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Summit County: More than snowboarders riding on this season's snowfall
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A white Christmas capped off a snowy December for Summit County, but though snow accumulation has improved, experts say it's still too early to tell if Colorado will get enough powder to end its worst drought in a decade.
"We're still early in the snowpack season," National Weather Service hydrologist Treste Huse said. "A lot can change before the end of the year. It's still not where we want to see it, but it has definitely improved."
The state needs to see well above average snowfall to end the drought, Huse said.
The current winter season is only 35-40 percent of the way through, but so far the indicators aren't necessarily encouraging.
Snowpack, while improving, is still only 71 percent of average in the Upper Colorado River Basin, levels in the once-brimming Dillon Reservoir are below normal for this time of year and a bout of dry weather may be on the horizon for northern Colorado and much of the country, according to the National Weather Service.
Colorado navigated the summer months this year with near-full reservoirs across the state after a record-high snowfall season in 2010/11. But those storage facilities have been depleted, making precipitation this winter crucial to the water reserves that will carry Colorado through the summer of 2013.
Dillon Reservoir was approximately 70 percent full last week, but has historically been 93 percent full on average at this time of year. Denver Water's total system is running at approximately 63 percent full, compared to a past median of 83 percent.
"Right now, we're at the point where the next five months for us are really vital," Denver Water spokesman Travis Thompson said. "We're continuing to monitor conditions and hope for snow this winter."
Wave after wave of winter weather through the better part of December has certainly helped, Huse said. The snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin has nearly doubled from just 38 percent of average on Dec. 6 and is ahead of last year, when snow pack had only reached 67 percent of average with a meager 4 inches of snow dusting Breckenridge over the course of the last month of 2011.
Recent storms have delivered more than a dozen inches to Summit County during the month of December, but the consistent snowfall may be winding down at least for the next few weeks, according to NWS projections.
While precipitation is in the forecast, with some modest accumulations today and tonight, and possibly again on Monday, the weather is on track to clear up by early January.
"We're going to be drying out again," Huse said. "Jan. 3-9 did indicate below normal precipitation."
March and April are usually the snowiest months of the year for Summit County, generating a 20-year average of 54 inches of snow in the last eight weeks of the ski season.
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Gold will likely continue to lose its luster in 2014.
Prices for the shiny metal have already plummeted to around $1,240 an ounce, down from around $1,600 in early 2013. Commodities analysts are predicting that a strengthening U.S. economy will cause prices to fall further this year.
Related: 10 things you'll pay more for in 2014
But while investing in the metal will be cheaper this year, gold jewelry won't necessarily cost less. Some producers may still be selling jewelry made from gold purchased at higher prices earlier last year, and retailers may set prices based on other factors as well.
"The retailers can always mark it up as much as they want," said Jessica Fung, a metals and mining commodities analyst at BMO Capital Markets.


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With Adele singing at the Grammy awards this weekend, news reports have resurfaced the singer's laser vocal cord surgery. While she did not have her treatment at Emory, Emory's Voice Center is one of only 12 in the nation and the only one in the Southeast that offers laser surgery for the treatment of laryngeal (voice box) conditions. Specifically the potassium titanyl phosphate (or KTP) laser is used to avoid damaging the delicate tissues of the vocal folds during surgery. Initially it was developed to treat port-wine stains caused by broken blood vessels, but it has since received FDA approval as a treatment for vocal disorders, including abnormal blood vessels, such as varices and ectasias, which often plague singers. Most recently, it is being used as a treatment for larynx cancer in combination with anti-cancer therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy.
"The laser basically works by heating and shutting down the abnormal blood vessel(s) or those that feed a lesion," says Emory otolaryngologist Adam Klein.
According to Klein, Laser Therapy is ideal for patients with recurring conditions—such as papilloma, dysplasia, or rebleeding blood vessels—because it does less damage to surrounding tissue and can be performed as an outpatient procedure. The procedure allows patients to be treated without the risk of radiation or damage to the underlying tissue, which better preserve the natural voice. The treatment can be done under general or local anesthesia, and poses minimal risk of damage to vocal cord tissue. And it's not just for singers. Watch this video to hear about Darryl's experience with laser therapy.
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Where's Al Gore?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2008, Al Gore strode onto the stage at Denver's Invesco Field to a hero's welcome, throwing his support behind Barack Obama to take on the "global climate crisis."
When Obama takes the stage this week, Gore will be nowhere in sight.
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He isn't coming to the Democratic National Convention but is spending the week in New York City, anchoring coverage of the event for his network Current TV.
Gore's evolution over the past four years — from a central figure in the Democratic Party to a no-show at its biggest event — matches what has happened to the issue of climate change itself, which moved to the sidelines alongside its chief crusader, environmentalists and some Democrats say.
( Also on POLITICO: Rich tradition of awkward candidates)
It's not like Gore hasn't noticed — and his frustration with Obama has been on display. He's leveled criticism at Obama for abandoning the push for a climate change bill. He accused him of failing to use the bully pulpit to spread the word about the dangers of rising global temperatures. And he faulted Obama for putting off tough new smog regulations.
On the other hand, Gore has also offered some defense of Obama's record and says that "I would fear for the future of our environmental policy" if Mitt Romney wins the election.
People who know Gore say this is the role where he feels he can make a difference now — critic and outsider, more activist than politician.
