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If you've been intimidated by eggplant in the past, it's time to give it a try. These big purple globes turn soft and tender when roasted, with a smoky flavor and substantial texture that makes them perfect for vegetarian dishes. Read on for some of our best tips for working with eggplant, plus simple and delicious ways to prepare them from the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen.
Look for: Eggplants are at their best at the end of the summer. Choose smooth, firm, glossy-skinned eggplant with green caps and stems. Avoid any that are wrinkled, torn, bruised or scarred or that have brown, dried caps. Store eggplants in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Prep tips: Rinse the eggplants and then, using a large knife, trim the green top. If an eggplant is large with lots of seeds, or if the flesh looks dark and watery, sprinkle salt on it after slicing and place in a colander set in the sink for 30 minutes. Salting helps extract the bitter juices and also prepares eggplant for deep-frying. Young eggplants or Asian varieties can be cooked without salting or peeling. If roasting eggplants whole, prick holes in the skin with a fork to keep them from bursting.Here's your toolkit:
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Uses: Large globe eggplants are ideal for roasting, broiling and grilling. Once cooked, they are wonderful pureed into spreads, incorporated into pasta sauces and served as chilled antipasti. Longer, thinner Asian eggplants lend themselves well to stir-frying, braising in curry sauces and pickling.
Variations: Specialty varieties of eggplants can be ivory, rose colored, striped or striated — the flavor doesn't vary much by color, but these unusual eggplants can make a beautiful presentation.
Eggplant Parmesan: Slice eggplant into 1/2-inch rounds and season with salt and pepper. Dredge in flour, then egg wash, then panko. Panfry in olive oil until golden brown. Transfer to a baking dish. Top with marinara and mozzarella. Broil until cheese is bubbling, then sprinkle with chopped fresh basil.
Eggplant Fritters with Mint & Honey: Slice eggplant into 1/4-inch rounds and season with salt and pepper. Whisk together 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. baking powder and 1 tsp. salt. Whisk in 1 egg and 1/2 cup club soda. Dip eggplant in batter and panfry in oil until golden. Drizzle with honey and sprinkle with slivered mint.
Baba Ghanoush: Prick a large eggplant with a fork. Grill on medium-high until soft. Peel eggplant, place in a food processor and pulse with 2 minced garlic cloves, 1/4 tsp. cumin, 1/4 cup tahini, 1/4 cup lemon juice, salt and pepper. While processing, drizzle in olive oil.
Caponata: Saute diced onion, red bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant in olive oil until almost tender. Add diced tomatoes, sugar, red wine vinegar, capers and raisins and simmer until vegetables are tender. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and toasted pine nuts.
Grilled Eggplant with Ricotta Salata: Halve Japanese eggplants lengthwise, brush with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill on medium-high, turning once, until tender. Top with crumbled ricotta salata, diced tomatoes, chopped basil olive oil and reduced balsamic vinegar.
Lamb-Stuffed Eggplant: Halve eggplants lengthwise; scoop out flesh, leaving a 1/4-inch layer. Drizzle with olive oil and place in a baking dish. Saute diced onion in olive oil; add minced garlic, cumin, cinnamon, ground lamb, toasted pine nuts, salt and pepper and cook until browned. Fill eggplants with lamb mixture and bake at 400 degrees F until soft.


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He was injured.
He did not have a leg injury. That was just the excuse they put on it
but he did cost us the game so fug him
Yeah he was benched cuz Rivera likes to think he doesn't tolerate bullshi
Lafell gets benched for 2 guyz who cant run routes
That my friend is the 2012 Carolina Panthers
after getting knocked out cold, he comes back and play. after hurting his foot, he gets benched.
Lafell will be in the famous doghouse now..
Were trying to win the game with slow ass edwards out there instead of Lafell. WTF RIvera???
Probaly be cut now.
...plays like that are why we continually suck...
Posted December 3, 2012
D. Gettis wouldn't have dropped an easy TD catch like that just ask B. St. P.
but he did cost us the game so fug him
but he did cost us the game so fug him
What the fug ever! You can put that on the sorry ass D play...and some bullshitin' refs. In no way was it LaFells fault.
i do not disagree with that if he was
you gotta catch that. Great effort by Cam btw on that. THAT is exactly the situation you practice for and hope for. When it actually happened all the hard parts were executed to perfection including the recognition, the audibled blocking scheme change, the buying of time, the strength in the pocket knowing the big hit was coming, and the great pass practically sprinting in reverse.
Catch the gotdamn ball asshole!!
I feel that he was benched because of the dropped pass. If so, why doesn't Rivera hold himself to the same high standard? If not, still why doesn't he hold himself to the same high standards he holds his players to? Wouldn't be the first time he benched some one.


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Android's always been pretty handy with multitasking, but if CyanogenMod is your custom ROM of choice, it may soon be getting even better. The CyanogenMod team stated on a Google+ post that they're investigating the possibility of including Onskreen's Cornerstone software in their final CM9 build, based on Ice Cream Sandwich. The sudden addition is due to Cornerstone's recent move to the world of open source, allowing modders like the CM team to include it in their ROMs for free. "We will probably include this into CM9. it needs some polish, but the concept is just great," said an official update.
If you haven't seen our previous posts on Cornerstone, here's the skinny: it's a method for Android tablets to display multiple apps on screen at the same time. The software sits in a secondary action bar on the right, and loads up one or two apps in addition to your active app, utilizing a combination of tablet screen real estate and smartphone formatting to create a pretty seamless multitasking experience. Cornerstone is not an app, and needs to be "baked in" to a ROM or OEM software update in order to function properly.
This is far from a sure thing - in an update, the CyanogenMod team noted that they'd only include Cornerstone if it worked well within Android and CyanogenMod itself. "If it is done, it needs to be done right and not break apps all over the market or be a nightmare to upkeep down the line." Still, it's yet another example of custom ROMs adding functionality that just doesn't exist in either "pure" or OEM Android. At least a few lesser-known ROMs have already taken the plunge and begun integrating Cornerstone. As an alternative, check out WebOS favorite Glimpse, coming soon to an Android tablet near you.


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DETOX YOUR BODY (From August 29th, 2006 show)
Success depends on what you choose to eat & drink during the detox.
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Fruits: apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, currants, dates, figs, golden raisins, grapefruit, grapes, kiwifruit, lemons, limes, mangoes, melons, olives, papaya, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, prunes, raisins, raspberries, strawberries, watermelons
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Local emergency preparedness group discusses contingency plans for disasters like the West fertilizer plant explosion
ABILENE, Texas - It's been almost three months since that deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West. Thursday night, Abilene's Local Emergency Planning Committee discussed how they would prepare for a similar situation.
David Crymes Chairman of Abilene's LEPC says his motto is better safe than sorry. "The longer we go without a major incident the more people go it's never going to happen to us," said Crymes.
