text:
Ryan Reynolds Gossip
Ryan Reynolds gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Blake's FASHION
Blake Lively covers the October issue of FASHION Magazine. The interview happened in May and, since she's not promoting a film, we're presumably here to care about Preserve, aka the Blake Lively lifestyle or the website that's so dark it gives you a headache. Full Story
Perfect casting
I didn't think it could look any more twee than Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. But he's been cast in a movie called Woman In Gold with Katie Holmes and apparently they're a couple with kids and, sh-t, it's like a life insurance commercial. Well done, casting director. Full Story
Blake's big dress
Dylan's over in Cannes shooting footage for etalk with our host Tanya Kim. They've been sending back some great shots and interviews that will air on the show all week, including some inadvertent (?) gossip I thought you might enjoy. I suppose it's all in the interpretation. So last night we aired our interview with Atom Egoyan who directed Ryan Reynolds in The Captive. Full Story
Blake of Monaco
Andreas Rentz /Pascal Le Segretain /VALERY HACHE /BERTRAND LANGLOIS /ALBERTO PIZZOLI /Getty Images
As expected, Blake Lively accompanied husband to the Cannes premiere of The Captive on Friday night. When I saw her dress, what popped into my head was... Grace Of Monaco, the opening night film, starring Nicole Kidman. Blake was there too. She wore brown-ish wine-colour Gucci. Boring. But can you imagine if she'd chosen this one? I would have liked to see the look on Granny Freeze's face. Full Story
No boos at the photo call
Pascal Le Segretain/ Andreas Rentz/ Getty
Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, and Mireille Enos joined director Atom Egoyan at the photo call for their film The Captive today in Cannes. They all look great. Unfortunately the film…was not well received. Grace Of Monaco was already a bust at the festival and it looks like The Captive is getting similar reviews. Full Story
Ryan Reynolds kicks off Cannes Canadian invasion
There are a lot of Canadians representing at Cannes this year. Ryan Reynolds arrived in Cannes today in advance of the premiere of The Captive, directed by another Canadian, Atom Egoyan. As you know, Reynolds's wife, Blake Lively, has already been at the festival for a couple of days and walked the carpet at the opening gala last night in her role as ambassador for L'Oreal. Full Story
Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds: MET Imitation of Brange
Wenn, TIMOTHY A. CLARY/ Larry Busacca/ Getty
As IF. If I want to see a tall white guy with his hand all over the ass of his tall white wife, I'd go with Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. But here we are with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, their most public carpet ever, at the MET Gala last night, both wearing Gucci, her sponsor. Full Story
Blake & Ryan in Aspen
Patriot Pics /FAMEFLYNET
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were photographed in Aspen yesterday walking to a local comedy club. There's a maple leaf on her hat. It's a super cute hat. Not known whether or not they spent Christmas there but perhaps New Year's? At Mimi's? Can you imagine Blake and Ryan over at Mimi's for a NYE party? What's ahead for the Reynoldses in 2014? Ryan has two films due out for release and another on deck to start shooting. Full Story
Is Ryan in on it too?
Steffman-Rocke/ Splash
Last month a photographer miraculously found Blake Lively frolicking in a meadow with her dog (click here for a refresher), holding up a pink Moto X phone… and we were supposed to believe these were "candid" shots of her not getting paid. Full Story
Blake's teachable moment
Alex Wong/ Dimitrios/ Laura Cavanaugh/ Getty
Several high profile Hollywood names – including Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Weinstein, Bruce Cohen, Ryan Coogler, Naomie Harris, and David Frankel – were invited by First Lady Michelle Obama to the White House on Friday for a "careers-in-film workshop for high school students out of D. Full Story
Ryan Reynolds's birthday wax
FameFlynet, Sean Gardner/ Getty
It was Ryan Reynolds's 37th birthday yesterday. He celebrated in New Orleans with his brand new wax figure at Madame Tussaud's. He also spent part of the day in a Lamborghini on the set of his new film Selfless. And, because she's the true heir to Martha Stewart, it's very possible that he was greeted at home at the end of a long day at work to find his wife, naked but for an apron, with dinner on the table. Full Story
Blake & Ryan return to the birthplace of their love
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds arrived in New Orleans on Sunday where he'll be shooting a new movie called Selfless. The significance of New Orleans? Well, that's where they shot Green Lantern…when he was still married to Scarlett Johansson. The relationship did not develop until after he and Scarjo were over but Blake was into it, totally. Full Story
Career Prospectus: Ryan Reynolds
For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here. Well this was inevitable. We've received several requests for a Ryan Reynolds prospectus, and since he's had yet another summer blockbuster flop, it seemed like a good time to address what exactly is going on with his career. Full Story
Blake & Ryan promote Turbo
A sparkly Blake Lively showed up at the NY premiere of Turbo last night to support her husband, Ryan Reynolds. She wore Burberry and a fresh, dewy summer face. Blake held hands and posed with her brother and, presumably, his kids, but, as far as I can see, there are no red carpet shots of her with Ryan, which is so interesting to me, this Hollywood convention. Full Story


