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This is me at Christmas, about to enjoy a whole pile of one of my favorite (and Oprah's favorite) desserts: Wicked Whoopies.
Ben and I went straight to the Isamax bakery to pick up a dozen. Unfortunately, they were closed early for Christmas Eve. Fortunately, my sister made it there before they closed and picked up all my favorites: strawberry, raspberry and cream, and peanut butter.
See all that raspberry goodness?
I'd like to take this opportunity to offer a formal word of thanks to my sister for her whoopie pie foresight. Whoopie pies, it would have been a blue Christmas without you.An ailing mariner was medevaced from a U.S.-flagged tug roughly 18 miles southwest of Atchafalaya Bay, off Louisiana, on Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard mentioned its watchstanders at Sector New Orleans acquired a name by way of VHF-FM radio channel 16 from the 78-foot tug boat Woman Loren stating a 35-year-old crewmember was reportedly struggling chest pains and shallow respiration.
Watchstanders directed the launch of a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew to help, and the helicopter crew arrived on scene, safely hoisted the person and took him to Terrebonne Medical Heart for additional medical care.Kevin Keegan has been charged with criticising the referee after Manchester City’s weekend Premier League defeat against Newcastle United, the Football Association have confirmed.
The former England coach has two weeks to respond to the charge of using abusive or insulting language, the FA said in a statement on its website.
Keegan claimed referee Steve Dunn cost his side Sunday’s away match as they went down 4-3.
“I have never seen a refereeing display like that and I told him,” he was quoted as saying on Manchester City’s web site.
SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE
I was born and raised in Scotland, my dad was a formal Naval officer and ‘aye’ I do consider myself to be Scottish! For me the issue of the referendum is the single most exciting thing to happen within my lifetime, and might be the only chance that this will ever happen in this generation. Subsequently, it is super important to me to think about this logically, and not just go with the cop out ‘we canny dae it’ attitude without proper economic evidence that this really is really the case.
I think for me the most insightful look into how parochial we have become in terms of what we ‘think’ we can achieve was highlighted by Andy Murray’s win at Wimbledon. I did a piece on this for broadcast oan the telly and I remember being in a wee bar when the game wis oan. Right up tae the last minute so many people doubted that he could actually win. I suppose for me after travelling around the world I have learned that what we think can directly affect how we feel, and I would further argue even our potential ‘life chances’.
To me, being born in a dichotomy of culture and philosophy I tend to read between the lines and remain positive. I am sure many might argue that my optimistic view of Scotland is naive; but really if this is the case can we please see more actual evidence that proves Scotland could not be a hugely successful independent nation or that disproves that it is not already an established strong country, rich in culture history and was once even ruled by the first black king Kenneth The Dubh? Why do people think that just because Scotland may become independent that this means that the country will need to completely dislocate ourselves from the UK? To me it makes absolutely no sense to change more than we need to and that obviously having an Independent government will mean that Scottish people just have more control over their own lives; rather than this sort of top down centralisation of power that currently exists.
I am not bashing England, and I love the UK, to me it one of thee most plural and diverse societies which exist in the world, and I am proud to be a part of it. What people need to understand is that throughout the United Kingdom there are many many inter-textual and complex social issues which could be difficult to understand if you are not actually directly engaged in a particular community or area. So whit ah mean is jist think about the superfluity of unwritten social etiquettes that we encounter on a day to day basis? Never mind if you need to make a decision aboot the entire United Kingdom from an often singular perspective. Ah mean ah dinnay ken, am jist sayin.
What surprises me most about Scotland is the lack of knowledge of how rich and colossal Scotland’s contribution is to the new world actually is. I am forever correcting both Scot’s and others about how so many of the UK’s most recent prime minister’s were either born or educated in Scotland, and quite frankly the amazing expanse of ridiculously talented people in every single industry from fashion, to literature, never mind our other massive and real