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It's hard to believe that in a few days time we will be back in the school, uniform, lunch, activities routine again. Its hard to imagine how we will cope with appointments, meetings and schedules. With bed times and meal times and homework times and wake ups times.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Last beach.
It's hard to believe that in a few days time we will be back in the school, uniform, lunch, activities routine again. Its hard to imagine how we will cope with appointments, meetings and schedules. With bed times and meal times and homework times and wake ups times.
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Love your blog Kate! Also love the Johnson plates! School/life organising for the last few days too, found a lovely little vintage toy caravan, eaten lots of beautiful home grown vegetables!ReplyDelete
Good luck with being back in the school routine. I hope you can find a way to hang onto the peace and tranquility you found while travelling.ReplyDelete
I finished some bunting today. Ta dah post going up tomorrow. I love it and it's very exciting to have made something as I'm a beginner.
Have a fab week,
Anne xx
Yesterday I made a 3 panel cushion (it took me most of the day!) out of my left over curtain material for the motor home. It has dark orange bobble on 2 sides.ReplyDelete
Looks (and sounds) gorgeous! I'm already back into the school routine and holidays are like a distant memory.ReplyDelete
Enjoy the final days xx
ps..your blue plate finds are sensational!
I become a proper school Mama this year. Only two days to go... and then I have to get out of my PJs at a respectable time five days a week. Mmm. Don't know how good I am going to be at this new gig. I'm not very organised.ReplyDelete
Love your last minute trip to the beach.
Fantastic pictures Kate! I can't believe it's time to give up lazy days for regular routine, it's gone way too quick. I can only imagine how it must feel for you travelers! Love your finds there..xReplyDelete
I have a question.ReplyDelete
Did you intentionally line up the railings in the first two pics side by side? If so. That is too cool.
Im lately thinking, if I had sent you my strips when you offered way back when, it would have cured you of crochet for good! hah.
Kidding really. You rock stitching.
OOoooo!! I'm loving your thrifty finds! Ands till very envious of the crochet! Must learn! haha!ReplyDelete
Oh Kate! I will fight you for those Meakin pieces! I have a matching serving bowl. :) Awesome taste there Miss.ReplyDelete
All the best with finding your groove and routine with the start of school. I remember the excitement of going back to school. New books, new hair, new pens. Catching up with friends. Hope the girls enjoy themselves. xx
Oh god, I don't know how you'll cope either you poor thing! I'm dreading the normal waking and sleeping hours myself and I've only had 1 week holiday!ReplyDelete
Good on you for making the most of the last minute of holidays. I look forward to seeing what you get up to back at work too!
loving the crochet too. I wish I could work as fast as you!
Rach x
We squeezed the marrow out if the hols as well. It was wonderful. xReplyDelete
Loving how those top two pics fit together!!ReplyDelete
I've not been well last week, so trying to catch up
with everyone. Greta started Year 1 - so exciting!
She can't wait for homework...!?
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM
We just came home from the beach too. Two weeks of perfect beach weather. I've decided life would be so much easier in a tent. One day in and the routine has exhausted me!ReplyDeleteReplies
Totally jelly of those Op shop finds....such a score ..love the pink oneDelete
we spent the last few days of the holidays at the beach in our van too. I spent my quiet time crocheting... ahhhhh blissReplyDelete
I'm not looking forward to school starting. I love the lazy starts, the kids dorm & the generally slower pace!ReplyDelete
On the boy thing...I think it could be boy (in our case he absolutely makes things easier/funner/more active) OR it could be a numbers thing. We were a three girl, girl, boy & we used to borrow a second boy for all our holidays & weekends away. He made everything easier/funner/more different. It's nice to mix it up. x
What a great way to end your holidays Kate. I agree that having a boy in the mix makes it so much more enjoyable. How nice for Indi to have a friend to join her! Your crocheting seems to be growing quickly despite the heat. I think my knitting has slowed somewhat due to the hot weather! Hope everything goes smoothly for the back to school transition.ReplyDelete
We've only had 6 weeks so far and already I can't imagine timetables...ReplyDelete
Hang onto the wonderful...
Only a few weeks left on our big adventure Kate-very sad but looking forward to getting home too and being more creative. Will there be time? I bought 4 mugs in esperance and some vintage fabric in Streaky Bay. Did you get a new haircut?? Hard to tell but it looks great the way you're wearing it in the pic :-) Mel xReplyDelete
Writing names on 60+ coloured and lead pencils, texta crayons and felt pens may not sound creative, but I had the potato peeler out and I nearly mastered the art of the close peel of paint at the end of an HB.ReplyDelete
I have been following your travels since a friend forwarded me your blog (back when you were in Broome), saying she pictured me in your van. I only just started blogging so haven't been able to comment until now - but I have loved watching your journey through country I know so well. Good luck with the new routine. Alison
I found treasure at the op-shop today! I've got plans for an old curtain I picked up. Good luck transitioning back into school time.ReplyDelete
Oh my, you are making dreamy for the beach, though it'd be a bit cooler on our end. Lovely pics as always! As for routine, I was having trouble this morning ... wishing someone else could get the start of the day stuff done. My girl might be a bit puzzled by her lunchbox ingredients today :)ReplyDelete
As for me, there has been quite a lot of living in my head (oh dear) thinking a lot about what "normal" means and "typical" and then trying to ignore those terms altogether. Been making my surroundings bright and happy. Had a delicious bowl of fruit for snack.
It sounds like a great little break before the return to school, I am a little sad about it, but only for selfish reasons. Caleb is looking forward to he routine and friends and learning stuff. I do love them and a little sad they are over but it is hard work, working from home with them both home!ReplyDelete
I have been sewing a bit, doing a little making, I must blog!
One of my favorite-ist places in the world (when its not too busy!)we're lucky to live within an easy drive, and I do know the Op shopping down there is amazing. Good luck with getting back into the school routine, I feel the same after only 6 weeks or so.kind of glad theyre starting on friday, so we get a practice run and then two days off LOLReplyDelete
so beautiful!ReplyDelete
we are breathing. the school year is starting and the floods are receding time to find a routine that works...
your johnson brothers and meakins are lovely! i love them!
Looks just amazing and relaxing.ReplyDelete
Good Luck with the return to school.
i'm fully melting down about the return to school....ReplyDelete
i wrote about it today too.
preparing for the loss of my summer companions......
i hate it.
i wish summer holidays were the old sort like we had that went for 3 months....
Hi Kate and Co - inspired by friends, family and indeed your blog - i have just returned from a 8 week stint in India - my version of EAT, PRAY, LOVE - kind of EAT, SHOP, LAUGH - combined with a great stint at an orphanage in South India. While away a dropped in at home regular via the iPAD or some very dodgy internet cafes and Foxs Lane was always a stop. You may like to know your Mum's amazing book travelled with me and was a gifted to some amazing people I met along the way facing similar challenges - it helped them so very much. Just wanted to say hi - I love your thoughts, words and deeds - may this coming year as it really gets started be one of the best yet for you and yours. JDReplyDelete
Ooh, hope you all settle well back in to the school year. Looks like a lovely little beach getaway you had there.ReplyDelete
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Writers Lacy, Smith played big role in baseball integration
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[Editor's note: On Friday May 9, 2003, Sam Lacy died at age 100. This story originally appeared as part of MLB.com's Negro Leagues Legacy in February 2002. (
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Journalists are generally told to cover the story, not be the story. There are times when exceptions should be made.
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Lacy could never understand why baseball was segregated in the first place. Growing up in Washington D.C., he used to shag flies and run errands for the Washington Senators in return for seats in the stadium.
A bit older, Lacy played a little sandlot and semipro ball, and thought there wasn't much separating the players he saw in those games from the ones he saw playing for and against the Nationals.
"I had seen the teams come into play [the Senators]," the now 98-year-old Lacy remembered. "Having seen these guys, I got to thinking that some of these ballplayers, watching them play, are no better than the guys that play in the Negro Leagues. It just didn't seem proper or right."
Smith, while with the Courier, not only covered the two Negro League teams in Pittsburgh -- the Crawfords and the Homestead Grays -- he also covered the Pirates. He often asked players in the National League if they thought the players in the Negro Leagues could compete with Major Leaguers. He polled all players and managers in the National League with that question and the results were astounding: 75 percent favored integration, 20 percent opposed, with five percent having no opinion.
