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On 15 November 1841, in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours at Montebello, Papineau Co., Québec, Thomas McTeague married Bridget O'Hanlon. The names of the couple and of their parents were written as follows (with my translation/interpretation in italics):
Thomas McTeague, fils majeur de Joseph McTeague et de Brigitte Scerloc, du Township de Grenville, d'une part; et Brigitte O'honlon domiciliée en Grenville, fille majeure de Pierre O'honlon et de Marie Thooner, domiciliés en Irlande, d'autre part…[Thomas McTeague, son of age of Joseph McTeague and of Bridget Sherlock, of the Township of Grenville, on the one part; and Bridget O'Hanlon, residing at Grenville, daughter of age of Peter O'Hanlon and of Mary (Toner?) who reside in Ireland, on the other part]*
The witnesses to this marriage were Charles Major (who signed the register), George Vallillee (who did not sign), and Owen McTeague (who signed).
The reason why the above-cited record interests me is that George Vallillee/Vallely is my 3x great-grandfather, and his first wife Anne O'Hanlon my 3x great-grandmother. Did he witness this marriage as a brother-in-law of Bridget O'Hanlon?
And where did Thomas McTeague and Bridget O'Hanlon eventually settle? A quick search of the 1851 Canadian census turns up a number of McTeagues in Grenville (Deux Montagnes County, Canada East), but no sign of Thomas and wife Bridget O'Hanlon.
*Montebello (Co. Papineau, Québec), Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1840-1851, M. 5 (1841), McTeague et O'honlon, p. 23, Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca/: accessed 12 Dec 2010), Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967.


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Wild olive wood is a preferred carving medium of Kenya's Kamba wood carvers. With extreme precision, these talented men draw beautiful serving pieces from the rich grain of this East African hardwood. Wild olive wood salad servers add natural beauty to the tabletop and season well through the years.
Origin: Kenya
Size: 14"L x 3"W x 1"T
Materials: Wild olive wood
Hand wash in warm water, dry promptly and rub with oil before storage.

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Apple has patented the OS X Dock, nearly a decade after the operating system made its public debut with a new slant on the taskbar.
The late arrival isn't due to a lack of initiative, however. Apple applied for the patent December 20, 1999, and it was approved by the US Patent Office only yesterday.
Apple summarizes the Dock as a "user interface for providing consolidation and access." The patent (available here) puts a particular focus on the Dock's ability to magnify icons to a predetermined size when the cursor is near, the user's ability to rearrange icons, and the way it overlaps the desktop and active windows. Other touches such as indicating which applications are running, label tiles appearing on mouse-over, and the ability to drag and drop files into applications on the Dock are also described.
The patent credits inventors Steve Jobs, Bas Ording, and Donald Lindsay.
Apple has regarded the Dock as the focus of OS X's user interface from the beginning. There can be little doubt Cupertino is happy to have its hands on the legal rights.
The big question here is: What's next?
Historically, Apple hasn't exactly been shy about pursuing legal action against those it considers infringing on its patent portfolio. This could be bad news for imitators such as ObjectDock, RocketDock, Avant Windows Navigator, and others.
An Apple spokesperson wasn't immediately available for comment. We'll just have to put our ears to the ground and listen for war drums sounding from Cupertino. ®


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ArpGuard protects your Mac by keeping an eye on your Internet network. Even though Mac OS X is already well protected, is vulnerable to a Man in The Middle attack, which can compromise your passwords, bank account information, credit card information and even gain unauthorised access to your Mac. This type of attack is increasingly more popular and if you had ever connected to a public network or even a private one you might already been compromised. Web sites that you browse are not always secure and can compromise sensitive information.
After you will install ArpGuard and click the Start ArpGuard button, the application will minimise and will start watching for any hackers that might compromise your network. ArpGuard will detect any suspicious activity.
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Senators: Social Security Isn't Going About Closing Field Offices the Right Way
The agency hasn't sufficiently justified its decisions, which are hurting seniors, report finds.
The Social Security Administration, which has shuttered dozens of field offices across the country to save money over the last few years, has not sufficiently examined or justified the rationale behind those decisions, according to a new report from a Senate panel.
The agency doesn't involve local communities in the decision-making process until after it has decided to close an office, and has failed to weigh several factors when it eliminates in-person service, including the impact on employees, or whether Internet access is available for the affected population to seek government services online, the Senate Special Committee on Aging concluded.
SSA does take into account the demographics of an area when considering eliminating an office, including the age of the population, distance between offices, and the number of people who visit it, said Nancy Berryhill, deputy commissioner for operations at the agency, during a June 18 Senate hearing on the issue.
"I want to stress that our service to an area does not stop when we decide to consolidate an office," Berryhill testified. "The public still has many options for receiving convenient service, including face-to-face meetings at another nearby office, getting help over the telephone, using online services, and using video options."
But other witnesses at the hearing said that many seniors are not able to easily travel between offices, especially when they live in poor, rural areas. And many still prefer in-person interaction because they either aren't comfortable with, or don't have access to online services. Others have difficulty hearing over the telephone and understanding technical government language -- making face-to-face visits crucial, witnesses said.
One beneficiary in rural Maine was living on $460 per month, until her local Social Security office helped her track down information about her deceased ex-husband, from whom she had been divorced for decades. She was able to collect a widow's benefit and increase her income to $1,000 per month, said Tammy DeLong, a Medicare specialist for the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging in Presque Isle, Maine. "This made a major difference in her quality of life," DeLong said, adding that she doesn't believe the beneficiary could have obtained the allowance on her own without the help of the local Social Security office.
Lack of access to technology also is a hurdle, witnesses said. "Most of the people here don't have computers, let alone reliable Internet access," said Gadsden County, Fla., Commissioner Brenda Holt, who tried unsuccessfully to get the SSA to reconsider closing a field office in her rural county where the poverty rate is nearly double the Florida average. The nearest SSA office is in Tallahassee, about 45 minutes away. Holt, who said the county didn't learn until March 5 of SSA's decision to close the Quincy office at the end of that month, pressured SSA to put in place a video unit in libraries around town, so seniors could talk with agency employees in other cities. "It is a fine resource, but it is no replacement for a field office," Holt said.
"It is a different way to do business, but it is face-to-face service," said Berryhill, who touted video conferencing as an alternative to in-person visits where necessary, but also acknowledged that SSA didn't offer it as an option to Gadsden County until after local officials asked them to provide it.
SSA has struggled to provide service to a growing senior population while watching its resources dwindle: Its budget has been slashed over the last three years while its workload has increased as Baby Boomers hit retirement age, and during that time it has lost 11,000 employees. Congress boosted SSA's budget in fiscal 2014, and the agency plans to hire more workers, but since 2010 it has closed 64 field offices and 533 temporary mobile offices. Berryhill said that consolidating an office can save the agency on average $4 million over a decade.
In-person and telephone wait times have increased over the past few years for those seeking assistance from SSA, and despite nearly 50 percent of all retirement and disability claims being filed online in fiscal 2013, "field offices continued to process record numbers of claims in local offices," said Scott Hale, president of the National Council of Social Security Management Associations, during Wednesday's hearing.
While Committee Chairman Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, were both sympathetic to the budget and workforce challenges facing SSA, they urged the agency to be more transparent in decisions to close offices, engage local stakeholders earlier in the process, and be more open to creative solutions. For example, Collins suggested the possibility of sharing office space in local communities with other federal agencies, such as the U.S. Postal Service, which operates many offices in rural areas. "Seniors are not being served well when you arbitrarily close offices and reduce access to services," Nelson said. "The closure process is neither fair nor transparent and needs to change."
The committee report also called for better data collection on community demographics and a more uniform policy for closing offices.


