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Corn on the cob; one of summer's staples and the unsung hero of cookouts and BBQ's. We couldnt think of a better way to celebrate National Corn on the Cob Day than to feature Mariano's Tastemaker and Chef of urbanbelly and bellyQ, Bill Kim's recipe from his new cookbook: Korean BBQ: Master Your Grill in Seven Sauces.
Here is Bill Kim's asian take on a classic elote recipe:
Corn on the Cob with Curry Mayonnaise and Chile Salt
- 1 Thai chile,stemmed
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons finely grated lime zest
- Kosher salt
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon Asian fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sambal oelek
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 medium garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro, plus more for garnish
- 10 ears of corn
Step 1: In a food processor, combine the Thai chile with the lemon zest, 1 teaspoon of the lime zest and 1/4 cup of salt and pulse until the chile is finely chopped and incorporated. Transfer the chile-lime salt to a bowl.
Step 2: In a medium bowl, whisk the mayonnaise with the curry powder, lime juice, fish sauce, sambal oelek, turmeric, garlic, the 1 1/2 tablespoons of cilantro and the remaining 1 teaspoon of lime zest.
Step 3: Peel back the corn husks, keeping them attached. Discard the silk. Fold the husks back over the corn and tie the tops with kitchen string. Transfer the corn to a very large bowl, cover with water and let soak for 10 minutes. Remove the corn from the water and blot dry.
Step 4: Light a grill. Grill the corn in the husks over high heat, turning, until the kernels are crisp-tender, about 15 minutes. Let cool slightly, then carefully remove the husks and transfer the corn to a platter. Spread the curry mayonnaise all over the corn, sprinkle with the chile-lime salt and chopped cilantro and serve!
Here are some of our other favorite corn recipes:
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Survey: Principals, Superintendents Still Familiarizing Themselves With ESSA
For some Beltway policy wonks and advocates, it may seem like a long time ago since President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act last December. But for many principals and superintendents, the new law's details seem to be taking awhile to fully sink in.
On Thursday, our colleague Catherine Gewertz wrote up the findings of a survey about testing commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Association and conducted by Gallup Education. The survey focused on the attitudes of principals and superintendents as well as parents about assessment—but for those curious about how folks feel about ESSA, there's fodder in the findings as well.
Let's look at how familiar principals and superintendents feel they are with the new federal education law:
So that's a majority (55 percent) of superintendents and just 41 percent of principals who say they're either "familiar" or "very familiar" with the new law. Should we be surprised that the numbers aren't higher in both cases? Not really, says David DeSchryver, the senior vice president and co-director of Whiteboard Advisors, a Washington consulting group.
"This stuff takes time. I'd say that school officials have years of experience focusing on the work before them. Eventually, the directives come down and they adjust," DeSchryver told us in an email.
Here are a few other ESSA-related findings:
• 48 percent of superintendents believe that ESSA will have a positive impact on their districts, and 5 percent believe it will have a very positive impact. Meanwhile, 43 percent believe ESSA will be neutral, and 4 percent believe ESSA will hurt their districts.
• Principals seem somewhat less sanguine—the majority (62 percent) believe ESSA will ultimately be neutral, while 29 percent believe it will be a positive. ESSA will be very positive for their schools, according to 3 percent of respondents, while 6 percent believe the law will be negative.
• Principals in low-income schools are more likely (77 percent) than their peers in middle- and high-income schools (65 percent) to say that their students spend too much time taking tests.
For the survey, Gallup examined the attitudes of 4,200 students, parents, teachers, principals, and superintendents.
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Launching today is the latest version of Nero 2017, the successful multimedia software for burning, copying, creating, editing, ripping, converting, playing and streaming media content.
This latest edition sees significant improvements such as ease of use, playback, video editing, transcoding and burning, as well as sharing videos, photos and music in the highest quality. Nero is positioning itself as users 'best-friend' for day-to-day digital life. For example, through support for the HEVC (H.265) format, SecurDisc 4.0 for the highest security standard for burned discs and the Nero KnowHow App, which enables users to get the best out of their Nero software.
Nero users have thousands of photos, videos and other multimedia files stored on lots of different devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs, laptops and desktops. Looking for a specific file can often be like searching for a needle in a haystack with users trying to remember where they saved it. The Classic and Platinum versions of Nero 2017 put an end to this by allowing users to search via timeline, faces, places and tags. While the Nero 2017 Classic multimedia suite includes extensive functions for mastering the day-to-day digital life, Nero 2017 Platinum delivers especially high-quality results thanks to cutting-edge technology (HEVC/H.265) and advanced functions.
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Getting started with Nero 2017 Classic has been optimised and tailored to meet users' needs. Nero QuickStart makes the ten most common tasks for photos, videos and music available immediately. Simply select the desired media content, add it to the appropriate project and enjoy the results, or switch to the familiar excellent playback in all popular formats. Support for Gracenote® technology in the Nero MediaHome universal media center ensures that songs are always shown with the original album cover and can also be transferred to mobile devices. This means that users can simply and easily play their favorite songs using the familiar album cover.
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And what's next? More traveling ofcourse. Many plans are in the process of being investigated, filtered out, booked, and canceled so I'll have more specifics later on.
For now, I just wanted to share some recent photos from a week-long roadtrip around the Northwestern US. It was a quick drive checking out some of the not-so-famous but still beautiful national and state parks this side of the country.
The first destination was Humboldt county, an area famous as the weed production capital of the US. It's possible I'm in the minority of visitors to this place who came simply to walk through its famous redwood forests. I'm captivated by its beauty and it's so close to home!
Scenes from the Avenue of the Giants on Highway 101:
Unfortunately, the night before the drive was another experience entirely. I thought it best to keep the costs down as much as possible during this trip seeing as how I had just cut off my source of income. So the night before, I drove into the city of Garberville looking for the cheapest, shoddiest motel in town. Then I saw this little gem and my criteria was met.
So many of my well-to-do American friends make such a fuss about the decrepit state of the hostels I've stayed in while traveling. But say what they will, I firmly believe there is no other place on this planet which exudes the kind of pure, unadulterated sense of dilapidation and misery quite like that of your small-town American motel.
The journey continued North, eventually crossing into Oregon.
Along the way, I made a small detour to see Crater Lake in Oregon. It was just my luck, though, that the whole place was covered in fog that day.
This is what the internet told me Crater Lake would look like:
|Photo by Arcataroger via Wikimedia
And here's what I saw:
By evening, I pulled into a small little state park North of Bend, Oregon called Smith Rock and set up camp. And it was only $5 a night to camp here! It's always such a nice treat to find deals like this.
Some shots from the park:
|The view from my $5-a-night campgrounds
|Rim Walk Trail
|River Trail
|View from Monkey Face near the summit
|View with Monkey Face in the mid-gound. This was taken from a rock ledge away from any main trail. I sort of got myself lost while walking around the summit.
|Found my way back to the trail with the help of a couple locals I bumped into who themselves went off trail on purpose. This is the view from Misery Ridge Trail as I made my way back to camp.
|From Canyon Trail near the road entrance
After two nights, it was time to pack up and head for my last destination, the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, where the main attraction is exactly what you'd guess it to be - two waterfalls.
Just entering the city is a sight to behold. Driving South on highway 93, you'll get to a giant bridge crossing the Snake River Canyon.
|Perrine Bridge crossing the Snake River
|Snake River Canyon
Unfortunately, the waterfalls themselves were less impressive. It was another case of bad timing as the waterfalls had almost completely run out of water. And I learned then this is something they tend to do periodically.
|A view of the Shoshone Falls rock ledge
Exhausting! Without unpacking any of the accumulated junk in the car, I ended this trip by rushing home and getting a good night's sleep in the best bed I had laid in all week.


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Gather 'round, gather 'round! The time has come to answer the age old question: What's on your phone? I get this question A LOT, but I don't answer it often since it changes so much. I thought I'd take a bit of a spin on it and also show you what I did to make a particular device (in this case the S7 Edge) really feel like my own. I'm convinced there's a metric here. For now, I'll call it the 'make it work' factor. This comes from my days living in NYC.
Every apartment has a 'make it work' factor. Yes, you love the location and the apartment, but the windows are drafty. That's a low factor. If you love the apartment, but the walk to the train is long and there's no dishwasher and the AC unit needs to be replaced, the factor is high. Same idea with phones. Yes, the hardware is amazing on the S7, but the software leaves a lot to be desired for me. How much I have to do to feel comfortable on it is the 'make it work' factor here. Now, I didn't go too much in depth because I really just want to run the idea past you guys. If you think it's a good one, I'll dive deeper and even more so on other devices in the future. If not, you'll never hear it uttered again.
Let's start with my launcher of choice. It's Nova Launcher. I'm sure you're not surprised, but after keeping eyes on all the major options, I still think Nova is the one to beat. (We'll go into more detail here in another feature.) Icons that don't look like they belong on Android really bug me, but I don't use icon packs as a blanket solution because, honestly, very few packs have a full outfit that I think works well enough. More often than not some icons are better in one icon pack over another, so I select on a per app basis.
I am still very much in love with widgets, and I use three major ones on my home screen. Feedly for my news, Fenix for Twitter, and Google Calendar for my scheduling. Nova also lets me use folders with covers which helps me keep things nice and tidy without sacrificing function. If it were up to me, form and function would go hand in hand, and that's what I try to go for on my setups.
The real test here is how far a user has to go to settle in when it comes to the software the OEM has provided. More often than not there's a lot that can be done to strip much of the identity of the device away without losing out on the cooler features. I had to disable a ton of bloatware on the S7 and I don't find myself using much of Samsung's software features because they seem like the kinds of features that are so specific and niche that I don't encounter them every day. Of course, there are a few things that stand out. Edge Screen is terribly useful now, and Samsung's Game Tools really improve the experience when it comes to gaming.
I'd love to dive deeper on the next device I do this on so we can dig into the settings and really start to hone in on what that 'make it work' factor means.
You can check out all the gory details in the video and I'll leave links to a lot of the apps I mentioned down below.


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Oztrail Tasman 4V Plus Dome Tent
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This four person dome features:
- Front and rear D-Doors for easy and simple access, as well as added ventilation
- Extended length front vestibule storage area, ideal to keep some gear out of the elements
- Cross pole construction providing quick set up, greater strength and water shedding ability
- An inner tent with large mesh panels to keep the tent cool in hot climates
- Silver coated UVTex® 2000 fly reflects heat & protects you from the elements
- DryFloor™ heavy duty PE bucket floor for extra waterproofness at ground level
- No-See-Um mesh in all windows keeps all those biting insects at bay so you'll sleep better
- 100% Polyester inner tent that keeps you cool & dry in hot or humid conditions
- Tentsile Tab™ with J-Hooks are clever triangular seam inserted patches with a J-Hook to simply & quickly attach the tent to the poles making setup easy & keeping the poles firmly in place during periods of high wind
- Tentsile Loop™ shock absorbent reinforced peg down and guy rope points for greater stability & longer life
- DryGuard™ Plus protects from wind-driven rain with storm flaps that Velcro closed
- Easy Step D Doors reduce the risk of tripping when entering or exiting the tent
- Fully featured with convenience items like lantern hooks & organiser pouches
- Compact carry bag provided
|Cream / Eucalyptus
|The Tasman 4V Plus dome tent is a quick to set up and pack down option for those seeking a simple no-fuss tent, but with plenty of storage.
|4 Adults in comfort
|Silver Coated UVTex® 2000 Sun Tough Fly fabric - the UVtex® treatment not only protects the fly from harsh UV rays, it also doubles as a 100% waterproof barrier.
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Tent floor area: 450 x 220 cm Tent head height: 180 cm
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There's no other place on earth where you will get closer to and have more encounters with leopards than at the Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve. The region has the highest density of leopards in Africa, mainly because of the tree-filled terrain which is the ideal habitat for leopards. They have become very successful here and in the 5 years that we have been visiting Sabi Sabi on the Ultimate Big 5 Safari there has hardly been a day when we didn't find a leopard to photograph. They are very relaxed around the game vehicles and sometimes they get really, really close, which can make photography a bit difficult if you have a big lens on your camera. I often suggest to guests that they should also bring a shorter telephoto lens like a 70-200mm f/2.8 with them on this safari for these close encounters.
For some the excitement of seeing a wild leopard for the first time can often get in the way of concentrating on making sure your camera settings are optimised to get the right shot. It's very seldom that you'll see a leopard standing still for very long on the ground. They're usually either on the hunt, or they're busy marking and claiming territory and therefore moving constantly, so you will want to use the tracking autofocus method to keep the animal in focus as it is moving. Some modern cameras have really fast single shot autofocus, like my Olympus OM-D's, so I tend to use this method instead. It often works out for me. I don't use the grouped AF points, preferring to use the single small AF point instead, but for DSLR users you may want to set up your camera to use grouped AF points when tracking. I think some of them switch to that automatically, but read through your manual and see what it says.
Here's a few of my favourite leopard shots from the last few visits to Sabi Sabi, as well as a couple of shots showing how close we sometimes get to these beautiful cats.


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Leslie Gene Gates, 62
Leslie Gene Gates
of Bremerton
Sept. 22, 1951
to Dec. 13, 2013
Leslie served in the Army from 1971 to 1973. He served in Vietnam during that time. He worked for numerous years for Hanson Signs, a job he thoroughly enjoyed.
Les loved boating and working in his yard with his beautiful flowers. He also could not seem to spend enough time with his granddaughters, Anna, Leah, Kiana, and Bella.
He was the light and joy of my life, my very best friend.
He is survived by myself, his wife, Sue Gates; his father, Phil Sr.; his brothers, Phil Jr., Lonnie, and Dave; his daughters, Jennifer, Diana, Trina, Trisha and Amy; his grandchildren, Anna, Leah, Kiana, Bella, Nycretia, Devin and David; and great-granddaughter, Annah.
A memorial service will be held Jan. 9, 2014 between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Kitsap Golf & Country Club.


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From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Although neither team has reneged, an agreed-upon trade between Memphis and the Los Angeles Clippers that would put power forward Zach Randolph in a Grizzlies uniform wasn't made official Wednesday for several reasons ranging from accounting to player physicals…
It could take up to five more days before the Randolph-for-Richardson swap is announced, mainly because the Griz are looking to consummate another trade scenario first.
As the NBA lifted a moratorium on transactions Wednesday, Memphis was among a few teams considering a three-way deal with Dallas and Toronto.
The Mavericks are trying to pry Shawn Marion from the Raptors in a sign-and-trade agreement and are soliciting the Grizzlies as a facilitator. It is believed that the Griz would receive veteran guard Jerry Stackhouse and cash considerations in the deal.
Stackhouse has $2 million guaranteed on a $7 million contract for next season.
Any potential Memphis-Dallas-Toronto deal would not affect the Grizzlies' agreement with the Clippers.
In short, Quentin Richardson makes $8.7M, while Zach Randolph makes $16M. If the Clips-Grizz trade were to be consummated before the Marion/Stackhouse carnival deal, Memphis wouldn't have enough cap room to accept Stack's $7.25M salary. But once the Grizzlies complete the four-way deal and waive Stackhouse, they'll be sufficiently below the cap to accept the $7.3M difference in salary between Messers. Randolph and Richardson.
Anyone want to talk basketball?


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Thanksgiving Traditions!
Hey Beacs!
This week I found some really cool people who have interesting Thanksgiving traditions. I asked around school and was able to interview 5 people.
Here is the first, and one of the more normal, responses I got!
This one is from Ian Hawksford,
Every year, the day following Thanksgiving my family and I pack up the car and head north to our cabin at the base of Mt. St. Helens. The cabin is located outside of a small town in Washington called; Cougar. On the outskirts of Cougar is where cell phone service is first lost and that's when the entire family unplugs. At the cabin there is no service and no electricity. Instead the cabin's appliances is powered by an industrial-sized propane tank beyond the back deck. Our weekend consists of exploring the woods we're surrounded by, reading, puzzles, old board games, and way too much food. It's a nice way for the family to get away from the normal craziness of the Holiday's without traveling very far.
The rest of the really cool traditions are below in the video!


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As the brass at big-box stores trip over their tasseled loafers trying to parse a phenom they don't get—and far savvier staffers at the likes of Cheapo and the Fetus play furious games of catch-up—the petroleum-based, analog audio software advantage resides with retailers who never abandoned it. Roadrunner, Vital, Eclipse, Fifth Element—notice a pattern? Single-store entities, one and all, and either specialist, highly idiosyncratic, or both—as with Treehouse. Though the lower Lyn-Lake hole-in-the-wall has been pandering new and pre-owned plastic since it opened as Oarfolkjokeopus in 1972, current owner and seminal Oarfolk staffer Mark Trehus would shove a flaming earbud up his urethra before letting the place turn into an old-guy operation. Nobody in town can touch Trehus and de facto big boss Dan Cote at balancing depth in jazz, blues, reggae, folk, punk, soul, and other legacy genres with the metro's best selection of new sounds both within and well beyond the Current and Radio K's compass. Prices are reasonable, especially when you subtract online competitors' shipping charges and factor in the store's accommodating special-order policy. Trehus and Cote walk the walk in more ways than one: Both run labels, and the latter hosts Treehouse Night at the King and I on the last Friday of every month. Most tellingly, they've been selling more vinyl than CDs for well over a year while operating solidly in the black.


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I'm actually a person who used to more interested in wine, and never really liked beer. But with the advent of craft brewing, drinking beer has become much more than cracking open a sixpack of Bud. I don't drink a lot of beer, but do enjoy the different varieties and flavors, trying something different each time. It's often hard to do that though. Even in a town like Portland I find not enough places feature microbrews, or even dark beers like porter and stout. IPA's are not really my thing. I like dark beers, sweet, smooth and sticky. Baltic porters, barleywine, doppelbocks, and some Belgian tripels and quads. Oddly, I dislike Guinness. But Spaten Optimator is a good standby, and Lagunitas doesn't suck! Although in their stead, anything Imperial will usually do. Ironically though, recently good doppelbochs and imperial ipa's have become almost as prohibitively expensive as wine used to be. I guess what goes around, comes around. lol. If you are curious, the photo in my profile, is from a trip to Tenby, Wales several years back. The sticky bubbles on the sides of our glasses set my standard for the term "lacing" , which you. don't often see like this in America. :-)
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A fascinating new paper coming out of MIT details how researchers were able to implant false memories in mice. From the abstract:
Memories can be unreliable. We created a false memory in mice by optogenetically manipulating memory engram–bearing cells in the hippocampus. Dentate gyrus (DG) or CA1 neurons activated by exposure to a particular context were labeled with channelrhodopsin-2. These neurons were later optically reactivated during fear conditioning in a different context. The DG experimental group showed increased freezing in the original context, in which a foot shock was never delivered. The recall of this false memory was context-specific, activated similar downstream regions engaged during natural fear memory recall, and was also capable of driving an active fear response. Our data demonstrate that it is possible to generate an internally represented and behaviorally expressed fear memory via artificial means.
In their research, scientist Susumu Tonagawa and his team used a technique known as optogenetics, which allows the fine control of individual brain cells. They engineered brain cells in the mouse hippocampus, a part of the brain known to be involved in forming memories, to express the gene for a protein called channelrhodopsin. When cells that contain channelrhodopsin are exposed to blue light, they become activated. The researchers also modified the hippocampus cells so that the channelrhodopsin protein would be produced in whichever brain cells the mouse was using to encode its memory engrams.
The Guardian summarizes:
In the experiment, Tonagawa's team placed the mice in a chamber and allowed them to explore it. As they did so, relevant memory-encoding brain cells were producing the channelrhodopsin protein. The next day, the same mice were placed in a second chamber and given a small electric shock, to encode a fear response. At the same time, the researchers shone light into the mouse brains to activate their memories of the first chamber. That way, the mice learned to associate fear of the electric shock with the memory of the first chamber.
In the final part of the experiment, the team placed the mice back in the first chamber. The mice froze, demonstrating a typical fear response, even though they had never been shocked while there. "We call this 'incepting' or implanting false memories in a mouse brain," Tonagawa told Science.
Why is this fascinating? Because a similar process may occur when powerful false memories are created in humans, even if the process is much more complicated in the human brain.


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After a year's hiatus, the Tin Man is back with guns blazing. I missed his return on Tuesday (I saw a referral from him, but since his blogroll was the only thing on his page for so long I assumed it was a random click. Ooops), but today he blogs about his customer review being edited by some folks at Amazon for using the word gay:
Here are Amazon.com's General Review Writing Guidelines. I'm trying to figure out where the word "gay" fits in. Maybe someone thought it counted as "profanity, obscenities, or spiteful remarks."
I love you, Amazon.com, but this is for you:
Gay gay gay gay gay.
So there.
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IGF037 In Good Faith with our guest Sr. Maureen Fiedler, host of the public radio show Interfaith Voices. Recorded live on October 30, 2015. Produced by aNunsLife.org Ministry. Topics include: Interfaith Voices public radio show, diverse images of God, dialog and disagreement, and more.
Sister Maureen Fiedler, SL, is the host of Interfaith Voices, a public radio show heard on 86 radio stations in North America. She has been involved in interfaith activities for more than three decades as an active participant in coalitions working for social justice, racial and gender equality, and peace. Her special interests lie at the intersection of theology and public policy. She is a Sister of Loretto, and holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.


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Some things should never have be written. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The 1979 Labour Party manifesto. Robert Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. Alien3. Every line of dialogue spoken by Jar-jar Binks.
And now this.
Firstly, it's set in season 8. (Half my flist scrolls away in boredom.) It's got femslash in it. (80% of the remainder turn away in distaste.) The sex is written to be Rabelaisian humour rather than romantic or erotic. (Anybody still here?) And it's vaguely incestuous. (Probably not.)
Right. Now I've got no readers left:
3364 words, set some time in season 8, Willow/Dawn.
Part 1 is rated 15 (R) for mentions of sex and some naughty words. Part 2, which I'll post separately, will be rated 18R (NC17). Part one can be read as a self-contained story if you seriously aren't interested in the sex bits.
Oh, and *ahem*; this is very important:
The story is set in season 8. Dawn is a university student. That means she's over 18 and legally an adult.
Just in case. :-)
Netherlands to Nepal, Part 1
"You've done it? You've really done it?" Dawn leaped to her feet and bounced excitedly, causing seismic detection stations to trigger alerts across half of Scotland. "I knew you would! I'd like, totally hug you if I wasn't scared of crushing you!"
Down on the ground, Willow was failing to share her enthusiasm. In fact, Dawn realised, she seemed downright uncomfortable.
"Huh. There's a catch, isn't there?"
"Sort of. Don't worry, sweetie, I've worked out how to break the spell on you. It's just I can't work out how to, you know, break the spell."
"Well, er, you know how the spell was triggered in the first place? When you and Kenny, um, you know..." she blushed.
"...Had sex", Dawn finished for her helpfully.
"Yes, that. Well, that started the spell going. And the way to end it is really, really simple. You just have to have sex again."
"That's it? You mean all I have to do is... wait. I can see a problem here."
"A big one - sorry. Ahem. You might, um, have a problem finding a guy who can measure up. So to speak."
"Yeah. Like I was doing so well at that even before I was super-sized. It doesn't have to be Kenny again, does it?"
"Do you want it to be? I mean, do you love him?"
"God, no. Little creep. After he did this to me? I'd rather stomp him underfoot. But even so, what else can I do? Lift the roof off the nearest singles bar, grab a guy at random and say 'Wanna fuck?'"
Willow choked and turned an interesting shade of pink, and Dawn hastened to reassure her that wasn't her usual pick-up line. Or that she actually had a pick-up line at all, since she wasn't That Kind Of Girl. Of course this aroused Willow's feminist ardour - just as Dawn had secretly hoped - and got her insisting that Dawn had every right to pick up guys if she wanted to. She was a grown woman in control of her own sexuality and that was something to be celebrated. Even if Dawn did show distinct lack of taste in preferring stubbly uncommunicative males instead of other women. So she should go right ahead and enjoy herself however she wanted. But, um, perhaps she shouldn't tell her sister about this conversation, on account of Buffy would probably kill both of them?
Dawn, of course, had no hesitation about agreeing with the last part.
"But it still leaves us with a problem. Could you, like, embiggen a boy for me just long enough to break the spell?"
"Sorry, no. If I tried that, it would just leave him with, uh, the same problem you have. We'd have to find him a giant girl to break the spell with, and then we'd have to find her a giant lover, and it would be kind of like those cartoons of ocean life where each fish is being eaten by another fish behind it, y'know? Kinda neverending."
"Huh." Dawn gave her trademark look of disgust, then suddenly blushed, her face giving off enough heat to warm a medium-sized Scottish castle. "Could we, uh, if I had sex with a normal-sized guy? I mean, I doubt I'd actually feel a thing, but would it still count?"
"Um. Technically, yes, size doesn't matter. Heh, I really said that. But it doesn't, apart from one big problem. You, uh, you have to come. The moment you reach orgasm, the spell breaks. Not before." Willow burst out into a most inappropriate giggle. "Which makes it a shame you're so hetero, 'cause finding a man capable of doing that for you might be the hardest part of the magic."
Dawn naturally rolled her eyes at that - not because she could disprove Willow's argument from personal experience (yet), but she was sure her sister, to name one example purely at unrandom, had had plenty of orgasms from guys. Bitch.
"Does it have to be another person? Can't I, like, do it myself then?"
Willow looked surprised, then turned red and looked at Dawn doubtfully. "Doesn't work that way. Um, haven't you discovered that for yourself yet?"
"Yeah, right. Like it's totally easy for a fifty foot tall woman to find somewhere quiet and private in the middle of a castle full of Slayers. Especially when your voice is proportionate to the rest of you; if I started moaning and stuff, everybody for miles around would know exactly what I was doing. No thanks."
"Goddess. Forget all the other stuff, that's why you're so cranky. You've been like this for two months now? Don't blame you for getting fed up with it."
Dawn giggled at Willow's tone, then sobered.
"Um, maybe you can cast a silence spell on me or something when I do it? As long as I won't have to do something even more crazy to get rid of that."
"Maybe I could. Or you could go way far out onto the moors with, uh, whoever."
"Yeah. Back to the first problem. We're not really getting anywhere, are we?" Dawn suddenly looked speculatively at Willow. "Don't suppose you'd do it, would you?"
"Huh? Wha-? You - ? Um-? We-? What?"
"C'mon. I know it was you that kissed Buffy. So why not do this for me?"
"What? It certainly was not me, missy. It was-" Willow caught herself just in time. "Never you mind who it was, but I did not kiss your sister. And I'm certainly not having sex with you!"
"Why not? Don't you think I'm attractive?"
"Oh no. Woah. You don't try that one on me. Doesn't matter how sexy you are, you're Dawn. It would be... incestuous. And icky."
"You think I'm sexy?" Dawn's smile lit up like a beacon (one of those you put on a hilltop to alert people 50 miles away) and Willow groaned.
"Yes, I think you're sexy. I also think you're straight, six years younger than me, and my best friend's little sister!"
It was the 'little sister' part that was the mistake. Willow realised it immediately, but too late. The light of battle shone in Dawn's eyes.
"So who else am I gonna trust to do this? You seriously want me to go out and pick up some man - literally? And screw this stranger like I'm a giant slut - again, literally?"
"No." Willow sighed.
"And, I mean, it's not like we'll be actually making love as such. Seriously, I mean from my perspective you're just about the same size as a sex toy."
"Sweetie, if that's your best pick-up line I think I preferred 'wanna fuck?'"
"Well, do you? C'mon, Will. Who else am I gonna ask?"
"Oh, Goddess. This is a really bad idea, you know?"
"You're gonna do it?" Dawn practically vibrated with glee, causing a surprised squirrel to drop out of a nearby tree in a shower of nuts and falling leaves. Willow shook her head in despair.
"We never, ever breathe a word of this to anyone, right? Never ever."
"Course not. Come on then! Um..." she suddenly hesitated, "How exactly are we gonna work this?"
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Warming Recipes from Wiltshire magazine
PUBLISHED: 10:37 03 August 2014 | UPDATED: 12:58 10 August 2015
Spiced Butternut Squash and Lentil Soup
A beautiful autumnal soup made with creamy, sweet squash and wholesome lentils enhanced by warming spices
Serves 6 as a starter or 4 for lunch
2 medium-sized butternut squash, peeled and cubed
1 medium onion, finely diced olive oil
2 cloves of garlic salt and black pepper
100g red split lentils
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp all spice
½tsp ground cumin
2 pints chicken stock
1 Pour a generous glug of olive oil into a large saucepan and put on a medium heat. add the diced onion, the garlic and all the spices, season generously with salt and black pepper.
2 Sizzle the onion with the spices until soft then tip in the squash. Continue to cook over a medium heat (adding more oil if it starts to stick) for about 10 minutes until the squash is softening and colouring around the edges.
3 Tip the lentils into the pan then pour in the chicken stock. bring to the boil then cover and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure the lentils aren't sticking to the bottom.
4 after this time the butternut squash should be meltingly soft. you can now either blend the soup (I find a stick/hand blender useful here) or, if you like a bit more texture, use a potato masher. Taste and season with more salt and black pepper if needed.
5 To serve, a blob of crème fraiche and a handful of croutons finish the soup off perfectly.
Beef Stew with a Parmesan and Polenta Crust
This wonderfully warming beef stew with a cheesy crunchy topping is perfect for cold, windy days.
Serves 4
600g braising beef (chuck works well), cut into large pieces
plain flour
3 medium red onions, cut into eighths
3-4 cloves of garlic, sliced
olive oil
salt and black pepper
1 tsp Pimenton (smoked sweet paprika)
large pinch of brown sugar
4-5 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
750ml beef stock (a stock cube is fine)
500g carton passata
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
several splashes Worcestershire sauce
2 bay leaves
pinch of chilli flakes (optional)
For the crust
75g fresh breadcrumbs
75g dry polenta (maize meal)
4 tbsp olive oil
4 tbsp water
75g Parmesan cheese, finely grated
1 Toss the cubes of beef in a bowl of flour that has been seasoned with salt and pepper until they are all coated. Preheat the oven to 125C (fan).
2 Pour a generous glug of olive oil into a frying pan and put on a high heat. When hot, tip in the onions and let them sizzle vigorously. While they are cooking, add a generous seasoning of salt and black pepper then add the Pimenton and the brown sugar. after a few more minutes add the garlic, cook for a further minute then remove from the heat. Transfer the onions to a large ovenproof casserole dish and return the frying pan to the hob.
3 brown the floured beef in the frying pan on a high heat (you may need some more oil), probably in two batches unless you have a very large frying pan. When sealed and browned, tip into the casserole dish.
4 Returning the pan once again to the hob, pour in the beef stock, passata, dark soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce and bring to the boil. Pour this into the casserole along with any tasty bits at the bottom of the pan.
5 Put the carrots and the bay leaves into the casserole dish with the chilli flakes (if using) and give it all a big stir. Cover and put into the oven for 2 hours.
6 after this time, uncover and stir the stew. Turn the oven up to 150C and put back in for another hour.
7 To make the crust, mix the breadcrumbs and polenta together then add the olive oil and the water. add the Parmesan along with salt and pepper then mix to combine.
8 Take the stew out of the oven and sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture over the top, put back in the oven for 30 minutes until the crust is crisp and golden brown with the stew bubbling around the edges. Serve immediately.


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With Gold Breaking Out, Where Does That Leave the Silver Price?
It's no secret that gold has had a tremendous period of growth over the past 30 days. Gold has broken through the psychological barrier of $1,300 per troy ounce with plenty of space to spare. And while it's a great time to think about gold mining stocks, there is another element in the market that's being ignored: the price of silver. Silver, too, has gone above a recent psychological barrier—this time, it's $18 per troy ounce—and even more noticeable, it appears as though the price of silver has broken its cyclical pattern that's appeared throughout 2017.
An End to the Silver Roller Coaster?
Looking at the pattern of the gold price for the year to date (YTD), we see a metal priced at about $16 per troy ounce to start the year. Recent prices have silver hovering around $18 per troy ounce—depending on when you might be reading this. And while that steady growth has been encouraging for the precious metal, the truth is that silver's typically uneven "roller coaster" prices have been present throughout.
For example, silver has already broken through $18 per troy ounce on the year, which is not news to anyone who's been following precious metals even once per week. Both late February and early spring saw silver prices even higher than they are as of this morning. Silver has also sunk below its beginning-of-the-year mark, as low as the mid-$15 per troy ounce range.
The cycle thus far has shown a wavelength of about two months—up and back down. You can even read projections recently that took this into account. However, with the destruction of hurricane season and the uncertainty over North Korea's situation in east Asia, there has been a boost to precious metals.
Silver's New Price Track
The result is silver showing new resilience in its price, in fact going even higher than its August highs might have pointed to. An investment on the dip as recently as July would yield significant returns for silver investors who like the volatility of silver for short-term investments.
This isn't to say that the cycle can't start again as early as tomorrow. But with gold showing plenty of resilience and gold stocks earning new buzz, there should be plenty of room for silver to move upward—with an eye on $20 per troy ounce, the most psychological barrier it faces going forward.
Reasons for Optimism in "Silver September"
Might this mark the beginning of a "September of Silver"? Seeking Alpha in late August saw a spike for silver looming on the horizon, pointing to a debasement of the currency that projects well for precious metal prices. Seeing a future "equilibrium" to be achieved, the prediction is that silver will spike as it did in the late 1970s.
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Liverpool boss, Brendan Rodgers has said he refuses to speculate on any return for Steven Gerrard after the striker leaves for LA Galaxy this year.
The Liverpool captain is set to leave the club at the end of the season and join MLS side LA Galaxy, thus ending a 26-year association with the Anfield outfit.
With the Galaxy's 2015 season set to run from March to December, it remains to be seen what will happen to Gerrard at the conclusion of this year.
A potential loan move back to Liverpool has been rumoured, but Rodgers was unwilling to talk about the situation in a press conference on Thursday.
"I won't speculate on if he comes back. He's still a Liverpool player," the manager said.
Rodgers, who says the club are "in discussions" about bringing Divock Origi back from Lille this month, also dismissed reports that misfiring striker Mario Balotelli could move on in the current transfer window.
"Mario works hard," he said. "He certainly won't be going anywhere in January."


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Amy Littrell is the Publications Editor for FordHarrison.
In this capacity, she updates and edits the Ford & Harrison SourceBook. Amy also edits the firm's newsletters and other firm publications, prepares legal alerts and maintains the substantive portion of the firm's Web site.
Amy was awarded the Order of the Coif in law school and was a member of the University of Alabama Law Review in law school.


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UNITED STATES—Well, what are people? Are they born that way or do they become who they are as a result of a complex and inexplicable life process? Were you born unable to do algebra? Why do you write well? Why do like ice cream? What was it made you overweight? Why do you consider yourself ugly or beautiful? Were you born that way or did you choose to be that way?
Some of these questions have short answers that are always wrong. We're what you call complex. We don't give ourselves to easy, simple uncomplicated solutions.
In a lot of ways human sexuality is a special case. It is not a special case because there is anything really special about it. In our culture and historical period, it is special largely because it was made special by the Roman Catholic Church, and many other churches that jumped on their bandwagon. Those priests have had a thing about sex for about as long as they have been theoretically celibate. Some people say that a lot of the Catholic Church heirarchy's preoccupation with things sexual comes from their alleged celibacy.
On the one hand, it is a central doctrine of the Catholic Church that sex is bad. It is "original sin." On the other hand, It is something that is also central to the survival of the species. Things that we consider bad, but know to be necessary usually get enshrined in a whole bushel basket of bull. Human sexuality is very much that way, and it is largely sixteen centuries of Christian theology that have made it that way.
Sexual desire isn't very different from a lot of other desires: food for example. We eat, we must eat, we survive, and we survive with consequences from our eating habits. We have sex, we really must have sex to reproduce, and we have consequences from our sexual habits.
Nobody ever made me like chocolate. Nobody ever made me straight/gay/bi. Do I have to eat chocolate? No, but it sure makes long days nicer, but not to excess. Two questions:
* If I am gay, must I have only gay sex or can I subsist on masturbation and straight sex?
* If I am straight am I totally incapable of experience any pleasure from gay sex?
The answer to both these questions is probably: Yeah, it won't kill me, but it won't maximize my happiness and it probably won't result in lasting mutually beneficial relationships.
It is the way I am, today, this week, this month, this year. It'll probably be the way I am in 25 years, but that's not a certain bet – it's a safe bet though. But what does it matter? Who cares but me?
Well, that's another thing that these religious bigots did for us all: they told us that sex was a sin, and then they told us that it is only permissible for procreation under very limited circumstances. They also told us that any other kind of sex was really, really bad. In the olden days, they said that gay sex was about as bad as adultery, a stoning offense. Over the centuries they've modified their opinions to say that adultery is understandable and forgivable, but gay sex is still awful. They tell us that people who do awful things are awful people and awful people deserve to be punished.
Why is it awful? Well, because it is. It isn't a rational argument. It was the same kind of sin, in the 16th century, as owning a Bible in English. It would get you killed, because it was, (reality off) well, wrong. Because the Church, er… the Bible, er… God says so. (reality on) Because I say so.
As with most everything else, if it's not like me, it is bad and people who are bad deserve to have bad things happen to them, unless they change or pretend to change to be like me.
A little ignorance is a dangerous thing. A ton of ignorance is toxic. It used to be that being left handed was awful, and people were "broken" of being left handed by years of torture. It used to be that people were "cured" of being gay, too, also by death or long years of torture. In the same way that most people who were cured of being left handed didn't ever do anything intricate or difficult with their hands, people who were cured of being gay were mostly cured of being able to have or enjoy sex, or became priests.
We are who and what we are because of biology, genetics, history, culture, relationships, random chance, who our parents were, luck, deliberate decision, where we went to school, fear, hope, envy, laughter, and love — to name some of the factors that result in a human individual.
Sexuality is in there somewhere and it is as much an emblem of individuality as speech or talent or accomplishment. We owe it to ourselves to find out who we are today and to be that and accept other people being who they are. We are all made different and we can either choose to enjoy and celebrate those differences or we can choose to fear and loathe people different from ourselves. Our choices make the world we live in.
What kind of a world do you want?
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This scroll began with long colored panels ready for many words. As the election primaries began, I needed a diversion and several months before, a friend had said, "How about Milton?" I had vague memories of Milton - very long, old references - but I began. A consequence of writing a text by hand is that it slows the words, each one silently filling my mouth, none rushed or scanned. The poetry becomes audible, the rhythm of the line, the story unfolds. "Paradise Lost" was a timely text with fallen angels; Beelzebub, and all and could be found in today's politics.


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HILLSBORO, Ore. — A vintage British fighter jet crashed into a densely populated neighborhood near an airport during an air show Sunday afternoon, exploding, destroying a home and killing the pilot.
Fire officials said no residents or others on the ground were hurt.
The 1951 jet was taking off from the Hillsboro Airport to return to California when it went down, said Connie King, a spokeswoman for the Hillsboro Fire Department.
The jet slammed into a house at 4:28 p.m. and destroyed it, she said. No one was home at the time, she said. The pilot's name was not immediately released.
Another house with people inside sustained "significant damage," but no one was hurt, King said. The attic exterior of a third house was damaged, and there was fire damage in the yard of another, she said.
A firefighter was treated at a local hospital for heat exhaustion and released.
"As it came in, it pitched up its nose and it looked like he was trying to stay afloat," Kerbs said. "I was talking to a buddy of mine and I said 'Hey, he's flying way too low; he's not going to make it.' And then there was a plume of smoke and a bang."
Diana Halvorson, who lives on the street where the plane crashed, said she and her family ran to a neighbor's house when they saw flames.
"It was a noise, a huge, huge, noise," she said. The flames "shot up like a bolt of lightning."
The plane crashed toward the end of the two-day Hillsboro International Air Show, where the plane had been on display, but did not perform, said Steve Callaway, an air show board member.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was registered to Robert Guilford, 73, an aviation attorney from Southern California.
According to information on his law firm's Web site, Guilford has been flying planes since 1961. But authorities would not say if he was piloting the plane Sunday. His law firm, Baum Hedlund, did not return a page Sunday.
Air show organizers canceled the show immediately after the crash. It was the first crash in the show's 19-year history.
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Needless to say I've been controlling myself for the most part the past couple days. Now that the chocolate is out of the apartment and the peanut butter has been soaped and disposed of, I've made my environment a little easier to deal with. Sad but true that I need that, but I can either feel weak or see the acknowledgement of the weakness as actually a strength and move forward. I'm going with the latter because the former obviously hasn't been working for me.
So a big NSV Monday: I actually stuck to my dinner and snack plans and didn't use Disney (where I got to visit briefly with George/hekidanjo and his wife Doreen!) as an excuse to stuff my face with things I didn't need. Plus I got walking points, which is a nice bonus.
Last night, Liz (lizblizz) and I went to Planet Fitness. We did 20-30 minutes of weights/machines and then she did 30 minutes of elliptical and I did C25K W2D...4? IDK, I'm doing the second week twice. Tomorrow is my last day, and then Week 3 will start Saturday; my friend Mels is going to come to the gym with me then. And tonight is yoga with my friend Kinsey. It's nice to have fitness buddies, so we can motivate each other.
Josh and I are hosting a small derby party this Saturday at our place, so I need to be prepared for that. Luckily Mels will be there and she doesn't really drink/is trying to be healthier too, so we can help each other stay on track. I'm definitely thankful for that. I honestly don't need to drink.
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According to legend, Portugal's capital Lisbon was founded by Odysseus when he sailed home from the Trojan War. This coastal city has the warmest winters of any major European City. Book your flight to Lisbon with Blue Air and enjoy the seafaring culture.
Start at Belem's Jeronimos Monastery. Tour this gothic cathedral and marvel at its massive size, majestic architecture, and flying buttresses. Stop by its west wing to visit the National Archaeological Museum and the Maritime Museum. Then, you can go to Belem Tower and explore Portugal's maritime history and its role in the Age of Discoveries.
Visit the Praca do Comercio. The former site of the Royal Ribeira Palace, this iconic plaza is a National Monument of Portugal. After seeing the Statue of King Jose I, take a walk along the beach and stop at a nearby cafe for coffee. Finally, you can take the metro to the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga and see Durer's "St. Jerome in His Study" and other fine works.
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Warwickshire software business Improvision has won the innovation category of this year?s Lord Stafford Awards.
The honour is the latest in a line of awards for the company, which is based at Viscount Centre II on the University of Warwick Science Park.
Improvision won the award for its work in collaboration with the University of Warwick?s Computer Science Department through the Teaching Company Scheme.
It has developed an innovative software system which enables users to view sharp 3D images on a 2D computer screen with no blurring.
Since launching the product, the company?s product sales have increased by 300 per cent, enabling Improvision to double its workforce.
Improvision has also scooped an award for having the best teaching company scheme in the UK and has won awards for innovation from the SPUR and SMART business schemes and was named in the recent Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 awards
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Horsefeathers Women's Outerwear FW17/18 Preview
Retail Buyers Guide: Women's Outerwear 17/18
What's the overall theme behind your 2017/18 outerwear?
It's enjoying the fun when snowboarding. It doesn't matter if you are a park kid, carver or pro rider. GO riding! is what people have to care about and we just try to do outerwear that will make this possible and people will have not to care about stay warm and dry.
Also, we care about the price/performance ratio. Last two seasons we talked a lot with our riders, friends and people who shred more, to improve our products. Because then the regular customer could be sure, our gear will back him up. We have different product categories from Addicted To Powder 20/15K line to the 5/5K technical apparel jackets, so we have product for every kind of snowboarding.
From where do you take your inspiration? What other brands, designers, artists or collectives do you follow who influence the style of your brand?
There are thousand of things that influence the brand style, but the important ones are the brand history, DNA and the crew around the brand. You can do special collections, collabos with crazy styles, but still the most important is to keep the DNA and the style of the brand, your customers like.
What are the two most important products in your 2017/18 range? Why? Please tell us about them.
Every product in the line is important and has its place in the collection, but we are stoked on the first signature combo of KLAUDIA MEDLOVA (Nela jacket and Marcy pants). 15/10K womens products are important for us – Samia jacket, Stacy Bib pants and Tonia pants. Tara jacket will be the best seller and we are stoked on the Everly technical apparel anorak jacket.
What percentage of your outerwear is sold online vs instore? What's the best way to connect with customers who buy via both of these channels?
We don't have 100% data but from what we know, worldwide is around 50/50. The big stores sell lots online, but there are still a lot of sales going through the regular stores.
There are many ways to connect with the customers, and for brands nowadays it's necessary to combine more than just one or two. Brands need to be active in stores, online, on social media, where you can connect with the customers. Also on the events, but traditional media methods are still important. The key is staying true, don't fake their clients. The brand DNA and sincerity is important these days.
Are your price points going up or down?
We are keeping our price points at the same level because they are so sick – best ratio performance/price out there.
What new fits/silhouettes are coming next year?
We work on our fits every year; we keep the segments, but we pimp it following the feedback. We have upgraded slim fit pants and the bib pants. Also, we added new cuts into the technical apparel line, and the ATP line cuts are upgraded with the feedback of Tyler Chorlton.
What's new in colours/prints?
Main colour stories in women's collection are Gold, Deep Lake and Strawberry camo. We added some darker colours for girls, but we also still keep some more girlie combos in the basic lines.
Here's the place to talk about fabrics, features and technical innovations. Here we're principally interested in *NEW* technical stories that you haven't offered to retailers previously.
We are using different Nylon fabric in the ATP line and the main move in the line is that we keep the 5/5K membrane only for technical apparel, all the outerwear jacket have 10/5K and more.
Any played-out trends that your brand is moving away from?
Flashy colours.
Women's key products:
Nela jacket Klaudia
Samia jacket –15/10K
Stacy bib pants – 15/10K
BASE LAYER FOCUS: Do you do baselayers? What's happening here, what's your base layer strategy next year? Please let us know your tech innovations, materials, colours and price points.
Yes, for the fw1718 season we skipped using Merino, and we focus on Nanosilver Stretch Light Weight Fabrics. We also still keep the Nanosilver stretch Mid Weight fabric we've used for years. Main colour stories in baselayers are Strawberry camo, Pool Blue and Dots. The classic black is a must.


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Skip to comments.CBS News' Scott Pelley: I Was Fired For Complaining About 'Hostile' Workplace
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60 Minutes corespondent Scott Pelley says he was let go as host of the CBS Evening News because he spoke up to his bosses about the hostile workplace within the networks news division.
In an interview with CNNs Brian Stelter on Sundays Reliable Sources, Pelley explains, Weve been through a dark period of the last several years of incompetent management and sort of a hostile work environment within the news division. I lost my job at the evening news because I wouldnt stop complaining to management about the hostile work environment.
Pelley who served as anchor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017 went on to share that four or five years ago, he approached management with his concerns. I went to the president of the news division and explained to him that this hostile work environment couldnt go on for women and men and he told me that if I kept agitating about that, internally, that Id lose my job, Pelley reveals. I went to his boss, who told me that he didnt share my concerns. And so, having exhausted the possibilities in the news division, I went to the chairman of the CBS Corporation, who listened to me, very concerned, for an hour, asked me some penetrating questions about what was going on. I didnt hear back from him, but in the next opportunity in my contract, I was let go from the evening news. (At the time, Les Moonves was chairman of CBS Corporation, while David Rhodes served as president of CBS News.)
But with the current new regime at CBS which includes a new chairman, the first woman president of the news division and a new executive producer at 60 Minutes now everything has changed, Pelley says, adding that its all blue sky from here. Im very excited. I know these people, and I know that were on the right track.
Watch Pelleys full comments in the video above.
"From this point on we are just going to attack Trump on a daily basis".
He never says what exactly was hostile about it. I didnt know his name (because I rarely watch TV, except in airports) but he seems to have done investigative journalism that focused on various things, not particularly political, such as child trafficking. So what happened?
Always the democrat dominated companies and industries that are the hostile work environments...
That's an insult to giant cesspools!
I am to read between the lines and think he is a conservative working in a hostile/liberal environment?
I am to read between the lines and think he is a conservative working in a hostile/liberal environment?
My take on this is that Pelly is just looking to excuse his own poor performance. I cheered the day he was fired.
Did they hire him BACK?? He acts like they did......and he sounds and looks like he's a big complainer any way!
He must have found out the children being trafficked where somehow involved with big Dem big shots so CBS shut him up. The commie media now is about 95 percent Dem operated, they report nothing but the commie line
I figured Pelley was a lib which really doesn't jive with his excuses. Now you know why I was asking.
More and more, I see Asians anchoring the news.
Yup. In surveys aboutmhow they vote for president your estimate reflects their % that admit voting democrat.
That's the other thing that irks me about CBS news. Correspondents with foreign accepts reporting on an American news show. Can't they even find competent Americans?
All the 'lsm' outfits are hostile as far as I'm concerned. If they all went bankrupt, I wouldn't give a damn.
True. :D
So he worked with lousy managers in a tightening revenue environment? Just like everyone else in the world. Its called competition.
We have to deal with it daily. Grow the eff up.
Look up the definition of "Smarmy."
You'll find a pix of Scott Pelley.
You have to kill the King, when you start out to kill the King.
Never liked this punk.
I Was Fired For Complaining About 'Hostile' Workplace..... and I sucked as an anchor.Take your incompetence as a man Pelley and move on.
All that complaining made for a hostile work environment. Fixing it required letting him go.
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The television guru synonymous with the success of Big Brother has called for the privatisation of Channel 4 and BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 to fund new public service content from arts institutions, museums, galleries and individuals.
Peter Bazalgette, an influential broadcasting figure thanks to his decade-long association with Big Brother and Deal or No Deal producer Endemol, said the debate about the future of public service broadcasting was too narrow and rooted in the vested interests of existing players.
He proposed a wholesale shakeup of British broadcasting to preserve public service aims in the digital age, raising money from four existing sources:
· A programme of "modest privatisation" at the BBC, selling off Radio 1, Radio 2 and BBC Worldwide;
· A structured selloff of Channel 4 that forced it to retain certain public service aims;
· Releasing ITV and Five from public service obligations but charging them for spectrum following digital switchover;
· Redistributing the £150m in "excess licence fee", currently being used by the BBC to fund digital switchover, that will be released in 2012.
The money raised could be spent on a new idea, which he dubbed Boggle, that contains echoes of Ofcom's earlier public service publisher concept.
Bazalgette, who sits on the board of English National Opera and has been helping develop its website, said the new body could link the existing online offerings of museums, galleries, theatre companies, opera houses and concert halls and fund content from them.
"Why shouldn't Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre commission and distribute video drama? Why shouldn't Nicholas Serota at the Tate make art programmes? Why shouldn't the Imperial War Museum produce history documentaries? At last some genuine plurality in the supply of PSB programming, with the added bonus of a search engine to market it all."
He said individuals could also post music, or comedy, or programme ideas.
In a speech to the Royal Television Society, Bazalgette, who stepped down as chief creative officer of Endemol last year, said the existing debate about whether Channel 4 should get a share of the licence fee "resembles the first class passengers in the bar of the Titanic arguing furiously over who should pay the bill".
Bazalgette, who created programmes including Changing Rooms and Ground Force before selling his independent production company to Endemol in 1998 and going on to oversee the Big Brother phenomenon, said giving Channel 4 public money would blunt its risk-taking edge.