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Amateur photog's online photo cache. All photos are original pics taken by author and her husband. This is not a place to see those awe inspiring Ansel Adams, these are ordinary subjects shot on a whim most of the time.
Monday, January 02, 2012
I Heart Pachira Lodge
Pachira Lodge has 88 rooms, there are 4 rooms in each lodge. We were housed in the first lodge, rooms 1-4 for our group. Ours was #2. Rooms 1 and 2 face the entry.
Let me show you our accommodations during our stay in Tortuguero.
The entry to Rooms 1 and 2
The side view. The first 2 windows on the left belong to our room.
Wrapped around balcony. I spent a lot of time from this spot shooting at butterflies.
The traditional Costa Rican rocking chair didn't get much use from us - too many activities to do.
Night shot of our little lodge.
Would you believe that I had almost no picture of the interiors of the lodge?
In between activities, we found time to walk around the perimeter and followed the paved pathways.
There were plenty to discover just following these pathways.
I rediscovered my love of flowers:
This was high up and was shooting at it from the ground. I don't know if this one's an orchid.
Dainty with regal bearing.
A weed with the most charming little white flower.
The heliconias were ubiquitous, so were the ants.
The Dona Aurora (and Dona Luz) were also everywhere.
And so are these member of the ginger family.
Won't be a tropical paradise without hibiscus.
Not sure what these are or they the same "berries" we have here in the states that come every fall.
I feel love everywhere I look :)
The pool area. Behind the chairs is the jungle.
A favorite spot to while away those brief precious moments between activities.
Only in Pachira Lodge did I learn that there are species of land only crabs. Here's one that's annoyed at the attention he's getting. They burrow near the roots of trees. We found them burrowing where the roots are big and are coming up from the ground.
All meals were buffet setting.
The bar is festive at night.
Two thumbs up for Pachira Lodge. I highly recommend it.
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Wow, the look from that crab is piercing lol. This looks like a really great place to stay.ReplyDelete
wow. now that is one pretty annoyed blue crab. haha! all these pictures say i should be there, too.ReplyDelete
happy new year photo cache. more travels and pictures in 2012!
I've been coming back to and reading your blog posts but was having difficulty posting a comment. I hope this time it works.ReplyDelete
What a colorful lodge it is. I love the flowers.
1st time i heard about Tortuguero, ang galing. parang Tuguegarao lang at kakagaling ko lang dun. heheReplyDelete
i like the place, hidden gem. i hope it's affordable too =)
A very entertaining series of this great looking place to visit. I liked all the pictures....of the flowers my favorite was the hibiscus.ReplyDelete
@ KAYNI - I would like to stay here again definitely.ReplyDelete
@ ATTICUS - Thanks. I too hope there are travels for me this year.
@EKI - This was a packaged tour, but I checked the website and it's pretty affordable staying there. I don't know why you can't leave a comment though.
@ CHYNG - Tortuguero and Tuguegarao magkatunog :)ReplyDelete
@ DON - Thanks Don, for the comments and the visits all last year.
Thanks for the recommendation! What a lovely spot...so clean, tranquil, and green (in more ways than one!) Happy new year and I hope 2012 takes you and your camera to many new places both near and far!ReplyDelete
such lush flora! mukhang nakakarelax kahit nakatambay lang sa balcony.ReplyDelete
happy new year!!
Hi dear pc, enjoying your C. Rica tour and informative post as well,ReplyDelete
grabe! the place spells Nature all over, but I like how quiet it feels.
a good way to relax and have a break.
glad you caught the sloth, it looks cute! haha.
can;t wait for more of your stories.
Beautiful photos! It looks like an ideal place to relax and enjoy the beauty of nature.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you!
Loving your Costa Rica series. You really are a great photographer. Definitely, your lodging is important for a memorable vacation and Pachira Lodge looks fantastic. Love your hibiscus and berries details. Happy New Year Photo Cache!ReplyDelete
Hi There, So glad you are coming to my blog. I am enjoying yours ---but am not sure which one you recommend... This one is awesome. I had to look at the bottom to find out where you were. Costa Rica, huh??? How awesome is that!!!! I'd love to go there and stay in that lodge... WOW---Love all of the tropical plants/flowers, etc....ReplyDelete
Thanks again --and please keep coming. I'll return to yours.
Happy New Year, I am envious of your travel again. The environment looks like you are somewhere here in the country. I bet you felt it looks like home here! Most of the plants we have here too, except for that palm with red fruits. The fruits of palms are called nuts, just like our coconuts. Berry includes tomatoes, cherry. That other flower you thought orchid is not an orchid. I hope you don't mind my intrusion, hehe! Are you back to the states? I wonder if you are also planning to to to Machu Picchu!ReplyDelete
@ ANDREA- Oh no, I appreciate the help ID'ing, you are the expert in flora and fauna.ReplyDelete
I love this nature lodge.. looks like a great place to recharge :)ReplyDelete


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Corn may have been planted on their family farm, but for the Peterson Brothers and farmers across the country there's no time to sit back and relax.
The latest installment of their "Life of a Farmer" video series shows that work on the farm doesn't slow once the corn is in the ground. From repairing equipment to re-building a fence line, the end of school doesn't mean vacation – it means hard work.
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A9 TV; 10 November 2011
The fact is that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will find a comfortable foundation in the system that Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will set up. But the main force and service will lie with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Jesus the Messiah (pbuh) will have a small community of followers. He will impose a form of Christianity based on the way of the Mahdi. An Islam within Christianity. In other words, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will convert the Christian world by rooting it in the Qur'an and Islam. Because, "he will find the Book ready," he says. "1400; the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will find a book inside a chest bearing the seal of our Prophet (pbuh)." That is quite explicit; our Prophet (pbuh) says that, "he will find 1400 books bearing the seal of our Prophet (pbuh) inside a chest, and he will preach with these." That refers to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). He will clearly do this through the way of the Mahdi. We will see the way of the Mahdi very clearly. And in my opinion, we are seeing it now, insha'Allah.
The Russian police recently raided a house and threw the students of the Nur down on the ground. There is no need for that, of course. It is ignorance that makes them unease. But in fact the students of the Nur are a blessing for Russia. Russia will be richer and more secure with them. There would be no more drugs, for one thing, or alcohol addiction, and nothing to damage the state. There would be no more extremist aggression or "radical elements," as they call them. They are a guarantee for Russia. But they fail to see that, of course. We are striving and talking about it so they will come to understand.
I have enough love for millions, or billions of people, insha'Allah. With no division. For example,there is a fear in some people. "My love would be divided," they say. But why should love be fragmented? Our Prophet (pbuh) loved the entire Islamic community. And his love was not divided. Everyone loved our Prophet (pbuh), and he loved the whole community. There is no division of love there! I love all my brothers, and they love me. There is no division of love.
