We did a lot of roof jobs this summer. We used many tubes of Dicor 501. But why? What is the Dicor supposed to be doing? Most people, even RV repair techs, think of Dicor 501 Self-Leveling LAP Sealant as a… wait for it… sealant. It says so right on the label, right? So, what is this stuff, really, and why is it drizzled all over your camper’s roof?
For brevity, I’m going to call “Dicor 501 Self-Leveling LAP Sealant”, as well as its non-sag version, just plain “Dicor”. Be aware, however Dicor is a brand that has many other products in 10.5-oz calk gun tubes. Most of them have the same thing in common: They are heavy in solvents. Solvents evaporate very quickly at first, causing the substance to “set up”. The evaporation of the solvent slows more and more, but never actually stops until it’s all gone. This is why fresh Dicor is like puffy bubble gum, but old Dicor is chalky, cracked, and flakes away easily.
What happens if you try to seal something with a chalky, cracking substance? Of course, it leaks. But here’s the interesting thing: The Dicor on an RV roof isn’t actually sealing anything (if the manufacturer was doing their job). Under the Dicor, wherever you find it, there is an actual sealant. Sometimes it’s a waterproof adhesive, sometimes it’s butyl (like window putty), sometimes it’s a flexible adhesive like Lexel, sometimes it’s a Sikaflex product (read up on those on your own), and sometimes it’s even plain old silicon.
A BREAK FOR A SERIOUS WARNING: DO NOT EVER, E.V.E.R. put silicon on an RV unless it was already there from the manufacturer. Nothing will ever stick to that spot again except silicon without stripping the material completely. In most cases, that means destroying a piece of your camper to undo the mistake! Ok, back to our program….
If it’s not sealing things, then what is the Dicor doing up there slathered all over everything in sight? It is actually acting as flashing, the term for anything that redirects water away from water sensitive areas. The reason for flashing is not to create a seal, but to protect one from water.
Water is one of the most destructive substances on Earth. It sounds weird but think about the Grand Canyon for a minute. Water is abrasive, acting as more or less super-fine-grit sandpaper in flowing liquid form. Water is chemically active, aiding in all sorts of oxidative processes like rust. Water has a tendency to rehydrate any sort of water-based adhesive over time making it no longer adhesive. And most dramatically, water expands when it freezes. This last point has led to the absolute obliteration of many campers (including one of our own) when a roof leak sprang in storage over the winter and water made it into the wood. The water literally explodes the wood fibers away from each other as it freezes and expands destroying the structural integrity of the wood.
Taking all this information in and jiggling some thought with it, it’s pretty easy to arrive at a conclusion about water leaks on a camper: If the leak has happened, it’s not just because the Dicor failed, but also because the REAL seal under it failed too. This means to reliably stop the leak, it’s not just about replacing the Dicor, but also about repairing the broken seal under the Dicor. Otherwise, it’s only a matter of the solvent evaporating before the leak returns. Sometimes, especially on older campers with severe damage, this kind of repair is the best because it is the most cost effective, but it’s never permanent. Doing this kind of “repair” on a newer camper is just sealing the fate (see what I did there?) of the camper.
Having said all that, the first line of defense is the flashing. In many ways, keeping that flashing viable is the single most important thing to keeping your camper from literally falling apart. An inspection schedule of at least twice a year is needed just about everywhere in the world for different combinations of environmental factors (e.g. sun, freezing, etc).
Almost all campers also have a generous supply of exposed sealant. Most campers have many seams which are sealed with silicone or silicone-like substances like Lexel. If you touch up one of those surfaces, make sure you know which it is and heed my warning above about silicone. Because a camper goes through an earthquake and a hurricane every time it moves, we inspect our own as part of the setup process when we arrive and, if we’ve seen freezing, heavy weather, or been stationary for more than a couple weeks, we inspect it again before we leave. We highly recommend you do the same. It’s all about keeping the rain in the outdoors!
Stay safe out there!


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Alice in the 'hood?
Lewis Carroll's classic tale of a girl lost in a fantasy world takes it to the streets with "Alice In Wonderland — Urban Edition," performed by the C-R Center Stars at Cohoes Music Hall at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, and Thursday, July 11, and 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 12. C-R Center Stars is an acting troupe made up of individuals with disabilities who participate in the pilot program through Adult Services at the Center for Disability Services.
This take on the well known story is set in an urban park and the subways, as Alice follows a rabbit down a subway tunnel and encounters a host of strange characters, including train passengers and joggers who speak in rhymes. Gives new meaning to Mad Hatter, doesn't it?
For tickets or more information, call 237-5858 or order online at http://www.cohoesmusichall.com General admission tickets are $15 plus a $1 handling charge.
Czars of the krar to star
''Yet another krar concert is coming to town,'' said no one (ever). The Ethiopian five or six-stringed harp or lyre, a sight not usually found in the Capital Region, inspired the name of Krar Collective, which performs at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy at 6 p.m. Friday, July 19.
The trio of African musicians, called by some "the White Stripes of Ethiopia," consists of Temesegen Zeleke on the krar, Genet Asefa on vocals and Grum Begashaw on drums. Their sound is minimalist and rooted in traditional Ethiopian songs, but their added touches, like Zeleke's plugged-in electric guitar-like style, have made them favorites on the Afrobeat, world and fusion music scenes.
Admission is free. For more information, call 272-2390 or visit http://www.mediasanctuary.org
Kate White comes home
Kate White was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 14 years, after several positions at various other periodicals, before leaving last year to focus on her careers as a motivational speaker and author — six best-selling novels in a mystery series, two stand-alone novels and four nonfiction books so far. Not bad for a girl from Glens Falls who graduated from Union College in Schenectady.
And it's all those combined occupations that bring her back home at 11:30 a.m. Monday, July 8, for a summer luncheon and lecture at the Lake George Club. She will give a presentation on her career, followed by Q&A and a book-signing.
Tickets are $55. For more information, call 792-1761, Ext. 323, email firstname.lastname@example.org, or visit http://www.hydecollection.org/events_and_programs/July_Luncheon_58_118_sb.htm

