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Thrill Jockey — one of the best and most eclectic indie record labels, for the past 20 years — has a slew of recommended new artist releases and show dates this month.
Things get started with a very promising, mind-expanding double bill featuring Golden Void and Pontiak.
The relatively new San Francisco quartet, Golden Void, which features Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless & Howlin' Rain and Camilla Saufley-Mitchell of Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, will be making a rare East Coast appearance that also marks the band's New York debut at Union Pool this Saturday, April 6.
They are touring behind their fine, self-titled debut on Thrill Jockey, which has already sold out two vinyl runs.
The band crafts a heavy, yet rich, form of psychedelic rock, replete with dense mellifluous group harmonies and wailing guitar solos.
They achieve a fine balance between what's commercially smooth and those harder-hitting metallic grooves. Also to its credit, the foursome exercises a wide range of dynamics and influences with equal skill. In addition to good song writing, these guys are top-notch players and man, they can kick it out.
In addition to a notable debt to the crunch and vocal similarity to Black Sabbath (Isaiah Mitchell is a near ringer for Ozzy Osbourne), elements of Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Uriah Heep, Captain Beyond and Mahogany Rush come to mind. In some respects, Golden Void is like a tougher, darker and more gripping version of Tame Impala's brand of psych pop.
They will being releasing a new single with two exclusive songs; look for it on Record Store Day 2013.
Serving as a excellent complement and fully able to hold their own, label mates, Pontiak, are guaranteed to stoke the audience.
For the uninitiated, Pontiak is an adventurous guitar-based power trio. Comprised of three brothers from Virginia, Pontiak's output is diverse and sometimes experimental, focused on melodic, traditional song structures.
The band's touch (replete with three-part vocal harmonies) can vary from light as a feather to as weighty as a ton of boulders, plus all shades in between. Pontiak is still touring behind its latest critically acclaimed album, "Echo Ono," which is perhaps the band's finest attempt at a cohesive and timeless rock album. Far from trendy, it also eschews some of its more experimental tendencies.
Catch both bands with My God Music's Terrible, on Saturday, April 6, at Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn. Show time is 9 p.m. and admission is $10 per person. This is a 21 and over event.
Next Friday, April 12, another great line up of Thrill Jockey artists, featuring Barn Owl and Stygian Stride, perform at Death By Audio.
Barn Owl is one of most consistently compelling instrumental groups in indie music today. This dynamic duo — Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) — specializes in slow drone. They offer ambient landscapes for your listening pleasure, using guitars to paint cinematic soundscapes. You'll hear both traditional, precise finger-picking — a la John Fahey and Sandy Bull — as well as almost unrecognizable walls of monolithic tones, full of howling feedback and crusty distortion.
The music encompasses a wide spectrum of influences that blend and vacillate from heavy psychedelia and black metal doom on one end, to beautiful celestial excursions and pastoral, mystical mediations, on the other. The sound is rich, with almost palpable textures, ranging from eerie post-apocalyptic riffs to wafting trances. Eschewing the traditional structure of verse, bridge and chorus, the compositions are more improvisational than those that employ a melodic arch.
The twosome are touring in support of its eighth or so full-length, "V," slated to be released, April 16 on Thrill Jockey.
The six-track collection expands the group's sonic palette, with a more notable presence of electronic textures (synthesizers) and subtle drum machine beats. At times, these nuances virtually obscure the normally overt guitar tones.
The production is densely layered and glossier than past recordings, giving the material, by turns, a more industrial and transportive movie soundtrack feel.
Also on the bill — and not to be missed — is the first New York appearance of label mate Stygian Stride, the solo project of former Psychic Ills and current Rhyton member, Jimy SeiTang. SeiTang will be performing material from his Thrill Jockey self-titled debut which was released last month.
In contrast to the rock-oriented work of his past projects, the six lengthy instrumentals explore the dark and
mechanical krautrock of early Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk and the hypnotic spacey ambience of Cluster and Gong.
This auspicious lineup performs with Jahiliyya Fields at Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd St. (between Wythe & Kent), Brooklyn. Show time is listed as 8 p.m. and is a mere $7 per person.
For a close follower of indie or rock music, Kinski was one of the more interesting bands that came out of the late '90s, Seattle post-grunge scene. It was a progressive, psychedelic
rock collective, that had more in common with bands like Can, Soft Machine and Pink Fairies than most of its local peers.
Maybe it was a case of timing or simply logistics, but for some reason, after a half dozen or so admirable releases and years of touring, the Northwest quartet seemed to drop off the map — or hugely scale back, limiting its performances to its hometown area and releasing no new material.
The hiatus appears to be over.
After six years, Kinski has just released a new full-length, "Cosy Moments," on Kill Rock Stars records.
In contrast to some of its previous long instrumentals, this 10-song collection features more concise, catchy, pop-oriented song structures with a minimum solos and significantly more vocals. (Kinski is usually regarded as an instrumental band.)
Touring in support of the new disc, Kinski will be coming through New York City to play two rare shows. You can catch them on with Thrill Jockey artist, Man Forever ( aka, drummer extraordinaire, John Colpitts aka, Kid Millions from Oneida, and more fame) , Thursday, April 11 at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St., Manhattan. For information, visit http://cake-shop.com/show-calendar.
On Friday, April 19, with support from Ancient Sky and Landing, you can catch them again at Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd St. Brooklyn. Show time is 8 p.m.; admission, $8 person.
Villagers — who, lead by Conor J. O'Brien, are reported to be hugely popular in their Irish homeland and the UK — are going to be playing a very special acoustic show at the Manhattan Inn in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn on Thursday, April 11. Their previous 2010 album earned a fair amount of attention and critical acclaim in the States. Their growing buzz has earned them esteemed opening slots for the likes of Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, and most recently, Grizzly Bear.
The band is touring in support of its latest compelling release, "Awayland," coming out on Domino Records on Monday, April 8. Manhattan Inn is located at 632 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn.
The show starts at 10 p. m. and is free (21 and over) but an early arrival is recommended, since there's limited capacity.
For more information, visit http://manhattaninn.blogspot.com.


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Baltimore County police are asking for the public's help to identify a man wanted in a bank robbery in August.
Police said the man demanded money from a teller at the Harbor Bank branch in the 8500 block of Liberty Road in Randallstown on Aug. 27 at about 3 p.m.
Investigators said the man passed a note to the teller demanding money and fled after one of the employees complied.
Police describe the man as black, in his 20s, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall and 150 pounds. He has a medium build and a light complexion.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Baltimore County Police Department at 410-307-2020, or call Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7-LOCKUP.

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Biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical companies rely on patent protection of proprietary compounds to ensure an exclusive market position after approval to market the compound. Typically, a company will file a patent application on the compound or on a number of candidate compounds well before clinical studies begin, and sometimes before a single compound is identified for clinical development.
When preparing an application for filing, the company's patent attorney conducts a search of the patent and scientific literature, to evaluate whether the candidate compounds have already been described in the literature, and are thus unpatentable. As any patent attorney will admit, however, it is impossible to identify every possible document that may bear on patentability of the candidate compounds for two reasons. First, no search can be exhaustive of the patent and scientific literature worldwide. Second, most patent applications are published 18 months after filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office. This means that a patent publication that may render one or more of the company's candidate compounds unpatentable for lack of novelty may not be publicly available at the time the patent attorney conducts the patentability search and files the company's patent application. Thus, short of having a crystal ball, any assessment of patentability is imperfect.
Years after filing the patent application, a patent examiner will be assigned to the application to opine on the patentability of the pending claims. The patent examiner will conduct a search of the scientific and patent literature, which will now include patent application publications that were not yet published when the patent attorney conducted the patentability search years before, i.e., patent applications filed before, but published after, the filing date of the company's patent application. If a patent publication is identified by the examiner that describes one or more of the claimed candidate compounds, the applicant is faced with an unpleasant surprise—any pending claims that include a compound described in the newly identified publication are deemed unpatentable for lack of novelty.This article considers the use of a tool called a negative disclaimer, or more simply, a disclaimer, as an approach for dealing with these unexpected surprises. We review the admissibility of disclaimers in the US and in Europe as a means to restore novelty to a claim rejected over a document that was not publicly available, or was unknown to the patent attorney at the time of filing the patent application.
Consider the claims in US Patent No. 6,989,366. Claim 1 is to a method for reducing food intake in a subject desirous or in need of reducing food intake. The method involves administering an amount of an exendin agonist effective to reduce food intake, wherein the exendin agonist is an exendin peptide analog. Claim 15 specifies that the exendin agonist is an exendin peptide analog having a certain generic sequence, with the proviso that the exendin peptide analog is not exendin-3 or exendin-4. The language set forth in italics is a disclaimer and has the effect of excluding from the scope of the claim the peptides known as exendin-3 and exendin-4.
The concept of using a negative disclaimer in a claim to distinguish over the prior art first appeared in the US legal system over 30 years ago.1 In a chemical case before the court, a pending claim had been amended to recite "said homopolymer being free from the proteins, soaps, resins, and sugars present in natural Hevea rubber" in order to exclude previously disclosed elements in the art. The court found the disclaimer permissible, because each recited limitation in the disclaimer was definite. In another case,2 the court found that the negative disclaimer "incapable of forming a dye with said oxidized developing agent" was definite because the boundaries of the patent protection sought were clear.
In these cases, the literal words used in the negative disclaimer were not present in the application as filed. Addition of a disclaimer to a claim based on words not present in the application as filed is referred to as an undisclosed disclaimer.


