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I'm embarrassed to see how long it's been since I've posted anything. Last time I posted, I said something about how I was going to start to (slowly) work on some new cookbooks. I did actually keep that promise, but then my world turned topsy-turvy.
Not long after I posted, a family looking for a new location for their business came to look at Desserts Plus and quickly made us an offer on our building. We accepted for many reasons, and starting looking for a new space. We had no idea how long it would take us.
Since moving our of our building 13 (!) months ago, we've had a pop-up store for Passover, rented a kitchen to cater a few major events and even had a booth at a farmer's market for part of the simmer.
All along we worked on finding our space, which we did last summer. Several delays kept construction from starting until early this year (you can see a lot of our updates on our Instagram account).
In fact, we even have a kickstarter campaign going to try to get the final push we need to finish our space.
(You can read more about our campaign on our Facebook page, instagram or kickstarter.)
Meanwhile, while all of that was going on, I was slowly working on my next cookbook.
Last month I published Pam's Cookie Collection:
This is smaller than my other books with just 40-something recipes, but I'm proud of this one! It's got lots of recipes that I've been baking at Desserts Plus over the years, along with lots of others that I created in my home kitchen.
You can get copies here:
amazon. com
amazon. ca
And here's a wonderful write-up by the equally wonderful Norene Gilletz in the CJN.
If you don't have any of my books but you've wanted them, now is a good time to get them! For the next week one of the rewards for our kickstarter campaign is a cookbook collection. You can get one copy of each of my three books – signed if you like! (It's listed twice – once if you're able to pick them up at our new café and once if you need them shipped throughout North America.)
I'll try not to be such a stranger! Thanks for stopping by and reading.
Too busy baking. .7 Aug
No matter how strong my intentions are to post more, I generally fail. I really, really want to put up blog posts, but life gets in the way. I could go on about how my fridge hasn't been working for a month so I haven't been able to cook. . but who wants to hear about that?
Instead, I'll show you some of the things I've been cooking and baking at work over the last few months. And if I can find the time and energy, I'll get more posts up. Really. 🙂
Ps: if you want to see more of my cooking/baking, I post regularly (with my sister) on our instagram account. You can find us at Desserts_Plus.
Apple Pecan Baklava19 Sep
I love baklava, especially made with pecans (I'm highly allergic to pistachios and not overly fond of walnuts, but you can use either of those or a mixture) and I also love apple strudel made with light, crispy phyllo dough. I realized that combining the two couldn't be bad and created this Apple Pecan Baklava.
If you don't follow the tradition of not eating nuts for Rosh Hashana, this would make a lovely dessert for the holiday — if you do, then just save this and make it for another occasion. Enjoy!
Apple Pecan Baklava
- 1 lb. phyllo dough
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine — melted
Apple Layer
- 2 lb. Granny Smith apples — peeled, cored and diced
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp. flour
Nut Layer
- 4 cups pecan halves — approx. 3/4 lb.
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2/3 cup honey
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cups water
- lemon zest — from 1 lemon
- orange zest — from 1 orange
- 2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp. fresh orange juice
Preheat oven to 375ºF.
Apple layer: Place the apples, honey and cinnamon into a non-stick skillet, stirring over medium heat. Cook for about 10 minutes, or until any liquid has evaporated and the apples have softened. Remove from the heat and add flour, stirring until it's mixed in. Cool.
Nut Layer: Place the pecans, sugar and cinnamon in the food processor. Pulse until the pecans are coarsely ground. If you start with ground pecans (3/4 lb.) just mix them with the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
Assemble: Melt the margarine/butter and use a pastry brush to coat a 3 qt. or 13x9x2″ baking dish. Cut the phyllo sheets in half, then lay one sheet on the bottom of the baking dish. Lightly brush with butter/margarine and repeat with another 5 layers of phyllo. Sprinkle 1/4 of the nut mixture (about 1 cup) over the phyllo, and layer another 5 sheets of phyllo, continuing to brush each sheet with butter/margarine. Repeat the nut mixture and another 5 sheets of phyllo, then add all of the cooked apples, spreading them out in an even layer. Top with another 5 sheets of phyllo, 1 cup of nuts, 5 sheets of phyllo, 1 cup of nuts and then top it off with the final 7 sheets of phyllo.
Use a serrated knife to carefully cut the baklava into pieces. Traditionally, baklava is cut diagonally, so that the pieces form diamonds. Make sure you cut right through to the bottom.
Place in a preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes or until a dark golden brown.
Syrup: As the baklava bakes, prepare the syrup. Place all of the syrup ingredients into a pot over medium-high heat and stir. Once it comes to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Keep the syrup warm (on a very low element) until the baklava has finished baking. Remove the baklava from the oven and carefully pour the syrup through a strainer, over the baklava. Once the liquid hits the baklava, it may start to boil and splatter, so be very careful.
Let the baklava cool for at least an hour before serving. Can be made a day ahead.
Honey Cake18 Sep
Tipsy Honey Cake
Rosh Hashana means honey cake. To start the new year off with a sweet bite, traditionally we serve and eat honey itself or items made with honey. In my family, we've always made a version of this boozy honey cake. The finished cake doesn't taste overly alcoholic, but it does add to the overall flavour of the cake.
What a list of ingredients! It's long, but easy to put together and produces a moist and flavorful honey cake. My favorite honey to use for baking is buckwheat. It has a stronger flavour that holds up to the other flavours in the recipe. Having said that, over the last few years I've found it impossible to find buckwheat honey and have made it with several other types (most typically, clover honey) and it's still delicious.
The cake recipes also calls for what we call 'rye' up here, but I've been told in the US is often known as "Canadian whiskey" or "rye whisky". You can use rye, whisky or rum.
2 ¾ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 cup tea, brewed — strong and hot
1 cup honey
1/2 cup Canadian rye (whiskey)
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1/2 cup canola oil (or other light flavoured oil)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon orange zest
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice and ginger. I like to use a whisk to combine all of these ingredients.
In another bowl, combine the hot tea, honey, rye and orange juice.
Using either a stand mixer or a hand mixer, cream together the oil and white and brown sugars. Add the eggs, mixing them in one at a time. Add the vanilla and orange zest.
Add one third of the liquid and mix on low speed. Add one third of the flour mixture and mix on low speed until just combined. Repeat until all of the wet and dry ingredients have been incorporated.
Pour into a bundt pan that has been sprayed with vegetable oil and lightly floured. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. If the cake starts to brown too quickly, loosely tent a piece of aluminum foil over the cake for the rest of the baking time. Let cool completely and then turn the pan over and carefully unmold the cake onto a serving plate. Typically, the bottom of a bundt becomes the top when you take it out of the pan, but I really like the way the 'bottom' of this cake comes out and always keep it on the top when plating.
Wrapped well, the cake can stay on the counter for a couple of days. Freezes beautifully.
Quick and Delicious (and easy!) Apple Strudel9 Sep
Quick and Delicious Apple Strudel
I like a crisp, slightly tart apple for baking — a Pink Lady or Granny Smith would be my choice. I love the addition of pecans for the flavour and the texture they add, but they are completely optional. For Rosh Hashana, many people have the minhag (custom) of not eating nuts and the pecans can be left out and the strudel will still be delicious!
I use oil to keep the strudel parve, but if you want to replace it with melted butter, that would work beautifully.
Serves: 12
- 2 lbs. Fuji apples — peeled, cored and grated (about 6 apples)
- 1/3 cup raisins, seedless
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans — *optional
- 5 Tbsp. sugar, divided
- 3 tsp. cinnamon, divided
- 3 Tbsp. flour
- 10 sheets of filo dough
- 3 Tbsp. canola oil
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Prepare the filling by shredding the apples into a mixing bowl. If they are very juicy, squeeze out any excess liquid. Add the raisins, pecans if using, 3 Tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp. cinnamon, flour and nutmeg and mix well. Set aside.
Lay out one sheet of filo dough and lightly brush with oil. Mix together 2 Tbsp. of sugar and 1 tsp. of cinnamon and lightly sprinkle the filo with some of this cinnamon/sugar mix. Repeat with another 4 sheets of filo, oiling and sugaring all but the last sheet.
Arrange half of the apple filling in a row along the longer side of the filo – keeping it about 1″ from each edge. Roll the strudel up, keeping the filling against the edge as tightly as possible. Give the excess dough on each end of the roll a twist and tuck the dough under the roll. Place the strudel on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and brush it with oil. Sprinkle on the cinnamon sugar and use a sharp knife to cut diagonal slits every inch or so – just cut through the dough on the top of the roll, allowing steam to escape while it bakes.
Repeat with the rest of the filo and apple filling.
Bake at 350ºF for 30-35 minutes – until the strudel is golden brown. Allow to cool, slice all the way through and serve.
Buttermilk Cheese Kugel4 Sep
The High Holidays are fast approaching and it seems everybody I know is in menu-planning mode. A good cheese kugel is great for lunch during Rosh Hashana or for breaking the fast on Yom Kippur.
I know a lot of recipes call for some sugar, but I prefer to leave it out of cheese kugels — leave it for the apple or other fruit versions. I like my cheese kugel to have a little tang and will either add sour cream, or in this case, buttermilk to the recipe. The topping is optional, and it is delicious without it, but perhaps just a little more delicious with it.
Serve with extra sour cream on the side or if you must have a little sweetness, some sliced strawberries in syrup.
Buttermilk Cheese Kugel
375 grams egg noodles — wide
5 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup melted butter
375 grams dry curd cottage cheese
1 teaspoon salt
Optional Topping
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
pinch salt
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Cook the noodles following the instructions on the package. Drain well and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, salt and cottage cheese. Pour this mixture onto the noodles and stir to thoroughly mix.
Lightly butter a 2 quart (liter) casserole and pour the noodle mixture into the pan.
If you choose to add the optional topping, mix all of the topping ingredients together in a small bowl and sprinkle the mixture on top of the noodles.
Bake the kugel in a preheated 375º oven for 1 hour, or until the top is golden brown and the kugel has set.
Pumpkin Pie7 Oct
Pumpkin Pie
'Tis the season and all. Canadian Thanksgiving is next week — with American Thanksgiving (and Chanukah) coming in late November. Add to that the fact that pumpkins are available everywhere, it's the perfect time for pumpkin pie.
I love pumpkin pie and my recipe is nothing crazy — just a good, classic pumpkin pie. I've tested the recipe with cream and non-dairy creamer — both are good. You can also substitute soy, almond or coconut milk if you want to keep it parve and prefer one of those options.
I've done taste tests with this recipe using fresh pumpkin that I've roasted and pureed myself versus canned pumpkin puree. While I can detect a difference and prefer the fresh pumpkin, the results were split right down the middle by my testers.
If you choose to use fresh pumpkin, use a sugar or pie pumpkin – they contain less liquid than the 'regular' pumpkins. Cut the pumpkin in half, scrape out all of the seeds and stringy membranes, place cut side down on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake in a 375 oven for 45-60 minutes, until the flesh is fork tender. Allow to cool then scoop the flesh out of the skin and puree.
1 x 9 inch pie crust
1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
1 cup brown sugar, packed
pinch salt
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1/2 cup half and half of non dairy creamer, soy, almond or coconut milk
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. After docking, blind-bake a 9″ pie crust (store bought or home-made) for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside until the filling is ready.
Place all of the filling ingredients into the bowl of a food processor and process until all of the ingredients are well incorporated. Or place all of the ingredients in a bowl or large measuring cup and use an immersion blender to puree and combine. Pour the filling into the par-baked pie crust and return to the oven.
Bake for 45-50 minutes, until the filling no longer jiggles and the top has browned slightly. Cool and serve.
Pumpkin Pecan Pie
This is a slight variation on the Pumpkin Pie recipe above, exchanging some of the brown sugar for corn syrup and replacing some of the pumpkin with pecans. I think I might actually like this one more. . shhhh.
1 x 9 inch pie crust
1 cup pumpkin puree — fresh roasted or canned
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
pinch salt
1/2 cup half and half, non-dairy creamer, soy or almond milk
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon allspice
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1 cup pecans
Preheat the oven to 375 and blind bake the docked pie crust for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and prepare the filling.
Place all of the filling ingredients into a food processor except for the pecans (or use an immersion blender in a large measuring cup or mixing bowl). Puree until everything is well incorporated. Pour the filling into the par-baked crust and sprinkle the pecans on top of the filling.
Bake for 40-50 minutes, until the filling has puffed up a bit and has browned. Remove and cool completely before serving.
Maple Pecan Biscuits30 Jul
Unless I'm working on a recipe, or baking something for a holiday, I don't often bake at home. But sometimes the mood hits and I want the house to fill with the aroma of something delicious baking in the oven. Generally, this means I want a simple recipe , something that's easy enough to prepare during the week, but special enough to make for Sunday morning brunch or to enjoy with a hot mug of tea.
These Maple Pecan Biscuits are just the thing. A really easy recipe that doesn't require any special equipment and only takes a short time to assemble and bake. These are on the rustic side, so don't waste time trying to make them look perfect. The dough shouldn't look uniform when it's ready to bake — you should be able to spot little pieces of butter mixed in with the chunks of pecans. And when they're done, eat them while hot and crumbly with a little butter and a warm drink to wash it down.
Maple Pecan Biscuits
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, chilled and cubed
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup milk (2%)
Preheat the oven to 350°. Place the pecans on a baking sheet in a single layer and toast the nuts for 5-7 minutes, or until they are just starting to brown. Set aside until cool. Increase the oven temperature to 400°.
In a mixing bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and brown sugar together. Add the butter and use a pastry cutter, forks or your fingertips to work the butter into the dough. You want the work the butter into pea-size or slightly smaller pieces, but not completely incorporated into the flour.
In a measuring cup combine the maple syrup and milk and mix. Pour into the dry ingredients and use a fork to combine. Use your hands to bring the dough together and then turn it out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Pat the dough into a rectangle that has a uniform 1″ thickness.
Cut the rectangle into 8 squares, then cut each square in half, into triangles. Move the pieces around on the tray so that there's room between all of them.
Place in the preheated oven and bake for 16-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
Serve hot out of the oven on their own or with some butter. Though they will keep for a couple of days if they're well wrapped, these really are best when served fresh and still warm.
New Posts23 Apr
On one hand, it seems like Passover has been over for ages. On the other hand, we're just finally getting back into the normal pace of things at work. It's amazing how long it takes to get things back to normal once the holiday is over.
As I get a little distance from Pesach I'm beginning to think about getting some new posts done. I have some things lined up, but are there any requests? Let me know if you'd like to see something on the blog and I'll see what I can do (no guarantees).


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A move is under way to disassociate Pittsburg, a Bay Area town of 25,000, from Pittsburgh, Pa., based on a belief the "Steel City" has a bad image despite its ranking as the nation's most livable city.
Edwin Wolf is circulating petitions to allow voters the chance to approve changing the name of Pittsburg to Diamond Landing.
A legal notice he began circulating last week says a new name is needed to "offset the negative impact the name 'Pittsburg' brings to the city."
The city was named in 1912 by a group of Easterners to honor the steel factory on the city's waterfront.
Pittsburgh officials have scoffed at the proposed disassociation.
"I'm too amused to become angry over this one," Pittsburgh City Council President Ben Woods said. "I guess when your city is named the nation's most livable city (in a recent Rand McNally survey) the inhabitants of California feel threatened."
"Let's keep in mind that California has always been a leader," Woods said. "Afterall, we owe these advancements to Californians: moon shoes, skateboarding commuters, professional beatniks, motorcyle gangs and Proposition 13. I guess that municipal name changing will become the next great fad to carry eastward."
Wolf, 27, who has lived in Pittsburg for three years, said the name Diamond Landing would combine two names from the city's past.
"This town has quite a history of mining and steamboats," he said. "I wanted a name that would reflect both parts of the city's history."

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Life's a garden, dig it...
Here comes the heat....here comes the garden. The great healer, calendula....
Ant hill in the dill...
Egyptian walking onion...
It was bittersweet having to pull off the flowers from my blueberry bushes....but I know it will pay off next year when they're bigger and full of berries. Had to leave just a few though!!
Broccoli I started from seed...even if the little green caterpillars leave me just one head, it was worth it!
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Thamesmead was intended to be a vibrant, riverside community in south-east London. Forty years after being built, the area is known as a notorious hub of fraud, dubbed "Little Lagos" because of its association with west African criminal gangs, says Phil Kemp.
West Africans involved in fraud? Shirley not!
Andrew Goodwill, director of the Third Man Group, a fraud prevention service which screens internet transactions to help retailers detect credit card fraud, said the company's database reveals Thamesmead's SE28 to have the worst record of any postcode in the country.
"Last year we indicated it was the capital in the UK for credit card fraud. And actually we went as far as to say it was probably the capital of Europe for credit card fraud as well."
He said the company has identified an entire street in the town where there is evidence of people being involved in fraud at every address.
