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Blueberry Angel Dessert Recipe
Make the most of angel food cake, pie filling and whipped topping by creating this light impressive dessert that doesn't keep you in the kitchen for hours. It's the perfect way to end a summer meal. —Carol Johnson, Tyler, Texas
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 prepared angel food cake (8 to 10 ounces), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 cans (21 ounces each) blueberry pie filling
- 1. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth; fold in whipped topping and cake cubes. Spread evenly into an ungreased 13x9-in. dish; top with pie filling. Refrigerate, covered, at least 2 hours before serving. Yield: 12 servings.
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Companies, institutions, government agencies see the knowledge of a foreign language as an asset while hiring people. An employee with the knowledge of a foreign language is to bring across a professional message for those who do not speak the language. Performing as a linguistic liaison in a work place means:
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|Knowing the language does not mean knowing how to translate. Translating/interpreting is one of the oldest professions in the world. Bilingual people who have a high level proficiency in two languages very often find difficult to transpose the thoughts of other people either orally or in writing. Many people believe that a person needs an innate skill to be a translator/interpreter. Others seem to underestimate translators/interpreters who have not been formally trained in one of the prestigious translating/interpreting institutes. In the reality, translation is an art that involves learned strategies and some natural predisposition. Translation theory and translation methodology are recently developed interdisciplinary sciences closely related to neurophysiology, logic, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, literary analysis and hermeneutics.
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Garlic Beef, Broccoli & Cauliflower Stir Fry
Curtis is obsessed with stir fries. I think he would like me to make them twice a week. Part of what I struggle with is making a variety of stir fries so I don't get bored with it – this garlic beef, broccoli and cauliflower stir fry is a keeper. Another thing Curtis is obsessed with is cauliflower. He swears it helps his liver. He had a little liver scare a over a year ago with some medication he was taking. He's fine now and thank goodness he is no longer taking that medication.
Anyways, he swears that cauliflower helps his liver. I just listen and after making a broccoli and beef stir fry that he loves, I started adding cauliflower to it. Amazing. I love that the cauliflower still crunchy and I love the amount of veggies we're getting.
Do you notice a spoon in the picture? No chopsticks? I have a confession to make, I don't eat rice with chopsticks. I don't remember if I ever have. When I eat rice, I use a spoon or a fork. Noodle soups, that's another thing – I always use chopsticks. Uh oh and I know if my brother is reading this post, he's laughing at me. I'm still Asian, right, little brother?
This stir fry is a pretty quick meal and the most time consuming part is cutting up the beef and the vegetables – but it's completely worth it.
Garlic Beef, Broccoli & Cauliflower Stir Fry
Yield: Serves 4
Prep Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 30 min
Total Time: 1 hr
- 3 cups uncooked rice
- 7 garlic cloves, minced and divided in half
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 3 1/2 Tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 lb beef sirloin filet, sliced thin across the grain
- salt and pepper
- 4 green onions, chopped, whites & green separated
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 bundles of broccoli, chopped about 2-3 cups
- 1 head cauliflower, chopped about 2 cups
- Rinse and cook rice in your rice cooker according to manufacturer's instructions.
- Marinate beef in 1 tsp sesame oil, half of the garlic & 1 1/2 Tbsp oyster sauce. Add salt and pepper.
- Take a small bowl and add the rest of the garlic, white part of the green onions and 1/2 Tbsp oil. Mix and set aside.
- Add 1/2 Tbsp oil to a large skillet or wok (I used a cast iron braiser) and turn heat to medium high. Add marinated beef and cook for 5-8 minutes, until browned. Remove beef and place onto a plate.
- Add 3/4 cup water to the skillet and reduce heat to medium heat. Add broccoli & cauliflower and cover. Cook for about 5 minutes. Don't overcook the vegetables. Remove the vegetables and drain the water. Wipe the skillet with a clean paper towel if needed.
- Return beef to the skillet and leaving room in the middle, add the garlic-green onion-oil mixture. Cook for 30-60 seconds and smash the garlic with the back of a wooden spoon. Incorporate the garlic mixture into the beef. Add back the broccoli and cauliflower. Add 1/2 tsp sesame oil & 2 Tbsp oyster sauce and mix together until heated through.
- Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with remaining green onions and serve with rice.
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28 Responses to "Garlic Beef, Broccoli & Cauliflower Stir Fry"
I feel you – sometimes stir-fries all feel the same! This one looks like a breath of fresh air. I've never used cauliflower in a stir-fry, but my husband likes it, too – they probably just think it's broccoli that looks like a potato so it must be good 😉
Your broccoli-potato comment made me laugh out loud! I need to come up with more cauliflower recipes because he's seriously obsessed with it! Hope you have a nice weekend, Sydney!
Julie, love how healthy this stir-fry is with two cruciferous vegetables. Cauliflower and broccoli are actually supposed to help promote liver function, so this is the perfect dish for Curtis. See this article for more foods that are good for liver function: http://www.livestrong.com/article/269061-healthy-foods-for-a-human-liver/
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|Extracorporeal life support in the management of severe respiratory failure.
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|ECLS is a safe and effective means to keep patients alive during severe respiratory failure that would otherwise be fatal. In addition to direct and indirect treatment of the lungs during ECLS, the technique allows days of time for study and treatment of other conditions and other organ failure. The technique has been refined in newborn infants and children, in whom survival rates are high and the technology is proven by prospective randomized trials. ECLS is usually applied to adults with respiratory failure when the mortality risk is over 80%. With these indications, the survival rate in experienced centers is 50% to 60%. A new prospective, randomized trial of ECLS in adult patients is underway in the United Kingdom. In the meantime, intensivists who are charged with the management of moribund ARDS patients who fail to respond to other methods of therapy should consider the risks versus the benefits of transferring such patients to an ECLS center.
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|Validity and reliability of three commonly used quality of life measures in a large European population of coronary heart disease patients.
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|OBJECTIVE: To investigate the validity and reliability of the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12v2), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a stable coronary population. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study EUROASPIRE III. SETTING: Quality of life data (QoL) were available on 8745 patients hospitalized for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or myocardial ischemia. They were interviewed and examined at least 6months after their hospital admission. Reliability and validity of the 3 instruments were tested. Internal consistency, and discriminative, convergent, criterion and construct validity were assessed. RESULTS: Cronbach's alpha indicated good internal consistency for all measures (0.73 to 0.87). Discriminative validity analyses confirmed significant QoL differences between known groups: age, gender, educational level. In addition, all hypothesized correlations between QoL constructs (convergent validity) and items (criterion validity) were confirmed with significant correlations. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated good construct validity for HADS and SF-12v2. On country-specific level, results were roughly similar. CONCLUSION: The EQ-5D as well as the SF-12v2 and the HADS are reliable and valid instruments for use in a stable coronary population, both on aggregate European level and on country-specific level. However, our results must be generalized with caution, because EUROASPIRE III patients might not be representative for all patients with stable coronary heart disease.
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The Home as Battlefront: Femininity, Gendered Spheres, and the 1943 Women in National Service Campaign
Kimble, James J., Women's Studies in Communication
This essay investigates the dynamics of the Women in National Service (WINS) campaign, an attempt by the magazine Ladies' Home Journal to militarize middle-class housewives on the U.S. home front during Worm War II. Adapting the construct of gendered spheres to the campaign, the analysis suggests that the WINS effort carefully modulated its prewar depictions of domesticity and female submissiveness to offer a transformative view of the wartime home and the role of the housewife in it. The essay concludes, however, that while this transformed vision was overtly empowering, its built-in limitations effectively created a sense of covert disempowerment.
Keywords femininity, gender, gendered spheres, home front, housewives, Ladies' Home Journal, World War II
We're not the Army, we're not the Navy, We get the work without the gravy, We're the dustpan crew standing back of you, Fighting on the home front--WINS!
--Official WINS song
Mildred Riddle Douglas was an improbable inspiration for those on the U.S. home front during World War II. As a homemaker--and the mother of two children--she was unlikely to have had the time to gain widespread recognition by winning an elected national office. As a 40-year-old, her chances of becoming a renowned riveter or welder in a war factory were slim. And as a woman, she would have had no opportunity to earn medals for bravery in battle. Indeed, the possibility that she could even dream of inspiring countless others on the home front must have seemed quite remote.
Yet for a brief period in 1943, Douglas did in fact become an inspiration for many Americans. Introduced by the editors of Ladies' Home Journal to their readers in the March issue, Douglas was suddenly transformed from the little-known wife of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to the public face of a campaign aimed at changing perceptions of American homes and the women who labored in them during the war. The magazine called its effort the Women in National Service campaign, or WINS. With patriotic visuals and stirring prose, the WINS program positioned Douglas as a role model in support of its positive message to homemakers and housewives all over the country: "You're the WINS" (1943, p. 24). (1) Before long, the new group swelled, becoming "the largest, most informally structured home front organization of the war years" (Jones, 2006, p. 178).
The WINS campaign emerged at a turbulent time for women on the home front. In the latter half of 1942, both government and industry began to target "woman-power" (Sadler, 1942, p. B5; see also Honey, 1984, p. 38) as a means of replacing the steadily diminishing supply of male labor for war factories. White women whose husbands were in the service were "the most obvious labor source, and so propaganda badgered and enticed them into the labor market" (Adams, 1994, p. 123). Numerous media outlets began to taunt "Mrs. Stay-at-Home" (Gluck, 1987, p. 13), faithfully following the Office of War Information's suggestion that "any strong, able-bodied woman who is not completely occupied with a job and a home--is going to be considered a 'slacker'" (as cited in Rupp, 1978, p. 97). America's homemakers thus increasingly felt pressured to ensure that their "record of homefront sacrifice ... match[ed] up to that of the men in the battle zones" (Anderson, 1981, p. 28).
For countless middle-class women on the home front, however, taking on what the government considered a war job was not feasible. The war had not halted the numerous home-based chores that traditionally fell to homemakers. Indeed, with millions of men absent for the duration, even more work--such as maintaining the family car, fixing plumbing problems, and cleaning gutters--was left to those at home. (2) Moreover, added Susan M. Hartmann (1982), the wartime economy necessitated a halt in the production of "stoves, refrigerators, electric sweepers, and aluminum, stainless-steel, and copper utensils. …


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Love and aceptance.
Something every human deserves
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Former US Navy member Austin Shirley is walking across the United States to raise money for wounded veterans. Austin joined The Morning Answer on Monday morning to talk about his trek.
"What was the motivator – what motivated you to walk across the United States all in an effort to raise awareness and resources for wounded veterans?" Morning Answer co-host Brian Whitman asked Shirley.
