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Part 3: Slightly Altered – Mixolydian #11
The dominant chord provides movement in tonal music: its tendency to resolve (aka "to go somewhere else") is very strong. It has an even stronger harmonic pull when the seventh is added on top of it.
The dominant seventh is used most of the time in jazz music. If you look at sheet music or in fakebooks, dominant seventh chords have "just a number" so to speak : they're identified with "7" (or "7th"), "9", "7(b9)", "13" or "13(b9)" and "dom7" and so on.
In this series we will look into the most common colors for the dominant chord. I like to approach them by their respective sound, starting with the most consonant and moving towards more alterations of the basic sound
Please note: All examples will use a G dominant chord throughout this article series. I chose this key because it resolves back to a C (which the basic key of reference … or "the people's key" as a good friend likes to call it!) Good old C major.
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Dominant Chords Introduction
Dominants Part 1: The Basic Sound – Mixolydian
Dominants Part 2: Mixolydian with a flat 13th
Dominants Part 3: Mixolydian with a sharp 11th
Dominants Part 4: Mixolydian with a flat 13th and a flat 9th
Dominants Part 5: Super Locrian (aka altered scale aka Dim Whole-Tone)
Mixo #11th what?!
This crunchier dominant color, often called Lydian Dominant, is slightly altered when compared to the straight-ahead mixo: the 4th degree (i.e. the 11th) is sharp. It sounds like it "tickles" a little bit… and it is definitely Thelonious Monk-ish.
As we already know, the dominant is usually built on the fifth degree of a scale. Here's it's simply not: the mixolydian #11 mode (scale) is built on the FOURTH degree of the melodic minor scale.
D melodic minor scale contains the same notes as G mixolydian #11 scale:
In brief: By playing the D melodic minor (D E F G A B C#) but starting on G (G A B C# D E F), we get that infamous G mixolydian #11 (or Lydian Dominant) sound! We call it "Lydian Dominant" because it has the characteristic of a lydian mode (sharp eleven) and it's a dominant chord/sound (flat seven).
Not so bad, right?
A Closer Look
If we go in a bit deeper and take the mixolydian #11 scale apart and build it back we'll find…
The scales degrees: 1 2 3 #4 5 6 b7
As compared to a G major scale, the C is sharp and the F natural… thus we use "sharp 4" and "flat 7" to qualify those tones.
Vertical chord tones: 1 3 5 b7 9 #11 13
Notice how C# can be called a #4 or a #11… it's the same thing!
Learning Mixolydian #11
Use practice suggestions on the introduction page to learn the basic mixolydian #11 dominant chord sound. And here's some more stuff to think about.
On the Guitar, in Positions:
Take any of the seven positions of melodic minor and start on the fourth degree; it's that simple again! For example, G mixolydian #11 comes from D melodic minor… so here's G mixolydian #11 based on the "54" position of D melodic minor scale:
Notice I didn't use a regular "1 3 5 b7" arp… Here I used an arpeggio that outlines the characteristic notes of the chord: 1, 3, #4 and b7. The #4th is unique to that chord… not the 5th. Choosing "chord defining" notes is a great way of outlining different chord types.
You can, of course, also practice arpeggios that go up to the 9th, the #11th and the 13th etc. and some inversions (and/or all of the above mixed-up!) And all of that in many positions.
On the Guitar, Diagonally:
This is much more subjective, it depends on the player and situation. There are many ways in which I would play that dominant chord mixolydian #11 scale and arpeggio. On two octaves diagonally, on three octaves diagonally (with finger slides when necessary). I would also find fingerings that are partly in position and partly in diagonal that work well for me.
I won't give any real demonstration here. I've given plenty of examples on this website already. Simply read this diagonal playing article and find your own way(s). So, once again, the fingerings for diagonal playing are not "set in stone": a few useful sets of fingerings exist. Practice arpeggios that go up to the 9th and above with your own favorite fingerings.
Applying Mixolydian #11 (Contexts)
In jazz music, we hear this sound in many different context. On the top of my head, I'm thinking of a few examples…
1- When the harmony goes to IV7 … it's a dominant chord built on the fourth and sounds like Mixo #11. You hear "I major" right before (I'm thinking of the tune "On a Clear Day"). Sometimes, it's clearly Mixo #11 if you have a "I minor" chord followed by IV dominant.
2- When ending a tonic minor tune on IV. Often, the chord is dom7th(#11). You're in the key of A minor throughout the song and suddenly the last chord is … D7(#11). Sounds super modern and cool.
3- As part of a "backdoor progression". It's more natural to play Bb7(#11) to C. Without the #11, you get an Eb note. See "What is a Backdoor?" in the "No non-sense guides …"
4- In general, when it's a non-resolving dominant chord.
Misspelling #11 for b5
Our friend, the #11 (or #4) sound is often misspelled "b5" on lead sheets. Remember that the #4 and b5 are enharmonic equivalents (C# = Db, the same exact note) but they have different functions:
On a dominant #11, there IS a 5th (and it's natural)
…on a dominant b5, there IS NO natural 5th. This is the "rule" of nomenclature.
This was either by mistake (or ignorance) but it is widespread in fakebooks. Whenever you see a dom7(b5), ask yourself if the real intent of the composer was to hear a Lydian Dominant. Sometimes, it easy to find out, sometimes not.
In fact the whole "fun" of the Mixo #11 lies in the crunch happening (a major second interval mind you) between the 3rd and the #11. It tickles your bones a little bit, you know?! It's a "blue note" that's already part of the chord instead of being added.
So, how to apply?
While keeping the practice suggestions from the introductory page, I would suggest that you try to find instances where the music sort of dictates that type of sound. Start with my list above to find example. The improvise lots on it to get the sound in your ears.
Another suggestion is to learn a few Thelonious Monk tunes, he really made the dominant #11 sound stand out in his writing (see the tunes "Played Twice", "Pannonica", "Round Midnight", "Straight no Chaser", "I Mean You")… In fact, a great thing to do is to get a bunch of Monk's recording and get the Thelonious Monk Fakebook. Learn the tunes you like. (-:
Have Fun!
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Dominant Chords Introduction
Dominants Part 1: The Basic Sound – Mixolydian
Dominants Part 2: Mixolydian with a flat 13th
Dominants Part 3: Mixolydian with a sharp 11th
Dominants Part 4: Mixolydian with a flat 13th and a flat 9th
Dominants Part 5: Super Locrian (aka altered scale aka Dim Whole-Tone)


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Chapter 25 (v.1) - Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Four
"Hey." I smiled at him weakly. I rubbed my hands on my pants. I'm so nervous my palms are sweating beyond belief.
"We can talk in my room, if you want." He said the last part quickly. I nodded putting my arm around his waist, showing him it's okay. I'm still broken, but I'm healing. I need Tucker to heal now. Now, I just need him. We walked down stairs and I walked into his room so used to the action. I looked back as the corners of his mouth turned up. I sat on his bed looking around his messy room.
"We'll have to clean this up." I moved a shirt off the bed. Tucker sat next to me. I looked up at his face. He didn't know what to say. "How's school?" I asked him leaning back on his pillows.
"It's alright. Almost done." He copied me.
"How's football?" He looked at me as I played with my engagement ring.
"It's the only thing keeping me sane right now." I nodded. "I miss you." He sighed looking up at the ceiling. I curled up on his side.
"I'm sorry." He shook his head holding me close to him.
"It's not your fault. You were hurting." He stroked my hair.
"You were hurting too but I didn't help you." He pulled my chin up with his finger.
"You helped me. You let me hold you. You let me help you. That's what helped me. I was helping you." I shook my head.
"I don't feel like I helped you at all." He kissed me.
"But you did." I ran my fingers over his chest as he both were quiet listening to the sounds of the others breathing.
"Do you still want to be engaged?" I asked him quietly. "Or was that just for Chloe?" He took a deep breath.
"Partly yes. I did ask you then for her. So we can be a family." I looked down. I knew I would dread the answer. "But now, now it's for us. Now I want to get married." He pressed his lips to my forehead. "I want to see you walk down aisle in white on your daddy's arm." I looked up at him.
"Do you really…." He nodded.
"I don't want what happened to tare us apart. I want it to bring us closer." I kissed him.
"Marry me then." He blinked confused.
"We will, I was thinking-"
"No, marry me." I kissed him harder. "Marry me now. Let's go to city hall." He pulled back.
"You want to get married now?" I nodded. "Why?"
"I just, it feels right. I mean doesn't it? Like Chloe wanted us to be together." He ran a hand down my face as the tears started to form. "I just want everything to be normal again. I want to be happy."
"Shhh it's okay." I couldn't help the tears as they fell onto his chest.
"I want everything to go back to normal. I need this." Tucker held my face kissing me.
"You never let me talk." He rubbed the tears away. "We can do it. But not right now. Not yet." I opened my mouth. "Let me finish." He kissed me gently. "I can't let you do it on a whim. I want to have your dad there. I want him to walk you down that aisle."
"You don't want to…" He shook his head running his fingers gently over my skin.
"I want to, you have no idea how much, I love you Carson. But if you don't have your Dad there I know you'll regret it." He sighed. "I can't have you regret it." I nodded. I can handle this. Deep breathes. "Do you understand?" I nodded putting my face down on his chest.
"I got it." I closed my eyes.
"What are we waiting for then?" I opened my eyes to look at him.
"What do you mean?" He sat up pulling me with him.
"Let's go talk to your Dad." He put me down on the bed grabbing his keys. I followed him waving to Nic, Ben, and Mason as we left. He kept my hand in his the whole ride to my house.
"Sarah? Dad?" I heard movement in the kitchen.
"In here sweetheart. Do you want some food?" She asked as I walked in. Sarah pulled out another bowl as she saw Tucker. "Hello Honey." She smiled at him. Dad looked at me as I pulled up the sleeves to my stolen hoodie.
"We need to talk to you two." Tucker said sitting down thanking Sarah from the chili. It's one of my favorites. It has noodles in it so it's a filling meal. I took a bite before getting the cheese.
"How can we help you?" Dad asked putting cereal down for JJ, who I sat away from.
"Well, we want to talk about the wedding." He looked at my bandaged wrists before looking back at my father.
"What about it?" He asked carefully.
"I want to get married now." Sarah dropped the spoon into the sink making me jump.
"Now? Like, right now?" She asked in shock sitting down.
"I was to go to city hall and get married." Dad leaned back and rubbed a hand on his shaven hair.
"Have you thought this threw Carson? I mean really thought it through? You're 18! You have your whole life ahead of you." I crossed my arms.
"I want this Dad. No, I need this. I need to know everything is going to be okay. That I can get through this."
"Oh and going to get married is going to make it all better?" He asked copying my pose.
"No! I just need this Daddy! I'm 18 and can make my own choices!" He laughed.
"You think getting married is going to fix ya'? I doubt it! You're 18, live a little." I pushed my food away.
"I know my age!" Tucker sat looking back and forth between the two of us. Sarah just stared at me.
"Oh really? Well you didn't this morning!" I stopped short. How could he say that? I shook my head and ran up the stair slamming the door behind me. Saint looked up from my bed as I dropped down onto my pillows and cried. How could my own father say something like that? Saint whimpered moving to lie across my bad in comfort……
"You're unbelievable!" Sarah snapped at him as JJ started to cry. Dad put his head on the table.
"I'm sorry…" Tucker stood up.
"I can't believe you would say something to her like that. You're her hero and you just knocked her down for crying over the loss of her child." He shook his. "I had respect in you. Now I'm not sure anymore." He turned to go up the stairs.
"Let me go. I need to make this right." Dad stood up and put his hand on Tucker's shoulder. "You got guts kid." He walked up to my room knocking on the door. "Carson?" I didn't answer. I just pushed my head in farther to my new clean sheets Sarah must have changed when I was out. "Can I come in?" Saint moved over to my side cuddling up to it. My good boy. I heard the door open and the bed dip as someone sat next to me. "I'm sorry." He whispered.
"Go away." I muttered holding the pillow tighter to me.
"I can't take back what I said but I was just angry and surprised. I don't mean it…" He rubbed my back.
"You sounded liked you meant it." I didn't move, my face was still shoved into the pillow as Saint put his head on my shoulder staring at Dad.
"I know and you don't understand how much I really regret it. I love you and you have to understand I just got you back. I don't want to lose you yet." I pulled my head out of the pillow to look at him. "I just got my baby back and now Tucker is coming in and taking you away from me."
"Daddy, Tucker isn't taking me from you." He shook head rubbing at his hair again.
"I know, but it feels like it. You want to get married. Once you do you wouldn't be my little girl anymore." I sat up and looked at him. I could see him fighting the emotion.
"I'll always be your little girl Daddy. I'll just be Tucker's wife too. Just because I'm going doesn't mean that I'm not still here for you. I'll always be your little girl. Till the day that I die." I hugged him.
"I know, It's just so hard to let go." I kissed his cheek.
"I love you Daddy. I just need this right now. You already said yes to Tucker to marry me, now I need you to let me marry him. For me." He sighed holding me tighter.
"I'll call the Justice of the Peace. I know him. I can get you a time." I smiled.
"You'll walk me down, right Daddy?" He kissed my head smiling.
"For you baby, I'll do anything." I laid my head on his shoulder. "But you do know you're going to have to have another wedding so the family can be there." I nodded.
"I know." The door knocked. We both looked over at Tucker.
"Hey." He smiled walking in. "All made up now?" Dad nodded.
"I guess Carson is right. I was just being a grumpy old man." He kissed my head. "Did you set a date?"
"I was thinking the day of Prom. Seniors get the whole day off. We can go in the morning and get to go to Prom as Husband and Wife." Tucker said sitting down petting Saint who showed his belly.
"I'll tell them that. We'll be there. Are your parents going Tucker?" He shrugged.
"Haven't asked them yet." Dad stood up.
"Well I'll leave you two alone." He walked towards the door. "Tucker?" Tucker looked at him.
"Welcome to the family." He smiled before walking out closing the door behind him.
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AHA NewsHospitals had an estimated 116,000 registered nurse vacancies as of last December, according to "The 2007 State of America's Hospitals-Taking the Pulse," an AHA survey of hospital leaders that was released last month. Hospitals cite a litany of issues that contribute to a nationwide nursing shortage: the demanding nature of nursing, a lack of nurse educators - and facilities - to teach qualified applicants, an aging nurse population, and inadequate funding at the state and federal levels to support nurse education. At the same time, growing numbers of older Americans and an increase in chronic illnesses contribute to more people needing nursing services.
Aug 20, 2007
To help address serious nursing shortages, many hospitals look overseas to hire highly qualified registered nurses (RN). The AHA has called for changes in the U.S. visa policy to help ensure that hospitals can recruit RNs and other health care professionals from overseas. As part of that effort, the AHA and other organizations recently urged Congress to undertake visa reform legislation this year to help address dire shortages of highly skilled workers, including health care professionals.
"The inability of our members to bring highly educated workers into the United States, and retain them permanently when needed, severely hurts their ability to compete in the global market," the groups said in Aug. 2 letters to House and Senate members. "It is imperative that reforms to the H-1B visa program and the [employment-based] green card system occur this year, allowing American businesses to remain competitive."