People may have doubts regarding Jesus the Messiah (pbuh). "Is it really him?" they may say. That is not a big problem. The question is one of the global prevalence of Islam. That will happen. But the appearance of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is of course most astounding. I do not think there will be that much amazement when it comes to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). But there will also be uncertainty about Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). We can see that from the hadiths. Our Prophet (pbuh) says, "The wise men in Kufa will better know that he is the true Mahdi." Now what does that mean? It means there will be a general uncertainty, and that is quite normal. People may say, "Is it really him?" They may say: "People have accepted him since he is a talented and intelligent person who makes better use of circumstances, America, Russia and the freemasons supported him. People accept him since he appeared with love, since it is a system that had not been tried, since there was no other way left, since the communist alternative had been closed off, given the economic crisis." There will probably be something like that. So there will be no absolute certainty of the kind people imagine. A very strong conviction will prevail, but there will be no 100% certainty. There will also be such a serious conviction regarding Jesus the Messiah (pbuh), but 100% certainty will only come with revelation, insha'Allah. People will harbor positive opinions and will say, "This is him, by the law of Allah."
The global dominion of Islamic moral values is a most desirable thing. Because Islam is like a bright light, a rose garden. A climate of intense democracy, peace and love, in which art and beauty prevail, is most excellent. We have democracy in Turkey now, for instance, but when the way of the Mahdi is established there will be a huge difference. For example, America is known as the Land of the Freedom, isn't it? But when they compare the two they will say, "We were living in hell. What kind of life was that?" They will be amazed they never realized it. "How did we end up in such troubles when we could have been living in such peace? How did we end up persecuting one another?" they will ask in amazement. Because the public pay money and the police draw their salaries. The public pay and the prosecutors draw their salaries. The public pay and the judges draw their salaries. The public pay and money goes to the military. The military oppress their own peoples in 90% of the countries of the world. It attacks their faith and religion. In 90% of places. Look, you see in Syria, unbelievable insults and humiliation. The public train and educate those people with their own money. The public pay to buy them weapons. Then they come and squeeze the trigger into their heads. And they scream and whimper from pain. The military's boots. The public pay for them, and those same boots kick them in the face. The public pay, and the police assault the public, in much of the world. They pay their warders, then the warders come and imprison them. Prisons are built with money from the public, and then the public are stuffed into them. So the system just consumed itself. But the way of the Mahdi will eliminate this scourge. That terrible, gangrenous system in which the public grind themselves down will disappear. That is how it is in much of the world. The public pay through the nose and highly advanced prisons are built. The public pay and then go and sit in those prisons surrounded by barbed wire. And the warders beat them meantime. They pay the prison guards, as the guards' pay comes out of the public taxes. And then the guards beat them up. The military bomb their own people, and the public pay for the bombs. The way of the dajjal [antichrist] has come to rule the world through this terrible system. But the way of the Mahdi will lift this scourge. Look, the military ruined the people in Libya, the police ruined them. We pity the people when we see their miserable state. But then we see that the former are persecuting the latter. They killed Gaddafi in a horrible way. Because that was how Gaddafi had educated the public with money taken from the public. He raised them as communists and Marxists, Darwinists and materialists, utterly ruthless. Then he tried to teach them about Islam at the last moment. "This is a sin, this is forbidden in Islam." But it was you who taught them to be Darwinists and materialists and ruthless, wasn't it? You cannot re-educate them in just 5-10 seconds. Can you say, "Darwinism is wrong"? Or, "Materialism is wrong"? Can you tell them all about fossils or the structure of proteins in just 5 minutes? There is no time for that. Allah struck him with his own weapon. The same with Saddam. Saddam bought vast quantities of weaponry with the public's money and then attacked them with those weapons. The poor people there gave all they had, gave him those weapons, and then said, "Now bomb us." And that is what he did. That is the system. But the way of the Mahdi will eliminate that blind dead-end and scourge. That is also how it is under communism. They collect all the people's money and belongings. Then they buy weapons and build an army. Then the military go and persecute the people. They hang some, shoot some and beat others. Because that is the proletariat of the dictatorship. But the way of the Mahdi is the exact opposite. It is a system that eliminates oppression. It does away with guns and bloodshed. It does away with everything that can be used in shedding blood. It is anti-bloodshed. What sheds blood? Swords. So he eliminates them. Bullets. He eliminates those. Artillery. What good is artillery? It kills people. So Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) has it melted down. "Melt it down," he says. And they say, "But what if these people turn to extremes?" "We have the Qur'an," says Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). "We will put them right with the Qur'an and love, not with police and guns," he says. Love is the greatest weapon of all. The whole world will be quiet as a lamb in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). That is also in the Torah, insha'Allah. The lion will lie down with the lamb. Tigers and savage animals and scorpions and snakes will all become tame and lose their venom. That is what this means – the elimination of guns and bullets and bombs and every deadly thing. The Torah describes that at length. The Torah dates back 3000 years, and has described it all down to the finest detail, how guns will be eradicated. It actually speaks of swords, of course, and weapons used for shedding blood. The Torah does not, of course, speak of tanks and artillery. They will all be done away with, and peace will come. "In doing this, Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will do it through Allah, not through his own power." Look, not through strength or power. It says he will do it through love. We are in that age, that time now, insha'Allah.
(In response to a viewer who inquired how Mr. Adnan Oktar looks so young and healthy)
What do I do? Well, I am careful what I eat. I am careful to eat olive oil and vegetables. I also use pure soap for washing, good soap, insha'Allah. Soap made from olive oil. That is all. What else can I do? Anything else is just a bottomless pit of money. I refuse to go down that road. And there is no logic in it. The body is nourished from the inside. You cannot intervene from the outside. You can do what you like on a building that has fallen down, but that building will remain fallen down that. You have to restore it from the inside. If the body is healthy from the inside, if you nourish it from the inside, if you give it good food and clean food, that is fine. Avoid allergenic foods. Chocolate day and night is no good. Stay away from coffee. Egg yolk is high in cholesterol and partially toxic. Too much of it disturbs the body. But foods with plenty of olive oil are good, insha'Allah.
One must try to put extremists right, rather than hating and putting them down. It is not rational to hate and exclude extremists. One must try to get them to adopt a rational, Muslim line, the line of the Qur'an, using kindness and good sense. There are some people who say, "We much crush the extremists into dust," and that kind of thing. That is cruel and lacking in love. It is a psychopathic attitude. Muslims cannot do such things. One must save them with love. Because they are still servants of Allah. One should pity them. Other people might have ended up like them. We might have ended up like them, may Allah forbid. We must adopt a rational language and seek to liberate them with love. But extremism is an interconnected system, like a spider's web. One extremists constantly motivates and encourages another. Extremists are like a chain. Pull one link and the next one moves as it is linked to it. Extremists do not easily abandon other extremists, and they act rather like a single clan. They act like a pack, in other words. So even if the extremist realizes something true, he is unlikely to admit it. Because bigotry is rooted in pride and arrogance. The extremist is a huge admirer of his own group or community. As the greatest of all. He therefore detests all other Muslims. He regards them as infidels and irreligious and apostates. As beneath him. He even regards it as legitimate for them to be killed and eradicated. That is why the extremist is so fanatical. One cannot respond using his own methods. One must respond with sense and affection. One may not get results, but at least one earns the merit, insha'Allah.