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"I think there is something magical about shooting in natural light." This week on Getty Voices, Tahnee Cracchiola shares her photographic encounters with wildlife on site at the Getty. Her first photographic love was architecture photography. Her journey shooting the Outer Peristyle led to some breathtaking architecture images at sunrise and sunset, as well as a surprising visit from a new feathered friend!
During visiting hours the Getty Villa's Outer Peristyle is bright, green and rich with sunshine. But it doesn't always look so saturated with color. Sunrise and sunset are ideal times to shoot landscape and architecture to get the golds and oranges of the sun rising through the atmosphere, or the pink and purple hues of the sun setting. Even the most subtle shifts in light quality can change an image dramatically.
The Outer Peristyle may appear quiet and calm in these photographs. I didn't think anything more than insects and the occasional hummingbird visited the gardens, but on one early morning I was photographing the sycamore trees when a duck landed on the side of the reflecting pool! He was like a hotel visitor lounging by the hottub…swimming, drinking, perhaps waiting for his mate. The gardeners told me that he came here at the same time every morning with his mate. But she never came. It's a mystery that remains unsolved.
Perhaps it was a tragic love story amidst the art and the gardens that we'll never hear the ending of. We do know that this little guy is welcome to the Getty any day of the week.


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The Syracuse University men's basketball team is up to No. 3 in the most recent Associated Press poll released Monday.
The Orange benefited after Indiana dropped from No. 1 to No. 6 after the Hoosiers lost to Butler on Saturday. Duke is the new No. 1 and Michigan moved up to No. 2. Arizona and Louisville round out the top 5.
Cincinnati (No. 11), Georgetown (No. 15) and Notre Dame (No. 22) are the other ranked Big East teams.
The Orange takes on Detroit on Monday night as Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim goes for his 900th career victory.


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A city administrator in the City of Edmond is on paid administrative leave as police investigate accusations that she stole a woman's purse.
Edmond City Manager Larry Stevens confirms with FOX 25 that Human Resource Director Anita Breen was put on paid administrative leave July 17 for an unspecified reason.
According to the Edmond Police Department, Breen is under investigation and is accused of stealing a purse at the Target on E. 2nd Street on June 4. The purse is valued at $10 and contained $30 in cash, credit and debit cards, and the owner's driver's license.
Breen's annual salary is $105,466.59, according to Stevens.
She's been with the city since 2006 and maintains personnel records and coordinates personnel actions.
In charges filed Thursday by District Attorney David Prater, the victim paid for items at Target and left her wallet on the counter. She realized she forgot them when she got to her car. She went back inside but no employees had spotted it.
The victim then talked to the store manager who checked video surveillance and saw a woman, later identified as Breen, take Karen's wallet off the counter. When police reviewed the footage, they reported seeing Breen in line directly behind the victim. While the woman was paying for her items, police say Breen moved her cart closer to her, which police believe was an attempt to conceal the victim's wallet from herself. Police say once the victim checked out, Breen stepped up and paid for her items and set her wallet on top of the victim's. Once the transaction was complete, she picked up both wallets and put hers in her purse and the victim's under her purse.
Police were able to track down the woman, identified as Breen through bank records with a subpoena.
On July 16, police interviewed Breen who said she tried finding the woman in the parking lot. When police asked her where the wallet was, she said she had thrown it away, saying "there was really nothing in it...there may have ben ten dollars and that was all".
Police then asked if it was right to throw away the identification, credit cards, and ten dollars to which Breen replied "No, it was not...it's stupid...I just didn't wanna be bothered."
She later told police she shredded the contents and "probably spent" the ten dollars. Police also quote her as saying "Yes, I did take it...yes, it was stupid...yes, I got embarrassed and ashamed of myself and in the moment of being ashamed of myself I did destroy everything."


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The park is more than 800 acres in size, and has two miles of beach on the Atlantic Ocean side. Crandon Boulevard extends form the end of the Rickenbacker Causeway through the length of the park, providing access to the Village of Key Biscayne and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. The Park has a variety of facilities, includingd a marina, Crandon Golf Course, a tennis center, a family amusement center, picnic shelters and a nature center. There is parking for more than 3,000 vehicles in the park. Part of the park is set aside as the Bear Cut Preserve, a designated natural Environment Study Area. Guided tours throught the preserve are available.
15 minutes from Bali Hai
Matheson Hammock Park is a scenic Park featuring a mad-made atoll pool, which is flushed naturally with the tidal action of adjacent Biscayne Bay. The beach sea breeze makes it popular among families. The park operates a snack bar and restaurant built into an historic coral stone building, picnic pavilions and nature trails. The park surrounds the north and western ends of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Matheson Harmmock Park is a popular kitesurfing destination.
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South Beach is the quintessential Miami beach experience. It's the place to see and be seen. The beach is located on Ocean Drive, across the street from many of Miami Beach's famous nightclubs, restaurants and shopping destinations. The miles of white sandy beaches are nothing short of spectacular, and host a wide array of activities. The area known as South Beach actually is comprised of Lummus Park, Collins Park and Public Beach (located between 5th and 15th Street) There are all kinds of cabana bars and restaurants right on the beach where you can enjoy fresh seafood and stunning views of the Atlantic.
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Two Sandy Creek girls, ages 10 and 15, are staying with relatives after caseworkers with the Oswego County Department of Social Services told their parents that the home they were living was inadequate.
Inv. Steven Kellogg with the state police in Pulaski said this morning that caseworkers contacted troopers after a deal had been struck with Earl Russell, 48, and his wife, Shirley Russell, 52.
The Russells agreed to have the girls stay elsewhere and said they would immediately begin cleaning up their house at 6061 Main St., so the children could be returned.
Kellogg said the home was crawling with roaches and had a number of fire hazards.
He said troopers were called to conduct an investigation and the Russells were charged with misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
"They were deplorable living conditions and not appropriate for children to be living there," Kellogg said. He said the house had numerous code violations, including defective smoke detectors, heaps of clothing and escape windows blocked.
"The parents are working to correct these conditions as we speak,'' Kellogg said. He said they are due back in Sandy Creek court Thursday.


text: SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. — Saving money on your energy and water bills while making your home more comfortable just got easier for residents in San José and throughout Santa Clara County. Through public libraries, Silicon Valley Energy Watch is providing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Home Energy Saving Toolkits stocked with supplies and measuring devices. Just like a book, the toolkits can be checked out. Users may install the supplies and then return the toolkit and devices.


text: EAGLE GROVE - Roger Alan Slater was born in Eagle Grove Iowa on December 29, 1947, to Gwen Bates Slater and William Slater. He had four half brothers and sisters: Bonnie Adams, Harold Whistler, Don Whistler and Shirley Whistler Bell. He was raised in Eagle Grove, and graduated from Eagle Grove High School in 1966, after which he joined the Air Force. He was stationed in Hawaii, where he was Sargent in charge of warehousing. Roger received an honorable discharge in 1972, and returned to Eagle Grove, where he worked at Eagle Mills, Fareway and eventually was employed by the United States Postal System. Roger was a postal employee for 30 years, and enjoyed every moment of his career.


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Checklist: Configuring AD FS to Consume Claims from AD FS 1.x
Updated: February 24, 2012
Applies To: Windows Server 2012
This checklist includes the tasks that are necessary for configuring your Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Federation Service in Windows Server 2012 to consume claims that are sent by an AD FS 1.x Federation Service.
Complete the tasks in this checklist in order. When a reference link takes you to a procedure, return to this topic after you complete the steps in that procedure so that you can proceed with the remaining tasks in this checklist.
Checklist: Configuring AD FS to consume claims from AD FS 1.x
Plan for interoperability between AD FS in Windows Server 2012 and previous versions of AD FS, and learn more about the Name ID claim type.
Before you can interoperate with a previous version of AD FS, you must first create a claims provider trust in the AD FS Federation Service.
When you set up the trust using the procedure in the link to the right, you must do the following in the Add Claims Provider Trust Wizard to set up this trust to interoperate with an AD FS 1.x Federation Service:
On the claims provider trust that you created earlier, you must create a claim rule that will take claims that are incoming from the AD FS 1.x Federation Service and pass through, filter, or transform them into a Name ID claim type.
When the Name ID claim type has been passed through, filtered, or transformed, it can be used as input to another rule or rules so that it can be understood and consumed by the AD FS Federation Service in Windows Server 2012.
Contact the administrator of the AD FS 1.x Federation Service and have the administrator of the AD FS 1.x Federation Service set up a new resource partner trust. Also, provide that administrator with the Federation Service URI (in the Federation Service properties), the Federation Service endpoint URL, and an exported token-signing certificate file (with public key only). The administrator will need these items to set up the trust.


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Hmmm...I listened around in the RTTY contest this past weekend and didn't notice anything like that on my O2. I wasn't looking at the frequencies or PBT settings though. I just tuned for the best looking response on the MMTTY waterfall. Ron N6AHA ----- Original Message ----- From: <email@example.com> To: <email@example.com> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:56 PM Subject: [TenTec] Orion II RTTY Problem > My Orion II arrived last Friday. It is working superbly EXCEPT for a RTTY > problem. > > I am using AFSK via a sound card (same setup as for my Orion - and that > still > works fine on RTTY). > > The problem with the OII is that when I run it on LSB and PBT at 1960 per > the > TenTec instructions, I am not able to get the signal to decode, even > though I > can hear RTTY signals through the speaker or headphones. The tuning > window, > a pair of orbit-shaped ovals, will not open up for tuning. > > HOWEVER, when I go to USB and PB 1960, and also to REVERSE MODE on my RTTY > software, all works well and I can make QSOs, except everything is > backwards. > > Here are some things I tried, with no change in the problem: > 1. Taking audio from the headphones rather than from the audio out on I/O > plug in back. > 2. Reloading the current update. > 3. Loading the previous update. > 4. Pulling the skins and checking quite carefully for connection > problems. > > Just to be sure I hadn't goofed something up, I fired up the Orion (I) in > place of the Orion II and it still works fine using the same setup, so it > is > something to do with the Orion II. > > Has anybody had this problem? Is anyone having success on LSB using AFSK > RTTY? Suggestions? > > 73, Ken Case K5KC > _______________________________________________ > TenTec mailing list > email@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec > > _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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Back in the day, if your company needed you to check email on the go, the IT guy set you up with a BlackBerry. But in what might be the most recent in a series of nails in BlackBerry's coffin, a new report says more mobile workers now use Apple's iPhones to keep in touch with the office.
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By KATE M. MEYER
Berkshire County Day School
Each year, my seventh grade English class embarks on their first full Shakespeare play.
We read "Romeo and Juliet."
Part of the joy of Shakespeare is the sound of the language.
I always tell students that even if you don't understand a word, in the mouth of a trained Shakespearean actor, the language is truly beautiful to the ear; the bard really knew how to string words together!
I put up a new phrase attributed to Shakespeare almost every week, things like "the crack of doom."
I also have a set of cards that I use that have different Shakespearean curses and insults.
My idea is to just get students to begin to revel in the joy of words.
This is where sonnets come in.
"Romeo and Juliet" contains several beautifully structured sonnets.
We note them.
Students then write their own after learning the structure.
We discuss iambic pentameter (again fun words to say) but I release them from this requirement because it is very hard to do.
In writing the sonnets, I think students gain a fuller understanding of how masterful Shakespeare is as well as experiencing creativity with some imposed discipline.
What follows are several sonnets from my students.
I hope you enjoy them and can see inside the minds of some young people as they begin to master the intricacies of their mother tongue.
Kate M. Meyer is a middle school English and history teacher at Berkshire Country Day School in Stockbridge. She is a fellow of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project based at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Sonnet to a Turtle
I know a turtle that enjoys smiling
He's covered from head to tail in greenness
He grins in the pond when he's reptiling
Pete is one sweet dude who tends towards leanness.
House on his back, Pete, he travels the pond
At close of the day he likes to retire
To his condo upstairs he is most fond
And sleeps for eight hours, much to admire.
One day Pete ate asparagus for lunch
He danced for joy at the taste so divine
He loved this new food and its healthy crunch
He announced to the pond "this food's so fine."
Happy Pete, you eat, sleep and swim all day
What a great turtle life you have, I say.
-- Abby R. Guterman
Sonnets are incredibly hard to write,
I thought it would be easy, silly me
For here I do sit, late into the night,
Stuck here, half asleep, wishing I were free.
Counting syllables on my hot fingers,
Felling the cold rush across my frozen arms,
I cover them but the feeling lingers,
Boy this homework assignment harms
I have six whole more lines to come up with
'Till I can retire to my empty bed
Now I am truly stumped, what ends in ith?
Did I just cheat?
Your expression I dread.
Well looky here, only one line to go,
Now that I am done, I feel like a pro.
-- Camilla M.Norris
Ode to Books
Off the pages the mystic words do leap
To those who find the stories written there
The treasures hid inside are theirs to keep
If they would ever find a tale so fair
Wisdom preserved for all generations
And adventures for ones seeking a thrill
And a web of secret silent nations
Stored furtively there for good or for ill
Read with wit by word of the eye or mouth
Spines certainly bound in the darkest black
Creatures land and heroes is what they're 'bout
Nothing do these splendid creations lack
This you will uncover, know where to look
I will give you a hint, look in a book
-- Helena R. Bruggemann
Summer Sonnet
The day hath flown away 'pon leaden wings
Leaving behind naught but the honk of geese
And trees who bow their backs as winter springs
Then peace as Autumn's tried cries doth cease
And all around a tranq'l quite then descend
And silent feet pad quitl'y round again
Then halt as quite lives come to an end
And peacef'l days and peaceful minds were spent, in
Summ'r happy lives from all the world will flow
And from trees that bow'd their backs at fall
End, out leaf strewn bra'chs rustl'ing winds shall grow
And on the sun-warm'd ground, lit'le lives un-ball
So to those who want for not but sum'rs rest
'tis wint'rs harsh contrast makes sum'rs soft caress
-Sam H. Blair
The Cat
The best creature would have to be the cat,
He cuddles you when you are in your bed,
He purrs and sleeps and is pleasantly fat,
And when you're sick he licks your fev'rish head.
He loved to help you when your feeling down,
He keeps you warm by sitting on your lap,
And when your sad he helps you trashy that frown,
And don't forget he really loves to nap!
He would do anything to make you smile,
And when he comes around your face lights up,
He knows to sit with you there for a while,
He's way better than any fish or pup!
I will always be thankful for my cat,
I love him: anyone could tell you that!
-- Halina C. Piasecki
William Shakespeare and the Globe by Alikiwww.geocities.com/Athens/troy/4081/Sonnets.html
Connections To Massachusetts Frameworks
Reading and Literature Strand
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MONTCLAIR — An independent advisory committee believes Montclair is too dependent on short-term debt, making the township vulnerable to a sudden increase in interest rates.
The Capital Finance Committee, which formed in 2008 to advise the council on capital-spending issues, issued a report last week recommending the township immediately begin the process of converting $60 million of temporary loans into long-term debt to lock in low interest rates.
The appeal of short-term notes is the township pays a lower interest rate and can delay paying the principal amount borrowed for up to three years, the report said. This enables the town to take on a lot of debt with minimal effect on the budget. But since the notes are renewed annually, the township is subject to market fluctuations.
"We've seen things happen in this economy in the last two years that no one expected to see," said councilman Cary Africk, liaison to the independent committee. "We're in uncharted waters, which is our concern."
A financial consultant, hired by the township earlier this year at the committee's recommendation, came to the same conclusion but downplayed the risk of a spike in interest rates. The consultant, Robert Benecke, said the chance of a disruption in the municipal credit market is low. In his report, issued in last month at a cost of $5,000, he advised Montclair to not act "as though Armageddon is looming."
Both the committee and the consultant, however, agreed the financially-strapped township should place limits on capital spending for new school and municipal projects.
The manager's introduced budget carries an 11-percent increase in municipal taxes this year, even after laying off 13 employees, furloughing municipal workers and proposing drastic cuts to funding for the libraries, the Montclair Arts Council and the Montclair Community Pre-K.
The committee report suggested that township officials cancel approved projects that have yet to begin if they are not necessary or do not pay for themselves. Those school and municipal projects would result in $26.7 million worth of debt if they proceed.
Township manager Marc Dashield said that's a policy decision the council and board of school estimate would have to make. But several of these projects cannot be easily discarded.
"If you look at our capital projects, quite frankly, that we've done at $4 million a year, just about half of those have been road improvements," he said. "There's not a whole lot of things out there that are not just regular maintenance-type activities."
Dashield said he's taking Benecke's advice seriously.
"Citizens' participation is always appreciated, and they did do a lot of work and put a lot of effort into this," Dashield said. "However, one of the reasons we did hire a highly qualified advisor is because he does have experience in municipal finance."


