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STOCKTON - A Stockton family counselor who mediated arguments between squabbling couples and helped parents and their children through behavioral issues appears to have snapped over his own contentious divorce proceedings and being denied a share of a valuable property owned by his ex-wife.
STOCKTON - A Stockton family counselor who mediated arguments between squabbling couples and helped parents and their children through behavioral issues appears to have snapped over his own contentious divorce proceedings and being denied a share of a valuable property owned by his ex-wife.
Colin McGrattan, 45, used a .38-special handgun Monday afternoon in what police have described as a three-stop killing spree that claimed the lives of McGrattan's ex-wife, Jackie Arata, 57; her sister, Kathleen Arata, 64; and the women's aunt, Chizuko Kanieshi, 88, before killing himself.
Officer Joe Silva, a police spokesman, said it's unknown where the spree started, but that McGrattan killed Jackie Arata sometime Monday afternoon, then drove her minivan to Kathleen Arata's Regent Street home near the Miracle Mile, where he shot and killed her. He then drove six miles north to the O'Connor Woods Senior Living home and shot Kanieshi in her living quarters before shooting himself in the head.
McGrattan and Jackie Arata are survived by two sons, Ian McGrattan, 18, who attends the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Owen McGrattan, 14, who attends Linden High School, according to divorce attorney Dennis Duncan, who spoke about the case.
Silva said detectives believe McGrattan had been agitated over a financial situation, leading to the violent shooting spree.
Duncan confirmed that divorce proceedings, which had been ongoing since January 2011 between the couple, had been contentious and stressful, focusing on the Arata family home and orchard on Baldwin Lane, just west of Linden. Jackie Arata inherited the property, valued between $500,000 and $1 million, from the family trust. They had leased the orchards to farmers and lived in the home until they separated in October 2010.
Jackie Arata lived on the orchard lease money and had recently taken a job working at a Linden fruit stand to supplement that income.
"There's no hiding that they had a disagreement over the characterization of the property," Duncan said. "Colin had thought in his mind that, with all they had done together to take care of Jackie's mother before she died, that he had some right to the ranch. She didn't want him to have it, and the law is very clear that she had sole and separate ownership."
McGrattan, a family and marriage counselor who also ran the nonprofit organization Practical Counseling and Education Services out of his West March Lane office, was seen as a competent counselor. No one suspected he was capable of committing murder.
His business website promotes him as a good listener who offered mediation and promotion of "peaceful resolutions" to couples to get them to "a relaxed place where they are more able to make more rational decisions on policy."
Practical counselor Dan Offield called him a good boss who was very busy serving clients. He said nobody could have foreseen a violent attack. Offield said he regularly works at St. Joseph's Medical Center to assess patients with suicidal tendencies.
"I'm of the mind that if you get to the hospital for help, you didn't want to kill yourself and if you really want to, nobody will know about it or be able to stop it," Offield said. "Just because you're a therapist, it doesn't make you less human."
Stockton resident Stacey Jones has taken her two sons to get counseling from McGrattan. She said he was very good with her children and at listening to her describe different behavioral issues.
"I would refer him to people, he was that good," she said. "He was very friendly, outgoing, and really cared about what we were doing. I was completely shocked by this."
Regent Street and O'Connor Woods Senior Living were both quiet and nondescript Tuesday. Neighbors of Kathleen Arata remembered her Monday night as a retired woman who liked to bake and attend neighborhood functions. Neighbors refused comment Tuesday.
O'Connor Woods' Executive Director Scot Sinclair said the seniors and staff at the living facility held Kanieshi in very high regard, noting that she often helped others complete sewing projects.
"Many of us are very saddened by the events. We are offering counseling to those that need it," Sinclair said.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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I wrote last December about the large gap in valuation per subscriber between XM (XMSR) and Sirius (SIRI), two satellite radio providers with stratospheric valuations, but with Sirius selling for 3x more than XM on a per subscriber basis. I proposed a simple hedging trade – short SIRI and go long XMSR. This morning, XM announced a particulally spectacular loss and Director Pierce J. Roberts resigned based on disagreement over the companies direction. His comments are best viewed in his resignation letter filed at the SEC.
Given current course and speed there is, in my view, a significant chance of a crisis on the horizon. Even absent a crisis, I believe that XM will inevitably serve its shareholders poorly without major changes now. It is clear to me that I cannot be part of the solution and I will not be part of the problem.
XMSR traded down steeply this morning, breaking what had been to date a neutral trade. I proposed the hedge on the evening of December 18th. Let's take a look at where things stand right now before the market opens.
Comapnies making big capital intensive expenditures in technology historically go through a cycle where the initial, starry-eyed investors get washed out. Panama Canal (French Bondholders), Transcon Railroad (US Govt., Bondholders), Undersea Cable (Morse, others), Satellite Telephones (remember Iridium?), a notable exception is the Erie Canal. I'm still a firm believer that before satellite radio is successful as a niche product; it will wash out all of the first round investors. And I still think SIRI has farther to fall than XMSR. SIRI reports earnings tomorrow. I'm going to wait and see what happens, and I'm sticking with the trade.
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GAO, Mali (Reuters) - Malian troops hunted house-to-house in Gao on Monday for Islamist insurgents whose attack inside the northern town at the weekend showed the risk that French forces might become entangled in a messy guerrilla war.
Sneaking across the Niger River under cover of darkness, the al Qaeda-allied rebels fought Malian and French troops on Sunday in the streets of the ancient Saharan trading town, retaken from the Islamists two weeks ago.
Malian Defense Minister Yamoussa Camara said three of the Islamist raiders were killed and 11 taken prisoner, while some Malian soldiers were wounded in the street fighting.
The brazenness of the rebel raid, which followed successive blasts by two suicide bombers at a northern checkpoint, was a surprise to the French-led military operation in Mali which had so far faced little real resistance from the Islamists.
"They took advantage of the two suicide attacks on Saturday and Sunday to infiltrate the town," Camara told a news conference in Bamako. "With young people desperate over their future, it is possible to take them and indoctrinate them to the point of sacrificing their own lives."
A doctor in Gao's hospital, Noulaye Djiteyi, said three civilians were killed and 11 wounded. The casualties were hit by stray bullets in the gun battle.
The attack indicated that the French forces, which number 4,000 soldiers on the ground, were vulnerable to hit-and-run attacks by the jihadists to the rear of their forward lines.
French and Malian officials in Gao said the risks of infiltration, shootings and bomb blasts remained high.
"The Malians are checking house-by-house, block-by-block," a French officer, who asked not to be named, told reporters.
French and Malian soldiers in armored vehicles reinforced locations and sandbagged road checkpoints at the entrances to the town, alert for further attacks from bands of Islamist insurgents reported hiding in the surrounding desert scrub.
France intervened in Mali last month as Islamist forces, who hijacked a rebellion by ethnic Touareg MNLA separatists to seize control of the north in the confusion following a military coup in March 2012, pushed south towards the capital Bamako.
That had pushed Mali to the forefront of U.S. and European security concerns, with fears the Islamists would turn the country into a base for international attacks.
French leaders have said they intend to start pulling troops out of Mali in March, and want to hand over security operations to a larger, 8,000-strong African military force currently still being assembled and drawn mostly from West African states.
But this African contingent is still struggling to deploy in positions behind the French, raising the risk that Paris' forces could face "mission creep" and be obliged to stay on longer to guarantee security in the face of rebel guerrilla tactics.
"There is no doubt that the Islamists will find weak spots," Jakkie Cilliers, executive director of the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies, told Reuters.
"Now it becomes all complex and messy," he added.
In a move that risks igniting further violence in areas of the north previously considered to have been pacified, Malian troops pushed into the town of Menaka, to the east of Gao, senior Malian army officials said on Monday.
Menaka was abandoned by Islamist forces during heavy aerial bombardment by the French but had been reoccupied by the MNLA's Touareg fighters, who have taken advantage of Islamist withdrawals to retake territory they lost last year.
Accusing Bamako of refusing to negotiate and the Malian army of committing atrocities, the MNLA vowed on Sunday to "launch a struggle without mercy" against government forces deployed to the north, including in Timbuktu and Gao.
President Francois Hollande acknowledged that France's military still had more work to do before it achieved its aim of ousting the al Qaeda-linked groups from all of northern Mali.
"We have not finished our task," Hollande said in Paris, after meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. "There is a risk of either attacks or guerilla tactics so we need to continue to securitize all of Mali's territory."
Gao's main market was bustling on Monday but crowds gathered to look at the wrecked police station building where the jihadist raiders, some on motorbikes, firing AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, fought French and Malian troops.
Witnesses said bodies still lay in the dusty streets, some apparently rebels, others civilians caught by stray bullets.
"I passed by the police station and I saw shredded corpses inside. There are three victims from stray bullets," local resident Ibrahim Toure told Reuters.
After driving the bulk of the insurgents from northern towns such as Timbuktu and Gao, France has been focusing its operations on Mali's remote northeast mountains, where French special forces and Chadian troops are hunting rebel bases.
They believe the rebels are holding at least seven French hostages, previously seized in the Sahel, in hideouts in the Adrar des Ifoghas range that straddles the Mali-Algeria border.
Additional reporting by Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo in Bamako, John Irish in Paris; Writing by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Michael Roddy


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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts state police are investigating partial human remains found in a river in Boston less than two hours after authorities recovered another body from a separate river.
State police spokesman David Procopio says authorities on Saturday recovered a body discovered floating in the Muddy River shortly after 9 a.m. Boston police are investigating.
State police, however, are probing the recovery of partial human remains found at 10:40 a.m. in the Charles River.
Police say those remains are possibly related to other human body parts found in the river about a month ago. Police do not believe they were put in the river recently.
Procopio says the discovery of these body parts does not indicate any ongoing threat to the public. He declined to release additional details, citing a potentially related ongoing investigation.
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Sophos Endpoint Security and Control software has supported virtualization for a few years. Over this time, we've amassed the following practical information about how you can optimize our software to work with this technology. The advice is grouped into three main themes: deployment, provisioning dynamic machines and scheduled scans.
Applies to the following Sophos products and versions Sophos Endpoint Security and ControlEnterprise Console
For information on supported software and availability of technical support, see the System requirements page.
A common challenge of protecting virtual machines is ensuring that they have current protection. Virtual machines tend to be created dynamically from template images, but the anti-virus software included in the Gold image is obsolete within a few months of its creation. So how can you ensure that the latest software is loaded into the new machine? Here are four ways that you can prepare virtual machines for deployment that will overcome this challenge.
You can embed an agent deployment task into a virtual machine using a script. This will ensure that when the machine is brought online the latest version of Endpoint Security and Control (Sophos Anti-Virus) is deployed from a network-based central installation directory, which is kept up-to-date by Enterprise Console.
To embed a startup script in the machine image, you will need to configure a start up task (using Active Directory for example) and then call the Sophos setup application with arguments appropriate for the type of machine.
For details of how to do this in Active Directory (AD), refer to the knowledgebase article Deploying Endpoint Security and Control (Sophos Anti-Virus) through Active Directory group policy. For other methods, use Sophos Endpoint Security and Control: command line parameters used by setup.exe as your guide to the settings.
Certain virtualization products like VMware vSphere allow you to stage your systems for preparation before they are put into production. You can take advantage of these staging capabilities to put servers in to a staging virtual network which isolates them from other computers until they have done their preparation workloads. This is a useful technique if you have a wide variety of preparation tasks for your servers -- though it's somewhat overkill if you just want to deploy an anti-virus program to them.
If you're going to stage the server before deploying it, we recommend creating a virtual network which provides access to your patching infrastructure, anti-virus updates and other such systems whilst preventing access to the network at large (some customers run a penetration test against the system whilst it is being staged to check that it can't access the outside network). This ensures that by the time the system is put into production it is appropriately up-to-date. You will need to use either technique 3 or 4 in this list to make sure the anti-virus software updates appropriately once it is put on the main network.
If you already have a Sophos agent on your virtual machine you can trigger an update as soon as the machine comes online. This ensures that protection is updated as early as possible to minimize the risk of out-of-date clients. You can use Alupdate.exe with arguments to trigger an update, or you can use a script with ALsvc.exe. For details of how to do this, refer to the sections on ALsvc.exe and ALUpdate.exe in the 'Significant Files' section of the knowledgebase article Sophos AutoUpdate: significant files and registry entries.
The most common way to create new virtual machines is to clone them from a library or an existing working machine. If you intend to clone your virtual machines with the product installed, you will need to make some changes to the product on the disk image to ensure that correct certificates are issued to each cloned machine. This ensures that machines appear as new systems and are allocated the correct policies. For more details, refer to the knowledgebase article Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+: incorporating Sophos Anti-Virus current versions in a disk image, including for use with cloned virtual machines.
In the early days of server virtualization, most virtual machines were static - simply virtual equivalents of their physical counterparts. But as virtualization is now able to deliver high availability and resilience, it has become increasingly typical for network administrators with virtual infrastructures to create/remove machines dynamically to deal with load or user requests. A new challenge of using Enterprise Console is emerging: being able to distinguish between virtual machines and physical machines (such as laptop users) that are roaming and expected to return. These different machines may also require different anti-virus (or other) policies, depending on their business purposes. For instance, a web server might require different protection/performance settings to a database server, or thin client. To overcome both of these challenges, the following steps set out a simplified system to categorize your machines when you have a virtual infrastructure running alongside a physical one. These steps will help you both to identify and remove machines from Enterprise Console when they are no longer required and to assign appropriate policies to all machines on the network.
Most enterprise virtualization products enable you to place virtual machines into a specific AD group as part of their provisioning process. In most organizations, various policies are applied through AD to the virtual systems depending on their use.
The benefit of this approach is that Sophos Enterprise Console can synchronize with Active Directory and automatically apply the correct Endpoint Security and Control policies to the systems as they are created. Furthermore, should a system be provisioned which does not have appropriate anti-virus protection, Enterprise Console can be configured to automatically deploy the software, which is a great fail safe. This feature will ensure that any dynamically created systems have the correct policies - this is particularly useful if you allow users to provision their own machines, or anytime a department outside of IT might miss this step in the provisioning workflow.
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Security products sometimes need to perform tasks which are CPU or disk I/O intensive. One of the best examples of this is scheduled scanning for latent malware or when you must complete a scan for clean up purposes. Scheduled scans can significantly degrade the performance of virtual machines if they are not managed appropriately. There are a number of ways to manage this impact, including using other system management tools for which you have already created policies.
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Here's my perfect camera strap. Presented to you in a little understated video I made.
Reasons to recommend this strap:
- Comfort in the hand or around the neck. Very occasionally, I carry my camera with the strap running diagonally across my chest (never in front like a tourist). But most of the time I carry my camera with the strap wrapped around my wrist like a hand strap. My strap feels great however you carry your camera.
- No fiddly adjustments and no buckles. I just want a strap the correct length, for me. Not too long and not too short.
- Strong. Oh yes, very strong.
