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March 5, 2009, News 12 at 6 o'clock
AUGUSTA, Ga.--- Saturday (March 7) is graduation day for a very special group of kids. Teenagers who have had a rough go of it. Kids who've gotten caught up in crime, drugs, you name it. Augusta's Youth Challenge Academy welcomes these tough cases. They make it their mission to turn them around.
The day starts long before the sun comes up. You can hear them chanting the cadet mantra in their barracks.
"I am trustworthy, honest & steadfast."
These teenagers are from all over Georgia.
"My actions will prove I am worthy of trust & respect..."
They come here to change their lives.
"I will not lie, cheat or steal- or tolerate those who do..."
16-year-old Lynsey Smith is one of them. "Well, when I was in school, since I never went, I got in trouble with the law a few times," Lynsey told us.
Lt. Colonel Janet Zimmerman runs Augusta's Youth Challenge Academy.
"It seems everybody knows somebody who has a child that fell off the wagon..."
She's retired Army with a passion for changing young lives.
"There's no TV, no radio, no iPods, cell phones--all of the trappings of wealth, status, prestige--all of things are not here," Colonel Zimmerman told us.
What kids do get here are five long months of something missing in their lives, structure and a double dose of discipline.
"We are up at 4:30 every morning," Col. Zimmerman says, "We get ourselves ready to go out and do P.T. we clean our barracks. At a quarter of six we're on the PT field. At six we salute the flag and then do an hour of calisthenics."
And by then it's only 7 in the morning.
Fort Gordon is home to one of two Youth Challenge Academies in Georgia. The other one is at Fort Stewart in Hinesville. They run 2 sessions a year here. Three hundred kids are accepted and one hundred will not make it to graduation. Sounds awful, right? Well consider this.
Col. Zimmerman reminds us, "They all volunteer."
That's what Lynsey did. "I knew I wanted to come, because I know I needed to change."
17 year old William Kennedy wanted to change too. Everything is "sir" with him these days. It's a long way from the way it used to be at butler high school.
So what changed? "My attitude, the way I take things more respectable- more responsible," William said.
William got his life back on track here. Now he's got big plans for the future.
"College," he says with a smile.
The smile says a lot. William wants to be a physical therapist and maybe even attend The Medical College of Georgia one day to become a doctor.
For Lynsey who bounced between Cross Creek and Lakeside High School, It's about new found pride and a sense of accomplishment.
"I'm so excited, cause I never completed anything like this before--- I'm excited." What's next for her? "College. I'm gonna be an x-ray technician."
And she's already warned her friends on the outside things are different now.
"Well, a lot of my friends have done bad things, but since they've seen that I can change, they can change. Lynsey continues, "I've told them I'm not gonna be the same person I was before. There's gonna be different things happening."
And how courageous is that? To tell your own friends things will be different now.
The Youth Challenge Academy is taxpayer funded and sponsored by the National Guard. When you apply you don't get to choose between fort Gordon and Fort Stewart. You go where they have an opening. There's also a youth challenge academy in Aiken.
It's not easy. Not every kid will graduate, but they do get results. If you're interested in learning more, click the link below.


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Definition of escapologist in English:
An entertainer specializing in freeing themselves from the confinement of such things as ropes, handcuffs, and chains.
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- Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
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Lemony Snicket Says, 'Don't Read My Books!'
By Daphne Merkin
Published: April 29, 2001
Who is this mysterious and unlikely sounding Lemony Snicket, creator of the best-selling books called ''A Series of Unfortunate Events,'' and what has kept him from showing up at his own scheduled author appearance? What does he look like and where, exactly, is he from? (His author photo, which changes from book to book, is always a blurry shot taken from the back, in which he is walking away from the camera, or staring out a window or down at a book.) And why are the wildly tongue-in-cheek, neo-gothic stories he spins about the miserable lives of the terrorized but resourceful Baudelaire orphans -- 14-year-old Violet, who is a whiz at inventing things; her bookwormish brother, Klaus; and baby Sunny -- always dedicated to the late but still longed-for Beatrice? (From ''The Ersatz Elevator'': ''For Beatrice -- When we met, my life began. Soon afterward, yours ended.'')
On a Thursday morning in early March at the Barnes & Noble in Huntington Station, Long Island, an audience of 175 fifth graders from a public school in nearby Deer Park hangs raptly on every word spoken by the cherubic young man at the front of the room, who claims not to be Lemony Snicket. Dressed neatly in a white button-down shirt, navy blazer and striped tie, he introduces himself as Daniel Handler and, apologizing for Snicket's failure to show, proceeds to pass around a small box containing a humongous black bug that he lovingly and pedantically characterizes as a ''Eupatorus siamensis.'' Handler urges the children to study the bug with great care. This, it seems, is the very creature that accounts for Snicket's absence, having bitten the reclusive author in his armpit at a picnic he attended the previous day. Handler, who resembles a hip version of an Eton schoolboy, elicits another round of helpless, slightly queasy laughter with each black observation or sinister aside he utters -- about the perils of raising your hand to answer a question, for instance, lest a vigilant bug bite you in your unwary armpit. There is a conspiratorial bond that unites him and his audience of 10- and 11-year-olds almost from the moment he enters, one that includes the understanding that adults are clueless and that terrible things can happen anywhere, even at a harmless picnic.
Thirty-one-year-old Handler -- whose nom de plume, Lemony Snicket, makes him sound like an elderly Brit -- has been causing a ruckus in the relatively equable world of juvenile-book publishing ever since he arrived on the scene in the fall of 1999. His quirky and insistently malevolent tales -- with their alliterative titles: ''The Miserable Mill (Book the Fourth),'' ''The Austere Academy (Book the Fifth)'' -- follow the misfortunes of the Baudelaire siblings. This unlucky trio, who in the very first chapter of the series lose their loving parents in a fire that destroys their mansion, become dependent on the hapless intervention of Mr. Poe, a preoccupied banker who tries to find a home for them, and immediately fall prey to the villainous machinations of Count Olaf, who is intent on getting at their fortune.
The books are in the rich satirical tradition that has long marked English literature for children, as opposed to the more sentimental tone of American books. They are narrated in a droll and detached style, which shows influences most noticeably of Oscar Wilde and Roald Dahl, with some hints of Lewis Carroll's nonsensical logic and a dash of Monty Python. (Aside from being a skillful storyteller, Snicket is also endearingly schoolmarmish, pausing frequently between catastrophes to dilate on the meaning of expressions like ''dramatic irony'' or to explain the ingredients for pasta puttanesca.) Snicket wastes no time in apprising unsuspecting readers of the morbid universe that awaits them, which is permeated by a kind of nouveau Dickensian atmosphere that embraces both cars and horse-drawn carriages, computers and telegraph machines. ''If you are interested in stories with happy endings,'' he warns them in the opening sentence of ''The Bad Beginning,'' ''you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.''
Clearly, Handler is onto something. sales of ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' have reached more than a million copies; Nickelodeon will be doing the movie, based on a screenplay by Handler; and foreign rights have been sold to publishers in 19 countries. Although the appeal of the Baudelaires cannot begin to compare with the commercial clout of Harry Potter (there are 48.9 million copies of the four books on these shores alone), they have attracted a growing and obsessively devoted following. ''The Harry Potter books are selling without thought. They're the thing to buy,'' observes Susan P. Bloom, who directs the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. ''Lemony Snicket people are still buying the books out of genuine curiosity and excitement, like the earlier Harry Potter.'' By mid-April, three of a projected 13 books of the series were on the New York Times children's best-seller list. ''The Bad Beginning'' and ''The Ersatz Elevator'' occupied sixth and seventh place, and ''The Reptile Room'' remained on the list at No. 10. Entranced young fans -- mostly in the so-called middle-grade age group of 8-to-12-year-olds -- send masses of e-mail messages and letters to ''Mr. Snicket,'' which contain, variously, expressions of concern for the orphans and delight in the horrible events that befall them, speculations as to the identity of Beatrice (one imaginative reader guessed that she had snubbed Mr. Snicket's marriage proposal in favor of ''the other guy,'' only to die shortly afterward) and suggestions for new plots.


