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If anyone is interested we are having our banquet this Saturday.
Follow the link to buy tickets or get more info
http://www.ducks.org/massachusetts/even ... ual-dinner
Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or send me a PM.
We have nine guns to raffle off along with a bunch of other nice items.
Doors open 5pm
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Winter's Dream
OK, so I'm no expert with makeup, so I went a-hunting on the net for a decent tutorial for my Lara Croft cosplay so I could get practising. I found an ideal tutorial on tomb raider cosplay.com, it really helps, even with a makeup failiure like me! Anyways, here is the link: http://www.tombraidercosplay.com/HelpWithOutfits/makeup.htm
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Welcome to the forum!
Try this link and scroll down to their "Tanker" holster. May be what you're looking for. El Paso Saddlery makes first class holsters!
Hunting/Field Holsters
Hello to all! I'm a new member, not familiar with website and was unable to archive information on my following question. I recently purchased an 8 -3/8" 460 which I plan to hunt with (no scope). I would like to purchase a quality cross-chest carry holster for this handgun. I have searched through various holster manufacturers and the best I can find is a generic for large frame revolvers. If anyone can help me in my quest, it would certainly be appreciated. Thanks in advance. - memtb
Welcome to the forum!
Try this link and scroll down to their "Tanker" holster. May be what you're looking for. El Paso Saddlery makes first class holsters!
Hunting/Field Holsters
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Welcome to the forum from Sunny Arizona (even though it's drizzling today).
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The Nov/Dec issue of American Handgunner magazine has an article (p.42) about a chest carry holster for big guns that I plan to look into for a .44 mag. It's the best looking and most comfortable looking rig I've seen for outdoor carry. It may be pricy.
Check out these two holster maker web sites before you plunk down a lot of $$$.
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A Vacation-Worthy Braid You'll Love
A busy day of sightseeing, shopping or running errands calls for a polished but practical updo that doesn't look too formal, but will stay in place all day. Enter: the low braid. Today Sophie Elkus of AngelFoodStyle and Joico hair stylist Eric Mayes show you a modified version of the classic hairstyle that'll look gorgeous on your next vacation or busy, on-the-go afternoon.
You'll Need
- Power Spray Fast-Dry Finishing Spray, Joico $17
- K-PAK Color Therapy Restorative Styling Oil, Joico $20
- Bone Rattail Comb, Tool Structure $2
- Elastic Simple Plain Gummi in Clear, Karina $3
- Duckbill Clips, Colortrak $5
Step 1: Create Sections
Prep hair with Joico's Restorative Styling Oil, which will protect your strands from breakage while braiding. Then, divide hair into four equal sections - two in the front and two in the back. Wrap sections into chignons to secure. Every time you take down a chignon to braid it, spray with Joico's Power Spray for added texture and grip.
Step 2: Braid Front Sections
Take down one of the front chignons and divide it into two sections. Loosely French braid hair until you reach the ear lobe, securing with a clear hair elastic. Then, fishtail braid hair the rest of the way down. Repeat the process with the other front chignon.
Step 3: Fishtail Braid Back Sections
Fishtail braid back two sections, securing with a clear hair elastic at 3 or 4 inches from the bottom.
A refresher on fishtail braiding:
Divide hair into two equal sections. Take a skinny strand of hair from the outside of the left section and cross it over and add it to the right section. Repeat on the right side. Continue this process until your fishtail braid is 2 inches from the bottom. Secure with a clear hair elastic.
Step 4: Pin Back Section Braids
Wrap back right braid over to the left and up to the temple area, pinning to secure. Repeat on the other side.
Step 5: Pin Front Section Braids
Bring front section braids back and across, pinning behind each earlobe to secure. The front section braids should make an X shape across the back of hair.
The Final Look
This gorgeous, Grecian-like hairstyle is perfect for a busy day of sightseeing, shopping or running errands, as it's equal parts polished and practical. Hair is off of your shoulders and secure for anything the day brings your way.
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Malachi Chapter 4 - New American Standard Bible
Malachi Chapter 4 - New American Standard Bible
1. �FOR behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,� says the LORD of hosts, �so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.�
2. �But for you who [1] fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.
3. �You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day [2] which I am preparing,� says the LORD of hosts.
4. � [3] Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
5. �Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.
6. �He will [5] restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a [4] curse.�[read chapter]
Read this passage from the New International Version
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Location: Mosquito and Fly Research
Project Number: 6615-32000-045-21-R
Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jun 30, 2011
End Date: Jun 30, 2012
Evaluate selected mosquito species from the U.S. for their ability to serve as potential vectors for RVFV.
We will select mosquito species that have the potential to be important vectors of RVFV (i.e., feed readily on large mammals and occur in large numbers) for these studies. Mosquitoes will be captured by a variety of means, but principally by dry ice-baited miniature light traps and shipped overnight to USAMRIID. Upon arrival at USAMRIID, they will be transferred to an Animal Biological Safety Level (ABSL)-3 laboratory. The extent of viral infection in mosquitoes will be determined by assaying a mosquito's body separately from its legs. In addition to the studies on vector competence, we will also evaluate selected mosquito species for their ability to vertically transmit RVFV.


