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I have to apologize for the recent lack in FG updates, but at least *I* have a good excuse as first my Internet broke down, and now I am preparing to relocate to another continent (extra points for guessing which in the comments ;) ).
Anyways... it seems like there is now a "winner" out of the total breakdown and split-up of the efforts to revitalize Tremulous earlier this year. I will not go into details, but I can assure you it was not pretty, and I decided to skip any news coverage on it until the dust had settled.
I hope this is now the case, and for now it seems only one of the projects really shows some progress... that is unless the other is not working in stealth mode.
Lets see... at least Unvanquished is actually releasing alphas of their game, so I am leaning toward them when it comes to which will actually become a nice, playable game soon.
You can follow development quite well on one of the team-member's blog here. In the most recent post, some nice screenshots surfaced, and both their new modeling, GUI and animation work seems quite nice too.
|Unvanquished: Human base preparing for an attack
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Some investors are worried that South Korea is about to vanish—and it has nothing to do with tanks or communism.
This fall, investment giant Vanguard Group made a relatively arcane business decision, switching the benchmark tracked by one of its most popular exchange-traded funds, the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, from MSCI's version to that of a rival FTSE. The company said it was simply looking to lower its licensing fees.
But because those two index providers classify emerging markets differently, South Korea, one of the biggest emerging-markets success stories of the past decade with an average annual return of 13%, could be bumped from the fund's portfolio.
The move has irked some investors that have long looked to the old indexes as a way to precisely gauge market returns. "Everyone's benchmarked against MSCI," says Morningstar analyst Patricia Oey. More important, say critics, returns in the emerging-markets ETF could trail its peers if South Korean stocks continue to rise.
Judgment in some quarters was swift: Investors yanked $900 million from the fund in November, even as other emerging-markets ETFs had inflows.
Vanguard Principal Joel Dickson acknowledges the company's move prompted "some pushback" from customers, but says the new licensing deal lowers costs. He adds that investors who still want exposure to South Korea can buy Vanguard's developed-markets ETF.
The controversy has its roots in the esoteric details of indexing. FTSE and MSCI use nearly identical methods to design indexes, weighting stocks based on their market value. But South Korea is a sticking point. The country's economy—boosted by household name brands like consumer-electronics giant Samsung and car maker Hyundai—has left experts divided over whether it still qualifies as an emerging market like China and Brazil. Last year, for instance, the U.S. government pegged South Korea's per-capita GDP at about $31,000, roughly in line with Spain's and about four times China's.
South Korea's success means it looms large next to developing countries. Korean stocks represent about 15% of Vanguard's ETF and other popular funds like iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF EEM, +1.10% that track the same benchmark, more than any other country other than China. And South Korea has been a big help to performance. In the past decade the country's stocks have returned 12% a year on average, compared with about 8% a year for emerging markets broadly, according to fund researcher Morningstar Inc.
To Atlanta-based financial adviser Matthew Reiner, the change presents a conundrum. Because he owns a developed-market fund pegged to an MSCI index, his clients may be left without any exposure to South Korean stocks. As a result, he says he is considering dumping Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF. He plans to make up his mind by the end of the year. "It comes down to, 'Do we like Korea or not?'" he says.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Hey, There's a Reason they Cost that Much! . . . Learning to Make Artisan Chocolates
Well, my Pastry II class is finally over, and I'm done with schoolwork until September. Boy, have I been craving the mellower pace of summer. To say I'm grateful for its arrival might just be the understatement of the year. I'm looking forward to pondering all that we did in class over the last eight weeks because we produced some of the most extraordinary and elaborate desserts I've ever seen. We also whipped up colorful French macarons, premium ice creams and sorbets, delicate candies, and sugar sculptures. At the half-way point in the semester, we assembled an impressive array of our creations and offered samples to all comers. From the whimsical to the ornate, they were dazzling desserts. It was something to see.
We made great stuff in that class, but I think the hours that we spent on chocolate may have been the most eye opening for me. In fact, one of the most fascinating aspects of culinary school overall has been the way that the veil of culinary secrecy has been pulled back. I'm talking about that invisible shroud that seems to shield us non-chef mortals from the knowledge of how particular food items are actually prepared. Specifically, the sorts of foods that most people would never even think to attempt at home.
Case in point, the creation of artisan chocolate candies. I'm talking about handmade chocolates of absolute premium quality; think of the shiny treats you see for sale in high-end chocolate shops, sold for upwards of forty or fifty dollars a pound at minimum. Having now been exposed to some of the methods, equipment, and materials used to produce such candies, I have a far more complete and sympathetic understanding of why they command such outrageous prices.
It's not just because they're made from the finest ingredients, are labor intensive to produce, and the tools required to make them are prohibitively expensive. No, it's also because making them requires a significant amount of skill and training, and pastry chefs who are devoted to learning and perfecting those techniques are not a dime a dozen. I think anyone can call himself a "chocolatier" but then, anyone can call himself a rocket scientist, too. Calling yourself that doesn't make it true.
Anyway, after the last few weeks' immersion in chocolate, I am content to forgo artisan candy production in my own little kitchen and leave it for now to the experts. In the meantime, I present to you my chocolate-filled chocolate "box" (which was 100% edible in every way and, of course, we did eat it!) that I made in class, along with the variety of chocolates--nicely packaged in that gold box--that we produced there as well. We were each allowed to take home one packaged box of our candy, along with our own custom-designed edible chocolate box, also filled to capacity.
Pastry class, after all, does have its benefits.
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10 comments:
- faithy said...
Wow! Jane! I'm so impressed! You made all those chocolates in class? It's so amazing! i'm still afraid to try tempering chocolates..sounds so much work and so intimidating to me.
- June 30, 2011 at 10:41 PM
- The Vanilla Bean Baker said...
You must be one of the top students in your class. That edible chocolate box is stunning and the chocolate itself looks so rich and beautiful.
Enjoy your break! You certainly have earned it.
- June 30, 2011 at 11:43 PM
Jane, these are so beautiful! Absolutely lovely idea. Yum!
- July 1, 2011 at 1:22 AM
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- July 1, 2011 at 1:57 AM
- Eden of Woolflower Boutique said...
Beautiful! And I bet they tasted wonderful.
- July 1, 2011 at 9:19 AM
- SweetSavoryPlanet said...
What a beautiful chocolate box! I would almost have a hard time taking the first bite.
- July 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Wow! You're amazing, Jane. I agree completely with Vanilla Bean Baker - you've got to be one of the top students in your pastry class. The choccies as well as the box are absolutely beautiful. High marks for you, most definitely.
Now go and enjoy your summer, my friend. Again - wow!
- July 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM
WOW Jane,
You are gifted when it comes to pastry, but this shows tremendous talent and dedication. You must be proud of yourself for conquering so much. You deserve a good summer rest. What is the next course you will be taking in the fall?
- July 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- Avanika [YumsiliciousBakes] said...
Wow Jane. That chocolate plaque thing looks amazing. Looks like you had a great class. And here I thought only LCB and CIA were good. Thanks for showing me how smaller colleges is a better choice. What school did you go to?
- July 5, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Gorgeous chocolates and chocolate box. Eating the finished product must have been great payback for all the hard work! You have an excellent variety of baked goods on your site-I hope you have great success with whatever business path you pursue in baking!
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Late goals from David Ferreira and Jeff Cunningham help FC Dallas extend its unbeaten run to 16 games after Shalrie Joseph and Ilija Stolica had staked the Revs to a two-goal lead
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FRISCO, Texas – Shalrie Joseph scored his first goal of the season in the fifth minute and Ilijia Stolica doubled the New England Revolution's lead midway through the second half, but a pair of goals in the final 10 minutes from David Ferreira and Jeff Cunningham pulled the home side level as the Revs settled for a 2-2 draw with FC Dallas on Wednesday night at Pizza Hut Park.
Cunningham scored the game-tying goal with literally the last kick of the game, finishing deep into second-half stoppage time to extend Dallas' (10-2-13, 43 pts.) unbeaten run to 16 games (8-0-8) in league play. Ferreira had converted an 80th-minute penalty kick – his second attempt of the game after missing a spot-kick in the first half – to draw FC Dallas close after Joseph and Stolica had staked the Revolution (7-14-4, 25 pts.) to a 2-0 lead.
Despite the heartbreaking nature of the result, the draw snapped the Revolution's brief two-game losing streak and improved the club's road record to 1-10-2, marking just the third positive result on the road this season and the first since a draw in Philadelphia on July 31.
Head coach Steve Nicol made two changes to the Revolution side which suffered a 3-0 loss to the Colorado Rapids last weekend at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Darrius Barnes replaced Emmanuel Osei in central defense, while Kenny Mansally started at left midfield, pushing Chris Tierney to left back in place of Seth Sinovic.
After conceding early goals in their last two matches – both shutout losses – the Revs flipped the script and took an early lead of their own in just the fifth minute. A half-clearance from the FCD backline was collected by Tierney, who immediately clipped the ball over the top to a wide-open Joseph in the box. The seven-time MLS All-Star – who was kept onside by Dallas defender Heath Pearce – had ample time to settle himself before steering a low shot inside the right post.
FC Dallas had a glorious chance to pull level in the 34th minute when the hosts were awarded their seventh penalty kick of the season. The penalty was the first called against the Revs in league play this year and was given when Mansally took down Ferreira in the box, although replays appeared to show Mansally got the ball as part of his challenge. In the end it didn't matter, as Ferreira pushed the spot-kick wide of the right post.
New England stifled Dallas' attack in the first half – limiting the hosts to one shot on goal – and FCD's best chance from the run of play in the opening 45 minutes arrived in stoppage time, when Eric Alexander's glancing header flashed wide of the left post.
Alexander had a similar chance shortly after the halftime break but once again missed the mark, this time looping a back-post header over the bar in the 53rd minute. Milton Rodriguez followed up with another close chance just one minute later, but his glancing redirection rolled wide of the left post as Dallas began to assert itself.
The Revs responded with their first decent chance of the second half in the 65th minute, when Mansally's cutting through ball sent Sainey Nyassi streaking alone down the right wing. Nyassi dribbled toward goal and sent a driven cross through the box, but Marko Perovic narrowly missed out on a diving header at the back post.
That move signaled the Revolution's intent, however, and the visitors doubled their lead just one minute later through Stolica. Goalkeeper Matt Reis began the play with a long clearance from his own box and when the FCD defense failed to deal with the ball in the air, Perovic pounced and burst into the left side of the box. The Serb squared the ball across the face of goal to his countryman Stolica, who finished into an empty net with a sliding lunge.
Trailing by a pair of goals, Dallas pushed forward and almost made the breakthrough in the 72nd minute when second-half substitute Eric Avila lined up a 20-yard drive. Reis reacted well, however, diving low to his right to push the effort around the post.
FCD cut the deficit to 2-1 in the 80th minute, when Ferreira made up for his earlier penalty miss by burying his second attempt of the evening. The Colombian was again the player fouled – taken down by Barnes at the edge of the box – and he made no mistake at the second try as he roofed the penalty attempt.
That set the stage for Cunningham's late heroics, as the 34-year-old pulled to within two goals of Jaime Moreno for the all-time MLS lead with his 130th career goal in the third minute of stoppage time. Ferreira started the move by playing a clever one-two with Avila, who chipped the ball over the top of the Revs' backline back to Ferreira. With his first touch, Ferreira volleyed the ball across the face of goal to Cunningham, who tapped the ball into the empty net with what proved to be the last kick of the game.
With the longest road trip of the season complete, the Revs will now return to Foxborough to meet the Eastern Conference-leading Columbus Crew on Saturday, Sept. 25. Kickoff from Gillette Stadium is set for 7:30 p.m.
New England Revolution at FC Dallas
September 22, 2010 – Pizza Hut Park (Frisco, Texas)
Scoring Summary:
NE – Shalrie Joseph (Chris Tierney) 5
NE – Ilija Stolica (Marko Perovic, Matt Reis) 66
FCD – David Ferreira (penalty kick) 80
FCD – Jeff Cunningham (David Ferreira, Eric Avila) 93+
New England Revolution: Matt Reis, Chris Tierney, Cory Gibbs, Darrius Barnes, Kevin Alston, Kenny Mansally (Khano Smith 70), Pat Phelan, Shalrie Joseph ©, Sainey Nyassi (Kheli Dube 75), Marko Perovic, Ilija Stolica (Zack Schilawski 82)
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Emmanuel Osei, Jason Griffiths, Seth Sinovic
STATS: Shots: 8; Shots on Goal: 4; Saves: 5; Corner Kicks: 4; Offside: 2; Fouls Committed: 8
FC Dallas: Dario Sala, Heath Pearce, Jackson Goncales, Zach Loyd, Jair Benitez, Atiba Harris, Dax McCarty, David Ferreira ©, Eric Alexander (Eric Avila 70), Marvin Chavez (Ruben Luna 64), Milton Rodriguez (Jeff Cunningham 61)
Substitutes Not Used: Chris Sharpe, Kyle Davies, Edson Edward, Bruno Guarda,
STATS: Shots: 23; Shots on Goal: 7; Saves: 2; Corner Kicks: 7; Offside: 0; Fouls Committed: 7
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Cory Gibbs (caution) 17
NE – Darrius Barnes (caution) 33
Referee: Baldomero Toledo ?Referee's Assistants: C.J. Morgante, Craig Lowry?Fourth Official: Terry Vaunghn?Weather: Partly cloudy, 89 degrees
Attendance: 7,468
• Tonight's draw was just the team's third in series history against Dallas, pushing the Revs' all-time mark against the Hoops to 22-10-3.
• The draw matches the teams' result earlier this season and leveled the season series at 0-0-2 … the Revs and Hoops played to a 1-1 draw at Gillette Stadium on May 1 as the Revs finished that match with nine men after a pair of red cards in the game.
• Shalrie Joseph's fifth-minute goal was his first of 2010 and the 25th of his career.
• Joseph's goal also snapped the Revs' 238-minute scoreless streak on the road, which dated back to the team's 4-1 loss at Kansas City on Aug. 21 … Kenny Mansally scored in the 37th minute in that match to start the scoring drought.
• Chris Tierney's assist on Shalrie Joseph's goal was his third of the season, and first since Aug. 7 when he assisted on Pat Phelan's game-winning goal against D.C. United … Tierney now has six career assists and his three assists in 2010 mark a new single-season high for the third-year player.
• The Revs made two personnel changes to the lineup from its last game … Kenny Mansally came in at left midfield, pushing Chris Tierney back to left back and sending Seth Sinovic back to the substitutes bench … Darrius Barnes re-entered the lineup for Emmanuel Osei at center back.
• Emmanuel Osei missed his first start since Aug. 21, when he sat when the team deployed a three-man backline at Kansas City … the last time he was not in the starting lineup when the team played a four-man backline was June 5 in Seattle … in that game, he came on as a halftime substitute in his first appearance since missing eight matches with a leg infection.
• The first penalty kick whistled against the Revs in the 32nd minute (and taken in the 34th minute) was the first adjudged in a Revolution game in 2010, either for or against … David Ferreira took the penalty kick attempt and pushed it wide right to mark FC Dallas' first penalty kick miss of the year … Ferreira later converted the second penalty kick awarded to FCD late in the second half to push Dallas to 7-for-8 on the season.
• The lead the Revs took into the half was just the team's fifth halftime lead of the 2010 season … the last came on Aug. 28 in a 2-1 loss at home against Philadelphia.
• In the 14th minute, Shalrie Joseph became just the second player in Revs history to play 18,000 minutes for the club … he entered the game having played 17,986 minutes in his eight-year New England career.
• Ilija Stolica's goal was his third of the season and his MLS career.
• Marko Perovic's assist on Ilija Stolica's goal was his first of the season and his first career MLS assist
• The Serbian duo of Ilija Stolica and Marko Perovic together have accounted for 13 of the team's 31 total goals scored in all competitions … that results in 41.7 of the team's goal production in all competitions this season.
• The Revs extended their winless streak on the road to 11 games … the streak began on April 17 with 2-0 loss at San Jose … the team's last road win was a 2-0 victory at D.C. United
• Tonight's game marked the third time in 2010 the Revs scored two or more goals on the road, and just the seventh time in MLS competition that the team recorded multiple goals this season.
• The team's two goals scored was its highest road scoring total since May 8 in a 3-2 loss at Columbus … the only other road game in which the Revs scored two goals was a 2-0 win at D.C. United on April 3.
• The Revs remained winless in matches that kicked off in temperatures in the 80s … kickoff temperature was 89 degrees and the team is now 0-3-2 in five games this season.
· Matt Reis' assist on Ilija Stolica's goal was his first assist of 2010 and the second assist on his career ... he also picked up an assist on a Taylor Twellman goal on Aug. 25, 2007 in a 2-1 over New York at Gillette Stadium.


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It's always exciting when a new spot opens in your neighborhood. Then that excitement quadruples when the place has delicious food, awesome ambiance, fantastic service and the best sangria ever!!!
That place for me is Queenstown.
After befriending the genius minds behind the new restaurant, they were kind enough to invite me in last weekend for their "Friends and Family" brunch on Saturday morning.
The brunch menu was filled with classic favorites like the french toast and bacon seen above, as well as the "Queens Street Farmer" with 3 eggs, heirlooms tomatoes, lamb sausage and a sourdough baguette.
Then they brought it big with some totally unique and awesome items, like my favorite, the "Oink"!
Scrumptious homemade jalapeno cornbread is topped with mouth watering houison pulled pork, a poached egg and garlic kale.
I would eat that cornbread and pulled pork all day long and not be upset about it at all!
My next favorite dish was the Mac & Salmon.
Who doesn't love mac and cheese? Then make it the best mac and cheese ever AND add salmon and prosciutto, I'm so in!
They also threw in some southern favorites like Chicken and Waffles….
… and shrimp and grits.
Both excellent options as well!
There was actually not one thing on the brunch menu that I would not order again or recommend to a friend. Everything was delicious, it's really more about what you're in the mood for.
Sweet and Classic: go for the french toast!
New and Amazing: go for the Oink!
Sweet, Salty and Southern: go for the Chicken and Waffles!
Rich and Creamy: go for the Mac & Salmon!
Whatever you decide on, be sure you order it with a pitcher of Mint Prosecco Sangria!
Seriously, best. sangria. ever….
… and I'm a sangria snob!
You also can't go wrong with a Blood Orange Mimosa… ever!
I took the steps leading into the restaurant seriously…
… and hung out for about 6 hours on Saturday!
It really feels like you're at a friends house when you're there, just relaxing, warm and cozy!
From the bright colored patio, to the sleek bar, the details in Queenstown are amazing!
After snapping pictures all over the place, the fun and stylish table next to me asked what the pictures were for. After talking Little Leopard Book for a few minutes, I found out the girls work for San Diego fashion week!
Already pulling in an awesome crowd and they're not even open yet!
Pull up a seat by the fire pit, or out on the front lawn, grab a pitcher of sangria and relax!
When you're at Queenstown, you're at home!
Queenstown opens its doors to the public tomorrow, April 10th at 11 AM! Come in for lunch or dinner any day of the week and be sure not to miss brunch on Saturday and Sunday!
Queenstown is located at 1557 Columbia Street, San Diego, CA 92101.


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STANFORD — One week into training camp, no position on the Stanford depth chart is more competitive than nickel back, where the list of candidates runs eight deep.
That's more than the number of players dueling to replace linebackers Shayne Skov and Trent Murphy, combined.
Jordan Richards, one of the top safeties in the Pac-12, has taken reps at nickel.
So has presumptive starting cornerback Wayne Lyons.
"It's a revolving door," coach David Shaw said.
Resolution is essential. In the Pac-12, where the spread offense dominates and four-receiver formations are the norm, the nickel back is as important as any traditional position on defense.
The Cardinal lined up in nickel on 70 percent of its snaps last season, usually with senior Usua Amanam serving as the fifth defensive back.
"Especially in this conference, it's vital," Richards said. "You really need two or three guys to know what they're doing (at nickel). We're all competing."
Zach Hoffpauir and Ronnie Harris are the best bets to replace Amanam.
Akina spent the past 13 years at Texas under then-coach Mack Brown before joining the Cardinal in March.
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"He's very similar to (former secondary coach) Derek Mason. The guys know he cares about their success. They feel that passion."
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"It's what we all expected; it's been coming for six months," Shaw said. "The next step is to what happens with the NCAA rules and regulations. I'm curious to see what happens next."
As expected, Johnny Caspers is the front-runner at right guard. Blake Martinez has been impressive at inside linebacker. Kyle Olugbode, of Bellarmine College Prep, has the lead at free safety. And Austin Hooper, of De La Salle, is expected to start at tight end.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- An early gain on the stock market shrank Thursday after House Speaker John Boehner said little progress was being made in budget talks in Washington.
The Dow Jones industrial average had been up as much as 77 points in morning trading Thursday, then briefly turned negative after Boehner's remarks at 11:30 a.m. Eastern. Shortly after noon the Dow was up 20 points at 13,005.
The Standard & Poor's 500 was up four points at 1,414 and the Nasdaq was up 15 at 3,006.
The market got off to a strong start following several positive economic reports, including a higher estimate of third-quarter U.S. economic growth, an increase in home sales and a drop in claims for unemployment benefits.
Following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Boehner told reporters that Democrats still haven't said which cuts they would accept to government benefit programs, suggesting a final budget deal remains a long way off. Republicans have said that they are open to increasing tax revenues as part of an agreement but only if they're accompanied by significant cuts to spending.
Investors have been closely following the talks between the White House and Congress over the "fiscal cliff", sharp government spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to start Jan. 1. New developments in the talks have whipsawed the market.
"It's a headline-watching market with this fiscal cliff," said David Brown, chief market strategist of the investment research firm Sabrient Systems.
Brown says the ongoing negotiations are likely to cause the stock market to take sudden turns in the weeks ahead. "But things seem to be moving in the right direction," Brown said. "I don't think either party wants to get pinned with hurting the market or the economy."
The up-and-down pattern in the market has left the Dow and S&P 500 little changed this week.
The Commerce Department raised its estimate for U.S. economic growth to an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the July-through-September period. That's much better than the 2 percent rate estimated a month ago and more than twice the 1.3 percent rate logged in the three previous months.
The Labor Department also reported that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped to 393,000 last week, in line with what economists had expected. It was the second straight drop after Superstorm Sandy drove applications higher earlier this month.
Some retail stores posted poor sales numbers, driving their stocks lower. It's a critical time for retailers, who log a huge chunk of their yearly profits in the weeks running up to the holidays.
Kohl's plunged $5.41, or 10 percent, to $45.74, the most in the S&P 500 index. The company posted a drop in sales and said stores in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, areas hit by Superstorm Sandy, fared the worst. Results at Target, The Gap, and others also fell short of Wall Street expectations.
Kroger Co. rose 82 cents to $25.88 after the supermarket chain reported stronger quarterly profits and raised its earnings outlook for the year. Stronger sales helped the operator of Fred Meyer and Food 4 Less stores post better results than analysts had expected.


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PotterCast 192: Honk for Harry
Apr 17, 2009
Late last night, we got our first look at the latest trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film. For the 192nd episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, the PotterCasters got together before a live audience over UStream to cover the moments prior its release, as well as give their immediate reaction to the trailer's premiere. Sue, John, and Frak are joined by two of our 'fake' Melissa's for this episode: Shoshana and Melissa. Sue's News starts of the show with the latest on Bloomsbury re-releasing the two Harry Potter Companion Books, the PotterCast tour, Deathly Hallows film news, and the new release date for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film. Next, the PotterCasters dive into discussion of the new trailer with their personal thoughts on the new film preview. We then take some calls and questions from the live UStream audience who give their feedback and reviews. Join in with the PotterCasters now for this special look at the newest Half-Blood Prince trailer today. To listen, just hit the "Play" button on the right side of the page (
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Just days before jurors begin deliberating the death penalty phase for convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, his lawyers have filed a copy of a letter showing how they tried to strike a plea deal before the high-profile trial started.
In the letter, Sowell offered to serve life in prison and the maximum time on all charges. He also offered to surrender any future appeals. Cuyahoga County Prosecutors rejected the offer. They felt that if anyone deserved the death penalty, it was Anthony Sowell.
Friday, a judge ruled that the letter could not be shown to jurors during the sentencing phase.
The 51-year-old was convicted of murdering eleven women and burying their bodies in and around his Imperial Avenue home last week.
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Adrian Martin and I have now completed the release of the fourth issue of LOLA. The theme of the issue is "Walks," and it includes a Brian De Palma dossier.
Here are links to all the pieces, with a little excerpt from each:
-- Victor Bruno, "Glittering Flares: Breaking the Darkness in Out of the Past": "[A] lens flare is a bridge between the spectator and the film [...] In Out of the Past (1947), there is a moment in which, consciously or not, Jacques Tourneur built this bridge."
-- Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin, "To the Passion": "Passion is not (as we are hearing a lot at the moment) a wilfully 'ridiculous' film (it is especially depressing to hear this said as praise!) or a self-consciously trashy one [...] De Palma has gotten to a position in his career that is a little reminiscent of Samuel Fuller in his early-to-mid 1960s prime ..."
-- Alain Bergala, "Time Denied: An Apotheosis of the Imaginary": "The major difference between Scottie in Vertigo and Michael in Obsession is that Michael is in a deeper sleep than Scottie. He wants to believe in the reality of his waking dream with a deep and naïve conviction. The whole film is an obstinate refusal to wake up, to leave the bliss of the imaginary. He rushes like a bull towards the first illusion that is offered to him – this woman who is the reincarnation of his dead wife."
-- Adrian Martin, "A Walk Through Carlito's Way": "Every De Palma-loving cinephile's sense of this scene as a set-piece, detachable from the film as a whole (while relating to it on many formal, expressive and thematic levels), is reinforced by its special place in the narrative – as an introductory incident that perfectly sums up, in microcosm, the trajectory of the hero's unfortunate destiny (he keeps getting dragged back into crime), while itself being only a weak catalyst for anything much that follows."
-- Helen Grace, "Responsive Eyes and Crossing Lines: Forty Years of Looking and Reading": "At the time of the Dressed to Kill protests, I was living in a squat in Villa Rd, Brixton, and the street had become a centre of anti-De Palma actions, in which all the women squatters were being encouraged to become involved, in order to demonstrate their feminist credentials. Radicalism was measured in these key performance indicators of one's commitment [...] Before committing ourselves to terroristic activities, a friend and I decided we should go to see Dressed to Kill ..."
-- Amelie Hastie, "Cinema of Compassion": "I love an image that makes me conscious of my own breath, whether it comes in a gasp, a steady rhythm, or a moment in which my breath literally stops. Our own breathing with the image is part of film's (chimerical) animation of the life before us. Indeed, its quality of movement – and therefore its demonstration of life itself – animates even the inanimate, as we take in the images on the screen."
-- Sam Roggen, "You See It Or You Don't: CinemaScope, Panoramic Perception and the Cinephiliac Moment": "What worried early Scope directors the most with regard to these radically altered conditions was how to direct spectatorial attention in scenes composed of long shots in the wide frame – and, particularly, how to highlight the details in that frame that were of vital importance for an understanding of the narrative [...] But directors could also audaciously choose not to stress essential parts of the composition. Observant viewers could then discover these crucial, but only subtly incorporated, details autonomously."
-- Veronika Ferdman, "Getting to Know the Big Wide World": "If I had to spend eternity inside a single scene from a movie, it would probably be this one – because, during these few minutes, we get a flood of hope and love, a montage of smiles and embraces exchanged by the newlyweds, enveloped by the blue dusk of the setting summer sun. The light in Eastern Europe is thinner and not as heavy as in the United States– the colours less saturated, but no less lovely."
-- Burke Hilsabeck, "Accidental Specificity: Modernism from Clement Greenberg to Frank Tashlin": "If modernist painting (in Greenberg's account) works to pare itself toward a flatness made essential by the canvas support, popular film (in the Tashlinian-Lewisian imagination) is the site of a vast plurality; it does not simply refuse flatness as much as serve as the container of an infinite depth. (The scene articulates the sense that, onscreen, objects both flat and round have interiors.) In Tashlin's hands, this is not the mimicked depth of pre-modern painting, but a constructed depth that takes on the quality of absurdity."
-- Yvette Bíró, "The Grandmaster: A Tour de Force": "The inner order of existence is never transparent. It accumulates not one layer of time but countless layers that collide and clash with each other. In Wong's vision, each moment brings about a new form. The anomalous outcomes of actions are surprising, but never contingent. This density and swinging nature of the chaos-sphere is grounded, as modern physics describes it, in the 'fragility of initial conditions'; this is what determines its erratic behaviour."
-- Darren Tofts, "Clone This DVD!": "The term post-production has a double inflection that refers, in the first instance, to after-effects, such as compositing, colour-grading and sound-mixing. But of more dramatic relevance here, it also refers to a more substantive, Thomas Kuhn-like paradigm shift that has a name – such as the Copernican Revolution or the Renaissance. Remix is the name we can give to this shift, a term akin to new historicism or postmodernism: cultural paradigms that articulate what comes after the philosophy of originality, presence, will and individualism."
-- Zach Campbell, "How We Got the Mob": "[It] will not do to treat Step Up either as a low-genre, masscult whipping boy, or to elevate – in a 'poptimist' polemic – the series' pleasures above all else. The purpose of my undertaking here is not to disrupt the myriad pleasures Step Up might provide, but to look askance – critically, philosophically, politically – at their conditions."
-- Rowena Santos Aquino, "To Live (with) Cinema: Documenting Cinephilia and the Archival Impulse": "[The] emphasis in discussions of cinephilia still remains on the textual – the written word, whether in print, tweets or emails – to both define and guide discussions on cinephilia. The archival impulse gives us another perspective. The creation of an archive begins with emotional resonance, which is not the opposite of intellectual or educational engagement. The archival impulse is not just about the technical and technological aspect of acquiring, preserving and restoring films. It is also about an affective, physical experience ..."
-- Girish Shambu, "Crisis Cinema: Toronto International Film Festival 2013": "Until now in Breillat's filmography, there has been an equation between sexuality and the human body. 'The vulva is like the black hole of the universe', wrote Breillat thirteen years ago, in the program notes accompanying the Toronto screening of her debut film Une vraie jeune fille (1975), which was banned in France for twenty-five years. Her new film evokes the older one in its obsessive focus on the human body."
-- Carlos Losilla, "Unspeakable Images": "Recently, the image has taken over what we used to call talking or writing about cinema: now images endlessly appear, they are projected, people compose essays with images … The role once played, years ago, by the gaze has now been translated to another fetish – and with this consequent transformation, it sometimes risks becoming a mere formula."
Links to recent reads:
-- Time to update our bookmarks: Jonathan Rosenbaum has a new website.
-- Good news: Claire Denis' great, ultra-rare U.S. Go Home (1994) is now on YouTube with English subs.
-- Adolph Reed, Jr., "Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why". Via Corey Creekmur. At Nonsite.org.
-- Adrian Martin, "14 Uneasy Pieces of Teenage Life". At Flaunt.
-- An interview with Laura Mulvey on the making of her and Peter Wollen's avant-garde, feminist film Riddles of the Sphinx (1977). At BFI.
-- Nico Baumbach on Alain Badiou's recent collection Cinema. At the Los Angeles Review of Books.
-- Ted Fendt translates a talk by renowned French cinematographer Caroline Champetier. At MUBI Notebook.
-- Catherine Grant, "Lives on Film: Auto/Biographical Fiction and Documentary Film Studies". At Film Studies for Free.
-- Dan Sallitt, "It Takes an Arrondissement: Jacques Becker's Antoine et Antoinette". At MUBI Notebook.
-- Jean Renoir, "The Grandeur of the Primitives" (1948). At Ted Fendt's blog Howling Wretches.
-- Brad Stevens on Jess Franco at BFI.
-- An interview with Philippe Garrel on his new film Jealousy. At Revista Lumière.
-- The new issue of CineAction has a downloadable essay on Sharon Lockhart and Steve McQueen.
-- Boris Groys, "Becoming Revolutionary: On Kazimir Malevich". At e-flux journal.
-- A selected list of Tom Gunning's writings. A reminder to myself to hunt down the pieces I don't have ...
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Seib & Wessel: The GOP's Budget Funk
A WSJ/NBC News poll finds many people think Republicans are playing politics in the budget showdown, not looking out for the good of the country. WSJ's Neil King and Janet Hook analyze what it means for the party now and headed into 2014.
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It is one of the ironies of our time, says Bonner Cohen, "that the countries that have the greatest technological advancement are the ones where science and technology are most under attack."
It is even more ironic, he told members of the Southern Crop Production Association at their annual meeting at Charleston, S.C., that "the same people who demonize technology are also the ones who use it."
Cohen, who is senior fellow at the Lexington Institute, was editor of EPA Watch and now serves as Washington editor for the Earth Times and Environment News.
Since the early 1980s, he says, environmental activist groups have operated on the Precautionary Principle, which says, "When an activity raises the threat of harm to the environment or public health, precautionary measures should be taken — even when some cause and effect relationships are not scientifically established."
Adherence to this principle, Cohen says, "has brought about a world in which we too often cannot take the risk of risk, with the onus on us to prove the innocence of our science and technology. Had the Precautionary Principle been in effect in earlier eras, we would have no electricity, no automobiles, no airplanes — they would all be too dangerous."
The principle more recently has been applied in the European Union to impede or ban the use of genetically modified crops and to block the sale of U.S. beef containing growth hormones — "despite there being no peer-reviewed scientific evidence of any danger to human health."
Efforts are now afoot by environmental groups in the United States, Cohen says, to have the Precautionary Principle serve as the basis for environmental legislation in several states.
"Their idea is to come in under the radar screen to accomplish their agenda. But the ultimate effect is to stifle innovation and research. What company is going to spend millions of dollars to develop a product that can be stopped in its tracks by the Precautionary Principle?"
The Science and Environmental Health Network, based in North Dakota and founded in 1994 by a consortium of North American environmental organizations, is "the leading proponent" in the United States and Canada for use of the Precautionary Principle as the basis for environmental and public health policy, Cohen says.
Following recent mid-term elections that restored control of Congress to the Republicans, he notes, "The president of the Sierra Club was quoted as saying he imagined the Bush administration would try to bring back DDT — as if that would be bad for the nations where it is desperately needed for control of diseases."
The banning of DDT and other anti-pesticide efforts by environmental organizations throughout the world "reflects the same kind of mentality underlying the Precautionary Principle," he says.
"They go around the world, telling countries they need to develop 'in a sustainable fashion,' the idea being that overcoming Third World poverty and disease should be based on sustainable agriculture — that what's been good enough for the United States and other developed nations in terms of science and technology isn't good enough for poorer countries."
Increasingly, Cohen says, "these countries are rejecting efforts by developed nations to deny them the fruits of the technology we ourselves have used to achieve so much progress. In the past, they lacked a forum, a voice. But, this is changing."
At the recent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, he says, "one of the overriding points was how the eradication of disease will be viewed in developing nations. The Bush administration has recognized that these serious problems cannot be eradicated unless these countries are allowed to embrace science and technology.
"So, they went around the EU and the environmental groups, and directly addressed the leaders of these countries with the message: 'We'll assist you in overcoming these conditions — but you must realize that you'll have to do it the way we were able to do it, using science and technology. And you'll have to clean up your own act in terms of dealing with corrupt, inefficient governments that keep people in poverty.'
"All this fell on very receptive ears, and it represents a tremendous sea change in terms of global environmental and health policies."
There are "tremendous opportunities," Cohen says, for "those unfortunate enough to be born in the world's hellholes" to utilize science and technology to overcome their desperate need.
"Too many organizations are still married to old doctrines, positive they know what's best. Those most in favor of banning DDT, for example, were not those who were most likely to suffer and die from malaria. This is eco-imperialism."
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We recently reported that the developers behind the popular YouTube apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, PrimeTube, had a new one in the works titled InstaPic. The app was to be the very first, native Instagram client for Windows 8 devices, allowing you to see all of your images, activity, share images and more importantly, post directly through the app from your photo library or device camera.
We're happy to report that InstaPic is now live in the Store and ready to be downloaded to your Surface or Windows 8 machine. You can see in our video tour that a native app, as opposed to an inferior "web wrapper" app, provides a fast and fluid experience. Indeed the app is quite fun to use and for being a 1.0 release, it's quite stable (we did occasionally have a loading issue here and there, but trivial).
Now of course many of you should know that Instagram has been monkeying with their posting-API this week, causing havoc with third party apps. InstaPic is no different, although we were able to successfully log into our account without a problem. Instagram of course could change their API again (or rather, reinstate it), which will once again cause posting issues. Fear not as the developers behind InstaPic have a fix on the way, which should ameliorate any potential future problems.
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EACH WEEK, L&R Rusch Farm in Vincennes, IN, delivers food-grade white and yellow corn directly to a tortilla factory in Atlanta, GA. A restaurant owner who was dissatisfied with the quality of tortillas started the factory and sought superior-quality corn for production. A friend put the restaurant owner in touch with another friend, corn producer Louis Rusch Jr., and the rest is history.
In the beginning, Rusch delivered the cleaned food-grade corn in 50-lb. bags; now it's delivered in 2,000-lb. bags and accounts for half of the farm's corn acreage. Rusch earns a premium of $0.35 to $0.50/bu. for the food-grade corn that he cleans with equipment that he previously used to clean wheat and soybean seed. Rusch is also president of Premium Producers Co-op, a group of Knox County, IN, farmers who attempted to put together a new-generation co-op to build a corn masa plant. They were unable to raise the $7.2 million needed to launch the $14 million project, but may move forward with a smaller project.
Increase in production
Each year there are a few more opportunities for farmers to earn small premiums for producing specific hybrids and varieties for specific end uses. The growth in value-added grains has been spurred by overseas demand for grain that has not been genetically modified (GM), domestic growth in the snack food and tortilla industry, and the growth of soy food sales both here and abroad.
Production of value-added grains has grown incrementally, not explosively as first predicted with the advent of biotechnology. Value-added grains still account for less than 4% of the U.S. corn and soybean crops. Most in the industry expect the market will continue to grow slowly as new value-added traits arise and as processors realize greater value from preferred varieties. A spokesperson for the National Corn Growers Association says it's possible that hybrid-specific production could eventually account for 25 to 30% of the U.S. corn crop.
Several country elevators confirm the trend toward more specialty grains. The Farmers Co-op Elevator in Ruthven, IA, has seen its specialty grain acreage increase from 1,800 to 15,000 acres in the last five years. "We've seen tremendous growth in recent years, and I expect that growth to continue," says Jim Sampson, grain department manager. The co-op contracts with growers to produce non-GM soybeans, variety-specific soybeans for processing, food-grade soybeans for export, and Nutridense corn for poultry. The elevator pays premiums ranging from $0.05 to $1.25/bu. for various types of soybeans. The premium for Nutridense corn, exported for poultry feed, is about $0.23/bu.
Similarly, Doug Johns, regional manager with ADM in Evansville, IN, says, "We're seeing more and more specialty grains every year. Even though it's a small percentage, the grain business is becoming more specialized."
Cargill Ag Horizons also has increased the amount of specialty grain it contracts with growers. It offers contracts for non-GM corn and soybeans, hard endosperm corn, white corn, waxy corn, high-oil corn, high-extractable-starch corn and food-grade soybeans. In March, Cargill created a new group called Specialty Solutions that will help create more opportunities for alignment between processors and growers.
Rob O'Malley, O'Malley Grain, supplies the snack food and tortilla industry with white corn and non-GM corn grown in Illinois and Nebraska. O'Malley Grain has seen its business triple in the last five years. Growers receive a $0.30/bu. premium for white corn and get the CBOT price for yellow food-grade corn.
Are premiums high enough?
Purdue ag economist Corinne Alexander notes that premiums for non-GM corn have remained between a nickel and a dime per bushel. Premiums for non-GM soybeans have increased steadily from $0.10 or less in 2000 to $0.35 to $0.50/bu. this past year. Still, it's questionable whether growers will make money after accounting for their costs to preserve the identity of their grain.
"These contracts hold growers to a 99% non-GM purity standard and often have stricter standards for foreign matter such as weed seeds," Alexander says. "It's important that growers ask what the contractor's rejection rate is. The grower should factor the rejection rate into the expected premium. A 10% rejection rate means your 35-cent premium is really 31.5 cents."
Growers also need to take into account their production costs. Roundup Ready soybeans have become less expensive to grow than conventional soybeans on fields with heavy weed pressure. Additionally, the performance of conventional soybean varieties may fall behind as companies focus most of their breeding efforts on Roundup Ready varieties.
Varieties classified for end uses
Growth of value-added grain has been slow because no blockbuster value-added end-use trait has been brought to market yet. Changes to make a healthier oil profile in soybeans and to significantly improve corn's feed energy or ethanol output are years away. The first significant improvements will likely come in the ethanol area. In 2006, Syngenta Seeds plans to introduce, through its NK Brand seed business, hybrids that are genetically engineered with a thermal-tolerant enzyme that could have a real impact on the economics of ethanol production. Through conventional breeding, Monsanto expects to have a soybean low in linolenic acid by 2006 as well.
In the meantime, many seed companies have made a major effort to evaluate current hybrids and varieties for specific end uses. The result has been new classification systems for products that might earn farmers an additional nickel or dime per bushel.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International recently created an Industry Select brand designation for its hybrids. There are four market categories within Industry Select: corn with high extractable starch and waxy corn for wet milling (HES), high total fermentables for dry-grind ethanol (HTF), high available energy for monogastric animals (HAE), and white and yellow food-grade corn. Pioneer now designates 200 of its corn hybrids as Industry Select. It has identified 61 HTF hybrids, 25 HES hybrids, 60 HAE hybrids, 12 waxy hybrids, 33 food-grade yellow corn hybrids and eight food-grade white corn hybrids. Pioneer claims its HTF hybrids can offer as much as a 4% increase in dry-grind ethanol production compared with commodity corn and that the HES hybrids provide a 2% higher starch yield. It is making its near-infrared predictive model available to the industry so processors can identify HTF grain at the plant.
Monsanto has created a Processor Preferred designation for corn and soybean varieties. More than 50 companies are offering seed identified as Processor Preferred using Monsanto's proprietary analytical tools. In corn there are two categories: high fermentable corn (HFC), and corn with high extractable starch (HES). The HFC hybrids offer a 2 to 4% increase in ethanol yield. As part of its Fuel Your Profits campaign, Monsanto is working with 24 dry mill ethanol plants that will source Processor Preferred hybrids. Farmers supplying the varieties will earn credits toward the purchase of General Motors E85 vehicles, and participating processors will earn credits toward installation of an E85 fuel pump in their community. Grower investors in farmer-owned plants will benefit from higher returns on their investments as well.
On the soybean side, Monsanto has worked with six major soybean processors to identify varieties that bring the oil and protein profiles they desire. Each processor develops its own local list of Processor Preferred varieties. Premiums range from $0.04 to $0.07/bu.
Syngenta Seeds also has characterized its soybean varieties for protein and oil content and its corn hybrids for ethanol output, although it doesn't group them under a marketing label. "While we characterize our NK Brand hybrids for differences in ethanol output, our initial trials show that hybrid differences are consistently overshadowed by variations caused by growing conditions, environment and different ethanol plant production processes," says Jim Graeber, manager of market development. "Syngenta Seeds is convinced that its thermal-tolerant enzyme will offer the first real significant value-added hybrids in the marketplace."
Early test results
Although a few industry observers see these new designations as simply a marketing tool with little real value in the way of premiums to growers and very small value to end users, others are eager to capitalize on any small advantage.
Last year, Heartland Grain Fuels, Aberdeen, SD, participated in trials with Monsanto using its Processor Preferred HFC hybrids. Growers were offered a $0.05/bu. premium to grow the varieties for the test. "We saw favorable results with the HFC hybrids. The ethanol yield was 3 to 4% higher than from the standard corn," says Bill Paulsen, general manager. Heartland Grain Fuels is running the trials again in both its Aberdeen and Huron facilities. Twelve elevators in South Dakota are signed up to deliver the HFC hybrids. No contracts are being offered, but growers who supply the hybrids will earn credits toward E85 vehicles through the Monsanto Fuel Your Profits program. "My vision is that several years from now we'll be able to pay farmers for the fermentable starch that is available in their grain," Paulsen adds. "If we continue to see these kind of results, we'll want as much HFC corn as possible."
South Dakota Soybean Processors (SDSP), Volga, SD, is continuing to test Monsanto's Processor Preferred varieties. "Our goal is to select higher-quality soybeans with higher protein and oil production from each bushel," says commercial manager Tom Kersting. "This will be our second year evaluating Processor Preferred varieties. We need more time to see if the averages come up over several years." SDSP offers growers premiums of up to $0.07/bu. for protein and $0.07/bu. for oil. Farmers supplying the Volga plant with guaranteed varieties are assured a premium of $0.04/bu. and still have the opportunity to earn additional premiums based on soybean oil and protein levels. "The premiums won't offset any yield loss, so it's up to the farmer to select the best varieties for their farm," Kersting says.
DFS, an independent regional feed manufacturer in Newell, IA, tested HAE corn from Pioneer last year. "We're always looking at ways to improve quality and efficiency," says manager Dave Kier. "Corn is our main ingredient and it comes from many farmers and many seed companies. We have to manage that variation in our formulations, so if we can minimize variations, we can be more efficient. We're also seeing small differences in metabolized energy for pigs and poultry, which gives us a formulation advantage as well." DFS contracted two million bushels of HAE hybrids last year and plans to contract four million bushels for the 2004 growing season. Farmers receive a premium, but it's much less than the $0.20 premium DFS used to offer for high-oil corn.
Amy Rutherford, Processor Preferred business manager for Monsanto, concludes, "Seed and technology companies have learned that we have to build relationships in the industry and with growers at the same time. We are doing a better job of learning what the industry is truly looking for, and we are seeking to establish our credibility by meeting their needs. There's been a lot of learning going on. All people in the value chain have to feel like they are gaining."


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A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 at Lonoke Cemetery.
Annie Paulette Harrison, 70, of North Little Rock, died Monday Sept. 24, 2012. She was a LPN and a member of Park Avenue Baptist Church in Stuttgart. Preceding her in death were her parents Tony and Ruth Zarlingo and brother Tommy Joe Zarlingo.
Survivors include her daughters, Charlette (Mike) Benet of North Little Rock, Rebecca (James) Lane of Dewitt and Melissa (Greg) Bradley of Vilonia; grandchildren Tara (Terry) Bailey, Jessica (Aaron) Leach, Tyler Bradley, Reagan Lane and Elizabeth Bradley; great-grandchildren Colten, Collin and Cameron Morris; sisters Christine Hunter of North Little Rock, Louise Sorrows of Sherwood, brother Johnny (Verna) Zarlingo of Elkins; and special aunt Mary King.
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14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk (fat free is fine)
3 egg yolks
2/3 cup toasted coconut
1/3 cup key lime juice*
2 1/2 teaspoons key lime zest
9 inch round coconut crust or graham cracker crust
Preheat oven to 300. In a large mixing bowl, using your electric mixer, beat the egg yolks, lime juice and zest until the eggs are creamy. Slowly add condensed milk and toasted coconut and mix until well combined. Pour into crust and bake 15 minutes or until the pie is "set" and no longer feels liquid to the touch. Cool on wire rack, refrigerate.
*Note: For an authentic pie, you need the juice of fresh key limes. Using a juicer is the most efficient way to extract the most amount of juice from tiny key limes limes. If you have to use bottled juice, make sure it is from actual key limes (the juice will be a pale yellow) and not just (Persian) lime juice with citric acid added to make it tart. Of course, you could just use regular lime juice but then it won't be a "key lime pie".


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Yesterday we shared a San Jose Mercury News (motto: Website now as thin as our newspaper!) piece showing many first-time buyers are going to remain full-time renters for the time being. And that's true even if we spot them places like Hayward and Mountain House.
That's distressing news if you hate your blood-sucking landlord (but we repeat ourselves), your noisy neighbors, or your shiftless property "manager." Let's balance that cup of cold crappy colloquy with some news that will turn your frown upside down.
Where Can the Middle Class Buy a Home?
By CONOR DOUGHERTY, The Wall Street Journal
If you're in the middle class and want to buy a home here's a piece of advice: Move to Ohio (if you're not already there).
Some 86% of homes in the Akron, Ohio area are within reach of middle-class buyers in the area, the highest share in the nation, according to a report from Trulia, the real estate listings site. The next two cities on the list, with 85% of homes affordable to middle class, are Dayton and Toledo, respectively.
For those of you in the coastal elite who are reading this post for the perverse pleasure of finding out just how unaffordable your city is, you might be surprised to hear that New York isn't No. 1. San Francisco is the least affordable place to be a middle-class buyer, with only 14% of homes within reach of those making the median San Francisco household income of $78,840, according to Trulia.*
However, we were slightly surprised by the next two most unaffordable places, Orange County and Los Angeles, respectively. New York was the fourth least affordable place to be middle class. After that were San Diego and San Jose and Ventura County.
Sooooo, SF is #1 but Silicon Valley is #6? But note, California completely PWN3D New York and the entire East Coast in the unaffordability sweeps. Washington DC? Shut out by the shutdown. Later, you imperialist running dogs no longer feeding at the public trough for the next few days! When it comes to places nobody can afford to live in, we can revel in our Specialness!
The Trulia link above (yes, of course it works) says that while San Francisco has a 60% higher median income than most-affordable Akron, Ohio, homes there sell for (deep breath, now) seven times as much. Only 14% of homes for sale are affordable to a household earning median income for the area. Even worse, whoops, we mean better, San Francisco has dropped ten more percentage points in affordability since last October when 24% of homes could be purchased by a median income household.
To get slightly wonky, the real formula was what percent of homes' monthly payments were 31% or less of the median household income, which shows the problem right there. Everyone knows if you want to buy a house in SF, Cash is King. Monthly payment? Might as well ask if they'll sell you the house for a hogshead of buggy whips.
San Jose's affordability index per Trulia was 31%, but then again, none of the contenders were anywhere close to SF. Second-place Orange County came in with only 23% of homes rated affordable by the "middle class."
Trulia also provided a "maximum affordable home price" for each area. Let's take a look at what you get for that price. Here's a 5 BR/3 BA in SF at only $10K less than the maximum affordable amount. Of course this house is in Bayview and it has some permit issues, but you can't have everything.
Contrast to how far your dollar S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S in San Jose!
Wow, a gated estate with lots of CAPITAL LETTERS and it's yours AS IS, which means the seller won't switch houses on you! And just for giggles, let's see what an "affordable" house in Akron (highest affordable house: $226K) looks like.
OMG look at that house! Those bricks are going down into a big ol' pile as soon as The Big One hits! Not only that, it would take at least a couple more hours to get to Google from here than the other two houses we showed you. And when you look out in the boonies like this, notice what you don't get: a decent fence around the place to keep the nosy neighbors away.
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DATE: December 10, 2004
TO: Agency Addressed (No. 07, 2004-2005)
FROM: Douglas A. Darling, Director
Division of Accounting & Auditing
Department of Financial Services
SUBJECT: Contract and Grant Manager Training
The Bureau of Auditing has been providing Contract and Grant Manger training to personnel from state agencies over the past two years. Best Practices are presented for crucial areas of the contract and grant administration process. Emphasis is placed on areas of weakness revealed through post-audits, and expanded pre-audits conducted by the Bureau. We look forward to continuing this training effort in 2005.
The training was developed in the " train the trainer" format and consists of seven elements: Planning, Procurement/Selection, Price/Cost Analyses, Agreements, Monitoring, Payments and Close Out. Key agency contract/grant managers and those who are responsible for establishing policies and procedures for the administration of contracts and grants are strongly encouraged to attend.
The 2005 training sessions will be held on January 11,
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Ellis Shown The Door, Fans Shove Him Through
The writing was on the wall shortly after the 2007 NFL draft. The Cowboys picked Anthony Spencer, defensive end from Purdue in the first round. The 26th overall pick.
Greg Ellis, an aging veteran coming off a season-ending achilles injury saw the writing and, in turn, expressed himself – as only Greg can do – and voiced his concern about being replaced by the 6′ 3″ 255 lb prospect.
It took two years to happen but here we are. Greg Ellis, after 11 years of service, was officially released Tuesday, June 2, 2009.
I'm not disputing the fact that Ellis' better days are past him. I'm not disputing the fact that it is time to see what Spencer truly has. These things are part of the NFL. Players get old and the young guns come in and take over. It is a natural cycle, not only in the NFL, but in life. The time has come for young blood.
Here is where I have a problem. No, it's not with Jerry Jones(not this time anyway). It isn't with Ellis or Spencer. My problem is with fickle Dallas Cowboys fans that seem to enjoy shoving this guy out the door after 11 years of hard-fought football service with America's Team.
I dare the majority of these fans to show many anything they've done for 11 years with passion, conviction, loyalty and the dedication Ellis has shown this organization.
How soon people forget. It's the "What have you done for me lately?" generation of football fans that forget Ellis' 12.5 sacks in 2007 and his Comeback Player of the Year award. They don't honor his 634 tackles, 36 tackles for losses, 197 quarterback pressures and 77 sacks over the course of the last 11 seasons. All in 162 games 156 in which he started.
All they see is Greg "The Whiner" they call him. Well I respect his honesty and at times I did question his timing. I'm not saying he didn't have issues but he suited up in the Blue and Silver and gave his blood, sweat and tears for 11 years and, in my humble opinion, that gives him the right to voice his discord when things aren't going, in his opinion, the way they should. He earned that voice.
We give our opinions every day about The Cowboys and have never put our bodies on the line to defend the Star. Then we're gonna question this man?
Feel free to post your comments. Good bad or indifferent.
Here's mine: Thank you, Greg Ellis. It has been an absolute honor to watch you play for the Dallas Cowboys. God bless you and your family. I wish you the best of luck in the future.
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Growers have seen innovations in seed products that only a few years ago seemed improbable or even impossible. And the next decade promises to be filled with new products designed to increase efficiency and yield. What will be the next big thing? Here is what the experts say you can expect as seed companies work to bring their latest innovations to market.
Marker-assisted breeding
The tools available to today's plant breeders are unprecedented in their power. Today, scientists can "mark" a certain gene within a plant's genome and trace it throughout the plant's life cycle. Breeders can then determine, before the plant is even in the ground, whether that seed and its progeny will carry (or will not carry) a certain trait.
Marker-assisted breeding allows breeders to study more gene sequences at a much faster pace, allowing them to significantly shrink the time-line between initial discovery and commercial introduction. It also has allowed them to study more genes in the gene pool, expanding the possibility of bringing genes from years ago into today's elite products.
"The use of markers has hit at every level of product development," says David Fischhoff, technology strategy and development strategy lead for Monsanto. "Even with the absence of biotech traits, breeders have been able to increase yields year on year using these tools."
Today, breeders can gather information using just a portion of the seed's coat. "DNA today is analyzed in close to real time," Fischhoff says. "We can take a chip off the seed, analyze the DNA, and let the breeder know which seeds have the markers, and the traits, they want. This increases the efficiency 10-fold or more."
It essentially has allowed plant breeders to study hundreds of millions of data points, even before planting a single seed. "What we do is correlate markers with the attributes that are important to the customer," says John Bedbrook, vice president of agricultural technology at DuPont. "Markers play an important role in our ability to integrate traits and enhance our products. Marker technology touches every thing we do."
Another important technology in corn is the ability of plant breeders to create a single genetically pure line in a single step. "This process alone allows us to dramatically increase the number of inbred lines we can study," Bedbrook says.
"And it's not just current and future products," Bedbrook continues. "These modern genetic tools allow us to look at past hybrids or varieties. We combine present genetic information with breeder's notes to study past products and see if specific genomics will benefit current products. It is a tremendous asset that we employ in our breeding process."
Drought-tolerant traits
Corn and soybean products that are more efficient in using available water resources will soon be available to producers. Pioneer is set to launch its Drought 1 tolerant corn in the western Corn Belt sometime this year, and other companies have drought-tolerant traits in their development pipelines.
"We have been studying drought tolerance since the 1950s," says Jeff Schussler, senior research manager at Pioneer. "Our Drought 1 product uses native genes that we have identified that will help provide yield stability in areas with limited water supplies."
The next round of drought products, according to Schussler, will include a transgenic approach combined with native genes.
In July, Syngenta unveiled water optimization technology called Agrisure Artesian. A limited quantity of hybrids with this technology will be available for 2011 planting through the company's Garst, Golden Harvest and NK product brands.
"The water optimization technology enables corn plants to use available moisture more efficiently, resulting in higher yields on drought-stressed acres including dryland and limited-irrigation farms in the western Corn Belt," says Tracy Mader, head of product marketing for Syngenta Seeds. "Growers on rain-fed acres in the central and eastern Corn Belt likewise can use the technology to help stabilize yields in years of inconsistent rainfall or in fields with variable soil types and moisture-holding capacity."
Syngenta also is developing a water-optimized hybrid using a genetically modified trait and anticipates product launch after 2015, pending regulatory and key import market approval.
Efficiency traits
A trait that allows a corn plant to better utilize available nitrogen is in various stages of the production pipeline within several seed companies. Once unveiled, it could shake up the market. "Fertilizer is the number-one expense for corn producers, and nitrogen ranks right up there," says Gary Schnitkey, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois. "So anything that can increase efficiency is something that all farmers would want."
Traits that would allow a corn or soybean plant to make better use of other available inputs are also not far off.
Herbicide-tolerant traits
Perhaps no single trait has had as much of an impact as the herbicide-tolerant trait. Today more than 90% of soybeans and close to 70% of corn is planted using some sort of herbicide-tolerant trait.
Growers can expect more and expanded offerings. Monsanto recently completed a regulatory submission to the USDA for dicamba-tolerant soybeans, and Dow AgroSciences expects to introduce its herbicide-tolerant trait technology — which will provide tolerance to broadleaf and grass herbicides, including 2,4-D and "fop" herbicides — in the next couple of years.
"Stacking will be the norm in this market going forward," Fischhoff says. "A single herbicide-tolerant trait won't disappear, but a more common configuration will be several herbicide-tolerant traits stacked."
Schnitkey says additional herbicide-tolerant traits will allow producers to diversify their weed control options. "I would expect that as these newer products are introduced, we may see glyphosate-tolerant traits hitting a plateau," he says. "It is critical from a weed control standpoint to have more than glyphosate. Different means of weed control will help things considerably."
Insect-resistant traits
According to the USDA, the percentage of corn acreage planted to Bt corn has grown from about 8% in 1997 to 63% in 2010. This trait's popularity has led to the stacking of multiple traits in a single product, allowing for the control of a host of insects throughout the growing cycle.
"We will continue to see advances in this area with new modes of action," says Jonathan Bryant, vice president at BASF Plant Science. "I see a continual evolution of products to make sure that we keep the trait foundation fresh."
One of the more recent examples of a next-generation, insect-protection product is Syngenta's Agrisure Viptera trait in corn. The Viptera trait is a new mode of action that controls lepidopteran corn pests like black cutworm, corn earworm and fall armyworm.
SmartStax, the stacked trait combination developed by a collaboration between Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, is a stack of eight different herbicide-tolerant and insect-protection traits in a single product. It is designed to offer multiple modes of action in one product, working together to provide aboveground and belowground insect protection.
Several companies are developing refuge-in-a-bag products that will allow a reduced refuge or no refuge when planting traited seed. For example, in Pioneer's Optimum AcreMax 1 (OAM1), the corn rootworm refuge is integrated in the bag and is planted throughout the field. However, a refuge in a different field is still required for European corn borer. The EPA currently is evaluating OAM1.
Companies continue to search for new modes of action, and even new sources of toxins. "We will need different kinds of solutions for insect-resistant traits," Bedbrook says. "And one sure way of getting new modes of action is to go with a completely different source. Work in this area has been very promising."