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The Jewish Federation is proud to provide subsidy scholarships and grants for educational initiatives enabling parents to send their children for the first time to summer camps
as well as to participate in approved Israel Experience programs. Nothing makes Jewish identity and history come alive for young people like an Israel Experience Program or a Jewish summer camp.
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Best excursion ever!
Captain, Angel and his crew took care of everyone putting our safety first and still giving us a fun time. Snorkeling was amazing, Boat ride was beautiful, drinks were a bit watered down, but flowed freely. The beach, kayaks, paddle boards, water slides, were unexpected and so much fun! Thanks
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DETROIT (AP) — Takata Corp. and three former employees were charged by federal prosecutors with concealing deadly defects in automotive air bag inflators. The inflators are linked to at least 16 deaths worldwide, 11 in the U.S.
A federal grand jury indicted the former employees -- Shinichi Tanaka, Hideo Nakajima and Tsuneo Chikaraishi. Prosecutors also charged the company.
According to an indictment, as early as 2000 the trio of workers falsified and altered reports to hide from customers tests that showed the inflators could rupture or otherwise fail to meet specifications. They were charged with six counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, while the company faces one count of wire fraud.
The indictments were unsealed Friday, just ahead of a Justice Department news conference to announce a corporate penalty against the Japanese company.
Takata air bag inflators can explode with too much force, spewing metal shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least 16 people have been killed worldwide and more than 180 injured. The faulty inflators have touched off the largest automotive recall in U.S. history involving 42 million vehicles and 69 million inflators.
The three former employees worked in Japan and the U.S. Takata's U.S. operations are headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan.
"Defendants commonly referred to the removal or alteration of unfavorable test data that was to be provided to Takata customers as 'XX-ing' the data," the indictment says. In June 2005, Nakajima said in an email that "they had no choice but to manipulate test data, and that they needed to 'cross the bridge together.'"
Multiple news outlets have reported that Takata will pay around a $1 billion penalty due to a scheme to deceive federal regulators and cover up the air bag problems.
Unlike most other air bag makers, Takata's inflators use explosive ammonium nitrate to fill air bags in a crash. But the chemical can deteriorate over time and burn too fast, blowing apart a metal canister.
Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler are among the biggest customers for Takata inflators. In all, 17 automakers are affected by the recalls.
Takata began developing ammonium nitrate inflators in the late 1990s. From 2000 on, the indictment says, the three executives knew that the inflators weren't meeting automakers' specifications and were rupturing during tests. They routinely fabricated test data or removed unfavorable information from data they supplied to automakers, the indictment said.
In 2008, when Takata's inflators began experiencing ruptures on the road, the three executives and others continued to withhold information from customers. As a result, automakers paid Takata more than $1 billion for tens of millions of faulty air bags, the indictment says.
The indictments come as Takata faces overwhelming recall and legal costs due to the widespread inflator problems. Analysts expect the company's North American unit to seek bankruptcy protection.
Takata has been fined $70 million by U.S. safety regulators for delays in disclosing the inflator defect, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has warned that the company could face an additional $130 million penalty if it doesn't fulfill the terms of a consent order agreed to in November of 2015.
Takata has agreed to recall all original equipment inflators that lack a chemical drying agent in phases by the end of 2018. So far, the recall affects vehicles going back to the 2000 model year.

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County Police Officer Suspended With Pay Amid Claim of Misconduct
A 6-month veteran with the Anne Arundel County Police has been suspended with pay following a claim of misconduct while on duty.
The officer in question responded to the Corridor Marketplace on Laurel-Ft. Meade Road around 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 2 for hundreds of people gathering on foot to watch vehicles perform racing type maneuvers in the parking lot. The officer pulled into the crowd and it is believed he struck at least one person with his vehicle, causing minor injuries. This incident is currently under investigation and the officer has been suspended with pay.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Office of Professional Standards at 410-222-8741 or the TipLine 410-222-4700.


Cellular simultaneous recurrent networks (CSRN)s have been traditionally exploited to solve the digital control and
conventional maze traversing problems. In previous works, we investigated the use of CSRNs to register simulated
binary images with in-plane rotations between ±20° using two different CSRN architectures such as one with a
general multi-layered perceptron (GMLP) architecture; and another with modified MLP architecture with multilayered
feedback. We further exploit the CSRN for registration of realistic binary and gray scale images under
rotation. In this current work we report results of applying CSRNs to perform image registration under affine
transformations such as rotation and translation. We further provide extensive analyses of CSRN affine registration
results for appropriate cost function formulation. Our CSRN results analyses show that formulation of locally
varying cost function is desirable for robust image registration under affine transformation.
Cellular simultaneous recurrent networks (CSRN)s have been traditionally exploited to solve digital control and
conventional maze traversing problems. In a previous work , we investigate the use of CSRNs for image registration
under affine transformations for binary images. In Ref. , we attempt to register simulated binary images with in-plane
rotations between ±20° using two different CSRN implementations such as with 1) a general multi-layered perceptron
(GMLP) architecture; and (2) a modified MLP architecture with multi-layered feedback. Our results in Ref. 1 show that
both architectures achieve moderate local registration, with our modified MLP architecture producing a best result of
around 64% for cost function accuracy and 98% for image registration accuracy. In this current work, for the first time in
literature, we investigate gray scale image registration using CSRNs. We exploit both types of CSRNs for registration of
realistic images and perform complete evaluation of both binary and gray-scale image registration. Simulation results
with both CSRN architectures show an average cost function accuracy of 40.5% and an average image accuracy of
33.2%, with a best result of 46.2% and 40.3%, respectively. Image results clearly show that the CSRN shows promise
for use in registration of gray-scale images.
In order for a mobile robot to successfully navigate its environment, it must have knowledge about the objects in its immediate vicinity. The robot can use this information for localization, navigation and object avoidance. Among many sensors available for object detection we are primarily interested in camera-based vision for indoor robot navigation. In this work, we focus on using a single camera to detect objects in the field of view of the robot for the purpose of obstacle avoidance. In order to obtain an integrated robot obstacle avoidance and navigation technique, we investigate a modular approach. In the first module, we extend an appearance based object detection (ABOD) technique to automatically identify individual objects. We then extract strong corner features, overlaying them over the identified objects. This allows us to select a few representative corners for each object. In the second module, we attempt to group these strong corner features using a planar homography technique to define more natural features such as 'planes' for further processing. As an added feature, we utilize the strong corner features generated from module 1, the corresponding features in the next frame from module 2 and a basic optical flow technique for tracking these identified objects. In the third and final module, we obtain distance and heading information for each of obstacles as the robot avoids and navigates in an indoor environment. We show both simulation and actual results on a mobile robot for each of these three modules. We hope to integrate these three modules to obtain a single camera-based integrated robot obstacle avoidance and navigation technique in future.


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Ceramic is one of promising materials for pressure housings because ceramic has higher compressive strength than titan alloys. However, as the tensile strengths of ceramics are only a fraction of the compressive strength, common design methods for pressure housings of metals can not be directly applied to ceramic pressure housings. We will propose a new design method to coupling ceramic hemisphere and cylinder, and confirmed its validity with finite-element method analysis. We made a small-sized model of a pressure housing and examined that it can stand external 120 MPa water pressure.


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Tech Five: Electronic Arts surges off earnings
Company topped earnings estimates off sales of sports titles, new Battlefield.
Video game publisher Electronic Arts is scoring big on Wall Street Wednesday. Let's take a look at the technology stocks to watch:
Electronic Arts. Shares are up nearly 5% in pre-market trading after the publisher beat estimates for the fourth quarter. EA reported revenue of $1.18 billion for the quarter, citing its sports lineup and the March launch of first-person shooter Battlefield: Hardline.
Groupon. Shares of the daily deals service slipped nearly 2% after reporting mixed results for the first quarter. While the company topped earnings estimates with 3 cents a share, Groupon fell short on revenue, ending the quarter with $750.4 million. Analysts projected revenue of $817 million.
Facebook. The social network's virtual reality business Oculus confirmed it will being shipping headsets during the first quarter of 2016. Pre-orders will arrive later this year.
Salesforce.com. Shares are still headed upward off a report that Microsoft is weighing a bid for the cloud computing company. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is considering a bid after an unidentified potential buyer stepped forward.
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Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Inaugurated in 1927, Berlin Tempelhof Airport was one of the most important historic airports in Germany. When it closed, it was redeveloped and converted into a public park in 2010.
Although Tempelhof’s airfield played a relevant part during World War II and during the Cold War, it was closed due to economic losses in 2008. Afterwards, it was transformed into a public park called “Tempelhofer Feld”.
A historic landmark
In 1909, short-haul flights took place over the airport space, including one of the first air shows in the world. However, Tempelhof was not appointed an airport until 1923. Three years later the airline carrier Lufthansa was created, and established its base at Tempelhof.
Thanks to its privileged location in the city center, Tempelhof became one of the world’s airport with most air traffic. The airport was also the largest building in the world until The Pentagon was built.
When the capital of Germany was divided into four parts after the end of World War II in 1945, the airport was fully controlled by the American forces.
In 1948 the Soviet Union blocked all traffic by land and water to East Germany. West Germany decided to help the East Germans by flying over the area and dropping tons of food, coal and other supplies. The “Berlin Airlift” lasted 11 months and carried out 300,000 flights. The airlift was extremely successful, carrying more goods into East Germany than the previous years by rail, thus the Soviet authorities lifted the blockade in 1949.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American base was dismantled, and the Tempelhof Airport was once again used for commercial air transport. The unification of Germany was the beginning of the end for the airport, since it began to generate millionaire losses.
The iconic airport was closed in 2008 and two years later, it was remodeled into the city’s largest park. Tempelhofer Feld measures 380 hectares, exceeding the legendary Central Park in New York City.
Jewish Museum Berlin (3.4 km) German Museum of Technology (3.6 km) Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin (4 km) Checkpoint Charlie (4 km) East Side Gallery (4 km)


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Modern recipes for meat spreads use cream cheese or mayonnaise as a binder, and the results are bland and milky. Lard is the original meld for this recipe, but Brits have been using clarified butter since the Raj, and it’s perfect.
Clarify a stick of butter; cool and mix with a pound of minced ham and a heaping tablespoon of dry mustard and black pepper. A dash or two or three of nutmeg is essential. Do not salt. Blend very well and refrigerate, the longer the better. Serve at room temperature with toast.
In my book (which got another rejection this week: “Your approach to Southern cooking is disturbingly pugnacious.”) Alice Brock is a bazillion times cooler than Alice Waters. Brock’s humor and ill regard for bullshit establishes her biography, My Life as a Restaurant, as the hands-on-hips precursor to Bourdain’s somewhat more cantankerous Kitchen Confidential. Not only that, but Waters never had a decent song written about her, much less an anthem.
Alice Brock and her staff up in Massachusetts had a thing with mousses/mooses. The drawing with this recipe has antlers, and they include a story of a moose falling into a vat of cocoa for the chocolate version. This fixation seems to be prevalent in New England where mooses live, but in this culinary reference, the homonym proves emphatic. This salmon mousse is great hot weather nosh and can be served either from your great-grandmother’s fish mold or if you’re just totally white trash as a dip.
Put a quarter cup diced onion and lemon juice in a blender with an envelope of gelatin and a half cup hot water. Blend at high speed for one minute, then add a half cup of mayonnaise and 16 ounces of canned salmon. (Red is best, leftover homecooked is wonderful, and pink will do.) Blend/pulse this mixture until smooth. Add a tablespoon paprika and a cup of heavy cream. Blend for about a half minute, and cool for at least 6 hours before serving.
Without a doubt, the most maltreated recipe to come out of New Orleans cookery is shrimp Creole. The reason for this is that most people simply don’t have an understanding of how the roux functions as a basis for such a complex dish. Much more often than not the roux is simply disregarded as a component altogether, and what you’ll find served as shrimp Creole is little more than a handful of mealy shrimp drenched in a cayenne-infused Italian-style tomato sauce loaded with bell peppers and ladled over a pile of gummy Minute rice. Yes, tomatoes are an essential component to a shrimp Creole, but not a tomato sauce as such. The tomatoes give flavor to a much more complex stew that includes (of course) onions, bell pepper, celery, garlic and liquids. And sure, à la Creole to most people means piquant, but this does not mean hot; spicy, perhaps, but not hot.
Shrimp Creole is not a difficult dish to make; as with any recipe, you simply have to follow the proper procedure and proceed apace. First make a roux with a quarter cup each of flour and oil—not butter, not olive oil, just a light vegetable oil will do fine—cooking it to a rusty brown; some people will tell you to use a very dark roux for a Creole, but I prefer one a bit lighter (sue me). To this, while still hot, add two cups finely chopped white onion, one cup finely chopped celery and a half cup finely diced bell pepper. Do not over-do the bell pepper! I firmly concur with Justin Wilson who said time and time again that bell pepper is “a taste killah”, and we both agree that you can never use too much onion. y of you will recognize this combination as a platform for many Creole/Cajun dishes.
For a basic shrimp Creole to feed six people, sauté two pounds peeled shrimp–I recommend a 26-30 count–in a light oil with plenty of garlic, about four cloves crushed and minced, and a little pepper (do not salt). Add the shrimp (with the liquid) to the roux/vegetable mix, then immediately add two 14 ounce cans of diced tomatoes with juice. (In a perfect world, you’d use four cups of home-canned tomatoes, but I do not live in a perfect world, and chances are you don’t, either.) Add a little water to this if needed to give it the consistency of a thick soup, season with a two tablespoons dried basil, two teaspoons thyme and a teaspoon each of oregano and ground cumin. Understand please that these are relative ratios that you can adjust with neither guilt nor effort. As to pepper, some cayenne, yes, and yes to some black pepper, too, but when it comes to pepper, the best rule of thumb is to add just enough to make a statement and provide a good Louisiana hot sauce on the table. Let this stew for at least an hour (I put it in the oven uncovered and stir it two or three times), then adjust your seasonings, particularly the salt and pepper. Serve over cooked long-grain rice; let me recommend Zatarain’s, and no, I’m not getting paid for that.
You don’t have to pay $5 a cup for good pickled mushrooms, and in time you can come up with specific recipes to use for any given occasion. In the meantime, here’s a good general-purpose recipe from an old friend of mine who ran a catering business in Oxford. He looked like a red-headed Rick Astley and used a cigarette holder.
Sauté in olive oil 1 pound of mushrooms, sliced or cut in quarters, with 1 large red pepper, cut into strips, one a large red onion, sliced, and 3 cloves garlic, minced. Cool, add balsamic vinegar, thyme, and fresh ground pepper. Salt to taste. Refrigerate before serving.
I do not hold with people who will not share recipes; that’s just mean. Most all of the good cooks I know are friendly and generous with their expertise. If you find yourself in the kitchen a lot, you should keep a cookbook of your own. Sooner or later, you’re bound to do something different and wonderful and you owe it to yourself to write it down and pass it on to others. Once you’ve got a dish down pat the way you want and like, it becomes your own exclusive property anyway. You’ll probably find that no one will be able to replicate the dish to yours or even their satisfaction. The secret to your dish might very well prove to be your cooking container (especially if it’s seasoned; woks are said to have their own signature) a particular cooking method you consider unimportant enough not to write down or even something as ineffable as your own special touch. At least give other people a base opportunity by listing your ingredients and procedures.
Include information aside from just the basics, too. For instance, mention if the dish was a favorite of a family member. If you serve it every year on a particular holiday, garnish your recipe with what other components were elemental, especially those involving heirlooms (your Uncle Earl’s china platter, or the centerpiece Millie made out of sewing scraps and pine cones), activities like having a breakfast on the morning presents were opened or memorable incidents (“Earl pulled a gun when Judy dropped that teacup . . . “). Such documentation not only enriches the book itself, but it also provides fodder for other stories, perhaps even novels or off-Broadway plays.
Let me also encourage you to write recipes by hand. While this exercise might serve as an irritating reminder of how bad your handwriting actually is, it gives the recipe verisimilitude. Handwritten pages also aspire to art when splattered with slopped liquids; it’s so Pollock. You just don’t get that with a laptop. Writing recipes by hand does require some precision, but don’t let getting caught up in the heat of the moment stop you. Later you can find another pen, more red wine or chocolate syrup, and amend the entry.
As to what recipes to include, for once in your life, don’t worry about diversity. Put your best foot forward. If your forte is cakes, casseroles or seafood, concentrate on those and don’t make any spurious attempt to fill in with recipes you simply copy from another place unless you actually try them out first. Bear in mind that this book should be as personal as you can make it, as reflective as possible of your personality and idiosyncrasies. By all means, include recipes from friends and relatives as well, since those enrich your work by leaps and bounds, but always identify your contributor and provide details of them as well as a genealogy of the recipe itself. For instance, an entry in my book reveals that a recipe for chicken soup with corn and rivels came from a lady from Lancaster, Pa. who was 6’2”, a psychologist with a unibrow who got the recipe from her Quaker grandmother, the wife of a Lithuanian stockbroker. Such seemingly irrelevant details make for richer reading than a dry recitation of ingredients.
Whoever coined the phrase, “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings,” was more likely referencing Brunnhilda’s final arias in the “Ring” cycle than any specific performer, but at the turn of the last century and no doubt before operatic divas were typically big girls with big voices.
Among them was Luisa Tetrazzini, a robust Florentine soprano whose career peaked in 1905-14. Tetrazzini dazzled audiences with her chromatic scales, staccato, trills and other such florid effects, and her skill and taste in the delivery of simple melodies was universally admired. The girl had class. Luisa’s great rival was Nellie Melba, an acclaimed Australian soprano with whom she had a bitter feud. (It’s a diva thing.) Escoffier, “the King of Chefs and the chef of kings” created dishes for them both; for Nellie the peach Melba, and for Luisa a soufflé Tetrazzini. While the peach Melba (peach and raspberry sauce over vanilla ice cream) has become a standard (as has Melba toast, also an Escoffier innovation for her during an illness), the soufflé Tetrazzini has been consigned to obscurity.
The dish Luisa is much more remembered for was according to James Beard (and though Beard had a natural bias towards the West Coast, I’ll trust him in this issue as opposed to the Knickerbocker supporters) made in her honor by Ernest Arbogast, the chef at the legendary Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where Tetrazzini resided for two years. Her contamporary Caruso was there during the Great Earthquake in 1906; he never returned, and who can blame him? Luisa’s enduring dish is turkey tetrazzini, a spaghetti dish usually involving our Foremost Fowl, and though we may never know what the original contained, in addition to string pasta and turkey, the tetrazzini usually has mushrooms and vegetables in a Velouté/Mornay sauce topped with Parmesan cheese and baked en casserole.
Even though it has now become such a pedestrian dish that you see versions of it in the lunch buffet at Kroger, for many such as me tetrazzini has become a default leftover turkey dish. Here’s a basic recipe from Fannie Farmer, but bear in mind the variations are endless. I use vermicelli rather than spaghetti, and instead of baking will often just ladle the turkey/sauce mixture over pasta with a sprinkling of cheese.
Cook 2 tablespoons flour in 3 tablespoons butter until foam subsides. Add 2 cups chicken broth, about 1/3 cup heavy cream, a good slosh of dry sherry, and generous dash of nutmeg. Stir until thickened. To a half pound cooked spaghetti, add about 3 cups diced turkey (or chicken), 1 cup sliced sautéed mushrooms, and about a quarter cup of sautéed celery. Mix very well with sauce along with about half a cup of grated Parmesan. Press mixture into a casserole, top with more Parmesan and bake at 425 for about 15-39 minutes, until lightly browned. Toasted almonds are a nice touch.
A smart-ass from New Orleans—they’re all over the place down there, trust me—once asked (in a job interview, no less) if I knew how to make marchand, and when I said no, the bastard actually curled his upper lip a definitively unctuous, condescending sneer. If I had heat vision, he’d have been char. I got the job anyway because the guy who asked me to apply owned the joint. The smart-ass from New Orleans got fired four months later for stealing and selling coke under the bar. We never did get eggs Hussard on the menu, but here’s how to make marchand de vin sauce This version of Brennan’s batch recipe makes about a quart and refrigerates well.
In a stick of butter, brown a half-cup flour. Add a clove of garlic smashed and minced, three or four chopped green onions, and a cup of diced fresh mushrooms. Working quickly, whisk in two cups of beef stock mixed with a cup of good red wine. Reduce heat and cook until smooth. The sauce should be somewhat on the thin side, and the wine shouldn’t be overpowering. Season with thyme, parsley, salt, and fresh black pepper.
This sumptuous brunch dish is a riff on eggs Florentine. In culinary parlance, “Florentine” indicates a recipe contains spinach, which in this instance is enriched with mushrooms, crab meat, and plenty of butter.
To poach eggs, heat water to a depth of about 2 inches in a in a saucepan or skillet. Some will tell you to add vinegar to keep the whites intact, but in my experience (which is vast and defining) it’s best to use the very freshest eggs possible and drain their excess liquid by breaking them into a tea strainer. Bring water to a to a simmer, then reduce the heat so that the surface of the liquid barely shimmers; in France, where of course they have terms for such things, they will say that the water is souriant: “smiling.” Gently pour the eggs into the water and, with a large spoon, ladle hot water over the yolk and repeat until the yolk whitens. Cook the egg for about 3 or 4 minutes until the whites are set and the yolks are still soft. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the eggs to a large bowl of lukewarm water. Drain on paper towels before serving.
For the sauce, add a quarter cup plain flour to a half stick of melted butter over medium heat and stir until the bubbling subsides Whisk in a pint of whole milk and cook over low heat until thickened and smooth. Stir in a half pound thawed frozen leaf spinach that’s been squeezed and coarsely chopped, along with a half-pound sauteed fresh mushrooms. Artichokes are a nice option. Add white pepper and salt to taste. Reduce heat to low and keep warm. Prepare a pound of picked lump crab meat by heating with butter, lemon juice and a little black pepper. To serve, place a Holland rusk or slice of thick toast on a large saucer. Cover with creamed spinach, add a heaping spoonful of buttered crab meat, and, with the back of the spoon, make a depression and add an egg.
Impulse buying is an especially bad idea when it comes to produce. Let me give you a good example.
Fruits and vegetables are an important part of anyone’s diet, but raw vegetables and fruits take preparation, some more than others, and among the most labor-intensive of vegetables is the artichoke. An artichoke is the flower bud of a big-ass thistle Much like the oyster, it took a very desperate person to learn how to eat an artichoke, but once eaten, it became a delicacy. Heroism, you see, plays a big role in gourmandise.
Once after a truly happy hour at Fenian’s, I stopped at the store on my way home and came upon a mound of beautiful, beautiful artichokes, that were neither too tight nor too loose and had a bit of a purple blush about them, just like Martha says they should. I just had to get a couple. Then I called to my drinking buddy, who was cruising the watermelons, to grab a bud of garlic and a couple of lemons. After picking up a few more items we headed for the checkout counter where he espied my artichoke.
“And what are you going to do with this?” he asked. I immediately suggested a physical improbability. Unperturbed, he replied, “No, really, what are you going to do with it?” He admitted that he’d never eaten a freshly-prepared artichoke. Inebriation, dear hearts, is a great initiator but a poor executor, which is how, about ten minutes later, I found myself alone in the kitchen with a beautiful artichoke, diminished incentive, and a hungry guest. Persevering, I heaved a vast sigh, and began cooking.
To cook fresh artichokes, bring a half a quart of salted water to boil in a 2-quart saucepan, add truncated, trimmed, and stemmed artichokes, cover, bring to a rolling boil, and steam for about 20 minutes. When you can stick a toothpick in the heart of the bud without a lot of resistance, remove artichokes and plunge into cold water until cooled. Invert into a colander to drain.
Serve artichokes with warm garlic butter, teach virgins how to eat them, and remind yourself never to snag an eggplant after shooting tequila.
Syracuse, New York is hometown to Tom Cruise, Grace Jones, and Jake, who says his ancestors were involved in Greek shipping. Every now and then he’ll offhandedly mention “Uncle Ari and Aunt Jackie.”
Jake sniffs at my Southern heritage, reminding me that his parents contributed to programs for eradicating hookworm and pellagra in Mississippi. He came to Jackson over two decades ago as the result of a convoluted series of circumstances I’ve long since quit trying to unravel. He says he stayed because he likes the weather, and indeed his recollections of lake-effect snow are indeed horrific. Even after twenty-plus years, however, people still ask him where he’s from. It drives him nuts.
With a few notable exceptions—chicken and dumplings foremost—Jake loves Southern food, so in an effort to reciprocate charity, I decided to learn how to make good Yankee baked beans using the sturdy pots he brought back from Maine last year, which of course had been made by the ancestors of exceedingly sweet people in a religious community near Bangor. (No, I didn’t go; he was meeting his mother to visit an aunt, and I was better off here with weed and cable.)
I used a pound of dried navy beans, a cup of diced ham with rind instead of salt pork, and since I was out of black strap, a half cup of sorghum molasses had to do. The beans, pork, and syrup went into the (2 quart or thereabout) pot with a cup of chopped onions and a bay leaf. I covered them with water to about an inch of the top, seasoned with a teaspoon of black pepper and a heaping tablespoon of dry mustard. Once in the pot and covered, they went into the oven at around 250, and there they stayed for a little over three hours. I added water as needed. The beans were damn good, almost buttery; the mustard cut the syrup just enough to let the beans make a statement. Of course Jake credited the results to the pots, so I whacked him with a wooden spoon. Twice.

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US President Barack Obama on Thursday picked two high-powered peacemakers for the Middle East as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan, in yet another break with the policy of former president George W. Bush.
In an aggressive push for peace in the world’s most intractable hot spots, Obama named Northern Ireland mediator George Mitchell for the Middle East and Balkans broker Richard Holbrooke for both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Flanked by the pair, Obama told US diplomats that he and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton summoned the envoys to “convey our seriousness of purpose” in light of “the urgency and complexity of the challenges we face.”
Clinton, who led the State Department ceremony that was also attended by Vice President Joe Biden, said: “Anything short of relentless diplomatic efforts will fail to produce a lasting, sustainable peace in either place.”
The former US first lady said the State Department was “grateful” that Obama, on only his second day in office, was taking prompt action to deal with “two of the biggest foreign policy challenges of our time.”
Obama’s choice of two such respected envoys signaled a new engagement in global affairs by his administration — and another break with the policy of the former administration, who resisted such a step.
The new president has also pledged to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within a year.
However, there was little sign Obama would drop the Bush administration’s hard line toward the Hamas Islamist movement when he backed Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip as a defensive move against Hamas rocket fire.
He called on Israel to open Gaza border crossings to aid and commerce to help ease the plight of Palestinians, but he made no mention of Jewish settlement building in the West Bank — a sore point for the Palestinians.
Obama said he was sending Mitchell to the region as soon as possible to help shore up a fragile ceasefire that took hold last weekend after a three-week Israeli offensive left more than 1,330 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.
“It will be the policy of my administration to actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as Israel and its Arab neighbors,” Obama said.


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.Hitting the cinema screens in March 2011 is a Michael Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan sci fi blockbuster billed as "very intense, like Black Hawk Down but with aliens in it".
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Inspired by footage of soldiers in Iraq, the movie focuses on one particular marine battalion fighting right in the thick of an alien invasion of Los Angeles.
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I might go and watch it once it comes out... Haven't watched District 9 yet, so I'll get that in DVD soon...ReplyDelete
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I liked District 9 and I would love a 'bug' exo armour model in either 15mm or 28mm based of the design of that one in District 9. It looked very realistically and practically designed as well as functional without being some super weapon. It did after all go down after several RPG hits. It was very... Landmate-ish.


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U.K. Djembe drummer who goes by the name “Shadow 9” put out a call for poets and spoken word artists to submit nature poems to go with his Naturu Riddem for compilation on a free mixtape.
It looked like a fun thing to do, and since I didn’t have any spoken word poems about nature I took it as a challenge to write one. This was the result.
This was definitely a departure from my usual poetry, but I always enjoy expanding and trying my hand at different things. It is a crucial part of growth and getting better knowledge of oneself. I'm at the tail end of the longest blogging dry-spell I've experienced since I began blogging in 2010. Big changes in my life and routine have left me struggling to find balance. As always, however, poetry and creativity have kept me afloat and I will continue to grow and flourish. As such, "The End of a Drought" is the perfect way for me to end my dry-spell, dancing to a "thousand-step beat".
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In this show astrologers Leslie Hale and Astrologernyc (Liz Houle) discuss MH370 flight that disappeared on March 8th 2014.
A year after the plane turned off course in the middle of a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, not a single piece of the plane has been found.
"As the first year anniversary of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370's mysterious disappearance approaches, a National Geographic documentary suggests the plane was deliberately flown off-course towards Antarctica. , ,The current search for the Malaysia Airlines plane is set to end in May and the ATSB commissioner Martin Dolan said he was hopeful his team would unearth the wreckage by then."
Searchers have been scanning the Indian Ocean to the West of Australia a direction accurately predicted by Liz Houle in her article about the missing plane on March 10th 2014, two days after it went missing when few details were known or publicized.
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2014 has been a difficult year for Malaysia Airlines, first they lost a plane (MH370 on March 8th) then another plane (MH17) was shot down over the Ukraine.
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Astrologers Leslie Hale and Astrologer-nyc will discuss the astrology of the missing/crashed plane - Malaysia Flt 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41AM on Saturday March 8th and it was headed in a NorthWest direction to Beijing China. The plane carrying 239 people: 227 passengers and 12 crew members disappeared two hours into the flight.
After the disappearance, the investigation seem to progress normally with debris and an oil slick found supposedly indicating where the plane was located.
But on Monday, March 10th, things took a drastic turnabout and they announced that the oil slick was NOT the plane but a cargo ship and the debris was NOT from the plane. Officials then announced that they had no idea where the plane was at all and nothing to go on.
The search continues as new information is released and the search effort expands with ten nations pulling together to try to find this missing plane which has gone from being presumed an accident to a hijacking.
We will tie this incident with current transits and the country of Malaysia's chart. Officials in Malaysia have been getting heavy criticisms regarding how they are handling this missing flight, especialy with China. There were many Chinese people on this flight.
We will also compare the takeoff with other airplane incidents.
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Malaysia as the funding terrorist Al-Qaeda hub of South East Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and through Burma. Malaysia is the second producer of koran books in the world.
Exposing the shooter of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:
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Huawei took part in the Arab Regional Cybersecurity Week 2022 in Muscat, Oman, from November 6 – 9, where it advocated for sustained collaboration to secure the digital world. Huawei called upon Arab nations under the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to implement the OIC-CERT 5G Security Framework where the Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS) standard, the joint GSMA and 3GPP framework for the security evaluation of mobile network equipment shall be the fundamental security baseline.
The Arab Regional Cybersecurity Week 2022 was organized by ITU-Arab Regional Cybersecurity Centre (ITU-ARCC) and hosted by the Oman Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology through Oman National Computer Emergency Response Team (OCERT). It featured a series of co-hosted events, comprising the 10th Arab Regional & OIC-CERT Cyber Drill, the 10th Regional Cybersecurity Summit, the FIRST & ITU-ARCC Regional Symposium for Africa and Arab Regions, the 3rd WiCSME Annual Conference and the 14th Annual Conference of the Organization of The Islamic Cooperation CERT (OIC-CERT), culminating with the 10th Annual Arab Meeting (ACCT) on 10 November 2022.
Under the theme of “Cybersecurity Innovation and Industry Development”, the event featured a stellar line-up of speakers, case studies, panel discussions and unique presentations that provided access to a wealth of industry-leading knowledge, sharing best practices and experiences, spotlighting trends, information exchange, cutting-edge insights and outlooks with actionable takeaways.
During the event, Aloysius Cheang, Chief Security Officer, Huawei UAE, gave a keynote on the first day titled, “Addressing Cybersecurity Concerns in Emerging Technologies – Challenges and Opportunities”. He highlighted Huawei’s commitment to building and maintaining an open and collaborative environment in the Arab world, where nations are binded together based on Islam as common faith, and therefore the OIC and the OIC-CERT shall be the platform of choice to usher in a new Islamic Golden Age in the Metaverse. Cheang also highlighted Huawei’s commitment to the region, with our commercial membership in OIC-CERT and efforts to drive 5G security standardization, emphasizing our localized approach to supporting partners to enhance their network resilience in lieu of 5G and Cloud as critical pillars to embrace rapid digital transformation brought about by the pandemic.
Cheang said, “5G faces security challenges and opportunities brought by new services, architectures and technologies, as well as higher user privacy and protection requirements. The industry needs to understand the requirements of diversified scenarios and better define 5G security standards and technologies to address associated risks.”
“NESAS, developed in accordance with security standard guidelines pertaining to vendors’ product development and lifecycle processes, provides a security baseline to evidence that network equipment satisfies a series of security requirements. Together with the OIC-CERT 5G Security Framework, it offers a measurable and controlled environment with a Plan-Do-Check-Act guided actions for managing 5G security chaperoning rapid digital transformation needs of Arab nations,” he added.
Huawei believes cybersecurity is a shared responsibility that cannot be addressed by one person, organization or nation alone. Huawei is ready to contribute our know-how and collaborate in an open, transparent and collaborative platform with all cyberspace stakeholders to ensure end-to-end cybersecurity that will be critical to realizing our vision of building a fully connected, intelligent world.
OIC-CERT held its Global Awarding Ceremony on the sidelines of the event, where Huawei Qatar was awarded the OIC-CERT Global Cybersecurity Award 2022 recognizing its efforts in cybersecurity excellence. Yang Ming, Head of Cybersecurity at Huawei Middle East, said “the award is a testament by OIC-CERT to Huawei’s contribution in cybersecurity innovation.
Huawei has always taken cybersecurity as the company’s top priority and will continue to be a key contributor to cybersecurity development in OIC-related countries in the future”. The Award is an initiative by the OIC-CERT to encourage international collaboration in the cybersecurity domain. It recognizes innovative cybersecurity projects from around the world, not bound by country or region that contribute to uplifting the OIC community welfare while promoting the digital realm.


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A native of Cuba raised in Los Angeles, Leslie has also written for Time, People, the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
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In California, unauthorized immigrants make up 7 percent of the state's overall population. In Los Angeles County, they account for nearly one in 10 residents.
After a fast and heated backlash, the company has withdrawn its attempt to trademark the phrase for a forthcoming Pixar film.
In immigration news: Cost-of-reform report challenged, 'linguistic distance,' profiling allegations at USC, more
The research in a report on immigration reform costs from the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioned by critics, how language differences can affect assimilation, USC students charge racial profiling after cops break up a party and more.
The Senate immigration reform bill proposes ways to eliminate decades-long backlogs for family visas. Here's where the backlogs stand now.
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Senators to offer changes on immigration bill - Politico The Senate Judiciary Committee markup of the Senate's immigration reform bill starts this week, with Democrats and Republicans set to propose changes.
There's more to Southern California speech than Valley-speak and surfer-dude, with the influence of immigrants also seeping into how English is spoken here.
In immigration news: Support for reform on May Day, LA Times drops 'illegal immigrant,' a poll on post-Boston attitudes, more
May Day marchers rallied for immigration reform in Los Angeles and around the country on Wednesday as the debate over what reform should look like - and what to call those here illegally - goes on.
Thousands of demonstrators who want a change in immigration policy marched in downtown Los Angeles as part of May Day marches taking place across the country.
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May Day marchers will be taking to the streets in Los Angeles and elsewhere to rally for immigrants rights, while different ideas for immigration reform make their way around Congress. This and more.
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As May Day approaches, might the immigration momentum of the mid-2000s be seen again? This and more.
Some immigrants in deportation proceedings, and a limited number of those who have already left, could be eligible to seek legal status under the Senate reform plan.
In immigration news: Supreme Court rules against Alabama law, sending remittances gets cheaper, 'retro-acculturation,' more
Part of an Alabama law that would criminalize harboring has been struck down, technology has made sending remittances cheaper, some in the second-and-beyond generations dig for their roots, and more.
In immigration news: A piecemeal approach from the House, Obama credits Bush for reform, dismay over family visas, more
Senate immigration reform bill sponsors say their proposal could get majority support - will it? Meanwhile, the House announces a non-comprehensive route. This and more.
Amendments to the Senate bill are on the way, more than one bill is expected from the House, a judge orders legal aid for mentally disabled detainees, the Sierra Club backs reform after struggling with immigration years ago and more.
In immigration news: Questions arise over screening immigrants, GOP split on reform plans, race and religion in Boston aftermath, more
National security dominates reform talks, debate over the Boston suspects and what constitutes "white," the New York Times makes a slight adjustment on its use of "illegal immigrant" and more


The Northern Nevada Medical Group recently celebrated its newest facility located at the Damonte Ranch Town Center in Reno, NV. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked an important milestone for the medical center. The medical center has leased a spacious 10,456 square foot facility within the town center, signaling its commitment to better serve the community. To get an inside look at the event, click the image above to watch the news segment from 2 News Nevada.
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A Vancouver bakery owner said she caught a thief breaking in on video — he swept the floor, took some selfies, and left with 6 cupcakes
A business owner's worst nightmare went viral after she uploaded the "hilarious" footage to TikTok. "I was in stitches watching," she told Insider.
Pool rental app Swimply is getting heat from angry neighbors reporting 'raucous' parties: 'It is a tremendous nuisance'
With Swimply, strangers can rent out your private pool for a relaxing day or a birthday bash, but your neighbors may not be happy with either.
Former Lululemon employees say they were fired for breaking store policy after calling police to report a robbery
The women told local outlets they were fired over a Zoom call with company officials who said it had a "zero tolerance policy" regarding the incident.
The North Face doubles down on 'Summer of Pride' campaign amid backlash from right-wingers
The brand is the latest to face the wrath of conservatives, who previously also slammed Target and Bud Light over Pride campaigns and LGBTQ content.
Netflix users slam streamer for password-sharing ban: 'I've literally never cancelled a membership so fast'
Netflix subscribers are once again calling out the streaming platform for charging an extra $8 to add watchers to their accounts.
A New Yorker thought she found her 'dream' $8,000 couch on the curb, but her viral video raised concerned comments about bed bugs and whether it was a dupe
The TikToker may have scored a hidden gem if it turns out to be a real Bubble couch, but some commenters worried it could still be a bed bug bomb.
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The First Republic takeover could help JPMorgan develop its nascent wealth-management business, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Your co-workers don't know what to say to you at work — so they're googling it
People are searching, "What to talk about at work" more than ever in the US as companies call employees back to the office, Google data shows.
Employees say returning to the office is breaking the bank. Here's what's costing them so much
Trading in pajamas for dress pants — and other costs — is making some formerly remote workers realize how expensive working in an office can be.
Popeyes shut down a store after teenage workers said they were asked to skip school and do late weeknight shifts
Teenage employees at an Oakland Popeyes say they fell behind in school and feared not being able to graduate due to their demanding schedules.
Cash App founder Bob Lee was part of an underground party scene of sex and drugs called 'The Lifestyle' prior to his death, report says
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Google employees reportedly joked about playing drinking games and made up a song to the tune of 'Old MacDonald' to mock how many times execs said AI at I/O developer conference
Internal messages and memes shared on Google's internal communications platform mocked how often AI was mentioned during the event, CNBC reported.
Amazon may prioritize items in search results depending on how close it is to you and how quickly it can be delivered
Amazon doubled its warehouse footprint over the last several years, allowing the company to prioritize faster regional shipping across the US.
Financial fraudsters are targeting postal workers to steal their mailbox keys, so USPS is trying something new
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Lyft CEO says company is doing 'everything we can' to be ready for self-driving cars that will be here 'faster than you think'
David Risher also told CNN the company wants to make travel less stressful, and he doesn't think Uber and Lyft need to destroy each other to succeed.
Mark Zuckerberg's jiu-jitsu fighting and Bill Gates' pickleball: 20 tech billionaires and executives and how they stay fit
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Twitter admits some private Circle tweets were accidentally made public due to 'security incident'
In an email to affected users, Twitter expressed its regret for the glitch, which "allowed users outside of your Twitter Circle to see tweets."
Tucker Carlson discussed working together with Elon Musk after Fox firing, report says
The conservative commentator is reportedly discussing his next moves as his lawyers work to break his Fox contract, which runs through 2025.
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New York memorialized the thousands of lives lost to coronavirus as vaccination efforts in the state continued to ramp up.
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When a cardboard box mysteriously appeared in the Sanctuary kitchen with three little kittens inside, we were very surprised. We’ve had kittens and a mother cat left here before quite recently and it’s hard to know how to stop this happening. Perhaps we don’t really want to! The kittens obviously need us but it would be nice to have some warning – and a bit of background. Affording the vaccinations and being able to feed and care for all the kittens is challenging. These three are fairly tame but we have some more that need quite a bit of handling. If you are round at the weekend, please help us by ‘taming’ a kitten. You can pop into our shop and have a cup of tea or coffee at the same time perhaps. We urgently need kitten pouches and blankets, help with vaccinations and good homes for all these little ones. Please help the kittens if you can. We have some real beauties this year.
We’re working through all the mother cats that have been brought in this year and trying to get them all spayed. It’s sometimes difficult to catch them – one feisty little female made quite a mess of the vet when we took her in. If a cat has never been handled it’s difficult to keep from getting scratched. If we have enough time we can usually tame them but in the case of mature females, they are in kit again before that happens. Winter is the best time for taming as the cats are hungry then and learn to love the hand that feeds them! There’s still plenty of natural food in the fields for them at this time of year, plus they scrounge the biscuits we put out for the residents.
Some of the kittens are quite tame but still look very surprised when we pick them up!

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Friday Design Digest 005
01 Fanshawe ID students present their research on design for an ageing population, the designer of the facility. “This project really opened my eyes to how design can genuinely support peoples’ health and well-being. I enjoyed the freedom to learn by experience,” student Lauren Hylands. At Hospitalnews.com
02 In 2015, Jones Collombin approached Altius Architecture to design and manage the construction of a new office for their growing wealth management firm. When space became available in the architecturally significant TD Centre towers, with soaring views of downtown Toronto, the client seized upon the opportunity, via BLOG//ARIDO.
03 Interior Design at the Superbowl? “In 1988, while, of course, waiting in line to use the bathroom, Sandra Rawls, then an assistant professor of interior design, wondered about the power structures and social orders reflected in our public restrooms. Women typically take longer in the bathroom. What Rawls wanted to figure out was exactly how much longer, and why.” via ESPN.
04 Dreaming of summer already? Let the Muskoka Lake Pavilion project by Wayne Swadron, ARIDO’s take you away to warmer weather, and summer at the cottage. Via BLOG//ARIDO.
05 For those who are hunkering down and catching up on The Handmaid’s Tale this weekend, some discussion of the set design and interiors and how they add to the uneasy atmosphere in Gilead, at Architectural Digest.
Attention to detail informs Seasons Retirement Community in St. Thomas
Seniors Lifestyles projects provide unique challenges. How do you take large, open public areas and turn them into attractive and functional, yet comfortable and warm spaces...
A stunning ceiling crowns Congee Queen's latest location
Now opening its seventh location, Congee Queen wanted to incorporate elements of Chinese culture to reach out to new customers while maintaining their iconic brand for...


text: Seasonal and interannual variations of the clear-sky greenhouse effect (G) are analysed for 10 general circulation models (GCMs) participating in the atmospheric model intercomparison project (AMIP). Results are compared to ERBE observations between 1985 and 1988. In order to trace the source of G variability, we also study modelled variability of the precipitable water content (W) and compare the results to ISCCP/TOVS and SSM/I estimates. For a subset of models, the variability of temperature and water vapor profiles are also examined and compared to ECMWF analyses and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses for the year 1988. Large differences between models and a bias relative to observations are pointed out for annual mean values of W and G as well as for their seasonal and interannual variabilities. The model discrepancies are larger in the tropics. In these regions, there is a dry bias in all the GCMs considered relative to both ISCCP/TOVS and SSM/I and factors of 2 or 3 are found in the variability of G and W compared to observations. The GCMs considered tend to overestimate the seasonal variation of G in middle latitudes and to underestimate it in the tropics. The opposite is found for interannual variations. Inspection of vertical temperature and relative humidity profiles reveals that the origin of the clear-sky greenhouse effect variability can be very different from one model to another.


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A Vote for MacKinnon for Judge
As a resident in North County, I am asking South County’s support for Superior Court Judge candidate John MacKinnon. This position will be here in North County where he is badly needed. John MacKinnon is now in a runoff with someone who does not have either his background or current court experience.
Let me tell you something alarming about Santa Maria. We have a lovely, older neighborhood called the Carriage District. Just a few weeks ago, there were thieves blatantly and openly attempting theft in that area, not once but twice! This is how bold the gangs have become in our area. We need a judge who, when faced with these miscreants, will hold them accountable. John MacKinnon will do just that.
John has spent many years in the District Attorney’s Office here in Santa Maria. He was the DA’s representative to the Santa Maria Drug and Mental Health Courts. Also, he has actual courtroom experience. His opponent has been a research lawyer during this time out of touch with the current problems in our community.
John has the support of law enforcement agencies, including the Santa Barbara Police Officers Association, Santa Barbara Firefighters Association, and the Santa Barbara Deputy Sheriff’s Association as well as the Santa Barbara Deputy District Attorney’s Association. This says they believe John MacKinnon is the right choice for this important position.
Please help North County by voting for John MacKinnon for Superior Court Judge! -Betty R. Gunn, Santa Maria


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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Ellicottville is excited to announce the launch of the Great Valley Food Pantry, a community-run and led organization that will provide easier access to supplemental food resources for those in Great Valley, Humphrey and Kill Buck.
The official launch begins with a sign-up day on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Great Valley Town Hall on Route 219, where the pantry will set up in future months.
Free hot dogs and beverages will be provided during the sign-up. Supplemental food boxes will become available when the pantry officially opens Oct. 26.
St. Paul’s officials believe the Great Valley Food Pantry will bring the communities of Great Valley, Humphrey and Kill Buck together by offering a food pantry in the central location of the Great Valley town building.
All members of the community are welcome to volunteer at the pantry, which will be open the last two Saturdays of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“As a faith community, we believe that we are called to live our lives following the example of Jesus,” said Josh Bower, St. Paul’s Seminary Intern. “Jesus fed those who were hungry and gave drink to those who were thirsty, and we at St. Paul’s feel a call to jumpstart a program in our area that does the same.”
Although the program is being launched by a religious organization, there are no religious requirements to receive food or volunteer with the pantry.
“This pantry is open to and welcomes all individuals and families in our communities, regardless of religious preference or non-preference, age, race, nationality, ability or orientation,” Bower explained. “This is an inclusive and community-led endeavor.”
For more information, you can contact St. Paul’s by phone at 864-5270, email email@example.com or visit stpaulsellicottville.com.
To see if you qualify for food assistance, sign up to volunteer or financially support the pantry, visit St. Paul’s website and click on the “Great Valley Food Pantry” tab.
All that is needed to sign up for the pantry is proof of residence in Cattaraugus County and a signed statement of income qualification.


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The debate on articles of impeachment against Trump
Democrats were furious at Republicans for what they believe was a blatant effort to drag out today’s proceedings and delay a final vote until the dead-of-the-night.
Earlier today, it was widely believed that Republicans would be through offering amendments by 5 p.m. ET. But as the evening wore on, Democrats came to believe the GOP was simply trying to bury the votes in the news cycle.
So the decision was made to hold the final two votes tomorrow morning to ensure more people would be able to witness the historic votes — even though it enraged the GOP.
"They can't expect to go... into the middle of the night without the American public seeing,” said Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a member of the committee.
She said Republicans had told them they would only go until 5 p.m. ET and so when they went longer, Democrats decided to wait so the public can see.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, added that they wanted to hold the vote in “broad daylight.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler declined to comment to CNN.
Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, slammed Chairman Jerry Nadler after he abruptly ended the hearing to vote tomorrow on the two articles of impeachment, accusing Nadler of the "most bush league thing I have seen."
"Words cannot describe how inappropriate this was," Collins said, adding that he was taken by complete surprise by the decision.
Collins accused Democrats of wanting to put the vote on TV.
"I'm just beyond words at this point. But it shows the lack of case they have," he said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, explained why House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler unexpectedly decided to move the vote on the two articles of impeachment to tomorrow morning.
"We want to do it in broad daylight. First thing in the morning so everyone can see exactly what's going on," Raskin told CNN's Don Lemon following Nadler's decision.
The vote is expected to happen at 10 a.m. ET.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has called a recess until tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. ET and will hold the vote on the two articles of impeachment at that time.
The decision comes after more than 13 hours of debate today.
Nadler's decision was derided by Republicans on the committee. The phrase "kangaroo court" was heard following the decision.
The House Judiciary Committee are debating Chairman Jerry Nadler’s substitute amendment, which is just a committee procedure and is the final amendment before voting on the articles.
It’s still possible other members could offer additional amendments
But Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner suggested moments ago that this will be the last debate of the evening. If Sensenbrenner is speaking for the party here, we won’t see any new amendments from Republicans.
The House Judiciary Committee has resumed its debate over the articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Democratic members and aides are signaling at the break that they are preparing to go as late as the GOP wants — and they won’t cut off amendments, even though House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has the right to do so.
When will the hearing end? It depends on when the GOP decides it has no more amendments to offer.
At the moment, Democrats are not considering punting the session to the morning and are prepared to go through night.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted tonight how the impeachment trial will end.
“We all know how it's going to end. There is no chance the President is going to be removed from office," the Kentucky Republican said.
McConnell, speaking on Fox News, called the Democrats’ case “so darn weak” and said he will coordinate with President Trump’s lawyers every step of the way when the case moves to the Senate.
The debate in the House Judiciary Committee tonight has been free-wheeling.
Any committee member has been able to offer an amendment to the impeachment articles and every lawmaker could speak up to debate it.
At one point, the impeachment debate even veered back two decades, as two lawmakers who were on the Judiciary Committee when President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 debated the merits of that case compared to the current impeachment proceedings.
They've been debating for 12 hours now.