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Nobody posted any argument under Facebook is kinda shit for people under 15 like why do u need it yet. Be the first one to post an argument.
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Beyonce making plans for another baby?
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Beyonce says she is thinking of having another baby once she completes her upcoming world tour.
The R&B superstar became a first-time mother last year when baby daughter Blue Ivy was born after a devastating miscarriage and during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on TV Saturday night, Beyonce revealed she's keen to expand her family with husband Jay-Z.
She explained, "I definitely want another child... It was important for me to do what I love and I love to perform and I love to make music, so I wanted to have my daughter and see if I was still as passionate.
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"Maybe after this next tour I'll maybe have another baby."
And, in the meantime, she hopes to show her baby daughter the world in between tour dates.
She added, "I feel like when I'm touring I'm able to perform, which is what I love, for two hours a day, travel and know that I don't have to do anything else during the day, so I can go to museums, I can go to great restaurants and I can have a life and share that... with my daughter."
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Pizza is #1 (by, like, a mile) on the list of “meals my whole family loves”. (Umm, now I’m trying to think of what else would be on that list. Anyone? Bueller?) And it’s a good one to be able to make at home on the cheap, and a little on the healthier side, so you can rejoice in a weekly pizza night!
Now. You can certainly buy a refrigerated bag of dough at the grocery store. But this is better. And in pizza: part 3 I’m going to make making your own dough SO WORTH YOUR WHILE. But for now you’ll have to trust me.
Simple, simple ingredients – flour, yeast, salt. Olive oil, honey (in that order, for honey that slides right out of the measuring spoon), and water. I always use my KitchenAid mixer for this, although I’m sure you could get in there and knead it by hand!
If you have any fears about making your own dough, take heart! This super helpful pizza video tutorial from A Couple Cooks is here to help you. Over the years I’ve adapted the recipe I use somewhat from theirs, but I still use the exact technique from the video and have made dough this way dozens of times. Seriously, you should watch it before you start out!
Once the dough is kneaded, dust a pan (or your counter) with flour. Plop the dough onto the floured surface (it shouldn’t stick to your hands much!) and make it an even-ish shape that you can divide into two equal pieces (or more, if you made a big batch). Then shape each portion into a boule: lightly stretch the top of the piece of dough and tuck the edges under, until you have a smooth, rounded top and a pinched together bottom (here, just watch the video). Rub a drizzle of olive oil onto the tops and tuck them in for a little rest under a damp towel.
Aren’t they just beautiful? Aren’t you so glad you’re doing this? I heart dough.
After about an hour, the dough balls are puffed and ready to be made into a beautiful pizza!
Transfer a piece of dough to a cornmeal-dusted pan. (I usually use the non-stick pan pictured below. Recently, I used the shiny one above and was sad sad sad because my pizza stuck. So if your pan isn’t non-stick, use a lot of cornmeal!) Press it to flatten it, then pick it up and set your inner Italian chef free while you stretch it on your hands a little. (Have I mentioned this awesome video?) A problem I sometimes have is that the middle of the pizza gets kind of thin but I still want to stretch out the outer edges, so I usually end with a pinky-side-of-the-hand move where I rock my hand toward the edge of the crust (you can kind of see the indentations from that on the bottom left picture below). But an imperfectly shaped homemade pizza still tastes delicious, so no pressure on this part!
Please allow your child to double-fist the mozzarella like mine is. And employ as many family members as you can as assistant pizza chefs!
Then top, and bake! Isn’t that so doable? Just one little step at a time. My older daughter loves helping with every part of this process, and it is so satisfying to transform humble ingredients into a homemade pizza masterpiece. And I don’t think that’s just my inner food nerd talking! Stay tuned – I’ll be back soon with a toppings extravaganza and a make-ahead option that you.will.love!Print
- Prep Time: 25 minutes, plus about 1 hour for rising
- Cook Time: 8-10 minutes
- Total Time: 1.5 hours
- Yield: 2 (or 3 or 4) medium pizzas; the dough balls are about 14 oz each
For 2 pizzas:
- 3 cups (450 g) flour (I use half white whole wheat and half all-purpose. It’s good with all of either, though!)
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast (aka bread machine yeast, aka rapid rise yeast)
- 1-1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1-1/3 cups warm water – don’t add it all at once (I just use warm water from the sink)
For 3 pizzas:
- 4.5 cups (675 g) flour
- 1 Tablespoon instant yeast
- 1-3/4 teaspoons kosher salt (plus a bit; that was hard math)
- 1.5 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1.5 Tablespoons honey
- 2 cups warm water (don’t add it all at once)
For 4 pizzas:
- 6 cups (900 g) flour
- 1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon instant yeast
- 2.5 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 Tablespoons honey
- 2-2/3 cups warm water (don’t add it all at once)
- Sauce, cheese, and toppings of your choice!
- Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer, leaving out a little water. Give it a stir with the dough hook to form a loose dough. If it’s not coming together or seems dry, add the rest of the water. If it’s very wet or sticky, add a little flour (just a pinch).
- Attach the dough hook to the mixer and mix on low speed until a ball forms (about 30 seconds). Watch the dough – if it is sticking to the sides of the bowl, add a bit of flour. If it seems very dry, add a small splash of water.
- Knead for 8 minutes on medium-high.
- Lightly flour a pan or countertop. Using your floury hands, scoop the dough onto the floured surface and divide evenly into two pieces (or 3, or 4, depending on your batch size – the pieces will weigh about 14 oz each). Shape each piece into a rounded ball by lightly stretching the surface and tucking the ends under and pinching the bottom together. Lightly rub each piece with olive oil and cover the dough balls with a damp towel, giving them room to puff and rise. Let rise for about an hour (45 minutes if you’re in a hurry). Set a timer so you remember to crank the oven up to 500 about 30 minutes before you want to cook the pizza.
- Place risen dough ball onto a pan dusted with cornmeal (be generous, especially if your pan is not non-stick). Flatten it gently into a circle, then tuck your hands under the edge and stretch it over your knuckles, letting gravity pull on it. If the middle is getting thin before the edges are fully stretched, resist the urge to fold the dough! Instead, put the dough down on the pan and use a rocking motion with the pinky side of your hand to push the outer edge further out. If, umm, that makes sense.
- Top as desired and bake at 500 for 8-10 minutes or until the exposed edges of the crust are brown and the cheese is bubbly!
Dough recipe adapted from A Couple Cooks
Barb Ingram says
The dough alone is enough to make my mouth water! And I love the double-fisting of the mozzarella — no miserly pizza toppings here!
Yes, I save my stinginess for foil and saran wrap! ;o)
I’m looking forward to watching the video and trying this dough. I have one I make that’s fine, but I don’t LOVE it. And have I mentioned I will be watching the video?!
So..I mean..did you watch it? ;o)
Jessica Davis says
Thank you, Bet! Going to trust you and try this dough. It looks almost as easy as your famous bread, so I’m hoping to not have to make special trips to TJs when all I really want is to make pizza. And brilliant tip from Rachel! Totally doing that next time!!
Yay! The dough is even easier to work with than the bread dough – less wet and sticky!!
I followed the directions exactly and the crust turned out perfectly!
Seriously, it had a great texture, chewy rather than biscuit-y like the dough I usually make. 5 Thumbs Up from us!
Bahaha. This cracked me up. “I’m allergic to pizza; can you recommend a substitution?”
We made pizzas on the grill this week using this recipe and they were SCRUMPTIOUS! I may have accidentally snapped Brez’s head off for cooking the kids’ perfectly and then getting ours crispier than I like them….but even the light char didn’t mess up this dough!
Bahaha, the pic of the ones for the kids did look pretty darn perfect….

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Any attempts to impose restrictions on free speech, via the Drudge Tax or bogus Fairness Doctrine, are wrong. Please let common sense, not political correctness, guide decisions. I want the news media to report facts, not spin stories. To accept any bailout money from our government would be viewed by the public as the government gaining control of the news media and journalism. Not what one wants in a freedom loving nation!


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Have you ever seen the 2000 romantic comedy, “Return To Me” with David Duchovny and Minnie Driver? It was written and directed by Bonnie Hunt, and was the last film of Carroll O’Connor’s career. He died a year later, and we lost one of the great ones. If you haven’t seen it, I’m not going to spoil it for you other than to say this was a beautiful romantic comedy, a real throw back to a more innocent time in the film industry.
What does a romantic comedy have to do with Chicken Vesuvio? Everything!! The film is set in Chicago, famous for its Chicken Vesuvio. And if that isn’t enough, much of the film takes place in an Irish-Italian restaurant that happens to serve up a lot of Chicken Vesuvio. After watching the film for maybe the fifteenth time, I decided I needed to cook up some Chicago Style Chicken Vesuvio.
What is Chicken Vesuvio? As it turns out, while the dish is Italian, it’s an Italian-American dish born sometime in the 1930’s in Chicago. While no one can be certain, some suggest that Chicken Vesuvio was first popularized by the Vesuvio Restaurant, hence the name. And that makes sense. So does the urban legend that says the chicken got its name because when the chicken pieces are arranged in a pile surrounded by roasted potatoes and the pan juices with peas are poured over the top, it reminds diners of Mount Vesuvio. Hum, if you ask me I think that might be a stretch. But hey, if you look at a pile of golden chicken and see a volcano in Italy, great!
This is one of those awesome dishes that is darn near complete. You’ve got your chicken, your potatoes and your peas all in one pan roasting up beautifully in the oven. All you need to do to make the evening perfect is to serve up some warm bread, a beautiful salad and chill a good bottle of Italian White Wine such as an inexpensive Pinot Grigio. While not native to Italy, a Chardonnay or Riseling might also be nice.
Oh and one more thing – be sure to have Dean Martin singing in the background to really set the mood.
Chicago Style Chicken Vesuvio
3 lb Chicken Fryer, cut into pieces
Kosher Salt to taste
White Pepper to taste
Dried Oregano to taste
Garlic Powder to taste
4 Russet Potatoes, cut into wedges
1-1/2 cups White Wine
1/2 cup Chicken Stock
12 Whole Garlic Cloves
1 cup Frozen Peas
Cut chicken into 8 pieces, 2 thighs, 2 legs, 2 breasts and 2 wings. Freeze wings for another purpose. If you like your chicken more uniform in size, cut the breasts in half or leave as is.
In a small bowl mix together the seasonings. Sprinkle the chicken with the mixture both over and under the skin.
Scrub potatoes well, slice into nice size wedges. Set aside. Peel the garlic, leaving the cloves whole. Set aside.
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Coat the bottom of a large, heavy skillet with olive oil and brown half the potato wedges at a time. Do not overcrowd the pan. Turn pieces as needed until golden, about 5 minutes per side. Remove to a large roasting pan. Repeat with remaining potato wedges.
Add a little more oil if necessary, then brown the chicken pieces in batches. Arrange the chicken in the center of your roasting pan with the potatoes surrounding the chicken.
Once the skillet is empty, add garlic cloves and cook until golden brown, about 2 or 3 minutes. Deglaze pan with wine, then add chicken broth. Bring to a slow boil, cook down for about five or six minutes, then pour over chicken and potatoes.
Place the roasting pan in the heated oven and roast until chicken is cooked, about 45 minutes. Add the frozen peas, and continue to cook for about 10 or 15 minutes longer or until the peas are nice and hot.
Let chicken stand for 5 minutes, then transfer to a serving platter. Arrange the potatoes around the chicken, pour pan juices and peas over the finished presentation. Serve and enjoy.
All this beautiful chicken dish needs to be complete is some warm bread, a nice salad and a well-chilled bottle of white wine.
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I love how easy these types of dishes are. And they end up really tasty.
Thanks so much. I fell in love with the first bite. Wow!
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State wildlife officials hope to begin their petrel count in Kahikinui by October before the birds fly away for the year. The project is funded by a $1.2 million federal-state grant.
The $900,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant, matched by about $300,000 in state money, will fund assessment of the habitat and a survey of the number of endangered petrel as well as endangered Hawaiian hoary bats in the area, proposed as off-site mitigation for wind power projects, according to Scott Fretz, state Department of Land and Natural Resources wildlife program manager.
Those projects are Kawailoa Wind Power on Oahu and Auwahi Wind Energy in Ulupalakua, according to a Fish and Wildlife Service news release about the grant.
The Maui site covers the upper slopes of Haleakala in a forest reserve on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands acreage and those managed by the Leeward Haleakala Watershed Restoration Partnership of 11 private and public landowners and agencies, Fretz said.
“We know they (the bats and petrels) are both there,” Fretz said. “We don’t know how many.”
The count is important for the wind power developments that must offset the animal deaths from their projects. The developers are required to create a “net recovery benefit that offsets their take,” Fretz said.
The Kahikinui site is ideal for the mitigation of the projects’ impacts, Fretz said. The petrel and bat counts will establish a baseline, which the private companies then can use to develop their habitat conservation plans, he said.
Establishing the baseline is a public responsibility, said Fern Duvall, state Forestry and Wildlife Division wildlife biologist. With that baseline and other information obtained from the survey in hand, requirements may be placed on the private developers and their effects measured.
“It is an area that has not been reviewed much,” said Duvall, who will be instrumental in the implementation of the grant on Maui. “We need to know the starting point.”
Fretz concurred, saying that the survey will help identify the current situation so that a plan can be developed to increase the numbers of the petrels and bats.
The developers will “contribute millions” to the mitigation plan, Fretz added. “This is one part of the bigger picture.”
For hoary bats, the forest is prime habitat. They live on insects and roost there, Fretz said.
The petrels nest in rocky crevices from the 7,700- to 9,000-foot elevation, he said. With management of predators, the birds may move lower down the slope, Duvall added. He said bones of petrels have been found in lava tubes at elevations as low as 500 feet.
Duvall is attempting to gear up for the petrel count in October, because the fledglings will be leaving by November. The birds will return in April.
The birds mate and then nest with hatchlings in June and July, Fretz said. The fledglings fly off in October and November.
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* Are you in an industry that requires presentation of historical data to regulators? We live in an age of increasing regulation, with no sign of abatement, and many large organizations are having to go through massive change. The financial services sector, for one, has had to make considerable changes since the financial crisis in 2008, but organizations in all industries are seeing an increased call for historical data. Bitemporal enables organizations to preserve data history, including the changes made to data, so it is easy to collect and present required information for audit and other purposes.
* Are you in an industry in which the sequence of events--and the recording of those events--is critical to security and intelligence, as well as to overall strategy? Many, if not all, industries can benefit from support for bitemporal. In the healthcare industry, for example, bitemporal capabilities can provide a more accurate picture of a patient’s history and help connect the dots between an illness and its antecedents. Likewise, government intelligence and law enforcement agencies can use databases with bitemporal support to make sense of seemingly disparate data, enabling them to better understand motives and even better predict future events. Businesses can tap into this data to determine customer patterns and behavior, for more strategic development of new products and services.
* Is the cost and complexity of storing, accessing and securing historical data increasing? While the cost per gigabyte of data is decreasing, organizations today are spending more on storing historical data because they are dealing with so much more of it. Organizations tend to hoard data in general, but regulations often demand it. Bitemporal data management helps keep storage in check because it avoids the need to set up additional databases for historical data.
* Is the complexity of managing, accessing and securing historical data becoming overwhelming to your database developers? Developers just want to be able to write queries that can easily access historical data. If you aren’t implementing bitemporal and you aren’t tracking important components of historical data, developers won’t be able to ask certain questions of the data. Further, it can be quite complicated to manage different timelines and versions in a traditional database, placing an additional burden on developers and the DBAs tasked with maintaining the data. Bitemporal design helps simplify data access because it’s much less complex.
* Is your company considering the whole picture of data governance? There is an aspect of bitemporal data management that is important to data governance. Bitemporal helps companies improve the security of their data in one key way: If you’re using a traditional approach to managing historical data, you’re going to be making lots of copies of your data warehouse at different points in time and storing that data offline somewhere. The more copies of your data, the more vulnerabilities you’re introducing. With bitemporal, you’re creating a more streamlined, simple approach to maintaining historical data because your data is all in one place. That means you don’t have to keep track of all these copies of data floating around, which helps improve your overall data governance.
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Today, September 5, I’ve gone back through this Special Report to update any parts of my calendar in light of what we’ve learned about the economy, about Federal Reserve interest rate policy, and about the global economy in the last few weeks. This update includes my take on the August jobs report and on recent Fed-speak from the Jackson Hole conference and after. It is different this time. And it’s likely to “be different this time” for the next five years or so. And you need an investment strategy for that period.
OPEC+ is in crisis again–but since no one knows quite what the result is likely to be, we’ve had big swings in sentiment and prices in the oil market (and in banks, other commodities, and the inflation/deflation play) today
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its affiliated oil producers (OPEC+) abandoned their Monday meeting after days of tense talks failed to result in an agreement on a tentative deal to increase production, and even over how to measure production. The disagreement between Saudi Arabia snd the United Arab Emirates was so heated that OPEC+ couldn’t even agree on a date for its next meeting. When these two countries last clashed in December 2020, the UAE talked of leaving OPEC. Oil prices initially jumped to its highest level in more than six years on news that OPEC+ had failed to agree to increase production. But prices then fell as traders speculated that the failure to reach an agreement on production increases would result in unplanned increases in production.
Researchers looking for a way to improve the tolerance of the Arabica coffee plant that accounts for 56% of global coffee production may have found their cuppa in Sierra Leone. Coffea stenophylla grows at a mean annual temperature up to 12.24 degrees higher than Arabica. And coffee tasters say, according to Bloomberg, it has a flavor similar to Arabica rather than to the more temperature tolerant Robusta coffee used now in instant and other bulk coffees. Global coffee production is threatened by rising temperatures
Before you get too excited by that headline, note that a 30% hike in the dividend at Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) will bring the payout to just 13 cents for the first quarter of 2021. But that’s still, as my grandmother used to say, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. At the least it’s a vote of confidence by the company’s board of directors that they see strong revenue and earnings growth in the year ahead. Wheaton Precious Metals doesn’t actually do any mining itself. Instead it purchases a stream of production from miners of precious metals and cobalt.
U.S. GDP growth slowed in the fourth quarter, gaining just 1% from the third quarter. For the full year the U.S. economy contracted by 3.5%. That makes 2020 the first time that the economy has contracted for a full year since 2009 and the Great Recession. At the bottom of that recession that economy contracted by 2.5%. 2020 is also the worst year for economic growth since 1946 when the economy shrank by 11.6% as the country demobilized after World War II. Consumer spending slowed in all 15 categories tracked by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The sectors that had powered the recovery in the third quarter–restaurants and hotels, for instance–reversed. The growth in spending on cars and health car also slowed from the acceleration in the third quarter. So why is this good news as far as the stock market is concerned?
Does news that U.S. will let Russia’s big aluminum producer avoid sanctions remove this wild card from commodities and stock markets?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said today that Russian metals giant Rusal, could get sanctions lifted if Putin-connected oligarch Oleg Deripaska relinquished control. The Treasury also gave Rusal a five month extension as it considered Rusal’s appeal of the sanctions. Commodity prices–especially aluminum–fell on the news.


