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crochet designs inspired by the colours, country side, wild life and way of life of Australia. My goal is to liven up crochet, make it fun and relevant to today and include environmental message. Patterns can be used for personal use, creating gifts and limited charity fundraising. You can not sell or copy my patterns, nor are you licensed to sell finished items made from my patterns. I want my projects to cheer your day - cockatoo, kangaroo , didgeridoo, hooroo! (c) crochetroo
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Christmas Turkey and Peppermint sweets.
And here are the peppermint swirls. I just love Christmas mints in red and green. Such an effective pattern. I am planning on giving one of these to each of my work colleagues this Christmas.
The pattern is in my head, but I am happy I have mastered it to get a perfect circle. I think they pretty effective.
I also came up with a basic star potholder. The flip side is green.
Now all I have to do is start multiplying this little group to be ready by Christmas. I have had a few distractions late. A new job, Spring cleaning and trying to finish off a few rugs before the Summer hits.
Thanks for looking!
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Crazy Christmas Crochet
My usual style is to race arround at the last minute. This year I plan to be organised.
So based on my Crazy Casserole Topper Collection, I present the Crazy Christmas Crochet Collection.
I started with Santa. I mean what is Christmas table without Santa ?
I gave him a nice fluffy beard, and stuck to the traditional red and white theme.
It did occur to me to try some different colours but I thought I would stay with tradition. I guess he might still look like Santa in blue or purple as I notice from time to time in the shops they change his colour scheme.
Now of course Santa needs an Elf or two, so I designed the Elf in green. He has the pixie ears, and I added bells to his top. The photo doesn't do him justice as he looks quite cute sitting on top of the casserole pot.
Next came an Angel. My son says she looks like a Crazy angel... and I said yep that was the goal! I mean why should an Angel look like Miss Prissy all the time! This one has partied hard and has a bit of Christmas jolly in her.
This is Santas Reindeer. Imagine this on your Venison Stew! We dont get much venison here. I did enjoy a nice piece a few years back when I was in New Zealand.
If you look at the group photo there is also a turkey. I will post him up later as blogger doesnt seem to want to let him join the others in this post.
I also have a few other Christmas pretties in the series.
I am in the process of writing up the patterns. This does take me a bit of time. The writing, the testing, the checking and finally the translation of terminology from Australian to American.
Thanks for looking.
Please respect my copyright. These images and ideas came from my grey matter and I post them for you to enjoy.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Retro Rugs (Afghans)
I have always liked the bright colours. This one would be about 23 years old now and is pretty much as good as new. I did notice one little moth nibble which I need to fix when I laid it out.
I recall snuggling my daughter up with this one when she was little.
This one I made round about 1985. I started it while we were on a trip in England. Again it is 5 ply. I made this for my son when he was little. He will turn 21 this December. He has always liked greens and browns, and still does. I entered this one in the Gold Coast Show in about 87 and won second prize. I remember the judge telling me my front posts were too tight. I guess she was right! I do like how they form a criss cross pattern on the rug.
This is another one in 5ply pure wool that I made for the boys when they were little. This one is about circa 1990. I remember buying the wool at a Myers Sale at Pacific Fair here on the Gold Coast. I ran out of the teal colour and had to make shift with the black. It has felted over the years, but I have always liked the masculine colours in this one.
Sorry I don't know why the pictures are portrait. I guess you will just have to lay on your side to view this one!
I am gradually photographing my works of the past. My daughter and Mum in Law have a few which I must capture on a jpeg when I am next at their homes. Despite the age of these, the patterns are as effective now as then. I was never one to use baby colours for my kids afghans when they were small. This has paid off as these rugs look just as good today at the end of the bed, as what they did when the children were small. While some folk might think that crochet is daggy, I just love the home made feeling it gives a room.
Thanks for looking!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Drews Monet Afghan
I liked it because of the texture in the blocks, and the fact I only had to make 12 of them. The other incentive was that I am a great hoarder of variegated yarns and this seemed like a good way to use some of the balls of yarn that had been breeding in my cupboards.
True confessions of a fibre junkie!
After having made eight of the squares I was having second thoughts about my wisdom to use a different colour for each block. The only person who seemed to like it at this stage was Billie our cat. The colours looked a bit yuck, but it was warm and comfy! Whenever I lay out my blocks on the floor she always comes and squats on them.
They started to look better once I added the cream border. I was still pondering whether to quit at 9 or go for the 12 as in the pattern.
Mates at the ville encouraged me to keep on going. The cream did seem to separate the colours rather nicely.
So I kept crocheting away until I had completed the 12. I tried to stick to blues and purpley reds although there is one block of black white greys, and another with some flecks of brown.
I did stuff up on the edging as I did too many loops by not reading the pattern correctly. I didn't pick this up till late last night when I was on the second round of the final border which was starting to frill. I guess this is where a number count on a pattern helps, as it looked fine until the very end.
I managed to adjust for my error to get the edge to sit flat.
So it is now complete and I think it has turned out ok. The most annoying thing of the pattern was the final round of DC down the long side of the blocks, and fixing up my mistake with the cream lattice.
I do like the lattice join as I have never used this before.
Any hows it is finished and my plan is to give it to Grandma (mil) at Christmas. She has always liked my crochet and now she is getting on a bit, this one is a nice size as a lapghan.
My hub likes it as he says the hotch potch of colours is more like the traditional afghans which were made from odds and ends of scraps.
Thanks to Drew for the free pattern.
Thanks for looking!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Vale Crocodile Hunter
Today is the day that Steve Irwin died.
He was known as the crocodile hunter.
This is indeed a sad day. I find it ironic that in "save the koala month", our crocodile man gets killed by a sting ray off our Great Barrier Reef.
All such great icons.
Whether you liked the man or not, this is a tragedy particularly for his family.
It is hard to know what to say.
All I can think of is "crikey".
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Crochet Rugs (Afghans)
Here is a gallery of some of my crochet rugs or afghans as some people call them.
I enjoy these as I can do them square by square as I travel or watch the kids play sport. They are my way of relaxing, my yoga without the funny positions.
This one is from the 200 Blocks book. I did it in Australian sunset and bush colours and I like how it turned out. I finished this one this year and have started a second one in plain black and white. I am finding the plain black and white hard yacka.
This one was a labour of love over several years and I dragged it out earlier this year determined to finish the thing. I wanted a light coloured cheery rug for our bed. The pattern is out of a book called Scrap Afghans. I really like this motif and had fun mixing the colours.
This one I made a few years back out of scraps of 5 ply bluebell wool. It is quite heavy and I added to it as I found balls of the wool on sale. This is a pure wool and quite expensive so I just worked on it over a period of time. Hence it is a bit of a hotch potch of colour. I cant remember where I got the motif from. Out of an very old crochet book I think? While the hexagon shape is effective, I hate the little suckers as you never get a straight edge unless you do a series of half ones.
And this one is my ridiculously bright rug. My kids reckon I was drunk or manic or both when I started this. I found the motif in an Australian handcraft magazine and it was done in bright colours for a baby pram. I liked the motif so much I went to town and made a whole blanket! I finished this one about 3 years ago. I started it for my daughter who refused to take it as she said she needed sunglasses to have it in her college room.
I currently have 3 more on the go. Drews Monet, another 200 block job and a 63 square project.
They are addictive and a bit like yoga. I am planning another one after I finish the current three. My thoughts were something in neutral tones ala beige, cream, camel and brown. It is now spring and yarns are getting cheap as the stores have their end of winter clearances. My plan is to try and pick up some suitable colours.
