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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Lemon-Oat Squares (Treats For Co-Irkers)
You'll find the lemon flavoring in these a little more subtle than in classic lemon bars and it pairs very well with the sweet, nutty flavor of the oats.
Lemon-Oat Squares (from King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking)
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
2/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats, ground for 30 seconds in a food processor
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 TBSP orange juice
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1-2 TBSP finely grated lemon zest
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9X13 inch pan.
To prepare the crust: Beat the butter, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium mixing bowl until smooth. Add the rolled oats, ground oats, flour and orange juice, mixing to combine. The mixture will start to clump; as soon as it starts to look cohesive, stop mixing.
Sprinkle half of the mixture (about 2 generous cups) into the prepared pan. Press it into the bottom of the pan, patting the crumbs firmly to make a smooth layer.
To prepare the filling: Whisk the condensed milk, lemon zest and lemon juice in a small bowl, stirring until smooth and thickened. Spread the filling over the crust in the pan. Sprinkle the remaining crust mixture evenly on top of the filling.
Bake until light, golden brown, 35-40 minutes. Remove from oven and set on a rack to cool. After about 10 minutes, loosen the edges of the squares with a knife. Refrigerate overnight, covered, before cutting and serving.
9 comments:
- June said...
Yikes these look nummers. Those darn co-irkers. They sure are lucky!
- November 5, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Lady P said...
OMG - this is just like a recipe that was a childhood favorite that we made at camp - except better, because i can now use the oven on my own
mags -sorry to have been MIA, but good to see that you are still holding up your end of the kitchen ever so well
- November 6, 2009 at 1:42 AM
- HoneyB said...
Lucky Co-Irkers! I am sure my Co-Irkers would love to have you baking for them too!
- November 6, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- Mags said...
June: I think I'm the lucky one. Each week I get to have a taste of something yummy then get the treats the heck out of my house so they're not tempting me!
Lady P: I'm just happy to see that you're back amongst the blogging!
HoneyB: Thanks! And also thank you for Stumbling me. I appreciate it!
- November 6, 2009 at 6:24 AM
- Co Irker said...
Are you psychic? Have ESP?
It was like you read my mind but, like, before I even knew what I wanted.
After the glut of Hallowwen, these were so welcome. I am chocolated out (don't worry, I'm positive it's only temporary).
The squares were so good. I'm hanging onto the wholesomeness of oats and wheat and ignoring the SCM, butter, and sugar.
@HoneyB: You're right - we are very lucky! Mags is the highlight of our Fridays.
We missed you last week, please don't leave us again.
Thanks so much our lovely, luscious, lemony lady.
- November 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Lucky workers! Sounds like a great combination of lemon bar meets oatmeal cookie!
- November 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Mags said...
Co Irker: Psycho, yes. Psychic, not so much...LOL! Glad the lemon bars hit the spot!
Barbara: That's actually a very good description of what these taste like!
- November 6, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Megan said...
These look so interesting! I've paired other fruits with oats but never thought to try lemon.
- November 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- CookiePie said...
Yum - like a lemon bar and oatmeal cookie in one!!!
- November 6, 2009 at 12:45 PM


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He was survived by his wife, Carol; sisters, Chancey and Betty Ann; eight children, Rona, Billy, Steven, Mary Jo, Cheryl, Billy Jack, Jen Rose and stepdaughter, Tina; 20 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
A family memorial will be at 2 p.m. Friday, November 30, at the Wall residence, 1536 Province Road.
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SANTA CLARA -- General manager Trent Baalke traded three draft picks to move up nine spots and select Colin Kaepernick in the 2011 draft's second round. That move is paying dividends in the 49ers' playoff run.
Kaepernick's playoff debut Saturday night produced a 45-31 win over the Green Bay Packers that vaulted the 49ers into this Sunday's NFC Championship game against the host Atlanta Falcons.
Aside from passing for two touchdowns and rushing for two more, Kaepernick's 181 rushing yards were the most ever in a game by an NFL quarterback.
"When he gets out in the open, not many guys are going to track him down," Baalke said Monday on his weekly radio show, on 95.7 The Game. "We envisioned that. Did we envision it all happening at once, like it did Saturday? I can't say we did, but we know it's within him."
Kaepernick was drafted 36th overall out of Nevada. He was the sixth quarterback taken, behind Cam Newton (Panthers), Jake Locker (Titans), Blaine Gabbert (Jaguars), Christian Ponder (Vikings) and Andy Dalton (Bengals).
The 49ers used their 2011 first-round draft pick on outside linebacker Aldon Smith, then moved up to take Kaepernick with the fourth pick of the next day's second round. In return, they sent the Denver Broncos picks in the second round (45th overall), fourth round (108th) and fifth round (141st).
"First of all I didn't draft him. We drafted him," Baalke said. "Obviously he's made plays like that his whole career at a collegiate level, with both his arm and feet. He's an explosive athlete."
In his eighth career start, Kaepernick's second pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown and 7-0 deficit. He finished 17 of 31 for 263 yards and a 91.2 passer rating. Said Baalke: "How you overcome mistakes really defines who you are as a player. We're getting a glimpse of who No. 7 is as a player."
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A really disgusting act wherein a man takes dried-up, crumb-like feces and places them on a victim's forehead and crushes them with his dick.
I honestly hope no one has ever performed the sex act known as the coffeegrinder.
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Last night i received a "coffee grinder" from this chick.
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The coffee grinder is the portion of a female's anatomy, also known as the vagina, designed to accept and stimulate the husband's erect penis, so that later on a baby might come travelling down thisbirth canal.
I wouldn't use an internal pad in there my dear because plugging up the coffee grinder can result in toxic shock.
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A Lesson in Coalition Building
This is a guest post by Bill Bolster, Autism Speaks Missouri Chapter Advocacy Chair.
A three-year lesson in democracy and autism in Missouri closed in twenty-five minutes on May 12 when HB 1311 passed the Missouri Senate after passing in the House, minutes prior. The bill, which will require health insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of autism, then went to the Governor for execution into law. After the filing of countless bills over the last several years that received the attention and collective efforts of Missouri's autism community, companion bills in the State Senate and House finally allowed Missouri to go "green" in 2010.
I entered this process in the spring of 2008 when I contacted a state representative and a state senator to consider filing bills. In both cases, a bill was filed. I was thrilled and I thought the proverbial train had finally left the station! However, I learned all too quickly that I had no control over the train and nobody in the legislature seemed to care about my train. 2008 proved to be more of a coalition-building year. The legislature adjourned in May 2008 without action on the bills. Even so, I learned that there were countless families and organizations in the autism community who supported this autism insurance reform legislation, but had never collaborated on such a matter.
With the introduction of Lorri Unumb of Autism Speaks to the process, a group of ten or twelve people gathered in the summer of 2008 to draft a bill that everyone could support. The draft bill went through countless revisions to reflect the input of the autism community in Missouri. The result of this collaboration led to the filing of bills in the House and Senate in 2009. These bills were heard in House and Senate committees and the autism community began and sustained a more concerted and coordinated effort. Even though the 2009 bills did not see passage, awareness was raised at the state capitol about the issue and need for autism insurance reform for families in Missouri.
Our coalition remained strong and resilient as we gathered again in the summer of 2009 to modify bill that had been introduced in the previous legislative session. With another year of experience in our pockets, along with bills filed in both chambers that had strong support from Republicans and Democrats, as well as strong medical, legal and moral arguments that lent support to each word of the bills, we went to work as a community to prepare for the 2010 session. From all corners of the state, we worked together on weekly phone calls, attended hearings as a group and pushed for passage as one community voice.
