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I am on a mission to figure out how to DIY as many awesome home decor pieces as possible. And I just found the easiest DIY to create the hands down, most amazing cereal bowls ever! Sure I could be modest and say that these are cool, awesome, what have you, but modest I am not. I absolutely LOVE these bowls!!! Who knew that a little bit of spray paint could do so much?!
Blendo was a type of glassware that was popular in the 50's and 60's that featured a unique color fade application to traditional clear glasses and glass serve ware such as pitchers and punch bowls. Traditionally the glasses were made in bright poppy colors such as lime green, light purple, light blue, and yellow with a gold rim. You can still find vintage pieces on places like Etsy and Ebay.
I love the colorful look of the blendo glasses so much that I decided to expand the concept to even more kitchen pieces and created these gorgeous breakfast bowls using a simple can of spray paint and a gold leaf pen. While I love the look of the traditional blendo look on clear glassware, I have to say, I might just love it against the white ceramic bowls even more! Follow along after the jump for the DIY tutorial on how to can create your own unique bowls in true blendo fashion.
The Supplies:
- White Ceramic Cereal Bowls (I used these)
- Spray Paint in Fun Colors (I particularly like the color options of Montana Gold Series Spray Paint and used the colors shrimp, shocking pink, and lychee for my bowls)
- Gold Leaf Pen
Begin by cleaning and drying your bowls, then wiping them down with a bit of rubbing alcohol to get a nice clean surface. Turn the bowls upside down and spray the bottom of the bowls and just down the sides of the bowls around the bottom edge (the part closest to the bottom of the bowl not the top lip) with the spray paint.
By concentrating your spray to only the bottom of the bowl and the portion just around the sides of the bottom of the bowl you will get a nice dark color on the bottom of the bowl that will slightly fade up to the top of the bowl thanks to the light misty over-spray.
Let your bowl dry for at least an hour or two and then flip your bowl right side up and use the gold leaf pen to color around the edge of the bowl to give it a pretty gold rim.
Since this is a bowl and not a cup, you don't have to worry about putting your mouth on the edge of the bowl or your food coming in contact with the gold leaf (or spray paint), but if you are worried about it you can also use this technique to get a similar looking gold edge.
Let your bowls cure for 3-4 days before using or washing them. Once the paint has cured, you can use the bowls for your next bowl of cereal, smoothie bowl, or even hot items like soup.
The only downside of the bowls is that they are not dishwasher safe, so you have to hand wash these babies. But that is a price I am willing to pay for such beautiful bowls! Aren't you?


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So Alain Vigneault, who had a year remaining on his contract and was one season removed from being the best coach in the NHL, has survived a month of interrogation and doubts and will be returning as coach of the Vancouver Canucks next season.
The Canucks even tacked on a one-year extension so that his title will be head coach, not lame duck.
Score one for the coaching fraternity, right? Not entirely.
While Vigneault and associate coach Rick Bowness managed to survive, two assistants -- Mike Kelly and Barry Smith -- were dismissed Wednesday, which is a tainted win and somewhat curious development. It begs the question: What do coaches No. 3 and 3A on the depth chart have to do with all that ailed the Canucks?
The answer is not much. But, with a change at the top, there had to be some sort of sacrifice to appease the masses.
That Vigneault was able to survive the cut, despite the presence of a new general manager and having missed the playoffs last season, is interesting because the practice of firing coaches is taking on a new life.
At the start of yesterday, there were six coaching vacancies in the NHL, with the likes of Ron Wilson in San Jose and Joel Quenneville in Colorado parting ways when they couldn't survive the second round of the playoffs. Paul Maurice was fired in Toronto essentially for not making the playoffs, although his departure had the aroma of being more of a planned media distraction from the general manager search, while Atlanta, Florida and Ottawa have been on the hunt for a while.
The number of openings was reduced to five when Colorado promoted assistant coach Tony Granato to the job he had a few years ago, leading to speculation he is holding the spot until Patrick Roy arrives in a few years. It is unfair to Granato, but the perception will remain if the Avs are ordinary.
Which leaves, according to the rumour mill, Tampa Bay's John Tortorella as probably the only coach still uncertain of his status, despite his skills and one year remaining on his contract.
Speculaton has it that once the ownership change is approved in Tampa that Tortorella will be let go and a new coach, handpicked by the new owner, will be hired.
These are guys -- the likes of Laviolette, Tortorella and the previously disposed Bob Hartley -- who have won a Stanley Cup. And the likes of Quenneville, Wilson, Maurice and the previously departed Pat Quinn all made it to a final. So once upon a time they had it all figured out and apparently forgot. How else to explain what is going on?
Several will get jobs again, and in the case of Quenneville and Wilson, it likely will happen quickly if they so desire. But eventually, they will get fired again. The cliche about coaches being hired to be fired didn't become a cliche just because.
But in the three-year-old "new" NHL, it seems job security is going to become less and less for coaches and there are numerous reasons. In the case of a management change, the new GM often likes to hire his own man, especially when provided with a playoff failure. That is nothing new and to a degree makes sense.
Beyond that, in the salary cap world of the NHL, players are receiving longer-term contracts at a younger age, many including no-trade and no-movement clauses.
So when a team goes bad or underperforms, the economics are such that it has become harder than ever for the general manager to solve the problems via trades or fix his mistakes by simply spending more money. You might recall how many of the five no-trade Leafs were moved at the deadline. The answer is none, but the coach still was let go.
So while it was always the easy thing to fire the coach, in some cases it is the only thing if there is either pressure and/or an appetite for change and a reluctance to spend money to do it. Meaning, not all teams are willing to buy out big contracts or send the big tickets to the minors.
But if there is a need for change for whatever reasons, to either to try to revive the team or sell hope to the public, it's still easier and cheaper to change the coach than it is 20 players.

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text: Comments inline... > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Murphy [mailto:bem9127@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 06 February 2003 16:07 > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: Installing Programs on the Server > Importance: Low > > Neil, > > It was installed to c:\Program Files\Hotbar > > Permissions: > Admins = Full > Users = RO > > There were some additional config files written to H: (Home Drives) > > I guess my theory is that the program was installed with > elevated privileges. Although I don't have any data to > suggest this. The permission set for c:\Program Files\ would > not allow installation of a program by a normal user. Then look at the owner and permissions on the files in the hotbar directory (including the directory itelf). It should show who created it (owner). And the permissions may show if it was assuming some other user, or elevated privilege. > > If you prevent access to these *discretionary* accessible resources, > then users cannot install software onto the *local* > machine > - how / where would it be installed to. They may have write > access to their home (presumably > > networked) directory, and they will almost certainly have > write access > to their local cache of their profile. > > If you have locked down local drives to Read-Only, > HKLM\Software to Read-Only. You have confirmed that users > cannot download content or install applications locally. > What other "accessible resources" are we referring to? Well as far as a server is concerned, the relevant resources are the registry and the disk. If you're assumption is that something subverted the OS's security model, and assumed higher privileges, without the appropriate credentials being supplied - I'm not saying I don't believe it, and it's not possible - but you have to admit, it does strike you as being rather out-there. Regardless, anything new (folders / files, or registry keys) will show the owner (assuming it hasn't been changed since). > All of this has been done and the Hotbar would still install. > Is it possible the installation routine is running with > elevated priveledges? > > Or, am I missing something else? If something can this easily bypass the OS's security model, without supplying appropriate credentials - you would have to worry. There should be something detectable, though. Check the owner and the DACLs for the files / folders. Neil *********************************************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *********************************************************************** ******************************************** This Week's Sponsor: triCerat Inc. Let triCerat simplify the administration of your Terminal Servers. http://www.triCerat.com ******************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm


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Ashtanga Vinyasa Power Flow Dharma Meditation Restorative
Teacher Trainer, Yoga Retreat Leader , Studio Owner
New Orleans
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Creative Director and founder of Shanti Yoga Shala.
Nathalie is one of a handful of teachers in the country to be certified by Annie Carpenter (Los Angeles – CA) in SmartFLOW and the only one in New Orleans.
Nathalie is ERYT 500 hours Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher.
Nathalie is consistently finding ways to deepen her practice and teachings of yoga, movement and shakti prana energy through frequent investigation and inspiration from her mentors, her students, the community, animals and nature.
She has a bachelor's degree in dance and kinesiology, is a long time yoga practitioner having spent significant time in India during four extensive trips the past ten years, training at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute., where she studied under the guidance of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Jois.
She has also extensively studied transcendental meditation (TM), the yoga sutras and philosophy under Dr. M.A. Jayashree and Professor M.A. Narasimha of Mysore, India.
After College Nathalie moved to Los Angeles, where she worked and completed her third teacher training program at YogaWorks with Annie Carpenter, formerly of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Lisa Walford, a certified Iyengar instructor.
Her teachings are greatly influenced by also her teachers Seane Corn, Melanie Fawer and Maty Ezraty.
She is eternally grateful to all her teachers, their wisdom and the countless hours they've spent together over the many years.
Nathalie assisted Annie Carpenter's SmartFLOW teacher trainings in Los Angeles at Exhale Center for Yoga . Has been a presenter for Rasa Lila Yoga Festival, assistant teacher for Wanderlust and South East Yoga Conference and travels teaching weekend workshops.
Currently she is a 200 & 300 Hours Teacher Trainer for – Shanti Vinyasa Yoga Trainings RYS (Yoga Alliance Registered) and teaches weekly classes at her studio, Shanti Yoga Shala in New Orleans.
She believes teaching yoga is a blessing and it gives us the possibility of realizing our full potential.
Happy Yoga Practice!


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Keeping a diary is a good hobby. It can help you remember many good, beautiful, important and meaningful things. Therefore, a good diary book is very important. First, the book must be safe; second, the book should be convenient to carry, for you can keep a diary at any time and any places; third, the book should be easy to use. Perhaps you think that such a diary book is not easy to get; in fact, it can be find easily.
It is my honor to introduce such a good book to you. Its name is Great Diary Book. Great Diary Book is a free app which is use on Android mobile phones and tablets. Download it, so you can get a great diary book.
Now, let me introduce its key features in detail.
1. The safety is the most important thing of a diary book, so we specifically design a safe system. The first time you use this app, you are required to set a password. There are nine points which you can connect them to create a special password.
2. Then you can add a new daily. However, I suggest that you should add a new type of diary. Then you can write your diary. Don't forget to input the content, time and rate.
3. Although this is a diary book app, we provide other two functions. You can remember your feeling and take notes. In addition, you can check the history of your notes.
4. If you doubt that your diary is not safe, you can reset the password to protect its safety. Great Diary Book is a free and practical app. You can use it to keep a diary, write your feeling and take notes. Besides, it is very convenient. Therefore, you should download it as soon as possible.-----------More info------------
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I had my first experience of an afterhours Night Safari event at the Natural History Museum on 17th September. It was a first time outing for the crack girl team of myself, Pip Brewer (Curator of Fossil Mammals), Karolyn Shindler (Dorothea Bate's Biographer) and Miss Dorothea Bate (Palaeontologist and all round gem).
We were asked to provide a display of manuscript and published material with specimens to illustrate the talk being given by Karolyn as part of the evening events. It is always a pleasure to bring together the paper collections and scientific specimens, allowing Dorothea's story to be told in the best way, with original material created by her and discovered by her.
Right: Hellen Sharman and Karolyn Shindler
Below: Pip Brewer
What a great experience and throughout the evening we met and spoke to a lovely mix of people. Always a priviledge to talk about our collections and what we do in the Library & Archives.


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vnlpr is a shell script that utilizes the vnpstext and vn7to8
utilities to print vietnames text on PostScript printer on Unix machines
using various Type-1 fonts supplied by TriChlor and the Courier fonts
from the vnpstext package.
The Type-1 font files are converted from the pfb files.
am_11.gsf A'nh Minh font (Optima)
hm_11.gsf Heo May font (Helvetica)
hy_11.gsf Hoa`ng Ye^'n font (Present Script)
mq_11.gsf Minh Qua^n font (Courier)
pt_11.gsf Phu+o+ng Tha?o font (Brush Script)
th_11.gsf Tha Hu+o+ng font (Chancery)
uh_11.gsf U Hoa`i font (Utopia)
These fonts can also be used with the ghostscript package for
conversion of PostScript file into other printer formats.
The .gsf files should be placed at the same place as the initialization
files for the vnpstext package.
pr_am.ps, pr_hm.ps, pr_hy.ps, pr_mq.ps, pr_pt.ps, pr_th.ps and
pr_uh.ps are PostScript files that show the above font types.
Instruction for using the vnlpr script is in the begining of the
script, and also by typing 'vnlpr -h' will show a description of the
usage also.
You'll need to edit the VNLIB environment variable in vnlpr so it point
to this directory that contains the .gsf files. You must also install
vnpstext first.
For example:
vnlpr -mq -s 8 emtoi
This print emtoi using MinhQua^n size 8
vnlpr -uh -s 10 -i emtoi
This print emtoi using U Hoa`i Italic size 10
Read the INSTALL file for installation procedure.
- Happy printing -
Written by Phu`ng Gia Cu+ (email@example.com)
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: vi-vnlpr
PKGNAME: vi-vnlpr
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
===> The following configuration options are available for vi-vnlpr-2.0:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Number of commits found: 17
Remove expired ports:
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2014-11-26 devel/fsmgenerator: Broken for more than 6 months
2014-11-26 graphics/multiraw: Depends on broken and deprecated graphics/dcraw-m
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Cleanup plist
Deprecate ports broken for more than 6 months
Mark broken: Conflicts with dependency vnpstext on share/vn-fonts/initcour.ps
Installing vi-vnlpr-2.0...pkg-static: vi-vnlpr-2.0 conflicts with
vi-vnpstext-1.1 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file:
Reported by: pkg-fallout
Support staging
Fix properties on pkg-plist
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Get Rid MD5 support
With hat: portmgr (myself)
- fix plist with -DNOPORTDOCS
- respect DOCSDIR
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Approved by: maintainer timeout on QATMail
Approved by: krion@
The grand-daddy site of VietNet gone :~-( R.I.P. media.mit.edu
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.
E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
Use PORTCOMMENT.
Add $FreeBSD$, which help me in problem reports.
Convert vietnamese category to new layout
List two files in share/doc/vnlpr and delete the directory upon deinstall.
Also, remove two files that are installed by a dependency, not this port.
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HuskerMax Through These Gates Documentary Tour Schedule
During the 2013 football season Ryan Tweedy and David Max will be touring the state of Nebraska and other locations to provide screenings of Ryan's Nebraska Cornhuskers documentary film titled Through These Gates. More information about the tour can be found here.
Here is the information for the screening in Columbus at the Columbus American Legion sponsored by Husker Salute.
Date: Thursday, October 3rd
Screening time: 7 PM Question and answer and autograph session after each 90 minute screening.
Location: Columbus American Legion, 2263 3rd Ave, Columbus, NE (402) 562-8484
You can purchase advance sale tickets at the link below.
|$10 per person


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About the Artist
A native of Brazil, Zé established a second home in the United States in 1990. Before his arrival in North America, Zé enjoyed success in Brazil as a trained architect specializing in private estates and creating highly stylized murals for them, which ultimately led to his passion for painting elaborate trompe-l'oeil and canvas paintings. An active participant in the Brazilian art scene, Zé has gained recognition in numerous expositions, such as, among others, the prestigious Salão de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, as well as the Salão de Artes Armando Vianna in Rio de Janeiro, and in the exposition Saguão do Diário de Mogi in São Paulo, which featured exclusively Zé's artwork. Zé continues to contribute to the artistic patrimony of his native country and has recently donated a series of canvas paintings depicting key biblical scenes to the Cathedral of São José in Severínia, São Paulo, which resulted in widespread media coverage. Zé is equally active in the local art scene of his second home of south Florida. Indeed, his artwork graces the walls of private estates, offices, and restaurants not only throughout the south Florida region but in New York and San Francisco as well. Zé has participated in three south Florida Junior League Show house events. For each he created distinctive trompe-l'oeil murals and his work has been featured in numerous local media venues, such as The Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Miami Herald, and Ocean Drive magazine.
It is impossible to associate Zé's artwork with one genre. The technique and style he employs reflect a constant evolution in his artistic journey.


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THE PROBLEM: Before a Caltrans contractor began improving ramps onto and off the state Route 125 corridor last year, the agency followed its usual practice of putting up signs warning motorists that access might be closed at night.
By the end of January, however, Bettie Withem began wondering why the signs — referencing a project scheduled to have been completed Oct. 30 — still were up.
The ramps had been repaved by early December, said Withem, who lives in San Carlos and uses the highway almost daily. "Most of us living up here find it annoying that Caltrans could not remove the signs about the ramp closings as they completed the work," she said. "Now they just sit there!"
STATUS: The ramp-closure signs are at almost every on- and off-ramp along the 125, including the connector from eastbound Interstate 8. All announce a project to be conducted between Sept. 17 and Oct. 30, and many stand next to obviously recent layers of asphalt.
As it turns out, however, the project isn't done. Caltrans spokesman Edward Cartagena said some of the ramps still need pavement stripes and that the transportation agency has given its contractor a "punch list" of "little odds and ends" that remain to be done, many imperceptible to the average motorist.
Rain and cold night weather, which affect how pavement materials set, account for some delay in finishing the job, Cartagena said.
As for the out-of-date signs, Cartagena said the financially strapped agency — which puts employees on furlough the first three Fridays of each month — made a budget-driven decision to leave the Oct. 30 cautions in place rather than dispatch a two-man crew to replace them.
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE: William Valle, Caltrans deputy director for maintenance and traffic in San Diego, who can be reached at (619) 688-6670 firstname.lastname@example.com.
IT'S FIXED: Elsewhere in the world of freeway ramps, the entrance to state Route 52 at Genesee Avenue is illuminated once again.
For months, what was left of a toppled pole lay at the on-ramp, looking like wreckage from an accident (Just Fix It, Jan. 18). Caltrans said they were awaiting delivery of replacement equipment; and now a new pole and light mast are up.
NEED A PROBLEM SOLVED: Is there a problem government hasn't taken care of despite your complaints? Just Fix It might be able to help.
Call (800) 820-8714 or send an e-mail message firstname.lastname@example.com describe your problem.
THE SITE: State Route 125, El Cajon


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Discussion in 'Disney Cruise Line Forum' started by disgrits, May 8, 2006.
Anyone have them? I'd love to have a look.....
I'm interesting in one for teens as well on the 3 Night Wonder?
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I scanned my Navigators (plus D-SEA-U plus Aloft) from WONDER 27-30 April. just can't figure out how to load them here to share ...
Credit goes to ScouterJT for scanning these 3 day navigators and other goodies that magically appear in your stateroom:
Teen Club
Duty Free
Movie/TV Guide
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Welcome Home
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Now I can start driving my family crazy talking about all the activities!!
Thank you so much! I have forwarded this link to the webmasters so that they can be stored on the DIS & not get lost in the threads.
Thanks ScouterJT for posting these 3 day navigators.
I was wondering if there was any trick to being able to view the entertainment (tv guide style) grids, or if they can be enlarged, because I'm having a hard time seeing them? Thanks.
Thank you for posting the Navigators! I got more planning to do!!!
Just checking around for other teens on the Dec 6 Wonder, are you bringing some??? Mine are worried there will be no other teens!
You might have some better luck if you go the Cruise Meets board and find the date of your sailing.
Here's your link: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1241334
I sent recent navigators and other items to the person that handles this for the DIS and have not gotten a response and the items haven't been posted.
Separate names with a comma.


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Phil Knight Discusses State Of College Basketball Coppolella Banned As Part Of Braves' Penalties Jones Won't Sue NFL Owners Over Goodell Dish/CBS Dispute Likely To Affect Thanksgiving NFL MillerCoors, NASCAR Yet To Reach Extension Ruppe Is UA's Latest Exec Departure Sellout Crowd Turns Out For Crew Playoffs FC Cincinnati Owners Sign Option To Buy Stadium Site Duracell, SoFi Buying Six-Second Ads On Fox NBC's Preschlack Says Chicago Cuts Part Of Evolution
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Former Athletes, Sports Industry Execs Star In Political Races
With Election Day under way, THE DAILY takes a look at several candidates with ties to the sports industry, including former athletes and current and former execs. See tomorrow's issue for results of these races.CANDIDATESPORTS TIESPOSITIONSTATEAFFILIATIONLinda McMahonFormer WWE CEOU.S. Sen.ConnecticutRepublicanHeath ShulerFormer NFLerU.S. Rep.North CarolinaDemocratJon RunyanFormer NFLerU.S. Rep.New JerseyRepublicanRob CornillesGame Face Founder & PresidentU.S. Rep.OregonRepublicanJim RenacciFormer AFL Columbus Destroyers OwnerU.S. Rep.OhioRepublican
Keith Fimian Former NFLer U.S. Rep. Virginia Republican Chris Dudley Former NBAer Gov. Oregon Republican Shawn Bradley Former NBAer State Rep. Utah Republican
LINDA MCMAHON: A Quinnipiac Univ. poll released yesterday morning showed Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal leading McMahon 53%-44% in the race for the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat. Blumenthal's nine point lead is "down 3 points from an 12-point advantage in a Quinnipiac poll conducted last week" (CNN.com, 11/1). Meanwhile, the WWE is "pulling the plug" on Election Day giveaways after the U.S. Department of Justice warned the organization that it is a federal offense to "pay or offer to pay an individual a thing of value for voting." The WWE had planned to give away swag at Connecticut polling places (CTNEWS.com, 11/1).
HEATH SHULER: A recent Democratic poll showed Shuler, the incumbent, leading challenger Jeff Miller by 15 points in the race for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, but neutral polls are "harder to come by." Some analysts "rate the race a toss-up; others favor Shuler" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/26). Shuler, a conservative Democrat, is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group that has spent much of this election trying to distance itself from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Shuler has detailed his desire to become Speaker of the House (Asheville CITIZEN-TIMES, 10/28).
JON RUNYAN: A Monmouth Univ. poll conducted Oct. 22-25 showed Runyan with a slight lead over incumbent John Adler in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District. But several independent pollsters said that the race is "too close to call." Runyan "has campaigned on a promise to cut taxes but has offered few specifics about the programs he would trim or eliminate." He also "has boasted about his lack of political experience, saying Washington veterans have failed to solve the nation's problems" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 10/31).
ROB CORNILLES: An Elway Research poll conducted between Oct. 18-21 showed Cornilles trailing incumbent Democrat David Wu 51%-38% in Oregon's 1st Congressional District (Portland OREGONIAN, 10/25). Cornilles said that "his own record of job creation -- nearly 600 and counting by his count -- more than compensates for his lack of political experience." That is a "theme he underscores repeatedly in making the point that he is better qualified than Wu to lead the tech-heavy 1st District out of recession and into the limelight of international trade and prosperity" (Portland OREGONIAN, 10/14).
JIM RENACCI: Renacci, also an investor in the Single-A California League Lancaster JetHawks, is running against Democratic incumbent John Boccieri in Ohio's 16th Congressional District. Renacci "wants to get spending under control, repeal the health care bill and extend the Bush tax cuts" (Wooster DAILY-RECORD, 10/31).
KEITH FIMIAN: Fimian faces off against Democratic incumbent Gerry Connelly in Virginia's 11th Congressional District. He has promised that he "wouldn't be silent" if elected. Fimian: "I'm going to Congress to break china -- china with a small c -- not to accept the status quo. I'm not going there to get along -- I'm going there to shake things up and bring fiscal sanity back to our country" (POLITICO.com, 11/1).
Dudley In Dead Heat In
Oregon's Gubernatorial Race
CHRIS DUDLEY: A recent Rasmussen Reports poll showed Dudley with a slight lead over Democratic candidate John Kitzhaber in Oregon's gubernatorial race. The candidates "have been in a dead heat in Oregon for weeks in a governor's race about fresh perspectives versus experience." Dudley "has centered his campaign on proposals to cut capital gains taxes." He said that they "would help restore confidence among investors and entrepreneurs turned hesitant after Oregon voters approved higher taxes on wealthy households and businesses in January with votes on two measures" (AP, 10/30).
NEWS & NOTES: YAHOO SPORTS' Steve Cofield notes the UFC in the past "hasn't publicly gotten involved in the world of politics ... aside from lobbying states to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts." But that "changed this year as several key members of the promotion have gotten involved in the heated Nevada Senate race between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle." UFC President Dana White, just before UFC 121, "made appearances in Las Vegas and Reno to support Reid." UFC fighter Frank Mir also has gotten "plenty of facetime on local television and radio with his backing" of Reid (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 11/1)....Baseball HOFer Whitey Herzog during KTVI-Fox' local coverage in St. Louis of World Series Games One and Two last week appeared in ads for Prop A, a "statewide ballot question that could lead to rescinding the earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City" (STLTODAY.com, 10/29).


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In 1998, around the time Painted From Memory -- his team-up with Burt Bacharach -- hit stores, Elvis Costello gave up on the idea of playing rock 'n' roll, or so he said. But he didn't really need to put it in words: Costello had already spent much of the 1990s taking sidesteps, sparring with his own discography, dancing with the horn-rimmed skeleton in his closet.
There were soundtracks for TV and film (1994's G.B.H. and 1996's Jake's Progress, both with Richard Harvey); classical collabs (1993's The Juliet Letters, with the Brodsky Quartet, and 1997's Terror + Magnificence, with saxophonist John Harle); even an alternate vision and version of Painted From Memory (the avant, unguarded The Sweetest Punch, where Bill Frisell took the Costello-Bacharach compositions and found the guts among the strings and things). He recorded with the Jazz Passengers and the Fairfield Four, shared the stage with Tony Bennett and mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie von Otter. Did pretty much everything except what was expected of him.
And so it continues with When I Was Cruel, sort of: "Nobody's expecting a rock record," he told me over the phone last March. "That might be a very good reason to make one, actually." Which turned out to be both threat and promise; his first record on his own since 1996's All This Useless Beauty, and his best since long before then, When I Was Cruel is literate and livid, vital and vivid, filled with blood and chocolate, bile and forced smiles. Following Painted From Memory and last year's Swede-and-low outing with von Otter (For the Stars), the stripped-bare setup -- he's backed by a pair of Attractions (drummer Pete Thomas and organ grinder Steve Nieve) and Cracker's Davey Faragher on bass -- allows Costello to haunt the "Complicated Shadows" of All This Useless Beauty (check "Tart" and its late-inning meltdown) and return to the claustrophobic charisma of 1994's Brutal Youth and pop paranoia of 1991's Mighty Like a Rose. He's pent-up and pinned-down on much of When I Was Cruel, staccato stabs giving way to uncontrollable urges (dig the soft-loud slap of "45"), the edge coming back into his voice until he decides to step over it.
That said, and despite the presence of two-thirds of the Attractions and Faragher's best Bruce Thomas impersonation, it's not a retreat or even a return to form, mainly because there's nowhere to go back to. The mold broke on 1989's Spike, and, if you're smart, you stopped expecting Costello to fetch the glue long ago. Rather, it is, as he said in a 1998 interview, a chance to look at the old blueprint and see if he and his erstwhile bandmates "can get another sort of building out of it," as they did on Brutal Youth and All This Useless Beauty. And they do here as well: "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)" -- the supposed radio single, and good luck with all that -- is the closest cousin of 1977-'86 E.C. and the Attractions, with its high-neck bass runs and tagalong organ hums, and even that breaks the family ties when Costello slips into a what-the-hell falsetto.
Instead, When I Was Cruel wallows in torn-up Tropicalia ("Episode of Blonde," which could be one of Tom Waits' old Rain Dogs), spare samples and ABBA allusions ("When I Was Cruel No. 2," a late-night plate of spaghetti Western), leering horns and searing shouts ("15 Petals," hinting his girl-group fixation has moved on to Destiny's Child, or maybe that's just how I hear it), Elvis Costello Sings Soul fantasies ("Alibi," with its Stax/Volt strain and "'Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts," down-on-my-knees-baby-please sentiment). It's a rock album at the edges, and rough and ready throughout; even the quiet(er) songs (say, ". . . Dust," for instance) clatter with noise. When I Was Cruel is at its best when Costello plugs in and acts out: "Daddy Can I Turn This?" simmers and shimmers like a lighted fuse ("And still you treat me like a child," he spits out); "45" looks back at a life lived through a record collection ("Here is your song to sing/To do your measuring/What you lose, what you gain, what you win").
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It's a record that proves he hasn't given up on rock 'n' roll, yet manages to take another sidestep as well, giving an on-ramp to everyone who exited his highway a decade or so ago while not taking his foot off the gas either. "Every Elvis has his army/Every rattlesnake its charm," he sings on "Episode of Blonde." Can't say it better than that.


