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BEIJING (AP) — China's state-owned CNOOC said on Saturday that it is delighted that the Canadian Ministry of Industry has approved its $15.1 billion proposed takeover of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen.
Once finalized, it will be China's largest overseas energy acquisition, coming at a time when other Chinese companies such as telecommunications giant Huawei are encountering difficulties in expanding in North America, Europe and Australia.
Wang Yilin, chairman of China National Offshore Oil Co., said the approval is recognition of the acquisition's long-term economic benefits for Calgary, Alberta and Canada.
Nexen is headquartered in Calgary in Canada's Alberta province and is to remain there after CNOOC's takeover as its head office for north and central American operations.
"I express my appreciation for Canada's welcome of our investment," Wang said in a statement Saturday.
CNOOC Chief Executive Officer Li Fanrong said the takeover will bring opportunities for Nexen employees, partners and CNOOC. "We are delighted that the Ministry of Industry has concluded that this transaction represents a 'net benefit' to Canada," he said.
China's Ministry of Commerce could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Despite the approval, the Canadian government said it will reject any future takeovers in the oil sands sector by foreign state-owned companies unless there are exceptional circumstances.
"To be blunt, Canadians have not spent years reducing ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
In 2005, U.S. lawmakers blocked a CNOOC $18.5 billion bid to buy the oil company Unocal over national security concerns.


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Yesterday morning, representing the Houston Atheists, I joined roughly fifty other secular Houstonians for a freethought coffee social. The meetup was organized by the Houston Freethought Alliance, with a goal of bringing our groups together for secular fellowship.…
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Davis powers O's past Red Sox
Baltimore improves to 40-30 on season
Davis powers O's past Red Sox
Baltimore improves to 40-30 on season
Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 23rd home run, Nick Markakis had four hits and scored three runs, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox 6-3 Sunday.
Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to a career-high 14 games and drove in a run for the Orioles, who took three of four from first-place Boston to move within 1 1/2 games of the AL East lead. Baltimore has won six straight series over the Red Sox, dating to last year.
Davis homered on a 3-1 pitch from Lester with a runner on to give the Orioles a 3-0 lead in the third inning. It was his 100th career homer and seventh in the last 10 games against Boston. Davis also doubled in a run in the fifth to give him 60 RBIs.


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In 2009 divers descended on the wreck of the ex-HMNZS Canterbury in the Bay of Islands. By accident they discovered a great natural phenomenon of New Zealand's underwater world.
InspiredToDive.com presents a short film featuring underwater photography and videography of spawning anemones in New Zealand.
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Coldwater Creek Files For Bankruptcy, Plan To Close Next Month
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — The women's clothing retailer Coldwater Creek has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to find a potential buyer or a source of capital to help fund its turnaround efforts.
The retail chain said it spent the past six months evaluating its options, but that its declining financial liquidity, tough retail conditions and its inability to find other viable options drove it to file for bankruptcy protection.
Coldwater Creek's stores are still open and selling clothing and other goods to shoppers, as is its website.
The company said Friday that it expects to start sales to liquidate inventory in early May. It plans to hold going out of business sales in the coming months.
Coldwater Creek Inc. is getting $75 million in debtor-in-possession financing from existing lender Wells Fargo to help it wind down its business.
The women's clothing store has 11 locations in Minnesota, including a store in the Crossroads Shopping Center in St. Cloud.


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Standing Bear's Footsteps Standing Bear, an Indian chief, goes to court to prove he is a person and redefines what it means to be an American. He had been arrested in 1879 while trying to return his dead son's body to homelands in Nebraska from exile in the malaria-infested plains of Indian Territory. The trial makes front page news across America.G
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Voces On PBS "Tales of Masked Men" Explore "lucha libre" and its role in Latino communities in the United States and Mexico. Part circus and part athletic contest, the sport, famous for its masked wrestlers, provides a sense of "home" for new immigrants in the United States. It also continues to expand and build on its unique cultural tradition in countries where it enjoys enduring popularity. D
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Ok we'll call it even
Two years ago this past Monday, Mischa Barton bailed on her own red carpet and screwed up our night. As such, we hit the Croisette 2 hours earlier than we had originally intended, during peak evening hours, and I broke my elbow on the way to the bar. Balls.
Back then her career was already in the sh-ts but not totally unsalvageable. These days, well, between her and Lindsay Lohan, the outlook isn't great. Which is why Mischa is now modelling...
In a bridal show.
Oh. SHAME.
Check it out – Mischa on the runway at the Rosa Clara Bridal Fashion Show in Barcelona. It's amazing. The tacky ass Bride Hair. The tulle. From the Golden Globes and the It List to hustling it in a white dress for pay – working the bridal fashion circuit is pretty f-cking ghetto. How much longer before she's doing the ones at the mall during lunch hour? You know, when the retirees and the stroller moms are the only ones watching? She'll find a way to spin it but this, this here is desperation and degradation, an example of how quickly things can fall away when you throw them away. And it totally makes up for my arm. We'll call it even now.
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MilfHunter.com Emily Briar X Rated Galleries
Whilst lost on the road, the squad discovered a girl aiming to fix her flat car tire. They helped her and she presented them money, but they had something different planned. It had not been very long before Emily Briar was flashing the men her amazing figure. She was ready and stuffed her mouth with some dick. Emily Briar gyrated her tasty pussy and had a burst of sperm to her mouth.


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MATH2040 Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus is directed toward students in the bachelor of science in business administration and other disciplines outside of the School of Engineering Math and Science. Topics covered include systems of linear equations, matrices, linear programming, differential calculus, exponential functions and the mathematics of finance. The primary focus is the application of each of these topics. The graphing calculator (TI83) is used throughout the course to discover and to gain insights into the fundamental concepts.
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Reviewed By Philippe G (Bethesda, MD) Reviewed for a 2008 Toyota Tacoma —6/30/2008 12:54 PM
The only thing I have to say it's that the soot of the welding has not been cleaned. I didn't notice and I stained the driver's seat of my new truck with my dirty hand. beside that little problem, the ramp is light, seems very strong and easy to fold and move.


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Sheepshead Bay is small on numbers, but big on quality.
Its roster is just 30, which isn't necessarily out of the ordinary for the perennial playoff contender – it won a city title in 2001 with 29 kids. The players the Sharks do have are high caliber kids, the biggest positive coach Fred Snyder took after a mostly successful week of training camp.
"They're reliable, they're personable, they're good students, good citizens all the way down the line," the veteran coach said. "I think our strength can be teamwork and leadership."
Snyder talked up his three captains – center/defensive end Rashaad Coward, middle linebacker David Sharpton and quarterback Artem Artemyev – in particular as setting the tone.
The highly recruited 6-foot-6, 285-pound Coward, specifically, has stood out as a leader. He met with a tutor every day and took summer classes to raise his grades to become more attractive to colleges like UMass, Albany, Rutgers, Syracuse and Temple that are recruiting him. Coward commands the respect of his teammates, Snyder said, by taking care of his responsibilities and offering helpful suggestions rather than yelling.
"He's a good leader for the team, he understands our system and he's played a few roles on offense and defense," Snyder said. "He can rally the other guys together. If I have to get something done, I'll ask him and he'll do it."
Coward said: "We have to show them the way and lead by example."
Coward is the focal point of a stout defensive line, along with defensive tackle Anthony Appleton and vastly improved defensive end Zavon Moore. The group is big, nasty and physical.
"We understand we have to set the tone, win the battle at the line of scrimmage," he said.
Sharpton is the playmaker of the unit, a 5-foot-10, 230-pound linebacker who made a team-high 69 tackles last year and also starts at offensive guard.
The offense isn't nearly as experienced. Artemyev, the backup to Michael Destephano last year, will take the snaps under center. He shined in a Week 2 win over Thomas Jefferson, running for a pair of touchdowns. Junior Stephan Garrick replaces bruiser Ricardo Appleton as the feature back in the Sharks Wing-T attack and will also get reps at linebacker.
"He'll find a way to get something done," Snyder said Artemyev. "If he has to throw, he'll throw; he's run. He's got a good balance."
Snyder doesn't enter any season thinking playoffs, though he feels the talent is certainly capable. His focus is always on the immediate future.
"I always tell the kids let's try making a first down first," he said. "We'll take it from there."
The players do have a lot of tradition to live up to. Sheepshead Bay has reached the playoffs 15 years in a row.
"We're not trying to be that team to end the streak," Coward said. "So we have to keep working harder and harder and harder and hopefully get further than the first round."


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California has more incarcerated youth than any other state in the nation and has the 11th-highest youth confinement rate, according to a report released Wednesday.
Although the number of youth in jails, prisons or other juvenile detention centers has declined from 1997 to 2010, youth advocates cited in the Kids Count Data Snapshot by the Annie E. Casey Foundation said more can be done to keep teens in school and out of trouble.
"California must implement a more proactive and effective approach to youth incarceration," said Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, which distributed the report. "We know that kids who regularly attend school are far more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to enter the criminal justice system. We need to start there."
The organization praised positive behavior and conflict resolution programs in Oakland and Richmond, which help reduce suspensions and expulsions and help teens understand the consequences of their actions.
"Students need good models of how to resolve conflict effectively without vengeance and without violence," said Oakland school district spokesman Troy Flint. "That's something they don't always get in their homes."
West Contra Costa school district Trustee Charles Ramsey said Richmond High and other schools are encouraging students to talk about their feelings and actions to get at root problems that may cause them to act out.
"We've had a real low suspension rate this year," he said. "I think there's a lot of factors and variables, but I always think communication's important and people having dialogues and discussion helps keep problems from festering."
In San Jose, Yerba Buena High is being honored Friday for its programs aimed at reducing the suspension rate and keeping students focused on school and staying out of trouble.
Dana Bunnet, director of the Kids in Common advocacy group honoring the school, praised its innovative partnership with the Parks and Recreation Department and Police Department, which helps school officials stay connected to students when they're not on campus.
"They're able to touch base with them and give them opportunities to express their pain and anger or whatever emotions they're feeling," she said. "So, in general, they create this caring climate in school."
She said a school-to-prison pipeline is created when students get suspended, drop out, then end up committing crimes.
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Summer seems to have escaped this year with a chilling 14 degrees this morning when I left the house. But as much as I love sun and park life, I can't help but to love the colder months when you get to wrap up warm in wonderful clothes – my growing up in the Arctic could also be a reason for this… and my love for 'look-at-me' knitwear.
If you're looking to invest in your winter wardrobe but want to do it in a green way, Edun is the place to look. The brand of Ali Hewson and Bono – yes that Bono – has an amazing collection out for this autumn/winter that will make you look dashing.
Using layers and dimension to create a well-travelled feel that is juxtaposed with modern silhouettes, Edun offers unique styles with added pockets, stitching and darting details, and the sweaters and knits span the spectrum, from lightweight layering to a fresh twist on vintage Fair Isles patterns.
Trousers range from clean, slim and straight tailored to tapered leg and drop crotch. Something for everyone! The denim is work wear influenced and most of it is made from recycled fabrics in Africa, with an organic wash to finish.
The seasons' colour choices are inspired by natural elements such as stone and ash accented with petrol and ice, whereas red brick and cranberry wine play off sediment black and dark neutrals, like storm and tar, are accented with raisin, mulberry and peacock.
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Liberty Ross Celebrates Genetic Launch with Beau Jimmy Iovine!
Liberty Ross cuddles up to her boyfriend Jimmy Iovine while attending the launch of the new GENETIC x Liberty Ross collection on Friday (August 22) at a private residence in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 35-year-old model designed a six-piece rock 'n' roll-inspired capsule collection, which will launch on Net-a-Porter this week.
"The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's," Liberty told Pret-a-Reporter about the inspiration for her collection. "It was a real riotous incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place."
Also in attendance at the event were Katherine Schwarzenegger and mom Maria Shriver, Scott Speedman, fashionista Liz Goldwyn, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, and Gayle King.
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Make a Chair That Rocks
A little geometry and a simple prototype ensure a pleasant ride.
By Jeff Miller
Pages: 48-51
From the October 2011 issue #192
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I recently set out to design and build a new rocking chair. I've designed and built a handful of rockers, but my past efforts didn't rock as well as I would have liked. I have confidence in my ability to make a comfortable "regular" chair, but it seemed like I was dealing with an entirely different problem with a rocker. So I decided to look a bit more carefully than before into what makes a rocking chair "work." I wanted to understand the geometry of a rocking chair in hopes that I could improve my overall results.
