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For years, as the US and the so called coalition of the willing carried out mass murders of Muslim people and destruction of the Muslim lands, Muslims have waited for our turn to engage and to fight back. Unfortunately the Muslim leadership lacked faith in God and became impressed by the show of might demonstrated in the invasions and killings and the war crimes that have taken place over the past ten years, and so they never called Muslims to the fight and gave no hope of Muslim survival, or the survival of Islam. Instead they attempted to accelerate immigration to the West and assimilation, thinking wrongly that the solution to the war on terrorism crime was to be for it, rather than against it. Rather than to address the issues that plague the lives of Muslims in the Muslim world, they struggled for more accommodating immigration laws in the West, so they could encourage escape, to the glorious west, where they thought we would all be free.
Along with their repeated condemnations of terrorism, which in fact gave the wrong impression that there was something unique about Islam as a religion that engendered terrorism, they almost daily handed down verbal chastisement of Muslims who would not shut up and accept defeat gracefully. Such Muslims were called extremists and radicals and even worse, conspiracy theorists and terrorists. They were isolated, laughed at, and shut out of the inner Muslim circles where our government was lining the pockets of our intellectuals with cash, a reward their help with secularizing the mosques, and demonizing jihad.
Ten years into the illegal war and it has become clear that the war on terrorism has been lost. Not to Muslims, but to time. Ten years of mass murder and destruction in the Muslim world has only led to moral and financial bankruptcy in the West, while its effects on Muslims has been quite different than what was hoped for and imagined. We are not broken and we are not defeated. We are not frightened and we are not angry. In this ten years God has kept His promise to the Believers, and even though He has taken millions of martyr witnesses from among our ranks, he has blessed us with satisfaction and a taste for jihad. We are no longer interested in immigration and assimilation. We have seen the under belly of the so called great democracies of the West and we see that not only are they soft, they are full of corruption, hypocrisy, demonism and immoral disease. As Satan drove the forces of the arrogant West to more and worse crimes against humanity, God opened the eyes of the believers and asked us to choose. We choose the jihad.
We are freeing our own countries through revolutions, and still Satan will not leave us alone. The Arab puppet governments are also killing the Muslim people, while they attempt in every way to stall our revolutions and to criminalize the revolutionaries, and stay in power. God will take martyrs from among us in great numbers, yet we will have the victory. Allah has called us to beautiful patience, and so we must persist in our revolutions against all odds. Ramadan is the time for completion of the revolutions. They will spread, become more violent and then we will be granted the final victory and the black flags will fly over Jerusalem and throughout the Muslim lands. And our people, our tired, weary and battered and humiliated, heart broken and tired but victorious people, will return home, and together, insha Allah, we will build and create the Muslim world of our dreams.
For now, Satan has organized and prepared his forces for the great battle. We must do the same. As strange as it sounds, considering all of the military equipment, advanced military technology and money that we don't have, we expect the victory because Allah said in the Qur'an, "Indeed we have granted you (Muhammad) a manifest victory." Ten years of mass murder and death has immunized us against the pain of watching as our children's bodies are mutilated, as our women are raped, our men tortured and sodomized, and our parents humiliated and killed. We can only win, because you took our fear.
This Ramadan will not be a time for peace. It will be a time for war. Our enemy is desperate for victory. They cannot walk away from the battlefields where they lost their souls and treasure without one last desperate attempt to finally eliminate Islam, and to kill off the remnant of its adherents, and the descendants of prophets. They are under the spells of Kabbalists, false prophecies and delusion that will drive them to their destruction.
Let the Muslims rejoice in the bargain that we have made. God has purchased our lives and properties and in return He has given us two glorious possibilities, victory or martyrdom, and one certainty; eternal life in paradise. If they incline towards peace, we will also incline towards peace, but if they are firm for war, we will destroy them.
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It is a hallmark of a free society that the people know who is arrested, why, and what the charges are. The Obama administraion holds, incredibly, that the people should not have a right to know whom the federal government arrests. The Union Leader Corp. challenged this secrecy, and last week we won on appeal in federal court.
Here is the story. In September 2011, the Department of Homeland Security's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a nationwide roundup of illegal immigrants who had criminal convictions or arrests. It was both a law enforcement and a public relations event. ICE issued press releases boasting of the sweep, dubbed "Cross Check." It even released videos of arrests made in Boston, Los Angeles and other big cities. The names of some of those arrested were included in press materials.
As part of the public relations effort, ICE announced the arrest of several illegal aliens in New Hampshire. But the agency would not release their names. This newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request to compel the government to release the names. The administration refused, and we sued.
ICE claimed that to release the names would violate the privacy rights of those it was boasting of arresting and deporting. But if the public cannot know who was arrested, how can it check the government's claims that the arrests protected the public? Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st District sided with us and ordered the government to release the names of six illegal aliens arrested in New Hampshire.
Though we are happy with the ruling, we remain dismayed that our own government went to such lengths to block the release of public information that would shed light on how well one agency was doing the job it boasted of doing. The self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history" actively tried to deny the press the ability to independently verify the administration's public relations claims. It should not have taken a court order to create the transparency we requested.


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Mar. 13, 2012
At 7:00 p.m. on "Greater Boston": Danroy Henry Sr. reacts to the new information.
BOSTON — More previously classified documents have been published relative to the police killing of an Easton, Mass. college student in October 2010 in a New York suburb. The first batch provides a mixed, indeed contradictory picture of what happened.
From the beginning, the Pleasantville and Mt. Pleasant, N.Y., police departments claimed Danroy "DJ" Henry Jr., 20, tried to run down officer Aaron Hess in a strip mall parking lot. The witness statements were compiled by the police and the evidence was presented to a New York grand jury last year, which chose not to indict Hess and officer Ronald Beckley. Lawyers for the Henry family have questioned the diligence in which the Westchester County defense attorney's office presented this case to the grand jury.
This, again, is how the case began: Police were called to the bar after a fight broke out between a bouncer and a patron on Oct. 17, 2010. By all accounts, the disturbance had nothing to do with Henry and his four friends. The owner of the bar called for everyone to get out. Henry, the designated driver, went to the parking lot to retrieve his car and pulled into a fire lane in front of the bar.
From there, the accounts splinter.
The official police interview with Brandon Cox is part of the documents released this week. According to the police transcript, a police officer tapped on the window; as Henry drove out of the fire lane, an officer jumped out in front of the car, drew his gun and fired. Read the interview.
In a document made public this week, a policeman who responded to the scene and who said he grew up with Hess, signed a witness statement that reads, "I then saw Officer Aaron Hess step out in the road and put his left hand up and his right hand on his gun as the Altima was coming towards him. I also heard Officer Cox yell at least three times for the car to stop. I then heard the Altima accelerating as it approached Officer Hess. There's no way the driver did not see Officer Hess."
But in the police interview, Cox said the car's windows were fogged up by condensation. Yet another deposition, by a witness named Robert Coulombe, said that Henry's "driving posed no imminent danger."
> > Read Coulombe's version of events.
In a press briefing with reporters on Monday, Michael Sussman, the attorney for the family, disputed the characterization of who struck whom, saying that Hess jumped out in front of the car. In addition, one statement by Beckley seemed to say that he considered the primary threat to be the shooter, not the driver.
The documents include a video showing Henry, handcuffed and seriously injured, lying face down on the street. According to the attorney's caption, "although told by the EMT initially that DJ had expired, a police officer eventually checks DJ, and realizes that he is seriously wounded and still alive. Treatment begins only at that point."
Adding to the confusion was police chatter, captured in audio released Monday, that mischaracterized the police emergency. It was Henry who lay dying on the ground from gun shot wounds. The officer down was Hess resulting from coming in contact with the car.
Lawyers for the Henry family say they will post more documents, including 911 calls, over the next few days. Read the documents.
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The first Arabic music I heard was in its native habitat, while riding on gaudily painted buses through Turkey, Morocco and Syria in the 1960s. Before the drivers thrashed their busted-out transmissions into second gear, they were popping in cassettes of Lebanon-born Fairouz or Egypt's Oum Khalsoum, the sirens who serenaded the entire Arab world.
The propulsive beat went with the bad roads, wild driving and free-form mix of human and animal passengers. Even the chickens, tied together at the feet, seemed to sway in time. The singing was rich and highly emotive, but what really captured me was the hypnotic pulse of the oud, the Arabic lute. With its short neck and deep body, the ten-to-twelve-string, plucked oud looks like a sawed-off, overweight guitar, but its beginnings–it might have originally been Sumerian, Egyptian, Persian or even Jewish–are shrouded in mystery.
It was certainly Arabs who popularized the oud and placed it front and center in a musical tradition that was, until recently, best appreciated in America as the soundtrack to belly dancing. But its potential for crossover appeal was soon apparent in the West. Like rock, Middle Eastern music–in infinite variations ranging from exuberant Algerian räi (a rough-hewn, boisterous and often-topical street music) and Egyptian shabbi (meaning "people," an irreverent, rhythmic folk music with working- class origins) to meditative qawwali (the devotional Sufi music of India and Pakistan, exemplified by the late singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)–had a good beat and you could dance to it. In Arabic, the word tarab means state of ecstasy or enchantment, and it's what the best musicians try to capture. Small wonder, then, that LP copies of Port Said: Exotic Rhythms of the Middle East Captured in High Fidelity, Music on the Desert Road and The Seventh Veil brightened the otherwise drab scenery in many a 1950s suburban rec room.
A decade later, John Berberian, an accomplished Armenian oud player from New York, helped penetrate the consciousness of the Woodstock generation with Middle Eastern Rock, a 1969 fusion album that included studio pro Joe Beck on amplified rock guitar and fuzz. But Berberian was thirty years ahead of his time.
Peter Gabriel's World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) tours, launched in 1982, also helped make Arabic music "cool" in the West, particularly by presenting young artists like the London-based Transglobal Underground, which mixes dance beats, tape loops and samples into a world music stew. Also helping the crossover and performing on WOMAD was the onetime Top of the Pops performer Natacha Atlas, a self-described "human Gaza strip" of a singer and belly dancer who is half English, half Sephardic Jew and was raised in a Moroccan community in Brussels.


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This Best of Bogue column originally was published Sept. 29, 2005.
Dear Gary: We have lived in Pinole for 39 years, but were shocked this morning when our grandson found a large, dark-colored scorpion in our backyard.
Is this something we should be on the lookout for? Are these dangerous ones?
Our daughter lives in Arizona and they have different types of scorpions, some of which are more dangerous than others. I'm hoping the ones in Pinole are not the ones to be really worried about.
Concerned Grandma
Dear Grandma: Scorpions are actually fairly common throughout the Bay Area. And you can relax because I don't mean the dangerous ones.
I have been stung by local scorpions and it feels about like a bee sting. Ouch! It's painful but I've never known it to be a problem, except for someone allergic to insect stings.
Fortunately, they are not aggressive, although it is kind of a shock to some people to find one around the house for the first time.
Personally, I think they are pretty neat and they do eat a lot of insects.
Dear Gary: My wife feels that our hummers' sugar solution should be a quarter cup of sugar to 1 cup of water. My theory is that the more sugar that you can get to stay in solution the more energy there is in each "sip."
What is your opinion?
Dear Ron: The "quarter cup of sugar to 1 cup of water" formula approximates the sugar content found in the nectars of local flowers. Since no one really knows what effect a souped-up sugar solution might have on a tiny hummingbird's physiology, I think it's best to stick with something close to normal.
Dear Gary: A bunch of us at Diablo Lodge in Danville were wondering: How long does an Anna's hummingbird live?
Al W.
Dear Al: Not long enough.
Most species average about three to four years, but there are always exceptions. Poking around the Internet, I find lots of 6-year-old Anna's, an 8-year-old rufous and a 12-year-old broad-tailed hummingbird. That should at least give you a general idea. Not very old.
Bigger animals tend to live longer lives and smaller animals live shorter ones. That's probably why hummers are always zipping around at high speed. They've got a lot of living to do and not much time to do it.
A final note
Giant sunflowers with 15-inch blossoms are growing in the middle of our garden.
Watching from a window, I see a scrub jay fly up, hide a peanut deep in the middle of a big sunflower and fly off.
A squirrel jumps from the fence to the sunflower, grabs the peanut, hops down and buries it in a flowerpot.
The jay zooms down from our redwood tree, digs up the peanut and hides it back deep in the middle of the sunflower blossom.
As I turn from the window to go to the store, I see the squirrel running down the fence toward the sunflower.
Talk with us
Join Joan Morris and dog trainer and behaviorist Judie Howard for a discussion on dealing with aggressive dogs and safety, 1 p.m. Oct. 11, www.mercurynews.com/pets-animals.
Gary Bogue has retired after 42 years of writing this column. If you have animal-related questions, contact Joan Morris at firstname.lastname@example.com; or P.O. Box 8099, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.


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It's not an exaggeration to say that cilantro is an oldie but goodie. The wispy green-leafed herb known to much of the English-speaking world as coriander is thought to be among the first group of domesticated plants, dating to the 6th millennium. Beloved worldwide, both cilantro and its dried coriander seed are seasoning staples of countless cuisines and historically revered for their medicinal properties.
In this country, there's a better than average chance you got your first taste of cilantro (its Spanish name) only in the past 30 years by way of Tex-Mex restaurants serving up tortilla chips with salsa and guacamole, which have become snack staples of American households.
Coriander seed remains an unsung hero in the kitchen and has not enjoyed the same level of fame in this country - at least not yet.
Brief History
Cilantro is native to the Mediterranean, and many sources point to 6,000 BC and the Nahal Hemar cave, an ancient archeological site in Israel, as the time and place of its origin.
Coriander seed is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the Book of Exodus. Here's one translation: "The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey." It was found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaohs, including King Tut and Ramses II.
It's mentioned in the works of classical Greek playwright Aristophanes and in Materia Medica, the ancient herbal medicine text written by Greek physician Dioscorides Roman gastronome Apicius gives coriander a shout out in His De Re Coquinaria (Of Culinary Matters), the world's first known cookbook written in 14 A.D.
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The word coriander is derived from the Latin word coriandrum and the Greek word koris, which means "bug," a reference to the herb's pungent aroma.
Even though they are different parts of the same plant, cilantro and coriander have different cooking properties and flavor notes and cannot be used interchangeably in recipes, according to cookbook author Monica Bhide.
In most parts of the English speaking world, the herb is known as coriander leaf or green coriander and the spice as coriander.