text:
04/22/2004 : 2:40 | backround: [
Hot Abercrombie Chick is a Man! [ Post 3 - comments ]
Yet after she did claim her pspsyudonymity, and confirmed she, the writer, was the philosophy major in the photograph, there were two events that set me off onto my first major investigation.
First, Wizbang posted a
After taking a closer look into
Also, Wizbang's writing style seemed somehow
A second event occurred. Wizbang added a comment to
Cameron's blog which was the first true sign of stress for anyone involved
in this whole ordeal. I believe everyone involved must have felt some form
of excitement and believed this would be a great laugh and an interesting
situation no matter what happened - a riddle or a puzzle to be solved -
but Wizbang seemed to be aligning against everyone else. He
If you're going to complain about my blog ranking at Google you could at least spell it correctly - it's Wizbang.
If you're trying to figure out why I have the top spot, just check Technorati. Comment by Kevin at April 22, 2004 11:39 PM
Why was Kevin "Wizbang" Alyward so upset? Was Kevin Amanda? It would be easy
to imagine, based on the content and subject matter of his writings, that
his interest in her was no different then that of, say
Finally there was a link, or at least, a possible explaination for why Wizbang would create Amanda: Personal Advertisements. And there they were. Dozens and dozens
of ads are splattered all over Wizbang's site. Goggle Ads, Blog Ads, other ads,
tip jars, donations, wish lists, hit counters, track-backs, pay-pal (until
Next Kevin
Other examples of the true depth behind Wizbang's interest in blogging
were uncovered throughout his archives. Wizbang was quick to notice, a score with
I quickly learned that Wizbang was one of the few bloggers sexist enough to
Perhpas Wizbang merely enjoyed Amanda as a pontiff or perhaps Wizbang and/or Amanda was an advertising ploy for Abercrombie and Fitch, the miltibillion dolar clothing store, I thought.
For years now Abercrombie & Fitch have been engaging in extremely offensive activity,
similar to the kinds of activity of interst to, you guessed it, Wizbang.
Aftre a few more minutes of looking into the connections between Wizbang, Amanda and A&F, the theory that Wizbang was working for A&F was quickly dropped due to the level of complexity that was inconsistent with the rest of Wizbang and Amanda's less complex activity.
Returning to the source of Wizbangs stress, another factor arose which was brought on by
This opened up a whole investigation into all of the connections between
Wizbang and Sayanything Rob. Intrestingly enough, the content of Rob's site, Sayanythingblog
(where the name suggests the reality) was very similar to that of
Also, for some reason, instead of the expected behavior from Wizbang, like a post that read "Hey everybody, I will be hosting Amanda's new site name, look at me", Sayanything had never said anything about his involvement with Amanda.
Instead he became quite stressed and upset about the accusation.
Here is
So, is Amanda real? I think so. I've been reading her site for a while now and have always enjoyed her posts. Honestly, I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary but perhaps others have.
I do have something of an interest in this thing. Amanda is getting ready to move her site over to my server for hosting. I've emailed back and forth with her a couple times regarding her move and the responses I've gotten have always seemed to be on the straight and narrow.
When I first ran across the Hot Abercrombie Chick website I wondered about the amount of traffic and comments she was getting. I thought about writing a post comparing the amount of traffic Amanda got for her posts compared to the amount a male with a similar blog got. I had the feeling that Amanda's traffic may have been elevated because she's, well, a hot chick to use her terms.
I didn't do this because I didn't want to offend Amanda. I do find her posts insightful and well-written and I didn't want to take anything away from that.
If the Julia Set post turns out to be true (and I'm guessing it won't be) then I'm going to feel kind of dumb. Its not like I'm going to be out anything except a little time, but still...
Who does something like this? You have to be one desperate blogger to resort to something like this just to gain some traffic.
Yet Robbie of Sayanything, is not only a budding webster, he's a
Soon after Rob was getting going with his blogging, he bagan running ads
and answering the same questions his friend Wizbang was answering: "
Could Wizbang be Amanda AND Commissar, in cahoots with Sayanything? Perhaps partly, but definitely not wholly. Putting
Since both Wizbang and Sayanything were becoming so savvy with the
Internet, in terms of what to do to increase their popularity, in order to
sell ads, finally each receiving
They both claim that there is no incentive for her. Yet she
She claimed herself as being categorized by religion and
philosophy. She was also somehow very well informed about other issues
too: Child Pornography, Music sales, product branding, blogging tricks, to
name just a few - in each case claiming she knew the matters in-depth. For
a 17 year old who is just entering into college, looking for a
Beyond Amanda, Wizbang, or Sayanything coming out and admitting that they were the true epicenter of this hoax, and without anything more than a subjective claim to existence on Amanda's part, there was one more line of evidence that is out there on the Internet that, as a matter of fact, determines the case, as we have already heard: Internet Protocol, or, IP.
There is an easy way to find out if the unique computers that belong to Sayanything and Wizbang are the same computers that Amanda uses. Most bloggers who have big sites, keep logs with ips and time stamps. The time of a comment that was made by Amanda can be matched with the IP. Assuming Amanda is at a college, and not worried about any malicious activity on her part, just like the rest of us, her IP's would probably reveal her location and is certainly indexable by her service provider. Even if she uses a proxy IP, which is unlikely, the proxy IP can also be filtered through her service provide with no less effort. Even the most intelligent and prolific hackers are vulnerable to IP tracing. Hac it turns out though, is also quite the hacker.
Finally, I received my first message regarding the matter from a stressed individual marked with a traceable IP. The bashing message which was shown to myself and Josh was from one "Joe Grouchy" and had an ip address of 220.127.116.11.: Naperville, Illinois, is not usually much help for a proxy, so it may very well indicate, in this case, a true location for someone's IP hosting service. Yet what good is this random location in Illinois without an FBI Warrant?
Well, you can never be too sure, but I didnt have to look far for a rather compelling
April 19, 2004 CONFESSION
For some reason which is quite unfathomable to me, certain sections of the blogosphere are all abuzz over the question of whether coed blogger, "Hot Abercrombie Chick," might really be a dude.
I'm not sure why this really matters, but since it apparently does to some people, I feel I owe my readers a confession. I'm not actually a 32-year-old cranky male lawyer in central Illinois. I'm actually a 65-year-old widow and retired plus-size lingerie model from Butte, Montana.
And my supposed wife "Laura" is actually just a raccoon that I sometimes see in my backyard. I think she's trying to steal the birdseed I put out.
I don't think these revelations should really impact anything I've said around here, but I thought you all should know.
After today, I'll continue to pretend that none of this is true.
Add The Spoons Experience to your blogroll by clicking here.
Could Spoons be Amanda? Was Spoons nervous from the
Who is
Yet none of them are willing to believe for an instant that Hot Abercrombie Chick could simply be another slimey man's escapade into making money on the net. They are all seemingly extreme in their cultural influences as they try to push their opinions onto others. Wizbang is offering proof that she exists by auctioning off a picture (even though its usually illegal to offer products as incentives for donations). Amanda suppodely supports this by handing over the pics which have never surfaced and since been ignored.
They have left comments all over the Internet marked with their IP address for anyone to gather. If someone doesn't come clean soon, either Hot Abercrombie will loose all of it's business, because nobody wants dirty business that poses as warm human compassion, some of these guys will get busted because Amanda's blog will be opened up by the FBI as a child porn site, Advertiserers will catch on, subscriptions will be cancelled, or she will no longer be a mystery for being what she says she is.
Hot Abercrombie Chick, a.k.a. Amanda Doerty via some other name, is asking us to trust in Wizbang and Sayanything to indirectly then trust her. Ya, right. Need more be said? Yes.
It turns out I was wrong. The Hot Abercrombie Chick is in fact a man, but he's not Wizbang. Rob is also not Amanda. Chris is not Amanda either. It turns out that these guys really were clueless or had some invested interest in believeing that she was real.
Who is Amanda?Dan "the man" Zeigenbein, the musician that Amanda claimed she knew.
This started out as a fun investigation into the true natue of the Hot Abercrombie Chick blog but quickly took a turn for the worst; a political nightmare with the kinds of Americans that are failing our country, and thus the world, keeping in the company of Bush.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
(0 coupons) VRBO.com coupon codes
Sign up to list your vacation rental property on VRBO.com, and get 1 month FREE. Expires Dec 31st, ...(more)
(0 coupons) Intrepid Travel coupon codes
15% off central hits, southern highlights – why Latin America will rock your travel world
(0 coupons) G Adventures / Discovery Adventures coupon codes
G Adventures Africa Leader Board
(0 coupons) Luxury Link coupon codes
Save on the World's Best Golf Destinations
(0 coupons) Go Card USA & Smart Destinations coupon codes
New York City Summer Family Fun Pass - Save 35% on 4 attractions for one low price!
(0 coupons) Trusted Tours and Attractions coupon codes
Discount tour and attraction tickets in top US destinations.
(0 coupons) Gray Line New York coupon codes
Hop on, hop off double decker fun that includes our most popular tours:
- Downtown Loop
- Uptown Loo...(more)
(0 coupons) BestOfVegas coupon codes
Save up to 50% on Las Vegas Shows, Attractions and Tours with BestofVegas.com!
(0 coupons) Dales Holiday Cottages coupon codes
Pets Go Free at many of our suberb cottages with Dales Holiday Cottages. From the Dales to the Scot...(more)
(0 coupons) Best of Orlando coupon codes
Disney World Base Ticket: Buy 4 Days & get 5th Day Free!
(0 coupons) Paris Pass coupon codes
Discover more and spend less with The Paris Sightseeing Pass
(2 coupons) Expedia coupon codes
Book with confidence thanks to the Best Price Guarantee from Expedia.ca!
(0 coupons) Home Exchange coupon codes
The premier international home exchange and home swap service
(0 coupons) Intercambiocasas ES coupon codes
Para viajar más y gastar menos, pruebe el intercambio de casas para sus próximas vacaciones. Más ...(more)
(12 coupons) CityPASS coupon codes
Admission Pass to "Houston's "Museum of Natural Science" and 4 other attractions
(1 coupon) CitySights NY coupon codes
Niagara Falls by Air
(0 coupons) Southwest Airlines Vacations coupon codes
Want to save even more? Click here to see if Southwest Vacations has an exclusive promotion code for...(more)
(0 coupons) Caribbean Affiliate Program coupon codes
All Inclusive Aruba Vacations - Up to 55% Off
(0 coupons) HomeForExchange.com coupon codes
HomeForExchange.com has been awarded ''Best Home Exchange Club''. Join now and save on your accommod...(more)
(0 coupons) HomeAway coupon codes
Learn more on how to rent your second property as a vacation home.
(0 coupons) CruiseDirect coupon codes
7 Night Alaska Cruise on the Millennium from $549 on CruiseDirect.com. Book Today!
(0 coupons) HomeAway.co.uk coupon codes
Easter holidays ideas for kids
(0 coupons) SeaWorld Parks coupon codes
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
(0 coupons) Funjet Vacations coupon codes
Getaway to a vacationer's paradise and discover why Cancun is Mexico's most visited destination.
(0 coupons) Grand Canyon Tour Company coupon codes
Grand Canyon Tour Company offers the best tours at the best prices from Las Vegas.
(0 coupons) City Experts NY coupon codes
New York City Tours
(0 coupons) London Pass coupon codes
See More & Spend Less with the London Pass
(0 coupons) Undercovertourist.com coupon codes
Free Disney iPhone App - Wait Times & Maps
(0 coupons) Isango! Affiliate Scheme coupon codes
Brazil Tours
Got a coupon you'd like to add to Coupon Mailroom?
Enter the details below to share it with other users:


text:
First-year students who begin Temple University in or at any time after Fall 2008 must complete the GenEd curriculum, consisting of 11 courses in 9 different areas.
Course Sequencing – Foundation First
Students are advised to take the three-semester sequence formed by Analytical Reading & Writing and Mosaic I & II as soon as possible after entering Temple in order and in successive semesters.
Students are advised to take the Gen Ed Quantitative Literacy course as soon as possible after entering Temple and before enrolling in Science & Technology courses.
|Analytical Reading & Writing
|1 course, 4 credits
|Mosaic Humanities Seminar I & II
|2 courses, 3 credits each
|Quantitative Literacy
|1 course, 4 credits
|1 course, 3 or 4 credits
|Human Behavior
|1 course, 3 credits
|Race & Diversity
|1 course, 3 credits
|Science & Technology
|2 courses, 3 credits each
|U.S. Society
|1 course, 3 credits
|World Society
|1 course, 3 credits
In some circumstances–when they enter with qualifying AP scores or transfer credit, or due to their choice of a major or program–students will not be required to take certain GenEd courses.
Successful completion of an approved study abroad program provides a waiver from the World Society area of GenEd.
For more information about waivers, SEE YOUR ADVISOR.
Minimum Grade
To successfully complete GenEd, students must earn a C- or better in each GenEd course.
Locating Courses
GenEd courses are identified with the numbers "08XX." GenEd Honors courses are listed as "09XX."
A single GenEd course can sometimes be taught by faculty from different departments, and will be offered in sections from different departments. For example, Dissent in America, from the U.S. Society area, can be taught by a faculty member from History or a faculty member from English. The number of the course–in this case 0825–remains the same.
Limits on Credit for Courses from the Same Department
Student may use no more than two courses from a single department to satisfy GenEd requirements. Foundation courses are excluded.


text:
Dominos Pizza has apologized for the asinine actions of two employees who videotaped themselves sticking food up their nose and sneezing and farting on meals they were preparing. The pair was promptly fired, and now the fast food chain is reportedly filing a criminal complaint against the two idiots, with police issuing a felony warrant for their arrest. Their crime? Grossing out the entire country. The pizza pros are also apparently pursuing a civil suit against the bored booger-pickers.
You can watch their masterpiece above – just make sure you're not about to eat pizza.


text:
Search the collections
On display
This item is on display at Melbourne Museum
Where is it from?
- A Place & Date Used South Yarra, Australia
Endowment Plaque - 'The Elizabeth Yeo Cot', Methodist Babies' Home, Melbourne, circa 1929 Reg. No: SH 891961
- Summary:
- Plaque from the Methodist Babies' Home that was inaugurated in 1925 and opened in 1929. Money was raised for the home by the young people who were members of the Methodist Church. This plaque commemorates the donations made by Methodists around Victoria for the support of the home and the endowment of cots and beds.
The Methodist Babies Home was opened in 1929. Babies, especially from the inner-city slums, were referred to the home through the Children's Court. From 1929 until the early 1970s the Home's role was to care for babies awaiting adoption. From 1974, the direct care of neglected babies was phased out in favour of family-unit-based support services.
- Description:
- Rectangular metal plaque with debossed lettering. Two attachment holes pierced along lower edge near corners.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Copelen Street Family Services, 1989
More information
|Tagged with:
|community organisations services, orphanages
|Themes this item is part of:
|Childhood & Youth Collection, Domestic & Community Life Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection, Methodist Babies Home, South Yarra, 1929-1970
|On Display at:
|Melbourne Museum
|Primary Classification:
|Secondary Classification:
|Children's Homes
|Tertiary Classification:
|Debossed text reads "THE / ELIZABETH YEO COT".
|Place & Date Made:
|Victoria, Australia, 1929 or later
|Place & Date Used:
|Methodist Babies Home, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, circa 1929-1970
This item is part of the following themes:
Similar items
| More


