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Well... we are halfway through October and and I'm just going to come right out with it and be straight with you: Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays.
There, I said it.
I know a lot of you are probably super disappointed by this confession. I can tell because I see something come over many of you around this time of year... something that turns the sweetest, classiest people I know into gore-seeking, ghoul-loving, walking-dead-watching fiends.
We all have our things. I won't judge.
I've thought about why I'm not particularly fond of Halloween, and I've only been able to come up with one good reason: One of my earliest memories of having the bejeezus scared outta me.
A 3-year-old me. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. Not being mentally mature enough to understand that it was fake. And a lifelong fear of dead people, cemeteries, and pretty much anything dealing with ghosts or scariness thereafter.
But that's about as far as my Halloween appreciation grew. {Except, of course, for that short time in college when Halloween was an excuse to go out mid-week in minimal clothing and maximum makeup without anyone so much as batting an eye. Sort of.}
|Nurse Kristin, me {Officer D.}, & Kelly the Kitty at The Swamp in Gainesville. Hey, I didn't judge you.
Go ahead, you can say it: I'm a party pooper.
But, since I like you guys so much, and I know that lots of you are Halloween Lovers... I decided to bake up a little something just for you.
This week's Willow Bird Baking Challenge was to make stuffed cookies. So, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone {no pun intended!}, and whip up a little something that would serve both purposes.
These Black Widow Bite Cookies are about as creepy as you will see me get for Halloween. {Mostly because spiders are extremely frightening to me in general.} These dark chocolate cookies are stuffed with raspberry jam so that when you take a bite...
You get your gory, Halloween special effect. ;)
I am not going to lie to you, the cookies pictured above were the only 3 cookies I decorated this way out of the entire batch. I have no patience for this type of decorating, and I don't know how some of you out there make such gorgeous and elaborate baking creations!
That's as dark as my "dark side" gets.
Whether you're into the spooky fun, or are a scaredy cat like me, I hope these cookies will satisfy your sweet tooth!
Black Widow Bite Cookies
1 1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons dark chocolate cocoa powder {I used Hershey's Special Dark}
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks butter, melted
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg yolks
For Filling:
1/2 cup raspberry jam
For Decoration:
1/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, melted
Malted Milk Balls {about 15}
Semi sweet chocolate chips for faces {about 15}
Red sprinkle balls for eyes {about 30}
Red decorating icing
Other helpful tools: Piping bags, toothpick
2. Sift together all dry ingredients.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together sugar, melted butter, vanilla, and egg yolks until smooth. Slowly add dry ingredients a little at a time until fully incorporated.
4. With a cookie scoop or a tablespoon measure, scoop out a ball of dough. Make an indentation with your thumb and fill with about a teaspoon {maybe a little bit less} of raspberry jam.
5. Scoop out a half tablespoon or so of dough and flatten between hands to form a "cover" for your cookie. Place on top on filled half of cookie and carefully seal the edges completely. Place on lined baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the cookie dough. {Or if you get lazy, just make Thumbprint Cookies!} ;)
6. Bake for 11-12 minutes or until set.
7. Remove from oven and let cool for about 10-15 minutes on the baking sheet before moving. Once slightly cool, move to a baking rack to cool completely.
8. To decorate:
- Using the red decorator's icing, make the classic black widow "hour glass" on each malted milk ball. Set aside and allow icing to set slightly.
- Squirt a small dot of melted chocolate in the center of each cookie as "glue" for the body. Place decorated malted milk ball on top and push down lightly to adhere.
- Squirt a small dot of melted chocolate in the front of the malted milk ball. Place a chocolate chip there as the spider's head.
- Adhere red sprinkles as eyes onto chocolate chips using melted chocolate, or use red icing if desired.
- Create long "legs" by drawing 4 lines of melted chocolate on either side of the malted milk ball body.


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The ongoing link between use of marijuana in teens and the increased risk of developing schizophrenia has been further developed in a recent Dutch study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and has re-ignited that area of interest. This study has important public health implications, because our capacity to prevent psychiatric illnesses is severely limited-although a recent small Omega-3 fatty acid study in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests, in contrast, a protective impact.
The BMJ study looked at young adults who were at risk for psychosis and found that the rate of conversion to the illness was 51 percent with marijuana users-compared with 26 percent of nonusers. This study builds upon a growing body of literature that is making this causative link. This build upon other studies-one of the most interesting to me was a study that made a case for delaying all experimentation---the study found that users before age 15 were 4.5 times more likely to develop schizophrenia than nonsmokers, and those who delayed until age 18 had a risk of 1.6. This strongly suggests that, in addition to abstinence, delaying experimentation results in reduced risk.
Why do some people have no issues with this choice while another subset will never be the same after use? We do not know for sure, but interest has been growing on looking at generic variability. A gene variation in the metabolism of the neurochemicals dopamine may confer much of the risk. Unfortunately, there is not a test to determine if a group of teens will become symptomatic if they experiment. So all teens have an unknown but variable risk-a difficult area to impart wisdom in. It is very hard to be sure what the risk for use of marijuana is for any one teen, but use is clearly risky when you look at a population as a whole. This risk is even worse for kids with a family history of psychosis.
As a father of three teen girls (who also has a history of bipolar disorder with psychosis in my genes), I do my best to share with my kids that, in my view, all drug experiments need to be delayed-or denied. Teens are notorious for not listening to parents and for not delaying gratification, so I can't know what is actually getting through. I suspect it is less than I would like. Developing good decision-making skills is one of the key aspects of growing up, but there is no one way to get there. Learning by experimentation is one way, but as these studies show, the consequences can be much greater than anticipated.
Knowing your family risk (e.g. of schizophrenia or alcoholism or diabetes) is a good perspective to share with your kids so that they know that drugs, alcohol and sugar are even more worrisome for them. What they do with that kind of information is beyond parental control. Like teaching teens to drive a car, you hope to model and impart experience, and then you wait as they learn. I encourage my kids and the people who live with mental illness whom I treat as a doctor to wear seat belts and to avoid drugs. Then like all parents, I hope for the best and do my best to coach as more data comes in on their choices. But there are no guarantees. In neurobiology--just like with driving vehicles--all we can do is work to lower the chance of complications.


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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
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Full SubmissionGeneral content World and country statistics in road crashes domain is an alarming fact that urges everyone to act in order to prevent them. It is alarming the fact, that in recent years, road accidents have become an epidemic, which destroys the lives of more than 1.3 million people worldwide, and other of some 50 million are severely traumatized. The road crashes are predicted to become the fifth leading global cause of death by 2030, unless immediate action is taken. Most passenger and goods traffic uses roads (for example, close to 80 percent and 50 percent, respectively, in the European Union). Rising incomes in many developing countries have led to more motor vehicles and greater traffic volumes, but road safety management capacity, road infrastructure and enforcement of traffic safety regulations have not kept pace. As a result, road traffic injuries have become a major public health challenge in many low- and middle-income countries including in ECA. About 90 percent of the 1.3 million deaths and 50 million injuries from road traffic crashes worldwide each year occur in LMICs, although these countries have only 48 percent of the world?s registered vehicles (WHO 2009). Increasing motorization and urbanization in these countries could double this toll by 2030. The difference between low- or middle-income countries and high-income countries - where many road deaths still occur - is stunning. The main risk factors for road crashes are: ? Road design features, including those that expose vulnerable road users when mixing with traffic (for example, due to lack of crossings or walkways). ? Lack of effective regulation and enforcement of required vehicle condition, driver?s education and training, and risky behaviors. ? Driver behavior: speeding; recklessness; drinking and driving; not using seatbelts, helmets, and other protective equipment; and using mobile phones, especially texting. The Commission for Global Road Safety is an independent body under the Chairmanship of Lord Robertson of Port Ellen and patronage of HRH Prince Michael of Kent. It was established in 2006 by the FIA Foundation (a UK registered charity) to promote action to reverse the rising tide of road traffic injury and fatality in developing countries. Its ?Make Roads Safe? reports published in 2006 and 2009 called for the first ever global Ministerial Conference, which was subsequently held in Moscow in November 2009, and proposed that the UN mandate a Decade of Action for Road Safety, a proposal which was subsequently approved by the UN General Assembly in March 2010. Amongst the recommendations in the Commission?s third ?Make Roads Safe? report, published in 2011, we call on the international community to recognize road traffic injuries as a sustainability challenge in the context of the Rio+20 Conference and discussions on a post-Millennium Development Goals framework. Dr. Watkins? analysis is echoed in the 2011 ?State of the World?s Children? report from the UN Children?s Fund. In the report, which focuses on adolescence, UNICEF argues that older children have been neglected as a health priority. ?Lasting change in the lives of children and young people?can only be achieved and sustained by complementing investment in the first decade of life with greater attention and resources applied in the second?, the report concludes. Injury, and in particular road injury, is identified as an area that needs to be addressed. ?Injuries are a growing concern in public health in relation to younger children and adolescents alike. They are the leading cause of death among adolescents aged 10-19?many of these deaths are related to road traffic accidents?, the authors acknowledge. ?Fatalities from injuries among adolescents are highest among the poor?Because the rate of urbanization is most rapid in the poorest regions.? We welcome Rio+20 as an important opportunity to identify the major sustainability challenges facing the world and to contribute to the design of a post-MDG framework that will meet the needs of developing nations in the second and third decades of the 21st Century. We strongly believe that global road traffic death and injury, and the wider but related issue of safe and sustainable transportation policy, must be recognized as sustainability challenges at the Rio+20 Conference. We urge and encourage the Secretariat, member nations and participants to include reference to safe and sustainable road mobility in the ?Outcomes Document? of the Conference. Specific elements According to WHO Report on road traffic injury prevention:?Road traffic injuries are a growing public health issue, disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups of road users, including the poor. More than half the people killed in traffic crashes are young adults aged between 15 and 44 years. Furthermore, road traffic injuries cost low-income and middle-income countries between 1% and 2% of their gross national product ? more than the total development aid received by these countries.? The Republic of Moldova is one of the countries mentioned above, where the issue of road traffic accidents is a major public health problem. Over 3000 Moldovans are seriously injured and about 500 are killed on our national roads annually, more than 10% - children. A deep study of the statistics demonstrated that the most vulnerable road users are young people and men - often the breadwinners in a family. This fact has a strong impact on the general situation of social public health. By the World Bank ranking, Moldova is considered to be a country with a ?senescent? society, which is another important reason for us to prevent the fatalities involving young generation. These losses are not caused just by the number of crashes at the scene, but also by the tardy render of the first aid by the paramedics and the lack of an established system of post crash rehabilitation. It is important to underline the link between the road casualties and development. In 2009 the World Bank and other leading development banks published a joint strategy paper identifying road casualties as ?one of the most significant public health development priorities of the early 21st century.? Real progress will require concerted action of the part of many actors. Within countries, effective casualty reduction requires cooperation across many public agencies. Achieving a good outcome will in turn require the development of new coalitions bringing together health professionals, teachers, parents and local community groups. At an international level, development agencies and civil society organizations need to start a treating road traffic injury as a core element in their activities. In such a way, road safety issue is recognized as a huge burden, harming not only the social sphere of the community, but also the sustainable development of the whole state. A World Bank report in 2009, ?Death on Wheels?, pointed to the increasingly unbearable burden of road deaths and injuries on economic and social development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, costing up to 3% of GDP in many countries. Melanie Marlett, Head of the World Bank in Moldova, has estimated that every life lost on Moldova?s roads costs the equivalent of US$ 511,000 to the Moldovan economy, not to mention the human cost of each life lost and each injured person. The cost of road deaths and injuries to Moldova in 2009 was already in excess of $300 million a year ? around 3% of GDP. This demonstrates that safe roads are crucial to Moldova?s economic development ? underpinning trade and tourism, connecting people to offices, schools and hospitals, and building a business environment attractive for foreign investors. Effective enforcement is therefore an important tool for Moldova?s economic and social development. In regard to this, the Republic of Moldova has sponsored a UN Resolution agreed in March 2010 calling for the Decade of Action for road safety 2011-2020. In such a way, on 11th of May 2011, in Moldova, like in many other countries was launched the Decade of Action for Road Safety, making the commitment to raise the level of road safety and improve the safety measures for all road users. The United Nations has launched the ?Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020?, describing road injury as "major public health problem with a broad range of social and economic consequences which, if unaddressed, may affect the sustainable development of countries and hinder progress towards the Millennium Development Goals". It worth to mention that Moldovan Secretary General of the Government, Victor Bodiu, participated at the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit in New York, which took place in September 2010. Thus, the General Secretary of State met with senior United Nations officials and leaders from multilateral development institutions to highlight the ?missing link? between road safety and the MDGs. There is growing recognition that improving road safety can also contribute to achieving the MDGs, particularly in relation to child mortality, access to healthcare (on safe roads), and universal access to education (a million children are killed or seriously injured each year in road crashes, the majority as pedestrians). UNICEF has urged that action to prevent injuries in the second decade of a child?s life should become ?a major international health objective?. Addressing road safety will also help to achieve environmental objectives, including action on climate change, particularly through providing a safer road system for users of non-motorized transport, such as pedestrians and cyclists, the most vulnerable road users. Providing safe facilities for non-motorized transport, and encouraging affordable and safe public transport, can reduce demand for modal shift to the car. According to the UN Environment Programme, such policies can make ?a large, lasting impact?on fuel use, congestion, air quality and CO2 emissions? It is also one of the most cost-effective actions for saving hundreds of thousands of lives?. The UN Environment Programme is also urging a change in emphasis in transport planning in developing nations to support and protect non-motorized mobility and to encourage safe and affordable public transport (low income families in developing countries can currently spend up to 25% of their income on public transport), citing the benefits for a range of environmental objectives. UNEP points out that ?Cities with a better modal mix between cars, public transport, walking and cycling have lower energy use per capita. By incorporating non-motorized transport facilities in the transport grid, a large, lasting impact can be made on fuel use, congestion, air quality and CO2 emissions?. Furthermore, UNEP argues that ?designating road space for pedestrians and cyclists in proportion to the demand for non-motorized transport is crucial. It is also one of the most cost-effective actions for saving hundreds of thousands of lives. For example, the top two countermeasures for improving safety in Nairobi, Kenya, recommended by the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) are pedestrian crossings and sidewalks?, (?Share the Road: Invest in Walking & Cycling?, UN Environment Programme and FIA Foundation, 2011). As Moldova is a developing country, the situation is made worse by the urbanization process, in the result of which the number of transport grows and the presence of old soviet cars pollute the environment and bring harm to a big number of population, particularly town inhabitants. Another disappointing fact is that in our country there are no facilities for bicyclists and in many places even for pedestrians. On July 2, 2010, in Moldova was launched the iRAP Programme (International Road Assessment Programme) that inspected over 3000 km of Moldavian road network. At the end of the inspections there was elaborated a final report, in which was specified that: ?Overall, road markings were found to be poor on more than 90% of the road inspected. Less than 20% of roads were rated as in ?good? condition. Some 80% of the network had unpaved shoulders. Two-thirds of the network has aggressive objects less than 5 meters from the road edge.? According to World?s Bank report entitled ?Death on wheels?: ?An effective road safety strategy requires a multi-sectoral, ?safe system? approach. It needs a lead agency to coordinate contributions by the many government departments across which road safety responsibilities tend to be diffused: transport, interior, police, health, and education, among others. The goal is to prevent the occurrence of injury, minimize the severity of injury when traffic injuries occur, and reduce the severity of injury in the aftermath. Road safety must be integrated into the design of transport plans and programs and considered in broader public policy discussions that influence people?s transport options and decisions. When road safety becomes an integral part of transport policy, the benefits of reducing noise and air pollutants, controlling alcohol abuse, and promoting walking and cycling become apparent. For example, maintaining lower speeds reduces the costs of injuries and also the costs from air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and fear-based barriers among would-be pedestrians and cyclists.? It should be mentioned that in the Republic of Moldova a Strategy for Road Safety was elaborated, that highlights the main road safety problems and the main key steps to improve it, and namely to reduce with 50% the number of crash fatalities till 2020. In this strategy it is specified also about the so called Progressive Vision Zero, which goal is to have zero victims on roads, stating that even one victim is too much. Institutional framework for sustainable development It is our view that this gap between the growing acknowledgement of the issue and achieving sustained action can be bridged if, for the first time, road safety is included within the framework of a major international sustainability conference. Identifying road traffic injury as a new challenge at the Rio+20 Conference will be invaluable in raising the profile of the issue and helping to institutionalize road safety programmes within middle-income and low-income governments and organizations. As we have seen in the powerful response to climate change and environmental protection following the first Rio summit in 1992, and in the united focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals that was the major outcome of the Johannesburg Summit in 2002, the priorities agreed at these international fora do set the global agenda and issues that are absent from the agenda are subsequently neglected and under-funded. The priorities agreed at international fore like Rio+20 set the global agenda and issues that are absent from the agenda, subsequently neglected and under-funded. This is why it is so important to undertake action to improve road safety and promote sustainable modes of transport to be included in the agenda and outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference. The absence of road safety from the agenda of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, and the consequent neglect of this issue in international development fore, has arguably contributed to the growing toll of death and disability on the world?s roads. The vast majority ? more than ninety per cent - of these casualties are occurring in middle-income and low-income countries where road safety awareness and the capacity to tackle the problem is low, and where both traffic levels and road casualties are rising rapidly (Global Status Report on Road Safety, WHO, 2009). Many developing country governments and large institutions are beginning to recognize the need to prioritize road safety in the context of a sustainable transport system. But progress is slow. The gap between an institution acknowledging the issue and achieving sustained action can be bridged if road safety is included within the framework of a major international sustainability conference. Despite the absence of road safety from the mainstream sustainable development agenda there is now a global mandate for action to reduce global road traffic injuries. UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/64/255 has established the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 with a goal to ?stabilize and reduce? road deaths by 2020. Our Commission estimates that if this ambitious goal can be achieved up to 5 million lives and 50 million serious injuries could be prevented over the course of the Decade (?Make Roads Safe: A Decade of Action for Road Safety?, Commission for Global Road Safety, 2009). Until road safety can be integrated into the mainstream of sustainability policy, millions of people will be condemned to unnecessary and preventable violent, painful deaths, or lives blighted by severe disability. This is why it is so important that action to improve road safety and promote sustainable modes of transport is included in the agenda and outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference. The time to act has arrived and it should not be missed any chance to prevent road fatalities and their cruel consequences!