With the amount of awareness that had been raised during the last two years in the legislature and with the strong vocal support of the governor, we thought we might see passage of our bill as early as the first half of the 2010 legislative session. When this deadline passed, our coalition continued to fight for passage. On the third to last day of the session we finally watched our bill pass the legislature. While passage of the bill brings insurance coverage to the families that need it for diagnosing and treating autism, Missouri autism community benefited from this experience in a way that is even more significant. We have formed a coalition of families and organizations that have learned how to work together to bring about an answer to a community problem. With passage of autism insurance reform behind us, we are a community of friends and colleagues who can now work together in the future to achieve other objectives that will be of importance to families and people with autism. This is the lasting legacy of our efforts that can span generations, just as the new autism insurance reform bill will help generations of children with autism to come.
To learn more about Autism Votes, take action today on autism insurance reform legislation in your state, or find out about Autism Speaks' federal legislative advocacy agenda, please visit www.autismvotes.org
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Many thanks to you, Bill, for your outstanding patience, fortitude, and determination in this effort to pass autism insurance reform legislation in our State of Missouri. Without your dedication, this would not have been possible! Blessings and congratulations to you!
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Shadix TV Sales and Services has been a family-owned Marietta business since 1953, but that tradition is coming to an end in just a few weeks.
Brothers Jim and Tom Schaad will be retiring, although the business will continue with a few changes. Jim and Tom both have two children, but they work in other fields and were unavailable to take over the family business.
The brothers instead turned to a familiar face around the 203 East Montgomery St. shop to take over the store after they retire.
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Jim Schaad, front, and Tom Schaad look over some reports Friday afternoon at their family business Shadix TV Sales and Services. The brothers will be retiring and turning over ownership of the family business to employee Jonathan Wheeler at the end of March.
"Jonathan Wheeler will be taking over the business at the end of March," said Jim Schaad, co-owner of Shadix TV Sales and Services. "Jonathan has worked for us as our satellite installer for the past 11 years."
Jim, 66, has worked at the store since he was 10 and his brother Tom, 63, has worked there since he was in high school.
The brothers have experienced a great deal of change in the industry during their time at the shop, they said.
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Shadix was opened in 1953 by Walter Schaad.
It was been owned by someone in the Schaad family since.
Jim and Tom Schaad took over the business about 20 years ago and will retire at the end of March.
Jonathan Wheeler, an employee of Shadix for the last 11 years, will take over the business after the brothers retire.
Starting April 1 the store will not be open on weekends and hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
"We've dealt with black and white TVs, big satellites, small satellites, cable, DIRECTV, flat screens and so much more," said Tom Schaad, also co-owner of the business. "It's like any other business though, if you look back 60 years of course things are going to be different than they were."
The Schaad brothers admitted retiring was a very difficult decision for them to make.
"We struggled with the decision to allow the business to go out of the family, but we didn't want it to close either," said Tom. "Jonathan is a good fit because he knows what he is doing and is really good with the customers."
The customers are another reason the Schaad brothers will have a difficult time saying goodbye to the business.
"The customers were the ones that made it hard to walk way from," said Tom. "They were the reason I stayed as long as I did."
As much as he enjoyed the experience, Jim decided it was finally time to move on.
"I've been thinking about retiring for a year, but it finally just felt like now was the right time," said Jim. "I don't have any particular plans for retirement, I'm just going to try to enjoy it because we earned it."
The brothers' departure from the business will bring changes, including new store hours.
"We will no longer be open on the weekend," said Wheeler. "Store hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday starting on April 1."
Wheeler said he isn't certain if the business will continue to sell TVs after the transition either.
"Regardless of if we decide to continue sales, we still have our warranty repair for the ones we have sold to our customers," he said.
While changes will be implemented, much of what made Shadix successful will continue to be available, he said.
"We will still have our satellite sales for Dish Network and DIRECTV," said Wheeler. "Also we will be continuing with satellite installations, repairs and fixing outdoor antennas."
Wheeler said he doesn't fear losing customers during the transition, because he has been a part of the business for so long.
"It's just going to be my and my fiancee. She will handle the books and I'll be doing what I've done for 11 years," he said. "I've interacted with all of our customers over that time, and never had any problems so I don't see that changing."
This has been something Wheeler said has been in the works for about five years, but that doesn't mean he is happy to see the brothers go.
"They are both great guys with very different personalities," he said. "I've really enjoyed working for them and they taught me so much."


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The following letter was written to the IVGID Board of Trustees:
My Mother and I have been home owners and residents of Incline Village since early 1995, North Lake Tahoe since 1990 and prior to that, I was a resident of Fairbanks of Alaska for many years. I have lived in bear country all my adult life. I graduated as a biologist from University of Alaska and worked for many public agencies as a wildlife biologist, public information specialist and land use planner. I truly do understand our bear problem in Lake Tahoe. The problem is a Human Problem. The bears are just being bears.
Why do I still see commercial sites and residences with in the boundaries of Incline Villages without properly secured trash? This is totally unacceptable. Our Human Problem in Incline Village is caused by uncaring people. Unfortunately some people only choose to care when it hits their pocket book.
Please aggressively implement and enforce a good program for the disposal of trash for all of Incline Village. Commercial and residential properties should be severely fined for lack of compliance. This Human Problem is nothing new.
Please give our local enforcement officials your backing to enforce strict regulations for proper trash storage and removal. I don't want to see another generation of bears trained to eat of out dumpsters and trash piles in Incline Village. This only happens due to our Human Problem. Bears are just going to be bears. That is how God made them! They are eating machines and will look for food where ever they can find it.
I will be following your positions on this matter closely as both my mother and I are tired of being two of the silent majority watching our Board of Trustees pass the buck and take no aggressive action on this Human Problem. Please implement and enforce aggressive regulations for the proper storage and disposal of trash! I have a beautiful Bear Box at my home. Every residence, public facility, and business that disposes of trash should have Bear Safe Trash Containers. No exceptions. It is time to hit the Human Problem in their pocket books!
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sable 1
1A marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur.
- Martes zibellina, family Mustelidae.
Example sentences
- Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.
- Then patrol the shorelines to observe sables and the world's biggest brown bears, and to scout potential nature-reserve sites.
- He wrote, 'The principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams.'
1.1 [mass noun] The fur of the sable.
Example sentences
- Larsson should have been adorned in ermine and sable in Andalucia.
- Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
- He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
Late Middle English: from Old French, in the sense 'sable fur', from medieval Latin sabelum, of Slavic origin.
Words that rhyme with sableAbel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, stable, table
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adjectiveliterary or Heraldry
Black: the sable blackness of her hair [postpositive]: six martlets sable
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- Her skin was sable black and shining lightening blue.
- As he left, he did not notice the hateful eyes of the sable raven, watching Calanthas go, from a windowsill.
- Although her intended audience is not black, she still refers to 'our sable race.'
1 [mass noun] literary or Heraldry Black.
Example sentences
- Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
- They say he's tall and handsome, and that his hair is as black as sable.
- Shar-Pei come in just about every colour there is - black, red, red-fawn, fawn, black-pointed cream, sable and blue.
1.1 (sables) archaic Mourning garments.
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- Our spirits are dressed in sables, and to laugh so very suddenly seems out of character.
- He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable.
2 (also sable antelope) A large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly.
- Hippotragus niger, family Bovidae.
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- The 14 species of the game include giraffes, zebras, sables, kudus, elands, impalas, pukus, waterbucks, reedbucks, siatoongas, bushbucks, common buickers and graycebucks.
- Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys.
- I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest.
Middle English: from Old French (as a heraldic term), generally taken to be identical with sable1, although sable fur is dark brown.
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In retrospect, the pseudo-analytical and self-important certainty with which Dick Morris of Fox News Channel predicted the outcome of the 2012 presidential election is nothing short of hilarious.