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A news agency has reported Intel Corp. is set to announce it has struck an agreement to supply wireless chips to Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile handset manufacturer.
Bloomberg News said Tuesday (June 23) Intel "landed Nokia as a customer for mobile chips," citing unidentified sources close to the transaction.
Intel stoked speculations Monday (June 22) when it sent out a statement saying it would "host a breaking news conference" Tuesday with Anand Chandrasekher, head of the ultra mobility group at the No. 1 global semiconductor vendor. The company did not provide details.
If confirmed, a chip supply deal between Intel and Nokia will represent a major breakthrough for the semiconductor manufacturer, which while holding more than a two-third share of the global IC market for PC microprocessors, has been trying hard to expand into the faster-growing mobile communication sector.
Chandrasekher headed the development of Intel's original Centrino chips and has reportedly been "trying to make the MID (mobile internet device) space happen with Atom—another Intel chip—for a while," according to Techinsights LLC microprocessor industry expert Rick Merritt.
Nokia executives estimate the company's global mobile handset market share slid in the first quarter to about 37 percent from 39 percent in the comparable 2008 quarter but the company noted in a statement that it expected its performance to improve in the current quarter.
Intel had previously tried and failed to break into the wireless handset market. The company in 2006 terminated its efforts in the sector after spending more than $5 billion over years but with its market share peaking in the PC segment, Intel has again been pushing to gain a foothold in other industry sectors, especially in wireless communications.
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My highly dramatic daughter is not likely to achieve kolinahr any time soon, but we can all wish that she live long and prosper on the occasion of her First Communion.P.S. My wife said I could post this photo as long as I also posted a "normal" one. (See below.)


