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On the 15th day of March, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. in accordance with O.R.S. 187.110, inside the main entrance to the Clackamas County Courthouse located at 807 Main St., Oregon City, OR, (handicap accessible) I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder, subject to redemption, for cash or certified check all of the right, title, claim and interest of the within named judgment debtors in the following described real property located in Clackamas County, Oregon to-wit:
Unit No. 128, Tanglewood Hills Condominium, Stage 2, in the City of Lake Oswego, County of Clackamas, State of Oregon. Together with an undivided interest in and to the common elements appertaining to said unit as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership made pursuant to the Oregon Condominium Act, recorded June 2, 2001, Recording Number 2001-041144.
More commonly known as 4 Touchstone Drive #128, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Said sale is made under a Writ of Execution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Clackamas to me directed in the case of:
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff,
SHAWN BENSON AKA SHAWN M. BENSON; MOUNTAIN PARK HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION; TANGLEWOOD HILLS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; AND OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES, Defendants
Case No. CV12080087. Execution dated: January 29, 2013
Before bidding at the sale a prospective bidder should independently investigate:
(a) The priority of the lien or interest of the judgment creditor;
(b) Land use laws and regulations applicable to the property;
(c) Approved uses for the property;
(d) Limits on the farming or forest practices on the property;
(e) Rights of neighboring property owners; and
(f) Environmental laws and regulations that affect the property.
Clackamas County
By: Angela Brandenburg, Lieutenant
Civil Section Commander
Attorney: Calvin Knickerbocker
All potential bidders are subject to inspection of funds prior to participating in the auction. Individuals without proof of sufficient funds will not be allowed to participate. Certified checks must be made payable to Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
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Earthquake Diary: 19 May
24 May 2008, 00:29
by Liu Lei
Mian Yang, Sichuan province, China: Today is the first day of national mourning. The whole of China joined in a moment's silence for the people who died in the disaster seven days ago. China is mourning, people are crying, but the consolidation of the Chinese people is strengthening.
After our trip to the most severe disaster area at Mian Yang municipality and especially following our meeting with the Deputy Commander of the earthquake disaster relief team, we clearly understand the prime need for refugees is family tents. The central government has ordered all tent factories in China to run at full capacity and is transporting as many as possible to the disaster area, but it seems that those positive actions still can't meet all the demands on the spot.
In order to donate at least 100,000 standard rescue tents to the disaster area, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has decided to try its utmost to find the number of tents immediately, so the team decided the main work for today is finding as many tent factories as possible.
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The Detroit Show, and the Only Car That Matters
ONE NIGHT IN July, Gilbert Villarreal and three of his engineers tucked in to a dinner at On the Border restaurant in Auburn Hills, Mich. Mr. Villarreal's company had landed a contract to build a small fleet of plug-in hybrid commercial vans, but production was imperiled by the looming bankruptcy of battery maker A123, in Livonia, Mich. Where were they going to get the batteries?
Then someone wondered aloud: What are those guys over at Fisker going to do? Like Mr. Villarreal's plug-in utility van, the sleek, six-figure Fisker Karma—an electric sedan-coupe built in Finland by Henrik Fisker, the former design chief at BMW BMW -2.46 % and Aston Martin—has at its core a whopping 20-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack sourced from A123. The Karma's troubles were well known: overdrawn, overpromised, overweight. The company had to recall hundreds of cars to patch a fault in the A123 battery.
One of the engineers mused: Somebody at Fisker should just drop a Corvette ZR1 engine in the Karma and be done with it.
Mr. Villarreal thought: I know how to do that.
What came next blows my mind. It is such a wonderful tale of resourcefulness, common sense, blowtorch engineering and the love of the automobile. Mr. Villarreal called his flying buddy and partner in a watchmaking venture, former GM executive and famed car guy Bob Lutz, to ask if he could get Mr. Fisker's consent to such a conversion. At a lunch meeting in Los Angeles in July, Mr. Fisker agreed to sell 20 Karma "gliders" (cars without powertrains); his only condition was that the finished cars be visually distinct from the EV Karma.
And that is how the world came by the VL Destino, a very bad Karma indeed, with the supercharged, 638-horsepower Corvette engine shoved, but barely, under a new, Vette-like hood bulge.
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Also, the Karma's notorious mustache-like front was trimmed with a new fascia, drawn by none other than Mr. Lutz himself, on cellophane, laid over a lovely artist's rendering that had been sent to him for approval.
The Destino debuted at this week's Detroit auto show, not on the main floor at Cobo Hall but in a modest two-car display out in the lobby, far from the global spotlight. Mr. Lutz, 80, who retired as vice chairman of General Motors GM -1.00 % three years ago, was his usual undiminished self.
"People say, 'Well, it looks like a Maserati,' and I say, 'And your point is?' "
The back story for the VL Automotive (Villarreal and Lutz) effort is a lush jungle of ironies. You have Bob Lutz, a cigar-smoking ex-Marine aviator known in the car world as Maximum Bob, the climate-change denier who championed the GM bailout and the Chevrolet Volt; and Fisker, the Anaheim, Calif.-based luxury-EV auto maker founded by Henrik Fisker, whose company's federal loan guarantees hang in the balance as it struggles with bad press and bad luck (300 Karmas were destroyed at New Jersey's Port Newark during superstorm Sandy). There's enough ashes to dine on for everyone.
But for the moment, let's contemplate the machine. Here you have to use your imagination, because the two prototypes shown were pretty rough. None of the Karma's instrument software, the graphical flowcharts and gauges for the EV range and power depletion, has been recoded. Because the Destino is lighter by at least 1,100 pounds (no massive battery pack), its ride height and suspension kinematics will have to be completely recalibrated, if the pieces themselves do not require remanufacturing.
'The VL Destino recalls a happier and more exuberant time, when wildcatters would set upon exotic and luxury cars to make them better, faster, more soulful.'
Virtual aerodynamics testing, systems integration, graphics. There's plenty of work to be done. And yet, a lot is already behind them. Because of its direct kinship, the Destino can piggyback on the Corvette's emissions certification as well as the Karma's crash-testing data, since none of the car's load-path structure has been altered. "And if they ask us to crash one, we'll crash one," said Mr. Lutz.
Left entirely intact is the Karma's swank, interstellar interior.
Notionally, then, what we have in the Destino is the four-door executive Corvette, an alloy-bodied, 200-mph sedan (about 3,900 pounds, 50-50 weight distribution, 638 hp and 505 pound-feet of torque) designed, engineered and (to be) built in America, powered by the third-generation LS9, America's mightiest weapon in the war of freedom. (The Destino plan would also see the Corvette's rear transaxle retained with a choice of either a six-speed automatic or the Vette's new, seven-speed manual transmission.)
Here, happily if rather accidentally, is the first American luxury supercar built in my lifetime, a car that could plausibly compete with the Maserati Quattroporte, the Porsche Panamera or the Aston Martin Rapide. Yes, I understand, not as brand or an ownership experience, but as a machine.
