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Flatbread With Caramelized Onions & Cheese
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Prep 45 mins
Cook 25 mins
This is a very versatile dish from Bonnie Stern who has owned a cooking school in Toronto Canada for over 30 years. It can be served at a cocktail party, as an appetizer or as a main course with a side salad. My DH & I have been known to devour the whole thing, with a few glasses of wine, on a Saturday night!!
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 large onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄2 lb frozen puff pastry (defrosted but cold)
- 6 ounces brie cheese, diced (rind removed)
- 6 ounces mild blue cheese, diced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chervil or 2 tablespoons parsley
- Heat oil over medium high heat in a large skillet.
- Add onions; cook until wilted& starting to brown.
- Add sugar, vinegar, salt& pepper.
- Reduce heat& cook gently for 15- 25 minutes or until onions are caramelized& brown.
- Cool.
- Roll pastry into a rectangle approximately 12 x 16 inches. I don't use the sheets of puff pastry - I prefer to use the 375gm package of Tenderflake Puff Pastry. I start rolling it out on my counter, then I transfer it to my baking tray (which has been lined with parchment paper) and roll the pastry to fit the tray. Since puff pastry is very "forgiving", you can "cut & paste" if necessary.
- Spread onions over pastry.
- Dot with cheese& sprinkle with chervil.
- If you are preparing this for a party, you can prepare to this point and refrigerate- then bake later.
- Bake in preheated 400F oven for 20- 25 minutes or until cheese has melted& pastry is crisp.
- When removed from the oven, it will be puffed right up but allow it to cool for 5 minutes & it will fall back down. Cut into 20 serving pieces - this is easier done with kitchen scissors instead of a knife - then cut each piece in half diagonally.
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this was fabulous--very savory Served at a party and was a huge success--and sooooo easy, my 13 year old made it
FABULOUS!!!!!!!! OMG this is good!!! easy and so delicious... followed exactly, thanks SO much.
Delicious! I'm always testing recipes in advance for parties and tried this one over the weekend and DH and I loved it! I really like the fact that it can be put together ahead of time (which I did) and baked at the last minute. Super easy for parties. Thanks so much for posting a keeper!


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There's a Jade Serpent pet in the files. My guess is you buy the pet and portrait as a single trade on the CN shop. Serpents are Chinese dragons after all.
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What would only affect seasons? The cube?
the fact that one player would have more legendary effects off the bat then another player.
That doesn't matter much, since all players have non-season chars, but not all will have S4.
I simply don't see a reason, why Blizz won't make it a collectible first.
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...regardless of build.
I really hope the devs make it balanced so that we are not gimping our DPS too much by using other cubed weapon passives.
Also I salvaged the 1 Furnace I found after months of playing and don't know when I'll find another. lol
I feel you, they are indeed rare!
However, a blue post said you can only put items found AFTER the patch in the cube collection. So no need pre-patch hoarding!
Haven't seen a blue post for that, however I am 90% certain that is what they will do anyway, they have said in the past they don't want to create a culture of hoarding, not wanting a "just in case" player choice.
What you're doing right now is hoarding though. You're hoarding until the cube arrives. It will almost definitely be for new items only.
It would be unfair for new players or players that haven't played recently, since you'll have 95% of all bonuses in the game on day 1. None of that is good game design. I'd be quite surprised if Blizzard gives retroactivity on this, though I suppose it's not impossible.
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Nothing Vyr will drop for me ever. God damn it.
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The sets introduced with RoS don't unlock Transmogs. That's going to be in 2.1, as Korru mentioned.
May 24, 2014overneathe posted a message on i guess i found something....Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionThats awesome, i had to laugh so hard when i saw my troll made it up to reddit and incgamers.
Dont hate me guys, its just a very clever photoshop. I actually just wanted to see how fast it spreads
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That is some good news for ArtsWest! Thanks Brendan for shining some light on this story. I hope anyone who read this story and is interested in the play will check out the ArtsWest production, Nick DeSantis is a wonderfully talented actor.
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On the other hand, Nick Garrison would have been brilliant in the role. Hopefully, he'll get another shot at it one of these days.
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In many Jewish communities, there is a custom to eat dried fruit from the Land of Israel on Tu b'Shvat (the 15th of Shvat). It marks the "New Year" for the fruit of the trees, and this year it falls on Jan. 26.
A look at the origins of this custom show why it was initially quite meaningful, but makes little sense and is even quite ironic today.