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Prior to going forward, please pay particular attention to sport-specific needs as noted in " Upper Deck, part 7" . This is an important issue to stress because the training business that surrounds baseball often tries to sell you the notion that you can build a baseball player without skill work. This is false and I want to be very clear that if you intend on excelling on the diamond, you'll need a well laid-out plan that takes into account basic, generalized athletic abilities with skill work. Once a strong foundation of generalized athletic abilities are built, then and only then can we jump into more specialized work.
In the first stages of our training, the structure of our basic daily training will be within mini six-minute "blocks" in descending order. This order should be maintained at all times as, after a generalized "warm-up", we move into the most challenging technical work first with a slow drop off as fatigue sets in.
1. RED2 for range of motion (dynamic)
2. Agility
3. Speed
4. General Physical Preparation (non-weighted)
5. Strength (Focus lifts)
6. Strength (Supplemental and Pre-hab lifts)
7. DMC for general physical preparation (resistance)
8. Range of Motion (Static)
Quite naturally for those familiar with my approach to training you will quickly realize we have directly attacked every aspect of the "Renegade Wheel of Conditioning" and allowed for specialized skill work with the appropriate coaching guidance.
Using either hurdle mobility drills detailed in any of my ten books that will be detailed or the early preparatory work found in the RED2 program (as per In Search of Power part 2 and part 5), the athlete's training session will begin with two six-minute training blocks before entering the Agility and Speed section. While dynamic range of motion work is often overlooked, the absence of this training measure is possibly one of the most common flaws in an athlete's development today.
Speed and Agility work is crucial to success in Baseball and will not only be tackled through specific bounding drills (as per In Search of Power, part 7) but also in the resistance exercises used and the manner in which they are used. In a future article we will look closely at agility-specific drills, but in returning to the bounding drills, it should be noted that these are some of the most challenging resistance exercises available and are an absolute must. Despite what many weight-room coaches will tell you, "speed work" cannot purely exist in the weight room and every athlete will need to spend time performing maximal effort sprints. While there are any number of solid sprint routines that I have employed, one of the best for team-wide application is the following:
Sequence A (Monday)
75 x 2, from flying 10-yard start
50 x 2, from three-point start
65 x 2, from two-point start
20 x 2, from three-point start on clap start
Sequence B (Friday)
55 x 2, from flying 10-yard start
25 x 3, from three-point start
40 x 2, from two-point start
The above sessions assume three resistance training sessions per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) along with restorative sessions on Tuesday and Thursday. Both sequences are performed prior to explosive bounding drills and the bulk of resistance work.
Pushing aside non-weighted General Physical Preparation for later discussion, the athlete now moves to the meat of the resistance work. Best detailed in my final book on Football, "Mastery on the Gridiron", work is spread between Focus, Supplemental and Prehabilitation lifts in a balanced fashion which includes the use of unilateral lifts. For the sport of Baseball I heavily encourage athletes to make use of all training mediums, with particular emphasis on Medicine Balls (as seen in Upper Deck part 2).
Renegade Training
Basic table of resistance protocols
number of
|number of sets
|total work sets
per set
|Total reps
per exercise
|40 - 65
|80 - 95
|70 - 75
Summary of Resistance protocols
Each weight training session will contain three total "Focus lifts", of four sets of six repetitions for a total of twelve sets and twenty-four repetitions.
Supplemental lifts consist of four total lifts divided equally between "hybrid" and "pre-hab" movements.
Supplemental "Hybrid" movements will consist of two lifts in the 85-95% range of maximal effort each of 1 to 3 reps per set with rest periods between 45 to 60 seconds.
Supplemental "Pre-Hab" movements will consist of two lifts in the 70-75% range of maximal effort of each of 12 -15 reps per set rest periods between 35-45 seconds.
Training sessions are also designed with the order of lifts are in a descending nature in a highly specific and unique manner exclusive to Renegade Training for maximal development. However in the basic form the most complex lifts are done first such as in the example:
Focus Lifts
Split Snatch (hang)
Squat (dead-start)
Deadlift (snatch grip)
Supplemental lifts
Jump Shrug
Glute Ham Raise
Cuban Press
Internal External Rotation
For those not familiar with my use of these terms, "Focus Lifts" are based upon the classic Olympic lifts. These lifts are the most effective route in resistance training to enabling the body to move as a single harmonious unit within a time sensitive manner. While some coaches will avoid their use, complaining of complexity, the problem lays not within the athlete but within the quality of teaching as Olympic lifts are ostensibly quite simple in comparison to any on-field sport skill. Supplemental lifts are broken down into (a) Olympic hybrid /derivative lifts, effectively less "complex" components of the Olympic lift or otherwise strategic concerns (see In Search of Power, part 4) and (b) pre-habilitation movements from the Renegade prehabilitation FIX program.
As with other open areas we will need to delve deeper into exercise selection although the general template that all lifting is either "pushing, pulling, squatting, pressing, lunging or extending" will always be maintained. Choices are the key ingredient to the mix but additionally a Baseball coach or player can choose to use "Med Ball Scoop Throws" as a high quality alternative to a Power Snatch. While anecdotal, in most situations I have found Baseball players gravitate to this immediately and with nearly no learning curve can jump into their training.
In the next of this series we will look at how these protocols are utilized, important variations for Baseball players as well as the development of "rotational power" through the "RAT" system, compliance friendly options through DMC for team wide application as well as beginning to bring in unique sport-specific drills.
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Like so many things in the world that are admired, cherished or feared, firearms of various types have acquired nicknames over the years. Some are specific to particular styles of guns based on who designed or made them or how they look, sound or were employed—a good example being the Thompson submachine gun. It's been called everything from a "Tommy Gun" (after the inventor John T. Thompson,) the "Chicago Typewriter /Chicago Piano" (because of its popularity with Gangsters in the 1920s and 30s) and "Trench Broom" or "Trench Sweeper," a more martial name it shares with the Winchester Model 1897 Trench shotgun.
Others are a bit more generic. Sometimes their derivation is obvious like "Gat" shortened from the name "Gatling." Another handgun term from around the same time as "Gat" (probably the 1910s) is "Roscoe." Some opine it was coined by writer Damon Runyon as a prop to be used by some of the gamblers and underworld types who populated his stories. Others feel it has a rather naughtier derivation—but as Sigmund Freud supposedly said, "sometimes a cigar's merely a cigar."
The earliest nicknames I've been able to uncover date back to the 18th century. Small, large-caliber pistols were called "Snappers, "Barkers" or "Bulldogs," the latter term coming down to this day, and along the way achieving trademark status.
AKAs such as "Heater, " Shooting iron," "Smoke Pole" and Persuader" are pretty easy to figure out, as are "Saturday Night Special," "Suicide Special" and "Flyapart ," the latter a trio of terms to describe cheaply-made, inexpensive handguns intended for limited, somewhat specialized usage.
"Long Tom", which has generally come to mean an extended-barreled, large-gauge shotgun (it too was ultimately adopted as an official model designation) goes back to at least the 1820s and originally described a large naval cannon. The appellation has since then also been applied to other artillery pieces.
For some time, it was not uncommon for a hunter to call his trusty rifle "Old Betsy" hearkening back to the name given by David Crockett to a flintlock rifle presented to him by some Tennessee constituents that was built by Pennsylvania maker James Graham. He did not have this rifle with him at the Alamo, but passed it on to his son, John Wesley, when he left for Texas. Interestingly enough an "International" cannon made from bits and pieces of parts donated by various military forces during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was christened "Betsy," supposedly a nickname for the Dowager Empress—though I've often wondered if some U.S. Marine might have come up with a name as a tribute to Davy.
"Horse Pistol" originally meant a large military pistol that was carried in saddle holsters, but the moniker mutated to mean any large-caliber, generally oversized handgun.
These are just a few aliases that I came up with off the top of my head. There are others, such as "Peacemaker," Six-Shooter," that I felt were just too obvious to include, but look, I guess I included them anyway. Can't help myself.
Bet there are a bunch I've forgotten. Anybody else out there have some favorites?