Moreover, Messrs. Villarreal and Lutz have rescued the Karma from what I would like to call the tragic grenades. The Karma is so close to being right, absolutely close enough for hand grenades, but the legacy of the car is marred by two things: First, the range-extended hybrid-electric powertrain—a daring engineering enterprise—never fully made the case for itself in terms of efficiency and emotion. The 5,300-pound Karma can see mileage in the low 30s, no problem. And the 400-hp Karma's sporting character is altogether whelming.
The Karma's other tragic grenade is the styling. The silhouette of the car is nearly perfect—a stretching cat of a car, low and feline, with a fabulous roof and warp-speed light lines on the fuselage strung between 22-inch wheels—but the side-on view is spoiled by a concavity, a shallow, at the windshield landing area. It's a place of visual weakness and prolapse.
Then there's the ridiculous mustachioed grille. The Karma looks like it should be tying a maiden to a railroad track. When tallied with the Vegas-style chrome diamond sound emitters in the lower rear fascia and diamond-shaped fog lamp enclosures, you just wish somebody had tackled Mr. Fisker in the studio. Stop him. He's gone mad.
Now here's where the magic happens. When Mr. Villarreal's team did the computer renderings, they saw they had a hood-clearance problem of about 22 millimeters, less than an inch. OK, they said, we'll recontour the hood. And they did, adding a power bulge right out of Pininfarina's PINF -1.16 % playbook. Shazam. Instant brawn.
Up front, all it took was a little design sobriety supplied by Mr. Lutz to make the Destino, née Karma, look amazing.
So the politically incorrect Corvette rescues the luxurious but effete Karma, and vice versa. Mr. Villarreal would like to build 250 to 500 cars in the first full year of production, selling copies for $180,000 to $200,000, which is about twice the price of the Karma. Realistically, I give the company about a 1-in-500 chance of reaching 250 cars, but the effort itself is ennobling.
In the lore of the automobile, the VL Destino recalls a happier and more exuberant time, when wrench-wielding wildcatters would set upon exotic and luxury cars to make them better, faster, more soulful, more exclusive. What Messrs. Villarreal and Lutz have done is no different than what André Dubonnet would have done to a Hispano-Suiza in the 1930s. In fact, a decade ago, Mr. Fisker himself tried to set up a custom coachwork company reskinning Mercedes roadsters and BMW coupes. Talk about karma.
Messrs. Villarreal and Lutz are eager to underscore their debt to Henrik Fisker and the wonderful car the Karma almost is. By all accounts, Mr. Fisker has handled this intrusion onto his authorship with good grace.
"When I saw him," said Mr. Villarreal, "I told him, 'Henrik, this is you.' "
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Ok, a Couple of Other Cars That Sort of Matter
2014 Corvette Stingray
Near the stand in Detroit hosting the new, seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette, there is a display titled "Truth in Material." "An honest interior starts with honest materials," it reads. "This Corvette is no exception. If it looks like aluminum, it is aluminum. If it looks like carbon fiber, it is," etc. I love how Chevrolet posts this as if it were a time- honored practice. In truth, Corvettes have had, for decades, wildly inauthentic interior color and trim. No more. The new Vette's interior has construction, switchgear and materials that rival a Ferrari F12. The hand of the Vette's leather is the equal to the F12's Poltrona Frau skins, and generally, the line and geometry of the Vette interior would do credit to an Audi R8.
The louvered and straked exterior? I took to calling the car the Cor-Vent. The real story is inside.
Tesla Model X
I've learned my lesson. Second-guessing Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his chief designer, Franz Von Holzhausen, is a low-percentage affair. And yet, at the risk of being at risk, I don't see how the company's near-production family land module, the Model X crossover that debuted in Detroit, can possibly retain its "falcon doors," which rise on medial roof hinges, like those of a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. The current MB SLS required explosive bolts to pass federal crash certification (the doors needed to be able to blow off in case the vehicle comes to rest on its roof). I've seen literally dozens of gullwinged concept cars that, when the finished product arrived on the market, had been de-fletched.
Still, those are amazing doors. I hope I'm wrong, again.
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by Car Man from | March 26, 2016
This is a pretty okay vehicle i just think it has some minor flaws that gm should change because its kinda effecting the ride i would barely suggest this vehicle
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great truck for the money!
by robtmjr from orange county, Ca | September 5, 2007
bought this '99 about 10 months ago with 168,000 miles for 4500 dollars...definitely a quality truck! only problem i had was the wiring harness's for the rear lights...65 dollar fix. tons of power, great handling, and plenty of room. gas mileage could be better but hay...can't have it all! excellent all around truck- 2 thumbs up!!
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Most Reliable Auto I've Owned
by Car Enthusiast from Madison, WI | July 19, 2007
Strong powertrain. Great gas mileage (up to 22 MPG with my 1500) Minor fixes which also have minor costs. Easy to service. This is the best van on the market today. I know I am a mechanic!
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Continuing Coolant leaks
by Havis from Arkansas | December 31, 2006
Problems started with a weeping water pump (2001), progressed to burst radiator in 2006, and currently a leaking intake manifold gasket (huge problem to get to, replace -- did it myself because no mechanic would want to tackle this without huge labor costs). Some conspiracy theorists blame Dex-cool; don't know, but coolant problems (along with two wiring problems) have plagued my van.
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Chevy Express 3500
by Family Travel Van from Cary, NC | July 11, 2006
Great family Van for long trips. Got 16 MPG on trips. Great panoramic view from front seats when traveling. Road handling great on curving mountain roads. Power was never an issue. Just oil changes and no issues at all. Even original tires look new after 50K miles. Towed a car once and did not feel like there was anything back there. I drive a Honda Civic around town, but the Chevy is a great trip car (van) to load the family in for traveling. With 4 kids, each one had a bench for themselves for the trip and was a great trip stress reducer. I have had it over 5 years and it has been the best family investment for together times on the road.
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The proposed sale of Charleston's ABC affiliate has the whiff of a late-summer rerun.
The lead character, again, is Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. The company has played a recurring role in a drawn-out controversy over the number of TV signals that broadcasters can own in smaller media markets.
The abridged version goes like this: Sinclair has grown into a broadcasting industry powerhouse by openly thumbing its nose at Uncle Sam's ownership limits. It has argued for years that those rules are outdated and arbitrary.
Maybe so. But the Federal Communications Commission still regulates the public airwaves. And its rulebook still bans TV "duopolies," meaning individual broadcasters can't own multiple signals in areas with eight or fewer stations. Charleston falls within that group.
But Sinclair has mastered the art of circumventing the FCC's restrictions, as exemplified by its local operations. The Hunt Valley, Md.-based company owns one Charleston area station outright: WMMP-TV. It bought the MyNetworkTV affiliate in 1998.
