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The festive season is in full swing and no party is complete without a generous supply of delicious nibbles to help the fizz go down nicely. With the help of new Dorling Kindersley book Canapes (by Victoria Blashford-Snell and Eric Treuille), we show you how to prep and plan the perfect food for your bash. Plus some tasty canapes recipes.
By Diana Pilkington
Whether it's a Christmas gathering or a New Year's Eve bash, chances are you'll have some entertaining to do over the festive period.
And what better way to delight your guests than by serving up platters of canapes that look pretty, tickle the taste buds and, crucially, are a practical way to feed a crowd?
In the new edition of her book Canapes, Victoria Blashford-Snell writes: "Serving canapes to your guests is a fun way of showing off - not only your organisational skills, but your knowledge of cooking and of pairing up assorted flavours, including different influences from other cuisines."
Add to this the fact that there's minimal washing-up to do - "All your guests require is a drink, a cocktail napkin, and a warm welcome," she points out - and you have the recipe for a smooth festive bash.
Here's a summary of some of the author's tips for making your canapes party go with a swing...
:: As a general rule, allow five pieces per guest for pre-lunch or dinner drinks. Allow six per guest for first-course canapes. Go for 10 pieces for each guest at a drinks party. If it's a canape-only evening event, allow 14 pieces per guest.
:: When large groups are involved, allow for more canapes per person as some people may bring another guest along.
:: If you're playing host to different age groups, try and cater for all tastes with a combination of hot and cold canapes, including classic recipes as well as more adventurous ones.
:: A mix of poultry, fish, seafood, red meat and vegetables is a good idea. Don't go overboard on fried options among your hot canapes, and include some gluten-free and vegetarian choices in your cold ones.
:: For a stress-free event, prepare ahead where possible. Lots of canape bases will keep well if made in advance and stored properly, so include some of these options. Test out new recipes beforehand so they don't go wrong on the day.
:: Include a nod to the season in your menu where possible.
:: When putting together your canapes, be generous with the filling but be careful not to overfill your bases as this can make them tricky to eat.
:: Choose platters that can be passed around guests easily, and be creative with presentation. Textured materials like coarse sea salt and banana leaves can jazz up a plain platter. Nightlight candles in small pots look good too.
:: To avoid mess, use a fresh bowl every time you need to top up dips, and have a stash of cocktail napkins and separate bowl for cocktail sticks in your armoury.
These canape recipes from the book will go down a treat at any winter party...
Eggs Benedict
(Makes 24)
6 slices of medium white bread
125g butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
24 quail eggs
4 slices of Parma ham
175ml plain hollandaise
10g chives, finely chopped to garnish
Preheat oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2.
Brush the bread with melted butter and use the cookie cutter to stamp out 4 rounds per bread slice (to make your croutes). Place the croutes on a baking tray and bake for 20-25 minutes, until crisp, then set aside to cool.
To bake the quail eggs, generously butter a mini muffin tin and crack eggs into each hole. Bake in the oven for 4 minutes (the yolks should still be runny). Using a teaspoon, carefully scoop the eggs out of the tins and onto a tray or plate to cool.
Increase oven temperature to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Place the croutes (not touching) on a flat oven tray, tear the ham into 24 equal pieces, and place a piece folded on top of each croute. Next, place the baked egg on top and cover with 1 teaspoon of hollandaise. Bake for 4-5 minutes then garnish with finely chopped chives.
Classic cheese quesadilla with green chilli, coriander and avocado salsa
(Makes 24)
For the salsa:
2 ripe avocados
Half a red onion, very finely chopped
Half a red chilli, seeded and chopped
Juice of 1 lime
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1tbsp olive oil
Dash of Tabasco sauce, or to taste
For the quesadilla:
4 flour tortillas (18cm)
175g grated Swiss
Gruyere cheese
30g coriander, finely chopped
1 bunch of spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped
1 green chilli, seeded and finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Olive oil
For the salsa, skin and stone the avocado, then finely chop or mash with the rest of the salsa ingredients and season to taste.
Place 2 tortillas on the work surface. Divide the cheese, coriander, spring onions, chilli, and salt and pepper evenly between them. Press the 2 remaining tortillas on top to make a sandwich.
Heat a large frying pan with a drizzle of oil. When heated, sear the tortilla sandwiches over medium heat for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until crisp and light golden in colour, flipping with a fish slice or a palette knife halfway through.
Cut each quesadilla into 12 wedges and serve with the avocado salsa.
Asian pork balls with chilli-lime dipping sauce
(Makes 20)
For the sauce:
Juice of 1 lime
1tbsp caster sugar
2tbsp fish sauce
1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1tbsp grated fresh root ginger
For the meatballs:
200g minced pork
30g shallots, finely diced
2 garlic cloves, finely diced
1tsp soft brown sugar
1.2tsp freshly ground black pepper
10g coriander leaves, finely chopped
10g mint leaves, finely chopped
1tbsp grated fresh ginger
2tbsp Thai fish sauce
Vegetable or sunflower oil to fry
1tbsp chopped fresh coriander, to garnish
For the sauce, mix all the ingredients together with 2 tablespoons of water and taste for seasoning.
Place the meatball ingredients into a large bowl and mix well together. Then mould a ball, about the size of a walnut, for testing. Heat a frying pan with 2 tablespoons of oil and fry the ball on both sides for 2 minutes or until cooked through. Taste to check the flavour - you may wish to add more fish sauce or salt to your mixture.
Roll the remainder of the mixture into small balls. Fry briskly but gently on both sides to cook through. At this stage you can keep them warm in a medium oven until ready to serve. Serve with the chilli-lime dipping sauce scattered with torn coriander.
Parmesan shortbreads with betroot pesto
(Makes 20)
200g beetroot, cooked and peeled
30g toasted pine nuts
45g Parmesan cheese, grated
1 clove of garlic
4tbsp olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
20 Parmesan shortbreads (see recipe below)
To garnish:
15g toasted pine nuts
10g Parmesan, grated
Handful of micro cress
For the pesto, place all the ingredients together in a food processor; pulse until a rough paste forms and the ingredients are well combined. Taste to check the seasoning.
Use a teaspoon to top the shortbreads with the pesto.
Garnish with the toasted pine nuts, Parmesan shavings, and micro cress. Serve at room temperature.
Cook's note: Dry-roast the pine nuts carefully in a frying pan until lightly coloured. This helps to enhance their flavour and it's best to roast your own. You can use bought cooked beetroot, but not the kind stored in vinegar.
Parmesan shortbreads
(Makes 25-30)
60g plain flour
Pinch of salt
2-3 pinches of cayenne pepper
45g chilled butter, diced
60g Parmesan, grated
Place the flour, pinch of salt, cayenne pepper, diced butter and grated Parmesan into a large mixing bowl.
Using your fingertips, gently crumble all the ingredients together until they are well combined and resemble breadcrumbs.
Next, push the ingredients together firmly to form a smooth dough. Pushing them around will help to bring the moisture out of the butter and cheese.
Using a rolling pin, roll out the shortbread dough on a lightly floured cool work surface until the dough is 4mm thick. Use a cookie cutter to stamp out 25-30 shapes, gathering up and re-rolling the dough if necessary.
Place the pastry shapes on a baking sheet, lined with greaseproof paper and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Remove the pastry shapes from the refrigerator and bake in the oven until slightly golden and crisp, 8-10 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack. Once cooled, to store place on layers of greaseproof paper in an airtight container.
When ready, add a topping of your choice no more than 40 minutes before serving - and watch your guests devour them in minutes!
And here's a recipe from chef Omar Allibhoy for a handy addition to any festive party...
Spanish olives marinated in ginger, cinnamon and cardamom
(Serves 4)
1 jar or tin of 'turning colour' or black Spanish olives
100ml of mild Spanish olive oil
2 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
2 kaffir lime leaves
2cm of fresh ginger
Drain the Spanish olives from the brine and place in a bowl. Peel and thinly slice the ginger, crush the cardamom pods, cinnamon stick and kaffir lime leaves, before mixing them all in with the olives and olive oil. Leave to stand for 20 minutes before eating, or keep in the fridge for up to a month in a tightly sealed container.
:: Recipe created by Omar Allibhoy, who is supporting the Olives from Spain campaign. See www.olivesfromspain.co.uk
:: Canapes by Victoria Blashford-Snell and Eric Treuille is published by DK, priced £14.99. Available now. Visit www.dk.com


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Police have renewed an appeal for witnesses, after identifying four people from a CCTV image they would like to speak to in connection with an assault which occurred in Warminster.
An 18-year-old man was assaulted as he stepped in to stop an argument in the High Street. He suffered serious facial injuries in the unprovoked attack.
The incident occurred at about 2.30am on September 15 last year and enquiries have been ongoing to identify his attacker and potential witnesses to the assault.
DC Nick Ryan said: "This was a serious assault and we will continue to do everything we can to identify the person responsible.
"I would like to appeal for the people in the CCTV image to come forward as they may have vital information to help us find the offender."
Anyone with information is asked to contact DC Ryan at Salisbury CID on 101. Alternatively contact Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 where details may be left anonymously if preferred.

