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There's something delicious about chicken and rice! Funny story... I actually tried making a ginger dipping sauce to go with this but Justin distracted me while I was cooking and I put A1 in the sauce instead of soy sauce! Yeah, so the sauce turned out to be a flop. This chicken was excellent though and lucky for us there was lots of extra teriyaki sauce in the pan that we used over our rice!
3 chicken breasts
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
2 cloves pressed garlic
Rinse chicken halves, and pat dry with paper towels. Cut the chicken into chunks and put in a baking dish. In a medium mixing bowl, combine sugar, soy sauce, grated ginger and garlic. Warm the mixture in the microwave (the sugar will easily mix in if it's warm) and mix well. Pour mixture over chicken, cover, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Bake chicken uncovered at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. When it's done cut into smaller pieces and serve over white rice (be sure to spoon some of the sauce over the chicken and rice).
Teriyaki Chicken
Sunday, September 28, 2008
There's something delicious about chicken and rice! Funny story... I actually tried making a ginger dipping sauce to go with this but Justin distracted me while I was cooking and I put A1 in the sauce instead of soy sauce! Yeah, so the sauce turned out to be a flop. This chicken was excellent though and lucky for us there was lots of extra teriyaki sauce in the pan that we used over our rice!
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Dirt Cake
Saturday, September 27, 2008
This is my tried and true dirt cake recipe. I used to make it all the time when we lived closer to our good friends Joey and Corrine because it was Corrine's favorite. This is a yummy dessert for adults, not just kids! Abbott and I decided to to make it for his birthday this year; we used lots of gummy worms and chocolate rocks and everyone enjoyed it (especially the party boys).
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
2 (3.5 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
3 1/2 cups milk
1 (10 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
2 (32 ounces) packages of Oreos
Chop cookies very fine in food processor (the white cream will disappear) and save for later. Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in bowl and set aside. In a large bowl mix the milk and pudding to thicken it then fold in the whipped cream and butter/cream cheese/sugar mixture. In a flower pot layer the cake starting with cookies and then the mousse. Repeat layers. For extra fun sprinkle in some chocolate rocks and gummy worms in the layers and on top! Chill the cake and serve!
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Aunt Mina's Cheese Blitz
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
My aunt Mina brought these to a family breakfast last year and I have remembered them ever since! Even though they are called b-l-i-t-z I always pronounce it as b-l-i-n-t-z! I pronounce it like that because I add an "n" when reading it, how weird is that? I often add/delete letters when I read, it's bizarre! I was surprised when I saw the Harry Potter movie because the way I read their names and the way they were pronounced couldn't have been more different. Again I was adding and deleting letters in my head. Here's something to think about…
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2 loaves white bread (I only used 1 loaf and cut each roll in 1/2)
1 - 8 ounce cream cheese
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup cinnamon and sugar
Cut crust off of bread slices. Roll bread flat with rolling pin. Mix together cream cheese, egg, and sugar until smooth. Spread cream cheese mixture on flattened bread slices and roll up. Dip into melted butter and then roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. You can freeze if you don't need to bake right away.
Bake 30 minutes / 350 degrees if frozen.
Bake 15 minutes / 350 degrees if not frozen.
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Apple Dumplings
Sunday, September 14, 2008
2 granny smith apples
2 sticks of margarine
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sprinkling of cinnamon
2 cans of Pillsbury crescent rolls
1 small can (8 ounce) of mountain dew
Vanilla ice cream (optional)
Butter a 9 x 13 inch baking pan (yes it has to by 9x13 or bigger) and set aside. Peel and core the 2 granny smith apples and cut each of them into 8 slices. Unroll the crescent roll dough and roll up an apple slice in each of the crescent rolls. Lay the crescent rolls side by side in the buttered pan. Melt 2 sticks margarine in a saucepan and take off heat, mix in the in 1 1/2 cups sugar and vanilla but don't mix it in too much, you want it to be gritty. Pour the mixture on top of the dumplings making sure to thoroughly coat them. Now open up your small can of mountain dew and pour it all around the edge of the pan. Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes, watching to make sure they don't get too brown. (You'll definitely want them golden brown and crispy on top, though.) Top with a scoop of ice cream if you want, but I think they were just as good without!
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Colleen's Marshmallow Popcorn Squares
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Yeah, the fall TV shows are starting up again! How I Met Your Mother, Hero's, The Office, oh my! This is a quick easy weeknight dessert (perfect for TV show watching) that came from Colleen at work. She made it for Shalee's Birthday, they are both sweet as can be and I am so glad I get to work with them!
2 bags regular sized bags of natural microwave popcorn
1 bag of miniature marshmallows
1 stick of butter
1 medium bag of peanut (or regular) M&Ms
Pop the popcorn in the microwave and set aside. In a large pot melt the butter and marshmallows on the stove. When it's all melted take it off the heat and stir in the popcorn. Sprinkle in the M&Ms when the popcorn is all covered with the marshmallow mixture. Lightly press into a buttered pan (Colleen used an angel food cake pan and it looked really cute, but I don't have that pan so I used a 9x13). Let cool and serve!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Friday, September 12, 2008
I swear Justin has peanut butter running through his veins. If I want to make him happy all I have to do is buy a jar of peanut butter and M&Ms at the store. He will dip his M&Ms in the peanut butter jar all week long and be blissfully happy.
1 Pkg of devil's food cake (with the oil and eggs listed on the package)
1 Pkg instant chocolate pudding
2 1/2 cups powered sugar
4 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff
1 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons peanut butter
Make the devil's food make according to the directions but add the package of instant pudding before mixing. Cook cupcakes and let cool.
Mix powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and fluff together and then add shortening and peanut butter. I scooped the frosting into a pastry bag and cut the tip of the bag (I didn't use a tip, I just cut the top off the bag) and frosted the cupcakes!
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Grandma's Chicken and Noodles
Saturday, September 6, 2008
My Grandma has always brought chicken and noodles to Thanksgiving and Christmas; we would pour it on top of our mashed potatoes and turkey. Growing up I would request this for every Birthday dinner. This is by far my most favorite meal, if I had to live off one food for the rest of my life this would be it!
Since I've had my own family I've been making it for them. Whenever I make it the aroma fills our house with smiles and thoughts of holiday break. During the winter I make chicken and noodles all the time; with homemade strawberry preserves and rolls, twinkle lights, and snow! Life doesn't get any better!
Mashed Potatoes (make 'em however you like 'em)
1 chicken breast
3 (14 oz) cans of chicken broth
1 can of cream of chicken
2 cups flour
3 egg yokes
1 egg (yoke and white)
In a baking dish salt and pepper your chicken, cover with foil, and bake until it is cooked through. Depending on how long your mashed potatoes take, you may need to start them while the chicken is cooking.