- Design. I want a strap that compliments the look of my cameras. Also, I like the feel and quality of handmade items.
|Red Bespoke Strap
The cord is military grade, made in the US. It's very strong, a single strand will hold over 600 pounds. For added security the ends are spliced to form a loop, where a stainless steel split ring connects to the camera. I've used a leather tube to protect the camera from rubbing against the split ring. The loose ends are finished with a celtic knot for luck and love. The new strap initially feels a little stiff, like a new pair of jeans, but with use it will relax and become the most comfortable material in the hand. It feels great and because it's cylindrical it rolls instead of digging in.
There are no buckles and bits of plastic, the strap is bespoke and is made to any length, from 30 inches to 50 inches. At the moment colours are black, gray, khaki and olive, but I'm playing with new colours and will show them here as I make them.
The straps are available from my BitMit shop but they sell out very quickly. If there are no straps in stock, keep checking the shop and this blog for up-dates.


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Wear a Flash on Your Head
Of course in cartoonland people would just assume you're having one brilliant insight after another.
Synchronizing Photo Flash Lamp With a Camera Shutter
THE difficulty of synchronizing the flare of a photo flash lamp with the click of the shutter is frequently encountered by enthusiasts of the camera art. There's a way to overcome this difficulty, however, and that is by constructing the little gadget shown in the accompanying photo.
The contrivance consists of a flat type pocket flashlight battery mounted between two pieces of wood, on the top of which is affixed a common porcelain socket to hold the photo flash lamp.
On the base of this baseboard is mounted a pair of contacts in such a position that the loading lever will push them together when the shutter clicks. The wiring is illustrated in the insert.
Synchronization is achieved by the simultaneous clicking of the shutter and the closing of the photo flashlamp circuit through the silver contacts. The duration of the flash is 1/50 of a second, which occurs when the shutter is wide open.
For convenience, the flash lamp unit is secured to the head by an elastic band, thus leaving the hands free to operate the camera. The lamp should be backed by an aluminum reflector.


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"When you pick up a rock and hold it in your hands, you are actually holding a book containing key clues about the Earth's past. Even the most ordinary of rocks contains a treasure trove of information," said undergraduate student Dean Tuck.
According to Wikipedia, geology is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, and the processes that shape it. As time goes by, Dean's interests seem to more closely match that very definition.
Children are geologists...at some point
As a child, Dean was very interested in water, rocks and the outdoors. He spent endless hours playing in the creek behind his house. "Every kid has a rock collection. Geologists just never grew out of it, I suppose," he said with a smile.
In the eighth grade, Dean discovered that the outdoors were not only about exploring and having fun. He took advantage of his interests and applied them in school when the right opportunity came: the science fair.
For his project he decided to do a water analysis of the creek behind his house to practice the scientific method. To his surprise he won first place. "I continued my project for five years—through my senior year—and over that time I won awards at many competitions including the Intel International Science Fair in Detroit, where fifty states and forty countries participated. [It was] one of the best experiences of my life!" Dean proudly said.
Environmental engineering? Sounds good.
Having interned for several engineering firms since the ninth grade, Dean thought he was supposed to be an engineer. Soon after graduating from Plano High in 2002, he became a civil and environmental engineering major at Southern Methodist University where he was awarded generous scholarships. "I quickly discovered how little I fit into SMU—not to the surprise of my family and friends—and began looking for another school," he said.
Going back toward geology seemed like a natural choice and a better fit for his interests. "I knew that UTD had a long and strong history of being a research institute despite being a four-year university for only a little over a decade. However, it was after a stroll through the rock garden and past the mineral display case that my passion was reignited. At that moment, I knew I wanted to study geosciences at UTD."
As a geosciences major, Dean's interests continued to flourish and the knowledge of his surroundings expanded to allow him to view things in a new light. Dean said, "All of a sudden I was picking up 'gravel' along trails and realizing they were fossils; I was driving by road cuts and seeing faults and folds. 'You see what you are trained to see,' someone told me in the field, and now as a geologist, I am beginning to truly see the world around me."
Want to do some research in Ethiopia?
Perhaps it was Dean's refreshing perspective, and eagerness to learn and expand his knowledge that meshed so well with the Department of Geosciences at UTD. Through research in the department, Dean has traveled to geologically exciting parts of the world such as Ethiopia to do field research.
Dean's passion in the geosciences is very clear. "You can study at any scale, from the structure of microscopic minerals with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to the geological structure of an entire continent, using remote sensing. You can study minerals, rocks, and water not just here on Earth but throughout the solar system!" Dean continues, "As geologists we travel the globe, hang off cliffs in Ireland, scuba dive to study reefs in the Caribbean, climb mountains in the Andes, and explore the Antarctic. The world is your office, your lab, and your playground—what a dream job."
UT Dallas Geosciences
It is atypical for an undergraduate student to be involved with and to undertake such specialized research while fulfilling the requirements of his curriculum, but Dean's dedication and love of the outdoors has had a synergistic interaction.
"I could not imagine studying anywhere else. I get to go camping, sit up late at night around a campfire talking with my professors, and I get to bring back a bag full of rocks and a mind full of stories—and that's just my classes! The ability for me to travel and do research is priceless to me. What other school programs would fund an undergraduate student traveling to England one summer [to do cybermapping field work with Dr. Carlos Aiken] and to Ethiopia [to do field work on Snowball Earth with Dr. Robert Stern and Dr. Nathan Miller] the next?
"Being a geologist is more than studying rocks; it is being able to read the world around us like a book, a fantastic story filled with life, mystery, complete chaos, and yet meticulous order. All of which led the earth to be where it is today.
"It's all about going camping, traveling the world, connecting the dots and coloring.
"It requires wandering off the beaten path to see a part of the world that has never been seen, to fill your pack with beautiful rocks, your camera with pictures and your mind with stories.
"This is why I am a geologist."
"I love to be outdoors, to camp, to backpack, and to travel. Geology gives me all of this and more as my degree."
Extracurricular Activities at UT Dallas
After joining UT Dallas as a transfer student, Dean joined the Geoclub, an organization comprised of fellow undergraduates, as well as graduates and professors. "Geoclub made for a wonderful networking tool and for finding out who everyone was and what they do."
In 2005, Dean wanted to be involved with a sporting club on campus, so after seeing a flyer posted on campus, he contacted the Ultimate Frisbee Team. "[Joining the team] was a great decision! There are plenty of opportunities to get involved with a variety of activities and organizations...just because you cannot walk across the street and have access to a dozen bars or go to a frat house, doesn't mean people aren't getting together and hanging out having fun."
Professor Dean Tuck shows fresh minds the world around them
Dean would like to continue doing his research of designing constructed wetland systems from indigenous materials. He would like to apply these systems in developing countries in order to provide purified drinking water.
Dean believes in a multidisciplinary approach to science and education; therefore, he would like to pursue his research on Snowball Earth and his work on Cybermapping. Additionally he would enjoy becoming a professor and one day introducing students to the wonderful world of geology "which is nothing more than introducing them to the world that they live in." Dean adds, "If nothing else, I would like to share my passion and research with the world."
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Summertime Blues
Despite a late start we've had glorious summer weather this year here on Vancouver Island and the South Coast of British Columbia, with only a few cloudy days and no rain to speak of. Our garden has done extremely well as a result, producing Red Fife wheat, golden flax, quinoa, garlic, onions, potatoes, all kinds of herbs, raspberries and buckets of cherry tomatoes just to name a few. But by far our biggest crop is blueberries.
At the back of our yard we have two medium sized blueberry bushes that seem to produce more and more berries every year no matter how poor the growing season. That two average sized bushes can produce such a staggering amount of fruit so consistently just amazes my wife and I, challenging us to find ways to make use of them all before the cold weather sets in. I think we still have a bag or two of berries near the bottom of our freezer left over from last year's harvest. I'm not sure because now there are even more bags of berries from this year stacked on top of what's already in the freezer. If we don't use those up before next summer it may be a while before the ones below see the light of day.
Between the two of us we've made tarts,
pies, jams, sauces, syrup and salsa, put them in salads, cereal, over ice cream, lemon sorbet and yogurt. I think Marie even blended some into her cassis that she makes every year from our black currant harvest, another one of our bumper crops. Naturally I've been planning to use them in a bread of some kind but have been holding off till the berries were at their peak of size and flavour. After checking them out this past weekend I decided it was time to get something going in that direction, deciding on a brioche loaf for this bake. The formula I used is from Advanced Bread & Pastry for "Brioche with Prefermented Dough"pg. 363 because of it's relatively lean butter content of 28%. Having made this dough before, I like that it's easy to handle and that it has enough butter in the formula to carry other flavours such as fruit or nuts without dominating the overall flavour of the finished product. The preferment helps to keep the doughs sweetness in balance, making this formula a good one to use for savoury applications as well. Blueberries being as delicate as they are, a very soft dough is my preference for incorporating them into the final dough with as little rupturing of the fruit as possible. Blue dough isn't particularly attractive or appetizing to me, so I try as best I can to be very gentle when mixing in the berries to keep smearing to a minimum. While it's no guarantee to avoiding the dreaded blue dough, if you're careful the crumb will have two distinct colours to it rather than a uniform and ghastly shade of blue.
An hour before I planned to mix, the blueberries went into the freezer to firm up, making them easier to incorporate into the dough once it was mixed without them breaking apart completely. This is a very easy brioche dough to make by hand because of the small amount of butter it calls for, but I use a mixer for brioche dough regardless simply because it's quicker to clean up afterwards. Once the dough was about 90% mixed it was finished off by hand and allowed to relax for a few minutes before gently stretching it out and laying the berries evenly over the surface, then gathering the dough and frozen berries up with a plastic scraper and slowly working them into the dough by hand until they were evenly distributed. With this mix I didn't follow the AB&P process exactly, deciding to bulk ferment at room temperature for 1 hour instead of putting it into the fridge directly after mixing. I also left it overnight for a retarded ferment of 12 hours rather than the recommended 30 minutes before shaping and final rise for scheduling reasons. The dough seemed quite healthy and I wasn't overly concerned about how it would preform after it's overnight stay in the fridge, in fact I feel that the flavour and crumb result is notably better than previous bakes I've done of this dough when I've followed the process. The 825 gram dough was divided in three, and very lightly rounded on a floured counter, placing the pieces in a 4.5x 9.5 inch Pullman tin for a final proof of 2.5 hours. The loaf came up the tin about 3/4 of the way before I decided it was ready, but could have/should have left it another 10-15 minutes longer due to a very minor break on one side. Brushed with egg wash and baked in a 385F oven for 25 minutes, then at 360F for 10 minutes and finally left to cool in a dead, open door oven for a further 15 minutes. The loaf jumped well and browned up nicely, just as a brioche should, filling the house with a wonderful aroma of eggs, butter, caramel, and cooked fruit.
After 5 hours of cooling I took the first slice, finding the crumb to be soft and even, with a slightly open cell structure for a rich dough, and a pale yellow colour to set off the deep blue of the berries. The flavour was what I'd hoped for, just rich and sweet enough to compliment the delicate flavour of the blueberries but still with all the flavour qualities of a typical brioche.
The bread goes well with roast chicken or turkey, the photo above showing it toasted on a plate with smoked turkey breast, Port Salut cheese, sliced pear and a green salad. Before it's all gone though I'll have to try it as French Toast with some recently made sage and ginger breakfast sausage and a drizzle of blueberry syrup.
I thought I might as well include a few photos of some San Fransisco Sourdoughs made back in August that used fresh milled Red Fife flour from Cliff Leir's Fol Epi Bakery in Victoria. The loaves didn't quite achieve the profile I'd hoped for but the exceptional flavour of the Fol Epi flour more than made up for that. I found the flour to be quite a bit softer than other Red Fife flours I've used in the past, requiring less hydration than the formula from "Advanced Bread & Pastry" called for. Perhaps a fourth set of stretch and folds would have helped for a higher profile but for a first time using this high quality flour I was quite happy with the loaves it produced. A stop at Cliff's bakery for more of his lovely flour will be at the top of my shopping list next time we're down in Victoria.


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Beyonce will sing the national anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
The committee planning the Jan. 21 event also announced Wednesday that Kelly Clarkson will perform "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and James Taylor will sing "America the Beautiful" at the swearing-in ceremony on the Capitol's west front.
For Obama's first inauguration four years ago, Aretha Franklin sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed a piece by composer John Williams.
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Beyonce sang a version of Etta James' "At Last" later that evening at an inaugural ball for the newly sworn in president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama's, first dance.
This year's inaugural planners also announced that Richard Blanco, the son of Cuban exiles, is the 2013 inaugural poet. He joins the ranks of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost to have served in that capacity. Blanco's works explore his family's exile from their native country and "the intersection of his cultural identities as a Cuban-American gay man," the inaugural planners said.


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technocratic advance many still consider blasphemy — in Major League
Baseball. Currently, the only calls
deemed debatable are homerun calls. But now that the surface has been cracked, is it not only a matter of time before
we are reviewing foul balls down the line, close plays at first and dare I say
the strike zone? Where does one draw the
line and how will this impact the overall game?
— Jeff
Ah yes, the ol' slippery slope argument. If we do "x," then "y" and "z" must follow. It's an argument politicians have used for years to hold out against reforming everything from farm subsidies to gun ownership. But, the fact of the matter is that the argument holds no water.
Beyond that, however, is an even more important distinction when it comes to instant replay. The use of replay for this one small area of the game is a huge improvement over the old system.
Just this past week, replay was used to uphold an Alex Rodriguez home run and the game neither came to a screeching halt nor did the ghosts of long dead major leaguers suddenly come flying out of the ground to right some injustice that had been done to their memory. Replay equals innovation and evolution in the game.
In the old system, a bunch of middle aged men who saw the ball's path from 300 feet away would get together and debate what had happened. Often, they got it wrong. So now, instead of paying the hundreds of thousands of dollars that would be necessary to put extra umps in the outfield, MLB came up with a suitable alternative.
No one who truly calls their self a baseball fan wants to see the abolition of the umpire. The call at home plate in a swirl of dust and dirt is as much a part of the game as the wooden bat and pinetar covered batting helmet.
But instant replay adds to the game. And in fact, in honor of its resounding success during its first week of use, I'd like to see it applied in other places where it's never been seen before.
For instance, I'd like to see an instant replay of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention the other evening. Maybe then we can discover how someone who's views so clearly fall outside the mainstream (creationism taught side by side with evolution?) has become an overnight media darling.
Or perhaps we could find out via replay how the Chicago Tribune came to print a story that so closely resembled my colleague Mr. Lung's recent post.
No matter what, instant replay is here to stay along with the DH and All-Star Games that have way too much of an impact on October baseball. Instant replay, though, that's change we can believe in.


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PRiZE anti-bullying music video by Mary & Brianna Ferraro
This sweet song, recorded by 14 year old twins Mary & Brianna Ferraro, was written when they were 11. Take a listen (and look) and scroll below the video to read the lyrics. It's one of many great peer initiated efforts to help combat bullying and encourage resilience.