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I need a hero (or heroes). I feel like my camera is going on the fritz. I am wondering about maybe sometime getting a cell phone or smart phone to do the job. I plead my total ignorance when it comes to those phones, as I neither have one nor know how to use one. However, I have once seen an image from an HD phone that was mighty impressive. I thought maybe I could save some bucs that way rather than getting a dedicated camera (not to mention, my camcorder is a wee bit old as well). Would you guys recommend that route? How do they compare? Any recommended models? Thanks!
There. I got my question in just in time for game 1 of the World Series. I'll be set to go with another pizzaburger, salad on the side, and plenty of salted peanuts in the shell to last me throughout the game. Naturally, I want San Francisco to win, but I don't know... those big boys from Detroit make those bats look like toothpicks in their hands.


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PPR is putting luxury on hold and charging forward into sportswear and sustainability. Yesterday, the French conglomerate displayed its trademark dispassionate ability to end (or suspend) industrial dalliances it feels may become less than productive by announcing the creation of – and concentration on — a new "sport and lifestyle" division run by Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz, who has also been promoted to Executive Chairman of Puma. Still, I'm more struck by the lead the group buried: the fact Mr Zeitz is becoming not only Puma's Executive Chairman, but also PPR's Chief Sustainability Officer.
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Hearty Potato Soup, loaded with nutrition
Submitted by Kay A.
This is a thick, chunky soup that has wonderful flavor, is nutritious and has a low calorie count. I love hunger satisfying soups that nourish our bodies and also allow us to keep our trim figures.
Makes 8 cups. 150 calories per cup (without cheese garnish)
- 2 pounds potatoes (about 6-8 medium) peeled and cut into 6 pieces each
- 3/4 cup baby carrots, sliced
- 18 ounce can Progresso Creamy Roasted Garlic Recipe Starters
- 1/2 cup celery, chopped
- 1/2 cup fresh baby spinach leaves, chopped
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup broth (I use leftover broth from cooking green beans, carrots or chicken breasts in my Instant Pot) fresh basil leaves, finely chopped (about 1 Tablespoon after chopping)
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 1 Tablespoon ground flax or chia seeds (optional – for nutrition, not flavor)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- Grated sharp cheddar cheese
- Fresh basil leaves
Place all ingredients (except the salt and grated cheese) into the Instant Pot and stir. Add lid, press the Soup button and leave the time set to 30 minutes. (It will take about 15 minutes to come to pressure and then will cook for 30 minutes.)
When the Instant Pot beeps that it is finished cooking, throw a kitchen towel over the lid and then do a quick pressure release. Insert an immersion blender, and apply short zaps until the soup is thick but still has some chunky potato and carrot pieces.
Taste the soup and then add salt, if desired. Ladle into bowls and garnish with cheese, if desired.
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Cooking Channel is joining Food Network for our first annual cookie swap, 12 Days of Cookies. Each day, visit us here for a look at new holiday cookies, party-planning tips and top techniques for rolling, spooning, slicing, baking and decorating delicious sweet treats to give — or keep — from favorite chefs and Food People. Then visit FoodNetwork.com/12daysofcookies for great takes on holiday baking from Food Network chefs — cookies by the dozen to celebrate all season.
Laura Calder's Crisp Chewy Meringues are simple yet elegant. Once the little drops of sweet goodness are all gobbled up, you'll wish you had time to make some more. Oh wait, you will — these guys take only ten minutes to whip up before it's time to pop them into the oven.
The chameleon of all cookies, you can flavor their basic egg white and sugar base with almost anything… vanilla, orange flower water, maple extract — you name it! But no matter what flavor you choose, their crisp outer layers and soft, chewy insides make for one serious textural treat.
12 Days of Cookies:
- Make Laura's Crisp Chewy Meringues.
- See who's joining in: Laura Calder, Nigella Lawson, Chuck Hughes and more.
- Food Network is swapping cookies, too.
- Check out more of Laura's recipes on Cooking Channel.
- Share your Holiday cookie pix with us on Facebook.
What's the fanciest-looking cookie you've ever baked?
Melanie Rehak, author of Eating for Beginners, has been baking cookies since she was old enough to climb onto the kitchen stool. She's partial to Zimtsterne—cinnamon stars—for the holidays, but loves most cookies all year long.


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Second Year in Rockefeller Center to Promote Lupus Awareness!
Display Window Draws Attention to Lupus and S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Presence in Heart of NYC
Now in our 40th year promoting lupus awareness, education, advocacy, and research for lupus, we launched Awareness Month 2010 with a 115-sq-ft display window at 10 Rockefeller Plaza to educate young women about the disease.
Thousands of visitors visit will see the window each day. Placement was generously donated to the lupus cause by EHE International for the month of May.
The window showcases television and print ad visuals of women with lupus talking about the unexplained fatigue, joint pain, skin rash, hair loss, and headaches that preceded their diagnoses. Nine out of 10 people with lupus are women—most of whom are diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 45. The Foundation is a partner of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Office on Women's Health and the Ad Council's "Could I Have Lupus?" campaign featured in the window.
"For Lupus Awareness Month in our 40th anniversary year, it is especially important for us to draw broad public attention to this disease and our free support services available here in New York," said Margaret Dowd, S.L.E. Lupus Foundation executive director. "If you feel ill on an on-going basis, ask your doctor about lupus. And if you do have lupus, we're here for you."


