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I don't eat mystery meat. Forgive me if I am repeating myself. Perhaps to avoid repetition I should say I still don't eat mystery meat.
Precisely what do I mean by this epithet? It is probably best explained by example. The beloved hot dog is perhaps the quintessential example, with the possible exception of SPAM. If you take a mess of meat or poultry (with or without the addition of filler, chemicals, etc.) and turn it into an entirely different form, such as sausage, luncheon meats, nuggets, and so forth, this has the potential of being mystery meat. It is only saved if you know exactly what "meat" and amendments it is made with and you can reasonably vouch for its origins. Now the definition of "meat" is very broad on a commercial level. It's much too broad for my eating comfort. You see, the USDA allows the processors of meat and poultry to leave in or on the ingredients and the end-product a certain amount of fecal matter, hair, bones, or just good ol' generic "debris." My fear of mystery meat caused me to give up hot dogs and bologna for a long while. Like I said, I just don't eat mystery meat.
It may therefore surprise you to hear me say that I LOVE hot dogs. I really miss eating them freely whenever the mood strikes. But knowing what I know, I learned to turn up my nose and act disinterested when ever a hot dog opportunity arose. In truth, I am tortured at a baseball game: who can watch the game when all around me they are indulging. I have to walk quickly past the vendor outside the Home Depot. I absolutely have to avert my eyes when I am in New York City and just happen to walk the guy selling the Sabrette's on the corner. Hot dog deprivation is a tough thing. But now, in exchange for some hard work, I don't always have to do without hot dogs. I just have to make them for myself.
It is an arduous process requiring concentration and endurance. But it is well worth the energy. To begin, you need to find the right meat. Actually, that is probably the easiest part. Just go to your local farmer and get some pure, organic, grass-fed and finished, beef. Any lean cut will work. You are going to require some fat, too. The best kind of fat is the most solid and pure stuff you can procure. If you are into the all beef variety, this means you will need to buy a good brisket, to go with the lean stuff. Brisket has plenty of solid fat attached to it so you will be able to cut it up and portion out what you need. If you can, instead, get a clod of navel, even better. Navel is the belly of the cow – think bovine bacon. Either way, a batch of dogs requires about 4 pounds of lean meat and 1 pound 3 ounces of fat. If you are one of those "I never gain any weight no matter what I eat" kind of lucky duckies, feel free to up the fat portion by another 1/2 to 3/4 of a pound. Likewise, if you want more German style franks, add a pound of lean pork in place of the same amount of beef. Fancier yet, use good red veal.
Where it gets labor intensive is in the prep, the grinding and the processing. Oh, and then there is the stuffing. The meat must be ground separately from the fat. This happens only after both parts have been cut into small cubes and partially frozen. Freezing is required because otherwise it comes through the grinder all smushed and bruised, only to release its juice. You do want a juicy hot dog, don't you? The ground fat is kept separate. After the first run through the grinder (I use a 3/4 hp grinder of the sort sold to hunters), the lean meat is mixed with a cure mix consisting of salt and pink salt ("instacure #1″). Both fat and meat then get spread out on cookie sheets separately and re-frozen for another 30-45 minutes to get it nice and "crunchy." The crunchy stuff is ground a second time and now the fun begins.
After putting the twice ground meat and the fat in my fridge to keep it good and cold I make up my spice mix.
At this point I must digress. There are many recipes for hot dogs out there in the blogosphere and beyond. Every time I make hot dogs I review as many on-line choices as I can find and after I hit the books. I own at least 5 books with frankfurter recipes. Everyone is different. Oy! This time I made a list of all the various spices people recommend and the other dry ingredients. The latter includes non-fat dry milk, dextrose and soy products. The purpose of these is to bind and to help get the dogs to the right texture. All are varieties of processed foods. The easiest to procure (and pure enough for me) is the non-fat dry milk and it does its job like a charm. All you have to remember (and many recipes don't tell you this) is to reduce that powdered milk to the consistency of confectioners sugar with your blender, food processor or (in my case) spice grinder. The spices include mace, marjoram, dry mustard, coriander, sweet paprika, granulated garlic, onion powder and white pepper. I left out the marjoram. I added about 10 grams of each except for the garlic and onion which I limited to 5 grams each. You can add more garlic if you like. No problem there but I am not a garlic lover. I put everything in my spice grinder and make it into a fine powder and then add back the dried milk. All of the dry ingredients are then mixed well together and weighed out into 4 equal portions.
So now starts the fun. Weigh out the meat and fat and divide it into 4 even batches. Using my food processors – yes I have 2 of them (my favorite is your basic Cuisinart DLC-7 and I also have a Cuisinart Elite a friend gave me) – I carefully process each batch of meat with 125 grams of crushed ice plus a portion of the spice mix until it is very well emulsified. At this point I take the temperature of the mix – it has to be 40 degrees F. No problem – the machine generates a bit of heat so the mixture gets to that temp fast. Now it is time to add the fat. The object of the exercise at this point is to have the meat molecules encapsulated by the fat in a beautiful emulsion.
The trick is to keep the temperature below 50F. Otherwise, your sausage will "break" and instead of hot dog, you'll have dog food! Broken sausage has a very unpleasant texture that makes you leave it on your plate after the first bite. I know this from experience, trust me. The first time I made franks, I broke the mixture. It is also very embarrassing since it shows what a novice you are. The way to help ensure that you won't break the emulsion is to add another 125 grams of crushed ice and pulse the machine to achieve perfection. If the emulsion becomes a little to hard to process, add a few tablespoons of ice water to get it moving. But get it moving only enough to achieve the incorporation of the fat so that it becomes one with the meat. (A Buddhist frankfurter?)
Put each batch in the tank of the stuffer while you process the rest of the dogs. (I have a 5 pound stuffer I bought at, you guessed it, the hunting supply store). Keep it in the fridge until you have finished preparing all of the batches.
Now let's talk about sausage casing. All casings are not created equal. For the kosher style dog, you will need sheep casings. For the small-sized dog, you will need small sheep casings and for the jumbo dog hog casings will work fine. Be certain to soak them for hours and flush them 3-5 times through. You do this because they are packed in salt and the salt is nasty. Flushing out all the salt is also supposed to make the casings more tender. I have had problems with tough casings even though I do all of these things religiously, even though the instructions tell you to just soak them for 30 minutes! I think it is just the luck of the draw but I suspect that stuffing the links nice and tightly also helps. Finally, cook the dogs from the fridge, in cold liquid, and bring them slowly to a boil. This helps to tenderize the casings too. I like mine to "snap" when I big into them. I'm still working on this.
Stuff your casings. I'll give you a lesson on this someday if you need it but for now I suggest that if you are really into it, buy Michael Ruhlman's book Charcuterie. Make the links any size you like. It is totally a matter of personal preference. I like them on the short and fat side because I only want to eat one bun. Once stuffed, the dogs can either be poached or smoked, in any order. If you don't have a smoker, I really don't think it is the end of the world. Poach them in water that is flavored with liquid smoke, if you like that sort of thing, or use just plain water. The emulsion should have enough spices to give them plenty of flavor without the smoking. They only get smoked for a short while anyway – it took me just about one hour to bring mine up to the 140F required at that point.
Poaching is a little tricky because you do not want to boil them. Actually, you want to heat them up in water that is 180F and no hotter. Once you have brought them to the same temp as the water, they are ready to go. One way to do this is to use a slow cooker held at the right setting to achieve the desired temperature. You can do it on top of the stove too but this takes real vigilance and confidence in your stove. I don't have that confidence since my stove doesn't go very low. Enter the immersion circulator – the precision cooks tool that enables you to regulate the temperature of the water within a minuscule tolerance.
Still there are tricks. First, bring more water than you need up to temp with the circulator. Those of you with the Sous Vide Supreme can certainly use this, too. Fill the tank as high as you can – to the "max" line. Heat up the water to 180F. Meanwhile, place all of your dogs in a couple of big zip lock bags, leaving plenty of room. You are going to add the 180F water to the bag to cover the dogs. Then, carefully, very carefully, lower the partially closed bag into the sous vide vessel. As you do this you will watch as the sous vide water surrounds the contents of the zip lock bag and pushes out most of the air. While doing the lowering, slowly close the zipper the rest of the way until the air is pushed out and the bag is fully immersed in the sous vide vessel. If you need to, you can put a pot lid on top of the bag to make certain it is fully immersed in the water. I use a heavy meat tenderizer I have and it works great for this purpose.
Since you put the water inside of the bag and the sous vide machine keeps it at temperature (after it has equalized in the bath), you are able to "poach" the links and bring them to the desired temperature in about one hour. Use your meat thermometer to test a random dog in one of the bags, just to be sure.
When you have determined that the sausage is at the right temp, remove them from the water bath, place the bag in the sink and cut off one corner to let the hot water drain off quickly. Immediately put the drained dogs in an ice bath (50/50 water and ice) to cool them down as fast as possible. Add more ice if needed. Once they are well cooled, take them out and let them dry off a bit. I package mine with the food saver making sure there is a little space between each dog. That way I can remove one at a time for my eating pleasure. They will keep in the freezer for many months – if they last that long.
To be certain, this is a lot of work and it takes a great deal of time. I made about 30 big fat dogs in about 6 hours. It goes faster if you have help. It goes even faster still if you have good equipment. Also, you could cut the recipe in half if you just want to give it a try or you don't have the patience.
For this fanatic, making my own frankfurters fills a sorely missed hot dog hankering.
Special note: Yes folks, I am back. I am well. I am sorry to have kept you all waiting. Please forgive me.


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The candidates for the 18th District Congressional race released their campaign financial reports Friday for the period of Oct. 1 to Jan. 16. The reports show that candidate Jim McConoughey has $314,000 in debt while his two opponents, Aaron Schock and John Morris, are debt free. Schock is outpacing his candidates in raising funds.
Borrowing nearly a third of his estimated personal finances from the bank to fund his congressional campaign, Republican Congressional candidate Jim McConoughey has racked up $314,000 in campaign debt, including nearly $44,000 in unpaid bills.
Combined, his two GOP opponents in the 18th Congressional District race raised more than $1.2 million with no debts.
State Rep. Aaron Schock raised $421,478 for the reporting period Oct. 1 through Jan. 16 for a grand total to date of nearly $800,000. Former Peoria city councilman John Morris raised less than half that during the same period — $189,911 in almost exclusively individual donations — for a fundraising total of nearly $409,000, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.
McConoughey raised about $120,600 during the reporting period for a total of about $126,000 throughout the campaign, outpacing money he loaned to his campaign by a 2-1 margin, according to reports.
McConoughey's campaign spent $248,534, including $137,000 on radio and television advertisement.
Campaign manager Matt Bisbee said being the last to enter the race in mid-September, put McConoughey at a disadvantage.
"We clearly did not get a head start in any way, so we've really had to focus our efforts on building our organization, building organizations on each of the counties in the 18th District," Bisbee said. "Coming out of the new year we've really surged in the fundraising arena. We're ready to take hold and invest in the campaign."
Morris has almost $87,000 left to spend, not taking into account any additional fundraising. McConoughey lists about $47,000 in the bank, but he's also got nearly that much in debt owed to corporate vendors, among others.
All three candidates spent their money mostly on office supplies and expenses, consulting, postage, travel and advertising. Morris spent the most on advertising during the reporting period, with $143,000 on television and radio. Schock spent more than $130,000.
Schock's lofty treasury, which includes about $276,000 in cash on hand, along with his already established name recognition and built-in funding network from his state house races, puts him at an advantage, said Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
"Schock has got a huge advantage going into the last few weeks of the campaign. Plus he's got a lot to spend in the last two weeks, compared to the other people," Redfield said. "It's certainly (Schock's) to lose in terms of how he's positioned himself and what he brought to the table to begin with."
Election reports also show that Schock drew contributions mostly came from individuals throughout the 20-county district, compared to contributions to Morris and McConoughey, which mostly are from the Peoria area.
"People don't give to candidates just because they know them," said Schock's campaign manager Steve Shearer. "They have to feel excitement that there's something extra special about that candidate and be inspired by that candidate, and Aaron does that."
Federal finance laws cap the amount pledged by any one individual donor to $2,300 for the primary election and $2,300 for the general election for a total of $4,600. The candidates cannot use their entire amounts raised in the primary because some donors already pledged the maximum $4,600.
Schock can use about $176,000 of his $276,000 on-hand and Morris, who was in charge of fundraising at WTVP Channel 47, can spend about $50,000 of the $87,000 reported in cash on hand.
"People are buying into his conservative message and backing it with their dollars. Nearly all of our money is raised from individuals which shows voters of the 18th are supporting his candidacy," said Ryan Steusloff, Morris' campaign manager.
Karen McDonald can be reached at 686-3285 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Reporter Adriana Colindres of GateHouse News Service contributed to this report.

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Death Penalty
The prison system houses male death row inmates at Central Prison and female death row inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Both prisons are located in Raleigh.
At Central Prison, the men are housed in cellblocks of Unit III. Two correctional officers in a control center watch the inmates at all times. Each cell block is divided into eight pods with 24 single cells - 12 cells on each level. The cells open into a dayroom area that has a television at one end, stainless steel tables in the middle and showers at the other end. Each cell has a bed, a lavatory, commode, and a wall-mounted writing table.
Inmates on death row spend nearly all their time in either their cells or the adjacent dayroom. They may stay in their dayroom from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. While in the dayroom, they may watch television.
Death row inmates may be assigned incentive wage jobs in the canteen or clothes house, or may work as barbers or janitors within their housing areas. They are required to keep their cells and dayrooms clean. Inmates are allowed at least one hour per day for exercise and showers. Two days a week, officers escort death row inmates in groups from each cellblock pod to outdoor exercise areas, weather permitting, where the inmates can play basketball, walk or jog. Officers also escort the death row inmates by cellblock to the dining halls for each meal.
Death row inmates may receive one visit a week with a maximum of two visitors. In the visiting booths, visitors may see and talk with inmates, but physical contact is not possible. Inmates may participate in a one-hour Christian worship service each Sunday, or Islamic worship services for one hour each Friday. A Bible study class is also conducted by the prison's chaplain for 90 minutes each Tuesday morning.
If a death row inmate violates prison regulations, he may be placed in a segregation cellblock outside of the death row area. He must eat his meals in his cell and is separated from other death row inmates for his daily hour of exercise and shower.
Conditions are similar for female inmates on death row. The women are housed in a cellblock of the maximum security building at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Each of the single cells has a bed, lavatory and commode. The seven cells are side by side down a corridor. At the front of the cellblock is a dayroom with a television, table and chairs. This is where the women eat their meals. This room also serves as the visiting area, and all visits are supervised by correctional staff. As a group, the women inmates are given at least an hour daily for exercise and showers. Volunteers provide Sunday worship services on death row. Chaplains are available for counseling.
When a death row inmate exhausts all appeals, the attorney general directs the secretary of the Department of Public Safety to set an execution date. That inmate - male or female - is moved into the death watch area of Central Prison three to seven days prior to the execution date. The death watch area is adjacent to the execution chamber and is located in the prison's custody control building. The inmate moves all personal belongings from the death row cell to one of the four cells in the death watch area.
Each cell has a bed, lavatory, commode and a wall-mounted writing table. The cells are side by side and open into a dayroom where there is a table, a television and shower. With the exception of 15 minutes allowed for a shower, the inmate spends the entire day in the cell. A sergeant and a correctional officer are stationed just outside the cell in the dayroom 24 hours a day.
The inmate may receive visits from his attorney, chaplains, psychologists and others authorized by prison administrators and may receive non-contact family visits in the prison's regular visiting area. Contact visits may be allowed at the warden's discretion in the days immediately preceding execution. An inmate on death watch is not allowed contact with other inmates. The inmate remains in the death watch area until receiving a stay or until escorted to the execution chamber. Executions are carried out in accordance with the state's execution protocol.


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It might not put an end to speculation, but Bret Michaels denies having an affair with Miley Cyrus' mom, who is in splitting with her husband.
The reality rocker told "Fox & Friends" that rumors he dallied with Tish Cyrus are false. She is splitting with husband Billy Ray Cyrus after a 17-year marriage and long relationship that produced five kids including the teen starlet.
"The answer is no," Michaels said when asked point-blank.
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"I've been friends with her family forever," Michaels added. "It started out with me and Miley simply working on a song together. Her mom, Tish, likes "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," the first concert Miley ever saw was Poison, and so they wanted to remake it for the new record."
Last month, Billy Ray filed divorce papers in Tennessee citing irreconcilable differences.
"As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family," the couple said in a statement. "We are trying to work through some personal matters. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers."
umors immediately surfaced that Michaels might be a third party in the breakup. But Michaels insists nothing happened..
"When I was in the studio, Miley came in and sang on my song … and that was it," he said.


