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CONEMAUGH TOWNSHIP- — In an interesting twist to Conemaugh Township's continuing zoning quandaries, mining may be OK on the Terri Ann Dovey property after all.
Vice Chairman Albert Zuccolotto said he and the other supervisors have been asked to provide written proof that this land was rezoned to R1-single family and R2-multiple family districts since the township's comprehensive plan was drafted in the early 1970s.
Thus far, he said, this proof has not surfaced in the municipality's archived meeting minutes.
"We're going through these records in vain. At this point there's nothing on record to show (the property was changed from rural-residential status)," Zuccolotto said.
The Dovey property became a hot topic this spring and summer when the family requested a zoning change from R1 and R2 to allow PBS Coals of Friedens to begin surface mining several hundred acres of property near Laurel View Village.
Public opinion soured on the proposal, however, and Dovey withdrew the request just before supervisors voted to formally terminate it.
Zuccolotto admitted that the absence of this record could change the permitted use this land.
"I'm very conscientious of that," he said. "(But) for all intents and purposes, verbally it's still R2."
Joe Marisa, Dovey's husband, was noncommittal about their plans for the property should the township fail to produce this record.
"We're going to wait to see what they find," he said.
According to Marisa, the township's comprehensive plan in the early 1970s listed a large part of the Dovey property as rural-residential.
He said he's researched county and township files over the past six months and has seen no record of a formal change in spite of a recent map that shows the land as R1 and R2.
"I think it was a mistake that it was put on that way," Marisa said. "Just like Laurel View wants their mistakes corrected, we want our mistakes corrected."


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POLITICS: Democrats will try on Monday to get Republican votes
for a veto-proof proposal.
By Charles Babington
WASHINGTON – Having failed to add a single Republican vote in their latest bid for a veto-proof margin on a children's health bill, chastened House Democrats are trying a humbler tack: talking directly with the lawmakers whose support they need.
Democratic leaders are scheduled to meet Monday with a handful of Republicans seen as crucial to deciding whether more changes to the bill will give backers the all-important two-thirds majority that eludes them.
Until now, House Democrats have largely avoided direct talks with these Republicans, who oppose the Democratic-drafted bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program but suggest they might be open to compromise. Instead, Democrats dealt this week with the few dozen Republicans who broke with President Bush from the start, counting on them to convert at least a dozen GOP colleagues.
The strategy dissolved into acrimony Thursday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., insisted on voting on the proposed expansion despite Republicans' pleas for more time to build support.
The measure failed to attract any new Republicans, dealing a blow to Democratic leaders and triggering recriminations from all sides.
"Bridge Burners" was Friday's headline on a statement by the House Republican Conference. Pelosi's leadership team, it said, offers "no bipartisanship, no direction, no results."
Bush said from the White House: "I designated members of my administration to work with Congress to find common ground. Congressional leaders never met with them. Instead, the House again passed a bill that they knew would not become law."
If next week's negotiations fail to produce a veto-proof bill, some Democrats say, Congress may reauthorize the health insurance program at its current levels for a year. Then, exploiting what they see as a Republican weakness, Democrats may revisit the $35 billion expansion question shortly before the 2008 elections.

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Relationship between Disability and Psychopathology Severity in Subjects having Acute Exacerbation of Schizophrenia on Treatment over three Months Duration VC12-VC16
Dr. Praveen Arathil,
Department of Psychiatry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi-682041, Kerala, India.
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Introduction: Schizophrenia is a disorder which has a chronic course frequently with subjects having significant disability. Understanding what the symptoms during initial period are, which predict level of disability in future would be useful.
Aim: To assess the change in disability and its correlation with psychopathology among patients with schizophrenia having acute exacerbation.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 40 patients admitted in the hospital for acute exacerbation of schizophrenia. The subject was assessed with Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia (for symptom severity), Schedule for Assessment of Psychiatric Disability (SAPD) scale (for disability). Then at the end of three months after first assessment the PANSS, SAPD were re-administered. Paired t-tests for changes in severity of symptoms and Pearsons correlation of statistics were used to assess relation between symptom severity and disability.
Results: Forty patients were enrolled into the study, 3 did not complete the study. The PANSS positive subcategory score showed maximum change (mean=12.054, t=14.214, p<0.01). The SAPD change maximum was for behavioural functioning score (mean=7.783, t=12.337, p<0.01). Change in PANSS score correlation with endpoint SAPD showed total score, change in positive domain score, change in negative domain score had significant negative correlation to all disability domain scores.
Conclusion: Improvement in disability in subjects having schizophrenia appears to be significantly related to negative symptoms, excitement symptoms and disorganization symptoms.


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Hey folks.
I'm trying to make a new Fruit object each time aMethod is called.
The new Fruit object's name must be unique.
The problem is that the name of this Fruit object is the same name as one of the parameters of aMethod - this name is unfortunately the best name for the new object I think.
What can I do make it work?
Whatever the new Fruit object is called, the name must contain whatever is passed to aMethod.
Please help!
public void aMethod (String someFruit){
Fruit someFruit = new Fruit(someFruit);
//The Fruit object's name is the same name as the parameter.
//The parameter passed to Fruit is the String that's provided to this method (aMethod).


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I made this cardinal candle for my Grandma. I used the stamping on candles technique on SCS, so I thought I would give it a try. I turned out great! I bought a glass pedestal and added the cranberry garland. I also stamped the branch shadow stamp lightly around the sides and back of the candle, to give it a little color, but it didn't show up in the picture.
Stamp: a Cardinal Christmas
ink: riding hood red, old olive, black.


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Foley's Killer Identified As British Rapper By English Intelligence
Citing unnamed British intelligence officials, several news outlets, , claim that they have discovered the identity of the black clad killer of American journalist James Foley.
Before and After: 23 year-old London rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary traveled to Syria in 2013 to join ISIS.
According to MI5 and MI6 however, the killer has been identified as a 24 year old British rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Barry, or L Jinny.
British intelligence claim that they used voice recognition technology to ID the man who beheaded Foley in the now infamous video, who spoke in a clear London accent.
USA Today reports that Barry left London over a year ago to join the Islamic State. He is one of 500 British citizens believed to be fighting for the Islamic radicals overseas.
Barry is the son of a man held in the US under terror charges. In one of his songs, Barry sings about how his father was taken away when he was six, and how he wishes he would have killed the officers who arrested him.
"Give me the pride and honor like my father"
"I swear the day they came and took my dad
I could have killed a cop or two when I went in the back
Nah, imagine back then I was only six
Picture what I'd do now with a loaded six"
Barry then goes onto sing "violate my brothers and I'm filling you with lead."
"From a city in the west, and the west of the city
If you want vengeance invest in a strizzi (Strizh gun)
If you need protection stay blessed with the lord"
Ending the song by saying "this is just the first page of the book."
USA Today reports that while British intelligence claim to have identified the killer, there is still no word from U.S. intelligence on the matter.
"Were not in a position to say exactly who the man in the video is yet, but we are actively working with our British counterparts to determine that every day," said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
When one's birthday is so quickly followed by Valentine's Day, it can be depressing when one is single. Just one occasion after another in which to NOT receive presents or attentions from a special someone.