The LEPC is a group of first responders, governmental agencies and individuals from the private industry who are tasked with planning for the worst, a responsibility that seemed more realistic than ever after the April fertilizer plant explosion in West.
"What we discovered with west is that John Wayne's not going to come riding over the hill with the cavalry to take care of you," said Crymes.
Crymes says this is something we need to think about especially with plants in our area that deal with potentially dangerous chemicals, like The Helena Chemical Company off I-20 between Tye and Merkel. They get chemicals like ammonia that are taken off railcars and driven to their plant.
"It's totally different when you go from storage to you've got a plant out there chugging so many thousands of gallons of this stuff. The question is under what auspices do they have to report transportables on rail-cars and 18-wheelers.
Crymes said said Helena Chemical Company has been cooperative in helping the committee learn more about its operation.
"When we met with the Helena people, they were perfectly happy to cooperate; we went through their books, no problem."
He also noted that says they're also concerned with the materials that Union Pacific carries through our community. He says Union Pacific has not been cooperative in their efforts to communicate with them.
"The City of Abilene has been trying to get information that's required so far the railroad has refused to I think we're going to have to have an enforcement issue," said Crymes.
KTXS talked to union pacific about their communication with the LEPC. A spokeswoman told us, "While we cannot release this information for safety and security reasons to various organizations or the general public, we do work directly with fire departments."
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A weekly snapshot of what was happening in Dallas, the state, nation and world the year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Dallas: Millions of viewers saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on NBC, the first live killing in television history. CBS followed on tape moments later. Later in the week, District Attorney Henry Wade said he would seek the death penalty for Ruby.
Texas: Gov. John Connally canvassed the Nov. 9 elections from his hospital bed in Parkland Memorial Hospital. The right-handed governor signed the documents with his left hand. State law required that the Texas secretary of state canvass the returns in the presence of the governor.
Work started at the LBJ Ranch for its new role as the Texas White House.
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The late president's mother, Rose Kennedy, visited her 98-year-old mother, Josie Fitzgerald, but did not tell her of her grandson's assassination.
World: Thousands of Berliners cried as taps echoed across the John F. Kennedy Square. Hundreds of millions watched Kennedy's funeral as part of the greatest television relay system ever seen across Europe. The coverage was taped in Japan, where the program was played later for an estimated 95 million Japanese.
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Gospel of Matthew Chapter 11 Summary
Jesus, John, and Some Sinful Cities
- Word travels fast and news of all of Jesus's activities makes its way to John the Baptist—who, by the way, is still in prison.
- John sends his own disciples to ask Jesus if he is The One. Jesus's answer: "Uh, DUH!" (Not a direct quote.)
- Then Jesus starts preaching about John the Baptist. Well, more like singing his praises. Jesus calls John "more than a prophet" (11:9) and compares their generation to children who don't dance when music is playing or don't mourn when there is wailing.
- Jesus also has no sympathy for the towns that don't repent. He cites ruined cities of the Hebrew Bible and how they could have been saved. But wait! Jesus then goes on to say that those same cities will fare better than those who denounce him now. Yowza.
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By Paula M. Fitzgerald/ParaglideJanuary 28, 2010
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Representatives from more than 40 Army installations gathered at the Fort Bragg Officers' Club Jan. 12 through 14, to discuss issues concerning sustainability.
The five main functional areas of discussion centered on plans and integration, infrastructure and utilities, transportation, material lifecycle management, and training lands and land management.
More than a decade ago, Fort Bragg spearheaded the Army's first sustainability campaign and has since led the way for other installations to jump on board. The in-progress review brought together the leaders who are in charge of ensuring sustainability at each installation. Participants shared a number of lessons learned, listened to success and failure stories from their counterparts, and discussed new ideas that could be incorporated in future, Army-wide policies and procedures.
Fort Bragg was chosen to host the IPR because of its award-winning sustainability efforts. The base won the Secretary of the Army Sustainability Award in 2009. Officials from other installations had the opportunity to see firsthand some of the base's many projects and initiatives.
"So what is the definition of sustainability'," asked Tad Davis, deputy assistant secretary of the Army (environment, safety and occupational health). "It's the future. It's the vision of what is to come. It's us looking 20 or 30 or 40 years down the road to visualize what the situation will be like for our Soldiers. We have to start now to ensure that we can get where we want to go in the future."
In other words, sustainability is finding a balance among the pillars of the Army's triple bottom line plus, which are mission, community, environment and economic benefit. Participants at the IPR discussed how to best use the resources allotted to each installation without unnecessary waste or overuse. Suggestions and challenges will be passed on to the headquarters, Department of the Army for additional assistance.
Davis said there are two parallel levels of sustainability that must be in line with one another. The first is the "grassroots level," which involves the actions and policies carried out at the installation level. The second is the "department level," which is the entire Department of the Army. This upper echelon reinforces and develops the guidance and policies for the sustainment of the entire Army. The department level ensures that everyone is on the same page with the same goals for the future.
"By utilizing this rare opportunity, the IPR presents to its fullest intent - by looking at sustainability through the lens of the Army triple bottom line of mission, community and environment - together we can drive the evolution of the Army, creating a more sustainable Army community with not only the resources necessary to train, deploy and fight successfully in protection of our national interests, but the flexibility and vision to adapt to any new challenge we encounter," said Col. Stephen J. Sicinski, Fort Bragg garrison commander, in a video. The colonel could not attend the forum because of a previously scheduled trip to Washington, D.C. However, in the video he clearly laid out his hopes for the participants at the IPR.
During the three-day forum, representatives from as far away as Germany discussed encroachment issues, training restrictions, energy demands and costs, overextended workforces, waste disposal, working with outside communities, maintenance of aging infrastructures, transportation requirements, as well as a wide range of other topics concerning sustainability.
"This has been a great opportunity to share and learn some of the best ways to implement strategic planning where sustainability is concerned," said Lorie Khatod, a representative from U.S. Army Garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany. "One thing I learned from being here is that we have to look outside to the community and work together to reach some of our goals. We can work with the German government to develop and implement some of the best business practices for sustainability."
Khatod said she was impressed by some of the initiatives developed by Fort Bragg to bring together both the military and surrounding civilian communities.
The Sustainable Sandhills program is an example that highlights Fort Bragg's commitment to working with civilian governments to protect the area's shared resources.
"Our job now is to protect what we have so that we can make sure that Soldiers 150 years from now can get their missions accomplished," said Mike Lynch, Fort Bragg's director of plans, training and mobilization.
"That's the point of all of this - to make sure the Soldiers and their Families and the people of America are taken care of."


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Title II, Part A: Improving Teacher Quality
Federal funds awarded under Title II, Part A support programs to increase academic achievement by increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in classrooms; increasing the number of highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools; and increasing the effectiveness of teachers and principals by holding school districts and schools accountable for improvements in student academic achievement.
