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"It's a beautiful day," he said, to break the silence. "Yes. It looks good," she replied, smiling. "Yesterday was horrible. It rained all day. But now, it seems fantastic." "I know." "I wish I was outside, sitting in the sun and reading a book. I love sunny days. What about you? Do you like sun?" "Yes, I enjoy sunny days." She answered, picking up her book. "You like crime stories?" "Yes, I do. But this one is a detective story book. I like detective stories." "Me too. Have you read the latest book by James Armtek?" "No, I haven't." "You must! I'm sure you will like it. It's a great book, ...Read Full Post
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The food we eat today is influenced by several cultures. I learned this after reading the highly informative book called Curry: A tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham. The historical references in this book are elaborate and provide an insight into our cuisine. Take spices for instance. Isn't it almost impossible to fathom the idea of Pakistani and Indian cuisine without the use of different types of spices? But before the Portuguese entered Goa, our part of the world had never seen a chilli. And when the Europeans travelled to India, their aim was to increase trade, but as a result of this trade, new ...Read Full Post
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Updated 11:51 am, Sunday, December 16, 2012
Let's not be confused. An epic end-of-the-world mix is supposed to be absolutely fun and danceable. It shouldn't be a survivalist's soundtrack à la Ted Nugent for after the apocalypse. (Who wants to hand crank the Victrola anyway?)
It's time to party like it's 1999. Push play.
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.: The Republicans really need this more.
"Die Young" by Ke$ha: For 'the wildchilds lookin' good,' but, umm, memo to Ke$ha: There will be butt touchin'.
"The End" by the Doors: Buzz kill until all that loud Oedipal stuff at the end.
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"Live to Tell" by Madonna: Nostalgia, hopefulness and empowerment from the Material Girl. Who knew?
"End of the World" by Skeeter Davis: This just could lead to a John Belushi smash-the-guitar moment. Toga!
"One Last Kiss" by Conrad Birdie: Ain't gonna be no New Year's Eve, baby. Make a move.
"Creeping Death" by Metallica: When did these guys get happy?
"1999" by Prince: A classic that also got us through Y2K. Nuff said.
"Never Dead" by Megadeath: A middle finger to the apocalypse.
"Toxic" by Britney Spears: Don't forget the gas masks.
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie: Stop with the Vanilla Ice-ripped-this-off talk. Let it go.
"Walk On the Wild Side" by Lou Reed: If not now, when?
"The Waiting" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Opening non-twist-top beer bottles without an opener — now that's hard.
"Apocalypse Please" by Muse: Don't bring us down with the lyric sheet.
"Make the World Go Away" by Eddy Arnold: Happy now?
"The Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga: Clarence "The Big Man" Clemons' saxophone beckons from the other side.
"Not Afraid" by Eminem: Slim Shady's advice: (Expletive) the whole universe!
"Someday We'll be Together" by the Supremes: Just in case the Mayans were right.


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Freeze Your Day
I love to freeze things for later, it just makes life easier. However, cleaning out the freezer is just not fun-- it's cold in there and once things freeze into geometric shapes it's hard to tell what they once were. Plus, with all the food contamination scares out there you don't want to eat something funky from your own freezer.
But there are times when we all just need to suck it up and get in there for some good freezer cleaning fun (well maybe fun isn't the right word to use).
For a few rules of thumb when going into the freezer,
- Throw out fish older than 3 months
- Throw out meats older than 3 months
- Throw out cooked chicken older than 4 months
- Throw out raw chicken older than 9 months
- Throw out breads (and cakes) older than 3 months
- Throw out casseroles older than 4 months
- Throw out veggies and fruit older than 4 months
For all you freezer skeptics: Studies by the FDA consistently reveal that frozen produce is as nutritious, and in some cases even more nutritious, than fresh produce.
Fit's Tip: A good idea is to write on directly each item (with a sharpie) two things. 1.) The date you put it in the freezer as well as 2.) What it is. Before I started doing this, I can't tell you how many times I wanted turkey chili (and thought I was pulling it out) and got my dad's famous meatballs. Wrap things well (or double bag) to prevent freezer burn -- but you should know that while kind of gross, freezer burn does not affect the food's nutritional value.
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Quarterback wins don't exist. Team wins do. Quarterbacks wins don't.
I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here but the equine just won't die no matter how hard those of us with a proper knowledge of the game of football smack away. Poor guy.
