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The Philippines has agreed to provide the United States with expanded access to key military bases in the Southeast Asian country.
Washington and Manila agreed on plans to “accelerate the full implementation of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the full agreement to designate four new agreed locations in strategic areas” of the Philippines, the two nations’ defense departments said in statements on Thursday.
The two sides also agreed on “the substantial completion of the projects in the existing five agreed locations,” they said.
Under the agreement, the US will have access to Philippine military bases, likely including two on the northern island of Luzon.
Washington’s access to those bases, according to military experts, could provide US forces a strategic position from which to mount operations in the event of a conflict over Chinese Taipei or in the South China Sea.
China claims sovereignty over virtually all of the South China Sea, which is also claimed in part by Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The waters are believed to sit atop vast reserves of oil and gas.
The increased military cooperation with the United States “bodes well for our defense posture,” a Philippine defense official told The Washington Post.
The official said Manila sought to bolster its own security and the move was “not aimed at any particular country.”
He said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “realizes the dynamics of the region at the moment and that the Philippines really needs to step up.”
The official also asserted that Marcos had been closely monitoring developments in the Taiwan Strait and in the West Philippine Sea. “We’ve already got incursions from multiple countries and the tensions are still expected to rise,” he added.
The South Asian nation, once a US territory, hosted massive US presence after World War II, including at two of the largest American military facilities overseas. The arrangement ended in 1991 when the Philippine senate forced the Americans to relinquish all US bases in the Philippines. The two countries later signed the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement and the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.
Relations between Manila and Washington were strained under former President Rodrigo Duterte, who threatened to end the Visiting Forces Agreement, which would have made it far more difficult for US forces to access the Philippines. Duterte, however, relented and restored the agreement last year.
Last week, the US officially opened a new base on Guam, a strategically important island east of the Philippines. The base, Camp Blaz, which is the first new Marine base in 70 years, is expected to host 5,000 US Marines.
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A Durham, North Carolina police officer testified in court it's "official policy" for Durham cops to claim they received a 911 call from a residence in order to illegally enter the home under the ruse of a "safety check."
Indy Week reports:
Several Durham police officers lied about non-existent 911 calls to try to convince residents to allow them to search their homes, a tactic several lawyers say is illegal. The officers targeted residences where individuals with outstanding warrants were thought to be living, and told them that dispatch had received a 911 call from that address, when no such call had been made.The police chief is claiming ignorance and says no such policy exists. Police routinely use "false alerts" with drug dogs to gain access to peoples' vehicles (and potentially steal them through forfeiture laws), so to think they'd do the same with fake 911 calls to get access to peoples' homes is no surprise.


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Friday, May 24, 2019 at 11 PM – 7 AM - The Artist Village Detroit
He began spinning and producing tracks in 1986, at the age of thirteen... After graduating from the Academy for the Arts, he recieved a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute where his interest in music was taken to a new level through his study of sculpture.
In 1994, he recieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KCAI with a concentration in Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestrationusing live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice, and numerous other sound generating devices.
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The worst part about a trip can be the place you stay at. If you have had no luck in the past finding a good hotel, or if you are just looking for solid ideas on where to stay, then you're in luck! The following article is for anyone interested in knowing how to find that perfect hotel for you. Keep reading for solid tips about hotels.
Online travel sites like Expedia or Orbitz can help you get the best price for rooms at the hotel you would like to stay at. If you are a member of a loyalty program, use that info when checking rates. You might also be entitled to additional discounts through your other organizations, such as AAA or AARP.
To find the best deals on hotels consider a travel agent. Many times travel agents can find wonderful hotels at a great price. When booking with a travel agent, ensure that the agent knows both your wants and your needs. This will allow the travel agent to shop for both and offer you choices.
When searching for a hotel, consider "bundle" packages. For example, if you have to fly to your location, look for a bundle that includes both your hotel room and your airfare. You should save quite a bit of money that way, but make sure to always double-check the regular room rate to ensure you are getting a good deal.
When going on a trip, it is a good idea to book a vacation package instead of booking each service separately. While it may seem like you are spending a lot more money at once, the reality is that you will be getting a cheaper hotel stay than you would otherwise.
Make location a top priority when it comes to searching for hotels. If you are going to be staying in a city and want to sight-see, it may not be wise to stay in a hotel 30 minutes away from all the action. Ask the hotel about attractions close by or look up their location on the Internet.
There are some things you have to do before taking your pet on a trip. Find out if the hotel will allow pets first. Also, take a good supply of plastic bags, such as grocery bags, to clean up after your pet. Finally, ask the hotel staff if you can have a room on the far end away from guests so that you don't interfere with their visit.
When traveling with small children, try to choose a hotel that caters to them. Most hotels offer cribs. Some have playgrounds and/or pools to help keep your kids entertained. Some even offer or children's programs during the day or babysitters at night. Many hotels do not charge extra for children under a certain age to stay in the same room with their parents.
It is not a good idea to place the "maid service needed" sign on your door at a hotel. vacation rentals montezuma costa rica is a dead giveaway that you are not in the room. It can attract people who want to steal your valuables. It is better to notify the desk when you need maid service than to leave out the sign.
If you are going to stay in a hotel, be sure to give them a call the day before you are due to arrive. Hotels are not responsible for calling guests to confirm their reservation; that is up to the guest. Always call the hotel to be sure your room is still reserved.
Call the hotel you are planning to stay in and see if they offer any discounts. Many hotels offer discounts for senior citizens, business travelers, military personnel and government officials. Additionally, if you are a member of an automobile association, you may qualify for a reduced rate on your hotel stay.
Being a AAA member has many advantages when it comes to booking a hotel room. AAA members receive excellent discounts on hotels, car rentals and other attractions. They even throw in free car seats at most locations if you're a parent.
It is not always possible to check-in early. So, you may have to sit for a while in the lobby or find a way to occupy yourself until checking in if you are going to be arriving early. Before you can enjoy your room, hotels need to clean the room properly. If you do happen to arrive early, check with the desk to see if you can check in, but don't expect that request to be honored.
Timing matters when booking a hotel room. Hotels price their rooms based on how many rooms are available. Try booking your hotel room within 24 hours of your stay. You may find the best prices this way. Hotels are often happy to slash prices on impending vacancies since they will get nothing if they can't book the room.
Rely on ratings and reviews more than overall stars. Star ratings can be very deceiving these days. It's better to rely on what honest people have to say about the hotel. visit the up coming internet site and even more importantly reviews offer that. Dig through them before deciding on which hotel to stay at.
Look around for hotels that are having grand openings. These grand openings often have big savings on hotel rooms. In fact, the savings can be very significant - 20% and often more. It's a great way to get a top notch hotel stay and then pass on the word to others about the stay!
Use these tips to make your hotel stay great. When you learn up front what to look out for, you'll be far more likely to stay in a nice hotel with no troubles. When you stop at your hotel while on the road, you should be able to relax rather than be stressed and uncomfortable.

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Rounding off the 2014 season of the Savonlinna Opera Festival to perfection are the performances by this year’s visiting opera house, Welsh National Opera, of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Verdi’s Nabucco. The party of 183 from Welsh National Opera will be arriving in Savonlinna this weekend. There are still some tickets available for Manon Lescaut, but all three performances of Nabucco are sold out. Puccini’s third opera, Manon Lescaut, was a great success in its day, establishing his world-wide reputation as Verdi’s successor and a fixed star on the Italian opera firmament. Awaiting the Olavinlinna audience is an urban take on this classic of melodic arias and unbridled passion. The conductor is Lothar Koenigs, Music Director of Welsh National Opera, and the stage director is Mariusz Treliński, who made his mark on the Castle stage in La traviata last summer.
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Disability centres must change ‘radically’, says Hiqa
One in seven disability homes failed to comply with standards, ‘Irish Times’ analysis finds
Cregg House: the facility for more than 100 adults with intellectual disabilities in Cregg, Rosses Point, Co Sligo, failed to comply with any Hiqa standards during five separate visits. Photograph: James Connolly/PicSell8
Disability service providers, including the HSE, must change “radically and quickly” if the “regressive and neglectful” conditions in certain disability homes are to be brought to an end, the State health watchdog has said.
Just 7 per cent of the inspections of disability homes published to date found full compliance with the required national standards.
Analysis by The Irish Times of more than 900 reports published since the Health Information and Quality Authority began inspecting disability homes found that homes failed to comply with any of the standards inspected in one in seven cases.
Some centres, including a unit in Cregg House in Sligo, which is run by the HSE and houses more than 100 adults with disabilities, failed to comply with any of the standards inspected by Hiqa during five separate visits between December 2014 and April 2015.
Despite multiple engagements with the centre, Hiqa inspectors highlighted a number of issues in a report on the unit in April. These included residents spending significant periods without engagement and continuing problems with staffing levels.
Hiqa chief executive Phelim Quinn said the inspections of disability homes, which began in late 2013, have “highlighted a culture whereby the human rights and aspirations of a significant number . . . of our citizens have been thwarted or denied over a period of years and in some instances, over decades”.
Some 20 disability homes face possible closure after Hiqa issued proposals to cancel or refuse their applications for registration.
This includes one unit of the HSE-run Áras Attracta care home in Swinford, Co Mayo. The service was the subject of a 2014 RTÉ documentary, which reported instances of slapping, kicking and force-feeding.
Mr Quinn called for better monitoring of care and progress towards community inclusion by providers of services, as well as better monitoring of services by the HSE as the funder of those services.
“Culture does not change overnight,” he said, “but service providers need to accept that regressive, neglectful care such as those highlighted cannot be tolerated.”
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“There are certain centres which are passing these inspections with flying colours,” Mr Connolly said, “but that doesn’t necessarily equate to a decent quality of life.”
The HSE said it was “strongly committed” to addressing the issues raised by Hiqa. It funds services for some 8,000 people in residential support settings, at a cost of about €900 million a year.
“The HSE wishes to reassure families and residents of all services in this sector that we will continue to provide services for the residents in our care as the process of inspection and registration is ongoing,” a spokeswoman said.
She said new quality improvement teams would initially focus on 148 HSE residential centres. Given the age of some facilities, she added, “the type of change required to fully meet Hiqa requirements will require a sustained effort over a number of years”.


