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AMD Refutes Reuters' Claim, Company Not Up For Sale
Reuters based its report on un-named sources who said a sale of the company wasn't necessarily a priority, but it was definitely looking at available options, such as selling some of its patents to the highest bidder. Given AMD's recent financial struggles, it at least seemed plausible that the company might look to raise cash by selling certain assets. After Reuters ran its report, shares of AMD surged 18 percent before things calmed down. In after hours trading, AMD stock is up 5 percent to $2.09. Two dollars and nine cents. Yes, that's pretty much bargain basement for a big name semiconductor company.
That said, it bears repeating that AMD is rejecting the notion that any of the sales talk is true. However, AMD has not come out and refuted that it's working with J.P. Morgan & Co. Regardless of everything else, AMD is still dealing with significant long-term debt, lease obligations, and an uncertain future as the PC industry shifts to mobile, all of which are reasons it may seek out financial advice and/or outside assistance.


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|Yak Attack Kayaks and flyfishing = ultimate stealth
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|Local jaunts like trips to the Charles (which runs through my town) don't call for lines. But, like Roop, when I hit highway speeds, I always secure fore and aft as well as crosswise. I've got some nice factory straps (Yakima, I think) with jam cleats that give you a snug tie-down without a lot of knotwork.
|I saw a picture once of a yak nearly broken in half on roof racks. The owner inadvertently drove over the tag end of his bow line which his helpful partner had left dangling from the bumper. It was slightly more tragic when you realized the guy had built this boat himself.
...liability strap...
...I ride a donorcycle and have a tank bag that stays in place with a set of strong magnets...the manufacturer includes a "liability strap" to make certain they won't be sued if the bag is lost at speed...If you fail to "properly" secure your boat, not only can it make an untimely exit, you will be liable for any unexpected side effects...also...
When I'm carrying anything on the roof of my truck I hang a tag from the rear view mirror to act as a constant reminder. I read a story about the Merlin Bicycle Company that had hosted a major magazine writer. They had spent the better part of the day touring the shop and riding their hearts out and were late getting their charge back to Logan...With six titanium racing bikes strapped to the roof of their van they roared into short term parking and heard a crunching sound...the roof had been inadvertantly cleared of all hardware by a low parking garage. Haste makes waste and a tag hangs from my mirror as a timely reminder when there's cargo upstairs.
|I use them on the VW all the time because the spread of the bars is small, less than 30 inches, I think. I may not use them on the Jeep if I'm not getting on a highway and it's not too windy. I believe both Thule and Yakima tell you to use them so I would presume any implied warrantee would amount to zilch without them. There was a kayak launched here with Thule bars attached a few weeks ago on the interstate, gusts to 50 mph, no bow/stern lines, so it does happen. Nothing wrong with a little redundancy in anything concerned with kayaks.
Not only will the extra lines give added security the bow line ,in the case of larger SUV and canopied pickups, will let you see that your Yak is still attached!
Maybe I just worry more than others but every time a big gust of wind rattles the vehicle or I pass a big Semi and the road tubulence blast the works I feel compeled to look like mad in all the mirrors and windows (really distracted here) to see if I can spot a loose boat flying through the air. The addition of the bow line works as a tattle tail and you never have to give the boat on the roof another thought unless the line leaves your sight.
Its the little things that make life less stressful if they were all written down somewhere, wait a minute thats what the www is for!
That's a good question.
When using roof racks lashing the yak to the racks is good enough for some people. If I'm travelling a long distance or plan to exceed 40 MPH I like to use a bow & stern line as well.
The most important thing about using a bow & stern line to remember is to avoid a "negative" angle. By that I mean your bow or stern is mounted onj your roof in a manner that the bow or stern line is angled in to the where it meets the car vs. out.
I hope that makes sense. I will try to find a link to an on line articvel that explains it better.
bow and stern Lines
When transporting your yak do you use bow and stern lines. I have seen people transport there yaks without the lines. Seems to me it would add a margin of safety to add the lines.
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JediBoulton - I guess if you see the newest wave (Han, Chewie, ObiPilot) let us know.
JediBoulton - I guess if you see the newest wave (Han, Chewie, ObiPilot) let us know.
Will do Adam-- UPDATE -- www.kbtoys.com has Count Dooku Dark Lord for $9.99 if anyone is missing one!
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Collecting SW Since 1978. -- Still going strong......
Went to 4 Wal-marts last night, they did not realy have crap. Here's the break down:
I20 and Great South West in Grand Prarie: all commons, $4.77 on AOTC
I20 and Cooper in Arlington: Nothing
I30 adn Eastchase: Nothing but about eight 12" Darth Maul's w/ Sith speeders, if you still want need/want one. $4.77 on AOTC
I35 and Beltline in Cedar Hill: Nothing but about twelve 12" Luke with Yoda in the backpack, boxes in less-then-mint condition.
I will post with anything new.
Thanks AM. If anyone wants the new twelve inch Clone trooper pilot (KB exclusive), the KB in Collin Creek mall had at least one when I was there on thurs..
Hello fellow DFWers. I live in Arlington and I found a darth and a fett at the kb in the parks mall. I also found 2 battle waggons at the toy works at lincoln square. The Eastchase stores rarely have anything but the TRU has been getting in older products lately since they are closing. By the way, anyone got an extra Wuhur?
no smiley zone!
Hey, does that TRU have a Royal Starship from Ep1 by any chance?...
No starships there but i'll keep my eyes open. Were any of you guys at the scifi convention last month?
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the one in Plano that is.
no smiley zone!
That convention centre where they hold the expo, is like 2 miles away from me! I haven't gone in a couple years. Last time I went though I really stocked up on stuff I was missin'. I can't tell ya for sure, but they usually have good prices on figures MOMC. Check it out one time, its a pretty cool experience.
You got me thinking about the expo so I checked the webpage. There's some kind of Customer Appreciation/Celebration thing going on the 30th of June, with free addmission. I'm not sure if this is going to be the same type of convention like the one a few weeks ago, but I'll let everyone know in case they want to go.


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Kingkong wrote:Turkeys are one of the most important fact of colorado facts. People are doing a big mistake that they are hunting turkeys. Its not acceptable, for this mistake the environment can be bad, So, i am not ready for hunting.
What is this is right proper English it is not.
Lets not hunt anything yeah that's a great idea, then we will have wildlife starving, damaging more crops than they are now more disease etc. I'm sick of the bleeding harts that speak before they think! Give me a break, do some research people or better post on bleeding hart.com


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I read the CASE tool debate with interest. The problems that most people seem to have with them coincide with my own thoughts on the shortcomings of many of these tools. Most of these involve poor support of many of the activities involved in system implementation, eg implicit or missing inter-language transformation mappings, no support for human-readable deltas or debugging, UI deficiencies making them more inconvenient to use than tools based on 3GLs, incompleteness of the UML metamodel for purposes of modelling many "real-world" programming language techniques etc.
Personally, I'm waiting for tools that
- support user-defined domain specific languages. There are examples of useful DSELs in the programming world, eg BNF/EBNF. In the right lighting and after a few strong drinks, XML schemas and many config file formats begin to look like declarative DSELs, some of which are "nicer" for expressing certain problems than a general-purpose programming language.
- Support formal, bi-directional mapping rulesets for the transformation of abstract syntax trees in one supported language to another. XSL etc are beginning to be used for this but surely there is a nicer way to do this than typing huge XML documents by hand...
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Lynn Ann's Campground - a camping resort has become one of Wisconsin most popular campgrounds...one visit and you will discover why! Located in northern Wisconsin on lovely Big St. Germain Lake. Lynn Ann's offers private and secluded campsites in this family orientated resort. With a confirmed reservation, you are assured of a clean campsite that will be ready upon your arrival. This takes the worry out of camping and makes your time away from home more enjoyable. Beach, watercraft/bicycle rentals and WI-FI available.
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The Phillies have invited 12 players to Spring Training as non-roster participants. Only one of these 12 attended 2010 Spring Training and he spent some time with the Major League team. Here are their names and bios from a Phillies press release: Josh Barfield, INF … Barfield, 27, spent last season with triple-A Portland in the San Diego Padres organization where he batted .294 with five ...


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Abha city is located in south-west part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its mild climate makes it a popular tourist destination for all kind of tourists.
View of Al-Sooda Mountains, Abha located in South of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It includes view of Al-Sooda Mountain Roads and Rijal Al-Ma'a Village.


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Mais lenha na fogueira!
Desta vez, a Samsung cutucou o iPhone 5 em uma propaganda, no mínimo, provocativa. "Não é preciso ser um gênio", diz a sul-coreana.
E os fãs do iPhone? Você acha que eles responderam? Olha só: http://glo.bo/QgWp9Z
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Questions, Issues, Feature requests?
If you have an issue with +Hangout Lower Third, a question or you want to submit a feature request you can use the Issue Tracker on GitHub (http://goo.gl/RjwI7)
I will maintain this page from now on as my main source for issues/questions/requests.
Please provide any feedback over there. It is easier for me and the users to keep track of changes and issues.
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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TUPELO – With questions nagging the Lee County Agri-Center for years related to financial sustainability, the Board of Supervisors put the facility's future in the hands Monday of a 31-year-old they described as civic minded and experienced in dealing with the public.
Supervisors unanimously approved hiring Torrey Mitchell of New Albany as Agri-Center director, a position with an annual base salary of $48,000 and incentives that could bring it up to $62,400.
Mitchell has been a heating and air conditioning service technician, run a fishing business with his brother and been a diving instructor, among the experiences listed on his resume'.
Aside from interims, Mitchell will be the sixth leader at the center since opening in 1994. Lee County Administrator Sean Thompson has served as interim director since the previous leader, Julia Viator, resigned in October 2011 after 18 months on the job.
A consultant a few years ago recommended improvements for the facility that will cost the county about $1.2 million. However, supervisors have shown reluctance in recent years to invest additional taxpayer money into the project.
"It's been a financial drain on the county for years," said Board President Bobby Smith. "We're trying to get it more to the point of self-sufficiency."
Smith said he felt optimistic that Mitchell, who highlighted his background as a Boy Scout with community and civic-minded activities, will help the Agri-Center reach new heights. Mitchell's financial compensation includes base pay and tiered incentives related to selling advertising and the county contributing fewer tax dollars to the center.
Supporters of the Agri-Center, including Stuart Johnson, chairman of the Agri-Center Advisory Committee who recommended Mitchell to the board, said the facility requires immediate and long-term improvements. However, Supervisor Smith said Monday after the meeting that he agreed the center needs upgrades but wasn't ready to commit a specific amount.
"How much that is will be determined by the amount of progress he makes," Smith said of the new director.
To assist Mitchell during his first year of leading the county center with a current annual budget of $428,313, supervisors also hired Kristi Harris as an "agritainment" consultant for $10,000 as part of a year-long contract.
Harris operates BlueJack Ridge Kids Ranch, a Western-themed farm and ranch aimed at attracting kids ages 3-12 near Poplarville in the southern part of the state.


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This series of posts on the Palaeontology of SW Germany, where I grew up, has gotten a bit longwinded and confusing. Therefore, I'll give you a linklist to those parts dealing with the Urweltmuseum Hauff.
- Introduction
- "rock stair", bio- & lithostratigraphy (has ammonites, too)
- going down the "rock stair" of Holzmaden Posidonia Shale
- monster crinoid colony (World's largest)
- finishing the "rock stair", some life models
- overview of organism groups preserved and some ichthyosaurs
- more ichthyosaurs
- plesiosaurs and crocs
- pterosaurs
So far I have concentrated on the vertebrates (hey, I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist, OK?), but now it is time for some amazing invert stuff. The lack of a spine doesn't mean an animal is soft and squishy, but as usual the Posidonia Shale preserves a lot of squishy stuff on shelled and otherwise hard-tissued animals that elsewhere is normally lost. So now there will be a series of posts showing such fossils, and today's topic are a group of cephalopods: belemnites. Let's start it off with a rather non-special specimen.
Youngibelus tubularis and Acrocoelitis levis.
Longest rostrum is (I guestimate) some 15 cm!
That's how we often find belemnites: the rostrum's tough part, plus some crushed remnants of the hollow shorter part (the phragmocon), but nothing of the animal's soft parts. Check out the nicest specimen I ever found here.
Or, if you are very lucky, you can find a fossil documenting how this typical preservation comes about in many cases:
Palassoteuthis laevigata
This belemnite got munched on by a predator, probably a shark or ichthyosaur. CRUNCH!!! Why the attacker dropped the soft parts with the fragments along with the tough massive rostrum I have no idea.
So, what do those superspecial belemnites with soft tissues look like?
better, hu? Here, Acrocoelites trisulculosus has a complete phragmocon. But that's not really soft tissues. It gets better:
Palassoteuthis laevigata – the biggest known female with tentacles preserved. Note that the ink has spilled a bit, but that the mantle muscle is well constrained.
and here is Palassoteuthis laevigata, the smallest find so far. This one got into the jaws of some hungry predator. It is, I guess, about 33% of the size of the large female above.
Nice taphonomy story with this female Palassoteuthis laevigata: the heavy rostrum pulled the dead or dying animal down when the phragmocon was damaged the the air escaped. It penetrated the mud on the sea floor, whereas the lighter soft tissues settled on the mud surface. We will see something similar for vertebrates in future posts.
This is a longitudinal section, in which you can nicely see that most of the rostrum is solid, and that the widening phragmocon reaches into the solid bit only for a short distance. All the calcite crystals are radially arranged.
Now, finally, for a male of Palassoteuthis laevigata. You can recognize males by the two large hooks with which they grab and hold on to the females. This photo came out a bit greyish, and I did some photoshopping to make the animal stand out more.
The next specimens I need to show in context: the smallest known belemnite rostrum, from a juvenile about 30 mm long overall, next to the hooks of large males. Cool!
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Japanese Kickboxing Scene: November Recap
- Written by Dave Walsh
Here at LiverKick, we try to bring you as much content and fight results as we can. Unfortunately, the Japanese scene has so many kickboxing outlets that sometimes some of the smaller shows don't receive any attention and the results are simply skipped over. To help compensate for that, I am going to start doing a monthly recap of the smaller shows that feature relevant fighters and even bigger shows that I simply didn't have time to do a results post for at the time. This month, we have shows from MA Kick, NJKF, SNKA, M-1MC, J-Network, DEEP*KICK and the return of the Hoost Cup.