Insha'Allah, masha'Allah will prevent disaster from coming to that region, one. It is the key to global dominion, two. Insha'Allah; The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) used to say "insha'Allah." And he raised the dead, He said, "Insha'Allah," and placed his hand on the face of the sick and healed them of leprosy. "Insha'Allah," he said, and the blind saw. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh); masha'Allah, look, the word Mahdi begins with the letter M. Insha'Allah begins with the letter I. The names of Jesus, Isa in Arabic, also begins with I. I for Jesus and M for the Mahdi. Insha'Allah and masha'Allah; these two will bring about global dominion, insha'Allah. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will say "Masha'Allah" whenever something beautiful is done. He will see beauty and say, "Masha'Allah." He will see a manifestation of Allah and say, "Masha'Allah." The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will also say it, but this refers to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) insha'Allah. Insha'Allah and masha'Allah are the keys to global dominion. The vibration of the words insha'Allah and masha'Allah will bring about global dominion. Allah makes them His instrument. Disaster cannot strike.
The five pillars of Islam. There is no such issue as the five pillars of Islam. People know of five pillars. But there are not five pillars. The entire Qur'an is the pillar of Islam. "There are five pillars in Islam," they say. So what happened to Islamic Union? Or lawful and unlawful? You have to abide by them all. The pillars of Islam is the Qur'an as a whole. There are no five pillars in Islam.
(In response to the question "Is it fitting for women to listen to the Qur'an with their heads uncovered?")
The same old obsession: "Many women here and there listen to the Qur'an being read, listen to you reading the Qur'an with their heads uncovered. Would it not be better not to read the Qur'an?" In summary that is the issue. You are trying to turn people away from the Qur'an. In Turkey, 70% or 80% of women do not cover their heads. The great majority are uncovered at home, at least 90% of them. So fear Allah and pull yourselves together, women must listen to the Qur'an with joy. Do not try to turn people away from the Qur'an. Do not follow satan. Pull yourselves together. They use all kinds of excuses to turn women from the Qur'an. And everyone else. "You cannot understand the Qur'an, not even if you tried for 40 years, so do not read it. Put it in its cover and leave it there." They have ruined believers by turning people away from the Qur'an. Our Prophet (pbuh) has but one complaint in the Hereafter; "O Lord, this community of mine have abandoned the Qur'an," he says. İbrahim [addressing the owner of the question], you are also one of this gang. Fear Allah and free yourself from this scourge. Leave it alone.
"Heads uncovered". You are also trying to get men to cover their heads. "They are also infidels if they do not wear a skull cap," they say. Women with their heads covered or uncovered all listen easily to the Qur'an. Do not turn people away from the Qur'an. Stop it. You are hurting Islam and the Qur'an.
I am not going to tell my beloved, "Your head is uncovered, so I shall not speak to you about the Qur'an." That breaks off communications right from the start. That is unacceptable. You must preach with the Qur'an. Our Prophet (pbuh) used to preach in the market of Ukaz with the Qur'an. Did our Prophet (pbuh) say, "Cover your heads first, then I shall read to you from the Qur'an"? Did he? Where do you get this idea from?
(In reply to a viewer who says "I am dubious about my lifestyle. A Muslim must perform his obligations. I believe in Allah but I still do various worldly things. For example…")
Illegitimacy is no good. A Muslim has free will. A Muslim is a rational entity, not an animal. You must not do these things. You have a mother and female relatives. Can a Muslim see a wallet lying on the ground and make off with it, blaming his earthly wishes for leading him astray? No, he will return it to its owner. He cannot say that he needs it. Earthly desires have no power over a Muslim. A Muslim's conscience must be at ease if he is to be influenced by anything. Someone whose conscience is uneasy is someone whose conscience is dead. It is wrong to be influenced by something illegitimate. A Muslim must act sensibly. This world is very temporary, insha'Allah.
(In response to the question "Why is Allah's message, the Qur'an, in Arabic?")
Because Arabic is the best and richest language. Arabic is the best language in the world, insha'Allah. "Why is it not in every language?" Only one Qur'an can come. A Qur'an in French or English … For the love of Allah, ask logical questions. Is it that hard to translate the Qur'an from Arabic? Allah sends one book, and you translate it into all languages. Allah gives us the strength and the means to do that.


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Buck Creek Players to Present Indianapolis Premiere of CARRIE: THE MUSICAL, 5/30-6/15
The Buck Creek Players will continue their 40th Anniversary Season "Fabulous at 40" with the Indianapolis premiere of Carrie: The Musical, opening Friday, May 30th, and continuing for a limited run three weekends through Sunday, June 15th.
Curtain times will be at 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with 2:30 p.m. matinees offered on Sundays. All performances will be held at the Buck Creek Playhouse on the southeast side of Indianapolis at 11150 Southeastern Avenue. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students (through college), and senior citizens (ages 62 and older). Reservations are recommended and may be reserved securely online with no added fees at www.buckcreekplayers.com, or by calling our automated reservation line at (317) 862-2270. Group discounts are also available for parties of ten or more when purchased online.
Based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, Carrie:The Musical tells the tale of Carrie White, a misfit bullied at school by the popular crowd and at the mercy of her cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it.
Originally premiering on Broadway in 1988, the authors have reworked and reimagined this gripping version which first played to audiences at the MCC Theatre Off-Broadway in 2012. Time Magazine says, "The show has guts. This score does what a musical score should do: it moves the show along, illuminates the characters and deepens the emotions. Carrie The Musical has real weight and emotional conviction."
Set today in the small town of Chamberlain, Maine, it features a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic 1976 film directed by Brian DePalma and starring Sissy Spacek), music by Academy Award-winner Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment) and lyrics by Academy Award-winner Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose).
D. Scott Robinson returns to direct after most recently directing the Buck Creek Players production of Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play this past January. Joining Robinson on the production team are Lynne B. Robinson (Producer), Matthew Konrad Tippel (Musical Director), Aaron B. Bailey (Set Designer/Technical Director), Sue Kuehnhold (Costume Designer), Donald Stikeleather (Lighting Designer), Rebecca Droeger (Assistant Director), David Schlatter (Special Effects Designer), Jeff Rowand (Sound Designer), Jay Ganz (Projection Animation Designer), Daniel Klingler (Hair and Makeup Designer), and Heather Aislynn Johns (Properties).