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After Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh kicked Texans quarterback Matt Schaub in the groin on Thanksgiving, Schaub said that he doesn't think Suh is worthy of playing for the Texans. But Suh believes that Schaub would change his tune if the Texans ever had the opportunity to acquire Suh.
In an interview with ESPN's Merril Hoge, Suh said he knows Texans running back Arian Foster would want to play with him, and that he thinks Schaub would, too, if the situation ever arose.
"It's his opinion," Suh said of Schaub. "I'm fortunate and lucky enough that I'm a Detroit Lion, I don't think I have the opportunity to be a Houston Texan. I feel that if I did have an opportunity that maybe he'd change his mind. Arian Foster loves the way that I play. He came out, I saw a brief snippet and had people tell me, that he would love to be my teammate, the way I play.
Suh says he is appealing the $30,000 fine he got for the kick, and he continues to insist that it was an accident, and that his foot just happened to connect to the wrong spot as he was being dragged to the ground.
"I had, honestly, no control over what took place because I was being pulled down," Suh said.
Suh knows he has a reputation as a dirty player, but he doesn't appreciate that, and he believes it is based on people not knowing what kind of person he has been throughout his football career.
"I don't believe it's fair," he said. "You can't let one particular instance or one particular act or even one particular year, say, 'This is this person's reputation.' You've got to factor in their whole career, what they've come from and what they've done."
What Suh has done was not appreciated by Schaub, but after Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford stuck up for Suh last week, perhaps there's some truth in the idea that quarterbacks like having Suh as a teammate. If for no other reason than knowing that means they won't have to play against him.


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The For the Love of RayJ 2 Reunion show was the first reunion show VH1 had done since last May and boy o boy did it not disappoint. Two days later, it is still being widely talked about.
The reunion show was a big hit mainly because it brought the drama. The last 10 minutes of the show featured season 1 winner, Cocktail aka Joanna Hernandez, coming on the show to warn season two winner- Mz Berry aka Connie Deveaux , about the womanizing ways of Ray J.
Things got particularly heated when Ray J joined both ladies on stage , and got into a shouting match with Cocktail, even accusing her of bedding other women after she accused him of being unfaithful during their brief relationship. Interestingly enough, Cocktail never denied Ray's claims that she slept with other women as well. Things got even more heated and RayJ ended up walking off the stage. Mz Berry followed him, and so did Cocktail, as the two continued their argument backstage.
The reunion show then ended abruptly and we the viewers never even got to know the status of Ray and Mz Berry's relationship. Mz Berry gave an interview to Talkofthetown411.com Monday night, hours after seeing the reunion show and she shed some light on what really happened between she and Ray before, during and after the dramatic reunion.
In the new interview, Mz Berry claimed she did see Ray J once within the last five months but it was not aired on the reunion show for some reason. She said she was hurt by the reunion show and didn't understand why Cocktail felt the need to "warn" her. She also said she was a little hurt by Ray J's actions towards Jaguar, but she already knew his feelings regarding his regret for sending her home early.
As for their current relationship status, she says she and Ray continue to talk but stops clear of saying the two are in a relationship. It's pretty obvious from listening to Mz Berry that she and Ray are at the most, just friends. According to Mz Berry, Ray was aware that Cocktail would be on the reunion, but did not know the extent of what she would say. However Mz Berry says she was fully unaware that Cocktail would be on the show.
To sum this up, Mz Berry and Ray J are still on friendly terms but are not in a relationship, which is not surprising considering our previous report which revealed Ray J had a 20 year old girlfriend he was serious with the entire time he was filming the show last year.
Part 1 and Part 2 of the interviews below –


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Intel does not object to John McAfee using his personal name in connection with his business, but it objects to the use by the maverick entrepreneur and security expert of the McAfee trade name and trademark in a way that could confuse or deceive consumers or dilute the brand.
The issue came up when John McAfee teamed with MGT Capital Investments, which had been until recently mainly into gaming sites, and announced in May that it is in the process of acquiring a diverse portfolio of cybersecurity technologies. MGT also announced that it intended to change its corporate name to "John McAfee Global Technologies, Inc." with John McAfee at the helm of the new company.
MGT has meanwhile launched a network security product called Sentinel and Intel points in its filing to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that MGT has a promotional video on its website that "now displays the new trade name and trademark 'John McAfee Global Technologies.'"
Intel announced in September that it had signed an agreement with TPG for a deal that would see its Intel Security business as a separate cybersecurity company in which Intel shareholders would hold 49 percent of the equity with the balance held by the investment firm. Intel would also receive US$3.1 billion in cash. The new company would be named McAfee.
The company said in its filing Thursday that it does not object to "John D. McAfee's use of his personal name or personal reputation in connection with his business ventures." Elsewhere in the filing, the company said it admits that John McAfee "did not forfeit the right to use his name as a personal name, which Intel has never challenged."
The company, however, objects to John McAfee and MGT "using their new MCAFEE trade name and trademark, and any other MCAFEE trade names or marks, in a manner that creates a likelihood of confusion or deception among consumers, or that dilutes Intel's famous MCAFEE brand." Intel is arguing that the use of its trademarks by the renamed company for security products could lead consumers to assume mistakenly that they come from a common source, in this case Intel.
Intel said it completed in February 2011 the acquisition of McAfee Inc, and had continued to use and promote the McAfee mark on and in connection with security products, services, and publications for consumers and businesses. The company claims to own through McAfee Inc. a number of U.S. registered trademarks such as the MCAFEE, MCAFEE SECURITY, MCAFEE PROVEN SECURITY and the stylized "M" on a shield marks.
In June 2016, Intel sent a letter to MGT Capital warning it of legal action if it changed its name "to one that includes the MCAFEE trademark or otherwise use the MCAFEE name as a trademark." John McAfee does not have the right to use the McAfee name for security related goods and services, Intel added.
John McAfee and MGT soon after filed a suit in the New York court seeking a judgment declaring that "their use of or reference to the personal name of John McAfee and/or McAfee in their business," including in the renaming of MGT, does not infringe on Intel's trademark rights or breach any agreement between the parties.
In the filing, John McAfee claimed that he had entered in 1991 into an agreement with McAfee Associates, a predecessor to McAfee Inc., to transfer certain assets to it in exchange for stock and a promissory note. But at no point did he "assign the rights to his personal name, via assignment of trademark or otherwise, or agree to restrict his right to do business using his own name," according to the filing. He had not filed for or registered the trademark to "John McAfee" or "McAfee" or any other variation of the name at the time of the agreement.
Some of MGT's other plans have run into issues. Its agreement to acquire anti-spy software company D-Vasive had to be halted because of the refusal by NYSE MKT to list the 43.8 million shares that would need to be issued to complete the merger. The New York Stock Exchange this week initiated proceedings for delisting MGT's common stock.


text: When Stephen Jameson begins hearing voices and waking up in strange places, he starts to question his sanity. In desperation, Stephen decides to listen to one of the voices in his head, and it leads him to his first encounter with the Tomorrow People — John, Cara and Russell — a genetically advanced race with the abilities of telekinesis, teleportation and telepathic communication. The Tomorrow People inform him that they are being hunted down by a paramilitary group of scientists known as Ultra, led by Dr. Jedikiah Price. Meanwhile, Stephen gets another surprise that leads him down his own path, which he hopes will help him uncover the truth about his father's mysterious disappearance.


text: I just got off the phone with friend living in northern North Dakota near the Canadian border. He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.