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“The outpouring from our Dallas community is what is needed at this time, for us to be able to fill up our trucks and drive down to assist. I believe we can answer the call to offer immediate relief to our neighbors.” states Program Director Mark McCray.
A city-wide collection of needed supplies will be held today from 2:00pm to 6:00pm at the partnering Kroger locations below. All items received during today’s drive will be delivered to West Texas by Radio Dallas On-air personalities and Promotions staff.
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A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped at a village in Odisha's Keonjhar district, police said today.
The incident took place at Dalangapani when the girl was returning home from a function last night. The three accused forcibly took her to a forest in the outskirts of the village and raped her, the police said.
The three accused persons, who are aged between 19 years and 25 years were arrested today following a complaint by the rape survivor's family, the police said.
The three accused have been sent for medical examination and investigation is on, said Ghatagaon police station sub-inspector Nayana Bahera.
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That could spell trouble for future comic book movies. If general audiences become more like comic book fans, then it's all over...
I think a more specific point for WB will be made - the various political factions with the organisation will already be talking their favourite media sources with information about what wrong - the marketing guys are already at it, saying that they had the film too late to do anything with. I think what's going to come out of this is a narrative that the comic guys (specifically Johns) had too much control and in future more control needs to rest with the movie guys "who know what they are doing".
That's the sort of story I expect to see floating this week (the comic guys will more tell it the other way).
I don't think there will be much of a wider impact than that.


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Peru’s number one tennis player Luis Horna, currently ranked 102 in the world, got off on the right foot at this year’s French Open, the second Grand Slam event of the year and the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world.
Lucky loser Horna beat Scoville Jenkins, a qualifier from Atlanta during the first round of this 107th edition of the French Open, which began at the Roland Garros Stadium in France on May 25.
Despite heavy rainfall, the tournament is scheduled to last until June 8.
Horna, the last man to beat World No. 1 Roger Federer in a Grand Slam first round (2003), started off the match well against Jenkins, beating him 6-4 in the first set.
Jenkins, currently ranked No. 226, responded strongly during the second set and won 7-5. Unfortunately that was the only set he would win during the match.
His lack of experience on a clay court was obvious as he fell to Peru’s Horna 6-3 and 6-0 in the following two sets.
After beating ninth-seeded Richard Gasquet earlier this month at the opening round of the Rome Masters in Italy, Horna assured he could beat anyone on a clay court.
The Peruvian is to go up against French player Gaël Monfils – ranked 65 in the world – in the second round of the French Open.


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Trade legend Peter Brandt asks if Bitcoin can become a globally recognized currency. Peter Brandt, a veteran of commodity trading, recently published a Twitter poll asking if Bitcoin (BTC) could become a globally recognized currency without the helping hand of central banks.
With 14 thousand 665 votes, 46.9 percent of the respondents believe that this will be the case. However, it should be noted that Brandt’s audience is largely Bitcoin advocates, a fact that demonstrates that these results are not very objective. However, the voting is 8 hours from the time of writing.
Entering the commodity trade in 1976, Brandt constantly shares his thoughts with his followers on Twitter with his warm approaches to cryptocurrency. Despite being a “super bull” in Bitcoin, Brandt also maintains a healthy dose of skepticism about the future of the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Brandt said in April that he was questioning Bitcoin.
The Future of the Dollar Is Uncertain
As the Federal Reserve is about to adopt a more flexible stance on inflation, the future of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency is more uncertain than ever. Last month, the trader also said that Bitcoin would not be part of a formulaic global reserve unit that could replace the United States:
“The world can accept a formulaic global reserve unit consisting of USD, JPY, CNH, EUR, CAD, AUD, GBP, Gold, Silver, Crude Oil. Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies WILL NOT be a part of this basket. “

