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Washington, DC… The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the grant making arm of the National Archives, has signed a cooperative agreement with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, affiliated with the University of Virginia, to provide pre-publication access to 68,000 historical papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington that have not yet been published in authoritative documentary editions. The cooperative agreement provides up to $2.5 million for the project.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and its Documents Compass program are carrying out this three-year project. Documents Compass, a program specializing in documentary editing in the electronic age, will update and improve existing transcriptions of the papers of the Founders of the Nation and make them available online through a new website. This work builds on its successful 2009 pilot project, funded through an NHPRC grant, which put online 5,000 unpublished documents from the Papers of James Madison and the Papers of John Adams.
This project expedites availability of the unpublished papers, giving scholars and the general public access to these primary source materials before they appear in the official print editions produced by six separate documentary editing projects. As new authoritative volumes are published in future, the final transcriptions with explanatory notes will replace the pre-publication transcriptions. "This is a remarkable opportunity to make available to the public these very important historical documents in a timely and easily accessible manner," says Rob Vaughan, president of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Providing access to the unpublished transcriptions is the second stage of the Founders Online Initiative undertaken by NHPRC in 2010. The first stage, currently underway, is being carried out by the University of Virginia Press to provide free online access to over 120,000 historical documents included in the published documentary editions for these key figures of the U.S. founding era. Users will be able to access both the published, annotated documents and the unpublished transcriptions through the Founders Online website.
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, notes, "These documentary editions provide a treasure trove of information about the founding of our nation. The historical documents contain fascinating details about the thoughts, deeds, and lives of these seminal figures. This agreement ensures that we leverage the latest technology and processes to ensure that all Americans can access and use these papers."

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Updated at 4:16 a.m. ET: LOS ANGELES -- An agreement was reached Tuesday night to end the crippling strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The announcement came just hours after federal mediators arrived at the port of Los Angeles, called on by Villaraigosa to help resolve a strike that has idled most of the docks at the ports for more than a week.
The eight-day labor clash cost Southern California an estimated $8 billion, including lost wages and the value of cargo rerouted to other ports over the past week, according to Reuters.
Los Angeles and Long Beach together account for nearly 40 percent of all U.S. container imports.
George Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and Scot Beckencaugh, deputy director for mediation services, arrived Tuesday night to begin talks between shipping and union officials, the mayor's office announced.
It was unclear whether a vote had been planned prior to their arrival or what role they played in the developments late Tuesday.
The mayor flew back from a trip abroad to help bring an end to the work stoppage, staged by clerical workers who use computers to help track the progress of shipments into and out of the nation's busiest port complex.
Villaraigosa, a onetime labor activist who had been in Latin America pitching Southern California's port operations to manufacturers, shippers and retailers there, arrived at the harbor at about 11 p.m. Monday, joining the negotiations in the hope of brokering a deal.
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Tuesday morning, he said, he called to request help from a federal mediator. The mayor said he also discussed the matter with California's two Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and that he has placed a call to the White House.
Despite claims by both sides that they had made significant concessions in the talks so far, Villaraigosa said at a news conference that neither had moved on issues of top concern to the other.
In particular, he said, the union, which is worried about outsourcing jobs, might need to compromise on other issues to get movement on its top priority.
As the talks dragged on, the clerical workers continued to walk picket lines.
Each side blamed the other for the slow pace of negotiations.
Both sides have agreed to accept federal mediation to try to end the labor action at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
John Fageaux, spokesman for Local 63 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said his organization had backed down on a demand that the companies re-hire 51 positions that the union said had been outsourced, but received no productive response from the employers.
But Stephen Berry, an attorney representing the shipping companies, said those jobs had never been outsourced in the first place. Instead, he said, they represented positions that had been held by clerical workers who were not replaced after they retired.
For his part, Berry said that the shipping companies had agreed to one of the union's key demands, saying that they would hire certain temporary workers from the union's hiring hall, rather than going to outside contractors.
But he said that the union was not satisfied with that offer. He said the union failed to recognize that the economy had still not recovered from the boom years.
The stoppage at 10 of the port's 14 terminals will not affect holiday shipments, experts said, because the toys, books, electronics and clothes aimed at the gift market arrived months ago.
