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Lactalis, number one European cheese, known especially for its President, company brands, Bridel, investors, is preparing to raise strongly his prices to cope with soaring prices of milk, announces its operational pattern, Michel Léonard, in an interview with the "echoes". He also a call of the foot Sodiaal and PAI Partners, the co-owners of Yoplait. A reconciliation between the two groups would be "a very beautiful transaction", provides Michel Léonard.
The prices of agricultural raw materials, including milk, fly. What is the impact on Lactalis
Raw materials increased substantially since almost a year. The reasons are many, but the result is an insufficient supply to demand. Missing 2 milk in the world, including 1 in Europe, which may seem low, but the consequences are enormous. All industrial look of milk. Result, the price package. Since October 1, we pay 20 more milk we buy to the producers. And a new increase is expected early next year. In a year, the price will then climbed 30. In neighbouring countries, it is worse. However the raw material is quite essential for us and extremely weighs heavy in cost. In the case of the emmenthal, milk represents 80 of the cost of production. As a result, we have decided to increase our prices of 15 to 17 in early December, after a first increase of 2.5 this summer. These are significant increases, but they do that cover the increase in our raw material in 2007. Not that provided for in early 2008.
This shortage you is it sustainable
Considering a small rebalancing from autumn 2008, but we believe that the demand for dairy products will remain permanently over the offer and take the prices. However, it is impossible today to calculate the impact it will have on the consumer. Because, if distributors are an effort on the rear margins, prices for clients will rise less strongly. We will do everything so that the eventual decline in volumes is as low as possible. For the moment, as a part of the rear margins has been made to clients, our final prices remained stable. Some have even declined.
May the margins of the Group fall
This year, we slightly increased our sales volume while increasing reasonably price. In view of the lack of milk, we at the same time had to make tradeoffs. To promote our brands, we have for example produced a little less powder milk. And we will maintain our margins if our increases in price of 15 to 17 are accepted and it should be by the distribution. In summary, the end of the year is likely to be tense and the beginning of 2008 promises to be sports.
In the space of three years, you made your sales of 5 billion to EUR 9 billion. You reach the critical size
In France, it is now leader of the cheese, leader of the collection of milk, is moving to Candia in large drinking milk... It clearly crossed a walk these past three years, including the acquisition of the Galbani mozzarella. This year, we bought the Croatian leader of ultra-fresh, a case of pressed paste in Czech Republic and taken control of the ultra-frais pole of Nestlé, known particularly for the dairy brand. But, if it can still grow, it will. Overall, we have the critical size, but, here or there, can be strengthened.
Could you buy Yoplait, for example, if PAI Partners disengages
This would indeed be a very good transaction, in the interest of everyone. There are beautiful complementarities and this would pose no problem from the point of view of competition regulations. In the yoghurt and the ultra-fresh in General, Yoplait has 10 of the French market. Lactalis marks weigh much. With the brands, our share rises to 20. But Danone, he controls 33 percent of the market. However, PAI Partners has not developed its 50 in sales. In addition, Sodiaal has a right of first refusal for participation and wished to seems to exercise it. The ball is in his camp.
Sodiaal search for financial partners for this operation. Could you be a part
Clearly not.
You are also candidate for purchase Boursin, marketed by Unilever...
It is a beautiful brand with a very good profitability. But it is primarily French and its development potential is limited, so Unilever has handled it very offensive manner. In addition, the mentioned price, EUR 350 million, is very high. Beyond that, it would be too expensive. There are other candidates and we do not intend to play one-upmanship.
How is the integration of the ultra-frais pole of Nestlé
The Nestlé transaction, it is the addition of skills. They brought trademarks: the dairy, slimness, Yoco, Fruttolo, Munch Bunch, skiing. We made our way of management, our ability to saturate the industrial tools, in a system where the margins are narrow. We are at the controls. Market share remained unchanged for the moment, but we have the keys since the end of 2006. We are the priorities. The dairy is part. We also redid of television advertising for its classic yogurt this summer, for the first time for years. Conversely, Bridélice will disappear for everything cream dessert. Another adjustment, we have added the Nestlé signature on our product BA and it sells better. On the industrial level, closed a plant of about 30 employees at Longueville near Rouen, and another 130 employees in Cuddington, to the United Kingdom. In total, need us two or three years to develop and better return on this set.


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Root Work
Root work also known as Folk Magic, Folklore, Conjure or Hoodoo has unique characteristics different from many forms of pagan or Wiccan magick. You will see some similarities, however, root work has it's special flavoring with using Christian psalms, unique curios (animal parts and plant parts, etc), roots and herbs, poppet dolls, using personal concerns, and disposal of ritual content such as visiting a crossroads, rivers, graveyards, and more. Hoodoo was a practiced among African Americans and some White Americans in early turn of the century. In traditional hoodoo, its practice encompasses folklore and beliefs of African culture, Native American Indian, and later European culture as a mix and not a separate. For example mojo bags are similar to the known medicine bags of American Indian culture, poppets are liken to the prayer or corn dolls also in American Indian culture, bottle spells are similar to the witch bottles of European Witch practices, sigils used in Hoodoo can be seen in both African and Indian cultures, medicines made from roots and herbs are again familiar practices in African and Indian cultures. The use of Psalms and Catholic Saints is of Catholic influence. Many workers are of an eclectic Christian or Catholic faith. Many believe in God, believe that Jesus is Lord and Savior, and are active in Church's of different Christian branches. Family recipes and folklore are key ingredients to working Hoodoo. Hoodoo is not a religion. It's a system of magick that is practiced by some of who may be religious, magickal, and/or people with an interest in Occult mysteries. Traditional root workers work with bible prayers and psalms, petition Catholic Saints, along with other spirits, deities, and angels of many different kinds. We may use graveyard spirits, African deities, the Ancestors, Catholic Saints, Indian spirits, plant spirits, animal spirits, or we may call on the Christian God or Jesus to aid us in our work. Many workers lead normal lives as your pharmacists, doctors, ministers, lawyers, nurses, college professors, business owners, healers, community volunteers, and a variety of other professions. Traditional practices, beliefs, and recipes are spoken teachings much different from the way of how new age and neo pagan traditions are passed on as through books. You might check out local spiritual candle shops and botanicas if you are looking to learn a bit of folk magic. Folk magic varies from region to region and family to family.

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An Indian woman has reportedly had the world's longest ectopic pregnancy, after doctors removed the skeleton of a baby that had been inside her abdomen for nearly four decades.
Jyoti Kumar, from Madhya Pradesh in central India, fell pregnant in 1978 at the age of 24.
She was told that the baby was growing outside of her womb and stood little chance of survival, but fled the hospital in fear at the prospect of surgery, instead seeking treatment for the pain at a small clinic.
When the discomfort subsided, Kumar assumed that the issue had been treated, but more than 30 years later she began experiencing severe abdominal pain, urinary problems, and fever.
She visited doctors at the NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, in the central Indian city of Nagpur, where it was revealed that the now 62-year-old was still carrying her unborn child.
Dr. Mohammed Yunus Shah, one of the team of surgeons who operated on Kumar, explained: "She said the pain had been consistent over the last two months and we found a lump on the lower right side of her abdomen, and feared it was cancer. A CT scan then revealed that the lump was made of hard, calcified matter.
"But it was only after the patient underwent an MRI, that we could make out that the mass was in fact a child's skeleton."
Dr. Shah's team removed a mass in a calcified sac containing a matured skeleton between Kumar's uterus, intestines and bladder.
"The amniotic fluid that protects the foetus might have been absorbed and the soft tissues liquefied over time with only a bag of bones with some fluid remaining," said Dr. Shah.
He said his team searched for medical literature on similar cases and found mention of a Belgian woman who had the remains of an ectopic pregnancy removed after 18 years.
"We believe this could be the longest case on record at 38 years," Dr. Shah added.


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Our truck bounces up a rutted mountain road in northern Guatemala. I am in the backseat. Arturo Godoy, a laid-back 33-year-old local, is at the wheel. Riding shotgun is David Freidel, a man described to me months earlier as the "Indiana Jones of SMU." Admittedly, that description came from the univeristy, but the media relations staffer had strong corroborating evidence. In the last four years, National Geographic and National Public Radio have done reports on Freidel, an expert in Mayan studies who has taught at SMU for 34 years. U.S. News & World Report called the professor a modern-day hero whose courage in the face of danger would put Indiana Jones to shame. The magazine painted a rousing portrait of an ace tomb hound making a stand against lawless farmers, looters, drug dealers, and arsonists.
