Pornburger calls this The Liquid Diet, a White Castle infused Bulleit Rye patty “stirred with spicy pickle juice, a splash of tomato water, a dash of liquid smoke” that you can suck on with a bacon straw. Now you can have burgers when you go out to dance and drink, and drinks when you go out of for brunch or lunch.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge has charged Vice President Amado Boudou with bribery and conducting business incompatible with public office in the acquisition of the company that prints the country’s currency and of later benefiting from government contracts.
Boudou is accused of using shell companies and secret middlemen to gain control of the company that was given contracts to print the Argentine peso and campaign material for the ticket he shared with President Cristina Fernandez.
Federal judge Ariel Lijo’s decision was published Friday night on the justice department’s website.
Boudou is the first sitting Argentine vice president since the nation emerged from military dictatorship in 1983 to face such charges. He could be sentenced to between one and six years in prison, and banned from holding public office.
Boudou says he is innocent of the accusations.
As the economic, political and personal costs of doing nothing to mitigate climate change skyrocket, there’s one lifestyle change that slashes dietary greenhouse gas emissions in half: Veganism.
Climate change is predicted to cost the U.S. billions of dollars by mid-century, poses a growing national security threat, and will make some regions of America “unsuited for outdoor activity.”
A new report published in the journal Climatic Change compared greenhouse gas emissions attributable to more than 55,000 meat-eaters, fish-easters, vegetarians and vegans in the U.K. The researchers found that meat-eaters’ dietary greenhouse gas emissions were twice as high as vegans’.
The production, transportation and storage of food greatly contributes to emissions, the study points out. These emissions range from carbon dioxide related to fossil fuels used to power farm machinery, to the methane released by livestock. Animal-based products tend to release more emissions than plant-based products due to the methane animals can produce and the inefficiencies in growing livestock feed.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, agricultural practices contribute 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The study found that mean dietary greenhouse gas emissions (results reported for women and then men) was 46 percent and 51 percent higher than for fish-eaters, 50 percent and 54 percent higher than for vegetarians, and 99 percent and 102 percent higher than for vegans.
“Reducing the intake of meat and other animal based products can make a valuable contribution to climate change mitigation,” the report concluded.
Past research showed similar results. A study in April found that annual agricultural carbon emissions could be reduced up to 90 percent by 2030 with agriculture adjustments, including a reduction in global beef consumption.
Environmental Working Group produced a chart comparing the impact of different meats, and found that if all Americans chose a vegetarian diet, the environmental impact would be equivalent to removing 46 million cars from the road. But the group cautioned in 2011 that a dietary shift in the U.S. would make a “moderate dent in overall carbon emissions,” and political action is needed as well.
President Barack Obama earlier this month unveiled new standards for power plants, calling for a 30 percent reduction in their carbon emissions by 2030.
June marks the 45th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots in New York City, an event that helped crystalize the modern-day LGBT rights movement as we know it. Pride Month is a chance to make visible the issues that the LGBT community still faces and to celebrate how far we’ve come.
In this spirit, we’ve partnered with MasterCard to show you how cities around the world are publicly showing their pride. Whether you’re in San Francisco or Sao Paulo, the message is abundantly clear: #AcceptanceMatters.
No matter where you are in the world, MasterCard is there for you. We’ll say it again: #AcceptanceMatters.
If you’ve even glanced at Pinterest in the last couple of years you’ll know about the rise of the unconventional wedding. As we scroll through photo galleries of barn ceremonies occurring amidst burlap and straw, or mountain-top nuptials with breathtakingly green views, we can’t help but wonder — what would we wear to these unconventional weddings?
We’ve partnered with eBay Designer Collective to answer this question, creating outfits we think would be perfect for six popular, but unusual, settings. Scroll down to see some wedding-worthy outfits that go beyond the ballroom and chapel.
It costs $1500, measures in at about 4 feet in diameter and causes an explosion in the sky almost half a mile long. It’s the infamous Yonshakudama firework from Japan and if you can somehow snag the sky lighting cannonball before July 4th and shoot it up at your local park, you’d probably become king of America.
