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This is Gurujot Singh Khalsa's
second third bust, occurring after his Smuggling Drugs and Weapons bust…
"In its Complaint, the Commission alleges that from January 1988 to the present, Khalsa, through Gurujot and [*2] Darshan, engaged in a scheme to defraud nine advisory clients of approximately $ 481,000 that was placed with Khalsa for investment. Both Gurujot and Darshan are part of the American Sikh community and the majority of Khalsa's clients are part of the Sikh community… "
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. KHALSA FINANCIAL SERVICES INC., ET AL. (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Civil Action No. 92-1367-A)
LITIGATION Release No. 13498
January 25, 1993
On September 29, 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Khalsa Financial Services Inc. (Khalsa), a registered investment adviser located in Sterling, Virginia, Gurujot Singh Khalsa (Gurujot), the president and sole shareholder of Khalsa, and Darshan Singh Khalsa (Darshan), the vice-president, secretary and treasurer of Khalsa. The Commission seeks a permanent injunction, an order of accounting, disgorgement and civil penalties. The Complaint alleges that Khalsa and Gurujot, aided and abetted by Darshan, violated numerous provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act). Specifically, the Complaint alleges that the defendants violated the antifraud provisions of Sections 206(1) and 206(2); the custody provisions of Section 206(4) and Rule 206(4)-2(a) thereunder; the recordkeeping and reporting provisions of Section 204 and Rules 204-1(b)(1), 204-1(b)(2), 204-1(c), 204-2(a), 204-2(b), and 204(3)(a) thereunder; and the filing provisions of Section 207.
In its Complaint, the Commission alleges that from January 1988 to the present, Khalsa, through Gurujot and [*2] Darshan, engaged in a scheme to defraud nine advisory clients of approximately $ 481,000 that was placed with Khalsa for investment. Both Gurujot and Darshan are part of the American Sikh community and the majority of Khalsa's clients are part of the Sikh community. In approximately January 1988, Gurujot and Darshan caused Khalsa to open a money market account in Khalsa's name at a bank in Virginia. Khalsa characterized this account in its books and records as a "Time Deposit Account" (TDA) and used the TDA as a general operating account in which client funds were pooled. The Complaint alleges that Khalsa informed its advisory clients through quarterly investment statements that their funds placed into the TDA were investments in "Time Deposits" when, in fact, the supposed "Time Deposits" were never invested in certificates of deposit, treasury bills or notes, or any type of term investment. Rather, Gurujot and Darshan took these funds out of the TDA, treated the funds as loans to Khalsa, and used them to make loans to affiliated entities; to repay funds previously borrowed from affiliated entities; to pay the operating expenses of affiliated limited partnerships; and to return [*3] principal and make interest payments to certain clients. The Complaint further alleges that the defendants failed to disclose these actions to Khalsa's clients. Moreover, Khalsa never disclosed the use of client funds, as required by its investment advisory agreement.
The Commission further alleges that the defendants failed to safeguard funds of Khalsa's advisory clients in its custody; failed to make and keep true, accurate and current certain books and records relating to Khalsa's investment advisory business; and failed to make and disseminate certain reports relating to Khalsa's investment advisory business.


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In such a kind of alumina ceramics in the ceramic, porous alumina ceramic, of course, both of them in the structure is to be different, because of porous alumina ceramic surface definition is a lot in his pores, his material is very special. Specifically there will be Jiangsu Province Ceramics Research Institute for everyone to talk about this alumina ceramic defects.
He was not very good toughness and fragility are relatively high, often occur when we use the case of rupture, of course, for our use and production is to have a certain influence, production efficiency also significantly declined. Because the accuracy of porous alumina ceramics he is not very high, of course, this is because he has a lot of surface pores causes.
This is the accuracy of the material but also have a certain influence, when we produce the effect when he was not so good.
Jiangsu Province Ceramics Research Institute in the production he still has some flaws, and his face has a lot of holes, so we produced when making his request more, and this time we are in the production when he could not meet our needs, so we should pay more attention to the operator technology improves. Is simply so few, I hope that today's presentation can make everyone better to face alumina ceramic defects.(picture/text http://www.jiangsuceramics.com/)
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Emma Willis has kicked off Big Brother 2014 in serious style tonight.
The brunette beauty stunned in a tight white jumpsuit for the opening night, as she walked out on the all important catwalk in front of the screaming crowd.
Showing off her toned body, long pins and tiny waist, Matt Willis' wife kept all eyes focused on her as she kicked things off.
We didn't even see the real treat until she turned round either, because the entire back is sheer and therefore totally see-through.
Good effort Emma.
She has got really very excited about it all too, and tweeted before the show: "I'm on a road trip to Borehamwood!!! LETS 'AV IT #bbuk !!!!!"
She added: "I would love to see some of you who are queuing up outside the #bbuk house... Why don't you send me some selfies? #launchnightselfie."
It turns out the TV presenter needs a little extra something to keep her nerves at bay - namely vodka.
"The main show is very nerve-racking so I have vodka and Red Bull that I start drinking five minutes beforehand, and I sip at it throughout the whole show," she said previously.
She doesn't seem too hazy to us.
Seems perfectly reasonable to us. Cheers Emma!


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Forget what you think you know about the indigenous peoples of northwest Illinois: It's all wrong.
First, they were not behind the Europeans in technology, but ahead of them. They did not wander about, but built villages, even great metropolises. They were astrologists. They were business people and traded from coast to coast.
They had sophisticated forms of government, and lived in family groups. They did not hunt and gather in a random environment. They managed their forests, wetlands and prairies to abundance and practiced proven agricultural techniques. And they left behind spectacular earthworks, which rival today's architectural wonders.
The movie "Ancient America" tells the story of the indigenous peoples who first settled eastern North America, including northwestern Illinois. The Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation (JDCF) invites the public to a showing of the 40-minute feature at 7 p.m. Friday, at the Galena Center for the Arts, 219 Summit St.
Before the movie, archaeologist and Galena native Phil Millhouse will talk about his research at JDCF's Wapello Land and Water Reserve, research which provides dramatic evidence that Wapello was an ancient home to peoples from both the Woodland and Mississippian cultures, whose achievements are showcased in the film.
"We had a long and rich tradition of Woodland cultures along the Apple River," Millhouse says. And just south of Wapello there is strong evidence of Mississippian influence. Both civilizations constructed impressive burial mound groups throughout the Mississippi River Valley and its tributaries. With graphics and live video, "Ancient America" portrays these stunning earthworks. Some were miles long with intricate geometrical designs; some supported settlement rituals or were built in animal forms embodying social and religious beliefs.
The Mississippians also built cities with tens of thousands of people, including the great center of Cahokia, across the river from modern-day St. Louis. Cahokia's people built immense platform mounds and established trading routes and trading partners throughout the mid-continent. Archaeologists theorize that a village at the site of JDCF's Wapello Land and Water Reserve may have been along one of those routes.
The result of the interaction between the Woodland and Mississippians, documented by Phil's work, was the creation of a new culture referred to as the Oneota. The Ho-Chunk and Ioway peoples of today are among those who trace their heritage to these ancient Americans.
"Ancient America" is by award-winning producer/director Gray Warriner of Camera One productions, based in Seattle. Gray's work has featured films for the National Park Service, broadcast television, and numerous parks and monuments across the country.
After the movie, Millhouse and Gray Warriner will provide additional commentary and answer audience questions. The event is free to attend and complimentary popcorn will be served. Seating may be limited and will be first come, first served.
Kay Weibel coordinates speaker events for JDCF.


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On Sept. 29, 2015, day 4 of a multi-day jump event, 202 skydivers joined together like a snowflake at 7,000 feet (2,130 meters) to set a world record for the largest sequential skydiving formation. Here's that record-setting jump:
From the Riverside Press-Enterprise:
That sort of formation involves different groups coming together to form a gigantic lattice of airsuit-clad humanity.
The group that pulled off the feat, which smashes the old record of 122, included skydivers from 24 different countries, a sort of United Nations in the air that included Russians, Brazilians, Italians, Germans and U.S. jumpers..
With so many skilled skydivers in town, the entire team attempted to set additional records. The breathtaking video featured at the top of the page, their first jump on day 6, is one of many videos filmed over Perris, California by Sequential Games. Click HD + full screen.Previously: 164 skydivers set a vertical formation skydiving record, and Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k'.
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Under the Fearsome Yellow Eye of Summer
Friday, May 23, 2014
Catching up still on the week I lost....
My photos are just some old things rehabilitated.
My anthology for the week is
This Same Sky, A Collection of Poems From Around the World
, published in 1996 by Aladdin Paperbacks, selected by my favorite San Antonio/world poet, Naomi Sihab Nye.
My poems, more old than new because my new poems from last week mostly sucked.
