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What's the point of Time Out?
As several other people joked on Becky's introductory thread in Any Answers, shouldn't that conversation now be taking place here?
Having already made my main points there, I'm ready to fight my corner over here.
One thing we need to stress is that this isn't going to be the source of lots of heavy-handed moderating - we have our hands full with all the other things you throw at us to be really strict about it. But these dicussion forums are designed exactly for situations where a small number of people want to really get into a shared interest, so it made sense to try and use that side of the site.
We won't be stopping conversations that go a bit off piste on normal posts - that's all part of the experience - but when Becky, Jenny or I ask you to take you to take a Time Out, it's all about trying to encourage you to make use of the full range of AccountingWEB's capabilities to collect similar content in specific places, rather than just throwing it at all comers on a single page (Any Answers) which is intended to help them find solutions to their immediate problems.
A couple of people (thanks Sarah!) have spoken up about how useful specialist discussion groups can be, and we'll be building some of their suggestions into the new edition of AccountingWEB.
We'll have to see how it goes
I would have preferred these posts to stay in Any Answers for the following reasons:
- If you like the 'off-piste' threads it is easier to spot them in Any Answers and join in
- More people would see them, and may be tempted to join in
- For the lazy among us it is quicker and easier to post/reply in Any Answers than going into a discussion group
- Non-members of the discussion group will only see the latest thread to be commented on and therefore have less encouragement to join the group
- It takes a bit of the surprise away - the unexpected always gets more attention than the expected
However, I can understand some members wanting to keep Any Answers entirely for accountancy/tax questions, and I can also understand certain threads may be undesirable for reason 2 above. In summary, I think this solution will cause a lot of the spontaneity to be lost, and the group will be used by very few members (for the reason above) so boredom will quickly set in and the group will wither and die.
End of day 1 and only 4 people have posted here, hardly anyone has joined the "group", and total apathy has set in.
As for "Any Answers" - if that is to be restricted to simply people too mean to pay for expertise trying to pick other's brains for technical answers, then I think it will die too. Most members log on for a little light relierf, and answer a couple of questions while they are here. To be succesful a forum needs to be entertaining and enjoyable, not just somewhere to give away your knowledge for free.
This could prove to be the worse move AWeb ever made.
Have we replaced the entire population of AW recently?
A few months back everyone was moaning that there was too much off-topic discussion going on on AA and it should be a place for serious discussion only; now everyone is complaining AA should be a place to post topics about anything up to and including potential names for fish (I made that bit up, but while we're on the subject what do you think of Horatio?).
Did the AW members of old all die out?
Yes, I think a lot of 'old members' have left, for various reasons.
I was one of the people who originally objected as I thought that some posts were being made for the sole purpose of causing conflict by the selection of topics that are famous for causing wars the world over, eg. politics & religion, but my concern was posted on Any Answers, and was not a formal complaint to AWeb.
My concern was the slanging matches, name calling, and threats that became standard behaviour in the threads, and not the threads themselves.
I thought the atmosphere was beginning to 'settle down' lately, after many of us made the decision not to engage in these slanging matches, but maybe AWeb see it differently.
Personally, I would be much happier if AWeb would tell us what the problem is, and what they are trying to achieve, and then we can all see if we are contributing to the problem, and if so, modify our behaviour rather than change AWeb and have many people dissatisfied for the sake of the few.
Is it easy to manage the messages you get in the discussion group? With AA you can get messages for the topics you are interested in but with Groups isn't it all or nothing?
@ Peter
You can set it to update less often, but I don't think you can subscribe to parts of the area.
Give it a chance!
"End of day 1 and only 4 people have posted here, hardly anyone has joined the "group", and total apathy has set in."
I've heard of instant gratification, but this is ridiculous... The site has been running for nearly 14 years, so I don't think we'll pack in this experience just yet.
I think the friction experienced in Any Answers is because there are members who are using it as a substitute for social interaction. We're not against variety, but from the complaints we've received (Shirley's is just one example), the agressive, off-topic arguments were what frustrated members most - specifically because they became boring and so many potentially interesting topics veered off course. Because it's a more private area, there will be a bit more room here - although the terms and conditions for abuse, libel and self promotion still hold.
Since the comment above was posted, more people have come here to give the section a try. We'll continue the Time Out experiment for a week or two at least to see if it's worth continuing on new site when it goes live.
Different section
This is the main problem with the discussion group idea. If you could have Time Out in a different section and you could choose which topics to follow like AA then it would be ideal.
I like the Time Out section
I hope people use it, and keep AA for its primary purpose, and that the moderators transfer any off topic comments in AA to TO, as John says, there have been some interesting debates derailed by irrelevant comments taking them off on a tangent.
Thank you. Your post above does explain the 'why'. Althought the block button (when it goes live) should allow existing members to filter their choice of whose posts they see, it won't work for non-members viewing the forum, so I can understand your decision.
I'll give it a go!
..... and I'll stop whinging ;)
A Success and really useful info for seeing threads quickly with
Hi John
John I hope this is a success and it brings back readers , so they feel happy to comment. More then happy to give it a go.
I have added the time out to my favorites so I just click on it. If any one uses Safari which I do if you save to your top sites its even easier . I think Google Chrome has the same but stop using it changed to safari.
Also for anyone using Any anwers our Discussion Groups. Sometimes you don,t have the time to answer , but the update of Safari has now got a pair of glasses on the left had side , really useful just add your page and click the glasses and all the pages and exact threads you want to read are there without having to search all the time.
Also if you like reading articles without all the advertising on the web the safari reader removes them all if you click it, to make it easier to read the article.
I have Safari , Micsoft Explorer , Mozrilla, and Google as they all do some things better
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Better as we were...
Previously I could look though any answers and find the odd humerous/odd ball posting and read through/join in as I wanted.