This production is recommended for mature audiences and parental guidance is suggested due to language and adult situations.
For more information or directions to the playhouse, visit the theater's website at www.buckcreekplayers.com.
About the Writers:
LAWRENCE D. COHEN (Book) - Lawrence D. Cohen's first feature script was his adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, CARRIE (1976). His screenplay for the classic Brian de Palma film earned him an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. After beginning his career as a film/theater critic and essayist for a number of leading periodicals, he worked as an assistant to famed Broadway director-choreographer Michael Bennett on the latter's Tony Award-winning TWIGS as well as the musical SEESAW. While working for film and TV producer David Susskind, he discovered the script of ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, and went on to become Production Executive of the 1975 Martin Scorsese film. Continuing his ongoing relationship with Stephen King in 1980, he wrote the 4-hour teleplay of IT which USA Today called "the scariest movie ever made for TV." IT and his subsequent adaptation of King's THE TOMMYKNOCKERS (1993) became two of the network's highest-rated miniseries. In 2007, he was reunited with the Master of Horror with his adaptation of "The End of the Whole Mess" for TNT's NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES anthology series. The Writers Guild of America nominated the script as Best Drama.
MICHAEL GORE (Music) - In 1981, Michael won two Academy Awards for the movie FAME - one for Best Original Score, and a second for Best Song with lyricist Dean Pitchford. He was also nominated for "Out Here On My Own" from the same film, making three nominations that year. Also for FAME, he won a Golden Globe for best song, and was nominated for a Grammy. The movie's soundtrack sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide. In 1983, he was again nominated for a Best Score Oscar for James L. Brooks' TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. His instrumental version of the movie's theme went Top 5 on the Adult Contemporary charts. He composed the original score for John Hughes' PRETTY IN PINK in 1986, and was a major contributor to the musical underscore for James L. Brooks' BROADCAST NEWS in 1987. Other scores include Albert Brooks' DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, Anthony Minghella's MR. WONDERFUL, THE BUTCHER'S WIFE, and SUPERSTAR. As a songwriter, he collaborated with lyricist Pitchford on the song "Never" for Herbert Ross' FOOTLOOSE. With lyricist Lynn Ahrens, he wrote two original songs for Todd Graff's CAMP. Notable in Michael's songwriting credits is the music for Whitney Houston's multi-platinum seller, "All The Man That I Need," which simultaneously reached #1 on the pop, adult contemporary, and rhythm and blues charts. Artists including Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle and L.L. Cool J. have performed his compositions. Michael served as the Producer for a series of nine recordings for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. His "The Gershwins in Hollywood" won Germany's prestigious Deutsche Schalplatten Award. His Rodgers and Hammerstein's CD of THE KING AND I starring Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley received critical acclaim, was Number One on Billboard's Classical Crossover Album chart for 17 weeks, and remained in the Top Ten for almost a year. As the album's producer, he was nominated for a Grammy and won The Billboard Award for top Crossover Recording. In addition to Executive Producing ABC's acclaimed 3-hour Special Event telefilm of Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick, Jr., he produced all the music for the film and its soundtrack recording. As a solo recording artist, he composed and performed "October Moon" for "Song Without Words II" for Windham Hill. Upcoming musical projects include a solo piano album of his own film themes and original pop compositions. As a film producer with partner Lawrence D. Cohen, he is co-producing a 3-D feature adaptation of Stephen King's THE SUN DOG with producer Bill Haber, set to begin production this coming spring. With Cohen, he is also developing 90 DAYS, an original drama with songs that the pair will produce for The Weinstein Company, as well as an original thriller set in New York and Buenos Aires.
DEAN PITCHFORD (Lyrics) Dean Pitchford was born and raised in Hawai'i and graduated from Yale. He began his performing career off- and on-Broadway (GODSPELL, PIPPIN) before turning to songwriting, screenwriting and directing. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards (winning Best Song for FAME, co-written with Michael Gore), three Golden Globes (winning for FAME), seven Grammys and two Tonys. His songs - recorded by such artists as Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Cher, Peter Allen, LL Cool Jay, Kenny Loggins, Hugh Jackman, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler and Martina McBride - have sold over 70 million records. The musical stage adaptation (co-written with Walter Bobbie) of his original screenplay for FOOTLOOSE ran for more than seven hundred performances on Broadway and is now being seen all over the world. Dean's Young Adult novels, The Big One-Oh and Captain Nobody, have been published by Putnam/Penguin, and his performances of their audiobook recordings (released by Listening Library/Random House) were both nominated for Grammy Awards. His third novel, Nickel Bay Nick, was released in 2013.
A History of Buck Creek Players: Buck Creek Players began in 1973 when the Franklin Township Civic League formed a committee to present performing arts under the name of "Four C's Theatre." On November 13, 1974, the name was changed to Buck Creek Players, Inc., and was formalized under the Indiana Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1971 (501(c)3). Initially, Buck Creek Players performed in elementary and high schools, and in October of 1978, moved to its first home, a historic church located at 7820 Acton Road. The church was built in 1872 with an addition in 1952. The main space of the building was the sanctuary which was 31 feet wide by 48 feet deep, with the stage using one-half of the space and the seating using the other half. The space enabled BCP to offer performing arts in an intimate setting for a maximum of 90 people. In 2002, the church was sold to United Faith Baptist Church. In 2001, Buck Creek Players moved into its current home, the Buck Creek Playhouse, at 11150 Southeastern Avenue. The space was originally built as an indoor tennis facility that was later converted into a church. Much of the space was rebuilt to accommodate the productions it would now house. While increasing capacity, the space is still intimate, seating a maximum of 130 people.
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Rohan Stephenson is a little worked over by life, but he's articulate and focussed. Right now, he wants child welfare agencies and those tasked with protecting children to be accountable for their work.
On Thursday, Stephenson took the system to task for its handling of Phoenix Sinclair, a little girl murdered by her mother after spending time in agency care.
Phoenix also spent a lot of her life in Stephenson's care. It is his observation of how Winnipeg Child and Family Services watched over the little girl, or didn't, that makes him wonder why social workers aren't held professionally accountable.
How can social workers at a government agency not have to be licensed, not have to register professionally and be held to standards such that anyone with evidence of wrongdoing could complain? he asked after testifying Thursday at the inquiry into Phoenix's death.
How is it that social workers, against policy, can shred their notes on a child's file -- two supervisors at Winnipeg CFS did that -- and not be taken to task? he wondered. He stressed he is not blaming anyone at CFS for the fact Phoenix, at five years old, was degraded, caged and beaten to death by her mother, Samantha Kematch, and the woman's boyfriend, Karl McKay.