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DOE and EPA Honor Energy Star Partners
DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored 76 businesses, groups, and government entities on April 1 for achieving major energy savings or helping customers save money and energy through their work with the Energy Star program. Eight of the businesses were given special awards to highlight their work: Gorell Enterprises, Inc., Osram Sylvania, and Whirlpool Corp. were awarded Sustained Excellence Awards; Pella Corp. and ProVia Door, Inc. received Partner of the Year awards; Bosch Home Appliances was lauded for its Excellence in Energy Star Promotion; and Best Buy received an award for Excellence in Appliance Retailing. Over the past year, Energy Star, a joint program of DOE and EPA, has helped consumers save more than $16 billion on their electric bills and displace the greenhouse gas equivalent of 27 million vehicles. For more information about the awards, see the DOE press release, the EPA press release, and a 72-page profile of the award winners (PDF 5.3 MB). Download Adobe Reader.
The EPA is also asking organizations to join the new "Energy Star Low Carbon IT Campaign." That's "IT" as in "information technology," and to join the campaign, organizations simply take an online pledge to activate power management features on their monitors and computers to save energy and reduce their carbon footprint. Organizations can increase energy savings further by purchasing Energy Star-qualified computers and monitors. In turn, EPA provides free assistance to help implement power management, helps estimate the organization's energy and carbon savings, and offers official recognition for the organization. The Energy Star program is also teaming up with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in which companies commit to both enabling power management and procuring energy-efficient computers. The initiative was launched last year, and thousands of individuals have since pledged their support. See the EPA press release, the campaign Web page on the Energy Star Web site, and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative press release.


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At the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, visitors travel on a trail that hugs the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At Hawaii's Turtle Bay Resort, guests on Segways can see sea turtles and Hawaiian monk seals basking in the sun. At O'Reilly's Gold Coast, a resort in Australia's Lamington National Park, guests explore the surrounding rain forest and cross creeks on the Segways.
"It was absolutely fantastic," said Lori Kelly, 59, who toured the woods of Pennsylvania's Omni Bedford Springs Resort with her husband. "It gives you the flavor of adventure with very little threat of injury."
The Segway is getting a new life at a growing number of resorts around the world.
First introduced a decade ago, the two-wheeled electric vehicle never quite took off as an everyday way to get around, but it has found a niche replacing city walking tours. Hotels with sprawling grounds are now finding the Segway to be a great way to show guests around their properties. Plus, the devices are still quirky enough to be an attraction in their own right.
"You don't need any special skills to navigate around on it," said Kelly, the executive director of the American Red Cross in West Virginia.
She and her husband traveled in mid-September to the Pennsylvania resort for a two-night getaway. They shopped, sat by the hotel's fire pits, played horseshoes and had a romantic anniversary dinner. What really made the trip unique was the 90-minute, off-road Segway tour for $90.
"Once you mastered it, you felt very, very comfortable about it," she said.
For those not familiar with the two-wheeled electric vehicle, it works like this: Lean forward to move forward. Lean backward to go in reverse. Move the handlebars, and it turns left or right. Segways can go up to 12 mph, but most hotel tours move along at a slower pace, covering just four or five miles in 90 minutes.
Lois Crosby, 62, recently hopped on a Segway at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va. She was there, joining her husband on a business trip.
"All the other people in my group went golfing and I'm not a golfer," Crosby said. So she spent $65 for the 90-minute tour. "It's really a lot of fun."
Part of the excitement is just the novelty of the Segway.
"Neither of us had been on a Segway before, but they looked fun," said John Wilson, 50, who did a tour with his wife, Melissa, at The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Va.
The 90-minute tour travels on meandering trails through the resort's woods. Guest get mountain views and often spot wildlife including bear, deer and red-tailed hawks. The tour costs $70 a person.
"I said to my wife, 'I feel like the laziest hiker ever,' " said Wilson, who oversees national programing for PBS. "Once you start, it's sort of intuitive as to how it is to go."
Most hotels start their tours with a practice Segway session in an empty parking lot or field. Some have minimum age requirements and allow only guests of a certain weight to participate, generally 100 to 260 pounds. Most offer their guests helmets. A driver's license isn't needed.
Prices range from $60 to $125 per person. However, deals can be found. The Paradisus Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic offers a 45-minute tour for $35, and the Shangri-La Golden Sands Resort in Malaysia offers 15-minute rides around the resort for about $10.


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STANFORD -- Stanford clinched its unprecedented 19th consecutive Division I Learfield Sports Directors' Cup as the top intercollegiate athletic department in the country.
In the closest race of the 20-year old program, Stanford collected 1261.25 total points, just 41.50 points ahead of second place Florida. Stanford football's Rose Bowl Game victory bolstered the department's finish in a title chase that ultimately came down to the final weeks of the spring season. Strong showings in women's tennis and women's track & field ensured that the Cup would remain on The Farm for another year.
The final standings are set to be released after the 2013 baseball College World Series.
The Learfield Sports Directors' Cup, formerly known as the Sears Cup, was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in up to 20 sports -- 10 women's and 10 men's.


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Hillary Clinton on video about Gaddahfi's death "We Came, We Saw, He DIED" She then laughed - link to video http://youtu.be/mlz3-OzcExI
Update 10/27/11 - Kingworld News interviewed Billionaire Hugo Salinas - In the interview he said Gaddahfi was killed over starting to get a Gold currency started.
Added 11/15/11 - Gaddahfi's Gold Money would have devastated the Dollar.
I watched this video and was shocked by what it claims in how amazing Libya is/was and how Gaddahfi treated his people. I didn't believe that everyone had free electricity, free great medical care, interest free loans, govt. paid 50% for purchase of a car, govt gave newly married couples $50,000 to buy a house, the lists goes on and on in how well the Libyan people have/had it. The problem was Libya had an independent state bank, not part of BIS (Rothschild's banks) and wanted to switch trading oil from dollars to gold.
In an article published February 28, 2011 on the site picked up by Fox News and The Post April 26, 2011, we also learn that "While the UN hounds feverishly to condemn the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, for grave abuses against demonstrators, the organization Human Rights Council prepares to approve a glowing report for Libya on human rights. His report commends Libya for helping improve educational opportunities for making human rights a "priority" and to have improved under his "constitutional". Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Saudi Arabia, but also Canada, Libya to give positive points for the legal protections it provides to its citizens – who are now in revolt against the regime and face bloody reprisals [3].
In conclusion, although controlled media disinformation, Libya is a country that, beyond oil, 144 tons of gold in the vaults of the Central Bank of true Government of Libya, a country that offers its people free medical services and quality education system and a 100% subsidized by the state, a country that offers interest-free loans to its citizens, a country that has no debts to the IMF, World Bank or other financial institutions around the world and finally a country which, for all these, is a rich country, sovereign and independent
Portions from above link - it has much more information - but this is the information confirming part of what the video states.
[Libyans] are entitled to free treatment, and their hospitals provide the best in the world of medical equipment. Education in Libya is free, capable young people have the opportunity to study abroad at government expense. When marrying, young couples receive 60,000 Libyan dinars (about 50,000 US dollars) of financial assistance. Non-interest state loans, and as practice shows, undated. Due to government subsidies the price of cars is much lower than in Europe, and they are affordable for every family. Gasoline and bread cost a penny, no taxes for those who are engaged in agriculture. The Libyan people are quiet and peaceful, are not inclined to drink, and are very religious.They maintained that the international community had been misinformed about the struggle against the regime. "Tell us," they said, "who would not like such a regime?"
Even if that is just propaganda, there is no denying at least one very popular achievement of the Libyan government: it brought water to the desert by building the largest and most expensive irrigation project in history, the US$33 billion GMMR (Great Man-Made River) project. Even more than oil, water is crucial to life in Libya.
