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Very simple to prepare, and afterwards will make you slap yo Mama, lol lol
Vodka Caramel Fried Chicken
ingredients: 1. Cut up chicken, 2. 1 1/2 cups of Milk, 3. 1 2/3 cups of Vodka Caramel, 4. 1 tsp of Sea Salt, 5. 1 tsp of sugar, 6. 2 eggs beaten, 7. 1 tsp of Black Pepper.
Ok here we go, such fun
Place cut up chicken is a plastic container that we will cover later. Mix all the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl. Pour liquid over chicken in plastic container and cover. Put in fridge for 3 hrs.
Ok, now we are ready to cook this fantastic chicken.
Make sure each piece of chicken is covered in flour, place in a skillet of 2 cups of Olive Oil and 1 stick of butter. Cook over a med-high temperature until golden brown. Now don’t start snacking until all is done, you won’t want to eat the rest of your meal. Feeds 4 folks.
Added attraction – Add spinach, carrots, or corn, or a fresh salad to compliment your meal.
(recipe by Lennis)
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If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.
The union has abandoned its right to negotiate on behalf of the players in order to sue the NBA in antitrust court for massive damages within the next 48 hours, according to its revamped legal team. The players in attendance said the decision was unanimous — that the league had backed them into a corner with ultimatum after ultimatum, even after the players gave back the equivalent of nearly $3 billion over a 10-year deal by lowering their locked-in share of the league’s revenue.
“Collective bargaining has totally failed the players,” said Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s outside counsel and commissioner David Stern’s designated villain.
“We put all our proposals out there, and they were rejected,” union vice president Maurice Evans told SI.com. “There was nothing else to evaluate.”
The move will shift the process from the bargaining room to the court system, jeopardizing the season and infuriating Stern, who said on ESPN minutes after the union’s announcement that players had “been badly misled.” Stern dismissed the union’s move as a negotiating ploy that had been in the works since at least February 2010, when Kessler, in Stern’s telling, informed the commissioner the union would go this route if talks broke down. “We were very, very close,” Stern said, “and the players decided to blow it up.”
So Stern has his public relations victory — the players did it! — and a league on the verge of suffering the most disastrous labor relations outcome (apologies to the NHL) in major professional sports history. Let’s be clear about one thing: Nobody knows what happens now. The season is not lost, despite the doomsday rhetoric, some of which agents on Monday characterized as part of Stern’s plot to scare the players into taking the deal on the table. The union and the league could settle their lawsuit in days, and that settlement would include the guts of the next collective bargaining agreement.
And the court process itself is uncertain, despite the common refrain that the NFL players failed in going down this exact path. Labor experts say the appellate ruling that reinstated the NFL’s lockout, after a lower court halted it, is a tricky opinion that did not provide the complete victory the NFL sought. Legal precedent for this kind of case is thin; the NBA believes it gave itself an advantage by filing a pre-emptive lawsuit over the summer declaring any future dissolution of the union would be a sham, but nothing is certain now.
The beauty mogul sadly passed away this weekend.
Evelyn died at her Manhattan home on Saturday.
The Estee Lauder senior corporate vice president and founder of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has been an inspiration to women worldwide.
In her time working at Estee Lauder, founded by her mother-in-law, Evelyn has helped to develop countless lines in skincare, make-up and fragrance, receiving the Fragrance Foundation Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
As well as her good business sense, Evelyn is remembered for her warmth, generosity and unrelenting work as a philanthropist.
She was “an American icon”, Tommy Hilfiger has said of his former colleague.
In 1992 she founded the pink ribbon breast cancer campaign alongside friend and fashion editor Alexandra Penney, dishing out the bows at Lauder counters with self-examination charts.
Later the same year she also launched the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to raise funds, and the following year the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Nearly 20 years on the ribbon has become a ubiquitous symbol of breast cancer awareness and over 65 million have been distributed. Funds raised have helped to open the Evelyn H Lauder Breast Centre in New York.
We don’t have all the details, but he was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM.
He was 44 years old.
Heavy recently performed at the BET Awards in October
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Global stocks and the euro fell on Friday as new doubts about Europe’s bailout package and worries over the outcome of a key vote in Greece overshadowed signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou faces a vote of confidence, with the fate of the nation’s deal on a euro zone debt bailout and the global economy in the balance.
Analysts declared the outcome too tight to forecast, but had a hunch Papandreou might survive the vote, which is expected as late as midnight in Athens (2200 GMT).
The bid for safe-haven assets rose, with government debt on both sides of the Atlantic gaining after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said few countries in the Group of 20 leading economies had committed to providing more resources for a euro zone rescue fund.