Godoy drives fast, and the truck churns the road's fine white dirt into clouds of dust as we head into a national park called Laguna del Tigre-"Wildcat Lagoon" in English. In this jungle region famous for its jaguars, the first real sign of human life is a cluster of gravestones. Some are painted bright pink, some sky-blue; all are topped with simple white crosses. It is a quaint scene, and I feel happy that I've been assigned to write a straightforward, upbeat profile about a modern Indiana Jones.
"We should roll up the windows," says Godoy, who has been Freidel's camp manager and community liaison for three years.
I obey, wondering why, as wood shacks with thatched roofs appear. Kids peek out from doorways, and a young mother sits in the sun breast-feeding an infant while her friends braid each other's long black hair. This is Paso Caballos, the horse ford where Hernando Cortes crossed the San Pedro River 500 years ago in pursuit of a renegade conquistador. Many of the 150 Kekchi Mayan families living here today are relative newcomers, and most of the dads and older boys are off working 12-hour days in small maize fields nearby.
"Right now, the people are very anxious, and they don't know what side I'm on," Freidel says matter-of-factly.
That sounds odd, since Freidel has been co-director of the dig just up the road for the past five years. How in five years have they not learned what "side" he is on? But it's hard for me to digest facts and scenery at the same time. The truck zips past a group of men sitting in an open shed. Paso Caballos is a religious place-70 percent Catholic, the rest evangelical Christians-and I want to talk to someone familiar with the community. When I ask if there is a local priest or minister I can interview, Freidel doesn't seem to think it's a very good idea. "The best people to talk to are the workers in our camp," he says.
We zoom out of the village, climbing the road between fields newly cleared by the traditional Mayan slash-and-burn method. To the right, acres of charred stumps reach up the slopes of a limestone ridge. To the left, scorched land stretches down 300 yards to the lazy green San Pedro River. The farmers have already planted squash in the burned earth, and they will soon plant beans and maize.
During our first interview in his campus office back in Dallas, Freidel spoke passionately about the chaos near the ancient ruins of El Peru, in Laguna del Tigre. He said landless squatters invading the park in large numbers were being enlisted by drug gangs to roust him and his colleagues from the site. It was a Wild West environment, he said, full of good guys and bad guys. "When I first arrived, I was told that the invaders, the drug smugglers, and the rich people who buy cattle ranches were going to burn me out," he told me. "And I said, "I'm gonna come in here and do this research, and they're going to have to burn the whole damned rain forest down over my head."
It's easy to see how a reporter could visit Guatemala for a few days and be romanced by this dramatic version of events. It certainly makes for good copy. But the more time I spent in Guatemala-a tragic little train wreck of a country where half the children suffer from malnutrition and 10 percent of the population has already snuck into the United States-the more the Indiana Jones comparisons seemed to miss the mark. The nation's drug trafficking problem is old news, and tons of cocaine do flow through the Laguna del Tigre park. The new news is that Freidel and several other archaeologists are caught in the middle of a widespread land revolt. Most of the "lawless" farmers impinging on their digs have solid cause for complaint-and nothing to do with running drugs.
How the professor got trapped in this tinderbox turns out not to be an upbeat tale at all. Even though the ruins of El Peru are 1,200 miles from our shiny city, it's a story Dallas should follow. Because if the Guatemalan government can't solve its land problem, more desperate immigrants will head north. And if Washington brands the farmers who stay as bad guys, radical anti-American sentiment will catch fire mighty close to home.
Freidel's story is also one that SMU should study closely. He believes the university has been misled by its board and has lost sight of its core mission. After 34 years in Ponyland, the professor is moving on to greener pastures.
Freidel's camp sits by a marsh where a hand-painted sign warns swimmers about crocodiles. In a clearing between stands of towering trees, there are raised platforms for tents and green wooden buildings: kitchen, worker barracks, lab, dining cabin, and separate toilets for workers and archaeologists. The head cook, a short, plump woman named Reina, greets Freidel with a hug. Ordinarily, his arrival would signal the commencement of the spring field season, 40 days of intensive excavation at the nearby ruins by a team of 10 academics and 75 workers. But Freidel canceled the 2008 season at the last minute, a big letdown for many locals.
There is fresh bad news waiting when we arrive, news that explains the anxiety of the villagers back in Paso Caballos: a group of squatters recently burned a patch of forest about four miles to the north of the El Peru ruins, near a settlement called Yalá. Their intention, according to Godoy, was to cultivate the land and live on it permanently. Most of the 100 members of this new colony came from Paso Caballos. To avoid a violent conflict, the government pulled back the army troops and civilian police who normally patrol the park and occasionally quarter in El Peru. But after a conversation with his friend and fellow archaeologist Hector Escobedo-a cabinet minister and rising political star from an old military family-Freidel expects that the state will eventually respond "from a position of strength."
"This is no Yosemite," he says. "This is a park full of people, and the confrontation now developing is urgent. If the invaders expand, they are destroying primary high-canopy rain forest. The president knows that if he doesn't hold the Laguna del Tigre, it will be catastrophic for the whole biosphere."
Reina and her helpers lay out a lunch of fried chicken, black beans, rice, and thick tortillas on the long communal table in the dining hall. After we eat, we drive out on an undulating road to see the compact ruins. Occupied between 300 B.C. and 900 A.D., El Peru was a business center that controlled trade on the San Pedro River and overland routes. At its zenith, the four main plazas and 800 other structures may have been home to 10,000 people. The once brightly decorated acropolis, ceremonial centers, and pyramids are shaggy green hills now, capped with trees. In the rubble under the roots, possibly stacked together in a temple staircase, lie the bones and funereal knickknacks of the ruling lords and ladies.
"My Don Quixote vision was that if I could develop an archaeology park, maybe we could save this beautiful rain forest from the people who want to destroy it," Freidel says, standing in a glade where spider monkeys are flinging chunks of scarlet fruit down onto giant carved limestone slabs. "Local invaders can benefit as guides and forest wardens, and help with wildlife conservation. To block the traffic in drugs, you put people in the way of the dealers and make it inconvenient for them."
Traditionally, archaeologists work a site for about five years to sustain their careers, then move on to new excavations. Today, some professionals are making an open-ended commitment to a single site. This requires serious fund-raising and an effort to make sure the project benefits the native population economically. "El Peru is the last place I'm going to work," Freidel says. "The goal is to try to empower poor people and empower the Guatemalans to take it away from us. It's their country."
He wants to raise $6 million for his new Waka Foundation, the original name of El Peru. At present, his plans for an eco-park are purely conceptual-bicycle paths that will someday wind between semi-exposed monuments.
From the crest of the tallest pyramid, a wooden watchtower pokes through the canopy of trees. Up on the platform, butterflies cavort over a sunny jade-green jungle that spans the horizons. In addition to jaguars, the forest shelters foxes, tapirs, 260 bird species, and troops of howler monkeys whose dueling cries thunder back and forth for miles. Freidel thinks his project might help save 230 square miles of forest in a country that loses 300 square miles every year. He points north and says, "That is the breeding ground for the endangered scarlet macaw parrot." Then he points west, toward Mexico, the first stop for migrants and drugs. By one estimate, 90 percent of the cocaine eventually sold in the United States crosses into Mexico from land routes in Guatemala. The trade is worth tens of billions of dollars.
"It's a matter of national security for the United States," Freidel says. "These guys want to make a little Columbia here. They want to have their own communities in various towns who work for them and facilitate the drug trade." He advocates a "hearts and minds" approach. "Give the government of Guatemala 15 minutes' worth of what you're spending in Baghdad every day, and we'll show you hearts and minds," he says. "We'll give you a fighting chance to hold the overland road where the drugs run. We're the answer for every problem in the park."
It was a proposed tourist attraction that brought Freidel to SMU in the first place. In 1972, Dallas real estate syndicator John Love bought a chunk of beach in Belize that included Mayan ruins. Love wanted the mounds authenticated to add sizzle to his planned horse track resort. The SMU anthropologist who took charge of the project offered the archaeology contract to Freidel, a Harvard grad student at the time. "They wanted to hire somebody much more experienced," he says, "but they didn't have the money, and I was cheap."
He discovered that the ruins were more than 2,000 years old. Nobody had ever found a Pre-Classic Mayan city before, and the lucky strike was a big career boost. Unfortunately, Love was going bankrupt in a real estate slump, and Freidel had to find new patrons. He asked family friend Leon Harris, chief of the Sanger-Harris company, for an introduction to Stanley Marcus. Harris and Marcus hadn't spoken for years as a result of a bitter lawsuit, but to help out a friend, Harris sat down with both men at his favorite French restaurant on Lovers Lane. Freidel remembers Marcus as an unassuming man and a great listener, and the archaeologist soon found himself having lunch with a dozen wealthy friends of the Neiman's boss. At the end of the meal, Marcus lit up a Punch cigar and said, "You should understand that David here is a brilliant young man, and this is an extraordinary project. We have to stand behind high potential people in our community, and I want you all to pull out your checkbooks and write him a check for a thousand dollars." Freidel watched as several of the guests complied.