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Named for the acronym Triangle Below Canal, Tribeca sits to the south and east of SoHo and has four historic districts. Once a commercial and industrial epicenter, Tribeca began to morph into an arts enclave in the 1970s, when artists started flocking to the area's large abandoned commercial spaces -- primarily former cast-iron textile buildings constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Now largely residential, Tribeca is one of the most popular and fashionable family friendly neighborhoods in New York, with an ever-expanding list of high-profile celebrity residents.
As a neighborhood, Tribeca has many draws: world-class restaurants, vibrant nightlife, extensive arts and educational opportunities, and spacious apartments housed in converted, architecturally significant industrial buildings, including the American Thread building, a Renaissance-style building originally erected in 1896 and one of the first luxury condominium conversions in Tribeca; and the Worth Building at 73 Worth Street, a five-story building built in 1865 and converted into 30 condominium apartments in 2002. Many newer buildings such as 56 Leonard, Sterling Mason, The Hubert, and 101 Warren Street combine the look and feel of historic architecture with a modern aesthetic. combine the look and feel of historic architecture with a modern aesthetic.
Now New York City's most expensive neighborhood -- and its safest -- Tribeca started making a name for itself in the mid-1980s with the opening of Drew Nieporent's highly acclaimed Montrachet, followed by two other perennial favorites from Nieporent and partner Robert De Niro: Tribeca Grill and Nobu.
Notable restaurants in Tribeca includes Marc Forgione's steakhouse, American Cut, authentic Beijing restaurant, Mr. Chow, and Andre Carmellini's urban Italian taverna, Locanda Verde.
The neighborhood soon became synonymous with cool bars, restaurants, boutiques and hotels such as Tribeca Grand Hotel.
Aside from sophisticated dining and exciting nightlife,Tribeca has a multitude of recreational offerings, including Washington Market Park, a 1.6-acre park with playground and community garden, and Hudson River Park. For arts and cultural activities, Tribeca hosts the annual Tribeca Open Artist Studio tour, a free walking tour through artist studios in Tribeca, and the world-famous Tribeca Film Festival, established in 2002 by Robert De Niro and partners to bring economic vitality to Lower Manhattan following the attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Tribeca boasts excellent schools, including P.S. 234, one of Manhattan's top public schools; Stuyvesant High School, one of nine specialized high schools in New York City; and New York Academy of Art, founded by Andy Warhol and a group of artists and patrons.
Public transportation is plentiful, with easy access to the 1, 2, A, C and E trains, as well as N, Q, R, J, Z and 6 trains several blocks east. Tribeca is also served by several bus lines and is within close proximity of the World Trade Center PATH station


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From July 11-14, experience the exhilaration of the Spanish adventure, without crossing the Atlantic, and without the hazard of real bulls. Join us in the French Quarter for the San Fermin en Nueva Orleans, our own version of the Running of the Bulls. Coming down for this event? Make your reservation with 1896 O'Malley House Bed & Breakfast for true rest and relaxation (between the excitement!)
Thursday, July 11 – Kick-off the festival with Marques de Caceras Wine Dinner where the delicious cuisine is perfectly paired with Marques de Caceres wines for an exquisite, an ideal way to begin the festival.
Friday, July 12 – Officially begin the San Fermin in Nueva Orleans with El Txupinazo (pronounced el choo-pee-naht-so). Meet other festival-goers and enjoy authentic Spanish cuisine. Get into the spirit with festive red and white attire.
Saturday, July 13 – This is the day you've been waiting for! Instead of being chased by real bulls – they take some of the stress out of it and send the RollerBulls after you! These roller derby girls from Big Easy Rollergirls and other leagues will chase and "gore" all festival goers. This event is huge – expect over 14,000 runners and 400 RollerBulls.
After the excitement, enjoy cocktails and a concert put on my local musicians to relax and celebrate your survival!
Sunday, July 14 – Round off the crazy weekend with the El Pobre de Mi, a relaxing event featuring a tapas brunch and specialty drinks. Then enjoy the 4th Annual Ernest Hemingway Celebration & Talent Contest including a variety of theatrical events.
The Running of the Bulls in Spain is a once in a lifetime event – but the San Fermin in Nueva Orleans is something you won't want to miss…again and again! It will be crazy and fun – not just another New Orleans festival! While you are spending this exciting weekend in New Orleans – be sure to rest yourself in our inn. 1896 O'Malley House Bed & Breakfast offers cozy beds and great bathtubs for soaking – you'll enjoy the recovery.


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North Korea: A day after leader Kim Jong-un delivered his New Year's address urging reunification and conciliation, the National Defense Commission (NDC) published a very different message. On 2 January a spokesman for the most powerful organ of state in North Korea said,
"We should raise our awareness of the confrontation commotions against fellow countrymen happening at the beginning the new year. Nothing but war will be incurred by confrontation against fellow countrymen. This is an historical lesson that the past North-South relations clearly show us."
The statement contained three resolutions by the commission which reprise long standing warnings.
Comment: The most interesting feature of the NDC statement is that it communicates a threatening tone that is precisely opposite that conveyed by Kim a day later. The obvious message is that Kim does not speak for the NDC.
The second prominent feature is that it excoriates former President Lee, but does not mention newly elected President Pak. The obvious inference is that the NDC statement was canned before the elections in the Republic of Korea.
The NDC statement was not updated by the results of the South Korean presidential elections before release. The North's media coordination is awry. The fact that the National Defense Commission issued a statement of defense policy in its own right and independent of Kim is ominous because it means that the Kim family, the Chang family and the Party bureaucrats do not have the final say on matters of defense policy. This apparent bifurcation justifies increased vigilance by the allies.
Pakistan: Pakistani news outlets have denounced the death of Maulvi/Mullah Nazir by a US drone attack last week. A prominent national security commentator, Mahmood Jan Bar, said that "it is a loss for Pakistan."
Babar said Mullah Nazir and his supporters believed that "Pakistan is an Islamic country and no aggression is being carried out against the country," and therefore "it is not justified under any circumstances to attack forces in Pakistan."
Babar said Mullah Nazir's old friends who belonged to the Mehsud tribe were not happy with him. "The people who are being led by Hakimullah Mehsud were not happy with Mullah Nazir … because of people like Mullah Nazir that peace was restored in South Waziristan," adding he was clear that Taliban "will have to go to Afghanistan if they want to fight a war."
Comment: The US has not confirmed the death of Mullah Nazir, but Pakistani new services accept that he was killed by a US drone attack.
Nazir's death puts in sharp focus the incongruity between US and Pakistani national security interests. All so-called terrorists are not the same in south Asia. Nazir cooperated with Pakistani authorities to establish security in South Waziristan. His counterpart in North Waziristan, Hakimullah Mehsud, did not. Both men led sub-clans of the Mehsud tribe in ancient Waziristan. Both fought against the US in Afghanistan.
In practical terms their differences meant that the followers of Nazir would fight against US forces in Afghanistan but not against Pakistan. Hakimullah Mehsud's followers fight in both countries. That explains Pakistan Army Chief of Army Staff General Kayani's attitude that bin Laden and many others never posed a threat to Pakistan.
The drone strike that apparently killed Nazir, however, directly affects the security of Pakistan. If the Mehsuds in South Waziristan join the Mehsuds in North Waziristan in attacking Pakistani forces, security conditions west of the Indus River will deteriorate and draw down resources, primarily as the result of a US drone attack whose larger ripple effects evidently were never considered.
Mali: The Islamist group in northern Mali, Ansar al Dine, said it is suspending its pledge to halt hostilities. The group said negotiations with the Malian government are ultimately aimed at a military intervention to oust the Islamists, and are not true peace talks.
Central African Republic: A 400-man Chadian battalion with reinforcements from Gabon and the Republic of the Congo has been stationed in Damarra to prevent the Seleka (rebel) Coalition from advancing on the capita. Bangui.
Comment: The situation in Mali is a classic example of a centrifugal, or fragmentation, scenario in an internal instability crisis. Ansar al Dine, an al Qaida affiliate, has established a new center of power in the north, beyond the control of authorities in Bamako.
The situation in the Central African Republic is a classic example of a centripetal scenario in which the renegade soldiers in the Seleka Coalition seek the center of power, Bangui.
No countries have hastened to restore Mali's integrity, mainly because the fracture was a ripple effect of a military coup by a renegade army captain and his friends.
In contrast, three countries have rallied to the defense of the Central African Republic's government, without waiting for a UN or other resolution. The allies of the government in Bangui apparently want to avoid a Mali-situation in which renegade soldiers seize power from a duly elected government.
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Robert De Niro and Harvey Weinstein opened Ago. Eva Longoria has Latin-flavored Beso, Jennifer Lopez has Madre's and Ryan Gosling has Tagine. Ashton Kutcher's even got his own star-studded Dolce Group behind Geisha House and Ketchup.
Nothing so tony for actor-writer-director Mike Binder. With a little help from friends Sam Raimi, Tim Allen and Adam Sandler, Binder is bringing a taste of his sloppy, down-home Detroit to Sunset Strip.
Nestled between the Whisky a Go-Go and the Viper Room is Binder's new take on Michigan's signature Lafayette Coney Dog.
The napkin-necessitating Dog — topped with chili, onions and mustard — is a taste Binder has wanted to bring to L.A. since moving out here 25 years ago.
Also see slideshow: Inside Mike Binder's Detroit Transplant
Then a doorman at the Comedy Store, Binder (right) would host fundraisers for Detroit's Midnight Mission homeless recovery with childhood best friend Sam Raimi and Allen — who grew up in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham.
On the menu: the chili dogs Binder grew up with.
"All these Detroiters would come, and they loved it," Binder told TheWrap. "I always thought, somebody should put one on Sunset Boulevard that's open all night, like the original one — where you could come in and get a beer and a hot dog after the Viper Room and the Roxy."
Finally, he decided it was time to take the plunge, setting the plan in motion last year. Not only did Allen and Raimi jump on board, but they brought along Adam Sandler, whom Binder had taken to a Coney Dog while they were in Detroit for the premiere of Sandler's "Reign Over Me," which Binder wrote and directed.
Detroit Red Wings player Kris Draper and New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards also joined the team to bring Detroit out West.
Fittingly, the actual opening — in September — will be a fundraiser for the Midnight Mission, hosted by Michigan heavyweights Kid Rock and Magic Johnson, with help from Mitch Albom.
While Binder's celeb friends sponsors are making their presence known at the restaurant, Binder is the one spearheading the project. In the tradition of Lafeyette Coney's original entrepreneurs, he enlists the help of his family — his niece and daughter both work as servers, with business input from his wife, Dianne.
The Coney Dog isn't a franchise, though — more of a style of restaurant. There are a ton of Coney restaurants in Michigan, with the following staples on their menu: a Coney dog, loose burgers (ground beef served with chili, mustard and onions on a hotdog bun) and beer.
"I kind of attacked it like making a movie — that attention to detail," Binder told TheWrap. "Getting the silverware just right like those old-time Detroit places, getting the plates, having the Faygo pop and the Vernors."
Indeed, nearly everything on the menu is exclusively Michigan, from the chili to the ice cream, Stroh's beer, and of course the pop — that's Midwest speak for "soda."
Faygo is a 100 percent cane sugar soda that's pretty much only available in Michigan — but Binder changed that.
"We had this huge order last week, the next day we called with another order, they thought we were kidding and it was a prank call. It's so good. We also went through almost 30 cases of Stroh's in two days."
To drum up interest, Binder set up a Facebook page. It got so popular he set up a soft open last Sunday for Facebook fans. "There was a line all day long," Binder told TheWrap early Friday evening. "At 11 tonight, you'll be lucky if you can find a seat."
Binder is also planning parties to aid the re-election of another Coney Dog supporter: Michigan State Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
And Coney Dog will be around for every Detroit Red Wings game as well as Dodger and Laker games. Binder hopes to use some of his proceeds to raise money for a film about a year in the life of Detroit filmmakers.
Binder guesses that at any given moment, more than half the patrons of Coney Dog are Detroit ex-pats. But to show his allegiance to Los Angeles, he added a vegan dog and turkey burger options to their menu, a decision prompted by his vegetarian wife.
"Dianne's played a huge part in this — she's really good at business," he told TheWrap.