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Post Transplant Donor Lymphocyte Infusion
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|Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic Lymphomas Multiple Myeloma Myelodysplastic Syndrome Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Acute Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic AML
|Procedure: Donor Lymphocyte Infusion Drug: Induction Chemotherapy + DLI
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Use of Cyclophosphamide/Fludarabine to Promote in Vivo Expansion of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions (DLI) to Enhance Efficacy After Allogeneic Transplant
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 1 Year ]
The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive for a certain period of time after they were diagnosed with or treated for a disease, such as cancer. Also called survival rate.
Overall survival will be defined as time from date of enrollment to date of death or censored at the date of last documented contact for patients still alive.
- Disease-free Survival [ Time Frame: 1 Year ]The length of time after treatment ends that a patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer or any other type of cancer. In a clinical trial, measuring the disease-free survival is one way to see how well a new treatment works.
- Complete Remission [ Time Frame: one year ]In complete remission, all signs and symptoms of cancer that can be detected with modern technology have disappeared, although cancer still may be in the body.
- Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease [ Time Frame: Day 100 ]Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease is a severe short-term complication created by infusion of donor cells into a foreign host.
- Bone marrow aplasia [ Time Frame: Day 100 ]
Aplastic anemia is a disorder in which the bone marrow greatly decreases or stops production of blood cells.
In aplastic anemia, the basic structure of the marrow becomes abnormal, and those cells responsible for generating blood cells (hematopoietic cells) are greatly decreased in number or absent. These hematopoietic cells are replaced by large quantities of fat.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2004
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Patients who have failed for refused Gleevec(TM) therapy and will receive Donor Lymphocyte Infusion.
Procedure: Donor Lymphocyte Infusion
donor cells infused over 2 hrs at cell dose of 0.5 dx 10^8 CD3+T-cells/kg
Other Name: DLI
Active Comparator: Non-Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Patients with non-CML or CML who have failed DLI and will receive Induction Chemotherapy + DLI.
Drug: Induction Chemotherapy + DLI
Fludarabine 25 mg/m2 IV Cyclosphosphamide 60 mg/kg IV Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI)
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year to 70 Years (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients (age > or = 1 years) with a diagnosis of relapse after related or unrelated allogeneic stem cell transplantation for a hematological malignancy.
- For CML, relapse will be defined as any cytogenetic evidence of a Philadelphia chromosome or persistence of BCR/ABL rearrangements by molecular testing on at least two measurements over a 6 month interval. If cytogenetics are normal and there is PCR evidence of a BCR/ABL fusion, patients will be eligible if they have evidence of a quantitative increase in CML measured either by quantitative PCR or by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH).
- For non-CML, relapse will be defined based on disease specific morphologic criteria from a bone marrow biopsy and aspirate or recurrence of disease specific cytogenetics. For disease specific definition of relapse, see appendix 3. Relapse can be determined morphologically with less than 5 percent blasts if definitive relapse can be determined. Equivocal results for relapse should result in a repeated test after an appropriate time interval (suggested 1 month) to determine eligibility.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative diseases (often referred to as EBV-associated lymphomas) are NOT eligible for this protocol.
- For Chronic Phase CML patients only
- - must have failed (no response in 3 months or incomplete response at 6 months) or refused treatment with Gleevec
- - if no prior DLI, CML patients will first have DLI- if relapse occurs after DLI, DLI with chemotherapy per this protocol will be offered
- Patients must be within one year of identification of relapse or if beyond that time period, must have at least 10% donor DNA by RFLP or cytogenetics.
- Same allogeneic donor (sibling or URD) used for transplantation is available for lymphocyte donation.
- No severe organ damage (by laboratory or clinical assessment) as measured by:
- - blood creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- - liver function tests < 5 x normal
- - left ventricular ejection fraction > 40% (testing required only if symptomatic or prior known impairment).
- - pulmonary functions > 50% (testing required only if symptomatic or prior known impairment). Oxygen saturation (>92%) can be used in child where PFT's cannot be obtained.
- - chest x-ray without evidence of active infection
- Off prednisone and other immunosuppressive agents (given for any reason) for at least 3 days prior to DLI infusions.
- Performance status ≥ 60%
- Women must not be pregnant or lactating. The agents used in this study may be teratogenic to a fetus and there is no information on the excretion of agents into breast milk All females of childbearing potential must have a blood test or urine study within 2 weeks prior to registration to rule out pregnancy
- Women of childbearing potential and sexually active males are strongly advised to use an accepted and effective method of contraception
- Patient must given written informed consent indicating understanding of the nature of the treatment and its potential risks
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concurrent signs of acute or chronic graft-versus-host disease requiring ongoing treatment at the time of relapse will be ineligible.
- Patients being treated for GVHD with prednisone, cyclosporine, Imuran or other immunosuppressive medications are not eligible until these medications are discontinued for at least 2 weeks without a flare of GVHD.
