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- Harry: "What's Nurmengard?"
- Hermione: "The prison Grindelwald built to hold his opponents."
- — Harry Potter and Hermione Granger[src]
Nurmengard is a wizarding prison. In terms of magical defences, its specific protective enchantments remain unknown, but it is known to have anti-Apparition wards (similar to Hogwarts). Non-magical defences include high walls for the fortress and it may have had a guard population, similar to Dementors once guarding Azkaban (though was implied to have since become disused and automated without the need for a human presence).
The prison was built on the orders of the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald at the height of his power, in order to hold his opponents. Grindelwald's slogan "For the Greater Good" is carved over the prison's entrance. In 1926, a group of wizards attempted to infiltrate Nurmengard, but were killed by Grindelwald before they could even walk in the door. After a number of years terrorising Europe, Grindelwald was confronted and defeated by his former best friend, Albus Dumbledore.
Grindelwald's imprisonment
In a display of irony, Grindelwald was collared in the top-most cell inside his own prison, rather than killed, after his defeat. It is unknown if there were any other prisoners ever held at Nurmengard but around the time of Grindelwald's death, it is highly likely that he was the only prisoner present: all other past inmates having been incarcerated at the ex-Dark Lord's behest. Grindelwald was certainly fed and kept alive for fifty-three years, so there was at least a supply of food and someone (or something) bringing it to him.
Quest for the Elder Wand
In his quest for the Elder Wand, Lord Voldemort travelled to Nurmengard in 1998, using his ability to fly to break into Grindelwald's cell. After confronting him for information on the Wand's location, Voldemort killed Grindelwald (under his own consent) and then flew away. It is unknown of what is determined of the prison: if it was abandoned or if it continued to house prisoners.
It is described as being "a towering building," and a "grim fortress, jet black and forbidding,". The cell that was inhabited by Gellert Grindelwald since 1945 had been a dark and ominous room in the highest tower, with a stone bed and a ragged, thin blanket.
Behind the scenes
- Nurmengard may be a reference to Nuremberg, the city in Germany that was the site of many important Nazi rallies, as well as was also the place where the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws were promulgated. Later the city was famous as the site of the prison used to hold infamous Nazi war criminals, as well as the Nuremberg Trials where they were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Likewise, Nurmengard was created as a monument to Grindelwald's oppressive regime, but later became a symbol of his downfall.
- The suffix "-gard" comes from the Norse "gard," meaning "enclosure" or "walled town." Also, in French, "garder" means "to keep, ward, guard, save, preserve".
- J.R.R. Tolkien used a similar word for his place names in Middle-earth when referring to enclosed spaces: for instance, the fortress of the dark wizard Saruman is named Isengard meaning literally "iron fortress." Isengard was built by the people of Numenor, so the first two syllables of Numenor and the last one of Isengard would be Numengard. It is possible that J.K. Rowling did not read Tolkien's Legendarium, written a few decades ago, but it is more likely that the 'gard' part was more of a coincedence than 'Numen.'
- "The greater good" is an essential idea of the utilitarian philosophy. "For The Greater Good" may also be a reference to "Arbeit macht frei" (German, "Work makes [one] free" or "Work liberates") the motto that was mendaciously inscribed over the entrance gates to several Nazi concentration camps (The exact wording of the inscription at Nurmengard is unknown, since Grindelwald's exact nationality or his language of preference, are not specified in the books: the German translation of his slogan would be "Für das höhere Wohl", although the official German translation in the book reads "für das größere Wohl").
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Nurmengard appears as a large and shadowy building on a mountainside with a tall roof and multiple cell windows. It also appears to be far larger than Azkaban. If theory about the relation to Nuremberg is correct, then the closest mountains from there is the German side of Bayerischer Wald or Oberpfälzer Wald.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance) (Appears in vision)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Appears in vision)


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Feb 27, 2004
Guest Post - Jesse Lee: That Darned Liberal Media Filter
Ah, the sheer utility of the blog. Many will be surprised to hear this, but Democrats quite regularly compile blistering reports calling out the Republicans on their worst excesses, taking the time to prove their point beyond the shadow of a doubt. These are released to the media and ultimately ignored virtually without fail. Now we too are able to bypass the infamous �liberal media filter" and provide our fellow bloggers with such information directly. Here is Steny Hoyer's …Read More »
Feb 26, 2004
Open Thread for KY Vols!
Post your stories by clicking on the "comments" below.Read More »
Feb 26, 2004
This Week's @Stake
We just sent out this week's edition of @Stake, our weekly email update. If you don't get it, you should - click here to subscribe. It is sort of like this blog, but with a good writer, actual information, etc. If you would like to kick the tires to see what you will be getting each and every week, please check out some of the stories below. Ben Chandler Takes His Seat at the Table …Read More »
Feb 26, 2004
Hastert Stumping for South Dakota
In case you thought the GOP were going to easy on us in the South Daktoa Special Election, National Journal's Congress Daily (paid registration required) is reporting in this morning's edition: A week after Republicans suffered a special election defeat in Kentucky, House Speaker Hastert sought Wednesday to redirect Republican energy toward its next special election challenge in South Dakota. During a weekly House Republican Conference meeting, Hastert told members that it is important to back former …Read More »
Feb 26, 2004
GOP Speaker Refuses to Extend 911 Commission
Reason #45667 to elect more Democrats to Congress: The Seattle Times is reporting that GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert refuses to bring up legislation to extend the 911 investigation. "The commission says it needs the extra 60 days to complete hundreds of interviews and review millions of documents. Despite initial objections, President Bush backed the panel's request earlier this month. Democratic congressional aides said Bush halfheartedly supported the extension and put little pressure on Hastert to back down. Republican commission …Read More »
Feb 25, 2004
Tom Delay Fundraising Scandal Update
The Austin-American Statesman is reporting that Tom DeLay aide John Colyandro sent a blank check to the RNC as part of their coporate money laundering. John Colyandro, executive director of DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority, said in a deposition that he had the blank check sent because Ellis had a meeting with Republican National Committee officials scheduled the next day. It has been known for almost a year that Texans for a Republican Majority gave $190,000 in corporate …Read More »
Feb 25, 2004
Update: NY 1
In case you didn't catch it, an NRCC Favorite, Brookhaven Town Supervisor John Jay LaValle, declined to run against incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop. That leaves Bishop only one GOP opponent, Bill Manger, who Supervisor LaValle has called "... nobody, really".Read More »
Feb 25, 2004
New URL for The Stakeholder
