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"Hero to the Downtrodden."
A 9 or 10, a 9 or 10... I juggled between the two scores over and over for awhile. This game is amazing in so many ways, it's definitely corny and sarcastic with over-kill of each. But it's something that you should like in general if you plan on going through this game. I haven't decided if the amount of unapologetic corny humor was done for witty people, or for the people that needed to be slapped in the face with so much ridiculousness that they couldn't fail to see it. Either way, let's get on with the review.
Story: You play as Deathspank, vanquisher of evil, hero of the down-trodden and in general the man oblivious to most everyone who speaks to him. Deathspank amazingly knows all the random and hilarious things to say to all the NPC's ( Non playable characters ) that litter his world. If you have ever seen the show Archer, then you'll have a good idea of what type of person Deathspank is. Deathspank isn't as openly rude as Archer, but he's equally blind to the things going on around him. You are in search of something called the Artifact, that's all you really know about it, but that's all you need for your adventure. So as you navigate the world you will uncover tons of opportunities to help NPC's with tasks that only Deathspank can handle. As with many other games, you will continue to level up Deathspank in the ongoing quests. Such weapons as the chicken gun will help you on the way, but ranged weapons like that are more secondary. A boot fashioned to the end of a metal rod is such a weapon that will be a mainstay in your vast inventory. In Deathspank you will uncover so many crazy weapons that you'll wonder which insane item will befall our hero next. For a downloadable game this is amazing, the world is large and side-quests vast, you will find yourself wanting to complete every task available just to see what rewards, conversations and funny items you come across.
Graphics: For a downloadable game, this stands out towards the top of the heap. Character models, level design and overall artwork are amazing. For a cartoony game the this really has a ton of detail and vivid colors that constantly smack you in the face. Through your travels you will open up new areas of the world map, each area has different enemies and level design that stand out from the rest. This game looks fantastic in todays standard, but again it's a cartoony world, so to appreciate this you'll need to be somewhat of a fan of this style. This game would have been superior in the SNES days, but the sharp styling and vivid contrast still hold a candle to todays graphical juggernauts.
Sound: This more than anything is where the magic happens. Almost single handidly the voice acting from one person could carry this game. Ok, maybe not 100% true, but the voice acting is far superior to almost any game available to date. The main protagonist Deathspank, is voiced by a gentleman named Michael Dobson. I wish he were part of my family just so I could get him to say ridiculous things during the holidays. It's almost hard to believe that any human could have a voice like this. Not because the pitch is off, but because I can only picture this voice belonging to a cartoony character. If you've ever watched any special behind the scenes production work on a game like God of war, you'll get to see the man behind Kratos voice. I personaly, want to keep Michael Dobson's face a mystery. I picture a man with an over-sized jaw, wearing a super-hero mask and maybe a cape. Regardless of this, the amazing voice over work from him and the supporting characters are second to none. This fact alone will transport you into the world that the developing studio created. Rarely can the character voices and sound do this, but if ever there was a game for other studios to take a note from, then it's this one.
Overall- This game is simple yet complete in every detail. There are a ton of inventory items and weapons you will come across, dozens of dialogue options with the NPC's throughout the world, with groups of missing orphans to recover. Yeah I said orphans... I'm can't remember what games I was playing when I downloaded this gem, but I do know that after I beat this game that I was slightly disappointed the adventure was over. I expected expansion packs galore for the year ahead, but to my amazement, the studio released a second game in the series, Deathspank and The Thongs of Virtue. Even with the second release in my library on the first day of it's release, I found myself still coming back to the first title. I'm not sure if this was due to the simplistic nature of the first game, or the amazing story. Either way, I now have 2 games in the Deathspank series to enjoy for a long time out. But in no way would I suggest passing on the first in the series, the stories not only connect, but each is amazing in it's nature.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 12/12/11
Game Release: DeathSpank (US, 07/14/10)
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WOLVES continued their excellent start to the Academy under 19s season with a convincing victory over Salford Red Devils.
They ran in 10 tries, with loose forward Ryan Maneely and second row Joe Philbin each registering a hat-trick of touchdowns.
The scoring was opened in the fifth minute when a short ball from Wolves scrum half Declan Patton put Philbin through a huge gap and he scored an unconverted try on the left.
Seven minutes later a chip into the in-goal area by Patton was fumbled and Maneely reacted quickest to pounce on the loose ball and score. Centre Harvey Livett added the conversion.
Salford hit back just after the midway point of the half when stand off Kieran Gill managed to twist in the tackle and score at the left of the posts.