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ENDERBY - Local governments and First Nations will work together to acquire a discontinued rail corridor stretching from Armstrong to Sicamous.
The North Okanagan Regional District, Columbia Shuswap Regional District and Splatsin Band have formalized their partnership with a Memorandum of Understanding, an important step in pursuing the land deal.
"It brings us together as governments so there will be one voice speaking to CP Rail," Splatsin Chief Wayne Christian says.
The band has already obtained 29 acres of the line, which was shut down in 2009, but is now going after the remaining portions with hopes of keeing the entire corridor intact.
The joint venture will promote communication and strengthen relationships between communities and residents, Christian says, adding local governments need to work together to "invest in the region for all our people and our collective future."
He says the band and regional districts share a common vision of a recreational greenway, although there are still many details to work out. Right now, the focus is on negotiating the sale, and the next step is nailing down an asking price from CP Rail.
North Okanagan Regional District chair Rick Fairbairn believes the initiative will set the stage for future partnerships.
"The opportunity to collaborate with the Splatsin and the (Columbia Shuswap Regional District) on such an important regional initiative also opens the door for all three jurisdictions to work on future joint efforts," Fairbairn says.
The Citizens for an Okanagan Rail Trail have been actively advocating for a recreational path from Vernon to Kelowna in tandem with the Shuswap Trail Alliance's push for the same between Armstrong and Sicamous.
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Adam's lip had been feeling itchy all day — itchy and a little tingly, like someone was tickling it lightly. When he woke up the next morning and his lip still felt strange, he looked in the mirror and yelled "What's on my mouth?" His mom took a look and said, "Oh, you have a cold sore."
What's that? Adam wondered.
Cold sores are small blisters that is reddish and a little painful. They are usually on the outer edge of the lip or inside the mouth. Cold sores can appear one at a time or in little bunches. They are filled with fluid but crust over and form a scab before they go away. They last a week or two and usually don't require any special treatment.
Although they're called cold sores, you don't need to have a cold to get one. Some people call them fever blisters, but you don't have to have a fever to have one, either. (Cold sores aren't the same as canker sores, which are small white sores that are always found inside the mouth.)
Cold sores are caused by a virus called herpes (say: HUR-peez). Herpes is one of the most common viral infections in the world. The medical name for the specific virus that causes cold sores is herpes simplex.
There are two types of herpes simplex infection: herpes simplex virus one (called HSV-1 for short) and herpes simplex virus two (called HSV-2 for short). Although both can cause cold sores around a person's mouth, most are caused by HSV-1.
HSV-1 is so common that most Americans get infected with it, although many never have any symptoms. People can catch HSV-1 by kissing a person with a cold sore or sharing a drinking glass or utensils, so it's easy to see why there are so many cold sores around.
Kids who get infected with HSV-1 may get cold sores occasionally for the rest of their lives. That's because even after the sores themselves dry up and go away, the virus stays in the body, waiting around for another time to come out and cause more sores. When a cold sore reappears, it is often in the same place as the previous one.
Although HSV-1 isn't a big deal, it's a good idea to try to keep cold sores as far away as possible. If someone you know has a cold sore, don't kiss him or her and don't drink out of the same glass or use the same knife, fork, or spoon. Sharing towels, washcloths, or napkins is off-limits, too, because the virus may survive on the fabric.
If you've had cold sores before, it can be hard to tell what might make them come back. For some kids, too much stress, too much time in the sun, or getting sick can cause cold sores to reappear. Eating well, getting enough rest, and learning how to deal with stress are important things for any kid to do, especially a kid who is likely to get cold sores.
Putting on sunblock lip balm and sunscreen on the face before going out in the sun may help prevent cold sores from reappearing in kids who tend to get them.
For most kids, the sores go away on their own without any special treatment from a doctor. If you get a cold sore, try holding some ice wrapped in cloth on the sore. It also might help to eat a popsicle.
Sometimes, if the cold sores are making a kid sick, a doctor may prescribe a special medicine that fights the herpes simplex virus. Some kids may take acetaminophen or ibuprofen if their sores are painful.
While you're waiting for the cold sore to go away, wash your hands regularly and don't pick at it. You'll only get in the way of your body's natural healing process. Picking at a cold sore is also bad news because it's easy to spread the virus to other parts or your body, like your fingers or eyes. Worse yet, you might spread the virus to other people. No one will thank you for giving them a cold sore!
Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: February 2014
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when it introduced its first commercial product just a couple months before the economic meltdown. It's trying to drum up demand for a new product for pharmaceutical companies and academic labs that costs $250,000. It's obviously not easy to sell those labs something that expensive, especially something unfamiliar. When I asked Waite if NanoString was running out of money before it got the new cash infusion, he said, "Pretty darn close."
Still, Waite says NanoString has met its internal plans in terms of revenue, and sales unit volume, although he wouldn't disclose numbers for either. The investors intend for this to be the company's last financing, he says. The plan is for NanoString to build up domestic and international sales, and develop a second application for its technology, with an eye toward reaching break even on its cash-flow statement, Waite says.
Investors will want to see NanoString generate $50 million to $60 million a year in revenue, and develop a second application for its instrument, which isn't being disclosed to keep competitors in the dark, Waite says. The existing product has been getting positive reviews from customers, which played a part in capturing the attention of Clarus Ventures, Waite says.
"We believe that NanoString Technologies has the best-in-class platform for expression profiling. Their uniquely user-friendly technology that does not require sample purification or use of PCR constitutes a breakthrough in the field, as evidenced by the excitement of the scientific community towards their products. We are delighted to be part of the success of this emerging leader," Nicholas Galakatos, co-founder and managing director at Clarus Ventures, said in a company statement.
Nanostring has been without a permanent CEO since March, when Fell was replaced on an acting basis by Wayne Burns, the chief financial officer. Fell, a co-founder of Bothell, WA-based Seattle Genetics, stayed on as non-executive chairman of the board. The company is still searching for a permanent CEO, Waite says.
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It's Friday afternoon, and that means it's time for me to give you a little weekend reading from around the web. Here are a few food related items that I thought might interest you.
First, an update on my garden. It finally looks like things are progressing all over. The tomato plants I've been so worried about have proved to be hearty little guys. They are still much smaller than I'd like them to be by this time of the season, but I have every confidence that they are going to make it now. And who knows, maybe because they've had to work so hard to survive up until this point, they'll be harder working.
I've been surprised at how many basil plants are popping up throughout the garden. Last year, I didn't pull the dead basil plants, and I suppose that gave them plenty of time for their seeds to get scattered. So there are basil plants growing willy nilly throughout some of the other plants. I suppose I'll have to transplant them if they get overcrowded, but for now I'm letting them be.
My green beans and broccoli are growing very nicely. I've got a nice flower on one of my eggplants (see picture) and there is even a flower on one of my tomato plants. The two watermelon plants that we dug a patch for on the side of the house are getting bigger every day.
The weeds are starting to rear the ugly little heads, but weeding is good exercise, right?
Now, on to our regularly scheduled Friday food news.
Speaking of gardening, Fine Gardening has a very well written and useful piece on using herbs as ground cover – complete with ideas for which herbs work well in sun and which work well in the shade. What a great idea.
I have a secret in my garden. My secret is so versatile it eliminates weeding, prevents soil erosion, acts as an insulator in winter, a water retainer in summer, and is low maintenance. I'm talking about herbal groundcovers. Nothing works as a ground cover better than herbs. Rambling herbs are adaptable and reproduce by themselves. They act like living mulches, eliminate weeding, prevent soil erosion, act as a soil insulator in winter and a water retainer in summer, and require very little maintenance. Their beauty and delightful fragrance are bonuses.
Earlier this week I wrote about American Farmland Trust holding the America's Favorite Farmers Market contest. Sustainablog reports that farmers market lovers have another opportunity to support their favorite one with a separate contest being held by Care2.com and Localharvest.org.
This summer you can show your support for your favorite farmers market, by helping it win a $5000 reward. Care2.com and Localharvest.org are sponsoring this great online contest. The $5000 top prize will be awarded to the farmer's market that is voted the most popular by internet users like you.
Monsanto has started a Fact site in response to the upcoming movie Food, Inc. The Lavidalocavore blog has some thoughts about Monsanto's Fact site and the movie.
Monsanto has launched a website response to the upcoming documentary Food, Inc. I was fortunate enough to see an advance screening of the film, which I felt was very reasonable and accurate in its portrayal of the facts. Monsanto disagrees. They say:
Food, Inc. is a one-sided, biased film that the creators claim will "lift the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer." Unfortunately, Food, Inc. is counter-productive to the serious dialogue surrounding the critical topic of our nation's food supply.
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Little girl steals our hearts and the Pope's hat
If anyone can grab the Pope's hat and get away with it, it has to be 3-year-old Estella Westrick. Her family took her to meet the Pope in Rome, and of course, they wanted to document the moment.
Took my Goddaughter to meet the pope. She stole his hat! pic.twitter.com/SdSorop3uN— Mountain Butorac (@MountainButorac) March 22, 2017
No skullcap is safe around Estella. As you can see, the Pope got a kick out of it. Estella was caught red-handed on camera by her godfather, Mountain Butorac.
Mountain tweeted out his video and it already has tens of thousands of likes. Maybe it's time we tweak the commandments, just a little. "Thou Shalt Not Steal…unless you're 3 and steal the Pope's hat."