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Definition of harry in English:
verb (harries, harrying, harried)[with object]
1Persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory).
Example sentences
- The king's adoption of Danish tactics in the winter of 878, such as his use of strongholds and small mobile raiding parties to harry the lands of his enemies, was forced upon him by immediate circumstances.
- To combat air attacks, and to harry the long-range German Focke-Wulf Kondor aircraft which acted as reconnaissance for the U-boats, makeshift efforts were made to give air cover, before escort carriers were introduced.
- Their mission is to blow up bridges, block roads and generally harry and destroy any enemy forces with which they come into contact.
charge, rush, strike, set upon;
bombard, shell, strafe
1.1Persistently harass: he bought the house for Jenny, whom he harries into marriage
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- He continued to attack, harry and chase every ball and was rewarded late on with a dramatic Golden Goal.
- Fabrizio Ravanelli had been impressive harrying the home defenders but had contributed little in attack until he took possession on the right touchline.
- Without firm figures, they continued to harry Doig to find them.
harassed, beleaguered, flustered, agitated, bothered, vexed, stressed, beset, plagued
informal hassled, up against it
informal hassle, bug, lean on, give someone a hard time
Old English herian, hergian, of Germanic origin, probably influenced by Old French harier, in the same sense.
Words that rhyme with harryBarry, Carrie, carry, Cary, Clarrie, Gary, glengarry, intermarry, lari, Larry, marry, miscarry, parry, tarry
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Interactive dog toys can bring a lot of fun to your loving pet. They are available in many different shapes, sizes, colors and textures. Interactive dog toys are usually durable. When your dog starts playing with any of the interactive dog toys, you can be sure that he will be able to stay entertained with it even for a couple of hours. Interactive dog toys help in the process of your dogs mentally exercise. Except this, interactive dog toys are able to keep your dog out of trouble; they also help clean their teeth, etc.
Interactive dog toys can be found on the internet, in pet stores, and the best source of interactive dog toys is Pamperedpuppy.com.
If your dog never used an interactive dog toys, the best thing would be giving him in the beginning some easier toys. Interactive dog toys are available in many difficulty levels, so make sure to always choose the one that will be right for your dog.
One of the most popular interactive dog toys is called Kings. These toys have a very interesting shape. The main goal of this toy is to place a dog treat inside the toy, and your dog has to push out the food out of the toy. Once when your dog learns that he can find hidden food inside this toy, he will enjoy playing with it.
Other popular interactive dog toy is called tricky treat ball. This is a ball with holes. Inside the ball you should place some dog treats. When your dog starts rolling the ball, the food will start o go out.
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By Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer
Spring has sprung we're a couple of weeks away from the equinox, but come on, it's March so while you count down the days until daylight savings time once again takes effect (this Sunday, by the way) and your drive home is a little less gloomy, don't forget the new releases that await you this coming New Comic Book Day.
This week sees the long-awaited close to a Marvel miniseries that started back in 2010, a creator-owned debut from one of the biggest writers in comics, a spinoff of a beloved Vertigo series and lots, lots more.
How to make sense of it all? Like every week, we've combed through the big Diamond list of new stuff, and come up with 10 of the most newsworthy, noteworthy and otherwise "worthy" reads, and put them into list form. Click "start here" to check out what's new in comic book stores this Wednesday, March 7.
Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!

Just by itself, a new Toy Story miniseries, while it certainly will have its audience and could very well be a good read, isn't especially novel. When they still had the Disney/Pixar license, BOOM! Studios did plenty of Toy Story comic books.
What is interesting is that this is the first example of new content generated by Marvel since they reacquired their parent company's licenses from BOOM!. They've put out reprints of previous Cars and Muppets material, but with a new Toy Story series, might some more properties including classic Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, in limbo since last year be next?
Brandon Graham has received accolades for his new Prophet series, where he's revisited and reimagined the Extreme Studios title.
In 2007, Graham's King City was first published by Tokyopop, and the whole thing all 424 pages of it is getting a collection this week from Image Comics. Here's how Image describes the Eisner-nominated series: "King City, an underbelly of a town Run by spy gangs and dark dark magic with mystery down every alleyway."
When you were watching Dawson's Creek back in the late '90s it's OK, you can admit that you were you probably never once thought, "I bet that guy that plays Pacey will one day write a comic book."
And yet! He has, Beyond the Fringe, the digital-first tie-in to the cult fave Fox sci-fi series. Joshua Jackson (the aforementioned actor) wrote the story with art by Jorge Jimenez, and after originally running on DC's digital app, it's being collected in print as a one-shot.
If you see the word "compleat," and it's not a typo, you can expect a degree of gravitas. And sometimes, the object being described is actually worth that level of reverence.
Dark Horse releases The Compleat Terminal City this week, collecting two different miniseries originally published by Vertigo. Written by Dean Motter and illustrated by Michael Lark, it's one of the most acclaimed comics of the mid-'90s, presenting a unique take on retro-futurism.
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One of the more surprising DC properties to get a revamp in the New 52 era, Night Force was originally an early '80s horror series by Marv Woflman and Gene Colan.
Wolfman is back for a new Night Force, a book that he told Newsarama is his "favorite creation." The series is scheduled for seven issues, with art from Tom Mandrake and the return of Baron Winters, the main character from the previous series.
Image seems to launch new series nearly every week at this point, and the crazy thing is, a lot of them turn out to be good.
The latest is Hell Yeah, written by Joe Keatinge and with art from Andre Szymanowicz. Like many of the original Image titles (but not much of their current output), it's a superhero comic, but one taking an unconventional approach looking at how 20 years of living in a world with superpowered beings has affected the world at large.
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The Age of Apocalypse has continued to interest fans more than 17 years after its initial debut, and Marvel is returning to the world for a new ongoing series by David Lapham and Roberto De La Torre.
Things have changed in a big way, though the X-Men are all pretty much dead, and it's notorious mutant-haters like William Stryker and Graydon Creed that are the de facto good guys, as the traditional mutant/human dynamic in the Marvel Universe has essentially been flipped.
"Each one is the ultimate human," Lapham told Newsarama. "Imagine what they could do even with the whole world against them."
Fables has become not only one of the longest-running non-superhero series in comics, but also a franchise of its own, inspiring spinoffs like Jack of Fables along the way.
The Vertigo series has inspired another one debuting this week, Fairest, focusing on the likes of Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White and more though any resemblance between this comic and Saturday Night Live's recent "The Real Housewives of Disney" sketch is purely coincidental.
The first arc is written by Fables mastermind Bill Willingham, but subsequent arcs will be penned by the likes of Lauren Beukes and Chris Roberson.
Though he's writing several books for Marvel, like many big-name mainstream creators, Jonathan Hickman makes time in his schedule for creator-owned projects.
His latest, er, project, is Manhattan Projects, from Image Comics. Along with artist Nick Pitarra, the series asks "what if?" the atomic bomb wasn't the only thing that came out of the real-life Manhattan Project.
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The first issue of The Children's Crusade came out in July 2010. Now nearly two years later, the real world and the fictional Marvel Universe are a very different place, but that doesn't make the release of this comic book the last issue of the series any less significant.