The point is that I don't care how many playoff games the Baltimore Ravens have won with Joe Flacco at quarterback. I'm sick and tired of people turning football into boxing. This isn't an individual sport. It's a sport involving 53 men per team, with 22 starters and 11 on the field at all times. The quarterback is one of them. He's the most important one. But broadly attaching a quarterback's success to the success of his team (while rarely if ever doing so with the other 52 players on each team) is lazy and disrespectful to the game of football.
Flacco's Baltimore Ravens might win Sunday's Super Bowl. And if that happens, the Ravens will have won as many playoff games with Flacco as the Bill did with Jim Kelly, as many as the Colts did with Peyton Manning and more than the Dolphins did with Dan Marino.
But that will not mean Flacco is in Manning's or Marino's range. Not even close.
Yes, all that matters is winning and losing, but that doesn't mean wins and losses are the only metric we can use in order to determine how successful or how talented an individual athlete is or has been. If that were the case, than the 53rd best man on the Ravens would have to be better than the best man on, say, the Lions. We live in a world dominated by false equivalencies, where people want black and white with no gray. In that world, it's easiest to conclude that Flacco is better than, say, Matt Ryan because he's won more playoff games and might have a Super Bowl ring in a few days.
But in the real world, those who properly utilize their frontal lobes know that there's so much more to it. Is your defense good? That means you require fewer points to win. What about your running game? How often do your receivers drop passes? How good is your offensive line in pass protection? What types of plays are being called? Good coach? Bad coach? All of it factors in, which is why it's best to use all available metrics in order to draw conclusions on quarterbacks, or players at any other position in any other team sport, for that matter.
I hate to bury the newsworthy lede, but it's with that diatribe out of the way that I want to pass on the latest from Flacco's "camp," which I'm guessing is led by agent Joe Linta, who less than a year ago claimed Flacco was a top-five quarterback because he had "more wins than any other quarterback" during his first four years in the league.
Now, ESPN's John Clayton says Flacco's "camp" is looking for $20 million a year, while NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reports that said "camp" believes Flacco is "playing better than Peyton Manning," who just so happens to make just under $20 million a year.
Of course, every single metric except playoff wins and losses (and not even Super Bowls, yet) reveals that Manning and Flacco aren't even in the same football universe.
Since the day he came into the league, Flacco has been the 15th-highest-rated quarterback in football, just ahead of Donovan McNabb, David Garrard, Jason Campbell, Shaun Hill and Kyle Orton. He ranks ninth in touchdowns, ninth in (most) interceptions and 17th in yards per attempt. That includes all of his playoff performances.
This past year, he ranked 12th in passer rating, 15th in touchdowns and 14th in yards per attempt. He's an average to above-average quarterback playing on a well-above-average team with a legendary defense and superb running game. He's bad under pressure and inaccurate on deep throws, but he survives. That's been the case since he came into the NFL. He's good enough to help the team more than hurt it on the majority of occasions, and that's it.
The Ravens surely know that, and that's why these contract negotiations have lingered for such a long period of time. The numbers and the eyeball test both reveal that Flacco and Linta and the rest of his "camp" are delusional.


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Watching Derrick Rose play for Team USA on Saturday night, it was easy to forget just how long it's been since he's electrified a crowd.
In his first game in nine months, Rose, the 2010-11 NBA MVP with the Chicago Bulls, had moments of his old brilliance in the 95-78 victory over Brazil in Chicago's United Center.
"All summer long I think he's gotten more comfortable," Tom Thibodeau, who coaches Rose with the Bulls and is a Team USA assistant, told Yahoo. "He went through the comeback last year and learned a lot from it. I love the way he's playing. He's finding the rhythm of the game and he's playing to his strengths."
Rose has been though a lot over the last two NBA seasons, playing in only 10 games because of two devastating knee injuries. He tore his anterior cruciate ligament in an April 2012 game and missed the following season. Last fall, he tore his medial meniscus and missed the rest of the season. Naturally, he was cautious about how he felt playing before a hometown crowd that was geeked to see the Bulls' best player back on the court.
"I think everybody's excited," said Rose, who had seven points in 24 minutes. "It was cool. At the same time, I can't get big-headed about it or anything like that. I've just got to keep poised."
It was a good start and plays into Coach Mike Krzyzewski's plan for him in the FIBA World Cup later this month.
"Derrick's role is easy to play, easy to work [with]," he told ESPN last week. "Just get the ball and be Derrick. And be Derrick for as long as you can."


