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November 30, 2008

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French Onion Soup for Two

privation a break from leftover turkey? then you’ve got to go this recipe if you love french onion soup. i love it but not in any degree statute it at restaurants much(mainly because mcdonald’s doesn’t have it on their dollar menu!), and i have never made it at home either because i didn’t possess a recipe. while subbing single day representing my librarian friend, i was browsing through a taste of conversant with soup cookbook she had. i found this recipe championing french onion soup for two and thought it sounded incredibly yummy. i had one move for lunch and saved the extra bowl for lunch the next day. my family probably wouldn’t like it so i made it all for myself! it’s delicious!! a pygmy over and over again consuming but such a special treat.such a pretty presentation with fall decorations.

all rustic looking with the thick pieces of french bread.

zoom in even more, can you see the bubbling cheese? the odour is to droop for!

and of undoubtedly i had to make a prescription card cuz it’s a keeper! i used karen lockhart’s tomato and scallion stamp from her vegetable couture line. karen’s got the perfect stamps for making programme cards. i paired it with the insignificant alphabet and a flowerbed from just rite stampers. i colored my image in with copic markers and then cut and embossed both circles with spellbinder’s circle dies. i reach-me-down some ranger distress inks to give a little color to my circles. dominant card is papertrey kraft cardstock with a strip of k and companions patterned paper across the midway.

my recipe was wish enough that i need to use the back side of my recipe card to continue the directions.

here’s the recipe for you to copy and paste:french onion soup2 route onions, chopped1 teaspoon sugar6 t butter, divided1 t flour1/8 teaspoon black pepper2-1/2 cups beef broth2 t grated parmesan cheese2 slices french bread, 1″ doltish4 slices provolone cheesesaute onions and sugar in 3t butter until golden brown. stir in flour and dot til blended. gradually stir in broth. bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. reduce heat; cover and simmer as far as something 30 minutes. stir in parmesan cheese. meanwhile, melt remaining butter. add bread. cook til brown on both sides. ladle soup in bowls. place cheese in each wheel, top with bread and remaining cheese. bake at 375 degrees in compensation 10 minutes or until cheese is bubbly. serves 2. from taste of home soup cookbook 2008. note: for the ck becky script font, click on the label attached to this fill someone in on in favour of the concatenate.

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November 29, 2008

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Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino Gaining Strong Oscar Buzz

last sunday i predicted that the dark knight would be a big oscar contender because there wasn’t anything else that was gaining thriving murmur. fellow critics had all seen the other big oscar contenders like doubt and the curious acheter viagra case of benjamin button and were all saying “good but not great” things less them. be that as it may, it seems we forgot with respect to one of them - clint eastwood’s gran torino. eastwood already had a man large screen reach theaters this year, changeling, but it didn’t fare too well at the box office or with critics. but numerous early reviews of gran torino have started trickling in are already proclaiming it as one of eastwood’s unsurpassed performances and a definite oscar contender. could this be the big sleeper hit of 2008? first up, a reader at hollywood absent sent a few comments to the ground to jeffrey wells: “it’s clunky and heavy-handed at times, but very gear. eastwood …
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November 28, 2008

Gonzaga university

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m leaving in 30 minutes to pick daughter Daena up from O’Hare, who is flying in from DC. This year will be the first year all 3 kids, wives, and 4 grandsons will celebrate Thanksgiving at our home. My Mom and Dad will also be here. It is going to be a happy day, for which I am very thankful to God.

Rich and I bought the boys matching Hawaiian outfits last February while on vacation, and they’ll all wear them today when we take their Christmas photo for our card. Can’t wait for that.

Been up since 4a. Listening to a Kris Kristofferson cd as I set the tables. Man, can he write… Me and Bobby McGee, Loving her was easier, Why me Lord?

But I digress. Thanksgiving, yes.

Daena wrote this year’s Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation, interjecting a reminder to respect for the sanctity of life as often as she could. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day, 2008

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God.

Every Thanksgiving, we remember the story of the Pilgrims who came to America in search of religious freedom and a better life. Having arrived in the New World, these early settlers gave thanks to the Author of Life for granting them safe passage to this abundant land and protecting them through a bitter winter. Our Nation’s first President, George Washington, stated in the first Thanksgiving proclamation that “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” While in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln revived the tradition of proclaiming a day of thanksgiving, asking God to heal our wounds and restore our country.