( Also on POLITICO: Full coverage of the DNC)
"He is not someone who is inside the system right now," said Chris Lehane, a political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House and later on Gore's 2000 presidential campaign. "He is someone that recognizes that ... you need someone who is a critical voice and picks and chooses when he needs to push.
"He's obviously a Democrat and will always be a Democrat," Lehane added. "But he's spent an awful lot of time engaging in activities that are above and beyond partisan politics."
While many Democrats in Charlotte were reluctant to talk about Gore for attribution, some said Gore's diminished profile — and the environmental movement's more broadly — is rooted in the mood of a country preoccupied with questions about the economy and jobs.
"Al Gore has proven incapable of developing policies that have broad political appeal, and the party is looking to others," said Paul Bledsoe, who was communications director for the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Bill Clinton and is now a senior adviser at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Carl Pope, who served as the executive director of the Sierra Club for almost 20 years, also sees the shift in Gore's role, especially as prospects for Congress to act on climate change have dimmed.
"Like all of us, I think, Gore is in the process of testing and figuring out what the best pathway forward is," Pope said. "He sees that the public arena is at the moment more critical than the political arena."
It's unclear whether Gore wanted a role this year at the convention. He announced plans to anchor Current TV's convention coverage from New York before organizers finished sending their speaker invitations.
Aside from any differences with the administration on policy, some events in the former vice president's personal life may have made him less than ideal for prime time exposure in Charlotte. They include his separation from his wife, Tipper, and the unproven assault allegations that authorities in Portland, Ore., cleared him of two years ago.
But his outside role is a contrast to the prominent speaking slot Obama has granted to Clinton, who serves to remind voters of the prosperous economy that reigned during the last Democratic administration.
As for the relative quiet on climate change, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse faults his own party, saying Democrats have allowed the GOP to intimidate them from talking up the issue.
"I think the Republicans do a very good propaganda job of poisoning certain phrases. And then, rather than fight, we walk a step back, and we use a different phrase," said the Rhode Island Democrat, who didn't address questions about Gore specifically. "Once they poison that phrase, we'll walk back again. So, we say: 'We won't talk about climate change anymore. Now we're going to talk about clean energy.'"
Four years ago, Gore had a starring role on the final night in the 75,000-capacity stadium in Denver, where he was one of the last few speakers chosen to stir up the crowd before Obama's acceptance speech.
Gore himself was coming off a year of triumphs, including his Nobel Peace Prize and the Oscar awarded to his global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." And he assured voters Obama would take action on the issue that George W. Bush had neglected.
"We are facing a planetary emergency, which, if not solved, would exceed anything we've ever experienced in the history of humankind," Gore said. Obama, he promised, would offer "solutions for the climate crisis."
Obama himself had stoked such hopes earlier in the 2008 campaign, famously promising at one point that "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
But this time around, climate change has all but disappeared from Obama's campaign rhetoric, although his recent speeches have included a line that "denying climate change won't make it stop" and climate remains part of the DNC platform.
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Lebanese pilgrims held for year by Syrian rebels back in Beirut
In a complex swap of money and hostages organized by Qatar, nine Lebanese Shiite religious pilgrims returned to Beirut Saturday after being held for more than a year by Syrian rebels outside Aleppo.
Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled Atiyya personally negotiated the deal with Syrian rebels groups in the Syrian city of Azaz along the border with Turkey. The deal included the release of two Turkish pilots who'd been abducted in Beirut two months ago – apparently by the families of the pilgrims. Both pilots, who'd appeared in a short video broadcast on Lebanese news earlier this week, were flown to Turkey in anticipation of the arrival of the Lebanese hostages, who passed into the custody of Turkish intelligence on Friday night to prepare for the return flight home.
The rebels abducted the nine men last April, claiming that they were spies for the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which has increasingly and openly been supporting their ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad. Although some of the men do appear to have ties to the secretive militant group, Hezbollah denied they were on a military operation but were returning by land from a tour of Shiite religious sites in Iraq.
Local media reports claimed that Qatar had paid as much as $150 million to secure the release of the hostages – such a deal traditionally might include compensation to both the Lebanese and Turkish hostages as well as payments to the kidnappers. McClatchy could not confirm that number.
"Qatar and [Lebanese] Gen Ibrahim Abbas negotiated the deal with the kidnappers in Turkey and here in Beirut," a Lebanese security official familiar with the deal told McClatchy. He asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to discuss the details of the release. "Last night the Turkish [military intelligence] took control of the men," he said, referring to the kidnapped pilgrims.
When asked about the ransom report, the official said that the deal did include money paid by Qatar but said that the $150 million figure seemed high.
With the Syrian civil war well into its third year, abductions have become frequent, with scores of Western journalists and aid workers joining thousands of Syrians on both sides who've been taken captive.
In the last year, ransom demands have become a more common element to the kidnappings, with both sides demanding cash payments for the release of both Syrian and foreign hostages.
The announcement that the nine men would be returning Saturday night was marked by celebratory gunfire in predominately Shiite Muslim neighborhoods throughout Beirut as Syria's tiny neighbor slightly exhaled in relief at the news. The situation ratcheted up sectarian tensions in this already fractured nation as the families of the men held repeatedly held protests targeting Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia – all predominately Sunni Muslim states that support the rebels.