Merkel’s comment eclipsed relief over the decision by Greece on Thursday to ditch controversial plans to hold a referendum on its bailout, a development that initially had calmed fears of an imminent sovereign debt default.
Merkel’s comment highlighted the fragility of the deal reached to rescue Greece. At the heart of the deal is a plan to increase the euro zone’s rescue fund to give it firepower of 1.0 trillion euros.
Signs of some improvement in the U.S. labor market failed to lift the market. Labor Department data showed U.S. hiring slowed in October, but the unemployment rate hit a six-month low and job gains in the prior two months were stronger than previously thought, pointing to some improvement in the still-weak labor market.
Trading has been volatile on quickly changing news from Europe. The U.S. S&P 500 has registered daily swings of more than 1.5 percent this week. The benchmark index, which posted its best month in 20 years in October, was on track to post its first down week in five.
“There’s too much uncertainty going on. What Greece has taught us this week is that just when you think things are certain, they’re actually not,” said Camilla Sutton, chief currency strategist, at Scotia Capital in Toronto.
World stocks measured by the MSCI all-country world index pared losses to trade near break-even on strength in emerging markets. EPFR Global reported $3.5 billion flowed into emerging market equity funds in the week ended Wednesday, the second-largest inflow this year.
In Europe, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top regional shares slid 1.0 percent to 980.01, erasing early gains. The index posted its first weekly loss in six weeks.
Italian banks UniCredit and Intesa SanPaolo, heavily exposed to Italy’s sovereign debt, fell 6.6 and 4.8 percent, respectively.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is facing pressure to step down, turned down an offer of funding from the International Monetary Fund, which has placed the country under supervision as it struggles with its debt mountain.
ARIES
UNEXPECTED: Know your worth, stop cutting yourself short for what it is you need in your life.
Sometimes Aries you can be stubborn and don’t want to listen to what is right. Stop going back and forth in your decisions, you know what is right so damn it do it!
FINANCES: Slow improvement, bills are still lagging, pay what you can, after all you can’t get blood from a turnip (old folks saying).
ROMANCE: Solid as a rock, as the song goes.
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TAURUS
UNEXPECTED: Hard head makes a soft azz, feel me Taurus. Sometime you can be tooooo stubborn for your own good. Learn to relax and let life unfold in all it’s miraculous details.
FINANCES: Tax man is near, so take care and shore up all business details. You do not want your businesses to suffer because you didn’t pay your taxes do you? Stop loaning money out that you don’t half, your a soft sale sometimes, amidst your stubbornness.
ROMANCE: Time to take that trip in the winter months home. The family will enjoy the winter break and so will you immensely, so go for it. Romance, love, and laughter to be enjoyed by all.
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GEMINI
UNEXPECTED: Well here we go again, wearing your heart on your sleeve. If you have a lot of love to give and share, but not your finances. How did I end up broke you say? By being a unexpected “sucker”, so stop it.
FINANCES: Well the for-mention you inform you well about your finances. There is a raise coming after the first of the year. Also before the Christmas holidays you may end up selling a big ticket item out of your home for finance reasons. Just to clear up some debt. To give you a peace of mind.
ROMANCE: To be in love and love is a wonderful inflection if you understanding. Gemini never become desperate for love, it is not a good on your. Go with the flow, unless you are already in a stable relationship. Don’t laugh I heard that (what is stable). Gotta love ya Gemini!
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CANCER
UNEXPECTED: You actually have a little extra money in your pockets or purse this month, thank God! Things may not always seem that bad if you understand how to negotiate your money to yourself.
FINANCES: Life is starting to look a little better for you Cancer. Everything does happen for the good even if don’t understand what the fuck is going on!!! Continue to put your best foot forward, and continue to seek out better ways of generating money, legally that is.
ROMANCE: Love is in the air, to your discretion. If you are married or in a relationship this a good month for the two of you to enjoy the holidays. If single, someone out of your past will show up to help you celebrate.
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LEO
UNEXPECTED: Leo be careful, could be another child on the way. This seems to be a fertile period for you. Men and women please use some protections if you are not ready for a child or children(possible twins). Know the relationship you are in!
FINANCES: Good improvement in finances this month Leo. Loans repaid, bills on point, actually some extra money to enjoy. Treat yourself or love one to something nice.
ROMANCE: Well Mr./Ms attention getter. They are still trying to figure out your Halloween costume from last month. You mystery devil you, lol lol. Enjoy the new spice in your life just be careful. And Leo know when to say no, this is not me!
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VIRGO
UNEXPECTED: The light of your life is going to surprise you with something. If you are not in a relationship at this time, unexpected happenings will occur on the good side of love. You may hear how you have become quite interesting to the opposite sex. Work will be more busy than normal.
FINANCES: My advice Virgo put some money back for that rainy day fund. The weather this year will be havoc on your finances. This could be do to transportation issues. Make sure you are covered darling to get from point “A” to point “B” in your travels.
ROMANCE: Someone from afar would like to become a lot, and I mean a lot closer to you. All things are possible to those that believe.
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LIBRA
UNEXPECTED: Is it time to move, are you truly happy where you are at. Sometimes energy of certain areas are not meant to live at, just to visit and move on. Unexpected blessing is coming your way, sometimes KARMA can be a good thing. What you get back can be good, and a welcome blessing!
FINANCES: What a road Libra have you travel this year. Up and down, sideways, OMG, I’m dizzy. Finally you can feel the worst is over and a new beginning is at hand, about damn time don’t ya think. You are the scales of balance, but sometimes it feels one-sided.
ROMANCE: For couple time to enjoy the holidays with family and friends. If single look out world because you are available for fun and pleasure. Just don’t overdo, but do enjoy yourself Libra.
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SCORPIO
UNEXPECTED: Possible marriage proposal coming your way. If not marriage a solidify relationship is at hand. Yes he really cares about you woman! For the man know your place don’t push it, understand. More recognition is coming your way, hard work has definitely paid off, more than you know, and yes you have been noticed in a BIG WAY!
FINANCES: For those with children, pull out the checkbook, or credit cards. Darn those kids why do they have to keep growing, needing clothes, books, etc. ie, lol lol, and we love them with all our hearts!
Make sure you vehicle is running good, might need some minor repairs. Also check your foot for injuries, that may seem like nothing “not”, have that check out by your physician.
ROMANCE: I see a line of dancing Rockets all in a row. Everything is coming up roses whoo-hoo!
Enjoy your love life, for right now it is very good.
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SAGITTARIUS
UNEXPECTED: Time to let go and let God Sag. Where you going, where you been, these are life questions you need to be asking yourself. Unexpected family problems will come up this problem and not to happy either. Try to maintain balance in all relationships family or friends. Watch your words, they don’t return the same way you said them.
FINANCES: Time to make more money if you want to meet your needs Sag. Time to buckle down and take care of business. It’s been a shitty summer, and fall isn’t looking any better. You will have the money you need to meet your debt ratio, but what about enjoyment? Are we there ye?
ROMANCE: What are you looking for really? Are you happy, are you satisfy with your love life. Then why don’t the hell you change it, stop complaining about it, and do something already!
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CAPRICORN
UNEXPECTED: The joy of family or not, that is the question. Busy month Cappy between social engagements and business. News from afar will be a shock, but maybe not a total surprise.
FINANCES: Hold on to your money this month, because you are wanting to shop like no tomorrow for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations. Money will come in huge amounts, and start to slow down somewhat after Thanksgiving. So be careful with your spending, necessary purchases only.
ROMANCE: Well look hear, just folks coming from every direction possible. You love cupid you! lol lol
It would seem Cappy you are the flavor for the month. So capitalize on this and enjoy your love life.
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AQUARIUS
UNEXPECTED: Are you wearing your emotions close to the chest. So be benevolent and help someone out, you might just amaze yourself and feel good about it. You will enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving. But don’t get to relax, you may be call to work for emergency repairs.
FINANCES: All does look good, my suggestion sit down with an accountant before investing in anything.
ROMANCE: Someone from your past shows up at the front door, and knocks you off your feet. Very good surprise, shocked this person still remembers you, heh! heh! Take it with a grain of salt, nothing spectacular here, just enjoyment of two past lovers.
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PISCES
UNEXPECTED: It is time to clean house, mentally, spiritually, and yes physically (get your health in order). The holidays are approaching and what are you going to do? You will have unexpected guests arriving throughout the month. Enjoy your visits, with laughter and love.
FINANCES: This might be a tight money month for you Pisces. Hold on it will get better by December, just be patient for a little while longer. All will come together in the right time.
ROMANCE: No one is as clever as Pisces in the love arena. You have such a creative mind, maybe more than most other signs. Romance is good, think of those lovely ideas you also wanted to do and try them out. You might receive an amazing response.
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So much of our history is lost to us because we often don’t write the history books, don’t film the documentaries, or don’t pass the accounts down from generation to generation.