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For the first time since 1925, Kurt Weill’s Zaubernacht (“Magic Night”) comes to New York City in an entirely new production by Jody Oberfelder Projects with music provided by the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra led by Gary S. Fagin. Oberfelder has created a new scenario for the work: “Told through the lens of a child, I’ve devised a fresh fairy tale of overcoming darkness, developing resilience, and finding one’s place in the world.” Her vision preserves the basic device of the original–toys coming to life and interacting with children–and reimagines it for a contemporary audience. (The original scenario has not survived, giving directors freedom to develop their own.) Fagin’s engagement with Weill stretches back to the 1970s; recently, he served as music director for the Atlantic Theatre production of The Threepenny Opera directed by Martha Clarke.
Zaubernacht has taken a more convoluted path to the stage than most works. First performed in Berlin in 1922 and brought to New York in 1925, where it was choreographed by Michio Ito, the full score of the ballet-pantomime for children was lost, and the music was known only through an incomplete piano score. In 2005, librarians at Yale University discovered a complete set of original instrumental parts that had been donated fifty years earlier and placed in a safe that was then moved to the basement and forgotten. Within a year, the staff of the Kurt Weill Edition was hard at work recreating Weill’s chamber score for an ensemble of nine players from the newly found parts; the new edition was published in 2008, making possible the rediscovery of this mysterious piece. Several performances have taken place since then; a recording is also available.
Preview article in the New York Times (Joshua Barone)
Press release (broadwayworld.com)
Facebook page for production
Learn more about Zaubernacht
Cast, from left: Emily Giovine, Maya Orchin, Lou Mandolini, Mary Madsen, Lyla Forest Butler (in foreground), Pierre Guilbault, Mei Yamanaka, Ned Malouf, Hannah Wendel. Photo: Eric Siegel


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Plymouth Argyle manager Derek Adams says his side missed their experienced players as they lost 2-1 to local rivals Exeter City.
Luke McCormick, Peter Hartley, Carl McHugh and Reuben Reid were all missing as the Pilgrims were beaten for the third time in four games.
"You always miss experience in your team," Adams told BBC Radio Devon.
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The Pilgrims were 2-0 down at half-time before Oscar Threlkeld got his first Argyle goal after an hour.
Threlkeld was one of four young loanees in the Argyle side, with Brighton goalkeeper Christian Walton and Crystal Palace centre-back Luke Croll making their debuts after signing on loan late last week.
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As the Citizens’ Assembly on the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan works through its many draft recommendations, the trade-offs often involved become more prominent. When meeting number nine began at the Croatian Cultural Centre on Saturday, April 11, Assembly chair Rachel Magnusson asked members what they’d learned and thought about in the two weeks since the previous meeting.
Trade-offs was the first word to arise. “What do you really want to see,” said one Assembly member, explaining her view of the issue. “What would you be prepared to give up to get that?”
Compromise was another word that came up. One member said he’d talked to his barber about separated bike lanes on Commercial Drive south of East First Avenue. He said the barber had been skeptical, but was more accepting when he understood that there had been compromise in proposals for Commercial Drive bike lanes.
Another member talked about assumptions, in particular the assumption that the new community plan will result in significant population growth. She added that she’d talked to one Commercial Drive business owner whose message was to maintain current zoning — and no towers.
Others talked about more specific concerns. One said she’d recently biked to Confederation Park in North Burnaby, and wanted to see more contiguous bike lanes in the Cedar Cove area of Grandview-Woodland. Another said she’d talked to a lifetime resident of the community who shared her view that “we need to do more for the youth in the neighbourhood.”
Magnusson then outlined the task for the day: to discuss and refine sub-area recommendations and mapping as small working groups, post the ideas for feedback from all Assembly members, and then discuss and refine them some more. The form for the day was simple; the content was complicated.
Magnusson framed the discussion by returning to the Assembly’s mandate from council. “City council wants to know from you what is appropriate neighbourhood growth,” she said, adding that this includes direction on sticky issues such as Broadway and Commercial. She said the work will continue at the next meeting, which also includes revisiting neighbourhood-wide recommendations, in preparation for the Assembly’s May 5 meeting with the public to garner feedback.
“We know that we have some different opinions in this room,” she said, on issues ranging from height to bike lanes. But she said the Assembly has established shared values, and she encouraged the working groups to ground their discussion in those values. You could battle all day long, she said, about four storeys versus eight in a particular area. She asked people to think about their underlying concerns and ambitions, and said agreement will come through that. “When you dig down, you’ll find that you do agree about more than you think.”
Magnusson also reminded people that they are not just making decisions for themselves, but for the whole community, and the recommendations will be tested in the community. “It’s not just you who is making this decision.” She also reminded people that they must balance pros and cons. “There is no perfect recommendation.”
Where, how much and how fast?
Grandview-Woodland lead planner Andrew Pask then provided some reminders about the planning context, including connections between communities and civic objectives such as addressing affordability, auto dependence, health and demographic concerns. The neighbourhood is walkable, he said, but planning can build on that principle.
Pask also showed a chart that demonstrated, except for a brief period in the early 1980s, Vancouver’s population has grown steadily, and he suggested the trend is not likely to change. “Grandview-Woodland has the distinction of actually having a population decrease,” he said, based on federal census figures. The decline of children and youth was a key factor, and the static number of seniors suggests some people are not able to age in place.
Pask also noted that heights deemed acceptable by the community for the Safeway site have come down repeatedly through the current planning process. Data from two Broadway and Commercial public workshops in 2014 and 2015 suggests a consensus upper limit between 22 and 28 storeys at the first meeting and about 16 storeys at the second. He wondered if that trend would continue or reverse.
Pask cited the debate between Gordon Price and Patrick Condon, where Price argued for nodes of density and Condon for distributing density throughout the neighbourhoods, as exemplifying a key question for the Assembly. Where does the community want redevelopment?
One factor to keep in mind, he said, is that various impediments mean strata apartments and social housing buildings are not likely candidates for change. Pask showed two maps of such sites, and they indicated concentrations around Woodland Park and in the triangle of land between Broadway and the Grandview Cut.
Pask also argued that, historically, redevelopment takes place at a pace of about one percent per year. He said the city’s experience suggests that about 40 percent of potential redevelopment will take place during the 30-year life of the new community plan.
Drawing on this information and on community input on what redevelopment might be acceptable, Pask said a scenario with new density on Dundas, portions of blocks on Nanaimo where housing and alleys don’t run east-west, and 16 storeys at the Safeway site would likely add about 11,250 people to the community over the next 30 years, at an average of 375 per year. Grandview-Woodland’s population in 2011 was 27,297, down from 29,085 in 2001. The number 375 would involve a townhouse, one or two apartments and one or two mixed-use buildings a year, he said.
One Assembly member noted that change has been quite rapid in some parts of the city. Concern about land speculation and pace of change are central concerns for many residents, and brief discussion followed regarding the tools that might control this, such as limits on the number of permits issued in a given year, and whether constraining redevelopment in one area can force rapid change on others.
Another member noted that demographics in the area are changing quickly, with more families and children, and asked if the city has tools beyond the census to measure trends. Pask said those tools are limited, but school statistics provide some indications, and he noted that Grandview-Woodland schools operate at about 70 percent of building capacity.
Yet another member wondered how the city monitors rental accommodation that’s not purpose-built. “The city does not have the resources to run an ongoing database of everyone who has a suite in a house,” he said. Pask also noted that in the single-family and duplex zones perhaps 25 percent of households consist of renters. (City-wide more than half are renters, and the percentage is increasing.)
Pask was asked how much growth could be accommodated with existing zoning. He said such figures can be misleading, because build-out doesn’t always occur: three storeys generally won’t be demolished to create four, and there are less than 20 laneway homes in Grandview-Woodland, despite broad opportunity to build them. Existing zoning, he added, might push a lot of new development into areas like Commercial Drive, because there’s a lot of unused capacity there.
And with that extra layer of complexity, Magnusson turned the process over to the Assembly members: draft some recommendations, draw them on a map, and post them on the wall for others to review.
Lots of work, some agreement
Many Assembly members worked through lunch, and by mid-afternoon most groups were ready to report out to the room.
First up was Britannia-Woodland, which said it discussed prioritizing the retention of existing housing and maintaining the RM-4 zone as it is. Draft recommendations the group posted for feedback aimed to protect the significant number of affordable rental and co-op units, and maintain their ratio in the community as new development occurs. The group also wanted the city to consider in its long-term planning the feasibility of a tunnel under East First Avenue from Clark Drive to Victoria Drive to return the thoroughfare to the community as a neighbourhood street.
An improved Mosaic greenway and better bike-route linkages, greater safety where Grandview Highway meets Woodland Drive, transit on East First, consultation on the Georgia Viaduct removal proposals, and additional side-street sidewalks were the focus of other recommendations. They also said they wanted to encourage the Grandview group to increase allowable height at the south end of its zone.
The Grandview table said it generally considers four storeys of townhouses or apartments suitable on East First, with a portion of units reserved for rental, and attention to shadowing issues north of East First. The group wanted to spread other new density throughout the neighbourhood, through infill and secondary suites. On Victoria Drive, the group wanted a 30-kilometre speed limit, other traffic-calming measures and safer crossings, including some for new east-west bike routes.
Parks were also a key focus, and the group wanted improved drainage, native plantings, public art, fitness infrastructure, and lighting and garbage disposal in existing parks, as well as new micro-parks in the parks-deficient neighbourhood.
Cedar Cove’s table wanted to improve the bike routes in the Powell/Dundas area, extend transit down to Powell Street, continue attention to mitigating industrial odour issues, improve the public realm in industrial areas, provide historic information and public art (including art on the port lands modelled on the Granville Island concrete plant silos), work long-term toward public access to the waterfront, and study traffic patterns to improve safety from Wall Street east to Nanaimo.
On Hastings, the group wanted attention to transitions from heavy to light industry and then to “makers” spaces in the let-go industrial land along Hastings. On density, they were prepared to consider 15 storeys on Hastings, scaled down to much lower residential buildings at Nanaimo. They said they wanted the proposed plaza at Hastings and Commercial to have an aboriginal focus and possibly a longhouse.
When the Commercial Drive group reported out, they said they had difficultly reaching consensus. “Instead of tackling the can of worms, we just cut all the worms in half, so now there’s more of them.” That said, there was some agreement around design guidelines to maintain the sawtooth character of the Drive’s building setbacks and stepping height back where it’s allowed above four storeys. As well, there was support for increasing the amount of office space above the ground floor, and allowing more height south of East Sixth Avenue.
On the Kettle Friendship Society project, one member said there’s concern that the project might become a precedent used to lever density elsewhere on the Drive and that connecting the height of any development to benefits provided to Kettle and its clients is problematic. There was some discussion about whether the project would better connect the Drive to Hastings — the wish of many residents — or create a break.
The Nanaimo group reported that it favoured more four-storey mixed-use development than had been proposed, with offices on the second storey as traffic (and particularly truck route) noise would have less impact than it would on residential development. The group wanted to model Nanaimo development along the lines of Commercial Drive. Restricting lot assembly was suggested. Six storeys with community amenities at key nodes was proposed.
The group wanted to calm the street, and make its off-kilter street grid safer for pedestrians, particularly near schools and parks. It also wanted to connect with the Cedar Cove group’s planning. And it proposed setbacks from the street, prompting a discussion about whether on a very wide street such setbacks were appropriate. Some planners argue that in certain circumstances bringing development closer to the street, while still widening sidewalks, can make streets more pedestrian-friendly and slow traffic.
The Commercial and Broadway group was the last to report, and it allowed that some of its ideas were “subject to evolution.” One discussion involved creating a number of 10-storey nodes of development, surrounding a plaza open to Broadway at the Safeway site. Suggested sites included the northeast corners of East 12th and Commercial and Broadway and Clark, and the southeast corner of Broadway and Nanaimo.
Promoting the development of office space near the SkyTrain was another theme, as was six-storey development along Broadway. The group wanted to limit development on other arterials to four storeys and promote retention and development of rental stock. If rapid transit does not proceed west along Broadway as proposed (it’s expected to contain more traffic within the station), the group wants action to better manage pedestrian congestion.
The day ended with some discussion about the trade-offs involved in considering the Kettle project at Commercial and Venables, which was one subject in an informal survey conducted by an Assembly member. One member described the objections in the survey as “sad.” Another member felt that characterization was inappropriate.
“We need to try and listen and see where others are coming from,” said Assembly chair Rachel Magnusson, as she wrapped up a constructive day of wrestling with planning’s trade-offs. The most contentious occur where density, affordability and community services intersect — and that’s where the Assembly’s hardest work remains.
The day concluded, for some members, with a walking tour of nearby low-rise and infill density created in Kensington–Cedar Cottage, in the Commercial Street area and west to Knight Street, where the community plan is more than a decade into its life cycle. Some were of the courtyard townhouse variety. Others were infill projects (some with lot consolidation, and some without).
All of them were considered on a beautiful April afternoon. It was a thought-provoking and peaceful end to a day of complex deliberation.