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I got a better look at some of my fellow patients in this freak hole, and they all look pretty close to my age. They come up to the check-in desk to get pills. After they take them, the desk people look in their mouths to make sure they've swallowed. It's like something out of The Twilight Zone. Are they going to do that to me? Anna Bloom is depressed--so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here, she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her. But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn't supposed to be about making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it?
Julie Halpern is the author of Into the Wild Nerd Yonder and Don't Stop Now, as well as the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes. In addition to writing, Julie is a middle-school librarian. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, lived in Australia for six months, and created a couple of zines before she started writing books, and realized she was and always has been a writer. She is married to the artist Matthew Cordell, and they live outside Chicago with their daughter and gloriously large Siamese cat, Tobin.


If you have delusions of finding an Orange County home priced under $500,000 … good luck!
It’s no surprise that finding any Orange County home that fits any budget has become a challenge. But a new study by Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing.com shows just how tough a search for a lower-priced home has become.
In late March 2011, as the housing market was trying to revive after the Great Recession’s pounding, there were 5,809 existing homes priced under $500,000 listed for sale in Orange County broker networks. That was 54 percent of what was being sold in the county.
Last Thursday, there were only 1,224 homes listed for sale in that same price range – a eye-popping 79 percent drop in five years. Even with overall homes-for-sale inventory cut in half in five years, homes under half a million now comprise just 22 percent of the market.
Yes, the 2011 housing market was flooded with distressed properties as financially stressed owners tried to unload homes and bankers dumped foreclosures. But even a year later, as the selling panic cooled, 3,162 homes priced under half a million were for sale in Orange County – that was 48 percent of the market.
There are plenty of reasons why cheaper homes are harder to find. But Thomas was blunt at the leading culprit: “What happened to affordable, entry-level housing? The simple answer is appreciation. Homes have been appreciating nonstop since 2012, when the market initially caught fire.”
According to CoreLogic data, the median price of an Orange County home jumped from $410,000 in February 2011 to $610,000 five years later – that’s 49 percent appreciation.
The median hasn’t been below $500,000 since February 2013. (We will also note that the local median first crossed $500,000 in 2004, got to $645,000 in 2007 … and then the bubble burst!)
And a key driver of the rebound, lower mortgages rates, has not fully dulled appreciation’s bite into the typical house hunter’s budget: CoreLogic’s estimate of an Orange County homebuyer’s house payment is up 36 percent in the past five years.
These soaring costs make owners of lower-priced homes less willing to move. Many cannot afford to do the traditional move-up purchase. Others may see their relative “bargains” as keepers and turn them into rentals.
So sales activity dipped along with supply, CoreLogic stats show. In the 12-month period that ended in February 2011, 17,898 Orange County homes priced under half a million sold. In same period that ended in February 2016: Just 12,037 sales in the same price category, a 32 percent drop.
Sky-high housing costs aren’t just a house-hunting hurdle. Pricey real estate is a challenge to the competitiveness of the overall Orange County economy. Think about the difficulty of finding an “affordable” home under $500,000 in Orange County, then note how a $500,000 home looks nationally.
That’s a price tag more than double the national median selling price in 2015 of $224,000, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo price index. And just nine of the 226 cities nationwide tracked by NAHB/Wells had median prices above $500,000 last year.
Thomas did not have encouraging words for Orange County house hunters seeking a relative regional bargain.
“The trend is not favorable. In time, the number of opportunities will fade and competition will increase, making it even more challenging to purchase than it already is today,” Thomas wrote of the sub-$500,000 market. “Buyers should not wait for a wave of fresh inventory to hit the market. That is simply not going to happen.”
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I don’t know about you, but being in Saratoga never fails to make me happy. It could be the delicious food, the lack of traffic, or the virtually non-existent crime rate, but I’ve always thought of Saratoga as being much more of a quaint, intimate village than an actual city. Apparently I’m not the only one who’s delighted by all Saratoga has to offer – a recent study by CreditDonkey named Saratoga Springs not just the happiest city in the area, but the happiest city in the entire state of New York!
The study used U.S. Census and FBI crime data to rank New York’s cities (those with a population of 25,000 or greater) in seven categories: restaurants per capita, crime rate, commute length, departure time, income, divorce rate, and percentage of income spent on housing. Saratoga Springs had the greatest number of restaurants per capita (200 per resident), the lowest violent crime odds (1 in 1,034), and was in the top 3 for lowest income spent on housing (22.2%) and median household income ($62,766).
I’m confused, is this mistaken with Rochester? Their websites say that’s the #1 happiest place: http://www.creditdonkey.com/where-happiest.html


Former Busted star Matt Willis tells The Mirror the last two weeks have been the toughest of his life after Charlie Simpson left the chart-topping boy band to concentrate on rock group Fightstar. “II was devastated. The last fortnight has been a real struggle,” he said. Fortunately, he’s found support with girlfriend Emma Griffiths.
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They have subsequently announced further tour dates and released a new CD Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits.
Geldof left the Boomtown Rats in 1986, to launch a solo career and publish his autobiography, Is That It? His first solo records sold reasonably well and spawned the hit singles "This Is The World Calling" (co-written with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics) and "The Great Song of Indifference".
In 1992, he performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert with the surviving members of Queen at the old Wembley Stadium, singing a song he jokingly claimed to have co-written with Mercury, called "Too Late God". The event caused music paper NME (who had been involved in a running feud with Geldof since his Boomtown Rats days—primarily due to his disparagement of The Clash) to call Geldof "the world's worst DJ".
Along with U2's Bono, he has devoted much time since 2000 to campaigning for debt relief for developing countries.
He briefly guest hosted the CBC children's program Switchback.
Returning to Ireland in 1975, he became lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement. 1 single in the UK with "Rat Trap", the first new wave chart-topper in Britain.
Following that release, Geldof toured, albeit with mixed success.
Geldof's first major charity involvement took place in September 1981, when he performed as a solo artist for Amnesty International's benefit show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, at the invitation of Amnesty show producer Martin Lewis; he performed a solo version of "I Don't Like Mondays".
Other rock artists had 'planted a seed' and appeared to have affected Geldof in a similar manner.
It was one of the most monumental stage shows in history, with Phil Collins flying on Concorde so that he could play at both Wembley and Philadelphia on the same day.
During the broadcast of Live Aid, Geldof shocked viewers into giving cash by not only twice mouthing profanities but also by slamming his fist on the table and ordering them not to go out to the pub but to stay in and watch the show.


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$8 General admission | $5 Alumni, Military, 55+ | Free for PLU community & 18 and under
The Lyric Brass Quintet will perform “Luther, Seven Scenes for Brass Quintet” composed by PLU music professor emeritus Jerry Kracht, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Lyric Brass Quintet is the resident faculty brass ensemble at Pacific Lutheran University. Members include Zachary Lyman and Edward Castro on trumpet, Gina Gillie on the French horn, Rebecca Good on trombone, and Paul Evans on tuba.