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Maghanap ka na ng store na tatanggap ng down payment sir. Kasi ang dami nag huhunt ng Pro ngayon, and with limited supply, usually first five customers per branch ubos na.hitokiri_recca wrote:Hi,
Just activated my account (I forgot to click the activation email since it was not sent to my inbox and I have to resend it again LOL).
I actually discovered the group years ago in one of the Cosplay Events (forgot which was) and through an acquaintance from a different group.
Anyway, I am planning to get a PS4 Pro this month but According to GameOne thru PM this morning, No stocks available and no reply from DataBlitz. T_T
Pero main recommendation ko is sa sony talaga, kasi may free 1 year extended warranty for peace of mind.


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Satterthwaite earned Swimmer of the Meet honors after winning the 50, 100 and 200 free (Photo courtesy the Ivy League).
PRINCETON, N.J. – Chris Satterthwaite won his third individual championship of the meet in the 100 free and shared Swimmer of the Meet honors, but it was not enough as the Harvard men's swimming and diving team was beat out by Princeton at the 2012 Ivy League Championships. The Crimson turned in several impressive performances over the weekend, setting six school records and posting 22 NCAA 'B' standard times at the meet.
Satterthwaite's victory in the 100 free was his third of the meet after also claiming the 50 free on Thursday and the 200 free on Friday. Satterthwaite was one of three student-athletes to win three individual events at the meet, as he shared the Phil Moriarty Award, given each year to the swimmer of the meet, with Princeton's Jonathan Christensen and Paul Noelle. The sophomore is the 16th Swimmer of the Meet in Crimson history and first since Alex Meyer '10 took home the award in 2010.
Satterthwaite won the 100 free came in a time of 43.18, the fifth fastest time in meet history and a new school record. He also won the 50 free with a school-record time of 19.84 and the 200 free with a time of 1:35.05, ranking fifth in Ivy League Championship meet annals.
Harvard also earned wins on the one-meter diving board Thursday and in the 400 free relay Friday. Mike Mosca was victorious on the one meter, posting a score of 359.55 to mark the second straight year the event has gone to the Crimson, after Michael Stanton won the event a year ago. Harvard has now won the event seven times in the last 11 years.
The 400 free relay team of Griffin Schumacher, Zach Walters, Oliver Lee and Satterthwaite combined for an NCAA 'B' standard time of 2:53.22 in the final race of the weekend, setting the second fastest time in meet history and reclaiming the event for Harvard for the first time since winning four straight from 2005-2008.
The Crimson set six new school records at the meet, including the 50 free (Satterthwaite, 19.84), 100 free (Satterthwaite, 43.18), 100 breast (Chuck Katis, 53.17), 200 breast (1:56.49), 200 free relay (1:19.17) and 400 free relay (2:53.22). Harvard also turned in a total of 22 NCAA 'B' standards over the weekend.
Princeton won its fourth straight team title with 1,523.5 points, just 77.5 points ahead of the second-place Crimson which totaled 1,446 points. Harvard has now finished second at the meet in four consecutive years after last winning it all in 2008.
Columbia finished in third place with 1,107.5 points while Yale (966.5), Dartmouth (764.5), Penn (756), Brown (596.5) and Cornell (575.5) rounded out the field.
Princeton took an early lead at the meet with a victory in the 200 free relay to open the meet, just edging out Harvard's team of Schumacher, Lee, Walters and Satterthwaite. The Tigers finished in a time of 1:18.92 while the Crimson finished in 1:19.17, both meeting the NCAA 'B' standard. Harvard's time topped the school record of 1:19.31 posted in 2008.
Princeton looked to extended its lead with a first and fourth-place finish in the 500 free, as Paul Nolle took the victory in 4:18.92. Harvard was able to overcome the Tigers, however, by placing seven individuals in the event. Kyle McIntee and Michael Gaudiani placed sixth and eighth, respectively, with times of 4:26.69 and 4:27.65, while John Bailey (10th, 4:26.60), Spenser Goodman (11th, 4:27.40), Reed Snyder (14th, 4:29.00), Greg Roop (18th, 4:30.05) and Matthew McLean (19th, 4:30.30) each scored points for Harvard.
The Crimson improved upon its advantage in the 200 IM despite another Princeton victory. Jonathan Christensen won the event in 1:45.71 with Chuck Katis finishing a close second in 1:46.34, both eclipsing the NCAA 'B' standard. Niall Janney took eighth in 1:50.58.
Satterthwaite was the first Crimson to take home an individual title as he led a dominating performance for the Crimson in the 50 free. His time of 19.84 narrowly edged out Harrison Wagner of Princeton who clocked in at 19.91, with Lee and Schumacher following right on their heels with times of 19.99 and 20.04, respectively, to take third and fourth. Satterthwaite broke Kemi George's '04 previous school record of 20.02 set in 2003. The 50 free proved to be one of the most competitive races of the day, as each of the top 11 finishers in the event posted an NCAA 'B' standard time.
Mosca followed Satterthwaite with a win on the one-meter diving board with his total of 3:59.55 points, as he topped Princeton's Stephen Vines who totaled 3:47.65 points for second. Stanton, the defending champion in the event, took sixth with 304.80 points. Each of the top six divers eclipsed the NCAA 'A' standard.
Princeton earned its fourth victory of the day and set a new Ivy League record with a time of 3:11.38 in the 400 medley relay, but a second-place finish by the Crimson allowed Harvard to maintain its lead at the end of day one. Jack Pretto, Katis, Janney and Satterthwaite combined for a time of 3:13.66, meeting the NCAA 'B' standard.
The Crimson finished the first day of competition in first place with a total of 471 points while the three-time defending champion Princeton Tigers sat in second with 444 points.
The Tigers opened Friday's evening session with yet another relay win, this time setting a new meet and conference record of 1:25.89 in the 200 medley relay. Pretto, Katis, Lee and Schumacher finished second with an NCAA 'B' standard time of 1:28.06, as the Crimson clung to a 19-point advantage.
Harvard extended its lead to 71 points in the 1,000 free with McIntee, Gaudiani and Bailey each placing in the top eight. Princeton's Nolle took the victory with a meet record time of 8:54.86, while McIntee placed third in 9:06.00. Gaudiani finished in fifth place with a time of 9:09.79 and Bailey finished eighth in 9:14.10.
Princeton finally overtook Harvard in the 400 IM after four Tigers placed in the top eight against just one for the Crimson. Princeton finished third, fourth, sixth and eighth, with Janney taking seventh with a time of 3:56.94. Nejc Zupan won the event for Dartmouth in 3:49.73.
Harvard failed to place anyone in the championship finals of the 100 fly and the Tigers took advantage with a third, fifth and eighth-place showing to open a 64-point margin. Satterthwaite led a trio of Crimson in the 200 free with Walters taking fourth in 1:37.03 and Goodman taking seventh in 1:37.23, both meeting the 'B' standard. Princeton, however, placed second, third and fifth in the event to push the lead to 86 points.
The Crimson cut into Princeton's lead with a strong showing in the 100 breast, despite the Tigers' Jonathan Christensen winning the event with a meet and conference record time of 52.86. Katis placed second with an NCAA 'B' time of 53.17 and Jason Ting placed eighth in 56.86, but Harvard was able to gain points back with a 13th-place showing by Owen Wurzbacher (56.47) and 15th-place finish by Schumacher (56.75) as a total of four Crimson scored in the event against three for Princeton. Katis' time represents a new school record, besting Rassan Grant's '04 time of 54.49 set in 2004.
The Tigers gained more ground back with a second and third-place finish in the 100 back, as Pretto placed sixth in 49.13 and Robert Newell took eighth in 49.76. Princeton finished the day off with a winning time of 6:26.86 in the 800 free relay, as the Tigers edged out Walters, Goodman, Katis and Satterthwaite's 'B' standard time of 6:26.90 by the narrowest of margins. The victory helped the Tigers maintain its lead heading into the final day with 1,049.5 points to Harvard's 944.
Saturday's final session opened with yet another Princeton win as Noelle posted a time of 15:00.16 to set a new pool record. Gaudiani, Snyder and Roop finished third, fifth, and eighth, respectively, with times of 15:17.73, 15:29.53 and 15:37.17, helping the Crimson to close its deficit to 35.5 points.
The Tigers reopened their lead in the 200 back with fourth swimmers placing in the top six, while Newell took seventh for Harvard in 1:47.80. Harvard closed the gap once again in the 100 free, however, as Satterthwaite led a quartet of Crimson in the top eight. Along with Satterthwaite's school record time of 43.18, Lee and Schumacher turned in NCAA 'B' standard times of 43.91 and 44.14 to place third and fifth, respectively. Walters, meanwhile, took seventh in 44.55. The previous program best in the event was set in 43.55 was set in 2009 by David Guernsey '09.
Princeton maintained a comfortable hold on the lead for the remainder of the meet, beginning with a winning performance by Christensen in the 200 breast. His meet and Ivy League record time of 1:55.96 topped Katis' second-place time of 1:56.49, which broke Geoff Rathgeber's '08 program record of 1:58.97 set in 2008. The Tigers also turned in a second-place performance in the 200 fly while McIntee (1:50.28) and Janney (1:50.71) finished seventh and eighth.
The Tigers' Stephen Vines won the three-meter diving competition, posting a meet and conference record score of 400.60 for the victory. Harvard turned in an impressive showing as well, however, with Mosca and Stanton and taking second and third, respectively. Mosca totaled 366.25 while Stanton scored 356.45 points. Both represent NCAA 'A' standard totals.
Schumacher, Walters, Lee and Satterthwaite picked up a win in the final event of the weekend with their NCAA 'B' standard time of 2:53.22 in the 400 free relay, topping the previous school record of 2:55.75 set in 1998. That time was more than two seconds faster than Princeton's second-place finishing team and is the second fastest time in meet history.


