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10 articles tagged "Patriots"
US Patriots stationed in Saudi Arabia
Two major Mid East escalations: Yemeni rebels fire Scuds at Saudi air base. ISIS warns Syrian rebels
DEBKAfile Special Report June 6, 2015

Riyadh reported Saturday, June 6, that Patriot batteries had intercepted Scud missiles fired by Yemen Houthi rebels at Khamis al-Mushait, the kingdom’s largest air base, from which Saudi jets take off to strike Yemeni rebels. debkafile’s military sources disclose that the Patriots, activated for the first time, were manned by American teams – the first direct US intervention on the Saudi side of the Yemen conflict. Khamenei’s statement on Iranian troops for Syria is awaited. ISIS meanwhile warns Syrian rebels in the south to break off contact with US-Jordanian and Israeli command centers.

The Ababail 2 drone shot down over Golan
Israel downed a drone over Golan after it was identified as a Hizballah Ababil 2
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 31, 2014

debkafile reports exclusively that the UAV an Israeli Patriot battery shot down Sunday Aug. 31 over Quneitra on the Golan was launched by Hizballah – not Syria as reported. The Iran-made Ababail 2 was on a photography and intelligence-gathering mission over the Golan battleground, where the Syrian army and rebels are fighting over the Quneitra crossing. It is estimated that Hizballah was not planning to join the battle, but rather concerned in case the rebels beat back Syrian troops and broke through from northern Golan to Mt. Hermon and southern Lebanon.

Self-propelled SA-17 anti-air interceptor
Tehran presses Assad to send Hizballah sophisticated anti-air interceptors
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 28, 2013

Israeli jets were reported flying over Damascus by foreign sources in the last few hours Sunday (April 28). debkafile: Iran is pushing Bashar Assad hard to let Hizballah have sophisticated weapons, including self-propelled SA-17 interceptor missile systems.

Early Signs of the Chemical Weapons’ Presence in the Syrian Conflict
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 4, 2013

The early emergence of Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities confused the Americans, produces US warnings and Israeli threats. Turkey soon applied to NATO for Patriot missiles.

Assad’s deadly agenda: First, chemicals, next, Iskander 9K720
DEBKAfile Video December 19, 2012

debkafile Exclusive: The Russians have given Bashar Assad his most sophisticated weapon thus far – the Iskander cruise missile which has a hypersonic speed of 1.3 miles per second. The Syrian ruler now has at his disposal a fearsome armory of chemical weapons and a top-line missile.

Patriot missile destined for Turkey
US pulls war fleet from Syrian water. Ahmadinejad cancels Turkey visit
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 16, 2012

Amid another peak wave of violence in Syria, Washington has quietly withdrawn from its waters the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its Strike Group and the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group with 2,000 Marines aboard. Russian vessels have meanwhile unloaded at Tartus a large consignment of arms for Assad’s army. Adding to stresses around Syria, Ahmadinejad cancelled a scheduled trip to Turkey, citing the warning by Iran’s military chief that the deployment of Patriots in Turkey heralded world war.

Syrian chemical weapons
Assad’s chemical weapons units head out of Damascus toward Aleppo
DEBKAfile Special Report December 4, 2012

As NATO in Brussels gave the go-ahead Tuesday night Dec. 4, for the deployment of Patriots to protect Turkey against Syrian missiles, debkafile’s military and intelligence sources reported convoys of the Syrian army’s chemical weapons units heading out of Damascus under cover of dark and turning north up the road to Aleppo. They were ferrying self-propelled cannons and shells armed with poisonous sarin gas. Assad used the heavy winds, cloud and rain to obstruct Western attacks on the convoys.

Patriot anti-missile batteries for Turkey
US-led NATO intervention begins in Syria war. Patriots in Turkey
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 27, 2012

Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Middle East military spotlight swung around from Gaza to Syria with the start of US and NATO intervention. A game changer began unfolding with the site survey begun by a joint Turkish-NATO team for the deployment of Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems manned by American military teams. debkafile: Although billed for “defensive purposes,” the Patriots will in fact impede Syrian air bombardments over all of northern Syria, including the embattled towns of Aleppo and Homs.

Iranian missile speedboat
Iran’s new interceptor, rejoinder to US-Israeli counter for its cruise missiles
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 13, 2012

Iran’s air defense chief Gen. Farzad Esmaili boasted Tuesday, Nov. 12, that the ongoing military exercise was “a strong slap to those countries that threaten [us].” debkafile: Tehran's six-day air defense drill is its answer to the joint US-Israeli maneuver for practicing defenses against an Iranian or Syrian ballistic missile attack on Israel. Patriot anti-missile launches from Palmachim Monday tested US-Israel ability to lock onto Iranian cruise missiles coming from the Mediterranean aboard Iranian military or civilian vessels or Hizballah speedboats.

Anti-missile Patriots posted in N. Israel
Two days after UAV, Patriots posted near Haifa and other parts of N. Israel
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 8, 2012

Two days after an Iranian pilotless helicopter breached Israeli air space, Israel Monday, Oct. 8, rushed into position Patriot missile interceptor batteries in different parts of northern Israel, including Mt. Carmel, near Haifa. debkafile: The IDF has drawn initial lessons from the failure of air defense radar to detect the hostile UAV when it flew down Israel’s coastline from the north over Israel’s most sensitive military and industrial centers. The Patriots are there for more Iranian or Hizballah intrusions and to meet the current deterioration in Syria.

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Spencer Pope is a poultryman who grows 800,000 broilers a year on his farm near Carthage, Miss., but for the past year he’s had another business — generating electricity from an array of 48 175-watt solar panels on the roof of one of his poultry houses.

“I’ve averaged a $250 per month saving on my electric bill,” he told participants in the Mississippi portion of the American Solar Energy Society’s annual Down on the Farm National Solar Tour. “Electricity is a pretty sizable expense for a poultry operation, and this represents a nice cost saving.

He’s so pleased with the economics of the system that he’s planning to install another 180 solar panels, which will then give him 47 kilowatts total power output.

“That’s enough to cover the entire electricity requirements of my six poultry houses,” he says.

Thanks to a government grant through the Rural Energy for America program enacted in the 2008 farm bill and a 30 percent tax credit to encourage renewable energy, Pope shaved about 50 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing the system.

“With depreciation and the TVA power purchase agreement, I expect a four-year payback on the system,” he says. “There aren’t many opportunities like that in business today.”

Will and Carolyn Hegman, whose firm, Mississippi Solar, (www.mssolar.net), sponsored the state’s solar tour, say that while solar power generation is particularly suited to poultry operations — most houses have large expanses of south-facing roof area to mount the panels — there are many potential applications for businesses.

Poultry production is a major enterprise in Leake County and several surrounding counties; a Tyson poultry plant near Carthage processes some 2.5 million birds weekly and has 2,000-plus employees.

“Poultry farming is an energy-intensive business,” says Will. “Solar can really change the life of a poultry farmer.

Could offset 10 percent of state's energy needs

“We did a study showing that if all the estimated 8,000 poultry houses in Mississippi installed solar arrays, that industry alone could offset 10 percent of the state’s electrical use from conventional generating plants.”

In Mississippi, 99 percent of all poultry houses are oriented east-west, which offers large expanses of optimum south-facing roof area on which solar panels could be installed.

In a few areas, where there are trees or other obstacles to the sun, or in cases where the roof may not be structurally strong enough, the panels can be ground-mounted on post supports in order to get maximum sunlight exposure.

The system at the Pope farm cost $80,000 (outside the TVA territory, a system with equivalent production could cost more than twice that much); grants and rebates dropped his outlay to about $41,000. “When you figure depreciation and production into this equation, my payback on the system is 3.8 years,” Pope says.

Beyond the payback period, at today’s rates for the balance of the 25-year warranty period, the system would produce an additional return of $79,960.

None of the electricity generated by the solar panels is directly used in Pope’s poultry operation. Rather, it flows into the power grid and is purchased by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) under its Green Power Switch Generation Partners program, which was started in 2003 to provide incentives to users within its multi-state territory to adopt clean energy systems.

Under the current arrangement, Pope is paid a price about 12 cents per kWh above the rate he is charged for electricity used on his farm.

“The last bill I got, the utility paid me 23 cents per kWh for my solar electricity and I paid them about 10-3/4 cents for the electricity I purchased from them,” he says. “Right now, we’re between flocks and are using only a minimal amount of electricity on the farm, so all the power we’re generating is making money for us.”

Payments guaranteed for 10 years

Payment is issued in the form of a credit on the participant’s monthly power bill by the local power company, which meters both the power use of the business/home and the output of the renewable energy generation system. The customer is guaranteed payments for 10 years from the start of the agreement with the local power company.

All new participants also qualify for an additional $1,000 incentive to help with system start-up costs.

“With the price of electricity continually rising — energy prices have gone through the roof over the past three years, and we’d just been eating those additional costs — we see this as a way to hedge against future increases,” Pope says.

Other assistance with the cost of the system came through

the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), enacted by the 2008 Farm Bill.

REAP offers grants and/or loan guarantees for the purchase and installation of renewable energy generating systems and for energy efficiency improvements. Assistance is limited to small businesses and farmers & ranchers.

Projects must be located in a rural area. REAP grants and guarantees may be used individually or in combination. Together they may finance up to 75 percent of a project's cost. Grants can finance up to 25 percent of project cost, not to exceed $500,000 for renewables and $250,000 for efficiency. There are also REAP grants to help pay for technical assistance on energy projects.

In addition, REAP has several special grant funds that can share part of the cost of energy audits, feasibility studies, and other technical assistance that help farmer, ranchers, and rural small businesses successfully undertake rural energy projects.

Key eligibility criteria include being a rural farm or small business and having projected costs that meet the minimum grant amount of $2,500 (Pope received just under $20,000 for his installation).

The project also took advantage of the 30 percent federal renewable energy tax credit and the solar equipment is depreciated as farm equipment, using the modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS) in the IRS tax code.

Major hailstorm didn't damage panels

How sturdy/ weather-resistant are the solar panels in terms of damage by strong winds and/or hail?

“Three months ago, we had the worst hailstorm anyone here could ever remember,” Pope says. “It was unbelievable — three-inch chunks of ice falling from the sky. There was absolutely no damage to the panels. They’re designed for a 90 mph wind load, and as firmly as they’re anchored, a windstorm would pretty much have to demolish the poultry house in order to dislodge the panels.”

Today’s panels have excellent longevity — even after a quarter-century of exposure to the elements, they’re expected to continue producing at 80 percent of rated efficiency, Pope says

He can monitor, from any computer or smart phone, the operation of each solar panel in real time — how much power the panel is producing, if there are any issues with the panel or inverter, how much power the panel has produced for the year, and other key information.

He pulls up the grid for his panels on his smart phone and says with a smile, “We’ve had a really good year thus far.”

(You can see for yourself the operation of his solar array at www.schoolsonsolar.com; click on “Energy Production,” then “Poultry Farm.” You can also see similar displays for the Northwest Rankin School and the Hegman solar carport.)

Pope, who grew up on the poultry farm operated by his father, earned a degree in landscape architecture at Mississippi State University, and came back to the farm in 1997.

“I’m the fifth generation on this place,” he says. “It’s important to me to make this work and to do everything I can to carry on the business that I took over from my father.”

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Swanstrom Disc Cutter

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I heed and hawed around before purchasing my set.  They are not cheap.  But the time I have saved with these quality cutters is worth every penny I spent.  This was an investment well-worth making!  As my Dad always said, you get what you pay for.

Now I am the proud owner of three sets; the circular, the square and the oval set.  I hope to add additional shape sets in the future.  When using your disc cutter, make sure you have a urethane pad underneath the set to absorb the blow from the 2 pound brass-head mallet you will be using to hit the cutters.  This will protect the cutters and work surface resulting in a sharp, crisp cut every time.

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Jobs Dwindle During Green Power Debate

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DENVER (AP) – An eerie quiet has settled over the Walker Components plant, which assembles custom cables for a global wind turbine company. Orders are down from earlier in the year and one-third of its employees have been laid off this year.

“At the beginning of this year we just didn’t feel we had enough time, and now we’ve got too much time on our hands,” said one of its workers, 25-year-old Calvin Huddleston. “I really thought wind would be a sustainable business.”

The wind energy boom President Barack Obama touted as key to his energy strategy has hit a wall in an election-year dispute over taxpayer support for renewable energy.

The government poured billions of dollars into renewable energy, hoping to unleash a wave of good-paying, high-tech manufacturing jobs. But federal spending to support development of green energy has dropped sharply- 75 percent since 2009 – amid tea party criticism that it’s wasteful. Congress’ failure to extend past December the production tax credit, a wind-energy tax break first signed into law by Republican President George H.W. Bush, has contributed to job cutbacks from South Carolina to Washington state.

“The green bubble is starting to fall apart,” said Tom Borelli, a fellow at the tea party group FreedomWorks. “How much longer can we fund things that are not cost-competitive?”

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Obama prominently collided during the campaign over the fate of the tax credit. Romney has called for its expiration, while Obama supports its renewal. The credit stalled in Congress this summer in the face of opposition from House Republicans, and the last chance to extend it comes in December’s lame-duck session. Amid the gridlock, Vestas, the Danish company that Walker Components supplies, closed offices and laid off hundreds of U.S. workers. Wind businesses from South Carolina to Washington state also have cut jobs.

Even some Republicans who supported extending the credit, including three of Colorado’s four GOP congressmen, were surprised at Romney’s opposition. He argues it gave the industry an unfair advantage over its oil and gas competitors.

“In one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world,” Romney told Obama at the first presidential debate in Denver.

“Now, I like green energy as well, but that’s about 50 years’ worth of what oil and gas receives.”

The Energy Department recently found that the natural gas and petroleum industries altogether accounted for about $2.8 billion in federal energy subsidies in the 2010 fiscal year and about $14.7 billion went to renewable energies. The figures include both direct expenditures and tax credits.

Environmentalists argue that fossil-fuel industries have been publicly supported since a young federal government levied a tariff on coal imports in the late 18th century.

“Every form of energy has incentives. We’re up against 90 years of incentives for other forms of energy,” said Peter Kelley, a spokesman for the American Wind Energy Association. “Plenty of people consider tax credits a good, Republican way of fostering business.”

Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said the oil industry benefits from billions of dollars in hidden subsidies, like American troops’ presence near the Middle East. “We’re underinvesting in renewable, 21st century alternative energy, especially in comparison to the Europeans, the Chinese, even the Brazilians,” Udall said.

By next year, federal spending on renewable energy will have dropped 75 percent from its 2009 high of $44.3 billion. Part of the shrinkage comes from stimulus programs ending. But part also comes from Congress not wanting to pour more funds into renewables.

“We’re entering a brave new world here, a definite lessening of support from Washington,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “There’s a substantial fiscal problem, which is real, and the need to restrain domestic budgets.”

The turn has spooked the wind industry, which expanded even during the Great Recession. A study for the wind energy association estimated that expiration of the industry’s production tax credit would cost 37,000 jobs. And in the past few months, wind manufacturers and developers began cutting back.

Kaydon Corp. announced in October it was closing one of three plants in Sumter, S.C., that makes bearings for wind turbines. LM Wind Power said it was laying off 300 workers at its plant in Grand Forks, N.D., and days later announced it was creating up to 300 jobs at a new factory in Brazil. Katana Summit, a Columbus, Neb., based wind tower manufacturer, said it would close plants in Nebraska and Washington state, laying off nearly 300 workers.

In Colorado, Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, has reduced staff by 20 percent, or about 500 people. On Wednesday, Vestas announced it also was closing a research office near Boulder.

That’s hurt Walker Components. Company president Craig Walker invested more than $4 million in the cable assembly plant after Vestas moved to Colorado in 2009 and enlisted his company as a supplier. Now Walker is moving some workers to other plants he owns to avoid cutting more jobs.

“This is not a Solyndra,” Walker said, referring to the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer that received $528 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration. “This is a company that was up and functioning and making money.”

Huddleston, who worked his way up from the assembly line to production manager, is an undecided voter.

“It’s been very hard for me to decide,” he said. But, he added, he may “lean Obama, just for the green side.”

– By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press

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Holmes Lawyers Again Challenge Death Penalty

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DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for theater shooting suspect James Holmes launched another legal assault on Colorado’s death penalty laws Friday, arguing they don’t set clear standards and that they make it too hard for jurors to weigh mitigating factors.

They also complained that Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos A. Samour is ruling on defense motions too quickly and asked him to allow them to argue their points “fully and fairly.”

Holmes is accused of opening fire in a theater full of people watching a Batman movie in suburban Denver in July 2012, killing 12 and wounding 70. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple charges of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

In two motions totaling 32 pages of arguments, defense lawyers argued the death penalty law is unconstitutional and asked Samour to rule out execution for Holmes.

In addition to questioning the standards of the laws, the defense said the statutes allow fewer options for defendants to appeal the death penalty if they choose trial by jury than if they choose trial before a judge, without a jury.

If the judge were to agree, Holmes would face life in prison without possibility of parole if convicted, or an indefinite commitment to the state mental hospital if found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Prosecutors are sure to file strenuous arguments that the laws are constitutional. Samour’s decision is likely weeks away.

Samour rejected the defense’s previous attack on the death penalty law in May. Before Holmes entered his insanity plea, his lawyers argued the death penalty law could unfairly cripple their ability to mount an insanity defense.

With Holmes’ life literally at risk, his lawyers are pursuing multiple lines of defense as well as questioning some of Samour’s actions, to the judge’s obvious displeasure.

Samour has kept the case moving at a steady if not brisk pace, and one defense motion released Friday told Samour he has ruled too quickly on some defense motions — without a hearing, before prosecutors responded and without allowing the defense to reply to prosecution arguments.

The defense asked Samour to “refrain from issuing premature rulings.” Samour hasn’t ruled on the motion.

Earlier Friday, Samour denied a defense motion seeking the mental health records of prosecution witnesses, bluntly dismissing it as a “fishing expedition.”

Samour said Holmes’ lawyers don’t know whether any of the witnesses have received mental health treatment, whether any records of the treatments exist and whether the records are relevant to the trial.

“In other words, the defendant wants the court to approve a fishing expedition,” Samour wrote. “The court declines the invitation to do so.”

He also said Holmes’ lawyers have fought the release of Holmes’ own records on the grounds of psychiatrist-patient privilege.

Samour denied 12 defense motions that sought a raft of records, including tapes of police communications on the day of the shootings, all statements that victims and witnesses made to police and all prosecution records of communications with victims.

Samour granted a defense request for information on the credibility of prosecution witnesses, noting prosecutors didn’t submit any arguments opposing that motion.

Samour also granted a prosecution motion asking to inspect reports or statements that defense experts have made and ordering the defense to disclose the facts supporting defense experts’ opinions.

– By Dan Elliott, AP Writer

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About CCAR

The University of Washington Center for Clear Air Research (UW CCAR) is focused on the cardiovascular health effects of near-roadway pollution, a complex mixture of components that come from vehicle emissions and the road surface, and vary by physical aging, atmospheric conditions, and photochemical reactions. UW CCAR is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (RD-83479601).

This exposure scenario is not only known to be of considerable health importance, it also serves as a prototypical case for developing research approaches to dealing with multipollutant exposure-effect relationships. Near-roadway pollution is a complex mixture of particle, vapor and gas phase components that vary by vehicle emission source, road surface, extent of physical aging and the type and degree of atmospheric processing and photochemical reactions. Improvements in our understanding of near-roadway exposure effects from taking a more realistic and sophisticated multi-pollutant perspective would be expected to translate into more effective air pollution policies to reduce the public health burden of these exposures.

Our immediate aim in this Center is to integrate exposure, epidemiological, toxicological, clinical, and statistical sciences (a five-pronged approach) to both examine the cardiovascular effects of fresh and aged roadway emissions and, simultaneously, to advance our understanding of the components and reaction products that cause the effects. The general notion underlying our approach is that exposure, especially long-term exposure, to specific but as yet poorly characterized traffic-derived primary (fresh) and/or secondary (aged) organic particles and gases (and mixtures of these) cause or hasten development of cardiovascular disease. We maintain that this can be rigorously tested and putative causal components can be identified using an interlinked, multidisciplinary investigational strategy and applying statistical methods aimed specifically at the multipollutant problem.

Our approach builds on insights gained from our work to date that: 1) fresh, whole vehicular emissions can drive the oxidation of lipids and inflammation in atherosclerotic regions, an effect that is dependent on both particulate and gaseous components of the emissions; 2) the combination of fresh gasoline engine emissions, which are relatively low in PM mass and high in volatile organic compounds, and the higher PM-containing diesel engine emissions lead to synergistic increases in vascular lipid peroxidation; 3) acute exposure to diesel exhaust increases vascular tone; and 4) long-term traffic exposure has important effects on cardiovascular health as reflected in cardiac structure and function, specifically left ventricular mass, and on microvascular disease, as reflected by retinal artery narrowing. These experimental and observational findings enable us to focus our biological hypotheses and choice of endpoints to take the next significant step forward in understanding this multi-pollutant conundrum and providing information useful in directing actions to mitigate the health burden associated with proximity to busy roadways. While obtaining a complete understanding of the near-roadway exposure cardiovascular disease relationship and identification of all causal pollutant species and their combinations is overly ambitious at this point, we have high confidence that the work we propose is an absolutely necessary and timely step toward that end.