But since then, Sinclair also has been making programming decisions, selling air time and otherwise running WTAT-TV in North Charleston. On paper, Cunningham Broadcasting Corp. owns the local Fox carrier. Cunningham is what Sinclair has described as a "sidecar" business with close ties to its own operations. Critics have derided such cross-ownership arrangements as "covert consolidation."
Sinclair's willingness and ability to pull off this end-run has those critics steaming. Their main beef is that "shadow duopolies" and looser TV ownership limits in general give the viewing public, which owns the airwaves, fewer choices of competing news and information sources.
The debate could get more complicated now that Sinclair annnounced July 29 that it wants to buy Mount Pleasant-based WCIV-TV 4. The longtime owner put on the ABC affilate and others on the block earlier this year.
A potential fly in the ointment: Unlike WMMP, a niche cable carrier that Sinclair plans to sell, WTAT and WCIV are mainstream broadcasters that operate their own semi-competing news programs — at 10 and 11 p.m.. respectively.
Complicating matters, the local Fox affiliate's nightly report is handled by anchors and reporters from yet another Charleston station — Raycom Media's WCSC-TV Channel 5. Another wrinkle is that Sinclair CEO David Smith and his family members, including other senior Sinclair executives, are seeking to acquire WTAT-TV outright from the Cunningham sidecar.
The FCC, which includes South Carolina's Mignon Clyburn, had been signaling that it would update its TV ownership rules after years of hemming and hawing.
The ending seems pretty straightforward, and it can go one of two ways. The commission can side with Sinclair and allow the dual-ownership deals to stand. Or it could banish them all together.
Anything but a cliffhanger.
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I remember the derrecho last June. I was stuck at the house. The fuel gauge in my truck said fumes, and the power was out. The situation I found myself in was very thought provoking.
There was no threat to my safety or wellbeing, but the sensation of being in post-Katrina Mississippi came flooding back to mind. The ability to drive to the grocery store for a few last-minute items was no longer an option. The only information available was via rumor. Complacency is an easy state to slip into: "It could never happen here or to me." But it can.
This is the first article in a series of four filled with suggestions on how to keep your family safe by thinking ahead to the "what ifs" in life. If you lose power for a week or more and can't get out, what will you do? What would you do if you were at work, your children were at school and a disaster occurred? If your home were to catch fire in the night, does everyone know two ways out? Do you have a meeting place so you can make sure that everyone is safe? Having a plan can mean the difference between your family's survival or not.
The absolute goal is to keep your family safe. Things can and do go wrong. Hurricane Katrina is a prime example of what can go wrong. On the Mississippi gulf coast, 65,380 houses were gone (we called it slabbed) or destroyed. There was no food, water or shelter. Government response was not immediate. If you find yourself in dire circumstances for three to 10 days or more, can you keep your family safe, fed and sheltered?
A family safety plan is relatively easy to make. If everyone in your family group is involved in the planning they will know what to do. Discuss what potential problems you need a plan for. In this area, flooding and mudslides are considered, as are severe winter storms. Is your home in an area that floods? What if we have a very dry summer, lightning strikes and causes a significant wildfire? What if we have an earthquake?
We must each have a plan. Make a list of everyone in your family group, including Fido and Fluffy. If Aunt Blanch lives down the road and she needs assistance in her day-to-day activities, she will need your help. Plan for her needs as well.
Do your children go to school or day care? Does your job require your presence in times of emergency? Who will care for your family while you are at work if your family must evacuate, if it is in the middle of the night, if it is for longer or for different hours than you would normally work? How will you communicate with each other? If you are not together when disaster strikes, do you have a designated place to meet?
Most disasters have several things in common. Communication systems failure is one, and it is a huge issue. Cell phone networks can go down or be jammed with high call volumes. Long-distance calls may go through when local calls will not. One option may be to have an out-of-area contact that family members and loved ones can contact for status updates.
Everyone that your safety plan covers should have a list of emergency contact information that they carry as a wallet card. Younger children can have this information attached to their school bag.
Pick two places to meet. One place should be outside of your home in case of a fire. You may not be able to get home, so the other should be outside of your neighborhood. If your family is scattered and you can't get home, a central, agreed-upon meeting place could save the day. This information should also be on your wallet cards. If you are home and must evacuate, write a note and call your out-of-area contact with information that others might need if they are concerned about you.
For those of us with children, their safety is paramount. Do you know the schools' emergency protocols?
Will school busses take them home? Will the school keep them until parents can get them? A good backup plan is to have someone you trust pick up your children. Make sure the school has a list of persons authorized to pick up your children. Another suggestion is to have a "code" word that this person can use with your child. This word will allow your child to feel safe with them. Include these resources and their contact information on your wallet cards. It is so difficult to look up numbers when you are stressed and approaching overload.
How will you know if the Office of Emergency Management has issued a warning or order for evacuation? In a true emergency "I wish I had known" is not a good thing. Make sure your family is informed. The OEM issues warnings through the Nixle program, which is free and delivers text messages to your cell phone or email. To sign up for this service, just go to Nixle on the internet or utilize Facebook and visit the Randolph County Office of Emergency Management page.
The goal is to have a plan in place, so if you get a message requiring a response, you and your loved ones are ready to handle the problem.
In future articles, we will look at suggestions for what you might need if you stay home.
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Penn State York Offers Summer SAT Preparation Courses
High school students getting ready to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) can find help through SAT preparation courses being offered at Penn State York this summer. The four-session courses for verbal and math SATs are designed to help students improve their SAT skills. Each class meets in four sessions on July 21, 23, 28, and 30. Classes are held in the Main Classroom Building at the campus.
Students participating in the Preparation for Your Verbal SAT (12:35 – 2:35 p.m.) will review important skills assessed in the verbal section and have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the format and type of questions on the Verbal SAT. Participants will also practice test-taking in simulated exam conditions. Cost for the Preparation for Your Verbal SAT course is $95.
Noel Sloboda, Ph.D., instructor of English at Penn State York, is the course instructor. Sloboda earned his doctorate in English from Washington University. Sloboda was honored by the campus in 2005 with the James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has received numerous other honors and awards and has been published in "Studies in Humanities." He is also involved in many language associations and has been a judge for the Lancaster Scholastic Writing Awards. He has written a book about Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein and has published more than 100 poems in various journals in the United States and abroad. Sloboda has a book of poetry which is set to be published in July.
Preparation for Your Math SAT (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.) will familiarize students with the SAT format, and then review SAT math topics including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, graphs, measures, and quantitative comparisons. Please bring a calculator to the first class. Cost for the Preparation for Your Math SAT course is $70.
Bruce Babcock, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics at Penn State York, is the instructor. Babcock earned a doctorate in mathematics from Michigan State University and is a former winner of the prestigious AMOCO Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award. He was also honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award at Penn State York in 1991 and the James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007. He has authored numerous study guides for the University's Independent Learning Program and developed a blended learning course for the Penn State World Campus. He is currently working with a colleague on another World Campus course.
