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This is a really yummy cake which I have made many times, by James Martin (James Martin - Sweet).
Serves: 8-10
Prep: 20 min
Cook: 1 hr 5 min
oil, for greasing
- 225g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 115g caster sugar
- 60g Butter
- 115g golden syrup
- 225ml Milk
Here's how to make it:
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/gas 2.
2. Grease a 25 x 18cm cake tin and line with greased greaseproof paper.
3. Sift the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Stir in the egg and then the caster sugar, mixing well.
4. In a small saucepan, melt the butter and the golden syrup, stirring to mix. Remove from the heat and stir in the milk.
5. Gradually stir the milk mixture into the flour and egg mixture. Stir until smooth, then pour into the prepared tin.
6. Bake for about 1 hour or until the mixture starts to shrink away from the sides of the tin.
7. Remove from the oven and turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
8. Cut into squares and serve, preferably after about 3 to 4 days (kept in an air tight container otherwise it will be a bit stale!) when the parkin will have become nice and sticky.
I adore Parkin Cake but it's so hard to find here in the South East. When I lived in York I remember a little bakery that sold Parkin Cake by either the slice (lump?), whole cake or would make up a certain sized cake if ordered a day or two in advance. They also used to make Parkin Cake of different strengths and I enjoyed a low fat version that the lady used to make for our local slimming class.
A few years ago I decided to try making my own low fat version because the basis of Parkin Cake is very simple and it did not seem as though it would be too hard to adapt to my healthier diet.
Here is the finished recipe and I make at least one Parkin Cake a week, everyone I have given it to enjoys it and no-one has realised yet that it's not just LOW fat but NO fat!
3 Tablespoons of light brown sugar
3 Tablespoons of treacle
1 inch piece of fresh ginger
10 dates, stones removed and chopped small
1 Tablespoon of honey
3 Tablespoons of sultanas
6 Heaped Tablespoons of self raising flour
1/2 Tablespoon of cinnamon, ground ginger, nutmeg - any sweet spices will do but you want 1/2 a tablespoon in TOTAL so bear this in mind when you are mixing your spices. Remember to go easy on the ground ginger as you are already using fresh. An Asian shop by me sells mixed sweet spice, a 1/2 tablespoon of this works very well.
1 teacup full of skimmed milk
2 Tablespoons of light brown sugar
1/2 a teacup of oats
Pre heat the oven to Gas Mark 4.
Place 3 tablespoons of light brown sugar into a large mixing bowl and grate your fresh ginger onto it. Add the treacle and mix very well.
Add the dates, sultanas, honey, self raising flour and the sweet spices that you mixed earlier. Mix well again.
Add the 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar and oats. Mix well.
Add half of the skimmed milk and give it another good mix. Add the rest of the milk and mix well yet again.
Let this mixture stand while you grease a cake tin. Even better if you have a non stick cake tin and this means you do not even have to use this little bit of fat to prepare the cake! Pour your Parkin Cake mixture into the tin and bake for 30 - 40 minutes. Check the cake after 30 minutes and every 2 or 3 minutes after that as you do not want the cake to darken too much in the oven.
Leave it to cool on a wire rack before slicing and enjoying!
My one regret in moving South many years ago is that you just can't find a good Parkin cake in the shops down here - in fact these days you can't even find a bad one!
What is it?
Parkin cake is a traditional Northern cake which was one of the seasonal foods eaten around bonfire night - like toffee apples and treacle toffee it brings back memories of my childhood. Often called Yorkshire Parkin it is widely available throughout the North but not often sold (or even known about) further South. Although I was born in Lancashire my mother was very adept at making a good Parkin and as a child I loved to help her when she made it.
Like many of the old historical recipes the idea seems to have been to fill up hungry stomachs and warm you through. The fact that this cake is packed with oatmeal means that it is good for you as well as tasty as it is said that oats help to reduce your cholesterol - mind you the eggs and milk might not help in that respect! The ginger aids digestion as well as being warming.
What are the ingredients?
There are dozens of recipes around for this cake and most of them vary a little but the key components are as follows:
Self raising Flour - 4oz
Oatmeal - 6oz
Treacle (and/or Syrup) - 8oz - my mum always went for a 50/50 split of treacle and syrup so that is how I make it.
Brown sugar - 4oz
Butter - 4oz
Milk - 1/4 pint
Eggs - 2
Ginger - 2 teaspoons
Basically you mix together the dry ingredients, heat the milk, butter and treacle and blend them together and then pour on to the dry ingredients, mix it all together and pour into a baking tin and bake until well risen. I suggest an oven temperature of 150C/300F/Gas 2 for about an hour. It isn't hard to make but the syrup and treacle are a very sticky and tricky to measure out for that reason.
What does it taste like?
Well that is difficult to describe but I will try. It is slightly similar to a combination of a Jamaican Ginger cake and a Golden Syrup cake but the oatmeal gives it a heavier texture. Having grown up in a household where we ate this regularly it is one of my favourite cakes, made all the more appealing because it is hard to find in the dhops these days. It tastes very treacly and with a ginger kick - certainly much tastier than a lot of the bland confections around these days but probably something of an acquired taste.
Where does it orginate?
Not sure - it was very popular in the North and like a lot of foods around during my childhood it was considered to be 'very good for you' - certainly looking at the components one can see what they were hoping to achieve. Ginger is considered very warming and a good digestive aid, the oatmeal was filling and nourishing so you would feel well satisfied after eating it. Milk, eggs and butter were seen as good foods for a growing child and treacle was once perceived as a medicinal compound in wide use as an antidote to poisons! Not sure about the last one but I guess my Mum thought she was being very caring by baking us a Parkin cake once a week!
Where can you buy it?
In the North in November you should be able to find it in many of the traditional cake shops, in the South it is more difficult. It used to be that Asda and Morrisons, both of which had their roots in the North, stocked it in the run up to Bonfire night. More recently when they have stocked it I have been disappointed with the quality and taste - so my advice would be to have a go at baking it and see what you think! In my view it is good wholesome traditional British fare and I would hate to see it disappear completely.
Adapted from review published by laramax on Ciao (Nov 2006)

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Free Music is a myth. There is no free music. All music comes at a price, if you are willing to pay for it.
Relevant magazine posted an article last week Why Music Should Be Free that has generate huge comment activity and it has certainly caught my attention. Free music is a highly debated topic in my family and circle of friends. I own over 1,000 LPs, 1,500 CDs and I have attended over 1,000 shows. I happily pay a dollar or two more for a CD to purchase it at our locally owned record store than chain behemoths WalMart or Best Buy I think you can guess where I stand on the subject of free music.
The article has a few absurdities presented with the earnest sobriety of an article on health care reform the wide increases in life insurance quotes and global warming. So let's dive in:
- Unauthorized downloading of music is not free music. Let's be honest with ourselves that unauthorized downloading of music is illegal. You know they call that stealing where I come from. Read Ian's article a from a few months ago, Christians and Copyright Laws, Is It A Big Deal. You can throw all of the rationalizations at me you want.
- If you cannot afford to buy the music, listen to the radio or buy less beer.
- If you think artists are over paid, you only have one vote in that transaction. Don't listen to their music. If you love the overpaid artist so much you cannot boycott their music, then I guess they are not overpaid.
- If you believe the labels are evil capitalist pigs who artificially jack-up the price of mediocre music to fund their fancy offices, decadent lifestyles and unwarranted bonuses, I agree with you. However, remember that labels sort through mounds of music and at least afford us access to a manageable subset of all the good and bad music being recorded. If you are not willing to pay for their contribution to your music consumption, be prepared to spend hours on the Internet sorting through mounds of bad music to find the great music you like. The labels have taken advantage of their historical position in the distribution chain, but that does not justify your theft.
- I find it hilarious that the article asserting that music be free cites two authors who make strong arguments free music is a cultural right. You can buy Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity and Free: The Future of a Radical Price at Amazon for $10.88 and $21.59 respectively. I guess music should be free but the written word comes at a cost.
- Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future Price of Radical actually states in the article that "bands might give away music for free in hopes of creating and reaching more people who will one day attend a concert or buy an album." I have also heard people add tshirts and other merchandise into that mix. In this logic we are demeaning that which is most valuable (the music) in hopes of selling something that is marginally valuable (merch) or something that that is quickly becoming unaffordable (concert tickets). I also find it odd that Anderson suggests that bands give away music to sell albums, when the large scale expectation of free music diminishes the very value of the albums they hope to sell in the future. That just makes my head hurt.
- Anderson also states "music was never intended to be a commodity that lived primarily in the transactional, economic space between producer and consumer". I find that odd because in 1890 the player piano was the primary source of music reproduction and the song reels were sold and sales were charted. Even further back, popular and traditional music was distributed through sheet music that was bought and sold and tracked on popularity charts. Throughout our history, we either learned to play an instrument and created our own music or we paid to play or listen to others' music.
I stated earlier that all music comes at a price. I wonder what you are willing to pay for it. Are you willing to suffer the damage to your soul that comes from stealing (or as we try to justify our actions "sharing" or "downloading") music? Beyond the obvious Christian ramifications to Believers, stealing damages the thief, the victim and society. If you believe an artist's music is worth your time to download, space on your hard drive and your time to listen to it, then the music has value. Taking it without paying the artist devalues the artist and the art.
Stealing music pulls a thread from our collective agreement to honor the laws of our society. If you only respect the laws that are convenient for you, why should others honor laws that are inconvenient for them? Is it okay for a stranger to break into your house to sleep on your couch because they did not want to pay for a hotel room? You still had your couch after they spent the night on it? Why did they need your permission?
The logical outcome of this "right" consumers believe we have to freely take the music of musicians will result in the collapse of the economic ecosystem for music and ultimately lead to all musicians being amateurs. I wonder how much great music Thom Yorke would make if he drove a taxi to pay his rent and made music between his double shifts?
200 years ago there was not a commercial infrastructure for music so musicians were supported by patronage. That means the wealthy of the day paid the living expenses of musicians who made music who they liked. Wouldn't it be ironic if the democratization of music distribution led us back to a time where the music available was selected by the wealthy?
I eagerly partake of free music downloads that artists provide, but I don't steal music. I am not willing to pay the price.
Am I out of touch? Are my arguments hyperbolic? Do we have the right to freely consume the creations of others with no support of the artist? Are you not concerned what free music will cost your down the line? Let us know.


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Larry Ellison's billion-dollar lesson
Last night I caught a re-run of a 60 Minutes interview in which Charlie Rose interviews the billionaire Oracle founder, Larry Ellison.
Ellison is not exactly the reigning authority on living a meaningful life—he worships money and power, and has been divorced four times—but he is undeniably someone who has lived fully.
His childhood was not easy: He did not learn he was adopted until, as an adolescent, his stepfather blurted it out one night before dinner.
A description of his roots, according to Wikipedia:
Ellison was born in the Bronx to Florence Spellman, an unwed 19-year-old. His biological father was an Italian-American U.S. Air Force pilot, who was stationed abroad before Spellman realized that she had become pregnant by him.[7] After Larry Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother determined that she was unable to care for him adequately, and arranged for him to be adopted by her aunt and uncle in Chicago.[7] Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison adopted him when he was nine months old. Lillian was the second wife of Louis Ellison, an immigrant who had arrived in the United States in 1905 from Russia.[7] Larry Ellison did not meet his biological mother again until he was 48.[8]
Ellison was raised a Reform Jew. He struggled through college, and then skipped his sophomore year final exams because his adoptive mother had died. He tried again at another school, but eventually dropped out. By age 20, he moved to Northern California where he eventually founded the software development company that would challenge Microsoft.
When Rose recalled that Ellison had spent one month of his life as the richest man in the world, topping his arch-rival Bill Gates, Ellison returned, "That was a grrrreat month."
Ellison is quite the huckster, eager, ambitious, touting his accomplishments at every turn, but who can blame him after his adoptive father raised him with the threat that he'd never amount to anything?
"I had all the disadvantages required for success," he said.
Ellison admits it took him awhile to learn the important things, like greatness isn't a substitute for human closeness.
"One time [when] I was a kid, my sister walked into my room and said, 'Larry, which is more important to you: to be admired or to be loved?' And I looked at my very bright young sister and said, 'Well for me, personally? To be admired.' She looks at me and smiles—"Wrong." Walks out. And it took me awhile to realize that all of us, all of us, want to be loved, that being loved is more important than being admired. It's something we have a hard time accepting."


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Nobody is able to bring Halloween to the big screen quite like Tim Burton! The American film director, has wowed fans with his dark and overly idiosyncratic masterpieces such as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and now his latest spooky addition Frankenweenie!
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A's raise funds for breast cancer education, research
A's raise funds for breast cancer education, research
OAKLAND -- The A's on Sunday raised $53,600 while celebrating the 14th annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day, with proceeds benefiting several cancer foundations.
The American Cancer Society, Cancer Prevention Institute of California and Susan G. Komen for the Cure shared in the funds, and the event has now brought in more than $1.25 million for breast cancer education and research over 14 years.
A special pregame ceremony featured more than 500 Bay Area breast cancer survivors forming a symbolic human ribbon on the field. It marked a dedication to survival, while the release of white doves served as a symbol of hope.


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Keeping a healthy balance between man and nature.
We started Canfield Climbing Clippers in 2003, seeing a need in northwestern lower Michigan for honest, dependable, and reasonably priced tree services.
Being raised on a family farm in the countryside of Buckley in a family of nine children, we worked along side our parents in just about everything we did. We learned that the only job done is a job well done and that working together makes work fun. We still love working together to the end of a job well done.
That family attitude and the hard work of my three brothers is the backbone of Canfield Climbing Clippers. Thank you Jez, Seth, and Jack. Thank you to my wife, Mary, for all her help in the office in addition to all the work she daily puts into our four children and the joy and peace she keeps at home.
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Our mission is to provide our customers with quality work at a reasonable price. We arrive on time, work safely and efficiently, and leave your yard clean and orderly. If extra work needs to be done, we are very workable with pricing. We rely on word of mouth as our primary source of advertising, so pleasing our customers is important to us!


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Health workers will today protest outside two city hospitals over pay.
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Spokesman Ian Mckendrick said: "The Government's talk of a recovery is a joke when our members are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet."
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Developing Servants Where God Has Planted Them
SFS is participating in God's kingdom mission by developing systems of theological education that are affordable, accessible, relevant, and faithful. This week, we are sharing the story of student Paul Gericke and what affordable, accessible, and relevant has meant for him.
What Does That Actually Mean?
Sioux Falls Seminary is called to develop systems of theological education and integrated counseling that are affordable, accessible, relevant, and faithful. This best articulates the ways in which we participate in God's kingdom mission. But what, you may wonder, does that sentence actually mean?
Participating in God's Work: Ephesians 4:12
In writing to the church at Ephesus, Paul writes as one rejoicing in the progress of a beloved people. He has "heard of [their] faith in the Lord Jesus and [their] love toward all the saints," and does "not cease in [giving] thanks for [them], remembering [them] in [his] prayers" (Eph. 1:15-16).
Building on the Past and Looking Toward the Future
Sioux Falls Seminary's future plans are rooted in a belief that God is at work and that we're called to participate in that work. At times, that will mean strengthening what's been done in the past. While other times we'll need to honor the past and look toward the future.
Series - Post 13: What Have We Learned?
Today's article is meant to provide a summary of what we learned over the past twelve weeks as well as links to the various articles. Feel free to share these articles with others. As we stated in the beginning, our hope was to start a conversation around these topics.
Series - Post 12: What Can We Do, Pt. 3
We have been looking at the topic of operational models and student educational debt at seminaries within the Association of Theological Schools. We've spent some time looking at why we care and what we know. Today, we continue providing several practical ideas that may help us move forward.
Cameroon Update: Working Together to Build the Future
Representatives of Sioux Falls Seminary and Taylor Seminary have just returned from Cameroon where a growing partnership in theological education is taking shape with the Cameroon Baptist Convention and its two seminaries.
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We've been looking at practical ideas that may help us address the issue of student debt. It is a multi-faceted concern, and we believe institutions must attack it from three angles: cost reduction, revenue generation, and curriculum development. Today, we will explore revenue generation.
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Today we give thanks for the service of Dr. David J. Draewell, former Sioux Falls Seminary president, who died Sunday morning, March 13, 2016. The entire seminary community offers our condolences and prayers to Betty, Tim and Julie, and the entire Draewell family.
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Hera Lighting [1] has made some recent personnel changes.
The company added a new South Central sales region and promoted Daniel Shaver to Outside Sales Manager for the this territory. It also hired Elizabeth Burroughs as the new Inside Sales Representative for Canada.
Shaver has been with Hera for two years as Inside Sales for Canada and has helped grow the Canadian market during his time with the company.
"Daniel has worked very hard up to this point and when we made the decision to add a sales territory, Daniel was naturally our first choice," says Brad Stewart, Director of Sales. Shaver was born and raised in Chattanooga, TN, and graduated from the University of The South in 2007.
Burroughs has been hired to replace Shaver.
Burroughs was born and raised in Georgia and is a recent marketing graduate of Georgia State University.
"Elizabeth has a great skill set for this new position," Stewart says. "We're excited to have her on the team and look forward to mentoring her through a long career at Hera Lighting."
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OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI/Ole Miss Athletics) – Mike Smith, who led the McNeese State softball program to three-straight 30-plus win seasons in his three years with the Cowgirls, has been named the head softball coach at Ole Miss, athletics director Ross Bjork announced Thursday.
Smith, who led McNeese State to back-to-back Southland Conference regular season championships in 2013 and 2014, its first since 1994, brings 16 years of head coaching experience to Oxford and a career record of 748-224. He has been named the Southland Conference Coach of the Year in each of the past two seasons.
"As our process unfolded, it became crystal clear Mike Smith is the perfect fit to build our softball program into a contender in the SEC and on the national stage," Bjork said. "His contagious persona, energy, passion and knowledge of the game of softball was evident within minutes of our first meeting. Recruiting is key in college athletics and Mike has the right relationships to showcase Ole Miss to the best and brightest around the country. Mike is highly regarded in the softball world and he is simply a winner in all aspects of coaching and life. We are excited to welcome Mike, Ellen, Ashlee and Tyler to the Ole Miss family."
"From the first contact with Lynnette Johnson and Ross to every individual person I met, including the committee, I felt like it was home and family," Smith said. "They made my family feel welcome and part of a family. It just felt like home. Family comes first and that was a big decision for us. There was no second guessing. It was a great fit for the Smith family."
"We want to try to win right away," said Smith about the Ole Miss softball program. "We will be committed to doing everything we can to being successful and that starts with myself and my staff going out and recruiting the best payers locally and across the country. We're going to be as good as we can be and do all the small things. It's not about the outcome, it's about the process. It'll be a tough process at first, but the goal at the end is to be a successful program. Something I've instilled everywhere I've been is to be the best you can be 100 percent of the time and give it your all and the rest will take care of itself."
The Cowgirls went 40-17 during the regular season in 2014, a school record for wins in a season, and posted a 3-1 record against Southeastern Conference opponents Alabama, LSU and Texas A&M. The Cowgirls finished the season with an RPI ranking of No. 46 and won the Southland Conference regular season title by 4.5 games with a 20-6 record.
In addition to Smith being named SLC Coach of the Year in 2014, the Cowgirls also had the conference's player of the year, hitter of the year and pitcher of the year. In all, the Cowgirls had nine players named to either the SLC first, second, third or honorable mention teams.
Under Smith's tutelage, the Cowgirls had two players named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-South Region team this season in outfielder Alanna DiVittorio and pitcher Jamie Allred.
In 2013, his second season with McNeese State, Smith had five players named to the All-SLC team and four named to the All-SLC Academic Team. On the field, the Cowgirls tied a then-program record with 38 wins, going 38-13.
In his first season with McNeese State in 2012, Smith led the Cowgirls to a 3-1 win over Arizona State, the defending national champions and preseason No. 1 team in the country at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona. McNeese State went on to go 34-21 that season.
Prior to McNeese State, Smith coached for eight seasons at California Baptist where he won the NAIA National Championship in 2009, and finished in the top-six in the country all eight years, including seven years finishing inside the top-four. The Lancers won their conference championship and advanced to the NAIA World Series all eight years, and won 60 or more games in each of Smith's final four seasons, concluding with a school-record 66 wins in 2011.
Smith was the interim head coach at UC Riverside prior to his time at California Baptist, and in the four years prior to that he served as head coach at Biola, where he won one league title, had a 50-win season and a 10th-place finish at the NAIA World Series.
In 2011, he served as the head coach of the USA team that played in the Prague International Softball Championships.