BLOG: Read Jeff's blog, which often deals with chair design.
ARTICLE: Read about a chair Jeff made where the seat and back are all screws.
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TO BUY: "Chairmaking & Design" by Jeff Miller.
IN OUR STORE: "500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional and Innovative Designs."
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The Problem
Smooth surfaces, as polished, coated, or wet surfaces, produce specular reflections under unfavourable lighting conditions. Image processing algorithms, such as any correlation-based computation, may completely fail under specular reflection. In order to make texture-based tracking more robust, a reconstruction method was devised which estimates the image structure of the specular region from the surrounding image structure.
Specular image regions are detected by histogram thresholding. The eigenvector of the smaller eigenvalue of the structure matrix J, the "structure vector", gives the orientation of the local image structure. The intersections of the structure vector with the boundaries of the specular region define the interpolation interval [p1, p2]. Specular regions are filled by linear image interpolation and final Gaussian smoothing.
Application of the algorithm to a metallic surface, the Orbital Removable Unit (ORU), is shown in this sequence of images: a detail of the ORU with specular reflections, with detected specular regions in black, and with reconstructed image regions.
Specular reflections are also a severe problem in medical image processing when dealing with wet and glossy tissue. Our reconstruction method was hence applied to the problem of robustly tracking natural landmarks on the beating heart surface. This image sequence shows a section of a heart surface with a mechanical stabilizer, the same section with specular reflections suppressed, and a larger section with three landmarks and associated tracking areas.
The plots show the dominant degrees of freedom of an affine model of the tracked heart-surface motion. The effects of heartbeat (short waves) and respiration (long waves) can easily be observed.
The tracking performance is strongly improved when specularities are suppressed [1, 2]. Moreover, tracking is more robust when augmented by a prediction algorithm of the heart-surface motion. The tracker is part of a project on robotically assisted surgery; see the section on medical technologies for a description of the complete system.
[1] M. Groeger, T. Ortmaier, W. Sepp, and G. Hirzinger, Tracking local motion on the beating heart, in Medical Imaging 2002, volume 4681 of SPIE, pp. 233-241, San Diego, USA, February 2002.
[2] M. Groeger, W. Sepp, T. Ortmaier, and G. Hirzinger, Reconstruction of image structure in presence of specular reflections, in Pattern Recognition, 23rd DAGM Symposium, volume 2191 of LNCS (Springer), pp. 53-60, Munich, Germany, September 2001.


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Guess you can't live in the material world forever. Kelly Osbourne is signing off as the face of Madonna and Lourdes Leon's tween clothing line, Material Girl. The reality star is currently on the hunt for her replacement, helping out with a nationwide search to find the next face of the brand.
"I'm sad, but I'm really excited to help pick the next girl and that I got to be a part of this process," she told PEOPLE at a Material Girl model casting in New York on Monday.
"Kelly was at every audition," Leon added. "I was only at one and I did the online stuff. It was … difficult because we only get photos and resumes."
How does one become the next Material Girl? "They get on stage in the middle of Macy's on a microphone in front of the mall. It's really intimidating — really scary," Osbourne said. "But it gave me faith in the female kind again seeing these awesome young girls on stage spilling their guts. One girl drove 20 hours!"
While becoming the next Material Girl is no easy feat, Osbourne says it's well worth the work. "I can't even tell you what it's done for my confidence," she said, adding, "To be a face of a fashion line? I'm not even a model citizen."
Palling around with Madonna's daughter wasn't so bad either. "Kelly was really involved and just really fun to work with. We're very similar and we're both really awkward, so we understand each other," Leon offered.
"You don't even know how many times we got in trouble because we were doing things we weren't supposed to be doing [during shoots]," added Osbourne.
Osbourne officially passes the torch in February and from there, her future with the brand is uncertain. "I don't know [if I'll be involved]," she said, adding, "I am going to the first photo shoot with the girls."
But if Leon has her way, Osbourne will be around for quite some time. "Of course [she'll be involved]," she said. "We're pallies. We're pals."
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Not so well, apparently:
The Obama Administration: Change We've Seen Before !
I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
Not so well, apparently:
The Obama Administration: Change We've Seen Before !
Oh, come on…the guy isn't even President yet! I hope you're going to give him at least a couple years before you make any blanket judgments.
And remember, he talked a lot about being transparent, changing the tone and seeking bi-partisan solutions. And so far he has been very transparent, is striking a decidedly bi-partisan tone (Warren at the inauguration?) and has signaled that he's going to look at cutting back entitlements…which you have to admit is a third rail that nobody wants to touch and, as such, is VERY bi-partisan.
As far as his staff goes, he has appointed VERY centrist Dems, as well as some moderate Repubs. Just because somebody has served in past administrations does not mean they're aren't able to deliver on a new agenda that puts pragmatic solutions first.
So I'd say he's well positioned to deliver on his promise of change. At least the promises I heard during the campaign.
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Wabash hits the road for the first time in 2010, traveling to Delaware, Ohio for Saturday's 1 p.m. kickoff at Ohio Wesleyan University.
The Little Giants opened the season last weekend with a 21-17 win over Wooster at home. Sophomore quarterback Chase Belton threw for 250 yards and two TDs and ran for 81 in the victory. Sophomore Jonathon Koop secured the win for Wabash with an interception as Wooster was driving near midfield in the final minute of the game.
Wes Chamblee caught the first touchdown pass, a 72-yard for the first score on the newly-dedicated FieldTurf at Sewell Field. Jonathan Horn added a 23-yard touchdown late in the first quarter. Tommy Mambourg's two-yard run provided the final margin of victory.
Sam Smith (right) made a career-high 12 tackles while also posting his first career interception. Smith added a fumble recovery to earn a place on the D3football.com Team of the Week.
Wabash (1-0, 1-0 NCAC) plays at Ohio Wesleyan for the first time since defeating the Battling Bishops 15-0 in 2007 at Selby Stadium. Matt Hudson '10 came off the bench in that game to throw for two second-half touchdowns after the Little Giants took a 2-0 lead with an early third quarter safety. Wabash owns an 18-13-2 advantage in the overall series. The Little Giants are 6-0 versus OWU since joining the NCAC.
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A House subcommittee Wednesday morning held a meeting to discuss a crossover bill on Sunday hunting from the Virginia Senate.
The crossover bill had just arrived in the House and Wednesday's meeting was put on the agenda late Monday, effectively giving pro-Sunday hunting lobbyists just one day to get their ducks – 'er, deer – in a row.
With this being a seriously busy General Assembly when it comes to outdoors issues, the chair for the Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resouces – R.L. Ware – knew there wasn't enough time to line everybody up.
Ware is against Sunday hunting and everybody knows it. By calling this meeting to quick-kick SB464 into the grave, he basically proved it. His subcommittee, after voting down an amendment by a vote of 4-3, voted to kill SB464 by the same tally. The quickness of the meeting prevented discussion in the full House committee, where many on the Hill say the bill was gaining some momentum.
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This article is the second part of Lady Gaga, the Illuminati Puppet. The first article, published in August 2009, analyzed the occult meaning behind Gaga's photo shoots and videos. We've seen that a great deal of her symbolism revolves around occultism, secret societies and references to mind control. This article analyzes Gaga's latest media and the fact her symbolism is still permeated by the same themes.
My first article on Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta called "Lady Gaga, the Illuminati Puppet" generated a great deal of interest and controversy. It got featured on many websites and I was deemed either a "genius" or "batshit crazy" depending on the point of view. I can confirm that I'm neither of those two things and that I'm just a guy who knows his symbolism. Many news sites and blogs linked to my article by deforming its original intent (probably for more sensationalism) by adding sarcastic remarks like "Oh No Lady Gaga Wants to Control our Minds!" or "The Crazy Lady Gaga Conspiracy". I guess those reactions were to be expected. To people who are not acquainted with obscure concepts such as Monarch programming and occult symbolism, the whole thing might sound totally far fetched and ridiculous. But to those who have background knowledge and who have researched these topics (a small minority), I was simply stating the obvious.
Since this article, Gaga has released more material re-using exactly the same themes as were discussed in the first article: mind control and secret society occultism. I have to hand it to Gaga, she knows how to generate buzz and controversy around her persona and keep people guessing. The great majority of people still have no idea what her symbolism refers to. So, at the risk of being called "batshit crazy" again here's Lady Gaga's latest occult pictures.
In my articles on Lady Gaga and the 2009 VMAs, I've identified the use and display of elements taken from Masonic symbolism. If my previous claims were considered inconclusive or "grasping at straws" by some, I wonder if they'll remain skeptical of the presence of Masonic symbolism in pop culture after seeing this set of photos, taken INSIDE A MASONIC LODGE.
If you have minimal knowledge of Freemasonry, you already know the great importance of the twin pillars Jachim and Boaz. They are depicted in a great number of Masonic works of art, such as this one.
Gaga is standing between both pillars, wearing Hello Kitty shoes, occultly referring to mind control programming (innocence, childhood, re-education, etc). Her eyes are closed but she has wide-open eyes painted on her eyelids, which is very symbolic: her eyes seem open but they are still wide shut.
In this picture, Gaga is sitting on a Masonic throne, complete with the twin pillars on each side of her. Above her head is the compass of Freemasonry.
She is wearing a Hello Kitty dress and posing in a very mannequin-like stance. Her hands are positioned in way reminiscent of iconic art which displays the hermetic maxim "as above so below".
In this picture, Gaga is standing next to the bust of an important Mason (easily recognizable by the collar). The "one eye" symbolism discussed in the previous article is still an intricate part of Gaga's imagery. She is however far from being the only artist doing this (see Rihanna's R Rated album cover). Hello Kitty is covering Gaga's…kitty in another odd juxtaposition of Masonic symbolism with mind control, often found in entertainment photo shoots.
In the previous article, I've mentioned that the name "Lady Gaga" was taken from the Queen video Radio Gaga, in which many scenes were taken from the movie Metropolis. This movie is known for its highly occult themes (Black Magic, sacrifices to the pagan god Moloch, mind control, the whore of Babylon) and is very often referred to in the music industry.
In the movie, Maria, a girl from the working class, is "chosen" by the elite to give her likeness to a mind-controlled robot in order to confuse the masses. There is a dichotomy between the real and the false Maria that is also found in Gaga's latest offering called Fame Monster.
In this image, Gaga's hairstyle is extremely similar to the robot Maria seen here.
In this scene from Fritz's Metropolis, the android Maria is meant to embody the "whore of Babylon" from Revelation 17:
"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns."
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The false Lady Gaga is opposed to the real, natural and apparently unhappy Lady Gaga.
Gaga's wardrobe during the 2009 VMA's left many viewers confused and baffled. Her six costumes referred to different characters from Alice in Wonderland. This tale, along with the Wizard of Oz, is known to contain many triggers relating to mind control programming.
If we combine this wardrobe with the occult vibe of the awards (as analyzed in the 2009 VMA article), the Alice in Wonderland theme takes on a sinister meaning, alluding to the inner-workings of the entertainment industry.
This metallic head is a pretty blatant reference to an alternate personality, as developed in MK Ultra programming.
Living in a programmed reality?
Since the publishing of the first article, Lady Gaga's symbolism has continued to expoit the same themes as were previously discussed. Although she is very smart and educated in symbolism, the settings of the pictures are the creations of photographers, stylists and other "consultants". Whether she is commenting on the mind control phenomenon in mass media or simply a victim of it is still hard to determine but one thing is for sure: the symbolism is there and that's the goal of the article. What is more unsettling is the fact that those themes are not exclusive to Gaga. They are associated with many acts in the music and the fashion industry to a point that one inevitably realizes that these artists are pawns of a greater machine, pushing its symbols through various outlets. References to mind control, to secret societies, to Baphomet and to Metropolis are too widespread to be coincidences or results of artistic expression. There is an obvious media campaign pushing these elements into pop culture. What should we do about it? MTV says: Just dance.


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Aroostook County Potato Bread
Aroostook County is the largest and northernmost county in Maine (in fact, Aroostook County is the largest county east of the Mississippi). The rest of Maine refers to it simply as The County. But if it's potatoes you want, Aroostook County farmers grow the biggest and the best some are nearly as big as footballs. Potatoes are a staple of life in the north and, in yeast breads they really shine.
1/2 cup hot water plus 3 TBSP dry milk (OR 1/2 cups milk, scalded)
3/4 cup mashed potatoes
1 cup potato water
2 Tablespoon butter, softened
1 1/2 Tablespoons kosher salt
2 Tablespoon sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
5 1/2 6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 packet instant dissolving dry yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)
Egg wash: 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 Tablespoon water
Peel and cut into chunks a medium Maine potato. Place into a small saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and cook until the potato is easily pierced with a fork. Drain the water, reserving 1 cup. Mash the potato and set aside.
In a large bowl 1/2 cups of hot water and the dry milk (if scalding the milk heat until small bubbles form around the edge of the pan). Add the mashed potatoes and stir the potatoes and blend smooth. Add the butter, salt and sugar and potato water. Stir to melt the butter and then add the lightly beaten egg.
Add 3 cups of flour and the instant dissolving yeast and blend. Add remaining flour, one cup at a time, until dough comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and scrape out the bowl. Lightly oil the bowl and set aside.
Knead the dough, using only enough flour to keep the dough from sticking to your hands and the board. The dough should be soft and pliable, but not sticky.
Place the dough into the oiled bowl, turn to oil all surfaces and cover with plastic wrap and a clean towel. Let sit in a warm place until doubled, about 40 minutes.
Pre-heat oven to 375° F.
Punch down and round into a ball. Divide dough in half, form each piece into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and a towel and let bench rest for 15 minutes.
This dough can be made into either loaves or dinner roll or a pan of each. One-half of the recipe will make a dozen dinner rolls.
Lightly coat the inside of 2 loaf pans (9 x 5-inch) with shortening (or a 9x13-inch roasting pan).
Shape each piece into a log shape (or divide into 12 pieces) and place seam side down into the prepared pans. Cover with plastic wrap and a towel and let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes.
Brush the tops of the loaves with the egg wash and place into the preheated oven and bake until are a rich golden color and have reached an internal temperature of 195 - 200° F, about 40 minutes. (Note: Breads will sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. Also, dinner rolls will bake in about half the time)
Remove from pans and cool on racks at least 30 minutes before slicing.
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Just for the record, St Louis County in North Central Minnesota is larger than Aroostook if you consider combined land and water area:
After all, this is an Engineer's Board, which should include Land Surveyors?
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is it east of the Mississippi?
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is it east of the Mississippi?
Yes. In fact the Mississippi begins at Lake Itasca, in Itasca County, which is located just to the west of St Louis County.
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Dear Mr. Tyner:
This is in response to your January 25, 2002, letter to this Office in which you request our opinion concerning an application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Specifically, you "request an opinion . . . regarding whether certain documents are" education records under FERPA. You enclosed a copy of a letter from the University of Mississippi (University) to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and a redacted self-report to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as examples of the documents you wish us to review. In your letter, you explain that you previously released similar documents after removing "the names of current or former students and any other personally identifiable information" in response to a request for the documents from The Clarion-Ledger, a daily newspaper in Mississippi. You state you are requesting guidance on whether you may, under FERPA, disclose the example and similar documents in personally identifiable form in response to a request from The Clarion-Ledger for an unredacted version of the documents. This Office administers FERPA, which addresses issues that pertain to education records.
FERPA is a Federal law that gives parents the right to have access to their children's education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of information from the records. When a student reaches 18 years of age or attends a postsecondary institution, he or she becomes an "eligible student" and all rights under FERPA transfer from the parent to the student. FERPA defines "education records" as "those records, files, documents, and other materials which -
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20 U.S.C. 1232g(a)(4)(i) and (ii). In using the term "education records," the Department refers to materials that are preserved or retained by an educational agency or institution, or someone acting for such agency or institution, as an institutional or official record of the student. In other words, the term does not include student work that is created, used, or kept in the classroom and does not become part of the student's institutional record.1
FERPA generally prohibits the disclosure of personally identifiable information derived from education records without the prior written consent of the eligible student, except in certain specified circumstances. Based on the information you have provided this Office, none of the exceptions to the prior written consent provision in § 99.31 applies to The Clarion-Ledger's request for unredacted documents. 34 CFR § 99.30 and 99.31.
Please note that section 99.3 of the regulations defines "personally identifiable information" as information that includes but is not limited to:
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(Emphasis added.)
Based on our review of the letter and sample report you submitted, this Office has determined that the documents at issue are education records. We have determined that the documents, in unredacted form, are education records because they are directly related to the student -- they contain specific information such as the name of the student and his high school - and because the documents are maintained by the University, and are institutional in nature (they relate to the school's responsibility to self-report violations to the NCAA)2.
FERPA does not specifically define "easily traceable," and situations regarding disclosures of information that could be considered easily traceable must be analyzed on an individual basis. For example, a university is in the best position to determine whether a redacted version of an education record would be easily traceable if disclosed by the institution. In making this determination, an institution should take into consideration a number of factors. First, the school should consider whether the party seeking access to the records has prior knowledge of the students listed in the education record. In examining the prior knowledge of a potential recipient, the standard the school official should apply is whether the individual can trace the identity of the student without significant amounts of additional searching for information. Thus, our focus has been on whether the school official reasonably could have concluded, at the time of the disclosure, that the disclosure would not make the student's identity easy to trace. If an institution determines that an education record remains easily traceable to a student even after it has been redacted, the institution would be prohibited from disclosing the record without the prior written consent of the student.
I trust that the above is responsive to your inquiry.
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1 This interpretation of "education records" is the position of the United States as set out in more detail in an amicus curiae brief supporting petitioners in Owasso Independent School District No. I-011 v. Falvo No. 00-1073 (S. Ct.). The Supreme Court may rule on the scope of the term "education records" in the above-captioned matter. The Department will review the Court's ruling in this case, and may issue additional guidance or regulations to further clarify the scope of the term "education records."
2 In an unreported decision, the Chancery Court of the 1st Judicial district of Hinds County rules on this issue in 1996. Gannett River States Publishing Corporation v. Mississippi State University, Case G95-1795 (July 5, 1996). The court held that the records at issue in that case - correspondence from the NCAA to the university - were subject to disclosure under the judicial order exception in FERPA. In order to apply the exception, the court had to have concluded that the records were "education records" under FERPA. To the extent the holding contradicts the notion that correspondence to or from the NCAA is an education record, the Department disagrees with the ruling.