Now in order to do that I have to sign up to the group. I did so yesterday around 11ish, between then and now I have had over 50 emails telling me someone has posted something.
Nothing but a nuisence, so I'm unsubscribing from this group, shame as it had promise but I don't need to know everytime someone posts.
... change your subscription updates? I get an email a day if someone posts, but for my other groups I have it set so I don't get any.
Didn't know you could!
Thanks for that and to Sarah Douglas on a new thread advising how to do it.
Now on a weekly update much less of a distraction!
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Paul Magnette at the General Assembly of the United Nations: Sahel, meeting with Ban Ki-moon and co-organiser of the event on least developed countries
At the UN's General Assembly in New York City today, Minister for Development Cooperation Paul Magnette took part in the High Level Meeting on Sahel then met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, together with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and also co-chaired an event on the least developed countries.
High Level Meeting on an "Integrated Strategy for the Sahel"
Eighteen million people in the Sahel, including one million children, are currently suffering from extreme undernutrition. The ambition of a busy meeting attended by 60 heads of state, including the French President François Hollande, American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, members of the Security Council, humanitarian agencies and international donors, was to reach an integrated strategy for the Sahel region. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon moderated the meeting and opened the session with words of praise for the presence and the commitment of the many heads of government.
The Chairperson of the African Union advocated an integrated strategy, including humanitarian and security aspects as well as aspects of good governance, development and human rights. This vision was subsequently shared by many. Herman Van Rompuy condemned the conflicts, which have lead to humanitarian crises. He called for a global strategy, in which Europe and its various partnerships can function as an engine for development strategy. He also stated that the EU is prepared, on the basis of an evaluation of the situation in Mali, to resume development cooperation with this country. Minister for Development Cooperation Paul Magnette also stated this last week in a meeting with Mali's Minister for Development Cooperation, Tieman Coulibaly.
Necessary measures
The countries in the Sahel are practically all, to a certain extent, lacking capacity on a police, legislative and military level, and the provision of social services must be improved. At a national level, efforts must also be made in capacity-building and the strengthening of good governance.
In addition, regional cooperation relations must be strengthened. There is no single organisation that covers the entire Sahel region, and the UN's presence is also fragmented. For these reasons, work must be done on an integrated strategy with strong, regional cooperation.
Thirdly, the social-economic situation must be improved. Inadequate economic development, social exclusion and droughts lead to radicalisation, and economic perspectives can provide an answer to this.
Belgium is already clearly present in the region via its development cooperation. Mali, Niger and Algeria are three of our partner countries. Minister Magnette has also quickly released extra envelopes to respond to the humanitarian needs in the Sahel region.
Bilateral meeting with Ban Ki-moon
Paul Magnette, Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and Didier Reynders held a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Minister for Development stressed the need for a clear post-2015 development agenda, in which convergence must be central. Convergence between the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and convergence with the proposed priorities of sustainable energy for everyone (an initiative that was launched by the UN Secretary-General in Rio and which was supported by Belgium) and training (Ban Ki-moon launched his "Education First" initiative at this General Assembly).
Least Developed Countries
Together with Nepal and Turkey, Belgium was also co-organiser of today's meeting on least developed countries (LDCs). Panel members included the Prime Minister of Nepal, EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, a representative of the World Bank and Mrs Amina Mohammed, the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, with whom Minister Magnette had already held a bilateral meeting on this subject. Ten of our partner countries are LDCs and Belgium has therefore built up an internationally recognised expertise. After the action programme for LDCs, approved approximately 16 months ago in Istanbul, and after the confirmation in Rio that development must be sustainable, the post-2015 development agenda must now be considered. Paul Magnette: "The LDCs have much to gain from sustainable development, with a green economy and green energy. Every country must develop a plan based on the three pillars of development (social, economic and environmental). Human rights must continue to form the basic principal here, women's rights in particular because they are the key to inclusive, sustainable and humane development."

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Looking into buying either a GoPro or ContourRoam to film hunts. Wondering if anyone has experience with either camera? Which is better to film hunts?
Looking into buying either a GoPro or ContourRoam to film hunts. Wondering if anyone has experience with either camera? Which is better to film hunts?
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I have a GoPro HD Hero2 I got for this year that I am going to use this hunting season, It doesn't have zoom so its for up close footage only, What I did like about it is that you can change the settings to turn the "Beeping" off when you start/end recording or power the camera on/off. The GoPro is very user friendly and is small and compact, You can mount that thing anywhere. I don't have any experience with the ContourRoam so i cant really compare. Just a few perks of the GoPro. Hope that helps!
I have a HD Hero GoPro but I have not used the Contour. They both look similar in specs, waterproof, wide angle 170 degree lens, SD card. The GoPro has the 170 degree lens in 720p and a 127 degree in 1080p mode now.
As far as filming goes to me they both look like filler shot cameras due to the lens. One could film a whole hunting trip as long as you or the camera are fairly closeup to the objects. The GoPro's fixed lens has a 2' min focus distance but due to the wide angle it really is not well suited for anything very far out. You would have to be right on the animal to get a decent kill shot filmed and or real close to your subject, 2'-15' or so seems to capture well. If you go to GoPro's web site most if all the good example sample films are mounted camera closeup work and it might give you a idea or two on setting up similar shots for your hunt. http://gopro.com/videos/
The GoPro is a good camera and I'm not knocking it. It is a very lightweight camera. I just think it does not fill the all the desired check list for the, "one stop shop filming camera for filming hunts". If you do film a hunt I hope you will post it here on the forum and show us your hunt.
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I just saw this clip from last October, 2011 on GoPro's YouTube. I thought the filmmaker put together a good set of shots, slow motion, time lapse, action, etc..... With some good thought, filming and editing one can put together a nice film using a GoPro camera. Only thing that was missing in all I've seen so far on their site was one on hunting .