State-level activities include but are not limited to:
- Recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers and principals;
- Increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in classrooms; and
- Reforming teacher and principal certification programs.
Allowable LEA-level activities include, but are not limited to:
- Developing and implementing strategies and activities to recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified teachers and principals.
- Providing professional development activities that improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, in core content knowledge and instructional practices;
- Developing and implementing initiatives to promote retention of highly qualified teachers and principals, particularly in schools with a high percentage of low-achieving students;
- Carrying out teacher advancement initiatives that promote professional growth and emphasize multiple career paths (such as paths to becoming a mentor teacher, career teacher, or exemplary teacher) and pay differentiation; and
- Carrying out programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teaching force, such as innovative professional development programs that focus on technology literacy, tenure reform, testing teachers in the academic subject in which teachers teach, and merit pay programs.
Programs and activities must be based on a needs assessment, and, among other things, be aligned with state academic content standards, student academic achievement standards, and teacher quality data.
- Overview of Title II, Part A (PPT)
- Improving Teacher Quality State Grants: Non-Regulatory Guidance (PDF) (2006) USED
- Virginia Title II Coordinators List (PDF)
Title II Part A Reports to the United States Department of Education
- Virginia's Revised State Plan for Attaining the Goal of 100 Percent Highly Qualified Teachers (PDF) (2006)
- An Update to Virginia's Teacher Equity Plan – 2009 (PDF)
- An Update to Virginia's Teacher Equity Plan – 2011 (PDF)
- An Update to Virginia's Teacher Equity Plan – 2012 (PDF)
- Virginia's Plan to Ensure Excellent Educators for All Students (Teacher Equity Plan) – 2015 (PDF)
Guidance and Resources on Highly Qualified Teachers, Paraprofessionals & Professional Development
- Revisions in Criteria to Designate Teachers Highly Qualified
- Virginia Requirements for Teachers Not New to the Teaching Profession to Meet the Definition of Highly qualified in the Federal Core Academic Areas and Special Education (PDF) Approved by the Board of Education on February 25, 2004; Amended April 20, 2005
- Highly Qualified Teachers Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (PPT) VDOE Guidance
- High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) for Visiting International Teachers (VIF) (PDF) Approved by the Virginia Board of Education on March 29, 2007
- High Quality Professional Development Criteria (PDF) | (Word). VDOE Guidance (2004)
- The Paraprofessional Guide to Supervision and Collaboration Paraprofessionals: A Partnership (PDF) VDOE Guidance (2005)
- Request for Reimbursement Form and Instructions – NCLB Title II, Part A, Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund
- Title II, Part A, Division Improvement: Procedures for Compliance with Section 2141 (PPT)
Title II Applications
- All ESEA/NCLB Title applications, the Local Consolidated Application, OMEGA video modules, and technical assistance documents can be found on the Applications for Federal Funds page.
Ensuring Equitable Services to Private School Students
Federal Program Monitoring
- Title II, Part A, Monitoring Protocol (PDF) | (Word)
- Complete Monitoring Schedule 2012-2017 (PDF)
Technical Assistance
- Title II, Part A, University Webinar Series – 2015-2016 Schedule (PDF)
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- Foundations of Title II, Part A (PPT)
- Handout: Allowable Uses of Funds (Word)
- Handout: Sample Needs Assessment Documentation Summary Sheet (Word)
- Handout: Parental Notification – Right to Inquire on Teacher Qualifications (Word)
- Handout: Parental Notification – Four Weeks Letter (Word)
- Handout: Sample Title II Coordinator Calendar (Word)
- Federal Program Monitoring – January 5, 2016 (PPT)
- Needs Assessment (PPT)
- Equitable Services to Private Schools (PPT)
- Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) and Overview of the Instructional Personnel and Licensure Report (IPAL) (PPT)
- Title II, Part A Federal Applications for Funding 2016-2017 (PPT)
- Local Teacher Equity Data Analysis and Strategy Development for Annual Title IIA Applications (PPT)
- Foundations of Title II, Part A (PPT)
- Teacher Equity Plan Webinar Series (Word) – Revised April 2016
Outside Resources
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The director of the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership (MMEP), Carlos Mariani Rosa (also known as state Rep. Carlos Mariani), frequently travels the length and breadth of our state to make a compelling case for closing our state's racial opportunity gaps in education. The MMEP narrative is based on the obvious facts of fundamental socio-economic unfairness and systemic disadvantage for minority communities, with resulting gaps in te... Read More
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Java SE 8 JSRs Post Final Release milestones
By Heather VanCura on Mar 09, 2014
February was a busy month with all of the preparations for the upcoming Java 8 release in March. The four new JSRs being developed through the JCP for the Java SE 8 Platform, have completed their JCP Executive Committee (EC) Final Approval Ballots and published their Final Release milestones.
Java SE Final Releases.
JSR 308, Annotations on Java Types, led by Michael Ernst and Alex Buckley, passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballot with 24 yes votes and posted their Final Release.
JSR 310, Date and Time API, led by Stephen Colebourne, Michael Nascimento Santos and Roger Riggs, passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballot with 23 yes votes, and posted their Final Release.
JSR 335, Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language, led by Brian Goetz, passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballot with 24 yes votes and posted their Final Release.
JSR 337, Java SE 8 Release Contents, led by Mark Reinhold, passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballot with 24 yes votes and posted their Final Release.
Eight previously developed JSRs completed the latest version of the JCP 2.9 Maintenance Process and posted updated Final Releases/Maintenance Release as part of the Java 8 effort.
JSR 3, JMX Specification, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 114, JDBC Rowset Implementations, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 160, JMX Remote API, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 173, Streaming API for XML, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 199, Java Compiler API, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 206, JAXP, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 221, JDBC 4 API Specification, posted a Maintenance Release.
JSR 269, Pluggable Annotation Processing API, posted a Maintenance Release.
The Java ME and Embedded JSRs are also making progress toward completion for Java 8.
JSR 360, Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 8, led by Michael Lagally and Roger Riggs, has posted a Proposed Final Draft for review.
JSR 361, Java ME Embedded Profile, led by Volker Bauche, has posted a Proposed Final Draft for review.
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Starting on 11 March, the Java 8 NightHacking JUG tour starts in Europe and India. This tour is led by Java Evangelist Stephen Chin, has over 28 stops planned already. The third planned NightHacking event is the Java 8 Launch Hangout on 25 March streamed live from JavaLand in Germany.
The Java community has been a huge part of making the Java SE release a reality! There will be Adopt-a-JSR and Adopt OpenJDK activities planned as part of the Early Adopters area at JavaLand in Germany as well. The JCP will host an Adopt-a-JSR online meeting on Thursday, 20 March to share these resources developed. Stay tuned for details.
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NEW BEDFORD — Leo R. Lacerte, 65, of New Bedford, died February 12, 2014, at St. Luke's Hospital after a long illness. He was the husband of the late Rita F. (Gadapee) Lacerte.
Born in Acushnet, the son of Aurore R. (Goudreau) Lacerte of New Bedford and the late Joseph J. Lacerte, he lived in New Bedford most of his life.
Mr. Lacerte was formerly employed by Titleist for many years until his retirement.
He was a sixth degree black belt and vice president of Ohana Kenpo Karate Association.
Mr. Lacerte served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Survivors include his mother; 2 sons, Darin Inman of Freetown and Alfredo Inman of Michigan; a daughter, Pamela Silva of Fall River; 2 sisters, Deborah Kirby of New Bedford and Dolores Crowley of Denver, CO; numerous grandchildren including Lisa, Rita, Jean and Gabriel; many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
His Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday at 11 AM in St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery. Visiting hours will be on Monday from 3-7 PM at the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St., New Bedford.
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Radicchio and Gorgonzola Pasta
Pasata Al Raddicchio E Gorgonzola
3 quarts water (salt optional)
2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons chopped garlic
2 tablespoons chopped shallots
1/2 cup chopped radicchio
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper (optional)
1/4 cupwhite wine
1/2 cup heavy crea,
1/2 cup chicken Stock
4 ounces Gorgonzola or Roquefort cheese
1 pound pasta - rigatoni, tortiglioni or penne
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Pour the water in a large stockpot with or without the optional salt and bring to a boil.
White the water is heating, cook the butter, garlic and shallots over medium heat in a large saute pan until the garlic starts to sizzle, about 3 minutes. Add the radicchio and cook for 2 minutes. Add the salt and pepper and cook for 1 minute. Pour in the wine, deglaze the pan and reduce by a third, about 3 minutes.
Stir in the cream, chicken stock and chesse and bring to a boil, stirring well to make sure the cheese melts evenly and doesn't stick to the bottom. Reduce the heat, simmer for 4 minutes then turn off the heat.
Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook according to package directions until just tender. Reheat the sauce on medium heat. Drain the pasta, return it to the pot, add the sauce and cook for 2 minutes over medium heat, tossing continuously to make sure it's well coasted and doesn't stick.
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Sharp tasting, imported Gorgonzola or Roquefor cheese is your best choice for this sauce. If, like me, you really enjoy the tangy taste, then at the end of the recipe, while the past is still hot, add another 1/3 cup of diced Gorgonzola and toss well.
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Known as a physical player with superior heading ability, French striker Olivier Giroud signed with Arsenal in June 2012. Prior to his career with the Gunners, Giroud played for Grenoble, Istres (on loan) Tours, Montpellier and Tours (on loan). His efforts with Montpellier have earned him call-ups with the French national squad since 2011.
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Defiant Texas Gov. Perry Says He Would Veto Money Again
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is facing felony charges over his decision to veto money for an anticorruption unit, said Sunday he wouldn't change anything if he had to do it all again.
"I stood up for the rule of law in the state of Texas, and if I had to do it again, I would make exactly the same decision," a defiant Mr. Perry said on "Fox News Sunday."
A grand jury on Friday indicted Mr. Perry, who ran for president in 2012 and may run again in 2016, on two felony charges: abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Mr. Perry is accused of improperly vetoing $7.5 million for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, which handles Texas political-corruption cases, after a Democratic prosecutor refused to resign following a drunken-driving arrest.
"I very clearly, I very publicly, said that as long as that individual is going to be running that agency, I had lost confidence in her, the public had lost confidence in her and I did what every governor has done for decades, which is make a decision on whether or not it was the proper use of state money to go to that agency," Mr. Perry said Sunday.
Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, has called for Mr. Perry to resign, saying in a statement that the governor "has brought dishonor to his office, his family and the state of Texas."
At a news conference Saturday in Texas, Mr. Perry described the case against him as a politically motivated "farce" and said he would fight the charges.
San Antonio lawyer Michael McCrum, the special prosecutor in the case, rejected Mr. Perry's description of the indictments as politically motivated. "Any suggestion that this prosecution is politically motivated is ridiculous," Mr. McCrum said on Saturday. "Anyone who knows me knows I look at the evidence and the facts."


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VAR Trustmarque posts strong results; increases headcount
Trustmarque has attributed strong yearly financial results to its professional and managed services offering.
The VAR yesterday posted a nine percent growth in profit before tax from £4.6m to £5m, gross profit growth of 15 percent from £13.8m to £15.9m, and an increase in turnover from £115m to £131m, representing 14 percent growth.
Trustmarque's gross profit for services and solutions amounted to £7.1m, representing 45 percent of overall business gross profit for the year.
It says the introduction of a wider range of cloud services, enhanced service offerings around asset management and procurement services, and the services supporting the deployment and use of enterprise applications helped boost its numbers.
Trustmarque CEO, Scott Haddow (pictured), says the firm has never been stronger in its twenty-five year history: "Following the strategic transformation of previous years, investment in our people and our service proposition has led to further progress in a challenging market environment, and our financial results for the Year 11/12 underline this success," he comments.
In line with developing its service capabilities, Trustmarque also grew its headcount, leading to a 21 percent increase in employees over the year.
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Definition of mushy in English:
adjective (mushier, mushiest)
1Soft and pulpy: mushy vegetables
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- Then the accompanying bouillon, a spicy broth scented with chilli and cumin with the customary soft, but not mushy, root vegetables and a sprinkling of firm, floury chickpeas.
- Keep tasting it - the rice should be soft but not mushy.
- When the rice is done, and that is when it's soft but not mushy, stir in the honey, chili paste and bacon.
2 informal Excessively sentimental: a mushy film
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- Unfortunately, it seems as if he has a compulsion to negate those brilliant pieces by introducing ill advised mushy sentimentality.
- I know he doesn't like it when I get too mushy or sentimental but it's hard to contain my excitement sometimes.
- Then suddenly, when the card-shops decide to boost their sales, we get all mushy and sentimental.
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informal slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
British informal soppy
North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky
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Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker-assisted breeding for low phytate loci cqPha-001 and cqPha-002 and development of improved low phytate lines was conducted. We have used these markers to complete a BC7 cross to our cultivar 5601T and break the ~20cM genetic linkage on chromosome 19 between cqPha-002 and the Dt1 locus in the indeterminate state.
Seed inorganic phosphorous measurements in the line TN09-239 were evaluated over ten environments in the USDA Southern Uniform Preliminary Group V test. We found that the low phytate line TN09-239 which other breeders have been using as a crossing parent for low phytate transfer was significantly higher (by an order of magnitude) in inorganic phosphorus (P) than the normal cultivar 5601T in every environment. But when graphed over regions, the values for inorganic phosphorous concentration varied.
Amino acids were measured using near infrared (NIR) on whole ground seed from a population of approximately 282 recombinant inbred lines (RIL) of Essex × Williams 82 grown in replicated field trials in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Southern Illinois. The mean levels of the highly nutritionally important amino acids cysteine (Cys), lysine (Lys), methionine (Met), threonine (Thr), and tryptophan (Trp) were 0.66, 2.39, 0.66, 1.81, and 4.5, respectively, expressed as percent of seed dry weight. The RIL with the highest value for a particular amino acid showed a relative increase of 15.2, 6.7, 9.1, 6.6, and 13.3 percent change above the mean, suggesting that genetic improvements near those relative gains might be accomplishable utilizing elite soybean material.


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(WEAU) - An upcoming meeting about the top health concerns in Eau Claire County will soon let your voice be heard.
It's through a two part meeting through the Eau Claire County Healthy Communities Council. It will be on April 4th from 6 - 8:30pm at the RCU Corporate Building, in the Eau Claire River room on the first floor.
WEAU sat down with Lieske Giese the director/health officer for the Eau Claire City-County Health Department and Darryll Farmer the co-chair of the Eau Claire County Healthy Communities Council.
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Gossip From The Other Side Of The Pond: Orlando's Plastic Mate, Liz Sets A Date
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living dollAre these the beginnings of a new craze in Hollywood? In learning that Charlie Sheen once shared his home with a life-sized latex doll, we read that Orlando Bloom has a doll of his own. Orlando is dating Kate Bosworth, and his new doll is an effigy of her as Lois Lane — the character she plays in the latest Superman movie. Says Kate: "He loves it. He carries it with him everywhere he goes. We've had some strange looks but he won't leave it." We are sure the doll is a real dish. And though the real Kate is made of unaided flesh and bone, there might be something quintessentially Hollywood about stepping out with a plastic mannequin.
love lettersHaving already been accused of cheating on his wife, Victoria, with his PA and infamous pig tosser, Rebecca Loos, David Beckham has once again been accused of messing around with yet another woman. Glamour model Emma Ryan insists that David was "gagging for it."
Says Emma: "He wanted to see me naked and couldn't wait to play a game of strip Scrabble." Though we admire Becks' abilities with a ball, chances are a game of strip Scrabble will see him naked long before Emma has even removed her mittens. Emma says she and Becks shared a "love affair." We await for further developments. And pigs look on with interest...
liz's new dressLiz Hurley has worn all manner of dresses in a career that has spanned parties, premieres and personal appearances. And now she is preparing to wear some more clothes, adding maternity gowns to a CV that already boasts dresses with safety pins, white jeans and bikinis. Liz plans to have a baby with boyfriend Arun Nayar. And what's more; she and he are to marry. "I cannot reveal to you the exact date but it is very close," says Liz to Italian Vanity Fair magazine. Marriage will surely bring about seismic changes in Liz's life. A wedding means a wedding dress. Wearing such a garment for the first time will be a real challenge for the British babe. But if anyone can pull it off, surely Liz can do it with flying colors — cause we all know she shouldn't be wearing white.
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CM Punk responded to Paul Heyman
CM Punk is not an unreasonable man (though as the gentleman in the front row can attest, it's clearly not advisable to boo him while he's talking): Paul Heyman asked for an apology, and to the shock of the WWE Universe, he took him up on that offer.
Well, kind of.
As it turns out, the only thing Punk was sorry about was that he didn't get to dismember Paul Heyman like he had promised when he got his hands on him at SummerSlam. Punk's proposed solution – they settle their score then and there – was met with an ultimatum from Heyman: Leave the ring while he could, or Heyman would send Curtis Axel down to finish what Brock Lesnar started.
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LOS ANGELES — "The Best" had "The Beast" beat.
Blinded by rage, CM Punk succeeded in getting his hands on Paul Heyman at SummerSlam, but his vengeance came at a price — in this case, at the sacrifice of victory against Brock Lesnar.
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After going to hell and back with The Anomaly in a No Disqualification Match that lived up to its grandiose "Best vs. The Beast" billing in every way, Punk fell prey to a vicious F-5 onto a steel chair, a brutal impact that interrupted The Best in the World's attempt to make Heyman squeel in pain.
The bout was nothing short of remarkable, a supremely barbaric affair that ravaged the ringside area and left the sold-out STAPLES Center breathless. The addition of the No Disqualification stipulation, agreed to by both individuals, was proposed by Heyman and revealed on the Kickoff event immediately preceding the pay-per-view broadcast. Ultimately, the eleventh-hour curveball was perhaps Punk's undoing, as Heyman repeatedly broke up pin and submission attempts that appeared seconds away from doing the unthinkable: slaying The Beast Incarnate.
The action started at a breakneck pace, with Lesnar outmuscling his smaller foe and focusing his punishing offense on Punk's ribs, not yet completely healed from The Beast's attack on Raw weeks ago. Despite speculation among certain segments of the WWE Universe that Punk would be wholly overmatched, however, The Best in the World proved completely fearless, and his never-say-die spirit, galvanized by the decidedly pro-Punk fans in attendance, allowed him to survive maneuvers that would have undoubtedly downed most Superstars.
Lesnar tossed Punk onto tables, slammed his body with a steel chair and rocketed him overhead with a belly-to-belly suplex on the floor. The farm-strong Lesnar placed a table cover over a prone Punk and leapt on him. A lariat that landed on Punk's jaw and neckline prompted Michael Cole to describe the scene as a "sickening assault."


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People like to hear and read stories. It's how we record history and also entertain audiences. It's also a bonding time. For those of us who have little kids, reading stories at night is part of our family ritual.
So with storytelling aiding in history, entertainment and engagement, then why is it often left out of internal communications? (And feel free to substitute often with always.)
Usually there's one simple answer. Not enough time. Or at least that's the excuse we've all used. But I would argue that if you invest just a little bit more time and creativity, the reward for that communication will far exceed the extra time spent on it.
I came across the seven elements of digital storytellling, as created by the Center of Digital Storytelling. It seemed fitting enough given the trend of employee communication to be, in fact, more digital.
These were obviously outlined without employee communication directly in mind but I do think they fit nicely. . . with a few tweaks. Let's go through these one by one.
In the world of employee communications, point of view provides relevancy to the reader. We know that rarely all communications are going to engage all of the audiences. But if you can properly frame the relevancy to the reader and get to the point of the story, you're on the right path.
Getting to the point is important but so is telling the entire story. And it's recommended that you leave the reader wondering throughout but with confidence in knowing the answer will be revealed in the end. Your employee communications should not read like a script from Lost.
Work is emotional for people. It's where we spend the vast majority of our time and attention. So the content you're producing should tap into your coworker's emotional investment at work. Connecting the reader to the story can and should be accomplished through emotions.