Our Center is designed to address at least three of the six of research questions posed in the RFA [(i) pollutant health effects in a multi-pollutant context; (ii) biological mechanisms underlying health effects; (iii) exposure-response relationships] and has relevance for another two [(iv) susceptible subpopulations; and (v) origin, transportation and transformation of multi-pollutant constituents]. The goals, objectives and approaches to be used in this Center are described below.

The ultimate goal of the UW CCAR is to understand the physical and chemical features of exposures to near-roadway mixtures, including their interactions and concentration response relationship, that cause or exacerbate cardiovascular health effects.

Objectives and Approach

The University of Washington team, with its expertise in exposure assessment and estimation in clinical exposure studies, toxicology and air pollution epidemiology including major field studies, and in biostatistical methods development and application, is joining with the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) and University of New Mexico team, with its well-developed and unique expertise in development and characterization of laboratory-generated exposure atmospheres and in toxicology, and with the Washington State University (WSU) team with its unique pollutant monitoring capabilities, to tackle the challenging problems entailed in taking a multi-pollutant approach to investigating air pollution health effects. The proposed research applies a highly-integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to the common theme of near-roadway exposures and cardiovascular health effects. While a multidisciplinary approach to air pollution health effects research is not original, our application of the highly interlinked five-pronged approach we propose is unique and is likely to make substantial progress in the use of a multi-pollutant approach to improving understanding of air pollution health effects.

The Center we propose is clearly an interdisciplinary enterprise, although the discipline oriented divisions (projects and cores) are somewhat arbitrarily defined because of the strongly interwoven nature of all of the projects. The use of a human clinical study in the experimental setting to extend and validate our exposure atmosphere-related toxicological findings is particularly noteworthy, but that is only one example. Health endpoints center on common themes across the animal and human experiments and the laboratory and population studies. The field characterization component informs the evolution of experimental exposure atmospheres. The Biostatistics Core develops methods for dealing with multivariate data of a nature common to all three health studies (projects 3, 4 and 5), methods that are intended to find ready application by the other centers created under this RFA and by other investigators attempting to unravel effects of mixed exposures.


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Friday, May 13, 2005

Almond Roca Cookies

Almond Roca Cookies (Adapted from Emeril Live)

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/4 cups toffee bits
1 cup coarsely ground almonds
4 ounces good-quality milk chocolate

Preheat oven to 300

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.

In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until well combined. Beat in vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined - fold in toffee bits. Cover and refrigerate for one to two hours.

Add ground almonds to a shallow dish. Roll dough into 1" to 1 1/2" balls - place into the ground nuts and roll to coat. Place cookies onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake until the cookies are lightly golden around the edges, about 18 to 22 minutes. Remove and carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.

In a double boiler, melt and stir chocolate until smooth. Drizzle chocolate over cooled cookies and set aside to allow the chocolate to set.

Makes about 36 cookies.

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  1. mmmm, I can't wait to try these. YUMMY!!!!

  2. I made these cookies for my customers at work the other day and they loved them. I actually had people taking 2 or 3 to take along with them. Thanks!

  3. Rachel - Great! Thank you for the feedback!


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Monday, October 01, 2007

Chowder and speckled breadsticks...

When I was flipping through my supply of recipes to figure out what to make this week, I found a main dish that would work for tonight, but I didn't know what I wanted to serve with it. I thought about just having a few baked chips (or baked cheetos!) and then I came across these Asiago-Black Pepper Breadsticks that had similar flavors as one of our favorite drop biscuit recipes.

While the original recipe did call for pecorino Romano cheese, I went ahead and used Asiago as we are more often to have that on hand. Just a few ingredients form these long skinny breadsticks - the dry ingredients consist of two types of flour (all-purpose and white whole wheat) that is tossed with grated Asiago, baking powder, coarse black pepper and a pinch of salt. Moistened with just a few tablespoons of water and a drizzle of oil, the dough quickly came together and was ready to be cut and shaped. The original recipe gave a yield of 18 sticks, but there really is not all that much dough to work with, so I would suggest going down to around 14 or so. It would be best to use a light hand when you roll the dough into the skinny sticks - if the dough starts to shrink back at all, set it aside for a couple minutes to give it a chance to relax and try again. They get a little lift and puff from the baking powder while achieving a nice golden color as they baked. They are crisp, without being too dry, and have a nice sharp background from the cheese - they were perfect to dip into tonight's main dish!

Asiago-Black Pepper BreadsticksA few weeks ago, I made a point of going out to the market and getting a few of the last fresh ears of corn from this past summer season to stash in the freezer and use throughout the upcoming colder months. However, if I don't stop at the pace I am going, my supply won't last more than a month or two! After tasting tonight's dinner with a generous 3 1/2 cups of kernels, I would not hesitate to use the rest I have to make this Corn and Fingerling Potato Chowder with Applewood-Smoked Bacon again.

Since the chowder is adorned with crunchy bits of crispy bacon, we softened the onions for this dish in some of the flavor-packed drippings left behind, rather than breaking out additional oil. While this recipe is kept light by using a couple cups of chicken broth for the liquids, you need to give this type of dish some body and richness, which is solved by the addition of milk and half-and-half. If you don't have access to the small fingerlings (they can also be fairly expensive), you could use a waxy red-skinned potatoes as a stand-in. The chowder is pretty chunky and a little on the thin side still by the time the potatoes have become tender, so to add some viscosity, we used an immersion blender to puree just a portion of the mixture. You can also get the same effect by processing a couple cups of the mixture in a blender and then adding it back into the pot. The sweetness of the corn played off well against the chunky potato pieces and smoky bacon - I loved the creamy texture the corn and potatoes added when a portion of them were forced into submission by the immersion blender.

Corn and Fingerling Potato Chowder with Applewood-Smoked Bacon

  1. Since it's still 90 degrees here in Houston, I will have to wait a while to try this recipe, but it looks delicious. Your serving dishes are gorgeous. So glad you are getting settled in. Jancd

  2. Jancd - yeesh! Still quite warm I guess. It is getting nice and cool here - suppose to be in the upper 50s for highs next week!

  3. Corn chowder is one of my favorites, and I only make it during fresh corn season (which is just winding down here in New England). The fresh corn makes the chowder so sweet that sometimes a little hot sauce is the perfect balance for it.

  4. How did you prepare the corn you stashed in the freezer? It's too late for me to do this year, but maybe next year. I love your blog! The recipes you post are very much like my style of cooking.

  5. Lydia - I wish I would have thought to add that dash of hot sauce... that would have been a great touch!

    Cindy - Usually I just blanch the cobs, shock them and cut the kernels off. I then freeze them on baking sheets all separated and place in zip-loc bags (this way it does not create big clumps).

  6. Made this last night, we've finally gotten rain here in Virginia, and it was a great night for soup. Had to use Yukon gold potatoes and doubled the recipe for leftovers. Really quick and easy.

    Thanks, Anne

  7. Ladysmithknitter - Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy to hear you liked it!


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In a recent and misleading post, the Heartland Institute quoted a report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to argue that there is no corelation between recent hurricane activity and climate change.

In a triumph of spin, Heartlands reported - accurately - that the NOAA study could establish no link between global warming and the increased hurricane frequency of recent years. But the Heartlands spinmeisters conveniently ignored the increasing consensus that there IS a link between climate change and the increased intensity of those frequent hurricanes.

The best and most recent evidence of the latter came from Massachusets Institute of Technology hurricane physicist Kerry Emanuel, who published a study on this issue in the scientific journal Nature, in August of last year.

In a presentation to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December, Emmanual also took a moment to criticize the NOAA for trying to muzzle its scientists on this issue - from which comments he earned a rousing ovation from his scientific colleagues.

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The Village of Grand Cane, LA recently joined only 44 other Cultural Districts in the State of Louisiana, as announced by Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu and certified by the Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism.  The State Cultural District initiative provides sales and use tax exemptions from the sales of original, one-of-a-kind works of art from the Cultural District (Grand Cane).  For collectors of art and individuals that want a special piece to wear or display in their home or office, this means that they won’t pay sales and use taxes on those works bought in Grand Cane, LA.  Currently, Village Creations (Suzanne Brossette, owner) is offering art works that qualify for the tax exemption.  Shoppers can find a variety of “one-of-a-kind” jewelry, photography, wood carvings, oils, pastels, iron works and more by such artists as:  Wanda Prothro, Cindy Williams, Joe Hartley, Lisa Reddick, Helen Calhoun, Christian Bagley, Vickie Williamson, Diane Long, Hannah Roark, and Marilyn Brinker.  “Art is in the Heart" of Historic Grand Cane, LA -- please stop by and check it out!

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In 1682, the explorer LaSalle claimed, in the name of France, all the land drained by the Mississippi River and its tributaries. This area included about half of what is now DeSoto Parish.

Following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 the land that is now DeSoto Parish was a neutral strip, and remained so after the Sabine River became the western boundary between the US and the Republic of Texas. It became a haven for those fleeing from the law.

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"I wondered if screaming at her would make her go away any faster. Naw, she'd probably cry."

"Oh well how bad could it be? Watching strangers get blitzed out of their mind's. If I was lucky, maybe someone would throw up in my car."

"There's nothing like ruining the calm of a hundred-year-old vampire
to boost a girl's morale."

"A vampire junkie. Surely to God, I'd seen everything now."

""You smell of other people's blood, ma petite." I smiled at him, sweetly. "It was no one you knew.""

"I met is eyes and said, "I killed the things that gave me this scar." He smiled broadly, showing just a hint of fang. "What a lovely coincidence. So did I.""

"I think she believed I'd do it. Peachy keen. I hate to waste a really good threat."

"I could get by on four hours sleep, for a while. I could not work nearly as long if Aubrey tore my throat out. Guess I would go to work."

"Bert would take money for a hit on the Pope if he thought he could get away with it."

"As long as he didn't flash that smile at the wrong time and get molested by nuns, we would be safe."

"But wait we could go shopping now and be threatened by vampires in the evening. A perfect way to spend a Saturday night."

"Sweat was trickling down my spine. The brave vampire slayer. If they could see me now."

"The smile came, a soft curl of lips. The serpent must have smiled at Eve like that. I have this nice, shiny apple for you. Want some candy little girl?"

"Nothing to fear, folks, just your friendly nieghborhood animator. Right."

"Maybe I'd have a brilliant idea scrubbing goat blood off my skin."

"Me, big, tough vampire slayer, no throw up at the sight of decapitated heads. Right."

"I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it."

"They were treating me like a very dangerous person. At five-three I am not imposing. Raise the dead, kill a few vampires, and people start considering you one of the monsters."

"Oh God. The most powerful voodoo priestess in the Midwest was acting like a scorned lover. Shit."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

"Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop."

"Pimps beware. I was bringing the Master as backup. It was like carrying a thermonuclear device to kill ants. Overkill has always been a specialty of mine."

"The guard station looked like a WWII bunker, complete with machine guns. In case the dead should rise all at once and make for freedom. It had never happened here in St. Louis, but it had happened as close as Kansas City."

"Whad did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps."

"Reubans stopped in the doorway and hissed at me, You are an abomination before God." "Jesus loves you, too," I said, smiling."

"If only I believed that Jean-Claude would make things that simple. Nothing was ever simple where he was concerned. If I learned anything about the murders tonight, I'd pay for it, but not in money. Jean-Claude seemed to have plenty of that. No, his coin was more painful, more intimate, more bloody. And I had volunteered to go see him. Stupid, Anita, very stupid."

"I wanted to wiipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?"

"Curiosity killed the cat. Here was hoping it didn't do the same for animators."

"Richard looked comfortable. Jean-Claude looked as if he were wating for a roving photgrapher to come by. The two men in my life. I could barely stand it."

"George hadn't struck me as dangerous enough to take out shapeshifters, but then I'd thought he was genuinely grieving. Genuinely worried about his wife. What the hell did I know?"

"Larry Kirkland, zombie-raiser in training, had dropped the decapitated bird. It did the little headless chicken dance and sprayed both of us with blood."

"I decided to ignore it. If the poodle got loose, I figured I could take it. I was armed."

""You are an irritating son of a bitch." "Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?""

"He could have the bed. I'd take the couch. What could be more innocent? Biker Nuns from Hell, but besides that."

"I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention."

"One of the things that's kept me alive is shooting first and asking questions later. Doing it the other way around was no way to stay alive."

"How many torture rooms could a house this size have? Don't answer that."

"How do you tell if a vampire is dead? Sometimes he didn't have a pulse, or a heartbeat, or didn't breathe. Shit, again."


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – In the turbulent hours following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, many were uncertain about what to do, but medical examiner Earl Rose knew one thing: The shooting happened in Dallas, and it was his job to do an autopsy on anyone slain in the city.

Rose stood in a doorway at the hospital where Kennedy’s body was taken on Nov. 22, 1963, in a vain attempt to block Kennedy’s aides as they removed his coffin. The Secret Service and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy prevailed, and the president’s body was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was done by pathologists James Humes and Thornton Boswell. Their findings have been used to support an array of conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death.

Rose, who died Tuesday at age 85, believed many of those theories wouldn’t have gained traction if he had been able to do his job. He told The Associated Press in 2003 that he and his staff should have done the exam.

“We had the routine in place to do it … it was important for the chain of evidence to remain intact,” Rose said. “That didn’t happen when the body was taken to Bethesda.”

Rose’s widow, Marilyn Rose, said her husband wasn’t angry about what happened at Parkland Memorial Hospital but did his best to follow the law.