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The GoPro is a good camera, but kinda bulky (if your mounting it on your head) and the waterproof housing is a pain. The Contour is a little less bulky as it mounts to the side of your head and it is mostly water proof right out of the box, if you get the more expensive model. I did a review on these here at WesternOutdoors website.
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- Katjo Mencanto 10:23, November 5, 2013 (UTC) Removed the recipe header from the unedited Recipes pages and replaced with GoogleTranslateLinks.
- Katjo Mencanto 19:32, August 4, 2013 (UTC) Added Category:NGOs using CooKits and went through NGO list adding the category to the applicable NGOs.
- Katjo Mencanto 01:11, July 20, 2013 (UTC) Implement on the site the new definition of a stub: An article with no text other than links and categories. A stub is now officially a page that has no text at the top before the first section (External links, Contact, etc.). Thus go through all Category:Cooking Stubs, Category:NGO Stubs, etc. and remove the stub template if the page has some text
- Katjo Mencanto 04:08, July 24, 2013 (UTC) Fix the formatting on Lejofonds.
- Abigail Fay 12:37, December 6, 2009 Add redirects for countries whose name is different in French and Spanish (e.g., Algérie).
- Abigail Fay 12:37, November 19, 2009 Starting with Zimbabwe and going backwards in the alphabet in Countries, go through the History of solar cooking sections looking for red links. Check to see if there are slight text variations that are causing these links to be broken.
- Ben Hedrick 05:47, November 9, 2009 (UTC) Go to each page in Category:India and make the state hot in the "Contact" section of the page.
- Michael Michalowicz 03:45, December 18, 2009 (UTC) Go through every page in Category:NGOs and make sure that the country code has been indicated for each telephone number.
- Michael Michalowicz 00:24, November 13, 2009 (UTC) Go to the Poland page and add links to all of the pages written in Polish in the French wiki.
- Michael Michalowicz 20:30, November 12, 2009 (UTC) Go to every page listed here, click on the most representative image, and add the "Solar panel cooker designs" category.
- Michael Michalowicz 00:24, November 11, 2009 (UTC) Add this cooker to the wiki.
- Michael Michalowicz 22:52, November 5, 2009 (UTC) Add article about this cooker.
- Ben Hedrick 20:25, October 12, 2009 (UTC) Change Category:Panel_cooker_plans to be [[Category:Solar panel cooker plans]].
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WASHINGTON – Baltimore Gas and Electric Company is telling its customers they can expect their second-lowest winter gas bill in a decade, despite the colder temperatures and increased usage that are expected.
"This is a result of stable, lower global natural gas prices and BGE's commodity acquisition strategy," said Jeannette M. Mills, vice president and chief customer officer for BGE.
BGE estimates that its natural gas commodity price will be approximately 60 cents per therm this winter heating season. However, customers will most likely use more natural gas this winter than they did during last winter's unseasonably warm weather, leading to a relative increase in residential total gas bills.
If actual weather conditions differ from forecasts, a customer's bill will vary accordingly and will depend on factors such as furnace condition and actual usage.
Due to the projected increase of customer usage, residential customers who purchase natural gas from BGE can expect to pay $9 more per month over the five- month winter heating season which spans Nov. 1 to March 31, 2013, compared with the same period last winter. It amounts to an increase of 11 percent in the total gas bill.
BGE offers the following tips to all customers looking to reduce energy consumption and lower their heating bills:
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USC's String Project is a model of community service and teacher education for more than 40 other university programs across the country. The program creates partnerships that provide teaching experience for Carolina students while providing accessible string education and supporting school music programs in the community.
The String Project offers group beginning classes (beginners start in fall only), group second year classes, three orchestras and private lessons. Students at least a year of experience may join for classes and lessons when space is available.
All classes take place in the beautiful String Project Building adjacent to the School of Music Building at 851 Park Street and parking is convenient in the Discovery Parking Garage (parking passes available).
An important aspect of the program is an affordable fee to make the program available to children who might not otherwise have the opportunity to learn a string instrument. A limited number of scholarships are available based on financial need.
Undergraduates learn new skills and test their roles as professionals in an environment that rewards competence. Many orchestra teachers throughout the state received their education program at the USC String Project.
Please note: Students in the String Project must enroll in their school orchestra program if one exists and when they reach the appropriate age for membership.
All String Project students (2nd year and above) are expected to be in one of the associated orchestras: Silver Strings, Concertino or Intermezzo. Students in the Sinfonia and pre-college levels should participate in one of the S.C. Philharmonic youth orchestras. Students must be present at all scheduled lessons and orchestra rehearsals.
Contact the USC String Project at 803-777-9568 or email@example.com.
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Adult Silver Strings 1 (beginners): Tuesday at 5:30–6:30 p.m.
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Beginning in the 3rd year of study, adults may select private lessons and rehearse with the Concertino, Capriccio or Intermezzo Orchestras.
Tuition: $80 per semester for orchestra; 10 half-hour lessons = $125; 10 one-hour lessons = $250. Adults must be enrolled in orchestra to get this rate.
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Beginning classes for children take place twice a week (Beginning in the fall and continuing into the spring). The 12-week semester follows the university's academic calendar. Students must provide their own instruments or rent them from a local music store. Our staff will measure each student and recommend the appropriate instrument size.
Children and interested adults register at a beginning class orientation on September 2, 2014.
1st year (Silver Strings 1)
The beginning students in the String Project are 3rd and 4th graders and meet twice a week in a large group class. During their first year, students learn the basics of string playing in a class of 25 students taught by a lead teachers and two assistants. Beginning class students do not need to be able to read music; we will teach them throughout the year.
Tuition: $80 per semester + book (We do not introduce the book until 2nd semester)
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Students are organized in small groups, meet once a week and also participate in the Silver Strings Orchestra.