Another provocative bit of data circulating on the Net is a 2007 "Democracy Now" interview of US General Wesley Clark (Ret). In it he says that about 10 days after September 11, 2001, he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. Clark was surprised and asked why. "I don't know!" was the response. "I guess they don't know what else to do!" Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers' central bank in Switzerland.
The most renegade of the lot could be Libya and Iraq, the two that have actually been attacked. Kenneth Schortgen Jr, writing on Examiner.com, noted that "[s]ix months before the US moved into Iraq to take down Saddam Hussein, the oil nation had made the move to accept euros instead of dollars for oil, and this became a threat to the global dominance of the dollar as the reserve currency, and its dominion as the petrodollar."
According to a Russian article titled "Bombing of Libya - Punishment for Ghaddafi for His Attempt to Refuse US Dollar", Gaddafi made a similarly bold move: he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar. Gaddafi suggested establishing a united African continent, with its 200 million people using this single currency.
And that brings us back to the puzzle of the Libyan central bank. In an article posted on the Market Oracle, Eric Encina observed:
One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned ... Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules?
All of which prompts a closer look at the BIS rules and their effect on local economies. An article on the BIS website states that central banks in the Central Bank Governance Network are supposed to have as their single or primary objective "to preserve price stability".
If the Gaddafi government goes down, it will be interesting to watch whether the new central bank joins the BIS, whether the nationalized oil industry gets sold off to investors, and whether education and healthcare continue to be free.
July 1st rally - These people Loved Gaddafi obviously!
Here is the video of people in Green Square in Support of Gaddafi - on July 17 2011
Russia Today - Says it is all about oil and Gaddafi planning on trading oil for gold.
I feel so sad for the Libyan people now! They had lived a good and free life with a leader who believed in their freedom and human rights without enslavement. We have been feed lies through our propaganda medias and NATO/UN/U.S./UK/France and all others involved with the bombings of Libya have committed crimes against humanity! They have killed thousands of innocent Libyans! Libya will be another Iraq, the infrastructure will be destroyed the people will live in fear and will have constant and innocent lost of life. This is so sad and so disgusting!
Let me just say, to those who are doing this - you may control most of the world, people and money, including all of those who think they are free....... Guess what.... You ARE breaking Universal Laws! You ARE collecting Karma over this. You may not think you are, but you ARE! You may think because you tell us things ahead of time that it takes the Karma off you! You are WRONG! The energies are changing, the people are connecting to the higher energies as you keep yours in the lower energies. Higher energies will win out! As much as you try to enslave all people into your world of debt and try to control money, it is falling apart, people are waking up to your games. Some of us are awake to what you have been doing and still trying to do, most are still asleep and refuse to even look at the truth. You are afraid of the people and the changes of energy and that is why you are clamping down more and more on all the people around the world. The U.S. is a police state and only those who are deaf, dumb and refuse to open their eyes still believe they are free. But I know and have the faith that God/Universe will win! You know that too, so you are getting cruder and cruder in your methods of keeping people enslaved. You will Lose, the people's energies are stronger than yours! You are trying to keep people in fear, but people are waking up and the Universe/God is much stronger than you are! I look forward to when the control is switched from you to the people and that will happen! So try as you might to take control over all the people who are still free, you are over stepping your bounds! It is going to come back and bite you in the ass!
Video just released today (Aug 28th 2011) of what Libya - Tripoli looks like now, after
Here is another video (added Aug 29 2011) - NATO approves of this? Disgusting!


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BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities have identified the Border Patrol agent who was shot to death overnight in Arizona near the U.S. border with Mexico as 30-year-old Nicolas Ivie.
A second agent who was wounded by the gunfire has not been identified.
It's the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly firefight with Mexican bandits two years ago that prompted Congress to look into a botched government gun-smuggling investigation.
Critics of "Operation Fast and Furious" say any time there's a shooting along the border now, it will raise the question of whether the weapons that were supposed to be tracked in that investigation are still being used in border violence.
The FBI, which is investigating today's shooting, isn't saying whether investigators have recovered guns or bullet casings at the scene.
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Ruefle has published many books of poetry, including Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013); Madness, Rack, and Honey (Wave Books, 2012); Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010); A Little White Shadow (2006), an art book of "erasures," a variation on found poetry; Tristimania (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2003), Among the Musk Ox People (2002); Apparition Hill (2001); Cold Pluto (2001); Post Meridian (2000); Cold Pluto (1996); The Adamant (1989), winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize; Life Without Speaking (1987); and Memling's Veil (1982).
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*Do Round Robins usually go in the Artiste Forum? I can't quite remember. I suppose it's safest to post it here. Anyway, I doubt this will work because TW has been so dead lately, but I'ma gonna try!!JarethsGirl rolled out of bed, her head spinning from the crazy antics of the night before. "What a party," she mumbled as she gazed out her window at the leaves, which were turning lovely shades of red and orange. She shook the lump under the covers, and a frenchman with an accordian scurried out and stumbled down the fire escape. JG shuffled to the Mr. Coffee machine in her Ludo-hair slippers, trying to recall the nights events. She puzzled away as the coffee gurgled and spurted and steamed. All she could remember was making out with some guy from an Air Supply cover band and playing Twister with the cast of last season's Surreal Life. Then like a ton of bricks, it hit her. The image of a man in a seafoam leisure suit with a handlebar mustache and funny eyes.. handing her a card of some sort. She hadn't bothered to look at it because the man hadn't spoke a word. He had simply handed her the card, then with a twitch of his stache he was off into the night. "Where did I put that thing?" she wondered. JG began tearing through her dirty laundry, looking for that pair of iridescent green spandex pants she had worn the night before. Then she noticed a glimmer in the corner of her eye. She pulled them down from the ceiling fan and dug her hand in the back pocket... There she found the card.It read.. "For a spooktacular evening, join me on All Hallow's Eve at the mansion at the top of the hill." It pictured a little green cartoon dracula.. hand drawn.. "What mansion? What hill? What the hell?" she murmured. "Who WAS that guy? And why did he invite ME?" JG looked back at the card, and scribbled at the bottom was, "P.S. Bring as many friends as you'd like."JarethsGirl wondered if she should go. The circumstances seemed a little odd. But that's how she lived her life, why stop now? She declared, "I am GOING to that party! ....I'm just not going to drink the punch.... HEY! Wait a minute! Why go it alone? ..I could invite all of TW to join!!"She picked up her phone and dialed the first TWer that came to her mind...RING!!!! PMs make my pulse quicken. Kept upon request by Pablopicasso.
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[Ooo, another round robin, and a halloween one at that!]A phone rang in a darkened room. Well, it didn't so much ring as let out beeps that were supposed to sound like Bowie's Ashes To Ashes. Sysiyo, awakened by the sound, put his out from between the bedsheets and reached for the phone."It's fucking middle of the night over here", he said in the way of a greeting."Umm, sorry about that", said a female voice in the other end. "You were just the first TWer whose number came into mind.""Uh-huh", said Sys sleepily, not a very encouraging sound."So, I was invited to this Halloween party, and I thought I'd invite all TWers who wished to come.""Another TW Halloween party?" asked Sys, now much more interested."Yeah. And I kind of thought if you wished to come...""Of course I want to come. Where is the party?""Well, I'm not quite sure. The invitatioon said it's in a mansion at the top of the hill... but there isn't any mantion at the top of the hill herearound. And I'm quite sure he meant around here.""Hmm. From previous experience I'd say that we'll find out before long. Where did you say you lived again?""Pittsburgh.""OK, I'll see if I can make it, it is a bit far away...""OK, I'll see you there. Bye!""Bye!"Sys terminated the call, and sat by his bedside. Another TW party at Halloween. He remembered the last time there had been such a party. He and a few other TWers had summoned the Yaoi god who turned out to be Brian Eno, and Eno had chosen him to be his lover.It's a shame I don't have Brian's airship, it would have taken me to Pittsburgh easily. Oh well, I'll have to think of another way to get over there. But more importantly, what shall I wear?KArt | Project Michelangelo | LiveJournal
The next call was placed to schizophrenic, who had just finished blowing up his math teacher's house. JarethsGirl: Hey, schizo. There's a TW halloween party going down in Pittsburgh. Wanna come?Schizo: Hmmm. Another night of strange rituals, meaningless sex and almost-certain danger? Hell yeah!JarethsGirl: Great! It'll be at a mansion at the top of a hill. You'll have to try and find it yourself.Schizo: That's fine. One problem though: I have to bring my lawyer.JarethsGirl: ...why?Schizo: Long story. All you need to know is that the government is on my ass 'cause they wanted a "traditional" Santa Claus. Anyways, he'll be around to keep me from doing anything too stupid.JarethsGirl: That sucks.Schizo: Kind of. But don't worry, he's pretty cool. Like, have you ever read "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas"?JarethsGirl: Uh...Schizo: Never mind. See you later!And with that, he hastily hung up. He then punched another number into his cell phone.Schizo: Hello, Omar? Pack your bags. We're going on a road trip...Nyeeeeeeaaaagh.