When Smith presented these findings to Major League owners the following year in a meeting, he received no response.
Both Smith and Lacy campaigned for integration actively in their columns. Many of them were picked up by wire services and re-printed in other newspapers. It was a major weapon in their cause.
"Absolutely," Lacy said. "One of the main points was that baseball would accept anybody. Ex-convicts ... I gave a lot of explanations about people who could be more undesirable than black guys."
Smith's first real movement in a positive direction came in Boston. In advising local politician Isadore Muchnick how to gain Boston's black vote, he told Muchnick not to support the City Council's yearly vote to allow Sunday baseball in Boston unless the Red Sox and Braves agreed to give Negro Leaguers a tryout.
The teams agreed, and Smith picked Jackie Robinson, Marvin Williams and Sam Jethroe for the tryout (Satchel Paige was left out because he was deemed to old, a call Smith later regretted, and Josh Gibson wasn't included because the Grays' owners protested). The tryout didn't get much publicity or a contract offer for any of the three players involved.
On his way back to Pittsburgh from Boston, Smith stopped in New York to see Branch Rickey, the president and general manager of the Dodgers. It was 1945, and it was known Rickey was planning a third Negro League as a cover for his interest in signing a black player. Smith had success with Rickey and it was soon after this meeting that Rickey began concentrating on Jackie Robinson.
"Wendell and I had a friendly exchange," Lacy remembered. "He thought Jackie Robinson would be the best choice. We agreed Jackie wasn't the best player at the time, but was the most suitable player. He had played against white competition, was a college guy. So we went with Jackie. Wendell approached Branch Rickey first and got a promise from Branch to think about it."
Lacy, who was also busy getting support from white columnists like Shirley Povich, wasn't as successful when he tried to contact Washington's owner.
"I approached Clark Griffith of the Washington team, and he told me it wouldn't be workable," Lacy said. "There were too many southerners in the league and there would be too many fights. I told him that was something baseball should police if they were serious. He said baseball wasn't ready."
Luckily, Rickey and the Dodgers were ready, and signed Robinson in 1946. Again, Smith was more than just a columnist. He assisted the Dodgers in finding housing for Robinson in Spring Training and when the Dodgers traveled.
In a letter found in the Baseball Hall of Fame's archives (The Wendell Smith Papers), Smith wrote to Rickey on January 14, 1946 that the Courier was "... willing to pay all my expenses in connection with this service; we are trying to render the cause of Democracy in the country, so ably championed by you."
Smith followed Robinson when he played with Montreal in the International League and then with the Dodgers in 1947. His friendship with Robinson led to Smith authoring the player's autobiography,
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, released in 1948.
It wasn't always the easiest task, figuring out housing in those early years. Lacy remembered the Dodgers trained in Daytona Beach when Robinson signed in 1946. They thought they'd be able to integrate that spring.
"The Daytona Beach authorities refused that," Lacy said. "They moved to Sanford, Fla. The conditions [for Robinson and the black press] were so horrible. They moved to Cuba the next year, thinking that would settle things. But in Cuba, it was the same thing, a fleabag hotel."
Next, they tried the Dominican Republic. It was wonderful in one regard: Everyone stayed together in one hotel.
"We stayed there a year and conditions were ideal, but it wasn't economically feasible," Lacy said. "Teams wouldn't come down to play exhibitions, so the Dodgers were behind in training.
"But the Dodgers' presence there really had an influence on baseball. I think it's one reason there are so many Dominicans playing in baseball now."
Aside from those difficulties, it was an amazing time for both Lacy and Smith. All the work they put in behind the scenes was paying off.
"It was wonderful," Lacy said. "As a result of that success, Wendell went to the
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, the daily. I preferred to stay with the Afro because it had given me so much freedom to do what I wanted to do.
"It also gave me three years to keep on the Jackie Robinson story."
Lacy and Smith weren't done breaking color barriers. Both were among the first black writers to gain entrance into the Baseball Writers Association.
"I was the very first," Lacy said with pride. "Joe King and Ken Smith recommended me in 1948. I became a member, got my card. I think Wendell got his card when he went to Chicago."
Their work wasn't done. While at the American, Smith continued to push for the integration of all Spring Training sites. Lacy kept - and keeps -- tirelessly working as well.
"My editor wrote a story about me two weeks ago," said Lacy, who still writes a column for the Afro American. "He wrote that I never seemed to be satisfied. I worked on integration on the field, integration of housing. I worked on black coaches and managers. Last month, I began arguing for the acceptance of [Donald] Watkins."
For all of those accomplishments, both Smith and Lacy were enshrined in the writers wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Smith received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award posthumously in 1993, while Lacy gained entrance in 1997. Lacy, while honored, lived up to his recent editor's words: he wasn't satisfied.
"It was a very nice experience," Lacy said. "I felt honored that so many of my friends from Baltimore and Washington, some even from Florida, Texas and Kansas City were on hand to see it.
"Like Ted Williams in 1966, I said I enjoy being inducted, but I wonder when more than just one or two of us will be here. Only Wendell had been inducted."
Lacy, for his part, doesn't plan to stop letting people know what he's thinking. His current column is aptly called, "Viewpoint" and his son joins him with "Another Viewpoint" every week. There are no plans for retirement, at age 98.
"I'll keep doing it as long as the Lord will let me, and as long as the paper will accept me."
Jonathan Mayo is a senior writer for MLB.com based in New York. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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When a game launches a whole new genre or brings one back to popularity after a long time out of the limelight, it always puts developers in a tight spot. Do they clone the top-seller (Saints Row, in response to Grand Theft Auto)? Or do they try to add new dimensions to a formula that already works (Half-Life, in response to Doom)?
The new Biology Battle, an Xbox Live Community game from an obscure Thai development company, walks the thin line between the two approaches. It's clearly in debt to Geometry Wars, the smashing 2005 success that brought back the arcade-shooter genre, but it introduces a number of intriguing ideas. It's quite an accomplishment for an upstart company developing for the Community (where anyone can publish games, with oversight mainly from the Community itself).
Let's begin with the familiar. The left joystick moves your ship, the right joystick shoots in whatever direction you push it, and you have a number of special weapons. One of these weapons is a screen-clearer you can deploy in emergency situations, but the ammo is limited. As you shoot your way through waves of enemies, bigger and bigger waves come until you run out of lives. There's a score multiplier that changes based on several factors. You can't "beat the game," so the only goals are to have fun and out-score other players.
Biology Battle is far more than a clone, however. One fun twist is that you're not in space battling alien ships; rather, you're a nanobot that's been sent into a person's body to destroy a diseased cell. All the action takes place in that cell, a fact that limits the action to a much smaller area than Geometry Wars' bigger-than-the-screen rectangle. There's an interesting new weapon, Blast, that doesn't kill enemies but pushes them back, giving you a little room to maneuver. Waves of germs attack you until the cell's nuclei show up as the game's bosses.
Once you defeat the nuclei (rather tricky enemies that fire long electric charges), you'll get the Armageddon power-up. If you want, you can keep on fighting waves of germs to rack up a high score. Or, you can hit the X button to kill the cell, thus accomplishing your mission, and transition into "Death Mode" to start scoring points there. Death Mode is a bit harder, with clusters of enemies that break apart when shot (they sound like firecrackers when you hit them) and big worms that take a lot of damage.
You can play this single-player mode offline, where there are three difficulty levels, or on leaderboards, where there's only one. (The existence of leaderboards is a new thing for the young Community: Microsoft doesn't allow Community developers access to the regular leaderboards, so this game's makers had to create their own.) In the leaderboard mode, you can win trophies by meeting goals (scoring a certain number of points, or staying alive a certain amount of time, etc.).
The best part about Biology Wars certainly isn't the single-player action, though; despite its innovations, it does play a bit too much like Geometry Wars. The game's most clever bits are in the multiplayer: Hand a friend or three your additional controllers, and the Biology Battle experience becomes quite intriguing.
If you want, you can simply play the game cooperatively, with the terrific feature that all players get to set their own difficulty levels, and the A.I. enemies treat them accordingly. There are also six competitive modes available. You can play five of them in Life Mode or Death Mode, and there's also an option to pick a random game. You can mix and match one to five games in tournament mode, and try to win a series of matches instead of one at a time.


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METRO VANCOUVER -- Crown documents disclosed in two major gang cases have been posted on the Internet by someone trying to discredit the Bacon brothers, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
Police are now investigating the release of the documents after being alerted to their existence by The Sun.
At least some of the documents are covered by publication bans in both the Surrey Six murder case and the United Nations murder conspiracy prosecution.
Crown counsel Ralph Keefer, the lead prosecutor on the UN case, said he only learned of the website when contacted by The Sun Thursday.
"And we have asked the police to investigate," he said.
And RCMP Supt. John Robin, the officer in charge of the Surrey Six murder investigation, said "it's concerning and we are looking into it."
The documents contain potential evidence in the high-profile murder cases, meaning they are not supposed to be released publicly until they are introduced during the upcoming jury trials.
The Bacon gangster trio has been linked by police for years to a bloody gang war that played out on Lower Mainland streets.
Youngest brother Jamie is awaiting trial in the 2007 Surrey Six murders. Middle brother Jarrod is in jail after a conviction for cocaine trafficking this year. Eldest sibling Jonathan was shot to death in a gang hit in Kelowna on Aug. 14, 2011.
In the UN prosecution, seven men with links to the gang are on trial for conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers. The case is now in pre-trial applications at the Vancouver Law Courts, though no trial date has been set.
The Surrey Six murder case has been broken into two trials. Jamie Bacon will be tried on his own in Vancouver Supreme Court, while his co-accused Cody Haevischer, Matt Johnston and Michael Le will go to trial in New Westminster. Both Surrey Six trials are expected to start in early 2013, though no dates are set.
Bacon's lawyer Kimberly Eldred said Thursday that she was also unaware of the leaked disclosure documents until contacted by the Sun.
Her only comment was that she would "await the outcome" of the police-Crown investigation.
The nine pages posted online bear markings of having been vetted by the Crown, with some personal details of people listed in the documents removed. All three Bacon brothers are mentioned.
The Sun is not identifying the site posting the documents so as not to violate court-ordered publication bans.
Dozens of lawyers and defendants would have access to the disclosure documents in the two high-profile gang cases, as well as in several related, but separate, prosecutions. Anyone receiving disclosure has to sign an undertaking to not release the documents.
Other high-profile murder trials that have taken years to get to court have had similar problems with banned information appearing online or disclosure documents being circulated.
During the Air India terrorism trial, the RCMP investigated several incidents of banned information appearing online, and had to deal with Crown witness statements being circulated in the community before the trial began.
During the Robert Pickton serial murder case, some U.S. news sites posted material that was banned in Canada.
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Scientists usually tend toward caution when faced with promising discoveries, but a new crop of biologic drugs in clinical trials is showing unprecedented success in clearing moderate to severe plaque psoriasis — and that is making a lot of people in the field of psoriasis research positively excited.
Amgen, Eli Lilly and Novartis each are in the midst of testing biologics that target a critical molecule in the immune system called IL-17 that has been linked to the skin inflammation of psoriasis. In each case, the drug so far is performing very well. About 80 percent of Phase II clinical trial patients achieved PASI (Psoriasis Area Severity Index) 75 percent, or their psoriasis has cleared by 75 percent in 12 weeks. As many as 60 percent of patients are completely clear in three months.
"That's quite an accomplishment," said Dr. Jerry Bagel, associate clinical professor of dermatology for Columbia University's College of Physicians. "We haven't seen that before. That's a high number of people who are clear. That's pretty good stuff."
How they work
IL-17 is a cytokine, which is a protein that controls cells and activates inflammation. To understand how IL-17 works, imagine the chemical processes that keep skin healthy as a stream of molecules heading back and forth from the skin's surface. In someone without psoriasis, these molecules serve a usually healthy purpose — they move the body's immune system into action when there is a cut or a scrape, sending cells to the surface to fight infection and heal a wound.
In someone with psoriasis, those signals can be faulty. The body will overreact to an injury in the skin, or the immune system will mobilize for an unknown reason. People with psoriasis lesions, in particular, have 30 times more IL-17 than people without lesions, according to an article Bagel published in the August 2012 issue of Practical Dermatology. Conversely, studies show that stopping IL-17, or reducing it, can help clear psoriasis.
Brodalumab (Amgen), secukinumab (Novartis) and ixekizumab (Eli Lilly) all work by interfering with the IL-17 pathway. Secukinumab and ixekizumab target IL-17, while brodalumab targets a specific receptor that binds to the IL-17 cytokine.
These latest drugs more specifically target molecules in the immune system connected to psoriasis than biologics currently on the market. That may have a lot to do with their success, Bagel said.
Dr. Subhashis Banerjee, medical director for ixekizumab, said patients in Phase II clinical trials started seeing significant results as early as week two. Additionally, patients with psoriasis in particularly difficult-to-treat areas such as the scalp and nails saw improvement.
Stelara 2.0
The IL-17 inhibitors build upon the design of Stelara (Ustekinumab), said Dr. Andy Blauvelt, a dermatologist and researcher with Oregon Health & Science University. Stelara attacks psoriasis by interfering with different, but related, cytokines, IL-12 and IL-23.
To understand the relationship between Stelara and these newer drugs, Blauvelt also uses the stream comparison to describe the immunological pathway involved in psoriasis. At the top of the stream are the IL-12/23 cytokines, proteins in the immune system that trigger human cells. Stelara works by inhibiting the IL-12/23 cytokines, preventing them from creating the inflammatory IL-17 cytokine. Novartis and Eli Lilly's new biologics aim midstream, acting directly on IL-17. Amgen's is a little farther downstream than that, acting specifically on the IL-17 receptor.
Similar to other biologics, IL-17 inhibitors could have far-reaching effects. Novartis has seen reasonable success in alleviating the brain lesions associated with multiple sclerosis in a small clinical trial. Amgen is in the process of evaluating the efficacy of its drug for psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis. Eli Lilly has plans for Phase III clinical trials for psoriatic arthritis.
Cautiously optimistic
There are still several unanswered questions about IL-17 inhibitors. It's unknown exactly how much of each drug or how often it needs to be given to achieve the best results, Bagel said. Additionally, it's too early to tell how safe IL-17 inhibitors are. So far, the drugs have been used in relatively short clinical trials and without serious side effects other than the risk of a reaction at the injection site (all three drugs are injected) and an increased risk of an infection typical of immunosuppressive drugs.
Genentech's efalizumab, marketed as Raptiva, also seemed very effective in clinical trials and was approved by the FDA in 2003. However, Genentech pulled Raptiva from the market in 2009 after it was discovered the drug was associated with an increased risk of developing a rare and potentially fatal disease of the central nervous system.
Raptiva's target was T cells, which are proteins high up in the immunological pathway. In theory, the farther upstream a drug targets, the greater the likelihood of side effects, Blauvelt said. So far there have been few safety concerns about longterm use of Stelara. If the theory holds correct, the outlook for IL-17 inhibitors is optimistic.
"These drugs are the hottest thing in psoriasis right now," Blauvelt said.
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Charles Phoenix on Fried Cereal, the Genesis of the Cherpumple and Molded Gelatin
By Susan Froyd
If you know retro — and particularly mid-century — you know retro geek Charles Phoenix, a child of the endless car lots and fast food restaurants of Southern California who is famous across the nation for his mid-mod slide shows and modernist expertise. And you might even know about his sideshow, the most awesome Charles Phoenix Test Kitchen. In that guise, he's appeared on Martha Stewart's show and amazed Conan O'Brien with his spectacular Astro-Weenie Christmas Tree, but at the end of July, he'll be doing it 24/7 in the Denver County Fair Kitchen Pavilion, where he'll create such delectables of his own invention as Mr. Meatloaf and Fried Cereal, as well as judge such fair food categories as best Molded Gelatin Dessert and best Cake and Egg Decorating.
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I saw this yearly recap on Rage Against the Minivan and decided to play along, too.
1. What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before? 2013 was a pretty tame year for me. We took in our second little foster daughter, loved on her for eight months, and then she reunified with her birth mother. That was hard.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I honestly don't even remember what my resolutions were from last year. I'm sure one of them was to lose weight, which has happened! I will make new resolutions for 2014… I want to get back into exercising regularly, I want to take more time to enjoy the little things, and I want to simplify life in general.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? I had a few cousins give birth to beautiful babies!
4. Did anyone close to you die? Thankfully, no!
5. What countries did you visit? I had a brief trip across the border into Mexico, but other than that, all of our vacations were in the US. We visited Montana, Colorado, and South Dakota.