He carries guilt that he, in 2004, handed Phoenix over to Kematch for what he thought would be a short visit. She never came back.
Stephenson and his wife, Kim Edwards, began caring for Phoenix, born in 2000, at their Selkirk Avenue home, at first occasionally and then frequently after her mother left in 2001 and her father, Steve Sinclair, was drinking hard.
"There was never a time when she was not spending any time at my place," he testified.
In late 2003 and 2004, Phoenix was living with Stephenson most of the time. He and Edwards separated the Christmas prior and he was living with his sons, 11 and 13 years old. And he hung on for dear life to Phoenix.
"She was great, she was wonderful, she was fun," he said, breaking down. "She was incredible."
But he was working night shifts. The kids watched Phoenix at night and took turns showing up late for school until he got home to watch the toddler. "I was exhausted," he testified.
He never told CFS any of this, had little contact with it, and he would not ask for help, certain the agency would take Phoenix away. When, in 2003, the agency made his home a "place of safety," and when Kim applied to have the house licensed for foster care, they said she was still living there.
In 2004, he told the agency he didn't want financial support.
The agreements he signed had clauses that Phoenix would not go to the care of anyone else without agency approval. A letter noted CFS's concerns about her parents and that she shouldn't go back to Steve without a risk assessment, but Stephenson allowed both of them to take Phoenix for a spell.
CFS never checked the accuracy of what he told them, never checked on Phoenix in his home, a fact remarked upon by numerous reviews after Phoenix's death that criticized the agency's work.
He said he, like all of those "marginalized people" involved with Phoenix, didn't care about official dictates. They distrusted CFS -- it took children away.
"Everything I did, I did to keep her because I wanted to keep her safe because I loved her."
Stephenson was unaware Kematch was a risk to Phoenix. He would later tell police that while he had heard she was abusive to Phoenix, he thought Kematch was cleaning herself up.
In April 2004, she showed up with her mother, who said Phoenix should be raised by family.
"I was reluctant, but I was also exhausted and Phoenix wanted to go, so I let her."
Stephenson has beaten himself up about that day.
"So I am a liar and they (CFS) were incompetent and 15,000 other things came together and now Phoenix is dead."
He still wonders why social workers aren't held accountable for their work, or lack of it.
The Manitoba government is alone in Canada, in fact, in not controlling who calls themselves a registered social worker.
After three reviews of Phoenix's death, the province is just now looking at a professional college to regulate social workers. This inquiry should ask what took it so long.


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WASHINGTON -- While her brother was arming the cannon of August and aiming them at a Damascene despot, Barack Obama's sister-from-another-mister was all rainbows, roses and moonbeams. "Great ideas come gently as doves," she said, quoting Camus, but the cooing was scarce heard amid the guns below.
We had come to the Center for American Progress, a well-funded left-wing wellspring, to see and hear the raven-haired Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng, MA, MA, PhD, the Jakarta-sired, American-mothered, Canadian-espoused younger sibling of the first Nobel laureate since Henry Kissinger to make more war than peace.
Engaged in far-off Honolulu as an instructor of peace education for the humanities at the University of Hawaii, Soetoro-Ng was appearing here in support of an organization named Odanadi that invades brothels in India and spirits off young slaves to safety, assailing yet another nexus of misery in an age -- like all human ages -- of intractable hatred, calumny, violence, vengeance, exploitation and woe, with her big brother Barry foundering in the whirlpool. She is nine years and 11 days younger than Obama.
"You have more soft power than your brother," a Vietnamese woman informed her during her presentation, while the headline on the Washington Times in a box outside on H Street hollered: Obama's 'soft power' policy in a world of hurt.
"With grasshoppers by my feet may I walk," the president's sister sighed in response, invoking a Navajo prayer. "It is finished in beauty."
In Hawaii, Soetoro-Ng told us, she encourages her students to dig to "a more multi-faceted version of the truth." She called for "powerful acts of storytelling," reported she yearns to teach warring, factional tribes how to tend gardens of peace and boasted of how she trains former youth-gang leaders to sheathe their shivs and "engage in benevolent leadership."
("This course will be project-centered and will have no final exam," noted her syllabus for the 2012 school year, but students were required to keep a Daily Journal of Reflection and to write a reconciliation plan for a current global conflict. Neither of Barack Obama's bestsellers was on her list of required texts. "Prof. Soetoro was really smart," one matriculant gushed on ratemyprofessors.com. "Plus, this is definitely the best-looking professor I've ever had in my life.")
Her innate tendency toward peacefulness, she said, had been sown and sewn into her own soul through the agency of her extraordinary mother's uncommonly colour-blind and progressive world view. Through Stanley Ann Dunham, the white mid-American seeker and social anthropologist who married first an African and then an Indonesian man, she said, "I was granted comity, I was granted tolerance, I was granted artistry, I was granted sweetness."
"When she was dying," the president's mother's daughter said, "she asked for her ashes to be cast to the sea. She said, how else can I see all the beautiful places and the people I love so much?"
In glimpses like this of his origins, we see the Barack Obama that Barack Obama most deeply might wish to be -- the commander-in-chief of a "reset," not with Vladimir Putin or Bashar Assad, who are incorrigible and ultimately irrelevant to the universal hopes of men, but with the human heart itself; to wield the power, in his half-sister's words, "to take something soft and make enormous changes to something jagged and explosive."
Two years ago, Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng, whose husband, Konrad, also an educator at the U of Hawaii, is from Burlington, Ont., wrote a children's book that was inspired by a Georgia O'Keeffe painting and titled Ladder to the Moon. In it, a little girl's deceased and semi-mythical grandmother -- the embodiment of Stanley Ann Dunham -- emerges in a dream and leads the child to the moon, where they grant succour to victims of the 2004 tsunami ("a 50-foot wave sweeping from the ocean to the land") and the World Trade Center ("two tall towers that trembled and swayed on quaking soil").
Lifted thus from mundane tragedy, the children drink moon dew from silver cups and are joined by "people whose hand pointed upward from a synagogue, a temple, a mosque, and a steepled church... connecting with each other in hope's massive stream."
"They're praying," the grandmother whispers, "For one another, and for us. And to make the fighting stop."
Gripped by the same desire, but with no weapon other than to wage even more war, a fatherless, motherless president prepared to pull the trigger. A few blocks away, his closest living kin spoke of King and Gandhi, and of building "a bridge between the self of the learner and the many people who are living in the world."