I have moved The Stakeholder from its unwieldy http://220.127.116.11/mt to blog.dccc.org. Should be easy enough to remember, please update your bookmarks, blogrolls, etc. If you have been trying to use our RSS feed, the new URL should work better in your software. Thanks for bearing with us - there should be some more technical modifications in the coming weeks. Feel free to suggest any technical problems/suggestions in the comments here. update: I have also edited the title.Read More »
Feb 24, 2004
Guest Post: Jesse Lee at Chandler's Swearing In
Ben Chandler Takes His Seat at the Table As the DCCC watched the astonishing election results roll in from Kentucky-6 on February 17th, an obvious question presented itself: If we can do this in the heart of Kentucky, why can't we do everywhere? As Democrats gathered in jubilation tonight, awaiting the swearing in of our newest member, we had a chance to pose this question to the man himself. �That's absolutely right," said Chandler. �We took a Republican district, …Read More »
Feb 24, 2004
Polisphere and the Blogosphere
Kuff and Atrios have great posts about how the parties need to do more to build the blogosphere. Point well taken. In the buildup to launching our modest blog, we in Online Operations did have to fight uphill. Most of our staff had never seen one, but when we showed them a few they were pretty interested, and I have even caught a few reading them on their own now. We have made some modest shout outs in some …Read More »
Feb 24, 2004
Morning Congressional News
While we could never duplicate the Hamster's Headlines, There are a couple stories that we found interesting this morning… First, in a Texas Update, it appears that Tom Delay may have helped launder corporate money and put it into the campaigns of some Texas Republicans. Off the Kuff has backstory (from yesterday). Today the Miami Herald is running an update from the Houston Chronicle on the Grand Jury investigation. Second, KBR (subsidiary of Cheney's company Halliburton) is now the …Read More »
Feb 23, 2004
All eyes on SD
Kos points to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and NRCC spokesperson Bo Harmon who says that "[South Dakota] is at the top of our priority list, and that means strong involvement from the committee to let voters know who Larry Diedrich is," he said. That also means access to Republican dignitaries at the national level who could campaign at Diedrich's side, he said. We are going to need every hand on deck for this one. But, if you needed …Read More »
Feb 23, 2004
Googling the NRCC Blog
Apparently, while I was fuming about the NRCC (our GOP counterpart) on Friday, I failed to notice that if you go to Google.com, type in "NRCC Blog" and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, our site comes up. Tee hee!Read More »
Feb 20, 2004
NRCC is NRCCrazy
You know, the NRCC can make all the snide comments they want, they can call our chair "Matsilly" on their "blog", (the title of their post is "DCCC: Matsui is Matsilly") but their nasty talk doesn't change these two facts. a) the article they cite implying that Chair Matsui and the Democrats are "suffering from an election night hangover" says nothing of ths sort. here is the full text of the article from USA Today. b) the other article …Read More »
Feb 19, 2004
Article on donations from bloggers
You've probably seen this Wired piece about the growing importance of blog contributions. Kos makes the point that campaigns need to view bloggers as more than a convenient ATM. We agree! We must recognize that Bloggers' "contributions" have already been far more than money alone (although money counts a lot). We, the political community, need your ideas, your energy, your communities, as well as your financial contributions. Undoubtedly, this is a learning curve for us, but we're committed to …Read More »


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I seem to have developed my first serious beekeeping problem.
This package appeared to be doing well for the first couple of weeks, and in fact, there were eggs just 4 days after the install.
A week ago all seemed well. Today there were capped queen cells on both sides of a couple frames. I doubt that they are thinking of swarming-- there really don't seem to be enough bees. Maybe I squashed the queen the last time I was in the hive. I didn't see anything but a fringe of capped brood on some of the comb.
I'd like to preserve the genetics of this hive, as these were small cells bees from Wolf Creek. I'm wondering if there's any way I can take a couple frames of bees from my boomer hive, and a frame with queen cells from the package hive, and put them in a nuc with a frame of honey, and double my chances of getting a queen successfully mated.
I'll be grateful for any advice.


text: The facts about Romney's John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Mitt Romney has not said much about his plans for public higher education on the campaign trail, but he has frequently boasted that the top-scoring 25 percent of Massachusetts high school graduates are eligible for a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, his signature accomplishment in public higher education while he was governor. As Romney describes it, Adams Scholarship recipients can go to any Massachusetts college or university tuition-free. Sounds like a great deal, right? Not so fast. In Massachusetts, tuition is very low and mandatory fees are very high. The scholarship only affects tuition. At UMass Amherst, for example, the tuition and fees for the current school year are $13,715. Of that total, only $1,714 is tuition and the rest is made up of mandatory fees, so the Adams Scholarship student must still pay $12,001. When you add in the cost of room and board, the benefit of the scholarship seems even less significant. For the current year, tuition, fees and room and board for a student in a double room who signs up for the Value Meal Plan add up to $23,436. The cost for the Adams Scholarship student is just $1,714 less, for a total of $21,722. Meanwhile, the cost of attending UMass Amherst during the Romney administration increased by a whopping 48 percent. Looking just at tuition and fees (not room and board), the cost went from $6,482 in the 2002-03 school year to $9,595 in 2006-07, the last year Romney was in office. So the Adams Scholarship was more than swallowed up by the $3,113 increase in fees during Romney's tenure.


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May 2, 2007, 12:00 am ET - Amendment SA 1022 proposed by Senator Durbin.
May 2, 2007, 5:08 pm ET - Durbin Amdt. No. 1022, as Modified
Full Text of this Amendment
At the end of the bill, insert the following:
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) the safety and integrity of the United States food supply is vital to the public health, to public confidence in the food supply, and to the success of the food sector of the Nation's economy;
(2) illnesses and deaths of individuals and companion animals caused by contaminated food--
(A) have contributed to a loss of public confidence in food safety; and
(B) have caused significant economic losses to manufacturers and producers not responsible for contaminated food items;
(3) the task of preserving the safety of the food supply of the United States faces tremendous pressures with regard to--
(A) emerging pathogens and other contaminants and the ability to detect all forms of contamination; and
(B) an increasing volume of imported food from a wide variety of countries; and
(C) a shortage of adequate resources for monitoring and inspection;
(4) the United States is increasing the amount of food that it imports such that --
(A) from 2003 to the present, the value of food imports has increased from $45,600,000,000 to $64,000,000,000; and
(B) imported food accounts for 13 percent of the average Americans diet including 31 percent of fruits, juices, and nuts, 9.5 percent of red meat and 78.6 percent of fish and shellfish; and
(5) the number of full time equivalent Food and Drug Administration employees conducting inspections has decreased from 2003 to 2007.
