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OCALA, Fla. - The Florida Highway Patrol says two people are dead and another is critically wounded when a speeding pickup truck ran a red light in Ocala.
Troopers say 67-year-old Ray Allen Kraus and his 64-year-old wife Pamela Jean Kraus died in the crash late Thursday on State Road 200. They say 30-year-old Allen Cole Godwin remains in critical condition after being airlifted to a Gainesville hospital.
The Ocala Star-Banner reports Godwin was speeding west on the road when he ran the stop light. He hit the car Kraus' car as it attempted to make a left turn.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 21-year-old Jacksonville man was found guilty Thursday in the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in 2010.
Jeremiah Corbett was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the killing of Horace James Jr. and shootings of two teenage girls. He was also convicted of shooting deadly missiles and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent.
The jury deliberated for more than three hours.
Corbett faces mandatory life in prison when he's sentenced April 8.
"I feel very relieved and that my brother can finally rest in peace," Markeisha Rivers, James' sister, said of the verdict. "Just being the joyful kid that he was, he didn't deserve to die the way he did."
Prosecutors said Corbett shot James in the head Sept. 25, 2010.
Friends with Corbett that night testified he felt disrespected after becoming involved in an argument between two teenage girls and an ex-boyfriend in a parking lot near Club Menage on University Boulevard in Arlington.
LISTEN: 911 calls night of shooting | IMAGES: Evidence photos in killing
Bryant Smith testified Wednesday that Corbett was responsible for the rapid fire shots that not only killed James (pictured, below) but injured two other teenage girls.
"I didn't know if they were intentionally trying to get rid of witnesses or not," Smith said. "But I'm scared, and I don't say nothing. Because they just got done shooting, and I don't know what's going on. I'm scared and shocked."
"You know what this looks like? It looks like the world is against you," a detective told Corbett.
"I had nothing to do with nothing. I didn't get in no van with anybody," Corbett said.
In closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutors told jurors this case centered around a bruised ego and a hot temper.
But the defense argued Corbett wasn't the one who pulled the trigger.
"There is no evidence of DNA or fingerprints that ties Jeremiah Corbett to this case," defense attorney Chuck Fletcher said.
James' family said they suffered through the trial in seeking justice for the teen.
"They was clicking through the pictures on the little screen, and I seen the hole in my brother's head, and it hurt me so bad. Why did he have to die like that?" Rivers said.
"I can't sleep at night. All I think about is him," said Chontel Gergar, James' mother. "That was my only son. He was born on Valentine's Day. Every year, I celebrate his birthday. I go to his gravesite and I let him know his mama is still here and will always love him."
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Swan Oyster Depot is my favorite place to stop by when I'm in San Francisco. It's a San Francisco institution that's been serving nothing but seafood since 1912. Leaving aside the fact that this was the only place I got skunked on the fishing, I still hold strong to my belief that San Fran has some of the best seafood in the entire world. And who better to help me prove this point than Tommy Sancimino, owner of Swan Oyster Depot?
I was determined to learn the secret to Tommy's "off-the-menu oyster chowder." It's a dish known to locals, but it's extremely hard to come by if you are not in the know. It's quite possibly the best stew I have ever tasted in my life.
The recipe comes from the Sancimino brothers' father. And while Tommy wouldn't reveal the exact recipe, I did come away with a few tips to help make my own chowder a little better.
The base of his chowder uses milk instead of cream to keep it light. Most people go to heavy with their base and overwhelm the flavor of the seafood. Butter and a little marsala finish off the base. Potatoes and onions add heft, but the real star is the fresh oysters (and their juice) that make up the stew. Tommy advises not adding the oysters too soon so they don't shrivel up. And he increases the seafood flavor with the addition of crab meat and prawns.
From there, I'm going to have undergo a delicious experiment on my own to try to replicate the recipe. But if you'd rather leave it to the professionals, just stop on by Swan, head to the bar, and ask for Tommy. If you ask nicely, you just might get lucky enough to taste this treat for yourself.
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To watch the Governor's interview with Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe Roundtable click HERE for Part 1 and click HERE for Part 2. Sample transcript is provided below.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: And I hear a lot of people say this, what New Jersey needs is higher taxes. Seriously. All these northeast states, the reason why storefronts are closing, Willie, in your hometown in northern New Jersey, because taxes aren't high enough. If you raise taxes even more, that will encourage more businesses -- oh, wait a second. It's just the opposite. I'm sorry, Willie. I didn't mean to interrupt you.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: I thought you were Jon Corzine there for a second.
WILLIE GEIST: That was an ad by the New Jersey Education Association, attacking republican Governor Chris Christie. He's facing criticism over proposed state budget cuts including $800 million to public schools and 1300 worker layoffs. But with new jersey facing nearly an $11 billion budget gap...
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good lord.
WILLIE GEIST: ...Christie is making what "The Wall Street Journal" is calling adult decisions in the face of a crisis. Here with us now, Governor the state of New Jersey, Chris Christie. Welcome back to the show, Governor.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Thanks Willie.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Governor, we have so many things to talk about. "The Wall Street Journal" this morning talking about Reaganism New Jersey Style. "If he's to survive the headlines about budget cuts and pull new jersey back to prosperity, Mr. Christie knows he needs to put the hard choices before the state citizens and speak to them as adults. He's doing just that. One reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger summed it up this way. "Finally we have a Governor who is as teed off as the rest of us at how government spending and taxes have skyrocketed over past decade. A good article to wake up to this morning from "The Wall Street Journal."
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Absolutely. I think it accurately puts it. We're just trying...
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Can you talk to New Jersey voters as adults? Does that work for politicians?
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: I think so. I don't think we have any alternative. You saw those numbers. $11 billion budget deficit and $29 billion budget. We've been pushing this problem under the rug for 20 years. It's time to deal with it.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Look at it. You've got a $29 billion and an $11 billion shortfall? How the hell does that happen in any state.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Well, how it happens is, you raise spending out of control over the last 20 years, spending an average 16% increase a year on the state level over the last 20 years and you raise taxes 115 times over the last eight years. So you kill your revenue base. You do the two of them, it's a double whammy. Spend beyond your means and then kill your tax revenue base by raising taxes 115 times in eight years. Then you're New Jersey.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: And...Mike. Seriously, we're talking about Greece. We're talking about California. I mean, this is our future as a country, as a state. If we continue to allow spending to grow 16% on average for 20 years, when are Americans going to wake up and realize these politicians that are passing out goodies are only killing them?
MIKE BARNICLE: What happens, you have to sit there every day, off of Joe's numbers that you live with every day, how do you whack at the state employees' pension system, your Medicare budget, you know, the teachers' salaries? How do you do that all at once?
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Well, listen. It's a big, big challenge. But we've already passed pension and benefit reform which no one thought we'd be able to get done. We got that done the first in the 60 days.
MIKE BARNICLE: What was in it?
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: What was in it was, every state employee and local employee has to contribute towards their health benefits 1.5% of their salary. And all new workers have a different formula that lowers their pension benefits as they come in. It's going to bend the benefit curve going forward in the future. We need to do more. But we've already started to do that in the first 60 days. And other costs that we have in the state, you just have to go after it and go after it hard. Local property taxes in New Jersey have gone up 70% in last ten years.
JOE KERNEN: They are calling you Ronald Reagan in "The Wall street Journal", Governor." Actually it was a good piece. It goes over a lot of the things that you're up against. Number one, I guess we shouldn't be surprised when a union official says he wishes you were dead, right? What's going on with that situation?
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: This is just beyond the pale. I met with the head of the state teachers union yesterday and I said listen - you want to apologize, that's fine but walk the walk. That person, the head of the Bergen County Education Association should be fired. If a member of my staff had sent out an e-mail like that about the head of the state teachers union, there would have been protest up and down the state house. And I expect there not to be a double standard. And if they really want to have a constructive dialogue with the Governor, then if you have people out there sending out prayers for your death, I think that's not an example to setting for kids. Remember this, if a child had done that in a school, they would have been suspended at a minimum. There should not be a different standard for the head of these teachers unions than there are for everybody else in civilized society.
JOE KERNEN: It shows you what you're up against. Total state budget 29 billion and a deficit of 11 billion which you can see the problem there. There is a problem but if you try to cut anything with education, you know you're going to hear - you're hurting the children, Governor. You're hurting the children.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Well, listen, that's been an old song that is now just worn out. This is the fact of the matter. The $820 million in cuts to school aid that I proposed in the budget could be completely offset if the teachers union would accept a one-year pay freeze. Not a reduction. One-year freeze and would contribute 1.5% of their salary towards their benefits. Now, for the average teacher who makes $50,000 a year, that's $750 a year. Interesting to note Joe - their union dues compulsory a year are $730 a year that give the union $130 million a year in revenue. Maybe they should forego their dues for a year and get by on $130 million they got last year if they really want to help their members.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: What is your response to them when they say look you're cutting lunch aid, art teachers, all kinds of language programs?
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: My response is to them is that none of that would have to be done if the teachers union in New Jersey would be willing to take a one year pay freeze for this year and pay 1.5% of their salary for the full-time medical benefits they get, medical, dental and vision. That would save $800 million, and wipe out all but $20 million of our cuts and there would be no layoffs, no program cuts and, all of the stuff is about the unions greed rather than putting the kids first.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: Let's pull a full screen that I just mentioned, this was in a memo from the Bergen County teachers union and they said it was never supposed to get out and it was supposed to be an in-house little joke. Here's what they wrote. This is the teachers union in New Jersey...
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: This now goes beyond the pale and when you're sending out -- now that's the leader of the teachers union sending it out to the leaders of all the locals -- praying for my death. Now, I had the head of the state teachers unions in yesterday and she apologized and I said then fire the guy. Now if a member of my staff Martha had said that in an email about her, they would have been demanded his resignation but do you know what they wouldn't have had to wait. I would have fired him.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: What did she say when you said to fire him.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: No. And she left my office in a huff.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: All right, let's talk about how this all boils down and I was talking to actually to my son, who is 11 years old about this last night, because all the kids at school want to know, why are we getting the language program cut, how come the librarians will only be there four days a week next year. And I said, so much money was spent and now they're trying to find ways to get this money back and he said where did this money go, mom and I said let me ask the Governor. Where did it all go? We pay the highest taxes in the nation, why isn't there not enough money to run our schools.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Well because you have the teachers union demand 4 and 5% increases every year when inflation is at 1%. Most of them pay nothing toward their health benefits when they, full family medical, dental and vision, teachers get that, from the day they're are hired, until the day they die. and most of them --
MARTHA MACCALLUM: Which is really extraordinary, and just to reiterate that. The teachers and there are some teachers in New Jersey who do pay a small percentage, into their health care, correct.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Yes, the majority do not.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: Majority pay nothing. Zero. and you're are saying if they pay 1.5% of their salary, into their health care, that that would mean there would be no layoffs in the state.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Right, take pay freeze and 1.5%, would create $800 million in savings and that means there would be no layoffs and no program cuts in the schools. And they refuse to do it. Only 11 locals have agreed to the pay freezes, because the union's saying no.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: Is it the union bosses who are saying no? I mean if I asked the individual teachers in my school would you be willing to pay, and you said it is about an average of $750 per person and, if the teachers said I'll give back $750 and not take any pay raise this year you're saying there would be no cuts.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Right.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: Teachers feel that way or is it a union head decision.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: This is a union problem. This is a union boss problem, Martha, clear and simple. And here's the proof of it. If they're so concerned about the $750 a year the teachers would have to pay, you know their dues, they make every teacher pay are $730 a year.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: The same amount.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Just about the same amount. It raises $130 million a year for the teacher's union. How about they just try to get by on the $130 million they got last year, waive the dues for this year, and then they're teachers would be held harmless.
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OTTAWA -- All six of Manitoba's senators expect to easily pass a Senate review of their Manitoba residency requirements and expense claims.
Responding to a short survey by the Free Press, all six said they own at least one property in Manitoba, have provincial health cards and driver's licences, and are registered to vote both federally and provincially in Manitoba.
"I said in caucus today I'm about as Manitoban as you can get," said Sen. Don Plett. "I would pass the smell test on every rule."
All of Canada's senators are under the microscope as several audits take place questioning everything from expense claims to whether they live in the province they represent.
An outside auditor is investigating expense claims for a secondary residence in Ottawa made by three senators -- Conservatives Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau and Liberal Mac Harb -- after allegations were made the three were improperly claiming expense amounts for having a second residence in Ottawa when they live in the capital full time. An audit is also looking at the travel expense claims of Saskatchewan Conservative Sen. Pamela Wallin, who claimed more than $300,000 in travel to locations other than Saskatchewan since 2010.
Conservative and Liberal Senate leaders also demanded every senator prove they live in the provinces they represent by providing copies of their health card and driver's licence, the page of their income tax forms showing in which province they paid taxes, and a declaration about where they are registered to vote in provincial and federal elections.
Manitoba's senators all believe they will easily pass the residency and expense-claims tests.
Janis Johnson lives in Gimli, Maria Chaput in the RM of Ste. Anne, and Plett, Terry Stratton, Rod Zimmer and JoAnne Buth all live in Winnipeg.
All six made claims for accomodation while in Ottawa but only Zimmer actually owns a home there. Plett and Chaput both rent while in Ottawa, while Stratton, Buth and Johnson all stay in hotels.
Stratton, who is due to retire next month, said he used to rent an apartment but gave it up a few years ago.
Plett said he stayed in a hotel for the first several months after being appointed to the Senate but grew tired of living out of a suitcase.
All six say they regularly travel to Manitoba on weekends and when the Senate is on break, though the amounts claimed for travel varied greatly. Between Dec. 1, 2011 and Nov. 30, 2012, Plett claimed $107,117.23 for travel between the two cities, almost twice the $56,544.58 claimed by Zimmer. Buth, who was only appointed in January 2012, so her expenses were for just under 11 months rather than 12, claimed the least at $34,630.17.