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The golden rules of referrals
If you get a lot of referrals—or hope to get a lot in the future—pay attention to these cardinal rules. They help maintain a strong referral relationship among equine practitioners. Doctors, if you refer to veterinarians who don't follow these rules, look elsewhere.
1. Communicate well. When a case is referred to you, the referring veterinarian wants to know what's happening with their client's horse. Call or e-mail regularly to report on test results, procedure outcomes, and treatments so the client can talk to the regular veterinarian and get his or her opinion on what's happening. Of course, sometimes universities and haul-in facilities become busy. Referring veterinarians should take the initiative in those cases and call if they don't get regular updates on their referred patients.
2. Don't poach clients. If you want to keep referrals coming, then make it known that you won't take referred cases on as regular patients. Elise Lacher, CPA, consultant with Strategic Veterinary Consulting in Seminole, Fla., works with a referral hospital in Florida that spells out its policy on its incoming data sheets. The hospital offers general veterinary services but also receives referrals for diagnostic workups. The hospital won't provide general services to referred clients for three years after the date of the service.3. Don't bad-mouth doctors. Here's a real-life example Lacher has seen. An older doctor looking toward retirement didn't want to do dental work anymore. So he helped groom a younger competitor with a haul-in facility to specialize in dental procedures in their community. He now refers his dental work to her. This younger doctor makes absolutely sure her staff doesn't make disparaging comments about the older doctor, whose medical protocols differ from those at her facility. And she doesn't steal his clients. The younger doctor charges more for her labor-intensive procedures, and the older doctor charges less for his wellness work and vaccinations. Both practices fit comfortably in the same community, and the referral relationship is friendly and beneficial.


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An orphanage nestled about 20 miles south of Tijuana cares for more than 120 children, including 14 infants. Because the Mexican government does not financially support orphanages, buses full of volunteers visit the brightly-colored group home with supplies and hugs every month. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2013.
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For as there have been music videos, there have been artists pushing the limits of censorship on television. Even in today's digital world with the seemingly "anything goes" policy when it comes to publishing content online, artists are still causing commotion by releasing controversial music videos. David Bowie learned that the hard way a year ago this month when his religious-themed video for his new song "The Next Day" was pulled down (and later reposted) on YouTube.
But during the height of the MTV-era, there were no shortage of artists who pushed bounds to see what they could and couldn't get away with in music videos for their songs. From racy imagery, religious connotations, and more, the list of banned videos on TV is substantial. Now thanks to YouTube, these once previously banned music videos are now available for consumption at the click of a button.
Let's take a walk down memory lane at five classic music videos that were once put on the banned list, but be warned, many of these videos are NSFW.
Queen "Body Language" (1982)
Filled with salacious shower scenes and steamy models getting hot and heavy wearing next to nothing, it's no wonder Queen's suggestive "Body Language" was deemed unsuitable for audiences on MTV. The "Body Language" video ultimately went down as the first ever music video to be banned on MTV.
The Kinks "Dead End Street (1966)
Filmed in black and white, The Kinks portrayed undertakers in one of the first true music videos ever created for the song "Dead End Street." Unfortunately for The Kinks, the video was a dead end for broadcast on BBC, which banned the video for being in bad taste.
Billy Idol "Hot In The City" (1982)
The British punk-rocker created two different versions of the video – one in 1982 and the other in 1987, which MTV ultimately banned due to the sacrilegious scene of Idol's girlfriend Perri Lister emerging bound to a cross. Cue to minute 3:10 to see the questionable content that forced MTV to ban the video.
Duran Duran "Girls On Film" (1981)
Just weeks before the official launch of MTV, Duran Duran filmed a racy music video to pair with their third single, but what they didn't know was all the controversy it would cause. The raunchy video of wild mud-wrestling, models in skimpy outfits and suggestive scenes caused an uproar and was consequently banned from the BBC and heavily edited down for MTV airplay.
Madonna "Justify My Love" (1990)
No stranger to creating controversy, Madonna's saucy single and equally as saucy music video "Justify My Love" was banned on MTV for containing "explicit imagery of sadomasochism, voyeurism, and bisexuality." Not surprisingly, Madonna stands by the video, declaring it her favorite music video in 2013.


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Kylie Minogue is exiting The Voice UK after just one series, it has been revealed.
The popstar is quitting the show as filming of the next series will clash with her upcoming tour.
She told The Mirror: "I'm touring this year and the timings wouldn't work. We started filming in November last year for the show and this year I'm on tour in September, October and November."
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Minogue also admitted that filming on the show has taken an emotional toll.
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When asked if she would return to the reality show if the dates were moved, Minogue replied: "I would have to think about it really seriously as I did for this season."
The Voice live shows kick off tonight (March 22) on BBC One at 6.45pm.


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Review embargo is down and most reviews are coming in around the 8.7 to 9.5 mark (about a 9.0 average so far). It sounds like a solid successor to the first Deus Ex. Here's one quote from the 1UP review that sounds so similar to my experiences with the first Deus Ex that it made me smile with anticipation: "One time I had to hold off wave after wave of enemies while waiting for a funicular to arrive. Rather than take them on directly, I used the strength augmentation to block the entrances to the room with vending machines -- problem solved. Other times I'd leave a dead body in plain sight simply to distract guards as I snuck deeper into an enemy hideout. When I was drawn into a fighting I would usually duck into a nearby airduct and play Batman with the enemies -- only popping out of hiding long enough to take down an enemy or two before retreating again."
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Because TMZ is omnipresent like God on high, they grabbed this footage of a random fan who sidled up to Kanye as he and Kim were walking to their hotel in NYC. And because everyone's a rapper these days, the guy decides to YOLO it and kick several bars for 'Ye since he's "been working on my s***, trying to get better at it."
Kim goes into the hotel, Kanye politely stays, enduring the guy's rhymes. When he's finally done, the kid asks "How's it sound now?" Part of me expected Kanye to completely shit on the kid's dreams. he did not. In fact, Kanye kindly responds in the politest way possible before recusing himself.
I never want to see fans getting too close to artists after Lil B got rocked to sleep a few years ago. While the clip's playing, I'm always cringing and trying to ready myself for the worst just because you never know. All I hoped for was dude didn't haul off and sock 'Ye is his bad jaw from the car accident.
Credit due to Kanye for lending the kid the time and a chance to bend his ear.
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