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Microwave Mug Cake. White Chocolate & Green Tea

This is quite possibly my most favourite cake ever. It started out a bit experimental as I wanted to make a cake to match my new ‘Buddha’ mug.  The result was completely divine. And I’m going to share it with you.

I used Twinings Fudge Melts Green Tea for this but there are so many flavoured green teas out there at the moment that you could try pretty much try any of them. Salted Caramel Green Tea, maybe? Try and source a decent vegan white chocolate too, I got mine from a local health food store. I hear Sainsburys make a free from white chocolate bar too.

The video is below. If you want to try more of my microwave mug cakes, have a look at my Bakewell in a Mug and Chocolate Banana mug cake. For another ‘tea’ based cake, take a look at the very different Jelly Baby Mug Cake, made using forest fruits herbal tea.

Heres the video. Full recipe below;

Vegan Mug Cake Recipe – White Chocolate & Green Tea

1// Make a tea with 1/2 cup boiling water and 2 flavoured Green Teabags. I used Twinings Fudge Melts Green Tea. Leave to ‘stew’ and cool.

2/ In a microwaveable mug, mix the dry ingredients;

1/3 cup self raising flour

1/4 cup caster sugar

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

3// Break up about 1/3 of a 100g bar of vegan white chocolate (around 35g) into small pieces in a seperate mug/bowl and leave to one side

4// Add the liquids to the dry mix in your microwaveable mug, so;

1 1/2 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil

3 Tablespoons of cooled green tea

1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

5// Stir well, add the white chocolate and stir again

6// Microwave on medium high for 2 – 2 1/2 minutes. Then leave in the warm microwave for another 3 minutes

7// Poke holes in the cake and pour in another tablespoon of green tea and add another third of the chocolate bar, broken into pieces. The rest is yours to save – or eat (if you haven’t already!)

And that’s it!! It really is as easy as that.

I’m quite enjoying baking with tea, so look out for more tea based recipes in the future!

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Jia Quan's driver was a hard-working veteran of the special forces, and he had the reflexes to match. He had been startled by the sudden appearance of Qin Feng and deftly hit the brakes. The Audi's tires squealed against the pavement, and a strong rubber smell filled the car.

Jia Quan had been sitting in the back row of the car preparing to call his lover when the sudden stop made him fly forward into the back of the pa.s.senger seat. He angrily shouted at his driver, "What's going on? Don't you know how to drive?!"

The driver was quick to apologize, knowing that leaders.h.i.+p didn't tolerate mistakes. "I'm sorry, Director Jia. A madman burst out in front of us. I thought it best to avoid hitting him, sir."

Hearing the driver's explanation, Director Jia looked through the winds.h.i.+eld and spotted Qin Feng.

Why does this guy look so familiar? he thought to himself.

Jia Quan had specially investigated the person Liu Bangguo had called him about. However, he only knew that he had been mixed up with Zhao Jun and had strong combat skills. He also had his photographs, which flashed into his mind as he stared at the man standing resolutely in the center of the road.

The driver, who was fired up after being reprimanded, opened his door and headed toward Qin Feng.

Pointing at Qin Feng, the driver sternly asked, "Are you looking for death?"

Qin Feng laughed in response and pointed over the driver's shoulder. "Your driving skills need work. Before you made that turn, you could have seen me by the side of the road from an angle of about twenty degrees through the column gap."

The driver puffed up his chest. "I've been driving for more than a decade. Who are you to try to teach me how to drive?" As the driver for the director of the city bureau, he was honored everywhere in Tianhe City as one of the Brothers Xiang, but here he was being ridiculed. By who? Some silly boy playing games.

While they had been arguing, the security guard from the compound gate and some of Jia Quan's colleagues had approached to observe. The driver became even more frantic now that he was being watched. "Believe it or not, I'll detain you and kill you!"

"Oh, sure. Come on then," Qin Feng said with a smirk. He mockingly lifted his wrists as though he was preparing to be cuffed. "The news from yesterday about Li Faxian. It seems you haven't heard…"

The driver scowled. "d.a.m.n it, don't mess with me." He made a move to head back to the car and grab his handcuffs. However, at that moment, Jia Quan emerged from the vehicle. As soon as he appeared, everyone who had gathered around to watch the disagreement quickly bowed their heads and retreated a few steps.

Jia Quan surveyed the crowd, then calmly asked, "Is there something interesting going on here? Go about your business."

Embarra.s.sed, the crowd quickly dispersed.

Jia Quan, dissatisfied with the driver, looked at the man and said, "What do you hope to accomplish by yelling? What do I always tell you? Be gentle with the common people and always be courteous."

"Director Jia. This guy...," The driver bent his head and began to explain, but Jia Quan cut him off.

"You can leave. This is my friend, and we have something to discuss."

Hearing Jia Quan's words, the driver looked at Qin Feng again as if facing an enemy. His pupils were full of fear. This poor, young guy was actually a friend of Director Jia's?

Qin Feng, seeing the driver's distress, cheerfully patted him on his trembling chest while saying, "Hey man, it's going to be okay. Your future is bright."

In response, the driver quickly retreated to his car and drove off.

Qin Feng handed Jia Quan a cigarette and said, "Thank you for last night."

"It's nothing. Secretary Liu made the calls. Was there any other choice?" Then Jia Quan smiled and said, "Brother, your courage is frightening."

"Director Jia, you're a sensible man. But Li Faxian did something that troubled me. I'm afraid he'll hurt you one day." Qin Feng continued, "I made him kneel, which I a.s.sume you know already. Do you take offense?"

Jia Quan laughed. "How can I? I know him very well. He just needed someone to put him in his place. He's gotten too comfortable, following me all these years in the Tianhe. I suppose he's learned his lesson now though."

Although Jia Quan sounded calm, he felt somewhat troubled in his heart. Even if his people were undisciplined, they still looked up to him. Qin Feng could do whatever he wanted to in response to Li Faxian, but he had been a bit of a bully.

Qin Feng continued to inform Jin Quan of recent events. "Sister Flower and I left Zhao Jun. The morning prior, I cut off Zhao Jun's three fingers. How many years do you think I might be sentenced for that?"

In Qin Feng's eyes, three fingers were like three farts in the wind—not worth worrying about.

However, Jia Quan was stunned. Although past his prime, Zhao Jun still had a strong reputation. Qin Feng, this underling, was so bold that he would commit such a crime?

This man is certainly a force to be reckoned with, Jia Quan thought. Even Liu Bangguo hadn't heard this news yet. Jia Quan realized the Tianhe wasn't powerful enough to hold down someone like Qin Feng.

"Brother Qin, you make me laugh. Zhao Jun is guilty of a lot of evil. You've just done your part to rid the Tianhe of some evil. Even if you did cut off three fingers, it must have been in self-defense. I will personally testify on behalf of my brother."

Jia Quan's intent was obvious. He wanted to recruit Qin Feng. Even if Zhao Jun wasn't much of a threat to him, he didn't want to take any risks. He needed the right men on his team, and did not want to risk offending Qin Feng. He realized that he might offend Secretary Liu, but Jia Quan was more concerned about who else could be backing Qin Feng.

Qin Feng smiled and said, "Thank you. You really have helped me in many ways. I'll soon be leaving the Tianhe for a time, but before I go, I want to tell you something."

"Go ahead."

"Sister Flower is very important to me. Please take care of her while I'm gone. Since she's left Zhao Jun, I've been worried that she might face trouble. You see…"

Before Qin Feng finished speaking, Jia Quan patted his chest rea.s.suringly. "Don't you worry. Who would dare to mess with my brother or my sister?" he said. "If anyone tries, I'll kill him."

Qin Feng felt incredibly relieved. Then he said, "Actually, she and I have discussed opening a bar after I return. After all, it's hard to leave a line of work once you've been in it for a while. We would like to invite you to be a shareholder. As it is, we already rely on your care. As a shareholder, you won't have to care about anything. You can just wait for your dividend at the end of the year. 40% of the shares, how does that sound?"