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Who says fruits and vegetables have to be boring? This dish, with it’s curry and red pepper flakes definitely has kick to it! Of course, if you prefer your produce a little on the tamer side, leave out the red pepper and reduce the curry.
I’ve served this over rice, cauliflower, and potatoes, but here I’m serving over eggs to get some protein.
6 hours in crock pot
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- 1/2 pound fresh green beans, cut into 1” pieces
- 1 fresh pineapple, cored and chopped into 1-inch pieces
- 1 pound sweet potatoes (2 med or 1 large), peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 green bell pepper, sliced into thin strips
- 1 small yellow onion, chopped
- 2 large cloves of garlic, minced
- 5oz can of unsweetened coconut milk
- 3 tbsp curry powder
- 5 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- 2 eggs per person
- 2 tsp olive oil or ghee
- Combine all ingredients except eggs in slow cooker and cook on “low” setting for 4-6 hours.
- Before serving, heat oil in pan on stove top or heat non-stick pan on medium high heat. In bowl, lightly beat eggs. Add eggs to pan and scramble. Remove from heat when no longer runny.
- Serve pineapple curry over eggs.
I will admit, I am not the biggest fan of curry. I can't handle really spicy foods, so I'm very careful with ingredients like curry. However, this is one recipe I really enjoy. The heat of the curry is balances with the sweetness of the pineapple for a delirious meal. This recipe is hearty enough to be a meal on its own, but tonight I'm making some eggs to go with it for a boast of protein.
There's a bit of chopping to start, but then the crock pot takes over. I bought whole vegetables, including the pineapple (hey, it was on sale!) but you can save time by purchasing pre-cut potatoes, onions, peppers, and even cored pineapple in the produce section of your grocery store.
Combine all ingredients except eggs and oil in slow cooker and cook on “low” setting for 4-6 hours. That's it! It's really that simple. Now just sit back and let the slow cooker do the work for you, and enjoy the sweet aroma that fills your kitchen.
When you're almost ready to eat, it's time to cook the eggs! Sure, you could get fancy and poach eggs for a hash like meal, but tonight I've kept it simple by just doing scrambled eggs. If you have time, take your eggs out and place them on the counter and allow them to come to room temperature. this isn't necessary if you don't have the time, but the eggs will cook much better if they are at room temperature when they hit the fan.
Heat oil in pan on stove top or heat non-stick pan on medium high heat. In bowl, lightly beat eggs. I usually swirl the oil once it's hot just to make sure my pan is evenly coated. Add eggs to pan and scramble. Remove from heat when no longer runny.
Serve pineapple curry over eggs.
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As Mississippi enters day five of the winter weather event, power outages are mounting once again.
After outages had dropped to around 20,000 at one point, those numbers have grown exponentially since then with poweroutage.us now showing nearly 200,000 customers without power across the state as of Thursday morning.
Outage maps for specific companies can be seen here:
Entergy states that customers who have lost power can help crews by unplugging electric heating and appliances and turning them back on gradually after power is restored. Taking this step will help avoid damaging the electric system through increased instantaneous demand when power is restored to homes and businesses.
Those with power are asked to limit usage to help reduce power demand.


text: We introduce MERAXES, a new, purpose-built semi-analytic galaxy formation model designed for studying galaxy growth during reionization. MERAXES is the first model of its type to include a temporally and spatially coupled treatment of reionization and is built upon a custom (100 Mpc)3 N-body simulation with high temporal and mass resolution, allowing us to resolve the galaxy and star formation physics relevant to early galaxy formation. Our fiducial model with supernova feedback reproduces the observed optical depth to electron scattering and evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function between z=5 and 7, predicting that a broad range of halo masses contribute to reionization. Using a constant escape fraction and global recombination rate, our model is unable to simultaneously match the observed ionizing emissivity at z≲6. However, the use of an evolving escape fraction of 0.05–0.1 at z∼6, increasing towards higher redshift, is able to satisfy these three constraints. We also demonstrate that photoionization suppression of low-mass galaxy formation during reionization has only a small effect on the ionization history of the intergalactic medium. This lack of ‘self-regulation’ arises due to the already efficient quenching of star formation by supernova feedback. It is only in models with gas supply-limited star formation that reionization feedback is effective at regulating galaxy growth. We similarly find that reionization has only a small effect on the stellar mass function, with no observationally detectable imprint at M*>107.5M⊙. However, patchy reionization has significant effects on individual galaxy masses, with variations of factors of 2–3 at z=5 that correlate with environment.

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The auto industry as a whole has seen impressive gains in fuel economy in the past two decades, especially in the crossover SUV segment. Pickup trucks and larger SUVs, however, still suffer from pretty ho-hum fuel economy figures. It appears owners have started to take notice as a new Consumer Reports study revealed truck and SUV owners are interested in better fuel economy.
Compared to the 42% of owners of all other vehicle types, the study revealed 73% of people driving a large SUV and pickup truck are interested in purchasing a vehicle with better fuel economy. The results follow an EPA report that noted large SUVs and pickups have fallen behind other segments with regards to fuel efficiency.
Overall, fuel efficiency is still a high priority for American car buyers. Of the numerous categories, the majority of respondents (37%) said fuel economy is the area in most need of improvement for their next vehicle. The answer topped maintenance costs, purchase price and infotainment by at least 11 percentage points. Digging deeper into the fuel efficiency woes truck and SUV owners feel, they were nearly twice as likely to select fuel efficiency as the trait most desired for their next vehicle compared to owners of other vehicle types.
Although the sample size was rather small at 1,078 US adults, 88% agreed fuel economy should continue to rise for all vehicle types. Further, 80% said fuel economy should increase to 40 mpg and the figure is a "worthwhile goal." This is in contrast to current doings at the federal level. The Trump administration is finalizing, though a handful of automakers have revolted and that features a compromise standard.
On the negative side of things, only 34% of Americans felt automakers truly cared about lowering fuel costs for buyers. The rest disagreed or were unsure.

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I’ve got a serious case of cover love this summer. So much so that I wanted to round up a handful that have recently caught my eye and that are deserving of a few sighs. Better yet, let’s make up some awards! We can do that, right? 😉
BEST DRESSED ~ Keep Holding On by Melissa Tagg
Can the designers of this cover please come and give me and my hubby a fashion overhaul. Seriously! I want to give these two a closet raid and impeccable style aside, the adorableness of this is just…wow.
CUTENESS OVERLOAD ~ Homestands by Sally Bradley
I mean, seriously. I swoon over everything about this cover. The colors. The lights. The fonts. The guy and the girl. The guys’s flannel shirt. That sky. Just. Sigh. Did I mention the guy?
BEST TITLE ~ A Moonbow Night by Laura Frantz
There’s just something about a good title and while all these books have amazing titles, Laura’s A Moonbow Night is one that piques my interest by the words alone. So fresh. So whimsical. She just unveiled her beautiful new cover and those greens and the glorious blues that blend with the heroine’s eyes just bring it all home.
SWEETEST COVER ~ So Rare a Gift by Amber Lynn Perry
There is something about Amber Lynn Perry’s latest that grabs my attention. I think it’s the gentle colors and stance, mixed with the fact that it’s the author herself posing as the heroine that just warms my heart!
MOST INTRIGUING ~ Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
There’s something about the colors of Jocelyn’s upcoming novel that really catches my eye. The luxurious fabric of the gown mixed with the humble bayou landscape is such an intriguing mix! I’ve had the privilege of reading an early draft of this manuscript and this cover checks all the right boxes.
CUTEST SMIRK ~ When Tides Turn by Sarah Sundin
This needs to be an award and if it isn’t one yet, Sarah Sundin’s upcoming WWII novel NAILS IT. And gah. The titling and colors of her covers are always so stunning. If I ever switched careers, I want to be a cover designer at Revell. No joke.
MOST MAGICAL ~ The Illusionist’s Apprentice by Kristy Cambron
I have a secret fascination about Harry Houdini as well as a not-so-secret affection for top hats, so add in Kristy Cambron’s literary magic and I am just waiting like a crazy person for her upcoming historical.
THE HEART-TUGGER ~ Can’t Help Falling by Kara Isaac
This one just gets me. From the fonts, to that pose and those expressions. My heart…it just. Good gravy. That’s it. I’m changing my name to Kara Isaac. Now to work on the accent…
Your turn! Which book covers grab your attention and why? Which covers would you add to the list and what award would you give them?


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NOTE: THE UNIVERSITY PCs HAVE VERSION 11.0 – YOU MAY NEED TO DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION AND NOT THE LATEST VERSION TO ALLOW COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPED IN THE LAB AND AT HOME. Ladder Logic (Digital) Ladder logic programs were designed to mimic the electrical circuit diagrams used for wiring control systems in the electrical industry when relay control was primarily used. The basic purpose of an electrical control system is to determine whether a load should be turned ON or turned OFF, under what circumstances and when it should happen. To understand a ladder program we need to remember the concept of current flow - a load is turned ON when the current can flow to it and is turned OFF when the current cannot flow to it. Below is an example of a relay logic diagram: The physical appearance of the logic resembles a ladder with each line of logic forming a “rung”. The digital input element of a ladder diagram is a "Contact". A contact has only two states: open or closed. An open contact breaks the current flow whereas a closed contact allows current to flow through it to the next element. The simplest example of a contact is an ON/OFF switch, which requires external force to activate it (either human or mechanical). Limit switches are those small switches that are placed at certain location so that when a mechanical device moves towards it, the contact will be closed and when the device moves away from it, the contact will be open. Symbol for a Normally Open Contact: The digital output elements are referred to as coils. The coils of a relay are energised then the output is said to be ON. 5 | P a g e
Symbol for a Coil: If a contact is connected to a coil and the contact is closed, the coil will be turned ON. This simple concept can be illustrated by the most basic ladder diagram as follow: There are various versions of coils and contacts available, which perform in different ways. We will look at some of them in this series of lab sessions however, the full programming manual is available at - e.pdf This document is over 700 pages long so think twice about printing! 6 | P a g e
Lab 1 - Connected Components Workbench (CCW) Introduction In this first lab session we will explore the basics of the programming software CCW and produce a simple ladder logic program. We can then test the program by connecting a Micro820 PLC, downloading the program and connecting input and output devices Instructions Start by opening the CCW software. If programming on the terraces you will find it in FAS software. Begin a new project by clicking on Catalog and expanding the Controllers folder in the Device Toolbox , which is located on the right-hand side of the Workbench screen. Double click on a Controller. For these labs we will be using the 2080-LC20-20QWB or the 2080-LC20-20QBB : You will be asked to verify the version of the controller which is currently version 10. Click OK A new Micro820 project based on this controller has now been created. The Micro820 should be shown in the Project Organiser on the left-hand side of the Workbench screen.
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Erdoğan accuses former AKP members reported to be forming new party of betrayal
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday took jabs at former ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials who are reported to be in the midst of establishing a new party and accused them of betrayal, independent news site T24 reported.
"It was good when we assigned roles to some of our friends who we set out [on this political journey] with, but then certain times arrived when we said ‘Come, take some rest and let us assign someone else,’ and we see that they have gotten off the [AKP] train and on board another one… Those who betray us today will betray the place they go to in the future," the Turkish president said during a rally for his ruling AKP ahead of the March 31 local elections in the central province of Tokat.
Erdoğan’s statements arrive amid increasing reports of former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, along with ex-AKP deputy Selçuk Özdağ, among others, forming a new right-wing political party.
Local reports indicate the party is nearing the end of political organisation in 40 provinces throughout the country.
Davutoğlu, a former professor of political science and international relations, served as prime minister from August 2014 until May 2016, when he was forced out by President Erdoğan.
Erdoğan told the crowd in Tokat that he believed they would give parties’ which are deserving of a lesson, a strong message at the polls on March 31.

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'Spider-Man 2' nets a record $180 million
LOS ANGELES "Spider-Man 2" pulled in a record $180 million in its first six days and obliterated other box-office highs over the long Fourth of July weekend. The "Spider-Man 2" haul was well above the previous best six-day opening of $146.7 million set last year by "The Matrix Reloaded."
"I think our hope was to go into the heart of the summer and grab the biggest six days possible. That's pretty much what happened," Jeff Blake, vice chairman for "Spider-Man 2" distributor Sony, said Monday.
Last weekend's top film, Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," fell to second place with $21 million over the four-day weekend, raising its total to $60.1 million. The film, Moore's assault on President Bush's response to the Sept. 11 attacks, could become the first documentary ever to top $100 million.
Doubling its theater count to 1,725, "Fahrenheit 9/11" held up strongly despite the onslaught of "Spider-Man 2," which debuted in 4,152 cinemas.
"We feel great that we were able to absorb the blow of Spidey and come back fighting," said Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films, one of the distributors of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Hollywood had a record Fourth of July weekend, with the top 12 movies taking in $158.5 million from Friday to Sunday, beating 2002's previous high of $139 million.
"Spider-Man 2" took in $115.8 million from Friday to Monday, according to Sony estimates. That put it far ahead of the previous best four-day holiday gross of $95.6 million set by "Shrek 2" over Memorial Day weekend this year.
With $152.6 million in its first five days, "Spider-Man 2" also shattered the $129 million record of "Shrek 2" for biggest Wednesday-Sunday debut.
'That's All Right'for Elvis fans
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Elvis Presley's "That's All Right" played simultaneously on radio stations around the world Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the rock 'n roll icon's first professional record.
Scotty Moore, Presley's first guitarist, hit a button on a control board at Sun Studio to begin the satellite broadcast to 1,200 to 1,500 stations. Outside the small studio where Presley cut the record on July 5, 1954, a street party was under way, with bands performing on a sound stage at Sun's front door. More than 2,000 participants turned out by early afternoon.
"That's All Right" now enjoys a prominent place in the history of American music, but it wasn't an immediate hit.
"A lot of people think it was an overnight success, but we paid our dues for two years on the road in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas before RCA picked us up," Moore said.
David Hasselhoff is big in 'Chicago'
LONDON "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff will appear in the London stage production of the hit musical "Chicago." Hasselhoff will play scheming lawyer Billy Flynn in his debut on the British stage at the Adelphi Theatre. The show has run in the West End for seven years.
"This is not about making money this is about following my heart, challenging myself and having fun," Hasselhoff said.


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Got a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan in the house? Try these Ninja Turtle Apples for a party favor.
I am working on a post full of ideas for one of Creative Kid Snacks’ Facebook fans, Amber. She asked me for some ideas on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday party.
I have a bunch of ideas to share for this upcoming party, but I couldn’t wait to share this one with all of you! I remember watching the Ninja Turtles when I was growing up; and they have come back and have become quite popular on Nickelodeon.
What we are making today are a healthy version of caramel apples. Green apples piped with white and dark chocolate, chilled, then enjoyed.
Creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Apples
Start by melting approximately 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips. (This will be for only the whites of the eyes, more white chips will be melted later to create the colored chocolate). I added a 1/2 teaspoon of vegetable oil just to make sure the resulting consistency would be smooth enough to pipe onto the apples. Melt the chocolate by microwaving it for one minute, stirring at 20 second intervals. Total melt time for this amount of chocolate will be between 45 seconds and 1 minute.
Once the white chocolate is ready, spoon into a piping bag or a plastic zip bag with a tiny corner snipped off and pipe little ovals onto each apple. Chill in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
Next, microwave 1 1/2 – 2 cups of white chocolate chips, depending on how many apples you want to make. Add 1-2 teaspoons of vegetable oil. Microwave for approximately one minute, stirring at 20 second intervals.
Divide the melted chocolate into 4 small bowls (or as many bowls as you want colors of headbands). To make it easier on yourself you could choose one turtle to make and color all of the chocolate that color.
Add food coloring to the chocolate. I use the Wilton gel food coloring. The colors are very true. Again, make as few or as many colors as you like, depending upon how ambitious you are.
Once your colored chocolate is ready, spoon it into a piping bag (I suggest a simple zip bag with a tiny corner sliced off if you are making all four colors, because washing out a piping bag and attachment between every color will be a lot of work).
Pipe around the whites of the eyes you’ve already created. You will make a figure eight around them. Then, continue the color around to the back of the head. Connect your circle, then add a tie and two hanging sections. It may help to put the apple down and pick up again to get a better position for your piping hand.
Once all of your masks are finished, chill again in the fridge until hardened.
Lastly, melt 1/2 – 1 cup dark chocolate chips, (depending on how many turtles you are making). In my experience, adding oil is not necessary because dark chocolate chips seems to melt into a smoother consistency than white chocolate chips. Again, melt for approximately 1 minute, stirring at 20 second intervals.
TIP: Melt chocolate in a glass bowl as opposed to ceramic. Use a wooden spoon or plastic spatula as opposed to a metal spoon. The ceramic and metal conduct more heat, which ends up cooking the chocolate more than it should be, and could result in clumpy, useless chocolate.
Place your melted dark chocolate into a piping bag of your choice, and make eyes and mouths for each turtle. When I looked up the turtles, I saw the mouth that looked like an elongated figure eight as shown in the photo below.
I drew a mix of regular smiles and those elongated figure eight expressions on the turtles. They came out pretty cute, I thought. By the way, the orange melted chocolate on Michelangelo is the result of me accidentally adding too much oil to the white chocolate before I melted it. If you add too much oil, that is what will happen. I left him in there to show you, so that you make sure to get it right!
Lastly, insert your popsicle sticks to make them look like a caramel apple.
How fun is this serve at your theme party? Mostly apple, not too much sweet, and the perfect little extra for the party! You could even wrap these in cellophane and send them home as favors!
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“Ooft what a question,” Simo Soo expresses at the top of our chat about their EP, “I Feel Weird“. “Think I’m just a person doing their best to take care, check in with friends and make lots of music.”
Right now, Simo is definitely doing a lot better though. Feeling much less anxious, even having moments of feeling happy as a treat. Earlier this year though, not so much. Simo has tried to stay in a routine as much as possible through COVID. Even though they haven’t always worked, they did manage to keep up meditating every day and learn Spanish, which has helped keep them grounded and occupied between the intense bouts of worry. “Also I read a whole bunch of books and did lots of push ups,” Simo reveals.
“It’s about my own experiences this year during Melbourne’s lockdown, all the anxiety and loneliness and boredom and longing and realisations that came with that,” Simo reveals on their newest EP. Although, there is some occasional light moments in there though and it does get a bit horny and goofy at times (“It’s Cool, We’re Housemates“).
Simo truly believes they have got this EP down pretty good, even though they didn’t expect it to have moments of lightness and calm in there as well. Simo explains: “Going into it I was just like ‘this is gonna be rouuuuuugh’.”
“At the start of lockdown in March I made about 5 beats a day as a way of getting my mind off things and just to create for the sake of creating,” Simo reveal on the creative process. “At one point it just turned into make all the beats for an album for myself.”
From there, Simo got all the beats together, announced a release date three weeks in the future and started recording all the vocals in an unused filthy shed on a rooftop. “Purposely not cleaning up the shed to just really soak up all the grossness of this year. Pretty sure there was lots of spiders in there,” Simo continues.
This EP was originally going to be an album but Simo ended up cutting it in two parts and give themself some more time to work on the second half. Part 2 will be out before the end of the year though, so stay tuned.
“Oh the whole thing. It’s all about me or interactions I’ve had with others [laughs]. I think is best heard all the way through, is only lil 15 minute blast. Every song is my fave.” — Simo Soo on the release of their EP.
Making music is just what Simo likes to do, they don’t really know how to do anything else. “Also, perhaps a personal reason was to prove to myself that I could still drop music during such wild stressful ass times and hey I diiiid,” Simo says. On a side note, I went through Simo Soo’s discography on Spotify and found a pretty cool collaboration with KUCKA titled “Lyf“, that is worth checking out too! I hope you like it as much as I do.
Right now, Simo is working on the second half of ‘I Feel Weird’, they think it will feature another five tracks. Also, Simo is producing a few records for others that they can’t talk on just yet, but Simo assures me that those records are sounding so gooooood.


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In the wake of the Oversight Board's decision, several GOP lawmakers and heavyweights have come out in support of the US president, and against Facebook and other big tech companies.
Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House Chief of Staff, told Fox News that it is a "sad for America," as well as a "sad day for Facebook." "I can tell you, a number of members of Congress are looking at, do they break up Facebook? Do they make sure that they don't have a monopoly?" he said, responding to the decision during a live news broadcast.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), also accused Facebook of acting as a monopoly, tweeting that a "fake Facebook court decides Facebook can do whatever Facebook wants, in this case, suspending Donald Trump w/o [sic] process or standards."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) panned the Oversight Board's decision as "disgraceful."
"For every liberal celebrating Trump’s social media ban, if the Big Tech oligarchs can muzzle the former President, what’s to stop them from silencing you?" he asked via Twitter.
At the same time, Democratic lawmakers, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have argued that Facebook did not go far enough.
"Facebook is a disinformation-for-profit machine that won't accept responsibility for its role in the safety of our democracy and people," she tweeted. "Trump should be banned for good, but Facebook will continue to fumble with its power until Congress and antitrust regulators rein in Big Tech."
Trump made loose reference to the board's decision in a Wednesday post for his new blog.
"Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before," he wrote. "These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process."
Being that many US politicians use Facebook and other social media platforms as key campaign tools, the ongoing debate over Trump's suspension from Facebook, as well as his permanent suspension from Twitter, has fueled speculation about the former US president's 2024 campaign run.
According to Facebook advertising data, Trump and US President Joe Biden respectively spent $107 million and $94.2 million on Facebook ads for the 2020 US presidential election.
Earlier this week, Trump teased to talk show host Candace Owens that he is looking forward to making an announcement about a 2024 run "at the right time."
"As you know, it's very early. But I think people are going to be very, very happy when I make a certain announcement," he added, emphasizing that he cannot "do it too early" because of "campaign finance reasons."
While a concrete date has yet to be set for Trump's political re-emergence, several sources within the former US president's circle have claimed that the 74-year-old may begin holding campaign rallies as early as this month.


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Who would have ever thought that the ultimate Romance King, Shah Rukh Khan, would find it difficult to approach a girl? Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali reveals an incident from the sets of Jab Harry Met Sejal, where SRK was asked to reach out to a girl, but the actor was so nervous that he did not go for it!
Recalling the incident, Imtiaz Ali says, “Shah Rukh ke andar ki jo hichhichkichahat ha na, woh kabhi jaati nahi.”
We were in Portugal and nobody recognized Shah Rukh there. We were meanwhile trying to impress Anushka Sharma. We threw a challenge and we told him ‘why don’t you approach that girl over there’. You won’t believe, he was so nervous that he just didn’t go for it! He instead told me to talk to the girl. Shah Rukh is the romantic hero who can do anything for the heroines in films. But over there, he got so nervous! Accha laga mujhe yeh dekh kar. Even I was nervous but I forgot all about it when I saw King Khan’s nervousness.- Imtiaz Ali narrates
Besides, the Aaj Kal director also reveals how he did not find Shah Rukh good looking when he met him for the first time. In a recent interaction with The Lallantop, Imtiaz opened up about the days when he and Shah Rukh were part of the same theatre but the actor was his senior. He had heard a lot about him but never had met him in person. So the first time Imtiaz saw SRK, he admitted that he didn’t really find the superstar good looking.
I had never met Shah Rukh Khan then. He was our senior in theatre and we used to keep hearing about him that he was doing plays with Barry John. He had, by then, started working on ‘Circus’ and ‘Fauji’. Prabhat Ranjan (novelist) once told us that he’s very handsome. I asked him ‘Aapko yeh handsome lag raha hai?’- Imtiaz Ali
Shah Rukh Khan and Imtiaz Ali had teamed up for the first time in the 2017 film, Jab Harry Met Sejal.

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Payal Rajput is foraying into web space with the OTT film Anaganaga O Athidhi. The film is being directed by Dayal Padmanabhan and the promo of the film is out today.
The teaser showcases Payal and her family and how things change when an outsider in the form of Chaitanya Krishna enters the scenes. Payal looks great in her de-glam look and the set up is nice.
But the directors have failed to showcase the story in a proper manner. The conflict point is not at all revealed clearly and this is the biggest drawback. Even the BGM looks loud and gives the ideas of what kind of a film this is going to be. Only future promos of this film can give more ideas.


