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Even though I work in publishing, it's important to note I am not an editor and don't work with agents outside of the marketing realm – I don't handle book acquisitions and rarely have the chance to read a manuscript or chime in on the purchasing decisions. I don't get to hear from authors before they are published or searching for the elusive contract, so I was thrilled when LeAnn Neal Reilly, author of THE MERMAID'S PENDANT, shared some of her thoughts with me on being a self-published author and her decision to take this unconventional route.
In LeAnn's own (clever) words –
Getting an agent is essential to getting a publisher, but it was like looking for a husband who picked you from a lineup while he stood behind a two-way mirror. You didn't really know what he wanted in a wife or whether you'd dressed appropriately. To make it worse, you weren't sure if you'd like him or his looks. Most of the time, you waited and waited until you knew that nobody stood on the other side of the glass. Sometimes, you got a bit more information about how long to wait or a terse, written kiss-off. If you were really lucky, he might ask you to open your jacket and twirl around a bit, but even then you might not get any helpful feedback. You just didn't get called into the next room to arrange marriage. At first, you'd try to be choosy and go to lineups for guys whose personal ad sounded like it had potential, but then you'd realize you might have to go to hundreds of lineups and end up with someone you couldn't stand. Or someone who couldn't perform in bed. Then you'd have to get a divorce and start over.
I decided to risk self-publishing to see if I could attract an agent or publisher that way. There have been enough stories in recent years to make me think that this path might become more common. It makes sense to me. It's one way to let someone else pay the costs of developing a title and testing the market. I've done well enough at this point that even if I don't get a bigger publisher, I'm happier than I would have been if I'd stuck my manuscript in a drawer or spent more months querying without success…
I commend Mrs. Reilly for taking the chance and getting her work out there. It's a risk but it sounds like she did her research and made a well-informed decision. I hope
As many other tours hosts have noted, THE MERMAID'S PENDANT is a looooong book. I think the premise of "a modern fairy tale about growing up and discovering who you are" is great, but it's lost in the length of this tome with competing subplots. I though Tamarind, the mermaid, was an interesting character but couldn't drum up much interest in John – her lover and the main character in this novel.
Reading this book did give me fond memories of watching Disney's The Little Mermaid in my family's van on road trips and I thought the descriptions of the island were gorgeous and definitely made me want to plan another tropical vacation. I thank LeAnn for sharing her thoughts and wish her only the best in the future – and a huge thank you for the escapism found in the beaches of your novel!
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>Fitness is not only a product of a healthy lifestyle, such as limiting fats and carbohydrates in our daily diets, but also a function of how we address health issues. Lack of fitness poses two risks in scuba diving: the first risk is what we assume ourselves; the second involves the degree of risk to our buddies and potential rescuers.
>Scuba diving requires a level of fitness that allows us to respond to the sudden need for a cardiovascular or respiratory exertion. Because we are in a seemingly weightless environment (with proper buoyancy control), and often pushed along by a current, we can easily underestimate the level of physical fitness required to perform safely in the water during an emergency situation.
>But even a relaxed dive can produce sufficient cardiovascular and blood flow changes to stress a heart that already has some baseline cardiovascular disease (CVD). An emergency situation may require even more physical exertion. Several apparently healthy divers die each year from sudden cardiac death during a dive. Of those, some appear relatively healthy.
>A good way to monitor your health is to have a regular check-up with your primary physician. This provides information that can help you avoid illness and disease and maintain a lifestyle that promotes good health.
>Why get periodic physical examinations? As we get older, our chances of acquiring diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease are significantly higher. Most significant is the increased risk of heart disease.
>Risk factors for CVD include a diet high in cholesterol and saturated fat, smoking, lack of exercise, diabetes and high blood pressure. A certain amount of risk is also passed along in genes. Unfortunately, we may never realize we have a problem until we have the first symptoms, such as chest and arm pain, shortness of breath and a sudden loss of consciousness. Although normally associated with exertion and exercise, symptoms can occur during periods of emotional stress.
>The centerpiece of a dive physical for divers 45 years or older is a cardiac stress test. Determining how well your heart can perform during this diagnostic test is helpful in determining heart health. Health problems such as irregular heart rhythms or blood pressure problems may show up during your evaluation. This can help to detect some future problems. Don't downplay your symptoms just to be a good patient; talk to your doctor about your health concerns. Why? Cardiovascular disease is the number-one killer in persons over 45 years of age.
>Tell your doctor what aches and pains you may have had since you last check-up. Have you had episodes of lightheadedness, ear ringing, bowel or bladder problems?
>To get a healthy stamp of approval from your doctor, you will undergo other procedures in addition to a stress test. While many aren't necessary for you to continue diving, such procedures are part of a thorough physical examination.
>Take healthy eating advice to heart, and use an exercise program to build endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Determine if a combination of diet and exercise will work to lower cholesterol or if drug therapy may be required. Follow your physician's advice, and if he or she has dive-related questions, have your doctor call DAN. Take the time to take care of yourself, and scuba diving will be in your future.
By Joel Dovenbarger, Vice President, Medical Services. Dovenbarger has been with DAN since 1985. A medical professional for 25 years, Dovenbarger started work as a registered nurse in 1976 and began in hyperbaric and diving medicine at the F.G. Hall Lab at Duke Medical Center in 1982.
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But one of the Android malware zappers, McAfee's Mobile Security, is free for just seven days, a far shorter period of time than is offered with many other trial anti-virus products.
Facebook launched the AV Marketplace back in April, saying at the time that it did so in order to educate the world and help its users stay safe online. The Social Network has not disclosed how the its partnerships work on the marketplace, but says "over 30 million" folks have used the service since launch.
That the program has now been expanded to include avast!, AVG, Avira, Kaspersky, Panda, Total Defense, and Webroot shows it's proving beneficial to Facebook (and maybe lucrative, as such arrangements are said to see software companies pay those who distribute their wares). The new six now offer free software at the Marketplace alongside launch partners Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec.
Facebook hasn't said why it chose this moment to add Android products to the Marketplace, but it is not alone in expressing worries about Android security. The USA's Internet Crime Complaint Center(IC3), for example, last week emitted a warning about malware on the Chocolate Factory's OS spawn.
The warning was, however, a little odd inasmuch as its warning mentioned FinFisher (which first came to light in November 2011) and Loozfon (August 2012).
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1 small head cabbage, sliced thinly
2 medium tomatoes, cut in cubes
1 cup sliced radishes
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 tablespoons rice vinegar (or lemon juice)
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red pepper
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
In a large bowl, mix together the cabbage, tomatoes, and radishes.
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Calories: 41
Total Fat: 1 g
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LEE — No new information has been released yet regarding the officer-involved shooting on Lee Hook Road earlier this month that sent a Lee man to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
Officials continue to investigate the shooting and do not anticipate releasing details any time soon.
According to information obtained by Foster's, Steven Amazeen, 45, was shot by Durham police officers after he reportedly pointed a weapon at responding officers, prompting them to shoot.
Amazeen had reportedly discharged the firearm in his home at 289 Lee Hook Road and was described as being suicidal. After his wife, Mary, called 911, multiple departments responded to the scene.
Amazeen was approached by officers in the road a short distance from his home where a domestic issue had likely taken place, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell.
Amazeen's wife and young son were home at the time and were not injured. After he was shot Amazeen was transported by McGregor Ambulance to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.
Morrell recently told Foster's no new information would be released until the investigation concluded. She also would not confirm whether Durham officers had shot Amazeen.
Amazeen was last known to be in stable condition; no update has been provided on his medical condition since he was shot.
Lee Hook Road remained closed to traffic until about 4:30 p.m. that day as investigators including the state Major Crimes Unit conducted the investigation.
Morrell said officials would investigate whether a mental health or substance abuse problem contributed to his actions in the early hours of Monday, Dec. 3.
Durham Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley could not comment on which, if any, officers were on administrative leave from his department, nor could he state whether any Durham officers were involved in the shooting as all inquiries must go through the attorney general's office.


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9 February, South Africa v West Indies
Wavell Hinds (West Indies)
Wavell Hinds scratches around for 16 deliveries, waiting for the ball to come within arms reach. Taken by surprise as Shaun Pollock finally switches on his radar , there is the awful snick of willow on pad and umpire Daryl Harper raises the dreaded finger. The first duck of the tournament has been achieved, and it took just 20 minutes.
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Makhaya Ntini (South Africa)
Much credit for this dismissal should go to Lance Klusener. When Klusener lofted Vasbert Drakes (my hero) to Carl Hooper at deep midwicket in the final over with eight to win, the batsman moved nary a muscle in an attempt to cross, thus ensuring that the Protean tail ender should be given his chance of glory. With Nicky Boje haring down the track in a vain attempt to wrest the strike, Klusener set off for the pavilion. Sure enough, Ntini duly obliged, valiantly slamming a full toss to Ramnaresh Sarwan on the boundary for a mere two-ball duck.
DD rating - 4 lilypads
Breadcrumb moment - Pedro Collins.
With Lance Klusener roaring along like the Zulu of old, Chris Gayle was swatted right down the throat of the unfortunate Pedro Tyrone Collins. Gleefully pouching the catch, he decided to take more steps backwards than in the title of the average John Buchan novel, straight on to the boundary rope, thus donating a six to the batsman and an exciting finish to the rest of us. Nice one, Pedro.


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JJ Abrams has told how a fan who found his wallet held him to ransom until he revealed what happened at the end of TV show Lost.
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I'm a little surprised Rodgers hasn't looked Driver's way a bit more today – or that more plays haven't been drawn up for him. He's reliable and playing against safeties and #4 CBs.
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Why might Europeans not trust Mr. Bush to follow through after an Iraq war? One answer is that they've been mightily unimpressed with his follow-through in Afghanistan. Another is that they've noticed that promises the Bush administration makes when it needs military allies tend to become inoperative once the shooting stops -- just ask General Musharraf about Pakistan's textile exports.
But more broadly, they may have noticed something that is becoming apparent to more and more people here: the Bush administration's consistent unwillingness to take responsibility for solving difficult problems. When the going gets tough, it seems, Mr. Bush changes the subject.
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Which brings us back to the war. Mr. Bush apparently regards Saddam Hussein as a pushover; he believes advisers who tell him that an Iraq war will be quick and easy -- a couple of days of shock and awe, followed by a victory parade. Maybe. But even if it does turn out that way, is this administration ready for the long, difficult, quite possibly bloody task of rebuilding Iraq?
The Europeans don't think so. In fact, they view Mr. Bush's obsession with invading Iraq as a demonstration of why he can't be trusted to deal with what comes next.
In the United States it is taken as axiomatic that America is a country that really faces up to evildoers, while those sniveling old Europeans just don't have the nerve. And the U.S. commentariat, with few exceptions, describes Mr. Bush as a decisive leader who really gets to grips with problems. Tough-guy rhetoric aside, this image seems to be based on the following policy -- as opposed to political -- achievements: (1) The overthrow of the Taliban; (2) . . . any suggestions for 2?
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Open Thread: Most Anticipated Fall Restaurant Opening in Chicago?
Anyone else feel like it's fall already? Sure, it's not officially here until September 22nd, but thanks to a run of moderate weather and the gaggle of school kids crowding the sidewalks when I'm walking my dog in the morning, it sure does seem close. Not that I'm complaining. Fall brings with it a renewed sense of purpose, plus it's as good a time as any to take a look at the numerous new restaurants planning to open up in Chicago soon.
Personally, I can't wait to see how Eataly turns out. The massive grocery store, spearheaded by Mario Battali and Joe Bastianich, is wonderland of Italian ingredients in New York, and I'm fascinated to see how it will perform in River North. But I'm also looking forward to Honey Butter Fried Chicken in Avondale and Parts & Labor, which promises to bring thin, griddled burgers to Logan Square.
But that's just a small fraction of the upcoming projects. Fortunately, a few local sites have created some handy guides to help you sort through them all. In particular, check out these posts by Eater Chicago and Tasting Table.
After you've perused those lists, let us know what you're most excited about. Can't wait to try Paul Kahan's seafood restaurant in the Gold Coast? Or are you just looking forward to the next Brendan Sodikoff joint (whatever that may be)?
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Since Grandma would have been 90 today, I thought I would put together a couple of memories of her to commemorate her birthday. Not so much a biography, just more of my personal memories and a couple of pictures through the decades of her life. Gladys Maxine Donaldson was born 20 September 1921 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. I have written of her parents, David and Dena Donaldson, previously.
Grandma married Milo James Ross 4 April 1942 in Ogden. I have written some of their history at the following link: Ross-Donaldson Wedding. Milo and Gladys had three children; Milo in 1943 (my father), Judy in 1946, and Caroline in 1948.
I think the following photo was taken on the steps of Grandma's parent's home on Wall Avenue in Ogden. I believe this photograph was taken the day of Glady's father's funeral. The little girls are Caroline (left) and Judy (right).
Here is a picture of Grandpa and Grandma in front of their home (built by Grandpa in 1955). If you look closely, you can see the back of them in the window.
Here is a more formal photograph of Grandpa and Grandma. I do not know the occasion.
Another one.
I think this is the first photo I have with my Grandma. I do not know exactly how old I am, but I am most likely under 2 years old. Since I grew up in Idaho, I only got to see my Grandparents once or twice a year. In this picture, I do not seem too sure of the lady on the bike!
I do not recall what the occasion was for this picture but we were dressed up for something. I do not recognize the building.
In 1992 when I received my Eagle Scout, my mom refused to step into an LDS church where the Court of Honor was held. Dad invited Grandma to stand in for my Mom. Mom arrived around the time of this photo in her thermal overalls and was royally upset and offended not only that my Grandparents were there, but that Grandma took her place. Either way, it was a great honour to my Grandparents, especially in light of the history between my Grandparents and Mom.
In 1997, I moved to Logan, Utah to attend Utah State University. Since I lived so much closer, I made an effort to visit my Grandparents at least once a month or so. Typically it was not hard as I could catch a ride with someone passing through to another location. Grandma was always very kind and would repeatedly remind me how much she loved me and that there was always a bed for me to sleep in if I wished to spend the night. As her mind started to slip after Aunt Judy's death the next year, she would often repeat the same two phrases at least every 15 minutes. While they were the repetitions of an old lady, I still recognized that they came from the heart of my Grandmother who dearly loved me. She knew me, loved me, and only had two phrases in which to express that in her mental infirmity. I now feel her love over and over again with the phrases, although at the time they were sometimes annoyances.