Given the important role Scarlet Witch looks to be playing in Avengers vs. X-Men starting in April, the final issue of The Children's Crusade should answer some lingering questions as to her current status quo. Also, it's another chance to enjoy the Young Avengers as depicted by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, and who knows when that might happen again?


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I was diagnosed with viral meningitis when I was a senior in college at age 22. I went to bed with a sore scratchy throat, and when I woke up the next morning my neck was very sore. It continued to get sorer and stiffer so fast that by the time I got myself dressed and was driving to health services, I could no longer turn my neck and needed to actually turn my whole body in order to check for traffic at intersections. I barely made it to health services because my neck and head were in so much pain, and I was rapidly developing a high fever. They immediately took some blood and had me ambulanced over to the hospital because they highly suspected meningitis. This was confirmed by a spinal tap at the hospital. I was in the hospital for a week. If you suspect that you have meningitis, please do not make the mistake of trying to drive yourself to get checked out. My symptoms worsened so rapidly, and I was lucky to have made it to health services without getting in a car accident.
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I developed "chemical" meningitis after brain surgery (it's non-infectious). Some of the blood I lost during surgery got into my brain and spinal cord and caused inflammation of my brain and nerve roots of my spinal cord. I ended up with a high fever, headache, nausea, difficulty with vision and hearing, brain swelling, and dizziness. I also began having severe leg pain and difficulty walking. Steroids have helped my brain swelling but so far I am still having difficulty walking 12 days after my surgery.
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I awoke at 3 am with a terrific fever. The bedding was saturated with sweat. I was very confused and couldn't hold a conversation. I was violently sick, constantly for three whole days. Vomit looked like cooked coffee grains. I wandered about in a confused state. Holding my neck up was very painful. Almost at a point of collapse. Seizures began a few days later, sometimes one following another, and appeared, so I'm told that I looked dead and hardly had a pulse. Since then my memory is poor and my character has changed. I get easily agitated and aggressive, which was not me. I have always been a quiet and passive person.
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A video and song about the perfect storm by Earl and Arch. A great tribute to the fishermen who lost there lives at sea in Gloucester. We try to visit Gloucester as often as we can. Cape Ann is one of my favorite places to photograph. My brother-in-law, Todd lives in Plum Cove and is a photographer, too. You can visit his website at Plum Cove Photography.
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Metro-North Plans Full Service Monday
Metro-North Railroad said it plans to run full service Monday morning on the New Haven line, which has been significantly hampered since a cable failure more than a week ago cut the electric power to run trains.
Con Edison, the utility whose cable failed, said it energized an out-of-service 138-kilovolt feeder cable Thursday night, reconnecting the distribution network to Metro-North's substation in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
The railroad has coped with capacity far lower than usual since the power outage, on the commuter rail line that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority calls the most heavily traveled single line in the nation. Roughly 125,000 people per day ride on the New Haven line, which stretches from New Haven, Conn., to Grand Central Terminal.
A Metro-North spokesman said that full service was expected to start Monday morning, after tests this weekend to be sure the reconnected line could sustain the demands of full train service.
The railroad has been operating with about 65 percent of its normal weekday capacity, thanks to a patchwork system of diesel-powered trains, and several electric trains running thanks to a back-up substation assembled by Con Ed at Harrison, N.Y.
Amtrak, whose trains run over Metro-North's tracks on the line, said it also planned to resume full electric service once testing is concluded on Monday.
The railroad also announced that customers with weekly tickets valid during the period of the outage can begin apply for a credit to purchase future tickets beginning Oct. 9. Monthly ticketholders can begin applying for a prorated credit beginning on Oct. 20, the date that monthly tickets for November will go on sale.


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Date Posted: 04/29/2014
Soka University of America is seeking an Admission Operations-Data Processor to support the universities overall recruitment and enrollment goals. This is a full time one year term contract position with a possibility of renewal. The Data Processor is responsible for the daily work and processing of all application data as it relates to the accurate and timely input of information into the universities PeopleSoft database. He/She is also responsible for the physical processing and filing of applications and related documents. The Data Processor is also responsible for contacting applicants and other agencies in order to bring about the completion of application files. Candidates for this position must possess strong customer services and written/verbal communication skills.
Candidates should have:
- Bachelor's degree or some college preferred. High school graduation or equivalent required.
- Experience with PeopleSoft database/software highly desired.
- Ability to utilize a complex admission record keeping function.
- Ability to interact well with applicants and parents by phone, email and postal mail.
- Ability to work in collaboration with the other staff members in the department.
- Demonstrated understanding and sensitivity regarding cultural traditions, language barriers, and differential experiences in pre-collegiate academic preparation.
- Capacity for developing and sustaining effective relationships with administrators, faculty, staff, students, as well as a variety of outside organizations.
- Ability to receive and carry out directions.
- Ability to work both independently and on a team.
- High proficiency in personal computer systems utilizing databases within PeopleSoft, word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, to include MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, and other Microsoft applications.
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One year after her death, police have gone public saying Samantha Folsom, 26, of Lewiston, was the victim of a homicide.
Police said the woman was found in a closet, in her third-floor apartment on Oxford Street. Her parents discovered the body when they went to check on her.
Police originally classified the case as a suspicious death.
An autopsy was performed on her body, but the cause of death has not been released.
Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said state and Lewiston police continue to investigate.


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Zurich, Switzerland
July 4, 2007 to July 6, 2007
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Mohamed Salah Hamdi , University of Qatar
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2007.99
The problem of information overload has become more pressing with the emergence of the increasingly more popular Internet services. The main information retrieval mechanisms provided by the prevailing Internet Web software are based on either keyword search (e.g., Google and Yahoo) or hypertext browsing (e.g., Internet Explorer and Netscape). The research presented in this paper is aimed at providing an alternative concept-based categorization and search capability based on a combination of meta-search and self-organizing maps. Kohonen's self-organizing map is very well known as a clustering and dimension reduction tool. Clustering can be used for categorization of search results. Dimension reduction can be used for visualization and for reducing information in order to ease search.
Mohamed Salah Hamdi, "Semantic Map Based Web Search Result Visualization", IV, 2007, 2013 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2013 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation 2007, pp. 222-227, doi:10.1109/IV.2007.99


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For some reason I'm still believing that he can somehow break Hewitt to level the set...
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Roger reaches final in Halle
12.06.2010 | Tennis
Roger notched up his 29th straight win in Halle today as he beat Germany's Philipp Petzschner 7-6(3) 6-4. He will now take on Lleyton Hewitt in Sunday's final.
It was the first meeting between Roger and Petzschner on the ATP-Tour. The first set was a tough fight on both sides. Roger conceded two breaks in the opening set, but managed to score two breaks himself, eventually prevailing in the tie-break. Roger then secured the only break in the second set and served out the match to end Petzschner's resistance.
Roger will now meet Australia's Lleyton Hewitt (ATP 31) in the final of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle.
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Roger fans,
He is playing worst than in 2008. Stop with the good posts like: "you played well" "bad luck" and other stuffs like that. Realize that Roger is really playing BAD, very BAD in ALL surfaces. Lets say the truth for our champion in order to hi
He is playing worst than in 2008. Stop with the good posts like: "you played well" "bad luck" and other stuffs like that. Realize that Roger is really playing BAD, very BAD in ALL surfaces. Lets say the truth for our champion in order to hi
Score now 4-2 Hewitt
deuce Fed at serve
deuce Fed at serve
ur gonna win this easy
love you
aditi <3
love you
aditi <3
Good luck my friend!!
