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You ever see buses or cars driving around with bumper stickers on them saying “this vehicle runs on clean natural gas”? Here in New York City, over 900 of the MTA’s 6,200 buses run on natural gas (and have that sticker). Well, natural gas may burn cleaner than diesel, but it’s certainly not a clean fuel to produce. Of all the films I saw at Mountainfilm last month, few left as strong an impression on me as Gasland. Here’s the trailer:
Filmmaker Josh Fox does a commendable job weaving his personal story through a quagmire of political bureaucracies, special interest groups, corporate greed and environmental short-sightedness. The film is playing tonight (June 21) on HBO. I suggest you make time to watch it and get involved in stopping hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from happening near you. For more info on HBO, visit this link. For the official Gasland site, visit here.
Friend David de Rothschild‘s Plastiki set sail from San Francisco this past weekend, beginning an 11,000 nautical mile journey to Sydney, Australia. My congratulations to David, who has spent the last 4 years working on this project, pioneering so many aspects of this ship’s technology and construction to help reach people with his message about pollution, water quality, and plastics. Visit the official Plastiki site for more info on the boat (made of 12,000 plastic bottles) and their journey. David and crew will be updating their Facebook page and using Twitter to reach people while at sea. Bon Voyage, David!
The TED Conference is well-known for inviting only the best speakers to deliver 20-minute speeches to a crowd of enthusiastic, idealistic, and sharp-minded people. “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world” is their motto, and a lot of their talks are not viewable online, which is fantastic. Here’s one I think you’ll enjoy from Dan Barber, executive chef of Blue Hill Farm restaurants. Well worth your 20 minutes.
A few years ago, a friend and I were discussing the Tarahumara Indians of Central Mexico. The Tarahumara are world-famous for their ability to run long-distances (like, 100 miles) in nothing more than sandals made from used tires. They live in Copper Canyon, the Grand Canyon of Mexico, and BOSS used to offer trips with them. Over many years, we learned about their culture, their relationship with the land, and their sacred beliefs in corn. Corn is a critical part of their culture—they grow the plant for food and to make tesguino, the sacred corn beer they drink during special occasions. Anyway, my friend was saying that Americans today have more corn in their bodies than the Tarahumara, who eat it and drink it. “How’s that possible?” I wondered. Well, the film King Corn explains it:
College buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis ventured from their East Coast college to visit the land of their respective great-grandparents in Iowa. Tracing their roots to the dawn of modern agriculture, they explore how corn went from a staple of small farming families to what is now America’s most-productive and most-subsidized grain. The entire face of agriculture changed because of corn and now its by-products—including high fructose corn syrup—appear in almost every product we consume. Corn is also eaten by the majority of land animals that humans eat.
The implications are both vast and daunting, as we are now eating and drinking corn on a daily basis. It’s practically inescapable, which I found both fascinating and disturbing. I hope you’ll get a chance to watch this film. Here’s the link to their official website.
First of all, I’m ecstatic that The Cove won the Oscar for best documentary. How cool is that? And secondly, I’m excited to hear that Animal Planet has just announced Dolphin Warriors, a TV series that picks up where The Cove ended. Ric O’Barry is back, and he’s still focused on getting the people in Taiji (and the rest of Japan) to stop killing dolphins. Very excited to see where this goes!
Last night, Discovery Communications hosted an event at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for LIFE, the sequel to Planet Earth. Here’s the promo:
The event itself was amazing. The New York Pops orchestra played in perfect sync to the Hi-Def screening of the first episode “Challenges of Life,” playing above them. The entire theater was packed and the atmosphere was electric. Seeing the video that way (something that could not be replicated at home, even with the largest HD screen) was truly amazing. As was the show, which I believe represents the pinnacle of non-fiction television. Productions like Life (and Planet Earth before it) inspire people to explore the earth, to marvel at its creatures, and to love it. Bravo to Discovery and co-producers at the BBC. I’m looking forward to watching the 11 episodes over the upcoming 5 Sundays in March and April.

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Donald Cahoon, Ph.D.
Donald R. Cahoon, PhD, is a senior research ecologist with the U. S. Geological Survey at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland and an internationally recognized expert in tidal wetland elevation dynamics and wetland vulnerability to climate change effects (e.g., sea-level rise and storms). He is a Fellow and Past President of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Trained as a botanist and plant ecologist, he has spent the past 30 years working as a physical geographer. In 1992 he developed a field method for measuring tidal wetland accretion and elevation dynamics (the surface elevation table – marker horizon (SET-MH) method) that is used by scientists in coastal wetlands throughout the United States and in 32 countries for evaluating the critical driving forces and subsurface processes controlling elevation, and the impact of current management and restoration practices on elevation dynamics and wetland stability. His research focuses on the processes and external drivers that control wetland elevation dynamics and wetland sustainability across the broad spectrum of coastal environmental settings.
- BA, Drew University, 1972, Botany
- MS, University of Maryland, 1975, Plant Ecology
- PhD, University of Maryland, 1982, Plant Ecology
- DOI, Distinguished Service Award, 2017
- Merit Award, Society of Wetland Scientists, 2011
- Fellow, Society of Wetland Scientists, 2011
- President, Society of Wetland Scientists, 1997-1998
- USGS, Global Change Research Program funding, 1991-present
- Star Award: 1998, 2001, 2006, 2009
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The Challenge: The high winds and storm surge associated with Hurricane Sandy impacted coastal wetlands from Virginia to Maine. Understanding the ecological and geological impacts of hurricanes on coastal wetlands and their interactive effects with local conditions is important for identifying resilience of these communities to predicted global sea-level rise. Given the projected increase in...
Coastal wetlands: A synthesis
This book and this synthesis address the pressing need for better management of coastal wetlands worldwide because these wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate; in some countries the loss is 70%–80% in the last 50 years. Managing requires understanding. Although our understanding of the functioning of coastal...Perillo, Gerardo M. E.; Wolanski, Eric; Cahoon, Donald R.; Hopkinson, Charles S.; Hopkinson, Charles S.; Wolanski, Eric; Cahoon, Donald R.; Perillo, Gerardo M. E.; Brinson, Mark M.
Evaluating restored tidal freshwater wetlands
As restoration of tidal freshwater wetlands has progressed in North America and Eurasia, research findings have continued to emerge on the postrestoration success of these ecosystems. The most common approaches used to restore tidal freshwater wetlands involve excavation or placement of dredged sediment to restore tidal ...Perillo, Gerardo M. E.; Wolanski, Eric; Cahoon, Donald R.; Hopkinson, Charles S.; Baldwin, Andrew H.; Hammerschlag, Richard S.; Cahoon, Donald R.
Assessing coastal wetland vulnerability to sea-level rise along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast: Gaps and opportunities for developing a coordinated regional sampling network
Coastal wetland responses to sea-level rise are greatly influenced by biogeomorphic processes that affect wetland surface elevation. Small changes in elevation relative to sea level can lead to comparatively large changes in ecosystem structure, function, and stability. The surface elevation table-marker horizon (SET-MH) approach is being used...Osland, Michael J.; Griffith, Kereen T.; Larriviere, Jack C.; Feher, Laura C.; Cahoon, Donald R.; Enwright, Nicholas M.; Oster, David A.; Tirpak, John M.; Woodrey, Mark S.; Collini, Renee C.; Baustian, Joseph J.; Breithaupt, Joshua L.; Cherry, Julia A; Conrad, Jeremy R.; Cormier, Nicole; Coronado-Molina, Carlos A.; Donoghue, Joseph F.; Graham, Sean A.; Harper, Jennifer W.; Hester, Mark W.; Howard, Rebecca J.; Krauss, Ken W.; Kroes, Daniel; Lane, Robert R.; McKee, Karen L.; Mendelssohn, Irving A.; Middleton, Beth A.; Moon, Jena A.; Piazza, Sarai; Rankin, Nicole M.; Sklar, Fred H.; Steyer, Gregory D.; Swanson, Kathleen M.; Swarzenski, Christopher M.; Vervaeke, William; Willis, Jonathan M; Van Wilson, K.
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Elevation dynamics in a restored versus a submerging salt marsh in Long Island Sound
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The surface elevation table and marker horizon technique: A protocol for monitoring wetland elevation dynamics
The National Park Service, in response to the growing evidence and awareness of the effects of climate change on federal lands, determined that monitoring wetland elevation change is a top priority in North Atlantic Coastal parks (Stevens et al, 2010). As a result, the NPS Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (NCBN) in collaboration with...James C. Lynch; Phillippe Hensel; Cahoon, Donald R.
Sediment transport-based metrics of wetland stability
Despite the importance of sediment availability on wetland stability, vulnerability assessments seldom consider spatiotemporal variability of sediment transport. Models predict that the maximum rate of sea level rise a marsh can survive is proportional to suspended sediment concentration (SSC) and accretion. In contrast, we find that SSC and...Ganju, Neil K.; Kirwan, Matthew L.; Dickhudt, Patrick J.; Guntenspergen, Glenn R.; Cahoon, Donald R.; Kroeger, Kevin D.
Sea level and turbidity controls on mangrove soil surface elevation change
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Estimating relative sea-level rise and submergence potential at a coastal wetland
A tide gauge records a combined signal of the vertical change (positive or negative) in the level of both the sea and the land to which the gauge is affixed; or relative sea-level change, which is typically referred to as relative sea-level rise (RSLR). Complicating this situation, coastal wetlands exhibit dynamic surface elevation change (both...Cahoon, Donald R.
Below the disappearing marshes of an urban estuary: historic nitrogen trends and soil structure
Marshes in the urban Jamaica Bay Estuary, New York, USA are disappearing at an average rate of 13 ha/yr, and multiple stressors (e.g., wastewater inputs, dredging activities, groundwater removal, and global warming) may be contributing to marsh losses. Among these stressors, wastewater nutrients are suspected to be an important contributing cause...Wigand, Cathleen; Roman, Charles T.; Davey, Earl; Stolt, Mark; Johnson, Roxanne; Hanson, Alana; Watson, Elizabeth B.; Moran, S. Bradley; Cahoon, Donald R.; Lynch, James C.; Rafferty, Patricia
How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level
Mangroves are among the most well described and widely studied wetland communities in the world. The greatest threats to mangrove persistence are deforestation and other anthropogenic disturbances that can compromise habitat stability and resilience to sea-level rise. To persist, mangrove ecosystems must adjust to rising sea level by building...Krauss, Ken W.; McKee, Karen L.; Lovelock, Catherine E.; Cahoon, Donald R.; Saintilan, Neil; Reef, Ruth; Chen, Luzhen
The surface elevation table: marker horizon method for measuring wetland accretion and elevation dynamics
Tidal wetlands are highly sensitive to processes that affect their elevation relative to sea level. The surface elevation table–marker horizon (SET–MH) method has been used to successfully measure these processes, including sediment accretion, changes in relative elevation, and shallow soil processes (subsidence and expansion due to root...Callaway, John C.; Cahoon, Donald R.; Lynch, James C.


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Soulmates obtain a lot of focus. They are heavily included in books, verse, and other types of media. It’s not a surprise we commonly wonder if there is somebody available on the planet whom we could be destined for, whether as a life companion or a best friend. Would certainly this be a soulmate or a twin flame, though? As well as what’s the distinction?
A Much More Destiny-Driven, Overwhelming Kind Of Love Than Soulmates
Possibly you’re already with somebody whom you are always in perfect sync with. The majority of people use the term “soulmate” instead of “twin fire” to explain the optimal of a charming partnership and also the best locate when it come to like and romance. A twin flame, nonetheless, may be even closer than a soulmate.
What Is A Twin Flame?
A twin fire is the relative of a soulmate. While a Signs Your Twin Flame Is Missing You is normally taken a enchanting partner, a twin flame can originate from all profession and also can personify several kinds of connections. Because twin fires are not necessarily compatible for love, they are not considered soulmates. Instead, they’re considered two halves of a whole. Hence, intimacy as well as connection come as normally as breathing in between two twin fires.
How Are Double Flames Different From Soulmates?
While the idea of soulmates is backed by at the very least 2 various mythical origin stories, twin fires are not a item of mythology. Rather, twin flames are a spiritual concept, where they represent two parts of one soul in separate bodies, or a actual “soulmate”. These 2 components do not have to collaborate to be a whole, healthy and balanced individual in every life, according to the lore.
Twin fires are claimed to be produced when a individual reaches transcendence or a higher method of living.The effect of transcendence is to have your spirit rendered in 2, and one half is transposed right into a body outside of your own. This is not a punishment, but a all-natural consequence.
1244 Twin Flame Meaning – Twin Flames And Love Indications
The most effective sign of a twin fire’s unconditional love is wishing. You will experience an intense longing for your twin flame, even when the two of you have connected-and possibly even while both of you are with each other. Due to the fact that you are a single heart split into two, you will long for unity and also unity with your twin flame. This unity can just be reached through consistent growth in all facets of your life and also is taken into consideration a spiritual yearning, or spirit yearning.
The Magnetic Pull In Between Soulmates
Really feeling a solid, magnetic pull toward a person may also indicate that you have actually discovered a twin fire link. Being two fifty percents of one whole and also existing to create unity and also wholeness in one another means that being aside from each other can be challenging, or even excruciating. If you have actually not yet satisfied your twin flame, you will feel yourself moving in the instructions of this individual, without recognizing it or knowing why. When you do meet your double flame, however, the pull is indisputable, as well as you will likely remain to really feel an destination, a distance, as well as a feeling of magnetism even if you have gone your separate ways for a while.
Finally, you will really feel an amazing feeling of instinct toward your double flame. You might find yourself doing or thinking the very same things at the same time. You may also have the very same desires. You may know aspects of your twin flame that they have not informed you such as when they are battling, experiencing, or experiencing bliss. Your link of Signs Your Twin Flame Is Missing You permits you to have a window into their mood.
Are Double Blaze Always Charming?
No. The most crucial facet of a twin flame is a connection.
In friendship double flame connections, though, both of you are likely to be indivisible as well as have a bond that may seem to be a step over relationship, even without romance entailed. The two of you might be likened to being brother or sisters when your bond is observed by outsiders, as it will certainly be powerful, extreme, and also unbreakable. As a result, when you satisfy your twin fire, you will likely be completely knowledgeable about it, thinking about the connection might be so solid as well as effective.
How Long Does A Twin Flame Last?
Unlike soulmates, twin fire partnerships do not always last a lifetime. Operating under the notion that the two of you are literally 2 halves of a single heart, your link will be withstanding, but your partnership might not be. For some, the partnership with your double fire is made to teach you something or elevate you to a greater area in your life. 1244 Twin Flame Meaning could occur right as you require them, as well as enter your life in a time of wonderful conflict or excellent adjustment. They can aid reduce the transition right into a brand-new means of living or being.
In romantic connections, twin fires can stand the test of time and can be extraordinary companions. Because both of you will certainly have a powerful link, you may locate that producing depend on as well as intimacy is much much easier in these connections than in various other partnerships you might have come across. That kind of quick, magnetic tourist attraction and also trust is tough to allow go of, so twin fires may do whatever it requires to make certain they keep their partnership.
Why Turn Down A Twin Fire for 1244 Twin Flame Meaning?
It is very important to note that a twin flame is taken into consideration to essentially be your partner. This suggests that in spite of an intense connection, you could really feel the impulse to escape or reject your twin fire if you do not have a deep and abiding love on your own. All too often, individuals fast to dislike the unfavorable qualities they possess mirrored in those around them. This will be amplified in your twin flame, as the two of you are 2 halves of one whole.
This is part of what makes double fires so crucial to some. These links are developed to help you grow and end up being a better variation of on your own. If you reject yourself, this being rejected can expose job you have to do in order to lead a better, much more satisfied life.
The Purpose Of Double Blazes
What is the purpose of your flame? Because twin flame relationships elevate you and also press you to expand, these connections are taken into consideration essential to the development as well as development of the human race as a whole. Hence, they are encouraged as well as supported by various spiritual leaders. Trying to find your double flame-and being able to maintain the relationship requires a lot of maturation on the part of both partners. It may be both one of the most fulfilling relationship you will certainly ever have and also one of the most tough.
Twin flames are supposed to be examples of how love need to look. They may take countless lifetimes to lastly come together and stay together in a strong, fully grown relationship. But if this is attained, the fire bond will certainly influence as well as influence every person around them.
Love And Also Development
Twin flames resemble Signs Your Twin Flame Is Missing You in that they afford you a effective link and also a feeling that you are not alone worldwide. They differ from soulmates, however, in that twin fires are stated to be withstanding, going through numerous life times and also changes. Twin flame connections are created from spiritual bonds, as twin flames are said to essentially be two halves of a single soul that must eventually be reunited.
Also Soulmates Required Counseling In Some Cases
Assist Your Partnership Grow
A therapist could be able to assist you work through your past and also any kind of injury you might have experienced for your own health and development. Still, advocates of twin fires suggest that this kind of development as well as striving toward wellness is really an indispensable part of working toward reuniting with your twin flame. Because twin fires can set off a transformation in their communities or perhaps the globe, they need to have some form of psychological and spiritual health and wellness. The duty of serving as representatives of modification is large, and also getting over the obstacles that arise with a twin fire pairing might need patience, maturation, and resolution. These are qualities that might be doing not have in individuals that are not psychologically, psychologically, or mentally healthy. A twin flame is not simply a connection, but a means of going back to the core of who you are.
Couple and household therapy is one alternative for twin flames that may be battling in their relationship. Nonetheless, as a result of the potential for extreme problem and effective feelings between both, going to therapy sessions in person might be bothersome. Online therapy might be a practical alternative in these circumstances.
Online therapy has promising ramifications for couples counseling. A recent study showed that therapy delivered in electronic settings has benefits for both therapists as well as customers. In particular, research individuals were observed as similarly comfy and proficient in working through conflict as couples in typical therapy settings.
If you’re having problem in your double flame partnership or any other relationship, BetterHelp has certified therapists that can assist. Register today as well as start enhancing your love life.

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01. Malaysia Firefly
Another Malaysian airline on this list, Malaysia Firefly is at the top of the ladder. It is a subsidiary of Malaysian airlines. The average price it charges per trip is just $ 45, the cheapest of all the airlines in the world! The negative side is that it still operates for few destinations, but its services are excellent and it’s a great choice if your desire is to travel to Malaysia, Singapore or Bangkok on a low budget.

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I have other albums by you guys...best is Red of Tooth and Claw, I've seen you live once and got Adam's autograph...but what led me to this album was the Kenny Rogers cover. One of my favorite songs ever.
Favorite track: JUST DROPPED IN By Kenny Rogers.
we did a crazy kickstarter in July of 2012. One of the high-pledge options was for folks to choose a song for us to cover. A huge variety of songs got picked by people from all over, and we went into the studio in December to record them. We had 15 songs we needed to cover and learned, reworked, recorded and mixed them in a sleepy whiskey-fueled 13 days. Some were silly songs, some classics. It was a riot to learn and record them. As of now there are no plans to release them on any format other than digital and our bandcamp site is the only place you can get 'em.
released April 2, 2013
All Songs recorded By Murder By Death at Farm Fresh Studios (AKA Primary Studios) By Jake Belser
Art By Kyle Starks kylestarks.com
Some rights reserved. Please refer to individual track pages for license info.

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According to Ars Technica, the machine learning algorithm used by the NSA to analyse cellular data and determine if someone is a terrorist is "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." As a result, thousand of innocent people "may have been mislabelled as terrorists," resulting in their "untimely demise." The authors worry when this system will be used nationally, "assuming it hasn't been already." Above, a screenshot of an NSA presentation showing how a journalist was labelled as a "member of Al-Qa'ida" because of his travels.
The program, the slides tell us, is based on the assumption that the behaviour of terrorists differs significantly from that of ordinary citizens with respect to some of these properties. However, as The Intercept's exposé last year made clear, the highest rated target according to this machine learning program was Ahmad Zaidan, Al-Jazeera's long-time bureau chief in Islamabad.
As The Intercept reported, Zaidan frequently travels to regions with known terrorist activity in order to interview insurgents and report the news. But rather than questioning the machine learning that produced such a bizarre result, the NSA engineers behind the algorithm instead trumpeted Zaidan as an example of a SKYNET success in their in-house presentation, including a slide that labelled Zaidan as a "MEMBER OF AL-QA'IDA."
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Finally, the time has come for our first Saturday fixture at the New Lane, with Huddersfield tasked with doing what Palace and City failed to do before them – score a goal; stop us scoring – neither of which Huddersfield have managed to do against us since September 72, when we beat them 2-1 in the League Cup at the Old Lane.
Since then, we’ve only faced each other three times: We beat them four-nil at their place in September 17, two-nil at Wembley last March, and two-nil again at The Kirklees last September. Continue reading “Mooove over, coming through.”
As we stumble fortuitously towards our first ever quarter final on the rented retractable pitch, I thought I’d bore you all senseless with a stupidly long recounting of every single European first-leg quarter final we’ve ever played in our glory-glory nights past, and a recounting of how we ended up playing them.
What else is a middle-aged married man going to do with a Saturday afternoon when Spurs don’t have a game?
Our first ever foray into such a late stage of any European competition was in 61-62, the seventh season of official EUFA competition and our first ever stab at it. Manchester United (twice) and Wolves and Burnley had already made it this far in previous European Cup campaigns, but we still had the potential to become the first ever English team to win it, and, possibly for the only time in our history, possessed a team with the pedigree to be considered genuine contenders for Europe’s ultimate club prize. Continue reading “First Quarters”
I thought we had the best of the opening exchanges. Moura, especially, looked bright. Then Liverpool began to peg us back, with both Trippier and Rose seemingly feeling the need to tuck in tight to our three central defenders, which allowed Liverpool to ping the ball out to either flank at will, negating our press.
Then Hugo began to drop hints that this was not going to be one of his finest displays: just as the tide was starting to turn, he pumped an aimless ball into the no man’s land just short of halfway and Liverpool were on us in a flash.
We got away with that one, but it turned out to be a reprieve – following a straightforward pass-back from Jan, with plenty of time to either hoof it or pick out a pass, he repeated the trick and three touches later the ball hit the back of our net.
After that, for most of the half, Liverpool had enough chances to be out of sight, but failed to hit the target with any, and although a couple were well worked, none were as clean cut as the Eriksen and Sissoko chances we went on to carve out. Whether we deserved all three points or not, the three points were there for the taking, and I’d much rather suffer through a 2-1 defeat like that compared to the miserable Wembley performance we all had to endure against the same mob earlier this season.
That’s progress, of sorts, I suppose.
As for Hugo, he frustrates the hell out of me, and his part in the first goal infuriated me even more than his part in the second one, but, at the same time, he’s a keeper, and they all make mistakes – yes, he might be up there with Pickford for the most mistakes directly leading to goals since 2016 or whatever it is, and, yes, it could well be that he’s the only keeper from a top six side near the top of that list, but Alisson Becker got away with a potential howler when he raced out to head the ball into Milner, and also shanked a fair few of his kicks into touch early on. His save from Kane early in the second half pushed the ball straight back into danger just as Hugo’s late fumble did, except Robertson blocked Eriksen’s resulting shot while Toby poked Hugo’s fumble into the back of the net. Also, De Gea, last night, for the Wolves winner, was at fault, but I bet that won’t be recorded as a statistical cock-up against him. Gazzaniga, meanwhile, as good as his performances have been when he’s been given the chance, and as promising as he looks, hardly covered himself in glory for Kante’s opener in the second leg of our semi at The Bridge.
As much as I understand the frustration with Hugo and feel it myself, that fumble can happen to any keeper, at any time. And, cock-ups aside, he’s been in better form recently, saving a couple of match-changing penalties and having two very good games against Dortmund.
What’s more worrying to me than the cock-ups like the ones against Liverpool and Chelsea is the constant issues with his distribution, especially as I’ve always felt that’s the reason Hugo is captain – because Pochettino wants the team to play out from the back in virtually all scenarios and he trusts Hugo to set that tempo in motion nine times out of ten.
Sadly, roughly three times out of nine, he invites pressure on us because he simply hasn’t got the talent with the ball at his feet to justify his or Poch’s confidence in him.
And, talking of inviting pressure, it seems to be getting increasingly difficult to remember the last time we conceded a goal that wasn’t at least partly down to one of our own mistakes – both against Liverpool (Hugo), both against Saints (Rose and Walker-Peters), the goal against Arsenal (Sanchez) and, arguably, both against Chelsea (we made a pretty poor job of coping with Pedro’s run, and Hugo and Trippier are hopefully still waking up in cold sweats over the second).
Take the goals those errors resulted in away, and we could be talking ten points from twelve, not one. That would have kept us three points off top.
I’m also finding it hard to forget the fact that, as painful as the Liverpool defeat was – and other defeats to our closest rivals this season – it’s really the points we’ve dropped against Watford, Burnley, Wolves and Saints that have scuppered our faint title hopes. Win all of those, and we’re two points off top, irrespective of the host of points dropped against Liverpool, City, Chelsea, United and Arsenal.
We’re not, though. We’re fourth. And, as TCY pointed out, in the midst of a collapse of catastrophic proportions.
All we have to do to arrest the slide, though, is beat Palace at home, something we haven’t failed to do since December 2014, when the two sides played out a nil-nil draw in what turned out to be our first Saturday 3 pm kick off at The Lane since the corresponding fixture the previous season.
Now, of course, we’re playing our first true home fixture at The Lane since 14th May 2017.
Since then, we’ve bettered Palace one-nil at home (and Wembley) three times on the bounce, with Not-a-Striker Son scoring the winner on his debut in 15/16, Victor Wanyama nodding home in 16/17, and Not-a-Striker Son making the difference once again in 17/18.
Now those of you lucky enough to have tickets will finally get to experience the glory of it’s-not-a-stadium-it’s-a-shopping-mall-stupid rocking to the tune of 62,062 retail opportunities crammed in. I’m so dumb-dumb, I’m seriously gutted not to have been given the opportunity to hand Levy and Joe my credit card details and experience the premier league unveiling of our new home myself, and I’ve not even had the credit card statement yet to confirm just how much they really were charging for Amstel at the Under 18 game: I just can’t wait to be in that place when it’s full, if the experience of being there when it’s half-empty is anything to go by: The way it’s the same tube-ride and walk I’ve been taking, on and off, for the past thirty-plus years; the way you can see the south stand and the cockerel from the High Cross junction in the same way you used to briefly be able to see the floodlight pylons in the eighties; the way adults stop and stare up at the West Stand the way I used to stop and stare at the old gated entrance when I was fourteen or fifteen years old… the fact the South Stand is over the old centre-spot… the fact Bill Nicholson’s ashes have been re-interned within the ground… the fact the concourses are actually made up of aggregate from times gone by…
The place hasn’t seen any first team action yet, but, from the outside, whether you’re a fan of the design or not, it already has a sense of presence and scale about it that the latter-day Lane only really had from within.
And then you see the sheer scale of the stadium bowl, which, despite being twice the size, still retains the symmetry of The Lane in its final Sugar-era form, just without the East Stand pylons and the sense that the West Stand still didn’t quite belong.
From the first row in the South Stand, you feel as if you can reach out and touch the pristine white net.
From the top row of the South Stand, you still feel as if you’re right on top of the action.
And, watching the under 18s play Saints under 18s, I felt I was at The Lane.
It’s going to be magical in there come kick-off, so let’s hope the team don’t stuff it up: History awaits us. Come on you Spurs – start it with an emphatic win.
679 days later, someone somewhere probably bitched over the length of time it took Levy and Lewis to get NWHL up and running.
49 days later, others of a like-minded ilk will definitely bitch if we don’t beat Liverpool on Sunday.
Because, if we don’t win on Sunday, that’s how long it will have been since we last ended a Premier League game with three points tucked under our belts.
Which, almost certainly, is our worst ever run under Poch.
And, thanks to the Spursylull and Interlull, unfortunately seems much, much longer since we beat Leicester 3-1 in the February sun.
Despite what some would choose to believe, though, I don’t feel it’s all been doom, gloom and reasons to be furious at every little thing Tottenham since that win over Leicester: I was lucky enough to be at the Dortmund ‘home’ game, and it was a truly superb performance and atmosphere; the unbridled joy of the team and the fans as that second half performance unfolded – mixed in with the brilliant support of the Dortmund fans – made it one of the best games and atmospheres I’ve ever been to. Continue reading “What are they? Chopped Liver?”
13th Feb, the Dortmund tie balanced very much in our favour, enjoying the warm rosy glow of a four-match winning streak in the Prem, and relishing the prospect of beating Burnley away to possibly go within two points of the big boys at the top of the league;
27th Feb, six points dropped, our faint chance of a title-tilt gone like a gooner in the Nutty League, and the cold hard fact that losing to Arsenal will see us well and truly dragged back into the battle for fourth with away trips to Anfield and The Etihad to come, not to mention the nagging fear of an all time Spursy performance rearing its head out in Dortmund. Continue reading “The Big Match”
So, the only thing that turned out to be good about Saturday ended up being Sunday.
Small consolation, though, given how poor we were against Burnley, especially as it’s yet another occasion where one of our better performances has been followed by one of our worst.
Earlier in the season, I’d hoped we’d shifted this fetish for lying back and thinking of former glories while ‘lesser’ teams made away with the points – especially when Everton was followed by Bournemouth – but those heavy wins were followed by Wolves, and where Wolves can feasibly be written off as one game too many for our ‘tiny’ squad over Christmas, there can be no such excuses for Saturday, which was simply a no-show all round. Continue reading “Old Maids of Chelsea”
In an alternative universe where Levy and Lewis cashed in their chips to Abramovich way back when he first came sniffing, we’d be facing Man City at Wembley this weekend, fully expecting Poch to pick up yet another major trophy for us, but suddenly scratching our heads over our owner’s visa, our stalled stadium redevelopment, and how to get around a transfer embargo threatening to reduce us to poor little Chelsea’s level, penniless Ken Bates having not spent a bean in ten years.
Instead, Poch leads us to Burnley, his options for taking over at either United or Real somewhat enhanced by ‘home’ wins over Watford, Newcastle, Leicester, Dortmund, those January back-to-back cup defeats suddenly forgotten by pundits and plankton alike who’d been all too eager to take them as proof he’d already found his level at Spurs.
Back in 84-85, when I was a teenager enjoying my first season on the lower East Stand terraces, I never used to understand why the ‘we will follow the Tottenham’ chant rolling down off The Shelf always included the words ‘… and Leicester…’.
It’s not something I’ve ever asked anyone, but I’ve since decided it has to be related to what went down on 14th May 1977 at White Hart Lane. Or, more to the point, who went down.
As it turned out, a Spurs team including Jennings, Perryman, Hoddle and Taylor beat Leicester 2-0 with goals from Jimmy Holmes and John Pratt in front of a crowd of 26,094 that afternoon. But it made no difference. Despite picking up two league cups and the EUFA Cup in the early seventies – trophies obviously being the one single measure of a club on the up – and despite finishing 9th the previous season, Agent Neill had sold off a lot of our experienced players from the last days of the Nicholson era before heading back to Highbury, leaving Keith Burkinshaw to try and revitalise our fortunes.
These days, I don’t believe there’s any way Burkinshaw would have survived that first season to go on to become one of our greats. We lost to Third Division Wrexham in the League Cup at The Lane, 8-2 away to Dave Mackay’s Derby in October, then 5-3 away to West Ham in November, and were third from bottom at the turn of the year. We lost to Second Division Cardiff in the third round of the FA Cup, were beaten in every single match we played in February, hardly won an away match all season – conceding fifty away goals in the process – and were virtually doomed to relegation following a five-nil thrashing at Maine Road in the game before Leicester came calling.
Our only hope as we kicked off against the Foxes was for West Ham to fail to pick up any points in their last two games of the season – away to champions elect Liverpool and at home to Man United – and for us to overhaul them on goal difference. The Hammers got a nil-nil at Anfield, though, and we were relegated for the first time since 1935, out of the top flight for the first time since push & run saw us promoted in 49-50, and in real danger of falling away from the limelight for good.
It’s enough to make even the most devout anti-Levyite look down at his Fakinel ENIC OUT t-shirt and momentarily doubt the curvature of the earth.
As traumatic as our last relegation must have been, it’s a more recent Leicester visit which I find the most scarring to look back on: Wednesday 13th January 2016 and we were fourth in the league, four points behind Leicester in second, and six points behind champions elect Arsenal in first. We’d won three and drawn one of our last four league games and Leicester were having the wobble many of us expected would signal their slide back into mid-table obscurity, having lost to Liverpool and drawn with City and Bournemouth without scoring a single goal in their preceding three league fixtures.
Although I clearly remember watching the game, I don’t remember too many details outside of two moments which still haunt me in terms of what might have been: Kane’s shot ricocheting off an advancing Kasper Schmeichel and smacking the bar on sixty-one minutes, and the usual unpunished penalty-area argy-bargy that preceded a lot of Leicester’s goals that season as Huth rose to head a corner home in the 81st minute.
Change that result to one-nil Spurs, and who knows what might have been?
This time around, and the stakes for Leicester aren’t quite so high. They’re currently eleventh and, on paper, not in the best run of form having only taken one point from the last twelve available. That one point did come against Liverpool at Anfield, though, in a one-all draw they could well have won. The fact they beat Chelsea away and Man City at home either side of Christmas Day provides further proof they’re likely to be dangerous opponents on Sunday, as does their narrow home defeat to Manchester United in their last premier league match.
As for this fixture last season, it was the 5-4 thriller which saw us three-one down on 47 minutes in what we all hoped would be our last ever league game at Wembley. Two goals from Lamela either side of a Fuchs own-goal saw us reclaim our early lead before Vardy pegged us back in the 73rd minute ahead of Kane rounding off the scoring three minutes later. Somehow, despite no home ground and all Poch’s best efforts to train the lads into the ground, we’d finished the season strongly enough to consign Liverpool to fourth and Chelsea to fifth. No silverware, though, so ultimately it all counted for nothing. Best to forget and move on.
So, moving on, following our one-nil win over a very well organised Newcastle side – and following City’s narrow win over an Everton team we spanked 2-6 – we’re back to third in a two-horse race, but now only five points off first, with a game in hand over City. We’re nine points better off than we were this time last season, where we had just strolled all over United 2-0 at Wembley and were about to enjoy that mad 2-2 draw up at Anfield, the last league points we would drop until we had to face runaway leaders City seven matches later.
In fact, if you take our results from last season from this point on and add it to what we already have, it gives us our best ever premier league haul of 87 points, as does looking at our results last season against teams we still have to face this season. That return would have put us second on goal-difference in 14/15, champions over Leicester by six points in 15/16, second by five in 16/17 (we actually came second by six) and second by thirteen last time around. It almost certainly won’t be enough to see us crowned champions this season, but it would be an amazing achievement given the lack of investment, lack of a home ground, and the money and salary gap between ourselves and certain clubs we’ll find ourselves looking down on again if we do manage to harvest that many points.
Something tells me we’re going to have to play better than we did against Watford and Newcastle if we’re going to take all three points from Leicester, though. Still without Dele and Kane, it’s not going to be easy. But, then, I fully expected Leicester to have the better of us at The King Power in early December. We were without Kane that day too – though he did come on in the 74th minute – but still had enough about us to dominate possession, touches, passes, and run out relatively comfortable two-nil winners.
With Liverpool having to prove their mettle against Bournemouth this afternoon following two draws and Man City having to host Chelsea, another two-niller against Leicester would be very welcome on Sunday.
Well, there’s little more to love in this life than a late Tottenham come-back victory: West Ham at The Lane and Harry Kane; West Ham at The Boleyn and Paul Stalteri; Arsenal at The Lane and Kane’s 86th minute header; Arsenal at The Emirates and Kaboul’s 86th minute header…
Well. That was an interesting seven days without Kane, Son, and, for the most part, Dele: Three poor first-half performances, one last-gasp winner, one brave rally to take Chelsea to penalties, and a clumsy capitulation to a Palace side we rarely threatened and yet probably should have had at least a draw against.
Which would not have been deserved.
And, anyway, can you imagine the angst a replay would have caused with the state of our squad at the moment? Especially for the thirty-thousand or so poor souls who would have felt compelled to drag themselves to Wembley to watch it: In fact, other than a really promising performance from Foyth, a battling performance from Skipp, and the fact we don’t seem to have picked up any new injuries, probably the best thing about the Palace game was that it wasn’t played out in front of a quarter-full Wembley. That would have been depressing beyond belief.
Personally, I hate going out of cup competitions, especially domestics where it’s almost always to bitter rivals, so I thought I’d take a look at Poch’s record for domestic cup capitulations while he’s been in charge of us:
Carabo Cup wise, we lost to Chelsea in the final in his first season, then Arsenal in the third round, Liverpool away in the fourth round, West Ham at Wembley in the fourth round – after being 2-0 up – and now Chelsea in the semis on penalties.
FA Cup wise, we lost to Leicester in the fourth round, Palace in the fourth round (both at The Lane), Chelsea and United in consecutive semi-finals, and now Palace away in the fourth round once again.
So, all in all, one final defeat and three semi-final defeats in five seasons, no exits to lower league teams, and four exits to three teams outside the big six. It’s not stellar. But nor is it ridiculously shabby. Especially for a club with our stupidly low net-spend, which, for whatever reason, over Poch’s time here, stands at less than all of the clubs to have ended our cup runs.
There’s also the fact that, during these seasons, the only teams to have won any of the eight domestic cup finals played so far are Chelsea, City, United and Arsenal. Maybe this year will be different, but not in the Carabo, and, with three of these teams still in the FA Cup, chances are oil money or Ole will be lifting that one as well. Money talks. Levy… probably wishes our injury crisis had happened just after the transfer window had closed but is also probably relieved a little of Poch’s sheen has been revealed to be sweat: Since those dizzy heights of Everton 2 – Tottenham 6, we’ve bombed out of two cups, been beaten by Wolves and United at ‘home’, and needed that very timely Harry Winks winner to secure all three points against Fulham: Not that I thought it was a foregone conclusion Poch would go there, but Ole is starting to look the favourite for the United job to me, and the noise about Mourinho going back to Madrid is increasing.
That last-minute win over Fulham does mean we’re still seven points better off than we were after the same number of games last season, where we’d just beaten Everton 4-0 at Wembley to put ourselves on forty-four points and fifth in the league, three points behind Liverpool in third and Chelsea in fourth. Arsenal, on a middling run of three draws and one loss in their last five matches, were busy acquainting themselves with their final league standing of sixth. They would temporarily close the gap between us to three points in the next round of games, though, as we headed down to Saints without Eriksen and huffed and puffed to a one-all draw.
In terms of comparative games, as I said in my last bloeug, we’d just done a Spursy away to West Brom, so the game I’m swapping in against Fulham puts us ten points better off once again: None too shabby. And, considering the circumstances, pretty stellar, in fact.
As for how we did at Wembley against Watford, we beat them 2-0 in our fourth from last game as they gently flip-flopped their way from 9th in the table after 29 matches to 14th in the final standings, only winning one of their last nine games. Right now, they’re 7th. Depending on how you want to spin it, they’ve either only won one of their last five games, or they’ve only lost one of their last five games. Either way, they beat Palace away in their last but one game (but followed that up with a nil-niller against Burnley), have just knocked Newcastle out of the FA Cup up at St James’, and have already beaten us in the reverse fixture earlier this season, which, up until recent developments, was galloping away in a two-horse race for our most disappointing result and performance of the season.
Oh, and last season, when we beat them, our goal scorers were Dele and Kane: Do we have the Troy Deeneys to take Watford without them? I’m not overly confident we do, but desperately hope so, because, Premier League wise, this game is followed by Newcastle and Leicester at ‘home’ then Burnley away. Win these, and we could be the only team in the top six to have taken all twelve points from our next four games, because Chelsea and Arsenal have away dates with City, and Liverpool are off to Old Trafford. So, as disappointing as the two cup exits have been, whether this season turns into a mad tumble from the top four or a very interesting run-in – potentially at our new home with Kane and Dele back to full speed – is still very much in our own hands.
So here we are facing crisis again, losing Son, Kane, Sissoko, and three points against United.
Such are the slender margins seasons are shaped on, when you look at some of the points Liverpool have picked up or clung on to compared to some of the points we’ve thrown away or narrowly missed out on.
But this is one of the gifts Pochettino and this Spurs team have given us these past few seasons: after years of relative mediocrity interspersed with the occasional promising season, we’re finally in a position where slender margins matter, where setbacks have the potential to damage so much more than a single weekend’s bragging rights.
And Sunday can be viewed as a setback – our first home Prem loss to United since the days of Sir Alex, another reverse in a game we won quite comfortably last season, and injuries to two key players further depleting a squad that some people insist was already starting to look thin.
I prefer to look at the positives though. Following a first half where we gave as good as we got but often looked vulnerable to breaks down the flanks, we really gave a good account of ourselves in the second half and did more than enough to win comfortably, creating chance upon chance as we did against Everton.
If only we’d managed to finish our chances the way we did that afternoon, and if only Phil Jones wasn’t such an utter donkey, how giddy would we all be feeling right now?
Instead we’re mulling over more questions about Kieran Trippier’s fitness for purpose and wondering how we’re going to cope without Kane.
For me, the Trippier mistake is one of those things that will always happen to a defender in a team trying to play passing football. Yes, it was sloppy, yes, it’s not the first time he’s cost us this season, but it’s the sort of error Walker always had in his locker. As much as I loved Walker and prefer his all-action style to Trippier’s, he made 8 more appearances for City last season and made one more assist, forty-four less crosses (with a 9% accuracy rating compared to Trippier’s 19%) and, in a team that was head and shoulders above any other in the land, had yet another Bonzo moment which contributed to City being dumped out of the FA Cup by Wigan.
Back to Trippier’s own Bonzo moment against United, just like the one he made against City, it was seized on ruthlessly by the opposition, compounded by Verts being undone for pace and, if you agree with the Match of the Day 2 analysis, Hugo positioning himself slightly too far outside his near post. Against many other teams in the league, it probably would have ended in a covering tackle or a comfortable smother for Hugo, and I don’t see it as any more criminal than Eriksen’s loss of the ball against Wolves which eventually led to the corner they equalised from.
It’s still the sort of error we need to seriously cut down on if we ever do plan to keep pace with whatever teams are setting the pace at the top of the league in the future, though, no matter who it is making the cock-up.
As for the Kane injury, my impression at the time was that it was a definite foul, but it was no surprise Dean missed it. The guy was useless all through the game, missing what looked like obvious pull-backs all over the park, a potential red-card for Pogba, and, even more infuriating, doing utterly nothing to stop United’s blatant second half time-wasting. I also wasn’t impressed with how poor our physio team’s response was, with only one blue-glove finally going over to him and then allowing him to hobble off alone, even though it seemed obvious he’d knackered something.
Despite all this, I’m looking forward to how we line up and perform against Fulham. Against Leicester, when Kane was rested for the majority of the game, Dele was either deployed as a front man or decided to play as one for the fun of it, and really looked the part. At Bournemouth last March, we were one down after seven minutes and looked leggy until their keeper knackered Kane thirty-four minutes in. One minute later, Dele equalised, and we eventually ran out 4-1 winners. Reports back then suggested Kane, and, therefore, Spurs, would be knacked for a month. He actually made his return in the 74th minute in the 1-3 win against Chelsea on April Fool’s day, missing only our emphatic 0-3 FA Cup quarter final win against Swansea.
Some, though, would argue he didn’t look the same player until earlier this season. While I don’t agree with that, I’m not overly keen on the fact Kane plays virtually every minute of every game he’s available for, and only really gets sustained rests when his ankle ligaments give out. He’s definitely a world-class player – on Sunday – and at plenty of other times this season – the occasions he dropped deep to win the ball, turn, and pick out an overlapping player, he really did highlight the strength and vision of the sort of midfielder who would raise this team’s level yet another notch – but the performances against Bournemouth and Swansea last season show we’ve enough options in the squad to blow away many of the middling Prem teams without flogging our talisman to death or depleting Uncle Joe’s retirement fund. Even without Son to call on, properly utilising Llorente or Moura – or trying something slightly different with Alli or Lamela up top – should give us more than enough goal threat to see us through against Fulham if the rest of the team are on their game: Despite Ranieri’s mid-November appointment, they’re still deep in the mire, second from bottom, five points from safety, having lost their last two games, 4-1 away against Arsenal and 2-1 away against Burnley. They did beat Huddersfield in their last home Prem outing, though, and also had a better time of it against Wolves than we would three days later, holding them to a 1-1 draw at the Cottage.
As for our record against them, we’ve won our last four games – three prem, one FA Cup – and have to go back to December 2009 since we last dropped points at the Cottage. We did lose a shocker of a third-round FA Cup tie 4-0 there in Jan 2011, though, with Redknapp no doubt gutted not to have an FA Cup semi-final debacle against Pompey or Chelsea to worry about that season. We’ve dropped points to them in the Prem since then, too, with a one-nil home loss in March 2013 helping Arsenal reduce a seven point gap to one point just two games after we’d beaten the immigrants 2-1 at home and AVB had made his negative spiral comment: Although, to be fair to AVB, his very next words were ‘Seven points is not big enough in the Premier League, because this time last year Arsenal came back (from a similar deficit)’, so the statement wasn’t really the premature gloat some Arsenal fans are still banging on about now.
As for us this time last season, we’d just drawn at home to the Spammers in a laboured performance and were about to thwump the Toffees 4-0 at our temporary home. We were seven points worse off than we are now, fifth in the league, and obviously doomed to miss out on CL football in our first ever season at our new home; Levy out: Blah-blah-blah.
In terms of comparative fixtures, we’d just strolled to a 2-0 Wembley win over Mourinho’s United. Swapping Fulham – who came up via the play-offs, so were arguably the weakest of the promoted teams – for West Brom – who propped up the Prem at the end of last season, so were definitely the weakest of the relegated teams (or, at least, the only ones managed by both Tony Pulis and Alan Pardew in the same season) – we did a Spursy and donated three-points to the Patron Saint of Lost Causes in our last away game of the season, conceding the only goal of the game in the 92nd minute to Jake Livermore, of all people. This left us fourth, only a couple of points clear of Chelsea in fifth, which was yet more proof we were chokers, would screw up our last two games, and obviously doomed to miss out on CL football in our first ever season at our new home; Levy out: Blah-blah-blah.
Of course, with only sixteen Prem fixtures left to play, there are rumours swirling this won’t be our first ever season at our new home. When Fulham came to Wembley on 18th August for our first ‘home’ game this season, it was less than a week after the club had confirmed the Liverpool and Cardiff games would be held at Wembley. We won that game 3-1, a lovely Moura goal being cancelled out by a Mitrovic leveller in the 52nd minute before Trippier and Kane goals in the 74th and 77th minutes secured us the points and our 100% start to the season.
This time around, with Liverpool facing Palace at home and City playing Huddersfield away – and Chelsea and Arsenal playing each other – three points is utterly essential to make sure we keep within wishing distance of the two at the top and capitalise on whichever one of the two underneath us drops points: Potentially even better, a draw in that game and a win for us would see the gap between us and Arsenal up to nine points, with the gap between us and Chelsea slightly extended to three ahead of next week’s second-leg semi at The Bridge.
Lose, though, and we could find the gap between ourselves and Arsenal in fifth ominously dropping from seven to four, well and truly in a negative spiral, doomed to miss out on CL football in our first ever full season at our new home…


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Days of Our Lives fans are still reeling from the news that James Scott, who plays EJ DiMera, has left the show, and now fans have noticed something very big that could be a clue that EJ dies!
Days of Our Lives spoilers: Does EJ DiMera die?
While Alison Sweeney, who plays Sami Brady, finished her last day of taping at Days of Our Lives, fans noticed something in a photo of Ali’s last day on set.
On the mantle at the DiMera Mansion there is an urn, which is a container for holding the remains of a cremated body, next to a photo of EJ.
Does the photo prove EJ’s death?
This urn and photo was not on the DiMera mantle during recent week’s episodes of Days of Our Lives, and has caused a lot of controversy online.
Will EJ DiMera die? Is this how James Scott exits the show? Fans will be shocked if EJ dies, but then again, how many times has Stefano died and risen from the ashes? In Salem anything is possible!

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An investigation of Georgia-based Angel Food Ministries by the IRS and the FBI is not denting demand for its services.
"We have seen increases over the years," said Martha Kenemer, an Angel Food volunteer for six years at Trinity United Methodist Church in Dalton, Ga. "There are now more than ever due to the economy."
Angel Food officals vow deliveries will continue, even though federal agents in February raided the office in Monroe, Ga.
Founders Joe and Linda Wingo are under criminal investigation and subject to a civil suit filed by two former board members regarding alleged financial improprieties.
They started Angel Food in 1994 to deliver quality food at low cost to 34 families. Today it's a 40-state network that distributed nearly 6 million boxes of food in 2008.
"Our numbers for 2009 have been steadily rising," ministry spokesman Juda Engelmayer said. "February's 530,000 boxes was up 20 percent from January. In March, the 560,000 boxes was "our second highest month ever, and 20 percent more than March 2008."
Those $40 "boxes" contain enough meats, vegetables, eggs, milk and other staples to feed a family of four for about a week - priced at half what they'd cost at a grocery, he said.
Angel Food is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, but with ministry aspects such as using the food program at host sites to boost church development and outreach, Mr. Engelmayer said. It provides assistance, not handouts, he said, and sales last year topped $146 million.
"People don't want to stand in bread lines," he said.
More than 20 area churches participate in distributions, and there are no restrictions on who can order Angel Food.
"We even have people that buy boxes just to give away," said Monda Wooten, who helps with Angel Food in Trenton, Ga.
Distribution sites keep $1 for each box they handle, but supporters say the success has come from a goal of benevolence rather than monetary gain.
"I love the idea of helping the community," Mrs. Wooten said. "We've been doing this for three months, and I can tell you it is doubling each month."
Woodlawn Baptist Church on Sand Mountain had been distributing 30 to 40 boxes a month, but now 200 Dade County boxes are given out each month since Mrs. Wooten offered to let people place and pick up orders at her business near the courthouse in Trenton.
"You'd think I was doing tremendous buisiness on Saturday morning with the number waiting to pick up their orders," she said.
It's been a definite help since the county's largest employer, Shaw Industries, shuttered its spinning plant here late in 2008.
That's the trend across the country, Mr. Engelmayer said.
"The need for good food and great prices is rising, and we are prepared to meet those needs for everyone and anyone who asks," he said.


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Dodgers Web musings: The ride that will never end
Hang on, buckaroo, this wild ride has a ways to go. Much too far, it seems, but then anyone following the Dodgers has become conditioned to expecting the worst.
This latest blow to the abdomen comes via a piece from The Times’ Bill Shaikin, who writes that the Superior Court judge overseeing the McCourts' divorce settlement has only scheduled hearings to determine whether Frank McCourt should get to cut back on the monthly support he provides to ex-wife Jamie McCourt.
Shaikin said their dispute over who owns the Dodgers is likely to head into next year. This soap opera threatens to run longer than "The Guiding Light." And it’s not nearly as believable.
Can you give me a yee-haw!
Also on the Web:
-- ESPN/LA’s Tony Jackson is going where others have tiptoed before, but with a keen focus -- comparing Clayton Kershaw to the legend Sandy Koufax.
-- Guess where Trayvon Robinson played Wednesday? Albuquerque Baseball Examiner’s Christopher Jackson on Robinson’s emotional return.
-- The Times’ Dylan Hernandez quotes Don Mattingly on the Dodgers getting shut out Wednesday: "We’ve played this game before."
-- The Times’ Sandy Banks writes that Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck owes an apology to Giovanni Ramirez, the innocent man arrested in the Bryan Stow beating to much LAPD fanfare.
-- This followed an op-ed piece that Beck wrote for The Times last weekend, in which he incredibly placed blame on the media.
-- James Loney get the full treatment as Hernandez, Jackson and Dodgers.com’s Ken Gurnick all look at his season and chances for returning next year.
-- SBNation’s Rob Neyer sits down to talk to ex-Dodger Shawn Green about his new book, "The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH."
-- Ross Newhan writes that thankfully not everything about the Dodgers is bankrupt, citing the play of Matt Kemp and Kershaw.
-- Sympathy from the devil: The Dodgers are such a mess that Grant Brisbee of the McCovey Chronicles is even feeling sorry for them.
-- Fox Sports’ Jack Magruder writes that the Diamondbacks are poised to threaten the Giants all the way down the stretch.
-- Steve Dilbeck
Photo: Frank McCourt. Credit: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters.