"That taught me a lot about Dallas," he says. "So did the way John Love kept his word and kept supporting my research even when he was losing his shirt."
During the next two decades, Freidel co-authored two controversial books with Linda Schele, an influential University of Texas professor who died of cancer in 1998. After lengthy excavations in Yucatan, he came to El Peru, where so far the team he oversees for Escobedo has found five royal tombs and brought valuable recognition to SMU.
This story took a hard left in our first interview, when Freidel said that he hadn't been happy at SMU for some time and was leaving to start a new career this fall at Washington University, in St. Louis. He described SMU as a place that doesn't know what it is or what it wants to be. And SMU was not ready to see him establish an open-ended commitment to El Peru. He was impressed by a "whatever it takes" attitude at Washington University. His wife, herself a longtime professor of archaeology at SMU, was offered a job there first. "The administrators treat women with parity and invest in their faculties, and the results speak for themselves," he said. "At SMU, the policy is "Go out and find a competitive job offer, and then we'll start to pay attention to you."
He said SMU's recent priorities have been driven by the personal agendas of board members. In his opinion, that has worked well for the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business but disastrously for the undergraduate college. "The core of the institution is failing," he said. "It's simply less than it was in the '80s, and it's getting worse."
When we return to camp from our tour of the ruins, Reina and her helpers lay out a hearty dinner for the archaeologists, who eat separately from the crew. After dark, the workers gather in the courtyard for a favorite ritual: watching a DVD movie projected on a sheet. The flick stars Cantinflas, and under a sky full of blazing constellations, the Mayans laugh loudly at the exploits of the plucky Mexican underdog. At 2 in the morning, however, the camp is awakened by a drunken American graduate student directing waves of profanity at camp manager Arturo Godoy.
The next day, Godoy shrugs off the incident as a tantrum by a "spoiled brat." Freidel diagnoses the tiff as a case of camp fever, noting that the men had been cooped up out in the jungle for 30 days. But he worries about the breakdown of his team when Godoy, whom he introduced as his "right hand," decides to give notice.
"So many things haven't clicked yet," Godoy says to me later, a blue bandana tied around his head. "The foreigners only come during field season, and they don't appreciate all the bureaucratic errands required to keep the project running." He feels the Americans need to spend more time with local people, and he hopes that his stepping out of the loop will force the archaeologists to do things themselves and gain a better understanding of the reality on the ground. Godoy also cites the invasion of the squatters from Paso Caballos at Yalá as a stress factor.
"It just changes the whole thing here for us," he says.
A sense of friction deepens later in the day when the Mayan men on Freidel's skeleton crew sit down at the long dining table to bargain with their American boss. Most are paid $200 a month, basically minimum wage. Some have been requesting a raise for two years, and for three years none has received all the periodic "benefit" payments required by Guatemalan law for employees not under contract. The payments are in cash and have nothing to do with benefits as the term is understood in the United States. The El Peru crew accepted a compromise on these payments a year and a half ago, but they are still upset and feel that Freidel has ignored their complaints.
"I don't have more money than I have," he says. "You say you don't have benefits, but you have work."
"Es un cosa de realidad," says one of the workers. "It's a matter of reality.€VbCrLf Record inflation in the country has pushed the cost of essential food staples and fuel out of reach. The worker sums up his frustration with a country proverb. "If we don't cry, we never get the tit,€VbCrLf he says.
Freidel tells the men that he'll check with the treasurer of his foundation to see what might be done. The Mayans ride out of camp on trail motorcycles, their machetes in belt sheaths on their hips. English voices consult quietly in the mess hall. "If we raise their salaries, we might be able to put a new contract in place,€VbCrLf one says. "It gets us out of the benefits.€VbCrLf
Freidel knows he can't afford to alienate workers who know the site well. After a tomb discovery in 2006, looters raided that structure in the middle of the night. At times, indeed, Freidel's version of the project history has the flavor of a siege chronicle. In 2003, he says he was "surrounded by people trying to burn us out.€VbCrLf After the first tomb discovery in 2004, an army unit was committed to El Peru for protection. In spite of this show of force, he says a village leader in Paso Caballos with links to drug dealers arranged for thieves to steal the team's Mitsubishi truck. In the same year, Godoy and two workers were confronted in Paso Caballos by a group of unemployed men with machetes who demanded that the El Peru project stop hiring workers from other communities. The president of Guatemala came for a tour in 2005 and dispatched an army major to ratchet up security. Now, three years later, a brand-new colony of farmers is planting food crops just up the road.
When it is time for us to leave El Peru, Freidel heads out in a separate truck while I ride with Godoy. We pass the burned fields again, and Godoy points out how errant sparks have floated down and torched a reed bed in the river where crocodiles breed. Foreigners who read stories about the Laguna del Tigre park should understand that slash-and-burn farming is not a meticulous process. Fires sometimes spread unintentionally.
Back in Paso Caballos, an old woman in a bright hand-woven skirt balances a bowl on her head as she walks. She flashes a toothless grin when she sees a camera lens, then shyly hides her face with her hands. Godoy stops briefly to chat with a man who had hoped to work at El Peru this season. More unemployed men are sitting around, watching a young villager split firewood with an ax.
A source familiar with the El Peru project, requesting anonymity, supplies some helpful background. He says that the first American archaeologist put in charge of community relations in 2002 was so dictatorial that he came across as a racist. A year's worth of this foreigner's bossiness and condescension completely alienated the people of Paso Caballos, who kept petitioning the Americans to donate funds for the construction of concrete bridges-necessary infrastructure in a climate where spring rains turn dirt roads into soup. The team's Mitsubishi truck, parked unattended for two days by the riverside, went missing after these written requests proved ineffective month after month. Public opinion lightened up a bit in 2005, because the tomb discoveries were exciting, and the archaeologists were making an effort to explain the project in a way that helped the workers grasp its significance.
But according to Godoy, at least one of the community leaders in Paso Caballos was a guerrilla during the civil war that rocked the country from 1980 to 1996. And while Freidel considers the army "the one thing the narco-traffickers are afraid of,€VbCrLf many civilians in the countryside still see soldiers as bad guys. During the civil war, which began as a battle for land rights, 440 Mayan villages were destroyed by the U.S.-backed army and death squads that were no secret to the State Department. Today, the drug racket has bought out members of the army and police.
Godoy drives us past a little roadside stand that sells soft drinks and cake. Colorful woven goods are arrayed on a porch bench. Since 1999, the villagers have been trying to develop their own little eco-tourism business. Two non-governmental organizations, Conservation International and ProPeten, provided training and helped the villagers deputize a tourism committee. In the first year, the operation grossed $4,700 from guide fees and food sales to tourists. You can sign up on ProPeten's website for river and jungle excursions that employ the villagers. One of these is a guided tour of the archaeological ruins at El Peru.
The rest of the trip goes quickly. We visit Tikal, relatively close by, the main Mayan ruin that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Then we fly to Guatemala City to see the lab where the archaeology team's curators work. This facility is set up in the upper story of a house ringed with razor wire in one of the capital's safer neighborhoods. Treasures and remains unearthed at El Peru are brought here for scrutiny and classification, and the bones of kings and their noble ladies are neatly stacked on shelves in plastic bins.
We get back to the Holiday Inn just in time to order room service. We say goodbye to Freidel the following afternoon at DFW Airport. He is off to work on a grant application. A U.S. embassy officer he met with in Guatemala City told him that the State Department might be able to raise funds for his troubled outpost.
The minute I set down my travel bag down in my apartment back in Dallas, the contradictions in this story began to bother me. I had the viewpoints of a respected academic whom other writers had trivialized as an Indiana Jones persona. And I had eyewitness evidence of the grim reality facing the Mayans whom those writers had carelessly scripted as villains. I wondered how many American archaeologists actually had been killed in Guatemala in recent years by the fearsome network of squatters, looters, drug gangs, and parrot poachers. From what I could find, none had. On the other hand, the number of Mayan Indians killed by the Guatemalan government in disputes over land rights stands somewhere north of 200,000.
|DIG, DUG: (left) A ceramic bowl excavated from El Peru. (right) A jade relic thought to symbolize authority.
