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What is the purpose of this Think Sheet?
What steps of the writing process will be covered by this Think Sheet?
How can I use this Think Sheet to help me write my essay?
Using the Planning Think Sheet
Planning Step 1: Your Purpose
The first question on the Planning Think Sheet is "What is my purpose for writing this essay?" It will be much easier for you to write your essay if you have an idea of why you are writing it and what you want to accomplish. Your purpose may change as you go through the writing process, but you should write down what you think your purpose is now to get started.
Planning Step 2: Choosing Pre-Writing Techniques
The next step is to think about which pre-writing techniques will best help you to generate ideas for your topic. Mark the techniques you plan to use on your Think Sheet by underlining, circling, highlighting, or marking in some other way. (If you need to review some or all of the pre-writing techniques, go to the Pre-Writing Techniques Tutorial.)
Here is what I wrote as the purpose for my essay and the pre-writing techniques that I chose:
Planning Step 3: Pre-Writing
Now that you have decided on a pre-writing technique (or more than one), it is time to actually do your pre-writing. This is your opportunity to put your ideas on paper to see what you know about your topic. Remember the most important rule of pre-writing--don't worry about grammar, spelling, correctness, or the difference between good and bad ideas!
The first thing I wanted to do with my pre-writing was to choose a specific place to describe in my essay. I did this by brainstorming several possible places:
After doing this brainstorming exercise, I decided that I wanted to write about one of the apartments where I lived on my mission. I chose the apartment at Ploschad' Muzhestvo, because I had been thinking a lot about the things that happened while I was living there. I wanted to think more about that time in my life, and I decided that writing an essay about the apartment could help me do that.
Now that I had decided on a specific place to describe, I made a list of all the things that I could remember about that place:
Now take some time to use the pre-writing techniques you chose above to generate ideas for your essay.
Planning Step 4: Adding Sensory Detail
Once you have generated some ideas for your descriptive essay, it is a good idea to think of sensory details that you can add to your description. When I looked at the list of things I created in Step 3, I realized that I mostly wrote down things that I could see and situations I could remember happening in the apartment I was describing. I was very surprised to notice that I didn't write anything about sounds, smells, tastes, or feelings associated with the apartment! I think that most people, when asked to describe something, would focus mostly on things they can see. That's why Step 4: Adding Sensory Detail is an important part of planning a descriptive essay.
Here are the sensory details that I wrote down for Step 4:
Now it's your turn! Fill out the chart on your Planning Think Sheet for sensory details about the person, place, object, or animal that you are describing in your essay.
When you are finished, continue the writing process with
Writing Exercise 2: Organizing
Think Sheet.
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This article was published 25/10/2011 (2098 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It's a rumour no longer.
Selena Gomez did adopt a puppy during her visit to D'Arcy's ARC last week.
"She's the biggest celebrity we've had in here to make an adoption," D'Arcy Johnston, owner of the no-kill pet rescue facility, said.
Gomez and Justin Bieber set local teen hearts aflutter for several days last week, as the young couple were prominently seen around the city — a Jets game, a stroll at The Forks, a private dinner aboard the Nonsuch at the Manitoba Museum — before her concert.
The couple also visited D'Arcy's ARC on Friday, where it was believed she adopted a puppy — Gomez already has five other dogs, all pet-rescue pups — but D'Arcy's people were sworn to secrecy.
But by Monday, photos of a smiling Gomez holding her new pup — Baylor, a 10-week-old Husky cross — could be found everywhere on the Web, including a feature story in People.com.
Baylor is accompanying Gomez on the rest of her cross-Canada tour.
Johnston said he was flattered that Gomez and Bieber chose his facility for the visit, adding it's gratifying to know that theirs is the top-of-mind shelter in Winnipeg.

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Upton, NY (SPX) May 08, 2012
By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University, St. Andrews University, and collaborators provide direct evidence supporting theories in which magnetism holds the key to this material's ability to carry current with no resistance.
Because the measurements take into account the electronic bands and directions in which the electrons are traveling, which was central to testing the theoretical predictions, this research strengthens confidence that this type of theory may one day be used to identify or design new materials with improved properties - namely, superconductors operating at temperatures far higher than today's.
"In the best possible world you would be able to take this theory and plug in different chemical elements until you find a combination that should work as a superconductor at higher temperatures," said team leader Seamus Davis, Director of the Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven and the J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University. Such materials could be used for real world, energy-saving technologies, such as zero-loss power transmission lines, without the need for expensive coolants.
Scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism underlying so-called "high-temperature" superconductivity ever since discovering materials that could carry current with no resistance at temperatures somewhat above the operating realm of conventional superconductors, which must be chilled to near absolute zero (0 kelvin, or -273 degrees Celsius).
Though still mighty chilly, these high-Tc materials' operating temperatures - some as high as 145K (-130 degrees C) - offer hope that such materials could one day be designed to operate at room temperature.
One key to superconductivity is the formation of electron pairs. Scientists hypothesized that if these negatively charged particles have their magnetic moments pointing in opposite directions, they could overcome their mutual repulsion to join forces in so-called Cooper pairs - thus carrying current with no loss.
"Many people suspected you could take materials that naturally have alternating magnetic moments on adjacent electrons - antiferromagnetic materials - and convert them into superconductors," Davis said. But to prove this conjecture hasn't been possible with copper-based, or cuprate, superconductors - the first high-Tc superconductors discovered starting some 25 years ago.