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Report by Ben Cosgrove Continuing our campaign at running RTR buggies in a national series we visited the Deerdale track in Nottingham on the 12th August. We once again asked some drivers to make special guest appearances to use the RTR cars and this meeting we had Graham Alsop and John Holmes answer the call. Graham used the Trophy Buggy Flux and John ran the Vorza Flux. As usual Ben Cosgrove and Terry Atkinson completed the team line-up with another Trophy Buggy Flux and Vorza Flux respectively.
We had 4 rounds of qualifying planned with 15 minute finals awaiting. The entry turnout was a little on the low side due to the Euros taking place and 'borrowing' some of the top nitro drivers like Boots, Willets and Bloomfield (Well done Darren on your Euros win!). We had a 4 minute practice bolted on to round 1 of qualifying to help the drivers to learn the layout. The track is an all Astroturf surface utilising many different types of Astroturf which results in a very high grip and difficult surface to drive on. There are many jumps and you never have a rest period on the lap especially as the main straight is relatively short. Lap times were around the 44 second mark so concentration was key to a good run. This is truly a track where you have to be controlled and accurate in your approach to get in a rhythm and stay fast. Qualifying went very well for the team with Graham taking overall TQ, John second and Ben third. All 3 RTR buggies were performing flawlessly and all 3 drivers were covered by less than 2 seconds after 6 minutes on fastest runs! We were the only 3 drivers who could make 9 laps and run sub 44 second laps in qualifying. Terry managed a good couple of runs to make the top 10 in 8th position for the final. Graham had a great final checking out on lap 1 and never looking back. John and Ben however had some interesting incidents with lapped cars and would both drop down the order only to push hard and get back up into the podium positions. On the last lap all 3 drivers made it across for the extra lap and were all on the same lap. It looked like Graham had won with John in second and Ben in third however John suddenly stopped with 3 corners to go and Ben managed to take the second spot. We traced the problem back to the LiPo cut off being at 3.4V per cell on the ESC which is designed to protect the battery and safely stop the vehicle. Terry bought the Vorza back home in a very respectable 7th position after being a s high as 4th at the beginning. It was a fantastic day for the team with a total domination around the technical track. We had lots of fun and also got a little bit sun burnt. Both Graham and John really like the electric class of racing as it is not too different to the nitro cars in terms of handling and lap times, great for going to a track and practicing by yourself or doing tyre testing to save your engine or to get around tracks noise restrictions. I think you may see these guys at an electric national again.


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Emergency Works for Tongariro River
Environment Waikato has begun emergency works to repair damage done to the Tongariro River in last month's flood.
Environment Waikato has begun emergency works to repair damage done to the Tongariro River in last month's flood.
Environment Waikato has new plans to protect the Region's important ecological areas.
Environment Waikato is proposing to introduce a uniform annual general charge (UAGC) to provide a fairer rating system for the Region.
Urban residents and lifestyle block owners would pay a fairer share of controlling plant and animal pests in the Region under a new targeted rate proposed in Environment Waikato's Long-Term Council Community Plan.
A fairer rating system, and new proposed targeted rates for heritage protection, protecting Lake Taupo, improving river management in the Coromandel and pest management are included in Environment Waikato's, about to open for submissions.
Environment Waikato has put its support behind Hamilton City's late night bus and concessions for elderly passengers –on a trial basis.
The Waikato's Festival of the Environment got off to a flying start over the weekend with a two-day E-scape – an environmental adventure through the Region.
Ratepayers in Taupo District and the Waikato Region have been told of proposals to help pay the $81.5 million needed over the next 15 years to protect Lake Taupo from the effects of nitrogen runoff.
Waikato Region residents know that Lake Taupo's health is declining and support approaches to protect it – but they're concerned about the effect of proposed actions and their costs.
A specially trained Australian dog is to cross the Tasman to sniff out contaminated sites in the Waikato, thanks to a grant from Environment Waikato.
Environment Waikato is providing grants for three rural schools to help with planting of native gardens and bush areas on school grounds.
The public must have confidence that Environment Waikato will take action when an organisation fails to keep its promises in protecting the environment, the Council's Chief Executive said today.
The new landfill at Hampton Downs is developing well and in compliance with its resource consents, this week's Environment Waikato Regulatory Committee meeting heard.
Environment Waikato is starting emergency repair and reinstatement works on the Tongariro and Tauranga Taupo rivers following last month's flood.
A balance between ecological values and the use of harbours needs to be struck in deciding on the future of mangroves in Waikato estuaries, according to Environment Waikato Councillor Evan Penny.
Waikato people support possum control in the Region and are prepared to pay for the benefits they get from it, a study has shown.
Environment Waikato paid tribute this week to Tuwharetoa leader Mahlon Nepia's work for the environment.
Environment Waikato's Regulatory Committee has recommended prosecuting Hamilton City Council and Perry Environmental over alleged breaches of resource consents at the Horotiu Landfill, subject to legal advice.
Tarpaulins painted with environmental messages about clean air will decorate a Tokoroa reserve on Saturday as teams from Environment Waikato's Great E-scape challenge arrive in town.
The hearing of consent applications for Contact Energy's Wairakei geothermal field is to be adjourned at the end of March to give Taupo District Council time to assess information about materials drilled in one of Taupo's subsidence areas.