Tu b'Shvat evolved over time. Originally it was nothing more than a demarcation line between two years' worth of crops, with ramifications for the various annual tithes and contributions — taxes, in essence — required by Jewish law. It was not a holiday in any sense. But during the long exile, when few Jews were able to live in the Land of Israel, and the original meaning of Tu b'Shvat became irrelevant, many Jewish communities began eating fruits symbolically on Tu b'Shvat, imbuing it with a sense of celebration and longing to return. In the 16th century, the mystics of Safed intensified the celebration, and an elaborate ritual meal was developed around the eating of the land's produce. Tu b'Shvat has continued to evolve, especially after the Jews returned en masse to their ancient homeland over the past century, but the custom of eating the fruit of the land has persisted.
Most particularly, it became customary to eat dried fruits on Tu b'Shvat. I grew up in the U.S., and my Orthodox elementary school celebrated Tu b'Shvat with dried fruits that, if they did not actually come from Israel, were supposed to remind us of Israel. Pressed figs, dried dates, and raisins — all dehydrated forms of the seven crops for which the Holy Land was known — featured prominently. Dried apricots were thrown into the goody bags, perhaps to add some color or as a nod to the State of Israel's modern and diversified agriculture. Then there was carob — bokser in Yiddish – which in its dried state seemed less like a food and more like something with which to make shoes.
It is obvious how the custom to eating fruit in its dried form specifically developed. Like Groundhog's Day, Tu b'Shvat is linked to the midpoint of winter, halfway between the solstice and the vernal equinox. This is the time of year when fresh fruit was least likely to be available, especially in the cold countries of the Ashkenazic diaspora. Drying fruit was a way to make it more durable and portable: it could last through the winter and also would not spoil or spill in transit. As a rule, until modern times, the only way that a diaspora community could obtain fruit from Israel for Tu b'Shvat was if it was in its dried form. Even in the land of Israel, dried fruit would have been more abundant at this time of year. Thus, we have an example of a custom born out of a very straightforward reality.
Still, old habits die hard. Even with the advent of refrigeration and rapid transport, which would enable Jews in the coldest climates to get fresh fruit in the winter, the old habit of eating dried fruit on Tu b'Shvat remained. So grade schoolers in Israel and the diaspora continue to suffer through the leathery bokser rather than enjoy fresh apples and oranges. It is part of the experience, we are told.
In Israel, the persistence of this custom takes on an ironic dimension, as much of the dried fruit available there is imported, especially from Turkey. Each Tu b'Shvat, domestic growers engage in marketing campaigns and rabbis issue exhortations encouraging their target audiences to purchase and consume Israeli dried fruit instead of imports. After all, the original custom was to celebrate the bounty of the Holy Land.
Yet there is a much simpler solution: Eat fresh fruit.
The custom of eating dried fruit began only because fresh fruit from Israel was not available; dried fruit was never the ideal. While it may be appropriate to include one dried item on the Tu B'Shvat menu, as a reminder of times gone by, today we can celebrate Israel's agricultural bounty in a much tastier and dizzying variety of ways.
As its agricultural sector shrank in proportion to the overall GDP, and as it became clear that it is not terribly wise for a semi-arid country to export water-intensive crops like citrus fruits, Israel has emerged at the forefront of efforts to breed new varieties of fruits and vegetables; Israel's crops are now more durable, sweet and exotic, and less thirsty. Perhaps it is this sort of bounty, the product of the union of Israel's rich soil and human genius, that ought to be celebrated on Tu b'Shvat.
This Jan. 26, why not enjoy a revital, the Israeli-bread nectarine varietal with the texture and flavor of a mango? Or a pomelit, a grapefruit-pomelo hybrid developed in Israel? Or a brown-fleshed chocolate persimmon?
A passage from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook suggests that this transition from a small set of dried fruits to a wide array of fresh ones may serve as an apt metaphor for contemporary Jewish experience, especially since the return to the land of Israel. Diasporic Jewish existence is like a dried fruit: flavor and freshness are sacrificed in the interest of durability and portability. Where Jewish experience is fuller and more wholesome, we are free to explore its possibilities for freshness and newness without having to focus on surviving a hostile climate and a bitter winter.
A little something to chew on along with the bokser.
Elli Fischer is a writer and translator from Modiin.
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I had no idea anybody thought that the minhag was to eat dried fruit as opposed to fruit. Kind of sad. As some would ask, what's the hava amina?