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Amid Boston Overdose Crisis, a Pair of Harvard Students Are Bringing Narcan to the Red Line
At First Cambridge City Council Election Forum, Candidates Clash Over Building Emissions
Harvard’s Updated Sustainability Plan Garners Optimistic Responses from Student Climate Activists
‘Sunroof’ Singer Nicky Youre Lights Up Harvard Yard at Crimson Jam
‘The Architect of the Whole Plan’: Harvard Law Graduate Ken Chesebro’s Path to Jan. 6
Harvard College’s Title IX coordinators received 121 disclosures of incidents of potential sexual harassment last academic year, a nearly four-fold increase since the 2013-2014 school year, according to the University Title IX Office’s annual report.
Only five undergraduates who disclosed potential sexual harassment to Title IX coordinators filed a formal complaint last academic year with the Office of Sexual and Gender-Based Dispute Resolution. The “vast majority” of students across the University who made disclosures instead opted to pursue interim measures, which range from extensions on course work to leaves of absence. More students from the College disclosed potential sexual harassment to their Title IX coordinators than students from Harvard’s other schools.
Sixty-two percent of investigations into student cases between 2014 and 2016 did not find that a violation of the University’s sexual assault and harassment policy had occurred. In total, ODR has received 53 formal sexual harassment complaints since the office opened in September 2014.
“You look at what’s happening with the disclosures to the Title IX coordinators—that’s the larger universe. What we see in terms of formal complaints is really more like the tip of the iceberg,” Mia Karvonides, Harvard’s Title IX Officer, said in an interview Tuesday.
The Title IX Office released these statistics, among others, in its first-ever annual report Tuesday. The report, sent to a variety of administrators and student leaders in an email Tuesday evening, provides data about sexual harassment reporting on campus dating back to 2013-2014, when Karvonides became Harvard’s first central Title IX Officer. The report aims to educate Harvard affiliates about the University’s Title IX policies. Seventy-one percent of respondents to a 2015 University-wide survey said they were not at all or only a little bit knowledgeable about what happens when a student reports an incident of sexual assault or misconduct.
“I see this as the first of many many annual reports,” Karvonides said. “As our case numbers continue to grow I see opportunity to bring out more and more data while protecting the privacy of those people.”
In the 2015-2016 academic year, the office received 26 complaints, compared to 15 in the 2014-2015 school year—“an almost 60 percent increase.” By the end of last academic year, ODR had received 41 complaints, per the report.
Of the 41 complaints ODR had received at the end of last academic year, “approximately half of the complaints were resolved before progressing to a full investigation” because some complaints were settled through informal resolutions and and others ended after “administrative closure.”
Karvonides said that an ODR investigator will review a complaint before beginning an investigation. If the investigator decides that the complaint’s allegations, even if they were true, would not constitute a violation of Harvard’s Title IX policy, they will close the case after the initial review.
“Ultimately if it’s determined that the information as presented would not be a violation, then it’s administratively closed, which I think is the appropriate thing to do for all involved,” Karvonides said.
Only three of the cases that progressed to a full investigation between the 2013-2014 academic year and the 2015-2016 academic year did not feature parties who had “engaged in a dating/romantic relationship or friendship prior to the incident.”
Sixty-nine percent of ODR cases featured a female complainant and a male respondent. Eight percent featured a male complainant and a male respondent, and 8 percent featured a female complainant and a female respondent.
Karvonides said the increased number of disclosures is a key sign of progress.
“At the end of the day with sexual assault, sexual harassment, gender-based harassment, the fact that it is historically underreported—this has got to be our priority is to look for indicators that people are feeling more comfortable coming forward and availing themselves with support,” Karvonides said.
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This well-organized book, in cataloguing the different ways in which people think about the environment, shows why so many environmentalists talk at cross-purposes.
I was drawn to this book because I was hoping to find something akin to the dialectical analysis of ideas performed by Mortimer J. Adler’s Institute for Philosophical Research in the 1950s and 60s, which resulted in such books as The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conceptions of Freedom and The Idea of Justice. The aim of these books was to elucidate, using a rigorous, impartial methodology, the discussion of the ideas in the history of Western thought. In order to expunge bias, these works were team efforts, and all the terminology adopted in them was carefully chosen so as not to favor any one strand of thought over any other. I was excited by the notion of finding something comparable which treated the idea of environmentalism as its subject.
While The Politics of the Earth is not a dialectical analysis in that sense, it does organize the discussion of environmentalism by showing the various ways that the environment and environmentalism have been talked and written about. It turns out that the subject can be resolved into 9 separate “discourses.”
The author defines discourse as “a shared way of apprehending the world” that
enables those who subscribe to it to interpret bits of information and put them together into coherent stories or accounts. Each discourse rests on assumptions, judgments, and contentions that provide the basic terms for analysis, debates, agreements, and disagreements. . . . The way a discourse views the world is not always easily comprehended by those who subscribe to other discourses.
The discourses are mostly very different from each other. Some address other discourses and some do not. Dryzek groups them into 4 categories:
- Global limits and their denial
- Solving environmental problems
- The quest for sustainability
- Green radicalism
In the first category are two discourses. The first of these he calls Survivalism, which contends that global resources are finite and that human consumption of them will necessarily run into an absolute limit when they are exhausted. The result will be global disaster.
The second discourse here he calls Prometheanism, and it consists of denying the Survivalist premise, holding instead that human ingenuity has always and will always surmount the problems it faces, including those problems caused by itself. The history of human development has been not one of increasing scarcity but of increasing abundance; this has been due to technology, which will press on.
One of Dryzek’s ways of showing evenhandedness toward the the discourses is to break them all down in the same way, analyzing them briefly and examining their features under a series of 4 headings. He even provides a little box of bullet-points for each discourse, summarizing its main tenets and allowing the reader to clearly grasp the differences between discourses. I loved this feature, really appreciated the author’s clear organization of the subject matter.
But a couple of things troubled me while reading the book. One was my own lack of clarity about what exactly a discourse is, at least as Dryzek uses the term. To me the word suggests above all a way of talking about a subject, in this case the environment. But it’s clear that these discourses are not just ways of talking; they also imply or urge particular actions and policies. To the extent that they do this, I wondered whether the discourses might be the same as what I think of as ideologies.
Robert Higgs, in his book Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, spends a chapter discussing ideology, and contends that every ideology has 4 aspects:
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It structures a person’s perceptions and predetermines his understandings of the social world, expressing these cognitions in characteristic symbols; it tells him whether what he “sees” is good or bad or morally neutral; and it propels him to act in accordance with his cognitions and evaluations as a committed member of a political group in pursuit of definite social objectives. Ideology simplifies a reality too huge and complicated to be comprehended, evaluated, and dealt with in any purely factual, scientific, or other disinterested way.
This is not a bad fit with Dryzek’s environmental discourses. And in case you may think that Higgs has a negative view of ideology, here is his next paragraph:
Every sane adult has an ideology. Every ideology must deal in part with factual, scientific, and other “hard” knowledge. To the extent that it makes assumptions or claims inconsistent with such well-confirmed, socially tested knowledge one may properly accuse it of “distortion.” Some ideologies commit this sin more than others. But all contain unverified and unverifiable elements, including their fundamental commitments to certain values. These elements are neither true nor false.
Perhaps here there is a parting of ways between Higgs’s ideologies and Dryzek’s discoursesbut I’m not sure. This point is surely important because if the discourses are fundamentally about values rather than facts, then it seems to me that the prospect of resolving environmental problems through any agreed program of action is dim. At the bottom of, say, the Promethean discourse, is there the “fact” of the limitlessness of human ingenuity, or is there the “value” that the human freedom to think and act must be held supreme above all else? Is it a question of knowledge, or a question of what we like?
Another thing that bothered me sometimes was the author’s level of objectivity. In his introduction the author admits that he has views of his own concerning the environment, but postpones telling the reader what these are until the end of the book when he sums up. I would have preferred full disclosure at the beginning; this would have allowed me, as a reader, to adjust for his possible bias as he treated each of the discourses. As it was, I sensed the author’s relative approval and disapproval through such things as ironic remarks made in the course of the analyses.
In a thoroughgoing “dialectical” analysis of the kind done by the Institute for Philosophical Research, the terminology and the exposition are chosen carefully so that, ideally, each of the viewpoints is depicted in such a way that none of its own adherents would not object to the presentation. In such an approach, each of the discourses would be described almost as an advocate would do it, presenting its logical argument as forcefully as possible while leaving aside any emotional appeals. As I was taught while attending a Buddhist monastic college: “when presenting your opponent’s case, try to make it sound stronger than your own.”
That’s hard to do, and it’s not what Dryzek was attempting in this book; but it’s what I would have liked best.
However, this book is still good, and the author has done a valuable service to environmentalism and to thought about public policy generally. I had found the various arguments and programs around the environment to be confusing and contradictory, and this book has gone a long way toward showing me exactly why. Now, when I hear or read anything about environmental problems and their solutions, I find myself classifying the arguments in terms of these discourses. My thinking about the subject is better organized, and I like that.


