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"To me there are some things in this world far dearer than the accumulation of money….Men become great and good and mighty not because of the amount they make, but because they utilize the money they accumulate….The world knows Kansas City is a great commercial city. It is my desire that the most essential element…the humanitarian side…be kept fresh in the minds of the people." – Robert Alexander Long
The story of Robert Alexander Long's life is not exactly a rags-to-riches tale. He came, in fact, from a well-established Kentucky farming family. Born in 1850, Long might have been inspired to promote a "self-made-man" image by the Horatio Alger stories he read in his youth. In young adulthood, Long benefited from good connections. He landed in Kansas City, where his affluent uncle Churchill White, underwrote several unsuccessful ventures. When Long sold off lumber from a failed hay business, he stumbled into an industry that was the basis of his substantial fortune. He started in Columbus, Kansas where he met and married his wife Ella, a Pennsylvania Quaker, in 1875. After partner Robert White died in 1877, the Long-Bell Lumber Company incorporated.
The couple had two children, Sally (1879) and Loula (1881). The family moved to Kansas City in 1891 with Long's burgeoning business. They occupied a spacious Queen Anne-style house on Independence Avenue, one of the city's toniest addresses. In 1907, the Longs embarked on the construction of an estate reflecting their local and national prominence, a 70-room, stone-faced mansion and related buildings that filled an entire city block. The property overlooked picturesque North Terrace Park, which offered a convenient place for Long and his horse-loving daughter, Loula, to exercise their prize steeds.
Long and the Lumber Industry
Kansas City's role as a major lumber center was hardly a fluke, since the frontier pushing west of the Mississippi River followed rail lines across the prairie. By 1900, Kansas City was shipping 4,000 railcars of finished lumber annually. Kansas City's dominance in the trade was due to Robert Long. His portfolio included more than 50 lumberyards by 1892.
Long vertically integrated Long-Bell, the company's slogan being: "From tree to trade." Long controlled the forests where the trees were produced, the mills where logs were trimmed to lumber, the wholesale distributors, as well as the retail yards. This was aided by diffused distribution made possible by the growing railroad network. Long-Bell produced lumber and fence posts; the company acquired a coal mine, (coal was distributed by lumberyards.) The company mills in Lake Charles, Longville, and Bonami, Louisiana, and Lufkin, Texas, manufactured window sashes, doors, doorframes, and veneers. In 1914, Long-Bell harvested 590 million feet of timber a year.
After 1910, Southern yellow pine began to wane. Lumber demand dropped with slowing rural settlement. Cities expanded with concrete and steel. Long-Bell sold Southern holdings and launched in the Pacific Northwest. In the 1920s, a cash flow crisis forced Long-Bell to go public. In 1956, the once-powerful Long-Bell Lumber Company merged into its rival, the International Paper Company.
Longview Washington: A Planned Town
Some corporations felt it in their best interest to found well-designed, sanitary housing to attract a high-quality, stable work force, such as the 1880s Pullman city outside Chicago and Coleraine on Minnesota's Iron Range. Robert Long would have known of such developments. Longview, Washington was a logical extension of Long's perpetual quest for innovation, in addition to a paternalistic concern for workers. Long had good counsel in long-time friend Jesse Clyde Nichols, the energetic Kansas City developer. The chief designer for Longview was George Kessler, prominent landscape architect who laid out Kansas City's parks and boulevards system. The community survives, and thrives, to this day.
Horsing Around: The Longs' Equestrian Legacy
Robert and his daughter Loula shared a passion for horses. Loula focused her attention on the stables from an early age and quickly became a skilled horsewoman. When he made his millions, Long was able to indulge his daughter's desire. Her fascination outdistanced her father's and became an avocation from which she never veered. Loula began her show career at Fairmount Park near Kansas City in 1896 at the age of fifteen. She won a blue ribbon in the ladies horsemanship class and was hooked. She became one of the most celebrated figures of the show ring. Her vibrant personality, exceptional horses, formal gowns and large hats made her a crowd favorite. Barnum and Bailey even asked her to go on tour with their circus show. Loula also broke gender barriers competing in competitions conventionally entered only by men. She continued competing into her 80s, and in 1967 was one of two persons inducted, for equine sports, in Madison Square Garden's Hall of Fame.