(a) Processing and Ingredient Standards.--Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this title as the ``Secretary''), in consultation with the Association of American Feed Control Officials, and other relevant stakeholder groups, including veterinary medical associations, animal health organizations, and pet food manufacturers, shall by regulation establish--
(1) processing and ingredient standards with respect to pet food, animal waste, and ingredient definitions; and
(2) updated standards for the labeling of pet food that includes nutritional information and ingredient information.
(b) Early Warning Surveillance Systems and Notification During Pet Food Recalls.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall by regulation establish an early warning and surveillance system to identify adulteration of the pet food supply and outbreaks of illness associated with pet food. In establishing such system, the Secretary shall--
(1) use surveillance and monitoring mechanisms similar to, or in coordination with, those mechanisms used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor human health, such as the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) and PulseNet;
(2) consult with relevant professional associations and private sector veterinary hospitals; and
(3) work with the Health Alert Network and other notification networks to inform veterinarians and relevant stakeholders during any recall of pet food.
The Secretary shall, during an ongoing recall of human or pet food--
(1) work with companies, relevant professional associations, and other organizations to collect and aggregate information pertaining to the recall;
(2) use existing networks of communication including electronic forms of information dissemination to enhance the quality and speed of communication with the public; and
(3) post information regarding recalled products on the Internet website of the Food and Drug Administration in a consolidated, searchable form that is easily accessed and understood by the public.
(a) In General.--The Secretary shall work with the States in undertaking activities and programs that assist in improving the safety of fresh and processed produced so that State food safety programs involving the safety of fresh and processed produce and activities conducted by the Secretaries function in a coordinated and cost-effective manner. With the assistance provided under subsection (b), the Secretary shall encourage States to--
(1) establish, continue, or strengthen State food safety programs, especially with respect to the regulation of retail commercial food establishments; and
(2) establish procedures and requirements for ensuring that processed produce under the jurisdiction of the State food safety programs is not unsafe for human consumption.
(b) Assistance.--The Secretary may provide to a State, for planning, developing, and implementing such a food safety program--
(1) advisory assistance;
(2) technical assistance, training, and laboratory assistance (including necessary materials and equipment); and
(3) financial and other assistance.
(c) Service Agreements.--The Secretary may, under an agreement entered into with a Federal, State, or local agency, use, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, the personnel, services, and facilities of the agency to carry out the responsibilities of the agency under this section. An agreement entered into with a State agency under this subsection may provide for training of State employees.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) In 1994, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (P.L. 103-417) to provide the Food and Drug Administration with the legal framework to ensure that dietary supplements are safe and properly labeled foods.
(2) In 2006, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 109-462) to establish a mandatory reporting system of serious adverse events for non-prescription drugs and dietary supplements sold and consumed in the United States.
(3) The adverse event reporting system created under the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act will serve as the early warning system for any potential public health issues associated with the use of these food products.
(4) A reliable mechanism to track patterns of adulteration in food would support efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to effectively target limited inspection resources to protect the public health.
(b) In General.--Chapter IV of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 341 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) IMPORTER.--The term `importer', with respect to an article of food, means the person who submitted the notice with respect to such article of food under section 801(m).
``(2) RESPONSIBLE PARTY.--The term `responsible party', with respect to an article of food, means any registered food facility under section 415(a), including those responsible for the manufacturing, processing, packaging or holding of such food for consumption in the United States.
``(3) REPORTABLE ADULTERATED FOOD.--The term `reportable adulterated food' for purposes of this section means a food that is adulterated or--
``(A) presents a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death as defined in section 7.3(m)(1) of title, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations); or
``(B) meets the threshold established in section 304(h).
``(b) Establishment.--
``(1) IN GENERAL.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish within the Food and Drug Administration an Adulterated Food Registry to which instances of reportable adulterated food may be submitted by the Food and Drug Administration after receipt of reports of adulteration, via an electronic portal, from--
``(A) Federal, State, and local public health officials;
``(B) an importer;
``(C) a responsible party; or
``(D) a consumer or other individual.
``(2) REVIEW BY SECRETARY.--The Secretary shall review and determine the validity of the information submitted under paragraph (1) for the purposes of identifying adulterated food, submitting entries to the Adulterated Food Registry, acting under subsection (c), and exercising other existing food safety authorities under the Act to protect the public health.
``(c) Issuance of an Alert by the Secretary.--
``(1) IN GENERAL.--The Secretary shall issue an alert with respect to an adulterated food if the Adulterated Food Registry shows that the food--
``(A) has been associated with repeated and separate outbreaks of illness or has been repeatedly determined to be adulterated; or
``(B) is a reportable adulterated food.
``(2) SCOPE OF ALERT.--An alert under paragraph (1) may apply to a particular food or to food from a particular producer, manufacturer, shipper, growing area, or country, to the extent that elements in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) are associated with the particular food, producer, manufacturer, shipper, growing area, or country.
``(d) Submission by a Consumer or Other Individual.--A consumer or other individual may submit a report to the Food and Drug Administration using the electronic portal data elements described in subsection (e). Such reports shall be evaluated by the Secretary as specified in subsection (b)(2).
``(e) Notification and Reporting of Adulteration.--
``(1) DETERMINATION BY RESPONSIBLE PARTY OR IMPORTER.--If a responsible party or importer determines that an article of food it produced, processed, manufactured, distributed, or otherwise handled is a reportable adulterated food, the responsible party shall provide the notifications described under paragraph (2).
``(A) IN GENERAL.--Not later than 5 days after a responsible party or importer receives a notification, the responsible party or importer, as applicable, shall review whether the food referenced in the report described in paragraph (1) is a reportable adulterated food.
``(B) NOTIFICATION.--If a determination is made by such responsible party or importer that the food is a reportable adulterated food, such responsible party or importer shall, no later than 5 days after such determination is made, notify other responsible parties directly linked in the supply chain to which and from which the article of reportable adulterated food was transferred.
``(3) SUBMISSION OF REPORTS TO THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION BY A RESPONSIBLE PARTY OR IMPORTER.--The responsible party or importer, as applicable, shall submit a report to the Food and Drug Administration through the electronic portal using the data elements described in subsection (f) not later than 2 days after a responsible party or importer--
``(A) makes a notification under paragraph (2)(B); or
``(B) determines that an article of food it produced, processed, manufactured, distributed, imported, or otherwise handled is a reportable adulterated food, except that if such adulteration was initiated with such responsible party or importer, was detected prior to any transfer of such article of food, and was destroyed, no report is necessary.
``(f) Data Elements in the Registry.--A report submitted to the Food and Drug Administration electronic portal under subsection (e) shall include the following data elements:
``(1) Contact information for the individual or entity submitting the report.
``(2) The date on which an article of food was determined to be adulterated or suspected of being adulterated.
``(3) A description of the article of food including the quantity or amount.
``(4) The extent and nature of the adulteration.
``(5) The disposition of the article.
``(6) Product information typically found on packaging including product codes, use by dates, and names of manufactures or distributors.
``(7) Information about the place of purchase or process by which the consumer or other individual acquired the article of adulterated food.
``(8) In the case of a responsible party or an importer, the elements required for the registration of food facilities under section 415(a).
``(9) The contact information for parties directly linked in the supply chain and notified under subsection (e)(2).
``(10) In the case of an importer, the elements required for the prior notice of imported food shipments under section 801(m).
``(g) Maintenance and Inspection of Records.--The responsible person or importer shall maintain records related to each report received, notification made, and report submitted to the Food and Drug Administration under this section and permit inspection of such records as provided for in section 414. Such records shall also be made available during an inspection under section 704.
``(h) Request for Information.--Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to any request for information regarding a record in the Adulterated Food Registry.
``(i) Homeland Security Notification.--If, after receiving a report under subsection (e), the Secretary suspects such food may have been deliberately adulterated, the Secretary shall immediately notify the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Secretary shall make the data in the Adulterated Imported Food Registry available to the Secretary of Homeland Security.''.
(c) Definition.--Section 201(ff) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321(ff)) is amended by striking ``section 201(g)'' and inserting ``sections 201(g) and 417''.
(d) Prohibited Acts.--Section 301 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 331), as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following:
``(kk) The failure to provide a report as required under section 417(e)(3).
``(ll) The falsification a report as required under section 417(e)(3).''.
(e) Suspected Food Adulteration Regulations.--The Secretary shall, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, promulgate regulations that establish standards and thresholds by which importers and responsible parties shall be required and consumers may be able to, under section 417 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (as added by this section)--
(1) report instances of suspected reportable adulteration of food to the Food and Drug Administration for possible inclusion in the Adulterated Food Registry after evaluation of such report; and
(2) notify, in keeping with subsection (e)(2) of such section 417, other responsible parties directly linked in the supply chain, including establishments as defined in section 415(b) of such Act.
(f) Effective Date.--The requirements of section 417(e) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by subsection (a), shall become effective 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) it is vital for Congress to provide the Food and Drug Administration with additional resources, authorities, and direction with respect to ensuring the safety of the food supply of the United States;
(2) additional inspectors are required to improve the Food and Drug Administration's ability to safeguard the food supply of the United States;
(3) because of the increasing volume of international trade in food products the Secretary of Health and Human Services should make it a priority to enter into agreements with the trading partners of the United States with respect to food safety; and
(4) the Senate should work to develop a comprehensive response to the issue of food safety.
The Secretary shall, on an annual basis, submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report that includes, with respect to the preceding 1-year period--
(1) the number and amount of food products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration imported into the United States, aggregated by country and type of food;
(2) a listing of the number of Food and Drug Administration inspectors of imported food products referenced in paragraph (1) and the number of Food and Drug Administration inspections performed on such products; and
(3) aggregated data on the findings of such inspections, including data related to violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), and enforcement actions used to follow-up on such findings and violations.
Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be construed to affect--
(1) the regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act; or
(2) the adverse event reporting system for dietary supplements created under the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title (and the amendments made by this title) such sums as may be necessary.
(As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on May 2, 2007.)


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A low-level, migrant archaeologist who works on Cultural Resource Management(CRM) projects and survives on a relatively low wage (for someone with a BA) plus per diem. Low wages and transient lifestyle are often overcome by living in their pick-up truck or camping. The term is generally pejorative when used by non-professionals but is used pridefully by archaeologists as a mark of having paid one's dues and having done true dirt archaeology (as opposed to academic archaeology) for dirt pay. It is considered a rite of passage.
A shovelbum is the opposite of an archaeostitute.
A shovelbum is the opposite of an archaeostitute.
by Matt Vaccaro December 15, 2006
An Archaeoligist that is over-zealos about field work. esp. a male archaeologist. Probably made popular by a so titled 'zine about archaeological field life that was created by Trent de Boer in 1997
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/facepalm....yes, thanks, im well aware. lol
/facepalm....yes, thanks, im well aware. lol
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
So apparently Arnold Palmer's began in the 1960's...or atleast the name give of the beverage.
Mood: WOOF!
I never knew this. My whole life I thought an Arnold Palmer was some kind of an early day alcoholic beverage, like a mimosa.
Is this weird?...I love potato salad, tuna, all made with mayo. But if I have like a ham & cheese (or any other type of sandwich) I WILL ABSOLUTELY VOMIT if there is mayo on it.


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A golf term used to describe a shot hit out of bounds where there are houses. (Presumably containing milfs whose wealthy husbands are working to pay for the house on the golf course.)