"You can make a robust antiferromagnetic cuprate insulator, but in that state it's hard to get the magnetic electrons to pair and then move around and make a superconductor," Davis said.
Then, in 2008, when iron-based superconductors were discovered, the idea that magnetism plays a role in high-Tc superconductivity was revived. But determining that role was a very complex problem.
"In each iron atom there are five magnetic electrons, not just one," Davis said. "And each, as it moves around the crystal, does so in a separate electronic band. In order to find out if the magnetic interactions between electrons are generating the superconductivity, you have to measure what's called the anisotropic energy gap - how strongly bound together the electrons are in a pair - depending on the electrons' directions on the different electronic bands."
Theorists Dung-Hai Lee of the University of California at Berkeley, Peter Hirschfeld of the University of Florida, and Andrey Chubukov of the University of Wisconsin among others had developed different versions of a theory that predicts what those measurements should be if magnetism were the mechanism for superconductivity.
"It was our job to test those predictions," Davis said. But at first, the techniques didn't exist to make the measurements. "We had to invent them," Davis said.
Two scientists working with Davis, Milan P. Allan of Brookhaven, Cornell, and the University of Saint Andrews (where Davis also teaches) and Andreas W. Rost of Cornell and St. Andrews - the lead authors on the paper - figured out how to do the experiments and identified an iron-based material (lithium iron arsenide) in which to test the predictions.
Their method, multi-band Bogoliubov quasiparticle scattering interference, found the "signature" predicted by the theorists:
"The strength of the 'glue' holding the pairs together is different on the different bands, and on each band it depends on the direction that the electrons are traveling - with the pairing usually being stronger in a given direction than at 45 degrees to that direction," Davis said.
"This is the first experimental evidence direct from the electronic structure in support of the theories that the mechanism for superconductivity in iron-based superconductors is due primarily to magnetic interactions," he said.
The next step is to use the same technique to determine whether the theory holds true for other iron superconductors. "We and others are working on that now," Davis said.
If those experiments show that the theory is indeed correct, the model could then be used to predict the properties of other elements and combinations - and ideally point the way toward engineering new materials and higher-temperature superconductors.
The findings are published in the May 4, 2012 issue of Science.
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Sec. 58-1. - Tax on probate of will or grant of administration.
A tax is hereby imposed on the probate of any will or grant of administration in an amount equal to one-third of the state tax on such probate of a will or grant of administration.
(Ord. of 4-25-2000(1))
Sec. 58-2. - Recordation tax.
There is imposed and levied by the county, pursuant to the provisions of the Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3800 et seq., a tax on the recordation in the county of each instrument subject to the state recordation tax imposed by such state law, except any instrument on which the state recordation tax is $0.50 specifically, in an amount equal to one-third of the amount of the state recordation tax collectable for the state on the first recordation of each taxable instrument in the county, pursuant to the provisions of such state law. Where a deed or other instrument conveys, covers or relates to property located within the county and also to property located in another county, the tax imposed and levied shall be computed only for that portion located within the county.
(Ord. of 8-10-2004)
Sec. 58-3. - Personal property tax relief.
(a) Purpose; definitions; relation to other sections.
(1) The purpose of this section is to provide for the implementation of the changes to PPTRA (Personal Property Tax Relief Act) effected by legislation adopted during the 2004 Special Session I and the 2005 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia.
(2) Terms used in this section that have defined meanings set forth in PPTRA shall have the same meanings as set forth in Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3523.
(3) To the extent that the provisions of this section conflict with any prior ordinance or provision of the County Code, this section shall control.
(b) Method of computing and reflecting tax relief.
(1) For tax years commencing in 2006, the county adopts the provisions of item 503.E of the 2005 Appropriations Act, providing for the computation of tax relief as a specific dollar amount to be offset against the total taxes that would otherwise be due but for PPTRA and the reporting of such specific dollar relief on the tax bill.
(2) The board shall, by resolution set the percentage of tax relief at such a level that it is anticipated fully to exhaust PPTRA relief funds provided to the county by the Commonwealth.
(3) Personal property tax bills shall set forth on their face the specific dollar amount of relief credited with respect to each qualifying vehicle, together with an explanation of the general manner in which relief is allocated.
(c) Allocation of relief among taxpayers.
(1) Allocation of PPTRA relief shall be provided in accordance with the general provisions of this section, as implemented by the specific provisions of the county's annual budget relating to PPTRA relief.
(2) Relief shall be allocated in such as manner as to eliminate personal property taxation of each qualifying vehicle with an assessed value of $1,000.00 or less.
(3) Relief with respect to qualifying vehicles with assessed values of more than $1,000.00 shall be provided at a percentage, annually fixed and applied to the first $20,000.00 in value of each such qualifying vehicle, that is estimated fully to use all available state PPTRA relief. The percentage shall be established annually as a part of the adopted budget for the county.
(d) Transitional provisions.
(1) Pursuant to authority conferred in Item 503.D of the 2005 Appropriations Act, the county treasurer is authorized to issue a supplemental personal property tax bill, in the amount of 100 percent of tax due without regard to any former entitlement to state PPTRA relief, plus applicable penalties and interest, to any taxpayer whose taxes with respect to a qualifying vehicle for tax year 2005 or any prior tax year remain unpaid on September 1, 2006, or such date as state funds for reimbursement of the state share of such bill have become unavailable, whichever earlier occurs.