Loula Long Combs
Horses were a hobby befitting Long's position among Gilded Age elite. The Long family often faced the Vanderbilts and DuPonts in the show ring. While visiting a king's stable on their European tour, a guide bragged about a pair of horses recently purchased for $5,000. Loula frankly replied, "H'm, that isn't such a high price. Daddy gave me a pair last year that cost $9,000." By 1907, the Longs' stables were too small. According to Loula, "… a new stable had to be built; and since we were going to have a new stable, Daddy decided that we might as well build a new house, too." The first blueprints produced were for the carriage house and stable. The Carriage House had room for twelve carriages and living quarters for five grooms; ten box stalls; four tie stalls; tack room; trophy room; and tiled washroom. The interior was finished with hardwood, oriental rugs and fine paintings. The nearby gatehouse was a home for trainer Dave Smith and his family.
At London's 1910 Olympia Show, a London newspaper stated that "Great interest is being taken in Kansas City and throughout the Missouri valley in the fortunes of Miss Long, who will exhibit her prize winning gelding, The King." Loula and the King won first place. The next day the London Times ran the headline, "Girl From The Wild West Takes Roadster Class at Olympia."
Civic Pioneer
Robert Long was strongly influenced by the civic examples of Andrew Carnegie and fellow industrialist John D. Rockefeller. Carnegie had libraries, Rockefeller foundations. Long had Kansas City, and he dedicated time and money to its betterment. Long's work transcended his own self-interest. Whether from "noblesse oblige," his religious convictions or a mixture of both, he was vocal about it.
Long's first major public project was Kansas City's first skyscraper, the 14-story R.A. Long Building. Thereafter, much of his benevolence was directed towards the Christian Church. He gave significantly toward building Independence Boulevard Christian Church; he funded a majority of the cost of a hospital run by the denomination; he was also a strong supporter of church projects outside of Kansas City.
When the expansive and experimental Longview Farm was under construction, he established a tent village where hundreds of inner-city families enjoyed rural vacations. He also promoted the construction of "a water works system that will care for the future as well as the present." During the same period, he agitated to make Kansas City a nationally prominent center for the arts.
A 1934 newspaper credited Robert Long as "the real father" of the Civilian Conservation Corps. President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to the first federal conference on natural resource conservation. Long made it a personal and business goal to replace every tree cut by Long-Bell. Today, this is standard practice and it is easy to underplay the radical nature of the changes espoused by Long.
His most prominent project was Liberty Memorial, which is now the official United States monument to the First World War. He led an ambitious fundraising drive that collected in only ten days $50,000 more than its $2 million goal.


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Rays' Blake Snell Won't Play For Less Pay [VIDEO]
The reported rift between the MLB players and the MLB owners was confirmed by the Cy Young award-winning ace pitcher of the Tampa Bay Rays. Blake Snell was on his Twitch channel and made it very clear that he has no intention of taking a pay cut to play baseball during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During Snell's appearance on Twitch he laid out the concerns he has when it comes to playing during the Pandemic. Snell feels the risk far out ways the rewards of playing for less than the money he agreed to in his contract.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29174318/rays-ace-blake-snell-says-refuses-play-reduced-salary says the concerns that Snell broadcast on Twitch are echoed by many other players."No, I gotta get my money. I'm not playing unless I get mine, OK? And that's just the way it is for me. Like, I'm sorry you guys think differently, but the risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money I'm making is way lower. Why would I think about doing that?"
Though I don't agree with Snell's stance here I fully respect it and can understand why he would feel this way. Clearly the burden is on the league to prove they have figured out how to safely return to play. My hopes are that if the MLB can prove the risk is not as high as Snell fears possibly the money won't be such a major issue.
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Visionary - Vincent Battaglia
Visionary – Vincent Battaglia
CEO AND PRESIDENT, RENOVA ENERGY CORP.
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When Vincent Battaglia launched Renova Energy Corp. in 2006, he chose the Coachella Valley because of his deep community ties and the abundance of what the company needs most: sunshine.
Renova — a full-service solar power plant builder for homes, businesses, and nonprofits from the Coachella Valley to the Salton Sea — began as Battaglia's MBA thesis at UC Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center.