Register for both sessions at $155 and save $10. The course fee includes The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT by the College Board. For a brochure or more information, please call Penn State York at (717) 771-4107 or visit the Web site at ce.yk.psu.edu and click on youth programs.


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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Half term and I'm off with the girlies, though its been a funny old week of bugs and sniffles, disturbed nights and general, I'm afraid, listlessness. I've been enjoying Adrian Henri and Roger McGough's late 60s poems performed to Andy Roberts' guitar on the lovely, lost Incredible New Liverpool Scene LP which I managed to get a vinyl rip of from teh internets, and I've been trying to remember all the card games my Mum taught me when I was ten years old - to pass on to the daughters. We've had a rough go at an approximation of Pontoon so far, and last night trialled Newmarket (thanks The Guardian), which I can remember absolutely loving as a kid. Playing for pennies, deeply thrilling. If the eldest ends up a sort of über-sharp, Victoria Coren-style international poker player I wouldn't be in the least surprised.
Sorry not to have been blogging much - some of that listlessness seems to have percolated even this.
The Liverpool Scene - 'Let Me Die A Young Man's Death' (1967)
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Half term here too. Sniffles and bugs as well. Not so much listlessness but I did feel like I was falling into a black hole at the weekend. We've tried card games, including Chase The Ace - Isaac sticks or twists completely randomly and hasn't grasped the cocncept of keeping your card secret ('I've got a number 10!'), so suspect he won't be giving Victoria Cohen a run for her moneyReplyDelete
Reminds me of how I was once coerced into playing Old Maid with my nieces only to have one who was not supposed to be playing appear behind me and stage whisper 'Have You Still Got It?' so everyone could hear.
Sniffles and bugs all round, since before Christmas I reckon. I recommend this as a card game of sorts. Also we all went to coventry the other day to visit the cathedral and I'd really recommend that too - I reckon it's about as far on the train for you as it is for me (although the journey across London might make that less true) - it's a very very lovely place, even for heathen types.ReplyDelete
Going completely anti internet at the moment. I suspect that even if every site I visit suddenly put pictures of Christina Hendricks up I wouldn't get into it. Will pass, just the heebie jeebies about what's almost here for me!ReplyDelete
One of my favourite books ever is a copy of the Liverpool poets that I nicked from school. Love them.
You really don't want your daughter turning into Victoria Coren, god forbid!ReplyDelete
Computer caught a virus yesterday, just clicking on Firefox and despite McAfee being up to date. After twenty minutes of what can only be described as terse conversation with helpless desk had to fork out sixty quid to get rid of said virus.
Then went to see over hyped mediocre next best thing!
Ere mate. Got any Scaffold?ReplyDelete
Half-term scratching around here too, boys. Usual rock n roll lifestyle c/w domestic nonsenses, like new fan belt for washing machine, leaking radiator bodge-up, and my utterly crucial pantry re-org. (Facing up and sell-by date checks are a mandatory bi-annual requirement. Spices in jars don't last forever, you know).
Did get out for a lovely walk by the old North Yorkhire Victorian reservoirs around the wonderfully named village of Blubberhouses. The Theakston's Best Bitter and Yorkshire pud were the only thing that kept the old bones together.
My young daughter used to hold court playing a card game called 'Go Fish'. Simple and effective pick up and put down affair which brought me hours of precious legs-up-book-and-a-drink-with-music time.
Splendid. I kid you not Dickie, earlier tonight I threw out a jar of Bart's Chinese Five Spice Paste - Best Before January 2002.ReplyDelete
I've never been to Coventry Cathedral Adam, but given how hard it's been getting the daughters to go to Richmond Park this week I'm not holding out much hope for that as a day trip.
listlessness is february's curse indeed poo to al the january miseries it's the mid febs that'll really get yous. a glass of something later might help. or a trip to see casablanca at the pictures. lord it was beautifulReplyDelete
'We'll always have Blubberhouses'ReplyDelete


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Biggest shithole on earth. Located in Australia people hang out at there local Maccas all night for just a slight bit of fun. Most chicks are sluts most guys are fugly.
Bill: wow look at them babes
Paul: dude there from gladstone
Bill: does that mean they got
Paul: yeast infection... Yep
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a type of suitcase with flexible sides and a rigid frame, sometimes called a gladstone bag.
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A stoner in a constantly glad attitude. Sort of crazy, and horrible with certain RTSg.
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Leader of the liberal party in late 19th Century who championed practices such as backpeeling and opposed the tearaway group known only as the felch bandits.
The Grand Old Man of Liberal Politics and spoke to the house, "we will oppose the felch bandits wherever they may be, i am the Lord of the peel, said he."
"All hail Gladstone" roared the Commons in unison.
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An erection.
In National Lampoon's "The Missing White House Tapes", the Impeachment Day Parade's commentators were Barbara Merkin and Wallace Gladstone.
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There was great excitement on Broad Street that evening.
Local men dressed in fine suits congregated on Charleston's busiest thoroughfare, their voices carrying along the dirt street, their shadows dancing on the walls of three-story storefronts, most of which had been closed for hours.
It was Nov. 6, 1860, and the "enthusiastic" gentlemen of the Holy City had gathered in front of the telegraph offices and the headquarters of the Charleston Mercury to await news of the nation's presidential election.
Years of strife, decades of conflict, had all come down to one vote. Nothing less than the future of the country rested on the electorate's decision.
Although the mood outside the newspaper office was festive, there was a palpable anxiety running through Charleston. For decades, the South -- and South Carolina in particular -- had grown increasingly restless with the state of the Union.
In 1832, South Carolina had nearly brought the country to war over tariffs that state politicians considered unfair. Two decades later, the Legislature declared that the state had the right to secede, although lawmakers stopped short of following through on the threat.
These politicians claimed the federal government was growing too powerful, infringing on the rights of states to control their own destinies. Much of this was a response to limitations that Congress had put on slavery and the actions of Northern states, which often refused to return fugitive slaves to their owners.
It was, to Southern politicians of the day, largely an issue of economics. While the North was marching into the Industrial Age, the South clung to an agrarian economy, one that was almost wholly dependent on slave labor. To the men who controlled South Carolina, it seemed the federal government wanted to put that most "peculiar institution" out of business.
And that would cripple the South's economy.
The intricacies of the situation eluded most Southerners. They knew only what they were told by firebrand politicians: the sectional strife was an issue of states' rights and that the North was trying to establish a permanent subjugation of the South.
The man who had come to personify the villainy of the North, the symbol of what Southerners considered wrong with the country, was an Illinois Republican named Abraham Lincoln. And it appeared that the country lawyer had a good chance of becoming the next president of the United States.
For much of the year, South Carolina politicians had claimed that if Lincoln were elected, the state would have no choice but to secede. These men had promoted Kentuckian John Breckinridge for the presidency, promising the Union would remain intact if he were elected. They likely offered such bold pronouncements with their minds made up: Breckinridge was the longest of long shots, the nominee only of Southern Democrats.