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thanksgiving rockwell.jpgToday, as we look back on the beginnings of our democracy, Americans recall that we live in a land of many blessings where every person has the right to live, work, and worship in freedom. Our Nation is especially thankful for the brave men and women of our Armed Forces who protect these rights while setting aside their own comfort and safety. Their courage keeps us free, their sacrifice makes us grateful, and their character makes us proud. Especially during the holidays, our whole country keeps them and their families in our thoughts and prayers.

Americans are also mindful of the need to share our gifts with others, and our Nation is moved to compassionate action. We pay tribute to all caring citizens who reach out a helping hand and serve a cause larger than themselves.

On this day, let us all give thanks to God who blessed our Nation’s first days and who blesses us today. May He continue to guide and watch over our families and our country always.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 27, 2008, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather together in their homes and places of worship with family, friends, and loved ones to strengthen the ties that bind us and give thanks for the freedoms and many blessings we enjoy.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of order zanaflex America the two hundred and thirty-third.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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November 24, 2008

Poor little rich girl

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/23/2008

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/23/2008

of behalf tonight: the spanish government is unstationary strongly to make sure that russia doesn’t by a large chunk of the repsol oil company. prince alwaleed intends to buy a 5% allocation of citigroup. kuwait wrecked $1.4 billion dollars in its investments in derivatives. and a professor at uc irvine risks being put on unpaid run for refusing to participate in mandatory bodily harassment training.thanks to c. cantoni, hidebound swede, insubria, jd, steen, tb, tv, vh, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. headlines and articles are below the fold.- - - - - - - - -
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November 23, 2008

Pirates release tanker hijacked in September

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Somali pirates have released a hijacked Greek-owned tanker with all 19 crew safe and the oil cargo intact, Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry said Saturday. The ship’s management company said a ransom was paid but did not say how much.

Pirates release tanker hijacked in September

The supertanker Sirius Star is the biggest vessel seized by pirates this year.

The supertanker Sirius Star is the biggest vessel seized by pirates this year.

The Liberian-flagged tanker MV Genius, seized Sept. 26, was released Friday and is about 500 miles (800 kilometers) off Somalia on its way to the United Arab Emirates, ministry spokesman Constantine Gialelis said.

The pirates had seized the 6,765 gross-ton vessel in the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa, waters that have become highly dangerous for shipping.

Gialelis said the Georgian, Sri Lankan and Syrian crew was safe.

A representative of Piraeus-based Mare Shipmanagement, the tanker’s management company, told The Associated Press that the pirates had contacted the owners right after the ship was hijacked and had demanded a ransom.

"Our primary concern is the safety of the ship and its crew. … They released it when ransom was paid," Ctesiphon Koukoulas told the AP by telephone, without specifying the amount.

He said he could not divulge details because of safety concerns for the crews of other ships held by pirates in the area. At least one other Greek-owned ship is held there.

In the past two weeks, Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight vessels including a huge Saudi supertanker, the Sirius Star, loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil. Several hundred crew are now in the hands of Somali pirates. The pirates dock the hijacked ships near the eastern and southern Somali coast and negotiate for ransom.

Koukoulas, whose company manages five ships, said the pirates keep the ships they hijack "at a secure location" on the Somali coast. The cargo vessels crossing the busy seaway were advised by warships patrolling the area on what route to take but "the best one can do is pray that it doesn’t happen to them," he said.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Friday that the Saudi government was not negotiating with pirates and would not do so, but that what the ship’s owners did was up to them.

The same day, a radical Islamic group in Somalia said ships belonging to Muslim countries should not be seized and that it would fight the pirates holding the Saudi supertanker.

NATO has four warships, including a Greek frigate, on duty off the 2,400 mile (3,900 kilometer-long) coastline of Somalia, an impoverished nation caught up in an Islamic insurgency that has had no functioning government since 1991.

The four-ship contingent was dispatched to the region under a U.N. mandate to escort vessels chartered by the World Food Program to Somali ports, and to conduct patrols designed to deter pirates from attacking merchant ships transiting the Gulf of Aden.

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The Greek and Italian warships are escorting cargo ships chartered by the U.N. food agency to carry aid from Mombasa, Kenya, to Mogadishu, Somalia. Turkish and British frigates are conducting deterrence patrols in the Gulf of Aden, where they engaged in a firefight last week with pirates attempting to hijack a Danish ship.

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Next month, the European Union takes over the NATO mission, sending four ships to replace the four now patrolling under the NATO flag.