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The greatest risk would be to pass up the chance to do something that will make you happy
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
–Alan Alda
Brian Wrabley stands at the edge of a cliff. Below the Gunnison river churns through a deep canyon. The river is almost impossible to reach, accessible only by a few billy goat trails: steep, rocky and in some places risky. But Wrabley, 48, isn't deterred. Sure-footed, he recognizes the rewards that wait at the end of the trail, no matter how long it takes to get there.
Cliff's Edge
Wrabley's cliff-top perch is 2,000 miles from his home in Southern Maryland. He is not vacationing; he is working, scouting the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River in southwestern Colorado for his new business, Treks West Tours. Focused on national parks and monuments, its tours break trail for people who want to explore the West but don't know where to start … people just like Wrabley.
"My love of the West began as a child, watching those old John Ford Westerns," says Wrabley. "I had never been further west than Columbus, Ohio."
Wrabley was grown and married before he experienced the landscapes of his childhood dreams. In 1996, he and new wife Sheila traveled to Arizona.
That vacation would change the Wrableys' lives.
"We drove across Arizona, saw the Grand Canyon, and I fell in love with all of it," Wrabley says. "The mountains, deserts, canyons, culture. My first trip to Monument Valley was a very emotional and spiritual experience. It fired my imagination."
There they drove the famed Apache Trail.
"It is a hairy road," Wrabley says. "A thousand feet above the Salt river with no guard rails. It was a wild ride."
Barely wide enough for two vehicles, the Apache Trail is a road that makes going around each corner a surprise — and a little scary. It would be a metaphor for their future.
Dangling Over
Back in Maryland, Wrabley returned to his job as a project researcher at Catholic University. But he left his heart deep in the red rocks of the American West.
"I had worked in construction most of my life," Wrabley says. "The job at Catholic University was a step up for me career-wise. I should've been content."
The job was good in both pay and benefits.
"But it didn't make me happy. I had no passion for it," Wrabley says.
Every vacation, the Wrableys boarded a plane for anywhere west. After 10 years, he took the first step toward his dream.
"I knew I wanted work out West as a ranger, a guide or even a trail maintenance worker," he says.
He applied for jobs at the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Government jobs aren't easy to get, he soon learned.
Meanwhile, he planned a camping trip to the Grand Canyon for friends. He loved putting it all together, and the friends loved the trip. One happy camper suggested to Wrabley that he plan outdoor adventures for a living.
"I thought, why not," Wrabley says. "What have I got to lose?"
The seed for Treks West was planted.
A kick-start got it growing.
Terlingua, Texas, a tiny hamlet — some call it a ghost town — is the jumping off point to Big Bend National Park, one of the Wrabley's favorite places.
"A 2009 trip to Terlingua was the absolute tipping point for me to step away from the safe and sure to start this business," he says.
The inn where they stay is owned by Casey Fullwood. After spending most of her life in Alaska, Fullwood wanted to go someplace different, a place, as Wrabley tells it, "where the sun shines all the time."
"Casey had the courage to take the risk," Wrabley says. "If she could do it, I could do it. She inspired me."
Still employed at Catholic University, Wrabley jumped into the minutia of starting a business. He learned about insurance, permits, licensing and advertising. He hired a web site designer and familiarized himself with the Internet. He became a regular on outdoor blogs and forums.
"It's not my favorite part of the business," he says , "but it is crucial."
In 2011, Wrabley was ready. He quit his job and hung out a shingle. Treks West was open for business. The first four tours mapped Big Bend, Wonders of Moab, Circle of the Ancients and Texas High Country.
The Wrableys knew it usually takes a minimum of three years to get a new business up and operational, if not profitable.
Was Treks West viable? Only time would tell.
|A trip to Arizona in 1996 with his wife Sheila would change Brian Wrabley's life, leading him to start his own outdoor tour company.
Leaps of Faith
Sheila is a critical partner in her husband's dream business plan. The second half of Team Wrabley, Sheila is Tech Support. For the immediate future, her job as a Prince George's County elementary school teacher provides the family its sole regular paycheck. She understands the value of following a dream, even if it doesn't pan out as planned.
"I've been at crossroads, and I've taken leaps of faith," Sheila says.
Right after meeting Brian, Sheila took a leave from teaching and returned to her native New York, following her dream of working in
theater. It's an extremely competitive field in an area with a notoriously high cost of living. She struggled.
"It didn't end up the way I had envisioned," she says. "But a friend remarked maybe I hadn't gone back to New York to pursue acting but rather so Brian would realize what he had."
Brian traveled to New York and proposed marriage. Sheila accepted and returned to Maryland. They were married in 1995.
"I have followed my heart several times, taking risks and making changes to be happier," Sheila says. "I can't deny Brian the same opportunity."
Free Fall
Treks West went from dream to reality when the first tour was booked. That was November 2011.
"One of a group of 12 businessmen from Vancouver saw our ad in Utah.com," Wrabley says. "These guys had been all around the world and wanted to do something different."
They scheduled Wonders of Moab for May 2012.
"It a little intimidating," Wrabley says. "These guys had just been hiking in Bhutan. How in the world was I going to top that? But it turned out to be a fantastic maiden tour."
Jumping off a personal fiscal cliff isn't for everyone. The financial risks are real. Wrabley's next three bookings fell through.
"It probably wasn't the best time for me to quit my job," he says. "Lean national economics make it even more of a struggle."
But the Wrableys are optimistic. Several tours are tentatively booked for this summer. Sheila's paycheck and their savings keep the bills paid. Odd jobs between tours help with the cash flow.
They don't have a formal business plan but they do have hard goals.
"In the short-term, we need three tours in 2012," Wrabley says. "In 2014, six tours would pay the bills. The ultimate goal is 12 tours a year."
Wrabley takes several trips a year to scout new locations, recently Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Next he and Sheila will head to Alaska.
If all goes as planned, Treks West's newest adventure will be week-long guided horseback trips into the Alaskan bush.
All In Perspective
Is taking risks, following your dream, going outside of the safety of your box a good New Year's resolution?
Brian and Sheila Wrabley think so.
"Don't tell yourself you can't, because you can," he says. "The most we could lose is money, and we can always get that back. The greatest risk would be to pass up the chance to do something that will make you happy."


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When you get tired of listening to its measly 128MB worth of music, slap this MPION MP3 player up against your face and it'll give you a nice soothing facial. Get your mind out of the gutter, not that kind of facial. Its negative ion generator is said to magically clean all that gunk out of your skin's zillions of pores, supposedly doing that job far more effectively than mere soap and water.
If you think about that term "facial" long enough, it might even serve as a temporary penis enlarger, too. It better do something special, because let's face it, it's a 128MB MP3 player that costs $170.
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Hopkins-Murat brings in huge ratings on Showtime
NEW YORK (Oct. 30, 2013) – Last Saturday's SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING tripleheader, highlighted by Future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins,drew the second largest average audience for a live SHOWTIME® boxing event this year and ranks as the third-highest average on record for the premium network since 2004 when Nielsen began tracking pay television networks' individual channels.
The high viewership average across the 3-hour, 30-minute telecast brings SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING's average viewership for the year up 23 percent from last year and a remarkable 62 percent from 2011.
Presented by Golden Boy Promotions from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, the main event bout between Hopkins and world-ranked championship contender Karo Murat drew a peak audience of one million viewers, ranking third for the year behind to the peak audience from June's Adrien Broner vs. Paulie Malignaggi (1.3 million) and April's Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout (1.1 million). Hopkins vs. Murat's peak audience is the fifth highest on record for the network which now has seen its top-five largest boxing audiences in the last 13 months.
"SHOWTIME has quickly emerged as the premiere destination for big-time boxing," said Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports. "We have the biggest stars in the sport fighting their most challenging, and often career-defining, fights. It's no surprise that our subscribers have responded. We are thrilled with the gains we have achieved thus far, but we are not finished yet. It all starts with the commitment from the fighters–and their promoters–to challenge themselves against top contenders. As such, the drama has never been greater, the stakes never higher."
Saturday's live event replays tonight, Wednesday, on SHOWTIME EXTREME at 11 p.m. ET/PT and is available at SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and on mobile devices at SHOWTIME ANYTIME®.
As previously announced, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING and promotional partner Golden Boy Promotions have scheduled major events on back-to-back Saturdays in December that include a combined six world championship fights to close out the year.
The first of the blockbuster events is Saturday, Dec. 7 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and will feature former five-time, two-division World Champion Zab "Super" Judah (42-8, 29 KO's) taking on former two-time, two-division World Champion Paulie "Magic Man" Malignaggi (32-5, 7 KO's) in the 12-round main event, plus three world championship fights on the SHOWTIME televised undercard.
Then, on Saturday, Dec. 14, there are three world title bouts scheduled on a four-fight SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, topped by an eagerly awaited matchup between undefeated WBA Welterweight World Champion Adrien "The Problem" Broner and the dangerous, hard-hitting Marcos "El Chino" Maidana.


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The battery position, and hence the position of the plug/socket is not very accessible, and it's nice to have the easy option of a switch in a convenient position.
All I can find is rocker switches, or similar, that are basically mains ones and don't look up to carrying the current.