Battaglia cites the region's trained workers as another link in his success. "The labor force here is conducive to the construction environment," he says. "We retrained folks who were in the construction industry to understand solar and how to build solar power plants."
Battaglia's firm develops local talent, training up to 40 students at a time to build solar systems. "The solar industry is experiencing explosive growth," he says. "We have a young workforce that's hands-on. We are hiring local. We are keeping our tax dollars local. By the end of 2014, we will have 100 employees."
The area's lifestyle and cost of living positively affect the business. Battaglia also credits support from local banks, and the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership's focus on the renewable and solar energy sector.
"We are fortunate to have the iHub in the Coachella Valley," he says. "Anyone with an innovative idea or concept can get support that they need. If your focus is your business, you won't find a better place to focus than the valley. Out here, you can really make your way."


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The covenant quality of high-yield new issues reached an all-time low in the third quarter, as measured by the FridsonVision series. Moody's series, of which ours is a refinement, bottomed out in the second quarter. For reasons detailed below, the two series diverged in September, with FridsonVision's showing minor improvement versus August's reading, while the Moody's series deteriorated slightly, month over month.
To provide background, "Covenant quality decline reexamined" ($) describes how we modify the Moody's CQ Index to remove noise arising from month-to-month changes in the calendar's ratings mix. On average, covenants are stronger on triple-Cs than on single-Bs, and stronger on single-Bs than on double-Bs. Therefore, for example, if issuance shifts downward in ratings mix in a given month, without covenant quality changing within any of the rating categories, the Moody's CQ Index will show a spurious improvement. We eliminate such false signals by holding the ratings mix constant at an average calculated over a historical observation period.
The opposite of the effect described just above occurred in September (see chart below). As the double-B component expanded from 24.0% of all issues in August, to 38.2% in September, Moody's series worsened from 4.54, to 4.59 (1 = Strongest, 5 = Weakest). Filtering out the impact of monthly variations in ratings mix, the FridsonVision series showed a similarly sized improvement from 4.59, to 4.55.
This analysis was excerpted from Marty's regular weekly column, available to LCD News subscribers.


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Interviews and first-hand accounts of an historic decision that affected the mental health profession—and American society and culture Through the personal accounts of those who were there, American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History examines the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM). This unique book includes candid one-on-one interviews with key mental health professionals who played a role in the APA's decision, those who helped organize gay, lesbian, and bisexual psychiatrists after the decision, and others who have made significant contributions in this area within the mental health field. American Psychiatry and Homosexuality presents an insider's view of how homosexuality was removed from the DSM, the gradual organization of gay and lesbian psychiatrists within the APA, and the eventual formation of the APA-allied Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP). The book profiles 17 individuals, both straight and gay, who made important contributions to organized psychiatry and the mental health needs of lesbian and gay patients, and illustrates the role that gay and lesbian psychiatrists would later play in the mental health field when they no longer had to hide their identities. Individuals profiled in American Psychiatry and Homosexuality include: Dr. John Fryer, who disguised his identity to speak before the APA's annual meeting in 1972 on the discrimination gay psychiatrists faced in their own profession Dr. Charles Silverstein, who saw the diagnosis of homosexuality as a means of social control Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, who helped reform the APA and later served as its President in 1991-92 Dr. Robert J. Campbell, who helped persuade the APA's Nomenclature Committee to hear scientific data presented by gay activists Dr. Judd Marmor, an early psychoanalytic critic of theories that pathologized homosexuality Dr. Robert Spitzer, who chaired the APA's Nomenclature Committee Dr. Frank Rundle, who helped organize the first meeting of what would become the APA Caucus of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Psychiatrists Dr. David Kessler, AGLP President from 1980-82 Dr. Nanette Gartrell, a pioneer of feminist issues within the APA Dr. Stuart Nichols, President of the AGLP in 1983-84 and a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists of New York (GLPNY) Dr. Emery Hetrick, a founding member of both AGLP and GLPNY Dr. Bertram Schaffner, who was instrumental in providing group psychotherapy for physicians with AIDS Dr. Martha Kirkpatrick, a long-time leader in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, both as a woman and an "out" lesbian Dr. Richard Isay, the first openly gay psychoanalyst in the American Psychoanalytic Association Dr. Richard Pillard, best known for studying the incidence of homosexuality in families of twins Dr. Edward Hanin, former Speaker of the APA Assembly Dr. Ralph Roughton, the first openly gay Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst to be recognized within the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations American Psychiatry and Homosexuality presents the personal, behind-the-scenes accounts of a major historical event in psychiatry and medicine and of a decision that has affected society and culture ever since. This is an essential resource for mental health educators, supervisors, and professionals; historians; and LGBT readers in general.