11/4 – NJKF: Kick to the Future 8
The big draw here was former NJKF and WBC champion Kunitaka rematching Ekdat Mor Krongthepthonburee, with the winner earning a spot in the top 10 of the Rajadamnern Stadium Featherweight rankings. In another close fight, Kunitaka eked out a split decision on scores of 50-49(x2) and 49-50. The big news coming out of this just recently emerged and that is that Kunitaka will receive a shot at Rajadamnern Stadium Featherweight champion Kaimookdam Aikbangzai on February 17th at Korakuen Hall. Kunitaka will look to become the 5th Japanese Rajadamnern Stadium champion, following in the footsteps of Toshio Fujiwara, Kozo Takeda, Hitoshi Ogasawara and current Super Lightweight champion Hiroki Ishii.
MA Kick: Break 31 ~Absolute~
Top ranked Flyweight Sazanami Satsutama picked up a solid win over Tatsuya Rose in a strange 4 round bout, with scores of 40-38 and 40-39(x2)
11/11 – M-1 Sutt Yod MuayThai vol.4
The two-part card had a myriad of notable fighters in action on both the men's and women's side. In the main event, Kaew Fairtex scored a 2nd round KO of J-Network Super Lightweight champion Yusuke Sugawara. Kaew apparently came out dancing to "Gangnam Style" and carried that confidence into the fight. He followed this up with a 12 second KO at RISE/M-1 Infinity. Naoki Samukawa became the first WPMF Japan Light Heavyweight champion with a one-sided decision win over SHOHEI, scoring a knockdown in the 3rd round and cruising. At Super Lightweight, Buakaw WSR and Shunsuke Oishi fought to a majority draw, which is a bit surprising as Oishi had recently lost to Hidekazu Tanaka, who Buakaw stopped in 3 rounds. In the last major men's bout, J-Network Flyweight champion Yuki moved up to Bantamweight to face #1 ranked J-Network Bantamweight Kenta. Yuki needed an extension round, but showed he could beat top fighters in two weight classes, winning all three judges' scorecards in the extension round.
On the women's side of things, WPMF World Featherweight champion Sawsing Sor. Sopis defended her title with a unanimous decision, defeating AZUMA, who she defeated back in March to win the title. In a fight for the WPMF World Pinweight title, champion Chiharu picked up her third win over Little Tiger to defend her title. Although Little Tiger has had more success outside of their rivalry, Chiharu just seems to have her number. This fight, like their other two, was very close, so a fourth fight seems like a possibility.
K-Spirit 4
The main draw for this card was the retirement match for former MA Kick Bantamweight and Featherweight champion RIOT, rematching the last man to defeat him, Hikaru Machida.
MA Kick/Yamanashi Kickboxing Association 11
In a Featherweight headliner, former MA Kick Featherweight champion Hiroki Fujisawa dropped a decision to #4 ranked RYOTA.
11/17 – NKB: KU Differ Ariake
In an upset, NKB Lightweight champion Yasuyuki scored a 3rd round KO of former WPMF World Lightweight champion Kanongsuk WSR. Kanongsuk has had a disastrous fall from grace over the course of the past year. After consecutive victories over Genki Yamamoto, Rashata and Seiji Takahashi, Kanongsuk was knocked out in a defense of his WPMF title in a comeback effort by Arita Tsukahara, then dropped a pair of fights to Sualek Rukukamai, with a loss to Yuya Yamato coming in between. After a draw with Hikaru Machida and a win over Yoshito Kajita, Kanongsuk drops another fight here. Yasuyuki now has two big wins on his record, with a win over Sualek from last year and is definitely someone to look out for in the future.
Results from the second half of the month after the break
11/18 – J-Network: J-FIGHT in Shinjuku ~vol.28~/J-GIRLS Platinum in the Ring ~FINAL~
Much like M-1, J-Network held a two-part event featuring some of their top male and female fighters. In the main event, Welterweight champion Masato Otake defended his title for the first time against the man he won it from, Atsushi Sasatani via split decision. Otake needed a win here after dropping consecutive fights to Soichiro Miyakoshi and Kousuman. On the women's side, #1 ranked Fir defeated #2 ranked MIHO by unanimous decision for the vacant Mini Flyweight title. In other action, Shootboxing JKS48 Finalist Akari eneos defeated Emi Matsuhita by extension round decision.
11/23 – Hoost Cup Spirit 1
This year's second incarnation of the Hoost Cup saw WPMF Japan Super Bantamweight champion Ryuya Kusakabe rebound from a loss with a 3rd round TKO of Ilias El Hajoui, dropping el Hajoui three times en route to a stoppage. The other Hoost vs Japan fight saw Poland's Joanna Jedrzejczyk defeat J-GIRLS and WBC Japan Featherweight champion Ayano Oishi by extension round decision.
In the main event, prospect Seiya Rokukawa defended his DEEP*KICK 55kg title with a one-sided decision over Yokinobu Nakatsuka, who Rokukawa defeated to win the 55kg Tournament back in February. Solid win for Rokukawa as he rebounds from his first pro loss at RISE 89 to Takashi Ohno. In the 60kg tournament final, Hiroto Tsujide defeated KING Kyosuke by extension round decision to claim the vacant 60kg title. Finally, Krush vets Yuya and Ryukei fought to a very close extension round split decision at 65kg, with Yuya coming out on top and earning a shot at fellow Krush veteran and DEEP*KICK 65kg champ Hiroto Yamaguchi on February 10th.
Fist Kick VIII
In the main event, Yuji Umehara rebounded from a loss to Daiki Nagashima with a 2nd round KO of Thailand's Pepunoi Sitmonchai. In other action, Sazanami Satsutama picked up his second win of the month, this time at Super Flyweight, winning a unanimous decision over Satsoshi Katashima and earning the right to face current WPMF Japan Super Flyweight champ Kiminori Matsuzaki.
SNKA: Kick Insist II
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Monastery of Santa Maria de Santes Creus . The sepulchre of King Peter III was executed from 1291 to 1307 by Bartomeu de Gerona, and looks richer than those of his son (and commissioner of the work), James II, and of the latter's wife, Blanche of Naples. It consists of an urn surrounded by the images of saints, place...


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Alex Pledger has spent nearly four years with the Breakers but it is only now that he feels he truly belongs in the Australian NBL.
The centre has been a presence in the past - it's hard not to when you stand 2.15m - but it has taken time for him to understand how to use his size to his advantage.
The results have been obvious. Apart from the fact the Breakers head into Thursday's opening playoff match against Sydney at Vector Arena as the No 1 ranked side, Pledger has also won two of the last three ANBL Player of the Week awards as he topped 20 points against both Cairns and Melbourne.
It compares favourably to his season average of 10.7 points a game and he leads the league in blocks (1.4 a game), offensive rebounds (89) and sits fourth overall in total rebounds (192).
A lot of that is a by-product of playing increased minutes following the departure last season of import Gary Wilkinson but the transition to starting centre hasn't always been a smooth one.
"I found it quite tough at the start, especially the first half of the season,'' he said. "I think I was putting too much pressure on myself, trying to impress everybody and trying to prove I belong. I was quite inconsistent in that first part of the season, especially on the road.
"I think once the calendar ticked over to 2013 I have been a consistent performer. I think I have had a pretty solid season. It's hard to complain when your team is on top of the table.
