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HOUSTON - A few simple steps can help keep your family safe on Halloween, whether you are trick-or-treating, heading to a party or staying at home.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office, the Houston Police Department and the Houston Fire Department share some important tips.
Tips for Children:
- Walk on sidewalks, not in the street.
- Never go trick-or-treating alone.
- Never go inside a stranger's house.
- Look both ways before crossing the street.
- Cross only at intersections.
- Carry a glow-stick or flashlight.
- Have parents check all treats before you eat them.
- Don't eat candy if the package is already opened. Do not eat any unwrapped food.
Tips for Adults:
- Help children choose a safe, reflective costume.
- Make sure a responsible adult is with young children. Never let them walk alone.
- Drive slowly and use extra caution at night.
- Report any suspicious activity.
- Go to the HCSO's website at www.hcso.hctx.net and click on the "Crime Reports" box. Use it to identify the locations and names of registered sex offenders in your area, and then make sure kids avoid those homes.
- You can report suspicious activity and/or persons anonymously by using the HCSO's free mobile phone app, iWatchHarrisCounty. If you see something, say something.
HFD Tips for safe Trick-or-Treating:
- Wear reflective clothing
- Make sure costumes are flame-retardant
- Illuminate pumpkins with flashlights
- Keep burning Jack-o-Lanterns away from curtains and combustible items
- Masks should have eye holes large enough to prevent visual obstructions
- Children should wait to eat their candy until they get home
- Be alert for cars that are turning into or out of driveways
- Be cautious of strangers
- Only approach houses where the outside lights are on.
- If you feel threatened or in danger while trick-or-treating, you can go to any Houston Fire or Police Station.
- For more information, the Houston Police Department has more tips on its website.
Tips for Pets
The Houston Humane Society has tips to ensure pets have a happy and healthy Halloween.
- If you plan to hand out candy this season, be sure your dog or cat is secure (whether in a crate or another room). Many pets escape through frequently opened doors.
- Be sure all pets are wearing collars with ID tags. Many of us leave collars and tags off from time to time, but this time of year it is imperative that you don't forget to put their identification on them. Constant doorbell ringing, frequent visitors, and disruption in their normal routine can spook even the most well-adjusted pet. If your pet does dart out, you want to make sure they have their ID.
- Keep candy out of your pet's reach. Many types of candy and chocolate can be harmful to pets.
- Jack O' Lanterns can be fun and festive, but watch those candles. A darting cat or dog can accidentally tip them over and create a fire hazard! Consider switching to battery operated tea lights this year.
- Everyone loves costumes. But make sure the costume is not restrictive or overly annoying to your pet. And be careful of anything that dangles! You don't want your pet to choke!
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Building block line to encompass all the Halo games...
Toy Fair 2010 coverage brought to you by the following fine sponsors: BigBadToyStore.com, PastGenerationToys.com, and Sekaido.com (YesAnimation.com).
MEGA Brands revealed at Toy Fair the expansion of their popular Halo Wars building block series. The line will grow this year to encompass all the Halo games, including the upcoming prequel, Halo: Reach. Packaging for new figures in 2010 will be labled Halo: The Authentic Collector's Series.
To display their extensive new Halo collection, MEGA Brands created a HUGE diorama at Toy Fair showing off all the new figures and vehicles in action. It was quite an impressive site; nicely conveying the great battles collectors can create when amassing a few of these sets.
New Halo MEGA Bloks fans can expect this fall include:
* UNSC Shortsword - Includes two Covenant Jackals with type-51 carbines and shields and one UNSC Pilot with M6D pistol. SRP $39.99
* UNSC Pelican Dropship Includes a real working front cockpit with space for pilots, four rotating thrusters for VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) action, realworking rear bay door and two UNSC Pelican pilots with M6D pistols. SRP $59.99
* UNSC Arctic Wolverine - Includes all-new arctic blocks for sub-zero camouflage, dual Argent V missile pods with 8x working launchers, dual XM511 heavy grenade launchers, four real-working wheels with detailed treads, one UNSC Arctic Marine with assault rifle and one Covenant Hunter with large and small shields. SRP $29.99
* Covenant Wraith - Includes Arctic Gatling gun turret with 456 pieces features a retracting Plasma Mortar with open-and-close deployment hatch, one UNSC arctic rocket launcher turret, one Covenant Elite Ultra with plasma sword, one UNSC Orange Haybusa Spartan with katana sword. SRP $29.99
* UNSC Rocket Warthog - Includes all-new arctic blocks, four real-working detailed wheels and treads, new and improved Covenant Ghost design for a faster and more sturdy build, two UNSC Arctic Spartan-II soldiers with M6D pistols, and one Covenant Elite with plasma energy sword. SRP $19.99
* UNSC Mongoose - Includes four real-working wheels with detailed treads, one UNSC Spartan-II with sniper rifle and one Covenant Turret with one Covenant Elite with plasma sword. SRP $9.99
* HALO Collector's Case - Comes with three sets of MJOLNIR Mark V armor (Orange, White and Steel), Spartan skeleton to build your unit and a plasma sword, and MA5 Assault Rifle. The handy collector's case ensures that unused parts are safely stored away for the next mission profile. SRP $24.99
* HALO Buildable Figures - New additions to the series of buildable figures in Fall 2010 includes the EVA Blue Spartan-II and Covenant Arbiter. SRP $19.99 each.
* HALO Metalons - New UNSC Flame Marine. SRP $9.99
* HALO Mini-figures - New Halo Combat Unit 4. The Green UNSC Team pack includes two UNSC Green Marines, one UNSC Flame Marine and 1 UNSC SPARTAN-II to give your battalion a much-needed boost – all with matching weapons and special "bleacher" blocks to display your mini-figures! The Covenant Team includes one Elite, one Grunt, two Brutes, equipped with weaponry and bleacher blocks to display your mini-figures.
Check out all these new sets and more in our Halo MEGA Bloks photo gallery below!
For a great selection of action figures and collectibles, BriansToys.com, ToyWiz.com, SmallJoes.com, MonkeyDepot.com.
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Start by reflecting on your current state of mental and physical health and decide what it is you want to maintain or change. Then, set up a short list of very specific, achievable goals to work towards throughout the year. (Rome wasn't built in a day you know...)
But don't go googling just yet. The Internet can be filled with unreliable, inaccurate and unsafe information about health and diet. Instead, utilize reputable resources within your community and local library to achieve your health goals.
In the community...
At the library...
It's easy to get bogged down in the plethora of health and diet books available at the library. Here are a few to get you started and remember, you can always ask a librarian at the information desk to help you find titles containing the information you need.
Now you know -- and knowing is half the battle. Best of health in 2010!
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LES MISERABLES Film Soundtrack Reaches #2 on Billboard 200 Chart!
According to Billboard.com, Les Miserables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack has now hit #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, topped only by Taylor Swift's Red album.
The soundtrack, which was released on December 21, moved from #33 this week with a 218% increase in sales. The last movie musical soundtrack to make it to the #2 spot was 2009's Hannah Montana: The Movie. Before that, the Mamma Mia soundtrack reached the #1 spot in 2008.
The Republic Records album features 20 songs from the film, including the current top seller, Anne Hathaway's version of "I Dreamed a Dream".
Helmed by The King's Speech's Academy Award-winning director, Tom Hooper, the Working Title/Cameron Mackintosh production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, LES MISERABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, Sacrifice and redemption-a timeless Testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for Decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.


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Johnson's struggles continue as O's lose sixth straight
Closer blows third consecutive save after allowing home run in ninth
BALTIMORE -- Jim Johnson's struggles continued Monday night, squandering a solid start from Freddy Garcia, an offensive effort that saw Yankees ace CC Sabathia surrender a season-high 11 hits and any hope that the All-Star closer's pair of back-to-back blown saves was a minor glitch.
Instead, Johnson made it three straight blown saves while allowing a game-tying ninth-inning homer to Travis Hafner. And while it was right-hander Pedro Strop who officially took the loss, allowing a pair of 10th-inning runs, Johnson's unreliability is becoming an all-too-familiar trend for a reeling Orioles club that took its sixth consecutive defeat with a 6-4 loss to the Yankees.
"Three of them are my fault," Johnson said of Baltimore's recent struggles. "The other guys do their job and I do mine, then we're not standing here. I think everybody's doing a great job. I'm just not pulling my weight."
Tasked to protect a one-run lead, Johnson's 3-1 pitch was instead blasted into the left-field seats -- well over the head of jumping outfielder Chris Dickerson -- to mark his eighth earned run over a 2 1/3-inning stretch. When he is going good, Johnson -- who led the Majors with 51 saves last season -- is getting ahead in the count and getting ground balls, a recipe that saw him convert 35 consecutive saves up until May 10. Since then, the right-hander has looked nothing like the lock-down closer that helped the Orioles advance to the American League Division Series last fall.
"We will figure it out," said Johnson, who has pored over video and made an effort to tweak some of his mechanics. "I'll figure it out. There's no other option."
Orioles manager Buck Showalter seemed to agree with that, sticking by his closer and leaving no doubt about who will get the ball for his club's next save opportunity.
"Come back tomorrow and watch it again, he was one pitch away," Showalter said.
"Jimmy's a very consistent human being," Showalter added. "Professional and a great teammate. We didn't do enough to win tonight. ... It's frustrating for him, but he wasn't the only one who could come out of this game a little frustrated tonight."
Strop falls under that category as well. The right-hander -- who recently looked to have turned a corner -- was charged with a pair of runs and exited after recording just two outs, while lefty Troy Patton surrendered a solo homer in the seventh.
"We all go through it," Yankees closer Mariano Rivera -- who notched his 17th save this season -- said of Johnson's ninth-inning struggles. "It's normal. If you're a closer and you don't think you're going to go through it, I think you're fooling yourself. You just have to be ready to bounce back, be patient and continue moving."
The late-innings meltdown keeps the Orioles winless on their current homestand and is their longest losing stretch since dropping six straight from May 26-June 1, 2012. Lost in the defeat was the club's impressive approach off Sabathia, as it tallied four runs, including a pair in the seventh inning to chase him from the game.
On the hill due to Sunday's rainout in New York, Sabathia gave up a single to No. 9 batter Alexi Casilla, and the second baseman scored from first base on Nick Markakis' double. Markakis, who singled in the Orioles' second run in the fifth inning, punched a ball into left-center field and scored one-out later on J.J. Hardy's go-ahead double over first baseman Lyle Overbay. Chris Davis got the Orioles on the board in the second, sending a full-count pitch over the right-center-field wall for his 13th homer and 41st RBI of the season.
"We took advantage of the opportunities we had," Showalter said. "We had some people grind out at-bats against their starting pitcher tonight, and that's what you have to do to get him out of there. I was real proud of that. We just couldn't quite ... we could have done some better jobs in other places and had maybe a two-run lead. It happens sometimes."
Garcia gave the Orioles a chance to win, holding the Yankees in check after a pair of early homers by Robinson Cano and rookie David Adams, who hit his first career Major League homer in the second inning. Garcia held firm after that, retiring the next eight straight until Adams' leadoff single in the fifth was erased with an inning-ending double play.
"He threw the ball well," catcher Matt Wieters said of Garcia, who recorded his second quality start in four games with the Orioles. "You know, I thought they put two swings on two balls, and other than that, not many balls were hit hard off him."
Casilla, who robbed Curtis Granderson of a hit in the fourth, helped Garcia strand a pair of walks in the sixth, stopping a scorcher from Hafner to start the club's second consecutive inning-ending double play.
"It was big," said Garcia, who exited after just 66 pitches. "Make a good pitch, make a good catch. I was out of the inning right there."
Showalter went to his bullpen, citing the sticky night as one of a few factors for the early hook on Garcia. After Patton allowed a run in the seventh, Darren O'Day pitched a 1-2-3 eighth before handing the ball off to Johnson. Asked to pinpoint the problem, Johnson said -- again -- it was his location and falling behind in the count. While shaking off one or two bad outings seems routine, could shaking off a stretch of three consecutive blown saves -- particularly when the team is marred in a losing streak -- be easier said than done?
"I don't know," Johnson said. "I haven't been in this position before. I wasn't thinking about the last two outings when I was out there today. So I don't expect to be thinking about the outing before tomorrow when I'm out there."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hey Guys, I Have an Idea For a Reality Show — The [Fairer Se]X Files
This is a screenshot I took from 'The Valleys,' an MTV UK show. Recently I've been watching a lot of British Reality TV, which is weird because I find most reality television to be brain-rotting garbage, and I mostly hate British humor. Thing is — the British are really, really good at reality TV.
Part of the reason is that the UK has far less censorship, and so their version of 'Jersey Shore', named 'Geordie Shore' (though there is no actual beach in the area) makes the original US series look like an episode of 'Friends,' by comparison. It's raw, gross, there's a lot more nudity, and people are a lot more embarrassing. This all translates to entertainment.
Last night I watched a show called 'Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents' — the best way to describe what I saw was a British translation of Rumspringa, the event where Amish teens are set free in a big city to see what the world is like, before they commit to the Amish life. In this show, two British teens are let loose on the island of Magaluf, Spain to party for days while their creepy, sneaky parents hide in bushes and watch them.
The parents then gather together and watch highlight reels of their spawn's darkest holiday moments. It is as if they are gathered around the burning rubble of their hopes and dreams for their children, warming their hands by it's meager, alcohol-fueled blaze. It gets really awkward and inappropriate, especially when the teens go on a booze cruise that features a "Sex Positions Contest," which is exactly what it sounds like. Seriously, they sit around and watch it, even when it gets gross:
Watching them watch their children, I was surprised that they kept going back to see more, instead of stepping in. Then I realized that parents are forgiving because they relate — most parents have had their share of partying days, though many of them wish that they had done things differently.
I'm not a parent, but I was a terrible troublemaker teen who had parents, and I know that there was nothing in the world they could have told me that would have made me stop drinking 40s behind the Fantasy Cineplex and hooking up with dirty punk rock boys, something I now would love to edit from my personal history. Being a rambunctious teen is fun, because we believe that we will escape completely unharmed, but sometimes we don't — how do we stop kids from thinking they are invincible? I have an idea.
Two households, both alike in dignity…Wait, sorry. So there are two houses — set up sort of like 'Big Brother' — you're locked in, and both houses have equal accesses to resources of food, booze, and people of different degrees of sexiness/terribleness/terrible-but-still-sexyness. The first house is full of 10 young, eager-to-party kids, and the other? With their parents.
They spend two weeks in the houses, which is a long enough time for them to first establish and then destroy any semblance of order, revealing their true selves. It won't even take two weeks with all the alcohol, but it will just keep getting better as it goes on, so why cut it short?
Here's the plot twist — both houses have a live feed jumbotron in the common area of what's going on in the other house, 24-hours-a-day. Why? Because the only thing we know for sure as young, fun-loving people is that we will never ever be like our parents, or we will surely die. This is why people get depressed around 30, usually; they start realizing that they must be dying, because what they just said sounds like something their mother would say. This show would have more life-changing epiphanies than a Dr. Phil supercut. Imagine:
Rebecca, a 20-year-old freshman comes home hammered from a night of dancing in the cage at her favorite club, and sits down on the couch with a beer. She's a bit dejected, since she is coming home alone. She looks up at the jumbotron to see her mother, sitting alone in the living room of the other house, sipping a glass of Chablis and quietly sobbing. Rebecca pours her beer down the sink and goes to bed with a book.
Danny comes home with a slurring babe on each arm, despite the fact that he's got a girlfriend at home. As they traverse the landmines of post-pubescent vomit on the living room carpet, Danny glances up at the jumbotron to catch his father comforting Rebecca's mother on the couch. Like, really comforting her. "What about mom," Danny thinks? He sends the two girls home in a cab, and texts his girlfriend: 'U R MAH WURLD. MISS U SO MUCH BB @–>—"
A better world, made possible by reality TV? I mean probably not, but I would watch.
Jackie Mancini is the associate editor of GuySpeed and an unabashed lover of large breasts, porno, foul mouths and loud music. Her childhood diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is most likely responsible for her current position as the only female employee of a men's website. Her column 'The [Fairer Se]X Files' appears every Wednesday. You can read more of her work here, and you can also follow her on Twitter.


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Gymnastics prepares for competition, starting season in San Francisco
Hilda Huang, Copy Editor
April 4, 2012
Filed under Gymnastics, Spring Sports, Top Stories
Update Apr. 5, 2012: Paly has canceled the meet next Tuesday at Lowell High School, due to insufficient equipment at Lowell and the delayed arrivals of team leotards. Paly's first meet will now be at Gymtowne on Wednesday, Apr. 18. With only one week left until their first meet, Paly's gymnasts...


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Burns making bullpen decision harder for Rangers
ARLINGTON -- Called up as an extra reliever when starter Alexi Ogando was placed on the disabled list, right-hander Cory Burns has given manager Ron Washington something to think about when the team has to send someone out Monday to make room for starter Josh Lindblom, who is coming up from Triple-A Round Rock to start against the A's.
It was assumed that Burns would be sent back out to make room for Lindblom, but after he made scoreless appearances in the first two games against the Tigers, it's not cut and dried that he will be the one sent down.
"It's not cut and dried that he's going to stay either," Washington said.
Burns has been effective against the Tigers' strong right-handed hitters, working 1 2/3 hitless innings in two games.
"We needed him to not let Torii Hunter or [Miguel] Cabrera start something [Friday night] and he didn't," Washington said. "I like what he did."
The Rangers are carrying three left-handers in the bullpen and wouldn't mind having another right-hander around, but Robbie Ross, Michael Kirkman and Joseph Ortiz have all pitched well, too.
"We'll make that decision by Monday," Washington said. "When Lindblom comes up, somebody has to go."
Jim Reeves is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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MARTINEZ — Contra Costa County will direct $6 million to keep cash-strapped Doctors Medical Center afloat for the next few months and give officials time to ponder what to do next.
The $6 million property tax transfer approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday represents a third of the San Pablo-based hospital's annual $18 million deficit. The money will allow it to continue to operate while officials scramble to come up with a permanent rescue formula for a downsized, financially sustainable facility.
A Doctors Medical Center stakeholder group, chaired by county Health Services Director Dr. William Walker and made up of officials of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Contra Costa County and John Muir Health, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sutter Health and others, held its first meeting June 6.
Tuesday's Board of Supervisors vote was 4-1, with Supervisor Mary Piepho dissenting. Piepho expressed concern that county legal officials could not firmly guarantee that the $6 million debt would be collectible if Doctors should file for bankruptcy. Piepho also said the state should assume more of a role in saving the hospital by increasing Medicare and Medi-Cal reimbursement levels.
The $6 million bridge financing would be an advance against future ad valorem property tax receipts of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District, which owns the San Pablo-based hospital. It would be drawn on the county's reserves and would be added on to a current debt balance of $17.1 million remaining from three previous property tax transfers from the county in 2006, 2011 and 2013 that totaled about $29 million.
The $6 million would be repayable with $8.2 million in transfers of future district property tax receipts to the county over about three years, to commence after repayment of the $17.1 million outstanding balance from the three earlier transfers. That balance should be paid off around 2019, Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia said late Tuesday.
As part of its vote in favor of the property tax transfer, the board also acknowledged the county's interest in helping DMC's long-term recovery to protect the health of the general public and to maintain a crucial component of the county's Emergency Medical System. The hospital has 25 of West Contra Costa's 40 emergency room beds, out of a countywide total of 267. Losing the 25 emergency beds would have "very dire consequences for our EMS system," Pat Frost, the county's EMS director, told the board.
Measure C, a parcel tax measure in May that would have raised about $20 million a year, got only 52 percent approval from health care district voters, far short of the two-thirds majority required for passage.
Officials had said they would have to pull the plug on the hospital, and its emergency department, in late July if Measure C failed. But within weeks, they came up with two possible alternative scenarios, both contingent on the $6 million infusion approved Tuesday: a stripped-down hospital, with fewer beds and fewer services, or a stand-alone emergency room, a model that exists in some states in association with nearby acute-care hospitals but currently is not authorized in California. Officials have expressed hope that the model could be used at Doctors either with enabling legislation or under flexible interpretations of existing regulations.
San Pablo has identified a possible future site for a downsized hospital or stand-alone emergency room near the new county-owned West County Health Center, according to a May 2012 marketing portfolio for the so-called Circle S Project site, prepared by Grisham & Associates and JMAarchitecture.
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Career Engineer: "You can't sell what you don't know"
Labor Day is coming and September and October are BIG months for hiring before the holiday season.
Labor Day is coming and September and October are BIG months for hiring before the holiday season.
Start your engines race fans… because September is big at Richmond International Raceway.
The crime happened on August 5 at a store in the 600 block of Grassfield Pkwy.
As part of its Divided America series, The Associated Press spent time with seven millennial voters in five states where the oldest and larg…
U.S. track and field athletes won 13 gold medals in Rio. That is four more than in London, and the highest total since 1996.
A 7-Eleven in Chesapeake was robbed at gunpoint early Monday afternoon.
Prison food is apparently so bad that prisoners are now trading ramen noodles as currency.
More than 100 people were at the party when shots rang out.
It did not take long for world records to start falling at the 2016 Olympics.
McAuliffe's announcement Monday came nearly a month after the court ruled that governors cannot restore rights en masse.
As part of the decision, Speedo said Monday it will donate $50,000 of Lochte's fee to Save The Children to benefit needy youngsters in Brazi…
The shooting was reported just before 11 a.m. Monday.
The Park Service said in a news release that the injured green sea turtle was found on the beach Sunday morning and had to be euthanized.
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. publi…
Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic Games.
Detectives have a suspect in custody.
The fawn was found on the side of the road.
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Richmond Field Division is conducting the investigation
A man was shot in the leg Monday morning in the 100 block of Lucas Avenue.
Firefighters put out a car fire at a parking garage at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront overnight.
A filmmaker came to Portsmouth to show "Officer Involved," a documentary about officer-involved shootings through the eyes of the officers.
The former UVA basketball star delivered the first pitch, but the Tides couldn't deliver a win on UVA Night.
Plenty of thrills and great stories unfolded on the waters of Rio's Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Kyle Busch dominated the early part of the race, but wrecked, clearing the way for Kevin Harvick.
The 2016 Paralympics begins Sept. 7
Police are investigating a shooting in the 4300 block of Airline Boulevard.
Japan will be home to the 2020 Olympic Games
Police are investigating a shooting in the 4000 block Long Point Boulevard.
Construction will begin on the new bridge in 2018 and residents are hoping it will smooth out traffic problems.
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The 'Nictionary' is the dictionary Nicki Minaj has created to walk pedestrians through her vocab and terminologies.. step ya nictionary up!
"Everyone can use nictionary terms but warning: you automatically become a Harajuku Barbie & your life will never be the same!" - Nicki Minaj.
AckOrgiddyWay ItchesOrgiddyBay
1: the Barbie pig latin term for "whack bitches"
Alfred Bitchcok
1: a term of endearment from one bitchy Harajuku Barbie to another. Generally used amongst BFF's.
Bad Bitch Check
1: when a bad bitch looks in the mirror prior to an event in which stacks are involved.
Baldy Locks
1: good head.
Balloon Boy
1: the adopted lady bug of Barbie nation.2: the oracle.
Barbie Berry
1: term for a Barbie's BlackBerry.
Barbie Boom box.
1: a device out of which the Barbie's "fetch" music is played from.
*also known as BBB
Barbie Detention
1: when the Harajuku Barbie herself puts one of her Barbies on time-out for stating or doing something totally unfetch.
*only the HB can remove a Barbie from Barbie Detention. Length of stay may vary.
*While on "BD" a Barbie is required to do any task the "HB" asks of her in order to regain her position as a BARBIE. Tasks may vary.
Barbie Juice
1: ice cold pickle juice in a glass that Barbies drink to experience a sudden blast of EUPHORIA.
Barbie Powers
1: to beam your thoughts to another Barbie without speaking.
2: to put a hex on strawberry shortcakes by wiggling your fingers at them.
Barbie's Phone Number
1: the act of stepping one's twig & berries / cookies DOWN. Opposite of "penthouse", used when one is too cocky.
Been a Fan
1: term used to describe a cornball.
*when used in a sentence: "hatin on who? Dat Bitch BEEN a fan"
1: a man with no car and money.
2: a broke ass Ken.
1: Barbie For FuckinEver.
1: a naughty barbie who knows how to make it up on her final exam.
Cater to Your Ken Day
1: one day a month when a Barbie stops being a diva and grants her Ken's every wish.
*activities on this day include cooking his favorite dish in a bikini, riding him like a cowboy THEN saying "it's Barbie BITCH!!!!"
Chin Check
1: when an HB gets out of character to explain her fabulosity.
1: when a Harajuku Barbie laughs at the expense of one of her friends.
Copyrightin' Infringements
1: Girls that claim to be rappers while enlisting the help of ghost writers.
*"I'm a dime you a NICCLETTE, lite skinned PIGMENT, write my own shit yall copyrighting INFRINGEMENT!"
Doll House
1: a place where a Harajuku Barbie resides or stays while away on business.
Dolly Lama
1: a barbie that makes everyone around her feel at peace.
2: a problem solver.
3: the one you call when you're at your worst.
1: a term used to describe something a bitchy Harajuku Barbie really likes. *Only used with other HBs.
Fire Marshall
1: someone trying to shut your shit down.
*sentence: "word? Oh u on ya fire Marshall Shit."
Frosty the Snowman
1: a girl or boy who wears blurry diamonds.
Cabbage Patch Kid
1: a bust down
2: a doll who wishes the Barbies will adopt her.
Get Off My Phone
1: a swift dismissal of a stupid ass fone call OR comment.
*when used in a sentence: "Excuse me??? Bitch!!! Get off my Fone!!!"
1: Abbreviation for "Got a Barbie Rollin".
Harajuku Barbie
1: refer to Harajuku.
Harajuku Ken
1: a man that "adds to" a "HB" by knowing when to "fall back" and when to "step his dick up".
1: an abbreviation of Harajuku Barbie.
1: an abbreviation of Harajuku Ken.
It's BARBIE BITCH!!!!!
1: how Harajuku Barbies say good-bye.
1: the act of stepping one's dick or cookies all the way up.
Powder Puff
1: a sad faced weirdo who pouts.
Step Your Scotty Up
1: refers to being up on the latest lyrics/lingo off of the new "Beam Me Up Scotty" CD.
Strawberry Shortcake
1: a broke bitch
2: one who loses sight of her goals and her CAKE by focusing on BEEF and negativity.
Stud Muffin
1: a street savvy "man's man" who can only be tamed by a pink lipped Barbie.
1: used to describe a hating ass WASHED up bitch.
*when used in a sentence: "Cowubunga! Hit the surfboard ya surfboard ass bitch!!!"
Tumble dry
1: used when speaking to WASHED up bitches.
*when used in a sentence: "tumble dry bitch!! Tumble dry!!"
Waffle House
1: a clearly misguided old wrinkle.
"When You Believe" by Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
1: our official THEME song.
1: when exciting, crazy and fetch need to be combined to describe a noun.
*can only be said with extreme intensity. Zzoooo!!!!!
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'The Rangers have the potential to be watched in 12 times as many households as the Sabres do because they play in the nation's biggest market. If the Rangers advance, the potential is much greater in New York than it is in Buffalo, where at best there is the potential of an additional 100,000 households. (Buffalo, however, also has many national fans who have left the area and watch the Sabres from their new homes). But in Round Two, the New York potential hasn't translated into more viewers.'
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NSW government's electricity sale may help fund train station for Barangaroo
A new train station at Barangaroo is on the cards as the Baird government moves to privatise electricity assets to fund massive infrastructure projects.
The government is considering a host of new train stations, including at Barangaroo, where there are fears current planning for public transport is inadequate.
The success of Barangaroo, at the western edge of Sydney's central business district, rests on public transport use – targets envisage 96 per cent of people arriving by means other than private cars. However, the government has so far committed only to building a new ferry wharf.
It says transport links to Barangaroo would also be improved by a walkway from Wynyard station. But that station is already at capacity and will have to accommodate another 13,000 people a day within a decade, according to predictions by the NSW Auditor-General.
A Transport for NSW spokesman says Barangaroo will be among a host of new train stations canvassed as part of community consultation for a proposed new rail network, known as Sydney Rapid Transit.
The government says the network, which involves a second rail harbour crossing, will relieve transport bottlenecks plaguing commuters at peak times.
More than 23,000 people are expected to live and work at Barangaroo, and an estimated 33,000 extra people would visit every day.
Transport expert Garry Glazebrook, an adjunct professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, said it "makes sense" to connect the new harbour crossing to the western edge of central Sydney, under Kent or Sussex streets, to cater for a massive growth in floorspace in the next decade.
This would also allow for a new station west of Town Hall, serving Chinatown and Darling Harbour.
Another option, closer to the one outlined by the government on Tuesday, would see the rail crossing enter the eastern side of city, near Circular Quay. This would better integrate with existing stations, Dr Glazebrook said.
"My view is it can work either way. No one route can satisfy every desire, but you can't afford to build too many of these things," he said.
Previously proposed transport links to Barangaroo have included a metro station as part of former Labor premier Nathan Rees' planned line to Rozelle.
Opposition transport spokeswoman Penny Sharpe said a station at Barangaroo could also have been built if Labor's proposed CBD relief line "was not dumped by Minister Berejiklian in the first budget".
She accused Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian of abandoning the government's transport planning and "plucking new stations out of the air" to back the electricity sale.
Retired transport planner and writer Sandy Thomas, who was a member of the Herald's independent public transport inquiry in 2009 and 2010, said the new rapid train line announced this week was substantially different to that laid out in the government's long-term transport plans.
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Mr Thomas said the government may have scrapped those components because both created "serious conflicts with freight trains".
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Posturing Over Patent Reform Shows How Young Companies Innovate While Old Companies Litigate
from the same-as-it-always-was dept
Of course, as you might expect, there's something of a "split" within the tech sector over whether or not there's support for Goodlatte's latest bill. On the one hand, you've got over 200 startups asking for that accelerated review process for questionable patents. At the same time, you've got a coalition of about 100 more stodgy old line businesses (some of whom are in the tech world) arguing that such a review would "undermine many valid patents." Frankly, that's hogwash, as we'll discuss in a bit.
It's really not difficult to see how this all breaks down. As we've explained for years, the general rule of thumb in the tech industry is that when you're young you innovate, and when you're old you litigate (with patents). Entrepreneurs and startups generally don't think or worry too much about patents. They're kind of a distraction more than anything else. The focus is actually on building an awesome product and disrupting the legacy players. It's only the bigger old stodgy companies who freak out at the possibility of being disrupted, and who suddenly start suing the upstarts (and, well, any competitor they can find) when they realize that it's more difficult for them to keep pace with the startups, and that it's more cost effective to shut down innovation from others, rather than compete.
Given that, it's not difficult to pick randomly from signatories of the two letters and figure out who signed onto which list. Automattic, FindTheBest, StackExchange, TechStars and FireBase? Yeah, they're on the innovators letter. 3M, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft? Yup. On the old stodgy companies letter, arguing against accelerated review of patents. And yet, laughingly, they claim to be the "innovators." Yes, maybe decades ago, but all those companies are now way behind the true innovators of today. Also, it's telling that pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is on that letter as well. The big pharma companies were the ones who spent most of the last decade stifling any kind of patent reform, which was being fought for by many of the same tech companies that are now trying to block new patent reform. The innovators got old and now they're trying to stifle competition, rather than innovate. It's sad. Looking down that list, it's difficult to find any that you could legitimately call innovative today, even if some were in the past.
Furthermore, the claims made in that letter (which apparently was written by the BSA under the new leadership of the White House's former IP czar), that this would somehow undermine valid patents doesn't pass the laugh test. As Matt Levy over at Patent Progress notes, the arguments in the letter make no sense at all:
Suppose a company has an innovative product and asserts a related patent against a competitor. If the competitor requests [an accelerated] review of the patent and wins, the original company still has an innovative product; the difference is that now it might have a competitor in the marketplace.Nothing in an accelerated review process could possibly harm actual innovation. The only thing it does is ensure that old, stodgy, slow companies will have to keep pace with more entrepreneurial entities, and compete by continuing to innovate. That's a good thing, but you can see why those legacy players are scared. They know they can't keep up any more.
That's actually a good thing. Now we have two companies with innovative products instead of just one. And the competitor is allowed to keep making its product, which might be even better than the original company's.
But a company with a patent, even an invalid one, can stop an innovative product from coming to market or add significantly to the product's cost. That's because fighting patent infringement is incredibly expensive.


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We continue with our Big 12 preview today by looking at my predicted fourth-place finishers: Missouri and Baylor
Predicted finish in '09 (Overall and Big 12 North): Fourth, 4-8, 2-6
Predicted losses in Big 12 play:Nebraska, at Oklahoma State, Texas, at Colorado, Baylor, Kansas (in Kansas City)
Can build around: There are only a few proven products on this year's team, including RB Derrick Washington, who had 19 touchdowns last season (17 on the ground and two through the air) as well as 1,036 yards rushing (5.9 ypc).
Washington will certainly help as Mizzou breaks in new quarterback Blaine Gabbert and three new starters on the offensive line. Senior WRs Jared Perry, who had 41 catches for 567 yards last season with four touchdowns, and Danario Alexander, a 6-5 target, both missed the spring because of offseason surgeries. But both are expected to take up for the loss of Mizzou's top three receivers (Jeremy Maclin, Chase Coffman and Tommy Saunders).
On defense, LB Sean Weatherspoon, a star third-year starter, figures to be an awards candidate and NFL talent after leading the team with 155 tackles last season.
Need to rebuild: Gone are Chase Daniels, Maclin, Coffman and eight senior starters from last year's defense, including hard-hitting S William Moore and DT Ziggy Hood, who is now backing up Casey Hampton in Pittsburgh. And don't forget the loss of amazingly accurate K Jeff Wolfert.
Throw in the fact that both the offensive and defensive lines are breaking in three new starters, and you're basically starting over in Columbia this season.
Even Gary Pinkel's offensive and defensive coordinators are new as OC Dave Christensen is now the head coach at Wyoming, and DC Matt Eberflus accepted an assistant job with the Cleveland Browns. Pinkel promoted from within (QB coach David Yost is now OC and LB coach Dave Steckel is now DC). Rebuilding with first-year coordinators is a huge red flag.
Final analysis: Pinkel had one winning season in his first four at Missouri before Chase Daniel took over at QB and helped Mizzou go 37-16 the last four years, including a 12-2 year in 2007. Now, Pinkel begins life without Daniel. Only Pinkel knows how well he's recruited or if his new assistants can get everything out of a bunch of new starters.
On paper, it's all a mystery (and frightening) for Tigers' fans. I think it will be rough for Pinkel this season, and we'll see how much he's learned as a head coach in the good days, including two contract extensions, the last four years.
Predicted finish in '09 (Overall and Big 12 North): Fourth, 8-4, 5-3
Predicted losses in Big 12 play: at Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas
Can build around: Art Briles took Houston from nowhere to four bowl games in five years, and accelerated his chances for success at Baylor by recruiting QB Robert Griffin, who completed 59.9 percent of his passes and threw a Division I-A record 209 passes without an interception to start his career.
Throw in WRs Kendall Wright, David Gettis and Mikail Baker and RB Jay Finley, and the offense has some weapons. Baylor went from 113th to 21st in rushing nationally last season, much of that because of Griffin's legs keeping defenses on their heels. Center J.D. Walton is a huge asset on an offensive line that needs rebuilding. On defense, Baylor has Penn State transfer Phil Taylor (6-4, 355) at defensive tackle, and Briles thinks he's one of the best DTs in the country.
The linebackers are two-deep, headed by tackle machine Joe Pawelek, who had 128 tackles and six interceptions last season. Baylor is also loaded at safety with seniors Jordan Lake and Jeremy Williams (Lake has 217 tackles the last two seasons).
Need to rebuild: It all starts up front, and Baylor has huge question marks on both lines. And that's not where you want questions if you're trying to end 13 straight seasons with a losing record.
Briles went and signed three junior college transfers to help replace tackles Jason Smith and Dan Gay. If those players don't work out, Baylor is in trouble on the O-line and will be relying on Robert Griffin to run for his life this season, which could cause a sophomore slump. On the D-line, Baylor has no sign of a pass rush, which means it will have to blitz to get pressure – always dicey.
Final analysis: The schedule is full of potholes and opportunity. The Bears open at Wake Forest, which looks like a loss. Then, Baylor gets a rebuilding Connecticut in Waco followed by winnable games at home against Northwestern State and Kent State.
If Baylor is going bowling this season, it will have to win on the road at Iowa State and at Missouri, a team it nearly beat last year in Waco with Chase Daniels and Co. still playing for the Tigers. I think Baylor wins both of those games and pulls my BIG 12 UPSET OF THE YEAR over Nebraska in Waco on Oct. 31.
I like Baylor to win at Texas A&M and to upset Texas Tech in Arlington at Cowboys Stadium on Nov. 28. Obviously, if Griffin doesn't have protection without Smith and Gay on the line like he had last year, he could slide and Baylor's season could collapse. I'm betting that Briles found enough help on the O-line to let Griffin create some things offensively.
Tomorrow: My third-place finishers in both divisions – Oklahoma State and Colorado


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Orchestra of the Undead breathes life into score
They're called the Orchestra of the Undead.
The scrappy bunch of professional musicians who don skeleton paint and black T-shirts bearing rib cages and spines can't play dead when their "demon conductor" David Pierce takes up his baton in the makeshift bandstand for the beginning strains of Cirque du Horror.
This marks the fourth year for some of the musicians to put on face paint and make an occasional ugly noise or two in the spirit of Halloween.
"I wasn't quite sure what to expect," said French horn player Brian Brown, who joined the Orchestra of the Undead last year. "I've played some musicals, and I've played some jazzy stuff, but nothing like this. Musicians don't have a lot of opportunities to play this kind of music."
Cirque is the brainchild of Pierce, a composer, arranger and freelance trombonist who lives in Denton. Pierce wrote the musical — a collection of disparate musical sketches about witches, mad men, lonely hearts and circus sideshow monsters — when he simply grew tired of the dearth of music written for Halloween.
He changes the show each year, keeping a few numbers as a skeleton (pun intended) for a show that entertains all ages with colorful sound and lots of witty jokes. Pierce is a fan of horror movies and scary stuff, but he knows just how far to push it.
Brown and his mates in the orchestra play a score that narrates, propels plot and develops characters dreamed up by Pierce.
"I was really pleased once I saw what we'd be playing," Brown said.
The French horn is the regal diplomat of the orchestra, sounding mellow and deft, triumphant or mild. Brown said he makes use of effects during Cirque.
"Oh yeah," he said. "We get to use some mutes, and you can also close your hand inside the bell [of the horn] and get a really raspy sound. I really like getting to play like this."
Brown said he plays plenty of symphonic "Hollywood"-style sounds, laying the part a trombonist would take in a bigger group.
This year, Pierce composed music for the keyboard, electric guitar and acoustic guitar, electric and upright bass, drums, euphonium, French horn and two trombones. One musician is playing saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet in the ensemble.
Eric Pulido, the guitarist of Denton's Midlake, is singing the role of a lovesick head of a two-headed monster.
"Dave and I have been friends for a long time," Pulido said. "I was a thespian in high school and did a lot of musicals then. I've been wanting to be in it [Cirque du Horror], but [Midlake] has been on tour during the fall for the last few years. Now that we're in the studio and not touring, I could do it."
Pulido shares the stage with jazz musician Bach Norwood, who sings the role of the monster head that is preoccupied with food, rather than love, in the number "Hideous as Me."
"I just hope I remember the lyrics," Pulido said. "I really think, as a whole, musically and visually, a show is supposed to entertain. I think sometimes people can lose sight of that. But when you're playing music, you're supposed to entertain."
In the song, Pulido sings what Brown describes as "almost a straight-up Broadway song" about a young woman he's seen. He laments being a two-headed monster, doomed to spend his life with just his other head.
Norwood interrupts the ballad with a rapid-fire homage to food — all kinds of food, and especially processed food.
This year's musical riffs on high-fashion ridiculousness and waif-thin models. It brings the Egyptian patron of embalmers and attendant of mummies — Anubis, the jackal. It muses over a figure that arrives with a cold, harsh winter.
Drummer Ryan Jacobi said he quickly learned what a serious business Halloween is for Pierce.
"David's charts are gorgeous," said Jacobi, an alumnus of Denton band Oso Closo. "A lot of times, when you get charts for an arrangement, you almost can't read them. Not David's. You could tell he'd been working on this music for a long time."
Like other members of the orchestra, Jacobi said the music is easy on the ears, but not always easy to play. Pierce infuses the show with a touch of gypsy folk music, a flash of pop, and the sounds that played in old movie houses while silent films rolled.
"It's not the easiest music. In '13 Seconds,' with so many tempo changes in one song, if I don't get them all, I can mess everyone up," Jacobi said. "I'm kind of the lead in a lot of this."
That number, about a cold, cruel winter, is an endurance feat.
"I'm basically sustaining a really long crescendo," Jacobi said. "It's a question of: Can I start at level one and end on level 10, and can I play it from one to 10 evenly throughout the song? Not easy."
The musicians were stumped when asked what their favorite scary movie music is. (No one mentioned either the spine-tingling "Tubular Bells" from The Exorcist or the sensual, macabre gypsy music by Polish composer Wojciech Kilar in Bram Stoker's Dracula.)
Brown could name a score he wouldn't mind playing.
"I really like the score for Young Frankenstein," he said. "I'd love to keep doing this. I've decided I've had enough of playing music that isn't fun."
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• What: Daylong festival with booths, children's games, a costume parade, live music and the all-ages Halloween musical Cirque du Horror
• When: 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday
• Where: Industrial Street, off East Hickory Street in downtown Denton
• Details: Admission to the festival is free; coffin races and Cirque du Horror include fees. Costumes are encouraged.
• On the Web: http://on.fb.me/SVutP2
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. — Zombie Dash, a children's walk for health, starting at First United Methodist Church's side yard at the corner of Industrial and Sycamore streets. Donations will be accepted for Denton Christian Preschool.
10 a.m. — Festival and vendor booths open
1 p.m. — Coffin races on Hickory Street
3:30 p.m. — Salsa cook-off tasting outside Dan's Silverleaf
7 p.m. — Twilight costume parade around the Square
In the Pumpkin Patch (children's area)
10:30 to 11 a.m. — Children's costume parade
11 a.m. — Clowns on Fire
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Denton Childbloom Guitar Program concerts
12:30 to 1 p.m. — Spooky story time with Thom Anderson and Chuck Voellinger
2:30 to 4 p.m. — Miss Polly and Her Tiny Big Band
Main Stage
2 p.m. — Bonnie and Nick Norris
3 p.m. — CholoRock Dance Theatre
5:30 p.m. — Circus Della Morte sideshow troupe
7:30 p.m. — Mariachi Quetzal
8 p.m. — Bone Doggie & the Hickory Street Hellraisers
Salsa cook-off
Entrants must turn in 2 gallons of salsa at 3 p.m.; entry is $40 for businesses, $30 for individuals. Salsa tasting tickets are $10; tasting begins at 3:30 p.m. For more information and entry forms, visit http://dentonmarket.org/salsa-cook-off
• What: An original Halloween musical by David Pierce
• When: 4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday; 5 p.m. Sunday
• Where: Dan's Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St.
• Details: Tickets cost $15 for adults, $7 for children and for seniors 65 and older. For reservations, visit www.cirqueduhorror.com or www.danssilverleaf.com .


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Just a small snippit in todays Indy Star saying that former Pacer from the ABA days, John Barnhill died in California yesterday.
Not many will remember him but I had the pleasure of talking to him a couple of times. The paper says he was born in Southern Indiana but raised in Illinois....for whatever that is worth.
RIP John


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'Tyler Ennis opened the scoring with his 6th of the season, tucked a shot under the crossbar from inside the near faceoff circle. It stayed that way until 1:14 of the 2nd period when Dion Phaneuf blasted the puck by Miller. Steve Ott appeared to give Buffalo the lead later in the 2nd, but the goal was waived off due to a goaltender interference call on Kevin Porter.'
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What did we ever do before we could buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts at the market? They're a staple in my kitchen.ReplyDelete
I love the sound of your chicken with tarragon mustard. Yum!ReplyDelete
First recipe, my comment…ooh, that looks fab. Second recipe, my comment…ooh, that looks even better. And so on and so forth. They all sound and look fantastic! I'll have to try my hand at them!ReplyDelete
So happy to hear that people are liking these favorites!ReplyDelete
I love Friday Favorites. I scour your website looking for new things to cook but somehow there's always something on your favorites that I've missed! Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
Kalyn, I always love your roundups like this one. They're like one-stop recipe "shopping"! :-) Next time I have chicken breasts and am at a loss for a recipe or one to satisfy my particular craving of the moment, I'll just find this post. I'd say right now that the pesto chicken is calling my name. Had pesto chicken salad at a girlfriend's house recently and it was fantastic! I can tell all of these are divine just from the descriptions and photos.ReplyDelete
Very very happy to read your chicken round up. We eat A LOT of boneless skinless chicken in our house and sometimes I just flat run out of ideas.ReplyDelete
Thanks Kalyn!
A veritable smorgasbord of chicken-y treats! Thanks Kalyn.ReplyDelete
You're baked pesto chicken is a favorite in my house too!ReplyDelete
I'm eager to try the other recipes in the next few weeks.
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I have made the baked pesto chicken for my family several times and they LOVE it! Big hit! When ever I put the chicken in the pan with the sauce, I also add sliced mushrooms to bake with the chicken! The mushrooms taste great with the sauce!ReplyDelete
I did however make the chicken tarragon, and was not impressed. I don't think my taste buds liked the taste of the tarragon.
Thanks all. I do like the idea of adding mushrooms to this, but wonder if they make it watery?ReplyDelete
Tarragon is definitely a strong flavor. I would not make this with dried tarragon, but I personally love the flavor of fresh tarragon.
Thanks for all your WONDERFUL recipes!!!ReplyDelete
Your website has become my favorite for recipe ideas! Keep up the great job you do for all of us that are always looking for good recipes! Yummy, Yummy!!!
I'm so happy you're taking the time to comment on Kalyn's Kitchen! I love hearing from people who stop by, especially if you're sharing feedback or asking questions about a recipe I've posted here.
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Nonprofit producers, the backbone of the state's Medical Cannabis Program, say oversight by the New Mexico Department of Health is arbitrary and heavy-handed—and that new rules and regulations imposed in December have done little to alleviate chronic supply problems. Last week, those tensions came to a head with a lawsuit that accuses the DOH of arbitrarily failing to approve qualified producers in a timely fashion.
Paul Livingston, the attorney for the five plaintiffs who filed the case, says the decision to take legal action arose out of "increasing frustration" with several aspects of the program.
"The primary problem seems to be producing not only enough medical cannabis for the patients, but producing a sufficient quality of it at a sufficiently reasonable price," Livingston tells SFR. A key cause of that problem, Livingston says, lies in the DOH's method of certifying new producers to provide cannabis to the program's 3,453 active patients.
According to DOH Harm Reduction Program Manager Dominick Zurlo, who oversees the Medical Cannabis Program, only 25 of the 116 total producers who have applied have been licensed, although no producer applications have been denied.
Producers who applied as long as two years ago say the DOH's selection process has left them in limbo.
Zurlo says delays occur because applications often lack certain details—but when they're complete, DOH employees conduct site visits to inspect proposed production facilities. After the site visit, applications are sent to the health secretary's desk, where Zurlo says it's up to the secretary how many and which applicants to license.
Mark Springer, president of Medical Marijuana Inc., and one of the plaintiffs in the suit, first applied for a license to produce and sell medical cannabis in fall 2009. After some revisions, he says, DOH conducted a site visit in October 2010 at his Santa Fe facility. At the time, he says, Zurlo informed him that the site review and the application were complete and "absolutely acceptable."
But when former DOH Secretary Alfredo Vigil approved six producer licenses in November 2010 and another eight in December, Springer's wasn't among them.
"We were bypassed for arbitrary reasons, and I find that very disappointing," Springer says.
Randy Mazur, an experienced organic grower who applied to be a producer in 2008, says he's had to jump through "unnecessary hoops" to try to have his license approved. Mazur finally had a site visit in December, he says, but is still waiting for new Health Secretary Catherine Torres to make a decision.
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"Secretary Vigil looked at the needs of patients first—supply quantities, geography, delivery system," Zurlo explains. A producer with a less secure delivery system, he says, might have lost out to one that had been in line for less time but offered a better mechanism for distributing medical cannabis to rural areas.
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Working on the Creating Communities project has given me the opportunity to explore lesser-known (at least to me!) aspects of Colorado's neighborhood histories. A few months ago, as we were selecting items to digitize for the Park Hill neighborhood we came across WHG collections pertaining to Camp Alva Adams…Ever heard of it? Me neither (OK I recognize that there are a few of you that know all about it…)
In 1898 a military camp, named after Colorado governor Alva Adams, was established, located at what is now Colorado and 26th, in the Park Hill neighborhood. It was at this camp that the Colorado Volunteer National Guard assembled and prepared for duty in the Spanish-American War. The tide of the war changed quickly and they were instead sent to the Philippines to fight in the Philppine-American War. Also known as the Philippine Insurrection, this little skirmish was between America and the Philippine insurectos who refused to be occupied according to post-war arrangements. Here is where I have to confess my ignorance. Prior to working on this project I have to admit I had not heard of the Philippine-American War. I am discovering that there is still so much about Colorado history that I do not know.
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Obscured beneath the simple words, numbers, shapes, and colors found in much of Robert Indiana's work are essential memories and symbols of the artist's life. Indiana's visual vocabulary is encrypted with personal symbolism. This is particularly evident in his long series of Autoportraits.
To complement The Essential Robert Indiana, on view through May 4, the IMA invites visitors both on-site and online to Create Your Autoportrait using some of the same elements that Robert Indiana incorporates in to his. During the run of the exhibition, IMA staff members will be creating their own Autoportraits and blogging about it.
This 10th and final post in this series features Kate Oberreich, the IMA's membership associate and talented local artist.
The number 7 has always been my lucky number … I was born on the seventh and bought my first home in July … good things seem to happen for me involving the number seven. It's been a such a good number I used it twice (my other lucky number is two).
81 is a simple one — the year I was born.
The words I chose for my Autoportrait involve my passions and important places. When I'm not assisting IMA members, I can be found in my studio painting. I have a BFA in art with an emphasis in painting. Seed & Star is the name of my studio which I share with three other amazing artists.
I spent childhood summers in Petoskey, Michigan, and have made a couple of trips out to Beaver Island (a two-hour ferry ride from Charlevoix). I still try to go back whenever possible.
My favorite color has almost always been purple, but lately grays have been popping up more and more.
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2 Responses to "Creating an Autoportrait: Kate Oberreich"
William Says:
April 28th, 2014 at 11:44 pm
My lucky number is also 7.
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April 29th, 2014 at 9:14 am
It's a good one, William. Thanks!


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The work of Graham Harwood, cofounder of the London based artist group Mongrel, always blurs the border of the obvious and the subconscious, between the surface and the subtexts. Harwood questions common classifications, irritates limited views and usages of technology and ignores any boundaries between what is art-on-the-first-view and whatever it could be.
Harwood started out as an artist during the 1980s. He was involved with publishing initiatives such as the Working Press, underground newspaper, and books such as "Unnatural - techno theory for a contaminated culture." During this time, he produced the first computer-generated graphic novel If Comics Mental. After Harwood trained in new media and learned programming at the end of the 1980s, he was invited to make a piece of work for Video Positive '95 (international video art festival in Liverpool). Disappointed with the state of academic education, Harwood was invited to work at Artec (London Arts Technology Centre) where he provided innovative training for the long-term unemployed. It was here that he received his Arts Council funding to develop Rehearsal of Memory with Artec and ex-trainees to produce the CD-ROM version of the installation. In 1997 Harwood left Artec to form Mongrel, with Matsuko Yokokoji and Richard Pierre-Davis. Mongrel has created collaborative, socially engaged cultural products including National Heritage and the Natural Selection search engine to international acclaim.


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