(2) Penalty and interest with respect to bills issued pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be computed on the entire amount of tax owed. Interest shall be computed at the rate provided in chapter 58 of the Code of Ordinances, from the original due date of the tax.
(Ord. of 12-13-2005)
Sec. 58-4. - Active fire and rescue volunteer tax relief.
(a) Purpose. The purpose of this policy is to outline tax relief for active volunteer personnel. The tax relief is a benefit to active volunteer personnel as defined by this ordinance.
(b) Scope. This policy applies to all active volunteer personnel.
(c) Definition. "Active volunteer" means those persons who regularly respond to emergency calls or regularly perform other duties for a fire, rescue or emergency medical services station, regardless of their residency.
(d) Procedure.
(1) Eligibility.
a. Active volunteers must have completed their departmental minimum training requirements and must have contributed a minimum of 75 hours of volunteer activities for the organization during the preceding 12-month period.
b. Eligible hours are accumulated for attending meetings, responding to calls, on-duty time, training, and support/administrative functions.
c. Life volunteers, board members, and/or auxiliary workers do not qualify for the relief unless they meet the above definition of an active volunteer and service requirements.
(2) Active volunteer list submission and voucher issuance.
a. The director of fire and emergency medical services will prepare a report of eligible active volunteers from all Orange County fire and rescue agencies by August 15 of each calendar year.
b. This report will be provided to the county administrator by September 1 of each calendar year.
c. After approval by the county administrator, the finance director will issue a tax voucher after November 1 to each eligible active volunteer to the address provided on the August report.
d. Active volunteers are limited to one voucher per calendar year even if they qualify as an active volunteer through more than one agency.
e. One voucher will be issued per active volunteer as follows:
Tax relief voucher: $100.00 maximum value.
(3) Voucher use.
a. All vouchers are valid for the fiscal year of issuance only (July 1—June 30).
b. Vouchers are valid only for vehicle license fees, and/or real or personal property tax(es) where the member is the owner or partial owner of real property, or a vehicle(s) (which also can be owned by the volunteer's parent(s) provided the volunteer does not own a vehicle) or other personal property, or if the property is leased by the volunteer who is obligated under the terms of the lease to pay the personal property tax.
c. A voucher, when used, must be used in full. No credit is given for any unused portion of a voucher.
(Ord. of 10-9-2007(1))
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Many people choose federal service at least in part for the promise of work/life balance. The government supports telework, prioritizes wellness and offers benefits such as on-site child care and employee assistance hotlines. Work/life balance consistently ranks in the top three employee priorities in surveys.
So why are so many federal executives online until midnight, scheduling late-day meetings and generally overworked?
Three new books offer insight into that question, and each has a slightly different take on how to advance your career while maintaining a satisfying family life (and your own sanity). We spoke with each author to tease out the pearls of wisdom for government IT workers.
Brigid Schulte, author of "Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time," traveled the world in search of work/life balance. A combination of memoir and professional reporting, the book begins with a time-use researcher's assertion that Schulte had nearly 30 hours of leisure a week, which was very much at odds with her experience of juggling her demanding job as a Washington Post staff writer and a busy family life. The book goes on to explore the challenges of simultaneously raising a family, sustaining a marriage and pursuing a meaningful career.
Schulte's conclusion: The modern workplace puts impossible demands on white-collar workers' time and energy. Therefore, employees must set reasonable boundaries and advocate for change in their workplaces and society in order to fully meet their family responsibilities and enjoy their lives.
Indeed, when work is kept within 35 to 45 hours a week, we are more innovative and productive than when we log 60-plus hours. No less an industrial luminary than Henry Ford discovered that the 40-hour workweek optimized worker productivity without risking burnout. For knowledge workers, Schulte cites compelling research that we can achieve only six hours of high-value productivity each day.
Technology workers are particularly susceptible to the fallacy that it's beneficial to spend more hours on the job. "There's this macho culture in the IT and tech field that the more hours you work [and] the less sleep you get, the more dedicated you are and the better worker you are," Schulte told FCW. "You're not more productive. You're doing nobody any good by putting in crazy, crazy hours."
Instead, work with your team and managers to create a clear set of goals and a realistic description of the work that needs to happen. Take quiet time alone to identify your few top priorities each day and each week, and stick to that plan. Use your vacation time, and recognize that sometimes taking a break is a faster path to a solution than hunching over a keyboard all night or spending more time in meetings.
"Neuroscience is showing that when we are idle, when we are at rest, when we take a break from work, we are actually most creative," Schulte said. "That is when our brains are most active. That is when the 'aha' moment of inspiration comes."
We must also guard against technology-aided interruptions to our workflow, such as email and instant messaging. They are seductive and hard to control, and they degrade our work. Train yourself to work in pulses of 60 to 90 minutes without any interruptions. You'll be more productive overall and better able to end the day at a reasonable time to return to your family, Schulte said.
'All Joy and No Fun'
Earlier this year, it was almost impossible to turn on the radio or open a book-related publication without seeing something about "All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood" by New York magazine writer Jennifer Senior. Like an anthropologist studying modern-day America, Senior made a series of visits to parents, families and researchers in a quest to understand how raising children has become so overwhelming and why it contributes to parental unhappiness.