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The NBA is set up with a solid set of games throughout Saturday. Five games are up on the board throughout February 13. One of these games will be between the Miami Heat and the Utah Jazz. These two teams have had solid starts to this season and will look to grab a win in this one. This game will tip off at around 9:00 PM Eastern time.
The Heat have earned a record of 11-14 to this point in the season, which has them sitting in ninth place of the Eastern Conference. Miami is only one game back from the sixth seed in the East. The Heat struggled early in the season, but have won four games in a row coming into this one. Miami will look to build off that in this one.
Utah has put up a record of 21-5 so far this season, which has them in the top spot of the Western Conference. The Jazz have won six games in a row and seventeen of their last eighteen. Utah has been really hot as of late and seem invincible. Utah will look to continue to play with that swagger in this one. The Jazz played on Friday night and will look to avoid a slow start in this one.
The Jazz are coming into this game as the better team so far this season, but Miami is coming in on a winning streak as well. The Heat had a slow start after making it to the NBA Finals last season, but have seemed to have found their groove as of late. If Miami can come out quickly in this one, they could knock off the top dogs in the Western Conference.
The Jazz and the Heat met up twice throughout last season. Miami hosted the first game on December 23. Joe Ingles dropped 27 points, while Bojan Bogdanovic finished with 19 points. It was not enough for Utah though. Jimmy Butler finished with 20 points and Bam Adebayo had 18 points and 13 rebounds. The Heat were able to sneak away with a 107-104 win at home.
The second game of the season series shifted to Utah on February 12. Jimmy Butler had 25 points and Duncan Robinson scored 18. This time though, Miami came up short. Donovan Mitchell finished with 26 points, while Bojan Bogdanovic scored 22 points. Jordan Clarkson added 21 points off the bench to propel the Jazz to a 116-101 win on their home court.
The home team has won the last five games of this season dating back to 2018. Miami will look to turn that around with a win on the road in this one. The Jazz had a strong win to finish out last season’s series. Both of these teams have great depth scoring and will look to use that to get the advantage on Saturday night. If either team can jump out early, they could take this one.
Field Goal Shooting
The Heat have been solid shooting the ball so far this season. Miami has been able to make around 46.3 percent of their shots from the field, which is 14th in the NBA. The Heat have made 35.8 percent of their shots from behind the arc, which is 20th in the league. Miami is also sinking 78.6 percent of their shots from the free throw line, which is 9th in the NBA.
Utah has been strong shooting the ball this season as well. The Jazz have made 46.4 percent of their shots from the field, which is 13th in the league. Utah is draining around 40.2 percent of their shots from the three point line, which is 3rd in the NBA. The Jazz have been able to make 76.6 percent of their shots from the charity stripe, which is 17th in the league.
These two teams have been solid throughout the season when it comes to shooting the ball. Both teams have also been really strong on defense. The Jazz have held their opponents to a 43.9 percent shooting percentage from the field, which is 3rd in the NBA. Miami has held opposing teams to a 44.5 percent from the field, which is 4th in the league.
Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler have helped lead this Heat team this season. Adebayo is averaging 19.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. Butler has averaged 19.5 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists per game. Tyler Herro is averaging 17 points per game, while Goran Dragic has averaged 14.5 points. Kendrick Nunn is averaging 13 points and Duncan Robinson has averaged 12.5 points per game. Kelly Olynyk rounds out this lineup, averaging 10.5 points per game.
Donovan Mitchell has been the leader for the Jazz in this breakout start. Mitchell has averaged 24 points per game. Jordan Clarkson is averaging 17.5 points per game off the bench. Bojan Bogdanovic has averaged 16 points, while Rudy Gobert is averaging 13.5 points and 13.5 rebounds per game. Joe Ingles has averaged 10.5 points per game this season as well.
These two teams have strong lineups so far this season. Utah will likely be without Mike Conley in this one after missing again against the Bucks on Friday night. Goran Dragic could be out again for Miami, but Tyler Herro should be good to go. I expect these two teams to try and have players step up as they look to grab onto an early lead on Saturday night.
The Jazz and the Heat are coming into this one hot, which should lead to a great game on Saturday night. Utah is coming off a win on Friday night, which could lead to a slower start in this one. Miami is trying to climb back into the Eastern Conference playoff race, which should add some extra intensity in their game. I really like the Heat to grab the win in this one.
BetOnline has the Jazz listed as a -200 against the money line in this one. This implies that Utah will win this game around 66.7 percent of the time. While the Jazz are at home, they are coming off a game on Friday night. I think that Miami has a good chance to pull off the upset in this one and as huge underdogs, they have a lot of value entering this one.