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The college basketball landscape looked radically different in the 1970s and early 80s. Gone are the days where the majority of teams pound the ball inside and play an incredibly slow pace. The game’s revolution centered around a couple of programs in the Boston area with up-and-coming coaches who would go on to have hall-of-fame careers in Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun and Gary Williams.
Boston Ball by Clayton Trutor details the stories that changed the game and launched these careers. It is available this November. Use the promo code 6AF23 to save 40% off the cover price.
Below is an excerpt from the book:
Introduction: The Forgotten Cradle of Coaches
Pete Axthelm called it the “city game.” The style of play that emerged on the asphalt courts, steamy gyms, and close-fitting fieldhouses of the Northeast corridor. It is an up-tempo and aggressive game, built around pressure defense; fast-breaking offenses and drives to the rim; slick ball-handling and bravado. It is a game of speed, grit, guile, and skill. From Nat Holman’s New York Original Celtics in the 1920s, to his City College championship team in 1950, to Philadelphia’s Big Five basketball schools, to Bob Cousy at Holy Cross and later with Red Auerbach’s Boston Celtics, to Red Holzman’s New York Knicks teams of the early 1970s, to the legendary street ballers at Harlem’s Rucker Park—for close to a half-century, when people in the East thought of big-time basketball, they were thinking of the “city game,” a term first popularized in Axthelm’s account of Holzman’s Knicks and the players he encountered at Rucker Park in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Recently, Matthew Goodman reintroduced the term in his fantastic narrative history of City College’s great teams of the late 1940s and early 1950s entitled The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team (2019).
At the very moment that Axthelm’s book The City Game (1970) found a large audience among basketball fans, that very style of play was beginning to fade from the national landscape. Both in the professional and college games. At the college level, risk-averse zone-defenses and high-post offenses became the norm in many places as teams bided their time, searching for the best possible looks in the pre-shot clock era. The style of ball control offense favored by Oklahoma A&M’s (later Oklahoma State) Henry Iba had long been the norm in much of the country, but this deliberate, highly structured style of offense found its way by the 1960s into fieldhouses in every corner of the nation. In Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) country, Dean Smith’s North Carolina Tarheels employed a purposeful ball control offense that came to be known as the “shuffle.” In the Midwest, Big Ten teams like Indiana, Michigan State, and Ohio State won with a brawny, more plodding style of play. Ball control basketball proved to be an effective means of shutting down more running-and-gunning opponents, but it also wasn’t terribly exciting. Teams holding the ball for several minutes each half threatened to kill off the sport’s once-rabid support in every corner of the country. Well into the 1970s, college and professional basketball seemed like ever smaller and more insular worlds. The sport was dominated by a handful of teams and lacking in the vigorous support that characterized it before a series of gambling-related scandals rocked basketball during the 1950s.
The reembrace of the big man during the 1960s and 1970s offered further proof that Henry Iba’s ball control basketball was winning the day. Iba’s championship teams in the 1940s were built around ramming the ball inside to seven-foot pivot-man Bob Kurland, one of several giants that dominated college basketball in the era. By the early 1970s, coaches had adjusted to rule changes meant to prevent seven-footers from completely controlling the game, inaugurating a new, more athletic era of big man basketball. Even at UCLA, home of John Wooden’s vaunted 2-2-1 press, the Bruins built around their enormous centers, parlaying it into 10 national championships built around the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton. The path to college basketball success at the national level became a question of which schools could recruit the most talented centers, not which schools could build the best teams. Downstream in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), the likes of Jabbar, Walton, Bob Lanier, and Artis Gilmore followed in the footsteps of Chamberlain and Russell in a big man dominated league.
Seemingly out of nowhere, a basketball revolution started in an unlikely place. A cluster of young coaches, toiling in relative obscurity in the same town (Boston) and at the same time (the late 1970s and 1980s), ignited a renaissance of the “city game.” Working in the shadow of the Celtics, Red Sox, and Bruins, they unknowingly invented “Boston Ball,” a simultaneously old and new path to the top of college basketball. A high school teacher in Dedham, Massachusetts named Jim Calhoun quit his day job and took a pay-cut to become the men’s basketball coach at Northeastern University (NU), a school that was transitioning to Division I. A cocksure, 25-year-old from Long Island named Rick Pitino convinced Boston University (BU) to make him their head basketball coach. Pitino’s boss, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, pleaded with his young assistant to wait for a better job to open, describing BU as the worst coaching job in the East. Coach Gary Williams left his position at American University in Washington, D.C., a school that played its home games at a National Guard armory, for Boston College (BC), where he had previously served under Tom Davis. Davis’ BC teams excelled in the newly-formed Big East Conference but few outside the Chestnut Hill campus seemed to notice. The Eagles’ footprint in Boston was strikingly small for such a successful program. Moreover, BC was still playing in the shadow of college basketball’s biggest scandal in decades, the 1978-1979 points-shaving affair which involved three of their players. When Williams took over as BC’s head coach in 1982, the points-shaving scandal remained the primary thing that most people knew about the school’s basketball program, as the federal trials of the players and mobsters involved in the case were on-going.
The formidable challenges faced by all three coaches were overcome with a combination of hard work, craftiness, and attention to detail. Above all else, Calhoun, Pitino, and Williams were apostles of the “city game.” Each one of them embraced the old-time religion of pressure defense, up-tempo offense, skillful ball-handling, and board crashing in their coaching. They all played deep benches and built tight-knit teams. None of them had a Bob Kurland or a Bob Lanier in the middle they could dump the ball into for high-percentage shots. Instead, they created teams that played with passion, intensity, and intelligence. Their teams were always in peak physical condition and, win or lose, the opposition was always in for a battle.
All three coaches transformed their teams in Boston into programs worthy of national recognition. In 1983, Rick Pitino brought BU back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a quarter-century, guiding a team that had been crushed the previous autumn by the death of their captain and best-player, Arturo Brown, who died of a heart attack during practice. Jim Calhoun led Northeastern to five league titles, five NCAA Tournament bids, and three upset victories in the NCAA Tournament in a six-year period during the early-to-mid 1980s. Gary Williams took two undersized BC clubs that were perennially picked by the basketball experts near the bottom of the Big East to the Sweet Sixteen. On both occasions, BC came within an errant shot of making it to the Elite Eight.
Collectively, Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, and Gary Williams played a profound role in the remaking of modern college basketball. The fast and physical play adopted by many of the best college teams of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries looked a lot like the basketball that Northeastern, BU, and BC played in the late 1970s and 1980s. A number of these great teams of the recent past were in fact coached by Pitino, Calhoun, or Williams. This trio won a total of six national championships and reached 13 Final Fours between 1987 and 2011. All three coaches have been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. For close to a quarter century, their teams were almost continually in the conversation as contenders for the national championship. Each coach became a celebrity as college basketball and March Madness became a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Before Pitino became the face of the Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville programs. Before Jim Calhoun turned UConn into a national power. Before Gary Williams brought Maryland its first national championship. All three coaches cut their teeth in front of modest crowds in the crumbling college gymnasiums of Boston during the 1970s and 1980s. Boston Ball is the story of a forgotten cradle of coaches. It details how three ambitious young coaches learned their trade in the shadow of the dynastic Celtics, professional basketball’s most revered and successful franchise. Each coach crafted a distinct blueprint for building a winning program and did so through the collective efforts of their players, assistants, and athletic department staff.
Boston Ball fills a significant gap in the historical record of American sports. While the most high-profile tenures in each of the three coaches’ careers are well known to basketball fans, few outside of the Boston basketball community seem to know much about these earlier periods in Williams, Pitino, or Calhoun’s careers. Even locally, coverage of the three teams was limited in the print and broadcast media. The Boston Globe (referred to simply as “The Globe” in this book) at least wrote up accounts of most BU, NU, and BC games during this era. Many young journalists who went on to big things, including Jackie MacMullan and Leslie Visser, did a fine job covering local college basketball but the paper’s overall coverage of the teams seemed more like due diligence for the local sports scene than reporting on a genuinely mass attraction.
To one extent or another, the coaches themselves have deemphasized this aspect of their respective careers in their official retellings of it. Pitino gives his five years at BU (1978-1983) a total of five pages in Pitino: My Story. Williams spends four pages on his four years as BC’s head coach (1982-1986) in his memoir, Sweet Redemption. Jim Calhoun, who spent 14 years at Northeastern (1972-1986), is the most verbose, covering his time as the Huskies coach in two slim chapters.
Boston Ball is more than a coming-of-age story for three coaches that went on to star on the national stage. For one thing, it is also the story of many other great coaches, some well-known and others more obscure, who competed and coached alongside the three Hall of Fame coaches in this book. Three other coaches who figure prominently in Boston Ball belong in the Hall of Fame. Mike Jarvis, who twice coached BU to the NCAA Tournament after coaching at his alma maters Northeastern and Cambridge Rindge and Latin, is an obvious omission from the Basketball Hall of Fame, having later revitalized flagging programs at George Washington and St. John’s. Dr. Tom Davis, Gary Williams’ mentor and the man who transformed BC into a power in the early years of the Big East, is one of the great tactical innovators in the history of college basketball. Kevin Mackey, Davis and Williams’ top recruiter and, later, the author of one of the great upsets in NCAA Tournament history, has made unique contributions to basketball at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels. The life’s work of so many other fine coaches including Jim O’Brien, Karl Fogel, Jack Leaman, Al Skinner, Dick Dukeshire, Jim Bowman, Roy Sigler, Nick Macarchuk, Pete Lonergan, as well as many other fine teachers of the game in the Big East and ECAC North are also discussed in this book. Without delving too much into the tactical nuts and bolts of the game, Boston Ball offers a window into the strategic diversity that characterized eastern college basketball in the 1970s and 1980s.
Boston Ball is also a story of recruiting—how did coaches at lesser-known schools find the student-athletes that enabled them to compete for NCAA Tournament bids. Unable to lure the bluebloods that chose the brand name programs of the ACC, Big East, and Big Ten, Northeastern, BU, and BC each developed distinctive and consistently fruitful recruiting pipelines. Northeastern cultivated a “Pittsburgh Connection,” a network which drew many talented if overlooked players from Western PA to Huntington Avenue. The Huskies later developed significant pipelines to Southeastern Massachusetts and to Baltimore/Washington D.C., where they landed the greatest player in NU history, the late Reggie Lewis. Rick Pitino made extensive use of the network emanating from Howard Garfinkel’s famed Five Star Camp to sign players at BU. The young BU coach won many recruits in his old New York tri-state area stomping grounds while finding a number of solid players in lightly-recruited eastern Canada and northern New England. Despite its Big East affiliation, Boston College struggled to lure the most high-profile recruits in the Northeast to Chestnut Hill. Instead, BC proved incredibly creative under Tom Davis and Gary Williams at finding great players in less-familiar places. The Eagles got a number of fine players out of the Mid-Atlantic states but BC’s success in the first half of the 1980s is due in large part to the pipeline that the school’s top recruiter, Kevin Mackey, built into Connecticut. Mackey convinced four future NBA players, none of whom was prized by the other Big East programs, to sign on at BC in the late 1970s and early 1980s. BC’s “Connecticut Connection” served as the architecture for the school’s two Big East regular season titles and four trips to the Sweet Sixteen in five years.
Boston Ball is set firmly in its namesake city but also in a very different time. This was Boston before the renaissance that remade the city into a destination for young people and immigrants from around the world. This was a post-industrial city, a shrinking city that was simultaneously showing its wear and scarred by urban renewal. Before its hospitals, tech sector, universities, home renovators, and endless construction projects became the primary drivers of an economic boom, Boston was much more a city of discrete spaces, its colleges being one such enclave. For African American players considering a Boston-area school in the 1980s, the strife and violence of just a few years earlier during the city’s bussing crisis was not something of the past. Even after the most obvious signs of conflict dispersed, Boston remained a place that seemed to run along several parallel tracks.
This sense of cultural divergence was certainly evident at the universities featured in this book. African American players that chose to play and study at BC, BU, or Northeastern found themselves on predominately white campuses on which they were a highly-visible minority. For the sports teams that represented these universities, an inability to transcend their institutions played no small role in their limited bases of support. Boston’s big-league teams were among the traditional cultural ties that bound people in the region together. Practically everyone I interviewed for this book used the exact phrase “Boston is a pro sports town” to describe the place of college sports in “America’s College Town.” To be more precise, Boston is more a town with colleges than a conventional college town, where one institution is the social and economic focal point. No one university in Boston cultivates the kind of municipal unity one finds in Ann Arbor, Michigan or Madison, Wisconsin or Athens, Georgia.
Of the three, Boston College drew by far the largest and most consistent crowds to their basketball games, as their bandbox gym, the Roberts Center, was one of the most raucous venues in the Big East. Outside of the school’s students and alumni, few others showed much interest in Eagles basketball. BC was a highly selective Jesuit institution nestled in Chestnut Hill. In many ways, BC felt more like its own orbit than a city school. In the case of archrivals Northeastern and BU, these were both historically large, private commuter schools that drew students from the surrounding towns and neighborhoods. It was much harder for these commuter schools built along Huntington Avenue (Northeastern) and Commonwealth Avenue (BU) to develop large fanbases than residential schools with a more permanent sense of campus life. As both institutions evolved into more selective and residential universities, they continued to struggle with cultivating strong identifications with their sports teams. Neither BU or Northeastern’s teams benefitted from the affinities that come from representing a specific state, city, or religious group. All three schools had historically strong hockey programs but, in each instance, they culled their support largely from alumni bases that had backed these teams for decades. Their fanbases were steady and rarely spectacular outside of the two weeks of Beanpot Hockey each year at the Boston Garden.
Boston Ball is also the story of a sport in transition. The adoption of the shot clock and the three-pointer happened gradually and then all-of-a-sudden during the 1980s, forcing players and coaches to adapt quickly to the changing circumstances. The NCAA Tournament, too, changed significantly in this era. When Jim Calhoun took over at Northeastern in 1972, the NCAA Tournament had a 25-team field. The National Invitational Tournament (NIT) remained highly prestigious in the early 1970s and selected a 16-team field. The size of the NCAA Tournament field grew considerably during the 1970s and 1980s before arriving in 1985 at the 64-team bracket that still forms the core of the selection process. At the same time, the NIT declined considerably in prestige, even in its traditional bastion of support, the northeastern United States.
The creation of the modern system of conferences in eastern college basketball also figures prominently in this story. The amorphous Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) imploded in 1979 with the formation of the Big East Conference, which coalesced around many of the ECAC’s best basketball schools. BC earned a spot in the Big East after historic basketball power Holy Cross demurred. BU and Northeastern found themselves in a free-for-all as the remaining ECAC schools looked to form their own permanent leagues that retained the ECAC’s automatic tournament bids. Both Boston schools ended up in the marriage of convenience known originally as the ECAC North before the league changed its name to the North Atlantic Conference (now known as America East). Instability reigned in the new league as membership and the configuration of the conference’s playoffs changed frequently throughout the decade.
Most significantly, this is a story of teams—of the camaraderie, conflict, triumphs, disappointments, and, sadly, tragedies that the young men who spent the early years of their adulthoods playing and studying experienced at these three fine universities. The backbone of this book is the more than 90 interviews I conducted with former players, coaches, team managers, journalists, and administrators from college athletic departments. I spoke with two of the three subjects of this book, Jim Calhoun and Gary Williams, both of whom were generous with their time and their recollections. I spoke with dozens of people associated with Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College basketball during this era as well as many coaches, players, and administrators from opposing schools in the Big East and ECAC North. Collectively, their recollections provide tone and texture to this account of events often 40 years old. More importantly, they offer a glimpse into the relationships that make up a team, the preparations they made to compete at the highest level, and the experience of playing highly competitive college basketball.
 Pete Axthelm, The City Game (New York: Buccaneer Books, 1970); Matthew Goodman, The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team (New York: Ballantine Books, 2019).
 Rick Pitino with Seth Kaufman, Pitino: My Story (New York: Diversion Books, 2018).
 Gary Williams and David Vise, Sweet Redemption: How Gary Williams and Maryland Beat Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship (New York: Sport Publishing, 2002).
 Jim Calhoun and Leigh Montville, Dare to Dream: Connecticut Basketball’s Remarkable March to the National Championship. (New York: Broadway Books, 1999).
From Boston Ball: Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams, and the Forgotten Cradle of Basketball Coaches by Clayton Trutor. Used by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. November 2023 by the University of Nebraska Press.
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Human beings are a "carbon-based” life form. As we go about our lives, our supply of carbon diminishes and needs replacing. Carbon is, therefore, an essential component of the human diet. Luckily, the foods we consume make carbon readily avaiable to us. Fruits, vegetables, grains, and meats all contain abundant stores of carbon.
Foods Containing Carbon. Whether you bite into an apple, steak or dish of ice cream, you’re sure to get plenty of one type of element: carbon. Because carbon is present in all known forms of life, every food we eat contains carbon. Carbon is unique in its ability to form large, diverse molecules because of the way it forms electronic bonds with other atoms.
All foods contain carbon. Only water does not. During metabolism, your body breaks the bonds between carbon molecules, releasing energy your cells can use. Some examples of foods that contain both the minerals chromium and phosphorus as well as the amino acid tryptophan include turkey sausage and whole-grain breads.
5 Foods with Huge Carbon Footprints. In 2011, CleanMetrics Corp., a Portland, Oregon-based environmental firm, published a report called “The Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change & Health.” Based on that report, these foods are the most ‘environmentally impactful’ based on their greenhouse gas emissions.
The first step in counting carbs is figuring out which foods contain them. But that can be challenging. “Some people don’t realize that milk has carbohydrate in it. They think it’s a protein food,” says Alison Evert, MS, RD, CDE, coordinator of diabetes education programs at the University ...
All foods contain carbon. Carbon is the basic building block of life as we know it. There is a reason that anything with carbon is a part of organic and anything without it is called inorganic.
Carbon in Our Daily Lives: We all encounter carbon throughout our daily lives. Your body contains carbon. The air you breathe contains carbon dioxide. The food you eat contains carbon. The clothes you wear contain carbon. Through our use of the carbon-containing materials we move carbon from one place to another more quickly than would ...
The chemical structure for glucose, the simple sugar your cells use to metabolize energy, has six atoms of carbon, 12 atoms of hydrogen and six atoms of oxygen. The types of sugars in foods include fructose, also called fruit sugar; lactose, also called milk sugar; and sucrose, a disaccharide that contains glucose and fructose.
9. Food’s Carbon Footprint: Grow your own food. A great way to save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint is to grow your own fruit and vegetables. If you have a garden or backyard, then it is a fun way to make sure your family has access to affordable, healthy, pesticide-free food.
well there are tons of molecules in food that dont contain carbon, but since food is supposed to give you energy in form of carbohydrates and fat [EDIT: and protein], containing carbon, every food contains carbon. if youre taking mineral supplements that obviously doesnt contain carbon though.