It was a dark and stormy.. afternoon, and Sugar was planning to take over the world. No, wait, that's another story.In fact Sugar was sleeping under her bed in a nest of blankets. She had decided to have an early start for hibernation this year.But alas, her plans for six months of peaceful drooling on her pillow were dissolved by the phone ringing. Well, that's the curse of the cellphone age - you never remember to turn the damn thing off.Sugar was usually fairly bloodthirsty when woken up by the phone, but her eyes stopped glowing red when she realized it was Sysiyo calling."There's a what? A TW Halloween party?"More I cannot tell, because at this point Sugar slipped to fangirly netspeak and it's impossible to decipher all the OMGsqueew00tness.Luckily Sys had grown accustomed to this, and soon they had decided to meet up at the airport. No one seemed to know where this party was, but they decided to think about that when they got there. Wherever it was. How many mansions could there be in America?I like to pay attention to the men behind the curtain.
Meanwhile....JarethsGirl was raiding her closet for costume ideas. She had taken a break from calling TWers.. even though she had only called two.. and was on a mission. "These are TWers we're talkin' about," she thought, "word of this mysterious party should spread like wildfire!"Suddenly the phone rang. JG ran to the ring tone version of Billy Squier's "The Stroke."JG: (cheerily) Talk to me.*silence*JG: Helloooo? Anyone there?*heavy breathing*JG: Dukewhite, is that you? I told you not to call here anymore. Didn't the restraining order get the point across that..*interrupting* Hello JarethsGirl...JG: Uh, hello... who is this?*voice* We met the other night.JG: Ohhh, hi Pierre! Why didn't you stick around, you ran out without even saying goodbye! And you left your beret.*voice* No.. the OTHER person you met the other night.JG: .........Ron Jeremy?*voice* ::sigh:: I'm the guy with the mustache.JG: ...............Chuck Norris?*voice* NO, you fool! The one in the teal leisure suit!!!JG: Ooooooohhhh.... actually I'd say it was more of a seafoam, wouldn't you? It was much more pastel than..*interrupting* THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT! ..I have something very important to tell you that I failed to mention on the invitation.JG: Alright, let's hear it.::static::JG: You're breaking up! I can't hear you!*voice* Sorry, I was in a tunnel... Can you hear me now?JG: Yeah*voice* ... Can you hear me now? JG: Let's not do this.*voice* ::chuckling:: Sorry, that guy really gets my goose.. Anyway, what I was trying to say, and remember this is VERY important, is THAAAT.......(your turn) PMs make my pulse quicken.
Seafoam suit guy:...There are three tests you and your friends will have to face before entering the mansion. Those aren't my rules, but that of the house. Yeah, it kinda has a mind of it's own. Plus, the previous owners from 1806 demand it. Not that they're still alive or anything! In fact, they're quite corpsy...oh dear, I've said too much. *click**after putting down the phone*JarethsGirl: What the hell? What a crazy bastard. Although I do like a guy with a nice handlebar mustache. I know! I'll call Elvenlass, she knows what to do in these situations!*ring ring ring ring*Elvenlass: Stop calling me!!!JarethsGirl: Uh, elvenlass, this is Jarethsgirl. Elvenlass: Oh! Sorry, I thought you were Schizo's math teacher. He kept calling me telling me to bring a hose and spray his house down 'cause it was on fire. That perv has been hitting on me since the first day he moved across the street from me. JarethsGirl: Interesting, but the reason I called was...umm...there's this party...Elvenlass: You know I don't like parties. Choir boys, the Matrix, and The Wizard of Oz were enough for me last time.JarethsGirl: I know I know, but this is important. This mansion we're all supposed to be going to has got these three tests upon entrance, and it's kinda freaky sounding. I was wondering if you'd come and lend your expertise.Elvenlass: I'm a taxidermist.JarethsGirl: ...Elvenlass: Yeah I thought so. Is Schizo coming?JarethsGirl: Yeah! See, Schizo's coming, so you have to come too!Elvenlass: Yeah, I guess I'll come then. I've got to apologize about his cat.JarethsGirl: Uh, okay. Bye! Oh and the party is at a mansion at the top of the hill.Elvenlass: Oh, the hill in Pittsburg! See you there! *click*JarethsGirl: Wait...you know which hill? *sigh* *click*"Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end, I'll stick my own dick in my ear." - Kevin Spacy in The Ref
Just as elvenlass hung up, she got another call.elvenlass: What?Schizo: Sorry, am I calling at a bad time?elvenlass: Oh, hey Schizo! Not at all. Uh, what's going down?Schizo: Well, I'm going to a TW party, and I was wondering (since you've probably been invited) if you wanted a lift.elvenlass: Sure! Where are y-Suddenly, a bright red convertible smashed through the wall of elvenlass' house. Inside it were Schizo, decked out in a Batman costume, and his lawyer, Omar who was either a man in an extremely realistic cow costume or a talking cow dressed as a Wall Street businessman.Schizo: Hop in!elvenlass: What about my house?Schizo: Hey, be grateful it isn't on fire.elvenlass: You mean like your math teacher? Man, what a jerk he was.Schizo:...uh...my math teacher was a woman.elvenlass (long pause): Oh...my...God.Omar: Will you get in the car already?elvenlass: Alright, alright. Let me just get my costume...Nyeeeeeeaaaagh.
Schizo and Elvenlass are in the car, driving down a long, empty road on their way to the fantastic TW Halloween Party OF DOOM! When all of a sudden Schizo spots someone on the horizon.Schizo: Hey, there's someone there.Elvenlass: Looks like a hitch hiker.Schizo: Yeah, it does.Elvenlass: We should pick them up!!Schizo: Let's not, I have terrible luck with hitch hikers.Elvenlass: Well at least slow down so we can see what they look like.So, Schizo slows down the car, and they get a good look at the hitch hiker. Schizo: I think I know that person from somewhere....Elvenlass: Me too, kinda looks like RealThing.RealThing: That's because it IS me!! Are you guys gonna give me a lift or what?Schizo: Well, I dunno see....Elvenlass: Sure, hop in!Schizo glares at Elvenlass.RealThing: So, where are we going?Schizo: Well, I don't know about you, but WE'RE going to a TW costume party....Elvenlass: You can come with us if you want!RealThing: Sounds like a good time!Schizo reluctantly pulls back onto the road and continues to drive towards the mansion.Inconsiderate and uncultured, that's an educated edge!