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ADNAN OKTAR: In Surat Ar-Rahman Almight Allah says while describing the Heaven ; I seek refuge in Allah from the satan, in the Heaven "In them are fruits", see this "In them are fruits and date-palms and pomegranates. So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny? In them are good-natured, beautiful maidens." See that first comes the good nature, unless she is good natured, no matter what she does, a woman's beauty would do no good. It is the same in men for women, if his nature irritating, a woman would hate him. Let him be the most beautiful person on earth. A mindless person would be very repulsive, but an intelligent person, a good natured person is beautiful, insha'Allah. "Dark-eyed, secluded in cool pavilions." A protected, a chaste woman, a woman who is not degenerated would be beautiful, I mean she has an effect on one. But a woman used by everyone, who has become a general property, a woman who loses her value, psychologically a person would not feel respect for her. He cannot value her. Consequently he would not be affected by her. She would seem like a pile of flesh. That is what Qur'an refers to, of course as a lawful spouse. See that in the Qur'an, Almighty Allah says : " Untouched before them by either man or jinn." That is because the feeling of chastity has a very positive effect on man. It creates a very positive effect on a person's soul. You see her spotless, you feel compassion, you feel love, respect, you value her. But if a person does not value her, if he does not see her important, he sees her as something like a monkey. He sees her very bad, moreover he feels revolted by her. Her beauty would not have any meaning. For that reason a person is only beautiful and effective with her intelligence, good morals, depth, passion, Right? With her fear of Allah, with her love of Allah. That is because when we are looking at a person, we would be seeing the manifestations of Allah. Had Allah not created her as beautiful in our brains for us, He could have created her very ugly like a monkey. For instance a person may be beautiful but Allah might make us see her very abnormal in our brain, you can't do anything for that , you can't change it or He might take one's image completely, Allah can make you see everything pitch black and dark, and you cannot do anything. Or Allah may make you color blind, make you see as black and white, and you cannot do anything for that. Surat Al-Waqi'a is the 56th Surah, see that we came again to 56. Surat Al-Waqi'a, 4th verse; "When the earth is convulsed. and the mountains are crushed" see that is the 5th verse. In the 4th verse refers to earth being convulsed, that is with a strike, see that it refers to the Day of Judgment again, "and become scattered dust in the air." With the heaviness of the strike the mountains will be all scattered like dust. 4th and 5th verses what would it make when together, 4 and 5?
ADNAN OKTAR: Again it refers to 1545.
OKTAR BABUNA: Masha'Allah. It is the date of the Day of Judgment.
ADNAN OKTAR: Right? Again in the Surat Al-Waqi'a. Yes. "In Gardens of Delight." Almighty Allah refers to the people of Heaven. "A large group of the earlier people, " in the 13th verse, "but few of the later ones." 14, what does that remind you of? That means a few of the people in the Heaven will be of the later ones. The 14th century in the Hegira calendar. It refers to the Hijri 1400 right? "but few of the later ones. On sumptuous woven couches" what happened to the evolution in the Heaven? The sumptuous woven couches are not bought from the stores there. Allah creates them right? No master is making it there, Allah creates them. "Reclining on them face to face," says Allah.


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General Assembly/2C: Remarks by Minister Plenipotentiary Silberberg on operational activities of the United Nations for development
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Mr. President, Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me start by aligning myself with the statement delivered by the European Union.
Germany highly appreciates the speed and vigour with which the UN development system has embraced and started to implement the reforms mandated by the QCPR resolution with the aim of making UN operations in the area of development cooperation more coherent, efficient, effective and accountable. Let me just highlight a few areas, in which we have seen major progress since December 2012: agreements were reached by the UN Development Group on Standard Operating Procedures for "Delivering as One" and the cost-sharing for
the Resident Coordinator Function. In the Executive Boards of a number of UN funds and programmes, including UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA and UN Women, we adopted new Strategic Plans, which are underpinned by robust results frameworks.
Mr. President,
I will now put the spotlight on a few issues which are of special importance to us and where we see a need for further action: We were extremely encouraged by the adoption of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for "Delivering as One" in the first half of 2013 and the positive feedback in this regard from programme countries during this year's Operational Activities segment of ECOSOC. Since then, progress seems to have slowed down. We therefore urge all members of the UN Development Group to expeditiously finalize the operationalization of the Standard Operating Procedures, for both country and headquarters level.
In this context, three issues need to be addressed as a matter of priority:
1. Agency-specific programming, work planning and reporting requirements need to be replaced by common tools;
2. Agency-specific incentives and instructions for the contribution of agency representatives to the functioning of UN Country Teams need to be introduced;
3. Agency procedures need to be harmonized in order to allow "Operating as One" to take effect, e.g. in the areas of logistics, procurement and common finance and audit. In more concrete terms, this would inter alia require:
Regarding "One Programme", UN agencies should present proposals to their Governing Boards on how instruments for programming and work planning could be replaced by common instruments with agency-specific annexes and how UN Country Results Reports could replace agency-specific reporting requirements of individual agency headquarters.
Regarding "One Leader": Agencies need to clearly set out how they expect their country representatives to contribute to the functioning of UN Country Teams and on how representatives will be held accountable if they fail to do so; agencies need to take urgent steps to ensure full compliance with the Management and Accountability System for the RC system, including through revising job descriptions, defining reporting requirements and allowing the RC to contribute to assessing the performance of agency representatives at country level.
Regarding "Operating as One": This will inter alia require the alignment of audit approaches for Delivering as One countries; the alignment of transport and logistics arrangements, including common vehicle pools and fleet management and the utilization of joint procurement at UN HQ level.
Mr. President,
We also look forward to information on the implementation of the cost-sharing agreement for the RC function and an analysis of whether the funds allocated will allow the system to function effectively. We look forward to receiving information on further progress in these areas in time for the Joint Meeting of the Boards and the ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment in February 2014.
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Intuit expects to pull in around $4.5 billion in revenue this fiscal year, an increase of better than 6 percent, and it predicts that its earnings per share will jump by at least 10 percent. To preserve that income, Intuit is secretly fighting a proposed program that would allow the IRS to calculate taxes for people who request it -- because that would reduce the income Intuit earns from its tax software and tax-fiing service.
Intuit is so concerned that it has spent $11.5 million lobbying against it, working with a right-wing antitax crusader to create a fake grassroots movement to convince politicians that the public opposes free tax filing, as reported by Pro Publica and NPR.
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What's keeping Intuit CEO Brad Smith up at night is "return-free filing," a voluntary alternative to hiring a tax preparer or using commercial tax software. Note the word "voluntary." No one would be forced to use the program, and it's based on information from banks and employers that the government already receives. Essentially, if you're the kind of person who has a simple return, you could ask the IRS to do your tax return for you and send you the bill.
It's likely that those who would opt in are lower-income and elderly tax payers who either can't afford to pay a tax preparer or aren't tech-savvy enough to use the tax-preparation software that is the core of Intuit's business.
Even so, Intuit calls the program "anti-consumer" and claims it would result in higher tax payments for those who use it.
