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Chakli, a favorite snack from Maharashtra and Southern India is enjoyed by everyone across India. Each and everybody has their own method of preparing this crunchy snack and the end result is a delicious product. I remember the days when I was in India and we would prepare chaklis every Diwali. Being surrounded by neighbors that were Maharashtrians and South Indians, we tried a different recipe every time expecting to have the best chaklis to eat and distribute. So each year we used a borrowed recipe and made this snack. Sometimes they turned out good and other times they were crispy on the outside and kind of soggy on the inside.
I have been in the United States for a very long time and I had a hard time finding good Chaklis here in Ohio. The craving was so much that I had to work on a recipe that would be easy for me. It took me quite some time to make up this recipe. Each year I added and omitted ingredients to make changes. I finally came up with a recipe for Chakli that was easy and the ingredients were readily available. All the ingredients that I have used in this recipe are regular kitchen pantry ingredients.
I make this snack for my son every year. Chaklis are his favorite snack and he says they are Chakris. The word Chakri actually comes from the word chakra (a Sanskrit word) which means a circle that turns around (like a wheel). My son is such a picky eater and it is hard for me to think of something for his evening snack and often I ask him should I make some Chakris. His reply is Chakris should be made only during Diwali time that's when they taste like Chakris.
Even though it is not a Sindhi recipe it is a favorite snack of my family. Often when I take this snack for a Diwali party, I notice people eating the crumbs too. Diwali is being celebrated this week and so here is a my version, recipe of Chakli, a snack that not only my son likes very much but pretty much loved by others too…
· 2½ cups Rice Flour
· 1 ½ cups Besan (Gram Flour)
· 1 stick unsalted butter
· ½ Tsp Red Chili Powder
· ½ Tsp Jeera(Cumin Seeds)
· 1Heaped Tbsp White Til (Sesame Seeds)
· 2 cups Boiling Water
· Oil for frying
· Chakli Press/Maker
· Salt to Taste
Note: 1) If unsalted butter is not available please use salt accordingly.
2) If you are going to use Indian butter then use quarter of the 500gm package and go easy on the salt.
· Mix rice flour and besan. Sift and keep aside.
· In a pan heat 2½ cups of water. Bring to boil and reduce to 2 cups.
· Then add salt according to your taste into this pot of boiling water.
· Turn heat off and add butter, red chili powder, til, Jeera and the sifted flours.
· Cover pot and let it stand for about 10-12 mins. Do not stir or do anything.
· Open the covered pot and mix all the ingredients and form soft dough. Knead the dough for a few minutes.
· Rub some oil on the inside of the chakli press. Take a ball about the size of a large orange and fill into the chakli press.
· On a wax paper make round chaklis by pressing out the dough. Form it into round swirls starting from inside going out giving it the chakli shape.(This step requires some practice to get the perfect shape)
· Heat the oil in a kadai/frying pan. Gently slide the chaklis in hot oil and deep fry until golden brown in color. Drain and let cool.
· When cooled to room temperature, store in airtight containers.
· Enjoy Chaklis during Diwali or anytime.
Keep it simple, keep it Sindhi.

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Binghamton University receives national recognition for community service Named to honor roll with distinction
BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. This is the fourth consecutive year that Binghamton has made the Honor Roll and the first time the University has been recognized with Distinction. Binghamton is also the only SUNY campus to have been named to the honors roll with distinction listing.
"I am very proud of the efforts of Binghamton University students," said Lois B. DeFleur, Binghamton University president. "They are involved in a broad range of community service partnership projects that greatly serve and enhance our region. These partnerships include providing tutoring and mentoring programs in area schools, collecting food and clothing for area assistance agencies, and volunteering at local hospitals and family support facilities."
The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual Honor Roll award, recognized more than 700 colleges and universities for their impact on issues from poverty and homelessness to environmental justice. On campuses across the country, thousands of students joined their faculty to develop innovative programs and projects to meet local needs using the skills gained in their classrooms. At Binghamton University students contribute annually more than 275,000 volunteer and internship hours, which equates to more than a $7.8 million impact on the Greater Binghamton economy.
"Congratulations to Binghamton University and its students for their dedication to service and commitment to improving their local communities," said Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "Our nation's students are a critical part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle the most persistent challenges we face. They have achieved impactful results and demonstrated the value of putting knowledge into practice to help renew America through service."
Binghamton University receives national recognition for community service
College students make a significant contribution to the volunteer sector; in 2009, 3.16 million students performed more than 300 million hours of service, according to the Volunteering in America study released by the Corporation. Each year, the Corporation invests more than $150 million in fostering a culture of service on college campuses through grants awarded by its programs; the education awards that AmeriCorps members receive at the conclusion of their term of service to pay for college; and through support of training, research, recognition, and other initiatives to spur college service.
Corporation oversees the Honor Roll, which was launched in 2006, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council on Education.


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In a land riven with plague, in the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control – the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation.
And when two star-crossed lovers, one from either house, threaten the status quo, a third, shadowy power – one that forever seems a step ahead of all of the familial warring – plots and schemes, and bides its time, ready for the moment to attack…
File Under: Fantasy [ Wherefore Art Thou | Fathers of Invention | Unexpected Journeys | Secrets & Lies ]
Cover Art: Steve Stone
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Book Info:
UK Print
Date: 3rd July 2014
Format: Medium (B-Format) Paperback
North American Print
Date: 24th June 2014
Format: Large (Trade) Paperback
Date: 24th June 2014
Format: Epub & Mobi
More Books in This Series:
2. The Floating City (July 2015)
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Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | BarnesandNoble.com | IndieBound.org
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Robot Trading Company
Author Info:
Craig Cormick: craigcormick.com
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Praise and Reviews:
"The Shadow Master is one of the best written books that I have come across in a long time when you look at the narration and writing style that Craig Cormick uses it is just impossible to let this book down for just a few minutes. The whole idea behind the story of The Shadow Master again is something that I haven't encountered in a long while, yes I read fairy tale adaptations but a retelling of Romeo and Juliet wasn't something that I had dared to imagine. And lets above all not forget the ever presence of two of histories most adapt inventors: Da Vinci and Galileo. Pretty cool and Craig Cormick really knows how to build the right setting for the occasion. I have high hopes for the sequel."
– The Book Plank
"What I did not expect when I first read the synopsis for this novel was Cormick's dark sense of humor. This is a story filled with assassins, murders, kidnappings, and both graphic and unsettling visuals. But even in some of the darkest parts of the book I found myself laughing out loud. I guess if I would have to make up a genre for The Shadow Master it would be called acid grimdark."
– Avid Fantasy Reviews
"I recommend you to read The Shadow Master, a story that takes an adventure where love is the key for everything; happiness, justice, revenge, and always does what is better for the everyone. Read of a land lost to diseases and a battle for power where there is more than just two adversaries but much more hidden in the shadows."
– Open Book Society
"I really enjoyed my time spent with The Shadow Master. The dynamic between the two families was interesting and I loved the rivalry – that wasn't really one – between Leonardo and Galileo. There were also some fun nods to some of their real historic works and inventions. I especially loved the way Cormick incorporated The Vitruvian Man in the story. The idea that magic is as much artifice as it is alchemical was intriguing, especially considering that one doesn't need to have any nebulous aptitude, but just have a rigorous mind. Additionally, here is magic that isn't without cost. It'll be interesting to see if this magic system will be transferred to the next book or if Cormick creates a different one".