Some family members also had threatened to exact revenge on Sunnis in Lebanon, a community that widely supports the rebellion next door, if the men were harmed. Last summer saw a wave of kidnappings of Syrian guest workers and visitors from the Persian Gulf states by gunmen linked to the families of both the pilgrims and other Lebanese Shiites thought to be held by rebels in Syria.
The close ties between the Lebanese Shiites and Hezbollah – most large Shiite families have members who've joined the group – led to suspicions that the group's powerful security apparatus was assisting the families in the revenge kidnappings, a charge the group repeatedly denied despite wide spread skepticism in Lebanon.


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2) Seiko LCD panels have an slight blue tinge
3) It have a freaken numberpad - woot!
4) The Logitech Panel is programmable and there is an active development community.
5) Dell doesn't provide 64-bit Vista drivers, however going to the original suppliers yields working drivers. (it runs FAAST!)
6) No comment on the 230W power supply? That's the same as some of those small form factor cases.
7) I'd recommend the Targus XL notebook bag. It fit's The Beast nicely.
8) I've lost the feeling in my legs during the time it's taken to type this comment... :S


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Read the original article from the Portland Tribune here.
Bruce Katz, the Brookings Institution vice president who lauds Portland's sustainability business sector in a new book, appeared in town Wednesday to discuss the role — and obligation — of cities to fix the nation's broken political and economic systems.
"The national government, like Elvis, has left the building, and they don't seem to be coming back any time soon," Katz told a luncheon audience at Portland State University, in an appearance sponsored by PSU-based First Stop Portland and the university's Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
The nation has some "unfinished business" as it emerges from the Great Recession, Katz said: rebuilding jobs. One-third of the nation now is in poverty or near poverty, he said, "a quantum leap in one decade."
With the federal government missing in action, Katz said, it's the nation's cities and metro areas that have the talent, community networks, economic clout and wherewithal to seize the initiative and rebuild the nation.
"We're an urban country. These places are the engines of our economy," he said. "This is the time for them to step up and do the right work to restructure their economies and put themselves on the right path."
It was as recently as the late-1980s, he noted, when cities "were seen as the garbage cans of society." Yet now they are centers of vibrancy on all levels.
Katz and Jennifer Bradley recently released "The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy." In the book, the authors cite Portland as one of their lead examples.
The fact that Portland is now exporting its sustainable-oriented services and products to the rest of the world is "remarkable," Katz said. It's something you'd expect in a Copenhagen or progressive German city, he said, but not an American city.
Katz said one thing cities can do is provide universal preschool, something studies show can have longterm benefits to an economy and lift people out of poverty. "Washington ain't gonna do it," he said. "States are not gonna do it."
He also is a big promoter of vocational education, and assuring that high schools work to help youth transition into the work place.
Katz scoffed at cities that have rezoned their land to remove industrial-zoned properties. Portland, he noted, is a trading city, and a major industrial center, which should build on that strength.
In an interview after the luncheon, Katz scored the United States for having an "anti-manufacturing policy."
In Germany, he said, they don't call industry "the old economy." Rather, the Germans have learned to reap the benefits of a more open world trade system, by investing in infrastructure, in training their work force and being purposeful in strategies to nurture manufacturing.
Katz said in research for his book, he actually studied the speeches of former Oregon Gov. Tom McCall, to understand the climate that produced the nation's first urban growth boundary and other land-use planning advances.
Portlanders have a "set of communal values," he found, and he says that's partly ground in its citizens' appreciation for its environment.


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- Makes 8 servings
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- Total Time
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- 7 1/2 cups water
- 3 cups packed light brown sugar (from two 1-lb boxes)
- 1 1/2 cups kosher salt
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup chopped fresh dill
- 8 (6- to 8-oz) pieces salmon fillet with skin
- 2 lb small eggplants, cut diagonally into 1/3-inch-thick slices
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Accompaniment: fennel cucumber relish
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- a 1-lb weight such as a soup can
- Bring water, brown sugar, salt, and 6 tablespoons granulated sugar to a boil in a 5-quart pot, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Transfer 6 cups brine to a 13- by 9-inch glass or ceramic baking dish, then stir in dill and cool. Transfer remaining 4 cups brine to a large bowl and add remaining 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, stirring until dissolved, then cool completely.
- Marinate salmon, skin sides up, in brine in baking dish, chilled, 1 hour. (Do not turn salmon.) Put eggplant in brine in bowl, then invert a small plate over eggplant and weight it with soup can (to keep eggplant immersed). Marinate eggplant at room temperature 30 minutes. (Do not brine salmon or eggplant longer than indicated or they will be too salty.)
- Prepare charcoal or gas grill for cooking.
- Remove salmon from brine and pat dry, discarding brine. Remove eggplant from brine, then rinse and pat dry, discarding brine. Toss eggplant with oil and pepper to taste in a bowl.
- When fire is moderate (you can hold your hand 5 inches above rack for 3 to 4 seconds), grill eggplant on lightly oiled grill rack, turning once, until golden, about 4 minutes total. Transfer to a platter with tongs and keep warm, covered.
- When fire is moderately low (you can hold your hand 5 inches above rack for 5 to 6 seconds), grill salmon, starting with skin sides up and turning once, until just cooked through and skin is crisp, about 8 minutes total.
- Serve salmon over eggplant.
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·Brine (without dill) can be made 1 day ahead and kept, covered, at room temperature.


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I've been a fan of Apple's products since high school, and I own far too many of them. But I was never going to buy its stock.
After all, technology moves too fast for the conservative small investor. Anybody retiring on their Wang Laboratories stock today? OK, that's not fair. How about Eastman Kodak? I didn't think so.
But when Apple showed up on my investment radar as underpriced in February 2012, I bought some at $459 a share. (Tuesday it closed at $406.13, before the release of second-quarter results.) The shift in my reasoning explains why millions of Americans own a piece of Apple in their mutual funds — whether they know it or not — and what separates great companies from passing fads.
Don't get me wrong. A speculative mood swing explains much of Apple's astonishing rise from $100 a share in 2009 to $700 last year, briefly making Apple the world's most valuable company in the eyes of the stock market. Yet there are good reasons to think the company is a bargain, particularly after its 40 percent fall in value.
The late CEO Steve Jobs created Apple's iconic status with consumers by insisting on great marketing and fanatical devotion to product design. Practically everybody has a story about the 4-year-old who figured out Mom's new iPad in five minutes while Dad was looking in the packaging for the missing and completely unnecessary users' manual. Jobs didn't do this alone, and the team he built is largely intact more than a year after his death.
For investors, customer loyalty and brand recognition mean a great deal. It's how Coca-Cola has been able to sell flavored soda water at an enormous profit since 1886.
Brands are notoriously hard to value. And investors clearly aren't giving Apple much credit for brand loyalty in the future.
Apple trades for about nine times its earnings over the last 12 months, or roughly half the 18.25 price-to-earnings ratio of the companies in the S&P 500. After regular trading closed Tuesday, the company reported that sales of its key iPhone and iPad products were up sharply, while gross profits fell to 37.5 percent from 47.4 percent a year ago.
Most analysts say that Apple's discount to the rest of the market exposes a deep pessimism that CEO Tim Cook can deliver the string of hit products that Jobs was able to manage in recent years. They may be right. But meanwhile, Cook is running a remarkable company.
Apple is among the world's most efficient companies. Its return on investment, an excellent measure of how well managers deploy shareholders' cash, was a staggering 33 percent over the past 12 months. Income was nearly $550,000 per employee. That dwarfs $208,000 per employee at Google, a software company that doesn't have the logistics and supply line that Apple has to manage.
Speaking of logistics, Apple's inventory turns over an astonishing 84 times a year, the kind of velocity you'd expect from somebody selling ice cream in August without a refrigerator. Not incidentally, it was Cook who built this world-class manufacturing supply line as chief operating officer.
On the balance sheet, Apple has no debt and its cash hoard was projected to hit $170 billion this year, before Tuesday's announcement that it was raising its dividend — yet another reason to own the stock.
The late Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis, compared the stock market to an irrational business partner who would offer to sell his shares at a sky-high price one day and then, in a fit of depression, reduce it deeply the next. His strategy was to determine the intrinsic value, and buy when the price dropped well below that value.
At its giant size, Apple will be hard-pressed to keep growing profits the way it has over the past decade. And nobody knows whether it can beat competitors to the market with great new products. But these unknowables apply to every other company in the stock market.
In the here and now, Apple is far better managed and its stock much cheaper than most of its peers. I hope it crashes, so I can buy some more.


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Rihanna has a theory on why producers didn't ask her to perform hits from her comeback album "Rated R" at Sunday's Grammys.
"We messed their show up pretty bad last year," the R&B star told Carson Daly's Amp Radio show this week, referring to her assault by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, which caused both performers to pull out at the last minute.
"They might be a little mad at me," Rihanna added, BET reported.
In a separate interview with 104.3 MY FM's Valentine in the Morning show Thursday in Los Angeles, Rihanna said she's still "excited" to return to the Grammys, where she's up for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Jay-Z and Kanye West for "Run This Town."
But don't count on any plus-ones -- Rihanna says she always travels solo to the pre-eminent music awards show.
"Even when I was in a relationship, I always have gone alone," the 21-year-old singer explained, Usmagazine.com reported.
And those photos of her cavorting with Dodger's baseball star Matt Kemp on a recent trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico?
"I'm still single, if that's what you really want to ask!" Rihanna told the radio hosts.
In other Rihanna-related news, the singer released a statement late Thursday expressing her "heartbreak" over the passing of Jasmine Anema, a 6-year-old with leukemia whom she had grown close to.
"She was such a brave and special child," Rihanna said her New York City pal in the statement to Us. "She showed me more strength and spirit than many adults I have met. I feel blessed that I was able to have her in my life, and know that through her example she has saved many lives. She was truly an angel on earth."


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Chicken Chow Mein Noodles
I prepare Chicken Chow Mein with king mushrooms, tofu, broccoli, sugar snap peas, green beans, carrots and red bell peppers. The dish couldn't be simpler to make, and is definitely a family favorite. It's a great alternative to pasta, and it's an excellent way to make use of leftovers. I often combine the leftover chicken from my poulet roti with whatever vegetables we have on hand.
Chow Mein is one of the few dishes I can cook where it's very easy to make both vegetarian and meat versions simultaneously. I just set aside a portion of the dish before I add chicken to the rest.
Yields: 12 servings2 (14-ounce) packages fresh fine egg noodles
4 tablespoons canola oil (or any neutral oil)
1 pound chicken breast, boneless and skinless
2 teaspoons tapioca starch
6 ounce firm tofu
3 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 shallot, thinly sliced
4 green onions, thinly chopped
1 yellow onion, cut in small wedges
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup green beans, chopped into small pieces
1 cup broccoli florets and stems , cut into small pieces
1 king oyster mushroom, diced
1 cup sugar snap peas, halved
1 carrot, shredded, cut about 2-in long
1 red bell pepper, sliced
2 teaspoons black bean sauce
4 teaspoons chili garlic sauce, to taste
1-1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/3 cup soy sauce
3 tablespoons water, as needed, to balance the saltiness of the soy sauce
1 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil (optional)
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
For the noodles:
On a large platter, untangle and separate the noodles. Fill a large pot with water. Bring to a boil. Place the noodles in the boiling water, return the water to a boil then lower the heat to medium-low. That way the pasta is cooked evenly all the way through. Salt the water half way through the cooking process (it will bring out the natural flavor of the noodles and they will be softer) and keep stirring every now and then so the noodles don't stick to the bottom. Cook for about 3-4 minutes. When the noodles are cooked (tender but still in shape and firm), drizzle about 1 tablespoon of canola oil, then drain the noodles. Discard the liquid. Set aside. Set aside.
For the tofu:
Drain any liquid from the tofu. Pat dry with a paper towel. Slice the block of tofu into 1 inch thick pieces. In the same wok, heat the oil and fry the tofu slices and transfer to a plate. Once the tofu is cool enough to handle, cut the pieces into strips. Set aside.
For the chicken:
Pound the chicken breast using a meat tenderizer mallet. Sprinkle the chicken on both sides with tapioca starch. Heat about a tablespoon of oil in a wok. Place the pieces of chicken in the wok. Make sure that the pieces aren't overlapping so they'll become a nice golden color. Sauté them over high heat. Add the green onions. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for about 1 to 2 minutes on each side. Transfer to a serving plate. Allow to rest for 15 minutes and slice into strips. Set aside.
For the veggies:
Blanch the broccoli for 3-4 minutes in boiling water then transfer into an ice bath. Drain thoroughly, then pat dry on a paper towel. Do not overcook, as the broccoli will continue to cook in the thick sauce later; it should be still tender and crisp or you'll have depleted all the healthy nutrients.
Add a tablespoon of oil in the same wok. When the oil is hot, add a teaspoon of garlic. As the garlic becomes slightly golden, add the shallots. Cook until slightly golden. Add the carrots and diced King mushroom and stir-fry for about 2 minutes. When the color is translucent, season with salt. Add the onion wedges and cook for another minute. Transfer to a plate. Set aside.
Repeat the same procedure for the bell pepper (except the oil,cook for about 2 minutes) Transfer to a plate. Repeat the same procedure for the green beans, sugar snap peas and broccoli. Don't overcook the vegetables as they will continue cooking in the noodles later. Set the plates aside.
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In the same wok, add the rest of the oil. Once it's hot, add the chicken and tofu. Add the black bean and chili garlic sauce, sugar and soy sauce. Stir-fry for about 3-4 minutes. Add the cooked noodles. Cut them if necessary with kitchen shears. Add all the vegetables. Add water so that the ingredients don't stick to the bottom of the wok. Stir constantly. Cook for about 3-5 minutes.
Sprinkle black pepper and the cilantro. Drizzle with sesame oil.
Serve immediately. Eat with chopsticks .
The soy sauce brings saltiness to the dish and a nice amber brown color. My favorite soy sauce is the Da Bo De brand. It has a good flavor and is not too salty. You can find this particular sauce, at Dai Thanh Asian market on 420 S 2nd St, in downtown San Jose. I think this is one of the best "ethnic" grocery stores in the area.
You can find king oyster mushrooms in Asian stores. They are also called abalone mushrooms and have a very meaty texture.
I use these particular vegetables but you can add any other vegetables that are in season such as zucchini, eggplant or shiitake mushrooms.
You can use store-bought black bean and chili garlic sauce like the one from Lee Kum Kee. It's just that every year, my husband grows so many habanero and Thai chiles during the summer. I make batches of chili garlic sauce. You can check for the recipe of the tướng ớt, literally spicy dipping sauce in Vietnamese; it's ultra easy.
Just as in my recipe for crispy noodles (mì xào dòn in Vietnamese), I find egg noodles in the fresh section of Asian stores. Just make sure to pick the thin thread-like noodles.
A fast and easy way to shred carrots is with this wonderful gadget from Messermeister. It's THE best utensil for making julienne.
I absolutely love the Thanh Son tofu brand. If you live in the Bay Area, you have to try it. They sell it in almost all the Asian markets in downtown San Jose, and their main shop is on 2857 Senter Road, San Jose. It's a very little shop but everything is very good. Their factory makes the best tofu texture; it's made fresh daily.
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The federal government has twice tried to coerce Americans into carrying more pocket change to no avail. The U.S. Mint began issuing the Susan B. Anthony $1 coins in 1979 but subsequently stopped production in 1999. In 2000, the Mint began producing $1 Sacagawea coins but those never truly caught on.
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Electrical equipment that operates below its voltage rating can overheat or power down. Here's how to determine your load's operating voltage.
Voltage drop across switchgear and feeder and branch circuit conductors can quickly reduce the output voltage of the power supply to an unacceptable limit. Although UL doesn't specifically require equipment manufacturers to specify an acceptable operating voltage range for a given piece of equipment, manufacturers typically recommend that the electrical circuit operate at no less than 90% of the equipment voltage rating. But why should you concern yourself with low-voltage situations? Because operating electrical equipment outside of its acceptable voltage rating can lead to premature equipment failure and hazardous situations.
