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Cufflinks have been the gentleman's way to close his shirt cuffs for well over a century. In the beginning, they often sat on top of the cuff, and then they moved to the bottom.
At first, they were beautifully crafted on both sides with intricate detail and often precious stones, Then snap links came along and disappeared again and T-Bar cufflinks became literally the golden standard. Not because they were beautiful or elegant but because they were easy and less expensive to produce.
We believe cufflinks are an extension of the wearer and as such, they should be classic, timeless and elegant just like the rest of his wardrobe. Therefore, we wanted to create cufflinks that were made by a true craftsman and not in a factory, with two sides and intricate details that stand the test of time.
The first series of Fort Belvedere cufflinks is modeled after the nautical monkey fist knot.
1. Handmade by a Master Goldsmith in Germany. Just like with a suit there is a huge difference if you get your jewelry made by a craftsman or at a factory. The model for these cufflinks was the monkey fist knot, and so we tied it and the goldsmith hand-carved it in wax. Subsequently, a silicon copy was made, then a form was created and then they were cast one by one, just like you would do it with a custom pair of cufflink made by a master craftsman.
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4. Platinum Plated To Prevent Tarnishing. We wear a lot of Sterling Silver cufflinks. Unfortunately, silver tarnishes black quickly, and if you put on a pair after a little while, you will stain the buttonholes on your shirt and the cuff and make it look dirty. So if you don't constantly clean your silver cufflinks, your will likely not use them because you are afraid to stain your shirts. Therefore, we added a platinum coating to the cufflinks, so they do not tarnish and look stunning at all times without staining your cuff. Of course, we plated it so heavily that the coating should never come off.
5. Perfect Classic That Goes With Everything. You'd be hard pressed to find a pair of cufflinks that is more versatile, classic and timeless than this one. You can find many knot cufflinks on the market today, in all shapes or forms, but most of them are fantasy knots, whereas these cufflinks are like the real nautical monkey fist knot. On top of that, the workmanship and detail are much more refined than on other cufflinks even if they cost a lot more. As always Fort Belvedere offers great value for the money.
Ideally, you should wear these cufflinks with silver trimmings. So if your belt buckle or collar pin or tie bar is silver or the metal parts on your briefcase are silver, stick with these.
If you want to wear, gold accessories go with Gold Monkey fist knots. We offer them not just in yellow gold Vermeil but also in Rose Gold plated Sterling silver because these three colors have traditionally been the trinity of menswear jewelry colors.
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There's something about American fashion moguls and car collections. Ralph Lauren's 70 plus automobiles are valued at over $300 million and his rival Tommy Hilfiger has been known to dabble in automotive exotica as well.
Unlike Ralph Lauren, who seems inseparable from his hoard of Ferraris, Hilfiger has decided to downsize his collection. The Greenwhich, Connecticut native will soon send his 2003 Ferrari Enzo to auction and with Enzo values as high as ever, he's set to make a pretty penny on the sale.
The Enzo will be sold off by RM Sotheby's at its upcoming Arizona sale. The listing is as vague as can be, only mentioning the car was from the collection of Hilfiger, but the pictures speak for themselves. An untouched tool kit, immaculate interior and an engine bay clean enough to eat off are indicative of the kind of care it has been shown since it first left Maranello in May of 2003.
RM Sotheby's Arizona sale will go down on January 19th and 20th.

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ROME/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch restoration firm has offered to repair a 400-year-old fountain that was damaged last week when supporters of Rotterdam soccer team Feyenoord went on a drunken rampage in Rome's historic center.
A group of fans hurled beer bottles into the Barcaccia fountain, designed by famed sculptor Pietro Bernini, before a Europa League match against AS Roma last Thursday.
The stone artwork was chipped and city officials are still assessing the extent of the damage.
Employees at Dutch company Royal Woudenberg came up with the idea of offering their services to the mayor of Rome during their lunch break on Tuesday.
"We found what happened really shocking and wanted to make a gesture to the Italians," said Lily Derksen, spokeswoman for Woudenberg's parent company Janssen de Jong.
Derksen said the company was prepared to spend up to 50,000 euros ($56,795) on the repairs, and if it cost more then it would seek help from others. The Dutch government has said it will support individual initiatives to make good the damage.
She said Royal Woudenberg, whose past credits include work renovating Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, had made the offer in a letter to Italy's ambassador in The Hague.
"We simply said we would be happy to repair the fountain," she said, adding that it had been the ambassador's decision to make the letter public.
Rome residents laid flowers on the boat-shaped fountain at the foot of the Spanish Steps after the violence, which ended with police firing teargas and arresting 29 Feyenoord fans.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten said Dutch authorities were sending a team to Rome to help Italian police bring the vandals to justice.
"Rome belongs to us all," he said. "We will show that fan violence is unacceptable."
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Bloggers Repeating Themselves
But that's the problem! There's so much discussion going on, it is just plain impossible to be sure that it hasn't already been discussed before. A while back I wrote an article titled Would You Put WoW On Your Resume? Little did I know that almost 2 years earlier there was an article written in Wired Magazine about the same exact thing, so of course I got a whole lot of "Old news" and "Unoriginal" comments.
This is the fear that I go through every time I come up with ideas to post on. It's pretty disheartening to go through the process of writing something that I think is original, creative, and exciting, only to find that it's old news. Imagine that feeling on a larger scale. It's as if you've come up with the discovery of a lifetime. The invention that will change the world. But once you do some research you find out that it's already been tried...a very long time ago, and guess what...it didn't change the world. Talk about a total bummer.
Most articles that I write, I don't write unless I think there is something valuable to communicate. I suppose this should be the goal of bloggers (although more times than not, it isn't). If I think it's valuable information, I get excited about it, because I'm the one holding the key to this information. It's a rather empowering feeling, and can certainly boost self-esteem if I'm right and it actually is valuable to other people. So, when I come to find out that this information is already known, and I'm not the almighty holder of important knowledge, it hurts. My revolutionary idea is just plain ordinary...