Actually, it has been years since I have had someone to acknowledge those occasions in my life. Whenever I have had boyfriends in the last few years, they tend to handily leave me before or after birthdays, Christmas and Valentine's. Leaving me solo for all these occasions and not on the receiving end of presents - which I like.
So this year, yet again I am bereft of cards overflowing my letterbox, and without flowers crowding my awaiting vases. Although throughout the day I did receive one text message of love. Yes. Yes I did.
Oh. You want to know who from.....?
My Mother. Yes. My Mother.
Depressing isn't it?
What is more depressing is that this is a regular thing for her. When I was about 14, and pining for a boy to love and adore, I received a Valentine's card. It was anonymous and quite sweet. I was so excited. Consider a young girl who is "smart" but not "pretty", feeling low, and getting a card which promised so much. And then consider a day or so later when her mother reveals that she actually sent the card.
I know in her mind, Mum probably thought it was a sweet and loving gesture. But from my point of view, it just was one more reminder of feeling not so pretty and always smart. The sort of girl the boys don't want.
Fast forward 20+ years, and this same "smart" and not "pretty" girl, recieves yet another message of love from noone but her mother. Oh yeah, that was a life-affirming moment. Oh well.
Oh, yeah, and I did get a well wishes for the day from Bond. That also went down a treat. Thank fuck that day is over again for another year.
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- Mr said...
One will hope (after the post below) that while Bond sent you one, you didn't reply.
As for your mother sending them - that's just nice of her (albeit misguided when you were a teenager).
What to hear sad? - The only mention of V-Day I got was from a married person I know, who half-way through telling me how good her presents were (and how good the presents she gave were) said "Oh I hope someone wishes you a Happy V-Day".
Isn't it impressive how well the marketing machine has worked on this "day of days"! If only they would use their powers for good.
I'm sure you get some flowers soon Cathy.
- 23:47
- Damsel Underdressed said...
Ditto, ditto, ditto.
My mother and my son gave me valentines but noone else. I know exactly what you mean about your mother sending you something when you were younger. Been there, done that too.
I agree. Thank God that is over for another year.
- 08:37
- EmmaK said...
I sympathize with the lack of valentines. I think one of the most positive facts about being married is that one doesn't have to feel inadequate if one doesn't get a valentine (like when one was single). and of course, one always gets one from one's spouse.
- 05:32
We always want what we cant have. I am sure you are a beautiful woman. I, on the otherhand, am pretty, but not smart. Beauty doesnt last forever. I would rather be in your shoes. Sorry if this post sounds insensitive; i didnt mean it to be.
- 01:13


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Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions".
When informal relationships and sanctions prove insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a government or a sovereign state may impose more formalized or stricter systems of social control. With institutional and legal machinery at their disposal, agents of the State can compel populations to conform to codes, and can opt to punish or to attempt to reform those who do not conform.
Authorities employ various mechanisms to regulate (encouraging or discouraging) certain behaviors in general. Governing or administering agencies may for example codify rules into laws, police citizens and visitors to ensure that they comply with those laws, and implement other policies and practices designed to prevent crime. In addition, authorities provide remedies and sanctions, and collectively these constitute a criminal justice system. Legal sanctions vary widely in their severity, they may include (for example) incarceration of temporary character aimed at reforming the convict. Some jurisdictions have penal codes written to inflict permanent harsh punishments: legal mutilation, capital punishment or life without parole.
The label of "crime" and the accompanying social stigma normally confine their scope to those activities seen as injurious to the general population or to the State, including some that cause serious loss or damage to individuals. Those who apply the labels of "crime" or "criminal" intend to assert the hegemony of a dominant population, or to reflect a consensus of condemnation for the identified behavior and to justify any punishments prescribed by the State (in the event that standard processing tries and convicts an accused person of a crime).
Often a natural person perpetrates a crime, but legal persons may also commit crimes.
The word crime originates from the Latin crīmen (genitive: criminis), from the root of Latin cernō = "I decide, I give judgement" and Greek κρινω = "I judge". Originally the Latin word crīmen meant "charge (in law), guilt, accusation".[1]
A normative definition views crime as deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms – cultural standards prescribing how humans ought to behave normally. This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept of crime and seeks to understand how changing social, political, psychological, and economic conditions may affect changing definitions of crime and the form of the legal, law-enforcement, and penal responses made by society.
These structural realities remain fluid and often contentious. For example: as cultures change and the political environment shifts, societies may criminalise or decriminalise certain behaviours, which will directly affect the statistical crime rates, influence the allocation of resources for the enforcement of laws, and (re-)influence the general public opinion.
Similarly, changes in the collection and/or calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem". All such adjustments to crime statistics, allied with the experience of people in their everyday lives, shape attitudes on the extent to which the State should use law or social engineering to enforce/encourage any particular social norm. One can control/influence behaviour in many ways without having to resort to the criminal justice system.
Indeed, in those cases where no clear consensus exists on a given norm, the drafting of criminal law by the group in power to prohibit the behaviour of another group may seem to some observers an improper limitation of the second group's freedom, and the ordinary members of society have less respect for the law or laws in general — whether the authorities actually enforce the disputed law or not.
Legislatures can pass laws (called mala prohibita) that define crimes which violate social norms. These laws vary from time to time and from place to place: note variations in gambling laws, for example, and the prohibition or encouragement of duelling in history. Other crimes, called mala in se, count as outlawed in almost all societies, (murder, theft and rape, for example).
One can view criminalization as a procedure deployed by society as a pre-emptive, harm-reduction device, using the threat of punishment as a deterrent to anyone proposing to engage in the behavior causing harm. The State becomes involved because governing entities can become convinced that the costs of not criminalizing (through allowing the harms to continue unabated) outweigh the costs of criminalizing it (restricting individual liberty, for example, in order to minimize harm to others).
Criminalization may provide future harm-reduction at least to the outside population, assuming those shamed or incarcerated or otherwise restrained for committing crimes start out more prone to criminal behaviour. Likewise, one might assume that criminalizing acts which in themselves do not harm other people ("victimless crimes") may prevent subsequent harmful acts (assuming that people "prone" to commit these acts may tend to commit harmful actions in general). Some see the criminalization of "victimless crimes" as a pretext for imposing personal, religious or moral convictions on otherwise productive citizens or taxpayers.
Some commentators may see criminalization as a way to make potential criminals pay or suffer for their prospective crimes. In this case, criminalization becomes a way to set the price that one must pay to society for certain actions considered detrimental to society as a whole. An extreme view might see criminalization as State-sanctioned revenge.
States control the process of criminalization because:
The idea of crime has a long history. Some religious communities regard sin as a crime; some may even highlight the crime of sin very early in legendary or mythological accounts of origins — note the tale of Adam and Eve and the theory of original sin. What one group considers a crime may cause or ignite war or conflict. However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.
The Sumerians produced the earliest surviving written codes.[4] Urukagina (reigned ca. 2380 BC–2360 BC, short chronology) had an early code that has not survived; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu (ca. 2100-2050 BC), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles. The Sumerians later issued other codes, including the "code of Lipit-Ishtar". This code, from the 20th century BCE, contains some fifty articles, and scholars have reconstructed it by comparing several sources.