Inductive loads like motors and ballasts can overheat, shortening equipment life and increasing energy consumption if they operate below their voltage rating. In addition, undervoltage can cause sensitive electronic equipment like computers, PLCs, and copy machines to lock up or suddenly power down. This can result in lost data, increased production costs, and the increased probability of equipment failure due to excessive heat.
Resistive loads that operate at less than their rated voltage simply won't provide the rated power output. For example, a 10kW heater rated 230V will provide less than 8.2kW of power (work) at 208V (P5E24R). This may not damage the equipment or endanger your workers, but by causing the process to not function as originally designed, it could delay production and raise production costs. Reduced circuit voltage can cause incandescent lighting to flicker when other appliances, office equipment, or heating and cooling systems are cycled on.
You can determine the actual operating voltage for a load by subtracting the conductor voltage drop from the open circuit voltage. For example, you can determine the voltage drop of the circuit conductors for a single-phase load by multiplying the current of the circuit by the total impedance of the circuit conductors.
VD (single-phase) = I x Z x 2
VD (3-phase)= I x Z x 1.732
In this equation, I is the load in amperes and Z is the impedance of the conductor as listed in Chapter 9, Table 9 of the NEC.
The NEC contains many specific and detailed requirements on the topic of voltage drop. For example, you should also take into consideration the presence and operational effectiveness of additional circuit components like buck-boost transformers and power factor correction capacitors. Remember that while economics affect all design decisions, the goal is to ensure that the equipment is supplied with a voltage that meets the equipment manufacturer's requirements.
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Since I campaigned for the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates seat held by Mitch Van Yahres since 1981, I thought I should weigh in on gentrification, which I favor.
Antoinette Roades is correct [Letters, October 2, "Fifeville wasn't Fife's"]. Poor and working class neighborhoods are and always have been more diverse than affluent neighborhoods. Fifeville was not a poor neighborhood when it was new.
If you own a cheap house in a run-down neighborhood being gentrified, that's your ticket out of poverty.
Whatever the assessed value, you should ask for two or three times that amount. If your selling price is too high, you continue to own the property and pay taxes at the assessed value. Don't sell unless you get enough to buy a decent place with money leftover to spend. Gentrification is the kind of redevelopment that can benefit everyone.
My campaign was against urban renewal, the process by which homeowners and businesses are forced out or threatened to be forced out by the government for the express purpose of selling the land to a private developer. According to public statements by citizens and officials, the one-block renewal on Prospect Avenue, and individual houses on and near Tenth Street NW are examples of urban renewal 2003.
The only thing I can do about it is write this letter.
Unlike Mitch Van Yahres while he was on City Council 1968-1976, I don't have oversight of the Redevelopment and Housing Authority. I have no reason to think that he has changed his position.
On November 4, I will write in myself because I actually tried to get the nomination. When an incumbent runs unopposed, that's an opportunity to write in the one issue you think needs to be addressed. The incumbent will still win.
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With the hard-earned cash and sweat equity you pour into your off-road rig, it plain sucks to find out your ride has been stolen. Locks and alarms can help stop or stall a thief, but if he gets away with your vehicle, it could be useful to have a means of tracking it for possible recovery.
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The Spot Trace unit retails for $119.99 and the basic service plan is $99.99 per year. If you want tracking updates every 2 1/2 minutes, annual cost is double the basic rate.
Setting up the Spot Trace was pretty straightforward. We had to create an online account and subscribe to annual service. Then we chose the settings we wanted to have enabled. The unit can alert you of its movement, notify you if it has been powered off, send a daily status message, and tell you when the batteries are getting low.
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We set the Spot Trace in our truck one morning before we headed out into the desert. Once we started driving, the module detected movement and sent us an email a few minutes later. We drove into the desert and unloaded dirt bikes for a ride. We tossed the module in our hydration pack and hit the trails for a few hours. Once we returned home, we logged into our Spot Trace account online and were able to see the tracking reports the device transmitted. The online map showed our reported location in five-minute intervals. However, the vendor does caution obstructed skies or foliage could cause the unit to have trouble sending some transmissions. We ran our test on a sunny, clear day, so all track intervals were reported.
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But how do you know which airport is the right choice for you? Although these airports are near each other, choosing the right place to fly into will save you time and money and improve your overall travel experience.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is in Arlington, Virginia, and 3 miles from the center of Washington, D.C. The smallest of the area airports, DCA is serviced by major airlines including US Airways, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines. DCA offers 84 nonstop flights to destinations within the United States and the Bahamas.
This airport has all the desired amenities, including a currency exchange, a duty-free shop, and ATMs. Travelers who arrive early can spend time browsing the pre-security shops, enjoying a massage, or getting a shoe shine.
Take a minute to visit the Gallery Walk, a rotating art exhibit that features three-dimensional pieces from the local area. As you collect your bags, you'll also notice another exhibit highlighting creative works by local artists.
American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines have lounges reserved for their flight club members. The United Service Organizations, or USO lounge, is reserved for military personnel and their families.
If you're taking an international flight from Reagan, give yourself extra travel time. International flights and Southwest Airlines* depart from a secondary terminal next to the main terminal. It takes an extra 15 minutes to reach these check-in counters if you're walking from the main terminal.