Some digging revealed that the new farmer colony worrying Freidel near El Peru is not at all a unique phenomenon. Today there are more than 1,100 ongoing land disputes in Guatemala, a country where 2 percent of the landlords own 62 percent of all farmland and 94 percent of the population is left with 18 percent of the soil that can be cultivated. This is the worst distribution inequality in Latin America, and the country's special prosecutor for human rights had already warned that the land battle was going to blow up if left unaddressed. Landless farmers have staged mass demonstrations, seized oil wells, and held tourists captive to publicize their plight. Like the others, the farmers in the new colony near El Peru were openly defying the authorities when they cleared land to feed their families. It just didn't make sense to me that men involved in criminal activity would make such a high-profile, confrontational stand.
I tried to get in touch with the director of the NGO who knows Paso Caballos well. Surely, Rosa Maria Chan at ProPeten could help me understand the dynamics on the ground. I called her office and left messages in Spanish with everyone who picked up the phone. I wheedled her cell-phone number out of a secretary and filled up her voice mail. Then, by e-mail, I sent Chan a set of detailed questions in Spanish. What was going on with this new community near El Peru? Did any of the men who'd split off from Paso Caballos have ties to the drug trade? Or were they just trying to grow food like everybody else? If the army did make a strong response, would innocent citizens be at risk? She never responded, which is common in our business, but this particular cold shoulder bugged me. Why wouldn't she want to get the word out about the troubles of her fellow Mayans? It made no sense, and it made me mad until I saw a report that activists who support the land rights movement were being assassinated.
I did get through to Richard Hansen, another American archaeologist who wants to leverage the tourist trade. Hansen's huge Mirador Basin project has been written up twice in the Wall Street Journal. Like Freidel, Hansen hopes to attract tourists who initially come to Guatemala to see Tikal. Freidel told me it was Hansen who arranged for General John Craddock, then in charge at U.S. Southern Command, to take a helicopter tour over the Laguna del Tigre park in 2006. After this trip, Craddock declared the park an "ungoverned space€VbCrLf and praised the Guatemalan government for activating a joint army-police task force. In the same article, the general mistakenly located Tikal inside the Laguna del Tigre park and lumped the squatter communities together with drug gangs as bad guys.
Logistically, Hansen doesn't think it would be hard to shut down the drug trade. "I shake my head," he said during our telephone interview. "All it would take is four Apache helicopters out there with rocket pods and an order to shoot to kill."
As I neared my deadline, a new report about the crisis in Guatemala began to percolate globally. One month after I learned that farmers were setting slash-and-burn fires in the new colony near El Peru, Reuters dropped a story about fires being set 10 miles farther north, near a Mayan ruin called La Corona. From Guatemala City, Brendan Kolbay wrote that a team of American and local archaeologists had to put down their digging tools and pour buckets of water on flames near the excavation. The headline: "Drug Gang Jungle Fires Threaten Guatemalan Ruins."
"Wow," I thought, "some brilliant journalist has finally found hard evidence that the fires are being set by the cartels and their henchmen, not just by hungry farmers."
No such luck. The report was the usual jumble of conjecture and secondhand information. The archaeologists told Kolbay that illegal settlers had started the fires, and he correctly noted that these invaders "see the archaeologists as a threat."Facts in the report linking farmers to drugs: zero. Interviews with settlers: none. Hundreds of miles from the smell of smoke, the American reporter simply took dictation over the phone from a scholar who did not want his research interrupted. The archaeologist divined that the fire-starters were the puppets of drug dealers, and Kolbay jotted down that this was "likely" the case. Out around the world went the verdict, to shape future stories and the policies of nations.
I read the report four times and shook my head. I thought about Paso Caballos-the old lady with the bowl of corn on her head, the giggling kids, and the men who work 12-hour days in the fields just to keep skin and bones together. They are blood descendants of the people who built the pyramids that archaeologists want to study in peace. But the farmers have to live in their troubled country all year long, where no action hero seems poised to rescue them anytime soon.


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In a pyramid I have the side plans $25^{\circ}$ from vertical line. I will make a L-shaped support in the corners. In the CAD I can see it will be $100.29^{\circ}$ between the planes. How can calculate this with formulas? Could not attach picture in the system but I can seen separate.
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Take $z$ axis up, and the base of the pyramid aligned with the $x$ and $y$ axes. I think you mean that one side plane has a normal vector $n = (0, \cos(25^\circ), \sin(25^\circ))$, and an adjacent side plane has normal $m = (\cos(25^\circ), 0,\sin(25^\circ))$.
Then the cosine of the angle between the perpendiculars is the dot product $$ n\cdot m = \sin^2(25^\circ) = 0.17861 $$ and this is equal to $(-\cos 100.29^\circ)$. The perpendiculars form an acute angle but your "L" fits inside, I assume, so is obtuse.


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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:33 pm
Post subject: Re-reading
I just posed this question over on AAR on Shelfari, but thought I'd ask about it here as well. Recently I've been re-reading Julie Garwood's Guardian Angel, and really, really loving it. It's as good as it was the first time around. What have you re-read recently, and has it been good for you?
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I've also been doing a lot of re-reading.Had a ball with Johanna Lindsey's Warrior's Woman,and Keeper Of The Heart. Just finished Julie Garwood's Honor's Splendour, and The Gift. For me these books have stood the test of time, and if anything I'd forgotten just how very good they are. I wish I could I pick up new releases and know I'm going to love the book, sadly that's not been the case for me, which is why I'm doing so much re-reading
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I've been doing a lot of re-reading the past few months through audio books in my car. So far I've mainly done some Nora Roberts and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Right now I'm listening to Natural Born Charmer by SEP, and am actually enjoying it more than when I read it the first time.
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I periodically reread Loretta Chase, Lisa Marie Rice, and Carla Kelly. I just finished rereading the early Catherine Anderson which I really enjoyed. When I'm tired, I'd rather reread an old favorite than start a new book because if it's not any good, I am irritated, and if it is, I'm too tired to read it!
When I reread a book, not only do I notice little tidbits that I didn't before, but I also don't have to worry that the hero or heroine will make a misstep. It's like meeting up with old friends. I can also skip those parts that I don't like, for example, some violence.
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I reread a bunch of JAK books earlier this year and enjoyed them as much as ever. I am currently rereading and enjoying the Liad series and seeing things I either never noticed or forgot between readings.
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The latest book I reread was Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller. These books never get old, and there are scenes that still make me want to bounce for joy.
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I re-read all the time. I used to do it far more often than I do now, because book mooch, PBS, and my awesome local used book stores allow me to buy in bulk. I re-read everything. I find that I like things probably a little more the second time around, and I have books in my collection that I've read up to 10 times, and a select few even more than that. My most recent re-read was Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas. I enjoyed it. Probably not as much as the first time, but still a goody. I noticed some things I hadn't before.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. -Louisa May Alcott
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End of the month & I'm broke. The only new book I've read this week was Ben Elton's Blind Faith on Monday. (Not great.) So yes, mostly rereading at the moment.
Yesterday it was Gaudy Night by Sayers, and before that I reread Heyer's The Foundling and Sylvester because I'd mentioned them both on the boards, which put them into my head.
Those are all books I must have read thirty, forty times - so I know I enjoy them, but they're so familiar that I wouldn't find anything new in them.
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I've recently reread
A Secret Love
by Stephanie Laurens, which made me reevaluate my low opinion of her.
I also regularly
St. Raven
by Jo Beverley. It has been a surprising comfort read and I'm not sure why!
"To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance." (G.K. Chesterton)
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:37 am
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One of my great joys is rereading books I really love. Right now, I'm under physical and mental pressure because the City fathers have decided to destroy many of the streets in our subdivison to install new storm sewers. Our street is torn up and it's virtually impossible to get out of my own driveway, and the daily racket is almost intolerable and definitely nervous-making. This is when I turn to my old beloved friends to reread them [it's better than Prozac and quite a lot cheaper]. I'm rereading Perfect Partners by JAK right now and enjoying it just as much as the first time I read it.
As Lynda X says above, when one rereads a favorite book, one notices little delights which escaped notice before. That enriches our whole experience of that author. Sometimes another thing occurs. Your whole perception of the book can alter on second or third reading. When I read JAK's Trust Me the first time, I liked it, but it was not my favorite of her books. After a few re-readings, it just got better and better, and is now one of my favorites of hers. I guess that the first time I read it, I was distracted and didn't pay close enough attention to plot development and the small, subtle touches of character development that have come to please me so much.
Mark Twain said somewhere in one of his writings something to the effect that when he was in his teens he thought his Dad was wrong a lot, but when he got into his twenties he was amazed at how much the old man had learned in three or four years.
Learning is a constant process. Thank God.