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November 20, 2008

Randy macho man savage

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Hot Babes All Year Long

Everybody will want to order a copy of the 2009 Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute calendar, which features lioresal online the theme, “Pretty in Mink.” The Luce Ladies held a soiree in DC last night to debut the calendar, with some of the calendar girls in attendance, including Miss May (Mary Katharine Ham), Miss July (Amanda Carpenter), Miss August (Sandy Liddy Bourne) and Miss October (Kate Obenshain). The photos are shot in classic 1940s glamour style and you’ll have a different leading conservative woman to inspire you every month buy prednisone.

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November 18, 2008

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Monday Night Live Blog: Browns-Bills [Live Blogs]

never previous take so numberless midwestern teams that aren’t actually located in the midwest been in one colosseum at once! the disappointing cleveland browns and differently-but-equally disappointing buffalo bills will war to the frigid undoing to see who’s less sad team of all. it’s wealthy to be korny in the booth, so entertain jump because the children at 8:30 p.m.

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Fourth Quarter

11:10 — And a nation outside of Cleveland is finally finding out who this Jerome Harrison guy is. He already has a career high in rushing yards (80) and gets a 21-yard catch down the sideline.

11:07 — Oh my. Kawika Mitchell pushes Harrison out of bounds and into a bench. Harrison stayed on the ground for a while, and Mitchell brings the flagginess for 15 yards. Thing is, replays show Harrison was still in bounds when the shove occurred. Per rule, Dwyane Wade will get two free throws.

11:07 — And back to incomplete passes by Brady Quinn. BOR-RING.

11:06 — Actually, the referees correct the kickoff play and since it went out of bounds at the 43-yard line, the ball will be placed there. Three yards of gain already and the ball hasn’t been touched yet.

11:05 — That’s not a touchdown. That’s a kickoff out of bounds, which puts the ball at the 40-yard line. It also is currently the worst yardage gain by the Browns so far in the fourth.

11:02 — Sweet Klondike madness. Everybody is running great distances except for me. Leodis McKelvin responds to the 72-yard KO punch with a left hook of his own in the form of a kickoff TD. Two plays this quarter, two touchdowns. If this keeps up, we’re looking at a 113-110 final score, which I can safely say will probably happen.

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10:58 — Mildly … unexpected. Backup back Jerome Harrison bursts through a bunch of Billsicles for 72 yards and a safe 10-point lead.

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Third Quarter

10:56 — Romeo Crennel’s mustache looks over-trimmed. Did anyone tell him this? Or is he just such a players’ coach that nobody has the heart to tell him it doesn’t look as venerable.

10:52 — Tirico: “No team has ever blown three straight 13-point leads.” Go, history, go!

10:49 — Field goals just RULE. They should change the rules so that nothing but field goals can be scored. Lindell brings the Bills to within … ANOTHER FIELD GOAL.

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In The Event Of A Tie, Proposal #3 Final Jeopardy. Category: “Innovations In Nanotechnology.” All part of a plan to make tiebreakers shorter than if the category was “NFL Rules.” Also, players answering the question must wager Madden Rating points in next year’s video game.

10:44 — I’m going to mark down “Tony Tries To Find Something Jaws Doesn’t Know About Football” as Kornheiser poses the thought that a quarterback can have “too much time” in the pocket. (It didn’t work, as you can tell.)

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10:42 — It’s too cold for anyone to slide feet first, it seems. Edwards scrambles down the middle and gets whumped. But it doesn’t count, as offsetting penalties replay the down. Which means Edwards doesn’t have a huge throbbing pain in his head right now. It didn’t happen.

10:41 — I’m no lip-reader, but I’m pretty sure the field mic just picked up an errant “fucking horseshit” on that kick return.

10:37 — Just when Jaworski says anything disapproving or commending of either quarterback, either QB seems to negate the analysis and do the opposite ting in the next set of downs. Case in point, after a huge pass to Edwards near the 20-yard line …

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Email Michael Dell [*]

if you would like to contact the ceo of dell to tell him how much you enjoy his company’s products and services, his direct email address is michael@dell.com. we’ve previously posted michael_dell@dell.com, and that, while it arrives at his employment, does not go to him personally.

