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The higher river flows following Hurricane Sandy will bring an increased amount of nutrient and sediment to the Chesapeake Bay; however these amounts will not approach the nutrient and sediment loads seen in 2011 from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Flows in the Susquehanna River, the largest river entering the Chesapeake Bay, are expected to reach 155,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). This is much lower than last year's flow of more than 775,000 cfs following Irene and Lee. The flow in the Susquehanna River due to Sandy is not expected to produce significant scour of sediments from the Conowingo Reservoir. The record was 1.1 million cfs during Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
Hurricane Sandy had a larger effect on the Potomac River watershed and Eastern Shore. Current flow at Little Falls in Washington, DC is 137,000 cfs and is near its expected peak. Current flow from the Potomac River is comparable to the Susquehanna River, even though the Potomac watershed is only half the size. The record for the Potomac is 484,000 cfs, set in 1936.
The Choptank River reached a peak of 4480 cfs, which was half of the flow seen during Irene or Lee.
Tracking river flow into the Chesapeake is important for the health of the bay. Too many nutrients rob the bay of oxygen needed for fish and, along with sediment, cloud the waters, disturbing the habitat of underwater plants crucial for aquatic life and waterfowl. However, according to the Chesapeake Bay Program, the impacts are not as great during this time of year compared to the summer months.
"Maximum river flows and associated sediment and pollutant loads from extreme storms are complicated functions of the amount and duration of the rainfall, the prior degree of ground saturation, the percentage of the total drainage basin affected, and the state of ground cover, among other factors," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "We are simply grateful for the health of the Chesapeake that Sandy didn't follow Irene's example!"
The USGS and partners are collecting samples of nutrients and sediment at the Chesapeake Bay Program Nontidal Water-Quality Network, which includes 125 sites. The results will be used to assess effects on the Bay and its watershed.
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Do You Trust this Computer?HD
IMDb: 7.9
78 min
Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers is reshaping every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible ...
Genre: Documentary
Actor: James Barrat, Rana El Kaliouby, David Ferrucci, Christine Fox, Sean Gourley, Hannes Grassegger, Brian Herman, Eric Horvitz, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Enrique Jacome, Jerry Kaplan, Michal Kosinski, Raymond Kurzweil, Hod Lipson, John Markoff

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Titles automatically expire at the end of the lending period, so there are no late fees. To get started with Overdrive, first go to the Indiana Digital Download Center site at iddc.lib.overdrive.com and download the software that you'll need for your system, then you can browse the collection and download your favorite titles. There are hundreds of titles to choose from!
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Asian stocks fell this week, with the benchmark index capping its first weekly loss in five weeks, after Chinese data fueled concern about an economic slowdown and a rise in the yen sent Japanese shares lower.
Jiangxi Copper Co (江西銅業), which earns 92 percent of its revenue from China, dropped 5.8 percent in Hong Kong after prices for the metal slumped on concern that Chinese demand will weaken, while Toyota Motor Corp, a carmaker that generates 75 percent of its revenue abroad, lost 5.7 percent in Tokyo.
Also dropping this week were Malaysian Airline System Bhd, which fell 4 percent after one of its planes disappeared with 239 people aboard on March 8 and New World Development Co (新世界發展), which lost 17 percent after proposing to privatize its China property unit for HK$18.6 billion (US$2.4 billion).
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index conformed to the downward trend, sliding 3.5 percent to 134.32 this week in its steepest one-week decline in almost two years amid speculation that China would miss its 7.5 percent growth goal.
"The market started to pay more attention to negative data points," White Funds Management managing director Angus Gluskie said.
China's leaders are "using fiscal and monetary policy to control areas of growth, but investors are being cautious and I think they are getting nervous about what they say," Gluskie added.
In Taipei, the TAIEX fell 0.69 percent, or 60.16 points, to close the week on 8,687.63, compared with 8,713.96 on March 7.
On Friday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電) slipped 1.29 percent to NT$115, while Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) lost 0.7 percent to close at NT$85.5
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index of mainland companies listed, also known as the H-share index, dropped 4.2 percent. The gauge is more than 19 percent down from a high on Dec. 2 last year and is nearing a so-called bear market. The Hang Seng Index also declined this week, falling 4.9 percent in the biggest decline since May 2012, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 2.6 percent.
China's factory production increased 8.6 percent annually in the January-to-February period, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday, compared with the 9.5 percent median projection of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News, while retail sales rose 11.8 percent, missing expectations for a 13.5 percent gain in the period.
Aggregate financing in China decreased to 938.7 billion yuan (US$153 billion) last month amid a crackdown on shadow lending, a government report this week showed. That compares with January's record 2.58 trillion.
Chinese exports slid the most since 2009 last month, a separate report showed.
In Japan, the TOPIX slid 5.8 percent, its biggest weekly decline since June last year, while the smaller Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost 6.2 percent. Exporters slid after the yen rose as much as 0.5 percent to 101.36 to the US dollar.