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I have to admit in the past I've hardly done any rereads accept by accident. I accidently reread Promise me by Kathleen Harrington within the last 2 months and decided to finish it. I have since reread Balogh's Slightly Dangerous, Cheryl St. John's His Secondhand Wife and Joe's Wife, Ranney's A Promise of Love, Teresa Mederios Yours until Dawn, Chase's Miss Wonderful (which I didn't like the 1st time but liked the @nd time) and Tanya Anne Crosby's Mckinnon's Bride. So I've found that a lot of books I've read lately are rereads and I'm having a really good time doing it.
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I am an avid re-reader. Sometimes I just want a comfort read with familiar people and a story where I already know what is coming. Sometimes I am just in the mood for a certain type of story or characters. Rather than take a chance on a new book, I'll reread a favorite. There are stories that I love and reread on a regular basis just because.
I am a fan of Christina Skye's Draycott Abbey books. She recently published a 2-in-1 book with the long out-of-print novella
"What Dreams May Come"
paired with another book from the series
Season of Wishes
, which I also reread.
I recently reread Amanda Quick's
, JAK's
Absolutely, Positively
, and Julie Garwood's
The Bride
The Secret
, and
Guardian Angel
Authors that are big rereads for me include Julie Garwood (earlier historicals,) Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz, Nora Roberts, Christina Skye (Draycott Abbey,) Diana Gabaldon, Mary Jo Putney, and Lynn Kurland.
So many books; so little time!
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:35 pm
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I have just recently re-read Judith Lansdowne's
Amelia's Intrigue
The Bedeviled Duke
. I have many of her books on my keeper shelf, but these are my favorites and I just realized why as I was thinking about your question, Laurie. It's because both of these books have major secondary relationships (neither are romances) that are both heartwarming and fun for me. In fact, these relationships form significant parts of the plots of the books. They are also quite funny in parts. For me that makes for a major comfort read.
When in doubt, read.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:24 pm
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I re-read all the time! A couple of months ago I went through the entire In Death series, and after reading the Stephanie Laurens thread I decided to go back and remember how much I like her lol and now I find myself re-reading Kresley Cole because everything she's written is so much fun to revisit
When I go to work, I always try to have a new book and an old favorite just in case the new one isnt working out
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:36 am
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I like to reread books by an author before reading a new release. I reread some older Edith Layton books before reading her latest release, His Dark and Dangerous Ways, and especially enjoyed her book of short stories, A Love for All Seasons.
I also read for comfort, especially Amanda Quick, JAK, and Lynne Graham. Many of my comfort reads are not necessarily my top favorite books. Sometimes those can be emotionally draining or require concentration that I don't have the time or energy for. I like rereading because I tend to speed read new books to find out what happens in the story but with rereading I already know the outcome so I can take it slower and savor the writing and mood.
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When it comes to Mother's Day, the choice of restaurant should reflect your mom's favorite flavors and cuisines. Luckily in Chicago, families have many numerous options that will delight mom. From simple elegance to bold fusion cuisines, these meals will make mom will feel appreciated for another 365 days.
Bites Asian Tapas
Bites Asian Tapas
The restaurant where food is fun makes Mother's Day a special celebration. To start the meal, all moms will receive a complimentary Mimosa to start (choice of orange, lychee or mango flavors) and a $10 gift certificate good for the next visit to Bites Asian Tapas.
Bites understands that food is a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds. A few menu highlights include Mom will love the colorful Asian brunch dishes, including the signature Green Tea Pancake with Matcha, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, almond and green tea ice cream; the Pulled Pork Waffle Asian styled pulled pork, BBQ sauce, scallion, and cheddar cheese; the Eggs Benedict with Vietnamese ham, poached egg, hollandaise sauce, served with Spinach Salad; the Korean Burger Korean Marinated Spicy Pork, lettuce, Fried Egg, Bi Bim Bap Sauce served with Taro Fries; and the Grilled Rib Eye Bahn Mi grilled medium rare rib eye, with lettuce, pickle, jalapeno, cilantro, spicy mayo and served with taro fries.
Complete your Mother's Day feast with an original dessert creation such as Coconut Crème Brulée, Asian Churros, or a refreshing Mango Chile Sorbet (organic and dairy-free).
Let mom be served like a queen at Waterleaf's elegant three course Mother's Day brunch. Guests will chose a starter, entrées and dessert from the contemporary American cuisine menu. . Brunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the menu is pricedat $38 for adults and $16 for children aged 12 and under. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (630) 942-6881.
- Croque Madame, Ham and Cheese, Fried Egg
- Chicken Liver Terrine, Cornichons, Niçoise Olive, Dijon, Toast Points
- Smoked Salmon, Grated Egg, Red Onion, Capers, Dill Crème Fraîche, Toast Points
- Roasted Corn Soup
- Bacon and Egg Casserole, Petit Salad
- Frittata, Potatoes, Roasted Bell Peppers, Kalamata Olives, Caramelized Onions
- Grand Marnier French Toast, Berry Compote
- Beet Salad, Upland Cress, Pleasant Ridge Reserve, Hazelnuts, Lemon Crème Fraîche
- Roasted Pork Tenderloin, Sweet Potato, Roasted Apricots
- Roasted Duck Breast, Potato Puree, Beets, Blackberry Sauce
- Petit Filet, Dauphinoise Potato, Asparagus, Champignon Sauce
- Pan Roasted Salmon, Baby Vegetable, Caviar, Champagne Sauce
- Halibut, Warm Fingerling Potato-Fennel Salad, Tomato Beurre Blanc
- Amish Chicken Breast, Scented with Lemongrass and Honey, Fava Beans, Potato Puree, Ginger Sauce
- Crème Brulée, Fresh Berries
- Chocolate Pave, Caramel Corn, Salted Caramel Ice Cream
- Sorbets, Cookie, Berry Coulis, Fresh Berries
- Lemon Mousse, Blueberries, Candied Almond
- Strawberry Shortcake, Sweet Cream, Crème Anglaise
Prairie Grass Cafe
Prairie Grass Cafe
Chefs Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris rise to the occasion for the restaurant's Mother's Day Brunch. This lavish brunch offers dishes that any mom will love. Served 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Prairie Grass Cafe brunch is priced at $45 per person for adults and $15 for children age 10 and under. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 847-205-4433.
The Mother's Day Brunch Buffet includes:
- Platter of Grilled Asparagus; Lemon Cream Sauce and Sliced Radishes
- Quinoa Salad with Arugula and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
- Pesto Pasta & Chopped Veggie Salad with Crumbled Amish Blue Cheese, Red Wine Vinaigrette (Broccoli, Cauliflower, Peppers, Tomato)
- Caesar Salad - Romaine, Our Homemade Dressing, Croutons and Shaved Parmesan
- Fresh Housemade Farmer's Cheese Served Savory with Chives & Fresh Black Pepper
- Our Signature Beef Shepherd's Pie
- Lightly Floured and Sauteed Whitefish with Local Portobello and Button Mushrooms
- Slow Roasted Lamb with Chunky Ratatouille
- Crispy Little Red Potatoes with Basil Remoulade
- Chicken Cutlets with Caper-Tomato-Butter Sauce, Sauteed Broccoli
- Crusty Multi Grain Artisan Breads, Mini Chocolate Croissants, Cheese Danish, Raspberry Jam Danish, Sticky Pecan Rolls
- Applewood Smoked "Maple Creek Farm" Bacon
- Homemade Maple Breakfast Sausage
- Roasted All-Natural New York Loin with Mushroom Sauce - Carved to Order
- Hot Fresh Waffle Station with Maple Syrup
- "Made to order" Omelet Station: "River Valley Ranch" mushrooms, onions, peppers, ham, spinach, cheddar, tomatoes
Dessert Buffet
- Crepe Station with Valrhona and Hazelnut Spread, Raspberry Jam and Whipped Cream
- Fresh Sliced Ripe Fruit
- Platter of Berries
- Double Chocolate Cup Cakes with Butter Cream Icing
- Mom's Fruit Cream Pie
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Crumble
- Mini Cream Filled Éclairs
Maxwell's at the Club
Maxwell's at the Club
Mother's Day is the one day mom can indulge in all her favorite foods. Maxwell's at the Club will offer an extensive buffet from 10 am till 3 pm on Mother's Day. From carving stations to a waffle bar, the time to worry about too many calories consumed is Monday. Brunch is $45 for adults, $15 for children $10 and under. Reservation are required and can be made by calling 312-527-5800, ext. 301.