"Looks like you hit a milf-rattler Dude, that shot definitely hit a house."
by kromar5 July 27, 2006


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When worlds collide
He invited his friends, Dug and Brad. I tried to warn them all that I am a flailing klutz, a timid one at that, on a mountain bike. I have stamina but no skills. "Think of your 6-year-old niece and take me where you'd take her," I told them. Maybe I forgot to tell them that. Either way, I showed up with my Karate Monkey, which is currently having front brake problems, and Elden offered to let me borrow his Gary Fisher Superfly - a full-carbon rigid singlespeed superbike. I picked it up and it weighed less than my Camelbak. On top of that, Elden offered to let me borrow his brand new Specialized bike shoes to go with the clipless pedals attached to the Superfly. The only problem - I've never ridden a singlespeed; I can't ride clipless to save my life. And, oh yeah, I have a 6-year-old's skills on singletrack. No matter. I was too busy drooling to notice.
I only fell twice on the climb, mostly because my trained-for-distance-but-not-power legs stalled out on some of the steeper pitches and I couldn't get out of the clipless pedals, so down I went. Elden was being amazingly patient about how ridiculous I must have looked. But I could feel the shame burning through ... "I thought you were that chick that rode the Iditarod. What's wrong with you?" But the fear took over by the time we reached the top of Jacob's Ladder, and from there I didn't care how silly I looked. I was going to ride the brakes, keep my right foot free from the pedal and get down alive. I still took one fall on a boulder near the bottom. I felt horrible about crashing the Superfly. I think I would have preferred to break an ankle over breaking that one-of-a-kind frame, which was light enough to be made out of Styrofoam and looked like it would bend if you flicked it with your finger. But, luckily, all looked well. If that bike can hold up to my lack of mad skillz, it can probably handle anything.
Elden shot video the whole time and I'm terrified what might turn up on his ultra-popular blog. But the blood and humiliation was all worth it to have a chance to meet the master. I learned a few things about the Fat Cyclist:
1. He's just as nice in person as he is on his blog.
2. He'll make fun of you if you deserve it, but it always comes out in a friendly way that lets you laugh at yourself.
3. He gives away free stuff in real life just like he does on his blog. After my rather disastrous clipless run, I mentioned I was thinking about clipless pedals for the Great Divide. He offered to let me borrow a pair of his shoes (a size too large, perfect for my frostbitten toes) and see how they work out for me. Also, Brad brought me a bag full of CarboRocket drink mix. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I plan to take it with me this weekend to the hot, hot desert, and I'll report back.
4. He's not lying about the quality of the Corner Canyon trails. The amount of singletrack really is amazing in its awesomeness as well as its proximity to the city. His friends helped build several of those trails.
5. He's not fat.
I finished out the day with a jaunt up Little Cottonwood Canyon and descended at sunset. Tomorrow I head to St. George to get some work done on my bike, visit a couple of friends,visit my grandpa and just enjoy a few days in the Land of Zion. I'm expecting more heat and sun, which feels a little less horrible every day.


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Availability: In leading software retail outlets nationwide fourth
quarter, 2002
Platform: Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft, NTSC/ - U.S.
Genre: 3-D Action Mech
The year is 2025, and the Japanese government, in order to cope with the
massive air pollution and Tokyo's massive economic losses, transfers the
capital to "Neo Tokyo," a dome city built on the Tokyo Harbor. Abandoned
"Old Tokyo" becomes the battleground for "Rumbling," a popular new sport.
In Rumbling, contenders face each other while riding highly mobile armored
land vehicles called "Scoobees," and receive fortune and fame by
destroying others.
Game Features:
-Phantagram Interactive
Developer: Genki
Price: Approximately $50
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When, after giving anal sex, the man takes his penis and wipes poo around the girls chin to make it look like a mutton chop.
(I made this up myself)
(I made this up myself)
"My girlfriend looked hilarious after I gave her that mutton slop."
by DatSexyBeast100 February 23, 2010


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Publisher: EA.com
Developer: Synthetic.ea.com / Anim-X
Ship Date: Spring 2001
Category: Adventure/Online
Product Description
You only use 12% of your brain. Mind if we play with the rest?
Majestic™ is an exclusive online entertainment experience that places
players in the center of a grand, sinister conspiracy, an unfolding
mystery-adventure where the line between reality and fantasy is quickly
Majestic combines internet applications, powerful content and groundbreaking
server technology to redefine online gaming. Unlike any other form of
entertainment, Majestic actively pursues and interacts with the player
in real time, based on events developing within the fiction, creating
a unique and suspenseful entertainment experience.
Majestic delivers its engrossing, cutting-edge experience through familiar
devices such as the user's web browser, AOL's Instant Messenger service,
e-mail, the telephone and fax. Using these tools the player is placed
at the center of his or her own intricate mystery, suspense thriller.
The Majestic player assumes the leading role, interacting with other
characters, uncovering clues, solving puzzles, searching for answers,
resolving challenges, all which engages the player and drives the plot
At its core, Majestic is an adventure game, complete with puzzles and
proven game mechanics to draw players deeper into the experience. Many
of the game elements in Majestic are made possible by digital objects;
interactive virtual items that the user discovers and archives for use
later in the adventure.
Majestic does not require a PC-CD ROM or large download; it uses the
best capabilities of the Internet to enable a smooth and completely
unique online entertainment experience.
Initiating a milestone in the evolution of interactive entertainment,
Majestic is an episodic experience that will roll out monthly. The first
season is planned to feature a total of nine episodes, including a free
pilot episode available to anyone who has an Internet connection. Majestic
will be part of the EA Platinum Service, exclusively available on EA.com.
Registration on the site is free, but players will subscribe to the
$9.99 per month service in order to play the full Majestic episodes.
Key Features


text: IMO the referee was right to blow the whistle in order to protect Gordeeva and Grinkov from an injury. However, when they did not stop and completed the program without falling, I can't see why they should be disqualified. They didn't put anyone else in danger. There may be many reasons why they did not stop. One shouldn't compare 1987 with today. In the days when there was no GP circuit, G/G had had very little exposure to international competition (she was 15) and possibly they had never seen a case in which the referee blew his whistle and didn't know what it meant. Secondly, they may not have heard it at all, since the crowd was very noisy and it could be mistaken for something they were doing. Thirdly, they may have thought there was a music problem and may not have dared stopped their routine, especially since apparently their coach told them to carry on and the crowd was encouraging them. The referee should have made an announcement through the microphone, if he really wanted to stop them. The only time the whistle was blown for safety reasons while I was watching a competition live, neither I nor my friends noticed it, the skaters didn't stop and they were not penalised. I learned about it later on. This isn't some sort of dictatorship, decisions should make sense.