Rental car facilities are inside the parking garage. A shuttle can take you there, or it's a 10-minute walk. At DCA you'll find popular rental car brands including Enterprise, Budget, and Hertz.
Of all the D.C.-area airports, DCA offers the easiest and quickest route into the city. In addition to rental cars, guests can take the metro, shuttles, or taxis to their destination. Taxi Dispatchers are on-site to direct you to a taxi based on your destination and form of payment.
If you have arranged for a ride, your driver can park in the nearby cellphone waiting area until you have retrieved your bags and are ready to leave the airport. Cars cannot idle in front of the airport due to security measures, and the waiting area is a better option than driving in circles.
Flying into DCA is the best option for travelers with late and/or early flights who aren't renting cars. The Ronald Reagan metro station connects to the airport, offering travelers easy access to the city. DCA also offers many transportation options and access to services like Uber and Lyft. For this convenience, fares into DCA are usually more expensive than those to the other local airports.
DCA is open around the clock, and past travelers have found it easy to spend a night sleeping there if needed.
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is 35 miles from Washington, D.C.'s city center. This airport offers over 250 nonstop domestic flights each day and is serviced by major airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines, and Delta Air Lines. Plenty of shopping and dining options are available to departing or returning passengers.
If you're hoping to get a quick workout between flights, BWI has two walking paths designated by the American Heart Association for a good cardio workout.
Adjacent to upper level checkpoints is the Marshall Observation Gallery dedicated to air and space travel. Visit this showcase to see exhibits on loan from NASA. Near the Observation Gallery is a tribute to Thurgood Marshall and his life as a civil rights advocate.
The Chesapeake Club Lounge is available to travelers with priority passes, while the Airspace Lounge is available to all passengers. The Airspace Lounge is open from 4:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and costs $20. A USO lounge serves military personnel and their families.
Passengers can get to Washington, D.C. using the D.C.-area public transportation system, the MARC train, taxis, and shuttles.
Rental facilities are available 10 minutes off-site and accessible using a free shuttle found on the terminal's lower level. Enterprise, Alamo, and Thrifty are among the companies servicing this airport.
BWI is your best bet if you're looking for the cheapest flight from a domestic city.
If you aren't renting a car, get a flight that lands by 9:00 p.m. The B30 bus connects passengers to Washington, D.C. via Greenbelt metro station, which is the last station on the Green line. This bus makes its last trip from BWI at 10:40 p.m. daily. The bus ride takes 40 minutes. The last train into D.C. leaves Greenbelt at 11:30 p.m. on weekdays and 2:30 a.m. on weekends. For your return trip, the first B30 leaves Greenbelt metro station at 6:10 a.m. on weekdays and 8:45 a.m. on weekends.
If your flight lands or departs outside the public transportation schedule, you can easily find transportation via taxis located outside of Greenbelt station and the airport. The fare for these trips can be quite high because of an extra fare charge between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Alternatively, because the airport is open 24 hours, you can crash inside for an early morning flight or until public transportation starts the next day.
IAD is in Sterling, Virginia, and 27 miles from the center of Washington, D.C. It's the largest of the three airports and offers over 80 nonstop flights within the United States and over 50 nonstop flights to destinations around the world. Airlines serving IAD include South African Airlines, Emirates, and Air China.
Travelers can take advantage of the on-site currency exchange and the duty-free shops. Enjoy your pick from more than 70 shops and restaurants while waiting to depart.
Travelers can purchase entry into the United Club or British Airways Galleries Lounges. The USO lounge is reserved for service personnel and family members.
This airport showcases several temporary and rotating exhibits that give resident artists a chance to show off their work.
At the Gateway Gallery, you'll find photos from members of local photography associations. Another cool display is the "Hello and Welcome" self-portrait set completed by school children and hung along the arrival corridor for international flights. Several other art exhibits are inside the airport to give guests a preview of D.C. culture. During the summer Dulles Airport puts on a jazz concert series with live performances from D.C. singers and dancers.
Travelers can get to downtown D.C. using the public transportation system or a taxi or shuttle. IAD has on-site rental car facilities housing the top rental car brands, including Enterprise, Alamo, and Avis.
Ask your ride to wait in the cellphone waiting area to prevent them from having to circle the airport.
IAD usually offers the cheapest flights for those flying from international locations.
If you are relying on public transportation, be sure to get a flight that lands by 9:00 p.m. The Washington Flyer bus runs daily, every 15 to 20 minutes, and the last bus leaves Dulles at 10:40 p.m. The bus connects travelers to the Wiehle-Reston metro station, which is the last station on the silver line. Note that the last train going into D.C. leaves at 11:10 p.m. on weekdays and at 2:10 a.m. on weekends.
For your return trip, the first Washington Flyer picks up passengers from Wiehle-Reston at 6:00 a.m. on weekdays and 7:45 a.m. on weekends. If your flight is outside these public transportation hours, you should plan to pay more for a cab to IAD.
Although IAD isn't best known for a good night's sleep, it's open 24 hours if you have an early flight and you'd rather forgo the hotel room.
When searching for a flight, enter WAS as your departure to get options for all three airports serving Washington, D.C.
For cheap flights, avoid booking your trip around holidays like the Fourth of July. Spring can also be an expensive time because families, school groups, and people hoping to see the cherry blossoms visit in droves. The best time to book a flight to D.C. is during the hot and muggy summer months when everyone else is flying to a beach.