Plett said he has spent fewer than five weekends in Ottawa since he was appointed in 2008. Zimmer, 70, said his health has affected how much he travels in recent years, though he says when he is feeling well, he tries to get to Winnipeg every second weekend and during Senate break weeks. Zimmer has been treated for cancer. He was recently released from an Ottawa hospital where he spent three weeks after contracting pneumonia.
By comparison, Wallin billed taxpayers $142,190.26 for trips between March 1, 2011 and Feb. 29, 2012.
"Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over that period of time," said Prime Minister Stepehn Harper, coming to Wallin's defence. "Last year, Sen. Wallin spent almost half of her time in the province she represents in the Senate. The costs are obviously to travel to and from that province, as any similar parliamentarian would do."
Only $10,551.99 of Wallin's travel expenses were declared as travel between Ottawa and Saskatchewan. The remaining $131,638.27 was filed under "other."
Plett said recent controversies in the Senate have made "it difficult for all of us," and he thinks some of the rules and regulations need clarification.
So does Zimmer, who noted by rule a senator can represent a province as long as they own at least $4,000 worth of property there. In 1867, that was a lot of money, but by 2013 standards it's nothing, he said.
-- with files from The Canadian Press
Tracking your tax dollars
Living expenses in the National Capital Region
December 1, 2011 - Nov. 30, 2012
Rod Zimmer: $23,479.18
Maria Chaput: $21,377.34
Don Plett: $22,052.50
Janis Johnson: $18,556.05
Terry Stratton: $18,003.52
JoAnne Buth: $18,138.98*
Regular travel between Ottawa and Manitoba, Dec. 1, 2011 to Nov. 30, 2012
Don Plett: $107,117.23
Terry Stratton: $79,916.75
Janis Johnson: $68,509.98
Maria Chaput: $67,940.57
Rod Zimmer: $56,544.58
JoAnne Buth: $34,630.17*
Travel expenses claims to destinations other than Manitoba, Dec. 1, 2011 to Nov. 30, 2012
Don Plett: $22,788.03
Janis Johnson: $18,236.38
Maria Chaput: $10,339.93
Terry Stratton: $10,124.33
JoAnne Buth: $8,940.08*
Rod Zimmer: $233.83
--* Buth was appointed to the Senate on Jan. 6, 2012, so her expense claims are for the period Jan. 6, 2012 to Nov. 30, 2012


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The Natural Language Processing libraries allow systems to do that work on a massive scale. They look for red-flag words and help decipher meaning. And before you let your sci-fi imagination run away, it's not that sophisticated. Regardless of what you saw on Person of Interest, the kind of artificial intelligence that should scare you is decades away.
Finding meaning in text (even crudely!) is important because of the unimaginable scale of data that needs to be mined. We're not talking about mountains of data. That analogy is so 1986. Today's data mountains are like turducken: mountains within mountains within mountains. Deep fried.
There's no manual exercise that will help.
And that exact data blindness is how the FBI missed the story of Zacarias Moussaoui and his flight school in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Prism might have helped.
I say "might" because technology is anything but infallible. All code is fragile and buggy. But rest assured that technology, unlike humans, lacks ill intent. It's not out to get you. A system like Prism doesn't give a rat's ass about your conversations with your mom or lover.
And even if you were talking about bombing at the local open mic night, it wouldn't be a red flag unless you also happened to be chatting it up with a known terrorist. Without the intersection of the graph and NLP, there'd be too many red flags for law enforcement to pursue.
So statistically speaking, that ridiculous secret of yours --the one that no one but you cares about but the one you don't want the government to know about -- is safe. Hallelujah.
And that brings me to my four favorite words: You are not special.
The people working at the NSA don't care about your dumb life or your stupid fetish. They didn't take government pay so they could read your banal emails or listen to your limp conversations. They care about stopping bad guys. And quickly.
If you're afraid that they'll overreach and start listening to your calls or reading your emails, get over yourself. How embarrassing for you that your narcissism is your defining quality.
As for Edward Snowden …
He's not a hero. He's an attention whore.
And he's not a technologist, or he would've figured out what Prism is really capable of.
I even question whether he was working alone. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but the whole thing smells like what would happen if a group of monied interests -- the vendors who sold the systems to the government -- needed to explain why their systems weren't operating as well as they should. A leak would relieve them of any responsibility (i.e., the reason our system isn't working is because everyone knows about it).
I'll leave that scenario to be fleshed out by John Grisham. Although to be fair, Daniel Suarez would be the better choice.


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Richard, Padres struggle in rematch at Citi Field
Lefty is tagged for three homers in club's second loss to Mets
NEW YORK -- In the grand scheme of a 162-game season, two games doesn't even register a blip on the small sample-size radar, though Padres manager Bud Black would just as soon see something entirely different from his team on Thursday.
To be sure, dropping the first three games of the season to the Mets at Citi Field wouldn't be ideal -- but it wouldn't signal the beginning of an irrevocable one-way ride to the cellar of the National League West, either.
"We need to get a win, no doubt about it," said Black, following an 8-4 loss on Wednesday night.
That didn't happen on Opening Day and it didn't happen Wednesday, as the Mets rode the strong right arm of pitcher Matt Harvey and three home runs en route to their second straight win over the Padres in front of a crowd of 22,239 at Citi Field.
For the second time in as many games, a San Diego starting pitcher was hit hard early in the game. Two days ago, Edinson Volquez lasted three-plus innings. On Wednesday, it was Clayton Richard who scuffled, allowing seven earned runs and three home runs in 4 1/3 innings.
"He's got to get the ball down ... today he didn't," Black said of Richard, who led the league in home runs allowed (31) a year ago. "He's got to make an adjustment to get his grounders."
Richard, who said his command was amiss from the start of the game, allowed a two-run home run to Lucas Duda in the second inning. Two innings later, John Buck belted a two-run home run. Finally, in the fifth inning, Ike Davis hit a two-run home run as the Mets (2-0) raced out to a big lead.
Two of the three home runs -- to Duda and Davis -- came against left-handed hitters. That's a rarity for the southpaw Richard, who allowed two home runs all of last season in 199 at-bats to lefties.
"That's a little unusual for Clay," Black said. "He's been solid against lefties during his career."
But from his first pitch, Richard didn't feel like himself.
"When you're not able to command down in the zone without your best stuff, it's a bad night," Richard said. "My last couple of side [sessions], I felt good. My last outing [March 29], I felt good. Then, I got out there tonight and it wasn't there."
It might not have mattered much the way Harvey (1-0) was pitching.
Harvey had 10 strikeouts and faced the minimum through six innings. Nothing that Harvey did tricked or confused the Padres. He came right after them with a mid-90's fastball, challenging them.
Harvey retired the first nine hitters he faced before allowing a clean single to Everth Cabrera to start the fourth inning. But Harvey picked Cabrera off first base. After issuing a walk to Will Venable, Harvey got Carlos Quentin on a double-play ball.