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Theres a new leader at La Plata Open Space Conservancy, but Scott Perez is as enthusiastic about the organizations top annual fundraiser as was his predecessor.
Its really popular, and Im not into changing what works, Perez said of the Snowdown Wine Tasting and Fine Art Auction, which was created 19 years ago by Conservancy founder Kathy Roser.
The event will feature works by 15 artists, including painting, photography and jewelry. The visual pieces are on display in the lobby of Bank of Colorado until Thursday morning, when Perez will move them to the DoubleTree Hotel for the big night. The jewelry can be previewed at Diane West Jewelry & Art on Main Avenue.
This years featured piece is Peter Campbells August on the Animas. The Open Space board of directors picks one piece each year, and that image appears on the poster and wine label that each attendee receives. The wine is selected and provided by Joe Leder of Animas Wine and Spirits. Patrons will dine on a main course from Sunnyside Meats as well as dessert from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
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Thats been a winning arrangement for everyone, Perez said.
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Clayton Chase Magby, 82, of Benton passed away Saturday, June 1, 2013. He was born March 22, 1931, in Hot Springs.
Mr. Magby was a U.S. Army veteran, retired from Alcoa and a member of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lonnie and Buell Magby; a brother, Donald Magby; and two sisters, Geneva Miller and Ellavonne Burks.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Pauline Magby; two sons, Tony Magby and wife Felton and Terry Magby and wife Tammy, all of Benton; three sisters, Lex Spickard of Sardis and Jean Fulcher and Millie Nalley of Benton; two grandchildren, Jennifer Magby Scroggins and husband Chris and Cameron Magby and wife Jenn; and two great-grandchildren, Jenna Scroggins and Cason Chase Scroggins.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, at Ashby Funeral Home with Brother Bob Stuckey and Brother Doug Hammonds officiating. Burial will follow at New Rosemont Cemetery.
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A press release carried in the Salt Lake City newspapers recently reports that San Juan is the third fastest growing county in the state, percentage wise, this past year. San Juan grew by 2.9 percent between July 1, 2008 and July 1, 2009. Only Duchesne, at 3.6 percent, and Morgan, at 3.1 percent, were ahead of San Juan.
Before the recession, counties like Washington and Summit were the champs, but they have both fallen on hard times with high rates of home foreclosure, especially in Washington County where there have been huge declines in construction and above average rates of home foreclosures. Those counties growth rates last year were 0.5 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively.
Salt Lake County grew a modest 1.1 percent and now has 1.042 million residents. Utah County is second in total population in the state, with a population of 531,000 and a 2.3 percent growth rate.
Energy development has sheltered San Juan from the recession. Few have lost their homes to foreclosure, few businesses have failed and population continues to grow as uranium, natural gas and copper all combine to provide high paying jobs.
Other interesting statistics in the article peg the current Utah State population at 2.81 million; with the very likely possibility of having a fourth representative in Washington, D.C. as a result. Carbon is the only county in the state that lost population (a 0.4 percent dip);
Utah women are the most fertile in the nation, averaging 2.5 babies each; and Utah has the continuing "distinction" of spending the least amount per pupil for education than any state in the nation.


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By Jeff Wallner, The Sports Xchange
Cincinnati 71, Marquette 69
CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati was playing without starting point guard Cashmere Wright, but Sean Kilpatrick responded with a career-high 36 points, including the game-winner, lifting the Bearcats to a 71-69 overtime victory over No. 25 Marquette in a wild game Saturday at Fifth Third Arena.
Kilpatrick's driving layup with 4.2 seconds remaining in OT put the Bearcats ahead. A tip-in attempt by Marquette fell off the rim at the buzzer.
Cincinnati (16-3, 4-2 Big East) was playing without Wright, who averaged 15.1 points and 3.7 assists before spraining his knee Tuesday at DePaul. Titus Rubles added 12 points for the Bearcats.
Marquette (13-4, 4-1 Big East) trailed by 16 points at halftime before its furious rally in the second half led by Vander Blue, who scored 14 of his 19 points after halftime.
Marquette's Davante Gardner scored 15 points, including 13 from the free throw line. He hit two free throws with 2.9 seconds left to send the game into overtime. His 3-point play with 14.8 seconds left in OT tied the score 66-66, setting up Kilpatrick's heroics.
The Golden Eagles never led in regulation. Todd Mayo's 3-pointer to begin the overtime period put them ahead for the first time, 66-63.
Playing without its starting point guard, Cincinnati's offense relied on rebounding to create scoring opportunities early in the game, outrebounding Marquette 26-18, including 10-7 on the offensive end, in the first half.
Jermaine Sanders started strong in his first career start, connecting on a pair of 3-pointers to put the Bearcats ahead 8-2.
A 3-pointer by Kilpatrick put Cincinnati ahead 13-3. At that point in the first half, Marquette was just 1-for-11 shooting.
Kilpatrick's third 3-pointer made the score 25-9, extending a 10-0 run for the Bearcats. He led all scorers with 13 first-half points.
Tempers flared with 4:45 remaining in the first half when Marquette's Davante Gardner and UC's David Nyarsuk got tangled up. The officials sent both teams to the bench before ruling a double-technical foul on both players.
Marquette shot just 17.9 percent in the first half and trailed by 16 points at halftime.
NOTES: An MRI showed no damage, but Wright was held out of practice both Wednesday and Thursday. He watched pregame warm-ups on Saturday but did not participate. ... Bearcats sophomore forward Sanders made his first career start Saturday. ... Marquette's 13 points in the first half Saturday were a season low and fewest since scoring 20 in a 49-48 win over Georgetown on Jan. 5.


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Tickets are $10 per dinner and are available now by calling (409) 289-2400 or (409) 718-2101. You can also pick up dinners by stopping by during serving times, which will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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Hospitals across the country will face significant job losses, service reductions and other belt-tightening measures when President Barack Obama signs the order Friday implementing a series of automatic budget cuts.
The sweeping cuts, known as sequestration, would slash $85 billion by cutting jobs and government programs, ranging from Head Start to defense. It also would impose a 2 percent reduction in Medicare payments to hospitals, doctors and insurers, beginning in April.