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It's easy to take the ho-hum out of the game-time menu. How? Serve up a batch of meatballs, fresh hoagie rolls, and this choice of Italian- and German-style sauces...and let 'em choose their favorite flavors.
What You'll Need:
- 4 pounds ground beef
- 2 (2.8-ounce) cans French-fried onions, coarsely crushed
- 1 cup Italian-flavored bread crumbs
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 (18-ounce) jar beef gravy
- 1 tablespoon prepared white horseradish, drained
- 1 (26-ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 8 hoagie rolls, split
What To Do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, French-fried onions, bread crumbs, eggs, salt, and pepper; mix well. Shape into 24 meatballs and place on a large rimmed baking sheet.
- Bake 18 to 20 minutes, or until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, combine the gravy and horseradish over low heat. In another medium saucepan, combine the spaghetti sauce and Parmesan cheese over low heat. Simmer each 5 minutes, or until heated through, stirring occasionally.
- Place 3 meatballs on each hoagie roll and serve with bowls of each sauce for topping the sandwiches.
What I like about these hoagies is that everyone gets to choose the sauce they like best. When I top mine with the gravy, I like to add some additional French-fried onions for extra flavor and crunch. When using the spaghetti sauce for topping, I sprinkle on some additional Parmesan cheese.
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Steps to Dee Wright Observatory, McKenzie Pass, CCC constructed
The Dee Wright Observatory in the Willamette National Forest was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and was completed in 1935. It was named after the construction crew’s foreman who died a year before the observatory was completed.
“The observatory is an open shelter built with lava stone found at the construction site. The viewing windows are cut to specifically highlight the neighboring mountains. These “lava tube” viewing holes allow visitors to easily identify the different Cascade peaks. There is also a 36 inch (90 cm) diameter, bronze azimuth-like “peak finder” on the observatory’s roof to help visitors locate nearby geologic features as well as the surrounding mountain peaks. From the top of the observatory, visitors have a panoramic view of the Cascade Mountain Range including Mount Hood in the far north.” (wikipedia)
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Arrest made in Maine woman's slaying in Fla.
Adrianne Robert died on July 14
The death of a Maine native in Florida earlier this month has become a murder case.
Adrianne Robert, 29, was found dead in her apartment in Clearwater on July 14. The former page designer for the Lewiston Sun Journal was from Greene.
Members of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrested Thomas Hampton Frederick, 23, of Clearwater, on the charges of first-degree murder and grand theft auto on Wednesday, a release from the sheriff's office said.
Robert's roommate found her body in the early morning of July 14. She had been stabbed to death in the upper left chest, the sheriff's office said.
Earlier that night, Robert and her roommate were drinking at the topless club Diamond Dolls. They talked with a male customer identified as Frederick, the release said.
"Just after 1:30 a.m., July 14th, Adrianne decided to walk back home. Video from Diamond Dolls shows Adrianne leaving the establishment. The video also shows a black male catching up with her and giving her a black shawl that she had left behind on a chair," the release said. "The two continue to walk away together on the northbound sidewalk back towards Adrianne's apartment."
She was found dead in the bathroom, wearing only a bra. The sheriff's office said her body showed signs of a struggle and that they had evidence of a sexual assault. Her orange Jeep had also been stolen.
Investigators believed Frederick was a suspect, but the sheriff's office found no real criminal record.
A tossed cigarette from Frederick yielded a DNA sample that was compared to DNA gathered at the crime scene.
The Pinellas County Forensic Lab established Frederick as the murder suspect based on the DNA evidence, the release said. He was arrested the same day the DNA results came back.