– A Fantastical Librarian


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Summer research
Not everyone spends the lazy, crazy days at the beach
By Chris Jenkins
Dr. Ed Blumenthal studies a gene in fruit flies that, when absent, causes the fruit fly to have a fatal deficiency in developing certain body tissues and structures. It's called the "drop dead" gene. His summer research student is examining results of experiments the associate professor of biological sciences conducted to figure out how the mutation affects other genes. Across campus, in the College of Nursing, Dr. Ruth Ann Belknap is researching a human toll on immigrants who cross the border without permission, while another summer research project, this one undertaken by Dr. John Borg in the College of Engineering, is revisiting some original experiments in fluid dynamics.
Sure, school is out and the weather may be more conducive to lying on a beach or attending a festival than sitting at a lab bench, but for many students and faculty, the work continues.
Here is a snapshot of some of the projects Marquette researchers are leading in libraries and labs across campus. Summer, they say, is a prime time to involve undergraduate students in research that will broaden their skills and hopefully whet their appetites for advanced scholarship.
Fruit flies, worms and bacteria
Blumenthal directs the summer research program for the Department of Biological Sciences in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.
Fourteen students, including six from Marquette and eight from other institutions, are on campus working with biological sciences faculty on research, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. Each student is assigned to a different faculty lab where they will spend weeks gaining firsthand experience with research. For students who came to Marquette from other institutions as part of the federal grant, the summer program may encourage them to pursue graduate studies here.
Blumenthal welcomed a student from the Milwaukee School of Engineering to assist in his research of the drop dead gene in fruit flies. Another MSOE student is working with assistant professor Dr. Lisa Petrella to study how microscopic worms respond to temperature changes. The species studied becomes sterile at higher temperatures. A "forced evolution" experiment raises the temperature just short of sterility to see how the worms evolve over several generations to compensate and become more fertile.
"So, when you're looking at things like climate change how animals are going to respond to changing temperatures this is really important," Blumenthal says.
Another student joined assistant professor Dr. Martin St. Maurice on a study designed to determine whether proteins in a particular type of bacteria combine to make it more infectious and harmful.
Bringing classic experiments to life
Dr. John Borg wants to show students that you don't always need high-tech gadgets to demonstrate the fundamentals of engineering. The associate professor of mechanical engineering designed a project for students to revisit classic engineering experiments using original documents as a guide to recreate them.
This summer's projects center around the study of fluid dynamics and recreating five classic experiments some of them as simple as injecting ink and water into a pipe to detect patterns of turbulence.
"The original experiments that were done in the 1800s are kind of lost in the sense that people don't do those experiments any more," explains Borg.
He sees the projects as part of a "first source" movement in education in which students draw knowledge from an original manuscript rather than a contemporary textbook.
"In some ways, they're easier to read than current textbooks because they didn't understand these concepts, so they talked through it at great length," Borg says. "I think it's pretty accessible for students to read these things."
But not everything in the summer research program is old school. Students also are learning how to use the College of Engineering's high-speed camera and wind tunnel. The college is funding the summer program but plans to apply for NSF funding and draw students from other institutions.
"I want to create a culture of research within the college among students," Borg says.
Immigration stories
As the U.S. government and the American people wrestle with immigration law, Belknap, an associate professor of nursing, and nursing junior Christian Villanueva teamed up to study the trauma suffered by women who are apprehended in the Arizona desert while attempting to cross the U.S. Mexico border without proper documents.
Villanueva experienced the difficulties of cultural assimilation when his family moved from a predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Chicago to the suburbs. "I find a passion in social justice, and it's a very important topic," he says.
During the past year, Belknap took four trips to Nogales, Mexico, to visit Nazareth House a shelter for deported women operating in conjunction with the Jesuit Refugee Service's Kino Border Initiative. She interviewed women who were caught crossing the border, hoping to discover and document their experiences.
"Many of these women have had some other pretty serious traumas in their lives, physical and sexual trauma," Belknap says. "And, yet, the thing they consistently say is most traumatic is separation from their families."
The summer research is a continuation of a successful academic year for Villanueva, a McNair Scholar who was named Marquette's Outstanding Sophomore of the Year. He helps Belknap by recording and assisting with analyzing data collected with the Life Stressor Inventory Revised screen. The LSCR captures each woman's life history of trauma. Dr. Robert Topp, associate dean for research in the College of Nursing, is collaborating on the project. They will produce a paper and present their findings at an upcoming conference.
Villenueva hopes the research will relate the human side of a contentious political issue. "The difficulties that these people actually endure not many people know or see or put a face to them," he says.
Belknap says understanding such issues is important for people working in health care. "I want to help people to understand the person sitting in front of them, to describe the life trauma that women in migration often experience," she says.
Game on: hitting the reset button
Dr. Shaun Longstreet believes specially designed video games can help teach just about anything, from basic math and reading to the nuances of life as a software engineer. This summer, a Marquette-based team is helping to bring one such game, SimSYS, closer to the classroom.
Longstreet, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, started on SimSYS when he was at the University of Texas at Dallas. There, he met Dr. Kendra Cooper, who today leads development of the game with funding from Microsoft and collaborative work with teams of students in Texas, Pennsylvania and now Marquette.
Longstreet believes educational games are essential to the next generation of e-learning tools; they can be integrated into classrooms or training in a wide variety of ways. For example, games can be used as part of classroom instruction (a fun, quiz-based challenge), outside the lecture in a tutorial or lab session (either individually or in study groups), or as part of an e-learning course.
"This is gamer nation," he says.
While serious educational games are immersive, requiring deep thinking and complex problem solving, game development is a lengthy, expensive endeavor and SimSYS is designed to solve that. SimSYS is a game that semi-automatically creates educational simulations for just about any topic.
By bringing the SimSYS project to Marquette, Longstreet is able to work with Dr. Dennis Brylow, an associate professor in the Klingler College Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
With funding from an NSF grant secured by Dr. Brylow, one Marquette computer science major, Kaleb Breault, is leading one of the SimSYS student research teams to develop a fuzzy logic algorithm for the game. This will allow the SimSYS game engine to create adaptable learning scenarios for instructors and their students.


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Re: October Suggestions[ Edited ]
This is a suggestion specifically for Lockwood. How about adding the eye jewellery that we have for the left side to the same for the right side. Also more eye jewellery to choose from. Maybe some gold eye jewellery as well. Some more American wildlife companions like bobcats, lynx, and mountain lions.
Re: October Suggestions
Allow user to add a predefined set of custom emotes.
Such as:
[Custom Emote 1] Swim
[Custom Emote 2] Eat
[Custom Emote 3] Run
[Custom Emote 4] Clap Hands
[Custom Emote 5] Hug (Press X to accept)
[Custom Emote 6] Hold Hands or kiss (Press X to accept)
[Custom Emote 7] Hi Five (Press X to accept)
Of course you can mix and match and add them in different slots.
I think Home needs more interactivity to feel more like a real game.
Locomotives are nice, but only Ndreams has them available atm, I'm waiting for the competition.
That last emotes 5,6 I know are going to be controversial, I expect people bickering about "THIS IS HOME, A VIDEO GAME WE DONT NEED KISSING, WE CAN DO THAT IN REAL LIFE!!1111!!QQQF" If you don't want it don't buy. It should also come with a filter to allow, seeing that when you can ignore someone they have a custom animation, this would be possible for those who A. Don't want to view PDA, or B. are of a younger audience, so A filter if you will that is by default blocked under settings.
You could also buy sets, like a Halloween pack of emotes, which add a little fun.