All of this consternation culminated on election night in Charleston.
The first dispatch to arrive that evening came from Connecticut. The telegraph reported that the state had gone for Lincoln by a majority of several thousand votes.
Soon after that, the telegraph operator received word that North Carolina had chosen Breckinridge.
It was the third dispatch that finally stirred the crowd into a frenzy. The Associated Press sent out a bulletin that declared, according to the Mercury, "Lincoln's election was certain, and that trifling details were unnecessary."
The reaction of the men on Broad Street might have seemed odd at first. The Mercury reported that when the Associated Press story was read, "a long and continued cheering" went up. This was not, the paper felt compelled to clarify, a celebration of Lincoln, but for "a Southern Confederacy."
"The greatest excitement prevailed, and the news spread with lightning rapidity over the city," the Mercury reported.
Decades of discontent
Robert Barnwell Rhett had anticipated the moment for decades.
A lifelong politician, Rhett had served as South Carolina's attorney general, a state legislator and a member of Congress, both in the House and the Senate. For much of that time, he had been one of the country's most extreme proponents of secession. His position had become so strident that it long ago had caused him to break with his political mentor, John C. Calhoun.
The late Calhoun, former vice president and father of South Carolina politics, had been an outspoken proponent of nullification, limited government and slavery. But the old man had not been willing to go far enough on secession to suit Rhett.
Rhett had so zealously promoted his idea of a separate Southern nation that he -- like other secessionists, such as Edmund Ruffin -- had been dubbed a "fire-eater" by Northerners. He once had tried to stir sentiment for secession at a convention of Southern states in Nashville. When he failed, Rhett had receded from public view somewhat.
For a long time, most politicians distanced themselves from his rhetoric.
In the decade since his appearance in Nashville, he had continued to push his views in the Charleston Mercury, the newspaper he owned and that was edited by his son, R.B. Rhett Jr. Now, after years in the political desert and countless papers editorializing his positions, Rhett's views were fashionable once again.
He had become a local hero of sorts. Earlier that fall, he had been honored with a life-size transparency of himself in the window of the Charleston Restaurant. The city had even named its new militia the Rhett Guard.
As his biographer, William C. Davis, later would write, Rhett "could hardly help being immensely satisfied with all these expressions that he had been right all along and that at last South Carolina had caught up to him."
Of course, the long discourses on secession published in the Mercury were largely preaching to the choir. No place in the United States was more ripe for revolution than South Carolina, and Charleston in particular.
Charleston had become a world left behind by much of the country. In 1800, it had been the fifth-largest city in the country -- a city nearly the equal of New York or Philadelphia. But times were changing and, as the decades of the 19th century began melting away, Charleston's standing -- and population -- failed to keep pace.
By 1860, Charleston's influence was on the wane. Harper's Weekly declared that one of the oldest cities in the country was "once one of the greatest cities on this continent."
Part of the reason for this seemed to be the state's political leaders and their fierce devotion to the agrarian economy, an economy fueled by slave labor. In 1860, there were 4 million slaves in the United States -- and 10 percent of them were in South Carolina, where they made up 57 percent of the population. More than 400,000 African-Americans in South Carolina were enslaved while a mere 10,000 of them were "free."
In Charleston, 36 percent of the city's 48,409 people were slaves, which represented a decline from past decades. Michael Allen, a historian with the National Park Service, would later note that the city had one of the most complicated class systems in the country.
The wealthy elite, largely made up of plantation owners who lived in the city part time, mingled in exclusive clubs and societies. But downtown was also the home of working- class whites -- bakers, cobblers, blacksmiths, artisans. Just below them on the social ladder were free African-Americans (a large portion of the state's free black population lived in Charleston). And then there were the slaves.
Some of these enslaved African-Americans worked as servants in the city's mansions, but just as many could be seen on any given day in the city market, selling their own wares or produce from their owners' farms. Many even worked as artisans or laborers, although their pay went to their owners. There were restrictions on where these slaves could be in the city at any particular time, and they had to carry papers or tags so that they were easily identified (free blacks also had to carry papers to avoid confusion or arrest).
The men who owned these slaves were among South Carolina's most powerful politicians. No other state had such a large contingent of slave owners in its Legislature. From the point of view of many politicians in Washington, the city's -- and much of the South's -- ways had passed. This was never more evident than in April 1860, when Charleston had hosted the Democratic National Convention at Institute Hall.
It was a disaster of sectional rivalry.
Massachusetts politician Caleb Cushing, a former U.S. attorney general and congressman, was elected presiding officer of the convention, and his opening remarks seemed to take aim at the men of the convention's host city.
"Ours, gentlemen, is the motto inscribed on that scroll in the hands of the monumental statue of the great statesman of South Carolina -- 'Truth, Justice and the Constitution,' " Cushing said to raucous applause.
"Opposed to us are those who labor to overthrow the Constitution, under the false and insidious pretence of supporting it; those who are aiming to produce in this country a permanent sectional conspiracy of one-half of the states of the union against the other half -- those who, impelled by a stupid and half insane spirit of faction and fanaticism, would hurry our land on to revolution and civil war."
He said this to somewhat lighter applause.
Cushing had set the tone for a divisive meeting. The Democrats argued over a nominee for a week, going through more than 100 ballots without agreeing on their presidential candidate. The Northerners wanted Stephen Douglas, who had defeated Lincoln for his Senate seat two years earlier; the Southerners wanted Breckinridge, at that time the vice president. Neither side would relent. At an impasse, the delegates finally gave up and returned to their home states.
The Northern Democrats later reconvened in Baltimore and nominated Douglas. The Southerners, including Rhett, held a separate convention in Richmond that summer, where they nominated Breckinridge. In effect, they split the national ticket, providing a boost to Lincoln's candidacy.
Two years earlier, in the speech that alerted Southerners to Lincoln's politics, the candidate -- paraphrasing the New Testament -- had said, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
The Democrats themselves were fulfilling that prophecy: dividing themselves, and dividing the country.
'At all hazards'
In the days following Lincoln's victory, the Mercury beat the drums of secession through Charleston. On Thursday, Nov. 8, the paper's lead headline declared that, as a result of the election, "The States Rights Flag Thrown to the Breeze."
This warning was the talk of Charleston. In conversations around town, locals swore they would resist Lincoln's rule "at all hazards." The Mercury gleefully reported many such overheard conversations and idle threats.
No doubt, Rhett's seeds of discontent had taken root. The newspaper reported that most people think "the South would soon govern the South."
"The tea of 1860 has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated," the Mercury opined.
For the rest of the week, Charleston was overwhelmed by impromptu meetings, strategy sessions and even a rally outside City Hall. The wife of one United States senator, who arrived in town the day after the election, later wrote that she could hear the men's excited conversations one floor below her hotel room.