What's the score now in the 3rd set, even though Fed should've won this match in 2 sets already, but blew the 2nd, and he's been especially bad on game points and break points and all important points, just like versus Soderling in Paris and all his tourn
Soderling and now Hewitt players with whom Federer had no problem in the past
are beating him one by one these days.
are beating him one by one these days.
very very very hard to hold serve
A final against the little aussie battler. Should be mutally fun I think. Lleyton you can never predict how he will go, he's full of surprises, so don't give him an inch! Good luck


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Hayley Atwell: "British actresses are unparalleled"
Hayley Atwell, the new British star ready to top Hollywood's 'it' list, talks power and vanity with The Big Issue
Hayley Atwell is enjoying life in sunny Los Angeles. Having just completed work on two major Hollywood films, while she's Stateside she's also promoting her starring role in ambitious new ITV series, Life of Crime.
But it's by no means all work, work, work. She readily gives a rundown of the best local dive bars – "I keep going to places that are so dark and dingy that you never know what they are called, and on the way to one you find five more to go in" – and dishes up advice on where to find the best hangover-cure breakfasts on Sunset Boulevard (Millie's, apparently).
With a dual passport, work on both sides of the Atlantic and family in the States, it's hardly surprising that the 31-year-old is completely at ease in LA.
"It is fantastic. I love it. I am half-American. My dad is also in California, so it is not a huge world away for me," she says. "You can do anything you want out here. A friend of mine says the great thing about LA is that everyone is so busy thinking about themselves, they don't give a shit what you do or say.
"It is a good way of looking at it, especially with actors in LA. There is a whole breed of acting culture out here [in which people] wait to speak rather than listen. So if you don't mind putting up with that, you can do and say whatever you want. I've been taking advantage of it."
Since first catching the eye alongside ex-Downton Abbey favourite Dan Stevens in the excellent BBC Two adaptation of The Line of Beauty in 2006, Atwell has appeared in everything from a version of Mansfield Park to William Boyd's Restless and Any Human Heart, and Brideshead Revisited to Captain America: The First Avenger on the big screen.
She's currently filming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, alongside a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson and Robert Redford.
"Is Robert Redford in it? Really?" she exclaims. "Well, there you go, that shows how much I know! But now you have told me, and because I love him, I am going to call up the Marvel family, find out when he is filming, then I'll go down to the set to stalk him. That is my privilege! Thanks for the tip."
Her ignorance about the addition of Hollywood royalty to the cast could be forgiven, though: her character, Peggy Carter, appears only in a few flashback scenes in this sequel. But there is good news for fans of Peggy (of whom Atwell enthuses "she can do everything Captain America can do but backwards, in high heels").
She reveals: "Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are also making a short film, which is basically 'What Peggy Did Next', which will be shown at Comic-Con [the annual international pop culture convention held in San Diego] and be on the DVD extras of the second film.
So as well as doing a bit in the new film, I've got a whole new spin-off short film. It has been great to be back in training with the stunt co-ordinators, kicking some butt again."
The other film keeping Atwell out of LA dive bars is All Is By My Side, a Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Outkast rapper Andre 3000, in which she plays Kathy Etchingham, doyenne of Swinging London.
"I play this working-class, feisty wildchild from the north, chain smoking and just completely out of control," she says with a grin. "It's quite a responsibility playing someone who is not only a real character but is still alive as well.
"And Andre is the coolest man ever. He wears clothes that he designs and makes himself. He is a spiritual person, he is not in it for the fame game – he doesn't know whether he is going to be making carpets in Malaysia, doing more acting or recording another album next. But he works so hard.
"His Jimi Hendrix looks and sounds incredible. He was staying in character a lot of the time. It's really imaginative casting."
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The last time The Big Issue met up with Atwell, on a tough shoot filming Life of Crime in Dublin during the depths of winter, her trailer was filled with so many drugs we feared we'd stepped on to the set of Breaking Bad.
She was struck down by a bout of bronchitis, with a side order of laryngitis and acute sinusitis, forcing the production to shut down for two days – almost unheard of in making TV during these days of tight budgets and even tighter schedules. "There are some scenes where it looks like I'm on the verge of tears but it's actually because I'm a massive snotrag," she smiles.
The series follows the life and career of police officer Denise Woods, from pounding the beat as a raw recruit to a senior position in the Met. It begins, eerily, in 1985, with Margaret Thatcher's voice blaring out of the radio, which is quickly retuned to a station playing Culture Club.
Over three episodes, each set in a different decade, Atwell is aged (not altogether convincingly – her skin, according to the make-up artist, is too smooth), dressed in an array of unflattering outfits, and plays a character whose stellar career could come crashing down any moment thanks to a rookie error on her first case.
"You can see I am not a vain actress – there's no question of me using my beauty and sexuality as my main currency in this role," she says wryly. "The uniforms were so unflattering and unforgiving.
"Every time I came on set, the costume girls would start singing the theme tune from The Bill. I was saying, 'No, I'm trying to be Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect – that's the level I'm aiming for.'"
Invoking Dame Helen and one of the finest British police dramas of all time? That's confident talk… "Oh no, I don't think Life of Crime touches it – with all due respect, this doesn't come close to Helen Mirren or Prime Suspect at all for me," she quickly asserts.
"There are quite a lot of unforgiving clichés in it, which makes it very hard to work with, but the premise is excellent. And the character is so morally ambiguous that I don't even know if I like her. We look at the abuse of power – my character has the chance to take some power, which she has been denied because of her sex, age and lack of experience."
Power, politics, plotting career paths – the parallels with Atwell's own position within the acting world are not lost on her. "I'm not in a huge position of power… yet. I haven't got a million scripts knocking on my door, lots of people throwing money at me and wanting to work with me… yet!" she says.
"In the last year I've turned down a couple of more commercial roles in order to develop a bit. Instead of just standing in front of the camera and pouting, I need more of a challenge. I would like to do more films but I don't want to end up doing five in succession that are not particularly good.
"It is a navigation game: where are the best stories? You have to go through things with a fine-tooth comb rather than making big sweeping attempts to become famous."
But help navigating success has been on hand from two other Young British Actors. "I am close to Jodie Whittaker and Andrea Riseborough, who are very strong, opinionated women and very good at what they do – we talk a lot about what it is like for women in this industry," says Atwell, whose next film project sees her working alongside another YBA, Tom Hiddleston.
"I am much more interested in the choices they are making than the pretty faces who are doing well in mediocre stuff. They have been brave enough to forge their own paths.
"The actresses we have in Britain are unparalleled. Sophie Okonedo, Anna Maxwell Martin, Olivia Colman. They are the kind of actresses I want to be on the table with. They are fully rounded human beings."
Life of Crime is on Fridays, 9pm, ITV1
Words: Adrian Lobb


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Boaters and campers will be out on the water this weekend for Labor Day.
The water levels are dangerously low.
Riding around in Lake Walter F. George in Fort Gaines, Georgia you can see the water levels are about five feet lower than normal.
You can look around the shoreline and see bare ground and grass growing in a lot of places where it usually doesn't.
If you're not familiar with the lake, you'll want to stay inside the navigational markers because there are sticks and stumps sticking out of the water in the more shallow areas.
Also, swim close to the shore because more beaches are showing but have steep drop offs.
There are about five boat ramps that are unusable and three that are questionable, but 20 boat ramps are usable with about three or four feet of water.
The lake will go down a little more, but officials are holding it at 185 feet because any lower than that, you can't generate power.
They're hoping for the tropical storms, but in the meantime, warning water enthusiasts say to use caution this Labor Day weekend.


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A naked 30-year-old transient was arrested in connection to an early morning rampage last week that caused up to $20,000 in damage to a local church, Milpitas Police Department reported.