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Maria Full of Grace - the stand-out performance by the lead actress really carried the film. one thing that comes to mind, a delicate balance to control as a filmmaker, is that it was unpretentious. It wasn't full of self-pity and sentimentality, which a story like this could quite easily tread all over. director Joshua Marston did well in presenting desperate choices in desperate situations in a very unosentatious way.
Atanarjuat - written, directed and acted all by Inuits, Atanarjuat brought a beautiful, little known about landscape and traditional story to the big screen for the rest of the world to take in. a particular charm about it was the lack of knowledge we really have about the Inuit culture, and Atanarjuat succeeded in vividly depicting it. However, the film was slow to start and unnecessarily long with a drawn out story.
Look At Me - quirky French drama, although I found it more of a comedy, with incisive wit and a decent script. The whole film though is all about nothing really and too much focus on character development to the extent that you just get fed up with them.
post your thoughts on whatever movies you've seen recently on TV or whatever. the thread's concept was not my idea, by the way.


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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:53 am
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in the Finance section of the Yahoo home page: "Tax Loopholes Are Corporate Socialism." Sets out the idea that governments, from local to national, put additional taxes on each family through loopholes for corps, and suggests that the solution is for us, the taxpayers to revolt. If accurate, should raise everyone's ire a bit.
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Is this it?
My question would be why don't more people already know this. Or do they and that's why there's so much unrest. This is the meat of it to me:
Carl Levin (D-Michigan), chairman of the subcommittee told reporters, "These loopholes and abuses exact a tremendous cost What these gimmicks do is shift the burden of taxes onto citizens and business who don't use armies of lawyers and accountants."
"The scandal is the law," says David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind." He told The Daily Ticker: A 1909 law requires that companies not hold more cash than needed to reasonably run their business. If they don't re-invest the extra cash into the business or pay dividends, they face a 15% penalty. President Reagan added a loophole to the law allowing companies to avoid the 15 percent penalty if they hold the extra funds offshore.
How can anything off-shore benefit our on-shore country is what I want to know.
ETA: A 2003 NYT article trying to warn us back then:
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 12-21-03: The Loophole Artist
David Cay Johnston, who won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting, is a financial reporter for The New York Times. This article is adapted from his book ''Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich And Cheat Everybody Else,'' which will be published next month by Portfolio.
(This book won the "Investigative Reporters and Editors 2003 Book of the Year" award.)
Here is background on him--his "creds"
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If we had a Blattmachr running for president, we'd all know whom to vote for. Thanks for the reference.
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You're welcome. David Cay Johnston had a new book just released Sept. 18--The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
This is the book description from Amazon--
No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.
You are being systematically exploited by powerful corporations every day. These companies squeeze their trusting customers for every last cent, risk their retirement funds, and endanger their lives. And they do it all legally. How? Its all in the fine print.
David Cay Johnston, the bestselling author of
Perfectly Legal
Free Lunch
, is famous for exposing the perfidies of our biggest institutions. Now he turns his attention to the ways huge corporations hide sneaky stipulations in just about every contract, often with government permission.
Johnston has been known to whip out a utility bill and explain line by line what all that mumbo jumbo actually means (and it doesnt mean anything good, unless you happen to be the utility company). Within all that jargon, disclosed in accordance with all legal requirements, lie the tools these companies use to rob you blind. Even worse is whats missingall the contractually binding clauses that companies hide elsewhere yet still enforce and abuse.
Consider, for example, how:
--An insurance company repeatedly delayed paying for a paralyzed mans vital care despite court orders to pay up.
--Laws in nineteen states let companies like Goldman Sachs, General Electric, and Procter & Gamble pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers paychecks for up to twenty-five years.
--A little-known government rule gives safety waivers to deadly industrial facilities secretly located underneath schools and playgrounds.
--The FCC Charge on your phone bill, which appears to be a government fee, actually goes straight to the phone company.
Johnston shares solutions you can use to fight back against the hundreds of obscure fees and taxes that line the pockets of big corporations, and to help end these devious practices once and for all.
Obviously this can't be fun or light-reading at all, can it?
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The library here doesn't have a copy yet. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to order it on Amazon for about 60% off and make myself angry reading it.
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Eliza wrote:
Johnston shares solutions you can use to fight back against the hundreds of obscure fees and taxes that line the pockets of big corporations, and to help end these devious practices once and for all.
This would make it worth reading to me.
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I'm reading it. The writing is sometimes a bit inflammatory, deliberately, I think. And it is making me angry.
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University of Idaho senior guard Mike Iupati is one of three finalists for the Outland Trophy, which honors college football's most outstanding interior lineman.
Iupati, 6-foot-6, 325 pounds, has been the leader of the Vandal offensive line this fall as Idaho is enjoying its best season in a decade.
"He's a big strong man, who has great athletic ability," coach Robb Akey said. "He has the ability to move, the ability to run. He's physical at the point of attack. He also does a lot of good things as he's pulling. He can handle guys out in space. His athleticism combined with his size make him a special player."
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Pug, who is touring behind this year's "The Great Despiser," simply knocked over the audience with his heartfelt vocals and seemingly endless batch of over-the-top strong lyrics. He also lightened the mood of the somewhat somber material with humorous stories and introductions about life on the road and the songs.