But Villaraigosa said it affects about 20,000 truck drivers, retailers and others who are awaiting shipments for upcoming seasons.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together handled more than $400 billion in goods arriving or leaving the West Coast by ship last year, according to Reuters. Experts say the ports directly or indirectly support 1.2 million Southern California jobs - workers involved in moving freight to or from the shipping complex.
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Cory Jefferson had 16 points and the sixth-seeded Baylor Bears cruised past the 11th-seeded Nebraska Cornhuskers, 74-60, in a battle between former Big 12 foes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Isaiah Austin added 13 points and seven rebounds for the Bears (25-11), who missed the tournament last season after reaching the Elite Eight in 2012. Brady Heslip and Rico Gathers tallied 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Baylor, which went 38-for-48 from the foul line, will play either 14th-seeded Louisiana or third-seeded Creighton in the third round on Sunday.
Terran Petteway ended with 18 points but went 0-for-7 from beyond the arc for the Cornhuskers (19-13), who fell to 0-7 in NCAA Tournament action. Shavon Shields and Ray Gallegos had 16 and 15 points, respectively.
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1906 On their way to the American League pennant, the Chicago White Sox beat the Washington Senators 4-1 for their 19th consecutive victory.
1907 Pittsburgh's Howie Camnitz pitched a five-inning, no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader at New York. The Pirates beat the Giants 1-0.
1931 Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics was beaten 1-0 by Dick Coffman of the St. Louis Browns, snapping a personal 16-game winning streak. A misjudged fly ball by outfielder Jim Moore led to the winning run.
1936 In his first major-league start, 17-year-old Bob Feller struck out 15 Browns as the Cleveland Indians beat St. Louis 4-1. Feller gave up six hits and allowed four walks.
1952 During a game against the Cardinals at the Polo Grounds, the Giants' Bob Elliott complained and kicked dirt arguing over a called strike. Umpire Augie Donatelli ejected him from the game. Bobby Hoffman finished the at-bat by being called out on strikes and was also ejected by Donatelli for arguing the call.
1982 Seattle pitcher Gaylord Perry was ejected in the seventh inning for allegedly throwing a spitball against the Boston Red Sox. It was the first ejection for Perry, who was subsequently suspended for 10 days.
1989 Rick Dempsey's leadoff home run in the 22nd inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 victory against the Montreal Expos in the second-longest shutout in major league history.
1992 There were no hits in Clearwater's 1-0 victory over Winter Haven in the Class A Florida State League. In what appeared to be the first professional game in 40 years without a hit, Andy Carter and the Clearwater Phillies beat Scott Bakkum and the Winter Haven Red Sox. The only run scored in the seventh inning on a pair of walks and a pair of sacrifice bunts.
1998 Barry Bonds became the first player in major league history to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases when he homered off Florida's Kirt Ojala in the second inning of San Francisco's game at Florida. Bonds, who hit his 26th home run of the season, had 438 steals.
2001 Randy Johnson struck out 16 in seven innings to become the first pitcher to strike out 300 in four consecutive seasons, only to see his eight-game winning streak end as Kevin Young's two-run home run led the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 victory over Arizona.
2006 The Kansas City Royals became the second team in major league history to have a 10-run first inning and not win the game. At Kauffman Stadium, the home team took a 10-1 lead, but were defeated by the Indians in 10 innings, 15-13. On June 8, 1989, Pittsburgh scored 10 runs in the top half of the first against Philadelphia and lost 15-11.
2009 Eric Bruntlett turned an unassisted triple play to finish Philadelphia's wild 9-7 victory over the New York Mets.
2011 Craig Kimbrel tied a major league rookie record with his 40th save, Jason Heyward hit his first career grand slam and Atlanta hung on to win its sixth straight, beating Chicago. Kimbrel worked the ninth for his 40th save in 45 opportunities, tying a mark set by Texas' Neftali Feliz last season.
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After her mother's death when she was eleven, Coco Chanel's father dropped she and her two sisters off at the orphanage at the abbey at Aubazine in Corrèze, France. Chanel spent six years at the orphanage where leading a simple life where the future designer learned to sew. Much of Coco Chanel's design lexicon is rooted in her time at the orphanage at Aubazine. From the double-C perhaps inspired by the design on the glass windows, the patterns she saw in the stone floors, the monastic color palette of black and white and the importance Chanel placed on fragrance, much of what we love about Coco Chanel's brand and designs harken back to her sad days at Aubazine.
Since Coco Chanel spent many formative years there I thought it would be great to highlight it in a Flash Back Friday post and I hope one day to visit Aubazine Abbey myself. For a more in-depth look at the influence of Aubazine on Coco Chanel read Justin Picardie's Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life.


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"The point is that no one knows whether this neo-liberal Utopianism will work. But its advocates will need to explain it more clearly before individual or corporate investors can be expected to sign up with hard cash."
That's Martin Bright, blog for The Spectator about yesterday's long-awaited launch of Big Society Capital, a wholesale finance institution 'established to develop and shape a sustainable social investment market in the UK'.
Bright's actually quite keen on the idea of Big Society Capital, and social investment in general but he also raises the point that: "Big Society Capital will not save charities now facing closure because of the withdrawal of local or central government grants. This is about creating a whole new culture of social investment that should probably not be called charity at all. Those encouraged to invest under the new models developed by Big Society Capital will be expecting a return. This is not philanthropy."
The fact that Big Society Capital is not just dishing out some money to worthy causes is hardly big news to the social enterprise movement but, in these moment when social enterprise (and socially enterprising charitable activity) briefly gets a burst of coverage in the mainstream media – such as this really good piece featuring HCT Group on yesterday's BBC News – it's important to remember that doing business for both financial and social return is still quite a complicated idea for most people not directly involved in trying to do it.
My position on Big Society Capital and the 'social investment market' in general has always been a broadly hopeful scepticism. I completely agree with Patrick Shine of FranchisingWorks – speaking to the BBC yesterday – when he says that the big barrier to growth for social enterprise has been 'the absence of risk capital'. One reason for my scepticism about the social investment sector in the pre-Big Society Capital era is that this is precisely the kind of investment it has talked about conferences but failed to deliver in practice.
In a blog post yesterday, my fellow hopeful sceptic, Toby Blume, of Urban Forum, cut through some more of the (well-intentioned) bluster around the Big Society Capital project. He's definitely right to point out that the fact that Big Society Capital's money came from dormant accounts doesn't obsolve politicians from responsibility for using it wisely: "Perhaps spending £400m on building the market for social investment is a good idea. But we don't need to blithely accept that this is the only way this money could be used. It could have been used to support the thousands (hundreds of thousdands?) of charities and community groups that have seen their funding cut as a result of spending cuts… "
The big underlying question, though, is about the 'whole new culture' that Martin Bright anticipates. Those of us working in social enterprise all get the idea – that social enterprises (and socially enterprising charities) are businesses who, if investors are prepared to take the risk, will often be able to deliver both a reasonable financial return and a transformative social return. But to what extent is that idea a practical reality.
It's definitely true that, when social enterprises respond to questionnaires, one of the biggest 'problems' highlighted is always lack of finance. For example, 44% of respondents to last year's Fightback Britain social enterprise survey claim 'the availability and affordability of finance to be their greatest barrier'. The problem is it's impossible to say how many of those 44% are ticking that box as a proxy for 'we really, really, need some money' as opposed to 'our business could be much bigger, and deliver far more social impact, if only we could get a quasi-equity loan'.
The clearly are some social enterprises, HCT Group being one, for whom the latter statement is true but equally clear is that, right now, there are nowhere enough other similar social ventures for Big Society Capital to invest £600 million with a realistic hope of getting its money back. The gamble the government – and social enterprise leaders – are taking is that massive injection of cash will stimulate the creation and growth of significant numbers of relatively large social ventures that are able to generate a trading surplus.
At yesterday's launch, the prime minister, David Cameron, said: "Big Society Capital is going to encourage charities and social enterprises to prove their business models – and then replicate them. Once they've proved that success in one area they'll be able – just as a business can – to seek investment for expansion into the wider region and into the country. This is a self-sustaining, independent market that's going to help build the big society."
Whether or not Big Society Capital is ultimately self-sustaining depends, one way or another, on income streams to social ventures that are not. Some social ventures will benefit from investment, others would be better off without it, but there's no getting away from the need for revenue. The 'whole new culture' Martin Bright talks about will still involve social ventures being paid to what they do by some combination of public sector agencies, and people or organisations who use their services (or buy their goods). This is not a politically neutral space. The arguments around what is paid for, how and by whom will be heavily contested. And, for the foreseeable future, there will continue to plenty of vitally important charities (and some organisations calling themselves social enterprises) for whom the only logical business model will continue to be 'get some money through grants and donations', 'spend it'.
But this is a big moment. If UK social enterprise were a Samuel Beckett play, Godot would now have appeared on the stage. Big Society Capital's investments will (hopefully) help a good number of existing and new social ventures to get their products to a wider market, it's difficult to predict what might happen next.


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Diversity is a main component of a healthy urban forest. Different species are susceptible to different pests and different kinds of damage, so the more different kinds of trees are planted in a community, the less vulnerable the overall community forest will be to invasive species, climate change, or severe weather.
One of the major reasons that Dutch elm disease and emerald ash borer have been so devastating to communities is that many had planted nothing but elms or a very high proportion of ashes.
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Searchable tree database at the Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation.
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A 2009 graduate of Columbia University, Glynn earned a bachelor's degree in political science. She closed her career as the Lions' all-time leader in career points, career goals, points in a season, goals in a season, goals in a game, and assists in a game. Glynn was a two-time IWLCA All-Region selection and was the first player in program history to earn a spot on the first team. In addition, she was tabbed to the All-Ivy team in 2008 and 2009.


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If there was ever a dynamic duo in the performing singer-songwriter world, these two seasoned performers and musicians could most certainly fit the bill. The combination of Jill Manning's rough and ready, lovely and literate voice backed by the superb and sublime, intense and intentional guitar playing of Jaigh Lowder is a delight to hear, see and experience in any way possible. On Oct. 21, they released their first collaborative record, Next Time Around, a collection of 11 self-penned tunes, recorded by Lowder and performed as a duo. They were chosen from many, as one of the few artists featured as Official Showcase performers at FARM, the annual Midwest region gathering of the Folk Alliance International held in St. Louis in 2013. They characterize their performances as "fun and entertaining" and claim the "goal of the artist is to connect, inspire and entertain." Anyone who has experienced these two incredible, and very real musicians during a performance, know they certainly achieve those qualifications, often moving above and beyond, to flashes of transcendence and illumination.
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When Army Capt. Jon Powers entered the gates of the Baghdad orphanage in January 2004, the nun in charge pulled him aside. Insurgents had noted his soldiers' visits, she said, and they'd threatened to kill the children if the Americans didn't stop coming with donations of toys and clothing.
"Aside from losing my guys, it was my darkest day there," says Mr. Powers, now back in the US and discharged from the Army.
Giving up visits to that orphanage and another in Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood was surprisingly crushing. Through 14 dusty, exhausting months – including losing four men and a translator with his battalion during battles in Adhamiyah – Powers's touchstone had been those kids.
"Soldiers could take their gear off and remember what we were doing [in Iraq]," he says of the visits, one of which involved delivery of 5,000 pairs of shoes donated by Americans.
Cut off from the kids after that January day, Powers found himself anxiously awaiting July, when he could go home and leave it all behind. Little did he guess those orphans would stay with him – and help to change the direction of his life.
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He was back in Buffalo, N.Y., by mid-summer, the guest of honor at a welcome home party by the Harris Hill Men's Club, founded in part by his father. The former altar boy and Eagle Scout was home, but the war – which he calls "the defining experience of my life" – had left a deep imprint. It found expression as a drive that would eventually turn, Powers says now, "into something positive."
He went ahead and applied to graduate school at State University of New York in Buffalo. Before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he'd studied in college to be a social studies teacher, and now he planned to become a principal. Then, one day he got a call from a filmmaker who had lived with Powers's unit in Baghdad while making a documentary about them. The film was finished, and its maker invited Powers to attend screenings in more than 20 US cities and to speak to the audiences afterward.