I must say I am quite disappointed in the author. Such a thoughtful, analytical and well written piece, but he misses one key and crucial element to support his argument. In the entire article, there is not one mention of the Sephardic communities in the diaspora and how in fact they did celebrate Tu Bi'Shvat with FRESH fruit. In Montreal (where I grew up), my family kept with this tradition by enjoying Fresh Fruit on Tu Bi'shvat. This is pretty self explanatory, given the proximity of Turkey, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Iraq (to name a few) and North Africa (less so) to Israel and the warmer climates these countries enjoyed. Furthermore, the statement in the article "As a rule, until modern times, the only way that a diaspora community could obtain fruit from Israel for Tu b'Shvat was if it was in its dried form." is factually incorrect as it excludes Jews in the Diaspora from Middle East and North African countries. Saddens me a bit that even today, such a well written article, and seemingly intelligent author, would ignore the customs and culture of Sephardic Jewry where it is clearly relevant and supports the author's argument and analysis. Keepin' it Fresh.
One should keep in mind that fruits from Eretz Yisrael require the separation of terumot and ma'aserot.
True -- the dried fruit almost always has t'ruma and maaser taken ahead of time (look for the hashgakha). Some fruit does, too -- check with the individual company.
Gideon - print publications have spelling conventions. On his blog, Fischer spells it Tu Bi-Shvat.
Another irony: Spelling the holiday's name with an apostrophe. The name is pronounced Tu biShvat. The letter in the second word is a bet with a Hirik underneath. The apostrophe does serve as a reminder of how widespread Hebrew illiteracy is. I don't know of any other case when an apostrophe is used for a short i sound. (The origin of the apostrophe in some people's transcription of Hebrew words is the fact that the vowel in certain "particles" that serve as conjunctions depends on the immediate sound context. This is only important for understanding the workings of Hebrew, and the use of the apostrophe only serves to confuse people, or, in many cases, to encourage the use of the wrong vowel, in this case Tu beShvat or Tu buh Shvat are examples of errors that you can hear frequently.)
In English, the apostrophe stands in for a missing letter. In the above case, apostrophe is correct since it replaces i. Moreover, by using the apostrophe, the author can elegantly introduce a separation between the preposition bi and the root shvat.
the apostrophe usually stands for sh'va na, so I think Gideon is correct (except in his use of the word irony).
Tu Bishvat: http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-on-tu-bishvat.html


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Ohio has as many classic stories as it does unique food attractions. The latest CBS Sunday Morning Roadside made a stop in Waldo, Ohio.
There, fried bologna sandwiches are the biggest draw in the middle of the town's local institution, G&R Tavern. The 35-year-old pub on Mario Street attracts loyal customers from miles around who enjoy the "world famous bologna" – maybe the biggest you have ever seen.
It is not the thin, packaged bologna people normally want to forget from childhood, as a waitress explains. This one-of-a-kind bologna is sliced thick as hamburgers and the logs of meat are made just for the restaurant.
To make everybody happy is impossible. But G&R Tavern pushes the limit. Mary Blevins, co-owner of the pub, says they will change the flavor attending to individual's needs.
Nevertheless, most people come for the same toppings – jack cheese, pickles and onions.
"What makes it good is from the heat of the grill," says Ms. Blevins. "It really fries [the sandwich] very crispy on both sides."
No highbrow stuff, it is just simple and solid food at "country" prices. But sometimes, that's where to find the real food, not to mention a nice drive on the country road. And, customers say, they can never have enough of it.
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The Unquenchable Thirst
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Theodore Ziolkowski
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Catholicism and modernity has proven to be a volatile mix. Illustrations are legion, and perhaps as tiresome as they are inescapable in the daily lives of Catholics. The two Vatican Councils present very different equations for the relationship. Today the church can be understood as a constant negotiation toward a grammar and syntax for the church and the modern world.
Theodore Ziolkowski did not write Modes of Faith to address that question, exactly, yet the book provides vivid examples of what it can mean for a modern person to negotiate the competing claims of tradition and contemporary life. Ziolkowski focuses on the arresting fact that, in the decades surrounding World War I, many leading writers experimented with new forms of belief and practice. He examines, with empathy and lucidity, more than thirty such experiments. Many involved were Catholic, lapsed or practicing (including renowned writers such as James Joyce and Ignazio Silone, and less well-known but rewarding exemplars of this theme like Roger Martin du Gard and Alfred Doeblin). They explored, in print and in practice, a number of new "modes of faith": art for art's sake, pilgrimage to the East, socialism, mythology, and utopian social orders. Each of these "secular surrogates" captured the imaginations, in print and in practice, of various creative geniuses who struggled with what belief might be in the modern world....