This is where it really starts to get fun. Your voice is what will make your internal communication different from somebody else's. Whether that's inside your company or another organization. My writing would not read or sound anything like yours. And that's a great thing. But you need to make the most of your "voice" and know how to make it work best for your company and employees.
In my world, this soundtrack would be full of Duran Duran songs. But in employee communication, I look at this more from the multimedia side of things. If you're telling a story, is it best told in the form of a video or does video complement the story. There is a TON of opportunity here to tell your story in multiple means across multiple channels to engage your audience. And it's easy. So do it.
This is a dirty word these days thanks to politics, but this focus is on size. Bigger is not always better and it's important to find just the right amount of content. If you're producing a video, you don't want it to be too short or too long. The same goes with a newsletter story or even a podcast.
This could be the most difficult element of all in my opinion. It's frustrating as a reader when there are lulls in a story. We get the same in movies. If you're working on a written piece, some advice is to simpily read it out loud to yourself. You'll get a sense for the pace of the story. If your story is a video or audio, just sit back and listen.
I tell people to never let facts get in the way of a good story. And embellishment is a key component to a phenomenal story. The fish gets bigger with each telling. But this is not an element of internal storytelling. We all know better.
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SIKESTON - Discolored by age and partially eaten away by rodents, a brittle copy of the constitution and bylaws of Sikeston's Ten Thousand Club was found among the office effects of the late M.G. Gresham, attorney-farmer who died her last month. As the same would indicate, the principal purpose of the club was the attainment of 10,000 population or more by or before 1920. The club was formed in 1910.
SIKESTON - Tomorrow at 8 o'clock, the first presentation of the Little Theater's first production, "Witness For the Prosecution" will get under way in the circuit court room at the courthouse in Benton and all indications point to a most successful premier for the four-day-run scheduled for this famous play.
SIKESTON - A two-day Christmas celebration, including a dance, parade and the selection of Little Mr. and Miss Santa Claus, has been scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 11.
ORAN - Having been seeded sixth, the Richland Rebels came into the Oran Invitational disappointed. Puxico, the No. 3 seed, left the Oran gym Monday night with a similar feeling. The Rebels took the lead for good late in the second quarter, then held on to down the higher-ranked Puxico squad 69-56 in first round action of the 36th annual event.
SIKESTON - Do you have a few books over due? Well, now is the time to take them back to the Sikeston Public Library. Brenda Pounds and Barbara Love have set up the display for the second annual Fine Free Week. From now until Dec. 14, the library fines will be forgiven by returning each overdue book with a non-perishable food item. The food will be used in the Community Christmas Campaign sponsored by the Standard Democrat.


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In his Oct. 16 letter ("Return to 2010"), John Melone confidently suggests that the Tea Party will rise again. He apparently hasn't seen media reports that the Tea Party is steadily losing support, even among Republicans.
At the current rate of attrition, before the entire membership of the Rhode Island Republican Party can fit in a phone booth, as suggested in a recent Journal editorial, the entire membership of the Rhode Island Tea Party will be able to dance on the head of a pin!
One last point: Calling us liberals "libs" may be an attempt at condescension, but it only makes Mr. Melone seem a bit childish. After all, whatever we liberals think of conservatives, including that they stopped fitting the classic definition of that term a long time ago, we at least accord them the respect of calling them that.
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|Passat 1.8 (top) will be first locally-assembled Volkswagen model in almost 30 years. Build quality of the cars will be same as those from other VW plants, assures VGM (Golf assembly at one of its German plants shown above)
The clarification has been made following an announcement by Dato' Sri Mohd Khamil Jamil, Group MD of DRB-HICOM, who revealed that production of the first batch of Passat CKD models has commenced at the DRB-HICOM Automotive Complex in Pekan, Pahang.
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Alright, Android developers and general enthusiasts: the floodgates are open. Google is now accepting registrations for Google I/O 2014, which takes place at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco on June 25th and 26th. If you've got a spare nine hundred bucks and the means to get there, you can submit your details and hope for a spot.
Things are a bit different this year. Instead of a mad dash for a limited number of tickets, not to mention no small amount of confusion and frustration as Google's registration buckles under the pressure, attendance will be under a general lotto system.Read More


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Send good thoughts and strength to Adam T and Coach Evy Voltair as they take on the American Open this weekend in Dallas Texas competing in their respective weight classes against some of the best in the business. Good luck to both of you and we hope your hard work pays off.
On another Note. CFW's Christmas Party info has been posted on our Facebook page. If you haven't seen it the party is December 21st at 7pm. Sign up sheets are posted in the merchandise area of the gym. I better see some seriously ugly Christmas sweaters!!!
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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
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to extol fleshliness as the distinct and supreme end of poetic and pictorial art; to aver that poetic expression is greater than poetic thought, and by inference that the body is greater than the soul, and sound superior to sense; and that the poet, properly to develop his poetic faculty, must be an intellectual hermaphrodite, to whom the very facts of day and night are lost in a whirl of æsthetic terminology. (p. 335)Rossetti's poems, like his paintings, are said to be characterized by a morbid deviation from healthy forms of life and a sense of weary, wasting, yet exquisite sensuality (p. 337); Buchanan takes particular exception to Nuptial Sleep, one of the sonnets in Rossetti's House of Life sequence, for its relatively graphic (if heavily metaphorical) depiction of the immediate aftermath of sexual intercourse. Buchanan's article led to a vituperative and protracted literary dispute, a court case, and, belatedly, a retraction and an apology; more importantly, it helped to reveal some of the emerging fault lines in late nineteenth-century British culture, with the attacks in his article prefiguring many of the objections made to the decadent writers of the 1880s and 1890s, such as the contributors to the Yellow Book.
Buchanan was quickly unmasked as the author, and the result was a minor literary skirmish. He was described by Rossetti's brother, William Michael, as a poor and pretentious poet in a pamphlet on Swinburne's poetry published in 1867; and Buchanan later claimed, almost certainly incorrectly, that his article on the fleshly school was a belated attempt to avenge a disparaging comment about his friend and fellow poet David Gray published by Swinburne about this time.Up jumped, with his neck stretching out like a gander,
Master Swinburne, and squealed, glaring out thro' his hair,
All Virtue is bosh! Hallelujah for Landor!