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Professors are liberal and have become more strikingly so in the past twenty years. At present sixty percent of professors identify as liberal, while only fifteen percent identify as conservative.
This is often taken as evidence of an academic culture hostile to conservatives. However, surely that is only one of two possible explanations.
After all, there is a broad academic consensus on many issues. For example, if one were to poll academics about whether dinosaurs have feathers, or who Euclid is, or the plot of Oliver Twist, one would expect academics in general to have more accurate answers than the general public. This is not because of any bias in academic against people who think dinosaurs didn't have feathers; it is because it is actually true that dinosaurs had feathers, and the whole point of academia is to find out true things. We'd expect even non-paleontologists to be more likely to get the correct answer; perhaps they happened to talk with a paleontologist at lunch one day and the paleontologist set them straight about the matter.
So, when considering why so many academics are liberal, we must consider two hypotheses. First, there is a hostile environment driving conservatives out of academia; second, liberals are correct and thus successfully convince their most avid and able students, the same way that biologists convince even young-earth creationist biology majors that evolution is true.
It would be very strange, after all, if both liberals and conservatives were exactly 50% right about everything. Even if rightness were randomly distributed, one group would be more right than the other, simply by chance. And if you have to gamble on a single group to be more likely to be right than the other, then it's probably safest to bet on the one favored by more highly educated people; we expect that, in general, people with PhDs are going to have more correct opinions than people who dropped out of high school. Of course, I have a particular reason to be sympathetic to this hypothesis. Being a liberal myself, I do in fact think liberals are right on more policy issues than conservatives are (although I also occasionally fantasize about dropping an anvil labeled REGULATORY CAPTURE on various liberals' heads).
And many, many fields influence one's opinion on politics. Of course, the entirety of social science has political implications. So do many scientific fields, such as ecology and epidemiology, and many fields in the humanities, such as history and philosophy. So we'd expect many academics to have their opinions on politics influenced by their research (as well as, say, discussions with fellow academics).
Even if liberals have more correct positions on average, they are unlikely to be perfectly right about everything. So we'd expect even if professors consider themselves liberal, their actual political opinions would often be kind of weird and hard to classify into the left/right binary. In economics, which as far as I know is the only social science field that polls its academics sometimes to find out what the academic consensus is, this is true. Economists, like professors as a whole, are about sixty percent liberal. Conversely, their actual beliefs are kind of weird and not exactly what I would call a liberal orthodoxy.
I don't mean to say that it is definitely true that liberals outnumber conservatives in academia because liberals are right about everything. Indeed, I can see a solid case for the other hypothesis. We know that people can feel excluded from an environment due to an endless accumulation of individually small slights. Surely that could also apply to the conservative student in a sociology class whose teacher jokes about the president resembling a Cheeto and presents sociological ideas on a spectrum from liberal to Marxist, with nary a mention of conservative viewpoints. We know that discrimination often happens on a subconscious level, even in people who sincerely believe they don't hate anyone and are just judging the work on the merit. Surely a liberal hiring committee who sincerely believes they're looking for the best candidate, regardless of the candidate's political opinions, might form unconscious judgments based on the candidate's conservative political volunteering or papers.
However, the fact that there exists a difference does not mean that it exists because of discrimination. This is particularly true for political beliefs, which involve empirical claims about how the world works. The academy could theoretically represent genders, races, sexual orientations, levels of ability, classes and so on and so forth in accordance with how common they are in the population, without sacrificing academic quality; it would be very very difficult and involve a massive restructuring of society, but it could be done. The academy could not, even in theory, represent all ideas equally in accordance with how common they are in the population. You are simply not going to get as many anti-vaxxer epidemiologists as pro-vaccine epidemiologists without making the entire field of epidemiology useless.