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Interview: Hamtramck-based Polish Rockers to Headline Old Town's Oktoberfest
The Hamtramck-based band -- who recently celebrated its 30th anniversary -- headlines the festival on Friday night, bringing a fun, energetic mix of comedy, music and nostalgia.
I caught up with vocalist and guitarist Kenny Kondrat to chat about the group's latest album, "Quadroswinia," and why the band wanted to play Oktoberfest for a second year in a row. Read it all below!
Q: Tell me about the experience of recording and writing your new album, "Quadroswinia."
A: With the exception of our Christmas CD, we hadn't released a new full-length CD in over five years. The pressure from our fans was getting unbearable, and we needed to get back to the studio. Of the 14 songs on "Quadroswinia," we re-released a few songs that were fan favorites, but only "live" recordings were released previously. We really thought those songs needed refreshing and were overdue to be recorded properly.
All the other songs are essentially brand new parodies. Actually, some of them were created in the studio as we were finishing up other tracks!
Q: Tell me about how son was involved with the album.
A: A cool thing different about this CD was that it engineered and co-produced by my son, Carl Kondrat-- former MSU graduate, second string drummer with the Polish Muslims and owner of MindVine Media. Carl has grown up with the band members… and gave us all the TLC in the studio, pushing us to keep it fresh and live, and we ended up with what we all think is the best product to date! It was a great recording experience completed in approximately six weeks. Not bad for a bunch of codgers.
Q: What was your vision with "Quadroswina?"
The vision was to release something we'd be really proud of for years to come. It took us five years to release this one, and who knows how long before the next one. Our fans are great and look forward to anything new, so we didn't want to disappoint.
The CD title came to be after we have an internet vote from our fans on our Facebook page and website. We gave four options: Polka Rock for Dummies, Exported from Hamtramck, Polish Muslims for Sale and Quadroswinia. Of course, Quad won, and the winner received copies of all of our CDs, plus a polish combination plate of food at a recent show. We saved no expense—we're big spenders!
"Quadroswinia" is obviously a play on the Who's "Quadrophenia," with the parody being "Quad" our fourth CD and "Swinia" meaning piggy in Polish. It just seemed to fit.
Q: The Polish Muslims played Old Town's Oktoberfest last year, and you're back again this year. What made you want to play the festival again?
A: Seriously, we all had a ball [last year]. The crowd was such a mix in age and ethnicity everyone seemed to catch on to our humor pretty fast… Folks are already there for a good time, so you're halfway there to a fun-filled, successful night. If we can show them we're having as good a time as they, are it's a slam dunk!
Online: For more the Polish Muslims, check out their official Facebook page via www.facebook.com/thepolishmuslims.
More on Oktoberfest: For the skinny on Oktoberfest, visit www.oldtownoktoberfest.com.


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npapi or webkit plugin are not working in firefox
I have a Webkit plugin and NPAPI plugin. Both work fine in Safari but just would not work in Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3) .
about:plugins shows it as installed but when I try to access it from html page none of the entry points in a code are being called.(None of trace statement are being hit) I think Firefox has problem loading those plugins.
I have similar NPAPI plugin working fine in Windows environment on all browsers, but MAC is giving me this problem.
Does anyone has any ideas of what could be the problem?
I even took a BASICPLUGIN sample for MAC and it has the same problem. Anyb
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- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- Amoeba Download Manager plugin - NPAPI version
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Getting the same experience here.
I solved my problem after not getting any responses..... Turns out that some of my xcode compilation switches had to be changed, send me your minimal code that I can compile and i will help you finding it......My NSAPI plugin works just great with all mac browsers....in fact it is the same code excatly as i have for windows, just had to rename some files from .cpp to .m so that I could yuse some cocoa objects....
Same issue here sir. This is on a MAC and Firefox as well.
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Hospital's Pine Tree Gift Shop sale coming up
July 9, 2014
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The Pine Tree Gift Shop at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital is having its annual summer sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 15 and 16, in the main lobby (Building 1) and the Gift Shop. There will be significant reductions on gift items, jewelry, home decor, Christmas and other holiday items.
Beginning July 10, new artwork will be displayed and for sale at SNMH by artist Ron Rodecker, creator of "Dragon Tales," a children's program that ran on PBS for over 20 years. The paintings are from the "Dragon Tales" series. Also featured are local and floral photographs by Lake Wildwood artist Bud Stansbury. The artwork is on display in the dining room (lower level), the second floor hallway and the hallway near the maternity ward.
All proceeds from the Pine Tree Gift Shop and a percentage of the artwork proceeds benefit Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.


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Here are the top 10 most-read and watched stories and videos on OregonLive last week. Also, atop this post is the week's most-viewed sports photo gallery.
1. How Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic changed tennis' history - and its future
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6. Central Catholic safety Brady Breeze commits to Oregon Ducks
7. Oregon's greatest athlete: What do you think of our bracket and seeding?
8. Meyers Leonard finally makes summer league debut for Trail Blazers
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – The No. 2-ranked Salisbury University men's lacrosse team notched a 15-7 Capital Athletic Conference victory in a mid-week clash with University of Mary Washington on Wednesday afternoon.
The Sea Gulls (11-0, 2-0 CAC) got on the board with an unassisted goal by sophomore midfielder Sam Bradman (Canton, N.Y.) less than three minutes into the game. The Eagles (4-6, 0-2 CAC) tied things up just two minutes later; the Salisbury offense struck back with a trio of goals from senior attackman Mike Winter (Port Washington, N.Y.), senior midfielder Mike Von Kamecke (Winter Park, Fla.) and senior attackman Jake DeLillo (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) to end the quarter with a 4-1 SU advantage.
The two teams traded goals to start the second quarter before the Salisbury offense reeled off four straight goals to close out the first frame with a 9-2 advantage. During that run, the maroon and gold received goals from Winter, Bradman, sophomore midfielder Tim Lum (Long Valley, N.J.) and Von Kamecke.
In the third quarter, Salisbury outscored Mary Washington 4-3; the fourth goal of the quarter for SU came from DeLillo off an assist from senior long-stick midfielder Connor Burgasser (Mendon, N.Y.), his first assist of the year. The fourth and final quarter featured just four goals, with each team registering two tallies.
Cannone led all scorers with a game-high six points on three goals and three assists. Bradman (three goals), DeLillo (two goals, one assist) and Winter (three goals) each finished with three points on the day. Junior goalkeeper Johnny Rodriguez (Gambrills, Md.) played 54 minutes in the cage and finished with six saves. Finch had a great game at the face-off X for the Gulls, as he won 14-of-21 face-offs and scooped up nine ground balls.
Mary Washington goalkeeper Matt Prin staved off 20 shots in 60 minutes of action.
The victory today sets the stage for the Gulls' next contest, a showdown with No. 1-ranked and CAC foe Stevenson University. The two teams both enter the contest undefeated, as the Mustangs (10-0, 2-0 CAC) defeated Hood College 20-4 this afternoon. The game will be televised live on WBAL Plus (Salisbury Comcast Channel 208) at 2 p.m.