With this possible I am aware of developers raising the price, and am aware they are going to milk it. I would think it's reasonable at $1.99- 2.99 per custom packs of set of 7 or 8.
Re: October Suggestions
It would be nice to see a Gamestop virtual Store at the Mall on Home where you can walk in, look at the game displays and purchase any digital copy of the games there. For example lets say i go to the Gamestop virtual store in the Mall on Home i would walk in and see Resident Evil 6 game display on the shelve and if i want to buy the digital copy of Resident Evil 6 i would use my avatar to walk by the counter where there would have a NPC/A(Non Playable Character/Avatar) store clerk and then i would purchase the digital copy of the game from that store.
My last idea is please Bring Dragonball Z virtual items including Dragonball Z custom avatars with their few custom animations on Home.
Re: October Suggestions
I'd like to see more suspensions and bannings to the trolls who harrass people on Home and the here on the forums. It makes me mad when I report someone for trolling and making negative comments on here and nothing is done about it. They still continue to troll the forums. But then when I react to some of these troll comments, I'm the one who gets in trouble for it.
Re: October Suggestions
I know this has been said a few times in this thread and in the PS Blog, but I'm going to bring it up again 'cause I support it one hundred percent and more, so badly want it to return, and hopefully with enough support, it can return to Home for Halloween this year's or next year's Halloween. Can you please, pretty please with sugar on top bring back the Vampiric outfit? Me and lot of people out there really wants this outfit to return. If it is or isn't in retirement, please bring it back, so that the people who weren't around in 2009 can get a chance to get the outfit again. It would mean so much to me and everyone else and we would be so thankful and grateful.
Re: October Suggestions
Hello GlassWalls, I had already made a few posts of suggestions, 1 at the very end of last month and 2 about a week ago. I will include the links to them here so yourself and others can check them out as opposed to rewriting them here. Just so every one knows my one post like many peoples here started going a bit off topic so I got a little testy with a poster.
Hope you and everyone else enjoy the ideas...
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Re: October Suggestions
I would really like to see some animated hair (blowing in the wind) so that when our models are walking the runway or posing for videos (or flying around), it will appear as though wind is blowing through their hair. That would be so cool.
KittyPonderosa, Founder and Director
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A sarcastic retort to anyone who goes by the name of Helen that makes a derisory comment in your direction. The phrase is delivered with a shoulder up - down movement as each syllable is uttered, thus creating the suggestion that one is both a child (or at least possesses child-like qualities) and a simpleton, with little idea of how to successfully kick someone's ass verbally. Found around the Droitwich and Leeds areas.
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Students recognized at first PR-B ROAR Rally of the year
The teachers at Pine River-Backus Elementary School recognized students for good behavior Friday, Sept. 27.
ROAR stands for Responsible, On-task, Always safe and Respectful, and teachers at the elementary level nominate students every month for golden ticket awards for these behaviors.
Students at the rally also participated in the school cheer and a Wii dance to "The Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
September winners of the golden tickets were: Ruby Hamilton, Marcus Lukanen, Rian Struss, Karson Crawford, Ben Sundlie, Mac Reddick, Miqaella Williams, Kalie Trout, Sierra Nelson, Michaela Holm, Madisyn Burgoyne, Liam Peterson, Harold Velapatino, Brandon Lawrence, Damasio Rocha, Ian Gorden, Heidi Kline, Andrea Leyk, Clayton Borman, Mya Pederson, Jacob Johnson, Kyosuke Marcum, Jonathan Windorski, Alieya Gorden, Emily Hanneken, Zeke Zwart, Logan Anderson, Brady Kilchesky, Bradley Rudquist, Dylan Wheeler, Averie Kordiak, Bryon Merritt, Sydney Hoopman, Darren Wynn, Yuliana Krecklau, Brooklin Mills, Caden Hamilton and Ella Diers.


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Ministry Health Care, a leading health care system in Wisconsin, is currently seeking a full-time BC/BE Adult Inpatient Psychiatrist to join our behaviorial health team at Saint Michaels Hospital in Stevens Point, WI. This is an excellent opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team with 8 other psychiatrists and 8 psychologists in a vibrant Midwestern university community. The ideal candidate will share Ministry Health Care's commitment to quality health care and exceptional patient service.
Physicians who have recently joined Ministry Medical Group indicate that the excellent work/life balance combined with friendly, thriving communities was what ultimately drew them here. Beautiful, safe and affordable neighborhoods make Stevens Point a GREAT place to live and work.
Stevens Point is conveniently located in the heart of Wisconsin and has consistently ranked as one of Relocate-America's Top 100 places to live. You will find all of the amenities of a larger city without any of the metropolitan hassles. The area is a well-known paradise for outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy fishing, hunting, kayaking, biking, hiking, snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.
The community is home to a University of Wisconsin campus, excellent public and parochial school systems, a variety of unique restaurants, an award-winning golf course, a children's museum, a symphony orchestra and an assortment of major retailers and one-of-a-kind specialty shops.
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For more information about physician career opportunities or to submit your curriculum vitae (CV), please contact:
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Phone: 800.420.2622 ext. 27998
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—A panel discussion giving insight into the situation in Ukraine will take place Wednesday, March 5, at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW).
The event, titled "A Crash Course on the Crisis in the Crimea," will be held at 1:30 p.m. in Walb Student Union, Room G08.
Panelists for the discussion include:
This event is free and open to the public. Media are invited to attend and cover this event.
Sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Political Science, and the American Democracy Project at IPFW.


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MAKERS Moment
Create Your Vision of Kindness
Create Your Vision of Kindness
More From Ellen
Ellen's Biography
Early Career Ambitions: Diane Sawyer
Earliest Memory: Dancing with her father when he arrived home from work.
Favorite Foods: Tzatziki and hot sauce
Philosophy for Dinner: "If your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it, it probably isn't food."
Ellen Gustafson is committed to revolutionizing the global food system. She is the Founder and Director of the 30 Project, a think-and-do tank bringing together key organizations and activists to discuss hunger, obesity and sustainable agriculture. Ellen is also the Co-Founder of FEED Project, LLC and its non-profit partner, the FEED Foundation, which are working to create products that help to feed the world.


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Bibliography and References
This page enables the user to search for and view annotated references dealing with the Woburn Toxic Trial and its aftermath, the Woburn Wells G & H Superfund Site, and teaching with 'A Civil Action'. The references include journal articles, master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations, and state and federal reports.
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Remediation of the Wells G and H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article gives a detailed description of the sources and distributions of TCE and PCE at the Woburn superfund site. It also describes the various types of remediation systems being used to ...
A Civil Action part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Poignant book about the contamination of Woburn municipal wells G and H and the lawsuit alleging that the prolonged consumption of the contaminated groundwater by W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods led to ...
Childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts part of SERC Print Resource Collection
An important report by the investigators at the Massachusetts Department of Health documenting the frequency of childhood leukemias in Woburn compared to other nearby cities and areas.
Water resources and aquifer yields in the Charles River basin part of SERC Print Resource Collection
A regional U.S. Geological Survey report and data pertaining to the glacial aquifers in the Charles River basin, including the Aberjona River area in Woburn.
Galileo's Revenge - Junk Science in the Courtroom part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Lengthy opinions describing the weaknesses of the American legal system, especially the use of expert witnesses that are not experts. Interesting reading.
History of toxic metal discharge to surface waters of the Aberjona watershed part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Interesting article concerning the movement of toxic heavy metals within waters in the Aberjona River basin.