On Aug. 7 at about 5:29 a.m., Milpitas police responded to a 911 call at St. John The Baptist Catholic Church at 279 S. Main St. regarding a naked man destroying church property, police said.
Officers arrived at the scene within minutes and discovered a significant amount of damage to the church. Several statues, benches, pots, candles, candle holders, planters and other ornamental items were destroyed both inside and outside the church, police said.
Officers searched the area and located the suspect in a south parking lot at the church.
It was determined the suspect, later identified as Michael David Vickroy, had a prior argument with his girlfriend about their relationship and took his anger out on items at the church.
Vickroy was arrested without incident. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail for vandalizing a church, which is a felony violation, police said.
The estimated damage to the church was between $15,000 and $20,000, police said.
Stanley Horyza, a church historian, said three newer statues in the church were destroyed, but others that are close to 100 years old were spared.
On Friday, Milpitas police Sgt. Raj Maharaj said Vickroy displayed no apparent symptoms of intoxication or drug use and authorities therefore conducted no toxicology report or test on the suspect.
"At this point we only know he had a prior argument and he took his anger out on the church property," Maharaj said, noting the suspect easily gained access to the church's interior. "We believe the doors to the church were unlocked and there were no obvious signs of forced entry."
Maharaj said police are not investigating this vandalism as a hate crime.
This week, the Rev. Ritche Bueza of St. John's said his congregation was trying to move on from the vandalism.
"We're all moving on," he said, adding broken items like statues and flower pots could be restored. "Fortunately, they are replaceable. In fact, two of the statues have been replaced."
In addition, Bueza said security at the church has been enhanced.
"We are looking at securing all of our doorsÉwe're trying our very best to make sure the doors are all locked," he said. "We're making sure all of our locks are working and they are."
Saying Milpitas police have also stepped up patrols around the area, Bueza asserted his church has grown stronger and his parishioners have united. And over the weekend, the pastor said his church celebrated Mass with a focus on healing.
"I invited the whole assembly to pray together," Bueza said. "We prayed for peace and we prayed for healing and we also prayed for the perpetrator."
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LA CROSSE, Wis. - S&S Cycle has hired Stephen K. Iggens as company president, whose begins his new role Aug. 8 and is planning on attending the rally in Sturgis, S.D., for a few days to meet customers and other industry leaders.
Since 2008, executive chairman and CEO George B. Smith has handled the duties of president. Smith will continue his duties as CEO and S&S Cycle chairman of the board while lending his industry expertise and experience to Iggens to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
Iggens is no stranger to S&S Cycle and the motorcycle industry having served as executive controller, director of finance/CFO and CFO/vice president of finance at Viola, Wis.-based company between 2003 and 2006.
A licensed CPA in the state of Wisconsin and MBA graduate from Marquette University, Iggens has obtained broad business experience with company COO leadership positions in diverse industries of printing, die casting, machining and non-ferrous metals casting. Those experiences shared many similar challenges to S&S Cycle in the recent economic downturn and give him an excellent perspective to capitalize on current S&S Cycle opportunities.
"Steve Iggens is a very competent and capable guy and knows S&S Cycle and our industry. I don't think we could have found a better match to lead the S&S Team to take advantage of the opportunities facing us and the positive initiatives currently in the works," says Smith. "With his past experience here at S&S and additional business and manufacturing experience he gained the last five years, I'm confident that he will be able to continue the growth exhibited the past year and help develop effective future strategies."
Iggens enjoys traveling and spending time with this wife Kate and his young son Mick. He is also a bit of a motor head and in his spare time rides his S&S powered Harley-Davidson Road King and works on his classic cars. According to Steve, moving back to the beauty of southwest Wisconsin and leading S&S is a dream come true.
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The IT Manager's Daily Work and Play Bag
Being an IT manager who likes to play as much as work means making room for some extras in your daily bag. Here's what Lifehacker reader Chris Vega carries with him.
Being an IT manager who likes to play as much as work means making room for some extras in your daily bag. Here's what Lifehacker reader Chris Vega carries with him.
Bags don't always have to be big and sit on your shoulders. Everyday Carry reader Sergey shares his pocket-sized bag that's packed with everything he needs on a daily basis.
Some people love to take notes, draw in sketchbooks, and have a variety of journals available to them at all times. Everyday Carry reader Juan Estey shares his journaling go-bag packed with a ton of sketching options.
As you'd probably guess, being an EMT means you tend to keep a good amount of first aid gear on you at all times. Everyday Carry reader Tony shares his bag that's packed with enough gear to patch up just about anyone until help arrives.
CIA agents to be prepared for everything and sometimes that means surviving on limited resources. Their survival kit is tiny, but includes everything needed to get out of town and live for a while.
A Fire and Risk Consultant's job requires someone to quickly gauge the risk of a building and help improve it. That type of attention to detail also transfers over to their daily carry, which Everyday Carry reader Chris Carlton shares here.
Students have to lug around their stuff to classes all day, so their bags tend to be packed with just the essentials and nothing more. Case in point, reader DgnKoopa's backpack has everything they need for school (and a little bit of wasted time) and nothing else.
These days, prepping your bag is rarely about preparing for one task. Case in point, software developer and photographer Dean Putney needed a bag that could handle both his jobs at once.
Being a CEO at a startup can mean just about anything these days, but you usually need to be prepared for a lot of different things while still being mobile. Everyday Carry reader Colin Ryan shares his bag.
Just because you use a briefcase for work doesn't mean you have to keep boring old papers in it. Everyday Carry reader Derrick is a customer service rep for FEMA and the organization's pedigree shows through in his choices for the contents of his bag.
System administrator's have one of those jobs where they need to be prepared for a wide variety of problems every day. Reader Chris Collins shares his nicely organized bag that helps him do just that.
Being a student is tough enough as it is and when you're getting your PhD, you require a whole different set of tools. Case in point, PhD student, Samuel shares his bag over on Everyday Carry.
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BRICS to Announce IMF Contribution at G-20 Meeting, Brazil Says
The world's largest emerging-market nations will announce contributions to the International Monetary Fund's financial firewall at a Group of 20 meeting in Mexico, Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said.
"We're going to make an additional contribution to the IMF that will be announced at the leaders' meeting," Mantega told reporters today in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos.
He said the sum will be similar to the amount announced by the IMF in April, when the Washington-based lender said it received total pledges of $430 billion from members. Other countries including Brazil, Russia, India and China agreed to contribute about $70 billion to that total without detailing their pledges.
The G-20 agreed earlier this year to boost IMF resources that could be channeled to Europe if the crisis there spreads. The leaders of the so-called BRICS group, including South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, met in Los Cabos today on the first day of the G-20 summit and reaffirmed their decision to add to IMF resources, according to an e-mailed statement.
"It's going to be the first time the fund is capitalized without the U.S., which reflects the importance of emerging markets," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said two days ago.
Even while emerging markets answer Germany's call to do more to help Europe, the BRICS will continue to push for faster reform of the IMF, Mantega said. Brazil had threatened to withhold its contribution until Europe grants the BRICS a bigger say in how the multilateral lender is run.
As Europe's debt crisis spreads, nations that have powered the global economy since 2007 are seeing their outlook worsen. China reduced its growth target this year to the lowest since 2004, Brazil is on pace to grow less than 3 percent for a second straight year and Standard & Poor's threatened to cut India'sinvestment-grade credit rating. The Brazilian real, Russian ruble and Indian rupee are the three worst-performing emerging market currencies this quarter
BRICS leaders in their meeting today also instructed finance officials to develop a plan to swap national currencies. The plan will be presented at a BRICS summit next year in South Africa.
Mantega said that countries would potentially be able to tap into a joint fund when facing liquidity shocks.


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Eragon Theme of Exploration
When a book begins with a map (the way our 2002, Alfred A. Knopf edition of Eragon does), you know that you're in for exploring. As readers, we follow Eragon all over Alagaësia and even beyond. Through his travels, we learn more and more about the world he lives in: its people, its customs, and its conflicts. Exploration is more than an exercise in geography, though. For Eragon, his travels are a journey that lead him to a stronger sense of self, and a deeper understanding of his responsibilities as a powerful Dragon Rider.
Questions About Exploration
- Do you see life, as Brom does, as one big process of travel and exploration? Does his metaphor make sense to you? How about death? Do you see it as "the greatest adventure of all"?
- How might Eragon's enthusiasm for exploring new places be a potentially dangerous thing? (Consider his experience in Dras-Leona, for example.)
- Compare your attitude to Eragon's: how do you feel about exploration? Is it something you love to do, or would you rather stay at home around the people and things you know? Explain your answer.


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4th of July BBQ recipes, Ribs
Barbecued Country Ribs
What Are Country Style Ribs?
Cut from the top part of the pork loin, next to the shoulder blade. Different than your more traditional long bone spare ribs, these bones are shorter or just cartiledge instead of bone. But they are tasty. When barbecued, because they are not the long bone ribs these beauties keeps the meat moist and tender, and adds a lot of great flavor. They can be grilled over low, direct heat, or slow barbecued so they can be cooked longer for more tender eating. If you choose the latter then the meat will practically fall off the bone. Enjoy!
2 lbs. country style pork ribs sauce
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 med. onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1/2 cup celery, chopped
4 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. brown sugar
3 tbsp. worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 cup ketchup
1 cup water
1/2 tsp. dry mustard(mild or hot)
1 tsp. celery salt
This is a winner in my house around the 4th of July and I will definitely make this one again. Just be sure to wash ribs and pat dry before starting the cooking process.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
lay ribs in shallow 13×9 or larger pan, roast at 425 degrees F for 30 min.
In the meantime make sauce:
Saute onion, pepper and celery in the oil till soft
add all other ingredients .
simmer for around 20 minutes .
Pour sauce over ribs after the 30 min. roasting period
Reduce oven to 325 and roast for 1-1/2 – 2 hours.
Servce over hot buttered noodles.
This country style rib recipe allows you to slather on your favorite bbq sauce twenty to twenty five minutes before you remove 'em from the grill. Applying the sauce too soon may result in burning.
A Southern Fried Chicken
This recipe never goes out of style. This finger-licking good fried chicken recipe
is perfect for any 4th of July celebration. If you want to change this and make it a
bit healthier substitute the all-purpose flour with unbleached all-purpose flour.
Original Recipe Yield 6 servings
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon seasoned salt
* 1 tablespoon garlic powder
* 1 tablespoon onion powder
* 1 tablespoon coarse ground black pepper
* 2 eggs
* 4 cups buttermilk
* 1 cup barbeque sauce
* 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
* 1 tablespoon steak sauce
* 1 (3 pound) whole chicken, cut into pieces
* 2 cups oil for frying
1. In a large shallow dish, mix together flour, seasoned salt, garlic powder,
onion powder, and black pepper. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, then whisk in
buttermilk, barbeque sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and steak sauce.
2. Dredge chicken in milk mixture, then in seasoned flour, alternating in each at
least twice. Heat oil in a large, deep-sided skillet to 375 degrees F (190
degrees C).
3. Cook chicken in hot oil until golden brown on both sides, about 10 minutes
each side.
Make sure when frying the chicken you keep a close eye on it. You want it to be
perfectly crispy, not too soft and not too dark or too crunchy that it will fall
apart. Perfect to enjoy with a comforting and familiar side dish.
4th of July Savory Roasted Potatoes
Savory Herb Roasted Potatoes Recipe
This makes a wonderfully tasty side dish and it is very easy and simple to prepare.
Be sure and check potatoes every few minutes so they won't stick and get too hard.
Your goal is to have them crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
* 4-6 Servings
* Prep: 15 min. Grill: 25 min.
* 2 pounds red potatoes, cut into wedges (about 6 medium)
* 1-1/3 cups French's® Original or Cheddar French Fried Onions
* 1/4 cup minced parsley
* 6 garlic cloves, halved
* 6 sprigs thyme or rosemary
* 2 tablespoons Crisco® Light Olive Oil or Canola Oil
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 2 ice cubes
1 large foil oven roasting bag
* Toss first nine ingredients in a large bowl. Open foil bag; spoon potatoes
into bag in an even layer. Seal bag with tight double folds. Place bag on baking
sheet. Place bag on grill over medium-high heat. Cover grill and cook 25 minutes
until potatoes are tender, turning bag over once. Return bag to baking sheet and
carefully cut top of bag open. Sprinkle with additional French fried onions if
* Oven Method: Bake at 450° for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Yield: 4-6 servings.
When ready to serve arrange on a colorful 4th fo July serving platter, and drizzle
with a little extra-virgin olive oil. This recipe is quick to make and is perfect to
pair with either chicken or burgers.
Savory Herb & Roasted Potatoes
FLAG CAKE – 4th of July Independence Day Cake
Fourth of July would not be complete without this cake. Not only is this recipe
delicious and fun to make abut its also full of patriotic colors. It is important to
be sure you have all of the tools necessary for this receipt for it to come out
picture perfectly right. One good tip I find is you want a perfectly flat top, which
is easier to decorate for this specific type of cake, so use the flat bottom of your
cake, just flip it over. Then you will have a perfectly flat surface to decorate
1 package (2-layer size) white cake mix (plus ingredients to make cake-listed on box)
1 package (4-serving size) JELL-O brand gelatin, any red flavor
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup cold water
3 1/2 cups (8-ounce container) Cool Whip brand whipped topping, thawed
1 pint strawberries, washed and sliced
1 cup blueberries, washed
1 cup Kraft miniature marshmallows
13 x 9 baking pan
Large fork (two-pronged type)
Medium mixing bowls
Measuring cup
Rubber scraper or large spoon
Large tray or cutting board (must be larger than 13 x 9 pan)
Table knife
Aluminum foil
Grease 13 x 9 pan with margarine and dust lightly with flour. Prepare, mix and bake
cake mix according to package directions. Cool cake for 15 minutes.
With large fork, make holes in cake about every 1/2 inch.
Pour gelatin into mixing bowl. Add cup of boiling water and use scraper to mix
thoroughly until gelatin is completely dissolved. Use measuring cup to pour gelatin
over cake. (It will run down into holes, making sliced cake have red stripes.)
Chill cake in refrigerator 3 to 4 hours.
Cover tray with aluminum foil.
Put about one inch of warm water in kitchen sink. Take pan out of refrigerator and
dip bottom (don't let water come up over sides) into water for about 10 seconds. Put
large tray on top of cake, and invert.
Frost sides and top with whipped topping. Arrange strawberries and marshmallows in
alternating rows for stripes, leaving upper left for field of blueberries. Chill
again until time to serve.
Make sure to choose your cooking pans wisely. Aluminum pans are best because they
produce a tender, light cake. Brown or dark non-stick or glass pans absorb heat
which makes the cake brown faster so oven temperature should be lower if using this
type of pan.
Be sure to cool the cake properly before decorating. A good helpful tip for
decorating would be to use toothpicks to lightly outline areas where you will be
adding your decorations. And if there is a mistake you can easily just smooth the
frosting out and try again.
Red, White 'n' Blue Salad Recipe
Beautifully colorful dessert that is also visually stunning. Feel free to substitute
red or blue fruits for any others that are fresh, bursting with color and in season.
Of course these are expected to be served chilled but fruit flavor improves greatly
if served warm or at room temperature.
* 14-16 Servings
* Prep: 30 min. + chilling
* 1 package (3 ounces) berry blue gelatin
* 2 cups boiling water, divided
* 2-1/2 cups cold water, divided
* 1 cup fresh blueberries
* 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
* 1 cup heavy whipping cream
* 6 tablespoons sugar
* 2 cups (16 ounces) sour cream
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 package (3 ounces) raspberry gelatin
* 1 cup fresh raspberries
* Whipped topping and additional berries, optional
* In a large bowl, dissolve berry blue gelatin in 1 cup boiling water; stir in 1
cup cold water. Add blueberries. Pour into a 3-qt. serving bowl. Refrigerate
until firm, about 1 hour.
* Meanwhile, in a saucepan, sprinkle unflavored gelatin over 1/2 cup cold water;
let stand for 1 minute. Add the cream and sugar; cook and stir over low heat
until gelatin and sugar are completely dissolved. cool to room temperature.
Whisk in sour cream and vanilla. Spoon over the blue layer. Refrigerate until
* In a large bowl, dissolve raspberry gelatin in remaining hot water; stir in
remaining cold water. Add raspberries. Spoon over cream layer. Chill until set.
Garnish with whipped topping and additional berries if desired. Yield: 14-16
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (1 each) equals 179 calories, 11 g fat (7 g saturated
fat), 40 mg cholesterol, 46 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 3 g protein.
I will definitely choose this one for my next fourth of July family gathering. Be
sure to use the brightest and most colorful fruits available. Here all of the
ingredients of this salad come together beautifully. And to add an additional splash
of color, garnish the sides with bright red or blue flowers. Even sprinkle some
chopped mint on top of each serving for some added cool flavor.
Red White and Blue 4th of July Salad
Beef-and-Lamb Burgers with Cheddar and Caper Rémoulade
Unlike your traditional burger recipe, this is a new and different recipe to add to
your 4th of July meal. This combination of beef and lamb make for a mouth watering
delicious experience during this holiday. Just make sure the meat is cooked
thoroughly. One good tip is to let the meat baste in a bit of olive oil, this gives
a distinctive flavor to your beef and lamb and keeps the meat moist and succulent.
Serves: 4
Total Time: 30 min
* 4 cornichons, coarsely chopped
* 3 tablespoon(s) parsley leaves, coarsely chopped
* 2 teaspoon(s) drained capers
* 1 clove(s) garlic
* 1/2 cup(s) mayonnaise
* 1 tablespoon(s) whole-grain mustard
* 3/4 pound(s) ground beef, preferably 80 percent lean
* 1/2 pound(s) ground lamb
* Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 4 English muffins, split
* 4 thin slices of aged cheddar, preferably farmhouse
* Tomato slices and thinly sliced English cucumber, for garnish optional
1. Light a grill. In a mini food processor, pulse the cornichons with the parsley
leaves, capers, and garlic clove until finely chopped. Add the mayonnaise and
mustard and pulse until blended.
2. In a large bowl, gently mix the ground beef with the ground lamb and season
generously with salt and pepper. Form the meat mixture into four 1-inch-thick
patties and make a slight indentation in the center of each one with your thumb.
Season the burgers with salt and pepper.
3. Grill the English muffin halves cut side down until toasted, about 1 minute.
Flip the muffins and grill for 30 seconds longer. Transfer to a work surface cut
side up and spread the bottom halves of the muffins with the caper rémoulade.
4. Grill the burgers over high heat until they are nicely charred on the bottom,
about 4 minutes. Flip the burgers, top them with the cheddar cheese, and grill
until cooked to medium and the cheese melts, about 4 minutes longer. Transfer the
burgers to the toasted English muffins and let rest for 5 minutes. Top the
burgers with the tomatoes and cucumbers if desired, close the burgers, and
If you want something a little different try serving with a different variety of
buns for your guests to choose from and garnish the burger with the brightest
colorful topping you can find.
Beef, lamb, hamburgers and cheddar caper remoulade recipe
Fourth of July Roasted Tomato Salsa Recipe
This amazing salsa recipe with its zesty flavor can be added to a number of fun 4th
of July finger foods. Salsa's are based on the tomatoes, onions and cilantro so be
sure to get brightly colored and fresh ones. Another good idea would be to remove
the seeds from the tomatoes when you cut them up.
2 pounds Roma tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise
1 medium white onion, cut into six wedges
1 large garlic clove, halved
a couple pinches of finely ground sea salt
2-3 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium dried guajillo chile pepper, soaked in boiling water until softened,
and then drained
1 -2 chipotles in adobo sauce (canned)
1/2 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
Heat oven to 400F degrees. Now gently tossed the tomatoes, onions, garlic, and salt
with the olive oil in a large bowl. After they are nicely coated arrange in a single
layer, tomatoes cut-side facing up, across a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roast in
the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the tomatoes start to collapse and the onions
begin to caramelize a bit. Remove from the oven.
Puree the chiles (both the guajillo and chipotles) with the roasted garlic and two
roasted tomato halves. Chop the remaining tomatoes by hand (once they've cooled a
bit). Chop and add the onions as well. Season with salt and stir in the cilantro.
Makes about 2 1/2 cups.
When you are ready to serve sprinkle some fresh basil on top for some added flavor.
Also try to get the blue and red tortilla chips and serve on a colorful 4th of July
platter and dip dish.
Roasted Tomato and 4th of July Salsa
Patriotic Drink
Nothing tops off this red, white and blue 4th of July holiday more than a colorful
non-alcoholic drink for the whole family to enjoy. When you are ready to serve to
your guests freeze some cranberries in ice cubes, this would add a nice touch to
this wonderful family holiday beverage.
* Ice cubes
* Cranberry juice
* Wild Berry flavor Gatorade Fierce
* Diet 7-Up
1. Fill a clear glass with ice cubes. Pour the drink with the most sugar
(check the nutrition label) into the glass. For our red, white, and blue
recipe, start with the cranberry juice.
2. Very slowly add a beverage that contains less sugar — in this case, Wild
Berry flavor Gatorade Fierce. Be careful to pour it onto an ice cube — not
directly into the other drink — to keep them from mixing.
3. Use the same technique to add a layer of Diet 7-Up.
When pouring this beverage make sure glasses are pretty but clear so you r guests
can see the beautiful colors. Adding a stir stick with an American Flag for your
guests to mix their drinks with would add a nice 4th of July touch.
4th of July Drinks and Refreshments
Sunrise Mimosa
This is the perfect adult beverage to enjoy during your 4th of July celebration. Be
sure to measure the ingredients properly for each glass. Serve drinks icy cold.
Always put ice in the glass first before pouring ingredients that way the liquids
are chilled as they are poured over the ice.
10 oz pkg frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed, undrained
3 cups orange juice (made from concentrate)
2 bottles champagne
6 strawberries with stems, halved (optional)
orange peel strips (optional)
In blender puree the strawberries. In a nonmetal bowl or pitcher, combine strawberry
puree, orange juice and champagne; mix gently. Serve over ice. Garnish each glass
with strawberry halves and orange peel strips
This beautiful smooth and tangy 4th of July drink is perfect when served in
individual champagne flutes. These should be preferably pre-chilled in the
refrigerator or let them sit in shaved ice before using in refrigerator or let them.
Then remember to stir gently to preserve the bubbles!