One documentary now touring the film festival circuit, telling us to “Always Remember” is “Black Survivors of the Holocaust” (1997). Outside the U.S.., the film is entitled “Hitler’s Forgotten Victims” (Afro-Wisdom Productions). It codifies another dimension to the “Never Forget ” Holocaust story–our dimension.
Did you know that in the 1920′s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany ? Neither did I. Here’s how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unaware by the events of the Holocaust. Like most West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800′s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.
German genetic experiments began there, most notably involving prisoners taken from the 1904 Heroro Massacre that left 60,000 Africans dead, following a 4-year revolt against German colonization. After the shellacking Germany received in World War I,it was stripped of its African colonies in 1918.
As a spoil of war, the French were allowed to occupy Germany in the Rhineland -a bitter piece of real estate that has gone back and forth between the two nations for centuries. The French willfully deployed their own colonized African soldiers as the occupying force. Germans viewed this as the final insult of World War I, and, soon thereafter, 92% of them voted in the Nazi party.
Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these “Rhineland Bastards”. When he came to power, one of his first directives was aimed at these mixed-race children. Underscoring Hitler’s obsession with racial purity, by 1937, every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further “race polluting”, as Hitler termed it.
Hans Hauck, a Black Holocaust survivor and a victim of Hitler’s mandatory sterilization program, explained in the film “Hitler’s Forgotten Victims” that, when he was forced to undergo sterilization as a teenager, he was given no anesthetic. Once he received his sterilization certificate, he was “free to go”, so long as he agreed to have no sexual relations whatsoever with Germans.
Although most Black Germans attempted to escape their fatherland, heading for France where people like Josephine Baker were steadily aiding and supporting the French Underground, many still encountered problems elsewhere. Nations shut their doors to Germans, including the Black ones.
Some Black Germans were able to eke out a living during Hitler’s reign of terror by performing in Vaudeville shows, but many Blacks, steadfast in their belief that they were German first, Black second, opted to remain in Germany. Some fought with the Nazis (a few even became Lut waffe pilots)! Unfortunately, many Black Germans were arrested, charged with treason, and shipped in cattle cars to concentration camps. Often these trains were so packed with people and (equipped with no bathroom facilities or food), that, after the four-day journey, box car doors were opened to piles of the dead and dying.
Once inside the concentration camps, Blacks were given the worst jobs conceivable. Some Black American soldiers, who were captured and held as prisoners of war, recounted that, while they were being starved and forced into dangerous labor (violating the Geneva Convention), they were still better off than Black German concentration camp detainees, who were forced to do the unthinkable–man the crematoriums and work in labs where genetic experiments were being conducted. As a final sacrifice, these Blacks were killed every three months so that they would never be able to reveal the inner workings of the “Final Solution”.
In every story of Black oppression, no matter how we were enslaved, shackled, or beaten, we always found a way to survive and to rescue others. As a case in point, consider Johnny Voste, a Belgian resistance fighter who was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and then shipped to Dachau . One of his jobs was stacking vitamin crates. Risking his own life, he distributed hundreds of vitamins to camp detainees, which saved the lives of many who were starving, weak, and ill–conditions exacerbated by extreme vitamin deficiencies. His motto was “No, you can’t have my life; I will fight for it.”
According to Essex University ‘s Delroy Constantine-Simms, there were Black Germans who resisted Nazi Germany, such as Lari Gilges, who founded the Northwest Rann–an organization of entertainers that fought the Nazis in his home town of Dusseldorf –and who was murdered by the SS in 1933, the year that Hitler came into power.
Little information remains about the numbers of Black Germans held in the camps or killed under the Nazi regime. Some victims of the Nazi sterilization project and Black survivors of the Holocaust are still alive and telling their story in films such as “Black Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust”, but they must also speak out for justice, not just history.
Unlike Jews (in Israel and in Germany ), Black Germans receive no war reparations because their German citizenship was revoked (even though they were German-born). The only pension they get is from those of us who are willing to tell the world their stories and continue their battle for recognition and compensation.
After the war, scores of Blacks who had somehow managed to survive the Nazi regime, were rounded up and tried as war criminals. Talk about the final insult! There are thousands of Black Holocaust stories, from the triangle trade, to slavery in America , to the gas ovens in Germany .
We often shy away from hearing about our historical past because so much of it is painful; however, we are in this struggle together for rights, dignity, and, yes, reparations for wrongs done to us through the centuries. We need to always remember so that we can take steps to ensure that these atrocities never happen again.
For further information, read: Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, by Hans J. Massaquoi.