The Sumerian was deeply conscious of his personal rights and resented any encroachment on them, whether by his King, his superior, or his equal. No wonder that the Sumerians were the first to compile laws and law codes.— Kramer[5]
Successive legal codes in Babylon, including the code of Hammurabi (ca. 1790 BC), reflected Mesopotamian society's belief that law derived from the will of the gods (see Babylonian law).[6] Many states at this time functioned as theocracies, with codes of conduct largely religious in origin or reference.
Sir Henry Maine (1861) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the "modern" sense of the word. While modern systems distinguish between offences against the "State" or "Community", and offences against the "Individual", the so-called penal law of ancient communities did not deal with "crimes" (Latin: crimina), but with "wrongs" (Latin: delicta). Thus the Hellenic laws[7] treated all forms of theft, assault, rape, and murder as private wrongs, and left action for enforcement up to the victims or their survivors. The earliest systems seem to have lacked formal courts.
The Romans systematized law and applied their system across the Roman Empire. Again, the initial rules of Roman Law regarded assaults as a matter of private compensation. The most significant Roman Law concept involved dominion.[8] The pater familias owned all the family and its property (including slaves); the pater enforced matters involving interference with any property. The Commentaries of Gaius (written between 130 and 180 AD) on the Twelve Tables treated furtum (in modern parlance: "theft") as a tort.
Similarly, assault and violent robbery involved trespass as to the pater's property (so, for example, the rape of a slave could become the subject of compensation to the pater as having trespassed on his "property"), and breach of such laws created a vinculum juris (an obligation of law) that only the payment of monetary compensation (modern "damages") could discharge. Similarly, the consolidated Teutonic laws of the Germanic tribes,[9] included a complex system of monetary compensations for what courts would now consider the complete[citation needed] range of criminal offences against the person, from murder down.
Even though Rome abandoned its Britannic provinces around 400 AD, the Germanic mercenaries – who had largely become instrumental in enforcing Roman rule in Britannia – acquired ownership of land there and continued to use a mixture of Roman and Teutonic Law, with much written down under the early Anglo-Saxon Kings.[10] But only when a more centralized English monarchy emerged following the Norman invasion, and when the kings of England attempted to assert power over the land and its peoples, did the modern concept emerge, namely of a crime not only as an offence against the "individual", but also as a wrong against the "State".[11]
This idea came from common law, and the earliest conception of a criminal act involved events of such major significance that the "State" had to usurp the usual functions of the civil tribunals, and direct a special law or privilegium against the perpetrator. All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil (delictual) law operated in a highly-developed and consistent manner (except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ). The development of the idea that the "State" dispenses justice in a court only emerges in parallel with or after the emergence of the concept of sovereignty.
In continental Europe, Roman law persisted, but with a stronger influence from the Christian Church.[12] Coupled with the more diffuse political structure based on smaller feudal units, various different legal traditions emerged, remaining more strongly rooted in Roman jurisprudence, but modified to meet the prevailing political climate.
In Scandinavia the effect of Roman law did not become apparent until the 17th century, and the courts grew out of the things — the assemblies of the people. The people decided the cases (usually with largest freeholders dominating). This system later gradually developed into a system with a royal judge nominating a number of the most esteemed men of the parish as his board, fulfilling the function of "the people" of yore.
From the Hellenic system onwards, the policy rationale for requiring the payment of monetary compensation for wrongs committed has involved the avoidance of feuding between clans and families.[13] If compensation could mollify families' feelings, this would help to keep the peace. On the other hand, the institution of oaths also played down the threat of feudal warfare. Both in archaic Greece and in medieval Scandinavia, an accused person walked free if he could get a sufficient number of male relatives to swear him unguilty. (Compare the United Nations Security Council, in which the veto power of the permanent members ensures that the organization does not become involved in crises where it could not enforce its decisions.)
These means of restraining private feuds did not always work, and sometimes prevented the fulfillment of justice. But in the earliest times the "state" did not always provide an independent policing force. Thus criminal law grew out what 21st-century lawyers would call torts; and, in real terms, many acts and omissions classified as crimes actually overlap with civil-law concepts.
The development of sociological thought from the 19th century onwards prompted some fresh views on crime and criminality, and fostered the beginnings of criminology as a study of crime in society. Nietzsche noted a link between crime and creativity – in The Birth of Tragedy he asserted: "The best and brightest that man can acquire he must obtain by crime". In the 20th century Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish made a study of criminalization as a coercive method of state control.
Justifying the State's use of force to coerce compliance with its laws has proven a consistent theoretical problem. One of the earliest justifications involved the theory of natural law. This posits that the nature of the world or of human beings underlies the standards of morality or constructs them. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the 13th century: "the rule and measure of human acts is the reason, which is the first principle of human acts" (Aquinas, ST I-II, Q.90, A.I). He regarded people as by nature rational beings, concluding that it becomes morally appropriate that they should behave in a way that conforms to their rational nature. Thus, to be valid, any law must conform to natural law and coercing people to conform to that law is morally acceptable. In the 1760s William Blackstone (1979: 41) described the thesis:
But John Austin (1790–1859), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings and the existence of an objective morality. He denied that the legal validity of a norm depends on whether its content conforms to morality. Thus in Austinian terms a moral code can objectively determine what people ought to do, the law can embody whatever norms the legislature decrees to achieve social utility, but every individual remains free to choose what he or she will do. Similarly, Hart (1961) saw the law as an aspect of sovereignty, with lawmakers able to adopt any law as a means to a moral end.
Thus the necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth of a proposition of law simply involved internal logic and consistency, and that the state's agents used state power with responsibility. Ronald Dworkin (2005) rejects Hart's theory and proposes that all individuals should expect the equal respect and concern of those who govern them as a fundamental political right. He offers a theory of compliance overlaid by a theory of deference (the citizen's duty to obey the law) and a theory of enforcement, which identifies the legitimate goals of enforcement and punishment. Legislation must conform to a theory of legitimacy, which describes the circumstances under which a particular person or group is entitled to make law, and a theory of legislative justice, which describes the law they are entitled or obliged to make.
Indeed, despite everything, the majority[citation needed] of natural-law theorists have accepted the idea of enforcing the prevailing morality as a primary function of the law. This view entails the problem that it makes any moral criticism of the law impossible: if conformity with natural law forms a necessary condition for legal validity, all valid law must, by definition, count as morally just. Thus, on this line of reasoning, the legal validity of a norm necessarily entails its moral justice.
One can solve this problem by granting some degree of moral relativism and accepting that norms may evolve over time and, therefore, one can criticize the continued enforcement of old laws in the light of the current norms. People may find such law acceptable, but the use of State power to coerce citizens to comply with that law lacks moral justification. More recent conceptions of the theory characterise crime as the violation of individual rights.
Since society considers so many rights as natural (hence the term "right") rather than man-made, what constitutes a crime also counts as natural, in contrast to laws (seen as man-made). Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "...had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so."
Natural-law theory therefore distinguishes between "criminality" (which derives from human nature) and "illegality" (which originates with the interests of those in power). Lawyers sometimes express the two concepts with the phrases malum in se and malum prohibitum respectively. They regard a "crime malum in se" as inherently criminal; whereas a "crime malum prohibitum" (the argument goes) counts as criminal only because the law has decreed it so.
This view leads to a seeming paradox: one can perform an illegal act without committing a crime, while a criminal act could be perfectly legal. Many Enlightenment thinkers (such as Adam Smith and the American Founding Fathers) subscribed to this view to some extent, and it remains influential among so-called classical liberals[citation needed] and libertarians[citation needed].
