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August 20, 2010
Health officials remind Missourians about recommendations for avoiding Salmonella
Residents are urged to take precautions by avoiding food or drinks that contain raw or undercooked eggs
Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, has issued two recalls in the last week of shell eggs that it shipped since May 19, 2010. These eggs were shipped to food wholesalers, distribution centers and foodservice companies in eight states, including Missouri.
The recalled eggs were packaged under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. Consumers who bought any of these brands should toss them out or return them to the store where they were purchased.
To date, no cases of Salmonella linked to the eggs have been reported in Missouri. Salmonella is a type of bacteria that can cause an infection in the lining of the small intestine. But the bacteria can be destroyed by thorough cooking.
Therefore, Missouri health officials recommend that consumers thoroughly cook all eggs until more is known about the source of the contamination. Consumers should avoid eating raw eggs and be sure that both the white and yolk of eggs are fully cooked before eating them.
Symptoms of Salmonella infections typically include diarrhea, abdominal pain or cramping, vomiting, fever, headache, chills and muscle pain. The illness can range from mild to severe.
Symptoms most often appear about 12 to 36 hours after exposure to the bacteria. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most people recover without treatment. However, patients should seek medical treatment if symptoms are severe or they become dehydrated. The infection can be life-threatening if it spreads beyond the intestines. An estimated 600 people nationwide die each year from Salmonella infections.
Updates on the national investigation into salmonella outbreaks are available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/enteritidis/. The CDC issued the following additional recommendations:
For Consumers
- Individuals who think they might have become ill from eating recalled eggs should consult their health care providers.
- Keep eggs refrigerated at less than 45° F (7° C) at all times.
- Discard cracked or dirty eggs.
- Wash hands, cooking utensils, and food preparation surfaces with soap and water after contact with raw eggs.
- Eggs should be cooked until both the white and the yolk are firm and eaten promptly after cooking.
- Do not keep eggs warm or at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Refrigerate unused or leftover egg-containing foods promptly.
- Avoid restaurant dishes made with raw or undercooked, unpasteurized eggs. Restaurants should use pasteurized eggs in any dish – such as Hollandaise sauce or Caesar salad dressing – that calls for raw eggs.
- Consumption of raw or undercooked eggs should be avoided, especially by young children, elderly persons, and persons with weakened immune systems or debilitating illness.
For Retail Food Stores and Food Service Establishments
- In retail and food service establishments, pasteurized egg products or pasteurized in-shell eggs are recommended in place of pooled eggs or raw or undercooked shell eggs. If used, raw shell eggs should be fully cooked. If shell eggs are served undercooked, a consumer advisory should be posted in accordance with the Food Code.
- In hospitals, nursing homes, adult or childcare facilities, and senior centers, pasteurized egg products or pasteurized in-shell eggs should be used in place of pooled eggs or raw or undercooked eggs.


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Last week was a great first week back for us in the office! I'm feeling so ready to rock and am so excited about how things are going... we're continuing to work on some amazing projects with our existing clients and we have some really exciting new projects too. As you probably remember (from my super-long post from about a week or so ago) we're really trying to focus on being the best we can be and making our clients as happy as possible, and to do that, we're starting out by focusing on streamlining our processes.
{The work table in the office at our old house.. photo by Helen Norman}
For those of you that aren't in the design business (and who are still reading... Mom, I know you checked out at the warning ;) ;) it might help to give you a quick outline of how our design process generally works:
1. Client Inquiry -typically through our website or by phone
2. Client Phone Consultation with me to mutually decide if we want to work together
3. Client Meeting/Project Survey- we go meet our clients and check out their home
4. Create the plan for the home over time
5. Design Presentation- I present the plans to our clients
6. Edits/Tweaks to Design Plan- we make changes and come up with new things where needed
7. Design Approved- Clients give us the go ahead
8. Goods ordered & work is Scheduled... Shopping for accessories & art & one-of-a-kinds
9. Manage goods/ contractors
10. Installation of Goods :)
11. Project is complete
{the office at our old house... The new office contains pretty much all of the same stuff}
(BTW... Does anyone notice how little "designing" is actually involved in this entire process?? You hear all the time that it's 80% business/ 20% designing and I've never actually wanted to know the true breakdown but you can definitely get an idea from this.)
{The "fun" part of a design business}
Currently, so much of what we do is done manually. We use a combination of Quickbooks, Word docs and excel spreadsheets to create design projects and manage them from start to finish. We spend an incredible amount of time doing this. (My husband came on full-time recently to do this and his entire job focuses on implementing design plans & managing projects. ) Even with him now (3 of us in total) there still don't seem to be enough hours in the week to get everything done!!
So when I was browsing around on the Molloy Management Blog last week & started reading Julia Molloy's posts (some of them referring to Studiowebware) I finally decided to make the switch over from Quickbooks to Studiowebware. Studio webware is an online program where you can create, edit and implement a project from start to finish without having to enter all of your information in a million places. (Right now we must write information for a product down at least 5 times. (not exaggerating- I write it in my plans, then the budget, then for quote requests, then for purchasing, and then again to track... with studiowebware, it's in there once and you can do whatever you need to with it- share with clients, get quote requests, place POs, etc.)
{Studiowebware Example}
...And to my understanding, that's just the beginning of what the program does. eeeeeeeek!! I can't wait to get our projects into Studiowebware and salivating at the thought of having more time in the day.(!!)
So after my post went up, I got a call from Julia Molloy, owner of Molloy Management Group, thanking me for the blog mention. Julia has worked/works with some of the country's top interior designers like Michael Smith and Jeffrey Allen Marks. (I was so excited to talk to Julia because after reading her blog, I'm definitely drinking her Kool-Aid!)
Julia was super-sweet and offered me a complimentary one-hour consultation. I was so excited!! Before our chat, she had me get to work on a few things and do a little branding soul-searching.
{Photo by Maya Hoffman for Piccola Mag}
This past Friday we had a "Go To Meeting" (where you can see one person's (Julia's) computer screen and also see each other - should have realized I'd be on video and have done something with my hair ;) ;) and talking to Julia was one of the most worthwhile hours I've ever spent. I could tell right away that she's such a genuinely kind and caring person, which when you're sharing such personal information, is really important to me. She's so savvy & with it and is also gorgeous & charismatic. (Jealous yet? ;) ;).
The hour flew by and my head was swimming with ideas- both from Julia and from what the conversation had spurred. At the end of our conversation, Julia offered to let me take her Business Blueprint Course -which should whip us into serious shape- and so I'm starting this Thursday!! (To read all about it & what is it, click here.) I also signed us up for her Studiowebware introduction (I'm not sure there's any way we'd figure out the program without help... I'm not tech-savvy & although Dave & Meghan are, we don't have the time to learn the program on our own.) and purchased more of her one-on-one time.
I want to be really clear that I've never hired anyone to help me with my business before and I seriously believe the benefits will crush the expense. (or I wouldn't have made this decision.) Every time we make a financial move in our company or in our lives my husband and I both weigh the potential benefits against the expense and only make the move if we're fairly certain the expense is worth it and will help us get to where we want to go.
{Like our new house}
In exchange for the Business Blueprint, I'll be posting a bit about my experience with it. Just to keep it real, Julia wanted me to be sure to post only when I feel like it & am truly excited about something (like today.) Right there, that shows how "with it" she is because, as most bloggers know, there's nothing worse than feeling like you have to post on something you don't have any interest in and there's nothing worse for readers than to feel like they're being sold to (BTW- This is why I never do product reviews or book reviews unless I'm so crazy over something that I have to mention it.) SO, because I know a lot of you are designers/decorators/whatever you want to call us, I'll be sure to share how the process is going.
In the last business post I wrote, there were so many great comments about this topic and there was also a lot of interest (both in comments & emails) on some sort of design business round table... I have to be completely honest that I'm unfortunately not up for any type of organization that it might require time-wise on my part (I'm up to my eyeballs in commitments I can barely make) but that I love the idea of it. I would love to be able to bounce ideas off one another & share in our processes. I've always wanted to go to one of the Business of Design Conferences but timing hasn't ever seemed to work out for me. I'm sure there are lots of these types of discussions there. I think Julia has also done and does webinars on various design business topics so that might be something to look into too.
Anyway, I'm off (to a presentation) but will be sure to share my experiences with the Business Blueprint!!
If you'd like help creating a home you absolutely love, contact me about our design services.