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AAVSO Bulletin 76 - Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of Long Period Variables for 2013 - is published in the new format that was introduced in 2011. The information that was included in earlier numbers of the Bulletin is included in this new format, along with more information. The Bulletin does not include stars that do not have an AAVSO mean curve. Please read all of the materials provided [1] to familiarize yourself with the new, customizable format of the Bulletin and all the ways you can use it in your variable star observing and research. If you have questions, please contact AAVSO Headquarters [2].
The AAVSO Bulletin is essential in planning your observing schedule each month. It contains predicted dates of maxima and minima of long period variables, and shows when a variable will be rising to maximum, fading from maximum, brighter than magnitude 11.0, and fainter than magnitude 13.5. The period covered is January 2013 through February 2014. You can access the Bulletin in the following ways:
Fixed format:
Customizable options:
Using the Bulletin Generator [3], you can customize the Bulletin to suit your observing/research needs. You can select:
On the line for a given star, you can click on the link to the AAVSO Light Curve Generator [4] to see the star's recent behavior, to the International Variable Star Index (VSX) [5] to see astronomical information on the star, or to the table of AAVSO observed maxima and minima [6] for the star. The N field (number of observations during calendar year 2012) tells you if a star is well covered or needs more observations.
The first step in planning your monthly observing schedule is to determine which part of the sky you will be able to see (see Table I below). Second, choose how you will look at the Bulletin according to the options above. Check the Bulletin file you have created or downloaded to find out which observable long period variable stars will be at the appropriate brightness for your equipment.
As an example, choose the schematic file (.pdf) of the entire sky for the entire 14 months the Bulletin covers. Table I below indicates that in the month of January, from 2 hours after sunset until midnight, stars between 1 hour and 9 hours of right ascension are observable. Look at the first page or two of the Bulletin .pdf to see a sample of the possibilities.
The word 'rising' means that the star is brightening towards maximum; 'fading' means it is fading from maximum. The number gives the approximate date on which the star should be at maximum or minimum.
If you have a 2.5-inch telescope which has a limiting magnitude of 10 to 11, the white boxes under January show that W CET, S SCL, S CET, T SCL, and several other stars will be brighter than magnitude 11.0 during this month and so they would be good candidates for observing with a small telescope.
With the same telescope, under January, the dark gray boxes show that S TUC, Y CEP, V AND, RR AND, and several other stars will be fainter than magnitude 13.5, and will be below the limit of a small telescope.
If you have a large-aperture telescope (6-inch or more) or a charge-coupled device (CCD), please observe faint magnitude stars, and in particular faint minima, since observers with smaller-aperture equipment can adequately cover the brighter stars.
A well-scheduled program making use of the AAVSO Bulletin will increase the value of your astronomical contribution, as well as heighten the efficiency and enjoyment of your observing.
Approximate Observing Windows Centered on the 15th of the Month from 2 Hours after Sunset to Midnight
[1] http://www.aavso.org/aavso-bulletin-76-2013
[2] http://www.aavso.org/contact
[3] http://www.aavso.org/aavso-bulletin-generator
[4] http://www.aavso.org/lcg
[5] http://www.aavso.org/vsx
[6] http://www.aavso.org/maxmin-access
[7] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/semiregular
[8] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/observing-aid
[9] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/observing
[10] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/mira
[11] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/minima
[12] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/maxima
[13] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/lpv
[14] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/aavso-bulletin


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Windows flaw ripe for worm, expert says
An RPC vulnerability found in most versions of Windows could leave many systems susceptible to a potential worm, security experts warn.
The critical RPC flaw in Windows, in theory, shouldn't be a major issue, but it likely will be, experts say.
It would be difficult to overestimate the potential dangers of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) vulnerability. First, it's found in most versions of Windows, including the new Windows Server 2003. Second, when exploited, the flaw could allow attackers to gain control of systems. Finally, a common misconfiguration could leave many systems susceptible without users being aware of it.
Users of susceptible systems can protect themselves by applying the patch from Microsoft or by blocking the TCP port -- port 135 -- used by RPC. But history has shown that system owners are usually not as quick or thorough in the cases of such vulnerabilities as the attackers who seek to exploit them.
The potential severity involved has prompted the Polish research group that found the vulnerability to withhold the exploit code its members created. The Last Stage of Delirium (LSD) group normally releases such code to help users combat vulnerabilities.
"We are definitely aware of the enormous impact of this vulnerability," LSD said during an e-mail interview with SearchSecurity.com. The flaw lies in both server and desktop systems, which means that millions of systems could be vulnerable, the group said.
"In our opinion, the impact of this vulnerability cannot be compared to any other previous remote attack against the Windows operating system," the group said. "We believe that no remote vulnerability in history affected so many systems in practice."
The vulnerability is not in RPC, which is a commonly used protocol for allowing heterogeneous systems to communicate with one another. It lies in how RPC is implemented in Windows. The flaw is found in Windows NT, XP, 2000 and Windows Server 2003. When exploited, a buffer overflow is created that could allow remote attackers to run commands with the highest system privileges.
Companies who block the RPC port from the outside world with their firewalls aren't vulnerable to attack. However, many organizations probably have TCP port 135 open because it's activated by default on many Windows machines. Virtually no company needs that port open to the outside world, experts said.
If the port is open to the Internet, remote attackers can exploit it by sending a specially crafted RPC request. LSD said it has two proof-of-concept exploit codes that work. Interestingly, the group said it got the code to work on the new Windows Server 2003, even though it "was more difficult due to [the new] buffer overflow prevention mechanism," the group said.
The nature of the flaw makes it ripe for being exploited by a worm, said Tim Mullen, chief information officer and chief software architect for AnchorIS.com, a developer of accounting software. "A worm will exploit this vulnerability," he said.
The impact of a worm will perhaps serve as the only way to ascertain the scope of the vulnerability. One can compare the situation to last January's SQL Slammer worm. Slammer, which exploited a flaw in Microsoft's SQL Server, hit a lot of shops that didn't realize they had UDP port 1434 open externally, said Dan Ingevaldson, engineering director for Internet Security Systems' X-Force.
One stumbling block for any would-be worm writers would be the unavailability of exploit code for the flaw. Exploiting the vulnerability is not trivial, LSD said. It requires significant experience working with the internals of Windows operating systems. The group had to develop some unique exploitation techniques.
"However, we do think that there exist several groups or individuals capable of doing it, so exploit codes from various sources may be expected in the wild soon," the group said.
Some may interpret LSD's reluctance to release exploit code as a sign that the group doesn't actually have it. But Mullen doesn't buy that logic. "There is no question in my mind they have working code on this," he said.
In fact, Mullen questions whether LSD's not releasing the exploit code would make much difference. "Enough information has been released about the vulnerability that the people who are capable of writing the exploit code could now do it," he said.
SearchSecurity.com news exclusive: "Microsoft patches critical RPC vulnerability in Windows"
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Thursday, repeating indefinitely
All children need physical exploration and interaction. It's fundamental to their mental, social, emotional and physical development. These classes are super fun and interactive sessions that give little ones the space to explore what their bodies can do.
These sessions run term time only so please contact me to book and ensure it is on that week.


