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Hoodman Clothing CEO Discusses Messages Behind New Line
Our friends at Hoodman Clothing kicked off '08 with some successful projects and built a following and clientele that includes the likes of Talib Kweli and Kidz in the Hall to a regular dude at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. In between donating part of the sales to his favorite presidential candidate Obama (who serves as the main theme for Hoodman's most successful shirt so far), posing for the new campaign, teaming up with artists, throwing parties and finishing his law exams, CEO Eddie Huang and his crew have been putting together a new line.
So far three new designs have been added to their collection. Read on as Eddie fills us in about the Summer '08: The Cake Makers Society and what else Hoodman is cooking.
BallerStatus.com: Tell me more about the new collection, Summer '08: The Cake Makers Society.
Eddie Huang: Just some background, the whole Cake Makers Society theme is a twist on Dead Poets Society. We always see these movies like "DPS," "Dangerous Minds, "Coach Carter" ... a lot of 'em are bullsh** with happy endings. But in reality, there is a huge problem with how the system caters to the middle of the road. People on the margins, whether they're non-English speakers, learning disabled, or culturally incompatible, they get left out. I think the last ditch effort for a lot of people is to come up outside/after school, whether it's football, side hustles, skating, graf, writing/MCing, etcetera. People make a name for themselves doing things outside the wall and they develop crews. I always felt I learned more just grindin' with my people outside of school.
BallerStatus.com: On the promotional poster you're baking cakes. I noticed a lot of your blogs on Hoodman.tv are also food related. Now what's up with the food addiction?
Eddie Huang: Yeah, you know, this season we're the Cake Makers gettin' money by any means. This isn't my mentality now 'cause I don't feel ends always justify means, but back a few years ago, this is how I felt. We all wanted to come up by any means. People look down on "corner hustles," but that sh** prepared me more for real life than any book or teacher I ever met. Just like now, there are a lot of situations with collecting on payment, dealing with club promoters, marketing/advertising ... They are some shady motherf***ers. They try to bill you for phony service or change terms half way through a deal, or take the money first and don't deliver on things. School doesn't ever teach you how to deal with that. Everything I do to solve these problems, I learned from all the off-beat sh** we did when we bounced from school. You see a lot of these dudes now who were real safe with it in high school and when things go wrong now, they just sit on their hands 'cause they ain't got a clue. Most successful people I meet now, a lot of them are drop outs or people who did just enough to graduate and put themselves in a position where they could put their skills from the outside to work on the inside.
BallerStatus.com: The new line includes three designs: Schools Ain't Teach Us Sh**, Babies Are The New Chihuahuas, and Uncle Kim Wants You For North Korea. Let's elaborate on these new shirts a little. First, what's your problem with the scholar system?
Eddie Huang: It (the system) just doesn't care about the people who don't fit into the cookie cutter. I stayed in detention and ended up having to go to six schools in five years, so everything about it I can't stand. Along the way, I had a handful of real dope teachers, but everything they did for me was like talking to me after class, in detention ... about getting my mind right and putting my talent to more useful things. It took a while to put it together and I'm still not where I need to be, but things they said start to make sense now. The point is though that what they did for me was on a personal level outside the curriculum as a human, not a teacher in the system. There's no time for that in school.
BallerStatus.com: The Babies Are The New Chihuahuas tee contains images of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Babies have become the new accessories. What made you decide to use Asian babies for this concept?
Eddie Huang: Well, I went to China a few times in the last three years and one time I stayed at this hotel, the White Swan in Guangzhou, right next to the adoption centre in that province. MAD Americans from the Upper Westside or like rich Southern people were adopting Asian babies. The whole damn hotel was full of them. I swear me and my brothers were the only ones with Chinese parents, it was hilarious. I'm glad people open up their homes to Chinese kids, but it's heartbreaking at the same time to see a country that your parents/grandparents came from and it can't provide homes for its own. That shirt is definitely bittersweet for me 'cause it's funny and we're commenting on the situation, but for some people, like myself, you're hurting inside to see it.
I'm friends with a lot of adopted Asian kids and their parents are great and they definitely prefer being in America, so for them, it's all good. I just think about the parents that had to give them up cause of the one child rule and it has to be painful. No cultures better than any other, for real, but from my vantage point, it sucks for the kids that kind of miss out on the Chinese experience. I don't know how to say it without coming off weird, but I like that I grew up in a pretty traditional Chinese home with my parents 'cause it gave me a lot of perspective about America. There's also an African baby on the shirt because a lot of babies from Africa get adopted and the same issues are present there. In Africa, it's almost worse because there isn't a one child policy; people just can't care for them and want better for the kids.
BallerStatus.com: What message do you want to send out by stating "Uncle Kim Wants You For North Korea?"
Eddie Huang: That shirt is hilarious. You know, we always see Uncle Sam posters like, "Uncle Sam Wants You for U.S.A." and I think it's funny. Imagine if you put that poster up in another country. We can dress it up as much as we want, but you have a military to kick the sh** out of someone else or to defend yourself. I've said it before here, but I feel in our generation with so much communication between people in different countries and media/art exchange, that we should be a more global community. If there's a free market for trading, why are we still so defined by our nation-state boundaries which are man-made, at least in our thoughts. We categorize and stereotype people in other nations so much and there's a huge divide even just between us and Mexico or Canada, it's weird. So, I just imagined what it's like for people in other countries, maybe they have jump-offs like "Uncle Kim Wants You!"
Also, for a lot of kids in high school that don't have opportunities, they join the military. John Kerry had a quote about that where he was criticized, but he's right. The military is a fallback last option for a lot of people. Sould had a great shirt a few seasons back where they said, "Draft the Bourgeois" and put the Bush daughters on it. If you were in North Korea, you don't have a choice: you fight for Uncle Kim. There's a lot to that shirt and I can't explain it all here, but people don't get to choose their teams. We villainize people in other countries without understanding them like North Korea, Iran ... but we have to remember these people are born onto those teams. You can hate the leaders, but the people are just like us. We answer to Uncle Sam, they answer to Uncle Kim.
BallerStatus.com: A lot has happened since our last interview. The new website Hoodman.tv launched, Magic was very successful and productive for you guys, Kidz in the Hall rocked your shirts in their new videos and photo shoots, plus you threw some great parties. How do you look back on the first months of '08? What was the biggest highlight?
Eddie Huang: Man, I can't believe I'm in one piece; the beginning of '08 was crazy. I actually just finished my last law school exam this week, so I was doin' that while also working on all the Hoodman stuff. Plus, I've been designing Whoo Kid's line for SV Boutique. That project is gonna be hot, dropping in June. If you go to: Myspace.com/DJWhooKid, go into his pictures and you'll see the skateboard deck we did for him. He's got a super hero theme 'cause he's big on comic books. I also got Rotten Bananas dropping on SV Boutique and that's been in the works forever. I love that line. It's about using fruit to explore racial identity and minority culture. Not just racial, but any cultures that aren't picked up by the mainstream media/consumer. Right now it's really abstract just to get people thinking about it, but we'll start banging out the nitty gritty issues later in the year.
We also are stepping up Hoodman with a campaign for the fall, plus a new line. The highlight is kinda funny 'cause it caught me by surprise. We get requests for gear from a lot of people and they're real good about letting us know when they're gonna rock them, so we can check it out. But, one night I was just watching Flow TV in NY and the whole Ghostface/Rakim/Brother Ali tour was on. I watched "Biscuits" and I see Wigz and Trife Da God with Hoodman on for the whole damn tour. It was like 4:00 a.m., so I was like, "My ass must be really torn up." I think just bumping into people who show love on the strength of the message is what still makes it worth it. A few months back, I was in the line at Apple and a kid next to me was wearing the Lucky Cat shirt. I was looking at it and he got real tough and says, "You want it off my back or something!" It was kinda funny; I just bought my computer and bounced. I have about 40 of those shirts left in my basement (laughs).
BallerStatus.com: The Obama shirt has become legendary. You even donated part of the sales to his movement and talk about the elections and attendant circumstances on your blog. As a connoisseur, how do you estimate Obama's chances?
Eddie Huang: It's over: game, set, match, he's got it sewed up. McCain wants to keep people in Iraq for 100 years, George Bush is talking out the side of his mouth in Israel, and Hillary was trying to get Florida/Michigan reinstated, but even with those states, she lost 'cause all the super delegates are supporting Obama, plus, the people are for him too. The only one that doesn't know it was over is Hillary.
BallerStatus.com: The Obama shirt has been bootlegged by the people over at Zazzle, which must be frustrating since you put hard work into it and even donate sales to a good cause. What did you do when you find out someone had been copying the design?
Eddie Huang: Man, here's the thing. I'm all for bootlegging. Sh**, I bootleg everything; the movies I watch are Canal St. DVDs with the shaky hand camcorder in the theatre (laughs). But for me, I'm an independent business. It's not like I'm LV or Gucci rakin' it in. Our sales definitely slowed up once that shirt appeared on Zazzle because people that aren't into street wear or quality shirts, just go buy the knock-off. Plus, I donate half the proceeds, so it definitely hits my pockets. There really is a difference between hittin' up a big company for their designs and an independent like myself. I reported it to Zazzle, but I'm probably not going to sue because I know that dude is just trying to eat as well. I'm against copyright/trademark for a lot of things like transformative works or derivative works in some cases, but when you just straight copy it with no new design or anything for sales, it's kinda wack.
BallerStatus.com: We look forward to the rest of the year, with albums from Nas, Common and Lil Wayne coming up. What does Hoodman Clothing have in store for us the next six months?
Eddie Huang: I'm not gonna say too much, but we got these Obama v. The Machine shirts coming, which jump off the campaign and it builds through the fall and winter into '09. Him getting in office just sets things up for the rest of us to get to work. It's only started ... If you want to get a reminder when they come out, go to Hoodman.tv and join our mailing list.


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8 Things We Learned About Alicia Keys from Her 'Wendy' Interview
Today, Alicia Keys juggles many hats as a mom, wife, singer, philanthropist, and actress. Honestly, we're not even sure how she does it so well all while remaining her humble and poised self.
The R&B chanteuse took some time out of her schedule and stopped by the "Wendy Williams Show" yesterday (Nov. 12) to promote her new children's book, but of course being the gossip and hot topics queen that Wendy is, she saved questions regarding the book for last. From the due date and sex of her burgeoning bundle of joy to married life and successfully maintaining a blended family Keys was an open book— somewhat.
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Northern Ballet's Director of Communications gives us the low down on the Festive Family Workshop
Ok, so hands up – I work for Northern Ballet and I have danced in the past, so I'm quite confident with this sort of thing but this was my first experience of one of Northern Ballet's family fun workshops so I wasn't sure what to expect. There were about 30 of us in the workshop and the children's ages ranged from 4 to 11 years old. I took my son Douglas, aged 5, who suffers from the affliction that seems to affect lots of young boys - the inability to sit still!
Having watched The Nutcracker on the Saturday night it was fresh in our minds and the workshop was the first thing Douglas talked about when he woke up in the morning so he was very excited about it. On the way to Leeds we talked about the ballet. He said he liked the Chinese dancers but he was concerned that he might have to take his shirt off like the Arabian dancers. I said not to worry.
Douglas started the session saying that he didn't want to do any dancing(!) and just wanted to do the crafts, so I was slightly concerned when we learned that the key to the room holding the crafts had been lost so we'd mainly be dancing. However, a few seconds into the warm-up Douglas had a big smile on his face which stayed there pretty much throughout the whole 2 hours. I give all credit to Caroline and Sophie, our Dance Education Officers, who brought genuine warmth and enthusiasm to the proceedings. A live musician added extra excitement to the workshop.
Baggy clothes and bare feet were the order of the day although some children did come along in ballet slippers. We started with a warm up which involved simple walking, skipping and galloping. We then learnt some steps from the party scene and were able to make up our own steps, working as a pair and then joining with other people. We also learnt steps from the battle between the Nutcracker Prince and the Mouse King. This was Douglas' favourite as he got to kill me (not sure what that says about our relationship). The movement was challenging at times but not too much so that everyone couldn't follow and it was a great atmosphere.
The key to the craft room remained lost but the resourceful staff at the Theatre went shopping as soon as the shops opened so the last half hour was spent making swords or head-dresses.
Everyone was fully involved in the workshop and the adults enjoyed it as much as the children. I would probably never spend 2 hours at home dancing with Douglas, so attending this workshop meant I spent some good quality time with him, sharing an experience and having bags of fun, they're memories I'll treasure forever.


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The CyanogenMod dev team has made an important PSA (public service announcement) that will critically affect those running nightly builds on a number of HTC's smartphones. Due to changes in one of the important processes for getting a Linux system, like Android, up and running, those devices will need a more recent version of the CWM or TWRP recoveries.
The full list of affected devices are as follows:
- evita – HTC One XL
- fireball – HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE
- jewel – HTC EVO 4G LTE
- m4 – HTC One Mini
- m7 – HTC One [GSM]
- m7spr – HTC One [Sprint]
- m7vzw – HTC One [Verizon]
- ville – HTC One S
Starting with the nightly build dated 20140501, these HTC devices will be making use of a new fstab (for File System Table) layout, which will require kernel support in recoveries. However, almost all current versions of recoveries out there in the wild do not yet have this, which means that users will have to update their CWM version first before installing the nightly build. Those using TWRP will have to temporarily use an unofficial version until TWRP comes out with an official updated release.
Those who encrypt their devices using Android's built-in tool will have to take a few more steps before they actually install an updated recovery. The process consists of backing up the encrypted /data partition first and restoring it afterwards, though it will be in a decrypted form at first. The latest nightly will also be moving the encrypted information from /data to /extra but only for the following devices:
- evita – HTC One XL
- fireball – HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE
- jewel – HTC EVO 4G LTE
- ville – HTC One S
Those with affected devices on CM nightlies should check and follow the instructions from the link below. It might sound a bit complicated and involved, but such is the price of running a bleeding edge version of anything. You are always first to get new features, but also first to encounter bugs and sometimes destructive changes.


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Welcome to Valhalla: Inside the New 250GB Xbox 360 Slimby Anand Lal Shimpi on June 18, 2010 1:59 AM EST
Power Consumption: 50% of the Original Xbox 360, and Quieter
Moore's Law is good for any of three things: 1) increasing performance, 2) adding features, 3) reducing power. Consoles have the benefit of not having to worry about improving performance or adding features over time. There are no changing API specs and games are always designed to the same hardware performance level. This leaves us with improvements in power consumption (and Microsoft's profitability).
The new Xbox 360 power connector (right). It's slim.
The new power brick isn't compatible with the old Xbox 360s. At 135W it isn't enough to power even the Jasper Xbox 360 and thus you get a new power connector. It's much lighter than the old unit and a bit smaller, but still larger than anything you'd get with a notebook for obvious reasons.
New power brick (left) vs Old power brick (right)
Given my plethora of Xbox 360s I happen to have a good amount of historical data on power consumption for all of the major revisions, I've added the relevant Valhalla numbers below.
|Power Consumption Comparison
|Xbox 360 Revision
|System Off
|Halo 3
|Rockband 2
|Gears of War 2
|Red Dead Redemption
|Xbox 360 Slim (Valhalla)
|Xbox 360 Late 2008 - 2010 (Jasper)
|Xbox 360 Late 2007 - 2008 (Falcon)
|Xbox 360 2005 - 2007 (Xenon)
The biggest improvement is actually when the system is totally off. The new Xbox 360 slim pulled 0.6W compared to over 2W for the older 360s while doing nothing more than being plugged in. Idle power is roughly 75% of what it was with the Jasper Xbox 360 and load power is around 80 - 83% of what we saw with the previous generation. Note that the new Xbox 360 consumes less than half the power of the original 360!
Idle power consumption is actually not very impressive for a 40nm Xbox 360 if that's indeed what we're looking at. A modern day Core i5 system with an efficient power supply will idle at under 70W with a beefy discrete graphics card. While this is a significant drop compared to previous Xbox iterations, it's not impressive as a computing device.
The savings are tangible however and also result in a cooler, quieter system. The CPU and GPU are now cooled by a single, larger fan that keeps idle noise down to a minimum. I measured noise levels between Valhalla and Jasper at 2" away from the chassis and came up with the numbers below:
|Sound Comparison
|Xbox 360 Slim (Valhalla)
|Xbox 360 Late 2008 - 2010 (Jasper)
|45 dB(A)
|50 dB(A)
|Load (Spinning Disc)
|51 dB(A)
|54 dB(A)
The measurements were taken in my office with a noise floor of around 37 dB(A). At idle the new Xbox 360 slim is noticeably quieter, but still audible. The drop in idle noise is perfect for those of you who use the Xbox 360 as a HTPC of sorts. You can still get quieter out of a well designed HTPC however.
While spinning a disc the old Jasper was absurdly loud it is more bearable on the new 360. It's still not silent (nor can it be while quickly spinning a disc) and you'll still scratch discs if you move the Xbox 360 while a disc is spinning, but it's an improvement.
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CityZ - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkI see a potential problem with the power plug waiting to happen. It appears as if the prongs on the power plug are symmetric, though one delivers +12V and the other +5V. The plastic on the case and the plug makes a D-shape that only allows the plug to go in one way. However, someone who's taken their case apart won't have this protection. They might plug it in the wrong way and zap their MB/PS. Reply
adam92682 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkOne of the many reasons you aren't supposed to open the system. Reply
casteve - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkOnly 17.6W difference between idle and load power for Valhalla? While the idle power is better w/ ea generation, it seems they dropped the ball on this gen. An i5 661 + HD5870 based PC only draws 67-70W AC at idle. Reply
logikil1 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkI haven't been able to locate what revision of HDMI the new 360 uses. I believe the original used 1.2 and was curious if MS went to 1.3 or 1.4 with this system. Reply
aforty - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkI'd really loved to have seen some noise level comparisons between the new Slim and the first generation Xbox 360. I have a first-gen and the noise is pretty much why I now prefer my PS3. However I'm thinking about upgrading and would love to see how the new Slim stacks up against what I currently have in the noise department. The power consumption already looks really good compared to what this thing sucks down.
Thanks for the breakdown! Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkUnfortunately my first gen 360 is now dead otherwise I could've provided more data :-P
Take care,
Anand Reply
Pirks - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkAnand please tell us, I saw a youtube video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwINtoQpyNc ) where Xbox Slim does scratch DVD when you move it a little while PS3 doesn't. What's your personal take on that? Does Slim manual say something about danger of DVD scratching? Any warning labels on the Slim itself? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThere's a warning sticker on the DVD drive telling you not to move the console while a disc is in there. I meant to take a picture of it but forgot once I got into the teardown phase.
As long as you're mindful of it it's a non-issue, however I have come very close to accidentally ruining a game or two when I wasn't paying attention. It is silly and MS could easily fix it, but the 360 isn't about high quality hardware, it's about profitability.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Pirks - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkFuck Ballmer. Reply
Rob100 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkWhy oh why have they made it a nasty gloss black finish
If it was available in a matt "no scratch, no finger print, no dust" black finish I'd buy one, but from the pics I've seen it just looks cheap and nasty
I will be sticking with my Elite thanks which if you ask me looks 10 times better than this - what were they thinking...
If I wanted a quieter 360 then I would of bought an "arcade" and stuck it in a Lian Li XB-01B Reply


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Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Also Has New, Corresponding Twitter Handle
The U.S. Department of Commerce today launched an Instagram account for Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, making her the first-ever Cabinet official to have an Instagram account. The account will be directly tied to the Department's Facebook page.
The Instagram account will give followers a behind-the-scenes look at Secretary Pritzker's daily life as a Cabinet Secretary.
The launch is part of Commerce Department efforts to increase digital engagement with consumers, businesses, and other stakeholders through 21stcentury technology. As the voice of business in the federal government, the Department is committed to promoting U.S. innovation and competitiveness and championing the entrepreneurs and start-ups who are at the heart of our growing digital economy.
In addition, the Department is changing the secretary's Twitter handle to correspond with the Instagram account – from @CommerceSec to @PennyPritzker. Follow Secretary Pritzker now at www.instagram.com/pennypritzker and twitter.com/pennypritzker.


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Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865.
Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America.
London : J. Murray, 1829-37
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John Richardson, Sir; William Swainson; William Kirby
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Vol. 4 was also issued with special title: Entomologia boreali americana ... by the Rev. William Kirby, Norwich, 1837.
"Published under the authority of the right honourable the secretary of state for colonial affairs."
Imprint of v. 2: London, J. Murray, 1831; v. 3: London, R. Bentley, 1836; v. 4: Norwich, J. Fletcher, and sold in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1837.
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Zoology of the northern parts of British America
|by John Richardson, surgeon and naturalist to the expeditions ; assisted by William Swainson and William Kirby ; illustrated by numerous plates.
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AUBURN – No. 21 Auburn women's tennis will travel to Berkeley, California for the first and second rounds of NCAA Tournament beginning on Friday, May 10 against 40th-ranked St. Mary's. The bracket was announced by the NCAA on Tuesday.
The Tigers (18-8) are returning to NCAA competition for the first time since 2009 and making the program's seventh appearance all-time. Auburn was ranked 21st in the most recent ITA rankings on April 23.
"I'm excited for our program. I think is a truly great opportunity," Auburn women's tennis head coach Lauren Longbotham Meisner said. "I think the girls are excited to play teams that we haven't seen before and to get out and have a nice trip to California. We've been in our SEC bubble for a while, so it's nice to be able to take our whole team to California in a different environment. All four teams are obviously tough and respected teams, but if we play our game, we will have a chance to be successful."
Host No. 7 California faces Stony Brook in the regional's other first round match at Hellman Tennis Complex on May 10. Auburn has never faced any of the teams in Berkeley regional. The winner of the Auburn-St. Mary's match advances to face the winner of the Cal-Stony Brook match on Sunday.
The NCAA berth is the first at Auburn for Meisner and the fourth of her coaching career after trips at SMU from 2009-11.
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If you have shown an demo of NAV 2009 to someone who has never seen the new UI before, you know that it is challenging. The new UI can be overwhelming at once, because there is a lot of information on the Role Center. However, if you explain all the bits of the Role Center, people will see the benefits of using this great UI.
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(IDAHO FALLS) – One of the nation's largest beer festivals is this Saturday in Idaho Falls. The North American Brewers Association has been judging over 1,100 beers this week, with competitors coming from all across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Beer Fest kicks off from noon to 5 p.m. at Sandy Downs. Tickets are $20 beforehand or $30 at the door.
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Toddler boy has this really smelly bunny, he cuddles it, sucks its ear and has adventures with it. He loves it more than mummy, daddy and baby Fifi. He loves it more than chocolate, crisps and coca-cola. He loves it more than anything else in the whole wide world.
Hubby has a fear of spiders.
The day was a typical North Norfolk one; bright, big blue sky and gentle wind (OK, well make that hurricane force gales). What better weather to take a trip on the Wells- Walsingham light railway. The longest 10 and a quarter inch narrow gauge steam railway in the world. How exciting! Toot- toot, chuffa, chuffa, chuffa and other railway like noises.
The journey began well, with an air of excitement and the chance to grab the best seats. Ones that are covered, but open at the sides, adding that element of Health and Safety danger only allowed at the sea-side. Twenty minutes into the journey, Toddler boy was bursting with excitement, Fifi had been lulled to sleep and I was thinking, to be honest, that it was a bit boring as it seemed to be taking quite a long time. I have no patience and require immediate gratification. Hubby can vouch for this. Hubby was proudly showing me how he was sitting with stinky bunny on his lap, its ear sort of flapping in the wind. I thought to myself that he was taking a risk, but its not for me to spoil the holiday fun.
THEN, a so called MASSIVE black spider fell off the roof and onto hubby's lap. All of a sudden he jumped up in fright (only a bit ) as I'm not aware of him hitting his NUMB SKULL. And with that stinky bunny flew right out of the train. In slow motion. The train carried on its way, toot toot, cuffa chuffa chuffa. Our very souls stayed where they were.
Hubby looking distraught conveyed this message to me using his best telepathy "Sh**, Christ, OMG, Ive lost bunny, I'm so sorry, don't divorce me"
I replied "People must do this all the time".
I thought " Bl**dy idiot, MEN, cant be trusted, OMG, must distract the boy, OMG that's it, the end of the world"
Toddler boy; "BUN, BUUUUUN!!" (his name for it)
Me; "Bun-bun is in the car"
Toddler Boy; "Noooooooaaaaaaooooooo"
Hubby; "sob, sob"
Me; "Hes gone for a ride with the driver, hes driving the train"
The journey is then one of quiet awkward silence except for the occasional sob and wail of "bun- bun"
The longest ten minutes of my life, my heart was pounding, I began to have the fight/ flee response inclinations. We needed a miracle.
Can I just say, controversially no doubt, that in my opinion this sort of thing is really something that happens when men are involved, any woman would have made sure that the most precious possession on board the train would be secure. In all circumstances. This opinion is backed up by the train drivers comment when I asked about recovering bunny he said "it happens all the time, wallets, cameras, phones…". He didn't say purse did he.
On to the second longest ten minutes of my life, the return journey. Hubby was a bit distressed, sitting, a man on the edge, mentally and on his seat as he was acting as back-up bunny collector in case the driver failed to get it. Luckily I had managed to distract Toddler boy effectively and he really did think that bunny was driving the train. I sat there, sending out he had better be recovered vibes. A thought ran through my head "what if he has been run over by the train?" I pictured his stuffing blowing away gently, wistfully, in the breeze. It could have been like Watership Down. It was heading that way. I conveyed this discretely to hubby. He said I was ten million times wrong, it would defy the laws of physics. A flicker of further worry crossed his angst ridden face.
The train slowed, other passengers jostled in a sort of hushed emergency manner. Toot toot, an arm reached out and recovered bunny. Sigh! A massive massive relief. The third longest section of a train journey and we were back. Bunny had been driving the train! The journey was life-changing, it revealed, several things:
- Men can be stupid
- The importance of bunny
- Time slows in times of strife
- Children can be distracted
- Never, ever, go on the worlds longest narrow gauge railway without attaching precious things to you with a lanyard.
- Never let hubby hold the baby in circumstances where spiders might appear, who knows what could have happened!
- Try not to let your child get attached to anything!
Poor hubby, I forgive you, I realise its not your fault you are a man!


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Phil Brown was relieved Southend were still in the game at the interval after they came from behind to beat Portsmouth 2-1.
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Phil Brown was relieved Southend were still in the game at the interval after they came from behind to beat Portsmouth 2-1.
Pompey's Andy Barcham fired in a 20-yard thunderbolt after just 90 seconds but after the hosts missed a series of chances, the Shrimpers took advantage with late goals from Will Atkinson and Barry Corr to clinch all three points and move Southend up to third.
It was the fourth league win on the spin for Brown's men, but the manager was disappointed with the first-half display.
"I did not enjoy the first half as the last thing you want to give this big crowd is something to cheer about and they scored an absolute world-class goal," said Brown.
"To be honest we could have been two or three down at half-time and the turning point was when (David) Connolly went through one-on-one and he missed the target."
After Cauley Woodrow saw red for an elbow on Jed Wallace the visitors sprung into life and turned the game on its head.
Brown added: "Our finish to the game was phenomenal though and we played better football when we went down to 10 men. That is the only downside to the performance that we had to wait for that.
"I thought the decision for the red card was harsh and the referee was impetuous to get his red card out so quick.
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It's a bouncing baby boy for Shakira! The Colombian singer welcomed her first son with boyfriend Gerard Pique on Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Barcelona.
Shakira announced the birth on her website in a statement published in English, Spanish and Catalán:
"We are happy to announce the birth of Milan Piqué Mebarak, son of Shakira Mebarak and Gerard Piqué, born January 22nd at 9:36pm, in Barcelona, Spain.
The name Milan (pronounced MEE-lahn), means dear, loving and gracious in Slavic; in Ancient Roman, eager and laborious; and in Sanskrit, unification."
"Just like his father, baby Milan became a member of FC Barcelona at birth," the site stated. "The hospital confirmed that the couple's first child weighed approximately 6lbs. 6 ounces, and that both mother and child are in excellent health."
The "She Wolf" singer – whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll – appealed to her fans via Twitter, writing: "I'd like to ask you all to accompany me in your prayers on this very important day of my life. Shak"
The 35-year-old mentor for The Voice urged fans to join her and her Spanish soccer star boyfriend, 25, in welcoming their happy bundle of joy after reportedly being rushed to the hospital Tuesday.
Anxious father-to-be Pique also shared his excitement with fans on his Instagram prior to his son's birth.
"This Tuesday (22 of January) our first son will be born," he posted. Fans responded with well wishes and congratulations for the expectant parents.
A flurry of reports in the Spanish-language media appeared prior to the singer's announcement, citing a tweet by the charitable organization run by Shakira, the Fundación Pies Descalzos reading "The children and the team at Fundación Pies Descalzos are happy for Milan's birth!! We love you Shakira."
The insider also revealed that the singer had requested a female only medical team, who all signed confidentiality agreements, assist her during the birth, reports the CTV News.
The blonde beauty was said to be feeling "increasing discomfort" ahead of the arrival of her son and was complaining of "abdominal pressure."
The "Loca" has been dating soccer player Pique for around two years and previously said he is the "best thing" to ever happen to her, until she got pregnant.
"This man is the best thing that could have happened in my life. And now the baby!" said the singer.
The happy couple previously threw fans and the media for a loop with a false alarm back in December, when Pique announced their son's birth as part of an April Fool's Day-like holiday prank, writes the US Magazine.
"Our son has been born! We are very happy! Thanks to all for your messages," he tweeted his 4.7 million followers in Spanish on Dec. 27. After sending everyone into a flurry, however, the prankster athlete clarified that Shakira was still very much with child.
"It has a name! His name is Innocent!" he clarified on the social media site. "Happy Dia de los Inocentes to all!"
Last week the couple released a photo posing semi-nude together to invite fans to a special baby shower celebration, which aimed to raise funds for UNICEF, a United Nations program that helps children worldwide and for which the singer has served as an ambassador for many years.


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WASHINGTON TERRACE — Jantz Afuvai played football for Bonneville High School back in the late-1980s, and he was an integral part of the Lakers' great winning tradition under their longtime head coach, the late Thom Budge, who won 237 games in a career spanning more than three decades.
But it wasn't until Afuvai took hold of Bonneville's coaching reins himself last year that he really began to grasp just how important the Lakers' program is to so many people.
And that's why he is so determined to get things back where they once were and, in his mind and the minds of so many others, back where they belong.
But while winning football games is extremely important to the Lakers' second-year coach, it's even more important that his players become good, productive citizens off the field as well.
"The biggest thing I wanted to change here is it seems there's been a sense of mediocrity and complacency," Afuvai said. "Not only in athletics, but in the little things — in how important it is to go to school, how important it is to get to school on time and to go to every class, and to find value in getting an education.
"I have my expectations of what we need to do to take Bonneville back to where it was for years. I firmly believe in not only hard work — you have to put in the work, you've got to lift, you've got to run, you have to dedicate yourself to try and reach your potential. ... But the mental change that has to take place is that the kids have to say, 'I want to be the best that I can be.' That's been our goal, that's my goal after last year — and last year was a great learning experience for me."
Indeed, last year was a rough one for the Lakers' once-proud program. They won just one football game, going 1-9 in Afuvai's first year at the helm, and there was definitely a learning curve for Afuvai, his staff and the players after he became their fourth head coach in four years' time.
But he started seeing signs toward the end of last season that things were gradually improving, even if the Lakers' win-loss record didn't reflect it. The coaching staff all got on the same page; the players began to gel, and their performance improved.
Still, that was not the only positive sign Afuvai wants to see.
"On the flip side of that, school is a priority, and I want our kids to be a student first and then an athlete, and I want them to value their education," he said. "I want them to graduate and be successful members of their community.
"Apart from how many wins we get, it's how are we making these young men better — not just as football players, but as people. ... I really feel the responsibility that we do this thing right."
Afuvai, who followed up his prep career by becoming an all-Big Sky Conference linebacker at Weber State, is so grateful for people in the community who have been such loyal, faithful fans through the good times — and the bad times — at Bonneville.
Those fans include Larry Neves, who served as the second football coach in the school's history (1968-71). Neves, 82, who came and watched practice daily all of last season, offering critiques and encouragement, is now struggling with serious health issues.
"He gave me a full history of the Laker program," Afuvai said. "... Talk about loyalty, as I'm learning how to be a head coach, man, there's a lot of vested interest in seeing our kids succeed.
"I knew for myself playing here and I knew how big the tradition was, but talking to Mr. Neves, he really drove that point home.
"It's so nice to be able to be in the position that I'm in and to recognize how big of a deal this is," Afuvai said. "There's so many people that want to see these kids succeed. What a tribute to Larry Neves. I tell you what, he's made a difference in my life and showed me the importance of what it is to be a Laker. My heart goes out to him and his family. What a neat guy.
"You see a man of that stature and a man of that experience, still invested and caring about what's going on over here. It's so big, bigger than I realized. I'm so humbled by how much this program means to people that I owe it to the community to do the best that I can. And that's what I'm going to do."
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Wisconsin convenience retailer to carry relaxation beverages
RIPON, Wis. -- The Ultimart convenience store chain in Wisconsin will now carry Bebida Beverage Co.'s (BeBevCo) Koma Unwind Chillaxation drinks as well as the 2-ounce shots in 28 of the 33 Ultimart stores within the next two weeks.
With 33 retail outlets located throughout the lower Fox Valley area, Ultimart Stores offers branded gasoline products from Mobil, BP and CITGO. The retailer is a unit of The Condon Cos., headquartered in Ripon, Wis.
"It is fantastic to be bringing in the Ultimart chain in Wisconsin. It will be interesting to see how their customers will [image-nocss] respond when given an actual choice between a relaxation beverage or shot like Koma Unwind and the alternative which is a myriad of pills, patches and other gimmicks people use to try to relax and get a good night of sleep," said BeBevCo CEO Brian Weber.
"Distributorship by distributorship, chain by chain and store by store we are putting out products on shelves across the country," said Weber.
Statesville, N.C.-based BeBevCo develops, manufactures and markets beverages including relaxation drinks Koma Unwind Chillaxation Drink, Koma Unwind Sugar-free Chillaxation Drink and Koma Unwind Chillaxation Shot as well as Potencia Energy Drink, Potencia Blast energy shot and Piranha Water.


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With approximately a week until early voting, questions of racial insensitivity and dirty politics are swirling in Maury County.
At Thursday night's county commission meeting, a black commissioner found an envelope addressed to him on his desk.
When Gary Stovall opened the letter inside, he discovered a photo copy containing a vulgar text message that included the N-word.
"It made me really upset, really mad about it. Don't know why anyone would target me, an African American, and use that word," Stovall said.
The number on the text belongs to the phone of District 8 Commissioner Debbie Turner, who vehemently denies writing the message or putting it on Commissioner Stovall's desk.
The screen shot has a Verizon Wireless logo, but Turner said she is a long time AT&T employee and customer.
The letter reads,"Day of the week over what u see as my family. Gary and Vicki and Brittany too aren't my family. I just a soon have a herd of N******. The family I want is what I have. Tracy and Blake as as for F, I p*** on if they were on fire. I don't…"
Turner admits she has family members with the names listed on the letter, but says she has not spoken to them in three or four years.
She said the text is a fake that was planted on her phone by someone trying to make her look bad.
Turner blames other commissioners, saying they have been trying to get her out for a long time.
She went on to say they have had this text in their possession for close to a year and she questions why they are just now deciding to put it on Stovall's desk.
News 2 spoke with Dr. Lucy Ledbetter, a commissioner who is not running in this election.
She said the text message was sent to her and other white commissioners more than six months ago. She think it is a screen shot of a message written by Turner.
Ledbetter said she turned it over to the county mayor but no action was reportedly taken.
Commissioner Stovall told News 2 he does not feel threatened by the note and thinks someone other than Turner is responsible, but he is not sure who.
"I am definitely incensed by it and I don't like it and don't want it to ever happen again," he said.
Maury County law officers have not received any complaints. They said even if they did, would be unclear if any crime was committed.
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For those of you who don't know, Union head coach Peter Nowak had a fairly distinguished playing career. He debuted professionally at age 15. He wore the captain's armband for the Polish national team for three years. He won a Best Playmaker award in the German Bundesliga back in the 1995-96 season. Finally, he came to the States and finished his playing career with the Chicago Fire, where he won an MLS Cup.
Well, in the event there were any questions as to whether the coach has still got it check out this recently shot slow motion video of Nowak bending a ball around the wall and into the upper ninety off of a free kick. Ridiculous technique.
Here's hoping that Sebastien Le Toux, Kyle Nakazawa, Justin Mapp, and any other Union players who may strike a free kick this season learn a little something from this left-footed rocket.
After seeing this it's not hard to understand why he wore the #10 shirt.
The best part of the video is the way he walks away after hitting it and seeing the ball ripple the net. It's as if he's insulted by the fact the keeper even bothered diving for it.


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TONIGHT! Friday, February 3
Blacks in Experimental Film: Lost & Forgotten Images of Blacks on Film
A screening of lost and forgotten images of blacks on film followed by an audience led discussion. 'Blacks in Experimental Film' attempts to bridge the gap/fill in the space of what is left behind and out. This evening seeks to explore how our perceptions of ourselves have evolved or not evolved based on these representations. We will explore whether its "racist" to show this stuff or even worse to sweep it under the rug and deny it never existed. Materials shown are likely to include an excerpt from Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin, a minstrel show from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco, Little Black Sambo, Bert Williams performance footage, excerpts from African Pygmy Thrills and Our Gang, footage of the Harlem Globetrotters, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali and Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" and mid-century Black home movies and travelogues (Europe! Paris!).
TONIGHT! Friday, February 3 to Saturday, February 25
'Botanica' is a creepy futuristic black comedy that examines our complicated relationship to plant life. Sealed in a human terrarium, two unorthodox botanists and a caretaker with a penchant for erotic literature unleash a flood of unusual findings and overturn the constraints of science and social norms.
Saturday, February 4
LUTHER "GUITAR Jr." JOHNSON & The Magic Rockers
Grammy and WC Handy award-winning bluesman
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson's
playing-style features a blistering blend of sharp single note leads with powerful chordal self-accompaniment, which has influenced such further influential guitarists as Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. After serving an apprenticeship alongside the late Magic Sam, from whom he inherited the west-side guitar-style throne, Luther gained an international reputation as a guitarist & vocalist in Muddy Waters' band. By the late '70s, Luther developed his own signature style, characterized by a strong rhythmic component and deeply moving vocal phrasings. You may also remember seeing Luther featured in the legendary 'Blues Brothers' movie ... here's your chance to see him in the Towne Crier's intimate & respected setting!
Saturday, February 4 & Sunday, February 5
Mo[u]rnin'. After.
"Mo[u]rnin'. After." is a mythic autobiography for the queer prodigal son, a story of losing and finding - a journey back to the homeland (Oklahoma!) through time travel, magic, and musicals. Dream ballets included. "Mo[u]rnin'. After." began over a year ago as part of the Tim Miller mentorship, a 6-month development of new, queer work.
Saturday, February 4
The Anti Super Bowl Comedy Show
Tired of hearing about the Superbowl? Need a break from the chatter of your husband and his friends? Wanna spend a night out with the gals? Come to the Anti-Superbowl comedy show. All female comedy show where we will be talking about everything EXCEPT the Superbowl! Featuring: Vanessa Hollingshead, with special guest Sharon Simon. Vanessa Hollingshead often jokes about real things. As a child, she spent a year at Millbrook Mansion with her father, Michael Hollingshead, who introduced Timothy Leary and Sir Paul McCartney to LSD. Vanessa was recently on
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in Australia, as well as numerous shows in the UK and Amsterdam, she also has had critical acclaim with her one woman show "Flashback." Plus, she just completed her second one person show "The Hold".
Sunday, February 5
Fooling Around with Casey Jost: Bits Of Audio
Casey Jost ("Late Night with Jimmy Fallon") brings his lovable idiocracy and quirky enthusiasm to "Fooling Around." Each show has a theme, and with each theme, Casey creates a world to fool around in. When Casey's playful style of creating characters meets his skewed twist on everyday life, it makes for a unique one man sketch show. Everyone wants to Fool Around with Casey Jost. "Bits Of Audio," the first installment of "Fooling Around," tackles the theme: MUSIC. Each sketch and every character is affected, in someway, by music.
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How much would Invisalign cost for crowding of the bottom four teeth?
Invisalign Cost for Crowding Teeth
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Invisalign for teeth crowding is $2800 - $3500
Probably an express case. Doing some IPR (sanding) between the teeth will make the treatment speed along nicely. You will also need to do the upper arch also so that no interference in the bite occurs.
Invisalign for teeth crowding may range $3000- $5500
Invisalign has two basic protocols for teeth straightening.
1. Invisalign Express - Is a truncated version of the full version. It provides 10 trays worth of treatment ONLY. It's good for minor crowding, minor space closure, etc. Basically for smaller amounts of movement that could be accomplished in about 5 months of treatment. Cost is typically about $3000
2. Full Invisalign - Allows for large amounts of movement to take place and is really the substitute for those who don't want regular metal braces. There is no limit to the number of trays permitted through treatment (unlike Express) AND it allows for refinement at the end of treatment. Refinement is when you and the dentist want to continue "tweaking" certain teeth so that you end up with the perfect smile you imagined. Hope this helps.
Depends upon teeth crowding severity
The treatment fee depends upon the severity of the malocclusion. It also depends upon the time to correct the malocclusion. Severity and time of treatment go hand in hand. Please see an orthodontist for a complimentary consultation.
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Invisalign is a technique, not a product. Fees will vary
Invisalign is not like buying a car. You are purchasing orthodontic services by a professional to correct your malocclusion. As such, there will be differences depending on their level of expertise and other factors related to their expenses to run an orthodontic practice, including staffing, geography, etc.
The best thing to do is visit an orthodontist and speak to them about the best options for your particular situation.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Varonis Systems Inc. (http://www.varonis.com), the leading innovator and provider of comprehensive data governance software, today announced the Varonis Partner Program (VPP), a key component of the company's go-to-market strategy as it scales to accommodate exponential growth in demand for its data governance solutions. Developed with existing channel partner input, the program reinforces Varonis' commitment to fulfill customer demand through a 100 percent indirect sales channel.
The VPP builds on Varonis' existing partner program, introducing a new two-tiered structure that provides benefits that increase as partners increase their engagement with Varonis. Benefits include access to a dedicated partner manager, pre-sales support, free online certification training, Varonis marketing automation systems and a partner portal for 24/7 access to sales enablement, marketing, demo, opportunity registration and informational assets. These new benefits and requirements are aimed at driving closer, more efficient and more productive relationships with partners and customers alike.
"In today's economic climate, companies are only purchasing 'must have' IT solutions," said Ira Silverman, chief executive officer at Gotham Technology Group. "Varonis DatAdvantage is one of those technologies because it slashes operating expenditures for organizations of all sizes and across nearly every industry. The Varonis Partner Program is an exciting addition for us, offering benefits that will strengthen our Varonis business."
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With the demand for technology to govern and protect data estimated at $3.15 billion in 2008, the VPP increases partner access to one of the fastest growing market segments in IT. Earlier this month Varonis Systems sponsored a Ponemon Institute study on the governance of unstructured data that overwhelmingly revealed that businesses lack the ability to govern their unstructured data. Inefficient, time-consuming processes have made the task all but impossible. Varonis is the first and only company whose products can scale efficiently and practically to control, manage and continuously audit data use by recommending and automating who should not have access to certain data sets. Varonis' products enable businesses to monitor unstructured data-use without involving the IT department, instituting infrastructure changes or disrupting business.
"The Varonis Partner Program is essential to providing our dedicated partners with a simple and powerful way to tap into market demand for unstructured data governance solutions," said Johnnie Konstantas, vice president of marketing at Varonis. "It is clear from our conversations with VARs there is a huge, pent-up demand for products that can deliver the visibility companies need to gain a more detailed picture of corporate data access behavior. With the VPP, we've created a mutually beneficial ecosystem of partners, customers and resellers leveraging the strength of our data governance solutions across a wide variety of markets and organizations."
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This week has been the busiest week of my life. Which has left me exhausted, sore and in need of a break. Thank goodness today is a PA day for the kids. We've declared it Pajama day and plan to watch movies all day. A busy week, calls for easy dinners. During an impromptu trip to the grocery store with my girlfriend, I stumbled upon some fabulous pork ribs, in the reduced meat section. Have you ever noticed this section in your grocery store? This is the section where they put the previous days meat, that they need to sell, before having to toss it out. Still perfectly good meat, but give it another day or two on the store shelves, and they'd be taking a chance at selling it. I always find something fantastic in that section. Whether is turkey breast, chops or pork ribs, I love getting great cuts of meat at 40% off. I throw them into the freezer when I get home, or use them the same day I purchase them. No harm, no foul.
Since I was going to be at school all afternoon on Wednesday, I seasoned up my ribs and placed them in my crock pot. When the kids and I walked through the door after school, the house smelled heavenly. I preheated the grill, slathered the tender ribs with BBQ sauce and grilled them for a few minutes on the grill. These ribs were so tender and falling off the bone. Mr.B couldn't stop raving about how good they were. Even Queenie who isn't a big rib fan, ate her helping. I love dinners that taste so good, but come together in a snap thanks to my good ole crock pot!
Crock Pot Maple BBQ Lime Pork Ribs
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1- 1 1/2 lb rack of pork ribs (membrane removed from the back)
1/4 C brown sugar
1/2 tsp Chili Lime Rub (Pampered Chef)*
1/2 tsp Three Onion Rub (Pampered Chef)*
1/2 tsp Chipotle Rub (Pampered Chef)*
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 C BBQ sauce
1/4 C Maple Syrup
In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, Chili Lime Rub, Three Onion Rub, Chipotle Rub and salt. Cut rack of ribs in three pieces, to fit the crock pot. Generously rub seasoning mix onto pieces of ribs. Taking foil, make 3-4 large balls and place them in the bottom of a 6 qt crock pot Lay ribs over the foil, cover and cook on low for 6-8 hrs.
Once the ribs are tender and cooked through, preheat your grill to 400 degrees. In a second small bowl, mix together the BBQ sauce and maple syrup. Slather one side of the cooked ribs with the maple BBQ sauce and place sauce side down onto the grill. Slather the second side of the ribs with sauce. Let ribs cook for 2 minutes, flip slather with remaining sauce and cook for another 2 minutes.
* a combination of 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 tsp chipotle powder, 1/2 tsp chili powder and the zest one lime can be substituted for the Pampered Chef seasonings.


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U.S. consumers eat about as much pork as they did in 1900, a little over 40 pounds per year per person. Although the number of Americans increases every year, an aging population and fewer immigrants mean population growth has slowed to a trickle. The National Pork Board's newly appointed task force might address U.S. pork consumption, but it probably will not increase much, if at all, in the foreseeable future.
This means pork producers must rely on international trade if they want their industry to grow. A rising middle class in the developing world has an appetite for animal protein, along with the ability to actually put more meat on the table. This scenario provides ample opportunity for pork producers to cash in on this worldwide trend.
There are obstacles, however. Many countries protect their producers from stiff competition by putting up import barriers with tariffs and red tape. That's why the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement has generated so much excitement, especially since Japan joined the negotiations last year.
"Japan will be, by far, the most important trade agreement for pork producers, assuming we get an outcome where tariffs go to zero and non-tariff barriers are eliminated as has happened in all other U.S. free trade agreements," says Nick Giordano, NPPC's vice president and counsel for international affairs.
Although there was some optimism last December that the TPP would be concluded by now, no final agreement has been reached. This is largely because Japan, which joined the TPP talks suddenly last year, has been dragging its feet about removing some tariffs that affect agricultural commodities like pork.
As the feverish discussions come to a head, the reality and complexity of the negotiations become clear. Japan entered TPP only because Shinzō Abe, elected prime minister of Japan in December, 2012, campaigned on a radical new economic policy that promised to revive Japan's lagging economy. But the country's agricultural community has resisted Abe's efforts to liberalize trade with other countries.
There are rumors that the United States might agree to lower tariffs instead of eliminating them altogether, but Giordano dismisses that out of hand.
"The pork industry in every nation says it will be devastated, eliminated, annihilated, etc. by U.S. pork imports when duties are eliminated pursuant to a free trade agreement," counters Giordano. "Mexico producers argued hard and long they would become extinct because of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)." That never happened.
Pointing to another example, Giordano says, "very poor nations such as Nicaragua eliminated tariffs on pork, and they still have a domestic pork industry. Japan has argued, and I kid you not, that they can't take U.S. skis because their snow is different; they can't take U.S. earth-moving equipment because their dirt is different; and they can't take U.S. meat because their intestines are different."
Giordano believes Japan is derailing the entire TPP negotiation. "If the U.S. agrees to Japan's unprecedented demands, the entire TPP will unravel as every nation pulls back on its sensitivities."
NPPC expects Japan to do what every other U.S. free trade agreement partner has done and what every other nation involved in TPP is prepared to do — fully open its market to U.S. pork by eliminating all protection. In Japan, that means elimination of the gate price, tariffs and specific duties.
"The U.S. is willing to eliminate tariffs on 99.5 percent of its tariff lines," explains Giordano. "Other TPP nations are willing to eliminate tariffs on virtually all products."
If Japan is permitted to exempt so many tariff lines from tariff elimination, other TPP nations are expected to pull back offers — not just in the market access area but in other areas such as rules, too.
As it looks now, if there is a final deal, it might be an agreement without Japan. That means 11 countries will sign the agreement, instead of 12. This will still be good for U.S. pork exports, but not nearly as good as it could have been with Japan on board.


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"The Giggy is up!" Taylor Armstrong declared on last night's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. This statement came during the midpoint of the most uncomfortable confrontation of the series franchise yet, eclipsing even the Richards' sisters limo tussle from the season 1 finale. Lisa Vanderpump may have invited her 90210 pals and Taylor (note the distinction) over for a spot of tea, but Taylor had other plans. She tore into the British crumpet for any number of reasons while the other ladies looked on in silent horror. Our own Karen Valby called it "a deeply weird, troubling hour of TV" and "a relentless look at Taylor barreling off the rails." But how did the afternoon escalate from Earl Grey to abuse revelations?
Though Taylor's now-deceased husband Russell was only name-checked in this episode, his shadow hung over it heavily. His reactionary e-mails to the Housewives about tabloid leaks and the behind-the-scenes conversations Taylor had had about him set up a thick tension that permeated the tea party. Lisa may have been the person Taylor had the courage to confront about abusive behavior that day, but much of the evening's conflict was probably spillover from Taylor's resentment towards Russell.
What made the evening really uncomfortable, though, was Taylor's insistence on getting her say long after Lisa had apologized. Taylor was no longer the victim, but the bully. It became clear that Taylor wasn't really trying to be Lisa's "friend," as she claimed repeatedly, but was trying to inflict the wounds on another person that she felt inside herself. The ladies quickly realized what was going on beneath it all, and that's where things got Real.
Why was this the most uncomfortable Housewives yet? In short, we were ripped out of the glittery Housewives world. This wasn't a game night squabble or a passive-aggressive spa get-together. This was a real woman so terrified to break a cycle of alleged abuse that she was, in fact, perpetuating it. So, when Taylor claimed she wanted to be honest and open, Camille was right to point out, "I don't think you want to put everything out there. Be careful what you say because we're all protecting you."
Given what Taylor has revealed in the time between Russell's suicide and last night, the shock factor was definitely diminished when Camille finally said out loud, "We don't say that he hits you… we don't say that he broke your jaw. Or that he beat you up and he hits you. We don't say that. But now we said it." That doesn't mean it was any less painful to watch. It flew in the face of how Housewives franchises operate, preserving the illusion of glamor at all times. In watching that moment, haunted by the specter of a dead man and tainted by the ugliness of abuse-as-tabloid fodder, the Real Housewives were finally real. And it was dreadful.
What did you think, PopWatchers? Were you as uncomfortable as we were at last night's episode? Did Russell's August suicide make the confrontation even ickier than it otherwise would have been? Are you on Team Taylor or Team Vanderpump? The tea time confrontation-turned-intervention continues next Monday.
Read more:
EW Recaps: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Taylor Armstrong says late husband was abusive
'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' talk Russell Armstrong's suicide on 'Anderson'


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Interactive effects of prey and weather on golden eagle reproduction
Journal of Animal Ecology
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AbstractThe reproduction of the golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos was studied in southwestern Idaho for 23 years, and the relationship between eagle reproduction and jackrabbit Lepus californicus abundance, weather factors, and their interactions, was modelled using general linear models. Backward elimination procedures were used to arrive at parsimonious models. 2. The number of golden eagle pairs occupying nesting territories each year showed a significant decline through time that was unrelated to either annual rabbit abundance or winter severity. However, eagle hatching dates were significantly related to both winter severity and jackrabbit abundance. Eagles hatched earlier when jackrabbits were abundant, and they hatched later after severe winters. 3. Jackrabbit abundance influenced the proportion of pairs that laid eggs, the proportion of pairs that were successful, mean brood size at fledging, and the number of young fledged per pair. Weather interacted with prey to influence eagle reproductive rates. 4. Both jackrabbit abundance and winter severity were important in predicting the percentage of eagle pairs that laid eggs. Percentage laying was related positively to jackrabbit abundance and inversely related to winter severity. 5. The variables most useful in predicting percentage of laying pairs successful were rabbit abundance and the number of extremely hot days during brood-rearing. The number of hot days and rabbit abundance were also significant in a model predicting eagle brood size at fledging. Both success and brood size were positively related to jackrabbit abundance and inversely related to the frequency of hot days in spring. 6. Eagle reproduction was limited by rabbit abundance during approximately twothirds of the years studied. Weather influenced how severely eagle reproduction declined in those years. 7. This study demonstrates that prey and weather can interact to limit a large raptor population's productivity. Smaller raptors could be affected more strongly, especially in colder or wetter climates.
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No matter your taste in steaks, chops or burgers, if a single person at a party you're hosting claims to be vegetarian, he or she must be provided a separate menu. Just don't expect reciprocity.
Have you ever agonized over how to accommodate the dietary delicacies of vegan friends or acquaintances when you're throwing a fancy party at your pad?
Me neither.
But on the flip side of that coin, I'll have to give credit to a vegan blogger who actually expressed some angst that he "couldn't make something special" for his meat-eating guests. "I don't eat or buy meat or dairy, even though [my friends] may have done so for me. In some way, this seems unfair."
Exactly. We're supposed to go out of our way to provide vegetarian alternatives no matter what the occasion, whether it's a formal dinner party or a backyard barbecue. However, God forbid that a born-again veggie even tolerate the presence of animal foods on his property, much less actually touch it (even wearing those giant BBQ grill master mitts) or — horrors! — serve it to someone who's supposed to be a friend or relative.
It's beyond unfair. It's absurd.
But not to worry. Our concerned and helpful veggie blogger has the solution for those pure, noble vegans who must summon the fortitude to survive a meal occasion with flesh-eating carnivores — a five-point plan, if you will:
- Don't try to fool them. Veggies "shouldn't try to feed meat-eaters mock meats or nut cheeses," our friend suggests. "At least, they shouldn't present them as such." Amen to that! Instead, he recommends firing up some veggie burgers, because "they're delicious, regardless of one's stance on meat." Uh, huh. Just make sure to have lots and lots of ketchup, mustard, relish, onions, pickles, salt, etc., on hand to add some flavor.
- Fill them up. When "an everyday meat-eater is coming over for dinner" (as opposed to people who what, eat meat once a month?), "it is not the time to show off that frou-frou quinoa salad recipe you learned last month." Let me clarify that: It's never a good time to roll out a quinoa salad as the main course. I don't even know what "frou-frou" means, but I know I don't plan to eat it anytime soon.
- Sauce it up. According to our veggie gourmet, "What people crave or identify with is saucy." He suggests barbecue sauce, sweet chili sauce, mushroom gravy or Buffalo sauce. (Hey, wait. You can't in good conscience serve something with the world "buffalo" on the label. That's exploitation of sentient beings!). That faux pas aside, he suggests that veggies should remember that "sauces make meals richer" — thanks for the tip, Wolfgang — "and they are a more familiar taste than the animal flesh beneath it."
- Serve side dishes. As our veggie gourmet helpfully explains it, a typical meal has "a slab of meat and decorative, edible other things around it." Yeah, that's how most restaurateurs like to present their entrées: A slab of flesh surrounded by "decorative things." Talk about appetizing. Truth is, many vegetarian meals I've watched people eating tend to be a blob of soy protein, surrounded by a bunch of greens or tropical fruits - wholly inappropriate to the "eat local, eat responsibly" meme veggies wear on their shirtsleeves.
- Make a dessert. Ah, yes. Dessert. According to the urban legend veggies keep telling themselves, "Vegan cakes are moister. The chocolate is richer. [The desserts] all somehow seem to work with a different, cleaner harmony than the egg-and-milk dishes of old." And if there's one thing I can't tolerate, it's a dessert that doesn't have harmony!
Look, it's helpful, I guess, for a vegan to attempt to address the imbalance between vegetarians refusing to accommodate "others," and meat-eaters automatically arranging for some foods not containing animal ingredients to be served to anyone who professes to eschew the consumption of meat or dairy products.
But I would argue that the people who regularly follow veggie blogs and websites aren't about to move one inch off their holier-than-thou stance on how not just their little community, but all the rest of us need to give up meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, fish and even ingredients like gelatin.
In my experience, their position is usually pretty straightforward: They're right, and the other 95 percent of the world is dead wrong. As in, the death of creatures with a face who, if Earth were truly a paradise, would not be eaten by people but by wolves, bears, cougars and eventually vultures.
This would leave humanity free to concentrate on developing even tastier soy-and-salad smorgasbords with which to entertain the less enlightened among us.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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Pierre Garçon and Cecil Shorts III: The Pride Of Mount UnionPosted by on December 2, 2013 – 4:46 pm
Yesterday in Cleveland, Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Cecil Shorts III had a fairy tale game.
As Jaguars.com senior writer John Oehser detailed, Shorts III returned to his home town to score a go-ahead touchdown with less than a minute remaining against the Browns.
Shorts' former teammate at the University of Mount Union took notice.
The two NFL wideouts suited up for the same Purple Raiders team in 2007, Garçon's last year at Mount Union and Shorts' first.
In that season, Garçon played in all 14 games, caught 67 passes for 955 yards and scored 14 touchdowns. He averaged 14.3 yards per catch.
As a freshman, Shorts III played in every game, splitting time at quarterback and wide receiver. He completed 16-of-24 passes for 209 yards, caught 12 passes for 289 yards and three touchdowns and also had 12 rushes for 108 yards and two touchdowns.
In his third year as a pro, Shorts has 64 catches for 764 yards and two touchdowns.
Garçon has already established personal bests in receptions (84) and receiving yards (980).
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NEW YORK (Aug. 25)
A memorandum containing a five-point program for the solution of the Palestine problem was submitted today by the New Zionist Organization of America to the British-American-Russian conference now taking place at Dumbarton Oaks to map out plans for post-war world security. The memorandum urges.
1. Palestine, in its historical and natural borders, must be treated internationally as the Jewish Homeland. Its territorial integrity, fundamentally embodied in the Mandate, must be respected.
2. Jews who have been forcibly evicted from their former lands shall not be compelled to return to them, but shall be granted their wish to be transferred en mass, in the shortest possible period, to Palestine.
3. This mass transfer must be assisted financially by an International Loan granted to the Jewish people, and the Axis powers must be made to pay reparations for all damage done to life and property of individual Jews as well as of Jewish communities. These reparations shall be used solely for the resettlement of the Jewish people in Palestine and for the upbuilding of the Jewish State.
4. The Jewish people, whose national characteristics and striving were recognized by the Allied powers in the last war and by the League of Nations through the Balfour Declaration, the Palestine Mandate and National Minority Rights granted to Jews in East Central Europe, must be acknowledged now as a full-fledged nation an ally of the United Nations – with a right to participate in the peace conferences and in settling world problems in which it has an equal stake.
5. The British Mandate over Palestine be abolished and, as the Jewish people have shown themselves fully capable of colonizing Palestine and governing it in an orderly and just manner, the country shall be placed under international guardianship with the Jewish people entrusted with the task of its administration.


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Wokashi: Classic Japanese Kyogen Comedies
Tokuro Miyake,
The fanciful and earthy world of kyogen is peopled with dim-witted demons, talking animals, hen-pecked husbands with their domineering wives, clever servants who outwit their clueless masters, bungling Buddhist priests, clumsy Shinto gods, and a host of other amusing and memorable character types.
Theatre NDSU's production of this kyogen sampler will feature authentic traditional staging - including costumes, masks and properties - and will be mounted under the expert guidance of guest artist, Ms. Tokuro Miyake of Tokyo, whose family has been performing kyogen for 600 years and who is only the second woman to perform professionally in this sparkling, witty and universally appealing art form.
About Tokuro Miyake
Ms. Tokuro Miyake became successor to her grandfather's (living national treasure 9th Tokuro Miyake) stage name in 1989, and was announced as the 10th Tokuro Miyake at the National Noh Theatre on May 21, 1989. She first appeared on stage at the age of three and is the second daughter of the 19th Izumi School Head Master. Following her sister Junko, Ms. Miyake has appeared in many official public performances as one of the first female Kyogen players in Japan. In 1986, she played "Sanbaso" and "Tale of Nasunoyoichi," in 1992 "Kanaoka," and December 1994 "Tsurigitsune." Ms. Miyake recieved the award of gratitude for her activities from the Minister of Education in 1989 and is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University.
Wokashi Wednesday!
- February 1: About the production
- February 8: About the stage
- February 15: About the script
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