It doesn't really come as any surprise to me - it's particularly easy to get away with it here. I knew someone who worked for a Credit Control department a while ago where they had an unwritten rule called the "vowel rule" whereby if someone had more vowels in their surname than consonants they would automatically be refused credit. This wasn't to be taken literally, more that if they got a call from Dixons in South London stating that a Mr. Babatunde Adewale wanted credit for a widescreen TV, it'd automatically be declined.
One person there said "In't that a bit racialist though?" and so they were shown a film taken with a hidden camera in a classroom in Lagos where people are specifically taught how to defraud the UK credit system, as well as other "bonuses" such as child/housing benefits.
She said the company told her it was beginning to refuse to deliver to the area because the person answering the door would ask who the parcel was addressed to and then sort through a stack of credit cards all under different names.
The mind boggles.
What would the fraud capital of Bristol be? Answers on a postcard. I'm going with Easton.


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Exert from " Eating Animals " Book we stock
I'd come home in a bad mood……. go right up stairs and go to sleep. Yell at the kids, stuff like that. One time i got really upset, my wife knows about this. A three year old heifer was walking up through the kill alley. And she was having a calf right there, it was half in and half out. I knew she was going to die, so i pulled the calf out. Wow, did my boss get mad….. They call these calves " slunks ". They use the blood for cancer research. And he wanted that calf. What they usually do is, when the cow's guts fall on to the gut table, the workers go along and rip the uterus open and pull these calves out. Its nothing to have a cow hanging up in front of you and seeing the calf inside kicking, trying to get out……. My boss wanted that calf, but i sent it back down to the stockyards …… I complained to the foreman, the the inspectors, the kill floor superintendant. Even the superintendant over at the beef division. We had a long talk one day in the cafeteria about this crap that was going on. I've gotten so mad, some days I'd go and pound on the wall because they wont do anything about it……. I've never seen a ( USDA ) vet near the knocking pen. Nobody wants to come back there. See, I'm an ex-marine. The blood and guts don't bother me. It's the inhumane treatment. There's just so much of it.
The next two pages in this book will bring you to tears, its just so unjust, what we do to these beautiful creatures for their meat. Something we dont actually have to eat.


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Here we go again. Another breastfeeding mom has tangled with a real boob about her right to nurse her baby in public. Only Lucy Eades's breastfeeding discrimination case might just take the prize for craziest place a mom was given grief for feeding her kid.
The incident -- which Eades' husband caught on video -- happened at the Burleson Recreation Center in Burleson, Texas. You know what recreation centers are for, don't you?
That's right ... families. So a family-friendly place, a place for moms and kids, had a problem with a mom feeding her ... kid?
As if it isn't hard enough out there for nursing moms to get respect in shopping centers, courthouses, and restaurants, now kid-centric establishments are a problem too?
The City of Burleson defended itself by explaining that it was hosting a camp for 5- to 13-year-olds the day Eades was trying to breastfeed her 16-day-old daughter while her older child attended a dance class:
To be respectful of everyone's rights we asked the women to cover up. There is nothing in the law that prohibits the city from requiring a mother to cover up. We also offered a room in an attempt to be more accommodative. The city did not attempt to prohibit breastfeeding and we fully support the freedom of mothers to breastfeed as long as it doesn't infringe on someone else's freedom.
Giant. Eye. Roll.
Come on y'all! The "freedom" of a bunch of kids is not at risk because a mom breastfeeds in their presence, especially not if they're from homes where a mom breastfeeds or their parents have taught them that breastfeeding is normal. Heck, the more kids see breastfeeding, the more likely THEY are to breastfeed (or support a partner doing so) when they grow up. It's like that whole circle of life thing Elton John sang about.
What's really at issue here is why a facility would present opportunities for children, claiming to be a place where parents can take their kids, and then not support parents. Being able to breastfeed at a recreation center for kids is just as important as being able to find a diaper changing station at the same facility.
Either you're family-friendly or you're not, and as long as you're not OK with breastfeeding moms, you're NOT family-friendly.
Do you expect the places where you take your kids be breastfeeding-friendly? Have you ever experienced trouble in one?
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Key moment from the original Kongfrontation!
Last week Universal Studios filed an application for a demolition/"utility improvement" permit with Orlando officials, leading to speculation about what exact changes the amusement giant is planning to make. According to the folks at ThemeParkInsider.com, it can be confirmed that said permit pertains to one of two projects Universal is soon implementing: a fifth hotel on park property and a brand new attraction based around that most classic of film properties, King Kong. The massive furball previously spent twelve years captivating tourists at Kongfrontation!, one of Universal's earliest rides that simulated thrills from the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis Kong movie, which closed in 2002 to make way for a Mummy-themed roller coaster. Although Kong has remained a fixture at Universal Studios Hollywood as part of their famed backlot tour, here in Florida the go-rilla has faded into memory like so much Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theater.
Until now! Kong is coming back, allegedly, but what should he do? How will he fit into our madcap 2014 world? Please, Universal Brain Trust, consider some of the following options:
- Kongfrontation: Electric Kongaloo!, a remake of the original ride updated to duplicate today's Manhattan subway experience (you only get the chance to see Kong if you can locate the one MetroCard dispenser that can read your credit card's magnetic strip)
- King Kong Goes To Hogwarts, a brilliant piece of brand integration that would find the massive ape learning various banana-related conjuring spells from Harry Potter and all his wacky British pals in a hilarious 3-D movie presentation
- The Kong '06 Museum, a walk-though hosted by Jack Black where fans could see actual props (Colin Hanks's vest, Colin Hanks's glasses) from the 2005 Peter Jackson reboot
- Smell The Wet Primate, a sensory explosion that could occupy an empty spot of that central lagoon
- King Kong's Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theater, a brilliant piece of brand integration that would find the massive ape trying to solve various crimes in New England alongside Angela Lansbury
- Skull Island Lost & Found, wherein the eighth wonder of the world looks after your misplaced umbrella and/or toddler
- Twister...Ride It Out With A Friggin' Three Story Monkey, wherein visitors can experience all the excitement of a tornado with the added bonus of a giant irritated ape
Laugh if you must, but all of these ideas are better than Universal Orlando's current King Kong representation: the chunk of parking garage named after Merian C. Cooper's most beloved creation. Fingers crossed USF gets it right and doesn't somehow force Kong to twerk with Optimus Prime in a Shrek-themed dubstep musical.
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Lately my poetry has been taking me to places that I have never been before. But then again, that could be the result of my life experiences also taking me to places that I have never been before.
So much, and yet so little, has happened to me in the past five months that if I were to write about it, I would write forever. That isn't a bad thing either when I actually think about it. It's just that, I'm not ready for that side of me to be exposed just yet. The completely vulnerable and afraid side. The one where uncertainty reigns supreme and worry is my regular bedmate. The one where stess is worn like clothing and tears flow like a never ending river. No, I'm not ready for that side to show too much, just yet.
I have a feeling that my writing is going to take me on a journey; one that I so long to go on. One that I sometimes eat, sleep, and dream to go on and I cannot wait! The feedback for my work has been amazing and unexpected at the same time! It's absolutely exciting and I welcome it with open arms! Already, I've inspired two other people to write books of their own! I mean to know that I have actually been that kind of inspiration in a person's life is beyond what words can describe! I just know that I have been absolutely blessed! As this path in my life continues on, I have prepared myself to expect the unexpected and to know that God will make even the most impossible dreams, possible...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Uncharted Waters
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text: Keith Moore wrote: >>> not clear at all. typing "Keith Moore" into google gives different >>> results >>> from one month to the next, whereas typing >>> http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore has given consistent results for several >>> years. >> >> >> >> I said "largely". We're talking about citations in RFCs; IMO, they >> should be specific enough anyway, i.e., "Keith Moore UTK", which would >> probably work just fine. If not, a better citation is in order (Keith >> Moore University of Kentucky), rather than necessarily needing a URL. > > I think you have it backwards. The URL is a precise reference. If it > resolves to a document, it's highly likely to be the correct document. > The citation examples you are giving are less precise. For example, if > one is referring to a document, title and authors are not sufficient, as > it's not unusual for authors to revise a document or rewrite it for a > different audience but using the same title. There's a reason that > print references are generally expected to have precise dates and/or > volume and page numbers. Documents are referred to by title, authors, and venue (conference name, journal name, etc.) People can be referred to the same way. However, URLs are more like "book 5, row 6, on Joe's office shelf" - they don't identify the document, they identify WHERE to get the document. IMO, if you identify the URL sufficiently (IETF BTNS WG at IETF 63), you have more than enough information to find it, and a URL is just a location identifier that WILL change. > p.s. oh, and FWIW, it's University of Tennessee (Knoxville). Sorry ;-) (I think I keep misreading it as UKT, and KT as Kentucky, FWIW ;-) Joe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 254 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://www.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-interest/attachments/20051019/058b3ddd/signature.bin


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This fall I am again teaching an online graduate class for Seattle Pacific University, Issues and Advances in Educational Technology. Like last year, I am trying to use open/free tools that students could use with their own students. So, we are using delicious.com (to record and share weekly research of online resources related to the weekly theme), typewith.me (to collaboratively reflect on the links shared and the weekly theme), blogs maintained on wordpress.com (to reflect on the learning for the week and provide feedback), Google Sites (to develop a collaborative project), Google Docs (sharing documents for feedback, and forms/spreadheet for weekly grades), and one of the digital storytelling tools (to develop a digital narrative).
Last year, we also set up a private Google Group to communicate with the students and to maintain a record of communication for the students. This year, however, I was asked by the university to use their Blackboard server for communication and grades. I must admit it made the beginning of the class much smoother (not having to get the students to sign up for the Google Group). However, one week into the class, I am feeling like there is less collaboration: the email is from me to the class, but there is no online record of the communication; when the students respond to my emails it goes to me not to the group, so the students can't support each other. It puts me at the center of the process, which I don't want or like. In the third week of the class, our topic is "collaboration" and I think I will move the class email over to another private Google group. We have also set up a grou.ps "Ning-replacement" that we might use as an experiment. I might have the students use that site for discussions and my announcements in future weeks.
I have also noticed that the students' initial writing in typewith.me looks like a series of short monologues (very much like a Blackboard discussion) rather than like a collaborative discussion. Old habits of online discussions are hard to break. But it is fun to explore these new tools with these graduate students. Each week we cover one of these themes: reflection, collaboration, 21st Century Learning, critical thinking, online safety, copyright, productivity, change, innovation. These themes correlate with the new Washington state Educational Technology Standards for students. My goal is that these future teachers are aware of these standards, and the many free tools that are available. I am finding that there are many perceived barriers, so it is interesting to explore the opportunities as well as the challenges!
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I have started off really well, I have 6 out of 21 with another 2 to post about.
|#2 Peforming Arts Theatre
|#15 A Fire truck
|#11 Animal in a Zoo
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|#4 Airplane
|#17 Candles
|#8 A Tower
Like many others the weather is not playing nice to obtain #12 - cloud shape, but I know we have several more months to go so no worries there yet!
Luckily winter is not getting in the way of any of the pictures this year, last year I do remember having no chance of finding a bride as people just don't have outside weddings in winter here! Although I must say I can't remember seeing too many windmills here but I think a trip to the wind farm on the far away hills may be called for.
I am not on instagram or flicker, so all my pictures can only be found here on my blog, but I have given them all the same label 'treasure hunt 2013' so you should be able to find all the related posts to catch up on all my finds.
Hope the hunt is going well for you, thanks for stopping by.


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Saturday for me started with a hangover as friday night was the annual 999 Emergency services dance which was held in the Dunbar British Legion and as usual when i am feeling a little unwell the weather outside was stunning for the time of year with bright sunshine and very little wind, so it was off with the PJ's and on with the cycling gear and an hour's ride around john muir to try an erase what remained of my hangover.
I cycled through the woods and headed towards the skittery burn taking it nice and easy and stopping for the odd photo.
The sunlight was warm and pleasant, but once in the shade the temp dropped so i didn't hang around for long as i wanted to get on to the sand of Belhaven beach.
And while cycling along the beach i noticed these tracks in the sand, to thick to be from a pugsley so they must have been made by a friends moonlander another fat bike made by surly with even wider wheels which is owned by bruce aka coast kid.
With the rising tide i was fast running out of sand so continued on towards home, i headed along the old dump road towards belhaven and stopped to take a couple of pictures of the wildlife.


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Christmas Party
Prompts: Line Prompts:
Off in the distance I heard …
All I ever wanted was …
Word prompts:
Red, darkness, heat
Chill, blanket, tender
A surprise
An ancient tradition
Christmas Party by Lily Sawyer
"Hey, Tom, are you doing the secret Santa?" Harry Wilson, one of Tom's friends and fellow firefightersasked.
"Yeah. I wasn't going to, but Sammy talked me into it." Tom had planned to skip this year's Christmas party, but Ben was at his company's holiday party so there wasn't anyone to go home to. Much as he enjoyed the holidays and having fun with the gang at the station, he'd rather be home with Ben.
"Okay everyone, you've stuffed your faces, now let's open presents," the captain called out to the partiers.
Tom and his fellow firefighters sat around a table and Sammy passed the gifts out; thankfully, they'd put a twenty-five dollar spending limit. That was a good thing. Tom had spent the rest of his holiday budget on Ben and a few other friends and family members.
"Lizzie, here's one for you." Lizzie was one of four female members of the firehouse.
"Thanks, guys, how did you know I needed a new bathrobe?" It was a set that came with a pair of slippers.
Tom took a sip from his mug of his coffee. He was so glad an anonymous donor had given the firehouse a Keurig coffee machine and a supply of coffee K-cups to go with it. It made making coffee much easier. Tom made a great cup of coffee, but unfortunately not every member of the house shared his skills. So some days they had to deal with a cup of mud. Not a great thing when you had to be awake for emergencies.
"Here's something for you, Tom." Sammy handed him an envelope. He couldn't fathom what was inside; he just never knew what these guys could come up with. Could be a gag gift, for all he knew. He slowly opened the flap.
"Come on Tom, open it already. It's not going to bite you!" Jimmy, his friend, told him.
"Okay, okay, give me a minute." He dramatically took a deep breath and opened the flap. He slowly pulled out the contents. It was a gift card to Applebee's restaurant. "Oh wow, this is great. Whoever gave me this, thank you. Ben and I will put this to good use."
Jimmy was the one who got the coffee package he'd picked up; it was filled with assorted coffee. Tom knew Jimmy couldn't go without his coffee. Jimmy gave him a smile; he knew he'd been his secret Santa.
The hours seemed to drag; they'd gotten one call before the end of their shift. One was for a house fire. They were lucky they got there before the fire had spread beyond one room. No one was hurt and they were able to extinguish the fire quickly. Tom couldn't wait to get home. He drove his car up the driveway and parked right next to the garage door. The rule was whoever got home first got the use of the garage. He could see the lights were on, so Ben must have beaten him home.
The minute he came in the door the smells of the holidays were in the room. The smell of gingerbread filled the room. Ben had set a candle on a candle warmer. It was far safer than burning a candle; it melted the wax and the scent wafted throughout the house.
"Ben?" Tom came into the kitchen and found his husband making potato latkes. Since Ben was Jewish, they celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas together. Tom had learned so many things about the Jewish people and their traditions by the food that was eaten for each holiday.
"Tom, honey, I missed you so much." Ben had just finished frying the last potato pancake and laid it on the paper towel to absorb the excess oil. He turned and kissed him.
"Mm, I missed you too, baby. I was counting the hours until I could come home to you."
"So what surprise did the guys give you at the firehouse?" Ben asked him as he was setting the dinner table.
"A gift card to Applebee's." Tom helped him by putting out the napkins and silverware. "Did you get anything from your co workers?"
"Yes, a bottle of wine and a large tin of assorted popcorn. I wonder how they knew I love flavored popcorn."
"Oh, maybe cause you bring bags of microwave popcorn to the office to snack on," Tom said innocently.
Dinner was roasted chicken and potato latkes and the string bean casserole that Tom liked so much.
After dinner, they decided to celebrate and open up some gifts for Hanukkah. It was the last day of the festival. Ben wasn't into the 'giving a gift on each night of the eight night holiday.' He suggested to Tom that he give any gifts on the last night, when all the candles would be lit on the menorah.
Tom had showered him with many gifts. Mostly small things and one big one—a winter coat he needed.
Afterwards they curled up in front of the fireplace, a blanket wrapped around both of them.
"Wait until you see what Santa brought you, Tom." Ben couldn't' stop thanking Tom through all the hugs and kisses he was bestowing on him.
"I've got what I want. All I ever wanted was you."
Christmas was still several days away, but for Tom and Ben they already had their holiday presents, each other. They cuddled by the fireplace and that evening showed how much they loved each other in some hot, intimate ways.
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The man shot by a Santa Barbara homeowner Wednesday after trying to break into the family's house has been identified as William Cavit Blair, a 33-year-old resident of the same Westside neighborhood.
Police Sgt. Riley Harwood said Blair had no prior relationship with the family in the 900 block of West Pedregosa Street.