All this has effected me by making me weary to post anything that might be unoriginal. Unoriginal is boring and if something I write is tagged as unoriginal and boring (by either myself or somebody else), than I might as well have done something productive with my time instead of repeating words that have already been said or stating things that are obvious to others. So, in a way, it deters me from writing my thoughts as much as I would like to. What about you? Do you often hold back your opinions & ideas (whether it's on your blog or in a conversation with friends) for fear of stating the obvious or repeating somebody else?


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iPhone 2.0 SDK: Readers Write on Certificate Signing
March 21st, 2008
Responding to the articles iPhone 2.0 SDK: Java on the iPhone? and iPhone 2.0 SDK: How Signing Certificates Work, readers wrote in with additional notes on signed iPhone app revocation by Apple and a comparison of the issues faced by Sun's Java ME developers in the area of signing code.
Revocation and the Lovely Walled Garden.
Hoty Kesterson II writes: "Good article on code signing. I've posited on several posts that I don't expect Apple to test 3rd party code before installation. I suspect such validation would be a bit cost prohibited. Instead they will be able to detect what app screwed up and either 1) push a corrected version to anyone who purchased the app or 2) revoke the certificate if they detect purposeful malware or a trend of incompetency.
"I've wondered just how they will handle revocation (I'm one of the designers of the X.509 certificate and I chaired the international committee that created it for many years). One possibility is a CRL store in the phone. This allows immediate certificate validity checks and if not very many certificates have to be revoked, the CRL's size wouldn't be too significant. The CRL could be pushed (either by sync or over the air) to the IPhone (maybe the subset of phones that have an installed app that would be affected by the new revocation) whenever there's a new revocation.
"Another possibility is as you mentioned; the iPhone would check whenever an application is launched. The check could be via OCSP or equivalent. I don't like this approach because it would be triggered every time once launched an app. I suspect this approach 1) would slow launch 2) requires one to be in reach of a signal, 3) is another drain on the battery.
"I like the discipline code signing would bring. I understand and don't object to those who want to open the software but I will never use their stuff. In the early days OS 9 I put dozens of extensions on my Mac (loved boomerang). My system was fragile; any change typically caused crashing and a lot of work to isolate the cause. Since OS X I have run vanilla using what Apple provides and applications that behave properly. It's remarkably stable for me, sometimes running for weeks before I reboot.
"I will treat my iPhone the same. I have yet to see an application in the wild that I need so badly that I would accept the turmoil that occurs every time Apple puts out an update. Would I like to have voice dialing? Would I like to have my notes taggable and accessible on my laptop? Sure, but I will wait for Apple or a trusted developer to provide the function. I use my phone daily as my business phone. I cannot afford to play with it and I won't let anyone else do it."
Java Verified: Expensive.
Elliot Long writes, "I know you're pretty anti-Java, but i figured at least in an article discussing the difficulties of code signing you might least mention the horrendous hurdles faced by J2ME developers.
"Unlike Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile signing – J2ME apps are not rolled out on compatible devices, so they involve many more executables. Yet the process for each executable is among the most expensive in the business. The ONLY ubiquitous certificate is that of the Java Verified initiative. And in order to get it, you cannot simply buy it from a company, you need to get your code professionally tested by one of five testing houses for around $200-400 for each executable.
"Even when shooting for a single manufacturer this can be 3 or 4 jars for different screen resolutions. Add in custom key assignments for different manufacturers, fixes for buggy implementations, versions taking advantage of various JSRs, different languages etc, and you are looking at thousands upon thousands of dollars for just a single version of your app. And that is assuming all your apps pass first time, which is almost never the case.
"But of course the story doesn't end there. In order to get your app on deck on one of the MNOs, you often need to sign it with one of their own certificates in addition to JV. IT'S A TRAVESTY/RACKET and a big reason why even though java has such tremendous market share it's still a fledgling market. Just my $0.02. Great articles as usual. Keep em coming."
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- 1 Silver_Surfer1931 { 03.21.08 at 6:39 am }
Great insight from your readers that know what they speak of. It would be extremely helpful for those that do not have the technical background (me) to see a different perspective. As usual, your articles are a great read. Keep them coming.
- 2 gus2000 { 03.21.08 at 11:38 am }
How come the mainstream press ends up quoting the guy who made up his own consulting business after installing Windows a few times, but the amateur blogger gets the chair of international committee relevant to the subject at hand? Hmmm? Is journalism really that hard?
Daniel, I would expect your efforts to shame the professional journalists into competency, but apparently they have no more shame to give.
- 3 lmasanti { 03.21.08 at 2:54 pm }
@Hoty Kesterson II…
Having "on board" (a.k.a. on the forum) such a knowledge as yours, could you explain what method would be "possible", I suppose something in between both extremes you cited?
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This week's Diva challenge is to use a two-pencil string. Fun! I took my hair elastic and put two pencils together and used it like a calligraphy pen to come up with this string:
I like the flow of this one and went on a quest for some cool "ribbon-y" tangles. I used Onomato, Snailz, striping, and betweed but then I wanted something different. I came a new tangle I call icing. (I even did step-outs, just for you, my wonderful readers.)
Once I filled in these, I really liked it. Wish I'd taken a picture at this point, because once I started putting in background, I seemed to be unable to stop. By the time I took a breath, it had taken turn for the worse.
See, too busy. By the way, icing, is the tangle that goes around the "equator" of the tile.
I took this beast to dinner with Sonya and she gave me some great suggestions to help increase the contrast and now it is acceptable again.
So, if you are wondering about the quest, I went on it tonight. I looked everywhere for the step-outs for icing, with no luck. Since I did them on the back of a receipt, I am sure they are in the trash. However, while I was looking, I did find the notice that our property taxes are due tomorrow. So, just like in Zentangle, my quest went off in an unexpected direction.
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Hello there – Dang – the competition is fierce!! My name is Kym and I didn'texactly meet Drew & Allison but I was at a concert in New Hampshire they were at and remember seeing them because Chris (tiger poop camera boy) was sitting at their table – and we snuck in and stole him. REGARDLESS, it was an Ellis Paul show and Drew's blog was posted on Ellis's chat board because he had written a fabulous review of the show. I there learned that Drew was doing a photo-a-day accredited to Christopher Williams' photo a day project. Cyber is a small space yes?