Powers opted for the documentary – a decision that would prove to be transformational.
While on the tour, he talked with other veterans and found, to his surprise, common threads in their experiences.
"All this traveling around to talk about it helped me better understand my thoughts on the war.… I realized for the first time my story wasn't as personal as I thought it was," Powers recalls in an interview in New York. "I could be a voice for it."
The road trip included screenings on Capitol Hill. Powers and other soldiers on the film tour were surprised by questions from staffers for House members. The Beltway crowd seemed more interested in what the soldiers ate in Iraq than what light their war experiences could shed on US policy there. He says he came away disillusioned. After having "such a faith in Washington," he now felt policymakers were out of touch with what was happening in Iraq.
"Coming to terms with that took a long time," he says. "There was a long period of frustration [after] coming to D.C. and seeing how the discussion is."
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It was after a screening in New York City that Powers struck up a conversation with a member of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Joe Donahue. Mr. Donahue asked what Powers would do if he could go back to Iraq, and the answer came in an instant: "Without a doubt, help the kids."
Donahue says he seldom meets veterans who want to return to the war zone they just fought their way out of, especially to do humanitarian work. He himself had struggled to break into such work after leaving the Army and knew it could be daunting to find an outlet for good intentions.
"I didn't have a clue about it," Donahue recalled during a recent phone interview. "I was calling the United Nations switchboard." Enthusiastic about Powers's idea, Donahue pledged to try to get backing from the veterans foundation.
Says Powers: "When I finally had time to decompress at home is when I decided to go back" to Iraq to start War Kids Relief.
Powers returned to Iraq in August 2005, a little more than a year after he'd left, to run his new charity to help Iraqi orphans. With only a contract from Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation to help fund it, and his Army Reservist ID in hand, "I literally talked my way into the green zone," he says.
Over several weeks he met with high-ranking Iraqi ministers to drum up support for the project. He sent discreet delegations of Iraqis to meet with the directors of two orphanages in Adhamiyah. He outlined a bigger vision – a Baghdad network of work-study centers for the older kids – that has not yet obtained funding, though the Iraqi government now has the blueprint for setting up such a program. And War Kids Relief continues to advocate US engagement with Iraqi youths.
"He had a lot of passion for the project," says Donahue, who overlapped with Powers in Baghdad for a time while doing his own work on land mines. Though foreigners were not permitted to visit the kids, Powers "got goods flowing to those orphanages...," says Donahue. "He was very good at building sources of support he could rely on."
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Back home, the Harris Hill Men's Club held a fundraiser for War Kids Relief. NBC News picked up on the effort, giving it national publicity. The RAND Corp. and the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies in Washington asked Powers to write papers making the case that helping Iraqi orphans was not just a humanitarian cause but in America's strategic interest.
"If we don't find a way to positively engage these kids we'll be fighting them for centuries," Powers says. "It plays right into the extremists."
But he began to wonder if he couldn't do more by working on a larger scale. "What I realized through War Kids was, as much as I tried, I wasn't going to change policy," says Powers.
So in May 2006 he decided to run for a US House seat in his home district of Buffalo. Citing a conflict of interest, Powers this month is handing over control of the charity to Charles London, author of a book on child soldiers.
"This is all surreal," he says, shaking his head in a New York law office during a recent whirlwind fundraising tour. "I never thought I would run for Congress."
Now he campaigns to exhaustion, driven by the same force that prompted him to start War Kids – his time in Adhamiyah.
"This is an extension of my time there. War Kids is an extension of my time there," he says. "For me, it's been a real long process to get to the point I am today."


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The exception can be used to sign a player for up to $1,781,800 through the remainder of the season. It can be used to trade for a player in the final year of his contract, making up to $1,881,800. In either case, the player cannot be under contract as of July 1.
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On an afternoon where rain washed out the final four matches of the day, Alison Riske and Valeria Solovyeva beat the late day showers to pull off upsets and advance at least another day. Their wins took out two of the top three seeded players who played Sunday.
Riske returned to Osprey for the first time since she lost her first-round match as the top-seeded player in the main draw of the 2011 tournament to post a 6-2, 7-5 win over second-seeded Michelle Larcher De Brito.