Scrum half Dan Lomax converted but when Patton found touch from the re-start Wolves were able to hit back as second row Sam Wilde powered over at the side of the posts. Livett added the conversion.
Wolves moved further clear on the half hour when prop forward George King managed to keep the ball alive in the tackle and he offloaded to Patton who scored between the posts.
When the re-start went straight out on the full the resultant penalty put Wolves deep into Salford territory and lovely play from Maneely put stand off Louis Jouffret through a gap to score wide on the right. Livett landed both conversions.
A minute before the break a great 60-metre run by Wolves substitute Tom Walker split the Salford defence and following a penalty Wolves worked the ball out wide to Philbin, who scored on the left to make the half-time score 32-6.
Salford came out firing at the start of the second half and winger Kyle Dolan scored in the right corner but then four minutes later Patton was held just short and from a quick play the ball Maneely went from dummy half to burrow over on the left.
A carbon-copy try four minutes later saw Maneely dart over from dummy half, with Livett gaoling.
Then on the hour a great kick by Louis Jouffret paved the way for winger David Johnston to go over in the right corner. Livett landed an excellent touchline conversion.
Wolves brought up the half century for the second successive game 13 minutes from time when a bullet pass from Patton sent centre Toby King away down the left and he found Philbin in support to go over for his hat-trick. Livett converted to complete the scoring.
Red Devils: Etienne Ferret; Kyle Dolan, Matty Gee, Kane Ditchfield, Adams Okeh; Kieran Gill, Dan Lomax; Tom Horner, Harry Files, Jonny Scott, Matt Heaton, Tom Goffatt, Ryan Lannon. Subs: Connor Hetherington, Jack Swarbrick, Aiden Hema, Davis Mbumbu.
Wolves: Jack Johnson; David Johnston, Harvey Livett, Toby King, Ben Stansfield; Louis Jouffret, Declan Patton; Daniel Murray, Daniel Hirst, George King, Joe Philbin, Sam Wilde, Ryan Maneely. Subs: Tom Walker, Alex Whalley, Robert Holroyd, James Jones.

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Ctrl-Alt-Del to Task Manager shows that explorer.exe is indeed running. So far not coming up with any viruses either. Also typing Shift-e or only a couple of keystrokes after Ctrl-Alt-Del and I get a WIndows Explorer search window.
What's going on here???
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:38 UTC
What happens if you kill the currently running explorer.exe and run a new one?
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Oct 27, 2009 at 2:38 UTC
What happens if you kill the currently running explorer.exe and run a new one?
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:43 UTC
Voila! She's back! Thank you so very much.
(Any clue as to why it disappeared in the first place and how to prevent it from going awol again?)
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:46 UTC
When I first ran into it the cause was a virus but most of the time it's just a simple hang. *shakes fist at Microsoft*
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:47 UTC
i wouldn't think anything of it if it's just a random occassional occurance. sometimes the explorer process gets confused.
Oct 28, 2009 at 11:37 UTC
Ok, update on this matter:
Well, no, not an occasional occurrence, more like every single boot or log over to another windows user account... reeally annoying.
What I finally did was, reload the software that I had set to load as the public interface (PC Reservation v.3.4). Once I did that and let it rediscover the internal network as it should have, and save the settings, the disappearing task bar was a thing of the past. Conclusion: something probably was corrupted in PC Reservation...
I did even look into reloading a fresh copy of explorer.exe, but unnecessary in this case. Never did see any message telling me explorer.exe was corrupt...
Also I never did figure out why typing Shift-e or only a couple of keystrokes after Ctrl-Alt-Del would give me a WIndows Explorer search window. Seems to have also disappeared after the above reload.
Any Windows or other gurus have anything to add that would throw light on this, great!
Thanks to Paz_Rax and Kimberlin for your responses :)
Oct 28, 2009 at 2:12 UTC
If your machine are in 32 bit, I would install UPHClean from Microsoft. User Profile Hive Cleaner. What this does, it will unload all the registry handles properly before the machine reboots, essentially giving you a true clean boot.
Not sure if a version for x64 is out yet. This should help with the "explorer hangs"...
Oct 28, 2009 at 4:20 UTC
thanks Jason5373, I will try that out...
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I just had a consultation with a customer for their wedding, and they want a sandcastle cake. I am wondering if anyone can tell me what to use to make a cake look like sand?? I have seen graham cracker crumbs and sugar in the raw, but what would taste good with cream cheese buttercream and give the effect of real sand? Please help...
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Just that...either graham cracker crumbs or raw sugar..You can't really get another effect for sand.Maybe sanding sugar
i just did a sand castle cake with a strawberry cheesecake frosting and white chiffon cake. The graham cracker mixed with sugar in the raw gives a great sand castle look. I used 4 boxes of graham crackers ground up in a food processor mixed with sugar in the raw. It tasted great on the cake, nice texture contrast. I added a little bit of brown sugar to the extra "sand" around the cake. It dried a little bit like real sand does and looked great.
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I have researched a lot of beach cakes'/beach wedding cakes and I have seen all things used from, crushed vanilla wafers, graham crackers, piled brown sugar, sugar in the raw.
I live in a very humid area this time of year and all i can think of is the weeping that sugar will do or the clumping.
I personally have used, crushed graham crackers alone, crushed graham crackers mixed with a little brown suger, crushed vanilla wafers mixed with crushed graham crackers, plan crushed vanilla wafers and crushed waffle ice cream cone.
The trick when you are doing this, is to crush what ever you are using until it is really fine. If not, it has a gravel like appearance on your cakes.
I just put what ever I am using at the time in a zip lock bag and roll over it with a rolling pin. (a one inch wooden dowel)
If you are attaching seashells, attach the seashells first, then with a teaspoon, put the crumbs where ever you desire. or whatever you are attaching.
Nothing will stick to crumbs! (ask me how I know this! )
A clean food only paint brush will help to put those crumbs back where you want them.
(Yes, my OCD is kicking in,)
That is all....
Thanks for all of your input! MUCH appreciated
I remember an episode on one of the cake shows (I think Fabulous Cakes) where the decorator used vanilla cake crumbs - left cake bits on a pan overnight and let them dry then crumbled them. That also looked great without introducing a new flavour.


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If you want to chase Brazilian equities after this year's big run, you need to have a consider you are trading the currency. And when you are trading the currency, you are trading the sovereign interest rate spread.
So says Michael Purves, the chief global strategist and head of equity derivative research at Weeden & Co. in Greenwich, CT. Brazil's central bank is in the process of lowering interest rates. Meanwhile, the currency is contributing roughly half of enviable dollar-based returns this year, with the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped exchange-traded fund (EWZ) up 63% year to date.
Purves writes:
"Equity investors, both in Brazil and in the U.S., need to play close attention to rate movements and rate differentials in both the Treasury and Brazilian bond markets to gauge the likely move in the currency after such a substantial gain this year. If you are U.S. dollar (USD)-based and considering hedging FX on a long Brazilian equity trade, consider that for practical purposes you are effectively just taking down your equity exposure given the high correlation of USD/BRL with the Ibovespa Brazil Sao Paulo Stock Exchange index (IBOV) ; your long Brazil equity trade won't work unless the currency works."
Currency is also a big factor in the iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF (EWW), down more than 2%, and the iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (EWT). Currency also goes a long way in explaining the divergent performance of the A-share domestic focus of the VanEck Vectors ChinaAMC SME-ChiNext ETF (CNXT), down 21% this year, versus the Chinese Hong-Kong-listed stocks that make up the iShares MSCI China Large-Cap ETF (FXI), which is up 8%. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) is up 6% this year.
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" ... As with many global equity indices, IBOV has been closely correlated with the Brazilian real (BRL). As the BRL improves, the IBOV increases, and vice versa; the correlation tends to increase with BRL volatility as we saw this year. Note this is in sharp contrast to developed market (DM) equities, which tend to increase only when their currency is weakening against the dollar. What is also interesting to see is that when you overlay the IBOV/SPX [the S&P 500 index] trade with the currency, you can see a similar correlation. The IBOV outperforms the SPX when the currency is strengthening, and vice versa. Equity pairs continue to move with currency pairs. ... Year to date, the IBOV is up 33% but, adjusted for the stronger BRL, the dollar based return is up over 61%. In other words, the currency swing has been just about as important as the local equity return. We see a similar pattern in Russia and Taiwan, with currency playing an enormously important role in dollar based returns. At the same time, Mexico and China, with weakening FX, have had negative local equity market performance ..."
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One-third of the population was willing to shoot their neighbors, friends, and relatives rather than be enslaved by taxation.
Are we there yet?
We'll never be there, but we have alternatives. IMO, better ones.


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Chile Potato Soup
Recipe by Bill J.
This is a refinement of a dish from a popular local establishment. A friend served ours to the owner and he admitted that this was better! Pure comfort food.
Top Review by loof751
This is a really good soup! I left out the onions (personal preference) and used 3 large poblano peppers and 2 large jalapeno peppers. The peppers added a really nice flavor but it could have been hotter - next time I may add another jalapeno or two. This soup had a really nice texture and went well with the crushed tortilla chips and jack cheese. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 5 lbs peeled and diced yukon gold potatoes
- 2 large onions, peeled and diced
- 4 -5 large green chilies (peeled and diced)
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups heavy cream or 2 cups half-and-half
- 1⁄2 cup butter, divided
- 4 tablespoons flour
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 6 -8 corn tortillas, cut into strips (May use broken tortilla chips)
- shredded monterey jack cheese (to garnish)
Directions See How It's Made
- Saute diced onions and chiles in 4 T butter until soft.
- Place diced/peeled potatoes into LARGE pot. Cover with chicken broth and water. Add in onions and chiles. Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer. Cook until potatoes are very tender (mushy soft).
- Drain, reserving 1/2 of cooking water/broth. Return drained potatoes/chiles/onions to cooking pot.
- Place 1/2 of potatoes/onions/chiles into food processor or blender. Puree. Return to puree to cooking pot.
- Melt remainin 4 T butter in skillet. Stir in 4 T flour to make a blond roux. Stir in cream (or half-and-half) and reserved cooking broth until warm. Do not boil.
- Pour into potato mixture. Heat all until bubbly hot.
- While heating soup. Fry tortills strips until browned and drain well.
- Serve soup in individual bowls garnished with tortills strips and cheese. Enjoy!


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The Washington Post noticed that Sarah Palin went after the media again on her Facebook page over their protective response to Karl Rove's questioning of Hillary's head injury. (Drudge picked up the story.)
"Hey! Hillary's brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right – scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED," she cracked (her caps). "You can't probe a woman like that because, well, it's a war on women!"
Palin mocked how the "objective" media would never do what they actually did in suggesting Palin didn't give birth to her son Trig:
America, you deserve fair and consistent coverage of relevant issues before deciding a Presidential/Vice Presidential ticket, so have faith the agenda-less media will refuse to push whispers and wildly inaccurate information about a partisan politician's body part. Goodness, no one credible would print lies, continually harass a candidate's doctor, disrupt local hospital staff, or even offer to pay locals to give "quotes" about her health records to be included in a "research book" by a public university professor (your tax dollars at work?) which the candidate's attorney will need to respond to....
With enormous issues to debate before choosing a Presidential/Vice Presidential ticket, have confidence no mean-spirited salaciousness will be pushed by "real journalists."
Nope. This just doesn't happen at this respectable level of American politics.
Just ask me. And Trig.


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On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists, 19 well educated young men – Saudi, Egyptian, and Yemeni nationals – hijacked four airliners (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Flight 175 from Boston's Logan airport, American Airlines Flight 77 from Dulles airport and United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark Airport). With captive passengers aboard, they flew into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Brave actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 led to the first counter-attack within thirty minutes of the sky-jacking. The Flight 93 heroes overcame the Islamic terrorists diverting the aircraft from its ultimate target the Capital building in Washington, crashing into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania instead.
Sunday September 11, 2016 will be the 15th anniversary of the Al Qaeda suicide sky-jackings at the fateful twin towers in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon in Northern Virgina and the diverted crash in Pennsylvania that took the innocent lives of nearly 3,000 Americans and others. Among them heroes from the storied ranks of New York's Finest and Bravest.
What a number of us called the Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century was perpetrated by Sunni extremist Jihadists facilitated in part by the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The 2016 commemoration comes at a time when there is rising concern over global Islamic terrorism in America with the largest toll of innocent victims perpetrated by Jihadist US citizens and immigrants in several massacres in Chattanooga, San Bernardino and Orlando. With over $1 trillion in taxpayer funding spent to create new homeland security and transportation safety agencies, establish counterterrorism intelligence sharing among domestic and international groups, and FBI tracking over 1000 cases of ISIS sympathizers.
The question still remains, "Do you think we are safer after 9/11?"
That is the question that is posed to you in the hopes of receiving a brief response. Many of you who we are contacting have been interviewed for the New English Review or been guests on The Lisa Benson Show. Among those to whom we are issuing this call are:
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- Michael Welner, noted forensic psychiatrist founder of the Manhattan-based The Forensic Panel, ABC and CNN commentator;
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Bill Montgomery's Deaf Victim Diana Blanco Honored by Las Cafeteras
Only the crassest and cruelest of individuals will be able to watch the video above minus a moist eye. In it Diana Blanco, the young deaf woman, whose mother, grandfather and grandmother were arrested in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's February 8, raid on Sportex Apparel in Tempe, is serenaded by the Los Angeles-based band Las Cafeteras.
See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery's Victims Plead Not Guilty En Masse as Their Children Weep -The MCAO Follows ICE's Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families -Bill Montgomery's Victims in New Video and the Indictment of the SANE Plan
Diana, 17, and her two sisters, Andrea, 11, and Sara, 9, join a long line of victims of Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery's racist policy of charging undocumented workers with class four felonies -- ID theft and forgery -- so as to hold them nonbondable, and coerce guilty pleas that will ensure deportation.
I commend Las Cafeteras for sending this message of love and support to Diana and her family. Rarely has solidarity been rendered so sweetly.
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As comprehensive immigration reform moves forward in Congress, our focus locally should be on stopping Arpaio's raids, ending Montgomery's apartheid policy of overcharging workers without papers, and getting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to refuse any workers captured and processed by the Montgomery-Arpaio axis.
The local civil rights group Puente has started an online petition demanding that Montgomery end his pogrom against the undocumented, and Puente continues to target Montgomery's office for demonstrations.
Working should not be a crime. On the federal level, ICE generally has dispensed with work site raids, opting rather for audits of employers. But Montgomery and Arpaio continue their campaign of terror, the latter for publicity, the former because he believes it scores him votes.
There is a time swift approaching when Montgomery will end up alienating more voters than appealing to them with these actions.
Most politicians are amoral, so I know an appeal to a non-existent conscience is futile. But with increased pressure, Montgomery finally may find that it's within his self-interest to relent. And for that day, we must continue to push.
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ernment, observers agree, would certainly be followed by other East European nations, and Jewish minorities in countries where anti-Semitism is growing, would be left without any protection by an international authority.
Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and Norman Bentwich, former Attorney General of Palestine are closely watching the Assembly's session, prepared to oppose any measure which would weaken international protection for oppressed minorities.
The proposal for generalization, now sponsored by Poland, has been put forward a number of times by Hungarian, Lithuanian and other governments bound by minority treaties and the minority clauses of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
The position of these governments was set forth characteristically by the Lithuanian representative at the 1925 session of the League. The then premier of Lithuania, M. Glavanauskas, declared that while the minority treaties were "of great service to humanity, they limited the sovereignity of a certain number of states, whereas justice required that all members of the League should be obligated by minority clauses written into the treaties."
Danger that generalization of minority treaties would result in weakening of protective powers was recently emphasized at the world Jewish conference in Geneva by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the Committee of Jewish Delegations.
The official resolution submitted to the League by the Polish representative at Geneva, E. Raczynski, reads as follows:
"Acting on instructions from my Government, I have the honor to request you, in accordance with Rule 4, paragraph 2, p. d., of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the League of Nations, to place the fol##ing resolution on the agenda of the next session of the Assembly:
"The Assembly of the League of Nations,
"Considering that the minorities treaties at present in force and the declarations on the international protection of minorities made before the Council by certain States are only binding upon some of the Members of the League of Nations, whereas other Members of the League, remain free from any legal undertaking in this respect;
"Being of opinion that such a state of affairs affords an international guarantee to certain minorities only, and leaves the others, which can in no circumstances appeal to the League of Nations, without international protection;
"Considering that such a distinction between protected and non-protected minorities is in contradiction with the sentiment of equity and justice;
"Having regard to the fact that racial, linguistic and religious minorities which are not covered by the present system for the protection of minorities and which have the same moral right to the protection of the League of Nations as the protected minorities are to be found in almost all European and extra – European countries:
"Declares that the present situation in regard to the international protection of minorities is not in harmony with the fundamental principles of international morality, and is of opinion that it should be remedied by the conclusion of a general convention on the protection of minorities, such Convention to provide for the same undertakings on the part of all Members of the League of Nations and to insure international protection for all racial, linguistic and religious minorities;
"Decides to summon for that purpose an international conference consisting of all the Members of the League of Nations, in order to draw up a general Convention on the international protection of minorities; and
"Request#### Council to take the necessary steps to summon that Conference in the near future, and in any case within six months from the close of the proceedings of the present session of the Assembly."
The decision regarding the Saar, reached by the League Council Saturday, is considered here a signal victory for France which, in a memorandum to the Council made public earlier this week, had demanded protection guarantees for minorities after the January 16 plebiscite.
Emphasizing the gravity of the Saar question, the Council resolved to empower a committee of three to handle problems arising after the plebiscite, as outlined in the French memorandum. The decision is taken to mean that the French proposal regarding protection of the Saar minority populations will be widely considered by the League despite Germany's opposition.


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Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Shows Signs of Life
Slowly but surely under the leadership of new executive director Kelly Gottschalk, the moribund Dallas Police and Fire Pension System seems to be digging itself out of the chasm dug during the leadership of former director Richard Tettamant. According to new data released by the pension fund on Thursday and posted to Facebook by Scott Griggs, a member of the City Council and the pension fund's board, the fund's deferred retirement option plan (DROP) — a lucrative inducement that allows officers and firefighters eligible for retirement to keep working, collect their pension checks and redeposit them in accounts that returned a guaranteed interest rate — may finally be getting healthy.
Before a rate cut agreed to by the the fund's board and its membership, the deferred accounts returned 8-10 percent interest, guaranteed. The program was so lucrative that it allowed several hundred cops to retire as millionaires, but it was only sustainable thanks to the creative accounting practices that undersold the fund's increasingly unfunded liabilities — Philip Kingston, a member of the board, told the Observer last year the deferred accounts cost the fund about $300 million, or about 10 percent of its $3.4 billion total size. After the rate cut was agreed to, current DROP members sued the fund, saying that the sliding scale interest rate decrease amounted to an unconstitutional rate cut. State District Judge Tonya Parker agreed with the retirees initially, but reversed herself on rehearing, leading to an appeal from the retirees. The case currently awaits a decision from Texas' 5th Court of Appeals. Following the ruling, the fund's board cut off enrollment in the deferral program. Recently, the fund has begun to reap the benefits.
In 2014, the fund's DROP obligations were $1.425 billion; in 2015, they were $1.516 billion. The projected DROP obligation for 2016 is, again, $1.516 billion. The increase has stopped.
"It's good news. It means a couple of things," Kingston says. "It means that DROP withdrawals have slowed and it probably also means that we've finally rooted out all of the over-valuation of assets in the system."
The good news on DROP will do little to correct the fund's unfunded liability of between $1.5 and $5 billion unless the board and members can agree on a way to cut the benefits. The way that's going to happen, if Kingston gets his way, is cutting the annual cost of living adjustment, which currently sits at 4 percent.
"[Adjusting the cost of living adjustment] is absolutely going to happen," Kingston says. How much it's reduced is the question. "We have a pretty significant faction on the board that doesn't want to cut it to zero. I do, or at least cut it to ad hoc where we pay it when we can afford it."
If the cost of living adjustment is cut to zero, Kingston says, indications are that the funding problem could be eliminated.
Cutting the benefits paid out now would allow the fund to hang on until cuts already negotiated with members who enrolled in 2011 or later begin to benefit the outlook. If appropriate cuts aren't agreed to, the fund could go broke sometime around 2030, according to estimates. Still, after three straight years of the system actually decreasing in value, any good news is great news.
Correction: This story has been amended to clarify the status of the lawsuit by pension system members against the system. The judge in the case ruled for the pensioners, before reversing herself on rehearing.
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STAYTON — Discussions about the new federal Common Core standards are underway at schools across the United States. Catholic school parents wonder how the new requirements will affect their children.
The principal of St. Mary School here, Rick Schindler, has fielded many inquiries on that point. The short answer is this: Catholic schools are not required to abide by the standards because they are private, but many will adopt what has promise of working best.
"We are beginning to integrate some of the Common Core standards into our current framework, specifically within language arts," Schindler says. "One difference between our school and the public schools, however, is that we have a longer adjustment period. We don't have to implement them all at once. And in fact, we wouldn't have to implement them at all, if we chose not to. However, there are many positives, so we're taking our time and making sure we're doing it well."
Common Core, set by the federal government and voluntarily implemented by states, establishes a single set of educational standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English and math. The standards are designed to ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared for college or the workplace.
Common Core offers standards, not curriculum.
"Standards are what you want students to achieve, learning goals or levels of proficiency," Schindler says. "Curriculum is the tools you use to help your students master those standards; for example, textbooks, handouts, Internet searching or reading a scientific article.
Forty-five states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the standards. In Oregon, public schools will fully implement them by the 2014-'15 school year.
Archdiocese of Portland schools are already in year one of their own three-year plan for new language arts standards.
"We are looking at the Common Core standards, but we have not yet determined the final set of standards and will not fully implement anything until the 2015-'16 school year," says Julie Vogel, Director of Instructional Services and Accreditation with the archdiocese. "Yes, we will be using elements of the Common Core, but that won't be the only standards that will be included because the Common Core does not address our Catholicity. We are making sure we are honoring our Catholicity, as well."
Some parents and Catholic school supporters are uncertain about using state standards in a private school system. But it is not anything new.
"We've been using state standards frameworks in the Catholic schools since the 1990s," Vogel says. "We always consider Oregon state standards as a baseline, then modify them to make them fit our Catholic schools. It gives us a good place to start. People who come up with these standards are professionals in the world of education who really know what they're doing."
Tiffany Tyler, fifth-grade teacher at St. Mary, can attest to how it's working for the students.
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PHILADELPHIA – The 10th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's squash team played its way back into the win column with a 6-3 victory at 12th-ranked Drexel Tuesday evening.
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A savory, sweet sauce with a touch of currant jelly glazes these yummy little sausages. They make a great appetizer, and both adults and kids seem to love these baby hot dogs. —Kathryn Bainbridge, PA Furnace, Pennsylvania
- 3/4 cup red currant jelly
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- 3 tablespoons prepared mustard
- 1 package (28 ounces) miniature smoked sausages
- 1. In a large saucepan, combine jelly, barbecue sauce and mustard. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat until blended, 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in sausages; cook, covered, until heated through, about 5 minutes. Yield: 6-1/2 dozen.
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I am making the recipe from pampered chef creamy cheesecake The recipe states just to bake , I thought all cheesecake needed to be waterbathed so what should I do
It doesn't need to have a water bath...but, the texture will be little different (not as creamy, imo) and also the cake will rise and then leave a "sinkhole". My mom still makes her cheesecakes like this! She doesn't believe in the waterbath method.
It's not necessary, but I always bake mine in a waterbath... much better results, in my opinion.
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I don't use waterbath and my cheesecakes tastes and comes out great.
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Bicalutamide (Casodex™) Versus Placebo in Patients With Early Prostate Cancer
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The purpose of this trial is to study the effect - in terms of time to progression and overall survival - of 2 years of adjuvant bicalutamide 150mg monotherapy, versus placebo, in subjects with histologically or cytologically confirmed non-metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland.
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized Double-Blind Comparative Trial of Bicalutamide (Casodex™) Versus Placebo in Patients With Early Prostate Cancer.
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time to clinical progression [ Time Frame: Throughout study period ]
- Overall patient survival [ Time Frame: Throughout study period ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time to treatment failure [ Time Frame: Throughout study period ]
- Serum prostate-specific antigen [ Time Frame: Initial study period up to 2006 amended protocol ]
- Tolerability in terms of adverse events and laboratory parameters [ Time Frame: Throughout study period ]
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|Study Completion Date:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Prostate cancer in the early stage of disease
- Prostate removed and/or radiation therapy to the prostate area
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- Previous systemic therapy for prostate cancer
- Previous history of another form of cancer (not prostate) within 5 years of study start.
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Iversen P, McLeod DG, See WA, Morris T, Armstrong J, Wirth MP; Casodex Early Prostate Cancer Trialists' Group. Antiandrogen monotherapy in patients with localized or locally advanced prostate cancer: final results from the bicalutamide Early Prostate Cancer programme at a median follow-up of 9.7 years. BJU Int. 2010 Apr;105(8):1074-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09319.x.
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androgen antagonists
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Genital Neoplasms, Male
Urogenital Neoplasms
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Genital Diseases, Male
Prostatic Diseases
Androgen Antagonists
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Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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3000 Hits Club
July 9, 2011 by staff
3000 Hits Club, How special every 3,000 hits? Maybe we should start with the list of men who, for various reasons, never did. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds. Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig. Immortal names in magic, but does not enough. The Yankees can claim Hall of Fame and World Champion of the score, but no stripes in the Bronx had ever seen her 3,000 Th until Derek Jeter homered this afternoon.
"It's certainly a very special club," Kaline said large tigers' Al as one of the 28 members of Club 3000. "No chance."
Fluke or anything mystical. Bring the thunder and huge bonuses total home runs, or the aura of a perfect game time. It refers to the most basic skill of this sport, a man who takes a bat and making contact with the ball. And it does again and again and again. There are no shortcuts for this.
"Everything," Hank Aaron said, "must fall into place." "Reaching 3,000 hits was the first real test for me of what I wanted to do in the game, because it meant consistency. I think it's the same level with 500 home runs. You can talk about how the home, but you have to hit the ball first. "
Easy to say, hard to do. Durability, talent and perseverance are all entry requirements; to hit a baseball is a difficult task over time. There will be days long and 0 of 4 nights. But to get to 3000, the successes keep coming.
Let some of the members of the lodge explain.
Dave Winfield: "What I've learned over the years is that this is the last function is needed instead of playing at a high level, the mental toughness. It begins with the God-given ability, then learn the mechanics and fundamentals and practice rigorously, and become physically fit. The last thing is mental toughness. You do not reach it without. "
Cal Ripken: "When you're a guy who plays every day, you have the physical strength, but the real strength is between the ears, I think. Baseball is a game that we are dealing with a failure a lot."
Robin Yount: "The reality is, if the number of years I played, if not to reach 3,000 hits, would not have been in the lineup.'s Longevity. I guess that's what I'm most proud of."
Craig Biggio: "It takes a long, long time to get there, and you need to stay productive. If you are not productive, we will not be on the field."
Of the 27 men before Jeter, 24 are in the Hall of Fame, leaving only Pete Rose (banned in baseball) Rafael Palmeiro (problems with steroids) and Biggio (not yet eligible).
3000 must ensure Cooperstown? "It was something like a done deal," said Aaron. Biggio, a day before finding out if that's true.
"I do not keep up with that kind of thing," he said. "It's a very small list is pretty darn hard to get. If it's something that was easy, I would see many more people."
Who can remember every stroke of your life? However, the number 3,000 stops. "Although I do not remember much about the individual things in my career," said Yount, "one I do."
Winfield said the success of being a ninth-inning RBI single off Dennis Eckersley, was "not smiling" on the momentous occasion.
Look down the list, and is located at:
The irony. Aaron, despite his fame as home runs, has 3,000 in an infield hit Cincinnati.
Emotion. "I wanted to wait to get success in Detroit, but GM said," Come, come as soon as possible, '"said Tiger Kaline life." I was in Baltimore, my hometown, and my mom and Dad were there. "
Intensity. Robert Clemente doubled in the last regular-season at-bat in 1972. He died in a plane crash three months later.
"It was the last blow of his life," said the widow Vera Clemente by phone from Puerto Rico. "That's very special to me because I know it was very important to Bob, because he always wanted to be the best. He always felt a great responsibility to be the best."
And relief.
Yount: "I could not wait to get it over to be sure to ask about it. I remember it became a distraction and I fell in distraction. I was a little frustrated because we were in the midst of a career for the title.
Ripken: "Do you want to get through it? In the context of a season that is beyond your mental focus when you start thinking about a number. The hardest thing in the world is trying to get a hit when you are trying to get a hit. "
Now that Jeter has come, and do not appreciate their journey of men who have walked the same path.
Kaline called him a favorite of all time. Aaron Yount and Biggio and mentioned how difficult it has been doing this in the furnace annually to play for the Yankees, and keep the freshness and the kind of Jeter. Ripken noted the special nature of 3.000 to get all the hits for a team, as he did.
"Derek would be fun in any other uniform," said Ripken.
"A lot of people will be happy for him because he made the right way," said Winfield. "Just preparing honest, hard-nosed game. A good example to others."
But then, no one takes the wrong way to 3000. Maybe that's the best compliment of all to 28.
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Pork Bocaditos
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This recipe comes from the National Pork Producers Council. Cooking time includes marinating overnight.
Top Review by Lorrie in Montreal
Made for My Three Chefs 2008 Makes for a tasty moist piece of pork! I would cut down on the cider vinegar...maybe a 2/3 cup instead of 3/4.Also don't forget to season with some salt and pepper.I used thick pork chops rather than the pork loin because thats what I had on hand and I was'nt disappointed...I grilled them and the apple flavour with the cider vinegar is delicious with herbal undertones from the earthy oregano and garlic.
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- 2 lbs boneless pork loin, cut into 3/4 inch cubes
- 3⁄4 cup apple juice
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- 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce
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- 2 teaspoons oregano
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- In a 1-gallon self-sealing plastic bag, combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Seal bag and marinate in the refrigerator 8-12 hours or overnight.
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- Pat pork dry with paper toweling; place cubes in a single layer, not touching, in a shallow baking pan and bake at 350ºF for 25-30 minutes, until pork is just tender and lightly browned.
- Remove to serving platter or chafing dish and serve hot as an appetizer.