In addition to the AHA, the letters were signed by the Business Roundtable, Financial Services Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Society for Human Resource Management and U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The AHA survey of hospital leaders found that workforce shortages are affecting patient care. These charts are included in the survey, which is at the "Research and Trends" section of www.aha.org. >
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Panaghiotis Karamanis serves as an Associate Researcher Class 1st at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France, at the Groupe de Chimie Théorique et Réactivité, ECP, IPREM UMR 5254, as well as at the Université de Pau et de Pays de l'Adour. He received a B.S. degree (1998, chemistry) from the University of Patras and a D.S. degree (2004, quantum chemistry) from the same university. His research interests are among the theoretical determination of electric multipole moments of molecular systems; systematic study of electronic structure, nonlinear optical property correlation; design of molecules with enhanced first and second dipole hyperpolarizabilities; electric properties of halogenated hydrocarbons; accurate calculation of electric polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities of atoms and small molecules, electric polarizability, and hyperpolarizability charge transfer complexes; electric polarizability and hyperpolarizability of organometallic compounds; structure and electric (hyper)polarizabilities of metal and arsenic clusters; construction of Gaussian basis sets to be used in theoretical studies of electric properties and molecular clusters; structure and electric (hyper)polarizabilities of small and medium sized homo and heteroatomic semiconductor clusters; construction of gaussian basis sets to be used in theoretical studies of electric properties of semiconductor clusters; study of the importance of pseudo-Jahn-Teller interactions in the determination of the equilibrium geometries of metal and semiconductor clusters; property oriented artificial cluster assembled materials; theoretical and computational investigations of atomic clusters and quantum mechanical design of superatomic building blocks of novel nanomaterials.
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The Guardian reports: Justin Fletcher is already the clown prince of British children's television and now he wants to conquer the world with a big-screen debut.
Such is the popularity of Mr Tumble that Justin is planning a feature-length movie version, hopefully including cameo performances from some of his celebrity admirers, among them Gary Barlow, Simon Pegg, Peter Kay and Johnny Depp.
He said: "I've stayed in touch with Gary Barlow, since we met at the Baftas, and I've had supportive emails from Simon Pegg and Peter Kay, both of whom I love, and I've been told that Johnny Depp brought his kids to a show I did in Bath, so it would be great to get them all involved.
"I've got a nice idea about Mr Tumble going through a regular day and coming across hundreds of children, like a kind of Pied Piper character, and I think it could work internationally, too, as there's minimal dialogue so there's no language barrier. Mr Bean is huge in places like Asia – and look at the success of The Artist."


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After Simon Cowell's villa is trashed: Top 5 rock 'n' roll mayhem moments
The Who's Keith Moon
Among the many legendary hotel tales concerning 'Moon the Loon' are those which involved aCadillac being driven into a pool, toilets beingblown up with cherry bombs(and later dynamite) and anepic food fightto mark his 21st birthday, initiated when he hurled a five-tier cake into the crowd that was partying in his room. Possibly the most recounted Moon-themed incident, however, remains the one where the drummer, after leaving a hotel, got his driver to turn around, exclaiming'I forgot something!' He then ran back to his room andthrew the TV out of the window(bear in mind this was before such behaviour became de rigueur, even boring, for rock stars). Oh – Moon ended upbannedfrom every Holiday Inn, Sheraton and Hilton hotel, by the way (just thought we'd mention it).
Led Zeppelin's John Bonham
In an example of an actual printable Led Zeppelin hotel story, the man considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock musicrode a motorbike down the corridorof LA's notorious Continental Hyatt House.
Rolling Stones' Keith Richards
Whether the (possibly immortal) Rolling Stone really is the reason hotel TVs are bolted down now or not, he was quite obviously indulging in a spot of myth-making in the 1972 moment forever archived on YouTube (below). At the LA stop of the Rolling Stones' North American tour, the guitarist, along with musician Bobby Keyes,lobbed a TV off a balcony(ten floors up) at the Continental Hyatt House. Before he did it, he made sure his resident documentary-maker was on hand to capture the carnage – even prompting the cameraman to 'tell us when'.
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil: Make sure their pasta's the right temperature, or else (Getty)
Legend has it that the beehived chanteuse , during her mini-meltdown phase,hurled a plate of spaghetti Bolognese at the wall of her hotel roomin Munich, Germany… because said snack arrived overheated. The alleged incident wasn't long after the 26-year-old racked up thousands in damages to a room at London's Sanderson hotel, mind. On that occasion, staff were reportedly leftcleaning blood off the wallsand repainting the gaff as a result of a run-in between Wino and Blake Fielder-Civil, her (now ex) husband.
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Syria's Assad confident unrest over, acknowledges mistakes
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad says he believes the unrest roiling the country is coming to an end while acknowledging that security services had made mistakes in trying to tame a two-month revolt.
The international community, meanwhile, appeared divided Wednesday on how to tackle the Syrian crisis. Switzerland joined an EU-led sanctions regime, while Russia warned it would oppose any proposed UN resolution to intervene with force in Syria.
Assad made the assertions in a meeting with a delegation of dignitaries from the Medan district of Damascus, a commercial zone, according to Wednesday's edition of the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan, close to the government.
"President Assad gave assurances that Syria had overcome the crisis it went through and that events (shaking the country) were coming to an end," the private daily quoted him as saying, without specifying when the meeting took place.
Assad also acknowledged wrongdoing on the part of security services, attributing it to lack of training for such circumstances which, he said, are usually handled by police, according to the paper.
It quoted him as telling members of the delegation that 4,000 police officers were currently undergoing training in order to avoid further mistakes.
"The role of the security services is to gather information, analyse it and hand it over to the proper authorities," a member of the delegation quoted the president as saying.
Assad's authoritarian regime has sought to crush the greatest challenge to nearly five decades of rule by his Baath party with a brutal crackdown that has left more than 850 people dead and at least 8,000 arrested, according to rights groups.
Although the opposition has the odds stacked against it, it has pushed forth with pro-democracy protests and, in a defiant move, called for a general nationwide strike on Wednesday that largely went unheeded.
Schools, shops and transport were operating normally in Damascus and other cities but an activist told AFP that a popular district of Aleppo, the second largest city, was affected as was the university campus.
"Only students and staff are being allowed on the campus," activist Moustapha Suleiman told AFP.
He said 2,000 people were also demonstrating in early afternoon in the town of Ifrin, north of Aleppo.
His account could not be independently verified as journalists are not allowed to travel freely in the country to cover the unrest.
The Syrian Revolution 2011, an Internet-based opposition group, had called for the strike in the hope of piling further pressure on the regime.
But several people interviewed in the capital Damascus, which has largely been spared the unrest so far, said no one would dare answer the call.
"Who would dare go on strike and risk losing their business or be targeted by authorities?" said one businessman who requested anonymity.
"If anyone pulls down their store shutters they would immediately be spotted and risk losing their livelihood."
Another merchant said the strike was of little use given that customers had all but dried up since the security forces began violently putting down the protests that broke out two months ago.
Switzerland announced new sanctions against Syria on Wednesday, saying it was following the European Union's lead in imposing an embargo on arms and on equipment used for internal repression.
"These restrictive measures were decreed due to the violent repression that the Syrian army and security forces have exerted over about two months to suppress the peaceful demonstrations of the population," said the Swiss economy ministry.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, meanwhile, said Russia would not support any United Nations resolutions on Syria similar to the global body's decision to use force against Libya.
The United States and European Union, which have slapped sanctions on members of Assad's inner circle, had warned Tuesday that further measures were being considered against the regime.
But Syrian authorities so far have appeared impervious to outside pressure, pushing ahead with a campaign that has consisted of laying siege to restive town by restive town while arresting thousands of protesters and opposition figures.