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FRANKENLUST TOWNSHIP, MI — Wine kits, beer kits, corks, bulk malts, beer bottles, wine bottles, additives, flavorings, cleaners, sanitizers, measuring equipment, and, of course, hops — the owners of Frankenlust Township's new Hop Head Brew Supply aim to stock all the equipment and ingredients one needs to make beer and wine at home.
"We want to make sure that all homebrewers can come here and get what they need so we'll definitely try our hardest, if we don't have something, to see if we can find it for them," said Hop Head Brew Supply co-owner Mike Houlihan.
Hop Head Brew Supply opened at 6907 West Side Saginaw Road, a few miles north of Saginaw Valley State University, Tuesday, April 1.
Houlihan, 26, of Thomas Township, Brandon Bennick, 26, of Bay City, and Brennen Worke, 26, of Saginaw Township, co-owners and 2006 Heritage High School graduates, say they shared a common interest in craft beer and saw a growing demand for homebrewing supplies in the area.
"Craft beer in Michigan is starting to take off more and more every day," Worke said. "... (It's) a good industry to get into."
"We kind of outgrew what all the other stores around here had," Bennick added.
to the Boulder, Colo.-based American Homebrewers Association, more than
1.2 million people across the country brew their own beer at home.
Founded in 1978, the American Homebrewers Association today has more than 43,000 members.
Chris P. Frey is on the American Homebrewers Association Governing Committee, the Brewers Association Board of Directors and he is treasurer of the Ann Arbor Brewers Guild, though club members, rejecting formal titles, have dubbed him chief anarchist and benevolent overlord.
Frey said the Ann Arbor Brewers Guild is the oldest and largest homebrewers club in the state.
"We've gone from 110 to 220 members in five years," he said.
keeping with the craft beer trend, "in the last five years, we have
seen a doubling from about 1,400 to 2,800 brew pubs and microbreweries
in the United States," he added.
The owners of Hop Head Brew Supply aren't the only ones to capitalize on this trend locally.
In the Great Lakes Bay Region, Oppermann's Cork 'N' Ale, 2940 Midland, Midland's Eastman Party Store, 5205 Eastman Ave., and Frankenmuth's Lager Mill Beer Store & Brewing Museum, 701 Mill St., also sell homebrewing supplies. And MI Brew Supply, www.mibrewsupply.com, is a Saginaw Township-based online homebrewing supply company.
'Entrepreneurial spirit'
After high school, Houlihan, Bennick and Worke attended Central Michigan University. Worke and Bennick studied business, and Houlihan studied parks and recreation.
Worke and Bennick also own Saginaw Township-based Monumental Marketing LLC.
"We just kind of had that entrepreneurial spirit, if you will, to always kind of want to go out and pursue some of our passions and do our own thing. It's really rewarding," Worke said of being a business owner.
Head Brew Supply, which also touts Michigan-made products and supplies
for making mead and cider at home, is located in Bancorp Plaza along
with several other businesses, including Junior's Hookah Lounge, FiQXN, The Rabbit Hole and Exhibition Services Inc.
Andrew Janetzke, Frankenlust Township zoning administrator, said there are a few vacant storefronts in the plaza, which he estimated was built in about 2000.
He welcomed Hop Head Brew Supply.
"Of course, we always like to have (new) business come in, and just
from a zoning perspective … it seems to be a permissible use for that
location," he said.
"I know from going to many township meetings, we like to have new businesses come in."
Hop Head Brew Supply owners say the plaza in Bay County's Frankenlust Township is an ideal spot for their new business because it's centrally located for customers coming from Saginaw, Bay City and Midland, as well as visitors to the region.
It also allows them to stay close to home.
"We all grew up around here. We wanted to open up a business around here," Worke said.
Hop Head Brew Supply is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Hop Head Brew Supply also has a website and full-service online store at hopheadbrewsupply.com.
Hop Head Brew Supply will be offering opening-week sales and specials. Learn more at facebook.com/hopheadbrewsupply.
— Heather Jordan covers business for MLive/The Saginaw News/The Bay City Times. She can be reached at 989-450-2652 or email@example.com. For more business news, follow her on Twitter and Facebook.


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ISSAQUAH - Mount Si High School football fans may recognize the name Brian Woodwick. The class of '77 graduate was a 4-year letterman who broke a school record for the longest run from scrimmage.
His name has also gained notoriety in the world of music and fine-art photography because his favorite place to be was not always behind the quarterback, but behind the camera.
"I really can't explain why I like it so much," Woodwick said. "I just like beautiful things."
Woodwick, who is known by "WoodEye" in the professional photography circles in which he circulates, first started tinkering around with cameras when he was 4. His mother, who used to write for the Valley Record, had a small darkroom in their home where Woodwick learned how to shoot and develop. By the time he got to high school, he was known as "the kid with the camera," with a photographer's bag and camera always around his neck. As a freshmen, he would talk his way into the darkroom, which was off limits to his class. At one time, four of his five classes were in the darkroom. He took photos for the newspaper, the yearbook and got to be known as the designated district photographer.
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All the pratice we could do without damaging our blades bring it on!.
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All the pratice we could do without damaging our blades bring it on!.
I would love to play Kenshin on the Wii as I would love to play Naruto...Bring on the Anime games
Naruto is a ninja game, and i agree, they should make a Naruto game where you get like some wii remote gloves, and then when u wanna make a jutsu u must make the signs on the screen in some time to make a jutsu or for example for a Rasengan to scratch air on your left or right hand to make a chakra sphere. And of course a move activated by wii remote moving when you have a wii remote similar to Red Steel, like if you have kunai's in your hand ingame, u should like swing your wii remote like youre throwing it. They would make tons of money with it cuz if you wanna play it you must buy the original game to get the gloves and they can make also like a wii upgrade for hand signs that detects 'em.
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We arrive (thankfully) at the Palace and try to enter through one of the doors but it is the wrong entrance as the King is at home. The boys claim they saw the King himself, dressed in black robes. We wait until the driver hot wires the van again and we drive around to the other side of the Palace grounds. Unfortunately you cannot take any pictures at the Palace. We are hassled by some kids trying to sell bookmarkers with our names on them. We give in and write KAILEY on a piece of paper and agree to buy it when we come out. As we enter, the Palace looks nothing like a Palace, more like some 100-year-old farmhouse with furnishings from the 1940's. The tour is quite interesting even if the place is so hot it is stifling. I had to pay for each of us to get in, and I paid for Prince to come along. Strange, I know I didn't pay for the driver and his sidekick but they are here on the tour with us. We learn all about the current and previous kings of the Ashanti people. We also learn about the Queen Mother who must not be the King's wife. She is either his sister or his mother that holds the position of Queen Mother. If the King's wife were to be the Queen Mother, then their children would not be of the royal family. The Queen Mother has a special stool upon which she sits and also a special pillow which goes on the stool - both of which the King must provide for her
I ask the tour director if he has any monster legends but he says the Ashanti have no monsters in their stories. The boys' French teacher has given them an assignment to present to the class a monster story from Ghana and we're having a heck of a time learning about one, let alone two. I did buy a folklore book so I'm hoping there will be something in there we can use. All their tales are about Anansi the spider and they are meant to teach a moral usually.
The tour director notices the boys are twins and said had they been born Ashanti, their names automatically would have been Ata and Ata. I asked how you tell them apart when you want to call them. He replied I could call one Atsu as a nickname which means second born twin.
At the end of the tour you must go through the gift shop before you reach the exit. The tour guide calls a man to open the shop and I realized he called the guy Ata, so I asked the gift store man if he was a twin. He was quite surprised and answered "Why, yes how do you know?" He then noticed the boys and said he would be honored to shake the twins hands.
We managed to escape the gift shop without buying anything but going back to the van we had to come up with 5,000 for the bookmarker. We ended up buying another one too with Ghana on it for 10,000 because we only had 10,000 notes on us and they claimed to have no change. One kid tried to get the Ontario pin off Shawn's hat. He was going to give it to him until I told him to trade it for another bookmarker and the kid would not trade so we still have the pin.
I notice the difference in the dress of the people in this region as compared to Accra. Perhaps it is because many of the people in this area are Muslims. The women's head scarves are now long and even the school uniforms are different.
We spent way more time at the Palace than we thought so we decided to skip walking in the market as it is the largest market in Western Africa with at least at 15 hectares of stalls. It was even busier than the ones we've seen in Accra. I think the kids would have been a bit overwhelmed by it all. We took the trip to the Okomfo Anokye Hospital on Bantama Circle to see the Okomfo Anoke Sword which according to legend has been stuck in the ground in the same spot for 300 years. The sword marks the spot where the Golden Stool initially came down from the sky and it is an important symbol of unity for the Ashanti
After heading back to the hotel, the boys hit the computers again while Kailey and I take a swim in the hotel pool. Too lazy to go back out, we went to the hotel restaurant again. This time was the first time we've seen any sign of any other guests staying here - a white man came into the restaurant and sat alone in the corner. A black couple also came in to eat. We usually have the place to ourselves.
After dinner we all went to the computer room (there are no TV channels in the rooms) while a storm whipped up outside. The hotel lost power - computers went to backup power and the diesel generator kicked in. We found out it is located outside our bedroom window. I swear we should rent our family out to any place that is experiencing a drought. We're like the Schleprock guy on the Flintstones - you know the guy with the big rain cloud hanging over his head every where he goes!
Prince invited us to go to church with him tomorrow but knowing it is an all day affair we pass. It would be neat to see though.


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Crystal Palace were nearly off to a dream start at White Hart Lane.
Marouane Chamakh won a penalty for Palace in the eighth minute, on this rash challenge from Tottenham's Mousa Dembele.
But Jason Puncheon's effort from the spot was... bad. In fact, he made a case for worst penalty of the season by skying his effort way over the goal. Watch it below, from multiple angles.
Update: We've also got a view from the stands. And it's just as good as you'd expect it to be.
Keep it with B/R UK for updates from across the football world this weekend.


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Monday, February 4, 2013
How To Naturally Remove Tarnish From Silver
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- MelissaFebruary 4, 2013 at 7:34 AM
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Things That Don't Matter As Much To Men
They say to treat others like you want to be treated yourself, and that's exactly what many women do. But it often backfires. There are a few things that women consistently get angry at their men for doing—or rather not doing. Generally, men don't do these things for us because, it wouldn't be as a big a deal to them if we didn't do it for them. I am not saying that it is unreasonable for women to want these things. I am simply explaining why men don't do them as often. A man doesn't naturally expect the below listed actions, and so they don't naturally occur to him to do:


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Salvador "Sam" Viverito (Vivirito), died on Saturday, June 11, 2011. He was 89 years old.
He was a native of Marrero and a resident of Metairie for the past 61 years. He was an Army infantry veteran and a prisoner of war during WWII. He was a member of the VFW Post 3267 in Harahan.
Read Salvador "Sam" Viverito's full obituary
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Read today's obituaries from The Times-Picayune
Today's deaths
- Abramson, Aaron Louis
- Allen, Carnell Jarage
- Bealer, Rita McCrossen
- Bocage, Cheryl Ann
- Burdis, Gwendolyn Marie
- Coci, Alvis Shirley Heumann
- Cody, Casey
- Cortez Sr., William "Pete"
- Duke Jr., Bobby G.
- Eubanks, The Rev. William I.
- Fernandez, Wendy Lee Wilson
- Fink, Nell Laurent
- George Sr., Joseph Douglas
- Hoffman, Helen Rink
- Hooper, Dora Pizani
- Johnson, Rita Mae Breaux
- Jones, Coleman Swinson
- Kenny, Anita Haydee Geoffray
- Kirby, Elizabeth Quinlan
- Lambert, Paul Edward
- Lancelin, Sister Mary Timothy
- Lawson, M. Jeannette Trentacosta
- Louviere, Catherine Mae Yuest
- McDougall Jr., Howard
- Miller Jr., Agulando
- Monfra, Brian George
- Nunez, Cimion
- Perilloux, Arlen Joseph
- Riley, Wilbur C.
- Robiho, Melissa "Missy"
- Schmidt Sr., Henry George
- Schneider, Marian Elizabeth Stokes
- Stern, Augustia Eastern "Lila"
- Tatum Jr., John W.
- White, Gertrude Daniels
- White Jr., Harold Beresford
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So - a batch of carnitas is brewing up in the oven and smelling divine. I have a cup of KE tea here, and I just finished a knock-out salad of greens, pears, blue cheese, onions, bacon, walnut oil, and balsamic vinegar.
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So - a batch of carnitas is brewing up in the oven and smelling divine. I have a cup of KE tea here, and I just finished a knock-out salad of greens, pears, blue cheese, onions, bacon, walnut oil, and balsamic vinegar.
Once again paleo woman has attracted male by emitting attractive cooking aromas. My landlord was downstairs in his workshop and knocked on my door to ask what on earth I was cooking that smelled so good. I'm going to take him some pork lusciousness later on. This time I added smoked paprika and instead of water I added broth. I think I will be happy with the result.
I'm having a terrible tussle with myself. I want a pair of those slipper things I found on etsy, and I also want some expensive face creams. Now that I am no longer struggling with breakouts and nastiness, I would love to use some lovely nice-smelling potions and lotions. I've never been able to use anything like that, not since age 13 or so. I had some samples I've been using over the past week, it has been so nice. But all that stuff is expensive. I mix coconut oil with Aveeno moisturizer as a rule, it is the best stuff I've ever used. CO on its own is too greasy and doesn't absorb well in my experience. My skin is completely normal, not greasy and not dry, just soft and smooth. WOOT! And I'm reading Mark's book about transitioning to minimal shoes/barefoot, which is leading to lust for such things. Feet are another subject dear to my heart as I suffered, and I do mean suffered, from foot problems most of my life. The last three years have been good. I would like to keep it that way! I went outside and walked around barefoot in the snow for awhile. It is really cold today, in addition to being snow-covered. Brrrrr! But it was good. I left bare foot prints in the crusty snow. I wonder if anyone will see them?
Okay, I'm going a little nuts on the primal stuff today. The carnitas are the best yet. I was going to hold off on making/eating any more pork goodness for awhile out of fear that I will get tired of it, but I can't help indulging. It is just so good. In addition to using broth and paprika, I used a cheaper cut of pork butt that had a bone. No surprise this batch is very, very tasty.
I cleaned and defrosted my tiny freezer last night, so I can put half away. Very happy about this.
In my other bout of primal craziness, I put on my Ininji toe socks and then my VFFs. Ran around in the snow for awhile. Major fun. Got this idea from Mark's book.
Went to see [I]Lincoln[/I]. I give it a firm 'meh.' The thing about films like this is that people see them and think they are documentaries or actual fact. It's a movie, folks. It's based on real stuff. Based. Not real. Daniel Day Lewis is great. He is also British. I couldn't get over the fact that Lincoln is being played by a Brit. The film is also way too long. The theater was freezing and the sound was muffled. Maybe I should have stayed home and read a book. No, I'm glad I saw it. Meh.
Came home and had an old treat that I haven't had in a long time. Almond butter, honey, coconut oil - nuke for a few seconds. Try not to make too many yummy noises while you eat.