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Oregon Symphony Conductor Bio
Principal Pops Conductor
Grammy Award winner Jeff Tyzik has earned a reputation as one of America's foremost pops conductors and is recognized for his brilliant arrangements, original programming and rapport with audiences. Now in his 18th season as principal pops conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, Tyzik is also in his fifth season as the Oregon Symphony’s principal pops conductor and continues to serve in the same role with Canada’s Vancouver Symphony.
Highly sought after as a guest conductor, Tyzik’s recent guest appearances include the Boston Pops and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He has also appeared with the Cincinnati Pops, the New York Pops, the orchestras of Dallas, Detroit and Milwaukee, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Tyzik made his United Kingdom debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in June 2010.
A native of Hyde Park, NY, Tyzik began his life in music at age 9, playing the cornet. He studied both classical and jazz throughout high school and went on to earn both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied composition/arranging with Radio City Music Hall’s Ray Wright and jazz studies with the great band leader Chuck Mangione.
An accomplished composer and arranger, Tyzik has written more than 160 works for orchestra, including a trombone concerto commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Carnegie Hall. His newest commission, a timpani concerto, was premiered by the Rochester Philharmonic in January 2010.
His compositions and arrangements have been recorded by the London Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, Doc Severinsen and the Royal Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Summit Brass and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Tyzik has produced a Grammy Award-winning album, The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, Vol. 1.
In May 2007, Harmonia Mundi released his recording conducting works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the Rochester Philharmonic, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard classical chart. He has also produced and composed theme music for many of the major television networks and released six of his own albums.
Tyzik lives in Rochester with his wife, Jill. More information online: jefftyzik.com.


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Local and provincial officials in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province are criticizing a new flurry of US airstrikes in the area, nominally aimed at targeting what officials are describing as “heroin factories,” as both needlessly dangerous to civilians in the area, and a sign of misplaced priorities.
Helmand Province is largely farmland, and that farmland in great measure grows opium poppies, which is why the Taliban has made control of the region such a priority. US officials are suggesting that destroying the labs will hurt Taliban money-making out of the region.
Yet the Taliban are deny in that the labs exist at all, saying they don’t manufacture heroin in any of their territory. The allegations of such labs are very recent as well, meaning Helmand was a lucrative farming and smuggling region long before these buildings existed, and doubtless will remain so long after they were blown up.
The most recent reports out of Helmand suggest either nine or ten buildings were destroyed, and 44 people were killed. All of the slain were labeled “alleged drug smugglers,” which also raises questions about whether killing suspected smugglers wholesale with airstrikes is an appropriate thing for the Pentagon to be doing 16+ years into the failing Afghan War.
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Capabilities: Leia is a beautiful all black Female German Shepherd imported from the Czech Republic. She’s very playful and outgoing, great with other dogs, and amazing with children. Leia is very eager to please and loves to go everywhere with her family. Even at a young age , she has amazing potential to learn and perform many tasks for her owners and assist in making life enjoyable!

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SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. — This spring, Penn State Schuylkill became the second Penn State campus to receive arboretum accreditation from the Interactive Community of Arboreta (ArbNet), the only international accreditation program for arboreta. Schuylkill earned the first step of accreditation, which is a Level I, while the arboretum at University Park holds the more advanced Level II accreditation.
Mary Ann Smith, lecturer of biology at Penn State Schuylkill, began working on plans for the arboretum and its accreditation three years ago.
“I saw the opportunity to have our campus be a unique place where tree and plant biodiversity could be showcased,” Smith said.
Years of work and external support
To become a Level I accredited arboretum, Penn State Schuylkill needed to develop an arboretum plan, establish an organizational or governance group, secure volunteer support from the public, host at least one publicly accessible event per year, and — most importantly — be home to at least 25 species of woody plants.
After receiving a grant from the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society in 2021, Smith and the campus’ Schuylkill Sustainability organization planted native plant species in the campus community garden, which was certified as a pollinator-friendly garden several years ago. This has helped both native plant populations and pollinators thrive and allowed the campus to cement its application for accreditation, according to Smith. Today, the mission of the arboretum is to provide a place for education, research, recreation and beauty for the campus and its surrounding communities.
“Working with our community members, students, faculty and staff, and the Schuylkill County Conservancy has made all the difference in getting the arboretum where it’s meant to be,” Smith said. “Receiving the accreditation at the end of April, which is Earth Month, was a treasure. We’re grateful to have the opportunity to keep growing our arboretum and track the trees for research purposes, while providing a place of beauty and education for the community.”
The arboretum as a backdrop for Arbor Day celebrations
In April, Penn State Schuylkill celebrated Arbor Day with a tree planting ceremony dedicated to the memory of Ben Vaupel, former Pennsylvania Forest Steward and president of the Schuylkill County Conservancy. Vaupel, a passionate conservationist and community leader, gave a gift to the campus in support of STEM programming for Nativity BVM High School students in Pottsville.
At the ceremony, Vaupel’s family, the Schuylkill County Conservancy and volunteers from Penn State Schuylkill planted a Kentucky coffeetree on campus, between University Drive and the Administration Building. The coffeetree was donated by the conservancy and is officially the 400th recorded tree on Penn State Schuylkill’s campus.
Looking ahead for the arboretum
Currently, Penn State Schuylkill’s arboretum is home to 42 species of trees and woody plants that are overseen by the Schuylkill Sustainability organization’s arboretum committee. Smith, the faculty chair of the committee, said she is excited for the future of the arboretum at Penn State Schuylkill. With the help of students, staff and faculty on campus, Smith said she is hopeful the arboretum will continue to grow over time, benefitting the campus’s ability to conduct biological and environmental research and inspire the next generation to take charge of the future.
For more information on Penn State Schuylkill’s arboretum, visit the arboretum page.


text: When they arrived in Sulejow it was very crowded as many people from Piotrkow had traveled to Sulejow. Many families were greeting each other, and spirits were up for everyone was with someone. However, very short after Sidney began to hear the noise of planes when out of nowhere the German Luftwaffe bombed Sulejow too. People, cats, dogs, horses, and pigs were all on fire from the bombing. Sidney just stood there standing in shock and looking at the sky as German Pilots shot at civilians with their airplane machine guns. He could faintly hear his mother telling him to get down when she eventually tackled him down on top of him to protect him. During this time, Frania, Sidney’s sister, was crying during the bombing and Sidney’s mother ran towards her to comfort her during the bombing while leaving Sidney alone while the bombing occurred. Once the bombing stopped, Sidney stood up with anger asking why his mother abandoned him like that and was questioning whether or not his mother loved him. He did not care about the dead bodies and destruction around him, as he was angry that his mother abandoned him during the chaos. Suddenly Sidney heard his name being called in the distance by his father. He hugged him and took him to the nearby forest where he found his family. They were told that thousands of people died from the bombing and that it was a massacre. They stayed in the forest for three days to make sure it was all safe and soon traveled back to Sulejow. Once arriving back, Sidney’s father asked around to see if anyone had seen his wife and daughter. One person said that they had seen Sidney’s mother and sister, Frania, get on a horse drawn wagon to try to make their way North to the Russian side of Poland to escape the Germans. Sidney did not care where they were since they had abandoned him during the bombing and then abandoned him once again. Sidney and his family were soon able to ride back to Piotrkow on a horse drawn wagon. After they arrived, the Nazi administrator announced that Jews in Piotrkow could live only in a designated area known as the ghetto. All of the family’s possessions were confiscated, and the children were not allowed to attend school. That was just the beginning of the atrocities Sidney would experience as a child.

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Much more than 10 years after Arizona voters turned down an attempt because of the payday financing discipline in order to make long lasting a rule letting high-interest money, town road are full of garish marks claiming fast dollars without credit assessments demanded.
Lending market persuades Senate board to progress charges enabling high-interest finance
Practically 10 years after Arizona voters banned “payday financial products,” the financing industry is hoping to get its toes during the doorway with an all new model of high-interest market money.
Halt triple-digit interest rates permanently
Last 2008, Arizonans chosen 2:1 to quit payday credit throughout our condition. From the time the pay day lender’s loss during the ballot-box, a keeps highly lobbied to reinstate triple-digit finance interest rates.
Recommended restrictions on cash loans bring razor-sharp reactions from both edges
National representatives revealed newer rules on payday loan providers saturday that aim to assist low income individuals stay away from the payday advance loans in Tucson AZ “debt snares” of readily available, high-interest debts that experts state prey on minority towns.
No one desires flex finance except out-of-state loan providers
Associate J.D. Mesnard is actually completely wrong. Arizonans do not want payday creditors’ “flex lending products.”


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Supporters say design-build, a streamlined process that allows a single firm to design and manage construction for the $1.9 billion project, would save taxpayers $113 million and two years of construction.
But the city project to rebuild the triple cantilever portion in Brooklyn Heights can only be authorized by the state. If the authorization is not included in the state budget, due April 1, repairs would go beyond 2026, and 16,000 trucks would be forced onto local roads, officials warned.
“This project won’t be easy, but authorizing design-build is the first step to minimizing its impact,” said State Senator Brian Kavanagh, one of the legislators pushing for design-build. “Not authorizing design-build just doesn’t make sense. We’ll do everything we can to get this done by the end of the month.”
Earlier this month, Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated support for authorizing design-build for the rehab project. To ensure other state lawmakers are on board, neighborhood groups from Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Gowanus and Park Slope all went up to Albany to advocate for the fast-track option.
Peter Bray, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, said he was “heartened” to hear that Cuomo supports the authorization. Without design-build, he said, local streets will become more congested and neighborhoods would be harmed.
“The added congestion will imperil the health and safety of Brooklynites, and harm every business in the state and region that depends on the BQE for deliveries,” he said.


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Australian police say they have foiled a terror attack planned for Melbourne on Christmas Day.
Five men are in custody after early-morning raids on Friday, Victoria Police chief Graham Ashton said.
Mr Ashton said the threat involved “use of explosives” and other weapons including “knives or a firearm”.
The threat was to prominent city locations including Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul’s Cathedral, he said.
Mr Ashton said there was no longer a threat to the public.
“We don’t have any threat over and above that threat that we’ve currently neutralised,” he said at a press conference.
Four of the suspects were Australian-born men in their 20s of a Lebanese background, while the fifth was an Australian of Egyptian origin, Mr Ashton said.
He claimed they were “self-radicalised” but inspired by propaganda of the so-called Islamic State.
Another man and a woman were arrested in the raids, but later released without charge.
Mr Ashton said the raids on five locations in Melbourne’s north and west came after weeks of police surveillance.
“We believe that there was an intention to conduct what we call a multi-mode attack, possibly on Christmas Day,” he said.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said police had disrupted a substantial terror plot.
“They want to frighten Australians, they want to divide Australians, they want us to turn on each other,” he said.
“But we will not let them.”
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the alleged plans “were not acts of faith”.
“They were in their planning, acts of evil,” he said.
Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul’s Cathedral occupy three corners of what is arguably Melbourne’s most iconic intersection.
The area is only a short distance from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where up to 100,000 people are expected to attend the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan.
Mr Ashton said police would increase their presence at the MCG and other locations around Melbourne.
“I do stress that there’s no information at this time suggesting a threat to any of those events,” he said. “However, we are taking extra precautions.”
The operation included 400 officers from Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was also involved.
Mr Andrews assured the public that police would remain vigilant.
“Victorians should go about their business at this very special time of the year,” he said.


A total solar eclipse occurs when Earth passes through the shadow cast by the Moon which either partially or fully blocks the Sun. The latter will occur tomorrow in parts of Chile and Argentina when skywatchers will be treated to complete darkness for just a few minutes. Brian Cox revealed during his series: “Wonders of the Solar System, why this event is so special.
During the filming of the 2010 BBC series, the English physicist was witness to India’s total solar eclipse a year earlier during a visit to Varanasi.
He said: “This is the one place in the Ganges River that you can bathe in the river and see the sunrise.
“It’s the only place where the Ganges turns around to the north.
“When the Sun rises tomorrow a truly extraordinary phenomenon all take place – a total eclipse of the Sun.
Brian Cox revealed why a total solar eclipse is so special
When the Sun rises tomorrow a truly extraordinary phenomenon all take place – a total eclipse of the Sun
“It’s an auspicious occasion for a place that ancient Hindus knew as the Solar City.”
He went on to explain how scientists are able to predict future Solar eclipse and when the longest one will occur in the future.
He added: “Science is different to all the other systems of God and the belief systems in this city, because you don’t need faith in it, you can check that it works.
“So for example, I can tell you that tomorrow morning at precisely 6:24 am, the Moon will cover the face of the Sun and there will be a total solar eclipse.
“I can tell you that in 2904 there will be five solar eclipses on the Earth and I could tell you on July 1, 2186, there will be the longest solar eclipse for 5,000 years – seven minutes.”
Total eclipses are rare because the timing of the Moon within the eclipse season needs to be more exact for an alignment between the observer on Earth and the centre of both the Sun and the Moon.
In addition, the elliptical orbit of the Moon often takes it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun entirely.
The revelation comes after Dr Cox revealed Saturn’s moon could be hiding alien life during his new documentary “The Planets”.
In 2005, NASA’s Cassini probe came within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus, discovering water-rich plumes venting from the south polar region.
Scientists found cryovolcanoes shooting geyser-like jets of water vapour, molecular hydrogen, other volatiles, and solid material, including sodium chloride crystals and ice particles, into space.
Dr Cox revealed why this find stunned scientists.
He said earlier this month: “Cassini has given us a glimpse beneath the ice of Enceladus and it is genuinely fascinating in a scientific sense because many biologists believe that hydrothermal vents like those are almost certainly present on the floor of Enceladus and they were the cradle for life on Earth.
“All the ingredients are present, there’s hot water in touch with ice and minerals that’s a reactive caldron of chemistry.
“There are reactive gases – methane – and Cassini found molecular hydrogen in the plumes and that was one of the food sources of primitive organisms on Earth.
“So there really is a possibility there is life in orbit around Saturn today.”


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Translated by Jesús Ronquillo / Circuito Frontera
With a subversive language, in this film, the show begins when nothing happens. A scathing critique of the aristocracy of the time.
This is how Luis Buñuel portrays for us the “charm of the bourgeoisie” in Mexican society in the 1960s, where through images and silences, he shows us his vision of confinement, depravity, hysteria, and despair.
The story seems to be about a gathering of aristocrats at a luxurious party, with wine and expensive food; guests dressed in long gowns and fine suits. Suddenly, the household staff begins to leave until only the butler remains. Then, none of those inside the house can leave it, as if they were being prevented by a strange force.
This situation, at first, becomes an opportunity to continue with the feast, however, it turns into a collective hysteria from which it will be difficult for the guests in the mansion, including the hosts, to get out of it.
With surrealistic traces of the period, imported from Europe by the director, but without falling into absurdity.
All trapped, we see Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristáin, Antonio Bravo, Claudio Brook, César del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique García Álvarez, Ofelia Guilmáin, Nadia Haro Oliva, Tito Junco, Xavier Loyá, Xavier Massé, Ofelia Montesco, Patricia Moran, Bertha Moss, Enrique Rambal, among others.
If you haven’t seen it, this is our recommendation of the week for Circuito Cinema. Here we share with you the trailer.


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NEW DESIGN! I've had variations of this design made up in the puppy sized bibs. I decided this was also appropriate for the adults. I know a few "Cookie Thieves" that are older than one year. Pictured bib is made up in the tan terry with navy embroidery and trimmed with a coordinating fabric trim. These colors are suitable for both genders
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If a different size or color is desired, this bib is available for special orders in the "Build Your Own Bib" section of my website.