text:
Hang tight!
Recipe by Gayle Wagner
"Marinated artichokes are the centerpiece in this pasta dish. Recipe can be doubled for a larger crowd."
Hmm. None of these ingredients are on sale today.
Show ingredients on sale
Sort stores by
Save money at local stores when ingredients are on sale!
Watch video tips and tricks
1 (8 ounce) package
linguini pasta
1 cup
fresh sliced mushrooms
1/4 cup
chopped onion
2 tablespoons
1/8 teaspoon
dried thyme
2 tablespoons
all-purpose flour
1 (10.5 ounce) can
condensed chicken broth
1 cup
half-and-half cream
1 (6 ounce) can
marinated artichoke hearts
1/4 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
I did not care for the artichokes. I didn't like the tangy taste. I have taken this basic recipe and came up with a great new recipe.one.
65 Ratings
i LOVED this! i also used fat free 1/2 & 1/2 and it was still very creamy. i put chicken in mine too, but think it would be just as tasty without it, although i will definitely add more mushrooms next time. i also put in more artichokes than the recipe called for - and i didn't get the marinated ones, instead the ones packed in water. they worked great! (i added a little bit of their water to the sauce)
After reading the reviews, I decided to add a few things to this to make it a little more flavorful. First, I added about 1/2 cup of sundried tomatoes, and a bit more artichokes than it called for. Then, I added some cut up chicken breast (2 pieces) - which I sauteed in garlic and olive oil. I used fresh thyme instead of dried, and used about 1 tablespoon instead of what the recipe called for. I also tried using both portobello and shitake mushrooms - but the shitake were far better. Lastly, instead of adding the parmesan, when the dish was finished and on the plate, I added a slice of goat cheese to the top. It's really rich and creamy, melts slightly into the pasta, and is soooooo good.
We really loved this. I did use capellini rather than linguini (my hubby's preference), and I didn't have half and half so used heavy cream instead (!). My chicken broth was my homemade broth using the carcass of Roast Sticky Chicken from this site, so it had all that added flavor (but that's mostly what I use--never the canned stuff). Otherwise, I followed the recipe. My hubby wants this again tomorrow. No problem with that! There are only the two of us, and this makes a lot! But it was really delicious!
i wish i could give this one six stars! it was so delicious and quick & easy to make. didnt have half and half so used regular cream, which while tasted great, was probably a little too rich. and next time i'd probably want to add some sundried tomatoes for color.
Really quick and delicious. I used skim milk and cornstarch to cut down on the fat and it was still great!
For as much fat (cheese, 1/2 and 1/2, butter) as this recipe has in it, I thought it would be a lot creamier. The taste was good, but I thought it was too soupy. If I make it again, I will cut back significantly on all the liquids. I'll reserve the cheese, toss the sauce with the noodles, put them in a casserole dish, top with the cheese and bake until it's melty and the liquid has thickened.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Artichoke Tetrazzini
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 435
Calories from Fat: 167
We have over 100 cucumber salads to help you keep your cool.
Meatloaf is the hearty, family-pleasing meal that makes the greatest leftovers ever.
Delicious recipes, party ideas, and cooking tips! Get a year of Allrecipes magazine for $7.99!
Learn how to make delicious, creamy tetrazzini with leftover turkey meat.
See how to make an easy baked chicken tetrazzini.
See how to make classic turkey tetrazzini.


text:
Egg hunts draw big crowds
HUNTINGTON -- The consensus on Saturday morning was the same: the groundhog and the Easter Bunny are in cahoots.
No one was complaining about it, though, as temperatures soared to 60 degrees and the skies were sunny for the fourth annual Easter Eggstravaganza on the lawn of the Cabell County Courthouse. Hundreds turned out to snatch up a basket full of some of the 10,000 candy- and prize-stuffed Easter eggs scattered across the property.
"The groundhog had it wrong, but it looks like the Easter Bunny worked his magic," said Ruth Barnes, as she watched her grandchildren scurry around the courthouse lawn. "And, that's fine with me. It's a beautiful day for an egg hunt."
Saturday's egg hunt was presented by The Dawg. Kindred Communications President and General Manager Mike Kirtner said the Easter event is a sister celebration to the company's annual Halloweenfest, also held at the courthouse.
"It's very important to us to give freely to the families in the area, just as we've done for more than two decades in the fall," Kirtner said.
This year's Eggstravaganza featured more than 10,000 eggs filled with candy and prizes. Kirtner said he was happy to help fill up Tri-State area childrens' Easter baskets.
"Our goal is that no one goes home without something in their basket," he said.
The event also featured free inflatables for the kids, an added bonus according to Shelly Wilson, who was making her third visit to the annual event.
"My kids like the inflatables as much as the eggs, and it's a good way for them to burn off energy after eating the candy," Wilson said, with a laugh. "They should be good and ready for a nap when we get home."
The Cabell County Courthouse was far from the only venue hosting Easter-themed fun Saturday. Charlie's Harley-Davidson in Huntington hosted its own egg hunt and offered pictures with the Easter Bunny from noon to 3 p.m, and The Good Samaritan Church egg hunt at Harveytown Park kicked off at 12:30 p.m.
The 10th annual community egg hunt at the Lawrence County Fairgrounds in Proctorville is one of the area's largest, with upwards of 30,000 eggs ripe for the picking by eager young hands. In addition to the main event, costumed characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Elmo and more favorites were in attendance, and the event also featured live entertainment, games, food and inflatables.
Guyandotte's annual egg hunt was slated for 1 p.m. at the Madie Carroll House, and Milton's community egg hunt rounded out the day's scavenging at April Dawn Park later in the afternoon.
Follow H-D reporter Beth Hendricks on Facebook or Twitter @BethHendricksHD.
The Herald-Dispatch welcomes your comments on this article, but please be civil. Avoid profanity, obscenity, personal attacks, accusations of criminal activity, name-calling or insults to the other posters. Herald-dispatch.com does not control or monitor comments as they are posted, but if you find a comment offensive or uncivil, hover your mouse over the comment and click the X that appears in the upper right of the comment. If you do not want your comment to post to your personal Facebook page, uncheck the box below the comment.


text:
Lee Thomas Michel
Lee Thomas Michel, 54, of Carrollton died Feb. 25, 2009, in Carroll Healthcare Center at Carrollton.
Born Feb. 16,1955, in Canton, he was the son of Lucille Herron of Carrollton and the late Thomas Michel.
He was a graduate of Carrollton High School.
He was a loving husband to Deborah Clair and the father of five children, Matthew and wife Mary; Elizabeth, Patrick, Oliver and Sam Michel; and two grandchildren, Justin and Tristen Michel.
Funeral services were held March 2 in St. Mary's Catholic Church at Morges. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery at Morges. Sweeney-Dodds Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
©2009 The Free Press Standard
Contact the webmaster at: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Hold down Control (PC) or Command (Mac) key + mouseclick to select more than one option
|Avg. Dinner Entrée
|Greater than $25
|$18.01 - $25
|$12.01 - $18
|$7.01 - $12
|Less than $7
Posted by YM on 01/25/2014
Funny how we can tire of the same old food so fast- and then all the sudden, they come up with new menu items, lighter food, more fish and creative items. Cant wait to go back. Had lunch the other day too and it was great and not very expensive.
Posted by Elana on 12/28/2012
Great new (and kosher) restaurant! The atmosphere is fantastic and surprisingly cozy in such an open, lofty place! The service was great - they really know the dishes. I recommend the Mensch and the Maidel drink! The food is tasty and filling, with just enough room for dessert! But, there's always room for dessert
Posted by Miriam B on 12/25/2012
A fantastic new restaurant on the Main Line, which just happens to be kosher. Terrific service, amazing food, great presentation, and nice ambiance. This is not the place for young families, but the perfect place for date night, or a business dinner.
Posted by Anonymous on 11/22/2012
Inventive and excellent kosher cuisine; rivals even the top New York kosher restaurants. Five stars.
Posted by anonymous on 11/08/2012
There's really no way to describe just how amazing this restaurant is. The menu is exceptionally creative, mixing traditional Jewish favorites with modern American cuisine. The quality of the food is superb and the portions are generous. The bone marrow croquettes are unreal and the duck bacon is a complete revelation. I had the veal roulade with celery root and apple kugel and beet relish. The smell coming from the plate reminded me of what my parent's house smells like during Passover. A small dusting of fresh horseradish over top sent it over the edge. The meat was so tender I didn't use my knife once and the flavors were perfect. Be sure to try the pear flodni for dessert. This restaurant definitely knows what they're doing and I wish them nothing but success and a long, long, long tenure. Can't wait to go back.


text:
Instagram has played a pivotal role on Black Ink Crew this season, by sparking the rumor that sent Sassy for the door and being the spot where Ceaser keeps all of his truth. But when the photo sharing app isn't making up controversial posts to get coworkers heated, it's the place where all of Dutchess's most revealing photos reside.
We might be in New York in the middle of autumn, but this Southern Belle knows how to rock a swimsuit. Who needs a coat?! Check out the Dutchess of Black Ink's sexy swim and undergarments, above, and catch an all-new episode of Black Ink Crew on Monday at 9: 30 pm ET/PT.
[Photo Credit: @dutchessofink]


text:
NEWS: "Republicans simply will not make the budget case in public"
Murder by Numbers
Randall Hoven
Today's murder rate is essentially at a low point of the past century. The murder rate in 2011 was lower than it was in 1911. More
If the Bush Tax Cuts are ELIMINATED what will happen to U.S. Families paying Federal Income Tax?
Without a deal, almost everyone in the country will get hit Tuesday with massive tax hikes, and deep federal spending cuts, mostly to the military, will go into effect. Conservative leaders have speculated that Obama is not averse to going off the fiscal cliff because he'd get the tax hikes he has championed for years.
Math Is Coming
Math is remorseless, and it will eventually balance its numbers, not caring who is hurt in the process. More: Fiscal Cliff, the 11th Hour: GOP Says Dems Can Amend House Bills If They Like
ATF: Most Guns at Mexican Crime Scenes Traced to US
Borderland Beat
By Diana Washington Valdez
El Paso Times
Between 2007 and 2011, Mexican law enforcement submitted 99,691requests to the ATF for tracing, and 68,161 of those firearms were determined to come from U.S. makers or were legally imported into the United States by federally licensed firearms dealers.
The ATF said it was unable to determine the source of the rest of the firearms because of missing information about the guns themselves, where they came from and how they got into Mexico.
Mexican drug cartels have waged brutal battles over turf in several areas of Mexico, including in Juárez, where firearms were used in most of estimated 11,000 homicides that police reported between 2007 and the end of November.
This is a breakdown of total firearms recovered in Mexico and traced by ATF, and the number of weapons of unknown origin:
The "ATF Mexico" report does not include information on which, or if any, of the reported firearm recoveries were traced to the agency's Operation Fast and Furious, in which federal agents allowed guns purchased by straw buyers in the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico in an attempt to identify and arrest high-level arms traffickers.
More than 1,000 of the 2,000 weapons connected to the Phoenix-based operation are unaccounted for, according to U.S. lawmakers, who investigated the botched ATF operation that began in late 2009.
The ATF shut down Fast and Furious after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was fatally shot Dec. 14, 2010, in Arizona near the Mexican border. A rifle connected to the ATF operation was found in the vicinity of Terry's body.
Some of the weapons attributed to Operation Fast and Furious were smuggled across the border through El Paso, and they were found by Mexican law enforcement officers at crime scenes in Juárez and other places in the state of Chihuahua.
Recently, new allegations threaten the ATF with another scandal, prompting a U.S. senator to request an investigation.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, who had initiated an investigation into Fast and Furious, said in a Dec. 19 letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz that a former ATF official assigned to Phoenix might have purchased a gun that Mexican officials allegedly found at the scene of a November shootout between drug cartel operatives and Mexican soldiers in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Grassley's letter said the area of the shootout reported by Mexican officials appears to coincide with a firefight that killed several people in the same area.
"The gunfight claimed five lives, including a member of the Mexican military and a Sinaloa beauty queen, Maria Susana Flores Gamez," Grassley's letter said. His letter also said that the weapon allegedly obtained by the ATF official was purchased Jan. 7, 2010, but Grassley had no information on how it ended up in Mexico.
"This information's implications and its ability to undermine public confidence in the integrity of ATF operations cannot be overstated," Grassley's letter said. "Your (Horowitz's) office needs to work swiftly. There must be a thorough, independent, and public explanation of these circumstances as quickly as possible."
No one was available for comment late Wednesday at the ATF offices in Phoenix and Washington, D.C.
The ATF also reported statistics for firearm recoveries and tracings in the United States, including Texas.
Between Jan. 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2011, the ATF traced 15,058 firearm recoveries to Texas. The ATF said most of the tracings are for weapons found by U.S. law enforcement officers at crime scenes in Texas and in other states, but traced back to Texas sources.
The top three recovery cities in Texas were Houston, with 3,034 firearm recoveries; Dallas, with 2,463; and Corpus Christi, with 502. ATF figures for El Paso recoveries were not available.
"We use the ATF's tracing resources to investigate gun ownership, periodically, on a case-by-case basis," said Mike Baranyay, a detective with the El Paso Police Department. "Our investigators can also check whether a weapon is stolen through the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) system."
The ATF's National Tracing Center conducted 319,000 firearms tracings in 2011.
Tracing figures for 2012 will not be available until mid-2013 or later.
Share it:
Meet Grokr, The First iPhone App You'll Want To Use Every Day
It does everything.
Zetas grow stronger despite Lazca's death
El Diario Milenio December 26, 2012
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
Distrito Federal– Despite the death of the absolute ruler of Los Zetas, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, "El Lazca", this criminal organization was not affected. On the contrary, its cells continue in operation and are multiplying, and they are the bloodiest in the country.
Los Zetas were organized by a former member of the military, Arturo Guzman Decena, El Z-1, who worked worked under orders of the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Osiel Cardenas Guillen. After his death, the group continued to function as the armed branch of the cartel, but under the leadership of Jose Guadalupe Rivera, El Gordo Mata. But after the capture of Guadalupe Rivera, in April 2005, El Lazca took control of Los Zetas until 2010, when he broke up with the Gulf cartel.
Share it:
15 die in Jalisco state
By Chris Covert
At least 15 unidentified individuals have been killed in gunfights and executions in Jalisco state Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Mexican press sources.
A news item published on the website of El Universal news daily said that 15 individuals including four police agents in Pihuamo have been killed since Christmas eve.
A news item posted on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily reported Christmas day that the bodies of four Pihuamo municipal police agents were found in he village of Los Naranjos. The victims had been abducted from a bullring in Pihuamo municipality during an public event, and led away by armed suspects dressed in military uniforms. A fifth victim was found in Los Naranjos, but the identity had not been established; only that that victim was not a police agent.
Mexican drug cartel shooters and operatives routinely don military uniforms and use falsely marked vehicles as a mean of escaping observation.
The El Universal article quoted an unidentified source with the Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army, saying that 10 others had died in armed confrontations between armed drug groups in the areas in southern Jalisco state. The source said that army units found the bodies, and that those units were not involved with any exchange of gunfire with armed suspects.
Since a scan of the website of SEDENA failed to turn up any notifications of any shootouts from any regional commands since December 23rd, the source is probably from a military zone spokesman, likely the 41st Military Zone based in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.
Probable gangs involved in the shootout include members of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion and Caballeros Templarios.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Share it:
0 Borderland Beat Comments Labels: Jalisco, shootings, shootouts
9 die in Sinaloa state
By Chris Covert
A total of nine unidentified individuals were shot to death in Sinaloa state Christmas eve, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news report originating from an El Universal wire dispatch published on the website of El Porvenir news daily, the president of Concordia municipality, Eligio Medina Ríos, told the press that armed suspects entered the village of El Platanar de los Ontiveros are starting shooting at residents who were on foot.
Among the dead were the spouse of a member of the village counsel.
Medina Ríos also placed a call with Sinaloa governor Mario Lopez Valdez to ask for emergency aid to the area.
It is unclear where in Concordia municipality El Platanar de los Ontiveros is, except that it has been noted it is in a remote mountainous area of Sinaloa state.
The report also notes that many residents of the area have fled violence, including those from the villages of La Cieneguilla, El Tiro, El Llano and Zaragoza.
Concordia itself sits on Mexico Federal Highway 40, the northern most contiguous major east west road in Mexico. The highway connects the seaport of Mazatlan in Sinaloa state on the Pacific coast and Reynosa and Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Share it:
9 Borderland Beat Comments Labels: shootings, sinaloa
New Concerns For President Peña Nieto: Hezbollah's Rising Profile In Mexico – Analysis
The South American drug trade has provided an opportunity for Hezbollah's illicit activity for years, which would allow the terrorist organization to maintain financial solvency. According to U.S. security services, the majority of Hezbollah's illegal operations have occurred along the Colombia-Venezuela border, as well as the Tri- Border Region between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. In these areas, a number of analysts have suggested that Hezbollah has aligned with various drug cartels to the mutual benefit of all parties involved.[4] Mexico, with its half-decade of escalating drug activity, presents similar conditions to those Latin American regions that are thought to already have ties to Hezbollah. These regions suffer from bouts of instability and are inflicted with high rates of corruption and a lucrative drug trade.
On May 5, 2012, Jamal Yousef, a former member of the Syrian Army, pleaded guilty in a U.S. Court to a conspiracy that provided weapons to a Colombian terrorist organization in exchange for cocaine. Court documents revealed that the weapons used for the transaction had been stolen from Iraq, and were being held by a Hezbollah operative in Mexico.[6]
President Peña Nieto's agenda on corruption initiatives includes a new anti-corruption commission that would have the authority to remove officials from office, hand out fines, and move ahead with prosecutions. Furthermore, the president has also proposed moving the federal police to the jurisdiction of Mexico's Department of the Interior, among other far-reaching reforms of the country's security forces. The departmental transfer of the country's police force would hopefully limit the country's potential for graft. Critics who are skeptical of these reforms have stated that in order to eliminate corruption, the president must create a functioning and improved criminal justice system and establish stronger anti-corruption measures that would automatically confiscate illegally obtained assets.[13] What these critics have failed to realize is that the Mexican government has already initiated many of these measures with little effect. Unfortunately, corruption appears to have become deeply ingrained within Mexican culture, which serves as a pessimistic indicator of real prospects for new reforms.
EEOC Protected Classes
Eileen F. Toplansky
It is a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" predicament for employers — who themselves should be considered a "protected class" given the battering they receive from the federal government. More
Climate Science vs Politics: The Road Ahead
S. Fred Singer
The good news is that science evidence has made it quite clear that the human contribution to a possible global warming is minor; in fact it cannot even be identified in the data record. The bad news is that the media and politicians pay no attention whatsoever to the science More
Wayne LaPierre: Close but Not Quite
Paul Jacobson
The NRA president's solution to school massacres won't work, but for a reason that will make gun control advocates apoplectic — namely, it doesn't go far enough. More
In Defense of John Boehner
Timothy C. Daughtry
It might be worth considering the possibility that Boehner has been crazy like the proverbial fox in his dealings with Obama. More
Does Debt Actually Hurt Future Generations?
Michael Kelbaugh
The short answer is yes. The "why" requires cutting through a lot of political smoke and mirrors. More