Botanically, coriandrum sativum is a member of the Umbelliferae (parsley) family, which means it's also related to carrots and parsnips. Given its parsley connections, it's no surprise that cilantro is sometimes referred to as Chinese parsley.
Given its prominence in cuisines around the world, cilantro is grown everywhere from Egypt to Mexico, India to Canada and nearly everything in between. Where you might not readily find the herb is France. Tony Hill, the author of The Spice Lover's Guide to Herbs and Spices (and the original force behind World Spice Merchants in Seattle) writes of two varieties of coriander seeds - European (lightly ridged, yellow-brown shade, lemony fragrance) and Indian (smaller, creamier in flavor and less sharp.
Cilantro loves the sun but not extreme heat. It flourishes during the spring and fall (in temperate zones) but bolts and hardens with the arrival of summer.
Environmental Impact and Food Safety
In the past few years, there have been several multi-state recalls of conventional cilantro due to salmonella contamination. In August 2012, a California farm recalled more than 1,600 cases of fresh cilantro after government samples tested positive for salmonella. (That produce testing program, the Microbiological Data Program, shut down at the end of last year, due to budget cuts.)
As you'll read under the nutrition section, the irony of this spate of salmonella-related recalls is that cilantro contains naturally occurring antibacterial compounds that have been studied for their ability to kill salmonella.
Although you won't find cilantro on the Environmental Working Group's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, your best bet, given the herb's food safety troubles on industrial farms, is to buy from a small-scale and local sources whenever possible and talk to the grower about production methods. (Or grow your own!) At the supermarket, we recommend buying organic cilantro. (See our veggie rule of thumb.) And most importantly, wash it.
As anyone who's ever tasted cilantro will tell you, the flavor (and often the aroma) of fresh cilantro is unforgettable and unlike anything else - where musky meets citrus - a flavor profile that you either love or hate.
What to Look For
No yellowing or wilted leaves, which are signs of decay. Fresh bunches should smell bright and citrusy, not moldy or dusty. They should be dry and free of dark green goop, which tends to accumulate around the stems when cilantro is ready for the compost bin.
Cilantro covers the bases for several nutrients, including calcium, potassium, iron, vitamins A, E and K, and folate. The seeds are considerably rich in fiber - more than two grams in two teaspoons.
For millennia, cilantro and coriander have been considered a holistic medical wonder, used to treat various ailments, including indigestion, flatulence and insomnia.
A 2004 study suggests that cilantro may possess a natural antibiotic that's effective in killing salmonella. According to the study, which was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, cilantro leaves contain an antibacterial compound called dodecanal that is showing promise as an alternative to certain pharmaceutical antibiotics.
It's also been studied as a possible treatment for diabetes.
Cilantro has shown promise as a natural detoxifier and chelation agent, flushing heavy metals out of the body after chemotherapy or after the removal of mercury-based dental fillings.
What to Do with It
Here are some examples of how cilantro and coriander are used around the world:
Mexican cooking doyenne Diana Kennedy writes in her most recent work, Oaxaca Al Gusto, that fresh cilantro sprigs are used in Oaxacan cookery "to season soups/broths, stews, and sauces" and that coriander seeds are used for sauces in certain parts of the region.
In her most recent book, The Food of Morocco, Mediterranean culinary expert Paula Wolfert explains that cilantro is considered one of the most important herbs in Moroccan cooking, that among many things, it's used to season olives, various soups and "endows many tagines with its special flavor."
Su Mei-Yu, author of Cracking the Coconut, writes that cilantro (and in particular its root, which is pounded and used to make curry paste), is among the "big four Seasonings" of Thai cookery (salt, garlic and Thai peppercorns are the other three); that "Thai cooking wouldn't be what it is without this intensely aromatic root." According to Mei-Yu, the use of cilantro roots is borrowed from southern Chinese cookery.
Boerewors, the circular sausage of South Africa, is traditionally very heavily seasoned with coriander seeds.
Indian cooking master Madhur Jaffrey refers to cilantro as "the parsley of the eastern and southern half of Asia."
And Fuchsia Dunlop author of the Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province says that cilantro is "one of two herbs that are widely used in Hunanese cooking" (where it's known as xiang cai, or "fragrant vegetable") and used in salads, stir-fries and as a garnish.
Coriander seed figures prominently in Borodinsky bread, a Russian rye bread.
Keep fresh cilantro refrigerated, standing upright in a tall glass, like a bouquet of flowers, and loosely cover with a plastic bag. Cilantro is perishable and will quickly break down, and storing it in the crisper in a plastic bag will show just how fast it can turn to mush.
For coriander seeds, you'll get a lot more mileage if you buy them whole (a staple of bulk sections) and grind them on an as-needed basis with a mortar and pestle or electric coffee grinder used expressly for spices. The difference in flavor is incomparable, and the house will smell wonderful. As with all spices, store away from heat and light.
Pro tips
Moroccan cooking doyenne Paula Wolfert suggests using a food processor to grind cilantro leaves, after they've been washed and squeezed fry, to add to soups or as a garnish. She suggests prepping a large bunch of cilantro this way and then storing in mini plastic bags to be frozen for later use. We regularly have a bunch of cilantro on hand to stir into a pot of black beans, garnish a veggie stir-fry, or to give a Thai edge to cut-up pineapple or mango, or even cucumber. (For even more kicks, throw in a handful of chopped peanuts, a splash of soy sauce and some fresh minced chile pepper!)
Planning to put up a batch of pickles this summer? Consider making your own pickling spice, which typically includes coriander seeds.
Coriander seeds are among my go-to spices. I use it in spice rubs for chicken or fish (along with some smoked paprika, coriander, salt, brown sugar and a smidge of ground coffee), and whenever I'm making my own curry.
Coriander, Thyme, Cinnamon and Pepper Marinade
From The Mediterranean Herb Cookbook by Georgeanne Brennan
Try this wet spice rub next time you're grilling; it's friendly to both meat and veg. I'm thinking how fun it might be to slather on corn on the cob or eggplant after it comes off the grill.
2 tablespoons coriander seeds
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
1inch piece of cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon dried thyme
½ dried bay leaf
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Place coriander seeds, peppercorns, cinnamon stick, thyme and bay leaf in a spice grinder or mortar and grind finely. Transfer to a bowl and stir in the olive oil to make a paste.
Makes about ¼ cup.
Mint-Cilantro Chutney
Adapted from Modern Spice by Monica Bhide
This is a daily staple in homes across India, used to season everything from rice to meat and as a dip for chaat (snacks) such as pakoras. Think of it as Indian salsa. It's hot, cool and utterly addictive.
1 cup packed cilantro (use stems only if the cilantro is young and fresh), washed and thoroughly dried
1 cup packed mint leaves, washed and thoroughly dried
1 green Serrano chile pepper, seeded and roughly chopped
½ small red onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
½ teaspoon salt
Up to 2 tablespoons water
In a blender or the bowl of a food processor, blend all the ingredients except for the water until you have a smooth paste. Add the water, plus more if needed, as well as salt to taste.
Transfer to bowl and wrap with plastic until ready to use. Best served slightly cool, not cold.
Option: For more body, add 1 medium plum tomato to the mixture when blending.
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As the job market improves, more workers may tell their employers to take this job and shove it.
They've slogged through years of belt-tightening and downsizing, and endured endless requests to work harder, smarter or just plain longer.
Now, experts say signs of life in the job market could start pushing some employees to do what they've been dreaming about, perhaps for years: quit. Too bad their employers probably won't see it coming.
"Most companies are probably not fully prepared for all the … pent up turnover that is likely to come when the job market really turns around," said David G. Allen, a management professor at the University of Memphis who has studied employee turnover extensively.
Experts say employers appear to have grown pretty complacent about whether their employees will find a better job somewhere else. And even as many bosses have complained about how hard it is to find good workers, few have paid much attention to keeping the ones they have.
"People are saying that they can't find the right talent, and yet when they do, they don't take such good care of it," said Sandi Edwards, senior vice president of AMA Enterprise, an arm of the American Management Association that helps companies improve their workforce.
For the most part, employers haven't had to work too hard recently to keep good workers. The unemployment rate hit a high of 10 percent in the fall of 2009, just as the nation was officially coming out of recession, and it has remained elevated even as the economy has slowly added jobs.
The jobless rate stood at 7.7 percent in February, with 12 million Americans actively looking for work. The March unemployment report is scheduled to be released Friday.
That's left many workers grateful just to have a job, and finding that few new jobs were available if they didn't like their current one. The job market is improving, but Allen cautions that it isn't strong enough yet for employees to really have the upper hand.
There were 3.69 million job openings in January, according to government data, up from about 3.42 million in January of 2012. About 4.25 million people were hired in January, up from 4.12 million a year earlier.
But in some fields, experts say they are starting to see workers leave for better offers.
Paul McDonald, senior executive director of staffing firm Robert Half International, said employers are already seeing it in areas such as specialized accounting.
"If there are employers around and they haven't experienced staff leaving them yet, they will shortly," he predicted.
McDonald said some employers may be aware that the risk of losing their best employees is on the horizon, but they aren't necessarily taking the right steps to stop it.
A recent Robert Half survey of 2,100 chief financial officers found that 38 percent said retaining valuable staff was a top concern for the next year, but only 13 percent said improving morale and engagement was a top concern. He thinks it's a mistake not to be working harder to make employees happy.
"The main reason people leave is unhappiness with management," McDonald said.
It's not necessarily a bad thing for some unhappy employees to quit. Peter Hom, a management professor at Arizona State University, noted that workers who are just there because they can't find a better job aren't usually the best ones, anyway.
"They don't perform as well or they don't engage in a lot of things that fall outside of their job description," he said.
Related story: Want to be happier at work? Try goofing off
Still, Allen notes that that the first employees to quit when the job market improves are usually the ones you least want to lose. That's because a company's most valuable employees are often the most sought after.
Many researchers argue that it's not just money that keeps workers loyal, although a nice pay package and good benefits certainly help. But Allen said his research has shown that workers also place tremendous importance on relationships with other colleagues, and especially bosses.
"I think smart companies need to make sure that they're making their employees feel valued," Allen said. "If they're asking more from them, then they have to give more, in some way. It doesn't necessarily have to be money."


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As one of the first women to hold a position of power on Wall Street, Marion O. Sandler was notable even before she and her husband, Herbert, spent 43 years building Oakland's World Savings Bank into such a major — and ultimately controversial — adjustable mortgage lender.
Sandler, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Russia, exploited her keen analytic skills to become Dominick & Dominick's first female executive in 1955 and joined Oppenheimer & Co. as a savings and loan analyst in 1961.
Spotting an opportunity, she and her husband, an attorney she had met in the Hamptons, used a bank loan two years later to buy the Oakland S&L, which then had two branches. By the time the co-chief executives were through, there were 285 World branches in 10 states.
Marion Sandler died Friday at her home in San Francisco after a long battle with severe asthma and migraine headaches, her family announced. She was 81.
Having sold World's parent firm, Golden West Financial Corp., for $24 billion on the eve of the mortgage meltdown, the Sandlers used their more than $2 billion cut of the proceeds to greatly expand their wide-ranging philanthropies. Their foundation's major efforts included significant funding for fair-lending advocates, such as the Center for Responsible Lending, for asthma research and for investigative reporting.
Yet the Sandlers also were attacked for pioneering pay-option mortgages, which allowed borrowers to pay so little that their balances rose instead of fell. Critics blamed the loans for the demise of Wachovia Corp., which bought Golden West in 2006 and was near collapse when it sold itself to Wells Fargo & Co. two years later.
The Sandlers countered that their Pick-a-Payment loans, which they had made since the 1980s, had never been problematic until home prices plunged 50% in many areas — a decline they said no type of loan could weather. They blamed Wachovia's problems on bad commercial loans the Charlotte, N.C., bank had originated.
Herb Sandler, in particular, went on the offensive, complaining that large rivals such as Countrywide Financial Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. threw out World's guidelines, which aimed to provide affordability as well as flexibility, and sold low down payment "perverted" versions of the pay-option mortgages to borrowers who couldn't afford them.
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"They were caught up in a period of media frenzy about the mortgage meltdown," Bergman said.
Attacks included a New York Times story that said World's lending practices had deteriorated, a would-be whistle blower on "60 Minutes" who described deceptive practices, and a satirical sketch on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" that said the Sandlers "should be shot" for their roles in the financial meltdown.
SNL creator Lorne Michaels had the skit re-edited for rebroadcast and online, deleting the "should be shot" graphic and other sensitive details and saying there was "absolutely no evidence" of wrongdoing by the Sandlers. The New York Times ran four corrections. An arbitrator, ruling that the "60 Minutes" whistle blower had no evidence, awarded him nothing.
But the Sandlers had been deeply wounded.
"Marion felt sadness and anger at being called something we were not," Herb Sandler said in an interview Monday. "Had these stories been reported objectively, they would never have been published."
Marion Osher was born Oct. 17, 1930, in Biddeford, Maine. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1952, attended the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, and earned her MBA from New York University with high honors in 1958. She married Herb Sandler in 1961.
Friends and business associates recalled her sitting in meetings, listening for half an hour at a time and knitting before making sometimes pointed inquiries that Steve Daetz, executive vice president of the Sandler Foundation, said "elicited a huge amount of information."
The foundation founded and provided tens of millions of dollars in support of ProPublica, the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize. "Marion shaped every key decision that brought ProPublica into being," the nonprofit investigative newsroom said on its website.
Bergman said funding from the Sandlers enabled his PBS documentary series "Frontline" to open a West Coast office 22 years ago in Berkeley, where Bergman is a professor at the University of California.
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EHCP - please can someone explain how to lodge an appeal against a Final ECHP ? The Final EHCP was issued mid Nov 2017, and I believe there is a deadline of mid January for appealing - does that sound right ? (Asking for a friend)
How Do You Lodge An Appeal ?
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Mediation must at least be considered before an appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) can be started. This does not apply when the appeal is about the school placement only.
Before you can appeal you must first make contact with the mediation service. You will have to do so within two months of the date on the decision letter sent by the local authority.
When the local authority writes to you with a decision it must also set out details of the local mediation service that it has decided to use.
Once you have either completed mediation, or informed the mediation service that you do not want to go through with mediation, you will be issued with a Mediation Certificate. You will need to send this along with your appeal papers to the SENDIST to start an appeal.
If your case is one which requires a mediation certificate, your deadline to appeal is either two months from the date of the decision made by the local authority, or one month from the date of the mediation certificate, whichever is later.