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The conference lectures will be held at the Gleneagles Hotel in the Perthshire hills of Scotland.
Your Scientific Registration includes 31.25 hours of CME plus Welcome Dinner and final evening Gala Dinner.
The program lectures are applicable to General Radiologists as well as specialties.
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Suitable for use in extreme and hostile conditions, Penny + Giles’ sensors are being specified for a range of applications in the Formula One arena
Success in motor racing – and especially in F1 – depends on tens of thousands of components working together at peak performance under extreme operating conditions. Engines that can rev up to 19,000 rpm means a single piston completes 300 cycles per second. In addition, brake discs have to withstand operating temperatures in excess of 1000°C, and gears can be selected up to 4000 times per race.
Of the 80,000 or so components in a typical F1 car, there are over 100 sensors linked to more than 1km of cable. Of these, position sensors are essential in controlling and monitoring systems that supply information to the team’s race engineers to help trim precious tenths of a second off lap times.
For the 2012 season, Penny + Giles LVDTs, rotary potentiometers and Hall effect rotary and linear sensors are being used by eleven F1 teams representing 22 of the 24 cars.
However, every F1 car presents a different challenge because, in effect, these are prototypes. With the focus on performance, weight and size, sensors have to fit into spaces that are left over. They also need to succeed in a two-hour operational race window, in environments where running temperatures can exceed 130°C, with soaks of over 150°C when cars are stationary in the pits or on the starting grid.
This season, control and feedback applications for Penny + Giles sensors include gearbox sensing for forward/
reverse gear position select and interlock and barrel position; brake sensing including pad wear and master cylinder; engine and pedal sensing including throttle and pedal positioning; power steering spool and rack position, steering angle and front/rear suspension sensing; and hydraulic reservoir position sensing.
Sensors for each application have, however, evolved over the years.
Gearbox sensors: The company was tasked with designing and developing a replacement for a gearbox sensor that was oversized for its application. Because it was running off a 12Vdc supply, the original sensor also had temperature issues, which made it brittle over time. Penny + Giles engineers analysed various materials and re-designed the sensor using an organic polymer thermoplastic with strong mechanical properties at elevated temperatures. This not only reduced the size and weight of the sensor, but also meant it was extremely strong and with a good temperature coefficient.
At the end of that season the team asked for the sensor to be made smaller, lighter and faster, so Penny + Giles developed the sensor to work from a 5Vdc supply. This meant the voltage regulators could be removed, further reducing the size and weight.
Brake positioning/pad wear sensing: With temperatures in excess of 1000°C involved, many teams use Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDTs) which, over the years, have reduced in size. Many teams now use a 6mm diameter LVDT, which is 25% smaller than those being used a couple of years ago. A smaller LVDT means less material is used to mount them, which provides a weight advantage, as well as improvements in dynamic shock and vibration performance.
Master cylinders: Historically, teams have mounted a linear potentiometer on brackets alongside the master cylinder to provide measurement feedback. In recent years Penny + Giles has worked with manufacturers to integrate a magnet into the push/pull rod and have embedded a Hall effect sensor within the body of the master cylinders. This has eliminated the need for brackets, therefore reducing weight and providing a cleaner solution.
Pedal sensing: Many teams have historically used linear potentiometers for pedal sensing applications but these require mounting brackets. A few years ago Penny + Giles engineers developed a two-piece sensor – using the same principle as its NRH style dual-output ‘non-contact’ rotary position sensor – which is now mounted on the pedal’s natural rotary pivot point. This has helped to reduce the space envelope and eliminate signal noise.
Front/rear suspension: Again, the company has seen a shift from potentiometer-based linear sensors to Hall effect rotary sensors that, like the pedal-sensing applications, use natural pivot points on the bell cranks.
Steering angle: The company was tasked with developing a steering angle sensor for one team that had limited space because the sensors would be mounted at the end of the steering column within the nose cone. A miniature Hall effect rotary sensor was developed, which exceeded the team’s expectations regarding space and has proved to be technologically superior to anything used before.
Clutch position: In a recent clutch position application one team had been experiencing problems with cross-talk, wear, temperature instability and electrical noise from its Hall effect sensor supplied by another company. A Penny + Giles LVDT eliminated these problems.
Penny + Giles’ high-performance ratiometric LVDT’s can be supplied in a range of shaft and body configurations to suit clutch, gearbox, engine and brake applications. These benefit from the experience the company has gained in fly-by-wire control systems for flight-critical aerospace applications; using high-integrity coil, screen and connection assemblies, combined with welded and vacuum brazed stainless steel construction.
Furthermore, the company’s rotary potentiometers are race-proven and suited to providing data acquisition systems with clean, robust signals for throttle angle, steering angle and gear select position indication. The use of highly durable rotary potentiometer track technology provides virtually infinite resolution, low electrical noise and high stability, especially under the extremes of temperature, humidity, vibration and shock experienced over a long operating life.
Contactless rotary and linear position sensors, featuring the latest Hall effect ‘System-on-Chip’ technology, have been tested to withstand severe shock and vibration and operating temperatures to +170°C, ensuring survival in the most rugged of motorsport applications.
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Oregon Songbirds Photo Tour
Trip Dates: June 22 - 26, 2020
Deposit: $800 (leaving a $1800 balance due on March 22)
From: Bend, Oregon
Leaders: Matthew Studebaker
Target Group Size: 4 photographers
In the high desert of Oregon, Ponderosa pine forests give way to sagebrush flats and rocky buttes. A special mix of songbirds inhabit the region including Red Crossbill, Pinyon Jay, Western Tanager, and White-headed Woodpecker. We will spend time on the back forest roads to access a verity of habitats as well as visit water features which attract birds during the dry months of summer.
Travel considerations: Fly to Portland, OR
Equipment: I recommend bringing a digital SLR with matching lens. On this workshop, the longer your lens the easier it will be to make outstanding photos. Although sometimes the birds come close enough for something as short as a 400mm, most of the time they feel more comfortable when photographers use something in the 500-800mm range.
Likely Species on the trip. Species in bold will be the easiest/most common -
What to pack
Boots: Hiking boots and comfortable socks.
Sunscreen and a hat
Jacket: You will want a coat for early mornings. When we are in the desert, temperatures will often soar into the upper 90's in the afternoon, so wear layers and be prepared for a variety of temperatures.
Any outer layers of clothing should be neutral colors, not white or very bright colors.
Blind: No need to bring your own. Blinds will be provided for you. I will have basic blind stools as well.
Camera Gear. Bring your longest lens. A landscape lens would be optional as we will travel through some beautiful country.
Cell Phones and Internet: The hotels have wifi, but cell signal drops off in most areas outside town.
Weather and Schedule:
Most days it will be common to wake up with temperatures in the lower 50's. Some afternoons we could easily see the 90's so dress in layers and be prepared for some temperature swings. We will use as much photograph-able light as we can each day, shooting sunrise through 10 am, and 4:00 pm to sunset. The hotel is a good 45 minutes from the primary photography destination. The night is short and mid-day is long so we will want to take an afternoon break at the hotel even though it will require an extra 45 minutes there and back again, for a total of three hours in the car per day or more.
Typical schedule for sunny days:
Breakfast on our own in hotel room
Leave hotel: 4:45 am
Arrive in Deschutes Forest 5:30 am
Photograph until 9:30 or 10 am
Return to hotel 10:45 am
We will probably have only had 5 hours of sleep at night, so most of us will very much wish to get another hour or two in mid-day
Leave hotel 3:30 pm with dinner packed to-go
Arrive in Deschutes Forest 4:15 pm
Photograph until 8:30 pm
Arrive hotel 9:30ish
7 hours for shower, card downloads, call to home, sleep, wake up and get dressed, eat breakfast
Transportation: There will be a lot of driving during this trip in order to gain access to a variety of habitats. If you are interested, ask about riding along with me in a SUV. Even if you do use my vehicle, you will still need to find a way to and from the airport.
Hotel: More information to be provided about where to stay upon signing up for the trip. Hotel costs are not included in the photo tour fee.
Meals: This trip does not take place near civilization so we'll have limited restaurant options, and usually have to pack dinners.
Learning / Slideshows:
The desert sun grows harsh around 9-10am and becomes shootable again around 3pm. This will allow us a liberal afternoon break during which time we will be able to have a sit-down lunch, but because the night is short, we will want to rest during mid-day as well. I'll probably only break out my laptop for post-processing discussion and basic info on the bird species while we wait for our meal to come out.
Many of our shooting locations will be right near the car. The water drips will require a 5 minute walk with minimal elevation change.


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Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios feature unique treats. The Darth Vader Cupcake is extremely popular. You’ll welcome the Dark Side when you bite into this delectable cupcake!
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We’re at it again – challenging you with another Disney World cupcake crawl for 2012! Bring your appetites as we have lots of cupcakes to taste-test on this 2012 cupcake crawl.
Star Wars Weekends are taking place now through June 10th at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Check out the special snacks being served to hungry fans touring the galaxy! Love the R2D2 containers!