I started doing photo-a-day in June of this year, faithfully – i really started in January but failed. Picked it back up and started posting on Flickr.
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I can talk a lot so I'll try to make this short. New York City is a town of extroverts and for introverts such as myself extroverted tendencies can be thrilling and exciting, which in time become stressful and draining. Tonight was one of those days I had to cancel plans of going to a seminar and go home for a date with myself. I haven't gone home straight after work since October 13th (i looked it up). I thought it appropriate to take a picture of my peaceful neighborhood…i LOVE the brownstones around here. And since youcan't see tiger poo, poodles driving cars, and Garth Brooks in Times Square, every day – I thought I'd give you a taste of the every day 😉
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Oddly, given their once-central and still key role in British political life, trade unions have not always been major sponsors of architecture. The most famous of them is in central London, in the form of David Aberdeen's Congress House for the TUC, a very expensively detailed Corbusian palazzo, with its Jacob Epstein sculpture and craftsmanlike finishes. It is one of several in the Bloomsbury/Kings Cross area, near to the termini serving the North and the Midlands, traditionally the unions' strongholds. Even now, the NUJ, Unite and others are nearby. Also in the area is the original headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers, a stripped classical building now occupied by University College. The NUM moved out of here even before their fateful defeat in the Miners Strike of 1984-5, to a purpose-built headquarters designed by Malcolm Lister – relocated to Sheffield, as a gesture of distrust to Union leadership's tendency to get cosy with the Great Wen. It was left unfinished at the end of the strike. Unison's tower is almost certainly the first of its kind since then. It even has the odd stylistic similarity, with both centring on severe columns as a slightly strained metaphor for mutual support. It's worth remembering that Dave Prentis, the head of Unison – not a leader who is exactly known as a firebrand – has said of the current wave of public sector strikes that it will be unlike the Miners strike, as 'this time, we'll win'.
The air of siege and conspiracy that all this might imply is conspicuous by its absence; no union barons or smoke-filled rooms to be seen. Michael Poots, the project architect at Squire and Partners, talks of it as a 'corporate headquarters'; Unison's site manager John Cole speaks of a 'bold high street frontage', and both talk about it as a form of branding, a statement of what trade unions are in the 21st century. Cole contrasts it with the office block Unison previously occupied just across the road – a large, slit-windowed, Gorilla House concrete tower which he refers to as 'the East European grey concrete building'. The union had considered moving to the City of London (before deciding that 'culturally, it didn't quite fit'), but decided to stay near to other unions and to the termini for the North. But happenstance has meant that the new Unison building directly faces the old.
Originally designed for the local government union NALGO, one of those that merged into Unison, Cole says of it now that 'it was basically a concrete tower block', although this is also a fair description of the most obvious element in the new Unison building. To the Euston Road, it is a concrete-clad, steel-framed tower, with a mild case of the barcode façades and a rhythm of different window heights; but this becomes more complex at the rear and the side, where that corporate symbol, a glass atrium, links it to the listed Arts & Crafts Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building, a former women's hospital, and at the back, a small cluster of housing. It's a complex more than a singular building, although this is hardly apparent from the laconic street frontage, where the most notable moment is the aforementioned branding. A large UNISON logo at the top and at the entrance, making the purpose-built nature of the project apparent, and announcing the union's public presence.
The main bulk of the complex is the office block in the tower, spilling into the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building, and curiously it's here that the difference between this place and any other corporate headquarters is most apparent. On one level, it's a question of rhetoric. You find the brightly coloured sloganeering that adorned some Blairite structures, but the content is very different. Instead of, say, AHMM's Westminster Academy and its Mandelsonian mantra of 'Enterprise, Global Citizenship, Communication', each room features the rather more meaty, contentious 'Solidarity, Participation, Democracy, Equality'. What would once have been called 'improving quotations' are also littered around the building, inscribed into glass doors and internal windows, with 'everything from Mahatma Gandhi to Billy Bragg'. Most memorably, given that the UK has, as Tony Blair once proudly pointed out, the most repressive labour laws in the western world, one wall comes via Michael Foot: 'most liberties have been won by those who broke the law'. All this heated (albeit soft-toned and lower-case in the graphic design) rhetoric has to have some sort of correspondence to how the building actually functions. Given that the organisation exists at least in part to fight for better working conditions, it had to be 'an exemplar working environment' And here Unison are clearest about the old NALGO building's limitations. Dark and lit by artificial light, John Cole also points out that it had 'no social spaces'. Instead, the union 'wanted large floor plates' in order to be able to create these areas. In the concrete tower block, there's a very pleasant roof garden, a cafe, a creche, a 'breakout room' and much else. In design terms, these aims are compromised a little by the rather cold, identikit corporate detailing. Cole comments that opulence was out of the question, as 'we have lots of low-paid members' (something that certainly didn't deter the designers of Congress House in the 1940s) but there's no doubt that they work. When walking around it I chance upon a small office get-together, with crisps and what is (euphemistically?) described as 'juice'. One comments that in three days there, she'd met six fellow Unison employees she'd never met before. 'It shows how a building can change things'.
Most of the workers I saw here were women, and the building seems to – perhaps inadvertently – reflect where Unions are currently strongest, in poorly-paid but traditionally 'white-collar' jobs, largely female, and highly computer-literate. In the face of accusations that unions are lumbering pre-modern dinosaurs, Cole proudly points out that Unison has the the largest intranet in Europe, and Michael Poot lists with equal pride the building's impeccable environmental credentials. Given the evident successes of the internal arrangement, the lightness and airiness of the place, it's a shame that its design language stays at such a low voltage.