More than 4,200 hospitals that are among the largest employers in their communities would lose nearly $3 billion under the Medicare cuts this year, according to an analysis by iVantage Health Analytics, a Maine health care research firm.
That could trigger the loss of 73,000 hospital jobs nationwide and tip the operating margins of nearly 100 hospitals from positive to negative, the company estimates.
Hospitals projected to flip from operating in the black to the red include notable institutions like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which faces an estimated $9 million cut in Medicare payments; Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, which could lose an estimated $6.4 million; Loma Linda University Medical Center in, Loma Linda, Calif., which stands to lose nearly $4 million in Medicare payments; and the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, which is looking at an estimated $2.4 million loss.
Even though most hospitals are designated as "not-for-profit," it's important that their revenue match or exceed their costs in order to remain financially viable. Personnel is where many hospitals will begin paring costs to offset the cuts, because wages and salaries account for about 60 percent of a typical hospital's budget.
"The sad part about it is that when you have hospitals switching from profits to losses, you know that the impact is going to be job-based," said John Morrow, executive vice president at iVantage. "Because you just can't operate in the red. It's not a sustainable business model."
In addition to large urban hospitals with thousands of employees, smaller rural hospitals will also feel the pain. According to the data, 63 rural hospitals could become unprofitable because of sequestration, compared to just 36 urban hospitals.
Rural hospitals are usually more dependent on Medicare for revenue than urban facilities. They also have tighter operating margins because they serve fewer patients, many of whom are either uninsured and cannot pay, or are enrolled in Medicaid, which has low reimbursement rates.
The 110-bed Caldwell Memorial Hospital in rural Lenoir, N.C., expects to lose $1 million in Medicare payments because of the mandatory budget cuts. Various provisions of the 2010 health care overhaul law, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a drop in federal support for indigent care and other funding declines will chop another $3 million in federal support from Caldwell's budget this year.
"I've had one year in the last three or four that have had a positive operating margin, so these cuts from ACA and now sequestration, they run deep," said Caldwell CEO Laura Easton.
Morrow said the analysis, which was made available to McClatchy on request, focused on general, acute care community hospitals and was based on each hospital's most recent Medicare Cost Report filed with the federal government.
The findings exclude hospitals that don't participate in the Medicare program, those that aren't accessible by the general public and certain specialty health care facilities, including psychiatric, veterans, rehabilitation and children's hospitals.
Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., will lose about $3.5 million in Medicare payments and another $3.5 million in payments from Medicare Advantage plans, the private insurers that provide Medicare benefits. The $7 million hit will only deepen the hospital's 23 percent annual losses on care to Medicare seniors, said Aaron Crane, chief finance and strategy officer at Salem Health, which runs the hospital. The losses are because of Medicare's low payment rates.
Crane said job cuts are definitely in play, but he'll also look at eliminating some medical services that are unprofitable.
That's not unusual, said Richard Pollack, executive vice president of the American Hospital Association. Hospitals with lean profit margins may choose to downgrade their level of trauma care or eliminate historically unprofitable departments, like neonatal care and burn units, he said.
"It's different for every hospital," Pollack said. "Some will reduce staff. Others may require longer waits for care. Others will defer purchases of new technology. Some will have to delay capital improvements. Every hospital will have a different situation."
An earlier study commissioned by the hospital association, the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association estimates that nearly 500,000 jobs – in and out of the health care sector – would be lost or not created in 2013 if the 2 percent sequester cuts go through.
At Loma Linda medical center, officials are weighing service cutbacks as they try to fill a $3.5 million to $4 million cut in their Medicare funding that could make the hospital unprofitable this year. With 7,000 employees, Loma Linda is also likely to cut jobs through attrition and other means, rather than through direct layoffs, said chief financial officer Steve Mohr.
In Potosi, Mo., the 25-bed Washington County Memorial Hospital also will rely on attrition to thin the ranks. It faces a $144,000 cut in Medicare funds.
"We're planning ahead and not filling jobs as they're vacated until we can get an idea of the true impact," said CEO Leah Osbahr. "You're talking about the jobs just to offset this, but we have to be prepared if they cut further."
Not long ago, hospitals could simply pass the funding cut on to private insurers that paid higher rates than Medicare.
"It's really not an option today because more and more of the commercial payers are adopting Medicare-like payment rates," said Jerry Fedele, president and CEO of Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida. "So as you look at running a hospital into the future, there is no real opportunity to cost-shift from government to commercial payers."
Fedele said the hospital's estimated $3.5 million cut in Medicare payments won't cause it to lose money this fiscal year, but it will require budget adjustments in 2014. About 65 percent of the hospital's revenue comes from Medicare, he said.
For a large rural hospital with annual revenue of $20 million, Medicare typically accounts for about half of the payments, said Jimmy Lewis, CEO of Hometown Health LLC, a trade association of 56 rural hospitals in Georgia and north Florida. Losing 2 percent through sequestration, or $400,000, is the equivalent of losing two doctors from the staff, Lewis said.
Once they're gone, they're tough to replace because most doctors and their families want an urban lifestyle with more family-friendly hours, Lewis said. Recent medical school graduates who have trained in new technology that rural hospitals may not have are especially tough to recruit.
"The first thing they ask is, 'Where are you on electronic health records? Where are you on digital radiology? Where are you on your telemedicine capability?'" Lewis said. "And if you don't have all that, they just say, 'Sorry Charlie, we won't be there.'"


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S.V.A. rat problem
The School of Visual Arts continues building its newest dormitory on the Lower East Side to house hundreds of students by next fall, the college confirmed, regardless of a menacing-looking, 15-foot inflatable rat (below) overseeing construction.
A group of workers from the New York City District Council of Carpenters has been protesting construction, with the red-eyed rodent as their mascot, alleging that the laborers being used at the site are underpaid and havent received proper safety training.
The planned 20-story, 80,000-square-foot residence hall, located at 101 Ludlow St. at Delancey St., will have 350 beds in a mix of private and semi-private rooms, said Michael Grant, the design and art schools spokesperson.
Grant deferred judgment on the allegations to the citys Buildings and Labor Departments, while Susan Stetzer, Community Board 3 district manager, said the union has asked the board to take a position at next months meeting regarding worker wages and safety conditions.
This has only come up once in the past, Stezter said, noting that C.B. 3 is not an investigatory board.