Here's what I ended up with:
be the hero
Yannis Ritsos
The Meaning of Simplicity
30 minutes
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Articles of Childhood
high priest of godless truth
the little-face man, redux
Kwang-kyu Kim
The Land of Mists
a good week
Steve Healey
where spring is
Tommy Olofsson
The Shadow Inside Me
as the cookie crumbles
Diane Wakoski
My Trouble
On the Subject of Roses
changing the subject
Les Murray
fear of vegetarianism
Jeannette Lozano
The Broken Shadow
draft board
Tomaz Jastrun
Father and Son
Japanese Death Poems
Nine Zen Monks and Haiku Masters
on the death of a friend and patron
six white-haired men
Alamgir Hashmi
A Gift Horse
night beach
There's not many ways a poet can be a hero. Here's one of the few.
be the hero
the musically gifted,
tots to teens, and their parents
waiting for their prodigies to perform
and I'm the wet blanket,
the skunk at the garden party, about to read my poems
as I look out on this small sea of impatient faces,
I know there's only one way
to be the hero here
read fast, I'm telling myself,
get out of the way of this room full of talent...
be the hero
From this week's anthology, I have this poem by Greek poet
Yannis Ritsos
, translated to English by
Edmund Keeley
. Ritsos, born in 1909, was a poet, left-wing activist and member of the Greek resistance during World War II. He died in 1990.
The Meaning of Simplicity
I hide behind simple things so you'll find me,
if you don't find me, you'll find the hints,
you'll touch what my hand has touched,
on hand-prints will merge.
The August moon glitters in the kitchen
like a tin-plated pot (it gets that way
because of what I'm saying to you),
it lights up the empty house and
the house's kneeling silence -
always the silence remains kneeling.
Every word is a doorway
to a meeting, one often cancelled,
and that's when a word is true:
when it insists on the meeting.
Oh, the hectic, hectic life of a poet. This from May, 2009.
30 minutes
60 minutes in an
but i only have 30 of them
to write this poem
i have somewhere else
i have to be and further
of that would take at least
5 minutes
which i don't have, having
now only 27 minutes
to write this poem
so just take my word for it
i just have 26 minutes
to write this poem
because i have to be somewhere
1 minute lost
already to bad typing leaving me
only 25 minutes
to write this poem
another 3 minutes
to order my coffee, maybe more
since there's a long line
so only 22 minutes or fewer left
to write this poem
fixing up the coffee to make it
that's another minute lost
my god
only 21 minutes left
to write this poem
computer warming up
that's another minute
sipping my coffee
so it doesn't spill
that's another minu.....
oh shit,
spilled it anyway, 4 minutes
lost to cleaning up my mess
that leaves, hmmmmmmm,
only 16 minutes
to write this poem
cracking knuckles
to possible improve
typing dexterity
that's another minute
by the old guy at the next table
talking politics
godamighty these guys are nuts
i fear for the republic
i might say but i've already lost
4 minutes to this distraction
plus the knuckle-cracking minute
leave me just
11 minutes to write this poem
the pressure
the pressure
our greatest enemy
our occasional friend
how i miss those lazy crazy
days of summer
when time seemed to stand still
waiting for us to savor the bounty
of summer vacation, swimming,
playing in the park, going to an afternoon
movie, reading all day if we want
another distraction,
6 minutes this time, leaving 5 minutes
to write this poem
i don't think i can write
a poem
in 5 minutes
only 3 minutes
time's up
gotta go no time
to say where or why
From my library, I have this poem by
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
,. from his book
Bread of the Imagined
. The book was published in 1992 by Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue. Born in Havana in 1954, Pau-Llosa moved with his family to the United States in 1960. Author of six books of poetry, he is also a widely published art critic and curator.
Articles of Childhood
Two socks
hang from night's chair
like fruit in the hands
of a ghost.Shoes,
their tongues curled,
the incense of sweat.
The ceiling hosts
my shadow
on the child
far from the bed-downed
parents. Tremble.
But I am anchored
by these fossil feet
dirty with life.
Night the scar
is now the child's dream,
my darkness lives.
A sweater on the wrinkled floor
is a torn hand
on a random shallow of beach.
From within the belly of a shell,
my half light shape has come.
It is, like mud, or two worlds,
continuous as fear.
He dreams
for three days
the snail clings,
a jewel
on the rotting
He curls
into the symmetry
of birth.
Together we become
the horizon
of obscene skin -
shell, glove.
Man the tortoise
abandons the earth's night
for the sea.
My first encounter with the little-face man (as I have named him) came at my breakfast restaurant at the end of April. That meeting generated the first poem (previously posted here) that was partially about him. He reappeared last week, which generated the second poem.
high priest of the godless truths
a new morning regular
in a booth down the way,
round head, shaved bald, tiny
face, makes me think of "Babyface"
in Dick Tracy...
a very nice fellow, I wouldn't know
but have no reason to think
otherwise, but I think
he should know some men shouldn't
shave their head, which I'm also thinking
might include me, now that I've done the deed
but it's just a fact
the fellow would look a lot less strange
with some fuzz
on that
and now searching my own mind,
deciding the reason
I'm giving the little-face man
such a hard time is that I'm actually
pissed-off at someone else, primarily myself,
and it feels better to beat on the little-face man
than to slap myself around as I deserve...
the thing is I hate it that I can't seem to stop myself
from arguing with dimwits on Facebook, that
most highly-populated geography
of Facebook-land where the natives lack the capacity
to think anything more complicated
than a bumper sticker or a Facebook meme
I used to bedevil myself fighting back against
right-wing tea party types, but they, being unwilling to endure
good sense and good manners, eventually blocked
me to avoid the creepy-crawly feeling
they got when faced with well-thought-out expressions
of Truth, Justice, and the American Way...
so now I'm stuck with a bunch of left-wing, occupier-types
as immune to clear thinking as the right-wingers
and equally hostile to skepticism and the hard questions
that the real world requires, true believers, riders
on the left side of the range, kissing-cousins
to the tea partiers, sharing the same basic
conspiratorial view of the world...
I guess they will all be blocking me soon, which
I wouldn't mind, the problem for me is
why am I waiting for them to do to me what I could
so easily do to them...
it's my preacher instinct, I think, a high priest
of the godless truths is what I am at heart and I think
I understand why the Scientologist guy gave up
on good sense and started his own religion...
maybe I'll do the same...
I just have to think of a good name for it...
the little-face man, redux
is back,
with a big straw
cowboy hat and a little sports car
and a back pack
big enough
to draw protests
from the
Burro Protection Branch
of the ASPCA
a small guy himself
I still don't see
how he gets
and that back pack
and that hat
in that little sports
gonna watch
when he leaves
cause I think
it'll be a sight
this little-face guy
his bitty-little self
and his giant
and pasture-shading
hat into his teeny tiny
Next from the anthology, a poem by South Korean poet
Kwang-kyu Kim
, translated by
Brother Anthony
. Born in 1941, Kim studied German at Seoul National University and, since 1980, has been a professor of German at Hanyang University. In addition to his own poetry, Kim has published translations of German poems and radio dramas.
The Land of Mists
In the land of mists
always shrouded in mist
nothing ever happens
And if something happens
nothing can be seen
because of he mist
for if you live in mist
so you don't try to see
Therefore in the land of mists
you should not try to see
you have to hear things
for if you don't hear you can't live
so ears keep on growing
People like rabbits
with ears of white mist
live in the land of mists
Another poem from May, 2009.
a good week
was May 1st,
the transition day
from weather
better than the fiery pits
of hell to the actual fiery pits of hell,
also May Day,
not so good these days
since most of the communists
fell into the trap of robber baron
capitalism, retiring their May Day
parades with columns and columns
of high-stepping soldiers
and tanks and guided missiles,
except for North Korea
whose missiles fall into the sea
and whose tanks are cardboard,
carried underneath on sticks like
the dragons in Chinese New Year parades,
and whose soldiers, having not eaten
in a week, are not so high-stepping
but that was yesterday, as the say,
history come and gone, and today
is May 2nd, starting well enough
as a brisk breeze blew in
from the southeast while I was crossing
the supermarket parking lot a cool
breeze, but damp, with the passing smell
of salty sea and shrimp I remember
from when I was a kid and we'd drive
the 30 miles to Port Brownsville to buy
big gulf shrimp right off the boat
I'm a lot further than 30 miles from
the coast nowadays, and how the smell
gets all the way across the coastal plains
to treat my nose and my morning is a
mystery, but not one I feel inclined to solve,
accepting, instead, however it came to me...
today is Saturday, tomorrow Sunday,
either the end or the beginning of the week,
depending how you look at it - either way
the days ahead clear of the issues
that have cluttered up the last weeks,
good days to stay inside,
hide from the weather,
write poems,
nap in the afternoon
a good week
The next poet from my library is
Steve Healey
. His poem is from his book,
, published by Coffee House Press in 2004. The poet has published two books of poetry, including this one, and his work appears frequently in the poetry press.
where spring is
I could be a hole
if the room's not already full of them.
We all have insides to let go,
and the room's outside. It's dusk.
I slouch and disappear reading
instructions. White snow all around.
What happens do dust when you stare
at it? "A fully conscious state,"
this is the song about the space
between branches, "in which normal pain
is not felt." Objects appear smaller
when I miss you. I could swallow
analgesics on a slow rocket,
I could write postcards from the garden:
"It's a Latin garden:
prunus, ixia, iris
." Then English
flowers nicely after the Black Death;
the fourth was is rarely missed.
