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Dancing with the Stars Season 10 – Rumor Roundup
….and a couple new rumors as well. The big one that I just saw today, that requires a bathtub of salt, is Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek will be on this season. This is a random twitter rumor – if it solidifies more, I'll let you all know. 🙂
Okay, that was quick – this rumor about Jonathan Frakes seems to originate from a DWTS Blog and also included Genie Francis. It's third or fourth person so…not likely. But hey, I do well on getting the cast right because I report EVERYTHING I hear. 🙂
Regular readers of this blog know we post all the gossip we hear about the new casts of DWTS each season. Every season there are people we hear solid (and not so solid) rumors about. The thing about this show is that often someone is rumored before one season yet shows up on a later season. So we thought it would be a good idea to recap rumors we heard a while ago that haven't panned out yet. Just revisit them and see if they still seem likely. So, here we go!
Bethany Frankel – from Real Houswives. I'm thinking no right now. Never heard anything about her other than the initial interview where she said she would love to do it.
Suge Knight – still possible, IMO. Seems like something the producers would pull.
Danny Gokey – former AI contestant. I'm thinking no, although it's more likely this season than last since I don't know how much post-Idol success he's had.
Erin Andrews – ESPN Reporter and one of John's favorites. 🙂 She was rumored a long time ago for 2010. I don't know if this one is still possible, if she is still interested in doing it.
Kurt Angle – TNA Superstar, it seemed fairly solid that Kurt was at least contacted about DWTS. What the end result of that was, who knows?
Dominique Moceanu – Olympian that was photographed with Tony Dovolani. Simple fan photo? Or something more?
Vera Wang – the wedding dress designer rumor came from Marc Malkin from E! so I tend to give it a bit more weight than your average rumor. I could be wrong and Marc could get his info the same place I do – Twitter. 🙂 That said – that rumor got kinda solid as we reported on June 17, 2009.
Lou Ferrigno – Lou was seriously blowing his own horn on this. He said he was in the running. Now, did his spilling the beans kill his chances, or did it just not work out for last season? I believe he was also the one who got really pissed off when he wasn't picked, so maybe that ruined his chances.
Okay, that's all for right now! There are a LOT more, so I"ll continue tomorrow in part II. I also have to continue my SCD versus DWTS series – I haven't forgotten. You've been warned. 🙂


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A scan of polar bear DNA has shown that polar bears came into existence far earlier than previously assumed. Working with fossils alone, scientists had thought that polar bears, after intermingling with brown bears, made their first snowy white appearance anywhere between 60,000 to 600,000 years ago. But a genetic analysis now shows that they first emerged considerably earlier — as much as 4-5 million years ago.
The study, which was conducted by Penn State University and the University at Buffalo, indicates that polar bears are not a recent spinoff of brown bears, and are instead a species that ebbed and flowed over the millennia according to changing climatic conditions — growing in population during cool periods, and shrinking in warmer times.
And fascinatingly, it was during these warmer periods that polar bears would intermingle with their brown cousins. Writing in the New York Times, James Gormans explains:
The progress of species formation, at least in this case, is a bit like a long, ambivalent divorce in which the two parties separate but occasionally fall back into bed even after the official decree.
Dr. [Charlotte] Lindqvist, said the DNA showed evidence of intermittent interbreeding between brown and polar bears from the time of the split until the present - most likely during periods of warming, when brown bears moved north and polar bears were forced onto land.
In most brown bears the percentage of genetic material traceable to polar bears is 2 percent. But on the Alexander Archipelago, a 300-mile-long string of islands off the southeast coast of Alaska, the brown bears have 5 to 10 percent polar bear DNA, suggesting more frequent interbreeding.
The microscope of whole-genome studies and comparisons also gives glimpses into the adaptation of polar bears to the Arctic environment, including genes for high fat content in milk and for blubber accumulation.
Quite obviously, this study has implications for our understanding of what will happen to polar bears given the current period of climate change. It's tempting to suggest that today's polar bears, like their ancient predecessors, will survive this current warming trend. But as the authors of the study warn, the situation is considerably different this time. Not only is climate change happening at a much more rapid pace, but the diversity of bear bears in warmer areas has been drastically diminished. Consequently, polar bears may be in a bit of trouble as they look for potential mates down south.
Check out the entire study in PNAS.
Top image via Shutterstock.com/Anita Gilden. Inset image from Tree Hugger.

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I love westerns. There's just something cathartic about watching a good guy - or antihero, in the best versions - squaring off with the man in the black hat. With AMC's "Hell on Wheels" though, I find it nearly impossible to have any response to any of the stories, characters or themes.
I love westerns. There�s just something cathartic about watching a good guy � or antihero, in the best versions � squaring off with the man in the black hat. With AMC�s �Hell on Wheels� though, I find it nearly impossible to have any response to any of the stories, characters or themes.
After the first season�s meandering narrative surrounding Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and his supposed quest for revenge, I would have quit �Hell on Wheels� out of frustration, but out of love for the genre I came back to check out the first two episodes of Season 2.
While I was somewhat invested in Cullen seeking out the Union soldiers who killed his wife and son during the Civil War � a classic vengeance theme in westerns � that story quickly fell to the wayside in favor of something with more potential, but little substance. �Hell on Wheels� took a more expansive look at the mobile community building the transcontinental railroad.
There are certainly interesting tales (and themes) to be spun within this concept, especially given the troubled consciousness of our nation post-Civil War, but showrunners Joe and Tony Gayton chose to forgo those larger ideas for a contrived plot that was just to keep characters and stories moving along.
To an extent, Season 2 presses the reset button on events from the first season. All of the characters remain and their stories from last season aren�t forgotten, but Cullen, Elam (Common), Durant (Colm Meaney), the Swede (an awesome and poorly used Christopher Heyerdahl), and the others seem to be setting out in new directions. It�s an improvement only because last season was mostly awful, but the way these characters and their individual stories come together at the end of the second episode again feels awfully contrived.


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Recipe from Rebecca Hayward of Del.
This can be used as an entree or as strips on a fresh salad. It's great either way!
1 8oz bottle of Italian dressing
1 stick of butter or margarine
3 tsp of salt
4 tsp of pepper
1/4 cup of oregano
1 tbsp of ground parsley
1 tsp garlic
1 - 3 to 4 pack of skinless chicken breast (not frozen)
aluminum foil
First, wash the chicken and remove any excess fat. Poach the chicken slightly on each side with fork. Make a small slice in the middle of the chicken breast on one side only.
Next, set the chicken aside. Using the aluminum foil make a small square section for each breast (big enough to close and leave some breathing room). Then set that aside.
Now in a bowl mix: 4oz of Italian dressing, salt, pepper, garlic and 3/4 stick of melted butter. Stir and mix together well.
Now cup each piece of aluminum foil so that it can hold chicken. The sides should reach a good inch to two on either side. With the remaining 1/4 stick of butter rub each chicken breast until it is covered on the side with the slice. Using 1 tbsp of parsley and 1/4 cup of oregano (easiest if combined in same dish) stuff each slice in each breast until gone.
Place the stuffed breasts in each individual foil piece. Using the dressing mixture from above, pour on 1/4 to 1/2 cup of dressing mix in each piece of foil. Afterwards fold the foil at the top just enough so there are no openings. Now bake in an oven for 45 to 60 minutes at 375 to 400 degrees. Then top with Italian dressing and Enjoy!
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Surat is widely known for its diamond industry. And you can find a lot of gold shops selling diamonds or jewelry as you pass by the streets of Surat. Hundreds of glittering and shining Surat Diamond jewelry shops on both side of the street is mostly one of the most unique views which can be seen here.
The polishing industry in Surat came into existence in 1901 or so, it was much later, around the 1950s, that it slowly began to grow. The industry, however, gained momentum in the 1960s running into the 70s with gusto with its ability to cut low-quality rough diamonds, which the other centers like Israel, Antwerp, etc would not touch. Thanks also to the US market which turned out to be the biggest market for the small diamonds cut and polished in Surat. From here, there was no looking back for Surat which met aphorized into this vibrant and flourishing sector, not only as a major employment generating industry but particularly relevant for foreign exchange earnings through export for the country.
Now, here more than 85% of the world's rough diamonds are processed. About 35-40% of the rough diamonds processed and polished in Surat are imported by clients and Sightholders of global diamond miners including De Beers, Alrosa and Rio Tinto. The rest of the roughs are imported directly from Antwerp, Dubai and African nations. Making it home to about 4,500 diamond processing units that employ about 500,000 workers. Overall It imports 100 percent of the raw material and exports 94 percent of it. Only 6 percent of the polished diamonds are sold domestically. It also does not enjoy a high-profit margin. At maximum owners enjoy profit margins between 1 to 2 percent.
Over the years, the people here have mastered the art of cutting and polishing of diamonds. Each diamond goes through more than 15 steps of quality check both by advanced machines and expert human eyes. The final step for the best diamonds is the unique number inscription, which is 1/5,000th the thickness of a human hair and is visible only under a microscope, can be used to trace the history of the diamond.
What makes sense for you is to look for SuratDiamond if you are looking to buy real diamonds with the best polishing and cut. Other qualities like Carat, Color, and Clarity is all depended on what stone you finally choose for based on your budgets but for sure when it comes to Cut and finishing in the polishing of Diamonds – There is no competition worldwide to Surat Diamonds.
This also has boosted the related jewelry industry in all nearby regions. As a very strong correlation, Mumbai has emerged as India's best jewelry manufacturing hub producing the finest quality with unmatched finishing. Every jewelry manufacturing hub has its own designing qualities but Mumbai due to its proximity to Surat and with the use of advanced technological equipment has become the best choice for customers. You are thinking of buying real Diamond jewelry from outside Mumbai region, think who can give you the original SuratDiamond jewelry manufactured from Mumbai.


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Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson are Michael Bay's newest bad boys in the first trailer for "Pain & Gain."
Starring as a pair of jacked bodybuilders that are in way over their heads in an illegal get-rich-quick scheme gone wrong, their chemistry is reminiscent of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's in 1995's "Bad Boys."
Also read: Mark Wahlberg Joins 'Transformers 4' for Michael Bay
The duo may not be as funny, but they get along just as well and can handle walking away from an explosion without flinching a muscle — a challenge considering how much of it they have to flinch.
And although the buddy action-comedy was only shot on a small (by Bay's standards) $25 million budget, the action sequences appear to pack the same punch as his biggest blockbusters.
At the very least, viewers can look forward to the director's signature slow-mo, plenty of girls in bikinis and exciting car chases when his latest lands in theaters on April 26, 2013.
Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris and Tony Shalhoub co-star.
Watch the trailer:
Pain & Gain Trailer from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.


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Maria Johnson, founder of private preschool chain Little School talks to Gill South. LIttle School owns all its school properties in Wellington and Auckland and are all houses.
At the moment Little Schools are located in Kelburn, Khandallah and Churton Park area in Wellington and also St. Heliers in Auckland. In Kelburn we have two preschools and an office building. We have also purchased a property in Remuera to open another preschool. I have always liked the idea of the preschools being in smaller houses in residential areas. It gives an automatic homely feel about them which our families always comment on. It also means the numbers of children we cater for are smaller which appeals to our programme.
Why do you own the houses your schools are in?
I have always liked owning the preschool properties as it gives me the freedom to be able to do whatever I want internally and externally to the property. There have always been quite extensive alterations done - which are expensive but at the same time the properties could always be turned back into liveable houses if required. It means I haven't had to get permission from landlords about what I am able to do. Also by owning the properties I have no unexpected surprises with lease agreements and rental issues or prices. I find owning the properties is beneficial as they are tangible assets as opposed to a leased property with goodwill.
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How willing are banks to lend on the purchases?
I have always found the banks to be very helpful when it comes to mortgages. I have always done my homework and market research before purchasing any properties. Banks will always look at your credit history along with your business plans to protect themselves. They will also look at your demonstrated financial performance and your capacity to repay your loan. I guess for them the assurance that the property could always be converted back into a residential home is a safe guard along with the fact that our preschools are in areas where the property values are quite stable.
How do you custom-make your Little Schools?
I have a very particular design for Little Schools. They have to first of all meet the council and Ministry of Education requirements, so when purchasing I make sure the property is going to be able to cater to these. The properties have to be able to be designed so we have indoor outdoor flow along with the ability to make small learning areas and play spaces for the children. Because our programme is structured and our environment is used as our third teacher, the properties have to be able to re-designed to meet these needs.
Tip for other SMEs looking at buying their property
Separate the property out from the business so that the business rents the property from you.
Next week we look at SMEs who open their doors to interns and to school children looking for some career guidance. What's in it for them? Send in any of your thoughts or experiences to me, Gill South, at the link below.


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An anonymous reader writes "Romero is willing to give Ouya the benefit of the doubt, but he sees it filling a niche for neither gamers nor developers. 'I think it's cool that they're making a platform, but it's not really the answer that's coming from Apple about the next generation of consoles. Developers really want to invoke the spirit of the Apple II, Android isn't the operating system with which to do it,' Romero said. 'There are two platforms: [iOS] makes money [and] is still very programmable, like the Apple II, and then the other is Android, which is a piracy platform, and you're not doing anything new with it.'"
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OLR Bill Analysis
HB 5389 (as amended by House "A")*
This bill allows a licensed physician to certify an adult patient's use of marijuana after determining that the patient has a debilitating medical condition and could potentially benefit from the palliative use of marijuana, among other requirements. The bill lists certain conditions that qualify as debilitating (e. g. , cancer, AIDS or HIV, and Parkinson's disease) and also allows the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) commissioner to approve additional conditions.
Among other requirements, patients seeking to use marijuana for palliative purposes must have a written certification by a physician and register with DCP. The bill provides for temporary registrations until 30 days after certain required regulations take effect. The bill allows qualifying patients and their primary caregivers to possess a combined one-month marijuana supply.
The bill sets conditions on who can be primary caregivers and requires them to register with DCP. The bill authorizes DCP to impose a $ 25 registration fee for patients and caregivers, and other fees. Registry information is generally confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but may be disclosed for specified purposes (e. g. , to law enforcement officials for investigating and prosecuting crime).
The bill creates licensing requirements for pharmacists (termed "dispensaries") to supply the marijuana and for producers to grow it. DCP must adopt regulations setting the maximum number of dispensaries and producers (the number of producers must be at least three but no more than 10), providing for their licensure, and setting standards. The commissioner must set dispensary and producer fees, including a producer licensing application fee of at least $ 25,000, along with financial requirements for producers that may include a $ 2 million escrow account. The DCP commissioner must establish fees that offset the costs of administering the palliative use of marijuana.
The bill prohibits patients, their caregivers or doctors, dispensaries, or producers from being subject to criminal or civil penalties, or being denied any right or privilege, for specified actions relating to palliative marijuana use. Caregivers are only protected from such punishments if, among other things, they obtained marijuana from a licensed dispensary. The same restriction does not apply to patients.
The bill prohibits schools, landlords, or employers from taking certain actions against a patient or caregiver if the actions are solely based on the person's status as a palliative marijuana patient or caregiver, unless the actions are required by federal law or to obtain federal funding.
The bill specifies settings where its protections for patients do not apply. These include ingesting marijuana at work, at school, in public places, in moving vehicles, or in front of children.
The bill requires the DCP commissioner to establish a board of physicians who are knowledgeable about palliative marijuana use. Among other things, the board must (1) recommend to DCP additions to the list of debilitating conditions and (2) convene public hearings to evaluate petitions by those seeking to add conditions to the list. It requires and allows the DCP commissioner to adopt regulations on various matters, including requiring him to submit regulations reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule II controlled substance (it is currently a Schedule I controlled substance, subject to the most stringent regulation).
Among other things, the bill also:
1. requires law enforcement agencies to return marijuana or other property seized from a patient or caregiver who complies with its provisions;
2. creates misdemeanor penalties for certain lies told to law enforcement officials related to palliative marijuana use;
3. specifies that it does not require health insurers to cover the palliative use of marijuana; and
4. requires that all fees DCP collects under the bill be deposited in a separate, nonlapsing palliative marijuana administration account the bill establishes.
*House Amendment "A":
1. changes certain conditions under which the bill's protections and prohibitions apply, such as specifying that a patient's palliative use of marijuana must not endanger the health or well-being of anyone else other than the primary caregiver and extending certain provisions to dispensaries' and producers' employees;
2. deletes a provision providing for an affirmative defense for patients and primary caregivers;
3. adds a provision concerning an employer's right to (a) prohibit employees' use of intoxicating substances during work hours or (b) discipline employees for being under the influence;
4. adds to and changes certain required regulations;
5. makes the bill's definitions effective upon passage; and
6. makes various minor, technical, and clarifying changes to the bill.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012, except for the provisions (1) defining various terms (§ 1), (2) providing for dispensary and producer licensing (§§ 9-10), (3) creating a Board of Physicians (§ 13), (4) requiring or allowing certain regulations (§ 14), and (5) establishing the palliative marijuana administration account (§ 19), which are effective upon passage.
Under the bill, "palliative use" means the acquisition, distribution, transfer, possession, use, or transportation of marijuana or related paraphernalia to alleviate a qualifying patient's symptoms of a debilitating condition, or the symptoms' effects. Palliative use includes the transfer of marijuana and related paraphernalia from the patient's primary caregiver to the qualifying patient. It does not include any marijuana use by someone other than a qualifying patient.
Subject to various requirements and conditions, the bill allows the palliative use of marijuana by adult patients to treat "debilitating medical conditions. " Under the bill, debilitating conditions include cancer; glaucoma; HIV; AIDS; Parkinson's disease; multiple sclerosis; damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity; epilepsy; cachexia (emaciation often caused by cancer or cardiac diseases); wasting syndrome; Crohn's disease; posttraumatic stress disorder; and other medical conditions, treatments, or diseases that DCP approves through regulations, as explained below.
Qualifying Patients
Under the bill, a qualifying patient is a state resident who is at least age 18 and has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. The term does not include inmates confined in a correctional institution or facility under the supervision of the Department of Correction.
Primary Caregivers
Under the bill, a patient's primary caregiver is someone at least age 18, and someone other than the patient's doctor, who agrees to take responsibility for managing the patient's well-being with respect to his or her palliative use of marijuana. For purposes of the bill, a qualifying patient cannot be his or her own primary caregiver.
If the patient lacks legal capacity, the caregiver must be the patient's parent, guardian, or legal custodian. Someone convicted for illegally making, selling, or distributing controlled substances cannot serve as a primary caregiver. The qualifying patient's physician must evaluate the patient's need for a primary caregiver and document the need in the certification of palliative use.
The bill limits caregivers to only one patient at a time, unless the caregiver and each patient have a parental, guardianship, conservatorship, or sibling relationship.
Under the bill, a physician may certify a qualifying patient's use of marijuana only after determining, in the physician's professional opinion, that the patient has a debilitating condition and the potential benefits of the palliative use of marijuana would likely outweigh its health risks. The certification must include a statement to this effect. The certification must be (1) in writing, (2) signed and dated by the physician, and (3) in DCP-prescribed form.
The bill makes the certification valid for one year from the date it is signed. It requires the patient or the primary caregiver to destroy all usable marijuana that the patient and caregiver possess for palliative use (1) within 10 days after the certification expires or (2) at any time before then if the patient no longer wishes to possess marijuana for palliative use. The bill defines "usable marijuana" as the dried leaves and flowers of the marijuana plant, and any mixtures or preparations of the leaves and flowers, that are appropriate for the palliative use of marijuana, but not including the plant's seeds, stalks, and roots.
Registration Requirement
The bill requires certified, qualifying patients and their primary caregivers to register with DCP. DCP must issue the patient and the primary caregiver a registration certificate that, once issued, is valid for the same period as the written certification from the physician, up to one year. When registering, the patient and caregiver must give DCP information that sufficiently and personally identifies them (as DCP determines). They must also report any change in the information within five business days after it occurs.
DCP may charge a reasonable fee for each registration certificate, up to $ 25. It must turn over any registration fees it collects to the state treasurer for deposit in the palliative marijuana administration account the bill creates.
Disclosure of Registration Information
Under the bill, registration information obtained by DCP is generally confidential and not subject to disclosure under FOIA. But the bill requires DCP to give the following reasonable access to this information:
1. state and federal agencies and local law enforcement agencies to investigate or prosecute a violation of law;
2. physicians and pharmacists, to provide patient care and drug therapy management and monitor controlled substances the qualifying patient obtains;
3. public or private entities for research or educational purposes, as long as no individually identifiable health information is disclosed;
4. licensed dispensaries, for the purpose of complying with the bill;
5. qualifying patients, but only with respect to information related to themselves or their primary caregiver; and
6. primary caregivers, but only with respect to information related to their qualifying patients.
Temporary Registration
The bill allows qualifying patients to apply to DCP for temporary registration if they would otherwise be eligible for a registration certificate, except that regulations on licensed dispensaries, licensed producers, distribution systems, and specific amounts of marijuana have not yet taken effect (see below). They may do so from October 1, 2012 until 30 days after the regulations take effect. To apply, they must present a physician's written certification to the DCP commissioner, who must grant the temporary certificate to patients who qualify. The bill requires DCP to indicate on a temporary registration certificate how much usable marijuana constitutes a one-month supply, which the patient may possess.
DCP must maintain a list of temporary registration certificates it issues. Information on the list is subject to the same confidentiality and disclosure provisions as other registration information, specified above.
The bill establishes licensing requirements for pharmacists seeking to dispense marijuana for palliative use. It prohibits anyone who is not licensed by DCP as a dispensary from acting as one or representing that he or she is a licensed dispensary.
Under the bill, the DCP commissioner must determine how many dispensaries are appropriate to meet the needs of the state's qualifying patients. He must adopt regulations limiting the number of dispensaries and providing for their licensure and standards (see below). Once the regulations take effect, the commissioner can issue dispensary licenses to licensed pharmacists who apply for a dispensary license in accordance with those regulations and who the commissioner deems qualified to acquire, possess, distribute, and dispense marijuana pursuant to the bill. The number of dispensary licenses issued cannot exceed the maximum number set by regulation.
The dispensary regulations must at least:
1. indicate the maximum number of dispensary licenses;
2. provide that only a licensed pharmacist may apply for and receive a dispensary license;
3. provide that no marijuana may be dispensed from, obtained from, or transferred out-of-state;
4. set licensing and renewal fees that at least cover the direct and indirect cost of licensing and regulating dispensaries under the bill;
5. require license renewal at least every two years; and
6. describe areas in the state where licensed dispensaries may not locate, after considering the law's criteria for the location of retail liquor permit premises.
The regulations must also establish:
1. health, safety, and security requirements for licensed dispensaries, which may include (a) maintaining adequate control against the diversion, theft, and loss of marijuana acquired or possessed by the dispensary and (b) maintaining the knowledge, understanding, judgment, procedures, security controls, and ethics to ensure optimal safety and accuracy in the distributing, dispensing, and use of palliative marijuana;
2. standards and procedures for license revocation, suspension, summary suspension, and nonrenewal, as long as the standards and procedures comply with the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act's (UAPA) requirements for taking such actions; and
3. other licensing, renewal, and operational standards the commissioner deems necessary.
Under the bill, DCP must give the state treasurer any fees it collects related to dispensary licensing. The fees must be credited to the palliative marijuana administration account the bill creates.
The bill also provides for DCP's licensing of palliative marijuana producers, and prohibits anyone who is not licensed by DCP as a producer from acting as one or representing that he or she is a licensed producer.
To qualify for a producer license, the person must be organized to cultivate (plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, and harvest) marijuana for palliative use in the state. The commissioner must also find that the applicant (1) has appropriate expertise in agriculture and (2) is qualified to cultivate marijuana and sell, deliver, transport, or distribute marijuana solely within the state pursuant to the bill.
The bill's provisions for producers are in many ways similar to its provisions for dispensaries, although there are some notable differences. The DCP commissioner must determine how many producers are appropriate to meet the needs of the state's qualifying patients. He must adopt regulations (1) providing for producer licensure, standards, and locations and (2) specifying the maximum number of licenses, which must be at least three but no more than 10. After the regulations are effective, the commissioner can issue producer licenses (up to 10) to applicants who apply in accordance with the regulations.
The required producer regulations also must at least:
1. provide that a producer may not sell, deliver, transport, or distribute marijuana from or to an out-of-state location;
2. establish a nonrefundable license application fee of at least $ 25,000;
3. establish licensing and renewal fees that in the aggregate at least cover the direct and indirect cost of licensing and regulating producers under the bill;
4. provide for licenses to be renewed at least every five years;
5. designate permissible locations for licensed producers, and prohibit producers from cultivating marijuana for palliative use outside of the state;
6. establish financial requirements for producers, under which (a) applicants demonstrate the financial capacity to build and operate a marijuana production facility and (b) licensees may be required to maintain a $ 2 million escrow account at an in-state financial institution;
7. establish health, safety, and security requirements which must at least include a requirement that an applicant or licensed producer demonstrate the ability to (a) maintain adequate control against the diversion, theft, and loss of marijuana the producer cultivates and (b) cultivate pharmaceutical grade marijuana for palliative use in a secure indoor facility;
8. define "pharmaceutical grade marijuana for palliative use" for this purpose;
9. establish standards and procedures for license revocation, suspension, summary suspension, and nonrenewal, that comply with the UAPA's standards for such actions; and
10. establish other licensing, renewal, and operational standards the commissioner deems necessary.
The bill requires DCP to give the state treasurer any producer licensing fees that it collects. The fees must be credited to the palliative marijuana administration account.
The bill prohibits qualifying patients, their caregivers or doctors, or marijuana dispensaries or producers from being arrested, prosecuted, or otherwise penalized, including being subject to civil penalties, or denied any right or privilege, including being disciplined by a professional licensing board, for taking specified actions related to the palliative use of marijuana. The particular requirements for each group are explained below.
The bill also prohibits anyone from being arrested or prosecuted solely for being present during or in the vicinity of the palliative use of marijuana permitted by the bill.
§§ 2 & 15 – Qualifying Patients
Under the bill, qualifying patients cannot be subjected to the actions or penalties specified above for palliative marijuana use if:
1. the patient has a valid registration certificate from DCP;
2. the patient's physician has issued a written certification for the patient's palliative use of marijuana after prescribing, or determining it is not in the patient's best interest to prescribe, prescription drugs to address the symptoms or effects the marijuana is supposed to treat;
3. the combined amount of marijuana possessed by the patient and his or her primary caregiver for palliative use does not exceed a usable amount reasonably necessary to ensure a one-month supply, as DCP determines through regulation;
4. the patient does not have more than one primary caregiver at a time; and
5. the patient otherwise complies with the bill.
The protection against such punishments or actions does not apply if a patient's palliative use of marijuana endangers the health or well-being of someone else, other than the primary caregiver. The protection also does not apply if the patient ingests marijuana:
1. on a motor bus or school bus, or in any other moving vehicle;
2. at work;
3. on school grounds or any public or private school, dormitory, college, or university property;
4. in any public place (i. e. , any area that is used or held out for use by the public whether owned or operated for public or private interests); or
5. within the direct line of sight of anyone under age 18, in a way that exposes someone under age 18 to second-hand marijuana smoke, or both.
If a patient has a temporary registration certificate from DCP, he or she is not subject to such penalties for possessing marijuana as long as the usable amount possessed by the patient and primary caregiver does not exceed the amount allowed by the temporary registration.
§§ 4 & 15 – Physicians
The bill prohibits a physician from being subject to such actions or penalties for writing a certification for palliative marijuana use as long as he or she:
1. diagnosed a qualifying patient with a debilitating condition;
2. explained the potential risks and benefits of using marijuana for palliative purposes to the patient and to the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of such a patient who lacks legal capacity;
3. based the written certification on his or her professional opinion after completing a medically reasonable assessment of the patient's medical history and current medical condition in the course of a bona fide physician-patient relationship; and
4. has no financial interest in a licensed dispensary or producer.
The bill also provides that physicians are not subject to such actions or penalties for writing a certification that a patient uses for a temporary registration.
The bill specifies that it does not allow physician assistants to issue certifications for palliative marijuana use.
§§ 3 & 15 – Primary Caregivers
Under the bill, if a primary caregiver has a valid registration certificate from DCP and complies with the bill, he or she is protected from the punishments or penalties specified above for acquiring, distributing, possessing, or transporting marijuana or related paraphernalia for the qualifying patient. For this protection to apply, the amount of marijuana, along with the combined usable amount the patient and caregiver possess, cannot exceed a reasonably necessary one-month supply in accordance with DCP regulations adopted under the bill. The protection also does not apply if the marijuana was obtained from a source other than a state-licensed dispensary. The protection against punishment for distribution applies only when the drug or paraphernalia is transferred from the caregiver to the patient.
If a patient has a temporary registration certificate from DCP, the primary caregiver cannot be penalized for possessing marijuana as long as the usable amount possessed by the patient and caregiver does not exceed the amount allowed by the patient's temporary registration.
§ 11 – Dispensaries
The bill protects licensed dispensaries, or their employees acting within the scope of their employment, from the actions or penalties specified above for acquiring, possessing, distributing, or dispensing marijuana pursuant to the bill.
The bill prohibits licensed dispensaries or their employees from:
1. acquiring marijuana from someone other than a licensed producer;
2. distributing or dispensing marijuana to someone who is not a qualifying patient registered with DCP or primary caregiver of such a patient; or
3. obtaining or transporting marijuana outside of the state in violation of state or federal law.
§ 12 – Producers
The bill protects licensed producers, or their employees acting within the scope of their employment, from the actions or penalties specified above for cultivating marijuana or selling, delivering, transporting, or distributing it to licensed dispensaries.
It prohibits licensed producers or their employees from (1) selling, delivering, transporting, or distributing marijuana to someone who is not a licensed dispensary or (2) obtaining or transporting marijuana outside of the state in violation of state or federal law.
The bill requires law enforcement agencies to return marijuana, related paraphernalia, or other property seized from qualifying patients or primary caregivers who comply with its provisions, immediately after a court determines that they were entitled to it. Under the bill, such an entitlement can be shown by a prosecutor's decision not to prosecute, the dismissal of the charges, or the patient's or caregiver's acquittal.
The bill makes it a class C misdemeanor to lie to a law enforcement official about the palliative use of marijuana for the purpose of avoiding arrest or prosecution for any crime. It makes it a class A misdemeanor for someone to lie to a law enforcement official about the issuance, contents, or validity of a (1) written certification for palliative use or (2) document purporting to be a written certification.
Class C misdemeanors are punishable by up to three months' imprisonment, up to a $ 500 fine, or both. Class A misdemeanors are punishable by up to one year's imprisonment, up to a $ 2,000 fine, or both.
Membership and Appointment
The bill requires the DCP commissioner to establish a Board of Physicians, consisting of eight physicians or surgeons who are (1) knowledgeable about the palliative use of marijuana and (2) certified by the appropriate American board in neurology, pain medicine, pain management, medical oncology, psychiatry, infectious disease, family medicine, or gynecology. It appears that the commissioner selects the board members. The commissioner also serves as an ex-officio board member. He must select a chairperson from among the members.
Under the bill, half of the initial appointees serve three-year terms, and the other half serve four-year terms. All members appointed subsequently serve four-year terms. Members are eligible for reappointment, and each member may serve until a successor is appointed. Three board members constitute a quorum.
Board Duties
The bill requires the board of physicians to:
1. review and recommend to DCP for approval any debilitating medical conditions, treatments, or diseases to be added to the list of conditions that qualify for the palliative use of marijuana;
2. accept and review petitions for additions to the list of debilitating conditions (any individually identifiable health information contained in such a petition the board receives is confidential and not subject to disclosure under FOIA);
3. meet at least twice a year to conduct public hearings and to evaluate such petitions;
4. review and recommend to DCP protocols for determining how much marijuana may be reasonably necessary to ensure uninterrupted availability for one month for qualifying patients, including amounts for topical treatments; and
5. perform other duties related to the palliative use of marijuana at the DCP commissioner's request.
In addition to the other required regulations specified above, the bill requires the DCP commissioner to adopt implementing regulations on various matters. The regulations must at least:
1. govern how DCP considers applications for issuing and renewing qualifying patients' and their caregivers' registration certificates, and establish any additional information to be contained in the certificates;
2. define protocols for determining how much useable marijuana constitutes an adequate supply to ensure uninterrupted availability for one month, including amounts for topical treatments;
3. set criteria for adding medical conditions, treatments, or diseases to the list of debilitating conditions that qualify for the palliative use of marijuana;
4. establish a process for members of the public to submit petitions, in the manner and form prescribed in the regulations, regarding the addition of medical conditions, treatments, or diseases to the list of debilitating conditions;
5. establish a process for public comment and public hearings before the physician board regarding the addition of medical conditions, treatments, or diseases to the list of debilitating conditions;
6. add medical conditions, treatments, or diseases to the list of debilitating conditions, as the physician board recommends; and
7. develop a system for distributing marijuana for palliative use that provides for (a) marijuana production facilities housed on secured grounds in the state and operated by licensed producers and (b) distribution to qualifying patients or their primary caregivers by licensed dispensaries.
The commissioner must also adopt regulations establishing a reasonable fee to charge qualifying certified patients to offset the direct and indirect costs of administering the palliative use of marijuana. This fee is in addition to any registration fee. The commissioner must collect this fee when qualifying patients register with DCP, and must remit the fees to the state treasurer, to be credited to the account established by the bill.
The commissioner must submit these regulations to the General Assembly's Regulation Review Committee by July 1, 2013.
The bill also permits, but does not require, the commissioner to adopt regulations on the following matters, in consultation with the board of physicians:
1. establishing a standard form for physicians' written certifications for the palliative use of marijuana and
2. establishing procedures for registrations with DCP by patients and caregivers.
While the bill does not require DCP to establish a standard form for written certifications, it requires such certifications to be in DCP-prescribed form.
Unless required by federal law or required to obtain federal funding, the bill prohibits the following actions if they are based solely on a person's status as a qualifying patient or primary caregiver under the bill:
1. a K-12 school or higher education institution, whether public or private, (a) refusing to enroll someone or (b) discriminating against a student;
2. a landlord (a) refusing to rent a dwelling unit to someone or (b) taking action against a tenant (including actions for possession, recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, cause of action, and any other proceeding determining the parties' rights); and
3. an employer with at least one employee, including the state or its political subdivisions, (a) refusing to hire someone or (b) firing, penalizing, or threatening an employee; but this provision does not restrict an employer's ability to prohibit the use of intoxicating substances during work hours or to discipline an employee for being under the influence of intoxicating substances during work hours.
The bill specifies that these provisions must not be construed to permit the palliative use of marijuana in a way that violates other provisions providing that a patient's protection from punishment or other penalties does not apply if he or she ingests marijuana at work, school, or other specified settings (see above).
The bill requires the DCP commissioner to submit to the Regulation Review Committee amendments to DCP regulations, reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule II controlled substance (it is currently classified as Schedule I). He must do so by January 1, 2013. This requirement applies despite the general procedures authorizing the commissioner to change a controlled substance's schedule classification.
Under existing law, if there is an inconsistency between the state controlled substance schedule and the federal schedule, the federal schedule prevails, unless Connecticut places the substance in a higher schedule (schedule I is the highest, V the lowest). The bill creates an exception for the reclassification of marijuana, which is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law (see BACKGROUND).
The bill establishes a separate, nonlapsing palliative marijuana administration account in the General Fund. The account consists of the various fees DCP collects under the bill, as specified above; investment earnings; and any other money the law requires to be deposited in it. The account can only be used to provide funds to DCP for palliative marijuana administration. Any money remaining in the account at the end of a fiscal year must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
Controlled Substance Classification
Federal law classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance. The law generally prohibits anyone from knowingly or intentionally manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense Schedule I drugs. Licensed practitioners, including pharmacies, can use Schedule I substances in government-approved research projects. The penalty for violations varies depending on the amount of drugs involved.
To be placed in either Schedule I or Schedule II, the drug must have a high potential for abuse. Placement in Schedule I requires the drug to have no currently accepted medical use in the U. S. By contrast, placement in Schedule II requires the drug to have a currently accepted medical use or such a use with severe restrictions (21 U. S. C. §§ 812, 823, and 841(a)(1)).
Judiciary Committee
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Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee
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Stephen Thompson will return to action for the first time in more than a year with a spot on the UFC's Memorial Day weekend card.
Thompson (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) will meet "TUF 7" winner Amir Sadollah (6-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) at UFC 160 in May. UFC officials on Wednesday announced the new booking, saying verbal agreements are in for the welterweight matchup.
UFC 160 takes place May 25 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The main card will air on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook. UFC President Dana White on Tuesday confirmed a heavyweight title fight between champion Cain Velasquez and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva will headline the card, and a bout between former heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos and former top contender Alistair Overeem will be the co-main event.
Thompson has not fought since a loss this past April to Matt Brown at UFC 145 in Atlanta. After winning his UFC debut in stunning "Knockout of the Night" fashion with a head-kick stoppage of Dan Stittgen at UFC 143, "Wonderboy" became an overnight sensation. But the karate expert was quickly brought back down to earth by Brown, who dominated him en route to a unanimous decision with scores of 30-27, 30-27 and 29-27. Thompson was expected to make his return at UFC 154 this past November, but a knee injury forced him out of a bout with Besam Yousef.
Sadollah will be trying break out of a bit of a slump. In September, he dropped a unanimous decision to Dan Hardy in front of Hardy's home crowd at UFC on FUEL TV 5 in Nottingham, England. This past May, he beat Jorge Lopez by split decision to erase a loss to Duane Ludwig at UFC on Versus 5 in Milwaukee. He'll hope to avoid the first losing skid of his career, and with losses in two of his past three fights, getting back in the win column seems of paramount importance.
For the latest on UFC 160, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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ART AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: FROM THE PANEL: Hartney/Monk/Knowles/Ehn, Montano: Moderator, Marranca. 2002 For entire transcript see PERFORMING ART JOURNAL, Vol 24 Number 3.(Sept 2002) MONTANO: Natural Voice: I must admit that …Read More
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Constance Lewallen
11.29.16Stephen Kaltenbach, Art Works, 1968–2005, bronze, 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 5/8". Photo: Benjamin Blackwell.
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) was one of the first museums to focus on collecting Conceptual art. Since the 1960s, it has amassed works by Tom Marioni, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Ant Farm, and this commitment has not waned since, as witnessed by the recent acquisition of dealer Steven Leiber's collection. Constance Lewallen was instrumental in building Berkeley's collection. As a curator at the institution for over three decades, she worked closely with many of the artists featured in "Mind over Matter," a survey she recently organized of pieces by first-generation Conceptual artists within BAMPFA's holdings. The exhibition, which she discusses here, is on view through December 23, 2016.
I CAME INTO THE ART WORLD during the seminal period of Conceptual art, which reflected the vast political and social changes taking place worldwide. In New York, working at the Bykert Gallery, I met artists like Michael Snow, Vito Acconci, Jan Dibbets. In Los Angeles I worked with artists who were connected to CalArts, including Jack Goldstein and Douglas Huebler; John Baldessari has continued to be a friend, and an inspiration. In 1980, I got a crash course in Bay Area Conceptual artists when I created a chronology for the catalogue for "Space/Time/Sound," at SFMOMA.
With "Mind over Matter," I wanted to emphasize that everything we're seeing now in terms of "new" art internationally is derived from this early period. At the time, many people thought it was an endgame: "Where do you go from here?" But it turned out to be such an extremely fertile period. It was also a moment of innocence; I think people respond to this work because it's not about commercialism, it's not about money, it's not about fame. It's for artists to address their friends or each other, and there's something so wonderful about that that's really lost now.
Many Conceptual artists were interested in getting art into the world without announcing that it was art. Stephen Kaltenbach made bronze plaques bearing words—Art Works is the one I have in the show—that he intended to be buried in cement and unlabeled, so people wouldn't necessarily know they were works of art. (He was also one of the first to place anonymous ads in Artforum, in 1968 and 1969.) Mail art, begun in earnest by Fluxus artists, was adopted by Conceptual artists as another new way of disseminating ideas—as were artists' books.
When women come into the picture in the early '70s on the wave of feminism, the body, which on the West Coast was already a new area of exploration, becomes very politicized (then came ACT UP and the Guerrilla Girls to illustrate that yes, art can effect political change). Carolee Schneemann's iconic performance Interior Scroll is represented by a photograph of her pulling out a scroll from her vagina while delivering a monologue. At the time, men dismissed the piece, and many women thought she was exploiting herself—she got it from both sides. Now, she's being recognized for her groundbreaking work. But it took a long time.
People often think Conceptual art is drily intellectual—that can be true, but it can also be humorous—and beautiful and emotional. In Mitchell's Death, Linda Montano relates the story of her husband's accidental death. You see only her face, eventually pierced with acupuncture needles; it's the most emotional piece in the show. One ought not say "beautiful" in describing a work by John Cage because he wasn't thinking about making beautiful art, nor were most Conceptual artists. Yet Cage's Plexigram, which consists of several Plexiglas sheets bearing variously colored words and word fragments derived by chance from the dictionary—it's complicated, as his work always is…but it really is beautiful.
I juxtaposed Jim Melchert's film Untitled, in which an unclothed woman and man playfully throw buckets of water at each other, with the Relation in Space series Marina Abramović and Ulay performed in the 1976 Venice Biennale—again, it's two naked figures, but their encounters become increasingly violent. Media Burn, a spectacular performance event Ant Farm enacted in 1975 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, is a funny and sharp critique—a collision between two American icons, the car and the television. They made a video out of the performance: It's not just a document, it's a landmark early video piece. And of course there's Baldessari, who has always used humor to great effect. At first he was dissed by East Coast artists because they thought, "Humor?—can't be serious." But of course it can be; I've included his well-known video where he takes different poses while announcing, "I'm making art." It's a commentary on the Nauman line, "Whatever I do in my studio is art."
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Heyokas and Performance Artists by Linda Mary Montano : A Wikipedia and Linda DialogueWIKIPEDIA SAYS:The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester, and satirist, who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them. Only those having visions of the thunder beings of the west, the Wakíŋyaŋ, and who are recognized as such by the community, can take on the ceremonial role of the heyoka.
The Lakota medicine man, Black Elk, described himself as a heyoka, saying he had been visited as a child by the thunder beings.[1] (Thunderbirds).
What a relief finding an anthropological home for my proclivities, my calling, my bizarre/radical/dangerous/sloppy/antisocial actions which I have pursued all of my life and have called "art."
Knowledge is power and Wikipedia is often the good news deliverer. For my argument, I have re-posted everything this secular bible Wikipedia, said about the word Heyoka, because that word is relevant to my need for affirmation and inclusion. We all need that! To be tribed and part of the hive mind and my hive mind of choice is the American Indian Heyoka. Truly I want to be known as that and also a performance artist. No longer embarrassed by my need to be/do/think opposite, I have found inclusion in the ancients whose vocations are to bless by being wrong, bless by having been visited by the destructive powers of thunder and lightening, blessed by being willing to be the perennial outsider.
I'm just like them.
The Heyókȟa is thought of as being backwards-forwards, upside-down, or contrary in nature. This manifests by their doing things backwards or unconventionally — riding a horse backwards, wearing clothes inside-out, or speaking in a backwards language. For example, if food is scarce, a heyókȟa may sit around and complain about how full he is; during a baking hot heat wave, a heyókȟa might shiver with cold and put on gloves and cover himself with a thick blanket. Similarly, when it is freezing he might wander around naked, complaining that it is too hot. A unique example is the famous heyókȟa sacred clown called "the Straighten-Outer":
He was always running around with a hammer trying to flatten round and curvy things (soup bowls, eggs, wagon wheels, etc.), thus making them straight.
Not until 2015 when my car with me in it was struck by lightening, was I a bonafide Heyoka and member of this esteemed SACRED CLOWN CLUB which I became interested in back in the late 70's when I lived in California and attended American Indian ceremonies in New Mexico with Pauline Oliveros and the Rothenbergs. That began my fascination and always re-fascination with the culture that loves the earth; my fascination with the people who step softly on the earth; my fascination with their methodology of respect for all of the earth's animals and their fascination with their commitment to feeling breathtaking beauty.
These indigenous people and we performance artists as well, have a way of playing with brain waves, with vibrational frequencies, with energies, with the sacred, that seperates us from everyday/ordinary mind-goers. We tricksters climb the ladder going up and down from Delta Waves (babies, deep relaxation, sleep) 0HTZ-4HTZ to Theta Waves 4-8 HTZ(hallucinations, meditation) to Alpha Waves 8HTZ-12HTZ(day dream) to Beta 12-40 HTZ to Gamma 40 HTZ.. These journeys are erratic and unpredictable and allow both the performance artist and the audience-viewer to play mentally with our own hidden stuff, with our own subconscious , with our issues in a way that a clearing and spaciousness can be practiced as art and later applied to daily life; articulated as loving awareness. For you see, the Sacred Clown/Performance Artist has an important duty. That of mind cleaner!
The heyókȟa symbolizes and portrays many aspects of the sacred beings, the Wakȟáŋ. His satire presents important questions by fooling around. They ask difficult questions, and say things others are too afraid to say. Their behavior poses questions as do Zen koans. By reading between the lines, the audience is able to think about things not usually thought about, or to look at things in a different way.
Principally, the heyókȟa functions both as a mirror and a teacher, using extreme behaviors to mirror others, and forcing them to examine their own doubts, fears, hatreds, and weaknesses. Heyókȟa have the power to heal emotional pain; such power comes from the experience of shame — they sing of shameful events in their lives, beg for food, and live as clowns. They provoke laughter in distressing situations of despair, and provoke fear and chaos when people feel complacent and overly secure, to keep them from taking themselves too seriously or believing they are more powerful than they are.[3]
In addition, sacred clowns serve an important role in shaping tribal codes. Unbound by societal constraints, heyókȟa are able to violate cultural taboos freely and thus critique established customs.[4] Paradoxically, however, by violating these norms and taboos, they help to define the accepted boundaries, rules, and societal guidelines for ethical and moral behavior. They are the only ones who can ask "Why?" about sensitive topics; they use satire to question the specialists and carriers of sacred knowledge or those in positions of power and authority.
For people who are as poor as us, who have lost everything, who had to endure so much death and sadness, laughter is a precious gift. When we were dying like flies from white man's disease, when we were driven into reservations, when the government rations did not arrive and we were starving, watching the pranks and capers of Heyókȟa were [sic] a blessing.
Like the HTZ-frequency of the earth, performance artists have their ears to the breath of the ground and march to the beat of a different drummer, one that is not only heard by animals and trees but also by infants before they reach discursive/enculturated/highly negatively addictive mind controlled thought.
I realized all my life that I was really different, although my mother had told me that as well as she tried to make sense of her child rearing skills and my interpretation of her best efforts. But it seemed I had access to an intuition that I didn't own but owned ME and allowed me to know the code that opened the door to siddhis which Hindus say are fantastical inner/outer phenomenon. It was absolutely apparent in 1966-69 when my 3 sculpture professors came into my studio at the University of Wisconsin Madison and asked, "Montano, what are you going to do for your MFA show?"
1. My response was , "Chickens." Had I known then that the role of opposition and jester was my sacred calling, I would not have been as surprised as I was by my answer because although I had a few reasons to say the word chickens, having visited them at the University's agricultural school while an MFA candidate so as to escape the art of the male /fellow grads, it was still an upside down answer and one that totally surprised me. It was a heyokas answer perchance given I was in an elite graduate art program at a prestigious university?
2. Or maybe this is why I said, chickens? My father had put the family's chickens in their kitchen as a prank when his mother would not allow him to go to a Saturday afternoon movie and realizing the punk gesture of my father and his bravado, I imitated his courage some 40 years later by putting chickens I an art gallery
3. Or was this the reason? My mother's chicken collection graced every table, shelf and bookcase in our middle class home.
4. Subconsciously this might really be the reason? I was feeling "chicken", the bad aspect of chicken; that is fearful, overpowered, misoginistically overlooked, patriarchically powered-over and out of my league at this over abundantly male and large sculpture making department comprised of 404,947 testesteroned ones and 3 of us brave warrior women also in the sculpture department. Having just graduated with an MA from an all womens university at an Italian Medici-made castle in Florence, I was not ready for this boys club. And remember, it was 1976 when women were seen and not heard, present but not presiding. Hiding behind live chickens was a wise ploy.
5. By 2016, CHICKENS had become my true friends. See below.
https://youtu.be/CK8y6Z135gMyoutu.beCHICKENARAMRA by Linda Mary Montano. Chickens were once dinosaurs. Now they mentor "How to Focus."
Only those who have had visions of the thunder beings of the west can act as heyokas. They have sacred power and they share some of this with all the people, but they do it through funny actions. When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the West, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.
MONTANO SAYS: Had I had indigenous training in otherness, had I danced Chicken dances with soft moccasins as a child, had I been sent to a menstral hut at 13 for a week to live with other mensrating women and girls, had I been encouraged to ask for a vision in my private hilltop quest, had I ridden bareback and had my hair braided by elders, then my choice for using live chickens as material/theme/subject for my art would have seemed more natural and less disconcerting to both myself, my audience, the faculty and administration of the art school which removed my three, four by eight foot chicken wire cages with three chickens in each cage nine total. That's what I had to do when wealthy patron-donors toured the new art department building and I was told, "They just won't understand showing chickens as art, Linda. Please take them away. " I had by then gotten my MFA so I gave the chickens to the janitor. Boo Hoo, had I known that I was a Heyoka, I would have gotten in the cage myself with them and refused to move!
In Lakota mythology, Heyókȟa is also a spirit of thunder and lightning. He is said to use the wind as sticks to beat the drum of thunder. His emotions are portrayed opposite the norm; he laughs when he is sad and cries when he is happy, cold makes him sweat and heat makes him shiver. In art, he is depicted as having two horns, which marks him as a hunting spirit.[6]
MONTANO SAYS:In conclusion:1.Supposedly, in Mexico City there are artists who have been struck by lightning and lived to tell it. They meet together and I would like to join them some day.2.My mother always told me, "Linda, you are five years ahead of the times."And also, "Linda, you're different, you're just different!" I include my video MOM ART as proof of her certification of my Heyokahood. "Thanks Mom for seeing me so clearly and guess what? You were pretty different yourself! Heyokas-r-us."https://youtu.be/Af7eaU7Yt6cyoutu.beAn interview between Mildred Montano and Linda Mary Montano (1970's) featuring Mildred Montano's paintings.
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RE-PERFORMING YOUR LIFE VIA THE FAIRY TALEOur lives can become infinite rehearsals of our parent's dreams for us. We do and redo and do again what they have taught us and what we have seen. We must re-do it ourselves. That is our job, that is our healt…Read More


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to the company, the tool combines roughing and finishing, promising higher time in the cut efficiency, long tool life and a much better surface quality.
Clean Sheet of Paper
With success of the Crazy Drill line, the engineers at Mikron sharpened their pencils to develop another product in the Crazy Tool line of high performance, small diameter cutting tools for precision machining applications.
One of the first considerations the engineers tackled is the raw material from which to make the cutting tool. To that end, they developed a new micro-granulate carbide grade, which fulfills the requirements of hardness as well as toughness. The demands of milling difficult materials requires that the cutting tool be hard enough to lift a chip and tough enough not to break prematurely.
Next, the researchers looked at the design of the tool
and how to optimize its cutting geometry, which is specific, but not limited for the machining of stainless steels and helps the tool to achieve its improved performance characteristics. A combination of different geometric characteristics leads to the desired results. A robust cutting body, a radial relief and a very specific cutting edge preparation afford a very high cutting edge quality and stability.
An important contribution for the tool life is also the coating, which is innovative and also very specific for hard-to-cut metals. With an extremely low friction coefficient and a reduced affinity with steel, build up at the cutting edges is avoided.
Furthermore, the coating has a high oxidation resistance and heat hardness. This helps to maintain the temperature in the green range and a "burning" of the cutting edges is avoided, which in turn, contributes to longer tool life and improved surface quality.
Putting 'Cool' in the Tool
However, the key development of the milling cutter line is connected to the "cool" part of the tool's name. It is generally
accepted in machining practice that dry machining is not recommended when working with stainless steels. This recommendation is due primarily to the poor heat conductivity of the material, which causes tools to become extremely hot, resulting in burn out of the cutting edges and tool failure.
Therefore, the use of coolant is a must. Mikron's CrazyMill microcutter has three to four internal coolant channels (depending on diameter), which go through the shaft and bring coolant along the diameter to the cutting edges. In effect, the cutting tip and cutting shank are enveloped by coolant.
The result is a targeted and massive cooling effect where it's needed—at the cutting edges. Moreover, unlike external coolant lines, this coolant flood is applied in every machining position the cutter is programmed to make.
In addition to stabilizing the temperatures in the cutting zone, the coolant flow continuously flushes chips away from the milling area, which is a key to improved cutter life and workpiece quality. In relation to the small diameters of the milling cutters, the cooling channels are rather large.
The large volume of coolant created is highly efficient; the friction heat is substantially absorbed and removed by the coolant. Part of the cutter design included that these cutters have no special requirements necessary for filtering and coolant pressure, which allows their use on conventional machines.
'Hot' Results
General practice milling suggests an infeed of 0.1 – 0.2 ×D is recommended to mill a channel in solid material. The CrazyMill Cool is able to achieve depths of 1 – 1.3 × D directly.
Mikron's Markus Schnyder points out that one does
not have to be a calculus genius to realize that with
up to 5 times faster cutting speed and a comparable increase in feed rates, the efficiency of the milling cutter is improved by a factor of 10 to 20. Interestingly, it is in the "difficult" materials where the performance difference is seen the most.
Also, according to the company, the surface quality in these materials is equally impressive. Even though the
cut goes into solid material, the CrazyMill Cool boasts Rz values, which are 2 to 3 times better than what can be expected from conventional cutters.
In Stock
In the near future, a complete inventory of standardized, small milling cutters will be available for applications in industry segments such as watchmaking, medicinal
and surgical technologies. The first series of cylindrical, small cutters in diameter of 0.3 mm to 4 mm (0.02 inch to 0.16 inch) has been launched. Also available are short versions for maximum depths of 1.5 × D, a medium version for 3 × D and a long version for 5 × D. All of these tools have a cutting head of 1.5 × D.
Related Topics
Cutting Tool Coating Production
This article looks at the coating methods available for carbide cutting tools.
A Guide to Insert Coating Processes and Materials
Few materials have had a greater impact on our economy and industrialized culture than cemented tungsten carbide.
Thread Whirling Basics
The rapidly increasing demand for high-value threaded parts with exceptionally high length-to-diameter ratios has created a lot of interest in thread whirling technology among American shops and manufacturers.


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Irwin police chief breaks hand in confrontation
Randolph Piper denies assaulting Joe Pocsatko
Irwin Police Chief Joe Pocsatko has a broken bone in his right hand -- an injury suffered while struggling with a suspect who he says tried to strike him in the face with a phone.
"It hurts," said Pocsatko, wearing a cast at the police station Wednesday afternoon.
But 26-year-old suspect Randolph Piper denied the allegations as he was being taken away in handcuffs, and he claims he was only defending himself.
"I have video proof proving my innocence," Piper told WTAE's Ashlie Hardway. "I was attacked by him while trying to file a complaint against one of his officers. I was dialing 911 to get more help with the state police down here."
Pocsatko said Piper approached him around 8:30 a.m. and wanted to complain about speeders in an alley. He said he told Piper that he would take the complaint, but Piper didn't want him to.
Pocsatko said he then checked the registration on Piper's vehicle, and he claims Piper pulled something out of his pocket. Pocsatko said he pushed Piper back, and the item in Piper's hand turned out to be a cellphone. That's when he said he took Piper into the station.
"Once we got into the police station door, he took the phone which is a direct line to 911 and said he was going to call 911," Pocsatko said. "I said, 'You're with a police officer, you're not calling 911, you're already with a police officer.' Took the phone off him to hang it back up, and he turned and struck me with it in the face."
The broken emergency phone at the police station was in pieces when Hardway arrived. She asked Piper how it broke, and Piper answered, "From him taking it out of my hand, and it hitting the wall."
Piper was taken to jail and charged with aggravated assault on a police officer.
In 2010, Piper was charged with assaulting an officer in Morgantown, W.Va. He said, "That was years ago, defending myself against a former friend that tried to attack me with a knife."


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Guide to Windows XP
I did not write this, I am merely reposting.
A Installing/Reinstalling Windows XP (the "correct way")
A.1 Windows XP's System Requirements
Minimum required specifications
CPU: Intel Pentium 2 processor running at 450Mhz or equivalent
Video: Any VGA display that supports 16-bit color
HDD: A hard drive with at least 4GB of space
Others: CD drive with at least a 4X speed
Recommended specifications
CPU: Intel Pentium 3 processor running at 800Mhz or equivilent.
Video: 16MB RAM videocard that supports 32-bit color
A.2 Preparation
1. Windows XP Serivce Pack 2, you can get it at http://www.fileplanet.com/144129/140000/fileinfo/Windows-XP-Service-Pack-2 (free registration required). Unless your XP CD comes with it, download XP SP2.
2. Find the necassary drivers for your PC. If you have CD's that came with hardware, use those and update later. If you don't, search the web for drivers (more on where to find them later).
3. Burn both Windows XP SP2 and the drivers onto a CD.
4. After you have everything, unplug the internet connection from your PC.
A.3 Installing Windows XP:
Fresh installation
1. Turn on the PC and insert the Windows XP CD. Reset after the CD is inserted.
2. After the POST, it'll tell you to press any key to boot the CD.
3. If you need to install any RAID drivers, press F6. If you don't have any RAID drivers to install, don't press anything. If you don't know what a RAID is, don't press anything.
4. After it loads up, press Enter, and press F8 to agree to MS's licensing statement.
5. Select the drive you want to install Windows XP. This is the only time you can partition a harddrive. To partition a hard drive, follow the instructions on screen. Partitioning hard drives creates logical drives, which act as seperate hard drives. I would recommend this as it would be easier to keep track of specific files (such as the Windows OS on one partition, programs on another, games, etc). If you don't wish to partition, simply press "Enter".
6. Once Windows XP begins to install, it'll load some preliminary files and then reboot, it'll install afterwards.
7. Let it install until you are asked to install language settings. If you want to install support for foreign language programs or read foreign language text, it's a good time to do so now, but you can do this any time you want. Afterwards, you'll be asked to enter the CD Key.
8. After the CD Key is entered, wait until Windows XP boots up and you get into the interface, this can take anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes.
9. Install Windows XP SP2 unless the installation disk has installed SP2. If you burnt it onto a CD, load the CD. If you have to update it through Windows Updater, plug the internet back in and download it. Once it's downloaded, unplug the internet and then install it.
10. Install the following in order: Chipset drivers, Videocard Drivers, DirectX 9.0c, Network drivers, and anything else. Reboot everytime it tells you to.
11. After being insured you're behind a firewall, and if possible antivirus protection, you can plug in your internet.
12. Update Windows. Afterwards, install everything else you want.
13. Defragment your hard drive. To find the defragger, click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmentor. Select the drive where you installed Windows XP and click on the "Defrag" button.
Repairing Windows XP
The difference between installing and repairing is that when you repair, all of Windows XP's files will be restored to their original state, regardless of what has happened to them. This is what I dub the ultimate "System Restore", but it doesn't act like it because unlike System Restore or installing, none of your previous data will be deleted (this goes for any Spyware/Viruses that caused your system to crash, so repairing doesn't take care of them). The process is similar:
1. Insert the Windows XP CD and reboot.
2. After the POST, it'll tell you to press any key to boot the CD.
3. Once again, if you need to install any RAID drivers, you can do so.
4. After loading up, press Enter, and press F8.
5. The setup should display a directory where Windows XP is. Press "R" to repair it.
6. Windows XP will repair as if it was installing, but don't worry, nothing will happen to your files.
7. Follow the install process as mentioned above in "Installing Windows XP".
B. Taking care of Windows XP
Like most other things, it's much easier to take care of something than it is to repair it. But unlike most things, the joy of software is that if it screws up, and you have the installation files, you can always resort to resintalling it. With Windows XP however, reinstalling isn't really an option thanks to Microsoft's Antipiracy measures, but you can do it a few times. Not only that, reinstalling means your entire hard drive gets erased.
But as always, it's good to practice good habits when using Windows XP, so you don't have to resort to reinstalling.
B.1. Malware and internet security
Refer to this topic (http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=104542) for help with malware and internet security.
B.2 Boost Windows XP Performance
This is a collective of short-term performance boosting and long term performance boosting. Short-term performance boosting is more or less considered maintenance, long term performance boosting is tweaking with the options of Windows XP.
Short term boosters
1. Check for adware/spyware often
Normally if you're a safe internet user, this isn't a problem. But it's good to check for these two every so often in case you somehow catch these evils.
2. Run Disk Cleanup
To run "Disk Cleanup", open up "My Computer" and right click on any hard drive. Open up it's properties and click on the button labeled "Disk Cleanup". This will safely remove all unneeded files that have accumulated and stayed during whenever until the check.
3. Manually delete files
Clear out any files you don't need. Any files that are redundant. Whatever. Just make sure you know what you're deleting before deleting it. Also delete everything in C:\Documents and Settings\(Username)\Local Settings\Temp. Don't delete the folder, delete the contents. You may have to enable "Show hidden files and folders" to see it. To do so, go to Tools -> Options in the explorer.
4. Clean your registry once in a while
Get RegCleaner (http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm). It's an excellent registry cleaning tool. Not only will it clear out obselete registries, but it will also let you remove those already there, remove items from the Add/Remove Programs list, and control what gets started up when Windows Boots up.
5. Close unnecassary programs
A no-brainer, but if you're not using a program, close it.
6. Defrag the harddrive
Click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System -> Disk Defragmentor. Defrag the C:/. While defragging, don't do anything else on the PC or it'll restart defragging again. Defragging time is directly based upon drive size, so expect about hours worth of defragging on 100GB drives.
7. Reboot the PC
If your PC has been on for a week straight and it's slowing down no matter what you do, it means you need to reboot.
Long term boosters
1. Disable all Windows XP visual effects
To do so, right click on "My Computer" and then go to Properties. Go the "Advanced" tab and click on the "Settings" button on the "Performance" box. On the first tab, "Visual Effects", select the option "Adjust for best performance" and click on Apply then OK.
2. Disable the sound theme on Windows
In the Control Panel, go to Sound and Audio Devices Properties and on the Sounds tab, change the sound scheme to "No sound".
3. Remove your wallpaper and icons from the desktop
Right click on any empty desktop space and click on Properties. On the Desktop tab, background should be on "none" and to get rid of the system icons, click on "Customize Desktop..." and uncheck all of them. This will leave you with the Recycle Bin and any other shortcuts. Delete the shortcuts and move files to their right spots.
4. Do not install unecessary programs
Only install what you know you'll use often now and in the future. If you're not going to use it for a while, uninstall it. CD and DVD's last a while as long as you keep them in good storage. Ask yourself when installing applications "Is it necessary?"
5. Keep ample amounts of space on your system hard drive (C
The more space your system drive has, the less your hard drive has to seek around in it.
6. Disable all automatic loads when Windows starts.
Many IM programs have this option on by default. Whenever Windows boots up, it loads these programs first. Also whatever is in the "Startup" folder in the "All Programs" menu will start up automatically as well. Disable this option. However, don't disable your anti-virus software from starting up automatically. Also, disable automatic updates, or at least tell it to notify you when there are updates.
7. Minimize your hardware profile
In the properties of "My Computer", click on the Hardware tab and "Device Manager". Disable (NOT uninstall) any hardware you're not using, the first two you should go for is the COM and LPT ports. The more that's disabled, the less Windows has to detect any hardware while it's loading.
8. Tweak with MSConfig
In the Start menu, click on "Run Program" and type "msconfig" (without quotes), then hit OK. If you want to shave off some seconds while booting, click on the "BOOT.INI" tab and click on box next to /NOGUIBOOT. Also go to the "Startup" tab and uncheck any programs you don't want starting up automatically. You'll be prompted to restart, so do so. When Windows is back, click on the box of the pop-up notice (don't worry, that's normal) and click OK.
9. BIOS tweaks
When you boot up your PC and it's doing the hardware tests, press Delete, F2 or F6. When the BIOS is open, disable any hardware channels (IDE or SATA) that you're not using. The POST (Power On Self-Test) will skip these channels. Also find the option "Floppy Drive Seek" and set it to "Disabled". Concerning boot order, the hard drive (or hard disk) should be first.
10. Disable Windows Services
This is an execellent guide to tell you which services for Windows XP are essential, which are not but might be needed, and which you can disable altogether. Regarding third party services, make sure you know what they do.
11. Uninstall and install drivers properly
Download Driver Cleaner (http://www.drivercleaner.net/).
Normally only videocard drivers need to be updated, if so then don't update them as soon as you get the updater. First go to Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs and then uninstall the driver (for instance, nVidia's is nVidia Display Driver). After uninstalling and rebooting, run Driver Cleaner, read the instructions, and clean the drivers based on the company. After cleanup, update and reboot.
C. Troubleshooting Windows XP
Sometimes Windows XP can go wrong. What to do when it happens.
C.1 Hardware Issues
If you get a blue screen of death (BSOD) on Windows XP, it means a hardware failure most of the time. You'll get a blue screen with an error message and some code. Code you can decipher with this site (http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm). What causes hardware issues? The most likely case is that the improper driver is installed. In this case, reboot and hit F8 until you get to a menu. Start Windows XP in Safe Mode and either uninstall the driver or do a system restore. You're given the option when you enter Safe Mode to do system restore by clicking "No" on the popup notice. If you want to do it manually, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System -> System Restore. All you have to do is click Next and some time earlier than before you installed the driver.
C.2 Windows XP issues
The best site in the world to get Windows XP help (http://support.microsoft.com/winxp). I don't need to say more. Of course this only deals with Windows XP issues and things that revolve around XP, not third-party programs. If you have an issue with a third party program, you might want to check their site for support.
C.3 Repair or Reinstall?
When all else fails, you might have to just reinstall Windows. However, with your Windows XP disk, first you should use it to repair Windows XP (as in a repair install). This will fix any system files affected by the problem. You should only reinstall when the problem is persistant.
C.4 What does System Restore do?
System Restore is one of Microsoft's better tools to deal with Windows related errors. Basically this saves the exact settings of your programs and backs up any critical files as a restore point. When things get dicey and screwy, you can tell System Restore to reload everything from this restore point. The process takes about 5-20 minutes depending on the difference of dates between the restore point and when you use System Restore. DO NOT DO ANYTHING WHILE THE PC IS RESTORING.
Any documents or images that you have produced after the restore point will not be affected. Any games or programs you installed after the restore point will be erased. Note that restoring only recovers system files and configurations that changed, and in a case for malware, will not delete it.
C.5 Performance issues
Is your PC running slower than it should? It could be a number of problems.
1. Accumulation of spyware/adware. These programs suck up RAM like no tomorrow. Having enough RAM is key for efficient performance. But this doesn't simply mean having more RAM (as in having 1024MB instead of 512MB), it means having enough free RAM.
2. Multitasking way too much. At most I would recommend at most 10 different windows at any given time. I don't like to multitask, even though I could probably litterally have 30 different programs up and not have the computer break a sweat. It's just not a good habit.
3. Low system resources. Windows has a specific amount of system resources that programs use. When these programs close, supposedly it gives those resources back. But not all of it. Extended PC use may lead to low system resources, or if you just have too many programs up.
4. Heating. The hotter the hardware gets, the less efficient it becomes. Make sure your hardware is cooled sufficiently.
5. One program being intensive. If you're encoding a video or playing a very high end game, chances are it'll take most of the CPU and RAM power.


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24 November 2011
Taste of Belgium: Café with freshly made Belgium waffles, Seaforth (23 Oct 2011)
10 comments:
- joey@forkingaroundsydney said...
Wow, the sweets look lovely. :-) I wish they did open in Randwick now!
- November 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Sara - Belly Rumbles said...
Where do I start, it all looks so delicious.
- November 24, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Vivian - vxdollface said...
Very generous serving of hollandaise :D Cakes look great, pretty cool being pastry chef to Clinton and Bush!
- November 25, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi joey, hopefully one day they will come to randwick.
hi sara, start with the savoury and move onto the sweets, that's what we did :-)
hi vivian, he definitely knows how to cook cakes
- November 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM
I went there last month and bought a large pear tart, i was dissapointed, some part of the pear tart is frozen. I managed to try lemon meringue tart and the tart shell was soggy.. It's a beautiful shop tho..
- December 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- Simon Leong said...
hi Anonymous, that's disappointing to hear. i would suggest going back and letting them know your experience. i'm quite surprised to hear the pear tart was frozen in parts because all the cakes look like they are made fresh and any cakes that aren't used i believe go to charity. perhaps the refrigeration they are using in the displays is too cold and worth them knowing about. i'm sure the chef would want to make sure you're happy.
- December 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM
I must say my experience was similar to Anonymous'. We went in for lunch and were served a chicken sandwich that was at least 2 or more days old. Stale, with a solid crust formed over the chicken mix, made us feel quite ill. On a previous occasion we ordered bread and pastries, all of which were stale with the exception of the sausage roll which was enjoyable.
- January 21, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Simon Leong said...
Hi anonymous, sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I'd suggest letting them know in person of your experience. It might be something they need knowing about if they're going to do it better. I've come across an off wine (http://simonfoodfavourites.blogspot.com/2009/09/fico-wine-bar-surry-hills-3-september.html), bad coffee (cafe in Strand Arcade, beans were off) and even a pack of chocolate biscuits that had melted from a convenience store (shop was too hot from fridge heat) I complain and let them know. How else will they know about it otherwise I think.
- January 21, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Hmm, was looking for fresh waffles in sydney...
Can I say one thing - your blog says ".. freshly made belgian waffles..", then goes on to say ".. in the counter display .."
If anything those could be liege waffles (still from belgium), but they are definitely not of the "freshly made" variety. (In belgium, you order them then they make them)
They could be "recently made", but that's not the same thing.
Anyway, the hunt continues...
- August 2, 2013 at 6:19 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi anonymous, that's a good point about the waffles. i guess the same would go for Freshly shucked oysters or Oysters shucked to order. i guess the waffles are made fresh each day might be a better way to describe them? let me know if you find anywhere that make them fresh to order.
- August 2, 2013 at 10:52 PM
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