"I honestly thought going into the season it would be exactly the same as last year except I would be playing 25 minutes instead of 15. I quickly learned that was the wrong mindset. I have been getting a lot more attention and people are playing me a lot more physically and it took me a little while to adjust. I took the pressure off myself, relaxed a little bit and started to play my game and in the second half of the season I had some pretty good results. I definitely feel I belong in the league now.''
Part of that came from realising he is big, genuinely big. Coach Andrej Lemanis reminded him that, as the tallest player in the league, he is virtually impossible to stop if he uses his size properly. He also continues to get advice from three-time NBA champion centre Luc Longley, who took on a mentoring role with Pledger last year.
Pledger, who turns 26 today, will be a crucial ingredient if the Breakers are to collect their third-straight ANBL title and he will need to match up well against Sydney centre Ian Crosswhite, who has the potential to trouble the Breakers.
The Kings might have an inferior record with 12 wins and 16 defeats but they have been a tricky opponent for the Breakers all season, given they are one of only two teams to beat the defending champions. They also lost two other matches to the Breakers on the last shot of the match.
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Petrarch 1304-1374
(Born Francesco Petracco; changed to Petrarca; also referred to as Francis Petrarch) Italian poet, philosopher, and biographer.
One of the most prominent and influential poets in world literature, Petrarch is a major figure in humanist philosophy and the early Italian Renaissance. Through his Canzoniere (begun 1330s), a collection of poems expressing his unrequited love for a woman named Laura, he popularized the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet and influenced poets throughout Europe with his imagery, themes, and diction for more than three hundred years.
Biographical InformationBorn in Arezzo, Italy, in 1304, Petrarch was the eldest son of a notary who had been banished from Florence two years earlier for his political activities. In 1312 the family moved to Avignon, France, where Petrarch's father established a successful law practice. Petrarch was privately educated by tutors, and in 1316 he began studying civil law in Montpellier. While there Petrarch's habit of spending his allowance on the works of classical poets led his father on one occasion to burn Petrarch's library except for copies of works by Vergil and Cicero. Around this time Petrarch's mother died, and he composed his earliest known poem as a tribute to her. Petrarch and his younger brother, Gherardo, who later became a monk, entered law school in Bologna, Italy, in 1320, where—except for interruptions caused by student riots—they remained until the death of their father in 1326. After abandoning his legal studies and exhausting his inheritance, Petrarch settled in Avignon and took the minor orders necessary to pursue an ecclesiastical career. While attending services on Good Friday, 1327, Petrarch purportedly saw and fell in love with a woman he called Laura. For the remainder of his life Petrarch wrote lyrics about his unrequited love for her, initially gathering them in a volume around 1336 and revising and expanding the collection thereafter. In 1330 Petrarch became a private chaplain to Cardinal Giovanni Colonna and remained in the service of the Colonna family for almost twenty years. During this time he composed or revised most of his major works, traveled on diplomatic missions, and maintained extensive correspondence with friends, scholars, and nobility throughout Europe. Because his works were widely distributed, Petrarch's passion for Laura and his talents as a lyric poet became well known and admired. In 1340 Petrarch received simultaneous invitations to be poet laureate in Paris and in Rome; after some deliberation he accepted the invitation to Rome. On Easter Sunday in 1341 an elaborate ceremony was held in the Palace of the Senate on Capitoline Hill to coronate Petrarch as poet laureate of Rome; the last ceremony of this magnitude is thought to have been held more than a thousand years earlier. Over the next three decades Petrarch continued to travel widely on diplomatic missions and personal business while continuing his literary endeavors. In 1370 he settled in the village of Arqua, Italy, and focused much of his efforts on revising and collecting his earlier works. Petrarch died on July 18, 1374.
Major Works
Although best known for his Italian poetry—Trionfi (The Triumphs; begun 1338) and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Canzoniere)—Petrarch composed most of his writings in Latin. His major poetic works include the Africa (begun 1338-39), The Triumphs, and Canzoniere. The Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameter celebrating the victory of the Roman general Scipio Africanus over the Carthaginian general Hannibal in the Second Punic War. During the Renaissance, Petrarch's most popular work was The Triumphs, a long allegorical poem in six parts—Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity—that portrayed the spiritual journey of the soul from the temporal world to eternity. Written in Italian terza rima verse, The Triumphs was particularly esteemed for its encyclopedic catalogs of famous persons, its visionary outlook, concern with worldly vanities, and emphasis on salvation through God. Petrarch called his most lasting poetic work Rerum vulgarium fragmenta ("Fragments in the Vernacular"), but since his time this work has been variously referred to as the Rime, Rime sparse, Rhymes, and, most commonly, the Canzoniere. In its final form the Canzoniere consists of 366 poems: 317 sonnets, 29 canzone, 9 sestinas, 7 ballads, and 4 madrigals. The collection is divided into two parts; the first section contains 266 poems—the majority of which focus on Laura during her lifetime, with some political, moral, and miscellaneous poems interspersed, while the poems in the second section of the Canzoniere are reminiscences about Laura after her death. Throughout the Canzoniere the narrator reflects upon his passion for Laura, the suffering caused by his unrequited love, and his efforts to free himself from his desire. The final poem of the Canzoniere closes with a plea to the Virgin Mary to end the narrator's heartache. While Laura's existence and identity remain uncertain, critics have observed that she has served as the epitome of feminine virtue and beauty for generations of poets. Petrarch's major prose works include De viris illustrious (On Illustrious Men; begun 1337); Secretum (Petrarch's Secret; begun 1342-43); De otio religioso (On Religious Idleness; 1345-47); and De remediis utriusque fortunae (Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul; begun 1353). On Illustrious Men is a collection of biographies covering such famous Romans as Romulus, Cincinnatus, and Scipio. Petrarch's Secret consists of three dialogues in which Augustine, who personifies the religious ideal, scolds Petrarch for failing to achieve the ideal. Dedicated to the Carthusian religious order, of which Petrarch's brother Gherardo was a member, On Religious Idleness examines the benefits of the religious life, particularly the ability to resist temptation. Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul discusses the proper way to live and die under varied circumstances. Petrarch characterizes life as difficult and fraught with troubles and argues that human weakness springs from our abandonment of virtue. Stressing Christian values, self-examination, and individual responsibility, Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul was immensely popular during the early Renaissance.
Critical Reception
Petrarch is credited with popularizing—but not inventing—the Italian sonnet, a poetic form with an octet rhyming in the pattern abbaabba and a sestet that usually follows the pattern cdecde. His works in this form are generally regarded as his most significant contribution to literature, and numerous critics have credited Petrarch with reviving traditional poetic forms. Commentators have noted the relationship between form and meaning in his poetry, his use of complex syntax, and his imagery. Scholars have also frequently discussed the theme of tension between the body and spirit in Petrarch's works, his extensive use of classical mythology, his celebration of statesmen and leaders from the classical period, and his contributions to humanist philosophy, particularly his efforts to reconcile Christian and pagan ideals. As Christopher Kleinhenz observed, "The 317 sonnets that provide the form and essence of the poetic corpus of the Canzoniere are without doubt one of the finest literary legacies ever bequeathed to mankind. In their attempts to define the excellence of the Petrarchan sonnet, critics praise it for its precision and compactness, for its graceful symmetry and vibrant musicality, and for its noble sentiments and intimate tones."
Principal Works
*Rerum familiarium libra [Books on Personal Matters] (letters) 1325-1366
†Rerum vulgarium fragmenta [Canzoniere] (poetry) begun 1330s
De viris illustribus [On Illustrious Men] (biographies) begun 1337
Africa (unfinished epic poem) begun 1338-1339
Trionfi [The Triumphs] (unfinished poem) begun 1338
Secretum [Petrarch's Secret] (dialogues) begun 1342-1343
Rerum memorandarum libri [Books on Matters to Be Remembered] (prose) begun 1342-1343
Psalmi poemitentiales [Penitential Psalms] (poetry) begun 1342-1343
De otio religioso [On Religious Idleness] (essay) 1345-1347
Bucolicum carmen [Bucolic Song] (poetry) begun 1345-1347
De vita solitaria [On the Solitary Life] (essay) 1345-1347
Liber sine nomine [Petrarch's Book without a Name] (letters) 1351-1353
De remediis utriusque fortunae [Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul] (dialogues) begun 1353
Epistolae seniles [Letters of Old Age] (letters) 1361-1374
De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia [On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others] (essay) 1367
Letters from Petrarch [translated by Morris Bishop] (letters) 1966
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics [translated by Robert M. Durling] (poetry) 1976
Rime Disperse [translated by Joseph A. Barber] (poetry) 1991
*These letters are also collectively known as the Familiares.
†This work is also known as the Rhymes, Rime, and Rime sparse.
Ugo Foscolo (essay date 1823)
SOURCE: Ugo Foscolo, "A Parallel between Dante and Petrarach," in Essays on Petrarch, John Murray, 1823, pp. 163-208.
[In the following essay, Foscolo, a renowed Italian poet, compares the poetry and philosophy of Dante and Petrarch.]
The excess of erudition in the age of Leo the Tenth, carried the refinements of criticism so far as even to prefer elegance of taste to boldness of genius. The laws of the Italian language were thus deduced, and the models of poetry selected exclusively from the works of Petrarch; who being then proclaimed superior to Dante, the sentence remained, until...
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Littell's Living Age (essay date 1878)
SOURCE: "Petrarch," in Littell's Living Age, Vol. XXIV, No. 1802, December, 1878, pp. 771-87.
[In the review below, the anonymous critic remarks on Henry Reeve's Petrarch (1878) and discusses Petrarch's contribution to the Italian Renaissance as a humanist and poetic stylist.]
The true position of Petrarch in the history of modern culture has recently been better understood, owing to a renewed and careful examination of his Latin works in prose and verse. Not very long ago he lived upon the lips of all educated people as the lover of Laura, the poet of the canzoniere, the hermit of Vaucluse, the founder of a school of sentimental sonneteers called...
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Henry Dwight Sedgwick (essay date 1904)
SOURCE: Henry Dwight Sedgwick, "Francis Petrarch, 1304-1904," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XCIV, No. LXI, July, 1904, pp. 60-9.
[In the excerpt below, Sedgwick celebrates the six hundreth anniversary of Petrarch's birth with a laudatory survey of the poet's life and literary importance.]
Six hundred years ago, on the 20th of July, 1304, a little Florentine baby was born into exile in a house on Via dell' Orto in Arezzo, whither his father, banished from Florence, had fled. Civil war between Ghibelline and Guelf raged everywhere, mingled with ambitions of nobles and jealousies of cities, with local wrongs and chance enmities. Exiles found no rest; within the year the...
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Annie Russell Marble (essay date 1904)
SOURCE: Annie Russell Marble, "Petrarch" and "Modern Echoes of Petrarch," in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. XXXVI, No. 434, July 16, 1904, pp. 27-9, 29-31.
[In the essay below, Marble discusses Petrarch's influence on poetry from the Renaissance to the present.]
In the summer of 1304, the exiled Ghibellines, including in their number the greatest of Italian poets, made their headquarters in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, whence they vainly sought to effect a return to their beloved Florence, which had cast them forth with contumely. One of these exiles, expelled from Florence on the same day with Dante something more than two years earlier, was a scholar and politician of some...
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Nathan Haskell Dole (essay date 1908)
SOURCE: Nathan Haskell Dole, "Lyric Poetry and Petrarca," in A Teacher of Dante and Other Studies in Italian Literature, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908, pp. 89-141.
[In the following excerpt, Dole provides an overview of Petrarch's life, focusing on the poet's adoration for Laura and the poetry he dedicated to her.]
In passing from Dante to Petrarca we come into another world. Dante closes an era: he is the Titan of Italian poetry; with him the mediæval is summed up forever.
Petrarca is as modern as Chaucer. Just as in midsummer, sometimes, a few days of genuine spring weather seem to stray like summer birds from their exile in the South, as if...
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Theodor E. Mommsen (essay date 1946)
SOURCE: Theodor E. Mommsen, "An Introduction to Petrarch's Sonnets and Songs," in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, edited by Eugene F. Rice, Jr., Cornell, 1959, pp. 73-100.
[In the following essay, Mommsen contrasts the critiques of Petrarch's poetry offered by his peers with those of subsequent generations, arguing that during Petrarch's lifetime he was valued for his classical style, while later scholars praised his originality.]
Petrarch presents in his life and work a most interesting example of a complete mutation in literary fame. For there exists in critical annals a very marked and curious contrast between his reputation among his contemporaries and in...
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Thomas P. Roche, Jr. (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: Thomas P. Roche, Jr., "The Calendrical Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere" in Studies in Philology, Vol. LXXI, No. 2, April, 1974, pp. 152-72.
[In the essay below, Roche argues that Petrarch consciously utilized Renaissance concepts of numerology in the structuring of the Canzoniere.]
The purpose of this essay is to argue that the ordering of the three hundred and sixty-six poems in Petrarch's Canzoniere is numerologically oriented and that one of the main structures in this ordering is a calendrical framework that places the Canzoniere unequivocally in the context of fourteenth-century Christian morality. Without even...
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Francis X. Murphy (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: Francis X. Murphy, "Petrarch and the Christian Philosophy," in Francesco Petrarca: Citizen of the World, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo, State University of New York Press, 1980, pp. 223-47.
[In the excerpt below, Murphy examines Petrarch's humanism and argues that he was a "genuine Christian philosopher."]
During the month of February, 1325, Francesco Petrarca purchased a manuscript of the De civitate dei of St. Augustine for 12 florins from the executors of Cinthius, a cantor of Tours. The budding poet was twenty-one, and on leave in Avignon from his legal studies in Bologna. This information is contained in a note in his own hand on the manuscript, and...
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Concetta Carestia Greenfield (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: Concetta Carestia Greenfield, "The Poetics of Francis Petrarch," in Francis Petrarch, Six Centuries Later: A Symposium, edited by Aldo Scaglione, University of North Carolina Press and The Newberry Library, 1975, pp. 213-22.
[In the following essay, Greenfield examines Petrarch's poetics as it relates to Platonism, Aristotelianism, and the legitimacy of pagan literature from the classical period. Greenfield concludes that Petrarch's poetics was "an elaboration of the rhetorical and Platonic tradition against the new Aristotelianism"]
Poetry for Petrarch was the catalyst for a humanist awakening, the symbol of a renewed consciousness. Salutati and Boccaccio...
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Robert M. Durling (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: Robert M. Durling, in an introduction to Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics, edited and translated by Robert M. Durling, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 1-33.
[In the essay below, Durling provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of the Rime sparse.]
Ser Petracco (or, as he sometimes spelled it, Petrarcha) of Florence was exiled from his native city in 1301, at the same time as his friend Dante Alighieri; but his later life was much more prosperous than Dante's. Along with many other Italians he eventually moved to Avignon, the new seat of the papacy, where he became one of the most successful members of the legal...
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Charles Trinkaus (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: Charles Trinkaus, "Petrarch and Classical Philosophy," in The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness, Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 1-26.
[In the following excerpt, Trinkaus examines Petrarch's contributions as a philosopher and argues that his "conception of ancient philosophy was shaped by his sensibilities as a poet."]
Petrarch's knowledge of ancient thought was amazingly extensive. Yet how he incorporated this knowledge into his own philosophy is not entirely clear. De Nolhac and Sabbadini laid the foundations for our efforts to reconstruct Petrarch's classical humanism, and Billanovich, Pellegrin, and Wilkins, with...
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Mariann Sanders Regan (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Mariann Sanders Regan, "Petrarch," in Love Words: The Self and the Text in Medieval and Renaissance Poetry, Cornell, 1982, pp. 184-222.
[In the following excerpt, Regan focuses on themes of love and self-examination in her reading of the Rime sparse.]
et perché 'l mio martir non giunga a riva,
mille volte il dì moro et mille nasco,
tanto da la salute mia son lunge.1
We cannot intuit Lover infans in Petrarch's Canzoniere so easily or directly as we can in the lyrics by Dante and Arnaut Daniel. For through the metaphoric language of fusion, an...
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Gordon Braden (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Gordon Braden, "Love and Fame: The Petrarchan Career," in Pragmatism's Freud: The Moral Disposition of Psychoanalysis, edited by Joseph K. Smith and William Kerrigan, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, pp. 126-58.
[In the essay below, Braden bases his discussion of Petrarch's love poetry on Freud's ideas concerning "unconventional object choices."]
"The most striking distinction between the erotic life of antiquity and our own," Freud ventures in a late footnote to his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, "no doubt lies in the fact that the ancients laid the stress upon the instinct itself, whereas we emphasize its object. The ancients...
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Peter Hainsworth (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Peter Hainsworth, in an introduction to Petrarch the Poet: An Introduction to the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, Routledge, 1988, pp. 1-29.
[In the following essay, Hainsworth focuses on Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, which is commonly known as the Canzoniere or Rime sparse. Hainsworth discusses the context in the which the poems were written and examines Petrarch's concern with humanism and the meaning of poetry.]
Two languages
Italian literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is composed in the shadow of Latin. The shadow may seem sometimes shorter, sometimes longer, but it is inevitably there, evoking...
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Further Reading
Wilkins, Ernest H. Life of Petrarch. Chicago: Phoenix Books/ University of Chicago Press, 1961, 276 p.
Standard biography of Petrarch.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. "Humanism and Monastic Spirituality in Petrarch." Stanford Literature Review 5, Nos. 1-2 (1988): 57-74.
Discusses Petrarch's ideas on asceticism, secular humanism, and spirituality, focusing on Petrarch's De vita solitaria and De otio religioso as well as his relationship with his brother Gherardo, who was a monk.
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I think I mentioned a while back that IE8 is the highest version of IE that works for Windows XP. It was working so-o-o slowly that I finally installed Chrome. That worked much faster and wasn't crashing like IE was.
Then Chrome installed an upgrade the other day ... slowed down my whole computer; put in toolbars I told it not to put there. A mess. Plus it was crashing every couple of hours, plus taking forever to download a page just about everywhere.
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CajunGrocer offers five varieties of Turduckens for you to choose from including Creole Pork & cornbread stuffing, seafood jambalaya, Creole sausage, cornbread only and chicken sausage.
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If you're entertaining a smaller group, consider serving a Turducken Roll which is made with only turkey breast meat rather than a whole bird. Serve the turducken of your choice with a green bean casserole, eggplant casserole and bread pudding for dessert and you'll have a delicious Cajun style meal.
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How To Make a Turducken!This Turducken recipe makes anyone into a gourmet chef.
If you're looking for a truly delectable dish to serve at your next party or family gathering then consider preparing a turducken for your friends and family. A turducken is simply a turkey that is stuffed with a duck that is stuffed with a chicken, and layers of flavorful dressings and stuffings. In the last few years, the turducken has become a popular main course for both Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday meals. Regardless of the occasion you're celebrating, this twist on a traditional roasted turkey is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Follow the recipe below to prepare a turducken of your own at home.
Cajun Style Turducken What you'll need:
- 20 - 25 lb. whole turkey, deboned with wings and legs still intact.
- 5 - 6 lb. whole duckling, deboned
- 3 - 4 lb. whole chicken, deboned Poultry seasoning blend
- Cornbread Stuffing (recipe listed below)
- Cajun Rice Dressing (recipe listed below)
- Shrimp Stuffing (recipe listed below)
- Kitchen string Cotton thread and a large needle
Have the birds deboned by your butcher to save yourself quite a bit of time, but if you're a particularly adventurous cook you can do it yourself. Professional Cutlery Direct provides step by step instructions for deboning poultry. Just be sure to keep the wings and legs on the turkey, that way the finished turducken will still look like a turkey.
It's best to prepare each stuffing ahead of time so that they have time to cool before you are ready to assemble your turducken. A basic stuffing recipe is listed below, and it can easily be adapted for any flavor that you choose.
Cornbread Stuffing
- 2 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 4 cups cornbread (crumbled)
- 1/2 lb. chopped chicken livers
- 1/2 lb. chopped chicken gizzards
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped bell pepper
- Poultry seasoning, salt and black pepper (add according to taste)
- Butter or olive oil for sauting vegetables
- Chicken broth
Brown chopped chicken livers and gizzards over medium heat in cooking oil. Add celery, onion, and bell pepper cook until soft. Season with salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning. Add crumbled cornbread to vegetables and meat. Pour chicken broth into mixture until it reaches the desired consistency. Adjust seasoning and cool before stuffing bird.
Cajun Rice Dressing
- 2 Tbsp. cooking oil
- lb. ground beef
- 4 cups cooked white rice
- 1 cup chopped bell pepper
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 2 cups beef broth
- Salt and black pepper (to suit taste)
Brown ground beef over medium heat in cooking oil. Add celery, onion, bell pepper and garlic cook until soft. Season with salt, pepper, and Cajun seasoning. Add the cream of mushroom soup to the pot and heat through. Mix cooked rice with beef and vegetables. Pour beef broth into mixture until it reaches the desired consistency. Adjust seasoning and cool before stuffing bird.
Shrimp Stuffing
- 2 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 4 cups cooked rice
- 2 lb. chopped shrimp (raw)
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- Salt and black pepper (to suit taste) Dash of red (cayenne) pepper
Saute celery, onion, and bell pepper until soft. Pour in diced tomatoes. Add chopped shrimp, cook until slightly pink. Season with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Combine with cooked rice. Add a little water if stuffing seems dry. Adjust seasoning and cool before stuffing bird.
Assembling the Turducken
Begin by placing the turkey skin side down and seasoning it well with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Then spread the cornbread stuffing over the turkey. Next, place the duck on top of the cornbread stuffing and spread the Cajun rice dressing over it. You will then place the chicken on top of the Cajun rice dressing and add the shrimp stuffing. Each stuffing layer should be approximately 1/2 inch thick. Any leftover stuffing can be placed in casserole dishes and baked at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 30 minutes.
Once you've stuffed each bird, fold the sides of the turkey together to close the bird. Enlist someone to help hold the turkey closed as you begin to sew up the opening. The stitches should be spaced about 1 inch apart. You finish sewing the Turducken tie the legs together, just above the tip bones. Be sure to place the Turducken breast side up while cooking.
Once the turducken is assembled, place the turducken in a large roasting pan and cook in a 325 degrees Fahrenheit preheated oven. Alternatively, you can place the turducken on aluminum foil or in an aluminum pan, and then cook on a 350 degrees Fahrenheit grill or smoker.
Regardless of which method you choose to use you should cook the bird until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest area on the bundle reaches an internal temperature reaches 180 degrees Fahrenheit (165 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature for cooking poultry, but 180 degrees Fahrenheit will ensure that the turducken is fully cooked all the way through). The USDA recommends that a stuffed turkey of this size will generally take 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hours to cook, but your best bet is to rely on the meat thermometer.
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Where's Bird's Inner Chicken?
By ALEXANDRA WOLFE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Growing up in Covington, La., Mickey Harris could just head to his local grocery store to pick up a "turducken": a turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken. But when the 40-year-old real-estate consultant moved to Southern California six years ago, the Cajun specialty dropped off his menu.
Now, Mr. Harris is getting tradition delivered on ice. He's ordering his first turducken online, and plans to serve the poultry trifecta to Thanksgiving guests at his Del Mar home. "It's all about maintaining your roots," he says. "When you grow up in the swamp with mosquitoes, you're going to have a sense of humor, or how else are you going to come up with a turducken?"
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These birds of a feather, cooked together, have migrated from regional oddity to national foodie fad. From the outside, a turducken looks like a turkey, but when you cut through it -- the turkey is partly deboned, and the duck and chicken are boneless -- you get concentric rings of poultry and stuffing. The stuffing is typically cornbread, rice, or andouille-and-crawfish. For poultry-lovers (or the indecisive) it's one-stop shopping.
Three birds in one: Slicing the turducken reveals the nested fowl.
There are now at least a dozen online turducken sellers who ship the dish anywhere in the U.S. Kevin Trahan, owner of Cajun Stuff, a food purveyor based in Houston, says that when he launched his Web site in 1997, he was the only one selling turducken online. His Web turducken sales have increased 20% annually since then, and he expects to ship 2,500 turduckens this holiday season. Hickory Farms, the mail-order giant, says it has recently shipped turduckens to Hawaii and Alaska. The Institute of Culinary Education, a New York cooking school, introduced a turducken-making class to its curriculum last year.
Since most people have neither the time nor the butchering skills to prepare a fresh turducken (roughly a 12-hour project from de-feathering to carving), we decided to wing it by ordering six frozen turduckens from different online stores. The turduckens were delivered packed on ice -- except one, and we're way too chicken to try unrefrigerated poultry.
We assembled a group of tasters and had our turduckens cooked at the Institute of Culinary Education, which gave us the use of five ovens and the help of its staff for our battle of the birds. As we waited roughly five hours for our flock to roast, we wondered: Would turducken-by-mail deliver the medley of flavors prized in the Bayou? Would the skin be crisp and the meat be moist -- or the other way around? Or would the whole thing fall apart like a cheap Russian nesting doll? And with the turduckens costing from $60 to $115, is this triple entente of flavor really worth it?
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Geological Cross-section
The first turducken we tasted was from Hickory Farms. Unlike the others, it contained rice stuffing, which was falling out of the turducken before it went in the oven. Things got sloppier from there. Though its skin was crispy and golden brown, rice spewed everywhere the moment we cut into the breast. We also found this turducken to be a little skimpy on its crucial innermost component. One taster poked around his dish, wondering, "Where's the chicken?"
In almost every case, we found the duck portion of our turduckens to be far too tough and gamey to be enjoyed, but the turducken from French Market Foods was an exception: "The duck is actually edible!" one taster exclaimed. The stuffing was thick and rich with a strong taste of pork sausage, but yet again, the chicken was elusive: We didn't see it until we were almost done slicing through the bird.
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The turducken from Gourmet Foods arrived with a string that wraps around the bird like a net, and stays on until just before it's carved. Each layer of poultry and stuffing was clearly visible when we sliced into it -- it looked like a geological cross-section. The stuffing was good and spicy, but the duck was one of the driest we tasted. The underlying chicken, however, was surprisingly tender and moist. "How does the chicken stay juicy when you can barely bite into the duck?" one taster asked.
Turduckens date back at least to the mid-1960s, when Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme says he invented them -- but their origin is still debated. In an attempt to make a turkey easier to carve, he says he removed its bones, but the bird didn't hold up. After 10 years of trying, he says, "I started putting more than one thing together -- chicken and the duck to hold the turkey up -- with three different dressings."
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But Brian Buckley, an instructor at the Institute, says the turducken is likely based on the galantine, an 18th-century French combination of a deboned bird stuffed with forcemeat, a smooth mixture of finely ground veal, poultry, fish, vegetables or fruit mixed with bread crumbs and seasonings. Since Cajuns came to Louisiana in the late 18th century from French Canada, it's likely that they brought this recipe with them.
Cajun Stuff's turducken had by far the most advanced packaging. It was the only one to arrive in vacuum-sealed wrapping, which the company says keeps the bird fresh and juicy. When we carved it, the layers were clearly defined. Chef Andrew Gold, an instructor at the Institute, held two fingers together, "I could slice it this thin!" he said. But while pleasing to the eye, this bird was disappointing to the palate. "All the flavors blend together," said one taster. "Everything is too spicy," said another.
Our tasters found the turducken from CajunGrocer.com to be the most moist and tender. "The chicken is succulent," raved one. The cornbread stuffing was heartier and sweeter than the others. "It's like a corn muffin with pork," a taster said of the stuffing. What could be better than that? Of all our birds, this one was Best Overall. It was also one of the least expensive turduckens we ordered, so it's also our Best Value.
Hickory Farms
In the end, we thought that turducken -- despite being an elaborate feat of poultry engineering -- basically tastes like, well, chicken. And turkey. And duck. Most agreed with one taster, Jacob Snyder, a Los Angeles writer/producer, who said: "I'd much rather have a perfectly cooked turkey or duck or chicken." For others, though, the experience merely whetted their appetite for a greater culinary challenge. That would be fowl de cochon: 30 to 100 pounds of quail stuffed into a chicken, stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a turkey, stuffed into a pig.
Turducken with Cornbread Dressing, $59.95
QUALITY: Best Overall and Best Value. This bird, one of the largest we tested, was consistently tender. We loved the stuffing and Cajun spices.
SHIPPING COST/TIME: $28.13 for two-day shipping; $17 to $20 for Ground shipping. We paid $10 extra to overnight it over a weekend and got it in two.
RETURN POLICY: If the package or bird is defective, they give a full refund.
PHONE/WEB EXPERIENCE: The Turducken was easy to locate from the home page.
COMMENT: The site also offers a "qua-duc-ant" (a quail stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a pheasant).
Gourmet Foods
Gourmet Cajun Turducken, Cornbread Stuffed, $59.99
QUALITY: This was the only one of our birds that came wrapped in string to hold it together, allowing the bird to retain its heat and moisture post-cooking.