Speciation and fate of arsenic in three lakes of the Aberjona watershed part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Technical article describing research on the types of arsenic and their fates found in lakes within the Aberjona River watershed. Nice article for geochemists and those interested in it.
Pollution survey of the Aberjona River, 1921 to 1922 part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Detailed photographic survey with annotated captions of pollution sources along the Aberjona River. Pictures include tanneries, piggeries, chemical manufacturers, and conditions of the riverbed and ...
Groundwater transport of arsenic and chromium at a historical tannery, Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A. part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Professional article regarding the geochemistry of arsenic and chromium transport at an historic tannery in the Aberjona River watershed.
Woburn's water supply: clean and safe part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Informational pamphlet describing Woburn's current water supply system, sources of public water, and a summary of the chemical analyses of those waters.


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We are pleased to announce some enhancements to the Information Technology Helpdesk service. IT Helpdesk is your first point of contact when you need help from the IT Department. The Helpdesk answers questions and fixes problems directly and facilitates higher-level technology support if required. Issues with workstation hardware or software installation and operation, passwords and access, WiFi, etc. should be addressed to the Helpdesk.
During the first week of classes: January 27–31 we are setting up localized IT Helpdesk stations at 66 West 12th Street, 2 West 13th Street, and 6 East 16th Street. Helpdesk staff will be posted in the lobbies from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. If you experience any IT problems next week, you can stop at one of these locations or visit our office (see below).
There are several ways to seek assistance. A member of the staff will respond promptly.
Remember, you can check for technology service outages on the university's website at www.newschool.edu/it. See the top right side of the page.


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|Green Living: Recycle
What do these terms mean?
Why it's important: A lot of what ends up in garbage dumps is garbage in name only. Look at it another way, and that "garbage" is actually a precious resource: tons of glass, metal, wood, plastic-everything we need to make new products, just taking up space in a landfill!
Recycling is important because it accomplishes two goals at once: It saves space in landfills and it reclaims resources and raw materials that would otherwise have to be found somewhere else.
Maximize your recycling! Participate in your community's curbside recycling program by putting absolutely everything that's allowed into the recycling bin instead of the trashcan. Find out what can be recycled by contacting your local sanitation department; often this information is on a Web site or flyers sent out to the public. When it comes to plastic and Styrofoam, check the container for the recycling symbol and a number; your community may only accept certain types. For a fun way to recycle, challenge your family to get more into the recycling bin than the garbage can (following your community's recycling guidelines, of course). If you can recycle more than you trash for a month, treat yourselves to a special family outing.
Help start a recycling program. If your community doesn't have curbside recycling, ask why! Get a petition going, or ask a parent to help contact somebody in your local government. In the meantime, you can still recycle by getting your own bin and taking things like paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic to the nearest recycling facility.
Recycle when you're away from home. Out and about with friends and family, we often find ourselves using stuff like fast-food containers, drink bottles and cans, and plastic bags-all materials that can be recycled. Whether you're at the mall, the movies, the state fair -- wherever! -- look for a marked recycling bin (usually blue or green, with a recycle symbol on it) or ask someone who would know. If there's no recycling, consider taking these materials home with you to recycle there.
Buy recycled. When shopping, look for a label that says, "Made from recycled materials." If companies know you care, they'll be encouraged to use and sell more recycled products. These days, you can buy all sorts of great recycled stuff, such as clothing, backpacks, purses, jewelry, and more.
Recycle your tech. Old unwanted electronics, like cell phones and computers, are called "e-waste." E-waste often contains toxic and hazardous materials, and should never end up in a landfill. Find out about your community's program for recycling e-waste, and make sure to take it all in. If you've outgrown your devices but they still work, see if you can donate them to a school or charity program.
Bash hazardous trash. Many types of waste, like old paint, paint thinner, batteries, and other types of chemicals, can't be thrown in the regular trash. Safely store these things and bring them to your area's hazardous waste pick-up location. They'll recycle or dispose of it in a safe way that won't harm the environment.


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Hi all
I have a wax moth in my area, so I bought Bacillus thuringiensis Thuricide according to advise i had read in
a book about beekeeping. have anyone used it ? is it useful against wax moth and don't harm the bees?
thank you.
Hi all
I have a wax moth in my area, so I bought Bacillus thuringiensis Thuricide according to advise i had read in
a book about beekeeping. have anyone used it ? is it useful against wax moth and don't harm the bees?
thank you.
> I bought Bacillus thuringiensis Thuricide
Bt comes in several different specific varieties. Thuricide appears to be a brand name for one manufacturer's product, using the variety Bacillus thuringiensis v. kurstaki.
The Bt variety that is known to work for wax moth control is Bacillus thuringiensis, v. aizawai.
I am not an expert on Bt, but it would appear that Thuricide is not the right choice for beekeeping wax moth control.
More on the aizawai variety here:
If you are interested in contacting Beesource member Sundance offering Bta, see the last page of the thread.
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I bought some Bt aizawai from Sundance some years ago & sprayed it on harvested supers that the bees had cleaned up. The first time I sprayed the supers and laid them out to dry near dusk there must have been dozens of moths of all shapes & sizes show up & walk all over those supers. I thought to myself that if this stuff is going to work after this exposure then I'm a believer. Never had a problem then or ever.
you mean you have seen the moths running out of your supers after you have spryed them. great that it works for you.
but I am looking for someone who tryed the "Thuricide" to till me if it works?
here in Israel we have very warm nights and the moths realy like our weather so they fligh toward beehives
attracted to scent of the honey.
so i really have to find a solution for that proplem.
I also believe you have the wrong type of BT, you might be able to find the product fact sheet on the internet. The paper should tell what insect larva's it kills.
The supers were laying on their sides drying out. The Bt does not kill the moths that landed on the supers but will kill any larvae that have hatched in the supers. I also believe you have the wrong type of Bt for wax moths. The Bt you have may be good for spraying around the hive for hive beetle larvae.
Thuricide works real good! When a wax worm hatches and starts to eat on your comb he will only go just a little short way and die.The bees will fix that small hole as good as new and it does not harm bees or humans!!! I have sprayed all my old combs and not have had any more SHB larvae slimeing any hives.I dont know if I am just lucky or if Bt helps kill off those larvae as well.Has anyone else noticed this???
Here's a link to a useful reference published by Cornell's Entomology department discussing Bt varieties:
There is more extensive information at that link, but here is a synopsis:
Some commercially available Bt varieties and target pests:
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- var. tenebrionis - Colorado potato beetle and elm leaf beetle larvae
- var. kurstaki - caterpillars
- var. israelensis - mosquito, black fly, and fungus gnat larvae
- var. aizawai - wax moth larvae and various caterpillars, especially the diamondback moth caterpillar
Some commercial products may mix varieties or contain additional varieties. Check the label.
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Well I have used Thuricide for over 20 years and it really works for me so I will continue to use it.
Bacillus - copy and paste from old BS posting
There are different strains (varieties) of Bt available that have been selected to control different specific insects. Bt-kurstaki (BTK) controls the European corn borer, tomato hornworms, fruit worms, cabbageworm, cabbage looper, spring and fall cankerworm, spruce budworm, and other caterpillar-like larvae. Bt-san diego (BTSD) controls early larvae of the Colorado potato beetle. Bt-israelensis (BTI) controls mosquitoes, black flies and fungus gnats.
Bacillus thuringiensis -aizawai is used exclusively for the control of wax moth larvae.
Thuricide is Bt-kurstaki, so it is the wrong strain. It is also in an emulifised pertrolium oil that you should NOT put on your comb.
thank you all for you'r advise.
yesterday i bought Certan/B401 on eBay from Germany.
now I understand the differences between the varieties of this bacteria.


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EL PASO CO, Colo. - Parolee Evan Ebel ditched his ankle monitor and investigators say he went on to murder Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements and Nate Leon of Denver. We've now learned nearly 30 other parolees have been convicted of murder in Colorado, just since 2002.
Other parolees await trial, accused of murder.
Seven of those parolees turned murderers are from southern Colorado.
One of them, Aaron Wilkerson, was convicted of murdering 50-year-old Robert Piserchio in Pueblo in 2009. Piserchio was beaten, stabbed and his body set on fire after a group of people burglarized his home.
"Never in a million years could I ever ever believe someone could do something like this to him," said Piserchio's mother, Mary Piserchio when she talked to KRDO after the murder.
Wilkerson was on parole for burglary and drugs.
"I was concerned about system failure and if there was an accountability factor that the DOC had to take a serious look at," said Dan Corsentino, Piserchio's brother-in-law and former Pueblo County Sheriff and Fountain Police Chief.
Corsentino said, after the Evan Ebel murders, he thought back about what happened to his brother-in-law at the hands of a parolee.
The Department of Corrections says parole officers work hard to make sure offenders are supervised and get help finding housing, jobs and treatment.
"We try to work with their community support system: families, employers, faith based organizations," said Kelly Messamore, Assistant Director of DOC Parole and Community Corrections. "Basically give them every opportunity to be successful."
Messamore said the DOC supervises about 14,000 parolees at any given time.
"The people that we supervise are some of the most dangerous people in the state of Colorado," Messamore said. "Having said that, any one instance where an offender victimizes someone is tragic."
She said the success stories are more difficult to measure.
"When offenders fail, it's very noticeable, it's very obvious, we can all see that," said Messamore. "It's a lot harder to measure the new crimes that are prevented by the work parole officers and their support services do."
The DOC says it's trying to make its offender supervision better. It's reviewing how inmates with ankle bracelets, like Ebel, are monitored.
"We've called in the National Institute of Corrections to help do an assessment of our electronic monitoring procedures and overall procedures," said Messamore.


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lookin bad here? heck this rain is lookin pretty good to me. this is our rain season, if we don't get it now we never will. remember it doesn't rain in california but man it pours.
all that is gold does not glitter
a weather service I subscribe to for my business is calling for a record breaking cold spell to wack the entire west coast and all of CA in the 6-10 day period (march 8th-12th) . following that will be another week of seasonally below average temps spreading across the nation from the west to midwest.
i don't give the long term precip fcsts much credence but these temp fcsts have gotten amazingly accurate.
the March outlook calls for below average temps for northern half of CA to Seattle with wet conditions above normal for most of CA only. maybe the drought will be diminished?
sounds like the almond bloom will be over in 6 days? if not hope all goes well for you folks with bees out in the almond orchards.
Just got a call from my broker....fed most of my bees today...looked good but light. Evidentually they have used up some stores. Looks like bloom will be winding down in two weeks. May have to feed again! Last year was honey bound this year feed feed feed!
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Bees have only had about 5 or 6 days here in Kings/Fresno County since Bloom opened on the 15th 16th of Feb. Most of my hives were heavy but there was a few lights. Looks like I will need to take sugar syrup out to them tomorrow as they are still calling for rain through Thursday. And then a one to 2 day break then another 10 days of rains and cold spells. Not good for us beekeepers and not good for the Almond crop. But if Almond crop is light prices for Almonds will go up in the fall and with all of the rain maybe we will have better luck with the pollination prices and contracts next almond season. Here is to hoping. Not looking forward to more rain though as I am late getting stuff planted and thats not good also. The fields are wet and my birds are wet.
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Let it rain.
Isn't it this rain that get turned into sage honey later on? At least that's my understanding of California.
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I have talked to several of the major producers and suppliers in our industry and we have talked about Lobby efforts. I think that is what we will need to do. I am a fiscal conservative, it kind of burns me both ways to see who is getting bailed out by the Feds, while we watch very little Fed money going into something useful, like our 4 soon to be 3 under budgeted Bee Labs and others trying to cure CCD.
Ditto on Communist Chinese poisoned Honey and other junk.
As to NZ and Australia, the rule should be RECIPROCITY. The trade in bees form here to there should be made exactly EQUAL or EQUALLY EASY as from there to here......with CCD we may need them, so I would not stop them at this point, would like to, as I am a MADE IN AMERICA kind of person, but I think they are our insurance, Mexico or Central or Latin America could have been BUT FOR the African Honey Bee AHB problem. We can at least drive there. If AHB spreads throughout the warm USA maybe we should reconsider, but I guarantee you, we would all be buried by imports then. Thus Equal Trade is the only kind of FAIR TRADE which beats Free or slave trade....
In the meantime, feed your bees, with the drought etc., the loss of 200,000 acres of Almonds, double that in bees needed there, and still drought etc., I predict a lot of dead bees and a shortage everywhere. The normal trade pattern, to Almonds and then back is now broken, and the DOMINO EFFECT will cause a shortage, maybe with the economy and politics a permanent shortage...who can afford to continue the WAY IT IS ?
SEveral reasons, primarily three:
1. 200,000 droughted acres of almonds taken out of production, meant 400,000 to maybe 500,000 less bee colonies needed this year;
Many of those bees where there or enroute there and are what you could call "stranded". Once stranded, these hives became starved out, dried out, diseased out, or died out. Even those that caught it in time, and did not go or become stranded, became surplus bees that were not going to get Almond fees and thus had to be fed, or otherwise if in the north fell under the typical current higher deadouts from winter clusters that we will only start to see now.
2. All the bees out there, under the stress of the drought, pre-starving, post-starving due to a shorter bloom, etc., more susceptible to disease and the spread of disease from the stranded bees, are now bringing those diseases back with them, if they made it or make it, to spread the diseases to other bees coming out of winter cluster back home, unless treated immediately for everything, and there have been shortages I hear here and there for things like Fumagilin-B being hoarded, and Terramyacin, to say nothing of mites, and the new Aussie rumored virus introduced out there. Many have voiced concerns of California spring packages for bees that have been stressed out there and have basically worn their wings off, the bee version of being on your last leg, anticipating weak nucs and packages from out there.
3. Once bitten twice shy, the beekeepers that had contracts fall through, or renegotiated $155 or $135 contracts to $80 or who were stranded and paid nothing, will not produce "more bees" now for next year.
These and several other DOMINO EFFECTS from the bubble bursting out in California will then follow the pollination cycle around the nation, resulting in bee shortages, not surplus bees as one might have originally thought, because of the poor economic instability of what happened in California because California Federal Judges and State bureaucrats appear to be the only people that remain living in LALA Land (reference to Los Angeles Hollywood fantasy land) and do not know that California has always had a water shortage and unlike the Saudis and other who use America desalination and other water purification processes have done NOTHING FOR DECADES to solve California's and the SouthWest's chronic water shortage.
I the Midwest, like Illinois where you live Sheri, we have the world's (that's right the whole world's) largest supply of fresh water. Ask our friends in Georgia and surrounding states there, or even Texas about their water problems, and you will soon see why Wisconsin and the Midwest truly can be called "God's Country", how lucky we are.
There wont be a shortage of bees for a while ,I know Maine is cutting way back on bees for blueberry pollination this year .