"The noise of the speaking and cheering was pretty hard on a tired traveler," Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote. "Suddenly, I found myself listening with pleasure. Voice, tone, temper, sentiment, language -- all were perfect."
On Nov. 10, the state Legislature called for a convention Dec. 17 "to take into consideration ... their relations with the Federal Government." At a ceremony to ratify the convention a few days later, a triumphant Robert Barnwell Rhett set the tone for the meeting.
In his speech, Rhett outlined the numerous sins the North had perpetuated against the South: It had invited foreigners to settle the territories bought in the Louisiana Purchase to dilute the power of the Southern states in Congress. It had initially declined to admit Missouri to the Union because it "tolerated slavery." It had imposed tariffs on the South that exclusively benefited Northern interests.
For all those reasons, Rhett declared, the South should withdraw from the Union much as the United States had withdrawn from Britain.
The South could form its own nation, Rhett said, and three principles should guide the new country: slavery should be permitted, powers of taxation should be limited and "the forts and fortresses in our bay should never again be surrendered to any power on earth."
"My friends, the Union is dissolved," Rhett said. "The long weary night of our humiliation, oppression and danger is passing away, and the glorious dawn of a Southern Confederacy breaks on our view. With the blessing of God, we will soon be a great people -- happy, prosperous and free."
All that remained was for one state to take the first step.
Next week: The Secession Convention.
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Martinsburg, SU sign alliance
June 15, 2013
MARTINSBURG — Martinsburg Mayor George Karos, seated left, and Shepherd University President Susanne Shipley, seated right, prepare to sign Friday a strategic alliance memorandum of understanding......
I don't understand this at all. Why does Shepherd need an MOU with Martinsburg?
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Martinsburg is rather timid about annexation compared to Charles Town and Ranson, but that has to do with annexation being subject to the wishes of the property owners and developers. When Martinsburg tried to annex The Commons shopping center, the developer threatened to make sure anyone on the council who voted for it would be turned out of office, and he succeeded in intimidating the council.
Considering how large Martinsburg is, and how built-up the surrounding land is, they should be annexing more. They certainly have a large enough police force to handle it.
In addition to high school math, everyone from the mayor on down could use some customer service training.
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Don't worry HillTopWV, The will wait until Shepherd is settled in and then Steal, I mean Annex it from the county. The county council can then explain why they continue to allow this to happen to the county taxpayers.
In the mean time, the city council needs to take advantage of their discount and take some classes. They could start with high school math.
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The city and the county chased Blue Ridge College out of town, and then the city failed to find a way to persuade Shepherd to locate in town. This little ceremony was lipstick on a pig of failed planning and policies by local politicians, a consolation prize that will only benefit city employees.
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I enjoyed this and it did remind me of the comic. I just wish the would make it more...thrilling I think is the word im lookin for. I still liked though.


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I guess Dylan Moscovitch and Rudi Swiegers wanted to have their own pairs long time ago, what a pity we don't have competition for male-male pairs: https://www.facebook.com/27855029253...type=1&theater
Paige Lawrence and Rudi Swiegers split as well:
Looks like Meagan and Eric now have no in-country rivals, with Kirsten and Dylan, Paige and Rudi, Natasha and Mervin, and Margaret and Michael all splitting. Guess we'll see some new teams rising.
Lol, at this point, D/R will only need to show up to win Nationals. I hope it'll inspire them to take more stylistic risks, rather than resulting in them coasting.
It's hard for same-gender pairs to be competitive though. The lifts and throws will be a challenge.
There's something weird going on with the URL in the Skate Canada link to the Lawrence & Swiegers press release.
I wonder if this one will work better?
Anna and Luca said yesterday on Sky Sport Ita that they are continuing the next year also. They will se how it goes step by step.
Carolina said she has not decided yet.
Is there a new pair in the offing?:
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#BrianJoubert with Daria Popova in Caen, trying pair skating
#BrianJOUBERT 2014 Brian s'essaye à la vie de couple: http://youtu.be/GNsALgszsds via @YouTube
Aww. Brian's been talking about the pairs thing since before Torino. It would be sad if he doesn't at least give it a shot.
Another loss from the decline in the pro scene. Generations ago, Brian could've tried pairs as a pro, right? Well, I guess he can do group numbers in a show but it's not the same. Come back, Brian, come back...
An interesting new couple could be Simon Shnapir and Ashley Cain, Simon has the height for Ashley. I would love to see that. Do not know if it wold work but could be interesting
I hope he doesn't pair up with Leng- she's lovely but she's also not the most exciting performer and I think he needs a more dynamic partner with star quality. Same goes for Lindsay Davis who had two uninspiring partnerships with a former National champion and a former Olympian. The reason C/S worked despite the height difference was because she was a total star and he showed her off really well. While finding another Marissa will be hard, he does need to get someone with a certain charisma.


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Recent technological advances and ongoing international political unrest are components of the increased risk to national security.
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"Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom."
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LEWISTOWN - A new part-time police officer was approved Monday by Lewistown Borough Council at its monthly meeting.
The Lewistown Police Department will hire Enio A. Siracusa, a borough resident, to be the third part-time officer thanks to the council's approval.
Also in a report from Police Chief Bill Herkert the council approved a motion to allow the Block Watch meeting to be in the Community Center at Rec Park on Thursday.
Mayor Deb Bargo said domestic abuse in our community is a big problem and with the Board it was approved to move forward and apply for the Stop Grant from the Abuse Network. This grant will bring $24,000 a year for three years to deal directly with domestic abuse.
Bargo and the board also set the trick or treat night date for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Oct. 30 to correlate with other townships.
The council approved for Fame EMS to use borough streets for the Halloween Parade.
The council approved a motion to pay for bills. General borough, refuse, wastewater collection, wastewater treatment plant, state liquid fuels and specialty tax fund were all included.
While going over the Wastewater Facilities Updates the board approved a motion to pay the H20 Grant where they will be submitting the third and final payment of $1,878,135. Also the WWTP Nutrient Reduction Upgrade Project monthly contractor requests for payments was approved by the board.
Also the council approved authorization for Connie Lucas to sign the COUNCIL amended permit and submit to Mifflin County Conservation District once U.S. Fish and Wildlife clearance is received. The board approved a motion to authorize two payments to accompany the permit package, a $500 general fee to the Mifflin County Clean Water Fund and a $300 per-acre free payable to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Clean Water Fund.
The council approved a proposal to place no parking signs on Main Street during Mifflin County High School home football games, a one-way alley from West Spanogle Avenue to East Walnut Street with a right turn only and permitted parking on both sides of Chestnut Street in front of the the Stoicheff residence.
The council approved to move forward with a consideration of annual service program contract from Power Systems Electric Inc. to maintain the emergency generator at the pump station.
Lewistown Borough Council regularly meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at the borough building on Third Street.


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LISBON - Ever since last month's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., sheriff's deputies have been performing security checks during the school day at five school districts
"When the deputies are out on patrol they've been stopping by some of the schools," said Columbiana County Sheriff Ray Stone.