"Honestly, you know, I was going to school and I was working and I was kind of getting bored. I got this idea that wouldn't leave my head," replied Austin. "I talked to a few of my buddies and I kind of got the idea from a few of them that I could use this walk to maybe do some good and make some money for some of our guys who really need it…It just wouldn't leave my head and I just sold everything I could and saved up as much money and hit the road."
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Intelligent data mining and personalisation for customer relationship management
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Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives have gained much attention in recent years. With the aid of data mining technology, businesses can formulate specific strategies for different customer bases more precisely. Additionally, personalisation is another important issue in CRM - especially when a company has a huge product range. This paper presents a case model and investigates the use of computational intelligent techniques for CRM. These techniques allow the complex functions of relating customer behaviour to internal business processes to be learned more easily and the industry expertise and experience from business managers to be integrated into the modelling framework directly. Hence, they can be used in the CRM framework to enhance the creation of targeted strategies for specific customer bases.
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Whitman, Longfellow to have dedicated police officers
City approves cost-share for new employee Tuesday
Each of Wauwatosa's middle schools will have its own school resource officer walking the hallways early next year, following a unanimous decision by the city's Common Council to contribute funding for a fourth officer.
A school resource officer costs more than $100,000 per year. That cost shared, with the Wauwatosa School District picking up 75 percent, or $75,652, and the city paying out 25 percent, or $25,217. The School Board approved its share last week, having received the request for a fourth officer after the city had completed its 2012 budgeting.
Police Capt. Dale Weiss said he is confident the city's 25 percent, or $25,217, can be found within its existing budget for 2012.
The move allows a school resource officer at each high school and at each middle school. Currently, one officer splits time at both middle schools.
Only officers who have been with the department at least two years will be able to apply for the new post, which the department expects to fill in January.
The council's decision came without any discussion, because the issue was discussed by the Budget and Finance Committee on Dec. 13.
The city does benefit from the officers' placements in schools and during the summer months those officers return to patroling the rest of the city, Weiss said.
For many years there was concern about gang violence infiltrating the schools. But that hasn't been the case because of the strong police presence within the schools, Chief Barry Weber said.
Still, teens are faced with issues of drugs, weapons and social media that could easily result in dangerous outcomes, he added.
The Police Department tries to foster a safe and familiar learning environment, he said. That means not changing officers at a school too often - the SRO needs to be consistent so as to build a rapport with the students.
"If one child feels they are being bullied or unsafe, then they are a victim," the chief said.
Alderman Peter Donegan said the city should probably defer to school officials about the need for policing in their buildings. However, he wanted some convincing that the city's pay contribution would be well-spent. Moving an officer to a middle school will necessitate hiring another officer to fill the patrol position.
"I'm adverse to building the department unless it's absolutely necessary," he said.
Alderman Dennis McBride supported adding the school resource officer position, saying that it creates a culture of respecting authority and following the rules.
The foreign-exchange student he is hosting told him about the school resource officer talking to her high school class about the 4th Amendment, showing that police can also bring educational value to the job.
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CONCORD, N.C. — Brandon Davis has championed various causes with the Sprint Cup car he owns.
The Swan Racing car sported a Daytona 500 paint scheme encouraging people to text donations to victims of the Newtown, Conn. shootings, a NASCAR-initiated sponsorship that included Michael Waltrip driving the car.
The team's next cause had a little more of a connection to Davis. His wife is from Boston, and the team ran a tribute to the Boston Marathon bombing victims at Kansas Speedway the weekend after the attack.
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But the big sticker on the side of David Stremme's No. 30 car this week hits much closer to home for Davis. It's for the Feed the Children program based in Oklahoma.
Davis grew up in western Oklahoma and lived in Moore from 1998-2002. He has seen tornado devastation up close, living there when the 1999 tornado came through, and aches for the community after a tornado Monday killed 24 and left a 17-mile path of destruction.
The sticker on his car encourages people to text donations to the charity, which is helping with the relief efforts.
"It does mean a little more (having a connection)," Davis said Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "My wife is from Boston, and this is probably similar for her and what we did at Kansas as to me and what we're doing here.
"I want to do more — I don't know what else we can do. I have people calling and checking and trying. The needs are so vast."
Davis said he called the Feed the Children charity about ways he could help. Michael Waltrip Racing teams are running the same sticker on the roof of their cars.
Sponsors such as Lowe's (Jimmie Johnson) and Love's Travel Stops (David Ragan) are also running programs in conjunction with the race team to generate funds for victims.
Davis still has strong ties to the area, as many of his Swan Energy wells are in Oklahoma.
"Most of the people that work on our wells are from that area," Davis said. "All of them have friends and family that are in the middle of it. When something like that happens, a disaster of that magnitude happens, it affects everybody.
"It's going to be a long process to recover."
Davis' cousin lost everything and Davis is sure that friends he hasn't been able to connect with are in similar situations.
"(My cousin) and her kids were in their cellar," he said. "They came out and their house was gone."
While living in the area, Davis was at Oklahoma City Community College when the 1999 tornado hit the town he lived in, although his home was spared.
"I was in class when it happened and that was the shelter for the area — we watched it go by," Davis said. "It brought back memories when I was watching the news (of tornados) Sunday night and then on Monday.
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He pledged that the sticker will just be part of his efforts to help his home state.
"We're trying to gather up clothing, we're trying to hit up some teams in NASCAR for old apparel that we can send because those people have nothing," Davis said. "Anything that anyone can do to help those people — clothing, food, water, they need it all.
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The Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers of Colorado are proud to announce the 2004 edition of their State Guide is now available free to all travelers requesting the 32 page, 4-color booklet.
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The Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers of Colorado is the State of Colorado's professional association, representing not only its 112 inspected and approved members, but all innkeepers throughout the State of Colorado in matters of industry concern. The association was founded in 1984 and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of member innkeepers. For more information about this association and its member inns, visit their web site at
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Quite possibly the most picturesque Southern Indiana cabins for rent, Vinnies Ohio River Log Cabins offers the perfect location for year-round getaways. Based in Magnet, Indiana these Ohio River log cabin rentals are just minutes away from a diverse selection of restaurants, taverns and wineries. For guests wishing to stay in, these Southern Indiana cabin rentals are equipped with modern appliances and a gas grill. A general store and grocery store are within driving distance so travelers can take advantage of the areas fresh foods.
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Conditioned Negative Declaration
Queens County (Queens) - The New York City City Planning Commission, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Rezoning of Block 1083 and Demapping of 88th Street and 24th Avenue will not have a significant adverse environmental impact provided specific conditions are met. There will be a 30 day public comment period commencing with the date of this notice. The revised Conditioned Negative Declaration reflects a modified action to remove the requested demapping of 88th Street between 23rd Avenue and 24th Avenue. The action involves the application by GJT Co. Inc. which is seeking a Zoning Map Amendment to rezone the southeastern portion of Block 1082 from R3-2/C4-2 to C4-1 and a change to the City Map to eliminate and close a portion of 24th Avenue to facilitate the expansion of an existing car rental and long-term public parking facility The project is located at 23-45 87th Street and is bounded by 23rd Avenue to the north, 24th Avenue to the south, 90th Place to the east and 87th Street to the west within the East Elmhurst area of Queens Community District 3, New York.
The conditions are: The applicant, GTJ Co. Inc., agrees via a restrictive declaration to prepare a hazardous materials sampling protocol including a health and safety plan, which would be submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for approval.
Contact: Robert Dobruskin, New York City Department of City Planning, 22 Reade Street, Room 4E, New York, NY 10007, Phone: (212) 720-3423, E-mail: email@example.com.
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Bronx County (Bronx) - The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Kingsbridge Armory may have a significant adverse impact on the environment and a Draft Environmental Impact Statement must be prepared. Written comments on the draft scope will be accepted at the address listed below until 5:00 p.m. October 17, 2008. A public scoping session will be held on October 2, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center, 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY. The Draft Scope of Work is available for review from the contact person listed below and on the websites of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination at: www.nycedc.com and www.nyc.gov/oec.
The action involves the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory, a historic landmark, with approximately 897,860 square feet of new uses, including approximately: 377,235 square feet of retail and restaurant space, including both neighborhood and destination retail; 57,485 square feet of entertainment uses (a cinema); 33,240 square feet of fitness club space, and 27,000 square feet of community facilities. The project is located at Block 3247, Lot 10 and a portion of Lot 2, in the Bronx bounded by West 195th Street, Reservoir Avenue, West Kingsbridge Road, and Jerome Avenue in New York.
Contact: Robert R. Kulikowski, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, 253 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10007 or Rob Holbrook, New York City Economic Development Corporation, 110 William Street, New York, NY 10038, Phone: (212) 618-3706, E-mail: email@example.com.
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Queens County (Queens) - The New York City City Planning Commission, as lead agency, has accepted a Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Dutch Kills Rezoning and Related Actions. The action involves the proposed zoning map and text amendments for an area encompassing approximately 40 blocks in the Dutch Kills neighborhood. The area would generally be rezoned from current M1-3D and M1-1 to mixed-use districts where a Residence District would be paired with a light Manufacturing District, or for a small portion of the western side of the rezoning area, to M1-2. The proposed zoning text amendments would facilitate the creation of the Dutch Kills Subdistrict within the Special Long Island City Mixed-Use District, establish an Inclusionary Housing program in the proposed M1-3/R7X district near Northern Boulevard, and modify certain provisions of the proposed underlying districts. The project is located on approximately 70 acres within Queens Community District 1 and is generally bounded by 36th Avenue to the north, the west side of Northern Boulevard to the east, 41st Avenue to the south, and 23rd Street to the west in New York.
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The first secure document shred day of 2013 will be held Wednesday in Monroe on the same day of the next countywide household hazardous waste collection.
Both activities will be held from 3 to 7 p. m. at the Monroe Multi-Sports Complex, 333 N. Dixie Hwy. Both events are free.
The shredding will give residents a safe and secure resource to dispose of confidential personal and business documents, said Jamie Dean, recycling and green community program coordinator for Monroe County.
The event also will provide a "safe, economical and environmentally friendly option to deal with the threat of identity theft," she said in a press release.
The household waste collection will be held the same time. Business waste will not be accepted.
Acceptable materials include, but are not limited to, pesticides and fertilizers, automotive fluids, cleaning products, paints, flammable items, all types of batteries, fluorescent bulbs and items containing mercury.
For additional accepted items, contact Ms. Dean at 240-7909 or email@example.com or visit www.co.monroe.mi.us/recycling.
Proper disposal of hazardous materials is necessary, she said.
"According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, certain types of household hazardous waste have the potential to cause physical injury; contaminate septic tanks or wastewater treatment systems and groundwater if poured down drains or toilets and present hazards to children and pets if left around the house," she said.
More than 65,000 pounds of materials have been collected through the program so far this year.
The final county collection event of 2013 will be another combined document shred day and household hazardous waste collection from 8 a. m. to noon Sept. 28 at the Bedford Township Hall, 8100 Jackman Rd., Temperance.
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Johannesburg - Thami Tsolekile and Cliffe Deacon both struck half centuries before the Highveld Lions bowlers ran through the Cape Cobras batting line-up to take full control of their Sunfoil Series clash after day two in Cape Town on Friday.
Resuming the day on 78 for one, the visitors posted 270 all out in reply to home side's 224 on day one Ä a lead of 46 Ä with the log leaders then reaching stumps in all sorts of trouble on 81 for six.
Fast bowlers Hardus Viljoen (2/28) and Ethan O'Reilly (2/10) claimed two wickets apiece to spearhead the charge for the Gauteng franchise with the hosts' lead just 35 at the halfway stage of the game.
It was a complete turnaround after the Cobras had fought back on the second morning.
They took less than five overs to claim their first breakthrough at the start of the day when Lions captain Stephen Cook was bowled by Johann Louw (3/64) for 37.
Four more quick wickets, three of those to Lizaad Williams (4/62), saw the visitors slump to 131 for six.
But a 110-run seventh wicket stand between Tsolekile (58) and Deacon (71) - the pair recording their 26th and 15th first-class half centuries respectively - handed the Lions the advantage before they were rolled over in 92.4 overs.
The Cobras then slumped to 50 for six, before Qaasim Adams (27 not out) batted for close to an hour prior to stumps with the Lions in complete control.
Elsewhere, four wickets from CJ de Villiers helped the Titans take firm control on day two of their clash against the Knights at Willowmoore Park in Benoni.
When bad light brought play to a halt an hour early, the visitors were on 190 for seven in reply to the home side's 335 all out, still 145 runs behind.
Fast bowler De Villiers, playing against his former team, removed the heart of the Free State side's middle order for figures of four for 37 in 11 overs.
He claimed the key wickets of Rilee Rossouw (five), Ryan Bailey (40) and Obus Pienaar (eight), with only an unbeaten half century from Rudi Second preventing the Knights from total destruction.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Second, batting at number three was on 64 from 175 deliveries, with Dillon du Preez having just joined him at the crease.
Shaun von Berg took two of the other wickets to fall - Patrick Botha (14) and captain Johan van der Wath (10) - for figures of two for 42, while the initial breakthrough was made by Ethy Mbhalati (1/38) when he cleaned up Michael Erlank for 14.
Earlier, Graeme van Buuren remained stranded on 55 as the defending champions batted a further 11.3 overs on day two, taking their total from 321 for seven to 335.
Seam bowler Malusi Siboto claimed the remaining three wickets to fall to end with the impressive figures of four for 47. - Sapa
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FIG: Movie Night
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Come join FIG for a movie night and take a break from those winter doldrums. FIG will provide popcorn and soft drinks, but feel free to bring other snacks and drinks. Salvation Boulevard, a film featuring Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan and Marisa Tomei. Salvation Boulevard is a tongue-in-cheek look at a charismatic larger than life evangelical preacher, Pastor Dan Day, whose charm and real estate developnments have captivated a small western American town. Part satire and part parable, the film is based on Larry Beinhart's comic novel of the same name.
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A Tuolumne County man suffered slight injuries when he was grazed by a car this morning near Sonora.
The accident on Highway 49, just south of Columbia Way, happened about 9 a.m., according to CHP Officer Scott Taylor.
Henry Chapman II, 47, was walking down the highway toward Sonora when
his hand was hit by the sideview mirror of a passing Ford F-150 pickup truck
driven by Devin Hall, 25, of Sonora, who was heading toward Columbia.


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Who are these guys? And why is the narrator joyously shouting, "It happened! The mounds are vibrating. It is tremendous! Directly above our heads! Aaah!"
This footage was shot by the U.S. Air Force (at the behest of Col. Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, public information officer for the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs) to demonstrate the relative safety of a low-grade nuclear exchange in the atmosphere. Two colonels, two majors and a fifth officer agreed to stand right below the blast. Only the cameraman, George Yoshitake, didn't volunteer.
The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons to counter similar weapons being developed in Russia. (They didn't win this argument.)
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Duck And Cover: The Citizen Kane Of PSAs
Few films, let alone ones running under ten minutes, have been as frequently referenced, reproduced and satirized as Duck and Cover, yet it is never regarded seriously. Conelrad gives this key piece of cinematic history the treatment it deserves:
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We have spent the last two years thoroughly researching DUCK AND COVER's production history as well as its initial public reception in 1952. Interviews were conducted with living participants involved in the making of the film as well as surviving family members of those key players who had passed away.
Just how did the term "Duck and Cover" become universal shorthand for the paranoid excesses of the Cold War and for every geo-political panic attack since? The film is, after all, the Citizen Kane of American civil defense motion pictures. Clips from this movie are used almost every time a news piece is produced on the 1950's or the Cold War.


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Rookie LB Edds a big loss for Dolphins
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Dolphins' fourth round pick A.J. Edds has been placed on the Physical Unable to Perform List after tearing the ACL in his right knee during practice Monday evening.
The loss of Edds (pronounced Eads) is a significant one for the Dolphins who were planning on using the 6-4, 246 pound Edds as a coverage specialist at inside linebacker during nickel situations. Edds started 38 games at strongside linebacker in the Iowa Hawkeyes 4-3 scheme, but, according to Miami head coach Tony Sparano, Edds had impressed early on with his ability to acclimate to the Dolphins' 3-4 strategy.
Said Sparano this morning, confirming Edd's injury:
"He did a good job," Sparano said. "Obviously there was a lot of football left out here. A.J. looked like he had some good promise and had the ability to do some good jobs. We'll get him healthy and we'll get going."
Edds was a player I was particularly high on. Like many Iowa players, he came to the NFL exceptionally well-coached by Kirk Ferentz's staff. While Edds' linebacking teammate, inside linebacker Pat Angerer received much of the press during their respective career with the Hawkeyes, I was more consistently impressed with Edds' play on film and when scouting him in person at the Senior Bowl. Angerer was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round.
I characterized Edds as a "personal favorite" numerous times in preparation for the 2010 draft and explained some of the reasoning behind the attention in this Senior Bowl post-practice report.
I felt then that "There's nothing flashy about Iowa outside linebacker A.J. Edds, but he always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Whether blowing up fullbacks or covering up receivers in the flat, he flashed the skills to be a Ben Leber-type coverage linebacker who will play for 10 years in the NFL."
Hopefully Edds will come back a year from now just as athletic and instinctive. His work ethic was praised by Iowa coaches in the past and I suspect that it will be by the Miami coaches and trainers soon, as well.
Without Edds' instincts and athleticism in coverage, the Dolphins may have to turn back to two veterans much better suited towards playing the run than pass with incumbent starter Channing Crowder and recent addition Tim Dobbins, who was acquired via a trade with San Diego that allowed the Chargers to move up to the No. 12 pick to select Fresno State running back Ryan Matthews.
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The Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights Trail recently was named one of Frommer's Top 12 Destinations in the World for 2009.
Only two other U.S. destinations were included on the list published in the Dec.-Jan. issue of the international travel guide: Washington, D.C. and Lassen Volcanic National Park, California.
The Selma to Montgomery Trail is featured in the Alabama Tourism Department's Historic Alabama brochure and accompanying book as part of the just-launched "Year of Alabama History" campaign.
The Trail was also part of a special report CNBC did on the top destinations list.
Frommer's is an online destination for travel excursion planning.
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200 Episode Completion Party of Maryaada Lekin Kab Tak?
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I ALWAYS love the lipstick at J.Crew's fashion week presentations. It's usually Nars, and usually a bright, upbeat color that looks good with all those bright, upbeat clothes. (One season, it was Funny Face, an almost-iridescent fuchsia. The next? Heat Wave, the perfect geranium-orange.)
The catalog features great lips too. For the September Style Guide's Tokyo spread, the models are wearing what I consider the ideal red, at least for my coloring. I've got fair skin and almost-black hair, and for some reason nearly every red—even the really orange-y ones—look more pink on me than anything else. This color, however, appeared to consist of so much yellow that it might work.
And so I was desperate to find its origins. I had a hunch it was Nars—and that it was one of the brand's chubby Velvet Matte lip pencils—but the color stumped me.
I took an educated guess and tried Dragon Girl, a classic red. It sure looked lovely, but very burgundy.
After pretty much giving up, a friend at J.Crew tipped me off: the makeup artists used Nars' Red Square, a Velvet Matte lip pencil available at Barneys.com for $24. I bought, tried it, and loved it. This is—seriously, seriously, seriously—the first red lipstick that actually looks RED on me! Thank you, J.Crew, for being both inspiring and utilitarian.
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India is going to be the biggest market for the social networking site, but the company is yet to convert its advantage into money
India is going to be the biggest market for the social networking site, but the company is yet to convert its advantage into money
Ever since its initial public offering, Facebook has been slammed as a prime example of a company whose economic reality couldn't live up to the hype surrounding it. Its record in India might turn out to be no different.
Where does India stand? With its Western markets nearing a point of saturation, Facebook counts India among its important markets. Its IPO document mentions India three to four times. In terms of users, India, along with Brazil, was a key source of growth for Facebook in the last few years. At the end of last year, India had 46 million active users and second only to US, which has about 161 million users, according to Facebook's IPO filings.
The future looks promising. In terms of population, only China can match the market size. But in China, Facebook is banned, and customers have moved to local versions. In India, the number is likely to grow as internet penetration increases. In the next three years, India's internet users are estimated to double from about 150 million at present. The time they spend online, which is lower than Brazil and China, is expected to go up too. All these should bode well for Facebook. If it maintains the penetration rate of about 30% odd, its user base will touch 100 million in the next three years.
The question, however, is how well it can monetise that user base. The market potential is huge. Adoption of internet, shift from a saving society to a consuming society, all suggest a huge potential for digital advertising, a main source of income for Facebook. Indian businesses spent Rs 2,850 crore on digital advertising as of March 2012, a number that's expected to grow to Rs 4,391 crore next year, according to a report by the Internet Mobile Association of India/Indian Market Research Bureau.
Asfaq Tapia, former manager social media marketing at Zapak, says, "Of the online budget, lately, social media gets 10-15%. Brand managers hire agencies for social media on a retainership and pay them around a lakh or 1.5 lakh for social media management." Since Facebook is the dominant social media outlet, most went towards Facebook.
However, a big concern is whether there is too little substance around Facebook engagements right now. Facebook 'likes' are generally seen as an indicator of success of social media marketing, but there are ways to manipulate these numbers. Some social media companies do just that, in a repeat of what happened during the earlier dotcom boom days. Then, companies hired people just to click on ads. While that might have increased page views, they amounted to nothing. Tapia says right now a lot about Facebook is hype. It's a report card for brand managers who need to show how many followers and fans they have.
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Slavery… Today
Every Passover, Jews read passages from the Haggadah that tell us to visualize ourselves as former slaves who were just freed from the bondage. To some, the request seems antiquated. In the modern mind, slavery has become obsolete, a relic of some bygone era. Right?
Think again! Studies suggest that there are more slaves today than at any previous point in history… as much as 27 million!
The modern form of slavery can be found in every country, even the United States. The US State Department estimates that 17,500 slaves are smuggled in the US annually! They may be forced to do difficult farm labor or to attend to their master in his home, just like the slaves of old.
Of course, slave trading is officially barred by international law. Since 1817 more than 10 international treaties have been signed to outlaw transactions involving slaves. Illegal as it may be, though, slavery continues to be practiced – often with the tacit consent of corrupt authorities.
In India slavery is camouflaged under the mantle of "paying off a debt." A wealthier farmer may lend a minimal sum to an indigent neighbor, whose son or daughter will be handed over to work off the debt. Their term of indemnity will be "as long as it takes to pay off the debt" – usually, that means forever.
Not only will the child remain enslaved for life, but should they marry and have children, those children are born into the bondage as well. In this manner a family can be enslaved indefinitely for generations to pay off a minor loan taken out by the great-grandfather. In practice, entire villages can be trapped in endless servitude.
There are countries around the world where people are drafted into slavery by powerful organizations, or even by the government itself. Several African countries use the services of forced child soldiers. In South America slaves are forced to harvest crops which are the sold to industrial countries. A large percentage of these laborers are children who were kidnapped and then sold as though they were objects.
In Pakistan young ones are forced to weave carpets. In Ivory Coast kids are beaten and starved on the cacao plantations. In Egypt or other Arab lands maintaining slaves remains a common practice.
Within hours of the terrible earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, criminal groups swarmed into the devastated country. Slavery had been a problem before the earthquake but suddenly skyrocketed. Similarly, the tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean in 2004 not only left 300,000 dead and millions more without a roof, it also left some of those millions at the mercy of kidnappers.
The bottom line is that slavery continues today on a grand scale.
Until about 20 years ago, world leaders denied the problem existed, certainly not on the grand scale it is recognized today. (The International Labour Organization estimates that in 2005 the international trade in humans reached a monstrous $32 billion!)
A significant step in the right direction took place in 2000 when President Bill Clinton signed into law the Victims of Violence and Trafficking Protection Act. In 2012, President Obama signed an executive order to help the US government enforce its zero-tolerance policy against human trafficking.
Be that as it may, slavery is very much alive and well in the modern world. We should not take our freedom for granted. This Passover, pause for a moment and acknowledge how literally true it is that "If God had not taken our fathers out of Egypt, we and our children and grandchildren would still be enslaved."
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by Yaakov Astor
March 19, 2015
Love is best expressed by that which you do not do.
Hillel the Elder said this when he summed up the entire Torah,
"If you do not like something, don't do it to someone else."
What is it that you most dislike?
You don't appreciate when someone pries into your faults, underlining each one with a red pen.
So if you truly wish to express love to someone else, don't even look at his faults.
Find whatever is good about him and talk about that.
- Tzemach Tzedek
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October 2, 2013
The Mighty Peanut
Ralph Kramden, the world's most famous bus driver, was a contestant on the popular "$99,000 Answer" show (not to be confused with the "$64,000 Question" show). He had already won the $600 prize and was about to go for the grand prize. When his wife pleaded with him to take the $600 he scoffed, "Six hundred dollars? Peanuts, peanuts. What am I gonna do with peanuts?" To which his loving wife Alice calmly replied, "Eat 'em, like any other elephant".
Of course, due to the excitement of the moment, Alice was taking a very narrow view of the potential uses of peanuts. Had she really thought about it, she would have realized that Ralph would have many more uses for his winnings:
If Ralph was a farmer instead of a bus driver, he surely would have planted peanuts as an alternate to his annual wheat crop to replenish the lost nutrients in his soil.
If he were a printer, he could have used peanuts as a cheap source of blue ink.
If he were modeling for Gentleman's Quarterly magazine (not likely) or Alice needed some beauty help, he could have made some cosmetics out of peanuts.
Still brushing up on his bus driver's test? He could use peanut coffee to help him stay awake. He could even lighten his coffee with peanut milk – a nutritious, inexpensive substitute for dairy milk.
Want something to eat with his coffee? Bake a cake or cookie with peanut flour.
Need to clean up after himself? Peanut soap.
In the mood for pizza? No, sorry, nothing substitutes for a great marinara sauce, but why not use peanut cheese?
George Washington Carver, one of America's greatest inventors (died 1943), claimed he came up with more than 300 uses for peanuts.
