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Citrus Sweet Potatoes Recipe
A mild orange glaze lets the taste of sweet potatoes shine through in this nut-topped side dish. When I was dating my husband, my mother would make this whenever he'd come over for Sunday dinner. We've been married more than 40 years, and he thinks I can make it almost as good as Mom did. —Pauline Kelley of St. Peters, Missouri
- 6 medium sweet potatoes, peeled
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 cup orange juice concentrate
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, optional
- 1. Place sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 40-45 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool. Cut into 1/2-in. slices. Place in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish.
- 2. In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar and cornstarch. Whisk in orange juice concentrate and lemon peel. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Pour over sweet potatoes. Sprinkle with pecans if desired.
- 3. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 30-35 minutes or until sweet potatoes are heated through and sauce is bubbly. Yield: 12 servings.
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3/4 cup: 93 calories, 0 fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 8mg sodium, 23g carbohydrate (13g sugars, 2g fiber), 1g protein.
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For the last several months I've been hemming and hawing about chopping my hair off, around 12 inches to be specific. In college I mostly had short hair, grew it out, and it's been long ever since. Many of my friends have told me they prefer me with long hair, which is a big reason why I'm hesitant to cut it off. But now that I'm baking all the time the hair just gets in the way. Most days I pull it back into a bun or ponytail, and the off chance that I go out and wear it down, any styling I do it it gets flattened, weighed down and becomes a tangled mess. More than just the inconvenience/laziness of not styling my hair daily, I've been using my hair as a security blanket. I can name several occasions in which I've literally (yes, literally!) hid behind my hair. I will say that I'm not as confident as I'd like to be in my own skin, and hiding behind my hair certainly doesn't help. When I start leaning towards cutting it off, I'm reminded of all the people who've said I look better with longer hair. What does that mean about me with a shorter style? While I might be ready to leave my sad straggly locks behind, I don't know if I'm ready to be ugly. Instead of being nervous about making a bad decision, I'm afraid of what people will think of me. I know I know, kind of sad.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Coffee: It Does A Body Good
I didn't start drinking coffee until age 32. Growing up, my parents both drank coffee, black and strong, pouring the first cup before the break of dawn from an old electric percolator with a glass top, which as far as I can tell, basically boiled the shit out of it until it was done. That was 30 years ago. Back then, there were exactly two kinds of coffee in the grocery aisle: Folgers in the red can and Maxwell House in the blue can. My parents bought whichever one was on sale.
When I was younger, old people drank coffee. Young people drank Pepsi. It wasn't until I was hired at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture that I became a coffee drinker, and it wasn't by choice.
Six months after being hired to oversee local food programs, the Wisconsin Department of Ag received federal funding to help Wisconsin cheese factories transition from low-profit commodity cheese to higher profit specialty cheese, and to help dairy farmers build on-farm "value-added" dairy plants. I was re-assigned from local foods to a three-person dairy team and charged with visiting cheese plants and dairy farmers to help spread the word that we had grant money and expertise to help interested cheesemakers and dairy farmers start crafting value-added products.
Here's how it worked: Jim Cisler drove, Norm Monsen navigated, and I threw up out the window because I kept getting carsick.
It turns out that visiting cheese plants as a representative of a government agency – that, by the way - also regulates and inspects these same cheese plants – is not particularly easy. Whenever we walked in the door, we were usually greeted with a look of disdain, a sigh of frustration and a sarcastic remark of "I suppose you're from the government, and you're here to help me."
However, being Midwestern, we were always offered a cup of coffee and a few minutes to sit down and talk, usually in an office or break room, or if it was on a dairy farm, at the kitchen table. It was here that we would make a little small talk, share info about grant money available, leave our business cards and leave before they thought about kicking us out.
I can remember the first road trip clearly. We walked into a cheese plant to a round of heavy sighs from the owners and were politely offered coffee. Naturally, I declined because I didn't drink coffee. We made some small talk, made our sales pitch, shook hands, and left. We then repeated this sequence at stop number two.
By cheese factory number three, something changed. Before I opened the cheese factory door, Norm gently put his hand on my shoulder and told me, this time I was going to drink the coffee. I told him I didn't drink coffee. He said it didn't matter. We were entering these folks' place of business, taking up their time, and we had the extra strike against us that we were from the government. "Just drink the coffee," he said.
So at the third factory, when offered a cup of coffee, I smiled, said thank you, accepted the coffee and then stared at it until the cheesemaker asked whether I took cream and sugar. After an emphatic yes, I then poured in as much cream and sugar as humanly possible and pretended to like it. Norm smiled. The meeting went more smoothly than the last two. I began to understand that the simple act of accepting a cup of coffee, sitting down, and sharing a conversation, put everyone a little more at ease. Sheer genius.
Fifty cheese factories later, I was down to just cream. Ten years later, I can drink it black if I have to, but I prefer a little cream, and I drink at least two cups every day. I've even become somewhat of a coffee snob, buying coffee from local roasters when I can and treating myself to a latte now and then.
More importantly, I've learned that if you have a request of someone – whether it be knowledge, an introduction, or business – asking someone out for a cup of coffee is a pretty hard invitation to which to say no. Once you're drinking coffee, sitting across from each other and having a conversation, the playing field tends to flatten. I've done a lot of business over a cup of coffee. I've made a lot of friends over a cup of coffee. I've had a lot of good ideas over a cup of coffee. It seems to do both a body and soul good. Thanks, Norm.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
CheeseTopia: Bringing Artisan Cheese to the Heart of the City
After retiring the annual Wisconsin Cheese Originals Festival in 2013, I still wanted to do an event to highlight our amazing artisan cheesemakers, but I knew I wanted it to be something different.
CheeseTopia aims to bring the best of Midwest artisan and farmstead cheese to the heart of the city by offering up to 700 attendees the opportunity to sample and purchase cheese from more than 50 cheesemakers from the Great Lakes Region, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. The festival will be open from Noon to 4 p.m. on a Sunday and offer a fun open marketplace atmosphere with cheese samples and a cash bar.
I'll also be asking several favors from long-time cheese industry friends to help me build two large edible displays of cheese to compliment the hundreds of cheese samples available from cheesemakers. While many artisans will sell their products, farmer's market style, those who don't will have an opportunity to have them available for purchase from Larry's Market, which will set up a beautiful table of cheeses for sale at the event. Thank you Steve Ehlers and Patty Peterson!
In addition, several breakout seminars will take place in separate meeting spaces inside the Pritzlaff Building, which was constructed in 1875 and just recently renovated. More than 20,000 square feet of floor space will be filled with cheesemaker tables surrounded by carved wooden beams, industrial age columns, Victorian era arched windows and gritty cream city brick. This is a building you truly need to step inside and appreciate.
Tickets will likely cost $25 and will go on sale after the first of the year. As always, faithful members of Wisconsin Cheese Originals will have first chance to purchase entry and sign up for seminars, which I expect may sell out before the event is opened to the public.
Thank you in advance for supporting our artisan and farmstead cheesemakers and I look forward to seeing you all in April in Milwaukee!
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He married in this county July 16, 1861, to Mrs. Mary L. Heustis, widow of Miles Heustis and daughter of Alman Ames. Mrs. C. was born in Otsego Co., N.Y., Nov. 12, 1830, and died July 22, 1870, leaving three sons and two daughters, namely, Frank J., born Nov. 21, 1862; Esther A., March 11, 1864; Alman A., Nov. 25, 1865; George F., Nov. 19, 1867, and Mary N., June 5, 1870. Mr. Clapsaddle was married again June 24, 1875, in Cass Co., Mich., to Miss Mary Walter, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Harter) Walter, who was born in Herkimer Co., N.Y., April 9, 1834.
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"Just ahead of the Joneses" may be the new catchphrase for capturing how Americans want to compare economically with their neighbors, according to Sara Solnick, associate professor of economics. Looking at the social and behavioral factors that influence economics is an interesting marriage between her undergraduate work in psychology at Harvard and her current role as an economist.
Solnick's work remains so provocative that a paper she published in 1998 was cited ten years later in both The New York Times and Slate. That 1998 paper was based on a survey using a "two-world scenario," one in which you have more than everybody and another in which you and everyone else has more but you have relatively less than others. Responses varied depending on the item in question and its visibility to others.
"We found that it varied for the things that we asked about. For some things, people really cared about being ahead, like attractiveness. For other things, people were extremely non-positional - particularly for the 'bads,' like being yelled at by your supervisor," says Solnick.
A recent second survey by Solnick and her colleagues looked at two visible goods and offered people the chance to choose and change where they wanted to be in the spectrum.
"For all the goods, the spending worked the way we expected - when people were told that other people were spending half, they decreased their spending. And when people were told other people spent twice as much, they raised spending," says Solnick. "For satisfaction, after people were told that their spending was either way ahead or way behind, everybody's satisfaction went down. People don't like to be out of step, even if they're spending more."
Does Solnick think there is a plausible way to change behavior? "No... But I think people would be happier if they could let go of some of those behaviors. When people found out they were either way ahead or behind, their satisfaction went down," she says. "They were okay with what they were doing until we told them they were off. So I think it is better to just tend your own garden. But it's hard to do."
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Virginia is ranked as one of the best wine travel destinations in the world, trailing only California in the United States in terms of wine tourism revenue. Yet, Virginia wines can sometimes be another story.
Winemaker Luca Paschina is writing a new chapter at Barboursville Vineyards outside Charlottesville, where he is making some world-class, award-winning wines.
"It can be done in Virginia," Paschina said, as he led guests among the rolling hills that are reminiscent of both Napa Valley and Oregon's Willamette Valley. Barboursville is about quality and dedication. The operation, founded on a 15-year plan, has grown to employ 37 people.
The winery's success is evident in its numbers -- double-digit yearly growth in sales and single-digit increases in acres planted -- as well as in what is found in the bottles.
2011 Viognier Reserve ($21.99): This is not your typical domestic viognier: light-bodied and little more than a tepid, sweet fruit bomb. Rather, this is a big, serious white. Lots of honeysuckle, white flowers, melon and a hint of lemon, with nice balance and a very long finish. Very Good.
2010 Cabernet Franc Reserve ($24.99): The nose on this is still fairly muted, with French oak and dark fruits that deliver much bigger on the palate, where they're joined by some red fruits. Not a hint of the green pepper that can be fairly common in cab franc from Virginia. It expands in the mouth through its long finish. Still fairly tannic, so decant now or hold for a few years. Very Good.
2007 Malvaxia Reserve ($31.99 for a half-bottle): This dessert wine is made using the traditional passito process of hand-selecting the grapes and letting them air-dry and shrivel for up to 120 days. Lots of tropical fruit and wonderfully sweet, yet with nice acidity. Very Good.
2011 Vermentino Reserve ($22.99): Paschina grins when he talks about this varietal of grape from his native Italy, and it's easy to see why. He says it thrived in Virginia's dry, hot 2010 growing season, as well as the cool, wet 2011. This adaptability in the two years he has made wine with it shows why he sees it as his next big thing. It's loaded with white flowers, perfume and pear, plus a striking minerality that ensures it will pair well with a wide variety of foods, and it drinks beautifully on its own. Outstanding.