- Active CNS leukemia
- Active fungal infection or pulmonary infiltrates (stable prior treated disease is allowable)
- HIV positive
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00167180
|United States, Minnesota
|Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffrey Miller, MD
|Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00167180 History of Changes
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
MT2003-15 ( Other Identifier: Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program )
0401M55207 ( Other Identifier: IRB, University of Minnesota )
|Study First Received:
|September 9, 2005
|Last Updated:
|February 23, 2016
Keywords provided by Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota:
donor lymphocyte infusions
bone marrow transplant
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Myeloma
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Leukemia, Myeloid
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Bone Marrow Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Lymphatic Diseases
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Leukemia, B-Cell
Antineoplastic Agents
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Foodmakers say crisis won't spoil French appetite
By Sybille de La Hamaide
PARIS (Reuters) - The financial crisis may be a time to tighten belts but the food-centric French are unlikely to go on a diet just yet, producers say.
Top-end brands are betting that consumers will eye gourmet food products as a relatively cheap source of pleasure.
"Food products cost less than handbags and could be a haven for people who want to indulge themselves," Claudie Le Souder, head of communication at French luxury food maker Fauchon, said at the international food show SIAL in Paris.
The average grocery basket amounts to 30 euros in France, far above Britain (21 euros), Spain (18 euros) and Germany (12 euros), a study by British analyst Europanel showed.
Fauchon, which focuses on typical French products like chocolates, foie gras or truffles, is still optimistic for next year but remains watchful, she said.
Sales of fine foods carrying the name of the famous Parisian restaurant Maxim's have lost 5 percent since the peak of the crisis in mid-September due to lower traffic in airports, their main market, but the firm still envisaged its sector as a relatively safe place to be.
"Luxury food is different. If people will easily postpone buying an apartment or a car by six months, they won't shun a candy box worth 15 euros to give themselves a treat," said Gilles Poisson, marketing director of the Maxim's brand.
While fine food producers remain upbeat, middle market players may need to rethink their strategy. Continued...


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Stellar Jayne, aimed by her new owners toward the 2005 Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I), makes her first start in more than two months in the Ruffian Handicap (gr. I) at Belmont Park Sunday.The two-time grade I winner was one of six older fillies and mares entered in the 1 1/16-mile Ruffian, one of three stakes races on the day's 10-race card. A daughter of Metropolitan Handicap winner Wild Rush, Stellar Jayne was one of the top 3-year-old fillies during the second half of 2004. She won the Mother Goose (gr. I) at Belmont in June and also took the Gazelle (gr. I) in September. Other notable efforts from Stellar Jayne include a win in Churchill's Dogwood (gr. III), a second in the Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I), a placing in the Alabama (gr. I), and a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Lone Star Park. Stellar Jayne was voted a finalist for the 3-year-old filly Eclipse Award won by Ashado.Weeks after the Breeders' Cup, Stellar Jayne went through the auction ring at Keeneland and brought a winning bid of $3.6 million by Godolphin Racing. Her training was transferred from D. Wayne Lukas to Saeed bin Suroor. Stellar Jayne spent the winter with bin Suroor in Dubai.She returned to the United States this spring with Belmont's Breeders' Cup Distaff her main objective. And she was good in her first and only start of the season, winning Belmont's restricted Misty Gallore on July 2. Rick Mettee, who oversees bin Suroor's New York string, hoped to run Stellar Jayne in Saratoga's Go for Wand (gr. I) in late July, but kept her out of the race because of an unsatisfactory work. "All of her recent workouts at Saratoga were very good," Mettee said. "I thought she was where she should be in all of her five-eighths breezes. I'm pretty comfortable with where she is for this race. A mile and a sixteenth at Belmont should be just about right for her."It would have been pushing it to make the Go for Wand and we said, 'You know what? She really likes Belmont, the Ruffian is a mile and a sixteenth and the timing of it is perfect.' We're all excited about seeing her run. I know there are some tough fillies in there but, if she runs what she's capable of with her natural speed, she should pull a good trip."Jerry Bailey, a three-time Ruffian winner, has the mount aboard Stellar Jayne.Society Selection is a two-time stakes winner at Belmont, having won the 2003 Frizette (gr. I) and 2005 Shuvee Handicap (gr. II). H. Allen Jerkens, who won this race in 1994 with the legendary Sky Beauty, trains her. Society Selection, a multiple Grade 1 winner and earner of nearly $1.5 million, underwent throat surgery after finishing a lackluster fourth to Ashado in the Go for Wand at Saratoga July 31. $300,000 Ruffian Handicap (gr. I, Race 9, 5:12 p.m.), fillies & mares 3 & up, 1 1/6 miles
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3. Bending Strings, Wallace Dollase, Gary Stevens, 114
4. Halory Leigh, Dale Romans, Craig Perret, 116
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Transport in Kenya – Overview
Transport in Kenya is diversified with transport infrastructure such as airlines, railways, roads, luxury touring buses, trains and car hire vehicles Kenya Transport is reliable and it is easy for tourists to travel comfortably and quickly from one part of the country to another.
The best mode of road transport available for tourists moving around towns is by taxi. Car rentals are a convenient option for people who prefer self drive. Tours and travel companies offer experienced chauffer driven tour guides for best tours and travel experiences to all the major national parks and game reserves across the country. Some hotels and lodges may also offer their own transport to the national parks either as a complimentary or at a nominal fee to guests.
Transport in Kenya – Airlines
A number of international airlines, including British Airways, Kenya Airways and KLM, operate regular scheduled flights to and from Kenya. Several domestic airlines operate within the country. There are also trains (selected routes), buses and shuttle services to all parts of the country.