In a large pot, pour the 3 cans of chicken broth and cook on medium. When the chicken is done dice it and add to the chicken broth pot. Don't let the pot boil or your liquid will evaporate, you just want it to simmer and stay warm for you while you make the noodles.
Put 2 cups of flour in a mixing bowl, make a well in your flour and add the 3 egg yokes and 1 egg. Add about a teaspoon of salt and 1/4 – 1/2 cup of cool water. I start stirring with a spoon but once the dry ingredients are sufficiently moistened I press it by hand. Once you have the dough formed into a ball you will cut it into quarters.
Sprinkle flour on your counter (or a cutting board) and roll a quarter of the dough out with a rolling pin. As you flip and roll the dough sprinkle more flour on it. You don't ever want sticky dough; it needs to be dry and dusted with flour. When it is thin, start at one end of the dough and roll it up to a cylinder shape. Slice the dough (in the opposite direction you rolled it) into circular pinwheels. Unravel each of the pinwheels and you will have a long skinny noodle. Cut the noodle into smaller portions. My little noodles will sit on the counter and dry for 5-10 minutes, but I have cooked them right away before and I don't notice much difference.
When all the noodles are cut and ready add them to the chicken broth and chicken. If you've turned your heat down you need to make sure and turn it back up to medium. Let the noodles cook for 10 minutes, stirring every couple of minutes. After approximately 10 minutes my mom will thicken the broth with corn starch, but I don't like the gelatinous texture it gives leftovers. I prefer to use 1 can of cream of chicken soup to thicken. Add the cream of chicken and cook for another 2 minutes. Stir regularly, it will be thick enough that the bottom will burn if left unattended for longer than a minute. (I have burned it several times while mashing my potatoes).
Season the mashed potatoes and chicken and noodles with salt and pepper to taste. Pour the chicken and noodles over a dollop of mashed potatoes and enjoy!
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Peanut Butter Cups
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Justin says "these are the best ever", that's all you need to know, right?! These peanut butter cup bars have been Justin's favorite since I've known him (so forever)! Seeing these are Justin's favorite though, he is helping me make them, write, and post this blog. See if you can find the parts he wrote ;-)
2 sticks margarine
1 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs/powder (pulsing the graham crackers in a food processor works best)
1 cup peanut butter
2 1/3 cup powdered sugar
2 cups milk chocolate chips (I use the entire bag)
In a large bowl liquefy the margarine into a buttery mess in the microwave (cook for 45 seconds). Take the bowl out of the microwave (yes, we need to specify) and add the peanut butter to it. Destroy the structural integrity of the graham crackers in the food processor and measure 1 3/4 cup into the bowl. Mix margarine, peanut butter, and graham crackers until it's runny with chunkage. Add in the powdered sugar and enlist your man servant to stir well. When everything is mixed (you will no longer see the white powdered sugar), put it in a 9x13 pan. Melt chocolate chips and frost over the top.
(In case you can't follow the lovely directions Justin provided… Add graham crackers, peanut butter, and sugar to the melted butter. Mix Well. Put into 9x13 pan and top with melted chocolate chips.)
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Leafroll: A quiet threat in the vineyard
3PKFX Wine WINE
It's not imagined. The blood-red leaves in California's vineyards are appearing earlier and spreading more widely. While pleasing to the eye, the colors indicate a shutting down of photosynthesis, often dangerously close to harvest. They can also be a signal for a virus that's giving the wine industry a migraine.
The grape leafroll virus has been around and causing trouble for at least a century. It has about 10 variations. But the newest, V3 and V5, are causing panic, with some vineyard owners ripping out vines or blasting them with chemicals.
"If I'm going to believe what I hear, it's going to be the next phylloxera," says Stuart Smith, owner of Smith-Madrone in St. Helena. "Worried? You bet."
The virus is also affecting vines on the East Coast and in South Africa and New Zealand, and was the topic of an international conference at UC Davis in 2008. Like that other scourge, the European grapevine moth, lots of farmers have it. But if they are willing to discuss the moth, they are often fearful to fess up to the virus.
Unlike some other afflictions, this virus won't kill the vineyard, but it will greatly affect the quality of grapes by preventing normal sugar development and greatly reducing yields.
But not everyone views those effects as detrimental. Lower sugars were more acceptable 15 years ago, but now they conflict with today's bigger style of wine.
"The virus causes a lack of (the) maturity that most of today's winemakers are looking for," says Paul Jackson, owner of Colinas Farming Co., which farms for such Napa Valley wineries as Grgich Hills, Round Pond and Frank Family.
Hesitant to talk
And why are those afflicted so hesitant to talk? "It is probably because they are fearful that their vineyard will be perceived as having inferior fruit and lose sales," says Dave Whitmer, Napa County agriculture commissioner.
But speak to farmers and the situation becomes more complex. Where many see no option but to learn to live with the virus, others have immediately yanked out vineyards and replanted, only to have the virus reappear.
The spread of these variants of leafroll was noticed in 2002 in the famed To Kalon vineyard. The late Ed Weber, Napa County's previous viticulture farm adviser, and Deborah Golino, director of Foundation Plant Services at UC Davis, began a four-year study of the phenomenon. During the study, there was a threefold increase in the number of infections in that vineyard alone. Oakville is still one of the hardest-hit areas.
The study was disturbing. Previously, this virus was believed to be transmitted by grafting infected budwood in vineyards, which is why many farmers were terrified of using field cuttings instead of buying certified plant material from Foundation Plant Services.
But it turns out that's not the only way the virus is transmitted. While grafting is one way - and cleaning up the virus in the vine is Golino's focus - the major spreader is the vine mealybug, which is native to Mediterranean countries.
Golino says it probably arrived on lowly table-grape vines smuggled in from Israel to Southern California. Unhappy with that sandy soil, the bug moved steadily north.
It tends to breed more quickly than other mealybugs and gets carried around by wind, vineyard machinery and vineyard workers. The pests do double damage: As they suck on a vine, they excrete a sticky substance called honeydew, leaving a tacky, candlelike wax on grape bunches, ruining them; as they feed on new vines, they pass along the virus.
Yet there are those who happily live with the virus. These folks seem to have found a working mix of good farming and the right rootstock. Vines on their own roots, those on an old type known as St. George, or even phylloxera-prone AxR1, might carry GLRaV3 and 5, but don't seem to show a major impact.
Vineyard manager Frank Leeds, who farms Frog's Leap in Rutherford, was working on a 20-year-old plot of Cabernet Franc that needed replanting because of rabbit damage.