So I suggest that interested people begin a research program into discrimination against conservatives in academia, perhaps using all the tools used to study discrimination against women, people of color, and poor people. I would also be interested to see the results of an affirmative action program for conservative professors; maybe conservative students would experience a less hostile environment and would have high-achieving conservative role models, and thus would be more likely to consider graduate school.
I've noticed that people tend to only hear about campus free speech cases which fit their particular narrative (either of conservatives censoring liberals or of liberals censoring conservatives). Apolitical cases (for instance, Valencia College's censorship of students who protested forced transvaginal ultrasounds) tend to become less widely known, as do cases of liberal censorship among conservatives and conservative censorship among liberals. In addition, people hear more about cases of censorship at famous colleges (such as Harvard or Yale) than they do about the less famous colleges that most people actually go to.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is a well-respected organization which specializes in campus free speech and other civil liberties. My sample was the list FIRE maintains on its website of cases it has worked on in the past (for instance, by sending the college a letter or engaging in litigation). I took every fifth case and coded it as censorship of conservative, censorship of liberal, or apolitical censorship. There were 88 cases in my sample. I dropped five for being FIRE suing about bad policies with no clear indication of whom they would be used against, four for being sexual misconduct policies (which are not instances of censorship), and two for being miscellaneous instances of inadequate college due process (which, again, are not censorship). This left me with 77 cases.
Of the 77 cases, I coded 20 (26%) as censorship of liberals, 40 (52%) as censorship of conservatives, and 17 (22%) as apolitical censorship. An example of censorship of conservatives is refusing to allow Christians to organize a student group; an example of censorship of liberals is not allowing PETA supporters to hand out flyers; an example of apolitical censorship is suspending a professor for saying, during a review session for a test, that the questions he was asking were so difficult he was on a killing spree.
ETA: I'd also like to note that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is not a random sample of college censorship cases. Presumably they do not pursue every case brought to their attention, and there may be systematic biases in which students contact FIRE. For example, conservative students may trust FIRE more and be more likely to call them when campus censorship occurs, or conversely FIRE may pursue more cases of liberal censorship to combat its image as a defender of the right wing. These results should be taken with a grain of salt.


Legislature appropriates $9.7 million for reform its indigent representation.
The state Legislature has allocated almost $10 million to improve representation of indigent defendants in court cases across the state -- a step for which the Tennessee Bar Association lobbied this year.
State senators and representatives approved the budget, including the $9.7 million allocation, on April 19. Gov. Bill Haslam signed the appropriations bill on May 21.
The state bar association ranked indigent representation funding as its top legislative priority. Prior to the funding increase, the state ranked near the bottom among all U.S. jurisdictions in indigent representation funding.
"The TBA applauds Governor Haslam, the General Assembly and the Tennessee Supreme Court for increasing funding for indigent defense of Tennessee's most vulnerable citizens and children," Lucian Pera, TBA President, said in a press release late last week.
The funding is earmarked to increase compensation for attorneys appointed to individuals who cannot afford their own representation.
"Competent representation costs money and the constitutional right to counsel is only real if lawyers appointed to defend them are paid reasonably," Pera said, noting that Chief Justice Jeff Bivins was instrument in making the indigent representation funding a priority.
The TBA is working with the state Supreme Court on training programs for attorneys seeking indigent cases.
The Court also committed to implement interim billing for attorneys, replacing the existing system where most cases are not billed until the end, meaning many attorneys are not paid until after the case's conclusion.
The state Supreme Court has not announced changes it will impose on rates and caps for services.


Garth Boericke. M.D. (1893-1968) graduated from the University of Michigan Med. Dept. in 1918. He later became was president of the AIH and taught materia medica at the AFH Post-Graduate Course. A Compend of the Principles of Homoeopathy was published in 1929.
Homoeopathy is a special form of using drugs. The practice of Homoeopathy is in conflict with nothing in the great field of modern medicine. It is purely additional and supplemental.
The Homoeopath, from his knowledge of drug proving, the application of the law of similars, and by virtue of the minimum dose, is able to treat all the symptoms at the same time without untoward effects.
