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This month, Loot Crate invites you to join the CYBER revolution with an assortment of cool, tech-themed collectibles from a wide array of awesome franchises! It's a self-aware, singularity-fueled celebration of all the robots, androids, cyborgs and programs-gone-mad bent on our annihilation and the few who keep fighting the good fight to save us. We're featuring EXCLUSIVE items from Terminator Genisys, Borderlands, Battlestar Galactica and more, including an EXCLUSIVE t-shirt you won't find anywhere else! So back up your hard drive, learn a little binary and get ready to download your disembodied consciousness into Loot Crate Systems!
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Former Butler, PSU LB sharing insights with young players
Football may have taken Tyrell Sales around the world, but the Butler native has found his way back home, and he is happy to have the chance to share his football experiences every chance he gets.
Sales is a member of the Seneca Valley High School football coaching staff, and he takes time whenever he can to speak at local camps and share his knowledge with the next group of rising stars.
Sales was a standout linebacker at Butler. He earned several accolades, perhaps the most notable of which was an offer to play football at Penn State University.
In his four years with the Nittany Lions, Sales helped the team win a Big 10 title and play in three bowl games, winning all three.
He went on to play with the Indianapolis Colts in 2009 and the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL in 2010.
The following season, Sales played in the Arena Football League for the Jacksonville Sharks.
Then, he played in Italy before moving on to his current position as the director of sports for locally-based Revolution Physical Therapy in Cranberry.
"I am fortunate to have been all over the world, and with football I now have the opportunity to coach," Sales said.
"I apply team sports to everything I do (coaching and the business world), and it is cool to be a mentor and show the kids and see how they are able to approach the game."
During his time as a college and pro player, Sales was around successful programs.
The Colts won the Super Bowl in 2009; the Alouettes won the Grey Cup in 2010, the Sharks won Arena Bowl XXIV in 2011, and his Parma Panthers, a team in Italy, won that country's version of the Super Bowl in what was his final season of football.
One message he shares with all the young players he encounters is that it is important to be a student of the game.
"Peyton Manning, Aaron Garcia (quarterback for the Sharks), Anthony Calvillo (from Montreal), are all students of the game, and they all work their tail off," Sales said. "They set a standard and never want to be outworked."
His message is positive, and the fact he has been around means something to the young players he is trying to reach.
"Ty has a lot of credibility because he has looked through the facemask," Seneca Valley football coach Don Holl said.
"He has been there and done that, but what can't be overlooked is his excellent communication skills, plus he is a good teacher. He has a way of presenting stuff in a clear and concise way, and he is diligent about checking up on the players, and he is demanding. He is enthusiastic, and I know he does a great job at his day job as well."
Sales played with some of the all-time greats in the pros and college. At Penn State he played alongside players such as current NFL standouts Cameron Wake, Paul Posluszny and Navarro Bowman. While he didn't reach the heights of his former teammates, Sales is using what he learned to help the stars of the future reach for their dreams.
Sales knows the value of having someone to look up to close to you, such as fellow Seneca Valley assistant coach and Steelers all-time sack leader Jason Gildon,
"When I was growing up and playing football in the yard and made a tackle, I got up yelling 'Jason Gildon,'" Sales said.
"I did that more than once. I watched his whole career, and to get to talk ball with him is a great opportunity."
Sales' job allows him the freedom to coach at Seneca Valley, and he is glad Holl reached out to him.
"This is good for me, I always wanted to give back and wanted to have the opportunity to get involved," Sales said.
Jerry Clark is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.

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If you've spent any time prowling Wrightsville Beach for a parking space in June, you know there are at least ...
If you've spent any time prowling Wrightsville Beach for a parking space in June, you know there are at least 10 things in the Cape Fear area more scarce than one of Willy Wonka's golden tickets.
1. Turn signals on South College Road. Scratch that, turn signals anywhere in Wilmington.
2. That guy who keeps scaring the dogs by firing those annoying Seneca Guns.
3. Lox, herring and gefilte, all fish that don't swim in these waters.
4. A bar that doesn't have a $1 Pabst Blue Ribbon special. C'mon folks, it's PBR.
5. Bob's Pickle Pops. Their website says you can find them in Walmarts in "Southern states." Their website lies.
6. A sea turtle that hasn't enjoyed 15 minutes of fame in front of a StarNews photographer's camera lens.
7. Sephora. Because you ladies know Ulta just isn't the same.
8. A "tropical storm watch" that lives up to the threat. Yeah, I know this is tempting fate.
9. People old enough to remember the last time you could safely eat shellfish out of Bradley Creek.
10. A self-serve frozen yogurt bar. Just kidding, y'all.
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The most researched vehicles this week in AutoGuide.com's new cars section range from practical and fuel efficient to power-driven pony cars.
Two Japanese vehicles: the Acura ILX and Mazda6 both made the list as did the Kia Forte from Korean. Based on the Honda Civic, the ILX can come with either a 2.0-liter or 2.4-liter gasoline powertrain as well as a hybrid version that uses a 1.5-liter four.
Meanwhile, both the Kia Forte and Mazda6 are gathering attention for their attractive styling.
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A conditional CAPM; implications for the estimation of systematic risk
The purpose of this paper is to examine: (i) whether or not, the residuals of the Market Model are conditionally heteroscedastic; (ii) whether or not, there exists an intervalling effect in conditional heteroscedasticity in the residuals of the Market Model; (iii) the effect of conditional heteroscedasticity on the estimation of systematic risk.; as well as to propose a simple data driven conditional CAPM. To this end daily closing price of stocks traded at the Athens Stock Exchange are used. Empirical evidence is provided for the existence of: (a) conditional heteroscedasticity in MM residuals; (b) a pronounced intervalling effect on ARCH in MM residuals; (c) GARCH in mean type of conditional heteroscedasticity for the majority of cases where ARCH was present in MM residuals. These findings in terms of theory are conducive to a conditional CAPM, which takes into account the effect of conditional variance on expected returns, rather than the standard CAPM. Furthermore, in terms of practical implications these findings may lead to better estimates of systematic risk.
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- Dimson, Elroy, 1979. "Risk measurement when shares are subject to infrequent trading," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 197-226, June.
- Cohen, Kalman J. & Hawawini, Gabriel A. & Maier, Steven F. & Schwartz, Robert A. & Whitcomb, David K., 1983. "Friction in the trading process and the estimation of systematic risk," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 263-278, August.
- Fama, Eugene F & French, Kenneth R, 1996. " Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 51(1), pages 55-84, March.
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A wage is monetary compensation paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work done.
- Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
- Apollonius of Tyana, Letter to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 15
- The bourgeoisie has gained a monopoly of all means of existence in the broadest sense of the word. What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state. The proletarian is, therefore, in law and in fact, the slave of the bourgeoisie, which can decree his life or death. ... The bourgeoisie ... lets him have the appearance of acting from a free choice, of making a contract with free, unconstrained consent, as a responsible agent who has attained his majority. Fine freedom, where the proletarian has no other choice than that of either accepting the conditions which the bourgeoisie offers him, or of starving, of freezing to death, of sleeping naked among the beasts of the forests!
- Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
- We are not utopians, we do not indulge in "dreams" of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination; these anarchist dreams…serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until human nature has changed. No, we want the socialist revolution with human nature as it is now, with human nature that cannot dispense with subordination, control and "managers." … The united workers themselves … will hire their own technicians, managers and bookkeepers, and pay them all, as, indeed, every state official, ordinary workmen's wages.
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution, in Essential Works of Lenin (1966), pp. 307–308.
- The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.
- Karl Marx, Paris Manuscripts (1844), p. 20.
- It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
- Upton Sinclair I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.


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I was originally going to write up something funny about RoboDoug being suspended by the league for getting into a fight with RoboCop, but just couldn't work up the energy.
RoboDoug will be unavailable for a while. I have to make some changes so he can handle the new message board software. I'll try to work them in sometime over the long weekend, but I've got a bunch of family coming in so no promises.
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Please don't post anything in the "Guess the Score" threads after the game has started. If you do, I have to go edit the database by hand to get rid of them.
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A Prototype Modeling Meet Featuring Modular Layouts in O, HO and N Scale 1000 Models on DisplayPlease Bring Models!
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A CHANGE to the Wycombe Wanderers Trust's structure means Adams Park and the club's training ground won't be sold unless supporters say so.
Members voted at the Trust's AGM last week to implement a key pre-takeover objective to secure the futures of the ground and Booker training base.
Trust chairman Trevor Stroud told the Bucks Free Press: "We've had a Trust structure in place which will protect the football ground and the training ground, so 75 per cent of members have to vote to make changes if they want to sell the ground.
"That was the primary ambition when we took over the club."
But he added: "The financial situation still isn't great. We are working very hard to rectify that but we are confident we will work through it."
Meanwhile, Stroud is encouraging younger fans to play more of a role with the Wycombe Wanderers Trust.
Plans to set up a junior section of the Trust have been mothballed as not enough youngsters joined, despite overall membership numbers increasing.
But Stroud said young fans are the future and he wants new blood to play a more active role.
He said: "People are a bit reticent to join on a formal basis. We tried to introduce an under 25 section, which didn't go particularly well because we couldn't find many under 25s to get it organised.
"This is the future of the football club and the Trust. It's about younger players in the team and also younger fans. The more we can do that, the better it will be for the future.
"One of the profiles of the supporters is quite an aging support base. As a Trust we are very keen to get younger members to be involved with the football club."
Manager Gareth Ainsworth echoed his words, saying: "It would be great to get some more faces down and if word can get round we are playing some good football and striving for survival - and then some - hopefully we can get the club back its former glories.
"It'll take time but everyone can be a part of that."


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Prospective Evaluation of Aeromedical EMS Ultrasound in Major Trauma Victims
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|UTHSC-H Proposal for Prospective Evaluation of Aeromedical EMS Ultrasound in Major Trauma Victims.
- The primary outcome for this study is to determine if the aeromedical prehospital providers are able to accurately and rapidly perform and interpret eFAST exams in major trauma victims. [ Time Frame: 6 month ]
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major trauma victims
Code 3 patients (highest acuity) admitted to hospital via air ambulance service
Detailed Description:
This study will be divided into three parts. The first portion involves the education/inservices of the aeromedical prehospital providers to document the knowledge and skills necessary to perform and interpret eFAST exams using ultrasound pre hospitalization.
The second portion involves testing the logistics of utilization of prehospital ultrasound. Data will be collected by the participating aeromedical prehospital providers to rate the durability of the equipment, difficulty in preforming the eFAST exam, interference with other actions and ability of retention of images.
The third portion will involve the aeromedical prehospital providers performing the eFAST exam using the ultrasound prehospital and comparing their findings with the gold standard exam, CT scan, while patient is in the emergency department.
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- Code 3 trauma activation Admitted directly from scene Transported via Life Flight (aeromedical ambulance)
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- transfer from outside hospital
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01058967
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Wounds and Injuries
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Rescue Mission: Jessica Lynch
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RAY SUAREZ: 19-year-old Army Private Jessica Lynch had been missing since March 23. That's when her maintenance company made a wrong turn near the southern town of Nasiriyah, and was ambushed by Iraqi militia. Iraqi forces held Lynch at a hospital in the town. American officials have so far refused to describe her injuries. The Associated Press reported Lynch had two broken legs and a broken arm, plus at least one gunshot wound. Iraqi TV broadcast the images of five other POW's from Lynch's unit, the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company. Private Lori Ann Piestewa is among seven others who were also believed to be captured, but are still listed as missing. At today's CENTCOM briefing, Brigadier Gen. Brooks described how all branches of the military, acting on CIA information, participated in the rescue.
BRIGADIER GEN. VINCENT BROOKS: There was not a firefight inside of the building, I will tell you, but there were fire fights outside of the building, getting in and getting out. The were no coalition casualties as a result of this and in the destruction that occurred inside of the building, particularly in the basement area where the operations centers had been, we found ammunition, mortars, maps, a terrain model, and other things that make it very clear that it was being used as a military command post. The nature of the operation was a coalition special operation that involved Army Rangers, Air Force pilots and combat controllers, U.S. Marines, and Navy Seals. It was a classic joint operation done by some of our nation's finest warriors, who are dedicated to never leaving a comrade behind.
RAY SUAREZ: Brooks showed video shot by a Defense Department combat camera crew.
BRIGADIER GEN. VINCENT BROOKS: This is a coalition Blackhawk helicopter on the ground, and PFC Lynch on a stretcher, being carried to safety. This, of course, was done under black-out conditions in the compound itself, where the helicopter landed. At this point she is safe. She's been retrieved. And some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen.
RAY SUAREZ: Brave, sure, and highly trained. Michael Vickers spent ten years as an officer in army Special Forces before moving to the CIA. He says the first thing you need for an operation like last night's rescue to work is fresh, accurate information.
MICHAEL VICKERS: Well, the critical requirement is for intelligence. So in this case, it seems like we had very good information on where Private Lynch was, and specifically, what floor she was on and what room she was in. But there's really an insatiable demand for intelligence about one of these structures– where the guards are; what kind of materials the walls are made out of, so we could breach them; what the floor plans are like, meaning blueprints; which way the door opens; what kind of locks– all sorts of details to make one of these rescues possible.
RAY SUAREZ: Vickers says such a rescue is high-risk, and the danger was far from over when this group of elite fighters from several different services had Private Lynch in custody.
MICHAEL VICKERS: Well, this one was particularly joint in the sense that, not only did we have very good CIA intelligence, but we had a large-scale marine diversionary attack by a marine task force that was already in the Nasiriyah area. And in this particular operation, besides the marine diversionary attack, we had rangers securing the perimeter of the area, and then a special seal unit going and doing the actual rescue, and of course supported by helicopter aviation to get them in and out.
RAY SUAREZ: With Private Lynch recovered, two women may still be Iraqi prisoners. We asked retired Navy Captain Lory Manning, director of the women in the military project in Washington, if women, and the American public, are used to the idea.
LORY MANNING: I think we know women have the toughness and endurance to bear anything that men can bear. Whether we want them to, that's a different question.
RAY SUAREZ: In Lynch's hometown of Palestine, West Virginia, her family told reporters how they got the news last night.
GREGORY LYNCH, JR., Jessica Lynch's Brother: We received the call last night a little after 6:00. Of course, mom was ear to ear with dad, trying to figure out good or bad news, and, you know, of course the good news came through, and the roof got a little higher, and the door got a little looser when mom came through.
RAY SUAREZ: Lynch's father thought the call from the army was an April fool's joke.
GREGORY LYNCH, SR.: I kind of figured, well, this being April 1, it's a real bad day to be doing this. I asked three or four times, just to make sure they said the same name. I even went to the table and got a pencil and paper and wrote some numbers down because I just figured this just was an April Fool's deal.
RAY SUAREZ: Lynch arrived in Ramstein, Germany, this afternoon, where she will be treated for her injuries.
JIM LEHRER: Next, the massive effort it takes to keep coalition troops supplied in the field. Again, Tom Bearden reports.
TOM BEARDEN: Combat forces consume everything at a prodigious rate: Food; ammunition; water; and especially fuel. The 3rd Infantry Division alone can burn 600,000 gallons in a single day. In the last two weeks, there's been a lot press attention focused on whether the troops have outrun their supply lines. Convoys have come under attack. There have been reports of shortages at the front, that food has been rationed, that some units were running low on water. Major Gen. Dennis Jackson is central command's director of logistics, the military term for the art of keeping forces supplied.
TOM BEARDEN: Have the attacks at all disrupted the operation?
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: I think the answer is no. I think when you look at the sustained movement over time of supplies, the consistent re-supply, you know, we do things in a couple of ways in the military. We provide supplies by push and we do it by pull. So when you're talking about repair parts or some specific things that a unit needs, they'd ask for that specifically, and then we respond by letting them pull that forward. In other cases, we anticipate what they would need, in terms of fuel or food or water or ammunition, and we would push that forward to them.
TOM BEARDEN: Give me some idea of the quantities of materiel that you deliver.
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: Just by air, if we would have considered moving any individual city over here by air, we could have moved all the household goods in Santa Barbara, California. In fact somebody asked me how we would deal with such long supply lines, how are we dealing with this force, and I said, "the supply line isn't 250 miles long, the supply line, the logistics train, the sustainment line, is really 8,000 miles long." It really starts at the East and West coasts of the United States, and moves all the way to here.
TOM BEARDEN: The particular segment that people have been focused on is that 350-odd miles between Kuwait and the forces at the front. Is that, in itself, particularly long in the history of the United States army's operations?
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: Well, I don't think it's particularly long. I think, though, it's particularly different. This is an operation unlike previous operations that we have done. So trying to go back and compare, for example, what was done in the Gulf War in the early '90s, or perhaps what has been done in the Korean War or the Second World War, it's not a clean comparison — not particularly long, but the rate of advance we knew would be a challenge, so what we tried to do was organize for success.
TOM BEARDEN: Did that rapid advance cause a significant challenge?
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: I think it caused… there's always challenges to these things, and the question is, have you thought about the unknown? The danger in every logistician's life is, what is the thing I haven't thought of — it's that unknown-unknown out there. I don't know it, none of my staff knows it, other people haven't thought about it yet, and all of a sudden it occurs. So if there's something that keeps us awake at night thinking about things, it's that.
TOM BEARDEN: Have you encountered anything that surprised you in this operation?
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: It was a lot browner out there during the sandstorm than I thought it would be, you know. Weather is always a factor here, and I think the effects of that are significant sometimes. We train in all kinds of weather, so that has worked out reasonably well. I've been doing this job for about two and a half years, and have been to the region a number of times. We know, at least partially understand, the dynamics of this area, and so I don't think there have been too many surprises. But it's always the dynamic of the change, as we see the battlefield constantly moving. It's kind of a living, breathing place out there, so there's some degree of adaptability that has to occur.
TOM BEARDEN: Is everything that needs to be at the front getting there when it needs to be there?
MAJ. GEN. DENNIS JACKSON: I think it is. But as my boss said earlier, "Is Private Jackson out there at the front end and one squad, in one platoon, in one company, does he have everything he needs at every specific time?" Maybe not. But this distribution system depends on that 8,000 miles plus the last tactical mile, so I think in the strategic sense and in the lines of the communications forward, and in the re-supply to units forward like the 3rd Infantry Division, yes, it is.
TOM BEARDEN: The number of troops in Iraq is expected to double within the coming weeks. General Jackson says central command has long planned for their arrival, and will be able to handle the additional logistical load.


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With the popularity of "8 Days a Week" on the net, BET announced Friday that web series will switch to primetime on Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. ET, following "106 & Park."
The dramedy-style program follows the lives of six urban youths navigating the perks and pitfalls of living in the fast lane. The show features up-and-coming musicians and artists as they face the harsh realities of trying to make it big in Hollywood.
"We're thrilled to bring our hit web series 8 Days a Week from BET.com to BET," said Loretha Jones, President of Original Programming at BET Networks. "We think the younger members of our on air audience will connect with this storyline as it reflects the hopes and dreams of young people in the music and entertainment industry."
The series stars Skye Townsend (web sensation and daughter of Robert Townsend), actor/rapper Justin "Irocc" Williams, along with cast of young, budding actors.
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Capital punishment in Mexico
Capital punishment in Mexico was officially abolished in 2005, having not been used in civil cases since 1937, and in military cases since 1961.
There is significant history of abolitionism in Mexico, dating back to the 19th century. Following the Plan of Ayutla, the 1857 constitution was drafted, which specifically outlawed the death penalty for political crimes, and allowed abolition for ordinary crimes in the future.[1][2] Mexico's government at that time was quite unstable, and the express abolition of political crimes could have been linked to concern that the lawmakers themselves could become subject to the punishment if there was an uprising. Personal experiences too may have been a factor, as many Mexicans had experienced political repression.[1] There was widespread condemnation of the death penalty in the media, and many Mexican literates were familiar with the work of Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria. Following the rule of Porfirio Díaz, the death penalty article was amended in the reform which led to the current Constitution of Mexico.[1]
The last non-military execution in Mexico was in 1937, and the last military execution (of a soldier charged with insubordination and murder) was in 1961,[3] so the official abolition of the military death penalty in 2005 and of the civil death penalty in 1976 lagged the de facto cessations by 68 and 15 years, respectively.[4]
Mexico is a majority Roman Catholic country, with 88% of the population identifying themselves as Roman Catholic.[5] The Vatican has made numerous statements criticizing capital punishment, and this may be a factor in the debate in Mexico.
Mexican Drug War[edit]
The Mexican Drug War has fueled rising rates of violent crimes such as kidnapping and murder, prompting a reemergence of capital punishment into the political discourse. The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), the fourth biggest political force in the country, waged a campaign to promote restoration of the death penalty, including the use of billboards,[6] as part of promotion of the party for the 2009 election for seats in Congress. There have been proposals to amend the 1917 Constitution to allow capital punishment from both the PVEM and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but both were rejected.[6][7] Although recent surveys have revealed that up to 70% of the population support the restoration of the death penalty, it is unlikely that the constitution will be changed, as both religious and human rights groups have strongly opposed restoration.[8]
Constitution: Article 22
Cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited. Specifically, penalties of death, mutilation, infamy, marks, physical punishments, torments, excessive fines, confiscation of assets, and others are abolished.
Confiscation of assets does not include the application of said assets to pay for civil responsibilities caused by a crime, or when used to pay taxes or other fines. Nor will it be confiscation when said assets are part of illegal activities, or when they are related to organized crime, or when proof of ownership cannot be established.
International relations[edit]
In 1981, Mexico ratified the American Convention on Human Rights, a treaty of the Organization of American States, which prohibits the death penalty from being restored if eliminated.[9][7][10] Mexico does not extradite to countries that are seeking the death penalty, and has successfully defended 400 of its citizens charged with a capital offence in the United States.[11][12] This has in the past led to American fugitives crossing the border into Mexico in order to avoid the death penalty.[13][14]
In 2002, President Vicente Fox cancelled a trip to the United States to meet US President George W. Bush, in protest of the then imminent execution of a Mexican national, Javier Suárez Medina, in the U.S. state of Texas. Medina had been convicted in 1989 for killing an undercover police officer in Dallas. According to Mexican officials, Suárez was not informed about his right to consular access, and fourteen countries lobbied the United States Supreme Court on behalf of him.[15]
In 2003 Mexico filed a complaint against the United States at the International Court of Justice, alleging that the US had contravened the Vienna Convention by not allowing 54 Mexicans sentenced to death to contact diplomatic officials.[16]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Sarat & Boulanger, pp. 69–85
- ^ Constitución Política de la República Mexicana de 1857 (PDF), 1857, archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2012, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Gibbs, Stephen (4 February 2009), Death penalty debate grows in Mexico, BBC News, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Clarke & Whitt 2007, pp. 44–45
- ^ "Religión" (PDF), Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2000, INEGI, 2000, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2007, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ a b c Blears, James (26 February 2009), Mexico's Green Party Urges Death Penalty for Kidnappers, VOA News, retrieved 2 August 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Wilkinson, Tracy (5 December 2008), MEXICO UNDER SIEGE: Some in Mexico want the death penalty reinstated, Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Gibbs, Stephen (23 February 2009), Mexico to rethink death penalty, BBC News, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ American Convention on Human Rights, art 4.2 ratified Mar. 2, 1981.
- ^ Bonello, Deborah (10 December 2008), Death penalty advertisements in Mexico, Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Lloyd, Marion (28 February 2009), To live or die in Mexico, GlobalPost, archived from the original on 23 April 2009, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Lloyd, Marion (14 January 2009), Mexico: Death Penalty Gaining Support, Huffington Post, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Curtis, Kimberly (13 July 2009), Death Penalty Gaining Support in Mexico, Foreign Policy Association, archived from the original on 23 July 2009, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Associated Press (18 January 2008), U.S. fugitives in Mexico spared death penalty: FBI, N.C. and Mexican officials on hunt for Marine slaying suspect, MSNBC, retrieved August 2, 2009
- ^ Knowlton, Brian (16 August 2002), Fox echoes world on the death penalty : Execution pits Mexico against U.S., The New York Times, retrieved 2 August 2009
- ^ Mexico Challenges Death Penalty Cases At World Court, United Nations Foundation, 10 January 2003, retrieved 2 August 2009[permanent dead link]
- Clarke, Alan William; Whitt, Laurelyn (2007), The bitter fruit of American justice, University Press of New England, ISBN 978-1-55553-682-4
- Sarat, Austin; Boulanger, Christian (2005), The cultural lives of capital punishment, Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5234-3
- Sarre, Rick; Das, Dilip K.; Albrecht, Hans-Jörg (2005), Policing corruption, Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0809-3
- Ackoff, Russell Lincoln (1994), The democratic corporation, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-508727-7
- Ewell, Gordan F. (2005), Mexico: migration, U.S. economic issues and counter narcotic efforts, Nova Publishers, ISBN 978-1-59454-650-1


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A handful of new screens were released for NIS' upcoming PS3 roguelike, The Guided Fate Paradox. As a lottery winner made a god, players control Renya after he is spirited away to Celestia to battle enemies in randomly generated dungeons alongside a personal angel, Lilliel.
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Desert Radiologists acquired an advanced imaging tool to catch breast cancer earlier. The medical imaging provider is the only outpatient facility in Nevada to offer the technology, according to a recent statement. The provider is offering three dimensional mammography, called breast tomosynthesis, for breast cancer screening. Considered the latest in digital imaging … [Read more...]
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Real Estate Firm Begins to Harvest Lots it Acquired During Downturn New York, NY – The Lightstone Group has closed on the sale of a 23.53-acre, multi-family development site in Las Vegas for $10.17 million. Lightstone acquired the land, located at Hacienda Avenue and Interstate 215, in May 2011 for $4.4 million from City National Bank, as part of its strategy to acquire … [Read more...]


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Spiritual Support for Families of Patients With Cancer: A Pilot Study of Nursing Staff Assessments
Kuuppelomaki, Merja
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Update: Deputies search truck believed to be involved in pharmacy robbery
EUREKA- Deputies in Hydesville found the get-away truck believed to be involved in a strong-armed robbery at a Scotia pharmacy today.
The robbery happened Tuesday afternoon at Palco Pharmacy just before 4 p.m. when deputies said a man wearing a hockey mask brandished a handgun and demanded both Oxycotin and Oxycodone. Cameras from inside and outside of the pharmacy captured the man wearing a hooded rain jacket and then taking off in what appeared to be a dark Toyota pick-up truck.
Deputies responded Wednesday morning to a home on the 2900 block of Johnson Road where the same truck involved was believed to have been found, but no one was inside of the home. The suspect is described as a white man 5'6", 150 pounds with blue eyes. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.


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The conservation status of Mediterranean cetaceans has been a source of concern for many years. This was reflected in the 1991 Action Plan of the Barcelona Convention and in the global action plans for cetacean conservation published by the IUCN (World Conservation Union) in 1988, 1989, 1994 and 2003.
In 2006 the IUCN Red List Authority and ACCOBAMS co-organised a workshop to assess the status of all cetacean populations in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Of the 12 'units' assessed, one was proposed to qualify for Critically Endangered, five for Endangered and two for Vulnerable. The other four were considered Data Deficient, meaning that there was inadequate information to assess their extinction risk.
A summary of the assessment results is given in the following table:
The listing criteria above have been fully adopted by the Parties to ACCOBAMS in 2007.
The Parties to ACCOBAMS were also urged to implement measures to address the threats to cetacean populations assessed according to the list above, with particular regard to critically endangered and endangered populations, and to update their national Red Lists. Concerned Parties were urged to pay specific, immediate attention to the conservation of killer whales, Mediterranean short-beaked common
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Reeves R., Notarbartolo di Sciara G. (compilers and editors). 2006. The status and distribution of cetaceans in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea. IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, Malaga, Spain. 137 pp. (2.4 Mb)
Conservation of short-beaked common dolphins
Once one of the most common cetacean species in the Mediterranean, short-beaked common dolphins have declined dramatically in the past 30-40 years.
Although common dolphins were considered relatively abundant in much of the Mediterranean until recently, a sudden, large-scale population decline has occurred, and today common dolphins survive only in relatively small portions of their former Mediterranean range. In some areas these dolphins have become rare or completely absent.
The main threats appear to be represented by the reduced availability of key prey caused by overfishing and by habitat degradation. Other factors that may have contributed to the species' decline in the region include contamination by man-made chemicals, potentially resulting in immunosuppression and/or reproductive impairment, and incidental mortality in fishing gear, especially gill nets.
Conservation problems for this population have been recognised since the 1970s...
... but still no significant change has occurred and no relevant action has been taken to aid the recovery of common dolphins in the region.
An overview of the legislative instruments relevant to the conservation of common dolphins and/or protection of their habitat can be found in the following contribution:
Owen, D. 2004. Legal instruments of relevance to the conservation of common dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea. Annex 1. Pp. 61-85 In: G. Bearzi, G. Notarbartolo di Sciara, R.R. Reeves, A. Cañadas & A. Frantzis. Conservation Plan for short-beaked common dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea. Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS).
Conservation of common bottlenose dolphins
Experts participating in a regional Red List workshop organized in 2006 agreed that Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins qualify as Vulnerable according to the IUCN Red List criteria (Reeves & Notarbartolo di Sciara, 2006).
Past and present threats include (a) intentional killing and extermination campaigns conducted until at least the early 1960s in portions of the basin, (b) recent and ongoing incidental mortality in fishing gear, (c) overfishing of prey populations, and (d) habitat degradation including environmental contamination by chemical pollutants and disturbance caused by marine traffic.
Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins are:
An overview of the legislative instruments relevant to the conservation of bottlenose dolphins and/or protection of their habitat can be found in the following article:
Bearzi G., Fortuna C.M., Reeves R.R. 2008. Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00133.x (307 Kb)


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Ameresco Executes Historic Renewable Energy Contract
Framinhgam, MA – San Antonio Water System's (SAWS) Board of Trustees has approved a truly innovative contract with Ameresco, Inc. (Ameresco), which will take Biogas, a byproduct of the anaerobic digestion process from biosolids, containing 60 percent methane, and use it as a green energy source.
Eighty percent of the city's biosolids – the solids remaining after liquid waste is removed – are used to generate compost in San Antonio. With the new contract, the methane gas captured during the sewage treatment process at SAWS Dos Rios Water Recycling Center will add an additional environmentally friendly product to the lineup which currently includes recycled water – sold to manufacturers and major landscapers – and compost.
Ameresco will design, engineer, permit, construct, own, operate, manage and maintain the gas conditioning and distribution facility and the pipelines necessary to transfer and sell the gas to commercial natural gas pipelines.
"This is the culmination of a tremendous amount of hard work and ingenuity along with a great partnership with SAWS in order to implement this groundbreaking 'renewable resource' project." Said Michel T. Bakas, Ameresco's Vice President of Renewable Energy. "This will be an exciting project for the partners."
"Efforts such as this provide significant environmental benefits through the reduction of emissions that positively impact the local community and our reliance on fossil fuels." said Bakas.
The Ameresco biogas treatment facility will employ about 1.5 million standard cubic feet of biogas a day. The project will provide improvement to the environmental impact of the SAWS Wastewater Treatment Plant through the major reduction of flared emissions at the site.
"Due to the increases we are experiencing in the price of energy, this project is now a very smart investment for the environment and regional community," said SAWS Chief Operating Officer Steve Clouse "SAWS will be the only large wastewater utility actively selling biogas in the United States."
"The citizens of San Antonio produce about 140,000 tons of biosolids each year," adds Clouse. "Treating these biosolids generates an average of 1.5 million cubic feet of gas a day – that's enough gas to fill seven commercial blimps or 1,250 tanker trucks each day."
"Most of that gas is currently burned off using flares. We have been working hard over the last few years to develop a process to improve the consistent quality and quantity of gas produced. Now we're very pleased that we can capture and sell it, which is good for San Antonio's air quality and puts this renewable energy resource to work for San Antonio," said Clouse.
"This recycling gas project produces environmental gains for our citizens and cuts processing costs for the City. Ameresco's innovative green solution will make the utility the first in the nation to capture and sell methane generated while treating the city's sewage." said Clouse.
An award-winning renewable energy developer, Ameresco, Inc., is the largest independent comprehensive energy solutions provider in North America. Headquartered in Framingham Massachusetts, Ameresco uses innovative strategies, systems, and technologies for renewable and sustainable energy generation and infrastructure renewal, thereby reducing operating expenses, increasing energy reliability and enhancing the environment.
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A Massachusetts man is suing two former bishops of the Springfield, Mass., diocese and another church administrator for allegedly allowing him to be molested by a priest who had admitted to sexually abusing other boys.
Lawyers for the alleged victim say it is perhaps the first U.S. case that involves a defendant who is an accused molester charged with overseeing another accused molester.
Andrew Nicastro, 38, of Williamstown, said the former Rev. Alfred Graves sexually molested him between 1982 and 1984, when Nicastro was 11 to 13 years old. Graves, who has been named as an abuser in other suits filed against the diocese, was suspended from active ministry in the 1990s and officially defrocked by the Vatican in 2006.
The suit names as defendants Bishop Joseph Maguire, who led the Springfield diocese at the time of the allegations, Bishop Thomas Dupre, who was chancellor and third in command, and Richard Sniezyk, who was vicar for priests and had a supervisory role over Graves.
Dupre resigned after he was indicted in 2004 on charges of abusing two boys during the 1970s. The cases were dropped when prosecutors determined they were too old to prosecute. Dupre is currently at a Maryland treatment center for troubled priests.
Mark Dupont, a spokesman for the diocese, said it would be imprudent to comment on the specifics of the case prior to a thorough review.
We say: Charlottesville reveals the weeping wound of racism. What do we, the American Catholic faith community, do next? Read the editorial.
According to the suit, the parents of a young boy told Maguire in 1976 that their son had been sexually molested by Graves while he was assigned to Our Lady of Hope Church in Springfield. Although Graves admitted to Maguire that he had molested the boy, the bishop merely warned him "to not do it again," the suit states. Graves was subsequently transferred, eventually ending up at St. Patrick's in Williamstown in 1981, where he served as the pastor.
Nicastro's lawyer, John Stobierski, said his investigation has uncovered writings that show Maguire knew about Graves' history of molesting boys.
"For the first time, we have solid proof that the hierarchy of the diocese knew Alfred Graves molested children before he was assigned to a parish where Mr. Nicastro and others were located," he said.
After a barrage of lawsuits earlier this decade, the suit is one of the few civil complaints filed against the diocese in the last four years. The diocese paid out $7.7 million to dozens of claimants in 2004 and another $4.5 million to 59 alleged abuse victims last year. Those costs were offset by an $8.5 million settlement between the diocese and three insurance companies.
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Op-Ed by Paul Hulshoff, UNICEF Iran Representative
Convention on the Rights of the Child Turned 20
Close to twenty years ago, the world came together to say YES to children; recognizing that children, meaning every human being below the age of 18 years, have the same general human rights as adults AND have particular rights that recognize their special need for protection.
Since its adoption on 20 November 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has set in motion a process of social change, building the foundation for a world where children's rights are to be guaranteed and protected.
The Convention has heightened recognition of the fundamental human dignity of all children and the urgency of ensuring their well-being and development. The Convention makes clear the idea that a basic quality of life should be the right of all children, rather than a privilege enjoyed by a few.
It articulates a set of universal children's rights, such as the right to an identity, a name and a nationality, the right to an education, and rights to the highest possible standards of health and protection from abuse and exploitation.
These rights are based on four core principles – non-discrimination; the best interest of the child as primary consideration in matters that affect them; rights to life, survival and development, and respect for the views of children.
As such, the CRC reflects a new vision of the child. Children are neither the property of their parents nor are they helpless objects of charity. They are human beings and are the subject of their own rights. The Convention offers a vision of the child as an individual and as a member of a family and community, with rights and responsibilities appropriate to his or her age and stage of development.
The near-universal ratification of the Convention by 193 countries, including Iran, reflects a global commitment to the principles of children's rights. By ratifying the Convention, governments state their intention to put this commitment into practice. State parties are obligated to amend and create laws and policies to fully implement the Convention; they must consider all actions taken in light of the best interests of the child. The task, however, must engage not just governments but all members of society. The standards and principles articulated in the Convention can only become a reality when they are respected by everyone— non-governmental institutions, communities, schools, families and parents.
In Iran, the CRC has played a vital role in shaping and developing the lives of children, including children from vulnerable and marginalised communities. The proposed new Juvenile Justice and Child & Adolescents Protection Bills, the development of a new integrated Early Childhood Development policy, the ongoing assistance programs for Afghan children in Iran or the pilot implementation of adolescent-friendly services are but a few examples.
Additionally, the CRC has been at the core of helping to reduce the number of children dying before the age of five, accelerated girls' education as well as promoted "free" primary and guidance level education, placing Iran's achievements for children in these areas on par with many higher income countries.
Many challenges however remain, at times compounded by new ones. We cannot claim that the Convention has achieved what needs to be achieved: rather, it has provided all of us with an essential foundation to play our part in changing what the Convention reminds us needs to be changed.
Effecting that change requires us to use the Convention in its fullest sense, and to take advantage of its three fundamental strengths; as a binding legal instrument, as a framework for the duties borne by different actors at different levels of society to respond to the rights of children, and thirdly, as an ethical statement, both reflecting and building upon core human values about our commitment to collectively provide the world's and Iran's children with the best we have to give.
Parents and teachers, nurses and doctors, government leaders and civil society activists, religious leaders and community elders, corporate managers and media professionals as well as young people and children themselves must continue to unite to protect the childhood for ALL children.
The 20th Anniversary of the CRC, to be observed worldwide on 20 November on a day known as Universal Children's Day, offers an inspirational entry-point to advocate, promote and celebrate children's rights, translating into dialogues and actions that will build "A World Fit for Children" and a prosperous future development in Iran.


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Physics 2EE (PHYS2213)
This unit of study is designed to build on the knowledge gained in Junior Physics, to provide Electrical Engineering students with the knowledge of relevant topics of Physics at the Intermediate level, and with associated skills. Completion of the unit provides a solid foundation for further studies in Electrical Engineering and related engineering areas. The aims of this unit are linked to the generic attributes required of graduates of the University in knowledge skills, thinking skills, personal skills and attributes, and practical skills. By the end of this unit of study, students will be able to describe and apply concepts in optics, electromagnetism and basic solid state physics and technology at the Intermediate level. They will be able to use computational techniques to analyze optics problems. The modules in this unit of study are: Optics (13 lectures): The wave nature of light, optical phenomena and the interaction of light with matter: interference and diffraction effects; fundamental limits to resolution of optical instruments; polarisation; dispersion; coherence. These are presented within the context of several key optical technologies including lasers, CD/DVD players, optical fibre communication systems, gratings and Mach Zehnder modulation. Electromagnetic Properties of Matter (12 lectures): Electric and magnetic effects in materials; the combination of electric and magnetic fields to produce light and other electromagnetic waves in vacuum and matter. Solid State and Device Physics (13 lectures): Introduction to quantum mechanics, Fermi-Dirac statistics, electronic properties of solids (metal, semiconductors and insulators), doping and the semiconductor PN junction; introduction to nanotechnology; fabrication technologies, nano-imaging technologies, nanoelectronics. Computational Physics (10 sessions of 2 hours each): In a computing laboratory students use Matlab-based simulation software to conduct virtual experiments in optics, which illustrate and extend the relevant lectures. Students also gain experience in the use of computers to solve problems in physics.
Our courses that offer this unit of study
- Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology (Advanced)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Aeronautical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Biomedical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Chemical and Biomolecular)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Civil)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Dalyell Scholars)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Electrical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechanical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechatronic)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Software)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Project Management
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Space Engineering Major
- Bachelor of Information Technology
Further unit of study information
Three 1 hour lectures per week; one 2 hour computational laboratory per week for 10 weeks.
One 3 hour exam, one 1-hour computational test, assignments, computational lab work (100%)
Notes published by the School of Physics: - Physics 2EE Computational Physics Optics Notes - Physics 2EE Electromagnetic Properties of Matter Notes - Physics 2EE Solid State and Device Physics Notes Other relevant texts: see the Unit of Study outline.
Faculty/department permission required?
Unit of study rules
(PHYS1001 or PHYS1901) and (PHYS1003 or PHYS1902)
Assumed knowledge
(MATH1001 or MATH1901) and (MATH1002 or MATH1902) and (MATH1003 or MATH1903) and (MATH1005 or MATH1905)
PHYS2203 or PHYS2001 or PHYS2901 or PHYS2011 or PHYS2911 or PHYS2002 or PHYS2902 or PHYS2012 or PHYS2912
Study this unit outside a degree
Non-award/non-degree study
If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
Cross-institutional study
If you are from another Australian tertiary institution you may be permitted to underake cross-institutional study in one or more units of study at the University of Sydney.


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French Banana Pancakes Recipe
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup half-and-half cream
- 5 to 6 firm bananas, halved lengthwise
- Whipped cream and additional cinnamon, optional
- 1. Sift flour and confectioners' sugar into a bowl. Add milk, eggs, butter, vanilla and salt; beat until smooth.
- 2. Heat a lightly greased 6-in. skillet; add about 3 tablespoons batter, spreading to almost cover bottom of skillet. Cook until lightly browned; turn and brown the other side. Remove to a wire rack. Repeat with remaining batter (make 10-12 pancakes), greasing skillet as needed.
- 3. For filling, melt butter in large skillet. Stir in brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in cream and cook until slightly thickened. Add half of the bananas at a time to skillet; heat for 2-3 minutes, spooning sauce over them. Remove from the heat.
- 4. Roll a pancake around each banana half and place on a serving platter. Spoon sauce over pancakes. Top with whipped cream and dash of cinnamon if desired. Yield: 5-6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
2 each: 403 calories, 18g fat (11g saturated fat), 117mg cholesterol, 284mg sodium, 55g carbohydrate (35g sugars, 3g fiber), 7g protein.
Reviews for French Banana Pancakes
Average Rating
"We've been making these for years. Delicious."
"Delicious and easy."
"The flavor is terrific! We love this recipe even my husband who does not like a crepe type pancake You have to try this one... I made extra filling to serve with this."
"One of my family's favorites."
"I love the filling but I would suggest less butter. When it cools a little it is easy to spot pools of butter separated from the cream. I guess the flavor won't suffer much if less butter is used."
"Super yummy!! I've never tasted anything quite like it. The filling is perfect to top on frozen waffles or french toast! Five star recipe!!!"
"Haven't made, but want to ASAP, based on reviews. What's the best way to keep warm so everyone can eat together?"
"This recipe was really easy and also good. If you want a lighter version, use no sugar in the batter and soy/almond milk instead of milk."
"Wonderful! Short on time but wanting to try this, I made the filling and served it over waffles from the freezer. It was delicious! I didn't have half and half on hand so I used the 2% milk I had. Worked fine with fewer calories. I'm going to make the pancakes the day before Easter and reheat them while making the topping, making it a quick breakfast before church."
"I'm going to try this on my very picky grandson, hope it works !"
"Wonderful-one of my husbands favorites!"
"I have been making these lovely crepes for many years. I like to slice the bananas for a prettier presentation & easier eating."
"I first tried this many years ago. I served it to my whole family and my grandpa (who was a just-give-me-a-pancake-as-big-as-my-plate-and-as-fluffy-as-my-pillow kinda man) LOVED it! I will always remember that. Try it. You won't be disappointed!"
"Was excellent! The crepes consistency was perfect. Had to add a bit more butter for the sauce but I used milk instead of cream. A good twist on banana pancakes."
"Really good and super easy to make. Everyone loved it"
"Very good and easy to make"
"These are worth the extra effort."
"I made this for my daughter for breakfast and she loved it! I used boxed pancake mix (just cuz I didnt have all ingred on hand) and spread the batter thin in the pan, it worked out great and easy to make. I didnt have half and half on hand either but used the same amount of evaporated milk and worked out great also. Thanks for sharing a great recipe, I will make it again!"


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I miss the days of flowery menu writing. I miss knowing, after ordering a "velouté of white asparagus with a medley of morels and porcinis and pine-scented crème fraîche," that I'm going to be getting asparagus and mushroom soup, and that the chef intends to get a little freaky on the garnish front.
These days you're as likely at many places to find only the words "spring soup," or "asparagus, mushroom," and to have to ask or to wonder or worse. At The Saint Tavern, an otherwise inviting, year-old bar-slash-bistro on Ossington Avenue, you endure a Castro-at-the-UN-length disquisition from the waiter, describing in exhaustive detail everything that a proper menu would have said.
Just at the point when you're dying to get in that all-important first drink order, to settle back into a booth and turn to say hello and how are you to your friend, whom you haven't seen in months, you make the mistake of wondering aloud what beers they have, whereupon the waiters at The Saint begin, over the din of the room, to rattle off the unwritten tap list – the names of obscure hefeweizens and French and German pilsners and the Austrian Stiegl Radler that's delicious, that's pilsner mixed with grapefruit soda, but you have no way of knowing that unless you interrupt him, and the Spearhead pale ale and the St-Ambroise stout (or was it an American Ale?) and another brew that sounds like "Sturm und Taxis."
He then tells you about the daily savoury pie and the daily soup and the daily sandwich, which nobody thought to commit to, oh, say, a daily chalkboard. He makes clear that the "fish & chips" doesn't come with "chips," exactly, but with tempura green beans, and that the "chips" are actually potato chips – like, crisps instead of chippys – that have been crushed into the batter (How clever!, you don't remark); that the steaks & chops come grilled and sliced for sharing, but à la carte, so you've got to order sides with them, but not with the dishes in the "Main Course" section of the menu, and then what the sides include and how they're done and what they taste like.
He tells you that the "Bangers & Mash" and "Mixed Grill" feed four people; that "Blackened Catch" is trout tonight, that it comes with fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts, charred Brussels sprouts leaves, quick-pickled cauliflower florets and cauliflower puree.
Also: the "pig popcorn" isn't actually popcorn, which you probably needed to know.
After all that you don't want to order so much as you want a Vicodin and a darkened room and a transcript from which to make your choices. This is too bad, because The Saint Tavern can be a very good place to eat.
The restaurant is a project of King Street Food Co., the firm behind both Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse and Buca, the city's fancy-Italian standard-bearer. The room is done up in glossy white subway tiles and stark black trim, with bistro tables toward the front, where the sunset pours in off Ossington Avenue. There are comfortable booths farther along, and a bar with stools and a pair of sports-tuned televisions above it. The feel at The Saint is neither overtly young nor aggressively stylish, which can come as a relief on Ossington. They play Eurythmics and Sting. It's friendly and welcoming, an all-ages room populated by business-casual working stiffs, local homeowners and young couples who like beer and pub food but not lineups or Run D.M.C.
This spring, about a year after The Saint opened to middling reviews, its owners installed the chef Jesse Vallins (formerly of Trevor Kitchen and Bar on Wellington Street East) as the restaurant's chef de cuisine.
Two months later, he is still for the most part cooking the menu he inherited. He plans to introduce his own menu in July, he said when I called to fact check; it will be lighter and fresher, he said – attributes, I'd argue, that will play to his strengths.
Amid the current, meat-heavy menu, the lighter dishes stand out. His beet salad, for instance, combined soft, roasted red and golden beets with shaved, raw candy cane beet slices, as well as verjus, which is the sour, pleasantly aromatic juice of unripe grapes, and peppery, mustardy watercress. If you expect phoned-in salads when you eat at pubs, this one comes as a pleasant surprise.
One of his simplest dishes was also perhaps Mr. Vallins's most remarkable: faultless asparagus, ripped from the soil in the prime of its youth, primped, trimmed and limbered up with a steam bath, doused with a thick, lemony, yolky béarnaise so utterly perfect that it could have made Jacques Pépin weep.
The "pig popcorn" is excellent, as it happens. It's little, fryer-puffed pig rinds, dusted with a barbecue salt that tastes of paprika and chipotle pepper, served with tangy, lime and pepper-kicked Greek yogurt. The skillet cheddar loaf with bone marrow is also superb, even if it does sound like a tailgate party platter. The loaf is hot, cheesy, and fluffy, sliced and baked almost like garlic bread, but with reams of marrow on top and enough rendered marrow fat in the bottom of its dish that it becomes progressively richer, meatier and delicious as it sits.
The steak tartare is the classic: hand-chopped, perfectly seasoned, silky-textured and decadent.
And for fans of the Big Mac – which is otherwise widely known to cheffy types and their doughy followers as The Most Beautifully Engineered Food Product of All Time, Ever – Mr. Vallins' cheeseburger is a delicious stunt double. It's made with house ground, medium-rare beef, creamy bone marrow aioli (not quite the Golden Arches' Russian dressing-style special sauce, but terrific nonetheless), a house-baked sesame bun and house-processed cheddar slices. Even the fries are good.
I was less excited about the fried chicken with grits and collards. The fried chicken wasn't particularly juicy or succulent or calorie-worthy. The grits were okay, the collards humdrum.
The vegetables with the "blackened catch" – that's trout, remember? – were very good; the fish was embalmed in Cajun spice and cooked as if by the pyrotechnics team from Fast & Furious 6.
The fish in The Saint Tavern's "fish and chips" came with sprouts on top of it. The chips, as mentioned, were not chips, but beans. This is not what I want from my fish and chips.
The fish pie was excellent: peas and fennel and good fish and sauce under creamy piped potatoes. (Hardly summer food, however. Mr. Vallins's new menu can't come soon enough.) The striploin was everything you could ever want from a striploin: beefy, salty, rare inside and indecently savoury.
Do not eat the homemade steak sauce. It tasted like a curry powder spill.
Though I haven't tried it, a friend I trust says the $25 roast beef and fixings Sunday Supper is a) excellent, and b) a ridiculously good value.
There is no dessert menu – only a dessert speech.
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BWW Blog: The Night Elton John Told Elaine Stritch, 'This is Your Song' - and She Kept It
By David Munk
As Adam Feldman pointed out in his wonderful Time Out New York piece on Elaine Stritch, "Everyone who ever met Elaine Stritch-hell, anyone who ever saw her perform-has a Stritch story." I would like to add another category: everyone who ever saw her when someone else performed. I'll explain. In July 2004, Elton John was performing a symphonic concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall and I took my brother Rob. We had great seats, like tenth row center. Halfway through the beautiful set, Elton paused before "Your Song" and dedicated it to "One of the greatest theatrical personalities ever to grace the Broadway stage.." Suddenly, we look up about ten feet to our right, and Elaine Stritch is on her feet basking in the glow of a spotlight and Elton's uncharacteristically sincere (and long) introduction. "Oh Rob, look at her. She's so cute, with those huge black glasses and that big hat. How sweet for her to have this little moment," I said to my brother. Indeed, in those initial seconds of acknowledgment, Elaine seemed to light up from within and grow a full six inches, like a plant under a grow light on steroids.
This was Elton's beautiful set at Radio City Music Hall, July 2004.
But then something weird happened: Elton finished his dedication to Stritch, turned back to his keyboard, began to play the oh-so-famous introduction to "Your Song," but Elaine did not give a final wave to the crowd and sit down; that would have been far too conventional for an experienced scene-stealer like Stritchie. Instead, like a broken jack-in-the-box, Elaine continued to stand planted in her spotlight and proceeded to extend the dedication for the full duration of the song. This move most certainly infuriated Elton, no shrinking Violet he, as she hijacked the number in its in entirety by pulling focus from the ninth row.
"And she's not goin' back down," I deadpanned, like a commentator at the World Cup of Egos. "Stritch appears to be making the entire audience watch her watch him. Elton is not pleased but is continuing like a pro." Rob picked up my lead. "We have a theatrical battle here," he added. "It's Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster-time here at the Music Hall. Stritch has received and is continuing to receive the tribute. It is no longer 'Your Song,' it is now 'Her Song.' Let's see how long she can continue to receive without giving back the spotlight," Rob snorted as we collapsed in our chairs, thrilled at the spectacle of it all.
It was true. No one watched Elton: instead, 6000 people watched Elaine Stritch receiving his love and giving her own separate performance; more of an indication of a great lady being touched deeply by the poignance of Elton John's serenade than an honest reaction. It was wildly effective and, as was its objective, completely distracting. With practiced sleight of hand, she made one of the greatest showman in the world a sideman in her production number: it was funny; it was phony; it was brilliant; it was sad; and so typically Stritch. Elton didn't have a chance: once hit with the bright light and narcotic-like energy from the stage, she simply wouldn't-couldn't-relinquish it. She needed it way too much. Elaine Stritch, truly a theatrical cat burglar, didn't even need to be on the stage, she just needed an entry point and she could, asBarbara Stanwyck used to say, "take the scene."
Like all great performers, Elaine Stritch knew how to put a "button" on a number and, as I discovered while researching this piece, she even gave us one for this anecdote: Stritch died on July 17, 2014, exactly ten years to the day after the Elton John Radio City heist. Now my brother knows the answer to his question: it took her exactly ten years for the scene to be over, for her to finally sit down and stop receiving. But we can rest assured that wherever she is, Elaine Stritch is still pulling focus.
David Munk is a N.Y.-based writer, actor, music biz veteran, and observer of pop culture. His blog is stargayzing.com. Follow him on twitter @stargayzingone


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Are You Overdosing On Caffeine?
By now, you've had your morning coffee – but you might feel the urge to have a couple more cups this afternoon to perk yourself up. But should you? Do you know you can actually overdose on caffeine?
Sleeplessness and anxiety are common symptoms of too much caffeine, but did you you know dark urine is too?! And coffee isn't the only place you're getting a blast of caffeine? There is a brand of energy water that has 150mg of the stuff! Check out the article so we don't have to do a caffeine intervention on you!


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The 23-year-old has become well-known for his wild on-stage behaviour, such as being tattooed on stage during a gig at this year's Reading Festival.
Klaxons' Jamie Reynolds was named the second coolest artist in the poll with CSS frontwoman Lovefoxx coming third.
Gossip singer Beth Ditto was top of the weekly magazine's list last year, but finished ninth in this year's survey.
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The Cribs' Ryan Jarman is at number four with rapper Lethal Bizzle at five.
Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys featured at number six with singer Kate Nash making her debut to the list in seventh place.
Of eighth-placed Amy Winehouse, the magazine said: "Her interesting year has been a hedonistic mix of award wins, drug overdose stories and a string of sold-out dates.
"But throughout it all the queen of cool has kept her beehive in place while the rest of us marvel and wondered what next."
Rolling Stones veteran Keith Richards, 66, rounded off the top 10.
NME editor Conor McNicholas said: "30 years after the height of punk there are a whole load of new bands making wild and passionate noise.
"But it takes more than just great music to make it to the top of the cool list. These people effortlessly set trends with every breath they take."
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