Lyrics, music and vocals by Mary & Brianna Ferraro
They'll put her down
In front of everyone
They won't think twice
Cause they don't think at all
And they enjoy it, yes they do
You'll all go home unaffected
She'll go home thinking she worthless
Won't tell a soul cause now she believes it
And yes of course you won
There's 6 of you, she's a team of one
And what's the prize anyway
Do you like to see a girl…
All torn up inside
Secretly crying at night
Is that your prize, is that your prize
Just a girl wanting more in herself
Hating the hand she's been dealt
Is that your prize, is that your prize
Verse 2
She don't know
But she's truly beautiful
She don't think that
She feels 2 feet tall
Isn't that what you wanted all along
Well you knew this would come
She's broken, finished, done
And what did you get
What did you get
Did you get what you wanted?(Did you get what you wanted)
Do you feel better now? (I hope you feel better now)
Yea what you did, was it worth it? (was it worth it?)
To make her feel so put down
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You know that religion consider cheating a sin.. you know also that the concept of cheating is different from religion to another and from one society to another.
I always wonder about these kinds of ethics issues and I would like to ask some few questions,
# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
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"Character is what you have when the lights go out."
A good time is what I want to have when the lights go out! (Or when they are on, or when they are just on dimly, or, well, you get the point.) ;-)
Honesty and communication are the keys. When you enter into a relationship it's important to discuss what the 'rules' of that relationship are. If you break the rules then you are cheating, period.
In my relationship the agreement is you can look but you can't touch. Fantasizing is OK but getting emotionally involved with another person beyond a friendship is a no-no too. In fact my partner and I will regularly point out other people that we find attractive. It's actually fascinating to learn of all the little things that are attractive to my partner and he finds learning those things about me to be fascinating.
I should add respect too. I think cheating (breaking the rules of the relationship) is disrespectful. If something isn't satisfying you or things have changed too much then it's time to talk not time to cheat.
As a waman, I totally agree with you.. Every relationship needs honesty as a representation to our love, care and respect, to the one we love.. And the result of all these elements will be trust of course.
# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
Faithfulness is a term whose meaning is decided upon during the onset of a relationship. Most people when first entering into a new relationship quickly make each other aware of what would constitute that faithfulness. Whether one is an atheist/agnostic/christian/scientologist should be of no relevance, simply avoid performing any action that your partner would deem unfaithful. If you cannot avoid such actions, your likely in the wrong relationship.
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
It's based entirely on personal preference. Some people are perfectly happy in open relationships, others prefer absolute exclusiveness. Yet people in open relationships may feel cheated on if their partner becomes emotionally unavailable to them, but more open to another. People who prefer exclusive relationships will become upset even if their partner is caught merely kissing another person, even if that partner was drunk/high/roofied simultaneously when it occurred. If you think it's cheating, it's cheating, If they don't think it's cheating, you shouldn't be dating them.
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
In a relationship, it is the unwritten contract between two individuals who decide to become a couple, that determines what would constitute an infraction on their relationship concerning issues that arise when they affiliate themselves with other potential suitors.
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
When they have broken the above contract
On the side, Religion shouldn't be a deciding factor on what your view on faithfulness is, people should believe what feels right to them, else they will never achieve the level of happiness that they have the right to achieve.
I agree with the majority of the responses here. There is not some objective truth that can be applied to everyone in all situations. To me, a romantic relationship is a sort of social contract between those involved. I have my personal preferences, but I see no reason to impose those preferences upon others. My answers, therefore, to all questions posed by the OP are, "it depends." I believe that you should be free to set your own terms within a relationship and live with them or leave the relationship. No matter your terms, clear communication and agreement are key. That being said, there should be no coercion or abuse involved, and these terms are up for editing should things change. I do, however, think you should try your best to make other parties aware of any edits prior to taking action.
1. By not cheating.
2. Acting on sexual affection of another man.
3. Not cheating in deeds.
4. After she has cheated.
Should be noted that I have been cheated on. She believed I should trust her after coming clean, I believe trust would have to be re-earned at that point. Relationship subsequently ended unamicably.
Sorry for what you've been through! Yeah, I totally agree with you.. you cant trust the one who cheated on you..
You know that religion consider cheating a sin.. you know also that the concept of cheating is different from religion to another and from one society to another.
Is it though? Biblical marriage seems to allow for marriages of one man and multiple wives, and the owning of concubines. Granted, there is no indication of whether such situations is agreed to by the husband and wife (wives). But we can at the very least determine that relationships that aren't monogamous aren't 'sinful' by default.
# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
I feel that this answer may be different for everyone. For my wife and I, it is about a dedication to one another. We promised to be true to one another, and that is the plan. It's an establishment of trust. Partners that can trust one another typically live longer and happier live together. So in my opinion, it is healthy for a healthy relationship to have as few secrets as possible. It is also a symbol that we love one another so much, the we are all the other desires and needs. In short, we are faithful to one another because it feels right, and seems to be the best thing for our relationship with one another. Not because some deity said so.
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
I'd say that it would be any sexual or sexually motivated actions done without spousal consent. If the husband and wife agree that it's okay to have other lovers, then that's okay. But if you agree (like my wife and I), to a monogamous relationship, then having sex with another, sexual kissing and holding, or even dating with the intention to lead to sex would be cheating in my book.