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Edwin Edwards & Trina Scott Edwards, Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has been hospitalized with pneumonia but his wife says he is responding well to treatment.
"He's tired, but overall he's doing well" after being taken by ambulance on Saturday to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, his wife, Trina Scott Edwards, said in a Facebook message Sunday to The Associated Press.
Edwards "should be back to his old self in a couple of days," she wrote.
Sunday evening, she added that doctors think he may be able to leave the hospital Tuesday.
The former governor, whose hospitalization was first reported in the Baton Rouge news media, is 84.
Dozens of people had offered good wishes on his wife's Facebook page by Sunday night, and hundreds "liked" her public posting that he was out of intensive care.
Edwin Edwards served four terms as governor, then served more than eight years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering. He began three years on probation in early July, after he completed six months of home detention.
The former governor's own Facebook page maxed out at 5,000 "friends" within weeks of its launch in late June.
He married prison pen-pal Trina Grimes Scott on July 29, and marked his 84th birthday Aug. 7.
Trina Edwards, the former governor's third wife, wrote to him after reading his authorized biography and becoming convinced that she had the wrong idea about him, Edwin Edwards said last year. After visiting him in prison, she asked if she could continue to see him. "I was 83 years old, in prison and broke," Edwards said July 30. "That's like throwing a life raft to someone who's drowning."
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By chronicling for a year the publication of Penn State University's Daily Collegianone of the nation's leading student newspapers, with a 200-person staff and a circulation rivaling that of many small-town newspapersthis documentary reveals the many challenges and issues with which young journalists must contend.
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Seven weeks after heart surgery, Central Coast publican Phil Bernie donned a suit and ventured to Randwick yesterday to watch his crack sprinter Spark Of Life score a dashing win in the group 1 Galaxy.
"I'm absolutely thrilled," Bernie said. "After being through what I've been through the past few months, I couldn't be happier. It [the win] has made me feel a lot better."
Spark Of Life's win thwarted the bid for another group 1 victory by Glen Boss, who was second aboard the Bart Cummings-trained favourite Taikun. Racing NSW stewards later suspended Boss for five meetings for careless riding aboard eventual winner Black Hawk in race four.
Boss, who won the group 1 AJC Australian Derby, Doncaster Handicap and Sires' Produce Stakes over Easter, will begin his suspension after riding Private Steer in the All-Aged Stakes and Makybe Diva in the Sydney Cup at Randwick on Saturday.
Despite the excitement, Bernie tried hard to control his emotions after his first group 1 win. The three-year-old was prepared by trainer Allan Denham.
"I couldn't go and lead him [Spark Of Life] in because I'm worried I'd get too excited," Bernie said. "I had my puffer with me just in case. I'm just really thrilled. He's the best horse I've had."
Jockey Chris Munce was happy to stalk the leader, Brisbane speedball Star Of Florida, until leaning on the accelerator of his gelding at the top of the rise in the straight at Randwick.
"When Star Of Florida got fired up I decided to ride him [Spark Of Life] like it was a track gallop rather than a race," Munce said. "He was nice and relaxed. He quickened off the rise and from there it was just a matter of keeping his momentum going. It was a good, tough effort."
Denham believes the best is yet to come from Spark Of Life, which had always indicated group 1 potential since bursting onto the scene last year. "He is 12 months off peaking," Denham said. "He is still a bit immature and I'm wary of overtaxing him."
Bernie, who bought Spark Of Life for $30,000 as a yearling, said Denham would decide whether the horse goes to the Brisbane winter carnival or is spelled.
"Allan has always said this horse was great," Bernie said. "He'll do what is best for the horse."
Boss said Taikun could have no excuses for his defeat.
"He had every hope. I thought I had him [Spark Of Life] at 200 metres, but the winner was too good," Boss said.
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I have my Master Hearing tomorrow and of course I am very anxious about it. I already have an Attorney to go with me tomorrow and I just filed the I-130 since I came legally and got married in January while in a removal proceeding. What should I expect tomorrow? I have heard the Judge normally gives only three months for the individual hearing and I know that should not be enough for me since I filed the I-130 only a week ago. I have my Attorney but would like to hear different opinions too. Thanks!
It is really sad that your attorney has not gone through the dynamics of the hearing. The judge will give you a six month continuance. This continuance is given so USCIS has a chance to adjudicate your immediate relative petition (you and your spouse will be interviewed at the USCIS local office). If your petition is not adjudicated within those six months, the Judge will have to give you another continuance. If you are really into immigration law I recommend that you read the case of Bull v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 790 F.2d 869.
