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Despicable, whether its Celts on a train, or English bath fans in a stadium.
Quote:Perhaps when they have sobered up an apology would be in order.
Quote:If they have their collar felt by the Old Bill with a view to a caution I reckon a public apology would be a good way out for them.annie blackthorn
B4B - you gotta be kidding! Apologise? They wouldn't even realise that there was something to apologise for, let alone how to spell it!!!!!
Eddie is very rattled. A week after saying his side were 40% fitter than 2 years ago, he's saying:
One thing I know is we cant win playing pattern football. We dont have the athletic ability to do it. I have them for 13 weeks a year. I cant suddenly make them more athletic. All I can do is try to maximise the players we have. Weve got good players but we dont have the ability to be athletically better than other teams.
"We don't have the athletic ability to do it (play like Scotland)"
Any clues as to what 'pattern' football is?
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Despicable, whether its Celts on a train, or English bath fans in a stadium.
There is a video of some of it (or all of it - not sure) on Twitter. Search Dan Roan from the BBC.
So how come Scotland can do it? And if England are 40% fitter than they were two years ago, Lancaster must have been running fitness sessions in the chip shop.
It's not that England don't have the athletic ability, it's that Eddie has chosen to go the route of outright power. It will always win him the majority of matches, but it means they can't be 'bullet-proof'. It's been an English thing since the back-row of Richards/Teague/Skinner.
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Quote:given this, and an unwillingness to use players from outside his core group of 35 or so... It's almost like he considers the 6N to be a stop orpn the route to somewhere else (and probably isn't allowed to say as such)sirtidychris
We are 40percent fitter but also 100percent more knackered in games from all the fitness training.
I hope some of you are right and that the poor performances of our clubs in Europe, and the showing of the national side, is just a temporary lull due to fatigue.
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Cme Satutday England will have played one game in 4 weeks plus training. Genuine question, isn't that enough time to build up glycogen stores?
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If the mail is exceptionally slow, absentee ballots might be at risk of not being counted on time. The votes are essential in a democracy, but perhaps the federal government could allow voting electronically in the case of absentee balloting.
Make no mistake, overall the idea of electronic voting is a bad idea because it means that people could be voting as a result of a knee-jerk reaction. If one cannot make the effort to get
to the polls, how serious are they about voting?
But for soldiers, seniors, and people who live in remote locations, there should be a way that they can go to the local board of elections wherever they are, and vote electronically on government hardware.
If you are in Chicago, you can visit the Chicago board of elections and vote there. The vote then gets delivered to your home state. The results do not have to be reported ahead of national voting, they would just be saved.
Is there the potential for error? Sure, but so is leaving a ballot in a mailbox for days while the post office is closed, and they soon be closed more and more often.
If you have ever voted by absentee ballot, you have most likely wondered when your ballot got counted. If a candidate wins by 50,000 votes, and there are only 1,000 absentee ballots, how fast do they bother to count those votes?
With absentee electronic voting, the votes arrive instantaneously. The process still requires effort, people would have to get to the board of elections wherever they are, but it takes the burden off of the postal service, and it removes some of the paranoia about when the votes get counted.
Overseas voting for soldiers would require government hardware to be arranged for this
purpose, but Navy ships and bases can arrange for this. U.S. Embassies can also provide this for overseas Americans who are granted absentee ballots.
We do not want national electronic voting because this should not be a lazy process. We also do not want electronic glitches where elections look like professional all-star game voting, with one person voting 1,000 times. But if we contain electronic voting to absentee votes, we might solve a big problem before it even becomes a problem.
Thank You For Your Dissatisfaction
Speaking of mail, it is becoming more and more of a common practice for incumbents to send letters of thanks – even solicitations for money – to people who have reached out to them with complaints.
This may well be that officials get so much mail that the system is automated, but if that is the case, then they are not really listening to the people. If they are aware of a voter's dissatisfaction, then thanking them and asking for political support is kind of mean.
These are not "thank you for your interest" letters that voters receive. They are responses that convey a clear misunderstanding of the point that voters are trying to make. An ugly possibility would be that the climate has become so polarized that incumbents in one party realize that this
person is a "never-vote" for them so they can be a little cavalier.
This can happen with incumbents who are in relatively safe seats, like Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland. Voters not only get thanks for their concerns, they are encouraged to send money to the senator, even if they are unhappy with his performance.
Now the onus is on the voter, who gets put on a mailing list, to end the requests. This seems like an unnecessary activity, and it almost certainly happens across party lines.


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Matthew 6:1-15 English Standard Version (ESV)
Giving to the Needy
6 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
The Lord's Prayer
5 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7 "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
"Our Father in heaven,
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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FARMINGTON — Every time the home team thought it was back in the game, things would go south in a hurry.
That was the way things went all afternoon for the combined football team from Farmington and Nute High Schools against Mascoma Valley Regional of Canaan on Saturday. Twice the home team got back into the Division VI contest with timely scores, only to see the visitors make a big play to dash the Tigers' hope of an upset. The final result was a 33-18 win for Mascoma.
"It was very frustrating," said Farmington-Nute senior running back Joe Randall. "We were down one touchdown and I thought we could come back and get this game, and then we'd mess up and they'd get a touchdown."
It was the fifth straight loss for Farmington-Nute (1-5), which is still searching for its first win since the season's opening week. Mascoma improved to 4-2.
"We just have to stop the turnovers," said Farmington-Nute coach Art Jacobs, whose team coughed the ball up four times on Saturday. "All of our games have come down to us being in the position to win or tie it, and then making a mistake."
The Tigers' fortunes turned on three specific plays on Saturday. The first occurred just before halftime. With the Tigers trailing 12-6 and driving, Mascoma's Zach Warner picked off a Jase Gregoire pass and returned it 60 yards for a touchdown. Spencer Pierce (228 yards rushing) ran it in for the 2-point conversion and the Royals led 20-6 with 2:34 remaining. Farmington-Nute went three-and-out on its next possession and that's where it stood at halftime.
Farmington-Nute scored on its opening drive of the second half. Austin Healy (85 yards rushing) scored from 5 yards out to cap a drive that featured a 25-yard run by Gregoire, a 16-yard dash by Joe Randall and an 18-yard scamper on fourth down by Healy. That cut the visitors' lead to 20-12.
Any hopes the Tigers had of a comeback took a significant hit when Pierce took the ball 67 yards for a touchdown on the Royals' first offensive snap of the next series, expanding Mascoma's lead to 27-12 with 6:54 to go in the third frame.