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In my previous articles I've explained what a few key statistics such as VP$IP%, PFR% and 3bet% mean and how to understand what specific numbers mean. I'd like to continue by giving you some guidelines as to what your own numbers should look like.
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What we notice when looking at the above table is that it's very rare to have a VPIP of above 25% and still be a winning player, so should your own VPIP be above this you should definitely try to tighten your starting hands requirement quite a bit. I recommend a VPIP of around 17 – 20 for inexperienced players since you will be faced with much less tricky spots by playing a tight preflop game.
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The preflop raise % table clearly shows that it pays off to be aggressive and take the initiative when you do chose to play a hand. Should your own PFR % be too low you should focus on raising more often preflop. Maybe you're limping too often when others have done so before you or maybe you're not raising enough in late position when you're first to act?
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Exactly as with the preflop raise % table we can see that it's important to be 3-betting preflop fairly often preflop. Many players are only 3-betting their very strong hands, but this generally is not a great strategy since your opponents will then easier figure out what you have when you finally do re-raise.
Should your 3-bet be too low, focus on trying to add a few hands to your range; should a loose player raise in late position, then go ahead and 3-bet more hands than only the very best ones; in the blinds, put in a 3-bet when a very active player tries to steal your blind. By taking the initiative with a 3-bet you will often win the pot preflop or on the flop by making a reasonable continuation bet.
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Full SubmissionContribution to UNCSD2012 Compilation Document from the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development (SWEDESD) This contribution relates in particular to ?specific element B? in the Co-Chairs� Guidance Note, i e to green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. On the importance of education for sustainable development (ESD) in the quest for a green economy What is a green economy? And what is the link between a green economy and ESD? The first question partly answers the second one. Being a new concept without an established definition, there is some confusion on what green economy entails and implies. As the UN general secretary puts it (UN 2010): ?greater conceptual clarity is needed with regard to the links between a green economy and sustainable development. 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By focusing on how markets tie together human activities and allocate resources that are limited, the green economy concept also has the potential of making short-term tradeoffs between different policy objectives explicit ? perhaps more so than in previous development approaches where the characteristics of markets is not a focus area. Short-term tradeoffs between policy objectives are frequently evident when the three dimensions of sustainable development (social, ecological, economic) are considered together ? e g when poverty because of unemployment increases when a business that harms ecosystems is shut down, or when there are conflicting interests in services from a particular ecosystem ? e g recreation values in a forest versus commercial values such as timber. So what role can ESD play in green economy? Just as often stressed regarding sustainable development in general, a key for advancing the understanding of what a green economy is and how it should be implemented is creating platforms where different stakeholders can meet and learn in collaboration. Such platforms are needed both inside and outside the formal educational system, in accordance with ESD theory (UNESCO 2005). As mentioned above, a focus on resource allocation can help economists identify market failures, synergies and tradeoffs. However, arriving at an overall understanding of how relevant aspects fit together can be thought of as assembling a jigsaw puzzle where a multitude of disciplines within both natural and social science contribute with pieces of information. Natural scientists are trying to pin down the pressure from economic activity that ecosystems on which we depend can stand given the size of the population, demographers are trying to predict the population growth over the coming decades given expected GDP growth, engineers work on new technology that can increase human wellbeing and decrease environmental impact, behavioral economists, sociologists and psychologists try to complement the ?rational agent? theory in order to better predict behavior in markets, and so on. Although the understanding of complex social-ecological relationships is continuously improved, the pieces are still too scattered for a coherent picture to emerge. The cross-sectoral approach inherent in the ESD concept can help in assembling the puzzle so that a this picture is discerned, although it will perhaps never be completed. Further, innovative ESD pedagogy and methodology can facilitate interaction and collaborative learning across scientific disciplines and scholarly traditions. In short: ESD can help in creating better-informed policy making, and in disseminating new understanding broadly in society ? i e give input to the complex processes that shape social preferences upon which decisions in democracies are based. As an illustration of this, one can think of environmental valuation. This a method for revealing true preferences related to the environment that are not accurately expressed in markets because of imperfect information, ill-defined or lacking property rights, bounded rationality, moral hazard and/or free riding (e g TEEB 2010). The results from environmental valuation can guide policies aimed at correcting markets failures through taxation, subsidies or command and control measures. While environmental valuation can capture certain values ignored in markets (in particular non-use values), techniques targeted at eliciting individual preferences are partly subject to the same phenomena that make markets fail ? in particular imperfect information. We can never know the preferences of future generations, or the exact shape of ecosystem services supply curves including thresholds that can cause sudden collapses. There are further problems involved in aggregating expressions of individual ordinal utility (e g Arrow 1951). To tackle these issues, ESD institutions could play an important role by bringing together stakeholders with different expertise and diverging preferences and facilitate deliberation in accordance with group valuation techniques, thereby shaping and formulating social preferences (e g Jacobs 1997). This methodology is slowly emerging in academic settings, but it deserves more attention as a key tool for implementing the green economy concept. In view of the above, SWEDESD calls for the explicit acknowledgment of the importance of ESD in pursuing the green economy agenda in the UNCSD2012 Compilation Document ? certainly also beyond the end of the UN decade of ESD 2005-2014. So what are the critical issues in the discussion on green economy? To conclude this contribution and adhere to the UN general secretary?s call for items on the menu of green economy policies, we list below a few issues that we think deserve particular attention in the continued discussions on green economy. To be solved they all require collaborative learning among different stakeholders and input from various scientific disciplines, which again highlights the importance of ESD. ? There is a need for large scale support to initiatives such as the Green Accounting for Indian States & Union Territories Project (GAISP) aimed at mapping environmental values currently not acknowledged by markets. ? There is a need for multilateral discussions on green economy to focus explicitly on the problem of leakage, i e that regional environmental regulations may have little effect as activities causing environmental costs move to regions where regulation is lacking. ? There is a need for a deeper understanding of how rebound effects hamper decoupling, i e how gains from greater efficiency in production are used to increase economic activity leaving overall environmental impact unaffected or even worsened. The discussion on shorter work hours should be considered in this regard (e g Rosnick & Weisbrot 2006). ? The risk of increasing poverty and inequality when economic activities causing environmental cost shut down following strengthened regulation needs to be thoroughly addressed. The ?green jobs? discourse and role of public investments in ?green? infrastructure and training should be considered (e g UNEP, ILO, IOE & ITUC 2009). ? The relationship between wellbeing and conventional economic growth needs to be understood better in order to see what role the GDP measurement or proposed alternatives should play in guiding policy. ? The role of the financial sector in creating credit that enhances conventional growth needs to be examined further in the light of market failures, along with the effect that moral hazard, bounded rationality and ?animal spirits? (Akerlof & Shiller 2009) have on the function of capital and derivatives markets. ? The Trade-off between securing intellectual property rights in order to spur innovation and quickly disseminate new ?green? technologies needs to be better understood, in particular in view of government R & D funding.