Thank God these few mistakes
have friends, i.e., pilgrims.
A nation can depend on conditioned air,
and surely it's spring there
not just the name. With all the melting,
streets river. Time again to honor
my favorite avant-garde milliner
who wore an exceedingly normal hat
when, just before spring, she
killed herself by the river.
Just before, I mean, some things
haven't happened before. The animals
coming back to life, for example,
they stagger around in the house.
I'm thinking I really am due for a vacation. Unfortunately, not going to happen.
like three-day old bread
left to dry out in t5he sun, except
if I actually was three-day old bread
left out in the sun I could break myself
into pieces to make Thanksgiving dressing
or bread pudding, or, I could count for something, toss
myself into the backyard for squirrels
and birds (tiny sparrows, little robins, haughty, overdressed
cardinals, self-important jays and the little boy blackbirds
who puff up their feathers and dance in circles
when they're horny) or the possum that sits silent on the fence, baby
hanging on under her belly, beautiful with soft white and gray
fur except for the long, hairless,rat tail, or toss myself
over the fence and into the creek for the little fish
that swim and swim around the rocks - I could do all these
excellent things if just I was three-day old bread left in the sun...
too bad
that I'm not stale bread
just a stale poet instead, writing again
with pen and ink, desperate to find the door
to that freshness like the smell of driving past a bakery
when the dough is rising and the ovens are on and
the bakers scurry to butter the top of fresh brown crust,
the bread cooling on a rack, growing inside, pregnant with fresh
and soft and clean, the taste and substance of life itself...
but no fresh bread today, just a poet's empty head, sterile,
grasping, the wonder of it all aborted, the fire dying the embers turning
cold and gray as dark settles around the camp
and night animals prowl through the shadow-brush and the wise owl hoots
""why bother?"
not who, but why...why...why...
From the anthology, this poem by Swedish poet
Tommy Olofsson
, translated by
Jean Pearson
. Born in 1950, Olofsson is a professor of creative writing at Linnaeus University. In recent years he has conducted research on medieval ballads.
The Shadow Inside Me
Night has driven the shadow
into my own body. It's and inward
robe that stretches its arms
and legs into my limbs, whispers
like silk along my spine,
turns darker and darker until it
finally comes off in me as the color
of sleep, behind whose eyelids
two black flames are flickering.
May, 2009 again.
as the cookie crumbles
having a chocolate-chip
with my latte this morning,
leaving me
a-quiver with the excitement
of such a foray
into the world
of wild and crazy guy-hood
it's a sign,
the palpitations
of my normally serene
and laid-back heart, that
i'm on a tear for sure,
set to become again the
of my youth when
a bottle of Lone Star
for breakfast
followed by pancakes,
three eggs, sausage
and a gallon of coffee,
was the start of many a day
(I knew it was breakfast
because the light hurt my eyes)
i'm ready
this getting old and creaky
has run its course
it's time to fight back
against the deprecations
of excessive birth-daying,
smoke inhalation
from all those candles,
a major source of deterioration
of elders' respiratory functions
the cookie's finished,
every last crumb,
and, though dizzy now from the
big chocolate chunks,
i'm still up to the fight
but i'm going home first
to take a nap
after that,
those mattress tags
better beware
cause i'm on a
Here is
Diane Wakoski
with two short poems from her book
Emerald Ice, Selected Poems 1962-1987
. The book was published in 1996 by Black Sparrow Press. Born in California in1937, Wakoski, a poet and essayist, earned her BA degree from the University of California, Berkerley in 1960. As a poet,she is most often associated with the "deep image" movement and the Beats of the sixties.
My Trouble
my trouble
is that I have the spirit of Gertrude Stein
but the personality of Alice B. Toklas;
craggy, grand
stony ideas
all I can do
is embroider Picasso's drawings
and bake hashish fudge.
I am poor
and don't have very much to say
am usually taken for
c. 1971
On the Subject of Roses
California shakes its petals/poppies
are lying against
the hills,
orange in their casual motion,
like goldfish swimming in and out
of an aquarium castle.
Bad music
gives a bad life. But no one
should have to choose between Mozart and Beethoven.
a brilliant day is
one with flowers.
No, Mozart
and Beethoven
were not rivals.
c. 1977
Like I said up front, last week was not a good new-poem week for me. I wrote them (because that's my job) but that doesn't mean I have to like them. So, instead of posting poems that even I think suck, I'm sending in a couple of relief pitchers, more poems from 2009.
Here's the first one, which I must say makes me feel a lot better about the generally fine weather this May.
changing the subject
it was 100 degrees
yesterday afternoon,
in this first full week
of May, a certain sign
we will see hellfire
and brimstone before
(is it too late,
to apologize
for that poem i wrote
last week)
the end of life
as we know it
a more immediate
than usual,
i try to belay
thoughts of my future
in the devil's own
of self-recrimination
by changing the
did you read in the paper
about the discovery on a
faraway Pacific island
of the final resting place
of a Hobbit, such identity
confirmed by examination of
the tiny creature's bones -
calcified architecture
of a hominid about three
feet tall with tiny shoulders
and head and feet seven-
teen inches long
working out to roughly
two inches of height for
every inch of feet, a
disparity greater even
than that of my cousin
Little Cletus,
known by many as the
"Bigfoot of Joaqanoka County"
before his death last year
at the hand of his preacher's
wife's cousin's husband,
Festaidious, known locally as
"Shotgun Fever Festus"
but that's another story
maybe i'll tell it someday,
if we don't all end up
in mid-July as crispy-
critter-reminders of life as
we used to know it
there i go again
once i get my mind set
on the great flaming fireball
of the apocalypse
it's hard
to get back to
regular thinking
Next, Australian poet
Les Murray
from the week's anthology. Born in 1938, Murry is a poet, anthologist and critic who has, over a 40 year writing career, has published 30 volumes of poetry, two verse novels and collections of his prose writing. He is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation."
In Memory of My Mother,
Miriam Murray nee Arnall
Not owning a cart, my father
in the drought years was a bowing
green hut of cattle feed, moving,
or gasping under cream cans. No weight
would he let my mother carry.
Instead, she wielded handles
I the kitchen and dairy, singing often,
gave saucepan-boiled injections
with her ward-sister skill, nursed neighbours,
scorned gossips,ran committees.
She gave me her factual tone,
her facial bones, her will,
not her beautiful voice
but her straightness and her clarity
I did not know back then
nor for many years what it was,
after me, she could not carry.
Back again to the wonderful world of May, 2009.
fear of vegetarianism
i had a big
steak for dinner last night
a big slab of cow,
cooked myself
of the pit outside
waited a full hour
for the fire
to get just right
endured 104 degree
watching the meat
turning it
just when,
watching it brown
and crisp
until it was perfect
medium rare
not dry,
but not dripping red
cow juice either
and when I finally finished
eating it,
belly distended
from about twenty-five
too many
i felt engulfed
in a miasma
of meat
and had to take
a shower
to rid my self
of the stink
of dead
then this morning
i had scrambled eggs
at the Madhatter
and mixed in with the eggs
green strings of
what is happening to me,
i'm thinking,
what in the world might be next
is this
a carrot salad
i see before me?
this can't be!
this is not the grub
of cowboys,
cowboys must have meat
it's part of the contract,
Section XII, Subsection 4.G
"Expectations of All Who With Dogies Abide"
(i'm thinking
coleslaw and endives
for lunch
Next, a poem by
Jeannette Lozano
from her beautiful book,
The Movements of Water/Los momentos del agua
, bilingual, the original Spanish with English translation by
Ron Hudson
, and beautiful art by
Victor Ramirez
. The book was published by in 2006 by Edicioes Poligrafa of Barcelona.
The Broken Shadow
The rain was dousing
the red canvas of the tree,
a silent bird shuddered on the branch
(it was a time of fasting)
and she was longing for the nectar
that in drops falls upon the leaching gold of stones.
The negation was the movement of the water,
pain concealed in the vermillion
humming of the flowers
opening themselves
to the calcareous hands of the goddess
Cold flame
the water when it fears its immersion.
The altar of marigolds, luminous and orange,
enfolds the limy scepter
whose being rises in whorls of spiral.
Black sun of the beginnings, slow step of the caiman
toward the white of the mirror, the damsel in her bath of
with thorns her body pierced, not the man, if not the woman who sings
from the railing of the temple whose red crystal filters the shadow of the hummingbird
And she bore with the moon 400
they hurried on the hour to the temple, freely fell the obsidian blade,
the wings of the
and its blue symphony
killed the gilded amaranths under their feet.
Thus was born the life of this insurmountable
sea, thought the birth persist
in the swell: flows to the center, then withdraws
tormented by an always fleeting encounter.
So the lands changed their form
and the boats altered their course and the language
befell a tower of white smoke as the signal came
from a sinister temple decorated with nocturnal peacocks.
And in the central hall of the Museum a coiled
serpent harvests the blood of ancient sacrifices
and the multicolored masks of Teotihuacan with their blinders
fill - blue-green nostalgia - the tongue of water.
Te messengers rushed to give fish to the king,
they were species gathered from the different parts of the ocean - fish
of lilac scales (sapphire?), membranous eyes, skin opaque from intense sun,
such were the fish of he first super that the emperor
had sent to freeze to offer the enemy.