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Horatio Caine
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|Main Character: Miami
|Horatio Caine
|Birth Date
|April 7, 1960
| Marisol Delko-Caine(Wife/Deceased)
Raymond Caine (younger brother/deceased)
Kyle Harmon (son)
Yelina Salas (Sister-in-Law)
Ray Jr. (Nephew)
Madison Barnham (Niece)
|CSI Dept. Head
|Arson, Explosives
|Portrayed By
|David Caruso
|First Appearance
|Season 1-Season 10
Caine was briefly married to Eric Delko's sister, Marisol Delko, which ended when she was murdered by a Mala Noche sniper. Horatio recently discovered that he has a sixteen-year-old son named Kyle Harmon.
In the season 10 premier Countermeasures, it is revealed by an EMT that Horatio was shot in the right flank as he is being loaded into the ambulance truck. He then checks himself out of the hospital but the doctor advises against it, since the bullet fragment ricocheted off of something and struck him making it a through & through. But Horatio refuses.
Horatio has a rather emotionally withdrawn personality and, despite the odd chuckle and smile here and there, acts rather dispassionate, unless empathizing with victims or his team and showing compassion to the same. Thus it is often difficult to tell what he is thinking.
Horatio is gifted at getting information out of children: when speaking to a child he speaks softly and cocks his head (in his usual manner) allowing him to maintain eye contact with the child without making them feel guilty or upsetting them. Despite his good rapport with children, Horatio tends to have a dry, sterile attitude, especially with suspects and members of federal agencies. [citation needed]
However, there have been instances throughout the series when flashes of his apparently rather short and violent temper have come through, such as when he found out about his brother's illegitimate daughter, suggesting that his sterile attitude is the result of a harsh self-control. It should also be noted that his son, Kyle, has the ability to draw his temper to the surface.
Compared to his Las Vegas counterpart, Gil Grissom, Horatio tends to follow his intuition to make unlikely connections, and often jumps directly into the action, also not hesitating to use deadly force if necessary.
Horatio is not afraid to bend the rules to get the job done, or to exact revenge. This is evident when Eric Delko and he traveled to Brazil for the purpose of killing Antonio Riaz, the Mala Noche Don who ordered the hit on Marisol.
Nevertheless, in tune with his rather quiet and patient modus operandi, one of Horatio's hobbies is fishing. (Hell Night)
Skills and Abilities
Caine appears to have a good sense for how to communicate with children and adults alike, who have just experienced traumatic ordeals, obtaining information from them quickly and gently. He obtained a degree in Chemistry and formerly worked as an explosives expert, knowledge which still aids him in his duties. Along with this, he is an exceptionally skilled and accurate marksman, as seen in No Man's Land, Guerillas In The Mistandvariousother episodes. He has demonstrated several times to be fluent in Spanish, knows French, and is, along with Ryan Wolfe and Frank Tripp, among the fastest drivers among the CSI:Miami crew.
Head of the Day Shift Crime Lab
In the CSI continuum, Caine is a day shift supervisor at the Miami-Dade crime lab, a forensic analyst and former homicide detective and bomb squad officer (his forensic specialty is arson and explosion evidence). He is very protective of his team, who affectionately call him "H." He is very concerned about the reputation of his lab, and takes great care to keep them clean, perhaps because of his experience with his tarnished younger brother, Ray. When his staff fall under suspicion in several episodes ("One of Our Own", "Internal Affairs"), he immediately jumps in their defense, especially from IA investigator Rick Stetler, and tries his best to prove their innocence.
Early Life
As a child, Horatio was a victim of domestic violence (his mother was killed by his father, and he ended up killing the man in a failed attempt to save her), which accounts to his comparatively extreme reactions in abuse and domestic violence cases. Caine then worked in New York City as detective with the NYPD. In 1995, while on the job, he was stabbed while investigating a case in which children were locked in closets while their parents were murdered. The perpetrator, Walter Resden, harbored a deep grudge against Caine, collecting the blood from the stabbing and preserving it for 10 years in order to frame him for the murder of Caine's girlfriend, Rachel Turner.
After his arrival in Florida, Horatio joined the Miami-Dade Police as a homicide detective but later transferred to the bomb squad, where he was mentored by Al Humphries, an older cop whom Caine highly respected and considered a good friend; Humphries was later killed after accidentally triggering a bomb he was attempting to disarm (Losing Face). Horatio worked undercover as "John Walden" in Pensacola, Florida for sometime during the early 1990s (this is the date given on the show, despite the fact it was previously understood on the show that Horatio worked in New York until at least 1995). During his time there, he dated a woman he believed to be named Julia Eberly, and the two conceived a son named Kyle. Horatio would not be aware of Kyle's existence for another sixteen years. Sometime later he returns to Miami and to being a detective, in "Out Of Time" he references previously working on the bomb squad. Finally, Caine moved to the Crime Lab, accepting a promotion to lieutenant, which earned him the animosity of Sergeant Rick Stetler, who was also vying for the rank. When veteran CSI Megan Donner went on personal leave following the death of her husband, Horatio became the permanent head of the lab.
Past Events
A superb marksman, Caine doesn't hesitate to use deadly force when needed. He is also an ardent advocate of the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes, and doesn't think twice about threatening suspects with it in such cases. In the first two seasons, Caine carried a Beretta Cougar on the job. Since the beginning of season three, he has been shown carrying a SIG-Sauer P229. He is very insistent on gun maintenance, especially since team member Tim Speedle was killed in a shootout after his gun misfired because of the lack of maintenance. In fact, one of the reasons for Caine's nearly on-the-spot selection of Officer Ryan Wolfe as Tim Speedle's replacement (in episode 303, "Under the Influence") is Wolfe's compulsive care of his firearm due to OCD.
He is later forced to fire Wolfe, as the younger CSI compromised himself during the course of the investigation due to his gambling debts and lack of honesty regarding the situation (episode 522, "Burned"). Wolfe also previously violated protocol. Caine indicates a willingness to allow Wolfe to redeem himself, however, and possibly allow him to return to the team after reviewing all the files from his previous cases (episode 523, "Kill Switch").