Thought experiment time, folks: what would do you if you wanted to warm up a few people in a big, chilly room? Prevailing logic says to crank up the heat, but let’s be honest here: sometimes the prevailing logic sucks. The folks from MIT’s Senseable…
On May 23, 2014, the New York Department of Corrections released 27-year-old Daniel St. Hubert, a paranoid schizophrenic who had served five years in prison for the attempted murder of his mother.
Within a week of St. Hubert’s release, 18-year-old college student Tanaya Copeland was dead, stabbed to death in an apparently random attack as she walked to meet friends.
Two days later and just a few blocks from where Copeland’s body was found, two young children were savagely attacked in an elevator as they took a break from playing outside to go get ice cream. Six-year-old Prince Joshua (P.J.) Avitto died of multiple stab wounds. His friend, 7-year-old Makayla Capers, was stabbed at least 16 times and hospitalized in critical condition.
Three days after the children were stabbed, a 53-year-old homeless man, Kyle Moore, was stabbed at a Chelsea subway station. Surveillance video captured the attack, which left Moore in critical condition. St. Hubert was identified as a suspect.
St. Hubert was apprehended and charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder. The string of violence with which he is connected has people questioning why the man was ever released in the first place: four alleged victims, including two killings, in three attacks that span about a week and a half.
Allegedly St. Hubert’s sister had begged authorities to assist her in getting treatment for her brother, who was thrice declared unfit for trial and thrice institutionalized in a mental-health facility and had a history of violent crimes.
Despite that history, St. Hubert apparently did not qualify for outpatient mental-health treatment under New York’s “Kendra’s Law,” a law named for a young woman who was pushed in front of a subway by a mentally ill man who was not undergoing treatment. The law strives to balance the privacy rights of a mentally ill person with the protection of the public that he or she might endanger. According to New York’s Office of Mental Health:
New York State has enacted legislation that provides for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) for certain people with mental illness who, in view of their treatment history and present circumstances, are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision.
What remains unclear, though, is how, given his “treatment history and present circumstances,” anyone thought St. Hubert would prove likely to “survive safely in the community without supervision,” or how unsuspecting citizens would be able to survive safely if they came across the path of this violent, mentally ill man.
Obviously, this situation spotlights the role of mental-health treatment in the arena of criminal law, a problem that has long plagued the criminal-justice system. Courts have consistently struggled with the issue of whether to forcibly medicate mentally ill defendants or convicts after they complete their terms of incarceration.
But those rulings deal with the forcible medication of inmates and defendants. They do not address what should be done about a mentally ill inmate who completes his or her sentence or becomes eligible for parole and therefore is released into the general public. Obviously this issue has no easy resolution.
Can we force medication after an inmate’s release without infringing on the person’s right to refuse treatment? Should we make forced medication a condition of parole? If so, how do mental-health departments and corrections departments handle the logistics of ensuring that a parolee or released convict is getting the treatment and/or medication that he or she needs?
Certainly St. Hubert’s release raises red flags about the parole process. However, his case is not the first to shed doubt about the nature of parole in regard to violent offenders with lingering mental issues:
The inconsistencies in sentencing and parole among various offenses are almost unfathomable. Moreover, the issue is brought into clear focus when we compare this lack of mental-health oversight with certain minimum sentences required by some states for offenses that cannot even be considered “violent” in nature.
In Oklahoma, for example, certain crimes are designated as “85-Percent Crimes.” For these offenses a person must serve a minimum of 85 percent of his or her sentence before even becoming eligible for parole or earned credits. Consequently Oklahoma is also known for its harsh drug penalties, and the state has handed out some of the longest sentences for marijuana crimes. Moreover, the state allows life sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, and it often denies parole for those convicted of crimes that involve no violence at all, such as aggravated drug trafficking.
Yet in other jurisdictions men like St. Hubert who seem to be a clear risk of danger are released without consideration for the danger that they pose to society and themselves.