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Download and read online The Tulip Eaters in PDF and EPUB In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child's life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family's troubled history in the dark days of World War II… It's the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered. Her infant daughter is missing. And the only clue is the body of an unknown man on the living-room floor, clutching a Luger in his cold, dead hand. Frantic to find Rose, Nora puts aside her grief and frustration with the local police to start her own search. But the contents of a locked metal box she finds in her parents' attic leave her with as many questions as answers—and suggest the killer was not a stranger. Saving her daughter means delving deeper into her family's darkest history, leading Nora half a world away to Amsterdam, where her own unsettled past and memories of painful heartbreak rush back to haunt her. As Nora feverishly pieces together the truth from an old family diary, she's drawn back to a city under Nazi occupation, where her mother's alliances may have long ago sealed her own–and Rose's—fate.
Download and read online The Tulip Eaters in PDF and EPUB After her mother is murdered and her baby girl goes missing, Nora de Jong must delve into her family's dark past to find a killer who just may not be a stranger. Original.
Download and read online The Tulip Eaters in PDF and EPUB In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, Antoinette van Heugten transports readers back to the dark days of World War II. Thirty years after the conflict between Dutch resistance fighters and Holland's Nazi sympathisers, a child's life hangs in the balance. It's the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered. Her infant daughter is missing. And the only clue is the body of an unknown man on the living-room floor, clutching a Luger in his cold, dead hand. Frantic to find Rose, Nora puts aside her grief and frustration to start her own search. But the contents of a locked metal box she finds in her parents' attic leave her with as many questions as answers, and suggest the killer was not a stranger. Saving her daughter means delving deeper into her family's darkest history, leading Nora half a world away to Amsterdam, where her own unsettled past and memories of painful heartbreak rush back to haunt her. As Nora feverishly pieces together the truth from an old family diary, she's drawn back to a city under Nazi occupation, where her mother's alliances may have long ago sealed her own — and Rose's — fate. USA TODAY bestselling author of Saving Max Antoinette van Heugten combines the tender, unshakable bond between mother and son with an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat thriller. — International bestselling author Diane Chamberlain on Saving Max Parents of children with serious behaviour problems will find their worst nightmares come alive in van Heugten's debut murder thriller...[with] more than one harrowing twist toward the end... —Publishers Weekly
Download and read online Saving Max in PDF and EPUB When her mentally disabled son Max is found covered in blood at the scene of a brutal murder, Danielle Parkman, defying a court order, races against time to find the real killer and save her son from a fate worse than death.
Download and read online Illuminae in PDF and EPUB First, survive. Then tell the truth. The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra – who are barely even talking to each other – are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it’s clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again! Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents – including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews and more – Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth and the courage of everyday heroes
Download and read online The Thinking Woman s Guide to Real Magic in PDF and EPUB An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
Download and read online The Lotus Eaters in PDF and EPUB Helen Adams, an American combat photographer during the Vietnam War, captures the wrenching chaos of battle on film and finds herself torn between the love of two men, one an American war correspondent and the other his Vietnamese underling. A first novel.
Download and read online The Botany of Desire in PDF and EPUB The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin? In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom? Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature. From the Hardcover edition.
Download and read online The All Natural Diabetes Cookbook in PDF and EPUB Most diabetes cookbooks rely on artificial sweeteners or not-so-real substitutions to reduce calories, sugar, and fat, but often at the expense of flavor. The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook, 2nd edition takes a different approach, focusing on naturally delicious fresh foods and whole-food ingredients to create fantastic meals that deliver amazing taste and well-rounded nutrition. And absolutely nothing is artificial! Recipes include such tempting dishes as Blanco Huevos Rancheros, Creole-Style Red Beans and Rice, Spa Chef Salad with Balsamic Tarragon Dressing, Beer-Brewed Sloppy Joes, Chicken Tortilla Soup with California Avocado, Sage Sweet Potato Frites, Fudgy Brownies, and more. In addition to amazing recipes based on whole foods and real ingredients, The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook is filled with sample meal plans, tips for cooking with natural ingredients, and a handy substitution chart for swapping out processed foods from favorite recipes. Do away with preservatives and artificial ingredients that leave you unfulfilled. Forget overly processed, fat-free products that are really just flavor free. Natural, fresh cooking isn't just healthy—it's delicious!
Download and read online The Tulip Touch in PDF and EPUB The story of a strange and disturbing friendship seen through the eyes of Natalie as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a deliquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She bunks off school, is rude to the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. But none of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip's behaviour exciting and dangerous. At first she doesn't care that other people are upset by Tulip's bizarre games but as the games become increasingly dangerous and sinister, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Way too far... Tulip becomes even more destructive and after a row with Natalie she commits a terrible crime. This is a compelling story in which Anne Fine explores the dark side of a friendship bordering on obsession, and sensitively depicts one girl's gradual decline into hostility and violence.
Download and read online The Next Page A Fiction Sampler for Book Clubs in PDF and EPUB Anyone who is part of a book club is very familiar with this constant question: What should we read next? Whether your club wants to travel back in time to exotic locations, or prefers to wrestle with big issues in a contemporary setting, this sampler of six extraordinarynovels has something for every book club: The Returned by Jason Mott, I'll Be Seeing You by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan, Teatime for the Firefly by Shona Patel, The Sweetest Hallelujah by Elaine Hussey, The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten and The Mourning Hours by Paula Treick DeBoard. Each excerpt is accompanied by a letter from the novel's editor explaining why the book is a perfect book club pick. There is also bonus material to enrich your discussions, including reading guides and author conversations. So, read on, enjoy, find the perfect book and be the star of your book club.
Download and read online Same Beach Next Year in PDF and EPUB New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart. One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship—and flirt with an unexpected attraction—of their own. Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach. Bursting with the intoxicating richness of Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved Lowcountry—the sultry sunshine, cool ocean breezes, icy cocktails, and starry velvet skies—Same Beach, Next Year is a dazzling celebration of the infrangible power of friendship, the enduring promise of summer, and the indelible bonds of love.
Download and read online These Things Hidden in PDF and EPUB A stunning tale of two sisters and the secrets between them, from New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence, Heather Gudenkauf. When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn—shy, quiet Brynn—who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her. But then Allison is released to a halfway house, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister. Now their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden. Don't miss Heather Gudenkauf's chilling page-turner, Missing Pieces.
Download and read online I ll Be Seeing You in PDF and EPUB "I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…" It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous, old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita lives in Iowa, trying to make ends meet. They have nothing in common except one powerful bond: the men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. Brought together by an unlikely twist of fate, Glory and Rita begin a remarkable correspondence. The friendship forged by their letters allows them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front, and gives them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards. Connected across the country by the lifeline of the written word, each woman finds her life profoundly altered by the other's unwavering support. A collaboration of two authors whose own beautiful story mirrors that on the page, I'll Be Seeing You is a deeply moving union of style and charm. Filled with unforgettable characters and grace, it is a timeless celebration of friendship and the strength and solidarity of women.
Download and read online Secrets of the Tulip Sisters in PDF and EPUB Don't miss this heart-warming tale about family, and the unbreakable bond between sisters. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Daughters of the Bride comes the feel-good novel of the year! Praise for Susan Mallery: “[Mallery] will appeal to fans of women's fiction, especially such friendship books as Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club.”—Booklist “Reading a Mallery book is like catching up with old friends.”—BookPage “Susan Mallery never disappoints and with Daughters of the Bride she is at her storytelling best.”—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine—up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett—Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly—and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep when she was alone. But Olivia's return isn't as triumphant as she pretends. Her job has no future, and ever since her dad sent her away from the bad boy she loved, she has felt cut off from her past. She's determined to reclaim her man and her place in the family…whether her sister likes it or not. For ten years, she and Kelly have been strangers. Olivia will get by without her approval now. While Kelly and Olivia butt heads, their secrets tumble out in a big hot mess, revealing some truths that will change everything they thought they knew. Can they forgive each other—and themselves—and redefine what it means to be sisters? Told with Mallery's trademark heart and humor, the Tulip Sisters are in for the most colorful summer of their lives…