Sysiyo and Sugar are at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. The former is dressed in the finnish-flag pattern Earthling jacket he got in an X-mas time round robin long ago, and the latter looks like a slightly plump version of dr. Gediman from Alien 4.Sug: "OK, so, we're here. Now what?"Sys: "Umm, I dunno. Do you have any money?"Sug: "No, why?"Sys: "Because we should pay for our tickets, in all propability. I doubt they'll let us fly to Philadelphia for free."Sug: "Well, actually... I've got this!"Sugar puts her hand in her pocket, and retrieves a golden credit-card size object.Sys: "What's that?"Sugar gives the card for Sys to see.Sys: "An American Airlines VIP card for Brad Dourif? How did you get that? Have you been stalking Dourif again?"Sug (tried to look embarrassed): "Actually, yes."Sys: "So that's why you dressed up as dr. Gediman!"Sug: "No, I just like this costume. They would never believe I was Brad anyway. This is going to pose as Brad."Sugar opens her suitcase and takes out a Brad Dourif -handpuppet.Sys (buries his face in his hands): "Why...?"KArt | Project Michelangelo | LiveJournal
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Mesh front, Easy-Entry® pockets
Back pocket is waxed cotton with a full bottom
Mesh outer pocket stores game and keeps it ventilated
Water bottle holster
Rear bird pocket can be removed for clay shooting or used to store hulls
Sizes: M(34-40), L(40-48).
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Hoppe's On The Go™ Gun Kit
The On-The-Go Gun Kit from Hoppe's is ideal for the traveling shooter or hunter. The kit contains the majority of items needed for any hunting or shooting situation.
Comes with a lockable hard case
4-oz. bottle of Hoppe's Elite gun cleaner
2-oz. bottle of Hoppe's Elite Gun Oil G3
Iincludes four each: Elite Gun Oil and Elite Gun Cleaner single-use packs
T-handle cleaning rod
Five phosphorus brushes (three rifle/two shotgun)
M-16/AR nylon brush; foam cleaning pad
Lint-free cleaning rag and cleaning patches
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Bob Allen 250W Ladies Clay Target Vest
Polyester/Cotton Blend
While not a must-have item, a shooting vest has multiple benefits during a day on the range. Bob Allen's 250 Ladies Clay Target Vest is a full mesh vest specifically sized for women and youth shooters. Features padded gun pad, choke tube pocket, side tab adjustment for custom fit.
Material: Polyester/Cotton Blend
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Allen Ace Shooting Vest
Ambidextrous Cotton and Mesh
Stay comfortable and functional while shooting clays this summer. The Allen Ace Shooting Vest has multiple features to improve a day on the range. Pockets inside hold recoil reducing pads.
Features a choke tube pocket with individual compartments. Also has two large pockets for spent hulls and loaded ammo. Constructed of cotton and mesh.
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Rem DriLube 4-oz. Aerosol
Remington's Rem DriLube is a Teflon-based lubricant that provides a tough, non-congealing film without the residue of dry graphite lubes.
Keeps firearms functioning dependably to minus-40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Material: Teflon-based lubricant
Quantity: 4 oz.
Container: Aerosol
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Midas Electronic Hearing Protector
Most shooting ranges make hearing protection mandatory. Even when shooting at a private location, hearing protection should be a priority. Browning's Midas Electronic Hearing Protector allows shooters to hear someone talking, yet, muffles the gun's report.
Sharp noises are reduced while normal speech and sounds are amplified
On/off volume controls
Fast reaction time: 6 milliseconds
Operates on two AA batteries
100-120 hours per set of batteries with LED battery life indicator
NRR 28dB
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Game Day Preview: Buffalo Bills at Pittsburgh Steelers
A group of veterans pose for a picture as part of the NFL's tribute to service at Heinz Field before the start of an NFL football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Don Wright) At 2-6 the Steelers find themselves just trying to find a way to win a game or two. They are playing a pretty poor Buffalo team that may provide the Steelers the game they've been looking for. At this point however, no team is an easy win for the black and gold. The thought of playoffs and even a .500 record need to go away. It's all about getting this win and finding out who truly can play in the system and who shouldn't be here in 2014. That sentiment goes for the coaches too.


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It's been almost 20 years since Green Day's landmark major label debut Dookie took over the airwaves with ear candy like "Basketcase," "Longview" and "When I Come Around" but this three-piece from Berkeley has remained relevant on the strength of sweeping rock statements like 2004's American Idiot which morphed into a musical and the rapid release album trilogy Uno! Dos! Tres! Now BIllie Joe, Mike and Tre are back on Green Day tour dates! See them now before they head back into the studio to craft their next rock opus!About Green Day
It was back when you were sporting your heavy duty walkman, scuffed up Vans and band T-shirt so worn, the neck was warped to useless that you first heard Green Day. Dookie was the album and "Basketcase" would be your mantra. Well this post-punk revival band is still here, and hasn't lost an ounce of street cred and luckily, Green Day tickets are on sale right now.
Singer Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt have been friends since the tender age of 10, the two formed their first band Sweet Children at 14. At 17, the two recorded their first EP under the name Green Day with drummer John Kiffimeyer and the punk record label Lookout in 1989. A year later, Green Day released it's first full length album 39/Smooth inspired by Cali-punk band Operation Ivy. After the first Green Day tour, Kiffimeyer left the band to pursue school and was replaced by current drummer Tre Cool.
1992 saw the release of Kerplunk which built a strong fan base in Berkeley where fans regularly bought Green Day tickets and attended Green Day concerts. The album became one of the biggest selling independent albums to date and caught the attention of a few major record labels. Green Day was soon signed to Reprise records and released Dookie, their major mainstream breakthrough record in 1994.
"Longview,""Basketcase" and "When I Come Around" would blast through speakers around the country as the world began to fall for the relatively new pop punk genre. Green Day concerts at Lollapalooza and Woodstock would further propel Green Day into the mainstream as the demand for Green Day tickets skyrocketed. Some hardcore fans didn't like the change, most embraced it- the album even won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music performance that year- not too shabby for a sophomoric release huh?
1995's follow-up album, Insomniac, would not chart as well as Dookie despite the positive critical reception. Rolling Stone had this to say about the album - "In punk the good stuff actually unfolds and gains meaning as you listen without sacrificing any of its electric, haywire immediacy. And Green Day are as good as this stuff gets." Warning, Green Day's 2000 release was considered a commercial letdown, but due to Green Day's popularity on the concert circuit, fans still poured into stadiums with their Green Day tickets.
After a relatively extended break, American Idiot was released in 2004. This multi-platinum album returned to the bread and butter of Green Day's style- pure punk. The band was careful to insert melodies with political overtones and a healthy balance of playful pop, and it worked. All five singles "American Idiot," "Holiday," "Jesus of Suburbia," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," and " Boulevard of Broken Dreams" were hits making Green Day tickets one of the most sought after concert tickets that year.
After a long Green Day tour, the band recorded a cover of "The Saints Are Coming" by new wave/ punk rockers The Skids with U2 in honor of musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2006 before focusing their attention on respective side projects. Well the break is over kids, and Green Day tickets are going on sale soon and guess what? Green Day also released their eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, in May of 2009, and produced the Broadway show American Idiot. So expect the Green Day tickets craze to commence.


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It's been 12 years since Wade Dufresne Rosko first joined the Boy Scouts of America. Now, countless merit badges and hours later, the Summit High School senior will be awarded the organization's highest honor - the Eagle Scout Award. Wade started out as a Cub Scout in first grade and has been active ever since. It's no surprise that he became involved for so long; both of his parents participated in scouting when they were his age. "It's been really great," said his mother, T.J. Dufresne, who said she was involved in Girl Scouts as a girl and takes time nowadays for various volunteer projects. "Seeing the boys grow, all of them, has been really awesome."