Rugs are a great time waster, and this is a sample of what I have done over the years. I have found them a good way to learn new stitches and experiment with colour. Thanks for looking.

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Seth Rogan stars opposite Adam Sandler in writer/director Judd Apatow's dark view of the world of comedy as a successful comic movie star grapplers with mortality and loneliness, while mentoring an up-and-coming stand up comedian, in Funny People.
In this interview, Rogan talks about the fears he had returning to stand up comedy for the film and the problems he is facing on his much discussed Green Hornet.
Question: Did you ever think you would be the victim of skinny jokes?
Rogen: Exactly. It's nice. I wanna be the victim of every type of comedy. It's lovely. I think we should all make fun of everyone's physical attributes in every way.
Question: How much freedom were you given to riff and go off book?
Rogen: There's always a lot of freedom. We've all gotten, I think, just a lot better at it. I think the process has somewhat refined itself throughout the years. I think we all know a little more of what actually makes it into the movie and what is just kind of a masturbatory exercise in vocal wordplay. We riff, but it's a lot of conversations between the takes. In the improv we'll come up with a bunch of stuff that we'll then kind of revisit, that's we'll revisit and'll be written down.
I will say, yeah, there was probably less just aimless improvising than we would normally do. That was done beforehand.
Question: So what extent is the relationship on screen like your own professional competitiveness or just something you've experienced.
Rogen: If you look at me and Jason and Jonah's characters, I don't think any of us are anything like those characters. The dynamic in real life between the three of us could not be any more different than the dynamic in the movie between the three of us, but that being said, I have, at times, had friends who were literally up for the same roles as me or vying for the exact same jobs and some subtle, underhanded play might come into the equation, be it one guy will get a script with a part that's good for another guy and maybe he'll tell him and maybe he won't and these are just kinda the things that happen throughout the years when you and all your friends have the same job, basically. So yeah, we put a lot of that into the movie and that was a lot of the stuff that came up in the conversations leading up to it.
Question: How can you be competitive without losing friendship?
Rogen: We really aren't competitive with one another. At all. We're not. I can't even watch sports, because I could really not give a shit who wins. That's how uncompetitive I am. I look at people who watch sports and I think, "Imagine caring who won." I can't even fathom what that would be like.
Question: Did you have to promise writing jokes and then writing jokes badly for the bad parts of the film?
Rogen: I'd say each of us probably had around an hour of stand-up comedy material, which is a gigantic amount. Honestly, some comedians go their entire careers and don't develop an entire hour of standup comedy material. And we all came up with it over the course of five or six months or something like that. And we would perform. We'd bring in audiences. We built some comedy clubs on stage. We filmed in some actual comedy clubs. We would bring in crowds. We would get them from comedy club mailing lists, they were people who would hypothetically be in a comedy club, and we would tell them to behave exactly as they would if they were at a comedy club. We would hire an MC, we would bring on other comics. We'd get opening acts. We would have Brian Posehn perform and Maria Bamford. We had tons of people who aren't in the movie, people who were way better than us, just to make the audience feel like they were in a club and we filmed every second of it and then we would go up. And some of the jokes did good and some of the jokes did bad and we almost sorted through all of it later and plugged it in where we needed. Like we knew the first time I went up at that Comedy Magic club, I had to do bad. And we knew when I went up at the Orpheum, I had to do pretty good. But other than that, there were very few geographically specific times that we had to do good or bad and we could kind of play with it.
Question: The "friending" thing is really good. Was that more seth or more your character?
Rogen: That's definitely more my character, but that joke was written by Brendan O'Brien, one of the co-producers of the movie. I'll give him full credit on that one.
Question: Did doing all of that remind you of why you were attracted to comedy in the first place?
Rogen: It reminded me of why I wanted to be a comedian and why I stopped doing standup comedy. Both of those things. I don't know, Jonah, now that we've stopped doing it for a few minutes, do you have any desire to do it again at all?
Question: How surprised were you by how personal a script this was for Judd and getting characters who were more than just a comic part?
Rogen: I thought it was great, you know? I was happy that Judd wanted me to play that type of guy, not the type of guy I would normally play. He was very clear that he really didn't want me to do anything the stuff that I normally do in movies. I'm not that dirty in it. I'm not that kind of aggressive. I'm pretty quiet through most of the movie. I really don't even say much in lots of the scenes that I'm in. And I had a really good time doing it. It was different for me and it was nice to be the kind of passive reactor in the scene.
Question: Was that the first time you met Sandler?
Rogen: Yeah. That was the first time I met him was during "Undeclared" and that was great. The fact that he even did that was awesome. Me and Nick Stoller wrote that episode and to us, that was, at the time, I was in my late teens and he was in his early 20s and it was the thrill of a lifetime to have Adam Sandler agree to appear in something you wrote, as a write who's trying to get started, that's like winning the lottery. So, I would actually think about that a lot, in acting in the scenes, I would think about how I felt the first time and one time when I was like 17 or 18, I went out to dinner with Judd and Jim Carrey and Garry Shandling and then we all went to go see "Gladiator" together, so I guess it was in the year 2000, and I think about that a lot. I don't think I said one word the the entire night. I just had this goofy look on my face. And that's really what I just tried to put myself in that position.
Question: Have you gotten into that mentor position yourself?
Rogen: You know, there's people… Yeah. We have friends who, yeah, we're producing our friend Will's movie, that he wrote. I would never consider myself a mentor, because I would never imply anyone should live their life in any way close to how I live mine. I think as a writer, I can help epople develop their ideas and get them to a place where they should be, but I would never consider that mentoring. That's producing, to me.
Question: Do you feel like you've had specific mentors over the years?
Rogen: Yeah, definitely Judd. When I was an actor on "Freaks & Geeks," he invited me into the writers room, which no one would do. They try to keep the actors as far away from the writers room as possible on most TV shows, but that's how he did it. He knew people should learn as much as possible and we really make an effort to… You know, like right now we're making a big movie and not many of our friends have made a movie of this scale, so we're inviting everyone imaginable to come and just see what it's like and give us their ideas and throw in their input and just have them learn from what we're doing and to get all of their ideas in the process.
Question: And how's that going?
Rogen: It's going great.
Question: Every time I see you, you have a new update on "Green Hornet"…
Rogen: I've decided we're never gonna make the movie. We're just going to promote it for the next 10 years.
Question: Talk about Stephen Chow leaving the film?
Rogen: In my head, we lost Stephen Chow in April, so it's something I've had a lot of time to wrap my head around. That's not a change. It might appear to be one to the world in the way that this type of information is doled out, but to me, we haven't had a Kato since April and we're looking. So it really doesn't change that much as of late. We're kind of in the same boat that we were in beforehand.
Question: Why is this proving so difficult?
Rogen: It's really hard to make a big movie. It's exponentially more difficult to make a $100 million movie than it is to make a $20 million movie, especially in this economy. That actually does effect things. DVD sales are down, which scares the studios. And we're not trying to make what they would probably consider to be a 100 percent safe version of a movie like this. You know? We like to push the envelope in some directions. We like to do things that we find interesting and original and you bring Michel Gondry into the equation and that opens up a whole new bag of worms. So, I think just for us to make a movie that we feel confident in and for them to have a movie that they feel confident in, that's taking a long time..
Question: Will you be able to make it down to comic-con to get the buzz going?
Rogen: There may be a little something at Comic-Con.
