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Plans called off for 100-couple wedding in Yuma
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- Plans for the extra big day just couldn't get off the ground.
Organizers who had hoped to have 100 couples marry at a ceremony in Yuma next month have called off the event because they weren't able to get enough couples to commit to the party to make it financially feasible.
Organizer Perla Wicks tells the Yuma Sun that she had hoped for 100 couples to pay $300 per pair to get married on Dec. 12 -- or 12/12/12 -- in the Historic Yuma Theatre -- at noon, of course -- on this numerically auspicious day.
Organizers needed commitments from 51 couples to break even. Wicks says she will refund the money that an undisclosed number of people put down money for the event.

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The score of the New England-Houston match may say that the Dynamo fell 1-0, but the Houston players will gladly argue the point.
"I don't think they are a particularly good team, and I don't think they played particularly well," said Dynamo forward Brian Ching. "I thought we should have at least got a point out of that, but they get a little bit lucky on that with a guy shooting and it going right to another guy and a good finish."
HIGHLIGHTS: New England 1, Houston 0
The Revolution's lone goal was scored in the 62nd by newcomer Ilija Stolica, who struck his first MLS goal on a volley from just outside the Houston area.
While the Dynamo certainly outplayed the Revolution for stretches, they struggled to finish their chances. They had 11 corners and failed to convert a single one despite Brian Ching and Joseph Ngwenya both having good looks. After two consecutive games without even a shot on goal, the offensive production was a step in the right direction. However, two shots on goal and the quantity of chances created by Houston on the night is still nothing to write home about.
"We didn't create a whole lot on goal either," Ching said. "I don't think we lacked effort. I just think we lacked quality and cohesion in the final third."
"We're just not scoring right now," coach Dominic Kinnear said. "The defensive performance was good. A little bit of luck, there wasn't a lot of action in the goalmouth that we had to deal with seriously, but the one thing that fell their way, they put it away."
Defensively, Houston returned to a formula that worked successfully last year with Richard Mulrooney at right back and Geoff Cameron in the center of the Dynamo defense. Their distribution out of the back contributed to Houston's improved offensive performance. With midfielder Anthony Obodai putting in his best performance in a Dynamo uniform, the Dynamo defense didn't have much to deal with on the night other than the deflection and ultimate game-winner.
"It's just the luck: the lucky bounces aren't going our way right now, and that is tough to overcome," Cameron said. "Hopefully we get one goal and then they start coming in bunches. We'll have to wait and see what happens."


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Responses in line. Axel Polleres wrote: > jos, thnx again, > > responses as far as possible. Whatever I couldn't tackle now, I resolved > by re-adding ed notes. > > Jos de Bruijn wrote: >>> 3) >>> "Editor's Note: The naming convention for guard predicates, particularly >>> whether third parties defining their own datatypes should be >>> encouraged/discouraged to reuse the standard <tt>pred:</tt> and >>> <tt>func:</tt> namespaces to define their own built-in predicates and >>> functions, are still under discussion in the working group." >>> >>> Fixed (and likewise for negative guards), added: >>> >>> "Parties defining their own datatypes to be used in RIF exchanged rules >>> may define their own guard predicates for these datatypes. Labels used >>> for such additional guard predicates for datatypes not mentioned in the >>> present document MAY follow the similar naming convention where >>> applicable without creating ambiguities with predicate names defined in >>> the present document. Particularly, upcoming W3C specifications MAY, but >>> 3rd party dialects MUST NOT reuse, the <tt>pred:</tt> and <tt>func:</tt> >>> namespaces for such guard predicates." >> >> Was this a working group decision? > > We discussed it in the last telecon. Perhaps I was not paying enough attention. Sorry for that. In any case, I don't see a working group resolution, so I think it should be discussed again. I am willing to make the case for allowing guard predicates of the form pred:isDT for at least the XML schema datatypes. Actually, I am a little bit confused by the text. I actually don't really understand what a dialect is. I believe there is no definition. If I use BLD with non-strict conformance, and decide I want to use the xsd:int datatype, am I using BLD or am I using a dialect? Is this dialect a W3C dialect or a third-party dialect? And suppose now that I want to use a guard predicate. Does the above text or does the above text not allow me to use the name pred:isInt? > >> I think this is a very bad idea. I think people should be encouraged to >> use the same naming convention for guard predicates as is done in DTB. >> For example, if someone wants to use the xs:int data type, you should be >> allowed to use pred:isInt as name of the guard predicate. > >>> 4) >>> Section >>> "== Cast Functions and Conversion Predicates for Datatypes and >>> <tt>rif:iri</tt> ==" >>> >>> renamed to: >>> >>> "== Datatype Conversion and Datatype Checking ==" >>> >>> in order to resolve: >>> "Editor's Note: It was noted in discussions of the working group, that >>> except guard predicates, also an analogous built-in function or >>> predicate to SPARQL's datatype function is needed. This however has some >>> technical implications, see >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Jul/0096.html." >>> >>> I added a new pred:hasDatatype predicate here, please check, especially >>> Dave (since I didn't find your mail on that, I am not sure whether this >>> was how you intedned it, but this is how it makes sense to me)! >> >> Only data values can have data types, so the domain of the first >> argument should be the union of the value spaces of all data types under >> consideration. >> >> Then, I find it odd to use an abstract object as data type IRI. I would >> suggest to use xsd:anyURI or xsd:string. >> There are no actual objects in the interpretation that represent the >> data type, so you cannot return the data type itself. I think returning >> the datatype IRI is the next best thing. > > I had that, but I went back from it, since I wanted to maintain a > minimal degree of compatibility with SPARQL's datatype function (which > does return an IRI, and not an xs:anyURI typed literal). We had to do > all kinds of work-arounds to get to some version where we can > "more-or-less" emulate SPARQL's filter functions in RIF. I am reluctant > to deviate even further. If the minimal requirement to emulate SPARQL's > filter functions in RIF is not met, I personally would consider RIF > failed. Actually, I would opt for adding it to our official requirements > and work on it more. Wait a minute! IRIs in SPARQL do not denote abstract objects, like they do in RIF. They are just syntactical objects. So, returning IRIs is *much closer* to what SPARQL does than returning abstract objects. > >> To see why this is practical consequences consider the constant >> >> "1"^^xs:int >> >> You would like to retrieve the URIs xs:int, xs:integer, xs:decimal, etc. >> however, if it is known that a=xs:decimal, for some URI a, you will also >> retrieve a in your semantics. > > yes, I am aware of this, but I don't see the fundamental problem with > it... the fundamental one is a different problem: > > I have *no* means to adequately emulate SPARQL's datatype function in > RIF. For instance the simple query > > CONSTRUCT { ?X ex:sameDTas ?Y } > WHERE { ?S1 ?P2 ?X . ?S2 ?P2 ?Y > FILTER (datatype(?X) = datatype(?Y) ) > } > > cannot adequately be emulated with that current predicate, and I see > currently NO way to get there. Opinions welcome. This is not a problem. SPARQL and RIF BLD are simply different languages. The former is just an algorithm that does some symbol manipulation. The latter is a proper logical language. > >> I think that's not good, and can be >> avoided by returning URIs instead of abstract objects. > > ... or at least, I don't see how your proposal alleviates the problem. > >> Then, the example given below the specification is odd. >> you talk about RIF implementations treating xs:string as a subtype of >> rdf:text. However, such an implementation would not be conformant, >> because it does not correctly implement the data types, since xs:string >> as not a subtype of rdf:text. > > Cf. Section 3.1 of the rdf:text document. > The possiblity of treating xs:string as a subtype of rdf:text was one of > the major achievments of the rddf:text task force, since it has the > potential to clean up the mess left by the undesirable scism between > plain literals and language tagged literals, providing an umbrella for > them. Read the DTB document. Read the definitions of the value spaces of rdf:text and xs:string. These value spaces are *disjoint*. Period. > > >> I would suggest using an example with numbers. > > I added one and I added an ed note here for the moment to point to the > problems discussed in the present mail. > > > >>> 5) >>> Editor's Note: Conversion from <tt>rif:iri</tt> to <tt>xs:string</tt> >>> and vice versa is still under discussion in the working group since >>> <tt>rif:iri</tt> is not a datatype. For details, we refer to >>> [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2008Jun/0032.html >>> Issue-61]. The following is a strawman proposal which might still change >>> in future versions of this working draft.}} >>> >>> done: Renamed pred:iri-to-string to pred:iri-string >>> >>> 6) >>> "Editor's Note: In the following, we adapt several cast functions from >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]]. Due to the >>> subtle differences in e.g. error handling between RIF and >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]], these >>> definitions might still need refinement in future versions of this >>> draft." >>> >>> done: removed the general remark on casts in the beginning of that >>> section and added the agreed predicates. >> >> This issue is not resolved. >> There is still a number of problems with the definitions of the casts: >> - it is unclear what the word "castable" means. In fact, it is not used >> in the referenced specification. You should refer directly to the table >> in the specification and use the terminology used there (S/T, etc.) >> - what is an "intended domain"? Don't you mean "domain"? >> - the domain of a cast function X is the *union* of the value spaces of >> the datatypes for which casting to X is supported according to the table >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/#casting-to-primitives-table >> >> [Please link directly to the table]. a value space includes all its >> subsets, so it's meaningless to talk about them. >> - the concept of some value being the "conversion of" another value is >> not defined in the mentioned section. In addition, there is no reason to >> be so imprecise in the mappings. Each cast function should refer to the >> precise location of the definition in the F&O spec. >> E.g., >> Iexternal( ?arg1; xs:double ( ?arg1 ) )(s1) = TV such that ST is >> the highest XML schema datatype in the hierarchy [link] that has s1 >> in its value space and TV is as defined in >> Section >> 22.214.171.124 >> Casting to xs:double of F&O >> - it is unclear what is meant with "the argument value is outside ... >> partial conversions". the value is either in the domain of the cast >> function, or it is not. The domain needs to be defined appropriately. > > I have no time to address this in more detail now, I thought that what > is there now was clear enough. For the moment, I re-added the ed note, > let's discuss it in the group. This is just a matter of fixing the definitions. I don't think this needs any discussion; this would only delay publication. Best, Jos > >>> 7) >>> "Editor's Note: We might split this subsection into separate subsections >>> per casting function in future versions of this document, following the >>> convention of having one separate subsection per funtcion/predicate in >>> the rest of the document. However, it seemed convenient here to group >>> the cast functions which purely rely on XML Schema datatype casting into >>> one common subsection." >>> >>> done: I split it. >>> >>> >>> 8) >>> " Note that the subtypes of <tt>xs:integer</tt> do appear in the >>> conversion table in >>> [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/#casting-from-primitive-to-primitive >>> >>> Section 17.1] of >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]].. >>> Conversions from and to subtypes of <tt>xs:integer</tt> follow the same >>> considerations as <tt>xs:integer</tt> in that table, by the XPath, >>> XQuery type hierarchy in >>> [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/#datatypes >>> Section 1.6] of >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]]." >>> >>> I removed that, we aren't talking anymore about the subtypes of >>> xs:integer in the document. >>> >>> 9) >>> "Editor's Note: The cast from <tt>rif:text</tt> to <tt>xs:string</tt> is >>> still under discussion, i.e. whether the lang tag should be included >>> when casting to <tt>xs:string</tt> or not." >>> >>> Casting to xs:string: >>> >>> I changed the indented domain from: >>> >>> "The union of the value space of <tt>rdf:text</tt> with the value spaces >>> of datatypes castable to <tt>xs:string</tt> according to >>> [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/#casting-from-primitive-to-primitive >>> >>> Section 17.1] of >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]]." >>> >>> to just: >>> >>> "The value spaces of datatypes castable to <tt>xs:string</tt> according >>> to >>> [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/#casting-from-primitive-to-primitive >>> >>> Section 17.1] of >>> <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#ref-xpath-functions|XPath-Functions]]]." >>> >>> For conversion/extraction from rdf:text, the extraction functions shall >>> be used.... note: string-casts from rdf:text are thus no longer possible >>> however! >> >> Excellent! >> >> >> Best, Jos >> >>> 10) I removed the rdf:text cast function. >>> >>> >>> Will work on the remaining 6 Editor's notes shortly. >>> >>> Axel >>> >> > > -- Jos de Bruijn email@example.com +390471016224 http://www.debruijn.net/ ---------------------------------------------- No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. - Donald FosterReceived on Thursday, 13 November 2008 13:48:47 UTC
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(CNN) - Just over a week after announcing her intention to resign as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin's political action committee reports raising close to $730,000 in the first six months of the year.
According to a report filed with the Federal Elections Commission Monday, SarahPAC raked in $732,867 from the beginning of the year through June 30. The former GOP vice presidential candidate's PAC further reported more than $450,000 cash on hand with no debts owed.
The FEC report shows the majority of contributions, $420,000, has come from donations of under $200. By law, the PAC does not have to identify those contributors. More than 700 individuals meanwhile gave over $200 to the committee.
But Palin, who has pledged to spend her days out of the governor's office supporting conservative candidates, has yet to dig deep into the coffers for many candidates.
According to the report, the PAC has only made two political contributions this year: $5,000 to John McCain's Senate reelection bid and $5,000 to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's effort.
Palin's largest expenditure, just over $100,000, was to Virginia fundraising firm Edonation.com.
Palin is the best thing to have ever happened for the Democratic party. If I didn't know better I would say that she is a Democrat plant. If she gets the 2012 nomination then its 4 more years of Obama guarenteed.
Go Girl – More power to her (guess the Democrats have never, ever, raised money). Take a good look at Bill Clinton.
So she's going for the money. But in the immortal words of the comedian Ron White "you can't fix stupid" no matter how much money you have!
All the money in the world can not buy you intelligence and we know she doesn't have any. So with all that money she still is going to stay stupid.
When it comes to accusation of bigotry, NO ONE can top Democrats for doing that; last year's election was a concrete example how the Democrats use racism and bigotry in their campaign. Democrats are just plain meanie and hateful people. They hate anyone who doesn't believe in their drivel. What made it worse they use words of Tina Fey, a comedian from SNL. How does it feel looking stupid now?
All you have to do to understand Ms. Palin's appeal is to read the earlier (7th) comment from "JoJo". JoJo is her kind of folks. They should be very happy together on the (lunatic) fringes of American politics.
Fools and their money are soon parted....................
For the Love of Gawd, Pleasssssssssse, NO MORE STORIES ABOUT SARAH PALIN.
BINGO! – there's her higher calling! Hey, ex-guv, how about donating some of that loot to charity to show you really have a "higher calling"...i'm glad she's running for president EARLY, the more people know about her the less there is to like...
That will be a good down payment to try and get Levi Johnson to shut up....
You have got to be kidding me. If anyone thinks that Sarah Palin can beat President Obama, thanks for the next four years. Yes she can rally – but only to her base. She has yet to get any new people, and I highly doubt independents will vote for her. If she is going to do something, she better go home and read and study. She can't even talk unless her speech is written for her. I'm not a Palin-hater, but I know nonsense when I hear it, and if you think the United States is bad now, you just wait if by chance she happens to get that job. For all you conservatives, be fair and honest when nominating your next candidate. As the old saying goes, "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it."
Gee whiz ! She sure is capturin' headlines and is cornerin' a lot of cash in a captivating manner. For whatever reason one can fathom, she clearly can coax and cajole a certain class of people to sing with her in the same tone, and tune.
The Dems have had Ralph Nadar splitting the vote for all these years. Now the Republicans will have Sarah Palin. It'll be fun to watch.
Given the current economy who can blame her?
Do people on here wake up everyday just full of hate and vitriol? Its bad for your health and you don't want to do anything bad for your health especially if we get rationed health care.
sadly it's all about the money and not helping our fellow americans.
"GOP – Party of Tolerance" – Remember the saying, "Fool me once....."
Well the American people were fooled once, remember GWB, and are not about to go that route again with Sarah.
Attractive you say? Put a hood on Ms. Palin and she would have never been elected to anything because of her knowledge. We prefer intelligence over tolerance, thank you!
There's ya go, Ms. Palin. You're smarter than everyone thought you were. Dump the people of Alaska by bailing out early, many said. But, by gosh, you showed 'em. All that money you're raking in for your PAC shows just how smart you are and how dumb the rest of us are, right? Guess you showed you really CAN put lipstick on a pig.
Boy, were we a bunch of goombahs, or WHAT!?!?!?
I can't wait to see which conservative Dems she campaigns for!
Apparently she understands that in the next two election cycles it is not about retaining GOP seats – it is about retaining blue dog Dem seats.
The Progressives are coming for the old establishment Dems and we will not lose...
newsflash @ beth
"intelligent" and "jindal" don't belong in the same sentence...to quote:
"...something called 'volcano monitoring'?"
weeks later a volcano erupted in Alaska causing millions in damage and polluting the air and ground for a several mile radius, forcing people to seal their windows and stay inside as much as possible...the ash even clogs and ruins car engines, preventing people from driving
The sound you hear is the Leftist's heads exploding. I donated $75 to Sarah's PAC, I only wish I could have given more!!
JoJo...sorry to disappoint you but Sarah Palin will never beat Prez Obama. She does not have the intellect
SaraPAC or even Sarah Palin will not get one red cent of my money. A few month ago I was wondering what this SaraPAC was about. I went into it and was shocked to see that SaraPAC donations was going to Sarah Palin and her family legal fees. Major scam in my eyes.
She's a businesswoman, not a politician. It's time to cash in and enjoy life. Can you blame her?
So, I wonder how much was before she QUIT? Can they get their money back.
What is the news of it took 6 months to raise this?
Levi is correct, it is the cha ching$$$$$$$$$


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I'm so happy that summer is ready to get the heck out of here. Those of you that know me, know that summer is not my favorite season. In fact, it's my least favorite of the four. If it could just be kind enough to arrive without the heat and humidity, I'd really enjoy it a whole helluva lot more. Humidity is not my friend. Bad. Bad. Bad. It makes my hair frizz. Frizzy hair is not a good look for me. Fall, now that is my season. My hair does not frizz in the fall. This makes me happy. I enjoy cooking and baking so much more in the fall. My kitchen is a little cozier when the oven is heating it up instead of the sweltering heat from outside. I can barely wait for all the soups, stews and casseroles that are just around the corner. I saw this recipe is an issue of Taste of Home and I literally couldn't wait to make it. Luckily the weather wasn't as hot as it has been over the past few weeks. Now as you can see from the title…this is nothing to look at. It's not a pretty looking casserole, but what casserole is really? I changed it up quite a bit. This is the kind of dish that you can really make your own. It is what my husband would call a "stick to your ribs" kind of meal. It's comfort food on a fork. I've made it two times in 3 weeks. Think shepherd's pieish, with a wicked twist. A delicious mix of hamburger, cheese and corn sandwiched in between a layer of crunchy tots. It's the kind of dish Napoleon Dynamite would give 2 thumbs up too. My casserole dish missed me. "sniff" Cowboy Casserole adapted from a recipe at Taste of Home 1 1/2 pounds ground beef (I used 80/20) 1 medium onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 can (15.25oz) whole kernel corn, drained 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, divided :1/2 cup milk 4 tablespoons sour cream 1 bag (30 oz) frozen tater tots (I used Ore-Ida Crispy Crowns) Before I got ready to make this casserole, I let the Crispy Crowns sit on the counter to defrost for an hour or so. The original recipe used still frozen tater tots, but I felt they wouldn't cook as well if they were still frozen solid. In a large skillet cook the onion until tender and translucent. Add the chopped garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add the beef and cook over medium heat until no longer pink. Drain the mixture and place into a large bowl and set aside. In a small bowl combine the soup, milk and sour cream. Whisk until smooth. Add to hamburger mixture and stir to combine. Add corn and 1 cup of cheddar cheese. Gently mix to combine. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Layer half of the Crispy Crowns on the bottom, pour the hamburger mixture over the top and then layer with the other half of the Crispy Crowns. Sprinkle with remaining 1, cup cheese and bake at 350 for 25 - 30 minutes, or until golden brown and crunchy. *Note - The second time I made this I prepared it the night before and stuck it in the fridge overnight. I took it out about an hour before I wanted to bake it, just so it could come to room temperature a bit. I think it was even better than the first one!


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A 'Watershed' For The Internet, An Invitation To Use A N. Korean ISP And Other Fallout From The UK's Porn Filtering Plan
from the who-knew-people-having-sex-could-be-this-much-trouble? dept
It's been a rather eventful weekend as David Cameron's porn vendetta (porndetta?) is now completely underway. Just in the past week, we found Cameron blaming search engines for child porn, claiming topless women in British newspapers were NOT porn and that the UK government had outsourced its filtering system to a company headquartered in China.
In other, non-Cameron news, a self-appointed Guardian of Purity, Claire Perry, had her website hacked, goatse'd and referred to in a blog post. Perry's response? To blame the hacking on the blogger reporting the news and threatening to call his editor and discuss... well, something, I guess. Long story short: Perry is now facing a possible defamation suit for calling the blogger a hacker.
Over the weekend, the inadvertent gift kept on giving.
First off via Slashdot, the Polish Minister of Justice got swept up in the anti-porn spirit and declared Cameron's filtering system to be just the sort of thing Poland needs. This set off a debate which, unlike many, was resolved by the end of the day, when the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (along with the Minister of Administration and Digitization, Michal Boni) took the idea 'round back and had it shot.
We shall not block access to legal content regardless of whether or not it appeases us aesthetically or ethically.That's PM Tusk leaving zero room for argument with a firm statement. Boni, showing he's one of the rare politicians who understands how the Web works, added:
I would like to find solutions that are effective and at the same time do not cause concerns regarding surveillance of Internet users or over potential of erroneous limiting our Internet activity. (...) Filtering does not remove the content.It's a sad statement on the world's political leaders when a little technical know-how is enough to set you apart from your peers. Claire Perry's grasp on "hacking" seemed to rely on the "fact" that screenshots and hyperlinks are interchangeable, as well her assumption that reporting on a site hacking is the same as hacking the site.
On the plus side, Perry's lack of knowledge still puts her ahead on another anti-porn crusader, Rhoda Grant of the Scottish Parliament who, back in June, posed this question:
"If there's a watershed on the TV then why isn't there one for the internet?"O....K.....
Absolutely, Rhoda. We'll get right on it. We'll send a letter down to The Internet (a.k.a. "Google") informing it of the 10 PM cutoff. Once the kids are in bed,
Speaking of obtuseness, Deborah Orr at the Guardian has a lengthy editorial wondering what's so bad about filtering porn and why are so many people outraged.
[I]t's irksome to me that I've had to write this piece, which is essentially an appeal for calm in a climate that says, with a baffling disregard for the view of the vast majority, that the right to porn must be universal and that access to it must be protected from all possible inhibitionsThere's a lot more to it than that, although if you're paying attention, you already know she's arrived at the wrong conclusion. Orr spends time attacking every argument against Cameron's filtering, including the censorship argument.
The most shrill complaint against Cameron's wheeze is that it's "censorship". This seems to me like saying that not placing a copy of Anna Karenina in every home, pre-web, was censorship against Russian novels. No one is telling people that they aren't allowed to access porn on the web. They're saying that in order to do so, you have to tick the box pretending that you've read the terms and conditions. And why not? Even in the highly sexualised public spaces of contemporary Britain, there's still broad agreement that footage of people humping shouldn't be up on a screen at Piccadilly Circus. There's absolutely no reason why the internet should be any different.But it is censorship, Deborah, even if it's a low-flying, somewhat malign, "opt-in" version of censorship, one that proves Cameron's not above using the bodies of murdered children as a platform. With Cameron's plan in place, a person's internet is now filtered by the government (routed through a Chinese third party). No one's expecting porn to come bursting out of their computer unbidden, but people would still like to believe they can use the web un-fucked with by the government.
Illegal images, such as child porn, are already blocked. So is other illegal material. At this point, the government is treating adults like children in order to protect children from adult images. This makes no sense.
The worst part about Orr's editorial is that she seems completely unaware this really isn't about porn. That's the just a way to get a governmental foot in the door. "Kids shouldn't be exposed to porn, right?" it asks and then hands out a list of pre-checked boxes that cover a whole lot of non-porn territory.
If you can't read the photo, here are some of the other types of content that are filtered:
- Dating sites
- Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
- File sharing sites
- Gambling
- Suicide and self-harm
- Weapons and violence
This is the slippery slope. Block a crowd-pleaser like pornography and you can set up shop in the public's internet service, ready to toss filters on anything else deemed "offensive." People aren't fighting for porn. They're fighting against government intrusion. If they're not doing anything illegal, the government should be willing to let individual responsibility be the watchword, rather than lurking in the background reading over the public's shoulder.
If that's how you want your internet, Deborah, by all means, support this plan. Most people don't. Most ISPs don't. UK ISP Andrews & Arnold has no interest in offering a filtered internet and it's released a statement making its feelings clear on Cameron's plan.
Active choice is NOT a choiceThe ISP also offers a very thorough Q&A/fact sheet at the same site detailing the flaws with this plan and offers advice for those who want to offer a safer Internet for their kids, leaving the decision in the hands of the consumers. As it should be.
The government wants us to offer filtering as an option, so we offer an active choice when you sign up, you choose one of two options:-
Unfiltered Internet access - no filtering of any content within the A&A network - you are responsible for any filtering in your own network, or
Censored Internet access - restricted access to unpublished government mandated filter list (plus Daily Mail web site) - but still cannot guarantee kids don't access porn.
If you choose censored you are advised: Sorry, for a censored internet you will have to pick a different ISP or move to North Korea. Our services are all unfiltered.
Is that a good enough active choice for you Mr Cameron?
Finally, via Boing Boing, Jeremy Hardy of BBC's The News Quiz, asks the question everyone's afraid to ask:
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Housing market failing older people
12 April 2012
Britain's housing market is failing to meet the needs of older people - despite a rapidly ageing population and a growing demand for retirement housing, Shelter's new report reveals.
'A better fit' explores the housing options available to over 55s, a group which will make up one in three people in England by 2030.
A YouGov survey commissioned for the report shows more than a third (36%) of older people are interested in retirement housing, either now or in the future - equivalent to over 6 million people.
If current levels of demand remain constant, supply will have to increase by over 70% in the next 20 years.
However, housing that meets older people's changing needs is not being built, with many developers finding it complex and costly to deliver. The lack of specialist housing for older people with care needs is particularly acute.
In response to the findings, Shelter is warning that developers and local planners are missing a huge opportunity that would not only help older people, but could also ease the country's housing crisis.
If just a fifth of older households who are currently 'under-occupying' their homes downsized, it could free up as many as 840,000 family-sized homes - more than have been built over the last eleven years.
Shelter is calling on local authorities to take a more strategic approach to older people's housing, and to reflect older people in their housing market needs assessments.
We are also urging the Government to use the new National Planning Policy Framework to support the development of housing for older people, and do more to encourage older people to plan ahead for their future care and support needs.
Shelter's Chief Executive Campbell Robb said: 'We know that most older people want to remain in their homes and should be supported to do so. But this report shows that there are a growing number who would be interested in downsizing - be it to release equity or to bring down bills - yet are finding that there are very limited options available.
'High quality housing in the right places, with support or care facilities available where needed, can help older people live healthy, active lives. Developers, planners and central Government must urgently look at ways to deliver housing that meet the needs of this growing group.
This is not only a fantastic market opportunity, but a move which would help older people as well as families in housing need.'
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Big Bang (Hardcover)
The Origin of the Universe
Harper, 9780007162208, 544pp.
Publication Date: January 4, 2005
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Paperback (11/1/2005)
We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is.
Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution of the universe.
This highly readable and entertaining book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the establishment idea of an eternal and unchanging cosmos. From such early Greek cosmologists as Anaximander to recent satellite measurements taken deep in space, Big Bang is a narrative full of anecdotes and personal histories. With characteristic clarity, Simon Singh tells the centuries-long story of mankind's attempt to understand how the universe came to be, a story which itself begins some 14 billion years ago (give or take a billion years). Simon Singh shows us that it is within the capability of all of us -- in his expert hands -- to understand the Big Bang: the fundamental theory in all of science, and a high point -- perhaps the high point -- of human achievement.
About the Author
Simon Singh received his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC producer, he directed the BAFTA Award-winning documentary film Fermat's Last Theorem and wrote Fermat's Enigma, the best-selling book on the same subject. His best seller The Code Book was the basis for the BBC series The Science of Secrecy.
Praise For Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe…
— New York Times
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— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A clear, lively, and comprehensive view of the way science arrived at the leading theory of how everything began."-
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This book is a blast...who knew that the Big Bang could be so much fun?"
— James Gleick, bestselling author of CHAOS and FASTER
"Singh is one of the best science journalists writing today...Impressive."
— London Times (Sunday)
"An expert but friendly guide to help you decode the mysteries [of the universe] with crisp, clear running commentary."
— Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
"Singh's unerring eye for picturesque anecdotes and his capacity for simplifying complex scientific ideas is a winning formula."
— Saturday Daily Telegraph (London)
"(Singh) is a gifted expositor, ready to venture to places other science popularisers don't even try to reach."
— The Mail (on Sunday)
"Highly readable… Singh brings the colourful protagonists in his story to life."
— New Scientist
"Singh spins tales of cryptic intrigue in every chapter."
— Wall Street Journal on The Code Book
"Entertaining and satisfying. . . . Offers a fascinating glimpse into the mostly secret competition between codemakers and codebreakers."
— USA Today on The Code Book
"Enthralling...commendably lucid...[Singh's] book provides a timely and entertaining summary of the subject."
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— Chicago Tribune on The Code Book
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Conference Board delays Consumer Confidence Index
The Conference Board is delaying the release of its Consumer Confidence Index for October until Thursday because of Superstorm Sandy.
The survey was scheduled to be released Tuesday morning, but the Conference Board says it decided on the delay to help assure the safety of its staff and people who follow the index. The storm has left transportation difficult or impossible in many places and millions of people without power.
Dozens of companies have also postponed their quarterly earnings reports.
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Apple Fritters
I'd like to think that since it's nearing Mother's Day my family has something extravagant planned.
A day full of pampering, delicious food and champagne. Lots of champagne.
But alas, my husband has never been much of a planner and my kids are far to young to even know the difference between Monday and Friday, let alone an epic holiday like Mother's Day.
So I have decided to take the day into my own hands and plan what I would like to do.
I'll start the day by having brunch, going to work (who do I talk to to make this a National Holiday *AHEM*), have an amazing dinner then pampering myself on Monday with a massage and pedicure.
Just tell me where I have to sign the card!
I have a feeling though, if any of you are in the same boat, you could leave this recipe out and have these on Mother's Day.
Besides the hot oil part, kids could definitely get in the kitchen and help the Dad's with this one. Plus, Apple Fritters are amazing. Anytime I go to a gas station market it's the first thing I beeline towards. Who knew how easy they were to make at home!?
Apple Fritter Dough:
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1 heaping cup of all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
dash salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon fresh nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
1 egg
1/3 cup milk plus more if needed
1- 1 1/2 cups chopped apple
oil for frying
milk and powdered sugar for glaze or dipping
Mix all of the dry ingredients together and slowly add in the wet except for the apples. Carefully mix until combined but not overly beaten then gently fold in your apple pieces. The batter should be the consistency of cake mix, so I wound up needing more than the 1/3 cup of milk (about 2 tbsp more).
Heat your oil and once ready, use a small spoon or cookie scoop to spoon batter about 3-4 balls at a time. Watch carefully for the underside to turn brown, this should take about 40 seconds per side, and flip carefully. Ideally your oil should stay at 365 degrees, you don't want the outsides to be cooked but the center doughy! Place on a paper towel lined plate to drain and cool. Dip into glaze, drizzle or serve on the side for dunking!
Happy Mother's Day to everyone! We all deserve a day, OK a week..... yeah, you're right, a Month's worth of spoils!!
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Only moments ago, President Barack Obama, with Lilly Ledbetter at his side, officially signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act into law. This morning's bill signing was historic on several levels. It was the first bill to be signed by our nation's first African-American president, and was ushered through Congress with the help of the first female speaker of the House.
While this law is by no means an end to the struggle for equality, it is most certainly an exciting step, reversing the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, and making it easier for workers to fight discrimination.
In a statement released this morning, AFJ President Nan Aron said "we owe a debt of enormous gratitude to Lilly Ledbetter. This woman from Gadsden, Alabama never gave up the fight, despite enormous odds and personal sacrifice. She stood up for millions of working Americans, even though she will not personally benefit from the law the bears her name…We thank Lilly for leading the way to fairness and justice for all." It is, at long last, a new day in Washington.


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All of the legal and zoning requirements are in place, and the location of a wine-tasting room at the Tecumseh Community Center is a go.
J. Trees Cellars of Blissfield has been approved to locate the wine-tasting room in a section of the main floor of the building at 703 E. Chicago Blvd. On unanimous votes Monday, the Tecumseh City Council approved the rezoning of the building and the site plan, which was approved by the planning commission Nov. 12. The building is being rezoned from single-family residential to business, with conditions.
Jon Treloar of Tecumseh has operated the winery in Blissfield since 2010, after planting the vineyard in Petersburg in 2006. At the Oct. 21 council meeting, he said the move to Tecumseh would have several benefits, including more space and a closer grouping with other area wineries as part of the developing Pioneer Wine Trail.
Plans call for dividing the community center into two suites. J. Trees would occupy the east suite and the Tecumseh Senior Center will occupy the west. Besides a wine-tasting room, Treloar said the basement of the building and loading dock are ideal locations for storing wine away from the production facility in Petersburg. An outdoor space and a tasting bar will also be located in the small garage at the community center.
A small amount of production for high-end sparkling wine and cider products is planned in Tecumseh. The company distributes sparkling wines and hard ciders throughout Michigan, parts of Ohio and New York City.
J. Trees Cellars has signed a 24-month lease for $1,040 per month. Renovation work at the building is estimated at $20,000 to $25,000, said city manager Kevin Welch. Construction would be done by the city's department of public works with plumbing and electrical work contracted out with the tenants responsible for the costs.
Along with J. Trees and the senior center operated by the Lenawee County Department on Aging, The Fitness Connection and Tecumseh Paddling Co. lease space in the building. Treloar is hopeful the J. Trees Tecumseh site will be open in February.
J. Trees wine-tasting room approved in Tecumseh
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My thoughts on grad students………….
Being a grad student is a gift, in the sense that you get paid to work on a topic you have chosen. In a world where most people must endure physical hardship simply to eat and stay warm, it is a luxury to get paid for intellectual pursuits. There are few things as wonderful as getting paid to describe, understand, and conserve the ecological systems around us. I was fortunate to work with some outstanding peers and advisors in grad school. I would not trade my experiences as a grad student for anything and feel gratitude toward those who made it so much fun.
I look for students who are hard-working, self-motivated and passionate about their academic pursuits. You must be tenacious in order to successfully complete a graduate degree program. As a graduate student, you can expect to write grant proposals and papers, make presentations at professional conferences, put long hours in the lab or field, and have a whole lot of fun. It simply is not a 9 to 5 job. You must make some personal sacrifices in order to make intellectual contributions to ecology, evolution, and conservation. Grad school will be a grind at times, but that is true of most things worth doing.
My role as an advisor is to provide you with an environment that is conducive to your intellectual and personal growth. I will help you to pursue funding, to ask important questions, and to figure out the best ways to answer them. In addition, I will help you find your way toward a rewarding career after school. In exchange, I expect you to have intense intellectual curiosity and passion for your work and to come to the lab everyday enthusiastic about pushing back the boundaries of science. My job is to help you make your research project better.
My primary academic appointment is at the University of Alaska Southeast. However, I take grad students through my joint appointments at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and the Institute of Arctic Biology. If you are interested in ecology, evolution, and conservation and want to live in a gorgeous, wet place while you pursue your intellectual interests, please contact me (firstname.lastname@example.com). I am always looking for motivated, creative students.
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Comment Storage analytics service firm Storage Fusion is being fattened up for market.
Storage Fusion is the personification in company terms of the storage analytics business inside Itheon, a UK firm acquired by Xploite in 2007. Itheon offered business service monitoring and various application. Xploite is a combination of venture capitalist and activist investor roaming around the UK IT services industry and buying up companies which it can develop and sell on.
CEO Ian Smith said: "We're investors in the IT industry. We invest, build up assets, and sell them on to larger players."
It's an asset aggregator and not an asset stripper. With Storage Fusion it's doing something different, in that it's developing a part of Itheon into a stand-alone business it hopes to sell on as a profitable concern with a future. "Our intention is to make the business a success and find a home for it when it could benefit from a greater scale, in the UK or internationally... when we've taken the business to a sensible level of profitability," Smith added.
The Storage Fusion software remotely inspects a customers' storage infrastructure and then runs an analytic program on it accumulating storage usage stats that take thin provisioning into account. A consumption upgrade is coming which will deliver stats on the amount of raw storage actually used by an application inside its thinly-provisioned allocation.
MD Grahame Wood says the consumption upgrade should be very sticky, meaning customers will want to keep on using it.
The software does not pretend to cover all storage suppliers' products, focussing instead on EMC, HDS, HP IBM, and NetApp and using those vendors' CLI interfaces. Software storage management software from suppliers like Symantec and CA isn't supported.
It is priced at £1,000 per analytic run with a minimum 12-run purchase committment. The pay-off is that such runs are cheap for near-petabyte and petabyte-plus enterprises. The results come back faster than from suppliers' own tools, but are claimed to be just as good if not better, and don't need an expert inhouse group to run the analysis and interpret it.
The real pay-off is that customers, like Barclays, RBS, Santander and Emirates, can reclaim wasted and unused storage and save money.
Smith said: "It's inconceivable to me that anyone would not want to know how much storage they use... [and] It is far easier to generate profit by saving five per cent of cost than developing a new revenue line."
"A grand per month almost doesn't matter; it's an almost neglible cost overhead" to such enterprises. He reckons large IT departments can spend more than that on coffee each month. They wouldn't replace their existing complex and espensive storage operational management software either because it does so much more than analyses of storage use. That makes Storage Fusion no threat to things like EMC's ControlCenter and IBM's Tivoi Storage Manager.
The Xploite Storage Fusion numbers work like this. Itheon was bought for around £6.8m and the firm, minus the Storage Fusion technology was sold on for £3.5m after making £1m profit, leaving Storage Fusion effectively costing £2.3m.
It costs £1m a year to run the service and Smith reckons he needs 8 new customers each month, buying the 12-run analytic deal at £12,000, to build his profitable business. Each set of eight would bring in £96,000 and a year of that would deliver £1.152m, meaning a small profit.
Assuming every customer renewed and there was another year of eight new customers every month, then revenues would be £2.4m at the end of year two, and £3.648m at the end of year three, producing around £2.6m profit - pretty sensible.
At that point Storage Fusion could be sold and, Smith said, "£10m would be a nice day at the office". Indeed it would for a £2.3m outlay and three year's profitable trading.
That is Xploite and Smith's gamble; that Storage Fusion does deliver the storage analytic goods for blue chip customers, as well as having prospects with smaller enterprises, that it is complementary to the ControlCenters and Tivoli Storage Managers of this world, and that its recurring SAAS-based revenue stream will excite interest from would-be purchasers. We'll see if it pays off. ®


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Tagged: John Roberts
Thumbs Up! (And Down)
one almost slipped by me, but the White Sox signed right-handed reliever Ryan Braun. About a month ago, I wrote
a big rant concerning the mistreatment of the "other Ryan Braun", and in
the entry I promised to praise the GM that would re-sign the pitcher after the
Royals released him.
So, on January 12th,
White Sox GM Kenny Williams inked Braun to a minor league deal. Although he'll will probably spend most of
2009 in South Carolina playing for the Charlotte Knights ("The Castle" is in Fort
Mill), you can bet the 28-year-old will dominate. There is no reason to think Braun won't, considering that is what he's done his whole minor-league career. I just hope the White Sox can overlook his
2007 season and give him another chance in the big leagues.
Mr. Williams, even if you only made the move to take up a Triple-A roster space
and have no expectations for Braun at all, you deserve this:
you read my latest
entry, and were wondering what I was up to on January 20th, I
was busy complaining under my breath (and sometimes out loud.) The reason was that some people who had
tickets for the inauguration did not get in…and I was one of them. I know it could have been worse. I'm glad I was not one the people who paid
hundreds of dollars for tickets, flown in from Europe, got up at 4:00 AM, and
waited in line for six hours. I was
lucky enough to run home and barely get to see John Roberts humiliate
know it could have been much, much
worse, but still, I have the right to be a little annoyed.
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The culture of Oc Eo is the general name of a civilization attached to the kingdom of legendary Phu Nam. It appeared at the same time as Phu Nam inhabitants of the ancient land of the South from the 2nd century to the end of the 6th century. Ba The is where Oc Eo culture had the most development with thousands of antiques excavated such as jewelries made from pottery, stone, gold and bronze and many stone statues influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism such as statues of the Buddha, sacred objects of Yoni and Linga and an impressive group of Ganesa statues with an elephant head on a human body.
These antiques have unveiled a secret curtain that hung over a strong and prosperous kingdom that originated in South Asia. After about 1,500 years of the displacement of nature and history, this culture, day by day, has fallen into oblivion.
From Long Xuyen City to Provincial Road 943 and then west about 35 kilometers, tourists will arrive at Ba The Mountain, also known as Vong The. This mountain is located in Oc Eo hamlet in An Giang province's Thoai Son district. There's a winding concrete road to the top of the mountain. In 2002, this road was built by the government to serve tourism.
At the top of Ba The Mountain is an ancient pagoda named Son Tien Tu which was built in 1933. Standing impressively in front of the pagoda is an 8-meter high statue of Quan The Am Buddha. Here, clouds bring cool dew that flies slowly through the sky. Trees stretch green as far as the eye can see and birds sing everywhere. People are dazed by the pagoda's bell that periodically rings vibrantly over the forest.
Beside Son Tien Tu is a 3-meter high granite stone with a diameter large enough for four or five people to surround. On this huge stone's surface is a footprint which is bigger than a normal human footprint. People call it a ban chan tien, or a fairy's foot. This originated from a legend that at the beginning of the mountain, stones were soft like clay and a fairy pressed his foot to make this mark.
About ten kilometers from Son Tien Tu is a strange-looking house with a front door facing the direction of the rising sun following the Hindu pattern and containing many antiques related to the history and culture of Ba The-Oc Eo.
Architecturally, this house looks like a lot of the temples found in South Asian countries with its dome and its rectangular door. The walls of the house are lined with statues of Ganesa deities with elephant heads on human bodies sitting majestically. The banisters are decorated with many small statues of a kind of Arabian horse.
Standing at the top of Ba The Mountain in the evening to look at the kitchen smoke that looms over the plains, tourists find peace in this world of dusk.
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Post subject: Cast iron skillets: don't mix meat and vegetable oils?
I have a fairly well-seasoned cast iron skillet that I have been using almost exclusively for sauteing veggies with olive oil. When I tried to brown some chicken sausage in the skillet it stuck horribly.
My dad used to say that mixing vegetable-based oils and meat in a skillet would cause things to stick. Is this the conventional wisdom, or does anyone else have experience one way or the other?
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My experience with cast iron is that meat will stick until it's ready to release and messing with it before it's ready is bad news. In other words, don't try to lift the meat until it's cooked enough on that side. I believe it's the moisture and fats that come out and lubricate and the solidification of the meats have reached an appropriate level - that shrink point - that allows the meat to be lifted.
This means if you want a rare steak, start with high heat, so that you're quickly searing that side and not cooking the entire thickness. Something that requires a longer cooking, like a pork chop, is better done at a lower temp for a longer time.
The key with meats on cast iron (which BTW is fantastic on a well season cast iron surface) is knowing the cooking characteristics of the meat and a little patience. Also preheat your skillet before putting the meat in, and make sure the meat is completely thawed. Brushing with olive oil is also helpful since it tends to be more viscous than corn/canola/etc oils.
I've been using a cast iron a lot lately for meats and veggies. One of my favorite kitchen implements is the reversible grill/griddle that covers two burners. It's second best in flavor to a real grill, but beats a real grill when it comes to convenience.
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I use cast iron skillets and/or dutch oven almost daily and they are all well seasoned. I agree with Miss Fantastic that rubbing the meat (or sausage) with a little olive oil is a sometimes a good idea before placing them in an already hot skillet. But unlike her, I do move the meat or fish or chicken or sausage or burger after it has been in the pan between 10 and 30 seconds. I think I've seen chefs on t.v. do this. I just push it around a little to release it from its original spot. THEN I let it sit without moving it until the meat is browned. When the first side is browned or charred (if that's what I'm after) I flip it to a different side, let it sit for a few seconds, move it and then let it stay in place til browned. If the meat yields too much fat, I pour the fat off, trying to keep a minimum in the skillet to ensure browning. If the meat is very lean, I might (rub the meat w/ olive oil or) put a teaspoonful or a few drops of oil in the pan...olive oil is what I use, cheaper, not the extra virgin, but rapeseed or grapeseed or corn oil work as well. Just put the tiniest amount; pour out any that pools before putting the meat in. You want to brown, not fry.
Actually the best hint I can offer you regarding cast iron skillets is something I embraced comparatively recently. While they're virtually indestructable, I find the very best way to maintain a beautiful gleaming black seasoning surface is to clean them this way: After use, pour what residual oil you can into a can for disposal, then let the skillet cool until you can comfortably handle it (or longer; it can be cold). Put it in the sink and run cold water on it while scrubbing in a circular motion until there are no more bumps or sticking spots on the surface with a Chore Girl (now known as a Chore Boy))))), i.e., a copper mesh scrubbing pad. Then just dry with a paper towel or cloth. Never use dish soap or brillo or anything else. The heat when you cook in it will take care of bacteria, and the thin bit of oil left after scouring will give you a wonderful non-stick surface. If you DO for any reason feel the need to use soap, just revert to the cold water/chore girl scour, and the non stick surface will repair itself in a short time. BTW: if you make tomato sauce in the skillet, the acid in the tomatoes will remove that surface, but no worry. It will reseason itself if you continue with maintenance as above.
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The Mexico City native will make his first trip to Daytona International Speedway for the inaugural UNOH Battle At The Beach. Alongside champions from NASCAR's other international series – Euro-Racecar NASCAR Touring Series and NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 – Goeters will take part in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series element of the three-pronged event that will also include a combination race for the two NASCAR Whelen Modified Tours and a Late Model competition for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.
Goeters earned a guaranteed starting position in the race of his by virtue of winning the Toyota Series championship. It was his second series title, but first in the NASCAR era in Mexico that began in 2007.
The prestigious event will be contested on a .4-mile oval on the backstretch at the Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 18-19. The short-track offering is new to the hallowed venue that also boasts a 2.5-mile high-banked superspeedway, 3.56-mile road course, 2.95-mile motorcycle track and a quarter-mile dirt track. The short track is a byproduct of the 2010 repaving project at the facility.
While the first-year track will require adjustments from every competitor, the tight quarters will add a component to which Goeters is not entirely accustomed. The shortest track on which the Toyota Series races is the half-mile Autódromo Potosino near San Luis Potosí, Mexico. However, the series routinely has fields of 30 or more cars that put a premium on real estate even on the larger tracks.
Goeters spoke of the value of a winning attitude at the close of the 2012 season.
"I have always considered myself a winning driver," he said. "Believing is as important as working hard. The belief is what drives everyone which turns into hard work which makes dreams come true."
Another shift from the norm for Goeters will be the equipment. The cars used in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series are different from what he is used to, but the veteran doesn't expect a difficult transition.
Goeters' car is being fielded by Viva La Raza Racing which competed in several K&N Pro Series East events in 2012. The experienced crew will be able to make the necessary changes for Goeters, who has competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series.
The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Models will have qualifying races and a 150-lap feature on Feb. 18, while the racing on Feb. 19 will include a similar schedule of qualifying races and 150-lap races for both the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tours and NASCAR K&N Pro Series.


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The first long-term forecast for the 2013 hurricane season predicts a busier-than-average slate of storms for the Atlantic Ocean, an outlook Eastern North Carolina meteorologists and emergency planners said was unlikely to significantly affect their preparations.
Lenoir County Emergency Services Director Roger Dail said preparing for hurricane seasons is something he and his team do �all year-round.�
�Our plans are locked in for the upcoming hurricane season,� Dail said. �I�ve seen what has been said about the named storms; that just means it�s going to be an active season. It doesn�t necessarily mean one is going to hit us, but the way we always look at it is it only takes the right one in the right place to hit us.�
According to the forecast, released recently by researchers with the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, the Atlantic basin should brace for 18 named storms during the five-month season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. Nine of those are projected to strengthen into hurricanes, four of them Category 3 or higher.
If accurate, that prediction would place this year�s storm activity above the average season, which sees 12 tropical storms and six hurricanes, three of them major, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It would also be remarkably similar to the 2012 storm season, which saw 19 named storms, nine of them hurricanes, and ranked as the third-busiest season in history. Prior to the start of that five-month period, long-term forecasts had predicted �near-normal� activity in the Atlantic, expecting between nine and 15 named storms and four to eight hurricanes, according to NOAA.
But even a slow season can wreak havoc on coastal communities, said Mark Bacon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
�We had a quiet year in 1992. There were only seven storms and four hurricanes, and only one was major,� Bacon said. �But that one, the first one, was Hurricane Andrew.�
Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, formed in the Atlantic and tore over the Bahamas and the southern tip of Florida before crossing into the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in Louisiana. The storm caused 26 direct fatalities and $26.5 billion worth of damage, ranking as the fifth-costliest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
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Relax, Yankees fans. The captain is OK.
Derek Jeter was removed from New York's lineup against the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday for "precautionary" reasons because his surgically repaired left ankle feels "stiff." He said he might be able to play Wednesday and doesn't consider this a setback.
"I'm not concerned because I was told this was going to happen," Jeter said. "From everything I've been told by the doctors, it's normal."
The 13-time All-Star shortstop was slated to play his first road game this spring but was scratched after taking batting practice. Jeter broke his left ankle in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers. He played in his first spring game on March 9 and is 3 for 11 so far.
"It's just stiff, but it's not in the part that I broke; it's around it," Jeter said. "I was told I'm going to feel it around the ankle because I was in a boot for so long. It takes time to strengthen. It's normal, just have to deal with it and move on."
The 38-year-old Jeter led the American League with 216 hits and batted .316 with 15 homers and 58 RBIs last year. Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who described the ankle as "cranky," said Tuesday morning that Jeter might begin the season as a designated hitter against Boston if the Red Sox start a left-handed pitcher.
Jeter, however, still plans to be ready for the opener.
"The luxury is it's spring training and there's two weeks left," Jeter said, adding he doesn't want Girardi to alter his plan of increasing his playing time the next couple weeks. "I don't think you have to scale back anything. I don't know. I haven't done this before. It's a matter of going out, playing and see what happens."
The Yankees have been beset by injuries.
Third baseman Alex Rodriguez is expected to be sidelined until at least the All-Star break following hip surgery on Jan. 16. Center fielder Curtis Granderson broke his arm in his first exhibition at-bat and is out until May. First baseman Mark Teixeira has a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist could miss two months of the regular season.


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The price of DDR3 memory has continued to fall, to the extent that even the most scrooge-like PC builder would be tempted to deck out his PC with a bit extra. Right now on NewEgg a 4GB Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 1333 module can be yours for a mere $19.99. Fancy something a little more adventurous? How's about a 4GB CORSIAR Vengence DDR3 1600 for just $25? Or perhaps you're man of real taste and distinction; try a pair of Muskin Enhanced Blackline modules rated at speeds of up to 2333MHz, for only $99.99! Has the world gone potty?
Well, no. But as far as consumers are concerned, it's really good time to invest in some extra memory for your PC, as Peter Scott, writing for Fudzilla earlier this week explains:
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But while it is tempting to add some more RAM your PC, there is inevitably also a limit to how much your PC actually needs. I've found that opinions vary greatly. Many Windows 7 users feel that memory bottlenecks cease to be problem at around 4GB. Most self respecting power users however are not content without 16GB. One fly in the ointment of course, is software. 32-bit operating systems are inherently limited to an absolute max of 4GB memory (you may only see 3.25GB), so it's only those of us that are enjoying the 64-bit revolution that can explore the realms 4GB of RAM and beyond. Then of course it comes down to what you do with your PC. Applications that manipulate large cumbersome data sets will need a far larger memory footprint, while HD video and photo editing suites can indeed hog a whole lot of memory.
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Anyone coming to director Joe Carnahan's "The A-Team" looking for arc, character or brains will instead find a $100-million bimbo: nice to look at, fun to spend a couple of hours with, but dumber than a box of hair. However, those looking to relive the magic of the original series should step right up.
Carnahan's philosophy toward "The A-Team" is summed up nicely towards the end of the film by Col. Hannibal Smith, who makes the keen observation that sometimes, "overkill is underrated." All of the TV series' comic-book sensibilities are turned up to the Nth degree in tis film, and brought to life with state-of-the-art moviemaking magic.
Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley and Quentin "Rampage" Jackson star as Hannibal, Face, Murdock and BA, respectively, in the new film version, which finds the foursome trying to clear their names of charges for a crime they didn't commit, stealing a set of engraving plates that will allow the owner to literally print their own money. Why this is suddenly a concern when Kim Jong Il has been doing for a more than decade is never explained.
Neeson is fine as Smith, chewing stogies but not too much scenery, though at times he's a little earnest. George Peppard's incarnation was often joyous, rueful, angry... but never earnest. And Cooper confirms that his turn in "The Hangover" was no fluke, bringing an easy charm to the role of the consummate ladies' man.
But it's Copley and Jackson whose performances largely make the film work. Copley came out of nowhere as the star of "District 9" last year, showing a greater range and character arc than perhaps any other actor in 2009. Jackson, meanwhile, was tasked with the most thankless job, that of playing BA Baracus. We weren't the only one's who feared that the shadow of Mr. T (who's been slagging the film in the days ahead of its release) would loom too large over Jackson. Realizing that you don't replace Mr. T, you merely fill the role, Jackson and Carnahan crafted a Baracus different enough to avoid comparison, but totally recognizable.
What Jessica Biel is doing in this film is anyone's guess, they must've promised a her a bigger role in the inevitable sequel (trust, they set the stage at the end, stopping just short of flashing a title and release date on the screen). Biel's Charisa Sosa is a little in love with Face (of course) and acts tough, despite being totally feckless. When Hannibal Smith maps out a plan (he loves saying the word "plan" even more than he loves it when one comes together) that hinges on Sosa being "as good as I think she is," one can only think, "Uh-oh." She literally manages to do exactly one thing right throughout the film.
Not surprisingly, the whole film is a feminist nightmare, making mincemeat of the Bechdel Test. There are five women in the film: Face has slept with three of them and kissed a fourth, while the fifth woman is openly told that she's kept around for her looks.
Other than women, the big loser of "The A-Team" is Gandhi, who is no doubt spinning in his grave at the notion that Hannibal uses the legendary pacifist's words to inspire BA to kill. Seriously, folks, WTF?
For men of a certain age (guilty), just the first seven notes of the theme song from "The A-Team," followed by a burst of machine-gun fire, is enough to send their hearts aflutter. That said, news of a big-screen version was cause for both jubilation and dread. Both instincts were proven correct.


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Buster Olney is reporting that the Red Sox have become ultra aggressive in their attempts to acquire Ryan Dempster. Where there is smoke there is usually fire, and many people in the know are expecting Dempster to be dealt any day now, so we might have some breaking news very soon, stay tuned.
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In the evening getting the kids to the table for supper I noticed that Haru the cat was inside the house playing with something over in the corner behind the trunk, I picked him up with my right hand, having a dishrag or a paper or something in my left, and sort of held the squirming beast in place with my left forearm as I headed to open the door to put him outside so we could eat in peace but the cat was playful, and grabbed my arm quite painfully with his claws, and I went OW! OW! OW! and pulled the arm away from him and held him out at a distance with the other hand, when I felt that he must have extremely long arms because though in my right hand he was still clawing my left forearm, and then I looked and saw that it hadn't been the cat, it was a large hissing beetle the cat had been playing with, that had fastened itself to the cat's hair in the righteous fury it was now taking out on my completely innocent forearm, and I was going OW! OW! OW! but had both hands full and couldn't put the cat down or it would understandably run upstairs and hide unreachably under the bed or worse, and so I couldn't get at the beetle, who was hissing pissed off pinching for all it was worth the tender skin of my as I say innocent forearm and I was going OW! OW! OW! and Keech was going WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? and so I started swatting at the beetle with the cat I happened to have conveniently at hand, swinging the cat in wider and wider arcs (note to cat swingers: it's hard to get pinpoint accuracy and solid impact from a cat; if you hold them by the scruff they tend to flop around when you swing them less than top speed at anything as small as even a large beetle, so you lose control on the first few swings, whereas swinging them by the legs or tail creates too great an arc so forget about accuracy; and if one is swinging a cat with any sense of urgency, one should ideally have a short stiff cat and a large target), trying for the very first time in my life to hit a beetle with a cat's head, though this fact was unobserved by me at the time, as I was still going OW! OW! OW! as the beetle went HISS! HISS! HISS! and Keech went WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? and the cat went YOW! YOW! YOW! what is this guy trying to do with me till finally I got the vectors together and swung the cat (thank god we have a living room big enough to swing one in) so that his head hit the beetle and knocked it off my forearm, altogether a very suitable YOWling HISSing OW-ing WHAT-ing bug adventure of another kind. The bite was not venomous, just a pinch, and so to dinner, cat and beetle not invited.