That's something which becomes especially clear with the transition to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building. This late 19th century hospital was closed in 2002, with its functions transferred to nearby UCH. The complex entailed a complete restoration of its much smaller, cosier rooms, with the original tiles and fireplaces scrupulously pieced back together. Sometimes this leads to enjoyably surreal juxtapositions, as when a vaguely art nouveau fireplace sits unused in the corner of a video conference room. Irrespective of the TUC's brief foray into high modernism, the most famous visual image of trade unionism is deeply Arts and Crafts-influenced – the embroidered trade union banners that are still carried on marches, where the aesthetics of William Morris socialism, in a pre-branding era, still have a vivid emotional role. Framed with foliage, symmetrically organised and allegorical, sometimes you even find architectural modernism immortalised on them. One RMT banner I spotted on a protest a few months ago was centred on an image of Charles Holden's Arnos Grove station. This powerful language is at least partly present in the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building. In its main room, which is being adapted as a museum, with interactive exhibits on feminism, the health service and trade unionism, there is remade arts and crafts furniture (that you can sit on, for once!) and a small library, featuring the likes of Friedrich Engels, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sheila Rowbotham. If the rest of the building avoids the traditional notions of what trade unionism looks like, here there's a reminder, and its a quietly powerful one. Perhaps this is a project which needed rhetoric and imagery as much as clarity and spaciousness. While Squire and Partners clearly took the place very seriously, a more nonconformist firm might have reconciled the traditional and forward-looking impulses of the union in a more forthright, convincing, dialectical way. Instead, the pretty but mute faceted roof of the atrium provides the main connection.
The atrium also leads the way towards the housing that was demanded by planning – deceptively so, as there is no public access. It's a decent, unspectacular, stock brick scheme of houses and flats, 'mixed' as ever, and clearly demarcated between the private element facing one way and the 'social' side the other, with both quite aggressively gated from the street. Here, you're reminded that the context is the redevelopment of Somers Town and Kings Cross, a working class industrial area of dense council housing undergoing severe gentrification, from HOK's BioMed Centre behind the British Library, that was fiercely opposed by local campaigners who pointed out that the site was zoned as social housing, to the new St Pancras International and King's Place. It's the sort of area where unions used to thrive, being completely transformed. The Unison building shows trade unionism transforming in turn, and in that, it's an optimistic, encouraging building, an enclave of sobriety and solidarity in amidst the regen tat. It stands its ground, quietly – but in terms of what happens inside, this might well prove to be one of the more influential recent buildings in London.
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By Dan Miller of Pro-Life Wisconsin
The closure will take effect on Thursday, August 17th, 2017, the article states.
Here's how I see what happened. In 2014, the faithful of the Sheboygan area gathered to pray outside this facility with 40 Days for Life. They took their pro-life convictions and exercised their First Amendment free speech rights in a public forum.
The prayer spurred the community to action. Not long after the 40 Days for Life campaign, the pro-life community of Sheboygan identified a building out of which they could operate a pregnancy resource center. That building is now the home of Anchor of Hope Health Center, located at 703 N 9th Street in Sheboygan – just 1.3 miles away from Planned Parenthood's soon to be vacated office. Prayer and action.
I spoke with Anchor of Hope Health Center's Executive Director, Jacky Drewry, about the good news. "It really reminds me of Romans 2:6-7 - Who will render to every man according to his works. To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life." Drewry continued, "It's so humbling. We walk on the shoulders of those that have gone before us. Their prayers – our prayers, have been answered."
Drewry mentioned the providence of all of it. "We have expanded our services to include STI testing & treatment, with a formal announcement to the public of a Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting on August 8th along with an open house. We know this means we will be busier than ever."
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Unlock had lifted and I was just about to start my writing classes, but now all blacks on C-yard are back on race based lockdown. They say a correctional cop and a prisoner had a fight or something. Don't have any details. I have to go back to deep writng and reading.
This particular lockdown only lasted 3 or 4 days. No lockdown now, though the prison has cancelled all night programming. Given what's happening on C Facility, it's good Spoon (and other LWOPs) will be transferred to somewhat lower security prisons fairly soon.


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Home of Nebraska's oldest state park
Chadron has a rollicking frontier history including fur traders, tough cowboys, Native Americans, ranchers and railroaders. The community lies between the Pine Ridge and the High Plains.
Founded in 1921, Chadron State Park was Nebraska's first state park. It encompasses nearly 1,000 acres of Pine Ridge wilderness nine miles south of Chadron on Highway 385. The park offers fishing, camping, hiking, mountain biking, bird watching and horseback riding. Cabins are available April 15-Nov. 15. A swimming pool and sand volleyball courts elevate the fun, and mountain bikes and paddle boats are for rent. The RV campground has 70 electrical hookups, showers, laundromat, dump station and playground. Primitive camping also is available. Hike and bike trails spread in every direction. (308) 432-6167.
The Pine Ridge Ranger District of the Nebraska National Forest is 52,000 acres of ponderosa pine and mixed grass prairies. Primitive camping is allowed. The Red Cloud Campground has picnic tables, fire grates and vault toilets; it is eight miles south of Chadron on Highway 385.
The forest has about 80 miles of marked trails for mountain bikers, hikers and horseback riders. The area's most popular trailheads include East Ash, West Ash, Soldier Creek, Coffee Mill, Spotted Tail, Roberts, Strong Canyon and Outrider. Roberts and Outrider trailheads have horse corrals, a rider ramp and other amenities. Off-road vehicles must be equipped with spark arrestors to reduce wildfire danger. Maps of the Pine Ridge Trails system and the National Forest/Oglala National Grasslands are available at the Chadron Chamber and Visitors Center. Chadron State Park offers the National Forest/Oglala National Grassland map showing trails. (800) 603-2937.
The Pine Ridge National Recreation Area is a 6,600-acre parcel limited to non-motorized recreation. There are corrals, a rider ramp, modern toilets and drinkable water. Hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking are allowed. The recreation area and trailhead are connected by the scenic 3 Mile Loop.
The best entry point to the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area is from the Roberts trailhead, eight miles west of Chadron on Highway 20 to Eleson Road, then seven miles south to Bethel Road and then 1 1/2 miles east.
The world-class Museum of the Fur Trade is located at the site of a trading post operated by the American Fur Co. from 1837 to 1876. The building has been reconstructed on the original foundation. The museum's three galleries interpret the fur trade from the Arctic to the American Southwest, from early colonial days to the 20th century.
Exhibits trace the everyday lives of British, French and Spanish traders, mountain men, buffalo hunters, and plains and woodland Indians. Among the museum's artifacts are trade goods from the 18th and 19th centuries – such as "Northwest" muskets made for Native Americans (including one that belonged to the famous Shawnee chief, Tecumseh), trade silver, textiles, beads and paints. The museum is three miles east of Chadron on Highway 20. Open May 1-Oct. 31 or by appointment. (308) 432-3843.
In 1890, after the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota, Gen. Nelson Miles commandeered a local hotel, the Chadron House, while investigating the incident. The luxury hotel was the town's showplace. Today, it is restored to its former glory and operating as the Olde Main Street Inn. The inn offers lodging, dining and includes the 77 Longbranch Saloon. 115 Main St. (308) 432-3380.
When the Chadron-to-Chicago Horse Race kicked off in 1893, it did so with a shot fired by Chadron's fire chief using a Colt revolver from the veranda of the Blaine Hotel.
The event began as a joke but then came to fruition, garnering attention from around the world and putting Chadron on the map. Characters like horse thief Doc Middleton, a race favorite among Chadron residents, and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody were involved. Dishonesty and cheating were exposed before the winner crossed the finish line 13 days later at the World's Fair. Today's Cowboy Trail covers part of the thousand-mile race route. The building is an apartment complex today. Pose for a selfie in front of the building at 159 Bordeaux St.
The Dawes County Historical Museum – five miles south of Chadron on Highway 385 – has an original log house and barn, a schoolhouse, railroad caboose and pioneer artifacts. The innovative farming inventions and futuristic gadgets of local farmer and mechanical genius Marcus Cain are housed in a brand new building here. Open Memorial Day-Sept. 30. (308) 432-4999.
The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center is dedicated to the study of Nebraska and High Plains culture, literature and history. Located at Chadron State College, the center is named after Mari Sandoz (1896-1966), who is among Nebraska's best-known authors. A High Plains native, Sandoz gained national prominence with her 1935 biography of her father, Old Jules. Sandoz wrote powerfully of Plains subjects such as Crazy Horse, the Cheyenne Outbreak, buffalo hunters and beaver trappers. (308) 432-6401.
For more information about Chadron and Northwest Nebraska, contact the Chadron Chamber and Visitors Center at (800) 603-2937. or visit www.chadron.com.


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Bahrain a rising power in GCC estate, check out why
Island state's real estate returns have been making steady, under-the-radar progress in property investment returns
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As the island kingdom has been making steady steps towards economic recovery, it has also been carving out a reputation for itself in GCC's (Gulf Cooperation Council) real estate sector as a desirable property investment location.
While much of the international publicity has been focused on Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Bahrain's strong, steady performance over the last 10 years has raised a lot of positive expectations around the kingdom's local property market.
Property prices are still rising. Compared to 10 years ago, prices have increased by 100% in some areas, especially those where full ownership has been enabled for foreigners.
Construction pace is still on the rise with a number of large-scale real estate projects having been launched in the kingdom this year. The building & construction sector saw 6.9% growth in its contribution to Bahrain's GDP in 2015, and 2016 data is predicted to show an accelerating growth rate.
Predicted to reach BHD1.2 billion by the end of this year, the value of real estate transactions is set to have remained stable compared to 2015, despite economic fluctuations and low oil prices.
Economic development on track
Serious measures were taken by the Bahrain government to lay solid foundations for significant modernization and sustainable growth of the national economy. New laws were approved, opening the door for foreign investments to pour into the country, including the latest amendment to the Business Companies Law, which enabled non-nationals to establish companies in different economic sectors. As a result, the number of newly issued commercial registrations hiked during the first half of 2016 to reach 13582, compared to 8395 in 2015.
In 2001, another decree was issued by the Bahrain government defining certain districts, such as Juffair, Seef and several others as property freehold areas. The property freehold decree shifted the national real estate market to a totally new horizon marked by high investment rates and increased construction activity.
The government efforts keeping the economic development process on track aren't restricted to changes to the law and property ownership regulations. Other steps included the founding of the Economic Development Board (EDB), creating a ministerial committee concerned with settling stalled real estate projects and improving the quality of infrastructural services provided around the kingdom.
New mega projects
As a result of the strong appetite for investment in Bahrain, several mega projects have been rolled out lately in different economic sectors, mainly real estate.
Several heavyweight projects were initiated this year, including Abdullah Medical City, known to be the first 'medical city' of its kind in the region.
Another project, "Vision Tower", was launched in Juffair by Bahrain's leading developer, KBC. The tower contains more than 120 residential units over 27 floors.
Infrastructure also witnessed major ventures including the $1.1 billion expansion works at Bahrain International Airport and the new BHD250 million gas terminal.
Future prospects
In the short term, Bahrain is anticipated to see a 5% to 10% rise in real estate trading value by next year as a result of two main catalysts.
The first is the new real estate investment law, which is set to see the light of day by the first half of 2017. Second, Bahrain local property market is poised to see the introduction of relatively new real estate products varying between hotel apartments, warehouses, and industrial units.
Bahrain real estate transformation is happening on a slow beat but in steady moves. The whole country's landscape is adapting a totally modern shape on all aspects starting with laying down progressive regulatory framework, and moving on to infrastructure, real estate projects, and actual market proceedings.
It's a long process aimed to establish a formidable market basis with the least sensitivity to international and regional economic impacts.


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Recently Brittany Molina created a viral sensation when she posted a note somebody gave to her, and a picture of her dress that the note commented on.
BYU has an Honor Code that all students are expected to abide by, part of which stipulates that skirts and shorts need to reach the knee. Now, Miss Molina's skirt clearly isn't reaching her knee, but she is also wearing leggings, and nobody could argue that this is immodest. But the policy does say that skirts must reach the knee, so in the mind of the note writer, this ^ is unacceptable.
So every woman that attends BYU should be wearing knee length skirts or shorts, right?
Whew, for a University that doesn't allow short skirts, that is sure a lot of leg flesh showing. It sure seems hypocritical for BYU to disallow this kind of dress for everyday students, presumably for morality and modesty purposes, and then make the official sports uniform for many female athletes short, as if fit female athletes aren't sexually attractive.