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Versions and translations of the First Epistle to the Corinthians are listed at 1 Corinthians (Bible).
- Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Pelagius, translated by Wikisource
- "A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians" in Ante-Nicene Fathers, volume 6, by Theognostus of Alexandria, translated by Philip Schaff et al.
- "Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians by St. John Chrysostom" in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, volume 12
- "First Corinthians" in Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, volume 6, 1700s by Matthew Henry
- "Paul to the Corinthians" in Sketches from the Life of Paul, 1883 by Ellen Gould White


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COMMUNITY leaders will be holding "peace talks" in the New Year in a bid to unite factions divided over Remembrance Sunday.
Accrington's official Remembrance Day service has been held in the town centre, using a mobile memorial outside the Town Hall, for the past few years.
It was switched from the Cenotaph in Oak Hill Park on the grounds that elderly war veterans found it difficult to travel there.
But traditionalists say the service at the park should be reinstated as the official Remembrance Sunday service.
This year services were held at both venues.
The Rev Kevin Logan of Christ Church, who conducted the service at Oak Hill Park, said: "We hope to review Remembrance Sunday next year and to get a decision which is the right one for now.
"The problem is that attitudes change over time and we need to see if we can find a solution which will unite the whole town.
"Whatever the decision, it will need to be made by a true majority which will represent what people want."
On Sunday, hundreds of people attended the official event in the town centre, where a service was held in St James Church at 10.45am.
This was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony outside Accrington Town Hall, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Hyndburn, Councillor Miles Parkinson and his wife Bernadette, as well as Hyndburn MP Greg Pope.
There were processions to and from the church including ex-servicemen's organisations and uniformed youth groups.
Councillor Parkinson said: "It was a very poignant service. It's not really about how many people took part but rather about the sombreness of the day in remembering those who gave their lives."
The "rival" service at Oak Hill Park saw around 75 people taking part and a two-minute silence was held from 11.58am.
Nick Clarke, of Selby Close, Baxenden, who supports the traditional Oak Hill Park venue, said: "It was a really good service and a lot of people have been saying the official service should be held at the Cenotaph.
"However, the important thing is that people remember those who gave their lives, no matter where they do it."
Other well-attended remembrance services were held throughout the borough - in Altham, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswal-dtwistle, Huncoat and Rishton.
- ON the official Remembrance Day last Thursday the RAF Association organised an 11am memorial service in Oak Hill Park and afterweards wreaths were laid at the new Accrington Pals memorial in Church Street.


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Meek was born at 1 Market Square, Newent, Gloucestershire, and developed an interest in electronics and performance art at a very early age. This led him into record production, and songwriting, although he had no musical training. His best-remembered hit is the Tornados' "Telstar" (1962), which became the first record by a British group to reach No.1 in the US Hot 100. It also spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart, with Meek receiving an Ivor Novello Award for this production as the "Best-Selling A-Side" of 1962.
Meek's other hits include "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" and "Cumberland Gap" by Lonnie Donegan (as engineer), "Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton, "Just Like Eddie" by Heinz, "Angela Jones" by Michael Cox, "Have I the Right?" by the Honeycombs, and "Tribute to Buddy Holly" by Mike Berry. Meek's concept album I Hear a New World, which contains innovative use of electronic sounds, was not released in his lifetime.
Meek also produced music for films such as Live It Up! (US title Sing and Swing, 1963), a pop music film which featured Gene Vincent, the Outlaws pop group, jazz musician Kenny Ball and others. Meek wrote most of the songs and incidental music, much of which was recorded by the Saints and which Meek produced.
His commercial success as a producer was short-lived, and Meek gradually sank into debt and depression.
Meek's homosexuality – illegal in the UK at the time – put him under further pressure; he had been convicted of "importuning for immoral purposes" in 1963 and fined £15: he was consequently subject to blackmail. In January 1967, police in Tattingstone, Suffolk, discovered a suitcase containing the mutilated body of Bernard Oliver. According to some accounts, Meek became concerned that he would be implicated in the murder investigation when the Metropolitan Police said they would be interviewing all known homosexual men in the city.
On 3 February 1967, using a shotgun owned by musician Heinz Burt, Meek killed his landlady and then himself.
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- http://www.nndb.com/people/592/000114250/ "Joe Meek" Nndb.com 3 February 1967
- http://www.discogs.com/lists/The-Wires-100-Records-That-Set-The-World-On-Fire-While-No-One-Was-Listening-extra-30-Records/421 "The Wire's '100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening) + extra 30 Records" discogs.com
- IMDb title 0057504 Live It Up!
- Chris Mikul Bizarrism Critical Vision, 1999 isbn=1-900486-06-7 Page 111

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by Warner Todd Huston | August 12, 2015 12:02 pm
A well known financial advisor is now saying that a major recession is inevitable now and that it is going to severely depress the U.S. economy in a wave that will be worse than the 2008 financial mess.
The folks at Business Insider have published the warning by Societe Generale strategist Albert Edwards and the warning is NOT good!
In his new note, Edwards says the Chinese currency devaluation is the beginning of a period of serious foreign-exchange weaknesses in Asia.
This will force down import prices into the US and EU economies, aggravating a deflationary cycle that hits corporate profits and ending in a Lehman-style crisis:
“We expect the acceleration of EM devaluations to send waves of deflation to the west to overwhelm already struggling corporate profitability and take us back into outright recession. As investors realize yet another recession beckons, without any normalization of either interest rates or fiscal imbalances in this cycle, expect a financial market rout every bit as large as 2008.”
There are already signs a strong dollar relative to other currencies is pushing a “tidal wave” of deflation toward the US shore.
Are we about to have another major crash?
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There was a tense and somewhat ugly scene at Wednesday evening’s UFC 246 press conference in Las Vegas.
Canadian journalist Morgan Campbell, who has regularly covered MMA over the years. asked headliner Conor McGregor about the two reported sexual assault allegations made against him. McGregor never said a word, because what transpired was immediate booing by many fans at the Pearl Theater, UFC president Dana White running interference, and Donald Cerrone also trying to steer Campbell away from the topic.
“A couple quick questions for Conor about your legal issues,” Campbell started. “What can you tell us—-”
The boos began, then Cerrone interjected by saying, “We’re here to talk about a fight, nothing he does outside of fighting. Why does everybody keep going there?”
“He answered these questions yesterday on ESPN,” White chimed in.
Campbell continued to pursue the questions anyway, despite the fan reaction.
“Can you tell us anything specifically about the status of the sexual assault allegations in Ireland?”
“He answered that yesterday on ESPN,” White replied again.
“Was there ever a point where you guys were concerned that it might imperil this fight?” Campbell asked.
White responded with a simple, “No.” That was the end of Campbell’s time on stage.
Video of the whole exchange can be seen at roughly 12:48 of this clip.
That ESPN interview White referenced was McGregor’s one-on-one with Ariel Helwani, with McGregor denying flatly those allegations. It should be noted that Helwani never specified “sexual assault,” instead going with the vague “allegations.”
McGregor, who’s not been formally charged, did not directly address these questions until the Helwani interview. It took five months after the first New York Times report (which directly named him, something Irish media legally cannot do) for Dana White to even be asked about the investigation. White has had to answer that question more frequently after the second investigation was reported in October, recently telling Kevin Iole, “He hasn’t been charged with anything. You can’t accuse somebody and stop them from making a living when they haven’t even been charged.”
Our own Trent Reinsmith wrote not even a week ago that MMA media needed to ask McGregor about the sexual assault investigations. We got our answer in two parts: Helwani’s interview with Conor in Ireland produced an actual response, while a public press conference produced booing fans and an immediate shutdown by White.


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Rapid Reaction: Saints 19, Chargers 17
If it weren’t for Taysom Hill, the New Orleans Saints might not have had much to feel good about after a 19-17 preseason win against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Hill engineered a pair of second-half touchdown drives, another fourth-quarter drive that set up a go-ahead field goal with 1:05 to play and led New Orleans in both rushing (53) and passing (136) yardage. That was enough to make the Saints a winner in a game where they otherwise did not play well for long stretches.
The Saints did not score their first touchdown until late in the third quarter, when Hill stepped up into a perfectly formed pocket and found a wide-open Austin Carr for a 27-yard scoring strike. Before that drive, the Saints managed one drive that ended in a field goal, five drives that ended in punts and a pair that ended in turnovers.
Hill might’ve led three straight touchdown drives had it not been for a fumble by rookie running back Devine Ozigbo inside of the Chargers’ 10-yard line, the Saints’ third turnover of the day. On the ensuing possession, HIll hit Ozigbo for a five-yard touchdown pass to bring the Saints within one point.
Wil Lutz’s 28-yard chip shot field goal put the Saints ahead with 65 seconds to go. It came at the end of a nine-play, 50-yard drive led by Hill. Lutz is now a perfect 6-for-6 on field goal attempts this preseason.
Linebacker Colton Jumper iced the win with an interception of Los Angeles’ rookie quarterback Easton Stick with less than a minute remaining.
Hill, who entered the game for the final drive of the first half, finished with a 140.6 passer rating after completing 11 of his 15 passes. The Saints outscored the Chargers 16-0 in the second half.
The offense belonged to quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for almost the entire first half, but unlike the preseason opener when he led three scoring drives, Bridgewater turned in a rocky performance in Southern California.
After the game, Saints coach Sean Payton told reporters that Bridgewater was dealing with an illness before the game, and may not have otherwise played if New Orleans planned on using Drew Brees Sunday.
Bridgewater completed just five of his 12 pass attempts, compiled a 16.0 passer rating, and the lone scoring drive he was on the field for started at the Chargers’ 18-yard line. Some of those missed throws were costly.
He had Emmanuel Butler open in the middle of the field after evading pressure, but he overthrew the rookie receiver on third down. He rushed another throw deep inside Chargers territory, leaving it high for Dwayne Washington, who tipped the ball into the air allowing the Chargers to intercept the pass.
Bridgewater was not the only New Orleans player to struggle in a largely forgettable first half of work. If one play summed up the largely forgettable first-half effort that sent the Saints to the locker room in a 17-3 hole, it was the 81-yard punt return by Los Angeles return man Troymaine Pope.
Pope shook C.J. Gardner-Johnson shortly after catching the punt and knifed through the Saints punt coverage unit. He quickly got past the first wave of defenders and outran the rest, crossing the goal line with three seconds remaining in the first half.
It was a sour finish to a distasteful half of football. New Orleans was outgained 195-76 in that first half as it picked up just four first downs.
Several notable Saints did not play in this game, while others did not stay in the game long. Veterans Brees and Cam Jordan sat out for the second consecutive week, and wide receiver Michael Thomas joined them this week. Running back Alvin Kamara left the game early as well after turning his four touches into 15 yards.
The Saints return to the field next Saturday in a road contest against the New York Jets.
Key play: Austin Carr ran an out and up, and the Chargers completely lost track of him in the second level of their secondary. Taysom Hill had a pristine pocket to work in and looked off the safety to create even more room for Carr. That led to one of the easiest touchdown passes you’ll ever see, a 27-yard scoring strike in the third quarter.
Player of the Game: Hill injected some life into an otherwise rough day for the Saints offense, making him the clear star of the game. Trey Hendrickson was easily the most impressive player of the early part of the game, with the box score not accurately reflecting how disruptive he was in the Chargers backfield. Rookies Kaden Ellis (team-leading six tackles) and Deonte Harris (105 return yards) earned an honorable mention.
Injury update: Near the end of the first half, offensive lineman Chris Clark -- a New Orleans native -- had to leave the field on the cart after a Chargers defender rolled up on the back of his leg. Another reserve lineman, Michael Ola, left the field late in the third quarter after making a downfield block.
Big takeaway: Here are some of the things that made Sunday’s game discouraging: The offense executed poorly early, two redzone turnovers, two reserve offensive linemen left the field with injury, the special teams unit gave up a long return touchdown. Here’s the good part: The game didn’t matter. But it probably won’t be fun to review the film from this one.