Solovyeva, who lost in the first round in the main draw of last year's tournament, took out fourth-seeded Paula Ormaecheva 6-3, 6-4.
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The threatening skies were no trouble for Riske and Solovyeva in a qualifying draw that has lots of quality players.
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We Go To 12 is a consulting group that works with web 2.0 app developers on rapid prototyping, project management, and tech strategy development. Our name is based on a scene from Spinal Tap...so this could be quite a fun logo to work on. :)
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If you have ever seen the movie Spinal Tap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVWJgIzftE&NR=1) you will have a good idea for some inspiration. I'm looking for a logo that I can use on our web site. We do not have a color scheme for the company yet, so will be basing it on the winning logo.
We Go To 12 is a group of distributed nerds who work together when we can. We have done web application development, managed teams of developers around the world, and helped launch new startups and build an initial team. Basically, we like to bring a great attitude towards working with new people. That usually involves traveling to work directly with clients on intense week long sprint sessions...and a good amount of beer to keep our minds limber.
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I didn't actually discover lemon curd until a few years ago, and couldn't believe I'd gone my whole life without it. I'm not sure there's anything quite like its smooth, creamy texture, sweet tartness and just all around lemony goodness. The English were on to something when they invented lemon curd, and I'd like to give a hug to whoever introduced it to America. (same goes for Nutella...)
Until today, I'd only tasted store-bought lemon curd, but after making it myself, I'm not sure I'd ever go back to anything other than homemade! Spread it on toast, warm it up and drizzle it on pound cake, make a peanut butter and lemon curd sandwich (one of my niece's favorites), or have it on waffles, like we did this morning for Jamie's birthday breakfast.
Lemon Curd
- 6 egg yolks
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (about 2 large lemons or 4-5 small lemons)
- 2 tablespoons freshly grated lemon zest
- 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter (1 stick), cut into 8 pieces
First, you will need a saucepan and a heatproof metal mixing bowl that you can set up as a double boiler. There's no need to pay for an expensive double boiler since a saucepan and bowl works perfectly for just a fraction of the cost. The bowl should be able to rest on top of the saucepan without touching the water in the pan.
Fill saucepan with about 2 inches of water, bring to a boil, and reduce to medium low for a steady simmer.
In the mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks and sugar until smooth (1-2 minutes). (Save the egg whites for another use.) Whisk in the lemon juice and zest.
Place the bowl over the saucepan. Stirring constantly with a rubber spatula, cook the mixture for 7-10 minutes until thick enough to coat a spoon. (Note that it will not appear as thick and jellied as store-bought lemon curd, but will have the consistency of warm pudding. It will also thicken when it cools.)
Remove from heat, and add the slices of butter, one at a time, whisking well after each slice until butter disappears and lemon curd is perfectly smooth. Pour through a mesh strainer to strain out the zest, then pour into a glass jar and store in the fridge until ready to use.
This recipe makes about 2 cups. It will be at a spreadable consistency straight from the fridge, or you can gently rewarm it for a "pourable" consistency.
Lemon Blueberry Buttermilk Waffles
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Lemon juice and lemon zest of one large lemon (or 2 small lemons)
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, oil, lemon juice and lemon zest. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and stir just until combined. Fold in 1-1/2 cups of the blueberries, reserving the rest for garnish.
Let batter rest for about 15 minutes. Cook waffles according to your waffle iron's instructions, keeping waffles warm in a 200-degree oven until all the waffles are cooked.
Top with warm lemon curd, whipped cream and blueberries.


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SAN ANTONIO (AP) Tim Duncan had 24 points and 10 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs held off the Golden State Warriors 95-88 on Friday night to extend their home winning streak to 14 games.
Tony Parker added 25 points and eight assists for San Antonio (31-11), which is an NBA-best 18-2 at home. Tiago Splitter added 19 points and nine rebounds, and Danny Green scored 13.
David Lee had 22 points, Klay Thompson added 21 and Jarrett Jack 20 for Golden State (23-15).
The Spurs closed the game on a 9-4 run after Harrison Barnes' jumper pulled the Warriors to 86-84 with 5 minutes left.
Duncan had eight points in the final quarter, going 4 for 6 from the field. He also had 10 points and five rebounds in the opening period.


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Sony talks up PSP digital downloads
UMD's future at risk?
Sony has confirmed that downloadable games will become a much bigger feature on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) throughout the rest of 2009.
John Koller, Sony Computer Entertainment America's Director of Hardware Marketing, told Wired that "one of our big pushes this year is to be sure that the right kind of content and the right kind of games in particular are placed on the PlayStation Network [PSN] for download on the PSP".
"In the back half of this year," Koller added, PSP gamers will begin to see a "good rise in the amount of content that comes to PSN for the PSP."
Some gamers could interpret Koller's comments to mean that Sony's inked a timeline to phase out the PSP's UMD optical disc format, but it's worth noting that the executive didn't say anything that indicated such a move.
That's despite a senior gaming executive at games developer Acclaim hinting back in February that a redesigned PSP that doesn't use UMDs could be launched by Sony this autumn.
Koller seemed to be stuck between a rock and a hard place, though. He claimed that although retail sales – namely UMD – are still of "extreme significance", Sony is also "looking at" launching digital versions of the games released on UMD. ®
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The MIT men's track and field traveled to Springfield College over the weekend and displayed great depth en route to a convincing first-place finish out of eight squads at the Springfield Invitational. The Engineers posted an impressive total of 215 points, winning eight of 19 events, to more than double the total of second-place Tufts with 99 points.
Kenneth Cooper had another solid showing in the weight throw and the shot put, winning both events easily. Cooper reached the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the weight throw with a toss of 57-7.00 feet, nearly five feet better than teammate Chinedum Umachi (52-9.25 feet) in second. Cooper also reached the 50-foot mark in the shot put, with a 50-2.50 foot winning effort.
In the 3000, Daniel Harper and Roy Wedge had a thrilling race to the finish, with Harper (8:47.18) coming in just 0.35 seconds ahead of the runner-up Wedge. Patrick Marx won the 600 meters with an impressive time of 1:23.19 while Logan Trimble (2:32.18) pulled away from the field in the 1000. Kyle Hannon also picked up first-place points for the Cardinal and Gray in the mile with a time of 4:25.35.
Matthew Falk earned a win in the high jump, clearing 6-3.25 feet. Tech's other event win came from the 4x800 meter relay team of David Way, Logan Trimble, Gilbert O'Neil and Dawit Zewdie.
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Lisa Ling lost her baby in a miscarriage six months ago, an experience the journalist said made her feel like "a complete failure."
The former co-host of "The View" revealed news of the miscarriage while returning to the ABC daytime talk show for an episode set to air Friday, People mag reported.
During the appearance, Ling, 37, reportedly said she was just seven weeks pregnant when she learned her baby did not have a heartbeat.
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Monday Monitor
My training progress
last week's target: no target
achieved: 76k
year 2008 total to date: 1158k in 13 weeks
this week's target: 80k
weight: 62kg ▼
song of the week: "Army Corps of Architects", by Death Cab for Cutie, off "You Can Play These Songs With Chords".
"Leaving the central state from shallow ground
Home in the valley but the rent's paid south
You said the urn was half full when I said it was half empty
With what was left of our fair city
"Call in the army corps of architects
To flatten the skyline and begin again
I knew the years would move quickly,
But never quite as fast as this
So bring the discrepancies, I'll pour the drinks"
I will probably have a day off this Saturday, as the birthday party season is starting in earnest. Otherwise, easy longish running each day, about 12k, with a longer run of about 24k Tuesday or Wednesday.
And there's Parliament House Training tonight; Dickson Thursday; Women's & Girls' Fun Run Sunday as daylight saving ends; and the marathon looming.
Never underestimate how slow the other person might be.


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This article is part of the Mtbr's Enduro Compare-O. See all the stories in this special section here–https://reviews.mtbr.com/category/enduro-compare-o-2014
With the success Trek has had with their long-travel Remedy line—first in 26-inch form, then 29—it was inevitable there would be a 27.5-inch sequel. True to form, Trek has embraced the middle wheel size, quickly coming to market with full-carbon 27.5-inch models and jettisoning its 26-inch predecessors on both their 140mm-travel Remedy 9 series, as well as their 160mm-travel Slash platform.