A graduate of The Master's College in Santa Clarita, California, Smith was a two-time all-district pitcher on the college baseball team and went on to play in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, reaching the Class AA level. He also played for a number of independent league teams from 1994 to 2001.
Smith was a Western Baseball League Pitcher of the Year with the Mission Viejo (Calif.) team in both 1997 and 1998, and in 2000 was the MVP of the WBL championship series with the St. George team.
Smith also served as a pitching coach for the Biola baseball team from 1996-1998, and was a teacher and coach at Heritage Christian School in Anaheim, California, from 1993-96, where he was head coach for baseball and boys and girls basketball teams, an assistant coach in football and an assistant athletic director.
A San Diego native, Smith and his wife, Ellen, have two children, Ashlee and Tyler.


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Teaching the wife a lesson...Funny or not?
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I laughed, too! Soooo funny! Thanks for the laugh! :)
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Yes, that was funny. HOWEVER........being the daughter of a responsible gun owner and hunter safety instructor, and the granddaughter of a retired game warden, that video made my heart sink a little. The first rule of gun safety is: An unloaded gun is a dangerous weapon. Which basically means a lot of people are killed while playing around with guns they 'think' are unloaded, and/or goofing off while handling one.
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Sadly I don't think anyone here can answer your question definitively. Each situation is different.
With that said, it sounds as if your husband's affair on an emotional level has gone underground and the two are still very chemically connected to each other.
You need to ensure no contact.
Has he sent a no contact letter that you have approved?
If not, he must do so.
Also, ask him to take a polygraph to determined if it's an emotional or physical affair at this point.
Shirly Glass, in not just friends talks about having a detective fund, so you can check on him.
You are not being a fool. It seems as if you caught him with his hand in the cookie jar.
You can't have a true chance at reconciliation until he goes no contact with the OW.
Edited to add: Also if the OW is married please tell her husband, that alone may ensure no more contact.
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You need to make sure he sees this as a big deal right now. It sounds like you caught him in the same lie before, he said, 'oh, okay, it's nothing, and I'll stop if you want' but then went back to it. It was a lie by omission, maybe he could try to play dumb. Now it's a to-your-face lie.
He needs to do a no contact letter and stand by it. He needs to be very transparent with you- you need full access to his phone at all times, and to know where he is and who he is with at all times. You don't trust him, and have good reason not to.
Then, while you may not want to talk about it all the time, you need to talk about it. Find out what it was, how long it was, how it started, how he rationalized it, how he is going to do something else in the future. Get the books. Get into counseling. This is really happening, and it really is a big deal. If he can't face the music, he isn't about to change his behavior.


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Two years ago, Chelsea Heights Middle School eighth-grader Alberto Rosario didn't know the difference between a rook and a pawn. Now, he's the top middle school chess player in the Atlantic City school district.
On June 11, Alberto was crowned grand champion after defeating his chess rival and fellow Chelsea Heights student Marc Motta at the city's first districtwide chess tournament.
"It feels really good," the 14-year-old said of his win. "It's the first time I ever won a chess tournament, and the first time I've ever been entered in one."
Chelsea Heights Middle School Principal Ken Flood brought chess into the school district at the start of the 2011-12 school year when he established the school's weekly chess club.
The club, which is coached by northern New Jersey-based chess tutors and nationally ranked masters Yaacov Norowitz and Mikhail Kruglyak, was an instant success, and this year added a second weekly meeting. Flood and administrative assistant Jennifer Jewayni also have sought to expand the game's prominence in Atlantic City schools, organizing districtwide chess teaching days at Chelsea Heights so all the city's students can benefit from the masters' instruction.
With the game growing in popularity among his students and others, Flood said, hosting a tournament was the natural next step.
"All the students were just hungry for a tournament," Flood said. "They were hungry for the competition."
Kruglyak began playing chess in his native Ukraine when he was just 4 years old. He immigrated to New Jersey in 1992 at age 10, meeting and befriending Norowitz through the game, despite knowing little English and Norowitz speaking no Russian.
When he and Norowitz first started teaching the club, the students knew little about chess, but now they have become proficient at the game. Establishing a chess culture at the school, he said, can only be to the students' benefit.
"The statistics are very positive," Kruglyak said. "The kids that play chess, they perform better on standardized tests and they go on to have a brighter future and get more undergraduate degrees and get better positions in the world."
Norowitz and Kruglyak went to school together and shared a chess teacher, who early on realized their potential, bringing them to tournaments. In the years since, their prowess on the chess board has taken them around the world.
While Norowitz, like Kruglyak, believes chess offers academic benefits for players, the fun of the game also makes it compelling for kids.
"There's very few things you can enjoy from, literally, ages 4 or 5 or 6 till when you're 96," Norowitz said. "It's just something you can really enjoy for your whole lifetime."
Sixty-four students from Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Martin Luther King and Chelsea Heights schools attended the tournament and were divided into groups according to skill level. Each skill level was given first-, second- and third-place trophies, and all participants received T-shirts.
Alberto and Marc, who competed in the advanced tier, are the most dedicated chess players in Chelsea Heights club, and often spar. Regardless of whether either goes on to become a master, Flood said, they're sure to benefit from their play.
"It works all around," Flood said. "These are life skills these young men have developed behind the chess board that they'll use in their everyday life."
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The latest version of Adobe's ubiquitous photo management and workflow software adds new Book and Map modules, new video features, soft proofing and improved selective adjustment tools. It also has new backend processing (Process Version 2012)for improved noise control and better overall image quality.
Adobe Lightroom 4 First Impressions
With more and more photographers using Lightroom as their one and only digital photo editing program, the aggressive new pricing should make Lightroom 4 the de facto do-it-all photography software for almost all serious photographers. Most of the improvements were announced with the Lightroom 4 beta, including the addition of new Book and Map modules, better video support; with soft proofing and enhanced selective adjustments added to the Develop module. Continue reading →
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Submitted by Franglais a Expert
Date Reviewed: May 20, 2012
Strengths: Compatibility with all major RAW formats. Common look to the end result
Industry standard, lots of documentation to help you, people who know it
Well thought out user interface, easy to understand
Weaknesses: Still rather expensive
Library manipulation tool is weak
Doesn't follow Windows best practices (thousands of tiny files impact performance)
Image miniature display is slow
Bottom Line:
I started using Lightroom with LR3. My teacher used it and I wanted a single tool to handle both the RAW from both my Nikon DSLR's and my Canon compact. My first impressions were negative:
- LR3 was outrageously expensive for what it was (LR4 is more reasonable but it's still a lot)
- I thought it was very weak as an image library manipulation tool. With ACDSee I had been used to being able to rename files with wildcards, move folders easily onto external drives - nothing like that in LR3. I quickly dropped the idea of using LR to manage my image library and stick with ACDSee so no comments on that part for LR4
- I realised that LR3 was creating thousands of tiny files on my hard drive to use as miniatures. This is not good practice. File creation is an expensive process on a computer system. Having too many files can fragment your disk and over time it can degrade your system's performance. I was also hearing stories about large libraries being slow to open. I decided to have several LR libraries with just a few thousand images in each and so far it's been OK
However I was delighted with the user interface. It was easy to understand, even for a beginner. I could see that it was presenting simply things that I knew how to do from the more technical interface of the Nikon and Canon tools (exposure, highlight recovery, fill light, crop, straighten, saturation, contrast..). There were also some new tricks that I didn't know (Vibrance..). All this in a tool that was stable and doesn't crash (unlike NX2).
I didn't really pay any attention to LR4 until I realised that I needed it for the D800. I didn't notice any difference in using it till I Photo John said write a review and I looked into it. It seems to be even easier than before to get back burnt out highlight information. And the Brush tool where you can select a progressive zone for modification is just wonderful.
I still haven't explored all it can do but I'm enthusiastic about LR4 - as a RAW editor only.
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Price Paid: $75.00
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Similar Products Used: Nikon NX2, the Canon RAW editor, ACDSee Pro, Paint Shop Pro
Type of photography: People
Submitted by armando_m a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2012
Strengths: Image quality
Color rendition
Amazing shadow recovery from RAW files
Ease to quickly browse to a large number of images
Non destructive editing
Accesible price
Weaknesses: Exporting a large number of files is slow
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I only used Capture nx2 in the past, I did try LR3 but didn't like it, when the LR4 beta came out I tried and fell in love with the develop module! For example I always struggled with the skin tones and in LR4 it was a breeze, it can recover shadows like anything else keeps amazing detail and comes out looking natural, really impressive! Highlights also does it very well, here the limitation is probably more the camera sensor than LR4. The brushes are very versatile, any adjustment done in the basics section can be applied with a brush, really nice ! HSL section in the develop module is also very nice just put the mouse over where an adjustment is needed and slide it up or down , fine tune it if you like moving the slider on the right panel. In the library I like the ability to import to the catalog, keeping my files where I have them, no duplication. I also like that I have the ability to do some video editing and create books directly from LR4, but I have no tried this last two features. I do not like that resizing of images is in one step, and seems the sharpening I can do is lacking some of the controls I have on applications that can do unsharp mask / high pass filter. It integrates nicely with the nik software plugs ins, although this creates a copy of the file, so it doesn't modify the original, but it is not as simple to go back in history steps to undo some adjustment.
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Submitted by Iceman2058 a Expert
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2012
Strengths: Workflow, image quality, adjustments, brush tool (now with more adjustments available).
Weaknesses: Speed (lack of), requires NASA supercomputer levels of memory.
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I've been using Lightroom since version 3, and was eager to try out 4 as soon as it came out. In terms of functionality and results, I have not been disappointed. In addition to still looking great in terms of IQ, the adjustments have been organized in a more logical manner. Highlight and shadow recovery have been simplified (although it is still a bit confusing to distinguish between highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks...but their effect is easy to experiment with, so you quickly pick up on when to use which). There are a number of adjustments available, starting from simple cropping, through general exposure control, region-specific exposure control, of course white balance in general but also specific control over hue and saturation of individual color bands, the all important "Presence" controls (clarity, vibrancy, saturation) - aka the "masterpiece buttons" :-). Noise reduction looks awesome, crank it a bit too much and you get that "plasticky" look and feel, but used within "normal" range it works great.
Brushes and build-in grad filters also work well, to give you finer control over specific areas of a picture (not just limited to exposure either - white balance, clarity, noise, sharpness controls are available with the brushes and filters).
Finally, it also does a good job correcting for your lenses (vignetting etc), and has a bunch of options for post-crop treatment, to simulate a heavy vignette for example if you wanted to.
In terms of workflow, it works great for helping you deal with filing of your pictures. My workflow is to import all pictures from a session in RAW, review them in the Develop module (which allows you to already start making minor adjustments as you are looking for the keepers and the ones with potential). It is easy to rate and/or reject photos from this pane, and you can then choose to just remove photos from the library or delete from disk altogether as you thin down your crop (pun fully intended).
I export directly from the Develop module, I don't do much with Slideshow, Print, and Web, so I won't comment on those.
Now for the bad: it is very memory hungry (notably more so than version 3), and it often gets stuck on my 4GB laptop. You don't loose work, but it makes it painful flipping between photos, exporting etc. I often have ot exit and restart it to be able to finsh exporting for example. I can only hope Adobe intend to address this in upcoming versions (will get onto 4.1 RC2 shortly to try that out!).
One of the HUGE advantages of Lightroom that should be pointed out is that it is non-destructive in editing. I.e. it makes no changes to original files, it just remembers the adjustments you have applied to a file. It keeps good track of all the adjustments you made as well (visible in the History pane), so you can roll back one or several steps as you wish. This is helpful when recovering from a crash, as you can see that what you had been doing is indeed still there.
All in all, it is a great piece of software, basically it is all I use for post-processing, only the performance issues keep it from getting a full 5 stars from me. Even so, after the price drop from Adobe it is a no-brainer!
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History Live: "Cancer Therapies: 19th Century to Tomorrow"
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 5:30pm
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The Wistar Institute is pleased to partner with the Chemical Heritage Foundation on this special History Live event which will focus on the past, present, and future of cancer research, regulation, and drug development.
"Cancer Therapies: 19th Century to Tomorrow" will feature a conversation with Dr. Dario C. Altieri, the director of The Wistar Institute Cancer Center, and Stephen J. Lippard, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Audience members can look forward to opening remarks and brief individual presentations followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A session.
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SOCHI, RUSSIA - She is the gold medallist from the Vancouver Games and reigning world champion, yet you might be surprised how little time Kaillie Humphries actually spends in her sled.
Humphries and her bobsledding brakeman, Heather Moyse, came to Russia as one of Canada's top gold medal hopes, a solid bet to repeat their triumph up in Whistler four years ago.
So how much time does the queen of her sport take to be the best female bobsled pilot in the world? Humphries has done the math and you might be surprised at the results.
"They said it takes 10 years to build a really good bobsleigh pilot," Humphries said as she prepared to make Olympic history in her sport Tuesday. "I'm at Year 8 right now.
"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect any sport and in 10 years I only have 19 hours of actual bobsleigh driving. If you think about it, each run is about 50 to 58 seconds depending and on each track we get six training runs and two race runs.
"That's a couple of hundred runs total and then you take seven months off where it's physically impossible to do the sport."
All the more impressive, then, that Humphries has arrived here in form and as a much more serious medal contender than at the 2010 Olympics. While Humphries and Moyse aren't a lock for gold, they are clearly the sled to catch.
With four more years to refine her skills in the sport and mature as an athlete, she is reunited with Moyse after employing three other brakemen at various points since her Whistler win. Add that all together and she has a different mindset than she did in that scintillating win at the 2010 Games.
"Going into Vancouver it was a home Olympics and I was the underdog," Humphries said. "Now I'm going in as the reigning champion in a foreign country. Everything has positives and negatives. One does not outweigh the other.
"Vancouver forever will be extremely special, but I plan to make new memories and take away something from every one."
While she hasn't lacked for confidence — a necessity in a sport that requires going for broke, twisting and turning down a mountainside at breakneck speed — Humphries is certainly sounding enthused of her chances Tuesday.
With a victory, Humphries and Moyse would join German Sandra Kiriasis as the only women to win multiple Olympic medals in bobsleigh.
"Mentally I'm stronger and physically I feel like I'm in a great position right now," Humphries said. "It takes a whole package and it's about balance.
"There's definitely pressure for sure, but I put the most pressure on myself to repeat that gold medal-winning performance. The pressure I put on myself is greater than anything anybody else can put on me."


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There are a lot of small things I've neglected blogging about and I figured I could make up for it in one post that covers a bunch of ground.
Self employed Ledgard: The obvious one has been watching Gretchen transition from the steady paycheck comfort of Microsoft to self employment. Our plan was for one of us to try this (my dad also runs his own dental practice) at least once and I'm glad it's been her. Saying that running your own business is hard work is an understatement, but I think she and Zoe have done great. I've of course blogged about this, but it's been the catalyst for other changes.
Alternative Transportation: Without the comfort of carpooling with Gretchen to work every day I decided that I didn't like the standard 10mph crawl into work every morning. I bought a bike and started biking into work 3 days a week. After 600 miles travelled I'm happy to say that it seems to have stuck. I can actually bike the 7.5 miles 4 minutes faster than I can drive it during rush hour! Microsoft is good enough to have brought back towels and I have showers in my building so it works out great... pun intended.
Team Management: Leading a team at Microsoft is one thing, but this summer I had the opportunity to manage the baseball team I was formerly just playing on. It involved recruiting, scouting, drafting, and generally trying to ensure that all 17 "employees" were having the fun they paid for. It's been a lot of fun, we finished in 2nd place, and I'm still learning a lot. If you're over 27, live around Seattle, and want to play baseball feel free to send me mail. 🙂
Interstate Travel: Gretchen and I completed our largest road-trip in the "family truckster" yet. We took the kidmanals down to Sonoma for some wine tasting mixed with a side of work. Driving up the PCH is great. I was struck by how much CA uses solar engergy for road signs... Soon after we slaughtered some ghost crabs on the gulf coast in a not so clever attempt to rescue them from the pool they had fallen into. If we'd only had wikipedia on the beach we might have known that daylight + seagulls + not being buried in the sand = seagull feeding time.
LCD HDTV: I bought a 40" LCD HDTV and can now enjoy the world series (go Tigers!!!) in glorious HD. I'd recommend one for everyone if you spend more than a couple hours a week in front of a TV now that the costs have come down so much. Of course, as is the case in the world of technology, a week after I purchased this set over a 1080p set the xbox guys decided that they would start supporting 1080p later this fall. Oh well, in a few years the wife will let me get a new TV again.
Blogging: It's truly the new world. I have more blogs than employees on my team now! It reminds you daily that if you manage people you should talk to them about blogging and if you blog you should talk to your management about blogging. You never know when you are going to be mentioned in the press and you don't want that to be the first time your management hears about your blog... did I mention I'm on a corporate blogging panel at the Blog Business Summit? 🙂
That's all I can remember for now. Like I said, this post was not worth reading, but at least now I feel like I covered some forgotten topics.


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Recently I've been trying to get back into jogging (hence less photography – have you tried a 3 mile jog with a D70 round your neck? ). I'm shocked at how out-of-shape I am, however I hope to improve fast!
When taking photos like this I'm never too sure if I'm crossing into someones private space, or whether I'm just making a normal observation of someones public behavious…
A few members of the local camera club were noticably voiciferous about this at a meeting last week – re-iterating that, under UK law, anyone who's in public is "fair game" in photography terms. I think it's important I maintain a balance between legality, and perhaps old-fashioned good manners.
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Now open just under two weeks, House of Blues Houston has immediately set a high standard — not just for other music venues in the city, but for itself. A corporate-owned multimillion-dollar shrine to a style of music born of racism, poverty and deprivation is by definition ironic (at the least), but walk around the place a little and it starts to make a strange kind of sense.
Houston is a city where the blues remains more culturally present than most places — in fact, almost anywhere outside Chicago, Memphis and maybe New Orleans — and in many ways, House of Blues could rightly be called a 21st-century juke joint. Albeit most certainly one with 21st-century prices.
HOB's corporate parent, partially Houston-based entertainment megacorp Live Nation, may have spared no expense, but everything about the multistory facility at 1204 Caroline is obviously designed to foster a down-home, intimate atmosphere. The dining room is festooned with folk-art portraits of stock Southern scenes and musicians like Janis Joplin; the furniture could have come from the parlor of some New Orleans antebellum estate.
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Thunderbolt Special runs through February at Project Row Houses, open to the public 12-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. A slideshow of the installation and interview with Dan Aykroyd are online atblogs.houstonpress.com/rocks.
And don't think House of Blues doesn't know its local history. A pantheon of Texas blues greats, including Houstonians Lightnin' Hopkins and Albert Collins, peers out over the dining room from a massive mural. Upstairs, the lounge adjacent to the 1,200-capacity main hall has been christened the Bronze Peacock, HOB's tip of the fedora to the Fifth Ward nightclub owned by Houston record mogul Don Robey where T-Bone Walker, among many others, became a star.
As a venue, the music hall is A-plus. The upstairs balcony seating is virtually on top of the stage, and there's not a bad sightline in the downstairs general-admission area. The sound is impeccable, and the drinks are as stiff as they are steep.
Noise lost his HOB virginity, as it were, in about the coolest way imaginable: Watching Jay-Z and his dozen-man band tear through the Brooklyn rapper's phone-book-thick catalog — topped by the thunderstruck, "Back in Black"-borrowing "99 Problems" — as Bun B, several Houston Texans (and Texans Cheerleaders) and the rest of the sold-out house got their swerve on in high style. Missing, strangely enough, was Mrs. Jay-Z, but he got a big laugh when the band lit into the first few bars of his and Beyoncé's 2003 hit "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" before abruptly switching to another song.
Two nights later, the invite-only, see-and-be-seen grand-opening gala headlined by the Blues Brothers Band was a textbook manifestation of House of Blues' strange duality. Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and their revue of largely Texas-born top session musicians stoked the revelry with R&B/soul chestnuts like "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Land of 1,000 Dances" (Noise's pick of the night) and plenty of mugging, including the ever-popular bring-a-bunch-of-hot-girls-onstage-to-dance maneuver.
The show was exciting and fun as all get-out; Noise is fairly certain there were a few more empty seats than usual at several leading Houston churches Sunday. But deep down, much deeper than anyone on hand cared to delve with all that dancing going on, it felt somehow hollow: the blues as more of a brand than a band.
This, of course, is House of Blues' critics' chief complaint: The chain has sacrificed the blues' integrity at the altar of capitalism, turning one of America's richest musical resources into a means to make a mint off Jake and Elwood sunglasses. Fair enough. Perhaps.
First of all, no bluesman or woman, alive or dead, has ever walked down to the crossroads with any other intention than to find somebody willing to pay them to record their songs or play them live. And a significant amount of all those bar and restaurant receipts gets funneled into the International House of Blues Foundation, which funds several school and community programs whose sole aim is to educate people about who those musicians were and are, and just how fundamental the blues is to the makeup of modern American pop culture (and thus pop culture everywhere else on the globe).
Besides, you never know — some young Cobra Starship fan may be curious enough about that Lightnin' Hopkins portrait to Google him when he gets home. Not long after, he's downloaded "Black Cat Bone" and is impressed enough to put down the Nintendo Wii and pick up a guitar.
And remember, the blues didn't come anywhere close to being commercially successful or widely appreciated (outside the black community, of course) until English disciples like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones introduced them to millions of middle-class American rock and roll fans in the 1960s. Forty years on, this music has traded its status as the often bitter voice of black American social commentary (a mantle it ceded to funk and then hip-hop) for the affection of a dedicated class of music fans — largely but hardly exclusively white — whose appetite for the music is voracious and whose resources to consume it are considerable.
But the blues also survive because they have been enveloped into the domain of contemporary art. One need only drive from House of Blues to Third Ward artists' colony Project Row Houses at 2521 Holman — less than three miles — for convincing proof.
The same night HOB actually opened, October 11, Project Row unveiled its new installation Thunderbolt Special: The Great Electric Show and Dance After Sam Lightnin' Hopkins. Visiting artists Sherman Fleming, Charles Gaines, James Andrew Brown and Rice University Professor of Art George Smith, all African-American, each turned one of Project Row's vintage shotgun-style houses into a studio to create a work somehow keyed off Hopkins, who spent much of his life in the neighborhood surrounding Project Row. Brooklyn- and Philadelphia-based Terry Adkins, Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, curated the installation and created three.
Each installation has at least one blowup of a Hopkins album cover on a wall, but otherwise they're as different as chalk and cheese, ranging from highly conceptual to elementally earthy. Gaines's "Black Ghost Blues Redux" is simply a stark video loop of an Asian-American art student listening to "Black Ghost Blues" before launching into her own grossly off-key rendition.
Fleming's "Carrier," which his program notes claim "draws its inspiration from the enduring sentimentality and scruffy determination of Lightnin' Hopkins' oeuvre," is dominated by a telephone pole stuck through the walls of its house. Like several other objects used in Thunderbolt Special's installations, the pole was salvaged a few blocks away.
"High Priest," "Wichita" and "Upperville," Adkins's three entries, each represent a different phase of Hopkins' life. "Upperville" evokes Hopkins's early years in rural East Texas with horse skulls and riding tack.
"Wichita," named after the street that was once upon a time the demarcation line between black and white Houston, features a half-ton concrete block found 100 yards or so down Holman Street and an oversized gavel representing Hopkins's jail time. "High Priest," meanwhile, looks at the singer's career, from the stack of plastic-encased lemons (Blind Lemon Jefferson was an early mentor) to an album cover depicting him at one of the many festivals he played in the '60s.
"What I like about his life is it's the great American triumph story," Adkins says. "He comes from humble beginnings, farm life, and rose to international stardom. And along the way, he never lost touch with the earth. He was a very earthy person, and a very good storyteller. I admire the fact that he remained loyal to his community."
Adkins's motive behind Thunderbolt Special is the same travesty many Houston music minders have been lamenting for years — the lack of any public memorial to or civic acknowledgement of Hopkins in his hometown. This is a central theme of the Hopkins chapter in Dr. Roger Wood's 2003 book Down in Houston; the story is the city doesn't like to build statues of or name things after people who have done time. Adkins did a exhibition in Philadelphia devoted to singer Bessie Smith for the same reason, but turns out to have a much deeper personal connection to Hopkins.
"I was introduced to him because he and my grandfather, if you listened to them on a voice recorder, they would sound exactly alike," Adkins says. "He was the first relative of mine who died; I was very close to him. So [hearing] Lightnin' Hopkins, I thought my grandfather had recorded the stuff."
Adkins says he's working on creating such a monument, fashioned after an old bus stop — Hopkins was a huge mass-transit man, famously drumming up liquor money busking on crosstown routes. Furthermore, adds Project Row director Rick Lowe, there's enough room on the property for the memorial to function as an actual bus stop without getting the city (or Metro, for that matter) involved at all.
Sounds great, and long overdue. But Noise also thinks House of Blues and Thunderbolt Special make fine memorials to Hopkins as well. HOB stands as a (literal) monument to the vast influence and enduring appeal of the music Hopkins helped popularize, Thunderbolt Special to the highly personal nature of Hopkins' music and the febrile creative expression it continues to foment. Each is very Houston, too: HOB opulent yet homey, Thunderbolt Special scrappy and deceptively deep.
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So would Hopkins play House of Blues if he were alive today? Noise interviewed Aykroyd, who co-founded House of Blues in 1992 and probably knows more about the blues than even motorcycles, UFOs or comedy, last Friday at the venue and asked him that very thing.
"Sure," Aykroyd said. "If we paid him enough."
Noise suspects that wouldn't be much of a problem at all for House of Blues, and that once he was well-fed, had a drink or two in him and started picking out those iconic notes on his guitar, Lightnin' would likewise feel right at home in HOB's Bronze Peacock.


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Following the one year anniversary of the infamous Casey Anthony trial and verdict that shocked the nation, Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez is now making SHOCKING new claims!
Following the one year anniversary of the infamous Casey Anthony trial and verdict that shocked the nation, Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez is now making SHOCKING new claims!
She's been in hiding since she was acquitted of murder charges... Her parents claim not even to know where she is.
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TMZ is reporting that Casey Anthony has just been ordered back to the state for her check fraud probation.
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Remember, right after the Not Guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony case, we saw pictures of her legal team toasting one-another?
It seems like that upset as many people as the actual verdict in the trial!
Casey Anthony was sentenced to four years in jail Thursday for lying to investigators in charge of the search for her daughter, Caylee. However, Anthony will be set free on July 13 since she's served almost three years in jail while awaiting trial with a record of good behavior.
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Those of you who let your inner 12-year-old boy out and gawked at the photo that went viral a few months of Hillary Clinton staring at Christina Aguilera's ample cleavage, know that you're not alone. Ellen DeGeneres also apparently gawked, and better yet, she asked Xtina about it when The Voice coach appeared on Ellen's show.
By way of background, Madam Secretary hosted an event that honored Christina for her work as an ambassador with the UN World Food Programme back in early October.
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This week's highlights: Cleo Wattenstrom's Tattoo Energy Cover, Klaudia Burman in FHM, Ana Braga in Playboy Israel, Anais Zanotti and Shannon Boothby.
Cleo Wattenstrom's Tattoo Energy Cover
Model: Cleo Wattenstrom; Photographer: Christian Saint
Model Mayhem's Cleo Wattenstrom just landed the cover of Tattoo Energy. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Landing this cover is great for Cleo because in addition to modeling, she is a tattoo artist. She has a very unique and exotic look primarily because she is a mix of Ethiopian and Greek. We look forward to seeing more great covers from Cleo in the future!
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Model Mayhem's Anais Zanotti is getting more and more international recognition. The Miami-based beauty just recently landed a major feature in Entrevue Magazine. Entrevue is the French equivalent to People Magazine. Not only that, but also Anais has graced over 30 magazine covers all over the world. She is very experienced and versatile which makes her a great person to work with. Anais is highly in demand as a model and her success is bound to continue.
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Rumor: Hayden Christensen Cast in William Gibson's Neuromancer
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Back in May we posted the breaking news that William Gibson's beloved sci-fi novel Neuromancer was being adapted into a feature film. At that time, a director was attached, Joseph Kahn specifically, but no other casting confirmations came with it. Today, JoBlo revealed a rumor that Hayden Christensen, aka Darth Vader, is possibly in the running to play the main hacker character Case. The film is reported to have a budget $70 million but is really being filmed as an indie film with a big budget. Is it destined to suck now with Christensen in the lead, or does it still have a chance?
Neuromancer, (from Wikipedia) it tells the story of Case (to be played by Christensen), an out-of-work computer hacker hired by an unknown patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime. The novel examines the concepts of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state, and cyberspace long before these ideas became fashionable in popular culture. Filming is set to begin sometime early this year, but with the strike underway, it's still unclear whether this will actually head into production that soon.
I'm quite anxious to see Jumper, because it's one of Hayden's next major films since finishing Star Wars. He was also in Awake last fall, but that was a terrible movie itself. There is a chance he could prove everyone wrong and show that he is an "okay" actor and pull off a good movie, but we have yet to see. As optimistic as I am, I don't want to say that Neuromancer is ruined just yet, as it could turn out that Joseph Kahn could be a talented director who could yet turn out a mediocre performance from Christensen.
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Putting the evobox's parameters commented out. Good thinking. TTEchidna 10:13, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
In the Sugimori art on Serebii, Miruhoggu's stripe form what looks almost like the orange safety vests that seem to "glow" in darkness, possibly hinting at its ability illuminate. - unsigned comment from Snozzardi (talk • contribs)
- I agree on that. Its body kinda resembles a roadcone, and the safety vest goes well with it being the Precaution Pokémon.--Kaoz 19:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that "white tuft" is a hand. --Element03 00:21, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, the physiology section was written back when all we had was gameplay images, so it was kind of impossible to tell what it was.--PhantomJunkie 01:04, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Possible origin?
I don't know if this is trivia worthy, but Miruhoggu's design, along with its pose (particularly the folded arms) seems to give it the overall appearance of a gym instructor, with the yellow markings resembling a vest. T a r o m o n 14:37, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- I doubt it's a gym teacher. Seems more with security. Like Minezumi is the lookout Pokémon and how this one is the Precaution Pokémon. Turtwig's A-B-Cs (talk | contribs) 14:44, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- I believe it's a foreman, much like one in constructions. The vest, as noted in a previous paragraph, is more akin to a safety vest than to a gym suit.--Kaoz 15:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Official romanization
Miruhog.--immewnitythemew 00:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
- Shouldn't the title be at Miruhog (Pokémon), rather than just Miruhog, as the article says it should be moved to right now? It's Turtwig A! My talk or wiki edits 21:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
- It's okay. I understood what Matt meant. I guess I'll do Mogothingy too. —darklordtrom 21:35, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Watchog's eyes does not close when afflicted with Sleep, does this happen to other Pokemon as well? - unsigned comment from Togelover (talk • contribs)
- I've removed this from the trivia since it's not true, they do close. Their eyes are just so small that you need to look closely. XVuvuzela2010X 17:22, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
When I was EV training Attack on Route 1 (in the dark grass past the water), I noticed that Watchdog seems to only give 1 Attack EV. Has anyone else noticed this? --Jdthebud 09:27, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
- It used to say 1 Attack EV on this page. In addition, every other fansite lists it as 1 Attack EV. If you are finding that it gives only 1 Attack EV, it is most likely correct. --SnorlaxMonster 12:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
- This is the only instance I can think of in which an evolution gives the same number of EVs as the basic form (besides baby Pokemon that were introduced later maybe) - possible trivia? --Jdthebud 23:38, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
- Same here. I think it's something sufficiently unique and should be added to trivia; I just don't want to break any rules by doing so. (since adding trivia is explicitly outlawed right now) Gridelin Glass 02:49, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
- This is the only instance I can think of in which an evolution gives the same number of EVs as the basic form (besides baby Pokemon that were introduced later maybe) - possible trivia? --Jdthebud 23:38, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Just wait untill trivia is open again - unsigned comment from Cutemudkip (talk • contribs)
Only evolved / fully evolved pokemon with 255 catch rate
It seems watchog is the only evolved (and fully evolved, obviously) pokemon with the maximum catch rate. If it is correct I think it should be added in Trivia.
Superpika 11:36, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
- There's Audino and Maractus if you want to count stand alone Pokémon as fully evolved. But other than that, I'd say it's notable.--ForceFire 11:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
EV yield
It seems to have changed. Veekun lists 2, ポケモンWiki lists 2 in the article, but 1 on the list. Eridanus (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
- I experimented in-game (KOed 3 Watchhog with a 0EV Pokémon with Pokérus, then used two Kelpsy Berries), and it gives 2 Attack EVs in Gen VI. --SnorlaxMonster 11:44, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
- Has this been verified to have changed in Black 2 and White 2? I would have expected this to have changed between generations. --SnorlaxMonster 14:36, 30 August 2014 (UTC)


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Kerry, in the positivist legal minds of these folks, corruption in America can simply be redefined and then, voilla! No more corruption!
That is the problem with using terms that one doesn't have to define--maybe even doesn't understand. In that way, those in position to do so can 'make it mean' anything they want--even 'change its meaning' when they want to. It's kind of sad that Obama has resorted to the same logical distortions. Some may claim 'that's what Obama meant to do all along'. Some may claim 'Obama has to play the cards dealt him'. I voted for Obama--and I don't even know what to claim at this point. They do need to get rid of corporate personhood and money as speech.....
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A lot of people with a little money is not the same as a few people with a lot of money.
As many here may know, my brother is a Ron Paul-supporting libertarian. However, my brother realizes that corporations, using the guise of 'individual freedom' in this 'free market', have wrecked this system. I contend with his that, when it comes to correcting corporate-colluded influence in government that has wrecked this system (my brother agrees that 'corporate freedom' is NOT 'individual freedom' and a 'corporate-government colluded market' is NOT the 'free market'), what can correct it other than 'government'? But, my brother remarks, can it be the government that we have now--already proven to collude with corporations? And, how do you get to a government that isn't colluding with corporations?
In agreement with Thom Hartmann, we need to get rid of corporate personhood and money as speech.....that's the point I was trying to make as one the OWS could center on before the Capital distraction tried to claim 'there was no such thing as that' and 'the Supreme Court didn't mean that--have you read the entire ruling?' muse......