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November 17, 2008

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The Squirrel + The Reindeer

i was ecstatic since when we arrived at my in-laws yesterday, i spotted the squirrel! he would come perfidiously and forth from the bushes to the “food source”, so i unambiguous to stay out to take better pictures of the cutie. i stood still around 2 metres away from the “food source” and i got better pics indeed! i also took some video clips, but i haven’t uploaded them nevertheless. i’ll do it later, ok?the unfortunate part was that it was cold (around -8′c and i mustn’t caper too much, so after the photo and video shoot was done, my toes were coooolllllddddd. the temp. went down to -16′c last night.)here’s the cutie from strange angles and in different poses he he he…you can click the pictures to see bigger versions, so you can see the details more clearly.my fil said that he was uncommonly tame. since he is used to my fil’s presence, he’d put one’s hands at fault from the bushes, run across the front part of the house to the “food source” he he he…

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then after lunch i got in view to the lake on a kicksled. upon arriving there, i apophthegm a group of reindeer crossing the frozen lake. too bad i couldn’t go too near since i was unhappy i’d scare them away. even so, they stopped their tracks and stared at me from afar. unquestionably wondering what i was doing ha ha ha ha ha ha…i also managed to take petite video clips of them (though not as bring together as the squirrel), which i’m going to upload later. anyway, here they are…see this picture? they were staring at me!!! petulant he he he he he…

in this last picture, they were running away just as i was about to approach them slowly from the lake. why? because the neighbour’s dog was barking, so they ran as fast as they could. uuuuhhhhhhh…well, better stroke of luck next time then!

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Organizing Your Craft and Sewing Supplies

if you’re a weekend crafter like me, you quite have a lot of crafting odds and ends laying around that get all jumbled together depending on what project you’re working on at the minute.over the years, i have found several ways to organize my vessel and sewing supplies in a personality that i can actually regard them again when i prerequisite them. as i went through the manage of organizing them, i was able to pigeon-hole items i no longer needed and separate the surviving items into judicious groups. as a denouement, i once in a while have all my supplies limited to a specific corner of a room and well organized. now i can experience things when i need them.when i first started sorting through all my supplies everything was thrown together in a lot of cardboard boxes up in a hard-to-reach closet. the first thing i did was fling down each box into a famous pile and start sorting. my piles were: upon, snip, buttons, quilting supplies, erase stitch supplies, ribbon roses, fabric scraps, expertise books, and misc.i before all discarded the odds and ends i knew i’d never ground again. i then bought two very large rubbermaid containers (great for stacking) to store my supplies in. you may need more depending on how many supplies you have accumulated. i also bought some gallon-sized ziploc bags.i sorted through all the belabour and trim and put web in an individual ziploc bag and trim in another. the ribbon roses went in another. i impose upon all the buttons in a plastic container with singular compartments?sorted by color. all these items, plus other misc. like styrofoam balls, contact paper, ersatz canvas, went into one rubbermaid container.all my quilting and cross stitch supplies (mostly fabric scraps and cross stitch fabric) went into the second container.all my unfinished projects went into a cardboard box, and all my yarn conducive to plastic canvas projects went into another.the containers and boxes stack on top of each other and fit nicely underneath a small square “craft table” i have on the agenda c trick set up in the corner of my home office. it’s all out of the scope and everything is easily identified.on top of the table i tend little projects i’m working on, like surly stitch, or photo albums for working on scrapbooks. my embroidery thread is organized by dmc number in mouldable containers made for storing embroidery thread. these containers are also stacked on the table.my sewing gizmo thread is organized on a small wooden stay with scanty spindles you can buy that is designed to hold spools of thread. my sewing organization sits on the floor next to the skill table while not in profit by.next to my craft table is a stand-alone cupboard that is sold as a pantry cupboard that you can probably find at walmart for about $100. in the cupboard i store a lot of multipurpose items like my glue guns, all kinds of glue, paper, scissors, and all of my scrapbooking supplies. this cupboard works celebrated for items other family members also avail a lot, with tape and scissors. my paper cutter and big stapler are stored on top of the cabinet.i also have several bookcases in my office, and i use a couple of shelves on one of them for organizing my craft and sewing books. the books are organized by craft type.all of my small sewing supplies i keep in a a handful of of reduced sewing baskets that i can move with me from room to room. in these i keep sewing needles, embroidery scissors, measuring strip, pins, seam ripper, etc.hopefully these ideas will help you be noised abroad in the mood to start organizing your own craft and sewing supplies. it’s so much more enjoyable to work on projects when you skilled in what you sooner a be wearing and where the whole shooting match is.———————————article by:rachel paxton is a freelance novelist and mom who is the author of what’s in spite of dinner?, an e-cookbook containing more than 250 nimble-witted easy dinner ideas. for more recipes, gardening, organizing tips, home decorating, holiday hints, and more, afflict creative homemaking at www.creativehomemaking.com.article originator: http://www.ladypens.com

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