The school districts in Stone's jurisdiction are Beaver Local, Crestview, Southern Local, United Local and the county vocational school.
Stone credited Lt. Alan Young with coming up with the idea of having deputies stop by these schools during the course of their regular day shift duties of responding to calls, serving warrants and running jail inmates to court hearings. When their schedules allow, the deputies will show up randomly to walk the school hallways and check for unlocked doors.
"It's just to make our presence known," he said, adding the deputies are visiting each school an average of twice per week. "The deputies just pick random times on random days when it works out for them."
Stone would like to do more but lacks the staffing to assign a deputy to each school or the additional funding to hire more staff. This was last done about 10 years ago, after the former sheriff secured federal funding to hire deputies for several schools. But the program had to be canceled within a year or so after funding problems forced the sheriff's office to lay off his regular deputies.
Stone said if President Barack Obama and Congress restore federal funding for the program, which has been suggested, he would consider applying for grant money to get a deputy for as many of the schools as possible.
The response from the schools has been positive, and Stone said his deputies have already found some outside doors that were either left unsecure or with a broken lock.
"It's proactive instead of reactive, like we usually are," he said. "We'll continue doing this as long as we can ... I wish we could do more."
Stone said Columbiana police officer Wade Boley has put together a school security program that instructs teachers and administrators how to respond to school shooting situations, and Boley is planning to make the program available to schools. He said there are a number of steps school staff can take in an attempt to protect students and themselves should an armed intruder show up.
Stone also said he is not opposed to the idea of letting school staff voluntarily carry firearms if the school board agrees, provided they are familiar with firearms and undergo sufficient training and background checks
"I kind of agree with it. The only thing that can stop someone with a gun is someone else with a gun," said Stone, who is a member of the National Rifle Association and supports Ohio's concealed-weapon permit law.


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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. � After Geno Smith�s record performance against Baylor, the West Virginia quarterback had a choice: Either spend some quality time with his mother, who was in town to see him play, or go watch game film.
Sorry, Mom.
Smith handed over his box of pizza and was off to a study room, ready to put a 656-yard, eight-touchdown display against Baylor behind him.
�I don�t reflect on that,� Smith said. �It�s way in the back of my mind. I don�t even care about it, to be honest with you.�
What was on his mind was the eighth-ranked Mountaineers� first Big 12 victory in a hostile environment Saturday night against No. 11 Texas.
�Got to focus on Texas,� said Smith, who threw for four touchdowns in the Mountaineers� 48-45 win. �We don�t take wins into the next week. It sounds clich�. But that�s really how we do things.�
The approach is working. In five games, Smith has thrown for 24 touchdowns without an interception. Before Saturday�s game, he was completing an astounding 83 percent of his throws and is averaging 432 yards passing � 36 yards more than his nearest competitor nationally.
His performance in the 70-63 win over Baylor moved him from Heisman Trophy hopeful to the center of attention.
�He seems smart. He�s composed,� Texas coach Mack Brown said. �He has all the pressure of trying to win the Heisman, handle all the stuff. He seems to handle it with poise and grace all the time. But, boy, is he good.�
The last time Smith played before a huge crowd on an opponent�s field came in 2010 at LSU. Smith was making his fourth career start, and the Mountaineers were limited to 177 yards of offense in a 20-14 loss before 92,500 fans in Baton Rouge, La.
�Experience is a huge key, especially for a quarterback,� he said. �I�ve been a part of big situations in big games, on the road, loud crowds and all of that. So it won�t faze me.
�I don�t think there are any tricks to it. You�ve just got to go out there and be yourself.�
Film study is an important part of every quarterback�s routine. For Smith, it doesn�t matter what time of year it is or who he has to leave behind. It�s something the three-year starter has taken seriously since arriving at school in 2009.
�If you put yourself behind the eight ball by not studying film, by not being prepared, you won�t do well out there on the field,� Smith said.
So not long after the Baylor game, Smith was off with quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital.
�When he�s in Morgantown, he feels like he�s on business,� Spavital said. �I thought it was the most bizarre thing when his mom walked in; he handed her the box of pizza, and he went to the film room with me. I was like, �You want to hang out with your mom?� He�s like, �I�ll have plenty of time to hang out with her after the season.�
�He�s just got a drive and a love for the game which I�ve never been around,� said Spavital, who as a graduate assistant worked with Oklahoma State�s Brandon Weeden and Houston�s Case Keenum. �Hopefully that just keeps trickling down to our other players because they see the success he�s having and the attention he�s getting.�
During the offseason, Smith studied both this year�s opponents and NFL QBs, including Green Bay�s Aaron Rodgers and New England�s Tom Brady. Looking for tips to incorporate into his own game, Smith raved about Rodgers� footwork and decision making, Brady�s pocket presence and focus downfield.
Spavital said he�s had discussions with Smith about his constant presence in the film room, even suggesting the quarterback �leave here, go be a college student and have some fun.�
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Chancellor's Fund for Excellence: May 2013
Above: Jaime Cruz, president of UIS' Organization of Latin American Students with Chancellor Koch at an event for Hispanic high school students cohosted by UIS and the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute. Jaime helped to arrange the visit of U of I Board of Trustees member Ricardo Estrada, a visit which received support from the Chancellor's Fund for Excellence.
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The Chancellor's Fund for Excellence provides support for special projects and events initiated by Chancellor Susan J. Koch that help to enhance the excellence of UIS on campus and in the community. A recent letter featured two stories of how the fund was used:
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Jaime Cruz, a member of the Grassroots Leadership Development Program and president of the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) arranged Trustee Estrada's visit as an opportunity for Latino students on campus to hear Mr. Estrada's advice. Your gifts helped to make his visit a very special ones for students, who were encouraged by his recommendations and personal story.
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We thought you might be interested in seeing this video describing UIS' partnership with the Illinois National Guard, even though the video is a little out of date. It explains very clearly the training UIS offers. Your gifts to the Chancellor's Fund for Excellence help to meet the costs of events like this through which UIS serves the Central Illinois community. Thank you!


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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fish Curry with Garden Vegetables
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I love anything curry too, Ali :-) Looks awesome!ReplyDelete
How tasty! I love Indian curries, but haven't really branched out into Thai yet. Looks like I will be soon, though!ReplyDelete
I just PDF'd this recipe. =) I love curry and this version looks wonderful! I also love the thought of your boys running (flying) around being airplanes. My boys were close in age and did the same things. It makes me smile as I loved that age.
It was so nice meeting you at the Flying Apron. You have a beautiful family!
P.S. Thanks for the recipe. I can feel fall in the air around here and fish curry will go perfectly with the cooler temperatures.