Blair was shot in the leg by the 54-year-old homeowner after trying to kick in and break through a set of glass French doors at the rear of the house. He was taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for treatment of his injuries and is under constant guard until he can be moved to the Santa Barbara County Jail.
Police received disturbance calls from two residences in the 900 block of West Pedregosa at 4:15 a.m. Wednesday. One homeowner fired a warning shot through the door with an M-1 carbine rifle that he owned, but when the man didn't stop, he fired a second round that hit him in the leg.
Blair has contacts with the Santa Barbara Police Department going back to 2010 and is currently on unsupervised probation, officials said.
The case is now with the District Attorney's Office to consider charges of burglary, vandalism, prowling and assault with a deadly weapon, since "during the incident Blair was armed with a lantern, seemed intent on doing the victim bodily harm, and while in close proximity to the victim thrust it at him," Harwood said in a statement.
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Senate Testimony: RFF's Kopp on Implications of IEA Assessment
A recently released assessment from the International Energy Agency, Energy Technology Perspectives 2008: Scenarios and Strategies to 2050, identifies a daunting, but ultimately feasible technology and investment path consistent with reaching a concentration target of 450 ppm for carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2050. On Wednesday, June 25, RFF Senior Fellow Ray Kopp testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the policy implications of the assessment.
Reaching the target will be an enormous engineering and economic challenge, but Kopp urged Congress not lose sight of the many complementary policies that will be required to allow new technologies to take hold. For example:
- Carbon capture and sequestration. Regulations for the storage of CO2 must be written, storage sites selected, almost assured local opposition to storage to be overcome, and a vast CO2-transport infrastructure sited, financed, and constructed.
- Nuclear Power. Policies to address reactor safety, long-term waste storage, and proliferation concerns will need to be developed.
- Bioenergy. Because bioenergy will compete worldwide for land used to produce food and fiber, raising the cost of all three, public policies to address these land-use issues will be needed.
- Wind power. Carefully planned grid expansion will be required for a large-scale increase in wind-generated electricity.
But Kopp noted, "We cannot wave a magic wand and will this process to commence. . . . We must buy some badly needed time." The most promising option, he said, is harnessing emerging carbon markets to monetize the carbon contained in standing forests and provide economic incentives to reduce deforestation. While it is now widely known that China and the United States are the two largest CO2 emitters, it is less well-known that the countries ranking third and fourth are Brazil and Indonesia, due to widespread deforestation that is taking place.


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Toska's Self-titled EP (though so long it might as well be an album) is an odd egg within the now faded, and generally iffy, genre of black-metal. It rests on old tropes, winter themed ambiances and off-kilter vocal style, whilst refusing to touch upon the hipster fueled nuances of bands like DEAFHEAVEN. Instead of a constant wall of sound, such as with the latter mentioned band, Toska bothers to provide you with clean and precise song work. The attention to quality is here, and the band made sure that the music matches their themes and speaks for them. However, this gives way to a glaring issue: nothing Toska does is new, groundbreaking, or original.
Yes, the entirety of Toska's Self-tited EP is a collection of similar sounds, similar atmospheres, and even it's cover, though appealing, doesn't really stand out. Though, a person could probably attribute this to the tired expectations of the genre. Forever has black metal been doing the same things, changing only recently, and when a band tries to stick too much to the tropes - it's bound to sound just like everything else out there. Why? Because every straight-forward black-metal band practically does the same things, the content only ever changing slightly. There is only so much that can be done before a band reaches too far and becomes something it really isn't; not black-metal. In that regard, you have to give Toska's EP some respect. It reaches into the barrel and pieces together something as new as it possibly can, even if they don't really work (especially the vocals).
Can I talk about the vocals? Yes, do not expect to be particularly entranced, moved, terrified, or feel anything for the vocals as you probably will be inadvertently ignoring them throughout the majority of this EP. For the most part, they are hidden well beneath the music and are little more then unintelligible raspy whispers and grumblings. At times, they might pick up, but by that time your ear is so used to fazing out their existence that you'll barely notice they are there. I'm almost certain that this was some attempt to sound otherworldly, but it comes off rather pointless.
Really, I do appreciate the effort this Icelandic band has put forth. The heart was there, the talent most certainly, but Toska absolutely drowns in its influences - drawing way too much from other bands and, therefore, losing it's own identity. If only the band had taken the effort to do something a little different, a little less expected.


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Jonas Brothers choose first single
'Burnin' Up' due June 20 on radio outletsNEW YORK -- The Jonas Brothers have selected "Burnin' Up" as the first single from their next album, "A Little Bit Longer," due Aug. 12 via Hollywood. The track will be augmented with an "action-packed James Bond-esque adventure" video, according to the label.
"Burnin' Up" (which will be shipped June 20 to U.S. radio outlets), "Little Bit Longer" and "Pushing Me Away" all debuted on the group's most recent tour. The new album was executive produced by John Fields; some of the recording was done in the fall on a Gibson-outfitted tour bus.
The Jonas Brothers are already sizzling with "We Rock," the first single from their made-for-Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock." The track debuts this week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales chart after 11,000 sales in an exclusive Wal-Mart edition.
The "Camp Rock" soundtrack is due June 17 via Walt Disney Records, while the movie premieres three days later. Meanwhile, the Jonas Brothers begin their "Burning Up" arena tour July 4 in Toronto with special guest Demi Lovato, who also appears in "Camp Rock."


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As promised, this week I headed into the wilds of West Little Rock on my great Christmas gift hunt. If you're not finished with your shopping yet you probably don't have the time to wade through a lot of preliminaries, so here's what I found:
• Bed, Bath and Beyond: Why on earth they were carrying these in the first place will forever be a mystery to me, but on the clearance tables at the front of the store they had a bin full of Moleskine notebooks, hard-bound blank books with a storied history, favored by the likes of Ernest Hemingway. These things have a cult following — just Google Moleskine, you'll see. Full price for a small one is usually about $10, but BB&B had them marked down to $4.99. If you've got a creative type on your list, this would make a great gift.
• Vesta's: There's plenty of clothing and bath/skin products to choose from here, but I really liked the Blabla line of sock-monkeyesque stuffed animals ($34-$44). They range from a dog that looks like Petey from "The Little Rascals" to a colorful striped lion-looking thing, and they're knit from a very soft cotton.
• Trademarks: This is the place to go if you've got a sorority or fraternity member to buy for — they've got everything from plastic cups to picture frames to notepads. I also found the perfect gift for the black-thumbed gardener in your life: A ceramic vase painted with nice girly purple flowers, on which is written, in a very nice, girly hand: "Fill this vase with flowers. But don't forget to change the water, or it will turn yucky and green and smell really bad." Heh.
I also got a kick out of the Superhero Starter Kit, which comes with a red cape, wristbands and masks, tips on how to choose a superhero name and emblem, and lists of superhero do's and don'ts: "Never tuck your cape into your underwear. Let it flow."
• Vanness: This institution, one of Little Rock's oddest niche retailers, recently moved to the Market Place shopping center on Rodney Parham Road. If you've never been in, its merchandise is about half cake-decorating supplies, one-third pens (the nice kind, not boxes of Bics) and the rest (one-sixth?) odds and ends like replacement coffee-maker carafes, electric razors and decorative figurines. I'd be happy with just about any of the pens, which come in every kind of color and design, from understated black to bright psychedelic patterns to covered in metal snakes. Prices run the gamut too, from $15 or so up into the thousands of dollars.
If you've got a baker on your list, check out the specialty baking pans. I like the three-layer checkerboard cake set, which allows you to mix white and chocolate batter so the cut cake looks like, well, a checkerboard. It's $13.
• Glo Limited: This skin-care products store is now open at the Pleasant Ridge Town Center. I haven't tried their products, but I'm definitely a fan of some of the names: Pick up a three-piece set of Candy Cane skin care products, in its own little lunchbox-sized container, for $38, or a jar of Gingerbread Man bath salts ($25) or a bottle of Mint Chocolate lotion ($8-$16). They also carry a line called the Art of Shaving for men.
• Indigo Home: This is a new furniture store, also in Pleasant Ridge, specializing in Asian decor. I liked a painted red-leather jewelry box ($60), a pretty mahjong set ($89) and what the tags said are green ceramic roof tiles in the shape of fish and lions. They actually are small statues, perfect for a mantle or bookshelf, and the price — $19 — is definitely right.
• It's not out west, but there are bargains to be had at Young @ Art, a paint-your-own-pottery and children's clothing store at 5024 Club Road in the Heights. The store is closing for good Dec. 31, and everything's at least 40 percent off.
I've been nice. Promise.
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Before any principled negotiation can get started, you need to understand what the other side of the table wants and you need to tell them what you want. Sure, some negotiation styles and negotiating techniques will start to be used during this phase of the negotiations; however, what's really important is your ability to both clearly communicate what you want and to listen to what the other side of the table is telling you. These posts show how to make that happen.


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Artificial Intelligence Company Breaking Data Sees GIVEMESPORT–s Facebook Video Plays Accelerate by 207%Software Thursday, 4. May 2017
TORONTO, ONTARIO and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 05/04/17 — Breaking Data Corp. (TSX VENTURE: BKD)(OTC PINK: BKDCD) ("Breaking Data" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its recent acquisition GIVEMESPORT has seen its Facebook video plays go from 239 million in its first quarter working with Facebook video, (2016 – Apr/May/Jun) rising to over 734 million Facebook video plays last quarter, (2017 – Jan/Feb/Mar) with no material increase in associated costs.
Over the last 12 months there has been a strong 207% quarterly increase, with quarter-on-quarter growth that is a continuing trend.
Combined Facebook Video plays by Quarter
Yesterday, Facebook CFO David Wehner expressed confidence in the ramp up of new money-making businesses during an interview with Business Insider after the Q1 results on Wednesday. Wehner cited the Facebook-owned Instagram app, as well as the video ad format, as Facebook–s main growth drivers going forward.
Wehner continued by saying the main drivers for revenue growth going forward will be Instagram and video ads, although Facebook–s midroll video ads are still in their "earlier days" of testing.
Nick Thain CEO of Breaking Data said "Facebook Video is a core part of our social media strategy, not only with video in the newsfeed by also Facebook Live, as Facebook continue to test and roll out the midroll video we are excited to work with them and see the results it brings to our revenue lines on a global scale."
"The growth in our Facebook video plays is one that we see continuing to grow quarter by quarter as we refine our approach and look to increase the quantity and quality of our video content output" added Mr. Thain.
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Facebook Video plays are recorded and tracked by Facebook Analytics and are defined as – the Total number of times videos has been viewed for more than 3 seconds. (Total Count)
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About Breaking Data Corp.:
Breaking Data Corp. is a technology provider of a range of Artificial Intelligence services including; semantic search, machine learning and natural language processing ("NLP"). The Company–s technology platform has many practical applications, in multiple business and consumer verticals that are immersed in massive media and data rich settings. The Company–s showcase app, BreakingSports, utilizes semantic machine learning and NLP to track social media in a fully automated, real-time manner for significant sports information and events and distributes summarized information through real-time push notifications to consumers.
About GIVEMESPORT:
GIVEMESPORT, Breaking Data–s recent acquisition, is a leading next generation sports media company with the largest single publisher Facebook page in the world, with over 26 million fans. The next largest single sports publisher Facebook page is ESPN with 15.2 million fans. GIVEMESPORT–s content generates over 3.6 billion impressions (Feb-17), reaching over 138 million unique users (Feb-17) per month on Facebook alone. Visit GIVEMESPORT–s Facebook page at
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Kristy Kiernan on Inconceivable Questions
Last month Publishers Weekly was the first to review Kristy Kiernan and her third novel, Between Friends coming April 6, 2010, and THE literary trade journal said:
Kiernan (Catching Genius, Matters of Faith) again demonstrates her ability to portray true-to-life relationships between women. Ali Gutierrez is mother to 15-year-old Letty thanks to the egg donation of her best friend, Cora. Ali wants to have another child, but first has to convince her husband, Benny, and then Cora, to endure the process one more time.
Cora, a free-spirit who's just returned to America from a teaching excursion in Chile, has news of her own—she has a debilitating genetic kidney disease, and she's not sure how to break the news to Ali. Meanwhile, Letty's going through growing pains with her bad-news boyfriend, and when poor choices begin endangering her life, it takes all three of her parents—Benny, Ali, and Cora—to try to save her.
With realistic dialogue and pinpointed emotions, Kiernan paints a persuasive portrait of the bonds between mothers, daughters, and friends in this inspiring, heartbreaking tale.
Intriguing storyline? Kristy's (early) readers thought so and, in today's guest post, the author writes about their curious and inconceivable questions.
The most frequent question I get from women who've read BETWEEN FRIENDS is if I have dealt with fertility issues or I've had personal experience with in-vitro fertilization. I'm sure the fact that I don't have children makes them even more curious, especially since all of my books have focused heavily on parent/child relationships.
Writers who don't write women's fiction always seem to be a bit stunned when I tell them the questions that are asked of me when I go to a speaking engagement or book club. And I'd be willing to be that James Patterson doesn't have readers asking him if he's tied up and sexually assaulted women in any underground bunkers.
But this kind of deeply personal exchange is exactly what I love most about the genre I write in and what I love most about my readers.
When readers get so involved in a story that they ask personal questions, it means that they felt the characters (whether they liked them or not) and the situations (whether they're happy about them or not), were realistic enough that they think I surely must have a deep personal connection to them.
There could not possibly be a higher compliment paid to a writer.
And when friends express dismay about how personal the questions I sometimes get are, I just smile. I might not always choose to answer them, as anyone has the right to choose to not answer personal questions, but I do not consider them an intrusion on my privacy.
They are an honor, and a gift, and I hope to always field them with the dignity that they deserve.


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Glenn Beck has long been warning us about the Progressive agenda. It is to enact what the elitist Progressives think is good for America at the expense of the Constitution. The latest ploy is to push through Obamacare by enacting an internal House rule deeming the Senate bill passed, rather than actually passing the bill itself as the Constitution requires. This ploy, engineered by the Progressive Chairwoman of the House Rules Committee Louise Slaughter, is only the latest example proving Beck right.
Who is this slaughteress of the Constitution? Louise Slaughter is a proud member of The Progressive Caucus, an organization of members of Congress founded in 1991 by Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), who is a self-described Socialist. Nancy Pelosi is also a member of this leftist club, which wants to redistribute income in the name of social justice. In its Position Paper on economic inequality, the Progressive Caucus decreed:
The concentration of wealth is a problem because it distorts our democracy, destabilizes the economy and erodes our social and cultural fabric.
Obamacare's new taxes, built-in rationing of care and top-down government mandates on individuals, health care providers and the states fit this philosophy to a tee.
Louise Slaughter also shares her Progressive colleagues' disdain for the First Amendment, evidenced by her relentless drive to restore the so-called Fairness Doctrine that would effectively push conservative talk show hosts off the air. Slaughter hates dissenting conservative voices like Rush Limbaugh. Here is how she characterized Rush and explained her justification for the Fairness Doctrine in a 2004 interview with fellow Progressive Bill Moyers :
Dominating America and a waste of good broadcast time and a waste of our airwaves…I think all Americans would feel the same way I do exactly if we just had the ability to tell them. Reinstating the fairness doctrine would make a major difference in this country
SlaugherHouse Progressives want to ensure that everyone in America feels the same way they do, the Constitution be damned. If they get their way with Obamacare – bad as that is for the country- they will not stop. Don't take my word for it. Here is Pelosi's Progressive declaration of war on the freedoms of the American people:
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Like an icy wind off the St. Lawrence, Arcade Fire froze a wild 53rd Grammy Awards gala dead in its tracks on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Like an icy wind off the St. Lawrence, Arcade Fire froze a wild 53rd Grammy Awards gala dead in its tracks on Sunday.
After losing out on two lesser awards, the Montreal rockers stunned a Staples Center audience filled with the some of the world's biggest stars by claiming the night's top prize: album of the year.
When the honour was announced, bowled-over lead singer Win Butler fell to his knees.
"What the h*ll?" he said, probably summing up the feeling of many in attendance. "I just want to say thank you, merci, to Montreal, Quebec, for taking us and giving us a home and a place to be in a band."
Still stunned, he then swore before adding: "I can't believe it, we won. Merci Montreal!"
It was the final surprise in a Grammy ceremony that was absolutely packed with them.
Arcade Fire took the stage again to close the show with their hit song ''Ready To Start''.
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Bruno Mars, B.o.B, and Janelle Monáe performed B.o.B's hit single ''Nothin' On You''. Bruno Mars also did a unique rendition of his hit single of ''Grenade''. Janelle Monáe then gave a powerful performance of her song ''Cold War'' with Bruno accompanying her on drums and B.o.B on the guitar. (credit: Getty Images)
Bruno mars performing "Grenade" at the Grammys (credit: Getty Images)
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Janelle Monáe performing ''Cold War''. (credit: Getty Images)
Usher then came back on stage to perform his hit single ''OMG'' with an incredible dance routine where Justin joined in at the end. (credit: Getty Images)
Justin also gave an explosive performance of his song ''Never Say Never'' with ninja performers. He was joined on stage with Jaden Smith who rapped alongside Justin. (credit: Getty Images)
Skylar Grey joined Eminem to perform Dr. Dre's new song ''I Need a Doctor''. Dr. Dre also performed alongside Eminem, which reunited the dynamic duo on the live stage.