"It was kind of a back-and-forth game," Mascoma coach Ray Kershaw said.
"Farmington hit hard and we knew that going into the game. They play clean and they're a good team."
The final insult came on the Tigers' next drive, which they took all the way down to the Mascoma 10-yard line before fumbling it away. Farmington-Nute turned the ball over again on its next two drives.
"We're a young team and we're practicing on it," Jacobs said. "We're hoping to end the season on a good note in the last few weeks."
Jamen Gunnison finished with 128 yards on the ground for Farmington-Nute. He ran 49 yards for the Tigers' first touchdown of the day, cutting Mascoma's lead to 12-6 midway through the second quarter. He added a 10-yard TD run during garbage time in the fourth quarter. Robbie Shepardson blocked a Mascoma extra-point attempt in the final frame. Tyler Smith recovered a fumble for the Tigers in the second quarter on Mascoma's only turnover of the day.
Farmington-Nute visits Bishop Brady on Friday night.
Turnovers doom Tigers
FARMINGTON — Every time the home team thought it was back in the game, things would go south in a hurry.


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This monitoring project includes lake and stream monitoring and encompasses all of Cass County, and surrounding counties. The project will obtain water quality data for streams; in 2009, lakeshed assessments indicated that many surface waters throughout the county were data deficient. This project will address the need for sufficient data on a county-wide basis and fulfill the State's intensive watershed monitoring program goals by obtaining water quality data at targeted lake and stream sites.
This project will provide Stressor ID work and assistance for the development of a work plan for the Major Watershed Project. The Major Watershed Project will include a plan for civic engagement and outreach, with assistance from ten Local Government Units from the Crow Wing River Watershed.
This project will develop a TMDL for all impaired lakes within the Crow Wing Watershed by furthering data collection in the watershed, analysis of data, allocation calculations, and introducing outreach and stakeholder participation activities.
This project will initiate project coordination among project partners. It will enhance civic engagement and outreach endeavors activities to support Phase 2 of TMDL project. It will also support field activities associated with stressor ID work.
This project will collect a complete Trophic Site Index (TSI) data set for Crow Wing County lakes and a complete data set for streams and rivers for the Intensive Monitoring Program (IMP). Crow Wing County, Cass County, Wadena County, Morrison County and Hubbard County are partnering to ensure that all target lakes and rivers within the Crow Wing River watershed are monitored efficiently.
This first year of the project will collect available data relevant to the TMDL development, determine the data sets best suited for the TMDL development. Gain a better understanding of the watershed and impaired lakes, and assessment of all potential sources (internal and external) of the causes of lake impairment. EOR will also review the data produced by the MPCA for the impairment assessment for each of the lakes during year 1 of the project.
This project covers activities necessary to complete the major watershed restoration and projection project. The major objectives this project covers include contract administration, watershed coordination, stressor ID activities, identifying priority management zones, engage watershed citizens, and the creation of watershed restoration and protection plans.
This project will finalize HSPF watershed model construction by incorporating internal phosphorus loading in modeled lakes, run a suite of implementation scenarios and generate a GenScn project containing model output. The consultant will produce HSPF watershed models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs. The consultant will deliver all modeling files for baseline and implementation scenarios and provide a GenScn project containing model output.
This leadership workshop series will provide the participants (citizen leaders) with knowledge, skills, processes and tools that can help to strengthen their current efforts and nurture new ones.
The goal of this project is to develop a TMDL for all impaired stream reaches within the Crow Wing Watershed and for Eighth Crow Wing Lake.
The Crow Wing River Watershed consists of approximately 1,959 square miles in the north to north central portion of the Upper Mississippi River Basin in Central Minnesota. The watershed encompasses all or parts of Becker, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Morrison, Otter Tail, Todd and Wadena Counties. The dominant land use within the watershed is forested (41%), agriculture (32%), grass, shrub and wetland make up 17%, water (7%) and urban (3%).
This project will support construction of three watershed framework models built using the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF). These executable models will simulate hydrology at the subbasin scale. An HSPF model will be built for each of these major watersheds: Crow Wing River, Redeye River, and Long Prairie River.
This project will continue HSPF watershed model construction beyond the initial framework development. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will also compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. Finally, an initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.
Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota's invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.
This project involves monitoring three data deficient lakes in the Crow Wing River Watershed and one stream site at the inlet to White Earth Lake. The data deficient lakes were on the MPCA Targeted watershed list. After getting the required assessment dataset for these lakes, all targeted lakes in Becker County will be completed for this assessment cycle. The stream site is a site that the White Earth Lake Association and the Becker Coalition of Lake Associations (COLA) will monitor. It is the inlet to White Earth Lake.
This project will collect water quality data for 13 Hubbard County lakes located in the Crow Wing priority watershed and identified as priority lakes by the MPCA. Upon completion the project data set will include all of the necessary information for the lakes to be assessed for impairment due to nutrients. Volunteers will collect samples from 7 of the 13 lakes and paid SWCD staff will collect samples from 6 of the lakes that do not have public access or volunteers willing to sample. The water samples will be collected 5 times/year June-September in 2010 and 2011.
This project will provide the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and analyze relevant data, identify pollutant sources, hold a stakeholder meeting, and gather information towards the future development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan.
This project will extend the simulation period for the Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) models for the Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Redeye, Long Prairie, Sartell, Sauk, St. Cloud, and Crow watersheds, and review and comment on the calibration.
The primary goal of this project is to examine the calibration and validation of recently extended Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models for the Mississippi River-Headwaters, Mississippi River-Grand Rapids, Mississippi River-Brainerd, Mississippi River-Sartell, Mississippi River-St. Cloud, Leech Lake, Pine River, Crow Wing River, Long Prairie River, and Redeye River watersheds and revise the calibration.


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It hasn't been an easy start to the new year for David Arquette.
The "Scream" actor has just been released from a month-long stint in rehab, reports the New York Daily News.
"He has completed treatment," his publicist told the paper.
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Cox has continued to support Arquette during his treatment.
"I really admire David and his choice to take charge and better his life," she told People in an interview shortly before he enterted rehab.
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For those of you who spend time on Pinterest pinning your favorite book, recipe, or funky outfit, have you considered how Pinterest can benefit your business?
Pinterest users (or "pinners") create virtual bulletin boards and "pin" images from the web to them. According to a study by Shareaholic, Pinterest drives more referral traffic than YouTube, Reddit, Google+, and LinkedIn combined. Referral traffic refers to visitors who land on your website by clicking a link on another website which includes other social networking sites such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook. Having high referral traffic can improve your business' ranking on Google.