The GOP's Budget Problem
Greg Richards
For reasons that most of us in the American Thinker community and observers such as Thomas Sowell find inexplicable, the Republicans simply will not make the budget case in public. More
House to Return Sunday...
REID: Boehner runs 'dictatorship'...
Deal 'virtually impossible' before New Year...
Geithner Moves Up Debt Limit to Dec. 31...
States May Want 'Cliff'...
Here comes the Alinskyite Right
December 27, 2012
David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. More
Well-Born' Students Have Armed Protection in Elite Schools
December 27, 2012
Are the lives of millionaire children worth more than the children of non-elites? More
What You Didn't Know About Your Neighborhood
December 27, 2012
Why not publish the names and addresses of those seen at a Planned Parenthood clinic? More
VIVA! Private sector jobs jump 23% in Cuba...
Happy New Year! Debt limit to be reached on New Year's Eve
December 27, 2012
Government spending money like drunken revelers. More
Supreme Court denies injunction to prevent contraception mandate
December 27, 2012
Round one to Obama. More
Slouching Toward Eloi
December 27, 2012
H.G. Wells was right. More
Here's something you don't see every day on CNBC
December 27, 2012
TV host relentlessly pursues a Democratic congressman's evasions on the fiscal cliff/ More
Revealing Gun-owners Names Reveals Truth
December 27, 2012
A birdcage liner in my county of Westchester, NY, The Journal News, has made national headlines by releasing the addresses of county residents licensed to own a handgun. More
Israelis find 2,700-year-old temple...
UPDATE: WH petition to deport Piers Morgan tops 80,000...
UK PETITION: We don't want him back!
Hollywood Studios Employees Caught Pirating Films...
REPORT: GOP Sens Won't Confirm Kerry Until Clinton Testifies on Benghazi...
Feds bust ex-con who posed as uncle of Sandy Hook school shooter...
What Would Jesus Shoot?
December 27, 2012
Motivated by their unique brand of religiosity in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, some liberals say that the Lord would never condone gun ownership More
Outing the privacy of the editors who out others' privacy
December 27, 2012
A counter to a newspaper's publishing the names and addresses of gun permit owners. More
Gay Dads and The Parent Trap
December 27, 2012
Undefining marriage results in undefining children. More
America's Daddyless Black Kids
December 27, 2012
The cancer of fatherless children, illegitimacy, and shattered, dysfunctional families is spreading and bumping up the income ladder. More
Tea plantation workers in India burn boss, wife to death...
Advanced humanoid Roboy to be 'born' in nine months...
Gun owners outed: Remember when the media once championed privacy?
Krauthammer slams Obama for 'illegal and unconstitutional' regulatory overreach
Bogus Benghazi (Libya) punishments? Why do the 'Punished' officials still have jobs?
Liberal MSNBC Co-Host Refuses to 'Lie' to His Children and Let Them Believe Santa Claus Is Real
Support the troops this holiday season
Neighboring Towns Relieve Newtown Police For Christmas
Newspaper sparks outrage for publishing names, addresses of gun permit holders
Sam Donaldson To Tea Partiers: 'It's Not Your Country Anymore – It's Our Country'
As 2012 ends, we take a look back at the year's 10 worst mass shootings – amid a culture of gun violence that continued to plague the U.S.
The African continent is seeing some monumental changes, and is rife with conflict and potential.
Sen. Harry Reid says the nation is headed for the cliff, but Sen. Mitch McConnell's actions may have the final say.
|Paris CAC 40
|Nikkei 225
|Symbol Lookup
Syria's chemical weapons continue to cause world leaders great consternation, with leaders saying use of which would cross several red lines.
U.S. port operators and maritime shipping companies are bracing for a longshoremen's strike of facilities from Massachusetts to Texas.
Among the top fines this year: sanctions-busting, deceiving the world on a benchmark interest rate, and even banking for drug lords.
A look back at a year and a time when a nuclear Iran was considered the greatest threat to the U.S.
From "superstorms" to mega disasters, 2012 was, by all accounts, an eventful year.
- 1. Winter Storm Euclid Moves Across US
- 2. Delhi Gang-Rape Victim Suffers From Bradycardia, Health Deteriorates
- 3. Welcome To America's New Era Of Defense Austerity
- 4. Newspaper Outs Gun Owners And Gets Outed Back
- 5. 'Saudi Salman Rushdie' Arrested For 'Blasphemy'
- 6. World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China
Saudi Fundamentalist Clerics have their panties in a wad over women working in women's lingerie shops
After protests from Saudi women, uncomfortable with having to deal with male clerks in women's lingerie shops, King Abdullah issued a royal decree prohibiting men from staffing lingerie shops. But Islamic clerics are fighting that decision, objecting to the 'Westernization' of Saudi society by allowing women to work.
The Blaze A group of hardline Islamic clerics is threatening the labor minister with "deadly prayers" if he goes ahead with a plan to create more jobs for women, saying they'll pray he gets cancer to which his predecessor succumbed two years ago. In particular, they don't like his ideas about women selling undergarments to other women.
During a meeting at the labor ministry, about 200 religious figures accused Minister Adel Fakeih of executing a "Westernization" plan and asked him to ban women from working in lingerie shops within a month or he will face their deadly prayers asking for him to die of cancer as his predecessor did for implementing feminization policies.
But the minister defended the decision to employ women, saying that women occupied jobs during the era of the Prophet Muhammad, adding that it made more sense if women rather than men are in charge of selling women's lingerie.
Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine called this the "real War on Women," offering this quip: "But as Obama says, 'The future will not belong to those who slander the lingerie of Islam.'"
Earlier this month, more than 100 clerics swarmed into the Labor Ministry objecting to plans to create more jobs for women. Then they complained about rulings which would allow the mixing of genders in the workplace. Of the 1.5 million Saudis looking for work, a whopping 80 percent are women.
The religious conservatives aren't holding back their rhetoric to fight what they consider to be the threat of working women. A Saudi cleric last month called waitresses at the local Hardee's outlets "prostitutes." The American chain was also subject to a boycott by hardline Islamists opposing its employment of women.
Saudi Sheikh Ali Al Mutairi posted on Twitter: "At the beginning of her shift she's a waitress. When her shift ends she becomes a prostitute. The more she's around men the easier it becomes to get closer to her."
By BareNakedIslam • Posted in Women
KYRGYZSTAN: Muslims try to ban 'Kuffar' (filthy Christian) New Year holiday celebrations
Well, of course they do. After all, most Muslims behave as if they were still living in the year 1434…or before!
al-Jazeera The chief Muslim muckity muck of Kyrgyzstan has issued a fatwa urging Muslims to ignore the holiday altogether. "This New Year is not a religious holiday. It is not related to Muslims at all." He also said that Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha and the Jumah (Friday prayer) are the only holidays allowed in Islam.
The Soviet Union, which Kyrgyzstan was formerly a part of, regarded New Year's Day as the biggest holiday of the year – a tradition which is still practiced in many former Soviet countries. Kyrgyzstan Muslims are afraid people will eat non-Muslim food, get drunk, or go out to the street to light fireworks. New Year's remains an official public holiday in Kyrgyzstan despite the fatwa.
By BareNakedIslam • Posted in Religion of Hate
AMSTERDAM Mayor says, "Muslim illegal invaders are not our problem." Send them back!
In early December, more than 100 Muslim
asylum welfare-seekers, mostly from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan, were evicted from their temporary tent camp in Osdorp in the west of Amsterdam. By the end of the day, 96 of them were back on the streets, with nowhere to go and looking for free handouts.
Hiiraan Amsterdam's mayor offered to give this particular group of failed
asylum welfare-seekers one month's shelter after their eviction. The refugees didn't take him up on the offer because they feared they would disappear from the public radar if they didn't stay together as a group. This particular aspect of the asylum problem – what to do with refugees who are not allowed to stay in the Netherlands but who cannot return to their home countries either – is a perennial problem.
Sociologist Merijn Oudenampsen is part of a group of dhimmi sympathisers who have helped find the
asylum welfare-seekers from the Osdorp tent camp temporary shelter in the VluchtKerk or Sanctuary Church.
In general, there used to be an idea that the state has responsibility in terms of giving shelter to people with no place to go. (Muslims aren't political refugees, they are economic parasites) The municipalities had a role in providing shelter, too. Now they're left on the streets. There's a new hard line policy from The Hague that's pressing to make it illegal to give aid to
undocumented people illegal aliens. So if I provide help to people who don't have the documents to stay or go, I'm liable.
Is that policy, of criminalizing aid to
undocumented people illegal aliens, already in effect? (One would hope so)
Not yet, but it is the policy
hardliners realists from Geert Wilders' Freedom Party and the VVD of Prime Minster Mark Rutte are pushing for, the policy supported by the Deputy Justice Minister Fred Teeven. And the Amsterdam city council has given in under the pressure and tried to make the asylum welfare-seekers in Osdorp disappear. For the mayor, they became a public order problem, these people were visible. But it's strange if he thinks the problem will disappear if the asylum seekers are out of sight.
Iraqi invader set himself on fire and died last year in Amsterdam. Hey, that's one way to get rid of them.
So the
asylum welfare-seekers debate seems to have taken an ugly turn…
The problem keeps returning. Local governments now are under pressure from the national government. And the Dutch right wants to adopt laws in contradiction of international human rights treaties. There is a distorted public discourse now in the Netherlands regarding immigration and
asylum welfare-seekers, and a strong political effect of these statements. They have a chilling effect on people. And official institutions, too, are under pressure to not provide help.
So what's next?
asylum welfare-seekers need to stay visible and press for a political solution. There needs to be a solution from the government. It's not up to voluntary organisations to provide shelter. We don't have the resources. They can stay in the church through the winter months. But this problem is not going to go away.
Where is Geert Wilders when you need him? Here, Dutch leftist dhimmis are whining about the Muslim parasites. Why don't these dregs of society go beg for asylum from the rich Arab Gulf states?
Thomas Friedman and His Terrible Advice
by Ron Radosh
He supports Chuck Hagel for secretary of Defense. Because Friedman is a friend of Israel, of course. Related from Barry Rubin: The Schoolmarms Tell the Terrorists to Play Nice
'Childish Fantasy': Gun Control and the Victim
by Jack Dunphy
Gun control advocates refuse to properly assess human vulnerability. Related: Celebrities Launch Dumb Gun Control Campaign
Cold War Christmas Messages We Must Not Forget
In his first year in office, President Reagan presented a surprisingly potent Christmastime message aimed at both American citizens — and Soviet subjects.
Believing in Christmas from Santa to Christ
How does belief in Santa compare to belief in God?
Time for Some Common-Sense Publishing Controls
by Rand Simberg
What would Second Amendment bloviators say if we applied their logic to the First Amendment?
The 5 Best Christmas Movie Fathers
by Paul Cooper
Clark Griswold Vs Fred Gailey Vs Papa Elf?
Our Culture and Christ: A Blog for Christmas
Here at Klavan on the Culture, we'll be sitting by the fire these next few evenings and we'll be thrilling once again to the immortal words of Ebenezer Scrooge: "It's all right, it's all true, it all happened."
The Jihad Against Christmas
"It is not permissible to imitate the kuffaar [unbelievers] in any of their acts of worship, rituals or symbols…" — Saudi cleric Muhammad Saleh al-Munajjid
How the Program Approach Has Failed Big Education
by David Solway
Programmatic reform in education is almost always a dead end.
GREECE: Golden Dawn Party's Christmas video is considered 'hate speech' by Leftist dhimmis
This Christmas Greetings video from the Greek nationalist party, Golden Dawn, has been banned by several websites as 'hate speech.' This re-upload, with English subtitles, is here to shed light on the truth, which has become the new hate speech.