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This article was published 28/12/2012 (1697 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Bonnie is going against the flow.
While Winnipeg has suffered several defections in recent years -- former citizens seeking fortune, fame and fairer weather elsewhere -- Bonnie is an Edmontonian who wants to move here in the next year.
"My daughters live in Minnesota," says the 55-year-old health-care professional.
"And my grandchildren are growing up so fast I don't want to miss it."
Bonnie says moving to Winnipeg will make visiting the grandkids a whole lot easier. Instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for a plane ticket, she will only be limited by her enthusiasm to make the long drive to Minneapolis.
Yet she's not sure how such a move would affect her finances. Even now, she is just getting into sound financial shape after recently landing full-time work. Prior to getting the full-time position, she had to take in a couple of renters and worked two part-time jobs to pay for her $187,000 mortgage.
Now, she earns about $3,200 net from her full-time job, about another $1,700 from renters and $300 from a part-time position every month. While she is now flush with cash to pay down the mortgage, Bonnie is working with her accountant to determine how much money she needs to set aside to pay additional taxes on income earned from part-time work and the renters.
She also needs to build up her savings again after recently taking an overseas vacation, which depleted her chequing account.
Despite these recent financial challenges, however, Bonnie says she's determined to make the move to Winnipeg, and she would like to know how relocating will affect her financial outlook, especially retirement.
"I want to know if I'm doing what I should be doing to get myself ready for retirement."
Certified financial planner Valerie Chatain-White says Bonnie's plan clearly brings up a number of questions she needs to consider before making a decision that will profoundly affect her financial future.
Among the most important are her expected income and future housing costs.
A good idea is for Bonnie to lean heavily on the expertise of her accountant to crunch numbers.
"It would be good to verify with her accountant what she might need to net as income from a new job if she moves," Chatain-White says, adding Bonnie may be eligible for relocation tax credits if she moves to Winnipeg for a job.
As for housing costs, moving from Edmonton to Winnipeg was a lucrative proposition a decade ago because of the large difference in housing prices. Since then, Winnipeg prices have caught up substantially and the market here remains fairly robust, whereas Edmonton's has stabilized.
According to WinnipegRealtors' housing price index, the most active price range in the city is between $250,000 and $299,999. In Edmonton, the average price is about $331,000 so Bonnie can still expect to come out a little bit ahead moving to Winnipeg, providing she can sell her home for about what she paid for it in 2008.
Bonnie bought her home for $357,000, and she may be able to seize upon a number of tax deductions available to her because she has been using her home to generate income. But the fact she has been renting out rooms also clouds the tax picture for her.
When selling a home, most people can use the principal-residence exemption to avoid paying any taxes on capital gains made on the sale. In some circumstances, homeowners may have to pay capital gains on parts of the home that were used for producing income, such as renting out rooms.
Chatain-White says Bonnie will again need the services of her accountant to help her figure out the possible tax implications.
If Bonnie does find work in Winnipeg and buys a home here, she still faces a big challenge: building up her savings for retirement.
Early retirement is certainly out of the question, Chatain-White says.
Even retiring at 65 will be challenging.
Chatain-White made a number of conservative estimates of Bonnie's retirement income, including her CPP.
Chatain-White says in her calculations she low-balled Bonnie's CPP at $500 a month, so Bonnie should log onto the Service Canada website to get a more accurate figure for her expected payments at age 65. With OAS added (Bonnie is old enough to receive full OAS at 65), CPP will make up about half her retirement income.
The remainder will come from her RRSP, about $116,000 at the moment.
"She could use up her money quite quickly if she retires early," Chatain-White says. "If she wants the income from her RRSP to last as long as she does, the rule of thumb is to withdraw five per cent per year -- about $500 a month."
That means Bonnie's estimated monthly retirement income at age 65 would be about $2,000 short of her monthly expenses today of about $3,300.
That's a substantial savings shortfall to make up in the next decade.
Moving from Edmonton to Winnipeg could have a positive effect on her financial situation. She could make a few thousand dollars profit on the sale of her home, which should be invested for retirement. But she could just as easily end up breaking even while possibly earning less at a new job. And she'd be paying more in taxes. Alberta has no sales tax except GST, and its income taxes are a flat 10 per cent rate whereas Manitoba's highest rate marginal rate is 17.4 per cent for earnings more than $67,000.
Needless to say, Bonnie has lots of homework to do before making a major decision.
Yet regardless of where she lives, she can count on one certainty.
"Bonnie would need to work at least for another 10 years if she wants to maintain the lifestyle she now enjoys."


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A TWITTER war broke out over the weekend between fans of Swindon Town and Bournemouth after a picture of the broken away dugout at Dean Court circulated on the social networking site.
The snap, taken by Advertiser chief sports writer Sam Morshead, showed minor damage to a Perspex wall and Cherries fans were quick to blame Town manager Paolo Di Canio for the breakage.
Comments ranged from "likely your buffoon of a manger, that's just pure disrespect to our club!" and "I do hope Mr Di Canio is paying for that... see this @FA - Unacceptable!" to "this should be report to Dorset police and the fa #afcb"
Bournemouth chairman Eddie Mitchell, meanwhile, told the Bournemouth Echo that the Cherries would be pursuing Swindon following the incident.
However, it appears those fans who blamed Di Canio were too quick to point the finger at the Italian, as the Adver understands the damage was accidentally caused by goalkeeping coach Domenico Duardo during the celebrations of Andy Williams' late equaliser for the Robins.
The two clubs are expected to sort out the issue. In the meantime, maybe we should all retain a little Perspextive.


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True Friends
Dirs: Stephan Archinard, Francois Prevot-Leygonie. France. 2012. 104mins
Secrets and lies are at the heart of True Friends (Amities sinceres) a classily assembled French drama that ticks all of the right boxes – fine wines, sexual secrets, male bonding, seaside interludes etc – that often make up similar takes on Gallic camaraderie. But while familiar in tone it is also smartly put together, with Gerard Lanvin an impressively avuncular central presence, playing a nicely bombastic character who provides the central core to the story.
Honest, amusing and tender, True Friends is an engaging and watchable film, with Gerard Lanvin charismatic at its core.
The casting of Jean-Hughes Anglade (still playing the handsome loner) and up-and-coming young star Ana Girardot (who featured in Cloclo recently), should help sales profile, though the film should work well with festivals and distributors who are used to handling similar classy French fare. The film had its premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Walter (Lanvin), Paul (Anglade) and Jacques (Wladimir Yordanoff) have been best of friends since childhood and regularly meet for lunch in Jacques' bookshop. Restaurant owner Walter is the dynamic heart of their friendship, annoying Jacques with his coffee slurping and over-enthusing about the expensive wine he brings along ("a Chateau Yqnem 1990, $1,000 a bottle" he declares at one lunch), content in his life and desperately proud his bright and bubbly 23 year-old daughter Clemence (Girardot).
But he is unaware of two things that his friends have been keeping from him. Jacques is gay and long hidden the truth from his best friend, while writer Paul has fallen in love with Clemence, and she is equally obsessed with him.
As Paul and Clemence start to sleep with each other (Paul is finally inspired to write again after five years with writers block, writing about his affair with Clemence) and Jacques decides to stand for mayoral office (to the annoyance of Walter who is friends with the current mayor), Walter finds his comfy world changing around him, eventually turning to his ex-wife Stephanie (Zabout Breitman) for advice.
Stephan Archinard and Francois Prevot-Leygonie's film is short on dramatic surprises but strong on central performances, with the three men convincing as long-time friends who may find face-to-face conversations hard at times but who still share a deep bond. Honest, amusing and tender, True Friends is an engaging and watchable film, with Gerard Lanvin charismatic at its core.
Production company: WY Productions
International sales: SND Groupe M6, www.snd-films.fr
Screenplay: Stephan Archinard, Francois Prevot-Leygonie, Marie-Pierre Huster
Cinematography: Stephan Massis
Main cast: Jean-Hughes Anglade, Gerard Lanvin, Wladimir Yordanoff, Ana Girardot, Zabou Breitman, Natacha Lindinger