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ZF-11523: Bound variables lost when passing query to database adapter in Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable
I have overridden Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable for customization purpose. I also overridden Zend_Db_Select to provide bindings/parameterized queries also with 'where' conditions.
Because of the $dbSelect->__toString() (in Zend/Auth/Adapter/DbTable.php@480), my object is not called! So I have to rewrite _authenticateQuerySelect() method just to remove this strange usage.
I propose this patch:
< $resultIdentities = $this->_zendDb->fetchAll($dbSelect->__toString());
> $resultIdentities = $this->_zendDb->fetchAll($dbSelect);
Hope this so simple path will be approved.
Thx a lot for your work on this good framework (it really helps me!), Wilfried
The issue at hand is that the user's superclass of {{Zend_Db_Select}} binds variables to the query, but these bindings are lost because {{Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable}} is cast to a string before being passed to the database adapter. Passing the {{Zend_Db_Select}} object directly rather than just the SQL string allows {{Zend_Db_Adapter::query}} to pull the bound variables and use them to execute the statement.
Fixed in trunk r24184 Merged to release-1.11 in r24185
Thx a lot for your quick support, it's a pleasure to help for the ZF enhancement :).


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Spearfish, S.D. – The Black Hills State University men's and women's cross country teams will compete in their only home meet of the season on Thursday, September 9 at the Spearfish Canyon Country Club in Spearfish, S.D. The women's race is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. MT with the men's race to follow at 5 p.m. MT.
Other teams competing include Dickinson State, Montana State-Billings, Rocky Mountain, S.D. School of Mines and Gillette.
This will be the first meet of the season for the men's team. The women's team won the Montana State University Billings Open last weekend.
For more information on Black Hills State Athletics, visit www.BHSUAthletics.com.


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SxTx - 13 DAYS TO '13' NEW CYCO STYLE VIDEO OUT TONIGHT!
Cyco STyle video release....
The New Album countdown begins!
13 Years since the last new ST cd, the 13th ST release, 13 new songs, finally out in 2013.
Tomorrow is March 13th, 13 days before "13" is released.
Cyco STyle is the first video release.
See what happens when 70,000 Brasilian Cycos hit the streets of Sao Paulo at 9:00 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. Definitely a Cyco Sunday.
Filmed by Pep Williams last May while the band was on tour in Brasil, make sure you check this out and forward to your friends.
It will be released on the Suicidal Tendencies You Tube Channel at midnight tonight, Sao Paulo time
Also, please represent Suicidal no matter where you live tomorrow on the 13th.
Wear your ST shirt, hat, hoodie, or however you want to show your ST pride. If you can't because of work or school, hide it underneath superman STyle :)
Be sure to post it on instagram using tag #suicidal13 or @suicidaltendencies and tweet out (@officialstig) about the new video and cd and a favorite ST lyric.


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A 26-year-old Milford man is facing criminal charges after allegedly striking and choking a woman last week.
Alvaro Lopez reportedly was involved in a verbal dispute with the 27-year-old female victim at a home in the 500 block of Northeast Front Street on Feb. 27 that became violent.
Milford Police Department spokesman Detective Dwight Young said Lopez struck the woman in the lip and grabbed her arms before attempting to strangle her.
The woman later refused medical treatment, despite suffering scrapes and bruises, Young said.
Lopez is charged with strangulation and third-degree assault.
He is being held at the Sussex Correctional Institution in default of a $6,000 cash bond.
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I first heard about the Unreal line of candies from one of my good friends. She mentioned that she had seen these new candies in her most recent trip to Walgreens and was wondering if I had tried them. I hadn't at the time, and lo and behold on my next trip to CVS I saw them. The Unreal packaging is very attractive, the background is black with "Unreal" written on the front in a very strange font that covers move of the front. The lettering is in bright colors and is very eye catching against the dark background. They offer a bunch of different candies, but I decided I wanted to start out with the Candy Coated Chocolate.
Unreal has the tagline of "Candy Unjunked". They don't use corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors or colors, no GMO ingredients and preservatives. I have to say, I'm super excited to try a chocolate candy that has such honest ingredients! What they're doing is really honorable, and I'm super excited to try a candy that uses more quality ingredients.
I open the bag to find that the first thing I notice about these candies is that the colors are not what what we're used to. They're more natural colors, ones that look like they are found in nature. The colors are muted and more muddy. Burgundy, Olive green, yellow core, and brown are some of the colors I notice as I taste them. The only thing that confuses me a little is that the image of the candies on the wrapper makes them look much more vibrant.
The candies taste of really nice chocolate. I'd love to do a side by side with these sometime with M&Ms. The flavor is much more chocolatey and rich. I get nice flavors of cocoa, coffee, cream and woods. They're much more satisfying than I ever found plain M&Ms to be. The chocolate flavor here and much more complex and sweet, which makes it more satisfying. The candy shell is crunchy and the chocolate is very smooth, a lovely combination.
