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I have wanted to make these for so long – probably dating back to before I started my blog in 2007! What took me so long? I can't honestly say...but they were worth the wait!
The method for lining the pastry cases is unusual in that you roll the puff pastry up (swiss roll style), cut discs and then roll them out. Here are the three stages:
I have never been able to find an explanation as to why this is the traditional method – if anyone knows the reason then please share your knowledge! (NB. Having now made them, I think it might be so that the pastry rises like a cylinder to keep the custard contained, rather than the usual pillowy way puff rises)
This photo (above) shows how many layers of frilly puff pastry you get – it looks rather pretty!
The custard part of the recipe is more involved than a normal custard, but seeing as I didn't make the pastry it seems almost churlish to complain (the only two pastries I will buy readymade are puff and filo).
The unusual part of the custard recipe is that it uses whipped egg whites as well as the yolk. I found this impossible to fold in to the liquid milky mixture and used my kitchenaid as it was the only way – this meant I ended up with frothy custard! Probably, this was why I couldn't use all the custard in my pastry cases, so I ladled the leftovers into two bowls and baked them separately. Waste not want not!
It is lucky that this recipe made 24 tarts, because they are extremely addictive. Best eaten slightly warm so the custard retains some squidge; I could eat more of these than I'm happy to admit! One final comment; these don't keep well (they need refrigerating and the pastry loses its crispness) so you'll need to eat them on the day of baking...oh, the hardship!
Finally, I'd like to introduce my new kitchen assistant, Alfredo "Al" Dente. Here he is selecting the custard tart he wants!
600g puff pastry (I used 2 packs of pre-rolled, all butter puff pastry which amounted to just over 700g)
250g caster sugar
100ml water
1 tablespoon plain flour
500ml milk
6 egg yolks
2 egg whites
icing sugar and cinnamon to finish
If you have a block of puff pastry roll it out into a rectangle; mine was pre-rolled.
Roll it up along the long edge into a tight swiss roll shape.
Take the other sheet of pastry and continue rolling the same swiss roll i.e. so you end up with one, really fat roll of pastry.
Chill for 10 minutes.
Cut into 24 equal pieces and roll out a little flatter until they fill your cupcake pans or foil pie tins. The pastry will get sticky with handling so dust it with some plain flour.
Place in the fridge while you make the filling.
Mix the sugar and water and heat gently in a pan until the sugar has dissolved. Leave to simmer for 10 minutes – do this over a gentle heat so the sugar does not colour.
Place the flour and milk in a saucepan and bring it to the boil, whisking now and then to ensure the flour is not lumpy.
Remove from the heat and whisk in the sugar syrup. Leave to cool.
Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan oven 200°C/ 425°F/ gas mark 7.
When the milk mixture is cool whisk in the egg yolks
In a separate bowl beat the egg whites to firm peaks and then fold into the milk mixture. ( I couldn't achieve this with a metal spoon so resorted to my kitchenaid – my custard went frothy – thinking about it, I think I should have sieved it to lessen the froth!)
Remove the pastry cases from the fridge and fill them with the custard.
Place any leftover custard in small oven proof bowls and bake after the custard tarts.
Bake the tarts for approximately 15 minutes or until the pastry is golden and the custard is turning dark brown in patches on the top.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Sprinkle with icing sugar or cinnamon and eat slightly warm.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have created.


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Originally posted in three parts, here's my SHOCK THEATER FRANKENSTEIN article collected in a single convenient post for easy reading. Enjoy!
Part One: Hard SellSan Francisco TV execs look on as Screen Gems' Jerry Hyams and his towering silent partner, the Frankenstein Monster, set a macabre mood for this contract signing.
The gag shot, from the September 7, 1957 issue of Sponsor — a trade publication for radio and TV advertisers — celebrated KRON-TV's buying up the Shock! syndication package that would bring classic horror films to television. Shock! offered a whopping 52 films — including Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man and The Wolf Man — a treasure trove of mystery and monster movies that would find a whole new generation of fans.
Station managers did not have to be coerced with knives or stand-ins in Don Post Frankenstein masks. They were well aware of the teenage demographic packing drive-ins for AIP horror films, and Hammer Films of England had recently entered the field with a bang. Sponsor magazine contributing editor Joe Csida reported, "The overwhelming success at the box office of the New York Paramount Theater of the English-made 'The Curse of Frankenstein' is a fairly good sign that the 'Shock'package will be a rating success."
By the time the series aired in October '57, twenty-seven stations were aboard, including all the major TV markets. Flagship stations in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco geared up for "National Weird Week", an October coordinated launch that would, according to Sponsor, "telepremiere the Shock films, most likely with the original Boris Karloff Frankenstein."
The Monster was a key player, with the 1931 Frankenstein spearheading the Shock! package and rubber mask 'Frankensteins' putting in personal appearances across the continent. And if it wasn't already obvious that The Monster was your go-to guy, station managers who flipped opened the handsome, spiral-bound Shock! promotional catalog were treated to a pop-up cardboard cutout of The Monster.
Part Two: The Ratings Are InThere's nothing to it: Find a tall employee, or stand some skinny guy up on a box, slap on a joke-shop Frankenstein facemask, throw in a rubber shrunken head — scary enough for ya? — and snap a photo with TV station execs. It's a simple gag, and it gets you a spot in the October 12, 1957, issue of Sponsor, a trade magazine for Radio and TV advertisers.