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This Vegan and Cauliflower Pumpkin Soup Recipe is made creamy with canned pumpkin and roasted cauliflower florets, then blended into a smooth, pureed soup.
This vegan pumpkin soup recipe is the perfect cozy, one pot soup to make during the colder months and is guaranteed to be your new favorite fall soup during pumpkin season! It’s also freezer-friendly, gluten-free, naturally vegan, and low in fat.
Most creamy pumpkin soup recipes are made with heavy cream or coconut cream (for dairy-free pumpkin soup), but I wanted to make a creamy soup that was lower in fat. And after a few rounds of testing, I’ve created a creamy vegan pumpkin soup recipe that is 100% free of heavy cream! Instead, this vegan pumpkin soup is made thick and velvety with roasted cauliflower florets. It’s so much better for you, yet won’t disappoint.
Why You’ll Love This Easy Vegan Pumpkin Soup Recipe
- It’s made using just one pot. This simple soup is blended smooth directly in the soup pot with an immersion blender.
- Light and low calorie. If you’re looking for a light dinner idea or a simple side to pair alongside Vegan Lentil Meatloaf, this pumpkin soup is perfect! It boasts just 200 calories per serving.
- Allergen friendly. In addition to being vegan, this easy cauliflower and pumpkin soup recipe is also nut-free, soy-free, and gluten-free (no raw cashews, soy milk, or flour for thickening).
Ingredient Notes and Substitutions
- Canned pumpkin puree – I prefer using canned pumpkin puree when making vegan pumpkin soup for one reason: it’s quick and easy. However, I include instructions for making homemade pumpkin puree with a roasted pumpkin in the recipe card below. If using canned pumpkin puree, be sure to buy pure pumpkin pure, not sweet pumpkin pie filling. Or, if your grocery store is out of pumpkin puree, try sweet potato puree or butternut squash puree in its place.
- vegetable broth – I use Better Than Bouillon Vegetable Base mixed with water but you can use any kind of broth, including a homemade vegetable broth made from scratch!
- cauliflower – Cauliflower is the secret to making this pumpkin soup creamy without heavy cream or coconut cream. Fresh or frozen florets will work here. Just make sure not to omit! It’s really key to thickening the pumpkin soup to the right consistency and adds a boost of flavor.
- Yellow onion and garlic – Essential to a flavorful pumpkin soup. Do not skip or reduce the sauté time!
- white wine and balsamic vinegar – Both of these flavors add acidity and brightness to the cauliflower and pumpkin soup! Great to provide depth of flavor.
- pumpkin pie spice – May sound weird to include in a savory soup, but I promise it adds incredible flavor and works to balance the sweet pumpkin and savory onions in the vegan pumpkin soup!
See recipe card for quantities.
How To Make Cauliflower and Pumpkin Soup
- Sauté the onion and garlic. In a large soup pot, heat two tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Once hot, add in the sliced onions and sauté for 5 minutes, or until softened and fragrant. Add in the minced garlic and sauté for another 30 seconds or so, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
- Sauté the cauliflower florets and spices. Next, add in the cauliflower florets, white wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, and pumpkin pie spice. Sauté for an additional 5 minutes, coating the cauliflower well.
- Simmer until fork tender. Add in the pumpkin puree, broth, and water. Stir to combine. Reduce the heat slightly, add the lid, and allow the soup to simmer for 20-25 minutes, or until the cauliflower florets are fork tender.
- Blend until smooth. Turn off the heat, then using an immersion blender, blend the creamy vegan soup until smooth. Alternatively, transfer the soup in small batches to a high-speed blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Be careful with this method and do not overfill the blender/food processor. Heat expands when blending and can cause the lid to pop off from the pressure.
- Thicken, if desired. If you prefer an extra thick and creamy soup, make a cornstarch slurry by whisking the cornstarch and water together until well combined. Add it to the soup, resume the heat over medium-low heat, and stir until thickened to your desired consistency.
- Season and serve. Season the cauliflower and pumpkin soup with salt and black pepper to taste, then serve immediately, garnishing the top of the soup with roasted pumpkin seeds, fresh parsley, a dollop of Vegan Sour Cream, or fresh herbs such as fresh thyme.
Slow Cooker Instructions
If you need a quick and easy vegan soup you can cook hands-free, turn this recipe into a slow cooker soup.
Add all of the ingredients to the slow cooker with the onions on the bottom. Don’t stir so the onions caramelize and glaze on the bottom of the pot during cooking. Cook for 8 hours on low for best results (or 4 hours on high if needed). Stir to combine, then use the immersion blender to blend completely smooth.
Can pumpkin soup be frozen?
Most classic pumpkin soup recipes won’t freeze well because it is typically made with cream (dairy or non dairy) and cream is known to separate in the freezer. Although you can freeze soups with cream (and I even do sometimes!) it can cause separation and affect texture after thawing.
This cauliflower and pumpkin soup, however, is made with no cream and therefore will not cause any separation. I love freezing soups in my Souper Cubes because you can freeze them in ½ cup, 1 cup or 2 cup portions that are convenient to freeze, and allow you to defrost the exact number of portions you want at a time.
My favorite way to freeze individual portions and meals. Use code HOMECOOKEDROOTS10 for 10% off.
Can you make pumpkin soup with fresh pumpkin?
Absolutely! I prefer to make my vegan pumpkin soup with canned pumpkin because it is the most simple and convenient and realistic for weeknight dinner. With that being said, roasting a sugar pie pumpkin to blend into your soup would also be fantastic.
To use fresh pumpkin, substitute the canned pumpkin puree with 4 cups of cubed sugar pie pumpkin. Add the cubed pumpkin in at the same time as you would the cauliflower florets and simmer the cubes in the soup for the 20-25 minutes, then blend with an immersion blender into a DIY pumpkin puree.
For even more ideas, check out this post: What to Serve with Pumpkin Soup (47 Ideas!).
This vegan pumpkin soup recipe will store best in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, and the flavor will continue to develop and deepen over time.
For longer storage, freeze this cauliflower and pumpkin soup for up to 3 months.
Expert Tips and Tricks
- Chop your cauliflower florets into even, bite-sized florets to ensure they finish cooking through at the same time. Also note, the larger your florets, the longer they will take to be easily pierced by a fork.
- Sauté the onions for the full 5 minutes. This is where a lot of the flavor and body in this cauliflower and pumpkin soup is developed. Don’t rush the onions!
- Make this vegan pumpkin soup when you have excess pumpkin and canned pumpkin puree! It freezes very well and is easily doubled or tripled. You won’t be sorry you have it on hand for super quick dinners to dunk bread in!
Vegan Cauliflower and Pumpkin Soup Recipe
- 2 (15 ounce) cans pumpkin puree
- 3 cups vegetable broth - can substitute vegan chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 1 ½ cups cauliflower florets - fresh or frozen
- 1 large yellow onion - sliced
- 2 cloves garlic - minced
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- sea salt and black pepper - to taste
- 2 tablespoons corn starch - can omit for a thinner soup
- In a 5+ qt pot, heat two tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Add in the sliced onions and sauté until softened and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add in the minced garlic and sauté for another 30 seconds or so, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
- Next, add in the cauliflower florets, white wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, and pumpkin pie spice. Sauté for an additional 5 minutes, coating the cauliflower well.
- Add in the pumpkin puree, vegetable broth and water and stir to combine. Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat slightly, add the lid, and allow to simmer for 20-25 minutes, or until cauliflower florets are fork tender.
- Turn off heat and blend your soup until smooth with an immersion blender. Alternatively , carefully transfer soup in batches to a blender and blend until smooth. Be sure to leave ample room in a blender as heat expands.
- Optional: Stir in a corn starch slurry to thicken (Mix 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 4 tablespoons water). If you do not mix the corn starch with water beforehand, it will clump in the soup.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately.
- Allow to cool completely, then store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three days or freeze for up to 3 months.
- Slow cooker method: Simply add all of the ingredients, except for the cornstarch to the slow cooker bowl, with the sliced onions on the bottom. Do not stir – this will allow the onions to caramelize. Cook on low for 8 hours for best flavor, or on high for 4. After cooking, blend until smooth with an immersion blender and then stir in cornstarch slurry, if desired.
- If you want to make this recipe with fresh pumpkin, I recommend substituting the pumpkin puree with 4 cups of cubed sugar pie pumpkin. Add the cubed pumpkin in at the same time as you would the cauliflower florets and simmer the cubes in the soup for the 20-25 minutes.
- You can also substitute the pumpkin with 4 cups butternut squash.
- This soup freezes beautifully! Allow it to cool completely before storing, then store in a freezer safe vessel. To thaw, transfer to the refrigerator for 24-48 hours then simply reheat. Any separation is natural – just stir to combine.
Disclaimer: The Nutritional Information provided for this recipe is only an estimate. The accuracy of the facts listed is not and cannot be guaranteed.
Photography by: Baking-Ginger Studios
This recipe was originally published on October 23, 2020 and has been updated on November 21, 2022 with new photos, step by step instructions, tips, and an improved recipe.


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The Jonas Brothers will join Jason Derulo, Kevin Rudolf, Delta Rae, American Authors on the bill for this November’s “Live In The Vineyard” festival in California.
Earlier, organizers announced Five for Fighting, Gavin DeGraw, James Blunt, Lee DeWyze, Atlas Genius, Andrew Ripp and Christina Perri would play the private fest, which takes place in the Napa Valley from Nov. 1 to 4.
The four-day event is pitched as offering “exclusive access to recording artists, top tier wine makers, and world-renowned chefs,” all hosted in the “lush scenery of boutique wineries.”
Tickets are available only to special guests and through special radio station promotions featured on www.liveinthevineyard.com and exclusive sweepstakes and offerings from LITV’s partnerships with Aloft Hotels, Enterprise, Sutter Home, Southwest Airlines, and VH1.


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I thought hospitals were places where you went to get better. Over the last 10 years, the risk of getting worse has gone up with the increase in cases involving MRSA. I wonder whether such an increase would have been seen had the traditional matron still ruled the wards? Instead, the best we get is a Director of Infection for each hospital, and a raft of statistics and targets.