Went to see [I]Lincoln[/I]. I give it a firm 'meh.' The thing about films like this is that people see them and think they are documentaries or actual fact. It's a movie, folks. It's based on real stuff. Based. Not real. Daniel Day Lewis is great. He is also British. I couldn't get over the fact that Lincoln is being played by a Brit. The film is also way too long. The theater was freezing and the sound was muffled. Maybe I should have stayed home and read a book. No, I'm glad I saw it. Meh.
Came home and had an old treat that I haven't had in a long time. Almond butter, honey, coconut oil - nuke for a few seconds. Try not to make too many yummy noises while you eat.
Whirlwind of a day. Went to the Met opera live broadcast. Started off with the pre-opera talk and then the opera. Before all that a boatload of chores and a little shopping. The opera was fantastic! Unbelievable, really. I seriously cannot believe the vocal ability displayed today. My friend and I, who both sing in the choir, were astounded.
Hit the grocery store, came home and cooked up a storm. I've just had a bit of a primal binge. Made some tapioca bread. Probably don't need to tell you much about that! Serious food porn. Carnitas, crispy roasted brussels sprouts. Finished with a coconut macaroon. There is a gourmet shop near the theater that has the best ones ever. They are usually a good choice as even CW macaroons are gluten-free - no flour. Of course they have sugar, but everything else is okay.
I've just cracked open a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau. Can't let a year go by without tasting the BN! Since I have a new rule of not sipping wine while I am on the computer, it is waiting for me in the kitchen.
Hope you all had a great day!
Good rule Siobhan about not sipping wine whilst on the computer ... potentially disastrous near the keyboard but also lends itself to mindless 'quaffing' ... and probably more of it too!!
I am currently off the hooch, I always give it up from Epiphany to about mid-February, mainly to get out of the habit of thinking (over Christmas) that it is perfectly OK to have a sherry or whatever at 11 am if someone offers it! Also saves lots of money and gets my sleep patterns back on track. I always seem to be so much more restrained after this period of abstinence. My husband always joins me in this but since his father sadly died over Christmas he will have something this week at the funeral.
Your carnitas sounds amazing ... did you use Mark's recipe? I'll think I'll cook one up next week. We are snowed in here in the south of England, so have been making lots of thick vegetable soups with homemade meat stock and hearty stews to keep the cold out! Looks pretty though and they cancelled school on Friday so was able to catch up on all my planning.
The live opera sounded amazing ... I just missed out on a live coverage of the Bolshoi Ballet at my local Art's cinema - it booked up sooo quickly so must check the website more regularly ... such a shame.
Yes, I use Mark's recipe, with the addition of paprika and broth instead of water. I don't use cinnamon stick but add a pinch of ground cinnamon. I'm on my third batch in two weeks and I'm finally getting tired of it!
I also find that going on the wagon helps greatly with restraint when I start popping corks again. I think it has to do with simply breaking the habit of walking around with a wine glass much of the evening. And too-fast consumption of wine and too much internet time seem to go hand-in-hand. So I instituted my new rule and am happy with it.
I was going to see the Bolshoi but it was cancelled locally because of technical difficulties. There are getting to be more and more of these things - symphonies, ballet, recitals in addition to the Met broadcasts. I do find them to be a great experience and like so many of these activities in a small town, am getting to know the regulars and enjoy seeing the same faces and talking about opera on these occasions. Ah, life is grand!
Co-worker called in despair late last night and asked me to work for her. Of course I said I would. $$$$$$$$$$
Just had a cheese bread with smoked salmon and roasted up the last of the asparagus. Now I am off to the store to get some provisions. I go from loads of food to hardly any food at light speed. I guess that is just what it is like when you eat lots of fresh stuff. Raw veg takes up lots of room but is consumed very quickly and also cooks down rather dramatically. Like an artichoke that takes up a lot of room but isn't all that much to eat.
The wind is howling! Lots of howling wind this winter, although it is not that cold. The snow is all gone again. Maybe it blew away?
Inspired by Mark's post on turmeric tea, I investigated the spice cabinet and came up with a jar I bought at the farmers market last and decidedly did not like as a rub for meat. Contents: Black peppercorns, cumin seeds, turmeric, coriander, cardamom, cloves. All organic. Made my steak taste like gym socks. So naturally I decided to try to drink it. Heated up some almond milk, grated in some ginger, added a regular old teabag, and maybe 1/4 teaspoon of the noxious but life-enhancing spice mix. Let it simmer for five minutes, strained it, and very tentatively tasted it. Interesting. Added a little stevia. I emphasize little, because it is hard to explain but too much sweetener would be horrible. Very interesting. Very drinkable. If you're going to try something like this, you have to put aside all preconceived notions of what it is going to taste like. But I will be drinking this with some regularly for the health benefits. I am relieved to find a use for this expensive little jar of spice.
Bundled up like at Eskimo to go to the grocery store and was surprised to find that, despite the howling wind, it is 40 degrees outside. Balmy even. Felt like an idiot with my heavy coat and hat. I need an outside thermometer.
I'm actually kind of glad to go to work tonight. Been hibernating too much lately.
I've done the turmeric tea as per the recipe several times, and rather like it. Super rich though, with all that coconut milk. Pretty much takes the place of a breakfast or lunch meal. Not really conducive to a work day, unless in the evening.
Interesting rule of no wine with computer. Hmm. Would that cut the wine consumption or screen time :confused:. I suppose either would be a good thing.