The first real taste of horror business on TV harked back to the week of March 5, 1956, when WOR of New York booked King Kong on its Million Dollar Movie program, drawing what Sponsor called "the almost unbelievable rating of 79.7." Could the Shock! collection pull those kinds of numbers? WABC pumped up the promotion. On October 5, 1957, Sponsor reported, "three 'monsters' are parading about the city, with a special one assigned to visit advertising agencies. There's also a menu contest based on what viewers think is tasty monster fare."
Frankenstein hit the air on October 13, inaugurating the Shock! series. The impact was measured in the October 19 issue of Sponsor: "First Trendex ratings on Screen Gems 'Shock' package were as startling as the film itself — they were enormous." Focusing on premiere markets in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Antonio and Los Angeles, "the thrillers 1) Boosted ratings anywhere from 38% to several hundred percent, and 2) Increased sets in use by 24% to 150%." Citing "astronomical statistics", Sponsor suggested that "The shocker may be the key to opening the advertising door in the late evening", and noted "the current Screen Gems sponsors are no penny-whistle lot. It's a pretty impressive list with such representation as American Chicle, Hit Parade cigarettes, P&G, Whitehall Pharmaceuticals, and Block Drug."
The floodgates opened and new stations eagerly signed up. Reporting on December 14, Sponsor noted the addition of Cleveland, and WKBK Chicago's first showing at 10PM on a Saturday night scoring, "a 24.7 rating and a 46.4 audience share, topping all competition in that time period." Stations in Phoenix and Fort Worth tested earlier time slots, late afternoon or early evening, to determine "whether stations and sponsors would be content to confine this tempting fare to 'fringe' time." One announcer reported tons of phone call from excited kids "who wanted to know when the next installment was coming."
The Shock! package, and a follow-up Son of Shock offering 20 more titles, would be a syndication sensation and a ratings phenomenon for years to come, with new stations joining in well into the Sixties.
For all its corny simplicity, the October '57 WABC photo stunt, masked Monster, shrunken head and all, shot on the eve of the first broadcast, marked a momentous occasion. It was the signal, true and clear, that the Monster Kid era was kicking into high gear.
Part Three: Shock Theater Frankenstein
Horror Host Warren Reed of Seattle's KTNT entertains his sidekick, "Frankie", with a reading of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in this shot from the May 26, 1958 issue of Life, as the fabled picture magazine reported on the rise of the "ghoulish announcers" introducing horror movies on late night TV.
Right from the start, in October '57, many stations running the Shock! Package dressed up their broadcasts with humorous voiceover introductions or short sketches with comically macabre hosts in cheap dungeon sets and flashing bulb castle labs, attended by rubber-mask assistants. As Monster mania began to spread across America, the Frankenstein Monster stomped front and center.
Things had been percolating for some time. Back in March of '57, Boris Karloff had guested on The Rosemary Clooney Show, with Clooney's backup singers pulling a gag in Don Post Frankenstein masks. At the movies, Hammer Films had scored a major summer hit with The Curse of Frankenstein, and AIP was set to release I Was a Teenage Frankenstein by year's end.
In September '57, the advertisers' trade magazine Sponsor reported on deals that would "highlight the trend in the so-called 'horror' field." The befuddled columnist announced two new series in the works: "Screen Gems will produce a tv series called Tales of Frankenstein, with Boris Karloff as host. Hammer Films Productions is readying a half-hour Baron Frankenstein program… this is the same company that made Curse of Frankenstein for Warner Bros." These turned out to be one and the same, a doomed transatlantic effort between Hammer and Screen Gem, Tales of Frankenstein, sans Karloff. The pilot, The Face in the Tombstone Mirror, was an uncomfortable hybrid of classic and contemporary movie Frankensteins, with Anton Diffring as a Cushing-style scientist and Don Megowan as a lumbering flattop Monster in Glenn Strange mode.
In February 1958, publisher Jim Warren posed in a Frankenstein mask on the cover of the inaugural issue of Famous Monster of Filmland, the instant touchstone title of the Monster Kid era, its punning editor, Forry Ackerman, providing a pitch-perfect mix of information and humor, a Horror Host in print. By year's end, Zacherley, the most famous of all TV Horror Hosts, expanded his reach with Dinner with Drac, a pop-chart top ten novelty record. A rash of Frankenstein movies released in 1958 included Hammer's The Revenge of Frankenstein, AIP's Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf meeting in How to Make a Monster, a schlockfest Frankenstein's Daughter and Boris Karloff as the Monster-making Baron in Frankenstein 1970.
The monster boom, fanned by Shock! showings that brought the classic horror films to home screens, ruled through the Sixties, translating into an avalanche of merchandising that would include monster bubblegum cards, plastic kits, puzzles, toys, monster fan mags and comics. And on it went. Bobby Pickett scored a number one hit with Monster Mash and The Monster was reconfigured to comic effect in a sitcom, The Munsters.
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What I like about the character is that he starts out calm when everybody else is freaking out. We learn that he's taken some unspecified actions that were unpopular because they were the right thing to do, but he's neither self-righteous nor all emo about them. He's just a quiet backbone for the people who need him.
I know you asked about games, but the same thing would grab me in a game.
good dialogue with attention given even to what the NPC's have to say has a lot to do with keeping me enthralled with a title. generic speech really pisses me off.... it doesn't necessarily need to be meaningful in any way... just well written....


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The irrepressible Larry Summers seems to think President Obama should bash the rich more and sic the IRS on them — at least judging by an opinion article he wrote in the Washington Post.
The Democrat and former U.S. Treasury Secretary cited remarks by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman that took the rich to task in harsh terms. He even invokes Republican President Richard Nixon's order to the IRS in 1973 to crack down on businesses allegedly violating federal price controls — an emergency anti-inflationary antidote that proved worse than the disease.
Summers' point? Obama's criticism of the wealthy and the widening income gap between rich and poor is relatively mild historically. Summers says it's neither unusual nor "un-American" to be concerned about income inequality or a growing concentration of wealth in the hands of the wealthy few.
About that, Summers is right. Americans have always been concerned about income inequality. After all, everybody wants to get ahead and earn the profit from their hard labor instead of seeing it go to someone else.
Yet it seems out of character for Summers to imply that verbally attacking big companies or the rich is the way to go about it. Summers himself backs away from doing so and instead turns to wonky ideas on how to combat income inequality.
One of his ideas seems to be to tax companies more, though it's hard to see how that will encourage them to increase salaries or hire more workers.
John Maynard Keynes, the patron saint of today's liberal economists like Summers, also pushed for greater income equality in his day and was no cheerleader of business. But Keynes also believed government needed to foster the "animal spirits" of businesspeople to invest and innovate and that it was counterproductive to treat them as adversaries.
After Roosevelt repeatedly (and wrongly) blamed big business for worsening the Great Depression in 1937, Keynes wrote a letter to FDR that in part advised him to tone it down. He likened businesspeople to household pets who would be more likely to help the White House engineer a recovery with an encouraging nod than a boot in the rear.
"It is a mistake to think that they are more immoral than politicians," Keynes wrote. "If you work them into the surly, obstinate, terrified mood, of which domestic animals, wrongly handled, are so capable, the nation's burdens will not get carried to market."
Summers surely knows this, of course. So his rather extravagant language — at least for him — seems designed to dramatically drive home his point about the danger of widening income inequality. He wrote separate articles for the Post and the U.K.'s Financial Times warning about a "Downton Abbey" economy. What is a Downton Abbey economy?
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The Leadership Conference of Women Religious must show "more substantive signs of collaboration" to conform to a Vatican reform mandate, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told the LCWR leadership team during an April 30 meeting in Rome.
In rather blunt remarks, Cardinal Müller, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, chided the LCWR for honoring an American theologian whose writings have been criticized by the U.S. bishops for advancing an alleged neo-gnostic ideology and for continuing to maintain that the CDF's April 2012 doctrinal assessment is flawed.
"The assessment is concerned with positive errors of doctrine seen in the light of the LCWR's responsibility to support a vision of religious life in harmony with that of the Church and to promote a solid doctrinal basis for religious life," Cardinal Müller said.
The early response from the LCWR — which is comprised of the superiors and leaders of more than 57,000 religious sisters and nuns in the United States — was that it was "saddened" that certain impressions of the organization have become "institutionalized in the Vatican, and these institutionalized perceptions have led to judgments and ultimately to the doctrinal assessment."
While saying that the follow-up conversation with the CDF staff was "constructive in its frankness and lack of ambiguity," the LCWR said in a May 8 statement that, despite "maximum efforts through the years," communication has broken down and mistrust has developed.
The LCWR said: "We do not recognize ourselves in the doctrinal assessment of the conference and realize that, despite that fact, our attempts to clarify misperceptions have led to deeper misunderstandings."
Despite promises of ongoing respectful and open dialogue, it still appears, little common ground has been reached in the two years since a Vatican assessment of the LCWR found "serious doctrinal problems," including addresses at LCWR conferences that dissented from Church teachings.
The LCWR, from Cardinal Müller's perspective, sent a shot across the bow of the CDF and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, the apostolic delegate tasked with implementing the reform, in its decision to give Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a Fordham University theology professor, its Outstanding Leadership Award at the LCWR August meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 2011, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Doctrinal Committee critiqued Sister Johnson's book, "Quest for the Living God," and said it contained "misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors" pertaining to the Catholic Faith. The LCWR still decided to honor Johnson, and it did so without notifying Archbishop Sartain.
"This is a decision that will be seen as a rather open provocation against the Holy See and the Doctrinal Assessment," Cardinal Müller said.
"Not only that, but it further alienates the LCWR from the bishops as well."
Archbishop Sartain, who was present during the April 30 meeting in Rome, released a statement that, while not directly addressing Johnson's award, said he was "in full agreement with the issues raised by the cardinal and over the past two years (has) frequently discussed them with LCWR leadership."
Father Roger Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, who has written widely on Church issues, said Cardinal Müller's remarks indicate his frustration.
"What the CDF is trying to do is to save the LCWR from self-destruction. That is what this whole doctrinal assessment is about," Father Landry told Our Sunday Visitor.
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., said he was "certainly in agreement" with Cardinal Müller's comments. "I think it was good that (Cardinal Müller) got to put those things out on the table," said Bishop Paprocki, who is tasked with assisting in the LCWR reform, particularly on drafting the LCWR's revised canonical statutes and civil bylaws.
From their point of view, the LCWR, in its advocacy for social justice causes and its engagement with the world, is exercising an expression of spiritual renewal. In its May 8 statement, the LCWR said its "passion for all that the Church can be deepens our commitment to stay at the table and talk through differences." The LCWR added: "We want to be part of the universal Church rooted in the Gospel, a Church that hears the cry of the poor and is united in its response." However, the LCWR's recent embrace of "conscious evolution" could undermine its Christian witness and may in fact, Cardinal Müller added, lead to fundamental errors regarding Church doctrine.