Is there some Rookies again talking about almonds, thats one we never have in short supply.
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Robert, what a gloom and doom scenario you present.
500,000 less colonies needed? That would be about 1/3 of the bees needed for the crop. I think your figure is greatly overstated. Yes, there was shuffling around of colonies (and empty boxes) and some cut throat pricing going on but good bees for the most part got rented. Yes, there were reports of hungry bees, this happens on a fairly regular basis. Some years are better than others, nothing new here. This year most bees needed fed. Par for the course.
If you send your bees out west without a contract and without the capital to get them home and maintain them if you don't get an almond check, well, I can only shake my head in amazement. Anyone that leaves their bees "stranded" to starve and die had no business sending bees to begin with.
As for northern winter deadouts being higher than normal, don't worry, I don't see this effecting long term supply. Everyone I know is selling bees, there is a good supply out there. There are a ton of healthy bees in California and coming out of California right now, heading to the south, and southeast (and even some to Wisconsin ) to be split and redistributed to those who lost theirs over winter. It is a good thing too otherwise how would all those deadouts get replenished?
I haven't heard of weak packages yet, but if so, it wouldn't be the first time and won't be the last.
There was a shortage of Fumagillin last spring but we haven't had problems this year. If so, this translates to my mind as less disease not more. The shortage we are seeing is wooden ware, which in my mind translates to more bees not less. There isn't a bee supply house out there that isn't doing a booming business right now.
Once bitten, twice shy? I sincerely hope so. Anyone that's been going out there for a while has been bit a couple times. Good footwork, fortune and friends allows for the setbacks. People too close to the edge that think they can get rich quick in bees are more likely to get bit and flounder, deservedly so. If they had done their homework they would have known: this isn't a get rich quick scheme; it is hard work, both physically and mentally. Those kind of "gold diggers" we can all do without. And the bees they don't make we can do without too.
It IS a shame when folks trust their investment to those they shouldn't trust and lose it all. The more wide eyed naivete's get involved the more crooks will follow, ready to take advantage. The bigger the pollination fees a colony will fetch, the more crooks will show up to steal them. But all this is business as usual, in any industry. The undercapitalized, the incompetent, the unlucky go by the wayside.
Personally, as of today, we plan on sending our bees to California next year and others we know that have gone out there for years will too. We know a few pollinators, they all placed their bees and none settled for anything like $80. I suspect most that negotiated to $80 didn't have $140 bees to begin with. I know there are exceptions to this....some just got caught by the desperate low balling of the "gold diggers". I hope any growers that broke contracts for these bees got what they paid for, and will for years to come.
Will the drought put more acreage out of commission? Will the pollination fees drop? Will the sky fall? Next year will be very interesting and we know it is not always a good thing to live in interesting times. We and others like us will keep tuned in and make business decisions as the facts emerge. Sometimes it gets a little too exciting but I don't think it is time to panic yet. This is the marketplace at work, not the end of the world.
Sheri (who lives in Wisconsin, not Illinois, waiting for the bees to get back, hoping they don't get "stranded", starve and die)
I had heard 400,000 to 500,000 based on the acreage that dried up. Still waiting for the Almond Board numbers, think it may have been new and old trees, old retired, and new ones that would have been put in were not, so a shortage ended up being a surplus, the big numbers being from what would have been the bumper crop, but will see what the Almond Board says for the final score.
1/3 of the almond acreage is in water shortage areas, that means 2/3 of it is good.
And who knows maybe CA will have a big fish fry (Smelt ) and all water problems will go away?
Or maybe an actual rain fall?
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA


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goldendog55 you've have some gorgeous goodies there and I hope you sell them all quickly. (More $$ for more fabric for more experiments, right?)
Here I have been told we will be getting some hemp fabric available soon. The laws here are more sensible than elsewhere and since it is has the feel of cotton but wears even better I am hoping it will make a good tourist item. I would like to dye, paint and generally play with yards of it.
(VBG) Since it is a different subspecies of plant for fabric and obviously unsmoke-able I am wondering what if anything customs would do at the US border. Should be interesting for the brave. Since it wouldn't smell like dope I doubt if it would even register for the dope sniffing dogs...but one never knows.
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Global warming forecasts could be nixed if the worldwide current called the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt stops working. The belt shifts heat around in the ocean and is responsible for keeping Europe tolerably toasty. It has slowed to a near standstill a few times in Earth's history, and when it did, scientists believe the world experienced significant cooling — and fast. As if global warming weren't exciting enough, scientists have recently noticed that the belt is beginning to slow right now, perhaps because the varying degrees of ocean-salt density that set it in motion are being diluted by fresh water from the melting polar ice caps. If the belt stops, temps in Europe and much of the US would suddenly drop, locking some of us under a sheet of ice. In other words, as one Portland environmental activist said, "We're all fucked." Ever seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow? Kind of like that, except it would take a little longer and Jake Gyllenhaal would, sadly, probably not triumph.
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SANTA CLARA -- Jim Harbaugh acknowledged Tuesday that he wants a Super Bowl do-over.
The 49ers coach said so in response to a question about the 49ers' heavily criticized play-calling on their final drive against the Baltimore Ravens.
Noting that the drive stalled 5 yards short of the end zone in a 34-31 loss in New Orleans, Harbaugh said that any such failure forces him to second guess.
"Yeah, (I) would've liked to have tried a different play call, a different scenario,'' Harbaugh said. "That's the way I always feel if you do something and it doesn't work."
Starting with a first-and-goal from the Ravens 7 with just over two minutes to play, the 49ers gave LaMichael James a handoff for a 2-yard gain.
Then quarterback Colin Kaepernick tried three consecutive passes -- all to receiver Michael Crabtree, all to the right side, all incomplete. Harbaugh didn't comment on what play might have worked better, saying only: "I would've liked to have done something different, at least tried it.
"But you can't. The 'would've, could've, should've' is undefeated. That's never failed."
Players spent Tuesday clearing out their lockers -- and answering questions about the big one that got away. Kaepernick, who threw for 302 yards and a touchdown in the Super Bowl, said his final pass to Crabtree came on an audible at the line of scrimmage.
That play came on fourth-and-5 with 1:50 left. Kaepernick saw the Ravens playing a Cover-0 defense, meaning all of the defenders at the line with no safeties back. That left Crabtree matched up one-on-one against cornerback Jimmy Smith to the quarterback's right.
"I audibled to a fade to Crab,'' Kaepernick said. "I'll take Crabtree one-on-one with anybody."
The pass fell incomplete under tight coverage from Smith. Many 49ers complained to the officials that Smith should have been flagged for defensive holding.
Kaepernick was asked Tuesday how he would remember this season.
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There's plenty to laugh about in the 14th season of Comedy Central's South Park, especially now that you can watch the 14 episodes uncensored on disc. The animation style of Kyle, Cartman, Stan, Kenny and the other South Park main players is still as crude as their mouths, but now the difference is that their adventures are widescreen and some of the monsters—including the hideous Mecha-Streisand and the dark god Cthulhu—are enhanced with more sophisticated 3D animation. Shablagoo!
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Memorial service for slain Colorado prison director held in Columbia
Former Missouri corrections official and longtime Columbia resident remembered
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Hundreds of people, including governors from two states, gathered at a south Columbia church to remember Tom Clements Friday afternoon.
His widow, Lisa, addressed friends and family in attendance, saying she wanted to take that moment to remember Tom the man, instead of just focusing on his work.