"It's a good one [fastball] and it stays through the strike zone with velocity," Black said. "He threw some at the top of the strike zone that we couldn't get to. He didn't throw a lot of secondary pitches. It was all about his fastball."
This was a far cry from the last time Harvey faced the Padres on Aug. 5 of last season, when he allowed five runs in five innings with two home runs.
"I knew I struggled a little bit, obviously watching film from last year this morning, it was definitely a reminder that I gave up some homers out there and didn't have a great outing," Harvey said.
The Padres (0-2) had one hit to show for the first seven innings. They scored all four runs over the final two innings, including three in the ninth. By then, though, the damage was already done.
At this point, after allowing 19 runs in two games and getting five hits over their first 16 innings before the late spurt on Wednesday, the Padres could certainly take a victory. But one thing is for certain, though. No one is in panic mode, said first baseman Yonder Alonso.
"It's like if you go 0-for-20, it's seems bigger than it actually is," Alonso said. "But then you go out and have a good game and it all goes away. This is one of those things you really can't overthink."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Motivational indie poster: Marketing
Or demotivational? Anyway it's a poster. A tongue-in-cheek poster but if I have to say so then … well I'll try to do better next time.
Marketing is like a highway filled with grey cars. There are so many cars and most of them all look the same so it's really difficult to have someone notice yours. Sure it's frustrating to drive there and you risk an accident but it's still better than the alternative: leaving your car in the driveway. It's fine if you're doing this as a hobby but if you have other goals you got to get on the highway.
To make things even more difficult there are big trucks using the same highway as you. You think that they should use another road because they take so much space but it's really not up for you to say. They're so big that it's the first thing anyone looking at the highway will notice. Again it's frustrating but what can you do about it?
There's always the option of taking a calm countryside road which can work. Just make sure to bring a GPS to make sure there are some gas stations on that road otherwise you might have to walk back home.
What to do?
So what can you do to have people notice you? Well the first thing is to keep driving. If you want to go to Disney World from Montreal why would you stop in New Jersey and call it the trip you wanted to make.
Billboards are expensive and require completely different skills than driving a car. Sure they are not useless as if they were nobody would pay for them but it's probably not the first thing you should think about. You need the money to pay for gas anyway.
A CB radio is a great thing. It makes the trip less boring and you can meet interesting people. Some might even help you to avoid traffic jams! Sure there are also jerks but the highway is filled with people so why would it be any different from the rest of the world.
Beside that? Well the obvious: drive a nice car. Nobody turn their head when a station wagon pass by.
Be careful about the word "nice" however. A nice looking Ferrari leaving a long trail of black smoke because of an engine problem won't impress anyone. Nice can also mean that oddly shaped car you're not used to see (but not too weird…). Maybe it's a simple Honda Civic with impressive modifications. Maybe it's in fact a station wagon but it's the only one on the highway! Maybe it's a fully electric car and you don't really expect to see that on a highway in the US …
So "nice" can mean various things and sometimes what is "nice" to you ain't for others but one thing is sure: you can't drive a bland, shaky car.
Enough with cars. What does it mean for games? Well … keep "driving" and figure it out by yourself. Marketing isn't a gimmick you must master to succeed. You first need the right game to then be able to market it. It can be incredibly frustrating to accept this but as an indie with limited means the only thing you can control is what you produce. Add a bit of luck to that and it might be the right direction.
It's awfully easy to say and understand but quite the opposite to achieve. The point is simply that as indies we should probably spend less time wondering what we did wrong when it comes to marketing and focus on what we're trying to market.
Yes of course you can create a nice game that still fails but blaming the world about it isn't really helping.
That's not helpful at all!
Who said it was supposed to be? Are you still waiting for me to tell you what a "nice" game is? Oh I can recognize a "nice" game when I see one but I'm still trying to figure out what kind of "nice" game I'll be able to create myself.
The point here is … Well it's really just a way to find a way to keep "driving" on this highway and stay motivated! Just some thoughts on why waking up early during vacation to work on your next project might finally pay off one day!
Yeah but others have nice cars too!
Sure! But you still notice a bit more the red car than the grey ones! Don't push this analogy too far please. It's just an analogy.
Well, the "artsy" part proved to be successful for so many otherwise terrible games it would be a shame not to include it!
Psychochild told me to visit your blog after we talked about a squad based game. So I come here I find a post explaining the one thing I am the most worried about. Thanks


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Here we are again, the dreaded December home-and-home with the Islanders. Not exactly an anniversary, because last year it was Dec. 16-17. But close enough.
You may recall last December, the Rangers' fast start having evaporated into two months of mediocrity when the Islanders came to MSG and rocked the Rangers. The score was 2-1. The on-ice performance was much worse than that.
It began with John Tortorella's infamous profanity-laced post-game tirade, and it continued with the benchings of Wade Redden and Ales Kotalik in the next game, on Long Island, and the demotion of Chris Drury to the fourth line, and the players meetings called by Henrik Lundqvist and Sean Avery, etc.
The Rangers went out and convincingly won the rematch at the Coliseum to start a 8-1-4 stretch in which they took 20 of a possible 26 points.
My point? Don't let it get to the original crisis in the first place. The Rangers should already be annoyed, embarrassed and angered with the loss to the Isles earlier in the season (the Wisniewski game, remember?). They should need no further motivation than that, or than last year's event.
The trouble is this — and we talked about this on a radio show I did last night — the Rangers don't take the Rangers-Islanders rivarly nearly as seriously as the Islanders do. For them, it's their Stanley Cup. For the Rangers it's an aggravating game against a team that is guaranteed to be buzzing like agitated hornets.
The solution, as Lundqvist and others have mentioned throughout the years: Match their intensity. Because on nights when the opponent matches the Islanders' intensity, they don't normally win much. But if you're going to sit by and let them dictate tempo and passion, you're going down to the worst team in the league. Simple as that.
Or you can come out with a first-game loss and then hope that's enough motivation for Game 2. I don't imagine that's Tortorella's first choice.


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Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
MKFaizi wrote:I wonder when they will become cost effective enough to take the place of office receptionists. I doubt that it is that far down the road.
MKFaizi wrote:My guess -- that is all -- is that it is much looser than that -- that there are many groups inspired by and aiming to please bin Laden. My guess is that such factions raise their own money for their "causes." I don't think they need a godfather.
Chavez called the United States the "most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world."
The Venezuelan leader said "socialism is the only path," and told the students the collective goal is to "save a world threatened by the voracity of U.S. imperialism."
MKFaizi wrote:I don't think that there will be both. South America is largely Catholic.
GRAPEVINE - Roads were shut down Wednesday and residents living in nearby apartments between Dooley and Ruth Wall Roads were warned not to look out of their windows Wednesday. School busses from Grapevine-Colleyville ISD formed a perimeter around the site where President George W. Bush was scheduled to land. No one was going to get a glance of the president on his way to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center.
. . . banish cultural frictions and religious disagreements from the earth
Jamesh wrote:I think Buddhism is a kind of escapism stemming from cowardness - as all religions are, but with buddhism it is kind of more a cowardness of the present, rather than for other religions an attempt to escape from one's death (and modern buddhism has this to, with reincarnation).
Fizzy drinks, the scourge of healthy diet campaigners, can improve your memory, according to experts today.
Consuming the equivalent of two cans of soft drink can boost memory retention by a fifth and combat dementia in older people, found neuroscientists from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Over 20 years, beginning in the early 1970s, the average scholastic assessment test score fell by 35 points. But in that period the contingent of college-bound seniors with an A or B average jumped from 28 per cent to 83 per cent, as teachers felt increasing pressure to adopt more "supportive" grading policies.
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Staffan L @ 2017-08-23 18:25:25
The delta in the income groups seems to be somewhat unjust for the lower incomes. But I assume that there exist one threshold level. Hence, the note should gain if this level is given in the text. But basically informative, well written text.
Walter Burke @ 2017-08-22 23:59:35
Zerry @ 2017-08-22 19:14:22
This is line doping case in Russia. Better to try to eliminate the messenger than the problem itself. I just wonder whether too many too high position persons are involved. Therefore nothing will happen, and Slesers & co can continue their f*** games. Just Latvia is their kindergarten.
Foreigner @ 2017-08-22 18:39:32
"Businessmen will be forces to pay more" Or perhaps forced to lay off people.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – With the summer months coming to a close, Saint Leo University men's and women's cross country coach Melissa Miller-Mangen has announced her squad's 2013 regular season schedule.
In total, the Lions will compete in five regular season meets, just before they host the Sunshine State Conference Championships on October 26 at the Saint Leo Abbey Golf Course.
Both the men's and women's squads will kick off the season at the South Florida Invitational, which will be hosted by the University of South Florida on Sep. 6.
From there, the Lions will compete in the University of Florida's annual Mountain Dew Invitational (Sep. 14) in Gainesville, Fla.
One week later, the squads will head to South Bend, Ind. to race in the National Catholic Championships at the University of Notre Dame (Sep. 20).
Rounding out the regular season, the Lions will compete at the FLrunners.com Invitational in Titusville, Fla. (Sep. 27) before heading to Tallahassee, Fla. for the annual Florida State Invitational (Oct. 11).
At the end of October, Saint Leo will host the Sunshine State Conference Championship race at their home venue, the Saint Leo Abbey Golf Course. The race, to be held on October 26, will mark the first time that the Lions have hosted the conference championship race since 2007.
The NCAA South Region race at the University of Tampa (Nov.9) and the NCAA Championship race in Spokane, Wash. (Nov. 23) will conclude the Lions' season.
For the complete 2013 schedule, click here. For more information on the men's and women's cross country teams, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter and 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and Instagram.


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I'm pleased to announce that O'Reilly has released the cookbook for Adobe AIR 1.5. I was involved with the book as technical editor, fortunate to work with authors David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, and Rich Tretola, among other very talented contributing developers.
Like other O'Reilly cookbooks, the book aims to provide readers with a collection of practical solutions to common real-world problems that AIR developers face. The 'recipes' it features address a broad range of challenges, spanning topics including:
– Encrypted local data storage
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– HTML content
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– Drag and drop support
– Filesystem integration
– Taskbar and dock integration
– Service monitor framework
– Application updates
The book is available for pre-order on Amazon, but if you are attending MAX 2008 in San Francisco, it is available for purchase at the O'Reilly booth. If you can't wait, or are not at MAX, a chapter of the book is available for free download at the AIR Developer Center, enjoy.
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Percival Zhang, a scientist at Virginia Tech, leads the team which is researching the enzymatic method of hydrogen production, which they claim now holds the current record for efficiency.
(Source: Virginia Tech.)
New process emulates nature to yield most efficient hydrogen production yet
Hydrogen production is one of the hottest research topics at the present. With fossil fuel facing inevitable depletion, researchers are in a scramble, investigating hydrogen, synthetic gas, and other forms of energy fixation and production fixing solar energy into a fuel source. There remains many exotic methods of hydrogen production from
alloy catalysis of water
, to
photosynthetic cells that emulate nature by using light absorbing pigments
Now scientists with Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Georgia claim to have developed the most cost-effective and efficient hydrogen production process yet. In the new process sugar, water, and a cocktail of 13 power enzymes are combined to yield carbon dioxide and hydrogen under mild reaction conditions.
The research was reported before The American Chemical Society, a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress, which aims to further chemistry research and claims to be the world's largest scientific society. The research, according to the researchers, will help to eliminate the hurdles which the hydrogen economy faces-- production, storage, and distribution. By relying on sugar the latter problems could be solved and production would be as simple as using the researcher's production method.
Lead researcher Y.-H. Percival Zhang, Ph.D., a biochemical engineer at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va states, "This is revolutionary work. This has opened up a whole new direction in hydrogen research. With technology improvement, sugar-powered vehicles could come true eventually."
The group points out that current production methods from natural gas, that hope to fuel the limited developing fleet of fuel cell hydrogen cars,
such as the Honda Civic FCX
, are too expensive and inefficient to ever see widespread use.
Microbial production remains a promising alternative
, but the yield levels are too low to currently be of much use.
Zhang and his fellow researchers are strong proponents of using biomass to produce hydrogen via enzyme catalyzed reactions. The researchers have succeeded already in catalyzing the reaction of starch, and believe they can achieve hydrogen production from cellulose as well.
In the groups experiments, starch from plant mass was combined in water with 13 different, well-known enzymes. The mixture was left to react at 86 F. The results was a mixture of pure carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The process produces less pollution than traditional energy production as it does not yield nitrate or sulfate pollutants. The new method is known as "in vitro synthetic biology" as it uses enzymes. While it did produce three times the theoretical yield of anaerobic fermentation, Zhang says much work needs to be done to up the speed of the reaction and further up the yield percentage in order to make it commercially viable.
The currently plan of attack for Zhang and his team is to look for higher temperature enzymes and carry the reaction out under a higher temperature, in order to increase the reaction speed. Enzymes are typically very temperature sensitive as they are normally proteins, which denature when in an environment with too extreme temperature or pH. The researchers also hope that by replacing several enzymes they can enable cellulose processing.
Zhang thinks that one day people will go to the grocery store and buy cellulose/starch packs to power their cars. These packs will be converted enzymatically into hydrogen, with little pollution, and carry the drivers to their destinations. Alternatively he states, a fuel-station style infrastructure could also develop.
How long until this technology is avialable? The team estimates that it will take 8 to 10 years to optimize the production to where it is competitive for automobiles, so don't hold your breath. The team also aims to create a scaled down version of the tech for small sugar-powered batteries for MP3 players and other small electronics. Its planned batteries will be similar to
those developed by Sony
or the
methanol version champion by MTI Micro
, which are being sold commercially next year. The battery technology will be deploying in a closer 3 to 5 years, so hopefully at least in the near future the realization of the technology will allow you to be rocking out to
The Sugarcubes
on your sugar powered MP3 player.
The research is being funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science of Virginia Tech.
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"And those who, before them, had homes (in Al-Madinah) and had adopted the Faith, love those who emigrate to them, and entertain no desire in their hearts for things given to the (latter), and give them (emigrants) preference over themselves, even though they were in need of that. And those saved from the covetousness in their own souls, they are the ones that achieve prosperity. " (Surat al-Hashr, 59:9)
"O you who believe, do not put yourselves forward before Allah and His Messenger; but fear Allah: for Allah is He Who hears and knows all things." (Surat al-Hujraat,49: 1)
"O you who believe, do not enter the Prophet's houses-until leave is given you- for a meal (and then) not (so early as) to wait for its preparation: But when you are invited, enter; and when you have taken your meal, disperse, without seeking familiar talk. Such (behaviour) annoys the Prophet: he is ashamed to dismiss you, but Allah is not ashamed (to tell you) the truth. When you ask (his wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind a curtain: that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. Nor is it right for you that you to cause annoyance to the messenger of Allah, nor that you should ever marry his wives after him. Truly, such a thing is in Allah's sight an enormity." (Surat al-Ahzab, 33:53)


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I'll add to this weekend's collection of chicken picture posts. I found out I was going to be home early enough on Sunday, I could grill something for supper. Originally had planned to make some nice steaks, but I received a 3rd "sign" I couldn't ignore. About 3 Weeks ago I saw a show on popular food from fairs & carnivals. They mentioned Cornell Chicken, which I'd never heard of, but looked excellent. A week ago Screaming Chicken made some Cornell Chicken and I thought: I need to try that. Saturday afternoon I got home and sat down with a cookbook to see which steak recipe I was going to make. I fired up the TV and my TiVo was recording a Cook's Country TV marathon. What were they making?You guessed it Cornell Chicken. It was a sign. So yesterday on the way home I picked up a 4 pound whole chicken and made the Cook's Country recipe together with some Syracuse salt potatoes from the same show. I'll also add the Cook's Country folks made some changes to the classic recipe for the Cornell Chicken. So if there are members of the Committee for the Conservation of Classic Cornell Chicken out there: Just deal with it. The chicken turned out excellent.
The chicken has been cut in half
The first change to the classic recipe was the use of a brine. It used salt, water and vinegar. The vinegar was intended to echo the flavor of the basting sauce.
The simple rub was salt, pepper and poultry rub.
The basting sauce used Dijon mustard, cider vinegar, olive oil, salt & pepper, plus instead of more poultry rub added fresh sage and rosemary. I used an immersion blender to make the sauce.
The grill was preheated on high and was dropped down to medium low when the chicken halves were added.
The grill is at medium low and the chicken is skin side up and gets basted with the sauce.
Halfway through the 25 minute cooking time for the first side, the chicken gets basted again.
After 25 minutes the chicken was at an internal temp of 120 degrees and it is time to flip and finish it skin side down. It grills on medium low for about 25 more minutes until it hits 170 degrees.
Meanwhile time to start on the salt potatoes. The water has 1 1/2 cups of Kosher salt in it and has been brought to a boil. The small red potatoes simmer for 25 minutes. Then they are placed on a sheet pan with a wire rack to dry and the outside gets a thin coating of crystalized salt.
The Cornell chicken reached 170 and rests uncovered for 5 minutes before serving.
The Syracuse salt potatoes are served with some melted butter, pepper & chopped fresh chives on the side. You pour the butter mixture over the potatoes if desired.
Some finished shots of the chicken & salt potatoes.
This was an amazing meal. I meant to stop at the breast and wing, but I couldn't help myself and finished the whole chicken half. The chicken was extremely moist and flavorful. Even though it was cooked at a low heat, the skin was crispy and tasty from the sauce and rub. It was a unique flavor unlike any chicken I've had and was definitely up there with the best chicken I've made or eaten. The salt potatoes were great too. They had a bit of a crispy skin, there was a little snap when you bit in. There was just enough salt flavor which wasn't over powering. The interiors were nice and creamy and the butter sauce helped them just melt in your mouth. I have already been told I'm doing this x8 in two weeks for some dinner guests. Thanks Brad for the inspiration.


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A DOCUMENTARY is being filmed about the life of legendary Accrin-gton runner Ron Hill.
The 75-year-old, who has not gone without his daily run for more than 49 years, was followed by a film crew from Manchester for the upcoming independent film, Time To Go.
Shot by film and media graduate James Copson, the film is self-funded, and will tell the story of Accrington-born Ron as he appr-oaches 50 years of non-stop runn-ing.
James said: "The film is about him as a person, and his achievem-ents, and his story. It's about how long he can continue running."
James, 24, said he was looking for ideas for a film when his mum, a keen runner, mentioned Ron, who is also a clothing entrepreneur and still runs 25 miles a week.
James said: "Ron Hill was only the second man ever to break the two hours and 10 minutes barrier in a mar-athon, and he represented Great Britain on a number of occasions, including the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
"As if his sporting achiev-ements were not enough, he had much more to offer to the sporting world and pursued an entrepreneur--ial path too, pioneering the use of synthetic materials for runners."
James and his film crew will continue to document Ron's runs until at least December, when he will have been running for half-a-century.
He said: "That will be a big part of our film, which we hope will be finished this time next year."
Ron Hill said: "This is a young guy trying to break into film, and he appr-oached me, and I said I would help him where I can. We did some filming for about three hours, and it was freezing.
"My hands were froz-en and my quads were sore, and he came back and said the weather was poor and we need-ed to do it again. I said he better get used to filming from the hip."
Creative business dev- elopment manager at York St John Univer-sity, Jenny Hall, said: "This is an exciting project, and one which we hope further fund-ers will step forward and support,"
For more details about the documentary, visit www.anattic.tv


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The Oral Cancer Foundation is a national public service, non-profit entity designed to reduce suffering and save lives through prevention, education, research, advocacy, and patient support activities. Oral cancer is the largest group of those cancers which fall into the head and neck cancer category. Common names for it include such things as mouth cancer, tongue cancer, tonsil cancer, and throat cancer. Approximately 42,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer in 2013. This includes those cancers that occur in the mouth itself, in the very back of the mouth known as the oropharynx, and on the exterior lip of the mouth. This is the fifth year in a row in which there has been an increase in the rate of occurrence of oral cancers, in 2007 there was a major jump of over 11% in that single year. There are two distinct pathways by which most people come to oral cancer. One is through the use of tobacco and alcohol, a long term historic problem and cause, and the other is through exposure to the HPV-16 virus (human papilloma virus version 16), a newly identified etiology, and the same one which is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers in women. A small percentage of people (under 7 %) do get oral cancers from no currently identified cause. It is currently believed that these are likely related to some genetic predisposition.
While some think this is a rare cancer, mouth cancer will be newly diagnosed in about 100 new individuals each day in the US alone, and a person dies from oral cancer every hour of every day. If you add the sub category of laryngeal throat cancers, the rates of occurrence (about 12,000 additional new cases per year) and death are significantly higher. When found at early stages of development, oral cancers have an 80 to 90 % survival rate. Unfortunately at this time, the majority are found as late stage cancers, and this accounts for the very high death rate of about 43% at five years from diagnosis (for all stages combined at time of diagnosis), and high treatment related morbidity in survivors. Late stage diagnosis is not occurring because most of these cancers are hard to discover, it is because of a lack of public awareness coupled with the lack of a national program for opportunistic screenings which would yield early discovery by medical and dental professionals. Worldwide the problem is far greater, with new cases annually exceeding 640,000.
This site (www.oralcancerfoundation.org) will provide you with hundreds of pages of information about the rates of occurrence, risk factors which lead to oral cancer, signs and symptoms, treatments, current research, complications of treatment, nutrition, related clinical trials, and current oral cancer related news. There is an additional resource page dedicated to links to other sources of vetted information about oral cancer and treatment institutions.


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This article was published 27/11/2012 (1724 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Oh, sure. Cakes are the showstopper desserts. Pies have a certain vintage cachet. Then there's the flashy novelty of cupcakes or cake pops or the latest trendy treat.
But nothing beats the enduring appeal of cookies. Modest, hard-working, versatile and just plain tasty, cookies make people happy.
Maybe that's why cookies are the go-to sweet of holiday baking.
"Cookies are nostalgia. They're childhood memories. They're Christmas in a scent," says Belinda Bigold, co-owner of Winnipeg's High Tea Bakery.
"That aroma from the kitchen, there's nothing's better than that," says Bigold. "It makes you feel like a kid again when you start baking."
Cookies are often the first thing we bake with our children, partly because they're relatively straightforward to make. But a few simple tips and tricks can give you even better, more consistent results. Bigold opened the bakery with her mother, Carol Bigold, in 2003. (Belinda's sister, Michelle Bigold, is head decorator.) Experience has shown her that, with cookies, accuracy matters. "Baking is a science," she points out. "I mean there is an art to it, but it's still a science."
"You can't approach baking like you do a stir-fry."
Be prepared. Make like the cooking shows and measure everything beforehand, says Bigold: "Do not get to Step 9 and realize you don't have that lemon you thought you had."
Don't assume you can eyeball sizes, thicknesses or spacing.
People often over- or underestimate what a half-inch looks like, so use a ruler if necessary. And remember that the thickness of the dough will affect baking times.
Cookies are small, so a minute of baking time one way or the other can have a big impact on taste and texture. Check early and check often. Get to know your oven and the signs of cookies being done, which can be different depending on the recipe. Colour isn't always enough. "Goldenbrown?" says Bigold. "Ask 10 people what golden-brown is and you are going to get 10 different answers."
Be careful with measurement.
Most professional bakers measure flour and sugar by weight, which gives a more accurate result. If you do measure by volume, there are ways to minimize fluctuations. Many cookbooks recommend that you spoon flour into a dry measure and then level with a knife. (Scooping up flour will compact it and result in a "bigger" cup.) "Don't just assume you can scale up or down," advises Bigold. "You can't necessarily double or triple a recipe." There are substitutions you can make in a pinch, but sometimes even minor changes have consequences.
Brown sugar has a higher moisture content than white sugar, for example, so swapping can change not just the flavour but the consistency of your dough.
Bigold also counsels patience: "Baking cannot be rushed. If it says you need to let something cool, you need to let it cool. If it says eggs at room temp, your eggs need to be at room temp, or you're not going to get the same result."
Taking the time to refrigerate the dough or the rolled out cookies can seem like a fussy, Martha Stewart-ish extra step, but it will help cookies keep their shape when baking.
Finally, good cookies come down to good ingredients. "A cookie is only going to be as good as what goes into it," Bigold says.
"Our butter comes straight from Notre Dame Creamery. Our lemons are fresh lemons, not extract.
That makes all the difference."
And after all your work, make sure you store cookies correctly.
Most cookies do not need to be and, in fact, should not be kept in the fridge. "That will kill them," warns Bigold. Place them in an airtight container at room temperature or freeze them for later use. "But don't thaw them by putting them on a pretty tray," says Bigold. "That will dry them out." Defrost the cookies in their container.
Even though it's not yet December, the High Tea Bakery already smells like gingerbread, with the ovens turning out perennial holiday favourites, including the bakery's famous mini imperials.
"Those things have taken over our bakery," jokes Bigold. "They jumped to a whole other level after the Queen." (The bakery provided imperial cookies for the Queen when she visited the city in 2010.) "But even before that, they were well on their way. Winnipeggers are obsessed with imperials, and they're really loyal to whatever one they like."
There are also cardamom-caramel sandwich cookies, orange cranberry shortbread, chocolate peppermint thumbprints, German lebkuchen and, of course, Christmas-themed decorated cookies.
"Everyone forgets about cookies," says Bigold. "They're seen as kind of an extra, but they're what everybody goes for when you have a buffet table going. You can please more people with more items."
"There's a little something for everybody. When you see that plate of Christmas cookies, there's lemon, there's chocolate, there's cinnamon, there's a mix of flavours."
To kick-start your own festive baking, this recipe for a much loved (and now retired) High Tea cookie mixes the grown-up tastes of coffee and chocolate in one rich, dark, tender sweet.
Chocolate coffee fingers
125 g (½ cup) butter, room temperature
125 ml (½ cup) light brown sugar
1 egg yolk, room temperature
10 ml (2 tsp) coffee
10 ml (2 tsp) boiling water
310 ml (1¼ cup) all-purpose flour
30 ml (2 tbsp) cocoa
Coffee icing:
375 ml (1 ½ cup) icing sugar
10 ml (2 tsp) coffee
30 ml (2 tbsp) boiling water
In a small bowl, beat butter, sugar and egg yolk until light and fluffy. Stir in combined coffee and water, then sifted dry ingredients. Mix to a soft dough, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Preheat oven to 175C (350F) and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat mat. Roll dough into log shapes, about 6-7.5 cm (2 ½-3 in) long and 2 cm (¾ in) wide. Place on cookie sheet, about 2.5 cm (1 in) apart, and flatten very slightly.
Mark cookies diagonally with a knife for decoration. Bake for about 8-11 minutes, or until cookies start to brown and the edges crisp up a bit.
(Some crackling in the cookie is normal.) Cool on rack. Prepare icing by sifting icing into a small bowl, stirring in coffee and water and beating until smooth. Gradually add more water if needed to make spreading consistency. Place icing in a small-tipped icing bag and ice cooled cookies in a zigzag pattern.
Tester's notes: My cookies didn't look quite as polished as the High Tea version, but they tasted divine. I did refrigerate my dough before rolling, but my first batch "blobbed out" as Bigold says, so I put the second batch in back in the fridge after shaping just to firm them up a bit more.
For the coffee in this recipe, you can use brewed coffee, coffee made with instant coffee crystals — this lets you make it as strong as you like — or Bigold's choice, a shot of espresso. If you don't have fancy decorating equipment, you can improvise by placing icing in a small zip-lock plastic bag and cutting a hole in the corner.


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Coronation Street star William Roache told detectives it was "against my nature" to commit rape, a jury has heard .
Roache, 81, said he was "a very peaceful person" who would "never do anything like that".
The actor, who plays Ken Barlow in the ITV soap, was arrested and cautioned at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, on the morning of May 1 last year, Preston Crown Court was told.
He was told he had been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at his former home in Lancashire in 1967.
When the officer cautioned him, Roache replied: "I'm absolutely surprised and amazed."
The court heard the actor appeared visibly shocked and "consideration was given to his welfare" as he was allowed to sit down and have a drink of water.
He was then taken in an unmarked vehicle to a police station where the circumstances of the allegations were outlined. In the presence of his solicitor, he was told the reason for his arrest and his legal rights.
The interviewing detective said the complainant claimed she had been raped in two different properties by Roache.
"In response to that, anything to say?" asked Detective Constable Darren Irving.
"Well, I totally deny that," he replied. "I deny that ever took place."
Roache said he did not recognise the name or maiden name of his accuser.
He said he was not engaged in sexual activity with girls around the age of 15 while living in the area.
The detective asked: "During that period, Bill, did you have any kind of relationship with any young girls?"
"No," replied Roache.
"I don't want to insult your intelligence," continued the detective, "you are an intelligent man, Bill. What is your understanding of rape?"
He answered: "Having sexual intercourse with someone who is rejecting, who doesn't want to have it."
Roache added: "It's against my nature. I am a very peaceful person. I would never do anything like that."
Det Con Irving asked: "Any problems with your memory, Bill?"
"This is a long time ago ... but my memory is pretty good," he said.
"Definitely did not happen?" continued the officer.
"It did not happen because I would have remembered if it had," he replied.
Asked whether he could remember if any young girls would "come on to you", he said women would but young girls were just "excited" children. Roache said there may have been a "flirty comment" in getting an autograph "but not in a sustained way".
The detective asked: "Can you think of any reason why this girl would lie to the police about what had happened?"
Roache replied: "No. People nowadays ... it is happening quite a lot ... some people want a bit of sensation, a bit of publicity."
He said again he was a "peaceful person" and "gentle" and did not like "aggravation of any sort".
Roache was later charged with two counts of rape and the publicity that followed led to four women coming forward to say he indecently assaulted them.
He denies all the allegations involving the five complainants who were aged 16 and under on dates between 1965 and 1971.
The account of the rapes given by Roache's accuser were put to him in detail.
It is alleged that on the first occasion he showed the girl into a bedroom with a double bed, followed her in, spun her around and pushed her on to the bed.
"I would never do that to anybody, I would remember that quite clearly," Roache told the officer.
The alleged victim said she was "frozen" and in shock, that he "fumbled" around to put a condom on, pulled her underwear to one side and raped her.
"Did that happen, Bill?" the officer asked.
"No, that did not happen," he replied.
"Did you rape that girl on that occasion?"
"No, I did not. I have never raped anybody," Roache said. "This whole incident did not happen as far as I am concerned, I would've remembered it."
The officer added: "So you categorically deny it?"
Roache said: "Absolutely categorically deny knowing her or doing anything with her."
It was put to Roache that the woman described her attacker as "cold and calculating".
"Well, that's not like me," he said. "I'm not cold and calculating ever, so that has no bearing.
"This whole thing is just astounding me, absolutely astounding me, I can't understand why it's happened."
Details of the second alleged rape on the same victim at a different property some time later were then put to Roache during the interview.
Roache said "it strikes me a little strange" that a girl he is alleged to have raped before would go near him again.
"I'm a very gentle, peaceful person and I would never do anything that would offend anyone," he added.
The officer said the victim claimed he pinned her against a wall and raped her. Again she was in shock, she did not fight back or scream and there was no intimacy, talking or lead-up to the sudden assault.
Roache said: "No. This just did not happen."
He was asked if he could give "any reason" why she would make these claims.
Roache said: "The climate of what's happening at the moment, a lot of people are coming out accusing celebrities, for various reasons, and I don't know what her motivation is.
"I can only surmise there's some hope of selling articles to the newspaper, a moment of fame. I don't know what the motivation would be and I'm absolutely horrified at the whole thing.
"I was always polite and friendly with the viewers and people in the street. I have no idea why she would come up with this."
At the end of the first police interview, Roache added: "I'm denying it totally. I have no idea why these allegations are being made.
"I'm absolutely staggered, absolutely staggered, I don't really know what her motivation is."


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That's what the calendar says June 14 is.
For some of us, that date means something else, of course.
Quick story. I had bought two tickets to every playoff game in '94 because so many friends had been asking for them. So now the Rangers are up 3-1 and my accountant and another friend are begging for tickets to Game 5. They flipped a coin. The winner, my accountant, got Game 5. The loser got Game 7 if necessary. The loser was really unhappy … until June 14.
I also clearly remember that, though I wasn't invited to the party at the Auction House — it was for players, organization members, close friends and family — a bunch of the players said if I showed up I could come in. Well, the problem was that I couldn't even get near the door, and there were bouncers out on the sidewalk who didn't believe me — I imagine a few of the other several thousand folks clogging up the entire city block tried to say they'd been invited, too.
As I started to walk away, a limo pulls up. Stanley is in the front seat with the chauffeur. Messier and his family are in the back. Messier puts his big paw on my shoulder and brings me right in, past the bouncer who hadn't let me past. That was sweet.
I'm telling you, we in the media (most of us, anyway) don't root for the teams we cover. I don't. But that doesn't mean you're not happy when a special group of people succeed, and that team was loaded with great people. I don't have to name the names. You know who they are.
So today, on Flag Day and another anniversary, why not tell us your memories of June 14, 1994. Where you were, what you remember.
Also some people here don't like the fact that we celebrate '94, still. Well, what in Holy Hell are we supposed to celebrate? 1989? 2003?
An aside: June 14, I believe, is also the date that Roger McDowell spit on Kramer and Newman … though they thought it was Keith Hernandez.


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This article was published 5/4/2013 (1601 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
True North Sports & Entertainment will be conducting an online market research survey about a potential WHL team in the Winnipeg market starting today and running through Tuesday.
The purpose of the survey will be to gauge the potential interest in a Western Hockey League (WHL) franchise in Winnipeg, should an opportunity develop for this market.
The survey will be sent to a sample group of current and former MTS Centre and Winnipeg Jets customers. Only those that are sent an email will be asked to participate in the survey at this time. True North will continue to advise the media in the event there are further developments with respect to True North Sports & Entertainment and the Western Hockey League.
The WHL is one of three Major Junior leagues in Canada, with a few teams in the U.S, which are the top conduit of players to the NHL. The closest team is the Brandon Wheat Kings.