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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is a 20-minute drive from the Nairobi city centre. Taxis are readily available, including State-controlled KENATCO and London-style cabs, which work on a fixed rate and charge per kilometre travelled. However, most tourist hotels have minibus transport, which can be arranged at the reception.
Mombasa's Moi International Airport is on the Kenyan coast near Mombasa port city. Allow an extra half an hour on your journey to the south coast because of the Likoni Ferry crossing. Most international visitors will arrive through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.
Kenya Airways (KQ) offers scheduled connections from JKIA and regular daily flights to Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu and Kisumu. A return flight from Nairobi to Mombasa will cost about Sh11,000 ($137.5). Online booking is available. Check in is 45 minutes before departure for local flights and two hours for international ones.
A low-cost airline, F1y540, flies from JKIA and offers scheduled connections to Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu, Kisumu and Masai Mara. Plans are afoot to extend the service to the East African region. Online booking is possible. Another airline, Air Kenya, flies from Wilson Airport in Nairobi to Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu Amboseli, Masai Mara, Meru, Nanyuki and Sambum.
The lounge features a Dorman's cafe. Check in can be done up to 15 minutes before departure. Wilson Airport is a major hub for local flights to the nature reserves in Kenya and to cities in neighboring countries.
The East African Safari Air flies from Nairobi to Malindi, Kisumu and Lokichoggio. Most charter tourists fly directly to the coastal airports of Mombasa or Malindi.
Transport in Kenya – Buses
Kenya has a network of long-distance bus lines. Speed is limited to 80km an hour. Local buses are run by private companies such as the green and yellow Citi Hoppa, which charges an inexpensive fee
They have regular services in and out of the Nairobi city suburbs. They usually seat 20-35 passengers (no standing passengers allowed by law) and are cleaner and less hectic than matatus. Matatus are privately operated minibuses, typically for between 14 and 25 passengers, operating over short and medium distances. Matatus provide a cheap and quick method of transport in all the major towns and rural areas. The name matatu hails from the Kiswahili word tatu(three). At the beginning of the business, the standard fare was three 10-cent coins
Transport in Kenya – Railway
The Kenya-Uganda railway starts in Mombasa via Nairobi to Kampala, Uganda. This is the famous 'Lunatic Express' featured Michael Douglas film, The Ghost and the Darkness. Most global car hire agencies have offices in Nairobi and Mombasa, and offer expensive but reliable cars with a full back-up network. One can also hire cheaper cars from local distributors.
Transport in Kenya – Taxi Apps
With advanced technology, one can now get a taxi by using mobile applications such as: Easy Taxi, which connects taxi drivers and passengers. The application is available for Android, iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone devices, as well as for B2B clients through EasyTaxi Pro and Easy Taxi Corporate solutions.


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GENERAL: Tough, hard working player who has improved his speed and strength in the offseason... one of the fastest players in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference... two-sport athlete who is also a member of the Manhattan Indoor Track & Field team... becoming a more complete hitter after improving his mechanics at the plate... has shortened swing and can use the whole field.
2011: Started 44 of 51 appearances... led the team with a .500 batting average in the MAAC Tournament, and scored three runs, drove in three RBI and homered in the game two victory over Siena (5/27)... finished with 35 hits, 27 runs scored, 22 RBI and nine stolen bases... registered four doubles, one triple and three home runs... had six multi-hit games and five multi-RBI contests... started 19 of 21 MAAC appearances, recording three of his four doubles and seven RBI in these league contests... hit .241, had a .345 slugging percentage and .331 on-base percentage...opened the year with a season-high six game hitting streak and held a streak of reaching base in nine consecutive contests... posted a career-high four RBI with a home run in a victory at NYIT (4/26)... drew 15 walks.
2010: Appeared in 29 games, starting 13... posted a .254 batting average, .353 on-base percentage and stole seven bases... tallied 15 hits, including four doubles, scored 13 runs and recorded three RBI... registered five multi-hit performances, including a career high three hits in a victory over Iona (5/14)... started collegiate debut at #10 Miami (2/26)... notched first hit and went 2-for-3 from the plate in a victory at Saint Peter's (4/3)... stole two bases in a MAAC Tournament victory over Marist (5/27)... hit .313 in 14 conference games.
BEFORE MANHATTAN: Lettered at Patchogue-Medford High School under head coach Tony Frascogna... hit .348, stole 12 bases and posted a .488 on-base percentage as a senior and earned Coaches' Award... multi-sport athlete lettering in Track and Football... ranked 17th in the county for 100 meter dash, 19th for 200 meter dash and 41st in long jump as a junior... helped lead football team to Big Four Championship during junior year... four year member of the Patchogue-Medford Honor Roll.
PERSONAL: A engineering major... the son of Anthony and Alicia Vega... has a brother, Manny, and a sister Lisa... chose Manhattan for its excellent academic reputation.
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"Baking and giving" is a hobby of mine, and I love to bake my gifts by using old-fashioned recipes like this one, which was my great-grandmother's. There aren't too many shortcuts in these directions, but I enjoy aspect of "measuring and mixing"! This is one of my favorites, copied down from my mother's old cookbook.