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Rihanna performing with Drake. (credit: Getty Images)
SUMMARY:Country crossover outfit Lady Antebellum nabbed a leading five trophies, but their haul was overshadowed by many other memorable moments during the 3 1/2 hour telecast.
This was a Grammys in which Lady Gaga swore on live TV, David Letterman provided laughs with a Top 10 list that poked jabs at many in attendance (and suggested that teen star Justin Bieber wears a hair piece) and Aretha Franklin was one of a series of legacy artists who was honoured with a heartfelt tribute.
Neil Young finally won a Grammy for his music, leading nominee Eminem was only a footnote on the night overall and an upstart band of indie-rockers from Montreal won the biggest music award in the world.
After the band claimed the award, they took the stage for a performance of "Ready to Start" - Butler still unable to wipe the shocked grin off his face.
"Thank you the Grammys," he said. "We're so happy."
Beyond the fact that Arcade Fire is signed to Merge Records, a renowned if comparatively tiny label based in North Carolina, the win was shocking because it had looked like the Grammy voters simply weren't going the band's way.
They had been up for two other prizes earlier in the day, but lost out to the Black Keys for both alternative music album and best rock performance by a duo or group with vocals and thus seemed dead in the water in the night's biggest category.
Prior to that shocking moment, it was Cee Lo Green who had stolen the show with a downright bizarre performance of "Forget You" (the sanitized version of his proudly profane summer single) alongside Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Surrounded by more than a half-dozen brightly coloured Jim Henson Company puppets, Green sat at a piano dressed in a metal chest plate and a vibrant full-body peacock outfit. The set behind him was cheerily cheesy, designed to look like an alien planet with two stout rocket ships positioned in the background.
Paltrow mostly held her own with the Atlanta crooner, and certainly looked the part, sprawling out on top of Green's piano and singing a few inches from his face before hopping up and dancing atop the instrument.
They performed the clean version of his song, of course, but it was the original that collected a Grammy for best urban/alternative performance.
The devilishly infectious tune made Grammy history by becoming the first song with the F-word in its title to claim an award. (Though in the broadcast, the tune was referred to as the "Song otherwise known as 'Forget You'.")
Some of Bieber's fans, meanwhile, might have been tempted to utter some similarly explicit words - assuming their parents weren't listening.
He performed his hit "Never Say Never" and joined his hero Usher onstage, but lost out in both categories in which he was nominated.
Drake, too, was shut out in his four categories. Both Canucks were casualties of one of the evening's biggest surprises: 26-year-old Esperanza Spalding, a talented but not particularly well-known jazz bassist from Portland, beating out both of the platinum-selling stars for best new artist.
She became the first jazz artist to ever win the award.
"Thank you to the Academy for even nominating me in this category," said a visibly stunned Spalding. "I take this honour to heart so sincerely and I'll do my damndest to make a whole lotta great music for all of you."
She wound up with only one trophy fewer than Eminem - who entered the day competing for 10 prizes.
The formerly blond MC - the same guy who once rapped "You think I give a damn about a Grammy?/ Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me" - glanced nonchalantly at his fingernails as the envelope for best rap album was being pried open, but then sounded shocked onstage after he won.
"OK, this is crazy. Um, thank you," he said, before reeling off a list of people who helped him on the record.
"And thank you to the fans. What up Detroit? Stand up!"
The 65-year-old Young - a three time nominee this year - seemed taken aback too when he finally claimed a Grammy.
He had never been honoured by the show during his '60s and '70s heyday, and only in recent years claimed an award for the packaging of his "Archives" set. He won Sunday for best rock song for "Angry World."
"Thank you everybody, thank you to the Grammys and all the people who, y'know, are part of that," said Young, who seemed pleased - even amused - by the honour, and rubbed the trophy as he clutched it.
"I appreciate this very much. This is my first Grammy for music. ... I'd like to thank my lovely wife, Pegi - she's been with me for 33 and a third years of marriage, keeping me rocking."
And as usual, Gaga was notable for more than her music.
Wearing a skimpy black leather one-piece, the singer celebrated her win for best pop vocal album by climbing the stage and immediately uttering an expletive beginning with the letter 'S.'
"Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart to all my fans, all the monsters watching," said Gaga, choked up behind a pair of sunglasses, who brought her award tally to three.
"I had this dream when I was really young that I could be whoever I wanted to be, and no matter what I envisioned for myself, that I would do it no matter who didn't believe in me."
Gaga performed early in the show, but she seemed to save her most endearingly weird idea for the red carpet, where she showed up enclosed in a giant egg that was perched on a cross carried by gold-clad attendants.
During her performance of her pulsing new outsider anthem "Born This Way," she emerged from said giant egg before leading a fairly standard dance routine (the lone deviation coming when Gaga played organ in front of a vanity covered in a few severed mannequin heads).
The Grammys played to seemingly every possible music audience. In fact, at times it seemed as though the broadcast alternated wildly between performances by the very young and the, ahem, less young.
To wit, there was, of course, the 16-year-old Bieber and 12-year-old "Karate Kid" star Jaden Smith, plus plenty more people from the 25-and-under set: B.o.B, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae, Bruno Mars and Rihanna (26-year-olds Katy Perry and Spalding only just missed the cut).
But those youthful faces were counterbalanced by plenty of vets.
Indie-folk heroes Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers were joined by Bob Dylan for their performance, while 68-year-old Barbra Streisand and the 67-year-old (though seemingly indefatigable) Mick Jagger also appeared onstage and the show opened with a multi-voice tribute to 68-year-old soul queen Franklin (the singer herself was absent, still resting after surgery for an undisclosed ailment).
The Grammys paid tribute to other legacy stars, too, including Dolly Parton, Teddy Pendergrass and Solomon Burke.
A stately performance from Nashville star Miranda Lambert summed up the dual appeal pretty well - while the 27-year-old swayed through "The House that Built Me," images flickered overhead of past stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Dylan, Madonna and Elton John.
And even a collaboration between three exciting young talents - Janelle Monae, B.o.B and Bruno Mars - became a black-and-white retro throwback, with the trio donning formal wear for a medley of "Nothin' on You," "Grenade" and Monae's incendiary "Cold War."
Vancouver crooner Michael Buble claimed his third career Grammy, winning the award for best traditional pop vocal album. He was not on hand to pick up the trophy.
Other Canadians had a more disappointing day.
Among the Canucks who missed out on awards were Rush, Michael J. Fox, Fredericton's Measha Brueggergosman, Toronto R&B singer Melanie Fiona and Alberta powwow dance group Northern Cree, who have now been nominated six times without winning. Similarly, Montreal composer Marc-Andre Hamelin is still without a Grammy after nine nominations


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David Ortiz reflects on decade-long rivalry with Derek Jeter
David But Ortiz shares the same reverence for Derek Jeter as Yankees fans.
David Ortiz gets booed before every at-bat at Yankee Stadium for being on the Red Sox. It has been that way for the last decade, ever since Ortiz emerged as a Yankee-killer.
But Ortiz shares the same reverence for Derek Jeter as Yankees fans.
"For me, of course, he stands for the New York Yankees," Ortiz said before Jeter opened his final home series with the Red Sox on Tuesday. "He's one of the greatest of all-time. It's definitely going to be different not seeing No. 2 on the field.
"Who doesn't like the guy? Really, who doesn't?" the 38-year-old designated hitter said. "Have you ever heard a guy say, 'I don't like Derek Jeter'? He is the perfect professional. His whole career, he has done everything perfect. When you play against him, you play against the best."
Ortiz said he has never heard a negative comment about Jeter in his 18 years in the majors.
"Winning takes him to another level," Ortiz said earlier this season. "He's a winner, plus he's a really good human being. Everybody likes him. ... He's one of the guys in the game that I'm going to miss — a lot."
When Ortiz reaches second base, he can often be seen in a good-natured conversation with Jeter that often results in laughter.
Talking about Jeter also gave Ortiz time to stop and realize his own baseball mortality. Ortiz will turn 39 in November and is signed through next season, meaning he will be three years younger than when Ted Williams played in his last game in 1960.