Question: What in particular?
Rogen: I never know what I can say and what I can't say.


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Brittany Jones is one of 40 million people around the country facing a formidable challenge – student loans are mounting and it can have lasting consequences on people's financial futures, from owning a home to saving for retirement, experts say.
"Student loan debt has been the driving force of my decisions for the last eight years of my life," said Jones, a recent college graduate who brought her plight to Capitol Hill Wednesday at a Senate Budget committee hearing.
"According to my current repayment plan, it is projected to be for the next 25 years of my life, well into the years for which I should be planning a retirement," Jones added. "It should not be that way."
Jones racked up more than $70,000 in debt after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 with a degree in early and elementary education. She began her first job right out of college as a preschool teacher making $10 an hour.
A year later, Jones lost her job and defaulted on nearly $60,000 in remaining federal student loans.
"I worked as many as three jobs at once, just to make my monthly payments," she told the panel. She was unaware of income-based repayment plans.
Jones isn't alone.
As of now, the average college graduate will have to pay back about $30,000 in student loans, with a record number of households owing student debt, according to the Project on Student Debt, a non-profit research organization.
Americans owe more than $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, a daunting figure that looms over the heads of people ready to start their lives and careers, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The outstanding loans also have an impact on the still-recovering economy, said the bureau's student loan ombudsman, Rohit Chopra.
"Student loan debt isn't just crushing borrowers, there's evidence that it's holding back our economy," said Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat and committee chairwoman.
According to a survey by the National Association of Realtors, 49% of Americans cited student debt as a "huge obstacle" to home ownership. It's also been a key factor in explaining the relatively low levels of car purchases by young people, said Chopra.
"Unlike most markets for consumer products and services, student-loan borrowers generally don't get to choose their student-loan servicer," Chopra said. "And with few opportunities to refinance with a new provider, a consumer cannot easily take his or her business elsewhere."
Next week, Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are expected to push a bill that would let borrowers refinance their loans at lower interest rates.
-- Homa Bash of Medill News Service
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Also read: Don't bother saving for college – it will get cheaper
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Telephone: 8610-62591155/62591264. Address: Xiangshan Lu, Haidian District; Fees: RMB 10
Xiangshan Park which is also known as the Forest Park is located on the eastern side of the Western Hills and is approximately 10 kilometers to the west of the centre of Beijing.
Due to its high elevation and dense cover of trees, spring arrives late in the area and summer days are always pleasantly cool. The best time to visit the park is in late fall when the tree leaves turn red making a grand display. There are also groves of apricots, pears, peaches and lilacs adding fragrance to the air and solemn evergreens whose contribution to the local beauty is unrestricted by seasonal changes.
In 1186 of the Jin Dynasty, the Xiangshan Temple was built here and for a period it served as the emperor's traveling lodge. In 1745, Emperor Qianlong had a number of large halls, pagodas, memorial archways and leisure pavilions built and changed the name of the area to the Garden of Peacefulness (Jingyiyuan). This complex served the famous Qing ruler as one of his summer palaces and became one of the three favorite hills of Qianlong along with Jade Spring Mountain (Yuquanshan) and Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan) in the Summer Palace area.
Bus: 360, 318, 714, 733, 737, 833 and 904
Open: 6:00--18:00
1. Na Jia Xiaoguan serves Manchu dishes in a quaint indoor courtyard setting. The Na family's signature dish is huang tanzi (a thick soup that is slow-cooked in an earthen pot at least for 18 hours long). There are seven types of soup offered which range from 38 RMB to 208 RMB per person, depending on the ingredients. The broth is made from chicken, duck, bone marrow, pork bones and ham and then mushrooms, seafood, or beef are added.
Recommended dishes: mizi supi xia (crispy shrimps in sweet sauce), diced chicken with walnuts (kongpao chicken minus the mala-chillis and Sichuan peppercorn), conghua bing, or scallion pancakes (a typical northern staple). The names of the dishes on the novel menu are carved on small sticks of wood that are placed on two wooden trays.
Address: No. 29 Xiangshanyikesong (South of Jizhuyuan Crossroad)
Telephone: 8610-82598588
2. Sculpting in Time
It is a comfortable western-style coffee shop that features a study and chat space and provides coffee, pasta dishes, pizza and desserts amid shelves of books and crafts.
Address: Xiangshan area, 50 Xiangshan Maimai Jie, Haidian District
Telephone: 8610-8259 8296
3. Xibei Youmian Cun is a hybrid of Mongolian and Shanxi fare. The signature dish is youmian wowo (steamed oatmeal noodles) served with mushroom (sushijun retang) or lamb broth (yangrou retang) with coriander and chili on the side. Familiar yangrou chuan'r (mutton skewers with cumin) and yogurt (suannai) with honey make excellent side dishes while the house salad (xibei da bancai) is a meal in itself and crammed with unusual ingredients such as wild greens, radish, purple cabbage, and topped with a delicious sesame dressing. The one dish you must try is zhijicao kao niupai (lotus leaf-wrapped roast beef with mountain herbs).
Address: No.88 Xiangshan South Road, Haidian District
Telephone: 8610-62597778 65297028
Qianlong's contributions to the park consisted of 28 separate vistas and each had a poetic name: Jade China Cliff, Toad Peak, Jade Milk Spring, Bell Separated from the Clouds, etc. Unfortunately, almost every trace of this carefully plannned landscape, including the blueprints, was burned or destroyed by the Anglo-French forces and the eight-Power Allied Forces in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The most important existing sites are as follows: Jianxin Study: Built first in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, this complex of buildings stands to the west of Eyeglasses Lake. The study contains a semi-circular pond and an adjacent pavilion surrounded on three sides by covered alleries. Beyond the pavilion are a rockery hill and a grove of trees concealing a gazebo.
Zhaomiao (Luminous) Temple: Constructed in 1780 in the Qianlong period, this Lamaist temple is said to have been built especially for the Panchen Lama. In its center, a Red Terrace rises 10 meters above the ground. On its eastern side is a memorial archway of white marble and glazed tile, while on the slope to the west is a seven-story glazed pagoda with eaves hung with tiny bells which tinkle with even the slightest breeze.
The Tree-Covered Imperial Audience Tablet: Located to the southwest of the Chaoyang Caves, this group of steep cliffs with numerous trees resembles a giant hu (the rectangular tablet officials held before themselves in the presence of the emperor).
Guijianchou (Worried Ghost) Peak: This is the main peak of Xiangshan Park. Worried Ghost Peak has an elevation of 557 meters. Mist often engulfs its precipitously angled cliffs which contributes to the two large stones at the peak resembling incense burners. It is from this appearance that the name Xiangshan or "Incense Mountains" is derived. (Fragrant Hills is the mistaken name by which this area has been known for generations)
From the peak, the winding Yongding River is like a white silk belt fluttering among the western valleys. The Marco Polo Bridge on the river, Shijing Mountain, the Summer Palace and Jade Spring Mountain can all be seen from here on a clear day and one can even make out the main skyline of central Beijing.
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I Need Help
Shocking as this will sound, I am mentally ill. Please act surprised.
I'll get to the gories in a second, but long story short, in early March I was diagnosed with depression, which involved a stint in a gay nut house. The Dx got a bit more interesting a few months later when my mental health team -- a shrink named Venus and a therapist named David (both of whom I adore) -- decided, with me of course, that I was Bipolar 2. Meaning I regularly cycle through periods of manic to depressive behavior, none of which get too bad and don't include major grandiosity or psychoses during the mania or the inability to leave my bed or crawl out of my cave for days at a time during the depression. So it's Bipolar Lite, mm, mmmm, less calories but still crazy fun that may wind ya up in the loony bin, fruit loop-flavor.