Mother's Day Brunch Menu
Appetizers and Salads
- Chilled Poached and Roasted Salmon
- Chilled Shrimp
- Lox
- Toasted Bagels
- Sliced Tomatoes and Red Onions
- Seasonal Fresh Fruit and Berries
- Caesar Salad
- Kale Salad with Blueberries, Sunflower Kernels and Lemon Vinaigrette
- Mesclun Greens with Herb Vinaigrette
- Shrimp and Artichoke Heart Salad
- Tomato, Cucumber, Olive and Feta Salad
- Blackened Chicken, Corn and Black Bean Salad
- French Potato Salad
- Garbanzo Bean and Tuna Salad
- Lemon Quinoa Salad
- Pasta Salad with Tomato, Basil and Garlic
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- Roast Prime Rib of Beef with Au Jus and Horseradish Sauce
- Roast Turkey with Honey Mustard Sauce
- Roast Rack of Lamb with Mint Jelly
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- Eggs Benedict
- Broccoli, Mushroom and Cheese Quiche
- Waffle Bar
- Omelet Bar
- Sour Cream Pancakes and Blueberry Pancakes
- Chicken Marsala with Wild Mushrooms
- Tomato and Mozzarella Ravioli with Basil Pesto
- French Toast with Peaches
- Seafood
- Bacon
- Pork Sausage
- Chicken and Apple Sausage
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"Welcome to Psychedelicatessen, a weekly column exploring the world of cannabis cuisine, including recipes from the great chefs and ganjapreneurs who fuel our appetite for adventure."
Created by Bad Kat Smiles, an edibles aficionado and Maine medical caregiver, this is a twisted take on a traditional recipe that involves stuffing a succulent chicken breast with cheese, bacon, and a highly potent coconut oil infused with concentrated cannabis. The resulting product is savory and flavorful, with nary a hint of cannabis taste, but packing a soothing high.
Born and raised in rural Maine, Kat suffered from persistent health problems throughout childhood, including chronic sinus infections, sore throats, nausea and joint and muscle problems. After discovering cannabis as a teenager, Kat noticed she didn't feel ill the week following a smoke session, and she was determined to learn more about this healing plant. Since Kat has difficulty absorbing nutrition from food, she discovered that many traditional cannabutters failed to work for her.
After studying online medical publications and doing research into the bioavailability of cannabinoids, Kat developed a method of extracting concentrated cannabis resin using ethyl alcohol, and then infusing that concentrate into coconut oil. The medium-chain triglycerides found in coconut oil offer better THC availability so the body is able to more efficiently absorb and utilize the medicine. "My method breaks the cannabinoid clusters apart on a molecular level, allowing them to easily penetrate through cell walls for faster acting medication," Kat explains, "People who consider themselves edible-intolerant can absorb THC this way."
While Kat was often bedridden, she still yearned for a way to help others and educate them about this important herbal therapy, so she delved into the world of online forums. "It's the least I can do to help someone else," she says, "I credit cannabis with saving my life, and I want others to do the same." After participating as a moderator at the legendary Overgrow online community, Kat was inspired to start her own website, badkatscannapharm.com, where she has been dispensing advice and recipes since 2002.
With Maine's medical marijuana program picking up steam, Kat says she feels emboldened to step into the public sphere, and has been conducting concentrate and oil infusion classes. "I honestly didn't think we'd make so much progress so fast," she remarks, "Maine's getting there, but I wish they would increase the plant count and allow caregivers to help more patients."
Currently, patients in Maine are restricted to two and a half ounces of usable marijuana, six mature plants, and only one or two caregivers are allowed to grow for any one patient. Such strict limits can make it difficult to find enough cannabis to create concentrated oils, so Kat grows her maximum plant limit and donates all the medicine she doesn't use to other needy patients. This busy lady is preparing to release a CannaPharm book and DVD series soon, so be on the lookout for her helpful wisdom.
Bad Kat is also working to get an RV so she can help patients right at their doorsteps and create medicated meals on wheels! If she happens to take a trip through your town, be sure to greet her with this sumptuous dish.
Chickanna Cordon Bleu
Serves 4
• 4 slices of bacon
• 2 tsp medicinal cannabis oil (recipe follows)
• ¾ cup seasoned bread crumbs, divided (I used panko)
• 4 chicken breasts, pounded flat
• 8 oz of mixed Swiss, provolone, mozzarella & parmesan (about 8 slices of cheese)
• ½ tbsp crushed garlic
• 1 tbsp Italian herbs (basil, thyme, oregano)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 tbsp milk
• 4 teaspoons of flour
• 4 tsp bacon grease
First, cook the bacon. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Place bacon slices on a slotted broiler pan or a cooling rack over a Pyrex dish so the grease drips down into a container. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, and check the bacon frequently. Alternatively, you can fry your bacon in a pan over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes per side, or until the fat has rendered out and bacon is crispy. Drain on paper towels and set aside.
Turn the oven up to 415ºF. Kat says, "Don't worry about the temperature damaging your pot's potency, the moist interior of the chicken cordon bleu never reaches above 200ºF."
Mix your medicinal cannabis oil with 4 teaspoons of the breadcrumbs, set aside.
To flatten pieces of chicken, place one at a time inside a gallon freezer bag, or in between two sheets of plastic wrap or wax paper, and you may either pound gently with a meat mallet or roll flat with a rolling pin. Place each flattened chicken breast on a clean surface, smooth side down.
Place two half strips of cooked bacon (patted dry) on the wide end of one breast. Place a slice of cheese over the bacon. Place desired portion of medicinal breadcrumbs centered on the cheese slice. Place the second cheese slice on top so the sides of each slice meet, creating a pocket. Repeat with the other chicken breasts.
Blend garlic and dried herbs, and spread the paste with the back of a spoon along the remaining exposed chicken towards the narrow end; add salt and pepper to taste. Starting at the wide end, pinch and roll the breasts closed towards the narrow end. (We called this step "rolling a chicken blunt!") Keep the edges tucked under, and the smooth surface up. Without letting go, grab one toothpick and weave one side shut, then repeat with the other side.
Mix the beaten egg with the milk. To help the egg wash adhere to the chicken during cooking, sprinkle each chicken breast with a teaspoon of flour, this also helps the crumbs to take better hold of the egg wash. Baste with the egg wash (a simple paper towel section will do if you don't own a pastry brush or similar), sprinkle with the remaining breadcrumbs, and generously drizzle with bacon grease.
Bake 16 to 20 minutes until deep gold, and enjoy!
BadKat's CannaPharm
Medical Grade Cannabis Oil & Edible Hash Oil
• 7 grams dry cannabis flowers or 3 grams hash
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup melted coconut oil; (use less for more concentrated oil)
• 1 tsp soy lecithin
• Pyrex oven safe dish or a double boiler*
• container for oil storage (wide-mouth jars are great!)
• foil or an oven bag
• candy thermometer
Grind your cannabis and preheat your oven to 220ºF.
First, decarboxylate your ground cannabis flowers to ensure proper THC activation. Sprinkle your cannabis in your Pyrex dish, keeping the layer of herb no thicker than 1/2 - ¾ inch deep. A thin layer ensures proper heat exposure. With larger amounts of herb, you will need to decarb in multiple dishes or in separate batches.
If you are using hash, break it into chunks and sprinkle evenly. If you are using concentrated extracts (like wax, budder or shatter) pre-heat your Pyrex dish for a few minutes before spreading the extract into a thin layer.
Wrap container with foil or seal inside an oven bag, then place in oven or double boiler for 20 to 30 minutes for proper decarboxylation; about 15 to 20 minutes for obviously older herb, and 30 to 45 minutes for a freshly dried crop.
Heat your coconut oil in a saucepan until it's just too warm to touch, or ideally over 200ºF, according to a candy thermometer. When working with larger volumes, bringing the coconut oil up to temperature ensures a result consistent with a smaller quantity.
Add the melted coconut oil to the Pyrex dish, wrap again with foil or reseal inside an oven bag, and continue heating at 220ºF for 60 minutes. Remove dish from oven and allow it to cool to room temp. Then, freeze the dish for 6 hours, adding at least one hour for each additional ¼ cup of coconut oil.
Remove from freezer and thaw the coconut oil mixture to room temp. Preheat the oven to 220ºF, and continue heating for another 1 to 5 hours. Less time is needed if you desire a functional cerebral effect, and more time is required for a sedative, pain-relieving experience, which is useful for chronic pain and insomnia.
Remove from oven, let cool, and strain the medicated coconut oil through cheesecloth. Squeeze hard to get every last drop! Store your medicated oil in the fridge or freezer.
*If using a double boiler, follow all directions as described, but increase processing time by about 30 minutes to compensate for slightly decreased temperatures.