Flight 236 Mty-Mex
November 13, 2006
Another relief pitcher, an old from May, 2009 in place of a new.
draft board
such a serious game,
no matter how carefully you play it,,
it kills you every time
a random thought,
and even
i don't know what to do with it
i just know that
that kind of stuff has been my mind
since a funeral i went to last week,
not so much the funeral itself
affecting me
- a nice affair, loose and unassuming,
perfectly capturing the man
who had left us -
but the new evidence of mortality -
as if additional evidence
is needed in the middle of one's 66 year -
like a chapel full of mostly old people
who know their own time is coming,
an exclusive club of those whose time
is running out - exclusive only in the sense
of selective membership and the year waiting
to get on the list, whether you want to or not
Groucho said he didn't want to belong
to any club
whose standards were so low
as to accept him
that's how i feel about this club
of the not-yet-dead but daily dying -
i would like t think i'm
despite all evidence
to the contrary
but it's like the draft board
on my eighteenth birthday,
there was not a lot of concern
with my preferences
on the matter
Now, from the anthology, Polish poet
Tomasz Jastrun
, translated by
David Bourne
. Born in 1950 in Warsaw, Jastrun is a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Active in the solidarity movement, he was director of the Polish Institute in Stockholm and his country's cultural attache from 1990 to 1994.
Father and Son
Here is not good enough
And he looks at me with reproach
But what can I do
I'm not about to offer excuses
So I let my silence speak
Finally he hugs me
As if he suddenly realizes
We have to get along
To come to an agreement
There is no one else
To deal with
And after a while
We both get to work
He collects
Old bus tickets
I fuss with words
Out of which I can whittle
My crutches and cane
May, 2009. As a poet, it is very discouraging to notice that my old poems are better than my new poems.
thunder and lightning
all night
but little rain
this morning
the sun -
in a clear-patch
surrounded by
black clouds -
is shining on me
like a spotlight at the grand ballet
the star of the show,
that's me,
it's my day to
Last from my library this week I have a small selection of
, or death poems. The book is
Japanese Death Poems - Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Zen monk - Died on the fifth day of the second month, 1256, at the age of fifty-six.
In all my six and fifty years
No miracles occurred.
For the Buddha and he Great Ones of the Faith
I have questions in my heart.
And if I say,
"Today is he hour
I leave this wold,"
There's nothing in it. Day after day,
Does not the sun rise in the east?"
Gizan Zenrai
Zen monk - Died on the twenty-eight day of March, 1878 at the age of seventy-seven.
I was born into this world
I leave it at my death.
Into a thousand towns
My legs have carried me,
And countless homes -
What area ll these?
A moon reflected in the water
A flower floating in the sky
*Ho, a translation of
- a kind of challenging cry uttered at the moment of enlightenment.
Haiku poet - Died on the fifteenth day of the fifth month, 1688, at the age of about twenty-eight.
It lights up
as lightly as it fades:
a firefly.
*Chine the sister of
Mukai Kyorai
(1681-1704), a friend and disciple of Basho's. He wrote this upon her death.
Sadly I see
the light fade on my palm:
a firefly.
Haiku poet - Died on the twenty-third day of the ninth month, 1767, at the age of fifty-three.
To grass it comes
and turns into grass:
a drop of dew.
Haiku poet - Died in the eighth month, 1823, at the age of eighty-three.
I wish this body
might be dew in a field
of flowers.
Haiku poet - Died on the sixteenth day of the sixth month, 1783, at the age of eighty-two.
A short night
wakes me from a dream
that seemed so long.
Haiku poet - Died on the second day of the second month, 1785, at the age of seventy-one.
Second month:
I wear a new bamboo hat
and go home.
Haiku poet - Died on the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month, 1784, at the age of thirty-six.
If I must die
then let me die before
the winter comes.
Another old (May, 2009) for new. These two short poems both inspired by the same funereal mentioned earlier.
on the death of a friend and patron
a man
in constant
to think of him as
six white-haired men
white-haired me
stand around the pit
watch the box
as it is lowered into the hole
think of their friend
and wonder
whose box is next
Last from this week's anthology, this is a poem by
Alamgir Hashmi
of Pakistan. Born in 1951, Hashmi lives in Islamabad and writes primarily in English.
A Gift Horse
Somebody must have
given it to someone,
only gifts and toys
can suffer
such love, such neglect,
in the wetness
of this lawn.
Cloth, or perhaps wood,
it is only that.
The hard and soft,
it's all the same.
Its owner,
the child, must be
asleep or have
found something else.
I am unable
to make out
its beginnings
or end exactly:
the eyes are a bleary
the mouth seems sealed
as if to lock out
a couple of proverbs
I don not think
it will speak.
Here it is, the last old poem from May, 2009, unless I decide to trash the new poems and just use old.
has deserted me
again today
run away
left me high
and dry
headed for the
took a hike
turned tail
and ran
the white flag
skipped town
is what she did
plum gone
and i intend
to do nothing
until she returns...
no more
A last new poem for the week, over-long, but what I have. If I ever use the poem anywhere else, I'll need to take a sharp knife to it.
night beach
night on the beach
in a tiny camper trailer, waves
whispering as they pull and push sand from the beach to sea
and back again while tiny beach creatures scuttle, little crabs
pushing from dens under wet sand,
like babies being born, pushing aside the grit that holds them in the damp dark,
the holes they come from closing up again as
salty foam washes over them,
the grind of new sand, washing over them...
bare as the salted air washes over me, waking
as the sun rises over warm gulf water,
breakers shining orange under dawn's fiery glow -
the red end of night, the time of night when the sharks finish
their feeding in the surf under the bright tropic moon...
even as I am awakened by the golden
even as the animals are fed, I am hungry, rising from
my hard bed, I walk the beach through ankle deep surf,
feeling the flowing sand and tide,, advance and retreat over my feet...
shaking the night blown salt from my hair, I dress, drive
for breakfast at Sandy's Pier, oatmeal and crab cakes and
coffee, then back out to the warming beach, back to the trailer
where I hitch up and go home...
a playground in the light of day, the beach
a church at night, a place of solitude,
a place of worship for those who believe in no greater
power than the push and pull of the tides,
a place to feel at one with the power of the moon,
a cathedral at midnight under a sky of stars...
when the sharks feed under the full tropic moon,
and the orange glow of dawn on foaming waves, the
the bright glow of the sun resting on water reflecting
on the wet beach, just as the moon shone back from
the sand at night...
night is the time for the beach, sleeping in the
quiet of whispering surf and scuttling
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Stripped of the right to host the tournament and plunged into the qualifying competition halfway through, Cameroon earned its place at the African Cup of Nations finals and the chance to defend its title with a confident 3-0 win over Comoros on Saturday.
Eric Choupo-Moting, Christian Bassogog and substitute Clinton Njie scored for the reigning African champion, which negotiated heavy rain in Yaounde to join Morocco as the two teams to qualify from Group B.
The result cheered the Central African nation, which was dropped as host of this year's tournament by the Confederation of African Football because of poor preparations and security risks. It was in danger of missing the tournament entirely until Saturday's result in the final round of qualifiers.
But the 3-0 win may still not be the final word on Cameroon's 2019 African Cup saga.
Comoros had already appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over Cameroon's participation in qualifying and wants the African champion thrown out completely after it was dumped as host. CAS will rule on the case before the African Cup, which was moved to Egypt, kicks off in June.
The tournament is the first African Cup to be expanded to 24 teams, opening the way for some of Africa's unheralded teams to qualify.
At least three countries will make their African Cup debuts in Egypt. Madagascar and Mauritania had already qualified and Burundi joined them after holding Gabon to 1-1 in Group C to collect the point it needed.
Burundi's draw at a packed Prince Louis Rwagasore Stadium meant it ousted Gabon and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for a spot at the tournament.
After starting cautiously, Burundi led through Cedric Amissi's goal in the 76th minute. Omar Ngando's own-goal with eight minutes to go gave Burundi a nervous finish. Victory for Gabon would have seen the Gabonese qualify instead.
Burundi held on to clinch the second qualifying place in the group behind Mali and make history for a country that has been trying to reach Africa's top tournament since 1976. In the streets of Bujumbura, there was shouting and cheering, and car horns beeped incessantly in celebration.
"This is a great day in the history of football in Burundi," coach Olivier Niyungeko said.
New host Egypt rounded off its qualifying campaign with a 1-1 draw with Niger. Egypt coach Javier Aguirre fielded an experimental lineup that didn't include Mohamed Salah. Salah still finished as joint-top scorer in the group with four.
Egypt had already qualified for the African Cup when it was chosen as the replacement host.
But complications arose when Cameroon, which was playing in the qualifiers for match practice, suddenly needed to qualify after losing the tournament hosting. Part of Comoros' argument to sport's highest court is that the situation changed in the middle of the qualifying competition.
Battered by Cyclone Idai, Mozambique found no solace in soccer on Saturday.
Needing to win to have any chance of qualifying, Mozambique led Guinea-Bissau 2-1 with an 89th-minute goal from substitute Nelson Divarasson before conceding an equalizer deep in injury time to end its chances.