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Indulge in Toronto's most drool-worthy desserts on this sweet adventure.
The perfect activity to treat mom for Mother's Day!
In a food-obsessed city like Toronto, there's no shortage of places to indulge your taste buds for scrumptious desserts.
On our "Downtown Desserts & Culture Tour", you will stroll through the heart of Kensington Market, Old Chinatown and the trendy Queen West neighbourhood, to visit a selection of restaurants to specialty bakeries and boutiques shops that are making the sweet stuff centre stage.
You'll have the opportunity to enjoy tastings such as artisan chocolates, Belgian waffles, Asian-
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|Near Baldwin & Spadina (exact location given when registered).
|Up to 12 guests for public tours. Please contact us directly for inquiries regrading private tours with larger groups.
|Local food and drink, history, culture, and graffiti.
|Physical Demands:
|Some moderate walking at a leisurely pace.
|Weather Impact:
|Tour takes place rain or shine (tour will be adjusted to the weather).
|6 generous tastings are done including from specialty food shops, bakeries, eateries, and sit-down restaurants.
|Dietary Substitutions:
|Tastings can be made for vegetarians. Unfortunately at this time no substitutions can be offered for any other food allergies or restrictions such as gluten-free or dairy-free. We apologize for the inconvenience. For further details, please consult our FAQ.
FAQ about Downtown Desserts & Culture Tour
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You must purchase your tickets in advance. To maximize your chances of getting the tour date and number of tickets you prefer, please book well in advance.
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Once you book a tour or event online through our registration system, you will automatically receive a confirmation of your reservation by email. It will contain all the information needed in advance of the tour or event.
What methods of payment do you accept?
We accept all major credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Amex.
Is it secure to enter my credit card number?
Savour Toronto uses a secure payment processing system for all transactions. Our system is PCI-certified meaning all data is encrypted and verified during the entire registration process and no credit card information is stored by Savour Toronto.
Is there a booking fee?
There is no booking fee.
Do you have gift certificates?
To purchase a Gift Certificate, please email us or call us at 1-855-472-8687 (1-855-4-SAVOUR). Please let us know if you would like a personalized message included in your Gift Certificate.
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What is the average group size for your tours and events?
Most tours have an average of 8-12 people. Some of our food tours can operate with as few as 2 people. This allows us to make the experience more personal and enjoyable for everyone. During peak periods such as dates surrounding the holidays (Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Easter, etc.) most of tours can accommodate up to 16 people.
Please review the tour details for more information.
How do I know what a specific Savour Toronto tour or event is like?
On the "Our Tours" section, there is a summary of each available tour or event. To know more details about a particular tour or event, click the "more info" button to view the full details.
How much food is served on your food tours?
Most tours have between 5–6 tastings. A tasting is a generous sample showcasing the very best establishments in the neighbourhoods we visit and within their categories. Many of our tastings are comparable in size to regular items listed on the menu of the restaurants, eateries, and food shops we visit. Each tasting has been carefully selected based on it's culinary merit and paid for by the staff at Savour Toronto. We are proud to support Toronto's vibrant food scene!
Do you offer food substitutions? Are you able to accommodate dietary requests?
When booking your reservation, please select the available substitution offering for the tour (e.g. vegetarian, non-alcoholic, etc.). If you do not see your particular dietary request from the list, this means that we cannot fully guarantee that substitutions can be provided for the entire tour. It may mean that some tastings will meet your dietary request but others may not.
We have curated each tour to highlight signature and unique foods from each establishment and try to accommodate as many dietary requests as possible. Unfortunately not all our partners can always meet the special dietary needs of each of our attendees (e.g., finding a dairy-free option in a cheese shop or a sugar-free option at a bakery). Please make special note that unfortunately at this time, we cannot provide any exclusive gluten-free or nut-free substitutions for an entire tour at this time. We truly appreciate your understanding in this matter.
For any questions about dietary needs, please Contact Us in advance to booking.
Does the tour leader accept gratuities? Are they included in the ticket price?
Gratuities are not included in the ticket price. Gratuities, while not mandatory, are graciously accepted by our tour guides. The standard gratuity in the service industry in Toronto is 15%-20%.
What happens if it rains or snows?
Our tours and events are held rain, shine, or snow. We advise you to check the weather conditions for your scheduled date and dress appropriately. In the rare case of serve weather in which a tour or event needs to be cancelled, you will be notified in advance and a full refund will be issued.
Do your tours and events run all season long?
Absolutely! We tailor all of our tours and events to the season and have specialized itineraries for the fall, winter, spring and summer. We fully embrace the season and feature tastings and activities best suited for the occasion.
What if I arrive late and miss part of the tour?
Please let us know if you're arriving late by contacting us as soon as possible and we'll advise you on where you can meet with the group. We don't provide refunds for any food tastings or activities that you've missed.
What is your cancellation policy?
The following is our cancellation policy surrounding our tours and events:
- No refunds for cancellations
- Rebookings prior to 7 business days before the tour or event will be granted
- No-shows are not permitted and result in the forfeit of the full amount of the ticket at the start of the tour or event
- In the rare circumstance that a tour or event is cancelled due to an extreme weather advisory or other factor, a full refund will be provided
Are children allowed on a tour?
Children six and up must purchase a ticket when accompanying an adult on a tour. Unfortunately, we cannot permit strollers because of spacing constraints.
Are pets allowed on a tour?
As much as we love pets and think they would be a lot of fun to have on a tour, we regret to say they're not permitted in the restaurants and food establishments that we'll be visiting.
Is there parking near the tour meeting point?
Yes, there is parking located near the meeting point. Specific parking details are included in the meeting location directions provided after purchasing ticket(s).
Are cameras allowed on the tour?
Absolutely! Cameras are allowed during the tour. We strongly encourage you to take photos. Feel free to post them to our Facebook or Twitter page!
Are tours and events only offered in English?
We only offer our tours and events in English at this time. As we continue to expand in the future, we hope to be able to offer our services in other languages.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any additional questions and we will be glad to answer them for you!


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Homes for Sale near Lord Roberts Elementary School, Vancouver
Lord Roberts Elementary School, Vancouver, BC V6G 2K4
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There are 220 homes for sale near Lord Roberts Elementary School in Vancouver. You can filter homes by distance, price range, beds/baths, and property type.
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Missing today's installment of the book nerdy Fine Lines? Well, our writer is on vacation — so perhaps you can get your YA fix from this handy Radar quiz on teen novels. But! The Telegraph has a quiz to help you determine which character in Sense and Sensibility you are most like. Are you an Elinor ("Sense"), someone infinitely prudent and sort of repressed? Or are you a Marianne ("Sensibility") — histrionic to the point where a broken love affair causes you to end up near death? You could even be a Mrs. Jennings, the town gossip and a vulgarian at heart. Personally, when I read Sense in a college Austen course, I wanted to slap Marianne around. Bitch is whiny as hell! Then I took the quiz and discovered that I'm equal parts Marianne and Elinor. Does that mean I hate myself, or that my response to romantic rejection is weeping and occasionally hospitalization? As for the other Jezzies, Anna was also equally Elinor and Marianne, while Dodai and Slut Machine were Mrs. Jennings all the way.
Let us know in the comments how you stack up. Of all Austen's heroines, I'd personally like to think of myself as an Elizabeth Bennet, though at the end of the day I'm probably more of an Emma — a little spoiled and frivolous but kind of clever and ultimately well meaning.
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Located in downtown Wooster, our Bed and Breakfast is an 1897 historic landmark. The three-story Victorian features original woodwork, hardwood and parquet floors, spectacular period stained-glass windows, and restored embossed ceilings. The Inn has 5-guest rooms all with private baths and sumptuous linens and bedding.
Enjoy the peaceful sitting room on the first floor, browse the library, relax on our porch (weather permitting!), or retire to your private well-appointed room. A hospitality room is located on the second floor with access to a Keurig, glass and barware, as well as a refrigerator stocked with bottled water. A full gourmet breakfast is served daily, featuring fresh baked scones, fruit and/or homemade granola, and an entrée of the day. Coffee and tea is served in our hospitality room an hour before breakfast.
The Inn is walking distance to The College of Wooster and great downtown restaurants such as Oak Grove Eatery, City Square Steakhouse, Broken Rocks Café & Bakery, and the Olde Jaol Brewing Co. If Amish Country is your passion, the Inn is just a 20 minute drive from the Nation's largest Amish community.
The Inn is a vintage home built in a prosperous residential neighborhood in 1897 by Walter D. Foss, a longtime president of the Wooster Brush Company and a leading business man. The serpent at the peak of the house was a gift from China, where Mr. Foss purchased hog hair for his company's brushes. In 1932, Mr. Foss gifted the home to Zion Lutheran Church to be used as an annex. Earl and Marie Shaffter purchased the home in 1942 and used it as their residence and Mrs. Shaffter's law office. Douglas and Jamie Klingelhoefer purchased the house in 1995 and completed its painstaking period restoration and opened the Bed and Breakfast.


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The efficiency of a Dishwasher is measured as the number of washing cycles per Kilowatt-hour of electricity. Approximately 80% of the total energy used by a dishwasher goes to heat water. To improve efficiency much effort has been focused in reducing the amount of water used. The layout and number of spray arms is designed to ensure that every dish comes out sparkling clean.
Typically dishwashers are placed in the kitchen. Therefore noise and vibration requirements are stringent. This is reflected in the newer machines which have an improved noise level, in many cases below 45 dB.
The bearings need to conform to the technical requirements of:
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- Long service life
- Low noise and vibration
Different designs
Some dishwasher designs include a unique water pump, driven by a single-phase induction motor, performing both the duties of washing and draining. In other cases two different pumps can be found, one dedicated to the washing cycle and the other to draining.
SKF can offer a variety of products to support both options.
Bushings for draining pumps
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A single phase induction motor often drives the washing pumps
Rubber axial seal for water pump
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At the water's edge, old stone meets modern glass
I was coming up from the riverwalk downtown on a recent morning, camera in hand, when I saw the vista of the winding Beaux Art staircase and the gleaming, modern, 321 N. Clark building, built in 1987, in the background. Architectural contrasts like this--and you can live here for years and not notice a particular one until one day---are what make Chicago so cool.
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Hoya Close-Up Macro Set (double coated) 49mm
Hoya Close-up Set Macro 49mm includes 3 filters of different magnifications for macro/close up photography.
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Nev. bill introduced to prevent theft of commercial crayfish traps
A bill was introduced in the Nevada Assembly Monday that would prohibit a person from stealing a lawfully placed trap used in the commercial harvest of crayfish or other of the state's aquatic denizens.
The bill, AB 452, is based on Louisiana's anti-poaching laws and beefs up the penalties for trap theft, Tahoe Lobster Co. Owner Fred Jackson said. Under the proposed law, crawfish crooks could face time in prison, according to Jackson.
Jackson, who launched the first commercial crayfish harvesting company in Lake Tahoe last year, first reported about 80 traps stolen in late 2012.
Just two weeks ago, another 10 traps disappeared, he said.
"I think (the bill is) a good thing. We're going to have a lot more people on the lake this summer and hopefully this will go through," Jackson said.
There was no upcoming hearing scheduled for AB 452 as of Tuesday.