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Nokia's just announced the Lumia 1020, its next flagship smartphone, and probably one of the best cameraphones of all time. Now that that's happened, it's obvious that interest for the Lumia 920, the company's similarly looking, similar on the inside, yet void of that 41 MP camera sensor flagship from yesteryear would be at an all time low. To counter this 'Lumia 1020′ effect, one retailer in the UK has decided to hold a flash sale for the Lumia 920, chipping a cool £100 off of its SIM-free price.
As such, you can now get a Nokia Lumia 920 from Expansys for just £329.99, sans long-term contract – the device comes unlocked. The offer does have an expiration date, though. You have to act by July 22, which is next Monday.
Four colors are up for grabs in this promo. You can have the Lumia 920 in red, yellow, black, or white – they're all being sold for the same low(-ish) price.
The Nokia Lumia 920 is still a very decent offering in the Windows Phone world, so if you don't mind Microsoft's latest mobile operating system, perhaps you should grab one.


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Using the Instagram app on the iphone, this collection of images show that the mundane things in life can be thought provoking, inspiring and ultimately be transformed into individual works of art.
They are a wonderful collection of random thoughts and observations of our everyday life.
I am a London based photographer who has worked in the photographic industry for twenty years. I've been fortunate to have had pictures in all the British national papers, the Sunday press and many publications. My pictures have also featured in exhibitions at many of London's most prestigious galleries including The ICA, Hamiltons Gallery, the Royal Photographic Society and The Association of Photographers Gallery. I like my work to be challenging and varied, and enjoy playing with color, light and shade.
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Baker didn't fare so well in game two as MNU jumped all over the Wildcats in a 12-0 rout. The Pioneers scored 10 runs in through the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings.
Nathan Wheelock took the mound for the Wildcats on Saturday and finished with a dazzling 1-0 complete game shutout victory.
Baker scored its only run of the game in the fifth inning when Joshua Zach got the inning started after being hit by a pitch. After stealing second base, a misplayed Matt Fry ground ball to the infield scored Zach.
"I was actually more comfortable pitching from the stretch on Saturday," said senior Nathan Wheelock. "For a while there I was afraid we might not get anyone across the plate, but once we had the lead it definitely helped my comfort level."
Game two on Saturday saw the Wildcats fall 5-1 to the Pioneers. Baker tallied just three hits in the contest.
Baker (23-20, 11-7 HAAC) is currently tied with MidAmerica Nazarene for third place in the Heart of America Athletic Conference Western Division.
The Wildcats travel to the University of Kansas on Tuesday evening for a 6 p.m., showdown with the Jayhawks at Hoglund Ballpark. KU currently sits in last place in the Big 12 standings with a 2-9 record and 12-23 overall record.
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Nokia to lower mid-range handset prices in Taiwan, rest of world soon?
Nokia may own the largest chunk of the world's cellphone market, but apparently it isn't enough to shield them from the problems brought about by the slowing global economy. Nokia Taiwan's manager of client and market operations Tsung-kai Chen indicated that the impact of this phenomenon is more of a problem in the mid-range handset segment, in comparison to the low-end and high-end markets.
Regarding this issue, Cheng noted: "Low-end handsets are daily necessities and high-end handsets target consumers who are not buying handsets for necessity, and these two types of purchases are not as affected by the economy as much as the mid-range segments."
The solution that they see fit in order to keep the mid-range handset segment rolling is to adjust their pricing "in coordination with more market promotions to stimulate consumer demand." They are planning to do this first in Taiwan, but since the economy we're talking about here affects all regions in the world, it's not unlikely for Nokia to apply the same strategy elsewhere.
In any case, even if they don't decide on applying the price drops for all Nokia markets around the world by reason of the slowing global economy, then at least the upcoming holiday season should be enough reason. So have your pockets on the ready, just in case.
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Results tagged ' Rick Porcello '
Well folks, here we go again. Just an hour and a half away from the game that we all have been waiting for.
Just like last year, before a game of this magnitude and improbability, I can't help but think back on all that has transpired over the past 162 games. All the opportunities we had to be in the playoffs outright right now, vs. all the times we came back when we probably shouldn't have won.
However, all that is behind us now. All either team has to do is take care of business…and we have "Dome turf".
Preview (86-76, T-1st w/DET): Rick Porcello (14-9, 4.04) vs. Scott Baker (15-9, 4.36).
And Here…We…Go!
Well folks, it all comes down to this. Four games that will likely determine the course of the 2009 American League Central division. The Tigers are playing like they have all season (up and down, just waiting for someone to pass them), while the Twins are on fire when not facing Mr. Grienke and his practically unhittable stuff (just ask Jason Kubel). Of course, the great equalizer is Comerica Park, where the Tigers have played even better than the Twins have at the Dome this season.
This is what September baseball is all about!
Preview (81-74, 2nd, 2.0 GB DET): Nick Blackburn (11-11, 4.18) vs. Rick Porcello (14-9, 4.14).
On another note, Ozzie The Nut is at it again.
http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=chw (Click on Ozzie Rips White Sox)
These kind of rants… are exactly why I hate this guy so much. If I were a player (even one that might very well be in the doldrums), I would be personally offended by that type of language and the kinds of names he calls people. I wonder how the truly professional Sox like Konerko, Dye, and the now-departed Thome feel about that kind of bull crap?
Thoughts From The First Two Games
A few random thoughts from the first two games of the current Twins-Tigers series:
-Though going 16 innings and losing is bad enough for players and fans alike, I really can't pin the blame on anyone in particular. The Tiger bullpen was just throwing gas, and the Twins' batters were (by and large) having decent at-bats. They just couldn't string enough hits together to get that elusive run across the plate.
-The Twins showed a little moxie today after Liriano gave up the big fly to Magglio Ordonez to give the pinstriped ones their short-lived lead. In a game that needed to be won, the Twins came up with some clutch at-bats and were able to get the job done. Now, we just need to take care of business tomorrow and things will be okay again.
-I never like to see a pitcher like Kevin Slowey go on the disabled list, but hopefully this will give him some time to either: A. get his wrist checked out, or B. get his mind right and back in that groove he had been in until a week or so ago. Swarzak can probably fill in decently for Slowey, but we need Kevin back to his Brad Radke-esque form, where he can pitched deep into games and always give us a chance to win.
-I really think that Denard Span and Carlos Gomez need to stop fighting over outfield assists. Eventually there is going to be a nasty train-wreck out there if they don't get on the same page. I think the problem is that both players, being center fielders by natural position, are used to calling off all other fielders (usually the CF's perogative) to catch the ball. However, Span is playing out in left alot recently, and in the back of his mind he probably knows that Gomez doesn't take the best routes to balls but will scream for the catch anyway.
-Former Cubbie star Mark Grace was showing some serious love for the M&M boys today in the FOX TV broadcast. Well-deserved, too, as they contributed to most of the scoring. I look forward to watching them in the All-Star Game (which the roster for will be released tomorrow, by the way).
-Finally, today's Fourth of July holiday also marks the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig giving what is now famously known as his 'Luckiest Man" speech. I know that the Iron Horse was second-banana to The Babe for so many years, but in that moment he showed what was truly in his heart all that time…kindness, gentleness, yet a competitive spirit that made him choked up over being taken out of a lineup when he was actually dying. It still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. Greatest first baseman of all-time? Yes. Is there really any other serious competition?!
-Of course, for a little lighter holiday fare, you could check out the annual SciFi Channel Twilight Zone marathon. Still a creepy show all these years later!
Preview (42-40, 2nd, 0.5 GB CWS for 2nd): Rick Porcello (8-5, 3.90) vs. Nick Blackburn (6-4, 3.10). Need to win this series…that is all.


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Perfect season
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While the Dolphins may have had limited (okay, basically no) success this season, I personally did. I was in ESPN's eliminator, and wound up a perfect 17-0, besting even the mighty Patriots!!!
I was one of the scores of fans who entered, and one of only 470 people who finished unbeaten.
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Breaking barriers
Local CSUCI student redefines autism
By Michael Sullivan 05/17/2012
Calvin Nye, 23, is one of more than 1,300 students who will be graduating this weekend from Cal State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI). Actually, he graduated in December, but will participate in the commencement ceremony to officially commemorate his achievement.
Calvin is a fine arts major, having spent most of his life drawing. His latest interest is in creating comic books; he has already self-published one edition, a dark-humor comedy called #Ricky the Fangirl Killer#. Just recently, he came up with the plot for his next book: a 19-year-old superhero named Joe Hero who inherited super powers but, because he was diagnosed with autism, has to learn how to cultivate his powers while dealing with his condition. This story wasn't just derived out of thin air, however. It is based on Calvin's life.