The locally based Charles Blaichman Real Estate Development Corp. approached S.V.A. to develop the project, which has only been built to about three stories so far and also endured D.O.B. stop-work orders.
Blaichman, who has developed extensively in the Village, did not respond to requests for comment.
Andres Puerta, an organizer for the carpenters union, said his workers with their fanged friend plan to protest each weekday, hopefully until they open the front doors, he said. Were not going to give up.
Bowery battle royal
Theres a battle brewing between residents and radicals on the Bowery, with locals slinging mud on either side of the stretch.
Concerned community members who felt slighted at a Nov. 8 C.B. 2 Zoning Committee meeting at which the committee voted in favor of recommending a 15-story residential building at 37 E. Fourth St. claim committee chairperson David Reck shut out the opposition by avoiding criticisms from those against the project. (See letter on Page 14).
Some lodged allegations that Reck ignored or cut attendees off, and the chairperson himself admitted to stifling further discussion when the crowd became completely unruly and uncontrollable.
Its really sad that theres a group of radicals over on the Bowery that just dont want to pay attention, Reck said of his choice to close the comment period.
Doris Diether, C.B. 2 Landmarks Committee vice chairperson, said Reck refused to call on her during the meeting, despite the fact that she was constantly holding her hand up, requesting to speak. The meeting also was reportedly attended by some elderly or disabled members of the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged living near the proposed project.
These are not unruly people, said Anna Sawaryn, of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, who didnt attend. This is why they came to the meeting to find out what is going on.
JASA residents technically live in C.B. 3 territory, but the two boards have worked together on past development along the Bowery.
Last week, the full Board 2 voted to approve the project following the committees recommendation, and the matter now moves to the Department of City Planning.
Noho Historic District
The Landmarks Preservation Commission will meet next month to discuss the expansion of the Noho Historic District to include nearly 60 additional buildings.
The public meeting, to be held jointly with Councilmember Alan Gerson, will focus on the properties loosely defined as located on E. Fourth St., Great Jones St. and Bond St., between Lafayette St. and the Bowery.
This has been a long time coming, Gerson said in statement at last weeks C.B. 2 meeting, and we hope that you will be able to come and support the designation and once and for all protect what remains of Nohos special built character for generations to come.
Mixed Use wonders if any radicals from the Bowerys east side along which eight of the buildings in the proposed expansion front the west side of the street will make a show of force at the Dec. 3 meeting.
D.O.B. spiffs up threads
Dont expect to see them sashaying down the catwalk at Fashion Week, but the Department of Buildings has unveiled a new wadrobe for its inspection staff in a continued effort to further the professionalism and integrity of the agency, the department announced last week.
D.O.B.s 300 inspectors and field responders will now sport jackets, shirts, pants, shoes and hats emblazoned with the department logo, said spokesperson Kate Lindquist. The various articles range from blazers for managerial staff to more utilitarian cargo pants for inspectors.
The total price tag for D.O.B.s shopping spree? $385,000.
I think that they appreciate the new uniforms, and they recognize that its bringing a level of respect to their profession and helping them do their job better, said Lindquist of the mostly navy, light-blue and khaki duds.
Workers will be required to don their department IDs as part of the uniform.
Whether these new N.Y.P.D.-like duds will make it easier for inspectors to enforce the law at worksites remains to be seen.
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Fresh lemonade is at the crux of all that is lovely and wonderful about summer. It's simple, refreshing and undoubtedly tied to fond memories of youth. Infuse this favorite with summer's best fruits, and your nostalgic homespun joy will increase twofold.
We charged the lovely Amber Wilson of For the Love of the South with creating blackberry, peach, watermelon and strawberry fruit-infused lemonades from one classic recipe. In her following recipes, Amber encourages us to be creative, saying, "Add fresh herbs to these fruity lemonades. A sprig of oregano with the strawberry lemonade and a rosemary sprig with the blackberry lemonade lends a lovely herbaceous aroma to this classic summertime beverage. Mint goes great with watermelon, and thyme works well with peach lemonade."
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½ cup granulated sugar
3 ½ cups boiled water
½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (3 or 4 lemons)
1/2 cup fruit puree (See options below)
- Before juicing the lemons, rub the skin aggressively with ½ cup of granulated sugar. This will release the natural oils in the lemon skin and perfume the sugar for the simple syrup.
- In a small bowl, combine ½ cup of recently boiled water with perfumed granulated sugar to create a simple syrup. Stir until the sugar has completely dissolved. Set aside.
- Combine the remaining 3 cups of water, lemon juice and simple syrup in a pitcher. Stir. Place in the refrigerator and keep chilled until ready to serve.
- While lemonade is chilling, assemble chosen fruit purée.
- Add puree to lemonade and chill mixture longer if necessary. Pour over ice and serve with complementary herbs if desired—we recommend a sprig of rosemary in each glass.
For Watermelon Lemonade: Purée 1 cup of cubed, seedless watermelon in a food processor until liquefied. Strain, reserving the juice and discarding the pulp.
White Peach Lemonade
Purée 1 cup of white peaches with 1 tablespoon of water in a food processor until liquefied. Strain, reserving the juice and discarding the peach pulp.
Blackberry Lemonade
Purée 1 cup blackberries and 1 tablespoon water in a food processor until liquefied. Strain, reserving the juice and discarding the blackberry pulp.
Strawberry Lemonade
Purée 1 cup of strawberries with 1 tablespoon of water in a food processor until liquefied. Strain, reserving the juice and discarding the strawberry pulp.
Note: If hosting a party, we suggest making a double or triple batch of the base lemonade recipe and mixing up a couple different fruit purees (strawberry, peach, blackberry, watermelon, strawberry.) Keep these separate from the lemonade until serving. With this approach, guests can add as little or as much puree mixture as they please to their individual drinks—we suggest 1 1/2 ounces puree per drink. They can even mix two flavors together if they are feeling adventures.
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Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve stood by its plan to continue with aggressive measures to boost the economy.
Concern eased about a possible financial crisis in Cyprus.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 55 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 14,511. The Dow briefly traded at an all-time high Wednesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,558. The S&P posted its first gain after three days of losses and is about six points away from its record closing high.
The Nasdaq composite index rose 25 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,254.
Three stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was 3.3 billion shares, slightly below the recent average.