Elsewhere in the region, South Korea's KOSPI fell 0.3 percent, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index dropped 2.4 percent after data showed companies boosted full-time payrolls last month by the most in more than 22 years and in Singapore, the Straits Times Index declined 2 percent.
In Wellington, the NZX 50 Index slid 0.9 percent this week after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its key interest rate to make New Zealnd the first developed market nation to exit record-low borrowing costs this year.


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This section introduces the music of Irish composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is intended as a good starting point for anyone not familiar with Irish contemporary music.
Each composer's page provides a photo, a biography, most recent works added to CMC's collection and other information. You can also purchase CDs and scores by each composer, access features about the composers, or view any upcoming events which include their music.
An Irish composer is defined as anyone who was born or is permanently resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
For any Irish composers interested in registering with CMC, please see our guidelines on how to apply.
Seóirse Bodley was born in Dublin in 1933. Studies in Ireland and Germany led to a teaching appointment at University College Dublin, where he was awarded the degree of D. Mus.
Emma O'Halloran is an Irish composer who writes for acoustic and electronic instruments.
Seán was introduced to music through the Irish fiddle tradition of his hometown of Derry.
Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental
Described as a "Genre-Jumping Genius" (Tradreview.com) Dave Flynn is an award-winning composer/guitarist and founder of the unique Irish Memory Orchestra.
Amanda Feery is an Irish composer currently based in the U.S., where she is completing a PhD in Composition at Princeton University.
Sebastian Adams (b. 1991) is an Irish composer, viola player and artistic director. He was Composer in Residence with RTÉ lyric fm in 2016/17.
In 2012 Elaine Agnew's BBC Proms Commission 'Dark Hedges' was premiered by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and flautist Sir James Galway in London's Royal Albert Hall, one reviewer
Michael Alcorn studied at the University of Ulster and completed a PhD in composition with John Casken at the University of Durham.
Farid Allawerdi was born in Iraq.
David Armstrong was born in Essex, England, in 1927 and moved to Ireland at an early age.
June Armstrong is a piano teacher living and working in Belfast.


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From cppreference.com
< cpp | memory | unique ptr
void reset( pointer ptr = pointer() );
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template< class U >
void reset( U ) = delete;
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void reset( std::nullptr_t p );
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(member of specialization unique_ptr<T[]> only)
Replaces the managed object.
1) Given
current_ptr, the pointer that was managed by
*this, performs the following actions, in this order:
- Saves a copy of the current pointer old_ptr = current_ptr
- Overwrites the current pointer with the argument current_ptr = ptr
- If the old pointer was non-empty, deletes the previously managed object if(old_ptr != nullptr) get_deleter()(old_ptr).
2) In the specialization for dynamic arrays, std::unique_ptr<T[]>, this template member is provided to prevent using reset() with a pointer to derived (which would result in undefined behavior with arrays).
3) In the specialization for dynamic arrays, std::unique_ptr<T[]>, the third overload is necessary to allow reset to nullptr (which would otherwise be prohibited by the template overload). Equivalent to reset(pointer())
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noexcept specification:
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To replace the managed object while supplying a new deleter as well, move assignment operator may be used.
A test for self-reset, i.e. whether
ptr points to an object already managed by
*this, is not performed, except where provided as a compiler extension or as a debugging assert. Note that code such as p.reset(p.release()) does not involve self-reset, only code like p.reset(p.get()) does.
Visual Studio's implementation of reset is currently (in VC10 and VC11) broken and non-conforming to the C++11 standard. It deletes the managed object before resetting the pointer to the owned object.
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#include <iostream> #include <memory> struct Foo { Foo() { std::cout << "Foo...\n"; } ~Foo() { std::cout << "~Foo...\n"; } }; struct D { void operator() (Foo* p) { std::cout << "Calling delete for Foo object... \n"; delete p; } }; int main() { std::cout << "Creating new Foo...\n"; std::unique_ptr<Foo, D> up(new Foo(), D()); // up owns the Foo pointer (deleter D) std::cout << "Replace owned Foo with a new Foo...\n"; up.reset(new Foo()); // calls deleter for the old one std::cout << "Release and delete the owned Foo...\n"; up.reset(nullptr); }
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(Reuters) – Agenus Inc said a mid-stage trial of its experimental genital herpes vaccine reduced the rate at which patients' were shedding the virus.
The 15 percent reduction in viral shedding in patients receiving the vaccine compared to those on a placebo, who showed no reduction.
The mid-stage trial had 80 patients with a history of 1-9 herpes recurrences within the prior 12 months. Of them, 70 received the vaccine, HerpV, and 10 received placebo.
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Armour: It was UConn's title all along — only they knew it
ARLINGTON, Texas — Kentucky had the roster loaded with soon-to-be NBA lottery picks. It had the fame and the preseason No. 1 ranking. It had the star coach, so big the country is on a one-name basis with him.
Yet when the buzzer sounded Monday night, Connecticut had the only thing that mattered.
The NCAA title.
UConn might not be the best team in terms of pure talent or future earning potential. But heart will outweigh talent any day — especially when it's paired with the slickest guards in the game.