Contrasting Athens as it was before the invasion of Muslim parasites and thugs with the dangerous trash pile that modern Athens has become due to rampant Muslim colonization, aided and abetted by the leftists/socialists is not hate speech. Love of a time past, when your country was not infected with suicidal leftism is common sense.
(If you can't see the subtitles, click the CC button at the bottom of the screen)
H/T MrDaskva
If Youtube takes it down again, you can see it here:
More on the MUSLIM INVASION OF GREECE
By BareNakedIslam • Posted in Islamization of the West
CHRISTMAS EVE 2012: In Muslim-controlled Bethlehem, once again, there was no room for Jesus
Why does Bethlehem weep luminescent tears disguised as twinkling strings of light? Until one week ago, there was not a single place in its public square that even gave a hint of the reason for this transformation into a holy day. No manger scene, no God-incarnate baby boy. No creche, no cradle, no cross. Even the Church of the Nativity was decorated only by a single large tree.
ISRAEL TODAY Early this month Shari Khoury brought this observation to her husband's attention. Pastor Steven Khoury took note. He examined city streets and saw for himself what he had not noticed. The Khoury's live in Bethlehem. Steven was raised there where his father, Dr. Naim Khoury, started Holy Land Ministries in 1980. During the past 32 years Steven, his family and the ministry's congregations have experienced opposition to the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, God's incarnate Word made flesh.
There have been threats and muggings, fire bombs and murder. Many believers have fled the region, but the Khoury's remain. Every Sunday, worship and teaching are broadcast from speakers atop their local church's steeple, clashing with Islamic calls to prayer.
On December 5, Steven Khoury made a decision. He composed brief words, commissioned graphic art, hired a printer. In the middle of the night and into next day's early morning light, workmen hung the composition on the city's largest billboard. Across an expanse of 1200 square feet, in Arabic and English too, it reads:
And the response? Two weeks later, only days ago, Pastor Khoury received a call. Officials from the city were on the line, informing him that they were being asked to remove the sign. That same day vandals cut power to lights that illuminate the sign at night. The owner refused to repair them, fearing they would only be cut again along with an escalation of damage to his property. The print shop also received disturbing calls. Although the words were never spoken, the message was clear: take Jesus down.
Tonight the billboard is still up, lit now by portable lights from the back of a car. The cost is high. Thousands of dollars have been spent. So far individual donations to help with the expense total about $60.00.
In spite of public exposure on YouTube, radio, television and in written press, other Christian organizations in Bethlehem have reacted with resounding silence. So too Christian organizations throughout Israel.
Pastor Khoury has no regrets. "Scripture says that if we do not speak up for Jesus, for who he is and what he has done, stones will cry out. With God's help, I will not remain silent. I will not be a quiet one rebuked by shouting rocks."
Click Here to learn more about Holy Land Ministries and the brave work of the Khoury family.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
By BareNakedIslam • Posted in Religion of Hate
COLORADO Jewish and Christian traitors try to combat anti-Islam ads with a 'Love Thy Neighbor' campaign
Colorado Christian and Jewish leaders stood together in Denver's main Mosque and launched a "Love Thy Neighbor" campaign — starting with ads on RTD buses. They said the ad they unveiled, at a time on the calendar devoted to love and understanding (but ONLY among Christians and Jews), is meant to replace anti-Muslim ads placed on buses.
Denver Post "Our country is in the midst of a lot of divisions," Temple Emanuel Senior Rabbi Joe Black said. "Hatred is only going to further violence and the breakdown of society."
"Love Thy Neighbor" ads, purchased for $5,000, are expected to appear on 10 buses by the end of this week and stay on each bus for a month. The "Love Thy Neighbor" message conveys "a shared concept in the three religions," Colorado Muslim Society Imam Karim Abuzaid said. "In Islam, we are commanded to love our neighbor, or at least act in love." (But they mean only if the neighbor is a Muslim)
When metro-area Muslims saw the negative ads on Regional Transportation District buses in November, "we felt really hurt," Abuzaid said. He and Jeremy Shaver, director of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, questioned RTD officials about the decision-making of the quasi-governmental organization.
Those ads were placed on buses for four weeks in Denver, New York and Boston. Paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, the ones in Denver read: "9,757 Deadly Islamic Attacks Since 9/11/01. It's Not Islamophobia. It's Islamorealism." (Actually, the ad said '19,767′)
The Anti Defamation League challenged this as offensive and inflammatory. But RTD legal staffers had reviewed the content and found no basis for rejecting the ads. Other transit agencies that challenged bus ads in court have lost.
The religious leaders on Monday acknowledged free-speech guarantees under the First Amendment of the Constitution but emphasized community needs.
"When we see hate speech," Shaver said, "it is incumbent on us who are in the majority to call it out." Colorado religious leaders have collaborated before. The leaders stood together on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The threat of Islam is predicted all over the Bible, read and study Walid Shoebat's incredible work that explains all. Click here for more information.
By BareNakedIslam • Posted in EnemyWithin-American
"Brace yourselves, Muslims and Leftists," Wild Bill for America is going to tell the truth about Islam again
The Latest
Being Autistic: Acceptance and Understanding
There is a grave misunderstanding of autistic persons, we need to go beyond autism awareness to autism acceptance. Read More
Is Feeling That 'Crazy Sad Shit' The Way To A Silver Lining?
Does every cloud have a silver lining? Sometimes it doesn't seem so. Read More
5 Reasons Not To Be Afraid Because We've Never Been Safer
There's copious scientific proof that fear and anxiety harm almost every organ. Read More
Behavioral Economics
How Unfair Is Medicaid Funding?
In theory, the federal funding formula is supposed to favor low-income states. In practice, wealthier states often come out ahead. Read More
Three Evolutionary Solutions for 2013
I hypothesize that that psychopathology is caused or exacerbated by a mismatch between our modern environments and the mostly hunter-gatherer environment in which we evolved over the past several million years. Can a few modern lifestyle-friendly changes help our bodies and minds? Read More
The Sleep Stories of 2012, Part I
A highlight of the best sleep advice of 2012 from Dr. Michael Breus. Read More
Animal Behavior
Mortality Awareness: Shackling Curse or Liberating Force?
If you could live your life without any knowledge of mortality (as is the case with our animal cousins), would you choose this option? Prior to answering this question, you might wish to familiarize yourself with the cautionary tale of Hachi, the infinitely loyal dog. Read More
Physical Illnesses May Soon Be Labeled "Mental Disorders"
You can help prevent the creation of Somatic Symptom Disorder. After reading this piece, click on the link to Dr. Frances' article, "Mislabeling Medical Illness as Mental Disorder." He has the best chance to get your feedback (via "page views" and comments to his piece) to the American Psychiatric Association before the new manual for mental disorders goes to press. Read More
What Would You Eat For Your Final, Pre-Diet Meal?
You Can Have Anything You Want, Until January 2…. Read More
Turning Your Sex Life Around in 2013
"Do you believe that lost desire can be reclaimed? Specifically, in a long, happy enough marriage, where sexual desire and satisfaction used to exist, can we find a new way to pleasure when it's been gone for a while?" Read More
Law and Crime
Newtown, Connecticut: From Fear to Hope
Was Adam Lanza suffering from Hopelessness? Read More
Genetically Modified Food. One Step Closer to Your Plate.
Environmentalists complain that denial of climate change is a denial of scientific evidence. Yet they do essentially the same thing with genetically modified food. A recent FDA ruling bringing genetically engineered salmon closer to our plates provides a good demonstration of this sort of risk perception. Read More
Are Alcohol and Guns Equally Bad?
Would society be equally justified, and benefit equally, from banning alcohol and guns? Read More
Behavioral Economics
Some More Disadvantages to Being Really Rich (part 2)
A commentary on what is worth doing. More reports of people who were at a disadvantage from having too much money. The difference between spending time and killing time. Read More
5 Big Discoveries About Personal Effectiveness in 2012
The science of self-improvement never ceases. Every year brings dozens of new quirky findings about how to be more effective, whether in managing our time, being more creative or just getting things done. Here are some of the highlights for me from 2012. Read More
Real Analogy or Emotive Shortcut? Two Types of Reasoning
Sometimes just mentioning an emotional "hot button" word can trigger unwarranted conclusions. This happened recently in Australia, when the national media stumbled over the mere mention of pedophilia and climate change in the same radio show that interviewed me about my research. Read More
Eating Disorders
Osteoporosis and Male Anorexia Nervosa
When the lay public and health professionals think of osteoporosis, they think of post-menopausal women. However, there is increasing recognition that osteoporosis frequently occurs as a result of the malnutrition associated with anorexia nervosa. And because osteoporosis is associated with women, it is often forgotten in males with the disorder. Read More
Social Life
Bystanders and Heroes: The Dance of Defiance and Conformity
The presence of others affects our behavior, but not always in the same way. The presence of others may inhibit helping behavior. At other times, however, it may enable and sustain heroic efforts. Read More
Law and Crime
Stress in the Legal System
Does involvement in the legal system have to be stressful? Read More
What "Life of Pi" has to do with Heartbreak
Most women who have gone through the lonely journey of refashioning their lives following wife abandonment are able, like Pi, to reach down to the depth of their souls and, in the midst of destruction, find strength and a new meaning to their lives. It takes the hardest things in life to force us to locate that iron determination to fight for our survival. Read More
Nighttime Worries Worst in Middle Age
Possibly one of the most frequent cause of sleep disruption is worry. While all ages can experience this sleep nuisance, it is especially troubling in middle age. What can you do to combat worry from keeping you from a good night's sleep? Read More
Why Is It So Difficult to Do… Nothing at All?
As Oscar Wilde put it more than 100 years ago, 'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.' Read More
Child Development
Does Media Violence Beget Real-LIfe Killings?
While guns and insufficient mental health services have been receiving significant attention, research suggests that we need to reconsider the many hours that kids, and grownups as well, spend watching violence in movies, tv shows, on the internet and in video games. And while we're at it, what about the role of domestic violence– violence against kids, wives and elders? Read More
10 Dumb Things I've Learned From Brilliant People
Brilliant, or would-be brilliant people, are frequently great at getting others to listen to them and follow their lead — but for everyone else that isn't necessarily for the best. Read More
Race and Ethnicity
Thinking Psychologically about Race: A Call to Conscience
Psychological eldership has a critical role to play in guiding us toward a whole, democratic, and just nation. Read More
5 Immunity Boosters to Beat Cold and Flu Season
Winter is a time when viruses abound. By boosting your immune system, you may be able to avoid a cold or flu this season. Read More
- Central African Republic: Govt Asks France to Help Stop Rebels
- South Sudan: Two Sudans in Fresh Border Clashes
- South Africa: Zuma Comments Cause Canine Chaos
- Swaziland: Govt Denies Miniskirt Ban
- Nigeria: Jonathan, Obasanjo Meet Secretly Over 2015 Polls?
- Zambia: Opposition Leader Arrested, Charged
- Sudan: Bashir Meets Alleged Coup Plotters
- Egypt: Mursi Plans Cabinet Reshuffle
- Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hill-Top Mansion On Fire
Wild end to the day.


text:
Stock Vector Illustration:
VECTOR. Natural cork seamless pattern. Lot of details (duplicating artwork can slow down your computer)!
- Image ID: 29754028
- Copyright: dofmaster
High quality images curated from over 150 countries.
Over 50 million photos, vectors, illustrations, and more.
Simple and flat pricing by image or by month.
Over 230,000 images downloaded every day.


text:
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Danny B. Daniels, II, 23, of Varney, W.V., died July 20, in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle came under attack by small arms fire and hit an improvised explosive device. Daniels was assigned to the Armys 630th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Bamberg, Germany.
The incident is under investigation.
For further information related to this release Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.


text:
Staff Picks
No Bake Chocolate Oat Bars
Grilled Chicken Taco Salad
Shrimp Verde
Lemon Zucchini Muffins
Fried Green Tomato Sandwich
Roasted Eggplant Lasagna
Juicy Peach Crisp
Chicken Club Pasta Salad
World's Best Lasagna
Banana Crumb Muffins
Delicious Ham and Potato Soup
Banana Banana Bread
Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Fluffy Pancakes
To Die For Blueberry Muffins
Chicken Pot Pie IX
Broiled Tilapia Parmesan
Good Old Fashioned Pancakes
Awesome Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Apple Pie by Grandma Ople
Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies
Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
Best Brownies
Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
Brown Sugar Meatloaf
Clone of a Cinnabon
With our 2,700+ chicken breast recipes, you'll never serve the same old chicken again.
The firm, juicy texture of zucchini make them a perfect side to toss on the grill.
Delicious recipes, party ideas, and cooking tips! Get a year of Allrecipes magazine for $7.99!
See how to make an easy, elegant pastry shell for sweet and savory fillings.
See a simple process that lets butter withstand higher heat.
Not just for fish sticks anymore! This easy 'tarter sauce' is super versatile.


text:
Eating Out
eating out on the road
On a recent trip to Portland, we overnighted in Astoria, Oregon. Thinking to treat me to something new, my wife took me to a Thai restaurant. The food was horrible! And when informed that our dinners were inedible, the manager insisted that we must still pay for them because we had "tasted" them. How else were we to know they were as bad as they were? And what is the best recourse for travellers in this situation? Any suggestions? (We tried to put the "meal" on Amex so we could contest the bill, but they were having none of it).
Talk is closed, but that doesn't mean the conversations have to stop!
Check out this post for a more thorough explanation, and jump onto our Facebook page or our Twitter feed to keep the conversations going!


text:
Law Office of Barbara Cashman, LLC
Estate & Elder Law + Mediation
Please note my new office phone: 720.242-8133
New Address as of May 1, 2013:
7955 East Arapahoe Court, Suite 3000
Centennial, Colorado 80112
The use of email for discussing legal matters is discouraged. Email from this site is NOT encrypted and therefore NOT secure. DO NOT include any sensitive, confidential or case specific information in your email. The use of this form does NOT create an attorney-client relationship.
Comments or questions are welcome.


text:
Page Not Found
Sorry, the page you are looking for cannot be found.
This may be due to:
- the article was by The Associated Press, which requires that we delete stories more than a month old, or
- you typed the web address into your browser incorrectly, or
- the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted in our October 2012 redesign
Please return to the ArkansasBusiness.com home page and use the search in the upper portion of the right-hand column or use some of the shortcuts below to existing sections.
Editors Picks
Whispers Blogby Arkansas Business Staff
- Video: Here's How I-30 Would Look After Widening
- Report: Alice Walton Is Selling Out of the Cutting Horse Business
- Crittenden County Voters OK Tax Increase to Reopen Hospital
Most Read
- Mary Beth Brooks: Farmers & Merchants' Offer a 'Surprise' But Made Sense 1 day ago
- Parents Sue Fayetteville School District Over Girls' Sports 6 days ago
- Arkansas Children's Hospital Eyes Northwest Arkansas 1 day ago
- Video: Here's How I-30 Would Look After Widening 4 days ago
- Bank of the Ozarks Tops Bank Performance Scorecard 3 days ago


text:
Step 1: Get the stuff
you need:
A phillips screwdriver.
And a dremel tool with a griding wheel.
Be sure to wear safety glasses!
Step 2: Start griding
Step 3: Keep griding
after you grind that much you
should have included how to re-harden the steel.
Enter the email associated with your account and we will send you your username and a temporary password.
Want to go pro?
First step is to sign up.
Already a member? Login »


text:
The Brazil international has suggested that Southampton and Arsenal are keen to sign him.
Diego said: "I know there is interest from Premier League clubs. I have heard Arsenal is one of them.
"It would be the ideal destination for me because their style suits my characteristics. Of course I would say yes to Arsenal.
"Southampton have great organisation and discipline and big talents like Adam Lallana. But again, there is nothing concrete."
But Pochettino insists that he is not interested in signing Diego.
He said in the Daily Echo: "Of course we know of him, as we know of any other players.
"But that piece of news doesn't make any sense, because Southampton is not interested in him.
"We have also seen this news in Spanish media, so I don't really know where these rumours come from."


text:
B. R. Pandit
Founder - Kirtane & Pandit LLP
From our humble beginning in the year 1956 to the K&P Group that it is today, Kirtane & Pandit LLP has always remained true to its founder's values while providing "Value-Adding" solutions to its clients.
While operating over 5 decades, Kirtane & Pandit LLP has built a strong client base in Manufacturing, Service and Banking Sectors.
Today, Kirtane & Pandit LLP is one of the leading professional services Firms in India, which offers a wide range of accounting, auditing and business advisory services across industry sectors, both private and public and to the Government.


text:
The availability of high-quality talent is one of the most underappreciated risks in the IT portfolio today. CEB research indicates that IT roles and competencies will evolve to address four emerging realities: an increase in the importance of collaboration to complete daily tasks, more-frequent organizational change, greater technology choice, and the need for more analytical rigor and judgment to drive daily decisions.
Unfortunately, CEB research also shows a troublesome situation for IT leaders: 90 percent of IT employees lack the collaborative skills needed to succeed in the new work environment, and 53 percent lack the necessary analytical skills and judgment. On average, four out of five IT roles will have to adapt to handle widespread changes in the capabilities demanded of IT employees.
In addition to significant skill changes, government agencies are experiencing talent-related pressures due to an increase in departing employees. The 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey indicates that 26 percent to 36 percent of feds are considering leaving their organizations in the next year. Retirements have also increased steadily — from 3 percent of the total IT workforce in fiscal 2009 to 4.6 percent in fiscal 2012. Given sequestration pressures, those numbers are expected to rise again in 2013.
Those trends are certain to continue at a high rate in the next few years unless CIOs make a fundamental shift in the way they assess, develop and engage IT talent. Leaders should take two important steps to address those risks:
1. Proactively anticipate changes in IT skills and roles. Our research finds that, despite the severity of potential skill gaps, 61 percent of organizations do not have skills forecasts for IT, while up to 80 percent do not provide training or coaching for skills that they expect to increase in importance.
We anticipate that the demand for skilled employees will significantly outpace supply in three emerging IT roles that are particularly important: cyber risk analyst, service manager and data scientist. Cyber risk analysts focus on proactively identifying internal and external threats based on likelihood and impact, and they help business partners manage their risk exposure. Service managers develop and deliver customer-focused IT services and anticipate the impact that changes in technologies and business models might have on IT services. Data scientists identify knowledge workers' information needs and develop frameworks and processes to gain value from structured and unstructured information assets.
2. Create a strategic plan for the IT workforce. A successful strategic workforce plan encompasses recruiting, developing, managing, retaining and redeploying talent to maximize the effectiveness of the current and future workforce. Currently, more than 90 percent of IT organizations conduct staff planning, which identifies and fills immediate staffing gaps and supports annual business plans. However, CEB research indicates that only 39 percent of IT organizations have strategic workforce plans that define competencies and roles needed to meet IT goals across a three- to five-year horizon.
The most progressive organizations develop strategic IT workforce plans that:
* Align with enterprise and IT strategic goals.
* Identify obstacles in moving toward the desired future state.
* Clearly define metrics for that future state.
* Summarize the profiles and competencies needed for emerging roles.
Proactive development of critical skill sets and strategic workforce plans will help ensure the availability of the full portfolio of IT talent needed to deliver on mission objectives for the future.
About the Authors
Kris van Riper is a managing director at CEB.
Benjamin Knopf is a senior analyst at CEB.
E-Mail this page
Printable Format
Advanced Search
Meet 100 women and men who are doing great things in federal IT.
Click here for the full list
Leidos, Accenture and Cerner pull off an unexpected win of the multi-billion-dollar Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract, beating out the presumptive health-records leader.
Millions of background-check records were compromised, OPM now says. Here's the jaw-dropping range of personal data that was exposed.
The General Services Administration is going to great lengths to gather feedback on its IT services GWAC. Will it make for a better acquisition vehicle?
Agency details results of an "interagency forensic investigation," plans for assisting affected individuals.
Merit Systems Protection Board data from as far back as November 2014 could be missing.
Three-time Federal 100 winner is leaving government in July.
Members of Congress heaped hard questions on federal IT leaders at a June 16 hearing and suggested strongly that somebody needs to be fired.
Senate bill carves out exemption for supercomputing and other lab IT; an earlier version of the measure would have exempted the entire Department of Energy.
OPM is partnering with CSID to try to manage the fallout from a massive breach of some 4 million federal personnel records.
It would be good to render strategic plans for the IT workforce in open, standard, machine-readable StratML format. http://xml.fido.gov/stratml/index.htm
8609 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 500Vienna, VA 22182-2215 703-876-5100
© 1996-2013 1105 Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only.To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, visit: www.1105Reprints.com