"I couldn't get St. George, so I got something called Freedom," he says. "I planted the same budwood on the root, and after four years those vines were showing virus, yet not in any of the other vineyards."
Cathy Corison's Kronos vineyard in St. Helena has organic methods and solid, old rootstock going for it. Kronos is planted on St. George, which is one of California's old drought-resistant rootstocks. At 40 years old, the rubrum-colored leaves indicate that the virus is present, but Corison doesn't care.
"Few people would tolerate the yields I get off the vineyard," she acknowledges, "but I love the flavor from those grapes." The virus seems to prevent her grapes from maturing too fast and getting too sugary, exactly what she wants.
Tony Coturri, a longtime organic wine grower and winemaker, almost has a response of "What virus?" even though it exists in some of the vineyards he helps farm.
"We just have to live with it," he says. "Sometimes the weaker plants bring a complexity to the wine." He considers cleaned-up vine material too simple to make good wine.
Controlling the situation with chemicals isn't a solution, warns Kent Daane, an entomologist at UC Berkeley. Daane found that spraying, which some fearful vineyard owners had done, was not effective because the bugs hide under the leaves.
A better solution, he says, is a new $54,000 pheromone mating-disruption program, funded by Napa County. Plastic packets measuring 2 by 3 inches impregnated with pheromones hung in vineyards in Napa and St. Helena. The idea: Keep the mealybug population down and avoid the spread of the virus, allowing young plants to grow large enough to fend off infection.
Golino is adamant that growers must purchase new certified vines - "even when it means giving up field selections that have been a longtime part of a winemaking program" - in order to reduce the virus' impact. But even that won't eliminate it.
"There is not going to be a fast fix," she says.
Susceptible to infection
And certified vines are susceptible to infection, too. Sebastopol consultant James A. Stamp is often called in as an expert witness when vineyards have taken nurseries to court for buying certified clones that came up positive for the virus.
Stamp notes that the desire to keep the complexity of virused vines has led to some unusual farming notions.
"We joked about the idea to clean up the vines and then add viruses back in, to add back the potential for complexity," he says. "It would have been a little bit like having unsafe sex."
Curiously, organic and biodynamic growers haven't necessarily witnessed the same dangers. Grgich Hills has 25 biodynamically farmed acres in Yountville, adjacent to an afflicted Dominus vineyard. In 2001, Grgich saw the spread of red leaves into its vineyard. The fruit couldn't top 23 Brix, a measure of sugar. In 2003, they started biodynamic conversion.
"We saw red leaf slow down and our ripeness increase," says winemaker Ivo Jermaz. "In fact, since going biodynamic, we have to watch so the grapes don't get too ripe."
Monica Cooper, Napa County's viticulture farm adviser, couldn't comment on the impact of farming choices, though scientists like Daane suggest organic farming might help. Research in this area has been poorly funded, even though circumstantial evidence shows that organically farmed environments might have natural predators for the mealy bug.
"We don't see the problem in our organic vineyards as we do in our conventional," says Jackson, who farms using a variety of protocols. "But I'm not prepared to say that's the reason."
Viticultural consultant Steve Matthiasson, who consults for Napa's Araujo Estate, among others, is not alone when he jokes that less color, flavor, alcohol and ripeness might be blessings in disguise.
This reaction raises Golino's ire.
"I would love to see California produce less alcoholic wines," she says. "But virus isn't the way to do it."
This article has been corrected since it appeared in print editions.


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Today was such a crazy day. My husband caught a terrible head-cold after our Vegas trip, and of course, after he started to feel better, I got sick as well. Since we shoot all my project material on the weekend, I couldn't cancel this photo shoot. You know that I'm participating in the newest Bulgari campaign, and it is super huge for me! I wanted to be very creative and can't wait to share our hard work with my lovely readers. Pls stay tuned!
Today, I'm wearing a new Nasty Gal top that I got a few weeks ago. It took me time to figure out how to style it, but you know how much I love being classy. So I styled it with pencil skirt along with my new Public Desire ankle boots.


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I am the first poster after about two years. This forum looks totally deserted. I am amazed by the fact that there is no activity whatsoever.
Is someone still using Pocomail/Barca?
Is the development of Pocomail and Barca totally dead?
Any chance that the code will be released as open source?


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Alphabet Script Canvas Print
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Prices and employee benefits weren�t the only things falling at the Kinston Walmart on Wednesday.
�I�d stopped at Walmart to pick up a few things,� said Amy French of La Grange. �I hadn�t been there in at least three hours, so supplies were running low.�
As French approached the store�s entrance, she was shocked by what she thought was a fast moving storm cloud.
�It was as if someone had erected a tent over half of the parking lot,� French said. �The sun just disappeared for a moment.�
Within seconds, the sun reappeared and the sound of metal scraping across several parked vehicles alarmed several Walmart shoppers.
�We hit the deck,� said Mike Torello, who was visiting Kinston with his wife Julie. �I was a cop in Chicago for 18 years, and my first thought was a plane had crashed in the parking lot � which ticked me off because I�d just waxed the car that morning.�
As it turns out, what landed in the Walmart parking lot wasn�t a plane.
�It was an unmanned United States government drone,� said U.S. Press Secretary Art Carney. �Due to budget cuts, the drones sometimes run low on fuel. The intern in charge of keeping the drone on course was trying to land it at the Murphy Express gas station just across the street from Walmart.�
Cell phone photos taken of the drone show what appear to be several bumper stickers on each wing. One wing featured a sticker rendition of the trucker mudflap girl, while the other wing sported a �Hillary 2016� sticker and a �Biden 2017� sticker.
When informed of the drone crash, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner reportedly burst into tears. When Boehner was told there were no injuries, the crying escalated into joyful blubbering. Eventually Boehner collapsed from dehydration and several staffers jumped into action.
�A couple of juice boxes and he�ll be fine,� a senior aide told the Associated Press. �We learned our lesson during a screening of the last �Twilight� movie.�
When asked why the drone was allowed to run out of gas during flight, Carney again blamed budget cuts.
�This sequester has forced us to turn over the drone program to a staff of unpaid interns,� Carney said. �The interns came highly recommended. One of them was employee of the month at a Virginia Kinko�s three months in a row before joining the team.�
As for the intern in charge of the drone that forcibly added a sunroof to 12 cars on Wednesday, Carney wasn�t as complimentary.
�The intern in charge of the drone that suffered a petroleum deficiency has been tough to track down, although his recent postings on social media sights are being investigated,� Carney said. �He�s been re-Tweeting crowd pictures from the Reggae Sunsplash 2013 Festival in Jamaica but is not answering his phone.�
Most of the photos released to the press depict women in various stages of undress, Jimmy Cliff signing autographs, concert-goers smoking large, misshapen cigarettes and eating several bags of Cheetos and Doritos. When asked why the government was flying a drone in Lenoir County airspace, Carney said it was linked to the War on Terror.
�Although Osama Bin Laden is dead, there are many people in the world who are trying to further his efforts,� Carney said. �One of those people is his cousin � Leroy Bin Laden � a man known to have ties to the Kinston area. The last time Leroy Bin Laden was on our radar, he threatened to detonate a collard bomb at a Larry The Cable Guy show in Duplin County. We spotted him entering the Kinston Walmart on Wednesday and sent a drone to collect information on his whereabouts.�
While in Walmart, Leroy Bin Laden reportedly purchased six heads of cabbage, a container of black pepper, a case of aerosol cheese, a Gerald LeVert CD and a bag of Miracle-Gro.
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McLaren's current car is a "rolling laboratory" for the start of the works Honda era beginning in 2015.
That is the news of team boss Eric Boullier, who arrived at Woking this year and is overseeing the British grandee's struggle to even stay in the top five constructors in 2014.
This season is the last in McLaren's long and successful partnership with Mercedes, even though the relationship is no more than a mere customer pairing in 2014.
McLaren lies behind its usual top-team protagonists at the mid-season point, but also behind Mercedes' other customers Williams and Force India.
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PETER KOSTIS I'M NOT. Kostis offered a swing analysis of David Toms during the final round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Country Club. The CBS commentator drew two lines that demonstrated Toms' unchanging posture during the address, back swing, down swing, follow through and finish. It was a thing of beauty.
I stumbled across the photo at right of Toms that was snapped at the 2004 Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills. I don't think we need Kostis. Take a good look at it: the footwork, weight shift, extension and especially the head position. Goodness gracious. It's all there, isn't it?
(By the way, look at the two guys whose heads are sticking out sideways toward the right-hand side of the photo. I got a kick out of them. They sure were determined to get a look at that velvety Toms action.)
David Toms has a well-earned reputation as a sweet ball striker. Not long—about eight yards below average—but real straight. Another thing about him: tempo. It never seems to change, whether he has a driver or wedge in his hands.
At Colonial, Toms was something like second in both fairways hit and greens in regulation. Throw in some made putts and you can see how the 44-year-old veteran carded those unfathomable back-to-back 62s. But then it got tough on the weekend. It almost always does when you've gone five years without a win. A big part of that was due to a tough golf course with weekend pin locations, as well as windy conditions.
This time, Toms slipped by Charlie Wi and hung on. "That just took a lot of guts," he said.
There were tears of joy for the Toms family in Fort Worth instead of the heartbreak of a playoff loss to K.J. Choi in Florida. CBS pointed the camera at 13-year-old son Carter as he hugged his dad on the 18th green. That was the money shot.
Well, that and the hole out for eagle at the 11th.
−The Armchair Golfer
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- Charles Prokop said...
It was good to see Toms win after the playoff loss to Choi. I saw the Kostis analysis too, and was amazed at how his torso rotated around that yellow line drawn through his upper body. It looked like it was a part of Toms rather than a superimposed image.
I was equally impressed by his ability to come back and win after the prior week's loss and the loss of a 7 stroke lead.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
A Toms victory was the perfect followup to last week. It could not have been scripted any better.
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Libya's government is struggling to control its borders and retrieve the arms and explosives that were looted after longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's downfall, according to the conclusions of an international meeting on Libyan security on Tuesday.
Countries that backed the 2011 revolution offered words of caution and support two years later. Libyan Foreign Minister M. Mohamed Abdelaziz acknowledged that significant problems remained in Libya, first among them how to police its borders and manage restless former fighters who are taking their skills - and troubles - outside the country.
The vast frontier between Libya and Algeria has been a particular problem - more than two dozen militants who seized control of the Ain Amenas gas installation in Algeria are believed to have crossed over the unpatrolled desert before taking hundreds of workers hostage.
Abdelaziz said a European Union training force would help, but he said his country had no need for foreign forces at the frontier. The communique said Libya instead would focus on integrating ex-fighters into a regular security force.
"Democracy will not be instituted by the Libyans alone," he said.
The central government has little authority beyond the capital, Tripoli, and the country is fractured by militias, tribes and regional loyalties.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague also emphasized the problem of border security. The Ain Amenas facility attacked by militants is jointly run by BP, Algeria's Sonatrach and Norway's Statoil, and at least four of the 37 foreign workers killed were from Britain.
"It is important of course that Libya is able to secure its borders. That it is able to make sure that there aren't ungoverned spaces particularly in the south of Libya, that militias can be demobilized," he said. Britain is among the countries offering to help train the Libyans.
The chaos in Libya after Gadhafi's fall has implications far beyond the border areas. Arms and explosives stockpiled by his governments are smuggled to Mali, Egypt and its Sinai Peninsula, the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad. Libyan fighters have joined rebels in Syria and are believed to operate in other countries as well.


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Edward VI: London Leaders
Last week I finished a 3-part series on King Henry VIII. Today, we'll meet his only son and male heir, Edward VI.
As we learned a couple weeks ago, Edward VI is born to Jane Seymour, one of the wives Henry VIII actually seems to care for. Sadly, she does not survive her son's birth, but she does bring her husband great happiness in finally delivering a male heir to carry on the House of Tudor's royal line. Edward is only nine years old when he becomes King of England in 1547, and he is rather sickly in body though strong in mind and faith.


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It's a little over 500 days since the grounding of the MV Rena caused our worst maritime environmental disaster and one of the biggest engineering headaches in the history of ship salvage. Reporter Jamie Morton and photographer Alan Gibson visit what's left of the ship.
A workman uses a cutting torch to dismantle what remains of the wreck of the Rena on the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty.
The last visible part of the Rena's carcass juts out just above the water, as 1.5m swells gently lap its sides.
A lone salvor standing precariously atop a 15-tonne piece of metal is hard to make out against the bow's jagged silhouette.
After hours keeping his footing, the constant swaying must be taking its toll on his legs - yet today is a good day for stripping back the cargo ship that has made an unwelcome home on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty coast.
What has been the seaborne workplace of salvors is shrinking each day they hack more of it off - their results being the piles of reddish-brown chunks of metal being ferried from the wreck site by barge and into the Port of Tauranga.
The job of whittling the bow to a metre below the tideline has been continuing steadily, while the battle beneath the waves - cleaning up a messy ocean floor - is also making progress.
Even to the world's leading experts in what stands as one of the most extreme forms of engineering, dealing with the Rena has demanded incredible feats.
If there ever was a horror story written just for maritime salvors, Resolve Salvage and Fire salvage master Frank Leckey told the Herald, it would be about a cargo ship named the MV Rena.
"If you were going to put it on a scale of difficulty, this would definitely be in the top 10."
Each chapter has come with its own nightmare - oil in desperate need of removal despite submerged tanks and Marmite-like consistency, stacks of reeking containers having to be plucked away by cranes like pick-up-sticks and yanked from mangled holds.
And with the ship's constant deterioration since it slammed into the reef early on October 5, 2011, the job of cleaning up the mess has only become more expensive, complex and dangerous.
First, salvors had to lug heavy pumping equipment around a slippery and steeply listing deck to clear 1300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.
Divers were eventually forced to swim through the ship's flooded holds in pitch-black darkness to help build airtight tunnels allowing access to the last of the oil.
Next, towers of shipping containers, some filled with rotting food that pushed air pollution on the deck to potentially dangerous levels, began to be offloaded.
A few months later, in January last year, dozens spilled into the ocean, spewing their contents into the water, when the Rena was ripped in half amid a heavy storm.
All the containers that could be removed have been, including some which had to be yanked from mangled holds below decks.
United States-based Resolve Salvage and Fire swapped places with Svitzer for the current third phase and fourth phases.
Mountains of steel have been cut away and taken back to land, first in hundreds of flights by helicopters using the kind of fuel that costs $100 a litre and now by barge.
By yesterday, about 560 tonnes of debris from the ocean floor had been removed - up to 1500 tonnes is thought to be down there - while 300 tonnes remained to be stripped from the bow.
It is little wonder the project has now cost the ship's insurers more than $275 million - making it the third most expensive salvage in history behind that of the huge cruise liner Costa Concordia, which smashed into a reef off the Italian island of Giglio last year, and the Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska in 1989.
Captain John Owen of insurers The Swedish Club said New Zealand's remote location had meant specialist equipment and vessels had to come from much further away.
Underwater, the Rena now looked like a Christmas cracker pulled apart, he said, with a mass of metal strewn across around 10,000 square metres of sea floor.
Mr Leckey expects cleaning up the debris will take a few months longer to complete.
If it was safe enough, he said, divers went down to cut the larger pieces apart, before they were lifted out using either a crane, a heavy-duty hydraulic grapple or a magnet that could pull up to five tonnes.
Conditions above water could change at any moment, but below, it could be far more dangerous.
"The swell, when it comes through, it's like a washing machine down there," Mr Leckey said.
"If you went and stood on the reef and there's a two-metre swell coming, and you went to try to stand there, well, imagine trying to stand when a large wave hits you on the beach.
"So when the divers are inside the compartments and you have all that water coming in with the swell, it can be very difficult to work in."
If the rest of the Rena is to be "made safe" and left on the reef, he said, a detailed plan would be tailored, and work would last months longer.
Already, the owners plan to remove as much remaining cargo as possible, remove or close off hazards to divers and place warning signs around the wreck.
Roger King, a master mariner with Technical Marine Consultants, said it was unlikely there were any remaining containers still intact in the water.
"We can safely say that if the power of the ocean can break a ship in half, it's sufficient to rip containers open and disgorge their contents."
Early results released last month showed that of 36 remaining containers in the stern section carrying known contaminants, many had broken up and their contents escaped since the vessel broke in two.
Three containers, with cargo intact, were recovered, four were retrieved but were empty and seven were recovered in pieces.
The contents of the remaining 22 were presumed lost, and sediment samples had shown heightened levels of copper and polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
Substances in the water included cryolite, a byproduct of the aluminium smelting process, ferrosilicon, potassium nitrate and trichloroisocyanuric acid.
Captain Owen said environmental sampling would continue as the clean-up progressed and, with pieces of steel being picked up after sitting in the water for months, there would be localised disturbance.
Rena Recovery manager Catherine Taylor said there was still much work to be done to determine the significance of the contamination and its environmental impact.
Scientists were developing a sampling protocol, involving mapping GPS grid references, so they could be certain they were returning to the same site in the future to assess any changes.
The salvage
* $275m spent on the project so far
* 10,000sq m of sea floor where debris is being removed
* 560 tonnes of debris collected so far
* $27.6m settlement covering government costs
* $27m compensation fund set up in London for claims
* 60 salvors involved in current phase
* 2 other salvage jobs thought bigger - the Costa Concordia and Exxon Valdez.


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South Pacific, the Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, is back in Chicago for a two-week engagement through February 26, 2012. The Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein show at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 West Randolph St.) is filled with many classical musical favorites audiences across the world have loved, revered and lip-synced to for many decades.
As many theatre-goers recall, South Pacific takes us to a tropical island in (where else?) the South Pacific during World War II, where two romances develop simultaneously amidst the fighting seen and heard in the background.
The primary romantic plot involves U.S. Navy nurse, Nellie Forbush (the lovely Jennie Sophia) and an older, single French plantation owner, Emile de Becque (the talented baritone Marcelo Guzzo),who fall in love until she accidentally meets his multi-ethnic Polynesian children, which casts doubts on her Southern racial tolerance, and questions her ability to continue the relationship.
The second romance is between Navy Airman Joe Cable (the handsome, young Shane Donovan) and a native girl, Liat (demure, mysterious Hsin-Yu Liao), arranged through her mother, Bloody Mary (the wickedly funny Cathy Foy-Mahi).
Now that we're familiarized with the story line, I feel the show started off too slowly to captivate the eager audience. It pulled up to speed as more of the cast – singers and dancers from the Seabees and local natives filled up the stage with its happy-go-lucky and sometimes emotionally painful songs. Finally, during the late first Act and during the entire Act II, the story began living up, almost but not quite, to its Broadway reputation. As we know it, the Broadway hit is a tough act to follow, with its hugely famous stars, Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza.
Picking favorites from South Pacific, almost means naming every single one of them. There's "Younger Than Springtime," "Some Enchanged Evening,"You've Got to be Carefully Taught," "A Cockeyed Optimist,""There is Nothing Like a Dame," "Bali Ha'I," and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," just to name a few. The musical score would have been more effective with a larger, more resounding orchestra, but it still was enjoyable.
The celebrated book is by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan and directed by Bartlett Sher.
Visit South Pacific – and you'll have "Some Enchanted Evening."
The performance schedule for RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S SOUTH PACIFIC is as follows:
Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
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Additional performances: Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m.
Individual tickets range from $18-$85 and go on sale this Friday, Dec. 16 at 10 a.m. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St., 18 W. Monroe St. and 175 E. Chestnut), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Kiosk at Water Tower Place (845 N. Michigan Ave.), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000, all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores), and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Groups of 15 or more may receive a discount on most shows by calling (312) 977-1710. Gift certificates, which can be redeemed for any production or for season ticket packages, can be obtained at Broadway In Chicago box offices, www.BroadwayInChicago.com or by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 775-2000. Please note: Ticket prices and performance schedule are subject to change.
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(Reuters) - Henrik Stenson's game was a mess 18 months ago but his decision to reunite with a former mind guru sparked a dramatic change in fortunes that culminated in a remarkable $11.4 million FedExCup payday in Atlanta on Sunday.
He first worked with Torsten Hansson in 1994 and Stenson went on to claim a string of victories around the world and a spot in the 2006 and 2008 European Ryder Cup teams.
A win at the 2009 Players Championship in Florida, golf's unofficial fifth major, lifted him to fourth in the world rankings but the 6-foot-1 Swede then suddenly suffered a form slump that saw him crash out of the top 200.
"He contacted me a couple of weeks before the 2012 French Open to ask if I was interested in working with him again," Hansson told Reuters. "I said, 'Of course, you are one of the main people in my life and I could never say no.
"I knew what we needed to do, what we had to sort out. People who end up in a chaotic and confused situation need to work with someone that can help them get back to where they want to go."
The 37-year-old Stenson picked up a cheque for $1.4 million for winning the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club on Sunday plus a $10 million bonus for ending the U.S. season in first place in the FedExCup playoff series.
"Henrik had a lot of problems in 2011 and 2012 and we had to start with what I call 'the five processes'," said Hansson. "We started off well because he almost won the French Open.
"The first process is physical, the second is mental, the third is technical, the fourth is the strategic and tactical one and the fifth is the social process.
"All five are very important - you can be off with one of them but there is no way you can be off with two. If you have control of the five processes like he has right now you can achieve anything," Hansson added.
Stenson followed up a tie for seventh position at the French Open with three more top-10 finishes but the real breakthrough came when he triumphed at the South African Open in November.
"South Africa last year was very important because it was then we knew we were on the right track and that he could get that winning feeling again," said the 66-year-old Hansson.
"A win like that gives so much energy and you can transfer that to the practice range, the putting green and the gym.
"The guy who is willing to put in the work, you know if they are doing the right things it is going to get results. People who think there's an easy way out, they're not the ones I want to work with."
Hansson prefers to call himself a coach rather than a psychologist and was keen to stress that it was Team Stenson, individuals like swing coach Pete Cowan and caddie Gareth Lord, who are as responsible for the player's resurgence as he is.
"Henrik and I have spoken on the phone since his win on Sunday and I know he's thankful for the work we've done but it's not only me, the most important person in the team for me is Gareth," said Hansson.
"Without Gareth this would not have been possible."
Hansson said Stenson's work ethic always marked him out as a special golfer, going back to the time the pair first got together with the Swedish national team 19 years ago.
"No one in Swedish golf could have imagined we would one day have one of our golfers winning the FedExCup," he said. "I used to have a lot of discussions with the leaders of the national team, they didn't really believe in Henrik.
"But I said to them you are looking at the wrong things because he was one of the only guys in that team who had the potential to reach the highest level. We never agreed on that ... but I was proved right.
"Winners are different from normal people. There aren't many winners in sport but you saw it with Henrik when he won last week, in his face you could see that determination, that focus, that hunger to reach his goals which is absolutely at the top level."
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Preservice elementary teachers should experience science through inquiry in order to be effective in teaching science. In addition, inquiry as a mode of teaching is mandated by Kansas and National Science Education Standards. As a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, teachers also need to be prepared to include basic skills in reading and mathematics in all instruction. To address these issues, Fort Hays State University (FHSU) is adapting and extending the NSF-developed teacher enhancement materials Operation Primary Physical Science (OPPS) for use in a physical science course for preservice elementary teachers. This paper presents main features of OPPS, describes advantages of using it as a template in developing desired course material and discusses results collected with students enrolled in the adapted course during 2004/2005 academic year.
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bmoneil necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 254 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
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Titan Consulting Group, Inc. is an IT consulting company founded in 2001 in southeastern Michigan. We are changing our company name to a dba of Titan Solutions in order to update our company image and reflect growing commercial software product offerings. We provide IT services such as system management, software development, web application development, e-commerce, and business process design and automation. We also offer three commercial software products: Metridoc(r) a document management solution, Folder Watcher a utility that launches processes based on file system activity (e.g. file created in a folder), and Smplify a CSLA code generation solution. We are a Microsoft Partner and belong to the Apple iPhone/iPad software developer program. We felt that "Titan Consulting Group" was a bit of an old naming convention and our current logo was dated as well. So we need a great new logo to go along with our new company business name. Our web site is in a state of suspension but you can view our existing logo(s) at http://www.titanconsultinggroup.com. This logo project will be followed up with a web site design project.
Small to medium sized businesses and independent or small group software development companies. We want our target audience to see the logo and think that our company is experienced, capable, solid, reliable, trustworthy, knows technology, and is current.
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We would like a vector logo (ai) that can be used on a web site, software About dialogs, possibly an icon, on our letterhead, business cards, and on our company apparel (shirts and jackets). We want color and black/white versions.
The company name actually came from the movie, "Remember the Titans", because of the feeling we had watching the movie, the teamwork, and success. It also occurred to me after that a "Titan" was my high school mascot. That being said we have always shied away from titan, spartans, and other gladiator type symbols. We also know that Titan is the name of one of Saturn's moons and we have shied away from that symbolism as well. I'm not saying you can't submit it, but you would have to overcome that obstacle in order to win.
We would prefer a meaningful abstract vector logo (ai). What do I mean by "meaningful abstract" (sort of an oximoron)? Well if you take a box and make a great logo then I would consider that abstract. However if a box making company uses that logo -- it just became meaningful. So although it is not necessary it would be great if the logo had some meaning -- almost like a twist. Similiar to the movie "The Sixth Sense" where you might not see it the first time you look at it, but its all there. Well it doesn't have to be as deep as "The Sixth Sense" and although some meaning would be preferred what we are after is a great looking logo (and we will know that when we see it :) ).
Also, don't get too hung up on the block thing going on in our existing logo -- it is a bit of an overused symbolism in technology companies.
In the past we have used the colors blue and gray (Detroit Lions? I'm not sure where our current colors came from.) but we are not married to any color scheme. We will consider any color scheme, but remember that it will be used on company apparel.
We are looking for something clean, simple, and modern. We like lighting (but it is not necessary). Shadows may look good on a web site, but they will also have to look good on company apparel.
See what you can do. We are open to something creative. Thanks for helping us out and good luck!
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GRANT, G., RAMCHARAN, P. and GOWARD, P. (2004). Resilience, family care, and people with intellectual disabilities. International review of research in mental retardation., 26, 135-173.
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REPPER, Julie, NOLAN, Mike, GRANT, Gordon, CURRAN, Monica, ENDERBY, Pam and GOWARD, Peter (2008). Family carers on the margins : experiences of assessment in mental health. Project Report. National Coordinating Centre for the Service Delivery and Organisation (NCCSDO) research programme.
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SF murals become targets for vandals
S.F. NEIGHBORHOODS Graffiti marring much of city's street art - vandalism on the rise
Muralists around San Francisco say that they've seen an increase in vandalism of murals by taggers, who are defacing the art with their monikers.
Vandals have wrecked murals from North Beach to the Tenderloin. In the city's liveliest mural zone, the Mission District, muralists say it's been particularly bad. Street paintings made in months have been ravaged in seconds.
"There's been a very specific mural destruction going on," said Russell Howze, a muralist and author who does street art tours of the Mission District. "There's really no logic. I don't know if there's any organization or conspiracy behind it. More than anything, these murals are well-loved and huge amounts of time have gone into them."
Vandals this year have defaced parts of the Mission District's Clarion Alley, a 20-year-old street museum of murals. "Gold Mountain," a North Beach mural depicting Chinese history, had to be repainted when the building owners couldn't keep it free of graffiti.
While some view graffiti as an art form, taught in classes at schools and even sponsored by government agencies, unwelcome graffiti is a crime, punishable by jail and fines.
The Department of Public Works, which keeps track of graffiti abatement, received more than 21,800 requests this year for graffiti cleanup in San Francisco. It's not clear how many of those calls, if any, were related to murals.
Expensive restoration
For the muralists whose works have been affected by vandalism, restoration can be expensive, time-consuming and sometimes not worth the trouble because the work just gets vandalized again.
Sirron Norris, a professional muralist, had his six Mission District murals defaced this summer. He spent dozens of hours fixing them, but one was beyond repair.
"I had to let it go to the wild," said Norris, who prefers indoor murals as a result. "Tagging is so pervasive now."
Public Works spends about $3.5 million a year on graffiti abatement. The majority of time and money is spent on removing graffiti - 90 percent of which are dealt with in 48 hours of a request, said Rachel Gordon, a department spokeswoman.
The city also does outreach, including classes in schools about graffiti. They teach people not to vandalize and how to do graffiti art responsibly and with permission.
In addition, for habitual victims of taggers, the city has a program called StreetSmARTS. The program awards up to $1,500 for artists to create murals on problematic walls to discourage unwelcome graffiti. Property owners pay on a sliding scale.
Over the three years of the program, there have been 50 murals created, said Tyra Fennell, director of the StreetSmARTS program. At least five have been defaced by graffiti.
One was completely destroyed, but because it was up for two years, Fennell said, "we consider that a victory."
The city's use of murals to discourage graffiti is not so different from what many corporations now do, including Walgreens in the Mission District, which has large murals on its walls.
Jet Martinez, an Oakland resident who has been one of the directors of the Clarion Alley Mural Project, which has been tagged repeatedly this year, called 2012 the worst year for tagging of his murals since he started in 1997.
He said he wonders whether the corporate and city use of murals has prompted the tagging by vandals who view themselves as subversive.
"I guess I can see how, in a misguided way, if you were a starting artist, to see somebody doing a legal piece, it might feel like 'The Man,' " he said.
It's a view Martinez says doesn't jibe with history, nor today's reality.
"I personally feel like there's room for everything," he said. "It's a big old city with tons of walls."
Dealing with taggers
How muralists can deal with the tagging is another issue.
"I struggle with it," Martinez said. "When it happens to me, I want to go crazy, find everybody who is tagging and break their fingers."
Susan Cervantes is known as the dean of San Francisco's murals. She founded and directs Precita Eyes, a Mission District nonprofit that has created 500 murals over the past 35 years.
From her building on 24th Street, she can see a badly defaced mural across the street. She said Precita's murals, one of which wraps around a four-story building, have largely avoided the defacing. She believes Precita's history and community role may have protected its murals.
Cervantes, like others interviewed, says part of the power of street art is its vulnerability: it's exposed to the community.
"That's the risk that you take," she said. "We don't do it to deter vandalism, but we do it to make art accessible to people. This is what we started out as muralists to do."
Matthai Kuruvila is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @matthai


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Thursday, January 9, 2014
The Flat Bits in the Middle – Part 2: The Difference between Fluency and Complexity
By Tamara Jones
EAL Instructor, British School of Brussels
In his great book, Moving Beyond the Plateau: From Intermediate to Advanced Levels in Language Learning, Jack Richards (2008) notices that another problem that contributes to the plateau that often plagues Intermediate level students lies in the difference between fluency and complexity. Again, I can really relate to this, as a French learner. For many years, I have been in such a panic to make myself understood and just communicate my thoughts and needs. I am usually okay with the simple past tense; however, if I need to do anything harder than that, I freeze up. My French linguistic system has not yet restructured to accommodate newer tenses, such as the imperfect.
Similarly with our students, they may have the passive voice down in a variety of simple tenses, but when they want to say something more complex, like "the bridge is going to be being built over the summer," they stumble. In order to put an end to their plateau, learners need to add complexity to their output. Richards (2008) suggests that this can be accomplished in three ways: by addressing the language prior to the activity, addressing the language during the activity and addressing the language after the activity.
The Language Before the Activity
First, by address the language prior to an activity, he means pre-teaching the target language and providing students with a chance for rehearsal. Now, I am sure I am not alone when I say that I rarely begin a lesson without some sort of pre-teaching. If students are going to have a conversation about, for instance, pets,
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I think i remember the "Snake from the first Metal Gear Cover is based off Kyle Reese" from this thread…
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Sorry if this has been posted, but i swear to god i looked for it. Like, four times the past months.


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There's never a good time or place to go on an anti-gay tirade, but onstage at a club in San Francisco owned by a gay man, in front of many gay fans, is probably near the bottom of the list.
Michelle Shocked, a singer-songwriter whose sexuality was once fairly ambiguous, stunned fans Sunday night at Yoshi's Jazz Club with a homophobic rant, according to USA Today. The 51-year-old singer reportedly said that if California's Proposition 8, which effectively bans gay marriage, is overturned, "it will be the downfall of civilization, and Jesus will come back."
(WATCH: Hillary Clinton Announces Support for Gay Marriage)
As her rant went on, fans left the show en masse. Yahoo Music reports that Yoshi's sound operator, a gay man, finally pulled the plug and asked Shocked to leave the stage, though she managed to shout "You can go on Twitter and say, 'Michelle Shocked says God hates f–s!'" to what remained of the confused audience before departing.
Several venues across the country, from Evanston, Ill. to Boulder, Colo., have canceled upcoming performances.
The fact that Shocked was widely believed to be gay makes the whole thing no less, well, shocking. In a 1990 interview with the now-defunct Chicago gay dispatch Outlines, she talked about the fluidity of her sexuality, waxing nostalgic about her first sexual experience with a woman.
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But Shocked became a born again Christian and joined the West Angeles Church of Christ choir in the 1990s; in 2008, she told gay newspaper the Dallas Voice that she considers homosexuality a sin.
"There are some inconvenient truths that I'm now a born again, sanctified, saved-in-the-blood Christian," she told the Voice. "So much of what's said and done in the name of that Christianity is appalling. According to my Bible, which I didn't write, homosexuality is immoral. But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication. And I'm a fornicator with a capital F."
Update: Shocked has issued a statement saying she is "damn sorry" for her comments, Spin reports. Unfortunately, her apology is just as confusing as the initial rant.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) took a slight dig Tuesday at Mitt Romney for criticizing President Obama while the president was out of the country.
Boehner suggested it was inappropriate for Romney, the front-running GOP presidential contender, to take aim at Obama's exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, when Obama signaled to his outgoing Russian counterpart after a meeting in South Korea that he would have more "flexibility" to negotiate on missile defense after this fall's elections.
"Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country," Boehner said in response to a question from NBC News about whether he agreed with Romney's assessment that Russia is the "number one geopolitical foe" of the United States.
Romney was quick to seize Monday on Obama's comments to Medvedev.
"Russia is not a friendly character on the world stage, and for this president to be looking for greater flexibility, where he doesn't have to answer to the American people in his relations with Russia is very, very troubling, very alarming," the former Massachusetts governor said. "I'm very, very concerned."
GOP aides told NBC News that Boehner has long adhered to the principle that criticism of the president stops at the border's edge while he's abroad.
The speaker's office did flag a tweet for reporters on Monday, though, in which Boehner said he looked forward to hearing what Obama meant by the "flexibility" comment upon his return to the U.S.
In March of 2011, Boehner waited until Obama returned from Brazil before sending him a letter that was critical of his foreign policy in Libya.


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So who is excited for the Christmas Glee episode tonight? Thanks to a friend I've been enjoying the cd for a couple weeks now but that doesn't lessen how excited I am for the show! I can remember wishing for a Christmas episode last year so this one feels like a long time coming and now I'm counting down the hours. ;)
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Jorge Azuero (left) and Shea Thomas (right) won the ITA Atlantic Regional doubles title today, defeating the No. 17 ranked doubles team in the country. (Photo courtesy of Dave Knachel)
ITA Atlantic Regional Final Results
The Liberty Flames men's tennis tandem of Shea Thomas and Jorge Azuero capped an improbable run through the ITA Atlantic Regional doubles bracket on Tuesday. The duo notched a come-from-behind, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, upset of the No. 17 doubles pair in the nation and No. 2 seed in the tournament, Andreas Bjerrehus and Amerigo Contini of Virginia Tech.
"There really aren't words to describe the amount of heart that Shea and Jorge displayed at this tournament," commented Liberty head coach Chris Johnson. "It comes as no surprise, as they have worked so hard to get to this point. I am very proud of them."
Thomas and Azuero became the first-ever Flames' doubles team to win the regional title. Before this weekend, no Liberty pair had ever advanced past the round of 32. Thomas and Azuero will now advance to play in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, which will be held at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center on Nov. 7-10.
Seeded 11th, Thomas and Azuero received a first-round bye, before collecting a second round victory over Temple's Sam Rundle and Vineet Naran, 8-5. The Flames' tandem then faced the first of four consecutive seeded opponents in Hunter Koontz and Joao Monteiro of Virginia Tech. Thomas and Azuero outlasted the seventh-seeded Hokie pair, 8-7 (5) to advance to the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, Thomas and Azuero were pitted against Richmond's Ethan and Jacob Dunbar, who were fresh off an upset of reigning NCAA doubles champion Mac Styslinger and his partner J.C. Aragone of Virginia. Thomas and Azuero doubled up the 10th seeded pair, 8-4. The Flames' combination continued to roll through the competition, dominating the No. 14 seed from Penn State, Russell Fennell and Alex Bader, 8-3, in the semifinals.
Thomas and Azuero's most daunting match awaited them in the finals. Going up against the Hokies' No. 1 tandem, Thomas and Azuero dropped the first set, 4-6, in the three-set match. The Liberty duo evened the match at one apiece with a 7-5 victory in the second frame, setting up a winner-take-all third set. In the final set, Thomas and Azuero broke open a 3-3 tie to win 6-4, claiming the match and the title.
Also competing in doubles play for the Flames were Dillon Segur and Egon Samaai. After advancing past the first round via a walk-over, Segur and Samaai downed the 16th-seeded pair from Delaware, Adam Lawton and Troy Beneck, 8-6. The Liberty tandem fell in the round of 16 to Virginia Tech's Jai Corbett and Florian Nicoud in a tight match, 8-6.
In addition to his doubles title, Thomas posted a strong performance in singles matches. The senior rallied in his first match to defeat Georgetown's Danny Khanin, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. In a precursor to their doubles contest, Thomas ousted 12th-seeded Bader in another three-set match, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Thomas's run was ended in the quarterfinals by eventual tournament runner-up Ryan Shane of Virginia. The No. 3 seed outlasted Thomas, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
The Flames' three remaining singles players, Azuero, Samaai and Segur, each fell in their first round matches.


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Ireland's compact size means air travel is not essential, but if you need to fly here's how you do it
With Ireland being a modestly sized island with an extensive and speedy train network and modern motorways connecting the main cities, there's little need for too many internal flights. The only internal flights on the island of Ireland are the Dublin-Kerry route, which takes approximately 40 minutes, and flights to all three of the Aran Islands with Aer Arann. Flights to the Aran Islands leave from the very picturesque setting of Connemara Regional Airport with a journey time of approximately eight minutes. There are no flights between the islands themselves.
There are four international airports on the island of Ireland:
Shannon Airport
Dublin Airport
Cork Airport
Belfast International Airport
City of Derry Airport
In addition, there are seven regional airports:
Waterford Airport
Kerry Airport
Galway Airport
Ireland West Airport Knock
Donegal Airport
Belfast City (George Best) Airport
Connemara Regional Airport
Sligo Regional Airport is almost exclusively for charter or corporate flights and is not served by a regular carrier.
Visitors to Ireland will need their passport at all times when travelling internally on the island of Ireland.
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