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By Thom Weidlich and Karen Freifeld – Dec 8, 2010 12:01 AM ET
Steven J. Baum's New York foreclosure law firm has attracted lawsuits and fines for its actions during the housing crisis, with one judge likening its conduct to something out of the "Twilight Zone."
As recently as last month, Baum's firm, which one lawyer for homeowners said processes about half the foreclosures in New York state, was ordered to pay $14,532.50 in legal fees and costs and a $5,000 fine by Nassau County District Court Judge Scott Fairgrieve in Hempstead, New York.
The judge said that when Paul Raia refused to vacate a Garden City co-op after foreclosure, Baum's firm filed an eviction petition that misidentified the lender.
"Falsities were contained in five paragraphs out of only ten paragraphs in the entire petition," Fairgrieve wrote in his Nov. 23 decision.
All 50 U.S. state attorneys general are investigating whether banks, loan servicers and law firms properly prepared documents to justify hundreds of thousands of foreclosures. The probe came after JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Ally Financial Inc.'s GMAC mortgage unit said they would stop repossessions in 23 states where courts supervise home seizures and Bank of America Corp. froze foreclosures nationwide.
Steven J. Baum PC, located in Amherst, New York, just north of Buffalo, has been accused of overcharging, filing false documents and representing parties on both sides of a mortgage transfer. Baum runs the firm his father founded in 1972, according to a fact-sheet provided by Earl V. Wells III, his spokesman.
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Baum is a graduate of Syracuse University, got his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was admitted to practice law in 1987, according to Martindale.com, a legal directory. Baum answered some questions via e-mails.
"Consumer activists and attorneys representing homeowners have their own agenda in this process, including degrading the legal work we conduct on behalf of our clients by using terms like 'foreclosure mill' which I find personally and professionally insulting," he wrote.
At a continuing-education training session a couple of years ago, "Steven Baum himself said they did 49 percent of foreclosures" in the state, Rebecca Case-Grammatico, staff attorney at Rochester, New York-based Empire Justice Center, which represents poor people in foreclosures, said in a phone interview. A complaint in one lawsuit against Baum's firm says it is "believed to be the largest foreclosure mill in the State of New York."
Baum declined to comment on the size of his business.
Pillar Processing
A company that processes foreclosure documents shares an address with his law firm. That company, Pillar Processing LLC, is owned by Manhattan private-equity firm Tailwind Capital LLC, according to its website. Brooke Gordon, spokeswoman for Tailwind Capital, declined to comment.
"He's opposing counsel for us on a huge percentage of our cases," Meghan Faux, project director of the Foreclosure Prevention Project at South Brooklyn Legal Services, who represents homeowners in predatory-lending cases, said in a phone interview.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur M. Schack in Brooklyn called the firm's explanations in one case "so incredible, outrageous, ludicrous and disingenuous that they should have been authored by the late Rod Serling."
Schack threw out the case in part because he said the assignment of the loan had been done improperly. The assignment was made by a Baum lawyer on behalf of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as the nominee for the mortgage bank, according to the judge's opinion. The same day, the Baum firm represented the buyer of the loan by filing the foreclosure action, the judge said. Schack said it was a conflict for the firm to represent both sides.
'Parallel Mortgage Universe'
"Steven J. Baum PC appears to be operating in a parallel mortgage universe, unrelated to the real universe," the judge wrote in that May decision. "Next stop, the Twilight Zone," he said, quoting from Serling's TV series about science fiction and the supernatural.


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Vandana Shiva: Teachers for a Living World
Gandhi once burned British cloth imported from the mills of Manchester to reveal the power of the indigenous spinning wheel; and led the famous Salt March to underscore the capacities of all Indians (in fact, all human beings) to live autonomously, depending on the support of themselves and each other while throwing off the shackles of global empire.
Renowned food and anti-globalization activist Vandana Shiva's Bija Vidyapeeth (University of the Seed), co-founded with Satish Kumar in 2001, is grounded on the four Gandhian principles of non-violence: swaraj (self-rule), swadeshi (home-spun), satyagraha (truth force), and savodaya (the uplifting of all).
Inspired by these principles, this university grown on a farm preserves a wild diversity of indigenous seeds in cooperation with thousands of farmers across India and the world, committed to the organic principles of working with Mother Earth—rather than waging war on her with chemicals.
"Gandhi and Globalization" is a course co-taught annually at Bija Vidyapeeth for ten short, intense days in November and December. Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar (founder of Schumacher College in England), and Samdhong Rimpoche (the first Prime Minister of Independent Tibet) designed this course for students coming from all continents, speaking in multiple tongues, and joined by a shared passion for both Gandhi and the end of the era of globalization or neo-colonialism.
During the last three years, I have had the privilege of joining these three great teachers in the fabulous intellectual and moral adventure of co-teaching this course with them.
"Gandhi and Globalization" is one among a range of courses offered by Bija Vidyapeeth to demonstrate that Gandhi's relevance grows even as globalization strangulates indigenous traditions of teaching, learning, living, and celebrating life and death.
In an exchange of letters with a dear friend, Wendell Berry explains why his writing is only a small part of the movement against greed and waste.
Schools, fresh foods, and memories from India. Madhu Suri Prakash reflects on the culinary traditions of her family.
Winona LaDuke: How Native farmers and gardeners are working to preserve their agricultural heritage.


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NISE Net offers a digital download of the NanoDays kit, complete with instructions, lesson plans, supply lists, marketing materials, and multimedia files. Click here to download the full kit. If you would prefer not to download the entire kit, you are welcome to simply download portions of the kit, as outlined below.
Download links for the 2014 digital kit Zip files:
PC & Mac Download of Full 2014 Digital KIt (5 parts)
- Planing Materials (Size: 13 MB)
- Educational Materials (Size: 700 MB)
- Graphics and Multimedia (Size: 55 MB)
- Marketing and Promotional Materials (Size: 835 MB)
- Staff & Volunteer Training Materials (Size: 58 MB)
What's in the 2014 digital kit zip files?
I. Hands-on activities
- Exploring Size—Measure Yourself revised Spanish!
- Exploring Size—Powers of Ten Spanish!
- Exploring Fabrication—Electroplating NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Materials—Memory Metal Spanish!
- Exploring Materials—Ferrofluid revised Spanish!
- Exploring Materials—Oobleck NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Nano & Society—You Decide! Spanish!
- Exploring Products—Computer Hard Drives Spanish!
- Exploring Properties—Capillary Action NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Properties—Electric Squeeze NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Properties—Invisibility Spanish!
II. Programs
- Would You Buy That? NEW! Spanish!
- Robots and People NEW! Spanish!
III. Graphics and Media
- Key Concepts Posters Spanish!
- Nano and Society Posters
- Nano Museum Labels (Graphic Signs) Spanish!
- Presidential Decisions game (Flash-based) NEW!
- Nanooze Print Editions NEW!
IV. A set of guides and tools for planning and promoting your event
- NanoDays 2014 Planning Guide and Welcome Letter revised
- Reminders about the 2014 NanoDays volunteer survey
- NISE Network Brochure (to share with staff and collaborators)
- Large Promotional Banners, Sample Ads and Posters, Sample Press Release, and other Marketing Materials revised Spanish!
- NanoDays Promotional Video
- NISE Net Publicity Photos revised
- Strategies for Engaging Bilingual Audiences reference sheet NEW!
- A Guide to Building Parnerships Between Museums and University-Based Research Centers
- Temporary Tatoos
- Digital Kit USB with electronic copies of all materials found in the entire kit revised
V. Training Materials
- Nano 101 for Staff
- NanoDays Orientation Powerpoint slides and notes revised
- Training Video guides NEW!
- Tips for Engaging Visitors
- Tips for Visitor Conversations
- Engaging the Public in Nano (guide to key concepts)
- NISE Network Learning Framework NEW!
- Team-Based Inquiry Guide NEW!
- Nanotechnology and Society Guide NEW!
VI. Educational Media DVD
- How Small is Nano? video
- What Happens in a Nano Lab? video
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? Spanish!
- Mr. O videos: Getting a Sense of Smell, I Got No Stains on Me, and Molecular Gastronomy Nanocoatings, Butterfly Blues, Nobel Winning Experiment
- What's Nano About....? video series: Bubbles, Chocolate, Water, Toilets NEW!
- Nano and Me video series: Aluminum, Gold, Gravity, Latex, Pants, and Silver Spanish!
- Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly video
- Zoom into a Lotus Leaf video
- Zoom into a Computer Chip video NEW!
- Invisibility Cloak video NEW!
- Wonders and Worries of Nanotechnology video series: Ask and Research, Who Benefits, and Regulation
- Three Angry Scientists video
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud? video
VII. Staff and volunteer training media DVD
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? (Intro to Nano video) Spanish!
- A Museum Presentation: How NOT to Present
- A Museum Presentation: How TO Present
- Speed-Ucate: How to have an effective science and society conversation NEW!
- America's Next Top Presenter NEW!
- Training Videos for NanoDays activities and programs NEW!
- Exploring Fabrication—Electroplating NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Fabrication—Gummy Capsules
- Exploring Materials—Ferrofluid NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Materials—Hydrogel
- Exploring Materials—Memory Metal 2014 kit
- Exploring Materials—Oobleck NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Materials—Thin Films NEW!
- Exploring Nano & Society—Space Elevator
- Exploring Nano & Society—You Decide! 2014 kit
- Exploring Products—Computer Hard Drives 2014 kit
- Exploring Products—Liquid Crystal Displays
- Exploring Products—Nano Fabrics NEW!
- Exploring Properties—Capillary Action NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Properties—Electric Squeeze NEW! kit
- Exploring Properties—Invisibility 2014 kit
- Exploring Properties—UV Bracelets
- Exploring Size—Measure Yourself NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Size—Moving Molecules
- Exploring Size—Powers of Ten Game NEW! 2014 kit
- Exploring Size—Tiny Ruler NEW!
- Exploring Tools—3D Imaging
- Exploring Tools—Mitten Challenge NEW!
- Exploring Tools—Mystery Shapes
- "Horton Hears a Who!" Storytime
- I Spy Nano! NEW!
- Robots and People NEW! 2014 kit
- Would You Buy That? NEW! 2014 kit
All of these videos may be downloaded from Vimeo simply by creating a free "basic" account at www.vimeo.com/join, for more assistance please see FAQ # 10.
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Posted: May 18, 2012
Melanie Baskind led Harvard with 33 points this spring (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior captain Melanie Baskind of the Harvard women's lacrosse team has earned a nod to the Capital One Academic At-Large All-District first team. Baskind will now be nominated for Academic All-America distinction.
Baskind, a native of Framingham, Mass, was also tabbed to the Academic All-America first team in the fall as a member of the Crimson women's soccer team and now has received academic all-district accolades four times.
A second-team All-Ivy League selection as a midfielder on the lacrosse team, Baskind, a neurobiology concentrator, was also selected to the Ivy All-Tournament squad. She paced Harvard in points (33), assists (six), and caused turnovers (15), while standing second in goals (27) and ground balls (37). Baskind was also selected as the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Feb. 27, April 9 and April 16.
As a member of the women's lacrosse team, Baskind served as captain in each of the last two years and garnered All-Ivy status for three straight seasons.
Baskind also served as co-captain of the Crimson women's soccer team and was the unanimous choice as the Ivy League Player of the Year last fall, while earning All-Ivy first team honors and guiding Harvard to its third Ivy League title in the last four seasons.


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The Yubikey is a small USB token that generates One-Time Passwords (OTP). It is manufactured by Yubico.
One of its strengths is that it emulates a USB keyboard to send the OTP as text, and thus requires no drivers.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Two-factor authentication with SSH
How does it work
Yubikey's authentication protocol is based on symmetric cryptography. More specifically, each Yubikey contains a 128-bit AES key, unique to that key. It is used to encrypt a token made of different fields such as the ID of the key, a counter, a random number, etc. The OTP is made from concatenating the ID of the key with this encrypted token.
This OTP is sent to the target system, to which we want to authenticate. This target system asks a validation server if the OTP is good. The validation server has a mapping of Yubikey IDs -> AES key. Using the key ID in the OTP, it can thus retrieve the AES key and decrypt the other part of the OTP. If it looks OK (plain-text ID and encrypted ID are the same, the counter is bigger than the last seen one to prevent replay attacks...), then authentication is successful.
The validation server sends that authentication status back to the target system, which grants access or not based on that response.
Security risks
AES key compromission
As you can imagine, the AES key should be kept very secret. It can not be retrieved from the Yubikey itself (or it shouldn't, at least not with software). It is present in the validation server though, so the security of this server is very important.
Validation requests/responses tampering
Since the target system relies on the ruling of the validation server, a trivial attach would be to impersonate the validation server. The target system thus needs to authenticate the validation server. 2 methods are available :
- HMAC: This is also symmetric crypto, the target server and validation server share a key that is used to sign requests and responses.
- TLS: Requests and responses travel via HTTP, so TLS (HTTPS) can be used to authenticate and encrypt the connection.
YubiCloud and validation servers
When you buy a Yubikey, it is preloaded with an AES key that is known only to Yubico. They won't even communicate it to you. Yubico provides a validation server with free unlimited access (YubiCloud). It also offers open-source implementations of the server.
So you can either:
- choose to use your Yubikey with its preloaded AES key and validate against Yubico's validation server ;
- or load a new AES key in your Yubikey and run your own validation server.
- with HMAC: use https://upgrade.yubico.com/getapikey/ to get an HMAC key and ID
- with HTTPS: the validation server's certificate is signed by GoDaddy, that is cool because it is thus trusted by default in Arch installs (at least if you have package ca-certificates)
Two-factor authentication with SSH
This details how to use a Yubikey to have two-factor authentication with SSH, that is, to use both a password and a Yubikey-generated OTP.
The necessary packages are on the AUR. The one you need for TFA with SSH is the yubico-pam-git. It depends on:
Install them.
PAM configuration
You have to edit Template:Filename, and modify the line that reads :
auth required pam_unix.so
auth required pam_unix.so use_first_pass
Then do one of the following. I personally would highly recommend the HTTPS method, but the choice is yours. --Gohu 17:49, 24 April 2011 (EDT)
If using HTTPS to authenticate the validation server
Insert the following line before the previously modified
pam_unix.so line.
auth required pam_yubico.so id=1 url=https://api.yubico.com/wsapi/2.0/verify?id=%d&otp=%s
The id=1 is of no real use but it is required.
url parameter to point to your server
If using HMAC to authenticate the validation server
Insert the following line before the previously modified
pam_unix.so line.
auth required pam_yubico.so id=1234 key=YnVubmllcyBhcmUgY29vbAo=
id and
key are your own HMAC ID and key, requested from Yubico as explained above.
url parameter: it defaults to Yubico's HTTP (non-TLS) server
You should also disallow unprivileged users to read the file to prevent them from seeing the HMAC credentials:
# chmod o-r /etc/pam.d/sshd
url parameter to point to your server
SSHD configuration
You should check that Template:Filename contains these lines and that they are not commented, but I believe this is the default.
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no UsePAM yes
That's it!
You should not need to restart anything if you just touched the PAM config file.
To log in, at the
Password: prompt of SSH, you have to type your password without pressing enter and touch the Yubikey's button.
The Yubikey should send a return at the end of the OTP so you don't need to touch the enter key at all.
This works because the prompt is
pam_yubico.so's one, since this module is before
pam_unix.so, which does basic password authentication.
So, you're giving a string that is the concatenation of your password and the OTP to
Since the OTPs have a fixed length (let's call this size N), it just has to get the last N characters to retrieve the OTP, and it assumes that the other characters at the start are the password.
It tries to validate the OTP, and in case of success, sends the password to the next PAM module,
pam_unix.so, which was instructed not to prompt for the password, but to receive it from the previous module, with


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A homeless child or youth lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence due to economic hardship.
Established in 2002 as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, this service entitles homeless children to free, appropriate public education (including pre-school education). State must ensure children have equal access to the same public programs as other children in state.
Every student in a homeless situation will be designated a liaison.
The liaison must ensure that homeless children are identified, immediately enrolled in school, informed about educational rights, and receive educational services for which they're eligible.
District Homeless Liaison:
Joshua Morey
School Social Worker
715-234-2181, ext. 5262


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The Model H is an industrial-duty hoist door opener, as manufactured by The Chamberlain Group, Inc. and is for use on vertical or high lift sectional doors, rolling doors and grilles. It is rated for 25 cycles per hour during peak periods. Up to 80-90 cycles/day.
The presence of primary entrapment protection is standard CPS-U for all modes. Primary entrapment protection devices are monitored continuously to insure safe operation of the door and limit door opener functionality should an obstruction be detected or in the event of device failure. Optional LiftMaster Monitored Entrapment Protection devices, CPS-UN4, CPS-RPEN4 and CPS-EI, are designed to work in conjunction with LiftMaster commercial door openers to provide enhanced door safety and a broad range of modes and features to end users. Either monitored photo-sensor or monitored 4-wire sensing edge (in conjunction with the CPS-EI Edge Interface) protection may be selected, but one must be detected by the LiftMaster Logic 4.0 or Medium-Duty Logic circuit board in order to unlock full functionality.
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CPS-RPEN4 Retro-Reflective Photo Eye makes installs faster and simpler, by only having wiring on one side of door and Reflector on the other. Range of 50 feet in most cases. NEMA-4 rated.
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Interlock switch disables the operator control circuit when a manual door lock is engaged, preventing damage to the door and door opener.
Designed to restrict operation of door to authorized personnel only. Various types available.
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Pictured: Radcliffe's championship four moves through the field after crossing under the Anderson Bridge.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A fourth-place finish in the women's championship fours highlighted the Radcliffe heavyweight crew's weekend competing in the 46th Head Of The Charles Regatta Saturday and Sunday on the Charles River.
Radcliffe's championship four was made up of top athletes returning from last season's varsity eight, and they were among the fastest entries in the 20-boat field. They owned the second-fastest time through the final time checkpoint, the Cambridge Boat Club, but were slowed by two boats that were later penalized for impeded their passing.
The Black and White finished in 18:00.008, less than two seconds behind third-place Riverside Boat Club. Cornell and Brown took the top two spots in the race. Fifth-place Virginia was nearly seven seconds off Radcliffe's time and was followed by Princeton less than a second later.
"They had a really strong race," head coach Liz O'Leary said of the Radcliffe four. "It was a fun weekend. It was great to have a majority of our program out there racing and great to have a large alumni group back together. That's a lot of what this weekend is all about."
Radcliffe fielded a pair of championship eights, which placed 17th and 22nd. The championship eight A crossed the finish in 16:54.651. The Black and White club eight had a strong showing Saturday, taking eighth place among 30 crews in 18:43.437. Two full eights of Radcliffe alumnae also competed, earning 10th-place and 15th-place finishes.
O'Leary herself registered a win, as well as a 30-year anniversary. Her Etats Unis Rowing Club took first in the women's senior-master eights event Saturday. The team was made up of athletes named to the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but unable to compete in Moscow due to the U.S. boycott of the Games.
Championship Four
Cox: Rachel Rauh, 4: Olivia Coffey, 3: Liz Soutter, 2: Celia Kohl, 1: Michelle Pearson
Championship Eight A
Cox: Jill Carlson, 8: Mary Maginnis, 7: Scout Moran, 6: Meg Kehan, 5: Tara Larson, 4: Kelly Bauer, 3: Marisa D'Orsogna, 2: Kirsten Van Fossen, 1: Jess Mealia
Championship Eight B
Cox: Andrea Rickey, 8: Katie Wilcox, 7: Charlotte Lane, 6: Brooke Carter, 5: Susan Overall, 4: Maddie Gray, 3: Miruna Ioan, 2: Nori Welles-Gertz, 1: Christina McClintock
Club Eight
Cox: Greer Rosenbaum, 8: Meg Johnson, 7: Mary Miller, 6: Deva Steketee, 5: Courtney Diekema, 4: Sarah Reilly, 3: Laura Savarese, 2: Shauna Stewart, 1: Caitlin Fai
Alumni Eight
Cox: Mary Piscetello Mercer '00, 8: Caryn Davies '05, 7: Christine Baugh '10, 6: Laura Huppert '10, 5: Katie Golden '07, 4: Alex Kuschner '10, 3: Danielle Thiriot '07, 2: Jessica Zofnass '08, 1: Sarah Moore '09
Senior-Master Eight
Cox: Lizellen LaFollette '79, 8: Susie Mahan '91, 7: Sally Donahue, 6: Cynthia Hibbard '79, 5: Nelia Newell '79, 4: Anne Harrington '82, 3: Nancy Kerrebrock '79, 2: Kathy Kirk '80, 1: Nicki Mauro '81
Harvard and
Radcliffe 2010 Head Of The Charles Regatta Results
Women's senior-master singles: Cambridge Boat Club (Ellen Kennelly '85) – 8th of 22, 22:58.998
Women's senior-master eights: Etats Unis (Liz O'Leary) – 1st of 29, 18:35.435
Women's senior-master eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae – 15th of 29, 20:27.510
Women's alumni eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae – 10th of 32, 19:22.770
Men's club fours: Harvard heavyweight crew – 7th of 58, 18:02.235
Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 1st, 15:09.811
Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 3rd, 15:40.274
Men's club eights: Harvard lightweight crew – 25th of 42, 16:59.971
Women's club eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew – 8th of 30, 18:43.437
Women's master doubles: Cambridge Boat Club (Lindsay Burns '87 and Linda Muri) – 2nd of 21, 20:15.796
Men's senior-veteran singles: Harvard University (Harry Parker) – 16th of 27, 24:10.427 (23:22.427 after handicap)
Men's championship fours: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 6th of 15, 16:20.376
Men's championship fours: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 10th of 15, 16:45.008
Women's championship fours: Radcliffe heavyweight crew – 4th of 20, 18:00.008
Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 2nd of 35, 14:02.323
Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 9th of 35, 14:21.288
Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew A – 17th of 30, 16:54.651
Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew B – 22nd of 30, 17:12.115
Men's lightweight fours: Harvard lightweight crew – 9th of 19, 16:41.207
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew A – 3rd of 21, 14:24.146
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew B – 4th of 21, 14:30.849
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew C – 17th of 21, 15:30.423
Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew A – 3rd of 12, 16:33.524
Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew B – 7th of 12, 17:13.904


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I can't believe that this is my first blog post in a really long while but hopefully, my hosting The Home Baker's Marionberry-Hazelnut Cake from the book "Coffee Cakes" by Lou Seibert Pappas will push me to start writing on my blog again which I have regretfully ignored because of other matters. This cake, as you can see above, didn't turn quite as lovely as the picture in the book because the toppings sunk to the bottom. Somehow, my long baking rut made me forget that this is a usual occurrence with butter cakes and therefore, I should've added the toppings midway through the baking instead. I don't know where in the world you can find marionberries but when I chose this recipe, I knew that I would be using blackberries instead of marionberries and that I would be substituting almonds for the hazelnuts. I'm not really a fan of hazelnuts in anything except the ubiquitous Nutella which we all know is mixed with chocolate and all the hazelnuts I can get here are the un-peeled ones which would make it even more of a hassle as it means that I would be going through the blanching process and all just to peel them.
What's interesting about this cake is that it has more almond meal in it than flour so I didn't know what to expect in terms of how it'll rise or how tender the crumb would be. The cake turned out pretty moist actually and I credit that to the blackberries, the juices of which kept the crumb soft and moist. One thing that was off in the recipe at least for me though was the baking time. It took way longer than the time stated by the author -- it actually took more than an hour to bake. Even after 40 minutes the batter was nowhere near being set and I think this is because I used frozen and unthawed blackberries which I think released so much juices which affected the temperature of the batter and all that. I noticed that the frozen blackberries that I used had some ice crystals in them so the water content of the berries definitely affected the cake's baking time. I wonder if I would get the same results If I had used fresh berries instead. I hope some of you did so I would get some feedback with regards to the baking time.
Overall, this was an excellent coffee cake and I think a mixture of berries like raspberries, strawberries and blueberries would even add more flavor to the cake. I kind of found the cinnamon to be a bit overpowering so I would omit adding it to the batter next time and just rely on the toppings for the cinnamon flavor.
Marionberry-Hazelnut Cake
From the book "Coffee Cakes" by Lou Seibert Pappas
1 1/4 cups ground hazelnut meal or almond meal
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 cups fresh or frozen marionberries, or mixed blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries
2 tablespoons demerara or turbinado sugar
1/3 cup hazelnuts, toasted, skinned, or chopped or sliced or slivered almonds
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Butter and flour a 9-inch springform pan. Scatter the nut meal on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes, or until lightly toasted. Let cool. Increase the oven temperature to 350 F.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and almond extract and beat until smooth.
In a medium bowl, combine the toasted nut meal, flour, baking powder, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Stir to blend. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and beat until smooth. Spread the better evenly in the prepared pan. Scatter the berries evenly over the top. Toss the remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon with the Demerara or turbinado sugar and nuts and sprinkle over the top.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the cake is set when pressed lightly and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove the pan sides. Serve warm or at room temperature, cut into wedges.
Makes one 9-inch cake; serves 10 to 12
NOTE: Hazelnut and almond meal, or flour, is available in specialty food stores, or you can grind the nuts finely in a food processor (hazelnuts should be toasted and skinned first).


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The many magical expressions of John Carradine, the man with the India-rubber kisser. Taken from LA SIGNORA MUERTE, a low-grade Mexican mad scientist movie in which old Long John is by turns ludicrous, wonderful, terrible, repellant and kind of pitiable. He deserved better, and so do we.
"Never do anything you wouldn't be caught dead doing," was Carradine's advice to his acting offspring, and one wishes that (a) he'd set his standards a little higher and (b) son David had paid better attention. Still, I like this cramped, busy, upsettingly strange composition ~
Uh, what's the subject of this shot? The chandelier?
LA SIGNORA MUERTE shoehorns a bunch of horror cliches together without any regard for sense. Screenwriter Ramón Obón Jnr is an old hand at Mexican horror, and his father, also called Ramón Obón, penned the genuinely inventive and atmospheric EL GRITO DE LA MUERTE (THE LIVING COFFIN) some ten years earlier.


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The Marine Deck shoe is a great all year staple. Lightweight and flexible with a rubber sole and extended vulcanised rubber foxing to keep the weather out. Made with 100% cotton canvas and heel tab. Featuring 7 rows of eyelets.
All shoes come in an N.S.C. branded cotton drawstring bag and boxed.
Visit our postage and returns page for delivery information.
The Marine Deck Shoe Type 2 runs regular - wide fit. If you are looking for a narrower fitting deck shoe, see our Marine Deck Shoe Type 1.
Available in European sizes 37- 46
Refer to size guide for size conversion chart and measurements in CM.
We recommend you protect your deck shoes with a protective spray before the first wear. Spot clean and wipe the rubber with a damp cloth or rubber cleaning product. Do not machine wash.
North Sea clothing offers an extensive range of sizes providing you with the most comfortable fit. Our sizing is your chest size in inches. If you are unsure of your N.S.C size, take a measurement around your chest at your underarm in inches with a soft tape measure. Our clothing fits true to size, if you prefer a loose fit, we suggest you order a size up. Refer to the size guides below for further measurements.
Knitwear sizing is equal to the chest measurement of the garment, underarm to underarm x2 in inches.
Outerwear is sized to allow room for ease of wear. We recommend ordering the size labelled as your chest size.
We recommend comparing the measurements below to a pair of well fitting trousers you already own to ensure you order the best fit.
Our Marine Type 2 shoe is a standard to wide fit.
The chest measurement is taken from armpit to armpit on a flat surface. Length is taken from highest shoulder point to hem and sleeve is from highest shoulder point to cuff.


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Cheat Sheet
Container Gardening For Dummies Cheat Sheet
You can create beautiful container gardens with a little planning and some ongoing attention. It all starts with picking the right plants and arranging them in an attractive container. Then, after you've got things growing, you'll want to keep the plants pest-free to keep them looking their best.
Ideas for Inspired Container Plantings
Combining the right plants with the right container can make for a traffic-stopping display. Follow these guidelines for creating container plantings that suit your style:
Choose a combination of tall plants (thrillers), shrubby plants (fillers), and trailing plants (spillers).
Select plants with contrasting forms — tall and spiky, gently arching, soft and flowing.
Choose plants based on the mood you want to set. Flowers in bright, hot colors like fuchsia, fire-engine red, and blazing orange will energize a planting. Cool colors like periwinkle blue and lilac set a calm, relaxed mood.
Use various shades of a single color, like pastel pink to deep rose, to create a unified yet still interesting display.
Create contrast between colors. Foliage plants with silvery and chartreuse leaves provide a perfect backdrop for brightly colored flowers. White and pale colors make dark plants pop and are luminous in the moonlight.
Add height to your containers by growing vines on trellises.
Use plant stands and hanging baskets to bring plants up to eye level.
Add attractive edibles, such as purple basil and tricolor sage, to decorative containers.
Controlling Pests in Eco-Friendly Ways
After investing time and money in your container gardens, the last thing you want to find is bugs or other pests munching on the plants in those containers. Here are some ecologically sound ways to prevent pests from feasting on your flowers and vegetables.
Choose pest-resistant varieties that are adapted to your climate.
Keep plants healthy by making sure they're getting the right amount of sun, water, and fertilizer for optimal growth.
Invite beneficial insects into your landscape to help control pests by planting a diversity of plants and minimizing pesticide use.
Inspect plants frequently so you catch problems early.
Identify the culprit before taking any control measures.
Use barriers, like row covers, to prevent pests from reaching plants.
Spray repellents to keep critters at bay, such as neem oil for Japanese beetles and predator urine for deer.
Trap pests like slugs to reduce their populations.
Hand-pick insect pests or wash them off with a blast of water.
Choose least-toxic pesticides, preferably ones that target only the pest and don't harm other organisms.
Knowing Which Garden Critters Are Good for Your Plants
The plants in your container garden can benefit when you let certain insects and animals hang around your yard. Invite these beneficial creatures into your landscape to help you control pests:
Lady beetles, green lacewings, tachinid flies: They feed on small, soft-bodied insect pests and their eggs. Plant a variety of flowers, especially umbrella-shaped ones like yarrow and dill.
Dragonflies: They eat mosquitoes, aphids, and other insect pests. They thrive in wetlands, so add a small pond or leave a naturally marshy area in your landscape.
Bees: Honeybees, bumblebees, and other species are important pollinators. Avoid spraying pesticides, especially during the day when bees are out foraging.
Spiders: Most species are beneficial and help keep pests in check. Resist the urge to kill garden spiders when you see them.
Frogs and toads: They eat slugs and other plant pests. Create moist hiding places, such as piles of rocks and old branches, and overturned clay pots.
Bats: They eat countless mosquitoes, making your time in the garden more enjoyable. Put up a few bat boxes to invite them in.
Lizards: They eat pest insects. Include some flat rocks that get morning sun so the reptiles can warm themselves in preparation for a day of insect hunting.
Birds: Many songbirds eat pest insects and their eggs. Invite these feathered friends to your garden with houses, feeders, and birdbaths. Plant shrubs that produce berries.
And yes, even snakes and wasps have a place in a healthy garden ecosystem.
Choosing the Right Container-Gardening Tools
Having the right tools available when you're growing plants in containers can make some of the chores easier. Most of the following items are available at garden centers or through mail-order suppliers.
Hose-end bubbler: Screw this attachment to the end of the hose and use it to soften the flow of water so you don't wash out soil. A metal hose-end extension allows you to water overhead baskets and containers that are normally beyond arm's reach.
Scrub brush: Use a brush to nudge soil, moss, and salt deposits off your containers.
Hand truck: You need one of these if you want to move heavy containers indoors or if you do a lot of outdoor redecorating.
Watering can: With a watering can, you can also apply liquid fertilizer as you water.
Soil scoop (trowel): This tool comes in handy when filling containers with potting soil or when mixing small quantities of potting soil. (For larger quantities, use a shovel.)
Mister: Indoor plants often need extra humidity. Apply moisture with a small hand sprayer.