Intuit plays the cynical AstroTurf game
But if Intuit really believes that, why is it not advocating against the program publicly? Instead, it's playing the Washington "AstroTurf" game and jumping into bed with Grover Norquist, who hates the federal government so much he wants to shrink it until "it's small enough to drown in the bathtub."
AstroTurfing -- named after the fake grass you used to see at ballparks -- is a term for setting up a group that purports to be made of regular folks, the grassroots, but is really a front for an interest group. Here, according to Pro Publica, is how Intuit has been AstroTurfing the "return-free filing" issue:
Over the last year, a rabbi, a state NAACP official, a small-town mayor, and other community leaders wrote op-eds and letters to Congress with remarkably similar language opposing return-free filing.
They warned that return-free filing would be a conflict of interest for the IRS and would especially hurt low-income people, who wouldn't have the resources to fight inaccurate returns. Rabbi Elliot Dorff wrote in a Jewish Journal that he "shudders at the impact this program will have on the most vulnerable people in American society."
"It's alarming and offensive" that the IRS would target "the most vulnerable Americans," two other letters said. The program, which was supported by both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, is a government "experiment" that would mean higher taxes for the poor, two op-eds argued.
Rabbi Dorff says he was approached by a former student, Emily Pflaster, who sent him details and asked him to write an op-ed alerting the Jewish community to the threat. What Pflaster did not tell him is that she works for a PR and lobbying firm with connections to Intuit and the Computer & Comunications Industry Association, which includes Intuit.


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Kim Cattrall Has Been On A Diet For 40 Years
"When I hit my forties I thought, 'I can't play a sexy siren any more.' Almost 20 years later, it's still going on … I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule breaker … I think [it's] because I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimizing stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true."
– Kim Cattrall shares the secret of her youthfulness in the May issue of Woman & Home Magazine. I'm glad she's still feeling so hot and spry. But a 40-year diet? That sounds like the plot for a really depressing movie that I don't want to see. [ONTD]


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The following were indicted following a session of the Putnam County Grand Jury on Aug. 13.
Aaron A. Horstman, 43, Ottawa; driving under the influence with specification.
Marcos L. Flores, 38, Columbus Grove; domestic violence and felonious assault.
Mark R. Deel, 33, Continental; felonious assault, weapons under disability and domestic violence, a misdemeanor.
Sandra L. Wallen, 25, Delphos; theft of drugs and burglary.
Dalton A. McKitrick, 21, Ottawa; theft of a motor vehicle, burglary and possession of drugs (prescription).
Daniel J. Stauffer, 19, Ottawa; theft, breaking and entering and tampering with identifying numbers.
Robert A. Bell, 33, Leipsic; domestic violence.
Rose M. Morrison, 37, Lima; possession of cocaine and failure to appear.
Joel T. Hunt, 56, Lima; theft.
Aug. 7
J. Hickle, 18, Mount Cory, pleaded guilty to theft and felonious
assault. He faces up to 18 months in prison for the theft charge and
eight years for the felonious assault charge and up to $20,000 in fines.
Bond was revoked while a pre-sentence investigation is conducted with
sentencing set for 9 a.m. Sept. 8. Charges of aggravated burglary and
breaking & entering were dismissed.
Aug. 8
Federal Credit Union, Lima, won a foreclosure judgment against the
heirs of David L. Llewellyn, and Susan R. Llewellyn, in the amount of
$66,985.03, plus interest and costs.
Aug. 11
Union Bank Co., Columbus Grove, won a foreclosure judgment against
Mindy L. Grothause, Cloverdale, in the amount of $51,497.22, plus
interest and costs.
Aug. 12
Heather M.
Davis, 38, Cloverdale, was granted judicial release. She was placed on
five years community control, must obtain her GED, undergo counseling,
have no minors at her address and no unsupervised contact with any
minors. Davis was originally convicted of obstructing justice.
A. Rieman, 34, Bluffton, was ordered to undergo an evaluation at the
WORTH Center for violating the terms of supervision. The violation
included consuming alcohol on July 15. He must seek and maintain
employment and undergo alcohol and drug assessment and treatment. He was
originally convicted for burglary and attempted burglary.
T. Brightman, 25, Toledo, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for
identity fraud. He was given credit for 69 days served.
Aug. 14
L. Basham, 20, Lima, pleaded guilty to burglary. She faces up to eight
years in prison and $15,000 in fines. Bond was revoked while a
pre-sentence investigation is conducted.
New Cases
Erie Insurance Co., Columbus, v. Lateena M. Wash, Lima; complaint.
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|Wireless Medical Devices ��� Don���t Forget to Secure Them!
The healthcare industry is beginning to adopt technology to better assist patients, gain easier access to medical information and to administer medication. In particular, certain practitioners are either considering or have started adopting wireless (a.k.a., mobile) medical devices, such as implantable medical devices, external medical devices, or portable computers such as iPads, tablets, and smartphones, for such purposes. However, this isn't without risk, according to The Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), responsible for regulating medical devices, cannot regulate mobile medical device use or users, including how users are linked to or configured within networks such as private/public/hybrid clouds (managed data centers) which house medical data.
For the benefit of organizations that are considering adoption of mobile medical devices, an article published May 23, 2012, outlined five risks suggested by the DHS that should be considered:
1) Insider Theft – Employees stealing data via network transfer (e.g., e-mail, remote access, or file transfer).
2) Malware – Examples are keystroke loggers, Trojans, and other spyware designed to uncover, capture, and transmit to malicious third parties easily accessible sensitive data once inside the network.
3) Spearphishing – E-mail based attack where customized e-mails containing malicious attachments or links are sent to key personnel; these e-mails are especially convincing because they appear to be sent from a legitimate source.
4) Web – Methods such as silent redirection, obfuscated JavaScript and search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, as well as legacy threats such as data communications interception and rogue access points can be used to penetrate a network, then ultimately access an organization's data.
5) Lost or stolen equipment – If a smartphone or tablet is lost or stolen, and then compromised, it can be an entry point into a health entity's network and records.
To mitigate risks from adoption of wireless medical devices, healthcare providers should deploy security on these devices. Access control should be applied on a user level, based on the user's role, so that irrespective of which device or location the user connects from, he/she is given access to only that data which is required for the applicable business purposes. Anti-malware and Web protection should be enabled for every Internet-connected mobile device, whether it is a medical device or a personal smartphone or iPad used to access the network and increase user productivity. Furthermore, in case a device is lost or stolen, it should be possible to remotely lock the device and/or wipe all its content, including logins and passwords, so that no one else can use the device to gain access to any sensitive data or exploit stored information. To learn about Juniper's mobile device protection and management solutions, visit: Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite
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I posted this on my blog, but have no answers yet... So I thought it would work well here, too:
What did you do differently this year due to advice or reading from the Internet?