The broad changes in society in the past few decades -- notably women flooding the workplace and the dominance of two-income families -- underpin the phenomena that Senior describes, much as they do in Schulte's book. Senior, however, zeroes in on the overwhelming weight we put on children to give our lives meaning and emotional fulfillment, as opposed to previous generations that reproduced in order to have more hands on the farm. Indeed, her insight points to one big takeaway from "All Joy and No Fun": Everyone will be better off if you train your children to do chores and contribute to the household.
"Children have lost productive function," Senior told FCW. "I'm all for the revival of chores early and often. It's a way of building family unity."
As for work/life balance, perhaps the first step is to count our blessings as white-collar workers with decent pay. "If you work in the federal government, you've already got the luxury of thinking about work/life balance," she said.
"It's a high-class problem to begin with to be able to contemplate getting work/life balance because it means you don't have three shifts to worry about and an impossible commute," Senior said. "You're probably working pretty close to home, and you have your dental taken care of."
The next step requires a shift in perspective. Understand that you're not alone in being challenged to meet family and work responsibilities, and let go of the expectation that the precious, limited time you spend with your children will be 100 percent bliss.
"All of us are dogged by the lives we didn't lead," Senior said, citing British psychotherapist Adam Phillips' writing on the power of our imagined lives to cast a pall over the reality. "Our kids acting according to plan is a very real fantasy."
Senior said we should accept that our lives will be more lopsided than balanced and tilted in favor of work or family depending on our circumstances and our own preferences. "Embracing lopsidedness isn't bad," she added.
We should also recognize that home lives, especially with young children, will be chaotic, messy and not conducive to the elusive flow made famous by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his 1990 bestseller "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience." The satisfying feeling of solving a problem in several hours of focused work is unlikely to be replicated at home, Senior said.
'What Works for Women at Work'
Every career woman could benefit from reading "What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know," by academic Joan Williams and her daughter, Rachel Dempsey. And it would also be beneficial for men who hope to understand the gender bias that hinders women's advancement and is often unconsciously perpetuated by men and women.
Either way, the book's plentiful examples and suggestions provide smart strategies for federal workers to find work/life balance without calling their commitment to career into question. Williams and Dempsey condensed 35 years of social science research into four patterns of observed gender bias that were confirmed in their interviews with more than 125 professional women. Not every woman experienced every pattern, but all recognized at least one.
Those are challenging patterns to recognize and acknowledge in our workplaces, which we may feel are gender-neutral and fair to all. But they have been documented by reams of research pulled together by Dempsey and Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law.
"You have to be aware of these problems or you can't strategize to solve them, but also, you have to have strategies that allow you to solve problem one without creating problem two," Williams told FCW.
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@ "I am female".... Outstanding post! Clearly a confident, strong woman.
I am female and I can't agree with this statement: "◦Prove it again. Men receive the benefit of the doubt on performance, whereas women are only as good as their last win." Um, it's called work for a reason and people, be they male or female, are expected to continue to be productive. I also dislike statements such as this: "And it would also be beneficial for men who hope to understand the gender bias that hinders women's advancement and is often unconsciously perpetuated by men and women. " Oh yes, let's blame those evil men who are unconsciously keeping women down. Look, it all comes down to personal responsibility, Some jobs require more of a time commitment than others. Some have flexible conditions and flexiplace and others don't. Choose accordingly, and if you are contemplating a major life change, such as having a baby, it might not be the right time to ratchet up your job responsibilities. I am currently staying in a not-too-demanding job I don't particularly like and I've turned down opportunities for advancement. I'm caring for an aging parent and there are only so many hours in a day. I'm not blaming men or anyone else for my lack of advancement because it's a choice. I'm an adult and this is how adults act.
In regard to the Schulte book. Yeah, let's leave it to our global competitors to work 80 hour weeks. We Americans think they're the chumps for working so hard, all the while assume our wealth will continue forever and we can afford to be "idle" more so we can be more creative. How the heck did we ever put people on the moon 45 years ago without this "work/life" balance? Why can't we do it again. Hint: we worked harder all day every day back then. Not a bad model for the future, but hard. Life is hard and there are no guarantees. The author seems to believe there is a guarantee we will always have our wealth and can downshift. Worrysome.
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As he gears up for the release of his third studio album 'Believe' next month, Justin Bieber is churning up promotions while most recently being highlighted in a feature for the June 2012 issue of GQ magazine.
The 18-year-old Canadian superstar donned designer duds from top fashion labels such as Dolce&Gabbana for the Peggy Sirota shot spread while talking about topics including fame, booze, style and Kim Kardashian.
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On not being able to trust people in the entertainment industry:
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Bamako, Mali (UPI) Mar 4, 2013
The reported deaths in northern Mali of two top commanders of al-Qaida's North African wing has heightened fears for the safety of four French hostages held by Islamist forces in the West African desert.
Chadian troops claimed Saturday they had killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a key leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and a veteran of the Afghanistan war against the Soviets in 1979-89, in heavy fighting around the Ifoghas Mountains in northern Mali.
Chadian President Idriss Deby said Friday his forces had also killed Abdel Hamid Abou Zeid, another important AQIM leader, in fighting in the same region.
Jihadist forces withdrew into the mountains of northern Mali after being pushed out of southern Mali by French troops who intervened in France's former colony Jan. 11 to crush heavily armed jihadists who established a stronghold there in April 2012.
