII veterans. We've gone well beyond that."
"Honor Flight is much more than just seeing the memorials," he told TFP in 2013. "It's a chance to share the experience of the entire day with 70-some other veterans. What I hope they take away is that people still remember and are very appreciative for their service during World War II and during the Korean War and we still remember and honor them."
The Honor Flight Network, which includes 135 regional hubs in 42 states, was founded in 2005 and has flown more than 81,000 veterans.
The biggest obstacle for hubs is fundraising, said Diane Gresse, executive director of Honor Flight Network. Nationally, there are about 20,000 veterans on waiting lists with a typical wait time of about a year, she said.
"It's just a way to pay back the veterans for their service and their sacrifice," Gresse said. "They are very genuinely humble and appreciate that Americans have not forgotten their service to our country."
Gaylord and Chris Sheldon of Genoa have served as medical guardians on about 20 Honor Flight trips.
"To listen to some of their stories was just flat-out amazing," Gaylord said. "It just gave me goosebumps thinking about what they went through."
Gaylord is a retired battalion fire chief and his wife is a firefighter.
"I'm sorry to see it come to an end, but I'm even more sorry to see the World War II guys vanishing," Gaylord said. "They are all getting old and passing away."
The nearest hub now is Flag City Honor Flight in Findlay, which started in 2010 and offers one flight per year. This is the first year the group has had a waiting list, which president and flight director Deb Wickerham attributes partly to Toledo's hub closing but also to growing awareness of Honor Flight among Korean and Vietnam veterans.
Army National Guard member and Marine Corps veteran Tim Bellville of Toledo served as a guardian for an Honor Flight Northwest Ohio trip in June.
"I love hanging around the 'Greatest Generation,'" Bellville said.
"There was tears. There was hugs. There was a lot of silence," he said of the veterans seeing their memorials. You hear a lot of the time, 'They just don't talk about it.' But you get them around one of those memorials, and they open up. What Honor Flight is doing is admirable work, it really is."
For more information, visit www.honorflight.org.
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Conservation groups will be making 20 minute presentations about their projects and will be available for questions after each talk. Ticket holders will be able to hear 8 talks given by the above groups. In addition, each group will be available for further discussion or more information and may be selling items to support their work. View the presentation schedule here.
Location: BSU Student Union Building - Jordan Rooms and Lookout Room
Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tickets: $9 general admission, $7 students
Programs will be suitable for students 8 years and older.
Tickets can be purchased: