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It's the first time the company has given away a piece of its product line. Doing so will boost the adoption of an industry standard, the recently released Unified Modeling Language 2.1, which Telelogic Modeler supports, says Scott McKorkle, director of product marketing. UML allows engineers and system designers to build a model of a software application using a set of standard symbols and syntax.
The software giveaway will also boost the potential market for follow-on tools from Telelogic priced at $1,200 to $1,500 per seat, including Telelogic Rhapsody, which automatically generate codes from models and manages the development and test process, and Telelogic Tau, which provides analysis of complex systems and is used for code development. These tools tend to be used in large telecommunications, defense, and aerospace companies, says McKorkle.
"Five-man shops often don't have exposure to a UML modeling tool," he says. By making Modeler available for free download, some small development staffs may start using UML 2.1 and perhaps other Telelogic tools.
Modeler is available for download from Telelogic's Web site. Telelogic will also make an upgraded version available for $100 per user, minimum quantity 100 users.
Working with Modeler results in a software system specification. In traditional shops, C or Java developers produce lines of code based on the dictates of the specification.
But UML modeling allows models to be aligned with the lines of source code. If the model changes, the parts of the code that need to be changed are highlighted and changed; if the code moves from the model in the process of development, the model can be changed to reflect what the developers have done, with project manager approval.
The model and source code can be kept consistent, provided they're being developed with tools that support UML 2.0 or 2.1, says McKorkle.
IBM's Rational Software unit, Compuware, and Borland Software's subsidiary Codegear also supply tools that produce UML models.


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Overview of Demonstration Sites
The project period for the demonstration sites was only one year; therefore, LHDs with strong relationships with local school systems were selected through a competitive process and challenged to take their programs a step further.
Both Portland and Stamford had well-established programs working with and/or in their local schools and have extensive involvement with their communities through involvement on local coalitions. Both programs target youth in grades 7-12, particularly youth considered to be at high risk.
The sites were able to access to youth through school-based health clinics and also worked with youth in the classroom, in other schools settings (e.g., mental health counseling), and in community settings with school-aged youth. In addition, both demonstration sites addressed the broad spectrum of factors that affect sexual risk behavior, including mental health and substance abuse.
Final Analysis of 2004-2005 Demonstration Sites
Criteria for the Demonstration Sites
Project Description
Description of Programs
The City of Portland, Health and Human Services Department "HIV Prevention in Schools" program emphasized a mission-driven rather than a budget-driven approach. Their activities included: an HIV/STI prevention needs assessment of the school and community in collaboration with related coalitions; screening for high risk behaviors and one-on-one follow-up for high-risk students; HIV testing offered at 4 targeted schools; HIV testing offered by health department HIV/STI prevention staff at 3 community partner sites; the provision of prevention materials, including condoms, available to all students in the student health centers; presentations of CDC-approved curricula in each of four targeted schools by health department HIV/STI prevention staff, including one middle school; printing and distribution of 150 posters and 2500 flyers for schools and community sites, with written translations in the 8 major languages spoken in the community; serving as the primary sponsoring agency for the Teen Convention, a community-wide youth health fair; and participation in the Northeast Regional Minority Health Conference.
The City of Stamford, Department of Health and Human Services' strong ties to the community have been maintained over a number of years. This existing relationship led to collaboration with schools to carry out HIV prevention activities on campus. Working in high schools and adapting activities for one middle school, the "Frisky Business" program activities included providing sexuality counseling and age-appropriate educational materials for all students who present at school-based clinics for physicals, STI visits, and/or pregnancy tests; risk-reduction sessions for students referred for high-risk sexual behavior; classroom lessons in prevention strategies for high-risk sexual behavior; on-site confidential HIV testing with a minimum of two counseling sessions in high school clinics; and an 8-week risk reduction group session addressing substance abuse, HIV and/or other STIs.
Demonstration Site Resources and Materials
Click on the links below to view resources and materials produced by the demonstration sites. Please note: All files are in PDF format and may take a few minutes to download.
City of Portland's "HIV Prevention in Schools Program"
City of Stamford's "Frisky Business Program"

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To the Editor:
We know economic issues are important; we also need to focus on the moral issues of who we are as a nation, how we got to where we are, and where we are going as a people.
We hope this survey can be a guide to getting us there.
Listen to your heart, and let God help guide your conscience.
Thank you,
(signed) John and Bernie Kenyon
Mallard, IA


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To the Editor:
A few political points that are irritating me:
1.) If you don't attack President Obama for the same evils that President George W. Bush did, it's tantamount to endorsing it when Bush did it.
2.) H2 has a series called "Life After People." It's about what happens to infrastructure when there is no one to maintain it. That is exactly what you are advocating as a good idea when you support cutting taxes and government jobs.
3.) You can vote and take part in government, but you can't do it if it is privatized. When you support privatization, you are supporting dictatorial rule over public institutions.
4.) If you don't trust the press, your other news choice is a blog. They are free, unaccountable, and any idiot can write anything on them. I have one.
5.) We have done a totally free-market economy in America before. It failed horribly. Learn from the past and move on.
6.) Communism is far left. Fascism is far right. Don't be the one that uses them interchangeably.
7.) Look up the word "unconstitutional" if you are the type that uses it a lot. You are probably the type that uses it incorrectly.
8.) Read the First Amendment. It also applies to religion. The left has forgotten this just as much as the right.
9.) To drive home the point: You can vote in a government, but not a corporation.
Don't throw your vote away for lower taxes.
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A Search for an Acceptable Margin of Valuation Error: A Case of Valuers and their Clients in Nigeria. Empirical Determination of Property Assets Management Styles in South-Western Nigeria Hotels
Published at Journal of Sustainable Development, February 4(1), 151 – 159
Published in 2011
Durodola, O.D and Oloyede, S.A
Durodola Olufemi » Dr. Durodola Olufemi Daniel is a multidisciplinary professional in the built environment being a chartered Quantity Surveyor, Chartered Estate Surveyor and Valuer and a registered builder. He has worked in the Industry for over twenty years before generating interest in academics. He has several publications in both local and international journals in the area of facility management where he... view full profile
Neighborhood Citizenship Participation in Environmental Planning and Management in Lagos: The Estate Surveyors' View.
Impact of Property Assets' Management Styles on Effective Service Delivery in South-Western Nigeria's Hotels.
Strategic Management Applications in Rejuvenation Efforts of South-Western Nigerian Hotels: Facilities Management Perspective.
The Challenges of Holistic Facilities Management Implementation in Hotel Organization in South-Western Nigeria.


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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GA — Guest speakers, food, music, art and garden tours full of beautiful blooms are showcased in an "all things southern" event at Rock City Gardens May 3-5, the Southern Blooms Festival! This 5th annual event running daily from 8:30 am to 4 pm honors Rock City's original gardener, Frieda Utermoehlen Carter.
This year's Southern Blooms features southern chef, writer and TV personality, Virginia Willis, to share some cooking secrets and fun tips during a workshop on Saturday. Some of her recipes are also being served at Rock City's new outdoor restaurant Café 7 during the event, including a special menu item featuring moon pies! Willis is author of Bon Appetit, Y'all! and is the former kitchen director for Martha Stewart Living Television.
Other speakers during the weekend include Andy Offutt Irwin, speaking on Sunday and Felder Rushing speaking on Friday. Irwin is a southern storyteller, writer, musician and recent winner of the "Storytelling World Award" for his latest cd Risk Assessment. Rushing is the founder of the "Slow Gardening" movement and has authored several books. All speakers are available for meet-and-greets and book signings after their workshops.
Morning group tours of Rock City Gardens are being offered daily at 9 am, led by Rock City's Director of Horticulture George Schimpf and Chattanooga's Master Gardeners (limited space available). Coca-Cola is also sponsoring a "Build-Your-Own Rain Barrel" workshop each day. Check out the full event schedule with specific times at www.seerockcity.com/southernblooms and come back for free by purchasing an annual pass.
As Rock City continues its community partnerships with each special event and festival, the Chattanooga Area Food Bank is a featured community partner during Southern Blooms. They are also leading an interactive make-and-take "Create your own Pizza Garden" workshop daily.
Just six miles from downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., Rock City Gardens is an enchanted, 4,100-foot walking trail showcasing lush gardens, caves and soaring rock formations.


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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Owl Hoot Maple Farm -- What Surprises Awaited Me
I told her how my aunt once owned a 144 acre maple sugar farm many years ago, and Dianne asked her name. Yes, you guessed it, they had met. Pretty amazing, since Dianne was in Quebec, Canada and my aunt then lived in Vermont. I was already excited, until I learned that she knew a lot about my family genealogy, that being of the Ten Eyck line, and pointing to the large photo in her kitchen she said it was of the Ten Eyck property. That was thrilling. But, it gets better.
Since Dianne knew some of my genealogy (which I was in the process of discovering my Canadian roots in 1999), she verbally gave me some of her husband's lineage. Her husband, John is my 6th cousin! And, it get's better...their son is married to my 2nd cousin!
Throughout the years, Dianne and I have kept in touch, and sharing bits of information. My cousin called several times this fall expressing an interest in her ancestry. That was very exciting. In one email, Dianne wrote, "Did you know our sugarbush is part of the first TenEyck settlers property. We still can see stone foundations of at least two building sites, and some old bricks that was used for a chimney."
For the past 18 years, Dianne and John have been hosting their Owl Hoot Sugaring Off Party in April, to raise money for the local hospital. Last year over 500 people attended.
Other link about the event.
Brome Missisquoi Perkins Hospital (additional pictures)
Below is the flyer I took from my visit in 1999, I'm so glad I saved it, and especially glad I stopped in.
7 comments:
- Apple said...
How amazing! A story we all dream of being able to tell.
- November 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Greta Koehl said...
It doesn't get any better than being able to make connections like that. Of course, being able to get some maple candy would have made it absolutely perfect, but still....
- November 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Carol said...
Now that is a great kismet story! WAHHOOO.
- November 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
Forget serendipity - that was destiny! And your telling the tale has me grinning. Thanks for a great start to my day! Gotta go find some maple syrup now...
- November 28, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
I see there are some maple sugar lovers here, yum, glad you could relate. Thank you for your enjoyable comments, it was fun writing this little but meaningful piece.
- November 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
What a great story! And what a small world. But we already knew that.
- November 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Michelle, I agree, it is a small world. I don't know why it took so long to write it.
- November 30, 2010 at 7:11 AM


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United Supermarkets Supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month With 'Pink Tuesdays' Throughout October
The month of October is breast cancer awareness month and everything you see will be pink. Starting today (October 1) United Supermarkets LLC will be supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month with 'Pink Tuesdays'.
Every Tuesday in the month of October, all 50 locations of United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos in north and West Texas will be participating in the fundraising efforts.
"Each year, we team up with guests to raise awareness and funds to help fight breast cancer and work toward a cure," said Shelby Crews, community relations manager for United Supermarkets, LLC. "Breast cancer has affected every community we serve, and we are proud to take a stand this October to help educate and empower women and men to take charge of their own breast health."
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This year United will be donating $1 for every guest wearing pink who makes a purchase of $10 or more. They will donate up to $25,000. You will also be able to purchase a pink recyclable shopping bag for $2 with $1 of that going to the fundraising as well.
So, in October when you head to the grocery store be sure to wear pink! These are some really easy ways for you to get the items you need and still give to a great cause. Making sure that women have vital information and that research is continued is tops in preventing and curing this disease. It's very treatable when caught early.
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Between Blood's lack of downtime and Unholy's AE abilities and Ghoul control, Frost is starting to feel a bit like the unwanted orphan of the Death Knight trees. While it's heavy on the tanking talents and has some burst potential, we've been there done that, perhaps, already have Frost Mage alts, and so on and so forth.
Luckily, Blizzard recently made some changes to the tree on Beta which look like they may be nudging the tree in the right direction toward equality with the other two trees. Here's a concise list of the changes via MMO-Champion:
- Improved Icy Touch now increase the damage of your Icy Touch by 10/20/30/40/50% and its damage against Frozen Targets by 20/40/60/80/100% (Old version : Reduces the cooldown of your Icy Touch spell by 1/2/3/4/5 sec and increases its critical strike damage bonus by 10/20/30/40/50%)
- Nerves of Cold Steel has been moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2.
- Annihilation has been moved from Tier 6 to Tier 3.
- Aneurysm has been moved from Tier 8 to Tier 7.
- Merciless Combat has been moved from Tier 8 to Tier 6.
- New Talent - Blood of the North - Tier 8 (5 Points) - Whenever you use a Blood Strike there is a 20/40/60/80/100% chance that the Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates
- Frost Aura increases your Frost Resistance by 32/65 instead of 22/45.
- Frost Strike prerequisites have been removed. (Merciless Combat was required before)


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The Georgia Southwestern women's soccer team recently held its first annual awards banquet to recognize the individual and team accomplishments of the 2009 season, as well as honor the program's four seniors.
Head coach Tony Economopoulos announced the team awards, voted on by the players:
Most Improved: Amanda Canganelli and Laura Lowe
Newcomer of the Year: Ally Canganelli
Defensive Player of the Year: Nicole Hudson
Offensive Player of the Year: Brittney Hill
Most Valuable Player: Elizabeth Keller
In addition, Amber Bahri and Jennifer Starvetsky were presented with Coach's Awards.
The Lady 'Canes improved dramatically in five different defensive areas in 2009, while setting three new school records in the process. They set school records for fewest goals allowed in a season, lowest goals against average and record for most corner kicks in a game (9).
The GSW defense made considerable progress as goals allowed decreased 58 percent from 2008. Goals allowed per game dropped 46 percent and opponents' shot percentage declined 44.6 percent. The Lady 'Canes reduced opponents' shots on goal by 32 percent and fans took notice as attendance rose 19.1 percent.
Each year members of the conference vote on a team award and this year the Peach Belt Conference Sportsmanship Award went to the Lady Hurricanes. This marked the first team award the women's soccer program has received in NCAA history.
"This is a great feat to the girls. It showed how hard but fair they played," Economopoulos said.
Academic accomplishments were also highlighted, as the Lady Hurricanes placed two girls on the Peach Belt Conference All-Academic Team. Aubrey Tinklepaugh, from Lawrenceville, holds a 3.44 GPA while majoring in Early Childhood Education. She played in 12 games as a defender for the Lady 'Canes this past season. Team captain Keller recorded a 3.37 GPA in History with a teaching certificate.
Coach Economopoulos stated, "It's a great accomplishment for the girls. This showed how hard they worked on and off the field. A true testament of their dedication to soccer and academics."
As the Lady 'Canes look to 2010, they said good-bye to three seniors - Jennifer Pittman, Lowe and Keller.
Lowe transferred to GSW from Truett-McConnell College in 2008. In two seasons with the Lady 'Canes she started 13 matches and accumulated over 1700 minutes of action. The White, Ga. native will graduate in December 2010 with a degree in Physical Education.
Pittman came to Southwestern from Shorter College in 2007. She played three seasons with the Lady 'Canes and started 37 of 46 matches while logging over 2,500 minutes of play. Pittman, from Hahira, Ga., expects to graduate May 2011 with a degree in Political Science.
Keller was a four-year member of the Lady Hurricanes. The Snellville, Ga. native started 65 contests and amassed over 5,500 minutes of playing time in her four years. Keller recorded 17 goals - including five game winning scores - and seven assists. She will earn her Bachelor's degree in May 2010 (History with a teaching certificate) and remain with the program serving as a graduate assistant next year.
Keller, Pittman, Lowe and former player Brooke Regan (who served as a manager in 2009) received senior gifts.
The Lady 'Canes will lose some experience on both sides of the ball; however they do have replacements ready to tackle the situation.
"I want to build on the success of last year, while being competitive on and off the field. Making the PBC tournament is very important and winning the NSCAA Academic Award," Economopoulos stated.
The NSCAA is awarded to the team with the highest academic GPA.
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LEXINGTON, Va. -- Washington and Lee Director of Athletics Jan Hathorn has announced the appointment of Brandon Spalding as head men's cross country and assistant men's track & field coach effective July 1.
"I am excited to offer the position of head coach of men's cross country and assistant coach of men's track and field to Brandon Spalding," said Hathorn. "His collegiate coaching and running experiences have prepared him well for this position, and I am confident he will continue to uphold the tradition of excellence that we have come to expect of our men who compete in distance running for W&L. His energy, enthusiasm and passion will serve him well as he returns to the ODAC to work with our students and he will be an excellent addition to our staff, the University, and our surrounding community. I look forward to serving beside Brandon for many years to come."
Spalding comes to W&L from Rhodes College, where he served as an assistant men's and women's cross country and assistant men's and women's track & field coach for the last two years.
"I want to thank Jan Hathorn and her search committee for giving me the opportunity to become the next head men's cross country and assistant men's track & field coach at Washington and Lee University," said Spalding. "I could not be more excited to work for such a great university and I am looking forward to continuing the rich history of W&L Cross Country by leading the men's team this fall."
During his time at Rhodes, Spalding helped coach 10 cross country runners to all-conference accolades, while helping lead the women's cross country team to a second-place finish at the NCAA South/Southeast Region Championship and a berth to the NCAA National Championships in 2011. He also helped coach both the men's and women's track & field teams to a SAA Outdoor Championship this spring, while mentoring nine all-conference runners and three conference champions. Spalding has also helped coach his runners to a combined three school records over his two seasons.
Prior to arriving at Rhodes, Spalding served as the head men's and women's cross country coach and assistant track & field coach at Bethany College in West Virginia from 2010-11. In cross country, he helped coach a woman to the program's highest individual finish in five seasons, while also coaching the first men's all-conference runner in three years. In two seasons with the track & field programs, he assisted in producing three all-conference runners and two new school records, while also coaching an NCAA Provisional Qualifier in the 800 meters in 2011.
Spalding is a 2009 graduate of Bridgewater College, where he earned a bachelor of science in health and exercise science. He was a three-year member of the Eagles' cross country and track & field teams after transferring from Virginia Wesleyan following his rookie campaign. He was a three-time First Team All-ODAC honoree on the cross country course, earning all-region honors three times, including in 2006 when he finished fifth overall at the NCAA South/Southeast Region Championships and qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship meet. In track & field, he earned Second Team All-ODAC honors four times, doing so in the 5,000 meters and with the distance medley relay team. He once held the school's 3,000 and 5,000 meter records, along with also once holding a piece of the school's indoor distance medley relay record.
Spalding holds a USA Track & Field Level 1 Coaching Certification and is also certified in First Aid and CPR/AED. An active competitor, he ran in the 2009 Marine Corps Marathon and the 2011 Boston Marathon.
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A NASA spacecraft is taking a kinder, gentler approach to science today. After giving one comet a big whack five years ago, it'll fly past a second comet with no violence at all.
The craft is Deep Impact. In July 2005, it fired a high-tech cannonball at Comet Tempel 1. The instrumented probe blasted a big hole in the comet, spewing gas, dust, and ice into space. The craft monitored the impact and studied the debris to learn more about how comets are made, and how they change over time.
NASA then re-targeted Deep Impact to visit Comet Hartley 2. The comet is about a half-mile across, and its six-year orbit brings it just outside Earth's orbit around the Sun. In fact, it's only a few million miles away from Earth right now, so telescopes on the ground will be getting a good look at it, too.
But the best view will come from Deep Impact, which will swing just a few hundred miles from the comet. It'll snap thousands of pictures, and it'll analyze the comet's composition as well as the hazy gas and dust surrounding its nucleus and in its tail.
Scientists will compare the observations of Hartley 2 with those of other comets. That should provide a better overview of what comets are made of, how they formed, and how they've evolved over their long lifetimes.
After today, Deep Impact will keep an eye on the comet for several weeks. But so far, there's no third destination for the two-time comet watcher.
We'll post some of Deep Impact's best pictures on our web site -- stardate.org.
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HAMILTON — When it comes to attacking trios, Notre Dame High coach Amy Hoyer has a good one.
Ty Horne, Vanessa Romulus and Julia Panko were all on target as the Irish scored three in the first seven minutes, cruising to a 3-0 road win over Hamilton.
"They are doing well," Hoyer said. "They are finishing and that's what we need."
It took four minutes for Horne to get Notre Dame (10-3) off and running. The freshman latched on to a pass by Romulus and fired a low shot past Hornets goalkeeper Erin Septer.
Only a minute later, Romulus had the ball in the back of the net. After Hamilton failed to clear a corner kick, Romulus tapped in from close range.
Panko made it three in three minutes, lashing her shot into the top corner after Romulus' strong hold up play.
"We all know where to be for each other," Romulus said. "We know where to pass for each other."
"It's a combination of speed and skill and so it just goes well together," Horne added.
Notre Dame's quick start was also a relief for Hoyer, since the team was coming off a pair of losses.
"It was good to come out on top," said the first-year coach. "Hamilton kept us under pressure the entire time, especially in that second half. It was a good way to come back after a couple losses."
While the Irish made a fast start, Hamilton (7-6-1) never really got going.
The Hornets were coming off a 1-0 loss to Hopewell Valley earlier in the week and coach Anthony Tessein was hoping it would be his team to start quickly.
"It was frustrating," said the Hornets' boss. "We talked about it before the game. They were coming off a tough loss, as were we, and the coaches and I stressed that we wanted to come out strong because that is how you respond to a tough loss. I said that's what Notre Dame is going to do and we have to ready for it, and clearly, we weren't."
Senior Loran Wyrough missed the game as she recovers from a leg injury and junior Samantha Barlow didn't play in the first half, leaving the Hornets shorthanded.
Tessein said he hopes to have Wyrough at full strength in about a week.
Coming into the week, Hamilton had won seven of its last nine, but two straight defeats means Tessein's team has work to do.
"Last week, I would have told you, absolutely, 100 percent we would be a team that caused problems," Tessein said. "We've got some things we have to deal with before I'm willing to say we can be the team I think we can be. We have some work to do. Today wasn't good."
As for the Irish, they can continue to count on their terrific trio.
"We're a team that plays like every minute is 0-0," Horne said. "Our main goal is to play relentlessly. We don't worry about if we make a mistake. We just keep playing and don't get down."
Notre Dame (10-3) 3 0 — 3
Hamilton (7-6-1) 0 0 — 0
Goals: ND-Horne, Romulus, Panko. Assists: ND-Romulus 2. Shots: ND-17; H-1. Saves: H-Septer 6; ND-Binz 0.


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Woodruff Family Chocolate Chip Cookies
Woodruff Family Chocolate Chip Cookies
Photo albums, children's drawings, Grandpa's favorite rocking chair - we hold on to these memories of home. And when you think about your childhood, don't you think of that dish Mom made better than anyone else in the world?
For the Woodruff family, it is Bob's mom, Frannie, and her chocolate chip cookies. Bob and Lee Woodruff are here to share the recipe and the importance of passing down family favorites.
Cooking Directions
Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until each is incorporated, then add vanilla.
In a separate bowl, combine cake flour, baking soda and salt. Stir with a wire whisk. Add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar mixture all at once, and mix until they are just combined. Do not over mix.
Fold in chocolate chips with a rubber spatula. Drop 1-tablespoon-size mounds of dough onto a nonstick cookie sheet.
Bake at 350° until golden brown, about 10-12 minutes.
Recipe Summary
Main Ingredients: sugar, eggs, flour, chocolate chips
Course: Cookies, Dessert, Party Platter, Snack


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Jackie Chan is not dead. And he's not retiring.
"There are so many different rumors, I am getting used to it," the 59-year-old actor-director says of online reports of his demise. "Don't worry, before I die, I let you know."
Chan may be looking to slow down on the action, but after more than 50 years and 100-plus movies, he seems unstoppable.
His latest film, "Chinese Zodiac," which opened Friday in the U.S., still features him leaping from buildings, fighting in the air and rolling down a mountain in a full-body rollerskate suit. The movie, about a quest to recover pillaged relics, is one of China's highest-grossing home-grown films ever, despite mixed reviews. Up next: another "Police Story" installment and the action-comedy "Skiptrace."
This week, the outspoken Chan came to The Times for a video chat in Mandarin and English about what he calls his "last big-action movie" (i.e., not his last action film), his career and the growing collaboration and competition between Hollywood and China. Edited highlights follow.
What was the most difficult part about the stunts in "Chinese Zodiac"?
The age. I'm not like I used to be, young, anymore. But I still do my own things. It used to be Jackie Chan action is like Hollywood action. But now the whole Hollywood action ... they combine with special effects, computer graphics. We cannot do that because the audience, they don't like to see Jackie Chan flying around like a Superman, like a Batman. They want Jackie Chan to do the real thing. That's the most difficult part.
How long do you think you can keep doing stunts like this?
I don't know. When I was 40, I already say, "Another five years, I'm going to retire." Then 45. "Another five years, I'm going to retire." Then 50. I said, "Another five years, I retire." ... I do it until I cannot do it.
PHOTOS: Jackie Chan: Career in pictures
Would you ever consider being in a superhero movie like "Iron Man" or "Avengers"?
I want to. Please, all the directors, James Cameron: Hire me. ... I love to do this kind of movie. Blue background with all the wire, flying around, that's more easy. But all the directors, they think about me: OK, "Rush Hour 4" and "Shanghai Noon." You have to do your own stunt, Jackie. [I'd] rather do a drama, comedy drama, a love story, sing a song on the beach, running around, slow motion, with a girl, kissing. But nobody buys a ticket to see Jackie Chan in a theater kissing. No.
You're one of the few actors in the Chinese film industry who's been successful in Hollywood. Why is it so hard to go between the two?
I think I choose the right way. My movies, even without dialogue you understand what's going on — lots of action, but no violence and no dirty jokes, no F-word. My movie is not only for Hong Kong market or Chinese market [but] for the whole world. All those years, Jackie Chan is like a bank. I collect fans, and when they come to the Jackie Chan bank, they never go away.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
Are you going to do "Rush Hour 4"?
I don't know! Yesterday, I met with Chris Tucker. ... We sit down: "Jackie, let's do something. 'Rush Hour 4.'" Will we do something? Yeah, if we find a good script.
Earlier this year on a Hong Kong talk show you mentioned something about America being the most corrupt in the world.
I said corrupt yes, the whole world, everybody corrupt. Biggest corrupt is in America. That's the past. You have to go through these kinds of things. ... Like the old days, America in Chicago, corrupt. ... But now, OK. ... It's not like corrrrrrrrrrupt. My English not so very good. I need somebody really translate. And I hope the audience knows what I'm meaning.
You've already made more than 100 films. What's your favorite?
Maybe with "Rush Hour," many people liked watching it, I made a lot of money, but it wasn't the kind of movie I like to make. The movie I want to make, I still haven't found. In the U.S., they always [say] action movie, action movie. When I'm filming in China, I can make "Rob-B-Hood" and I can make "Shinjuku Incident." Drama, very dark. I'm tired of doing action thing, so this why I choose "Karate Kid" and "Tuxedo." I try to let the audience know I'm not only an action star, I'm an actor. Because action star, the life is very short.
You mentioned one time you want to be the Asian Robert De Niro.
Look at Robert De Niro or like Dustin Hoffman, they can do all kinds of things. That's what I want to do.


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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- The European Central Bank on Thursday left its key lending rate unchanged at 0.75%, as expected. The focus now turns to ECB President Mario Draghi, who is scheduled to hold his monthly news conference at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
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Evaluation of Science Learning Supervision on Secondary Schools
This research aims were (1) the support of the policy, (2) the resources, and (3) the implementation of science learning supervision, (4) the performance of secondary science teachers in Gorontalo City. The conclusions that (1) the supervision was based on laws of national regulations, (2) Teachers perception based on their experiences, supervisors and school principals focused on the schools and classroom visit supervision, their characteristics were in accordance with the National Standard, and potentially to be developed. The resources has met the Minimum Service Standard (MSS), (3) the implementation of science supervision has not met the MSS. and (4) teachers performance; best 16%, good 43% and fair 5% and remaining (36%) did not have the willingness to be supervised.
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#1 5-26-12 Today in History05-26-2012, 02:17 PM
Lead Story
Dracula goes on sale in London, 1897
American Revolution
Colonel William Crawford proceeds toward the Ohio, 1782
Last day of Model T production at Ford, 1927
Civil War
One of the last Confederate generals surrenders, 1865
Cold War
United States charges Soviets with espionage, 1960
Murder charges dropped against Marine, 2005
Plane crashes in Thai jungle, 1991
General Interest
Pequot massacres begin, 1637
Montana Territory created, 1864
President Johnson acquitted, 1868
Czar Nicholas II crowned, 1896
Sidney Pollack dies, 2008
Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London, 1897
The British Invasion has an odd beginning, 1962
Old West
John Wayne is born, 1907
Coolidge signs stringent immigration law, 1924
Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, but loses, 1959
Vietnam War
Australian troops depart for Vietnam, 1965
North Vietnamese seize Snoul, Cambodia, 1971
World War I
Gavrilo Princip sets out from Belgrade for Sarajevo, 1914
World War II
Britain's Operation Dynamo gets underway as President Roosevelt makes a radio appeal for the Red Cross, 1940
1837 - The executor of William Barret Travis's estate placed a notice in the Telegraph and Texas Register for an escaped slave named Joe. Joe was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Alamo the year before. The notice ran for three months before it was discontinued.
1853 - John Wesley (Wes) Hardin was born in Bonham, TX. Hardin's violent career began in 1867 when he stabbed another child.
1977 - The United States and Mexico established the Rio Grande as the international border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
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Nine Months, 65 Pounds
by Maggie Lamond Simone
Excerpt from her book, From Beer to Maternity
Nine Months, 65 Pounds
"There she was just a-waddlin' down the street, singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo, belly so big she could barely see her feet, singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo …"
Yep, we're soon going to enter the somewhat terrifying realm of parenthood, as demonstrated by my changing body (amusingly reminiscent of Jabba the Hut) and my emotional state (not-so-amusingly reminiscent of "The Exorcist.") It finally happened. Not that I was under any pressure or anything.
There'd been some concern, of course. My sister-in-law approached the baby race as an actual competition (and you can bet that may be a little more than I needed to know about my brother), while my mother developed a charming habit of looking at her watch every time I came home. As if anything's going to happen when I'm visiting my mother.
My mother-in-law handled the whole situation very well, with only a very few impeccably-placed sighs here and there, while my dear husband spent more than his fair share of time pondering the possible tax effects of children heading to college as Social Security kicks in.
But everyone can now relax, except, of course, me. I can't relax because a) I really, really liked being a size 3, and b) at the end of all this, an 8-lb. person is somehow going to leave me through an exit the size of an olive pit. I've therefore assembled some suggestions and observations for people who are not currently pregnant, to help ease the way for those of us who are.
1. Lose the dismissive, "Get over yourself, women give birth every day" attitude. People die every day, too. They still need support. It's not like we're asking for special treatment or anything. . . wait a minute. Yes we are. We're growing babies here.
2. Fathers, imagine having the flu for three straight months and still having to work, cook, clean, and take care of the kids and dog. Help out. At least try to look busy.
3. Reading books doesn't cause the symptoms we experience. If that were the case, we'd all have gone through "sympathy pregnancies" in sixth grade health class. The symptoms are real, so don't try to convince yourself – or us - that we've imagined them. Trust me. That head-spinning routine is not a pretty sight.
4. Don't blanche at the clothes we have to buy. This isn't a day job that allows us to go back to our regular wardrobe nights and weekends.
5. Society likes thin people. Many of us have spent the majority of our lives trying to get or stay that way, so gaining weight – even for this – can be difficult. If you're going to say, "You don't even look pregnant," you may as well add, "It just looks like you've gained thirty pounds." Be tactful. Lie if you have to. Tell us we look great.
6. Resist the urge to snicker when we're stuck on our backs in the bathtub like turtles. Remember that while the gravity problem that prevents us from performing certain basic maneuvers will soon fade, our memories will not.
Now, don't get me wrong. My husband and I have spent many evenings of late discussing the end of life as we know it, and we've concluded it'll be the best thing that ever happened to us. But I'm definitely not handling the journey very gracefully, because beautiful though it is, graceful it is not. And if it's going to come out kicking and screaming anyway, then darn it, this baby's going to learn from a pro.
"Now I'm so nauseous nearly every single day, singin' doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo, so just give me my crackers and get out of my way. . . , singin' doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo. . .


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It is time to give the humble slow cooker its due.
If you associate this hard-working table-top appliance with the 1970s (along with decorative owls, the color combination of burnt orange and brown, and perhaps chunky pleather boots) ditch the quick dismiss and embrace the vibe. A slow cooker can be a busy person's best friend.
Slow cookers ("Crock-Pot" is a trade marked name, like "Xerox" is to photo copiers) gained popularity four decades ago as more women entered the workforce. There was no wave of cordon bleu chefs entering their kitchens to fix dinner while they were at work, so the Crock-Pot offered a time-saving solution: in the morning, drop a roast in the crock, chop up onions, carrots, and celery, pour in some stock, add some spices, set on low, go to work, come home 9 hours later to dinner.
Good, filling, warm — but the sameness of many slow cooker recipes has been noted by more than one regular user.
"I kind of thought of the slow cooker as a glorified pot roast machine," says Stephanie O'Dea, the woman behind the blog "A Year of Slow Cooking." "It seemed like everything I put in it sort of tasted the same, the carrots got a little mushy, and the pot roast tasted like Lipton onion soup and a can of Campbell's chicken and mushroom soup."
Or, kind of like the '70s, but savory style.
With three young daughters, O'Dea has a busy 2014 household. She says she can be easily distracted in the kitchen: "Pasta water boils over, cookies get burnt." A slow cooker is perfect for her. "I don't need to stand around and babysit the food while it's cooking."
But she wanted to go well beyond pot roast. So for a year, she challenged herself to slow cook something new every day. "You can steam fish beautifully in the slow cooker, you can make delicate desserts like cheese cake, you can roast a duck, you can make barbequed shrimp."
And you can make some pretty impressive "Take Out/Fake Outs," O'Dea says, including a gluten-free KFC-inspired chicken.
Her 9-year-old has celiac disease, which takes a lot of the fast food most Americans take for granted off the table. One day, while watching chefs on a cooking show try to recreate Kentucky Fried Chicken's famous secret herbs and spices blend, O'Dea's daughter observed, "I don't know what that tastes like."
O'Dea decided to take up the KFC challenge herself, but without floured batter or deep-frying. She came up with a seasoning rub close to the Colonel's secret recipe and cooked the bird like she always did, in the Crock-Pot.
"The twist in the seasoning rub," she says, "was adding white sugar." O'Dea says a tiny bit of sugar combats the salty and the garlic flavors.
A four-pound whole chicken fits well in the average slow cooker, and O'Dea recommends removing the skin before rubbing the seasoning all over and even inside the bird.
"Put it in the slow cooker breast side down. The chicken cooks in its own juices with the seasoning. Do not add any water. This is one of the most moist chickens you will ever have and it literally falls off the bone."
O'Dea's daughter finally got to experience the taste of KFC and loved it. "She ate both drumsticks, a wing, and half a thigh that night."
Recipe: KFC-Inspired Chicken
My little one with celiac disease has never had Kentucky Fried Chicken and was disappointed when we watched a Top Secret Recipe episode featuring the famous food. The very next day we made this after some extensive spice research, and our entire family scarfed it down. If you'd like to make the spice mix in bulk, use about 1⁄4 cup for the rub.
Serves 4
1 4-pound roaster chicken, cleaned (I remove the skin; it's up to you)
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1⁄2 teaspoon ground thyme
1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano
1⁄2 teaspoon ground sage
1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
1⁄4 teaspoon dried marjoram
1⁄4 teaspoon celery salt
1⁄4 teaspoon ground cardamom
Use a 6-quart slow cooker. Place the chicken into the insert, breast-side down (to ensure moist meat). In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Rub this spice blend evenly all over the bird, inside and out. Do not add liquid. Cover, and cook on high for 4 hours, or on low for 6 to 7 hours. Retain the pan drippings to make rice or mashed potatoes, if you'd like. Check the temperature with a meat thermometer to ensure the chicken has reached an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees before serving.
Excerpted from 365 Slow Cooker Suppers, by Stephanie O'Dea. Copyright 2013 by Jeremy Jackson. Excerpted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Now that the holidays are over, a lot of you home cooks may crave time off, just for a bit. But you and your family, you still got to eat. And the convenience and, frankly, the taste of fast food may be pretty alluring to you right now. Well, we'll help you resist with today's Found Recipe suggestion.
STEPHANIE O'DEA: The slow cooker is the easy bake oven for grown ups.
CORNISH: That's blogger and cookbook author Stephanie O'Dea. She's a busy mother of three young girls and owner of 14 slow cookers. Slow cookers also known as crock-pots, a kitchen device you might associate with the '70s.
O'DEA: Before I started slow cooking regularly, I kind of thought of the slow cooker as a glorified pot roast machine. It seemed like everything I put in it sort of tasted the same. The carrots got a little mushy and the pot roast tasted like Lipton onion soup and a can of Campbell's chicken and mushroom soup.
CORNISH: Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hey, there's no judgment here. Stephanie O'Dea, however, she wanted more.
O'DEA: I really started thinking outside of the crock.
CORNISH: So for one year, she challenged herself to make something different in her slow cooker every single day.
O'DEA: You can steam fish beautifully in the slow cooker. You can make delicate deserts like cheese cake and crème Brule. You can roast a duck. You can make barbecued shrimp.
CORNISH: You can also make a gluten-free version of KFC. Yes. A new deal, a Kentucky non-fried chicken in every crock-pot and for today's found recipe, Stephanie O'Dea has this takeout fake out.
O'DEA: We happen to be a gluten-free family. My daughter, age 9, was diagnosed with celiac, an intolerance to gluten, and we were watching The Food Network and the chefs were trying to recreate a KFC inspired chicken rub and my daughter said, I don't know what that tastes like. And it dawned on me, she doesn't know what that tastes like.
I took it upon myself to see if I could recreate a similar seasoning at home and cook the bird the way I always cook, in the slow cooker. We are not absolutely certain what the actual spices are in Colonel Sander's secret recipe because, of course, they are under lock and key. But in the O'Dea kitchen, it encompasses paprika, some garlic salt, onion powder, thyme, oregano, sage, black pepper, ginger, marjoram, salt, cardamom and the twist in the seasoning rub was adding white sugar to combat the garlic and the salty flavor.
Skin the chicken, rub it down inside and out with a seasoning blend and then put it in the slow cooker breast side down. The chicken, cooked in its own juices with the seasoning blend. Do not add any water. Cook on high for about four hours or on low for seven to eight hours. This is one of the most moist chickens you will ever have and it literally falls from the bone.
My daughter was thrilled with this takeout fake out. I think she ate both the drumsticks, a wing and a half of a thigh that night. It was a really successful meal for our family.
CORNISH: That's Stephanie O'Dea. Her cookbook is "365 Slow Cooker Suppers." You can get the recipe for her KFC inspired chicken on our found recipe page at NPR.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Posted By Orange Crush on 09/13/2013 11:50 AM
Irrespective of the skeptisism (heck you need to look at any sporting event with a high degree of skeptisism if you want to be consistent), the Vuelta has been quite entertaining. No team dominance, that is the magic formula.
Posted By Orange Crush on 09/14/2013 11:48 AM
Whatever it was, that was an excellent race to watch. Some of the best action of the year.


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BOYS BASKETBALL: Versailles rolls past Minster
VERSAILLES — Versailles rolled past Minster 69-50 in a Midwest Athletic Conference contest on Friday night.
Versailles came out ready right from the start as the Tigers opened the game on an 8-0 run, courtesy of three-pointers by Mitchell Campbell and Chad Winner, along with a basket by freshman Kyle Ahrens.
Minster's Ryan Hoying hit a three-pointer to end the Tiger run, but Versailles led 8-3 with 4:30 remaining in the first quarter.
"You can't get off to the start that we got off (to) on the road in this league," Minster head coach Mike Lee said. "That was imperative that we needed to have an answer. Not only did we not shoot the ball well early, but we were giving up easy opportunities at the other end and that combination was just lethal."
Several basket exchanges followed before the Tigers ended the quarter on a 4-0 run, thanks to buckets by Jacob Heitkamp and Aaron McNeilan.
Versailles led 16-7 after one quarter of play.
Things would soon get a whole lot worse for Minster as Versailles opened the second quarter on a 17-0 run, thanks to a three-pointer and three baskets (including a dunk) by Ahrens, a basket and corresponding free throw by Zach Niekamp, two free throws by McNeilan and a three-pointer by Winner.
Minster's Brandon Hoying hit a three-pointer to end Versailles' run, but Winner immediately responded with a three-pointer of his own for the Tigers, who led 36-10 with 2:46 still remaining in the first half.
Versailles led 42-17 at halftime and still led by 21 after three quarters.
"You're not going to make up (a 25-point halftime deficit) in a matter of 3,4,5,6 minutes," said Lee. "You've got a goal in mind, which we didn't reach by the end of the third quarter."
Minster outscored Versailles 33-27 during the second half, but it was too little too late.
"We saw some fight in our kids," said Lee. "They kept battling and we had it down to 12,13 points at one time and considering how much that we had to battle just to get to that point (it was good), but you don't get 'W's' for that."
Campbell and Ahrens each scored 19 points for Versailles, while Winner added 17.
Adam Niemeyer led Minster with 12 points. Doug Huber added 9, while Poeppelman, Ryan Hoying and Brandon Hoying each scored 8.
Minster will travel to Jackson Center tonight.
"Hopefully we can take away a little bit of the positive, but it certainly doesn't get any easier because we head right to Jackson Center tomorrow night," said Lee.


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Hill: Defense bill shouldn't touch DADT
In letters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner, American Legion National Commander Clarence Hill said The American Legion opposes repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) provision, an issue that has resurfaced with reports that members of the House might address the Clinton-era policy in the upcoming defense authorization bill.
"We feel strongly that the current policy has served the U.S. military well for 17 years and it would not be wise to make a major cultural change in the middle of two wars," Hill wrote. "Moreover, the Department of Defense has already directed a study on the policy and it would be premature to act before the commission conducting the study releases its findings."
The Legion is concerned that members of the House might seek an amendment to the FY11 defense authorization bill to repeal the law.
"Under current policy, men and women are already allowed to serve their country regardless of their sexual preference. Allowing homosexual members to announce their preference within the ranks could jeopardize the unit cohesion which is so essential to military success," said Hill, a retired U.S. Navy captain and veteran of the Gulf War.
"The military is a unique environment, in which DADT has worked well, without diminishing our nation's war-fighting capability," Hill continued. "Indeed, the core purpose of our military is to fight and win our nation's wars. Enacting any law that does not enhance the military's ability to accomplish that mission would be detrimental to the security of our nation. We believe that the repeal of DADT would be such an action."


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Perry to announce political future on July 8
(CNN) — Rick Perry is inviting close friends and supporters to an event next Monday in San Antonio where he is expected to announce if he plans to seek an unprecedented fourth full term as Texas governor, CNN has learned.
Perry "will be making an announcement around mid-day in San Antonio concerning his exciting future plans," according to a "Save the Date" email obtained Tuesday by CNN. The announcement comes as Perry finds himself at the center of a high-profile legislative fight over abortion rights in his state.
"Please join his family and closest friends on July 8th," reads the email, which is being circulated to his political allies. "Details to follow."
Perry has long said he will make a decision about his political future after the conclusion of this year's legislative session, but because Democrats blocked the abortion measure with an attention-grabbing filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis last week, the governor was forced to call another session to tackle that issue and others.
Originally, Perry was supposed to announce his 2014 plans this week.
Most Texas political insiders don't expect Perry, who has held the state's top office since 2000, to run again, though many say he is considering another presidential run after his ill-fated 2012 effort.
As of the last financial reporting period, Perry, one of the Republican Party's top fundraisers, had just $6 million in his campaign war chest. The next Republican in line for the governorship, state Attorney General Greg Abbott, had $18 million.
But people close to Perry have also been reminding reporters in recent weeks that he has a knack for changing his mind.
"I don't think anyone knows what he is going to do until he gets up there and says it," Ray Sullivan, Perry's former chief-of-staff, when asked about next week's event.
Before seeking a third term in 2010, Perry said he was not going to run again before changing his mind and trouncing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in a titanic Republican primary fight. Perry said no to a presidential run for many months, before ultimately jumping into the race in August 2011.
Then, after saying he would suspend his campaign following a disappointing finish in the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Perry suddenly tweeted that he would continue on in South Carolina, which surprised many of his staffers.
Perry-watchers got a clue that he might be nearing an announcement about his latest plans earlier Tuesday, when a Texas radio host interviewing Perry about the special session said "we get a few more weeks before we start badgering you about your future plans."
Perry responded, "Yeah, or less even, we may let you know a little bit before that."


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Easter bread FAIL
I even learned to braid just for this... however, the eggs did not survive the baking...
I even learned to braid just for this... however, the eggs did not survive the baking...
Na ya... chocolate melts when it gets warm. Sorry about that but I bet it tasted good!
The only thing that might make holes that you could later fill might be small peeled potatoes that you could remove and then glue the chocolates with a little frosting into the cooled brioche. The dough looks like came out well in spite of the melt down. I feel for you!
good idea with punching holes and then inserting the pretty colored chocolate eggs once the bread is baked. Or make dough eggs and then color the dough ;)
I have always put small RAW colored eggs into my braid and they cook along with the bread and do quite well... a little of the dye might bleed into the bread (very little) but the eggs are "hard-boiled" texture when done. I bet the bread with was great and with sugar and chocolate... can't be bad...
The fun this is... you get to try again... Happy baking.
Hello Larry, Beautiful braiding.....but I think you continue to be inspired by those leaking calzones you made last week.
What will you leak and/or melt over your breads next, I wonder. ; )
It is all about experimenting.....that is what keeps us all baking!
:)(you don't have to answer...) :)


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Hobo Nickels!
I always thought Hobo Nickels were a bit of a punch line, but now that I've actually seen some, I'm thoroughly impressed. Apparently, the tradition of taking Buffalo Nickels and carving new designs into them began with hobos, who traded the beautifully altered coins for food, supplies and favors, but also carved them to commemorate the world around them. Interestingly, coin collectors do value modern versions of the folk art, though the older coins, which have been circulating since the Depression, seem to have "better stories to tell." I'm thinking, as long as they don't carry the fragrance of vagrants, I'd love to get my hands on 'em. Read more at the Original Hobo Nickel Society (via Pennylicious)


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Bolstered by the success this year of Howzat!, Beaconsfield and Underground, the free-to-air television networks are backing based-on-fact Australian dramas as the cornerstone of next year's schedules.
The ABC and Nine launched their line-ups for next year last week, after Seven, Ten and SBS did so in October. There's much to like in the new programs, though undoubtedly many of them will fail to deliver on their promises. With that caveat, here is a guide to what looks like some of the best and most interesting stuff on the box next year.
Australian drama and comedy
A Place to Call Home (Seven) stars Marta Dusseldorp in a drama mystery set in 1950s rural Australia.
Mrs Biggs (Seven) looks at the relationship between Charmian and Ronnie ''the great train robber'' Biggs, including the four years they spent in Australia.
Nine continues to dabble in telemovie territory with its stab at the Schapelle Corby story; still no word on who will play the lead in Schapelle.
Kerry Packer is busier than ever, with two new series lined up for next year. In the ABC's Magazine Wars, he is again played by Rob Carlton. No word on who will play him in Nine's Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story, set in the period 1960-1975, but you would have to fancy Lachy Hulme to reprise the role he so dominated in Howzat!
The Time of Our Lives (ABC) reunites The Secret Life of Us stars Stephen Curry and Claudia Karvan with the series co-creator Amanda Higgs and writer Judi McCrossin in a multi-generational family drama series. William McInnes, Justine Clarke and Shane Jacobson also star.
Serangoon Road (ABC) is an Australia-Singapore co-production set in the 1960s with Don Hany as an Australian who gets roped into becoming a private investigator by his neighbour (Joan Chen).
Fairfax writer Peter FitzSimons's book is the basis for the eight-part drama Batavia (Ten), about the 1629 wreck off the WA coast.
Fresh from Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (The Librarians) is Upper Middle Bogan, a comedy about a doctor who discovers she is adopted and is horrified to find her birth family is … suburban! Chris Lilley is back too, with a project shrouded in his usual secrecy. Both are on the ABC.
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Mr Selfridge (Seven) is set in 1909 and stars Jeremy Piven (Entourage's Ari Gold) as the American founder of the high-end London department store. It's written by BBC costume-drama veteran Andrew Davies and co-stars Australia's Frances O'Connor as the shopkeeper's wife.
Nine's Parade's End looks to have a touch of the Downton about it, with Benedict Cumberbatch (the star of Sherlock) as a man torn between the woman he loves but dare not touch (Australian Adelaide Clemens) and his wife (Rebecca Hall), a woman quite happy to touch whomever she pleases. It's set in London around World War I and is written by Tom Stoppard and has class written all over it in big embossed gold letters.
A fresh take on two English crime classics are both slated for Ten, with Ripper Street revisiting the London of 1889 dominated by Jack the Ripper and Elementary casting Jonny Lee Miller in an updated set-in-America take on Sherlock Holmes. The early word on both is good, as is Better Man (SBS), a four-part miniseries about Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Australian executed in Singapore in 2005 for drug smuggling. Khoa Do, brother of comedian Anh Do, writes and directs.
Nine is clearly working its way through the senses. First came The Voice. Now it's The Taste, a British cooking contest in which Nigella Lawson and Anthony Bourdain are among the four judges who taste everything blind. We can't wait for The Stench in 2014.
Nine is also jumping on the cake-baking bandwagon, arguably a year or two after it peaked, with The Great Australian Bake Off, to be hosted by Shane ''I'm in everything'' Jacobson and Anna Gare. My Kitchen Rules is back on Seven and MasterChef on Ten. The Professionals looks set to breathe new life into the franchise with legendary British chef Marco Pierre White attempting to turn 18 ''good'' chefs into one ''exceptional'' chef. Heat, stir, reduce. Matt Preston is co-pilot.
Ten's Recipe to Riches will attempt to take branded entertainment mainstream as Woolies underwrites a program in which contestants showcase their home recipes.
Reality, factual, light entertainment
The ABC is reviving Spicks and Specks to plug what has become a big hole for them on Wednesday nights.
It won't be the biggest ratings hit of the year but SBS has one of the most interesting shows, with a sequel to its Once upon a Time in Cabramatta documentary series. This time it's the Lebanese-Australian community of Punchbowl under the microscope, with a spin-off online documentary set to examine the Cronulla Riots as a companion piece.
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- February 20, 2013 - 5:21 PM
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Michael Waltrip Racing has a 5-foot-3, 115-pound dynamo in the pits.
And it's not Mark Martin.
The team announced Wednesday it has hired professional CrossFit competitor Christmas Abbott as a full-time crewmember for its NASCAR Sprint Cup operation.
The 31-year-old Abbott will be a "weekend warrior," traveling to all Cup events in a support role. Her long-term goal is to be a tire changer.
"This is just the first step for me," said Abbott, who squats more than 200 pounds and has competed in several CrossFit competitions since 2006. "I've been training for several months. This is the most challenging thing I have ever done. I'm here to do whatever my coaches ask of me, and I don't want any handouts. I'm ready to work three races a weekend if that's what it takes to get me where I want to be. I'm in this for the long haul."
Abbott, who has a gun tattooed on her hip to remind her of time she spent in Iraq, will be in Clint Bowyer's pit for Sunday's Daytona 500.
"This is another first for Michael Waltrip Racing," co-owner Michael Waltrip said. "She is an incredible, elite athlete and she has worked with our crews by bringing some cross-fit elements to their workouts. She is a competitor, and when she decided to start working towards an over-the-wall position, we said we are the perfect place to make it happen."
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Im drinking Jameson an watching VCU vs St Louis game.
EDIT: On another note my buddy just retweeted this
St. Paddy's day*
Edit: source- http://paddynotpatty.com/
Being knowledgable is now trolling... Alright, mgoblog. You can keep my imaginary Internet points.
Being a dickbag is trolling. "FTFY" is a dickbag move. As a fellow dickbag, I would know.
This post (my post) is also trolling. Flamebait would be acceptable as well.
Preach brother.
Everyday on here posters pathetically whine about getting negged in spite of their awesome posting skills.
Pro tip: if you are constantly getting negged, it's because you constantly come of as a Dickhead
the culture of the Irish?
How Americans celebrate this holiday is an abomination. Our country has issues. Whether it is racism, homophobia, or flat out cultural bigotry and ignorance, Americans of all political leanings, genders, and ethnicities have proven themselves to be insensitive louts. The problem is that people are only sensitive to those people society has deemed it necessary to be sensitive to. People are rarely aware enough of history to consider that a name for a drink is incredibly insensitive.(How many people have died as a result of car bombs in Ireland?)
As they say at Wrigley Field, "Shut up and drink your beer."
*raises a glass*
... not really
So much water
Guinness now, Shamrock Shake later. Not very imaginitive, but delicious.
I'm really hungover so I'm hydrating with a keystone right now.
You are a good man.
I've got Guiness black in the mini fridge of my man cave, but I'm restraining myself and instead showing support for my pregnant wife during her favorite holiday by having a shamrock shake with her.
You meant for him and not her.
Game is awesome, but having to listen to Dickie V is almost unbearable. I love Gus Johnson, but could you imagine the two of them doing a game together?
I've thought Vitale is unbearable for the past thirty years.
he was a good indicator that your team was playing a big game. Same way Billy Packer was always assigned the lead game on CBS. I enjoyed seeing Michigan in the spotlight. Eventually I looked at both of them as a jinx and now just a pain.
The only day of the year I drink black and tans. Too bad Guinness has become so meh in recent years. Not sure what they did to it but it is not the same as it was when I was introduced to it in high school.
If you can get it, Murphy's Irish Stout has surpassed Guiness in quality recently IMHO. The company that owns Guinness went through all kinds of shady restructuring in 2009, including closing the orginial Johnnie Walker plant in Scotland. Yuengling Dark Brewed is also a good choice if you can get it. Plus of course whatever your local micros can get.
Yeah I usually prefer Murphy's. I live in Ann Arbor so Yuengling is not an option but I will try that next time I'm out east. I didn't realize that the company that owns Guinness also owns Johnnie Walker. I guess that explains why it has lost so much of its character in recent years. Feels weird to even say it but I think as blended whiskeys go Dewar's may be on about the same level as Johnnie Walker.
Johnnie Walker Double Black isn't bad.
If you like the darker stuff, Blue Tractor has an excellent Irish ale on tap right now. I blew through a growler of it last night. Not exactly right for making black and tans, but an excellent darker option in its own right.
Black and Tans was the nickname of the reserves of the Royal Irish Constabulary. They were well known for their brutality.
People really need to learn their Irish history. The suffering of this people was immense. Black and tans, Irish car bombs.. these are names that need to go the way of Native American mascots and racist caricatures of African Americans on syrup bottles and boxes of rice---oh, wait.
I agree with you because whenever I drink Black and Tans I find my hatred for Irish people is only exacerbated.
on Martin Luther King Day?
I''ll never understand the double standards practiced by some in regards to the experiences of people with light and dark skin.
Oh I agree with you a hundred percent about the double standard. I won't even go down that road.
I recently picked up some Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. It is one of the best stouts I've had. May be worth giving it a try if you can get it.
Where can you get it?
PBR trying to maintain my buzz until tonight
Shock Top Belgian White now with probably some Guinness later.
Sam Adams! Nervously awaiting the Selection Show and the CCHA Game 3s later on to determine who Michigan will play at JLA next weekend.
Like Brady, I own nothing green (or red) nor will I wear ever (Red Wings gear is white). But anyone who is wearing this....this shirt is just wrong-
i like that shirt a lot.
Goddamnit, the day Hoke and Mattison came to Ann Arbor, they rolled in the door like this:
And they have been killing it ever since. Love those two's recruiting talents
I've got a good feeling about Hand. I've encouraged some of them to "Go Blue!" and re-tweeted some of their comments about Michigan. Hand has always seemed interested.
How long until darth wolverine flips out about another drinking thread?
Really though Saint Patty's day has got to be one of the worst days to drink in AA, the bars just go insane on their prices. Connor's is a cover charge and five bucks for a shitty little couple of Guiness right now. We always made the Spring Game our belated Saint Patty's all day bar crawl since the prices had returned to normalcy and plenty of other people went out post Spring Game.
Growler of Great Lakes Conway's Irish Ale.
Murphy's Irish Stout here.
I guess you're still not going to drink.
He could still be drankin', though.
That's goto be a good tweet from someone who said he would need to determine first whether he could see himself living there in order to consider further
Cleaning out the fridge. A Big Eddy (the only thing from Leinenkugel I've tried that isn't shit), couple of Goose Island Nut Browns, a couple of Great Lakes Alchemy Hours, some Mission St. Blonde Ales. We'll see from there.
I certainly won't be resorting to Miller Lite.
I personally love a lot of leinie's unless it is some kind of berry shit. Not afraid to admit it.
The Red, the Vanilla Porter, the Summer Shandy (which is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth), Leinenkugel's classic or original or whatever it's called.
I tried the Big Eddy Baltic Porter at a bar w/out knowiing it was Leinenkugel, and I loved it.
La Fin Du Monde that I dyed green and now Expedition (not dyed)
It never ceases to amaze that Bo Ryan has the uncanny ability to take an entire arena out of normal space-time. That said, I am waiting for my stew to finish cooking, at which point the entire family will be treated to beef stew with potatoes, parsnips, turnips, peas, bay and chives and I shall be treating myself to some Guinness and the selection show.
reason enough for a beer (assorted options from Left Hand).
Obviously he is still a long shot, but great to see a good weekend for the young man.
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'tis goen through the planet core.
Who needs fast data rates? No need to send the entire stock exchange of information through this thing. If you can have the price information for two or three key stocks even a half second before everyone else I suspect you could make a killing. Pick a different stock every day, or a couple times a day. They say the throughput could be increased a couple levels right now with the right coding scheme? Give it five years and I bet they can get another order of magnitude out of that. 100 bits would be more tha
How the fuck do you reach that conclusion? No sell = 0 and sell = 1? With absolutely no way whatever to detect whether it's valid data?
Actually yeah, Knight would probably buy one of those...
How the fuck do you reach that conclusion? No sell = 0 and sell = 1? With absolutely no way whatever to detect whether it's valid data?
Actually yeah, Knight would probably buy one of those...
It's the Texas Hold'em strategy of stock trading.
Quantities, limits, stop loss,
Either you sell everything or you plow your entire bankroll into one stock, 0 or 1 my friend, black or white.
One bit of information might be enough. Sell or don't sell.
It's usually buy, sell or hold, but really you want a specific number, which could be very detailed if you're doing microtransactions. And you probably need a few bits to identify which stock you're selling, and all this needs a carrier of some sort. The expensive part, though, is probably securing the transmission.
Neutrinos still only go at c
What we need is tachyon communication for stock trading
That's true.
But by travelling straight through the earth instead of being bounced around it from satellite to satellite, the total distance is perhaps only a hundredth as far, and so the information can be thus relayed proportionally faster.
My god, you're brilliant! Lets get the only people today who have an immediate financial interest in FTL communications to fund the groundbreaking research needed for it. They'd finally do something useful for a change!
My money's still on quantum entangling as the mechanism though, as far as I've heard nobody has any reason to believe tachyons actually exist.
Some of our highest technological achievements end up being used to do one of two things: manipulate capital markets, or blow people up. Expect a neutrino-powered civilian obliterator any day now.
You left out the third achievement upon which the world's greatest minds are now focused: getting you to click on ads.
It's still higher than that of within the same building or block as the exchange.
Unless the trading exchange is located at the centre of the Earth. Now there's an idea...
It's worse than depressing. There is no socially redeeming value to high frequency trading. At best the practice steals a small amount of value from any affected fundamental (or non high speed technical for that matter...) trade. At worst, it may have caused the flash crash or be able to trigger a similar event.
If we as a world collectively had reasonable securities laws, the idea of high frequency trading would soon become moot. For the right to host the capital markets, the exchanges should be required to be neutral to latency, and certainly not co-host high frequency trading with the exchange computer systems. Also, a very small Pigovian tax on financial transactions would clean up a lot of undesirable activity in the securities markets, this included, while being a source of revenue proximate to provision of a societal good (that being regulation for efficiency sake of the capital markets).
Funnel all the orders through one old guy wearing green eye shades with a ledger book and a Marchant calculator [wikipedia.org].
I give 'em three weeks before they successfully start overclocking him. And another month until he becomes so godlike that he takes over the world and institutes mandatory double-entry-accounting lessons with pass-or-vaporize exams. (he is an accountant after all...)
I mean really, if they wanted near zero latency communication, they should just come to me for some basic technology. For instance, a basic, yet expensive, path is telepaths. Right now we would simple takes twins or triplets or whatever, test them for basic ability, and then train them. Pay each 100K a year to be on staff for a few year, then replace then as needed. This would be a great job for someone right out of high school. For the longer term we would go to some country with low regulation and genetically engineer the telepaths. At first this would be just selective breeding and early training, but eventually we should have labs set up to create telepaths on demand. Pay for their room and board, keep them on for 10 years, then send them on their way with a couple million in trust.
A more expensive and lower bandwidth method would be quantum entanglement. Chang the spin on one particle, it's entangled particle will immediately be changed as well. A 8 bit system could be built, An alternating all up then all down could be sent as a metronome, then an STX, then a certain amount of datadata, then and ETX, then a check sequence, then an EOT. Speed would be limited on by how long one must hold a state for reading. The advantage here is that there is absolutely not latency.
You see, there are always simple solutions when one thinks about it.
This is absolutely disgusting, and any society where such a thing is a feasible way of extracting profit, is completely morally bankrupt.
And we thought, nuclear war is the worst thing that can come from fundamental Physics research. Now nuclear war seeme to be a valid solution to the society that is run by financial companies who run DoS and man in the midle attack on all trade and production, to extract money from everyone.
Now nuclear war seeme to be a valid solution to the society that is run by financial companies who run DoS and man in the midle attack on all trade and production, to extract money from everyone.
I find it remarkable how so much of society doesn't have even a stone age level understanding of trade. You don't enter into a trade because you want to make some financial company rich. You do so to buy or sell something you want or need. As long as you get what you want for the price that you want, it doesn't matter what middle men or DoS gamers are on your market.
And well, that's how the stock market works. You buy what
Look at the effort used in detecting them at this time. This is just a writer with some imagination but no understanding of the facts.
It may not be theft but I'd certainly consider it insider trading.
The information they use is not available to the general public.
Not sure how those suggestions could ever be faster than just using fiber optics going around the surface...
Seriously, why do people need information faster than even the general public can get it?
This doesn't benefit anyone except HFTers that front run based on insider information.
This is just a case of parasites inventing a sharper proboscis.
With the right modulation scheme, this could be increased by at least one or two orders of magnitude
Sure. If anyone ever figures out how to modulate a neutrino beam. Now we're having problems already just detecting them.
I suppose it would be theoretically possible to modulate the accelerator beams, but with the energies involved, I suspect that will be quite a challenge too.
And then there is the small matter of latency. The neutrino beam may be fast, but the whole process of converting the information stream in a modulated beam, and then analyzing the data at the detectors to find the few neutrinos that didn't come from the sun, will take probably more time than sending the data through fiber optics would.
Actually, that's easy, and has been done: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 [arxiv.org]
(Full disclosure: I'm an author on that paper)
Modulation (strictly speaking) isn't required. To make the system work, you only need semi-reliable one-bit fast communication, and slow communication otherwise. On the slow channel:
"I'll be ready to send a neutrino pulse at 12:00:00.000000"
"Send me a neutrino bunch at 12:00:00.000000 if it would be profitable to buy "
Then the beamline simply pulses or doesn't-pulse the beam at that time, de
1. Queue all orders
2. Delay. 1 second? 2 seconds? Even maybe 5 seconds.
3. Randomise the queue
4. Execute all orders
5. Goto 1
Kills front running, probably kills HFC. Basically strategy proofs the whole thing. Somebody cryptomath geek can probably finess the protocol some more, but this is the basic plan.
Then perhaps refrain from posting until you can use your words?
Of course, that would require you having some form of counter argument
Financial trading has always sat at the crossroads between capitalism and gambling. Tying a gigantic roulette wheel to our economy is obviously risky -- and has led to real national disaster on countless occasions. So why do we allow it? Because the capitalists and traders have convinced most of us that free financial markets lead to optimal financial decisionmaking, reward for innovation, and prosperity for all.
But even if we take as a given, the argument completely falls apart when we're talking about
this part of stock market doesn't lead to any financing though.
since the trades are done on already made investments.
high-frequency trading is simply a way to take advantage, arbitrage-like, of failures in market-making. sooner or later, market-makers (and clients, for pete's sake!) will realize this, and simply make HF trading irrelevant. OTOH it may take neutrino-based networking for market makers to do this
besides, if we're looking for exotic physics to leverage, wouldn't entanglement be even better?
This kind of technology uptake always starts with the porn industry, and then spreads to others. Wall Street might be second, at best.
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