Clearly it is past time to have a meaningful conversation about criminal justice and mental health; it is evidently past time to take a cold, hard look at the parole process as well. As a criminal-defense attorney, I find it impossible to endorse mandatory or forced medication for those who are no longer technically held under the custody and control of the state. However, as a citizen, I have reservations in regard to individuals with severe mental issues being released into the general population without the proper oversight and assistance necessary to protect them from harming themselves or someone else.
What, if anything, should legislatures do to hopefully rectify such an unpredictable process?
By Mitchell Parker, Houzz Contributor
Big cities have a lot going for them, but spacious backyards aren’t one of them. Designers in high-density places like San Francisco and New York have long dealt with getting homeowners the most bang for their buck when it comes to their compact homes, and that means turning tight, narrow or awkwardly shaped backyards into comfortable, functional extensions of the home. No matter the locale, their methods can work for anyone trying to maximize an outdoor space and turn it into a destination to enjoy. Here are 16 ideas to try.
1. Break it into multiple rooms or zones. Create multiple functions by strategically using built-ins and arranging furniture to establish different “rooms” for lounging, dining, mingling and cooking. This backyard space in Brooklyn, New York, has all four zones.
2. Implement a smart lighting design. This space also has a multifaceted lighting scheme. Sconces serve multiple purposes of task lighting by the grill, landscaping lighting by the plantings and overall ambient lighting. Meanwhile, an arm pendant hangs over the dining area.
3. Extend an indoor space. Architect Carson Arthur likes to ask his clients which indoor room they feel is too small, then establish more of that space in the backyard. “Is your kitchen too small? Do you need a bigger family room? Why not do that outside?” he says. “With the development of outdoor technology, anything inside can now be done outside.”
Here an outdoor rug helps establish an extra living space on a small deck in Detroit.
4. Complement your interiors.Use the same colors and style that you’ve already established inside your home for your backyard to make it feel more like its own living room. “Stylistically, you want to pick up on colors and textures that tie the two spaces together,” says Amber Freda, a landscape architect in New York. “Make it more than just a couple of chairs and a dining table. A plain dining table with wooden chairs won’t entice you to use it very much, but really comfortable lounge seating will.”
5. Play with the angles. If you’ve got a small square spot to deal with, San Francisco landscape architect Rich Radford suggests turning paving in a lateral direction to your property line to create more hardscape space. For the 25-foot by 30-foot backyard seen here, he shifted the paving 45 degrees to get more surface area.
6. Pay attention to scale. If you’ve got a small backyard, the last thing you want to do is cram in a 10-person dining table. Instead, consider built-ins or extendable tables. Likewise, you won’t want to plant a tree that’s going to grow to 100 feet tall and completely overtake your yard. Here Radford smartly worked in small, native plants and grasses to keep an open feel.
See patio trees for mild climates.
7. Use one surface material. If you have multifunctional areas, use one material to unify the spaces. “Small spaces need that cohesion,” says Arthur, who designed this 17-foot by 25-foot space for a family with small children. A separate play zone keeps the kids close by while the parents are entertaining, and the continuous paving ties it all together.
Radford goes even further, suggesting using the same material that’s found elsewhere on the property. For one of his backyard projects, he used the same paving material as in the front entryway. “It created a unified space that made it seem bigger,” he says.
8. Avoid clutter. The more elements your yard has, the tighter it will feel. Instead, try to use built-in seating, incorporate clean lines, avoid bulky furniture and keep plantings under control. “If there’s one thing that will get out of control and take over a small space, it’s a plant that’s too happy,” Arthur says.
Freda agrees: “Avoid the hodgepodge effect,” she says. “Instead of doing 20 little pots, do five big pots for a more clean look with bigger impact. Pick only two or three styles of planters, two or three colors — it makes it feel less accidental, chaotic and overwhelming.”
To get the most out of this 25-foot by 20-foot Toronto backyard, architect Erik Calhoun created raised decks over a large tree’s very high roots. He skipped big plants in favor of creating more recreation space. “Hedges or bushes would stick out 3 feet, and you wouldn’t be able to move anymore,” he says.
9. Enclose the space. This may sound counterintuitive to making a small space feel larger, but it’s something that might work for your space. “When you enclose a small space even more, you play up its coziness and make it intimate, something that’s hard to achieve with large spaces,” Arthur says. “This also takes it to the next level of feeling like an outdoor room.”
Pergolas are great for creating an intimate feel, but you can get the same effect with plantings. Architect Gary Beyerl’s backyard (shown here) is 10 feet by 20 feet. Because he has apartment units attached to his home, he wanted to do something that would afford him privacy. He used vertical plantings like humongous trumpet vines and a redbud tree to create an envelope of plant material. “By extending the plant zone up the vertical surfaces of an urban space, you can make a lot of visual greenery work to your advantage,” he says. “I’ve got a verdant environment even though it’s tiny.”
10. Consider your view. If you’ve got an unsightly view from your backyard, Beyerl recommends using elements to control the sight line. His favorite: trellises. He used them for this Chicago home to block views to the notorious network of wires running through the city’s alleys. “Trellises give you the advantage of perception,” he says. “They conceal the view but let light and breezes pass through. They’re less oppressive than an actual fence.”
11. Include contrast. “Always think about interesting contrast,” says Freda. Mix square and rectangular shapes with circular ones. Put spiky-leaved plants next to billowy ones. “It’s visually more interesting than if everything is similar,” Freda says. “If you have a square space, I’d do square planters, but then a circular table in the middle so there’s at least one counterpoint.”
12. Keep maintenance to a minimum. One of the great things about small spaces is that they’re easy to clean. So don’t muck with this advantage! Arthur suggests using more planters rather than ground-cover soil. “Otherwise mud inevitably ends up all over your small patio space,” he says. “Containers give you the warmth of planters but are more manageable.”
Native succulents and grasses minimize water use, but you should also consider artificial turf. “It maintains color and character better than a natural yard,” Beyerl says. San Francisco designer Martha Angus used artificial turf in the backyard space shown here; she also recommends faux boxwood. “A boxwood hedge might be 18 to 24 inches deep,” she says. “That takes up a lot of space. Faux boxwood comes in squares that are 3 inches deep that you can staple to a fence. They’re absolutely gorgeous, don’t require water and take up no room whatsoever.”
More ideas for using artificial turf
13. Terrace a sloping yard. Angus’ project here highlights another good method of increasing a tight backyard space. If you’ve got a severely sloping yard, consider terracing. Granted, terracing can be incredibly expensive, says Angus, because an extensive substructure must be created to support the terraces, but, as you can see, it provides more flat surface for activities.
Landscaping ideas for a sloped site
14. Give it personality. Character is much more important in a small space. You want something that people will remember it by other than its size. “It’s more important to drive character in a small space,” Arthur says. “You don’t want guests saying, ‘Oh, what a tiny backyard.’ You want them to pick up on that personality of the space.” Arthur suggests primary colors for not only kid elements but for funky furniture to give a space more charm. Angus suggests commissioning a local artist to do some interesting tilework on a wall or for paving.
15. Create a focal point. As with adding character, a focal point takes attention off the size of the space. Arthur likes to use water features. He’s even added a single large planter right in the center of a small backyard to draw the eye into the center and push the walls away. “It’s a trick of the eye,” he says.
Art and sculpture are good candidates, too. “A single sculpture with uplighting can be phenomenal,” Angus says.
16. Get design help when you need it. It might not seem like it, but small spaces are often more difficult to design than large ones. An expert will be trained to deal with your needs and challenges.
Calhoun suggests going with an architect who can best come up with the right approach for your unique space. Is there a lot of sun? Rain? Wind? “You want someone who has a whole philosophy,” he says. A landscaper who specializes in country-style gardens could come in and do the usual, and it might be lovely, he says, “but it won’t be as satisfying as something that reflects what’s going on with the building. Call an architect instead of calling the nursery.”