The winter months between November and February are also good times to fly into D.C. While D.C. doesn't have unbearably cold winters, snow events disable the city. Be ready for a fun day inside if it snows during your visit.
Using this guide, travelers have the information they need to make the best decision when choosing their destination airport. With three area airports, you are sure to find a flight that suits your needs.
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This is my take on the Forskningsavdelningen issue. If you are comfortable with sending this out on behalf of the Metalab, let's do so. If not, or if the discussion has not come to a conclusion before Saturday, December 5, 12:00, I will remove all references to 'we-as-members' and publish it as a personal statement of support. كِرا
On November 28th, the police conducted a raid on a suspected illegal nightclub in Malmö. The official reason for the operation was that they suspected the club, which arranged a punk concert that evening, to sell alcoholic beverages without permission. And the police did indeed find and seize some beer, wine, and booze there, as well as a few other personal belongings that are not too surprising at a punk concert (firecrackers, pepper spray, etc.) Details can be found in the police's official press release.
So far, so unexciting.
What the press release fails to mention is that the police also raided the premises of another organisation that had nothing to do with the nightclub, other than being located in the same building: the hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen.
Forskningsavdelningen is a hackerspace - a place for people with in an interest in technology to share knowledge and work together. What does this organisation, located on a different floor, have to do with a suspected illegal club organised by a different organisation? Not much, it would seem.
Okay, so maybe it was bad luck that they were raided. Less than perfect intelligence on behalf of the police. Embarrassing, but no big deal.
Except that the police actually confiscated six computers, a WiFi router, and other valuable technical equipment from Forskningsavdelningen - and now want to raise charges of "preparation for Grand Theft" and "IT intrusion".
The grounds for the charge of preparation for Grand Theft is that the equipment in the hackerspace included two key copying machines and a collection of lock picking tools. According to the police, this indicates that a burglary was planned. Similarly, the presence of a "special antenna to receive wireless signals over long distance" is used to justify the suspicion of IT intrusion.
All of these tools are perfectly legal to own and operate - unless of course they are actually used for illegal purposes. A knife can be used to cut a steak or to stab somebody. If I own a knife, does that indicate that I am planning an assault?
Owning an antenna - even a "special", modified antenna - does not indicate an intention to commit a crime. It indicates an interest in wireless transmission, and may in fact be the first prototype of tomorrow's technology.
What about lock picking? Same thing. Lock picking is a sport practised by official clubs all over Europe. In addition to the edification of their members, these clubs provide a valuable service to the public by demonstrating the security flaws in common locks. Participation in this sport is no more a preparation for burglary than sport shooting is a preparation for murder.
We are deeply concerned by this disregard of the most basic legal right - the presumption of innocence. We are worried by the fact that the open, critical study of technology is used as grounds for accusing innocent people.
As members of the Metalab, a hackerspace in Vienna, Austria, we express our solidarity with our friends in Sweden. We join them in demanding the return of all seized equipment and we sincerely hope that this whole affair will turn out to be a misunderstanding rather than an intentional interference with the rights of innocent citizens.
To restore the principle of legal certainty and avoid similar mistakes in the future, we strongly recommend a full investigation of the raid (its reasons and actual execution) as well as the legal grounds (or lack thereof) of raising charges based on the possession of legal equipment.
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Northern War, 1700–1721, general European conflict, fought in N and E Europe at the same time that the War of the Spanish Succession was fought in the west and the south. It arose chiefly from the desire of the neighbors of Sweden to break Swedish supremacy in the Baltic area, and from the conflicting ambitions of Peter I of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden. Many other interests were involved, however. Although there was no direct link between the Northern War and the War of the Spanish Succession, Sweden generally received the diplomatic support of France, and England supported Russia early in the war, but withdrew support later.
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In my last blog, I showed how the execution plan in denali has been enhanced by 2 new warnings ,conversion affecting cardinality and conversion affecting seek, which are shown when a data type conversion has happened either implicitly or explicitly.
That is not all though, there is more . Also added are two warnings when performance has been affected due to memory issues.
Memory spills to tempdb are a costly operation and happen when SqlServer is under memory pressure and needs to free some up. For a long time you have been able to see these as warnings in a profiler trace as a sort or hash warning event, but now they are included right in the execution plan. Not only that but also you can see which operator caused the spill , not just which statement. Pretty damn handy.
Another cause of performance problems relating to memory are memory grant waits. Here is an informative write up on them, but simply speaking , SQLServer has to allocate a certain amount of memory for each statement. If it is unable to you get a "memory grant wait". Once again there are other methods of analyzing these, but the plan now shows these too.
Don't worry that's not real production code
There is one other new warning that is of interest to me, "Unmatched Indexes". Once I find out the conditions under which that fires ill blog about it.
After adding an index, ensuring that an index is actually used is probably the biggest win you will get in terms of performance in SqlServer. There are many ways that an query can be non-sargable, and therefore not using an available index, a common one is implicit (or even explicit) type conversion.
Within Denali ( or now SqlServer 2012 to give it its correct name) two new warnings have been added to the execution plan to help highlight this issue. "Type conversion in expression ColumnExpression may affect "CardinalityEstimate" in query plan choice" and "Type conversion in expression ColumnExpression may affect "SeekPlan" in query plan choice" are now shown if a type conversion has happened and it is affecting , or could be , affecting performance.
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