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- 5 eggs, separated
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon finely shredded lemon peel
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup milk
- Confectioners' sugar
- Let eggs stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. In a small bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Add to creamed mixture and beat well. Stir in lemon peel and juice. Combine flour and baking soda; add alternately with milk. In another bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff peaks form; fold into batter.
- Pour into two well-greased 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 65-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Dust tops with confectioners' sugar. Yield: 2 cakes (24 servings).
If Cooking for Two: Wrap and freeze one cake to enjoy later.
Originally published as Great-Grandma's Lemon Cake in Reminisce July/August 1993, p51
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The story of Heath Grundy's path to 150 games is a reminder there is much more to Sydney's success than their extra salary cap space.
From unwanted youngster to a key member of the most miserly defence in the competition, Grundy is another diamond the Swans have mined from the rough.
Although other teams had shown interest, no club was prepared to throw the Norwood product from the SANFL an opportunity until Sydney used pick 42 in the 2005 rookie draft, in late 2004, on the South Australian.
Grundy was the 122nd player named across the three drafts in 2004. He had also been overlooked the previous year.
Grundy, who turned 28 on Monday, was one of six Swans from the side which smashed Geelong last week to graduate from the rookie list.
He started his career as a forward, kicking three goals on debut, but it was not until being moved to the other end of the ground in 2009 where his career prospered.
"It was under Roosy. I think it was halfway through the game, we were short on defenders," Grundy said.
"I just played footy. It felt like a bit of a weight [was lifted] off my shoulders and I could relax and play my own game and go about my business."
If not for his change of position, there is a very real chance Grundy's career could have been over as he would have been fighting with Kurt Tippett, Lance Franklin and Adam Goodes for a berth in the Swans' forward line.
"It took a little while, I tried down forward a few times but we had some pretty good players in the forward line but it's pretty hard to fit into that role," Grundy said.
"The club gave me a chance down back and I probably slid into that role a bit easier and suited me better at the time. I learned from some of the older blokes, I've really enjoyed my footy there."
Grundy has in recent seasons formed a powerful defensive combination with Ted Richards, another Swan who began life as a forward before finding his feet in defence.
"Myself and Teddy have beem lucky with injuries over the last few years so we've been able to play a number of games consecutively together. We've had a fair bit of time to learn how each other play," Grundy said.
"We play a bit different in the way we defend to each other but I think that works as a combination. It's been something that's worked for us over the years."
"He can judge the footy really well in the air and help out when he can."
Grundy will play his milestone game against a Gold Coast side which has transformed from cellar dweller to a legitimate finals contender this season.
The Suns have lost only one game this season at Metricon Stadium, which is fast becoming a difficult venue for visiting teams.
"We're halfway through the season and they've played some really good footy. You can't hide the fact, they're a really good side and you don't get there by luck," Grundy said of the fifth-placed Suns, who, like the Swans, have a 7-3 win-loss record this year.
"They've played good strong footy and we're going to have to take them seriously otherwise they'll get on top of us."
Players from Sydney's two AFL clubs are in line for a $20,000 rent subsidy replacing the controversial cost of living allowance which will be phased out by 2017.
Although the exact size of the allowance is yet to be finalised, it is understood $20,000 was a sum bandied around at a meeting of the AFL's presidents and chief executives in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Once tax is deducted, the subsidy falls below $1000 a month and there are concerns the allowance may not be enough to account for the extra costs of living in Sydney.
The subsidy will be given to players from Sydney and Greater Western Sydney on below average player payments as part of competitive balance measures announced by the league on Wednesday.
The Swans recently have come under renewed scrutiny for their list-building methods.


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The fact that so many of today's grown adoptees report having experienced pressure (sometimes subtle; sometimes overt) to feel "grateful" for our "better" life demonstrates something important about residual cultural attitudes towards bastard/orphan/unwanted children. Lingering beneath all the warm fuzzy rhetoric of modern adoption lies this unpleasantness: we are still held by many as less deserving than those raised by their own biological parents. We should be grateful for what we got. We should not complain.
But let's take a clear look at adoption as it exists today. Is it an institution that truly exists to meet the needs of children who lack parents or other family members to care for them? In the foster system there are certainly a number of children who are in need of the love and permanency that adoption can provide, but there are also many who might not have ended up there in the first place if our social structures were different. Many at-risk families could benefit from family preservation/strengthening services early on, before kids come into state care, but this is not an area where our society chooses to place funds. Also, many of today's adopters are not drawn to adopt the older, traumatized children found in the foster system.
Instead, they want babies -- and the current domestic infant adoption system can hardly be said to be primarily about finding parents for children who need them. There are far more prospective adopters than there are available infants. This situation has led to an industry rife with corruption and coercion. The desires and dollars of prospective adopters, combined with cultural biases against young parents and a societal structure marked by an ever widening gap between age of sexual activity and age of financial stability, have lead to an untenable situation. These are not the orphans of yesteryear. These are "orphans with parents," who also happen to be valuable commodities. Unethical adoption agencies, rather than serving the true needs of children, have become have become agents in the creation of "parentless" children, at times using highly questionable methods to separate children from living parents and place them (for a substantial fee) with others.