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12 Week old GSD agression.
Hello, i am a new owner of a 12 week old GSD. I have had the dog for 5 days now and i have not seen any aggression except for the nipping when playing around with hes toys. Today i took him to Petco to socialize and help him explore a little and everything went great. He had the chance to see other dogs and people. Everything was going great.
I figured why not take him to the dog park to meet my friend with a 8 month old GSD. It was around 2:30pm that we met up. This was the day im ever taking my dog out of the house premises, and the first time i took him to Petco and also the first time he is meeting my friends 8 month old GSD. To make a long story short, i take Crixus my dog out of the car to meet Pash my friends dog. As soon as they started smelling each other my dog jumped on the other GSD and almost bit his nose. He then started barking non stop to the point of where i had no control of him. Pash my friends dog was always calm, submissive and relaxed. My dog was the opposite.
So we then proceeded to the park, i was following them with Crixus on the leash next to me. The whole time he was barking and very hyper. When other dogs came close by he would bark and try to attack them. At one point i tried to get his attention by touching him while very aggressively barking at the other dog and he almost bit me.
This was very embarrassing. At no point i had any control over him. At no point he stopped barking. At no point did he calm down. It got to the point where he would try to bite other people who would try to pet him.
What should i do, i am very disappointed. My friend said that hes GSD was very quiet at 12 weeks.
Thanks for your time.
Miri, you're going to get a lot of replies to your post, some of them probably rude, fussing at you for how you handled that situation. However, you do need some advice and help, so please read it all carefully, don't get your feelings hurt, and do some research on this site for help on how to train your "reactive dog" not to be reactive.
Basically, you overloaded your dog with too much stimulus too early in your relationship. Your dog needs you to be a leader he is close to and he trusts, so he can rely upon you to be his protector and he can trust you to take him only into safe situations. If he doesn't have this relationship to you he has to then decide on his own how to react to strange and threatening situations. In this case he felt threatened by Pash and the other dogs in the park and reacted in the way dogs naturally react--he became aggressive and unfriendly.
You need to read about the "two-week shutdown" and learn the principle behind it. Basically, you need to devote several weeks to establishing a trusting bond with your dog, just you and him.THEN and only then should you begin introducing him to small, secure, fun outings--short walks, meeting only one stranger or one friendly dog at a time, etc. As he gets used to these stimuli, and becomes more trusting of you, he will relax and begin to act more calmly around them.
Your concern is admirable, but your post seems to say that you are very confused about how to raise and train a dog. That is OK--we all start off that way--but you MUST educate yourself with lots of study on how your dog thinks and reacts and train yourself to be an appropriate owner.
Good luck!
A twelve week old pup should not need a 2-week shut down, maybe one week, but socialization episodes should be kept short and positive and whether training or socializing, less is better, quit when the dog is still looking for more.
I agree that the dog was over-loaded and that he did not know you well enough for that level of trust. Try not to worry too much about it, and next time just go to the store or just go to the park. Take it easy.
Also, whenever you feel like you have no control over your dog, back away from whatever you are doing -- not literally. But if you felt you had no control in the parking lot, you should not have gone for a walk with the two dogs. Your pup needs to know you are in control. So, what I would have done was to at that point crated the pup in the vehicle and told my friend that I probably did too much with him already.
Don't feel too bad. l know that when I had a good time at one pet store, I went to another with the pup, and trying to get the most for my gas, I then went to a third. Then I talked to this woman for about 25 minutes while her child danced around and kept dancing toward the dog. Finally the poor pup had had enough and barked at the girl, it woke me up to what I was doing wrong.
Looking forward to the responses. 12 weeks seems. VERY young for aggression, even if it is from fear. Did you get your dog from a breeder? Have you talked to the breeder about this?
Eta- by looking forward to the responses, I mean to learn more myself from the more knowledgable members here.
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Do you think i have made a permanent scar on the pup from what happened today.
My friend took him out at the same age and he said there was no aggression whatsoever and he only had pash for 3 days at that time.
Every dog is different. Your dog might be reading body language of the other dog. Just because the dog seems calm, it may have been giving him the stink eye. It could also be that your pup has been secluded in a kennel situation and is not socialized at all to outside dogs. It sounds like he was ok in the pet store though -- I cannot remember if he met other dogs there.
Permanent scars are something I really don't believe in. I think that when the dog has a bad experience, we also have a bad experience. I think that tomorrow, the dog will remember and associate things about the situation, but they also take vibes from us. I think we have a harder time getting over things than our dogs do sometimes, and, well, we often transmit that to the dog by tensing up, or getting nervous, expecting the pup to act up.
Also, if the other dog or person backs up or goes away, when our dog acts like an idiot, than they have just learned that acting like an idiot makes what they want happen. I think that the best thing to do, is to step out confidently, and if the pup starts to react, say EH! and with a little tug on the collar keep moving forward and away from the item that he reacted to. Next time try to stay a little farther away. Even if the dog is moving in my direction, I would not turn around and walk the other way, or make my dog sit and stay. I would angle myself forward and away from the other dog, but keep going.
When on a bike path -- bikes are something dogs often react to. I listen for the bikes, or skateboards, and before the dog reacts, I steer him off the path and put him in a sit, allowing the dog to see the approach, but he is on task. I have told him to sit and stay, and I have only him there, and if necessary and he breaks his sit-stay, I can help him get into position again, and keep him there.
I don't like the idea that you feel you have no control over a 12 week old puppy. I suggest getting yourself in training classes with the dog post-haste. If you cannot control a baby, a ten or twelve month old adolescent with no manners will be a danger to society.
Someone once told me, at 12weeks dont take out your dog to the dog park, they can attract diseases from other dogs.. at least thats what he said :P
I feel really bad about crixus :( but when we first got shadow, we went straight to basic commands. Did you try that? I am not much of an expert, but ill try helping :).. build a relationship with your pup, make yourself his leader.
You say he is really hyper? Maybe thats why seeing pash he kinda jumped and barked... a LOT!
Goodluck with crixus :)
When our dog acts like an idiot, than they have just learned that acting like an idiot makes what they want happen. I think that the best thing to do, is to step out confidently, and if the pup starts to react, say EH! and with a little tug on the collar keep moving forward and away..."