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Volunteers sought for ACT-NOW safety program
Citizen Staff Reports 11/07/12
Henrico County Police Division is seeking volunteers to patrol Henrico shopping centers during the busy holiday shopping season as part of the ACT-NOW (Awareness of Crime Today – Neighbors On Watch) program, which is designed to help curb crime. Volunteers will work under the direction of an officer and will be trained prior to the patrol.
Volunteers may choose which featured shopping center they would like to patrol each weekend beginning Nov. 24. Each patrol will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Patrols will occur:
Nov. 24 – Regency Square
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 – Willow Lawn
Dec. 7 and 8 – Virginia Center Commons
Dec. 14 and 15 – White Oak Village
Dec. 21 and 22 – Short Pump Town Center
For details or to volunteer, call Billie Tebbens of the Crime Prevention Unit at (804) 501-5934.
Volunteers may choose which featured shopping center they would like to patrol each weekend beginning Nov. 24. Each patrol will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Patrols will occur:
Nov. 24 – Regency Square
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 – Willow Lawn
Dec. 7 and 8 – Virginia Center Commons
Dec. 14 and 15 – White Oak Village
Dec. 21 and 22 – Short Pump Town Center
For details or to volunteer, call Billie Tebbens of the Crime Prevention Unit at (804) 501-5934.
Henrico Public Library wins Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation grant
Citizen Staff Reports 08/23/2017 General NewsGovernmentHealth
The Henrico County Public Library system recently won the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation's Library Grant Award, which provides funding, materials and programming from VBCF to help educate citizens about breast cancer.
The grant is given to select libraries in Virginia that apply and is intended to further the VBCF mission to educate the public about breast health and breast cancer. > Read more.
Pet Valu to open in Glen Allen Aug. 26
Citizen Staff Reports 08/23/2017 BusinessGeneral News
Pet supplies and accessories retailer Pet Valu will open at 5304 Wyndham Forest Drive in Glen Allen Saturday, Aug. 26.
The store will offer free samples, goody bags, refreshments, raffles and prizes and kid- and pet-friendly entertainment during its first day of business from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. > Read more.
State issues warning about purebred puppy scam
Citizen Staff Reports 08/23/2017 General NewsGovernment
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is warning Virginia consumers about an active fraud involving purebred puppies.
Herring's Consumer Protection Section recently has received a number of reports of consumers entering into agreements to buy a pet with a company they found online, later to learn the website and the company are a scam – and that no such puppy ever existed. > Read more.
Kaine, McEachin to host Service Academy Day
Citizen Staff Reports 08/23/2017 General NewsGovernment
Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) will co-host their Service Academy Day to educate high school students about the service academy nominations process, an honor awarded by members of Congress for students interested in attending a service academy after high school.
The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Matoaca High School, 17700 Longhouse Lane, Chesterfield 23838. It will provide an opportunity for high school students and parents to learn about the nation's military academies, a career in military service and the nominations process. > Read more.
Red Cross, Sport Clips offer free haircuts to blood donors
Citizen Staff Reports 08/23/2017 BusinessGeneral News
The American Red Cross and Sport Clips are partnering to provide free haircuts to anyone who donates blood or platelets to the Red Cross during September.
Blood donors of all blood types, especially type O negative and O positive, are urgently needed to replenish the blood supply following a critical summer blood shortage. > Read more.
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In order to fully understand the meaning in Bediüzzaman Said Nursi's words one must read and consider the Master's words as a single whole. But it is not so honest to read one passage or paragraph and comment on what Bediüzzaman might have meant without reading other passages or paragraphs, as these are all complimentary.
In his Risale-i Nur Collection, Said Nursi explicitly states that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come as an individual in Hijri 1400, that he will have three duties, that these three duties had not been discharged in his (Said Nursi's) own time, that it is Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will perform them, that he is not Hazrat Mahdi (as), but merely one of his vanguard. These words of the Master's are too explicit and clear to allow any alternative interpretation.
It is impossible to conclude from Said Nursi's words in the Kastamonu Addendum, "Yes, since this time is one of note for both faith and religion and for social life and the law, and also for public law and political Islam, they each require mujaddids "that the duties of the Mahdi will be discharged by three separate individuals. The Master is not referring to his own time here. Spiritual guides living at that time had worked as mujaddids. When we read the following part of the extract it is clear that the Master explicitly states that it is Hazrat Mahdi (as), who will appear in the End Times and who is descended from the line of our Prophet (saas) who will discharge these three duties simultaneously. For that reason, in interpreting this statement by the Master, one must also read and take into account the next part of the same passage. Not to do so, is neither honest nor sincere.
The full passage by Master Bediüzzaman in the Kastamonu Addendum reads:
Our great, loyal and splendid brother Hasmet Hodja!
I was astounded to read your letter about the mujaddid and spoke of it to our Master. Our Master says:
Yes, since this time is one of note for both faith and religion and for social life and the law, and also for public law and political Islam, they each require mujaddids. But the most urgent of all, the duty of restoring the preservation of true faith, is the most sacred and the greatest. The law, social law and the political sphere are the second, third and fourth in order of relative importance.
In the hadith accounts regarding the renovation of the faith, signs leading to faith are of greatest importance. However, since the needy public and people who are attracted by the life of this world consider Islamic social life and politics of religion more important, they see and understand from that point of view.
It is a remote possibility, in fact impossible, for these three duties to be present in one individual or community at this time, for them to be perfect and not conflict with one another. THEY CAN ONLY COME TOGETHER IN HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) AND THE COLLECTIVE PERSONALITY OF HIS COMMUNITY who represent the radiant community of the Ahl al-Bayt in the End Times. In this century, thanks be to Almighty Allah, the Risale-i Nur, its truth and the collective personality of its followers, has served in the preservation of the true faith. Forty thousands of men witness it to responding totally to intense atheism and heresy for twenty years and saving the faith of hundred thousands of faithful with its effective and victorious publication in that holy task.
However, a man so helpless and poor like me greets you and says that my individual should not be made the cause in the sense to burden me a load of thousands times heavier than my limit.
Emin, Feyzi, Kamil, followers of the Risale-i Nur
As we have seen, Said Nursi reveals that it is a remote possibility, and even impossible, for these three duties to be present at the same time in a single individual or even a single community, in his day. And what the Master said, happened. Indeed, none of these duties was discharged in his own time. In the Master's time, various spiritual guides discharged various aspects of these tasks, but none therefore earned the title of Great Mahdi of the End Times, he who will undertake and accomplish them all. The Master served in matters of faith, Sultan Abdulhamit II in political matters and other spiritual guides in various different spheres, thus serving as mujaddids. But there has never been a single individual to accomplish them all at one and the same time. The Master says this on the subject in the Emirdag Addendum and the Rays:
Certain Muslim individuals had also come in previous centuries with the purpose of bringing Qur'anic moral values to prevail on Earth, but that none of these had discharged the three important tasks that Hazrat Mahdi (as) would perform in the End Times. (Emirdağ Addendum, p. 260)
THE FOUR GREAT DUTIES OF "THE GREAT MAHDI," AND SOME OF THE DUTIES OF "THE GREAT MAHDI" HAVE BEEN PERFORMED IN ONE RESPECT BY MINOR MAHDIS WHO HAVE COME BEFORE, ARE TO RESTORE, DECLARE AND IMPLEMENT THE LAW OF MUHAMMAD (SAAS) AND THE ESSENCE OF THE MORAL VALUES OF THE QUR'AN AND THE SUNNAH OF OUR PROPHET (SAAS), AND THE "GREAT MAHDI," THEIR GREAT COMMANDER, WILL SHOW HIS PERFECT JUSTICE AND DOMINION TO THE WORLD. (Rays, p. 456)
Since we have passages by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi containing hundreds of pieces of evidence about Hazrat Mahdi (as) being an individual, about his appearing in Hijri 1400, and about his being active in the fields of religious matters, politics and governance and spreading the religion, and about these duties all being manifested at the same time in Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his community, it is clearly incompatible with honesty, sincerity and good conscience for anyone to read half of what the Master says and not the other half and then produce interpretations solely in line with his own beliefs, not grounded in any evidence whatsoever.


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THE owner of a site controversially approved for the building of 133 homes said work would 'definitely' start before the end of a two-year deadline.
Blackburn with Darwen Council approved the plans for the site between Pole Lane and Spring Meadows in Darwen in December, 2012.
But in giving the go-ahead, councillors imposed a two-year deadline for work to begin before planning permission would be withdrawn.
Since then, no work has been done on the site with the December deadline looming just eight months away.
Builder David Knowles, working in partnership with Ruttle Plant Holdings, said the plan was to sell the land on to a developer with the planning permissions already in place.
Mr Knowles said: "There are about six different companies who are very interested in buying it. "I reckon it will be sold within the next 12 to 14 weeks.
"I am confident work will begin well before December. "If it didn't sell the only option would be to develop it ourselves but I do not think that will be necessary."
The plans, which had originally been knocked back in 2011, were met with a great deal of anger by neighbouring residents concerned about a number of issues, notably an increase in traffic in Pole Lane.
The development became part of Blackburn with Darwen Council's ambitious plans to build up to 4,000 rural executive homes in the the borough in response to new Government targets.
Other Darwen sites nominated for the 'National Planning Policy Framework' were at Ellerslie House, Bury Fold Lane, Bailey's Field, Cranberry Lane, Jack's Key, Johnson New Road in Waterside and Springside Works at Belmont.