Governments criminalise antisocial behaviour — and treat it within a system of offences against society — in order to justify the imposition of punishment. Authorities make a series of distinctions depending on the passive subject of the crime (the victim), or on the offended interest(s), in crimes against:
Or one can categorise crimes depending on the related punishment, with sentencing tariffs prescribed in line with the perceived seriousness of the offence. Thus fines and noncustodial sentences may address the crimes seen as least serious, with lengthy imprisonment or (in some jurisdictions) capital punishment reserved for the most serious.
Researchers and commentators may classify crime into categories, including:
Analysts can also group crimes by severity, some common category-terms including:
In the United States since 1930, the FBI has tabulated Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) annually from crime data submitted by law enforcement agencies across the United States.[14] Officials compile this data at the city, county, and state levels into the Uniform crime reports (UCR). They classify violations of laws which derive from common law as Part I (index) crimes in UCR data, further categorised as violent or property crimes. Part I violent crimes include murder and criminal homicide (voluntary manslaughter), forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery; while Part I property crimes include burglary, arson, larceny/theft, and motor-vehicle theft. All other crimes count come under Part II.
For convenience, such lists usually include infractions although, in the U.S., they may come into the sphere not of the criminal law, but rather of the civil law. Compare tortfeasance.
Booking-arrests require detention for a time-frame ranging 1 to 24 hours.
Crimes defined by treaty as crimes against international law include:
From the point of view of State-centric law, extraordinary procedures (usually international courts) may prosecute such crimes. Note the role of the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Popular opinion often associates international law with the concept of opposing terrorism[citation needed] — seen as a crime as distinct from warfare.
Different religious traditions may promote distinct norms of behaviour, and these in turn may clash or harmonise with the perceived interests of a state. Socially accepted or imposed religious morality has influenced secular jurisdictions on issues that may otherwise concern only an individual's conscience. Activities sometimes criminalized on religious grounds include (for example) alcohol-consumption (prohibition), abortion and stem-cell research. In various historical and present-day societies institutionalized religions have established systems of earthly justice which punish crimes against the divine will and against specific devotional, organizational and other rules under specific codes, such as Islamic sharia or Roman Catholic canon law.
In the military sphere, authorities can prosecute both regular crimes and specific acts (such as mutiny or desertion) under martial-law codes that either supplant or extend civil codes in times of (for example) war.
Many constitutions contain provisions to curtail freedoms and criminalize otherwise tolerated behaviors under a state of emergency in the event of war, natural disaster or civil unrest. Undesired activities at such times may include assembly in the streets, violation of curfew, or possession of firearms.
Two common types of employee crime exist: embezzlement and sabotage.[citation needed]
The complexity and anonymity of computer systems may help criminal employees camouflage their operations. The victims of the most costly scams include banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies, and other large financial institutions.[15]
Most people guilty of embezzlement do not have criminal histories.[citation needed] Embezzlers tend to have a gripe against their employer, have financial problems, or simply an inability to resist the temptation of a loophole they have found.[citation needed] Screening and background checks on perspective employees can help in prevention; however, many laws make some types of screening difficult or even illegal. Fired or disgruntled employees sometimes sabotage their company's computer system as a form of "pay back".[15] This sabotage may take the form of a logic bomb, a computer virus, or creating general havoc.
Some places of employment have developed measures in an attempt to combat and prevent employee crime. Places of employment sometimes implement security measures such as cameras, fingerprint records of employees, and background checks.[citation needed] Although privacy-advocates have questioned such methods, they appear to serve the interests of the organisations using them. Not only do these methods help prevent employee crime, but they protect the company from punishment and/or lawsuits for negligent hiring.[16]
Crime in the field of sociology is the breach of a rule or law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment. The word crime originates from the Latin crimen (genitive criminis), from the Latin root cernō and Greek κρινω = "I judge". Originally it meant "charge (in law), guilt, accusation".
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An act forbidden by human law and punished by human authority, in contrast to sinful acts which are thought to be evil in the eyes of God.
In the Mosaic legislation the principal crimes against person and property—murder, mutilation, and theft—are punished at the instance of the party injured, or of his kinsmen. The murderer is pursued and brought to justice, or is killed outright (Num 35:21) by the Avenger of Blood; mutilation and other injuries to the person are paid for in money (see Assault and Battery); the thief is condemned to make double restitution, and is enslaved if unable to pay.
But there were many offenses not so much directed against any one person as against the whole nation of Israel. They included all those grosser violations of God's declared will which were thought to bring down His wrath and vengeance upon the nation: such acts as idolatry, Sabbath-breaking, blasphemy of the sacred name, incest, adultery (for which the husband had no such civil redress as is afforded by common law). The witnesses to the evil deed were called upon by the Lawgiver, not only to prosecute the offender, but to help in the execution of the sentence (Deut 13:7-11, xvii. 2-7). The duty of witnesses to prosecute is still the law of England, and those who happen to witness a criminal act are often put thereby to great expense. Besides death and banishment to the cities of refuge, the Biblical law has also the punishment of stripes, which are never to exceed forty in number (Deut 25:3). The infliction of stripes is awarded by a judge, not by the congregation.
The crimes which were expiated by a fine, or compensation in money, embraced not only, as said above, larceny, robbery, and mayhem, but also even the ravishing of a maiden "which is not betrothed" (Deut 22:28, 29). The sum which is awarded against the owner of an ox which kills a free man or woman, or a bondman or bondwoman, provided the owner had been properly forewarned of its vicious disposition (Ex 21:29-32), is expiation for this kind of manslaughter. For the commission of a forbidden act through ignorance, a sin-offering is prescribed (Lev 4:1-3); for certain dishonest actions a sin-offering, together with restoration of the thing wrongfully withheld, plus one-fifth its value, is imposed. But these penalties are self-inflicted. The repentant sinner brings them upon himself by confession, and with a view to divine forgiveness (Lev. v.); while punishment in the ordinary sense is only adjudged upon the testimony of witnesses.
In the Mosaic legislation there are two practical motives assigned for the infliction of death for offenses against God or against the state: one, to deter others from offending in like manner; the other, to root out the evil elements in the nation and to keep the poison from spreading. Sometimes both motives are named together. Thus the man who rebels against the judgment of the high priest or supreme judge must die: "and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously" (Deut 17:12, 13); while in the case of the idolater condemned to death, we read: "So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee" (ib. 7). This latter motive is brought out strongly in dealing with idolaters, who are regarded as "a root that beareth gall and wormwood" (ib. xxix. 17). The punishment by stripes, if not meant to correct and reform the offender, was at least so regulated and limited as not to degrade him.
But there was a view of crime older than the Pentateuch, and firmly embedded in the hearts of people and rulers. Vengeance should not fall on the evil-doer only, but on all his children also—on his father, if alive, and on all his father's issue: only thus can God's wrath be appeased. The Pentateuch protests against this savage conception: "Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin" (Deut 24:16, Hebr.). As an illustration of actual practise based upon this conception, there is the act of Joshua, who—when Achan had put away gold and silver and fine raiment out of the spoils of Jericho, which had been doomed to destruction—not only has Achan put to death, but also his sons and his daughters. In like manner David, on the complaint of the Gibeonites against the dead king Saul, avenges them by hanging five of Saul's grandsons (2 Sam 21:1-9). But when, seven generations after David, Joash, King of Judah, was murdered, Amaziah, his son and successor, caused only the murderers to be put to death, and did not punish their sons, "according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses" (2Kg 14:6). The declaiming of the prophets Jeremiah (xxxi. 29) and Ezekiel (xviii. 2) against the proverbial saying, "the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge," shows that a desire to punish the children for the sins of the fathers was still alive among the people.