"Today's a bittersweet day," she said. "Returning here is a pleasure, but also reminding me of Tom's absence by my side."
The Clementses, including their two daughters, Rachel and Sara, spent 27 years in Columbia. They were members of the Woodcrest Chapel congregation for about 15 years.
Lisa Clements said she was not angry about her husband's shooting death. She won't let herself be.
"I just simply cannot understand it and I cannot indulge my anger or my bitterness or my regret. I would compromise who I am, what I believe, the mother and the person who I choose to be, if I allowed myself to be overtaken."
Clements, the former head of Colorado's prison system and a longtime Columbian and Missouri prison official, was gunned down at his Colorado Springs home on March 19.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was the first to give tribute and expressed thanks to the family for their service to the state.
"It was never an easy job, but Tom Clements loved it and he did it was passion," he said. "That was the quality of public servant he was and we are all better for it."
Clements retired from Missouri's corrections system in 2010, but was called on by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to take over that state's system.
"I never once saw him down," Hickenlooper said. "A friends of mine likes to say Tom had really big batteries."
Current Missouri DOC Director George Lombardi also paid tribute, and Woodcrest Chapel senior Pastor Pieter Van Waarde gave the benediction and a message to the family.
The emotional service started just after 4 p.m. and lasted a little more than one hour. It was the first time many former friends and neighbors had seen or heard from the family since Tom's murder.
"I choose not to be the widow of a murdered husband, but the bride who was a wife truly loved," Lisa Clements said.
Members of the Patriot Guard Riders of central Missouri led the family in procession to and from the church Friday.


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Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and Wolf Man, Hugh Hefner gears up for Halloween at the mansion.
Tonight: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, with Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr. in the four-star comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Universal Pictures was founded 100 years ago in 1912 by Carl Laemmle.
"Uncle Carl," as he was known, originated the concept of movie studio tours in 1915.
Lon Chaney Sr. was an early star at Universal and made several highly profitable horror films there during the silent era.
When sound arrived, followed by the Depression, the studio faced the real possibility of bankruptcy.
Universal Pictures responded by ushering in a new and definitive cycle of classic horror films, including Dracula and Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933).
Other studios were famous for gangster films and lavish musicals. Universal was famous for its monsters.
The first cycle of horror films ended at Universal in 1935, in part because of the arrival of the Production Code, and because—in 1936—the Laemmle family lost control of the studio.
Under new management, Universal survived with the popularity of Deanna Durbin musicals—until the arrival of an unlikely pair of burlesque comedians in 1940.
The success of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello once again saved the studio and, in 1941, they became one of the 10 top box office draws in movies.
Universal simultaneously revived the horror genre, too, with Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Wolf Man in 1941, with Lon Chaney Jr., son of the original silent movie monster.
Lon Chaney Jr. came to prominence as the retarded handyman in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men with Burgess Meredith (1939).
But with the return of monster movies, it seemed inevitable that the younger Chaney followed in his father's horrific footsteps.
He was a hit in The Wolf Man.
And when Boris Karloff, the original Frankenstein monster, declined the role in the fourth in the series, Chaney became the monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).
Chaney became the mummy in the sequels to The Mummy's Hand as well—The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse (1944).
He also played Dracula, the role originated by Bela Lugosi on stage and screen, in Son of Dracula (1943).
Convinced they were on to a good thing after The Wolf Man, the studio decided to put two of their most popular monsters in one film with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943—with Chaney the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi, the original Dracula, as the monsters.
A role Lugosi had originally turned down in 1932, giving the role to Karloff that would make him a star.
In subsequent films—House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945)—more monsters were added.
With Karloff as a demented doctor, Chaney as the Wolf Man, John Carradine as Dracula and Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's creature.
By then the studios seemed to have run out of variations on the theme—and by 1946, they had run out of money.
William Goetz, the brother-in-law of David O. Selznick and son-in-law of MGM's Louis B. Mayer, presided over the reorganization that became Universal International.
The new regime cancelled the production of the studio's B-movies and low budget horror films.
Goetz also wanted to get rid of Abbott and Costello, but was talked out of it.
In its first year of operation without the B-pictures Universal International lost $12 million.
It would be left to the former studio saviors of 1931 (the monsters) and then 1941 (Abbott and Costello) to once again save Universal from insolvency.
Producer Robert Arthur is credited with the idea of combining the comedy of Abbott and Costello with the studio's favorite monsters.
The gimmick? Abbott and Costello would play it for laughs and the monsters would play it straight.
And it worked. And how!
With Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man, Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein monster and Bela Lugosi, the original Dracula, as the infamous vampire.
A role he hadn't played since 1931. Although he had portrayed similar bloodsuckers along the way.
Principal photography on tonight's film began with a budget of $759,524.
Only one Universal Picture would cost less that year—and only two would gross more!
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was scheduled for a 32-day shoot, but ran a week over.
Glenn Strange said it was the most fun he ever had making a movie.
"If you know about Abbott and Costello," Strange said, "they play a quarter of the time and work the rest."
Lugosi ignored the between-scenes foolishness, occupying himself writing an autobiography.
Karloff had declined to play the monster he created after The Son of Frankenstein (1939) and turned down the role when it was offered to him in 1947.
"I'm too fond of the Monster," Karloff told the New York Times in 1948. "I'm grateful for all he did for me and wouldn't want to watch anyone make sport of him."
And yet, he held his successors (Lugosi, Chaney and Strange) in high esteem.
"Anybody who can take that make-up every morning deserves respect," Karloff said.
It took six long hours to get Glenn Strong into make-up every day on this picture and four hours to turn Chaney into the Wolf Man.
Strange expressed gratitude to Karloff, who coached him in the role of the monster when both worked together in House of Frankenstein (1944).
"Karloff showed me how to make the monster move properly," Strange recalled. "And how to do the walk that makes him so frightening."
During production, there were accidents. Glenn Strange fractured an ankle when a stunt man fell on him. The next day, Lon Chaney happily filled in for him. The scene where the Monster hurls the woman through the laboratory window—that was Chaney.
The stunt woman, Helen Thurston, sustained injuries too—candy glass fragments in her eyes that required hospitalization.
And watch when the Monster punches his fist through the door with Abbott and Costello on the other side.
Strange was supposed to strike right between their heads, but Abbott wouldn't stay on his mark as instructed.
He got hit, ending all shooting for the day.
And that's the take they used in the film.
Another couple of minor points of interest: A vampire's image is not supposed to be reflected in a mirror, but Dracula is visible in the bedroom mirror in one scene.
And at one point, Lou Costello calls Abbott "Abbott," instead of by his character's name.
Shooting concluded on March 26, 1948.
Previews were sensational.
The picture was released on June 15th to great reviews and a sensational audience response.
Variety exclaimed: "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a happy combination of both laughs and chills.
"The comedy team battles it out with the studio's roster of bogeymen in a rambunctious fracas that is funny and, at the same time, spine tingling!"
There was actually regional censorship of the film. In both Australia and British Columbia most of the scenes with the monsters were cut—destroying any sense of continuity.
Nevertheless, the film grossed a monstrous $3.2 million in its initial release and was successfully reissued in 1956.
The initial box office reception also propelled Bud and Lou back into the top 10 box office favorites.
And what followed thereafter were a raft of lesser, similar films—Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc., etc.
This is the best of them all, however, a four-star comedy classic.
So now, from 1948
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by tjwingnut January 19, 2010
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Thad: This guy knows where my pocket pussy is and he's not saying. You know what that means.
Crowd: Tijuana Toothpull!!