Jia Quan laughed. "Brother, what are you saying? When you need your brother's help, just say the word. Shares? No. I don't need all that. If you lack money, speak up. I may be working cla.s.s, but I can afford a few hundred thousand for my brother."

Jia Quan continued, "Rest a.s.sured. When the shop is open, I will spread the word. Anyone who dares to make trouble for you will have trouble with me. I can't make that guarantee elsewhere, but here in the Tianhe, no one will dare to cause you trouble. Go ahead and do as you please."

Qin Feng smiled graciously, but said, "That's not a good deal for you. I won't let you lose money. Although we are friends, we still need to do business fairly, right? I'd feel more comfortable if you would accept some of our shares. What do you say?"

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Chapter 1218: Mercilessness

Bai Qiu Luo’s sword was fast, and besides, Lin Feng was hallucinating. He had the feeling he was going to die if he stopped concentrating for even a second. It was enough to make him feel like giving up.

“Die!” Lin Feng grinded his teeth and moved back. He took out his Tian Ji Sword and dazzling thunders appeared, surrounding Bai Qiu Luo. He also released some desolate abstruse energies.

Bai Qiu Luo moved like the wind and gracefully. He dodged the Tian Ji Sword and continued moving towards Lin Feng.

Lin Feng noticed that the sword was less threatening when Bai Qiu Luo began running so fast. It collided against the Tian Ji Sword and Bai Qiu Luo had a cold, yet strange smile. He shook his hand and his sword moved again, this time it looked like a star.

Lin Feng’s soul shook, Bai Qiu Luo was getting even closer to him now.

Lin Feng felt like he was facing an a.s.sa.s.sin, was Bai Qiu Luo from the Imperial a.s.sa.s.sin Union?

What was the Sunset Pavilion then? Was it the main branch of the Imperial a.s.sa.s.sin Union? If that was the case, that was terrifying. If Bai Qiu Luo was working for the Imperial a.s.sa.s.sin Union and he continues to accel, will he become the future leader of the Sunset Pavilion? How would he lead them in the future then?

Besides, if Bai Qiu Luo was an a.s.sa.s.sin working for the Imperial a.s.sa.s.sin Union, were there other outstanding young people working for them? Or

some strong Zun cultivators?

“The seven a.s.sa.s.sins!” remembered Lin Feng suddenly. In Fortune City, he had met the seventh a.s.sa.s.sin. That person was very strong. If Lin Feng was right, maybe then Bai Qiu Luo was one of the seven a.s.sa.s.sins.

Lin Feng was thinking about those things, but not too much for he was still under attack.

“Everlasting Ksana!” Lin Feng suddenly disappeared and entered another empty s.p.a.ce. Bai Qiu Luo’s sword swung and hit nothing because Lin Feng disappeared at the last moment.

Back in Fortune City, Lin Feng had managed to take the robe in the empty s.p.a.ce area and it was called the Ksana empty s.p.a.ce robe. However, even with the help of that robe, Lin Feng could only enter another s.p.a.ce for a few seconds. It was efficient enough to desperately dodge attacks, but he would reappear quickly. However, when he reappeared, he immediately released desolate Qi and Bai Qiu Luo couldn’t dodge.

“Die!” Lin Feng uttered as loud as he could. He released empty s.p.a.ce and desolate abstruse energies. However, Bai Qiu Luo’s body became dazzling and golden. It looked like a dazzling golden armor had appeared with abstruse energies which kept changing.

“Slash…” the golden armor crackled and Bai Qiu Luo was propelled backwards. His body had even started decaying.

“Freeze!” Bai Qiu Luo put his hand on his wound and sealed it. He glanced at Lin Feng in a cold way, he still hadn’t managed to kill Lin Feng.

“Boom boom!” Finally, the illusion broke. Bai Qiu Luo was again upset, it hadn’t lasted long.

He recalled his G.o.dly awareness and turned into an illusion. Then, Lin Feng saw many silhouettes appear, including Qiu Yue Xin.

“Be careful!” shouted Lin Feng. Qiu Yue Xin was fighting against a Zun cultivator and Bai Qiu Luo had thrown himself at her.

“Die!” The Zun cultivator wanted to join hands with Bai Qiu Luo and attack Qiu Yue Xin together.

However, Qiu Yue Xin didn’t try to dodge. She jumped into their energies.

“Slash…” sword energies pierced through Qiu Yue Xin’s body as well as the strong cultivator in front of her.

Bai Qiu Luo was surprised too. What was Qiu Yue Xin doing? Even Bai Qiu Luo had sensed how terrifying those sword energies were. Qiu Yue Xin turned around and took out the sword which had stabbed her, throwing it away. A moon appeared in the sky and shined upon her body. “The Path of Mercilessness!” Bai Qiu Luo moved back as fast as she could. The sword again moved towards Bai Qiu Luo. His body turned golden, but blood had appeared. At the same time, he sensed energies coming from behind him.

“Bzzz!” Bai Qiu Luo rose up in the air as quickly as possible. However, the Tian Ji Sword emitted whistling sounds and pierced through him.

“Thick Earth Shield!” a shield appeared in front of Bai Qiu Luo and eight patterns appeared on it. It was a powerful defensive technique, making that shield look indestructible. The Tian Ji Sword crashed into it and the shield broke. Bai Qiu Luo was propelled backwards as he then shouted, “Go!”

Many people rose up in the air and protected Bai Qiu Luo. Then, their silhouettes flickered and they started leaving.

Those people had attacked the people from Tiantai who came to protect Lin Feng. Many people thought that those people were from Tian Long Divine Castle, but surprisingly, they were with Bai Qiu Luo.

At the same time, at the top of the mountain, Yi Ren Lei was observing the scene with a complex expression. So many questions. Who were those people? If they were from the Sunset Pavilion, did they not mind offending Tiantai and Tian Long Divine Castle?

“Something’s wrong. If the one who had attacked Lin Feng could have killed him, he would have just needed to block Tiantai’s people and Lin Feng would have died, Then he could have let Tiantai’s people get involved and Long Teng would have died too. They wouldn’t have needed to get involved at all that way. And then a great conflict would have started between Tiantai and Tian Long Divine Castle.” thought Yi Ren Lei.

The Sunset Pavilion could have used two influential groups to do what they wanted, but that G.o.dly awareness hadn’t kill Lin Feng, so why did Bai Qiu Luo attack personally?

Of course, the Sunset Pavilion didn’t need to fear anyone because Tian Long Divine Castle and Tiantai were already enemies. They wouldn’t ever join hands to fight them together. But still, it made the Sunset Pavilion look bad. What had happened, really?

If she had seen what had happened in the illusion, she would have thought that the Imperial a.s.sa.s.sin Union was a.s.sa.s.sin Union was involved.

Tian Long Divine Castle and Tiantai didn’t chase those people from the Sunset Pavilion. Tiantai’s people were protecting Lin Feng and Tian Long Divine Castle’s people could attack him again at anytime. Tian Long Divine Castle’s people looked at Long Teng’s corpse. They let Long Teng practice in the mysterious area of Tian Long Divine Castle and now he was dead. The Zun cultivator who had helped Long Teng was also dead.

“Let’s go!” said the strong cultivators from Tian Long Divine Castle. They didn’t pay any attention to Long Teng’s corpse anymore. They had taken such great efforts for that one individual, and yet, Lin Feng was still alive.

Lin Feng walked to Qiu Yue Xin, he wanted to hug her, but Qiu Yue Xin took a step back. She looked at him as if she was looking at a stranger.

“Yue Xin, I have some holy water.” said Lin Feng taking out the tear stain from the source of life.

“No, thanks.” said Qiu Yue Xin indifferently. Her silhouette flickered and she left. She used her own pure Qi to heal her wounds.

Lin Feng was petrified. Qiu Yue Xin had broken through to the Zun Qi layer and now, it seemed like she had changed. It was as if she was a new person, a stranger to him now.

“Everybody, you can go back. I’ll be fine.” said Lin Feng. Even though he felt dizzy and was injured, he decided to follow Qiu Yue Xin. He wanted to know why she had changed and was acting so strangely.

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The scene had played out many times this season. A Liberty practice would end and everyone would tell Camille Cooper how well she had done. The 6-foot-3 Cooper routinely displayed her talents offensively, defensively and on the boards and her teammates wanted to lend their support.

“It was obvious she was getting a little frustrated,” Vickie Johnson said before the Liberty (19-10) took on the Orlando Miracle (12-17) last night at the Garden. “Anyone would. She was doing a good job in practice and then the game would come and that would be it.”

Cooper said she understood. A rookie from Purdue, Cooper was placed on the injured list with a hamstring problem for part of the season. Even when she was healthy, though, head coach Richie Adubato couldn’t find a spot for her, and she never set foot on the floor during a game until the team’s win over Utah on Wednesday.

“I saw she had talent,” Adubato said. “I just couldn’t find a spot for her.”

That changed when veteran Sue Wicks suffered a sprained ankle and Cooper was thrust to the front of the bench. And instead of just being used in a few meaningless minutes, Adubato played Cooper 16 crucial minutes in the Liberty’s 19-point rout of the Starzz.

Cooper finished with nine points (2-for-3 from the field and 5-for-7 from the line) and six rebounds. She was actually more productive than Wicks, who averages 5.3 and 4.7.

“I know what you’re thinking,” Adubato said. “Why didn’t I use her before? I’m a real genius, I guess.”

It caught Cooper off guard.

“It’s kind of weird,” Cooper said. “After sitting on the bench all year, you just want to get in a game and do anything.”

She played so well, in fact, that Adubato has more decisions to make. Wicks was questionable for last night’s game, but should definitely be back before the playoffs begin. If Cooper stays as productive as she was against Utah, Adubato will be hard-pressed to take her out of the rotation.

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Model shot at T.I. concert speaks out about harrowing scene

A model who was shot in the leg while celebrating her 26th birthday backstage at T.I.’s concert says she has a new appreciation for life.

“I’m SO VERY grateful for life,” Maggie Carrie Heckstall, 26, posted on Instagram Thursday morning as she was recovering at Bellevue Hospital.

Heckstall, who posed for a feature in The Post in March, attended Wednesday night’s concert among the entourage of the opening act, including her boyfriend, the rapper Maino.

She found herself in The Post again Thursday, in a front-page photo that showed her on a gurney with a large bandage wrapped around her calf as she held her hand against her forehead in obvious pain.

“God is good,” Heckstall, who is also an aspiring musician, wrote Thursday on Facebook.

Many of her friends were happy to hear she was OK, with one pal commenting on the post, “Yo, you a legit rapper now! Hope it doesn’t hurt.”

Heckstall, who was released from the hospital Thursday, got a bedside visit from superstar 50 Cent.

“I’m here to support my friend. His girl was shot,” 50 Cent told The Post, referring to Maino, who took to Instagram Thursday to deny the shooting was over a beef with rapper Troy Ave, the alleged shooter.

Heckstall was featured in a Post article about a popular light-up cellphone case called LuMee, which celebrities are using to enhance their selfies.

She said it gives professional-lighting quality to the selfies she shares with her 67,000 Instagram followers.

Since last weekend, she has been uploading photos of her birthday celebrations, posting pictures on social media of herself and pals partying at the posh rooftop pool at the Gansevoort Hotel on Park Avenue South.

Heckstall shows off her Lumee illuminated cell phone case in a modelling shoot for the Post in March.Brian Zak

“When you dead but you still had to make it to the pool, Oh it’s my birthday,” she captioned one of the Instagram pictures that shows her wearing a cut-out white bikini.

She later switched into a sheer black dress with a plunging neckline and intricate beading down the front for a night on the dance floor at the Kips Bay club Noble.

“Still in birthday mode,” she wrote Tuesday in an Instagram video that showed a close-up of the floor-length frock.

Heckstall, who lives in Jersey City, could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Additional reporting by Joe Marino and Natalie Musumeci

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OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OTC:OWCP) is Israel based company. Currently it has a market worth of $28860192. Using market capitalization to show the size of a company is important because company size is a basic determinant of various characteristics in which investors are interested, including risk. P/S ratio of 732.88464 reflects the value placed on sales by the market. P/B ratio is 55.733334. P/B is used to compare a stock’s market value to its book value.

OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OTC:OWCP) has five years performance of 466.666667% and weekly performance of 13.333333%. The stock has been moved at -46.875% throughout last twelve months. The stock has performed -5.555556% around last thirty days, and changed 6.25% over the last three months.

OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OTC:OWCP) stock has performed -10.67% and changed $-0.02 while share value reached at $0.17 in last trading session. At present, the stock 52 week high price sited at 0.665 and 52 week low situated at 0. 462589 shares traded on hands while it’s an average volume stands with 329677 shares.

Average true range percent (ATRP-14) measured at 11.76%. Volatility or average true range percent (ATRP 14) is the ATR expressed as a percentage of closing price. Average true range percent (ATRP) measures volatility on a relative level. This is opposed to the ATR, which measures volatility on an absolute level. ATRP allows securities to be compared whereas ATR does not. That means lower-priced stocks won’t necessarily have lower ATR values than higher-priced stocks. The Company’s beta coefficient sits at -11.570543. Beta factor measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade. Higher the beta discloses more riskiness and lower the beta lower the risk.

The company’s net profit margin is 0.00%. It measures how much out of every dollar of sales a company actually keeps in earnings. Gross Margin is observed at 100.00% and Operating Margin is seen at 0.00%. Return on Assets (ROA) an indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets is -93.33%. Return on Equity (ROE) is -385.23%.

Now The company has RSI figure of 51.7. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) was developed by J. Welles Wilder, and it reading fluctuates between 0 and 100. The RSI is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of stock price movements. Generally, the when RSI falls below 30 then stock considered to be oversold and overbought when it moves above 70. The normal reading of a stock will fall in the range of 30 to 70. RSI can be used to detect general trends as well as finding divergences and failure swings.

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Urban legends, myths, and misconceptions

The increasingly common practice of drug testing has led to an increase in the number of drug users looking for ways to beat the tests, and has spawned a number of myths and urban legends as a result. However, this does not stop users from getting creative in their attempts to somehow shorten the detection times and/or mask the contents of their fluid specimens, with varying degrees of success or lack thereof.

 Drinking vinegar will help you pass This legend is one of the oldest ones in the history of drug testing, and is only partly true. Consumption of vinegar will lower the pH of the blood and urine, and drugs that contain amine groups (such as amphetamines) will be cleared out somewhat faster as their water solubility increases due to protonation. Also, the reduced pH can potentially throw off the pH-sensitive enzymes in a particular type of bioassay (EMIT) often (but not always) used as the initial screening test, even for non-amine-containing drugs such as THC. Also, the effects of urine acidification on detection times (for any substance) are modest at best, often practically insignificant, and drinking vinegar is thus not very reliable as a standalone measure for beating a drug test.

 High doses of niacin will help you pass This legend has been around for at least a decade. Niacin, also known as Vitamin B3, is speciously claimed by some to "burn it out" of one's system when taken at high doses (250–500 mg per day). While some Internet (and other) sources often claim that it works wonders, there is no scientific evidence that it has any effect. Very high doses can also cause adverse side effects.

This legend may have been (inadvertently) inspired by Narconon, a Scientology-based drug rehabilitation program that uses exercise, saunas, and high doses of niacin (and other vitamins) to detox. It is also part of L. Ron Hubbard's general Purification Rundown, which Scientology purports to remove pollutants as well as drug residues. However, there are currently no peer-reviewed scientific studies to back these methods up Drinking urine will help you passVarious (mostly internet) sources claim that human urine contains enzymes which, when ingested, can speed the breakdown of THC in the body. While Cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are partially responsible for breaking down THC (and other drugs), are found in trace amounts in urine, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that they can be made biologically available through ingestion. It is possible that this myth is based on some cultures' beliefs that ingested urine contains strong healing and detoxification properties

 Secondhand exposure will cause you to fail This legend is technically true but highly misleading. According to a U.S. Army study, the amount of secondhand cannabis smoke needed to cause a false positive result (failure) is quite large indeed, and would require being sealed in an unventilated car or small room filled with marijuana smokers for several hours.Hair testing, however, is a different matter, particularly with passive exposure to crack/cocaine, which can deposit onto hair and be readily incorporated into it. Though for cannabis, typically only metabolites (produced by the body and thus not found in smoke) are tested rather than THC, so failure is unlikely to result from non-extreme passive exposure.

 Ibuprofen causes false positives for THC While this was true in the past, newer versions of the EMIT bioassay are much less sensitive to ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, etc.), and this has become relatively uncommon as of 1998, at least in the United States. However, abnormally high doses of ibuprofen can still potentially cause a false positive in some cases. Nonetheless, this no longer works as an alibi for THC since GC/MS can now distinguish between the two

Poppy seeds cause false positives for opiates Poppy seeds do contain trace amounts of morphine, but it would require about 100 poppy seed bagels to reach enough to cause a positive (failed) test result. Poppy seed-filled pastries (such as hamantashen), on the other hand, do in fact contain enough to potentially cause a false positive.[35] A 1996 episode of the highly popular sitcom Seinfeld may have helped perpetuate this urban legend.

An episode of MythBusters tested this legend, and found that as little as three poppy-seed bagels was enough to cause a positive result for the remainder of the day they were eaten (though participants tested clean the following day). The results of this experiment are inconclusive, however, because a test was used with an opiate cutoff level of 300 ng/mL instead of the current SAMHSA recommended cutoff level used in the NIDA 5 test, which was raised from 300 ng/mL to 2,000 ng/mL in 1998 in order to avoid such false positives from poppy seeds. In addition, one thing poppy seeds do not do is serve as an alibi for heroin: a unique metabolite (6-monoacetylmorphine) is produced from heroin use that is never produced from consuming any other substance, let alone poppy seeds. This, however, is only true when diamorphine is being tested for specifically; most tests do not test for heroin, but rather for opiates and opioids as a group. Modern tests can thus readily tease out whether it was heroin or not, should someone try to claim they merely ate poppy seeds.

 Cannabis remains detectable in urine for 30 days or more While this is technically true in some cases, more recent studies have shown that detection times of 30+ days are actually quite exceptional, even for chronic users subjected to tests with lower than normal cutoffs. Under the typical 50 ng/mL cutoff for THC in the United States, an occasional or one-off user would be very unlikely to test positive beyond 3–4 days since the last use, and a chronic user would be unlikely to test positive much beyond 7 days. Using a more sensitive cutoff of 20 ng/mL (less common but still used by some labs), the most likely maximum times are 7 days and 21 days, respectively. . However, one must remember that every individual is different, and detection times can vary due to metabolism or other factors.

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Maharashtra sees 64% turnout; BJP likely to make major gains

Mumbai, Oct 15:

The BJP, which virtually contested against all others in Maharashtra, seemed set to make major gains with exit polls holding it to emerge the single-largest party in the 288-member assembly while some gave it a majority as the bitter electoral battle ended Wednesday.

Its former ally Shiv Sena was second, while the strength of former partners Congress and NCP, who governed the state for three successive terms before their alliance ended last month, appeared to wane sharply, and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena seemed to barely make an impact.

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According to Today’s Chanakya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would get a majority with 151 seats, the Shiv Sena would get 71, while the Congress would be reduced to 27 and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to 28.

The ABP-Nielsen exit poll gave BJP 127, while Shiv Sena was second with 77, the Congress with 40, the NCP 34 and MNS 5, while Times Now-C Voter held 129 seats for the BJP, the Sena 56, Congress 43, NCP 36 and the MNS with 9.

Around 64 percent of the 8.35 crore strong electorate of the sprawling western state turning out to vote for their choices among the 4,119 candidates in the fray. Voting was also held for the Beed parliamentary constituence where a bypoll was necessitated by the death of sitting MP, union minister Gopinath Munde.

Shiv Sena, whose 25-year-old alliance with the BJP ended last month, and fought the elections on the plank of “dignity and self-respect of Maharashtra”, was however equally upbeat over its prospects.

Sena youth leader Aditya Thackeray asserted that not only would the party form the government, but party chief (his father) Uddhav Thackeray would be the next chief minister.

“We have a well-known face, the hard work by our activists and a progressive and aggressive vision for the state, unlike the opposition parties,” he told media persons soon after polling ended.

On the other hand, senior BJP leader and MP Poonam Mahajan confidently declared that “the people would support the vision of development propounded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.

Congress, NCP – which also called off their 15-year-old alliance last month – and MNS leaders appeared to withdraw in a shell, though lower rung leaders claimed that “surprises” would be in store after the counting.

With most exit polls predicting a hung assembly, the state may witness unprecedented political permutations and combinations emerging after the results.

Stray incidents of violence marred the otherwise peaceful polling in the state amidst tight security.

In Gadchiroli district, some Maoists attempted to disrupt polls by firing at a polling booth, but the security personnel promptly returned fire and voting continued peacefully.

A woman politician from Digras in Yavatmal allegedly assaulted an election officer over a minor fracas, but voting was not affected.

Yavatmal reported clashes between some villagers and security personnel in which at least one policeman was injured in stone-throwing.

At least three political activists were injured in clashes and stone-pelting in Aunjur-Dive village near Bhiwandi town in Thane district. The injured have been admitted to IGM Hospital nearby while security was further tightened.

In Mumbai, the vehicle belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Sena candidate Geeta Gawli was stoned by unknown political rivals and damaged, before they fled from the scene, while in Aurangabad, MIM candidate Imtiyaz Jalil’s vehicle was also stoned.

Mumbai’s usual colourful voting saw top celebrities, including industrialists, Bollywood stars, television actors and cricketers queued up to vote and inspiring others to follow suit.

Among those seen during the day were industrialists Anil Ambani and Adi Godrej, and film personalities like Rekha, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Sonali Bendre, Anupam Kher, Jaya Bachchan, Hema Malini, Amol Palekar, Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao-Khan, Esha Deol, Nana Patekar, Prem Chopra, Govinda, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Rishi Kapoor and family, Jeetendra and his family.

Counting will be held Oct 19.


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spring time in Paxos brings an abundance of wild flowers and vegetables, huge clumps of wild Madonna lilly’s, purple honesty, cyclamen, blue-bells and baby narcissus form ‘blanket’s all over the island. Wild asparagus can be found in certain parts and adds a bitterness to local dishes, wild horta are the various edible leafy greens that grow seasonally throughout the year.

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There is great pleasure to be had in cooking what you have literally just picked, for that reason we always walk with a bag and a little knife to then return home and cook what we have found. March time brings beautiful clear days which means outdoor cooking on the quiet beaches..

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Passwords Are Terrible

I’ve been going through a rash of password resets and changes the last few days, and as such things always do, it set me thinking. If I’m lucky, most of this won’t really be much of a surprise for you. It certainly won’t contribute anything significant to the security world.

My thought is simply that passwords are terrible. I know, I know – not an original thought. Basically, passwords might have been the right trade off between convenience and security a while back. I’m unsure when that stopped being the case, but I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a few years ago. However, we are still using passwords, and we there are a lot of things we do that doesn’t necessarily make our use better. Just as black hats use social engineering to crack systems, security experts should use social engineering and experience design to entice people to do the safest possible thing under the circumstances. Sadly, we are however doing the exact opposite right now.