In inter-country adoption, it can be nearly impossible for prospective adopters, however well-intentioned, to distinguish true orphans from those obtained from biological families without their full, informed consent and even from those who were outright kidnapped. And even in situations in which the child's parents are actually deceased, the complete separation of the child from his or her culture, language, and birth identity is an extreme measure. Is this truly in the best interest of the child? (Many adult international adoptees would argue that it is not.)
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Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), National Conference of Jewish Communal Service, Fall 1960
In 1960, religious social work organizations commonly accepted public funds and offered many justifications for doing so. The author refutes these justifications and argues that the principle of separation of church and state should be protected as an ultimate value among religious institutions. Should public support of religious welfare organizations be allowed to flourish, the author predicts that public support of religious schools will quickly follow suit, resulting in the transformation of the American school system into a largely private, religious one. He suggests that the Jewish community be made aware of all religious institutions receiving public funds, that a conference be arranged solely for discussion of this issue, and that Jews and non-Jews sit down to discuss how to proceed in weaning religious social work off of its 'addiction' to public support.
Topic: Social Work, Religion and State, Allocations, Jewish Communal Service, Public Policy
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Indians starting pitcher Brett Myers has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sore right forearm, the club announced. As a corresponding move, reliever Fernando Nieve has been promoted from Triple-A Columbus and Corey Kluber will take Myers' spot in the rotation.
Myers, 32, couldn't have gotten off to a much worse start to the 2013 season. He's 0-3 with an 8.02 ERA and 1.59 WHIP in four appearances. He leads the majors in earned runs (19) and home runs allowed (10). And that's in only 21 1/3 innings.
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Resident requests better winter care of alleyways in Aspinwall
A resident wants Aspinwall to take better care of the alleys in the borough.
Carole Neubauer told officials last week that Alley D near her home on Western Avenue is badly iced and needs to be salted. She said her fence shows wear from cars sliding and bumping into it.
"People just slide into it and keep going," she said.
Neubauer said the ice has been an ongoing problem. She asked borough officials to take better care of the alleys.
"The snow I can deal with; the ice I cannot," she said.
Neubauer said Alley A seemed clear and wondered why others aren't as passable. Borough manager Ed Warchol said it had not been treated.
"I don't think that alley's been treated. There's only one alley that's salted and that's up on the hill," Warchol said.
Councilman Joe Noro said sometimes if storms quickly follow each other, crews will treat the alleys.
"Normally, when you start getting complaints, normally we'll treat the alleys because people can't move in and out of their garage," Noro said.
Assistant borough manager Dawn Celender said while crews might sometimes plow the alleys, they normally are not treated with salt to preserve supply.
"They plow them sometimes. but they never salt them," Celender said.
Neubauer said she understands the need to plow and salt main roads, but, she said, the alleys are used frequently.
"The alley is primary for me," she said.
Council President Mark Ellermeyer said public-works crews would take a look at the alley to see what could be done.
"I can't change what's done or not been done in the past," he said. "All we can do is do our best going forward."
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GENEVA – Japan fell to 21st place in an annual ranking of global information technology competitiveness, down three places from last year, the World Economic Forum said.
The drop in the overall ranking reflects Japan's administrative shortcomings, including red tape, according to the forum's IT usage report released Wednesday.
The ranking, based on the assessment of the impact of IT on development and competitiveness, covered 144 economies. Analysis was made in areas such as infrastructure, legal systems and IT usage by individuals, businesses and government bodies.
Japan rated high for its innovative and sophisticated business sector, but the country needs a "more conductive institutional framework, including a renewed commitment by the government" to use IT for economic growth, the report says.
Among Asian economies, Singapore remained in second place in the overall ranking, while South Korea rose one notch to 11th place.
Scandinavian nations placed high on the list, with Finland topping the overall ranking for the first time. Sweden dropped to third from top in the previous year, and Norway moved up to fifth from seventh. China dropped to 58th from 51st due to delays in infrastructure development, high taxes and poor intellectual property protection. Some 80 percent of software in use in China is believed to be pirated, the report says.


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Alfonso Cuarón, director of the multi-Bafta-winning film Gravity, is complaining how much he loathes the use of Botox and fillers by Hollywood actors.
He calls it "this frozen thing" and "the wax" in his sultry Mexican tones. "I hope that it starts to wane because I see some actors, the work that they did to their faces really affects their ability to act. If you start putting stuff in your face like Botox it affects your ability to express. Acting is about expression."
He's reclining on an overstuffed sofa in Claridge's, looking cuddly in a slouchy hoodie and ink-blue jeans, his white wavy hair rebelling against his efforts to smooth it with his palm. "And it's not just Hollywood," he continues, "but here [in London] and a lot in French cinema, a lot."
He's shared his concerns with others, he says, but adds that he's "not an obvious Hollywood film director". He then spends a few moments pondering whether he is Hollywood at all, deciding eventually that he is "London", with "Hollywood financing".
Certainly, Cuarón, 52, is a rebel. Gravity, a science-fiction thriller staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney that he wrote with his son Jonas, took four-and-a-half years and $100 million to make (and has so far taken $700 million at the box office). It was a nightmare to make by all accounts, not least because "in order to achieve what I wanted to creatively we needed entirely new technology that wasn't invented".