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One of the main reasons for the increase in the number of offenders aging in the institutions is due to the length of sentence. In fact, 47% of those over 50 are serving an indeterminate sentence, a life sentence. They continue to be under our care for the rest of their natural life, whether it's in the institution or out under supervision. As those individuals serve through a life sentence, reach that mark of 50, and continue on, those numbers increase for us. We've also seen situations where historical crimes have been solved and individuals coming into the system are older than when they committed the crime, so there's some relationship there as well.
On June 8th, 2017. See this statement in context.

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Salvador Dalí Lithograph: Los Caprichos – Como Los Gambas
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Medium: Original colour Dry-point and Helio Etching, on BFK Rives paper, signed by the artist in pencil.
Size: 39 x 31.3 cm.
Edition: An edition of 200.
Condition: In good condition.
Reference: Field Lopsinger.
Edition: Ateliers Rigal, France.
227 years after the birth of Spanish master Francisco Goya, Salvador Dali had an idea to transform Goya’s “Los Caprichos” and present a new work. Goya’s “Los Caprichos” was an artistic experiment exposing the foolish superstitions in 18th century Spanish society. Goya described the series as depicting “the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilzed society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual”. The body of work was withdrawn from public sale before their planned release in 1799. Only a formal order from King Carlos IV kept Goya from being called before the Spanish Inquisition. In 1973 Salvador Dali created a metamorphosis of Goya’s suite into a colourful surrealist masterpiece. From the numbered edition of 200, each piece is hand signed by Salvador Dali and is a genuine rarity for the Dali and Goya admirers.
Curious to know more about Dali? Here’s a link to a documentary on Salvador Dali by the BBC.

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/ Meat Appetizers
Cocktail Sausage Bites
5 photos of Cocktail Sausage Bites Recipe
cheddar cheese, shredded
mustard, spicy brown
refrigerated crescent rolls
How to Make Cocktail Sausage Bites
1You can use any type of cheese you like and any type of mustard you like.
The ingredient amounts are approximate. You may need a little more of less of some things.
2Open a package of crescent rolls and spread out on a piece of waxed paper. Use a pastry brush to spread a layer of mustard over the crescent roll.
3Cut each triangle in half, sprinkle with a bit of cheese, add a sausage and roll up.
4Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes at 350F or until crescent rolls are browned.
Or** Make these the day in advance. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the rolls are set, but not really cooked. Cool and refrigerate. Bake off the next day for about 7 minutes in a 350F oven.
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About Cocktail Sausage Bites

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I am the manager of the Food & Drink Business Development Centre and the Course Director for the MSc Food Design and Innovation at Ulster University Business School. My role within the centre seeks to engage with local and international food businesses in research and innovation as well as develop teaching programmes to support the needs of the food & drink industry. In 2005, I gained a First Class Honours degree in BSc Consumer Studies which focused on various aspects of food marketing (e.g. nutrition, food choice and product development). During my degree I was awarded the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA) scholarship to study food marketing at the prestigious Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia and work for leading retailer Wawa in their food marketing department. In 2009, I completed my PhD in food marketing. Since then, I have worked as a Research Fellow in the Global Institute of Food Security at Queens University Belfast before taking up a lectureship post at Ulster University in Consumer Management and Food Innovation. I currently supervise seven PhD students all completing projects in the area of food marketing/shopping behaviour, food tourism, food poverty and food innovation. I am extremely passionate about supporting our local food industry and in 2016 started a blog with my husband (Robert Ainley) and in 2018 we won the award for the Best Food and Drink Blog at the Digital Awards Northern Ireland. I am also a columnist for a local paper called Farm Week within which I write articles focusing on food trends and innovations.
Food marketing Food choice/consumer behaviour Food tends/innovations Cooking skills
Senior Lecturer - academic writing (journals) Farm Week - monthly columnist (unpaid)
Ulster University (2020) Civic Ambassador Award Ulster University (2019) Distinguished Research Fellow UUBS Ulster University (2016) Inspirational Lecturer of the Year CCEA Subject Advisory Group for Home Economics Member of the All-Ireland Plant Innovation Steering Group NI Agri-Food Sectoral Partnership - working group Belfast Food Network - Food Poverty - working group Member of safefood knowledge network
My priority is to learn from the network and be more informed about developments in the UK food and drink industry. However, some possible commercial opportunities for myself include: * collaboration in university based research and/or consultancy projects related to food and drink; * speaking engagements; and * food writing opportunities.


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Speedy Spanish Rice with Prawns
A super-fast recipe that will remind you of Mediterranean holidays with prawns, chorizo and smoked paprika flavours.
- 250g easy cook basmati rice
- 1 onion - sliced
- 2 red peppers - deseeded and sliced
- 50g chorizo - sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic - minced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1tbsp black olives
- 1tsp smoked paprika
- 400g tin chopped tomato
- 200g raw - peeled prawns (defrosted if frozen)
- Salt and black pepper
- Fresh parsley - to garnish
Diet: Gluten and Wheat Free
In a large non-stick frying pan with a lid, fry the onion, peppers, chorizo and garlic in the oil over a medium to high heat for 3 minutes.
Stir in the rice, chopped tomatoes, olives, paprika and 500ml of boiling water. Cover and cook over a medium high heat for 12 minutes.
Uncover and stir, the rice should be virtually cooked. Add the prawns, with a little more water if the pan is looking too dry. Cook for a couple of minutes until the prawns are just pink and the rice is tender.
Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.


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Slovak Savings Bank (SSB) Online Banking service is a convenient service that allows you access all your bank accounts in one place. The bank’s web banking technology includes Multi-Layered Authentication process. The guide below helps SSB customers Login, reset forgotten login credentials and enroll for the online banking service.
FORGOTTEN PASSWORD/ LOGIN ID?
If as a legitimate online banking customer you happen to forget your login credentials, Slovak Savings Bank online platform does not provide online mechanism of resetting or recovering your login credentials. So, call customer care service on 412-322-9023 for assistance on how to recover your login credentials.
HOW TO ENROLL
If you are already an account holder in Slovak Savings Bank, you can start using the online banking service after you enroll for the service. Please consider the steps below in order to set up your online banking account.
Step 1- Follow the first two steps in the login section above
Step 2- In the Login page, click Setup You Info link to enroll
Step 3- Review the benefits you get on the platform then click Let’s Get Started
Step 4- Review the Internet Banking and Bill Payment Agreement and tick I agree checkbox then click Next
Step 5- Enter your Social Security Number and the code that appears then click Next
After your credentials are approved, the bank will allow you to proceed and create your online account
MANAGE SLOVAK SAVINGS BANK ONLINE ACCOUNT
Slovak Savings Bank online banking platform enables you:
- Access Account balances and history
- Transfer funds
- Pay bills
- Set account alerts
Holiday Schedule for 2017 & 2018
These are the federal holidays of which the Federal Reserve Bank is closed.
Slovak Savings Bank (SSB) and other financial institutes are closed on the same holidays.
|New Year's Day||January 2||January 1|
|Martin Luther King Day||January 16||January 15|
|Presidents Day||February 20||February 19|
|Memorial Day||May 29||May 28|
|Independence Day||July 4||July 4|
|Labor Day||September 4||September 3|
|Columbus Day||October 9||October 8|
|Veterans Day||November 11||November 11|
|Thanksgiving Day||November 23||November 22|
|Christmas Day||December 25||December 25|

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