That meant Guinea-Bissau and Namibia qualified from Group K.
Nineteen of the 24 teams to qualify are known, and the remaining five places will be decided on Sunday, when the tiny mountainous kingdom of Lesotho could become the fourth debutant, and Libya could belie years of civil war to make its return to the African Cup.
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No doubt there are many phrases regularly quoted in your home.
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"Think before you speak."
"It's not done until it's down right."
One of the concepts repeatedly quoted in my ministry is:
"If your philosophy doesn't work 100% of the time, you need a new philosophy."
I spend a lot of time fleshing out the concept of "Failure Philosophies" with the boys I work with at Victory Academy, and I'd like to take a moment to do the same for you.
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text: Environment Transportation Track Thieves Cause Train Derailment: 'Meth-Head Recycling' Again? By John Laumer is an independent consultant with a long history in business environment. Based in the Philadelphia area, he wrote for Treehugger from 2005-2012. our editorial process John Laumer Updated October 11, 2018 Migrated Image Share Twitter Pinterest Email Transportation Automotive Active Aviation Public Transportation Railroad track segment. Image credit:Flickr, by boulanger.IEBogus metals recycling has been a topic of interest on TreeHugger since 2007. Once the easy metal pickings get scarfed up, demand for even a base metal like steel will eventually return, tempting thievery that is occasionally amplified by the idiotic desperation of meth-addled thinking. Metal thieves would also have to be sociopaths to steal segments of actively used railroad ties track. Apparently they have some scrappers who fit this description up in Taunton Mass; and, we can brace ourselves for more like this, as the meth and oxy problems are not going away without more stringent regulation of drug producers and distributors.The Taunton Daily Gazette gives the details in it's story CSX train derails in Taunton; police investigate theft of railroad tracks Here's a snippet that pretty much captures the moment."Idiots," Smith, 52, said of whoever used a welding torch to cut away the steel rail. "They have no regard for anyone's safety. Imagine if it punctured a fuel tank or if it was hazmat (hazardous material)," he said. Evidence suggests the thieves -- railroad personnel said it would have taken two or more people to lift each 900-pound segment -- were cutting away another portion when they decided to flee. Precedent.For those of you too young to remember the 80's, sham recycling caused huge problems back then. Hundreds of poorly run chemical waste recycling businesses resulted in multiple fires and explosions - a danger experienced in most states - many of which became today's Superfund cleanup sites. Communities were evacuated and lives were lost. Taxpayers had to foot the bill for first response and cleanup. The accumulated costs to public and private sectors were immense and continue to accrue. EPA cut back on sham chem waste recycling by implementing very stringent regulatory requirements for hazardous waste storage, collection, distribution, and treatment, as spelled out in the Federal Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA). Government regulation wins again! (This is one of the ongoing EPA success stories that today's Republican party pretends does not even exist - even though a great many, perhaps even a majority of Republicans once supported RCRA.) Solution to metal theftI can see no way out of the metal theft issue other than to have the Federal government register, license, inspect, and hold accountable upstream metal recovery and transportation businesses (most scrap yards are already licensed at the state and local level). Handing the responsibility off to states won't work because it would leave an opening for meth-headers and ordinary thieves to cross state boundaries with their heavy metal plunder. Tea Party commenters...have at it!


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Sounders: Ianni could make debut in KC
Wednesday: Seattle Sounders FC (1-3-3; 6 points) at Sporting Kansas City (5-3-2; 17)
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Sporting Park, Kansas City, Kan.
Radio: None in English. Spanish broadcast on 99.3 FM.
Head to head: In league play, Seattle leads 5-1-1 overall and 3-0 in Kansas City. SKC beat the Sounders on penalty kicks in the 2012 U.S. Open Cup final.
Notes: Kansas City is in a four-way tie atop the Eastern Conference, while Seattle is alone at the bottom of the West. ... SKC leads MLS in shots and is second in assists and goal differential. ... KC designated player Claudio Bieler leads MLS with six goals. Graham Zusi leads SKC with four assists and is the reigning MLS player of the week. Jimmy Nielsen is the defending MLS goalkeeper of the year. Striker Kei Kamara has rejoined the club after a loan to Norwich City of the English Premier League. ... Sporting is 3-1-1 at home with a 9-3 goal advantage, while the Sounders are 1-2-1 on the road. ... Seattle played a 2-2 draw at Philadelphia on Saturday, while SKC routed Chivas USA at home Sunday. ... SKC forward Teal Bunbury and midfielder Bobby Convey are out with injuries. Seattle is without Lamar Neagle and DeAndre Yedlin due to red-card suspension. Obafemi Martins is expected to miss the game due to injury, while Shalrie Joseph, Steve Zakuani and Marc Burch are questionable. ... Seattle goals leader Eddie Johnson (2) played for Kansas City 2006-2007. ... The assigned referee is Geoff Gamble.
Quotable: "They get their outside backs involved and try to hold onto the ball that way. It's important for us to keep the ball as well and create opportunities. I think we did that better against Philly, but we have to limit the opportunities that we give the opponent." Seattle coach Sigi Schmid on facing SKC.
Next: The San Jose Earthquakes visit CenturyLink Field at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Don Ruiz, Tacoma News Tribune
In a Seattle Sounders FC season that has been defined by its long injury list, defender Patrick Ianni was the pioneer.
Ianni was injured during preseason fitness testing, and he hasn't played one second of this Major League Soccer season.
That could change Wednesday night when Seattle visits Sporting Kansas City in what will be the eighth game of its regular season.
"It's a blessing," Ianni said after full participation in practice sessions last week. "It's nice to be back. Never take it for granted."
Ianni traveled with his teammates on this two-game trip. He was on the 18-man roster Saturday in the 2-2 draw at Philadelphia, but did not take the pitch.
He is not among the five Sounders listed on the injury report. He could make his playing and starting debuts all at once if coach Sigi Schmid decides to rest either central defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado or Djimi Traore for Seattle's second game in five days.
"Generally you don't sub a lot in the back, so once you're out there — once you're starting as a defender — the expectation is that you can go 90 minutes," Schmid said last week. "But when you look at it, (Ianni is) sort of like at the end of your hard preseason. So now he's got to recover through that, and then we'll see where he's at."
Ianni appeared in 16 MLS games last season, as part of a loose rotation with Hurtado and Jeff Parke. He projected as a regular presence in back again this year, especially after Parke was traded over the off-season.
That changed in late January when the club was going through routine fitness testing and Ianni suffered a right foot fracture — a broken fourth metatarsal — during a jumping test.
"It was just landing coming down from a jump," Ianni said. "Both feet kind of landed on the outside. It happened so fast — we don't have video of it or anything — all I know is my ankle kind of turned on the right side."
Initial reports indicated Ianni would be out four to six weeks, but that proved optimistic.
"Literally right when it happened, I knew there was nothing I could do about it except take care of everything day by day," Ianni said. "That went well for about the first six weeks: just taking it day by day and doing what I could to get back as soon as possible. Then around the six-week mark I thought I was going to start climbing a little quicker. It took a little more time, which was to be expected."
There could be some extra meaning if his return comes in Kansas City.
Kansas City was the opponent when Ianni scored his only goal of last season — and it ended up being voted MLS goal of the year.
Ianni got on the end of a Mauro Rosales corner kick and unleashed a leaping sideways volley from 10 yards, providing Seattle's only score in a 1-1 draw.
It was Ianni's fourth goal since coming into the league in 2006, and he called it the best goal he had ever scored "in practice, in a game, or since I was born."
Ianni's possible return to the pitch does not signal an end to the Sounders' season-long limp. Starting forward Obafemi Martins is expected to be out again, while starting midfielders Steve Zakuani and Shalrie Joseph are questionable.
"I think we're starting to catch ourselves," Schmid said. "We're starting to get a better balance of players on the field in terms of work rates, being able to hold onto the ball, and skills, etc. But it's tough when you're playing next to a new partner every game, and you're starting to understand how this guy wants the ball and when he wants the ball, then the next game you're playing with someone else who wants the ball a little differently."
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It sounded like a freight train running into our house. And I thought my dog was dying.
We've had a winter that has piled the snow higher in our neighborhood than nearly any other along the benches of the mountains where we live.
This winter has put a toll on the snow shovels, the snow tires and nearly everyone's patience.
With each snowfall the load on our roof gets deeper. And heavier. And with a nearly flat rooftop the snow has nowhere to go. it just. stays. put.
Until it warms up. And then the avalanches begin. And that's when my dog loses it.
Thank you Erin for having a photo crush on Chewy
Our dog Chewy is a bit of a nervous wreck. It's in his DNA. The little dude has never been corrected with more than a strongly voiced admonishment. Even though we adopted him at a mere 8 weeks, he refuses to come when called, even when trying to lure him up on the bed for a snuggle, and instead stares you straight in the face with a look of just plain boredom, and walks away. There's no need for a doorbell since he is a four-legged alarm system, posturing his imposing-bearish-self at the front door, to the back door, and back to the front door whenever anything wanders up or down our street, be it a truck, person or deer. And he's deathly afraid of thunderstorms and fireworks, eating his way through fences or performing as a nocturnal acrobat as he hovers over our sleeping faces and turns the bed into the vibrating style that normally costs a quarter to get that kind of action.
He's getting older now. His eyes are beginning to film with cataracts, his escapes from the front door are far less frequent. 90 pounds of a nervous nelly shepherd/chow mix. And we couldn't adore him more.
With the house warming the layer of rooftop snow from below and the warming sun baking it from above, the sheath of snow is quickly turning into a sheath of ice. One foot thick. As the days get warmer and the snow finally begins to melt, massive sheets of snow slide from the roof and crash to the ground in 12-foot lengths and put my little boy into full panic mode.
Two days ago when his head hung low, his pace far slowed and his paws not quite working right I thought he'd had a seizure. Or a stroke. It happened before and I thought we were in the midst of it again. But…This time it lasted longer.
And that's when my husband pointed out the avalanches had been crashing all morning and I just hadn't noticed. My little boy was scared. But…I think it was probably more than just nerves. And…That's when I had to admit that sooner or later his time will come just like our first dog Akasha, his adopted mama, who ruled his roost with every snarky bark at his puppiness play and who I'm sure contributed to his aloof behavior far more than anything my husband and I could ever influence.
If there's one thing that perks the Chew-man up it's food. That's how I knew he was on the mend. The following day he was back to being underfoot in the kitchen, waiting for every crumb to fall and breathing on me at every bite as we enjoyed our meal.
Not that it mattered. I'm happy to have him breathe on me for as long as he's able.
Like snowstorms turning into the spring thaw, this recipe is the perfect transition from winter to spring. It still has the markings of favorite winter-like comfort food staples (cheese, sauce, girth) but is light enough so not to throw you into a food coma ready to burst from fullness. Unless you eat the whole pot. Which you are perfectly entitled to do if you so choose.
I created this recipe for the folks at Wisconsin Cheese and made you all a little video to go along with it. Check out Sara's and Ashley's videos while you're here. I'm really enjoying this style of storytelling so you'll be seeing more of it I'm sure. Thank you to Angie for being my willing cooker.
Wisconsin Fontina Polenta from Wisconsin Cheese Talk on Vimeo.
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Fontina Polenta and Easy Marinara
For Polenta
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups cream
- 1 cup cornmeal or polenta
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup grated Wisconsin Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Wisconsin Fontina cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Easy marinara recipe below or quality jarred pasta sauce sauce for serving
- Fresh basil leaves for garnish
For Easy Marinara
- 3 cloves garlic sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 28 ounce can San Marzano tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 cup fresh basil thinly sliced
Bring water and cream to a boil in a large saucepan.
For Polenta
Add cornmeal or polenta, bring to a boil and reduce to simmer. Cook for 30 minutes, stirring often.
Whisk in kosher salt and pepper. Add grated cheeses, whisking until cheese melts, then add butter and stir in until combined. Season with more salt and pepper, if desired.
Serve with prepared marinara sauce and extra grated Parmesan cheese. Top with fresh basil as garnish.
For Easy Marinara
Heat oil in a french skillet over medium high heat and add garlic slices. Cook for 2 minutes or until very lightly browned. Add tomatoes to skillet and season with sugar, red pepper flakes and salt. Break up tomatoes, lower to simmer and cook for about 25 minutes or until sauce has thickened. Add basil, stir and serve.
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Melbourne's weather certainly has a rather large reputation. Whether it's hot or cold, the geographical layout of the city means that the weather changes consistently. For this reason, Melbournians have never been the type to let a bit of bad weather get in the way of a good time. In fact, during the colder months, there is plenty to see and do in Victoria's capital city. We've put together our top 5 reasons that you should visit Melbourne this winter.
Because winter is the off-peak season in Melbourne, most things are going to be cheaper. This includes flights and accommodation, as well as most activities such as galleries and large attractions. Instead of forking out an exorbitant amount on flights and accommodation, travel in winter and enable yourself to truly treat yourself while you're there.
Off-peak season not only means that you will encounter less financial costs, it also results in there being less crowds! That means your favourite accommodation choices and preferred dates to travel will be well within your reach.
For an intensely cultural city such as Melbourne, winter is a really important time. There are many cultural activities that you can enjoy that are only a short distance away from the comfort of your serviced apartment. There is the The Light in Winter, Open House Melbourne and the Melbourne International Film Festival, just to name a few. As well as this, there are special exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria to celebrate the onset of winter, some of the city's most interesting buildings are holding an open house weekend and there are special winter menus at some of the top restaurants in town.
A great way to warm up during the colder months is to get your heart racing with a passionate game of footy! Winter is the height of the season for many of our country's most popular sports, including one of the biggest events on the yearly sporting calendar – the AFL (Aussie Rules Football) Grand Final! A word of warning, though: grab your tickets early so you don't miss out.
Melbourne is a fantastic base for some of the best destinations for skiing and snowboarding in Australia. Providing some of the most reliable snow conditions in the state of Victoria, Mt Buller can be reached in approximately 3 hours drive from Melbourne CBD. The alpine scenery of this time of year makes driving a worthwhile time investment, although be sure to take special care when operating a vehicle in icy conditions.
Not only is a winter holiday in Melbourne cheaper and more convenient, there is actually so much more to do! Don't let the chill get you down, involve yourself in one of the many great arts, cultural or sporting activities that Melbourne has to offer during the colder months.
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Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers St. Louis
St. Louis Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers protecting St. Louis and Missouri Residents
The Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law understand how devastating the side effects of Taxotere can be, and are prepared to fight on your behalf to ensure that you receive the justice and compensation you deserve after developing negative and debilitating side effects from Taxotere. When you started taking Taxotere, you did so because you believed it would help with a sickness, ailment or disease that you need medication to properly control, but Taxotere didn't help. In fact Taxotere made the situation worse because now you are suffering from its side effects as well. The Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law understand how devastating the side effects of Taxotere can be, that's why we are committed to aggressively pursuing the case on your behalf so that you can get the justice and restitution that you deserve.
Christopher R. Dixon and the Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law are committed to providing St. Louis and Missouri residents with the greatest level of legal expertise and guidance through their Taxotere lawsuit case. Christopher R. Dixon is recognized as a Top 100 Trial lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association and a Life-Time Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and when you choose Chris for your legal guidance and counseling for a Taxotere Lawsuit Case you will be fully taken care of. When you choose our experienced and professional lawyers to represent you in your Taxotere lawsuit claim, you are choosing a proven and effective team of lawyers who know how to win Taxotere lawsuit cases. When you need a Taxotere lawsuit lawyer to protect your interests, medical recovery, and financial future, choose the Taxotere Lawyers of Dixon Law to make sure that you are fully protected.
What are the side-effects of Taxotere?
Taxotere is a chemotherapy drug that was approved by the FDA for the treatment of breast cancer, stomach cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and many other types of cancer. Unfortunately, alongside its ability to combat certain cancers, it has terrible and detrimental side effects. One of its worst side effects is neutropenic enterocolitis, which is the inflammation of a small pouch located at the head of the large intestines. This rare condition can often be fatal. Here are some of the other side effects of Taxotere,
- Constipation
- Fatigue and weakness
- Diarrhea
- Bone, muscle or joint pain
- Infection
- Low white blood cell count
- Nausea
- Low red blood cell count (anemia)
- Taste changes
- Mouth or throat sores
If you or someone you care for has developed these side effects after taking Taxotere, it is important that you get legal representation immediately to protect your health and wellbeing. The Taxotere Lawsuit Attorneys of Dixon Law can see to it that you and your family are fully provided for during this difficult time.
What should I do if I've developed Negative Side effects after taking Taxotere?
The first step for an experienced Taxotere Lawsuit lawyer will be to discuss the details of your case with you. Next, your liability attorney will gather your related medical records and perform a detailed review to ensure your case fits the necessary criteria. This process does not cost you anything. Your taxotere lawsuit attorney will handle your case on contingent fee basis. This means there is no fee for our services unless we are successful in recovering money for your injuries or the wrongful death of a loved one.
If your case is found to have been caused by the negligence or wrongdoing of another, your attorney will fight the pharmaceutical industry to recover all the reimbursement you deserve for your harms and losses. We truly enjoy the work we do. We believe that the pharmaceutical industry must stop its terrible habit of placing profits above people in an attempt to continue making record amounts of money.
How can a St. Louis Lawyer help my Taxotere Lawsuit Case?
Drug Companies are massive and powerful corporations that can lobby members of Congress on their behalf to get medicines like Taxotere approved by the FDA. Taking on these companies by yourself can be a daunting endeavor, but when you have a Taxotere lawsuit attorney on your team, the fight is winnable. The Laws surrounding how drugs are made, the clinical trials that must be used to prove they are effective and safe, and how the drugs are marketed can be confusing because they are often purposely made so. When pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies write the laws that are supposed to govern drugs like Taxotere, they write the laws so that they are protected from most types of lawsuits, and so that they can reap as much profit as possible. The average St. Louis and Missouri citizens will not know these laws and won't be able to effectively use them to fight a Taxotere lawsuit case of this level. This is why hiring a lawyer with experience in trying Taxotere cases is so important.
The Taxotere Lawsuit Attorneys of Dixon Law are prepared to take on the massive drug corporations and ensure that you get the justice you deserve. Our Taxotere Lawsuit Attorneys can help you win your case because we know the St. Louis and Missouri Laws and Statutes surrounding drug use, federal approval needed for drugs, and the Tort laws regarding defective and dangerous medicine. With these weapons, we can bring the makers of Taxotere to heel and hold them responsible for the side effects and other medical issues you now suffer from after taking Taxotere.
Why should I choose the St. Louis Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law to represent my Taxotere Claim
The Taxotere Lawsuit Attorneys of Dixon Law have years of experience litigating defective drug cases, and we can use the knowledge we've built from these cases to successfully combat the major drug and pharmaceutical companies. When you choose our Taxotere lawsuit attorneys, you are choosing a team with a proven success record. Christopher R. Dixon and the Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law are more than just a Taxotere lawsuit law firm, they are fellow St. Louis and Missouri citizens who understand what it means to suffer because of Taxotere side effects.
Chris Dixon – "I pride myself on tirelessly fighting for the injury victims who continuously trust me with their cases. It is an honor to serve and a passion which drives my existence."
Our St. Louis Taxotere lawsuit lawyers care. We care about our fellow St. Louis and Missouri citizens because when our family members and neighbors are harmed because of the negligent and dangerous acts of pharmaceutical and drug companies like the makers of Taxotere, our city and state is harmed to. Our Taxotere lawsuit attorneys will always aggresively pursue Taxotere cases because our clients deserve nothing less. If you need Taxotere case legal guidance, or want to know how a Taxotere lawusit lawyer can help you, call or contact the Taxotere Lawsuit Lawyers of Dixon Law today to get started on your Taxotere case claim.


text: The HSV GTSR W1 - History In The Making 27 March 2017 07:50 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareAs a final, explosive swan-song for Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) and its final iterations of specialist performance packages, the most powerful HSV's ever will be launched from their Clayton base. Enter the GTSR and GTSR W1. Many will be familiar with the GTSR badge, which last made an appearance on the eye-catching yellow and somewhat polarising VS GTSR in 1996. After 30 years working with Holden it seems only fitting that HSV have revived the GTSR moniker turning up the wick to modify these jaw-dropping GTSR creations, culminating in what is Australia's most powerful Aussie production car ever, the W1. No stone has been left unturned in the process of transforming the car into a modern, mechanical work of art. At the heart of the W1 is a heaving beast in the form of the hand built, 6.2L, supercharged LS9, Gen IV alloy V8. Originally the powerplant for Corvette in the U.S, HSV had to widen the track and front guards to shoehorn the V8 into the Holden. And we are glad they did! To protect the strengthened internals and suit the demands the engine will be placed under, a nine plate air-to-water cooled dry sump lubrication system is employed, which is normally a feature reserved for racing machinery and supercars. To suit Australian conditions, a beefed up cooling system was included, as was a larger supercharger intercooler and hi-flow water pump. The GTSR W1 displaces a massive total of 474kw/+815Nm of tyre destroying power. HSV claim the W1 will hit 0-100km/h in 4.2 seconds and reel off the quarter mile time in an impressive 12.1 seconds, making it the fastest production car ever produced in Australia, adding another title to its long list. If you are keen, for the record, you can also hit 98.5km/h in first gear. In what some would say true 'purist' spirit, the new GTSR range is only offered in 6 speed close ratio manual format. Although no automatic option may put a few potential buyers off, HSV's philosophy of building a road registered race car aligns with their choice to favour a manual. And with manual transmissions becoming rarer each year, and the car's potential as an investment platform in the future, going manual is another smart decision by HSV on this front we believe. The bespoke list of modifications is truly incredible, many only produced with the W1. There is an OTR carbon fibre cold air intake, custom gearbox input shaft and gearset, single piece forged flywheel, AP racing six piston calipers, specially designed rotors for cooling, 20" wheels that maximise cooling to the brakes and wheels are wrapped in Pirelli P Zero Trofeo semi-slicks. With handling such a critical component of connecting the driver to the road, HSV's ultimate creation has an all-new Supashock suspension system, modelled off Walkinshaw Racing's Supercars. Combined with the HSV enhanced Driver Interface (EDI) a full range of electronic based drive characteristics can be optimised to your preference, including torque vectoring, stability settings, launch control, bi-modal exhaust and electrical steering weight. The end result of all of these individual changes is a package that is more than the sum of its parts and something HSV and the Australian automotive market should be proud of. It represents what can be accomplished from Australian based manufacturers, providing a ray of sunshine in what is otherwise a somewhat glum period for Australian manufacturing and automotive market. Keen to get your hands on this piece of Aussie automotive history in the making? Unfortunately you are already too late. Once word got around of the impending launch of this incredible machine and the fact only 300 W1's are ever being produced, orders flooded in, resulting in the car being sold out before it even hit the showroom floor. In fact, more than 500 additional orders were unable to be fulfilled, leaving many potential owners disappointed they would miss out. Of course all this performance, exclusivity will come at a cost. How much? Well you won't get any change out of $170,000. That may seem like a hell of a lot of money, but given its status as the most powerful HSV ever, the fastest production car ever built in Australia, the most technologically advanced HSV, and the final Holden HSV to ever be built, there are more than a few reasons to join history. Will the HSV GTSR W1 become the next GTHO Phase III in the future, or is it overpriced for what it is? Let us know on the Rare Spares Facebook page.


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Currently during the month of December WordPress brute force attacks are on the rise. A brute force attach is where a hacker tries to guess your username and password to gain access to your site. This is not a sophisticated type of attach, but if you are using easy to guess usernames and passwords accessing your site is easier.
One of the reasons for the increase in WordPress brute force attacks is the time of the season. Hackers want to be able to find sites that they can easily get into and use to send out spam. Have you noticed the amount of unwanted emails that you are currently receiving this time of year that the domain name nothing to do with the product or service being sold? Those sites more then likely have been hacked.
Just a few simple thinks that you can do to make it more difficult for hackers to hack your website using WordPress brute force attacks are:
1 – Do not use "admin" or your "websites name" for the login.
2 – Do not us a simple password such as "12345" make passwords no less then 8 characters containing upper and lower case, numbers and symbols. We recommend around 14 – 24 characters the longer the harder to hack the password.
3 – Add a plugin to protect against WordPress brute force attacks and that will also help secure your site.
4 – These are just a few quick and simple tactics you can use to deter hackers
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Aren't we all nicer when we like our outfit? At least I am! Looking for something elegant and catchy to wear to work? Never underestimate the power of a good outfit on a bad day.
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Paul D. Crumley Sr.
Paul D. Crumley Sr.
HARRISONBURG – Rev. Paul David Crumley, Sr., 87, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at Emeritus in Harrisonburg.
He was born in Ewing, Va. and was a son of the late Landon and Ollie Mae Crumley.
Paul was a minister in the Church of the Brethren, he served in Brethren Volunteer Service, and served as a hospice chaplain for a number of years. He was a member of Montezuma Church of the Brethren. He graduated from Bethany Biblical Seminary.
Surviving are his wife, Corinne Miller Crumley; two daughters, Ann C. Cherian and husband, Rev. Pulimmotil and Mary C. Forbes and husband, Steven; three sons, P. David Crumley Jr. and wife, Debbie, Mark A. Crumley and wife, Susan Todd, and Phillip C. Crumley. He is also survived by 10 grandchildren; four great-grandsons and two sisters-in-law.
A memorial service will be at Montezuma Church of the Brethren at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 29, 2014, with the Rev. David R. Miller officiating. Burial will be private.
The family will receive friends Friday, March 28, 2014 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Montezuma Church of the Brethren.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Montezuma Church of the Brethren 4937 Ottobine Rd. Dayton, VA 22821.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.johnsonfs.com.


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thank you Michael for viewing my work. Your photos are very powerful and really pull you in. I'm a "blue man" as you can see from a lot of my work including the George Washington Bridge and your blues are compelling and dramatic! Love the car photo too! Happy Resurrection Day! Love always, Len
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CGA Vs. CPA
Every country has its own varying accounting laws. While the basic principles of accounting are the same everywhere, each country has its own tax regulations, exemptions, allowable deductions, depreciation rates and so forth. Since accountants need to be particularly knowledgeable about the accounting standards of their own country, most nations have their own professional accountant certification programs. In the U.S., accounting professionals are called certified public accountants, or CPAs. In Canada, they are termed certified general accountants, or CGAs.
CPA Requirements
A CPA must meet educational and experience requirements, as well as pass a rigorous exam to become a CPA. The educational requirements include 150 semester hours of college credit, typically including at least 30 hours of accounting classes. Experience requirements for CPA licensure vary by state, but many states require one to two years of professional accounting experience before you can become a CPA.
CPA Exam and Duties
The CPA exam is a standard exam taken by candidates all across the U.S. It is a four-part exam taken on a computer, and covers subjects including auditing and attestation standards and procedures, business environments and concepts, financial planning, financial accounting and reporting for businesses and nonprofits, the taxation system and regulations. CPAs need to have a broad-based accounting background as they provide services to both businesses and individuals.