Alex: No!! No!!
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Alex: No!! No!!
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A young man forced to sell his body for money. A young lady who watched him do it. Two tormented souls brought together years later to assuage the hunger of a desperate, irresistible attraction…
With lush sensuality and unerring insight, Sylvia Day explores the underpinnings of intimacy and desire.
©2012 Sylvia Day (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
"The undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance." (Teresa Medeiros)
"Bared to You obliterates the competition…unique and unforgettable." (Joyfully Reviewed)
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
Then, and only then, will you have a decent tender book about Lady Jess witnessing, (when she was still a naive young girl on the eve of her wedding) Lord Alistair (son of an Earl) earning money as he has sex with Lady ? during a house party. This act sticks with her and she fantasises about him for 7 years, even during her happy marriage to Benedict but unfortunately Benedict dies however he leaves her a plantation in Jamaica to sell.
She embarks on a ship that is being Captained by Alistair (who has always half loved Jess) and emotions, attraction, and sexual tension build as the 2 lovers cannot deny each other any longer..... But they still have to return to England. It's a hot yet tender tale of love overcoming all - including time.
The problem occurs as soon as Fiona Underwood (the narrator) opens her mouth and thus another good book is ruined. Thankfully I could distort her voice by double speeding her voice (he he he) and I actually got through it with my sanity intact.
Worth a credit? The book is but the narrator isn't and, as a fan of Sylvia Day's work, I feel robbed of a good book. So, I hope whoever is responsible for the narration will get this re-narrated quickly.
I am a woman, 48 years young and living in Sweden. I am a mother, have a dog and a beloved ex husband. My favorite books is the ones written with humor - the genre doesn't matter much. My taste defer but I want to feel something when I read a book - learn something, get my imagination stimulated, shiver, cry or laugh.
Actually I don't know. It seems like the author has a tendency to repeat herself.
The lack of warmth and genuine passion which I found in the Crossfire novels. Also that the author repeat both story and replicas from the Crossfire novels!
It's too theatrical. The characters sounds foolish.
All of them...
I listened to the end of the book, but now I will delete it from my library.
On the other hand, I will start over again with Bared to you...!
"Don't bother!"
Everything from the opening chapter. The awful language, the absolutely dreadful narrator, the plot. It was excruciating to listen to.
Written more In the style of her other books like the Crossfire ones.
One of my pet peeves for narrators is when they obviously are just reading it cold and pronounce words incorrectly. For instance shone (as in past tense of shine) is not pronounced shown as in own and migraine in this book was so weird I had to rewind to make sense of the way she pronounced it.
Not for me - I persevered for a while before i gave up but it put me to sleep and I felt no connection with the characters or gave any thought to them whereas characters in her other books had me thinking about them long after I finished the book.
I lasted about 1/3 of the way into the first volume and then just gave up. Life is too short to waste on rubbish like this.
Don't just churn out books to make money . Give them a little bit of substance.
"Just couldn't listen"
Don't get me wrong i love Sylvia's books normally but this narrator I just couldn't listen anymore
The person who did Bared to you or any one. Fiona's narration kept making me think it was a English granny reading in a library to a group about porn
I only got 30minutes In
I may in future try a hard copy but couldn't do the audiobook it just didn't seem right to hear descriptive adult scenes with this voice, even the pronunciation was wrong just wrong
YES! It's a wonderful story...
When she told him she loved him...sigh...
Yes, and I love her...I'm so glad I already knew Fiona was good, because these reviews on her have been so bad. if I would have not known , I might not have purchased this book & would have missed out on this book!!!
Love boat!!!!
I loved this book so much I read it back to back & it's only been 2 days & I am fixing to read it again!!! You'll be so sorry if you miss this book!!!
"Highly enjoyable"
Even though it is a tad different from her other books still a good listen!
"Loved it"
I love this story so much and it was so romantic yet smoking hot! Sylvia Day never lets me down with a story and narration was brilliant too.
Sexy, sultry and very very seductive as usual. I recommend everything by her - just take a sample listen to make sure it's one of the good narrations like this one!
Nurse, mom, loved to read....but now I love to listen. When I retire I hope to hear waves crashing in 1 ear and audible in the other!
"Those in the 19th Century were no prudes!!!!!!!!!!"
So thankful the 2 main characters were able to work it out after 7 years...they did belong together.
Sister's tragedy and subsequent reaction by husband!
Fun in the horse carriage and the seduction on the journey to the carribbean!
Yes, I have grown to love this genre of 19th Century British storyline!
I thought the narrator did a great job!
"Great story - reader wan't my favorite"
I heard this was the "pre quel" in some sense to the bared to you trilogy. I'm not sure that is correct but i really enjoyed the story. I am not usually someone who enjoys literature where the characters are set so much in the past, but i did thoroughly enjoy this book. I would reccommend it to anyone who is a fan of Sylvia Day.
Jess - such a strong character and to see her transform was truly a pleasure.
I thought the voice was a little too english - althought i know it was set there i'm not sure whether i liked the reader for this story,
"Enjoyable, passion, romance and so much more!"
It was innocent and fresh at the same time, I couldn't put it down when I was reading it and listening to it was even better it transported me to the era with the story.
I think that this is one of the best I have read; To Beguile a Beast is close but this one is so much better because it keeps the reader interested and updated on every character; although I wish the ending wasn't there and Mrs. Day's prologue included more from Hester and Michael.
No...It was ok.
The title says it all, I would just add..."A night or exposure marked their lives and since then they belonged to each other; now seven years later they have the opportunity to dive into passion."
Great book! Mrs. Day has a talent that we are just beginning to enjoy and I hope she considers a second book on this one.
"not up to usual standards"
I am a great lover of Sylvia Day books but I have to say this is not one of her better books. The storyline is not bad but found far to much descriptive language used to outline the scenes. The characters are believable but it is written in a style of Jane Austen without the panache and credibility. The story itself isn't bad, and it is fair to say some of the scenes grab your attention, but the style and period of the writing lets it down for me. The narration is ok compared to some audio books and is worth a read if you like Sylvia Day but for me I think I'll stick with Sylvia Days modern take on relationships.
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I can only agree with her other Guests! All great! The apartment is clean has everything you need for few day! It is close to the Centre and subway Stations are also close! Wifi worked well no Problems! I can recommend it for the Price, perfect! The only thing I would add is some Curtains to make the room darker at night!
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Adequate housing and moderate but a bit far from the center price. The bedding is comfort and cleanliness away from European standards. The curtains are not quite opaque. Watch out for very early mornings for the faint hearted.
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My girlfriend and I stayed at Alla's apartment in August 2013 and it was a very positive experience.
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Meaty mushrooms and tender sirloin are a perfect pair in this richly flavored stew. Make it a meal: We like to make this with a hearty zinfandel and enjoy a glass with the meal. Look for a crusty jalapeno cheddar bread to dip into the rich broth.
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Diabetes Appropriate
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 40 min.
Step 1
Place steak in a medium bowl and sprinkle with flour; turn to coat. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the steak (reserving excess flour) and cook, stirring once or twice, until browned on most sides and still pink in the center, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm.
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Add mushrooms, onions and tomatoes to the pan and cook, scraping up any browned bits, until the vegetables have released their juices, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle the reserved flour over the vegetables; stir to coat. Add green beans, broth, wine, thyme, salt and pepper; increase the heat to high and bring to a boil, stirring often. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until the broth has thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the steak and any accumulated juices and cook, stirring often, until heated through, about 2 minutes.
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