I really liked these, and when I shared them with some of my coworkers they really liked them too. One of them mentioned that she liked how they weren't as sweet as M&Ms are, and you get more chocolate flavor out of them. I totally agree with her comment. I think now I will gladly eat these over plain M&Ms if I have the option (but the peanut butter M&Ms still stand as my favorite). I've since bought more of these Candy Coated Chocolates, as I've found they're a great compliment to my morning coffee. If you happen to come across them, I highly recommend you give them a try!
Rating: Will Buy Again
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Hello Everyone,
This all seemed much easier when I was younger. I just got into Pokemon again after a few years of absence, and bout Pokemon White. I would like to (without cheating) complete the National Pokedex (I know I can't get Deoxys, Mew, etc.).
What games do I need in order to complete this task. I own Red, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Diamond, and White. I am willing to purchase Soul Silver and/or Heart Gold, and Platinum.
I KNOW I don't need every one of these games to complete the National Dex, but which ones DO I need to do this?


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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Herbs
Problems with Deer (page 4 of 4)
by Karen Jescavage-Bernard
Other Strategies and Information Sources
Gardeners faced with foraging deer should collect as much on-site information as possible before planting gardens or trees. Most county extension offices maintain extensive files of useful information and provide it to you at minimal cost. Many publications contain clear drawings of effective fence designs, detailed evaluations of the effectiveness and cost of commercial repellents, and explanations of deer behavior and physiology to help you customize a protection plan for your garden.
In addition, a query on the Internet will produce an avalanche of information. You should also talk to farmers, nursery owners, and other gardeners in your area. They may have already made most of the potential mistakes!
Contrary to some gardeners' opinion, deer are not "hoofed rats". They're selective feeders whose dining preferences change to meet seasonal nutritional needs. Smart gardeners can use this knowledge to their advantage.
In temperate and cold-climate gardens, late winter and early spring are the most difficult foraging times for deer. Their vitamin and mineral needs soar just when juicy, sappy growth is scarce. Early-flowering shrubs and trees (including Japanese and sugar maples) are vulnerable. Except for forsythia and narcissus, later-blooming plants are good choices.
In fall, the need to stockpile calories to survive the winter drives deer to seek high-calorie foods full of oils and starches. Nut- or berry-bearing autumn ornamentals can draw the animals' attention from other garden plants. On large properties, dogwood, if planted away from vulnerable plantings, is an excellent choice because the oily berries support many species of wildlife, including deer. Crab apples and viburnums are also good for wildlife. Firethorn (Pyracantha), burning bush (Euonymus alata), and barberry provide winter food after their bitter berries have been softened by frosts. In small gardens or yards, deer will eat such plants before others.
Take a Hike
Plants that thrive in your local parks and preserves offer good hints about what will work in the home garden. Other than giant forest trees, you'll find abundant barberry, winged Euonymus, Japanese wineberry, and shrub and vine honeysuckles.
Remember to be Flexible
Knowing more about deer habitat and dining preferences and combining a variety of strategies allows gardeners to customize solutions to deer-damage problems for individual gardens.
Karen Jescavage-Bernard is an author and the manager of the Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension is posting a two-page fact sheet on the basics of rice farming.
The agency said Wednesday that the compendium include growth stages, recommended seeding dates and information on fertilization and irrigation.
The sheet has stats on last year's harvest and includes basics on disease and pest mitigation.
The fact sheet can be downloaded free at: www.arkansas-crops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Arkansas-Rice-Quick-Facts.pdf
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Back in September, Robin Hannibal of Quadron released his Bobby EP – his first solo work as a producer, vocalist, and musician. The video above is for "Amends," an angelic, transient tune set against a romantic black and white visual scape. A very serene and dapper Hannibal takes a stroll around town only to end up at a very important destination.
Purchase Bobby on iTunes


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Public Advocate Letitia James joined a coalition of immigration advocates including Catholic Charities, New York Immigration Coalition and Legal Aid Society yesterday, August 12, 2014, to call on increased protection and representation for undocumented youth navigating New York immigration court.
Margaret Martin, supervising attorney for Catholic Charities Unaccompanied Minors Program, spoke at the event along with others to call for the creation of a help desk at Immigration Court that will provide counsel and resources to children and their families, and monthly clinics around the City to train attorneys who volunteer to act as a friend of the court during initial hearings ("surge dockets") that involve unaccompanied minors. The Public Advocate seeks to recruit attorneys to serve in this capacity pro-bono and also plans to undergo training to serve unaccompanied youth.
Today, the first of nearly 3,500 unaccompanied children– many of whom have both experienced and been witness to heinous crimes in their home countries– will enter New York State to face deportation proceedings via accelerated court hearings.
New York State is second only to Texas in the number of unaccompanied children hosted, followed by Florida with 3,181 and California with 3,150. These children, as young as five years old, come without any knowledge of our legal system, yet are expected to navigate the complex juvenile surge docket.
Children and others in court for immigration charges do not have a right to an attorney — so if they cannot afford one or do not have family to help them find one, they go unrepresented in their hearings.
"For more than 8 years, Catholic Charities has been providing compassionate help to those seeking refuge from Central America," said Catholic Charities Executive Director Monsignor Kevin Sullivan.
"We have seen the number of children in need of help increase dramatically and witnessed the emotional and physical scars they bear from violence and abuse in their home countries. We continue to respond to each child's needs, by expanding our services to meet the growing demand, whether through providing proper legal representation, helping reunification with custodial parents, or coordinating needed supportive human services."


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"Ever wonder what a music festival looks like from the perspective of an Australian indie-pop band… on acid? The Griswolds answer that question in their trippy video for "Mississippi," which captures all the face paint, dancing, make-out sessions, and color-powder explosions we'd expect from the best music fest weekend ever." - MTV Buzzworthy
Check out MTV Buzzworthy's feature on The Griswolds in full at http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2013/10/14/the-griswolds-mississippi-video/#more-254635


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More than 200 young ladies put their Irish dance skills to the test Saturday during Emerald Isle Academy of Irish Dance's Fifth-Annual NAIDF Open Platform Feis at the Everett Theatre.