Perhaps even more surprising than their speed to market, however, is who they're ahead of in the game—archrivals Specialized and Cannondale. And while Trek enters the 27.5 arena simultaneous with Giant, they've not quite made the same head-first commitment to the wheel size. How it will all shake out long-term is anyone's guess, but for the here-and-now, we've got a lot of exciting new product to play with, so let's take a look at the new Remedy 9.8.
OCLV Stands for Lean, Clean, Durable and Strong
The Remedy 9.8's frame is a clean-looking affair with traditional lines and a multitude of tubing shapes selected to maximize strength, rigidity and light weight. Underneath a beautiful, race-inspired paint job is Trek's tougher, off-road-tuned version of their proprietary carbon layup, OCLV Mountain. In addition to using the more durable material blend, Trek doubles-down to fight rock chips with a downtube under-shield called Carbon Armor.
For better or worse, Trek has integrated as many items as possible to keep the bike clean and its weight low. On that list—a cup-less integrated head tube, an integrated press-fit BB95 bottom bracket, integrated ISCG mounts, a direct front derailleur mount, and a direct-to-caliper post mount for the rear brake.
The bike's rear triangle is OCLV Mountain as well, and connects to the main frame and shock via Trek's magnesium EVO Link one-piece rocker arm. At the rocker/rear triangle pivot resides the Mino Link, a reversible chip that adjusts the Remedy's geometry from slack and stable, to steep and maneuverable with the turn of a nut.
Trek's Mino Link is an adjustment on the EVO Link that allows fine tuning of the head tube angle by a half-degree, and the bottom bracket height by up to 10mm. The low setting gives you a 67.5-degree head angle and 13.1-inch BB height, while the high setting results in a 68.2-degree head angle and 13.6-inch bottom bracket.
Buoyed by Full Flotation
Construction and geometry aside, the heart of Remedy's design success is its proprietary Full Floater suspension that colludes with a Trek-exclusive Dual Rate Control Valve (DRCV) Fox Float CTD shock to create a rear end that feels bottomless and supple across the entire range of travel. Filtering out braking forces from the suspension action is Trek's Active Braking Pivot (ABP) system that keeps the rear end plush even during heavy braking.
Burning Down the House Brand
An in-house logo on wheels, handlebars and other components used to mean a company went to Asia and slapped their label on some mediocre off-the-shelf product. For years now though, Trek's had the accelerator to the floor on their Bontrager accessory and component brand, using it as a platform to create some truly best-in-category product.
Perhaps their most notable advancements have come in tires, where Bontranger's collaboration with legendary motorsport designer Frank Stacy have paid huge dividends. Our Remedy came shod with the Stacy-designed high-volume XR3 Team Issue tubeless-ready 2.35-inch meats—tires we've ridden before and found extremely grippy, predictable and fast. Equally impressive are the company's Bontrager Rhythm Comp TLR wheels, which should be a great match for the XR3s. Rounding out the Bonty booty is the handlebar, saddle and stem—all newly redesigned, and looking a proper accompaniment to this all-mountain steed.
With every model year, Trek has continued to refine the tight, light and ready Remedy, and we can't wait to see how it does with the jump up to 27.5 in 2014.
2014 Trek Remedy 9.8 27.5 Key Specs
- Weight: 27.82 pounds (size medium)
- Wheel size: 27.5-inches
- Frame Material: Carbon
- Travel/Suspension: 140mm
- Drivetrain: Shimano XT 2×10
- Brakes: Shimano XT
- Seatpost: RockShox Reverb Stealth
- Wheelset/Tires: Bontrager Rhythm Comp tubeless ready
- Bar/Stem: Bontrager Race X Lite
- Head Tube Angle: 67.5/68.2 degrees
- Seat Tube Angle: 67.5/68.2 degrees actual
- Chainstay Length: 16.95 inches
- Bottom Bracket Height: 13.1/13.6 inches
- Bike MSRP: $6100 (XT Build)
For more information visit www.trekbikes.com.
This story is part of Mtbr's 2014 Enduro Compare-O. Check out our intro story here for all the ground rules and goings ons.