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Press Controls--What's New?
Such flexibility and the efficiency it can bring—at a price point metalformers can meet—has been driving controls technology development in recent years.
Efficiency Through Increased Automation
"In these downsizing times, metalformers are looking for efficiency, and we are achieving that through automation of control systems," explains Mary Tice, vice president for press automation at Helm Instrument Co., Inc., Maumee, OH. "With PLC-based control packages, we can integrate all of the press-line components into one common operator interface."
The advent of PLCs has allowed for greatly simplified control-system expansion, with modules added wherever along the press line that data gathering is required. How simple has it become?
Installing junction boxes on equipment and running interconnect cables back to the control package can accomplish the task, made easier as wiring modules and cables are embedded into the control package, according to Tice.
That has eased control setup and integration, allowing controls manufacturers to develop technology that reaches further into the metalforming process. For example, notes Tice, Helm offers controls "that provide part-gauging SPC right at the machine. We call it on-demand SPC because users can set a time interval for gauging or just have it performed on demand. This allows metalformers to receive that information during the metalforming process instead of after a lot of bad parts are made. Should a part fall out of spec, a list of reasons why, preprogrammed into the system, are communicated, and management can be alerted via pager, e-mail or cell phone."
Cleaner, Simpler Connection
Advances in serial communication, which requires less wiring than parallel setups, has enabled quick controls installation and expandability.
"We've chosen to distribute control and monitoring devices along a high-speed serial bus," explains Tom Mascari, vice president of engineering for Link Electric & Safety Control, Nashville, TN. "Devices such
|This automatic-setups module can adjust shut height, counterbalance and as many as seven cushions.
As each device has its own intelligence capability, the control package can be expanded simply by adding devices to the bus as needed, and the devices themselves allow for further expansion. For example, "Link supplies digital die-protection units with eight or 16 inputs, and as many as five of these units can be added to the bus," says Mascari, detailinghow technology improvements have expanded control capability. "When fully populated with 16 input units, the system can monitor 80 digital die-protection inputs, and the control package can supply PLC-switch outputs from eight to 96 in groups of eight."
With the increase in controls capacity comes an equally impressive increase in capability. Mascari recounts a few that Link has implemented.
"The automatic-setups module can automatically adjust shut height, counterbalance and as many as seven cushions," he says. "The analog die-protection module can perform in-die measurements and drive servo motors to make in die adjustments."
In a nutshell, control manufacturers have in recent years developed smarts into their packages. One such illustration comes from Link. Should conditions indicate presence of a bad or missing part in one station of a transfer or progressive die, the bad or missing part can be tracked as it progresses through the die. This allows for methods to adapt to a missing part—for example, ignoring sensors in missing-part locations—or ejection of a bad part at a later station in the die.
Work on Any-Sized Press, New or Used
Controls-technology improvements, besides improving flexibility and expandability in press lines, have enabled simplified implementation on presses and lines of varying sizes. The ability to provide a flexible controls solution across new or used, and small, medium and large presses was the driver for Toledo Integrated Systems, Holland, OH, in introducing its Press Pilot 150 press clutch-brake control.
"End users as well as OEMs and rebuilders have numerous applications and requirements for new machines as well as the need to retrofit outdated controls and provide communication with a variety of design platforms," explains Dan Falcone, sales and marketing manager for Toledo Integrated Systems. "So we developed the Press Pilot 150 to be configured for use
The ability to provide a flexible controls solution across new or used; and small, medium and large presses has driven controls development.
Another new feature, an adjustable clutch-engagement time, accounts for the fact that "some presses kick in slow while others engage very quickly," says Falcone, "so it is important to have this flexibility."
Simple applications for this control includes replacing outdated clutch brake controls in single-stroke hand-fed presses, while more demanding applications include interfacing with input (die protection) and output (programmable limit switch) devices as well as continuous on-demand or auto-single-stroke modes of operation. Custom or hybrid applications would include interfacing the press control with a PLC system, ideal for transfer presses, press lines, tandem lines and blanking operations that feature demanding tooling and automation.
Do More with Data
Of course, with press controls, acquiring the data is only half the battle. What can you do with it? That is where Wintriss Controls Group of Honeywell, Acton, MA, has been focusing. Here's a glimpse into the reporting capabilities now available for press controls, which speaks to the advancements made in data projection.
Wintriss developed reporting to take advantage of its SmartPAC 2 press controllers, which provide timing signals to the presses and ancillary equipment as well as monitor tonnage and die-protection and in-die-measurement sensors. Each controller has a built-in Ethernet port for simple networking.
The company has developed and expanded LETS (Line Efficiency Track Software), which collects production information directly from the SmartPACs and sends it over the existing inhouse Ethernet to the LETS database. The information then is available in report form, or can be accessed using Factory Viewer, a built-in browser-based real-time interface. LETS also can collect from non-Wintriss-equipped equipment.
A LETS datalogger collects data from each control and places it into the database, courtesy of FactoryTalk Transaction Manager, an industry-standard data logger/transaction manager from Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee, WI, that can communicate from various standard and proprietary controls. The database stores production information and feeds the LETS Analyzer, the Report Server, and the Factory Viewer.
The analyzer allows report configuration by date range, shift, machine, tool/part and/or operator. For example, users can specify a report showing production data for four presses producing 10 specific parts, and being run by five selected operators on third shift. Once configured, settings can be saved as a new report. Since it runs on a server, several users can configure reports simultaneously. Reports can be sent to a printer, sent via e-mail to any recipients that you chose, or posted on a network that can be viewed in a web browser by anyone with appropriate access.
The LETS Factory Viewer allows users to glance the status of the entire factory via web browsers. An overview screen shows the status of each machine as well as the parts count, current tool, and estimated time until job completion. Clicking on the machine name accesses detailed job and downtime information. The viewer also lists tools and their status. MF
See also: Wintriss Controls Group LLC, Link Systems, Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Brand, Toledo Integrated Systems, Helm Instrument Co., Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation, Sensing/Electronics
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Kudos & Kindness: Thanks for making cash mob a success
At noon Monday afternoon, 25 community members lined up to "Join the Mob" at Overland Meat & Seafood Co. Owner Brian Cohen agreed to play host for first retail Ca$h Mob in South Lake Tahoe. Brain offered up all five of his weekday specials for the event and was able to bring in an additional $500 in revenue from mobbers. Word of the Ca$h Mob spread throughout the region and was picked up by Fox40 news station in Sacramento. Ca$h Mobs are a growing trend to promote local business and the TahoeChamber thanks Overland Meat & Seafood Co. as well as all the mobbers who came out to support the cause! Emily AbernathyTahoeChamber


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Police in Westchester and Secret Service were investigating a report of a "potentially suspicious person and vehicle" near where President Obama visited Friday for a set of fundraising events, authorities say.
An official with the Secret Service told NBC News the agency was working with local police to determine the validity of the report.
The official did not elaborate on why the person and vehicle were considered suspicious.
Connecticut State Police were also told by Secret Service to be on the lookout for the suspicious person as Obama prepared to head to another fundraiser in Rhode Island later in the evening, a police spokesperson said.
Obama landed in Air Force One at Westchester County Airport shortly before 2 p.m. Friday, and the presidential motorcade headed toward Sound Shore for the first fundraising site. The president then headed to Purchase later in the afternoon to attend a DNC Labor Day barbecue.
Area streets were closed off as the president made his way through the area. He left the area at 5:30 p.m. for another fundraiser in Rhode Island.