I disbelieve wholly in everything!There!(lines 458)
Rossetti's death in April 1882 led Buchanan, in the second edition of his novel, to replace this poem with another, this time addressed explicitly to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which he places a lily of love in the dead poet's hand as a token of reconciliation. The about-face was completed by a preface in which Buchanan castigated himself for having underrated [Rossetti's] exquisite work and ranged himself temporarily with the Philistines.Pure as thy purpose, blameless as thy song,
Sweet as thy spirit, may this offering be:
Forget the bitter blame that did thee wrong,
And take the gift from me!(lines 58)
It was a fever-cloud generated first in Italy and then blown westward; finally, after sucking up all that was most unwholesome from the soil of France, to fix itself on England, and breed in its direful shadow a race of monsters whose long line has not ceased from that to the present day.It is this emphasis on the foreign origins of the contagion that helps to explain Buchanan's (not entirely unreasonable) determination to trace Swinburne's poetic ancestry to France, and in particular to what he repeatedly called the Fleurs de Mal (Les Fleurs du Mal), Charles Baudelaire's notorious 1857 volume of poems: All that is worst in Mr. Swinburne belongs to Baudelaire. The offensive choice of subject, the obtrusion of unnatural passion, the blasphemy, the wretched animalism, are all taken intact out of the Fleurs de Mal (Fleshly School, 22). It also helps to explain Buchanan's determination to distance Swinburne and Rossetti from the American poet Walt Whitman, whose undeniably fleshly Leaves of Grass was held to be the product of a pure and native, rather than foreign and diseased, poetic impulse. (The niceties of this critical distinction were lost on the jury that heard Buchanan's action for libel.) Swinburne, in fact, shared Buchanan's admiration for Whitman at this time; and it is one of the many ironies of this episode that Buchanan, for the most part a determined enemy of philistinism and jingoism in art, should have provided the Philistines with much of the ammunition for their assault on the decadence of modern culture in his writings on the fleshly school.
R. Buchanan, The fleshly school of poetry and other phenomena of the day (1872) · J. B. Bullen, The pre-raphaelite body: fear and desire in painting, poetry, and criticism (1998) · J. A. Cassidy, Robert Buchanan and the fleshly controversy, PMLA, 67/2 (March 1952), 6593 · J. A. Cassidy, Robert W. Buchanan (1973) · D. Clifford and L. Roussillon, eds., Outsiders looking in: the Rossettis then and now (2004) · G. Dawson, Intrinsic earthliness: science, materialism and the fleshly school of poetry, Victorian Poetry, 41/1 (spring 2003), 11329 · R. Dellamora, ed., Victorian sexual dissidence (1999) · P. Henderson, Swinburne: the portrait of a poet (1974) · The correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. W. E. Fredeman, 8 vols. (20029) · T. L. Hood, ed., Letters of Robert Browning (1933) · H. Jay, Robert Buchanan (1903) · The Swinburne letters, ed. C. Y. Lang, 6 vols. (195962) · J. Marsh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: painter and poet (1999) · T. L. Meyers, ed., Uncollected letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 3 vols. (20045) · C. Murray, D. G. Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne and R. W. Buchanan: the fleshly school revisited (1983) · P. Regan, The fleshly school of poetry controversy, www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/html/fleshly_school.html, accessed on 5 Oct 2010 · R. Rooksby, A. C. Swinburne: a poet's life (1997) · A. Stauffer, Five letters from D. G. Rossetti to John Payne, Huntington Library Quarterly, 66/1, 2 (2003), 17789 · A. C. Swinburne, Under the microscope (1872)
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PARKERSBURG - With the scaffolding in place, work has begun on a restoration project to the outside of an historic downtown hotel in Parkersburg.
For the next three months, the Blennerhassett Hotel will undergo cleaning, brick/mortar repair and rebuilding/replacing a number of window sills, said Blennerhassett Hotel general manager Cecil Childress.
''The building is over 120 years old,'' Childress said. ''The hotel has already had a full restoration on the inside.
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Scaffolding is in place around the Blennerhassett Hotel in downtown Parkersburg as work is under way to clean the historic hotel, do brick and mortar repair and rebuild or replace a number of window sills. (Photo by Brett Dunlap)
''We felt it was time to do some work on the outside.''
The hotel was built at a time when Parkersburg was experiencing prosperity from the oil and gas industry. The city was a hub of activity, hosting businessmen and visitors from all over the country. The hotel, which is registered as a national historical landmark, was designed and built by William Chancellor, a prominent Parkersburg businessman.
In April, a two-ton porte-cochere was put in place over the hotel's front door to replace the awning, which had been there.
Keystone Waterproofing Inc. of Greensburg, Pa., is doing the exterior work. It is the same company that worked on cleaning and restoring the exterior of the Wood County Courthouse a number of years ago, Childress said.
The work is expected to be done by the end of the summer.
''It is good we only have to do this about once every 100 years,'' Childress said.


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Director of Postgraduate Studies, 2013-2014
Laurea degree in History, University of Venice
PhD in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science
Senior Research Fellow in History, University of Hertfordshire (2004-2006)
Visiting Lecturer, Italian Department, University College London (2003-2004)
Visiting Lecturer, School of History, Birkbeck College London (2001-2003)
Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
Societa' Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO)
Balsdon Fellow, The British School at Rome, September-December 2012.
Co-investigator in 3-year AHRC-funded project 'Bombing States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945', Universities of Newcastle, Exeter and Reading (2007-2010).
Research assistant/collaborator in two-year AHRC/ESCR-funded project, Programme Cultures of Consumption, Transnational History of Italian Coffee (2003-2005).
Visiting Fellowship in Italian Studies, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, 2003-2004.
Research Fellowship, Comitato Nazionale Italia nel Mondo, Rome, 2001-2003.
My research interests are in the cultural and political history of Italy and Europe in the twentieth century, particularly Fascism, anti-Fascism, emigration and the Second World War from the civilians' perspective.
From October 2007 to October 2010 I was involved in the AHRC funded project on 'Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945', investigating the impact of bombing on civilians in Britain, Germany, France and Italy. The project was based at the universities of Newcastle, Exeter and Reading. See the project website: www.centres.ex.ac.uk/wss/bombing/index.htm
During September-December 2012 I carried out research at the British School at Rome as Balsdon Fellow. I am currently working on a project on 'In Search of the White International: Catholic Communism between the Wars'.
I welcome proposals from postgraduates who are interested in any aspect of the political, cultural and social history of Italy in the 20th century, and on the impact of bombing in the Second World War in Europe.
Stage 1: Themes in European History, HIS1027
Stage 2: A Civilians' War, 1939-45, HIS2087
Stage 3: Fascism in Italy, HIS3205; Writing History HIS3020.
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Serpentine Dominion
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Charred Walls of the Damned
Charred Walls of the Damned will release their third full-length, 'Creatures Watching Over the Dead', on September 23rd via Metal Blade Records. Today, the band has released the first single from the album, entitled 'The Soulless'.Read More
Cirith Ungol
Yes, the rumors are true. Metal Blade has managed to find the holy grail of Heavy Metal, the album that hasn't been available for decades, by one of the best Heavy Metal bands of all time - 'Paradise Lost' by mighty Cirith Ungol!Read More
Necromancing the Stone
If flaccid, identikit, breakdown-laden 'metal' is the disease, Necromancing the Stone is the cure. For a preview of 'Jewel of the Vile', please visit DecibelMagazine.com, where the new single, 'The Descent', is streaming.Read More
After releasing their sixth full-length, 'Great Is Our Sin', last week, Revocation is now launching a new video for the album track 'Arbiters of the Apocalypse'! Directed by David Brodsky, the clip can be viewed at metalblade.com/revocationRead More
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text: Global Zero vid: They asked congressmen how many nuclear weapons remain in the U.S. arsenal. Most don't know or give wildly inaccurate guesses. Correct answer: 7700 nukes, costing $60 billion a year. As they note, Congress also can't explain why we need them or when we'd use them. Although U.S. still has first-use policy. And is only country to use them: See my book Atomic Cover-up.