I have to share a quick story at this point. I had just come home my mission in England in December 2000. I had not been home very long when I visited Utah again with my friend Dustin McClellan. I was given some gifts and homemade soap to drop off at Grandpa and Grandma's in Plain City. Dustin and I stopped and we were visiting when Grandma left the room announcing she would cut up some fudge and bring it out. Grandma came into the room and I turned down the fudge (I try to avoid sweets). Grandpa took a piece and Dustin took a healthy portion. Dustin put most of it in his mouth and when Grandpa took a bite he exclaimed that the fudge was soap. Grandma had cut up the soap we brought as a gift thinking it was fudge! The look on Dustin's face was clearly a man who had taken a mouth of fudge and was completely disgusted and deceived but did not want to let anyone know lest he offend my Grandma. Grandpa had to take the soap from Grandma who was about to eat a piece despite the warning. Dustin who was nearly foaming at the mouth from the soap excused himself to wash out his mouth. We still laugh about this episode now, 10 years on.
Another episode occurred in 2001, probably around September. I was driving through with a friend, Kevin Orton, for business and I convinced him to pay a stop on my Grandparents. It was a fairly routine visit and Grandpa invited Kevin and me to go out back to visit his large garden. Grandma walked with us and after a while we all retired to the back porch to sit a while. Grandma went in to the house after offering us all a drink. Grandpa went after her because she was so forgetful (to the point that he was concerned about her safety when cooking). She opened the door, walked in, and Grandpa caught the screen door as it was closing. Grandma turned and exclaimed, "Don't touch my damn door!" Grandpa jumped back, let the door close, and Grandma closed the door behind. Right before she closed the door all the way though, she spoke softly, "I love you honey." She then closed the door and we heard it lock! Kevin and I laughed and laughed about the whole scene. Even years later he will randomly reference this experience.
Here is a great picture of Grandma at her 60th wedding anniversary. She looked great but her memory was pretty much gone and I think she was lost half the time she was there.
Jennie Britzman, Grandma's first cousin, came to visit and this picture was snapped. Grandpa was Grandma's full-time caretaker by this point (Grandpa and Grandma were both about 82) and they rarely strayed far from home.
I believe this is the last photograph I have taken of Grandma before she passed away. Grandpa looks younger and Grandma looks happy.
Grandma died 25 August 2004 in the new McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. Her funeral and burial took place in Plain City on 25 August 2004. Happy Birthday Grandma, I look forward to seeing you again.


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I was reading the following question: About isogeny theorem for elliptic curves and was interested in the following statement at the end of Torsten Ekedahl's answer:
"Note also that the situation is similar (not by chance) to the case of CM-curves. If we look at CM-elliptic curves with a fixed endomorphism ring, then algebraically they can not be put into bijection with the elements of the class group of the endomorphism ring (though they can analytically), you have to fix one elliptic curve to get a bijection."
Could someone please clear up exactly what could be meant by `algebraically they cannot be put into bijection...'?


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From Middle English universite ("institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university") from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus ("whole, entire").
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juːnɪˈvɜːsətiː/
- (US) IPA(key): /junɨˈvɝsəti/
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university (plural universities)
- Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
- The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 2013 July 20, "The attack of the MOOCs", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
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- In western Europe, and later the United States, universities were typically founded by executive act (e.g. royal charter) and were generally relatively large (compared to colleges), offering postgraduate degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In other countries, this distinction is not made and any degree-granting institution is called a university.
- In the United States, students will sometimes say that they go to "the university" or to "a university", but they are far more likely to say they are going "to college", even if the institution they attend is a university. In the UK and Canada, students go "to university", without the article, if they are attending a school that grants bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.
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From Middle English universite, from Medieval Latin [Term?].
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What is theblackactor.com?
theblackactor.com is a black film blog. Here, I examine the performances, choices, responsibilities, images and struggles of today's black motion picture actor. These topics are the principal focus of this blog.
What does the author think about the current state of blacks in film?
The more you read the blog, the more you'll know; but for one or two things I believe, take a look below…
Due in large part to blind race loyalty, we accept mediocre film entertainment. Though history has crafted this response, today we live in a new day… a very new day.


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Rushed Reactions: Wichita State 66, Illinois State 51Posted by dnspewak on March 9th, 2013
Danny Spewak (@dspewak) is an RTC correspondent. He's covering the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis through Sunday.
Three Key Takeaways.
- That Wichita State Defense: It is quite possible the Shockers played the best 12-minute defensive stretch of any team in college basketball this season. Illinois State did not make a field goal until Tyler Brown's wide-open layup in transition with fewer than eight minutes to play in the first half. Wichita State led 17-1 out of the gate and punished the Redbirds on the defensive end. They didn't get a single open look in the opening minutes of the game, and when they managed to actually find a shot, it either air-balled or barely hit the rim. Wichita State's guards are just so fast and so athletic on the perimeter. When they're really guarding and playing with energy and momentum, Demetric Williams, Tekele Cotton and Malcolm Armstead are like a pack of hyenas. There might not be anybody better in the country. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that Ehimen Orukpe and Carl Hall were like The Incredible Hulks in the paint, too, especially at the onset of the game.
- A Microcosm of Illinois State's Season: Things could not have started more poorly for the Redbirds, but they overcame the horrific offensive start and actually put a scare into the Shockers. Once they settled down offensively, got stronger with the basketball and played a little more patiently, the shots started to fall and Jackie Carmichael went to work. In the blink of an eye, a 15-0 ISU run helped tie the game, and the Shockers led by just two points at halftime. Of course, the game got away from Illinois State in the second half as the offense began to stall again. Wichita State's physicality proved too much, and it was a frustrating way for the Redbirds to exit Arch Madness after advancing to the title game a year ago. Even after losing coach Tim Jankovic to SMU – and remember, he took point guard Nic Moore along with him – the Redbirds looked like a team with championship aspirations. Carmichael has NBA potential, and the rest of the crew was back from a young roster that seemed to really grow up during the 2012 MVC Tournament. But first-year head coach Dan Muller's squad sputtered, starting Valley play 0-6 and never quite recovering. There were flashes of that championship talent, mainly during a victory at Creighton in early February. It's why many believed the Redbirds had an outside shot to win this thing as a six seed, and it's why that 15-0 run in the middle of the first half had the thousands of Shockers fans in the building wiping their foreheads a little bit. Illinois State's magic run never materialized, though, and now Muller is left wondering how he'll recover in Year Two.
- Wichita State's Depth Is Starting to Form: Marshall's team is finally healthy. And it's completely healthy— meaning absolutely every key contributor is back. That's been evident during the first two games of this tournament, as Marshall has flooded subs in and out of the game at every possible turn. He's basically playing two lines of players, and all of them get after it on the defensive end and rebound the heck out of the ball. Much was made of Carl Hall's return during the middle of MVC play, but look no further than a guy like Ron Baker as an example of the kind of depth Marshall has at his disposal. Marshall has hailed his return from injury as an important factor in the Shockers' development, and after making a bunch of key plays in the quarterfinals, he scored seven points in the semis on Saturday. Marshall played 10 players against the Redbirds. Is it a coincidence that Illinois State wore down in the second half?
Star of the Game: We're giving the game ball to the entire Wichita State defense. Yeah, that's probably a cop out, but it's absolutely necessary in this instance. The Shockers manhandled Illinois State on every level, especially at the beginning of the game. "I mean, they couldn't score," Marshall said. "They were having a hard time putting the ball in the basket, and this is a prolific scoring team." Tyler Brown, who lit up Northern Iowa on Friday and made four threes in the first five minutes of that quarterfinal game, was shut down by Tekele Cotton on Saturday. That's the kind of effort everybody gave, and it's why the Redbirds' offense fizzled in the second half.
Sights and Sounds: Gregg Marshall has a lot of pull with the officials, apparently. After the officials called a charge on one of his players and took away a basket, Marshall exploded on the sidelines. Bright red face and everything. A few seconds later, they changed the call. "I'm even helping the referees," Marshall said to the radio producer at the scorer's table.


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Man Panics as Out-of-Control Elevator He's in Rockets Up 31 Floors in 15 Seconds [VIDEO]
It's one of those horrible fears we all have in elevators, but fortunately one that never comes true. Except for this guy.
Last week José Vergara Acevedo, 31, stepped into the elevator at Bustamente Community Park in Providencia, Chile, like he probably has hundreds of other times. But after pressing the button for whichever floor he meant to go to, the elevator malfunctioned. It started rising, fast, totally out of control, covering 31 floors in 15 seconds before smashing into the roof above.
Acevedo tried frantically to get the lift to stop, but could do nothing. He suffered serious injuries to his head and legs, and is in the hospital recovering.
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Sprinter Blake Leeper receives April honor from U.S. Olympic Committee
Anna Johannes was the runner-up for the United States Olympic Committee's April 2012 Female Athlete of the Month
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Several athletes made history in April, and those record-setting performances earned cycling's Evelyn Stevens (Acton, Mass.), Paralympic track & field's Blake Leeper (Nashville, Tenn.) and the U.S. men's epee fencing team Athlete and Team of the Month honors, the United States Olympic Committee announced today.
Stevens became the first American to win the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, breaking a 15-year drought on April 18 in Huy, Belgium. Stevens passed Marianne Vos of the Netherlands on the second and final climb up on the Mur de Huy to win. Stevens finished the 123-kilometer race in 3:26:32, capping off an overall successful day for the American crew. If Stevens remains in the top-10 of the women's world cup rankings, her world cup win may automatically qualify her for nomination to the U.S. Olympic Team.
Leeper set the world on fire during the month of April. At three different events held between April 14-28, he established new American records in the 100-meter (11.31), 200-meter (21.98) and 400-meter (51.97). His 100 and 200 times ranked second in the world and his 400 was the top in the world. Leeper is a double leg, below-the-knee amputee.
The U.S. men's epee fencing team won the world championship on April 14, marking the first time a U.S. men's fencing team has ever won gold at the event. Seth Kelsey (Brush Prairie, Wash.), Soren Thompson (San Diego, Calif.), Ben Bratton (Queens, N.Y.) and Cody Mattern (Tigard, Ore.) defeated France, the six-time reigning world champions, in the final to capture the gold medal, 44-37.
Paralympic swimmer Anna Johannes (Alexandria, Va.) placed second in the female vote, while freeskier Devin Logan (West Dover, Vt.) finished third. Equestrian Rich Fellers (Sherwood, Ore.) rode to second in the male competition, while cyclist Connor Fields (Las Vegas, Nev.) placed third. In the team vote, beach volleyball duo Phil Dalhausser (Orlando, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) took second place. The women's 4x100-meter relay team, which competed at USA vs. the World, rounded out the competition in third.
Each National Governing Body may nominate one female, one male and one team per discipline. A voting panel selects the winners from the pool of nominees with online fan voting via Twitter accounting for 10 percent of the total vote.
1. Evelyn Stevens, Cycling
2. Anna Johannes, Paralympic Swimming
3. Devin Logan, Skiing
1. Blake Leeper, Paralympic Track & Field
2. Rich Fellers, Equestrian
3. Connor Fields, Cycling
1. U.S. Men's Epee Team, Fencing
2. Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, Beach Volleyball
3.Women's 4x100m Relay Team, Track & Field


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Update: See the follow-up on StackOverflow. I agree with those who rallied against use of global, but no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater; as shown in that thread, we can instead use "eval" to keep it DRY.
You see a lot of NodeJS code like this:
- connect = require 'connect'
- express = require 'express'
- redis = require 'redis'
- sys = require 'sys'
- coffee = require 'coffee-script'
- fs = require 'fs'
BTW this is CoffeeScript, not pure JavaScript, but the same logic applies.
The point is, Node's module system gives you a layer of abstraction you probably don't need. 9 times out of 10, people just assign a module to a variable by the same name. You would, wouldn't you?!! You don't have to think about alternatives, and you can easily cut and paste other people's code. And it's now just an industry convention.
So why not practice convention over configuration, and keep things DRY with the following idiom:
- "underscore,connect,express,redis,sys,coffee-script,fs"
- .split(',').forEach (lib) -> global[lib] = require lib
Thanks to the "global" object, which is like the "window" object in the browser, we can easily require new libraries without unnecessary clutter.
And – as with any decent convention-over-configuration setup – we can still override the convention if we desire:
- _ = underscore


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Hi all,
My app was doing fairly well in production past couple a months. But
past 2 days, its gone off its rocker! Not able to figure out what the
problem is. The symptoms are as follows..
- It first went down when I deployed and ran a migration yesterday. A
simple column addition to a table
- The production log showed the SignalException::SIGTERM error ( dont
know anything about it )
- a server reboot seems to solve the problem temporarily
- New Relic RPM shows wayward physical mem utilization.
- im on Slicehost and the 'free' command shows way too much SWAP
memory usage (which is basically not good)
Does it sound like im having a memory leak? anywhere i could look?
anything i can do??
Oh those who have fought the battle and come out victorious.. bestow
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- News / Boston Archdiocese admits Irish sex abuse priests worked in its parishes / Click here
- News / Former Bishop says Murphy report wrong over blanket cover-up of child sex abuse / Click here
A total of 70 Irish priests who worked in the U.S. have been accused of sexual abuse of children.
The U.S. website, www.Bishopaccountability.org, has published the list of the priests who have been accused of pedophile activities either in the U.S. or Ireland.
Among the list is the most infamous abuser of all, Brendan Smyth, who brought down an Irish government.
The website says Smyth "offended in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, and in both Providence RI and Fargo ND in the United States, and pleaded guilty to 96 counts of child molestation in 1997, after the Irish government fell over the mishandling of his case."
Another name is that of Anthony O'Connell, bishop of Palm Beach FL and Knoxville TN, who "molested boys at a seminary he ran in Jefferson City MO, and who resigned his bishopric when his many victims began to come forward in 2002."
Also named is Oliver O'Grady, subject of a television documentary, who is now living in Ireland. He "was deported after he served prison time in California, where he is alleged to have abused as many as 50 boys and girls."
Another well known name is Patrick Colleary, "now residing in Ireland after he was indicted for abuse in Phoenix AZ and fled the country. A request for his extradition was denied."
The names of all 70 accused are carried on the site and their alleged offenses.
The Irish names were compiled after Boston victim groups asked the archdiocese there to publish the names of Irish-born priests suspected of abuse after the Irish scandals erupted.
In addition to Smyth, the names also include Joseph T. Maguire, a priest from the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, who was convicted of molesting more than a dozen boys in the state, and who died in 2005.
A Boston spokesman said Smyth, who was based in Kilnacrott Abbey, in County Cavan, died in prison in 1997, and worked in the archdiocese for just two days in 1991,even though he was wanted at the time. The archdiocese stated they had no knowledge of arrest warrants against him.


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As there are many grains of sand on the beach, it could not equal the variety of music that comes my way in Studio G at the Mohn Broadcast Center. This week one of my favs to produce was for the upcoming "Much Ado About Nothing" for The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the production will star Helen Hunt, Tom Irwin, Stephen Root, Dakin Matthews, and David Ogden Stiers in a world-class company of 17 American actors and musicians. Director Ben Donenberg has set the production in a grape-stomping California vineyard, ripe with Lyle Lovett's music. One of Lovett's most famous songs, "She's No Lady, She's My Wife," will be performed live in the show by Sara and Sean Watkins. For ticket information, http://www.centertheatregroup.org
Remembering back in 1989, Sara Watkins, barely out of her childhood, started playing in Nickel Creek in Carlsbad, California, along with her guitarist brother Sean and mandolinist, friend Chris Thile. The young trio built a reputation in bluegrass, folk, and country circles, then catapulted to mainstream prominence in 2000 after releasing an album produced by Alison Krauss. When not on the road or in the studio with Nickel Creek, Watkins guest-starred as fiddler and/or harmony vocalist on albums by Bela Fleck, the Chieftains, Ben Lee, Dan Wilson, Richard Thompson, and Ray La Montagne, among others. Although Nickel Creek is currently on an indefinite hiatus, Sara and Sean tour with their own separate bands. For more information about their music, http://www.nickelcreek.com/. The "Smoothie Song" was always one of my personal favorites. It landed as the musical bed for this spot.
(Audio clip is an underwriting spot for Shakespeare featuring a musical excerpt from "The Smoothie Song" performed Nickel Creek. SCPR voice talent Susanne Whatley.)


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Representatives of the Chestnut Hill Community Association and the Chestnut Hill Community Fund awarded $112, 727 in grants to local nonprofit organizations at a ceremony held Aug. 23 at the Chestnut Hill Hotel, 8229 Germantown Ave.
This year's grants were divided into five categories: human services, cultural enrichment, education, environment and physical beautification. Besides allocating $89,753 in funds from the Chestnut Hill Community Fund, members of the CHCA and CHCF distributed $6,200 in funds from the Green Space Initiative Grant and $16, 774 in funds from the Ch allege grant.
Noreen Spota, CHCA administrative coordinator, said this year there were several first-time nonprofit grant recipients, including Fresh Artists, the Mt. Airy Art Garage, Time4Time, Tempesta di Mare, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill Book Festival, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Musehouse: A Center for Literary Arts, Allens Lane Art Center, Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse Project.
Barbara Chandler Allen, executive director at Fresh Artists, received a $4,000 grant to install large-format reproductions of local children's art in the new emergency room wing of Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Through a partnership between Friends of J.S. Jenks and Fresh Artists, students at J.S. Jenks School will work with Ron and Abby Pete, owners of the Chestnut Hill Hotel and Farmers Market, to develop "a silly city" – a phrase coined by Evelyn Bock, a retired art teacher who will be leading the Fresh Artists Sprout Studio at Jenks.
Allen said Bock "interprets the architectural designs with little kids, and they make absolutely wild interpretations."
She said that when children see their artwork prominently displayed in the community, it sends a message that the community cares about them and values their artwork.
"Every time a piece of artwork is used [by a client or corporation] funds go back into the schools that we partner with," Allen said. "It's a big circle where the children are the first philanthropists creating artwork that generates art supplies and programing."
Stan Moat, a member of the Chestnut Hill Community Fund board, praised the efforts and dedication of local nonprofits such as Friends of J.S. Jenks, to improve the quality of life in Chestnut Hill.
"One of the most gratifying things we do in the course of the year is to raise money for worthy causes that are below the radar everywhere else," Moat said. " But, without you guys it wouldn't happen."
Marianne Dwyer, director of Teenagers Inc., said without the support of the Chestnut Hill Community Association and the Chestnut Hill Community Fund the organization would not exist today. She said funds from the $14,000 grant would help play for operating costs.
"If any of you work with teens in any way you know they are a tough group – tougher today then they were even five years ago," Dwyer said. "Even though teenagers today are very tech savvy, it doesn't mean you can communicate with them any better. It has been a challenge for us in these changing times."
She added that Teenagers Inc., Meals on Wheels and the Senior Center were originally funded under the Chestnut Hill Community Association.
"Without the support of the CHCA and the Chestnut Hill Community Fund over the last 17 years, we would not be here today – or even be founded," Dwyer said. "The CHCA is really the driving force behind the fund. Without the staff at the CHCA and the volunteer board, the fund would not exist. So, I want to ask everyone to talk up the CHCA and encourage people to become members and support all their activities."
Recipients of the 2013 Green Space Initiative grants include Stagecrafters, Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse Project, Friends of the Wyndmoor Train Station and the St. Martins Station Committee.
Recipients of the 2013 Challenge Grants are Center on the Hill, Time4Time Community Exchange, Mt. Airy Art Garage, Mt. Airy Business Improvement District, Friends of J.S. Jenks and The Crossing Choir.
CHCA Community Manager Celeste Hardester said it was difficult to choose recipients because of the abundance of applicants and valuable contributions they make to the community.
"The range and scope of the activities of the grant applicants is moving to listen to," Hardester said. "It was absolutely rich hearing about what these organizations do on an ongoing basis to contribute to the quality of life in their community and what they intend to do with the grant monies. I personally felt fortunate to be there listening to them. I wished I'd thought to suggest it be videotaped, so the community could witness first-hand what these people are doing. It was one inspiring story after another."


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Lindsay Lohan Turns Down 'Lucrative Offer' From Dancing with the Stars
If true, I'm sad. I'd love to see Lindsay Lohan dance and a what a cool way to show another side to herself than what tabloids report!!! I love her as an actress and nothing will change that. Below is more from TMZ for how Lindsay turned down a huge offer from Dancing With The Stars!!
Lindsay Lohan's ego might be her downfall — because TMZ has learned, she just shut down a lucrative offer to do "Dancing with the Stars" … because she doesn't want to do reality TV.
Sources close to Lindsay tell us, the actress was made several offers to join the DWTS cast this upcoming season — offers that maxed out at $550,000.
But Lindsay — who still owes hundreds of thousands in back taxes — shut them down, telling friends she'd never consider doing reality TV … she wants to stick to films.
You can read more at TMZ. What do you think? You can tell us. 😀


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Tuesday night I finally had the opportunity to see one of my favorite bands for the first time…..after 27 years, I finally got to see Night Ranger in concert! I have been a Night Ranger fan since the band's debut album, DAWN PATROL, was released in 1982 and I caught the first video for 'Don't Tell Me You Love Me'. Once the band released their second album, MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1983), I was hooked! I grew up with FM radio and MTV and the three singles from that album were everywhere: '(You Can Still) Rock In America', 'When You Close Your Eyes' and 'Sister Christian'. Add in albums like 7 Wishes (1985) and BIG LIFE (1987) and Night Ranger rocked me through the '80s…..but I never saw them in concert. Times change and when the '90s came, I lost touch of Night Ranger until I got back into fanzines, and got connected to the Internet in the Fall of 1998, that's when I became tuned into their new albums NEVERLAND (1997) and SEVEN (1998) but I still missed opportunities to see the band live. As it turns out, Night Ranger visits Mohegan Sun every year and I have never gone! If it wasn't for my friend giving me the heads up, and a well timed week's vacation, I might have missed out again!
Night Ranger setlist:
This Boy Needs To Rock (w/part of Deep Purple's 'Highway Star')
Sing Me Away
You're Gonna Hear From Me
Rumours In The Air
Coming Of Age (Damn Yankees cover)
Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
The Secret Of My Success
(A quick jam of partial songs from each member's first concert)
The Doors – 'Roadhouse Blues' (Kelly Keagy)
Led Zeppelin – 'Rock 'n' Roll' (Brad Gillis)
Iron Maiden – 'The Trooper' (Joel Hoekstra)
Van Halen – 'Jump' (Christian Cullen)
Jimi Hendrix – 'Purple Haze' (Jack Blades)
Sentimental Street (w/keyboard solo intro)
Eddie's Comin' Out Tonight
High Enough (Damn Yankess cover)
Four In The Morning
When You Close Your Eyes
Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Sister Christian
(You Can Still) Rock In America
This was another free show at the Wolf Den in the middle of the Mohegan Sun Casino, that meant standing in line for few hours if we wanted to actually get inside because capacity is 400. The Wolf Den is more of a lounge than an arena with it's tables and bar but many people do get up at the front of the stage on the floor. My friend and I got a late start to the casino but we had plenty of time for a great dinner and we got in line with about an hour until showtime. One thing I knew from the Ace Frehley concert in March was, if the Wolf Den was full, people would be standing outside the arena in the open views from the slot machines. We were in line about 15 minutes when I saw an usher start to talk to people at the front…..turns out the Den was full and we were all on standby! That was my cue to take up residence on the outside railing of the arena with full view of the stage. If it wasn't for the waist high log barrier, we would have been about 10-12 rows back, stage right corner!
The show was great! Night Ranger played a set full of hit singles like 'Sing Me Away', 'Four In The Morning'. 'Sentimental Street' and 'When You Close Your Eyes' and they threw in a deep track from 7 WISHES, 'This Boy Needs To Rock', and a song from their last album HOLE IN THE SUN (1998), 'You're Gonna Hear From Me'. All the Night Ranger songs got a ton of applause, it's amazing to remember just how many hits and radio singles these guys got back in the day, but the two songs that got a HUGE round of cheers were the two Damn Yankees songs: 'Coming Of Age' & 'High Enough'. Going into the show I hadn't checked the setlist online so I had no idea they played some Damn Yankees. I'm not surprised they pulled those two out, they were big hits for Jack Blades in the early '90s and they fit perfectly in the Night Ranger set. The band was tight, played great and looked to be having a great time on stage.
The band included a few surprises by doing a few partial covers and a full performance of Ozzy's 'Crazy Train'. Opening song 'This Boy Needs To Rock' had a quick partial performance of Deep Purple's 'Highway Star' and introduced their cover of 'Crazy Train' by reminding everyone that Brad Gillis replaced the late Randy Rhoads on tour and played on the live album SPEAK OF THE DEVIL (1982)…..hearing Gillis' version of 'Crazy Train' was flawless and the band did a solid job. Midway through the set, the band started talking about their first concerts and they went to each member and played a partial cover from each band. This took a few minutes, and I would have preferred another Night Ranger song, but the band were enjoying themselves and the crowd gave good applause for the quick pieces of 'Roadhouse Blues', 'Rock 'n'Roll', 'The Trooper', 'Jump' and 'Purple Haze'. Normally I would go on about my dislike of covers but Night Ranger only put in partial performances, and the 'Crazy Train' cover was really good, so I didn't mind like I usually do. The encore was perfect…..the band's biggest hit, 'Sister Christian', and their anthem, '(You Can Still) Rock In America'…..a great way to end the show!
You couldn't ask for more, the band played all their hits (although 'Goodbye' was missing!) and their more popular album tracks. I thought it was great to include the two Damn Yankees hits and I was psyched to hear a song from the band's most recent album. I would have easily traded 'Crazy Train' and the mid-set covers jam for 'Goodbye' or a couple of songs from either NEVERLAND (1997) or SEVEN (1998) but they weren't as intrusive live as they would be on a new studio album. Fifteen songs and a covers jam packed into a solid 90 minute performance with a good crowd, can't beat that! All in all, a great concert…..and it was FREE! Too bad I had to wait 27 years to finally see Night Ranger live…..that won't happen again!


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Tuesday I did all my shopping and started cooking. I made the liquor pie, so the rum could soak through to the crust. I made a cranberry sauce with blueberries and rosemary (weird, but good! Recipe at the end.)
Wednesday Dana (sister) came. I worked in the morning, then as soon as I got home we set to work. I made a sweet potato pie, we brined the turkey, and we prepped everything for the stuffings. Sarah helped. We made an emergency run to the liquor/wine store for supplies, and came back with enough to get the neighborhood drunk.
Thanksgiving day we cooked all morning and then stuffed ourselves stupid. It was great.
The menu was:
- oysters on the half-shell, with cocktail sauce and mignonette
- chicken liver pate
- assorted cheeses - brillat savarin (my favorite), Rosenborg blue, brie with homemade jalapeño jelly, and the cheese with cranberries in it that I forget what it's called.
- Kate's gf wrap-bread, let to full rise so it was like focaccia
- rice crackers, and regular gluten-bread in case people didn't like the other choices, which they did
- delicious salad, which we ate while waiting for the turkey
- wine, beer (Redbridge and regular), Woodchuck cider
3/4 c cranberry ketchup
zest from 1 lemon
juice from 1/2 lemon
3 T GF horseradish (I've found it around Jewish holidays made with cider vinegar)
a dash of hot sauce
Mix everything together.
1/2 c red wine vinegar
2 T olive oil
2 T shallots, minced fine
2 t fresh ground pepper
Mix everything together, stir before serving.
Delicious Salad
Spinach salad with pomegranate and goat cheese with blood orange-shallot vinaigrette
seeds of 1 pomegranate
1 red onion, cut into small rounds
pepper/herbed goat cheese
Blood orange-shallot vinaigrette
1 clove garlic
3 pinches salt
juice from 1 blood orange
2 T lemon juice
1 small shallot, minced
2/3 c oil, half olive/half vegetable
Mash the garlic with the salt, add in the citrus juices and shallot, whisk, then in a slow steady stream, add the oils.
Assemble the salad - mix the spinach and pom and onion in a bowl, then crumble in the goat cheese. Toss with salad dressing, and grind fresh pepper over the top.
- The turkey.
- Traditional stuffing (vegetarian)
- Spicy cornbread and sausage stuffing
- Mashed potatoes
- Mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top
- Sarah's spicy green beans
- Vegetarian gravy and turkey gravy
- Roasted brussel sprouts
- Dana's wild rice pilaf with cranberries
- Alex's crispy fried tofu with soy broth
2 loaves gf bread - we used 1 loaf Ener-G white rice bread and a loaf Wholefoods GF Bakehouse corn bread
1 onion, diced
4 carrots, diced
6 ribs celery, diced
A good amount of mushrooms, sliced
3 T butter, or more
A hearty few shakes of Bell's seasoning
vegetable broth, store-bought or home-made, or milk
Toast the bread, then cut into small squares. Place in a large, oven-safe bowl (or, have a casserole handy to transfer to). Cook the vegetables in the butter until soft (use more vegetables, or different vegetables, as you see fit. Add more butter if you love butter like me). Pour into the bowl with the bread, generously sprinkle with Bell's, then pour liquid over. Start with a cup or two, then go from there. I like my stuffing moist. Season with salt and pepper, add more Bell's if necessary. Serve as is, or bake alongside turkey until center is hot and top has a nice crust. You can dot top with butter before putting in the oven, if you want.
Cornbread and sausage stuffing
two recipes cornbread, or store-bought cornbread
1 lb sausage, hot or mild
onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms, other vegetables as you see fit
1-4 jalapeños
chicken or turkey stock, home-made or store-bought
salt and pepper
chili and cayenne and smoked paprika
Prepare the cornbread, and cut into rough cubes. Set aside. Cook sausage until browned, dump over cornbread, then cook the vegetables and jalapeño in the sausage grease. When vegetables are softened, pour over the sausage-cornbread mix, and season with salt and pepper, chili, cayenne, and smoked paprika, to taste. Add stock, toss, adding more as desired. Bake as traditional stuffing, above.
Cornbread for stuffing
1 1/4 c cornmeal
3/4 c rice flour mix
2 1/2 t baking powder
1 T sugar
3/4 t salt
2 eggs, beaten
3 T melted butter
1 c milk
Mix dry ingredients, then whisk in wet ingredients. Bake about 20 minutes in a greased 8x8 pan, at 425.
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows
I'd never had these before, I knew I love mashed sweet potatoes from work (we have great maple sweet potatoes), and none of us had had that casserole with the marshmallows on top before. So I made it, and it might have been my favorite dish of the night. I've been thinking about it a lot since then. I based mine off Elise's recipe for holiday sweet potatoes.
About 6 sweet potatoes (yams, whatever, I know there's a difference. I used the orange ones)
3/4 c brown sugar
3/4 stick butter
juice and zest of an orange
heavy pinches of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg
salt and pepper
a splash of milk
Prick the potatoes all over and bake at 400 for about 45 minutes or longer, until fork-tender. Remove from oven and let cool a minute or two. Cut in half and squeeze insides into a bowl. Add other ingredients, beat with a mixer until smooth. Taste, adjust seasoning if necessary. Put in oven-proof dish and sprinkle with marshmallows, bake until top is brown.
- Liquor Pie
- Sweet potato pie
- Liquor sauce and fresh (hand-)whipped cream
- pumpkin puddings with meringues (recipe later, the magazine is downstairs)
I'd never had this before, we sampled it at work, it smelled good, I decided to go for it.
Your favorite homemade or bought GF pie crust, glazed with an egg yolk and pre-baked
3 eggs, whisked
1 15oz can sweet potatoes
1 1/2 c heavy cream
3/4 c brown sugar
1 t each cinnamon and ginger
1/2 t nutmeg and allspice
1/2 t salt
Mix everything together, pour into hot pie crust, then bake 40-45 mins at 375. Cool on rack. Serve with liquor sauce, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, or as is.
Liquor sauce
2/3 stick butter
1 c brown sugar
1/4 c liquor (I used rum)
2 T water
1/4 t nutmeg
1/8 t salt
1 egg, beaten
Melt butter in a saucepan. Stir in remaining ingredients except egg, cook until sugar is dissolved. Whisking quickly, pour hot sauce into egg slowly. Return to pan and cook over med heat until thickened, about 1 minute. Serve hot.
1 c water
1 c sugar
3 c cranberries
1 c blueberries
2 sprigs rosemary (I'd recommend thyme instead)
Mix the water and sugar and cranberries in a saucepan, cook over medium heat, stirring, until cranberries pop. Add blueberries and rosemary, cook for about 1 minute until the berries soften, cool. Sauce will thicken as it cools.


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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Life goes on in the wake of 3/11
Words and Photos by shadi
|The Clean up continues in Ishinomaki
|One of the few remaining homes in Ishinomaki.
|Car graveyard in Ishinomaki
If you read newspapers or blogs for the weeks and months that followed the earthquake it seemed as if you were reading the script of a Japanese apocalyptic anime. The stories of people being swept away and out of control nuclear reactors blowing their roofs off terrified me. I was most worried about the friends of mine that live in Tokyo. I have developed life long friendships with many people in Tokyo after traveling to work there for over 11 years. It had been almost 2 1/2 years since I had returned to Japan which was odd. I would go at least once a year or more for work and play. I would go to Japan to disappear in the crowds and somehow hear my thoughts again. It was a place that I could walk down a street not be able to read any sign or understand any ones words and think clearly.
I had wanted to return to Japan at the peak of the disaster but I knew that I could be of no help but the photojournalist in me really wanted to go.
I had to wait for months to return until a combination of events led me plan a return. The main being MONEY!!.
It seemed as if things might be returning to a sense of normality even though reports of high radiation and contaminated food were common. Non of my Japanese friends believed the government reports of what was going on but most of them returned to Tokyo to resume a somewhat normal life. I was worried most about my friends that have little babies now and what the future would be for them living in this environment. I remember the post 9/11 New York vividly and that felt like a science fiction movie. I lived very close to the pile of smelly debris and I had to shuffle my son around that area with a particle mask for months. It became routine to look down Greenwich street and see the smoke and debris in the distance and just go about your business and walk past crying onlookers who stared teary eyed in shock. We just bought our groceries went home turned on our HEPA air filters and went on with our lives(windows closed of course).
Well I needed to see first hand what happen. I wanted to see a glimmer of hope and rebuilding. My best New York buddy Bob Geile was about to marry his Fiance Maiko in Kamakura and I didn't want to miss that. The 3/11 events put more than a dent in their plans of a full on Japanese wedding but after some delay they figured it out .
My other buddy Curtis Kulig of "Love Me" fame was doing an art show in Tokyo as well as my friend Gogy Esparza. So now I had 3 more excuses for going back.
I arrived in Japan without a plan. I needed to get to the Sendai area within 2 weeks of my departure. I had posted on photojournalist blogs to find a fixer or anyone to help me get to Sendai but I didn't get any response so I emailed someone I met from 60 minutes and used Facebook as a last resort. Then I got an email from an old friend who saw my facebook post by way of Paris and told me to contact a Mr. Kurosaki from the Heartquake Project. Mr. Kurosaki heard my story of how I wanted to go to Sendai and photograph the rebuilding efforts. He went out of his way to find someone to take me to Sendai and make sure I was safe. He introduced me to a man named Mr. Ei Sato of Tateoka Office. He took time out of his busy schedule to escort me to Sendai on a weekend. He barely spoke english and my Japanese is minimal but thanks to an iPhone translation app we communicated for hours with a lot of texting. He was part of an effort to distribute books food money to people that needed it most in the effected areas. The week before he had delivered a truck load of books to children that had lost everything. His organization was making sure donated money and resources got to the victims.
We met at the train station and took the Bullet train or Shinkansen to Sendai. Its a 2 hour ride on the high speed rail but it is a totally smooth luxurious ride. At one point the ride became surreal. The intercom woke me up with a sexy voice saying " NEXT STOP FUKUSHIMA STATION". I expected the train to stop with people in radiation suits and geiger counters waiting on the platform but what I did see was a hundreds of people getting on and off like any other stop. According to the Google maps search I did its about 49 miles to the Reactor from the town of Fukushima. Close but about a 16 hour walk away.
So we proceeded to get off a bit further at Sendai station and rent a car. We needed to drive for about an hour to the first town of MinamiSanriku which is one of the many remote coastal towns that were destroyed. The drive was a series of winding roads most of which had been rebuilt since the earthquake. When we finally arrived at the center of Minamisanriku I was in utter shock. It took me a few minutes to grasp where I was and what I was doing there. There was nothing but garbage and debris for as far as you could see. Most of it in neat piles waiting to be picked up or sorted. These were homes of thousands of people and now just piles. I was hoping to find people to talk to but they were either dead or long gone. Mostly cleanup workers and the few people I did meet were volunteers from Fukuoka which is very far from Sendai. They drove about 930 miles to make a contribution to this town. They were fixing up a kindergarden which I think was wonderful but I wasn't too sure where they were going to get the kids from since no one lived in the town anymore. Well anyways they were doing something positive so ill shut up. We explored a bit more and I found the famous sea wall that was constructed after the 1960 Tsunami that wiped out the town. They built this wall to protect the town from future Tsunami's but it was no match for the power of 3/11. The massive concrete blocks were tossed like Lego pieces as the water receded.
Massive piles of garbage had begun to fill the shore of Minamisanriku from the clean up. They separated the debris into wood, metal, concrete piles to recycle but I heard that most of the wood piles would be burned because they were too damaged from Salt and other things?
The next town we visited was much larger. It was a big commercial fishing town called Ishinomaki. This town was one of the worst hit. 29,000 people were displaced 3,000 confirmed dead and about 3,000 missing. The entire time I was there it felt like a Stephen King novel. A low lying fog sat on the town all day. All my photos had this ghostly haze. At the end of the day while walking in a field near the shore I could feel the spirits or the dead around me. There was a car graveyard in the middle of the industrial part of town that was about 4-5 football fields big, it contained thousands of cars piled 3 high stacked like bricks in every direction. Most of the cars looked salvageable but I figured the salt water did them in. By the shore there are the dozens of canneries that were destroyed but since fishing is a main source of food in Japan many new ones have popped up rapidly in the shadow of destroyed ones.
Many boats that were thrown onto land were on the dock being repaired and life was coming back to this ghost town. When I left Ishinomaki on the way out there was a debris pile that was the biggest pile I've ever seen that was right by the road out. It was about 6 stories high and went on for blocks and blocks.
What I came back to the city after thinking about what I saw was that "Life goes on" regardless of what we feel or what we hope. The trees push thru the cracks in the concrete and the grass grows over the open fields. I felt like what I saw in Minami Sanriku and Ishinomiaki was great loss but I also saw hope. In Japan I saw friends of mine going on with their lives and moving forward to plan for a better future because in the end that's all we can really do.
|Business as usual in Harajuku
|New meets old at the Harajuku station
|Kunici Nomura and Curtis Kulig cruising Tokyo
|Photographer Keiichi Nitta doing live photo show at a fashion event-Tokyo
|Shibuya Station play time
|Underground Bar/Art Gallery-Tokyo
|Riot Police on alert in Tokyo
|Gogy Art Installation in Tokyo
|Friends Reunite Curtis Kulig and Kun Nomura
|Ride home from School Tokyo Japan
|Birthday celebration of Hideki Kimura
at Le Baron Tokyo
|Shibuya dinner with Masafumi Watanabe
|Teenagers shopping in Harajuku
|Ed Elms art show in Harajuku
|Kun and John Tokyo
|Little boy enjoying a ride in Tokyo
|Octopus Balls or Takoyaki cooking in Tokyo
|Takoyaki owner John Ikeda in front of his new restaurant in Tokyo
|Mr. Kurosaki in the office
|Early morning umbrella sales in Harajuku Station Tokyo Japan
|My fixer Ei Sato getting his fix
|On the Road to Ishinomaki
|Picking up rental car in Sendai
|Just outside of the Fukushima prefecture
|On the road to Sendai Ai and Shadi with iPhone as our translator
|Never Give Apple more likely Never give up! This was the first thing I saw when I went to this decimated town of Minami-Sanriku, Sendai
|Minami-Sanriku Sendai Winnie the Pooh
|Minami-Sanriku Sendai Volunteer from Fukoka
|Minami-Sanriku Sendai works pickup truck with inspiration graffiti
|Minami Sanriku volunteers taking a break from fixing school
|Volunteers drove a van 900 miles from Fukuoka to help in Minami Sanriku
|In a massive pile of debris life pushes thru. Minami Sanriku
|Life goes on Minami Sanriku
|Plaque says " This Tsunami happen in 1960 from Chile Earthquake" -Minami Sanriku
|Car graveyard in Ishinomaki
|A collection of Fire Extinguishers found in Ishinomaki
|A generator lights one of the few inland homes that remain in Ishinomaki
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|Boats being repaired at Ishinomaki dock
Sign says"We can do it! Ishinomaki"
|Whale meat advertisement on Fuel storage can in Ishinomaki
|In Minami Sanriku this was one of the last standing buildings in the town. This is about a mile from the shore.
|Self portrait in Shadi -Minami Sanriku
|Debris being pulled out of the canal in Minami Sanriku as new life looks on
|The remains of a Pachinko Parlor Minami Sanriku
|Happy Bride in Kamakura
|Wedding Celebration in Kamakura
|Wedding's in Kamakura
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Maybe it was inevitable that the country that made manga world-famous would fall for a bag that looks like it was peeled out of the pages of a comic book. JumpFromPaper's whimsical bags (above), with their eye-fooling primary color blocks and heavy outlines, jumped up the ranks of trending topics on Twitter in Japan last week under the keyword "2-D bag." The burst of attention coincided with TV personality Terry Itoh introducing the line on the mid-day variety show "Sukkiri!!" The bags' designers are based in Taiwan, and though there are many retail outlets carrying the bags there, in Japan they are only available online for now.
Mihara Hideaki's bags have a slightly more serious lineage. The designer's bio says he studied leathercraft in Florence, but it's not his leather work that's getting second glances for some of his latest bags. The (variously spelled) Trompe L'oeil bags have belts and buckles, leather tassels and decorative chains printed onto canvas bodies. The great big buckles may not be fooling anyone, but the thinner faux straps look convincing, and the silk scarves printed on the sides of some look like they could flutter right off.
Acrylic designer Masako Ban takes that feeling of slightly retro whimsy and goes in the opposite direction. While JumpFomPaper makes 3-D bags that look flat, Ban uses holographic lenticular material on some of her messenger bags and handbags that gives their flat surfaces a disorientingly three-dimensional and rather futuristic look.
You don't need to spend a lot to get in on the eye-fooling action, though — just get into the check-out line at Isetan. Brain magazine reports that the venerable department store, which has long had distinctive plaid paper shopping bags, has also added a paper bag with a photo-realistic print covering it that makes it look like a wicker basket. The bag is for purchases from their food shops.
Why all the trickery? Maybe it's a way to play with luxe designs at a budget price. Or maybe people just want to make you look twice.