Couldn't be said any better
Let me just say that i appreciate all of the comments. At this point i'm scared that my pup will grow up to be very fearful and aggressive towards other dogs, adults and worse kids. I will have to take things slower from now on. I think this might have been to much at one time for Crixus.
As far as basic obedience, i'm teaching him to sit, stay, leave it, not to pull on the leash and housebreaking.
I have been by Crixus side since the day i got him.
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The Pulaski Technical College Foundation hosted its 2nd annual Business of Art event on Thursday, raising more than $50,000 in scholarship funds.
More than 225 people enjoyed an evening of music, art, food and entertainment and live and silent auctions in the Campus Center Grand Hall where area artists showcased their talents at an art exposition.
This year's honorees were acclaimed glassblower James Hayes, who owns and operates the James Hayes Art Glass Company in Pine Bluff, and Little Rock businesswoman Renata Byler, vice president of Roller Funeral Homes.
Guest artists included painter Theresa Cates and sculptors Jennifer Hodges and Bryan Windred Massey, Sr.
Special musical entertainment was provided by Lawrence Hamilton, an Arkansas native, whose career has spanned more than three decades of singing, dancing, arranging and directing. Accompanied by pianist Dell Smith, Hamilton performed two numbers, "Tonight" from West Side Story and "Everything Must Change," first made popular by Quincy Jones.
"The Business of Art provides money for greatly needed scholarships for students in the Business and Fine Arts Departments," said Dr. Dan F. Bakke, college president. "We're grateful to the honorees, to our talented artists, to our donors and to attendees who are helping create opportunities for our students."
Proceeds from last year's Business of Art event are currently providing full-tuition scholarships to two Pulaski Technical College students - Susanna Garcia and Catina Flowers. Both ladies spoke during the event and expressed their appreciation for the scholarships that have enabled them to attend college.
The event began at 6 p.m. with a reception in the Campus Center foyer. Guests were served jumbo stuffed shrimp, Sicilian chicken strips, red wine mushroom caps, crudities with spinach dip, fruit and cheese, and an assortment of desserts, including chocolate cr? brulee, chocolate strawberries and cake.
Hayes donated a hand-blown glass bowl hat was sold during a live auction event. Other items sold at the live auction included a piece by the honoree for last year's Business of Art, Kevin Cole, and painter Theresa Cates. Additional funds were raised during a silent auction that featured more than 40 packages of goods and services.
Melody and Steve Stanley, owners of Red Door Gallery in North Little Rock, chaired this year's event while KARK Channel 4 anchor Sonseeahray Tonsall served as emcee. Event sponsors were Roller Funeral Homes, Glazer's Distributors of Arkansas, Arkansas Business, Ben E. Keith, Inviting Arkansas, the Heritage Company and Twin City Bank.
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Directed by Thomas Bezucha
Starring Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, Cory Monteith
What would you do if you were mistaken for someone else and offered an all-expenses-paid trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco? Would you play along? If you're a small-town Texas girl like Grace (played by Gomez), you just might! Grace, her stepsister Meg (Meester) and her best friend Emma (Cassidy) have been saving up for a summer trip to Paris. But their dream vacation quickly spirals into a big disappointment when one thing after another goes wrong.
Things start looking up, however, when Grace is mistaken for a wealthy British heiress named Cordelia, who is scheduled to be in Monte Carlo. Wanting to give her friends the European adventure they had hoped for, Grace pretends to be the spoiled socialite. But when the real Cordelia shows up, will the girls be able to talk themselves out of this pickle? One thing's for sure: it's a vacation they'll never forget!
So, what was it like for Gomez to go from playing a nice wizard like Alex on Wizards of Waverly Place to a not-so-nice heiress like Cordelia? "It was liberating!" she told TFK. "Cordelia is so mean and awful. It was exciting for me to play something different." Click here for the full interview.
Did You Know?
Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts were originally set to play the lead roles in the movie until the producers decided they wanted to rewrite the script for a younger cast.


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#11 Thu 27 Dec 12 1:56pm
- Forum champ Occupation Musician
- From NYC
- Member since Fri 12 Dec 08
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
I too really enjoy cooking Christmas dinner, or any dinner really.
Mummza, telling me about those creamy chestnuts!
You know, it turned out to be a good thing that our oven broke down. Keeping the prime rib outside really freed up my kitchen It was a 4-boned roast but I deboned it and it only took 2hrs to cook to a beautiful medium rare. I used the bones the previous day to make a lovely stock out of which I made soup that day, held some stock for the Christmas jus, and stocked my freezer too. Deboned is the way to go in a pinch.
#12 Thu 27 Dec 12 2:42pm
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- From Scotland
- Member since Mon 12 Sep 11
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
We had pancakes (drop scones) while opening our presents (reheated from the day before, I can't be bothered with pancake batter on Christmas morning) and then porridge to set us up for the day.
For lunch we had the standard Christmas dinner:
Vegetable broth (thanks Mum!)
Turkey (steamed in slow cooker then browned in the oven, skin was lovely and crispy, breast meat a hair overcooked but it's difficult to get it just right if you go gallivanting while it's cooking - it was a bit over temp when it came out of the slow cooker! Never mind)
Ham (a lovely free range ham from a nearby farm - we had planned to steam and bake, but it took longer than expected so we ended up just boiling it and not baking)
Roast potatoes - these were AMAZING - I parboiled, fluffed and froze them 2 days before and tipped them into hot fat while still frozen - the CRISPIEST roasties I have ever had, as well as the easiest, took no longer to roast than usual, will definitely do this again!
Carrots braised with butter, honey and pepper; green beans braised with lemon juice and honey; and sprouts. I just steamed them in the end, this worked well as they took the same time to steam as we took to eat our soup;
Sausages from the same farm as the ham;
Gravy made with the fabulous jellied stock you get in the bottom of the slow cooker when you steam a bird;
And stuffing. I cheated. I am not ashamed. Thank you, Paxo!
Yesterday we had a big family pot luck, as is our tradition. We took meatballs in tomato sauce, made with turkey mince for the sake of my MIL, who can't have beef or much fat; she can have pork or lamb but they are usually too fatty in mince form.
#13 Thu 27 Dec 12 11:16pm
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
No Thistledo my family don't get sick of turkey , I get one that is between 12 and 14 lbs but it never seems to last long .