“At that point, there was no federal law on the assassinations of presidents,” she said. “If the autopsy was done in Texas, it would have followed the law.”

The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. It found Oswald likely fired three shots, one of which struck Texas Gov. John Connally after hitting the president.

Marilyn Rose said her husband agreed with that assessment and began speaking publicly about the assassination after the release of Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JKF,” which promoted the view that the president’s death was the result of an elaborate conspiracy.

“As far as I know, he definitely felt it was a lone gunman and that the shots came from behind and that there was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. He felt the trajectory of the bullet was a described — that it hit Kennedy and then hit Connally,” she said.

Rose conducted Oswald’s autopsy, as well as those for Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Oswald two days after Kennedy was shot, and J.D Tippit, a police officer believed to have been killed by Oswald shortly after the assassination.

A native of South Dakota, Rose earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska. He moved his wife and six children from Dallas in 1968 to take a position as a forensic pathologist and professor at the University of Iowa Medical School.

He died at an Iowa City retirement community. His wife said he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and then developed dementia.

Along with his wife, he is survived by five daughters and 12 grandchildren. His son died in 2005.

Marilyn Rose said a memorial will be held June 11 in Iowa City.

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This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
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Metta to self is traditionally a starting point for Metta practice. Yet this is challenging for many of us as we work with our pain, judgments and demons. As we develop in Metta to self, we bring Metta out into the world, which deeply needs it. This requires a lot of creativity. We end by exploring the coverage needed to bring Metta into the world, and the need for a "tough metta" -- a Metta able to respond to difficult situations, a Metta that is neither passive nor a pushover.
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Nebraska Going Smoke-free June 1
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Lincoln—The statewide smoking ban takes effect on June 1, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and local health departments are working with businesses to help them comply with Nebraska’s new smoke-free law.

DHHS has developed a website with information to help businesses. The site is available at , and contains resources such as questions and answers, informational brochures and the finalized regulations.

“We want to help businesses take steps to be in compliance,” said Dr. Joann Schaefer, Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Division of Public Health. “Guidance available online defines an ‘indoor area’ and outlines where smoking is restricted.”

The act protects the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in indoor places and places of employment. On June 1, every indoor workplace and public place must be smoke-free.

DHHS has fielded questions about outdoor smoking areas, which are allowed by the law. Such areas must have a minimum of 20 percent of the total wall area permanently open to the outdoors. The Nebraska State Fire Marshal's Office has developed a list of construction and safety reminders to help business owners develop outdoor smoking areas. Guidance and other information is available online at .

There are limited exceptions to the law, such as facilities researching the health effects of smoking and private residences, except when they are being used as licensed child care programs.

DHHS will not inspect all businesses for compliance with the act. The law will be enforced on a complaint basis, meaning complaints from citizens will trigger inspections. In most cases, inspections will be conducted by local health departments.

An injunction can be issued against the proprietor or business requiring them to stop allowing smoking on the premises. In addition, business proprietors can be found guilty of a Class V misdemeanor (maximum $100 fine) for the first offense and a Class IV misdemeanor (minimum $100, maximum $500 fine) for second and subsequent offenses.

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Until the 23rd you’ll benefit more from the support or contribution of another in close relationship. It’s not a time to be going it alone, so central to this period, will be how to give and receive the best out of partnerships and other close associations.  You and another could be bonding, teaming up or doing business together. But however it is for you, there is a stronger feeling of mutual interaction – or attraction!

Until the 8th Mercury is in your opposite sign. Communications – personal or professional, in close interactions and collaborations are highlighted and you’ll probably be sharing ideas and connecting with someone’s slant on things and even if you disagree, at least it helps you clarify your own thinking. You may be in relationship with someone whose guidance or information is valuable or you yourself may be more looked upon as the information-giver, go-between, or guide.

8th-28th discussions, ideas and research tend to be strategic and could be revealing as you drill down to fundamentals and suss things out. At times, communications could become more involved, intense, or confidential. Your thinking could focus on sensitive issues like the joint financial situation or revolve around property or possessions belonging to or shared with another. There may be more paperwork or some rethinking related to an agreement or contract. At this time, some of you may be giving confidential advice and perhaps ‘sensing’ more than thinking as your gut knowing will be stronger.

It may be that you feel quite passionate about something or someone and feelings go deep. Or, on the flip side, it’s probably easier for someone to push your buttons. Just trust your deeper instincts, stay away from ego, and try to avoid knee-jerk reactions. Get to the basics within the current conditions.

28th onwards – Mercury is expanding your mind and you should be entertaining options outside of the box. Discussions and or paperwork could be related to travel, higher learning or another type of unfamiliar environment. You’ll tend to be thinking bigger and becoming more aware of fresh potential, or a distant horizon. This could be a good time to refresh your mental palette and think in bright new colours. A plan may be forming in your mind. There may be a breath of fresh air from further afield or guidance from those with specialist knowledge or just someone with a refreshing slant on things. Mercury enjoys this communicative sector which also emphasizes higher learning, publications and the legal side of things. Another way this transit might work is you take the opportunity to beat the drum about something, get the word out, be the guide or the guided, the informer or the informed.

Apart from July 19th-August 1st when she will be more deeply involved emotionally or materially, Venus is strong in her favourite place and affairs of the heart are favoured. You and someone could be feeling a closer rapport, no matter whether it’s a personal or professional association. A special someone could come into your life and some of you could be tying the knot. But all relationships, personal, or professional tend to flow more easily. You and another could be enjoying eachother’s company or simply lending eachother a hand.

Until the 9th Mars is in a sector which emphasizes the practical side of any bright ideas. Considering how to manage, operate or fix – very practical and usually hands on also related to health and fitness. You may be more involved with skilled people, health providers tools or technology. So daily duties and methodologies are highlighted and you might have to get your head around the mechanical details. You can get a lot done if you keep up with daily duties, health matters – yours or another’s – and running repairs. Collaborations can be productive and achieve success but a co-worker or helper may try your patience. Still, it may be a small price to pay if you get your act together in the process.

From the 9th Mars in your opposite sign means personal or professional exchanges are likely to be more dynamic and lively. Because of the agenda of another, there are more physical demands put upon you to be decisive or take action. You and someone could elicit strong opinions in each-other or, conversely, maybe you feel a strong pull towards someone or they feel a strong pull towards you. Once again patience may be needed as Mars here can make you too hasty, handle someone badly, throw caution to the winds, or make a false start. So the advice would be to try to keep things on an even keel and don’t dive in head first at full revs with all guns blazing before you are sure of your ground.

From the 23rd is a gear-shifting phase, but you‘ll probably be feeling your way forwards as you intuitively sound things out. This the moment for letting go of some ballast whether that means a Spring Clean or general de-clutter. Or it could mean a more radical change in your routines related to money, property or a relationship.

Saturn has returned to the top of your Solar chart until September. This is a more dynamic position of Saturn and not without its challenges. But, in slow stages, as you clear the obstacles, this will aid and abet you to redefine your place in the world, your image and life direction. This is the time of the harvest and you will reap seeds sown in past years for good or ill. You may feel you are not doing the work, projecting the image or receiving the recognition that you would like and you will be required to work harder at cultivating those in authority as a new structure takes shape. This transit may also emphasis the parental or authority figures in your life.

If you are old enough, look back about 29 yrs or 14 yrs to get the gist of what is unfolding now by recalling where you were then and what happened next. Can be quite an eye-opener!

Aquarians born from 16th February or with from 27 degrees rising will feel this energy the most this forecast period.

Until the 11th Jupiter will be opening the way to growth through close personal or professional alliances. Because of key close associations your horizons will broaden. Others will be interested in your take on things but, equally you will probably be intrigued by theirs. Partners, colleagues, clients, friends could get you thinking more expansively and probably you will learn a lot through them.

From the 11th Jupiter has begun his new cycle and will be putting a beneficial emphasis onto your joint financial area. Materially, your life could grow and expand through the contribution of key associations or a partnership. So this can mean more money, possessions or improved physical conditions made available to you, or that you find it easier to access them through a key relationship.

It may be a different financial strategy or set-up becomes a useful resource and it may be some kind of moral debt settled or financial debt is repaid.

Early Aquarians or Aquarius rising or those born from 16th Feb or with from 27 degrees rising will feel this energy the most this forecast period.

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Starting today, and concluding on Tuesday, the planet Uranus and our Moon are joining forces in Aries. Your area of brief trips, discussion, and thinking is provided with a comforting, individualistic desire, during this intensive link. At the moment, it may be good to make a new aquaintance in discussions.

Also today: continuing today, and ending on Friday, the Sun is competing with the planet Neptune. The Sun present in Virgo may mean your area of joint-resources, sexuality, and taboo is infused with a detail-oriented, critical impulse. It might be a struggle to pool your resources, or buy something secretly, while this fluctuating, tricky link continues.

As well: continuing today, and concluding on the 8th of October, Venus is moving through Leo. For you, Aquarius, this means a month where agreements, and partnerships are seemingly pleasant, and valuable to you. Venus, when in the sign of Leo, provides a self-oriented, prideful sensibility.

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  • Mercury continues transiting Libra until the 1st of November.
  • Starting today and ending on Sunday, Jupiter is in a conjunction with the Sun.
  • Pluto continues a square aspect with our Moon today, which concludes on Tuesday.

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Diana's 2015 Aquarius Forecast:

MERCURY RETROGRADES 3 times for approx 3 weeks each in 2015:

First retrograde on Jan 21st – February 11th – Aquarius 17-1 degrees

Second retrograde on 18th May – 11th June – Gemini 13-4 degrees

Third retrograde on 17th Sept – 9th October – Libra 15-0 degrees

The first Solar eclipse of the year occurs on March 20th in your 2nd/3rd house.

This eclipse covering the next 6 months, could trigger the Mercury/Neptune vibe in early Pisces. Just make sure you don’t get the wrong end of the stick because thinking or a communication was unclear or you confuse someone with your own lack of clarity. Deliberately make sure you check and get confirmation on whatever is important to you either in a personal sense regarding feelings or in a professional one.

This is the time to begin making positive changes regarding finances, property siblings, soul brothers and sisters. Don’t put off contacting that person any longer.

The second Solar eclipse of the year occurs on Sept 13th in your 8th house

This is the moment to make changes regarding assets shared within a partnership or to review a contract or agreement.

Venus will be in a long transit in 2015..

Venus will be in Leo between June 6th-Oct 9th. potentially good news for you Aquarius as the abundance of Venus will be gracing your area of close relationships, personal or professional, easing things between you and another, boosting your love-life or helping you to do better materially through key relationships.

Jupiter is in Leo, your opposite sign until August 11th

Jupiter will be opening the way to growth through close personal or professional alliances. Because of one-to-one interactions your horizons will broaden and you will learn much through them. Others will be interested in your take on things but, equally you will probably be intrigued by theirs. Partners, colleagues, clients, employees, employers could get you thinking more expansively but equally, you will be stretching their understanding into new areas. Those from a different background or with an expertise could catapult you out of your familiar mental box, link you to distant places or get you travelling more. You’ll be entertaining new possibilities as you get a broader perspective. The expansive, benevolent influence of Jupiter will boost all working or love relationships as it will facilitate a feeling of mental rapport with another. If mental rapport seals the deal for you, then some of you could take the plunge and enter into a marriage or some kind of fuller commitment to another.

Aquarians born from mid-month or with from 23 degrees rising will feel the energy of Jupiter in Leo the most.

Look out for the period June 25th-July 7th as having extra ability to benefit you positively through these areas.

Jupiter moves into Virgo on August 11th and in some ways this is a period when you are more likely to get goodies through the resources of another. So it’s a good time to pool resources through a partnership, receive funding, improve your property or your overall material situation because there is someone there who you can team up with. Somehow, during this transit there will be sweeping changes which enrich life which can be fortunate for you over time, but, in the process, you will have to let go of whatever may be interfering with a more rewarding life and that includes your own out-moded ways of seeing things. This is when you need to practice the art of allowing abundance to come to you. Jupiter in this area of your solar chart until 2015 could open the door to spiritual and emotional regeneration. It is a vibration which heals old wounds – if you allow it!

Aquarians born until mid-month or with from 24 degrees rising will feel the energy of Jupiter in Virgo the most.

Saturn began her new cycle on Xmas Eve. Now you need to put a steady flow of energy into networking, group efforts, a hierarchy or a social circle. Finding your place in the pecking order might be problematical at times but if you accept that you can only establish yourself gradually, you can rise up the levels and over time, establish credibility, reliability and cultivate useful contacts who help you achieve your goals. Along the way you will encounter challenges as you strive to integrate your individual wishes with that of others. You could feel sidelined unless you find a way to compromise. But if you continue to be diligent and consistent in the obtaining of your ideals you should get the results you yearn for. So it’s not what you know but who you know, and how well you dove-tail your needs with theirs over this lengthy period.

Aquarians born up to the middle of the first week of February or with up to 12 degrees rising will feel the energy of Saturn in Sagittarius the most.

From June 14th – Oct 9th Saturn returns to her previous position

This gives you the chance to redefine your place in the world, your image and life direction. You will be restructuring your outer and inner world in gradual stages over this long period. This is an opportunity to show the world what you can do, but, in the process you will have to take on more responsibilities and steadily push through obstacles to achieve your goals. This is the time of the harvest, of reaping what you have sown in the past. If you are old enough, look back about 29/30 yrs or 14/15yrs or 7/8 yrs to get the gist of what is unfolding now by recalling where you were then, decisions you made and what happened subsequently. Can be quite an eye-opener! Of course you are older and wiser now and you’ll have been through the cycle before so you know what to expect and can prepare accordingly.

You’ll also know that this is a time when perseverance is necessary related to profession and standing in the world. Aquarians born from 16th or with from 27 degrees rising will feel this vibration the most over 2015.

Uranus your ruling planet is now be working from Aries until 2019 and gradually will be changing the way you think and even the language or jargon you use. It will bestow wonderful opportunities to open your mind to new concepts, and through daily encounters expand your thinking and learn a great deal you didn’t know before. Certain knowledge may feel like quite a revelation at times. Everyday matters may have more of an edge to them and you may take up the study of something weird like astrology or something in the sciences. This energy also favours, anything innovative in the field of IT or sustainable energy, or other areas where you hook-up with a group of others who share particular interests or experiences. Aquarians born 4th-14th Feb or with between 11-21 degrees rising will feel this vibration the most over 2015.

The new position of Neptune means that slowly your values are changing and that a sacrifice may have to be made for something or someone worthwhile to you. On a mundane level you should be doubly careful with your finances and property matters and avoid being too idealistic when making decisions in the area of basic material security. Aquarians born 27th January-4th February or with 4-11 degrees rising will feel this vibration the most over 2015.

The life-changing force of Pluto, now in Capricorn, means regeneration from deep levels involving letting go of ingrained patterns and scenarios from the past. Updating outmoded behaviour or an old way of being clears the decks for a gradual re-birthing into new conditions and a fresh perspective. Emotionally, there will be a subtle gear-shift deep within you as the old order is crumbling and the way clears for a reinvention of yourself.

Aquarians born 4th-9th Feb or with between 11-16 degrees rising will feel this vibration the most over 2015.

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Wiz Khalifa’s Uncle Murdered During Heroin Deal Gone Deadly!

“Porter and two friends arranged to meet Young at the restaurant to sell him heroin.”

An arrest has been made in connection to The Waterfront murder of Wiz Khalifa’s 20-year-old uncle, Imani Porter. Now, as 17-year-old Jaron Young faces homicide, robbery, conspiracy and weapons charges … details about the last moments of Porter’s life appear to reveal Wiz’s uncle as a Pittsburg — slangin’ balloons — D-Boy!

According to cop docs … Porter’s murder happened during what was supposed to be a heroin-for-money exchange, inside the car Porter was front passenger of, Wednesday night. Young is said to have been the buyer, who Porter is suspected to have been serving up. That’s before it appears to have been a drug deal gone deadly.

“It wasn’t me. Wrong place wrong time.” -Jaron Young

Here’s the latest from Philly’s WPXI News:

“Young and an unknown man were in the backseat of a Chevy Impala talking to Porter, and a driver who was identified as a witness. The 17-year-old suspect was looking to buy heroin. The witness says Young pulled out his money for the drugs but quickly pulled it away and said, ‘Let me get this one for free,’ and pulled out a large silver revolver and pointed it at the witness. The other man in the backseat pointed a gun at Porter who said, ‘Go ahead bro take it.’ The unknown man shot Porter in the head before leaving the car.”

Here’s what Imani Porter’s father, Jibril Abdul-Hafith told Philly’s KDKA News:

“I been crying. I been crying all night. There’s a whole in my heart.”

Today … as one father mourns the loss of his son, so too does Young’s mother mourn for her locked-up son. Reports reveal it was Ronnica Sanders who pushed her son to “turn himself in.”

Here’s what Jaron Young’s 41-year-old mother told the press:

“It was the right thing to do. I didn’t raise my kid to be in the street. I didn’t. I raised him to be a respectable young man in the community.”

Wiz Khalifa took to Twitter to say this:

  1. Get your Shit together Pittsburgh is not Philly they are 7 hours and worlds apart. KDKA is a news station in Pittsburgh no Pittsburg do your damn research and read your story before you post it!

      • I heard that! I used to stay by one too, and you can have Denny’s. Give me a Steak N Shake any day for the 2 am munchies. Yummers. I can taste the chocolate malt, chili and steakburger right now.

  2. duded looks like he was proud to do it.

    not gonna blame no conspiracy bad drug deals after all the time and lots of people get invcolved with drugs and things turn out bad can’t blame a rapper talking abnout drugs, guns ands satan all the time.

  3. Actually they are FIVE hours apart. I live in Pittsburgh..10mins away from Homestead..where this happened. Smh.


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I received a marriage record from the Family History Library that turned out to be a treasure trove of information. The family is on my husband's side and is Czechoslovakian. My mother-in-law knew they came from Bohemia, but that is about all she knew of the origins of her grandmother. Her biological grandfather passed away when her mother was a small girl, so she grew up knowing the second husband as her grandfather.

This is one of those cases where it pays to get a copy of the actual record. It was indexed simply with names, parents' names, and the date of marriage. But as you can see, there is SO much more on this one record. I did not find anything stating that I could not post an image of the certificate on my blog, but if anyone knows differently please tell me so that I'm not violating any copyright laws.
Capek-Prochazka Marriage Record, 1901

City of New York.
No. of Certificate, 16063
[Stamp] Bureau of Records Received Sep 25 1901 Borough of Ma[nhattan]

I Hereby Certify that Joseph Čapek and Antonie Procházka were joined in Marriage by me in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, in the City of New York, this twenty first day of September 1901.

Witnesses to the Marriage, Václar Fous, Jan Procházka. Signature of person performing the ceremony: Wenceslaus Supik.

Date of Marriage. September 21st 19[image cut off]
Groom's Full Name. Joseph Čapek
Residence. 424 E 75 St
Age. 26 years
Color. White
Single or Widowed. Single
Birthplace. Dolní Krupá in Boh. [Czech Republic]
Father's Name. John Čapek
Mother's Maiden Name. Frances Bemák
Number of Groom's Marriage. First
Bride's Full Name. Antonie Procházka
Residence. 422 E. 75 St
Age. 26
Color. White
Single or Widowed. Single
Maiden Name, if a Widow. ---
Birthplace. Hrabĕšín Bohemia [Czech Republic]
Father's Name. Joseph Procházka
Mother's Maiden Name. Marie Čerinak
Number of Bride's Marriage. Frist [sic]
Name of Person performing Ceremony. Wenceslaus Supik csm
Official Station. Catholic Priest
Residence. 323 E. 61 St
Date of [rest cut off]

[Page Two - back of form]
We, the Groom and Bride named in this Certificate, hereby certify, that the informaton given therein is correct, to the best of our knowledge and belief.
[Signature] Josef Čapek Groom,
[Signature] Tony Procháska Bride.
Signed in the presence of Vaclar Fous and J Prochaska [difficult to read]

Not only did we find more exact birthplaces for each of them, but we have parents' names (one was incorrectly indexed) and where they lived when they got married, which by the addresses it appears they were neighbors!

Page Two of this record (the back) has their signatures as well as the signatures of the witnesses. My mother-in-law was always under the impression that her grandmother had traveled to this country as an orphan and that she didn't know anyone here, but if you look at the witnesses to the marriage, one of them has the same last name as her!
I looked up the Catholic Priest who performed the marriage, Wencelaus Supik, as I thought this was an unusual name. I searched Ancestry.com and managed to find a photo posted of him at an age that was close to 31 when he performed the marriage. It makes it more personal to know what the priest looked like who performed the ceremony.

My mother-in-law was very excited by all of this information as was I!! It has been one of the most exciting records I've found, although I am certainly not a seasoned researcher, so I'm hoping for many more like this in the future!

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