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Cynoscephalae (actual Greece) – 197 BC
Portia stood up from the bed and stretched in the dimly lit tent, the light fabric of her tunic rustled around her legs and opened in the middle to reveal well-rounded legs whose pearly skin shone in the candlelight. She carefully helped herself to half a cup of wine and topped it up with water. The scent of wine reached her nostrils, there were rosemary and lavender in there for sure and a good helping of honey. She took a tiny sip and licked her lips.
Noises from the outside reached her. It was the sound of inexpert musicians whose hands have been lubed up by a good helping of sweet wine and laughing, drunken warriors with their happy partners.
Portia took another sip of wine and closed her eyes, waiting. Suddenly, the entrance flap of the tent rose up and a muscular man stumbled inside. He was still dressed in his battle outfit, the heavy chest armor stained in blood and sweat, a red mantle covering his back. Her hands rose in silence to offer her goblet to his thirsty mouth. He took it and went to sit on the bed.
The wooden structure welcomed the heavy warrior with a squeak and Portia knew better than to start chattering. Instead, she kept silent and waited for Kaius to take a sip of wine. Only when she saw his shoulders lower a bit under the armor she walked closer, her tunic flowing with her steps and barely hiding her body.
Her fingers went directly to the leather strips and buckles of his armor and released Esenyurt Escort them, then she lifted the heavy metal and put it away on one side of the bed. In the light of the braziers, she sat at his side and kept silent.
Kaius took more sips from the goblet and his features relaxed a little bit more.
‘It was…’ He paused, ‘…amazing.’
Portia smiled. Given the feisty soldiers outside the tent, there was no doubt it had been a success.
‘They settled into a phalanx and didn’t stand a chance. Rome will be pleased.’ Portia refilled his goblet and sat at his side again. Her hand started to wander on the dirty garments that Kaius was still wearing. Blood had clotted over a cut on his arm. Her fingers touched it lightly and Kaius’s eyes closed.
‘I’m so tired’ he sighed. She did not talk, but pulled the sleeve of his tunic. He got up, removed it and let it drop to the ground.
For a moment he stood in front of her, his wide chest carrying old and new scars. Portia’s eyes followed along a long one that went from his gluteus down his entire thigh. His slightly engorged manhood told that the battle had not exhausted him yet. Portia took his hand in hers, inviting him to lie down on the bed and walked to a table to pick up a bowl full of clean water and a cloth.
Kaius let out a moan of pleasure when the fresh cloth touched his skin and tried to take it, but Portia’s small hand pushed slightly on his chest.
‘Leave it’ she told him and he relaxed on the bed, closing his eyes.
The cloth brushed against his beard with a scratching İstanbul Escort sound, cleaning away the sweat and then Portia moved it down to his chest. Kaius adjusted himself on the bed with another moan; she saw his manhood growing bigger. Concentrating on his arm, she washed away the coagulated blood around the cuts and applied her special ointment. The aromatic scent spread through the tent and tickled his nostrils.
Portia spread the ointment on his wounds and more on his shoulders. Her fingers explored his skin and pushed lightly to find tenseness. She massaged his sore muscles releasing the knots. It was deeply satisfying for him to lie under Portia’s hands and he moaned with pleasure.
Then she moved the cloth lower, washing his stomach and legs. As soon as she touched his thighs, his cock sprang up fiercely. He did not seem to be bothered and still kept his eyes closed; Portia smiled in appreciation. She dropped the cloth on the ground and laid her hand on the base of his cock in the furry hair, stroking his pubes lightly. His cock throbbed and precum made the tip glisten in the light. Her hand moved slowly to embrace and hold him, held him tightly in her hand and started moving it slowly. The warrior under her arms growled in evident appreciation and she knelt between his legs to take him in her mouth.
Portia’s lips opened to welcome his cock, almost too big to swallow; she sucked the head and slowly moved over to take it all in her mouth. Then she withdrew and glanced at him. Kaius was staring at her, enjoying the sight of his mistress bent over Beylikdüzü Escort his hard swollen cock, clothes barely hiding her body and hair hanging loosely on his legs.
She smiled and her mouth returned to his manhood, her tongue ran around the tip while stroking the shaft, then sucked it in her mouth massaging the red, smooth tip with her lips then more…Kaius felt blood rushing away from him and surrendered to his mistress.
Portia’s mouth received his cock once again and held it in her mouth with her hand; Kaius groaned at the feeling of being swallowed, then she massaged him hard and swallowed him again. His breath had gotten heavier and his cock was as hard as ever. Feeling he was close to coming, his hand reached down to pull her up and return the favor but she shook her head in silence and smiled back at him. Portia’s tongue ran all along his cock, exploring and tasting every millimeter, then swallowed him again. With a hand she gently cupped his balls, feeling them swollen under her touch. She knew it would not be long before he would reach his pleasure, so she welcomed his cock once again and stroked it hard with her hand, stroking and swallowing, until she felt the warrior tremble under her fingers and his semen shot out in her mouth.
Kaius’ hands clawed the mattress under them and shook, possessed by his pleasure. His cock kept spurting semen inside her mouth and he got a glimpse of her lips closed around his manhood, her long hair scattered around and untidy, ‘Gods!’ he murmured.
Portia swallowed all and kept his cock in her mouth, moving softly, until it was spent and soft then she crawled up to him and kissed him hard. Kaius explored her mouth and tasted his own semen; his lover could beat him with her mouth better than an army of Macedonian warriors. He smiled contentedly and pulled Portia to lie at his side and rest with him.


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by Amy Serrago
Elizabeth and Anthony met at the gym. They’d both been going there for a while, but because Elizabeth had been working hard to get over the tragic death of her first love, she hadn’t noticed Anthony. She had spent a long time feeling guilty whenever something made her happy, but she said one night she got tired of being sad and prayed for a sign that it was OK to move on. That’s when she first noticed Anthony, Elizabeth described him as attractive but very quiet. It took her a couple of weeks to get up the courage to talk to him, but when she did they ended up talking for two hours straight! After dating for a while, the pair decided to take the next step. Elizabeth always knew she wanted a fun, rustically styled barn wedding and had admired Vintage Oaks for quite some time. She was thrilled when she found out it was available and right within their budget. She and Anthony started planning the wedding of their dreams, starting with the outdoor ceremony they’d both envisioned.
Elizabeth was gorgeous in her lace trumpet cut gown with its delicate cap sleeves and sexy sheer detailing. Its vintage inspired styling and the cowboy boots she paired it with were perfect for the pastoral setting. The bridesmaids were pretty in pale pink gowns with cap sleeves to mimic Elizabeth’s look and all of the ladies carried bouquets of white hydrangea with pastel pink and lavender florals mixed in. Anthony and his groomsmen were dapper in light gray suits and bow ties, the guys in pale blush and Anthony in white. After the ceremony, Anthony shed his jacket to reveal cool brown suspenders for a more country casual look.
At the reception, tables were set with white linens and centerpieces of cotton flowers in ball jars. Custom wooden signage enhanced the rustic vibe of the day and there was a special area for the kids at the wedding to color and play. Instead of a traditional guest book, Elizabeth and Anthony asked everyone to sign their “guest quilt”, a keepsake that will keep them warm in their new home together. After a bountiful buffet dinner, Elizabeth and Anthony cut their “naked” wedding cake and then cut it up on the dance floor before making their grand exit with a fun sparkler send off. Congratulations, Elizabeth and Anthony!


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Are you in debt? Are you having trouble keeping track of your debt repayments? This article will provide you with a guide on how to use a debt payoff calculator. Read on and find out how this calculator can help you. It may come in handy for you.
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