Many businesses have come up with creative ways to brand themselves using Pinterest.
Michaels Stores are craft stores, largest specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, wall decor, scrapbooking and much more and Pinterest is a perfect place for sharing pictures of craft projects.
1064 stores available in US and Canada. It has 48 boards and 1336 pins with 228 likes with a huge no. of followers (i.e 59544) compare to the no. of followings (i.e 6963). Michaels offers a number of crafting pinboards targeted to a wide variety of audience segments. Whether you like to knit, make things from recycled materials, or bake, there are pinboards for many types of people and hobbies.
Michaels also has a pinboard to share projects from the brand's followers. This is a great idea that many brands can use. Hopefully, Michaels will expand this further with more pinboards dedicated to projects from followers across the web. People can also get a peek inside Michaels by viewing images on pinboards dedicated to craft classes and events. It's a great mix of content from a single brand.


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Archibald Flashes Skill and Competitiveness
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Features By Greg Fernandez
Small in stature but not in the way he plays, forward Josh Archibald was a player who many noticed out on the ice throughout development camp in mid-July as he displayed what he does best – competitiveness.
"He's not a big guy but his skills stand out," Wilkes-Barre/Scranton assistant coach Alain Nasreddine said. "I like his 'compete' and that's something that is sometimes left out. You see a guy and sometimes see that left out but 'Archie' competes. The way he goes after it, his whole demeanor the way he goes after it. It's what we appreciate in a player – especially a skill player."
Playing on third and fourth line duties for most of his freshman year at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2011-12, Archibald impressed many in development camp with his tenacity and his ability to compete at a high level as a skill player.
Archibald said that his role with UNO gave him a chance to work on a different aspect of his game, which will help in the long term and give him more flexibility as a player.
"We started off the season really well," Archibald said. "Personally, for me I had a great start. I kind of played a different role playing a grinder and not much of a scorer as you can say. I was putting up more points at the beginning of the season and I felt like I was helping the team out that way as compared to a third or fourth line grinder."
Drafted in the sixth round (174th overall) of the 2011 NHL Draft, Archibald has taken immense steps to make himself a bigger, faster player. Listed at only 5-foot-10 and 161 pounds on draft day, the center said he has already put on about 20 pounds and has now garnered the reputation as a workout fiend amongst the Penguins staff.
"I definitely got a lot bigger size wise," the 19-year-old said. "My speed definitely picked up going from high school to college right away. Game sense you pick up along the way. Your hands and feet are working together, that also comes along with practices and games throughout the season."
His father, Jim Archibald, who was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the seventh round (139th overall) in the 1981 NHL Draft, gives the younger Archibald a little bit of something to look up to. But that hasn't stopped Josh from paving the way to become his own player.
"I like to model my game after Cal Clutterbuck," Archibald said. "He's a smaller guy, he's feisty. He'll go in the corner and do a lot of the dirty things for you, but he can also put points up on the board. He comes up big when you need them."
Archibald also competed for Team USA at this past World Junior Championship, adding even more experience to his already budding career.
"It was crazy. It was definitely a dream come true," Archibald said of representing his country. "Playing against all the top 19, 18 year olds in the world is definitely something I'll soak in and cherish for the rest of my life."


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The U.S. law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is getting hit with a new round of hurt because of its bungling of Chevron's Ecuador environmental case.
The recent order in Argentine to freeze roughly $2 billion in Chevron assets to help pay for the $19 billion Ecuador judgment is a monumental failure for Gibson Dunn's defense strategy and a personal setback for its self-described "dream team" of litigators. These lawyers -- Randy Mastro, Ted Boutrous, Scott Edelman, and Andrea Neuman – prematurely tried (in a stunning display of arrogance) to create an entire practice group off the Ecuador case.
The freeze order in Argentina is a potent setback, not just in one country but throughout Latin America and maybe beyond. Company officials are ever closer to having to write checks to the very indigenous groups they decimated with their reckless, criminal, and even racist operational practices in the rainforest.
Gibson Dunn probably did not know that International treaties in the region allow for the reciprocal enforcement of foreign judgments. The Ecuadorians already have seizure actions pending against Chevron in Brazil and are planning to file one soon in Colombia, said Pablo Fajardo, their lead counsel. Venezuela and Panama are also potential targets. In Ecuador, Fajardo's team is in the process of seizing an estimated $200 million in Chevron assets.
The recovered Ecuador assets can be used to fund even more seizure actions against Chevron around the world, including in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Chevron thus faces the prospect of a far more constricted reality where its global investment opportunities begin to choke off, little by little. Countries where Chevron should be considering investments on equal footing with its peers are falling off the map because of the added risk created by Gibson Dunn's utter failure to contain the Ecuador liability.
In Canada, a key strategic country in the oil industry where the Ecuadorians have an enforcement action pending, Chevron may have as much as $12 billion in assets. The same goes for Argentina. In that country, Chevron produces roughly 30,000 barrels of crude daily but has plans to invest another $1.8 billion to drill 120 new wells over the next three years, according to Platt's Oilgram News.
Ecuador is clearly off the map to Chevron while other international companies vie to buy the drilling rights to numerous oil fields in the Amazon.
This downward Chevron trend line could be a case study in how a top U.S. law firm can lose sight of the big picture while it obsesses over minute details of a satellite (and baseless) "fraud" case in New York. Gibson Dunn keeps billing huge fees to landscape Chevron's front yard without realizing the house is on fire.
Gibson Dunn has now lost at least 10 major legal actions since entering the case in 2009, including before the U.S. Supreme Court in an appeal headed by none other than Ted Olson, the former Solicitor General of the United States. Olson has probably won more U.S. Supreme Court arguments than any person alive. But not even he could figure out a way to put lipstick on Chevron's pig.
Chevron hired Mastro and the GDC dream team in 2009 to "rescue" it from the impending liability in Ecuador. Two years later, the Ecuador court – despite eleventh-hour efforts by Chevron to bribe and threaten judges – found the oil giant liable and imposed a $19 billion damages award. It was based on overwhelming evidence that Chevron deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into the environment, poisoning the water supply of indigenous groups and causing an outbreak of cancer and other oil-related health problems.
Courts also found Mastro and his colleagues committed ethical violations on behalf of Chevron, including using lawsuits as weapons of intimidation designed to suppress the First Amendment rights of the company's critics.
Evidence also emerged that Chevron might be deceiving shareholders about the degree of risk it faces over the Ecuador liability, as documented in great detail in a report by Canadian securities lawyer Graham Erion. A U.S. Congresswoman and a group of institutional investors have called on the SEC to investigate the company.
This blog by Kevin Koenig of Amazon Watch clearly explains the misrepresentations and hypocrisy radiating out of Chevron's corporate headquarters in San Ramon. Even some analysts, most of whom are still in the thrall of the industry, are catching on to the extent of Chevron's problems in the Ecuador case.
Gibson Dunn is of course reaping a financial windfall to help Chevron evade responsibility for the destruction it has caused. Mastro recently trooped into U.S. federal court in New York with 11 lawyers in tow for a minor hearing at which one person spoke. He has admitted to using more than 60 lawyers from his firm on the Chevron case. The firm's profits rose by 20% the year after Chevron hired it.
The Gibson Dunn/Chevron losing streak in Ecuador highlights Chevron's utter lack of corporate governance. Chevron General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate, for example, was given an obscene 75% raise last year (to $7.8 million) after he lost the Ecuador case. In granting the raise, Chevron's Board actually praised his handling of the matter. Taking care of insiders -- that's how aging dictators act as the winds of change start to sweep over the palace.
Pate and notoriously short-fused Chevron CEO John Watson need independent oversight, but none exists. The conflicted Watson is both Chairman of the Board and CEO, making him his own boss. He was also the main Chevron executive who vetted the purchase of Texaco in 2001 and at the time failed to account for the massive Ecuador liability. By all accounts, he is emotional and unrepentant when talking about the Ecuador case – telltale signs of a man who suffers from an acute conflict of interest.
There will be more international enforcement actions filed against Chevron soon. The company's investment map will get smaller. In the meantime, expect more delusion, denial, and deceit as long as Watson and Pate are leading the company.
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VIDEO: Christina & CeeLo Perform on THE VOICE
On the November 13 episode of THE VOICE Live Results Show, Christina Aguilera hit the stage with fellow musician coach CeeLo Green to perform "Make the World Move." The song is from her highly anticipated album, LOTUS which will be released the same day www.itunes.com/lotus. Check out the video below!
The musician coaches are Aguilera, Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.On the show, Team Christina and Team Adam also joined country music superstar Aldean in a rendition of his hit country song "The Only Way I Know" while musician coaches Shelton and Green join their teams in special performances.On the November 20 program, country music's best-selling vocal group Rascal Flatts joins the artists to perform their hit song "Changed" while Levine and Aguilera join their teams for special performances.In addition, the November 26 performance show will showcase Levine and the artists performing with 50 Cent in "My Life."Additional guest performers will be announced at a later date. With more than seven million records sold and 10 #1 hits under his belt, CMA and ACM Award- winning entertainer Aldean just released one of the year's most buzzed-about new albums, NIGHT TRAIN, which sold over 409,000 copies its first week. The album's first single, "Take a Little Ride," is the longest-running #1 country song of 2012, and its just-released second single, "The Only Way I Know" - featuring Luke Bryan and Eric Church - is storming the radio charts. Aldean is set to play at least four stadium shows on his 2013 "Night Train" Tour, which begins February 21 and rolls on to 23 cities through May.Rascal Flatts is the best-selling country vocal group of the past decade and the #1 debut of their new album, CHANGED, earned them the distinction of being one of only four acts to have seven consecutive studio albums debut in the top spot on the Billboard Country Albums chart during the Soundscan era. Since their musical debut in 2000, the band has sold over 21 million albums, 25 million digital downloads, delivered 14 #1 singles that have gone to the top of the charts, and sold over seven million concert tickets. Rascal Flatts is the most awarded country group of the past decade, earning over 40 trophies from the ACAs, ACMs, AMAs, CMAs, People's Choice Awards and more. 50 Cent exploded on the music scene in 2003 and has been rewriting hip hop history ever since. GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN', his debut album made history when it sold 872,000 copies, breaking the record for first-week sales of any major label debut in the entire SoundScan era. It was a #1 Billboard album for six weeks and was certified platinum nine times by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 2005, 50 Cent became the first artist since The Beatles to have four simultaneous hits in the US Billboard Top 10. To date, the Grammy Award winner has sold more than 22 million albums worldwide and has managed to leverage his star power into record breaking brand extensions.THE VOICE is a presentation of One Three Inc. (a Hearst/Mark Burnett company), Talpa Media USA Inc. and Warner Horizon Television. The series is created by John de Mol, who executive-produces along with Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Stijn Bakkers and Lee Metzger.


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Four-Seam Fastball– Castro fires a low-to-mid-90s four-seamer from a low 3/4 arm slot. The offering features good movement away from left-handed hitters and is a plus pitch.
Slider – The slider is above average at times with sharp late downward movement. Castro lives on the heater/slider combo.
Change-up – The change needs work and, according to reports, needs refining due to a hesitation in his delivery that may tip-off more advanced hitting.
Two-Seam Fastball – Scouts report that this pitch has some movement too but not as much as the four-seamer and with less downward movement. Tops out in the low-90s.
Reiffer says if Don Cooper can straighten out Castro's command problems, Castro can become a member of the starting rotation.


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$233 million dedicated to system upgrades and smart grid technologies in 2012; smart grid "Test Bed" to spur innovation in new energy economy
CHICAGO, IL - ComEd today filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) its 10-year, $2.6 billion Infrastructure Investment Plan. It will invest $1.3 billion to strengthen the electric system and another $1.3 billion to add new, digital smart grid and advanced meter technology that will transform the delivery of electricity to homes and businesses throughout northern Illinois.
The filing also included the utility's $233 million Investment Plan for 2012 and its plan for a smart grid Test Bed to provide entrepreneurs "on-grid" locations for testing of smart grid-related technologies and services. Implementation of the investment program began this week. The installation of advanced meters in homes and businesses is slated to begin later this year, subject to approval of ComEd's Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment Plan (AMI Plan) by the ICC, and will continue through 2021. In the first five years of the program, ComEd will reinforce the electric system infrastructure to improve reliability and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages.
"The grid modernization law is a value promise made to Illinois consumers," said Anne Pramaggiore, president and COO, ComEd. "Our entire organization is now focused on kicking off the critical construction programs laid out in the legislation. It is a road map for improved system reliability, enhanced customer service and a 21st century electric distribution system that will support the digital economy and the greener economy of the future. We're excited to submit this filing today because it provides us with the opportunity to explain the details of the work we are performing to deliver added value to our customers."
Infrastructure Investment Plan for 2012
ComEd's 2012 plan outlines $139 million in capital investments that will be dedicated to improving system reliability and $94 million in smart grid investments. The largest investments in reliability enhancements include refurbishment and replacement of underground residential distribution (URD) cable.
Upgrades also are being made to the utility's mainline underground system, which includes 8,300 miles of cable. ComEd considers the mainline cable program to be among the most complex initiatives as it involves several phases of work, including manhole assessment and cable testing, refurbishment and replacement. In 2012, ComEd will assess more than 4,000 of the 28,326 manholes in its system, replacing or conducting corrective maintenance of cable systems in the manholes and addressing other structural issues as required.
Significant investments also are aimed at a storm hardening program, which is designed to reduce the susceptibility of certain power line circuits to storm-related damage, including high winds, thunderstorms and ice storms. Power lines will be prioritized based on their historical susceptibility to storm-related damage and the ability to provide the greatest customer benefit. The 2012 reliability investments also include the inspection and any necessary treatment of approximately 133,400 wood utility poles.
Smart grid technologies
ComEd will begin the digital transformation of the electric infrastructure with the addition of advanced digital technologies to improve overall system reliability and performance. Major planned investments include the installation of advanced meters in homes and businesses beginning in the fourth quarter of 2012. ComEd expects to install 130,000 meters within the first year. Beginning in 2013, it will install an average of 440,000 meters annually through completion of the program.
Smart grid investments in 2012 also include the Distribution Automation (DA) program, through which ComEd will accelerate the installation of devices that will automatically re-route power around a problem, often with no noticeable interruption of service. The DA program also calls for the installation of a radio system to remotely transmit and relay control functions and provide system updates, as well as a computer system that will control, operate, monitor and store electrical distribution data.
Investments also include modernizing 10 electrical substations through which electric power flows to customers, as well as the installation of microprocessor relays that will improve the automated monitoring of substation performance. These upgrades will result in a range of customer benefits, including increased reliability and reduced power delivery expenses.
New training facilities also are on the agenda, including one in Rockford, currently scheduled to open in late 2012, and one on the southwest side of Chicago that will open in 2014. The training centers will play important roles in helping ComEd employees and new hires gain the advanced skills that will be needed to perform more complex work, including the installation and operation of smart grid technologies on the electrical system.
Test Bed to spur smart grid innovation
In accordance with the law, ComEd presented its plan to create and operate a smart grid "Test Bed" that will provide entrepreneurs with the opportunity to test a broad range of equipment, services, technologies and business models within a utility scale environment. ComEd is designating its Innovation Corridor as the Test Bed location. The ComEd Smart Grid Innovation Corridor was launched in 2010 in conjunction with the company's advanced meter pilot project. It provided a laboratory for evaluating new technologies and approaches, including ComEd's first intelligent substation, distribution automation technology and electric vehicle charging stations.
The Innovation Corridor consists of portions or all of nine municipalities, including Bellwood, Berwyn, Broadview, Forest Park, Hillside, Maywood, Melrose Park, Oak Park, River Forest and a portion of the City of Chicago, specifically the Humboldt Park area. With the exception of Humboldt Park, the Test Bed location encompasses a contiguous footprint that maintains demographic characteristics similar to the entire ComEd system in relation to its composition of residential, commercial and industrial customers.
"The innovation corridor has been extremely valuable in validating concepts, products and customer needs and interests factored into our grid modernization program, so it will provide a perfect platform for the testing of new concepts that our Test Bed applicants are working to bring to life," said Fidel Marquez, senior vice president of Customers Operations, ComEd.
The Test Bed will be operational by late April of this year. For eligibility requirements and details relating to ComEd's smart grid Test Bed, visit www.comed.com.


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HyderabadKnown for having some of the spiciest cuisine in India, Hyderabad has a cultural heritage as rich as its culinary practices. The capital of Andhra Pradesh has the medieval grace of the Persian and Urdu courts. The erstwhile seat of the Islamic center of India, Hyderabad boasts such architectural jewels as the Faluknama palace (once of the finest royal residences in the country), the Charminar, and the many minarets, Deccan Hindu temples, and centuries old pearl markets—together they cast a mesmerizing haze on any traveler. The hotels in Hyderabad are just as varied with Islamic influences—colonial and the latest tech standing proud next to each other. For an offbeat stop, Hyderabad hotels offer tours to Ramoji Film City—the largest moviemaking facility in the world. A trip to Hyderabad is incomplete without the city's prized dish—biryani. Below find a list of our selection of boutique and luxury hotels in Hyderabad.
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To the Citizens of Dolores:
Members of the Montezuma County VFW Ladies Auxiliary No. 5231, whose Post Home is in Mancos and whose members come from Mancos, Cortez and Dolores, have been posting the American flags on the streets of Dolores for the past year.
The flags have been posted 19 times since August 2012. During that time, eight flags have disappeared. The most recent disappearance occurred this past Saturday, May 18, on Armed Forces Day.
Each flag has a name hand embroidered on it. The flags are purchased by a family member in "honor of" or in "memory of" their beloved veteran. The flags are then posted by members of the Ladies Auxiliary with pride and reverence.
We know that occasionally, the wind will knock a flag out of the holder and some conscientious community member will rescue the flag. Maybe not knowing who put out the flags, they took it home for safe keeping.
If you are one of those conscientious community members and have one or more of our flags, please call me at (970) 749-9320 and I will come get them.
Remember the flags belong to a family who are honoring their veteran.
I'm sorry to say, but until further actions can be taken and precautions arranged, the American flags will no longer be posted on the streets of Dolores by the VFW Ladies Auxiliary #5231.
Thank you to those who support our veterans!
Queenie Barz
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Thanks, Jack, for explaining it so well.
Apparently, at this early stage nobody knows what the fees will be! At some point later on the details will, apparently be posted. As I recall, that happens about the time people have given up and made other plans.
I think, from Jack's note, people can get an idea what EAS is about, but I know many are not really sure what the "short course" and "conference"s all about, since the organisation is so different from other meetings. I know I attended the Maine EAS, and I am still not clear on how all that works.
EAS people are so familiar with the format that it seems they cannot appreciate how strange it appears to those who have never been.
Of course, for those who are not concerned about budget, the answer is to just dive in, but for those looking at doing the meeting on a shoestring, knowing what to plan is much more difficult.
Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea, I am not knocking EAS. I am confused, though by the format, and lack of clear info for newbees.
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Sandy Hook families review investigation report
NEWTOWN -- Family members of those slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School got to review a draft copy of the state's attorney's investigation report Thursday to prepare them for the eventual public release of the information, which is expected later this month.
According to family members who attended a meeting Thursday with State Police, FBI agents and officials from the Danbury state's attorney's office, relatives were given about 20 minutes to review a draft of the 40-page report.
"It was more emotional than any of the other meetings we've had," said one of the relatives, who requested anonymity because family members were asked not to release information about the report. "It was shocking to see, for some people, but there was nothing new for me."
The family member said he had already toured the school, and when he was presented with about 20 minutes to review the lengthy report, he decided to only read the parts that pertained to his child. Most of it was information he had already been given by detectives, he said, but some of it was difficult to see written in black and white.
As they have been since 20 children and six adults were killed in the school shooting on Dec. 14, the authorities were protective of family members' feelings and handled the discussion "with kid gloves," the relative said.
The report included photographs of the home in Newtown where Adam Lanza lived with his mother, Nancy, and pictures from inside the school after the shooting, but none of the photographs showed any of the victims, a relative said. The children are not named in the report, relatives said.
"It was really just pictures of the guns, bullets, stuff like that," the relative said.
Relatives said that the 40-page report they reviewed was written by Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky. It is that report that they were told would be released to the public before the end of the month, family members said, and not a far more detailed 2,000-page state police report on the shooting.
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Sedensky declined to comment Friday on the report or the meeting, saying only that the report would be released to the public sometime this fall.
"I don't discuss meetings that we have with the family members," Sedensky said.
He also declined to comment on whether any additional meetings will be held with survivors of the shooting or teachers from the school prior to the report's release.
As the anniversary of the massacre nears, the state's attorney's office has been under increased pressure to release the report, some details of which have been leaked on several different occasions.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former New York prosecutor, said Monday that if the prosecutors writing the report had worked for him, it would have been released weeks ago.
"It needs to get out," Malloy told reporters Monday after announcing $16 million in school security improvement grants, which were funded in response to the Sandy Hook murders. "It needs to get out this week, next week. It needs to get out."
While the Division of Criminal Justice is within the executive branch of state government, the agency is independent, except for the appointment of state's attorneys.
The governor said that Sedensky was redacting personal information, including Social Security numbers, from the final report.
Newtown First Selectwoman Pat Llorda said she is anxious to see the report released so members of the community can finally put that aspect of the tragedy behind them.
"It's one of those hurdles we need to get over," she said. "The longer it's dangled in front of us and bits and pieces come out, it continues to be a sore that won't heal. It's important that the report get produced and distributed as soon as possible."
Llodra also stressed, however, that a great deal of time and energy is being placed on completing the report.
"The volume of material the state's attorney has to go through is tremendous," she said. "I believe he is being very careful, as I would expect, and very accurate while protecting those who need to be protected. We just have to be patient a little longer."
Llodra said she has not seen a copy of the draft report and doesn't expect to receive a copy before it is released to the public.
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A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution (V&A)
Art exhibitions come in many volumes. The more and more frequent stentorian blockbusters make London's art offering both important and substantive. However, the noise made by these grand shows – aided by dense crowds, zig-zag prams, loud conversations et al – can drown out the sometimes unassuming but potentially very rewarding tones of smaller displays dotted around the capital.
This display of a century of protest posters, packed into two plain, serene rooms at the V&A, try to jostle, agitate, manipulate and seek attention in various ways. The fact that each work has something specific and immediate to say means that being hung in close proximity to others does nothing to blunt each poster's impact.
The posters have been loosely categorized under nine headings, ranging from revolution and agitprop, via war and activism, to more unmediated, home-made media. The latter includes self-made prints and digital messages, as in the viral video of an unknown woman in a blue bra beaten by Egypt's military in 2011 in Tahrir Square.
These posters, as with anything that has elements of poetic, indirect communication about it, reward sustained contemplation with deeper insights and knowledge at many levels: aesthetic, semantic, historical, cultural, national and more. There is characteristically subtle but dark and even menacing word-play in a British poster that urges that the Tories not only be metaphorically kicked 'out' but, one can only assume, physically kicked 'in'. This contrasts and reveals telling cultural differences with, a less aggressive, less punning German admonishment about the CDU's complicity with Chile ('Since Chile, we know exactly what the CDU thinks of democracy').
Unlike much art and design, language is a critical tool of the protest idiom. Unsurprisingly, it often borders on the manipulative and borrows from advertising, modulating into 'subvertising', as one of the sections is called. In quite a few of the posters, the stark shapes of letters and words and their direct meanings vie with, and even overwhelm, the visual, as in the unequivocal message towards the Vietnam draft by Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
In the most successful, they combine and complement each other and create a communication that is multivalent, even existential, as in the self-critical poster made by Designers Republic (DR) of Sheffield, in 1995. DR were disenchanted with corporate-driven consumerism but acknowledge their role in the process. The imaginary company Pho-Ku (say it aloud – but not in polite company) stands for an anti-corporate identity in the face of increasing global branding.
If you are thinking of popping over to Tate Modern for the Matisse, but just don't fancy the decibels and prams, it might be worth changing course to Kensington and remembering: s/he who shouts loudest certainly does not shout best.
Percy Darukhanawala is an MA graduand at the Courtauld
A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution is in Room 88 at the Victoria & Albert Museum until 2 November 2014.


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A Blue View is a weekly perspective on the life aquatic, hosted by National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli.
From the smallest plants and animals invisible to the human eye to entire ecosystems, every living thing depends on and is intricately linked by water.
Tune in to 88.1 WYPR every Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. as John brings to the surface important issues and fascinating discoveries making waves in the world today.
July 31, 2013: Stormwater – A Search for Soluations
Click here to listen to John and Halle Van der Gaag
from Blue Water Baltimore discuss stormwater runoff!
John: We hear a lot about stormwater, but many of us still don't exactly know what it is and why we should care. In Baltimore and all across the country, however, stormwater runoff is a major problem. To help us understand what this issue means to our community, Halle Van der Gaag, executive director of Blue Water Baltimore, is with me in the studio. Hi, Halle.
Halle: Hi, John. Thanks for having me.
J: There's a lot of misinformation out there about stormwater, but at its most basic, what is stormwater, and how does it relate to our community and our waters?
H: Stormwater runoff is actually rainwater that hits our pavement, roofs, and parking lots, and flows downstream, carrying pollutants, animal waste, fertilizer, and pesticides. What a lot of people don't realize is that it actually carries air pollution that lands on our pavement, and washes that downstream as well.
J: Why is our stormwater situation so critical here in Baltimore?
H: For a long time, no one paid attention to stormwater. We were focused on industrial pollution and agricultural pollution. The reality of it is that pipes that carry stormwater are old, deteriorating, and breaking. They have not been maintained and they need an infrastructure overhaul.
J: Do we have a lot of impervious surfaces here? Describe what those are.
H: Impervious surface is just a term for hardscape or pavement – hard surfaces where you get no infiltration of rainwater. If you look around Baltimore, you'll see that we have lots and lots of pavement. Not all of it is actually being used. Some of it is streets, but some of it is parking lots.
J: How does this whole situation manifest itself in our city these days?
H: What we're seeing a lot is pipes bursting, streets collapsing, pollution in our waterways and in our harbor. It's a real problem, not just for our waterways but as an inconvenience to commuters and people who are living and working in Baltimore.
J: It's obviously a very costly and labor-intensive problem to solve, but what kind of work is being done now to help with this issue?
H: Recently, people have probably heard about a stormwater utility fee that has been passed in Baltimore and across the state. This allows Baltimore to finally be proactive and actually have the resources it needs to fix stormwater pipes before they break.
J: I know this is a really important issue, and some people have mis-characterized the stormwater fee as a rainwater tax and things like that. Help us understand more what these fees will help accomplish and how that might help the Chesapeake Bay.
H: In addition to fixing pipes, we also see lots of opportunities for green infrastructure, for opportunities to create stormwater practices that will help beautify the city, but are actually functional, beautiful spaces where you're using plants and trees to filter and slow down stormwater before it hits the streets. It can be happening on public right-aways and in parks, but there's a lot that people can do in their own backyards – installing rain gardens, rain barrels, planting conservation landscaping, lots of things that folks can actually do. Then they can offset and ask the city for credit for the stormwater fee. The goal here is to reduce pollution, not just collect fees that go into a big giant pipe.
J: Reducing pollution is something that's good for all of us. Thank you so much for joining me, Halle. To learn more about Blue Water Baltimore and how you can reduce your stormwater impacts at home, visit aqua.org/ablueview.


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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Anthony Rizzo finished with two hits, including a solo homer, and drove in three to fuel Chicago's 6-5 victory over St. Louis in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley Field. "He's made a very conscious effort of trying to control the strike zone," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said of Rizzo, who upped his home batting average to .407 this season. "He's just trying to not do too much. If he puts the barrel on the ball with a decent swing, he can hit the ball out of the ballpark." Welington Castillo hit three doubles and knocked in two for the Cubs, while Ryan Sweeney contributed two hits and an RBI. Travis Wood (2-3) allowed six hits and three runs -- two earned -- with six strikeouts over seven solid innings. Hector Rondon tossed a scoreless ninth to earn his second save. Jhonny Peralta slugged a two-run shot and accounted for three RBI for the Cardinals, with Matt Carpenter scoring twice and knocking in a run in defeat. Adam Wainwright (5-2) was torched for six runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and a pair of walks over five full frames. The right-hander also suffered his first defeat on the north side after 17 games (12 starts). "I left a lot of balls in the middle of the plate," said Wainwright, whose 25- inning scoreless string didn't last beyond Chicago's first turn at the plate. "I did that last time I pitched against them, too, so I don't think there's a coincidence -- or I don't think there's a meaning behind it, it's just a weird coincidence." Justin Grimm subbed for Wood in the eighth, and got into trouble immediately after walking Carpenter and serving up a two-run shot to Peralta which reduced the Cardinals' deficit to 6-5. Matt Holliday singled off Emilio Bonifacio's glove at second, and after Allen Craig flied out, Brian Schlitter got the nod. He retired the next two batters to preserve the one-run margin. Rondon backed that up by retiring St. Louis in order in the ninth on a groundout, foul out and flyout. In the home first, Bonifacio singled, Luis Valbuena doubled and Rizzo's long single plated both. St. Louis countered in the third. Randal Grichuk struck a leadoff double but was caught in a rundown on Mark Ellis' grounder. Ellis was sacrificed to second then scored on Carpenter's base hit. Peralta followed with a double off the ivy in right center to score another and tie the game. Chicago fired back with three in the home third. With one down, Rizzo and Nate Schierholtz walked around a Starlin Castro base hit which filled the sacks, then Sweeney's grounder scored Rizzo ahead of Castillo's two-run double for a 5-2 game. "With all due respect to that team, they're a great ballclub, but we're a pretty good team, too," Rizzo said. "It's just about scoring runs when we have the opportunity to." Yadier Molina doubled with one out in the fourth and later scored on Castro's throwing error on a Grichuk grounder to pull the Cards within two, but Rizzo reached the bleachers near the right-field foul pole to start the bottom of the fifth and restore the Cubs' three-run edge. Game Notes St. Louis won two of three at home against Chicago in the first matchup between the clubs from April 11-13 ... The Cubs beat the Cardinals for just the second time in the last nine meetings since last Aug. 17.
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Apr 27, 2018
difficult in week4&week5, but interesting
by Carl H•
Feb 01, 2019
Lectures are rushed and not explained well. Discussion forms seem to be filled with "Is there inaccuracy in in quiz X". Here is a direct quote from one of the discussions "I actually didn't use the formula from the lecture but from the cited paper by Baier et. al. - same stuff. works for 11, doesn't for 12". Granted that the subject matter this course covers is difficult, I feel like this course makes it harder rather than easier. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
by Joseph V•
Jan 19, 2018
The lectures on Coursera are nice, but please remove to cringe parts (any outside shot video material).
Overall the course is very bad because the tele lectures are very bad quality and thus does not motivate you at all to keep track of the course during the period. Recommendation: Ditch tele lectures all together and give actual bonus points for completing Coursera parts on time.
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Which, for some, actually might be painfully accurate - at least the Boba Fett helmet stuff.
This clip was created by Megasteakman, the folks behind Pokémon Apokélypse, the amazing cinematic spin on the Pocket Monsters series.
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Since having my daughter I feel that a lot of my recipes have shifted quite a bit- I've moved towards simpler foods that are prepared quickly but can be adapted for whatever mood you're in.
When I found out that my daughter had an egg allergy it wasn't a huge issue for me since I was already familiar with egg replacers, but definitely flexed my cooking/baking muscles a bit more than normal! My daughter eats a lot. A LOT :) So I'm always looking for snacks that I can give her without compromising our desire to have her eat healthy. As I've mentioned in other posts like this one or this one, finding snack foods for little ones that aren't full of fillers, sugars, or fortified with unnecessary vitamins is quite difficult!
I had spotted Dr. Praeger's spinach littles and broccoli littles in the store, but they had egg whites in them so that was a no-go. I adapted the ingredients a bit to suit our tastes, but you can of course adjust the seasoning to you or your child's preferences- we tend to like food with a lot of spice (my daughter included). I make a bunch and just store them in the freezer (info below) to re-heat whenever she needs a quick and healthy snack.
A note about shapes: This recipe does take a bit of work if you wish to make shapes like I did in the pictures. If not, just plop little portions onto your baking sheet and bake! You can also use a mini cupcake tray or silicone cupcake holders. I used a Mini Noah's Ark cookie cutter set that I found at Joann Fabric (also available at Amazon as well as one of my favorites. If you have high cookie cutters just be aware that cooking time will vary.
Spinach Bites - for babies, toddlers, kids, or anyone!!(egg free, gluten free/grain free, dairy free, soy free, nut free)
1 cup cooked & mashed organic potatoes (2-3 small potatoes or 2 cups raw cubed potatoes)
2 cups frozen organic chopped spinach
2 tsp flax seed meal + 2 Tbsp boiling water (mixed in small bowl)
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp Herbamare Organic Herb Seasoning
1/8 tsp pepper
1/8 tsp sea salt
1 Tbsp Grapeseed or Canola oil
Pre-heat your oven to 350°F.
1. Cook your potatoes in a small pot of boiling water with a bit of salt added. When done, drain and place in a mixing bowl.
2. Steam or lightly cook your spinach. Blend until creamy**. Add to potatoes.
3. Make your flax egg: mix the flax with boiling water and let sit to gel while you prepare the rest of the recipe.
4. Add the spices and oil, mash and stir well. Add the flax egg and stir until combined well.
5. Place on silpat/Silicone Liner or Unbleached Parchment Paper lined baking tray and bake for 40 minutes. Cool on a cooling rack and then serve!
**I usually blend the spinach, but you can also leave it unblended but it will look different and the spinach will be more obvious (see pictures below).
|With blended spinach
|With un-blended spinach
Keep in the refrigerator in a sealed container.
To freeze for later snacks- cool and freeze in storage bag/container.
To re-heat:
Place on foil-lined tray in a toaster/convention oven and warm. Alternately, if you run them under cool water for a minute and then place in the toaster oven they thaw MUCH faster and will be ready within a minute or two. I don't have a microwave so I can't tell you how they come out from there :)
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Alabama Board supports school gun ban
- Only trained law enforcement officers can carry guns on campuses
- Law enforcement officials also support that rule
- Board is exploring ways to enhance school safety
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Members of the State Board of Education indicated Thursday that they supported current school regulations that ban anyone except trained law enforcement officials from carrying guns on campus.
The BOE members expressed this during a presentation on school safety, a focus of a joint legislative panel convened by Republican House Speaker Mike Hubbard, in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last month.
State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice was discussing local school safety plans and Virtual Alabama — a tool allowing first responders to access layouts of schools during emergencies — when he told the board he saw "no need" to weigh in on the debate over guns.
Bice told the board he deferred to law enforcement professionals who spoke at a joint hearing of the House and Senate's Education Policy committees earlier this month. Law enforcement representatives at the hearing said only trained and certified law enforcement officials should carry weapons in school.
"I'm an educator," Bice said. "I'm not an expert in law enforcement. I defer to the experts who are."
Board members Charles Elliott and Mary Scott Hunter, both Republicans, said they agreed.
"I think anyone with military or law enforcement experience would reaffirm that," said Hunter, who served in the Air Force for 10 years as a judge advocate general. "It takes serious law enforcement training to do this properly."
Bice noted that state law does not criminalize the possession of guns on school campuses, and that the only recourse school personnel have in such incidents — unless the possessor of the gun has intent to do harm — is to ask the individual to leave.
The legislative committees are collecting testimony on school safety through the end of the month. Rachael Adams, a spokeswoman for Hubbard, said Thursday that they would study the testimony and decide whether further legislation of school safety is warranted.
Most of Bice's presentation reiterated points made at the hearing. The superintendent outlined school safety policies, which must be developed at the local level. Bice said he supports that approach, saying each district had its particular needs. Board members also saw a demonstration of Virtual Alabama, using Auburn High School to show the layout of the building and the locations of various items, from chemicals to defibrillators.
Bice stressed that no safety plan was foolproof. However, he said, the plans being designed by the school districts aim to minimize the harm from an intruder, a fire or a weather emergency. Bice also reassured the board about overall safety.
"Our schools, regardless of what you hear and see, are probably the safest places on a daily basis," he said.


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Ryu's first rainout gives LA chance to tweak rotation
Lefty will start Saturday matinee as part of day-night doubleheader vs. O's
BALTIMORE -- Hyun-Jin Ryu experienced another one of those Major League firsts Friday night: his first Major League rainout.
After 90 wet minutes, the Orioles gave up and rescheduled the unstarted game as a day-night doubleheader for Saturday. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Ryu would start the day game, and Josh Beckett would start the night game, as originally planned.
Ryu spent the rain delay learning American card games from his teammates. He promised to be a quick study. In his native Korea, teams wait only 30 minutes before postponing a game for rain.
After the game was called, Ryu threw a 30-pitch bullpen session in the batting cage. Ryu, who doesn't throw traditional bullpen sessions between starts, said he threw because, having had a day off Thursday, he didn't want to go two days without throwing.
"It shouldn't be a big deal," he said.
Mattingly, who said he spent most of the rain delay watching coverage of the capture of the Boston bombing suspect, said because the season is young, and because this series is sandwiched by days off, there shouldn't be much stress put on his club by the unscheduled doubleheader.
He said it might also give him a chance to flop Ryu and Beckett in the rotation next time around to split up lefties Clayton Kershaw and Ryu.
Mattingly also said he might revisit his lineup, which Friday night had Carl Crawford as designated hitter, Skip Schumaker in left field and Ramon Hernandez catching (he's 9-for-19 against Baltimore starter Jason Hammel).


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