CGA Requirements
The CGA program has similar educational requirements as the CPA program, but it is structured differently. All candidates are required to complete 19 college-level courses and examinations approved by CGA-Canada. However, you can enter the program with or without a post-secondary degree. The initial 17 courses represent the basic curriculum of an undergraduate degree in accounting. So, if you have a degree in accounting, you need only to complete two professional level career elective courses and pass the PA1 and PA 2 exams to become a CGA. If you don't have a degree, your academic record will be assessed, and you can complete as many of the 17 required courses as you need while attending an accredited Canadian post-secondary institution.
CGA Exams and Duties
Candidates must pass the comprehensive PA1: Issues in Professional Practice, and PA2: Strategic Financial Management examinations, to become a CGA. These exams are designed to assess candidates' abilities to perform professional accounting tasks such as financial accounting and reporting, assurance and related services, taxation, ethics, management accounting, finance, financial planning and information technology. The exams also include sections on professional qualities and skills, including strategic and organizational leadership, organizational effectiveness, individual and team leadership and professional development.
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The issue of gender is, obviously, a big one in this election. For this week's post, I interviewed the women of Feministing, a blog aimed at young feminist women—and one that I read a lot lately, even though I don't really consider myself a feminist (see below). I love the way they'll call offenders out on sexism, and the way they've been tracking the issue of gender and race in the election.
Note: The answers to my Q's came from Feministing as a collective response— they wanted to be credited as a group, "the women of Feministing." They are: Courtney E. Martin, Jessica Valenti, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Ann Friedman, Celina De Leon, Jen Moseley, Vanessa Valenti and Deanna Zandt. Thanks all!
__Q: I am intrigued by the idea that America is or isn't "ready" for a woman president (or a black president, etc). What do you think? __
As young feminists, we are all too aware of the ways in which some Americas aren't "ready" for a either a female or a black president. (Ever heard some meathead guy say, "What would a female president do when she got her period?" Um, continue to lead the country, dumbass). Sexism and racism are both alive and well, despite the profound progress that has been made. On the other hand, a lot of Americans—particularly the young and fed-up among us—are totally excited about the transformation that is happening in this country. Imagine how much our global reputation, not to mention our national identity, could be changed by having a biracial or female president as our leader.
Q: This is something that's come up a lot on Glamocracy: What's your take on the "race versus gender" question?
Our take is that the "race versus gender" question has been simplified into ridiculousness. Jen said it best in a recent post: "Obviously the electoral process in this country forces an either/or decision. Isn't it depressing that what was so exciting, a woman and a black man poised to be the Democratic presidential candidate, turned into a battle over race and gender? But this battle is between the candidates, not their struggles and backgrounds. We can't let the game of politics become the oppression Olympics. That doesn't help anyone."
Q: I consider myself a pretty bad feminist. I find that I don't get as worked up as the generations before me about sexist jokes or sexist comments. I think it might be because I'm haven't really had to struggle because of my gender. Plus, I feel that there is much more to my identity, such as race and nationality. Is feminism losing power because of women like me?
Wow, that's a whopper. First of all, what do you think of as a "gender struggle?" Too often our generation sees ourselves as individuals operating in a vacuum (Facebook profiles, competitive college admissions etc.) and the result is that we mistake racism/sexism/classism etc. as personal failings. For example, have you ever felt pressured to make inauthentic choices about your own sexuality? Have you ever known anyone with an eating disorder? Do you know that you're still likely to make at least a quarter less than a man in an equal position?
Now on to the idea that feminism is losing power. We feel strongly that feminism is transforming to be even more powerful and inclusive. Feministing, for example, gets over 150,000 hits a month from young women all over the nation. That's higher than the circulation of some of the nation's most famous magazines (we won't name any names). Because we're online, we reach girls in small towns in Iowa, as well as urban loud-and-proud feminists. Sometimes people find our site as a result of a Google search on Paris Hilton. Those are our favorite readers because their lives are really transformed by this online space where young women are prioritized and encouraged to make their voices heard. And they just wanted a glimpse of the sex tape!


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The modern-day "Standard American Diet" is S.A.D. This is because it's mostly salt, sugar, fat, processed foods and very low in water-rich foods. But what's also really sad, is that it's a cell-damaging diet that makes people sick, tired and overweight.
I know from my patients that people want to eat better, but just don't know where to start. That's why I created a simple teaching tool called the Pitcher of Health. The Pitcher helps people visualize what a healthy diet really looks like.
I designed the pitcher with these goals in mind:
- Help people eat their water
- Help people get the building blocks they need to build strong healthy cell membranes that can hold water and resist damage
The Pitcher of Health is based on water-rich foods and supplements. See my daily serving recommendations:
- Vegetables: 5 or more servings
- Fruits: 3 or more servings
- Whole Grains: 4-8 servings
- Lean protein 4-6 servings
- Fats: 3-4 servings
- Supplements: Daily multi-vitamin
A key aspect to think about as you look at the Pitcher of Health is to consider these guidelines as part of what I call the "80/20" rule. Your diet should consist 80% of great, healthy nutritious foods and 20% should be more flexible—foods you love regardless of whether they are "good for you." If you never allow yourself the joy to experience your favorites treats in moderation, eating can become a chore and the tendency to binge eat will be much greater. Plus, when people eat the 80% portion of the pitcher regularly, they tend to decrease intense cravings for less than ideal foods so that, over time, their 20% starts to look a lot like their 80%.
And the health benefits of eating well are so clear. I often like to say that, "Before there was medicine, there was food."
Article by Howard Murad, M.D., FAAD, a world renowned skincare expert and founder of the Inclusive Health movement.
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High Court stays SHRC order on 'Aata'
In a major relief to producers of 'Aata' reality show, the Andhra Pradesh High Court stayed orders of State Human Rights Commission, which banned the reality show. The High Court bench issued notices after taking up the case.
On Thursday, producers of 'Aata' telecast on Zee Telugu moved the HC challenging the order passed by the State Human Rights Commision.


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The issue of rising energy prices and future needs took center stage Friday in the U.S. Congress. Republicans and Democrats engaged in intense debate over high prices for gasoline and natural gas, efforts to develop new energy sources, and the role of oil companies. The debate culminated in a dramatic display of partisan discord on the floor of the House of Representatives.
One of the outcomes of the two hurricanes that struck the United States in August and September has been an often fierce debate over America's energy needs, and how to deal with the continuing upward trend in prices.
Amid predictions of unprecedented increases in prices for natural gas, needed to heat homes and businesses, and frustration over high gasoline prices, lawmakers clashed over Republican legislation aimed at boosting oil refining capacity and lowering gasoline prices.
Republican Congressman Joe Barton said the bill was needed to address not only the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but a decades-long decline in the number of U.S. oil refineries.
"We have closed over half of the refineries in the United States of America in the last 30 years. That might be acceptable if the demand for their products was going down, but in fact the opposite is true, the demand for refined products in our nation is rising every year," he said.
Among other things, the legislation aims to streamline the process of approval for expanding existing oil refineries, or building new ones giving the federal government more power to select locations.
It also makes changes to some related clean air regulations, steps criticized by environmental groups and other critics.
Democrats asserted the legislation fails to address price gouging (profiteering) aggressively enough, or deal with refining capacity, and renewed longstanding criticism that Republicans are selling out to oil companies that have registered large profits.
"This bill does nothing to provide price relief to consumers or to prevent gouging," said Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio. "Big oil [companies] gets a pass, yet again. They aren't getting as big of a gift this time, just a pass."
Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy fired back. "There will be a temptation to blame the high gas prices on the storms alone, or to use politics to block this, but the American people understand you cannot drive a car with politics in your [gas] tank, or heat a home with politics," he said.
In a portent of things to come, some Republicans defied their leadership and opposed their own party's bill, among them Congressman Sherwood Boehlert.
"H.R. 3893 [the legislation] will increase the deficit, harm the environment, undermine the states, and give charity to oil companies, while doing virtually nothing to help consumers," he said. "The whole premise of this bill is faulty."
The majority prevailed narrowly (by a 212 to 210 vote) but with a number of Republican lawmakers voting with Democrats.
When Republicans held the vote open for more than 40 minutes to assure victory, Democrats, who have complained bitterly about what they call Republican strong-arm tactics, protested resulting in acrimonious exchanges on the floor of the House.
Here, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi strains to voice a parliamentary inquiry to the presiding Republican lawmaker:
Pelosi: Is it not bringing dishonor to the House of Representatives for this body to act in the shameful way that it did?
House presiding officer: The gentlelady is not stating a proper parliamentary inquiry!
Pelosi: Is it not part of the culture of corruption of the Republican party to dishonor the wishes of the American people.
House presiding officer: Does the gentlelady have a parliamentary inquiry?
Republicans responded they were abiding by House rules in extending the time for the vote.
The dramatic debate finished a week in which Congress continued to address short and long-term damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita through numerous pieces of legislation.
Congress also gave final approval to a $30 billion bill funding needs for homeland security, an issue lawmakers believe goes hand in hand with the question of the security and reliability of America's energy supplies.


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