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06/29/2017 13:55 to 01/01/2018 17:00 Important Message! Effective July 1, 2017 the State Board of Equalization has been restructured to better serve taxpayers. Learn more about the restructuring
See Assessment Appeals Board; Escape Assessments; Property Statement; State-Assessed Property
160.0002 Assessor's Records. After a property is sold, the former owner is no longer considered an "assessee" of that property and does not have access to the assessor's records pertaining to the property, when owned by the new owner, that are statutorily held to be confidential. "Assessee" is defined in Revenue and Taxation Code section 23 as "the person to whom the property or a tax is assessed" and is understood to mean the current owner. C 3/6/1998.
160.0004 Computer Program Storage Media. Revenue and Taxation Code section 995 provides that storage media for computer programs are assessable for property tax purposes and should be valued as if there were no computer programs on them, except basic operational programs. Computer programs, even basic operational programs, existing separately from the storage media cannot be assessed. Therefore, pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 405(a), the assessor can make assessments only to the persons owning, claiming, possessing or controlling storage media on the lien date. If the storage media is leased, the assessor has the option of making the assessment to the owner (lessor), to the lessee, or to both the lessor and lessee of the storage media as provided by Revenue and Taxation Code section 405(b). LTA 4/30/1996 (No. 96/29).
160.0005 Cross-Securing of Personal Property. An assessor may not cross-secure personal property owned by a corporation to real property owned by the sole shareholder of the corporation unless the shareholder is also the assessee of the personal property. C 4/25/1979.
160.0010 Estate Property. Property in an estate should be enrolled, whether the assessment is a regular one or an escape, in the name of the estate or in the name of the beneficiary who will receive the particular property. If the property has been distributed, the assessment, regular or escape, should be in the name of the beneficiary only since the executor's/administrator's liability to pay taxes ceases once the estate is distributed. This approach is proper whether the beneficiary is the recipient of a partial interest in or obtains sole ownership of the property. C 12/19/1989.
160.0013 Name on Assessment Roll. Person desiring his name to appear on assessment roll with respect to parcel of land has right to have property so assessed to him if he has claimed it in property statement filed pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 441, without showing further proof of interest in land to the assessor. C 3/14/1989; OAG 5/29/1959 (No. 59-70, Vol. 33, p. 118).
160.0015 Personal Property Leased to A Bank or Insurance Company. Personal property leased to banks and insurance companies is not entitled to the exemption accorded the personal property owned by such institutions, and such property should be assessed to the lessor. Personal property leased to a bank or insurance company is exempt if the bank or insurance company is the equity owner, however, even though the agreement between the lessor and the bank or insurance company is denominated a lease. C 7/24/1979.
160.0020 Personal Property Leased by a Bank or Financial Corporation. Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 235, a lessee of personal property owned by a bank or financial corporation is conclusively presumed to be the owner of the property. Thus, in light of Revenue and Taxation Code section 441, which requires every person owning personal property to file a property statement, such a lessee must file a property statement if the property has an aggregate cost of $30,000 or more. Revenue and Taxation Code sections 441(d) and 442 and Roberts v. Gulf Oil Corp., 147 Cal.App.3d 770, however, require the bank or financial corporation to continue to report the leased property on its property statement. C 4/14/1987.
Note: Stats. 1995, Ch. 498 changed $30,000 threshold to $100,000.
160.0025 Personal Property Leased by a Bank or Financial Corporation. Leased personal property that is accurately reported pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 441(f) by a financial corporation should be subject to a single assessment because Revenue and Taxation Code section 235 requires the conclusive presumption of ownership by the lessee. C 6/13/1996.


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If you are interested in learning object oriented principles and patterns, then you can look at my another personal favorite Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design. This an excellent book and probably the best material available in object oriented analysis and design, but it often shadowed by its more popular cousin Head First Design Pattern by Eric Freeman. Later is more about how these principle comes together to create pattern you can use directly to solve known problems. These books helps a lot to write better code, taking full advantage of various Object oriented and SOLID design principles.
DRY (Don't repeat yourself)
Encapsulate What Changes
Open Closed Design Principle
Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Dependency Injection or Inversion principle
Favor Composition over Inheritance
Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
Interface Segregation principle (ISP)
Programming for Interface not implementation
Delegation principle
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt celebrated giving birth to their first daughter by donating $300,000 to Namibia to help other impoverished babies. Additionally, they also gave $15,000 to construct a school and community center for the city of Swakopmund.
"We want to contribute to Namibia and the people who have been so gracious to us at this time," a government statement released yesterday quoted the couple as saying.
Considering nobody had ever heard of Namibia up until this little incident, it seems like the government should be paying them instead of the other way around. Sure they got a little privacy, but Namibia got to kick reporters out of their country and make up stories about their government officials naming the child. They're like the pathetic friend who brags about how they get to buy the cool kid lunch and do their homework for them.


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ATLANTA - The Georgia World Congress Center Authority has approved the framework for a deal that would lead to a new downtown stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
The authority's board members unanimously approved general terms of the stadium proposal after a meeting Monday morning in downtown Atlanta.
The new stadium is projected to cost between $948 million and just over $1 billion.
A 24-page document lays out terms negotiated between Falcons representatives and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, including who would own the stadium and how it would be paid for.
The World Congress Center Authority said in a news release after the vote that the new stadium, scheduled to open in 2017, would house the Falcons, as well as other sports, convention and entertainment events.
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Topic: Early Detection
Since my husband was diagnosed with ICC in December 2013, I have been doing alot of research on this disease. Also, reading through the posts in these discussion boards have inlightened me to many aspects of the disease. However, it seems that Cholangiocarcinoma, and especially the Intraheptic form, is not normally diagonosed until stage 3.
Been in Africa, I now have a concern when I see any man with a heavy-ish middle and want to ask him if he enjoys camping, has travelled in non urban areas or stayed in any places where water and meat purity may be questionable... and if his answer is yes, to suggest that he requests a MRI scan be done of his liver. Should there be a liver fluke, it can be dealth with before it becomes cancer. Although the medical people may not fully agree with me, research shows that parasites could be a cause of ICC.
As more awareness is needed regarding CC, are there any early signs which one should look for, yet go unnoticed, that could detect this cance in stage 1 or 2?


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Woolly Owools: Knit the City yarnstorms Ted Baker
The owools are coming! The owools are coming! Knit the City scattered a whole parliament of owls around Leeds and they didn't give a hoot who knew it.Read More
Half Sick of Stitching: Knit the City take over Tate Britain
On London's lazy river lies an art museum known worldwide, That houses art of many kinds Including Waterhouse's pride The Lady of Shalott. To Tate the sneaky stitchers lope, Taking a single knitted rope, To weave it into what they hope, Shows traces of Shalott. Inside the quiet gallery, They tame the cord for all to see, And turn it into poetry, Pinched from the fair Shalott. And up and down the people go, While there a woolly lily grows, With soft blue water down below, Its roots grown from Shalott. Four fibrous woolly handmade towers, Conjured up by knitting powers, To show...Read More