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How to Use the Images Photo 1
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Built in 1898 by the Klondike Trading Company, this building did not house the Golden North Hotel until 1908.
Questions for Photo 4
1. Compare this building with those shown in Photo 2. What do your observations indicate about Skagway's development?
2. How does this building represent Skagway's continuing role along a transportation route to the Yukon Territory?
* The image on the screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high resolution version of Photo 4, but be aware that it will take about 30 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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I just wanted to round out my discussion about agile approaches to geographically distributed development (GDD) with a few important words of advice:
- Get some experience. Worry less about enterprise adoption and instead get started with a small project, or better yet a series of increasingly more complex projects. There will be learning experiences as you build a relationship with the offshore service provider. This advice is applicable whether you're working with your own offshore division or with an independent service provider.
- Have a long-term staffing strategy. It may be great in the short term to have work done in a lower cost country, but how are you going to transfer the necessary skills to the maintenance and support team. Outsourcing that work is also an option, but it can be a risky one as you would need to build up expertise in "your" systems if you ever decide to insource that work again.
- Be concerned about intellectual property (IP). The rules are different around the world, and you may inadvertently be financing the creation of a new international competitor if you don't have a clear division of ownership. And yes, this may mean that some components of your systems are still built internally by your own organization.
- Show off locally before you go global. GDD makes things harder to manage, so if you're struggling to manage local teams you're really going to struggle managing teams at a distance. Make sure you have local success first and are good at agile development in general (consider reading the Disciplined Agile Delivery book to better understand agile development in an enterprise setting). Furthermore, if your agile GDD projects run into trouble, don't end your local agile adoption just because of difficulties with distributed projects.
- Let your offshore partners lead. The offshore partner likely has more experience than you at successful distributed development, and this is particularly true when you're dealing with an established service provider.
- Do some reading. On the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) site we're writing about how to scale agile effectively, with one of the scaling factors being geographic distribution.
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'US policy in Sri Lanka a disaster'
By Hassina Leelarthna
(April 24, Los Angeles, CA, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lankans held a 'token demonstration' yesterday to lodge their protest at a blistering comment made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accusing Sri Lanka of causing 'untold suffering' in the push to eliminate the Tigers.
A handful of protesters, including several Buddhist monks, gathered outside the US Federal Building in Westwood carrying signs that said: "US Has Failed in Sri Lanka" and "Hillary, We are Outraged by You."
Clinton, appearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on April 21, called the current situation in Sri Lanka 'a terrible humanitarian tragedy' and said the US has asked the Sri Lankan government for a ceasefire so 'we could secure a safe passage for as many of the trapped civilians as possible.'
"I think the Sri Lankan government knows that the entire world is very disappointed, that in its efforts to end what it sees as 25 years of conflict, it is causing such untold suffering," she said."We have made it clear that as soon as there is some lull in the fighting or an end to the fighting there has to be not only massive humanitarian aid, but a political resolution."
Clinton's comments touched a raw nerve in the community where anger has been simmering ever since the US Senate Foreign Relation Committee's hearing on Sri Lanka in February , widely viewed as a one-sided affair deliberately set up to paint a dire picture of Colombo's handling of the situation in the Wanni.
That hearing which turned out to be a litany of criticisms and misinformation of the humanitarian situation did not include any Sri Lankan government representation. Diaspora attempts to present the 'Sri Lankan side' by way of emails and faxes to the subcommittee went unacknowledged, although, adding fuel to fire, the submission of Bruce Fein, an attorney representing LTTE interests, was accepted. Fein, currently being retained by 'Tamils Against Genocide,' an LTTE front group, is the
quintessential hired legal gun. Having failed in 2006 in his bid to have his one-man consulting firm 'The Lichfield Group' retained by the Sri Lankan government to ' target key leaders those who support Sri Lanka's democracy and deplore the Tamils' terrorism to spearhead a congressional advocacy campaign' and to conduct a 'focused media blitz' against the Tigers, he turned to the LTTE and found a gold mine. After a brief honeymoon with 'Tamils for Justice,' he disappeared for a short while, allegedly with the donation box, then reappeared as counsel for an opposing LTTE front, 'Tamils Against Genocide.' He is currently on a mission to have several Sri Lankan leaders tried for 'genocide.'
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This cold weather recipe was inspired by a recipe for Wild Rice Chowder found in World Vegetarian Classics: Over 200 Essential International Recipes for the Modern Kitchen by Celia Brooks Brown.
Wild Rice Chowder with Fresh Coconut and Dried MushroomsMore ideas for wild rice from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
1 cup of wild rice
4 cups of water
1 teaspoon of sea salt
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons of olive oil
small bunch of green onions, finely chopped
1 large shallot, finely chopped
2 - 3 jalapeno peppers, minced
1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
28 grams of dried mushrooms (I used a combination of lobster and chanterelle)
1/3 cup of freshly grated coconut
1 teaspoon of celery seed
2 heaping tablespoons of chickpea flour (or unbleached white flour)
3/4 cup of milk
3/4 cup of yogurt (I used goat milk yogurt)
sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Rinse the wild rice in a strainer. Transfer to a medium heavy bottom pot, along with the water, bay leaves and sea salt. Bring to boil, reduce the heat to medium low, cover and simmer until the rice is tender and begins to fluff up - roughly 50 minutes. Set aside with the cooking liquid.
While the rice is cooking, soak the dried mushrooms in hot water for roughly 20 minutes. Drain, roughly chop the mushrooms and set aside.
Whisk the yogurt, milk and chickpea flour together until smooth. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. When hot, add the green onions and shallots to the pan. Stir and fry for a few minutes. Now add the turmeric, jalapenos, mushrooms and fresh coconut. Stir and fry for another minute or so. Pour in the wild rice and it's cooking liquid, add the celery seed and stir and simmer until it thickens a bit. Add the yogurt and milk to the pot, bring to a boil and reduce the heat to low, simmering, uncovered for another 5 minutes or so. Add water or more milk or yogurt to reach your desired consistency.
Add lots of freshly cracked black pepper, and more sea salt at the end of the cooking time after testing the seasonings. Remove bay leaves and serve hot.
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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler announced that the City considers the unusually high number of potholes in Lincoln streets an emergency situation and is shifting resources to increase repair efforts. At his direction, the City will more than double the number of workers from 30 to 72 by tomorrow. The number of pothole crews will nearly triple from 10 to 25 or 30.
"We are taking strong, decisive action to deal with the pothole situation. We can not allow Lincoln's streets to remain in such a state of disrepair," Beutler said. "Yes, this will cost more. We believe this is an investment we must make. Consider that the average homeowner in Lincoln pays about $432 a year in property taxes to the City. We all know that one trip to the car repair shop can cost far more than that, and it obviously is a matter of personal safety." The Mayor urged the public to show their appreciation for the pothole repair efforts by driving very carefully in the vicinity of the crews.
The Mayor said the City acted immediately when potholes began appearing after the City's second major snowstorm. On Dec. 31, he directed all street maintenance crews not working on snow removal to work on potholes. Repair efforts have been hampered by the continuing moisture and last week's warmer temperatures, which created melting. Despite those challenges, crews have filled 6,663 potholes over the past three weeks, using nearly 143 tons of material.
Public Works officials say all the repairs now are temporary because crews are using a "cold mix." to fill the potholes. The "hot mix" we require for permanent repairs is not available. Crews are needing to repair some potholes numerous times. The City had exhausted the local supply of the repair mix and are currently trucking it in from Omaha. At the City's request, local contractors have agreed to make more of the cold mix.
Crews will begin work on the arterial streets that carry the most traffic before on to those on the list of complaints. Residents can report potholes and other non-emergency street problems in three ways:
The Mayor also said the City has a great deal of arterial street rehabilitation coming up this construction season funded with federal stimulus dollars. The City will continue to make temporary pothole repairs on those streets. However, to maximize resources, permanent pothole repairs will not be made on those streets that are scheduled for major work later this year.


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Recipe from Rebecca Taylor of Georgia
9 inch graham cracker crust
1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups crushed pineapple, undrained
1 cup sour cream
1 Tablespoon orange extract
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 cup sugar
Combine sugar, flour, and salt in medium saucepan. Stir in pineapple, sour cream and orange; cook over medium heat, stirring until mixture comes to boil. Cook 2 minutes. Stir 1/2 cup of cooked mixture into beaten egg yolks; return filling/egg yolk mixture to remaining filling. Cook for 2 minutes more, stirring constantly. Cool slightly. Spoon filling into crust.
Make meringue by beating egg whites with cream of tarter until soft peaks form. Add sugar gradually, beating until stiff peaks form. Spread over pie filling; seal edges.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.
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UPDATED Feb. 13, 2014 1:30 p.m.
BALTIMORE – For the first time since joining the America East Conference in 2003-04, just the UMBC women's swimming and diving team will be heading to the conference championship meet to be held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The meet, which was supposed to begin Thursday evening has been pushed back until Friday morning due to inclement weather in the Worcester, Mass. area. The meet will most likely take on a three-day format similar to the NCAA Championships.
Fans can track the meet with Live Results online or with the "Meet Mobile" app available on your phone.
Prior to the start of the year, the UMBC men moved to the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) and will compete in its championship meet at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from Feb. 19-22.
This weekend, the Retrievers look to get back on top of the conference after finishing in second-place each of the last two years. In 2012, UMBC lost out to now-departed Boston University by just 37 points at the Terriers' home pool and then were edged by New Hampshire by only 39.5 points a year ago at Maine.
This season, UMBC travels north following a 4-3 dual meet season which included wins over Rider, George Washington, Howard, and Catawba. In addition, the Retrievers placed sixth at the three-day Patriot Invitational at George Mason back in November.
The Retrievers' success this year has been based on a combination of youth and experience as freshman Emily Escobedo (New Rochelle, N.Y./Maria Regina) and senior Talor Tadena (Orangevale, Calif./Bella Vista) led the team in individual event wins with 13 and ten, respectively.
Escobedo heads to Massachusetts with the second-best conference time in the 200-yd. breaststroke (2:17.13), while sitting third in the 400-yd. IM (4:28.99), fourth in the 100-yd. breaststroke (1:04.63) and fifth in the 200-yd. IM (2:06.09). Tadena, a five-time gold medalist last year, meanwhile, makes the trip sitting second in both the 100 free (51.25) and 100 breast (1:04.42), and third in the 50 free (23.75). At Maine in 2013, the senior captured the 100 breast and 100 free events, while helping UMBC claim victory in the 200 medley and free relays, in addition to the 400 free relay.
Escobedo and Tadena have had plenty of support as 11 other Retrievers won at least one dual meet event this season. Freshmen Kayla Lilly (Natick, Mass./Medfield) won three events as a rookie and ranks in the top-ten in the America East in four disciplines.
Sophomore Stephanie Romano (Arlington, Va./Yorktown/Towson) joined the Retrievers for the spring semester and picked up three wins in two meets. In that time she posted the third-best time in the conference in the 1,000m free (10:33.90), in addition to the sixth-best time in the 500 free (5:05.57).
Sophomore Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) leads the UMBC diving team after winning six dual meet events and earning three America East Diver of the Week awards. She leads the conference in the 3-meter event with her career-best score of 272.47 from the Howard meet on Jan. 11. Darelius sits third in the 1-meter event with her season and career-best score of 271.85 from Coral Springs, Fla. which qualified her for the NCAA Zones meet to be held in March.


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The art of paper quilling has been around for years– from monks during the Renaissance, to young girls trying to learn this art in the 19th century. Today, quilling has been a very popular hobby of a lot of people. If you're a beginner and interested in knowing how to do paper quilling, we'll tell you something; it's very easy and all you need are the right tools.
With that, we're here to help and give you a guide on how to do paper quilling.
Quilling Tools
It's important to know the different types of paper quilling tools to get you started. The two main tools used in this craft are the needle tool and slotted tool. The latter is ideal for beginners, while the needle tool allows you to have a perfect creation. Likewise, you could also use a corsage needle or a toothpick if these tools aren't available around the house.
Slotted tool – If you've never seen one before, it's a thin, pencil-like instrument with a slot or slit located at the top. Though, there's a downside to using one; it creates a tiny crimp in the middle of the paper, where it was slid into. However, if this doesn't really bother you, then there's nothing wrong with using this tool– especially if you're a beginner.
Needle tool – It's a quilling tool that's trickier to use, but you'll get an uncrimped, and professional looking spiral.
Quilling Strips – The art of quilling depends on the paper you're going to use to make this craft, and you could either make or buy these. Most quillers use thin strips of colorful paper, and curl them in order to come up with several, incredible designs. Likewise, you could also make your own strips by cutting the pieces of paper into uniformed sizes, or if you don't have much time, you could also get pre-cut paper in craft stores. The length of your strips would highly depend on the designs you're planning to make.
Basic Steps
Before you could make any wonderful piece, you'll start with making a bunch of plain coil.
Coiling the Paper
If you're using a slotted tool, begin by inserting one end of a quilling strip into the tiny slot of your tool. It's important to ensure that it's nice and snug; then, slowly twirl the tool away.
In order to make a coil, the paper should wrap around the end of the tool. Keep twirling 'till the whole strip is twisted neatly on the tool.
On the other hand, if you're going to use a needle tool in this project, it's advisable to get your fingers a little damp and try to curve one end of the paper strip around the needle. With your index finger and thumb, apply a little pressure and roll the paper around the needle.
Gluing the Designs
- Step 1: Pull the coil off. After rolling the piece of paper around your tool, slowly take it off. If you're aiming for a loose coil, put it down, so that it'll be slightly loose.
- Step 2: Glue the paper together. Once you've achieved the desired size of your coil, glue the tail. Using a toothpick, T-pin, or paper piercing device, and apply a tiny amount of glue on the inside side of the end of the strip and hold it for about 20 seconds. Note: You could use standard glues, such as Elmer's glue. Likewise, you could also try Tacky glue because it dries quicker. Also, water-based super glue is applicable and it could hold the paper real well.
- Step 3: Quilling. Pinch the coil into your desired shape. This is optional and would be based on the pattern you're following. For instance, you could pinch your paper coil into an eye shape to form a leaf. If you're planning to make an ear, you could also do a triangle. It's up to you.
- Step 4: Gluing the pieces together. The last step would be gluing all the paper coils together. Again, it's important to only use a little amount of glue, so that your pieced wouldn't turn into a disaster.
Easy Quilling Patterns to Try
You could always visit the craft store and purchase a book of quilling patterns if you're a beginner. Also, you could use the Internet to look for quilling patterns for free. Here are some of the patterns you can try.
Quilled Angel
It's a design that would allow you to create a beautiful angel that's perfect as a cute gift or a Christmas tree topper.
Quilled Heart
Nothing says 'I love you' better than doing a handmade present to your loved ones.
Paper quilling takes a lot of practice and patience, but the results could really be rewarding. The more you practice, the better you can be.


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George Bernard Shaw had a few choice words to say about critics. After all, he was one, too.
So it's only fitting that there be a Shaw Symposium on Critics on June 2 at 2 p.m. at The Players Club at Gramercy Park South in New York.
This first symposium will focus on arts critics and journalists in the New York area and will involve a discussion regarding how critics envision the future of arts journalism: the need and the means.
The springboard topic will be "Are Critics Necessary?" David Cote will moderate a grouop that will include myself. Martin Bernheimer, Joe Dziemanowicz, Michael Feingold, Adam Feldman, Peter Filichia, Leonard Jacobs, Andy Propst, Michael Riedel, John Simon, Michael Sommers, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Linda Winer and Jason Zinoman.
There will be limited seats for observers at $10 a head.
The Symposium is being produced by Gingold Theatrical Group as part of its first Shaw New York festival, which has launched with a production of Shaw's "Man and Superman" as a co-production with The Irish Repertory Theatre and is now playing at the theater and runnimg through June 17.
Also on June 2 at 8 p.m., Shaw New York will also present its first Shaw Concert offering music by composers Shaw had championed as 'modern' composers during his career as a music critic. This evening's entertainment will include works by Brahms, Wagner and Elgar to be performed by pianist and composer Timo Andres, the mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and special guests.
The evening's program will include Elgar's tone poem, "Sea Pictures", Wagner's haunting "Wesendonck Lieder", and Brahms' lilting "Liebeslieder Waltzes." Representing Shaw's belief in the importance of supporting new work, Andres will perform his own piece, "It Takes A Long Time To Become A Good Composer."
Information: www.projectshaw.com and 212-352-3101.
And whatr did Shaw say about arts criticism? He saw it as an art form in itself, a noble piece of the whole arts picture. In his book ADVICE TO A YOUNG CRITIC, he wrote:
"Dear Sir. There is no way of 'becoming' a dramatic critic. It happens by accident and it usually happens to some sort of journalist who probably writes about anything but the theatre. Remember: to be a critic you must also have literary skill—and trained critical skill, too. The power of analysis, comparison and so forth.
As to what to read, read anything you feel curious about. It's quite possible that your real interest may not lie in the theatre at all. But in any case, read dramatic literature, not histories or criticisms of it. Read three of four of the most famous plays of Moliere and Victor Hugo. Sample Beaumarchais, Voltaire, De Musset, Augier and Dumas fils until you know their styles. Read all of Goethe's plays and a lot of Schiller's. Read a rhymed play of Dryden's a play of Wycherley's some of Congreve's, several of Sheridan, a Boucicault and a Robertson. Read Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Read Ibsen all through. Also any memoirs of actors that you can unearth or can't avoid. That will do for a beginning. Read all the great critics. Get a ticket for the British Museum reading room and live there as much as you can. Go to all the first rate orchestral concerts and to the opera, as well as to the theaters. Join debating societies and learn to speak in public. Study men and politics. Finally, since I have given you all this advice, I add this crowning precept, the most valuable of all: Never Take Anybody's Advice."


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You will have heard about the 900 tickets Manchester City have returned to Arsenal for the Premier League match on Sunday because they were considered overpriced at £62, and how this is supposed to be a watershed moment or tipping point in the madly inflationary English game.
You will have heard less about the 2,000 or so City fans who stumped up £62 each quite happily – well, perhaps not happily, but they bought the tickets – and that Arsenal are unlikely to lose out because their own supporters will willingly take up the shortfall, £62 being around the going rate for a Category A game at the Emirates. In most cases, especially for big games, big clubs can readily find buyers for unwanted tickets in the away end, so is this really a significant protest about seat prices or is it a step on the road to reduced allocation for visiting supporters?
One thing is clear: clubs are concerned only about selling tickets. They don't really mind who buys them and, given the extra stewarding costs and segregation issues that come with away supporters, it would not be an enormous surprise to see clubs pitching the price of away seats sky high to keep the numbers of travelling fans as low as possible. Some would argue they are already doing that. Certainly the premium that away supporters generally have to pay is an unfair burden on people who also have increased transport and subsistence costs.
If you think of where Newcastle, say, site the away contingent it is easy to suppose clubs with plenty of home support are going out of their way to make visitors uncomfortable. Against that there are clubs such as Wigan who are grateful for all the paying support they can get and will happily allow away fans to fill an entire end behind a goal.
The point of all this is not only to show that away fans often get a raw deal but that clubs can pretty much treat them how they wish. There are no hard and fast rules and perhaps there should be. One Manchester City spokesman, commenting on the refusal to pay the £62 Arsenal were asking, said plenty of fans could have afforded it but felt the London club were taking the mickey and refused on principle to fork out so much. Fair enough, though Arsenal fans would point out that while the average price for an Emirates seat over the course of a season works out at around £37, a Category A game such as one against the champions would cost them in the region of £60 too.
The top London clubs are notoriously expensive and Arsenal are the dearest of the lot now the wage bill is so high, as a result of having to pay players exorbitant amounts to prevent them leaving for, er, Manchester City. It would be wrong to pin the blame for high ticket prices elsewhere on City supporters – the club did not stop to check with its fanbase before doing its bit to contribute to the inflationary rise by throwing stupid money at players such as Robinho and Emmanuel Adebayor – but what City have to come to terms with is that since winning the title they are Category A, top drawer, and will be priced accordingly.
Broadly speaking, if significant numbers of Arsenal fans are paying £60 for Sunday's game then City cannot put up too many objections. They are not exactly impoverished country cousins, coming down from the frozen north. A more interesting question is how happy Arsenal fans feel about paying so much to watch a game. All too clearly they do not feel they are getting value for money at the most expensive stadium in the league and now a new television deal has been signed that will inject even more into the collective coffers from next season, they are at the front of those clubs petitioning to reduce prices across the board to give supporters a fairer deal.
The point has been made that Premier League clubs could make every seat price around £20 cheaper (or knock about a third off in the case of less expensive tickets) and still make a profit from the extra TV revenue. This would help return the game to the supporters, promote happiness and goodwill all around and do much to embrace the spirt of Lord Justice Taylor's post-Hillsborough recommendations when he said that all-seat stadiums need not involve huge price hikes being passed on to the spectator. It isn't going to happen, of course. Football clubs would far rather pour most of their new-found income into the pockets of players and their agents rather than think of the future and invest a little in their continued support.
But I digress. Away ticket prices became a bone of contention long before Arsenal began charging £62 for them. We are only halfway through this season and I have lost count of the number of complaints I have heard from away fans about iniquitous prices. We let them in for £20 and they charge us £35, for example. Or they put the prices up for us and not for themselves. City's return of 900 overpriced tickets may not matter too much in itself if Arsenal can easily sell them elsewhere – thus proving, in the daft way that supply and demand operates, that they were not all that overpriced after all – though someone soon should stop and think. Nine hundred tickets at £62 equates to around £56,000 of revenue. That might be chicken feed to Arsenal, or City for that matter, but most football clubs could put £56,000 to very good use indeed. Just think how good Bradford City, allegedly put together for a mere £7,500, could become with seven times as much to spend.
Leading clubs do not appear to be blase only about the revenue away fans can contribute, they underestimate their contribution to the match-day atmosphere as well. If you don't have two sets of supporters you don't have a proper football match and the increasingly token presence of away fans in the Premier League compares unfavourably with the greater numbers and enhanced atmosphere at cup games.
West Ham have already sold out their allocation for next week's FA Cup replay at Old Trafford – £45 a pop, since you ask – and while that may seem at odds with City's reluctance to pay high prices for a similar trip in the opposite direction, remember that Irons fans are keen to be in on a potentially historic I-was-there moment, certainly something to boast about in future, and are more than willing to provide their own input into the occasion.
That is the quality away supporters find missing from too many Premier League games, where they are fast becoming almost passive observers. They are often treated appallingly and overcharged for it, and in the interests of preserving what is, or used to be, unique about football, some sort of financial fair play for away support should come into operation. The cost of an away ticket for a Premier League game should be no more than the cheapest price for a home supporter. The two prices should always be set at the same rate. Away fans get the cheapest seats and the worst views but they often find themselves having to pay over the odds for the privilege. Away fans are necessary, desirable, and mostly well-behaved these days. The Premier League can afford to treat them better.


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Mother of Slain Ga. Inmate Sues Prison Officials
6th September, 2013
Associated Press
Kate Brumback
ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a Georgia inmate killed during a fight in a prison cell sued in federal court Wednesday, accusing prison officials of violating her son's civil rights.
RaHonda MacClain's 27-year-old son, Damion MacClain, was found dead in his cell at Hays State Prison on Dec. 26. He was the second of three inmates found dead at the northwest Georgia prison in a five-week period in December and January.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Rome alleges the inmates who killed her son were able to leave their cells in the middle of the night and assault him because they were unsupervised and cell door locks were broken.
The lawsuit names Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens and other corrections officials, including guards who were on duty at the time of Damion MacClain's death. It was filed on behalf of RaHonda MacClain by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the law firm Hunton & Williams and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
Two spokespeople for the Department of Corrections did not immediately return after-hours emails seeking comment Wednesday.
"Mr. MacClain's death was both foreseeable and entirely preventable," Southern Center attorney Sarah Geraghty said in an emailed statement. "Defendants had plenty of notice that conditions at Hays were life-threatening for prisoners and officers, but they ignored the problem."
Department of Corrections officers and administrators knew conditions at the prison had deteriorated to dangerous levels, leading to multiple stabbings, beatings and assaults on inmates and officers, but they failed to respond in a reasonable way, the lawsuit says.
Derrick Stubbs, 25, was found dead in his cell on Dec. 19, a week before Damion MacClain was killed, and Nathaniel Reynolds, 31, was killed in a prison fight Jan. 18. A fourth Hays State prisoner, Pippa Hall-Jackson, 19, was stabbed to death Feb. 5 immediately after he was transferred to the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison in Jackson by another Hays State transferee.
Two correctional officers were assaulted by inmates Jan. 27. Both received minor injuries and were treated at a local hospital.
The lawsuit says RaHonda MacClain had told prison officials that her son had been threatened by other inmates and was in danger and needed to be transferred.
RaHonda MacClain told The Associated Press earlier this year that her son told her repeatedly he feared for his safety and didn't think he'd make it to his 28th birthday. She said she felt constant fear for her son and when she spoke to him Christmas night, a few hours before he was killed.
"After I talked to him it just started happening all over again. My peace was just disrupted. The spirit of fear was just all over me," she said. "And then when I got up the next morning, it was the 26th, that Wednesday. I was praying and I was praying for my son, and that fear was all over me. Then at 8:47, I got a call from the warden telling me he was calling me with some bad news."


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To get into all those nooks and crannies in the seats and on the floor, use a hand vac designed for vehicles, like the Black & Decker 12 DustBuster Auto Vac. These small vacs plug directly into a car adapter, making it easy to clean up even when you're on a trip. Store it in the car and use it to suck up all the cookie crumbs and pretzel bits when you make a pit stop, so you won't have to deal with the mess once you finally get home.
I'm sure I don't have to tell you what child safety car seats look like after an outing. Wipe down the plastic, vinyl, and metal parts with a damp cloth, avoiding the ink on the warning label. Never use bleach or other strong cleaning agents which can cause the material to erode or crack. On the fabric sections use warm sudsy water, then rinse them off and allow them to air dry. You may be tempted to immerse dirty straps in water, but the soaking will weaken them; better to spot clean.
Use upholstery cleaner on larger stains on the car seats. Spray the cleaner onto the soiled areas and allow it to penetrate for a few minutes. Then scrub the stain with a clean white cloth.
If you're heading to the beach, here are the best tips for removing sand after a day in the sun.


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Dust catfish fillets with flour, shaking off excess. Set aside on a wax paper-lined baking sheet.
Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Fry the fillets, 2 at a time, in the hot oil for 3 or 4 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. Place the fillets on a serving platter and keep warm.
In the same skillet, mix tomatoes, olives, garlic, oregano, tarragon and thyme. Stir the wine and cornstarch in a small bowl until combined. Pour the cornstarch mixture into the pan and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture comes to a boil and thickens. Spoon the sauce over the fillets, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Yield: 4 servings
Recipe provided by The Catfish Institute.