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Breaking News: Milberg Weiss, Two Partners, Indicted
It's official: The New York-based law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman and two of its name partners were indicted today by a federal grand jury for allegedly participating in a scheme in which several individuals were paid millions of dollars in secret kickbacks in exchange for serving as named plaintiffs in more than 150 class-action and shareholder derivative-action lawsuits. The indictment alleges that the firm received well over $200 million in attorneys' fees from these lawsuits over the past 20 years.
Some choice excerpts:
The defendants "obtained and caused to be obtained the cash in a manner that made the payments difficult to trace, including from casinos … Milberg Weiss, Bershad, and others kept cash used to make such payments in a safe located in a credenza in Bershad's office at Milberg Weiss, to which access was strictly limited." Page 31
"The Paid Plaintiffs purchased the securities at issue anticipating that the securities would decline in value, in order to position themselves to be named plaintiffs in securities fraud class actions and to obtain kickback payments from Milberg Weiss, Bershad, Schulman, and others." Page 29
"During an under-oath deposition Lazar, acting in concert with Milberg Weiss and others, evaded answering questions regarding whether he had a 'fee arrangement with' Milberg Weiss by, among other things, denouncing the questioning as an 'absolute insult.' " Page 41
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Book of Revelation
Book of Revelation Chapter 10 Summary
Scroll de Jour
- Then John sees another awesome angel coming down from Heaven. He has a rainbow for a halo and his face shines like the sun—you know, the usual.
- The angel hands John a tiny scroll and tells him to eat it. Fair warning: The scroll will taste like honey going down, but is going to leave a bitter taste in John's stomach.
- John, of course, gobbles up the scroll, because when a magnificent angel with a face like the sun tells you to eat a scroll, you eat it.


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Ever been watching the news and some particularly vicious crime is being covered and they cut to the accused's dear old Mom, wailing and rending her garments crying, "Not my baby!"
Looks like it ain't just a USA thing.
Cholet is charged with the murder of Susanna Zetterberg, a 19-year-old student from Stockholm, who he allegedly picked up in his taxi outside a Paris nightclub in April 2008.
Zetterberg's partially burnt body was discovered in a forest near Paris the day she went missing. An autopsy showed she had been shot at least four times in the head.
Police traced the crime to Cholet, who was allegedly found with a pistol, handcuffs and other material containing Zetterberg's DNA in his possession. A plastic bag with her name written on it was also allegedly found.
Cholet, a convicted rapist and armed robber, denies any involvement and claims police fabricated evidence.
Mom knows the truth. Mom knows the truth.
"My son is a good boy, don't be too hard on him", Marie-Louise Cholet wrote. "He lets himself get swayed easily …it's a mother who is writing to you with a lot of pain."
The Cholets must be transplanted Amis, what with that roscoe and all. Typical cowboy American.


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A Valley Center teen accused of killing his adoptive parents has asked a judge to throw out a statement he made to police.
Anthony Bluml is charged with capital murder in connection to Roger and Melissa Bluml's deaths. The Valley Center couple were found suffering from gunshot wounds outside their home in November. Melissa died on the night of the crime, Roger passed away from his injuries about five weeks later.
Anthony is one of four accused of the murders. His biological mother and two other teenagers also face capital murder charges. Each remain jailed on $2 million bond.
In a two-page handwritten letter filed in Sedgwick County court last week, Anthony said he was under the influence of narcotics during the interview.
"I was not in complete control of my mental faculties," he said in the letter. But he said, detectives still proceeded to talk to him.
A hearing has not been scheduled to take up the matter. Anthony's attorney has not commented on the letter.
The suspects could face the death penalty in the case, but prosecutors have not said whether they will seek it.


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Fort Meade Commission to Vote on Allowing Sunday Beer And Wine Sales
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 11:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 11:58 p.m.
FORT MEADE | City commissioners in Fort Meade will decide tonight whether stores can sell beer and wine on Sundays within the city limits.
"We have to do what we can to attract new business, and in this case, a chain grocery store. ..."
Jim Watts FORT MEADE CITY COMMISSIONER
Commissioner Bob Elliott has proposed changing the city's current ordinance, which prohibits the sale of any alcoholic beverages on Sundays. He said the city has a good shot at getting a chain grocery store, but not if that ordinance isn't changed.
"I'm trying to expand the commercial tax base," Elliott said Monday. "We've been holding the course for the last 35 years, and not much has changed. We have an opportunity here, and I think we need to take it."
Elliott declined to say what grocery chain is eyeing Fort Meade.
"This won't seal the deal, but it's definitely part of it," he said.
The measure would allow the sale of packaged beer and wine beginning at noon on Sundays. Stores still would be prohibited from selling liquor, and bars couldn't sell any alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, by the glass.
The City Commission gave preliminary approval to the measure last month by a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Maurice Nelson casting the lone dissenting vote.
Tonight's vote will take place after a public hearing on the proposal, allowing residents to voice their opinions about the measure.
It appears Elliott has retained his support of the proposed ordinance among other commissioners. Commissioners Rick Cochrane, Barbara Manley and Jim Watts said Monday they, too, favor the change.
Nelson declined to comment on the issue Monday, saying she doesn't want to discuss it before tonight's meeting.
Manley said this is something the city needs to do.
"I'm not a proponent of alcohol, but to get a chain grocery store, they all sell beer and wine and want to sell it on Sunday. I think it's a change we need to make if we're serious about wanting a chain grocery store.
"I've had church people tell me they realize this is what we need to do," she said. "If we do this, our chances of getting a grocery store are greater, hopefully. It's just time."
Cochrane said he, too, has received only comments supporting the measure.
"I see this as a test case to see if it helps to bring business in," he said. "It may generate increased business interest, not just with this business, but others, too. At least it will show that we are business-friendly."
Watts said he hasn't heard any negative comments about the proposal.
"Everybody seems to understand that we have to make the playing field level if we're going to generate businesses in town," he said. "We have to do what we can to attract new business, and in this case, a chain grocery store. We can't control the number of residents we have, but we can make Fort Meade more inviting to commercial ventures.
"Right now, I'm in favor of this."
Tonight's meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 in City Hall, 8 W. Broadway St.
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