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One of the best things about the Christmas period is that you have an excuse to make recipes like this cheese and onion plait (in case you needed an excuse).
It’s not exactly health food – in fact it’s more of a carb fest, with plenty of cheese thrown in for good measure. But that’s what Christmas is for, no?
My favourite thing about this recipe is that it looks super fancy – serve this up to your family at Christmas and even your great uncle Jim who thinks vegetarians are weird will be impressed – they don’t ever need to know that making the plait shape is actually really easy.
All you need to do is to shape your filling into a log down the middle of your pastry, then make slits at an angle on either side (…the photo below will do a much better job at explaining). Then, alternating from side to side, just fold one strip at a time across the cheesy filling, sticking it down with a little bit of milk.
The whole process is extremely forgiving, so don’t worry if you’re not the neatest person in the world (who, me?)! If you need to, you can pull and stretch the strips right over the filling. It doesn’t matter if you pull them out of shape a bit. Once it’s all puffed up you shouldn’t be able to tell – and even if you can, nobody’s going to be inspecting your handiwork too carefully! The overall effect is still something pretty impressive.
Of course, this cheese and onion plait isn’t only about looking good – it tastes amazing too! Oodles of sautéed onions and mature cheddar cheese, all held together by smooth mashed potato. It’s like a huge cheese and onion pasty – but much more elegant!
Don’t forget the gravy!
Cheese and Onion Plait
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- 600 g potatoes I left mine unpeeled
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2 onions halved then sliced
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tbsp milk plus more for glazing the pastry
- 150 g cheddar cheese grated
- Black pepper
- Plain flour for dusting
- 250 g puff pastry
- Cut the potatoes into chunks, and boil in a pan of water until very soft.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large frying pan, and add the onions and garlic. Cook over a medium-low heat for 5-10 minutes, until very soft but not browned.
- When the potatoes are soft, drain them, and add the 2tbsp of milk. Mash to your desired consistency. Add the onions and grated cheese, and mix well. Season with some salt and plenty of black pepper. Set aside.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the puff pastry into a rectangle – I used a pre-rolled sheet, but still rolled it out a little further. Shape the potato filling into a log along the centre of the pastry, leaving a few inches of pastry along two opposite sides, and just a centimetre or so along the other two sides.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the excess pastry at a slight angle into strips (my strips were about 1cm wide) – see photos. Alternating from side to side, fold the strips across to the centre of the filling, and stick them down with a dab of milk. Tuck the ends in neatly, again sealing with a little milk (you might need to cut of a bit of excess pastry at the ends).
- Brush the whole plait lightly with milk, and bake at 190°C (Gas Mark 5 / 375°F) for around 45 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown and crispy.
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.


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New Relic Inc. (NYSE: NEWR) traded up 8 percent to $35.50 after the bell. The cloud-base analytics platform provider said fiscal fourth quarter revenue grew 68 percent.
Opower Inc. (NYSE: OPWR) ticked up 5 percent to $11.25. The provider of cloud-based software for the utility industry said quarterly revenue gained 17 percent.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX) gained more than 5 percent to $132.89 on news that a regulatory advisory committee recommended approval of its cystic fibrosis treatment called Orkambi. An FDA decision is expected by July 5.
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Exar Corp. (NYSE: EXAR) lost about 5 percent, trading at $9.55, after the integrated circuit maker said its market softened in the recent quarter and it hired financial advisors to review alternatives.
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Villagers to vote on ‘excellent’ Colsterworth Neighbourhood Plan
A plan which sets out possible future development in Colsterworth will be voted on by residents.
A group of villages in the Colsterworth area are lining up for the referendum as one of the final stages in the preparation of the Neighbourhood Plan.
An independent examiner complimented the Colsterworth and District Neighbourhood Plan for being “excellently produced and presented”, highlighting the way it tackled land use issues including the designation of local green space, protection of important views and the creation of a village hub.
Subject to minor modifications being accepted by the Neighbourhood Plan group, it should now proceed to a referendum within the Neighbourhood Plan Area (the Parishes of Colsterworth, Gunby and Stainby and North Witham), over the coming months.
The Plan can be viewed at www.southkesteven.gov.uk
More than 20 neighbourhood plans are underway across South Kesteven as communities seize the opportunity to have a greater say in planning matters. The Foston plan has recently been adopted and Skillington and Long Bennington will be going to referendum shortly.
Introduced as part of the Localism Act (2011) and the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations (2012), neighbourhood plans address issues including housing, employment, leisure, green and open spaces, transport and local infrastructure.
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Humanitarian needs and the vulnerability of the population are high in the areas where Cordaid operates in Eastern Samar, Palawan, Cebu and Mindanao. The Philippines are prone to natural disasters (cyclones, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and droughts). While the national government’s initial response is usually rapid and effective in terms of search-and-rescue, measures to build resilience and mitigate the impact of disasters frequently remain unaddressed. The most vulnerable households are often the most affected. This is particularly the case in poor and remote regions. Here, high frequency of natural disasters combines with the consequences of conflicts and violence, resulting in very low coping capacities among the most fragile and marginalized communities. Poverty and lack of access to government services have a multiplier effect. Under climate change scenarios it is projected that the Philippines will be affected by an increase in extreme climate-related events, such as storms, flooding, and drought.
The population of the Philippines is predominately Roman Catholic, with Muslims constituting a 5% minority. Most Muslims live on the southern group of islands of Mindanao, which, apart from being the poorest region of the country, is also a conflict area. Muslim and indigenous communities are the victims of armed conflicts. Various Islamic groups have been fighting to establish an independent Islamic state for quite some time.

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Porsche has revealed an all-new Panamera, and it's quite the looker.
It's longer, wider, and taller than the old car, but manages to hide the extra size in its sleek design.
For the US there are two engines available at launch.
The 440 horse, 445 pound foot twin turbo 2.9 liter V6 powered 4S And the 550 horsepower 567 pound foot twin turbo 4 liter V8 turbo.
The 4S hits 60 from rest in four seconds dead if you spec at the Sport Chrono Pack, 4. If you don't.
The turbo will get you there in 3.4 seconds with the chrono, and 3.6 without.
The top speeds are 180 and 190, respectively.
Around the gear selector is now a touchpad affair.
Above that and you get an apple car player enabled 12 inch touch screen for your entertainment needs.
Your instrument [UNKNOWN] mixes the old with the new; the rev counter is analog, but it's flanked by two 7-inch screens that offer you any information you may need.
On top of all of that, Porsche's upped the safety tech in there.
[UNKNOWN] drive uses GPS data to tell the car best accelerate and decelerate and change gears And a new thermal imaging system lets you and the car see better in the dark.
The Panamera is hitting US showrooms in early 2017 with the 4S starting at 99,990 dollars and the Turbo clocking in at 146900.


It was love that first brought Doris Hofer to Turkey, where she then became one of the country’s leading fitness bloggers. The current political situation however, has her evaluating her options. An intimate portrait by Swiss public television, SRF, of a local online rising star. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
Doris Hofer is 41 years old and for the last 12 years has been a resident of Istanbul. A leading nutrition and fitness book author and blogger, she has an estimated quarter of a million people every day following her lead through her apps and social media pages. Online she is known as 'SquatGirl', motivating people to lead a healthier lifestyle through exercise and by improving their eating habits.
Hofer came to the country after marrying a Turkish businessman. She learned Turkish and studied to become a personal trainer. After her divorce, she started to blog, an activity that she has continued for the last three and a half years, and that has brought increased recognition, alongside advertising and sponsorship deals. Nevertheless, she looks at the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with increased apprehension as she doesn’t know if the country’s future will be as open to her endeavours.
In the series 'Swiss Pioneers', Swiss Public Television, SRF, meets Swiss nationals at home and abroad who have made a name for themselves in their area of expertise.
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Date: November 29 2012
Just in time for the start of summer, Melbourne's Rayon Moon will bring its surf-tinged sounds to The Front this evening. Taking inspiration from the Cramps and the Mummies, the trio is launching its new concept album, Badlands/It's Not Too Bad, pitched as the soundtrack for an as yet unwritten dystopian ballet. Naturally, it's only available on cassette and limited to 44 copies, so all the more reason to front up to The Front dead on 7.30pm to secure a copy. Locals Crash the Curb and Waterford are supporting and entry is a meagre $2.
Speaking of the dystopian future, American performance artist Peter Burr is mining similar territory with his current show Special Effect. The performance takes the form of a live TV show set in the dystopian future and Burr, composited into a futuristic set via green screen, presents 20 new works by underground Animators from the States. Best of all, there will also be lasers! As part of his Australian tour with OtherFilm Collective, Burr will present Special Effect at the ANU's Peter Karmel Building this coming Tuesday. Local sound artist Danny Wild will also be presenting Easy Waves, a live multimedia performance including super8 projections, looping and a live camera feed. Doors open at 7pm and entry is $5.
The 2013 touring calendar is already starting to take shape with a number of big names scheduled to hit town next year. The first is Swedish balladeer Kristian Matsson, known to the world at large as the Tallest Man on Earth. At the start of the year, Matsson spent our summer months in the depths of another typically icy winter in his home country and, taking advantage of the indoor weather, knocked out his new album There's No Leaving Now. Canberra punters will be able to hear those new tunes from the proverbial horse's mouth on March 6 at Zierholz@UC. Tickets go on sale next Thursday from Moshtix. Following a stint on the Big Day Out travelling roadshow, Lismore's favourite sons, the boys of Grinspoon, will also be hitting the road and touring the country proper. The band will play the ANU Bar on April 13 with Kingswood and Emporers. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketek. Meanwhile, evergreen popsters The Seekers are marking an incredible 50 years in the game with their Golden Jubilee tour, which stops by the Royal Theatre on May 3. Tickets go on sale December 10.
Drumming it in
This weekend the ANU School of Music's percussion group DRUMatiX is presenting The Next Phase, a two-night retrospective celebrating the 15th anniversary of the group. To mark the occasion, the members have selected a program of pieces close to their heart and the group's history and have also invited DRUMatiX alumni back to town for the performances. Former member Bree Van Reyk - now go-to multi-instrumentalist for the likes of Holly Throsby, Darren Hanlon, Charge Group, Bonnie ''Prince'' Billy and the Violent Femmes - will perform at tomorrow night's show, which will include a favourite John Cage piece. Fellow alumnus Charles Martin, who has just returned from further music studies in Sweden, will be Saturday's guest. Both shows are at the ANU Arts Centre's main theatre, next to God's Cafe, and begin at 7.30pm. Tickets are $25 or $15 concession from Moshtix.
Like music and like to have a chuckle? Like to combine the two? You're in luck then as Comedy ACT is presenting Sam Marzden'sHistory of Rock and Roll (1962 - 1989) at The Civic Pub this evening. The fruit of years spent glued to rockumentaries and leafing through unauthorised biographies, Marzden's show brings the whole sordid story together in a web of obscure, interconnected bits of trivia - and it'll basically ensure that you clean up in the music round at your next pub quiz! Doors open at 8pm with Still Kept a Secret supporting and tickets are $15 from comedyact.com.au
Long-running Sydney punk band Ebolagoldfish is returning to town tonight to launch its new Idol Thoughts EP at The Phoenix. For company, the 'fish is bringing Newcastle compatriots Excitebike along for the drive, while locals Revellers - featuring a few old hands from the local punk scene in a brand new format - round out the bill and will have freshly-minted demo CDs to hand out. Entry is free.
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Kendra Shank & Geoffrey Keezer a duo that clicks
Thrown together at last minute for 2008 concert here, the noted jazz singer and pianist discuss their partnership and new album
Transportation snafus have forced many musicians to miss their scheduled performances — or cancel concerts altogether at the last minute. In the case of former San Diego singer Kendra Shank and former New York pianist Geoffrey Keezer, however, it was a missed flight in 2008 that brought them together for a concert at the La Jolla Athenaeum.
Now, that same missed flight has culminated in the duo’s audacious new album, “Half Moon: Live in New York,” which comes seven years after their first, entirely unplanned, collaboration here. They perform an album-release concert Saturday, July 16, at the all-ages Dizzy’s in Pacific Beach.
Kendra Shank & Geoffrey Keezer
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, July 16
Where: Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Pacific Beach
Phone: (858) 270-7467
“I didn’t even know Geoffrey was living in San Diego,” recalled Shank, whose longtime pianist, Frank Kimbrough, was stranded in New York after his 2008 flight was canceled. “The Athenaeum gave me Geoffrey’s number. He was so nice, and said: ‘Sure, I’ll come.’ I’d never met him before.”
Fortunately for Shank, who is a Point Loma High School graduate, former New Yorker Keezer is a quick study.
Currently based in Normal Heights, the veteran keyboardist and band leader had barely half an hour to meet with the singer and go through her musical arrangements before their Athenaeum performance began.
To make matters more challenging, Shank’s drummer, Tony Moreno, was also stranded in New York, so a last-minute substitute, Willie Jones III, was called in from his teaching gig at the nearby UC San Diego Jazz Camp. Her bassist, Dean Johnson, was the only member of Shank’s now-16-year-old quartet present for that memorable La Jolla performance.
“We hit the stage, and it was brilliant,” Shank, 58, recalled of her first concert with Keezer. “It was like we’d always played together. He just nailed it.”
Keezer, 45, downplayed his impromptu debut performance with Shank. Having risen to prominence as the teenaged keyboard wiz in drum legend Art Blakey’s famed band, The Jazz Messengers, the pianist is no stranger to transportation snafus — or the spontaneous music-making with new partners that can result.
‘The Jazz Missingers’
“With Art, we missed quite a few gigs, due to various reasons. Sometimes, they called us The Jazz ‘Missingers!’” he recalled with a laugh.
“I was not familiar with Kendra when she called me to play with her at the Athenaeum. But it was a pleasant surprise, musically, and began an artistic relationship that has continued — on and off — for seven years.
“I think we had an instant musical chemistry, but I don’t think it’s necessarily magical. It’s a result of our mutual experience and years of making music and sharing a common musical language. That’s what enables jazz musicians to get together, on the spot, and create things.”
The aesthetic bond and intuitive rapport between Shank and Keezer is readily apparent on “Half Moon: Live in New York.”
Released by the Pennsylvania-based indie record label Ride Symbol, the 11-song collection is intimate and inviting. It is easily the most absorbing jazz vocals-and-piano album in memory to be recorded in a fan’s living room. (One of Shank’s New York friends made her apartment — replete with a Baldwin grand piano — available for an afternoon concert by the singer and Keezer, who was in town to perform at the Blue Note club with trumpet star Chris Botti.)
Shank and Keezer each have an impressive command of nuance, dynamics and texture. Both are deeply immersed in various jazz traditions. Their shared reverence is balanced by a desire and ability to subtly surprise their listeners, often with delightful results. Both can credit iconic jazz artists for mentoring them — Blakey in the case of Keezer, singer-pianist Shirley Horn in the case of Shank.
“Shirley said: ‘I want to do for you what Miles Davis did for me,’” recalled Shank, who started playing guitar in San Diego when she was 13. “It was really sweet.”
Busking in Paris
At 19, Shank began singing for her supper (and lunch and breakfast) in Paris, where she busked in the subway and in front of cafes.
“I would make, maybe, $50 a day, which at the time — 1979 — seemed pretty cool!” she said.
Shank had her jazz transformation in the 1980s, after hearing a Billie Holiday record. She began studying in Seattle in 1989 with noted jazz vocalist Jay Clayton. After graduating from the University of Washington, with a double-major in French and visual arts, she relocated to New York in 1997.
Her 1998 debut album, “Wish,” earned Shank critical praise. So have her subsequent albums, in particular 2007’s “A Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook,” a tour de force of daring and finesse.
Lincoln’s aptly titled “The Music is the Magic” is a highlight of Shank’s new album with Keezer. It also finds them deftly reinventing such weathered gems as “Alone Together” and “A Weaver of Dreams” one moment, then launching into “Healing Song,” which was largely improvised on the spot, but sounds carefully considered, not random.
“People ask us after concerts — they ask jazz musicians in general — ‘Are you making the whole thing up, or playing songs?’And the answer is ‘yes’ to both,” Keezer said.
With each new recording and her many concert and festival performances here and in Europe, Shank’s artistic breadth and vocal prowess shine ever brighter. Whether singing in English, scatting or her own language of made-up words, which at times suggest a cross between Portuguese and Esperanto, she digs deep to find something fresh and meaningful in each note.
Shank engaged in a bit of joyous, long-distance scatting over the phone to differentiate it from how she sings in her made-up language.
“It (feels) more like telling a story (than scatting),” she noted. “It has the intention of language that connects to an emotional core, but without being as specific as language. I find that feels different from scat-singing, which feels less story-oriented and more instrumental oriented, although instrumentals are, of course, telling a story.
“When I sing that way, it’s kind of like I’m channeling, the universal human spirit. If the soul had a language, this would be it. ... It’s like singing in tongues, minus the religious references.”
And how does Keezer, whose most recent solo piano album is 2013’s “Heart of the Soul,” react to Shank’s invented singing language?
“If a song is sung in English, it’s easier for me to understand how to approach it and what the song is about,” said the keyboardist, who performs July 28 with trumpeter Chris Botti at Embracadero Marina Park South under the auspices of the San Diego Symphony.
“If it’s in any other language, including speaking in tongues or a made-up language — whatever Kendra is doing playing with sounds and syllables — it’s just about the sound of the energy and what it means. ...
“You can stick any two musicians together in a room, and it doesn’t always work. And with Kendra, it does.”
Shank readily agreed.
“Geoffrey will go wherever I go, and it will always work out,” she said. “He’s just so endlessly inventive that I have absolute trust that, whatever happens, we’ll make music out of it.”
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The Advocate (opinion piece published on Sunday):
- By MARK BALLARD
- Advocate columnist
- Published: May 22, 2011 - Page: 7B
Former state highway chief Kam Movassaghi recently returned from a trip to Italy bubbling with stories.
His eyes blazed with excitement last week as he described seeing the aqueducts and roads, many of which are still in use, that allowed Rome to grow into the ancient world’s superpower.
The lesson for Movassaghi, who was secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development under Republican Gov. Mike Foster is that a people’s culture, their impact on the world, even their quality of life, is intimately tied to everyday roads and bridges.
But wonders of Rome quickly gave way to stories about bumpy rides on Interstate 10 from Lafayette, where Movassaghi works as president of C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates, an engineering firm. He came to Baton Rouge last week to tout a report card he and about 50 other members of the local chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a professional organization, are preparing.
The report card will be a localized version of the 2009 national report card that President Barack Obama cited during a State of the Union address that found America’s roads, rails, bridges, school buildings, sewage, levees and other infrastructure had an average grade of “D”.
Movassaghi won’t predict the grade Louisiana will receive in September when the report card is ready.
Instead, he returns to a theme familiar since his days in public service: Louisiana government and taxpayers have refused to take responsibility for improving infrastructure that already was failing to keep pace with growth more than 10 years ago.
Specifically, he points to the $12.6 billion backlog of road and bridge needs. The backlog is not a new phenomenon. To paraphrase Scrooge’s partner Jacob Marley in “A Christmas Carol,” “It’s a ponderous chain” that was begun long before Movassaghi’s day, but has been added to every day since.
He argues that according to a study cited by Transportation for America, the cost of maintaining roads calculates to $2 worth of repairs on good-condition roads, versus $14 to bring the pavement back to good condition on roads where repairs have been delayed.
Recent road construction around the Baton Rouge area is chipping away at that backlog. But the work is largely funded with surplus dollars from federal hurricane recovery grants and from federal stimulus money that Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal and others ridiculed — but nevertheless took. Those sources are gone.
Republican state Rep. Hollis Downs, of Ruston, had pushed legislation that would have created a continuing source of revenue — under state government control — to be used on Louisiana’s roadways.
Downs was downright exuberant on the Monday he discussed his bill with the Press Club of Baton Rouge.
His measure would have increased vehicle registration fees. Louisiana has some of the cheapest fees in the nation and still would after Downs’ proposed increase. He had the backing of powerful contractors, many of whom help fund Jindal’s campaigns, and the promised support of many of his conservative colleagues.
His optimism faded quickly later that day. He said he met with Jindal and was told “no way, no how.” The next day, he withdrew the bill, amid testaments about his bravery from clearly relieved state representatives.
The House Appropriations committee last week took a bold — and for Louisiana, historic — step in defying a governor. It jettisoned a lot of Jindal’s razzle-dazzle ideas to raise money, such as privatizing some prisons and reshuffling tobacco-settlement dollars. The committee stripped that money out of next fiscal year’s spending plan and cut services to compensate.
Jindal dispatched his acolytes to bully the folks who dared to question his plan.
Speaking from the House floor House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, criticized Jindal for election-year politicking at the expense of responsibly addressing budget concerns.
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She was unable to say how many people are due to be vaccinated there this week, telling us such details were being ‘handled nationally’.
Margaret Keenan this morning became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 jab after it was approved for use in the UK, with the 90-year-old grandmother getting her jab at 6.31am from nurse May Parsons at her local hospital in Coventry.
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In Act 2 Scene 3 of Twelfth Night Feste enters the scene to have a drink and share some jokes with Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, who are both by this stage very drunk. Sir Toby requests a song from Feste, and this is seconded by Sir Andrew amidst a paragraph's worth of meaningless gibberish that he spews forth in his intoxicated state.
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Although his name may not be as familiar to the casual observer as some of N.W.A.'s more celebrated members, DJ Yella had a huge hand in crafting the sound of early hip hop (and also porn, apparently). Yella began his career as part of the electro-funk group World Class Wreckin' Cru, along with Dr. Dre, back in the early '80s, when rap wasn't even really a genre of music yet. From there he helped mold the new sound into gangsta rap, which forms the basis for the hip hop that dominates the charts today. Yella made his living mostly as a producer, creating the beats for a number of acts throughout the '80s and '90s and helping to usher in a whole new sound for his generation. Here are 11 of the best tracks DJ Yella produced during his impressive run.
World Class Wreckin' Cru — "Surgery"
Yella and Dre co-produced World Class Wreckin' Cru's first two albums, World Class in 1985 and Rapped in Romance in 1986, and though the lyrics are a far cry from "F*ck tha Police", the beats laid the foundation for what was to come.
J.J. Fad — "Supersonic"
By 1988, N.W.A. had formed and its members were already lending out their talents to other groups before their first album even dropped. Yella, Dre, and future ex-N.W.A. member Arabian Prince all served as producers on female rap group J.J. Fad's debut album, Supersonic.
N.W.A. — "Something 2 Dance 2"
This track from 1988's Straight Outta Compton is the only one on which Yella receives a performer credit, though he co-produced the whole album. Its sound is considerably more fun-loving and innocent-sounding than much of the rest of the album, and shows Yella's lesser intensity compared to the group's other members. He just wants to dance!
Eazy-E — "Eazy-Duz-It"
Released just a month after Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-E's solo album, Eazy-Duz-It was co-produced by Yella and Dre, and featured lyrics written by Ice Cube and MC Ren... so it's practically another N.W.A. album, at least in spirit.
The D.O.C. — "The Grand Finale"
Frequent N.W.A. collaborator The D.O.C. (rappers with acronyms for names gotta stick together) released his debut album, No One Can Do It Better, in 1989, which was mostly produced by Dre, but it was Yella who provided the beats on the album's closing track.
Michel'le — "No More Lies"
R&B singer Michel'le's self-titled debut album was released in 1989, and was co-produced by the familiar team of Yella and Dre, with Eazy-E serving as executive producer.
Yomo & Maulkie — "Glory"
After working on two post-Ice Cube N.W.A. albums and another album for J.J. Fad, Yella produced the debut album for hip-hop duo Yomo & Maulkie. Released in 1991, Are U Xperienced? featured Eazy-E in the producer's chair next to Yella, replacing usual collaborator Dr. Dre. Yella would remain close with Eazy-E until the latter's death in 1995.
Bone Thugs N Harmony — "Foe Tha Love Of $"
Probably the best known act on this list outside of N.W.A., Bone Thugs were known for their insanely fast rhymes. Yella produced three tracks off their 1994 debut album, Creepin on ah Come Up, including the hit "Foe the Love of $".
Menajahtwa — "Cha-licious"
Yella both produced and executive produced the 1994 debut album from Compton female rap duo Menajahtwa, Cha-licious; the second of three female rap groups whose careers he helped foster during a time when there were few women in hip hop.
H.W.A. — "High Timez"
Yella produced one track from this female rap trio's 1994 debut album, Az Much Ass Azz U Want (say that five times fast).
DJ Yella — "4 The E"
Yella finally got behind the mic for his 1996 debut album, One Mo Nigga to Go, which was released after Eazy-E's death and features the Eazy-E tribute song, "4 the E".
Clearly DJ Yella is an extremely important name in the history of hip hop, so let's all show a little respect, huh?


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Narrativizing Nursing Students” Experiences With Medical Errors During Clinicals
Locate a journal Qualitative Health Research in the Sage Premier database. (WILL UPLOAD MY ARTICLE I SELECTED)
•Review the information on different qualitative research designs.
•Determine what qualitative research design was used in your selected article and evaluate whether it was the best choice.
•Consider ethical issues involved in the study and how the researchers addressed them.
•Think about how using a quantitative design would have affected the type of data gathered.
DIRECTIONS: WRITE OUT APA citation for the article that you selected and provide a brief summary of the content and the qualitative research design used.
Evaluate the appropriateness of the design, and explain how ethical issues in the study were addressed.
Analyze how the study would have been different if a quantitative design had been used.
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OTTAWA — Canada was actively pursuing — at the political level — the possible acquisition of the controversial French-built Mistral-class helicopter carriers, several defence, diplomatic and military industry sources have told The Canadian Press.
The effort has ground to halt, however, largely because of the federal election campaign — and it may slip away entirely because the French are now in a position to entertain bids from other countries for the 22,000-tonne ships, originally built for Russia.
The original deal was cancelled because of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its ongoing support of anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine, but it was only last month that the French government concluded a US $1.01 billion refund agreement, a plan that was approved Thursday by the lower house of the French National Assembly.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, say Defence Minister Jason Kenney was — until the election call —”actively engaged” in sounding out the French, including a face-to-face exchange at the most recent NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels last June.
A series of international media reports — including the French daily Le Monde, the International Business Times, Les Echos and La Tribune — have long put Canada on the short list of potential buyers, along with Egypt, India and Singapore.
While there was no shortage of interest and backroom dialogue, the sources say, the French were unable to formally negotiate with interested nations until a deal was concluded with Russia. Now that has happened, “the matter is now with the Elysee Palace,” the president’s office.
The vessels could well be snapped up before a new government gets organized in Ottawa.
“We were unable to get into a position before the writ dropped where we could actively discuss (or) negotiate,” said one source with knowledge of the file.
A spokesman for Kenney declined to comment when asked specifically about the government’s interest in the ships and lobbying efforts last spring. Daniel Proussalidis would only say that “the Canadian Armed Forces is not pursuing the acquisition of these vessels at this time.”
The idea of the Harper government buying the ships has percolated in the defence community for years.
Former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier advocated for such a capability as far back as 2006. Former Conservative senator Hugh Segal suggested Canada buy the Mistrals a few years ago, while an independent report last year from retired colonel George Petrolekas and defence analyst Dave Perry endorsed it as part of a larger strategy to recapitalize the navy.
Word of the initiative came as the Liberals released their defence platform on Sunday, which promised to put more emphasis on rebuilding the Navy.
Although considered amphibious warfare ships and equipped with landing craft, the Mistrals have been used extensively by the French for disaster relief and evacuations, including in Lebanon in 2006.
The problem for Canada, according to defence sources, is that National Defence has done very little in the way of formal study on the long-term ownership costs and the hurdles of operating such sophisticated ships, which are capable of carrying 16 helicopters, 59 armoured vehicles, and more than 450 troops.
The Conservative government, National Defence and the Department of Public Works were roasted by the auditor general in 2012 for a lack of homework and incomplete public costing of the F-35 stealth fighter program, which has since been put on hold.
The Mistrals could potentially sell for $1.2 billion to $1.6 billion, according to published reports overseas, and if Canada did bid, they would require hundreds of millions of dollars worth of modifications to bring them in line with Canadian military standards.
The ships were not mentioned in the 2008 Conservative defence strategy, nor were they considered under the national shipbuilding program. However, some in the defence community say the government’s designated shipyards, which are in the process of being retooled for existing projects, are not yet technically ready to construct helicopter carriers.
“Nobody knows if these ships will make sense for Canada because they haven’t been considered as part of a comprehensive defence and foreign policy review,” Michael Byers, a political science professor and defence academic at the University of British Columbia.
“It would carry substantial risk. It would reorient the Navy and impact the Air Force in terms of maritime helicopters. There are lots of follow-on consequences that need to be considered before you move forward.”
The thinking in the political and defence sectors is that Egypt — backed by Saudi Arabian cash — and the other competitors have an edge because they already have established defence links with France; they are more aggressive and able to move faster than Canada in closing a deal.
“Egypt and Saudi Arabia are entirely ready to buy the two Mistrals,” said a French official in Egypt, Le Monde reported.
Whether that is true remains to be seen because the Harper government has made it a priority to court France in the defence and security sector, notably with signing technical defence co-operation agreements earlier this year. The French shipyard, DCNS, has opened an office in Ottawa and has been lobbying hard to be part of the planned frigate replacement program.
Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press


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by Jeremy Clarke.
You’d be forgiven for assuming Mothra (1961) to be a typical Toho monster movie in which a giant moth attacks Tokyo. However, the film single-handedly redefined the genre as much as the original Godzilla film defined it.
With a typhoon moving towards Japan, sailors abandon ship near Infant Island where nuclear weapons have recently been tested by Rolisica – an amalgam of Russia and the US. When rescued survivors are tested for radiation sickness, no symptoms are found. Two members of the press, the reporter Zenichiro Fukuda (Frankie Sakai) and his photographer colleague Michi Hanamura (Kyoko Kagawa) sneak into the team of scientists to take pictures and ask questions, learning that the natives gave them red juice to drink. They report back to their editor (Takashi Shimura).
Clark Nelson (American-Japanese actor Jerry Ito, who barely spoke Japanese in real life) leads an expedition to Infant Island where they find a jungle reminiscent of the one Pathé built in Hollywood for The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and King Kong (1933), filled with man-eating plants, hostile natives and two telepathic, singing Shobijin (lit: ‘small beauties’) about a foot tall. These two diminutive women are played by real life twin sisters Yumi and Emi Ito (a.k.a. Japanese singing sensation The Peanuts), who appeared in a dozen other films including several knockabout comedies and Toho’s next two follow-up monster pictures Mothra vs Godzilla and Ghidora The Three-Headed Monster (both 1964).
As in King Kong, the expedition leader is a showman who resolves to bring wondrous creatures back to civilisation and exhibit them in a theatre show. The two Shobijin are flown on wires in a Cinderella-type golden carriage into a theatre arena, where they sing a captivating song to the audience. But their song is actually a distress call to wake Mothra and summon her to their rescue. This is a refreshingly feminine take on a largely masculine genre, very different from Kong rampaging through New York before being shot dead, In a similar vein, Ray Harryhausen’s masterpiece The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) had featured a foot-tall woman transported in a gilded cage. Both these films happily throw brave and offbeat ideas into their narratives then run with them with scant regard for audience expectations or genre conventions.
Renowned critic Kim Newman comments in an on-disc interview that despite being captured by the evil showman and exploited, the Peanuts are also pop stars who feel obliged to put on a show rather than sulk. The tone of general good humour, warmth, charm, generosity and camaraderie in Mothra’s characters is actually a very pleasing note that makes the subsequent run of monster movies work better. The spectacle of destruction is so much a part of the appeal of these films yet Toho’s Mothra, like The 7th Voyage, conceives its monsters as wonderful, ridiculous, magical and charming. One might add that the Mothra screenplay is engagingly silly.
Mothra, in caterpillar form, hatches out of a giant egg to make her way across the sea, through aerial bombardment and an inland dam to Tokyo. She weaves a cocoon around the newly constructed Tokyo Tower before emerging as an adult moth to wreak havoc on Tokyo and later Rolisica’s New Kirk City, rescue the Shobijin and return them to their island home. This gives effects director Eiji Tsuburaya the perfect opportunity for extended scenes of scale-model mayhem, with everything done on-set in front of the camera. You’ll marvel at the level of artistry and the skill with which he, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and director Ishiro Honda integrate this technically breath-taking footage into the final film.
Our first sight of Infant Island bears a close resemblance the recurring establishing shot of Tracy Island in Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds puppet TV show (1965-66). Could it have been inspired by Mothra? Just look at the distinctive shape of the island and the way the water of the sea created in a studio tank for the film moves from left to right. Mothra also boasts silent airfields with ambulances racing across them, all rendered in immaculate and detailed model work, which again anticipate similar set-ups in Anderson’s show. Eiji Tsuburaya may not delight in blowing up his models in quite the same way, but he has buildings on fire and collapsing, often skilfully melded with other film elements such as tanks in motion with model soldiers standing exposed in their turrets and cars blown around the deserted model streets of New Kirk City by Mothra.
Eureka!’s disc contains not only Toho’s Japanese version of the film but also Columbia’s slightly different version dubbed for the US market. Each version has a commentary, one by David Kalat, author of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series, the other by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski, authors of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa.
Toho’s production contract with Columbia Pictures in the US stipulated that Mothra should at some point in the film attack a Western city. So, as well as Tokyo, the giant moth also turns up to wreak havoc on ended up being called New Kirk City, Rolisica. At one point, it was Newark City, a name abandoned when it was pointed out that an actual Newark City existed in the real world. Kalat points out that while the film mostly takes place in and around Japan, Rolisica features heavily, mostly as a superpower interfering in Japanese home political affairs. Rolisica looks like America yet appears to be geographically located where Russia is in our world. Mothra was made at the height of the cold war yet takes place in a fantasy world where not only is the Cold War not happening, but the script has also merged its two antagonistic nations into one superpower.
Ryfle and Godziszewski dredge up a riot of compelling, incidental trivia about the production and those involved with it. This is the place you’ll learn that the location of the then recently built National Sports Centre turns up not only in Mothra but also as the Space Centre in Battle in Outer Space. They also employ excerpts from recorded interviews from the likes of actor Jerry Ito, Michael Friend (who worked on this 2009 Mothra restoration for Sony) and US ex-pat journalist Clifford Harrington, who lived in Japan at the time and moonlighted playing extras on Mothra and other movies.
A relevant extract from Ryfle and Godziszewski’s book appears in the disc’s highly informative 60-page booklet which also features writing on the film by Simon Ward, Christopher Stewardson and Jasper Sharp.
Mothra is released on Blu-ray by Eureka! in the UK and Ireland.
Jeremy Clarke’s new website is jeremycprocessing.com


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Enter a magical kingdom where you will battle against evil and collect valuable items in Tower in the Sky. This new strategy role-playing adventure lets you build a powerful team, customize your characters, and obtain mystical items that you will use against your wicked enemies.
Assemble your team and prepare for battle. Each character has a special ability to help you in your attacks against the dozens of enemies you will need to defeat. You start off with characters like Chance the young orphan and Anton the tough spearman. Assuming you succeed, you will unlock more characters along the way and must decide who to have on your team for each battle.
Make your way through the many levels within the Kingdom of Tyrune to reach the Tower in the Sky. Before each battle, be sure to equip your team with a powerful weapon, nifty shirt, and magical item. When the attacks begin, the enemies will enter from the right while your team is lined up on the left. Drag and drop members of your team to change their positions and just tap to attack. There is also Game Center support with 24 achievements. Check out this gameplay video of Tower in the Sky and just click here if you cannot view it:
Get to know your team
In the beginning you only have a few characters, but make sure that you check out their stats from their strength to their speed. During battle, you may need to use the character’s special ability to attack, so keep an eye on how fast they are regenerating after each blow. The graphics are pretty nice and the stubby shape and bouncy movement of the characters actually remind of me of those on TV’s “South Park.”
Tower in the Sky is universal and available for $1.99 on the App Store without in-app purchases.
For more new games, take a look at Enter the gothic daydream Afterland, a collectible card game and Hover your way to the top in The Balloons – Endless Floater.


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About the Book:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing. (How did you get started? How many books have you written? Where are you on your writing journey?)
I’ve been a professional author since 2011, but have a degree in English from UCLA where I trained as a newspaper reporter back in the dark ages. I’ve written forever—including a massive family history that’s in the Library of Congress.
I got my start towards publication at the Mt. Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference in 2003 when it seemed like God gave me a promise that if I put Him and His plans first in my life, someday I would be published. More to the point, I needed to focus on my daughter’s teenage years. I got my first contract the very day we drove her to college. You can read about that here: http://www.booksandsuch.com/blog/dreams-come-true-at-mount-hermon/
I’m the published author of five novellas and a rogue Navy SEAL novel; three of the novella collections made best seller lists, including The New York Times for A Log Cabin Christmas Collection.
I’m currently writing a biography called Mrs. Oswald Chambers, which is the story of Biddy Chambers, an intrepid Victorian stenographer who married the noted Bible teacher and compiled My Utmost for His Highest. It releases in fall 2017 from Baker Books.
What is your favorite Bible verse?
I like all of Romans 12, but the one I’ve clung to in these social media days as a Christian is Romans 12:18: “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” (NKJV)
What have you read lately that you would recommend?
I really enjoyed Lori Benton’s A Flight of Arrows. I love all of Lori’s books, but this most recent one has such an interesting presentation of how God works in the lives of all people—no matter their culture. Several of my novellas examine how Jesus is expressed between cultures—and how he is the meeting place for people who see life in such different ways.
I’ve written about Lori’s book and my reaction to her presentation of the Gospel here: http://michelleule.com/2016/04/29/native-americans-gospel-flight-arrows/
What book are you featuring today?
My featured book today is the latest novella collection, The 12 Brides of Summer. Twelve different inspirational romance writers teamed up to write a first collection: The 12 Brides of Christmas and now have written sequels to their stories in the summer book.
The Sunbonnet Bride tells the tale of a young seamstress in 1874 Fairhope, Nebraska, who has to choose between a pristine banker or a sweaty teamster after a tornado rolls through town. Which man deserves her heart more? One who works with his mind or one who works with his hands? And however will she choose?
Hint: reed flutes, a blackberry pie and sunbonnets make the difference.
If you could tell people who are going to read/have read your books one thing, what would it be?
Truth can be stranger than fiction and often is more interesting. See my novella in A Pioneer Christmas Collection, A Gold Rush Christmas—which fictionalizes the true story of the day most of the prostitutes in Skagway, Alaska, fled.
About the Author:
Michelle is a long-time lay counselor in both crisis pregnancies and budget counseling. She loves to travel and is an accomplished genealogist. You can learn more about her at www.michelleule.com.

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im sure you all remember my post's a long time ago about a friend who was milling a replica of Luke's "Return of the Jedi" lightsaber.... and i know that the thread was left for dead when i temporarily left the forum for a bit... well guess what kids?
the lightsaber is about a week from being totally completed....
at the end of the week there will be a total of 5 completed well 4 technically cuz im buying one.. lol
which means if anyone is serious about purchasing one i will post some high quality digicam pics ASAP!!
here are some very rough pics just to wet your wistle..

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“‘Not X, but also not not X.’” In a recent piece for the New York Times, Sam Anderson examines a sentence structure pattern that reappears frequently in Keith Gessen’s novel A Terrible Country (Viking, 2018). Anderson notes that many authors tend to repeat sentence structures in a move that reflects a particular worldview or expresses the author’s thought process in some way. Browse through your writing and search for one of your own signature sentence structures. Reflect and write about what this style reveals of your philosophies or how your mind works.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.


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In cities around the U.S., people are marching, gathering and attending events to mark Juneteenth, a date that honors the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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A woman prays during an event hosted by OneRace Movement at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park to commemorate Juneteenth, the date of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S., on Friday, June 19, 2020.
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People hold yellow umbrellas covered with the names of killed people during a Juneteenth 2020 celebration and protest against police brutality in Dallas, Friday, June 19, 2020.
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Protesters march towards the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Friday, June 19, 2020.
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People march in the street to mark Juneteenth, Friday, June 19, 2020, in St. Louis.
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Union workers and other supporters rally Friday, June 19, 2020, near the Port of Seattle as part of a coordinated eight-hour work stoppage at more than two dozen West Coast Ports that was organized by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
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Kimya Hogarth, of Silver Spring, Md., during a protest in Washington at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Friday, June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Juneteenth marchers took to the streets of West Philadelphia to celebrate unity in the Black community and to remember the pain of civil rights struggles both past and present.
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Demonstrators lie on the ground of the courthouse patio Friday, June 19, 2020, in Burlington, Vt., for eight minutes, roughly the amount of time that a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on George Floyd’s neck.
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People demonstrate in Chicago, Friday, June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth.