I was wondering if you guys have any clue about the bugs or larvas that I have found in one of my Pine bonsai soil. I've noticed they started appearing since I adopted organic fertilizer - cottonseed meal - and I'm not sure what impact they might cause in the root system of my tree. They are identical with the ones in the pictures I enclosed here. Do you guys have any suggestion of what kinda soil bug I'm dealing with and if they can damage the roots of my bonsai?
Earwig. It may chew on leaves.
thank you very much for the response. I will make sure to get rid of them.
I have adopted a natural fly and bug solution. He/she hangs out in my garden. Has various places to hide.
However He/She did not stop this one from appearing on one of my maple seedlings! I have no idea what to call it!
So i settled for BUG.


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Realistic outlook for the Kar Rifle.
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Child health care workers say new figures showing an increase in child abuse cases presents a huge problem for Australia which must be addressed.
The figures from the Institute of Health and Welfare show there were 55,000 substantiated cases of abuse in 2005-2006 - a rise of 10,000 on the previous year.
There has also been a 40 per cent increase in the past five years in the number of children removed from their family home by authorities.
Dr Sue Packer has been working as a community paediatrician in the ACT since 1990 and says almost all the parents she meets want to do a good job.
But she says the new statistics are a concern.
"I think it's really enforcing for me that child abuse is a huge problem for Australia, it's something that I'm myopic about because of my work but it really is out there and it really is a problem," she said.


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Health minister appeals to people to get 'flu jab – The Royal Gazette | Bermuda News, Business, Sports, Events, & Community
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Health minister appeals to people to get 'flu jab
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Created: Dec 04, 2021 07:22 AM
The health minister set an example to the public today as she queued up to get her flu shot.
Kim Wilson said she hoped the public would follow suit to help control the risk of influenza over the winter season.
Flu Express: Kim Wilson, the health minister, gets her flu shot at the Flu Express service at the National Sports Stadium (Photograph supplied)
Ms Wilson added: "The flu vaccine is a safe and highly effective method of preventing most cases of flu.
"Side effects are rare and usually mild. The best way to protect yourself and your family from influenza is with the flu vaccine."
Ms Wilson was speaking as she got her shot at the Flu Express service at the National Sports Centre in Devonshire.
The jab is available to priority groups through their GP or the Flu Express and costs $15 a shot.
But people aged over 65 will get the flu vaccine free of charge.
A spokeswoman for the health ministry said the public could pre-register for the flu shot to minimise paperwork on arrival and cut waiting time.
The Flu Express will be at:
• The Clocktower Mall in Dockyard on Monday between 10am and 2pm
• Penno's Wharf, St George's, on Wednesday from 10am to 2pm. There will be no drive-through service.
• The Clocktower Mall, Dockyard on Friday, between 10am and 2pm
People listed as priorities for the jab included healthcare workers, caregivers and essential service workers and people aged 65 and over
Those with chronic medical conditions who are at risk of complications from the flu – such as diabetics, asthmatics and people with heart disease – are also regarded as priority cases.
People in vulnerable groups should advise their GP that they have had the flu shot.
Children aged ten and over can also get the jab, but youngsters aged from six months to 9 should get it at their family doctor's surgery.
To register for the flu jab, visit www.gov.bm/ and click on the yellow flu vaccine registration tab in the top right-hand corner of the page.
An e-mail will be sent to and must be shown on arrival for vaccination.
People can also register by phone on 799 1524 or 332-8902 or fill out a consent form in person at the Flu Express location.
BHB Chief of Staff allays fears over increased coronavirus infection rates in children
Replacement for MDL head Weldon to be announced soon
Published December 04, 2021 at 7:22 am (Updated December 04, 2021 at 7:22 am)

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What's not to love about Pancake House? Delicious comfort food, homey interiors and friendly service has kept us coming back for more, all these years now. Pancake House has also been a part of many of our family celebrations.
Celebrating Bianca's 7th birthday, June 2005, Molito Lifestyle Mall branch.
Pancake House Addicts, August 2013. Some things never change.
We got so excited when we found out that Pancake House is having a repeat of their What a Wonderful Week, 50% off promo! Each day of the week (Monday thru Friday only), they feature one of their bestseller dishes at half price.
So, we decided to take the 5 day challenge- to eat in Pancake House 5 days in a row. And we did it! With at least 5 branches conveniently located within our vicinity, and since we're already big fans of Pancake House, this challenge was as easy as pie.
Monday 9/02- 2 pc. Classic Pan Chicken with rice. Who doesn't love Pancake House's chicken with gravy? Just perfect!
Tuesday 8/27- Our favorite Blueberry Pancakes!
Wednesday 8/28- Homestyle Spaghetti. Their signature spaghetti sauce is also available in 1kg jars at Php890 for you to take home.
Friday 8/30- Hearty Chef's Salad. The 50% off promo is good for both dine in and take out, so I brought home this salad to eat with our Friday night dinner at home.
Pancake House's What a Wonderful Week Promo is until September 6, 2013. Please check out their Facebook page for participating outlets and more details.
Go ahead and enjoy. Welcome home!
Wow! Ang sarap...Is that a nationwide promotion of Pan Cake house?
Hello, cheekeegirl. How are you? Promo is available in selected Metro Manila outlets.


In the latest installment of Humans of the MET, former Principal Flutist Trudy Kane discusses her musical upbringing, her experiences at the Met, and her transition into full-time teaching at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
What does a former MET Orchestra contrabassoonist do in retirement? Toni Lipton explains.
MET Orchestra violinist Miran Kim on rediscovering old haunts, learning a stack of new operas, and starting her professional career in Houston.
Violist Ira Weller shares one of his happiest - and one of his saddest - memories in our latest Humans of the MET feature.
In our latest Humans of the MET post, Katherine Anderson interviews violist Mary Hammann about what it's like behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Opera.
MET violist Katherine Anderson has been interviewing orchestra members to capture a snapshot of the many personalities of the MET as they talk about their lives both in and out of music. Here she sits down with Caterina Szepes, a member of the first violin section since 1997.
MET violist Katherine Anderson has been interviewing the "Humans of the MET" to capture a snapshot of the many personalities who work in the opera house. Here she speaks with Donna Racik, a prompter at the MET since 1988.
KA: What do you enjoy most about playing together in the Met orchestra?
W&M: What we love the most are the times when we get to sit together, sharing a stand in the 1st violin section. It challenges us and we get to play off of each other. It's also nice to be able to talk about work at home and know that we really understand where the other person is coming from....we share the same world.


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Retail, credit card payment service. Customer paying for order of cheese in grocery shop.
This has happened to me so many times. I go into the grocery store only planning to buy a few items and I walk out with a cart full. But, this may not be entirely my fault or yours if you have done this before as well.
1. They hand out free samples. These get us to try something we wouldn't normally try and then we typically end up buying it.
2. They make you use giant shopping carts. That makes us think our cart is kinda empty so we keep adding stuff to it.
3. They put expensive brands at eye level. We see what is at eye level first and that means we typically gravitate towards it.
4. They hide the essentials at the back of the store. Bread, milk, and cheese get put towards the back so we have to pass other stuff that might tempt us.
5. Ads that say things like, "Ten for $10." We then assume we need to buy all ten because it's a great deal when we really don't need all ten items of the same thing.


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Police: 15-Year-Old Girl Sexually Assaulted on Facebook Live
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Police in Chicago are searching for five or six suspects, each of them men or boys, who they believe raped a 15-year-old girl who had been missing and broadcast it on Facebook Live.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the girl went missing on Sunday, the Associated Press reports, but police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was leaving a station in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side late Monday afternoon the girl's mother approached him with graphic photographs of her daughter being sexually assaulted on Facebook.
Johnson immediately ordered an investigation of the assault and contacted Facebook to remove the video. Guglielmi said as many as 40 people saw the video, but none of them reported it to police. The girl's mother told Chicago's WGN-TV that the girl's uncle told her she was on Facebook Live and that's when she notified Johnson.
"What's even more disturbing, more than the fact that they did this, there were so many people that saw this and they didn't pick up the phone and dial 911," Johnson told WGN. "That's just not right and (we're) working on it and try to bring it to a successful resolution."
Guglielmi sent out a tweet early Tuesday saying the girl had been sexually assaulted on Facebook, but minutes later she was seen walking about four blocks away from her home. Police returned her to her mother and both were being interviewed by authorities. Police are now attempting to find the owner of the Facebook page, according to WGN.
This incident is the latest crime streamed on Facebook Live in Chicago. Earlier this year four people were charged with hate crimes and kidnapping in the beating of a mentally disabled man while streaming the violence. Also, last summer, a 28-year-old man was shot and killed while recording himself on Facebook Live.
Attempts to reach Facebook by EBONY for comment were not immediately returned.
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Ladies and Gentlemen Jehovah's Witnesses!
We Christians must always be reminded of God's judgment on the flesh. "The flesh" Jesus says, "is of no use" (Joh. 6,63). Whether it is sin or the righteousness of the flesh, it is useless. What is born of the flesh is flesh. Whether it is the flesh on the pulpit, the flesh under the pulpit, the flesh in prayers, the flesh in sanctification, the flesh in Bible reading, the flesh in singing spiritual songs, or the flesh in doing good, none of it is good, as God clearly explains.
The flesh neither brings anything to the spiritual life, nor is it able to fulfill the righteousness of God. Let us now point to some remarks about the flesh which the Lord makes through the apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans.
1. "Being fleshly is death" (Rom. 8,6). In God's eyes the flesh is spiritually dead. The only way to escape is to give the flesh to the cross. Despite the good works of the flesh, God has only one judgment: death.
2. "Being carnal is enmity against God" (Rom. 8,7). There is not the slightest possibility of peaceful coexistence. This is true not only of the sins that spring from the flesh, but also of its noblest thoughts and actions. It is obvious that shameful sins are hostile to God, but let us note that even righteous works can be done without God. 30 "The flesh is not subject to the law, for it does not fail either" (Rom. 8,7). The better the action of the flesh, the farther it is from God. How many "good" people are ready to believe in the Lord Jesus? Their self-righteousness is in truth unrighteousness. No one can ever be obedient to all the teachings of the Bible. Whether a man is good or evil, one thing is certain: he does not submit to the law of God. If he is evil, he transgresses the law, if he is good, he establishes another righteousness outside Christ and fails in the goal of the law, because "through the law comes knowledge of sin" (Rom. 3,20).
4. "But those who are carnal cannot please God" (Rom 8:8). This is the final verdict. Regardless of how good a man may be, if his action has its origin in himself, he cannot please God. God is only pleased with his Son; no man and no work can please him except him and his work. What the flesh does may seem good, but because it comes from the ego and is done in natural power, it cannot satisfy God. Man may conceive of many ways to do good, to improve, to progress, but these are carnal ways which do not please God. This is not only the case with those who are not born again, but applies equally to the reborn human being. God's pleasure or displeasure does not follow the principle of good and evil. God asks for the root of all things. An act can be good in itself, but God asks for its origin.
These scriptural passages show us how vain and useless the efforts of the flesh are. A Christian who has become quite clear how God judges the flesh will not easily make mistakes. As human beings, we distinguish between good and evil works; God goes deeper and makes a difference as to the origin of all works. Even the most excellent act of the flesh finds in God the same displeasure as the most shameful, for they are all of the flesh. Just as God hates unrighteousness, he also hates self-righteousness. The good works that are done before being born again and without connection with Christ and dependence on the Holy Spirit are not less carnal before God than immorality, impurity, dissipation, etc. No matter how commendable man's works may be, if they do not spring from a complete trust in the Holy Spirit, they are carnal and reprehensible from God. God resists everything and rejects and hates everything that belongs to the flesh, no matter how it appears outwardly and whether it is done by a sinner or a saint. His verdict remains: The flesh must die.
But how can a Christian see through this as God sees through it? God is relentlessly hard on the flesh and all his works; but the believer seems only his bad side, while lovingly hanging from the flesh itself. Instead of categorically rejecting the flesh, he continues to do much of himself and thus comes to a self-conscious and proud posture. He thinks he is rich in God's grace and easily able to do the right thing. The believer literally makes use of his flesh. Since he deceives himself with this, the Spirit of God must often guide him in humiliating ways so that he learns what his flesh is and how God sees it. God allows this Christian to fall, become weak and even sin, so that he may come to the insight that nothing good dwells in the flesh. This usually happens to those who believe they are making spiritual progress. The Lord tests them to get to know themselves. Often the Lord reveals His glory to such an extent that the believer cannot help but condemn His flesh as defiled.
Sometimes God allows attacks of the devil to lead him through his sufferings to self-knowledge. This is a very difficult lesson that cannot be learned in one day or night. During many years one gradually realizes how unworthy our flesh is. Even in his best effort there is still impurity. God therefore lets us experience Romans 7 until we are ready to acknowledge with Paul: "There is nothing good in my flesh."It is hard for us to say this in all sincerity. Without the countless experiences of painful defeats, the believer would continue to trust himself. This hundredfold and thousandfold failure finally leads him to discard all self-righteousness and all trust in his own flesh. But that is not all. Self-righteousness must be continued. When a Christian ceases to judge himself and fails to treat the flesh as useless and utterly despicable and instead adopts a self-flattering attitude, God is compelled to lead him again through fire to purification. How few have learned to humiliate themselves and acknowledge their impurity! But as long as one has not reached this position, God will not stop acting with us. Since a Christian is not freed for a moment from the influence of the flesh, he should never stop testing himself.
Many assume that the Holy Spirit only convicts worldly men of sin. But Christians must know that this work of the Holy Spirit is as important in the believer as it is in the sinner. Because this is so necessary, he convicts the believers of their sins, not just once or twice, but incessantly. Let us experience more and more that the Holy Spirit convicts us so that our flesh may be incessantly subjected to judgment and not prevail.
If a man on earth could ever have boasted in a carnal way, it was Paul, for he was blameless as to the righteousness of the law. And if anyone could have boasted of his flesh after being born again, then again Paul, because he had become an apostle who had seen the risen Lord with his own eyes and was used by the Lord in a special way. But Paul did not dare to boast, for he knew his flesh. His experience let him know who he was. God had already opened his eyes to the fact that nothing good dwells in his flesh. The self-righteousness, of which he once boasted, he now recognized as sin. He had learned the lesson. He did not dare, to trust his flesh. But he did not stop with this lesson. No, Paul continues to learn. And so he explains: "We boast of Christ Jesus and do not rely on the flesh" (Phil. 3,3). When we read on in Philippians 3, we see how humble he has become: "... so that I may not have my own righteousness" (9); "... so that I get to the resurrection from the dead" (11); "Not that I have already grasped it or that I am already perfect, but I chase after it ... after I am seized by Christ Jesus" (12).
When a Christian seeks to attain spiritual maturity, he must forever maintain the attitude that the Apostle Paul adopted throughout his spiritual transformation: "Not that I have already taken it." The believer must not find joy in self-confidence, self-satisfaction, or in himself. He cannot trust his flesh.
When God's children sincerely struggle for an overflowing life, they do not consider themselves stronger and better than others, regardless of their perhaps greater spiritual progress. Words like: "Of course, I differ substantially from others" they will not be heard from. If these believers let the Holy Spirit reveal the holiness of God and their own corruption to them and are not afraid to see themselves in the light of God, then they can hope to recognize their corruption sooner through the Holy Spirit and experience less painful defeats.
Because the flesh is so deceptive, the believer needs the cross and the Holy Spirit. Once he has realized how his flesh is in the eyes of God, he must at every moment, through the Holy Spirit, experience the deeper work of the cross. Just as a Christian is redeemed from the sin of the flesh by the cross, he must now be redeemed from the righteousness of the flesh by the same cross. And just as the Christian does not follow and sin the flesh through the walk in the Holy Spirit, so he will now also be redeemed from the righteousness of the flesh through the walk in the Spirit, not follow the flesh in self-righteousness.


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Maxwell and Company Architects & Designers Ltd is an architectural and design practice which was established in the city of Inverness in 1992 by James Maxwell, and which currently employs six staff, the majority of whom have been with the company for over eight years.
Like many a busy design-based company, Maxwell & Co have simply been too busy over the last few years to upgrade their web site, but were, at the same time, fully aware of how important a strong on-line branding message is. So they came to Plexus.
The new site, launched in late 2007 provides all of the ease-of-use and editability that Maxwell & Co desired, as well as offering useful tools for monitoring site traffic.


Investment fund bosses are trying to stop an analyst who was jailed after being convicted of stealing computer codes worth millions from being deported.
It's feared Ke Xu, the Cambridge University maths graduate dubbed the 'billion dollar brain', might offer secret trading algorithms he has memorised to rival foreign firms if allowed to leave the UK.
Bosses at Corbiere and Trenchant want to block the deportation.
A High Court judge is analysing arguments from lawyers representing the two companies plus Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Xu at a trial in London.
Mr Justice Supperstone has already considered preliminary issues in the case and outlined the background in a ruling.
He said Xu, who is in his 30s and comes from China, ''dishonestly removed 55 confidential strategies'' said to be worth more than £30 million with the aim of using them overseas.
He abruptly fled to Hong Kong in August 2014 to meet headhunters with the stolen data. Xu was arrested there and extradited to the UK.
Xu was given a four-year prison term by a judge at Southwark Crown Court in July 2015.
The judge said Ms Rudd decided to deport Xu, but investment fund bosses said there should be no deportation until August 2018 at the earliest, when his conviction officially ends.