There has been no confirmation by the AQIM and its Malian Islamist allies, nor by independent sources, that these two key figures have been slain.
France, with forces and intelligence assets on the ground, has made no comment on the claims by the troops from Chad, another former French colony which has been supporting the French task force in Mali.
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Algeria, which has been fighting Belmokhtar and Abou Zeid for two decades, also hasn't been able to confirm the deaths.
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If these two key AQIM figures have been killed it could be a major blow to the jihadist groups fighting in northern Mali and which regional and European powers view as a transnational threat.
It also suggests that the 4,000-person French task force, supported by airstrikes and Chadian desert fighters trained in counterinsurgency operations by the U.S. Army, are making substantial progress battling through the rugged 8,500-square-mile mountain chain where the jihadists are holed up after nearly two months of combat.
Meantime, the death of another veteran jihadist commander, a 20-year Sudanese guerrilla veteran known as Abu Hazim al Sudani, was announced on internet forums used regularly by al-Qaida.
Like hundreds of foreign jihadists who flocked to join AQIM after the Islamists seized northern Mali in early 2012, al-Sudani traveled with 150 of his countrymen to aid AQIM after France's Operation Serval was launched in January.
He was reportedly killed in a French airstrike but the date and location of his death weren't announced.
Abou Zeid, AQIM's most feared commander who largely operated in the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, as well as Mali, Chad, Niger, Senegal and Burkina Faso, specialized in kidnapping Europeans over the last five years.
He amassed ransoms worth around $80 million that filled AQIM's warchests. The group has been part of al-Qaida since 2009.
The onetime smuggler turned jihadist, who married the daughters of Tuareg tribal chiefs to consolidate his power in the Sahara and the Sahel region, is believed to have executed at least two European hostages.
They were Edwin Dyer of Britain in 2009 and Frenchman Michel Germaneau in 2010, when French Special Forces tried to rescue him.
The fear is that if he is dead, his followers may kill the four Frenchmen they now hold. So far as is known, that hasn't happened.
Belmokhtar, equally ruthless, supposedly broke with AQIM a few months ago to form a splinter group. But he masterminded the seizure of the In Amenas natural gas complex in Algeria's southeastern desert near the Libyan border Jan. 16, five days after the French attacked in Mali.
The four-day siege ended when Algerian Special Forces stormed the complex, killing 48 foreign captives and 32 of the estimated 40 attackers.
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French intelligence calls the elusive Algerian "the uncatchable."
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The shake-up of qualifications in England will see the four devolved education systems in the United Kingdom moving further away from a common system.
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Lobster with Udon Noodles, Bok Choy and Citrus
Ludovic Lefebvre, chef at Los Angeles's Bastide, adores the Raynaud Cristobal porcelain plates sold at Le Sanctuaire. Their lobster-pink pattern inspired him to create a sake-spiked lobster dish with chewy udon noodles, tender bok choy and sweet citrus wedges.
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- Two 1 1/4-pound live lobsters
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- 1/4 pound dried Japanese udon noodles
- 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 small shallots, thinly sliced
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- 1 orange or grapefruit
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 pound oyster mushrooms, large caps quartered
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable stock or low-sodium broth
- 2 tablespoons sake
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
How to make this recipe
Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil over high heat. Add the lobsters head first and cook for 5 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the lobsters to a rimmed baking sheet. Bring the water back to a boil. Add the bok choy and cook for 30 seconds. Transfer the bok choy to a work surface and quarter each head lengthwise.
Add the udon noodles to the boiling water and cook, stirring often, until al dente, about 6 minutes. Drain the udon. Return the noodles to the pot and cover with cold water. Drain and rinse the udon 2 more times, then drain thoroughly, lifting the noodles a few times to help them dry.
In a small skillet, heat 1/4 cup of the oil. Add the shallots and cook over moderate heat, stirring a few times, until browned and crisp, about 3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the shallots to paper towels to drain, then salt lightly.
Crack the lobster claws and remove the meat in one piece. Twist off the lobster tails. Using kitchen shears, slit one side of each tail shell and remove the meat in one piece. Cut the tail meat in half lengthwise and discard the intestinal veins.
Using a sharp knife, peel the orange, taking care to remove all of the bitter white pith. Cut in between the membranes to release the sections.
In a large skillet, heat the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil. Add the onion and mushrooms and cook over high heat, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 5 minutes. Add the brown sugar, bok choy, vegetable stock and sake and bring to a simmer. Add the udon, season with salt and pepper and stir well.
In a medium skillet, melt the butter. Add the lobster meat and cook over moderately low heat, turning a few times, until warmed through, about 2 minutes. Crush the fried shallots over the lobster and stir to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer the noodles and vegetables to a serving bowl or deep plates, set the lobster and orange sections on top and serve right away.
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The recipe can be prepared one day ahead through Step 3. Refrigerate the lobster, bok choy and udon separately. Store the shallots in an airtight container at room temperature.
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I was surprised to see a brand new video from Vinnie Paz and even more so to see he's got a brand new project titled "Carry on Tradition" coming out on October 29th 2013. The track "Is Happiness Just A Word" features Yes Alexander and although contains the typically excellent lyrical content from Vinnie Paz, possesses a completely different vibe from his previous album "God of the Serengeti". The pre-order links for the E.P is listed above, however you can view the artwork and tracklisting for Vinnie Paz – Carry on Tradition, and watch "Is Happiness Just A Word" here.