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The iPad, Along With Apps Like The Forthcoming Miso Music, Are Slowly Transforming The Way Music Has Been Taught For Centuries
About two years ago, Miso Media CEO Aviv Grill received a phone call that changed the course of his three-person iPhone/iPad development company.
It was from the parents of co-founder/chief technology officer Ryan Tsukamoto. They were in Japan on vacation, but Tsukamoto was spending the entire time coding a new app that he had just devised while on the trip. "They called me asking if I could help get him out of the hotel lobby," Grill recalls.
But Tsukamoto wouldn't budge. He returned home with the framework for a music education app that combined polyphonic note-detection technology with "Guitar Hero"-like gameplay mechanics, in order to act as a sort of virtual music teacher. That kernel of an idea grew to become Miso Music, one of several new, instructional apps now collectively transforming the field of music education.
The iPad, launched a year ago, has been followed by a deluge of apps designed as virtual representations of real instruments: Magic Piano, iBone, iCanDrum and Apple's own Garageband for iPad. The next step? Leveraging those devices' features to teach people how to play a genuine guitar or piano, rather than pretend to play a fake one.
According to music educators, the iPad's mix of touch-screen display, computer-grade processing power and lightweight portability could conceivably transform music education in a way not seen since the home videotape or personal computer.
"The iPad has tremendous potential for teaching music," says Gabriel Smith, founder/CEO of Legacy Learning Systems, a 13-person outfit based in Nashville that started creating video-based education programs in 2006. Last year it took its first stab at app development, teaming up with Gibson Guitar for the Gibson Learn & Master Guitar iPhone app, which won the best branded app honor at Billboard's 2010 Music App Awards. The iPad has "changed our focus in terms of the types of instruction products and concepts we're developing," Smith says. "It's caused us to really question what's the best way to teach music.
"Consider the Miso Music app. By functioning as a sort of virtual teacher, it offers an experience that's superior to other music instruction tools. Users learn to play along to songs licensed from Sony/ATV by replicating the tablature notes that scroll across the screen in real time. Stuck on a note? The scroll stops until it hears the user play the right one, then continues. The interface is similar to "Guitar Hero," except the technology recognizes the notes the user actually plays, rather than just the position of his or her fingers.Other features include a strobe tuner, automatically generated scale notations and a music theory section. Miso Music will ship with a handful of free songs, and users can buy additional ones priced between 99 cents and $3. Early demos of the app helped score the startup $600,000 in seed funding from a range of investors that included Google Ventures. The demos also won the People's Choice Award at last year's TechCrunch Disrupt conference and earned the company an invite to present the app at the upcoming NAMM conference. Miso Media has also added Justin Timberlake as an investor and adviser, with plans to have him help promote the app once it's released, which is expected to be soon.
But using the iPad as a music teacher isn't without its challenges or limitations. For starters, it's limited to certain instruments, particularly those with keyboards or strings. Forget wind instruments: While such apps as iBone or Ocarina may let users blow into the speaker to simulate a trombone or flute, they're unable to teach embrasure or proper fingering/positioning. String instruments aren't much easier. It's simple enough to replicate a set of strings on a touch screen, but more difficult to correct students who place their fingers on those strings improperly.
"There are a lot of variations," says Rick Peckham, assistant chairman of the guitar department at the Berklee College of Music. "The way Jimi Hendrix would play a chord would be different than the same chord played by John Lennon or B.B. King. It's more complex than a keyboard." But that's not to suggest there isn't any benefit. Peckham, who served as a consultant to Harmonix for the creation of its Pro mode in "Rock Band 3," says the iPad has great potential to make practice more fun and more productive.
"There's a lot of repetitive things we do that never seem to end that may be made more palatable," he says. "It lights up possibilities and makes productive practice more attractive to our students."
And if the iPad and tablets like it change the music education game the way these experts expect, it couldn't happen at a better time. State and local governments are under extraordinary pressure to enact budget cuts, with spending on education an easy target. According to Americans for the Arts, local and state funding for the arts fell 8% and 10%, respectively, last year from the year prior. The National Assn. for Music Education says less than half of U.S. students get a "credible" music education in school, and less than 12% of high school students participate in their schools' music programs. And it's far less costly to put iPads in students' hands than some instruments.
Already, a handful of schools nationwide are beginning to experiment with iPads as textbook replacements. Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa.-a small, Catholic liberal arts college-began handing out iPads and MacBooks to students last fall. The school board in Winthrop, Minn., bought 230 iPads for its schools earlier last year. And at Berklee, where students are already required to buy a MacBook Pro as part of their course materials, Peckham foresees a day when the iPad may become a similar requirement.
"These tablets are going to become more and more omnipresent," Peckham says. "And where there's a platform, developers will come up with productive things for people to use."
That's exactly what developers like Legacy Learning Systems and Miso Media have planned. It's impossible to predict how pervasive these new teaching systems will become, or how they'll affect the state of music education. But the phenomenon will be worth watching, as more tablets begin to flood the marketplace to compete with the iPad. Legacy's Smith says, "It's going to revolutionize what we're doing so dramatically, it's hard to conceptualize some of the things that are going to come out."


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I liked how easy it was to make, and I liked the ingredients. My husband loved this recipe whereas I couldn't even finish a plate. I found tangy and bland. To me, it simply tasted like plain yogurt on noodles. I won't be making it again and I am very thankful I didn't serve it to anyone but my husband
Creamy Garlic Pasta with Shrimp & Vegetables
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Toss a garlicky, Middle Eastern-inspired yogurt sauce with pasta, shrimp, asparagus, peas and red bell pepper for a fresh, satisfying summer meal. Serve with: Slices of cucumber and tomato tossed with lemon juice and olive oil.
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Wired combination that doesn't go well together and simply wastes time, money and effort on making a disappointing meal.
I cooked this with many tweaks. I only made one serving of this, so it was easy. cooked quinoa pasta and peas in one boiling water pot ( why does everyone here hate the peas in this?). I then cooked the shrimp in garlic, olive oil, lemon, white wine & red pepper.
I mixed plain, regular yogurt with sour cream & lemon in the bottom of a bowl. Then when all was done, I added the pasta, peas & shrimp to the bowl & mixed it all in. Added parmesan, pine nuts & parsley and I thought is was pretty good & filling! I'm eating my dinner in halves tonight!
Omit the peas, wrong flavor and texture for this combo. Added more garlic and lemon juice. Loved the yogurt sauce, but reduced the amount. Very tasty.
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|"Originally published in Great Britain as Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45 by HarperPress ... London in 2007"--Title page verso.
|xxv, 615 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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I am facing this problem. Please guide me.
When the post page is opened the sidebar background doesn't extend all the way down till footer. When I give a height to #bottombody css style then it extends to the specified height. That height will become irrelevant if there are many comments. I want to extend the #bottombody background till footer depending on the comments' number.
Bear with me if I sound silly.
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Internet goods from around the world. Site is in lithuania language.
Internet goods from around the world. Site is in lithuania language.
that is a very good domain, short and sweet Y4.it cool!
firstly, the page loading is very slow, i suggest that you should consider removing a post or two from the homepage. also, the twitter feed widget on the sidebar takes a lot of loading time, perhaps getting rid of it might help,
i can hardly read anything because i don't know lithuania, though from the images i gather that the content must be good :)
over all, the theme is good, excellent header and a good background. best of luck with your blog :)
Thank you for informative review. Loading times are slow i guess because site server is in Lithuania (Europe) far from you, (from India ...).
Twitter widget was removed :)
@ Kasparas
domainas ypatingai geras!
As rekamenduociau kaip nors sumazinti fono fotografija, nes yra gana didziulis.
Irgi kad pagreitinti, padaryk "css image sprite" ir sujunk visas mazas fotografijas i viena. Maziau "http requests" = reiskia greiciau...
Viso gero
Dėkui už atsiliepimą turėsiu omeny tvarkydamas puslapį dėl pakrovimo greičiu :)
Dizainas nėra unikalus, pats nesu labai paženges toje srytije.
New design. Cleaner and nicer :)
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Mystic — Stonington police are still investigating the March 24 death of a 14-year-old boy after he collapsed on the basketball court at Mystic YMCA. The teenager was a student at Waterford Country School, a residential program in Waterford for children deemed to be at risk.
Stonington Police Capt. Jerry Desmond said the incident was reported as a medical call and that he could not discuss details.
Police are not releasing the boy's name because he was a juvenile, and the school's executive director, Bill Martin, said he was not able to release the student's name.
Martin said Monday that the teenager, who was from Bridgeport, had been staying in a shelter run by the school only a few days when the incident occurred.
The Day learned of the incident Sunday from a reader tip. Stonington police then confirmed that a 14-year-old boy living in Waterford had died after collapsing at the YMCA.
Four male students were at the YMCA for a recreational activity the night the student died, Martin said Monday. He said he did not know if the child who collapsed had a pre-existing medical condition.
"The child had only been with us for only a short period of time and, basically, it occurred with no warning," the executive director said.
"It's just an unfortunate situation, just really tragic," he said.
Police were called at 8:04 p.m. after the student collapsed. The boy was immediately taken to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Stonington police Sgt. Louis Giamanti said Sunday.
Ocean Community YMCA President and CEO Maureen Fitzgerald said Monday that Mystic YMCA staff followed emergency protocol, calling police and paramedics and assisting in CPR.
Ocean Community is comprised of three YMCA locations, in Westerly and Arcadia, R.I., and Mystic.
Fitzgerald said the YMCA did not release information to the public after the incident occurred because "that was up to the family. That's not our role in contacting the media."
"Until we're contacted, we don't do anything with the media," she said. "You know, it's sensitivity for the family that's involved."
The Waterford County School is providing special counseling to those affected by the boy's sudden death. Martin said that staff counselors, crisis and trauma specialists, and the school chaplain were available.
"Something like this is difficult for everybody involved, students and staff. I think everyone responds in their own way and we are providing the level of support that they need to be able to face this stuff," he said.
Fitzgerald said YMCA staff are keeping the teenager's family in their thoughts and prayers.
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Defeat would spell disaster as Neasden battle on
Sunday is D-day for North West Neasden A. Managers Jamie Cole and Daniel Fox hope that it is not a case of once bitten, twice shy as they enter unchartered waters in the last 16 of the Sunday FA Cup. I can't remember the last time they lost two games on the spin but that is a real possibility as they start their match against Ilford-based Sungate as underdogs.
Cole cited a lack of match sharpness as the reason for their first defeat of the campaign, in the London FA Sunday Challenge Cup. But there is a serious possibility that their season could fall flat. Having squeezed past third division UJS Norstar A recently, they are facing a new year hangover at the worst possible moment but I have no doubt that the quality and character of players such as Lee Cash, Scott Shindler, Jonny Ellis, Adam Levene and Jake Gottlieb will help them through this blip.
It's refreshing to hear about two young players earning rave reviews for their teams. Guy Marks, 15, made his debut for London Lions reserves in the Herts Senior County League. He chipped in with two assists in the 5-1 win over Bovingdon.
Having starred as vice-captain for the Under 16 at last year's Maccabiah Games, he also helped Lions Under 16s beat an Australian Under 16 representative side from New South Wales. Charlie Rubin, Charlie Cohen and Tom Doronalso netted for the Lions who played host following a recommendation of the Watford Friendly League. The Aussie team had a full itinerary of matches against some top school sides in the country and will complete their visit with matches in Liverpool.
Having set the Maccabi GB Primary League on fire in the first half of the season, sharp-shooter Joshua Resnick started 2010 in style with a seven-goal salvo in Hendon Hawks B's 10-4 victory over Redbridge.
Raphael Bajer has been appointed the new manager of JC MSFL Division Three FC Marylebone. He will have responsibility for all football-related matters starting this week.
Jon Davody and Marc Touboul have decided to step down due to family and work commitments. They will however remain as chairmen and players of the club.
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Carl Lewis, owner & operator . Carl's Barber Shop . www.carlsbarbershopdc.com/ . 1406 P Street, NW . WDC . Monday, 30 May 2006 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Carl Lewis has been the owner of Carl's Barber Shop since July 2000 which is when he took over its operation from his mentor and then owner, Timothy Pearsall.
First located at 17th and R Streets, in NW, Timothy Pearsall, owned and operated Neighborhood Barbershop for more than 40 years. It was in 1985 that Timothy Pearsall would relocate his Neighborhood Barbershop to the Logan Circle area at 1406 P Street, NW, Washington DC. It was also in the spring of 1985 that I would move to the Logan Circle area, at 1320 Q Street just one block north and 1/2 block east from the barbershop.
In late November 1984, I relocated back to WDC from NYC and after a few months of sharing a house on Morningside Lane in Alexandria VA with my then partner and future house mate, Greg, and his best friend Mike and Mike's lover Smitty In late April or early May 1985, which is when Greg and I would split up (again), I would move back into the city which is where I had lived for many years before moving to NYC.
I had met Johnnie Jackson and George Dague through catering work with Design Cuisine. When they heard that I was looking for a place back in the city they suggested that I share 1320 Q Street with them. And since we all worked in catering it would prove to be a good situation. At the time I hand begun work in the accounting office at the newly opened Washington Convention Center.