When Wade joined the Boy Scouts, his father T.A. Rosko did too, taking over the task of Scoutmaster for Wade's troop. Though he never made it all the way to Eagle Scout, Rosko remembers being a Boy Scout back in southern Ohio and was eager for his son to have similar experiences."It's both exciting and challenging," he said of his role as both father and Scoutmaster. "I've followed him through the whole time. It was cool because we got to spend a lot of time together."The reason Rosko has invested in the time spent in Boy Scouts has to do with the various programs and activities on offer."That's why I'm in Scouts so much," he said, "Because of the leadership opportunities for the boys - figuring out problems, being in the outdoors. We're a very active troop."Wade's troop, Troop 188, hosts 30 Scouts in total, Rosko said. They meet several times a month and go on frequent camping trips."One of the great things that I really like about their troop - Wade really made it a part of himself," Dufresne said. "They do a lot of community things."
Eagle Scout is the highest ranking that a Boy Scout can achieve. The Eagle Scout Award entails demonstrating proficiency in leadership, service and outdoor skills at multiple levels, all before or by the age of 18. There are two main achievements each Scout must complete for the award - earning at least 21 merit badges and designing, organizing and completing a community service project.For his service project, Wade chose to improve the Mesa Cortina Trailhead, building two bridges over streams and a quarter-mile of new trail. Wade worked with the open space & trails department to coordinate the location of his project, studying the slope and the lay of the land to determine the best place for the new trail. The rest was up to him.Wade arranged for location and approval of the project, then coordinated the materials and manpower necessary to complete the job. Despite a bit of a rocky start on the first day, by the second day Wade had more than 30 people under his command. They cleared away vegetation, leveled out the trail area and built two bridges, one at 14 feet long and the other, broken into two sections, at 20 feet and 18 feet long. "I'd say getting people together and working with people that aren't in my Scout troop," Wade said about the most difficult part of the undertaking.Overall, Wade clocked in 323 hours for his Eagle Scout project. In addition to earning a prestigious award, Wade said the project taught him a lot, especially "that if I make a plan, I know I can get something done and despite any difficulties that may crop up, I can overcome them and finish my project and get to my goal."Looking back on his achievement, Wade feels pride and excitement."It feels awesome," he said. "All my years from first grade to now have been working up to this point and I'm excited."He's not the only one. His parents are also proud."It's been a lot of work, a lot of dedication. It's pretty awesome," Dufresne said.Wade's Eagle Scout ceremony and celebration will take place Sunday at 6 p.m. at Dillon Community Church. Community members are invited to attend."I think he did a great job. He really stepped up," Rosko said. "It's nice that he started something and finished it and followed it through. I think that's the biggest accomplishment."


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Don't keep your Microsoft Office Project 2007 information locked away on your desktop computer. Learn to attractively and effectively display your project in other Microsoft Office programs or on a Web page.
About this course
This course includes:
Two practice sessions for hands-on experience.
A Quick Reference Card you can take away from the course.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Use a wizard to copy Project information to Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Word, or Visio.
Create a picture of your project to use on a Web page.
Before you begin
This course assumes you already know how to create tasks and assign durations. See the Project Guide in Project 2007 for step-by-step help with defining your tasks, assigning durations, and linking tasks.
You must have Visio 2000 or later, Word 2000 or later, or PowerPoint 2000 or later installed in order to complete the practice sessions.
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Ron Kidder, Marietta High's head volleyball coach, added another notch to his coaching legacy Tuesday night, picking up his 300th career victory in a win over league opponent Cambridge.
Kidder began his coaching career in 1996 when he took the helm for the Warren Lady Warriors. He picked up his 200th victory five years ago in 2007, and has kept the victories coming in his tenure with the Lady Tigers.
"When I started coaching volleyball, I never thought about stuff like that," Kidder said at practice Wednesday. "I've been very fortunate to coach a lot talented, hard-working kids."
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Marietta High volleyball coach Ron Kidder (orange) goes through a practice drill with players' Mattie Miller, left and Gracie Haas, right, in Sutton Gym Wednesday, one day after his Tiger netters defeated Cambridge for his 300th win as a volleyball boss at Warren and Marietta.
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Marietta High volleyball coach Ron Kidder poses after notching 300th career victory at Cambridge on Tuesday night.
Kidder's players are proud to have helped him reach the achievement.
"We're so honored that we got to give him that 300th win during our careers," said senior Haley Bonar. "We all respect him so much."
This year's Lady Tiger squad sits at 14-4 overall and 6-2 in the East Central Ohio League. Kidder said that what he is proudest of is the year after year success of the program.
"300 wins in 16 years, that's pretty good," Kidder explained. "The consistency part is big for me. It's hard to win at the varsity level, but sometimes it's not hard to have one good season, if you've got a good group of kids. But to stay winning, year after year, that's hard."
Kidder noted several highlights throughout his career, perhaps none bigger than the 2010 team that went 22-0 in the regular season and won the school's first volleyball title in the SEOAL, the league Marietta was in prior to entering the ECOL.
"That's something you never expect to do," Kidder said of going undefeated. "You always figure there's somebody that will beat you eventually. That was a very special year. The program has really turned around. These kids believe in themselves."
This year, the Lady Tigers have a good combination of younger and older players, led by five seniors.
"When they come to play, they're a tough team to beat," Kidder said of this year's team. "They're very good."
Senior Kaitlyn Cozzens has played under Kidder since she was in junior high at Warren and has learned a lot from him.
"He's a very good coach," Cozzens said. "He's a tough coach, but he's taught us a lot about the game. We wouldn't have had this kind of success without him."
Fellow senior Kristen Hill agreed and added "He expects a lot out of us. He knows our ability, and if we're not playing up to out potential, he knows he needs to push us to do our best. He means a lot to us."
Kidder was quick to give credit to not only the players, but everyone around him for his success.
"I have to give credit to God for allowing me to be healthy and continue coaching," he said. "My wife and family have been very supportive, which helps. You can't coach this long at this level with the amount of time it takes without the support of your spouse. Also, I've got to give credit to Sandy (Goins), my assistant coach. She's been with me through almost all of it. She really helps the program and really helps me. You need good coaches in your program to help develop kids."
Senior Alexis Walsh said Kidder has contributed to the team's chemistry.
"He's helped us come together as a team," Walsh said. "We all play well together, and he's helped us become better players."
Kourtney Crum, also a senior, added "Yeah, he can be tough at times, but we still enjoy playing for him. I think we're all really glad that he's our coach."
Kidder was unsure if he'll stick around to see 400 wins, but set no timetable on how long he'll coach.
"As long as I enjoy doing it, I'll keep doing it," the coach lamented. "That enjoyment comes from the kids I coach, the atmosphere, and the parents who are very supportive. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy doing this."
Kidder and the Lady Tigers will go for win No. 301 tonight on the road against Dover.


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The sixth annual Poetry Slam, hosted by Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, welcomes community members, students and faculty to rock their original verse on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Eileen & Paul Finkel Auditorium. Poets of all ages and styles are invited to recite, perform or read as many as three minutes of original poetry at the Poetry Slam microphone. Performers can use no props, but they can use a small folder to read their poems. Group pieces and music are not allowed.Mark Palz, a CMC adjunct instructor who teaches English and creative writing, will emcee the event and will also initiate interactive discussions on poetry to engage the audience and promote a dialogue about poetry's place in the modern world.The event is free and open to the public. Parents of school-age children should be aware that some poems may contain adult content.Contact Palz at (716) 208-6473 for more information.
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(a) Lottery winnings subject to withholding. -- Proceeds of more than $5,000 from any lottery prize awarded by the West Virginia State Lottery Commission is subject to withholding. The commission in making any payment of a lottery prize subject to withholding shall deduct and withhold from the payment a tax in an amount equal to six and one-half percent of the payment.