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The Canadian Association of Journalists announced Tuesday that two Winnipeg Free Press journalists are among the finalists nominated for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada for 2011.
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Hi there, I had my surgery two and a half weeks ago and am still walking around with a drain in the left breast (this was the side where the implant was ruptured and part of the capsule was removed). I have had about 1 litre of blood drained so far. My house doctor suggested that I strap myself up tight to help the blood to clot which I have now done as well as have the drain in. Not much is draining at the moment, I am still tightly strapped and my left breast continues to fill up.
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Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror/Supernatural | Sci-Fi
Status: Returning Series
Network: The CW ( USA)
Airs: Fridays at 09:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Premiere: September 13, 2005
Episode Order: 22CastFear is a luxury.
Ever since he was young, Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki, Gilmore Girls) has tried to escape his past. After his mothers mysterious death, Sams father set out to seek revenge on the evil forces that killed her and destroy other evil beings along the way. Unlike Sam, Dean (Jensen Ackles, Smallville), Sams older brother, was eager to follow in his fathers footsteps, learning the tricks of the trade, and entering the family business." Sam on the other hand, determined to break free of the family business, left home as soon as he graduated from high school, unwavering from his quest to start a normal life on his own.
Just as Sams new life was going perfectly with an upcoming interview at a prestigious law school and a beautiful girlfriend by his side, Dean arrived at Sams doorstep to let his brother know that their father (recurring guest star Jeffrey Dean Morgan) disappeared on a hunting trip. Upon hearing the startling news, Sam, though reluctant, had no choice but to help Dean track down their father.
Now, on the road together in search of their father, tracking evil supernatural forces along the way, Dean and Sam have begun to reunite after spending several years apart. However, during their journey, old sibling rivalries resurface, and the effects of their strange upbringing are shown. Sam remains wary of their father and mission while Dean, although cocky and fearless on the surface, still tries to come to grips with his mothers horrific death. But together with their different views and personalities, Sam and Dean are able to save lives by destroying the evil beings that haunt the earth.
Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester
Jared Padalecki stars in The CW's thriller "Supernatural" as Sam Winchester, the sweet reluctant hero who joins forces with his older brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) to battle demons.
Padalecki starred in the remake of one of the most popular horror films of all time, "Friday the 13th." He also starred alongside Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden as famed artist Thomas Kinkade in the biopic "The Christmas Cottage." Based on the life of one of America's most collected living artists, the film takes a look at the inspiration behind one of Kincade's most famous paintings.
In addition, Padalecki hosted MTV's new show "Room 401," from executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. The series took viewers on a mind-blowing journey as some of the most talented, up-and-coming illusionists scare and deceive innocent bystanders.
Previously, Padalecki starred in the horror film "House of Wax," opposite Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton. He also had a leading role in "Cry Wolf," in which he played a precocious boarding school student who had been drawn into an elaborate "liar's club" hoax involving a serial killer. Other feature film roles include "Flight of the Phoenix," opposite Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie, "New York Minute" and "Cheaper by the Dozen."
In addition to his role as Dean on "Gilmore Girls," Padalecki starred in the television movie "Ring of Endless Light," based on the novel by Madeline L'Engle.
Padelecki currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife.
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Jensen Ackles plays Dean Winchester, the rugged bad boy who teams up with his younger brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) to battle evil supernatural forces on "Supernatural."
Ackles starred in the feature film "My Bloody Valentine 3D," Patrick Lussier's remake of the 1981 slasher film. Ackles played Tom, a principled man who returns to his home in Harmony, Missouri, 10 years after 22 people were murdered on Valentine's night. Ackles also starred in David Winkler's "Devour" for Sony Pictures and David Mackay's romantic comedy "Ten Inch Hero," a sexy, funny, romantic comedy about the tangled love lives of co-workers at a sub shop in Santa Cruz.
Ackles' previous television roles include playing Jason Teague on "Smallville," Alec/X5-494 on "Dark Angel" and C.J. on "Dawson's Creek." Additionally, he starred in the miniseries "Blonde," opposite Patrick Dempsey and Poppy Montgomery.
Ackles began his acting career in 1997 as the critically acclaimed Eric Roman Brady on "Days of our Lives," for which he received three Daytime Emmy nominations and won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer in 1998.
Ackles was born in Dallas and was raised in Richardson, Texas. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife.
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Park Chan-wook's Old Boy is a delirious, confronting ride, a movie full of visceral shocks and aesthetic pleasures: it has an explosive immediacy and a persistent afterlife, a lingering impact that is hard to shake. While it has scenes of considerable brutality, its violence is expressed in a range of ways: its shock value lies most of all in what it tells us about its characters and their emotions.
Full of visual and auditory pleasures, it is a dense, carefully structured film, an enigma laid bare with merciless inevitability and moments of lyrical beauty. Some of its patterns and repetitions are apparent on a first encounter, but its intricacies need more than one viewing. It is, in the most disconcerting and disorienting of ways, an exhilarating movie.
Old Boy is the second in a series. Park began a "Revenge Trilogy" following blockbuster box-office success with a movie called Joint Security Area (2000), about encounters between soldiers from North and South Korea. Instead of producing another commercial hit he took a much riskier turn, with the first of the series, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (2002), which had a stronger political context than Old Boy; he is currently finishing the final instalment, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, which focuses more on the notion of redemption.
