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I have about two weeks to pack up three years of crap. A lot of junk. I don't like to get rid of things. You just never know when you might shrink (I'm an pretty tall lady) a little bit and that dress you accidentally put in the drier might be appropriately long enough to wear again. These are the things I tell myself.
The kitchen is the easiest place for me to get rid of things. Lots of brilliant plans to clean out the pantry and liquor cabinet. Food and booze is what I am good at. And you can consume it and easily replace it again, unlike your dress that you can no longer even sit down in with out showing the world your business.
Today I decided I'm going to have a I'm moving less than two miles down the road party. There will be lots of rice, beans and punch. I have a ridiculous amount of liquor with maybe a few shots left in it. Some sort of punch will be delicious. I'm really proud of this idea, if you couldn't tell. You're all invited.
Now onto these hand pies. These are perfect for a picnic, pie on the go or when you are out of clean dishes. These come out being not to sweet. If you aren't into desserts, you may enjoy these. If you like your pie sweet, add more sugar. You will also have a little extra filling left, but that is okay. Put it on some ice cream or just eat it. It made me very happy to do that, so I can only imagine it will do the same for you.
The addition of rye flour adds a nice earthiness to the crust. You don't have to use rye, its just a fancy twist. This crust also is pretty amazing. Everything about its texture is perfect. All sorts of flaky goodness. The crust also is not overly sweet, again add more sugar or replace the rye flour with all-purpose. You will get a more sweet and less savory-esque crust. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did and hopefully I will be back with another post before September!
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rye flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon cardamon
8 ounces (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, 1/4 inch cubes
3/4 cup water, cold, separated
1 pound rhubarb, diced
2 cups strawberries, quartered
1/4 cup corn starch
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cardamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 large egg beaten with a splash of water (for the egg wash)
Granulated or turbinado sugar
- In a food processor, combine the dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, rye flour, sugar, salt and cardamom, pulsing to combine. Add the butter cubes to the food processor and pulse until the butter is evenly distributed and resemble the size of small peas. Add 1/2 cup of water; pulse the dough together until it just begins to clump together. The dough will be shaggy. Add one tablespoon at a time until it starts to come together.
- Remove the dough from the bowl of the food processor and place it on a lightly floured counter. Knead the dough a few times until it comes together and shape it into a mound. Shape the disc into 2 discs and wrap them in plastic wrap; transfer them to the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour or overnight.
- While the dough is chilling, make the filling! To a medium saucepan, add the strawberries, corn starch, sugar, salt, cardamom and nutmeg. Over medium heat cook the mixture for 5 minutes, until the fruit has softened. Depending on your fruit, there may be a bit of liquid and this is okay.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Remove one of the discs of dough from the refrigerator. Liberally flour your work surface and rolling pin. Begin to roll the dough, being sure to rotate it every so often to avoid sticking, to a 1/8-inch thick. Using a 3 1/2-inch cookie cutter, cut circles out. Repeat the process with the second disc of dough. You should end up with about 12 circles of dough.
- Spoon a small amount of the fruit mixture into the center of the dough, leaving about 3/4-inch space around the edges. Brush egg wash along the edges of each of the dough circles. Fold the dough over the filling, pressing the edges to seal. Using the tines of a fork, sealing the edges. Repeat the process until all of the hand pies are made. Transfer the pies to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Brush the tops of the hand pies with egg wash and sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Bake the pies for 15-17 minutes, until the tops and edges are golden brown. Remove from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. Eat warm or room temperature.


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|1/2 tsp onion powder
|1/2 tsp garlic powder
|1/2 tsp ground black pepper
|1/2 tsp kosher salt
|1 lbs ground chuck
|8 potato buns (squared, split)
|3 tbls mayonnaise
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Preheat a griddle to 350 degrees F.
Combine the onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
Line a jellyroll or sheet pan with parchment paper, and place the ground chuck in the middle of the pan. Cover the meat with a large sheet of plastic wrap. Roll meat with a rolling pin until it covers the surface of the pan; it should be very thin. Remove the plastic wrap, and sprinkle the meat with the seasoning mixture. Fold the meat in half, from side to side, using the parchment paper. Use a pizza wheel to cut the meat into 8 even squares.
Wrap the buns in foil and place in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, place the burgers on the griddle and cook for 2 to 3 minutes per side.
Remove the buns from the oven. Spread a small amount of mayonnaise on each bun and top with the burger and any other condiments, as desired. Serve immediately.

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One day after blasting through Colorado, closing highways and schools, a powerful winter storm crippled travel and forced thousands to brave the cold without power in the Midwest Thursday.
Some are asking the question: Does the end of the world start with a snowstorm?
Probably not, but a blizzard in the upper Midwest is proving potent enough to cut power to tens of thousands of homes and force schools to call it quits from Nebraska to southern Wisconsin Thursday -- one day ahead of the official arrival of winter and, as it happens, the predicted Mayan apocalypse.
Blinding snow also is blamed for a 30-car pileup on Interstate 35 near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in which two people died, including a 43-year-old Arkansas woman, Sgt. Scott Bright of the Iowa State Patrol said Wednesday.
As much as another foot of wet, heavy snow is expected in places, accompanied by winds gusting to 50 mph and blowing snow that could reduce visibility to just about zero, forecasters warn.
In Omaha, Nebraska, utility crews struggled overnight -- sometimes in near whiteout conditions -- to restore power to 38,500 customers left in the dark by the storm, according to the Omaha Public Power District. The utility urged customers to brace for slow going.
"Assessment crews and repair crews are out in force and will be as long as it takes to get through storm and all is cleaned up," said Omaha Public Power District spokeswoman Paula Lukowski.
In neighboring Iowa, more than 30,000 customers were without power, most of them in the Des Moines area, according to MidAmerican Energy.
The storm -- the first blizzard of the season -- made travel treacherous throughout the region. Nebraska authorities closed much of snow-packed Interstate 80 through the state Thursday morning as blowing snow dangerously reduced visibility.
I-80 also was closed around Des Moines, Iowa, Bright said.
"When the winds start to blow you can see about 5 feet in front of your vehicle" he said. "We've had major issues all over the place. We got around 10 to 12 inches throughout the state and it's a wet snow. We have around an inch of ice on our roadways."
He warned that even though conditions might not seem so bad around people's homes, they should not take that as a signal that the storm is over.
"It seems people are seeing the sun and venturing out, but it's not going to get hot enough to melt the ice from the roadways," he said. Department of Transportation workers are "out and they're plowing the roadways, but we're having 50 mph wind gusts that just blows the snow right back."
Close to 100 accidents had been reported in Iowa by late Thursday morning, Bright said, "and we have a lot of jackknifed semis, which shut the roadway down."
Thick snow also blanketed the roads and swirled in the frigid air as CNN iReporter Kevin Cavallin drove through Ames, Iowa, late Wednesday night.
Occasional flashes of lightning illuminated the snow-covered scene, punctuated by windy gusts of up to 40 miles per hour, as Iowa shivered under its first significant snowfall of the year.
Fellow CNN iReporter Clarence Smith in Des Moines said it was the most snow he'd seen since 2009 -- and he warns its wet, heavy consistency was going to add to the challenges for motorists.
"I was just cleaning off my car and it is so wet, it is like plaster. It doesn't come off easily," he said. "At one point I was hitting it with a snow scraper, you can say chiseling, basically."
And while many Iowans may be cursing the weather Thursday as they slip and slide around, Smith points out that the state has enjoyed a record period without snow.
CNN iReporter Ron Packer's morning drive to work, usually 25 minutes, was doubled by the slower traffic in Kansas City, Missouri, he said.
"Most of the preparation for this weather is mental," Packer said. "Many people 'forget' how to drive in winter weather when the first snow comes around. As a native Californian, I had to go through that learning curve!"
Kathleen Barrett, a CNN iReporter driving from Colorado to Wyoming Wednesday, called road conditions "horrible."
"I could not see in front of me," Barrett said. Dirt and rocks put on the highway to keep vehicles from sliding cracked her windshield as she crept along at 10 mph, she said.
For CNN iReporter David Bell and three of his friends, the conditions were just too bad to continue driving home to Lincoln, Nebraska.
They holed up in a hotel overnight on their way back from a ski trip in Colorado after seeing several accidents on the interstate and highways.
"We knew the roads were icy, so we were driving slow," he said. "We could see about 100 yards, sometimes less. When the winds would gust the visibility would drop to 50 feet. There was a lot of snow, and we were driving east and the wind was blowing from the north, and it didn't help at all."
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency, put the National Guard and state patrol on standby and closed state offices to the public in 20 counties most likely to be affected by the storm. Employees were still expected to report for work.
As much as 7 inches was already on the ground Thursday morning in parts of southern Wisconsin, with as much as another foot on the way during the storm's predicted Thursday afternoon peak.
The Wisconsin State Patrol and National Weather Service urged people to avoid traveling.
Blizzard warnings were up Thursday for portions of Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin and virtually all of Iowa. Winter storm warnings extended further into Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as into Michigan and Indiana.
Most airports were operating normally, the Federal Aviation Administration reported. One major exception was O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, where incoming flights were running nearly two hours behind because of high winds, the FAA said. Airlines canceled more than 200 flights at O'Hare Wednesday.
Southwest Airlines has canceled all flights out of Chicago's Midway starting at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Southwest has between 200 and 220 flights there on normal days.
The storm is expected to slide over New England by Friday.
Related: Storm moves out of Colorado, bitter cold moves in
CNN's Stefan Simons, Jim Kavanagh, Jareen Imam, Laura Smith-Spark, Carma Hassan and Joe Sutton contributed to this report.


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As a part of group lessons and my homeschool classes, I often use word walls. This is a great way to reinforce what we're learning and really works well for all those visual learners! I don't actually have a "wall" to put them on - no space for a bulletin board in my studio, so I've gotten some of these...
This one hangs from my large cupboard by a couple of Command Strips and 2 rubberbands - works fabulously!
This one is free standing - forming a tent with clear pockets on one side.
And the latest one I purchased...
This one is also tent-shaped and free standing, but also has pockets on the other side. This one also works great as a privacy barrier between students while playing games or taking theory tests. The best part about all of them is that they become flat to store! When I need one they pop-up quickly!
I would encourage you to use word walls as a part of your studio or classroom - whether you use a bulletin board or one of these fabulous pocket charts!
AND to save you time...Melody of the Melody Soup Blog has created a fabulous bunch of musical words all ready for you to print! In fact, I have made use of many of them and then created any extras as I needed them! A HUGE timesaver!
If you use word walls, please drop a comment and share your ideas and how you make use of them in your own studio or classroom!


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Oklahoma Sound's 24 Tablet Charging Cart is a durable and stylish addition to your classroom. Made with high-pressure, thermofused laminate on particle board, this scratch-resistant tablet cart is built to withstand the rigors of daily use. Twenty-four spacious compartments provide convenient storage for tablet computers. Each shelf has a rear opening for easy access to the recessed power panel on the back of the cart. Slotted side and back panels ensure proper ventilation during charging. Wrap-around doors open almost 180 degrees and feature heavy-duty locks for maximum security. Large, 4" casters make it easy to transport equipment. Oklahoma Sound's 24 Tablet Cart comes in black with an elegant cherry accent. Fully assembled. Please note: Depending on your tablets' plug sizes, this cart may not support 24 devices.
Key Features
- Made with durable, high-pressure, thermofused laminate on particle board
- Holds up to 24 tablets
- Built-in, recessed power panel with 15' cord
- Wrap-around doors open almost 180 degrees
- Four large casters - two locking
- Material: High-pressure laminate on particle board
- Color: Black with cherry accent
- Tablet Capacity: 24
- Compartment Dimensions: 14 3/4"W x 9"D x 2 5/8"H
- Overall Width: 20"
- Overall Depth: 26"
- Overall Height: 43 1/4"
- Casters: 4" (2 locking)
- Warranty: 5 years
- Assembly Required: No
- Lead Time: Ships within 1 - 2 business days
- Shipping Method: Freight
- Weight: 135.00 pounds


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Did you know that several destination hotels and resorts feature luxurious OrganicPedic mattresses in their guestrooms? Many locations across the country have put their guest comfort and the purity of their space first by featuring OrganicPedic mattresses. These inns provide their guests with fun activities, impeccable hospitality, and of course, a great night's sleep.
Just like Goldilocks, we are all searching for the mattress that is "just right." If you are still on the fence about which OrganicPedic mattress to buy and need a little extra time to feel a mattress before you purchase, staying at one of these exclusive resorts can help you find your perfect mattress.
In partnership with Houston retailer New Living. Modern B & B is featuring an OrganicPedic Terra mattress in their Treehouse room.
New Living is offering a promotion to try out the Terra (at a discounted rate); If you decide to purchase an OrganicPedic mattress from New Living, your stay at Modern B & B is 100% applicable to your purchase! Call Molly at New Living for more information: (713) 521-1921. Click HERE for more information.
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Park Lane Guest House is one of the best-kept secrets in Austin, TX. They have a Terra in their Garden Cottage, and plan on bringing OMI mattresses into every room of their guest house in the future. The innkeepers even sleep on the Terra, and are the biggest testament to its comfort and luxury!
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Grace Grove Center is a healing center for digestive aid. They feature either the Terra or the Midori in every room. And our Matons can be found in the living room.
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1280 E. Willow Point Rd, Cornville, AZ 86325
Topia Inn is an award-winning inn that features OMI mattresses in four of their beautifully designed rooms. The Greek and Iroquis Rooms have Duo mattresses, the French Room has the Midori, and the African Room has the Classic Innerspring.
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Green Gate Guest House is Northern Minnesota's premier sustainable lodging. With the feel of a vacation rental, they feature an OMI Lago in their Sunrise Room.
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What advice helped you achieve your goal?
Fluid/Nutritional advice helped me in this race. It got a bit hot out there, and my stomach felt weak. But, I kept up with 250 calories an hour and was able to keep moving forward.
Yeah, old friends and new friends. There were so many of Lisa's students out there. It was just great to see all of those familiar faces and to meet a few that I had yet to meet.
Any words of advice for others thinking about doing an ultra?
Go for it...give it all you have, and when you think you have nothing left, reach deep down inside and pull out a little more....oh, and hire Lisa as your coach and listen to every single word she says !


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Bass Pro Shops announced it will open a San Jose store in 2015 at the new Almaden Ranch shopping center near the intersection of Almaden Expressway and Highway 85.
The 145,000 square-foot store will sell hunting, fishing and outdoor gear and is the anchor tenant of the 350,000 square-foot retail center.
The Springfield, Mo.-based chain is known for combining retail with entertainment, conservation and outdoor education.
Bass Pro Shops' exterior and interior motifs include massive log and rock work, large indoor aquariums and water features stocked with native fish species as well as an extensive collection of museum quality fish and wildlife mounts. The Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World store in San Jose will also feature an Uncle Buck's Fishbowl and Grill.
Bass Pro Shops operates 77 retail stores in 26 states and Canada.


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European Commission - Press release
Commission wants stronger and more responsible banks in Europe
Brussels, 20 July 2011 - Banks have been at the centre of the financial crisis the global economy is facing since 2008. 1 Lessons have been drawn from this and mistakes of the past should not repeat themselves. This is why the European Commission has brought forward today proposals to change the behaviour of the 8000 banks that operate in Europe The overarching goal of this proposal is to strengthen the resilience of the EU banking sector while ensuring that banks continue to finance economic activity and growth. The Commission's proposals have three concrete goals.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said "The financial crisis has hit European families and businesses hard. We cannot let such a crisis occur again and we cannot allow the actions of a few in the financial world to jeopardize our prosperity. That's why today, we have brought forward proposals to make the more than 8,000 banks that are active in Europe stronger. The banking sector will have to hold more capital and better quality capital every time it is taking risks It is a tremendously important step forward in learning the lessons from the crisis and adopting a new approach to risk. I am pleased to note that Europe continues to take the lead and is the first jurisdiction at a global level to transpose the G20 commitments. Only when all these rules are in place can we really say we've fully learnt the lessons of the crisis".
The proposal contains two parts: a directive governing the access to deposit-taking activities and a regulation governing how activities of credit institutions and investment firms are carried out. Both legal instruments form a package and should be considered together. The proposal is accompanied by an impact assessment which demonstrates that this reform will significantly reduce the probability of a systemic banking crisis.
New elements in this directive are:
Finally, the proposal will seek to reduce to the extent possible reliance by credit institutions on external credit ratings by: a) requiring that all banks' investment decisions are based not only on ratings but also on their own internal credit opinion, and b) that banks with a material number of exposures in a given portfolio develop internal ratings for that portfolio instead of relying on external ratings for the calculation of their capital requirements.
Today's proposal replaces the former Capital Requirements Directives (2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC) with a Regulation and a Directive and constitutes another major step towards creating a sounder and safer European financial system.
Further background
In order to restore stability in the banking sector and ensure that credit continues to flow to the real economy, both the EU and its Member States adopted a broad range of unprecedented measures with the taxpayer ultimately footing the related bill. In this context, the European Commission has approved €4.1 trillion of state aid measures to financial institutions of which more than €2 trillion were effectively used in 2008 and 2009.
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According to the IMF estimates, crisis-related losses incurred by European banks between 2007 and 2010 are close to €1 trillion or 8% of the EU GDP.
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Found about 20 minutes drive from the Gladstone Central Business District is the small rural township of Mount Larcom. Terrific for a short break during your travels, Mount Larcom has picnic areas, pubs and several takeaway and supply stores to keep you going. Try one of the famous pies, pasties and sausage rolls available at the Mount Larcom Cafe
A short drive back towards Gladstone, is Gladstone's most prominent natural landmark - Mount Larcom. A challenging trek up to the peak is rewarded with an uninterrupted 360-degree view of the Gladstone Area. Rural lands and the Gladstone Harbour can easily be recognised from the summit, and on a clear day you will see reef islands to the east and Rockhampton to the north.
Aside from Pies and Mountains, Mt Larcom is well-known for its yearly district show which attracts around 18,000 spectators over the two days.
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Annual, perennial herb, or ± woody, generally hairy
Leaves simple to compound, basal and cauline; cauline alternate or opposite, stipules present
Inflorescence: cyme or umbel
Flower bisexual, radial or ± bilateral; sepals 5, free, overlapping in bud; petals 5, free, with nectar glands at base; stamens generally 5 or 10; staminodes scale-like or 0; pistil 5-lobed, chambers 5, placentas axile, styles 5, fused to axis, columnar in fruit, stigmas atop axis 5, free
Fruit: segments 5, dry, 12-seeded, separating from each other and then from column; fruit body dehiscent on 1 side or not; part of style persistent atop ovary and separating with it, curved to tightly coiled when dry
Genera in family: 14 genera, ± 750 species: temp, ± tropical. Some cultivated for ornamental, perfume oils
Reference: [Robertson 1972 J Arnold Arbor 53:182201]
Family description, key to genera by M.S. Taylor.
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, aromatic or strong-smelling
Stem of shrubs sometimes soft-woody
Leaves alternate to ± opposite above; blade lobed to dissected, margin generally crenate or serrate
Inflorescence: umbel, dense to open; flowers 3many
Flower bilateral; upper sepal with a spur fused to the pedicel; petals ± equal to strongly unequal, generally striped or splotched; upper 2 petals > lower 3, well separated, different in shape, position; fertile stamens 37
Fruit: body dehiscent, generally oblong, base acute, 1-seeded; part of style persistent to fruit body stiff-hairy on side facing column
Species in genus: ± 250 species: s Africa, Australia
Etymology: (Greek: stork, from beaked fruit)
Reference: [Van der Walt 1985 Bothalia 15:345385]
Perennial, sparsely short-hairy, glandular
Stem ± erect, 25 dm
Leaf: blade < 6 cm wide, ± round to broadly ovate, shallowly lobed, margin coarsely toothed
Inflorescence open; flowers 350; pedicels 510 mm
Flower: sepals < 5 mm; petals < 6 mm, pink to rose-purple
Ecology: Disturbed sites:
Elevation: < 300 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, South Coast
Distribution outside California: native to s Africa


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The grey, misty morning seems enveloped in stillness. But what you can't see are Fort Sill soldiers taking part in the first annual wounded warrior deer hunt.
Monte Dinwiddie is a retired master sergeant for the for the U.S. Army, and he organized Saturday morning's hunt to give back to the soldiers.
"We could fulfill these guys hobbies for the men far away from home," said Dinwiddie. "So it's a giving deal where we wanted to give them something because of what they've given us."
Putting on the event was a team effort between Dinwiddie, the Noble Foundation and the Walnut Bayou Deer Management Association.
Five soldiers from Fort Sill came out to one of the Noble Foundation's ranches at 5 a.m. to start their quest for deer. By lunchtime, they had killed three does.
Saturday was Corporal Amill's first time braving the wilderness for sport. He said he's enjoying the chance to apply his skills.
"All the training that I've done in the military, you know, instead of shooting paper, I got to shoot at a moving target," Amill said.
Experiences like that are what Dinwiddie was aiming for when the idea struck him last October. The planning that went into the hunt included options for what to do with the deer.
He said soldiers can donate their kills, but some of the meat will probably end up back at Fort Sill.
"For the most part their gonna grind them up, have steaks and cook out by the barracks and stuff and share with their other brothers in arms," Dinwiddie said.
But sharing the venison isn't the hunts only target.
"It's more than a bond really," Amill said. "You meet guys you do something together become friends and enjoy the day."


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Join us this Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 21:00 to 02:00 (9 pm to 2 am) at the LiveWire Lounge at 3394 N Milwaukee Ave for PUNK ROCK KARAOKE, a benefit for Chicago Action Medical. Sing your favorite songs, meet friends, and make fools out of yourselves! (Don't worry, we'll be on hand to treat those burns.)
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Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago brings you one-of-a-kind punk rock songs for you to sing (or scream!) along to. We're a DIY, fund-raising event that benefits a different community group each time. Come out, have a great time, and support the cause!!


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Seibertron wrote:I can tell you how many Transformers fans in your area visit Seibertron.com if you're curious. What city do you live in and what city is the next closest (just in case it's too small to show up with Google Analytics).
Really? Sweet! Myrtle Beach SC. I live on the southside in an area called Surfside Beach. I know there is atleast ONE toy collector (possibly a scalper) because figures like Generations Scourge disappear while the ROTF Mudflaps of the world smother my local shelves.


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KDE 4 may take even the spellchecking feature a step further than it has in the past. Rideout says, "There is currently a discussion in the mailing list on enabling spellcheck for every textedit box in KDE." Sonnet will also provide text statistics such as word counts and readability scores [4]. Rideout hopes to eventually implement automatic text completion as well.
Because Sonnet is a library accessible to all KDE applications, Rideout foresees applications beyond text editing programs. Its language detection feature is particularly ripe for unexpected usage. Sonnet is capable of determining the language a text is written in given about 20 characters of data. This feature already works for several dozen languages [5]. According to Rideout, the Strigi desktop search [6] developers are considering integrating language detection into their application's search features. Perhaps users will, one day, be able to search for "documents written in Spanish within the past week."
Rideout, who recently earned his bachelor's degree in linguistics, says that improved multilingual support is the "most requested change" from KDE 3 and it is here where language detection has the most potential. He says, "Users will be able to have documents checked for correctness in a fine-grained manner. Any separate section of a document (by default, this means a paragraph) will be checked in its respective language by the tools available for that language. For convenience, each section will have its language detected automatically, with the option of a user disabling or overriding the detection."
Without Sonnet's language detection, a French user who must frequently correspond with British associates must manually change the language library used by his spellchecker each time he switches languages. In KDE 4, Sonnet will automatically notice that he has begun typing in another language and check for spelling errors accordingly. In a more complex scenario, the user may quote paragraphs from an English speaker within an email he is writing in French. In KDE 3, the English portion will be interpreted by KSpell 2 as horribly misspelled French and continuously underlined in red. With Sonnet, the English text will automatically be spellchecked in its own language, just as the French is in its.
"Language detection in Sonnet was initially based on a Perl script named Languid [7] created by Maciej Ceglowski," Rideout reports. "I ported the Perl script to C++ and have been regularly modifying it so that, while it shares the same algorithmic approach, it is no longer a direct port.... Sonnet was initially 'based on' Languid, but never used any of its code, and now has diverged in several significant ways.... "[Languid's] author has kindly granted KDE a license using the LGPL so that our derivative could be maintained and distributed as part of KDE's libraries."
Languid is fundamentally based on a technique called "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization [8]" published by William Cavnar and John Trenkle. A gram is a segment of text made of N number of characters. Sonnet uses trigrams, made from three characters. By analyzing the popularity of any given trigram within a text, one may make assumptions about the language the text is written in. Rideout gives an example: "The top trigram for our English model is '_th' and for Spanish '_de'. Therefore, if the text contains many words that start with 'th' and no words that start with 'de,' it is more likely the text is in English [than Spanish]. Additionally, there are several optimizations which include only checking the language against languages with similar scripts and some heuristics that use the language of neighboring text as a hint."
Sonnet checks each paragraph of a text individually for its language, though Rideout says that it would be possible to check per-sentence. Paragraphs are used because a larger sample sizes yield more accurate results, and because checking every sentence of a large document for language would be needlessly taxing.
With Sonnet, Rideout says that a user may select a primary and backup dictionary rather than using language detection, in which case a word found to be misspelled in the primary language would be assumed to be of the backup language and spellchecked accordingly. This would be useful, for example, to doctors who must frequently use terms from a medical dictionary. Language detection offers yet more innovative functionality in the way of layout hints. For instance, a paragraph written in Hebrew (a language that is read from right to left) could be automatically right-aligned on the page.
In order to do all this computational linguistics in the background without disturbing or slowing the user interface, Sonnet uses KDE's Threadweaver [9] technology. By intelligently dividing execution jobs into different threads via Threadweaver, Sonnet can perform language detection and spellchecking on a document without interrupting a user's typing. Rideout is among the early adopters of Threadweaver. He says, "On single processor systems the speed might sometimes be slower than the old Kspell code in theory, but not on a user-perceivable scale. On multiprocessor systems, the speed increases greatly. The ease of development is also substantially less than with other approaches."
Despite innovative features like language detection, Rideout is careful not to reinvent the wheel for Sonnet. For spellchecking, Sonnet uses a plugin system that will most likely defer to Abiword's Enchant [10] library. Enchant, in turn, defers spellchecking duties to a variety of standard spellchecking libraries such as Aspell [11]. To complement Enchant, Rideout is developing a grammar-checking library [12] to be titled Elixir. Elixir will serve as a common interface to several existing free-software grammar checkers, such as An Gramadóir [13] and LanguageTool [14]. He expects Abiword [15] to adopt Elixir once it is completed and he is seeking FreeDesktop.org standardization [16] of the plugin system to be used in both Enchant and Elixir. He envisions the major KDE and GNOME text editors using Enchant and Elixir directly, while OpenOffice.org [17] and other editors will use the standards-compliant plugins.
The Sonnet project began with a blog post by Zack Rusin, a Trolltech [18] developer with about half a decade's worth of KDE experience, and the principal developer of KSpell, Sonnet's predecessor. In May of 2006, Rusin proposed [19] a "full linguistic framework" for KDE in his blog. He spoke of augmenting the one standard feature of desktop linguistics, spellchecking, with support for grammar, dictionary, thesaurus, and translation tools.
Rusin works on the Qt toolkit [20] from which KDE is built, and thus focuses his work primarily on various aspects of computer graphics, not linguistics. He says, "Linguistics is fascinating and for some reasons there's not a whole lot of people who'd want to deal with it, at least not as far as its desktop usage goes."
At the time Rusin proposed Sonnet, Jacob Rideout had only minimal experience with KDE development, having contributed a few bug reports and patches. But Rideout was putting his linguistics degree to good use developing Phrasis [21], a "stripped-down text editor" designed for writers on the KDE platform.
It seemed necessary to Rideout that his text editor for writers have grammar correction ability. "I looked for a Qt/KDE wrapper for a grammar checker under the GPL that I could integrate into Phrasis and found none in KDE, but did find a plugin for Abiword. I adapted their wrapper to Qt and informed the KDE developers in case they wanted to use it. Several KDE developers, especially those working on KOffice, were excited, but there was no one willing to do the work at that time. So, after doing some research and talking to people like Zack [Rusin], I started hacking." Rideout now has his own SVN account with the KDE project and has set Phrasis aside to develop Sonnet. Rusin is continuing on with the project in an advisory capacity.
According to Rideout, "Everything is in a 75% done stage in terms of function." So far, it seems that Rideout's greatest barrier has been learning to program in a multi-threaded environment. He says, "My development methodology has traditionally been to jump in and start coding, perhaps 10-20% of the needed code. Then, I step back and examine my goals and design a proper solution. The code is refactored and the architecture is implemented.... Essentially I take the same approach to code as with prose -- write many drafts and be a remorseless self-editor." Rideout laments that this programming style has suited him well in the past, but "can create a mess" in a multi-threaded environment. He says that "Most of the work being done currently, while publicly available in the KDE Subversion repository, has yet to be fully reviewed by the veteran KDE gurus."
Rideout says that translation is a low-priority feature for Sonnet that may not be present for the release of KDE 4, though he would like to implement it in the future and hopes that others will sign on to aid the effort. Similarly, he does not list dictionary or thesaurus tools under the "core components [that] will be ready for the 4.0 release [of KDE]."
Like much of KDE 4, Sonnet promises to bring significant change to a prevailing feature of desktop operating systems. Multilingual users will see the bulk of the improvement, thanks to automatic language detection, but others may still enjoy grammar correction, text statistics, and future features such as translation, dictionary, and thesaurus functionality.


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A lot of frequently credible publications have been pumping out drivel lately blaming borrowers for the ever-widening foreclosure fraud scandal. Fortune Magazine has the latest of these blame-the-borrower narratives. It would be nice to be able to dismiss this kind of nonsense as mere journalistic laziness, but at this point in the crisis, blaming the borrowers is an act of willful ignorance.
The Fortune scribe resorting to this grotesque journalistic vice is Fortune's Duff McDonald. McDonald's argument? Pretty lousy. He openly acknowledges that he hasn't done his homework:
"I find it very hard to process the notion that the onslaught of foreclosures in this country does not have more to do with a failure of conservative financial planning than with some insidious criminality by lenders . . . . I'm amazed that the country has congealed into the belief that every single borrower who signed a mortgage document has an escape hatch that somehow puts blame on their lender when they can't pay their debts . . . . I am at a loss to understand how so many individual homeowners signing loan documents for debt they could ultimately not afford were somehow the victims of a crime."
Four years after the subprime meltdown began, Duff McDonald still hasn't bothered to investigate fraud in the selling of mortgages. I'm getting pretty tired of writing this statement: In 2004, the FBI warned of an "epidemic" in mortgage fraud, 80 percent of which is committed by lenders. There was an entire Congressional hearing devoted to fraud at Washington Mutual. Loan officers and mortgage brokers are perfectly capable of falsifying a borrower's loan application, and they're perfectly capable of telling a borrower they're getting a great 30-year fixed-rate mortgage while selling them a subprime mortgage with exploding payments, adding a zero to the value of the house, or anything else. That's fraud, it's illegal, it happened all the time, and it was perpetrated by handsomely paid financial professionals.
To be clear, this does not mean that "every single borrower who signed a mortgage contract" should be eligible for unlimited government giveaways. But to be equally clear, I haven't seen anybody make that argument, and I don't know why anyone would. It was an $8 trillion housing bubble—there are plenty of scuzzy borrowers out there, like the 20 percent from the FBI statistic.
Do Americans buy big, ugly, expensive things? Yes. Does that mean banks who defraud and deceive people should be let off the hook? No.
The document fraud currently being uncovered in foreclosure proceedings represents just a tiny fraction of the legal mess that bankers have made for themselves. Any half-decent investigation into the document troubles in the securitization of mortgages is very likely to show that investment banks routinely defrauded their investors. Any investigation into the sale of mortgages to borrowers is all but certain to show that banks routinely defrauded homeowners.
McDonald also throws in a pretty sad defense of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's wonderful "sense of ethics," glossing over all the horrible things JPMorgan did under Dimon's watch. JPMorgan is currently hiring thugs to illegally break into people's homes. The bank issued over $30 billion in subprime mortgages during the housing bubble. It bribed public officials into fleecing their own communities. It may very well be the case that Dimon is a better guy than other big finance execs. That's not saying much.
The entire piece reads like a stereotype of the captured-financial-journalist-in-awe-of-his-subjects. Which is disappointing, because Duff McDonald frequently writes good stuff.


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A monkey sitting at this website for infinite amount of time would eventually create the full works of Leonardo DaVinci, Ruby - The Painting Elephant, and Matt Kane, the creator of PIXEL mONkEYS.
A monkey clicking the "render" button on this website for infinite amount of time would eventually generate every image that has ever been and ever will be.
A pixel is the smallest item of information in an image. The image below is 50 x 50 pixels and composed of 2500 pixels of varying colors. The random pixel generator is a computer program that creates a pixel and attributes a randomly selected color to it. The program repeats this task until an image of the user's specified dimensions is created.
Because of having the potential to create any possible image, some think of the random pixel generator's output as "God's Imagination." By no surprise, "God's imagination" consists mostly of indiscernible static. In fact, any image has the potential to be generated, from your own driver's license photo, to an image of an alien creature having tea with a miniature penguin wearing a party hat, or even a horrific crime scene.
The classic Infinite Monkey Theorem states a monkey sitting in a room with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually create the full works of William Shaekespeare.
The idea of applying this theory to pixels came to artist, Matt Kane, at the tender age of 12. He was sitting in junior high school mathematics class during a lesson in xy. Two years prior, he recognized the potential of such a program after noticing in Microsoft Paint that photos are composed of pixels. It wasn't fully realized until over 15 years later, when in 2008, Kane created the internet's first interactive random pixel generator.
Part of the goal for this website is to realize this idea and allow playful exploration of the theory.
Not very likely at all. Even at a relatively small dimension of 320 pixels wide X 240 pixels high, using 256 colors, there are more image possibilities than there are atoms in the universe. 25676,800
Having said that, narrowing the color palette and image dimensions, it becomes very possible to generate a recognizable image. For example, using only black and white colors at 5 pixels wide X 5 pixels high, it becomes very easy to create an image recognizable as a letter, number, or symbol.
The total number of possibilities is: 225 or 33,554,432 unique images.
The random color selected for a pixel is chosen from an array, or list. By taking an image and counting how many times a color is used, one can create a color array that increases the chance of creating that image.
Case in point:
Mario's head is 11 pixels wide X 7 pixels high.
Mario's head consists of 4 colors: blue, red, brown, and orange.
The color array by frequency would consist of: 18 blues, 14 reds, 17 browns, and 28 oranges.
Using this color frequency list over a list simply consisting of 1 of each color highly increases the probability of generating Mario's head or images similiar to Mario's head.
Aside from the potential of creating gruesome images, the greatest fear is that some evil corporation someday will write an algorithm to increase the potential to create recognizable images and create a giant library of images. It will claim copyright for nearly any image not yet created by man. The right of man to dream will end, as government sides with the ever powerful and greedy corporation.
x = Total Number of Colors
y = Total Number of Pixels
I am not a statistician, so I can't say, although I would love to hear the opinion of an expert. Please email me. I'll be happy to give you credit right here in the FAQ.
random PIXEL generator is related to the infinite MONKEY theorem. A pixel monkey is anyone who clicks the "render" button. If you're reading this, you are probably already a pixel monkey.
Go eat a banana while they're still around!
You've probably set too large of dimensions. The program will timeout after a minute and give you the option to abort the script.
The interactive R.P.G on the website is programmed in Actionscript 2 and utilizes the Adobe Flash Player. There was a previous R.P.G I wrote using javascript,JQuery, and CSS. Under the "Program" section of the website is an auto-running R.P.G. written in Processing.
Futility is beauty.
The birth of the idea for Matt Kane was 1990. We'd love to find out who else has thought of this.
Images created by the random pixel generator for personal or strictly educational use is free, provided proper credit to Matt Kane and PixelMonkeys.org is given. I'd also love to hear about it! You may not use an image created by the PixelMonkeys random pixel generator or derivative image for comercial purposes without the expressed written permission of Matt Kane. If you fall into this category, contact me.
I looked into the possibility of using neural networks to scan through a collection of images to identify "recognizable images" not long ago. To date, no donations have been made to the project and lacking proper funding, I cannot move forward with this line of work. These technologies are being developed by others currently, however-- and when they become more readily available, I intend to harness them.
There are several updates to the code I've made, but I cannot spend time updating the website or make these available at this time. Stay tuned- and send me an email to be updated. I'm keeping a list of several interested parties. I have big goals for the future of this project-- it's a matter of balancing time/funding before we get there.
The PixelMonkeys Random Pixel Generator below is capable of creating and saving images faster than the human eye can display. This is not a film. This is the R.P.G. in action, live on your screen.
*Please be patient. It may take several seconds to a minute for Java to load.
Upload an image to create your own Random Pixel Generator. Click Here.
This demonstrates that several similiar pixels are created in an RPG when compared to a source image.
Upload an image and watch it degenerate as pixels reposition themselves at random. Click Here.
This demonstrates what an "understandable" image created by an RPG looks like.
Check back again for future interactions!
If your browser isn't forwarded in the next 5 seconds, please click here to proceed.
PIXEL mONkEYS is a side project by Chicago-born artist, Matt Kane, who is best known for his oil paintings and multi-dimensional, layered resin paintings.
When he's not in his art studio, Kane spends time working as a front-end web developer in Seattle. PIXEL mONkEYS is the fruition of a daydream Kane had in math class when he was 12 years old.
Please consider donating a small amount to encourage future updates and progress on the Random Pixel Generator project.


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I''m still looking at the brickmaking industry in Wing. It seems the founder of the Littleworth brickworks, Richard HARRIS, didn't have any children so I think it is likely that his WORSTER nephews may have been the main beneficiaries of his will when he died in 1870. Any WORSTER/WOSTER/WORCESTER descendants out there with a copy of this will (or happy to get a copy to check it out?). Richard was both a farmer and miller as well as brickworks owner, so he likely had a reasonably large estate.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
WORSTER and HARRIS
Posted by Alex Coles at 8:43 am
Labels: brickmaking, Harris, Worster
4 comments:
- Purple Heather said...
Did you get anywhere on the Worsters?
I have a Worster link in Wing. Fanny Sophia Windmill married Thomas Worster in 1864 in Wing. I think Thomas is the son of William and was born about 1838 but as Fanny Sophia is the sister of my 3x great grandfather I haven't investigated back along Thomas' line yet!
Fanny Sophia grew up with her 9 siblings in the Queens Head.
- 9/7/09 7:38 pm
- Alex said...
I still haven't seen Richard Harris' will so I'm not sure if the Worster boys did inherit.
Your Thomas (born 21 April 1838, the son of George) was the last to raise a Worster family in Wing, but the Worsters stretch back to 1703. Thomas' grandfather Thomas was a witness in the Adams murder trial in 1838 so you might be interested to check that out.
- 10/7/09 4:32 pm
- cormorant said...
I have family tree connections going back to Thomas Worster, around 1812 Ascot, farmer, married to Anne, children are :
+ William 1804
+ Frances 1805
+ Thomas 1808
+ William 1810
+ George 1812
+ John 1814
can anyone help with further details ?
- 9/4/13 7:51 pm
- Alex Coles said...
Hi Cormorant - I have some more information offline about your Thomas & Ann Worster and family. Ann was Ann Parsons of Grendon Underwood. If you email me at email@example.com we can chat more about it.
- 18/4/13 6:14 am


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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Almost Wordless Wednesday.....
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those are fabulous! i love the secondary pattern that it's creating...what color fabric will you do there?ReplyDelete
Gosh Mary this is going to be wonderful!!!ReplyDelete
Looks like Christmas again.
It's snowing a teensy bit here today!
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM
your blocks are amazing, love your fabric choices!ReplyDelete
Love your new blocks!ReplyDelete
They all look terrific together!
Those blocks are just wonderful! Love the fussy cutting for the blocks, can't wait to see the finished quilt!ReplyDelete
They look so great all laid out together!ReplyDelete
This is going to be one sweet quilt, mary! beautiful work....ReplyDelete
Gorgeous blocks! Are you making them into a quilt, I can't remember your plans...ReplyDelete
Yup, I'm obsessed with that pig.ReplyDelete
Everyone looks so lovely in their party clothes.:)ReplyDelete
Ok this quilt is going to be gorgeous! I love that little deer! The colors are just yummy for this quilt and I like that you are using the center hexie to showcase fabrics with. Looking at yours really makes me want to make one of these....ReplyDelete
The farmyard fabric is so cute!!! All your nicks are my favourite, I couldn't pick one. They're so fun and fabulous! Winter looks pretty!!ReplyDelete
Oh don't they look fabulous partying with each other!! I can see how they will go together now! I look forward to seeing what wonderful fabric you will use! Lovely!ReplyDelete
Fabulous blocks. Love all your colour and fabric choices, especially the fussy cut centres. Is this block a well known one or have you designed it yourself? Not a block I have come across before.ReplyDelete
Linda on email@example.com
The color of your blocks are so pretty and fun. THis is going to be a very nice quilt. How many blocks? We are getting snow today.ReplyDelete
Better and better! I am enjoying these so much!ReplyDelete
Beautiful blocks, Mary! I can't choose a favorite. I have the templates all ready to go. I just need to find some time to go along with the templates. It must be hiding around here somewhere!ReplyDelete
Oh, my! These are just adorable! Can't wait to see the finished product.ReplyDelete
They're all gorgeous! I do LOVE those little apples though :)ReplyDelete
i could not adore these stars more!!!ReplyDelete
Hi! You have so nice things here!ReplyDelete
your blocks = wow!ReplyDelete
they are all fabulous, I love the the riot of colour, but I am still mostly in love with the little white billy goat, he's may favourite :) Bethx (the linen cat)ReplyDelete
How amazing blocks! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Funny coincidence, just yesterday I saw and tasted first time those little chocolates from a friend who came from El Paso!
Awesome blocks!!! Love them!ReplyDelete
I love the strawberries, but the black kitty is still my favorite. I just finished #4!ReplyDelete


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Norton teamed up with independent research firm Sperling's BestPlaces to uncover the nation's top 10 cities that have the highest number of cyber crime risk factors. This year marks the second time Norton and Sperling's BestPlaces have collaborated to highlight the various factors that contribute to potential risk. Cities with the greatest risk factors do not necessarily correlate with the highest infection rates, reflecting the fact that many consumers are taking precautions to keep themselves safe.
"In our examination of the riskiest online cities, we've considered a number of factors that can potentially affect online safety," said Bert Sperling, founder of Sperling's BestPlaces and lead researcher for the analysis. "By looking at data from consumer lifestyle habits as well as cyber crime data provided by Symantec, maker of Norton products, we're able to provide a holistic view of the various factors that put a person at potential risk."
Sperling's BestPlaces determined the per-capita rankings by examining several consumer behaviors -— from the prevalence of PCs and smartphones, to ecommerce, social networking and accessing potentially unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots, among others.
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Physical Environment
Located on the crest of the Cascade Range, we receive abundant and frequent snowfall. Cool air often drifts from the eastern slope of the range through the Stevens Pass area, keeping our snow relatively dry. Stevens is located on two national forests, the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie on the west side of the crest and the Wenatchee National Forest on the east. Our forested area is predominately Pacific Silver Fir, Mountain Hemlock, and Subalpine Fir, offering a visual treat when covered by fresh snowfall. The winter weather is usually comfortable, with temperatures often in the mid-twenties.
Snowfall & Terrain
Stevens has lots of it, averaging 460" of snowfall each year, 105" of annual average snowpack, covering 1,125 acres of skiable terrain, including 52 major runs and numerous bowls, glades and faces.
- Base area elevation 4,061'
- Top elevation Cowboy Mountain 5,845'
- Top elevation Big Chief Mountain 5,600'
- Mill Valley base elevation 3,821'
- 1,800 vertical feet on three sides of two different mountains
Trail Difficulty
- Beginner 11%
- Intermediate 54%
- Advanced 35%
Night Experience
We offer a great night experience up to five nights a week, Wednesday through Sunday. Please check the website or snowlines prior to coming up, for updated information on operations. Up to six of our lifts are lit for night operations:
- Hogsback Express
- SkyLine Express
- Kehr's Chair (formerly Big Chief)
- Tye Mill
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- Daisy
Favorite night runs include Showcase, Skid Road, Crest Trail, Blue Trail, SkyLine, Broadway and Barrier Ridge.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Big box: Not-so-funny Madea packs 'em in.
"Do you have to be in control of everything all the time?" Dr. Phil (playing himself) asks Madea (Tyler Perry) during anger management counseling in Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail.
One might ask the same of Perry. He also wrote, directed, produced (with Reuben Cannon) and plays two other roles in what's being misleadingly sold as a comedy.
Surely there exist cave paintings of men in dresses that kept our prehistoric ancestors in stitches. All Tyler Perry– or Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence or Dustin Hoffman, among others– has to do is get in drag and modern audiences crack up. If the actors have funny things to say and do the laughter continues.
Perry gives himself-as-Madea some gut-bustingly funny things to say and do, but they're parceled out sparingly in a movie that's about 90 percent drama and 10 percent comedy. Madea's story is a subplot that doesn't really link up to the main story until Madea, as the title reveals, goes to jail. That occurs more than two-thirds of the way in– three-quarters if you don't count the closing credits, which keep viewers in their seats with an alternate take of the Dr. Phil scene.
Mabel Simmons' (a.k.a. Madea) sordid past, including being a problem child, working as a stripper and attacking a wrestler, is reviewed in an opening montage. She's in trouble again, but a loophole lets her avoid prison for the moment.
In the district attorney's office we meet Joshua (Derek Luke) and Linda (Ion Overman), who are engaged, and Josh's best friend, Chuck (RonReaco Lee). Linda, with an 89 percent conviction record, is assigned to prosecute Madea.
In court the same day is Candace (Keshia Knight Pulliam), a young prostitute and heroin addict. Josh recuses himself from the case when he realizes he knows her. Actually they have quite a history, from childhood through two years of college. Their full story emerges later, after Josh's attempts to help Candy and get her off the streets jeopardize his relationship with Linda, "entirely too much of a princess," who had a bourgeois upbringing while Josh and Candy came up from the hood.
Linda's overzealousness in prosecuting Candy calls Chuck's attention to her unethical methods. Josh doesn't notice until after Candy's been in prison over six months and, absurdly, he brings her files to read in the church on his wedding day.
Aiming his films at religious viewers with a sense of humor, Perry always includes some sermonizing. Viola Davis appears as Ellen, a minister who, having once worked the streets herself, tries to help prostitutes, whether they need legitimate jobs or clean needles. She also lectures in prison, where she and Madea do a tag-team sermon on forgiveness.
Since this is a movie, forgiveness ultimately goes out the window in favor of a cathartic downfall for the villain of the piece.
The movie gets a little self-referential in mocking its gender-bending aspects, from Tom Jones singing "She's a Lady" behind the opening credits to a cop saying of Madea, "That woman got the strength of any man," to her brother Joe (also Perry) saying, "Madea got a prostate." Madea taunts the prison bully, Big Sal (Robin Coleman), a butch blonde with a masculine voice, calling her "sir" and "young man."
Like many who have started at the bottom and achieved fabulous success, Perry doesn't know his limitations and probably surrounds himself with sycophants who won't tell him. He doesn't let critics review his films in advance because he doesn't want to hear any negativity, even if it could improve his product in the long run– and probably because most of us are Caucasian and thus not genetically predisposed to "get" him.
Before he started directing and spreading himself too thin, Perry wrote and starred in Diary of a Mad Black Woman, of which I was a fan. In the Obama era, there's no reason Madea can't reach a crossover audience. She's a fabulous creation, but putting her in sloppily written, poorly directed films does her a disservice, besides being disrespectful both to shunned critics and to those audiences, which were dwindling steadily before this movie had a record opening last weekend, who will buy anything with the Tyler Perry brand on it.
Using Madea as comic relief is like a pastor opening a sermon with a joke to loosen up the congregation and make them receptive to the message that follows; but it doesn't make a movie a comedy. Viewers lured to Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail under false pretenses may well end up echoing Madea's own words: "Lor', do I have to listen to all this melodrama?"


text: Could there be an easier job right now than writing for the "Daily Show with John Stewart"? The actual words spoken by the players and pundits in Washington need no embellishing to reach the level of satire. I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I listen to them. If you are of a certain age you will remember the great 1976 film "Network," in which the main character, a newscaster, implores his viewers to open their windows, stick out their heads and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"


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Lucy Bryant looks at Aspinal of London's deconstruction of 'The History of Women's Workwear' and how to emulate each decade today.
From the relaxed fit of the 20s to the founding of the mini skirt in the 60s, women's fashion mirrors events that played out in history. The look of the era tends to give us an idea of what was happening in the ever changing role of women.
For more on Aspinal of London, visit aspinaloflondon.com


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A nation situated in the Middle East and on the Mediterranean, Israeli food is made up of cuisine brought to the country by Jewish immigration from all corners of the world as well as custom Middle Eastern cuisine.
Israeli food is generally classified as either Askenazi (European) food - traditional European Jewish meals from Hungary and Poland - or Sephardic (Eastern) - foods rich in spices and flavors, reflecting the cuisine from their countries of origin. Each group has contributed greatly to the evolution of Israeli food. The Arab population of Israel has also contributed to the identity of Israeli food with its North African and Middle Eastern foods like Humus and Falafel.
Israel's cosmopolitan make up has provided Israeli food with a variety of flavors and choices. Many food establishments in Israel adhere to kosher dietary laws and keep dairy separate from meat; however, food in Israel is not always subjected to these laws. Over the last years Israel has become somewhat of a culinary capital, boasting several high class boutique restaurants in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and more, which serve a fusion of typical Israeli food and flavors from around the world


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It is important to hire a competent Defense Lawyer in Poinsettia Mobile Home Park, as soon as possible after being involved in an auto accident and to communicate fully with that attorney so he or she can begin gathering evidence. In a society where people file lawsuits over the smallest mishaps, it is important to protect your company from unnecessary or extraneous damages. If you contact them while the ink is still fresh on the police report, you should get additional contact information for them like their work numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers, so when the trial comes, you will be able to track them down at their new address. While a lawsuit is a very important procedure that requires legal expertise, it is usually much less stressful than people imagine. If you do think you'll go to court, make sure you're prepared for the pre-trial process.
Who is the defendant in a car accident in Poinsettia Mobile Home Park?
Sometimes a jury will act the way you think they might, but they can also be incredibly unpredictable, capricious, and swayed by the most inane things. At that point, it is essential to have experienced defense attorney who know how to properly litigate a case, and take it to trial, if necessary. The insurance attorney deposed the plaintiff, however I have never been asked for a statement nor have I been deposed by either side. Our attorneys in Lee County 33916 have the ability to develop effective, affordable legal solutions in auto liability claims. Following a car accident involving injuries, it's not uncommon for the plaintiff to file a lawsuit to recoup losses for medical treatment as well as compensation for pain and suffering. Fighting effectively and efficiently to protect your bottom line requires a defense law firm that understands the realities of the courtroom. Persons injured in an auto accidents have a right to be compensated for their injuries and damages.
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Individuals often file claims against their insurance company for payouts that are within their policy. Additionally, when you represent the injured party that was not at fault for the accident, random bystanders tend to be more cooperative and sympathetic to your client as opposed to the negligent driver. Under the No-Fault Act, certain expenses are paid automatically by a driver's own auto-insurance carrier without regard to who was at fault for the accident. Car accident attorneys and insurance carriers in Poinsettia Mobile Home Park 33916 see a court trial as a dicey last resort, and they'll usually do anything it takes to avoid putting their case in front of a judge or jury. However, in certain instances, some claimants and their attorneys grossly inflate what they believe is a fair settlement amount. The location of the accident is not correct as well as several other details.
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Latin-Mass has provided trusted legal advice and lawyer to insurance companies, their insureds and self-insured companies in Poinsettia Mobile Home Park. Whether you are contemplating filing a personal injury lawsuit or find yourself in the unfortunate position of being sued, you will find being familiar with some of the common defenses in personal injury claims very helpful when assessing your situation. If your company is facing a car or truck accident litigation matter anywhere in Florida, turn to the insurance defense lawyers. According to the National Center for Statistics & Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2005 suffered 3,504 fatalities from traffic accidents. When your company is subject to such an attack, you need a lawyer who will offer your company or your insurance company the defense it needs. So many questions are addressed each day that will eventually have an impact on your practice.
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An Upper West Side nanny accused of killing two young children she was supposed to be caring for was charged with first-degree murder Saturday night, The New York Times reports.
Fifty-year-old Yoselyn Ortega also slashed her own throat on Oct. 25. after allegedly killing the 6-year-old and 2-year-old.
Police held off on charging her with murder because she was intubated and could not be interviewed.
Ortega didn't admit to the slaying to police but did acknowledge she was having money troubles, the New York Post reported.
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HAVELOCK � The new service road bridge over Slocum Creek in Havelock could be open by the middle of May, rather than late summer, according to an official.
HAVELOCK � The new service road bridge over Slocum Creek in Havelock could be open by the middle of May, rather than late summer, according to an official.
Brad McMannen, division 2 assistant resident engineer in the New Bern office of the N.C. Department of Transportation, said a month-long delay at the start of construction hasn�t been a huge hindrance to construction workers.
Though DOT officials initially expected a late-summer opening, the construction contract on the bridge calls for Palmetto Construction to complete work and have the bridge open by May 15.
McMannen said he did not think that would be a problem.
�They�ve driven piles on one bent on the west side of the creek. They plan on next week driving piles on the east side of the creek,� McMannen said. �They are trying to get all the in-water piles in before Feb. 15 before the in-water moratorium comes into effect.
�Any part of the work that touches water, because of a fish moratorium, they can�t do it after Feb. 15.�
The removal of power lines and poles initially caused a delay in the start of construction of the bridge in October. However, work has continued at the site nearly around the clock since, with dirt being brought in to help shore up the east side of the creek � the most noticeable addition up to now.
The 325-foot long, two-lane bridge will have a four-foot-wide bike and pedestrian lane. It will link the service road from just east of the Hampton Inn to just west of Tim Newton Auto Sales. The new bridge replaces a 1924-era concrete span along Church Road. Church Road will be permanently rerouted to meet with the service road east of the creek near the old Wendy�s restaurant.
The old bridge � the site of two fatal crashes in 2012, one of which occurred just four days before the bridge�s schedule closure in October � is scheduled to be demolished early next year.
As for construction of the new bridge, the pilings are vibrated halfway down into the creek�s bottom and then pounded down to the specified depth.
The new bridge is a core-slab construction, built in six spans that consist of five 50-foot sections and one 75-foot section stretching across the Slocum Creek channel. The core slabs are pre-cast and then trucked in to the site.
McMannen said workers have been removing mucky and unstable material and bringing in sandy material that will be suitable for the roadbed.
The new path for Church Road has been cut through the woods. Soon, a concrete box culvert will be installed and a new roadbed constructed using material taken from the old causeway leading to the old bridge.
The elevation will be returned to match the natural grade that exists on either side of the old causeway.
Palmetto Construction, from Greenville, S.C., won the DOT bid to construct the new bridge and remove the old bridge for $2.8 million.
The old bridge was Havelock�s oldest and was continuously listed among DOT�s worst bridges in Craven County.


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Roll forward to my college years and its 3 a.m. on Campus and the only thing open was Buckeye Donuts. Staggering home from "the library", all it would take was a hazardous waste container of their strong "varnish remover" and a couple sinkers - man I was ready to tackle that sociology paper due in the morning...
Now in my dotage, it takes a truly magnificent doughnut to turn my head. While Crispy Cremes are good (especially when they just come rolling out of the glaze). Light and sweet - they have their place, but after one or two, they show their shallow nature. And the variety doughnuts they carry - so lacking in character they are not really worth the time it takes to mention them.
So the point of all this you ask?
Meet Rosa Auddino. She is the matriarch of the family owned bakery Audinos. Locals in the food service industry will recognize the name - Auddino's delivers fresh baked buns and breads to customers all over the city. What most people don't know is they have a retail outlet. And inside that retail outlet - they have doughnuts. Good doughnuts. Did I say good? I meant - Fantastic Doughnuts. Well those and other really great baked goods as well.
Let me regale you with the story of how my hubby found Auddino's.
One of Tony's best friends is Charlie. Charlie owns a towing company. One thing you can depend on is that Charlie knows where to find good food - north, south, east or west he can point you to something that is truly delicious. So one day I asked Tony to hunt down some rolls for the Italian Beef I was making and he was having no luck. So he stopped in at Charlie's shop to get his butt whipped at gin and shoot the shit.
"So watcha up to, Tony?" Charlie says as he rolls his big stogie around in his fingers. (Charlie is a big guy - he makes my hubby look like an anorexic dwarf- and his voice rolls over you like a jet engine ready to take off. You know Hagrid the giant from the Harry Potter books and movies? Well Charlie would bitch slap Hagrid and take his lunch.)
"Rose has me running all over the city trying to find these rolls for dinner tonight and I just can't find what she wants. I tell you if she wasn't such a good cook, her ass would be out on the curb!" says Tony as he shuffles the deck and deals.
"Well why don't you go over to Auddino's?" Charlie starts sorting out his cards while chewing the hell out of his half lit cigar.
"Yeah, Auddino's. Over by the fairgrounds. We'll go over after I finish takin' all your money. They'll have what you want."
So after finishing the game in which Tony was forced to cough up his stripper tipping cash, they headed over to Auddino's. (He denys it, but why else would a man carry around $30 in ones? All men are dogs...)
And I'll be damned if they didn't have the prefect rolls. Plus a ton of pastries. We ate really good that night. I even forgave Tony for his stripper tipping habits - for the moment.
A week later, I made Tony take me over to the bakery so I could check out their wares for myself.
Underneath an ancient sign reading Auddino's Breads Cakes Donuts and Pastries lay one of the best bakeries in Columbus
Behold their bounty...
Fried Croissant -This is my favorite. Take a plain croissant, throw it in some hot fat, then drench in a glaze. It is sweet, flaky buttery and totally sinful. This is what Krispy Kreme wishes it could be.
Apple Fritter - Soft, with tiny apple pieces and lightly spiced with cinnamon, these are some of the best examples of this fried goodie I have ever found.
Cake Donuts - Paired with coffee or milk, cake donuts are that old fashioned midday treat.
And let's not forget the classic Italian treats!!
Amaretti - These are dense moist very sweet cookies made with almond paste. I had tried for years to make these at home but to no avail. Now - I just stop down and pick up a dozen of these to serve with coffee after dinner. And you have to serve these with coffee. The extreme sweetness make this the perfect accompaniment to a strong espresso or dark roast americano.
Cannoli - The real deal. Crunchy, creamy and sweet - these are a dream.
This is not all they offer, so I recommend you stop in and check it out for yourself ASAP.
In parting, here is some advice concerning your upcoming trip to Auddino's.
1) If you see a really big white pickup sporting a set of truck nuts parked out front, be prepared for gale force winds in the building - this means Charlie is there picking up goodies for his crew.
2) Go early. Their more popular choices sell out quickly and you may miss out.
3) Needing lots and lots of bread and goodies? Call ahead and place an order. They are professionals ya know...
Auddino's Bakery
1490 Clara St
Columbus, OH 43211
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Uta Barth was here last week for the Modern's first 2011 Tuesday Evenings lecture. I have always found Barth's work stunning, with its peripheral quality and serial presentation. While an hour was not enough time to fully cover her work to date, Barth was able to give a good sense of its origins and where she is with it today. Barth closed the lecture with a few images of work from her early twenties. They were images that she kept to herself as a student due to their incongruence with the trends in art at the time. It was revealing to see how surprisingly consistent these black-and-white photographs—partial images of her as a sundial casting shadows on a sunny patch of floor or the happenings within a specific area of her studio—had with the role of light and shadow and the beautiful records of the familiar and mundane in what she is making today. It was a thoughtful lecture and a thorough overview of her process for making art over more than three decades.
Uta Barth: The Long Now, the recently released 383-page monograph on the artist, signed and available in the Modern Shop, has gorgeous reproductions of most of the work covered in Barth's lecture.
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The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission designates which public oyster beds are open for fishing by opening or closing the season as biological data indicate a need. The oyster harvest season for state public oyster beds (seed grounds and reservations) generally runs from the first Wednesday following Labor Day in September through April 30 of the following year; however, there are often exceptions to this for certain seed grounds. No public ground or reservation shall be fished for market sacks until the second Monday in October. Consult the LDWF web site for the most recent information regarding oyster seasons. The owner of an oyster lease or his designee with written permission, may fish oysters at any time of year on their lease, unless the lease is under a Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) closure order.
NOTE: Areas opened by the commission may, however, be closed by DHH for health reasons. Information on closed areas is available from LDWF or from DHH (1-800-256-2775).
The commission shall fix the open season for commercial taking of oysters from Calcasieu Lake and Sabine Lake, which for Calcasieu Lake shall begin on any date between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 and shall end on April 30 or on a date set by commission.
All oysters taken from public grounds must be three inches or greater in length from hinge to mouth. A lessee of private oyster grounds may be permitted to take undersized oysters from public grounds for bedding purposes only. Size restrictions do not apply to commercially harvested oysters taken from a private lease.
Not more than 25 sacks per boat per day may be taken from Sabine Lake. Harvest limits in Calcasieu Lake shall be set by the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission not to exceed 25 sacks of oysters per day per licensed vessel.
Harvest from private leases for commercial purposes is unlimited.
Recreational oyster fishermen may harvest oysters:
1. in leased areas only with the written permission of the lease holder;
2. in personally leased areas;
3. in areas open to the public for the harvesting of oysters, but shall be limited to two sacks per person (R.S. 56:424c) per day for personal consumption.
Oysters may be taken from public grounds by dredges, scrapers and tongs. Dredges and scrapers shall be no longer than six feet in width measured along the tooth bar. The dredge teeth shall be no longer than five inches and there shall be no more than seven dredges in use on any one vessel. Dredges shall not be used in such a manner as to remove excessive non-living reef material with seed oyster loads or as to cause physical destruction to the natural reefs.
The use of dredges in Calcasieu and Sabine Lake is limited to a single hand dredge or a single scraper with mechanical assist that has a tooth or flat bar of no more that 36 inches in length.
Any oysters taken from the public natural reefs or the oyster seed grounds or reservations, except those in Calcasieu Lake or Sabine Lake, shall be placed only on a vessel which has an Oyster Seed Ground Vessel permit issued. Such permit shall be issued in the name of the vessel owner and shall identify the vessel permitted by including the state registration number or the United States Coast Guard documentation number. For more information, contact LDWF Marine Fisheries Division at 225-765-2370 or LDWF Licensing Section at 225-765-2898.
Each person in charge of an oyster cargo vessel shall purchase an Oyster Cargo Vessel permit. The permit shall be issued at a cost of $250 per year for residents and $1105 per year for non-residents.
Any person who qualifies and who desires to lease a part of the bottom of any state waters shall present to the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries a written application and cash deposit of such amount as determined by the department. Lessees, under the supervision of the department, shall stake off and mark the lease water bottoms in order to locate accurately and fix the limits of the water bottoms embraced by each lease. Areas shall also be prominently marked with signs which state the lease number and name or initials of the lessee.
Oysters shall not be harvested from any unmarked lease.
Culling oysters, which is the act of discarding undersized oysters or dead shell, shall be performed only on the open designated public grounds or on private leases on which the fisherman is authorized to take oysters. At no time will the act of culling oysters be permitted in areas closed to harvesting oysters.
The taking of oysters one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise is prohibited.
Oysters taken from the reefs of this state either for sale or consumption shall be landed in Louisiana, except persons in possession of an out-of-state oyster landings permit may land oysters taken from private leases only in any state.
Sacks or any other types of containers used to hold oysters harvested in Louisiana and placed in commerce must be tagged with a tag issued by LDWF.
Commercial fishermen harvesting or possessing oysters in state waters must purchase an oyster harvester license, in addition to any and all licenses otherwise required. Commercial fisherman harvesting oysters from the public oyster seed grounds or reservations, except those grounds of Calcasieu and Sabine Lakes, are required to possess a valid Public Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit.


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