Let’s take a look at a laundry list of what you should be doing and what you are doing:

  • You should never use the same password in more than one place. REALITY: people basically always reuse passwords or password variants on different services. The proliferation of places that require passwords and login means we either have the choice of having more than 50 passwords, or reuse. But if you reuse passwords, within each set of services with the same password, the service with the most sensitive material, will be protected by the least secure service. So as long as you use the same password, you have to think about all the services you’ve used that password on to have a realistic idea about how protected that password is.
  • You should never use words, numbers from your life or names from your life in your password – scrambled or not. REALITY: basically everyone does one of these things – most wifi-network passwords I know are combinations of the names of the children in the family. In order to remember passwords, we usually base them on existing words and then scramble them with a few letters switched out for digits or added a few symbols. This practice is basically completely useless, unless your password is actually a pass phrase. And if your password is in reality a pass phrase you don’t gain much by scrambling the words. So for a really secure password, use a pass phrase, but that the words in the phrase are randomly selected.
  • Security policies usually require you to change passwords every 2 or 3 months. REALITY: This means you are training people to choose insecure passwords. If you have to change passwords often you have a few choices – you can write it down or you can use variations on the same password. Note that remembering a new strong password every 2 months is not an option – people will simply not do it. Most people I know uses a sequence of numbers added to a base password, and they change these numbers every time they are forced to change the password. All of these things come together to defeat the purpose of the security policy. It is security theatre, simple and pure. If your company has a policy that requires you to change passwords like this, that is basically guaranteed to be a company with no real security.

What is the solution? I have decided to base my life around 1Password. For most purposes, the combination of the password generator, the browser integration, and the syncing between different devices means that it’s mostly hassle-free to have really strong passwords in all places I want it. I think 1Password is really good at what it does, but it’s still a stop-gap measure. The basic idea of using passwords for authentication is an idea that should be relegated to history. We need a better alternative. We need something that is more secure and less brittle than passwords. But we also need something that is more convenient than two-factor authentication. For most of us that login to services all the time, two-factor is just too slow – unless we get to a point where we have a few central authentication providers with roaming authentication.

Is there a better alternative? HTTP has included support for TLS Client Certificates for a long time now, and in theory it provides all the things we would want. In practice, it turns out to be inconvenient for people to use, expiration and other aspects of certificates complicates and frustrates things.

I guess what I would want is a few different things. The first would be to simply make it possible to have my browser automatically sign a challenge and send it back, instead of putting in a password in the login box. That would require a little support from the browser, but could potentially be as easy to use as passwords.

Another thing that could make this possible is if 1Password had support for private keys as well as passwords. This would mean syncing between devices would become substantially easier. Someone would have to think up a simple protocol for making it possible to use this system instead of passwords on a web page. This is a bit of a catch-22, since you need support from the browser or extension for it to be worth putting in to your service. I kinda wish Google would have done something like this as the default for Google Accounts, instead of going all the way to two-factor.

In summary, I think we are ready for something better than passwords. I would love if we could come together and figure out something with better usability and security than passwords so we can finally get rid of this scourge.

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  1. gasche

    One angle of attack that you might not have considered: why do we need so much passwords in the first place? Do I really need to create an account to post comments on this website/forum? Do I really need to create a password (or have one generated for me) to subscribe to this mailing-list? Isn’t some non-sensitive piece of information, such as my email address, sufficient to use those functionalities?

    I think we should think more about having authentification-less services that can let me do what I want without having to *know* me or force me to produce some sensitive piece of information. Instead of waiting for the new security mechanism, in a lot of case we should think of which feature to let go to be able to *get rid* of a security mechanism.

    August 20th, 2012

  2. Mats Henricson

    Thinking long term, I have envisioned a hardware/wetware combination, starting with perhaps a ring, which would hold my master key-pair, and a radio, and it unlocks all hardware when I am present. It would have a timeout of less than a minute, so if you leave your hardware for lunch, it locks down. It would be the device that would unlock 1Password, really, I assume.

    Next step would make that hardware device into wetware, I envision something you’d embed in your body, which can’t be removed and still work, for example a device that only works if embedded in blood with your DNA. Well, that can be hacked, as you can envision, but someone tries to hack it out of your body, then you could gland a hormone that would zap the device altogether.

    Now, what happens if you have to zap your hardware/wetware device? How would you get a new one? I envision a master key-pair, which is the root for the one you are just using, which can issue a new work key-pair.

    Now, the question is, why would someone steal your work key-pair, when they could just hit you with a wrench till you give them your master key-pair? Well, there’s always the case that in some instances you really DO want to give them your master key-pair, such as if they have kidnapped your children. In other cases we could envision a system with a trusted central authority which could hold them for you. I could perhaps trust EFF, for example. Another possibility, perhaps, is some modified rubber-hose cryptology solution, where you could hand over a phoney master key-pair as the real one, and the people holding the wrench can’t easily tell that the phoney one is not the real one.

    Finally (yes, I know this is out on a limb, far far away from the original question), you could possibly combine this with a system that could only create a new work key-pair through multi-signatures, as we will soon have in Bitcoin. That way stuff can’t be released unless it is cryptographically signed by several parties.

    Good to see you actively blogging again!

    August 20th, 2012

  3. Jillian C. York

    “I could perhaps trust EFF, for example”

    Could I just say that that warms my heart?

    But anyway, real reasons for commenting:

    a) Any reason for 1password over keepassX or others?
    b) Someone once gave me a really good tip for creating memorable passphrases. I’m willing to share it only because I don’t actually use it, and I’m fairly certain that it’s both a good idea and pretty secure:

    A combination of the name of someone you slept with, the date on which that occurred, and the location.

    May 16th, 2013

  4. Jillian,

    When I decided to go for 1Password I evaluated the alternatives and found that 1Password had more features that matched what I wanted – including the nice syncing with all my iDevices and support for other data than just passwords (I have my credit cards, SSNs, passport numbers and all kinds of other stuff in 1Password).

    In terms of your advice on memorable pass phrases: there are two problems with it. First, if someone breaks the password on _one_ site (where someone has a very unsafe hashing for example) and they figure out the pattern, it becomes very easy to try all combinations of names, dates and locations – if we assume number of possible names is 100k and locations is 100k – and the number of possible dates arbitrarily constrained to 40 years, you end up with an entropy of 47bits, which is not fantastic at all – the recommended number should absolutely be over 60bits.

    The other problem happens if you at some point have to give the pass phrase to someone else. Potentially embarrassing in some settings.

    May 17th, 2013

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Leader Standard Waste: Part One

leader standard wasteThree years ago I wrote a post entitled “The Emperor’s New Huddle Boards,” in which I expressed concern about the trappings of improvement without actual improvement.  Since then, my concern about the application of Leader Standard Work and Gemba Walks has deepened as these potentially valuable practices have too often degenerated into obligatory scripted play acting.

Ten years ago, when I first heard David Mann presenting these concepts, I thought to myself, “Hmm, it’s about time that someone gives thought to the best use of manager’s time in support of kaizen.”

Most managers, in my opinion, needed some guidelines in this regard.  A hesitancy to go to the floor for direct observation was a pervasive manager shortfall.  Many persons who have viewed GBMP’s video, Toast Kaizen, may not know that in fact, its genesis was in trying to persuade senior managers to get out of their offices and go to the floor to observe.  So the idea of establishing a standard that included visits to the Gemba was appealing to me.

Unfortunately, good ideas are sometimes unintentionally abstracted to the point that they become pointless.   For each of the three parts of David Mann’s model, I have observed a proliferation of shortcomings that invalidate the intended Lean management system.   For the next three weeks, I’ll cover these one-by-one.

Today it’s Visual Controls:

Call me old school, but I grew up in a factory where visual controls mainly meant building visual information directly into the work.  For example:

  • A standardized work chart posted at the workstation so an observer could compare the actual process with the standard.
  • A production-activity log in the production cell, updated on each work cycle with particular emphasis on problems that occurred so that problems could be fixed instantly.
  • A visualization of standard work in process, for example, a chute that held only four pieces – no more or less – to clarify the balance of operations.
  • An Andon that, if flashing, signaled an immediate need for production support.

When I was a kid, the opportunities like these to build information directly into the process in a low-tech way seemed endless.  They provided excellent opportunities for workers to share information about their work, and a manager who understood these visual devices could understand the health of the process at glance.

Today I see far less visual information at the point of use.   It’s been replaced by ubiquitous huddle boards and kiosks and video displays, often situated on a wall far from the actual work.  The ideal of “frequent focus on the process” has been become an infrequent focus on visual displays updated once per day just before the huddle meeting.  The ability to visually compare actual to standard has been lost.  Recently, in fact, I visited an organization that proudly announced they were replacing all manual huddle boards with digital displays that could be viewed remotely.  I’m sorry if this seems harsh, but when these types of standalone visual devices become the sole standard for visual controls, managers learn little or nothing about the Gemba.  “Grasping the current condition” is replaced by counting the red and green dots.  One manager announced to me that he could tell the condition of the factory merely by glancing at the huddle board for several seconds.  “No,” I responded, “you can only tell the condition of the huddle board.”

One final rhetorical question regarding the red and green dots:  In an environment where reviewing a huddle board is understood to be going to the Gemba, how many red dots would you expect to see?   A colleague related to me a comment he received from a shop floor employee.  “Have you heard of the color watermelon?” the employee asked, and then answered.  “We have watermelon dots on our huddle board.  They’re green on the outside, but red on the inside.”

In fact, I do think huddle boards and kiosk displays can be an impactful part of a visual factory or office; but they are only a piece, and probably not the most important piece.  And as stand-alones, they create an additive activity that makes management’s visits to the floor a standardized waste of time and an insult to the front line.

PS Did this get you hot under the collar?  Then please add a comment.  And watch for the continuation of this post next week when I’ll be sharing some concerns about the second part of the Lean Management System: Accountability.

BTW For a terrific story from one senior leader who understands management’s role to create a transparent workplace that incorporates visualization of the work, I recommend Jim Lancaster’s The Work of Management.  Or better still, sign up for our 14th Annual Northeast Lean Conference to be held in Providence on October 10-11, 2018 and hear Jim Lancaster’s Lantech story directly from him at his October 11 conference keynote.

Musical Kata

musicalkataI sang baritone and sometimes tenor in the St. John’s Lutheran Church choir according the key of the hymn were rehearsing and also depending upon who showed up for rehearsal. There were no try-outs for our choir; willingness to sing on Sunday was the primary requirement for membership. One of our brethren, I recall, had a voice that sounded like a frog, but he always showed up for service.

I was thirteen years old at the time, surrounded by persons for the most part twenty to fifty years my senior. This was my first gig, my first rehearsal with the choir.   I had been encouraged to join to bolster the tenor section for Easter services. Loretta M., the glue that held our motley voices together was a supremely patient and optimistic organist and choir director, a woman in her fifties, who no doubt had coached many choirs before ours. Loretta was a talented musician, but more that she was an excellent teacher.

“Good evening everyone,” Loretta exclaimed enthusiastically at our Thursday rehearsal. “This Sunday’s Liturgy for Easter services is one I think most of us are familiar with, but can we have a quick review? I’ll go through it once and you listen. Then we’ll break down the parts.”

Loretta played and sang the Liturgy once through, and then turned to us. “This is such a beautiful piece of music, such a key part of the service. We sounded great last year, and I know we’ll do well this year.”   Then she smiled and said, “You know this service is standing room only.”

This was inspiring, but also made me nervous, apparently visibly so, as Loretta glanced my way with a friendly “it’ll be okay” nod.   “First the soprano’s,” she said and proceeded to walk through the liturgy in sections. I wasn’t thinking PDCA at the time, but clearly each of us was experimenting, supported by Loretta’s gentle, positive feedback. Measure by measure we practiced until we were comfortable. Then the measures and sections were strung together, sopranos first, then tenor, then baritones and basses.

“Okay!” Loretta declared about ninety minutes into our rehearsal. “We have all the parts. Now let’s put them together.   Don’t worry if you make a mistake, just keep going and you’ll catch up.”   Loretta’s pipe organ introduction commenced and, on her cue, we began to sing. As she predicted there were mistakes; missed entrances and wrong notes, and a general imbalance of voices. But we achieved our first target. As we finished the liturgy, we turned to each other in surprise. One of us remarked, “We didn’t sound that bad.”

“Indeed,” Loretta agreed, “a great beginning.”   Then she put a question to us: “Which are the areas we need to work on?” I think she knew the answers before she asked the question, but her question created reflection by every one of us. At age 13, I wasn’t thinking “Hansei,” but Loretta’s question created that experience.

By 10:00 p.m., after nearly three hours of rehearsal we sounded musical. Our liturgy would play to a standing room only congregation, and every one of us had a sense of personal accomplishment and organizational harmony.

P.S. So why this post? Because I’m headed tomorrow to Kata Summit in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to officially release GBMP’s latest DVD, Improvement Kata, a collaborative effort of GBMP, W3 Group and Leanovator.   (Check out www.shopgbmp.org for other titles in our Lean Training DVD catalog – from Kanban to CEDAC, Quick Changeover to Idea Systems.) Hope to see you at the summit.

And don’t forget about my monthly FREE webinar – Tea Time with The Toast Dude. It’s this afternoon! This month’s topic: Tips for Engaging More Employees in your Lean Implementation. Starts today at 3:00 pm. Register here!


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My IIHF World Championships Division 1A Magazine project

Over the past two months, (possibly three in all fairness) I have been working on creating something new, and something I haven’t done since I was in university.

With the 2018 IIHF World Championships Division 1A starting today in Budapest, Hungary, I have been creating a magazine ahead of the tournament to share for anyone to read.

This idea began as a money making scheme as I thought I could create some content that I could sell to recover mostly the cost of purchasing the necessary software I’ve had to use for this, but also just to line my pockets a little bit.

What it turned out to be is a completely free of charge publication that I am using to not only add to my outdated portfolio, but also to gauge interest to see if any hockey fan, hockey team or other sort of media outlet would be interested in collaborating with me in the future to create more of these magazines, should this one be received well.

So I won’t go on any further, you can see the magazine for yourself now by clicking the link below to find the online PDF of what I’ve been working on for the last little while.

I hope you like it.

Many thanks,

Oliver Hampson

If you would like to get in touch, please follow the form below.

Analysing my NHL Bracket Challenge

Hey, two posts in two days, I’m doing good at this (for now).

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So if you’re a fan of the NHL, you’ll hopefully know that the Stanley Cup Playoffs started last night, 15 teams (and the Philadelphia Flyers who looked as though they thought they were playing a pre-season game last night) are fighting it out to get their name scratched onto the cup, something which to the Pittsburgh Penguins is probably getting old already.

Every year I mean to do a bracket going into the playoffs, but I never do because I’d never be dumb enough to share the results and suffer the consequences of people constantly telling me how wrong I am. I already know it’s wrong, I don’t need reminding.

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Simulating the NHL Draft Lottery 100 times

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With the NHL Draft Lottery taking place later this month, people with a much better grasp of maths than myself can tell you all about probability and predict the outcome of the lottery, at least I think they can.

I’m not that intelligent so instead, I’ve decided to use an online simulator to predict the outcome of the lottery, but instead of just doing it once, I decided to do it 100 times.

For anybody who doesn’t know what I’m on about already, save yourself a few minutes because this is post is not for you. I’m not sure it’s for anybody to be honest.

I can’t say any of the results are surprising because it is just 100 simulations using the same 15 teams (it’s not like the Vegas Golden Knights just randomly appear in one of the results).

But now let’s have a look at who, according to the simulator I did on a quietish day in work, has the best shot at landing Rasmus Dahlin with the first pick.

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Warm Broccoli & Mackerel Quinoa Salad

This salad is packed full of goodness.  It works well cold but is better warm!

Time : 20 minutes

Noggin Fix:

Packed with brain nutrients, this salad is awesome for fatigue due to 100% vitamins D & B-12, plus 25% omega 3s and iron with 80% B-6 and 15% vitamin E.   The B-12, Omega 3s and 80% magnesium provide support for memory function, and the added excess of 100% vitamin C means it is great for depression and anxiety.  Finally, the 100% manganese means that with the B-12, vitamins C and E, and B-6 this salad helps with co-ordination too.

*Percentages are of your Recommended Daily Allowance

Warm broccoli mackerel salad

Serves 2

1 x broccoli head, chopped into small florets 1/2 cup x quinoa 1 cup x water 50 g x feta, cubed 2 x tinned mackerel fillets, chopped into bite sized chunks 1 tbsp x pine nuts, toasted 1 tbsp x walnuts, roughly chopped 1/4 cup x sun blushed tomatoes 2 x spring onions, chopped 1 tbsp x French vinaigrette dressing

  1. Heat water until boiling & add quinoa for 10 minutes.  Then turn off heat & leave to stand until all the water is absorbed.  If pre-cooked quinoa, then ignore this step.
  2. Steam broccoli florets for 5 minutes.
  3. Lightly toast pine nuts in frying pan on dry heat until golden brown & slightly fragrant.
  4. In salad bowl, mix together spring onions, sun blushed tomatoes, walnuts & mackerel.  Add quinoa and broccoli when cooked.
  5. Add vinaigrette to salad & mix in.


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Bullying Awareness ~ Lesson Plans

Putting an end to bullying means infusing relationships to self and others with compassion, empowerment, and love.  These lessons (arranged from lowest to highest grade levels) address bullying behaviours, while demonstrating non-violent ways of resolving conflict.

(Click on these links for Lesson Plans on Teaching Tolerance, Making a Differenceand Creating Community.)

Sticks and Stones
Grades: K through 8
Subjects: Social Studies, Health
Duration: One session
Materials: One light grey piece of paper crinkled into a “stone” per student, pencils, 1 sheet posterboard and marker

Breaking down The Walls of Intolerance (Lunch Day Mixer)
Grades: 1 through 12
Subjects: Social Studies, Health
Duration: One session
Materials: Black bulletin board paper, red construction paper (enough to make 1 “brick“ per student), markers, scissors, stapler

Peaceful  Communities for All
Grades: Pre- K through 2
Subject: Language Arts
Duration: See lesson plan
Materials: See lesson plan

Let the Hot Air out of Bullies
Grades: 3 through 5
Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Health, ESL
Duration: One session
Materials: Balloons (at least one per student), markers and tape

Cooperative Comics
Grades: 3 through 12
Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, ESL
Duration: Two or three sessions
Materials: Paper and pencils

  • This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions.
  • Cooperative Comics lesson plan

Practice Peace
Grades: 6 through 8
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts, and Philanthropy with cross-curriculum extensions
Duration: One 45-minute session and 191 minutes to screen Ghandi if available, more sessions if cross-curriculum activities are chosen.
Materials: Ghandi DVD, elastic cording, cut in 6” to 7” pieces, construction paper, bag of assorted alphabet beads.

  • Students will compare and contrast the philosophies and work of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. They will make peace bracelets as they reflect on and determine actions they can take to promote peace and non-violence in their community.
  • Practice Peace lesson plan

Anti-Bullying Role Play
Grades: 6-12
Subjects: Social Studies, Health
Duration: One or two sessions
Materials: A two-sided stick mask. One side should have a simple happy face and the other a sad face.

Justice and Kindness Play a Part
Grades: 8 and 9
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts, Library/Technology and Philanthropy
Duration: One 55-minute session plus extension activities
Materials: Copy of story For No Reason at All, attachments and handouts (at link below) Optional: Journals, multiple copies of one day’s local newspaper and video The Invisible Children

  • Prior to this lesson, use the Blue Sky Activity in which students envision a better world. If you already have a Blue Sky display revisit it before beginning this lesson.
  • The purpose of this lesson is to reflect on, and discuss examples of injustice and cruelty and raise students’ awareness of the importance of advocating for justice and kindness. The learners explore ways they can play a role in bringing about a positive change in their school, community and world.
  • Justice and Kindness Play a Part lesson plan

Keep the Peace
Grades: 9 through 12
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Duration: Five mini lessons of about 20 minutes each
Materials: 4 x 6 Index cards, one for each student

  • This resource offers “mini-lessons” for preparing for conflict, dealing with anger, and creating communities of harmony in the classroom.  They can be done one at a time or put together for a longer lesson. These simple, brief lessons (Telling our Stories, Know the Causes, What’s My Part, Identifying and Practicing Non-Violent Interventions, and more) could be done by a whole school at the same time of day. There are suggestions for longer, more in-depth versions of these lessons if you would like to go further.
  • Keep the Peace lesson plan

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161 US 52 In Re Emblen

161 U.S. 52

16 S.Ct. 487

40 L.Ed. 613

No. 9, Original.

March 2, 1896.

In February, 1885, and long before, the land in question, situated in the Denver land district, Colo., was a part of the unappropriated public domain, suitable for agricultural purposes, and subject to entry and purchase under the pre-emption and homestead laws. On February 26, 1885, Weed filed in the land office of that district a declaratory statement upon the oath, as required by the pre-emption laws, alleging his settlement upon the land, and his purpose to occupy and cultivate it, and to acquire title to it under those laws. On September 19, 1885, the register and receiver of the district received from Weed final proofs of settlement, improvement, and other essential facts, and the government price, and issued to him a cash entry certificate of purchase, entitling him in due course to a patent for the land.

On October 4, 1888, before any patent had been issued, Emblen filed a protest in that office against the issue of a patent to Weed for the land in question, alleging fraud, misrepresentation, and perjury on Weed's part touching his settlement, occupation, and purpose, and demanding a hearing thereon, and asking to be allowed all the rights of a contestant under the act of May 14, 1880, c. 89 (21 Stat. 140). On May 21, 1889, the register and receiver, after hearing evidence and arguments, dismissed the protest and contest. Emblen appealed to the commissioner of the general land office, who, on February 20, 1890, reversed the decision, and held Weed's entry for cancellation. Meanwhile the town of Yuma had been built upon the land, and Weed and the board of trustees of Yuma petitioned for a rehearing, which was granted by the commissioner.

Shortly afterwards a new land district was created, with offices at Akron, Colo. The land being in this district, the rehearing was transferred to the register and receiver thereof. Emblen protested, on the ground that the receiver was interested personally in the result of the contest, because he claimed ownership of a portion of the land by a conveyance from Weed. The protest was overruled, and, Emblen refusing to appear before the register, or to submit to his jurisdiction, an ex parte hearing was had, and a decision was rendered on November 4, 1890, in favor of Weed, dismissing the contest, and was affirmed on successive appeals to the commissioner of the general land office, and to the secretary of the interior. On August 25, 1893, the secretary of the interior granted a petition of Emblen for a rehearing upon newly-discovered evidence, and expressed the opinion that the proceedings before the register and receiver at Akron were invalid.

Before such rehearing was had congress passed the act of December 29, 1894 (chapter 15), confirming Weed's entry, and directing that a patent issue to him for the land. 28 Stat. 599. In February, 1895, a patent was accordingly issued to Weed; and the secretary of the interior, solely by reason of the passage of this act, suspended all proceedings in the contest, and declined to authorize or direct any further hearing, trial, or consideration thereof.

The petitioner further alleged that in good faith, and in reliance upon the acts of congress and the regulations of the land department, he had spent in this contest years of labor, and large sums of money; that he desired that the contest proceed to final adjudication and disposition; and that, should he succeed therein, it was his purpose to claim and to exercise his preference right of entry and purchase of the land, as by law authorized and provided.

The prayer of the petition was that the act of congress be declared unconstitutional and void; that the patent to Weed be like wise declared void, because issued without warrant or authority in law; and 'that a writ of mandamus issue, directed to the secretary of the interior, requiring him to proceed to the final adjudication and disposition of said contest in accordance with the general acts of congress, and the rules and regulations of the land department, in that behalf made and provided.' Henry B. O'Reilly, for petitioner.

[Argument of Counsel from page 54 intentionally omitted]

Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for respondent.

S. M. Stockslager (by special leave), for Lincoln Land Co.

Mr. Justice GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

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This is an attempt to use a writ of mandamus to the secretary of the interior as a writ of error to review his acts, and to draw into the jurisdiction of the courts matters which are within the exclusive cognizance of the land department.

By section 2273 of the Revised Statutes: 'When two or more persons settle on the same tract of land, the right of pre-emption shall be in him who made the first settlement, provided such person conforms to the other provision of the law; and all questions as to the right of pre-emption arising between different settlers shall be determined by the register and receiver of the district within which the land is situated; and appeals from the decision of district officers, in cases of contest for the right of pre-emption, shall be made to the commissioner of the general land office, whose decision shall be final, unless appeal therefrom be taken to the secretary of the interior.'

By the act of May 14, 1880 (chapter 89, § 2): 'In all cases where any person has contested, paid the land office fees, and procured the cancellation of any pre-emption, homestead or timber-culture entry, he shall be notified by the register of the land office of the district in which such land is situated of such cancellation, and shall be allowed thirty days from date of such notice to enter said lands.' 21 Stat. 141.

The contest between Emblen and Weed was conducted in accordance with these statutes. After the last decision of the register and receiver, affirmed by the commissioner of the general land office and by the secretary of the interior, in favor of Weed, and after the secretary of the interior had granted a petition of Emblen for a rehearing, and before the rehearing had been had, congress passed an act confirming Weed's entry, and directing that a patent issue to him for the land in controversy. The secretary of the interior thereupon suspended the pending proceedings, and declined to authorize any further hearing of the contest, and a patent was actually issued to Weed before this petition for a writ of mandamus was filed.

Such being the state of the case, it is quite clear that (even if the act of congress was unconstitutional, which we do not intimate) the writ of mandamus prayed for should not be granted. The determination of the contest between the claimants of conflicting rights of pre-emption, as well as the issue of a patent to either, was within the general jurisdiction and authority of the land department, and cannot be controlled or restrained by mandamus or injunction. After the patent has once been issued, the original contest is no longer within the jurisdiction of the land department. The patent conveys the legal title to the patentee, and cannot be revoked or set aside, except upon judicial proceedings instituted in behalf of the United States. The only remedy of Emblen is by bill in equity to charge Weed with a trust in his favor. All this is clearly settled by previous decisions of this court, including some of those on which the petitioner most relies. Johnson v. Towsley, 13 Wall. 72; Moore v. Robbins, 96 U. S. 530; Marquez v. Frisbie, 101 U. S. 473; Smelting Co. v. Kemp, 104 U. S. 636; Steel v. Refining Co., 106 U. S. 447, 1 Sup. Ct. 389; Cattle Co. v. Becker, 147 U. S. 47, 13 Sup. Ct. 217; Turner v. Sawyer, 150 U. S. 578, 586, 14 Sup. Ct. 192.

Writ of mandamus denied.


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356 F2d 169 Lundeen v. Cordner

356 F.2d 169

Patricia Ann LUNDEEN, General Guardian of Persons and
Estates of Maureen Joan Cordner and Michael Joseph
Cordner, Appellant,
France Jeanne CORDNER, Appellee.

No. 18167.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

March 1, 1966.

Harold D. Field, Jr., of Leonard, Street & Deinard, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.

John S. Kappock, of Pross, Smith, Halpern & LeFevre, New York City, for appellee.

Before MATTHES and GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and LARSON, District Judge.

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In an opinion filed in this case under the date of January 5, 1966, we affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court, District of Minnesota, which granted a summary judgment to appellee (intervenor below). On January 19, 1966, appellant submitted to the Court a 'Motion to Amend Judgment and to Condition Mandate to Preserve Appellant's Right to Apply to District Court for Leave to Conduct Discovery.' Appellant argues that we have forged a new rule of summary judgment and to apply it in this case would have the unjust effect of retroactivity. Appellant, therefore, requests that we remand the case to allow an opportunity to seek discovery in hope of avoiding the summary judgment that has herein been granted against her and affirmed by the Court's decision of January 5, 1966. It is our opinion that this motion should be denied.

In the first place, contrary to the allegations of appellant, we have declared no new law in this area. We have applied the law well established by precedent and Rule 56(e), Fed.R.Civ.P. There is no doubt as to the law. To be entitled to a summary judgment, the moving party must 'adequately support' his motion. A motion is 'adequately supported' if it demonstrates that there are no genuine issues of fact. Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp., 321 U.S 620, 64 S.Ct. 724, 88 L.Ed. 967 (1944). In affirming the holding of the trial court, we went to great lengths to point out why we believed that the affidavits, the exhibits, and the inferences properly drawn therefrom were, indeed, sufficient to support a motion for summary judgment.

The law is equally clear that when a moving party presents an adequately supported motion for summary judgment (as was done herein) the adverse party must come forward with facts, not allegations, which controvert the necessary facts set forth in the moving party's case. Rule 56(e) clearly spells out this duty on the sanction of suffering a summary judgment.

Furthermore, the law does not require that an adverse party, as an absolute necessity, must present counteraffidavits or discovery results in order to avoid a summary judgment, and appellant was in error in so interpreting our opinion. We recognize that the moving papers may not touch every operative fact of the case and thus not 'adequately support' the motion. In addition, we recognize that the papers, while touching every operative fact, may in themselves demonstrate lack of credibility in the affiant without resorting to counter-affidavits or discovery. For instance if the papers presented by the moving party demonstrate bias due to a personal or financial interest in the outcome, or if they demonstrate an absence of opportunity to observe the facts related, or if they demonstrate lack of mental competence, or if a mistake is indicated by an appearance of internal inconsistency, then a factual issue may have been raised. However, as with any other fact, it takes more than allegations to place credibility in issue. To avoid summary judgment the opposing party must disclose 'facts.' This was the law prior to this case, and it was the law applied by us in reaching the conclusion herein.

In attempting to bring into issue the credibility of the affidavits offered by appellee, appellant chose not to present any counter-affidavit or conduct discovery. Rather, appellant hoped to demonstrate the existence of a credibility issue by pointing to alleged inconsistencies between two affidavits offered by appellee. If the actual existence of the inconsistency were proven, perhaps this would be a showing of sufficient facts contesting credibility to avoid a summary judgment, but the inconsistency must actually exist before it can be considered a 'fact.' However, the trial court ruled, and correctly so, that no inconsistency existed. Therefore, as a matter of law this mere assertion of inconsistency is still only an allegation. Simply pointing out insignificant differences between the affidavits cannot raise this bare assertion of inconsistency to the status of a factual issue. We have blazed no new trail with this holding. It is a logical, foreseeable, and necessary outgrowth of Rule 56(e) and prior case law. Should we allow claims of inconsistency between affidavits which the party cannot substantiate before the Court to serve as a basis for avoiding a summary judgment, Rule 56(e) would be completely emasculated.

Secondly, we do not believe that the outcome of this case came as a complete surprise to appellant. Appellant was undoubtedly aware of the strong case made by appellee. Appellant was also aware of Rule 56(e) and the prior case law which required an adverse party to present facts countering an adequately supported motion for summary judgment. Appellant took the risk of not securing counteraffidavits or conducting discovery, so it should have been at least foreseeable that her failure to present any concrete facts might cause her to suffer a summary judgment.

As a third point, appellant has had numerous opportunities to conduct discovery, therefore, she is not in a position to equitably request another chance. Appellant could have conducted discovery after intervener's answer. She could have conducted discovery upon presentation of the summary judgment motion. When the court granted the summary judgment, she was capable of moving the judgment be set aside to allow discovery. She never acted, and as we said in our opinion, 'Apparently plaintiff felt she had nothing to gain by a deposition, * * *.' Therefore, we are not constrained to remand this case to give another opportunity to conduct discovery when she has let so many opportunities pass.

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Finally, there must be an end to litigation. Were we to remand this case to allow discovery, the action of the trial court would again be subject to another appeal to this and higher courts. We do not believe the cause of justice would be served by further extending the litigation in this case, especially in view of appellant's failure to conduct discovery during her many opportunities in the proceedings below.

For the foregoing reasons appellant's motion is denied and the mandate shall issue forthwith.