It was at Jonnie's suggestion that I visited the barbershop down the street and around the corner which, at the time, was known as the Neighborhood Barbershop. Though he was close friends with a high fashioned hair designer who often cut his hair, Johnnie Jackson, also frequented Neighborhood Barbershop on a regular basis.
As have I ... since his introduction.
At the time, it's customer's base was mostly black. Which would be the case until 2000, according to Carl Lewis. Who during a brief interview that I conducted with him, on 30 May 2006, said that from when it first opened, at the location, in 1985 through 2000 that it's customer's base was 95 % black. But, that in 2000 he'd noticed a gradual but considerable change. And that by 2002 it's black customer base was about 60 % with whites making up the remaining 40 %.
And though there has always been a steady latino base, in recent years, the number of latino customers have been on the rise as well
Born in 1950, Carl Lewis, has been married for 35 years. He and his wife raised their three children in PG County Maryland. A son at 23 and two daughters at 26 and 3, none who plan a career in the barber profession. Originally from Fayetteville NC, Mr. Lewis worked with the WMATA Metro for 27 years, as a transit operator, before retiring.
From 1986 through 1996 he barbered, part-time, at Timothy Pearsall's Neighborhood Barbershop at 1406 P Street. Upon retiring from WMATA in 1996, he barbered full-time, until 1997 and then take some time off before purchasing the business from Timothy Pearsall in July 2000.
It was at that time he would change the name to Carl's Barber Shop.
Since my first visits, in 1985, to what was then the Neighborhood Barber Shop, I had hoped to include this particular barber shop in my ongoing Barber Shop Documentary Project. Though, over the years since 1992, I have often photographed the exterior and window displays of what is now Carl's Barber Shop it would be on _____ that for the second time that I would approach the owner saying that I wish to do a photoessay of his shop.
It would be the second time that I would approach the owners pertaining to this project. And while I can not now recall exactly when I had actually approached the former owner, Timothy Pearsall, perhaps in the late 90's with the same proposal. At which time, over a series of several months, I would take several pictures. Which at this time I can not now locate. Some of which I may not yet processed since they were taken with the 35 mm camera.
One of the reasons that I had been interested in capturing this particular barber shop at this location has a great deal to do with the fact that it had to do with it's 'blackness'. And while all have always been welcomed, it has maintained its culture and heritage.
Jonnie Jackson and I would have in depth conversations about such matters and the importance of black owned businesses. While I welcome any and all, my concern, as a black man, is that, along with the many changes, a disproportionate number of blacks, many who own businesses, are being pushed out. So, not only are blacks losing their businesses and means for an income but in the process of change ... also our heritage. And culture.
And while I am sure that such is the case with most ethnicities, and especially, in the black community, barber shops and beauty parlors, are just as important and may have a similar impact on the black community as does the black church.
Let me reiterate. Black barber shops and black beauty parlors are as important to the black community as is the black church. It is a ritual for many black women to visit her beautician every two weeks. Just it is a ritual for many black men to visit their barbers, every two weeks.
Which brings up another matter, that Jonnie and I would often discuss. Or debate on. While I'm certainly black and am fulling rooted in my history, many of my friends think of me as being 'not black enough.' Mainly because I do not necessarily adhere to particular 'black rituals'.
It will be several weeks and sometimes a month before I may have my hair cut. And while I can appreciate those who practice their religion I am not into the black church thing and, in many cases, am in disagreement with many of the practices and preachings of most churches. Including some that are often associated with what what some refer to as a the 'black church'.
And, yet, I am cognitive of the importance of the black barber shop, its history and contributions not only to the black community but to the American culture.
From my observation, Carl Lewis, is an important reflection of an important aspect of the black community. Similar to Charles Brice who owns Brice's Barber Shop on Capitol Hill, though both had worked part-time, for many years, as barbers often for their mentors it was after retiring from their jobs that they would purchase a barber shop.
According to Mr. Lewis since July 2000, his rent has increased over 200%.
At a basic rate of $15 per hair cut, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand that the day may come when neighborhood barber shops in the Logan Circle area will not longer exist. just as such barber shops no longer exist at 17th and R Streets, or in many of the places that they once thrived.
Each time that I walk pass Carl's Barber Shop I remember how I felt, in 1985, when I first visited what was then the Neighborhood Barber Shop. To better shed light on this feeling, allow me share my experiences on ______ which was the last time that I would have my hair cut before Tuesday, 30 May 2006.