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This is really something you should be going over with your attorney. Your attorney is going to know more of what is happening with your case. However, assuming you heard from your attorney there should be a three month time frame between the master calendar hearing and the individual hearing, that does seem a bit off. If you are married and able to adjust, and have the I-130 filed, and a copy of the I-485 adjustment application ready to show the judge, it is far more likely to have the case closed before the court to allow the USCIS to adjudicate your I-130 and I-485.Ask a similar question
Thanks for the good answer. Actually my Attorney said he will ask for 6 months but I said have noticed/heard people normally get three months. I filed only for the I-130 at this point and will tell that to the Judge tomorrow. Other than that, there is no much I can do. I know it will take at least 1 month for the Immigration to send me a copy or something and see if it will be accepted. We will see. Thanks again!
I agree with Rebecca.
If you have a relatively straightforward case, many immigration judges like nothing better than get cases off of their active docket. That being said, given the judge assigned to your case, things may go better with the judge than with USCIS, if you have some explaining to do about issues in your case. There are judges out there that like to give out green cards, and may present less of a challenge than a USCIS adjudicator.
Your lawyer should be advising you of this.
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Your attorney knows the facts of your case, including who your judge is. We know none of the facts of your case. You need to be asking your questions from your attorney. Why would you rely on the uninformed opinion of a stranger instead of the informed advice of your attorney.
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It's only a Master Hearing where your attorney will probably submit to the judge a copy of the I-130 and receipt if available. Then the hearing will probably be continued for status of the I-130.
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You are entitled to a continuance to get the I-130 approved, but you must show a likelihood that it will be approved and that if approved you are eligible for adjustment. You should just let your attorney talk for you, that's what to expect.Ask a similar question
Please be advised that the Immigration Judges in Seattle are tough and have little patience for delay. It all depends who you get, but U had a similar case and was only allowed a 3 month continuance. Maybe the Judge was having a bad day, it is difficult to say but the moral of the story is, make no assumptions.
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Jaguar North America to Establish a Museum
7 January 1999Jaguar North America to Establish a Museum
DETROIT, Jan. 6 -- Jaguar today announces the establishment of a museum in the United States. The Jaguar museum is made possible by a $1.5 million donation from Ford Motor Company, with additional funds provided by Jaguar North America. "One of the first principles of navigation is that you must know where you've been in order to know where you're going," said Michael H. Dale, president - Jaguar North America, who was named director of the Jaguar Museum. "This museum does just that, it will show us where we've been by preserving and documenting Jaguar's rich history in North America, as well as that of other British cars, and it will help us carry our traditions into the future." The museum will be a focal point for Jaguar's heritage and a community outreach tool. The facility will eventually have space to display up to 50 cars, serve as home for the Jaguar and British Leyland archives (currently held by Jaguar), have a museum store, feature work shops for both restoration work and educational seminars, and serve as a banquet/fund-raising venue for the museum. Ford Motor Company President and Chief Executive Officer Jacques A. Nasser presented Dale with a check at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. "We're very serious about Jaguar's heritage, and supporting a Jaguar museum is the perfect example of what the Ford Trustmark stands for," said Nasser. "We want Jaguar to continue to be a strong, independent marque, and, at the same time, we want to continue to make available Ford resources so Jaguar can concentrate on its strengths and grow." The museum will initially be housed in Jaguar's North American headquarters in Mahwah, N.J. A future expansion is planned for a separate building in the area. "This is the perfect time for Jaguar to establish a museum in North America, since we recently opened the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Centre at Browns Lane in Coventry, England," said Nicholas V. Scheele, chairman and chief operating officer - Jaguar Cars, Ltd. "We've just completed a very strong year and will experience exponential growth in the years to come. The museum will ensure that our employees, our dealers and Jaguar aficionados have a good understanding of Jaguar's history and the basis to grow with S-TYPE, X400 and beyond." The museum is expected to open to the public in the year 2000.


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Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè
Graham Farmelo finds that even the greats of physics enjoyed larking about
The discovery of quantum mechanics 82 years ago led to one of the most profound revolutions in the history of human thought. This new theory changed the way we think about the sub-atomic world, about determinism and about the very nature of knowledge. It is perhaps surprising that, while the physicists who developed the theory were intensely serious, they also, as theoretical physicist Gino Segrè demonstrates in this lively and accessible history, spent huge amounts of time simply larking around. As Niels Bohr, the godfather of quantum mechanics, explained: "There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."