The competitors, who ranged in age from 4 to adult, came to Middletown from as far north as Rhode Island and as far south as Virginia to show their skills at the event, sponsored by the Emeral Isle Academy, which has seven locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Newark, Del.
In addition to competing for prizes at the feis, the girls also hoped to earn scores that would help them qualify for North American Irish Dance Federation's national competition in Galloway, N.J., this July.
Check out our photo gallery from Saturday's competition by clicking on the link to the left.
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Sharpen blades in seconds without messy oils or expensive equipment
In 10 seconds or less, you can sharpen knives, machetes and other cutting tools by applying slight downward pressure with this sharpening tool. The diamond-honed tungsten-carbide blades can be reversed whenworn out on one side, so they'll stand up to years of use. Permanently fastens to your workbench or other handy location and easily handles knives, serrated knives, machetes and other cutting tools. Includes durable ABS plastic body and stainless steel screws. For indoor our outdoor use. Replacement blades are sold separately, Item No. 219646. USA made.
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Green, sweet red and yellow peppers give this hearty chili a splash of color. I often fix it for my grandsons. Because they don't like spicy chili, I use mild salsa, but try it with a hotter variety if you prefer. —Richard Rundels, Waverly, Ohio
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 pound bulk pork sausage
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 3 cups chunky salsa
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
- 1/2 cup each chopped green, sweet red and yellow peppers
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/8 teaspoon dried marjoram
- Optional toppings: shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream and thinly sliced green onions
- In a large skillet, cook beef and sausage over medium heat 6-8 minutes or until no longer pink, breaking into crumbles; drain. Transfer to a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker.
- Stir in beans, salsa, tomatoes, onion, tomato sauce, mushrooms, peppers and seasonings. Cook, covered, on low 8-10 hours or until flavors are blended. Add toppings of your choice. Yield: 8 servings (3 quarts).
Originally published as Mushroom Salsa Chili in Quick Cooking January/February 2004, p31
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Reviewed Sep. 14, 2015
"This chili is spectacular!! I prefer this to regular chili.I use Nacho chips to eat it with. So delicious!!!"
Reviewed Sep. 17, 2013
"I used ground turkey instead of pork sausage and added only one can of beans, but otherwise I followed the recipe faithfully. It is delicious! Will definitely make this again!"
Reviewed Jan. 7, 2013
"Excellent!! Very easy to make & a pleasentchange from the usual flavors like chili powder. My husband enjoyed it too & he likes spicy foods."
Reviewed Jun. 25, 2012
"This is more of a light "summer" chili. I added more peppers, doubled the spices, added some black pepper for a little warmth and an extra can of beans and we loved it. Oh, I also used fresh mushrooms."
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"Definitely one of the best chili recipes I've tried!"


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Final round of Holiday Recipe Contest brings together diverse cooks, diverse dishes
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 7:08 p.m.
A contest veteran who represented Florida in a national cook-off a few years back. A salad lover and herb gardener who had never entered a recipe competition before.
A team of high-school culinary students with a clever plan to repurpose their trendy cake pop maker and make a bite-sized appetizer. An at-home baker old enough to be their great-grandmother who had submitted her poundcake entry on notebook paper in perfect cursive penmanship.
These residents of The News-Journal's circulation area were among the 12 who advanced to the last round of judging in the newspaper's third annual Holiday Recipe Contest. All the finalists were invited to a cook-off last month at Daytona State College, where the teaching chefs who judged the contest chose the No. 1 dish in each of six categories as well as overall first- and second-place winners.
Charlene Chambers of Ormond Beach — who began an illustrious string of cook-off qualifying with the 46th annual National Chicken Cook-off in Charlotte, N.C., in 2005 — was awarded "Best of Show" for her main dish, Bourbon Glazed Salmon In Puff Pastry.
"I just love the bourbon marinade and the ginger. I think it's a really great combination. And the puff pastry just makes it elegant," she said in a follow-up interview.
Second place — dubbed "Judge's Choice" by contest organizers — was captured by culinary-competition newbie Dorothy Hampson, who made a side dish she calls Marvelous Marinated Vegetable Salad with herbs from her Ormond Beach garden. "I just thought that the rosemary sounded rather interesting, and went from there," she explained.
Runner-up in the main dish category was Donna Dirscherl, who made Chicken Crepes. In the side dish category, runner-up was Ann Osowski of Orange City with Green Bean and Walnut Salad.
Michelle Cecchini of Ormond Beach prepared Mini Greek Turkey Sliders to win the appetizer category. Potato Puffs — made by the Deltona High School team of Shelanis Cortes, Mike DeRosa and James Capps — was the runner-up appetizer dish.
Charles Mallory of Daytona Beach prepared the winning dessert: Pumpkin Bread Pudding With Caramel Sauce and Whipped Cream. Dot Brown of DeLand's Poundcake was runner-up dessert.
Matt Manno won for cookies with Aunt Mary's Czechoslovakian Nut Horns, while Edgewater resident Dee Anderson's Rum Balls were runner up in that category.
Nancy Faubert of New Smyrna Beach prepared the winning beverage: Frozen Slushy Banana Punch. Ormond Beach resident Larry Babitts' Mint Chocolate Martinis were runner up in the beverage category.
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ZF-7388: Not all code samples in quickstart have the <?php
In http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart/…
The complete application/models/GuestbookMapper.php code sample does not have the <?php
The same goes to application/models/Guestbook.php
But in the http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart/… the application/forms/Guestbook.php has
Although it's trivial it is in a non consistent way.
Just as side-note:
<?php is not allowed for code examples. The manual should not have <?php tags at all.
This is resolved for the 1.10 release, when the quickstart will be in the manual itself. In the manual, opening and closing tags are not used unless showing mixed HTML/PHP samples.
In the (ZF1.10) page http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/…
the code for application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml contains mixed html/php and doesn't have the opening <?php
@fisharebest: this is already corrected in current trunk, and will release with 1.10.1.