text:
It was only at the beginning of the XIX century that Luke Howard's contribution allowed to identify and give a name to clouds. The important breakthrough marked the passage from a basically philosophical approach to the modern science of the atmosphere and, as experts maintain, it is closely related to the human aspiration to give order to chaos of immediate experience, from myth to poetry, from art to rational knowledge, from the idea of ability to its translation to something tangible.
Issue n. 22 of "Percorsi in ceramica" is basically about the above topic. It is about a cloud erected to interrupt the thin horizon line in the Reggio Emilia countryside, along the new Strada Pedemontana, right at the level of Casalgrande Padana's production facility. Like any other clouds, this one, too has its morphogenesis, it has a history of its own and also symbolizes a story. It has a shape but it evokes an infinite number of images.
This is the first workever made by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Italy, and it was donated to the collective good thanks to an agreement between Casalgrande Padana and the Municipal Authority of Casalgrande. This is the product of an idea, the result of a will to celebrate the proactive story and the ties, which are not only material, but also humane and social, that were spun around the company over time and that grew along the fifty years the company has been operating as Casalgrande Padana. To quote Franco Manfredini in the pages of this issue: "the company wanted to celebrate and keep consistency with the values it always found inspiration in, by means of a number of public initiatives that climaxed in the creation of a symbolic monument; the monument is not only there to highlight our success, but rather to stand for the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of an entire production cluster, a true case of excellence within the Italian scene, and a world leader in terms of quality and innovation".
We are well aware of the importance of such a patron, says Kengo Kuma: "We took on the challenge as we thought of transforming ceramic tiles into an architectural component, thus avoiding the conventional use as a cladding element; we worked in close collaboration with the Casalgrande Padana team, understanding how to arrange tiles and organize them into unprecedented shapes. In our architecture we take inspiration from the principles of anti-dimension and anti-volume, though for such an important location and project, we wanted to experiment with the relationship between the above concepts and dynamic principles such as time, movement and sequential perception".
Rich in images and direct impressions, this issue of "Percorsi in ceramica" closes with the presentation of a marvellous volume "Terra e Fuoco", by the art critic Sandro Parmeggiani, published by Skira. The authentic and fascinating tale about the places and people that make possible, with their daily work, for Casalgrande Padana to succeed, is narrated through the vision of three unparalleled masters of photography, namely, Michael Kenna, Ferdinando Scianna and Franco Fontana. The three were called upon giving a free testimony to the birth of a tile in the raw material quarries, all the way to the mysterious industrial manufacture processes.
|3.98 Mb


text:
Hang tight!
Recipe by Jennifer James
"This recipe is a favorite in my family! I take a French class and I bring these little sandwiches to the French meeting. This typical French delectable is always on the menu in little French cafes."
Hmm. None of these ingredients are on sale today.
Show ingredients on sale
Sort stores by
Save money at local stores when ingredients are on sale!
Watch video tips and tricks
1 tablespoon
1 cup
shredded Cheddar cheese
2 thick slices
white bread
2 slices
I saw the beautiful photo of this sandwich this morning and had everything in stock to make it. I made one for DH and one for me. His didn't turn out too well since the cheddar cheese mixture was really globby and I couldn't get it to soak into the bread and had to sort of spread the cheese on. But the second time I didn't add the full one cup of cheese to the butter. maybe a wee bit over a half cup, and used Colby Jack instead of Cheddar. It melted much better than the cheddar did. Once it reached a well mixed taffy like texture I removed from the heat and put my thick slice of white bread on it and sort of soaked the mix in it like a sponge, then quickly removed it to the fry pan already heated on medium and ready, threw on the ham slices and then soaked up the rest of the cheese mixture with second piece of bread moving it and dabbing it until no mixture was left. Timing seems to be the key and the longer you wait the cheese mix starts to gob up. You may also want to start your egg while cooking the sandwich, or the sandwich gets pretty cool waiting for the egg. I liked the taste of the crusty cheese bread and the oozing egg yolk on top. Was a very nice breakfast treat. Just have everything out and ready and be prepared to have a bit of clean-up. But tasted very good and worth the extra work. My husband loved his even though it wasn't exactly pretty.
Difficult to rate, as I'm uncertain at what consistency the melted butter/cheese is to be at to not burn, but make it easy to coat the bread. So I expect that my attempt was more a cobbling of the ingredients than the complete blending and presentation I would imagine is involved in a French treat.
13 Ratings
I had this when I went to Versaille and it's exactly the recipe made it turn out almost exactly the same way! :D
I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out, since the cheese melted into a ball that was almost impossible to dip bread into. I pretty much had to spread the melted cheese on the bread. It was also hard to brown it, because the cheese stuck to the pan. But when it was all done, it was delicious!
Made it for Christmas breakfast. Yummy! We used french bread and cut them into thick slices and they are so good! I melted my cheese over a make-shift double boiler (a glass container over simmering water in a saucepan) as I was afraid that the cheese might stick to the pan. Took a while for the cheese to melt, but it did eventually. Dipped the bread into the cheese (had to spread the cheese a little) and quickly put it on the already heated skillet. Great breakfast for special occasions as the colours of this sandwich is bright and beautiful!
This was fun, easy and tasty- my whole family agreed. I threw several different cheeses into my saucepan (mild white English cheddar, yellow cheddar and some monteray jack). It was interesting how, at one point, the cheese was almost a taffy consistency. Once you reach that point, you're almost there. This is very rich, and definitely not diet food. It is super yummy though. Thanks, Alyssa!
Quick and easy to make, and oh so delicious!
This was oh so good! I swear my taste buds were singing the hallelujah chorus. This was so quick and easy to make and very filling. The only thing I did differently was to thinly slice the cheddar cheese since 1) I wasn't keen to have another item - the grater - to clean up. Lol and 2) I saw some persons had issues with getting the shredded cheese to melt properly. It came out perfectly! I feel a little guilty about the cholesterol content of this meal but I'll get over it. Lol
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Croque Madame
Serving Size: 1/1 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 1
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 889
** Calories from Fat: 578
With our 2,700+ chicken breast recipes, you'll never serve the same old chicken again.
The firm, juicy texture of zucchini make them a perfect side to toss on the grill.
Delicious recipes, party ideas, and cooking tips! Get a year of Allrecipes magazine for $7.99!
Make a deli-worthy toasted Reuben in your own kitchen. It's fast and easy!
Raise the fried bologna sandwich to incredible new heights!
Make this classic fried ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich in three easy steps.


text:
EasyMed Fast Facts (PDF) →
Investor Center →
Smart Technology
Learn about our technology
Subscribe to the latest breaking EasyMed news and alerts.
EasyMed Newsletter
EasyMed Press Releases
Industry News
Copyright © 2015 EasyMed Services. All Rights Reserved.
Android is a trademark of Google. Blackberry is a trademark of Research in Motion. iPhone and iOS are trademarks of Apple Inc. Windows Phone 7 is a trademark of Microsoft.


text:
LETTER: We must create our own opportunities
To the Editor:
I recently read an article in a state newspaper that stated that 65,300 unemployed North Carolina residents lost their federal unemployment benefits effective June 30. I also researched and found out that we are number five in unemployment in the nation.
It serves as a strong reminder that we can no longer count on our government to feed, house, clothe or employ us as Americans. We must focus on our individual talents and figure out how to create our own opportunities. The eligibility of benefits has decreased or vanished while the burden to survive has only increased. The government unrealistically expects those who are laid off to become their own life preservers in this giant ocean of state debt. I imagine in the days to come that homelessness and crimes of desperation will only rise. You see, it used to be a time when a college degree and experience would land you a great career. Now, those things will buy you a cheap cup of coffee and a spot in somebody's unemployment line.
So, in closing, if you are counting on our government fat cats in designer suits and dresses to bail you out, please seek out another solution before your ship sinks with you on board, screaming help into deaf ears from Sanford to Washington, D.C.
William K. Johnson


text:
This delicate anchor pendant is cast in solid sterling silver, oxidized to bring out its details, then polished to a bright shine. With its 18-inch sterling silver chain, the Tiny Anchor Necklace will keep you grounded while upping your style quotient.
20" necklace. 0.63" long pendant. All elaine ho jewelry is hand-finished in Montreal.
This product has no reviews yet. Be the first to review this product. Write a review
Enjoy 10% off your first order*


text:
Your browser does not support iframes.
All other transportation and automotive adscan be found on:
All other employment adscan be found on:
All other legal notices can be found on:
All other real estate adscan be found on:
City of Santa Maria SOLID WASTE MANAGER ($8,537.51- $10,377.36/monthly; + PERS ret.) Under gen
NIPOMO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT MAINTENANCE/ CUSTOMER SERVICE WORKER $35,064 - 42,612/yr plus


text:
Teen Mom
16 and Pregnant's Emily McKenzie Peterson Is Getting a Divorce!
Sigh, it seems like just yesterday that we were watching Alabama cutie Emily McKenzie Peterson give birth to an adorable baby on 16 and Pregnant!
Emily got knocked up by her boyfriend Daniel, and they got hitched on June 26, 2010, after wrapping up filming with MTV! These two lovebirds moved to Birmingham with their kiddo, but unfortunately their happily ever after didn't last.
"Divorcing FINALLY the stupid motherf—er that likes to listen to what his looser [sic] friends say about me that's untrue," Emily wrote on Facebook. "Pathetic. But ignorance is bliss. I wish he'd realize his immaturity only effects [sic] my beautiful son."
Oh no! Considering that Emily and Daniel have been dating since they were 14-year-old band campers, we were definitely hoping their relationship would last a lifetime. Maybe they made the mistake of having camouflage tuxedos at their wedding...
If there's one thing we've learned from our Teen Mom 2 pals Leah Messer and Corey Simms, it's that camo is both a curse and a blessing.
Source: Starcasm / Sulia


text:
Gallery: Chad Pennington through the years
May. 07, 2009 @ 05:15 PM
Chad Pennington started at Marshall University as a quarterback in 1995. Since then, he has gone on to the NFL and played for the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins. Still, he finds time to come back to Huntington, which has benefited from donations from his 1st and 10 Foundation.


text:
A working musician's Martin with a solid Sitke spruce top and Fishman Sonitone electronics.
The latest of Martin's hard-working, great sounding solid wood Road Series guitars, the Martin DRS2 Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar delivers a unique blend of durability and concert-quality sound and projection. Constructed with solid sapele back and sides and Sitka spruce top, the DRS2 is a serious working musician's guitar built with an extra rigid solid mahogany neck to withstand the rigors of touring. A Fishman Sonitone sound reinforcement system completes this very road- and stage-worthy Martin. The Fishman Sonitone Onboard Preamp System features a soundhole mounted preamp with rotary controls for Volume and Tone.
Includes a hardshell case.