Some of those released have said they were tortured and others have been forced to sign pledges not to take part in further protests.


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I am not a great gift giver, and Valentine's Day isn't particularly important in our household. This year I decided that I would use my talents and make the hubby something that I knew would be a hit. Doug has a major sweet tooth that I like to indulge every now and then, so today is the perfect day for his favorite cookie.
Sugar cookies are my speciality. I have a crazy collection of cookie cutters, and I look for any excuse to make this divine little treats. Our freezer is always stocked with my special sugar cookie dough just waiting for the proper occasion to come out. Today is Dougs lucky day.
My culinary background has caused me to create a collection of recipes that are a hit with my family and friends. I have a 23 year old brother that loves these things so much that he sends me harassing text messages demanding that I send him a fresh batch. The beloved sugar cookie recipe was top secret until today when I decided to share it with you. Let it be noted that these ARE NOT a calorie friendly treat, and I refuse to alter the recipe in any way. I know that these are loaded with fat and sugar, and that makes me love them even more.
Britts Super Special Sugar Cookies
2 cups AP Flour
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 tablespoons Brandy (whole milk is can be an option here)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1. Cream the sugar and butter together in a mixer until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
2. In a separate bowl while butter is creaming add all of the dry ingredients together.
3. Add the beaten egg, the brandy or milk, and the vanilla to the butter and allow it to incorporate fully.
4. Slowly add the dry ingredients. Mix until completely combined.
5. Before rolling dough out to be cut into shapes, flatten dough in a thick pancake and wrap in plastic. Allow the dough to rest for a short while so that the gluten does not become overworked.
6. Preheat the oven to 350.
7. Roll dough out on a floured surface and cut into desired shapes. These bad boys only take about 8 to 10 minutes to cook. They do not need to be browned to be done, if they brown they may be over done.
Yummy Royal Icing
1 pound Powdered Sugar
2 Egg Whites or 5 teaspoons of Meringue Powder
Water until desired consistency
1. Sift the powdered sugar. Place into mixer with the paddle attachment.
2. Add the egg whites and combine.
3. Add a few tablespoons of water at a time until the frosting becomes your desired thickness.
4. When at desired consistency, turn mixer on high and allow to beat for a minute or until the frosting becomes light and fluffy. It will look like meringue, or a fluffy cloud.
Final step, AND THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP, eat and enjoy.


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Everyone's favourite plumber grabs a racket and returns to the courts in a 3D venture.
17 years ago Mario's Tennis marked the gaming icon's first proper arrival to the sport on the Nintendo Virtual Boy, a console using a head mounted display that was deemed the first to ever deliver the illusion of 3D visuals.
Now, the plucky Italian is returning to his three-dimensional tennis roots for the first time since in Mario Tennis Open – which also happens to be the first tennis title to grace the 3DS. Whilst fans of previous entries in the franchise can take to the court using the familiar basic controls, Mario Tennis Open also offers players touch screen options, as well as a control system based around the 3DS' gyro sensor.
Gamers can move the 3DS to shift the camera from a high angle to down behind the player. By using the gyroscope sensor, players can in turn control the views and direct volleys, slices and smashes easily all across the court.
Online servers
Those wanting to take to the courts online now can for the first time in Mario Tennis' history. There's the option to play singles or doubles online with up to four friends. Users can even take on passers by using only one copy of the game via a local connection. Players wanting a challenge can take part in the online Open Match mode, a feature that pits players of similar skill levels against each other. They can now display, customise and swap customised Mii characters with one another, fight to the top of leaderboards and show off winning streak records using 3DS StreetPass.
Nintendo's latest entry in the Mario Tennis franchise is packed full of memorable stadiums, playable favourite characters and is sure to appeal to Mario fans all ages – even those old enough to remember the first time he picked up a 3D racket. It's also a top choice for sport fans.
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Nintendo is ensuring that Mario Tennis Open is firmly in the public consciousness through an intensive ad campaign. Two weeks prior to release, a TV campaign will highlight the game's family appeal by targeting housewives and children.
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Mario Tennis Open will be promoted through an online campaign encouraging gamers to pre-order the title. This will continue alongside the TV coverage post-launch as the campaign turns its attention to 'purchase now' messages on a host of family websites.
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The marketing campaign will hit some of the UK's busiest shopping centres in a bid to push pre-orders and sales of the game at retail.
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After a long break from the sport, Mario Tennis Open marks Mario's return to tennis. The plumber cemented his status as king of the court with games on a variety of platforms including Mario Tennis, Mario Power Tennis (GameCube/Wii) and Mario Tennis: Power Tour (GBA).


text: Home > Entertainment Why Kathryn can't commit to Daniel Padilla ABS-CBN News Posted at Mar 18 2014 07:55 PM | Updated as of Mar 19 2014 05:29 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo. MANILA -- Teen star Kathryn Bernardo admitted that religion will play a huge part if ever she decides to take her relationship with leading man Daniel Padilla to the next level. During a press conference for her upcoming debut, the 17-year-old teen actress said she can only see herself committing to a relationship with someone who share the same religious beliefs. "Religion, malaking factor siya para sa ating lahat pero for me pagmahal mo naman ang isang tao, tatanggapin mo kung ano na ang tao na 'yun. Ako kung ganon na talaga ako, kailangan tanggapin na 'yun ng isang tao kasi ako na 'yun eh hindi mo na 'yun mababago," she said. A member of Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), Bernardo said that she would often talk and joke about the topic with Padilla, who is a known Catholic. "Minsan napag-uusapan namin 'yang about sa religion na 'yan, about sa mga differences ng teachings ng mga INC sa ganyan," she said. The actress, however, clarified that she is not pressuring the teen actor into converting. "Hindi ko siya tinatanong talaga na, 'willing ka ba?' Mapre-pressure ko naman siya di ba?" But the "Got To Believe" lead star revealed that she doesn't have anyone else in mind but Padilla as her boyfriend. "Kung paguusapan natin 'yung qualities at effort, malaki ang chance ni DJ dahil nakikita ko naman na mabait na tao si DJ. Aside from gwapo, 'yung personality maganda," she said. Asked if she would be willing to switch religions if it was the other way around, she gamely answered, "Of course, pero titingan ko muna 'yung teachings kung pasok sa mga pinaniniwalaan ko. Kung pasok naman eh walang problema." She added that what's important is having a fear for God, whichever a person's chosen religion may be. "Importante sa akin 'yung naniniwala at may takot sa taas," she said. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: debut catholic Iglesia ni Kristo Kathryn Bernardo Daniel Padilla /sports/09/23/17/pavlyuchenkova-beats-kerber-to-claw-into-pan-pacific-open-final/sports/09/23/17/muguruza-suffers-1st-loss-as-world-no-1-at-wozniackis-hands/sports/09/23/17/badminton-four-peat-seeking-bulldogs-open-season-80-on-high-note/news/09/23/17/ph-to-host-intl-communication-conference-for-the-first-time/entertainment/09/23/17/nadine-sick-with-dengue-after-mt-ulap-climb-with-james


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How is K-Fed's battle with the bulge going these days?
Golf enthusiast Kevin Federline hit a putting green in Simi Valley, Calif. on Thursday.
The 32-year-old ex-husband to Britney Spears and father to her two sons, Federline has famously struggled with his weight in the past couple years. He shocked fans with a much fuller, rotund physique on a golf course in spring 2009. He subsequently dropped 28 pounds during his stint on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, which aired this past spring.
"I looked pregnant," the former dancer said of the so-called "K-Fat" photos, adding that he was "over 240" pounds at his heaviest.
"A lot of things" in his personal life (including his messy 2006 divorce from Spears) contributed to the weight gain, Federline admitted.
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TALLAHASSEE — The half-step departure Ray Sansom engineered from his role as House speaker spread unease instead of calm Saturday, leading some top Republicans to consider permanently replacing him.
The development came toward the end of a day of questions about who is running the House, if Sansom's "recusal" from his duties is allowed by the rules, and how long his temporary successor, Rep. Larry Cretul of Ocala, can properly hold the position.
"Who's in charge over there? Who's steering the ship? This is strange," said Miami Republican Sen. Alex Villalobos, echoing a broad array of legislators.
On Friday, Sansom, 46, formally recused himself from his authority as speaker, giving Cretul temporary control of the chamber while Sansom focuses on a battery of investigations into his relationship with his hometown college. Sansom, R-Destin, stopped short of resigning the coveted post, in the hopes that he can return to power if his legal matters, including an investigation by a grand jury, can be resolved quickly.
Cretul, 61, may be an accidental speaker, but the two Republicans in line to become speaker in 2010 and 2012 were moving Saturday to ensure his status is not questioned and to smother talk about an internal election for a replacement.
"I'm proud of the decision Speaker Sansom's made to turn it over to speaker pro tem Cretul," said Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, who is the likely speaker in 2010. "Every member is saying that will enable us to get back to the business at hand."
Saturday, ranking Republicans were mulling whether to allow a meeting of the House GOP caucus with the goal of settling the dispute over who is in charge. They could seek a vote to install Cretul as the permanent speaker, in which case Sansom would simply become a state representative.
The importance of presenting a calm face is more than cosmetic. The House must unify quickly or enter the regular session, which begins March 3, as the weaker brother to the Senate.
The session will be dominated by the need to grapple with an estimated $3 billion budget deficit. What's more, lawmakers must conduct high-level negotiating on issues such as gambling, a possible state purchase of the CSX rail line and possibly the first tax increases the Legislature has considered in years.
And although Sansom's move was intended to bring calm, there are distinct signs of friction in the House.
A small but vocal faction of Republicans openly wants to sever ties with Sansom, even as they support him in his quest to clear his name after taking a $110,000 job at Northwest Florida State College in the Panhandle. A series of reports by the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau raised questions about tens of millions of dollars Sansom secured for the small school over the past two years, when he was House budget chairman.
"There's 18 million Floridians who don't care about all this legal stuff about recusals and stepping aside. All they want is a speaker who can serve," said Rep. Carl Domino, who briefly ran for speaker with Sansom and others a few years ago.
On Monday, Domino, R-Jupiter, plans to send a letter to House Majority Leader Adam Hasner asking him to call a meeting of all Republicans to decide whether a permanent speaker should be chosen.
"If we don't do that," said Domino, who would seek the position, "it's going to be like a cancer that hangs in the wind."
Rep. J.C. Planas, R-Miami, who was first to raise questions about the rule, said, "I echo that. I do not believe what has been done is according to the rules. This is inappropriate."
On Saturday, Rep. Jim Waldman, a Democrat from Coconut Creek, called on the House Rules Committee to decide how long Cretul can be temporary speaker, and whether a permanent successor should be chosen by the 120-member House.
"I will do the research and issue a recommendation," said Rep. Bill Galvano, the House Rules Council chairman and a Bradenton lawyer.
Galvano was Sansom's leading rival for speaker, and he emphasized Saturday he was not angling for the job now.
In stepping aside rather than down, Sansom cited an obscure House rule allowing him to remain as the speaker but delegate the responsibilities of the position to someone else until he feels he is "fit" to resume.
Questions immediately swirled, and Friday evening the House released a legal memo saying the move was proper.
"Because the rule has never been used before, certainly there are questions about how it is used," said Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, who is in line to become speaker in 2012. "I think as time goes on (critics) will see it's legitimate."
Cretul stayed out of the spotlight Saturday, saying he needed time to absorb the changes. He spent time studying the budget cuts enacted during a recent special session and Crist's decision to overturn some of them.
On Monday an issue dear to Cretul's heart will be in the spotlight when the Select Committee on the Seminole Indian Compact Review meets to hear testimony from the tribe's lawyers and tribal leaders.
Sansom had named Cretul to head that committee and the panel was widely expected to work toward limiting the expansion of gambling allowed at the tribe's Hard Rock casinos. On Monday, the meeting is expected to be run instead by the vice chair, Galvano, R-Bradenton.
Unlike Sansom, who has no gambling entities in his district, Cretul comes from the heart of Florida's thoroughbred breeding country which depends on horse racing, and he has pursued legislation in the past to protect his local jai alai fronton.
State senators of both parties say they're staying out of the Sansom affair, but they're concerned with the instability of the situation as well as the fact that no one is really sure who's in charge.
A two-speaker system, they say, wouldn't work in almost any year. But it's particularly harmful in such a challenging budget environment.
"This is not a true democracy. The Legislature is top down. So you need a real leader to call the shots," said Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres. "Figuring out who the real leader is will be crucial during budget time. It's all about horse trading. And you need to know who the owner of the horse is."
Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, said the House needs to clearly communicate who's in charge by the time the session begins. "It may be Cretul. It may be someone else. It's the beginning of the transition," he said. "That will come, hopefully, sooner rather than later. But it must come. You always have members who have issues you need to tend to as leader. They're looking for direction. And sadly, they're not getting it."
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Int J Cancer 95:7-11. 2001..The substantial incidence of skin cancer found among this population confirms the need for active dermatological monitoring among individuals with multiple visible actinic lesions...
- Factors associated with dietary supplement use among healthy adults of five ethnicities: the Multiethnic Cohort StudyJanet A Foote
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Flash flooding is causing travel chaos across Sussex this afternoon.
West Sussex Fire and Rescue have received reports from members of the public that cars are floating in the excessive rainwater in Uckfield.
The high street there is also blocked with water levels reaching car bumpers. Firefighters are pumping water out of the Cock and Bull pub and staff at the St James's and St Paul's Hospice charity shop told The Argus the water has ruined much of its stock.
Both Southern and First Capital Connect services are running with delays of up to 50 minutes after flooding at Haywards Heath.
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Sleigh Bells, Reign of Terror
When thinking of sleigh bells, one likely visualizes Christmas, reindeers, crowded malls and a certain jolly red saint. For a minority however, sleigh bells bring to mind the Brooklyn noise pop duo. Granted, there is a gigantic divide between the two, and nobody could confuse one from the other. It's the strange and unlikely existence of this division that speaks as an endorsement to the original and creative sound of Sleigh Bells. It is only after listening to Sleigh Bells could one understand first thinking of Sleigh Bells the band vs. the association to Christmas.
Sleigh Bells first release, Treats (2010), was a surprising commercial success and its songs were used in popular shows such as Gossip Girl and the US version of Skins. That's unexpected considering the bombastic and loud nature of their music. But that's the real charm of Sleigh Bells. Yes, Treats was loud, but it was also pretty darn fun to listen too. If forced to describe their sound, it's kind of Slayer meets Bananarama. Really. This musical contradiction works, and works well. Are they loud? Yes. Do they have heavy riffs? Yes. What about catchy melodies? Yes. Are there danceable beats? Oh yeah.
Where Treats was seemingly about fun times Sleigh Bells second album Reign of Terror continues their trademark sound, however much darker and lugubrious. Most of Treats sounds like youthful innocence experiencing heartbreak and depression for the first time. "Born to Lose" is sung with a taunting waltz and the lyrics sound like the demented vitriol from a schoolyard bully. "Heard you say suicide in your sleep, just get on with it you were born to loose." As cruel as those words are, its message is about mocking the notion of suicide. The words are empowering for someone that's had enough with depression and the sorrow they carry.
Like "Born to Lose," the lyrics from Reign of Terror sound like lessons learned from the wisdom of having experienced hell and living to tell about it. The song "End of the Line" proclaims "I'm central now" after a failed relationship where one felt marginalized.
The innovative sound of Sleigh Bells is frenzied and orotund at times and at others focused and contemplative. The slower songs are introspective while the louder ones are all out blitzes. The image on the cover art is a prime example of what's in store for the listener: it's a pair of recently worn white Keds looking like their owner survived combat with spatters of blood stained on them.
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KNSI) - St. Cloud State University sophomore relief ace Reese Gregory (St. Cloud, Minn./Apollo H.S.) has been named to the 2014 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Division II All-America Team as a third team selection. This marks the second consecutive season that Gregory has been named to the NCBWA's All-America squad.
An All-NSIC First Team pick in 2014, Gregory ended his season with a team leading 10 wins (10-3) and seven saves. He charted 58 strikeouts and a 1.30 earned run average in 55.1 innings of work for the Huskies in 2014. In two seasons at SCSU, Gregory owns a team record of 17 career saves. A multi-talented player, Gregory also played third base for the Huskies and ranked second on the team with a .382 batting average that included 34 hits, seven doubles, 23 RBIs and 15 runs.
In addition to his NCBWA All-America honors in 2014, Gregory has also earned NCBWA, Daktronics and Rawlings/ABCA Division II All-Region honors.
The Huskies ended the season with a 37-14 overall record in 2014. In the always rugged NSIC, the Huskies placed third in the regular season standings with a record of 24-9 under the leadership of seventh year head coach Pat Dolan.
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2 cans (500 grams or 16oz per can) chickpeas, drained
1 small onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp sriracha or your favorite hot sauce (optional)
1/3 cup fresh parsley
1/3 cup fresh cilantro
1 egg
juice of one large lemon
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup flour
salt to taste
canola oil for frying
For serving: fried eggplant, pickles, chopped tomatoes, chopped cucumber, tahini, hummus.
Place the chickpeas, onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, sriracha, parsley, cilantro, egg and lemon juice in a food processor and pulse to combine. You want everything mostly chopped with no large chunks but you don't want to process it that much that it looks like hummus. Remove to a bowl and mix in the baking powder, flour and season with salt. Cover and refrigerate for half an hour. Heat about 3 inches of oil in a deep pan until about 360 degrees. Make rounded balls out of the chickpea mixture (a cookie scoop is great here) and gently drop into the oil. Fry until golden all around.


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Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player: Features & Hook-up Page 2
To put it bluntly, I wasn't crazy about the BD-P1000's remote. Pretty to look at and comfortable in the palm with its narrow girth, it nonetheless suffers from too many tiny and indistinct buttons placed too close together, particularly the ever-important Play, Stop, and Chapter Advance/Back buttons. Samsung also put the volume and channel up/down buttons for a TV right in the middle of the remote, smack between the menu navigation cluster and those critical transport keys. Consequently, you have to slide the remote up or down in your hand or else contort your thumb to gain access to both groupings. Add to all this the lack of a backlight - a real disappointment on a $1,000 cutting-edge player. Consider a universal remote if you plan on living with one of these players long-term.
High definition disc players, we're learning, are pretty complicated beasts. Setting up Samsung's Blu-ray player for best performance is neither for the weak of heart nor the untechnical of mind, but it proved simpler than for Toshiba's HD-AX1. If you're using an HDMI connection to your TV, the player actually makes it very easy. A handshake protocol built into the HDMI interface called Extended Display Identification Data, or EDID, enables the BD-P1000 to learn the connected TV's maximum resolution, at which point it automatically sets itself to that resolution and activates the HDMI output. This works well in theory, but we did occasionally find that as we switched about on our TV inputs or reset the player outputs in some way it would default to undesirable resolutions, such as 720p on our 1080p TV or even 480p at one point. Yikes! Fortunately, you can see your resolution setting clearly via the front panel display (or on the screen at 480p) and change resolution in the BD-P1000's setup menu as needed.
EDID also complicated use of the player's 1080p output option. We had four 1080p-compliant displays on hand, all of which should have worked nicely with this output. But this signal is available only via HDMI, and the EDID information must be communicated before the BD-P1000 will send any HDTV signal to any display via HDMI. If the Samsung doesn't think your TV can handle a particular HDTV format, it defaults to the next-best and grays out the higher-resolution format on its setup menu, preventing you from selecting it manually.
That's unfortunate for owners of the popular Westinghouse LVM-42w2, a 42-inch 1080p LCD panel that's said to accept 1080p signals. Because of an apparent lack of EDID compliance, the Samsung will send it only 1080i.
No such problem with a pair of HP 1080p DLP rear projectors or a new Sony SXRD rear projector, all of which immediately triggered 1080p output from the BD-P1000 when connected directly to the player. But when we tried connecting these sets through an HDMI-capable A/V receiver - mandatory for pulling the uncompressed LPCM soundtracks off the discs without resorting to the BD-P1000's 5.1-channel analog outputs - the player choked. Though we haven't confirmed it, we suspect our Yamaha RX-V2600 receiver won't pass a 1080p signal. But there was no way to force-feed 1080p into the Yamaha or the Westinghouse to test.


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The Readers Digest Bubble wrap, banana peel, baby oil and beyond is a hardback book that I picked up from a charity shop for £1.50. The front cover depicts a banana peel and claims 1,700 tips for a better home and garden.
The book is divided into thirteen chapters and a special section at the end:
Chapter 1 Cooking and serving shortcuts
Chapter 2 Creative kitchen cleaning
Chapter 3 Housekeeping Secrets
Chapter 4 winning the war on clutter
Chapter 5 Make your space into a perfect home
Chapter 6 Natures home remedies
Chapter 7 looking your best
Chapter 8 Great ideas for parents and children
Chapter 9 Favourite pet Subject
Chapter 10 tips for travellers
Chapter 11 handy hints for gardeners
Chapter 12 Marvellous tricks for motors
Chapter 13 ingenious DIY repairs
Special Sections the clever homemakers crisis centre
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Chapter 1 Cooking and serving shortcuts
The chapter gives you tips on how to keep food fresh and not only cooking but also rescuing from a disaster. My most useful tip from this section is to put a lettuce leaf on top of a dish and it will draw the fat in and this is great for those times when you have a ready meal.
Chapter 2 Creative kitchen cleaning
This chapter is concerned with not only cleaning the kitchen but the best ways to clean pans, utensils and keep it sparkly clean. It talks about organising the fridge and actually tackling bugs in the kitchen. This contains information I have previously learnt on food and Hygiene courses and has practical tips not just advice. It does deal with dishwashers as well as the issues for those of us without such modern gadgets.
Chapter 3 Housekeeping Secrets
This chapter uses some old fashioned methods for cleaning that you would expect Kim and Aggies to be using on how clean is your house. But this book is not old fashioned. It does talk about cleaning TV screens and does discuss differences with the modern LCD screens. This is the section where the benefit of the banana peel is finally revealed and the inside of the peel can be wiped on silver to clean off tarnish. It also gives you ten ways to clean with lemons. I don't consider all of them to be effective the one tip I tried that doesn't work is to put a can of coke in the toilet. I tried this when I moved into my current house and the toilet was dirty and noticed no significant improvement. But there are a few that are priceless. Cleaning mirrors with a solution of vinegar and water and newspaper is one I now incorporate into my every day cleaning.
Chapter 4 winning the war on clutter
I find this section while it is very eco friendly a little bit green for me. It talks about recycling everything from egg boxes to coffee jars for storage. For me while I do like to be organised I like purpose boxes which might not be the most environmentally approach but it does make me happier in my own home. There is a box that describes 13 things you can store in tights but for me if my legs don't go in them they go in the bin.
Chapter 5 Make your space into a perfect home
This is full of usual ideas for making your home very individual. It reminds me of Kristie Allsops Current series on channel 4 which doesn't always use the expensive or expected techniques. This also looks at arranging the house for a party including table decorations.
Chapter 6 Natures home remedies
This is as expected looks at home remedies. This looks at treatments for babies to adults. The most useful one has been a gastrointestinal tract calmative which I have been able to give my friend who is undergoing chemotherapy so treatments she can use for IBS are very limited. It comes up with various ways of dealing with sleeplessness and anxiety.
Chapter 7 Looking your best
This book starts by looking at beauty tips then moves on to caring for your clothes. But it also has tips on resizing a hat and removing various stains from clothes. To be fair I don't really use this I use a stain remover in my wash and if it doesn't work I tend to bin them. It does have some useful tips such as spray shaving foam on tomato sauce. It does have a be prepared sections such as carrying around a sewing kit in your handbag in case of emergency repairs
Chapter 8 Great ideas for parents and children
This does have crafts you can do with children .Things you can make with an empty kitchen roll, How to make finger paints. Actually creating the finger paint can as much of a fun activity as the painting itself. It also does have a tip I have since read about cleaning the inside of rubber ducks which I have thrown a few of these away as they go mouldy inside and is something that I didn't have any idea how to deal with previously.
Chapter 9 Favourite pet Subject
This chapter is looks at diet, cheap toys, fleas and recognising different types of animals. This also deals with smells and eliminating them. I don't have any pets so this is not a subject I have read much of.
Chapter 10 tips for travellers
This chapter starts as you would predict with packing advice but it does then move on for handy, tips while travelling. It gives tips for outdoors camping and even down to the sleeping bags smell fresh.
Chapter 11 handy hints for gardeners
This tends to focus on growing vegetables, seedling but also has great tips on growing a great lawn. Some of the ideas of very different from what you read in general gardening books. It does talk about not only the flowers but the weeds and animals in the garden which is unusual for gardening books.
Chapter 12 Marvellous tricks for motors
I have to say I do not enjoy car maintenance and tend to ignore it.I know my own garage well and have even popped in before for him to check the oil to save having to lift the bonnet. This I am sure has very handy tips but simply can't bring myself to read it.
Chapter 13 ingenious DIY repairs
There are some novel ways of reducing your energy bill. My favourite which I do intend to try is to create double glazing by cling film which although it only lasts a year something well worth a try. Mending doors, ceilings and fixing up furniture.
Special Sections the clever homemakers crisis centre
This is split into three sections, Body, household and on the road. These are the title suggests emergency fixes that you want an instant or temporary fix for.
This book is full of handy tips. It is not the sort of book that you would sit down and read. I find some of the book very hippyish and not for me but I do find it very useful. It has a very comprehensive index which means if you have a problem searching is very simple. You may be able to find many of these tips on Google but it still teaches you things you would never think to Google.
I find this quite different to other household tips books I have read which do tend to look at cleaning and repairing rather than the holistic approach that this book takes. I have used quite a few tips in this book and while not all have been successful many are.
This book is currently available on Amazon market place for £1.90 plus £2.75 postage and packaging. While not as cheap as I managed to get this book for I do think it is a very useful book to keep at home for reference and dipping in and out of.


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I was told at one point to listen to my heart. Seriously, it was the dumbest advice I think I've ever followed. I'm not going to lie, before I started listening to my heart I was pretty darn single. Now I'm a naive crybaby who believes in bull****. I feel as if I am maturing in reverse, l used to spot dumbasses from a mile away, and now I'm dating one. My heart has daddy issues, which are never sexy. I used to be able to hold an intelligent conversation, now I feel like I sound like a dumbass. WTF am I doing? I'm a free bird, I'm stubborn, I'm wild, I can't be tamed! Some dumb boy can't tame me! I'm sarcastic and sinister and a cold-hearted bitch, wtf am I trying to love for? I can't do this... the world is my oyster, I can't be tied down.


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West Virginia's Bureau of Medical Services is not following a 2011 federal directive to suspend Medicaid payments to health-care providers accused of fraud, putting it at risk of losing between $17.9 million to $211 million in federal matching funds, a legislative audit released Tuesday warns.
The audit notes that a 2011 amendment to the Affordable Care Act requires states to suspend Medicaid payments to providers once it is determined that an allegation of fraud is credible and is referred to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for investigation.
Since the rule went into effect in March 2011, the Bureau of Medical Services has referred 65 cases to the Fraud Control Unit, but 58 of those cases show no record that payments to the providers were suspended, the audit found.
During that time, providers whose cases have been referred to the Fraud Control Unit have been paid at least $17.9 million by Medicaid, and the audit found that amount could be as high as $211 million.
If the bureau were to be audited by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for failure to comply with the suspension of payments requirement, it could lose those amounts of money in federal matching funds, the audit concluded.
However, Alva Page, counsel for the bureau, told legislators the Department of Health and Human Resources has requested, but not received, clarification from CMS on the payment suspension rule, particularly on what constitutes a credible allegation of fraud.
He said the DHHR had received a draft response from CMS, but by law, is not permitted to divulge its contents.
Page suggested CMS must have intended for the rule to be interpreted liberally, to avoid "a chilling effect on referrals to the Fraud Unit."
"That has been the issue since the audit, and since the regulation came out," he said.
Additionally, DHHR Secretary Karen Bowling submitted a letter to legislative auditors noting that 37 cases cited in the audit were pending an initial review or further investigation.
Of those, four cases were closed after successful adjudication, resulting in more than $4.67 million in settlements or restitution, while eight cases were closed without merit, after the allegations of fraud were not substantiated, she stated.
Also during interim meetings Tuesday, Community and Technical College Chancellor Joe Skidmore briefed legislators on expansion of oil and gas training programs at West Virginia Northern and Pierpont community colleges in light of burgeoning Marcellus Shale drilling.
Skidmore said plans include adding an outdoor drilling rig simulator, and possibly expanding training classes to WVU Parkersburg and to offer retraining programs for laid off coal miners at southern West Virginia community colleges.
Current offerings train students to serve as technicians and as assistants to engineers and geologists. Charlie Burd, executive director of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, told the Joint Committee on Economic Development that starting salaries for those positions start in the mid-$70,000 range.
"These are relatively high-paying jobs," he said.
Skidmore said one obstacle in expanding the courses has been the difficulty hiring instructors, since the pay is low compared to industry salaries. He said the CTCs have relied on hiring recent retirees, or having instructors on loan from the oil and gas companies.
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A NAZI plot to use exploding bars of chocolate to kill members of the wartime cabinet has been uncovered in the Cotswolds.
Jean Bray, of Hailes Street, Winchcombe, discovered secret wartime letters when she was sorting correspondence belonging to her late husband, Laurence Fish.
The letters were between Lord Victor Rothschild – one of MI5's most senior intelligence chiefs – and her husband, who was an artist working in his unit.
In one of the letters Lord Rothschild, who headed the countersabotage department, asked him to draw images of the chocolate bars to alert those in the field who might find them after a sharp-eyed British spy spotted one and raised the alarm.
Stamped "SECRET" in red letters and written from Lord Rothschild's bunker in Parliament Street, London, the letter says: "Dear Fish, I wonder if you could do a drawing for me of an explosive slab of chocolate.
We have received information that the enemy are using pound slabs of chocolate which are made of steel with a very thin covering of real chocolate.
"Inside there is high explosive and some form of delay mechanism, but we do not know what.
When you break off a piece of chocolate at one end, instead of it falling away a piece of canvas is revealed. When the chocolate is pulled sharply the canvas is also pulled and this initiates the mechanism. After seven seconds, the bomb goes off."
Jean, aged 80, said she found them when she was sorting through the late artist's papers to write about his life and work for her book Pick Up a Pencil.
"I have tried to find out more about this letter and the others I have from the period but I haven't had any luck," she said.
"Laurence knew Lord Rothschild quite well. After the war he went back to Cambridge to do his scientist work and got him to do some drawings for him."
The exploding bars were packaged in expensive-looking black and gold paper and branded as Peter]s Chocolate. The aim of the plot was for the bars to be taken into meetings of the British War Cabinet, targeting high-ranking officials and even Winston Churchill.
But the plot was foiled by British intelligence before the bars could pose any danger to the wartime Prime Minister.
Lord Rothschild valued Laurence's work so much that he included a section called Fish Junior in his book Random Variables but Jean said her husband never knew about it.
Laurence lived in Winchcombe for the last 15 years of his life and died in 2009 aged 89.
His commercial work and fine art has been on display at the Winds of Change Gallery in Winchcombe.


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If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
UNICEF, the world's leading organization working for the rights of children, seeks a Deputy Regional Director, D-1, Bangkok, Thailand.
Supports the Regional Director in the management of the Regional Office. Provide leadership and support to Country and Area offices, ensuring coordination and synergy between regional staff and country office leadership in information exchange and maintaining strategic alliances.
The Deputy Regional Director advises and assists the Regional Director on matters relating to regional policy formulation and implementation supporting UNICEF programme, operations and communications strategy. Represents the Regional Director within and outside the United Nations system, as required.
The Deputy Regional Director provides oversight for programme management in the region, providing direction, leadership and guidance to the multi-disciplinary team of professionals of the regional office to ensure the achievement of organizational mission, strategy, goals and objectives. The Deputy Regional Director may directly supervise the Operational or Programme areas as designated by the Regional Director.
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Until our times, more often than not, maps and charts were state secrets
- By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Earlier this year, one of youse recommended that I read Lloyd Brown's The Story of Maps. First, thank you! I enjoyed it.
One of the things that really struck me was how closely held maps were for most of human history. "They were much more than an aid to navigation," Brown writes. "They were, in effect, the key to empire, the way to wealth. As such, their development in the early stages was shrouded in mystery, for the way to wealth is seldom shared. There is no doubt that the complete disappearance of all charts from the earliest period is due to their secret nature and to their importance as political and economic weapons of the highest order."
Reading that made me wonder if military historians should consider the invention of reliable maps as a revolution in military affairs, akin to the invention of the stirrup and the weaponization of gunpowder. If so, which nations benefited? First, it appears from reading Brown, were the Phoenicians — though, he says, none of their maps has survived.


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Madonna Goes Grass Roots for Gucci and UNICEF
Having arrived at Berlin's Schoenefeld airport back in August dressed in a bathrobe, Madonna clearly believes she is a woman who can wear whatever she wants.
The 50-year-old divorced mother of three's presence graced the UNICEF benefit dinner last night. Perhaps she'd been told this year's soiree had a Jolly Green Giant motif?
Held at the Plaza in New York City, the event celebrated the launch of Gucci's Tattoo Heart Collection. Handbags from the luxury line are decorated with a "tattoo heart" design and iconic Gucci symbols. Gucci commits 25 percent of all Tattoo Heart sales to the United Nations Children's Fund.
Madonna's sense of charity may have been inspired by soon-to-be-ex husband Guy Ritchie, 40. Guy has reportedly asked for none of his former wife's $500-million fortune in their divorce settlement.
Guy certainly won't be making any claim on this green grass tunic dress, but don't be surprised if Gwen Stefani, 39, calls and requests the return of her makeup kit.


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Chapter 7 of "Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right" reveals the roots of organizational democracy and hierarchy and the role of the leader in catalyzing conversations that lead to the best decisions. By telling the story of how the citizens of ancient Athens debated and made critical defense decisions in the face of the oncoming Persian army, the authors provide the Ur-example of a democratic culture that embraced collective decision making. *About the book:* Despite the dizzying amount of data at our fingertips today--and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions--many organizations' most critical choices still come down to human judgment. In "Judgment Calls," from which this chapter is taken, authors Tom Davenport and Brook Manville share twelve stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability--a competence they say can make the difference between success and failure. The authors--both of them seasoned management thinkers and advisers--introduce a model that taps the collective judgment of the entire organization, so that the right decisions are made and the entire organization profits. Each chapter tells a unique story of one dilemma and its ultimate resolution, bringing into high relief one key to the power of collective judgment. Individually, these stories inspire and instruct; together, they form a model for building an organizational capacity for broadly based, knowledge-intensive decision making.
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Sessions fears Conrad will bypass GOP on budget
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, implied Wednesday that North Dakota Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the panel, might try to circumvent the 23-member committee and bring his own 2012 budget proposal directly to the floor.
"With still no mark-up scheduled, weeks after the deadline has passed, I am becoming concerned that Chairman Conrad may bypass the committee process altogether," Sessions said in a statement released to POLITICO on Wednesday.
Conrad spokesman Stu Nagurka said he has not heard his boss discuss that option. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) acknowledged in a conference call with reporters Wednesday that Conrad is mulling a Democrat-only budget proposal.
"We have Senator Conrad, who's working on a budget, either a bipartisan or Democratic budget in the Senate," Reid said.
On Tuesday, Sessions and the budget panel's 10 other Republicans sent a letter to Conrad urging him to produce a budget plan, post it online and present it in open committee meetings where the public could review it and members could amend it.
Sessions also has criticized a deficit-reduction plan being negotiated behind closed doors by the so-called Gang of Six, a bipartisan group of senators that includes Conrad. While the proposal won't contain tax hikes, it is expected to eliminate some tax breaks and scale back others.
"Rumors that the Gang of Six proposal may contain a substantial increase in Americans' tax burden speaks to a broader concern: that the public is being removed from this process by crafting a budget behind closed doors instead of in a committee that is open to the public and the press," Sessions said.
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Hey all!
So, the brief version of my story is that 5 years ago I was a 252 lb. beer swilling couch potato. After quitting drinking, and watching my diet, I was able to lose weight, train for and complete a number of sprint and olympic triathlons. Then, in 2006 -- disaster hit... oops -- I mean, I got a gift -- my adrenals fried and I experienced major burnout in life. I rode the roller coaster of feeling better/feeling bad... training/not training... experimenting with diets, supplements, the whole deal.
This year, I finally have my training on track, but my diet has been a roller coaster still, and in triathlon that truly is the fourth discipline. I am heavier than I want to be, addicted to sugar and refined carbs, and ready to just be consistent with this way of eating.
As a sidenote, I am not into 'chronic cardio,' I am a huge fan of Dr. Phil Maffetone, Brad Kearns' books (that's how I found out about Mark's Daily Apple), and training in a sensible HR range (truly aerobic) most of the time, with strength training and anaerobic training when the time is right. I do believe that we are way too brainwashed on needing carbs, and always feel better when I eat primally...
SO....... here's the starting point:
45 years old
200 lbs.
~22% body fat
insomnia, fatigue, and not enough rest...
Today's food so far:
B - 2 eggs w/ cheese omelet, turkey bacon
S - nuts
L - Boston Market - 1/4 chicken with green beans, veggies... hint - if you ask for no corn bread, you get a LOT of veggies!
S - more nuts, snuck in a muscle milk light as well.
Dinner I think will be chicken with veggies...
NONE! Today is a rest day!
Looking forward to going primal with you all!