Old Boy begins in a flurry of chaos, in a scene that is echoed in a flashback at the end of film. We are then back in time, to the moment when Oh Daesu (Choi Min-sik), after a drunken rampage at a police station, suddenly disappears from view. He undergoes an extraordinary experience. He is kidnapped, taken prisoner, confined to a room, fed, maintained and spied upon. Television is his only contact with the outside world: he watches Korean political upheavals and Princess Diana's wedding, and discovers that he has become a murder suspect.
During his captivity, he tries to imagine who could have wished this fate on him: he has a rollcall of potential names, but no one of whom he can be sure. He devises strategies for marking the passage of time, for escape, for preparing himself to find out who ordered his imprisonment, and exacting revenge.
When he finally leaves his cell, he's a man on a mission. But he discovers that his unknown opponent is waiting for him: the task of retribution will be more difficult than he thinks. The question, furthermore, becomes not who imprisoned him, but why: what is it in his past that has put him in this position?
Choi's performance is remarkable: he makes Daesu a figure at once terrifying, and pitiful, magnetically watchable. Yu Ji-tae, as the urbane, controlled nemesis Daesu encounters, quite early in the proceedings, plays a crucial role in maintaining the extremity of the film's premises.
Daesu finds an ally, a young woman, Mido (the striking, vulnerable Kang Hye-jeong), a sushi chef he recognises from a TV cooking show. He is a fast learner. He adjusts (Park doesn't waste any time showing us how) to the brave new world of technology that has grown up since his incarceration.
He flexes his muscles, literally: in pursuing his nemesis, he has to deal with fairly tough customers. Full of barely suppressed rage, he is ready to turn on anyone who stands in his way. A couple of scenes - one of torture, one of self-mutilation - are hard to watch. And Daesu's behaviour in Mido's restaurant, when he turns all his repressed anger onto a live animal, is particularly difficult to contemplate - although it gives us an immediate sense of how far Daesu is prepared to go in his quest. Another physical encounter - a one-take, bravura scene in which he faces a parade of thugs - has a strange, distanced quality, very different from the high-impact proximity to violence that Park sometimes gives us.
The movie's look is a mixture of shadows and light, shabbiness and gaudiness, the world of the film a combination of high-tech gloss and alleyway grime. The music is rich and varied, with classical melodies lending a disorienting sense of harmony and order to the apparent disorder on screen.
This is an expansive, extravagant-seeming film, but as it turns out, everything is there for a purpose: no matter how crazy the diversions or distractions, the twists and turns of the narrative. Park fills every frame and phrase of dialogue with information - at the end, with hindsight, we realise what these kinds of details signified, how much ingenuity is embedded in the movie's chaos, its visceral and kinetic energies.
Old Boy, in its richness and intensity, its weightiness and its lightness, feels like a compendium of movies and mystery stories, fables and case histories, myths and legends, distilled into a single devastating experience.


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Brined and maraschino - Maggots
The cherries contain an average of 5% or more rejects due to maggots.
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Calls grow for Oxfam to drop Scarlett Johansson following her defense of Israeli occupation
On January 10, SodaStream, which makes home carbonating devices, announced that Johansson had become their first-ever Global Brand Ambassador. SodaStream has been targeted globally for boycott due to the company's main production site being in an illegal West Bank settlement and its exploitation of Palestinian land, resources, and labor.
Johansson also serves as a Global Ambassador for Oxfam International, which considers settlements to be a major barrier to peace and contributor to poverty. Following international outcry, Oxfam stated that it was engaged in a dialogue with the actress. But on January 24, Scarlett released a statement standing behind the SodaStream product and praising their work environment. An Oxfam spokesperson then told the Electronic Intifada, "Oxfam is now considering the implications [of] her new statement and what it means for Ms. Johansson's role as an Oxfam global ambassador."
"Scarlett Johansson completely whitewashes Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of Palestinian land by asserting SodaStream propaganda that the company is 'building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine,'" said Ramah Kudaimi of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. "How can a company based in an illegal settlement and profiting from the abuse of Palestinian rights contribute in any way to peace? Ms. Johansson has come out for occupation and against principles of freedom, justice, and equality. We demand Oxfam respond immediately and drop her as their Global Ambassador in accordance with their own stated position that settlements are a major barrier to peace and contributor to poverty."
Patrick Connors from Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel added: "We are shocked to learn that Scarlett Johansson believes that Sodastream's construction of a factory on stolen Palestinian land and exploitation of a captive labor force held under a brutal Israeli military occupation furthers 'equal rights.' We're disturbed by her assertion that Israel's colonial domination of Palestinians constitutes 'communities joining together' for peace. Given Ms. Johansson's ringing endorsement of Israel's military occupation, settlement and economic exploitation of Palestinians in direct contradiction of international law and fundamental Oxfam positions, Oxfam must immediately drop her as an Oxfam Global Ambassador if it is to maintain its credibility."
"Scarlett Johansson just doesn't get it. Sodastream's factory is located in an illegal settlement in the West Bank, profiting from the exploitation of Palestinian labor and resources that is endemic to military occupation. These conditions are the furthest thing from equal rights or 'communities joining together' for peace," said Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. "It is entirely inappropriate for Oxfam to continue to use Ms. Johansson as a Global Ambassador, given her statement directly contradicts Oxfam's strong position against Israeli settlements."