The fact that they do this, and then with a straight face talk about Standards, is one of the reasons why I went to the U, (and excluded myself from a decent PR program) instead of going to BYU. University of Utah is not exactly a den of iniquity, where the women wear nothing but thongs and body paint. In fact, if you are 5 minutes late to church at the Institute of Religion, you WILL NOT find a parking spot.
But at BYU, you can be assured that the women will all be covered up.
Unless they happen to be in great shape, and have tried out for a sports team. Now, the BYU runner is wearing shorts that are shaped like shorts, which are slightly more modest than the horrible bikini design of that sinful Duck behind her.
BYU does have a women's uniform that adheres to the Honor Code.
The reason why men's and women's basketball uniforms have knee length shorts is because that's the current fashion. Basketball uniforms used to be ridiculously short.
Thank goodness that's not a trend anymore.
Coincidentally, the reason that modern women's uniforms are so short also has to do with current trends, plus comfort and ease of mobility while engaged in the athletic event. That's a valid reason. But BYU shouldn't pretend like it's not also attractive, and therefore running afoul of their Tradition of Honor and Standards.
I got these from the official BYU drill team Website.
"The mission of the Cougarettes is to provide the very best high quality halftimes and dance performances all while maintaining the standards, spiritual focus, and atmosphere of Brigham Young University and the LDS Church."
and on the Welcome page we see this-
With all the immodesty that's officially sanctioned at BYU, there is not a rash of on-campus orgies. People, for the most part, behave themselves and act like adults. On the flipside, even if you require all women to look like this
there will still be people who are going to have sex against the rules.
Right now BYU has official uniforms that violate it's own modesty standards, which many see as hypocritical. They either need to fully commit to it, or they need to let people act like adults and, you know, 'govern themselves.'
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I recently went back home to South Africa for my mom's birthday. (You can see the invitations I designed for her party here.) We had a celebration in a barn and little Miss Berries over here got the task of chief decorator. Lucky me. The theme for the party was very casual - "just jeans" So I decided to make some roses using denim, blue and cream fabrics. Here is how it went down:
- A pair of scissors
- Different fabrics
- A thick piece of wire to make a stem
- Thin wire to fasten the petals onto the stem. (Sticky tape is also ok.)
First step is to cut petal or tear-drop shapes out of the fabric. They don't have to be identical/perfect. You probably need about 15 per flower - depending on how thick your fabric is. If you are smart about this, you will get someone else to do the cutting for you. (ha)
Next, you will need to take a petal-shape and wrap it around the main-wire stem. Secure the petal in place by tightly wrapping the thin wire around it. You can also use sticky tape, but I found that the wire ended up looking a bit neater. Once the first petal is secured place a second petal around the main stem, overlapping the first one and secure it in place. Repeat. Each fabric falls slightly differently - so experiment with the best ones. The stiffer denim fabric worked best for me, but it also depends on the look you are going for. (The Downside of using wire opposed to tape: after about 20 flowers, your fingers will be raw. {just saying})
It's up to you what you choose to do with your flowers. I found some old-school glass coke bottles and stuck a single one in each bottle. I tied some of the fabric scraps and string around the neck of the bottles and then hung them from the rafters in the barn. They look really effective when there is a whole line of them hanging together.
(yes, i know the pic on the right is completely blurred... but i like it. so... yeah.)


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Island Cricket
Monday, September 22, 2008
[Video] The Venue - Canada Cup Four Nation 20/20
The venue which was established in 1954 has not lost it's old-fashioned charm but will the facility have the the capability to handle such an event?
The Pakistani fan base have been starved of cricket since the Asia cup and the Sri Lankan fans look forward to the Lion's first official visit to Canada. A large turn out is guaranteed considering the fan base in Ontario alone, there is even talk of fans flying in from as far away as Florida.
17 days and counting Cricket Canada needs to pull it's socks up information on ticket sales and broadcasters are yet to be announced. No mention of the event has been made on the Cricket Canada website as of Monday the 22nd of September.
The fans find themselves in the dark as the event nears.
20/20 has the potential to boost interest in the sport within Canada, it however appears even this opportunity is squandered - the lack of publicity for an international sporting event is baffling.
All of the above can be rectified but not the weather; The locals rarely play cricket two weeks into October mid September generally draws an end to the year's cricket season here in Canada. Having said that the weather of late has been extremely unpredictable and one can never be certain of anything in these parts for cricket's sake let's hope for the best. Do expect bitter cold mornings ranging from 10°C - 15°C.
Sri Lanka face yet another selection crisis.
It bores me to death to write about yet another crisis at SLC having gotten over Hashan Tillekeratne's two day tenure as the team's manager we are now faced with more of Sports Minister Lokuge's antics. How often do you hear of a sports minister from Australia relaying information to the press when his own selector's are left in the dark?
Minsiter Lokuge claims the selection sheet for the Canada Cup was missing the name of the Team Manager and as a result he has rejected the selection. All this apparently has absolutely nothing to do with Indika De Saram protesting to the sport minister about his non-inclusion to the squad for Canada.
Why does Sri Lanka Cricket require the services of a selection committee when we have the sports minister deciding the squad?
By Hilal
9 Comments:
- Anonymous said...
lokuge is also considering a request from indika de saram,35, who has done well in domestic cricket.. but tell me, if a player isn't selected in any other country do they file a complaint demanding to be included in the squad? i find that disrespectful and it shows the selectors, who would've determined whose in the squad, are going to be overruled, and that this man can simply ask to be included in the senior national team for his country and actually be considered without the authorization of the selectors. sri lankan politics is a joke, the selectors are being ridiculed by dictators like lokuge and ranatunga, this is worse than the lack of cooperation in american politics
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008
- Gere said...
There are so many talented players in Australia and also in other not so dominant playing nations who have missed the chance, thats life. It shows the character of the man when he has to run to the sports minister. Jayasuriya never went to any minister or wrote letters despite what the media says. The ministers all contacted Sanath..
Dont be surprised this is normal even in our rugby there is anger over Lewke's appointment as captain...
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
is this an international venue?
- Saturday, September 27, 2008
- cricket_guy said...
you're right hilal, the lack of promotion is embarrassing, I've been trying to find out information for my dad who is flying in to see the matches and there is such a lack of it, it is sad.
does anyone know if the sri lankan side will still come with all the conflicts they are having?
and does anyone know the cost of tickets to see the matches?? Or will there even be a cost at all??
- Tuesday, September 30, 2008
- cricket_guy said...
sorry, just saw your link for the prices, hopefully SL will still go.
- Tuesday, September 30, 2008
- Hilal said...
Yes the Sri Lankan team will be here for this tourney. Tickets are priced at a shocking $40 per game includes nothing but a seat, no food and beverage.
- Wednesday, October 01, 2008
- Anonymous said...
$40 per game?? Or per day??
- Wednesday, October 01, 2008
- Hilal said...
Sorry I meant per day, includes two games.
- Wednesday, October 01, 2008
- cricket_guy said...
ya, I couldn't believe how expensive the tickets were! things we do to see our team....
- Monday, October 06, 2008


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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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13 To Life: A Werewolf's Tale by Shannon Delany.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin.
Release date: June 22, 2010.
Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…
When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it's for one of two reasons. Either they've finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper or they're hosting yet another intervention for her about her mom. Although far from expecting it, she's relieved to discover Guidance just wants her to show a new student around—but he comes with issues of his own including a police escort.
The newest member of Junction High, Pietr Rusakova has secrets to hide--secrets that will bring big trouble to the small town of Junction—secrets including dramatic changes he's undergoing that will surely end his life early.
This is one of the few on the top of my wish-list. The cover is beautiful and the synopsis is driving me mad with want! Can't wait!
7 comments:
Katie, thank you so much for WoW-ing 13 TO LIFE! I was VERY fortunate to have Ervin Serrano do the cover design. He was very open to my thoughts and concerns and very quick to meet the book's needs (which is as good as it gets)!ReplyDelete
Have you gotten to read the excerpt (or seen the trailer)? Both are available at my author site http://ShannonDelany.com The excerpt's under "Free Reads" and I'll be making more stuff available as we get closer to June!
I'm so glad you're excited to get a copy of my debut!
Thank you so much! :-)
PS--Since I know it's here, if any of your readers have questions I'll pop in a couple more times today to answer. :-)
Very intriguing plot and the cover is gorgeous! Is this a 2k10 debut book? I think I'll add this to my challenge list!ReplyDelete
Great pick, Katie!
Can't wait to read this one too!!! Premise definitely sounds interesting (another bad boy alert here?), and I love the sound of secrets. And I agree that the cover is GORGEOUS. Props to Ervin Serrano. :)ReplyDelete
This sounds so great I am so stoked. The cover rocksReplyDelete
Great pick! I really want to read this one. And I don't want to wait til June. :) LOVE the cover too.ReplyDelete
Hi Bianca, yes "13 to Life" is my debut novel and releases in 2010 (I very much appreciate you adding it to your challenge list--Yay!). Oh! I'm a member of the Class of 2K10 (please check their debuts out, too--great folks)!ReplyDelete
Jenn, my editor's actually very big on the suspense/mystery books and the fact he loves this novel (I think it's his first YA, but don't quote me on that ;-) makes me feel pretty good.
Cleverly Inked and Casey--thank you both so much. I hope you love the book (and I'm glad you already love the cover ;-).
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Dr. Paul Burcher has responded to my post "Is This OB Ethical" with a comment. I would like to thank Dr. Burcher, and before I go on, here is the entire (verbatim) text of his comment:
This is Paul Burcher. You reference me in your blog, and I think you have made some incorrect pre-judgments about who I am. I am a practicing Ob/Gyn (true) and a PhD ethicist (also true) but I am no fan of Frank Chervenak's position on home birth (if you google me you will see that I have collaborated extensively with, and defended midwives and home birth. I quoted Chervenak on a completely separate topic where I am with him–that talking with woman before labor, about labor, can reduce or eliminate misunderstandings and conflict. The "maybe" category that I wrote about is not a bait and switch as you suggest. As I wrote about in the Journal of Medical Ethics, how would you respond to a birth plan where the woman insists that no matter what happens in labor, and even if she requests it, that I must refuse her an epidural? As you know labor (and life) are fluid, and sometimes we don't know "till we get there." So maybe is maybe, and it means just that. The "non-starter" category is for me both real and small. I value patient autonomy, but it isn't the only value in the room, and physicians also have values that must be respected by patients. If I say I can't participate in what a patient requests, that is also my right. I rarely just say no, and I bend a lot even pushing beyond comfort zones at times.But physicians must be also be able to make rational and value laden choices–they must also be autonomous. These words don't really express how it has played out in my practice, but I have 18 years in practice with almost no conflict with my patients, because I am respectful (and because I worked with midwives I have had strong-willed, conscientious women with alternative values as patients for much of this time).
I am honestly touched that Dr. Burcher cared enough to read and comment on my post, which I think gives much credence to what he says here about his respect for women. If he didn't care very much about his integrity and that of his practice, I'm sure he would not have bothered. His "full biography" on the Albany Medical Center website states, "Dr. Paul Burcher specializes in general obstetrics and gynecology and women's health. As an ethicist, he has a particular interest in the doctor/patient relationship and physician empathy." My post might have been more fair minded had I spent some more time researching his background.
For instance, I tied Burcher to Frank Chervenak because he begins his column by citing Chervenak's idea of preventive ethics. Dr. Chervenak's attitude toward homebirth and midwifery is uninformed and patronizing, and because of the citation, I tarred Burcher with the same brush. Burcher is not anti-homebirth, as evidenced by this piece about a woman who had a stillbirth while attended by unlicensed midwives. This piece was co-written with Colleen Forbes, a licensed midwife (who is not a CNM, the kind of midwife who usually practices in hospitals–you can read a description of the various kinds of midwives here) and does not condemn homebirth. He was also quoted in this piece in the New York TImes about the risks associated with episiotomies and the importance of women making informed decisions. I think Burcher and I probably agree about many–even most–aspects of obstetric care.
I think some of the issues I have with Burcher's column have more to do with audience than anything else. In writing for other obstetricians, Burcher certainly had to appeal to them. And defending the right of women to have birth plans and encouraging obstetricians to take them seriously is an important and noble undertaking. I should have been less glib in my introduction and offered him more respect for his efforts. I, on the other hand, am writing as a passionate advocate for women's autonomy and agency, and my audience is those who are interested in that perspective. I do not wish to imply that Burcher does not value women's agency and autonomy, but we may approach the concept differently.
I do have problems with preventive ethics, at least as they are conceived by Chervenak. I mentioned in particular Chervenak et al's piece "Obstetric Ethics: An Essential Dimension of Planned Homebirth" in which he states strongly that it is an obstetrician's duty to convince women not to birth at home and to birth at a hospital. Chervenak carries his ideas about obstetrical judgement based in beneficence to the conclusion that the obstetrician must convince a woman to do what the obstetrician thinks is best.
However, a woman may have vastly different values that lead her assessment on a very different path. Anne Faidman's wonderful book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down offers numerous examples of this conflict between the values of doctors and those of their patients. While the book is primarily about the care of an epileptic child in a Hmong family, there are also a number of examples given about childbirth. One section noted that many of the Hmong women in the book preferred to give birth with a little-respected family physician because he did not "cut" (meaning episiotomies and other surgical procedures–cutting the body is anathema to traditional Hmong beliefs) and because he would hand over the placenta to the family (the placenta was used in important post-birth rituals). The more highly respected obstetricians held their own clinical judgment in higher esteem than the beliefs and values of their Hmong patients, and the patients sought care elsewhere.
Burcher, it seems, has a different approach to the idea of "preventive ethics" than Chervenak, one that is a true exchange involving shared decision making. He is right to be honest with women about what is not possible, either because of structural constraints (the hospital will not allow it) or ethical ones (the doctor believes s/he cannot in good conscience provide what the woman requests). I said in my original post that I though he had a reasonable approach to "non starters." I might even go further than he did on the "refuse me an epidural no matter what" question. I would not be willing to work with a woman who gave up her autonomy and made me the gatekeeper of her care. That is not shared decision making.
My issue with the "maybes" had more to do with Burcher's concerns about his colleagues and their approaches to care. I understand that "maybe" is circumstantial–my position was that really the maybes are either "of courses" or "non-starters," depending on the emergent situation. It's impossible to go through every possibility in advance to know which would be which. While Burcher himself might be working with his patients to make sound decisions in the moment on the "maybes," I do worry that many practitioners view the "maybe" as a way to placate women, with the situations in which the "maybe" becomes an "of course" so limited that the "maybe" is more accurately categorized as a "non starter." In my original post, I gave the example of the way many practitioners approach VBAC requests. Again, if there is an evidence-based reason to do something, what would be the justification for removing that possibility based on a practitioner's "comfort zone"? Is the practice evidence based or not? Is it safe or not? It seems there are very limited situations in which the practitioner herself/himself would be the determinant (for example, an exception would be vaginal breech birth, which many practitioners no longer know how to attend safely).
Albany Medical Center, where Burcher practices, has a cesarean rate over 40%, indicating that much of the time, Burcher's colleagues are not adhering to evidence based practice. I am concerned that many doctors are happy to follow women's non-evidence based requests when it suits them — for instance, performing non-medically indicated cesareans or inductions — but are not willing to comply with requests that are evidence based, such as eating during labor, laboring in water, or freedom of movement during labor. I am also concerned that many physicians use non-evidence-based practices routinely, such as continuous electronic fetal monitoring for low risk women, routine oxytocin (Pitocin) augmentation, routine amniotomy (breaking the bag of waters), or prophylactic cesarean for suspected macrosomia (big baby). Some practitioners view these practices as non-negotiable, and some hospitals institute them as protocol even though a woman's request to forgo them is based in science while the practices themselves are not.
Burcher says, "If I say I can't participate in what a patient requests, that is also my right." I agree with Burcher that the conflict between the rights of the patient vs. the rights of the practitioner are real and ethically complex. I have written about conflicts in these rights here and here, and I am sure I will have future posts exploring this fraught issue. It sounds as if Burcher's decisions are generally based in evidence and ethics, but I do not have confidence that all practitioners abide by Burcher's standards. Is it ethical for a physician to refuse to provide evidence-based care because for some reason the evidence does not coincide with the physician's "comfort zone"? Is it ethical for the physician to insist on non-evidence-based care, or care that has substantial evidence of harm, because it does fall within the "comfort zone"? While I believe that physicians, like their patients, are autonomous beings, I would not want them to answer yes to these questions.
And thus I still ask if it is ethical for a colleague to refuse to follow a birth plan that Burcher has negotiated with a woman, and for Burcher to present that as acceptable. "Maybe" should depend on the evidence and a shared decision making process, not on a nebulous, one-sided "comfort zone."


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During the gloomy days of January, this soup takes me away to a beach in Mexico, if only for a few minutes.
Chicken Chili Verde
Author: My Chef Nancy Jaworski
- 14 fresh tomatillos (about 3 lb), husks removed and rinsed
- 6 cups chicken stock (broth, of course homemade is best!)
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 poblano peppers, seeded and deveined, finely chopped
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 Tbsp. cumin
- 1 tsp. chili powder
- 3 cups chopped cooked chicken
- 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 can navy beans or pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3 Tbsp. lime juice
- Jalapeno, minced (optional)
- In a large skillet, sauté onions and poblano peppers in oil until tender. Add garlic, cumin, chili powder and sauté another 4 minutes.
- Remove hard stem portion of each tomatillo and cut each into eighths. Place in food processor and pulse until the tomatillos are like a chunky salsa.
- Turn on slow cooker to Low, add onions mixture and processed tomatillos to slow cooker along with 6 cups of chicken stock. Cook for 4-6 hours on Low or 3 hours on High. Add beans, chicken and cilantro, stir. Cook for another 1-2 hours on Low.
- Add lime juice. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add jalapeno if you want it a little spicier.
- Serve with avocado slices, shredded jack cheese, and additional chopped cilantro. A few baked tortilla chips add a nice crunch too!