For me, nothing beats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a tasty slice of peanut bread.
Got (peanut) milk?
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August 25, 2013
Star of David origin
"But You God are a shield for me…" (Psalms 3:4). David refers here to God as being his 'shield'. This brings us to the topic of the 'Magen David', [lit. shield of David] popularly know as 'the Star of David', and regarded as a symbol of Judaism. Strangely, there is no mention of this symbol or its meaning in any authoritative Jewish book.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, in Igros Moshe (Orach Chaim Vol. 3, Res. 15) tells us that the most convincing source for this sign is David himself. For it is clear that David did not find security in battle from any armor or shield. Only in God did he find himself securely enveloped, invulnerable from every side - above and below, east, west, north, south, - six directions in all. Thus the six-pointed symbol stands for David's true shield - God! Rabbi Feinstein concludes that for this reason this symbol, hallowed by centuries of traditional usage, should be respected, because it is meant to symbolize the eternal Jewish faith in God no matter what the adversity.
origin: Psalms - Vol. 1, Artscroll Tanach Series
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by Member of the Tribe
June 14, 2013
A Stormy Sprinkle
Countless lines have been written about Hurricane Sandy, the storm that recently battered the eastern coastal states of the U.S. How to prepare, how to repair and how to react has been the subject of articles in newspapers and magazines spanning the nation. There are lessons to be learned by governments, individuals and emergency crews about how to understand what insurance companies called "an act of God".
Here is another.
Living on the scenic Jersey coast, we were not unaffected by the damage wrought by the storm. In addition to homes, cars, businesses and sources of recreation being destroyed, hundreds of trees fell in the tornado force winds. A study was recently conducted to determine – what caused some to fall while others, of the same type and age, remained?
Certainly those in exposed areas on top of hills or isolated areas were more likely to succumb to the high winds. But there was one glaring difference of the ones that fell in residential areas. Those that fell were primarily near homes that had lawn sprinkler systems as opposed to those without sprinklers.
That seems to be counter-intuitive.
You would think that a tree that received life giving water twelve months a year would outlast ones subject to seasonal rain and snow.
But that's not what happened. Here's why.
Life strives to be self-sustaining. Animals forage for food instinctively. Plants and vegetation naturally stretch out their roots in search of water and nutrients. When it is supplied daily, like by those homes that have sprinklered lawns, the roots remain short. When it is scarce, the roots stretch out far and wide searching for water and in the process, build a strong, stable foundation.
We see the same behavior on a human level. When people are handed sustenance on a silver platter, they become uninspired to reach out and better themselves. When encouraged, or even forced, due to circumstances, to fend for themselves, their natural instincts to survive come to the fore. They grow stronger and more stable.
Sprinkled support when needed is a benefit. Long term support might be a short-sighted approach and the root problem of a coming storm.
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by Max Anteby
May 2, 2013
Three Degrees of Separation
Sociologists have confirmed that if you speak to enough people about enough people, someone is going to know someone who knows someone who ultimately knows you. No matter where you are in the world, we are only separated by seven levels.
Microsoft actually proved it statistically and came out with 6.6.
(Close enough).
But even though there are seven levels, there are really three degrees.
Number one is physical. Physical objects are separated in time and space. As far away as the table is from the chair, that's exactly how far away the chair is from the table. When one moves closer or farther away, the level of separation is exactly the same for both objects.
Not necessarily so in the second degree. In relationships, one person can feel very close and connected to another while the other party remains cold and aloof, or perhaps even oblivious. This holds true many times in dating – he/she can't wait for the other party to call and the other can't imagine why. Parents generally always feel emotionally connected to their children even though the child may be physically distant across the country somewhere and never calls. (Which reminds me I have to call my mother).
The third degree is spiritual. The Kaballah tells us that similarity of spirits equals closeness. Married people with shared goals, business partners with a common vision or leaders working for the betterment (or detriment) of mankind feel a spiritual kindred that transcends emotion.
When we exhibit Godlike traits such as kindness, caring, giving, nurturing, correcting or forgiving, our spirits become ONE with our Creator.
You can't get closer than that.
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by Max Anteby
February 28, 2013
Playing the Odds
I'm not a betting man but I know something about "The Odds".
For example, if I had to pick a number between one and ten, the odds against picking the right number is ten to one. One number out of five thousand, the odds are five thousand to one.
Two out of five thousand? The odds are exponentially higher.
Three out of five thousand? I begin to lose count.
Four out of five thousand and the odds are off the chart.
In other words, if someone told me that they could guess right four times out of four from a field of five thousand items, I would say they're either crazy, a genius or very lucky.
Three thousand years ago, three-quarters of the globe remained unexplored. Nobody knew what existed in Australia, in South America, in the northernmost regions of Alaska or in the wilds of Africa.
Yet, the bible goes out of its way to state that there is only one specie of mammal, anywhere in the world, that has a split hoof but doesn't chew its cud. And the Bible names it – it's called the pig.
And lo and behold, the Bible is right.
Okay. Easy stuff. One out of five thousand mammals and it "guessed" right.
Then it names three other animals and says that these are the only ones in the world that DO chew their cud but DON'T have split hooves.
And lo and behold, it gets it right again.
Maybe it's a fix. A setup. Maybe the One who wrote those lines also created all of the animals of the world so there's nothing special about the prediction. He already knew!
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November 27, 2012
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