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Myoglobin is a protein found in heart tissue and other muscles. It
helps trap oxygen in the muscle cells so that the muscles can work
Myoglobin levels in the blood rise after a serious injury, such as
a heart attack or a burn. An increased level helps to diagnose a heart
Strenuous exercise, an injury to a muscle, or a shot into the
muscle can cause myoglobin levels to go up. High levels can also be caused by
heavy alcohol use. Myoglobin levels also are high in people who have kidney
failure, because myoglobin is removed from the blood by the kidneys.
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Hoodie Allen is an independent American rapper and hip-hip artist. He has not signed with any record label nor does he have a manager. Yet his music has caused quite a stir among the music lovers. He has been steadily rising to greater popularity and his dedicated fan base sent his recent album into the Bilboard's Top ten. Get Hoodie Allen tickets and hear the artist with his unique genre blending style.
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To engage fans, Allen holds a series of live streamed video chats and asks trivia questions. Fans who answer first get the chance to be called out on air. Moreover, the absence of a major publicity team in Allen's setup is compensated by his loyal fans or the "Hoodie Mob". Fans are assigned tasks of creating publicity for an event, by handing out posters or flliers. Then depending on the completion of the tasks assigned, they get the chance to meet Hoodie Allen or get free Hoodie Allen merchandise.
Born as Steven A. Markowitz, he was raised in Plainview, Long Island, New York. While growing up he used to write lyrics and perfrom raps at his house parties or for his friends. He attended the University of Pensylvannia and was nicknamed "Hoodie"; according to Markowitz "a rapper name that would stick in peoples' minds". After graduating in 2010, he was employed at Google. Along with his daytime job, he used to schedule concerts and reply to fans at night. Finally he decided to leave his lucrative job and puruse his career as an artist.
Steven Markowitz was initially a part of a duo, along with Obey City. In 2010, Obey left but Markowitz carried on with his musical dream adopting the name Hoodie Allen. He collaborated with RJ Ferguson to release the mix tape "Pep Rally". In 2011, he released another mix tape titled 'Leap Year'. In the first week of its release, there were two hundred and fifty thousand hits on soundcloud for the album. The album talked about his experience of leaving everything behind and the leap of faith he took to follow his passion. To publicise the album he went on a fifteen city tour.
In April 2012, Allen released another album which he had been working on for five months. Unlike the previous albums which used sample beats, the beats of this album were made from scratch. Titled "All American", this album debuted at number one on i Tunes. To promote the album, a twenty two stop tour was planned across America. Along with that, an overseas tour of UK was also scheduled; the first overseas tour for Hoody Allen. The "All American" EP made it to the number ten spot on Billboard's Top Albums.
In February of 2013 he released another mix tape, titled "Crew Cuts". Like his previous albums, this too was made avaialbale for free download on the net. The album is his greatest departure from mainstream music. The album has six collaborations with artists like Jared Evan, G-Eazy, Chiddy Bang and Skizzy Mars. His latest album released in August 2013, is named "Americoustic". An instant hit with his fans, it has received good reviews from critics as well.
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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — One of this city's major arterials, 67th Avenue NE is scheduled to be closed during two coming weekends so culverts can be installed in Portage and Prairie creeks.
The city has been working for the past 10 years to make 67th Avenue safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers, and now the work includes making it safer for fish, too.
The road closures, between 204th Street NE and 211th Place NE, are scheduled from 7 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Tuesday and the weekend of Aug. 2 through 6. During the closures, construction crews will excavate the roadway, install the culverts and get ready for paving.
The existing Portage and Prairie creek culverts under 67th are undersized. As a result, industrial areas experience flooding and fish have a difficult time passing through when the water is high. The new culverts are 80 feet long and 20 feet wide.
Earlier this month, in preparation for the culvert work, Adopt-A-Stream Foundation members helped move about 5,000 juvenile coho salmon and cutthroat trout from one side of Portage Creek to the other.
"It was amazing," city spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said. "And it went beautifully."
The urban creeks in Arlington are full of wildlife, said Bill Blake, the city's natural resources manager.
"These new culverts will significantly improve their habitat and build on the past 18 years of salmon habitat restoration here," Blake said.
The weekend closures will be inconvenient for drivers, but detours are to be posted, Banfield said. "Our contractor, Marshbank Construction from Lake Stevens, is going gangbusters to get this done."
For more information about the project and the detour routes, go to www.67thave.org or call 360-594-2425.
Gale Fiege: 425-339-3427; email@example.com.


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This article was published 17/9/2013 (1436 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ABC/SEPT. 25/7:30 p.m.
Starring: Maggie Lawson, James Caan, Lenora Crichlow, Griffin Gluck, Ben Koldyke
Premise: A former softball star who's been thrown a few curveballs by life -- a baby too soon, divorce from a loser husband, a lost college scholarship -- returns to her hometown and moves in with her crusty ex-jock father and reluctantly becomes involved in coaching a dead-end Little League team.
Lowdown: Lawson is fairly charming as a single mom at the end of her rope who has no intention of getting back into the ol' ball game -- until some smarmy chauvinist coaches diss her kid and refuse to support any of the less-skilled Little Leaguers. Caan's performance as the beer-guzzling granddad seems to be a combination of mailing it in and chewing the scenery as hard as he possibly can. Still, there's something slightly likable about the duelling father/daughter duo.
Bottom line: Not a strikeout, but not a home run, either; let's call this one a bloop single.
GLOBAL/OCT. 2/8 p.m.
Starring: Sean Hayes, Linda Lavin, Megan Hilty, Sami Isler
Premise: A divorced gay dad is struggling to balance parenthood and a demanding career. Things get a bit easier -- and a lot more complicated -- when his know-it-all mom announces she's moving in to help share the load.
Lowdown: Hayes (Will & Grace) and Lavin (Alice) are old-time sitcom veterans and this one has a decidedly old-style sitcom vibe to it -- for better or worse. There's nothing innovative about the traditional setup/punchline rhythm, so it'll be up to the writers and actors to make a very familiar format somehow feel fresh. Hilty (Smash) is a late cast addition, so what she'll contribute remains to be seen.
Bottom line: He did it once with his W&G castmates, but it's unlikely Sean will save the network this time around.
GLOBAL/SEPT. 25/8:30 p.m.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Wendell Pierce, Betsy Brandt
Premise: After taking five years off to deal with a Parkinson's disease diagnosis and spend time with his family, a popular New York City TV-news anchor returns to his job and adjusts to a new set of workplace realities.
Lowdown: Fox, who remains one of TV's most popular stars, has incorporated his disability into several recent guest-starring roles and has wisely chosen to make it part of this exceedingly charming new sitcom. While not exactly uproariously funny, this crisply written comedy delivers ample measures of charm and wit. Brandt (Breaking Bad) is a perfect foil as Fox's supportive but stressed wife, and Pierce (Treme, The Wire) hits all his punchlines perfectly.
Bottom line: If there's a sure-fire hit in this fall's lineup, this is it.
ABC/CITYTV/OCT. 2/8:30 p.m.
Starring: Rebel Wilson, Lauren Ash, Liza Lapira, Kelen Coleman, Kevin Bishop
Premise: Three social-outcast girlfriends who've had a standing girls'-night-in date every Friday for 13 years suddenly have to rethink their party schedule when one gets a promotion that leads to actual social-life possibilities.
Lowdown: ABC is counting on this as a star-making vehicle for Aussie import Wilson (Bridesmaids), but the betting here is the cringe factor in Fun Night's humour might be too much for many viewers to endure. It's nice that Wilson is comfortable with her physique, but making her weight the central premise in nearly all the jokes makes the whole thing feel very tired very quickly. Conan O'Brien is one of the executive producers, and this show is a direct result of Wilson having impressed him when she was a guest on his late-night show.
Bottom line: Not nearly as much fun as network promos would have you believe.
NBC/GLOBAL/OCT. 2/9 p.m.
Starring: Blair Underwood, Pablo Schreiber, Spencer Grammer, Neal Bledsoe
Premise: Two years after having his spinal cord severed by an on-the-job shooting, New York's toughest detective has refused to let being confined to a wheelchair stop him from solving crimes.
Lowdown: It's been a couple of generations since Raymond Burr played San Francisco detective Robert T. Ironside (1967-75), so most TV-watchers won't even be aware that this is a remake. And really, other than the title and the central character's disability, there's not much similarity between the original and this rather ordinary police procedural. One thing the '60s/'70s NBC series didn't have to deal with was CBS's still-formidable C.S.I. as its time-slot competition.
Bottom line: The original Ironside ran for eight seasons and 199 episodes. This one won't.
CTV/OCT. 9/10 p.m.
Starring: Robbie Amell, Peyton List, Mark Pellegrino, Madeleine Mantock
Premise: An otherwise normal teenager suddenly starts having strange dreams and teleporting in his sleep, never knowing where he might wake up. Just when he thinks he's losing his mind, one of the voices in his head leads him to a group of young mutants who share the same powers.
Lowdown: Based on a British series but produced for the youth-obsessed CW network, this adventure from producer Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Everwood) is populated by the usual CW-ish roster of young and extremely attractive actors. The premise is intriguing, and because it's a CW show, it won't have to draw a huge audience to be considered a success.
Bottom line: These people will likely be around tomorrow, and quite a few days after that.
The X Factor (premi®red Sept. 11, Fox)
Survivor: Blood vs. Water (tonight, CBS/Global)
The Middle (Sept. 25, ABC)
Revolution (Sept. 25, NBC/Citytv)
Modern Family (Sept. 25, ABC/Citytv)
Criminal Minds (Sept. 25, CBS/CTV)
Law & Order: SVU (Sept. 25, NBC/Sundays on CTV)
Nashville (Sept. 25, ABC/Citytv)
C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation (Sept. 25, CBS/CTV)
Arrow (Oct. 9, CTV)


