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From the very beginning it was dubbed the Battle of Bogota, and both Colombia and USA fought bitterly to win the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group play-off by BNP Paribas tie last weekend. Each had different motivations, though. Colombia was trying to enter the World Group for the first time, while USA was bidding to avoid regulation for the first time in over 20 years and send captain Patrick McEnroe, who announced his retirement following the conclusion of the tie, out a winner. "It has been quite an honour to be a captain and I would like to go out with a win," confessed McEnroe before the action got under way. "We always feel the pressure to win in a play-off tie." Taking a page out of the Spanish Davis Cup book, Colombia turned its famed Plaza de Toros La Santamaria in Bogota into a tennis court. The home town crowd did its part, too, as the bullring became a sea of bright yellow, blue and red. "Spain (in 2008) might have been a larger venue, but this crowd is just as vocal and passionate, only slightly smaller," said USTA President Lucy Garvin. Tricky conditions in Bogota As expected, the tie began with plenty of discussion about the altitude - 2,600 meters - and the Tretorn pressure¬-less balls. Players on both sides had something to say about the conditions, but what became clear from the first match, Alejandro Falla versus Mardy Fish, was that any differences in rankings would be negated by the challenging conditions and Davis Cup drama. Falla took Fish the distance in a five set thriller. The Colombian pushed his higher ranked opponent to the brink of defeat, only to have Fish come through for his country in the clutch. Santiago Giraldo then gave Sam Querrey a lesson in high altitude tennis, winning in straight sets in 95 minutes. "Physically I felt fine," said Querrey. "But mentally it can get frustrating that you end up spraying balls that you normally would not miss. But you know, it is the same for both players." Doubles dilemna for McEnroe With the tie locked at 1-1, questions were raised about the absence of the Bryan brothers, the number one doubles team in the world and stalwarts of the American team for the last eight years. "The altitude had a lot to do with it," explained McEnroe. "I felt that we might need a couple of extra singles players in case someone got sick. It was a very tough decision. The brothers and I talked about it a lot during the summer. Fortunately, Mardy gives us choices as a singles and doubles player." Now, with USA in a bind, it quickly became obvious that if McEnroe and his American team was going to avoid relegation and retain its place in the World Group then they would need a hero. Fish stepped up to the plate. Teaming up with John Isner, he dominated the doubles contest and sent the visitors into the last day with a 2-1 advantage. Fish carries USA to victory This tie was quickly turning into the Mardy Fish Show. Only on Sunday morning, Santiago Giraldo was not watching. When he broke the American's serve at 5 games all in the fifth set, to serve for the match, Colombians began chanting, "Yes, he can. Yes, he can." Now it was Fish's time to change the channel. He quickly broke back and played two stellar games to clinch the tie for USA, becoming the first American since Pete Sampras in 1995 to win all three points. Mardy Fish played eleven hours of tennis and fourteen sets over three days. "It came down to Mardy getting the ball in the court more than anyone else," said Jay Berger, coach of the American team. "I thought it was remarkable how Mardy handled every lull and downturn in the match. "Mardy brought a lot of commitment to the team without any ego. Before we had our first practice, he told us that he did not care if he does not play at all, or if he plays every match. He is here to do whatever it takes to the get the win and get back to World Group." "The key for Mardy all weekend was his mental toughness because he is so physically fit now that he has become mentally much stronger," added McEnroe. "I am very proud of all the boys, especially Mardy." McEnroe signs off successfully While the spotlight was on Mardy Fish, McEnroe made a successful exit from the Davis Cup scene and now will focus on his role as Director of Elite Development for the USTA. For Colombia it is back to the drawing board. While they lost the tie, their excellent play and gritty competitiveness drew praise from the Americans. "They played so well all weekend," commented Mardy Fish. "We were really lucky to survive this tie. I am sure with this team they will challenge for the World Group next year." Both teams now await the draw to learn their next opponents in 2011. It's taking place in Brussels on Wednesday.
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Eighteen years to the day after the final episode of MacGyver aired on ABC comes comedian Will Forte's belated parody MacGruber, expanded to 89 agonizing minutes from a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch. Despite a handful of early reviews that proclaimed it "the best SNL movie since Wayne's World" – hardly high praise, but misleading all the same – MacGruber was withheld from most critics until hours before its release. Now we know why.
The common complaint about SNL-inspired movies is that five-minute sketches rarely hold up as feature-length productions – the jokes, often based on a single fragile conceit, wear thinner than thin. In keeping with that dubious tradition, MacGruber pokes fun at Richard Dean Anderson's impossibly resourceful secret agent, who seemed capable of crafting homemade explosives out of twigs, berries and a deck of playing cards.
The joke here – that MacGruber, Forte's mullet-sporting lookalike, is an ineffectual buffoon, all bluster and no bite – is stretched well past the breaking point in a movie that lazily squanders its most obvious setups. We know, for instance, that MacGruber will assemble his own bomb – in this case, out of a tennis ball. When he does, it fizzles.
Where's the twist? MacGruber is clearly incompetent, so we expect his dim-witted schemes to fall flat. That they do, in stunningly predictable fashion, speaks to the movie's lack of imagination. So too does its ponytailed villain, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), whose name is pronounced with a silent H. ("Pound that Cunth" is our clownish hero's rallying cry, repeated often in case we missed it the first time.)
MacGruber tosses out so many zingers and juvenile sight gags (including Forte, in the buff, with a celery stick lodged in his derriere) that a few were bound to find their target, and so they do. The best of them suggest the peculiar talent for absurdity of screenwriter Jorma Taccone, who co-wrote the movie with fellow SNL alums Forte and John Solomon.
As he proved in the far funnier Hot Rod (2007), Taccone, a founding member of the Lonely Island comedy troupe, is capable of finding humor beyond the confines of a limited premise, often in throwaway scenes redeemed by the sheer audacity of their silliness.
MacGruber has some of these, but not nearly enough to fill the vast empty spaces. Instead, we are force-fed a too-generous helping of Forte, stooping to regrettably shallow depths for laughs that rarely come, and dragging co-stars Kilmer, Kristen Wiig and an embarrassed-looking Ryan Phillippe down with him.
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Iraq was a bold US experiment in nation-building. It turned out to be a flop.
Thats what were learning as we watch what the US achieved there evaporate after nine years of war, after nearly 4,500 Americans were killed, 32,000 wounded and $800 billion in US taxpayer money spent.
When George W Bush first ran for president in 2000, he expressed contempt for nation-building. It was a point he made in rally after rally. Im worried about the fact Im running against a man, Bush said, who uses military and nation-building in the same sentence.
But what were US troops doing in Iraq four years later if not nation-building?
The US military can do many things supremely well. They are all military thingslike fighting wars, repelling invasions and providing security. But nation-buildingthe task that devolved upon them in both Iraq and Afghanistanis political, not military. And politics is not something the military can do very well. Nor should anyone expect it to.
The US spent a fortune on training and equipping the Iraqis. But Iraqi soldiers just laid down their arms and surrendered to the jihadist invaders in northern Iraq. The problem is not advice. The problem is not arms and equipment. Theyve got a load of this stuff, Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, told Politico. The problem is they dont fight Theres nothing to fight for because they dont believe in the government.
Washington expected Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to build a consensus government in Iraq. But he was ill-equipped and unwilling to do so. Maliki is the leader of a Shiite political party. He has been distrustful and suspicious of Iraqs Sunni and Kurdish minorities and has done little to share power with them. As a result, the minorities feel little loyalty to the Iraqi government and are unwilling to fight for its survival.
Iraq is disintegrating. The civil war in Syria is precipitating a civil war in Iraq between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, with Kurds seizing the opportunity to establish their own autonomous, if not independent, state. Its an impossible choice for the US. The Shiites are supported by Iran, the Sunnis by al Qaeda.
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What if I told you there was a one pot healthy meal that took five minutes of prep time to make… that would have your family clamoring for more, scraping the pot to get every last bit into their hungry mouths?It's all true! Cream of Mushroom Chicken Bake is my savior on those crazy nights when I am running my kids back and forth to all of their activities. I throw it together in five minutes tops, pop it into the oven and hop in the car to drive my kids around while it bakes. Did I mention this recipe only uses three main ingredients? Yes, it's the kind of recipe you would find on the back of a Campbell's Soup can, but it's oh so good…
My husband's mother, Gerry, made this dish for his family when they were growing up, and it is the dish he remembers most fondly. She used Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup and white rice, but nowadays there are a lot of healthier options. I use Amy's Cream of Mushroom Soup and brown rice (I used to use Whole Foods 365 brand, but they changed the recipe and it doesn't work well for this dish anymore. It is too thick and white). I think she would approve.
Make sure you bake this until the creamy rice is browned and crispy around the edges. The crispier the better – this is the part that everyone attacks, and you want enough of it or it could turn ugly. Sometimes I add some chopped carrots to the cream of mushroom soup for color. Serve with a side of green beans.
- 4 whole chicken breasts, bone in
- 2 cups brown rice (basmati, or medium grain)
- 2 cans Cream of Mushroom soup, plus water (see below)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Rinse brown rice, and place in a large dutch oven or casserole dish with lid. Read package instructions for the rice to determine how much liquid is needed for cooking. ** Pour the two cans of soup into a large measuring cup, and add water until you have reached the amount of liquid needed for the rice (for example, I needed 5 cups of water for my 2 cups of rice. My two cans of soup measured out just under four cups, so I added water until I reached the 5 cups of liquid necessary). Add salt and freshly ground black pepper, and stir.
- Wash, pat dry the chicken breasts and coat with a little bit of olive oil. Lay the chicken breasts on top of the rice, and salt and pepper them.
- On the stovetop, turn the heat to medium and bring the rice and chicken to a boil. Cover pot and remove from heat. Place covered pot in the oven.
- Following package instructions for the rice, cook for the amount of time indicated (usually 40-50 minutes). Uncover, and increase the oven temperature to 500 degrees. Cook until the chicken is browned on top (you can spoon some of the liquid on top of the chicken while it's baking to help it crisp, or if you don't have enough liquid drizzle a little more olive oil on top), the liquid is absorbed into the rice, and the edges of the rice are brown and crispy (depending on the type of rice, about 30 minutes or more ).
** If you are using a condensed cream of mushroom soup that is especially thick (such as 365 brand), add an extra 1/2 cup of water
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STANFORD, Calif. - After dropping its first game of the competitive Stanford Invitational to No. 2 USC, 9-3, Saturday morning, the No. 5 California women's water polo team rebounded with an 11-7 victory over No. 11 Arizona State on Saturday afternoon. California now sits at 5-2 overall and will play No. 3 Stanford on Sunday morning at 8 a.m.
No. 2 USC jumped out to a 4-1 lead over the No. 5 Golden Bears in the first period to take the 9-3 decision in the first match of the Stanford Invitational on Saturday morning. The Women of Troy extended their first quarter lead by shutting out the Cal offenses while tacking on two goals in the second stanza to take a 6-1 lead into the halftime break. The Bears matched USC's one goal in the third period to bring Cal within five, 7-2. USC outscored the Bears 2-1 in the final quarter to take the 9-3 nonconference win.
Senior goalie had give saves between the posts for the Golden Bears. Meghan Corso, Paige Lorenz and Grace Reynolds each scored once for California.
In the second game of the day, it was the Golden Bears who established an early and overpowering lead. Leading by one at the end of the first quarter, 3-2, Cal shut out the Sun Devil offense and scored four goals of its own in the second stanza to take a 7-2 lead into the break. ASU came out of halftime fired up and outscored the Bears in first and only period of the game, 3-1. With an 8-5 edge at the beginning of the final quarter of regulation, California extended its lead with three goals to Arizona State's two to take the game, 11-7.
Sophomore utility Darby Anderson had a game high of four goals against the Sun Devils, which was the most she has scored in one game this year. Sophomore two-meter Grace Reynolds chipped in two goals and five other Golden Bears - Corso, Katya Eadington, Molly Hayes, Stephanie Schnugg and Erin Scully - contributed one each. Stuart grabbed seven saves for the Bears.
The Stanford Invitational concludes tomorrow with an 8 a.m. game against No. 3 Stanford and an afternoon game that is to be decided.
Score by period 1 2 3 4 F California 1 0 1 1 3 USC 4 2 1 2 9California goals: Meghan Corso, Paige Lorenz, Grace Reynolds
USC goals: Bartunkova 3, Nichols 3, Anae, Kiss, Stein
California saves: Heather Stuart 5
USC saves: Morgan 10
Score by period 1 2 3 4 F California 3 4 1 3 11 Arizona State 2 0 3 2 7California goals: Darby Anderson 4, Grace Reynolds 2, Meghan Corso 1, Katya Eadington 1, Molly Hayes 1, Stephanie Schnugg, Erin Scully 1
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A great deal of misinformation is circulating among the general public with regards to automotive appearance products. In particular, I would like to take time to try and shed some light on the ambiguous and confusing use of the term "petroleum distillates".
Recently, I have heard and read comments and excerpts from "seminars", web site forums and product advertisements concerning petroleum distillates that misleads or misinforms the consumer. Anyone who makes the blanket statement that all products containing petroleum distillates are harmful to car finishes, fiberglass or plastics has no real knowledge of science or petroleum refining. False information is used to scare consumers and take advantage of their lack of technical knowledge in order to sell what may be an inferior product. This is unfortunate and reflects the seamier side of advertising and negative marketing.
Some people are mystified by the name itself "petroleum distillates", but that is exactly what they are — products made from crude oil that have been distilled in a refinery and then usually processed further and purified in some manner. The word petroleum, derived from the Latin petra and oleum, literally means "rock oil" and refers to hydrocarbons that occur in sedimentary rocks of the Earth's crust. Because most people mistakenly believe that all petroleum distillates must be similar, they find it hard to believe that there are so many totally different types, many with completely opposite characteristics and uses. In fact, even the term "distillate" raises concerns in some minds. Yet, lots of common and very beneficial things such as water are distilled to remove impurities. The list is long but the point is that distillation is neither good nor bad, just a tool to make something more useful.
Distillation is still the basic process used to separate and purify the components of crude oil. The type and source of the crude oil heavily influences the resulting by-products. Crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons with impurities like sulfur, nitrogen and small amounts of metal. It is found throughout the world and varies greatly in content and composition. There are thousands of types, varying from a nearly clear liquid with the consistency of kerosene, to a solid (at room temperature) that looks like brown candle wax and, of course, the heavy black tarry kind that is usually what the general public visualizes when thinking of crude oil.
The primary function of an oil refinery is distillation — i.e., the crude oil is heated in a large closed vessel (usually called a still). The lighter components boil off first and rise to a higher point inside a tower above the still. The heavier components boil off at higher temperatures and condense back into liquids more quickly. These products are captured on trays at each level and pass out of the tower. The lighter and more volatile products are used in gasoline or as solvents, the next heavier might be used as diesel or stove oil and the next as lubricants, and so forth. Frequently, the leftover crude is then subjected to more processing (typically catalytic and thermal cracking) in which many more compounds are formed and then separated again by distillation. The amount of product distilled from crude is dependent on its characteristics. Some crudes will yield over 90% distillates while others may yield much less.
The nice thing about petroleum distillate is that the distillation process leaves behind most of the nonvolatile (like asphalt). As you may know, gasoline is a typical petroleum distillate as are kerosene and mineral spirits. Yet, so are motor oil, cutting oils and the base oil used in many types of grease.
The distillates usually contain three general classes of compounds, aromatic, naphthenic and paraffinic hydrocarbons.
• Aromatics are great solvents and a base for many types of useful compounds. They are a perfect ingredient for making such things as carburetor cleaner or a paint remover where strong solvency is needed.
• Naphthenics (AKA cycloparaffins) are used to make light oils, solvents and even as a base for things like detergents and paint dryers.
• Paraffinic compounds have much less solvency and many are purified further. They are used in a myriad of consumer products, such as ingredients in many lotions and skin creams. Crystal clear white oils are used as a laxative, to coat pans in bakeries and as a base for medicines. Paraffinic compounds are perfect for use as a component in automotive waxes and polishes and those products used to treat painted surfaces, vinyl and plastic for reasons to be discussed later.
All of these products started as a distillate of petroleum but ended up being as different as night and day. This is because petroleum distillates can be further purified, re-distilled, reacted and combined with various other chemicals to produce a wide range of useful products.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (a government agency) requires any product that contains lighter petroleum distillates in its formula to be labeled with a warning that it "contains petroleum distillates". The warning is provided to help doctors and emergency medical personnel understand how best to treat children or others who might accidentally drink the product. Child safety is a common concern when storing any of the thousands of products that may be found in your garage, laundry room, or under your kitchen sink. In the event someone ingests a product containing petroleum distillates, medical personnel may elect not to induce vomiting.
The reason that petroleum distillates are used in many appearance care products is because they perform many different and important functions at an affordable price. About 90% of the thousands of Car Waxes and Polishes formulated today contain significant amounts of petroleum distillate, from the best known brands to the lesser known, as well as the highly regarded premium quality brands used by professional detailers. It is used in these products because petroleum distillates easily dissolve waxes and silicones and become an excellent medium to allow them to be spread on a surface. They also cut quickly through oily dirt and light grease and help lubricate the surface and prevent scratching.
Products that are used on plastic, vinyl and rubber surfaces should be formulated from very special grades of petroleum distillate that contain little if any aromatic and naphthenic molecules. While this type of highly refined paraffinic distillate costs a good deal more, it helps insure that the product does not attack the surface or remove important components from the vinyl or rubber when used as directed — yet, it does help to clean and lubricate the surface. Such products can be formulated to leave behind a rich and protective film of wax or silicone (or both) to help lengthen the surface's useful life and prevent cracking and shrinkage. The use of petroleum distillate also allows premium UV Blockers to be included in the formulation as the most effective ones are not soluble in water. This can provide excellent protection against the surface deterioration, chalking and fading caused by sunlight.
Summing it all up, there are a large number of products available today that contain petroleum distillates. The mere fact that they contain petroleum distillates doesn't tell you much about the product's quality. In spite of spending 40 years formulating specialty products, without the complete formula I can't determine product quality. I do know that many formulators do their homework in product development, performance and quality control. However, I am suspicious of companies and products that rely on negative advertising, rather than selling their product on its own merits. Therefore, I rely on a manufacturer's reputation and especially on recommendations from other users when judging what product to buy for the first time and then by my own experience after I've used it for a period of time.


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He has got the look of a KILLER!
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When an idol stoops to folly, he becomes the butt of all the jokes for others. It goes so well with the sculpture pictured above – Tiger Woods clad in condoms. As the celebrity golfer desisted from using protection all through his sexual endeavors with multiple partners, now he (his sculpture rather) stands educating others not to tag along his nonchalant pursuits. Well, did I tell you about the inscription on the belt he wears? It reads, "Let's do it Tiger."
Hit the jump to see the sculpture wearing condom-dress in its full glory.
The Population and Community Development Association of Thailand has housed this sculpture next to a condom-decorated Christmas tree outside a Thai restaurant called Cabbages and Condoms. Holding a golf stick in his right hand and wearing a condom cap, it is just embarrassing for a big shot like Tiger Woods; however, the message the sculpture sends out is definitely more powerful than the ridicule itself.
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Ping-Pong could provide the model for making commercial quantum computers.
"We're basically playing ping-pong with a single electron," says Cambridge University researcher Crispin Barnes, "we can capture single electrons and move them backwards and forwards wherever we like."
A single electron, bouncing between two electrical traps, has shown for the first time how information could be transferred between different parts of a quantum circuit.
"The more bounces we get, the more amazing our quantum computer can be," says Barnes.
Quantum computers manipulate information in the form of quantum bits, or qubits, which can be both a 0 and a 1 at the same time.
Qubits are fragile, however, and the act of measurement destroys them. So to protect quantum calculations, researchers need a way to transfer qubits from the area where the number crunching happens to a separate spot where they can be measured in isolation.
This is what the Cambridge team has done as a proof of concept. They created two electron traps called quantum dots on gallium arsenide.
Microwave pulses sent an electron to and fro between the two dots, They shuttled the electron 60 times over a total distance of 0.25 millimetres.


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Many articles (e.g. msdn) have said that a circular reference cannot be cleaned up in some browsers when it involves a DOM object and a JS object.
(IE 6 can't do it at all and IE7 can only do it between page requests):
Javascript Native (Leaks):
function leak(){
var elem = document.createElement("DIV");
elem.onclick = function () {
elem.innerHTML = elem.innerHTML + ".";
// ...
Because the element's onload property refers back to itself through a closure, it creates a circular reference:
elem [DOM] -> elem.onclick [JS] -> elem [DOM]
JQuery Version (Does NOT Leak):
function leak(){
var elem = $('

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elem.click(function () {
elem.html(elem.html() + ".");
// ...
In this case, jQuery stops the leak from happening in ALL browsers concerned even though there is still a circular reference:
elem [JS] -> element [DOM] -> elem.onclick [JS] -> elem [JS]
My Question: How does jQuery stop the leak if there is still a circular reference?


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Mini was the food-theme of the night, with a mini-Dim Sum table, along with mini-cheeseburger and mini-BLT hors d'oeuvres (I'd swear that there was a Wonkavision machine in the kitchen shrinking regular-sized cheeseburgers). Kinect was definitely the game-theme of the night. Microsoft had 15+ Kinect stations set up throughout, demoing a wide variety of genres, including music games, shooters, and even the latest hotly anticipated Cookie Monster dance game.
We tried a hand at Gunstringer, which is a rail shooter for Kinect that uses your hands as guns - you make a gun shape with your hand, move it around to aim, then snap your hand-gun upwards to shoot, like you did when you were a kid. The game was surprisingly accurate, but not perfect. The learning curve is pretty low - once you're synched up to the game, you'll be able to snipe those insidious arm-flailing tubemen with reasonable accuracy.
Fruit Ninja was also on display, which uses Kinect to place you onto the background as a shadowed point of reference, and then use your arms as blades to slice flying fruit. I didn't get a chance to play it, but watched on as folks lined up for a brief shot at furious arm-flailing. I wondered how much fun it would still be after a few tiring minutes of game play, but the game's trailer at least implies a more focused style of playing by slicing the fruit with the least amount of strokes - more martial artisty than spastic.
In the center of the room were several stations set up for Gears of War 3, along with a few stations for Forza 4 and Madden 2012. I tried out Forza using the 360's Speed Wheel controller. It took a minute or so to get used to the controls of the game and the controller itself, but you quickly get the hang of it. The controller was fairly responsive, although I personally prefer a racing wheel attached to a base over a floating wheel. Forza 4 carried over the Sands of Time-like rewind button from the prior game, which remains a unique and intriguing aspect of the game.
Gears of War 3 was set to horde mode, with some fun additions to help you overcome the onslaught. Environmental defenses available for purchase include laser walls, turrets, and floor spikes, while players also have access to a new sawed-off boomstick (however reloading takes twice as long as the gnasher). New weapons and game modes aside, core game play remains largely unchanged (if it ain't broke...).
Accessory-wise, Microsoft also had their new Media Remote on display, which is a much slimmer and simpler version of the prior model. It's very useful for controlling your TV and the media center features of your 360, as well as the less useful ability to extract puddles of drool from everyone around me.
Microsoft typically spares no expense for press events, and last night was certainly no exception. The mood was relaxed and low-key, and we were able to observe and play games among a light crowd while imbibing on fancified cocktails several levels above my pay grade. But underneath the glitz and pomp, what really matters is the games, and how they'll sell this upcoming holiday season.


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- Prep Time : 75 min
- Cook Time : 40 min
- Yields: 45
- 11 ounce bittersweet chocolate
- 3 ounce semisweet chocolate
- 1 cup Earth Balance® buttery sticks
- 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 12 ounce package of silken tofu, pressed
- 1 1/2 tablespoons
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 3 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 pint vegan whipping cream or other full-fat non-dairy milk
- 1 3/4 cups light corn syrup
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup Earth Balance® buttery sticks
- 1 teaspoon
- 45 pecan halves, toasted
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons soy milk
2. Melt the Earth Balance, bittersweet and semisweet chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat until smooth. Whisk in cocoa powder.
3. Puree sugar, pressed tofu, and vanilla in a blender until smooth. Place tofu mixture in a large mixing bowl, add melted chocolate mixture to the bowl and mix well.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk the flours and baking powder together and then add to the chocolate mixture.
5. Stir until no more flour is visible—a few lumps are okay. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
6. While brownies are baking, place all caramel ingredients (whipping cream, corn syrup, sugar, and butter) in a large heavy saucepan on medium-high heat. Stir occasionally, and heat until candy thermometer reaches 235F. Remove from heat and mix in vanilla.
7. At this point, the brownies should be done. Poke holes all over the brownies with toothpicks. Pour half of caramel mixture over brownies and use a spatula to spread the caramel and push some of it through the holes poked in the brownies.
8. Immediately press the 45 pecan halves into even rows on the caramel. At this point, you can drizzle some more caramel over the pecans and store the rest in a jar in the refrigerator for other delicious treats (ie, over apple pies or sundaes, or more brownies!). Cool or let sit until room temperature.
9. Once set, melt chocolate and milk over low heat until smooth. Pour into a ziplock bag and cut a small corner of the bag. Drizzle chocolate over brownies diagonally. Let set.
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The Bachelor: Jason and Molly's Wedding
March 06, 2010 08:00 AM by Nancy Floyd
Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney have made history as the first couple from ABC's The Bachelor to tie the knot. (Married couple Ryan and Trista Sutter met on The Bachelorette). Jason and Molly's lavish wedding took place last Saturday and fans will be able to see all the romantic details this Monday night on ABC's The Bachelor: Jason & Molly's Wedding Special. Keep reading for a sneak peek into the day that's made Molly "the happiest I have ever been."
ABC's The Bachelor finally has a successful couple to brag about! After 14 seasons, there's finally been a marriage from the reality dating competition. Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney met on the show's 13th season and although they had a bit of a tumultuous and unpopular start to their relationship (he chose runner-up Molly after first proposing to Melissa Rycroft then dumping her on national television before asking Molly for a second chance), the pair is now husband and wife!
The Bachelor's Jason Mesnick married Molly Malaney last Saturday, February 27th, at the beautiful Terranea Resort, situated on the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Molly donned a gorgeous $45,000 Monique Lhuillier gown, walked down the aisle to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" performed by American Idol's Jason Castro, and endured a brief rainstorm during the ceremony but says she wouldn't change a thing.
"I loved every minute of the rain," the new Mrs. Mesnick says. "It started to rain in the middle of the ceremony, right when I was starting to say our vows. We looked at each other and laughed. It made the day far more special than it ever could have been." As for the strapless designer gown she wore, Molly says, "I felt good in it. She thought I looked wonderful in it, but we custom-made a few more design elements to the dress."
One of the more unique moments of The Bachelor wedding day was the untraditional song choice as Molly walked down the aisle. "I always knew when I walked down the aisle, I did not want to walk to the typical wedding march song," Molly says. "I wanted something more modern. Jason and I both loved the rendition of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' that Jason Castro sings. It was an easy choice to see if he would do this favor for us. He was phenomenal."
The new Mr. and Mrs. Mesnick are honeymooning in South Africa and loving every moment of being husband and wife. "A friend asked me just yesterday, 'Is it any different being a Mrs.?" Molly says. "Going into the wedding, I didn't think life would be different because we already lived together. I was so wrong. I am the happiest I have ever been. I look at Jason differently. He makes me feel differently. Married life is the best feeling in the world and I wish it for everyone."
ABC will air the two-hour event of The Bachelor: Jason and Molly's Wedding on Monday, March 8th.
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Para Jason y Molly, muchas felicidades. Me parece que estuvo bien elegir a Molly.


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Irvin Lee Pankey
Position: T
Height: 6-4 Weight: 277 lbs.
Born: February 15, 1958 in Aberdeen, MD
High School: Aberdeen
College: Penn St. (school history) (Pankey college stats)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 2nd round (50th overall) of the 1980 NFL Draft.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Over the two weeks leading up to Oscar, indieWIRE will be republishing a series of interviews and profiles on the nominees for the 81st Academy Awards.
"I never looked at this as ever leading to anything," actor Richard Jenkins said about making "The Visitor." "I trained myself years ago not to do that because I know how disappointing it all can be. So even though it's hard not to with people saying, 'Oh you're gonna get this, you're gonna do that.' But you just can't. You have to just do the work and be thankful that people respond to it. That's what you have to do." It's been well over a year since "The Visitor" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it's quite evident people have responded to it. When it was released in theaters this past April, it quickly became one of the year's biggest specialty hits. And now Jenkins' performance has garnered a string of year-end notices, including nominations for a Spirit Award, Critic's Choice Award, and earlier today, a Screen Actor's Guild Award. Jenkins sat down with indieWIRE to discuss his well-deserved good fortunes.
In "The Visitor," Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a widowed college professor who travels to New York City to attend a conference, only to find a young couple, Tarek and Vale (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira), staying in his apartment. The couple turn out to be illegal immigrants, and Walter allows them to continue living in his home, leading to his emotional entanglement in their lives and legal issues.
The film was written and directed by "The Station Agent"'s Tom McCarthy, whom Jenkins had met a few years prior to "The Visitor."
"It's a story I've told a million times," Jenkins said when asked about meeting McCarthy. "But it's the truth. And I don't mind telling it, I just wish I could make it different. Tom and I were acquaintances. Not friends, but we were acquaintances. We have the same agent. And we were in L.A. making two different movies and staying in the same hotel. We ran into each other in the lobby."
The two ended up having dinner, and a long conversation. Not about anything in particular, and certainly not about "The Visitor." "A year an a half later, my agent called and said Tom wrote this part for me," Jenkins explained. "He wants you to read it and tell him what you think. So I read it and I said 'Really?' I said to my wife, 'You have to read this now because you have to tell me if it's as good as I think it is.' And then [Tom] called and asked me if I wanted to do it and I said, 'No one is going to give you the money to do this movie with me in this part.' And he said, 'That wasn't my question. My question was do you want to do it?'"
Jenkins did. And after two weeks of rehearsals and six weeks of shooting, his doubts that "The Visitor" could be made with his involvement had officially been squashed.
"I don't know if ten years ago I would have trusted myself enough as an actor to do what I did [with this film]," Jenkins said. "To let it unfold and let it happen and not try and put anything on it. I always felt it was such an intimate story and such a personal story that it felt like window peeping. The audience should feel like they are looking in and that at some point someone in the movie is going to turn around and say 'what are you looking at?' I just thought it was that kind of intimacy."
That intimacy was also due in large part to Jenkins' co-stars, Sleiman, Gurira and Hiam Abbas, who plays Tarek's mother and Walter's would-be love interest. "Tom had two weeks rehearsals and he needed that because all of us were strangers," Jenkins said. "I mean, I knew Tom but not well. Haaz didn't know Tom. Danai didn't know Tom. Hiam didn't know Tom well. And he put us together and we became friends. We didn't just rehearse. We ate together, we hung out together. We were with each other all day and in the evenings for two weeks. So by the time we started to film, we were ready. We were friends... And I think it shows on screen, the kind of connections that were made for this movie."
Jenkins' connection with McCarthy was heightened due to the fact that both men have in large part built careers as character actors. Jenkins' over thirty-year resume includes everything from "Hannah and Her Sisters" to "Flirting With Disaster" to "North Country," while McCarthy has played bit parts in "Meet The Parents," "Good Night, And Good Luck," and numerous others. Perhaps most interesting is that the two men's most arguably recognizable parts have both come from HBO series: Jenkins' role as the Fisher family's deceased patriarch on "Six Feet Under," and McCarthy as a plagiarizing journalist on the fifth season of "The Wire."
"I love 'The Wire,'" Jenkins said when the connection was noted. "I made it a point to watch it this year [when McCarthy was on it] and I never knew if he was plagarizing. You know when he got so upset when they accused him and were checking his notes? Remember that that scene where he screamed!?"
More over, Jenkins admits he and McCarthy "speak the same language." "It's like, you know how you like to be treated when you're an actor. And that's what he does. But he worked differenty with all of us, which I found really interesting... He kind of figured us all out. So I think his being an actor was a big help. But, you know, I've worked with some directors who had never acted who were fantastic with actors. And some who had acted who..."
When the film finished and Jenkins saw an early cut, he said to McCarthy, "God, your'e so patient with the camera." McCarthy turned to him and asked, "Well, what did you think I was going to do?" "I know that's what we talked about and I know that's how we shot it," Jenkins explained. "But nowadays everybody's gotta move from one thing to the next so fast that I was just so impressed by his willingness to let the story unfold."
As "The Visitor"'s own, external story began to fold, Jenkins nervously awaited reactions. "I always said I had no expectations but deep down, you don't do a movie and not hope people like it. You hope that when they see it they connect with it. Because if you do something - and this is the part about the business - you know, if you do something and nobody likes it, you take it personally. You do. Because it's like saying, 'I don't connect with anyone out there.' And that's a terrible thing as an actor. Because that's your job."
Though people began to connect with "The Visitor" immediately when it screened in Toronto in September of 2007, it was a patient journey beyond that. After Overture Films purchased the film, they decided to wait for a Spring release to avoid the onslaught of Oscar season, a tactic that obviously has paid off.
"I had no idea what Toronto was going to be like," Jenkins recalled. "The response [there] was kind of amazing to me. To be in the middle of that audience and to have them respond like that was incredible. And then when Overture bought it and said 'I don't think we're going to release it this year, we're going to wait until the Spring.' I mean, it was just never ending... It was like after you make it, will a film festival accept it? And then after they accept it, will they like it? And then will anybody buy it? And then you open it and will the critics like it? And then will the audience come? And now there's this awards business. It's like every time you turn around there's a new bit of pressure."
But Jenkins is not complaining. "I have to say it's it's new for me, so it's been incredibly exciting and gratifying to have people respond to this film the way I responded to it when I read it," he said. "I hadn't read anything like this. But you just don't know... Each step is new and its different. I think it's like - maybe it was Tom McCarthy who said this - it's like the video game when you shoot down the ducks and they just keep coming up... Just one thing you have to deal with after the other... But every step has just been really strange and terrific. It's been more than I expected."
So as "The Visitor"'s journey finally begins to wind down, what does Jenkins expect next? "I'm looking for social security now, that's what I'm looking for," he joked. "No... I just finished a movie with Lasse Hallstrom and I just loved making it. And after 'The Visitor' I did 'Step Brothers,' which was a crazy time. And I did 'Burn After Reading' which I loved. But whether I'll do leads anymore, I don't know. I mean, I'm 61. This was a gift."
Richard Jenkins is nominated for best actor at the 81st Academy Awards


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Schuylkill IU teachers, school board to return to bargaining table
MAR LIN - The Schuylkill Intermediate 29 Board of Directors and teachers are planning to return to the bargaining table for a negotiation session Wednesday, Diane M. Niederriter, IU 29 executive director, said last week.
It will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Maple Avenue Campus, James G. Caravan, Schuylkill Haven, the solicitor for the board, said Thursday.
"We met briefly on Feb. 8. No progress was made," Niederriter said.
Prior to that, the parties met on Jan. 22 for a one-hour session.
Following the January session, Jamie Kuehn, a social studies teacher and president of the IU 29 Education Association, said the sticking points included "the salary schedule and benefits."
The IU's 87 teachers have been working without a contract since June 30, 2012, when their three-year contract expired.
On Jan. 22, Kuehn said the teachers were not considering a strike.
"We're hopeful that with the active engagement of the mediator, we can reach a settlement. The association has been in a settlement mode since fact-finding and as a result has been focusing its efforts toward that end rather than on the crippling impact a job action would have," Kuehn said Thursday.
"I really don't have anything to say. I don't really know what to expect. I hope to make some progress," Caravan said Thursday,
The IU board and education association began negotiations Jan. 9, 2012. On May 25, the teachers union asked the state Labor Relations Board to appoint a fact finder. On Aug. 6, the IU 29 board rejected the fact finder's report.
The report, authored by Robert C. Gifford, an attorney from State College, can be found at www.dli.state.pa.us/plrb under a tab labeled "Fact-Finding Reports."
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Many people look at the start of the New Year as a new beginning; a chance to stop whatever bad or destructive habits they had gotten into in the last year and start fresh. It is often a time where we find it easier to imagine a greater place in the world for us, as well as a greater us taking a place in the world.
This transformation starts with the creation of a resolution, a promise to oneself to do something better. It doesn't necessarily have to be something that was being done wrong or a bad habit; it could be something that we want to be better than it was. Many of the same resolutions that people make, an industry like the self storage industry could make as well:
Some of the most common ones for people involve health such as drinking/smoking less, eating healthier food, losing weight, exercise, and manage stress.
In a way, the self storage industry has been working on improving its impact on health—the health of the planet, and hence the people on it—and will likely continue to do so in 2012. Several companies have been working diligently towards reducing their carbon foot-print by doing whatever it takes to become more environmentally friendly whether it means install solar panels, recycling, adding insulation, or switching to fluorescent lighting (or any of a number of things).
Going green can also help self storage facilities follow through on another common New Year's resolution—save money.
Beyond saving money and improving health people often want to become better educated. An opportunity to do that will be coming up at the Inside Self Storage World Expo in Las Vegas from March 14-16. Among some of the many educational opportunities there will be a panel of self storage professionals from around the world that will share their successes and struggles in their respective countries.
Attendance at an event like the expo (most state associations hold something similar at various times throughout the year) can satisfy another common New Year's resolution—take a trip.
Along with doing things to improve health and education, it's also pretty common to want to do a couple other things, namely make more money and volunteer. Both are something that the self storage industry has become known for.
According to the 2011 SSA Fact Sheet, the self storage industry made approximately $20 billion in revenue in 2010. Inside Self Storage recently published an article that puts 2011 revenue estimates at $22 billion.
Volunteering has never been something that the self storage industry has shied away from, and will likely continue to excel at in 2012. Many are heavily involved with several local, state, and national based charities throughout the year.
One great example is the Rent-2-Charity program at Hawaii Self Storage. Whenever new customers sign up they have the option give their first month's rent to the charity or non-for-profit of their choice.
Sources Used:
"Getting a Global View: The Self Storage Industry's Largest Event Provides a Culturally Rich Perspective." Inside Self Storage; 31 December 2011.
"Self Storage Company Looking to Make the World a Better Place by Going Green." Self Storage Industry News; 04 November 2010.
2011 SSA Fact Sheet; Self Storage Association.
Charity Support; Hawaii Self Storage.
Popular New Year's Resolutions; USA.gov.


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Usually we at CF post our score prediction for the game each week. I had this idea to post your final score along with your best newspaper headline to go with it. Get creative guys!
"Cyclones Blowout Connecticut"
Originally Posted by isulive2train
Get creative guys!
"Cyclones Blowout Connecticut"
Very creative
Clones 24-17.
"There's a Jantz in My Pants"
28-23 Cyclones.
"Cold Rollin' Steele"
Rabbit evades Huskies en route to a 27-10 road win. Shontrelle Johnson finishes with 215 all purpose yards.
"Steele De-Pantzes Huskies in Storrs"
24-10 good guys.
Originally Posted by tejasclone
Clones 24-17.
"There's a Jantz in My Pants"
Iowa State 24-10.
"Cyclones spring Steele trap on Huskies."
--Luck of the Cyrish--
Balls of Steele. Jantz throws for 275 and has 3 TDs. To go with that, 45 yards rushing.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Originally Posted by mike4cy
Iowa State 24-10.
"Cyclones spring Steele trap on Huskies."
well done.
If it is Register headlines, it reads on the 5th page and reads like this "Cyclones escape narrowly in football game 35-10 as Hawkeyes beat themselves playing Pittsburgh. (refer to front page for more on Iowa)"
Also, I met a lot of Iowa State fans and I dont want to leave any of that behind. - DARIUS DARKS on Staying a CLONE!!!
Matt (00 Alumn)
Waukee, Iowa
UConn's bid for a win does Knott happen!
Jake Knott leads ISU defense in low scoring 17-3 win.
Kyle S. Flander
The reg headline on Saturday: Today: Hawkeyes Takes on the Panthers !
Cyclones use Steele Leash to Tame Huskies
34 - 17
Cyclones Steele one out east as Knott ties tackle record
---Do you see what I did there?--------
"Iowa State Impresses in Victory, Allowed to Join Big East"
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Fiery doom in two handy barrels. Unsurpassed destructive power. Comes with a five shot warranty.
A primitive flame thrower, the Lance of Hades brings the power of flame to the Phalanx formation.
T'was a great roar, milord, and the ground was rent and the horses took their bits in their teeth and there was much confusion. No magic could reach so far, and none of our magehounds scented wizards. We do not know the deviltry of the enemy, and for this we lost the battle.
General Tubogga
Somewhere, in some reality, something is moving really really fast in that direction.
The primary weapon of the Fulminator mk. I
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds…."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Silent, accurate, and powerful, the cogwheel rifles serve as a potent alternative to standard firearms.
"Since I was issued with this rifle, it's saved my life on more then one occasion. It's the best weapon that I've ever been issued with." John Volkov, a private in the army of the De Madden Company.
It's a crappy Mk.9 Sunbeam pistol, I'll give you 200 credits for it.
Sgt. Dietzman, retired ordinance officer and gun dealer
Combining the stopping power of a gauss weapon, the energy of antimatter, and an unfortunate acronym, the EAR-5 is a potent weapon for both starship combat and pun warfare.
30 Different Bullet Types, some classic, some really out there…
The most common fire-arm in the Locastrian armed forces.
What the F#$%??? - Revolutionary Commander Flint Westbark upon seeing the device for the first time.
The XKH-71 (Panther) rifle is the widely distributed rifle amongst the Liberty Guardians. Incorporating recombinant technology, the projectile can be altered depending on the tactical situation.
We need a bigger gun…
The Magnetic Bolas can be thrown at an enemy's melee weapon to hinder its effeciancy, making it harder to swing, and causing it to miss more often.
The SSL-30 is considered a weapon of last resort. It was built to provide some defence, at any cost, against orbital units including starships and satellites.
The initial use of Nanofoam Ordinance on large scale was clearly credited to the Army of Redemption, the militaristic offshoot of the Salvation Army. Though unafraid of using military force to address wrongdoing in the colonies, the AIR is always looking for less-lethal weapons.
This compact weapon is capable of laying down high explosive charges at least 100 yards away, and is easily concealable to boot. When you order one of these you also get a mag-clip shoulder holster at no additional charge.
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The nurse put a hand on his shoulder, speaking softly, "Calm down, sir, you're inside a hospital. You're safe."
The man's eyes darted back and forth, his whole body shaking in terror, "Nooo," He whispered, "I'll never be safe, I saw him, I saw him jerking and writhing around, then he looked straight at me and fell over."
The Akhal-Teke is a real horse breed that develops a metallic golden coat. A more fantastic version could have a coat the color of pure gold, or silver making the horse appear to be made of the precious metal.


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VH1's CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, which premiered 2 Mondays ago, on October 21, ranks as the #1 cable original movie of the year among Adults and Women 18-49. The biopic is also VH1's highest-rated original movie ever, with a total of 4.5 million viewers tuning in to watch during its 9 pm premiere time.
And thanks to the movie's success, TLC's new soundtrack for the film, 20 from Epic Records, jumped from #43 to #5 on the iTunes overall chart that week, and jumped to #1 on the iTunes R&B chart.
All wonderful news for those involved in the making of the film - except for Perri 'Pebbles' Reid, who was played by Rochelle Aytes in the movie.
Reid took to her personal website today to publish the below statement, expressing her disgust with the movie, claiming that it contains "many false and defamatory statements and scenes," adding that her attorney is in the process of demanding a retraction from VH1.
She apologizes for not speaking out against the film earlier, claiming to be a private person, who needed to spend time with her family, reflect on the film and gather her thoughts before expressing them publicly.
And now she has, further calling the film, "an unprovoked attack!"
I still haven't seen CrazySexyCool (although I will eventually), so I can't comment on what exactly she's claiming to be defamatory; specifically, in the statement, she emphasizes that she's never cheated or mislead anyone. I suppose the film must have suggested that she did.
Her full statement is embedded below. I don't follow her on Twitter, but apparently, she's been commenting on this unofficially, and this is supposed to be her first official statement.
If you're like me and you haven't seen the movie either, you should know that it'll air again next week Tuesday, November 5 at 4pm ET/PT.
Here's the statement from Pebbles:


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Massive manhunt in Idaho; boy ID'd
Like other family members, Campbell said they never would have expected that DiMaggio, a Scripps Research Institute telecommunications technician described as mild-mannered and unassuming, would have done something so heinous as what he is accused of.
Ralph Britt, the stepfather of Christina Anderson, said DiMaggio and Brett Anderson met about 20 years ago when they worked together in the telecommunications field. He said Hannah and Ethan referred to DiMaggio as "Uncle Jim."
Sara Britt, Christina's mother, spoke to the vigil crowd and told the many young people there not to be afraid to say something if they hear something confidential and feel uneasy about it, an apparent reference to friends' remarks this week that Hannah had recently become uncomfortable around DiMaggio, and that at times he "creeped her out."
"You have to tell someone that can help you," she said.
Christopher Saincome, Hannah's maternal grandfather in Camarillo, said he was relieved to hear the news from Idaho.
"I'm so glad. That's great. I'm happy they found her alive," Saincome said.
Saincome said he believes Hannah would have never consented to go along with DiMaggio, who is single, and that "she has nothing to do with this" trip to Idaho.
He told U-T San Diego on Thursday that his daughter, Christina, told him last week that DiMaggio wanted her to bring her children to his home to say goodbye because he was losing his house to a foreclosure and moving to Texas.
Investigators also believe that DiMaggio, who they described as an avid outdoorsman, had been thinking about the crimes for some time.
"It was obviously a planned event," sheriff's homicide Capt. Duncan Fraser said. DiMaggio purchased the camping gear about two weeks ago, he said.
Fraser described the case as one of the "worst ones I've seen" in 32 years in law enforcement.
The remains of the Anderson family dog, Cali, also were found in the charred rubble. Ralph Britt said Hannah and Ethan had gotten Cali as a puppy two Easters ago and frequently took the dog to DiMaggio's house.
The case has baffled family and friends of DiMaggio, who was described by his sister Lora Robinson as a "straight-up guy" who is smart, kind and who cared for Ethan and Hannah as if they were his own.
DiMaggio's last post on his Facebook page was July 10. He quoted American writer and politician William Mather Lewis. It reads, "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
Brett Anderson said he was touched by all the prayers that had been sent from around the world, some as far as Austria and Australia, on Facebook pages for Hannah and Ethan.
"I think that will bring a lot of peace to her when she gets home," he said.


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Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution And Why You May Never Eat a Burger AgainRebecca Odes
In Season 1 of Food Revolution, Jamie had to educate parents who were feeding their children crap. Season 2 begins with Jamie announcing he has been banned by the LA School District and will not be allowed into any school in the area. And it quickly becomes clear that here in Los Angeles, parents are his primary allies.
Without a school to tackle, Jamie takes to the airwaves (Producer Ryan Seacrest's radio show!) to call parents to arms—and to his breathtakingly gorgeous community kitchen. When they come, he says, they should bring along some food from their children's school lunches.
Predictably, Jamie was none too impressed with the bounty.
After deconstructing the children's lunches, which he roundly pronounced disgusting, with the exception of two kids with apples (who turned out to be homeschooled) it was time for a few minutes of heartstring-pulling back and forth with parents:
"My son used to eat all the good foods we have at home until he went to school."
"Imagine having airplane food every day… like your kids"
Going for the jugular, he asked parents to remember their "beautiful, unspoiled babies" and ask if they really wanted their children eating this junk from age 4 to 18. After that nugget, Jamie decided to teach these parents and their kids a little lesson.
The lesson was about Pink Slime.
Pink Slime is a truly disgusting substance made from fatty slaughterhouse trimmings. This beef waste product was formerly used only for pet food. But thanks to a Bush era Meat Lobbyists victory, these un-sellable hunks of cow fat with meat on them are now wrung out in a centrifuge, washed with an ammonia solution to kill any pathogens, drained, minced and turned into something that looks a lot like ground beef. The resulting product is added to the majority of the country's ground beef, And the U.S.D.A. allows up to 15% of pink slime in 70% of ground beef products. WITHOUT LABELING. They don't even have to disclose the (toxic) ammonia, some of which of is definitely absorbed into the product, because the U.S.D.A doesn't make companies list chemicals used in processing. YUM. Meat byproducts marinated in poison. My kids' favorite!
Jamie's point here: you have no idea what your kids are eating when they eat school lunches. But if you did know, you probably wouldn't like it. The parents that showed up for Jamie's lectures were clearly horrified by the information he conveyed. But then, it seemed like he was probably preaching to the converted. There was a fairly clear distinction between these parents (caring, engaged, even hip) and the other parents that hovered around the margins, attending conferences to fight to keep flavored milk in schools, eating at fast food joints, and just generally being Part of the Problem.
I find the show's writing a bit ridiculous, and Jamie's antics sometimes disturbingly wasteful—knowing the environmental effects of white sugar processing, the idea of pouring 57 tons of sugar onto a parking lot is pretty irresponsible. I get that he's trying to make a BIG gesture. But could he make one that's actually consistent with the values of the Food Revolution he's trying to instigate?


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Contacting the Charleston Audubon
For fieldtrip and outings, please contact the group leader for the particular trip you're interested in - leaders' contact information is included in the calendar listing for each trip.
Charleston Natural History Society is served by volunteer officers,
board members-at-large, committee chairs and members.
You may direct questions or comments to any of the individuals listed
Jessica Hardesty Norris 240.678.3712
A biologist specializing in ecological restoration and planning, Jessica has 15 years of experience in bird conservation and research. Jessica brings a commitment to conservation and a policy background to the group.
Program Chair
Paul Nolan 843.953.7076
A biologist on faculty at the Citadel, Paul brings a passion for birding as well as an academic perspective and scientific knowledge to the group.
Vice President + Citizen Science Chair
Jennifer McCarthey Tyrell 703.967.1231
Originally from northern Virginia, Jen relocated to Charleston for her master's degree with the College of Charleston in Environmental Studies. Currently she works with The Center for Birds of Prey as an educator and the research coordinator. There she runs Hawk Watch, a MAPS bird banding station, and the Citizen Science for Swallow-tailed Kites Program.
Conservation + Outings Chair
Andy Harrison 843.795.6934
Past president, Andy is taking the lead on programs, addresses conservation issues and leads some of our outings.
Mary Kennerty 843.881.8755
A Charlestonian, MEd Clemson University, pioneered women's athletic program at Clemson, Coached NCAA nationally ranked tennis teams, faculty member at Clemson in Recreation and Parks Department, Director for National League of Junior Cotillions in Charleston and Beaufort SC, business etiquette consultant and mentor for the More To Life Foundation. Birding with Charleston Audubon is a way for me to give value to our wildlife.
McAlhany Preserve
Joe Cockrell 843.607.1070
Joe is spearheading activity at our McAlhany property, from building renovations to long-leaf pine habitat restoration and establishing new nature trails.
Sarah Latshaw
Sarah developed a love for birding and the places birding takes you as an undergraduate student, and later translated her interests into a masters thesis focusing on painted buntings on Kiawah Island. She has enjoyed participating with the Charleston Audubon to produce the Lesser Squawk for the past 4 years, and is looking forward to her new role as Treasurer.
Lesser Squawk Editor
Erin Weeks
Steve Bleezarde 843.406.2061
Send Steve news, announcements and links of interest to our members. Steve is past board member, past editor of the newsletter and our webmaster.
Norm Brunswig 843.688.5833
A National Audubon vice-president and directory of SC Audubon, we're proud to have Norm on our board.


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At first glance, you might think the garden of Bill and Lorraine Holowaty has been around for some time. In reality it's less than six years old, and Bill, its designer and primary builder, has only been gardening seriously for the same length of time. After looking for a place on Vancouver Island in 2002, Bill and Lorraine realized they didn't want to settle on the coast and decided to stay in their home in Sherwood Park, Alberta, resolving to remain close to their family. Less than a month later, Bill dug his first perennial bed.
Take a tour of the Holowaty's eastern-inspired garden!
When the couple first moved into their house in 1986, the garden was typical urban fare. There were vast expanses of lawn and a few trees, including a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), apple and hawthorn, as well as lodgepole and ponderosa pines, which give the garden its name, Whispering Pines. And that's how things stayed for more than 15 years while the Holowatys raised their four children.
Today, these trees still rule over the property and not only add shade, but now frame a waterfall and pond that is the centrepiece of the backyard. "Whoever planted those trees did so in a way that allowed us to build our waterfall without having to move a single one," marvels Lorraine.
The entire landscape is a realization of Bill's vision. Before creating the new garden, he spent time drawing plans for it on extended business trips, and back home he awoke at all hours to scribble down ideas. He still wakes up to jot down notes on his to-do list or to devise new schemes for garden beds and other projects.
Lorraine helps in the garden when she can, but admits it's really Bill's domain. She adds her own touches by planting up and tending to the various containers which are works of art in their own right—many in brilliant hues and with an Asian theme. Because they add colour and interest throughout the garden, a lot of time is spent getting the containers perfect.


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Online Publications
There are a number of wetland publications on the Internet. The following list contains a number of online wetland publications and other resources from several government and non-government web sites.
General Wetland Information
- Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands - Science and Conservation (PDF; 1.70 MB)
- GLWCAP – Highlights Reports
- Amphibians and Reptiles in Great Lakes Wetlands: Threats and Conservation (PDF; 0.25 MB)
- Putting an Economic Value on Wetlands - Concepts, Methods and Considerations
Wetland Restoration and Creation
- Working Around Wetlands? What You Should Know (PDF; 0.13 MB)
- Marsh Havens: Improving Marsh Habitat for Birds in the Great Lakes Basin
Great Lakes Fact Sheets
- Bald Eagle Populations in the Great Lakes Region (PDF; 0.38 MB)
- Contaminants in Herring Gull Eggs from the Great Lakes: 25 Years of Monitoring Levels and Effects
- How Much Habitat is Enough?
- The Fall and Rise of Osprey Populations in the Great Lakes Basin
- The Rise of the Double-crested Cormorant on the Great Lakes: winning the war against contaminants
- The Terns of the Canadian Great Lakes
- The Federal Policy on Wetland Conservation (PDF; 0.05 MB)
- The Federal Policy on Wetland Conservation: Implementation Guidelines for Federal Land Managers (PDF; 0.28 MB)
Notice: Links to Sites External to Environment Canada
Links to sites external to Environment Canada (EC) are provided as a convenience and their inclusion in no way implies that Environment Canada endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or use of these sites. As the organizations that maintain these sites may not be subject to the Official Languages Act, information found on these sites may be presented only in the language in which it was written.
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This is an XP from the 50+forum that I thought might be of interest here.
My wife and I are riding the Grand Illinois Trail in segments, and rode about 40 miles in the Driftless Area of NW Illinois last week.
We had planned to ride for 4 days, but only got a day and a half in due to bad weather. We were prepared to ride with temps in the low 40s, but most of the last week we had temps the mid 30s with rain, or in the mid 20s with snow.
Still, it was one of the best rides of our short riding history, and we made some hills that we wouldn't have even thought possible for us last year. Shoot ... we made some hills that we didn't think were possible for us when we started up 'em.
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There is much discussion over whether printed or digital books are the best for readers. Some say that paper books are best because you can hold them and read them without electricity, and don't need special technology to access them.
These are all good points, but there are some downsides to printed media. One of the big ones being that the bindings wear out.
One of my very favorite books is The Prosperity Bible. I purchased a physical copy several years ago before I fell in love with the Kindle reading application (I still don't own a Kindle, instead I read them on my laptop and netbook instead). I paid around $50 for a copy of this book at Books A Million, and to me it was worth every single penny.
I have read and re-read this book many times and the other night my worst fear came to pass: the pages are separating from the binding. This is an expensive hardbound book but it could not hold up to the constant reading and moving around that I do.
I could have taken it and had it rebound, or purchased another copy, but there are other disadvantages to physical books that this would not have solved. This is a rather large book, it is awkward to carry it around everywhere as I would like to. It will fit in my big bag, but it leaves little room for other items. My netbook is smaller than this volume and considerably lighter, to give you an idea.
As a result while I toted it many places a lot of times it got left at home and I read other books on my netbook simply because it was too large to carry around; at night I had to have a light on to read it, so instead I would grab my faithful netbook, place it the white text/black background setting with the brightness placed on the lowest level and use it for my bedtime reading companion.
While I was looking at these issues I finally realized what I needed to do.
It was time for my old faithful friend to join the digital age. I went to the Kindle Store and purchased a digital copy of my old beloved book, The Prosperity Bible.
Now my favorite book goes with me to work, where I read it on my breaks and also tucks me into bed at night. I've made much more progress through the 19 books this volume contains as a result of the newfound portability!
I passed my old physical copy of this book (along with another book I have acquired digitally) along to Katie, who shares my love of this subject. She still enjoys reading physical books so it is the perfect solution for us.
Some may love their physical books but for me digital copies just make sense. I can carry a library around with me on my netbook and read them wherever I please whenever I please without having to worry about wearing out the physical copies. For a person who reads books over and over this is a big blessing.
Do you still prefer paper books? How do you handle the day when the books fall apart?
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A big part of the Georgia Tech student life is what goes on outside the classroom. Our 14,500 undergraduates put as much energy into what they choose to do as what they have to do, so you'll have plenty of company in pursuing your passions and interests.
Student Organizations and Clubs
- More than 400 student organizations
- 54 fraternities and sororities
Recreation and Athletics
- 17 Division I men's and women's athletics teams
- Intramural sports
- Sports clubs
- Outdoor adventure trips
- One of the best Campus Recreation Centers in the country
Arts and Music
Many people are surprised to learn how many students come to Georgia Tech with a strong background in music, writing, or visual and performing arts.
Tech is home to more than 35 arts-related groups and countless creative individuals that have a range of outlets for enjoying and participating in theater, music, dance, poetry, and literary arts.
To name just a few: There's Under the Couch, which features open mic and DJ showcases; DramaTech, our student-run theater; Tech Arts Festival, which includes the Clough Art Crawl; and Ferst Center Presents, an annual series that brings world-renowned performance artists to campus.
To join vocal or choral groups, instrumental ensembles, or bands — including the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band — visit the School of Music.
Volunteerism and Community Service
Georgia Tech students take great pride in the Institute's motto, "Progress and Service." There are more than 40 service-based student organizations that provide local and international service opportunities. A list of ways to serve can be found on the Office of Leadership & Civic Engagement website.
Student Diversity
Georgia Tech values diversity and inclusiveness. From the LGBTQIA Resource Center to the Office of Hispanic Initiatives, there are several campus programs focused on enhancing student racial, gender, and social equity. A complete list of student diversity programs can be found on the Dean of Students website.
International Organizations and Events
Georgia Tech is an extremely diverse community, with students, faculty, and staff from a variety of national, regional, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. International students and scholars hail from more than 110 countries.
Tech is home to more than 50 cultural and diversity organizations that regularly host internationally-themed events and activities.
To get an idea of some of the campus events, check out the Office of International Education's list of global activities at GT.
Student Publications and Media
Tech is home to seven student-run publications and media organizations:
- WREK Radio 91.1 FM, the 100,000-watt voice of Georgia Tech
- Technique, an award-winning weekly student newspaper
- Blueprint, a nationally recognized yearbook
- T-Book, a student traditions handbook and survival guide
- North Avenue Review, an open-forum, free speech magazine
- Erato, the campus visual art and literary magazine
- The Tower, the Institute's undergraduate research journal
Georgia Tech has a host of activities in which you can participate, so don't be surprised if one of your biggest problems is deciding what you want to do.


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An exceptional vintage characterized by a balance between power and finesse. A sappy and silky texture, subtle and fresh red fruits aromas give to this wine a great ageing potential.
Just two families have been responsible for maintaining this wine's superb reputation for three centuries. Bordering on Château Latour, Second Growth Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is located in the southern part of Pauillac, near Saint-Julien. The unusual choice of grape varieties (there is a much higher percentage of Merlot than average) is a partial explanation for this wine's outstanding personality, marked by elegance, balance and finesse. Traditional methods and modern technology combine to make the most of the estate's prestigious soil. The international reputation of this "Super Second" Growth can be attributed to unfailing quality and dynamic owners.