"It took a special team," Ryan Boatright said.
CHAMPIONS:Connecticut topples Kentucky for fourth national title
BACKCOURT:Boatright steps out of Napier's shadow for Huskies
No one outside the state of Connecticut gave the Huskies any shot at being the last guys standing when the NCAA tournament began. Two weeks earlier, they'd been run off the floor in Louisville. Heck, few gave them a shot when the title game tipped off.
But there is something special about these Huskies, a steeliness forged in the darkness of last season.
Banned from the postseason for years of poor academic scores, they became poster children for all that is wrong with college athletics, a team that would sacrifice academics for athletic success. Never mind that the sins had been committed long before most of these Huskies had even set foot on campus.
"This is what happens when you ban us," Shabazz Napier said in the postgame celebration before being cut off.
"When you prevent us from trying to go to the postseason, and it wasn't our fault, we worked since that day on," Napier said, explaining himself in the postgame news conference. "Coach Ollie told us, `This is going to be a two-year plan,' and since that day on, we believed."
The punishment brought them closer as a team, made them family as much as teammates. But it hardened them, too. Doubters and deficits in games no longer mattered, as they showed time and again during their run through the tournament.
ANALYSIS:Five factors that decided Connecticut's championship
KENTUCKY:Harrison twins finally run out of NCAA tourney magic
Villanova. Iowa State. Michigan State. Florida. Melvin Ejim and DeAndre Kane. Adreian Payne and Gary Harris. Scottie Wilbekin and Casey Prather. One by one, the teams and players that were supposed to contend for the championship fell while the afterthought Huskies rolled on.
"The last shall be first," said Kevin Ollie, coach of an NCAA champion in just his second year as a head coach. "We were last and now we're first. But we always did it together."
And they never lost faith. Ever.
Not when they fell behind by double digits to St. Joseph's, Villanova or Florida, or by nine to Michigan State. Not when uncharacteristically sloppy passes and poor shots allowed Kentucky to get back in a game that UConn led by as much as 15 late in the first half. Not when Napier was barking at Boatright for being out of position.
Not even when Boatright twisted his ankle with nine minutes to play, the pain so bad he was still grimacing following a timeout. Ollie gave him an encouraging rub on the head, and Boatright took a few more tentative steps before nodding his head and settling into his defensive stance.
"We worked too hard," Boatright said. "I wasn't going to let a little ankle sprain with nine minutes to go keep me from being out there to fight with my brothers."
There could be a highlight reel of Shabazz and Napier's how-did-he-do-that? plays from this game alone, and Kentucky was left grasping at thin air time and again. But even without their sublime show, there was simply no way UConn was going to be denied.
When the Huskies got the ball back with nine seconds left, the players began jumping up and down at the bench. As the clock ticked down to two, they started rushing the court. When the final buzzer sounded, Napier let out a primal scream and popped the front of his jersey so there could be no more doubt.
"I remember telling these guys after we lost against Louisville at home, our first (conference) game, 'Everybody pick your head up. At the end of the day, we're going to be the team that's going to be holding up that trophy. I promise you that,'" Napier said. "And it's so surreal that it actually happened."
This was UConn's title, had been all along. They were just the only ones who knew it.
Follow columnist Nancy Armour on Twitter at @nrarmour.


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8 Historically Terrifying Viruses
It seems like a new virus that's trying to kill us pops up somewhere in the world every other day. The World Health Organization recently announced that it is monitoring a new contagious, respiratory-infection-inducing coronavirus (suggested codename: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus or MERS-Cov) that is responsible for dozens of illnesses and several deaths in the Middle East and Europe in the last few months.
While a handful of deaths does not a pandemic make, there is much to fear from tiny imperialistic pathogens—invisible to all but the most powerful microscopes—that invade our cells to replicate, messing them up like a coke-fueled rock band destroys a hotel room after a concert.
All the hand-sanitizer in the world can't save us from some of history's nastiest viruses and the horrifying diseases they cause in humans—and we know you're just itching to know all about them. Here are eight of the deadliest viruses the world has ever seen.
1. Ebola
Its melodic moniker may roll off the tongue, but if you contract the virus (above), that's not the only thing that will roll off one of your body parts (a disturbing amount of blood coming out of your eyes, for instance). Four of the five known Ebola viral strains cause Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), which has killed thousands of people in sub-Saharan African nations since its discovery in 1976.
The deadly virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it was first reported, and is classified as a CDC Biosafety Level 4, a.k.a. BSL-4, making it one of the most dangerous pathogens on the planet. It is thought to spread through close contact with bodily secretions. EHF has a 50 to 90 percent mortality rate, with a rapid onset of symptoms that start with a headache and sore throat and progress to major internal and external bleeding and multiple organ failure. There's no known cure, and the most recent cases were reported at the end of 2012 in Uganda.