"I want to promote autism awareness," Calvin said, relaying that he would tell his story through Joe Hero while helping others understand the disorder.
Calvin was diagnosed with high-functioning autism when he was 4. This came after years of observations made by his parents, Cathi and Jim, that Calvin seemed to be experiencing some delays in development, particularly in language. He had also displayed peculiar behaviors, which included issues with his attention span, such as fixation focusing. Cathi and Jim had been told Calvin was deaf, but that didn't seem to fit the symptoms. It would take another year before they ended up at UCLA Medical Center Pediatric Department and the doctors were finally able to diagnose Calvin. For some, such a diagnosis would be a shock, but not for Cathi and Jim.
"We were relieved," Cathi said, noting their search had been underway for so long, they were prepared for the answer. "We were already there (at UCLA for the autism diagnosis). Our thought was, 'So now what do we do?' "
The pieces then began to fall together. Cathi and Jim joined FACT (Family, adult and children therapies) via UCLA, a program that provides support for families with members who have been diagnosed with autism. Cathi and Jim joined a parents' support group; Calvin's sister joined a sibling support group; and Calvin joined a group with other kids with autism. (FACT is now independently operated in association with UCLA.) Calvin began speech therapy. They went to Oxnard-based Tri-Counties Regional Center, which provides an array of services, including assistance and support for children and adults with autism.
Calvin's development disposition improved greatly over the years. Jim recalled major signs of progress.
"Every spring, he would make huge cognitive leaps," Jim said.
For the most part, with the exception of preschool, when he was first diagnosed, Calvin acclimated well in school. In fact, he was the first child with autism who was fully included in a regular education program with the Ventura Unified School District. He was in the open classroom program, now called Ventura Charter.
Shortly before Calvin graduated from Foothill Technology High School, his teachers had recommended that he enroll straightaway into a four-year university, rather than ramp up for the experience at the local community college. Jim said that was a surprise, thinking that it would be better for him to get his feet wet at Ventura College rather than to go full throttle at a university. But Calvin's family decided he should go for it.
When Calvin enrolled at Cal State University, Channel Islands, he became involved in student affairs and the campus disability resource program. He also became a motivational speaker, addressing students, teachers and parents about what it is like have autism and how to cope with the symptoms, such as social awkwardness, the inability to make eye contact and the common problem of misconstruing casual conversations. He also worked as a caregiver for families with children who have autism. Through his work, Calvin has become aware of when such symptoms arise in his own life. He also has a keen ability to recognize others who have autism. Developing his acute awareness hasn't been easy.
Calvin has already self-published his first comic book,
a dark-humor comedy called Ricky the Fangirl Killer.
"I used to get pretty upset about the mention of autism," Calvin said. He said that he wanted to be like everyone else. The struggles that Calvin had and still has in social environments, however, aren't too dissimilar from those of most people. He said he can't be certain when his social frustrations are normal or when they are symptoms of autism. It seems that the only difference between Calvin and anybody else is that some of his socially awkward moments have a name.
He relayed that his biggest struggle remains in social conversation.
"Information given to me — I misconstrue it for something else," he said. "Accidentally, it will sound like an insult. It is pretty common that information is processed in different ways."
The paradox for Calvin is that even though he has done much outreach in helping others understand autism, he just wants to live life like any other person. And by all accounts, he is doing that. He lives with friends in a home in Camarillo, and he works at the meat counter at Vons, all the while creating and self-publishing comic books.
"It's not impossible to have a good life," Calvin said.
According to those close to Calvin, he has accomplished much for autism causes.
"Calvin serves as an inspiration," said Damien Peña, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at CSUCI. He also oversees the campus disability resource program, which includes tools for students with autism to level the playing field and help them to be successful. Peña said that Calvin is an example of what a person with autism can accomplish. While Peña said he is certain that students with autism have graduated from CSUCI, Calvin is the first to graduate having self-disclosed his condition.
"Our university is paving the way and creating the opportunity to be successful on our campus," Peña said, referring to the numerous services available to students via the disability resource center.
Peña's son, 4, was diagnosed with autism at 18 months of age, and Peña and his wife, Edlyn, were named Family of the Year last month by the Autism Society Ventura County. Cathi Nye founded the local chapter of the Autism Society of America in 1994, which provides families with numerous resources, a listing of related events and information about the condition.
Sharon Francis, CEO and founder of Channel Islands Social Services and who serves on the board of Autism Society Ventura County, came to know the Nye family when she worked at Tri-Counties Regional Center.
"Calvin is a pioneer for being willing to share his story," Francis said.
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Wondering how we can take the public schools from a test-and-punish system to one focused on helping schools improve? If not now, when will America be ready for the alternative to No Child Left Behind (NCLB)? (UPDATE: The Every Student Succeeds Act signed into law on 12/10/15 does not fix what was wrong with NCLB. Bad choice.)
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DETROIT — General Motors is introducing an industry-first rear seat reminder that warns drivers that they may have left someone behind. The feature is standard on the 2017 GMC Acadia SUV. The system monitors the rear doors. If either door is
Driven by popularity of SUVs.
COLUMBUS — Memorial Day marked the beginning of the busy season for car-rental services, and one company is offering an unusual option to help individuals who need cars and those who have cars to rent find one another. Turo is a
DETROIT — General Motors Co. will add at least 700 engineering, software development, and urban mobility jobs at three sites in Canada. The expansion will take place at a technical center in Oshawa, Ont., a new Urban Mobility Center in
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Fiat CEO Marchionne has been pursuing partnerships with tech companies.
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I'm looking for information on what the most common FTP server software is. This information is readily available for web server software, but I can't find the equivalent for FTP server software. Is this information available anywhere?
The goal of this is for an FTP client being created. Clients have different options available and different responses to errors, so having a list of servers that could be tested against would be helpful. Straight implementation of the FTP spec seems to be only partway to what we need. Knowing common servers to test against would be helpful to make sure all cases are handled correctly.


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Extraterritorial rights
From Conservapedia
Extraterritorial rights are rights of foreigners outside of ("extra-") their own country. These rights are negotiated by diplomats from more powerful countries. For example, Americans and Europeans in the late 19th and early 20th century enjoyed extraterritorial rights in China. They could not be tried in Chinese courts; their embassies tried and punished any crimes they committed.
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- Crawford M. Bishop, "American Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in China," American Journal of International Law, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr., 1926), pp. 281-299 in JSTOR
- "Extraterritoriality and the United States Court for China," American Journal of International Law, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Apr., 1907), pp. 469-480 in JSTOR


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Bruce Davis, 70, is denied release because he is still "a danger to society", the California governor says.
23:11, UK, Friday 01 March 2013
A former member of the murderous Charles Manson family cult - who has served more than 40 years in prison - has been denied parole.
California Governor Jerry Brown overturned the recommendation of a parole board that had recently approved the release of 70-year-old Bruce Davis.
The governor had the final say on Davis' release.
Mr Brown announced his decision after a meeting with Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey.
"I find the evidence ... shows why he currently poses a danger to society if released from prison. Therefore, I reverse the decision to parole Mr Davis," Mr Brown said in a written opinion.
Davis would have been just the second Manson-related convict to be granted parole since the infamous killing spree began in 1969.
He was convicted along with Manson and others in the murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.
Steve Grogan, another participant in those murders, was released many years ago after he led police to the remote movie ranch where the bodies were buried.
Davis was not involved in the notorious murder of Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, who was more than eight months pregnant when she was killed along with four other people in her home.
Davis, who was 30 when he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972, said for years he was a bystander in the two killings. But he recently has acknowledged sharing responsibility because he was present for the crime.
California's previous governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, rejected Davis' previous parole date in 2010, citing the heinous nature of his crimes and deciding that he was still a danger to society.
Davis became a born-again Christian in prison and married a woman he met through the prison ministry.
The couple, who recently divorced, have a grown-up daughter.
Davis also earned a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy of religion.
Manson and three members of his communal cult dubbed the Manson family - Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles "Tex" Watson - remain in prison for life over the Tate killings.
Co-defendant Susan Atkins died in prison of cancer in 2009.
Manson's apocalyptic cult committed a series of murders in upscale, mostly white neighbourhoods of Los Angeles in the hope of sparking a race war.
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El Corona Safehouse
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El Corona Safe House is a home owned by Carl Johnson, who buys the property for $10,000. The home has two garages and is based in El Corona. The Varrios Los Aztecas control El Corona and for a period the Los Santos Vagos control the area. Both gangs will attack Carl Johnson whilst at his home. The home is in the same street as Cesar Vialpando's home.