While English law has never inflicted death by the hands of the hangman on the traitor's or felon's children, yet as late as in the reign of James II. the forfeiture of the convict's property was enforced with such rigor that his helpless children often faced a slower death by starvation. Like cruelty prevailed in France and Spain. And it was equally severe in the old seats of Israel, except where and when the Torah prevailed (compare Confiscation and Forfeiture).
The Bible places the view that certain wrongful acts, such as murder, shall be punished by society, at least as far back as the days immediately following the Flood, when the sons of Noah were told: "Whoever sheddeth the blood of man, by man his blood shall be shed" (Gen 9:16); and Cain expresses the fear that, for the murder which he has committed, "every one that findeth me shall slayme" (Gen 4:14); in other words, it was the duty of society, and even of the beasts of the field, to avenge the blood of Abel.
In the Mishnah we find that some "institutions" of the sages are enforced by penalties; but, generally, only those acts that are sinful, because forbidden in the Pentateuch, meet severe punishment. Some acts, plainly forbidden by the Law, are left to "death by the hand of Heaven," such as the intrusion of non-Levites in the place assigned to the Levites in the service of the Temple (compare Sanh. ix. 6 with Num 1:51, xviii. 7, as reconciled in Sanh. 84a). Even civil redress for wrongful acts is sometimes withheld, where the application of the law is not clear, and vengeance is left to the powers above (B. M. iv. 2).
The criminal jurisprudence of the Mishnah may be regarded as almost modern in its bearings. The avenger of blood has dropped out; the idea of making fathers and sons suffer for each others' guilt lies now so far in the dim past, that the sages give to the text in Deuteronomy (xxiv. 16)—which forbids such savagery, the law of individual responsibility being sufficiently covered by the concluding words, "every man shall be put to death for his own sin"—this entirely new meaning: "fathers shall not be condemned on the testimony of their sons" (Sanh. 28a). The "congregation" which is to judge of matters of life and death becomes a court of twenty-three learned judges. An execution by stoning or burning is regulated so as to inflict the least possible pain (see Capital Punishment). All possible advantages are given to the accused in order to temper the severity of the Pentateuchal law (see Accusatory and Inquisitorial Procedure; Acquittal in Talmudic Law).
Offenses are classified according to the gravity of the punishment: those punished by stoning, by burning, by beheading, and by strangling coming first; next in gravity are those punishable by stripes, the most serious being those for which the Mosaic law prescribes excision("he shall be cut off from his people"; see Karet); then come those wrongful acts which the written law redresses by fine, forfeiture, or sacrifice, it being understood that whenever the Scripture imposes a duty or a penalty, stripes are excluded. There can be no stripes for theft, for double, fourfold, or fivefold compensation is expressly named as the penalty for the act. Nor can a battery be avenged by stripes, for the Law says "eye for eye," that is, compensation for the loss of the limb or organ; "bruise for bruise" that is, compensation for the pain; and so for other violence done (Ket. 32b), though the offense entailed both pain and loss of money. It is not easy to determine the proper classification of an involuntary killing, with its penalty of banishment; but it comes, like murder, before a court of twenty-three judges.
The sages believed that death under the sentence of the law, provided the condemned man confessed his guilt, was full atonement, and that he would have his share in the world to come (Sanh. vi. 2); that the infliction of stripes was equivalent to the excision with which the law threatens the offender (Mak. iii. 15), though the latter view is disputed on technical grounds (ib. 23b; Meg. 7b). But where the only redress is a money compensation to the injured party, the sages taught that payment alone was not sufficient to secure the forgiveness of God, unless the guilty party had first sought to appease his injured neighbor (see Assault and Battery).
A suggestion occurs more than once in the Talmud (Sanh. 37b; Ket. 30a et seq.) that, though Israel has lost its freedom, and its judges can no longer wield the sword of justice, "the four capital punishments have not ceased. He who deserves stoning will fall from the roof, or a wild beast will trample him down; he who deserves burning will fall into a burning house, or be bitten by a poisonous serpent . . . He who deserves the headsman's sword will be delivered to the [heathen] government, or will fall among robbers." Death by the sword was the punishment for murder, and it thus appears that the Rabbis were not unwilling to see Jewish murderers put to death under the laws of Rome or of Persia. The list of offenses punished by death is given in the Mishnah (Sanh. vii., viii., ix., xi.) under the headings of "the stoned," "the burnt," "the beheaded," "the strangled." There are 18 offenses involving the punishment of stoning; 5, of burning; 2, of beheading; 6, of strangulation (compare Capital Punishment).
Besides the regular forms of punishment for crime, Jewish law recognizes certain irregular methods. "If the thief be found breaking in and be smitten that he die, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him" (Ex 22:2, R. V.)
On the analogy of this Biblical case the Rabbis decide several others (see Burglary). In three cases the person on the point of committing a crime may be killed: where he pursues a neighbor in order to kill him; where he pursues a male to commit sodomy; and where he seeks to ravish a betrothed damsel; for Deut 22:27 indicates the duty of all that hear her cry to help her. But it is not lawful to "save by death from sinning" in the case of the Sabbath-breaker, or of the idol-worshiper, etc. (Mish. Sanh. viii. 7). Where one is suspected of murder, and, though the testimony of the witnesses is not sufficient, the judges are convinced of his guilt, they should cause him to be locked up in a cell, on a scanty diet of bread and water (ib. ix. 5). The disputants in the Gemara on this passage are not agreed on the question how great the deficiency in such testimony might be and the judges still be justified in inflicting death by ill treatment and starvation. There had been no trials for murder during hundreds of years in the countries where these disputes took place.
He who steals one of the holy vessels, he who curses God, naming Him with an idol [the wording of the original is rather obscure], and he who co-habits with an idolatress—these are permitted to be killed by zealots. The right of zealots in the last of the three cases is evidently drawn from the example of Phinehas (Num 25:6-8). Lastly, it issaid: "When a priest dared to serve in the Temple while unclean, his brethren the kohanim did not bring him before a court of justice, but the young men among them dragged him outside of the place of assembly and brained him with axes" (Mish. Sanh. ix. 6). See also Burglary; Capital Punishment; Corporal punishment; Karet; Criminal Procedure; Robbery.
Bibliography: P. B. Benny, Criminal Code of the Jews. London, 1880; Duschak, Das Mosaisch-Talmudische Strafrecht, Vienna, 1869; Fassel, Das Mosaisch-Rabbinische Strafgesetz, Gross-Kanizsa, 1870; Forster, Das Mosaische Strafrecht, Leipsic, 1900; Mendelsohn, Criminal Jurisprudence of the Ancient Hebrews, Baltimore, 1891; Rabbinowicz, Legislation Criminelle du Talmud, Paris, 1867.
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Planting tiny seeds
I'm about to start a lot of herbs and flowers with tiny seeds - seeds that are much too small to handle either by hand or with tweezers. I still want to plant only a controlled number per cell, though, so I want to plant them individually. The trick is to use a dampened toothpick. Dip the end of the toothpick in water, touch it to a seed, and then touch it to the potting soil. Most of the time it will transfer to the potting soil, but occasionally you'll have to wipe it off the toothpick. Clearly, these are much too small to start in paper towels, too. They need to be planted directly in germinating mix or potting soil. They don't need to be covered with more soil! Very few seeds do. But you will need to see that the surface of the soil doesn't dry out, either by covering with plastic until some seeds start to germinate, or by misting lightly periodically.
The picture shows one arm of a tweezer with the tip of a toothpick resting on it, with one snapdragon seed on the end of the toothpick. I've shown one cabbage seed with the snapdragon seeds for comparison
Update: This is what some of the tiniest seeds look like 3 weeks after planting:
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By MATT WOLF
Derek Jacobi in King Lear/ Ph: Johan Persson
What can one say of a theatre year that began with one spirited, unexpectedly brainy young woman (
Legally Blonde's
Elle Woods, via the sublimely funny and endearing
Sheridan Smith
) and ended with a decidedly brilliant pre-pubescent (
Roald Dahl's
preternaturally and supernaturally gifted
, pausing along the way to give pride of place to the doomed Christine Daae in
Love Never Dies
– in the shimmering presence of West End first-timer
Sierra Boggess
– and
Elena Roger's
pint-sized, memorably hapless Fosca in
Stephen Sondheim
James Lapine's
? (Oh, and let's not forget
Tracie Bennett's
electrifying Judy Garland, newly incarnated as opposed to cheesily impersonated, in
End of the Rainbow
, the self-evident audience favourite of the year.)
In musical terms, at least, it was ladies' night – girls, if one is referring to 11-year-old
Kerry Ingram's
wee, parentally challenged Matilda – at the theatre this year, just as straight plays offered up male star turns aplenty, not least when it came to Shakespeare:
Rory Kinnear
displayed his Bardic chops and gifts for clarity not once but twice, in
Measure For Measure
, while a cherub-faced
Derek Jacobi
played the testiest, most distinctively combative Lear in my experience. (Also one of the few to approximate the character's age, 72 being not far off the actual years of the mad monarch he was finally playing: a date with theatrical destiny fulfilled.)
Simon Russell Beale
scored twice over as well, laying aside his usual Shakespearean forays – though word has it that he will tackle Lear before too much longer – to camp it up agreeably in the National's
London Assurance
, then finding Iago-esque reserves of jealousy and sublimated longing as the blocked playwright at the murderous heart of
Ira Levin's
. (That
Matthew Warchus
revival also welcomed to London Broadway's
Jonathan Groff
in an assured stage turn that found the
Spring Awakening
star sharing a prolonged smooch with his generation's leading stage classicist.)
Warchus was also at the helm of the year's showiest acting feat:
Mark Rylance
babbling, chewing, and on occasion farting his way through the opening half-hour or more of
David Hirson's
La Bete
, a tiresome play that traveled from the West End directly to Broadway without setting either city on fire;
David Hyde Pierce
deserved kudos of sorts for patiently standing by, though
Joanna Lumley
– playing a character that had changed gender in the 20 years since the play was first seen – got to make a grand entrance and not much else; the opening sight of
Adrian Scarborough
After the Dance
, lying prostrate on a sofa, face covered by a newspaper, reaped far greater if decidedly less glamorous rewards.
In fact,
After the Dance
was the straight-play revelation of the year, an all-but-unknown
Terence Rattigan
text that kicked off a year early the centenary of the playwright's birth that promises all manner of theatrical enticements in 2011; that line-up includes
Cause Celebre
at the Old Vic, directed by
Thea Sharrock
, who was on dazzling form with
After the Dance
. An enquiry into a blighted community of
Bright Young Things
, the play paired
Benedict Cumberbatch
Nancy Carroll
as an ill-fated husband and wife, the fast-rising Cumberbatch communicating his character's visible self-disgust and the febrile Carroll all but walking off with a show from which she disappeared two-thirds of the way through. (But not before winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress.) Scarborough, meanwhile, suggested himself as a Russell Beale of sorts in waiting, his mixture of asperity and passion anchoring a play that was moving in ways that only a writer trafficking in such clamped-down emotions could make possible.
The Lyttelton stage hosted two other major discoveries.
The White Guard
completed director
Howard Davies'
trifecta of Russian reappraisals in a Bulgakov play careening from tragedy to farce and back again, and
Men Should Weep
found National Theatre newcomer
Josie Rourke
serving up the most challenging set of accents to be heard all year due to an
Ena Lamont Stewart
play set in Glasgow tenements teeming with cruelty and also compassion.
Sharon Small
, playing the matriarch of a home marked out by rickets, adultery, and an ageing gran', gave off somethi
Yes, Prime Minister
contracts its run, while
A Chorus Line
expands its own.
- After 11 years as the Almeida Theatre's artistic director,
Michael Attenborough
is stepping down to focus on directing.
the Tony-Award winning musical is set to hit London in January.
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The lighting in the office/scrapbook room is all wonky! The page is not light purple but a light brown!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
much better day!
I didn't scrap yesterday so after my quiet time with the Lord this morning I was ready to get scrappin'! I did a LO for fall. Yes, technically it's fall but the tree in our front yard is still thinking summer! The top has changed colors but the middle and lower half are very slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww! This one LO achieved two goals for me: a scraplift challenge and a weekly challenge at Club CK! I'm actually getting ready to do another scraplift, only this time it's gonna be 2 pages! Yippee! Have a blessed day!
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This is so pretty! I love the flourishes and the colors! Fab layout! Thanks so much for playing along at Sketchy Thursdays!
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Heber City is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. Heber City was founded by English emigrants who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1850s, and is named after the Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball. It is the county seat of Wasatch County. The original Heber City town square is located on the west side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North and currently houses city offices as well as the historic Wasatch Stake Tabernacle and Heber Amusement Hall. The city was largely pastoral, focusing largely on dairy farms and cattle ranching, and has since become a bedroom community for Orem, Provo, Park City and Salt Lake City.
Heber City is currently governed by Mayor Alan McDonald along with City Council Members Ron Crittenden, Jeff Smith, Heidi Franco, Jeff Bradshaw, and Kelleen Potter.
Within the city limits are Heber Valley, Old Mill, and J.R. Smith Elementary Schools, Timpanogos Intermediate School, Rocky Mountain Middle School, Wasatch High School, and Wasatch Alternative High School. An additional school in the Heber Valley is Midway Elementary School. All of these schools are part of the Wasatch County School District. Utah Valley University maintains a satellite campus just north of Heber City along the US-40 corridor.
Heber City supports four LDS stakes, as well as congregations of Southern Baptists, Catholics as part of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
U.S. Route 40 and U.S. Route 189 both cross the city. Interstate 80 is located approximately eighteen miles north of the city and can be accessed via Highway 40 while Interstate 15 can be accessed via Highway 189 through Provo Canyon and is approximately twenty-five miles away. A typical drive to downtown Salt Lake City is 45 to 60 minutes.
Heber City was connected to Provo by a 32-mile-long railroad line. The line, completed in 1899, was used by Denver & Rio Grande Western until 1967. Today, a portion of the line is used by the famous Heber Valley Railroad, a heritage railroad open to the public.
The Heber City Municipal Airport, or Russ McDonald Field, FAA identifier HCR, is located two miles south of the city, near the junction of U.S. Route 40 and U.S. Route 189, and is capable of handling aircraft up to large corporate jet, including Gulfstreams and Global Express. Approximately 85 aircraft are based at the airport. The airport is served by a GPS instrument approach procedure, allowing aircraft to arrive at the airport in adverse weather. During the winter ski season, and particularly the Sundance Film Festival, the airport is crowded with corporate jets as it is the closest airport to Park City. The airport is also home to the Heber Valley Airshow, held each summer. The nearest airport with commercial airline service is Salt Lake City International Airport.


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It comes off exceptionally thought-out and measured, the way Iceland's Sigur Ros build and break and settle melodies and rhythms. And that precision is part of their power.
But it isn't the precision so much as the way Sigur Ros' songs can mimic nature's unpredictability that really makes them as affecting as they are―there's an oncoming hurricane implied in most songs on the band's first four LPs, moods of eerie calm swelling into melodic gusts, whipping winds and thunderous explosions, then a graceful, soothing eye.
So maybe it shouldn't be surprising that the band sounds so at home on Heim, part of the band's new Hvarf / Heim double-EP, having been plunged into the most natural of settings―stripped to acoustic simplicity, in some cases, performing sans-electricity off in Iceland's hinterlands.
Sigur Ros fans will recognize the delicate piano plinks that set the pace for Heim opener "Samskeyti" from the band's 2002 disc ( ), but there's a distinct difference here―an accordion wheezes, the naked piano twinkles, and strings delicately swell. It's simpler, slower, more lonesome, stripped of studio sweetening. And it's just as beautiful.
Anyone who's seen Sigur Ros' live show might've wondered, at least a little, if they could pull off all that power―singer/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson pulls a bow over his Les Paul's strings, drummer Orri Páll Dýrason thunders, lightning-flash stage lighting pulses―without, well, power.
But it's an entirely different kind of power that the band works here, Ágætis Byrjun's "Staralfur" feeling gentler and more symphonic, acoustic guitar strums forming a rustic bed underneath the piano and strings. There's a particularly gripping juxtaposition, too, as the title track from the band's debut album Von is reinterpreted on Hvarf as a regular studio track, on Heim as a gentler lament that doesn't fully erupt.
Hvarf is a treat too, particularly in the recorded reinvention of live favorite "Hafsol," from Von, in which Georg Holm's drumstick-tapped bassline hypnotizes like driving rain on a rooftop. But Hvarf largely allows fans a souvenir of what they already know the band is exceptionally capable of; Heim shows listeners that Sigur Ros is capable of surprises.


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Vicki rang me this morning, did I fancy going to the food festival in Leamington? After much consideration (about a millisecond) I decided it was great idea to go and hobble around a foodie fest for a while! I collected Vicki and a large bag of home grown courgettes to be cooked and frozen and we headed off to Leamington. After getting the best parking spot right next to the gardens (I'm always lucky with parking!) we were able to hobble straight into the festival.
We were immediately hit with an incredible fusion of smells coming from every direction! Not always a great combination but certainly interesting. As we wandered from stall to stall we were offered everything from garlic spread to endless glasses of wine and beer. Ten in the morning was far too early for both of us though to try either! After an hour we both decided we'd seen enough….there are only so many Paellas you can 'Oooooh' over and coffee was calling.
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If only our Tesco delivery looked as organised as this!
Tesco was delivering between 4-5, going around the store with a crutch is an absolute pain so their delivery service is a must at the moment. It duly arrived and as only Jamie and Osborn were here it was down to them to put it away. They were beavering away when Osborn decided they should time how long it takes to put it all away. Good idea! Errr…no….this is the Mad Shanks Residence so nothing is that simple!
Before I knew what was happening we were embroiled in discussing the variables involved like how many items there were, where in the house they were located, how many people were doing the work etc….etc…. It very quickly became extremely complicated and totally untenable to actually work out as the variables were far too great in number. In the end what actually happened was that the job didn't actually get done at all until I went out to collect Osborn's new school tops which I'd had to order from Asda leaving instructions to make sure the kitchen was cleared and the shopping put away before my return!!
Unbelievably…..when I got back it was actually done! Love you kids! xxxxxxx


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FireFly Farms Earns Fifteen Awards for its Handmade Cheese
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FireFly Farms
, producer of handmade cheese from Mountain Maryland, proudly celebrates another successful season earning fifteen new individual awards won by its acclaimed line of cheeses in national and international cheese judging programs in 2016.
"The past year has been another great year – fifteen new awards as we approach out fifteenth anniversary in October," observed FireFly Farms Director of Operations, Matt Cedro. "These fifteen new awards bring our total individual award count to a staggering one hundred and two!"
"FireFly Farms is proud of its respected place among American cheese makers," remarked FireFly Farms President Mike Koch. "In the past fifteen years, American cheese making has really boomed. We're proud that as the competitions grow, our cheeses continue to be recognized among the best!"
The cheese judging programs recognizing FireFly Farms' cheeses included:
--The American Cheese Society Competition & Judging. This leading competition of North American-made cheeses, takes place each year in conjunction with the annual ACS conference. The ACS cheese judging is the largest annual competition held in the United States with entries from hundreds of North American cheese manufacturers;
--The American Dairy Goat Association's commercial product competition. Serving the dairy goat industry since 1904, the ADGA Products --Committee Competition takes place each year as part of the ADGA Annual Convention and seeks to celebrate excellence in products produced from American goat's milk;
--The Maryland Cheese Guild's second annual Maryland Artisan Cheese Contest held in conjunction with the Maryland Wine Festival;
--The World Cheese Awards hosted at the BBC's Good Food Food Show. This worldwide event is the largest cheese competition on the planet. This competition includes thousands of cheeses from 30 countries judged by 250 expert judges from all over the world.
Five of FireFly Farm's cheeses were recognized with new awards this season:
--FireFly Farm's soft-ripened goat's milk cheese, Merry Goat Round received a bronze medal in the World Cheese awards and a silver medal in the Maryland Artisan Cheese Contest. These two new awards bring Merry Goat Round's total individual award count to fourteen. Previous awards include its international recognition at the World Cheese Awards in 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2012.
--FireFly Farm's soft-ripened goat's milk blue cheese, MountainTop Bleu received a first-place award in the ADGA commercial products competition, a gold medal in the Maryland Artisan Cheese Contest, and a third-place award in the American Cheese Society Competition & Judging. These three new awards bring MountainTop Bleu's total individual award count to twenty-eight – FireFly Farms' single most-awarded cheese. Previous awards include 2005 selection by Saveur Magazine editors as one of their 50 favorite American cheeses and its international recognition at the World Cheese Awards in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2014.
--FireFly Farm's washed-rind goat's milk cheese Cabra LaMancha received a third-place award in the ADGA commercial products competition and a second-place award in the American Cheese Society Competition & Judging. These two new awards bring Cabra LaMancha's total individual award count to twenty. Previous awards include its 2005 selection by Southern Foodways Alliance as one of the "Top 10" American goat's milk cheeses and its international recognition at the World Cheese Awards in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2015.
--FireFly Farm's goat's milk blue cheese Black & Blue received a first-place award at the ADGA commercial products competition, a gold medal and "Best-in-Show" designation at the Maryland Artisan Cheese Contest, and a bronze medal at the World Cheese Awards. These four new awards bring Black & Blue's total individual award count to nineteen. Previous awards include a total of seven first-place finishes in the ADGA commercial products competition in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and now 2016.
--FireFly Farm's long-aged goat's milk cheese Bella Vita received a third-place award at the ADGA commercial products competition, a gold medal at the Maryland Artisan Cheese Contest, and a first-place award in the American Cheese Society Competition & Judging. These three new awards bring Bella Vita's total individual award count to twelve. Previous awards include a 2010 first-place award at the American Cheese Society Competition & Judging, a Super Gold Medal at the 2010 World Cheese Awards, and a 2007 designation as "Reserve Best-In-Show" at the American Dairy Goat Association's annual commercial product competition.
"These fifteen new awards for our handmade cheeses are just fantastic," commented FireFly Farm's head cheese maker, Dan Porter. "We are committed to the art and craft of cheese making. It's so nice to see the efforts of farmers and our cheese makers recognized for their results: cheese that superior in aesthetics, taste, freshness, and quality."
Hailed as one of the best places to visit in Mountain Maryland's Garrett County, the Market features FireFly Farm's award-winning cheeses as well as other specialty, hand-selected items from the region and around the world. All of FireFly Farms cheeses are crafted on site in the adjacent creamery using fresh milk purchased from local family farms. Visitors can view the specially constructed production and aging facilities and cheese making process through observation windows.
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Finding Purpose
by Tiffani Lynn
Publication Date: April 4, 2017
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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When Judson's father died suddenly, he dropped out of college and became a Navy SEAL. He left everything from his old life behind, including the girl he loved, but never told—Quincy. After ten years, Judson's military career ends abruptly when the vehicle he's in runs over an IED. He has his hands full learning to live with one leg, PTSD and a civilian life he wasn't ready to return to.
Judson and Quincy are reunited when their mentor dies. Once Quincy realizes the depth of his pain, she knows it's her turn to be the savior. Years of pent-up passion are unleashed, but it may be too late if Judson can't crawl out of hell. Quincy has every intention of healing this wounded warrior before his demons are the ones who determine his fate.
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Finding Purpose by Tiffani Lynn is an emotional second chance love story about healing and coming to terms with loss. Spanning time from College to years later when reunited by the loss of a mentor to both of them, Quincy & Judson's connection is undeniable even with so much time that has passed. Missed chances and living life to it's fullest are that the heart of this truly moving story. I was hooked from the first chapter and loved the way this story was told with the flashbacks and letters telling the past to bring us up to speed in the present. Broken and lost and two terms that come to mind when thinking about these characters but watching their journey together was heartwarming and would give anyone hope. 5 Purposeful Stars for Finding Purpose by Tiffani Lynn
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Tiffani currently resides in Florida with her husband, three daughters and chunky yellow lab. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in social science and spent five years working for Hospice. When she's not writing or taxiing her children around she enjoys reading and attending concerts. Tiffani is also a crazed fan of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Rays, and the 2016 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs.
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I am anxiously awaiting news from a publisher as to whether or not they were impressed enough to acquire my manuscript. It has not been so bad because of being so busy with work, but now that it could be any day now, no manicurist on earth could make my nails presentable in their natural state!! I am trying to be positive and confident, but I keep second-guessing myself. I guess that is a normal thing for even the most successful writer. I love it, so I am hoping they will ,too! I'll keep you posted. Anybody got a fingernail file handy?
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So, my friends did something last year on their blogs that I wanted to try for myself. For the month of November, each blogger listed one thing they were thankful for each day. So often the holiday of Thanksgiving is much overlooked between the tricks-and-treats of Halloween and the magical season of Christmas. Even if you don't agree with the conflicting accounts of the "First Thanksgiving" that may have happened in Plymouth in 1623 or agree with the way Native Americans were treated by the colonists, Thanksgiving has come to mean a universal day to celebrate all we are blessed with.
I definitely need a reminder to be thankful for all I have! Especially right this second when I'd like my kids to disappear from my messy bonus room while I'm trying to write this blog post :)
So, here's my thankful thought for the day:
-I am thankful for the opportunity to be a Stay-at-home mom to my children. I might complain sometimes about too much "togetherness", but I am truly thankful that my husband is able to provide enough income that allows me to be the sole caregiver for my children.
And now for some Halloween pics! Some of these are from trunk-or-treat and others are from trick-or-treat :)
I had a tornado:
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We also had pumpkins:
All in all, it was a fun Halloween eve :) Even if it was on a Sunday :P
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Halloween Recap and Thankfulness
Posted by *Jess*
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i like the idea of listing all you are thankful for each day. Maybe I will try to do that also. That way there would be something to read on my blog each day!ReplyDelete
I love the tornado idea! Did he come up with that on his own?ReplyDelete
Oh my word..I don't think I have ever seen a tornado. That is the most awesome idea for a costume!!ReplyDelete
That tornado absolutely cracks me up!!! Great job on attaching the animals to it! Hahaha :)ReplyDelete
Halloween sounds pretty awesome!
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Andy Murray's new resolve: keeping chasing pack at bay
Once the hunter, now the hunted, Andy Murray is braced for an all-out assault on his US Open title from rejuvenated Rafael Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic.sports Updated: Aug 22, 2013 01:46 IST
Once the hunter, now the hunted, Andy Murray is braced for an all-out assault on his US Open title from rejuvenated Rafael Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic.
Murray ended Britain's 76-year wait for a Grand Slam men's champion by triumphing in New York in 2012 and backed it up with his historic Wimbledon victory this year, the first by a British man since Fred Perry in 1936.
The Scot beat Djokovic to win the US Open 12 months ago and repeated the dose against the Serb at the All England Club. But it is Nadal, rather than Djokovic, who is tipped to win a second title in New York, to add to his 2010 victory.
The 27-year-old Spaniard missed the 2012 tournament as he rested his troublesome knees, part of a seven-month injury lay-off which stretched from the second round at Wimbledon to February.
Great comeback
Since his return Nadal has racked up nine titles, including five Masters. Nadal's title in Cincinnati last weekend followed victory in Montreal — the last man to clinch that double was Andy Roddick in 2003 who also went on to claim the US Open. "It's a nice feeling to arrive to the US Open with two victories in two very difficult tournaments," said Nadal.
Nadal has supplanted Murray as world No 2 since Cincinnati after finding himself relegated to five when he reappeared.
Murray's post-Wimbledon party has fallen flat in recent weeks with a third round loss to Ernests Gulbis in Montreal followed by a quarter-final exit to Tomas Berdych in Cincinnati.
But Murray, 26, has been here before — 12 months ago, he arrived in New York having suffered third round defeats in both Toronto and Cincinnati.
"The things I need to do well — serving, returning, moving — that was good," said Murray after his loss last week to the ever-dangerous Berdych.
Djokovic heads for New York with the focus squarely on Nadal as well as the worrying decline of Roger Federer, who has slipped to seventh in the world.
Djokovic, the 2011 US Open winner, is also keen to play down talk of how he and Murray — who have won seven of the last 11 majors — now hold the keys to the Grand Slam door.
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