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Can you keep a secret? No? Even better, because the secret to making English muffins is too good to keep to yourself.
Fans of “Downton Abbey” know all about secrets, of course, but here”s a curious one: In England, these breakfast standbys are known simply as, well, muffins. It”s only here in the United States that they gain the “English” adjective. Think of it as yet another adjustment that Lady Grantham had to make.
Some bakers maintain that the basics of making English muffins hardly are secret: A sticky wet dough is cooked at high heat on a griddle, which quickly evaporates the water, leaving large air pockets.
They”re right, of course, yet it”s amazing how many variations exist. There are recipes with batter poured into rings, with dough rolled and cut like biscuits, with much kneading or little kneading.
Today”s recipe borrows from several, resulting in muffins with the necessary sourdough tang and “holey” insides, and using a method that couldn”t be easier. These muffins are substantial and toast up beautifully. Another bonus? The total cost of ingredients for a batch of six muffins is about $1.
Mix the ingredients the night before and let the soft dough sit covered on the counter until morning. This “sponge,” which will swell and fall, gives the muffins their distinctive flavor. We recommend using as flavorful a honey as you have on hand.
The resulting dough will be too sticky to handle, but no need. Simply dip a serving spoon in water, then scoop one-sixth of the dough and drop it in a bowl of blended cornmeal and flour. Once flipped to coat, the dough can be picked up, gently rounded and placed on a heated griddle.
After that, it”s a matter of watching so the muffins don”t cook too quickly; you want them to cook through without the bottoms scorching. This will take 10 to 12 minutes on each side, so you can do other breakfast preparations while they bake. To make sure they”re baked through, finish them in a 350-degree oven for 10 minutes.
Just be sure to allow plenty of time for them to cool completely before breaking them open with a fork and toasting them; otherwise, they may be too moist.
You also can make the dough the morning before you plan to eat them, let it rise and fall during the day, then griddle the muffins before bedtime. Let them cool, then store in an airtight container.
In the morning, you”ll have more time to make the hollandaise sauce for the eggs Benedict, or to set out the array of fruit preserves, or to prep the breakfast omelets that you”ll sandwich inside the toasted muffins.
The only secret is where you”ll stash the last one for yourself.
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons instant yeast, or 1 packet
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cornmeal
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1. In a small saucepan, heat the milk until just warm. Turn off heat and stir in the butter and honey until melted. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together yeast, flour and salt. Stir in milk mixture until combined, then stir vigorously for a minute, about 200 strokes. (You can rest after 100!) Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in a draft-free place overnight, or for 12 hours.
3. In the morning (or after 12 hours), mix the cornmeal and remaining flour in a small bowl.
4. Mark the surface of the dough into 6 pieces, like a pie. This is your guide for proportions.
5. Heat a heavy pancake griddle or cast-iron pan over medium heat until drops of water sizzle. (An infrared laser thermometer should read between 350 and 375 degrees.) You”ll be turning down the heat to low once the muffins go on the griddle, but you want an initial burst of heat. (An electric skillet takes away much of the guesswork; set it to 350 degrees.)
6. Dip a serving spoon in water and scoop out one-sixth of the dough, deflating it as little as possible, and place it in the cornmeal mixture. Gently flip it over. Once coated, the dough can be picked up and patted into a rounder shape, if necessary. Place it on the griddle and repeat the process until all six muffins are shaped. Reduce the heat to low.
7. With a spatula, occasionally check under the muffins to see how quickly they”re browning. It should take a full 10 minutes to reach a deep golden color. If they”re browning too fast, reduce the heat. If they remain pale, boost the heat to medium. After 10 minutes, gently turn them over to cook the other side.
8. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and move a rack to the center position.
9. After 10 more minutes, the muffins should be a golden brown on both sides. Place them on a baking sheet and put them in the oven to bake for another 10 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Note: Using a full-flavored honey enhances these muffins. Instant yeast also is called rapid-rise.
Nutrition information per serving: Calories 220, fat 3 grams, sodium 235 milligrams, carbohydrates 41 grams, saturated fat 2 grams, calcium 59 milligrams, protein 7 grams, cholesterol 7 milligrams, dietary fiber 2 grams.


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People will be looking to pick up the DAX every time it dips.
The DAX Index initially dipped during the trading session on Tuesday but found enough support underneath the 14,000 level to turn things around. This candlestick is preceded by a shooting star, so it shows that we are trying to break out to the upside. This is interesting, due to the fact that we eventually broke to the upside but found buyers coming back in to pick things up. The DAX is highly sensitive to exports coming out of the European Union and the overall economic health of that region.
Germany is Europe’s biggest economy, so it makes sense that the DAX would be the first place traders look to put money to work due to the fact that it is considered to be the “safest economy.” However, there are a few headwinds out there that could come into play, not the least of which is a strengthening euro. Recently, we had seen a little bit of a sell-off in the euro, but we now are starting to see some stability in that currency and that could lead to more stability here. The reasoning is that exports coming out of Germany will be either cheaper or more expensive based on the exchange rate.
If you are accepting the idea of the reflation trade, it does make sense that Germany would continue to show signs of strength, as there are major industrial exporters in that nation who are some of the biggest companies in the DAX. Because of this, it is very likely that we will continue to see some volatility. However, I think people will be looking to pick up the DAX every time it dips, not only because there could be massive demand for heavy industrial exports, but also because we are in a massive uptrend and, as currencies get devalued, there are a lot of people out there who will be looking to put money into various stocks. Germany is one of the first places traders look in Europe, and then they tend to fan out after that and put money in the places like Spain and Italy. I think this continues to be the “safe trade” in the European Union.


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Imagine the morning routine.
You roll out of bed, stumble into the kitchen, and reach for that life-giving elixir we call coffee.
But did you know that the way you hold your coffee cup might be telling the world more about your personality than you realize?
In a moment, you’re going to see an image with three ways to hold a cup. Choose the grip that feels most natural to you.
Don’t overthink it, let your subconscious do the talking.
Ready? Let’s dive into the secrets your coffee cup grip is ready to spill.
1. The over-the-top grip
If you hold your cup by securing your hand over the top of the handle, congratulations!
You are a born leader. Your grip suggests an inherent sense of control and authority.
You are confident in your abilities to guide others and are not afraid to take charge.
Be careful though, this grip can also indicate a tendency to be a little overbearing or dominant.
Remember, a good leader knows when to listen and let others shine.
2. The handle hugger
You, dear handle hugger, are likely a compassionate and warm individual.
You hold your cup close, reflecting your open heart and your willingness to embrace others.
However, your grip might also reveal a tendency to be a bit clingy or overly dependent on others for emotional support.
It’s important to remember that it’s okay to let go sometimes and give people their space.
3. The saucer surfer
If you prefer to hold your cup by the saucer, you are likely a sophisticated individual with a taste for the finer things in life.
You appreciate elegance and have a knack for maintaining composure in stressful situations. Be cautious though, as this grip can also suggest a snobbish or aloof personality.
Remember, not everyone shares your high standards so be patient and understanding.
So, there you have it! The hidden truths behind your morning coffee ritual.
Did your results surprise you? Or did they confirm what you already knew about yourself?
We encourage you to share this fun personality test on social media! Your friends might be surprised to find out what their coffee cup grip says about them.
And if you enjoyed this, don’t forget to check out our other personality tests for more insightful revelations about your character.
Let’s keep the self-discovery brewing!

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