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Jester House chef shares his secrets
Jester House's Steve Richards, without a doubt, makes the world's best hash browns. I am not the only person to say that and food writer Lois Daish wrote the same 20 years ago.
I discovered Steve, his kilt and his hash browns probably about the same time as she did and from the size of the crowd at a weekend breakfast, there are many others who agree.
Hash browns are only a slice of the culinary pie at this eclectic cafe on Steve and Judy's estate in Tasman. Steve admits that he is not particularly constrained by convention which is even more interesting given his early chef training in the air force.
He says he learnt a lot as an air force chef with the huge variety of culinary requirements that has stood him in good stead as a chef.
Like many other loyal customers I have watched the Jester House grow and flourish. Their marvellous rammed earth house they built themselves, the restaurant more recently built to replace the tiny house that for many years served as their successful cafe and the ever expanding gardens.
To cross the creek where the eels lie in wait is to enter a special world of flair and imagination, usually confronted with totally tempting smells wafting towards you. Everywhere you look in the garden you see real care and attention and an excellent eye for design and use of space.
There is a playground for kids, great garden sculptures and, to top it off, The Boot, intimate, tastefully decorated accommodation for two. Its design replicates a boot, laces and all.
All of this is the backdrop to the eating experience and with all the ambience it is hard to go wrong.
The Jester House began in 1991 when Steve and Judy decided that this was the place that would be their home and livelihood. They had a vision of a lifestyle and they have lived that dream.
They don't open for dinner (except sometimes on Fridays) and every year when the eels hibernate they go on holiday to refresh and re-invigour for the year ahead.
They do breakfast and lunch. They cook everything from scratch. They raise their own chickens and they grow all the herbs in their kitchen garden.
Steve says: "It is all about the love and light you put into the food. We really care about what we are doing. We pride ourselves on the quality of the food, that it is fresh and tasty."
There is a strong philosophy behind it all. Steve believes in closing circles. He raises the chickens to provide the eggs for the cafe, the kitchen scraps feed the chooks.
They really believe in being regional and seasonal and always buy local if there is a choice.
They want to give their money to people they can meet personally so they feature a lot of local wines, beers, juices, fruits, olive oil and cheeses and where possible buy wild meat from certified producers such as Premier Game in Marlborough.
The concept of wild meat appeals a lot to Steve and dishes such as wild goat, pork or rabbit feature regularly as specials on their menu.
They are currently running a special on wild goat in a dish inspired for the Cafe of the Year award and as this goes to print they have hopefully been declared a national finalist.
There are ethics involved in wild meat for Steve. He says he likes the idea of animals that have roamed free and had a good life and this reflects in how they taste.
Also, often wild animals can be pests for humans so what better way to deal with them than to eat them.
Clearly the Jester House is not your normal run of the mill restaurant. When the chef is still happy to come to work 21 years later and when he says what makes him feel great is the babble of conversation and laughter of his customers, there is no doubt that it is a great place to visit.
Steve shares the two recipes for the Cafe of the Year award and of course his recipe for the best hash browns in the world.
Serves 6
This Moroccan inspired dish has lots of ingredients but a very easy method.
1kg diced goat meat (or lamb)
500g peeled and diced onion
800g chopped canned tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, peeled and diced
1 tsp ground ginger, ground cumin, ground coriander, salt
1 tsp cinnamon, turmeric, fennel seed, ground black pepper
tsp chilli
tsp ground cloves
pinch nutmeg
Mix all the ingredients together in a tagine (or casserole with lid or slow cooker). Cook for approximately two hours until meat is tender and the sauce has thickened. You may have to take the lid off for the last part of cooking to let the sauce reduce. Check the seasoning before serving with chickpea and corn salad and crusty bread (or couscous).
2 cups cooked chickpeas
1 cup corn kernels
2 Tbsp currants
1 large lemon, zest and juice
1 Tbsp sweet chilli sauce
Cup olive oil
salt and pepper
Mix all together and leave in fridge until ready to serve then add: cup of chopped flat leaf parsley and coriander
800g black doris plums, drained - use either fresh or canned/preserved when out of season
500ml plum juice
100g corn flour
tsp ground cloves
100g white sugar
Heat the juice with the sugar and cloves.
Mix the other juice with the corn flour, add to the warmed juice and stir well until it is cooked and thick.
Gently stir through the drained plums, allow to cool before filling 28cm pastry lined pie dish. Top with pastry lattice and bake for approximately one hour at 160 degrees Celsius.
Cream together:
300g butter
200g caster sugar
Beat in:
2 eggs
Mix in:
500g flour
2 tsp baking powder
Wrap in cling film and chill until ready to use.
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1kg agria potatoes, scrubbed
Par boil the potatoes for about 10 minutes, drain and allow to cool completely before peeling and grating.
tsp ground pepper
1 tsp salt
2 tsp wholegrain mustard
Mix in the seasoning with love and light using your finger tips. The mix will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. (The grated pieces should be quite loose, not a gluggy mess)
Heat 2 Tbsp oil in a 15cm black steel pan, add about 1 cups of potato mix and form into flatish cake with the back of a spatula. Add a little more oil. Cook over medium until browned underneath then flip (it's easy if you try with confidence). Add a little more oil and cook under side.
Meanwhile, cook some dry cured bacon (we use Pestells) and tomato.
Poach a couple of eggs to go on top. Flip the hash again so you get the shiny side up, arrange the bacon , tomato and eggs on top and serve with homemade tomato sauce. You will be the most loved person in your house.


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Popular Bourbon Steak in Aventura unveils new cocktail menu
It's hard to say no to celebrity chef Michael Mina's signature duck fat fries. They're truly everything you've ever wanted in a snack and many of Miami's most sophisticated diners flock to his restaurant to satisfy their cravings for the trio of flavors.
Now, there's a more compelling reason to make your way to Bourbon Steak. The brains behind the Mina Group's bar program are unveiling a new cocktail menu in Miami, which is a short list of rousing recipes incorporating fresh ingredients and new techniques from the ever-evolving world of cocktails.
Renowned mixologist Carlo Splendorini flew in from Michelin-starred Michael Mina in San Francisco to bring cutting-edge concepts from one of the country's most competitive cocktail scenes. Working closely with Peter Roca, Bourbon Steak's head bartender in Miami, the duo devised a list of eight new drinks including an outrageously unique pick-me-up called the "Japanese Whisky Ceremony."
Behind the scenes, fresh peach slices are marinated in homemade simple syrup with a couple of mint sprigs. The show moves tableside upon request when a bottle of 12-year-old Yamazaki whisky is presented along with the peaches, a Bordeaux glass, two-inch ice cubes and a butane torch. Guests are cautioned to keep their hands off the latter.
The server chars the peaches (a popular fruit among tops chefs across the country right now) for about 40 seconds and then places the glass over them to coat the interior with the aroma of the fruit. This lasts about a minute or until the server instinctually knows it's time to turn over the glass, drop in the ice cubes, pour the whisky, and serve to the thirsty guest.
The idea is for the gentle fragrances of peach and mint to waft over the nose as the whisky is sipped. At $24, this may seem like a pricey choice; however, the thoughtful ceremony makes it a must-try at the start of your meal.
Due to its acidity and tartness, the elegant "Gipsy" pairs nicely with the Ahi Tuna Tartare appetizer, which is also served tableside with ancho chile, bosc pear and sesame oil. The bosc pear is an extremely interesting variation of a classic pear. It has a crunchy yet tender texture as well as a sweet and spicy taste.
Another highlight on the new menu is the "El Burro Ardiente." Don't be mistaken, it's not the funny name that makes it stand out. This cocktail is serious. With mezcal, ruby port, fresh lime juice, agave nectar, ginger beer and a couple of dashes of Angostura bitters, the contrasting flavors work together to deliver a balanced complement to any aged cut of beef.
The new menu wouldn't be complete without a bourbon cocktail to fit the namesake. The "Bourbon Mule" is a refreshing take on the classic "Moscow Mule," a recipe that single-handedly made vodka popular in the early 1940s. Bourbon Steak's version incorporates bourbon, a peach liqueur (there it is again), homemade honey-basil syrup, fresh lemon juice and ginger beer in a Collins glass, which eliminates any risk of looking kitsch with a traditional copper mug in tow.
Grab a seat at the chic bar any night of the week from 5 to 8 p.m. for the restaurant's "Raise Your Spirits" happy hour, featuring several of the new cocktails at a discounted price ($9) for the month of October. Each drink comes with complimentary truffle popcorn, but we know you'll be too busy with your fries.
– Galena Mosovich is the lead writer for cocktail culture for Miami.com

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Under the heading "skullduggery," the Jesuit weekly, America, in its current issue dencunces editorially as "a last-minute dirty trick" and a "fraud" the efforts made by some Catholic circles to influence the prelates at the Ecumenical Council to vote down the Church declaration which was finally adopted and promulgated, absolving the Jews of the charge of killing Jesus and deploring anti-Semitism.
According to America, copies of a "crudely written pamphlet appeared mysteriously in St. Peter's Basilica" on the day the final vote had been scheduled on the declaration. The pamphlet called on the prelates not to vote for the declaration "because it would betray Christianity to the Jews."
The Jesuit weekly reports, however, that at least a half-dozen of the purported signatories to that appeal had not given permission for the use of their names. "To complete the travesty," states America, "it has now been discovered that three of the Italian organizations on the list do not even exist."


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BALTIMORE — All-Star LF Carl Crawford doesn't know when or even if there will be official talks about a contract extension with the Rays, but he seemed very clear on one thing Wednesday: that he "couldn't imagine" playing anywhere else.
"Most definitely, I would like to stay here with the Rays. This is the only organization I know. I don't know nothing different. It would be nice," Crawford said. "I'd hate to leave right when the getting is good. You've been around for all the bad stuff, you want to be around for the good part, too. And it looks like the good part is coming ahead."
The subject came up because the Rays had a Tuesday deadline to pick up Crawford's $8.25-million option for 2009; they also have a $10-million option for 2010, after which he can become a free agent. He said he hasn't talked to his agents about approaching the Rays, for now taking it year by year and waiting to see what happens.
"I honestly wasn't really thinking about an extension or nothing like that because in my mind it is so far away," Crawford said. "But I just couldn't imagine seeing myself being anywhere else though."
But if the Rays came to him? "Of course I'd want to listen," he said. "Everybody's getting extended these days it seems like. So I'd definitely listen."
Rays executive VP Andrew Friedman, while declining to discuss specifics, said the Rays "share that sentiment" and want to keep Crawford around for "a long time," and that as with other top young players "we'll do everything in our power to keep him in a Rays uniform as long as we can."
DUE PROCESS: Jonny Gomes' appeal of his two-game suspension was moved to Monday, meaning he'll remain eligible through the weekend in New York, with hope of at least getting one game dropped.
Yankees Shelley Duncan and Melky Cabrera, who were suspended three games each from the spring training incident, will have their hearings Monday, also.
DEPTH CHART: RHP Grant Balfour cleared waivers, and the Rays are waiting to see if he will accept an outright assignment to Triple-A Durham, where he would earn a decent $175,000.
KAZ "FEELS GREAT": Ace LHP Scott Kazmir had a second strong bullpen session at the minor-league complex in St. Petersburg, mixing in 10 change-ups with 35 fastballs in the 13-minute session.
"It just feels great," Kazmir said. "Arm feels live, feels like I'm getting good extension on the ball, and my mechanics are good. So I'm happy where I'm at."
Kazmir, sidelined since a Feb. 26 elbow strain, is scheduled to throw another bullpen session Saturday then advance to batting practice and extended spring/minor-league games, "shooting for" a late April return to the majors.
Top draft pick LHP David Price, sidelined since March 20 with a muscle strain in his elbow, "felt good" after playing catch Wednesday for the first time.
ZOBRIST DELAYED: INF Ben Zobrist's return is likely delayed until at least mid April after the latest exam showed his fractured left thumb remains unhealed.
MISCELLANY: Nathan Haynes started in rightfield as manager Joe Maddon wanted to see his newest player, and because Eric Hinske was 3-for-21 against Orioles starter Daniel Cabrera. & Four Rays minor-league teams open tonight, with Jeff Niemann starting for Triple-A Durham, Jake McGee for Double-A Montgomery, Heath Rollins for advanced Class A Vero Beach and Alex Cobb for Class A Columbus. & Tuesday's home opener is close to a sellout, with no plans to exceed the 34,000 capacity created by covering a portion of the upper deck.
Times staff writer Joe Smith contributed to this report.


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The Bridger Scouts have had an up
and down year so far this season.
Whether it was a win over the Absarokee
Huskies, or a close loss to Park
City. The Scouts have just been looking
for a set of games that can define their
season, and set them on the right path
before the district tournament.
On Friday, the Scouts took on the
step forward in their progression as a
team. The game started out as a dog
fight with neither team being able to
get any separation. The first quarter
ended with the Falcons holding on to a
slim 12-10 lead, and they would cling to
that lead going into the locker room at
halftime with a 21-20 lead. The third
quarter however would be the beginning
of a complete change in script.
The Scouts got their footing, and
really found their offensive mojo, going
on a 20-8 run, finishing the third quarter
leading 40-29. The Scouts weren't
done, they finished off the game keeping
their foot on the gas, and keeping
up the defensive intensity. The Scouts
would go on to win by the score of 61-35.
Scouts senior Tryston Matt led all
scorers with 18 points, while Miles
Guenthner paced the Falcons with 11
points of his own.
With the Scouts win over the Falcons,
it looked like they were starting to
find their stride, but would have a
major road block ahead on Saturday
when they would have to travel to Plenty
Coups to take on the Warriors. Anybody
familiar with Class C basketball
understands just how difficult it is to
win in Plenty Coups, no matter how
good the Warriors are in that particular
year. The Scouts got off to a terrific
start, managing the crowd, and keeping
the offensive pace with the Warriors.
The Scouts would finish the back
and forth first quarter trailing only
19-17. In the second quarter however,
the Scouts would get an edge, finding a
way to contain the Warriors all while
keeping up their scoring output. Going
on a 22-13 run, the Scouts would finish
off the half with a 39-32 lead. Basketball
however is a game of runs, and the
run the Warriors would go on in the
third quarter, would end up being the
Scouts' undoing.
The Warriors defense would amp up
their intensity, and hold the Scouts to
single digit scoring, while putting their
foot on the gas on the offensive end of
the floor. The Warriors would go into
the 4th quarter leading 54-46, and
wouldn't look back as they finished the
game winning by the score of 79-65.
Tryston Matt and Sam Pfiefer led the
Scouts with 19 points apiece, while
Trent Goldsberry added 18 points of
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There is something about those sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley that draw adventure seekers from around the world. Even the park's best known early resident, John Muir, couldn't resist. He writes of body-surfing an avalanche in his book 'The Yosemite'. Had the same thing happened today, Muir would certainly be prepared with a video camera to capture the whole thing on tape!
A video camera is standard equipment today for adventure seekers. Services like YouTube have taken the art of self-promotion (a.k.a. bragging) to a whole new level. Have a peek at these three videos all hosted on YouTube:
(Note: I have heard that YouTube and its videos are blocked by the Department of Interior firewall, so, sorry Park Service visitors, there's probably nothing to see here.)
#1 - Hang Gliding in Yosemite Valley -
Yes, this is legal! I talked with the Park Service today which said the sport is mostly self-regulated, but that there are some rules. Want details? Talk with the folks at the Yosemite Hang Gliding Association. A Yosemite spokesperson told me that she didn't see hang gliders that often in the park, she estimated 2 or 3 every couple of weeks. The views are pretty amazing from the vantage point of that glider. It's really something to look down on Yosemite Falls like that. Found via the Yosemite Blog.
#2 - Slacklining 3000 Feet Above the Valley Floor -
NOTE: There is some swearing in this video, more than a few "f" words come out of this guy's mouth as he attempts this high-wire act. I'd probably say the same things if I kept falling off that rope, time and time again like he does. The challenge of this activity is pretty obvious, not really something I think I'd ever dream of attempting.
#3 - Hiking Half Dome the Day of a Fatal Accident -
This video was shot June 16, 2007, the day that Hirofumi Nohara died on the mountain. Don't worry, there is no gory footage of the accident, but the camera does capture the park rescue helicopter arriving on the scene. Quite honestly, the most amazing part of this footage is to see all of the people on that rope-ladder. It is unreal. That many people on that steep pitch all hanging onto a single rope just does not look like a situation I'd be comfortable with. The experience of the video is so far removed from my expectation of a park visit, I'm not sure I'll ever make it to Half Dome. Found via the Yosemite Blog.
What's next? I'd love to see a video of a hang glider take off from Glacier Point, pick up a hiker from the top of Half Dome, and then drop them off on a slackline next to Yosemite Falls. Someone will do it, I'm sure.


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Short-Term Dependencies between the Volatility of Currency, Money and Capital Markets: The Case of Poland
The paper presents GARCH models for the Euro-Polish zloty and US dollar-Polish zloty currency rates. It applies the approach within which both the conditional variance function and the mean equation of the ARCH class model are expanded simultaneously. The basic regression equation incorporates causal dependencies between currency prices and the main characteristics of domestic and international currency, money and capital markets. The paper provides an insight into the currency market microstructure as the presented investigation takes into account the intradaily features of the market. Model selection and performance has been evaluated by the use of direction quality measures.
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The Random class defined in the .NET Framework class library provides functionality to generate random numbers. The Random class constructors have two overloaded forms. It takes either no value or it takes a seed value.The Random class has three public methods - Next, NextBytes, and NextDouble. The Next method returns a random number, NextBytes returns an array of bytes filled with random numbers, and NextDouble returns a random number between 0.0 and 1.0. The Next method has three overloaded forms and allows you to set the minimum and maximum range of the random number.The following code returns a random number: int num = random.Next();The following code returns a random number less than 1000.
At some point, you may also want to generate random strings. I have created a method, which takes first parameter as the size of string and second parameter if you want the string to be lowercase.
You can even combine the two methods - RandomNumber and RandomString to generate a combination of random string and numbers. For example, the following code generates a password of length 10 with first 4 letters lowercase, next 4 letters numbers, and last 2 letters as uppercase.public string GetPassword(){StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();builder.Append(RandomString(4, true));builder.Append(RandomNumber(1000, 9999));builder.Append(RandomString(2, false));return builder.ToString();}
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The nation's largest banks took it on the chin following the release of the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's meeting on July 30 and 31. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
was down 0.7%, while the S&P 500 ( SPX.X) was down 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite ended with a decline of 0.4%. The KBW Bank Index ( I:BKX) was down 1% to close at 64.07, with all 24 index components showing declines, except for Cullen/Frost Bankers ( CFR) of San Antonio, which was up 1% to close at $73.65, and Bank of America ( BAC), which was up a nickel to close at $14.34. Investors were focused on the release of the minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. When the FOMC issued its last statement on July 31, there was no change in policy and the language of the statement was nearly identical to the previous one. The Federal Reserve has kept the short-term federal funds rate in a range of zero to 0.25% since late 2008, and the FOMC has repeatedly said this "highly accommodative" policy was likely to remain appropriate at least until the U.S. unemployment rate dropped below 6.5%. The July unemployment rate was 7.4%, improving from 7.6% in June. A more immediate concern for investors is the expected tapering of the Fed's monthly purchases of $40 billion in long-term agency mortgage-backed securities and $45 billion in long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, which has been going on since last September. The market has looked ahead to the expected rise in long-term interest rates that will be brought about by a limiting of Fed expansion, by pushing the market yield on 10-year Treasury bonds to 2.88% from 1.70% at the end of April. According to the FOMC minutes released at 2:00 p.m. ET, committee members "generally continued to anticipate that the growth of real GDP would pick up somewhat in the second half of 2013 and strengthen further thereafter." That would tend to support tapering of Fed bond purchasing by the end of the year. Then again, "A number of participants indicated, however, that they were somewhat less confident about a near-term pickup in economic growth than they had been in June; factors cited in this regard included recent increases in mortgage rates, higher oil prices, slow growth in key U.S. export markets and the possibility that fiscal restraint might not lessen."
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DE training teaches the core philosophy of cooperation and collaboration that built credit unions over the past 100 years. DE defines social responsibility in credit unions' mission to serve the underserved. DE underscores credit unions' mission of service to members.
We need the DE philosophy more now than ever. In these tough economic times, we have a tendency to close in on ourselves and worry about our own business-how we can survive instead of looking at the opportunities to increase membership and help members understand the value of saving for the rainy day.
Some may say I drank the Kool-Aid. To those I say passion for the core values of the movement and learning how to improve on a proven success story requires commitment. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
I believe DE training should be required for any executive employed by a credit union. Send the Gen Y staffer, and credit unions will build their future from within. Every former banker hired by a credit union should attend before permitted to speak with one member. I am proud to say several Credit Union Times staffers will be joining the DE ranks in 2010. One of our independent sales executives, John Wiley, paid his own way!
Scott McKain, keynote at the recent NAFCU Annual Conference, talked about a high concept statement that explains a business' value to their prospects and clients. This is not a mission statement, but it outlines the business in a short, powerful and compelling way that creates immediate understanding. For example, "You're in good hands with ___________." I bet you all fill in the blank correctly.
The high concept statement for credit unions is "people helping people." Does it get any better than that?
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Archinect - News 2017-09-23T23:12:20-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/82702681/revealed-qatar-s-world-cup-slaves-to-build-infrastructure Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' to Build Infrastructure Quilian Riano 2013-09-26T13:08:00-04:00 >2013-09-29T09:43:49-04:00
"We'd like to leave, but the company won't let us,"

 "We'd like to leave, but the company won't let us," said one Nepalese migrant employed at Lusail City development, a $45bn (£28bn) city being built from scratch which will include the 90,000-seater stadium that will host the World Cup final. "I'm angry about how this company is treating us, but we're helpless. I regret coming here, but what to do? We were compelled to come just to make a living, but we've had no luck."

 The body tasked with organising the World Cup, the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, told the Guardian that work had yet to begin on projects directly related to the World Cup. However, it said it was "deeply concerned with the allegations that have been made against certain contractors/sub-contractors working on Lusail City's construction site and considers this issue to be of the utmost seriousness". It added: "We have been informed that the relevant government authorities are conducting an investigation into the allegations."


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Hi PlayStation fans, we have some exciting news to share with you today! The popular creature hunting franchise, Invizimals, is returning to PlayStation this year in the Americas. The franchise began as a series of innovative PSP titles in which players hunted down and battled elusive Invizimals using the PSP camera. Today, we're happy to confirm that Invizimals: The Alliance and Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom will be coming to PS Vita and PS3 (respectively) later this year.
Got your PS Vita ordered but need a mobile gaming fix right now in time for the holiday? Experience a unique mobile game that delivers a dose of addictive augmented reality, allowing you to explore and interact in a real-world environment. Grab your PSP and get ready to hunt and collect secret creatures in the world around you.
Available beginning today for $39.99, inviZimals: Shadow Zone opens up a secret world around you that is full of hidden creatures that only your PSP can see. There are over 100 inviZimals to search for to build out your collection. Once you start collecting them, you can battle other opponents online or make trades with your friends to get those really hard-to-find creatures!
I am excited to announce that Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest has indeed "gone gold" and is ready to ship to stores on November 15th!
Soon after completing Sports Champions for the PS3, our team was hard at work on this exciting new project. Taking what we had learned from creating a "best in breed" motion control game, we further refined the controls for this fun action-adventure game specifically designed for the PlayStation Move.
Story Mode – The evil Sorcerer Morgrimm has invaded Prince Edmund's Castle and plots to take over the kingdom, raising an army of skeletons from beyond. Now, let the adventure begin as you battle Morgrimm, and his minions, to restore order to the kingdom!
Emerson here with some great news for all you inviZimals fans out there. inviZimals: Shadow Zone is coming to North America!
The story picks up several months after the events of the first inviZimals game and features new, deeper and more involved captures with over 100 new inviZimals to hunt and battle with. You can also team up with a friend for co-op captures using AdHoc or Infrastructure connectivity. You can even modify and share your inviZimals by changing their names, colors and choose from a greater range of attack moves. The game will also feature a full blown rank and prestige system as well as you being able to travel to new exotic locations as you investigate how inviZimals shaped ancient mythology.
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Do the Jane Fonda
When women tell their truth, says Jane Fonda, everything changes.
She is sitting on a sofa in a room on the 15th floor of the Four Seasons Hotel, wearing a soft black suit with elegantly curved lines. She is noticeably, admittedly tired, having arrived from Atlanta after midnight without any clothes or shoes but for the ones shes wearing, because the airline lost her luggage. She has done a day of interviews, no doubt with journalists eager to hear her dish about her showdowns on the set with the allegedly incorrigible Lindsay Lohan, her co-star, along with Felicity Huffman, in the new Garry Marshall film Georgia Rule. She sits straight as bamboo.
And in case youre wondering, shes thrilled to hear about the Mickey Avalon song Jane Fonda, no matter how raunchy it is.
Im so happy! she says. You know that Bob Seger song, Her Strut? About how shes controversial, but they love to watch her strut? And her butt? I was listening to an interview with him years after the song came out, and he admitted that I was the inspiration for it. It made me so happy.
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At the age of 69, there are scores of lines around Fondas luminous blue eyes, but none on her delicately rouged cheeks. Her face is startling to look at, not simply because its so familiar and beautiful, but also because the expression on it is so raw. Before she answers a question, she inhales deeply and pauses, looks out the window at Los Angeles stretching into the hills, and searches for an answer. She is not making anything up.
Her candor is unexpected; her vulnerability, almost jarring. When I ask her what she does to stay in shape these days despite a hip replacement last year, she looks marvelously fit she mumbles something about weights and wanting to get back to yoga (she likes Bikram) and then suddenly brightens.
And sex! she says. Lots of sex. That helps.
She doesnt offer a name, but there are unconfirmed reports that after the book tour for her autobiography, My Life So Far, during which a Kansas City man hawked a tobacco-laced loogie in her eye, there was another book tour, on which another man, in Texas, set his copy of her book in front of her, and asked her to skip the dedication.
Just write your phone number in it, he said. She did, the story goes, and the two have been dating and evidently having mind-blowing sex ever since.
Whether that story is true or not, Fonda is so inspired these days that now she wants to write an erotic story about a woman in her 70s, with the hope that someone will turn it into a screenplay.
Sex, she attests, gets better as you get older. It does.
In Georgia Rule, Fonda plays Georgia, a Mormon grandmother who forces soap into the mouths of anyone who uses the Lords name in vain, and insists meals be eaten when theyre served. When her unruly granddaughter (played by Lohan) hints that she may have been sexually abused by her stepfather, its Georgia who looks past her granddaughters antics to divine the truth, even as her daughter, the girls mother (Huffman), stays in denial.
I see this woman, Georgia, as a person who lives with the pain of a dysfunctional family, says Fonda. Shes lonely and shes sad, and theres a lot of things she cant explain, like how come her daughter hasnt been to see her for 13 years, and why the last time she saw her granddaughter, the little girl was 5.
The way she deals with the pain, she continues, is to have rules. It gives her parameters. It gives structure and foundation to her life. It also allows her granddaughter to heal and mend, says Fonda, who confessed in her autobiography that all through her brutal marriage to French film director Roger Vadim, she insisted on keeping a surpassingly tidy house.
We need structure, she says. And in the face of chaos, its good to have rules. Fonda herself is a Christian, albeit not a dogmatic one (she claims the best bumper sticker she ever saw said Eve Got a Bum Rap), and one who prefers the more socially liberal Gnostic Gospels to the uptight reports of the purported disciples. She is also a person who craves boundaries.
My characters a little anal about it, but I understand very well where shes coming from, she says. It was easy for me to play her.
As a story about the disruptive antics of a troubled teenager, Georgia Rule also fits into Fondas work to reduce teen pregnancy in Georgia, where shes lived since she married (and, in 2001, divorced) Ted Turner. Sixty percent of the girls getting pregnant have been abused, says Fonda, who in 1995 founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). And because the message thats sent with abuse is that nothing matters except your sexuality, they tend to become promiscuous much like Lohans character, whom one man in the small Idaho town where the movie takes place describes as dangerous.
Ive studied the hearts and minds and souls of girls and boys who have been sexually abused for years, says Fonda. And this movie is very well rendered. Its very, very real.
Fonda has admitted that she wrote My Life So Far not because her life was so extraordinary, but to show that, despite her fabled family origins, she suffered like the rest of us. The childhood captured so idyllically in magazines was dominated by the suicide of her mother, Frances Seymour, when Fonda was 12. In her adolescent years, her father Henrys ideal of perfection hounded her so relentlessly that she downed large quantities of ice cream and pastries and secretly hurled it all before it took up residence in her body as fat. All three of her husbands cheated on her, and she has incurred the wrath of everyone from French auteur Jean-Luc Godard to the U.S. Department of State.
Sadness tailed her even at her most successful: When she learned she had been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her 1971 performance in Klute, she was still drifting around Los Angeles, recovering from her split with Vadim by sleeping on friends couches. Her father lent her $40,000 so she could find a place to live with her daughter, Vanessa (now 39, a mother of two, and a producer and cinematographer). At 51, while married to politician Tom Hayden, with whom she had a son, Troy Garity (now 33 and an actor), she got breast implants because she feared men would cease to love her if her beauty faded.
You know within a minute of meeting her that she has not exaggerated any of the stories about her battered self-esteem. She does not front. She wears the canned rap of film-junket interviews uneasily. But she talks politics with gusto.
What we have [in the administration] today, she opines with more energy than anything that has come before, is a bunch of male leaders who say, Come and get em, dead or alive! And theyre so afraid of premature evacuation, because theyre afraid it will threaten their manhood.
Theyre almost a caricature of patriarchy, she adds. Its sort of like a flailing beast, scrambling for cover. And like any beast, its most dangerous when its wounded.
Still, its G-CAPP, not Capitol Hill, that occupies the bulk of her activist passions, and the May 7 premiere of Georgia Rule in Atlanta will be a benefit for the nonprofit. She also keeps a hand in the Womens Media Center, which she helped found with feminist author and activist Gloria Steinem. She looks forward to a day when women will run the world or, if not women, then at least thoughtful and compassionate men.
It may be that a feminist, progressive man would do better in the White House than a ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt and a vagina, she allows, acknowledging that Hillary Clintons stance on the war has so far been disappointing. Women sometimes bend the wrong way just to prove themselves to men, she says, talking like someone who knows. But when we learn to listen to ourselves . . . She gazes out the window, gathering her thoughts. That will be revolutionary.
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This is a quote I picked up from a CPA written article; âWe don't help our clients or prospects when we wait for them to come to us with problems. Often they don't seek help because every time they talk to us we are so busy. The worse case scenario is that your client doesn't know you want to help them so they go to someone else.â
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A past president of the NYCPA Society and Managing Partner of a thriving Long Island CPA firm says: âI talk to, and/or see, my mail referral sources every two weeks. Less frequent contact decays the relationship and lowers the amount of quality referrals. Of course, most CPAs believe they are âtoo busy' for this much contact with a select group of five to ten people, and that is why this business is so easy. That three-minute phone call, or that lunch or breakfast - just to chat and nurture the relationship â can result in a 6-figure client.Most of our peers won't do that, so they leave the best client opportunities to people like me. Selling against accountants is the easiest sale in the world because most don't understand the referral relationship process and won't invest in their skills to get better at it.â (Try this: Call up a client or a referral and say; âJim! Hi! It's Debra Smith - How are you? I've been looking through my calendar and I was embarrassed to realize that you're one person I do not want to lose contact with. We haven't seen each other in a while. Are you available for lunch?â)
This is a quote I received from a CPA who councils other CPAs in expanding their business platforms when I asked him why it is hard to form prosperous strategic alliances with CPAs; âSelling through and with CPAs is a difficult trek. So many people want to go down that path and find out later it was a wasteland. Above all else you have to realize that CPAs are risk-averse, greedy and many simply don't care much about their clients' financial well-being beyond paying their fees. We are not trained to care or share.â
These three quotes articulate some of the problems advanced planning insurance brokers run into all the time when we meet new prospects. What I mean by problems is that insurance broker's are in a constant and active state of business development through our use of referrals, advisor relationships and even direct mail. So when I meet a business client and see that they do not have a pension plan or they are in the absolute worst type of plan for their income range, I know that their CPA is not doing a good job. Imagine, the CPA is the tax deductible specialist and they are overwhelmingly under advising their clients when it comes to maximizing tax efficient savings coupled with larger tax deductions.
The root of the problem is threefold;
- The inability of CPAs to form strategic alliances with advanced planning insurance brokers and investment advisors to create a prosperous team approach to wealth management.
- The inability of financial planners to have the conversations with CPAs that are relevant and consultative rather than transactional and sales oriented.
- The lack of networking experience or desire on the part of CPA.
Now read these quote; âProviding insurance products and other investment advisory services to clients is an attractive avenue to growth for many CPA firms. The key to minimizing risk and maximizing client satisfaction and the firm's financial returns is thoughtful, informed preparation.â
And this quote; âCPA firms that specialize in personal financial planning say two important reasons to sell investment products, including insurance, are being able to tailor planning implementation to individual clients' needs and, of course, revenue growth. Clients like being able to conveniently obtain advisory services, products and administration in one place, and they stay with firms that provide easy access to them. The firm benefits because financial planning products can potentially provide large fees.â
And lastly; âOver the last decade 20% of the top 100 accounting firms have partnered to create financial service organizations and 20% of Maryland CPAs sell some type of financial product. Development of wealth management platforms inside of CPA firms is the future of the profession.â
About Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater is the Principal of the Financial Resource Group and a 20-year veteran of the insurance industry. He focuses not only on working with the business and affluent clients of CPA's and attorneys, but also in helping CPA's form and develop a business model to include financial services. His expertise lies with using insurance and tax deductible solutions and their applications in the areas of Business Planning, Pensions, Retirement Protection Planning and Wealth Transfer Planning. He is an insurance specialist who is a member of the Bisys Exceptional Producer Group, the New York and Boston Chapters of the Estate Planning Council and he currently sits on the board of the Society of Financial Service Professionals. He can be reached at 617-527-9736 or [email protected]. His web site is http://www.frg-creative.com.
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One of the most popular manga series in Japan today makes its U.S. debut with The Flowers of Evil, Volume 1. In this romantic comedy featuring a teenage boy obsessed with a beautiful classmate—and with the poetry of Beaudelaire—award-winning, best-selling author Shuzo Oshimi pens a coming-of-age tale that will appeal to girls and guys alike.
The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.
As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new "BFF."
Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.


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The Power of Ah + Aha.
Ah feels good and it certainly beats Ouch!
Powerful and evocative writing, the kind that reaches out and grabs you by the heart, starts with that "Ah!" of recognition. It's that delicious moment when one soul reaches across time and space to another and tells a truth that is as familiar as one's own face in the mirror.
But great writing doesn't stop there. Ahs of recognition feel good, but if that's all that's on offer, they move rather quickly to "and . . .?"
An Ah without an Aha—"Don't like the weather? Just wait 15 minutes and it'll change!"—is just a cliche. It takes your unique spin on the familiar, the Aha, to transform the Ah into a new thought, a fresh idea, something magical. Something, in other words, that illuminates, that teaches, that matters.
As a onetime comedy writer, the best example of this that comes to mind is an ancient episode of Cheers, in which nerdy postman Cliff Claven decides to become a stand-up comic. This was in the heyday of observational comedy (think Jerry Seinfeld, and the "didja ever notice….." style of humor). Claven got the first half of the equation—the Ah—but wasn't funny enough or creative enough to deliver the Aha:
Cliff: You know how some people put the toilet paper on the roll so it's hanging over and some so it's hanging under? What's up with that?
The overused toilet paper observation isn't actually the problem. It's the fact that there's no punchline, no twist, there's nothing unique or new added to the cliché. Yeah, we've got the Ah of recognition, but without the Aha, it just becomes a So What.
Observe instead the master of the comic Aha, Steven Wright. In Wright's capable hands, the Ah of the familiar is turned upside down by a surreal and hysterical blast of Aha:
Wright: I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time.
A great comedian takes something familiar, an Ah of a something we've seen or thought hundreds of times, and surprises us with an Aha we hadn't considered.
A great writer does the same.
Your readers—whether they follow you on your blog, open your emails, or read your interoffice memos, your letters or your books—crave the Ah and it's crucial that you create that connection with them. But what keeps them reading are the Ahas, those spins on the familiar that only you, with your unique point of view, can provide.
Ahas are created by viewing the world with new eyes. That's one of the reasons why children are also masters of the Aha, because nothing is familiar or clichéd to them—they see everything fresh and new.
My son, upon biting into his first cherry tomato, burst into tears and wailed that it had "kachooed" on him, because being sneezed upon was his closest experience to date of having tomato goo all over his face. (Would you have thought to write that a tomato had sneezed on you? I wouldn't have. And yet, in that brief experience, we have the Ah and the Aha cradled beautifully together—a familiar sensation coupled with a unique and unexpected observational twist.)
If you're having trouble finding Ahas to go with your Ahs, try seeing your world through fresh eyes. Better yet, hang out with a very young person and catch a little of their Aha energy.
But without bringing something new to the party, you're connecting without a spark and that connection is likely to be short-lived.
Find the Ahas that arise organically from your Ahs. Because that, my friend, is pure writing magic.
Maggie McReynolds is an award-winning writer, writing coach, and certified life coach. Through her WriteWorks programs she ghost writes, edits and helps established, stuck and new writers find their authentic voice, craft compelling blogs, newsletters, novels and nonfiction for their readers, get past blocks, and create joyful writing routines. As a life coach, she works similarly: helping people find their authentic "voice" in the world and break through transitions and obstacles to create lives of meaning, fulfillment, and joy. Her $67/month Kick Ass Club offers affordable, powerful results.
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There were two themes about the players the Raiders chose in this draft. The first was speed and the other was Raider ties. It is not all that hard to pinpoint the Raider draft picks when you consider that Al Davis prizes those two things above all else.
The first pick of the day for the Raiders was Stefen Wisniewski who has the obvious distinction of being the nephew of legendary Raider left guard and current Raider offensive line coach, Steve Wisniewski. Prior to the draft, he said all the appropriate things about not being partial to playing for the Raiders, but now that he is wearing that shield, he opened up.
"I grew up wearing silver and black," said Stefen. "If you would have asked me what my favorite color was when I was younger, I would have said silver and black were my favorite colors. I got pictures of me as a baby wearing Oakland stuff, with my uncle holding me… But, yeah, shoot, I grew up and my favorite players were my uncle, Tim Brown, Napoleon Kaufman, Rich Gannon and all those guys. It just feels right that I'm wearing silver and black now as a player."
The Raiders chose Wisniewski with their top pick in round two to play center and then they nabbed LSU tackle Joseph Barksdale in the bottom of the third round. Barksdale is originally from Detroit before signing on to play for the Tigers but as he tells it, his father was quite the Raider fan and even went as far as to say his dad said "I pray to God [the Raiders] pick you."
The new Raider olineman was beaming while standing with his new head coach Hue Jackson and three of his new rookie teammates on the final day of the draft. Any rookie would be excited to be an NFL player and it seemed clear to me that there was a little something more to it for Barksdale.
"I'm really excited to be an Oakland Raider," said Barksdale. "I know it sounds simple but my father used to talk about the Raiders all the time. Back when Jim Otto, Tatum and those guys were here. He's been a Raiders fan for the longest. And when I got drafted to the Raiders he told me you're about to be a part of something big.
The Raiders next pick after Barksdale was speedy Division ii phenom running back, Taiwan Jones. He is originally from the Bay Area city of Antioch and attended Deer Valley High School there. He attended Eastern Washington due to the fact that he has a learning disability as well as dyslexia. But his talent is obvious when you turn on the tape and his 4.27 40 yard dash at his pro day would have put him atop this year's class. Local guy with speed to burn? He is a shoe in as a Raider. And it would almost be assumed that being from the east bay, he would be a Raider fan as well.
But when asked if becoming a Raider was his dream scenario, he dodged the question by being non-commital. He said just that, "this is a home team for me." When pressed further on the issue, he said simply that "when I started this journey I said I'm looking for my next NFL family."
So Raider ties be damned with that kind of elite speed.
The rest of the Raider picks were track stars.
Third round pick CB DeMarcus Van Dyke was the fastest player overall at the 2011 combine—running a 4.28 forty yard dash.
Round four pick CB Chimdi Chekwa's 4.40 forty was tied for third best at the combine.
Tennessee wideout Denarius Moore, who the Raider took in round five, ran a 4.39 forty at his pro day.
Even the big blocking tight end, Richard Gordon, they took in round six ran on the 4×100 relay team in high school. And despite being a stout 6-4, 265 pounds, he runs a 4.6 forty yard dash.
Round seven pick, David Ausberry, who is projected as a tight end, has speed in his blood as his cousin Tommie Smith won an Olympic gold medal in the 200 meter dash in 1968.
There is no doubt that the Raiders got the players they wanted. And amongst them are some fine picks as well as solid play. And it just goes to show you that the longstanding value put on speed and Raider loyalty are still alive and well in Oakland.
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Leslie Alexis
Journey In Love (Sonnet Redouble) - Poem by Leslie Alexis
To give the reasons why I love - the cause...
Kiss; when you come, I'll tell you in a kiss
That makes two fools relish its every pause,
For when we kiss our love alone exists;
All vines upon your love's golden rail
Though many, never they her love, eclipse
And thus to you I set my every sail.
To me, with love, the stars are close as fireflies
And all I want is to look in your eyes.
Those eyes, they tell the secrets of the heart
I find your heart to be the treasured part
For when we kiss, ten are stored in the heart.
It good to know that I have your heart.
You are my happy place- our love to blame.
My love, I'm back to looking at the moon
By night and sun who comforts by the day
To speed their spin and bring your kisses' boon
To fill my life with your sweet sweet array
My love, my joy, my everything: my woman
I look at every clock on every wall
I hear the ticking tocks as they began
I number every sand upon its fall
And turn the glass before the store's unfilled
With hopes that sun and moon would play along
And bring you back, but utterly fulfilled;
I want you back, but with a happy song,
Then I'd be glad and wish for time to pause
To give the reasons why I love - the cause
Because… I love you wife of mine because…
Love, I've seen love before none like your love.
Guffaws: When heart hears your name, it guffaws.
Above: our love was birth from up above.
Kind: I'm so flawed I need a lover kind.
True: Like the day and night, our love is true.
Find: time if searched ten times I'd never find
You… just because there are no other you.
Yes. Will I love you…? yes! Forever, yes!
No maybes, no leaving and no heartbreak, no!
Confess: My sweet, I love you I confess.
Plateau: I will stand in you, my plateau.
Miss, God knows how I miss you lovely Miss
Kiss: When you come, I'll tell you in a kiss.
A wind from northern trees brought you to me
You came from heaven like the Northern Lights
To fill my life with inestimable glee
And beautiful you make my days and nights.
Today I live within your place of charm
(Between my Lord and thee I'll always smile)
The wall are down, the weapons all disarmed
And I'm prepared to walk the longest mile
The bumps and stumps and lumps we dump and trump
Together, by the rules which are of love
And not because we're weak or that we're chumps
But strong: because we've found a love undreamed of,
Our love that makes invisible our flaws
And makes two fools relish its every pause.
We were entranced between the gaps of breath
Where the eternal souls meet in the sky
And in the moment we both chose to die
And never have we seen or felt regret
That we could not best with a little sweat
Our truth is strong enough to take a lie
And ardent prayer lets God become an ally
(We fit within his perfect silhouette.)
We died to live - removing I for us
And when sun shines we wish it shines for two
And nothing under skies can best this bliss
You're mine... I'm yours? We are our universe;
Such sweet sensation words just can't construe
For when we kiss, our love alone exists.
The sun becomes like candlelight to me
The moon and stars become but dying flames
Your emerald eyes are all that I could see
To gain this state in thee I set my aim
Up high, that I would never see the shame.
I find my best not in the flowers bloom
Nor bird's soft croak- they have not my acclaim -
But in your kiss, without it all is gloom;
A flowerpot is just a gorgeous tomb
That holds a flower positioned to fall
Upon its descent from the seedy womb;
Your love is perfect and provides it all.
The flower - good in thee but to thee-frail
All vines upon your love's golden rail.
And if it were to take form like a stone
It would be bold and stand out like the sun
The night and all its errands are unknown
As through your love, its duties stay undone.
In love the lord dispenses but a few
That love with love so lovely that it's done,
Complete in merit, many virtues imbue
And spill to me, but none as sweet as kiss:
It shakes the heart and head as it accrues
And leaves me foolish pond'ring about this:
'How do the flowers steal from nectar lips? '
Such sweet, that I, nor they, nor me resists.
And lovers near and far should learn the scripts;
Though many, never they your love, eclipse.
For what eclipses the unfastened sky?
My love, your love is like the uncapped sky
Its only limit is my human eye
That sees just what is found upon the surface
And though it glitters like the ocean's skin
It is no match for the treasures within,
But is enough, and to ignore is sin
Much worse than murder or at least the same
For two hearts die, not to become but one,
But die, becoming ugly in the sun;
two fools who never love's merits did learn;
The worst of fools. The worst of fool. The worst.
Without you, every song becomes a wail
And thus to you I set my every sail.
My love, I wish to tame infinity's might
All stars and all their light, so I can write
Your name up in the heavens mighty sea
That love would last for all eternity
And with the glow I would compose a sign
That says 'I love YOU, always, please, be mine.'
I'd move, but armed with zeal and light-years sway
And set my heart that it repeats each day.
As light sojourns, and goes as he so feels,
The world will know I fell head over heals
With a girl whom more than days I did love
And sought to love with love ne'er spoken of
By sages kept by logics blinded eyes;
To me, with love, the stars are close as fireflies.
It's true, my universe lies where my arms
Embrace, my Love; that is when you are there,
And when you're not my soul sets off alarms:
The moment is too much for heart to bear.
Yet life is such that times we are away
In route to work, to school, sometimes to play,
Then seconds are minutes, minutes are days
and days are years of ever-lengthening pain,
That find me sitting in a mindless gaze:
A desert soul in wait of precious rain,
A hungry plant in wait of rising sun
(A lover waiting for his love's return)
And when you come it's always like 'SURPRISE! '
And all I want is to look in your eyes.
To see the look that says I am your one,
Though time supposes otherwise the case.
My Love, lets meet and make our love true.
I know you're eager to extend your charms,
that will save me from my imagination:
Invented iambs are my 'lone existence
they let me escape and save me from waning.
My love your kiss is still as mythical
As unicorns, who soar on golden wings.
You have lips as soft as your lips are soft,
But until picked, and touched, who says a painter
Whose art can walk off pages, as on screen,
Did not create you with the highest pixels?
Those eyes, they tell the secrets of the heart.
The heart, it tells the kiss would be of bliss,
Such bliss that comes from only lively lips
Yet if you were a painting, with its tips,
It might explain such perfection as this…
As you, and give the proof for my parti pris:
The artist with his brush removed flawed strips
And with time made you as per manuscripts
And when it came to thought he di'n resist
And for your heart he took piece of his own
That shone and fit it space with such ease that
No more did he make hearts from grinded stone,
But even with his skill- he mastered art,
No heart is found like yours, no, none is known.
I find your heart to be the treasured part.
The unsaid 'I-love-yous' haunt my dreams
And when I wake I think I love you so…
Until the words are said existence seems
A mockery of what the heart does know.
A blade of grass to trees as Jack did sow.
Such is the distance of before and after
But only one has treasures with the glow
Of gold, and only one will bring us laughter.
Together we will trample every monster:
Distance, the longings time alone can fill,
The shrubs that counterfeit but are disaster
And never - even ten- can pay love's bill.
We shall take the tests and ace every part
For when we kiss, ten are stored in the heart.
My love, we kissed and woke the sun
That when she shone, she shone on both of we;
In blissful breath time stalled to see.
Our dreams we surpassed -longings we outdone.
In moments of delight our love confirmed.
Your lips 'gainst mine we peeked eternity
And never have we been so caged but free
As then, and in our breath, we sought return.
My lips, your lips were destined to unite…
Much like the sun goes from the east to west,
Or like the bull's-eye hit by the rare dart
Or like two gases burn, so love ignites
And makes us one. In love we're truly blessed.
It good to know that I have your heart.
Yet it's the same that troubles in goodbyes.
I kissed and left because that is times way.
My inside crumbled when I saw your eyes:
Sweet butterfly kisses having their wings stayed
By Love's tears numbs every heart today
And until kisses are increased again
It stays...I miss you Love, your every sway.
This yearning cannot be conveyed by pens
Sweet cadence even if all poems written
Sought to express this very feeling now,
For it resounds like sonic blast and then..
Is mellow as an angel's harp...somehow...
To start I longed for you, to end, the same;
You are my happy place- our love to blame.
Copyright © 2010 Leslie Alexis
Comments about Journey In Love (Sonnet Redouble) by Leslie Alexis
Dennis Weston (11/21/2011 6:51:00 PM)
Brittany Cook (11/11/2011 11:58:00 AM)
I love it and i will accept it as a great poem that I my self have never set my eyes on before in my lifetime. (Report) Reply
Dave Walker (11/4/2011 9:21:00 AM)
A really really good poem. One of the best i've read.
A really fantastic write. (Report) Reply
Crimson Love (11/3/2011 12:23:00 PM)
This is a very long poem, yet you were able to keep me captivated the entire time, truly beautiful, your words have a certain eloquence to them, beautiful work, keep it up! (Report) Reply
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism ) takes the pulse of the nation poised to become, by virtue of its scale and staggering rate of growth, the biggest market in the world. Jacques points to the decline of American hegemony and outlines specific elements of China's rising global power and how these are likely to influence international relations in the future. He imagines a world where China's distinct brand of modernity, rooted firmly in its ancient culture and traditions, will have a profound influence on attitudes toward work, family and even politics that will become a counterbalance to and eventually reverse the one-way flow of Westernization. He suggests that while China's economic prosperity may not necessarily translate into democracy, China's increased self-confidence is allowing it to project its political and cultural identity ever more widely as time goes on. As comprehensive as it is compelling, this brilliant book is crucial reading for anyone interested in understanding where the we are and where we are going. (Nov.)
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Presidential Candidates Use Web to Boost Campaigns
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, how presidential candidates are using the Web to reach voters. Jeffrey Brown has this Campaign '08 Media Unit story.
JEFFREY BROWN: Many months before the first presidential primary, candidates are doing what they've long done: pressing the flesh, working the phones, making the rounds of TV talk shows.
But more and more, the campaign is being waged in cyberspace, as candidates incorporate technology to gain advantage and try to learn from recent elections. These days, the campaign means live video of events online, opportunities to join up and talk back in social networking sites, podcasts of speeches, cell phone updates of the latest developments, and more.
FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R), Massachusetts: Hi, I've got great news. We're already more than halfway to our goal.
JEFFREY BROWN: To one degree or another, every candidate is embracing technology. One, Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, let us watch his effort recently at his Boston headquarters. At this event, called "Sign Up for America," Romney celebrated progress towards acquiring over 30,000 new supporters in 24 hours…
CALL CENTER VOLUNTEER: You can volunteer or make a contribution.
JEFFREY BROWN: … 60 percent of those via the internet.
MITT ROMNEY: This is a political rally. This is a 21st-century political rally. See, in the past, when they had political rallies, they came together on the town green and, you know, you got as big a crowd as you could get. And we decided to take it into the 21st century. And instead of just having it in a town, we'd have it in the entire country.
JEFFREY BROWN: Candidates have signed up online specialists, a new and mostly quite young breed of political operative. Stephen Smith , 25, is Romney's director of online communications.
STEPHEN SMITH, Romney for President: We don't want to do something online just because it builds buzz. I mean, buzz is nice, but we're doing things online for the same reason that we do things offline. It's to raise money, to spread the governor's message, and to ultimately mobilize votes in the early primary states and then across America.
Use of blogs, online video
JEFFREY BROWN: So far, Romney and other Republicans trail the leading Democrats -- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards -- in the online battle, measured by Web site visits, funds raised, and presence on social networking sites like MySpace. But the Romney campaign clearly sees the Internet as an important tool to help introduce its candidate, who's less-known nationally than some others in the race.
To that end, the site features a "Five Brothers' Blog," written primarily by Romney's five sons. The candidate's wife, Ann Romney, also posts personal impressions. Romney's page on MySpace, the popular Internet site where people create their own profiles, has a slide show of the campaign. Romney has more than 20,000 friends on MySpace and was also the first Republican candidate to be on Facebook, which is frequented by millions of young people.
On YouTube, where users share their own videos and watch others, the governor's team has posted 140 videos, which have been viewed some 900,000 times.
MITT ROMNEY: Consider this an open forum, and please post a video...
JEFFREY BROWN: More than 70 users have responded with their own videos so far.
VIDEO HOST: Mindy, how are we doing?
MINDY FINN, Romney Director of E-Strategy: We're doing great. We got call centers in 21 states across the nation.
JEFFREY BROWN: Mindy Finn, Romney's director of e-strategy, is 26 and already a veteran of the 2004 Bush campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the Santorum for Senate campaign.
MINDY FINN: We connect people who have like-minded attributes. It allows you to put people together who may not have joined together otherwise, because they wouldn't know that they have similar interests. I call it a hypermedia campaign, where multiple mediums are really working together to project the message, and certainly we want to engage with all of them.
JEFFREY BROWN: One medium is television, of course, but in this case, television online. For "Mitt TV," a campaign camera crew shadows the candidate, gathering footage. The candidate's youngest son, Tag, serves as host.
VIDEOGRAPHER: All right, Tagg, whenever you're ready.
TAGG ROMNEY, Son of Mitt Romney: So, Dad, how are your calls going for "Sign Up America"?
MITT ROMNEY: It's important to remind people that it's the ground team we're building today. The air wars, that comes later. It's the ground team we need.
JEFFREY BROWN: After a few tweaks...
VIDEOGRAPHER: Re-ask one of those questions.
TAGG ROMNEY: So, Dad, send any e-mails out recently?
JEFFREY BROWN: The digital tape is hustled down the hall here to the edit room...
VIDEO EDITOR: There's that spot right about there.
JEFFREY BROWN: ... where, in three minutes, an excerpt of the father-son exchange is inserted into a video package and posted online.
MITT ROMNEY: It's important to remind people that it's the ground team we're building today.
VIDEO EDITOR: There!
Internet a 'junior partner'
JEFFREY BROWN: Still, Michael Cornfield, a professor at George Washington University and Politico.com analyst, says that, for all its potential, the Internet is still a junior partner on most campaigns.
MICHAEL CORNFIELD, Politico.com: All the presidential campaigns in the first quarter of 2007, they spent about $2.5 million on Internet services, Internet staffs, Internet technologies; $2.5 million spread among a double-digit number of candidates is not a lot of money.
They're getting incredible returns for their $2.5 million. They pulled in about $25 million to $30 million online through fundraising, which is a 10 times return, which is pretty darn good.
JEFFREY BROWN: And why do you think it is still as small as it is?
MICHAEL CORNFIELD: Because it's complicated, and it's new. The Internet is not just one medium; it's a platform all the other media run through. So you can use the Internet as a telephone, a television, a printing press, a movie studio. And because there are so many different aspects to it, it takes a while to learn how to use each of the aspects, and then integrate them, and come up with rules of thumb. It's hard.
JEFFREY BROWN: What's also hard on the Internet is controlling the message, as seen in 2006 when Virginia Senator George Allen's "macaca" gaffe flew around the Web.
MICHAEL CORNFIELD: When Jim Webb defeated George Allen in Virginia, everybody in the political community stood up and noticed, because that was the first time that Internet politicking had knocked someone out.
Controlling the message
JEFFREY BROWN: The Romney campaign monitors how its effort is being played online, as well as over the airwaves. Here in the "War Room," the young staffers and volunteers check out the latest polls and watch for anything that might hurt their candidate. When a 13-year-old video of Romney defending a woman's right to an abortion appeared on YouTube...
MITT ROMNEY: I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.
JEFFREY BROWN: ... the candidate quickly tried to clarify his current position in the same medium. His campaign posted a tape of Romney declaring that he's evolved into a social conservative.
MITT ROMNEY: Of course, I was wrong on some issues back then. I'm not embarrassed to admit that. And I think most of us learn with experience; I know I certainly have.
MINDY FINN: And people weren't allowed to sit with that information without seeing a proactive, positive message on the other side.
JEFFREY BROWN: Another control problem on the Internet is that video can be altered or remixed, as when a supporter of Barack Obama re-edited a famous ad, casting Hillary Clinton as "Big Brother."
As they try new approaches, campaigns are also wary of not losing sight of the end goal. In 2004, Howard Dean generated a great deal of online interest, but that didn't translate to enough votes.
MICHAEL CORNFIELD: What they have to remind themselves is, is that there will be many virtual primaries on the Internet this year. There will be another MoveOn primary; there will be a MySpace primary and a YouTube primary and a Facebook primary, and all sorts of metaphorical primaries. But none of them delivers delegates.
JEFFREY BROWN: For now, Romney's e-operatives are confident they can do just that.
STEPHEN SMITH: The point of all of the kind of technological efforts we have is to, you know, take the casually interested or the supporter and build them into someone who's really a believer in Governor Romney and turn evangelist for the effort.
JEFFREY BROWN: No one doubts that the cyberspace campaign will grow in this and future elections, but the precise mix of strategies, on- and off-line, is still being developed day by day.


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I was having issues and it turned out that my system date and time were wrong (don't I feel the fool, thanks all who helped). Anyway did loads of things to try and fix issue including a reset. Is there anyway I can recover, transfer, whatever the correct term maybe, my bookmarks from the old firefox data folder back to my browser?
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iamjayakumars 4 years ago
Whenever you RESET the firefox, Firefox takes a backup of your profile (including bookmarks, history etc..)
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If you reset Firefox then a new profile is created and some of your data (bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, form data) is automatically imported and your current profile will be moved to the desktop (Old Firefox Data). You will lose extensions and other customizations (toolbars, prefs) that you've made.