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This remix competition will take the tracks off The Beatles classic Abbey Road album, and process them into a Music Playground tribute album. The final album will (hopefully) contain 12 remixes of the classic tunes.
1) The competition starts now
2) You can enter this competition, by replying to this thread with an 'I'M IN!' type of response.
3) You will receive a Mystery Pack (edited into your reply), which will consist of 3 tracks from the album. You may select up to 2 of these tracks to remix, and enter into the competition. I will create these Mystery Packs, to try to avoid too many duplicate entries. (Packs will be semi-randomly assigned)
5) The deadline will be announced later. This competition will take the time it needs, though not more than 4 months.
6) Finished remixes must be sent to me using this link or via PM. Remember to include your username.
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Come Party With Me: Super Bowl Party - Invites
Come Party With Me: Super Bowl Party - Invites
Some of you have been asking for it and here it is: my party plan for the ultimate Super Bowl party. The Super Bowl is one of those random holidays/events where EVERYONE celebrates. Even if you are like me and don't really care too much for football (or sports in general for that matter), you love the Super Bowl because of the parties. I can't remember a Super Bowl where I didn't attend or host a party, and this year will be no different. When else do we have an excuse to pig out on football and bar finger foods? As you can tell I am super excited for the Super Bowl. We have 6 days until the game (you can find the official countdown at Super Bowl Heaven) and we have a lot of work to do, starting with the invitations. To see what I'll be sending (including a TON of step-by-step pictures),
I am a Chicago Bears fan and will be rooting for their team. Therefore my party's colors will be the Chicago Bears colors: orange and blue. My invitation will be made using these colors, however if you are supporting the Indianapolis Colts you can make the same invite and substitute white for the orange. The invite is sporty and shaped like a football with sparkley glitter to make it festive.
To make this invite you will need:
- animal stencils (either a bear or a colt)
- blue (cut into a 7 by 7 inch square) and orange (or white) cardstock
- blue and orange (or white) glitter
- a computer/printer or a pen and white paper
- scissors
- glue
- blue and orange (or white) satin ribbon
- sports section of the newspaper (if you can find one with a super bowl related article use that)
- pencil
To assemble this invite:
- Using a pencil and the animal stencil trace the shape of the animal onto the orange cardstock.
- Cut the animal shape out.
- Turn the blue cardstock so that it is the shape of a diamond and glue the orange bear across the front.
- On your computer create a document (with fun Super Bowl related pictures if desired) with the detailed information involving the party. I used the font Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold and the color orange. Write something along these lines:
PartySugar invites you to join her for the Football Event of the Year: the 41st Super Bowl
Starring the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears
Sunday February 4, 2007
2:30 pm
PartySugar's House, San Francisco
Please RSVP 415.444.5555
Guests are encouraged to wear their team's colors
Go Bears!
- Print the text out on white paper. Carefully fit the white text over the back of the blue cardstock.
- Glue the text page to the invite.
- Being sure not to cut off any of the bear on the front or the text on the back, cut the cardstock down to roughly the shape of a football.
- On a piece of old newspaper or a work surface, spread the glue evenly over the inside of the bear. Work quickly, so the glue does not dry, sprinkle with orange glitter. Shake off the excess glitter.
- Working in sections, slowly outline the bear with a thin line of glue. Sprinkle with blue glitter. Shake off excess blue glitter. Repeat process until all of the bear is outlined with blue glitter and filled in with orange glitter.
- Set aside, let dry for several hours.
- Once the glitter and glue has dried, you can get ready to wrap the completed invitation. Cut a piece of the sports section of the newspaper. Fold around the outside of the invite to create an envelope. Tape envelope closed.
- Cut equal sizes of the ribbon, about 2 feet long. Wrap the ribbon around the envelope as you would wrap a Christmas present.
- Tie a pretty bow. Congrats your invitation is complete!
I plan on hand delivering my invitations and leaving them as a surprise in each of my guests mailboxes. If you want to send yours simply slide the wrapped invite into an appropriate sized mailing envelope. Address, with dark blue ink, in your best handwriting, stamp, and send away.
This is only the first step of my Super Bowl Party...come back tomorrow, I'll be talking food and planning the menu.
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The PS Vita is under tight scrutiny right now. Being released to claims of technical problems, and some strong yet questionable sells numbers, everyone is watching closely to see how the PS Vita performs out of the retail gates. Having already sold over three hundred thousand units in just two days, the PS Vita is still trailing behind Nintendo's worst portable hardware launch of the 3Ds, which sold around 371,000 units in its two days on the market.
Despite the false claims of technical issues, and a fabricated apology from Sony, The portable gaming future of the PS Vita could still be a bright one.
I'll definitely will be picking up a Vita come Feb. MvC, Fifa, and Uncharted will be my top three games to buy.
have my first edition bundle already preordered and almost a 2nd for the kids paid off. But i will say this im kinda tired of sony being put under the microsope so much more than any other video game company. All the articles about it today are saying "PS vita outsold by 3ds" while leaving out that it was 7days of sales of the 3ds and 2 days for the psv, not to mention monster hunter debuted on the 3ds which is like crack to japanese gamers.
oh well cant wait for it to come out in NA.
wow kudos to them.
Ima pick up a Vita but the memory card prices are so high. Meh
Yeah, for some reason I think it'll sell better in the US than Japan. Right now, there aren't many popular Japanese games for the PS Vita, but when it lands in the US Uncharted will be major and Call of Duty with integrated PS3 play will push it through the roof.


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Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Frameworks for Practice, 2nd Edition
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DescriptionWritten by leading clinicians and research experts in the fields of child development and psychopathology, this book is an authoritative and up to date guide for psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians and other professionals working with vulnerable children. The opening chapters outline neurobiological, genetic, familial and cultural influences upon child development, especially those fostering children's resilience and emotional wellbeing. Discussion of the acquisition of social and emotional developmental competencies leads on to reviews of child psychopathology, clinical diagnoses, assessment and intervention.
Developed with busy professionals and trainees in mind, it is comprehensively yet concisely written, using visual aids to help the reader absorb information rapidly and easily. This book is an essential purchase for those working or training in all clinical and community child settings.
Preface xi
Section 1: Developing Competencies.
1a: Contextual Influences upon Social and Emotional Development.
1. Family and Systemic Influences 3
Barbara Maughan
2. Sibling Influences 8
Judy Dunn
3. Culture and Child Development 13
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5. Genetic and Biological Influences 23
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1b: General Patterns of Development.
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Ajay Sharma and Tony O'Sullivan
7. Early Social and Emotional Experience Matters: The First Year of Life 41
Howard Steele
8. Language Development 45
Thomas Klee and Stephanie F. Stokes
9. Development of Social Cognition 51
Virginia Slaughter
10. Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood 56
Alan Carr
11. Social-Cognitive Development During Adolescence 62
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Section 2: Promoting Well-Being.
12. Promoting Infant Mental Health 68
Christine Puckering
13. Promoting Children'sWell-Being 72
Paul Stallard
14. Fostering Resilience in Adolescents 78
Angela Veale
Section 3: Attachment and Separation
15. Attachment Theory: Research and Clinical Implications 85
Pasco Fearon
16. Children Bereaved by Parent or Sibling Death 92
Linda Dowdney
17. Adoption and Fostering 100
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Section 4: The Impact of Trauma and Maltreatment.
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19. Child Maltreatment 114
Danya Glaser
20. The Neuroscience and Genetics of Childhood Maltreatment 121
Eamon McCrory, Stephane A. De Brito, and Essi Viding
Section 5: Atypical Development.
5a: Infancy and Early Childhood.
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22. Literacy Disorders 134
Valerie Muter and Margaret J. Snowling
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24. Somatization and Somatoform Disorders 147
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25. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 153
Anita Thapar and Antonio Munoz-Solomando
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27. Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents 169
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28. Childhood Behavioural Disorders 175
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32. Substance Misuse in Young People 201
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34. Emerging Personality Disorder 217
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36. Paediatric Neuropsychological Assessment I: An Assessment Framework 229
Judith Middleton
37. Paediatric Neuropsychological Assessment II: Domains for Assessment 234
Jane Gilmour and Bettina Hohnen
38. Assessment of Child Psychiatric Disorders 245
Helen Bruce and Navina Evans
39. Psychological Assessment 251
Michael Berger
40. Family Therapy Assessment 255
Alexandra Mary John
Section 7: Approaches to Intervention.
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42. Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy for Children and Adolescents 265
Cathy Creswell and Thomas G. O'Connor
43. Parenting Programmes for Conduct Problems 271
Stephen Scott and Sajid Humayun
44. Systemic and Family Approaches to Intervention 276
Philip Messent
45. Psychotherapeutic Approaches: A Psychodynamic Perspective 281
Eilis Kennedy
46. Paediatric Psychopharmacology: Special Considerations 286
Paramala J. Santosh and Rakendu Suren
Index 295
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Energy officials land summer jobs for their kids
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least a dozen children or other relatives of Energy Department officials have received summer jobs at the department in apparent violation of federal nepotism rules, an agency watchdog said Monday.
Inspector General Gregory Friedman said in a report that one senior Energy Department official was actively involved in securing summer jobs for his three college-aged children, including two who ended up getting jobs in the division where the official works.
The official, who was not named, is a senior staff member in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The report says the Energy Department is considering "appropriate corrective action" but offers no specifics.
"Nepotism or even its appearance can have a decidedly negative impact on morale within an organization," Friedman wrote in a 19-page report.
Providing inappropriate advantages for relatives of federal employees "damages the integrity of the competitive process and erodes public trust in the federal hiring process," Friedman added. "The impact is likely severe, especially when considering the intense competition for (summer) intern positions within the department."
Despite those strong words, Friedman's own office was not immune from the problem. Among those who got summer jobs was the child of an employee in the inspector general's office, which Friedman called a "serious" matter. The employee has been reprimanded.
Friedman's report, released Monday, says that each case involving employment of relatives has been referred to the Energy Department's personnel office and general counsel. The counsel serves as the department's ethics officer.
The report says the official in the renewable energy office contacted 12 Energy Department officials from seven different programs about summer jobs for his children. All three children were hired last year, including two who worked in the renewable energy division.
Bill Gibbons, a spokesman for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, said the department takes the allegations in the inspector general's report "very seriously," adding: "The Energy Department is committed to fair, open and transparent hiring processes that ensure every candidate is evaluated equally."
The personnel office and general counsel are reviewing the report and the circumstances surrounding the summer hires, Gibbons said, and the department will "take appropriate action based on those findings." The department also will provide additional training to senior employees and hiring managers on personnel rules and procedures to ensure a fair and open competitive process, Gibbons said.
The senior official in the renewable energy division told investigators that he did not believe he had done anything wrong, the report said. The official indicated that, "based on his personal observations, the practice of employees providing resumes and/or inquiring about employment for a (summer) position on behalf of relatives was common," the report said.
Two officials who hired the senior employee's children told investigators they did not feel pressured by the official. The officials also indicated that it was "a common practice for individuals to provide resumes or to inquire with various program offices in an effort to secure (summer) employment opportunities for relatives," the report said. The officials said they did not believe there was a violation of nepotism rules unless the summer worker reported directly to their relative.
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The Government Accountability Office recently reviewed 18 federal programs that provide food and nutrition assistance to low-income households, a subset of the nearly 70 programs that provide food and related subsides.
Obama's Fannie and Freddie Amnesia
Peter Wallison calls attention to President Obama's amnesia regarding events that precipitated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's collapse. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Wallison points out that in 2005 then-Senator Obama joined with his Democratic colleagues in stopping legislation that would have helped rein in the government-sponsored housing duo's risky behavior:
Rising Food Stamp Dependency
Food stamp enrollment has reached a record high of almost 40 million people. You can blame the recession and legislated benefit increases under presidents Bush and Obama. According to Obama's latest budget, the total cost of the program will reach $73 billion this year, or more than double the 2007 price tag.
The Postal Service's Union Problem
Comments from members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a recent hearing on the U.S. Postal Service's woes indicate they don't appreciate the USPS's union problem. Postmaster General John Potter went before the committee to make his case for restructuring the postal operation, including greater labor flexibility.
The Debt Explosion
According to the Congressional Budget Office's recent estimates of President Obama's current budget proposal, debt held by the public relative to the size of the economy is heading toward heights last seen since the end of the Second World War:
(Un)Happy Tax Day


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Wellness Groups offer people with a cancer diagnosis, who are active in treatment, an opportunity to share thoughts, feelings and information. Together, group participants experience warmth, understanding, support and learn how to manage stress.
Please Note: You must be a Gilda's Club Chicago member and have been placed in a group to attend. Please contact the Clinical Program Manager at 312-464-9900 for group placement and questions. Groups are not open for observation at any time.
All support groups are facilitated by licensed mental health professionals and clinical interns.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Journal, April 9, 1910
Only 44 of the 230 qualified voters of the town visited the polls Wednesday to vote for the town officers, there being no opposition.
A successful dance was given in the Gardner House hall, for the benefit of St. Mark's Church. Steamer Conanicut was chartered for the occasion, more than 100 young people coming from Newport.
A force of men are at work enlarging the office of the Ferry company to make room for the ticket office of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and the New England Navigation Company.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 8, 1935
Decision to build a new town hall in Jamestown was reached Saturday afternoon during the annual financial town meeting. The new building is estimated to cost about $60,000, and is to include a main structure and two wings, in which the municipal departments would be housed. To secure the necessary funds, the voters de- cided to use the refunds from horse racing, Alcoholic and Electric Corporation taxes, and to match these annually with an equal amount from the town treasury. This year, the state refunds totaled $2,170.01.
The proposition of the town buying the Moll garage for $5,500 for use as a storehouse and highway department garage was withdrawn by Mr. Moll.
From the Newport Daily News, April 10, 1935
The Rev. Charles B. Burrows has resigned his pastorate as rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Jamestown, to take effect May 1, after having been in charge of St. Matthew's for 35 years, and has reached the retiring age.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 12, 1960
A record budget of $193,936 for schools, showing a $13,000 increase over last year, was returned to the School Committee for its action by the Jamestown Town Council last night.
From the Newport Daily News, April 14, 1960
The Jamestown School Committee last night voted to notify the Town Council that it could not reduce the school budget of $193,936 by $5,000 and still meet the needs of the state law.
From the Newport Daily News, April 16, 1960
Two Jamestown teenagers this morning spotted a stray torpedo in the bay a short distance north of the East Ferry landing.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 9, 1985
The Town Council Monday night ordered the solicitor and the town administrator to meet with state officials to alter the state building code, giving the town input into the septic system variance requests.
The proposed Bay View condominium project was delayed again Monday because an abutting property owner was not notified of the public hearing on the plan.
From the Newport Daily News, April 11, 1985
The state has agreed to notify town officials before future variances are granted for individual septic disposal systems in Jamestown.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, April 13, 1995
The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority has agreed to pay Jamestown $5,000 this year as a user's fee for 34 acres of land it owns at the Newport Bridge toll plaza. The authority has also agreed to make subsequent payments that increase by $2,000 annually for the next ten years. …At the end of that 10-year period, Jamestown could expect a minimum payment of $25,000 a year and would be free to negotiate with the authority for more money.
Just hours after the state Supreme Court ordered the upcoming election of Jamestown officials postponed until June 7, the Town Council unanimously passed a resolution requesting a new type of electronic voting machines to be used at the polls.
With the water level at North Pond reservoir down 30 inches instead of overflowing as it should be in the spring, the town may have to buy water from North Kingstown.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, April 13, 2000
The Town Council Monday heard a proposal that, if approved, would put telecommunications equipment on an existing radio tower in Beavertail State Park. …In Omnipoint's plans, three sides of the tower would be fitted with three antennas, each 74 inches high. …The units were five feet wide and seven feet long.


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Tomatillo roast chicken
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tomatillo roast chicken
Tomatillo roast chicken
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My blog is simi-gf! I eat gf but I blog about other suff too. This looks tasty, I cant wait to make it! I love your blog! Thanks so much for all of the great dinner ideas!ReplyDelete
Oh, thank you! Thanks for reading!ReplyDelete
We made this - not because we're avoiding gluten, but because we were looking for a roasted chicken and tomatillo recipe to make.ReplyDelete
We liked it, but wished it was a little more... zingy. I think we could have added more tomatillos. I had some extra yellow pepper around, so I added that in the last little bit of cooking. It tasted good, probably sweeter than it otherwise would have.
In any case, if you're looking for a similar type of recipe, you might consider this other one: cumin garlic chicken with tomatillo sauce.
We haven't made it yet, but it looked like it was pretty zingy. Thought you might be interested.


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MIDDLETOWN — Jaime Palacios has the grill sizzling with sausage and peppers when three giggly teenage girls rush into Holy Dog. They readily admit they don't have any money, but say they'd sure like some franks.
MIDDLETOWN — Jaime Palacios has the grill sizzling with sausage and peppers when three giggly teenage girls rush into Holy Dog. They readily admit they don't have any money, but say they'd sure like some franks.
Within a couple of minutes, each is clutching a dog on a bun, as they run back into the blustery February afternoon.
Palacios — his friends call him Chino — considers generosity a bit of neighborhood relations at a location that county records show has seen three food service businesses come and go since 2008.
He thinks he has what it takes to succeed — a dozen years operating a Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn and an insatiable interest in creating good will with food.
"In my home, cooking is how you express love," Palacios said. "It's like that in Italian families, Arab families. It's an old-fashioned mentality."
He said his position at the Mexican restaurant ended when a partner's divorce forced a change in ownership. Palacios also was tired of commuting from Westtown — he'd leave at 2 p.m. and return at 5 a.m. — a "crazy" trip that wore out his Mini Cooper.
So he stayed home for three years to care for his young son. His wife, Alejandra Ortega, directs the Agri-Business Child Development Center in the city.
He also said it wasn't easy starting over at 49. "So I made my own job," he said of Holy Dog, a name inspired by the churches in the neighborhood.
"It's been many places, I think at one time it was an ice cream stand. To me, it just screamed hot dogs," Palacios said as he readied for lunch in the building at 44 W. Main St. that looks like a Coney Island transplant.
Open six months, the place has a five-stool window counter that overlooks Middletown's police headquarters. Most customers seem to prefer standing at the counter by the grill so they can banter with Palacios.
A customer was seen recently bellying up for six chili dogs to go. He confided he was only eating four. Two were for a friend.
The chili's homemade. So's the sour onion sauce. Palacios said Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan provided the inspiration for the latter.
An overhead menu promotes specialties like the Polish Hawaiian — kielbasa and pineapple — a French kielbasa served with sauteed apples and onions pumped up with melted brie, and the Chilean Dog with avocado, tomato, mustard and chipotle mayo.
Palacios also does a version of the Chicago Dog, but laments he can't find authentic seeded buns.
Unfamiliar with the menu, first-time customer Miguel Angel of Circleville told Palacios to make whatever he wanted. That brought forth a Southwestern with refried beans, salsa and chili. Angel followed that with a Chilean.
Palacios toys these days with adding meatball sliders and brats to the menu. Both might appeal to Kevin Grosso, who appreciates the snap delivered by the natural casings of Palacio's dogs.
"I'm always looking for the perfect chili dog, and Chino's good company," Grosso said as he ordered up his favorite. "He's got a different slant on things. He gives you samples to check out. He's always coming up with something new, and I'm game for that."


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MP914, New November 2009
The remainder of this guide will take you step by step through developing a food defense plan for your operation. When you are ready to begin, gather the following documents:
Supplemental publications are available to help ensure your team considers all of the important areas of your operation. We have found these three to be the most helpful (see the resource list for more information):
Samples of work sheets that will make this task easier are included. Blank work sheets for you to complete, remove and post, as appropriate, are in the appendix.
Store copies of the completed food defense and response plans in more than one secure location. Keep one copy on the operation's premises and a second in a secure but accessible location outside of your operation, such as your home. Also consider saving a copy of your food defense plan online using a virtual document storage service.
Assessing vulnerabilitiesWhen assessing your operation's vulnerability to intentional contamination, consider:
Assess vulnerabilitiesThe first step in developing a food defense plan is to conduct a vulnerability assessment. Look for areas of your operation that are accessible to someone wanting to intentionally contaminate your product. To find the vulnerabilities in your operation, think like a disgruntled worker, member of a political group or anyone wanting to harm your business, cause illness or death, make a statement for a cause or disrupt the food supply chain. Consider the various people who have access to your operation; look for places where contamination would be easily distributed through normal operations, such as a feed or ingredient mixer where a contaminant could be added and mixed in; and identify critical areas that are not locked, as well as areas that are not visible to other employees or where access is not limited.
Assessing the vulnerabilities of your operation should not be a one-person job. Instead, put together a team made up of the owner or manager and other key personnel or family members who are familiar with most aspects of the operation. University extension personnel, your insurance agent, your county emergency manager or a member of the law enforcement community can also be included on the team.
With the facility map and operational and workforce procedures on hand, the team should complete a Vulnerability Assessment Work Sheet. The team should consider the security of the listed elements and additional elements specific to your operation. Answer each question as follows:
Only the questions that are answered no will need to be included in your food defense plan.
See full-size sample form.
1. Is our outside perimeter secure?
2. Is access within your operation limited?
3. Are your processes or procedures secure?
4. Is your shipping and receiving system secure?
5. Do you have an inventory system for stored materials?
6. Is access to your water supply limited?
7. Is mail opened away from sensitive areas?
8. Do you have screening and training procedures for your workforce?
9. Is access to sensitive areas limited?
Write your food defense planNow that you have identified your operation's vulnerabilities, it's time to write your food defense plan. In the food defense plan, you will address each vulnerable element and determine whether a simple, practical and economical countermeasure could be implemented to make the element more secure. For each vulnerability you consider impractical to address, answer the practical question no, and move on to the next element. For each vulnerability you consider practical to address, write down a countermeasure and indicate who is responsible for implementing it and by what date. Once the countermeasure has been implemented, have the person responsible date and initial the plan.