I have to make this! I love curry!ReplyDelete
Just wondering about Kaffir Lime leaves. Living on the east of the mountains, things aren't as easy to come by (such as Kaffir Lime leaves). Is there a decent substitute, or a dried version that might work? I have several recipes that call for them and I always feel a little jipped that I don't have them in my final product ( I used a lime juiced and zested....sure it isn't the same thing). Thanks and I live by your book and blog :)ReplyDelete
Thanks gals for the comments! :)ReplyDelete
Jill - Although I have heard of subbing lime zest for lime leaves, I wouldn't recommend it. The flavors are just so different. If you can't find kaffir lime leaves locally I would just omit them. You can however buy them online. They freeze well for a year or more! Here is a link: http://importfood.com/spws0101.html
Happy Cooking! :)
Hi Ali--This looks like a terrific dish. I am slowly starting to like curry, in small amounts. You know I had never heard of kaffir leaves until Diane (the ultimate foodie) was looking for them in Seattle. She and Wendy knew all about them. We didn't find any and she was given some explanation at the Indian market that made it sound like they were restricted by new laws or costs somehow. Maybe she'll comment and share the info. Nice that you gave a link for ordering though ... that might solve the problem!ReplyDelete
You have to love little boys that are full of energy! I'm thinking back to Son at that age. He wore us out, but it was a good thing all the way round. ;-) It was great seeing your whole family in person in Seattle. Such a treat, truly ... just too short a visit!
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM
that fish curry looks so yummmy!ReplyDelete
just a note on the turmeric stain - wash it and dry it on direct sunlight and voila! the stain vanishes off!
Wow, how colorful and it sounds SO good. I love Thai curries...well, any curry, really!ReplyDelete
Making this tonight!ReplyDelete
One question... can anyone tell me the difference between the canned Thai Kitchen coconut milk on the Asian foods aisle and the So Delicious boxed coconut milk on the natural foods aisle? Both are organic and both are my only options for coconut milk in my one-horse-town :)
I LOVE curry, and have tried many recipes. Until this recipe, I hadn't found one that I would make again....thank you! I substituted green curry paste for the red, and it was delicious. This recipe will definitely be a staple in my kitchen - I've already had several requests to make it again :)ReplyDelete
This fish curry is excellent! I've made it several times now. Sometimes I don't use fish, but tofu or just veggies. It's terrific. Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
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MARTINSBURG - While going to the DMV is typically seen as a hassle, the task was increasingly stressful for one Eastern Panhandle resident.
After getting her replacement driver's license last week, Carrie Montero, of Martinsburg, was contacted by the Division of Motor Vehicles in Charleston regarding her signature. Montero said she was told they could not accept her signature, because she signs her name with two initials followed by her last name.
"As of 2012, the law states you have to have your signature spelled out the way it is on your driver's license," Montero said a supervisor told her. "I wouldn't even have room on my license, because my name is so long."
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Carrie Montero, of Martinsburg, shows the signature of her replacement driver's license. Montero was contacted Tuesday by the Division of Motor Vehicles regarding her signature. Montero said she was told they could not accept her signature.
Montero, who has four names, said writing out her entire name wouldn't fit on her license. She said she is also identified by certain entities, such as her bank and the Internal Revenue Service, by the signature she has always used.
"I can't have two signatures for each part of my life," Montero said. "All of my documents I sign are this way."
While Natalie Harvey, of the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles, said the policy requires that one's signature matches the full name on the license, as well as paperwork, the WVDMV recognized the situation was an issue after speaking with Montero.
"Our mindset was still on everything (needing) to match completely," Harvey said of management's interpretation of policy. "But as far as the signature is concerned, there is nothing in law that says that the signature has to match the full legal name printed on the license."
Harvey said it was good that Montero spoke up about her issues, as it required WVDMV officials to take a second look at its policies, which might negatively affect some who might run into the same issues, such as those who are illiterate.
"I'm glad I'm stubborn," Montero said. "Maybe this happened to me to speak up for other people who aren't going to speak up."
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or www.twitter.com/rmolendaJN.


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Zetterberg, Datsuyk, Abdelkater
Alfredsson, Weiss ,Franzen
Tatar, Helm, Nyquist
Miller, Anderson, whoever you want
Looks pretty good to me
Our two big signings in Weiss and Alfredsson are pretty good accusations. They make us a competitive team once again. For those of you saying that signing both of these players is a wash because we lost Filpulla and Brunner your crazy and/are not looking at the big picture. We lose Filpulla. A guy that drove most diehard wing fans nuts. He never peaked into the second line center he was suppose to be, he just kind of floated on the wing in our top 6. He is a very strong third line center but for 5 mil no thanks. As for "one hand on stick without the puck" Brunner (which drove me off the wall) he is replaceable. He had some sweet hands and some crazy offensive talent. He looked like he could be a prominent scorer in the NHL, but Problem is Brunner is not a top 6 forward yet. He is a great third line player, but we have Tatar for cheaper so bye bye Damien. As for our two free agent signings, Weiss a legit second line center that was "buried in Florida" as they call it. What he will bring is somewhat "unknown" but he is a second line center who is a playmaker and one that is not afraid to shoot the puck. That speaks wonders for our team. Not to mention via conference call he said he wanted to play for the wings. He dreamed of playing for us and said he would fit in our "style" if I am not mistaken he also played junior nearby in Plymouth. As for Daniel Alfredsson it feels a little funny to have him on our roster. He is also very old... But all in all he should do not too bad. He is not having to be "the guy "anymore. It's a great fit with him being a shooter and being right handed. For those worried about his age he did play upwards of 19 minutes a game in Ottawa so I think he will be fine. We are a better team up front so stop looking at it as loose two assets, gain two assets type of thing.
We now have the ability to put the euro twins together full time or more often. And thank god cause we were all getting sick of watching Dats play on a crap line all of the time. We also have a third line that could be deadly. A solid 4th line also. I think this year will be the real deal for the Redwings up front. Our forward group now looks scary good so look out NHL. (and how could I forget to mention that we are stuck with Michael freaking Samuelsson former 30 goal scorer, Boo yaa!)
Moving onto our defense it's looking like pretty much "unknown" I like our group and I like their potential. Although I am not too sure our defense is going to be as good as most of you think. Rookies are going to have some growing pains and they could be painful. On the other hand our defense could flourish. They are young and got some much needed experience last regular season, and in the playoffs. I will be curious to see how Danny DeKeyser plays. He looked amazing when he first started and came to the team. Was that cause he was new and under the radar? Or is he the real deal? His grand rapids playoff stint wasn't great, but he was coming off an injury. I have huge hopes for him and he looks like very promising prospect.
Goaltending = Howard.
As for my EXPECTIONS for the team all I can say is we are going to be a very competitive team. Getting a 2nd line center was HUGE. Too bad it wasn't Vinny because that would have been amazing. Although if his pace is actually falling drastically then it is probably for the better long term that we didn't add him. We have a good team and I can't wait for the season to start because it looks very promising . So people stop your complaining and go enjoy your summer. The Detroit Redwings " will be okay".


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