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I am buying a house that has the start of a built in barbecue in the back yard. There is some brickwork and gas piped to where the burners might be. What I would like to do is convert it to a combination grill/smoker.
I currently grill/bbq using gas (I know, blasphemy!) due to its ease of use. When grilling chicken or a steak, I'd like to stick with gas, simply because its fast and easy with no mess. But what I would like is an offset firebox for this outdoor built in that I could use when I want to cook ribs, pork shoulders, etc. Does anyone know of some designs/plans that are available online or in a magazine? Most of the masonry is done, but all the fixtures need to be put in: grates, lid, etc.
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December- Doomsday 12/21, and then 12/27- big, cold, offshore 35 mph. Brutal and gnarly, but good. Rest of month sucked.
January (really only rideable day besides a waist high day mid month)- 1/31 (see above description). Rest of month sucked.
Feb- Last two weeks had weekly swells- usually a 1.5 days long, head high or better. Offshore every time.
March- swell event each week, head high or better, offshore.
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ground cherries in husks photo by vsimon
Salsa is perfect in the heat of the summer. Super fresh produce, raw, ready in a few minutes. No need to heat up the kitchen. And in this case, no need to venture to the store. We use what is ripe in the garden.
Have you ever heard of ground cherries?
We grow the usual- beans, tomatoes, cucumbers. And the unusual.
We ran across a ground cherry plant at the nursery this spring and said, "there must be room for that." And we are delighted with our ground cherries. These are new to us, the old timers are more likely to know about ground cherries than we are. They probably would not think of salsa though.
Ground cherries grow in their own package. A papery husk protects them. It might be edible (I do not know), but I doubt it is palatable. Pop the golden colored fruit out of the husk before eating. Green fruits are not ripe yet.
What do they taste like?
We have been trying to describe the flavor to each other.
|Sweet? Yes, moderately, not a sweet as a grape.
|Vanilla? Maybe.
|Pineapple-ish? Maybe.
|Cream? She says yes, he says no.
|Tomato-ish? He says yes, she says, "now that you mention it".
|Musky? Slightly.
You can see it is a bit difficult to nail down this complex flavor. It could pair well with sweet or savory dishes.
What could you do with ground cherries?
Jam for sure. A sauce for pork tenderloin could work. Of course, pie or tarts. Mixed into coffee cakes. Covered with dark chocolate. How do you use them?
ground cherry plant photo by vsimon
How to grow ground cherries.
They are easy, easy, easy. Plant a small plant in a sunny spot. Give it plenty of room. In Wisconsin, fruits start to ripen in late July, and continue until frost. We started with one plant. I suspect ground cherries will be like dill. You only need to plant it once. Next year volunteers will sprout all over the garden. Right now that sounds appealing to me. I will let you know if I change my mind next year.
How to harvest.
Ripe ground cherries fall off the plant and land on the ground. Hence the name. The papery husk keeps it clean. Simply pick up the yellow ripe fruit. In theory, these "cherries" are easy to reach, so this could be a good job for short people.
But it feels like I am doing yoga in the garden while harvesting ground cherries. There is a lot of twisting and reaching to get to all of them out from under the sprawling plant. At first, we did this about every three days. Now we harvest every day.
We have been harvesting ground cherries for about two weeks now. First we made a simple, right from the garden salsa, see recipe below. Then we added them to mixed fruit salad, and liked it. Now we keep them in a bowl on the counter and eat them out of hand. We hope to harvest enough for jam or chutney soon.
About the other salsa ingredients
We also are trying carrot peppers. This is a hot pepper that looks like a small carrot. What you think is carrot in the photo is really the pepper. I like sweet and heat, so added it to the ground cherries. It was really hot. Not as hot as a habanero, but plenty hot. So I added diced cucumber to cool it down. And cilantro because I love it. Hot, cold, sweet, heat, herbal. It's all good. This is a perfect fresh side dish for a Mexican menu.
ground cherry and cucumber salsa photo by vsimon
Ground Cherry and Cucumber Salsa
|metric measures
|1/2 cup husked and diced ground cherries
|70 gm
|1 cup peeled, seeded, diced cucumbers
|180 gm
|1 carrot pepper, a few slices for garnish,
the rest diced fine
|20 gm
|1/4 cup chopped cilantro
|15 gm
Mix it up. Any leftovers keep for a day or two in the fridge.
You may not have access to ground cherries this year. I am not likely to find them at my supermarket, but they might be available at a farmers market. They are fun to play with and are worth planting in your garden next year. Stay tuned for a few more ground cherry recipes.
*This post will be submitted to Grow Your Own #33, a twice a month recipe roundup, hosted this time by MomGateway. Andrea of Andrea's Recipes started Grow Your Own nearly two years ago. Grow Your Own celebrates foods we grow or raise ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Reason enough for a celebration!


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With upgrades as low as $14.99 who would buy the upgrade?
Bought my W7 Pro at around $40 USD when it came out and so Im trying to buy the W8 Pro for $14.99 next week, buying it doesnt mean Im going to use it since I've been on OSX for many years.
And calling it "low-volume"? This bald man need some straight stadistics that arent coming from Microsoft itself.
In the PC market the headline is correct but smartphones? How can Ballmer say that with a straight face when apple has 10x mircosofts phone market share (in the US)? How can the audience listen to this without bursting out laughing, then going "oh wait, your being serious, let us laugh harder!" (Borrowed from futurama). Also if apples PC market share has outgrown the market (as the article states) then surely more consumers are switching from windows to mac than the other way round. But we, like Ballmer,will ignore this.
I don't agree with the way apple (sometimes) treats its customers but I will admit that it is immensely successful and a brand that people desire and even aspire towards, even though they have to pay more for hardware compared to windows. But windows is more of something your "born into" (not only business users but personal ones as well) i.e "I've always used a windows pc, so I'll just stick to that next time I need to upgrade my hardware." There isn't that "fashion accessory" aspect to it, even though Microsoft is desperately trying to generate that with its surface tablets.
You know, I like Apple and Microsoft but I CAN NOT STAND that man. Just the look of him makes me want to bash his head in. Is that wrong?
Seriously though, I haven't like this guy since I read a story (many years ago) that he was walking through a communal area at MS, when he noticed 1 of his employees with an iPhone, Ballmer playful snatched it out of their hand, placed it on the ground and symbolically stepped on it (without causing damage) all other employees who witnessed this either started applauding or laughing (I forget which it was). Perhaps this is where the idea for the "surface skateboard" came from😏.
Many years down the line and not only has apple crushed MS under it's soles (in terms of smartphones) but it has wiped them off and flushed the paper towel down the toilet.
Didnt it use to cost like 300 bucks to upgrade windows?
Now its like 50.
What a dumb comment he made.. almost like how he said apple would never sell iphones
This man cares about the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS and that's all that matters!!!!
What are you smokin?
OSX=operating system
WIN 8= operating system
Just because windows are on hp,dell,sony, etc
does not change the fact that both are OS's. and microsoft is wiping the floor with apple in that dept.
At the rate apple is taking market share in the world of computers ,in about 20 yrs they maybe be at around 26%...maybe
Facts are facts:
OSX is low-volume compared to Windows. It also costs 2-4 times as much for OSX. You pay for what you get....
In 3-5 yrs, OSX and its complimentary hardware will be running like a champ. Hardware w/ Windows will be obsolete and at the end of its life.
I used to go the cheaper, Windows route till I got tired of wasting my money and my time on computers that I knew were gonna suck in a few years.


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Mandy Patinkin Brings 'Mamaloshen' to Toronto, 9/18
Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, will bring his critically acclaimed Broadway theatre concert, Mamaloshen, to Toronto this fall.
Now see Patinkin, in what has been touted as his most personal project to date, in Mamaloshen, featuring a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish.
By special request of HGJTC, Mandy will end the evening with a few numbers from his popular Broadway songbook.
Tony and Emmy Award-winner Mandy Patinkin has an extensive list of theatre credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre. He won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was again nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park With George.
He returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden (1991), appeared as Marvin in Falsettos (1992), and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man concert, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy's other solo concerts, Celebrating Sondheim and Mamaloshen have been presented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and have toured the United States.
His other stage credits include The Wild Party (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Winter's Tale, The Knife (Drama Desk nomination), Leave it to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the 'Wells,' The Shadow Box and Henry IV, Part I. In 1998 he released his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish.
The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany's equivalent of the Grammy Award). Patinkin's live performances have received wide critical acclaim and include songs from Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. Pamela Sommers of the Washington Post wrote, "The most arresting thing about Patinkin is the conversational, often impassioned quality of his singing...you find yourself listening like you've never listened before," and Clive Barnes of the New York Post called him, "the greatest entertainer on Broadway today - period." Patinkin will return to Broadway for a limited engagement concert run with Patti LuPone this November.
Individual tickets will are now on sale for Mamaloshen. For more information, visit http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/mamaloshen.html.