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The father of a young man wanted in connection with several Portland bank robberies has a request for his son.
"Morgan, please contact us," said Gene Williams of Amesbury, Mass "Let us know you are OK. We understand the situation you are in. Turn yourself in. Get the help you need. It's not as bleak as it appears to be at this point."
"Morgan" is Morgan Brice Williams, 25, known to Portland-area police as the suspected "Short Stack Bandit." He's being sought in connection with a series of robberies that took place between last October and December. Three happened in just two days in December. Police say the nickname stems from the robber's short stature, caught on surveillance video.
Williams has been described as anywhere from 5-feet-6 to 5-9 and 170 pounds.
Gene Williams contacted The Oregonian on Friday because he's not heard anything from his son for months and fears the worst.
"Myself and the rest of the family are hurting right now," he said. "We want to know he's OK. Your imagination runs wild. It's terrible."
Gene Williams is a retired auto mechanic who moved to Massachusetts in 2009 after his marriage broke up. Before that, he had been living in Eugene with his wife and children for 25 years, where he worked in both repair shops and dealerships.
Morgan Williams is the youngest of his six children, some of whom still live in Eugene. He attended Churchill High School, dropped out when he was about 16 or 17, his father said, and moved with a friend to the Stockton-area in Northern California. He left California for Portland in 2009 and told his father that he was in the music production business during several visits to the East Coast over the last few years.
But the father said his other children told him that Morgan Williams was having problems. Court records show he had been arrested and charged with cocaine possession last summer in Portland, but the charge was later dismissed.
Then, at some point, the news got worse. Gene Williams learned that his son had been accused in the bank robberies and an arrest warrant had been issued He has seen the surveillance photos that police have distributed.
"Yes, that's my son," he said.
Portland police Sgt. Joe Santos is one of the investigators assigned to the case. He's talked to Gene Williams several times and said the father and one of his brothers have been helpful in trying to get Morgan Williams to surrender, but that the case has "basically gone cold."
Investigators heard that Morgan Williams may have made his way to Texas, and Portland police have reached out to agencies there, Santos said.
"But who knows where he is?" Santos said. "He's managed to stay off the radar."
Gene Williams said there was nothing about his son's youth to indicate he would end up in so much trouble. He said he and his former wife worked hard to give their children a good, loving home.
"We had what I consider a very sound family," he said. "Not drugs, not drinking."
He hopes his son will read about his concerns and give himself up to police. He knows that he's essentially asking his son to risk going to prison, possibly for years.
But that looks "far better than just running. That's not a life," the elder Williams said. "He's cut himself off from his family, his friends. It's almost as if he's serving time right now, but without bars.
"I pray to God he's still alive."
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College football season opens this weekend -- The Star-Ledger's Brendan Prunty breaks down the Big East.
1. West Virginia
Probably the most steady lineup across the board, though QB Jarrett Brown is under the microscope. Have to like WR Jock Sanders and RB Noel Devine returning.
2. Rutgers
Only thing keeping the Scarlet Knights from the top is the question-mark at the QB spot. Defense will be tops in the league, as will offensive line and running game.
3. Pittsburgh
Still unsure of what Bill Stull is and will be behind center. But the biggest problem will be replacing LeSean McCoy/LaRod Stephens-Howlings at RB with freshmen.
4. South Florida
When is this team going to flip to switch and win past October? With QB Matt Grothe and DE George Selvie, it has two of the most talented players around.
5. Cincinnati
The Bearcats lost 10 starters on defense and their biggest weapon: punter Kevin Huber. Also, wondering how QB Tony Pike will hold up under a full season.
6. Connecticut
Donald Brown is gone, and so are Darius Butler, William Beatty and Cody Brown. That's a lot of star power to lose. Also, will oft-troubled RB Andre Dixon return to form?
7. Syracuse
Is putting former Duke point guard Greg Paulus at QB a little bit of a ploy? Sure. But the kid is still an athlete and it brings some attention to the Orange program.
8. Louisville
When Syracuse was at its worst the last two years, Louisville still couldn't beat them. Also, its QB -- NC State transfer Justin Burke -- has never made a start.
Where will the star power come from?
Kenny Britt, Donald Brown, LeSean McCoy, Pat White -- all bona fide Big East superstars -- are now cashing checks in the NFL. This conference has no shortage of good players, but who will step up to take their place?
Will the Greg Paulus experiment work?
This will be an interesting one because he was a premier QB prospect in high school before playing hoops at Duke. New coach Doug Marrone said Monday Paulus has already experienced the normal arm soreness.
When will Rutgers turn to Tom Savage as QB?
You get the feeling that if push came to shove, Greg Schiano would hand the ball to the true freshman. But can he do that with two seniors who have put in the time? And if Savage doesn't work, can he go back?
Syracuse DT Arthur Jones
It will be interesting to see how offensive coordinators now game-plan for Jones after watching the big boy wreak havoc last year against opponents like Notre Dame.
West Virginia QB Jarrett Brown
Trying to step into the shoes of one of the greatest winners (and QBs) in Big East history is no easy task. But Brown doesn't have to be Pat White, he just has to win like him.
Rutgers LT Anthony Davis
We know he's one of the best in the nation, but can he have the kind of season that makes an NFL team next April say: "He's a franchise building-block guy."
Minnesota at Syracuse (Sat., Noon, ESPN2)
SKINNY: The first test for new coach Doug Marrone. He's talked the talk, now we get to see if he can walk the walk -- against a tough Big Ten opponent, no less.
Liberty at West Virginia (Sat., Noon, SNY)
SKINNY: Mountaineers coach Bill Stewart said he would like to see his team not let a low-level opponent control the game as Villanova did in the opener last year.
Youngstown State at Pittsburgh (Sat., 1 p.m.)
SKINNY: We'll just say this: The Penguins have played an FBS opponent the last four years and have been outscored, 159-9, in those games.
Wofford at South Florida (Sat., 7 p.m.)
SKINNY: We'll get to see if QB Matt Grothe was able to shake off his last five regular-season games, when he threw three TDs and 11 INTs.
Connecticut at Ohio (Sun., 7 p.m., ESPN360.com)
SKINNY: Huskies are the only team to open with a non-conference game on the road. Making matters dicier: Bobcats have won five of their last six home openers.
Indiana State at Louisville (Sat., 7:30 p.m.)
SKINNY: You might think that the Cards are ripe for an upset, with Indiana State having played last week. But the Sycamores lost 26-20 in OT to NAIA Quincy, so don't.
Cincinnati at Rutgers (Mon., 4 p.m., ESPN)
SKINNY: Have to think the Bearcats will be coming into a hornet's nest with it being the opening of the expanded Rutgers Stadium. Interesting to see how Brian Kelly game-plans for that.


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Last night, we anchored the ship in the Detroit River, America on our port side, Canada on our starboard.
To celebrate the anchoring, the affable Capt. Ulrich Diekmann handed out cans of Miller High Life to his crew, calling for the crew to enjoy themselves after a pair of successful days sailing.
Hagen Löffler, the ship's second mate, did his best to choke down the self-proclaimed "champagne of beers."
"You like this stuff?" he asked me through a grimace.
"No, not really," I answered.
He replied he'd prefer a glass of Stella. I assured him there are several bars in Bay City that feature the brew on tap.
Elsewhere on deck, the German crew snapped photos of Detroit. Have to admit, it was another of those surreal moments, watching them take pictures of the city, like Americans snapping photos of the ruins of Greece or Rome.
As we conversed, I noticed some of the crew surreptitiously discussing me in their native tongue. I soon found out they were talking about how I resemble John Lennon.
Regarding the sailing itself, we turned the engines on Tuesday morning to make up for falling behind schedule Monday. I suppose we've lost some of the integrity of staying with the spirit of only using the sails, but I for one welcome the change.
Prior to firing up the engines, we were coasting at no more than three knots. It felt like we were hardly moving at all, just drifting aimlessly. With the engines on, we have drive, purpose, observable progress.
We've avoided any disaster. No men overboard, no fires or leaks in the hulls. When the day is at its hottest, the crew turn on the "air conditioner"—a sprinkler on the deck spouting a cool rain, a moment to let loose in an otherwise gruelingly demanding endeavor.
Oh, something anecdotal I've noticed. How is it among a literal shipload of sailors I am one of the few with visible tattoos? Of the officers, only Löffler bears an obvious one, on his calf, but really, wouldn't you expect more sailors to be epidermally decorated? If there is one place I didn't think I'd stick out due to my tattoos, it's a tall ship.
Anyway, like I said, today we expect to continue up the river, through Detroit and into Lake Huron. Come Thursday afternoon, we'll be docking in Bay City.
Though Thursday's forecast is calling for thunderstorms, Diekmann is undeterred in his determination to ensure the brig under his command reaches its destination safely and timely.
"This vessel was constructed for heavy weather," he says, adding he is not afraid of some squalls.


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Former Central Michigan University standout Cullen Jenkins is a starting defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers, but missed time last season with pectoral and ankle injuries. He feels healthy, but the Packers held him out of early practices.
americanchronicle.com: Jenkins, who is coming off pectoral and ankle surgeries, pleaded his case to team doctor Pat McKenzie earlier in the offseason, to no avail.
"It was a fight at first because I feel good enough to practice, but we have to be smart about it," said Jenkins, who last played on Sept. 28. "They kind of had to convince me that all this stuff right now won't benefit me too much. So they just want me to hold out and wait."


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The first round of judging for the 2014 Rose Festival Court, set for Saturday in Portland, will be rescheduled due to predicted extreme weather conditions.
The Rose Festival announced Thursday that both first and second round judging sessions will now take place at Providence Portland Medical Center's Cancer Center Amphitheater at 4805 NE Glisan St., on Saturday, Feb. 22.
"Safety is always our first concern and with the weather forecast calling for bad weather conditions we decided it is best to not risk it and combine the two sessions at the later date," says Leslie Goodlow-Baldwin, vice chair of selection for the festival. "There will be no interruption in the normal process for the applicants. We will just have a longer day on the 22nd."
In all, 120 senior and junior applicants from Portland metro area schools are affected, including Benson, Central Catholic, Cleveland, David Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Parkrose, Roosevelt, St. Mary's, Wilson, Alliance Charter, Aloha, Beaverton, Centennial, Century, Estacada, Gladstone, Glencoe, Hillsboro, La Salle, Lake Oswego, Liberty, Molalla, Oregon City, Rex Putnam, Reynolds, Sam Barlow, Sherwood, Southridge, Sunset, Tigard, Tualatin, Westview and Wilsonville.
The 2014 Portland Rose Festival Queen will be selected at the Queen's Coronation Saturday, June 7, at 9:30 a.m. just before the Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Floral Parade.
It's not too early to secure tickets to see the Queen's Coronation at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Visit RoseFestival.org or call 877-789-ROSE (7673).
-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson