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Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born Piers Stefan O'Meara; 30 March 1965), known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children.
Morgan branched into television mainly as a presenter, but has become best known as a judge or contestant in reality television programmes. In the UK, he was a judge on Britain's Got Talent. Morgan is best known in the United States as a judge on the show America's Got Talent, and as the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice. On 17 January 2011, he began hosting Piers Morgan Tonight for CNN in the timeslot previously occupied by Larry King Live before the retirement of host Larry King.
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LONDON - Tennis is to introduce biological passports for players this year to help in the fight against doping, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced on Thursday.
Several top players on the men's tour, including Swiss great Roger Federer and US Open champion Andy Murray, have gone public with their belief that more time and money needs to be devoted to keeping tennis free from drug cheats. The announcement comes after a meeting of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme working group (TADP) this week, which includes representatives from the ITF, ATP, WTA and grand slam tournaments. The ITF said there was unanimous support for the introduction of the passport, which is used to detect variances in biological make-up that might indicate doping and has been introduced in cycling. "The ATP has always rigorously supported the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP) and believes that the move toward the Athlete Biological Passport is the appropriate step for tennis at this time," said ATP executive chairman and president Brad Drewett.
"The players have been clear that they support increased investment in anti-doping and we feel that this is the most effective way to show the world that tennis is a clean sport."
The introduction of the Athlete Biological Passport will require the TADP to increase the number of blood tests every year. In addition, the working group also recommended an overall increase in the amount of testing, especially outside competitions, with additional funding provided by all the governing bodies in tennis and administered by the ITF.
"The implementation of the Athlete Biological Passport is an important step in the evolution of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme as it provides us with a great tool in the fight against doping in our sport," ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said. "We also hope to have increased support from the national anti-doping agencies around the world who need to do their part if we are to win this battle and make our programme more effective."

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Yesterday, I reformatted the hard drive and installed Linux (Ubuntu 10.10).
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My Wi-Fi light (on laptop) blinks.
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Since her arrival at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Jaffee has become a renowned oncology researcher and co-director of both the Cancer Immunology Program and the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program. She also established Cell Processing and Gene Therapy cGMP Facility. She is the first recipient of the Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Professorship in Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, and also holds a professorship in Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2015, Dr. Jaffee was appointed deputy director of the Kimmel Cancer Center. Dr. Jaffee is also the co-director of the Skip Viragh Center for Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research and Patient Care. In 2007, she was appointed deputy director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and has also served as chair of the Clinical Research Committee at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Jaffee's research is focused on the development of novel vaccine approaches that overcome immune tolerance to cancers, and she currently holds six vaccine patents. Dr. Jaffee has completed multiple studies testing an allogeneic tumor vaccine in patients with pancreatic cancer who were eligible for complete surgical resection of their tumors, but whose cancers are still expected to recur at rates as high as 80% one year following surgery. Dr. Jaffee's first study demonstrated the safety of the vaccine and identified a dose that appears to demonstrate immune activation associated with improved disease-free survival in this patient population. These trials have also allowed Dr. Jaffee to develop both genomic and proteomic methods for identifying new pathways and biomarkers associated with the development and progression of pancreatic cancers. As an example, Dr. Jaffee recently identified the protein Annexin A2 that appears to be overexpressed in pancreatic cancers. Her group has shown that this protein changes location in the pancreatic cancer cell when compared with normal pancreatic tissue cells. This change in location gives the cancer cell the ability to spread from the pancreas to the liver and other organs. In animal models, Dr. Jaffee has shown that the inhibition of this new protein's expression results in the prevention of pancreatic cancer spread. She is currently developing a therapy that targets this protein and plans on testing this in patients in the future.
In addition to many JHU administrative committee appointments, her professional society memberships include the Board of Directors for the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association of Immunologists, and the Society of Immunotherapy for Cancer. Dr. Jaffee also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Philadelphia, and on the External Advisory Boards of both the Seattle Cancer Consortium Breast SPORE and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer SPORE.
Dr. Jaffee currently serves on the National Cancer Advisory Board and on the NCI NExT SEP Committee, is chair of the AACR Cancer Immunology Working Group (CIMM) Steering Committee, is a member of the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative (CVC), and has served as a co-organizer for the AACR Special Conference on Cancer Immunology in 2010 and 2012. Dr. Jaffee has also served as a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors and the RAID NCI Program Oversight Committee. She is co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Panel for Vice President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot Initiative. In addition, she is on the scientific advisory council for the Cancer Research Institute and Team Leader for the Stand Up To Cancer Pancreatic Dream Team research project: Transforming Pancreatic Cancer from Death Sentence to Treatable Disease.
- Deputy Director, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- The Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Professor of Oncology
- Co-Director, Skip Viragh Center for Pancreas Cancer
- Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical and Translational Research
- Co-Director, Immunology Cancer Program
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Lab Website: Elizabeth M. Jaffee
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Clinical Trial Keywordsbreast cancer, pancreatic cancer, vaccine
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1. Foley K, Rucki AA, Xiao Q, Zhou D, Leubner A, Mo G, Kleponis J, Wu AA, Sharma R, Jiang Q, Anders RA, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Hajjar KA, Maitra A, Jaffee EM, Zheng L. Semaphorin 3D autocrine signaling mediates the metastatic role of annexin A2 in pancreatic cancer. Science signaling. 2015; 8 (388): ra77. PMCID: PMC4811025.
2. Keenan BP, Saenger Y, Kafrouni MI, Leubner A, Lauer P, Maitra A, Rucki AA, Gunderson AJ, Coussens LM, Brockstedt DG, Dubensky TW, Jr., Hassan R, Armstrong TD, Jaffee EM. A Listeria vaccine and depletion of T-regulatory cells activate immunity against early stage pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasms and prolong survival of mice. Gastroenterology. 2014; 146 (7): 1784-94 e6. PMCID: PMC4035450.
3. Kouo T, Huang L, Pucsek AB, Cao M, Solt S, Armstrong T, Jaffee E. Galectin-3 Shapes Antitumor Immune Responses by Suppressing CD8+ T Cells via LAG-3 and Inhibiting Expansion of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells. Cancer immunology research. 2015; 3 (4): 412-23. PMCID: PMC4390508.
4. Le DT, Wang-Gillam A, Picozzi V, Greten TF, Crocenzi T, Springett G, Morse M, Zeh H, Cohen D, Fine RL, Onners B, Uram JN, Laheru DA, Lutz ER, Solt S, Murphy AL, Skoble J, Lemmens E, Grous J, Dubensky T, Jr., Brockstedt DG, Jaffee EM. Safety and survival with GVAX pancreas prime and Listeria Monocytogenes-expressing mesothelin (CRS-207) boost vaccines for metastatic pancreatic cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2015; 33 (12): 1325-33. PMCID: PMC4397277.
5. Lutz ER, Wu AA, Bigelow E, Sharma R, Mo G, Soares K, Solt S, Dorman A, Wamwea A, Yager A, Laheru D, Wolfgang CL, Wang J, Hruban RH, Anders RA, Jaffee EM, Zheng L. Immunotherapy converts nonimmunogenic pancreatic tumors into immunogenic foci of immune regulation. Cancer immunology research. 2014; 2 (7): 616-31. PMCID: PMC4082460.
Diagnostic Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets For Pancreatic Cancer
Patent # WO2014088942 A1 | 12/03/2012
We identified >40 proteins that elicited at least a 2-fold increase in antibody response post-pancreatic-cancer vaccination, from each of three patients' sera. The antibody responses detected against these proteins in patients with >3 years disease-free survival indicates the anti-tumor potential of targeting these proteins. We found that tissue expression of proteins PSMC5, TFRC and PPP1R12A increases during tumor development from normal to pre-malignant to pancreatic tumor. In addition, these proteins were shown to be pancreatic cancer-associated antigens that are recognized by post-vaccination antibodies in the sera of patients that received the vaccine and have demonstrated a favorable disease free survival.
Mesothelin Vaccines and Model Systems
Patent # US8137908 B2 | 03/20/2012
Mesothelin can be used as an immunotherapeutic target. It induces a cytolytic T cell response. Portions of mesothelin which induce such responses are identified. Vaccines can be either polynucleotide- or polypeptide-based. Carriers for raising a cytolytic T cell response include bacteria and viruses. A mouse model for testing vaccines and other anti-tumor therapeutics and prophylactics comprises a strongly mesothelin-expressing, transformed peritoneal cell line.
Annexina2 as Immunological Target
Patent # WO2010065613 A3 | 12/03/2008
AnnexinA2 (ANXA2), a member of the Annexin family of calcium-dependent, phospholipid binding proteins, is one of a panel of identified antigens recognized by the post-vaccination sera of patients who demonstrated prolonged disease-free survival following multiple vaccinations. AnnexinA2 is abundantly expressed in pancreatic adenocarcinomas and cell surface/membrane AnnexinA2 increases with the progression from premalignant lesions to invasive pancreatic adenocarcinomas. The cytoplasmic to cell surface translocation of AnnexinA2 expression is critical for pancreatic cancer cell invasion. In addition, phosphorylation of AnnexinA2 at Tyrosine 23 is important for its localization to the cell surface and for the invasion of pancreatic cancer cells. Finally, loss of AnnexinA2 leads to the loss of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.
Prostate Stem Cell Antigen Vaccines and Uses Thereof
Patent # WO2007086932 A3 | 01/13/2006
This invention relates to the identification of prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) as a target of clinically relevant antitumor immune responses. The invention provides vaccines comprising PSCA, or fragments thereof, which are useful in inducing antitumor immune responses, including PSCA specific CD8+ T cell responses. Methods of using the compositions to treat cancer are also provided. The invention further provides methods of identifying compounds useful in antitumor vaccines and methods of assessing the responses of patients to cancer immunotherapy.
Mesothelin Vaccines And Model Systems
Patent # WO2004006837 A3 | 07/12/2002
Mesothelin can be used as an immunotherapeutic target. It induces a cytolytic T cell response. Portions of mesothelin which induce such responses are identified. Vaccines can be either polynucleotide- or polypeptide-based. Carriers for raising a cytolytic T cell response include bacteria and viruses. A mouse model for testing vaccines and other anti-tumor therapeutics and prophylactics comprises a strongly mesothelin-expressing, transformed peritoneal cell line.
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- BA, Luther College, 1990
- PhD, Duke University, 1996
- Assistant Professor, University of Scranton, 1998-2001
- Instructor in Biology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1997-1998
Developmental biology, cellular biology, molecular biology, genetics
Understanding how the intracellular movement of macromolecules influences cell structure and function. Specifically, how nuclear protein import is regulated and how vesicle mediated secretion contributes to asymmetric cell growth during development.
My teaching activities integrate my interest in the molecular events that take place inside cells with the resulting cellular activities that regulate the functions and the organization of individual cells, tissues, organs, and organisms.
- Molecules, Cells, and Genes (Biol 212) is required of all Biology, Environmental Biology, and Molecular Biology concentrators and provides an in-depth introduction to eukaryotic cell function at the biochemical, macromolecular, and cellular levels. In lecture and lab, students are introduced to and asked to explore such topics as bioenergetics, enzyme kinetics, genes and regulation of gene expression, the cell cycle and the cytoskeleton, intracellular signaling and transport, and organelle structure and function. This class requires students to integrate their understanding of these seemingly diverse topics in order to explore basic cell function and to understand how different cells carry out different activities.
- Molecular Biology (Biol 321) integrates lectures, problem-solving activities, and careful dissection of the primary literature exploring molecular biology with a "molecular biology methods" lab that integrates lectures on advanced molecular biology techniques with a semester-long lab project that use these techniques to ask an original research question. In lecture, students read and discuss primary journal articles that investigate questions ranging from how cells "know" to only duplicate their DNA once prior to each cell division, to how the expression of specific genes is regulated, to how the RNA portion of the ribosome can function as an enzyme. Biol 321 lab provides the opportunity to use the latest molecular techniques in a semester-long guided research project. Our most recent project used microarrays (DNA chips), quantitative PCR, and other methods to investigate changes in gene expression that occur during the development of an animal from a fertilized egg to a multicellular embryo.
- Developmental Biology (Biol 324) classes examine how changes in gene expression and cell-cell interactions influence both the function and the fate of cells in a developing embryo. The progression from single-celled zygote to multicellular organism containing millions of cells requires intricately coordinated molecular events. These events lead to the differentiation of specific cell types that are organized in a specified pattern and carry out specialized activities. Students in Developmental Biology examine such model developmental systems as sea urchins, fruit flies, amphibians, plants, and chicken embryos as they utilize a variety of molecular, microscopic, and microsurgical techniques to examine events occurring during early embryonic development.
- Advanced Cellular Biology (Biol 326) is an elective course that utilizes the primary literature and class discussions to investigate cell structure and function. All of the topics covered are areas of intense research in the field of Cell Biology, including mitochondria structure and ATP synthesis, cytoskeletal dynamics, intracellular transport of molecules, regulation of cell cycle progression, and programmed cell death. Students in Biol 326 write increasingly complex papers, climaxing with the synthesis of an in-depth "Current Opinion in Cell Biology" review article at the conclusion of the semester.
- Intracellular Transport (Biol 483) is a biology Research Tutorial course in which 6 – 8 undergraduate students undertake an independent research project investigating a novel question focused on understanding how cells move molecules to specific intracellular locations. Students in Biol 483 each have their own project and spend the semester moving rapidly toward being able to design, carry out, and interpret their own experiments utilizing cellular and molecular techniques to investigate cell function.
- Cells and Human Development (Core 124) is a Scientific Perspectives course taught as part of Colgate's Core Curriculum. As a Scientific Perspectives Core course, Cells and Human Development uses the field of human fertilization and early development to explore how scientists investigate new questions, analyze qualitative and quantitative data, and communicate the results and significance of their investigations. In addition, discussions focusing on assisted reproduction (in vitro fertilization), somatic cell nuclear transfer ("cloning"), stem cell research, and gene therapy allow us to investigate the potential impact scientific findings and technological advances have on society.
All of these courses, from the first-year seminar to the research tutorial, emphasize student comprehension of the process by which scientific information is obtained. This means that we spend considerable time discussing not only what we understand about specific aspects of biology, but also how scientists investigate the functioning of molecules, cells, and organisms. All courses require reading of the primary scientific literature, design and/or execution of an original research experiment, and reporting on the results of the experiment in either the format of a primary journal article or as an oral report. It is my goal to have students leave these courses not just having learned some new ideas about a particular area of biology, but also having taken a significant step toward "thinking like a biologist" and asking new questions about the field they have just spent a semester examining.
- Director of Colgate HHMI undergraduate programs grant.
- On the Health Sciences Advisory Committee.
- Developer of "A Flight Through the Cell" 3-D animation with Colgate undergraduate students Ian Dwyer, Alex Crawford, and Avi Das (in progress).
- Faculty athletics representative for Colgate athletics to the NCAA.
- Finn EM*, DeRoo EP*, Clement GW*, Rao S*. Kruse SE*, Kokanovich KM*, Belanger KD. (2013) A subset of FG-nucleoporins is necessary for efficient Msn5-mediated nuclear protein export. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Molecular Cell Research. 1833: p1096 – 1103. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.12.020
- Belanger KD, Griffith A*, Baker H*, Hansen J*, Simmons Kovacs L*, Seconi J*, Strine A*. (2011) The karyopherin Kap95 and the C-termini of Rfa1, 2, and 3 are necessary for efficient nuclear import of functional RPA complex proteins in S. cerevisiae. DNA and Cell Biology. 30(9):641-51
- Belanger KD, Walter D, Henderson TA*, Yelton AL*, O'Brien TG*, Belanger KG, Geier SJ, Fahrenkrog B. (2009) Nuclear localization is critical for the proapoptotic activity of the HtrA-like serine protease Nma111p. J Cell Sci. 122(21):3931-41.
- Belanger KD. (2009) Using affinity chromatography to investigate novel protein-protein interactions in an undergraduate cell and molecular biology lab course. CBE Life Sci Educ. 8(3): 214-225.
- Harper NC*, Al-Greene NT*, Basrai MA, Belanger KD. (2007) Mutations affecting spindle pole body and mitotic exit network function are synthetically lethal with a deletion of the nucleoporin NUP1 in S. cerevisiae. Current Genetics. 53(2): 95 – 105.
- Belanger KD, Gupta A*, MacDonald KM*, Ott C*, Hodge CA, Cole CN, Davis LI. (2005) Nuclear pore complex function is influenced by glycosylation of the transmembrane nucleoporin Pom152p. Genetics. 171: 935 – 947.
- Bembenek J, Kang J, Kurischko C, Li B, Raab JR*, Belanger KD, Luca FC, Yu H. (2005) Crm1-mediated nuclear export of Cdc14 is required for the completion of cytokinesis in budding yeast. Cell Cycle. 4(7):961-71.
- Belanger KD, Simmons LA*, Roth JK*, VanderPloeg KA*, Lichten LB*, Fahrenkrog B. (2004) The karyopherin Msn5/Kap142 requires Nup82 for nuclear export and performs a function distinct from translocation in RPA protein import. J Biol Chem. 279(42):43530-9.
- Belanger KD. (2004) Model Organisms. Encyclopedia of Genetics. Ed. B.D. Ness. Salem Press, Pasadena, CA. p545 – 547.
- Belanger KD, Wyman A, Sudol M*, Singla S, and Quatrano RS. (2003) A signal peptide screen in Fucus distichus embryos reveals expression of glucanase, EGF domain-containing, and LRR receptor kinase-like polypeptides during asymmetric cell growth. Planta. 217: 931 - 950.
2012: Academic Research Enhancement Award — known as an "AREA" grant — from the National Institute of General Medical Science of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Institutes of Health research grants (July 2001 - June 2005; August 2005 - July 2008); National Science Foundation - Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research grant (September 2004 - August 2009); NSF - Major Research Instrumentation grant (July 2002 - June 2005); NIH Postdoctoral Research fellowship (November 1996 - August 1998)
- National Institutes of Health – Academic Research Enhancement Award (NIH-AREA R15): "Analysis of the role of FG-nucleoporins in nuclear protein export." $325,282. March 1, 2012 – February 28, 2015.
- National Science Foundation – Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (NSF S-STEM): "A Program To Enhance Undergraduate Success and Persistence in the Sciences," GE Gogel, DH Saracino, EG Nolen, KD Belanger, L Waldman. $600,000; Sept 15, 2007 – August 31, 2012.
- National Science Foundation – Major Research Instrumentation Award (NSF-MRI): "MRI: Acquisition of a laser-scanning confocal microscope for multi-disciplinary research at Colgate University," JE Meyers, AJ Tierney, D McHugh, KD Belanger, K Ingram. $495,158; Sept 1, 2009 – August 31, 2012.
- National Science Foundation – Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (NSF-FIBR): "A systems approach to study redox regulation of functions of photosynthetic organisms." Co-PI with four others (PI: Himadri Pakrasi, Washington University). $294,131 to Colgate. September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2011.
- National Institutes of Health – Academic Research Enhancement Award (NIH-AREA): "Influence of glycosylation on nuclear pore function." $205,959; August 1, 2005 – July 31, 2009.
- National Science Foundation – Major Research Instrumentation Award (NSF-MRI): "Acquisition of fluorescence microscopy instrumentation for research and education in biology, geology, and neuroscience." Primary author with four co-PIs. $98,086; July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2005.
- National Institutes of Health -Academic Research Enhancement Award (NIH-AREA): "Examination of Nup1-mediated nucleocytoplasmic transport." $124,731; July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2005.


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Acer taps Q4 for Android smartphone launch
Also signs into Open Handset Alliance
Acer has promised to launch its first Android smartphones during the fourth quarter of this year.
The announcement builds on recent comments by Aymar de Lencquesaing, the head of Acer's phone division, who said last month that the company will launch around ten handsets this year.
He hinted at the time that only one will be based on Android, with the remaining nine running Windows Mobile.
However, Acer's latest announcement said it would launch Android "smartphones", plural, during Q4, so perhaps we should expect more than one Android-based device from Acer this year.
Acer's also joined that Open Handset Alliance, a group of companies, including Google and LG, which combine efforts to develop open standards for mobile devices.
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The Oregon Legislature has had a long, undistinguished record on higher education.
In this session, it would be a shame to extend that.
For nearly two years, a legislative interim work group and the Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee worked on a structure to allow Oregon's universities to set up institutional boards, providing them with more autonomy, deeper connections with their communities and -- especially -- opportunities for fundraising.
The idea was driven by a group of well-heeled University of Oregon supporters, but Portland State quickly came around to the idea, and Oregon State's interest is clearly growing. In a state whose higher education pattern has been under-investment turning to disinvestment, the idea carries the potential for a strengthening of higher education clearly unlikely to come from the Legislature.
The Senate education committee endorsed the proposed legislation unanimously and sent it to the joint Ways and Means Committee, where it has sat for two months. Now, with the Legislature hoping to adjourn as soon as June 28, Ways and Means' education subcommittee finally plans to hold a hearing on the proposal this week.
Concerns about support for the smaller regional universities -- notably from Southern Oregon University, represented by Ways and Means co-Chairman Peter Buckley, D-Ashland -- and about tuition and board makeup have snagged the process. The regional universities in particular have a real claim to recognition and protection, but these issues should not be allowed to add another chapter to Salem's long history of failing to advance Oregon's universities.
Southern and Eastern Oregon universities have now expressed some interest in having their own boards. The idea should not be dismissed, but also might not fit precisely into the carefully arranged template designed for the larger universities with demonstrated fundraising capacity. The proposal to work out a pattern for regionals' boards through the State Board of Higher Education, while the larger universities go forward with their plans, should resolve this issue.
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The question of the support the smaller universities get from being part of a larger system is also legitimate, but nothing that should derail the entire process.
"For me, having my own board was never about being able to process my own payroll," says Portland State President Wim Wiewel.
"Our whole business is going to change in the next five years in ways that we've never seen. This is why you need a board. The answer is going to be very different for all our institutions."
Limiting tuition increases is also a real concern for the Ways and Means Committee, although finding some money to buy down next year's proposed increases might be more productive than trying to retain decision powers out of proportion to the state's investment. Dictating the makeup of the institutional boards, and the roles of faculty and students, may be less fitting at this point; as Senate education committee Chairman Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, complains, "The budget guys shouldn't be changing policy."
The lines are not always that sharply drawn in Salem, or maybe at any other legislature. What is sharp is the need for a higher education future that goes beyond the state's level of higher education funding, allowing at least its major universities to forge their own directions toward a quality level and a 40-40-20 formula that the Legislature has proclaimed but cannot fund.
That awareness is what drove the group of University of Oregon supporters to seek greater university autonomy, a goal that they are prepared to pursue by initiative if the Legislature falls short yet again on higher education. A reform plan painstakingly devised by legislators seems a better bargain for the state than a measure written by a narrow group.
When this Legislature departs, at the end of this month or the beginning of the next, its record on higher education could yet look impressive.
Or it could look familiar.


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Gawker speculates that National Review is hurting for cash after the death of William F. Buckley.
Sadly, No! goes with the sexist approach to the news.
K-Lo certainly drove me away from The Corner.
``We all agree that'' applied relentlessly to things we don't all agree that isn't a great idea.
Buckley went downhill pretty fast around 2003, as well.
I am not sure what the story is on Ms. Lopez. She reminded me of some girls I knew from parochial school with, smart, uptight, and a little too tightly wound. But that said, even though I am far more of a fan of VDH, Goldberg, Geraghty, and York, I liked K-Lo. I liked her a lot. There was something charming about her nerdy earnstness, her adoration of all things Romney, her steadfast commitment to right to life issues. She was true to herself.
I do not want this to read as an obituary, because it most certainly is not. K-Lo in DC may be an excellent new adventure and a new chapter in her life. She is a young woman and presumably wants to find some guy and start a family (unfortunately New York and DC are not necessarily the best places for that to happen) or (and am I crazy for even thinking this) she would make a great nun. And the teasing of the left just shows that K-Lo managed to get under their skin.
Good luck and Godspeed K-Lo.
Tbogg made fun of someone else's career. Now that is funny!
Apparently K-Low over did the free speech balancing act and she lost her friends.
Alright! Maybe my blogging's having an impact on you Ann!
I realized I don't know anyone in this drama. I am happy.
Last night, several women from church were over to discuss Noam Chomsky's fascinating speech last Friday. And, as it always does, the Corner on National Review came up. We decided that this poor Kathryn Jean must be a self-loathing minority who is nothing more than window dressing for the white males who run National Review. Conchata interrupted her dusting to agree with us. If that's not absolute moral authority, then what is?
Jesus, what kind of idiot has never heard the phrase "head honcho?"
Anyway, just anotherin my continuing point that there is nothing that drives a liberal man more crazy than a sexy conservative woman. make her a minority and you can hear the heads exploding.
Tiny Jones, come home....
I heart your sarcasticry.
I stopped reading NRO about a couple years ago, not sure why. I used to like it when Jonah Goldberg was kind of helming the show, and then it got all down in the dumps Krikorian and Derbyshire. I dunno, they are always so grumpy! I know it's their schtick, but still....it's grumpy!
(Also, they do lame arts stuff and movie reviews and all that. Why isn't their a good conservative journal that is arty arty arty, or, I mean, why can't they write about art well? I mean, not just, why isn't art good like it used to be in the old days, but stuff that people actually make now, that is good. Point it out! I want more art!)
Nothing good can come from a nickname like that.
I used to visit The Corner a lot, some good contributors and a nice variety of topics. In the last several years I've gone less and less, primarially because I don't care for the style personified by Ramesh Ponnuru, which I don't care for even when I agree with it.
K-Lo is far more tolerable than that, but still....
Yeah, I know. Ramesh Ponnuru always confuses me...like, even when I agree with him, I'm all like: why did you put it like that? But of course, we can all see here that language is not my forte...that's why I want more pictures (art) in the mags, thanks.
I like K-Lo too, but thought she was a drag on The Corner. Fred4Pres comes close to how I felt about her writing there. That group lost their sparkle around election time for me. It used to be a daily "must read" for me but I haven't been there in months. Though maybe that's just a reflection of my feeling of being lost as to who to read now on the conservative/libertarian side of things.
Jesus, what kind of idiot has never heard the phrase "head honcho?"
Seriously. They went out of their way to be a jerk, didn't they?
I don't really care about this person, as I really only check out the corner for Jonah and not often. Some of those other people are pretty annoying.
I thought people were joking . . . they really didn't know what head honcho meant. You have to giggle.
I like K-L0 and Jonah. The rest I just sort of pick and choose from on a daily basis.
Agree with Fred4 and Darcy, but less a fan.
She didn't seem "worldly" enough to be the editor of other people's work, especially for a political blog.
The jerk knew what "honcho" means; he was just waxing pedantic (at first) about K-Lo using it as a verb. Naturally he went on to ruin the joke-- to the extent that so wan a joke can be ruined-- by coming up with a substitute guess that's not a verb either.
I believe in free speech, but.....
I don't think K-Lo is LEAVING. She said she was following in Goldberg's steps and moving to DC ... I'm guessing she's taking a less demanding NRO job so she can work on a book.... her own "Liberal Fascism" if you will... after all, webeditor is probably a thankless job......
Can't comment on her editing skills, as I don't read National Review. But her blogging skills sucked.
Anyway, just anotherin my continuing point that there is nothing that drives a liberal man more crazy than a sexy conservative woman.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to Lopez, but she doesn't seem particularly sexy. Indeed, I don't think "sexiness" has been part of her public persona at all. She's not Anne Coulter, after all.
I don't care for the style personified by Ramesh Ponnuru, which I don't care for even when I agree with it.
Really? Ponnuru is actually one of my favourite writers there. His writing is bland and unexciting, but he's generally sober and thoughtful -- moreso at least than most of his fellow NRO contributors.
They can't even get the sex right. The derogative "hincho" is a male.
Another problem with the poor insinuation is that if you take into account 'el bulgo' of the average latin macho where the derogative "hincho" comes from, a female "honcho" doesn't translate into much of anything resembling that reality.
In short, instead of coming off edgy, the K Lo critic showed a great deal of ignorance.
Why isn't their a good conservative journal that is arty arty arty, or, I mean, why can't they write about art well?...Point it out! I want more art!
I suggest you look at The New Criterion. A truly excellent publication which is conservative and "arty arty arty".
Conchata interrupted her dusting to agree with us.
That was my ant Conchita you asshole.
The first entry on Bing and the 2nd on Google give the correct definition of Honcho. Plus, who doesn't already know what that means anyway?
TBogg just beclowned himself.
Thanks, I admire, and like, even, the New Criterion, but sometimes I feel like it is 'smothering' to read, it's like going to the Boston MFA and looking at beautiful things, and coming out an hour later sneezing at the dust. Still. It's really, really good.
Maybe I'm just fickle.
Okay, enough blog commenting for now.
Later, alligators.
Nowadays almost all discussion can be brought to a screeching halt by imputing a sexist or racist motive to an action, any action. The death of dialogue age.
I used to read the Corner infrequently. Now I never do.
She was absolutely the worst though. She's a big, and I mean BIG Homo Hater, living in Chelsea. I hope she doesn't move to Dupont Circle.
Over at The Corner, K-Lo played the most thankless role--the straight man. Without her, Jonah and the guys would be all Star Trek, BSG and The Simpsons all day long. NTTIAWWT, but still.
Katey Jo has a nice pair of tits though. I wouldn't mind plowing her.
The Corner doesn't allow comments...does it really count as a "blog"?
Nowadays almost all discussion can be brought to a screeching halt by imputing a sexist or racist motive to an action, any action. The death of dialogue age.
See trolls*
I am probably dating myself, but honcho is, IIRC, a Korean or perhaps Japanese term for "boss." During the Korean war there was an organization called KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the US Army) and many American soldiers picked up some of the Korean words. TBogg apparently doesnt know a lot, and secure in his/her ignorance was incapable of using google.
I always wanted to go on a NRO cruise to check out Katey Jo in her thong. It made me horny just thinking about it.
I wonder if there were any K Lo Trains taking place on the Corner Cruises.
Really? Ponnuru is actually one of my favourite writers there. His writing is bland and unexciting, but he's generally sober and thoughtful -- moreso at least than most of his fellow NRO contributors.
Too thoughtful, its like he's always trying to do a damn masters thesis on why murder is wrong.
Plus he was one of the folks at NRO that trashed the entire republican field for all sorts on reasons, many miniscule, and gave life to the last man standing John McCain, whom they had already written off. Of course they didn't like him either and the whole well "he sucks less than the other guy" general election angle didn't generate much enthusiasm.
Jonah and the guys would be all Star Trek, BSG and The Simpsons all day long.
You left out Babylon 5.
For that treasonous act you are hereby sentenced to be ejected out the nearest airlock ;)
I wonder what cup size Katey Jo is.
She has some big ass milkers.
You left out Babylon 5.
For that treasonous act you are hereby sentenced to be ejected out the nearest airlock ;).
Oh Lem you are so correct. Well said. Capt. Kirk doesn't have nearly the best quotes as Londo Molari.
Is that a real honcho, I mean is that a Mexican honcho or is that a Sears honcho?
I am probably dating myself, but honcho is, IIRC, a Korean or perhaps Japanese term for "boss." During the Korean war there was an organization called KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the US Army) and many American soldiers picked up some of the Korean words.
I believe it's Japanese, from hanchou (班長).
I don't believe anyone as young as K Lo should be entitled to have as many chins as she does.
She also needs to do something about the unibrow.
Other than that I absolutely ador her. Love her, would love to cuddle with her.
My sense is she is still a virgin and I have so much respect for that. Too many women are sluts nowadays.
I hope they gave her a generous severance package. I said package.
She was so brave too walking around Chelsea proudly with her XXXLarge Sarah Palin shirt on.
SteveR on Ponnuru: Yes!
Count me as one who has never been particularly impressed by K-Lo's writing or argumentation skills. Having said that, it was a another piece of evidence in what Aaron pointed out earlier about liberal white males and their sexual frustration in regards to conservative women, Granted, K-Lo is not remotely sexy, but Micelle Malkin is, and if you read further on TBogg (who is he/she, anyway?), you will get an idea of how TBogg and the commenters feel about conservative women of color. The racist and sexist comments about Malkin are just vile.
Note to onparkstreet: if you don't like New Criterion you might try "Commentary." It's not about art, per se, but Terry Teachout nearly always has a music review, they often have articles about art, and in nearly every issue there is a short story. There is also "Touchstone" magazine. It's from the C.S. Lewis branch of Christianity, if you are okay with that. Most of it is religious in nature, but they often have additional articles on art as it relates to religion. A warning: relatively little is accessible online; they want you to subscribe to the paper copy. If you want more pictures, you are almost certainly going to have more words accompanying them.
Lem and Hoosier Daddy, absolutely agree on Babylon 5. B5 is one of the most seriously underrated shows of the last 25 years. It had a grittiness and texture to it that Star Trek usually lacked. In fact, I think B5 pushed DS-9 to be a lot better; the writers for DS-9 knew they had real competition.
Balfegor: thanks! if the word is Japanese no self respecting Korean would be using it!
The whore Kathryn Jean should praise Allah (PBUH) that she does not need to disgrace her family by working with her head uncovered before men to whom she is not related. It is a blessing from Allah (PBUH) that she will be able to be unemployed in Washington, D.C.
you will get an idea of how TBogg and the commenters feel about conservative women of color.
You mean as oppossed to the civil treatment that Michele Obama and Sonia Sontomyer get here.
Bring me the head of Londo Molari!
K-Lo is the very earnest chick in high school who was always editor of the yearbook or some such. You don't want to totally blow her off because the earnestness is kind of cute, in a beaten puppy sort of way, and there's always the chance she might grow up to be hot.
Or as the Bloodhound Gang sang "You're pretty when I'm drunk and I'm pretty f**king drunk".
Who the hell is Sonia Sontomyer and why does she deserve anything other than being treated in an uncivil way?
I for one will not miss K-LO that much. I liked her Catholic voice over there but that was about it.
I don't think they realized how their actions during the Republican primary and other events were driving readers away. The attacks on other conservatives for instance that were not named Romney were horrible. K-Lo was personally leading the attack on Huckabee months after the race had ended.
I have always wondered if the Club for Growth has an arrangement with her.
Her conduct during the immigration battles was not stellar or well thought out. She apparently thought there was need to bring in a immigration reform supporting pundit to counter Mark Krikorian.
Why National Review has to decided to associate with the radical poltics of Krikorian I don't know.
So maybe Rich can balance it out. I still go the Corner each day but I could deal with a few less Crusades against people in the GOP over there
I read the Corner frequently, and K-Lo is my least favorite commenter. It's usually a strain to listen to the arguments of someone with a religious or quasi-religious belief in their subject. So often their belief is founded on faith and their appeals to reason seem (and I think often are) disingenuous. Derbyshire caused quite a stir over there by saying something similar about Ramesh's book. Of course, I could say much the same about many commenters on gay marriage, global warming, feminism.
The Corner is a pretty lively place and K-Lo has been the editor, so I assume she deserves a good deal of credit. She may actually do better (and more for her cause) in a position that does not require her to make arguments to the public.
She did think that Christmas Carol movie was one of the best movies she ever saw so there is something to respect about that.
It's usually a strain to listen to the arguments of someone with a religious or quasi-religious belief in their subject.
I very much agree with this in most cases. There are exceptions, but in the political realm I would prefer to hear different types of arguments.
She did think that Christmas Carol movie was one of the best movies she ever saw so there is something to respect about that.
I actually saw that movie. God was it terrible. I think there was one funny part and even that wasn't great.
"She apparently thought there was need to bring in a immigration reform supporting pundit to counter Mark Krikorian"
I agree with Krikorian, but it's good to have a contrary view to sharpen up his arguments. Nadler seemed to be arguing from mostly a libertarian viewpoint, and the conservatives vs. the libertarians is always an interesting debate that improves both sides for having been done.
I got the impression that K-Lo was more diligent and earnest than talented or interesting.
Okay, I regret my silliness and stupid comments above, but let them stand! Actions have consequences - I will not self-delete my comment.
1. I like NRO, but some alchemy is missing, I don't know what it is, it used to be better in the past.
2. K-Lo was fine for me, neutral but nice and sweet.
3. I dunno what I meant by the silly art comments, maybe just that sometimes I want conservatives to stop complaining about culture, but create it, vigorously. Which, I suppose they do...look at some genre fiction, for example.
4. Roger Scruton has a beautiful essay on art and beauty in City-Journal right now, so of course there are conservative journals that deal well with art and culture, what was I thinking?
5. Thanks for the suggestions, above, and for taking my silliness seriously.
I think K-Lo should marry Titus and bear his children. They're both Republican, and they both have solid Midwest values. Plus he finds her to be attractive, which is a mighty plus.
If he has any difficulty in performing his marital duties, Titus could always prop a little DVD player on the headboard, and watch gay porn.
Aaron said...
Jesus, what kind of idiot has never heard the phrase "head honcho?"
The same grade of idiot who thinks "honcho" is a Spanish word?
Balfegor is correct: In Japanese hancho means group leader, from han "corps, squad" + cho "head, chief."
American GI's picked it up during the Japanese occupation and it's been military slang for boss ever since, thus it's usage in Korea.
Aw, come on. Be fair to TBogg. He didn't say he didn't know the word "honcho." He said he didn't know the usage as a verb.
I would love to marry K Lo.
I bet she has quite a bit of pent up sexual fantasies that are ready to explode.
You know she would be wild in the sack.
She can't ever be on top though. I am fragile.
I bet there is some good pussy under that fat. Get a vacuum to get out the cobwebs and Just lift up the fat and begin to plow. I would be up for that.
So "head honcho" is redundant.
K Lo didn't have much to say that wasn't about abortion or Mitt, or maybe that's all I noticed.
Will Althouse link to Ace or Treacher when Katrina van der Snorkel changes jobs?
Who has the time or energy or inclination to read magazines these days? Lowry may have decided to take the increasingly more important job.
OK, I'll be fair to TBogg. If all he's complaining about is using "honcho" as a verb, he is guilty only of ignorance or, perhaps, first degree prescriptivism. In English, we can verb almost any dang noun we want, the only test being whether we are understood, which test Ms. Lopez flying colored.
At the risk of entering this conversation so very late, I just want to point out that K-Lo isn't leaving The Corner, she's merely giving up the daily editorial control over NRO. She wrote:
"I'm not going too far. I'll still be contributing to NRO with ideas and content, and if you are an author or reader you might not notice much of a change...I'll still be traffic-copping the Corner."
So if you like her, you aren't going to lose her, and if you don't like her, she isn't going away.


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Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces in 1862. The celebrations here in the Bay Area are always fun and I wanted to get in on the festivities. I love chocolate desserts, so I made a spiced chocolate flan.
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What I Learned Wednesday: 27 April 2011
Most of this involves straightforward research procedures, but it is still a bit of a change of pace from researching my own family, most of whom lived in the southern states. Initially, my main goal in researching my husband's family was not very ambitious: I wanted to at least document each line back to the original immigrant - and since the earliest immigrants seem to have come over around 1850, with the majority arriving between 1890 and 1910, that's not terribly far back to go. I also hoped to get some clue as to where in Italy/Germany/Romania the various families originated, but I knew that I could not count on this.
Surprisingly, thanks to my fellow Fichtelmann researchers Mary Lou Benjamin and J. E. Felbinger and to my in-laws' fortuitous discovery of my husband's grandmother's birth certificate (which led to my discovery of the ship manifest giving her home town in Italy), I now have at least two new points of origin in Europe; a third location, Moinesti, Romania for the Greenbergs, is already known.
However, I am still interested in documenting the families here in the United States. For instance, it is intriguing that my husband's great-grandmother and her sister were going to meet a Vincenzo D'Arco in New Jersey; his great-grandmother married a Nicholas D'Arco, so this may be a brother.
In the coming weeks I am hoping to build up a decent section in my Genealogy Toolbox for New York and New Jersey research.
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Greta, good that you are doing the basics first. And, I assume you checked out FAG, and all the census records. Don't be scared off by NY and NJ, I've had very good luck. Maybe hubby might get interested enough to help you?ReplyDelete
Barbara - Yup, checked out Findagrave - that was after I had sent off for Social Security applications - the cemetery info gave me the information (plus a bit more) that I had paid to get in these applications. However, I think that the relevant photos and entries appeared on FAG after I got the copies of applications back. Nah - Hubby is more interested in MY relatives!ReplyDelete
How I love those ship manifests! Such good information lurking there. I've found the Hamburg lists tend to have more "European" spellings for the names (and even harder to read manifests) which has helped track down elusive kinfolk.ReplyDelete
Greta, it sounds as if you have been very busy and productive. Just wondering if you are finding NY/NJ research somewhat easier than southern research.ReplyDelete


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GRAHAM � A Burlington man will have to testify in a murder trial as part of a plea deal entered last week in Alamance County Superior Court.
Tabias Deandre Sellars, 22, of Ridgeway Drive, Burlington, pleaded guilty to several crimes � including a June break-in during which a woman was assaulted. He was originally charged with first-degree burglary for that crime but pleaded guilty to breaking and entering.
As part of his plea arrangement, he must testify truthfully in the state�s murder case against Marquis Spence and Brandon Malone, both 22 and of Buxton Street in Durham. They are accused of killing Anthony Kevette Jones, 22, who died after being shot at an Avon Street home Oct. 22.
On June 10, Sellars broke into a woman�s residence on Beaumont Court, put his hands around her throat and stole her cell phone, laptop computer and other items, warrants by Burlington police said. Sellars also pleaded guilty to assault on a female and felony larceny in that incident.
He also pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to armed robbery, for disposing of a gun allegedly used by Javis Naquan Graves to hold up a man July 21, and obtaining property by false pretense.
Superior Court Judge James E. Hardin Jr. issued three active 10- to 21-month sentences followed by a suspended 21- to 35-month sentence on the accessory charge. Following his release from prison, Sellars will be on 36 months� probation and must pay $250 in restitution, court costs and fees. He must also obtain his GED, have no contact with the female victim and not be at USA Pawn.
Also in Alamance County Superior Court last week:
▪ Kara Fitzgerald Overman, 42, of Sandy Cross Road, Burlington, pleaded guilty to breaking into a convenience store to steal a case of beer.
Overman also pleaded guilty to obtaining property by false pretense and attempting to obtain property by false pretense.
She was charged Dec. 28, 2011, with breaking into Deep Creek Mini Mart, at 810 Deep Creek Church Road, Burlington, and stealing an 18-pack of beer. On Oct. 17, 2011, she was charged with attempting to return a RCA digital converter at a Walmart store when she�d already returned the item, warrants by Burlington police said.
On March 8, 2012, Overman was charged with telling a woman she needed money to feed her baby. Warrants said Overman had no baby and didn�t spend the $400 the woman gave her on a child.
Hardin issued two six- to 17-month and a five- to six-month suspended sentence, to run consecutively. She was placed on 24 months� probation and ordered to pay $1,839 in restitution, court costs and attorney fees. Overman was ordered to complete a substance abuse assessment and not be at Deep Creek Mini Mart or Walmart.
▪ Amy Nicole Harris, 37, of Jefferson Street, Burlington, pleaded guilty to assault inflicting serious bodily injury.
Harris was accused of cutting Shannekra Haith�s back with a box cutter outside 778 Sports Bar, at 778 Graham-Hopedale Road, on Sept. 30. The injury required 29 staples, the grand jury�s indictment said.
That same day, she was also charged with assault and battery for allegedly pulling another woman out of her car. That charge was dismissed in exchange for the plea agreement.
Hardin issued a suspended 19- to 32-month sentence and placed Harris on 36 months� probation. While on probation, she must pay $1,150 in restitution and isn�t permitted at 778 Sports Bar.
▪ Jose Luis, a.k.a. Jose Luis Camilo, 33, of North St. John Street, Burlington, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to sell/deliver cocaine, possession with intent to sell/deliver marijuana, manufacturing marijuana and possession of a schedule I controlled substance.
Burlington police charged Luis with the crimes Dec. 1. In exchange for the plea, the state dismissed charges of manufacturing cocaine, maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Luis had no prior criminal record. Hardin consolidated the charges and issued an active four- to 14-month sentence with credit for 139 days spent in jail.
▪ James E. Dunn, 25, of Garner Road, Snow Camp, pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent liberties with a child.
Dunn was charged with committing the offenses with a 10-year-old between Jan. 1 and Aug. 16, 2012.
Hardin issued a 16- to 29-month active sentence with credit for 64 days spent in jail. The judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation and sex offender treatment while imprisoned. He was ordered to be placed on the sex offender registry for 30 years.


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I just can't think of one but......here are some of my charlevoix goodies from the fiber fest:
Herbal Garden 100% Romney from Maple Row Stock Farm:
Godiva 75% Tunis/Border Leicester 20% Alpaca 5% Tussah Silk (same vendor)
Wonderful Spindle for Maple Row Stock Farm and Night Embers roving from Winding Wool Creek:
Both will be at the MI Fiber Festival in Allegan......
On the sewing front I have the tote bag and the apron done. I am going to get started on a skirt for my daughter soon but I think today I will do something for me!
No catchy title todayPosted by My8kidsmom
I just can't think of one but......here are some of my charlevoix goodies from the fiber fest:
A new spinning wheel!!!Posted by My8kidsmom
Yay! I am now the proud owner of an Ashford Joy! I bought it here. I love, love, love it!
I have my swap apron almost finished (just have to add the ties in the back), I hope my spoilee loves it :)
And finally, on the wheels: white shetland on the Joy which I intend to dye and wool/tussah still on the Elizabeth, almost ready to be plyed.
What's on the bobbin.....Posted by My8kidsmom
Tote Bag!Posted by My8kidsmom
Another swap package arrives.....Posted by My8kidsmom
First attempt at dyeing......Posted by My8kidsmom
Will the work ever end????Posted by My8kidsmom
I mean really I have two Ottobre magazines that need to be tended to! I just subscribed for the first time to their children's magazine and I love it!! I wish I would have subscribed when my children were younger though because there are more patterns for younger ones then the tweenies. ......but pattern grading can be done......it can be done........
On the spinning wheel I now have a brown shetland roving and up next is a white shetland roving which I plan to hand dye after it is spun. My first attempt!
Not too crafty today, or tomorrow, or the day after or......Posted by My8kidsmom
It is so busy at the Pizzeria right now (thank you God) but we also have a key employee quitting (God could you send us a new one, soon? We're (well, I am) starting to get a little nervous....) Anyway I have big sewing plans but they will have to wait. They include however:
- A knitting bag for my swap partner on ravelry and possibly a needle holder
- Fixing a waistband in my daughter skirt
- Making my daughter a skirt
- Making me a skirt
- Making myself a knitting bag (maybe Amy Butler hmmmm)
- Embroidering a sweatshirt for an employee
I hate it when real life gets in the way.


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Tea + Pookie
Working on Things that I'm supposed to be doing:
...and Things that I'm (technically) not:
And yes, there is the odd New Thing around here:...of which there isn't much to show just yet. That will be changing soon.
11 comments:
- French Press Knits said...
So mysterious- love it :)
- January 18, 2011 at 11:22 a.m.
- Liberty's Yarn said...
I would be forever in your debt if you could point me to where you got that tea cup in the top picture. Its so roundy and blobby. I lurve it! =)
- January 18, 2011 at 6:41 p.m.
- tamara said...
Can't wait to see what falls off the sticks currently holding the blue yarn!
- January 18, 2011 at 7:23 p.m.
- spillyjane said...
FPK -- Thanks so much!
Liberty's -- With pleasure! Right this way. They are the only mugs I use and I love them.
Tamara -- I hope that you'll like them. I fear they are getting a bit silly. You'll see.
- January 18, 2011 at 7:40 p.m.
- Adriana said...
Jane does silly in the best possible way.
- January 18, 2011 at 8:01 p.m.
- Lynneth said...
What's the blue stone in the last picture?
- January 18, 2011 at 9:09 p.m.
- spillyjane said...
Dee -- Thank you!
Lynneth -- That's my piece of sodalite which is one of my constant companions.
- January 18, 2011 at 9:11 p.m.
- ooey gooey knits said...
Hey there! I just found your Gnome Mitten on ravelry and immediately 1) began following your blog 2) ordered yarn 3) cast on! I am excited to see what is going to become of the greenish blue yarn project you have started.
- January 19, 2011 at 8:25 a.m.
- Ebonraven said...
oh yay! Someone else with a bird who likes tea! My silly bird burned his toes in my tea a few months back and is now mad at my tea mugs. I pointed out that I had warned him that the tea was hot and he would be much better off drinking it off the spoon as I cooled it, and he didn't that answer. :)
- January 19, 2011 at 3:49 p.m.
- Lynneth said...
Thanks. Do you have an email address that I could use to email you to ask more questions about the sodalite? :)
- January 19, 2011 at 7:37 p.m.
- spillyjane said...
ooey gooey -- Nice to meet you and glad you like the gnomes! More will be revealed soon...
Ebonraven -- I think Pookie likes nibbling on the mug more than he does drinking the tea. Sorry to hear about your critter's mishap. They do tend to hold a grudge.
Lynneth -- Sure thing! Feel free to email me at spillyjaneknits [at] gmail [dot] com. Always happy to chat about mineral specimens.
- January 19, 2011 at 8:20 p.m.


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The name of the ship is a spoof of Star Trek's Enterprise; indeed her mission is also inspired by the famous words spoken by Captain Kirk:
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THE manager of an Oxford nightclub has pledged to remove a reference to car bombs from a promotional poster for a St Patrick's Day student party.
In a flyer, left, promoting Friday's Kandy night at The Junction in Park End Street, for Oxford Brookes University students, the poster advertises drinks from £1, including 'Irish Car Bomb' shots.
A 32-year-old printer from Kidlington, who asked not to be named, said the promotion seen on Facebook was in bad taste.
Last month St Giles in Oxford was closed when a suspicious package was sent to the Army recruitment office. Downing Street said afterwards the device had the hallmarks of Northern Ireland-related terrorism.
The printer added: "I think it's in very poor taste for a bar to be naming a drink Irish Car Bomb on St Patrick's Day."
Club general manager Pete Mortimore said 'Irish Car Bomb' was a well-known cocktail shot – a mix of Guinness, whiskey and Baileys – which has been in existence for many years.
But he added: "We take all complaints of this nature seriously and do not wish to cause offence.
"I have contacted the relevant personnel and requested that the offending text be removed as a matter of urgency."


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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:10 pm
Post subject: Alcoholic beverage as moisturizers
I tend to use cheap beer or any equally tasteles soft alcoholic beverage (sake in my opinion is a better option) when I want to get advantage of the faster dissipation of them. Water tends to take longer to boil and, in the case of my city where tap water is hard, also tends to change the flavour of anything cooked into it.
If flavouring is also a point, White Wine or any cheap Cava or Champagne do wonders on unbrined chicken (I cannot use much salt for health reasons), without killing any taste it can have by itself. If you don't care about the original taste, then red wine, or even better, a 50/50 mix of Jerez Dulce and Jerez Seco (I think they call it Sherry Wine in english), or any strong, dark beer will do. In a meat with such a subtle flavor such as chicken meat, this process will practically erase any traces of its flavor and aroma, and it will replace it with the ones of our alcohol of choice, plus of the any spice we add to the mix.
There are also spice that nullify the flavor of the chicken, but that's an entirely different subject
(sorry for my extrange grammar; it's not quite the same write tech reports than write about cooking...)
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:12 pm
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Call me crazy, but I think Guiness-flavored chicken sounds perfectly nasty. Its also amusing to hear people confuse their subjective personal preferences (e.g. Guiness is "better" than Bud) for objective qualities.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:36 pm
Post subject: my results
I have done this many times here at my house with mexcian beer, and this is what i have found:
tecate = so so taste
pacifico = great taste
modelo = acceptable
i also put clove, red pepper and parsil on the cerveza and put only butter and black pepper on the chicken and cover it with a metal cube-like stuff and seti it on the charcoal, and put some of it above so the heat covers all, after like 1.5 its done and tastes terrific.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:02 pm
Post subject: The best liquids to use for Continous Infusion Cooking
I wrote the book Zen and the Art of Cooking Beer-Can Chicken: The Definitive Guide (www.redowlpublications.com).
In the course of writing the book, I had the pleasure of trying a host of beers, wines, soda pops, juices...etc as the liquid source in the beer-can or in the liquid resevoir of the infusion cooker (ie: Poultry Pal).
I found that the more hoppy and robust the beer the larger the impact on the flavor of the bird. My best results were achieved using such beers as Rogue's Smokehouse Ale, or Great Divide's Doubled Hopped IPA. Both excellent. At the end of the day, the most significant benefit of the continuous infusion process (beer-can technique) is the continuous flux of moisture which moistens the bird as it cooks and allows the bird to cook a bit faster. If you desire to impart flavor through your liquid medium, you need to use beers such as what I discussed, and/or liquids with a strong aromatic aspect. Either way the continuous infusion process makes for a superlative chicken or turkey.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:06 am
Post subject: You proved your expectations.
Just a thought, but unless you do a double blind test your expectations will influence your experiment.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:03 pm
Post subject: Day 116
I just made
beer can chicken
last night on
A Food Year
and somebody linked me to this. I found that the chicken tasted different than it would as if it were just cooked regularly, but it was hard to tell how much of that was from the beer, the rub or because it was my first time making it on the grill :o
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:50 pm
Post subject: Beer butt chicken
Haven't tried it, but one recipe I read instructs you to pour off half the beer (or juice or soda--they mention root beer as an interesting alternative) and poke holes in the sides of the can. The liquid is mixed with various spices and put in a spray bottle to baste the chicken periodically as it cooks. Their preferred cooking method was a kettle grill, I believe.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:52 am
Post subject: Re: You proved your expectations.
If he expected one to taste better than the other, then seeing which was which might taint the results, but if he's expecting them to taste the same, how is blind testing going to make any difference?
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:49 pm
Post subject: beer can cooking
Hi Michael,
I am the inventor of the Poultry Pal cooker used in your test and have worked with Carey Black on beer can recipes. In my experience
the last few years on this subject, use the most flavorful beer or steaming liquid you prefer, that is the great thing of cooking this way --you can still eat your less than perfect results!
Experiment with rubs, spices and liquids till you get what you enjoy!
I will soon be adding an instuctional video on the Poultry Pal web site along with beef / pork roasts and pot pie instructions.
May I also incourage people to try brined turkey on the grill, this beats deep fried hands down!
Thanks and keep cooking in good health,
Tom Simon
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:52 pm
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If the beer flavor don't penetrate the chest cavity, why would one bother to use seasonning. Might as well use only water.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 2:02 pm
Post subject: www.czech-info.net
check this site, good info about czech beer and another info for travelers to Czech. Prague pubs, prices, linving in czech etc.
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:55 am
Post subject: Old Beer vs New Beer
Not to doubt a 'professional' brewer, but if young beer is SO much better than new beer, why are some Belgium beers aged 2 years in the bottle, before drinking? Some Lambics are aged ten.
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:07 am
Post subject: Aging is sometimes good...
The reason that some Belgian beers taste better with aging is that the yeasts often produce some unwanted chemicals that dissipate with age. For example, I recently brewed a Belgian style Trappist ale, and the popular yeast strain that we used produced a rather strong phenolic taste. (That means it tastes like a Band-Aid.) This is a known effect with the yeast, but this taste weakens with time. It wasn't too good to start with, but is getting better. We'll let it age some more if we can stand to wait that long.
You're usually waiting for some bad taste to dissipate, rather than a flavor to get better.
There's a lot of misunderstanding of beer terms above, though. A pilsener
a lager. "Lager" refers to a beer fermented at low temperatures, usually with a bottom-fermenting yeast. An ale is also a beer, but fermented at higher temperatures, usually with a top-fermenting yeast.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:35 am
Post subject: belgian beer
Belgian beers that can be aged for a long time can be because they are still alive. They contain various microbes and wild yeasts that protect them from the deleterious effects of oxygen in the package. The microorganisms respire any minor amounts of oxygen introduced at packing time. High alcohol content also has a strong preseving effect. Regular single yeast strain, filtered, modern beers do not want the flavours that these microorganisms produce so are out of luck with in-package oxygen defense. Naturally conditioned beers also have this advantage, but the priming yeast is not as long lived as the belgian beer's yeast and bacteria cocktail, and without the other microbes involved to consume the yeast as it dies, a nice beefy marmite flavour eventually develops. Once again high alcohol content can slow this process down remarkably.
I stand corrected. If only trappist beer came in cans
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:13 pm
Post subject: Beer can chicken
As a ChE, just curious about any toxicity from the printing on the beer can.
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