A knowledge of pathology of the disease is necessary to interpret the symptomatology obtained and prescribe the true Homoeopathic remedy not merely the seemingly Homoeopathic one.
The classification of diseases adopted by Hahnemann includes acute and chronic. Acute diseases originate from deficient hygiene, dietary errors, physical agents, and bacterial infections. Chronic diseases as such, consist of infections from various sources and moreover, the vital powers unaided are unable to extinguish them.
When a healthy person takes a medicine for experimental reasons, certain effects are produced, which collective phenomena are spoken of as a drug proving. When arranged schematically and written down, it is known as a drug's Pathogenesis.
In order to practically interpret a drug's pathogenesis and apply this knowledge in a practical manner symptoms are divided into two great classes : (1) Basic, (2) Determinative or Characteristic or PQRS Symptoms.
A useful guide to the Evaluation of Symptoms as Mental and General Symptoms, Common and Uncommon, Subjective and Objective, Pathological and Clinical Symptoms.
Hahnemann first used medicines in the ordinary dosage but, when he started to prescribe according to Similars, aggravations followed in most cases. Hence, the necessity for using minimum doses which practice has been abundantly confirmed ever since.
Hahnemann was born at Meissen, near Dresden, on the tenth day of April, 1755. His father was a painter of porcelain, a worthy and thoughtful man who from the very first endeavored to teach his son the value of thought.
Hahnemann, by introducing into medicine the method of experimentation on the healthy humans, in ascertaining drug action, founded the science of Pharmacology.
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Rock for Food es el tercer álbum de la banda de Rock alternativo barcelonesa The Unfinished Sympathy. Sigue muy en la línea del anterior trabajo An Investment In Logistics, riffs roqueros y guitarras muy duras es de lo que está compuesto este álbum.
Destacar que el sencillo de presentación para este trabajo fue "This Living Kills" y la canción "Elvenem" que está inspirada en los atentados del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid.

Lista de canciones

 "Rainfrogs" – 3:09
 "This Living Kills" – 3:46
 "Rock For Food" – 2:22
 "The Loveless Curse" – 2:55
 "Safe And Sound" – 2:51
 "The Ocean's Overflowed" – 3:23
 "You've Got A Long Run" – 2:29
 "No Father Should Bury His Son" – 3:14
 "Elevenem" – 3:09
 "Topographic Report" – 3:49
 "Windmills Not Giants" – 2:52

Rock for food
Rock for food

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Quite literally the only thing I can find wrong about Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies is the fact that you can't get them all year round. Yes, I know you can keep them in the freezer…but I can't keep them in the freezer. If they make it to the freezer, they immediately transfer to my mouth. And then, no more cookies.
So, what to do? Figure out a way to make them at home! They're not the same of course…I am the first to say that nothing can TRULY replace these amazing cookies. But I'll tell you what…these come close.
With a wooden spoon mix together the 3T butter, egg white, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, dark cocoa powder, flour and 2 drops of the peppermint oil. This will be your cookie dough. The goal is to get the dough so it's not sticky and is easy to roll out – that's why you may need to add a little flour to get it the right consistency.
Roll out the dough so that it's maybe ¼" thick and cut into shapes. I've found that circles are easiest, but whatever you prefer.
and bake at 325 for about 5 minutes, until the cookies are firm and a little brown around the edges. Once they're done transfer the cookies to a wire rack and cool them completely.
Next, we're going to do the peppermint layer. Mix together the powdered sugar, 4T melted butter, 3 drops of the peppermint oil and the heavy cream and mix together into a ball that's firm enough that you can roll it with a rolling pin.
Roll this out until it's about ¼" thick and cut into shapes matching the shape of your cookies.
Place a peppermint cutout on top of each cookie.
Finally, place the chocolate chips and vanilla in a glass bowl and melt the chips in a double boiler on the stove. Remove the chips before they're completely melted and stir until they melt completely. Cover each cookie with melted chocolate and place on waxed paper until they harden and cool. Then serve…it's like Girl Scout season all year round!
Finally, go stand on your roof and look patriotic. Girl Scouts are patriotic, right?


A D.C. man plead guilty to robbing a nun at gunpoint in Northeast D.C. in April. As part of his deal, he will serve seven to 10 years in prison. The post DC man pleads guilty to carjacking a nun at gunpoint appeared first on WTOP.


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Russell Briggs is a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer in the State of Texas. His area of expertise are focused on pharmaceutical litigation, product liability, commercial litigation, and automobile accidents. Mr. Briggs is an active participant in the Ephedra Diet Supplement litigation, and frequently speaks at seminars concerning the matter. He was recognized as a leading lawyer in the eventual nationwide settlement of the case.
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Wake Up With Adam Carolla Explaining Why Hockey Players Get The Most Pussy
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Ummm...yep. I mean he clearly doesn't listen Biz because he kept calling it "stealthy" and didn't say "kills" even once in this rant, but he nailed it. NHL guys get the most. Athletic build, but normal size body. Dicks aren't going to be used in a viral internet meme and leave you with permanent damage. They've got bottle service going, but they're not in the DJ booth. Most of them can talk, but they've got the bad boy vibe. They wear nice clothes and don't look like Russell Westbrook. NHL players have it pretty good, I'd say, Adam Carolla nails it
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Eight tracks primed for the d floor, with a fresh remix by Octo Octa.
Throwing Snow, aka Ross Tones, has announced a new album called LOMA, out this November on coloured 2xLP via Houndstooth.
LOMA collects eight tracks from a four-part series released over the course of 2018 for their first ever vinyl release, alongside a new remix by Brooklyn-based producer Octo Octa.
According to the label, the album "opens with the held-back, break-neck stepper of 'Simmer', through to the jagged-edge, half time DnB bomb of 'Vulpine' and the lightly swung, garage-infused blows 'of 'Subtitles'.
LOMA is Throwing Snow's third LP on Houndstooth following Embers (2017) and Axioms (2016).
Pre-order a copy of here ahead of its 30th November release, listen to 'Simmer' and check out the track list below.


Home Wedding planning Planning services Receptions Caterer Enrico Maître"da Luciano"
In Italy, food and family go hand in hand, and with Luciano it's no different. Growing up with restaurateur parents Audemio and Cesira, Luciano was educated from a young age in the restaurant and catering business in their restaurant, Da Luciano. Opened in 1948, Da Luciano gained a Michelin star in 1978, becoming the first restaurant in Umbria to do so.
Whilst his parents ran the restaurant, Luciano ventured abroad to Germany, Switzerland, England and France to train as a professional chef, earning a degree at the prestigious Alliance Francaise. Working in some of Paris' most famous restaurants, such as Maxime, La Tour D'Argent and Hotel Napoleon, Luciano honed his skills before returning to Italy.
Fast forward to today and Luciano is serving up some of the best food in the Umbria region. Combining the sophistication of his French cuisine education with the unbeatable Italian recipes he learned from his mother, Cesira, his food is revered by celebrities like Monica Belluci and Liam Gallagher.
Menus from Luciano include dishes like warm octopus salad in a pistachio crust, salmon tartare, and pork fillet with pears and red wine. For those wanting a typically traditional Italian wedding menu, Luciano serves Umbrian antipasto, gnocchi, risotto, lasagna and a whole host of other Italian delights. Before settling down to your meal, you and your guests can enjoy welcome aperitifs around the pool, where Luciano and his team will serve mouth watering tarts, vol-au-vents, fresh carpaccio, Tuscan bread salad and assorted canapés to whet your appetite for the main event.
With his first class professional chef's education, a childhood spent in his parents restaurant and a passion for the food he cooks and the guests he serves, a wedding meal from Luciano is one which you and your guests will remember for a lifetime.
A classic five-course menu that epitomises the inimitable flavours of the region, Menú Tosca presents a crowd-pleasing array of dishes that celebrate Italian cuisine at its finest.
A traditional Italian wedding menu that honours the ingredients and flavours of our regional cuisine while catering to a wide variety of tastes, it's no wonder that Menú Tosca has proven to be a such a popular choice.
The menu also includes all costs connected to renting the tables, chairs, tablecloths, napkins, glassware etc.
Vegetarians will be served an alternative to every non-vegetarian dish served to the other guests, thus enjoying the same number of courses as everyone else.