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FITC's conferences have been a staple of the Flash community for roughly a decade, and this year, Shawn and his crew expanded their horizons to bring FITC to lovely, foggy, San Francisco.
I was there at the Adobe booth for much of the conference and I have to say the content was amazing – a fantastic lineup of community and Adobe speakers that made it extremely difficult to decide what sessions to attend. The booth wasn't bad either, between a demo of Grant Skinner's Androideroids game, a huge pile of funky Flash Platform t-shirts, and other fun stuff as well. But of course you don't go to a conference for the Adobe booth….. 🙂
Unfortunately the sessions weren't recorded and even the stream from the Influxis Lounge doesn't seem to be archived. But for a quick taste of what it was like to attend FITC SF, the team from the Adobe Edge was there to record some of the highlights:
FITC Mobile and 360|Flex DC are both on the calendar for September, and then it's smooth sailing until Adobe MAX! We're cooking up some fun stuff for the Community Lounge at MAX; more about that another day though.


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Exclusive: Buccaneer 95 — By Capt. Patrick Sciacca —
July 2005
She'll Go the Distance
This 95-foot, Brazilian-built passagemaker will go as far as you want to take her.
Get there from anywhere.
That's the mission of the stout-looking, passagemaking Buccaneer 95. To prove its point, the builder took this full-displacement, steel-hull vessel from the Inace yard in Brazil, where she was constructed, to last year's Miami International Boat Show on her own bottom. That's a 3,000-mile-plus haul. The crew told me that during the delivery there were several days of steady 12-footers, adding that the 95 still made a comfortable 10 knots throughout. This all sounded great, but I wanted to see this kind of performance for myself. And that's just what I got to do.
Sea conditions on test day were ideal—if you like bad weather. It was blowing 25 to 30 knots, according to the 95's standard anemometer, and on a normal boat, the short-spaced six-plus-footers outside Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades inlet would be as inviting as a dentist's drill. However, this 95-footer has a displacement of nearly 195 tons fully loaded, a foredeck that makes her seem like the nautical equivalent of a skyscraper, and an all-weather hull with transverse steel plates spaced on 19.68-inch centers, a 3⁄4-inch steel-plate keel, 5⁄16-inch bottom plating, 1⁄4-inch side plating, and 1⁄4-inch bulkhead plating. And of course, there are eight water- and oiltight bulkheads. Perhaps stout is an understatement.
Buccaneer's Capt. Jim Blake was at the flying-bridge helm as the 95 exited the inlet, and the standard Quantum stabilizers kept the craft steady enough for a card game. (That is, if it weren't for those 30-knot winds.) I watched as a six-pack boat in the mid-40s bashed her way through the seas to try a hand at some weedline trolling. The occupants didn't look happy. I spent so much time watching the sportfisherman crash through waves and throw spray with reckless abandon that I'd hardly noticed the 95 was just motoring along as if we were on a cruise up the placid New River, despite the wind-driven spray that blew up onto the pilothouse windows once we broke the inlet.
Blake ran the boat cross-sea as I began to record my performance data. I looked at my Stalker radar gun for her top speed, waiting with the anticipation one has for ketchup to come out of the bottle. It took a while, but as the 95 crested and settled over each swell, the standard twin 440-hp Cat 3406Cs spooled up, and I recorded a top average speed of 14 mph with the engines spinning their rated 2100 rpm. With the engines dialed back to 1750 rpm, the 95 made a comfortable cruise of 12.2 mph with the stabilizers on. A little later we disengaged the stabilizers and gained about 0.5 mph or so at the top end. This came at the expense of some comfort, especially with the 95's high-sided nature. I occasionally found myself walking through the saloon with my arms outstretched for balance. I say lose the speed and keep the stabilizers engaged.
The flying-bridge helm station, like the pilothouse helm, features Kobelt single-lever controls and hydraulic steering. The flying-bridge helm has only lever/jog steering, while the pilothouse has a lever as well as a backup steering wheel. One crewmember told me that he didn't miss the wheel too much, as most of the passage from Brazil was made on autopilot. In order to engage that backup wheel, you must open a valve under the helm. The helm setup for the 95 worked great, but I prefer having the wheel as my primary steering; call me old-fashioned.
Next page > Part 2: The centerpiece of this vessel accommodations standpoint is the main-deck master, which is full-beam and sports a king-size berth. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
This article originally appeared in the July 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Topic: just had to raise my goal again! a good problem to have!
Nine more days until the half marathon i am running in memory of my mom, and i have raised my goal for the second time! I met $1800.00 and now up'd it to $2000.00 ! I'll keep you posted!


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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Long lines at New Orleans gas stations are the first telltale signs that the city will not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency on Sunday. Residents began making preparations to leave town that same day.
"We hope Isaac turns the other way," said TJ Sullivan. "We don't need any more devastation."
Gov. Jindal had already called for a voluntary evacuation of the 15 parishes in low-lying areas of the state. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu also declared a state of emergency for the city.
"Obviously, like with every storm, we always hope for the best even as we prepare for the worst," Jindal said.
Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which inundated New Orleans.
"The timing of the storm coming on, as fate would have it, the anniversary of Katrina, has everybody in a state and sense of alertness," said Landrieu. "And that is a good thing."
Tourists enjoying the city's famed French Quarter were also taking heed.
"If we have to stay somewhere farther away or cut our trip short then we will," said Houstonian Renee Stonecipher.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Mix countless hours of practice, preparation and workouts outs and you get results! Just ask 8 year old Carly Griffin. Carly, daughter of Kim and David Griffin, competed with her team from Premier Gymnastics recently in the 2009 Florida USA Gymnastic meet in Lakeland. This is where all level 5 gymnasts in Florida come to show their stuff. Its also where the practice and preparation pays off. Carly finished second in the state with her score, including a 9.4 out of 10 score on the beam. Her team also took first place honors in the medium size team division. A great performance against an estimated... [Read the full story]
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Another Davis Islands business will shut its doors this weekend, in what is becoming a common scene in the Davis Islands Village. Bryce Whittlesey, owner and chef of Chez Bryce sent out an email blast this weekend, alerting supporters he will be closing the doors. Note the reference to the dates are June, but actually are July closing dates. Below is the email from Whittlesaey; Dear Friends, We regret to inform you that Chez Bryce will be closing its doors on Sunday, June 18th. We are deeply saddened by this, but due to the recession and current economy, we are unable to continue to operate. ... [Read the full story]
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Broncos signed head coach John Fox to a three-year contract through 2016.
Coach Pete Carroll confirmed Friday night that LT George Fant (ACL) is done for the season.
Seahawks seventh-round RB Chris Carson turned six carries into 27 yards and one catch into 17 yards in Friday night's preseason game.
Kasen Williams caught 2-of-4 targets for 28 yards and one touchdown in the Seahawks' second preseason game.
Eddie Lacy rushed six times for 20 yards and caught his lone target for three yards in the Seahawks' second preseason game.
Dalvin Cook rushed seven times for 40 yards in Friday's second preseason game against the Seahawks.
Russell Wilson completed 13-of-18 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns in the Seahawks' second preseason game.
Seahawks LT George Fant exited Friday night's second preseason game with a knee injury.
Bills coach Sean McDermott confirmed he expects Tyrod Taylor to be the Week 1 starter.
Ravens signed C Jeremy Zuttah to a two-year contract.
Free agent LB Zachary Orr announced he will remain retired.
The Florida Times Union's Ryan O'Halloran believes "it would make perfect sense" for the Jaguars to cut Blake Bortles this summer.