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An explicit bound on e for nonemptiness of e-cores of games
We consider parameterized collections of games without side payments and determine a bound on E so that all sufficiently large games in the collection have non-empty E-cores. Our result makes explicit the relationship between the required size of E for non-emptiness of the E-core, the parameters describing the collection of games, and the size of the total player set. Given the parameters describing the collection, the larger the game, the smaller the E that can be chosen
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An investigation to determine the rates of return on an investment in a diploma, made by a teacher employed by the Department of Indian Affairs.
dc.contributor.advisor | Strauss, S. | |
dc.creator | Vasar, Thanabalan. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-12T09:32:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-12T09:32:33Z | |
dc.date.created | 1980 | |
dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3623 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Durban-Westville, 1980. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The Investigation falls within the field of study known as "economics of education". According to Blaug(l) the subject of economics of education can be divided neatly into two sections: analysis of the economic value of education and analysis of the economic aspects of educational systems. As this Investigation is concerned with determining the productivity of a particular course of study, it may be classified more precisely as belonging to the branch of economics of education dealing with the value of education. Economics of education has been referred to as a new subject with an old history. Although certain aspects of economics of education have been discussed by economists as early as the seventeenth century, it only became established as a branch of economic studies a little more than two decades ago. Two factors are generally given as reasons for its rapid development since the mid 1950's. (2) The first is the increasing recognition that has been given to the concept "human capital". Economists are beginning to accept this form of capital as being as important a component of economic growth as physical capital. The second reason for the recent rapid development of economics of education is the increasing volume of resources that have been devoted to education. These large commitments have forced economists and educational authorities to explore various methods of ensuring efficient utilisation of resources. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Education--Economic aspects. | en_US |
dc.subject | Theses--Education. | en_US |
dc.subject | Teachers, Indian--Training of--South Africa. | en_US |
dc.title | An investigation to determine the rates of return on an investment in a diploma, made by a teacher employed by the Department of Indian Affairs. | en_US |
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'Hivzi Sylejmani' - Library (listed since 1967)
The building of the Prishtina City Library was built in 1930. Its claim to fame is Miladin Popovic, the former leader of Kosovo's Regional Committee of the Communist Party who was accommodated in this house in 1944. Since 1948, the building houses the Prishtina City Library.
Foundations of the Old Hammam (listed since 1959)
Today, nothing is left of the old Hamam, as it disappeared during successive waves of urban renovation. It was once located besides Carshi mosque. Its ruins were discovered during the construction of today's Government Building; they were considered important examples of early Ottoman town architecture. However, without due research, they were quickly covered up by previous town planners.
Carshi Mosque (Bazaar Mosque, listed since 1967)
Carshi Mosque marks the beginning of the old town center. Built in the early 15th century by Sultan Bayazid to commemorate the victory of the Ottoman forces in 1389, it is the oldest standing building in Prishtina today. In the past, Carshi Mosque overlooked the old covered bazaar of Prishtina. Today, nothing is left of the old bazaar, only the name of Carshi mosque serves as a reminder. Many subsequent changes and repair works have changed the original look of this mosque, but its symbol – the unique stone-topped minaret – has survived for more than 600 years. The mosque is also nicknamed – 'Tas Mosque', literally 'Stone Mosque'.
Shadervan (Fountain, listed since 1967)
Between Carshi Mosque and the Kosovo Museum this decorated marble fountain – known as 'shadervan'- is the only surviving public fountain of its kind in Prishtina today. In the past, dozens of similar public fountains scattered across the town, provided for refreshment and the possibility of ablution (ritual washing).
Kosovo Museum (listed since 1967)
This Austro-Hungarian inspired building was originally built for the regional administration of the Kosovo Vilajet. From 1945 until 1975 it served as headquarters for the Yugoslav National Army. In 1963, it was sold to the Kosovo Museum. From 1999 until 2002, the European Agency for Reconstruction had its main office in the museum building. The Kosovo Museum has an extensive collection of archaeological and ethnological artifacts. In 1998, more than 1,247 exhibit pieces were taken to Belgrade for an exhibition. The Museum is still waiting for their return.
Jashar Pasha Mosque (listed since 1967)
Jashar Mehmet Pasha was a wealthy citizen of Prishtina. He served as governor of Skopje in 1842. According to inscriptions inside the mosque, the mosque was built in 1834. The original portico was demolished to give way for an expansion of Nazim Gafurri Road passing right in front of the mosque. Overall, the building is suffering from dampness and cracks, infiltrating through cracks in dome.
This protected house is one of a few remaining typical 19th century town houses in Prishtina. After the Second World War, this building was nationalized and became a property of the Cultural Secretariat, the equivalent of today's Ministry of Culture. The Academy of Arts and Sciences has been located in this buiding since its inception in 1975.
Sahat Kulla (Clock Tower, listed since 1967)
The clock tower dates back to the 19th century. Following a fire, the tower has been reconstructed using bricks. The original bell was brought to Kosovo from Moldavia. It bore an inscription reading 'this bell was made in 1764 for Jon Moldova Rumen'. In 2001, the original bell was stolen. The same year, French KFOR troops replaced the old clock mechanism with an electric one. Given Kosovo's electricity problems – the clock tower is struggling to 'keep time'.
Great Hamam (listed since 1985)
The Great Hamam of Prishtina dates back to the 15th century. It once formed an essential part of the ensemble around Mbretit (Fatih) mosque and served as a social meeting point for both men and women. Legend tells that Sultan Mehmet al-Fatih ordered all workers hired to build Fatih mosque to take daily baths in the Hamam. Following a fire in 1994, the previous regime permitted the construction of three shops effectively closing off the old entrance, and allowing a sewage pipe to run right through the building. Today, little more than a few damaged walls are left, leaving the building in immediate need for protection.
Mbretit Mosque (Sultan Mehmet II al- Fatih Mosque, listed since 1953)
This mosque was built in 1460-1461, only eight years after the fall of Constantinople, by Sultan Mehmet II al-Fatih – the Conqueror. Located right in the heart of the old town center, it is Prishtina's largest and most prominent mosque. Its cupola was once the biggest in the region, while today it is the last mosque built by Sultan Mehmet II remaining in the Balkans. The square in front of Mbretit Mosque has always been a popular meeting point. In 1682-83, the mosque was restored under the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV, the minaret was repaired again following an earthquake in 1955. The mosque is suffering from deterioration and unprofessional restoration works; bad infrastructure in the area is causing dampness in the walls and deterioration of the stones.
Emin Gjiku Complex (listed since 1955)
This home once belonged to the well-known Gjinolli family. Since 1957 the group of buildings – including the servants' quarters, the guest house and the family's private home- belongs to the Kosovo Museum. Emin Gjinolli's nickname was 'little man', or in Turkish 'Eminçik'. This later became 'Emin Gjiku'. Just on the left hand side, as one enters the premises, one can find the only building that survived the destruction of the old bazaar. It was moved here in 1963. Until the 1990s, the complex was used as a Natural Museum. In 2003, renovation works started with the help of international donations to turn it into an Ethnological Museum.
Kosovo Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments (listed since 1957)
The building of the Kosovo Institute for the Protection of Monuments is located in the former home of the Kocadishi family. After nationalisation of their private property, the family migrated to Turkey. In 1954, the building was given to the newly established Kosovo Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments.
Hynyler House (listed since 1967)
This private home - a typical Ottoman konak - has been under protection since 1967. The family has recently been trying to take their house off the list of protected monuments.
Iconostasis in Saint Nicolas's Church and the Archbishop's Residences (listed since 1956 and 1961, respectively)
Saint Nicolas Church has in recent years been the only active Serbian Orthodox Church in Pristina. Dating back to the 19th century, it was probably constructed by stonemasons from Western Macedonia. The most valuable treasure of the church has been the protected iconostasis of 1840. During the March violence in 2004, the church was set on fire by angry crowds. A temporary roof has since been constructed to prevent further dampening of the walls and damage to the wall paintings. The adjacent buildings belong to the Kosovo Museum. Today, they house the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning.
Pirinaz Mosque (listed since 1967)
Pirinaz Mosque is made of the same stone as Mbretit (Fatih) Mosque. It was built about a hundred years later, in the second half of the 16th century. Its founder, a man called Piri Nazir, served as Vezir under two Ottoman Sultans. The 'Stone of Lazar', located in the garden of the mosque is where according to local legend Prince Lazar was beheaded in 1389. Before being moved to Ravanici monastery, Prince Lazar was buried in Pirinaz Mosque with the permission of Sultan Bayazid.
Jewish Cemetary (listed since 1967)
The Jewish Cemetery is located on top of Tauk Bahqe hill, near Velania. It dates back to the 19th century. At that time, Prishtina's Jewish Community had about 1,500 members. The cemetery was put under protection in 1967. Back then, it counted 57 tomb stones. Today, the cemetery is in a desolate state. Surrounded by a metal fence, isolated tombstones are scattered between thorny bushes and high grass.
'Tjerrtorja' Archeological Site (listed since 1955)
Tjerrtorja was a Neolithic settlement located on the outskirts of Prishtina. The site was discovered during the construction of the first socially-owned entreprise in Prishtina, a yarn spinning factory. All excavation efforts were halted after the factory was built and the site has never been fully explored.
In this building, the founding meeting for the Youth Communist Party of the Gracanica (Prishtina) district took place in 1941. It was put under protection in 1967 to commemorate the role of the Youth Communist Party in the 'National Liberation Movement' in Prishtina town and the surrounding region.


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2007 – The Next 'Judgment of Paris?'
2007 is going to be a very important vintage for U.S. wines in the international marketplace. This very well might be the year with the most significance on that front since the famed 1973 vintage, one in which California gained credibility across the globe as Chateau Montelena (Chardonnay) and Stag's Leap (Cabernet Sauvignon) out-dueled the French in the famed 1976 'Judgment of Paris' tasting.
Without a doubt, California has been a source of consistent high quality offerings over the past twenty something years, with some truly great vintages like 1994 and 2001. But during that time, the European market was holding its own in terms of quality and developing a bias against "California style" wines, which has become a descriptive term for high alcohol content, heavy-handed wines without the complexity or structure of their French and Italian cousins.
This sentiment was something of a double standard. While criticizing the new "American" style, many Italian and French winemakers were bending their own harvest times and techniques to meet the U.S. demand for a more fruit forward style, as well as to cater to rating publication preferences. Italians increased their supply of Super Tuscans and fuller bodied single varietals to satisfy American import demand, while some French winemakers reportedly went so far as to kick their wines up a notch with unlabeled varietals, for example by adding a touch of syrah to a Burgundy (pinot).
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Americans have started to push back on the over-loaded alcohol fruit bombs, looking for a happy medium with more judicious use of oak. So the time is perfect for a transitional period where California and European tastes may very well meet somewhere in the middle.
Of course, if this leads to all things being equal, the French will still drink French, Italians prefer Italian and the U.S. will continue to divide its consumption equally between domestic and imports.
But things are not "equal."
While most of California enjoyed an almost perfect growing season leading to an on schedule harvest, in several French appellations, the season has been one of utter chaos. Harvests have been reduced by extremely rainy weather all summer, along with some last minute unwanted moisture just prior to picking of early harvest varietals, which has begun for some whites. Projections of impact to volume range wildly; the word on the street is dire while the Ministry of Agriculture projects a more reasonable 17% drop in average yields for Bordeaux. But it is important to keep in mind that their figure is strictly a harvest volume projection. Several vineyards failed to take effective action to counter mildew problems encountered because of the constant rains, and the resulting yields may also be impacted in terms of quality of fruit. This would manifest itself through grape rejection at sort, making the total impact potentially greater than the Ministry's projections.
This could drastically impair France's ability to meet international and even domestic demand for Bordeaux, while Champagne, the Loire valley and Beaujolais were also impacted in terms of volume and/or quality concerns by the sketchy weather. And while the quality may be lower than usual, prices are unlikely to fall, because they will have to recover their volume loss with high per bottle prices.
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho – August 2, 2013– Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) is offering Oregon educators an amazing opportunity to attend advance training to sharpen their teaching, research and technology skills through the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program at NCCE. Held at South Salem High School in Salem, Oregon on August 5‐6, 2013, NCCE will present a two‐day, Level II workshop that will build upon previous content knowledge where participants will learn to evaluate, create and teach topic‐specific, content‐informed lessons that integrate Primary Sources materials from the Library of Congress.
As a Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Educational Consortium member, the TPS program at NCCE offers free workshops for K‐12 educators which are funded by a grant from the Library of Congress. Participants have completed Level I professional development activities under TPS which allows educators to gain strategies for using primary sources to help students engage in learning, develop critical thinking skills and build content knowledge.
"Over 300 educators across the Northwest will be designing classroom lesson plans this summer utilizing Library of Congress materials. These lessons will fulfill common core requirements as many states are required to teach history and literacy content this upcoming school year," stated Heidi Rogers, CEO and Executive Director of NCCE. "Oregon teachers will especially benefit from building curriculum with primary sources in the Level II workshop where they will be making history come alive for students" added Rogers. The workshops offered are for K‐12 educators including pre‐service and in‐service teachers, librarians, media specialists and others.
NCCE is one of 28 Educational Consortium members in 17 states to offer professional development programs to assist teachers in utilizing the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) materials to design challenging, high quality instruction.
For more information on events and professional development opportunities, visit www.ncce.org. To learn more about Teaching with Primary Sources, visit www.loc.gov/teachers/tps.
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tomato soup
I made tomato soup this afternoon. I never did before. I was intimidated by the concept—like I had no idea how to even begin to turn tomatoes into soup. As it happens, it's not that hard: it's basically just regular soup without carrots or celery and with tomatoes. If it weren't for the existence of Campbells I would have figured it out years ago.
I'm not saying my tomato soup was the best ever—the kids didn't like it (in my defense, they pretty much categorically don't like soup, especially when there's also grilled cheese sandwiches available). I used some of the barbecued turkey stock Leah made from the Bernstein Thanksgiving bird, so there was a distinct smoky flavor to the end product which may be a good thing or bad depending on your tastes. And it ended up kind of thin; Katie tells me I could have thickened it with bread crumbs, which would be fine because we have lots of bread crumbs around here.
Anyway, all that is to say if you've never made tomato soup before and feel like having some, go for it. It's a great way to eat up some of those canned tomatoes you put up in the summer that you don't have any other way to eat. Wait, I'm the only person in the US who cans tomatoes and doesn't know how to make tomato soup? (or tomato sauce, for that matter)? Oh well, never mind. For reference, I based my soup loosely off this recipe, the first non-spammy result for a search for "tomato soup recipe". I might even try it again some day. But not soon; there's still plenty of this batch left.
dessert buffet
As the weather turns cold again, we have more incentive to turn on the oven. And the bread is never ready to go in first thing, so more often than not we get a dessert out of the deal. Today we had friends over who are experiencing the same thing at their house, so after lunch the kids got to choose between brownies, apple crisp, pound cake, pumpkin spice chocolate cookies, banana chocolate chip muffins, and pumpkin bread. They were so overwhelmed I felt bad and let them have a little bit of their top four choices. Life is good at our house these days!
recent recipes
I had a bad day, so it's a pleasant diversion to look back on some accomplishments from the past couple days—cooking ones. Like this cake.
We had folks over yesterday evening and I realized I hadn't thought about a desert. There wasn't time to make a pumpkin pie (or at least not to let one cool enough to eat) but a pumpkin cake seemed reasonable. I searched the internet and printed a likely-looking recipe, but on reflection it wasn't quite likely enough—I wasn't prepared to make a cake entirely with vegetable oil. So I triangulated between that recipe, our family pumpkin bread, and what I know about making cakes. The result came out pretty good, with cream cheese frosting between the layers (sadly not to Harvey's taste) and powdered sugar on top. Here's the recipe, for future reference:
In a large bowl whisk together
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
In a stand mixer, beat on medium-high for five minutes
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Add one at a time, scraping the bowl and beating between additions
4 eggs
Add the dry ingredients in three even bunches, alternating with two even glops of
1 can canned pumpkin
Divide the batter between two buttered and floured 8-inch cake pans and bake at 350° for... um... until they're done. Maybe it was like 40 minutes? Let them cool.
For the frosting, combine 4 ounces (half a package) cream cheese, 2 tablespoons butter, and 1 cup powdered sugar in the food processor and pulse until combined. Or if you ask Harvey, leave out the cream cheese and make a proper butter frosting. After I had already started making the frosting I realized we were out of powdered sugar. Heading across the street to borrow some I passed the boys playing with the neighborhood kids—it all felt pretty old-fashioned!
The day before I was totally out of ideas for supper—out of ideas and out of ingredients. But even though we're getting into pumpkin season we still have lots of zucchinis. So why not zucchini quesadillas? I grated some zucchini and onion, salted it for a bit to get out some of the water, then cooked it in bacon fat with cumin and garlic powder. Then I made the quesadillas with the cooked zucchini and cheddar. Every new quesadilla I make is my favorite, and this was no exception. Zion wasn't a fan, of course, but you can never please everyone. With cake and quesadillas at least I managed to please myself!
adequate bread
I'm maybe starting to figure out this sourdough bread business. At least, I've settled on a process that accomplishes three key goals: it keeps the starter alive, doesn't take too much time or effort, and turns out acceptable bread.
For me, one key is not keeping the starter in the refrigerator. When I did that I could never manage the long-term scheduling required to get it out, let it warm up, feed it, and then make the bread—with all the steps that requires. It's a two-day process, minimum, and at my current stage in life that is very much beyond me. So my starter lives on the counter, where I feed it every morning with a quarter cup of water and half a cup of all purpose flour (which we buy in bulk).
When I want to make bread, I start the night before by scooping a cup of starter into a separate container and feeding it (as above) before I go to bed. Then in the morning I put all that starter into the stand mixer bowl together with 3/4 cup of water, a half tablespoon of kosher salt, and about two-and-a-half cups of bread flour. I let it mix all up with the dough hook for 20 minutes or so while I do other things (trying to remember to check to make sure it's not too wet, in which case I want to add more flour). If it's dry I knead the dough for a couple minutes by hand—if it's wet enough the machine does fine—and then I form it into a ball and leave it in a glass bowl, covered with a wet cloth.
There it stays until it's doubled in size or I get back from the day's outing or I get bored of looking at the bowl. I "punch it down" and let it rest for ten minutes, then I shape it amateurishly into a ball or, less frequently, a baguette, and leave it to proof on a heavy aluminum baking sheet greased with butter. Usually it can proof uncovered, in this summer weather at least—but if the day seems particularly dry I'll cover it with a wet cloth for at least the beginning of the proofing.
When it seems to be pretty well risen I preheat the over to 500 degrees, with a beat-up old metal 9x13 pan on the bottom rack. After 15 or 20 minutes of preheating I slash the loaf (as seen above), pour a couple cups of boiling water into the hot pan for steam, and bake for 25 minutes to half an hour. When the bread smells like bread and sounds hollow when I tap on the bottom, it's done.
Clearly, this is not the most precise of methods, and I have no doubt it's far from making the perfect loaf. But I don't care about perfect—when I worry about perfect I get paralyzed and don't make anything. Acceptable is better than nothing! There are two more pertinent problems. First, having the over on for close to an hour isn't really ideal in the summer. At least it tends to be in the evening, when it's cooler outside than in the house anyways—with windows open and fans on we don't notice the oven's heat so much.
Second, not refrigerating the starter means I have to make bread an awful lot; sometimes more often than we can manage to eat it. So I'm trying to give it away. Let me know if you'd like to try a loaf, or take some starter so you can try your hand at it yourself! If I can figure out how to make adequate bread in my spare time, I'm sure you can do even better.
our rhubarb this year
It's past time for my annual rhubarb appreciation post!
The last few days I've been appreciating a new recipe for rhubarb crisp. I made it for our friends who come over for dinner on Fridays:I wanted something to go with the leftover butter crunch ice cream we had in the freezer and went with the best-looking of the first few search results for rhubarb crisp, Allrecipes' Ginger Rhubarb Crisp. It's a winner, and I'll definitely be making it again. Maybe not right away though, since I'm the only one in the house who likes it—and it's a 9-by-13 pan so I've been able to like it a lot!
Of course, I wouldn't be making it at all if I didn't have a couple of big healthy rhubarb plants in the garden. The eight cups of rhubarb the recipe calls for would set me back between $10 and $15, the way prices are around here now. It's good, but it's not that good! But as it stands I have plenty to go around for free, so I'm always on the lookout for new applications. Sunday morning I made muffins.
And of course, there's pie (the one pictured below from a couple weeks ago).
If you have a year-round garden and don't have rhubarb in it, you totally should. Come by in the fall and I'll give you a little clump to get started!
hippy secret ingrediant
Today I made sourdough pancakes and laundry powder. What do those two things have in common? Baking soda!
Ok, so maybe what they actually have in common is that unless you're a crazy hippy you've probably never even thought about making either of them, much less on a Tuesday morning; but the baking soda made me notice that I am a crazy hippy, so I wanted to comment on it.
We've been making our own laundry powder for a long time—or to be more precise, Leah's been making it. But I took over the laundry duties a couple months ago when she started working some out of the house, so when we ran out the other day the responsibility for making more fell on me. We use the recipe from Making It, written by the couple behind the Root Simple blog—it's just one part laundry soap (Leah still makes that, by a process unknown to me), two parts borax, and two parts baking soda. It works fine, it's cheap, and best of all it doesn't stink.
The pancakes are newer; I started with them because once you have a sourdough starter you need to keep making more sourdough starter, and there's only so much bread that one family can eat (especially when 50% of the adults are gluten-free!). But I keep doing it because they come out light and crispy and delicious, even with all whole wheat flour and less sugar and much less fat than my regular pancake recipe. The two younger boys don't like them much; I can't decide if that's a feature or a bug.
I don't really have a recipe for sourdough pancakes besides whisking an egg into a cup of happy starter, fed the night before, along with a tablespoon or two of sugar and a little salt. Then I dissolve some baking soda in water and fold it into the batter. You'll notice it's a fat-free food at this point, but I fix that by cooking each pancake in plenty of butter: I make sure to add more to the griddle for each batch.
I don't know about everybody else, but baking soda doesn't much feature in my more conventional baking. Too unpredictable. Who knows if a particular ingredient has enough acid to activate it and remove that horrible metallic-salt taste? An ingredient other that lactic acid-laden sourdough starter, that is. I really feel a connection to my homesteading forebearers of, oh, the late 1800s when chemical leaveners became widely available.
We do lots of odd things in our household, and not all of them require purchasing baking soda in bulk. But some do. It is a signifier, of a sort.
productivity in one sphere
We had a great day today of visiting and hosting. And never mind my many failures and inadequacies, today I'm proud of one thing at least: beginning at 6:15 or so I baked the following foods:
- Whole wheat sourdough bread
- pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
- banana chocolate chip muffins
- white sourdough bread
- sourdough pancakes
Plus I made potatoes and scrambled eggs and peanut noodles. And spaghetti with sauce from a jar. And a salad. That feels like enough for one day.
And even with all that, we'll start tomorrow with a clean kitchen!
self-deprecating bragging
With everything we're trying to do it's sometimes—often—hard to think about dinner before, oh, 4:30 on any given day. Combined with the somewhat limited palates of our boys, that means that the dinners we put on the table are not always inspired. Today, for example, I served spaghetti with sauce from a jar. But it's ok, because everything else on the table was totally representative of our awesome hippy credibility. Fresh sourdough bread; kale salad with homemade dressing (with local honey and homemade—though not by us—vinegar); and for desert a peach crisp made with home-canned peaches. See, we're still cool.
pie plant
It's no secret I love perennial crops. Rhubarb is another early season favorite, and after adding some new plantings of it last year we have plenty to go around.
I picked the first few stalks maybe ten days ago, and cooked them into syrup that I mixed with sparkling water to make a refreshing rhubarb soda; yesterday's harvest went into some muffins. Not till this morning, though, did this year's crop reach it's true purpose and perfection.
This particular pie came with us to a lovely cookout, where we spent about six and a half enjoyable hours chatting with old and new friends and eating lots of food, but not much rhubarb pie—I had to taste it of course, but I limited myself to a thin slice to make sure there was enough for the rest of the crowd. But as I said, there's plenty of rhubarb in the garden to go round; there'll be lots more pies to come!
why listening to the internet is a mistake
I've had this article open in a browser tab for well over a week, so I need to write about it here to clear it off my computer and out of my mind. It's called "Why Adding Milk To Your Scrambled Eggs Is A Mistake", and in it the author states baldly that "[o]ne common mistake people make when cooking scrambled eggs is adding milk or cream. You may have been whisking your eggs with milk since you were a little kid, but we're telling you now: It's time to stop."
It may seem counterintuitive, but the addition of milk, cream or any other liquid for that matter, will actually make it more likely that your eggs will turn out dry. By thinning out the eggs, it's easier to overcook them. Most importantly, the milk dilutes the taste of the eggs. It also screws with the texture, leaving the eggs slightly rubbery — and no one wants rubbery eggs. If you're using good, farm fresh eggs, you don't need anything except maybe a little salt and pepper to make them taste delicious. A little butter never hurt anyone, either.
The author, Alison Spiegel, "is a Food Editor at the Huffington Post. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, and she currently lives in Brooklyn." I don't know part of that qualifies her to to judge egg preparation, but I'm pretty sure that her main qualification to the bosses at HuffPo is the ability to draw traffic, and she hit the jackpot with that egg post (which I got to via google news); most of her posts have maybe two comments, but that particular gem pulled in 693 at current count. I didn't read any of them.
I only hope people aren't really following her advice and leaving milk out of their eggs. I've been making eggs with milk or cream for years and they're always really good; why on earth would I change at the unreferenced suggestion of a Middlebury grad living in Brooklyn?! But I bet there are people who will: the same people who can't resist the latest weird diet trick, or believe conspiracy theories. "I hadn't thought of that before, so it must be true!"
There's nothing wrong with changing your mind about things, certainly. I've done things one way for years before realizing I was "wrong": I used shaving cream like a chump until it occurred to me that plain old soap does a better job. But when I make a change you know it's based on my own experience, a trusted friend, or a well-reasoned argument. Not some handwaving about how milk "screws with the texture".
As for milk and cream in eggs specifically, I'm going to stick with what works for me. And if I want backup justification, I'll turn to the words of Tamar Adler, also a Brooklyn resident, but one who has cooked at Prune and Chez Panisse (as well as her own restaurant):
Beat two or three eggs in a bowl, adding a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of heavy cream if you want. This is not a trick, but an expression of the fact that things taste good with cream added.
And I'll do it a lot: I forgot to check our henhouse for eggs two days ago and yesterday there were ten to bring in. Scrambled eggs with cream every morning, and never mind about that dumb bossy internet!


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May 30, 2012 CUTTONE'S CONCEPTS U.S. celebrates its past, dreams about the future
LANDOVER, Md.---While those of us who have been big supporters of the Soccer Hall of Fame mourn the loss of the campus and museum in Oneonta, NY, one of the nice things about combining the annual Hall of Fame inductions with a U.S. National Team game is that it provides the opportunity to not only reminisce about the rich past of the sport, but also look at the present, and perhaps even a little ahead to the future. No doubt, the past is a very rich one. Look at the people who were inducted into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday: Tony DiCicco, who led the U.S. Women's National Team to Gold in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics and to the glorious moment in 1999 when women's soccer truly hit the map; Derek Armstrong, Claudio Reyna and Tony Meola, part of a special group of players who got the United States back to the World Cup in 1990 after a 40-year absence, and of course my esteemed colleague and friend Grahame L. Jones, the great former soccer writer for the LA Times. That might be as good a class as the Hall has ever had. The poignant and sometimes moving speeches were special, and unique to each Hall of Famer. You had Jones, who covered soccer for some 40 years, talk about the lifetime of memories in soccer, many of them symbolized by some collected artifact currently residing in his garage. You had DiCicco talking about players like Mia Hamm, Carin Jennings Gabarra and Michelle Akers, saying "You guys did special things because you are special people and that's why I am up here." You had Desmond Armstrong prefacing his remarks with the admission that they might be a little politically incorrect talking about starting to play soccer after his family became the only Black one in an all-white suburb of Washington DC. And you had Tony Meola, breaking down when talking about how special a person the late Lamar Hunt, whom many consider the patron saint of soccer in America, was. The acceptance speeches segued into remarks by U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati, who has undoubtedly presided over the most prosperous era in American soccer, talking about the foundation built by those Hall of Famers. "Today we're dreaming things," Gulati said. We're dreaming about Brazil, not just tonight, but in 2014. Today we're not dreaming to just keep the game close." In the past, keeping the game close against world powers was all that could be hoped for. But the dreams and the expectations have gone beyond that. "We can dream about Brazil in 2014 and dream about accomplishing something." Unfortunately, dreams don't always turn into reality. Drawing 67,619 to a midweek meaningless exhibition against what is essentially Brazil's Olympic team shows how far the sport has come. But losing the game 4-1 proved the U.S. is still not among the elite teams in the world. Yes, they played a game four days ago, beating Scotland 5-1. But Scotland are not Brazil. Neymar, Thiago Silva, Marcelo and Alexandre Pato proved that as they easily danced around the United States and put on an enjoyable if not brilliant performance on their way to a 4-1 win. The U.S. may be able to dream about World Cup glory, but until the team can regularly stack up against the Brazils, Spains, Argentinas and Germanys, it's still just a dream, and one that is maybe still a ways away. But at least we can dare to dream.


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Since hardscape features are not living organisms, they provide a means of increasing property value and the attractiveness of the property without requiring the same level of constant care and maintenance that lawns and gardens do. This makes an emphasis on hardscaping ideal for owners who do not have a lot of time to devote to lawncare, those who live in arid regions or in areas where water use is restricted, or those who wish to improve the value of their property but are not particularly inclined toward gardening.
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German designer Markus Gerke has unveiled an ingenious concept idea of integrating Instagram into a pair of sunglasses—allowing users to view their world in a desired filter.
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Jesus The Bridge To Heaven ( mini series) lesson 9
Stephen Vattimo
1/21/2013 / Bible Studies
The goal of this lesson is to present what the Holy Bible teaches about what
a person must do to restored to a holy fellowship with God, through His Son
outline of lesson 10 :
Are you ready to put your trust in Jesus The Christ ?
* As your redeemer ? The One who paid for your sin debt , that separated you
from fellowship with God.
* As your Savior ? The one who has the authority to rescue you from the eternal
punishment of The Lake Of Fire .
* As your keeper ? The one who will give you eternal life , and seal you in His
Holy Spirit .
* As your provider ? The One who will provide all that you will need to obey His
commands , To call you , To lead you , in the way you should live; that you are
able be pleasing in God's sight.
What will you do with this Jesus ?
Acts chapter 4 : 12
" And there is salvation in no one else ; for there is no other name under Heaven
that has been given among men , by which we must be saved . "
A . What will happen to those who receive Jesus as their personal Savior ?
John chapter 3 : 16
" For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. "
B . What will happen to those who reject Jesus as their personal Savior ?
John chapter 3 : 18
" He who believes in Him is not judged ; but he who does not believe has been
judged because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son Of
God. "
The Bible, God's instruction book on how to enter fellowship with Him.
John chapter 4 : 23 - 24
" But an hour is coming , and now is , When the true worshiper shall worship The
Father in Spirit and Truth ; for such people The Father seeks to be His
worshipers. ( 24 ) God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in
Spirit and Truth . "
Will you be a Cain , or an Abel ?
Genesis chapter 4 : 3 - 7
" So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to The Lord
of the first fruit of the ground. ( 4 ) And Abel, on His part also brought of the
firstling of his flock and of their fat portions . And The Lord had regard for Abel
and for his offering ; ( 5 ) but for Cain and for his offering , He had no regard. So
Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. ( 6 )Then The Lord said to
Cain, " Why are you angry ? And why has your countenance fallen ? ( 7 ) If you
do well, will not your countenance be lifted up ? And if you do not do well , sin is
crouching at the door ; and it's desire is fore you, but you must master it. "
What must a person do to be saved ?
Romans chapter 10 : 9 - 10
" If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. ( 10 ) For with the heart man
believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses ,
resulting in salvation. "
This concludes lesson 9. This is the end of this teaching, mini series.
I hope you have been blessed by following along with this study.
Stephen J. Vattimo
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Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in Invention at Play. There are links to several flash activities, as well as mini-biographies of inventors.