The role played by Twitter in the reporting of the Church of England's General Synod has become a point of debate, with church figures calling for restraint in the language used in tweets.
The Synod, which is debating contentious topics including possible arrangements for Female priests to become Bishops, has been widely reported across the media.
And many observers and participants are busily tweeting their thoughts about the debates, communicating their thoughts in text message length sound-bites.
It is the very fact that all tweets must be short which may have led to stern warnings being issued by some, concerning the way that the church is seen by other Twitter users.
In particular debate has been fierce on the issue of Women Bishops, with both sides voicing strong opinions on the site.
But despite the Archdeacon's warning, people issuing tweets marked with the hashtag #synod have still talked of sexism, racism, evasion, manipulation and oppression.
Other twitter users have disagreed though, remarking that so far the church has yet to suffer greatly due to the synod tweets, and noting that general media coverage has been so far largely unaffected by the use of twitter.


Ah, the horror story. Even short stories and novellas have the ability to scare the living daylights out of us, and keep most people awake long into the night. Who among us is immune to the effects of a well written psychologically terrorizing tale?
Like other genres, horror has evolved over the years since the century changed. Books that once relied on slash and gore have become the minority in this genre, with authors preferring to delve into the psychology of terror. In other words, your favorite author might just use your very overactive imagination to scare you.
As the first hint of moonlight began to creep in, over the wooded forests of Ashwood Falls, Oregon, whispers and moans of spirits from below reverberated throughout the terror stricken town. Black, shadowy figures, smelling like the putrid stench of death, seeped into the cobblestone crevices of that once conservatively quiet community. They had been teetering on the verge of panic for the last month, waiting for this night to arrive.
The trees branches, blowing ferociously, and bowing with each rush of wind, knocked violently against the old brick building in one of the most historically significant parts of town. One single flash of lightning exploded across the sky, followed closely by a deafening crack of thunder, the sound echoing for miles. What started as just a light drizzle was now a flurry of torrential rain, mixed with a sudden onset of pelting hail against the corrugated metal roof of the old library.
Set on the crest of a breathtakingly scenic bluff, the town of Ashwood Falls was home to thousands of hardworking folk; bankers, lawyers, teachers, and the like. The townspeople were governed by a sheriff's department, whose minds had long since been under the complete control of the evil masterminding of the coven, making them all essentially their test subjects for the diabolical plans they had devised.


[In 1949 when he was 14 years of age and left China to go to Australia] When I left I didn't know if I would see my mother and father again because we were living in China. China was a pretty volatile sort of place. And I thought I should cry. But I couldn't cry.
[On crying on leaving Australia at age 14 to go to Australia] I thought it was the right thing to do, but I was so excited at going to Australia, seeing something different.
[In 2010] I paid for an assembly hall and they called it in my father's name. So I came to the opening and I was asked to say a few words. But instead of saying a few words, I started to weep. Funny, you see, it's a delayed reaction. We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.
[On succession plan's for the Meriton empire in 2010] The wife won't do it, the daughters don't want to do it. In the next generation there are four of them. I hope they will do it, yes. [In the future] I would like to see the people here still working here. And it'd like to see the family owning the business.
[On tourism in Australian in 2010] The way we see housing today, it's is not only for investors to buy, it is also for tourists to come and use. Because when I look at the number of tourists that come to Australia, the numbers are very small compared with the rest of the world. So I believe there is a very big future for tourism here.
The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney. They are doing a good job in promoting Surfers on the Gold Coast, but they should also do the same in Sydney.
By allowing you to rent your apartment from your SMSF, the government will benefit because when the SMSF sells the property it receives a 10 percent capital gains tax as opposed to zero when your principal home is sold.
[On Julia Gillard in 2010] She is a genius at handling her coalition partners,. She is a genius in the way she called the election at the right time. So I think from that point of view she is a very clever woman. I have great respect for her in the way she handles the situation.
I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job then there is no point in being tough with him.
My idea is that I shouldn't make it too hard for anyone. If I make it too hard for someone, I am doing the wrong thing. Because if it is hard for him, he can't perform as well as he could if I was reasonable.
I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.
These days I don't get angry much. I found it good anyway because I get it out of my system, then I forget about it. I forget about it in two minutes. That's the way I get rid of my steam.
Any goddamn fool can build things better but go broke.
I have a lot of things to do. And I like the people here, I like doing things here, so I come.
The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.
I only like to be involved where there are problems. Where there are problems I come with an instant solution and it's always wrong. It doesn't matter. I get all the people around me and I make them all think at once with me and I promise you our solution is always the best.
I still believe that bricks and mortar are the strongest investment.
[On retirement] They'll have to carry me out.


Lois Freeman, DNP, MS '02, BSN '01, always wanted to be a nurse, but it was her volunteer work in the intensive care unit as an undergraduate that led to Freeman's specialty in cardiology.
Although we know more about heart failure today, hospitalizations due to the condition have tripled, and it still claims the lives of more than 300,000 people a year. A key tactic in reducing these numbers is patient education.


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Sports Today – The 25 most important games in college football's spread revolution
LSU's adoption of, and success with, spread offense principles in 2019 signaled the end of the spread offense's revolutionary life cycle. To commemorate the moment, let's look back at the 25 most important and definitive games from the spread revolution.
Dec. 19, 1980: BYU 46, SMU 45
In 1980, Hal Mumme was quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M, asking existential questions about how the passing game could be deployed and why people didn't use it more. According to S.C. Gwynne's "The Perfect Pass," watching LaVell Edwards' BYU team score three touchdowns in four minutes to beat an old-school, power-heavy SMU team — in one of the sport's greatest games, no less — while gaining 446 yards through the air and losing 2 yards on the ground, was all the proof of concept Mumme needed.
A lot of the college football universe continued to see BYU's pass-happy offense as gimmicky in some way, even as the Cougars won the 1984 national title and beat almost all of the sport's blue bloods, from Miami to Penn State to Oklahoma to Notre Dame, over the course of about 15 years. Mumme would go on to serve as UTEP's offensive coordinator and as a high school coach before finally landing a collegiate head-coaching job and getting to truly implement his vision.
LaVell Edwards' high-powered, pass-happy offense at BYU helped pave the way for the spread offense. Andy Lyons/Allsport
Sept. 23, 1989: Iowa Wesleyan 49, Grinnell 7
Mumme's first victory as Iowa Wesleyan's head coach was a mission statement. Grinnell ran a traditional offense and had beaten Wesleyan the year before, but as Gwynne writes in "Perfect Pass," Wesleyan "destroyed them, 49-7, completing 30 of 50 pass attempts for 408 yards and six touchdowns. To put those numbers into perspective, that same year NFL teams averaged 18 passes per game out of 32 attempts for 211 yards." The seed had officially been planted.
Dec. 11, 1993: East Central 49, Glenville State 35
Rich Rodriguez became head coach at Glenville State in West Virginia at the age of 26, and with few people in the stands and little pressure, he followed his nose, and some sound logic, to some new ideas. He chose a fast tempo for his offense because he hated defending the two-minute drill as a defensive back at West Virginia. He put his quarterback in the shotgun because, as he told me in a 2014 interview, "We had a shorter quarterback, and I thought I could get five dumpy linemen who could get run over slowly," therefore giving his QB more time and space to throw. He discovered the zone read when his quarterback bobbled the snap on an inside zone handoff and tucked the ball and ran for a nice gain instead.
In 1993, his Pioneers rode these concepts to the NAIA championship game. Unfortunately, East Central's decidedly old-school offense — fullback Tyler Jack ran for 318 yards in the title game — won the day, and a defense coordinated by a young coach named Todd Graham made just enough stops. Two decades later, Rodriguez and Graham would coach against each other again, as rivals at Arizona and Arizona State.
The Air Raid offense developed by "mad scientists" Hal Mumme, right, and Mike Leach, center, hit the field at Iowa Wesleyan beginning in 1989. Courtesy of Iowa Wesleyan
Oct. 4, 1997: Kentucky 40, Alabama 34
After three years at Iowa Wesleyan and five at Valdosta State, Mumme was hired away by Kentucky in 1997. (C.M. Newton, the UK athletic director at the time, gets a spot in the spread offense hall of fame for this massive roll of the dice.)
It took Mumme only about a month to make a big impression. In front of what was then the second-largest crowd in the history of UK's Commonwealth Stadium, Anwar Stewart returned a blocked field goal 68 yards late in regulation, Tim Couch connected with Craig Yeast for a 26-yard score in the first overtime (he threw for 355 yards on the day), and the Wildcats beat the Crimson Tide for the first time since 1922.
Yes, 1922.
As the Montgomery Advertiser's John Zenor put it the next morning, "Times change. Sometimes they change gradually, sometimes with the full force of a barreling Mack truck." Mumme couldn't establish much program momentum in Lexington, but others would soon successfully spread the gospel.
Oct. 10, 1998: Wisconsin 31, Purdue 24
Thanks in part to 127 yards from sophomore sensation Ron Dayne, Wisconsin beat a game Purdue squad to move to 6-0 in an eventual Rose Bowl campaign. But all anybody could talk about was another sophomore: Drew Brees, Purdue's quarterback and the point guard for Joe Tiller's "basketball on grass" system. The Boilermakers would go on to upset maybe the best Kansas State team ever in a classic Alamo Bowl. But this game's on the list because Brees threw an NCAA-record 83 passes, completing 55 (also a record) for 494 yards. (He also threw four interceptions, which turned the game, but that's neither here nor there.)
Two years later, the pass-happy Boilermakers would go to the Rose Bowl for the first time in more than three decades.
Drew Brees piloted Joe Tiller's "basketball on grass" system all the way to the Rose Bowl at Purdue. Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
Dec. 31, 1998: Tulane 41, BYU 27
New Tulane coach Tommy Bowden promoted Rodriguez from the small-school ranks, and in his first season as offensive coordinator in New Orleans, he improved Tulane's scoring average by 15 points per game and flipped a 2-9 team to 7-4. In 1998, the Green Wave surged to 12-0 and 45 points per game.
Their Liberty Bowl victory was symbolic, coming as it did against Edwards' BYU. "BYU has never played a team like ours on offense," Tulane quarterback Shaun King said after throwing for 276 yards and rushing for 109. The game also took place without Bowden, who had already accepted the Clemson job. Rodriguez joined him, and within two years Clemson's Woody Dantzler had become the first quarterback to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in the same season.
Oct. 7, 2000: Oklahoma 63, Texas 14
Having experienced how frustrating Mumme's Air Raid system was to defend, former Florida defensive coordinator Bob Stoops hired Mumme's offensive coordinator, Mike Leach, as his own OC when he took the Oklahoma job in 1999. OU immediately surged from 115th to sixth in scoring offense, and Leach became Texas Tech's head coach after just one season in Norman.
The offense he left behind, now coordinated by Mark Mangino (and a smidge more balanced), continued to roll. In the Red River Rivalry in Dallas, Josh Heupel threw for 275 yards, running back Quentin Griffin scored six touchdowns and OU went up 35-0 just 3 minutes, 30 seconds into the second quarter. The Sooners beat No. 2 Kansas State in Manhattan the next week, then returned home and beat No. 1 Nebraska by 17. Two months later, they took down Florida State in the Orange Bowl to win the national title just two years after going 5-6.
Bob Stoops, left, had Mike Leach as his offensive coordinator at Oklahoma in 1999. AP Photo/J. Pat Carter
Nov. 4, 2000: Northwestern 54, Michigan 51
After a 3-8 debut campaign, Northwestern coach Randy Walker and offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson knew their I-formation attack just wasn't going to have the bodies to compete in the Big Ten. They needed a tactical advantage. Wilson visited Rodriguez at Clemson in the spring of 2000, learning how to operate what still amounted to a power run game, only with tempo and with the quarterback as a keeper threat.
The effects were immediate: Northwestern improved from 110th to 10th in scoring offense, and against a still-mighty Michigan, the Wildcats rushed for 332 yards and threw for 322 over 90 snaps, outscoring the exhausted Wolverines 18-6 in the fourth quarter.
Wilson: "I think when we did that, people were like, 'Wait a minute now, this is not a gimmick.' I think people took note of that one. Those blue guys? They were statistically one of the better defenses going into that game. It wasn't like that was some crap Michigan team. That was a good team. The spread teams that aren't physical? That's a gimmick. Even though we changed everything [that offseason], we window-dressed everything, it was still power, it was still downhill running." And it won Northwestern a share of the Big Ten title.
Sept. 14, 2002: Bowling Green 53, Missouri 28
Another branch on the spread tree began to grow in 2001 when Bowling Green named former Notre Dame receivers coach Urban Meyer as head coach. The Falcons hadn't enjoyed a winning season in seven years but immediately rose to 8-3.
Meyer and a staff that featured eventual successor Gregg Brandon and future Mississippi State and Florida head coach Dan Mullen crafted an offense around ahead-of-his-time quarterback Josh Harris, and the offense ignited. BGSU averaged 41 points per game in 2002 and thoroughly destroyed a Missouri team seeing its own offensive renaissance with quarterback Brad Smith (who would eventually become the first quarterback to average a 2,000/1,000 season over his career). Harris threw for 311 yards, rushed for 66 and caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from receiver Cole Magner.
By the next season, Meyer had taken the Utah head job. Two years and an unbeaten season later, he was at Florida, where he would win two national titles.
Urban Meyer's first job as a college head coach was at Bowling Green. AP Photo/Sentinel-Tribune, J.D. Pooley
Nov. 16, 2006: West Virginia 45, Pitt 27
After two prolific years at Clemson, Rodriguez was hired to lead his alma mater, and he had the Mountaineers at 9-4 by his second season. They took shares of the Big East title in 2003-04 and, with a freshman backfield — quarterback Pat White, running back Steve Slaton — went 11-1 in 2005, torching Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. The next season, Slaton and White broke another "that shouldn't be possible" barrier: In an 18-point romp over rival Pitt, White threw for 204 yards and rushed for 220, while Slaton rushed for 215 and caught six passes for 130. That was 14 years ago and remains a staggering feat.
WVU would go on to win 11 games in 2006 and get to within one win of the BCS Championship in 2007, but Pitt would get its revenge, frustrating a hobbled White and besting the Mountaineers 13-9 in a classic upset.
Sept. 8, 2007: Oregon 39, Michigan 7
Almost overnight, Chip Kelly became the standard-bearer for the up-tempo spread. Hired away from New Hampshire as Mike Bellotti's offensive coordinator before the 2007 season, he had the Ducks averaging 43 points per game nine games into the season. His second game was perhaps most memorable: In Ann Arbor, against Lloyd Carr's last Wolverines team, Dennis Dixon threw for 292 yards, Jonathan Stewart and Jeremiah Johnson combined for 200 rushing yards, and Dixon rushed for 76 while scoring on the most gorgeous fake Statue of Liberty play of all time.
The Ducks were primed for a spot in 2007's national title game until Dixon tore his ACL in November. Three years later, with Kelly as head coach, they would indeed make the title game.
Chip Kelly arrived at Oregon as an unknown coordinator from New Hampshire and helped change the game. AP Photo/Don Ryan, File
Nov. 24, 2007: Missouri 36, Kansas 28
You want a sign that college football has been turned on its head? How about Missouri and Kansas playing for the No. 1 ranking in the BCS standings?
Thanks to QB injuries and a huge run of upsets — Stanford over USC, Illinois over Ohio State, Kentucky and Arkansas over LSU, Texas Tech over Oklahoma, etc. — the 2007 title race was maybe the most wide open in the sport's history. When Mizzou and Kansas met at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium, they were a combined 21-1, and the winner would be positioned for a shot in the national title game. Soon-to-be Heisman finalist Chase Daniel completed 40 of 49 passes and Mizzou took a 28-7 lead into the fourth quarter before weathering a late charge. The Sports Illustrated cover that week read, "Mizzou, that's who."
(This being college football, the oligarchy quickly struck back. Oklahoma used a second-half run to cruise past Mizzou in the Big 12 title game, and thanks also to WVU's loss to Pitt, heavyweights LSU and Ohio State played for the national title. The minnows of the world will always have November 2007, though.)
Nov. 1, 2008: Texas Tech 39, Texas 33
Quick word association game: When I say "four verticals," what do you think of? The odds are pretty good you thought, "Harrell to Crabtree."
In his ninth season at Texas Tech, Mike Leach found a breakthrough. With a blue-chip quarterback (Graham Harrell) and the best receiver in college football (Michael Crabtree), the Red Raiders began 2008 10-0, thanks in part to this classic. They raced to a 19-0 lead against top-ranked Texas, but the Longhorns clawed back and took a 33-32 lead with 89 seconds remaining. Eighty-eight seconds later, Crabtree scored running Four Verticals, maybe the single most enduring and devastating route combination of the era.
On Nov. 1, 2008, Michael Crabtree catches a touchdown pass in the final seconds to win the game for Texas Tech over Texas.
Tech rose to second in the polls and demolished No. 8 Oklahoma State to set up what would become a winner-take-all matchup against Oklahoma for the Big 12 South crown.
Nov. 22, 2008: Oklahoma 65, Texas Tech 21
In 2002, Kevin Wilson left Northwestern to take the offensive co-coordinator job at Oklahoma. He became solo OC a few years later, and in 2008 his Sooners attack went on the most devastating offensive run to date.
"I remember Kirk Herbstreit called me in the preseason," Wilson says, "and I said, listen, we're going to do this no-huddle stuff, but we're going to be different. We're not going to be like Northwestern and going spread all the time. I got Jermaine Gresham, and he's gonna play both in the slot and at tight end. I got Demarco Murray, he's gonna play tailback and play in the slot. I got this kid named Brody Eldridge, and he's gonna play fullback and tight end. I'm gonna go from big to little without substituting, and I'm gonna go fast as crap. I think we've got a chance to be kind of different."
Everything current-day offensive coordinators are attempting to do, mixing formations and tempos to create mismatches, the 2008 Sooners did in droves. They averaged 48 points per game through eight games, then somehow found another gear, scoring 60-plus for five consecutive weeks. (It could have been six straight, as Wilson points out: "We were beating Kansas State 55-3 at halftime, but we just kicked a field goal in the second half.")
This was the buzz saw Tech ran into late in 2008. "Let me tell you about Mike [Leach]'s teams," Wilson says. "When Mike's teams are good, they're physical and they're dirty and they play great, and that was a damn good team. They were a really hot team, and we were just the hotter team. With the no-huddle and the spread — kinda like the [UNLV] Runnin' Rebels in basketball — if you get cold sometimes you can look pretty damn bad, but when you're running … when you get hot … it can be fun." A spectacular understatement.
Nov. 22, 2008: Abilene Christian 93, West Texas A&M 68
While the FBS was experiencing an offensive renaissance in 2008, as tends to be the case, the really crazy stuff was happening at the lower levels. In the second round of the Division II playoffs, Abilene Christian and West Texas A&M put on a ludicrous display of 161 points and 1,531 yards. This would have been high-scoring for a basketball game. ACU led 42-34 at halftime and used a 37-POINT THIRD QUARTER to distance itself.
Abilene Christian's Bernard Scott rushed for 292 yards and six scores, and Billy Malone completed 16 of 25 passes for 383 yards and six touchdowns to six different receivers (including Scott). A&M's Keith Null went 42-for-63 for 595 and seven touchdowns; fourteen of those completions went to Charly Martin, who gained 323 yards and scored five times. Perhaps the biggest surprise: There were four punts!
A&M's head coach at the time? Don Carthel, UTEP's offensive-line coach when Mumme was the offensive coordinator. Everything ties together.
Jan. 8, 2009: Florida 24, Oklahoma 14
In a national title matchup of two of the spread's early adopters, Urban Meyer's Gators found an edge.
Oklahoma controlled the first half, but Florida made two goal-line stands — a fourth-down stop and a deflected interception — to buy itself time. In the second half, Florida's Tim Tebow (231 passing yards, 109 rushing yards) and Percy Harvin (171 total yards rushing and receiving) took over. Florida took a 17-14 lead early in the fourth quarter, and after another interception in its territory, iced the title with a seven-minute, 76-yard touchdown drive. The Sooners had the formations and tempo, but the Gators had the run game and the best secondary Oklahoma had faced all season.
Jan. 4, 2012: West Virginia 70, Clemson 33
This game had an impact in both the present and future tenses. First, it provided proof of concept for Dana Holgorsen, former Iowa Wesleyan receiver under Mumme and former Texas Tech assistant under Leach. He had taken over for Bill Stewart, Rodriguez's successor at WVU when Rodriguez left for Michigan, and in his first season he led the Mountaineers to 10 wins and a demonstrative Orange Bowl victory. (And because of one of the plays WVU dominated with, it also introduced the world to Bob Stitt, the mad-scientist head coach at Colorado School of Mines at the time and a soon-to-be cult favorite among spread-heads.)
Over time, WVU's victory also became known for the chain of events it put into motion. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney fired defensive coordinator Kevin Steele, replacing him with Oklahoma's Brent Venables, who went on to craft one of the most modern and dynamic defenses in college football. Steele, meanwhile, went back to the drawing board and emerged at the end of the decade as another one of the game's most effective defensive coaches at Auburn. Failure remains life's best teacher.
Nov. 10, 2012: Texas A&M 29, Alabama 24
Conference realignment ran roughshod at the beginning of the 2010s, in the process allowing us to answer what was until then a hypothetical question: Can a Big 12 offense win in the mean, mighty SEC?
Yes. The answer is always yes.
Perhaps you prefer the symbolism of Big 12 transplant Missouri reaching the SEC title game, and nearly the BCS championship, in its second season in the league. But for sheer starkness, it's hard to top Texas A&M, with its slippery redshirt freshman quarterback (Johnny Manziel) and a coach with a sterling spread pedigree (Kevin Sumlin), beating the defending national champs in Tuscaloosa.
Revisit Texas A&M's upset of No. 1 Alabama in 2012 and the game that turned Johnny Manziel into a legend.
A&M scored on its first three drives to take a 20-0 lead. The Crimson Tide cut the deficit to three in the fourth quarter, but the unflinching Aggies scored twice and forced two turnovers to seal the victory. A&M would go on to win 11 games, and Manziel would become the first freshman to win the Heisman.
Nov. 7, 2013: Baylor 41, Oklahoma 12
The most impressive thing about this game wasn't the 29-point scoring margin — it was the fact the Baylor offense didn't even play all that well. The Bears came into the game averaging 69 points per game (!) and 9.0 yards per play and managed merely 41 and 5.7, respectively, against the conference's standard-bearer.
The Thursday night, prime-time humiliation of a college football blue blood was the high point for Art Briles' tenure at Baylor. Through his own interpretation of the Air Raid — which stretched defenses out even further, and created more big plays than virtually any offense ever — the former Leach assistant and successful high school head coach had resurrected a moribund program and brought a Heisman to Waco, Texas, through the exploits of quarterback Robert Griffin III. Then, with Bryce Petty behind center in 2013, the Bears were even more dangerous, at least until a road letdown against Oklahoma State knocked them from national title contention.
Nov. 30, 2013: Auburn 34, Alabama 28
The run-pass option — or "POP" pass, as some called it at the time — introduced itself into the lexicon in one of the greatest games in college football's illustrious history. While we remember the 2013 Iron Bowl as the Kick Six thanks to Chris Davis' last-second, 109-yard return of a missed field goal, what happened 32 seconds of action earlier probably had a more lasting effect: Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall kept the ball on what appeared to be a zone read, but just as he looked to be crossing the line of scrimmage, he threw the ball to Sammie Coates, who raced down the sideline for a 39-yard touchdown.
Gus Malzahn was a renowned high school coach and offensive mind who had served as Auburn's offensive coordinator during the Tigers' national title run in 2010. In just his 12th game as AU's head coach, he had already made a forever contribution to college football lore. Auburn won the SEC title and nearly beat Florida State in the BCS title game.
Oct. 22, 2016: Oklahoma 66, Texas Tech 59
By the mid-2010s, spread principles such as tempo and the zone read had long since become part of the fabric of the sport, and RPOs were taking over, to the extent that even a seemingly old-school team like Penn State was riding them to a Big Ten title. But the Big 12 was still figuring out ways to push the envelope, never more than in this ridiculous quarterback battle between Oklahoma's future No. 1 pick Baker Mayfield and Texas Tech's future NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes.
Mayfield threw for 545 yards and seven touchdowns, the Sooners' Joe Mixon gained 377 combined rushing and receiving yards and Dede Westbrook caught nine balls for 202. On the other side of the field, Mahomes completed 52 of 88 passes and was credited with 85 rushing yards. The teams combined for 185 snaps and 1,702 yards (exactly 854 each), and OU basically won because it scored touchdowns on its final six possessions, while Tech did so on only its final five. When you combine unmatched offensive talent with nearly perfect offensive schemes (and, yes, a lack of matching defensive talent), this is what happens.
Baker Mayfield and Patrick Mahomes traded blows in a record-setting game in 2016, in which the two QBs combined for 1,383 passing and rushing yards.
Jan. 9, 2017: Clemson 35, Alabama 31
Early in 2012, after facing an up-tempo Ole Miss attack (that would go on to beat his team in both 2014 and 2015), Alabama coach Nick Saban famously asked, "Is this what we want football to be?" The joke since is that he wasn't asking out of exasperation — he was simply wanting to confirm before adopting spread principles himself. He hired Lane Kiffin to modernize his attack, and Bama won the 2015 national title with it. But in 2016, Bama got outflanked by another gaudy spread interpretation.
The Tide took a 24-14 lead into the fourth quarter, but Swinney's Clemson was controlling the football, eventually snapping the ball 99 times to Bama's 66, and even a defense as deep as Saban's wilted. The Tigers scored early in the fourth quarter, then drove 156 yards in under four minutes on their final two possessions. Deshaun Watson, 36-for-56 for 420 yards overall, hit Hunter Renfrow for a 2-yard score with one second left, and Clemson had its first title in 36 years.
Jan. 8, 2018: Alabama 26, Georgia 23
It was called "Seattle" in the Alabama playbook. In general parlance, though, it was Four Verticals.
Tua Tagovailoa throws a perfect pass to DeVonta Smith for a 41-yard TD in OT, giving the Crimson Tide their fifth national championship under Nick Saban.
When college football's dominant program has adopted your base principles, the battle is won.
Nov. 19, 2018: Los Angeles Rams 54, Kansas City Chiefs 48
We sometimes overstate the "collegefication" of the NFL — the NFL's blocking rules make RPO options a bit more limited, NFL defenses adjusted almost overnight to slowing tempo teams such as Chip Kelly's Philadelphia Eagles, and there are always schematic differences when there are fewer talent advantages to come by.
That said, the offensive talent trickling up into the NFL has been spread-oriented for a while, and it's had an obvious effect, never more than in this game. Maybe the two most currently renowned offensive head coaches in the league (Kansas City's Andy Reid and Los Angeles' Sean McVay) were at the helm as two former Air Raid stars (Texas Tech's Mahomes and Cal's Jared Goff, coached in college, respectively, by former Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury and former Tech assistant Sonny Dykes) combined to throw for 891 yards and 10 touchdowns.
This was as close to a Big 12-style shootout as you're going to see in the NFL, and it's not a coincidence that it is also regarded as one of the most entertaining games in league history.
Nov. 9, 2019: LSU 46, Alabama 41
Among college football's ruling class, LSU was one of the final spread holdouts, continuing to deploy Big Burly Manball through the Les Miles era and into the first years of Ed Orgeron's tenure. Orgeron proclaimed a desire for modernization but couldn't get all the pieces put together at first. But oh, did everything come together in 2019.
With veteran quarterback Joe Burrow, one of the most talented receiving corps you'll ever see and some added energy in the playbook provided by new assistant Joe Brady, LSU put together maybe the best offensive season of all time. Despite playing half of the season's-end SP+ top 10, the Tigers led the nation with 48 points and 568 yards per game. Burrow posted FBS' first 200 passer rating, completing 76% of his passes for 5,671 yards, 60 touchdowns and only six interceptions.
Bama prevented big plays better than most against LSU and sacked Burrow five times, but Burrow still completed 31 of 39 passes, and Clyde Edwards-Helaire gained a combined 180 yards on 29 rushes and receptions. The Tigers bolted to a first-half lead, and though the Crimson Tide charged back, cutting a 20-point deficit to one score three times in the fourth quarter, LSU responded with touchdown drives each time. The Tigers were forced to deploy their vast arsenal to win, and they did so.
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5 ingredient pomegranate-glazed carrots with whipped goat cheese is a colorful and cooling side to brighten up any dinner spread. It's Day FOUR of 5 Ingredient Thanksgiving Sides Recipe Week, which means this train will soon be coming to a stop, folks!
Incase you missed the recipes from earlier this week, we kicked things off with some insanely delicious Brussels sprouts which have already received top-notch reviews, and then shifted to brown butter butternut squash. Yesterday, we put the fun in fungi with some super easy marsala mushrooms, and today… we're going back to our "roots" with these gorgeous pomegranate-glazed carrots.
A simple side of perfectly roasted carrots is the breather a crowded Thanksgiving table needs—a bit of palate relief that still looks elegant. The perfect balance of sweet and tart, these carrots would fit the bill all season long. Roasting carrots heightens their sweet flavor, browns and crisps the exteriors, and cooks interiors to tender perfection. You don't even have to bother peeling the carrots for this recipe—not only do those thin skins pack nutrients, but you'll get a better char by leaving them on.
Look for carrots that are similar in size to ensure they all cook at the same rate. To encourage caramelization, make sure each carrot makes direct contact with the baking sheet—this also allows room for heat to circulate. Pomegranate juice coats the roasted carrots in a gorgeous garnet-hued glaze that also packs a powerful punch of heart-healthy polyphenols. Use pomegranate juice that has been flash-pasteurized (such as Pom), so it doesn't turn brown while being simmered.
If desired, use the jewel-like pomegranate arils as a final garnish for texture and a seasonal touch. The sweet-tart flavor will help cut through the richness of the whipped goat cheese, too.
5 ingredient pomegranate-glazed carrots with whipped goat cheese is a colorful and cooling side to brighten up any dinner spread.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Line carrots on a large baking sheet. Coat with oil, salt, and pepper; tossing to coat all sides of carrots. Bake for 30 minutes, turning once halfway through.
Simmer pomegranate juice in a small saucepan for 10 to 12 minutes, until mixture reduces to about 2 to 3 Tablespoons. Brush pomegranate glaze over carrots and place back in the oven at 425°F for another 7 to 10 minutes, until carrots are tender and caramelized.
Mix together softened goat cheese and yogurt until smooth. Spread on the bottom of a serving platter. Top with roasted carrots and sprinkle with pistachios. Garnish with pomegranate seeds and carrot top greens, if desired.
This looks great! I plan to make for my "Friendsgiving" this weekend. Any tips on making a couple hours ahead? Is this served hot or at room temp?
Hi, Sarah! Great idea! You can certainly make the whipped goat cheese in advance and just leave it refrigerated. I'd wait until close to serving to roast the carrots. The dish definitely be served closer to room temperature. I hope you enjoy it!


Crock pot decadent chocolate cake, need I say more. This easy cake is so nice to make. It only requires that you stir everything together and then place it in the crock pot. In a couple of hours you have an amazing chocolate cake.
It isn't very often that you find a cake that you can put in the crock pot and forget about it. This crock pot decadent chocolate cake is loaded with chocolate. Then I love that while it is still warm, you can add some cream or ice cream and just let it soak right in. We eat this cake while it is still warm, or we warm it back up before we eat it.
So today my husband has been working in the kitchen. A few weeks ago my big light went out, and ever since we have felt like pioneers, using one small bulb in the kitchen. We decided to put in some can lights, but if we had to do it over again, I would tell him to go buy a new big light, just so it would have been done.
I know that when you have something break after 22 years, it takes some undoing to get things ready to do things over and get them right. One great thing about my husband is that he is very handy, and he is very meticulous when it comes to doing things. Sometimes it does take a little longer than I would like, but it does eventually get done, and it is done precisely.
Plus, I can't wait to see the lights after they are in. The only problem is that with new lights, comes the other things that need to be done. My ceiling needs painted, because it seems that a couple of my kids have opened up different bottles and they have exploded all over the ceiling. Sometimes, I think that it would be easier to start from scratch. However, we did build a lot of our house.
I remember coming down off of the roof after a hot summer day and my ankle was huge. I told my husband that I had had it and I didn't even want to move into this house. I guess that I was just a little tired. I had kids that were little at the time and I was tired of putting the TV in the garage and letting them watch VHS tapes. Ha ha. Some people probably don't even know what those are!
That day I must have left the kids with someone to tend, but I do know that I was never so happy when we were finished with the shingles on the roof. A few times we have had some crazy winds come and blow some of the neighbor's shingles off their roofs. But my husband assures me that it will not happen to ours because they are put on right. That is fine by me, and he is right.
He was working in the kitchen tonight while I was trying to fix dinner and he said, "I think that I am going to have to send my family away on vacation while I work on the house". That would be great and all, but I would much rather have him come with us if we were going to go on vacation.
I guess if it doesn't get done today, I will be having pizza for dinner tomorrow. And for dessert, I will have crock pot decadent chocolate cake, because we did have some left over. I guess that is what happens when you only have a few of you left at home.
1- Every crock pot is different, so check your cake when it gets to 5 hours, if you are cooking it on low.
2- Check it at 2 hours if you are cooking it on high.
3- I like to cook crock pot decadent chocolate cake on low if possible, it seems to cook up a little nicer.
4- If you cook it on high, and it seems like the middle isn't done, check it every 10 minutes, and remember that the crock pot will continue to cook as the pot is still hot.
5- You could also drizzle this cake with vanilla frosting.
6- If you want, you can also use 3/4 cup vegetable oil and omit the apple sauce.
In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, sour cream, water, eggs, dry pudding mix, vegetable oil, and apple sauce.
Lightly grease a crock pot.
Then pour the mixture into a medium to large size crock pot.
Cover and cook on low for 5 - 7 hours.
Check the cake after 4 hours.
Or cook on low for 2 hours.
When the cake is finished, garnish with ice cream, or whipped topping or cream.
Serve while it is warm.
I love Crock Pot meals, but especially cake in the Crock Pot! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
You are so welcome, thank you for checking it out! And thank you for stopping!!!
I never think to do sweets in the crock pot, what a fun idea!
I usually don't think about doing desserts in my crock pot either, but I do like this cake. Thank you for coming by.
I love that this is made in the crockpot! Plus anything you are going to call chocolate and decadent, I am down for!
I also so look forward to your recipes, looks delicious! Thanks for sharing with us at the To Grandma's house we go link party, see you next week!
Thank you for the wonderful party. It is always so fun to attend. And we appreciate your support!


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Slowly, slowly creeping downhill. The stories are starting to feel like they had a Friday afternoon brainstorm that got off track, and nothing was really hashed out. Or they were excited to be a part of it, but the effort to actually make the show was too much. I don't know, but the show is slipping fast.
The Companion ★★
This one seemed more convoluted than it needed to be. IMDB wraps it up like this:
13-year-old Harold chooses to investigate the deserted homestead of the late Raymond Brenner, and finds that he has another Companion: a deadly, indestructible scarecrow.
It felt rushed but slow. Not great.
Lydia Layne's Better Half ★½
I hate when two people fight. One gets killed by something that looks like an accident. The other person freaks and tries to get rid of the body. If it looks like it could have been an accident, leave it at that. But this is Creepshow, show we're not leaving it at that.
I think this highlights one of the show's flaws. The characters. While this might have been an ok (meh) segment, it could have really benefitted from some juicy characters. Lydia Layne could have been a royal, over-the-top bitch, but she was kinda trying to do something nice even it was kinda selfish. And her decision to dispose of the body was apparently just instinctual. No real thought put into it. Opps, she died, I'll get rid of her. No one will know. But if she'd been a raving, cold… She could have had more of Billy's (from the original film) bitchiness or Grantham's persistence or Pratt's cold assholeishness. Instead, she's a PG-13 version of a villain.
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Adding custom fonts in MyBB is one of the requirements for every forum administrator to give their forum a different look and style. I will cover two ways on adding custom fonts i.e. using google fonts and using ttf file inside FTP directly. It is very simple, and I will break this tutorial down in simple steps so you can easily add custom fonts.
Adding custom fonts in MyBB is simple and it is a three step process.
Note: I added sans-serif just in case my file is deleted or not loading as a fallback.
Adding google font is really easy, google has added a small document which you can read for it. Here is a link to it.
To add google fonts in MyBB, first select the font from Google Fonts.
For this example we are selecting, Open Sans.
I hope this tutorial helped you adding custom fonts and google fonts in MyBB.
Amazing tutorial, thanks a lot.


From 1 September 2013, the active substances contained in a biocidal product used in the treatment of the treated articles, have to be either listed in Annex I, already approved or under evaluation for the relevant product-type.
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Thursday afternoon, a man went inside the offices of a Maryland newspaper and using a shotgun and smoke grenades, he shot and killed 5 people and wounded several others.
Before anyone knew who committed the mass shooting, what he used or why did it, some liberals instantly took to social media and began blaming President Donald Trump for the shooting. Their rush to point fingers only revealed their blind hatred for the first president in decades who is actually trying to fix many of America's problems and return our nation to greatness. It also revealed their lack of intelligence with their jumping to conclusions before anything was known.
(Constitution.com) – Police in Maryland on Thursday were not yet sure if they had the shooter in custody, what his name was, or why he opened fired on a small Maryland newspaper office, but liberals were already jumping to social media to blame Trump and conservatives for the crime.
On Thursday afternoon, a man began shooting employees of the Capital Gazette, a small Maryland newspaper. By the time the killer's gun went silent, five were dead and several others were "gravely injured," according to the paper's own Twitter account.
The way so many liberals hate Trump, they would still blame him if all guns were banned and some suicide bomber walked into a building and blew themselves up, killing dozens of people. This makes as much sense as blaming Trump for the decades old practice of separating the kids of illegal aliens from their parents.


I'm looking at my options. We want to relocate somewhere that doesn't get a lot of snow, in fact one or two a winter is fine with us. We would like mild like 40's and above winters where the kids can go outside with jackets and not freeze. Yet we want summers that aren't real humid, heat up to 100 is fine need be. Is Arkansas a good state for this?
I don't really think there's ANY good state for that. Anywhere you're going to have a mild winter in the US is pretty much going to be pretty darn humid in the summer. You could try a place that gets more or less NO winter.
Albuquerque is a good place for the mildish winters/dry summers weather, if you can afford it.
I believe that Arizona, below Flag but well above Phx, might also fit your bill (if you can afford it, very expensive indeed).
Of course, many areas of California would be lovely in terms of weather, but this is REALLY the place to add "if you can afford it."
Have you considered some of Tennessee or the Bowling Green area of Kentucky? Also some of the spots in the Carolinas would give you that sort of weather.
Just some thoughts. We are retiring also and looking and looking for that "special place."
At this point I'm considering ANY state really. But I want to stay away from Southern California. Been there did that 16 years. Tooooo crowded! Thanks for the site, I'm going to go do the profile thing now.
I'm affraid of racism in states like NC or Georgie really bad. I have a really hard time with people who are extremely racist. That being either white or black or what ever color you are being against another. And hurricanes also scare me.. but I have heard good things about NC. I wonder if it's humid though because I've heard that also.
Humidity is relative (no pun intended!). A person from LA feels like Arkansas is dry compared to here. Here it is like a sauna in the summer time (which has already started this year....in April!). When I'm in Arkansas, I find the humidity in the summer very bearable. I guess it's all what you're used to.
I think you would find many winter days in Arkansas where the temp would be around 40. It seems that periods of really cold weather only last a few days.
I must add, that I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind the idea that Georgia or NC have more racism than Arkansas. I don't think there would be much of a difference with that. If you are from Southern Cali, you will probably find much of AR to be quite behind-the-times in terms of things like that. Not saying it to be mean, but you'd be in for a big culture shock.
I wouldn't say that much of AR, especially the northern areas, will have a winter where you can go play outside without jackets. I wouldn't consider 40 degrees to be no-jacket weather, but that's me. If you want non-humid, stay away from NE/east AR. The delta is the most humid area!
Racism ! It must be the Humidity .
I have been told about racism, I don't know it first hand. I went to Louisianna for my step dads buriel and oh my gosh was it horrid there! We were in a Piggly Wiggly (I still laugh at that name) and my change got thrown at me from the person behind the counter. Mind you I'm white, they were not. But I saw it from both sides terrible there. I don't think I can live with that all the time. And talking with a few others from another group I was in they said it was bad in those other states. But maybe it's a city thing, not through out the state? Sorry if I offended anyone, wasn't trying to at all. I have heard such great things about NC. I even did that "find your spot" thing and a ton of the cities that came up for what I want were in NC. I have a friend in Benton, Arkansas so I should ask him about his weather. Not sure where in the state that is though.


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How have time-pressed women adopted the internet to help them care for home and family? This project is one of the first longitudinal studies performed at the ID. In 2010, students engaged 25 women across 4 lifestages to better understand how those women use the internet to care for home and family. While the first study focused heavily on online shopping, it also revealed larger patterns of change in both mindset and behavior as participants integrated the internet into their home management practices.
How have time-pressed women adopted the internet to help them care for home and family? This project is one of the first longitudinal studies performed at the ID. In 2010, students engaged 25 women across 4 lifestages to better understand how those women use the internet to care for home and family. While the first study focused heavily on online shopping, it also revealed larger patterns of change in both mindset and behavior as participants integrated the internet into their home management practices. In spring 2012, students followed up with 12 of those women to see what changed after smart phones and mobile devices became ubiquitous in their households; patterns from the first study were not only still present, they were more entrenched and evident.
Two such patterns include: A "batch" model for task management has a person execute an entire task all at once: paying bills and reconciling checkbooks at the end of the month, or cleaning house on Saturday mornings or even eating three separate meals a day. A "sliced" model fragments larger tasks, like money management, cleaning and eating, into smaller tasks that can be executed separately and over time, as time permits. This is not multi-tasking, which is about combining together activities that seem complementary at the moment. Task-slicing is about breaking apart large tasks into smaller events that happen more frequently and can be done in stages, and therefore fit between other, more central activities.
The women in our 40s segment (employed with at-home children over five years of age) offered the best evidence of this change, as they are also "pre-internet." They were most likely to articulate the old way of doing things—the ritual of getting out the envelopes, stamps and paperwork when the bank statement finally arrived—and to compare that to the more "convenient" way of doing things via the internet. This includes checking bank balances on a daily basis, switching their attention to more effectively monitor their cash flow, rather than focusing on the larger picture of their spending practices and cash inflows and outflows. This shift from batch to sliced is widely perceived by participants to be more convenient, to more firmly locate tasks within their control and to offer a better fit with their ever-changing schedules. What is visible is in the data, but not necessarily to participants, is the resulting complexity of managing a growing number of microtasks, a sense of "never being done," a lack of immersion in tasks and the loss of the larger picture offered by focusing on a task for an extended period of time.
Categories that evidence task-slicing behaviors include shopping, finances, scheduling, communication and education/learning, and our study suggests participants are also applying this "new normal" to categories that are not internet-related. While the internet has given our time-pressed women an unprecedented ability to slice tasks into shiftable units, this newfound way of working is changing how they allocate time in their lives overall, and is clearly building new mental models of efficiency, productivity and time optimization. As a result, task slicing is also building new routines and habits, and setting up expectations that participants carry into offline experiences, which often fail to measure up.
Online shopping offers a good example of how Internet-based task management opens up new conceptions of time. For many participants, the ability to bend time to fit their needs begins online, but bleeds into a general expectation that all tasks should fit around their lives and priorities, not the other way around.
1. Shifting time: Before, tasks were defined by when the store, bank or school was open. Using the Internet, women can shift a task to the time that is convenient for them, not the service provider.
2. Pausing time: On the Internet, no one cares if you put your task on hold while in the middle of it. Our study participants break from online tasks to interject offline tasks, like changing the baby or making dinner, before returning to their online task. This allows women to build tasks around what matters at the moment—the people in their lives—rather than their To Do lists.
3. Dialing time up and down: The Internet allows participants to match time spent on a task to its perceived importance. They spend more on tasks they value (selecting a breeder for a puppy) and less on routine tasks (scheduling appointments).
4. Mirroring time: Getting tasks done digitally while also being physically present for kids and spouse at the same time makes participants feel like they have superpowers.
5. Maximizing time: Online shopping online can be measured in minutes, not miles. Fewer tasks fit into a given amount of time when they are done offline. The Internet allows participants to do more in less time and with greater satisfaction.


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Addiction and moralization: the role of the underlying model of addiction
L.E. Frank, S.K. Nagel
Addiction appears to be a deeply moralized concept. To understand the entwinement of addiction and morality, we briefly discuss the disease model and its alternatives in order to address the following questions: Is the disease model the only path towards a 'de-moralized' discourse of addiction? While it is tempting to think that medical language surrounding addiction provides liberation from the moralized language, evidence suggests that this is not necessarily the case. On the other hand non-disease models of addiction may seem to resuscitate problematic forms of the moralization of addiction, including, invoking blame, shame, and the wholesale rejection of addicts as people who have deep character flaws, while ignoring the complex biological and social context of addiction. This is also not necessarily the case. We argue that a deficit in reasons responsiveness as basis for attribution of moral responsibility can be realized by multiple different causes, disease being one, but it also seems likely that alternative accounts of addiction as developed by Flanagan, Lewis, and Levy, may also involve mechanisms, psychological, social, and neurobiological that can diminish reasons responsiveness. It thus seems to us that nondisease models of addiction do not necessarily involve moralization. Hence, a non-stigmatizing approach to recovery can be realized in ways that are consistent with both the disease model and alternative models of addiction.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-017-9307-x
Published - 1 Apr 2017
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Moralization
Frank, L. E., & Nagel, S. K. (2017). Addiction and moralization: the role of the underlying model of addiction. Neuroethics, 10(1), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-017-9307-x
Frank, L.E. ; Nagel, S.K. / Addiction and moralization: the role of the underlying model of addiction. In: Neuroethics. 2017 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 129-139.
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Background: Chronic back pain is considered the number one cause of musculoskeletal disability worldwide. As the fifth most common reason for a physician visit, it affects five out of ten working adults and is responsible for causing 40% of missed days off work. Unfortunately most people will experience acute back pain at some point in their lives.
The most common cause of back pain among younger and middle aged adults is related to tears of the collagen fibers in the disc. These tears by themselves can cause pain, or if a significant number of fibers tear, the disc can bulge and herniate. Bulges and herniation can be a source of irritation or can compress spinal nerves causing "sciatica". Over time, if the disc does not repair itself, it deteriorates and leads to spinal stenosis, or narrowing of the spaces around the spinal nerves and causing pain in the arms or legs.
Hypothesis: Recent advances in sports medicine have successfully shown that platelets obtained from the blood and other cells in bone marrow can be used to repair chronically torn, non-healing ligaments and tendons. Owing to the relatively low blood supply in the disc, the introduction of concentrated platelets should help to seal tears and contribute vital growth and healing factors to facilitate natural repair processes.
Study Results: Dr. Bodor is administering platelet rich plasma (PRP) to discs experiencing some degree of degeneration in the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine. As of October 2018, Dr. Bodor and NMRF Research Assistant Yvette Uribe have performed 332 PRP treatment procedures on 278 patients with a total of 657 discs with good to excellent outcomes. All patients are being tracked 3 months post-procedure and again at 1-year after the initial treatment.
With the conclusion of the study, they will submit their findings for publication.


An immaculate extended three bedroom detached home set against a backdrop of stunning scenery appreciated by a four tiered landscaped garden on Pennine road, Horwich. The property offered with no onward chain has been modernised throughout and finished to a high standard and comprises, porch, hall, W.C. lounge, open plan kitchen diner, utility, sitting room with bi-folding doors opening to a decked area. On the upper level three well proportioned bedrooms and a three piece shower room. The property also benefits form gas central heating and double glazed windows. Externally to the front garage and driveway with landscaped garden to the rear that simply must be viewed to fully appreciate all that is on offer. The property rests within a popular and sought after residential location set within reach of schools, Middlebrook retail park, the village of Horwich bustling with amenities, local train station, motor way access and good transport and commuting links. In conclusion a property offering something unique and different with early viewing an absolute must, NO CHAIN.
Porch to the front with upvc and glass finish, door form porch to hall.
Inviting hall accessed via porch with stairs rising to upper level, oak effect flooring, power points, wall mounted radiator, door to W.C., door to lounge.
Accessed from the hall with low level W.C. vanity wash basin, frosted window to side aspect.
Accessed for the hall to spacious lounge wiith opening to kitchen diner, double glazed window to front elevation, oak effect floor, power points, wall mounted radiator.
Open plan via lounge to kitchen diner with a range of wall and base units finished in high gloss with contrasting roll top work surfaces, splash back mosaic effect tiling, power points, integrated double ovens with separate 5 hob gas burner and extractor over. integrated dishwasher, double glazed window to side aspect, breakfast bar, oak effect flooring, door to utility, access to extended sitting room.
Access fro the kitchen diner to utility with a range of wall and base units with contrasting butchers block style work surface, plumbed for washing facilities, space for fridge freezer, oak effect laminate flooring, window to rear, door to rear, wall mounted gas fired central heating boiler, power points.
Stepping down form the kitchen diner to sitting room with bi-folding doors opening out onto a stained decked area with breath taking views across Bolton. Power points, wall mounted radiator.
Stairs rise to upper level, doors lead to further accommodation storage cupboard, window to side aspect.
Good sized double room with fitted robes with stylish sliding panelled doors, power points, wall mounted radiator, double glazed window to front aspect.
Positioned to rear aspect with elevated stunning views across Bolton, power points, wall mounted radiator, space for robes.
Good sized third bedroom with storage cupboard, double glazed window to front elevation, power points.
Three piece shower room with low level W.C. with concealed cistern, incorporating vanity wash basin with under storage, walk in shower, wall mounted radiator, tiled floor, tiled elevations, double glazed frosted window to rear.
To the front a stone flagged drive leading to attached garage with up and over door.
To the rear a flagged patio to the side leading to a stained decked area with glass balustrade and power point, an ideal spot to sit with a glass of wine and soak up the views across Bolton. Steps lead down to a second tier with grassed area and storage under the decking. A third tier provides a wild floral garden area with a variety of seasonal flowers, plant and shrubs A last tier a slight gradient down with a lovely tucked away seating area secluded and private with garden shed and fire pit.


A lovely mysterious collection of poems, quotes, and drawings in various hands. Many are dated during the 1880s, and some are signed and give locations.
A lovely little fold-out black and white photocard album of Mallorca, the 'scenic route to Palma', from around the late 1920s. Photographs by Talleres A. Zerkowitz.