"Scarlett Johansson touts the SodaStream factory in the Occupied West Bank as an Edenic scene of 'equal rights' and 'social and economic cooperation.' She needs a reality tour of the Occupied West Bank, starting with the dystopian cattle chute that is the Qalandiya Checkpoint," said Nancy Kricorian of CODEPINK Women for Peace. "Oxfam must suspend Johansson from publicity work for the duration of her SodaStream contract in the way that they suspended Ahava spokesmodel Kristin Davis in 2009. Anything less is pure hypocrisy."
"Scarlett Johansson portrays SodaStream's Ma'ale Adumim factory as an ideal workplace for Palestinian laborers, but a worker interviewed there recently said he feels like he is enslaved. In 2013 SodaStream refused to allow Corporate Watch to visit their factory and would not respond to questions about the minimum wage paid, options for unionization and promotion, and the exclusion of the local Palestinian Bedouin population from employment in the factory," said Andrew Kadi, Steering Committee member of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. "A job with poor working conditions, in an Israeli factory on stolen Palestinian land, within a context where Palestinians' own economic development is stifled by Israel's military occupation is not anything that Scarlett Johansson should be touting. Palestinians need freedom and human rights, not sweatshop jobs in factories run by Israelis."
US groups continued to call for people to join more than 6,300 others by signing a petition asking Johansson to end her relationship with SodaStream and asked concerned individuals to call on Oxfam America to push Johansson to end her relationship with SodaStream and drop her as a Global Ambassador if she does not.
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Welcome to Pet Detective, a new column where The Globe's Amberly McAteer will find answers to the health and behaviour problems of our four-legged friends. Send your questions to email@example.com (All questions will be published anonymously.)
The question: I love taking Bruce, my one-year-old German shorthaired pointer, to the dog park. It's a great place – but there are a few owners who don't respect the rules. Specifically, there's an un-neutered bullmastiff who runs rampant, dominating the other males and causing all kinds of tension in an otherwise peaceful place. Un-neutered males aren't allowed at dog parks here, and yet, he's always there. I don't want to sound like a naggy school teacher – I've never said anything to the owner. Should I?
The answer: A week ago, I would've told you to confront the dog owner – if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Educate him on how neutering solves behavioural issues, not to mention overpopulation problems. Dog parks are canine parties, I would have told you, and those party-poopers shouldn't ruin it for the rest of us.
But that all changed the moment I found my life being threatened by a fellow dog-park frequenter last week
She was the only other person there, chatting idly on her phone, while her yappy, growling Jack Russell ran circles around Ruby, my boxer who gets her hackles up over such threats.
"Are you seriously going to just stand there?" I yelled, trying to fend off her little punk. Calmly, she hung up her phone, walked over and put her nose about a millimetre from mine. She proceeded to describe how she was going to smash my face into the cement for criticizing her perfect pooch.
"Don't hit me don't hit me don't hit me," I chanted (yes, out loud), eyes scrunched under my hands, as I prayed my dog – and my teeth – would escape unscathed.
So, believe me when I tell you avoidance is the best policy in dog parks. You can't control other dogs – or their owners – so if you feel it's unsafe, it's time to find another party.
That said, this dog park is my second home: I'm part of a real pack of dog-crazed people. When we lost Lilly, a joyous Rottweiller pup, all too early to liver disease, the dog park served as a makeshift wake, as owners and dogs alike mourned the death of a friend.
With any close-knit network, though, comes a few black sheep – the hot head with the Jack Russell is apparently ours – and like any good party, you can mingle and enjoy, but be careful of the weirdos.
And before you face your own near-face-meets-cement incident, heed this advice: If you don't know an owner, do not approach them. Don't sit, don't speak, don't stay.
"Dog people can be like crazed parents, where their babies can do no wrong," veteran dog-walker Lindsay Shostal tells me at a packed downtown Toronto dog park.
Like a child's playground, helicopter parents circle their crazed pooches, who are all, for now, avoiding a giant puddle in back of the park. "Which one is yours? How old? What's his name?" we all ask each other.
Shostal, who has about 100 clients, tells me that if there's no avoiding a misbehaving pooch, you should broach the subject with the bullmastiff's owner, but sniff him out first.
"Act curious, you act like, 'Oh, I'm interested, why wouldn't you neuter your dog?' " she advises. Let him know you're aware he's breaking the rules without making him feel like a bad parent.
If this conversation goes well, you could then try to educate him: Mention that neutered dogs can smell the bullmastiff's testicles, throwing off the pack dynamic; explain why your dog is neutered and how that's changed his behaviour – for the better – at the park and at home.
Before long, we both launch into a tirade, listing off various dog-park offences we can't stand: cellphone users; owners who feed your dog treats without asking; people who get attached to tennis balls stolen by other dogs; owners who don't pick up after their dog – and suddenly, I'm covered in mud.
My blue dress is now black and my shoes are destroyed, after a terrier sprints into the puddle and onto my torso. The owner mumbles a weak, meaningless "sorry" and looks away. (I shouldn't wear nice clothes to the dog park – lesson learned.)
Dog parks can be good fun, but like most things in life, there will always be the dog poo in the proverbial grass. Humans, far more than dogs, can baffle the mind in how they behave. (Brace yourselves before clicking on this display of dog-owner-insanity.)
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