Someone from the set describes him as a "mad, meticulous genius" who "drove everyone insane" with his attention to detail. "He made the whole film in animation and insisted on a rehearsal of Bullock's breathing in the tensest moments, so that he knew every single breath and could create a subliminal anxiety."
In Hollywood studio terms, Gravity broke the basic rules. "They didn't want a female actress in the lead," says Cuarón. "All they want to talk about is the male star," he says. "The principle is that there is a handful of male movie stars who can open a film." He shrugs. "It's moronic."
Once they'd capitulated to Cuarón's insistence that the main part was a female astronaut, there was a new issue — her age. "They said: 'OK, OK, but let's make her younger!' And when they said that, I started having conversations with many younger people. But I decided to go with my original thought: a woman who has experience and who has lived."
Cuarón grins triumphantly. "I mean, she's a woman, and she's 50, and she's not classically beautiful. What about that? FIFTY." He starts to laugh, and for good reason. The film has 10 Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Bullock, and last night won six Baftas including Outstanding British Film and Best Director.
"Sandra is a very grounded person. And I think the accessibility that audiences have with her is because of that. Even if she is a big Hollywood star, she is not a Hollywood creature. She has her life, with her kid — that is her priority — and does her work but stays away from the limelight unless she has to do some promotion for a specific film. She's a very generous, genuine person, very bright and the wittiest girl. She is very funny."
Cuarón, a Londoner for 13 years who has been married twice and has three children, now lives with Sheherazade Goldsmith, 39, ex-wife of the Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith. "Have you seen her lockets?" he says when we talk about her jewellery business. "They are crazy. The cool thing is that every time she travels she takes pictures of the lockets and puts them on her website."
He says that despite his criticism of actresses using Botox, he tries "not to judge", because "I understand the pressure on women. It comes from magazines and newspapers as well [as Hollywood]. Women are portrayed as these amazing glamour things but the images are completely Photoshopped.
"I go to a newspaper stand with my girlfriend and I see the cover of a magazine and I get upset about it. It's this constant bombardment of images of an ideal that does not exist — and that's not put on men."
He adds: "They question if this women is too fat, if she is too wrinkly, or invite you to look at how saggy she is. There is this constant judgment of women and I find it appalling." He has a radical solution, he thinks. "Magazines should carry health warnings," he says, "like you have for cigarettes."
Is he serious? "Of course. It should be like that by law. I have a daughter. You think it's crazy?" He raises a thick eyebrow. "I like women, by the way, but personally I don't like anything enhanced."
He leans in as if revealing a secret. "Look, I have too much of an imagination. When I see someone who has enhanced something I can't help but think of the clinical procedure to get there. I start to feel squeamish. I find it hard to get past that."
Cuarón was born in Mexico City, the son of a nuclear physicist, and grew up with his two brothers, Carlos (also a film-maker) and Alfredo. In childhood he was both obsessed with space and film-making. Did he always want to make a movie such as Gravity?
"I am old enough that I saw Neil Armstrong stepping on to the Moon. It was a big moment. It was impossible to be a kid at that age and not think of space all the time.
"Like every other kid, I lay outside looking at the stars. It feels like the Earth is moving and there's that wonder of how small you are. In a very unconscious way it is one of the most important and fundamental moments in your life. It gives you that frame of reference to understand the infinite, and how you're just this small part of that whole."
His other films include Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (he was the first director to put the young Hogwarts wizards into contemporary clothes).
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The Baftas crowd went wild for Wolf of Wall Street star Leonardo DiCaprio
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Angelina Jolie out-dressed her husband Brad Pitt with her own take on a tuxedo
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson flew to London for the event
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Bianca Stigter and much acclaimed 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen
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Martin Scorsese meets the adoring crowd
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Gillian Anderson's blue and navy dress has a big thumbs up
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Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy, who stayed warm in his coat
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Amy Adams strikes a pose
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Leonardo DiCaprio walked the red carpet alone
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Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne walked arm in arm
19/24 Colourful
Lily Allen makes a statement in her multicoloured frock
20/24 She's a winner
Helen Mirren has been given the prestigious Bafta fellowship
21/24 Warm welcome
Leonardo DiCaprio spent time signing autographs for fans
22/24 Androgynous Angelina
Is there any look Mrs Pitt can't pull off?
23/24 Talk show queen
Oprah makes an appearance
24/24 Having fun with the camera
Emma Watson loves a good giggle
His personal favourite is A Little Princess. "I am proud of it, and the chimney sweep in the film is Jonas my son, who wrote Gravity with me." Great Expectations, which he made with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, he "detests". (I say I haven't seen it. "Good." He says dryly. "You are a lucky woman.")
Did he get in trouble for not including a sex scene in Gravity? "Yes," he says, widening his eyes. "Big trouble with myself. Because I always miss them. I do.
"Believe me, I thought about it. But in this film it didn't make any sense. And even if I knew I wasn't going to use it in the film, in my mind I have that scene. I've seen it. I've played it many times in my head. With Sandra Bullock and George Clooney and with many other people."