6. What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013? Patience, time, and living more in the present.
7. What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? April 2013 because we were placed with our second foster daughter and also because rights were terminated on our first foster daughter's biological parents that month. December 20th she officially became an "adoptive placement" –looking forward to finalizing in the next month or so! On November 25th, our little girl was having a routine surgery and we had a baseline MRI done for her neurofibromatosis and discovered some things we weren't expecting and that will require more in-depth medical consultations in 2014. November 27th, the little girl we had been fostering returned home to her mother.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Successfully parenting two little girls aged two months apart and mostly keeping my sanity, not to mention being a mother the other four kiddos.
9. What was your biggest failure? I didn't put as much time into my business as I had hoped to. Seems like time got away from me in many areas of my life.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No, not really.
11. What was the best thing you bought? A huge, comfy couch big enough for all of our massive family to sit on. Also, my NutriBullet -I use it every single day.
12. Where did most of your money go? Taxes and kids.
13. What did you get really excited about? We have two open spots for foster children and I get extremely excited when our home phone rings, hoping for a little baby. There are only two types of people that call our home phone – social workers and doctors.
14. What song will always remind you of 2013? Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show. We play that a lot to calm Jaz down.
15. Compared to this time last year, are you:
– happier or sadder? I think I am happier.
– thinner or fatter? Definitely thinner, which makes me happy!
– richer or poorer? About the same, but I think we have more of our debts paid off!
16. What do you wish you'd done more of? Traveling and seeing the world, taking photos, and talking to friends.
17. What do you wish you'd done less of? I would like to spend less time online and on my phone, which is hard, because it's how I make a living and stay in touch with most people!
18. How did you spend Christmas? We spent Christmas at home for the second year in a row. This never happens. Usually, Justin ends up having to work over Christmas and we head to the rig. On Christmas day, we drove to Dickinson and hung out with family for a few hours.
19. What was your favorite TV program? Walking Dead, Girls, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and So You Think You Can Dance.
20. What were your favorite books of the year? Oh, gosh. I'm not sure I even read a whole book last year. I probably read a few, but I can't remember what they were. My family got me Humans of New York, a collection of photos and stories, and I've been loving that the last few days!
21. What was your favorite music from this year? Unfortunately, most of my music is stuff my teenage girl listens to, because my time is spent shuffling kids from one place to another. When I do get time to myself, I've been digging Ryan Adams, Passenger, The Neighbourhood.
22. What was your favorite film of the year? Honestly, I don't think I even saw a decent movie during the last year!
23. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 34 and didn't do anything memorable. I will be turning 35 in 10 days -yikes! I don't have any big plans, although I will be meeting some of my besties for a quick trip a few days after that! I can't wait!
24. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Starting to build the house we have been planning. We purchased 40+ acres in 2012 and were hoping to start building last spring, but it just didn't happen that way, as we need to figure out how to get a road across the creek!
25. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013? I still live for cozy and easy, but I'm starting to branch out a little more, thanks to Stitch Fix!
26. What kept you sane? My husband and my kids. They are also probably the ones that make me not-so-sane.
27. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013. Not everyone is going to share the same parenting standards that I hold myself to. And that's okay. I can offer advice, support, and encouragement, but in the end, I cannot change people. Sometimes, I just need to let it go.
Now it's your turn! If you blog, go answer the 27 questions above and leave the link to your blog post below! If not, share some of your answers in the comments section!
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Sunday, September 27
A Trophy Each for Tiger and Phil
Tim Finchem is all smiles with you know who. (Keith Allison/Flickr)
TIM FINCHEM MUST BE GLOATING somewhere tonight. The revamped FedEx Cup points system and playoffs run managed to put Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the game's two most popular players, in today's awards ceremony at East Lake in Atlanta.
The PGA Tour commissioner handed the FedEx Cup and $10 million to Tiger, his second cup win in three years. Meanwhile, Phil collected the Tour Championship trophy and $1 million and change after playing a near-flawless final round that left Tiger and company choking on his fumes.
Lefty's back. At least he was this week. Phil's final three trips around East Lake of 67, 66 and 65 were simply phenomenal. He channeled his old putting self, thanks to Dave Stockton. (And thanks also to his caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay. More on that in a moment.) Phil's long game was pretty stellar, too.
With Tiger just two back of 54-hole leader Kenny Perry and playing in the final group, I thought he would catch and pass Perry to win both the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup. I fully expected Tiger to show everyone who's still Sheriff on Tour with an emphatic finish to a season that didn't include any major wins. Instead, Tiger looked listless in the final round. And poor Kenny. He had an awful day.
You have to make putts to win tournaments. While Tiger still holes more than his share, he didn't have good putting weeks when it mattered most to him in 2009. Chasing Jack Nicklaus' major wins record isn't getting any easier.
'Bones' Idea'
Dave Stockton, the answer to Phil's putting problems? Who came up with that? Yep, Bones.
Here's what Lefty said in his post-round presser.
"I said, 'Bones, for two years, I've been kind of floundering here not having the right direction. I want you to think about it.'
"He came back the next day, and he said, 'I think you should call Dave Stockton. You guys putt the same. You've talked to him in the past and he had some great ideas.'"
There you go.
By the way, any of you who saw Stockton play on the PGA Tour or Senior Tour know the man can putt. If you have putting problems—and if you can corner Stockton in your hometown like Phil did—listen to what he tells you.
−The Armchair Golfer
3 comments:
I probably should know this, but don't...does Tiger's winning the Fedex Cup count as a win, the same as if he'd won the Tour Championship? Does he now have 72 wins?
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Lancer: No, I don't think it counts as a win.
- Unknown said...
I think this was stupid to put out with all the bad publicity tiger has been receiving as of late.
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Microsoft TechEd 2012 was last week in Orlando, and Microsoft used the event to tout some of the enterprise-friendly features the new OS will offer customers that make the switch. Granted, many IT pros I've spoken with aren't all that eager to jump on the Windows 8 bandwagon, but it's undeniable that Windows 8 improves upon the already impressive security feature set offered in Windows 7.
I've written about some of the new Windows 8 security features already, but Microsoft released some additional Windows 8-friendly details about the beta version of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) 2.0, which is now available for download.
Part of the Microsoft Desktop and Optimization Pack (MDOP), MBAM has been a valuable tool in helping Windows 7 users (and admins) encrypt and secure both fixed and removable hard drives. In a blog post on Microsoft's Springboard Series blog, Stephen Rose, a senior product manager for the Windows Commercial Team, stressed that the latest revision of MBAM is designed to work "better together" with Windows 8, and offers improved speed of deployment when used with Microsoft's upcoming client OS.
"We found that even with Used Disk Space Only Encryption, provisioning BitLocker can still take quite a bit of time," Rose writes. "Windows 8 devices that are equipped with a new type of disk drive called an Encrypted Hard Drive can be provisioned with BitLocker protection within seconds, regardless of the disk size. In this case, BitLocker offloads all of the encryption tasks to specialized hardware on the disk drive, while BitLocker will perform all of the key management functions. Essentially, Encrypted Hard Drives are effectively already encrypted from the moment they are turned on."
BitLocker and MBAM have grown into a powerful pair of tools worthy of inclusion in any security-minded IT professional's toolbox, and these recent updates promise to make MBAM even more useful. If you need more convincing that BitLocker and MBAM are worth a look, Windows IT Pro contributor Jan De Clercq has written a must-read article that outlines all the changes that Windows 8 brings to BitLocker.So are you an active BitLocker user or administrator? Share your thoughts by adding a comment to this blog post or contributing to the discussion on Twitter.
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|System: PS3, X360, Wii
|Dev: Bright Light
|Pub: Electronic Arts
|Release: November 16, 2010
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Fantasy Violence
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
When I played last year's Harry Potter movie tie-in, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I was pleasantly surprised at how decent the game was. With movie tie-ins, it's difficult not to be cynical about a game's quality, but last year's Potter game gave me hope that movie games didn't have to be utter rubbish. As I started up Deathly Hallows, I was excited to see if any improvements had been made to the already-solid formula presented last year. However, what I got was a horribly linear experience with poor mechanics that didn't even try to represent the experience of the movie, the book, or even a halfway-decent game.
The game starts with Harry and Hagrid escaping from some Death Eaters who have taken to the skies to try and exterminate the boy wizard. As you are flying through the air, you are quickly introduced to what will become the game's central mechanic: wand fighting. And no, this is not the casual wand-fighting we saw in the last game that involved speed and coordination. This is a completely different beast more akin to first person shooting. We'll call it "wanding". Sure, this sounds a little out there, but the mechanics are almost identical to that you would find in a shooting game: you can aim through a reticule using the left stick, lock on with the L2 button, and then fire with R2. I will admit that this mechanic intrigued me at first: who would have thought Harry Potter would try to blend in with the shooter crowd? But I quickly realized that this experiment is a failed one, as first-person wanding just isn't interesting enough to give this game any staying power.
One of the biggest flaws with the combat system is that it is far too shallow. The game does give you a handful of spells to use, but all you ever really need is the default spell, which dispatches enemies quickly and efficiently. Sure, you CAN cast protection spells over your friends, but they are never in real peril, so it is sort of a waste. And Harry Potter is never in any real danger either, as the game gets rid of life meters in favor of peril screens (similar to what you would find in Call of Duty or Halo) that last only a few seconds. As long as you can find some cover to duck behind once you notice everything around you slowing down, you won't have a problem staying alive.
The actual spellcasting mechanics are also so ridiculously simple that wielding your wand feels more like wielding a shotgun than a magical apparatus. Continuously hammering on the fire button is the only way to really excel in the game, and blasting through levels like you're Marcus Fenix becomes monotonous quickly. Shooters add gameplay variety by including different guns and new enemy types, but there is no variety in Deathly Hallows, which makes the experience that much duller.
Combat in Deathly Hallows may be the most overt misstep in the game, but there are other areas where the game falters as well. One of the biggest praises I had for Half-Blood Prince was the open world aspect of the game. Sure, the game had an underlying linearity to it, but there were collection quests and chatty NPCs dotting the landscape, which made exploration worthwhile for those wanting more from the game than simple story-based quests. However, Deathly Hallows gets rid of the open world aspects and substitutes it with tiny claustrophobic levels that are often simple enclosed areas or even straight lines. There is no inspiration at all behind the design of the world of Deathly Hallows, which is just a shame.


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ROTKobsessed wrote:mrbeate wrote:Not to mention Xu Huang's order were just to repel Guan Yu. Xu Huang just had an army of recruits who would have possible deserted or rebelled if put into the field too long. And yes, his inferior numbers were not enough to go on besieging cities. It is pretty obvious that to besiege a city, you must have superior numbers then the defense, and enough men to surround the city. Xu Huang did not have this.
In the novel, I think Zhuge Liang (or LGZ putting words in his mouth) estimated that the attacking force needed 3x the defending force to launch a successful seige
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Raw land sales — shoved to the back shelf in the real estate market by the Great Recession — are now coming on strong, fueled by home builders scrambling to get a share of a resurgent new home market.
Last year ended with a spike in raw land sales throughout Southwest Florida, leaving some market observers to wonder whether distressed property deals are history and to predict significantly higher prices are on the horizon.
In December alone, builders and developers spent $75 million for land, tucking away 1,360 acres plus 294 building lots from Lakewood Ranch to Punta Gorda, property records show.
"I think we are about to get back into another tremendous sellers' market," said Bob Richardson, a long-time land buyer and founder of the Sarasota-based Richardson Group, a real estate firm.
"If you look at raw land, the bottom feeders and vultures have pretty much bought as much as they possibly could, and there is not much of the distressed stuff left. "I think we are getting ready to go into a rapidly appreciating market again."
Already, there is some evidence that downturn buyers are selling — and making money at it.
Big buyer turns seller
Starwood Land Ventures LLC has bought residential land plots since the gloomy, recessionary days of 2007, when residential prices began a long, steep decline after years of appreciation.
The Lakewood Ranch-based company did its deals on a grand scale, netting 17,000 lots in three states — Florida, Colorado and Arizona — with the heaviest buying in 2008 and 2009.
About half, or 8,500 lots, were here in the Sunshine State, and Starwood began doling out the properties to home builders in 2010.
"We sold 1,200 lots in Florida alone last year," said Mike Moser, Starwood's southeast regional president.
Starwood is still on the look-out for good deals but buying has slowed, Moser acknowledges.
"We have seen such a dramatic recovery. Our last acquisition was in December 2011," Moser said. "That was a Florida golf course community. We've been in a dry spell since then."
For future buying, he sees Starwood using its size to its advantage.
"Some builders will not want to spend $30-to-$50 million on one deal, so that is what we will do," Moser said. "We will buy things that have appropriate zoning but have some entitlement work left to do."
Like Richardson, Moser said most of the bank-owned, raw land deals "are basically over."
"These land deals now that are trading, for the most part, are solid sellers with some debt on them, and in some cases no debt," Moser said.
The December rush
In Southwest Florida, the buyers in the December rush included big out-of-state builders such as Taylor Morrison, DR Horton and Ashton Woods Homes.
Some of the prices they paid were relatively steep, especially when compared with the transactions that were occurring during the depths of the recession.
Ashton Woods paid about $180,000 per acre for 18.5 acres off Fruitville Road near Interstate 75 in Sarasota County, while DR Horton paid $150,000 per acre for 30 acres in Venice.
Taylor Morrison is simultaneously building two golf course communities, both called Esplanade Golf and Country Club; one is at Lakewood Ranch; the other in Naples.
"We hope to have them golf-ready in the spring of 2014," said Tony Squitieri, vice president of land resources for Taylor Morrison.
Even so, Squitieri said, the Arizona-based Taylor Morrison is still on the prowl for property to build on in Southwest Florida.
"We are always looking for land opportunities," he said. "There are not enough new homes in the inventory. That enables us to grab some new locations, to deliver that inventory."
Among other prominent national builders there is a huge war chest aimed at vacant land.
"The national builders have a lot of money to spend," said Pat Neal, Southwest Florida's biggest locally based home builder and a frequent buyer of vacant property in 2012.
"National and regional builders are working hard to buy land because there is going to be a big boom," Neal said. "We have four people who do nothing but look at buying land."
The migration restarts
The underlying mechanism that will propel the market — and the continued appetite for raw land on which to build homes — is a resumption of migration into Florida from the Northeast and Midwest.
"This is the year when more people will be moving to Florida than in the last four years combined," said Mac Martin, who specializes in land sales in DeSoto and Charlotte counties. "It was inevitable. We knew this would start at some point."
"Builders are seeing the pipeline of foreclosed properties has just about dried up," Martin said. "Even asset managers have waiting lists of buyers, and foreclosed properties are not even hitting the market any more."
Neal just paid $111,000 each for 47 lots in Lakewood Ranch's Country Club East neighborhood, or $20,000 more per lot than he paid for land in the same subdivision a year ago.
"Land prices are going up, and pretty soon home prices will be going up, too," Neal said, citing plans to raise his prices at the end of January because costs for drywall, framing labor and concrete also have been rising.
The bottom line is that despite one of the largest economic downturns in state history, there is just not that much well-located residential land available in a large swath of the region, says Richardson, the Richardson Group founder.
The exception is what is controlled by Lakewood Ranch to the east of the highly visible commercial cluster at I-75 and University Parkway.
"Sarasota is an unusual county," Richardson said. "A third of the county is in public lands. If you look at the maps and what is available, there is virtually no vacant land of any consequence north of Laurel Road, so the development is going to be from Laurel Road down to North Port."
Raw land deals are back in vogue
Raw land sales — shoved to the back shelf in the real estate market by the Great Recession — are now coming on strong, fueled by home builders scrambling to get a share of a resurgent new home market.


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As someone who has conducted evaluations of torture victims, the "evaluation" of Abu Zubaydah is a fascinating, if sickening, look at how the CIA goes about their kind of business. In the course of this two-part article, we'll learn more about why the report was written, when it was written, and the unprofessional ways the report was produced. One includes in such unprofessionalism the fact its drafting represents an unethical and illegal violation for a psychologist of the highest order. We'll end with a look at the turf war that shaped the evolution of the torture program, of which this report represented just one episode.
Spencer Ackerman has looked at the possibility that former SERE psychologist James Mitchell wrote the report, and the conflict of interest that arises from having the interrogator/torturer write the report upon which the approach to the subject will be based. While it's a reasonable guess that Mitchell wrote the evaluation, I'm going to proceed as if I don't know who wrote it.
Marcy Wheeler wrote a piece examining questions regarding the date of the evaluation (the copy we have was sent to John Yoo on July 24, 2002), the failure to mention Abu Zubaydah's head injury, and the report's claims that he allegedly wrote the Al Qaeda interrogation resistance manual. Hopefully, this article will contribute some plausible answers.
Why Was the Evaluation Written?
Every psychological evaluation has a presenting problem or reason for referral, e.g., does this child have a learning disability? is this patient psychotic? etc.
Regarding Abu Zubaydah, one would presume the presenting question most likely was, what psychological strengths or weaknesses does this person have that we can exploit in our interrogation cum torture plan? Unfortunately, numerous parts of the released assessment have been redacted, including its closing paragraphs, which is where one would find the concluding recommendations. In any case, we'll see that the report appears to lack a presenting question, and that the recommendation is a foregone conclusion.
From internal and convergent evidence, it appears the recommendations included higher levels of coercive interrogation, including waterboarding. The date on the cover sheet of the report, addressed to John Yoo, July 24, 2002, is the same date that the Office of Legal Council gave oral approval for use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT), including waterboarding (H/T Marcy Wheeler). The OLC memo of August 1 states that CIA Acting General Counsel John Rizzo had said that Zubaydah had become "accustomed to a certain level of treatment," and CIA wanted to enter an "increased pressure phase." (We'll see that CIA had been pushing this line since at least mid-May.)
In any case, it was around late July or early August that the waterboarding of Zubaydah began in earnest, partial drowning, or waterboarding Abu Zubaydah 83 times. Towards the end of the psychological evaluation, less its last redacted paragraphs, the author — and it was an Agency or Agency contract psychologist, since only psychologists write these reports (and it was likely either James Mitchell or Bruce Jessen, who arrived in Thailand in July) — notes the following, allowing that Zubaydah is "well-versed" in Al Qaeda resistance techniques (emphasis added):
[redacted] subject believes in [sic] the ultimate destiny of Islam is to dominate the world. He believes that global victory is inevitable. Thus, there is the chance he could rationalize that providing information will harm current efforts but will represent only a temporary setback.
The remaining page or so of the report is redacted, but likely represents the work's loaded conclusion, i.e., that Zubaydah may yet give up more information or cooperation if the amount of coercion is increased. The likely recommendation: waterboarding. And in fact, the legal memo authorizing the latter followed within a week after the evaluation landed on Yoo's desk; the oral approval for it came on the same day.
It is clear the evaluation was written specifically to get permission for waterboarding, and not to undertake a serious psychological evaluation of the prisoner. The report lacks details related to relevant past history that any psychologist would find important in a psychological evaluation, e.g., the quality of his family relationships, the existence of prior traumas, his actual work and school history, etc. Hell, the report never even mentions the "subject's" age. [Correction: it does; it reports he's 31 years old. – JK]
The man presented in the report, in a most amateurish fashion, cannot be in fact a real person. They present him as a superman-terrorist (he wrote the Al Qaeda resistance manual, ran the Al Qaeda training camps, was their "coordinator" of foreign communications, was their chief of counterintelligence, "no one came in and out of Peshawar, Afghanistan without his knowledge and approval," but still had time to be involved in every major Al Qaeda operation, and still had time to direct the start-up of an Al Qaeda cell in Jordan!). Additionally, he was supposed to have developed the Al Qaeda interrogation resistance techniques (a claim later contradicted in the report — see below), and taught them to many others. A real busy guy.
The discussion of his personality at times sounds like it was cribbed from a printout of a computerized personality assessment. There are also a number of contradictions in the portrayal, e.g., Zubaydah "wrestles" with idea of killing civilians, but "celebrated" 9/11; he has the discipline, drive, creativity and pragmatism of a good leader, but is private and vigilant of others' intentions, and doesn't trust people, and oh, yes, wants to be one of the guys. Supposedly he felt anything outside of jihad was "silly." But at the same time he chafed against the constrictions of "radical salafist environments" and was very independent minded.
Only for a moment does what is probably the real Abu Zubaydah emerge from the report: a man who wanted to go to college, become a computer expert or engineer, who felt homesick, who wanted a traditional career and family life.
More to come: When was the report written? What is the relationship of Abu Zubaydah to the Al Qaeda resistance manual? Turf wars!


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Sample Day of Meals
You're working out five days a week. (Not easy, we know.) Your reward: Indulge in sundaes, crepes, and chocolate — and still lose weight! Pick one breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner, and dessert each day from the choices here, aiming for a total of 1,500 calories. You'll lose a few pounds a week and never, ever feel deprived. Below is a sample meal plan to show you just how well you'll be eating as you shed those extra inches.
(about 300 calories)
Quick Breakfast Pizza
Cooking spray
1 egg plus 2 egg whites
1 whole-grain pita (5 inches), toasted
2 tablespoons shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 cup grapes
Make it: Spray skillet with cooking spray and scramble eggs. Top toasted pita with egg, cheese, and oregano. Broil for 5 minutes, until cheese is bubbling. Serve with grapes.
(about 150 calories)
Spicy Peanut Spread on Celery
1 tablespoon peanut butter
Cayenne pepper to taste
1/2 lime, juiced
4 medium celery stalks
Make it: Mix peanut butter, cayenne, and lime juice. (To soften peanut butter, microwave it for 30 seconds.) Spread on celery.
(about 400 calories)
Turkey, Mozzarella, and Basil Wrap
2 small (6-inch) whole-grain tortillas
3 ounces turkey
11-ounce slice part-skim mozzarella cheese, cut in half
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
1 medium apple
Make it: Fill tortillas with turkey, cheese, and basil. Serve with apple.
(about 500 calories)
Maple-Lime Salmon with Cilantro Couscous
4 ounces salmon
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 lime, juiced
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup whole wheat couscous
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Dash of salt and pepper
1 cup frozen broccoli, cooked
1 teaspoon olive oil
Make it: Put salmon on a cookie sheet. Mix maple syrup with lime juice. Pour over salmon and broil for 8 to 12 minutes, until fish flakes with a fork. Bring water and couscous to a boil, remove from heat, and cover for 12 minutes. Stir cilantro, salt, and pepper into couscous; serve with salmon and broccoli drizzled with olive oil.
(about 150 calories)
Sauteed Strawberry Sundae
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 cup sliced strawberries
1/2 cup light vanilla ice cream
Make it: Saute vinegar, honey, and strawberries for 3 minutes. Top ice cream with warm berries.
Breakfast Choices (about 300 calories)
Skillet Pesto-Potatoes and Eggs
Cooking spray
3/4 cup finely chopped potatoes
1 tablespoon prepared pesto
1 whole egg
1/2 medium grapefruit
Make it: Spray skillet with cooking spray. Add potatoes and cook until golden, about 12 minutes, turning once. Toss potatoes with pesto and put on plate. Spray skillet with cooking spray again, cook egg, and place on top of potatoes. Serve with grapefruit.
Breakfast Burrito
1 Amy's Breakfast Burrito (prepared according to package directions)
1 small peach
Toast with Walnut and Pear Spread
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 tablespoon chopped walnuts
1/2 medium pear, finely chopped
2 teaspoons honey
1 slice whole-grain bread, toasted
Make it: Mix cottage cheese, walnuts, pear, and honey (for smoother texture, puree in blender). Spread on toast.
Waffle with Fresh Blueberries and Lemon Syrup
3/4 cup blueberries
2 teaspoons maple syrup
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 whole-grain frozen waffle (4-inch), toasted
1 8-ounce glass skim or light soy milk
Make it: Mash blueberries with fork and mix with maple syrup and lemon juice. Top waffle with blueberry mixture. Serve with milk.
Strawberry, Banana, and Flax Smoothie
1/2 medium banana
1/2 cup frozen unsweetened strawberries
1 1/2 cups skim milk or light soy milk
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
Make it: Blend all until smooth.
From Au Bon Pain:
Medium oatmeal
Small fruit cup
Snacks (about 150 calories)
Honey-Curry Dip with Carrots
1/3 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1 cup baby carrots
Make it: Mix yogurt with honey and curry powder. Dip carrots.
Corn Chips and Salsa Verde
10 corn chips
2 tablespoons prepared green salsa
Yogurt with Honey and Sunflower Seeds
6 ounces low-fat plain yogurt
1 teaspoon honey
2 teaspoons sunflower seeds
Make it: Mix all ingredients together.
Mini Ham and Honey-Mustard Sandwiches
1 tablespoon honey-mustard salad dressing
1 slice whole-grain bread, cut into 4 squares
1 ounce low-fat ham
Make it: Spread honey-mustard dressing on bread and top with ham. (Makes 2 mini sandwiches.)
Grapefruit Spritzer and Soy Nuts
4 ounces 100 percent grapefruit juice
8 ounces sparkling water
1/4 cup soy nuts
Make it: Stir together grapefruit juice and sparkling water. Serve with soy nuts.
Crackers and Chevre (goat cheese)
6 whole-grain crackers
1/2 ounce goat cheese
Lunch choices (about 400 calories)
White-Bean Gazpacho with Whole-Grain Roll
1/2 cup canned white beans, rinsed and drained
1 medium tomato, finely chopped
1 cup finely chopped cucumber
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons red-wine vinegar
1 cup low-sodium tomato juice
Dash of salt and pepper
1 medium whole-grain roll
Make it: Mix beans, tomato, cucumber, garlic, vinegar, tomato juice, and salt and pepper. Serve with roll.
Asian Tuna Salad
1/4 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 teaspoon wasabi powder
1/2 lime, juiced
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 teaspoon light soy sauce
3 ounces tuna, packed in water
2 cups napa cabbage, shredded
1/2 cup shredded carrots
1/4 cup sliced almonds
Make it: Whisk together yogurt, wasabi, lime juice, olive oil, and soy sauce. Toss with tuna, cabbage, carrots, and almonds.
Feta, Hummus, and Cucumber Sandwich
2/3 cup canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons feta cheese
2 slices whole-grain bread
6 cucumber slices
Make it: With potato masher, mash chickpeas, lemon, garlic, and feta. Spread on bread and top with cucumber.
Bruschetta Burger with Spinach Salad
1 vegetarian burger
2 tablespoons premade bruschetta spread
1 whole-grain hamburger bun
2 cups baby spinach
2 tablespoons vinaigrette
Make it: Heat burger in microwave. Place on bun and top with bruschetta. Serve with spinach tossed with vinaigrette.
From Panera Bread:
1/2 Chicken Salad Sandwich on whole-grain bread
1/2 Classic Cafe Salad with balsamic vinaigrette
From Taco Bell:
Fresco Ranchero Chicken Soft Taco
Fresco Grilled Steak Soft Taco
Side of guacamole
Dinner Choices (about 500 calories)
Cashew and Coconut Tofu Stir-Fry with Brown Rice
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 1-inch slice ginger, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 ounces firm tofu, cubed
1 cup frozen stir-fry vegetables
1/3 cup light coconut milk
2 tablespoons cashews, chopped
1/2 cup microwavable brown rice
Make it: Heat oil, ginger and garlic in skillet for 1 minute. Add tofu and saute for 8 minutes, turning once or twice. Add vegetables, coconut milk and cashews; cover and cook another 8 minutes. Microwave brown rice, then top with tofu and veggie mixture.
Parmesan Pasta with Asparagus and White Beans
2 ounces uncooked whole wheat pasta
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 cups bite-size pieces asparagus (about 10 spears)
1/4 cup canned white beans, rinsed and drained
4 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
Make it: Cook pasta. In a pan, saute oil, garlic, and asparagus for 4 minutes. Add beans and cook for 4 more minutes. Toss pasta with bean mixture and parmesan.
Spinach-Ricotta Frittata with Tossed Green Salad
Cooking spray
1 1/2 cups baby spinach
2 eggs plus 2 egg whites, whisked together
1/3 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
Dash of salt and pepper
2 cups romaine lettuce
2 tablespoons pine nuts
2 tablespoons low-fat Italian dressing
Make it: Spray skillet with cooking spray and saute spinach for 2 minutes, until wilted. Stir in eggs, ricotta, and salt and pepper. Cook over medium heat without stirring for 4 minutes; then flip frittata and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Serve with lettuce tossed with pine nuts and dressing.
Curried Quinoa Salad with Grilled Shrimp
3 ounces frozen uncooked shrimp, thawed under running water for 5 minutes
1 teaspoon olive oil
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup quinoa
1/4 teaspoon curry powder
1 tablespoon dried cranberries
1 cup chopped cucumbers
2 scallions, chopped
Make it: Toss shrimp with oil. Grill for 6 to 8 minutes, flipping once. Bring water and quinoa to a boil, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in curry, cranberries, cucumbers, and scallions. Top with shrimp.
From Chili's:
Guiltless Chicken Sandwich Meal (with black beans and steamed seasonal veggies)
From Ruby Tuesday:
Petite Sirloin
Creamy Mashed Cauliflower
Fresh Tomato and Mozzarella Salad
Desserts (about 150 calories)
Grilled Pineapple with Gingersnap-Crumb Topping
3 canned pineapple rings, packed in juice
3 tablespoons crushed gingersnap cookies (about 2 small cookies)
Make it: Grill pineapple for 3 minutes on each side. Top with crushed cookies.
Peach and Blackberry Crepe
1 small peach, chopped
1/4 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 premade crepe (found in the produce department)
1 tablespoon 100-percent blackberry fruit spread
Make it: Mix together peaches and cottage cheese, then roll into crepe. Microwave fruit spread for 30 seconds and drizzle over crepe.
Ice Cream Treat
1/2 cup Breyers Rocky Road Double Churn Light Ice Cream
Dark-Chocolate-Covered Graham Crackers
4 small graham-cracker rectangles
2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips
Make it: Microwave chocolate chips for 30 seconds, until just melted. Spread graham crackers with chocolate and let sit for 10 minutes, until chocolate has hardened.
Homemade Mango-Lime Sorbet
1/2 cup frozen mango pieces
2 limes, juiced
1 tablespoon honey
Make it: Puree ingredients in a blender until smooth and thick.
From Starbucks:
Petite Vanilla Bean Scone
Grande Iced Coffee (unsweetened)
More Guilt-Free Treats on the Go
Still craving sweets? There are plenty of healthy, ready-to-eat goodies that won't derail your diet. We put them to the taste test and picked our faves. The trick: Take just one serving from the bag or box and put it on a plate or in a bowl to prevent mindless munching.
2 Skinny Cow Vanilla and Caramel Skinny Dippers = 160 calories
1 VitaBrownie = 100 calories
2 Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (1 pack South Beach Living) = 100 calories
3/4 cup Ciao Bella Raspberry Sorbetto = 150 calories
3 Firecracker Popsicles = 105 calories
Weight Watchers English Toffee Crunch bar = 110 calories
1 Kraft Handi-Snacks Chocolate Pudding = 100 calories
1 Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs Mister Salty Milk Chocolate Covered Pretzels = 100 calories
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, August 2008.


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AnaJet Announces Educational Webinar Series
This series will be an addition to AnaJet's regular monthly webinars that feature mPower.
AnaJet, makers of digital apparel printer, announced a series of educational webinars intended to benefit general audiences and
specific markets. This series will be an addition to AnaJet's regular monthly webinars that feature mPower.
"Profitable Pricing for Direct to Garment Printing," Wednesday September 26 at 3:00pm Eastern/12:00pm Pacific, will be hosted by ASI. This panel webinar will include Ed Levy, president of Digitize4U, and Courtney Turlington, president of Pura Vida Promotions. Also speaking will be Paul
Green, product manager at AnaJet. The emphasis will be on understanding target markets, pricing according to market expectations, and balancing predictable costs with pricing to optimize profit.
"Direct to Garment Printing for Sign and Large Format Businesses," Wednesday October 3 at 1:00pm
Eastern/10:00am Pacific, will discuss the business case and expectations for commercial sign
vendors who are considering investing in DTG. Speaking on the call will be Andy Buchholz, owner of
Eastern Shore Signs, who will detail his business case and results.
"Profitable Pricing for Direct to Garment Printing," Wednesday October 24 at 1:00pm Eastern/10:00am Pacific, will be a more in-depth look at pricing and estimates of payoff times per business model. Speaking on the webinar will be Joe Longtin, director of marketing at AnaJet, and
Paul Green, product manager at AnaJet.
"10 Creative Ways to Build Your Decorated Apparel Business," Wednesday, November 7 at 3:00pm Eastern/12:00pm Pacific, will be another panel discussion hosted by ASI. Speakers will include Joyce Jagger, founder of the Embroidery Coach, Howard Potter, owner of A&P Master Images, and
AnaJet's Paul Green. This webinar will offer exciting ideas to expand product lines, capture broader market share and expand sales to existing customers.
"While we strive to provide great training and constant technical resources, our customers have always asked us for more business-level data and tools," said Paul Green. "They seem to flock to webinars and downloadable tools. This series of webinars over the next few months represents an increased effort to fulfill the need. We hope that everyone in and around the garment decoration or
sign industry, promotional products distributors, and any folks evaluating DTG, take a look at one or more of these free sessions to help fuel their businesses."
Interested parties are encouraged to visit www.anajet.com/mpower/events/webinars to register.


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List of Pro Second Amendment Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (110+)
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The following sheriffs have all allegedly taken some action to help uphold the Second Amendment in the face of possible new gun legislation.
Almost all have said they will not take place in order sort of future gun confiscation of any kind and some say they will refuse to enforce ANY new gun laws. Some have signed letters written by their state's sheriff's association. Some have pulled their office's business from anti Second Amendment businesses.
We have not independently verified all of these, but all are based on third party reports. If a sheriff is listed here that should not be, or if you would like to be added to the list, Contact Us and we'll get it updated.
Sorry if a name is in the list twice. We're getting new additions pretty often and we're still working on cleaning it up.
Crook County, Oregon Sheriff Jim Hensley
Douglas County, Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin
Lee County, NC Sheriff Tracy Carter
Curry County, Oregon Sheriff John Bishop
Oconee County, Georgia Sheriff Scott Berry
Larimer County, Colorado Sheriff Justin Smith
Jackson County, Kentucky Sheriff Denny Peyman
Linn County, Oregon Sheriff Tim Mueller
Madison County, Idaho Sheriff Roy Klingler
Livingston County, Missouri Sheriff Steve Cox
Smith County, Texas Sheriff Larry Smith
Josephine County, Sheriff Gil Gilbertson
Madison Count, Alabama Sheriff Blake Dorning
Cedar County, Iowa Sheriff Warren M. Wethington
Charleston County, South Carolina Sheriff Al Cannon
Morgan County, Alabama Sheriff Ana Franklin
Gilmer County, Georgia Sheriff Stacy Nicholson
Pine County, Minnesota Sheriff Robin Cole
Grant County, Oregon, Sheriff Glenn Palmer
Coos County, Oregon Sheriff Craig Zanni
Johnson County, Missouri Sheriff Charles Heiss
Martin County, Florida Sheriff Bill Snyder
Siskiyou County, Califorhia Sheriff Jon Lopey
Humboldt County, Nevada Sheriff Ed Kilgpore
Stanislaus County, California Sheriff Adam Christianson
Grant County, Oregon Sheriff Glenn Palmer
Lawrence County, Missouri Sheriff Bard DeLay
Shasta County, California Sheriff Tom Bosenko
El Dorado County, California Sheriff John D'Agostini
Tehama County, California Sheriff David Hencraft
Lassen County, California Sheriff Dean Growden
Del Norte County, California Sheriff Dean Wilson
Modoc County, California Sheriff Mike Poindexter
Mendocino County, California Sheriff Thomas Allman
Plumas County, California Sheriff Greg Hagwood
Humboldt County, California Sheriff Mike Downey
Madison County Alabama Sheriff Blake Dorning
Charleston County South Carolina Sheriff Al Cannon
Morgan County Alabama Sheriff Ana Franklin
Houston County Alabama Sheriff Andy Hughes
Gilmer County Georgia Sheriff Stacy Nicholson
Canyon County Idaho Sheriff Kieran Donahue
Fresno County, California Sheriff Margaret Mims
Washington County, Oregon Sheriff Pat Garrett
Multnomah County, Washington Sheriff Dan Staton
Yavapai County, Arizona Sheriff Scott Mascher
Boone County, Kentucky Sheriff Micahel A. Helmig,
Clermont County, Ohio Sheriff A.J. Rodenberg
Morgan County, Alabama Sheriff Ana Franklin
Maricopa County, Ariznona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
El Paso County, Colorado Sheriff Terry Maketa
Weld County, Colorado Sheriff John Cooke
Mesa County Colorado Sheriff Stan Hilke
Collin County Texas Sheriff Terry Box
Gilmer County, Sheriff Stacy Nicholson
Johnson County, Missouri Sheriff Frank Denning
Spartanburg County, South Carolina Sheriff Chuck Wright
Mesa County, Colorado Sheriff Stan Hilkey
Bernalillo County, NM Sheriff Dan Houston
McKinley County, NM Sheriff Frank Gonzales
Catron County, NM Sheriff Shawn Menges
Union County, NM Sheriff William Spriggs
Mora County, NM Sheriff Thomas Garza
Chaves County, NM Sheriff Patrick R Jennings
Otero County, NM Sheriff Benny House
Cibola County, NM Sheriff Johnny Valdez
Quay County, NM Sheriff Joe Schallert
Colfax County, NM Sheriff Jim Maldonado
Rio Arriba County, NM Sheriff Joe Mascarenas
Curry County, NM Sheriff Matt Murray
De Baca County, NM Sheriff Dennis A. Cleaver
Roosevelt County, NM Sheriff Darren Hooker
San Juan County, NM Sheriff Ken Christesen
Dona Ana County, NM Sheriff Todd Garrison
San Miguel County, NM Sheriff Benjie Vigil
Eddy County, NM Sheriff Ernest J Mendoza
Sandoval County, NM Sheriff Douglas C Wood
Grant County, NM Sheriff Raul Holguin
Santa Fe County, NM Sheriff Robert Garcia
Guadalupe County, NM Sheriff Michael R Lucero
Sierra County, NM Sheriff Joe Baca
Harding County, NM Sheriff Herman Martinez
Socorro County, NM Sheriff Phillip Montoya
Hidalgo County, NM Sheriff Saturnino Madero
Taos County, NM Sheriff Miguel Romero Jr
Lea County, NM Sheriff Rod Coffman
Torrance County, NM Sheriff Heath White
Lincoln County, NM Sheriff Rick Virden
Los Alamos County, NM Sheriff Marco Lucero
Valencia County, NM Sheriff Louis Burkhard
Luna County, NM Sheriff Raymond Cobos
BEAVER County, UT Sheriff Cameron Noel
BOX ELDER County, UT Sheriff J. Lynn Yeates
CACHE County, UT Sheriff G. Lynn Nelson
CARBON County, UT Sheriff James Cordova
DAGGETT County, UT Sheriff Jerry Jorgensen
DAVIS County, UT Sheriff Todd Richardson
DUCHESNE County, UT Sheriff Travis Mitchell
EMERY County, UT Sheriff Greg Funk
GARFIELD County, UT Sheriff James D. Perkins
GRAND County, UT Sheriff Steven White
IRON County, UT Sheriff Mark Gower
JUAB County, UT Sheriff Alden Orme
KANE County, UT Sheriff Lamont Smith
MILLARD County, UT Sheriff Robert A. Dekker
MORGAN County, UT Sheriff Blaine Breshears
PIUTE County, UT Sheriff Marty Gleave
RICH County, UT Sheriff Dale Stacey
SAN JUAN County, UT Sheriff Rick Eldredge
SANPETE County, UT Sheriff Brian Nielson
SEVIER County, UT Sheriff Nathan Curtis
SUMMIT County, UT Sheriff David Edmunds
TOOELE County, UT Sheriff Frank Park
UINTAH County, UT Sheriff Jeff Merrell
UTAH County, UT Sheriff James O. Tracy
WASATCH County, UT Sheriff Todd L. Bonner
WASHINGTON County, UT Sheriff Cory Pulsipher
WAYNE County, UT Sheriff Kurt R. Taylor
WEBER County, UT Sheriff Terry L. Thompson


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Colorado shooting families, victims rededicate Aurora movie theater with remembrance ceremony
AURORA, Colo. – The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured 70 others is reopening with a private event for victims and officials.
Cinemark is reopening the Aurora theater where James Holmes is accused of staging the massacre on July 20. Victims and officials were invited to a brief ceremony Thursday evening to reopen the cinema.
Victims and their families also were invited to visit the remodeled theater earlier this week.
Aurora's mayor, Steve Hogan, says a community survey showed overwhelming support for reopening the theater.
Some victims say it's important to reclaim the theater as part of the healing process. Others refused the invitation to attend.