"My concern is whether such an intense focus on new ideas such as conscious evolution has robbed religious of the ability truly to sentire cum Ecclesia (think with the Church)," Cardinal Müller said.
At its 2012 assembly, the LCWR invited Barbara Marx Hubbard to be its main speaker. Hubbard, a futurist and writer lauded by New Age practitioners, spoke on conscious evolution, which Hubbard describes on her website as "part of the trajectory of human evolution, the canvas of choice before us now as we recognize that we have come to possess the powers that we used to attribute to the gods."
Cardinal Müller compared conscious evolution to gnosticism and added that its "fundamental theses are opposed to Christian revelation."
"Most Catholics would be shocked to learn the topics that are being spoken about at many LCWR conferences," Father Landry said. "These aren't the type of things that are going to strengthen the faith of women religious, but it will actually take them in a different direction beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus."
Bishop Paprocki told OSV that progress is being made on revising the statutes, which he said will emphasize the fact that the LCWR "is not a trade organization."
"It's not a private group," Bishop Paprocki said. "It's an entity of the Holy See, accountable to the Holy See.
"Everybody at this point wants to continue the dialogue," Bishop Paprocki added. "Even though the issue is not easy, nobody has walked away from the table."
Cardinal Walter Kasper, a German theologian who has been critical of the CDF, told a Fordham University audience May 5 that he hoped the differences can be overcome.
"If you have a problem with the leadership of women's orders, then you have a discussion with them, you have to dialogue with them, an exchange of ideas," Cardinal Kasper said, according to Religion News Service. "Perhaps they have to change something. Perhaps also (CDF) has a little bit to change its mind. That's the normal way of doing things in the Church. ... The Church is not a monolithic unity."
Cardinal Müller said that the Holy See and CDF want religious life to thrive and the LCWR to be an instrument supporting its growth, but he added that the LCWR, as a canonical entity dependent on the Holy See, has a "profound obligation" to promote a vision of religious life rooted in the Faith of the Church. Father Landry said it was "theoretically possible" that the Holy See could strip the LCWR of its ecclesial status if it failed to cooperate with the mandate.
"Obviously, the Vatican is trying to work with them to reform from the inside so that would never happen," Father Landry said.
The LCWR says its dialogue with the CDF is a "very complex matter ... fraught with tension and misunderstanding," yet is "one of the most critical endeavors we, as leaders, can pursue for the sake of the world, the Church and religious life."
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Miranda Lambert Is Privy to Blake Shelton's Flirty Ways
If you saw Blake Shelton hanging out with Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show' this week, you might have raised an eyebrow at the 'Over' singer's flirtatious comments toward movie star Scarlett Johansson. Innocent as they were, Shelton's flirty antics beg the question, "What would Miranda Lambert think of this?" The country star's wife of nearly a year took to Twitter to assure her fans that she's not worried about her man.
After tweeting that she was watching her hubby on 'The Tonight Show,' Lambert followed up to comment on his obvious flirting attempt with the 27-year-old actress.
"So my husband is plainly flirting with Scarlet on Jay Leno. I would too:) She is so amazingly cool and beautiful," Lambert shared, adding, "He clearly had good taste!"
Mrs. Shelton knows that her husband is a fan of the ladies, and Wednesday night wasn't the first time that Shelton has made public comments about finding other women attractive. At the 2011 CMA awards, the 'Honeybee' hitmaker admitted that he couldn't stop looking at Carrie Underwood's legs — and that they should win a CMA of their own.
If Lambert is worried about Shelton's playful comments, she hasn't given any indication to the media. And why should she be? The firecracker songstress has had several platinum albums on the shelves, as well as chart-topping singles like 'The House That Built Me' and 'Over You.' Plus, her one-year anniversary to country's hottest man is coming up soon — on May 14 — and Shelton told Jay Leno that he's taking an entire day off just to celebrate with her.


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I am a small financial services business looking to re brand ourselves. I love technology and will be working at getting our clients to utilise technology to work with me.
I have other sites which I'll will eventually work at linking in with this new name & subsequent site
eg. http://www.onlineadviser.com.au, http://wwwcovermylife.com.au, etc.
I'm personally am sick & tied of financial services businesses all copying each other and having the same look and feel. It is boring.....boring....boring. We want this new business to be "out there".
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I want one of the colours to be pink as in posh (not gold or silver) around FF99CC not committed to any other colours at this stage.
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At today's party presidential election for the DPJ, Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, Minister of Finance, was decided upon as the next DPJ president. Tomorrow at the Diet he will be designated Prime Minister. Mr. Noda has placed emphasis on shoring up public finances and other such matters thus far, and in light of his calm demeanor I have great expectations for him in uniting the party as well.
I myself was able to move forward smoothly with the procedures for stepping aside, with the passage by August 26 of all three bills that I had set as targets enabling me to resign: the second supplementary budget, the Act to Promote Renewable Energies, and the Act on Special Provisions concerning Issuance of Government Bonds. I intend to be engaged in the promotion of renewable energies as my life work even after I step down from office.
Actually, with regard to renewable energies, ultimately I would like to create a "Green Things" political party. This is because I believe firmly that what will save the earth and what will save humanity is "green things"―plants. Why? It is manifestly apparent when you look at history from the earliest beginnings of the earth.
Do you know what comprises the atmospheres of Mars and Venus? It is in fact about 95% carbon dioxide. Moreover, it is said that when the earth came into existence about 4.5 billion years ago, the earth's atmosphere was also more than 95% carbon dioxide. Yet that has declined to less than 0.04% in the present day. Why? Entirely through the power of plants.
First of all, plant life (algae) arose in the ocean, where it is difficult to be impacted by the sun's ultraviolet light, which acts potently to kill living organisms. Through the carbon assimilation of the algae's chlorophyll, carbon dioxide is broken down into oxygen and carbon, and oxygen was diffused into the atmosphere. The O3 ozone layer arose from that O2 oxygen, blocking out ultraviolet light. Plants developed on land and huge forests formed, with carbon taking solid form in the form of coal and so on. In this way the current atmosphere developed, with ample amounts of oxygen as a component. It was against the backdrop of this kind of environment that we animals first became able to exist.
Until we came to burn coal during the Industrial Revolution, the energies used by humans also came from plants, for the most part. One scholar has made the provisional calculation that "if we were to use only one-eighth of the portion of annual growth of the earth's plant life and, rather than leave it to decay, were able to convert it all to energy instead, it would cover the entire amount of energy currently used annually by the entirety of the world's population." As this would only be utilizing the process of emitting carbon dioxide, the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would not increase through this process. In this way, it is plants―that is to say, biomass energy―that have a potential even greater than that of wind or solar energy.
In order also to incorporate this into the reconstruction efforts after the earthquake disaster, first, 100 million yen has been allocated within the second supplementary budget to cover the exploratory investigation costs for ten biomass power-generating stations that would utilize the wood in the rubble from the disaster areas, and then in the future use the leftover wood resulting from forestry operations. I would like full-fledged operations to be addressed within the third supplementary budget.
--- Here in my last entry I wrote about a topic I enjoy, and with this, "Prime Minister Kan's Blog" will itself come to an end. There were occasions at which I wished to say more about my own personal thoughts, and I believe that I spoke as frankly as possible within the extent possible in light of my position as Prime Minister. I would like to thank all my readers for following this blog this far.


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The greatest revolution in agricultural equipment is the new technology that producers will be able to use on their machinery to improve efficiency and productivity in the field. That's according to Barry Nelson, media relations manager for John Deere, when asked to share his outlook for farm machinery in 2013 and beyond.
"There are three areas that every customer should ask their dealer about to make farm operations more efficient," Nelson says. Here's what they are:
- Machine Optimization:"What technology can I put on a new or used machine to give it more capacity and productivity?" Nelson says. "For example, GPS and AutoTrac assisted steering will reduce passes through the field, improve overall fuel economy, save horsepower, and increase overall comfort to the operator."
- Logistics Optimization: As farms continue to consolidate, farm operators are challenged with managing larger fleets of equipment, Nelson says. Telematics, a technology that John Deere markets under the brand name JDLink, allows farmers to know where their machinery is located and whether it is idling or working in the field. "The producer is also able to make sure the right machine is working in the right field at the right time," Nelson says. "They are able to do this remotely from an office computer, iPad, or smart phone."
- Agronomic Decision Support: As machinery is working in the field planting, tilling, and harvesting crops, producers will be able to gather millions of bits of data that they can use to make future agronomic decisions, Nelson says. "A good example is in a combine, where the machine can track yield and moisture while harvesting. How can a producer take this information and use it for the next planting season – to make sure they are using ideal seed populations for different fields (and areas of the same field) that have different soil conditions, field conditions, and water drainage issues." The Ag Decision Support technology will assist growers to analyze data and optimize the amount of seed, fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides for maximum yields – but with more efficient use of inputs.
"All of this new technology is available now, or will be soon," Nelson says. "This is all part of the John Deere FarmSight strategy that we have been rolling out the past two years."
John Deere gives farmers a sneak peek of what future farms could look like in the video, "Farm Forward," which it posted on youtube in August.
For more information about John Deere's technology offerings, visit JD FarmSight.


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JATC - Just Another TourCreator
JATC is a free tool to help you creating virtual tours from your panoramas.
- Creation of complex pano tours or simple single pano
- Defining hotspots interactively
- Automatic hotspot creation
- Defining nadir/cap/flat image
- Defining map/floorplan (only SPi-V and PurePlayerPro)
- Preview of tour/pano
- Create a tour to be viewed with PurePlayer or PurePlayerPro-Plugin or SPi-V
- Save and load tour to/from JATC project file
It's written in VB.Net and for this reason only useable on windows machines.
Read more and download from: JATC home
--Helge 13:40, 19 March 2007 (CET)


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PHOENIX -- The Dodgers have taken on more than $600 million in salary commitments over the last year but will nonetheless head into spring training with a significant amount of uncertainty.
Hanley Ramirez was supposed to play shortstop in the Dominican winter league to prepare for a move back to his old position, but didn't. Matt Kemp and Carl Crawford, who are recovering from major operations, only recently started baseball activities. The Dodgers' roster doesn't have a true leadoff hitter and has a surplus of starting pitchers.
With camp about a month away, General Manager Ned Colletti downplayed any concerns.
"If this is where we come into camp, we're in a good spot," Colletti said Wednesday at the team's spring-training complex, where the Dodgers are playing host to their annual winter development program for top prospects.
Colletti claimed to be comfortable with his options at shortstop, even though Ramirez didn't play there this winter.
A lifelong shortstop, Ramirez was moved to third base last spring by the Miami Marlins to accommodate Jose Reyes. Shortly after his midseason trade to the Dodgers, Ramirez moved back to shortstop but didn't look sharp.


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On Thursday I wrote about the Star Tribune column libeling Pete Hegseth and the Vets for Freedom in "Nick Coleman defames a hometown hero." I included the message I had written to Star Tribune managing editor Rene Sanchez:
I'd be grateful for your response to my question whether Coleman should have asked Pete Hegseth…for comment before running the column.
I believe that Coleman's allegation that VFF is a Republican front group is a demonstrably false allegation. Coleman might have learned as much had he attended any of the group's two or three local events on Tuesday or had he spoken with any of the decorated war heroes who were in town as part of the tour. Of course, that might have taken a little longer than the 15 seconds of online research he appears to have conducted for the column.
One more question: Isn't the Star Tribune embarrassed to publish a column like this by one of its featured metro columnists regarding a hometown hero?
I'm sincerely grateful for your courtesies.
Mr. Sanchez responded yesterday afternoon:
Sorry for the delayed response. I'm battling a terrible cold, as you unfortunately had to hear on the phone yesterday when you called.
Nick's column fell within the license we allow for commentary. Ideally, it would have been good to hear from Pete Hegsbeth, too. But Nick plainly called him and others in the group American heroes with an unquestionable right to express their views. He just pointed out that the group also has waded into the politics of the war, which seemed to worry that particular school principal.
By the way, I had a good conversation about this yesterday with Pete Hegseth.
I trust that readers can draw the appropriate conclusions from Mr. Sanchez's response on their own.


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April 8, 2010
Wabash sophomore John Holm ended most of the drama in Thursday's baseball doubleheader at Saint Joseph's College in his first at bat against the NCAA Division II scholarship team. Holm drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the first inning of game one, setting a new Wabash single-season record for RBI while tying the Little Giants' single-season home run record. Wabash took game one 9-3 before splitting the twin bill with a 4-3 loss in game two.
The two-run shot in the first inning scored John Pennington, giving Holm his 40th RBI of the year, passing the old record of 39 set by Josh Stanton '03 in 2001 before adding his 41st RBI with a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Holm (below right) also tied the single-season home run mark of 11 set by Matt Wilhelm '01 in 2000.
"I have to give a lot of credit for the way I'm playing to the whole team," Holm said. "Brian Lares, Pennington, and Tanner Coggins are doing a great job of getting on base in front of me. I'm just trying to do what the team needs based upon the situation. If there's a guy on second, I'm trying to get him home. If there's a guy on first, I'm trying to get him into scoring position for someone else to bring him home.
"I'm trying to be patient at the plate, just waiting for my pitch. I've been lucky. Fortunately pitchers have been giving me some good pitches to hit, and I've been able to drive them over the fence.
Head coach Cory Stevens agreed with Holm's approach at the plate.
"John's having a fantastic season," Stevens said. "He's had great pitch selection all season. It's been tough for pitchers to fool him. He's confident enough that he can go to two strikes and still wait for his pitch."
The Little Giants used the hit-and-run play to perfection in the first inning, scoring an additional run on a single by David Seibel. The Pumas tied the game with a run in the first and two in the third before Wabash regained the lead on a Saint Joseph's error and an RBI double by Lares. Coggins led off the fifth with a double, moved to third on a passed ball, then scored on Holm's sac fly to put the Little Giants up 6-3. Two more runs scored in the sixth inning on RBI singles by Lares and Pennington. A solo homer by Chris Deig in the seventh added the final run of the game.
Pete Schmith picked up the win in relief of freshman Chris Widup. Schmith worked three innings of shutout baseball, scattering two hits while striking out three. Widup threw the first three innings of the game, allowing three runs on three hits with five walks and three strikeouts. Freshman Blake Mattingly closed out the game with a strikeout in an inning of work.
Lares, Pennington, Coggins, Deig, and Seibel each had two of the Little Giants' 12-hit total.
The Wabash bats went silent in game two. The Little Giants took a 2-0 lead when Joe Johnson reached on a two-base error to open the third inning, scoring on a passed ball. Pennington collected one of his two hits later in the third, scoring on a Coggins double down the right field line.
The Pumas picked up two runs in the bottom of the inning, but Wabash broke the 2-2 tie on a sacrifice fly by Seibel after Montana Timmons opened the fourth inning with a single to left.
Saint Joseph's rallied for two runs in the fifth. Wabash struggled to put a bat on the ball with eight of the final 12 batters retired by strikeouts. Pennington reached on a single to center in the fifth, while Timmons gave way to pinch-runner Nathan Schrader in sixth after being hit by a pitch. Schrader made it all the way to third with one out, but back-to-back K's ended the Wabash effort to tie the game.
Lares reached on a walk in the seventh with two outs, but Pennington's long fly ball to center was hauled in at the warning track to finish the game. Pennington had two of the Little Giants' six hits in the game.
Logan Frederick took the loss in relief, throwing 1-2/3 innings. He gave up four hits and two earned runs with one walk. Brian Van Duyn threw two innings of shutout ball as the starter, allowing just one hit with two walks and two strikeouts. Eric Foust gave up two runs in two innings of relief with a walk and three hits. Jeff Soller struck out the only batter he faced in the sixth, entering the game in relief of Frederick with the bases loaded and two outs in the inning.
Wabash (12-14) returns to North Coast Athletic Conference play this weekend with a key four-game series in Richmond, Indiana against Earlham College. The Little Giants led the NCAC West with a 5-1 mark, a game ahead of Denison University (4-2) and Ohio Wesleyan (5-3). The Little Giants play two seven-inning games Saturday before closing out the series with a Sunday doubleheader. Holm and Stevens both know the Little Giants will have to continue to play well as a team to keep its conference momentum rolling.
"We have to play Wabash baseball this weekend," Holm said. "Pitchers have to throw strikes early, we have to make plays defensively, and get ahead with good sacrifice bunts and two-out RBIs."
"Earlham will test us," Stevens added. "They've split a doubleheader against Denison and played the Big Red tough in the game they lost --- a one-run game. We have to get a solid performance from our four starters and hopefully continue to do the small things well offensively with bunting and running the bases, and then play defense behind our pitchers."


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by Tom Utescher
Way back in July, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy seniors Sydni Epps and Casey Sullivan made verbal commitments to the colleges where they plan to continue their athletic careers, and last week it was finally time to put pen to paper and make it official.
On Monday, November 14, the school held an official ceremony for the two sportswomen to sign their NCAA letters of intent, Epps for basketball at Hofstra University, and Sullivan for lacrosse at Lafayette College.
Epps, a six-foot guard who can swing to small forward, had schools such as Villanova, James Madison, and George Washington on her short list.
"I loved their coaching staff at Hofstra," stated Epps, who averaged 11 points eight rebounds, and three assists per game as a junior. "They really approached me in a positive way. I liked the location of the school and the atmosphere around the team."
Penn Charter's Dianna Thomas-Palmer, a powerful 6'1" post player, has also committed to Hofstra.
"We played together on travel teams when we were younger," Epps noted.
The first of this year's recruits to commit to the Long Island school, Epps said that the incoming class has been ranked among the top six among the mid-major basketball programs.
"They decided they wanted a complete five to come in as a group out of high school in 2012, players who could step up athletically and academically."
The Lions senior, who has played AAU basketball both with the Philly Triple Threat and the Gauchos in New York, said that one of her Gauchos teammates (Asia Jackson of Peekskill, NY) will join her at Hofstra, along with two recruits from Virginia.
Known for athleticism and versatility, Epps is being projected as a small forward who will occasionally see duty as a shooting guard.
Particularly for the latter role, she explains, "I'm working to improve my outside shot, creating more of a perimeter game."
She said, "The coaches [at Hofstra] said they liked the way I hustle and get after the ball. My defense was key for them. They liked that I was a versatile player."
At Springside Chestnut Hill, Epps participated in the diversity-oriented organization CAFE (Cultural Awareness For Everyone), and in the classroom her English courses were among her favorites. At Hofstra, she'll consider a major in exercise science, perhaps with a minor in marketing.
The hoops standout came to SCHA as a sophomore after a year at Cheltenham High School, where she was the only freshman on the varsity squad in the powerful Panthers program.
"Being here helped me advance academically, and it gave me more confidence in myself as a person," she said. "It helped me become a leader on the court."
Stickster Sullivan entered what was then the Springside School a year earlier, and called the decision "One of the best things I've ever done. With the small class size you really get to know the teachers. You also have a chance to participate in a lot of different activities. Along with playing sports [tennis in the fall], I sing in the choir, Lorelei, and I'm in the play."
In her college search she considered schools such as Cornell and Franklin & Marshall, and decided "Lafayette seemed the best fit for me.
Lindsay Yang, a 2010 graduate of Springside (now SCHA) is a sophomore on the Leopards lacrosse team.
"She absolutely loves it," Sullivan reported. "She said it's a great group of girls. On my official visit, the whole community there was so great and I wanted to be a part of it."
Between the team at Springside and her lacrosse club, the Ultimate Goal, she's played both offensive and defensive roles, and said that due to her running stamina she'll probably first see action as a midfielder at the college level.
A varsity team member at SCHA since her freshman season, Sullivan has a good bloodline when it comes to lacrosse. Her mother, the former Brenda Reese, played for Penn State in the mid-1980's, when the Lady Lions were one of the elite national powers in the sport.
Even so, Sullivan related, "When I started out in high school, I wasn't sure I was going to play in college. Then I started getting lots of e-mails from coaches at the end of the summer before my junior year. The coach at Lafayette, Ali Fisher, said she'd been looking at me since my freshman year and felt I could make an impact on their program. She was one of the first people to recruit me, and she's been so nice to me the whole time."
Academically, Sullivan likes math and has also enjoyed English courses, and she's thinking about majoring in psychology in college.
"I figure what you learn in psychology will always be useful, since you're going to be interacting with people throughout your life," she pointed out.
Looking forward to her final season of high school lacrosse, she said, "I want to bring up my offense this year. Our team has strong defenders, but we need to step up and score to win more games."


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Red Alloy WireEdit
|Red Alloy Wire
|Red Alloy Wire
|When active
|Yes (64)
|Data Value
|dec. 2301:256
|Mod Included
In terms of functionality, the Red Alloy Wires are pretty similar to vanilla Redstone, but they can also be run on the wall and the ceiling and they will transmit a signal for 255 blocks. They connect to themselves and to all blocks that accept or emit a Redstone signal, and they will also transmit a signal to the block they are sitting upon. In addition to that, they will also connect to any color of insulated wire. The Red Alloy Wires will not connect to Bundled Cables
Insulated WireEdit
|Insulated Wire
|Insulated Wire
|Yes (64)
|Data Value
|dec. 2301:512 - 2301:527
|Mod Included
Like their uninsulated counterparts, Insulated Wires can be placed almost anywhere and transmit a signal over a long distance. But these will only connect to blocks that accept or emit redstone signals, themselves and uninsulated wire. They will not give the signal to the blocks they sit upon. They will especially not connect to Insulated Wires of a different color. This allows multiple wires to run right next to each other without interference. They are also needed if you want to connect to Bundled Cables. Insulated Wires are available in 16 different colors, one for each unique dye.
Bundled CableEdit
Bundled Cables allow for the tightest wiring in this mod. A Redstone signal supplied to the cable from Insulated Wires will only transfer to other wires of the same colour attached to the cable. Every Bundled Cable supports transmission of all 16 colors of Insulated Wire in just one block. Bundled Cables can only be connected to other bundled cables (and their colored and jacketed variations and insulated wires). Every color of wire will give the same basic uncolored Bundled Cable. Keep in mind that you have to use the same color for all five Insulated Cables in the recipe.
Colored Bundled CableEditColored Bundled Cables allow for the same tight wiring as uncolored ones but will have an extra ribbon around the bundle. Colored Bundled Cables can only be connected to other bundled cables of the same color, uncolored Cable Bundles and insulated wires. There are 16 Colored Bundled Cables in total, one for each unique dye (just substitute the Bone Meal with the corresponding dye).
Jacketed WireEdit
Jacketed Wires are self-supporting and do not require a surface to sit upon. It can be connected ("stitched") to regular wires on a surface by placing a piece of Red Alloy Wire on the surface you want it to connect to. They can be made from any material that can be cut into covers, and are named accordingly (for example, if made with Block Covers cut from regular stone , the item name would be "Stone Jacketed Wire"). Equivalent jacketed wires for blutricity can be made similarly.
Jacketed CableEdit
Jacketed Cables are the self-supporting version of bundled cables. They do not require a surface to sit upon. They can be made from any material that can be cut into covers and an uncolored bundled cable in the center. It cannot be crafted from colored cables. It will also only connect ("stitched") to a surface with an uncolored cable.
Recoloring Wires and CablesEdit
Pretty much every colored wire or cable can be recolored by simply applying the dye of your choice and will instantly yield the desired color of your wire or cable.
Picture Gallery Edit
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Workers can sue over lunch menus
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit brought by workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport who said they were forced to eat food provided by their company in violation of their religious beliefs or go hungry during their shifts.
The 5-4 decision expands the duty of private employers to accommodate religious practices under state law. The law was already clear that businesses can't fire or refuse to hire someone based on religious beliefs, but it wasn't clear on whether people can sue companies for failing to provide on-the-job accommodations.
The workers at Gate Gourmet prepare meals that are served on flights from the airport. Because of security concerns, they are not allowed to bring their own food to work. Nor can they leave work on their 30-minute lunch breaks.
Instead, the company provides their meals. While there are ostensibly vegetarian and non-vegetarian options, the workers said the ingredients weren't labeled, and the vegetarian dishes sometimes included animal byproducts. For example, the refried beans were made with pork lard, and other supposedly vegetarian dishes were made with chicken broth.
They also allege the company switched from turkey meatballs to beef-and-pork meatballs without telling them, even though some workers don't eat beef or pork, and that vegetarian dishes and meats are often prepared using the same cookware and utensils. Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Ethiopian Orthodox Christian employees are among those who took issue with food, the plaintiffs said.
A King County Superior Court judge — Mary Yu, who since has been appointed to the Supreme Court — threw out the workers' class-action claims against Gate Gourmet. She held that Washington's Law Against Discrimination did not allow such lawsuits.
Yu, who was sworn in as a justice this week, did not participate in Thursday's ruling.
Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud wrote for the majority that the duty to accommodate religious practices in the workplace is implied in the law. She was joined by Justices Mary Fairhurst, Debra Stephens, Charles Wiggins and Steven Gonzalez.
Federal law has long required employers to provide such accommodations, but federal courts have historically been less receptive to employee-rights cases than Washington state courts, said Jesse Wing, a Seattle lawyer who filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the case on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and the Washington Employment Lawyers Association.
"The ability to bring a claim that protects religious freedom in the workplace in a Washington court is a significant development," Wing said. "This ruling today opens up the Washington courts to these kinds of claims."
The majority also said the workers could pursue their claims of battery and negligent infliction of emotional distress — and the dissent didn't take issue with that, essentially making that part of the ruling unanimous. The claim for battery — defined as intentional, unwanted contact — rests on the notion that the company tricked the workers into eating food in violation of their religious beliefs.
In her dissent, Chief Justice Barbara Madsen argued that if the Legislature had wanted to allow people to sue their employers for failing to make reasonable accommodations for religious practice, it would have expressly done so. Even if people could sue, the workers' claims should be barred because there was not a suggestion that Gate Gourmet punished the workers or threatened any punishment over their religious beliefs.
She was joined by Justices Charles Johnson, Jim Johnson and Susan Owens.
A spokeswoman for Gate Gourmet did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.
Two lawyers for the workers, Aaron Rocke and Seth Rosenberg, said they hoped the ruling would encourage respectful, open discussions between workers and employers around the state about religious practices. They said that since they filed the lawsuit, Gate Gourmet has made some changes, including the intermittent labeling of ingredients, but they hope to see further and more consistent changes.
"The reality is we live in a diverse community," Rosenberg said. "This is about having a discussion about how we can accommodate those differences in a very important venue, which is employment."