He has a filthy laugh. Can you have sex in space? "Of course! The only thing is that you don't really have places to support yourself, so you are bumping into things. And it's an interesting equation because it's only the two people dependent on each other. The gossip is that there is only one couple who have done it in space. It is a fact that is not confirmed — a married couple."
He pauses. "I hope they did. What a waste if not. I have to say if they haven't, what a waste of technology. All that technology and no one has shagged up there? It's like — no!"
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Readings and writings and books, oh my!
If you're a writer or a reader (or, for that matter, a listener) and you're in or around Northern Ireland in the next few weeks, you're in for a bit of a treat. A veritable cornucopia of literary riches awaits you. Let me tell you about some of it.
First up, the Flowerfield Say the Word extravaganza is taking place at Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart on Thursday 7th June. This is an (almost) annual gathering of up-and-coming local writers who assemble to share their work with writers from groups across the country. Everyone's welcome. Kick-off at 7.30pm. Admission is free. If you can contribute something to cover the cost of refreshments (there'll be a glass or two of wine, possibly a bowl of pistachios...) that would be great. If our weekly Flowerfield Writers meetings are anything to go by (and they are), prepare to laugh out loud, to choke back a tear, to cheer, to stare dolefully into the distance or to effect a look of general bewilderment. Let me know if you'd like to come along to read, sing, play an instrument, impersonate a clown, do an interpretive dance…? Musical accompaniment on the evening will be provided by our in-house band. So far, we have a ukulele and a guitar, maybe a harmonica, at least two tentative offers to play the spoons. None of us have heard them play. We don't know quite what to expect. It's going to be electric!
And as if that wasn't enough to get you going, I am personally very excited about the number of excellent short story writers who are visiting The North in June and July of this year. Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry will read from their work at the John Hewitt International Summer School in the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre in Armagh on 26th July. They are joined in the programme for the week (starting Monday 23rd July) by novelists Belinda McKeon, John Banville, Bernard MacLaverty, Aifric Campbell and Glenn Patterson and by poets Roger McGough, Frieda Hughes, Gillian Clarke, Adam O'Riordan, John F Deane, Catherine Phil MacCarthy, Thomas McCarthy and Leanne O'Sullivan. There are writing workshops, talks and performances and Stephen Rea returns with his reading from Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. (An event worth experiencing. I wrote a short piece on his performance at the Black Box in Belfast in January of this year. You can read it here.) The full programme for the John Hewitt International Summer School is here, including details of how to apply for a bursary to cover accommodation, some meals and all events for the week. Sure what's stopping you?
In other short story news, Belfast Book Festival (11th-18th June) this year features readings from Richard Beard and Keith Ridgeway (Wednesday 13th June, 8.30pm, Crescent Arts Centre), Christine Dwyer Hickey and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Sunday 17th June, 4.30pm, Crescent Arts Centre) as well as readings from Colm Toíbín, Gerald Dawe, Brian McGilloway and Malachi O'Doherty. There are events for children and young adults with Liz Weir, Derek Kielty, Garrett Carr, Niamh Sharkey and Sheena Wilkinson as well as workshops, poetry, book talks and spectacle. The excellent LitNet NI are running a 'Write to be published' Masterclass with Nicola Morgan on Wednesday 13th June (7pm, the Crescent Arts Centre) and introducing three first-time writers Donal McLaughlin, Lynne Edgar and Darran McCann at First Writes on Thursday 14th June, 6.30pm, also at the Crescent. There's a free Writers' Day at the Linen Hall Library on Saturday 16th June, hosted by Publishing NI, Literature Forum for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Publications Resource with a host of information on getting published. I am delighted to be doing a lunchtime reading with Moyra Donaldson at the Crescent Arts Centre on Thursday 14th June at 1pm. We're billed in the At a Glance section as McGill and Donaldson. We're not, as this might suggest, a firm of solicitors (or undertakers) but a poetry/fiction mash-up. It's madness, I know. We're not even in the same genre for goodness' sake. But hey, it works. Full programme available here. It's all good. Come out to something. Or I'll send round the evil ukulele-toting clown to get you.


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Analysis: Death, taxes and Supreme Court's gay marriage case
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the lesbian couple at the center of a major gay rights case set to go before the Supreme Court this month, were in many ways a typical New York power couple.
Spyer was a psychologist; Windsor, a consultant at IBM. They met in a Greenwich Village restaurant in the 1960s and lived together for decades, summering at a Long Island beach house.
They waited until they were in their mid-70s to marry in Canada in 2007. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor inherited her spouse's estate, worth about $4.1 million, according to lawyers.
But because she is gay, Windsor missed out on one of the most lucrative tax breaks enjoyed by affluent Americans - the exemption from federal estate tax on wealth passed from one spouse to another.
"The biggest benefit of marriage, financially, is when you die," said Fred Slater, a New York tax accountant.
The spousal exemption to the estate tax is denied to same-sex couples because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law passed by Congress and signed by the president in 1996 that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
Windsor is challenging DOMA in a case the nine-member high court will hear on March 27. At its core, Windsor's fight is with the Internal Revenue Service over how much federal tax she owes on Spyer's estate.
She seeks the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes she would not have had to pay if she and Spyer had been of opposite sexes. Her challenge asks whether married gays should be able to claim the same exemption as married heterosexuals do. Continued...