On that particular Saturday evening, and as I often do when passing Stead Park, I photograph basket ball players. Who mostly were black men. but one or two white guys, two latinos. and a black female on looker.
While I do not usually have a problem with the white players, several of the black players began to shout and yell at me. Something to the effect that "I better not see any of your pictures of me in the Blade.' And though I have often observed whites standing in the exact same postion as I, who are taking pcitures, it is a reaction I I often get from other blacks.
Even though I've been taking pictures, for many years. I shotted back, 'I don't work for the Blade. I work for me. This is about me, a black man, documenting and recording my life ... from my perspective.
And, had I been a white guy, gay or straight, the black guys would have had a very different reaction to me. In a similar way, if I were a white documentary photographer and focused on the things that I do, including barber shops I would have a very different reaction than what I do.
So, when I now reflect on that particular day that I had often my hear cut at Carl's Barber Shop ... I sometimes remember that just after leaving the barber shop that a group of basketball players in Stead Park, threatened me.
It was also during that same visit, that I would discuss with Mr Lewis and his staff that in recent months I had been photographing his windows and now wish to photograph the interior as well as do a photo project of him and his staff. In the back of my mind, I could not get out of my head the comment that the two or three basketball players had said 'I know who you are and you better watch out ....".
Which speaks to the matter of gentrification. Though I have lived in the Logan and Dupont Circles areas for many years, as is evidenced by the fact, that most people know me, as a 52 year old black man not only have I been pushed out, verbally and on some occasions physically assulted in the streets but I am less welcomed now then I was when I would first visit these areas.
As i walked into Carl's Barber Shop on that Saturday afternoon, ______. Motown songs were playing on the music box. The shop was just about to close, but one barber said come on in. I sat in the chair. He wrapped the apron around my torso. I said 'take it all off, and even all the way around. It's getting hot outside."
There was one man sweeping and cleaning up the shop. He joked and said 'I'm tired of working. I want to get out of here and go home. My barber laughed back and said "only our people would come to a job, late, and say I'm tired of working.;
Everybody would burst into laugher. By this time he was finishing up with my hair. Marvin Gay'es song "I Heard Through the Grapevine" come be in the background. It brought backto mind, when I would first visit the shop in 1985. It was as if I had come home.
I'd ask how. He say $15. I'd hand him a $20 and say keep the change. We had already discussed my documentary project, reflecting on what had occured moments before in Stead Park, I'd say I'll come back and take picturess.
I'd leave the shop and head to Dupont Circke, wondering if any of the black guys from Stead park would follow and/or jump me.
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If you were traveling on the 3700 block of Seward Avenue Friday you might have encountered an unexpected stop.
Deputies with the Shawnee County Sheriff's office set up shop to make sure drivers were wearing their seatbelts and had a valid driver's license. The check started at 2:30pm and lasted till 4:30pm Friday.
Deputies say the main focus is to deter drivers from driving without their seatbelts and making sure they have an up to date driver's license.
During the check lane enforcement, 132 cars were stopped. Every driver had their driver's license in their possession and ALL drivers had valid licenses. All drivers were properly wearing their seatbelts and deputies observed about 25 to 30 children under the age of 14 who were all properly restrained. No arrests were made and no citations were issued.


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didnt make much sense, the music was bad the graphics and animation was bad it was just pure randomness with no plot no climax no story what-so-ever
Sorry I wasted your time. I'll be sure to make the next one better just for you! :0)
Excellent animation and i love where it is going. I am glad that this didnt turn into a captain planet parody when the beams of light shot into the sky nor did this turn into a power ranger parody (i hope not at least) with the 5 different colors or guardians. Look forward to more. Definately favoriting.
men i really love this animation, the movement, the music men the music was one of the thing that
i love the most.I hope see the second part, music 10/10 animation 10/10, really love it good job.
Seriously, NeroGeist really likes cliffhangers...cliffhanging?
Less action than the last one, but nothing short of awesome music and synchronized animation. Half star off because of the empty plot...nothing really happened.
So...what really happened? Are the two characters two different guys (they look the same to me, but then there's the orange one looking at the green one from third person). I guess, each person has their own way of "becoming a guardian", or maybe just the green one is called a guardian, and the orange one is called an (the?) explorer. Perhaps the third episode will be the 4 finding each other with the compass and gong on an epic quest (the meeting better not be the entire animation, they're like a mile apart at most).
Very well made!
My only problem (it's small, don't worry about it) is that he doesn't make foot prints in the snow when he's running at 3:40. It would really make it look smooth.


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