At the end of Season 2 (episode 223, "MIA/NYC — Nonstop"), Caine travels to New York City in pursuit of a murder suspect and meets Detective Mac Taylor and his team, inaugurating the first season of CSI: NY. Caine later reunites with Detective Taylor and the New York CSIs to track down and arrest the murderer, Henry Darius, who would be extradited to Florida to face the death penalty (CSI: Miami episode 407, "Felony Flight," CSI: NY episode 207, "Manhattan Manhunt"). This appearance would make Horatio Caine the first character to appear at least once in all three CSI shows.
At the end of the season 6 finale, Horatio is shot. It appears as though he is dead, but in behind the scenes video, it's said Horatio's death was faked so he can go after Ron. David Caruso says, "Horatio designed a staging of an event that will free him up to go after this man with a different license." This was later proven true as Horatio was seen alive in "Resurrection, Part 2".
He has many recurring enemies throughout the series, from serial killer Walter Resden to abusive Internal Affairs Agent Rick Stetler to corrupt judge Joseph Ratner. Some he thought put away for good come back to haunt him. Clavo Cruz, serving a life sentence for murdering a woman (episode 201, "Blood Brothers," episode 315, "Identity"), escapes custody in a dramatic rocket attack on a courthouse (superficially injuring coroner Alexx Woods). Cruz then kidnaps a court stenographer and forces Horatio to bring him $1 million dollars in exchange for her location. It is all a set-up, however, and Caine and Delko are ambushed on the roof of a parking garage. Though Horatio shoots down one man and escapes without injury, Delko is critically wounded even as Caine fires at the fleeing gunmen (episode 514, "No Man's Land"). Horatio eventually forces Cruz out of hiding by removing all his avenues of escape. Cruz approaches Horatio outside the Miami-Dade Crime Lab, and Caine kills Clavo with a single shot to the chest (episode 515, "Man Down").
Caine finds himself targeted by the son of Argento, a crime lord whom he helped put in jail some years earlier. After Caine's vehicle is vandalized, the young man smugly denies culpability. Horatio walks headlong into a trap and is shot at by the son. However, the rounds from his gun were replaced with blanks, Caine leaves without injury and the son is arrested afterward (episode 602, "Cyber-lebrity").
In the episode "Bone Voyage", when Raymond Langston comes to help Horatio and his team, he mentions about deceased CSI Warrick Brown, and asks Langston to tell Catherine Willows that he is sorry for their loss.
Recent Events
In the end of the Season 8 finale, he receives a shocking message from the man he arrested. The message said: "THEY ALL FALL DOWN". In the Season 9 premiere, he rushes to the crime lab, fearing for the team's lives. When he got out of the elevator, he finds everyone down and Eric still awake. Eric then tells him to shoot the window for oxygen. After Horatio does so, everyone gets up, except for Jesse Cardoza, who died during his fall. Horatio then tries to comfort the devastated Natalia Boa Vista, who unsuccessfully attempted to revive him. Horatio then joins the team on a game of basketball, in honor of Jesse at the end of the episode after they find the killer.
In "See No Evil" a large prison break occurs and one of the inmates (Joe LeBrock) states that they were planning on targeting Caine.
In the episode "Manhunt", he and the team track down Memmo Fierro, the man who was serving time for killing Marisol (Horatio's wife and Eric's sister) after he is one of the eight people who broke out in the previous episode. Memmo (under orders of Antonio Riaz of the Mala Noche) had shot Marisol then blocked the ambulance, trying to get Caine to come out, forcing the ambulance to drive over a center median (at the hospital, a doctor states that the car was worse than the bullet). Both the shooting and the blocking proved fatal to Marisol. At the end of the episode, Memmo takes a hostage, his daughter's social worker. Eric has a clear shot of him, but Horatio tells him not to shoot him in front of Memmo's daughter. After Memmo sees his daughter, he leaves with the hostage, who is later found dead.
In "Happy Birthday" Horatio is seen driving at the beginning of the episode with a bouquet of flowers on the passenger seat and leaves Eric a message on his phone asking him to take over for him a while so he can run an errand. He is distracted by a pedestrian who informs him a pregnant women has been assaulted on the side of the road. Leaving his errand behind, he helps the women and spends the rest of the episode looking for the people who did this to her while the mother and the baby are fighting for their life back in the hospital. At the end the episode the mother gives birth to a baby girl and we see Horatio at Marisols' grave and tells her the baby is "beautiful just like you". He then wishes her happy birthday.
In "Last Stand", Memmo returns with a gang of drug cartels, and Caine lays a trap for him, alone. Caine kicks Memmo multiple times and holds him at gunpoint. Memmo states him killing his wife was not personal, but Caine responds it was to him. Memmo asks if what Caine is doing is "righteous" and if he is at peace with his decision. Caine responds he is, and places him under arrest, and waits for backup to arrive.
In "Mayday", Horatio and Frank end up being held at gunpoint on a plane they were using to transport a fugitive. The plane crash lands, but the fugitive escapes. At the end of the episode, Horatio's fate is unknown as he has been shot by Randy Northe. Northe also temporarily stuns Natalia Boa Vista and drags her to a car where he stuffs her in the trunk. After speaking a few words to Natalia, he shuts the trunk door, turns the car on, and forces it to roll over the pier. Meanwhile, Horatio gains the ability to shoot at Randy, but is unable to save Natalia due to the gunshot Horatio received to his abdomen, It's likely that if Natalia hadn't stopped to help Horatio when he got shot, she may have been able to shoot Randy Northe, who had tricked them into walking straight into his trap.
In "Countermeasures" Horatio begins to have hallucinations of Marisol, saying she is glad to see him but he needs to go back. He is then shown back at the dock where he was shot, managing to get himself back up to his feet. Still bleeding from his gunshot wound, he jumps into the water to save Natalia, managing to free her from the car. As they are rushed to the hospital, he repeatedly calls Marisol's name. Against doctor's advice & still visibly in pain, he leaves the hospital to work on the case. He & the team manage to find North & try to get him to tell them where Toller is. Despite setting him up. Toller slips through his fingers once at a rail yard, but Walter discovers that the chemicals in the soot from Toller's old clothes could only have come from trash burned at a particular landfill. Horatio manages to find & capture Toller there after he very nearly sets another woman on fire. After leading Toller back to jail,Horatio finally concedes that he is not all right and agrees to get checked out.
In Long Gone Horatio is at it again with his vigilante like ways as he & Frank are escorting a suspect and Horatio assaults him for information, In Crowned Horatio & Natalia rescue a little girl from a rapist and Horatio chases him, the rapist shoots at Horatio & misses, then the rapist falls & is hanging over the ledge at a theater and instead of saving him Horatio just lets him fall to his death.
- Raymond Caine is Horatio's younger brother by about 5 years.
- Yelina Salas is Horatio's sister-in-law and his brother, Raymond's widow.
- Ray Jr. is Horatio's nephew and the son of Raymond and Yelina.
- Madison Barnham is Horatio's niece and is the daughter of Raymond and Susie Barnham. It is unknown if Madison survived her cancer treatmeant.
- Kyle Harmon is Horatio's 16 year old son, his mother is Julia Winston.
- Brother-in-law of Eric Delko.
- Horatio was present at the death of his mother's, his fellow CSI Tim Speedle, and that of his own brother, Raymond Caine.
- Horatio has the strange habit of delivering a little one-liner, then replacing his sunglasses before leaving the scene (most prevalent in the opening of any given episode).
- Unlike his counterpart in Las Vegas, now former CSI Supervisor Gil Grissom (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Horatio is a commissioned police officer, and thus carries a badge and gun.
- When questioning witnesses or suspects, he tends to stand sideways with his head cocked slightly, allowing for non-threatening eye-contact. On the other hand, he also has the habit of subtly exposing his badge by placing his hands on his hips to intimidate non-complying suspects and uncooperative individuals.
- Horatio's mother named him after the writer Horatio Alger.
- Horatio has a taste for expensive designer clothes (his customary Sihouette Sun Titan Minimal Art sunglasses retail at ca $300 a pair), but nearly never wears a tie with his suit, usually only when going to court as witness.
- As shown in From the Grave, Horatio is Catholic, and has apparently kept his faith close.


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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) say hunters shot and harvested 164,550 deer.
Not including the late season hunt in southeastern Minnesota, hunters harvested 144,000 deer, a 6 percent drop from the 153,000 taken in 2012. Preliminary numbers for the late season in southeastern Minnesota show hunters harvested 4,400 deer, down from the 5,000 harvested in 2012.
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(a) Resolutions Required Before Appropriations May Be Made.— The following appropriations may be made only if the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives adopt resolutions approving the purpose for which the appropriation is made:
(1) An appropriation to construct, alter, or acquire any building to be used as a public building which involves a total expenditure in excess of $1,500,000, so that the equitable distribution of public buildings throughout the United States with due regard for the comparative urgency of need for the buildings, except as provided in section 3305 (b) of this title, is ensured.
(2) An appropriation to lease any space at an average annual rental in excess of $1,500,000 for use for public purposes.
(b) Transmission to Congress of Prospectus of Proposed Project.— To secure consideration for the approval referred to in subsection (a), the Administrator of General Services shall transmit to Congress a prospectus of the proposed facility, including—
(1) a brief description of the building to be constructed, altered, or acquired, or the space to be leased, under this chapter;
(2) the location of the building or space to be leased and an estimate of the maximum cost to the Government of the facility to be constructed, altered, or acquired, or the space to be leased;
(3) a comprehensive plan for providing space for all Government officers and employees in the locality of the proposed facility or the space to be leased, having due regard for suitable space which may continue to be available in existing Government-owned or occupied buildings, especially those buildings that enhance the architectural, historical, social, cultural, and economic environment of the locality;
(4) with respect to any project for the construction, alteration, or acquisition of any building, a statement by the Administrator that suitable space owned by the Government is not available and that suitable rental space is not available at a price commensurate with that to be afforded through the proposed action;
(5) a statement by the Administrator of the economic and other justifications for not acquiring a building identified to the Administrator under section 3303 (c) of this title as suitable for the public building needs of the Government;
(6) a statement of rents and other housing costs currently being paid by the Government for federal agencies to be housed in the building to be constructed, altered, or acquired, or the space to be leased; and
(7) with respect to any prospectus for the construction, alteration, or acquisition of any building or space to be leased, an estimate of the future energy performance of the building or space and a specific description of the use of energy efficient and renewable energy systems, including photovoltaic systems, in carrying out the project.
(c) Increase of Estimated Maximum Cost.— The estimated maximum cost of any project approved under this section as set forth in any prospectus may be increased by an amount equal to any percentage increase, as determined by the Administrator, in construction or alteration costs from the date the prospectus is transmitted to Congress. The increase authorized by this subsection may not exceed 10 percent of the estimated maximum cost.
(d) Rescission of Approval.— If an appropriation is not made within one year after the date a project for construction, alteration, or acquisition is approved under subsection (a), the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives by resolution may rescind its approval before an appropriation is made.
(e) Emergency Leases by the Administrator.— This section does not prevent the Administrator from entering into emergency leases during any period declared by the President to require emergency leasing authority. An emergency lease may not be for more than 180 days without approval of a prospectus for the lease in accordance with subsection (a).
(f) Minimum Performance Requirements for Leased Space.— With respect to space to be leased, the Administrator shall include, to the maximum extent practicable, minimum performance requirements requiring energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy.
(g) Limitation on Leasing Certain Space.—
(1) In general.— The Administrator may not lease space to accommodate any of the following if the average rental cost of leasing the space will exceed $1,500,000:
(B) Secure or sensitive activities related to the national defense or security, except when it would be inappropriate to locate those activities in a public building or other facility identified with the Government.
(2) Exception.— The Administrator may lease space with respect to which paragraph (1) applies if the Administrator—
(A) decides, for reasons set forth in writing, that leasing the space is necessary to meet requirements which cannot be met in public buildings; and
(h) Dollar Amount Adjustment.— The Administrator annually may adjust any dollar amount referred to in this section to reflect a percentage increase or decrease in construction costs during the prior calendar year, as determined by the composite index of construction costs of the Department of Commerce. Any adjustment shall be expeditiously reported to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
Source(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1161; Pub. L. 110–140, title III, § 323(a), (b),Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1589, 1590.)
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|Pub. L. 86–249, § 7(a)–(d), Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 480; Pub. L. 92–313, § 2(4), June 16, 1972, 86 Stat. 217; Pub. L. 94–541, title I, § 103(1), (2), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2505; Pub. L. 100–678, §§ 2, 3(a), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4049; Pub. L. 103–437, § 14(b)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4590.
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In this section, the words "Transportation and Infrastructure" are substituted for "Public Works and Transportation" in section 7 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–249, 73 Stat. 480) because of section 1(a)(9) of the Act of June 3, 1995 (Public Law 104–14, 2:21 note prec.). The word "purchase" is omitted as being included in "acquire".
In subsection (c), the words "if any" and "as the case may be" are omitted as unnecessary.
In subsection (d), the words "at any time thereafter" are omitted as unnecessary.
In subsection (f)(2)(A), the word "first" is omitted as unnecessary.
2007—Subsec. (b)(7). Pub. L. 110–140, § 323(a), added par. (7).
Subsecs. (f) to (h). Pub. L. 110–140, § 323(b), added subsec. (f) and redesignated former subsecs. (f) and (g) as (g) and (h), respectively.
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Using watercraft to hunt from, or to get to locations where other hunters do not frequent, can be a lot of fun - reminiscent of the adventures and exploration that our forefathers experienced. Hunting for ducks and other kinds of fowl involves being near or in various bodies of water - with or without the help of watercraft. Safe hunting requires that you plan and prepare for these special conditions.
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|A fresh homemade tomato sauce and a whole cooked hen make for one of my favorite spaghetti dishes in memory of my grandma.
Grandma Mac's Homemade Chicken SpaghettiI've been thinking about my Grandma Mac a lot here lately. I was looking for a document on an old desktop PC that I rarely use anymore, and I ran across a letter I'd written to my Grandma when she went to stay with my aunt in Alabama, shortly before she died.
She had started having a bit of dementia by this time and I had written the letter in that manner, "remember that they are in Japan" and "this is Rosalie, my aunt, Mama's sister." I was still working then, no Hurricane Katrina had passed our way, my sister in law Teresa, who later died just before her 40th birthday from breast cancer, was still living then, and we had just finally sold my parents house, several years after they had both passed. A lot had happened in just a few years.
When I was packing up my Mama's china at her old house, one of the last things I packed up, I wrote a little short story about the experience when I got home, and I had sent a copy of it to my Grandma. Packing up that china was an emotional moment - one day I'll post that story and you'll see what I mean. There are a lot of memories behind that china.
Anyway, I had also sent her several pictures of family and typed the letter in large print so that she hopefully could read it on her own if she wanted to. Seeing that letter made me smile but also sad at the same time - does that make sense? I miss visiting with my Grandma and chatting over coffee and pound cake, but this dish was my most favorite Sunday dinner meals that she prepared for us often.
Now ... first, this is not the chicken spaghetti casserole that is combined with cheese and baked. This is a true tomato based sauce similar to its meatball and meat sauce cousin, so no cheese! This is also a 'from scratch' homemade sauce - meaning it is made with fresh tomatoes - not canned tomatoes, meaning, well, it takes just a little more prep and time, and for some of you that might mean that it's a weekend dish. In my opinion, it is totally worth it!
Course you can substitute canned tomatoes if you need too. But heck, while in tomato season, why not use up some of those garden fresh babies? You'll notice the difference in the flavor though between canned and fresh, trust me. I also prefer this spaghetti with the very thin, vermicelli noodles, because that's how my Grandma made it, but any spaghetti noodle you happen to have on hand will work. I hope you give this a try - it really is just good homemade food!
Recipe: Grandma Mac's Homemade Chicken Spaghetti©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 40 min |Cook time: 1 hour 30 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 1 small hen, boiled - reserve broth
- 1 pound package of angel hair, vermicelli or spaghetti noodles
- 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil
- 3 large tomatoes, skinned & chopped (about 1-1/2 to 2 pounds), juices reserved
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 cup of chopped Vidalia or yellow onion
- 1/4 cup of finely chopped celery
- 1 teaspoon of garlic
- 1 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1/4 cup of fresh basil, chopped
- 1 can of tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon of dried parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon of Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste, optional
- 1/4 teaspoon of poultry seasoning
- 2 bay leaves
- Up to 2 cups of stock left from the hen, or substitute chicken broth
Cut the hen into pieces and boil in salted water until meat is cooked through. Reserve 2 cups of the broth, reserve remainder for another use; set meat aside to cool. Once cooled, debone and shred the meat, discarding the bones; set aside. Next, use a soft skin peeler to remove the skins from the tomatoes, chop the tomato, reserving all of the juice that accumulates; set aside. Prepare pasta al dente according to package directions. Drain, rinse, drizzle with olive oil and set aside.
Meanwhile, in a skillet heat the olive oil over medium heat and add the chopped onion, celery, garlic and salt, saute for about 5 minutes or until veggies are tender. Add the tomatoes, basil, tomato sauce, sugar, parsley flakes, Italian seasoning, Cajun seasoning, poultry seasoning; bring to a boil. Add bay leaves, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 hour or until reduced and thickened. Stir in the chicken and enough broth from the stock you reserved from the hen (or use a commercial chicken stock) until it reaches the desired consistency. Bring back to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 15-20 minutes or until heated through.
Note: This is a fresh, fairly light sauce recipe. If you prefer a heavier sauce to pasta ratio, you'll need to increase the sauce portion.
Don't skip peeling the tomatoes or you will end up with inedible pieces of tomato skins cluttering up your sauce. If you don't have a soft skin peeler, simply bring a pot of water to a boil; set aside a separate bowl of ice water. Lightly cut a crosshatch into the skin of the bottom side of the tomato. When the water comes to a boil, carefully add the tomatoes and let them boil for a minute or three or until the skin begins to crack and separate. Remove the tomato and plunge it into the ice water bath to stop the cooking process and cool the tomato. Once cooled, peel off the skins and then chop the tomato, reserving all of the juice that accumulates.
Shortcut this: Use a rotisserie chicken, canned whole tomatoes, and commercial broth to speed things up. Add 2 teaspoons of a chicken base, like Better than Bouillon to boost the flavor. You'll probably need at least one large can (28 ounce/1 pound 12 ounce), drained, then chopped, retaining the juices.
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Apart from the fact that idiots like this guy should never hold ANY position of power, the interviewer lets him spout this nonsense without even questioning him on it.Tea party backed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday insisted only Democrats were threatening default on the debt even though he has vowed not to raise the debt ceiling until Congress passes a balanced budget amendment.
"Let me be very clear about this," Cruz told Fox News host John Roberts. "I do not support default on the debt. We should never default on the debt, and the only players on Washington who are threatening default on the debt are President Barack Obama and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid."
"In any given month, federal tax revenues are approximately 200 billion a month, interest on the debt is 30 to 40 billion dollars a month," the Texas Republican continued. "There is plenty of revenue to service the debt. And any responsible president would have stood at that podium and said, under any circumstance -- whatever happens with the debt ceiling -- we will always pay our debt, we will never default on the debt."
"And the reason the president isn't doing that is he's trying to scare people, he is trying to raise the spectre of a financial apocalypse."
A petition on the Ted Cruz for Senate campaign website calls on Congress to "hold the line" and prevent any debt ceiling increases without a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. constitution.
"I will stand with conservatives across the country in telling Congress not to raise the debt ceiling without a Balanced Budget Amendment," the petition states.
Its absurd of course. He and the GOP want to hold the country hostage but Obama made them do it!
Interestingly enough, on the same page there was this.
The ONLY reason that the last election was a contest at all was because the Republicans could go on tv and lie and get away with it. They are still doing it today and its getting worse.I admit that I was stunned to see Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein on the guest list for Reliable Sources this week. Mann and Ornstein's book placed very pointed blame on the media for failing Americans in presenting the truth of the extremism of the Republican Party. So how could the king of the false equivalency, Howard Kurtz, handle having on such dead-on criticism on his show?
By pretending that he isn't part of the problem, natch. And then a little blaming-the-messenger suggestion to dismiss the allegations:
KURTZ: Well, this is a striking message coming from the two of you, because you've both been around Washington a long time. You do have a reputation as being kind of centrist, even though you're different kinds of think tanks.
But at the same time, I just have to wonder, maybe you just don't like where the Republican Party has gone. I mean, after all, the people who represent the Republicans here in D.C. were elected by constituents who want them to do what they're doing. And so this is more of an ideological message on your part as opposed to calling out the press for supposed bias.
MANN: It could be, but I don't believe it is. We don't do that kind of analysis and --
KURTZ: You do it right here. The Republicans are extremists. Republicans are radicals.
MANN: But look to see how we back it up. I mean, we really look at arguments made and there's no truth content to them.
Wait...facts backed up by evidence? Thems alien concepts to Kurtz. And to the rest of the Beltway media, which Kurtz never internalizes. In fact, I've never seen him more invested in not internalizing what's being said or following up on questions in an interview. Clearly, Mann and Ornstein have hit too close to home.
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January 25th, 2013
Food has inspired many a great creative type. From still lifes to songs, food never seems to be too far away from an artist's mind.
One of the best known food-related poems is by Scottish national poet Robert Burns. His "Address to a Haggis" became so popular that there's a whole night inspired by its verses.
Burns Night (or Burns Supper) is held either on or during the week of January 25, the anniversary of Burns' birth. The Scots take this celebration seriously, and there are rituals and ceremonies to adhere to.
If you don't have any bagpipes lying around, or you're a wee bit concerned about whipping up a full Scottish spread, you can stick to the simple supper that's eaten on Burns Night.
The three essentials are haggis, tatties and neeps. (Tatties are taters, as in mashed potatoes, and neeps are turnips.)
Haggis is the most complicated of the three. You can make your own or find a specialty store that carries it. Haggis is a mixture of sheep offal, fat, oatmeal, onion and spices that is stuffed inside a sheep's stomach and cooked for three hours until tender. The origin of haggis is a little cloudy, but it's likely that herders developed this technique to make food both portable and easy to cook.
If you want to have the full Scottish version of a Burns supper, there are many online guides to help. The haggis, neeps and tatties are brought in on a silver tray to the sound of bagpipes before being ceremoniously cut. This might have been Burns' favorite part, if the third verse of his poem is any indication:
The full meal is bit more complicated and includes cock-a-leekie soup (chicken and leek soup) and a Scottish sherry trifle. At the end, everyone sings "Auld Lang Syne," which Robert Burns also wrote. See what good food can inspire you to do?
Pore over all our spirited coverage of Scotch whisky (and its close cousin bourbon, if that's all you've got on hand; Robbie would surely not mind):
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