"It happens to him today," Ortiz said. "Tomorrow it will happen to me. All of us have to pass the torch to someone else. In his case, it's very special. He's a great player who is going to be missed. Life will continue. The game will continue. But it's going to be a while before you have another Derek Jeter wearing a uniform."
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7.8 magnitude earthquake in Iran The earthquake 'was also felt in Qatar, India and Pakistan. The quake was recorded near the city Khash, with more than 50,000 inhabitants, on the border between Iran and Pakistan. "It 'was the most powerful earthquake to hit Iran for 40 years now and we expect hundreds of victims, " said an Iranian government official who wished to remain anonymous. In 2003, an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 caused 31 thousand deaths in Iran.
The provisional toll of victims is at least 81 deaths and thousands of collapsed buildings. 'm 34 victims of the strong earthquake in Pakistan, as the authorities announced in Islamabad.
The USGS has set a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Iran on the border with Pakistan. The epicenter was located about 86 km from the city of Khash and 81 km from Saravan, both with more than 50,000 inhabitants, and 167 km from Iranshahr, which instead has a population of nearly 100,000. The affected area "is a rural area, with most of the houses built with mud bricks .
The city of Hiduch in southeastern Iran, inhabited by thousands of people, "has been completely destroyed" by the earthquake that hit the area. The Guardian writes, citing Iranian sources.
The area on the border between Iran and Pakistan is known to be highly seismic because it is the crossroads of four major tectonic plates (the Arabian, the Eurasian, Indiana and African), plus the small plate of Anatolia. The entity to monitor the U.S. Geological Survey, the USGS, notes that the tangible sign of the intense activity of plaques in this area is the shape of mountains, which results from the compression movements. The thrust exerted by the earthquake in the affected area today is mainly due to 'encounter between the Eurasian plate, the African and the Iranian.
The Russian company manufacturer of the Bushehr nuclear power plant says that the plant did not suffer any damage from the devastating earthquake that shook the south-eastern Iran. The office is located on the opposite side, overlooking the Gulf, where the earthquake was also felt heavily.
The strong earthquake was also felt directly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Unlike tremors received during the earthquake of April 9, this time the telluric waves have also visibly shook the lower floors of the buildings. Residents and students skyscrapers and hundreds of schools have poured into the streets and courtyards. "I saw the walls shaking and I rushed to the street. First, however, I spotted several neighbors as possible to follow," he told ANSA his voice trembling Rosa D'amico, for thirty years a resident of Abu Dhabi. At the moment there is no victim or damage to the UAE. The epicenter of the quake, with a magnitude of 7.8 has been located at a depth of 100km over the border between Iran and Pakistan.
The quake was also felt in New Delhi and in the satellite city of Gurgaon. tremors have triggered panic among residents of the upper floors of the buildings that have escaped into the street.But for now, there were no casualties or damage to homes, according to Ibn-CNN television reported that interrupted programming to follow the event live. The earthquake shook the ground in Gujarat, Punjab and the Himalayan valley of Kashmir, which was hit by a strong earthquake in 2005. The quake, having a magnitude of 7.8 degrees, was also felt in the cities of Pakistan. The televisions show the people in the street, but according to local media there were no reports of any crashes
Just a week ago, an earthquake measuring 6.1 Richter struck the province of Bushehr killing at least 39 people were killed and about 850 injured according to the budget of Fars. Also according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the quake but had not caused any damage to the only nuclear power plant in Iran, the one that stands in the area. Iran is a country highly seismic: as early as August last year there had been an earthquake with 306 dead and about 4,500 injured in Tabriz, in the northwest. The earthquake that struck in December 2003, the ancient city of Bam, with its mud houses, caused 31,000 deaths and even more tragic was the earthquake of June 1990, once again in the north-west, which made about 37 thousand victims and more than 100,000 injured in the provinces of Gilan and Zanjan.


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The Thai military has vowed to fight to protect the country's sovereignty if they are pressured to withdraw from the border areas following reports that the Cambodian army has reinforced troops and heavy weapons along the border.
Reports doing the rounds say there are Cambodian troops fully equipped with tanks and cannons pointing at the Thai borders not far from Preah Vihear in tambon Sao Thong Chai of Si Sa Ket's Kantharalak district.
The Thai military has been following the Cambodian troop movements closely after Cambodia's celebration of its successful application to list the temple as a World Heritage Site, although it has yet to fully develop the temple due to the border dispute with Thailand.
Both countries have reinforced troops at the disputed 4.6 kilometres area amid reports that the Unesco World Heritage Convention will require Thailand to withdraw troops from the disputed zone on July 18 when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its verdict.
Phnom Penh has asked the court to clarify the scope and meaning of the 1962 ruling on Preah Vihear. As it awaits the interpretation, it has also asked the court to set provisional measures forcing Thailand to withdraw its troops, banning them from any military activities in the area or taking any action that could violate Cambodia's rights.
Although Thailand had earlier walked out of the World Heritage Convention with the intention of quitting as a member of the committee, the resignation is not official without a written document.
Colonel Thanasak Mitrapanont, Ranger Force Regiment 23's Special Task Force chief, said he had been instructed to lead his unit to protect the country's sovereignty and safeguard Thais to the best of his ability.
Banyong Tangsuk, a village head of Ban Phumisarol, said the locals had high hopes that there would not be a repeat of skirmishes that took place in February, as they were confident in the Pheu Thai Party. "The party is believed to be in negotiations with Cambodia. At least they will have respect for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra because he served as its economic adviser for some time,'' he said.
However, Banyong said he was a bit worried that if the formation of the new government was delayed there could be border clashes.
"We hope peace really returns to the border area. Locals have to face the unfortunate fate from the Thai power struggle. We wish for peace but we also do not want to lose our territory. At the same time we do not want war,'' he said.
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This is guaranteed to ruin our marriage, right?
Everything will be fine.
So you're fucking the boss? What a tramp!
I thought he became your boss when you got married.
I've been married to him for four months. I am going to start working part time on the website for his family business. He is my direct supervisor. How long should I expect our marriage to last?
This is a true statement.
He was my "boss" way before we even got married.
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Put one over on him and bang his secretary
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It's totally going to make it more exciting!
Oh wow. I hope you are so totally right.
Well that's different. I do a lot of work for my wife's business. I'm not an employee. I just do it partly to help her out and partly to shut her up.
Completely different than actually working together at a job.
Kanye is a weird dude
You are typical, I'm a freak
Has she every chewed you out for being a retard
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Local ska band Ruckus has been making noise in the music scene for almost two years, and is gearing up to perform at the "Next Best Thing" battle of the bands on Oct. 10 at the Palladium in Worcester.
Tenor Sax Andrew Robinson started Ruckus in November of 2007 along with former trombone player Connor Meade, who has since left the band. More members signed on, forming the current lineup in addition to Robinson: Cody Strait, vocals; Conner Johnston, alto sax; Matt Corrao, guitar; Jeremy Betterley, bass; Alex Thorsen, drums; Dave Garcia, cowbell/ break-dancer.
The group rehearses at Thorsen's house in Sterling, and all attend Wachusett Regional High School.
The Ruckus sound could be described as mostly ska with reggae and funk influences, but it takes on an almost non-descript genre when the members jam - in a good way. The diversity and sheer number of instruments blends into a sound that is sublime. They cover bands such as Green Day, and name Streetlight Manifesto and Mustard Plug as groups off the beaten path that they try to emulate.
Ruckus recently rocked the Recreation Department-sponsored Summer Concert Series at Memorial Park to an eclectic crowd that included many of their friends and fans, along with members of the community who could be seen tapping their feet and bopping their heads to the infectious beats.
"Our favorite part of performing is when we see a big circle pit in the audience. That or cracking jokes in between songs that we get but most of the audience won't," said Betterley, a Sterling resident. "I think most of us would say that the fun and experience of being a band together is what we enjoy the most. We're also motivated to write music that proves what we can do as musicians."
Betterley came up with the band's name, saying "it seems to accurately describe the music we make."
The band has been working fervently on a new CD, using their own home-recording gear that Betterley insists allows them to produce the music the way they want it.
Ruckus has already played several prominent music venues in New England, including Tammany Hall and The Palladium in Worcester. Their "best of all" spot is the Sad Café in Plaistow, N.H., said Betterley. They have also done quite a few shows in southern New Hampshire and the North Shore, as well as some at Garcia's barn in Princeton.
"Working well together is a rare thing for a band. But when we're serious about an upcoming show or writing a song, we focus on what's important," said Betterley.
For more information on Ruckus' upcoming shows or soon-to-be-released CD, contact Jeremy Betterley at jkbetterley@ gmail.com.