For a little official context, it's true that gay people have higher rates of depression and other mental illnesses than the rest of the population, and people with HIV are also blessed with more of the above. So, nope, I'm not alone, and yep, I'm not all that special.
While I believe I have always been empathetic and compassionate regarding issues of mental health and am caring and supportive of friends who are dealing with one thing or another, at some level the whole mental illness thing used to slightly freak me out, make me a bit uncomfortable. Like I had to have my guard up around "them" because, well, ya just never know when the cuckoo bananas bird is gonna yodel. Should one have the white van on speed dial? Tweet, tweet, hey, beep beep!
Now of course I am officially diagnosed as one of "them" and damn if it doesn't feel like an enormous relief. "So that's why I have felt this way for the better part of my life!"
"I'm not crazy!"
Hold up, I sort of am crazy, but at least there's a reason, an answer, and help.
Getting to that point of sweet relief, however, was absolute torture. Someone you love, desperately so, looking into your eyes and telling you those three little words -- "You need help" -- is not exactly an airbrushed feelings moment, though it lasts. The recognition that I needed some "help" via the man who was in the weeks-long process of breaking my heart felt shameful, embarrassing, and made me really, really pissed off. Because it was all his fault, dammit. I knew I was unraveling, but I would have stayed nicely raveled, thanks, if he hadn't pulled one of the many loose threads that kept me together. Men, ugh. But I nodded and muttered, "Yes, I do," and we made a plan. The plan was that he would be back to pick me up in the morning to take me somewhere for said "help."
Where-EVER. I wasn't exactly on board, and pretty much knew I would blow him off in the morning. Help my ass. Help this, mo fo!
Not more than 10 minutes after he left my house, the police arrived. He had called them because he had (good) reason to believe that I was in a bad state and considering doing bad things, or at least one bad thing, to myself. As they were coming down the hall I rang him on his cell and whispered, "Why?" Moments later, the policemen at my door, both super nice and super cute (still noticeable through the haze of suicidal ideation) made it super clear that they had no intention of leaving me alone. Like a sucker I had divulged to them, so nice and cute, that earlier that day, I had indeed been thinking about. ... Okay, "we're just doing our job." Now I either had to call someone who would agree to come over and stay with me -- they would wait for this to transpire, drat -- or they were going to take me "somewhere to talk to someone."
Naively I got in the back seat of the squad thinking I would go some-where and talk to some-one and be home some-time later that evening. It was now 9 p.m. or so, and well, I'd be back in my bed by 11, yeah.
Woe is the naive, for he shall remain some-where for some-time to equal three days and three nights, tossing and turning on a plastic bed decidedly less comfy than the one at home. And those days would be filled with group sessions after group sessions, including, yes, art therapy (I have the madness paintings to prove it), punctuated by med times and meal times and a few games of Uno and some decaffeinated coffee, which was one of the greatest horrors of all. Topped at least once by the Evil Counselor Queen (ECQ) who told me privately, after learning I had tried to sign myself out the first morning of my psychiatric getaway spa, all stern with a "don't mess with Mama" 'tude, "How dare you! You are meeeeyentalleeee eeeyelll. I don't want you representin' me in D.C. with an untreated meeeeyental eeeyelllnyess."
Yeah, I thought, if we rid D.C. of everyone with untreated psychological disorders there'd be a whole lotta nada in that town. I didn't say that though, I agreed with him. "Yes, I am mentally ill." Didn't want to rustle the feathers of ECQ or anyone else for that matter who could thwart my quest for sweet freedom with an unfortunate notation or 20 in my chart.
I need help.
Editor's Note: Reported in May -- "One in five HIV-positive individuals thought of suicide in past week, finds U.S. study." Visit www.LifeLube.org and click on the blog, or www.aidsmap.org.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The deal which brought the mobile payments revolution to the forefront of the minds of consumers and investors minds starts Thursday. Starbucks' ( SBUX - Get Report) deal with Square is being rolled out at approximately 7,000 Starbucks stores. Square Wallet is going into effect for Starbucks customers, and the two companies hope the relationship transforms the experience for its customers and makes things easier. "We look forward to continuing to create amazing connections with our customers -- both in our stores and outside of our stores and offering our customers choices in how they want to pay," said Adam Brotman, Starbucks chief digital officer, in a press release. "Starbucks believes in the values and vision of Square, and just three months after announcing our partnership with Square, we are thrilled to make the convenience of paying with the Square Wallet app available to our customers starting today." The Digital Wallet's Future Is Now Square Wallet will give customers the ability to pay at Starbucks, while exploring nearby businesses and browsing menu information, among several other features. The free app is available on both Apple's ( AAPL - Get Report) iOS platform and Google's ( GOOG - Get Report) Android platform. Square, led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been at the forefront of the mobile payments revolution, and the start of this deal will be the beginning of how customers pay for everyday goods and services. "Square Wallet gives people an easy way to pay at Starbucks and neighborhood businesses," said William Henderson, Square Wallet director. "We're excited to work with Starbucks to introduce a broad new group of people to the benefits of using Square." As companies like eBay ( EBAY - Get Report), Visa ( V - Get Report), MasterCard ( MA) and Google seek to capture billions in payments revenue, Square continues to innovate and lead the revolution.
Starbucks did $3.36 billion in revenue in its fourth quarter, with a significant portion of those transactions being credit and debit-card sales. Starbucks does not break down the percentage of payments. Starbucks has its own mobile payment app, but the deal with Square takes the mobile payments industry on another level. "Starbucks has scale with ~7,000 U.S. stores (~4,000 licensed), and the partnership will likely be a key reference case for awareness of mobile retailing," JPMorgan wrote in a recent research note discussing the initial deal between Square and Starbucks. It may take a while for consumers to adapt to the Square Wallet, but the future is in mobile payments. According to data from Ernst & Young, mobile payments are expected to be big business. The market is projected to reach a massive $245 billion by 2014. Companies are fighting for everyone of those dollars, and the deal starting so soon after the announcement puts Square in an enviable position to capture a significant portion of that market. Interested in more on Starbucks? See TheStreet Ratings' report card for this stock. -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull


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Cardiff City FC confirm rebranding with new red shirts
Cardiff City FC have confirmed they will change their shirts from blue to red with a new dragon crest as part of "major and significant" investment.
The move follows fresh discussions between club directors and Malaysian investors Tan Sri Vincent Tan and Dato Chan Tien Ghee, known as TG.
Chief executive Alan Whiteley said it was designed to help the club - known as the Bluebirds - expand their appeal.
When the rebranding was leaked in May it led to an impassioned debate.
The new investment package will also allow the club to resolve its longstanding debt with the Langston company, it revealed.
It followed "a comprehensive review" of supporter feedback, the club said.
Until now, City have always played in a blue home strip with a bluebird crest.
Some supporters still opposed the changes, but others argue that the club should accept change to help secure major funding.
The plans had appeared to have been dropped amid the controversy, but the club confirmed the rebranding would go ahead in a statement released on Wednesday morning confirming details of the investment package.
The changes would be introduced "with a view to exploiting and maximising its brand and commercial revenues in international markets, which it is hoped in turn will bring success to the club locally, whilst also attracting new partners and investors."
The statement continued: "As part of this commitment, funds have been earmarked to finally resolve the historical Langston debt issue which for so long has cast a dark cloud over the club and its future.
"Negotiations have been continuing and a final offer has been made to those representing Langston and [former club owner] Sam Hammam which we believe is both fair and reasonable."
The club plan to invest in a new training ground and facilities, and will look into the feasibility of expanding the stadium.
"Our investors have also fully reaffirmed their support to enable [club manager] Malky Mackay to strengthen his squad for the season ahead in line with the viable and prudent budgets agreed with him," it said.
"This is a major and significant financial commitment and we are grateful to our investors for their continued confidence in this football club," said Mr Whiteley.
"In recent years the support and commitment from our Malaysian investors has given the club a much-needed stability that has allowed us to move forward and away from the brink of administration, whilst allowing the club to challenge at the highest levels of the Championship."
Mr Whiteley said structured investment in the team, stadium and infrastructure would help achieve and sustain Premier League football.
Mr Whiteley said: "We recognise that there is a history and commitment that goes with supporting Cardiff City and we are conscious and proud of the loyalty, bond and passion so many share for this club.
"At the same time, we also have to be prepared to be realistic and progressive.
"Sometimes in difficult economic times and challenging market conditions, in order to attract investment to survive and progress, brave, bold and compelling decisions and sacrifices need to be taken and made.
"By securing this investment we can safeguard the immediate and long-term future of this club."
Mr Whiteley said he believed the changes would be accepted by the vast majority of supporters.
He said it was "not a decision that has been taken lightly or without a great deal of thought and debate" and the board would "do their utmost to uphold, protect and promote the values and virtues which the club stands for."
'Exciting times ahead'
Club chairman TG said the investment "should promise exciting times ahead for Cardiff City".
"I am very grateful in particular to Tan Sri Vincent Tan for making this possible and for his continued commitment and support," he said.
"I know and understand that there have been reservations in certain quarters over the changes accompanying the investment, but sincerely hope that all of our loyal fans will come to accept the changes in the spirit in which they are made and continue with their passionate and fantastic support.
"This club will always be Cardiff City Football Club and its name and heart will never change nor are any of the changes meant to destroy any part of its history or culture."
He said the rebrand created "a symbolic fusion with Asia which will allow us to fly the Welsh flag on behalf of Cardiff wherever we go".
The move has prompted both support and anger among the club's fan base.
Gwyn Davies, of the Valley Rams Supporters Club, accepted the change, saying: "People have calmed down and had a think about it".
"None of us want to change to red," said Mr Davies. "It's something we'll accept willingly because of the price that goes with it, and the benefits that will go with it."
But another fan, Dan Buckley, tweeted: "I loved this football club. Truly loved it from the bottom of my heart. Words can't describe how gutted I am. Sickened".
Cardiff City Supporters' Trust said it would ask its members whether or not they support the re-branding, which it described as "radical proposals from the club".


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MODELING THE HOT-DENSE PLASMA OF THE SOLAR INTERIOR IN AND OUT OF THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM Copyright 2012 by Hsiao-Hsuan Lin A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHYSICS) May 2012 Hsiao-Hsuan Lin
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|The developments in helioseismology ensure a wealth of studies in solar physics. In par- ticular, with the high precision of the observations of helioseismology, a high-quality solar model is mandated, since even the tiny deviations between a model and the real Sun can be detected. ❧ One crucial ingredient of any solar model is the thermodynamics of hot-dense plasmas, in particular the equation of state. This has motivated efforts to develop sophisticated theoretical equations of state (EOS). It is important to realize that for the conditions of solar-interior plasmas, there are no terrestrial laboratory experiments; the only observational constraints come from helioseismology. Among the most successful EOS is so called OPAL EOS, which is part of the Opacity Project at Livermore. It is based on an activity expansion of the quantum plasma, and realized in the so-called "physical picture". One of its main competitor is the so called MHD EOS, which is part of the international Opacity Project (OP), a non-classified multi-country consortium. The approach of MHD is via the so-called "chemical picture". Since OPAL is the most accurate equation of state so far, there has been a call for a public-domain version of it. However, the OPAL code remains proprietary, and its "emulation" makes sense. An additional reason for such a project is that the results form OPAL can only be accessed via tables generated by the OPAL team. Their users do not have the flexibility to change the chemical composition from their end. The earlier MHD-based OPAL emulator worked well with its modifica- tions of the MHD equation of state, which is the Planck-Larkin partition function and its corresponding scattering terms. With this modification, MHD can serve as a OPAL emula- tor with all the flexibility and accessibility. However, to build a really user-friendly OPAL emulator one should consider CEFF-based OPAL emulator. CEFF itself is already widely used practical EOS which can be easily implemented within any solar model code. ❧ In the present work we have carried the technique of the MHD-based OPAL emulator to the CEFF-based OPAL emulator and successfully accomplished this goal. At the same time, we went beyond the earlier work by adding more terms. In particular, the previous MHD-based OPAL emulator was restricted to the approximation of a hydrogen plasma; our work is extended to the more realistic H-He mixture. ❧ In a separate part of the present work, we have examined a non-equilibrium effect in the solar interior. The effect is located in the zone of the sharp transition between the differential rotation in the convection zone and the solid-sphere rotation in the radiation zone beneath it. This transition was discovered by helioseismology in the 1980s, and the transition zone is called the solar tachocline. The tachocline is subject to strong shear and in many theories of the solar dynamo it plays important role. Being inspired by the well-known Soret effect, which states the mass diffusion drive by a temperature gradient, we have examined if there could also be mass diffusion by a shear flow. If such an effect were to exist, it would have potential applications to the solar tachocline and dynamo. We have run a so-called reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (RNEMD) simulation. As a test, we first confirmed the Soret effect by the simulation, then we tested for a shear- driven analogous effect. As a result, we did not see the shear-driven Soret effect in our simulation. We do observe the normal Soret effect due to the temperature gradient caused by the numerical scheme we used.
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Birmingham businesses will see a new £60 million data centre open in March next year.
The Data City Exchange data centre is a 10MW (megawatt) modular and scalable facility which promises to use 70 percent less energy than traditional data centres, with the help of free air cooling and the use of renewable energy sources and carbon footprint reduction technologies.
The new data centre has been welcomed by Birmingham City Council. Mark Barrow, strategic director of development at the council, said: "Birmingham is increasingly being seen as one of the digital hubs of the UK and this type of investment will help further raise Birmingham's profile across the rest of Europe.
"The new data centre will create significant employment opportunities across the city and help support some of the local businesses in the area."
Milton Keynes will be the site of another new Data City Exchange data centre next year and other sites are being chosen elsewhere in Europe, said the company.
The internal data centre market will see "accelerated growth" in 2013 despite the advance of cloud connectivity and hosting technology, says analyst firm Ovum.
In its "2013 Trends to Watch: Data Centre Technology" report, it says firms will focus more on data centre cost-savings, and more efficient internal IT delivery methods such as virtualisation and software-defined networks (SDNs).


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FOX News toes GOP line, using the term "partial birth abortion"
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With just one exception over the past year, FOX News has consistently used the Republican terminology "partial birth abortion" to refer to a recent law prohibiting a procedure commonly used in terminating later-term pregnancies. The bill, which Republican lawmakers titled the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, was signed into law by President Bush on November 5, 2003, but federal judges in New York, San Francisco, and Lincoln, Neb., have since rejected it as unconstitutional, as the Associated Press reported on September 8, 2004.
While the law itself has caused controversy, the term "partial birth abortion" -- used by supporters of the ban to purportedly describe the procedure -- is also highly politically charged.
According to a Nexis search of U.S. newspapers and wires, the term "partial birth abortion" was apparently first used in a major newspaper on June 4, 1995; a headline in the conservative Washington Times read: "Pro-life attack on partial birth abortions bears fruit." The Times' use of the term coincided with the Christian Coalition's release of its "Contract With the American Family" and with the introduction of a bill by then-U.S. Representative Charles T. Canady (R-FL) that "would ban the procedure nationally," as the Times article noted. The Christian Coalition's "Contract With the American Family" urged Congress to "end the practice of 'partial-birth abortions,' which it called a "cruel and inhumane form of death."
"Partial birth abortion" then appeared in quotations in a June 12, 1995, United Press International report and a June 15, 1995, Associated Press report. According to a June 16, 1995, AP report, "A House Judiciary subcommittee began debating a new Republican bill Thursday that would make it a crime for doctors to perform procedures referred to in the legislation as 'partial-birth abortions.'" Notably, the AP reported: "During the hearing, one doctor told the panel he had never heard of a 'partial-birth abortion' in 40 years of practice." Dr. J. Courtland Robinson, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University Hospital told the AP, "That, I suspect, is because the name did not exist until someone who wanted to ban an abortion procedure made up this erroneous, inflammatory term." Between June 4, 1995, and December 31, 1995, the term "partial birth abortion" appeared in 632 US newspaper and wire reports.
Almost ten years later, as the Associated Press noted on April 21, 2004, "Inside and outside the courtroom, the two sides [of the abortion debate] often have differing vocabularies, beginning with the very name of the banned procedure." According to the AP:
Congress and opponents of the procedure call it ''partial-birth abortion.'' Doctors and activists on the other side of the issue use the medical term ''intact dilation and extraction.'...The Bush administration has argued that the procedure is gruesome, inhumane, painful to the fetus, and never medically necessary. Abortion providers insist it is sometimes necessary to preserve a woman's health.
Despite the ideological dispute over the term itself, FOX News continues to use the term "partial birth abortion" without noting its controversial nature, and without noting that it is the preferred term for abortion opponents and is not used by medical professionals. In the past year, with only one exception, FOX News has referred to the ban as "partial birth abortion," thereby falling into line with the GOP's strategic terminology. On the April 23, 2004, edition of FOX News' Special Report with Brit Hume, FOX News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron provided the one exception, referring to "a ban on late-term, or what critics call partial birth abortion."
CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and ABC reporters have also used GOP terminology to refer to the ban -- in some instances without context or qualification. But in numerous other instances it was called a ban on "so-called partial birth abortion"; "what [abortion] opponents call partial birth abortion"; or "late-term abortion." CBS was the only network to consistently describe the procedure in terms other than "partial birth abortion," using instead "late-term abortion" or "what opponents call partial birth abortions." Even the phrase "late-term abortion" is vague, as the law bans a procedure that is commonly, but not exclusively, used in performing late-term abortions. CNN has noted some of the problems with referring to the policy as a ban on "partial birth abortion." On the August 26 edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, CNN senior medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta explained that neither "partial birth" nor "late-term" are medical terms for the procedure:
GUPTA: Partial birth abortion, I should say first of all, is not a medical term, nor is late-term abortion. ... There are several different ways of inducing abortion, if you will, later in pregnancy, this [the procedure banned under the 2003 law] is one of them. The one that we're talking about here. Again, it's called the dilatation and extraction procedure, that's the medical name of it. Another way to induce abortion is to give certain medications that might induce abortion of a fetus that is no longer viable. There have been no studies to really show that one is necessarily safer than the other, but a lot of obstetricians that we've talked to and we've done a lot of reporting on this believe that the dilatation and extraction [the procedure that was banned] is actually safer over all, all things considered.
On the June 2 edition of CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown, Brown reported on the controversy over terminology: "In the first test of the so-called partial birth abortion ban, a federal court in California said it was unconstitutional. The law's very name has created controversy from the start. Physicians call the procedure intact dilation and extraction. Most medical organizations oppose the law because they believe sometimes it is the safest way to perform an abortion."
On the October 25, 2003, edition of FOX News Watch, host Eric Burns acknowledged FOX News' use of "partial birth abortion":
BURNS: FOX News Channel calls it partial birth abortion. The CBS Evening News has called it "a certain type of late term abortion." The New York Times, in this article, calls it "a specific abortion procedure." Whatever it is, Jim, it has been banned by the Senate.
Here are some examples of FOX News' usage of the term:
- CHRIS WALLACE, FOX News Sunday host: "You [Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)] voted against banning partial birth abortions, against the Defense of Marriage Act." (FOX News Sunday, 12/5/04)
- WENDELL GOLER, FOX News White House correspondent: "And he [President Bush] said Kerry's votes against an amendment to ban gay marriage and a ban on partial birth abortion show a major difference in values." (Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/22/04)
- JANE SKINNER, FOX News correspondent: "A federal judge has ruled the ban on partial birth abortion is unconstitutional." (The Big Story with John Gibson, 8/26/04)
- ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX News senior judicial analyst: "How does more taxes, pro-abortion, pro-partial birth abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-regulation, how does that play in these crucial states in the South and in the West, coming out of the mouth of a Democrat?" (The Big Story with John Gibson, 7/7/04)
- BRIT HUME, FOX News managing editor and chief Washington correspondent: "[Senator] John Kerry, who has voted against banning partial birth abortion and has campaigned for abortion rights, has now taken a position agreeing with the central tenet of the anti-abortion unit. Kerry, in an interview with the Dubuque, Ohio [sic: Iowa] Telegraph Herald said, quote, "I believe life does begin at conception." And he said, quote, "I oppose abortion. Personally, I don't like abortion." (Special Report with Brit Hume, 7/6/04)
- GREG KELLY, FOX News correspondent: "These anti-abortion forces, of course, have a friend in the White House. President Bush, who campaigned on a pro-life platform and signed the partial birth abortion ban last year." (Special Report with Brit Hume, 1/22/04)
- MAJOR GARRETT, FOX News general assignment correspondent: "In another historic move, Congress approved a law to criminalize partial birth abortion. The president swiftly signed the first-ever federal restriction on abortion access in 30 years." (Special Report with Brit Hume, 11/26/03)
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There is an interesting development in the hotly contest race for District 6 Supervisor in San Francisco. Longtime incumbent Chris Daly is termed out of office and has finally given his formal endorsement for a successor: Longtime aide and former election campaign manager James Keys. Keys is the Black, gay, openly HIV-positive chair of the city's Mental Health Board. If Keys were elected, he would become the first Black, openly gay elected official in San Francisco.
Despite his political connections and living in the neighborhood many years, Keys is the longshot candidate in the race to represent The Tenderloin and South of the Market, reports Matthew S. Bajko at the Bay Area Reporter
Most of the attention in the D6 race has gone to three of the 15 people running: school board President Jane Kim; out lesbian artist Debra Walker; and Theresa Sparks, a transgender woman who heads the city's Human Rights Commission ... Until Kim entered the race, the assumption had been that Walker was Daly's preferred candidate. "Debra has been in the district a long time and done solid work but she doesn't have the same kind of record on economic justice issues as James," said Daly. "He has lived in the Tenderloin a long time." Nevertheless, Keys still faces long odds in the race. A day after Daly's decision was first disclosed online by the Fog City Journal website last week, the local Democratic Party selected Walker as its endorsed candidate.
The New York Times also profiled several District 6 candidates and cast Walker and Kim as the frontrunners, but noted they could "split the progressive vote" and provide a path to victory for a candidate such as Keys. The Times also noted the changing D6 demographics, noting that candidates are "moving between soup kitchens and Starbucks in search of votes."
The dearth of Black LGBT candidates and elected officials has become quite noticeable in San Francisco, a city that is less than eight percent Black but elected Willie Brown to the Assembly and as its first black mayor. Until recently, only one openly gay Black man is known to have run for a city office, and only three out African American lesbians have mounted campaigns. None were successful.
In related news: Another Black gay, openly HIV positive man is on the November ballot in San Francisco. Legislative aide Bill Barnes—Supervisor Daly's former campaign manager—is competing for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Education. Barnes initially sought the open seat for District 10 Supervisor.
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An outdoor grill lets you cook up a tasty, healthful meal while creating a great atmosphere for chatting with friends and family on a warm summer evening. But after months of grilling out, you may grow tired of the same old chicken breasts and turkey burgers.
Lucky for you, grilling isn't just for burgers, steaks and chicken! You can use this fantastic backyard appliance to cook up many other foods that you may not have considered grilling!
With so many exciting grilling options, your microwave and oven are going to gather dust during the warmer months. Below are some favorites sure to please a crowd! Get ready to fire up your propane-fueled friend to put a new spin on some of your favorite foods.
Pizza doesn't have to be baked in an oven. Grilling your next homemade pizza will get you out of the hot kitchen. And when you choose the right toppings, your homemade pie will be both healthful and delicious! Grab a premade whole-wheat crust from your local grocer and start piling away! Use your choice of sauce, such as tomato, pesto, barbeque, or plain olive oil, and top with copious amounts of sliced veggies. To keep fat and calories in check, use a small amount of lean meat (or no meat) and watch your cheese portions. Part-skim mozzarella is an excellent choice. Here are some crowd-tested favorites:
Quesadillas can be cooked on the grill, too. Like pizza, the sky's the limit when selecting quesadilla ingredients. Choose cheese, veggies, beans, onions, corn and more. Place one whole-wheat tortilla on the grill, sprinkle with a bit of cheese, add other toppings, then sprinkle with a bit more cheese and top it off with a second tortilla. Grilled both sides, using a spatula to flip the 'dilla and press down slightly as the cheese melts. Remove from the grill once it's browned and melty, cut into wedges and enjoy with salsa!
Fresh fruit from the grill is a great summertime treat! The heat of the grill caramelizes the natural sugars found in fruit, leaving you with an amazing dessertlike dish that is full of fiber and vitamins but not calories! Try placing whole bananas (peeled), or sliced peaches directly on the grill. Skewer whole strawberries. Add your favorite fruits to a meat (or tofu) and veggie kabob for additional color and flavor. Apple, pineapple and pear slices are also great on the grill. (Remember that larger is better to prevent burning.) Pair the grilled fruits with your salad, eat them as-is for a sweet side dish, use them to top your protein source, or indulge in an after-dinner treat of frozen yogurt with grilled fruit. Some great combos are grilled apple slices over pork tenderloin cuts, grilled pears with low-fat feta cheese over a bed of salad greens, and grilled pineapple with brown rice, mushroom and grilled chicken breast. The possibilities are endless!
Corn on the cob is generally boiled in water on the stovetop, but it is delicious when prepared on the grill. The trick? Soak the corn in cold water for 10-15 minutes, then transfer them (husks intact) to the hot grill. Cook for 3 minutes on one side, then rotate 180 degrees for 3 more minutes. Then, carefully remove the ears and shuck the corn, removing husks and silk. Place the husked corn on the grill for about 5 minutes, rotating frequently. Your guests will be impressed with the fancy look of the grill marks on the corn, which will have a slightly smoky taste. The corn will be so sweet and moist, you won't need butter or salt!
Zucchini and summer squash are delicious, vitamin-packed additions to any summer meal. Both are easy to grill. Cut them on the diagonal to create strips that won't fall through the grates of the grill. You can also cut the veggies lengthwise into quarters (to resemble pickle spears) to ease the grilling process. Brush the sides of each strip with olive or canola oil and grill to desired tenderness. For extra flavor, you can sprinkle the veggies with your favorite dried herbs. Or try crushed red pepper for a spicy kick!
Asparagus hot off the grill is especially good. Lightly coat the washed, trimmed spears with olive or canola oil, and sprinkle with sea salt and ground pepper (optional). You can lay the spears directly on the grill (crosswise) for about 5 minutes or until they reach your preferred tenderness. If you're nervous about the spears falling into the flames below, you can make foil pockets for your asparagus (see below) or buy an asparagus basket.
Tomatoes and peppers take on a great smoky flavor when grilled. Leave them whole and place them over the hottest part of the grill. When the skin is black and blistered, the vegetables are ready. Allow them to cool, then remove the charred skin and the stem and seeds (only for peppers). Do not rinse the vegetables after grilling or you will lose flavor. Chop them and combine with other vegetables for a salsa with a smoky kick, throw them on salads or place slices of roasted peppers on sandwiches. Roasted tomatoes are especially tasty when smashed on a good piece of bread. Any sweet or hot pepper can be roasted, and Roma or plum tomatoes are sturdy enough to endure grilling.
Foil pockets are a great way to grill a variety of veggies that might be too small to place directly on the grill surface. Veggies that work well in a pocket include white potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, onion slices, zucchini, squash, green beans, asparagus, artichokes, garlic cloves, mushrooms, and all types of peppers—sweet or hot. When preparing your veggies for grilling, cut or slice into pieces of uniform size and thickness so they cook evenly. Root veggies (like potatoes and carrots) may need a splash of water in the pocket to help create some steam.
To make a foil pocket, use heavy-duty aluminum foil. Lay out a large single sheet, spray one side with cooking spray, and fold foil in half. Crimp or fold over two of the open sides, leaving one side open to insert your vegetables. Once you tuck the veggies inside, add seasonings, then crimp the opening so the pocket is completely closed. (Be sure to fold this side loosely to make checking in on your masterpiece a cinch.) Now you're now ready to hit the grill! Grill the pocket on the top rack of your grill where temperatures are a bit lower. Flip the pocket once halfway through cooking using oven mitts—not tongs or a fork, which might pierce the pocket. Cooking time will vary depending on size, type and amount of veggies you grill, but most veggies will cook in a foil pocket within 25-30 minutes.
With so many dishes to choose, you'll be itching to fire up your grill nightly to show off your newfound grill skills to your family, friends and neighbors. Don't worry—we won't tell them it's good for them if you don't!
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Erith Karting Site's Listing
Karting Thurrock Outdoor, Essex8
25 minute drive from Erith
Thurrock Outdoor, Essex is the closest Karting site to Erith
The largest and fastest kart circuit in Essex! The Grand Prix circuit is a fast and demanding 900 metres, encountering camber, undulation, chicanes and hairpins in its 10 corners and heart stopping 'Devil's Drop'. It will test even the most experienced of drivers! For fast paced, rip-roaring karting action, look no further than Karting Nation Thurrock!
Our circuit is less than three minutes drive from the M25 and Dartford River Crossing making it easy to access from anywhere with easy access to the M25 as well as Essex and Kent.
Full details and a map to be provided upon booking.
Alternative Venues Near Erith
Karting Dagenham, Greater London
Dagenham, Greater London is the closest Karting site to Erith
31 minute drive from Erith
With 1050m of professionally designed race track just ready and waiting to be put to the test, we easily boast the longest indoor go karting track in London and the UK. We want you to experience indoor go karting like never before when you visit, and with a range of motor racing events available to select from, you will be spoilt for choice when planning your big day out. Conveniently located just fifteen minutes from the city centre.
Karting Brentwood, Essex
33 minute drive from Erith
An absolutely stunning 825m outdoor track that has to be seen to be believed! All Senior events are run on 200cc karts (driver min age 16), with specially converted karts for the younger karters! Fully floodlit for night racing. Open 7 days a week. Just 5 minutes drive from Jct.28 of M25...so get down here and give us a try!
Karting Mile End, London
34 minute drive from Erith
Open from 10AM-10.30PM. This superb outdoor 650 metre track offers racing on electric karts, that reach 50mph in 4 seconds flat. This is faster than any twin-engine petrol kart, is less noisy and does not belch-out harmful fumes for you or the environment.
Karting Croydon, Surrey
54 minute drive from Erith
If you're ready to race then we're ready for you at this cracking karting site. Our floodlit outdoor track can be raced night or day, whether wet or dry, in karts capable of 45mph . Handle the hair-pins, speed down the straights and most importantly finish first.
Karting Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
57 minute drive from Erith
Race your GT2 twin-engined Pro Kart around our 1K track, considered by the professionals to be the greatest test of skill for any driver . Take to the very same track that F1 stars like Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button spent their formative years. This is as close to professional motor sport as you can get.
Karting Brighton, West Sussex
71 minute drive from Erith
Set in the beautiful Sussex countryside, our giant 800m outdoor track provides epic racing action for you and your friends. The challenging split level track features twists, turns and even tunnels. Jump behind the wheel of our single engine Biz pro-karts and push their Honda GX 160 engines to the limit. You'll reach speeds of up to 45mph as you race for that all important chequered flag.
Karting Letchworth, Hertfordshire
82 minute drive from Erith
Featuring the fastest indoor karts in the UK with a challenging 700m indoor race track and a great spectator viewing gallery. Perfect for Stag and Hen parties, birthday parties, individuals or corporate groups.
Karting Lydd, Kent
82 minute drive from Erith
Experience karting at its most thrilling at our Lydd circuit with top-of-the-range karts and one of the fastest tracks in the country to tear around!
Distances and drive times have been collated using third party software.
They are approximate and meant only as a guide.


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Ginnifer Goodwin gains access to Walt Disney's secret club
Disneyland superfan GINNIFER GOODWIN's dreams have come true - she has been welcomed into WALT DISNEY's exclusive Club 33.
The actress, who plays Snow White in hit TV show Once Upon a Time, tried to get membership to the secret dinner club written into her contract when she signed on for the fantasy drama - but Disney bosses turned her down flat.
She says, "The membership has been closed for, like, 30 years... so when I was offered Once Upon a Time and my lawyer called, he was talking about money, talking about trailers and I said, 'No, no, no, can I eat dinner at Club 33?' And they were like, 'No.'
"You have to be a member and it's not fair to the other members if you can just negotiate into your Once Upon a Time contract... Everybody waited a lifetime to get in."
But Goodwin's dream was realised this summer (12) after she saw an ad in a local newspaper: "I did various jobs for Disney and I kept going, 'Alright, this one's the one...' I actually was reading the newspaper one day in May and they had just opened up their waiting list and I called everyone I knew and now we go."
But the Walk The Line star already fears her membership might be revoked - because she's talking about it all the time.
Goodwin explains, "I'm so scared... I read something about how no one is supposed to know anything about what happens in Club 33."
The actress is the perfect member, however - she's obsessed with all things Disneyland, revealing, "I think I've been there six times in the past four months... All I ever wanted in the world was to be a Disney princess, truly... I really just wanna ride Space Mountain, Haunted Mansion. I really like Thunder Mountain, especially at night."


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Students discover, design, develop, implement and evaluate a service-learning project based on an authentic community needed in a local educational or youth serving organization. Working closely with community partners, students identify community issues that can be addressed through service-learning projects. With these projects, Champlain College students do not have to wait to be contributors to their communities. Rather, they go out and make an impact right now.
Our students have worked with area youth to develop a public campaign against hate words and combated de facto segregation by creating a multi-cultural harvest feast with students who then promoted their learning to their classmates through a multimedia presentation. Other students have created an anti-bullying campaign, while others promoted global awareness and civic education by leading a Model UN experience. The results of these projects of made the lives of many people just a little bit better and provided an opportunity for area youth to show leadership within their communities. Most importantly, these projects ensure that Champlain College pre-service teachers demonstrate the ability to work as a team member and advocate for students and families.
This experience is often transformative for students as they develop an identity more inclusive of diversity and more aware of their own capacity to make change. One student noted that,
"This class was unlike any other that I have previously taken in my college career. I was not expecting to take a class like this or do a project that required so much work. When I first started I did not like it one bit. I had a lot of other work to do and I really didn't want to worry about a project that would take all semester for me to finish, but I was really wrong. This project was great and really opened my eyes to the possibilities that I may approach when I become a teacher. I know from experience now what students are capable of when they set their minds to something."
Another student echoed these remarks when he noted that,
"The experience really gave me confidence once we started seeing some of the students begin to become advocates for our cause, and the wave that created in installing a community ideal."
Another student suggested that,
"I am honored and proud to be able to say I had a hand in laying the groundwork for this awesome opportunity, and to be able to say I learned as much as these kids did about the different stories, hardships, unique customs, and also about the deeper similarities these kids and their families have gone through. I am even more honored to be able to say I had a hand, however small, in a project that bolstered community awareness, ethnic tolerance, and understanding between young people of all different races, creeds and colors."


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Imagining an
El Jobean without
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The ladies at Glamour Puss Salon in Port Charlotte, from left, Kelli Morris, Amanda Petronka, Sheila Barnett and Nikki Rescigno, collected 1,250 Socks for Kids.
Whenever I drive through El Jobean, which is just about every day, I find myself slowing down.
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Great job on the research!As to your legality question, since Barkley was not representing itself as something it was not (ABA approved) then I do not see how Kentucky could stop it from setting up shop unless it was making material misrepresentations. There have been several lawsuits and at least one pending one by a former student pro se who claims Barkley was a RICO enterprise and engaged in loan fraud of some sort.Novus on the other hand, may cross the line into diploma mill territory which can be illegal.
Barkley had a real school with real law professors and classes and seems to have intended to get ABA accreditation.The Barkley degrees are real enough - they just are not accredited.A diploma mill awards a degree for little or no work so that the purchaser can claim they have a degree.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_States
Being incorporated in the RMI (Republic of the Marshall Islands) means nothing except someone incorporated an offshore company. It in no way implies any approval by the RMI. And I can assure you, no one from Novus is resident in the RMI. I would say it is a gray area at best - diploma mills are one reason why DL and correspondence law degrees are held in such disrepute. Places like Novus make it harder for everyone who is pursuing a legitimate DL law degree and seeking to practice law because ignorant and biased people fail to realize the difference between studying law for a degree and just paying money for a diploma.
First you need a plaintiff who has standing and the defendant can be sued in any jurisdiction where they do business if I understand your question correctly. Just not liking them is not grounds to sue.


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