(b) Statement by recipient. -- Every person who is to receive payment of winnings which are subject to withholding shall furnish the person making the payment a statement made under the penalties of perjury, containing the name, address and taxpayer identification number of the person receiving the payment and each person entitled to any portion of the payment.
(c) Coordination with other sections. -- For the purposes of determining liability for payment of taxes and filing of returns, payments of winnings which are subject to withholding shall be treated as if they were wages paid by an employer to an employee.
(d) Backup withholding. -- Beginning July 1, 2012, every
person who is required to file Internal Revenue Service form W-2G,
and who is subject to backup withholding under federal law, is
subject to West Virginia backup withholding. The payor in making
any payment of a gambling prize subject to backup withholding shall
deduct and withhold from the payment a tax in an amount equal to
six and one-half percent of the payment.
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Josep Toutain is one of the key figures in Spanish comics. Mainly known as the founder of the Selecciones Illustradas agency, he has helped many Spanish artists to get their turn in the international comics field. Toutain started as an illustrator himself in the late 1940s, drawing for several periodicals and dailies, like TBO and La Prensa. His most notable work of the time was 'El Héroe de Saipan', a exotic long story published in 1950. He then joined Francisco de La Fuente's Histograf agency, for which he drew the 'Sylvia Millones' series, as well as 'Un Chico de Arkansas'.
The Selecciones Illustradas agency was founded in 1954. Occupied by his editorial duties for this agency, he cancelled all his own comic activities two years later. The agency soon became one of the biggest international comic agencies, exporting comics to Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and even the USA.
Toutain drawn by Brocal Remohi
Toutain managed to get some of his artists a job at magazines like Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella. Some of the artists that worked for his agency are Jose Maria Bea, Luis Bermejo, Fernando Fernandez, Carlos Gimenez, Alfonso Font, Francisco Hidalgo, Manfred Sommer and Adolfo Usero. Toutain multiplied his activities and launched a variety of magazines and expanded his album's list. Josep Toutain remained active until the 1990s.
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Share your experiences with the 2010 Umstead Marathon below Back to event details page.
One of the best trail marathons out there. Not easy! But not super hard. Great organization! Interesting course where you are almost always seeing other runners! Nice!
I can't even begin to tell you how much I loved this race. First of all...we were very lucky this year that it was a glorious sunny day in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was a challenging course...in which I was prepared for. This was the first time I have run this Umstead Marathon and my first trail race. I have discovered it's my new love. I had lots of fun on the single track and wished it was longer. The runners AND the volunteers were the most supportive people I have ever met in a race.The atmosphere was such that you felt that you could finish because I felt the volunteers were there specifically for me :-D The stations had everything to offer...gu, water. gatorade, chips, bananas...you name it. Thanks Umstead Marathon, for making my first trail race a great experience !
Once again, an VERY well done race. Thank you to the organizers for continuing to put on this gem of a run. Great support from the aide stations and other participants along the way. Thank you for this annual experience.
The weather was as expected...perfect. The organizers do way more than other events. Drinks, snacks, warm fire are all part of the pre-race enjoyment. The goody bag is to behold with a wonderful Brooks shirt, Smartwool socks, towel, chicken poop lip-balm, and various other sundries. The course is very well marked, maned and aided. Time cut-offs are very reasonable for a course as demanding as this. The thrill of finishing is to receive your finishers cup, door prize and Moe's burrito after. The message was a treat as well. Once again the organizers do way more, the volunteers are friendly and the course is lovely.
Perfect weather, couldn't ask for better. This was my second running of the Umstead Marathon and I definately enjoyed it better. Not only had I prepared for it better by running up and down hills, and knew what to expect on the course, but the organizers outdid themselves this time. I particularly enjoyed the humor in the little ditty signs, perfect for getting your mind on something other than placing one foot in front of the other. I even did a PB on this course! Not bad for this old geezer! I'll be back to do it a third time soon. Particularly since it is one of very few that are run on Saturdays so that I can go to church on Sundays. See you at the next one!
This was my first time running a marathon and I came in with very limited training due to a personal issue that required my time day and night. I have trained at Umstead for the past 3 years and was ready to cancel this race but my s/o told me try and see how well I can do at the least. Although I was not totally happy with the outcome due to missing the time cutoff on Turkey Creek I have to say I did much better than anticipated. I will not whine or cry because there are many people in life who would love the opportunity to just walk to the start line so I'm very thankful for the chance to start and to make it at least 18 miles on very little training. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming to me even though I struggled to keep pace. I really wanted to get my finishers pint as I have dreamed of running this race many times but you have to earn it and I congratulate all the finishers, I truly admire you and have much respect for this trail.
This is my 2nd year running this marathon, and it really doesn't get much better than this. Aid stations are perfectly placed (about every 2 miles) and all have water and sports drink (most have Gu as well). Volunteers are very friendly, and I love the small marathon feel (superb goodie bag for a small race - the socks and shirt are great!). The key for me is no pavement - easier on the knees for sure. It's hilly, but not brutally so. All in all, a good training race for Boston for me. I'll be back next year. Thanks to the organizers and volunteers for a great race!
I've done a lot of Triathlons - 5-6 1/2 Iron distance and one Iron - and some shorter road races, and this is by far the best supported race I have ever run. All the aid stations had everything they said they would (no running out of gels or drinks for the slower runners) and there were volunteers on bikes offering aid between the stations. All the volunteers knew what they were doing, and there were enough volunteers that no one had to queue up to get a cup of water. some of the aid stations even had pitchers ready to refill water bottles quickly.
On top of all this, the trails were gorgeous, the course was well marked, and the weather was perfect. I had a rough day due to a sinus infection and inadequate training, and I still had a great time. I will DEFINITELY do this race again.
This race is OK. But really, you are not missing much. If you do decide to sign up for 2011, don't rush into anything, think about it a while. At least wait until January before signing up.
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Automated in-line dilution is an increasingly popular technology in the biopharmaceutical industry. In-line dilution is a process that can help solve capacity, financial, and quality concerns that biopharmaceutical manufacturing plants may be facing regarding process solution preparation and delivery. This technology has several applications in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, such as purification processes, chromatography systems, solvent adjustment, pH adjustment, and cleaning systems. The fundamental aspects of automated in-process dilution systems are discussed, including engineering considerations, equipment components, process materials, operation, maintenance, and quality considerations.
The use of automated in-line dilution systems provides very significant advantages to biopharmaceutical manufacturing. One of the many concerns in biopharmaceutical facilities is capacity; biopharmaceutical companies are now obtaining much higher fermentation and cell culture yields than in the past, leading to capacity shortages in downstream processing equipment. Another challenge is manufacturing at large scale. Manufacturing 10,000-L batches of process solutions in large tanks is inherently difficult. Making a 1-L solution in a laboratory can be done very precisely using analytical instruments that are calibrated at milligram sensitivity. In contrast, making a 10,000-L solution requires load cells or level probe technology with much less precision. Mixing at large scale necessitates mixing studies and process validation to ensure that the mixing process is reliable and repeatable.
In-line dilution technology provides significant advantages compared to traditional large-scale processes because the mixing and preparation was actually being done at a small scale; compare the holdup volume of the in-line dilution skid versus a 10,000-L buffer prep tank. In addition, in-line dilution processes can incorporate feedback control with mixing to achieve highly accurate solution concentrations.
It is not uncommon for organizations to hesitate or be uncertain about implementing new technologies. There is comfort with traditional processes where there are known failures and a general knowledge of how they are addressed. In addition to addressing new process methods, biopharmaceutical manufacturers must consider recent US Food and Drug Administration and International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines.1–3 These guidances urge companies to use process analytical technologies (PAT) in support of quality by design (QbD) and continuous improvement initiatives. The thought of incorporating PAT adds another level of complexity to adopting new process methodologies.