Beyerl suggests bringing in a team of pros to get the job done. “Room making is an architect’s profession,” he says. “Then a carpenter can complete all the design finesse. And a landscape designer will understand how the plantings will work over time.”
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While love is magical and wonderful, it is also scary and can beat you down and carve you into a hard beast, or leave you an addict, craving, crawling and seizing more of this feeling at any cost. After the feeling has been formed with a person, never doubt the power of what the emotion can to do you, be it great or horrible. The strongest love story in classical literature is in the novel Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte where she develops the love story between Heathcliff and Catherine, proving the power of the emotion can carry on over a lifetime. Despite all negative or positive circumstances, the emotion always stays valid, and carries on through death.
The relationship begins with Heathcliff and Catherine meeting as children. Catherine’s father, Mr. Earnshaw, adopts Heathcliff and Catherine gives him the usual sneers and cackling grins. She has not received the presents she wished for because her father had adopted a new son instead. However, she grows to adore Heathcliff. The personalities of Catherine and Heathcliff are to be noted.
Catherine is wild, mischievous, bold, and quick-tongued with a fire blazing inside of her that none could ever extinguish. She holds a blazing passion, and this passion matches that of Heathcliff. Heathcliff is her kindred spirit with a quick-hot temper, stubborn pride, bold personality, and an aura that captures a room the second he walks inside from his forbidding, daunting yet captivating ways.
The two hold a strong unbreakable connection, one that speaks without words. It is a love so solid, nothing could break it apart despite the unfavorable events placed upon them. Their love is so intense, it turns from beauty to destruction quickly because of how powerful the emotion stirs within the two characters. It causes them to create turmoil when interacting among others and destruction upon themselves. Yet, they cannot fathom any of this because of how they feel towards one another.
Catherine describes her love to Heathcliff in her speech to Nelly when she accepts the marriage proposal by Edgar Linton:
I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire.
(Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Page 80)
When Catherine ends up staying at Thrushcross Grange and falls in love with Edgar Linton, she finds she wants the civil, peaceful, proper life and marries Edgar Linton. She breaks Heathcliff’s rejected heart into thousands of particles, though he attempts to hide his pain. Heathcliff knows inside Catherine really loves him and refuses to believe she has real feelings for this boring Edgar Linton who is a pretty doll without the intense, raging emotions Heathcliff and Catherine both share.
However, Heathcliff does not give up on his love for Catherine despite her marriage. Though he does return to her in quite a monstrous way throughout the course of the novel, one cannot help but see it is because his love for Catherine is so strong. He will stop at nothing, not even death, to be with Catherine. While his actions may make him appear an evil beast, for he hurts everyone in his path with his cruel actions and words, everything he says is out of excruciating pain for Catherine leaving him for Edgar Linton.
True, Heathcliff does marry Edgar’s sister, Isabella, for the sake of revenge because he is upset Catherine has married Edgar. He does not always act maturely or rationally but rather upon his emotions, but then again, so does Catherine. This is a repeated theme throughout the novel but as readers, we understand because we see how conflicted his love is for Catherine.
As Catherine leads a happy (though monotonous life) with Edgar, we see towards the end of her life, she yearns for Heathcliff. When Catherine is dying, Heathcliff enters and the two embrace and it is almost as though the fire is lit back inside the both of them, and extinguishes her coming death. When she does die, Heathcliff finds her grave and begins digging to see her again. It is then he hears her spirit and he feels she is with him again. Thus, even after Catherine dies, her ghost drifts in and out of Heathcliff’s life and keeps him stable. She provides him the only thing worth living for, though she is the only thing gone from the world the he seeks.
I know ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! — only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
(Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Page 165)
Once, he re-opens her coffin when her husband dies, he is transfixed and his love is empowered again and he feels renewed. At the end of the novel, when Heathcliff dies, a young boy with sheep says he sees the dead Heathcliff.
There’s a Heathcliff and a woman yonder, under t’nab’ he blabbererd, ‘un’ I darnut pass ’em.’
(Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Page 325)
Thus, even after Catherine and Heathcliff were both married to other people, their lives spun in different directions, they did find one another in the end.
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