SHIPPING COST/TIME: $64.94. Delivered it in three business days -- but to our billing address. They offered a refund.
RETURN POLICY: Refund if damages or shipping problems; they pay shipping fees.
PHONE/WEB EXPERIENCE: This Web site was the easiest to navigate with a Turducken banner right on the home page.
COMMENT: Apologetic about the shipping problem and called us back quickly. When we ordered, our bird cost $69.99.
Cajun Stuff
Turducken, $114.95
QUALITY: This one's layers held together the best, but the flavors blended too much and tasted saltier than the others.
SHIPPING COST/TIME: Free shipping for two-day air. Overnight is $20 more. Ours arrived on time.
RETURN POLICY: Can be refunded if damaged, minus shipping fee.
PHONE/WEB EXPERIENCE: The turducken is front-and-center on the Web site with cooking information.
COMMENT: Site was easy to navigate and included customer reviews of available products.
French Market Foods
Turducken, Louisiana stuffing, $59.95
QUALITY: The duck was more moist than the other turduckens, but chicken was hard to find. Cornbread stuffing was a bit heavy with a strong taste of pork.
SHIPPING COST/TIME: $35 for three-day shipping. It arrived on time.
RETURN POLICY: French Market will refund the price of the bird and the shipping if defective.
PHONE/WEB EXPERIENCE: You have to register before checking out, which adds an unnecessary step.
COMMENT: Louisiana-based site asks if you want the bird shipped within or out of state (higher price out of state).
Hickory Farms
Turducken, $109.95
QUALITY: Rice-based stuffing started to fall out immediately after we took it out of the oven. The turkey and duck were dry.
SHIPPING COST/TIME: $33.85. Two-to-three-day shipping arrived early, on next business day.
RETURN POLICY: If defective, will ship another. Will also refund, minus shipping.
PHONE/WEB EXPERIENCE: Turducken was hidden on Web site that promotes mostly gifts and gift baskets.
COMMENT: Site suggests accompaniments, and will include a personalized gift card.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Problem with Social Networking
Social networking is meant to network us...socially. You can do what you like with your blog, your tweet feed, your online presence in general. But how you put yourself out there will affect your relationship with readers.
I'll say it again: Relationship. Social networking builds relationships between people. That's the primary reason folks use Facebook - to connect. And the masses are often very annoyed when all they see in a feed is pimping. They unfollow, unfriend, unlike, unhook. They disconnect.
The best way for you to sell your books is not to tell us all about them every time you have a second and 140 characters to spare. That's not why we're watching you. We want to connect with you. Even if you're only comfortable telling us about your writing journey, your perspectives during the editing cycle, your dread at the insane blog tour schedule your publicist has given you, that's preferable to an endless reminder that you're trying to sell your book. Even better, if you can share some details of your life -- under the guise of your author persona -- we will connect with you. Interact with us, respond to us in these public forums, and you might have a fan for life.
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5 comments:
- Donnell said...
Love this, KL! Thank you!
- January 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Theresa said...
I lOVE this post! Yea! I agree. When did humble go out of vogue? A humble, entertaining, giving person is a compelling person to me. That's what snags me and then I will check out their books.
I love that you remind us that social networking is about relationships! Thanks!
PS--it also takes the pressure off of pimping ourselves, which most of us hate to do.
- January 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM
- Lori Corsentino said...
Great post! I so agree. It makes me a bit sad sometimes to continually see an author's "ads" and not see anything else, like how their writing is going or how they just got a request for a partial!
It is all about the give and take of a relationship. That said, I'm a fine one to talk. I don't often post or tweet or read/respond to blogs (time factor). BUT - I'm really going to try this year to get more involved and get those connections going.
Guess it's time to get serious about blogging! :)
- January 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- KL Grady said...
Thanks, y'all. I think this is an important and often forgotten element of social networking - the fact that it's all about forging and maintaining relationships.
- January 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM
- Harry McDaniel said...
There are also some disadvantage that you should know about using social networking and be careful of those problem in social networking because that will bring you in failure.
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The Dartmouth Equestrian Team had a stellar day at the IHSA Zone I New England Championship at Mount Holyoke College, sending two-of-five qualifiers on to the IHSA National Championships.
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*KTG739 10/11 FCC Modification, adding repeaters at multiple locations (many are currently licensed)
(3) Marshfield-155.745R (158.9925) (4) Fordland-158.85R (154.085) (5) Elkland-154.025 (154.077) (6) Niangua-155.6175R (153.8375) (7) Seymour-155.19R (159.1725)
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I believe Webster County Sheriff's Department has a new Southern channel instead of 158.85.. I have been hearing Webster County on 155.925 114.8 PL. I have heard 700 units on this channel which is Fordland Police numbers and i have heard Webster county giving out BOLO's to Webster units about Greene County on this channel. I have not heard any traffic on 158.85 at all. [Note, see Rogersville listings]
Agreement with Webster County. Call signs are 790s
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Gregory R. Coleman Jr. Obituary
COLEMAN, GREGORY R. JR.; of Waterford; October 1, 2014; age 31. Dear son of Diane and Greg Sr.; beloved brother of Cody, Angela, and Tiffany; nephew of Nancy (Paul) Czartorski, Susan (Mark) Kile, Charles (JoAnne) McSwigan, Teri (Duane) Boyd and Lisa Luteran; grandson of Charles McSwigan "Pap-Pap", the late Lois, Arlene Luteran, and the late Robert. Also survived by many cousins. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at the RIVERSIDE CHAPEL, Simpson-Modetz Funeral Home, 5630 Pontiac Lake Road, Waterford. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday 3 to 8 p.m. If desired, memorials may be made to the family. Online guestbook www.modetzfuneralhomes.comPublished in Daily Tribune on Oct. 6, 2014+Read More Share Listen to Obituary Remember Share a message, photo, or video below View all messages 3 "So sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts are with you and..."- Barb Bogus"Deeply sorrow over your tragic loss. You are in our thoughts..."- Trish Luetzow"Red always had a smile for everyone. You could count on him..."- Jodi George Add a memory or condolence to the guest book Add Message Please add or record a video for the family of Gregory Coleman Add a video + Please add a photo and share in the life story for Gregory Coleman Add a photo + http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailytribune/obituary.aspx?n=gregory-r-coleman&pid=172700455&fhid=6128


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Washington County Flu Shot Schedule
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Washington County Public Health is giving area residents 26 opportunities to get flu shots in October. Public Health Director Chrystal Woller says a flu shot is the "best choice to prevent the spread of flu and to protect yourself, your family, and your community." Shots are adjusted to cover different strains each year, and this year's mix includes protection against H1N1. While children and senior citizens are especially at risk for flu complications, Washington health officials are recommending everyone over six months get vaccinated this fall. The cost of the shot is $25, and Medicare coverage will be accepted. For a full listing of October flu shot locations and times, visit washph.com [1].
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I found this in the comment section of a local article talking about
how CA unemployment is 8.3%... Third highest in the nation..
As the CEO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned
myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our next President, and that
our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To
compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients would have
to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot
increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we
will have to lay off eight of our employees instead. This has really
been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I
didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did.
I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers
on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first
to be laid off.
I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks
wanted change; I gave it to them. If you have a better idea, let me
Sincerely, The Boss!