2008 Nebbiolo Reserve ($31.99):
I loved this wine. At just four years of age, this already is drinking wonderfully, with big flavors and aromas of leather and dark fruit. Plenty of soft tannins, yet still retains a silky texture. This grape is used to make the heavyweight Italian red wines of Barolo, which often take decades to drink as well as this one is now. Plus, it will certainly age.
Octagon is Barboursville's flagship wine, and it's a winner. Paschina opened a 1998, and it's a dead ringer for a fully mature bordeaux. No surprise, as it's made from the traditional bordeaux red grape varietals. This bottle shows plenty of cedar, cigar ash and red fruits, with hints of green pepper and bacon. With a beautiful, silky mouthfeel, this bottling is at its absolute peak -- and proof of how well Octagon ages. The newest release, the 2008 vintage, is very concentrated and youthful, with loads of dark fruits and French oak, plus a hint of tar, and notes of mint and chocolate. A wonderfully balanced wine, it will benefit from a couple hours of decanting or up to a decade in the cellar. Well worth the $49.99 price tag. Both bottles rate as outstanding.


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It's 11:00 p.m. in the newsroom of the regional newspaper where I work. I've been here since 5:00, collecting death notices, faxed, phoned, and e-mailed in, mainly from funeral homes, and entering them into the ancient computer system. The next day's paper was put to bed at 9:00, but I'm still awake, updating service notices and entering tomorrow's batch of obits.
The police scanner squeals and spits out a report of gunshots fired in the vicinity of Third Avenue—only a couple blocks away from our building. The late-shift newswriter—a dirty-blond twentysomething named Sam—moseys up to the main desk—my desk—where the scanner sits three feet away.
"What was that report?" he asks.
"Gunshots, Third Avenue," I tell him.
Even close to midnight, the newsroom is cacophonous. Someone has turned the police scanner all the way up because someone has turned the two televisions all the way up. Phones ring incessantly. The calls bounce from the empty desks of one editor to another until they finally forward through Sam's cell phone, which rings to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
"You'd probably be able to hear the scanner if you put your phone on vibrate," I yell at him over the top of it all.
"Michael's the only thing that keeps me on point this late," he says. "Michael and cigarettes. Let's go."
I follow Sam out of the newsroom and down the stairwell to the loading dock. Though the butts have all been swept up, the concrete structure still reeks of them. I can't imagine what the newsroom must have smelled like in the '70s.
"Anything tonight?" Sam asks and passes me a Marlboro Light.
I take a drag of my cigarette and say, "Dale Irwin, 36, originally of Mount Vernon, jumped to his death from a hot air balloon outside of Denver."
"Wow, that's a good one. That might be the best one yet."
We are collecting the best ways to die. That sounds cynical, but it doesn't feel that way. No one wants to rot away from cancer or keel over from heart failure. Those benign-sounding sisters, brief illness and long illness, are the most perverse because of what they aren't saying, especially in this conservative corner of the Midwest. Drug addiction, mental illness, AIDS. We respect the death notices that tell the truth, even if we don't usually publish them.
People pay a lot of money to keep the ugliness and humiliation—that is, the truth—of death out of the notices they send us. "Died of colon cancer," for example, might be replaced with some variant of "has joined the angels to sing in Heaven's choir."
"Is it going in the paper?" Sam asks.
"No. The family's paying for it, so there's no C.O.D."
"It's just for us, then."
"Just for us."
Carl is the director of a funeral home in a small town. It's a farming community, deep in corn country, and bears the scars of a typical Midwestern town emptied out by agribusiness and the agricultural disinterest of the younger generation. The nearly deserted main street is anchored by the café on one end and the funeral home on the other.
The first time Carl called in a services-pending notice, he told me I must be a brunette. I was so surprised I forgot to ask him the age of the deceased and had to call back a few minutes later.
"What do you need, doll? I'm busy," he said, a little sharp. I remembered my question, and he answered "73" and promptly hung up on me.
If the idea of buying a car from a guy in a loud suit with wandering eyes gives you the creeps, imagine buying a coffin from one. "Hey, hon," Carl oozes when I pick up the phone. "Got one down from Keokuk. Donald Schumacher. That's S-C-H-U-M-A-C-H-E-R."
"Cause of death?" I ask.
There is a pause I've come to expect, a withholding, then a suggestion, the same every time: "Hey, maybe I'll come down there so we can meet face to face finally."
I sigh and ask for the C.O.D. again.
"Long illness, hon," he says, showing no signs of deflation. "See you later."
Carl tends to misspell the names of the dead and their survivors. This seems like it would be a priority for writing obituaries, but it's not. And it's not just Carl. Most of the obituaries and notices I receive from funeral homes have glaring errors in them. I almost always have to call a funeral home back to ask which of the four spellings of the deceased's first name is the correct one.
The idea of Carl communicating with my grieving family—of potentially being alone with my dead, naked body—is unsettling. I make up my mind: As soon as I can, I'll make my own funeral arrangements. Until then, I decide to hedge against the Carl factor as much as possible and write my own obituary.
The farmed plots of Iowa are possibly the most unthreatening topographies in the world. The winters are frequently arctic, but we have no forests in which to get lost. We have no mountains to fall off of. The homicides are infrequent and isolated—usually family related. Most people in Iowa die of old age, natural causes. The general exception to this is that everyone knows at least one person who has been killed in a brutal farm machinery accident.
I get the call early in my shift on Thursday, around 5:00 p.m. "This is Reverend David Carter," says the voice on the line. "I'm the director of Two Rivers School in Quasqueton." Two little filaments blink inside my head, meet. "You're Sam's dad," I say. "I think he's on a story right now."
"Yes," says the Reverend. "I need to speak to the obituaries desk."
"That's me," I say, embarrassed at my unwarranted familiarity with this man.
"I'm calling on a death notice. For our neighbor, Marion Wentz. She died today. Her tractor flipped on her."
"I'm so sorry," I say and take all the relevant information.
I don't put the notice in the news basket. I wait until Sam gets back from his story and beckons me to the loading dock for a cigarette. He tells me his neighbor has died—his father had reached him on his cell phone. I am relieved not to have to give him this information, and we share a quiet smoke.
Here are the things I know about Marvin Pella: He rebuilt vintage speedboats by hand with his dad and used to race them up and down the river after his dad died and he was alone. Marvin mowed the grass every day if it wasn't covered in rain or snow. He was missing part of his index finger on his right hand. I noticed it because he waved to every car that passed on their unpaved country road, the farmer's wave, around before the peace sign. Seen from the wrong angle, it would sometimes look like he was flipping me the bird. He wore overalls and a red mesh cap. He had never married. He lived on the Iowa River longer than anyone else in our neighborhood.
I'd always worried that I would someday recognize the name on a notice, so this feels expected. It's almost a relief that it's not someone I know better, but it's something else too. For just a little while, it is my secret.
I walk back into the office and enter Marvin's notice. It is still my secret until the paper goes out, but I don't feel like keeping it anymore so I call my mom and tell her, and the news begins a steady march down the street until it fades away in the distance.
If a newspaper even staffs an obit writer, it's only because the obituaries are the most profitable section. Therefore, the work cannot be daring. It is more like data entry than writing. If the obituary is a free notice, it contains certain information. All other information included is billed by the word. And if a family pays for an obituary, the obituary writer is just a conduit. Being an obit writer at a small, local newspaper is the journalistic equivalent of starting in the mailroom, complete with tiny humiliations and tiny paychecks.
The narrative arcs of paid obituaries are more or less the same. Went to high school, got married, had kids, had a hobby or a pet, a favorite phrase, went to war, work, church. The family members who write these obits have internalized the genre. In death all lives look alike.
My mother asks me to go with her to buy her burial plot at Oakland, an old and beautiful cemetery in Iowa City that is supposedly haunted. She's excited, as if she's picking out a new car.
"It's creeping me out how happy you are about this," I say, after she finds a place—a drawer, actually—in an open-air mausoleum underneath a huge oak tree. The legendary Black Angel statue is nearby. Kiss a virgin underneath its open wings at midnight and it will turn white again, they say. The fact that it's still black is supposed to be a testament to the indecency of liberal Iowa City.
"Well, now I know where I'll be," Mom says.
"Why here?" I ask. "Why not in Traer, with Grandma?"
"I want to be able to hang out with old friends and neighbors when we're all dead together," she says.
"Sounds like a party," I say. We walk toward the office and I notice for the first time that she's maybe not as tall as she once was, that her shoulders are slightly uneven. We speculate about what kinds of martinis would be appropriate for such an event. Washington Apple, we decide, since they're too strong for the living, and something soft and cloudlike, Frangelico maybe, a wisp on the tongue, like melted cotton candy—there, then gone.
Excerpted from The Iowa Review(Fall 2010), a journal that for 41 years has pursued a mission of "nudging along American literature, being local but not provincial, experimental but not without respect for literary traditions." www.iowareview.org
This article first appeared in the May-June 2011 issue of Utne Reader.


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They wore out tennis shoe rubber, sweated and maybe strained some knee or hip joints, but they smiled and felt satisfied at the end of the day.
For those who on Saturday were part of the "Charge On" memorial event -- walking, running or biking all the way or part of a 29-mile route from Vallejo to Vacaville to honor fallen Vallejo police officer and Vacaville resident Jim Capoot -- their efforts not only boosted the Capoot Family Trust, but also buoyed their spirits.
Perhaps most of all, the event, which included a catered dinner and live music at The Mission Church in Vacaville, served to remind not just the participants, many of them Solano County public safety officers, but also the general public that Capoot's sacrifice and his professional and personal qualities will always be remembered.
Some 250 people joined in the event, said Vacaville K-9 officer Julie Bailey, who helped coordinate "Charge On," an expression used by Capoot, a 19-year Vallejo officer and a well-known figure at Vallejo High School, where he coached girls basketball. A married father of three, the former Marine was shot and killed Nov. 17 after a bank robbery and pursuit in Vallejo.
Standing near the entrance to the church complex on Leisure Town Road, the event's terminus, Bailey said the daylong memorial, which began at 7 a.m. at the Vallejo Home Depot, drew a diverse and mixed group, from toddlers (in strollers) to seniors.
Clad in the event's blue T-shirt -- emblazoned with "Charge On" in white lettering and an image of Capoot's badge number, 497, a dark slash across it to indicate deceased -- she said such gatherings are "one of the most amazing things you'll ever do in your life. It gives you a sense of accomplishment."
Bailey, who walked more than 55 miles in 2009 during a memorial honoring four slain Oakland police officers, said her faith in people had been renewed once again.
"You see a lot of bad -- you just get kind of jaded" during police work, she said as her 8-year-old canine officer, Cir, a German shepherd, wagged his tail.
She said the outpouring of public support included an unidentified person along the route who handed off a $500 check.
No one was injured during the event but volunteer emergency medical technicians were on hand just in case, said Bailey, who also noted that Capoot's widow, Jennifer, and their daughters, Jillian, Jamie and Justine, participated.
"Some people could hardly walk when they finished," she added, the sky beginning to turn from blue to a purplish gray at sundown.
Vacaville police Officer Erwin Ramirez, exhausted but grinning widely, approached the finish line. His wife, Lisa, and their daughter, Jazlyn, 8, looked on and smiled. Their son, Jun, 18, also participated, as did another daughter, Amaya, 11, making it a family affair.
They felt a strong need to participate, Lisa Ramirez said.
"It could have been anyone of us," she said as people cheered the walkers. "We wanted to show our support."
Erwin Ramirez, pointing to his hips and then toward his feet, quipped that "every joint" in his lower extremities ached.
"But we walked for a great cause," he said cheerfully.
Bailey, who noted that some event participants were posting up-to-the-minute photos and comments on Facebook throughout the day, said widespread publicity and use of social media helped to boost participation and increase donor support.
An online gallery of photos of this event can be seen at www.thereporter.com.


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Love and body language share a close relationship. For those in love, love actually seems to be in the air when they communicate with their love virtually through air. They transfer those love vibes, love gazes, and all that jazz through air itself without uttering a word! Well its magical, I guess! But the interesting thing about love signals is that even other people can catch these signs and signals. If you wish to know about these signs of love body language then read further.
Body Language of Men
If you are wondering if that cute guy you are planning to date likes you or not then read on. Given below are some of the signs of male attraction that will help you determine if he likes you or not:
- One of the most striking of body language of men who are in love is their gaze. They not only catch her gaze but hold it for a second more than necessary.
- When he sees her his eyebrows will be raised a little, nostrils will be flared, and the lips too will be flushed for a significant time.
- He will also try to fix his attire and run a hand through his hair to look presentable and neat.
- While talking he will blink more often and his body will be pointing at the direction of women he is attracted towards.
- One of the sign of flirting body language of men is that their hands, legs, and knees will be spread to show that they like her and are open for a relationship.
- If he is with his friends, he will continuously throw some gazes at particular intervals to show that his attention is focused at her.
- One of the important signs of attraction from men is that they will also try to use their masculinity by standing tall, taking out their chest, flexing muscles, and wearing some manly attitude.
Body Language of Women
If you want to know if the women you are eying is interested in you or not, all you have to do is read her body language. Given below are some of the most common body language signals that are exhibited by women:
- Her eyes do the talking. When a woman likes a man her pupils will dilate and she will maintain a prolonged eye contact with a man that she likes.
- She will pay attention to every word uttered by the guy and she will also seek his reaction on everything she says.
- One of the unmistakable flirting body language of women is crossing and uncrossing the legs while tapping her thighs smoothly.
- While talking to a man she will keep stroking an object such as a glass or a flower pot etc. It is one of the prominent part of women body language if she wants to tease and entice him.
- If not she will keep playing with her hair and show her bare beautiful skin to the man she is interested in.
- One of the most feminine gesture is that she would show off the curves to a man as a sign of attraction.
- She will also run her hands or tongue from the lips to draw the attention there.
- She will lean to him while talking. It is to show that she likes him and feels secure with him.
Body Language of Couples
If you want to know that the so-called 'best friends' in your office are really seeing each other romantically, then read the following tips on body language of someone in love that will help you understand if they are in love or not:
- They will look into each others eyes most often and maintain a prolonged eye contact.
- When they are in a group they will seek each others attention as well as a reaction to whatever they say.
- You may find them often lost in their own world and thinking about something even if they are together.
- One of the crucial part of body language when falling in love can be observed when they are walking together. They will walk together but often look in front or the ground and rarely into each others eyes.
- When they are not together you will notice them talking or messaging on the phone more often.
- They also act protective and caring about their spouse and may display some jealousy if their partner is paying undue attention to someone else.
- Another thing is their smile and glow on the face. The happiness and feeling of love can be seen on their face.
- They appear optimistic, content, and happy with each other.


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Posted by @ 9:18
Damn. Fuck. Shit. (And if the Vicar weren't here, I'd say a helluva lot more than that.)
Chick-Fil-A just caved.
Chick-fil-A will no longer donate money to anti-gay groups or discuss hot-button political issues after an executive's controversial comments this summer landed the fast-food chain in the middle of the gay marriage debate.
Executives agreed in recent meetings to stop funding groups opposed to same-sex unions, including Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage, according to Chicago Alderman Proco Joe Moreno.
The agreement, announced Wednesday, could pave the way for the company to continue to grow not only in Chicago but in other metropolitan areas as well.
They won't be doing so with any more of my money. Guaran-damn-fucking-teed.
Denizens, if you've read me for any length of time, you're perfectly aware of what I think about people (primarily Christians and/or conservatives) who take a stand for right in public, then back down from and/or apologize for said stand.
To me, it's simple: Do right, and fear no man. Stand up for what you know to be the truth, and to Hell – literally – with those assclowns who would whine about it from behind the comfort & safety of their collective daddy's pink taffeta hoop skirt.
And now, Chick-Fil-A has caved to a faggot-assed, heterophobic son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch Shit-cago alderman named Joe "Josephine" Moreno. (Whom, if you ask me, should have a spiked titanium clue bad shoved right up his swishy ass. On second thought, don't – he might actually like it.)
You've lost my business, Chick-Fil-A. And my family's. And you've lost it permanently.
3 Comments to "
Fuck you, Chick-Fil-A"
David Hartung — September 20, 2012 @ 12:23 pm
Darth, in the linked article, there seems to be precious little from the Chick-Fil-A people. Given the reputation that the media has for spinning things, perhaps it would be wise to withhold condemnation until the company has made some sort of statement. Remember, this article is written around the words of a Chicago politician. As we have seen in our President, Chicago politicians are known for corruption and untruth.
Supreme General Rayegun — September 20, 2012 @ 7:50 pm
To dovetail on the Vicar's comment, it might be worth the couple o' minutes it would take to read this. Seems that the Vicar's theory that the lapdog media is seriously desiring to throw Chick-Fil-A under the pavement that's over the bus has some weight to it.
David Hartung — September 22, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
"There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restaurant in Chicago. That is incorrect. Chick-fil-A made no such concessions, and we remain true to who we are and who we have been."
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Paul Ferguson has one selection for us on Sunday; Concordin in the Limerick 15:10. Compare odds and bet.
Jane Mangan gave Pumbaa a brilliant ride when winning at the track over Christmas and he is much respected, but Concordin (3:10) won in the style of an improving sort last time and he gets in the nod in Limerick's 2m5f handicap hurdle on Sunday.
Robert Tyner's six-year-old has gone up 8lbs for that Navan success and, though he has taken a while to get the hang of things over hurdles, his bumper form warrants utmost respect and he looks the type to flourish in handicap company. He is taken to follow up in the silks of JP McManus.
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Hi.I've compiled also 2.6.11 on my iBook G4 and everything seems to work as it does with 2.6.9 + sleep patch. I've only noticed one difference, I use an USB external mouse and with 2.6.9 there is no problem on sleep and wakeup, but with 2.6.11 on wake up external mouse doesn't work. I supose there is some diferences in USB sleep code, but I don't mind, I can work with touch pad as well.Thank's for all your work .... I'm quite new with ppc architecture.
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Gov. Rick Scott paid a lot for Edwin Buss' expertise, and Floridians are about to find out whether Buss is worth the investment.
The soft-spoken Buss has one of the most challenging jobs in the state as secretary of the Department of Corrections. It has long been an insular place, suspicious of outsiders and wary of the big bosses at agency headquarters in Tallahassee, a place known to prison workers as "central office."
The huge agency has a $3 billion budget, 146 prisons and more than 100,000 inmates. It endured a morale-crushing scandal several years ago that sent ex-prison boss James Crosby to prison, and the department has struggled to cope for years with a high rate of recidivism among inmates — a chronic problem Buss is working to address.
Buss was running the prison system in Indiana when Scott's people came calling soon after he was elected in November. Buss wanted to come to Florida, and now we know what we didn't know then: Buss was in a very strong bargaining position.
Newly unearthed e-mails from Scott's transition office dating to December show that Michigan's new governor, Rick Snyder, was romancing Buss at the same time Scott was — and offering him a lot more money.
Tim D'Elia, one of the recruiting agency heads for the Scott administration, learned that Michigan was offering Buss $165,000 a year. Florida countered with $145,000, but D'Elia noted in an e-mail that taxes in Florida are lower. To seal the deal, he suggested Scott's people also emphasize "lifestyle — Michigan is cold and gray for five months a year."
Chris Kise, a Tallahassee lawyer and lobbyist who was a transition adviser, urged a note of caution. "Remember also, whatever you pay him, everyone else will want," Kise told transition director Enu Mainigi. The extra pool of money to boost selected salaries came from the Governor's Office — since Scott refused to accept a salary as governor.
When Buss took the job, Mainigi directed a subordinate to draft the news release announcing Buss: "Emphasize out of state reformer — bringing in a dose of newness that department really needs."
That newness hasn't even begun to wear off.
Buss soon hired a health care policy adviser, Elizabeth "Betty" Gondles, who also worked for him in Indiana, for a 10-month contract at $180,000. Gondles is overseeing the selection of a private vendor to handle all of the prison system's health care.
He banned smoking in prisons, effective this coming September. The other day Buss issued an edict banning pornography in all prisons, after he saw a Playboy centerfold tacked to a wall in a South Florida prison.
He wants correctional officers to work 12-hour shifts, not eight-hour ones, and when the guards union balked, the two sides agreed to a compromise: a pilot program at Jefferson Correctional Institution in Monticello.
But the most sweeping change of all on Buss' watch wasn't his idea — it was the Legislature's. By January, 30 prisons and work release centers in South Florida will all be outsourced to a private company.
The legislatively mandated privatization venture has been highly disruptive to staffers, who work and live in the affected area south of Lake Okeechobee. Many will lose their jobs or be forced to move to keep their prison paychecks, but Buss sees an opening to force the vendor to create re-entry programs to keep inmates from re-offending. All in all, Buss says, he likes the people who work for the prison system. "They're ready for change," Buss said. "They're ready to move on from the Crosby years."


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Born and raised in Russia, Alex Krasky came to the United States in 2000. He worked as a security officer (a position that led him to Las Vegas) until he was laid off in 2008. With new free time, Krasky realized his hands were built for a paintbrush and not a gun. The self-trained artist bowed to his wife's urging and signed up for an art class. After a single oil painting lesson, Krasky discovered that the medium came naturally. He painted for two years until he found the perfect muse.
"When Michael Jackson died, I had only been painting for a couple of months with oils, but I decided to make a painting of him," he says. "I decided to give the painting to his parents. I went to the [memorial service at Staples Center], but they wouldn't let me in."
He wasn't deterred. Last summer, he participated in a contest to paint Gov. Jim Gibbons, but missed the deadline. Krasky completed the portrait while documenting his progress on YouTube. Channel 13 featured his work, and he received a letter saying that Gibbons would like to add the painting to his collection.
"I was thinking that it was a joke," he says. The next thing he knew, Gibbons himself showed up at his front door.
"I began to think about what I wanted as an artist," Krasky says, adding that he has never sold a single painting (Gibbons' painting was a gift). "I want to be recognized, and I want to be known. … I started to think about the most significant piece of art I can do. I asked myself who had the biggest impact in the United States and I realized that the people with the most influence are the presidents."
Krasky has just finished a painting of what he deems the five most significant presidents: John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. And he's just sent Obama a letter saying as much.
"I have a dream that in one month I will personally give it to Barack Obama," he says. "The United States is a country of miracles. Anything can happen here."
All his life, Alex Krasky wanted to be an American.
Now that he has been granted U.S. citizenship, he's so proud of the red, white and blue that he's using his talent to create a 4-foot-by-6-foot patriotic oil painting he hopes to hand over personally to President Obama.
'This is the country of miracles,' he said.
The Summerlin resident recently was in the running with four other painters to be the official portrait artist for outgoing Gov. Jim Gibbons. His version was not selected, but Gibbons personally went to his house to receive it.
Krasky's zest for all things American stems from his experiences. As a youngster in Russia's Crimea region — now part of Ukraine — he had a privileged childhood, the son of a surgeon father and a mother who was a doctor. They lived in various parts of the world before returning to Crimea. At 27, Krasky, a fireman who was on the Russian radar for speaking out against some government policies, knew he had to flee the country. The idea to emigrate to the United States took root.
But visas were hard to come by, so in 1997, he traveled to Argentina. From there, he applied for visas to other countries, eventually hopscotching his way through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, a month at a time.
'I told them, 'If I go back to my country, I'll be killed tomorrow,' ' he said.
But the expected visa to travel to Mexico did not materialize. Krasky suspected that the numerous stamps on his passport raised a red flag.
He found a coyote — a person willing to act as a guide to a possible border-crossing site — and paid him $300. After walking for hours through the desert, half of it carrying a sick 5-year-old, Krasky and his fellow travelers got on a bus, only to be stopped by the authorities.
'They said we were spies,' he said, adding that he suspected the coyote had sold them out.
He was thrown in a Mexican jail. All his attempts to talk his way out were fruitless. Finally, he succumbed to the most immediate method available: he paid his jailers a bribe. He was set free.
Krasky reached California by traveling up Baja California and walking up to the U.S. border police at Tijuana. He had purposely consumed a quart of tequila before approaching the guards with a story of partying too hard and ended up regurgitating all over the place. The border guards promptly passed him through, thinking him to be an American.
'It was the most idiotic plan, a stupid plan, but it worked,' he said.
When he landed at Laguna Niguel, Calif., an upscale community, he was struck by all the freedoms Americans enjoy.
'But the way I imagined the U.S., it was totally different,' he said. 'It was like (I expected) money would grow on trees.'
He put his nose to the grindstone, got a green card and worked in federal security services for the Internal Revenue Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Social Security Administration and a Veterans Affairs clinic.
He moved to Las Vegas, married and became a citizen last year. But it took being laid off for two years for his artistic talent to emerge and emerge with a vengeance. The little boy who used to doodle with his pencil suddenly discovered a passion for art and a passion to succeed at it. He took four one-hour lessons to learn oil painting techniques, but Jan Bennett, the instructor at Desert Art Supplies, 2003 E. Charleston Blvd., sent him home and said she couldn't teach him anything he didn't already have inside him.
'He brought in a picture of a young child, done in acrylics,' said Bennett. 'I was just in awe of it. But he wasn't very confident of himself. He looked at me kind of funny like, 'Is this good or is it not good?' '
His wife, Debra, a nurse, said the house has been turned into a gallery since he began painting. She is the subject of some of them.
'I don't need to buy decorations or someone else's art,' she said.
When Michael Jackson died, the event prompted Krasky to paint the pop icon nonstop. He completed nine full-size paintings and has nearly a dozen yet to go. His house is covered wall to wall with nudes, portraits and studies.
'Life is un-reversible,' he said of his drive to create as many paintings as he can.
Upon seeing some of his art, Bonnie Lamrock of mj-upbeat.com wrote to him, saying, 'You will shake the president's hand. Have faith and never give up. If you believe … then it will come true with hard work and dedication. You have certainly given both.'
His latest passion: the over-sized painting that depicts Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush and Barack Obama with the Statue of Liberty. With his frenzied appetite to paint, it took about eight weeks to complete.
'They say Rembrandt and Dali and painters like that worked on one piece for a year,' he said. 'But time is running away. I want to do as many beautiful pieces as I can.'
Krasky sent a poster of it to the White House in mid-February, offering to present the original to President Obama in person. (Update: The Obama's responded back with a thank you note. Alex has not given up on his dream to meet the President to deliver the original painting personally.)
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Wat Pho Reclining Buddha from feet - Bangkok visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Wat Pho Reclining Buddha from feet' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Central Thailand.
Visiting the Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho (Thai: วัดโพธิ์) features very highly on the tourist 'to do' list. Most will just come to the complex, see the Buddha and then leave. In fact they arrive by the coach load. Taking the images required for this panoramic was the result of waiting for over 30 minutes towards the end of a day until there was a clear space that lasted for a few seconds.
This image was taken from the feet of the Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho and shows some of the Mother-of-Pearl decoration that covers the soles and toes of the statue. Wat Pho is known to Thais as Wat Phra Chetuphon (Thai: วัดพระเชตุพน).
The other panoramic images of the Reclining Buddha of Wat Pho were equally difficult to take without crowds of people. The were taken from the head and halfway down the body of the statue.
Travel information about the sights and attractions in Bangkok from PanoramicEarth.com. Panoramic images and pictures linked to an interactive Bangkok map showing where the attractions, temples and markets in Bangkok may be found as you plan your holiday.


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Reflections by Faith Wylie
We had fun getting smashed with the girls. Writing about it was even more fun.
Winning the state column contest with my humorous account has topped the entire experience.
The girls have had quite an adventure since I wrote that column in August.
We scheduled the party because one of the girls had a lump. But the girls all tested negative for breast cancer. Hurrah!
In the column, I wrote that our adventure failed to make the local television news. Well, it turned out KJRH reporter Erin Christy planned something better. In October, she featured our mammogram party on The List, a national television show, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
That same week, I tried to accept a cancer diagnosis.
It couldn't be cancer, I argued. Maybe cat scratch fever or lupus.
Well, it couldn't be too serious, because I didn't feel sick. Other than the strange rash that showed up in June. And the swollen lymph nodes. And the trouble swallowing.
When the metastasized tumor showed up in my brain, the doctors debated whether to call it stage 3 or stage 4.
Since I wrote that column about breast cancer awareness, my appreciation for cancer survivors and caregivers has grown. I had lost family members to cancer, but I've never been on the front line before.
My spirits lifted when I learned I won the 2013 column contest.
I shook out my free blonde wig, bought a new outfit, and went to the Oklahoma Press Association convention for some smashing fun.
Cherokee Ballard, the communications director for ONG, presented the award. Later, she shared that she was a 15-year cancer survivor. Of lymphoma. And her first symptom was a crazy rash. Receiving encouragement and support from Cherokee was an added bonus.
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The Navy has fired the commanding officer of the amphibious ship San Diego, which was set to sail today from a Mississippi shipyard for San Diego.
Cmdr. Jon Haydel was relieved of command while allegations of personal misconduct are being investigated. The alleged misconduct did not directly involve any member of the 360-person crew, a source with knowledge of the situation said.
Cmdr. Kevin Myers, the previous commanding officer of the amphibious ship Green Bay, will temporarily take command of new ship, which is still considered in pre-commissioned status.
Haydel has been temporarily reassigned to the Naval Surface Force headquarters in Coronado.
"Although the investigation is ongoing, there is enough information at this point for Rear Adm. Hueber to relieve Cmdr. Haydel," said Cmdr. Jason Salata, surface force spokesman.
"An officer in command has a unique position of trust and responsibility, and has a key role in shaping morale, good order and discipline within the command. His or her immediate superiors must have full confidence in the officer's judgment and ability to lead by example."
The San Diego is scheduled to sail through Panama and be commissioned May 19 at Broadway Pier on the downtown San Diego waterfront. That schedule should not be affected by the change in leadership, Salata said.
With the hull number LPD 22, the vessel is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, a warship that transports Marines on expeditionary missions. It is fourth Navy ship to bear the name San Diego, but the first to be home-ported in the namesake city.
The San Antonio class of amphibious vessels has been blasted for performance. A 2010 Defense Department report call them "not effective, suitable and not survivable in a combat situation."
Salata said that despite this setback the LPD 22 has met all the benchmarks so far.
The Navy fired 22 commanding officers in 2011, higher than the 12 to 14 that the Navy quotes as an average annual rate.
Haydel is the fifth officer to be relieved of command this year, according to the Navy Times.


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Part of the Little Three complex, Davis Hall is an active community for students with junior status or those who are at least 21. Home to many transfer and international students, there is a lot of hall and campus involvement. The Little Three is located near the Student Recreation Center and University Arena.
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Norman's next trot took him to the Ukraine situated between Russia and the Black Sea. Norman had heard some much about the Ukraine and was aware that it is the worlds largest producer of sunflower oil, a major global producer of grain and sugar, and future global player on meat and dairy markets. The Ukraine also produces more natural honey than any other European country. As the Ukraine possesses 30% of the world's richest black soil, its agricultural industry has huge potential. Norman was delighted to see the Alltech Ukrainian team were on hand to welcome him and bring him to his next port of call in the Ukraine, the Carpathian Mountain.
Norman got to meet a Hutsulyk horse, a native of the Ukraine
The Carpathian Mountain is in fact a land of forests, folklore, tradition and hospitality. The trail allowed Norman to gallop across vast green fields while weaving in and out of hay stacks, climb steep mountains for breathtaking views, all while experiencing the incredible history of Ukraine. On the trail Norman got to meet a Hutsulyk horse, a native of the Ukraine. These "heavenly horses" are well known for their tremendous willingness, athleticism and heart. Norman noted that this horse was of a strong constitution and due to its endurance and ability to carry significant loads through mountainous regions it is considered to be one of the best species in Ukraine. Norman was glad he only packed the essentials while on his travels, there was no way he would be able to carry heavy loads all day, every day.
After his long, lustrous trip through the mountain it was back to the city and back to work. Norman attended a Poultry workshop taking place in Kiev. Who knew there was so much to know about chickens? The workshop covered poultry production, mineral management and disease issues. Before the end of the seminar he decided to join independent Poultry Consultant, Dr. Yolanda Santos Lamata, from Spain, and invited the audience to attend the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 in Normandy.
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Here's to Bob: A toast to the departing director
Delphi Question: FL smoking follow-up
NCAR Science Store debuts in the ML lobby
UCAR and NCAR celebrate their 40th this month
A much-loved member of the Unidata staff is now memorialized in
the rock-garden area at the front of the FL complex. Glenn Davis
and two passengers died when his Mooney aircraft crashed in poor
weather near Cedar City, Utah, on 3 May 1999. A memorial service
for the software engineer was held two weeks later at the Mesa
Lab. "After the service, the Unidata staff wanted something more
permanent, so we decided to erect a stone in his memory," says Tom
Yoksas. Since Glenn loved to fly, the group originally looked at a
site just east of FL1, close to Boulder Municipal Airport, but the
spot of interest was outside UCAR grounds. "The small rock-garden
area near the visitor parking south of FL2 seemed like the second-
best bet," says Tom. Maintenance installed the stone there, and
Unidata staff held a small gathering on the first anniversary of
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