We tend to get one roast meal on Christmas Day and they do raid it a bit later in the evening.
One cold meat meal , usually with the bubble and squeak on Boxing Day.
A large pan of soup
And a pie.
They always complain when it's all gone !
Last edited by mummza (Sat 29 Dec 12 6:38am)
#14 Fri 28 Dec 12 8:05am
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- Member since Mon 29 Dec 08
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
mummza wrote:
Yesterday we had bubble and squeek made with the left over vegetables and they had cold turkey and cold ham to go with it .
That's what I really miss by eating out. The left overs!
Good luck and Happy New Year.
#15 Fri 28 Dec 12 9:30am
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- From Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Member since Thu 23 Oct 08
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
The usual roast lunch.
Pork with crackling, glazed ham and a stuffed chicken.
Served with rosemary potatoes, white and orange sweet potato, pumpkin, plus steamed cobs of corn, beans, parsnips, carrots.
Apple sauce, gravy and cranberry sauce.
All served on large platters for people to help themselves.
Dessert was trifle and ice cream and a few chocolates.
We did have a lot of leftovers but that is half the fun of it, being creative with the remains of Christmas lunch.
#16 Fri 28 Dec 12 10:52am
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Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
beerforyorky wrote:
mummza wrote:
Yesterday we had bubble and squeek made with the left over vegetables and they had cold turkey and cold ham to go with it .
That's what I really miss by eating out. The left overs!
Good luck and Happy New Year.
It's always what the family look forward to . They love eating the leftovers .
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#17 Sat 29 Dec 12 4:05am
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- Member since Sun 25 Nov 07
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
Thistledo wrote:
Mummza, I gave up roasting a turkey some years ago. I've always thought it very overrated and that the attraction was the accompaniments; pigs in blankets, sprouts with chestnuts//bacon, bread and cranberry sauce, etc.
We usually have a lovely joint of sirloin but because of health issues this year, decided on something quick, like the steaks. We weren't disappointed but I miss my sirloin.
Don't you all get sick of turkey by the end of December? Perhaps you put the remainder in the freezer to enjoy later?
Thistledo, I agree about turkey being overrated
We slow roasted baby back ribs in the oven and served them with roasted potatoes & salad. Then we had a nice big chocolate layer cake with vanilla ice cream for pudding.
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#18 Sat 29 Dec 12 12:19pm
- Member Occupation Food Technologist
- From The Netherlands
- Member since Sat 19 Feb 05
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
Well, 2/3 of the family was ill, so they weren't hungry at all.
To make it Christmas nonetheless I made an excellent steak and ale pie with some mashed potato and some veggies. I was planning on making creme brulee for dessert but skipped it because nobody was hungry anymore (in fact I think I ate half of the steak pie)
#19 Sat 29 Dec 12 4:50pm
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Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
Christmas Dinner: Herbed Goat Cheese, Pate, Crackers for starters. Roasted Peking Duck stuffed with Apples (Peking Breed, not dish) Giblet Gravy, Braised Red Cabbage, Steamed Broccoli, Field Greens dressed with Walnut oil vinaigrette. Dessert - Forgotten Kisses
For Boxing Day: Cold Roast Duck, Basque-style duck mousse, Field Greens, Marinated Red Cabbage, homemade Pickled Onions, Cumberland Sauce and Bengali Chutney, Bread.
I had enough duck to make 'arroz de pato' and enough duck liver to make pate. The other pate and mousse were purchased - the Basque-style was fantastic, will have to splurge on that again next year.
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#20 Sat 29 Dec 12 6:40pm
- Member Occupation Chief cook and bottle-washer
- From Scotland
- Member since Mon 12 Sep 11
Re: What was Christmas Dinner?
MsPablo wrote:
Dessert - Forgotten Kisses
This sounds intriguing, poignant and rather sad. Any chance of a recipe?
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
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Gorgeous! Just looked - no wonder, you live in paradise! Your area of the country is wonderful!
They are wonderful. Bags would be a wonderful idea.
Beautiful, I really like them.
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This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
Wonderfully done.
Very nice... I bought a book about this, hope to give it a try...
It looks hard...
WOW Jill, I think you did a spectacular job here. Way to go girl!!


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[quote user="ShockeyShow"][quote user="elitime"]Taking another CB two years in a row? Thomas must be signed, but there are a bunch a free agent CB and S out there after the seaon. I know the Giants don;t really make huge waves in the free agent market but I think to pick another CB and groom them to be a starter its hit and miss, Flowers and Carr from KC were looking like 2 of the best but this season not so much. Those kind of postion players are hard to have an everyday count on him player.Webster,Thomas Prince, Rolle,KP, when all are heathly could be top DB field in NFL. O-line a must and Linebackers are a huge need. Remember Taylor, Pepper, Banks, Reasons? Wish we could have backers like that again. Imagine the way our front 4 are then 1 or 2 linebackers that can play up to the front 4 level. Wow! Maybe a pipe dream but it's a dream.[/quote]
I couldnt agree more. We have much more pressing needs at MLB and OLine. We should wait a ccouple years to draft a sure-thing at db like Tyrann Mathieu from LSU and spend our picks on some big time LBs like Upashaw, Hightower or Burfict[/quote]
Mathieu will never get drafted by the giants. He's a midget at 5'9 probably more like 5'8 and he got abused in the national championship game because of his size.


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Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to other services, including Six Apart's TypePad blogging service. After that, Vox will be gone.
If you've got a Vox blog, there are several export options — Six Apart has instructions for moving to TypePad, Posterous and WordPress. There's also an option to move your photos and videos over to Flickr.
Of course none of those services quite combine the privacy and small social network features that endeared Vox to users, but at least you can retrieve your content in some form.
The export options also make no mention of the fact that Vox is an OpenID provider, which means that, presumably, when your Vox URL is gone, your OpenID is gone with it. That means any site you've signed into using your Vox account will no longer let you sign in. In some cases that could mean a total loss of access to the third-party site — exactly the sort of thing OpenID is supposed to help prevent.
UPDATE: Six Apart vice president Michael Sippey responds to this issue in the comments. We've added it here:
Quick note. Vox will continue to serve as an OpenID provider through September 30. If a Vox user chooses to migrate their blog to TypePad, OpenID requests at the original Vox address will delegate to TypePad for authentication.
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