In addition to your Vulnerability Assessment Work Sheet, it may be helpful to have your map and operational and workforce procedures available as you work through the Food Defense Work Sheet. Once you have completed the work sheet, you will have a food defense plan that can stand alone or be added to any HACCP or other plans you may have.
SCANDo not underestimate the value of your family members and employees as security agents. Train them to SCAN.
Developing countermeasuresRemember, the purpose of a food defense plan is to reduce the risk of intentional contamination in your operation. Countermeasures are actions you take to make vulnerable elements of your operation more secure. They protect your family, employees and customers; your product, reputation and livelihood; and your business, property and assets. The goal is to provide protection in the most economical ways possible.
As a general rule, procedural changes are the most economical. For example, checking references of potential employees is easy and inexpensive. Eligibility of new hires and validity of their Social Security numbers can be checked using the free E-Verify System.
The next most economical option may be technology. Will a technology such as dusk-to-dawn lighting or a lock reduce the risk of intentional contamination? If not, additional personnel may be needed, which is the least economical option.
Be freethinking and creative in countermeasure development, and keep in mind the three Ls suggested by the National Food Processors Association: light it, lock it, and limit access (Hollingsworth, 2002).
Marketing challengesOnce you have addressed the more obvious vulnerabilities and countermeasures, you need to deal with some of the challenges presented by marketing. The biggest challenge marketing pre-sents is assignment of liability, that is, determining who is responsible for protecting your livestock, produce or food product from contamination at each step along its way from your operation to the consumer's table. For example, you need to determine who is liable for the livestock or food product while it is in transit or awaiting auction. Liabilities must be considered if you are:
We recommend a two-pronged approach to liability, which we refer to as the double C's: check and challenge.
Check your contract, whether oral or written, and negotiate the liability. The goal here is to make sure that you are liable only when the food is in your possession.
Challenge those who might want to contaminate your product by making contamination more difficult with:
Prepare a response planThe countermeasures you develop can reduce the risk of intentional contamination but cannot prevent it. You still need to prepare to deal with an intentional contamination incident so that, should one occur, you can quickly and efficiently contain the damage and get your operation back to normal production levels. Getting back into production as quickly as possible is key to keeping your business afloat.
As you begin to prepare your response plan, have your facility map on hand and as well as contact information for your suppliers, customers and local emergency responders. You may also need to refer to operational plans, such as such as HACCP, GAP, BMP and SOPs, which may contain information valuable to your response plan such as regulatory agency phone numbers, emergency protocols or recall plans.
To contain and minimize an emergency situation, understanding what needs to happen and in what order is critical. In the case of possible intentional contamination, the steps that need to be taken are containment, diagnosis, recall, and disposal. Each of these steps needs to be addressed in your response plan.
ContainmentAs soon as you suspect an intentional contamination, isolate all product or animals that may have been contaminated. In your plan, identify a location within your facility where potentially contaminated food or livestock can be quarantined separate from uncontaminated animals or products.
For a livestock operation, you will also need to plan how you will care for the animals while contained. The sample Containment and Disposal form poses questions designed to help with the processes and planning for handling contaminated or potentially contaminated livestock or food products.
DiagnosisTo respond to the emergency appropriately, you need to know what contaminant was used and how. As soon as possible, contact the appropriate person to diagnose the contaminant. If you have issues with livestock, the first call will be to your veterinarian, while a food processing plant will need to call a food inspector: FSIS for meat, poultry, eggs or catfish; FDA for other foods. In your plan, include a list of emergency telephone numbers. The numbers on the list will vary depending on your operation and its location.
RecallContaminated food or livestock that have already left the facility will need to be recalled and contained. To effectively recall your products, you must know where all of the food or livestock have gone. Keeping reliable contact information for your suppliers, customers and processing lots will make this much easier. Include their contact information in your plan. HACCP plans or similar operational documents will contain information related to trace forward/trace back, which is a requirement for food processors. Also, because recalls often result from contamination that has been unwittingly passed on to you by suppliers, you need to prepare for that possibility in your response plan.
DisposalContaminated livestock or food must not be allowed to enter the food chain, so your response plan must include a plan for disposal of contaminated livestock or food products and possible decontamination of your facility. The sample Containment and Disposal Work Sheet poses questions designed to help with the processes and planning for handling contaminated or potentially contaminated livestock or food products. Regulatory agencies such as FSIS or FDA are valuable sources to help determine what type of disposal will be needed and who will need to sign off on the plan before contaminated food can be disposed of.
For livestock, you will need to plan for euthanasia as well as disposal. Again, the methods used will depend on the type of contaminant involved and recommendations will be made by the veterinarian or emergency management official in charge. See the resource list for helpful publications on the quarantine and disposal of contaminated livestock or food.
Facility mapA map of your operation or facility will be vital to emergency responders in any situation. The map should provide contact information for the owner or operator of the facility and show the following:
Phone number tipWhen compiling your emergency and other contact lists, be sure to include the area code even with local telephone numbers. During an emergency, calls may be made from a nonlocal phone.
Emergency phone listThe numbers on an emergency phone list will vary by location and type of operation, but in general should include the following categories:
Supplier/customer phone listTo effectively respond to an emergency that is unfolding at a fast pace, maintain a list containing the names and contact information of all your suppliers and customers.
Employee emergency contactsMaintain an emergency contact list for your employees that includes their phone numbers and addresses. Keep the list where it can be accessed quickly in an emergency.
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Guys, the hub height on most serious offshore turbines is 70-80m with an 80m diameter. That means the wake is 30m-40m in the air. (ie higher than your kite)
SSK I'm not sure what you are trying to show with the contrails.
given the right conditions a pressure differential will result in condensation. Wind turbines obtain their drive by using a foil to produce a pressure differential to drive their rotation. In extreme humidity their bound to produce condensation. With falling pressure or temperature, the condensation would not have sufficient energy to overcome the latent heat of vaporization and would not be reabsorbed for quite some time (if at all)
The photo does not indicate large scale turbulence or pressure disruption outside of the immediate wind farm area just a bunch of selective air particals made visible and then mixed around by rotating blades. Take a bunch of smoke machines and spin em around in circles in front of a few low speed fans and the visual effect would be somewhat similar.
A conclusive photo would be to show differences in smoke steams and wind speeds 1km in front and 1 km behind the wind farm or 6 MILES behind in the case of this post between 2 and 25m off the water surface.
most of the studies you quoted indicate that generally the wake effects are cleared up after 10-15 rotor diameters. (800m) and yes large scale wind farms 8 x 10 arrays of 80m diameter rotors can take 5-20km for wind to recover to 2% of their upstream velocities.
[please take a moment to consider the MASSIVE scale of these wind farms]
However, IF someone has invested in a LARGE scale off shore wind farm you can bet your balls, it's in a location that's F'N WINDY. So 2% isn't even worth mentioning, you're STILL riding your 6m.....
I'm not pro or anti wind farm,I don't believe they are the solution but am aware we need all the help we can get. In the mean time fire up some more nuclear reactors so we can all plug in our electric cars at night and get 200 mpg driving to our favourite kite spot.......