2. Marburg
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In 1967, a group of lab workers in Germany (Marburg and Frankfurt) and Serbia (then Yugoslavia) contracted a new type of hemorrhagic fever from some virus-carrying African green monkeys that had been imported for research and development of polio vaccines. The Marburg virus is also BSL-4, and Marburg hemorrhagic fever has a 23 to 90 percent fatality rate. Spread through close human-to-human contact, symptoms start with a headache, fever, and a rash on the trunk, and progress to multiple organ failure and massive internal bleeding. There is no cure, and the latest cases were reported out of Uganda at the end of 2012. An American tourist who had explored a Ugandan cave full of fruit bats known to be reservoirs of the virus contracted it and survived in 2008. (But not before bringing his sick self back to the U.S.)
3. Hantavirus
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There are many strains of hantavirus floating around (yep, it's airborne) in the wake of rodents that carry the virus. Different strains, carried by different rodent species, are known to cause different types of illnesses in humans, most notably hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS)—first discovered during the Korean War—and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which reared its ugly head with a 1993 outbreak in the Southwestern United States. Severe HFRS causes acute kidney failure, while HPS gets you by filling your lungs with fluid (edema). HFRS has a mortality rate of 1 to 15 percent, while HPS is 38 percent. The U.S. saw its most recent outbreak of hantavirus—of the HPS variety—at Yosemite National Park in late 2012.
4. Lassa
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This BSL-4 virus gives us yet another reason to avoid rodents. Lassa is carried by a species of rat in West Africa called Mastomys. It's airborne…at least when you're hanging around the rat's fecal matter. Humans, however, can only spread it through direct contact with bodily secretions. Lassa fever, which has a 15 to 20 percent mortality rate, causes about 5000 deaths a year in West Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It starts with a fever and some retrosternal pain (behind the chest) and can progress to facial swelling, encephalitis, mucosal bleeding and deafness. Fortunately, researchers and medical professionals have found some success in treating Lassa fever with an antiviral drug in the early stages of the disease.
5. Rabies
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Rabies has a long and storied history dating back to 2300 B.C., with records of Babylonians who went mad and died after being bitten by dogs. While this virus itself is a beast, the sickness it causes is now is wholly preventable if treated immediately with a series of vaccinations (sometimes delivered with a terrifyingly huge needle in the abdomen). We have vaccine inventor Louis Pasteur to thank for that.
Exposure to rabies these days, while rare in the U.S., still occurs as it did thousands of years ago—through bites from infected animals. If left untreated after exposure, the virus attacks the central nervous system and death usually results. The symptoms of an advanced infection include delirium, hallucinations and raging, violent behavior in some cases, which some have argued makes rabies eerily similar to zombification. If rabies ever became airborne, we might actually have to prepare for that zombie apocalypse after all.
6. Smallpox
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The virus that causes smallpox wiped out hundreds of millions of people worldwide over thousands of years. We can't even blame it on animals either, as the virus is only carried by and contagious for humans. There are several different types of smallpox disease that result from an infection ranging from mild to fatal, but it is generally marked by a fever, rash, and blistering, oozing pustules that develop on the skin. Fortunately, smallpox was declared eradicated in 1979, as the result of successful worldwide implementation of the vaccine.
7. Dengue
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The leading cause of death in the tropics and subtropics is the infection brought on by the dengue virus, which causes a high fever, severe headache, and, in the worst cases, hemorrhaging. The good news is that it's treatable and not contagious. The bad news is there's no vaccine, and you can get it easily from the bite of an infected mosquito—which puts at least a third of the world's human population at risk. The CDC estimates that there are over 100 million cases of dengue fever each year. It's a great marketing tool for bug spray.
8. Influenza
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No virus can claim credit for more worldwide pandemics and scares than influenza. The outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1918 is generally considered to be one of the worst pandemics in human history, infecting 20 to 40 percent of the world's population and killing 50 million in the span of just two years. (A reconstruction of that virus is above.) The swine flu was its most recent newsmaker, when a 2009 pandemic may have seen as many as 89 million people infected worldwide.
Effective influenza vaccines exist, and most people easily survive infections. But the highly infectious respiratory illness is cunning—the virus is constantly mutating and creating new strains. Thousands of strains exist at any given time, many of them harmless, and vaccines available in the U.S. cover only about 40 percent of the strains at large each year.


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This is a museum poster or flyer issued by the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1972, advertising an exhibition that year of the paintings of the important and still highly underrated Swiss-California modernist HANS GUSTAV BURKHARDT (1904-1994). The unframed sheet measures 24 1/4" by 18", and bears the complementary signature of the artist in blue ink at lower right just below the black area of the central image. Burkhardt was born in Switzerland and arrived in America in 1924. He attended Cooper Union and Grand Central School in New York in the latter part of the 1920's, meeting and working with Willem de Kooning. From 1929 to 1936 he was a student of the famous artist Arshile Gorky, with whom he went on to became a close friend. By 1937, Burkhardt was in Los Angeles, where the prestigious Stendhal Gallery held an exhibition of his work, that exhibition arranged by the progressive modernist of that period in Los Angeles, Lorser Feitelson. While in Southern California, Burkhardt met the likes of the surrealists Man Ray, and Eugene Berman, and modernist Knud Merrild. Isolated from the art centers of Europe and the east coast, he steered his own course in modernism for the next fifty years. Major museums around the nation and abroad held exhibitions of his work from about 1947 through the late 1950's, some comparing him to east coast figures Hans Hofmann, De Kooning, and Gorky. By the late 1950's Burkhardt was already a mentor and teacher himself, at USC, Otis Art Institute and Chouinard, and thousands of students have traced their artistic background to his teachings. Burkhardt was a prolific artist himself until perhaps the 1980's, as he turned vigorously to printmaking, judging from the sheer number of images he created. Variously described as an abstract expressionist, cubist, and modernist, Burkhardt's large body of work, created over such a long lifetime, varies enormously in both style and medium. He worked in many media, including oil, pastel, mural, mosaic, and printmaking; and many subjects, including figurative, abstract, landscape, marines, are seen in this body of work--sometimes, mixed together in a unique style. Many have tried to interpret his message, which often deals with death, war, and man's inhumanity to man. THE PRESENT PRINT: The image area is clean. There is creasing from handling in upper left corner, left edge and right edge, and a tiny edge tear at left. When framed these flaws should not be noticeable. Ask for information on other prints by the artist I will be offering for sale.
HANS BURKHARDT (1904-1994) signed museum exhibition poster from 1972 by important Swiss-born California modern artist
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It was an uneven year for "The Office," as NBC's workhorse sitcom endured the always perilous special wedding episode and special baby episode, two event character turns that always threaten to ruin any long-running series. Also, Steve Carell hinted that the next year of the show could very well be his last, which would almost certainly bode poorly for the fate of the show itself.
However, the show still has plenty going for it. Rainn Wilson continues to do a brilliant job as Dwight Schrute, and Kathy Bates' guest spots as Jo, the Sabre CEO, have been solid. And now comes word that Zach Woods, who plays Sabre corporate toadie Gabe, has officially become a series regular. From Michael Ausiello and Andy Patrick at Entertainment Weekly:
Sources confirm to me exclusively that the NBC hitcom has just promoted Zach Woods — a.k.a. Sabre VIP (Very Insecure Person) Gabe — to series regular for season 7.
Woods was a presence on the show all throughout last season, getting the occasional awkward moment. He really shined as a straight man to Bates, essentially playing her Smithers. His promotion to the regular cast means Woods will likely have his character become more integrated with the rest of the regulars, and not just as a bit player to a printer fire at the end of the year.
Woods' promotion is a lesson in how best to bring new characters into a show without having people jump up and scream OMG! JUMP THE SHARK! JUMP THE SHARK! It's always best to give new characters a test run, to spend a season with them coming in occasionally, before figuring out if there's enough to the character to make them work as a regular.
And Woods works on this show. In fact, he could help take time away from some of the bit players who have become tiresome (Kevin), or even big players like Michael Scott, who grows dumber and more unrealistic by the season. Should Carell decide to go through with leaving at the end of the year, and producers still want the show to continue, Woods could end up quite central to the show. Hopefully, the show will be running a bit smoother when that happens.


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See Pictures of Beverly
Dream Town sent photographers out to every corner of Chicago to create an online album of the city's various neighborhoods and local landmarks. Check out the selection of photos below for a detailed glimpse of what you'll find in Beverly. Our photographers went to every length to provide a full and comprehensive picture of this section of Chicago, so take a look and see what Beverly is all about.


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Monday, March 26, 2007
Smoked Salmon "Gravlox" Part 1 – From Cradle to Grave
Now, what I'm trying to do in this demo is to use the classic Gravlox technique, but use a smoked salt in the curing mix to achieve something that will be very close to the store-bought, and VERY expensive, smoked salmon. Lots of people try to smoke salmon at home, but they are using a high-temp smoker which basically just produces cooked salmon with a smoked favor. Now there's nothing wrong with "hot-smoked" salmon, but what I'm after is that soft, buttery texture of the "cold-smoked" salmon that is sold commercially. I think this just might work! Anyway, check out part 2 and in a few days I'll show you the results. I will be selling my smoked paprika salt on the site soon, but until then you can use the ingredients I've listed below.
Safety Note: If you are worried about eating "raw" salmon, relax. This is technically raw, but "cooks" as it cures in the salt and sugar mixture. Also, you bought top-quality salmon, of course. To be really safe, you can buy frozen wild salmon and thaw that; the freezing process kills any chance of dangerous parasites, etc. By the way, that's why many Sushi Bars actually use pre-frozen fish.
1 pound fresh salmon, skin on
3 tbl sugar
3 tbl kosher salt (yes, regular salt will work)
1 tbl smoked paprika (or if you like spicy try Chipotle)
1 tbl black pepper
cheese cloth
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Hi there Chef John!
Allow me to start by saying that I really enjoy your site so please keep up the good work of educating the masses ;)
Having said that, I have to ask where you get the information as to the seasoning to make Gravlax since it is not entirelly accurate to what we actually use in Sweden.
First of all the use of paprika or chipotle is not something we would use, more like a choice of either black, white or even rose pepper is used depending on taste and most importantly you are lacking the dill!!! You cant make gravlax without dill...well you can...but then its not really gravlax but rather marinated salmon as far as I can see :p
Just a little heads up! ^_^
- August 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks, but I wasn't trying to make authentic gravlax - this is my version using the technique. This is how new recipes emerge. I have made the recipe you speak of many times, and enjoy it, but I like to create new tastes.
- August 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Christina Cheng said...
Hi Chef John. I tried this recipe over the weekend and it turned out AMAZING! My guests all loved it. We had the salmon with cream cheese on crackers. Yummm. The salmon's texture was just right. And I used the leftovers to make a salad. Also amazing!
Would you have any similar cured meat recipes coming up? (i.e. cured duck breast??)
Keep up the good work! Foodwishes is my go-to website when I need to find a recipe for anything :D
- June 9, 2014 at 4:45 PM
- Christina Cheng said...
Hi Chef John! I tried this recipe over the weekend and it sure was a hit with my guests! They all loved it. We had the salmon with cream cheese and crackers. The texture of the salmon was just right. I used the leftovers for a salad and it was amazing as well! Thanks for this awesome recipe!
Would you be making any similar cured meat? i.e. cured duck breasts perhaps? :)
Anyway, keep up the good work! Foodwishes is my go to website when I need to find any good recipes!
- June 9, 2014 at 4:48 PM


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Posted: Oct 09, 2013
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Wednesday's William and Mary men's soccer match against No. 8 UMBC has been postponed due to inclement weather in the area. Both teams are trying to reschedule the match, and that information will be released when it becomes available.
The Retrievers (10-1-0, 1-0-0 America East) will prepare for Saturday's America East Conference contest vs. Albany. The game is part of UMBC's Homecoming Festivities and will be played at 2:30 p.m. on the pitch at Retriever Soccer Park.


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State officials say they have found about 1,100 inmates who improperly collected more than $2 million in unemployment benefits.
Illinois Department of Employment Security officials on Tuesday told The Associated Press several inmates collecting unemployment could face prosecution. Department spokesman Greg Rivara said the agency will try to get recipients to voluntarily repay the money, and garnish state and federal tax returns to help recover the money.
One Cook County inmate collected almost $43,000.
Rivara said the department isn't sure yet how many people will be prosecuted. He said some cases may be too small to make charges worthwhile.
People collecting unemployment benefits have to certify every two weeks they're eligible. That includes showing they're available to work and looking for work.
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Hey everybody, my name is Anoosh Kashefi
by, 18th February 2016 at 19:37 (278609 Views)
You can see my picture to your right, yup, thats me! I am 24 years old and in December I will turn 25. Ever since I can remember I have been looking for ways to make a ton of money. Some of them have worked while others have been horrible flops.
About 3 years I thought it was best to go college and get my degree which was a great experience that I would never take back. On the other hand, I realized if I didnt physically work, meaning I wasnt actually there to be on the clock, then I wouldnt make any money.
After graduating I really started looking for ways to make a residual income due to the constant grinding as a recent grad. I knew that If I didnt set something up I would be working til I was 75.


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What is it about Airstream design that continues to engender such passion more than 80 years after the trailer first appeared? Is it the alluring, streamlined aluminum shell? The cozy interiors? The nostalgia for a simpler era?
"It's a part of American culture that transcends time," architect Matthew Hofmann told the Los Angeles Times. "It symbolizes style and adventure. There is something very fundamental about getting in your car and driving across country. It's in our blood."
Hofmann opened an Airstream hotel last month consisting of four tricked-out trailers at the Santa Barbara Auto Camp. On a recent afternoon, curious pedestrians repeatedly interrupted Hofmann and business partner Neil Dipaola to ask if they could take a peek inside the trailers. Upon entering, they found renovated interiors with hotel upgrades perfectly suited for "glamping" — mini-bars, wall-mounted flat-screen TVs, air conditioning and 1,000-thread-count sheets, all for $150 per night.
According to Airstream, about 70% of all the trailers ever manufactured by the company are still in use, so it is not surprising that Hofmann, as well as other entrepreneurs, would think to use them as lodging. Singer Kate Pierson of the B-52's opened her second vintage Airstream hotel in November.
But unlike Pierson's playful kitschy decor (think the B-52's "Love Shack" video), Hofmann's Airstreams stand out for their surprising elegance. The modern updates are no different than any home remodel, he said, and he viewed his trailers from the 1950s to 1970s as floor plans for small-space living.
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I feel like we're past the point of introductions, I've been here four years now. I'm practically furniture. But I'm Chris Dempsey, and this is the first of what I hope is a long running, off-beat (read: cool) online column.
Now, the purpose of this is to tell you what I feel, because, well, my better is better than your better. But we'll impart information, involve you, sometimes slip-slide away from normal sports conversation and get to what we all really want to talk about. I'm that guy. This is that space. So be ready to voice your opinion.
Which leads us to this…
Funny how six days can change things: On Friday, we were all – myself included – bracing for the best Western Conference playoffs in the history of the NBA. The Eastern Conference? Who cared? Well, on Wednesday, it's clear that the Eastern Conference playoffs have been better to this point. Save, of course, for the San Antonio-Phoenix series, which has been the single best first-round series so far.
The West? We had the Nuggets being blown out of Game 1. Dallas has been handled twice by New Orleans. Utah is going to sweep the severely undermanned Houston Rockets. Blah.
The East is where the trash talk (Washington), close games (Orlando over Toronto, Game 2), players rising to the occasion (LeBron James) and upset games (Philadelphia over Detroit, Game 1) have been. The games are compelling, the storylines are addicting, and it has been generally much more entertaining than the glitzy Western Conference. Well see if it stays that way.


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SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — A real life game of chess is being played out in the Pacific between China, the United States and its allies.
China is dramatically modernizing its military, especially its navy, and has been engaged in confrontations in recent months with Japan over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea and the Philippines over the Scarborough Shoal. Both Japan and the Philippines have defense treaties with the U.S.
The Chinese also have commissioned an aircraft carrier, landed a J-15 fighter on its deck and deployed drones in exercises near Okinawa, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has recommitted itself to the Pacific and expanded diplomatic ties in the region, courting Myanmar as it emerges from isolation and expanding relationships with Vietnam and Cambodia. U.S. Marines have been stationed in Australia, and there are plans to deploy littoral combat ships to Singapore, moves that some analysts see as a policy of containment.
High-level meetings in Beijing and at the Pentagon, invitations to exercises and tours of military bases for visiting dignitaries have done little to mask that bilateral distrust is at an all-time high and these examples of tit for tat one-upmanship and chest puffing have not been seen — outside of the Korean Peninsula — since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Two major reports this year have detailed an emboldened Chinese government — bolstered by years of economic growth, theft of technology secrets and a navy that is quickly becoming more modern and designed to specifically combat U.S. Navy platforms — that increasingly sees the U.S. as a superpower in decline. China is in a leadership transition, but analysts don't expect much to change.
The tenuous relationship has been called many things, from adversarial to an arms race.
"There is a new kind of Cold War going on," said June Teufel Dreyer, a professor in political science at the University of Miami and an expert on the Chinese government and U.S. defense policy.
Teufel Dreyer said it is reminiscent of the chess game played between the U.S. and Soviets following World War II, even though the U.S. government won't acknowledge it's happening. Official Chinese military journals that aren't translated into English say it "implicitly," she said.
Baohui Zhang, a political science professor at Lingnan University's Centre for Asian Pacific Studies in Hong Kong, stopped just short of calling it a Cold War.
"I think that at a minimum, a strategic competition has emerged between China and the United States," Zhang said. "They are competing for influence and leadership in the Asia-Pacific region."
China began to modernize its navy in the 1990s, according to a Congressional Research report released in March. The reasons largely relate to Taiwan, which is claimed by China but has self-rule and is allied with Washington. The Chinese are believed to be developing an anti-access maritime force that would try to keep the U.S. Navy from intervening if Taiwan declared independence and conflict broke out.
The Chinese also aim to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea and East China Sea, and enforce its view that it has the right to regulate foreign military activities in its 200-mile maritime exclusive economic zone.
China's naval modernization effort includes anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, unmanned aircraft, submarines, aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, mine countermeasures ships, hospital ships, education and training, as well as exercises with countries like Russia, the report said.
The Defense Department says the amount of modern units in China's submarine force has gone from less than 10 percent in 2000 to about 56 percent in 2010. Surface combatants have gone from less than 10 percent in 2000 to about 26 percent in 2010.
"Decisions that Congress and the executive branch make regarding U.S. Navy programs for countering improved Chinese maritime military capabilities could affect the likelihood or possible outcome of a potential U.S.-Chinese military conflict in the Pacific over Taiwan or some other issue," the paper's author Ronald O'Rourke wrote.
"In the absence of such a conflict, however, the U.S.-Chinese military balance in the Pacific could nevertheless influence day-to-day choices made by other Pacific countries, including choices on whether to align their policies more closely with China or the United States."
It is a daunting prospect considering the gridlock in Washington, looming defense budget cuts, and an already-overtaxed fleet of ships. More than one-fifth of Navy ships fell short of combat readiness in the past two years, and fewer than half of the service's deployed combat aircraft are ready for their missions at any given time, according to congressional testimony.
Another report, "Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust," released in March by the Brookings Institution in Washington and the Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University, said the Chinese government's senior leaders believe they will come out on top due to the state of American politics and the economy.
Zhang said the Chinese economy is poised to overtake the U.S. in the next 10 years as the world's largest.
Wang Jisi, an influential and widely respected expert on Chinese foreign policy who has held positions within the Chinese government, wrote in the Brookings report that the Chinese view themselves as on the rise and the U.S. on the decline. As such, they see the U.S. as trying to disrupt their rise toward becoming the world's most powerful country.
"In Beijing's view, it is U.S. policies, attitude and misperceptions that cause the lack of mutual trust between the two countries," Jisi wrote.
O'Rourke wrote that China's emerging maritime anti-access force is similar to the Soviet Union's sea denial force developed during the Cold War to keep U.S. forces from intervening in a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict. The difference, O'Rourke claims, is the Chinese missile capability to strike a moving ship at sea. Military experts have called that a game-changer.
Zhang said the era of globalization could not support a full-scale war between the two powers, but he was still pessimistic.
About the future
"This is why the U.S. position on the issue is so important. If it overextends its commitment, then a U.S.-China stand-off could emerge" from a standoff between China and the Philippines or Japan, he said.
Teufel Dreyer said the Chinese are being careful not to instigate an all-out military conflict but are slowly and deliberately escalating the situation, claiming territory and restricting access.
The Chinese are mining the South China Sea for natural resources like oil to maintain an economic growth rate of 8 percent that some feel is unsustainable. Teufel Dreyer said this is being done to mitigate dissent with the promise of a bright future.
"No country can sustain an 8 percent annual growth forever," according to Simon Shen, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. "There's a rise of Chinese nationalism, but the target isn't only the U.S. In a country where full freedom of speech is lacking, nationalist trends can also go against the regime."
The U.S. government has pledged to support its allies in the region but does not weigh in on territorial disputes like those that China is embroiled in with Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. Analysts fear that an overcommitment by the U.S. could lead to a conflict.
"The U.S. has a national interest in freedom of navigation, the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law and unimpeded lawful commerce in the South China Sea," a Department of State spokesman said, asking not be identified.
However, the Senate unanimously approved an amendment Nov. 29 to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Japan on the uninhabited islands that Japan calls Senkaku and China calls Daioyu as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013.
So what will be the outcome?
Chinese economic growth already has begun to slow, Teufel Dreyer said, adding that she believes the Obama administration is playing nice while patiently waiting for China's rising star to burn out and fall.
"The U.S. is going to try very hard to manage this relationship," she said. "We have a lot of work to do. China is eventually going to be constrained by the weaknesses in their own system. The U.S. will try to smooth the cracks [in the relationship] without giving anything away while trying to fix our own deficiencies."


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Head & Shoulders Uses Professor Polamalu To Take Consumers To University
By Barry Janoff
October 18, 2012: Troy Polamalu has been schooling opposing players as an All-Pro safety with the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2003.
Three years ago, he turned one of his non-football attributes — his full head of hair — into a marketing deal with Head & Shoulders. Now, he has graduated to the unofficial title of professor and has been joined by teammate Brett Keisel, who is known for his all-pro play at defensive tackle as well as for his full beard, to help educate men on how to maintain healthy hair.
This week, Head & Shoulders launched the Troy Polamalu School of Deeper Learning, described as a virtual school featuring a series of "humorous online courses to help men everywhere achieve deeper thinking through healthy scalps and great looking hair."
The campaign supports Head & Shoulders for Men Deep Clean, a new product from the Proctor & Gamble hair-care brand, which comes with its own humorous tag line: "Money can't buy you happiness. But it can buy you deepness."
The effort is anchored by a dedicated Web site with it's own snarky mantra, "Deep Like Troy," where "students" (aka visitors to the site) can learn tongue-in-cheek lessons from the in-house staff: Polamalu, who is listed as founder and University president; Keisel, who is the Dean of Students and Professor of Facial Hair; and comic Rob Riggle, the university's tenured department head of comedic skills.
New students are first given a "welcome orientation," where Riggle greets visitors, reads from the Book of Polamalu and leads a tour of the virtual campus. "Plato, Socrates and Polamalu," says Riggle, "When it comes to deep thinkers, think of us." We meet Foley the Follicle, who is the school mascot, and other characters who make the university, as Riggle explains, "The No. 1 parting school in the nation."
Among the courses being offered:
• Advanced Music Appreciation: "Professors Troy Polamalu and Brett Keisel demonstrate the art of Spanish Air Guitar, delving into the deepness of facial expressions and the emotionality of proper guitar fingering."
• Spiritual Shampooing 101: "Professor Master Troy Polamalu leads students on a journey into the world of Tai Chi, revealing countless mysteries of shampooing spirituality."
• Poetry and Social Revolution 101: "Rob Riggle interprets his acclaimed "Rhyme & Riggle' composition book for students: 'You want to change society, you've got to get poetic. Deeply poetic.' "
• Art Appreciation 201: "To be a true artist, you need a deep appreciation for the masters who came before. Using his flock of hair as a paint brush, Prof. Palomalu creates a masterpiece: The Paloma-Lisa."
• Deep Telepathy 202: "To connect with your fellow human beings, you must go deep into their souls. Topics discussed completely by thought and without speaking include flossing, boring boyfriends and the deep meaning of clean hair."
The site, being supported at such social media sites as Facebook and Twitter, also offers extracurricular actives including a chat room and an opportunity to read Prof. Palomalu's deepest thoughts.
P&G is in its fourth season as an official NFL partner, which also includes such brands as Tide, Duracell, Gillette, Old Spice and Febreze.