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eroth1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Networking Step by Step. http://www.networkingstepbystep.com
We are a new web start up company that will be selling online computer networking training classless and information. The classes will be offered via video and audio. We
People who want to learn computer networking, even if they're just getting started today. Beginners as well as advanced users. Network administrators, network engineers, network architects. Anybody who wants to learn computer networking via an online multimedia training environment.
We are very open to ideas as far as the logo goes. Some ideas include a staircase, or a footpath up mountain but these are not required. Please be creative, we are open to anything!
1. Logo in JPEG and EPS format
2. Business card in JPEG and EPS format.
3. Stationary in JPEG and EPS format.
The fonts must be easy to read - no cursive please.
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Kristiyan HaralambievPh.D. in Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
I earned my Ph.D. in March 2011.
As a student at New York University, I was a member of the Cryptography Group led by Victor Shoup and Yevgeniy Dodis. My research was focused on novel constructions and applications of efficient public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, and non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. While at NYU, I interned at Google (summer 2006), got to work with the amazing cryptographers at NTT Corporation (summer 2009), visited the great cryptography group at ENS (spring 2010), and spent a productive and enjoyable summer at the Security Group of IBM Research, Zurich (summer 2010).
Before coming to NYU, I was a student at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". During my four years there, I got the chance to meet some of the brightest people in my country. Thanks to all of them, I was fortunate to experience an unique learning environment and to have many fruitful collaborations. And with two of them, we competed in the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2002 and 2004; to earn that, we had to win the SouthEastern European Programming Contest, becoming the champions in 2003 and coming second in 2001. Towards the end of my studies, I participated in the two-month Summer Workshop at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University and started to work with Prof. Ivan Landjev at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
While growing up in the beautiful seaside city of Burgas, Bulgaria, I also competed in many mathematics and computer science competitions; in particular, the International Olympiads in Informatics (IOI) in 1999 (bronze medal) and 2000 (silver medal).
Publications:If you are interested in Structure-Preserving Cryptography, I encourage you to read my thesis


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Tap of the stick to @statsoncrack ... This past weekend senior forward Corbin Knight had another stellar night going 20-12 and 38-23 on the weekend in the faceoff circle. Freshman Rocco Grimaldi was also pretty good in the faceoff dot as well going 24-17 on the weekend.
After last night's game where both teams combined for 66 minutes in penalties, UMD moved from second to first over-all in penalty minutes. North Dakota jumped from 48th over-all to 31st.
Last night former UND goalie Brad Eidsness was the voice of reason when he posted this on the on-line game chat. I have met a lot of athletes over the years and Brad is one of the smartest that I have ever met. Eids also comes off as one of the most level head of people too. When most of us were ready for Sanders to come in and relieve Gothberg Brad posted this.
"I think a dose of patience is needed all with both the team and Gothberg. With a win tonight the team would have a better start (5-3-2) then the 2010-11 team. This is Gothberg's 3rd Career start. He is going to get more comfortable with time. He as the tools and will put it together. In order to do that however he must play meaningful minutes."
This weekend UND Hockey travels to South Bend, Indiana to play the Fighting Irish. You can check this page this week. When UMD played Notre Dame in hockey back in October they had an on-line broadcast that was really high quality. You can find that web page at this link [Click to view]
It will be interesting to see if their on-line broadcast can take thousands of UND hockey fans logging on to see their favorite team play hockey. Only time will tell right?


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A Tree Is Alive
art by Jo Lynn Alcorn
It may not look like it, but a tree is alive. It breathes and drinks and eats, like other living things. And it grows, too—very slowly.
A tree begins as a seed. Some seeds are protected inside nuts or fruits or pine cones. Maple seeds have thin, wing-shaped coverings. They whirl and twirl and spin as they are carried by the wind. Some land on hard, rocky places or in lakes or rivers. Some are eaten by birds, squirrels, and other animals. But some land on soft, rich soil, where they can grow.
- Warmed by the sun and watered by spring rains, the seed pushes out a thin, white root.
- A small stem grows up from the ground. It will be the tree's trunk.
- Two small leaves, called seed leaves, open. More roots grow from the first root.
- Maple leaves appear, and the plant grows bigger and bigger.
A Sugar Maple Tree
- Leaves make food for the tree. Branches stretch out from the trunk to let sunlight reach the leaves.
Using the energy from sunlight, green leaves combine carbon dioxide with water from the roots to make a nourishing sugary sap.
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- A leaf "breathes" through many thousands of tiny holes on its surface. It takes in a gas called carbon dioxide from the air and gives off oxygen.
When you breathe, you take in the oxygen given off by trees and other plants, and breathe out carbon dioxide.
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- When fall comes and daytimes get shorter, a little corky layer grows where each leaf stem joins a tree branch. This blocks the flow of water to the leaf.
Without water, the leaf dies. It loses its green color and shows yellows and orangy reds that had been hidden by the green. When the dead leaves fall, the tree is ready for winter, a time when sunlight and water are scarce.
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- Just as blood flows through your body, sap flows through a tree. Inside the tree trunk and branches, tiny tubes carry water and minerals up from the roots to the leaves.
More tubes carry the sugary food made by the leaves to all the other parts of the tree. Veins in each leaf are like tiny pipes carrying food and water.
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- Bark is the skin of the tree. It protects the inside of the tree from animals and bad weather. Some trees have bark that stretches easily as they grow, so the bark stays smooth.
But most trees have bark that cracks and gets rough as the tree grows fatter.
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- Roots are the feet of the tree—only they're underground. They help keep the tree from falling down. The bigger the tree, the longer its roots have to be.
The roots also help feed the tree, soaking up water and minerals from the soil.
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Pine trees don't need to lose their tough, thin leaves, called needles, for winter. The needles have a waxy coating that protects them from cold, dry winter weather.
- cone:
- The part of a pine tree where seeds grow.
- roots:
- The parts of plants that take in water from the ground.
- seed:
- The part of a plant that has a new plant inside it.
- trunk:
- The thick middle part of a tree. The trunk of a tree grows up from the ground.
- What liquid flows through the tiny tubes of a sugar maple tree?
[anno: Sap.]
- What do people make from this liquid?
[anno: People make maple syrup.]
- What other kinds of things could people make from a sugar maple tree?
[anno: People could make furniture or tools with the wood.]


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Hermeneutics—"rightly dividing the word of truth"—begins with a careful look at each word to determine its original meaning.
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TurnStyleBrands needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 236 designs submitted by 77 freelance designers.
TurnStyle Brands
TurnStyle Brands is a US distribution company that will supply cool, hip and fun products to US retail stores. Our portfolio of brands will expand over time but currently includes Children's balance bikes (http://tykerider.com/bikes/early-rider-bikes/) and helmets (http://tykerider.com/helmets/nutcase-helmets/).
The goal of our distribution company is to only distribute the coolest products in the US. This can expand outside of children's products, bikes and accessories. Our logo has to be flexible in reflecting a distributor with an eye for cool products and design, without being too specific as to the types of products we sell. It has to represent style, both our own and our products!
Examples of some sites for inspiration:
Our target audience is retail stores that would like to carry our products. This includes physical and online retailers that sell fun, hip products. These stores will cater to a young, hip urban consumer with an eye for style. The consumers are technology savvy and follow trends through blogs, etc. Below are some sites that target a similar audience across a spectrum of topics:
Our audience likes to express themselves through the products they use. We want to bring the best to them and the stores they shop at.
At this stage we do not have any requirements. We are open to any and all good ideas. Our company name is TurnStyle Brands and can be used separated (Turn Style Brands) or together (TurnStyleBrands) or any combination of the two. We want stylish, eye catching, professional.
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This year's motto at the EMC CIO Connect in Prague was "Redefine possible". For sure, it's a big aim for all participants but clearly one meeting the expectations of EMC's customers. Divided into 3 Tracks here's an overview of Summit: part 2.
To meet the needs of IT Transformation the EMC CIO Connect Summit in Prague was divided into 3 unique tracks. For participants who were interested in redefining their Enterprise IT Architecture, the first Track illustrated a selection of speakers and presentations focused on this very topic. The main focus points of the track included:
- Software-Defined Data Centers
- Visibility & Agility in SDDCs
- New World of Hybrid Clouds
- Strategy and Design for Service Catalogs
- And Security within the SDDC
The Power of SDDC
The first track of the day focused on highlighting the powers of Software-defined Data Centers, Denis Janot and Kai Preuss showed the audience how SDDC enables IT to run at the speed of Business whilst providing the agility to deliver new services, decrease cost in an age of increasing capacity demands.
They explained that the traditional "Waterfall" model from requirement to roll out is no longer an option. Enterprises do need an agile model, where all sorts of planning, analysis and production can coexist next to each other.
Therefore, a new infrastructure is needed. An SDDC can reduce time in a cost-effective fashion, which has become critical but can only be reached via standardization, massive automation and use of COTS components. Also the gap between 2nd and 3rd generation IT platforms needs to be overcome. New infrastructure must support new disruptive technology. EMC is here to support your journey at moving your infrastructure from siloed storage to commodity hardware: Put a control layer in between. ViPR provides all the tools you need! With Scale IO you can build your own software-defined Data Center.
The Choice is limitless
Walking into a supermarket and buying simple plain yoghurt can be a real challenge: Fat-free,
low-fat, normal fat, cow-milk, goat-milk, soya, lactose-free … the choices are huge. It's impossible to know all the differences and see all affects. So – how should organizations enable a software-defined architecture, as there are also limitless choices?
This is where EMC joins the party. EMC allows you to have the visibility and agility to transform your state and enable the SDDC. The whole point is: where do you run your application? Here's what you have to keep in mind:
- Low utilization rates drive up storage costs
- Too much high-end storage reduces ROI
- Too many tools prohibit managing a heterogeneous environment
- Complexity and overlap across environments lead to extended resolution time for migrations, outages, day to day management
- Inadequate reporting resulting in reactive management.
Operating an SDDC is not the same as operating a classic Data center environment: Self-service usage of resources and rapid provisioning make visibility and control a key part of running operations, and requires automation and reporting tools that are integrated and always up to date, providing the visibility and control that enable fast decisions, cost optimizations and high flexibility.
Over the Clouds and far away
It is getting a little late if you're still just thinking about implementing a Cloud System. 'Hybrid' is more than the bridging of private and public architectures, hybrid Cloud and Converged Infrastructure are fundamental to the fluid, agile enterprise. A hybrid Cloud gives organizations an easy way to deliver Cloud services on-demand, while reducing cost (and making it more transparent to the business users) and simplifying management.
Walid Yehia then explained how a Public Cloud system for Vodafone customers in Egypt not only provided a lot of storage for the company but opened up a total new business approach.
It's a Public Cloud Success story. Vodafone's Business needs included the following, all of which had been exceeded:
Be a market pioneer
- Provide new platform to enable new SME services
- Implement new scalable Cloud platform
- Replace existing "Sherkety" SSP whilst integrating with existing apps.
Secure Your Data, Secure Your Business!
"RSA was attacked in 2011 and as it turned out, the attack came from China. It was not meant to do great harm. It was not about gathering property. The attack on the RSA was an attempt to use it as a door opener to other places. That changed the threat landscape a lot. Hence we got to rethink factors like risk", said Dr. Robert Griffin in his Session about Cyber Security.
Today's business environments are fraught with cyber risk; new adversaries, new tactics, and new threats. Conventional defenses are no longer effective. To leverage the power of SDDC in today's digital world, your security capabilities must also evolve. Dr. Griffin described the RSA strategy of Advanced Cyber Defense that delivers visibility, analysis and action in order to stop today's advanced cyber threats.
To sum that up, Dr. Griffins fascinating report about some shocking case studies from the RSA showed, that it does not end at implementing a Software-defined Data Center, which reduces costs and empowers your work efficiency. It is also necessary to think about your risk factors, which could be anything from downtime, servicing, or having to defend your data center against cyber-crimes.
Up Next: Big Data and Redefining Business from EMC CIO Connect


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Krista Tesreau returns to Guiding Light as Mindy Lewis on Friday, March 6 for her 25th high-school reunion. Mindy and Beth reminsice about the good times... and the not so good.
Mindy and Beth first met when the girls shared a hospital room at Cedars. Mindy faked a fall from her horse in order to get Phillip's attention. Beth was there after yet another beating from her stepfather, Bradley.
Mindy was Phillip's date for the prom, and Beth went with Rick. But even then, Phillip and Beth couldn't keep their eyes off each other, and ended up being named King and Queen of the dance. It was at Mindy's 18th birthday party that Phillip found out about Justin, not Alan, being his real father. When Phillip discovered that Mindy had known the truth too and kept it from him, he dumped her. A vindictive Mindy blabbed to Bradley that Phillip and Beth were secretly seeing each other, and a deranged Bradley raped his step-daughter.
Phillip and Beth ran off to New York, with Rick and Mindy in hot pursuit. Mindy fell for Rick, and Phillip and Beth made plans to marry on Valentine's Day 1984. But then, Mindy discovered she was pregnant with Phillip's baby. Rick offered to marry her, but Phillip -- after his own experience with way too many daddies -- refused and wed Mindy himself. The marriage ended when she miscarried, but by then Rick had moved on to Reva's kid sister, Roxie.
Mindy would go on to marry Roxie's old boyfriend, Kurt, who died in an oil rig explosion, have an affair with Roger Thorpe while he was married to Alexandra Spaulding, and marry and divorce Alex's long-lost son, Nick.
Mindy was last seen in Springfield in 2004 for Phillip's "funeral."
"And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering...." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Posted by Alina Adams at 6:34 AM
4 comments:
- supersage21 said...
Can't wait to see more of Mindy! Hopefully, she'll be on the show a long time.
- wheelswee said...
This is exciting!! I can't wait til we see Mindy again. I also hope she will be on the show for a long time!
- LovingLight said...
Mindy is one of my favorite characters ever!! I can't wait too.
Krista is so beautiful and so talented.
Do you have any more pictures of Billy's princess ?
- paige said...
Mindy's back, so I'm back too!
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I get asked a lot about the best places to buy Asian cosmetics. Most of these places will be known to fans of Asian products, but hopefully you will find some good sources too. Read on to see the list!…1. Adambeauty
Based in Hong Kong.
Product Types: Japanese and Chinese Cosmetics. Lower and Mid end ranges, a few high end (like Cle De Peau base products)
Prices: Very good, always reasonable.
Shipping: $2 USD recorded and very fast and very reliable service.
Service: Excellent. Adam responds promptly to problems.
Rating: 5/5. The site itself is old and a make over to the navigation would be a dream, however its still my no.1 place to shop, it's almost like going home…
2. Ichibankao
Based in Japan. Began like on eBay and quickly became a store.
Product Types: Japanese
Prices: Fairly expensive. Price of goods includes shipping and of course their own profit, so it does work out more than say, Adambeauty.
Shipping: Free, or $2 recorded, $6 EMS. I always end up getting EMS as I have had 2 deliveries missing in the past.
Service: Very Good – Kelly who runs Ichibankao is efficent.
Rating: 3.5/5. Prices are steep compared to Adambeauty, but Kelly can get hold of nearly any brand you want in Japan.
Product Types: Taiwanese brands, mainly one called Mu Gu
Prices: Very affordable but shipping isn't cheap, nor is customs fees.
Service: Non-existent because I have tried emailing CS but clearly they don't understand me so you are kind of at their mercy.
Rating: 3.5/5
The site is vast and very hard to use!!! Check out my tutorial here – the stuff is cool but the quality is varied, the prices are higher once you consider shipping, tax etc.
4. Evil eBay
Product Types: All sorts from all around the world.
Shipping: eBayers like to take the mickey a little and charge high prices because they can charge, for example $8 for the first item then do the rest at 20% off or 50% so if you buy three eyeliners it could cost about $16 which is quite a lot.
Prices: Varies – you will get bargains on Auctions, rather than buy it now.
Service: Depends on the seller, totally. They can't leave you negative anymore and no matter what a seller says or specifies, legally, THEY are responsible for an item untill it arrives. If you have tracking it is STILL their job to claim for the item if it goes lost, not yours, therefore they should refund you and claim later. If the claim won't go through later, it's their problem not yours (just ask me, the long suffering ex-eBay powerseller!).
Sellers I like and have bought from many times:
Ginsengseafood (hong kong)
ipinkkorea (korea)
Vooboodoo (hong kong – also linked to facial-shop, sometimes there are things on here that aren't in the shop)
mssskel (US)
Rating: 4/5 for good sellers, 1/5 for evil eBay who fleece you from every angle but are reducing options for buyers and sellers all the time.
5. Facial Shop
Product Types: Chinese, Japanese goods
Prices: Average or sometimes, some great bargains to be found
Service: Very good, shipping is super super fast
Shipping: Free and is sent recorded
Rating: 3.8/5
There is no consistency at Facial-Shop – it a bit like shopping in a charity shop and not being sure of what will or won't be in. Additionally some things will only have one thing is stock and that's it and because the system is slow in updating, I have bought things only for them to be out of stock later. It's good for finding one off treats.
Also try:
Jpmon based in Taiwan
Gmarket (Korean Brands)
Bobodave (Japanese brands, expensive, charges a fee for using paypal and for shipping.)
Sasa (Hong Kong based company, some really nice little nick naks but you will get charged customs over £18)
Strawberrynet (Customs fee guaranteed but will be refunded, no longer a good bargain because of the current exchange rates).
Any other places you buy from please share in the comments!


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Going to be at Rosedale around 11ish got bag tag 56 2008 if anyone wants a shoot at it. How many top 30 ended the year with a top 30 bag tag? I didn't play as mush as some and drive from St. Joseph Mo. but played enough league and local tournaments plus held the #1 for a min. I believe I should have a shot at drawing 1-200!


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The problems in the housing market were supposed to stay there. Perhaps they would be a nightmare for some homeowners, but not for the economy in general.
Or at least that's what most of Wall Street was espousing until July. Yet, in the past eight weeks, it has become clear that their analysis was wrong.
Fear has brought to an end the easy-money conditions that homeowners and businesses have enjoyed for the past few years. Temporarily, at least, there is a credit crunch. Banks and other lenders are reluctant to make loans, and homeowners and businesses that want, or need, to borrow may have to pay a dear price to get money.
If fear lasts, analysts worry that the economy will slow, possibly going into a recession.
This is how the housing problem evolved into larger issues for the economy and investors.
In the beginning
The groundwork for the current problem was laid when the technology stock market bubble burst in 2000 and terrorist attacks followed in 2001.
To prevent a serious recession, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates. The idea was to make borrowing money cheap.
It worked. Money flowed throughout the world. It made buying a home easy, and it stoked development from Asia to Latin America.
In the United States, individuals who became afraid of stocks looked for a new fail-safe investment. They turned to something solid -- homes. Families and home speculators poured money into housing, and the intense demand caused prices to soar.
"My neighbors used to talk to me about their stocks," said Minneapolis stock and bond analyst Jim Floyd amid the housing mania. "Now they only want to talk about their homes."
People were afraid not to buy the home of their dreams. They imagined prices going higher, pricing them out of the market. And they were enticed by the myth that homes always are a good investment.
Lenders offered exotic mortgages so that people would qualify immediately for loans, ones that they might not be able to afford later on.
The process was built on the assumption that home values would keep rising. And homeowners, mortgage lenders, Wall Street investment banks and financial institutions eventually paid the price of naivete or greed.
Homeowners' predicament
When a homeowner's affordable monthly payments ran out and were about to escalate, the person had an easy out as the housing market was booming. Interest rates were low, and housing prices were climbing, so it was simple to get a lender to refinance the home.
Homeowners with weak credit, so-called subprime borrowers, played the refinancing game over and over again.
Whenever mortgage rates adjusted to unaffordable monthly payments, they simply dumped the old loan and replaced it with a new one. They refinanced so they could lock in monthly payments they could afford for another one or two years.
But now they cannot get a reprieve from awful monthly payments: The low interest rates that made mortgages so cheap in the past are gone. And because so many people have homes they can't afford, they have been rushing to sell them. That has caused prices to stagnate or drop.
Some people are stuck, unable to refinance their home and unable to sell it at a price high enough to pay back the bank.
Many homes are worth less than what homeowners borrowed. And lenders won't dare refinance a mortgage for someone who owes more money than the home is worth.
This is causing a downward spiral in home prices. Desperate homeowners must sell their homes. And when lenders are foreclosing -- taking back homes that became unaffordable to homeowners -- they are selling homes, too.
There is a glut of homes on the market. Because the market is loaded down with homes, sellers often must cut the prices so they can attract buyers.
To make matters worse, lenders have become fearful about losing money on home loans. So they have changed the criteria for giving loans. Homebuyers who would have qualified for loans a couple of years ago can't meet the higher hurdles lenders are imposing. So there are more homes on the market and fewer buyers qualifying for the loans to buy them.
The escape hatch is closing tighter. More homeowners are getting stuck with payments they can't afford, more homes are going on the market, and home prices will continue to fall as the supply swells and people have trouble getting loans.
Bad mortgages take toll
As the home recession has deepened, the damage has shown up in the financial system throughout the world -- at BNP Paribas bank in France, hedge funds in Australia, some bond mutual funds in the United States and Wall Street dynamos such as Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns.
All were investing in Wall Street creations that are fairly new, creations they thought were fairly safe but ended up being anything but. With those creations, securities with such names as collateralized debt obligations, banks changed their role in the mortgage business.
They once lent money to individuals and collected payments over 30 years. But with the new securities, banks lent money and then sold the loans to firms that bought huge quantities of mortgages.
Those firms, in effect, threw multiple mortgages into a blender and made a brew and poured it out into bite-size pieces that investors bought. The investors bought them to get paid interest, which came from homeowners making their mortgage payments on time.
As thousands of homeowners began suffocating under loans they couldn't afford, they missed, or defaulted, on their mortgage payments. The brew that Wall Street concocted out of mortgages had turned bad. Investors such as hedge funds, banks, mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds throughout the world started losing money on mortgage-backed securities.
Fear started to spread. The securities became viewed as hot potatoes in investment portfolios. Because Wall Street wizards never understood that their creations would crumble in a housing downturn, there is no reliable model to judge the investments, and no one trusts those investments now.
Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg said no one knows how big the losses are going to be.
"Nobody knows which banks or funds are sitting on losses, and, as a result, lenders are refusing to lend," he said.
Lenders don't give money if they are afraid it will go to a client with a financial mess that might bubble to the surface later and keep them from repaying the loan. They also won't lend if they have made the mistake of doing so to borrowers who cannot repay loans, or if they are holding a lot of tainted mortgage securities themselves.
Credit crunch
The extent of the worry within financial markets showed up prominently in August in what is called the commercial paper market. It provided a sign of a credit crunch.
Credit crunches are a fearsome problem for an economy. When they happen, it means people and businesses have trouble borrowing money. So the economy slows.
Commercial paper is one important way that businesses borrow money. When a bank, financial company or industrial company needs money on a short-term basis, it might sell commercial paper. In effect, an investor lends money to the business, and the business agrees to repay the investor with interest.
But the system has frozen up the past few weeks. Potential lenders started to worry about commercial paper that could be tainted by mortgage-related problems. So they became reluctant to buy it.
That is what is called a credit squeeze, maybe a short-term problem for borrowers that will dissipate when lenders become less fearful. But if difficulty borrowing money remains and spreads to other kinds of loans, the squeeze could become a credit crunch that slows the economy.
Regardless of whether there is a credit crunch for business, the housing market downturn is taking a toll on the consumer.
At the peak of the refinancing craze in 2005, homeowners pulled about $900 billion out of their homes, spending much of it.
Now, cheap money is no longer available, and people are stuck with loans they can't repay. Under such circumstances, people are reluctant to go on a shopping spree. And more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy depends on individuals to buy a wide range of products, from cars to clothing.
"Anyone who says that the housing market has not spread to the consumer sector would have to answer for how it is that auto sales in July fell for an unprecedented seventh month in a row," Rosenberg said.
"We may be on the precipice of the first consumer-led downturn in 17 years."
Gail MarksJarvis is a Your Money columnist.


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How Outward Bound lost, and found, itself
It's the second day of Drake Clifton's three-day Outward Bound solo, and he's starving. He rattles his small food bag in front of the camera: crackers, nuts, a nub of cheese. Matted blond hair pokes out of his black beanie. "It's seriously killing me," he says, pouring crumbs into his mouth. He's camped in a boulder-strewn basin high in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with no books, no watch, no companions. His course, a 22-day mountaineering trip for 16-to-18-year-olds, is almost over, and he and his classmates have been separated to sit and reflect on life. He aims the camera at his knuckles, on which he's written "feel love and joy," then peeks out from under the tarp at the gray sky. "Part of the experience is to feel lonely, hungry, just have time to think about stuff," he says. But by the next afternoon, he's sick of it. "I'm so bored and I'm drawing the most pointless stupid fucking picture right now," he says, panning to a swirly drawing of an octopus-man. A few weeks later, though, underneath the he posted of his solo, he will write, "I look back at this and I am so proud I got through it."
Everyone's "Outward Bound moment" is different. For Morgan Lane, it was struggling to carry an 80-pound canoe on her shoulders during a portage in Minnesota. For Jasmine Myles, it was climbing to the top of a rock wall in Colorado, despite her disabled arm. Outward Bound puts students in unfamiliar, challenging environments to help them realize there is more to them than they know. "Saying this experience changed me would be a huge understatement," Lane said in her own YouTube video. "I was liberated."
Outward Bound has instilled confidence and self-awareness in over a million participants since its first U.S. course in 1962, making the nonprofit a household name and spawning an entire industry. Former instructors have created some of OB's biggest competitors, including the National Outdoor Leadership School, where founders of programs like the High Mountain Institute and Deer Hill Expeditions received their own wilderness training. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan even proclaimed a "National Outward Bound Week."
But OB's legacy hasn't kept it out of trouble. The national organization lost money and enrollment for years before nearly collapsing in fall 2011, splintering into individual schools. Suddenly, branches of the country's oldest outdoor education school were scrambling for cash –– sending out desperate Facebook pleas, even selling old canoe paddles to pay the bills. "At first, it was like, oh my gosh, Outward Bound is going to go away. Here we are in our 49th year in the U.S., and we're done?" says Nancy Crane, a 17-year employee who's now operations and safety director at Colorado Outward Bound School in Leadville. But slowly things improved. Instructors went into the field with students, donations rolled in, and morale rose. Now that the crisis has passed, Outward Bound schools nationwide are asking themselves tough questions: who they are, what they do, and how to stay relevant in a world that they feel still needs them, whether it knows it or not.
The name "Outward Bound" comes from the nautical term for a ship leaving safe harbor for the open sea. Teacher Kurt Hahn founded the school in Wales in 1941 to give young boys, many of them sailors, the fitness, tenacity and teamwork they would need to survive the war and thrive in their jobs. The idea caught on, and schools sprang up around the United Kingdom, eventually reaching the U.S., where Hahn-protégé Joshua Miner started a school in Marble, Colo. On the first course, 35 boys spent 26 days learning knot-tying, rock climbing and orienteering. They summited a 14,000-foot mountain, ran for miles and spent one night alone, the forerunner of the iconic "solo."
By the end of the decade, OB had grown. Schools in Minnesota, Maine, the Northwest and North Carolina sought to teach through wilderness rather than about it, using the natural environment to cultivate character and encourage teamwork. The boys came back both fitter and more confident. One parent wrote: "His Outward Bound experience has taught him to meet challenges with an assurance he never had before."
Early support in the U.S. came from prep schools, but OB's founders also wanted to reach out to low-income urban kids. Teenagers from different backgrounds camped and lived together in what became an integral part of the experience. "It's not just a heavy backpack or portaging a canoe," says Paul Duba, a 27-year Colorado Outward Bound School veteran instructor. "That cultural challenge is every bit as much (a part) of the thing they're overcoming." But staff worried about what happened when those underprivileged kids went home. "We take kids from tough circumstances, give them a great experience, and then drop them back where they came from. Surely that can't be enough to make a difference in a high percentage of cases," Greg Farrell, who helped the organization expand into cities, told the authors of Outward Bound USA: Crew Not Passengers, the school's official history. In the 1980s, OB began building urban centers. Doing a ropes course in Boston or canoeing up New York's East River blurred the line between the "real world" and the challenge of the outdoors. The organization even designed and implemented a public-school curriculum.
The transition redefined Outward Bound, however, and not everyone was on board. In 1994, the University of Colorado assessed OB's urban and public school initiative and found that "some wilderness veterans, for example, are struggling with the idea of being able to provide an 'Outward Bound experience' without the physical demands of a 26-day expedition." Even as OB grappled with internal conflict, the outdoor education market was becoming more competitive. New programs popped up around the country, and others, like the National Outdoor Leadership School, became more popular. Ten years after Reagan's National Outward Bound Week, enrollment had dropped and revenues were flat. "Among the cognoscenti, Outward Bound isn't the brand name of the industry (anymore)," Robert Gilpin, author of Time Out, a book on alternative education, told The Wall Street Journal in 1997.


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Gay Ban Issue Sparks Deep Divide in Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America delayed until May a decision on ending the group's ban on gay members, after a planned vote threatened to break apart the group. Scouts for Equality's Zach Wahls and WSJ's Ana Campoy discuss on the News Hub. Photo: Getty.
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The Sky Dragon's Profound Roar
by Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Up in the sky's expanse, true being, unborn, forever pure
Beautiful is the world below me how many colors do I see
But when I look I can't find anything that's born or has a root
So the time has come to meditate on true reality, of ego clinging free
All my possessions, all that I enjoy, are like rainbows in the sky
Even their smallest parts have no essence they don't exist at all
So when I enjoy illusory pleasures, empty appearing tea and beer
It's time to rest in mind's full moon empty awareness, radiant clarity
The stages of practice of the Tathagata's view and meditation
Are skillful methods that clear away ordinary thoughts
So I train in appearance and mind being without base or root
When sickness and death suddenly strike, I'll be ready, without regret
In the pattern that the world and life's appearances weave
Visions of parents, relatives and friends are like illusions and dreams
Like morning mist, they are fleeting, and at the time they dissolve
That's the time to search for unborn confused mind's basic reality
In the baseless, rootless and empty confused appearances of life
We suffer from heat and from cold and from so many other things
But diligence in Secret Yana's practices, so powerful
Makes fox-like cowardice be free all by itself the time has come!
To what we beautify with hats and clothing to this heap of elements
We offer tasty food and many other things whatever we may find pleasing
But the carelessness and craziness of this life will end one day
So be ready to be fearless of the judgement of the mighty Lord of Death
From the country of great snow mountain a realm of Dharma
Having crossed many hills and valleys and now flying through the sky
I purify illusory flesh and blood into empty appearing deity
Paths and bhumis' realizations self liberated in this I train
Ha Ha! Dechen Rangdrol's conduct that's free of attachment
A Ho! It's time to fly in the expanse of sky of spacious Mother
Composed by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
next stop, Madame Pomfrey's
We were in Orlando last week for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmologists, which basically gave us a great excuse to do something that we wanted to do anyway. Universal Studios even had a night where they kept the park open for special extended hours for Academy members and their families, and while this meant that none of my outdoor pictures turned out at all (my cell phone camera does decently with low light conditions, but there are limits, after all), you'll just have to trust me that, perhaps especially at night, this place looked really magical.
The area is set up as some sort of amalgam of Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade, and while there were a few rides and a replica of the Hogwarts Express (which puffed smoke but didn't actually go anywhere), the area basically consisted of numerous storefronts (Zonko's! Dervish and Banges!) and food vendors (Three Broomsticks, scattered Butterbeer stands) in order to move Potter-branded merchandise. And I realize that that's sort of the cynical reality of things, and that everything was of course ridiculously overpriced and designed to prey on your love of the books or your weakness for indulging your own children--but look guys, I'm not made of stone. Kids, hope you're in the mood to stay up late, because WE BE GETTIN' SOME CHOCOLATE FROGS AT HONEYDUKES.
The absolute best thing at Harry Potter World though (and the one thing that Cal really, really wanted to see) was Ollivander's Wand Shop.
The wand shop was set up as more of a show really, where small groups of about thirty people at a time were escorted into the store and Ollivander picks a kid out of the throng to perform what they called a "wand-pairing demonstration." The demonstration is much as was depicted in the movies--Ollivander hands various wands to the chosen, instructs him to do some kind of magical task, and the magic goes all haywire until Ollivander finally picks the correct wand, at which point a spotlight shines and aaaaaahhh! a chorus of angels sings from on high because the wand has selected the wizard, blah blah magic talk.
This bit of whimsey, of course, is followed by the cold hard reality of them shuffling you out to the storefront where you have the "option" to purchase the special, magical wand that chose you above all others. (You'll notice that I put the word option in quotes, because really, unless you're some kind of steely-willed gorgon, there is no way in hell after that little show where your kid is looking at you with the wide-eyed wonder of oh my god, this shit just got real that you're not going to buy that thing. There's just no way. In fact, if you're really determined not to shell out for a wand, do yourself a favor and don't even walk in there. I WARNED YOU.)
I do also find it ironic that it was the annual meeting for the American Academy of Ophthalmologists that led to a night of so many kids running around pointing long tapered sticks out in each others faces, but perhaps they haven't been doing as many ruptured globe or orbital trauma repairs as usual and want to make up the shortfall before year's end. Well played, ophthalmologists. Well-played.
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- Erika (from Wellesley)12:06 PM
That last picture is freakin' awesome. Also, I have no children, but could picture myself walking into this place any day of the week. I mean, butterbeer? Wands? Get the heck out of here. Clearly the only magic going on is that these people figured out a way to get people to separate themselves from their money in minutes, but whatever. Consider me sold.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:11 PM
I went last year (as an M3 student), also while in Orlando for a conference. That place is pretty magical, including in it's ability to persuade you to buy tons of over-priced merchandise (but it's so nifty!). Especially loved the Hogwarts ride & the frozen butterbeer!ReplyDelete
Despite not being in medicine or having my own family, it's posts like these that I'm reminded why I like reading this blog so much!ReplyDelete
Also I've noticed that almost all of Mack's recent photos are of him smiling or laughing. Was the frowning thing just a phase or have you been carefully selecting your photos just to give us that illusion? =)
- Anonymous9:33 PM
I am 32 without any kids yet and I want to go to Harry Potter world pretty badly. Of course, I am the dork that on trips to Ireland and England the last few years connected almost everything I saw to Harry Potter. The tour guide at Trinity College? Looks like Harry Potter. The lake with black rocks surrounding it? Reminds me of Harry Potter. The names etched in stone in the churches? Harry Potter character names.ReplyDelete
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Funny story - my family and I went to the theme park in the summer. My cousin and I, who are in our 20s no less, waited in line for Ollivander's for an hour and a half, maybe two hours. Once we finally got in to see the show, we realized we totally could've bypassed all of that scorching heat and waiting if we just went in through the side door.ReplyDelete
Now the wait for the tour of the Hogwarts Castle was ridiculous. Two hours, I think. But that 3D ride was the best of my life. =)
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Instructor(s) Schwartz, David
Evidence I: Survey of the Rules of Evidence (2 credits)
This 2-credit, half-semester survey of the rules of evidence ends at the mid-point of the semester, and is designed to serve the needs of two groups of students: (1) those who wish to satisfy the diploma privilege Evidence requirement and/or obtain a solid grounding in evidence rules in preparation for the Multi-state bar exam; and (2) those who wish to go beyond goal #1 and learn the Evidence rules as a pre-requisite to Evidence II: Evidence for Litigators, which begins immediately after the conclusion of Evidence I and runs to the end of the semester.
The rules of evidence define how facts are proven in civil and criminal litigation. Focusing on the Federal Rules of Evidence, but with attention to Wisconsin evidence rules where those vary from the federal rules, this course will give students a broad survey of the rules combined with in-depth analysis of how they apply in specific circumstances and how the entire litigation process -- from the filing of a complaint to final judgment after trial and appeal -- is shaped by evidentiary principles. Analysis of appellate case law will play, at most, a very limited role in the course, and the teaching format will not be based primarily on lectures. Instead, class discussions will be centered around hands-on solving of specific problems. Simulation and role-playing will be used from time to time.
Assessment is based on class participation and an 8-hour take-home final exam.


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Alfresco to Host Inaugural Developer Conferences in New York and Paris
Developer-Focused Sessions Offer Technical Demonstrations, Code Walkthroughs for CMIS, Content Application Development, WCM and More
LONDON – August 4, 2010 – Alfresco Software today announced two Developer Conferences designed to offer a deep technical dive into both Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) and Alfresco's open source ECM platform, to be held in Paris (October 20-21) and New York City (November 3-4). Led by the Alfresco product engineering team, the Developer Conference will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to learn about content-centric application development and provide them with the resources to start creating CMIS applications, allowing them to participate in the burgeoning Composite Content Application market place.
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The Alfresco Developer Conference agenda will consist of three tracks:
- Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS): Enabling developers to learn about CMIS, what organizations can do with it and where to find the resources necessary to start crafting custom CMIS applications;
- Content Repository Services: Alfresco architects will demonstrate how to extend the platform's core services through practical examples and code walkthroughs;
- Web Content Management (WCM): Developers will explore firsthand the radical changes coming to Alfresco's WCM capabilities.
This conference is designed exclusively for developers and will be presented by developers. Alfresco's engineering team members will present at the conference and participate in the networking sessions, including:
- John Newton, Chairman and CTO;
- David Caruana, Chief Architect;
- Michael Farman, Director, ECM & Collaboration Products;
- Tom Baeyens, Project Lead, Activiti;
- Ben Hagan, WCM Product Manager.
"The timing for our first Developer Conferences couldn't be better – CMIS is a game-changer for the ECM market and, as founding members of this new standard, we look forward to sharing our expertise on how to develop a new wave of highly portable and interoperable, content-centric applications," said Nancy Garrity, Community Director at Alfresco. "With technical walkthroughs of the Alfresco platform, Developer Conference attendees can expect to come away with a complete understanding of how to deliver CMIS-enabled, Alfresco-based content solutions to address their business needs."
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The East Hampton Star
by Laura Donnelly
I have never lived in New York City but I can imagine that one of the coolest things about it is having access to anything you could possibly want. Anything you could possibly want to see, do, hear, and eat. Like suppose you and your hipster friends were sitting around your little apartment in Alphabet City and you all decided you were hungry. Your options are never-ending — Ethiopian, Indian, French, every possible nationality of food is available to you. You can even pop on your porkpie hats and go enjoy an authentic Bavarian beer garden at Zum Schneider, located in the East Village.
Well, now Zum Schneider has opened an outpost in Montauk at the old Oyster Pond on South Elmwood. Does Montauk need an indoor beer garden?
Zum Schneider MTK is big. At the entrance is a huge high-ceiling bar with a busty figurehead to greet you. To the left is a continuation of the bar area, picnic tables, benches, wooden chairs, and a foosball game in ase you need to work off that weisswurst and wheat beer. In the back is a larger dining hall, lined with communal tables and more benches. The walls are a dark blue-gray with a few bright blue and white accents to represent the flag of Bavaria.
Zum Schneider MTK is fairly new and was fairly busy on the night of our visit. Some of the patrons seemed to be flummoxed by the change in decor and cuisine, some seemed to be there specifically for the massive portions of porcine products and hoppy brews. Indeed, we witnessed the table next to us finish everything on their plates, a feat we could not accomplish. No way, no how.
We were guided on our Bavarian odyssey by the charming and knowledgeable Sebastian, who was, in fact, wearing lederhosen. We received samples of lagers and pilseners and wheat beers, all fresh, delicious, and reasonable. Attention all serious beer lovers: Zum Schneider is the place for you, at least 10 beers on tap, lots of bottled, and even a few tasty nonalcoholic brews.
We began our meal with obatzda, a cheese spread, some weisswurst, and reiberdatschi, or potato pancakes.
Obatzda is a traditional cheese spread comprised of brie or camembert mixed with butter, cream cheese, onions, chives, beer, and paprika. This version was mostly brie and blue cheese and colored a brick-orange hue from the paprika. It is served with lots of thinly sliced onions and accompanied by a breadbasket full of good sourdough rolls, excellent rye bread, and soft pretzels. The cheese was a bit overwhelmed by the blue cheese and we think someone in the kitchen was dancing the polka when they garnished the entire plate with gobs of paprika.
The weisswurst (one of my favorite types of sausage) was very good. Two pale white links were brought to the table floating in their water bath and served with sweet mustard. Sebastian informed us we could remove the skins, although some people don't mind crunching down on the casings. Weisswurst is a delicate veal sausage flavored with parsley, lemon, cardamom, bacon, and onion — very lean and tasty. The reiberdatschi were delicious, two huge lacy crisp potato pancakes served with applesauce and the house salad. This dish is helpfully marked with an asterisk as a vegetarian option. The house salad was a mixture of romaine and Bibb lettuces, radishes, cabbage, and a few cherry tomatoes. The dressing was forgotten on this salad, which was probably for the best as we couldn't imagine combining the applesauce with oil and vinegar.
For entrees we chose the Grosse Wurstplatte, Kasespatzle, and Schweinbraten. The Grosse Wurstplatte is a combination of weiner, weisswurst, smoked beef sausage, bratwurst, and nurnberger with sauerkraut and potato salad. All of the sausages and wieners were tasty . . . but impossible to finish. The potato salad was pretty average. It was similar to deli potato salad but with a bit of mustard for added tang.
Sauerkraut is sauerkraut. I like it. The kasespatzle is homemade spatzle with cheese, caramelized onions, and bacon. This was also accompanied by the house salad, this time dressed with a nice, lightly sweetened vinaigrette. Spatzle are similar to noodles or dumplings, boiled, then sometimes pan-fried. This dish was delicious, rich, and quite naughty. The schweinbraten was okay. The roast pork shoulder was tender and the gravy flavorful, but the potato dumpling was a bit of a dud, a bit too heavy and gluey. It had a little meaty surprise in the center, rather like a Chinese steamed bun, but I couldn't identify what it was. The Bavarian salad assortment served with it was good, a few pickled beets, some cucumber salad, and a more traditional vinegary potato salad.
We had a fun time at Zum Schneider MTK, not so much because of the food, but because of the jolly atmosphere, outstanding beers, and welcoming staff. Besides the ebullient Sebastian, who joined our table at least six times to check on us, talk about his schooling, and try to convince us to come back next Friday for the music, there was our waitress "Yummy Yummy," from Mongolia, clad in an ensemble somewhere between Lisbeth Salander and a harajuku girl.
Prices are $7 to $18 for appetizers, $12 to $26 for entrees (except for the Riesen Schlachtplatte which serves six to eight for $115), $6 for sides, and $9 to $11 for desserts.
For desserts we tried the Bavarian cream and the Kaiserschmarrn, a fluffy, chopped German pancake. The Bavarian cream was very nice, rather like a creme brulée panna cotta. It was garnished with a variety of fresh berries. The Kaiserschmarrn probably could do with a better plate presentation. A pile of chopped-up pancakes is just plain weird. They were tasty, though, and fluffy. The applesauce was garnished with thin slices of red grapes.
If you like beer and hearty German food served in big portions then you will like Zum Schneider MTK, Montauk's very own, first of its kind, indoor beer garden.


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For those who are unfamiliar, Photosynth is a photo app that is used to take 360-degree panoramas on your Windows Phone. By taking 10-20 photos of a space, the app can stitch the photos together giving viewers the feeling of being in the room as they manipulate the view.
The app is available currently on Windows Phone 7 devices but for whatever reason is not available on Windows Phone 8. The version we have is an early build and as far as we can tell, it is exactly the same. The one addition we have of course is the Lens or rather the ability for the Photosynth app to integrate into the camera module.
We're not sure what else the final version will bring but we're sure many of you are excited to give it a whirl on your Lumia 920. Obviously with a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU on modern devices, processing of the 'Synth certainly goes much faster and that makes a better experience.
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January 15, 2005
a typical place to eat atypical Japanese food
Wednesday, January 12
I am still in Japan, occasionally enjoying the cold weather, mostly stuck in front of computer working 24/7 (okay, little less. I mean, a lot less). I haven't been going out much like I did at the end of the year, but the other night I went out for dinner with him, my sister and her husband, before he was leaving here for Hawaii. With someone who doesn't want to eat fish/seafood (him) and someone who doesn't eat meat (my sister), it could be a bit of trouble finding a right spot to please everyone... and we settled down with an izakaya, or Japanese-style bar/restaurant near our place.
Izakayas have now become very popular among all generations (except for those aged <20, for the record) in this country, with a large variety of usually reasonably priced decent food. Lots of them offer dishes of various origins rather than single cuisne, such as "Japanese", "Italian", or "Chinese". They also tend to have "fusion" food, although the backbone is most likely Japanese that has influence of foreign cuisine, most often Chinese, Italian, and increasingly Thai and Korean. They can also be a source of inspiration for creative dishes, and I have made a lot of things with an inspiration from izakaya food.
That evening, there were three of us first - my sister was coming late from work - so we had to have (apparently) fishless dishes to feed the hungry meat-eater. We ordered several stuff, which came more or less all at once:
(sorry about the small, dark and blurry photos)
Carpaccio with amberjack sashimi. Carpaccio is originally ultra-thin slices of raw beef topped with arugula and shaves of parmigiano reggiano and drizzled with olive oil, but over here its sashimi-versions seem more common; marinated thinly sliced sashimi served with greens and herbs. This was topped with a generous amount of salmon roes and tasted pretty good. Well this was the only "real" fish dish that we had in that evening.
French fries aglio olio e pepperoncino. Regular French fries flavored with garlic, olive oil, and chili peppers.
Pizza Margherita. Not much of "twists" on this one, but a very simple thin-crust pizza with tomato sauce, cheese, and tomato dices (and one[!] leave of basil). Wait, I didn't have any bite of this... (who could that have been to be blamed for?)
Beef tendon stew. I don't think beef tendon is common at all in the US, but when it is slowly and carefully cooked, it becomes REALLY tender and ready to absorb soup/stock/sauce.
Rice ball with a hard-boiled egg in demi-glace sauce. Called Arancini in Italian, it is a deep-fried ball of rice flavored with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. This one had a whole hard-boiled egg inside and came with a sparkler (which wasn't for consumption, I suppose). This dish was named "Godzilla's egg". Wonder why.
Tofu with Chinese-style dressing. Dressing seemed to contain soy sauce, sesame oil, some Chinese pickles, and a hint of chili.
Deep-fried chicken with sweet and peppery sauce and tartar.
All these dishes came almost at one time, which means we had a tough time trying to eat everything in a right condition; if I tried to have the potato fries while they were hot and crispy, I had to miss sizzling-hot beef stew. We all gobbled things down over a beer (or two).
Then the other dish came:
Spaghetti in beef stew. I don't think I ever had had beef stew with such pasta, even though although they serve stew with egg pasta like tagliatelle, but it was not soupy at all, and tasted actually good. I think it would be a nice change for regular ragu (Bolognese sauce). But this was a third dish using demi-glace sauce this evening....
When the first batch of dishes came, we all thought that was way too much food, but by this time they were pretty much gone and we were getting full. Then my sister came late and joined us, and ordered a couple more dishes:
Potato chips "cajun flavored". A bit like the French fries aglio olio e pepperoncino in taste, but it had a whole lot different texture - thin, light and crisp.
House salad. Beneath the funky puffy pizza dough was a bowl of caeser salad. First we stabbed open the crisp balloon, cracked it into pieces, then mixed into the salad.
Everything was pretty good, reasonably portioned, and was decently priced overall. This is a kind of place that I miss when I am in Hawaii; a place where we can share many different styles of dishes instead of having a huge plate of pasta enough to serve me two full meals. It might be a bit like a potluck, except that I don't have to cook.
Among the dishes I had this time, I might try and reproduce French fries aglio olio e pepperoncino and spaghetti in beef stew at home.
I shall come back with a little more food from Japan before going back to Hawaii....
11 comments:
- Santos said...
hi chika
everything looks wonderful, even that godzilla egg :-) we have izakayas here, but they are very traditional--i would love to have one with more variety and incorporated other cuisines. i think i would try making the french fries and the arancini at home. i've made a beef ragu spaghetti before and it was lovely. i used this mario batali recipe; i don't know if it's similar to the one you had here, but it's very good.
- 4:39 AM, January 16, 2005
hello chika
i chanced upon your blog from foodpornwatch.arrr.net and i LOVE it! the pictures and descriptions of the food are all so interesting! keep it up!
- 6:05 AM, January 16, 2005
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
There are a couple of izakayas that have opened here recently that I'm wanting to try. One of them, called Momomo, serves lots of unique dishes which I think would be interesting to try. Probably won't be like what you had here though. It all looks so tasty!
- 6:40 PM, January 17, 2005
- Cat said...
clever title! mmm the food looks heavenly... im a big fan of fusion (as long as there are some places who stay traditional of course)
- 4:04 AM, January 18, 2005
I'm jealous! I wanna eat at an izakaya in Japan!
Also, your pictures are truly beautiful! Can I ask what kind of camera you use? And are you professionally trained as a photographer? Your pictures are SO good!
- 7:03 AM, January 21, 2005
- chika said...
Hi there,
Santos - home-made arancini would be lovely! I think that beef-stew sauce for the pasta is more of, well, stew and demi-glace sauce than ragu with a lot of tomatoes, although I love ragu spaghetti anyways :)
gwenda - thanks a bunch!
Reid - you know what, I was wondering if you have been to Momomo, as I actually went there when I was in Honolulu before going back to Japan last month! A friend of us took us there, and even though it was THE day before we were going to Japan, it was a nice dinner and we all liked there, and guess what; he said it was THE best Japanese food he had ever had, in and out of Japan, even if he only ate some veggie and chicken dishes (I mean, it's really hard to appreciate Japanese food if you don't like fish/seafood). I've got a post about the dinner in my other blog (here) in Japanese, but you can at least see some pic of their food, if you like.
Cat - yeah, it's all about balance... we love fusion as long as there are traditionals!
Seine - hehehe, there is more to make you more jealous!(like this from my other blog as well, this one is more towards traditional side, though). As for the camera that I use, it is Nikon CoolPix 2500 which is basically broken and supposed to be replaced with a new one. I am not trained as a photographer or anything, but thanks for your complements. :)
- 7:52 AM, January 23, 2005
Please post or email the name and address of this Italian izakaya in Japan. domo, sumimasen.
Posted by Cynthia Sasaki
- 10:40 PM, January 24, 2005
Hi Cynthia,
It is called TAPA, 3-4-2 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (tel: 03 3708 5305). It is a chain izakaya though, and there are other locations including Otemachi, Shinbashi, Ikebukuro, etc. If you read Japanese this site below will help:
Posted by chika
- 3:24 AM, January 26, 2005
thank you - my oto-chan is living in Tokyo!
Posted by Cynthia Sasaki
- 4:42 AM, January 27, 2005
Hi Cynthia,
hope your dad and his company will like it! :)
Posted by chika
- 8:28 PM, January 28, 2005
Marvellous blog, chica.
Great writing, fabulous pix, really a wonderful place to come wander around - and get hungry!
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- 9:25 AM, April 02, 2005


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