When quantum mechanics first appeared, Bohr had just turned 40. He had won the Nobel Prize for physics, mainly for setting out the planetary model of the atom, and was a demi-god in his native Denmark. Although he wrote none of the theory's seminal papers, he played a crucial role in its development by supporting the young theoreticians and by helping – through his torturous inquisitions – to clarify most of the new ideas. One of the beneficiaries was Werner Heisenberg, who later described Bohr as the 20th century's most influential physicist, including Einstein.
At the annual gatherings at Bohr's Copenhagen Institute, the young physicists organised entertainments, the most celebrated of which took place in April 1932. That year, the centenary of the death of Goethe, there was a performance of a tongue-in-cheek version of his great play Faust to highlight the knottiest problems of physics and gently parody the top quantum physicists. In Faust in Copenhagen Segrè makes this half-hour piece of amateur dramatics the centrepiece of the story.
There was certainly no shortage of characters to people this little drama. Quantum mechanics was developed by quite a gallery of eccentrics. One of the most striking is acerbic Austrian Wolfgang Pauli, who believed that "formal politeness must be eradicated from human relations." He was rude to everyone, including his intellectually daring friend Werner Heisenberg – ruthlessly competitive even when playing ping-pong – and the English theoretician Paul Dirac, so taciturn that he spent days without speaking a word. Bohr, an inveterate mumbler, was a fatherly presence to many of his young colleagues and liked to use them as amanuenses (or "slaves"). In his quest for absolute clarity, he was assisted by the underrated Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest, an especially gifted teacher. Legend has it that soon after Ehrenfest met Pauli, Ehrenfest said to him, "I like your work more than I like you", only for Pauli to shoot back, "With me, it's the other way round."
All of these characters feature in the Copenhagen Faust, largely written by Max Delbrück, later to be a Nobel-Prize-winning biologist. In Goethe's original, the Satanic tempter Mephistopheles seduces Faust with the beguiling Gretchen. The main theme of the Copenhagen version is the story of Pauli's quest to persuade the sceptical Ehrenfest of the existence of the neutrino, an electrically neutral particle that Pauli tentatively predicted in 1930. He was represented by Mephistopheles, Ehrenfest by Faust, and the neutrino by Gretchen, whose songs Heisenberg accompanied at the piano. The Lord was played by a character wearing a mask of the face of Niels Bohr, who shook with laughter when Mephistopheles intoned:
Since you, O Lord, yourself have now seen fit
To visit us and see how each behaves,
And since it seems you favour me a bit,
Well – now you see me here among the slaves.
The entire script, preserved and illustrated by George Gamow – the quantum community's court jester – is replete with similar crimes against artistic taste. But the performance was not given to please drama critics but as an innocent, self-indulgent pleasure of the sort that insiders love and outsiders find embarrassing.
One of Segrè's achievements here is to explain several of the in-jokes that shed light on the physicists' preoccupations. Most popular science books make too little of theoreticians' difficulties in distinguishing a productive new idea and a dud, but Faust in Copenhagen makes these challenges clear. It is fascinating to see some of the greatest scientists of the past century not only making sagacious insights but also misunderstanding things that are now routine for undergraduate physicists.
In April 1932, news had just been released of the discovery in Cambridge of the neutron, the electrically neutral particle contained in the nucleus of most atoms. Bohr and his colleagues knew this was important but they had no idea that two more crucial discoveries would follow later in the year: the splitting of the atom (also in Cambridge) and the first detection of anti-matter in California. For this reason, 1932 is often called the annus mirabilis of modern physics.
The glory days did not last. Bohr and his colleagues were subdued when they next met in September 1933. Most western economies were depressed, Hitler was Chancellor of Germany and catastrophic conflict was in the air. Five years later, on the eve of the War, nuclear fission was discovered in Berlin and physicists were quick to see that the process could be the basis of a bomb of unparalleled destructiveness. Many of the forty participants at the April 1932 Copenhagen meeting put their fundamental physics aside to seek ways of making the neutron a weapon of war. Physicists lost their innocence and have never quite regained it.
Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum. He has a PhD in theoretical particle physics and is currently completing a biography of the physicist Paul Dirac. Faust in Copenhagen is published by Jonathan Cape.