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The WWB JHP is essentially a Winchester Silvertip with a different jacket. It is old technology.
Not great performance, not terrible, but I would spend a few more bucks and get something better. When my life is at stake, I don't want to have to say that I saved a couple bucks for sake of performance.
On a side note, Winchester silvertips were the same JHP's used by the FBI agents in the Miami shootout. It was this shootout that resulted in the FBI eventually changing to the .40, as well as their standard for 12" minimum penetration in ballistic gelatin (preferably 18"). Fortunately, since then, not only have they upgraded calibers, bullet/JHP technology has taken a step and are better today than they were back then.
In short, high quality JHP's from today probably would have ended the Miami shootout faster than the Silvertips did.
Lack of penetration with the silvertips allowed the gunmen in the Miami shootout to live just long enough to kill 2 FBI agents before succumbing to 18 total hits between the two.
I am not sure which grain the FBI agents were using in the Miami shootout though.
Will using WWB JHP's result in your death? Probably not, they will probably do the job, but the same bullet design's lack of penetration has ultimately led to the deaths of those using them in the past...
In my testing with the 115gr JHP rounds, all rounds expanded and none penetrated more than 4 jugs. Granted, I didn't use denim and my jugs were filled strictly with water.
I was also able to compare the 115gr WWB to a 124gr Speer Gold Dot (not the +P load). The Gold Dot penetrated one more water jug than the WWB.
The improved bullet technology is apparent when you shoot them side by side and compare them. Granted, since they were different grains, it may be somewhat of an apples and oranges comparison...
However, the bonded Gold Dot appears to peel like a banana, allowing it to keep more energy as it travels, whereas the WWB JHP appears to simply flatten creating more drag, therefore effectively bringing the bullet to a quicker stop.
I like a bonded bullet because it eliminates core-jacket separation, which allows it to retain more weight and gain more penetration.
I carry 124gr +P Gold Dots in my Glock 19. They are more pricey than WWB, but they are not breaking the bank. I think I was able to buy something like 200 rounds for like $30-35 a few years back, IIRC. It was a pretty sweet deal. Haven't checked prices recently, but I am sure they (like all other ammo prices) have gone up.
I personally believe that if you choose a decent load (and sometimes, even if you choose a marginal load), shot placement will be the deciding factor.
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The retired Navy man's life will be celebrated Thursday at the Avenidas Senior Day Health Center in Mountain View, a place that was almost his second home in recent years. He died Nov. 26.
"He's so special to us," said Lenny Park, head of the health care center, who'd thrown a birthday party for Chang, complete with a live banjo group, when he turned 100. "He was here every day. It was a big part of his life." Avenidas president Lisa Hendrickson will personally open the center that day, when it is normally closed.
Chang could be remembered at Avenidas mainly as the courtly and meticulous military vet with a penchant for current events and U.S. history, if it weren't for the oral histories taken by his grandchildren and a scholar at UC-Los Angeles.
Reflected in Chang's 100-plus years are glimpses into the history of Korean immigration to America, Korean-Japanese history, and how Chang persevered, despite discrimination in the U.S. military, to become a chief warrant officer and running the Navy's torpedo school during World War II.
The centennial of Korean immigration, beginning with the arrival of 102 contract workers aboard the USS Gaelic to Hawaii in 1903, was an event marked by the Smithsonian and the Korean-Ameri He carried the name "Asha Schutz" while living his first 10 years with family friends, the Schutz's, who took him under their care while his mother joined her husband at the struggling mission in Washington, D.
As the son of a diplomat, Chang's life might have turned out quite differently. But in 1910, Japan annexed Korea, and the Korean mission was dissolved.
Unwilling to return to occupied Korea, Chang's multilingual father moved the family to Shanghai, China, an international base from which he could conduct a ginseng import business with Australia, which did not allow Asians to immigrate. Shanghai was also a place where his children could get a good education in the international settlement and hopefully do more than "wear a white jacket."
"My father had seen in Washington and other places that all the hired help and household chores were done by `Orientals' and they all wore white jackets," he told oral historian Sonia Shinn Sunoo at UCLA. "He (said he) will not have his children do that."
So international was Chang's upbringing that he never learned much of the Korean language. He enrolled, after much haggling, he said, in the British-run Thomas Hanberry School. He had to change his name for the school roster to "Peter King," to avoid trouble from benefactors in England.
On his own
When his father died aboard ship en route to Shanghai in 1922, Chang was suddenly on his own, at age 18. He used his English skills to get a job as maitre d'hotel in Tientsin, frequented by traveling diplomats. One, it turned out, had known his father. Through that connection, he had an opportunity to work his way back to the United States on a five-masted barkentine ship. He learned the sailing craft so well that he was able to avoid the galley jobs where Asians were exclusively channeled.
When he made it to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1922, he signed up for the U.S. Navy through a recommendation from another contact from Tientsin. "We don't have many Orientals," his friend reportedly said. "Most of them are servants but I'll see if we can break the ice with my recommendation."
In the interview with oral historian Sunoo, the question of barriers arose in a different context. Chang did so well on the naval exams, he was recommended to the Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md., but his application was rejected because superiors did not think men would work under an Asian officer. Supportive superiors recommended Chang to one of the top training schools for torpedoes instead. He served first on the USS New York in Norfolk, Va. Even in uniform, Chang was refused service at restaurants while stationed in Norfolk, and at the barber shop in the city's YMCA.
The torpedo knowledge in World War II became crucial when he was stationed in Pearl Harbor, because of Japanese success in destroying American warships.
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After the war, with education their priority, Chang's wife, Helen, wanted to settle near Stanford University. But back on the mainland, race again was an issue. "A lot of people didn't want to show them houses in College Terrace," grandson Jonathan Korty said. They got lucky when one woman was willing to sell her home on Yale Street.
"I guess it worked because both his children went to Stanford," Korty said.
Son Peter Chang Jr., who died of cancer in 2004, was a precocious trumpet player who had a chance to play with Louis Armstrong when he was 13. He made his name, however, when he pulled off an upset in Santa Cruz County at age 26, becoming the first Asian-American and youngest district attorney when elected in 1966. Dubbing Santa Cruz "the murder capital of the world" he presided over the prosecution of the era's most notorious serial killers and mass murderers, from Herbert Mullin, who killed 13 people, to Edward Kemperer, who butchered eight women, many hitchhikers, and his own mother.
Daughter Beulah married her graduate school classmate, filmmaker John Korty, and established a successful interior design business in Marin. Among their three children is David Korty, a well-known Los Angeles artist and Bay Area musician Jonathan Korty, whose band, Vinyl, has five albums.
Grandson Peter Chang III became a naval engineer and another grandson, Christopher Chang, works in high tech. Granddaughter Katherine Chang works in construction management.
Korty vividly remembers one day when his grandparents' history "came home to me."
He was attending the prestigious Branson School, a Marin County prep school in the town of Ross, when he made a customary trip to Palo Alto to take his grandmother out to Korean lunch. They were talking, as they often did, about her experiences as a young woman, how she worked as a house girl for a wealthy San Francisco family, and how they sometimes wouldn't pay her on time. That meant on her day off she could not afford the nickel fare for the bus, or a dime to see a movie.
What was this family's name, he asked that day? Sutro, she said.
He stopped to absorb that. As in Mount Sutro. Sutro Tower. As in the descendants of San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro. He told his grandmother he went to school with a whole branch of the Sutro family and they played in the same soccer games.
"I think she got a kick out of that," Korty said. "Because of all their hard work and sacrifices, her grandson was going to the same prep school as their grandsons."
That's what can happen in far less than 103 years in America. Even if you have to change your name a couple times.
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