My main thing was to ice the breast of the turkey while the rest of the bird warmed up closer to room temp, allowing the whole bird to get done more evenly. I just put ice in a baking dish, covered with plastic wrap, and put the bird breast down on the ice.
I also tried what I found on a podcast and injected with olive oil, though I mixed in some Maker's Mark. I used the same to rub under and over the skin, too. The bird was the best turkey I've ever had.


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A's Carter smacks three homers
Sacramento first baseman busts out of slump in a big way
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 22, 2012 3:45 PM ET
Behind a small mechanical change, the A's No. 9 prospect slugged three homers and broke out of his slump in a loud way in the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats' 12-4 victory against the Reno Aces.
"It felt good. I've been struggling at the plate this week, but I got my front foot down earlier today," he said. "For the most part, I've not been swinging at strikes and I've been tardy. That makes you late and it makes you rush. Now I have to keep the same approach going forward."
The 25-year-old pulled Charles Brewer's 2-0 offering over the left-field fence in the third inning, and he smacked the first pitch he saw off Brewer (0-1) down the third-base line in the fifth.
"It was a fastball. I was waiting for something up in the zone to hit," Carter said of his first longball. "Then I got a fastball low and inside. I've been hitting a lot of balls to right field lately, but today I was pulling it."
Facing Alex Capaul with two outs and Jermaine Mitchell on third base in the sixth, Carter took a 1-2 pitch over the 410 sign at Aces Ballpark for his third homer of the afternoon.
"I was down 0-2, but then I battled back," said Carter, selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 15th round of the 2005 Draft. "It was another fastball and I hit it to center field."
It gave the California native his 14th multi-homer game and his third three-homer performance. Acquired by the A's in an eight-player deal with the D-backs in 2007, Carter first achieved the feat for Class A Advanced Stockton in a 21-7 rout of Rancho Cucamonga on April 19, 2008. He also went deep three times for the River Cats in his sixth career Triple-A game in a 17-6 win over the Aces on Aug. 31, 2009.
Carter, who also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly the other way in the first Sunday, came up with a shot at history in the top of the eighth.
"How can you not think about that?" Carter said. "I took a couple pitches waiting for that perfect pitch and ended up striking out. From a hitting standpoint, the biggest thing I learned [in Oakland] was to swing at my pitches and not the pitcher's pitches."
After going 10-for-25 (.400) to start the season, Carter entered Sunday's contest with just six hits in his previous 10 games and one homer in his first 62 at-bats of the new season. The owner of 174 Minor League roundtrippers, Carter has a .167 average, three homers and seven RBIs in 39 at-bats in Oakland.
On Sunday, Sacramento starter Bruce Billings (1-0) allowed three runs -- one earned -- on five hits while striking out five batters over five innings. Left fielder Brandon Moss was 3-for-5 with two solo homers and three runs scored and designated hitter Michael Taylor collected three hits, a run and an RBI in the win.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Drugs and Violence Go Hand-in-Hand
Mean Girls…or Violent Girls? A recent national survey (the National Survey on Drug Use and Health) found that more than one-quarter (26.7%) of girls age 12 to 17 reported engaging in some kind of violent behavior in the last year. Whaaat? Read More »5 Comments
Alcohol and Drugs Don't Mix
A recent episode of the hit TV show "Glee" focused on the problem of underage drinking. Called "Blame It on the Alcohol," the episode depicted glee club members narrowly avoiding school suspension for drinking on school grounds—never a smart idea! Read More »28 Comments
Let's Talk: How Do You Kick Back?
It's a known fact that the teenage years are a big transition time of physical and mental development for both males and females. Read More »7 Comments
Word of the Day: Brain Reward System
A reward is a great way to encourage someone to do something. For example, if you offer a $300 reward to find your lost dog, people may be more likely to look for and return your dog. Read More »10 Comments
Hit the Gym, Not the Pills
Most of us have something about ourselves that we'd like to change. Too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too stocky, too anything… In fact, research suggests that more than half of teens are unsatisfied with their bodies for some reason. Read More »8 Comments


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Cook pasta according to package directions. Rinse, drain and combine the pasta and beans in a bowl.
To make the vinaigrette place the vinegar, mustard, garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl. Whisk, slowly add the oil and continue whisking until it thickens. Pour the dressing over the pasta and chickpeas. Cover, let sit at room temperature and allow to marinate for 1 hour or refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
Before serving, add the cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and scallions to the pasta mixture. Toss together and serve on a bed of salad greens.
Per serving - 356 calories, 17 gram fat (41% calories from fat), 8 gram protein, 45 gram carbohydrate, 9 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 330 milligram sodium


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Charles E Deland Collection
Charles Edmund Deland, attorney, author, and poet came to reside in Pierre in the early 1880s. He was born in Kirkland township, Oneida County, New York on January 6, 1854. After graduating from Whitetown Seminary, Deland moved to Illinois where he was admitted to practice law in 1878.
Deland began his law practice in Pierre in 1883. He would later become partners with Coe I. Crawford. He was the author of several law journals, wrote several books based on historical facts of the west, along with a number of fictional novels.
Deland also belonged to a number of civic and social organizations while living in Pierre. He was at one time president of the State Historical Society, reporter for the Supreme Court, and city attorney. Deland never married. Deland died in Pierre on December 9, 1935 and is buried in DeanBora, NY. He was 81 and had maintained his practice until his death.
Several writings of Deland's are included in his collection. Including histories of the Pierre area, Missouri River navigation, various South Dakota history topics, and a number of speeches, articles, and poems.


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Shoulder: Separation
I've been diagnosed with a grade 3 AC joint separation from a mountain-biking accident. I'm 42 and a serious social rock climber. I've had one orthopedic surgeon recommend I have the operation and another recommend against it. What say you, Dr. J?
David Rogers | rockandice.com Forum
Do it! The boney lump on top of your shoulder is actually a joint between your collar bone and shoulder blade. More commonly known as the AC joint (acromioclavicular), it is the one joint connecting your arm to your body. And now it is not there. Shit. Get that puppy stitched, stapled, lashed, lassoed and retro-bolted back in place.
The operation can cause some biomechanical issues. For an active person these are far less than the potential problems if the joint is left separated.
If you are inactive and choose not to have the op, you will suffer every now and again over the years, but the most notable problem will be early joint degeneration (osteoarthritis) in and around the shoulder.
If you are a climber and decide against the operation you will likely be in an asylum for pathological frustration within a few years. Don't risk your safety or that of your neighbors - cancel your gun license and hand in your nail clippers. Your shoulder behaving reasonably without an operation is about as likely as Sarah Palin being given an honorary doctorate in feminist theory.