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Stewart enjoys car swap with F1's Hamilton
June 14, 2011, Joe Menzer, NASCAR.com
Calling it "the experience of a lifetime" more than once, Tony Stewart could not stop beaming after executing a "car swap" with Formula One driving champion Lewis Hamilton at Watkins Glen International on Tuesday. And Hamilton, if possible, seemed even more thrilled about the rare opportunity to jump into what he repeatedly referred to as "a NASCAR" on a chilly, wet afternoon in front of an estimated crowd of 10,000. "What amazed me is that for two guys with two completely different builds -- Lewis is a slim, athletic driver; I'm a more, uh, robust driver -- the crews just did an amazing job in the cars in having the seats and the belts where they needed to be to fit us into the cars." --TONY STEWART Hamilton admitted he was nervous beforehand. "But I think they are nerves of excitement, because I never thought I would have an opportunity to drive a NASCAR [stock car]," he added. "To get to sit in a stock car and experience that is not something many of us Formula One drivers get to do. I feel very privileged to be here." Stewart echoed the sentiment. He was apprehensive about driving on a wet track in what was at times a light mist, but the Mobil One executives who put together the event prepared in advance for the possibility by making sure Stewart's No. 14 Chevrolet could be easily fitted with rain tires and a windshield wiper. "I think I've raced one time in my career in the wet, and that was at the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona about five years ago," Stewart said. Hamilton laughed and admitted: "We brought a bit of English weather with us." When it was suggested that it would be like riding a bicycle since Stewart once raced open-wheel cars in the Indy Racing League, Stewart chuckled. "It's been 10 years since I've been in an IndyCar. And when I ran in the IRL, we didn't run on road courses," he said. Nonetheless, both drivers made it through their respective runs flawlessly. Each driver took laps in their own cars before swapping rides -- with Hamilton going out first in Stewart's stock car. They made their circuits not around the 2.45-mile course normally used in Sprint Cup events, but around the longer 3.4-mile course used in Formula One races that were held for a 20-year stretch at Watkins Glen until the last such event in 1980. Hamilton was supposed to come in after four laps in Stewart's car, but accidentally blew past pit road and had to take another before coming in. Then Stewart went out and turned four laps without incident in Hamilton's McLaren Mercedes MP4-23. "What amazed me is that for two guys with two completely different builds -- Lewis is a slim, athletic driver; I'm a more, uh, robust driver -- the crews just did an amazing job in the cars in having the seats and the belts where they needed to be to fit us into the cars," Stewart said. "This was truly the chance of a lifetime for me. This is one more thing I get to check off the bucket list now." Hamilton could not stop smiling after completing his lap and attempting a burnout on the frontstretch, much to the delight of the fans in attendance. "I just felt like a kid today," Hamilton said. "It was good to feel like a kid again." Both drivers were complimentary of the other's cars. Hamilton joked -- and yes, he clarified he was merely joking several times -- that because he hasn't been as successful lately in Formula One as he was when he won his championship in 2008, he might look to come over to NASCAR. To which Stewart immediately quipped, "I just want first dibs on trying to hire him." Stewart later added that the Formula One car handled so beautifully that he may be spoiled when he goes back to driving his more balky 3,450-pound stock car. The much lighter F-1 car weighs approximately 1,400 pounds. "I told the guys on pit road that it's probably going to make my crew chief a little more stressed on the weekends now because I'm going to want my car to handle like that all the time -- and we're never going to get it there," Stewart said. "I'm glad I didn't know what these cars were like 20 years ago because I may not have put a fender on a race car after that." Stewart offered to build a Late Model car for Hamilton if he ever wants to return to the United States to run in the Prelude to the Dream dirt race that Stewart hosts annually at Eldora Speedway track in Ohio, a track Stewart owns. Hamilton made it clear that, although he sees his professional future remaining in Formula One, he hopes he gets the opportunity to possibly participate in more such events with Stewart and perhaps other NASCAR drivers sometime in the future. "Us drivers over in Europe have a huge amount of respect for NASCAR drivers," Hamilton said. The two drivers weren't the only ones left smiling after the event. The same could be said of Michael Printup, president of the Watkins Glen International track. "We started putting this together two years ago. We just wanted to put these two great brands together, using Mobil One as the vehicle to do it -- with the two great brands obviously being the Sprint Cup Series and the Formula One," Printup said. "I'm a freak fan on both sides. I was like, 'This is a dream come true for me as a race fan.' "I know I've gotten a lot of phone calls and e-mails. I talked to like 20 fans [Monday] from Buffalo and Rochester and Binghamton, just asking if it was still going on if it was going to be raining. I told them to come on -- and what a show they got to see." Printup said he was thrilled when Hamilton came over the radio during one of his laps and said, "This track is absolutely fantastic. It really is." Printup said afterward that to see two racing series champions such as Hamilton and Stewart, a two-time Cup champ, having such a great time was well worth the effort of helping put the endeavor together. "I was out there talking to them right after they got out of the cars, and you could see the big smiles on both of their faces," Printup said. "These guys race hard, week to week -- and like Lewis said, he felt like a little kid out there today. Tony had the same sentiment in just a little different fashion. "It was just great to see them with those big smiles after running such a great race course as Watkins Glen."