As far as relatively common allergies are concerned (e.g. wheat allergy, celiac disease, allergic to dairy products, nuts allergy), we're keen to ensure that guests don't miss out so our caterers will be ready to prepare all the selected dishes, avoiding any problematic ingredients. This means that all your guests, including allergy sufferers, will enjoy the same number of courses.
The traditional Italian wedding cake is "Mille foglie" which is a cake made from layers of light filo pastry, and it has a layer of chocolate cream and a layer of vanilla cream and seasonal fruit.
Reflecting gastronomic traditions and flavours that are so evocative of region, Menú Rigoletto offers a truly authentic Italian wedding feast.
This very special 6-course menu showcases Da Luciano's revered Umbrian cuisine at its finest. With a choice of two appetisers and first courses, followed by one main course, Rigoletto offers a compromise between the typical British menu and the expanded traditional Italian wedding menu.
Treat your guests to a taste of Da Luciano's exquisite Umbrian cuisine with this 6-course variation on the great restaurant's wedding menu.
This very special 6-course menu showcases Da Luciano's revered Umbrian cuisine at its finest. With a choice of two appetisers, one first course, followed by two main courses, Menú Traviata presents an extravagant tour of classic Umbrian flavours.
ONE FIRST COURSE TO BE CHOSEN AMONG:.
Menú Trovatore presents a stunning 7-course tour of classic Umbrian cuisine courtesy of Da Luciano, one of central Italy's most revered restaurants.
An extravagant, wide-ranging 7-course menu with something for everyone, Trovatore allows your guests to sample two of dishes from each course.
When the menu indicates "choice of two", it means that each guest will be served both the selected dishes, i.e. two pasta dishes, two main courses etc.
This is a tradition at Italian weddings and, while it might initially seem extravagant, we've found that this type of menu always goes down well with guests!
Therefore, a menu listing appetisers, first courses, main courses with side dishes and dessert is, in effect, a 7-course meal. We think it's a suitably lavish touch on a day that's all about extravagant celebration.
In fact, we'd even suggest keeping this little detail from your guests until the very last minute – in our experience it's a surprise that tends to go down very well indeed!
Da Luciano's most extravagant 8-course wedding menu presents a traditional Italian wedding feast that's certain to thrill your guests.
Menú Aida offers the most complete 8-course presentation of Da Luciano's stunning Umbrian wedding menu.
guests, thus enjoying the same number of courses as everyone else.
We go to great lengths to create a magical atmosphere every time we host a wedding reception at one of our beautiful villas.
We know what an important part the reception plays in most weddings and we've had many years to master the art of getting it just right. The following description outlines our proposed reception itinerary for any of Luciano's menus. This includes Menu Tosca, Menu Rigoletto, Menu Traviata, Menu Trovatore or Menu Aida.
Set among age-old olive trees. with stunning lakeside views providing a wonderful backdrop, a welcome cocktail will be served by the pool. A string quartet will provide a pleasant musical accompaniment.
Pineapples, citrons and watermelons will be sculpted to create charming animals used to decorate the table for the bounteous poolside buffet.
Vol-au-vents, fruit skewers, prosciutto and cantaloupe, chunks of Parmigiano with green-tomato preserves, mini-pizzas, deep-fried vegetables and more will be served on antique mirrors.
The group will then move towards the marquee area and guests will be seated at tables.
A string quartet, or, if desired, music selected from CDs will accompany the dinner, with individual servings of appetisers, first course, second course and vegetables. Lastly, the wedding cake will be served.
While the bride and groom have their pictures taken, the waiters will lay out the dessert, also serving the wedding cake.
After dessert coffee will be served.
The entire reception is created to reflect traditional characteristics that are in keeping with the Italian setting. Evocative aspects of traditional Tuscan and Umbrian culture will feature throughout, including delicious local cuisine, decorations and table settings.
Over many years and hundreds of weddings we've refined the art of the wedding reception.
Luciano's stunning catering is always beautifully presented. Here's a summary of the table settings that accompany our Catering Luciano menus.
Tablecloths and napkins in Flanders fabric (cotton and silk), colors: cream, blue, red, gold.
Please let us know which color you have chosen.
Printed menu with the name of the bridal couple.


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