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One night several weeks before the January opening of their East Dallas restaurant, 20 Feet Seafood Joint, Marc Cassel and his wife, Suzan Fries, tested their new fryer for the first time. Fries wore a blue apron and a short haircut suited to kitchen work. She squeezed a pastry bag, producing a series of chocolate "20"s on parchment paper, while Cassel, in matching apron, his long white goatee giving him the appearance of a birthday party magician, gingerly laid a piece of battered cod into hot oil. First he tried a yeast batter, then tempura. Brined fish, then unbrined. Much experimentation lay ahead as the couple worked toward a menu.
"It's like cooking in someone else's kitchen," Fries said. "It's ours, but it's not really ours yet."
Cassel is something of a folk hero for having run the kitchen at the Green Room for more than eight years. Say "feed me, wine me" to anyone who spent any amount of time in Deep Ellum during its mid-'90s zenith, and that person will likely let loose a wistful moan filled with boozy memories of the place.
So it was big news, at least in foodie circles, when it came to light that Cassel would open a restaurant on Peavy Road, completing a trinity of gustatory hipness in a building that not long ago housed a biker bar and a hair salon whose business model included selling drugs to customers who placed their orders from an adjacent carwash. First came Good 2 Go Taco, then Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger House, and, finally, 20 Feet. If one were so inclined (I am, and not just because I live in the neighborhood), one could see this bustling little settlement as the impetus for openings all along the territory that lies on the sleepier side of White Rock Lake. Starting from the south, working our way up Garland Road and around the lake, let's include Cane Rosso, Hypnotic Donuts, Torchy's Tacos, Alligator Cafe, White Rock Abbey, and Lake House Bar & Grill. It can all be traced back nearly 20 years ago to those halcyon days at the Green Room.
Goodfriend is owned by a burly, tattooed man named Matt Tobin. It just so happens that he used to work the door at Trees, the music venue a few doors down from the Green Room that gave the restaurant its name (the idea being that musicians might eat there before a show). This would have been 1996 or so. Brandt Wood, one of the owners of Trees and the Green Room, had just lured Cassel away from Stephan Pyles' Star Canyon.
"It was really intimidating," Cassel says. "Everybody at Trees was just huge and menacing-looking in general. And then Brandt brings me over to make introductions. He's dorky—in the best possible sense—and he's introducing me to these bartenders and bouncers."
Tobin noticed that Cassel was "hanging out with the suits," but that impression didn't last long. "The other security guys," he says, "the people on the lower end of the totem pole, we saw Marc as one of us, and so we liked him a whole bunch."
In 2005, when Tobin opened his first place, Vickery Park, on Henderson Avenue, Cassel helped him with the menu and hooked him up with a young cook he'd trained at the Green Room. Eight years later, Eric Najera still runs the kitchen at Vickery.
That brings us to Good 2 Go Taco, which is owned by Jeana Johnson and her partner, Colleen O'Hare. It just so happens that O'Hare cooked for Cassel at the Green Room. At the time, Johnson was working next door at Daddy Jack's. Every Tuesday for a year she would walk over to the Green Room and ask Cassel's sous chef, James Pitzer, for a job. She got the job only after O'Hare—having left to work at York St., then returned to replace Cassel—hired her.
It gets complicated. Cassel loved the Green Room. Heck, he shared that kitchen with Fries and proposed to her there one New Year's Eve while standing on the lid of the grease trap. But by 2004, Deep Ellum was on the wane, and paychecks began to bounce. So Cassel handed over his kitchen to O'Hare and quit. The Green Room went under in 2006, reopened four years later, then folded again.
During its brief second life, though, the Green Room served as an important setting. Pitzer, the sous who wouldn't hire Johnson, had moved to Washington state, where his house burned to the ground. All the old staff gathered once again at the Green Room to put on a benefit. The Reverend Horton Heat played on the rooftop deck. Many drinks were drunk. Afterward, Fries and Johnson went to their good buddy Matt Tobin's place, Vickery Park, to drink some more drinks. At that point, in late 2010, Johnson and O'Hare hadn't yet opened Good 2 Go, but they'd signed their lease and more or less talked Tobin into signing for the spot next door. Cassel and Fries were unemployed and looking for something to do.
"What's your dream?" Johnson asked Fries.
Fries, no doubt enlivened by the strong waters she'd tread that happy night, said, "I want to open a pie shop."
Johnson responded with a question: "Why don't you do it in the third space on Peavy?"
How that pie shop became a seafood restaurant is a story for another time, but Cassel and Fries met each other in culinary school at El Centro College, so you could say the transition took only about 25 years.
For more information on 20 Feet Seafood Joint, visit our online restaurant guide.


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Congress' Approval Rating Plummets, Especially Among Independents
Only 13 percent of the American public approves of how Congress is doing its job, according to a new Gallup poll. The low-water mark ties the all-time low set this past December, when Americans grew tired of the lame-duck Congress.
Gallup has tracked the public's feelings about Congress since 1974. Breaking down the current negative sentiment by political leaning, independents now have their lowest opinion of Congress on record — a new low of 9 percent approval, easily exceeding the previous low of 13 percent.
And according to Gallup, overall, 1 percent more Americans disapprove of Congress now than did in December — 84 percent.
The low numbers reflect the first Gallup report on Congress' job approval rating since the legislature and the White House reached a contentious agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling. Shortly after that deal was reached, America's stock markets endured extremely volatile trading, and the Standard & Poor's ratings agency downgraded the United States' credit rating.
The most recent approval numbers for Congress came out in early July, when Gallup announced that 18 percent of Americans said Congress was doing a good job.
In the new Gallup poll, 15 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of Republicans said that they approve of the job Congress is doing. Since 1974, the average approval rating for Congress is 34 percent, according to Gallup's data.
As for President Obama, the polling service finds that his approval rating has also declined, with its three-day rolling average of American adults' positive responses recently hitting a low of 39 percent.
The new poll reflects the findings of telephone interviews conducted between Aug. 11-14, "with a random sample of 1,008 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia," according to Gallup.


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MAKE Contributing Editor (and author of Make: Electronics) Charles Platt just filed this little report from the commercial space conference he's covering for us. — Gareth
The Lynx suborbital spaceplane from XCOR
I'm attending the Space Access '10 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of writing about some particularly exciting ventures for a future DIY Space issue of MAKE. It's a pivotal time in this field. In the words of Jeff Greason, of XCOR, "I'm thrilled and terrified by the magnitude of the opportunity facing the US private space business." XCOR is already selling rides on its Lynx suborbital spaceplane for $95,000 (a $20,000 down payment required), which is considerably cheaper than Virgin Galactic. I think there's no doubt that the next step for Lynx will be, eventually, to offer orbital flights.
This year, the Obama administration canceled Ares, NASA's last significant manned project (which had been initiated by George W. Bush). NASA has been directed to work with private companies, forcing it to take tiny startups more seriously. From the point of view of MAKE readers, rocketry is an exciting field, since almost all the independent companies have been created by people who were active originally in the amateur community.
Tim Pickens working on a 4000 pound thrust engine. (Image from his website)
In a few minutes, I'll be listening to a presentation by Paul Breed, of Unreasonable Rocket. Breed's favorite aphorism seems to be: "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves." No X Prize for guessing which camp he's in. Following him this afternoon will be Tim Pickens, who entertains himself by building gadgets such as a rocket-powered pickup truck and a rocket-powered bicycle (for his daughter), but managed to sell his startup company, Orion, to a military contractor named Dynetics (which plans to use his designs to put small payloads
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The kitchen smells better when there are fresh baked goods coming out of the oven and then cooling wherever we have space. Cookies, pies, breads, they all spark the olfactory nerve, which in turn triggers the saliva glands, and often times memories are triggered. Not even real memories, just ideal memories that I wish I had actually experienced. The scent, actually the idea of a particular scent, is the inspiration for our most recent soup. The smell of gingerbread baking, dark and spicy, warm, soft, the idea of a warm hug for your palate epitomizes what I was looking for. Of course in order to capture this memory I needed a bit of help. I asked Aki if she could make me a gingerbread. I did not tell her my final plans as I needed an impartial approach to gingerbread. I wanted her to share her vision and idea of gingerbread.
With that as the platform I could then build the rest of the soup.
Gingerbread Bisque
540g Gingerbread
140g country ham trimmings
200g onion
100g banana
65g ginger
50g butter
310g coffee
40g molasses
1900g water
1 t cayenne
1t smoked paprika
1t caraway seeds
1t powdered ginger
1t cinnamon
5 juniper berries
6g salt
Saute the county ham in the butter until it is evenly browned. Add the onion, banana, ginger and the spices. Sweat these ingredients until they are soft. De-glaze the pan with the coffee, then add the molasses and the gingerbread. Finally add the water and salt and bring the mixture to a simmer and cook for thirty minutes. Puree the entire base in a blender until smooth and then strain through a fine mesh sieve. Chill the mixture down.
This is the bisque base. We have not yet moved beyond that. We have talked about incorporating langoustines or bay scallops, or even seared foie gras, although its final use or uses have not yet been decided. The bisque would be equally delicious folded into lentils to make them creamy and decadent or served with crispy skate or sweetbreads, or as a medium to poach lobster or squab.
For now I am happy simply eating spoonfuls of the bisque and smelling the aroma of fresh baked gingerbread as it simmers on the stove.


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George Jones Dead at 81
Country music has lost one of its all-time-greatest icons, as legendary singer George Jones died Friday (April 26) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was hospitalized on April 18 with a fever and irregular blood pressure.
Born September 12, 1931, Jones is undeniably one of the most important and influential singers in the history of American popular music. His five decades of enduring classics included 'She Thinks I Still Care,' 'The Grand Tour,' 'Walk Through This World With Me,' 'Tender Years' and 'He Stopped Loving Her Today,' which is is widely regarded as one of the greatest country songs of all time.
Jones had recently embarked on what was to be his farewell tour, appropriately dubbed the Grand Tour. The celebration of his storied career was planned to wrap up with an all-star farewell concert on Nov. 22 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, for which Jones had already announced a jaw-dropping array of guest stars as a testament to his enduring musical legacy.
Jones is survived by his loving wife of 30 years, Nancy Jones, his sister Helen Scroggins, and by his children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.


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This is a classic spring flower craft. Use a hand print cut outs and a pipe cleaners to make beautiful lilies. Equally great for Easter or Mother's Day.
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- green construction paper
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- scissors
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- Fold a piece of green construction paper in half and trace a long lea shape. Cut out from the fold so you get a double leaf joined in the middle.
- Trace your hand on white paper and cut out.
- Take a short length of orange pipe cleaner and twist it to the end of a long green pipe cleaner so the ens stick up like a "V" with droopy ears. This is the flower's center.
- Wrap the hand print around the top of the green pipe cleaner and tape in place.
- Poke a hole in the middle of the double laves and thread onto the pipe cleaner stem.
- Wrap tape around the stem below the leaves to they stay in place.


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Well I'm pretty excited everyone, I've released seven fabric patterns as part of a winter collection now available in my shop. For me, designing fabrics is the ultimate DIY project, from the inspiration that strikes to the execution and digital design that occurs in Photoshop or Illustrator, followed up by colorization, printing, and styling.
It's the middle of winter and where I live in Northern California, the colors are pale and earthy as we await the blooms that will arrive in April. Nature's neutral palette inspired a winter collection of seven patterns in gray and driftwood colorways, also included are paler hues from blush pink to mint green and icy blue.
There's a giant oak tree that lives up the road from my house that has lived there for decades and its sculptural branches speak to me even in the gloomiest months.
I had to include the grand tree in the Lookbook I put together as I styled the various fabrics around the house and in my small studio – you'll find patterns I've featured in the past . . .
. . . and a few new patterns I'm just introducing.
See all seven patterns by browsing this Lookbook.
I'm working on many more new patterns in vivid hues arriving in the Spring, meanwhile enjoy this latest collection!


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The Iron Lady had a softer side, her secret weapon. Approaching her 10th year as prime minister, a fearsome force hell-bent on putting the spine back in Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher exuded a strong, sexual charisma. And she was not shy about using it. Ordering Aquascutum to revamp her entire wardrobe, she had her skirts pulled up, her décolleté lowered, and began showing more of her good legs. During Question Time, I noticed she would often rub the back of one black-stockinged calf with the other foot, presumably for the delectation of the frontbenchers sitting behind her.
While interviewing the PM along with 54 male members of her coterie for a profile in Vanity Fair, I heard stories of how she used this surprising weapon. She encouraged her star boys to compete in making a fuss over her. And she fussed over them. Once, when all her party officials were lined up for a photo op, she stopped the proceedings. Her eyes fell on a handsome young buck of an Irishman, a member of her economic think tank, who would later become a television producer. His double-breasted jacket was not buttoned up. He felt her hand on his tie, slowly sliding to the top. Then her hand inside his jacket, feeling for the inside button. Then she purred, "John, if you wear a double-breasted jacket, you must always keep it buttoned."
"The sensation was one of hardening of the organs," he chuckled in the retelling. "She is sexy and very interested in sex. You feel it when you work for her." He speculated that, given her strict background, "she's never had enough sex, and now that Denis is a little old and a little louche, she's more demanding of other men. She seems to be always searching for a man who can stand up to her."
What prompted this change?
When she was elected the first female prime minister, she was a shrill, shiny-faced, menopausal woman of 53. A middle-class woman to boot, she ran the gauntlet of upper-class men marinated in sexism and class prejudice. She acknowledged to me, "For the first six years, one had to go really as an act of faith that what we were doing was right." By her early 60s, she was secure in her rule and convinced that she was always right. There was a new bloom on her fine, unlined skin. Her energy was more ferocious than ever. She appeared to be reveling in a second girlhood—or maybe her first.
The tall, virile, silver-haired civil servants with whom she surrounded herself resembled American male movie stars of the '30s. Some were slightly caddish. Into the wee hours at Downing Street she sat up with them working, drinking whisky, and laughing at raunchy jokes. One of her courtiers bet that Clark Gable as Rhett Butler would be her ideal, "a privateer, a romantic, and a fabulous cad." To travel with her, she tapped Charles Powell, also tall and virile but only 47, "a smoothy" she called him. He was described as a "surrogate son" by The Observer, "charming, bright…Oxford, not the kind of chap who'd fail his accountancy exams and get lost in the Sahara," like her real son, Mark, a hopeless bumbler for whom she always made excuses.
One of her top ambassadors told me how amused he was by Thatcher's hands-on attentiveness. She arranged to meet his plane on his return from foreign trips in her Daimler limousine. With the flick of a button she would drop them back into full recline, where they could share a tete a tete, limb to limb, over gossip and state secrets.
Behind her late middle-age rejuvenation was the spell of a Hindu practitioner of ancient Ayurvedic arts. Madame Veronique, as the Indian woman called herself, could only be found by recommendation from her high-status clients. She was even bossier than the PM and not afraid to stand up to her. She received Thatcher roughly every six weeks in her flat in a shabby suburb of London. Directing her to disrobe, she would poach her in herbs in a hot tub and then literally electrify her. You read it right. Madame's secret was an electrical bath. Standing at the foot of the tub, Madame would turn the amps up to .3 on the baffle plates that lined the bath, to "recharge the nervous system and release blocked energy." After an hour's electrification, she would rub down the tingling body with natural flower oils. A session was $1,000 a pop.
Why would the famously thrifty grocer's daughter submit to this tender torture and shocking price tag?
I had to take a treatment to find out. When I shrank, trembling, at the top of Madame's tub steps (there's only so far one must go to validate a story!) her shrill voiced shamed me: "I have the most high-powered women in the world in my tub—prime ministers and ambassadors, plus kings, princes and little bitty emirs—you have nothing to fear." She bragged on clients from the Churchill family, Pamela Harriman, and Mikhail Gorbachev, who she said was sent by Thatcher.
"Mrs. Thatcher is a very, very feminine woman," she told me. "We are strong, but not hard. We know what we think and where we want to go—that's why some men run from us. But away from the public eye, at home, the man is boss." The film, The Iron Woman, drives this point home: Margaret Thatcher was dependent on her doting, slightly dotty husband Denis, and devastated by his loss.
THE ION<cq> LADY! blared the Daily Mail front page the day after my article came out. Rivals as well as the Opposition taunted the PM with the baths during Question Time. She stood fast.
Watch carefully the scenes toward the end of the film. Meryl Streep's uncanny channeling of Thatcher does not miss giving a hint of her late-blooming powers of sexual manipulation. Streep/Thatcher is being fitted in a gown of almost daring décolleté. Surrounded by her all-male ministers in her private quarters, she deliberately allows her maid to reveal her bra and sew a button over her tit. All the while, she dismisses the men's arguments that she should not fly off for a celebration of the end of the Cold War. They warn her to stay home and defend herself at the Conservative Party election. The intoxication of power has overwhelmed her. She chooses to stride at the head of a phalanx of 36 male world leaders, the only woman, the most powerful woman in the world, and ignore the treachery back home. For that blind vanity, she would be destroyed by the very colleagues who once adored her.
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Summary: In understanding the common foul breath causes allows us to understand individuals with this problem.
Have you ever experienced getting someone near to you- a buddy maybe, which ends up having stinky breath? Or, that you've a difficult time telling someone who she/he's a poor breath? I realize since i had exactly the same experience and regardless of how much we would have liked to inform that somebody who has the terrible flaw, we still can't get it done, even though you can, the idea of spitting the language out is difficult. But, before we begin feeling harmful to anybody with foul breath, it might be better to be aware of possible foul breath causes.
Foul breath, or halitosis, is generally brought on by the existence of bacteria within the mouth. Bacteria also consume food and excrete wastes, must do. The wastes created through the bacteria are sulfur compounds, that are odorous and therefore are usually among the foul breath causes. But, we still need to consider there are additional factors which modify the give an impression of one's breath, for example food, smoking, getting a xerostomia, gums and teeth, sinus conditions, untreated health conditions, etc.
Meals are also among the adding factors of foul breath. There are several foods recognized to cause one's mouth to stink, for example garlic clove and onions- the most typical examples. Each time we eat, our digestive tract breaks the meals that people ate into molecules. When we have eaten odorous foods, the inclination is the fact that these molecules are made available to our circulatory system, bringing on their distribution throughout the body as nourishment. Throughout the circulation process, once the bloodstream travels through our lung area, a few of the molecules is going to be released into them and for that reason, whenever we exhale we discrete a few of the odorous molecules- simply known as foul breath. However this condition is temporary and will also be gone in only a matter of day. So, to reduce this issue, try staying away from an excessive amount of use of these types of foods.
Smoking maybe certainly one of foul breath causes that tar, nicotine along with other bad smelling substance from cigarettes accumulate around the smoker's teeth and dental tissue. However this is often remedied through proper dental hygiene. However, smoking can result in drying of dental tissues and individuals who smoke have and the higher chances of getting gums and teeth than individuals who don't, that are adding factors to foul breath.
Are you currently certainly one of individuals who don't appear to possess foul breath issues, yet have offending breath each morning whenever you awaken? It's because the reducing of salivary flow whenever we sleep, bringing on the drying of the mouth. The existence of moisture present in our mouth, like our saliva, causes us to be swallow, therefore, helping our mouth cleanse it. Each time we swallow, we wash away the bacteria using the food that they feed and also the wastes they've created.
Gums and teeth or periodontal disease may be the second most typical of foul breath causes. This ailment is a concern mostly for individuals greater than 35 many over the older you receive the much more likely your foul breath is because periodontal disease. This can be a microbial infection found in the tissues surrounding the teeth. This gums and teeth broken the bones that contain the teeth in position and creating deep spaces between gums and teeth (known as periodontal pockets) which could become a perfect ground for bacteria to reside.
For the know Sinus condition can lead for your foul breath. Respiratory system infections and allergic reactions can promote the flow of postnasal drip to the back a part of your tongue. The release normally has a poor smell and taste, and worse, they are what bacteria will feed from which produce stinky wastes- consequently foul breath!
Untreated medical problem might not be the main reason from the foul breath causes, yet could be a potential adding factor. If foul breath persists even once you have consulted your dental professional and attempted simple solutions, it's time you have to see a physician.
For those who have stinky breath, it's impossible that you simply can't be familiar with it for lengthy. In the foul breath causes discussed above, they ought to provide you with clearer ideas from the possible underlying explanations why you will find individuals with foul breath.
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Demi Lovato is an American recording artist, actress, and philanthropist. She made her debut as a child actress in Barney & Friends. In 2008, she came to prominence as a starring cast member in the television film Camp Rock. She signed to Hollywood Records the same year, and released her debut studio album, Don't Forget, in September 2008. The album sold 89,000 copies within its first week, debuting at number 2 on the Billboard 200 It has since been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 530,000. In 2009, Lovato was commissioned her own television series, Sonny with a Chance. That July, her second album, Here We Go Again, became her first to debut atop the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 108,000 copies in its first week and spawning the single of the same name which became her first to break the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 15.
After the release of additional television films and their accompanying soundtracks in 2010, Lovato's personal struggles sent her acting career into hiatus, and saw the closure of her television show Sonny with a Chance after its second season. She released her third album, Unbroken, in September 2011. The album addresses several of her difficulties, notably her lead single "Skyscraper" which became her first single to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The second single, "Give Your Heart a Break", was later certified double-platinum in the United States. The album had been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Lovato served as a judge and mentor on the American version of The X Factor from 2012 to 2013. She released fourth album, Demi, in May 2013 to critical success, selling 110,000 copies within its first week, becoming her highest opening week to date. The album was preceded by its lead single, "Heart Attack", that February and was certified double-platinum by the RIAA. In September 2013, Lovato announced plans to go on a North American leg of her third headlining concert tour, The Neon Lights Tour in promotion of her fourth studio album Demi. Lovato has said that her fifth studio album will be recorded in 2014 and she is hoping to have it released the same year
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Imagine the space shuttle taking off with a really fat customized exhaust pipe or the Visigoths sacking Ancient Rome with kicking bass tubes fitted to their 4-by-4s. Or 20,000 supercharged male orgasms. Simultaneously. And you have some idea what it sounds and feels like in Montreals famous Bell Centre tonight for Ultimate Fighting Championship 83, as a spunky young carrot redhead in shorts pins an auburn lad on his back with his heels somewhere around his ears. I think the technical term for this is a full mount. Or maybe its ground and pound."
As the chiseled and blond bad guy with the low-slung shorts (Cam Gigandet) in the recent mixed martial arts (MMA) exploitation flick Never Back Down says leeringly to the doe-eyed brunet boxer good guy (Sean Faris) new to MMA, the good news is that in this sport you can choke, kick, punch, pin, and throttle; the bad news is that its gotta end with you looking like a bitch in front of everybody. Perhaps it was bad news for him -- and for the auburn lad in the ring tonight -- but certainly not for the 22,000-strong overwhelmingly young-male audience for the biggest-ever UFC event.
Over 2,500 miles away in Las Vegas, slapper Brit boxer Joe Calzaghe is tonight defeating light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins on points. In the long-established world of boxing, there is rumored to be an ancient and secret tradition called the perk, or perquisite -- by which the losing man may be required later to literally give up what he has lost symbolically. In other words, the fucked getsreally fucked.
I dont know how much truth there is to the perk, though the breathless trash talk of modern-day boxers in the run-up to a fight -- Im gonna make you my bitch/girlfriend/punk -- certainly doesnt discredit it. But Im fairly certain that the perk doesnt exist in the full-contact brave new world of mixed martial arts, an omnivorous blend of boxing, freestyle wrestling, judo, tae kwon do, kickboxing, karate, jujitsu, and Thai boxing that is rapidly replacing boring old traditional boxing, especially among young men, as the fighting sport. It isnt needed. Because in MMA you get fucked in the ring in front of everybody. On pay-per-view TV. The perk is the whole, er, perking point, man. And UFC, by far the most successful purveyor of MMA fights for the cable TV voyeur, looks remarkably like gay porn for straight men: ultimate fuck-fighting.
In the octagonal UFC cage set up over the Bell Centre ice hockey rink -- octagonal perhaps because it better affords multiple angles than a square boxing ring -- Mac Danzig is still on his back; his sweaty, pumped white torso is flushed with the auburn heat that auburn skin produces when it is aroused. His panting, fetching head has been pushed up against the cage by redhead Marc Boceks energetic pounding, as if the cage were in fact a headboard. Bocek isnt making love, however, or at least not the vanilla kind. Hes hammering the living daylights out of Danzig with his gloves, stoking the crowd into ever-higher waves of frenzy. Although the Octagon is right in front of me, Im watching all of this on one of the giant screens overhead: MMA is mostly a horizontal sport -- one that requires multiple zoom lenses and a big TV to enjoy properly.
Bocek pauses for a moment to grab his partner/adversary by his hips, almost tenderly, and drag him backward while still kneeling between his legs, not wanting to break contact and negotiate that tricky reentry. It isnt, though, out of consideration for his chums cricked neck. Hes worried that Danzig will use the cage to get up off the canvas -- and then get him in the bitch position. MMA is all about fighting for being on top. (Or maybe for being a truculent bottom.)
Unfortunately for Bocek, Danzig succeeds in breaking away anyway, jumps to his feet, and deftly, impersonally, brings up his knee and smashes it against Boceks left eyebrow, which provokes another roar of excitement from the crowd and opens up a very nasty laceration that spills hot blood everywhere, streaming into his eye, across his face, down his chin, and splatters across his lily-white chest -- and all over his opponent. MMA is definitely not safe sex. The ref pauses the fight to examine Boceks eye. If the blood is preventing him from seeing, the fight will be declared in Danzigs favor.
Turning to my beautifully produced glossy fight program, which includes full-page color pics of the topless young fighters (including short rundowns of their vital statistics) arranged opposite one another and their vital statistics, I learn that Danzig is 5 foot 8 and 155 pounds, 28, and a Cleveland native. His feisty opponent, Bocek, from Woodbridge, Canada, is 26, and is also 5 foot 8 and 155 pounds. As someone who has a thing for redheads and short-asses, Id say they are well matched.
The ref continues the match -- and why not? Blood looks good on TV. There are only a few seconds left of the third and final round (UFC fights only go to a maximum three rounds at five minutes each -- about the average length of a porn scene). Bocek, despite the turned tables and his pasting and what must be death-tiredness, is still putting up an astonishing fight. Danzig scores a takedown almost straightaway and moves, as they say in MMA, directly to the mount. Bocek gives up his back to try to save his ruined face from further punishment but is then caught in a rear-naked choke by Danzigs powerful, fatally inviting arms. He taps out (submits) at 3 minutes, 48 seconds.
I dont know about Bocek, but these were some of the longest 3 minutes, 48 seconds of my life. Im aroused and inspired and exhausted and confused. For my money, Bocek won that fight -- morally speaking. Which of course means that he lost very badly. His face is roadkill. He is really fucked. But he displayed that quality you hear people talk about reverently in MMA: heart.
Despite the gore, MMA is generally safer than boxing -- there are fewer fatalities and brain-damage injuries. Because the fight is full-contact, the head doesnt take all the violence. When it does, though, its pretty gruesome. Yet amid all the mayhem, there is a touching tenderness to MMA. Not because it looks to my twisted, queer eye like very rough sex -- but because of that heart business. After a bout is over, most fighters hug each other in a pseudo-postcoital embrace that reenacts the warlike hug earlier, only this time its a hug of warm brotherhood.
There is another huge, manly Gallic roar. The arenas giant screen is now tuned to the locker room; a rangy young blond fighter with a skinhead has peeled his shirt off, revealing a well-oiled fighting machine. The light behind him and his piercing blue eyes gazing into the camera, not to mention the low position of the locker-room cam, give him the cast of a demigod. Its Georges Rush St.-Pierre, the handsome, stylish 26-year-old local Montreal boy who tonight is hoping to seize back his UFC Welterweight belt from Matt the Terror Serra, 33, the no-nonsense Long Island master of Brazilian jujitsu who dispossessed him of it last year with what some people said was a lucky punch.
Weve only been watching the hors doeuvre. All this blood has just been so much foreplay.
STOP LOOKING LADIES! some guy in the audience shouts. Its the weigh-in, a day earlier. Ed Short Fuse Herman, another 20-something boy-next-door redheaded fighter, from Vancouver, Wash., is naked on the stage under the spotlight, a towel held up by two lieutenants to shield his short fuse. Funnily enough, its mostly men rather than ladies doing the looking here in this packed auditorium. Though some are perhaps doing more looking than others: From where Im seated at the side, I manage to catch a glimpse of Eds white butt as he bends over to slip off his briefs (a day later he will fight in shorts cheekily advertising CONDOM DEPOT -- on his butt).
Several guys have had to take their underpants off -- to cheers. I cant help but wonder whether the UFC officials, for showbizs sake, pretend some of these guys are closer to the weight limit than they are.
UFC knows all about showbiz. According to Forbes magazine, its pay-per-view shows have drawn well over 2 million viewers, most of them male and ages 18 to 49. Formidably shrewd, motor-mouthed former boxing promoter Dana White hosts The Ultimate Fighter, UFCs hit PPV series on Spike (a men-only Big Brother with grappling gloves), which has taken MMA, essentially a semi-organized barroom brawl in the 90s, cleaned it up, introduced some rules -- including no stomping, no spitting, no throat strikes, no punches to the back of the head, and no groin attacks of any kind -- and made it into a hot, multiangle, high-impact PPV commodity.
Described memorably by John McCain in 1998 as human cockfighting, and under threat of a total ban, MMA has become a different, more saleable, less relentlessly violent kind of cockfighting in the nurturing hands of the UFC -- so much so that McCain himself recently relented: The sport has grown up. As a measure of just how grown up, UFC -- for which casino owners the Fertitta brothers paid $2 million in 2001 -- is today valued at roughly $1 billion. Cultural respectability has arrived too in the form of a recently published $2,500 MMA art book titled Octagon with a foreword by man-loving straight playwright David Mamet, who wrote and directed the MMA-themed movie
Redbelt. MMA is also coming to major-network TV: CBS recently announced plans to air four MMA fights (non-UFC) annually -- despite the disapproval of CBS chairman Sumner Redstone. Im a lover, not a fighter, he said.
There is a lot of passionate hero worship in the world of MMA, not so much homoerotic as hero-erotic -- or herotic. Straight male fans and fighters themselves will enthuse with shining eyes about my idol, but perhaps thats not so surprising, since MMA owes a lot to those notorious warrior homos, the ancient Greeks. Although todays MMA came to us via Brazilian jujitsu (alas, not conducted in Speedos, as the name may suggest), many consider it the modern version of pancratium (also spelled pankration), a combination of boxing and wrestling that was the basis of combat training for Greek soldiers and an original Olympic sport. With lethal purity, pancratium had two primary rules: no eye-gouging or biting. Fingers were often snapped off. Sometimes death or unconsciousness was the only form of submission -- in other words, rather like this years Democratic primaries.
MMAs younger fans are not likely to acknowledge their sports homoerotic heritage. For most of these young men, many of them blue-collar and swooningly in love with masculinity, gay means unmanly and passive -- and therefore major turnoff. MMA is gay porn for straight men because its violence not only justifies the intimate, protracted, eye-popping physicality of the sport but also preserves its virility -- the very thing that gets many of its fans hot. These fighters cant be fags -- look how fucking tough they are, dude! Its a bit like how in gay porn real tops never bottom -- for the sake of the bottoms watching.
Sometimes the MMA fighter really is homo -- like professional MMA fighter Shad Smith, who was recently profiled in The New York Times. From a tough blue-collar background, Smith was desperate to hide his sexuality at first. I was petrified because I didnt want anyone to find out, he told the Times. And I would try to be the toughest person around. That way no one would suspect. No one would ever say it. No one would think it. Doubtless there are quite a few Shad Smiths who became very good, very determined, very motivated scrappers because they werent escaping to college or opening a hairdressing salon.
The tough-guy image is something of an illusion -- if an entrancing and convincing one. Surprisingly often, fighters turn out to be sensitive, introspective loners -- fags who arent actually fags -- such as Mac Danzig, the beefy auburn-haired killer who is in fact a vegan and whose main pastime, when he isnt turning another lads face into tenderloin, is nature photography. Thats the story of Georges St.-Pierre, who when stripped of his title pendants and clad in designer clothes looks rather metro. As one observer put it: Hes the kind of flash Europunk you might think you could wipe the floor with if you came across him in a bar, but youd be very, very wrong.
You might expect a fight between Serra and St.-Pierre to be billed as good ol USA versus Frenchy fag, but youd be wrong. Because GSP -- to give St.-Pierre his brand name -- is generally considered to be an exceptional fighter, genuinely excellent in several disciplines, or maybe because its such a visual medium, he has begun to look like the David Beckham of UFC, albeit one who actually reads books and is interested in philosophy. His photogenic face and body and his workouts have been splashed across countless health and fitness magazines.
His opponent, Matt Serra, may be breezily unpretentious and resemble an unpainted fire hydrant, but he is definitely no idiot: I think they look at Georges as the Crest poster boy with the sparkle in his teeth, the looks, the physique, the body and the athleticismthe real version of what Van Damme was doing, hes said. And then comes me -- the Joe Pescistyle Heyooo! But its cool, man. Im down with it. I fit in those shoes real well. Im just looking forward to having another good fight.
When he turns up for his weigh-in, a relentless tidal wave of boos greets him. An Italian-American pocket battleship at 5 foot 6, Serra weighs in at 169.5 pounds; he appears indifferent to the roiling sea of audience hatred. The booing doesnt stop when the host offers him the microphone, and whatever he says is completely drowned out. He offers the crowd two fingers, meaning two times and V for victory -- and perhaps fuck you.
Ecstatic cheers greet his challenger St.-Pierre, whos taller by four inches but in stature by several feet. St.-Pierre fluidly strips down to his tasteful black underwear and also weighs in at 169.5 pounds. Offered the mike, he graciously tells the crowd they shouldnt hate Serra and that I dont fight with anger -- I fight with my heart. The two men pose for the cameras in a fighting stance and then they hug, GSP kissing Serras huge neck.
There was no trash talk in the quieter surroundings of the press conference the day before. The fighters had been polite, respectful, even friendly. Cmon, Ive got nothing against the French, protested Serra when the journalists dug up some Frenchy quotes from the past. St.-Pierre, for his part, was touchingly open. Im nervous and scared to fail but thats normal, he admitted. I have butterflies. but I have to make the butterflies fly in formation.
The Bell Centre outdoes itself as Georges St.-Pierre, surrounded by his lieutenants, makes his way to the stage in a natty red jujitsu jacket. Climbing into the Octagon, he peels off his silky, tight black T-shirt. He pulls off his trousers -- he sports tight black trunks with just a white fleur-de-lis on the side of his firm right buttock. It matches the tasteful tattoo on the back of his steely calf.
Cheers turn to boos. Matt Serra has arrived in a baggy black T-shirt with big white lettering: BUY GUNS SELL GUNS -- GUNSAMERICA.COM. The stats on the big screen make difficult reading for Serra: GSP is taller and younger and has a longer reach. Also, he is more popular and better-looking and has nicer pants. Hes the favorite in every way.
The bell rings, and they touch gloves. In a flash St.-Pierre has Serra on the canvas. All that frustration, regret, resolve, training -- and heart -- have exploded. All over Serra. To tire him out, St.-Pierre lets him get up, keeping him within range of his own fists but out of Serras. Then he takes him down again. St.-Pierres purposeful, ominous shoulders rise up like medieval armor, like Joan of Arcs.
End of round 1. Serras eye is swelling up badly. He looks beaten already.
Round 2. Plucky Serra tries a kick.
St.-Pierre catches it and takes Serra down. After Serra stands up again, St.-Pierre lets fly a barrage of punches. Serra is too groggy to parry them. St.-Pierre -- part panther, part lethal dancer -- comes in for the kill, easily taking his opponent down again. Serra offers his back, and St.-Pierre knees him repeatedly, athletically, professionally in the ribs.
The ref stops the match, and its all over: technical knockout. Canada has won. Montreal has beaten Long Island. The butterflies flew in formation. Terrifying formation. And judging by the noise from the crowd, the entire world and its dad have just climaxed.
A grinning St.-Pierre executes a winning somersault. The crowd chants, Fuck you, Serra! Fuck you, Serra! He has been fucked. He was fucked. He is fucked. He is without any doubt the fuckee. But he exhibits no resentment. The warriors embrace warmly, another kiss from GSP to that huge neck. Serra holds St.-Pierres arm up for the crowd, hoists him on his shoulder, and carries him for a few staggering steps.
If MMA is gay porn for straight men, then tonight a part of me wonders whether, for all its spilled blood and mashed faces, it isnt the better kind. After all, no one could really accuse gay porn of having heart.
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The AAPM Summer School has been approved by The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs, Inc. (CAMPEP) for 33.50 MPCEC continuing education credit hours.
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