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
Basically, both parties in the relationship adhering to the agreements on which the relationship was founded. The could be remaining monogamous. It could be that an open marriage was agreed upon, where anything goes. One could still cheat in an open relationship if each party requests veto rights on extra-relationship sexual partners, and sexual encounters take place without this clearance first taking place.
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
When one cheats, as defined prior.
I believe that a sexual relationship outside of a committed relationship is cheating, religion or no religion. Multiple sexual relationships outside of a committed relationship is not cheating. A "committed relationship" can mean anything the two people involved agree that it means - marriage generally means, "until death do us part," but any commitment, including marriage, is really nothing more nor less than a mutual agreement, and that can be for any length of time upon which the two agree. Though unconventional, there's nothing wrong with two people saying that they agree to commit for, say, ten years, and if it works out, they can agree on an extension.
OK - so it's hardly romantic, but there's nothing wrong with thinking outside the box --


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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who participates in the celebrations of the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, visited on 4 October 2013 the Representation of the Moscow Patriarchate of Belgrade.
The delegation of Patriarch Kirill consisted of: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, director of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; head of the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow Bishop Antonije of Moravica, chairman of the Administrative department of the Moscow Patriarchate Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, as well as protopresbyters Nikolay Balashov and Igor Jakimchuk.
In the church of Holy Trinity Patriarch Kirill served the prayer of supplication in attendance of ambassadors of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
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Joan Rivers's first attempt to sell her elegant Upper East Side penthouse for $25 million back in 2009 failed, so she decided to wait a couple of years, gussy it up, and re-list with a significantly higher price tag of $29.5 million, according to Curbed.
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The magnificent Italianate Victorian mansion was built around 1850 by the American architect, John Notman, and is one of the few University buildings not originally part of the campus. After its acquisition by the University in 1878, Prospect House served as the residence for six Princeton presidents and their families for 90 years before it was converted for its current use as a social and dining center for faculty and staff members.
Prospect House owes its name to the stone farmhouse first constructed on the site in the mid-18th century by Col. George Morgan, who dubbed his estate "Prospect" in honor of the superb eastern view from the farmhouse. When Prospect was acquired in 1849 by John Potter, a wealthy merchant from Charleston, S.C., he replaced the colonial structure with the present mansion. In 1878, Robert L. and Alexander Stuart of New York bought the house and accompanying 35-acre estate and deeded it to Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey.
Prospect House served as home of Princeton's presidents beginning in 1879 with James McCosh. As the campus enlarged, students began to take shortcuts across the lawns and gardens of Prospect House, ultimately leading then-Princeton President Woodrow Wilson to erect an iron fence enclosing five acres of the grounds in 1904.
The grounds surrounding the house present an array of trees, bushes, plants and flowers from the commonplace to the exotic. Planting in the garden began shortly after the house was completed in 1849.
The flower garden at the rear of Prospect House was laid out in approximately its present form by Wilson's wife, Ellen. In her design, the garden's pathways define the outline of the University shield when viewed from above. She also supervised the planting of the evergreens that serve as a backdrop for the flower garden. The flowers are changed at regular intervals throughout the growing season, an effort supported by a gift from an anonymous donor.
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2. State institutions will remain intact.For context please note that this statement doesn't say word one about reforming state institutions, hense a continuation of all the following of implied.
"State institutions will remain intact." means keeping war criminals in power.
It is precisely the task of the Syrian revolution to destroy the existing Baathist state institutions and rebuilt democratic ones. Nothing less will undo the damage of 45 years of Baathist rule or justify the tremendous cost of this conflict to the Syrian people. In this single statement of agreement the Vienna "participants" show they are all enemies of the Syrian people,
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Bruno Brings it Home
You don't have to be gay or openly support gay rights to feel a little chill at the news coming out of Uganda right now. For a country that is supposed to be one of the brighter spots in sub-Saharan Africa (excepting the still turbulent north), the recent news and continuing coverage of a law that, if passed, would be one of the the most draconian and repressive anti-gay laws in the world is particularly troubling. It shouldn't come as any surprise, though, considering that the "developed" world hasn't really made that much more progress.
Don't believe me? Here's an example. Raise your hand if you saw Sacha Baron Cohen's film Bruno this past summer. Ok, now keep your hand up if you enjoyed it. Yeah, a lot of hands went down there, didn't they? And why is that? Was it any less funny than Borat? Were the stunts any less ridiculous? Did he take advantage of people to a greater degree than he did in Borat? I'll admit that some of the scenes were over the top. But honestly, there was nothing there that was nearly as offensive as most of what happened in Borat.
So, why didn't people like the movie? Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it has a lot to do with being uncomfortable. It's easy to laugh at xenophobia. It's easy to laugh at a village simpleton who doesn't understand the way things are done elsewhere. But the in-your-face sexuality of Bruno is discomfiting. The character doesn't hide who he is and rather goes out of his way to flaunt it. Even those who consider themselves supportive of gay rights seemed to find themselves ejected from their comfort zones by Bruno's portrayal of such extreme sexuality.
These same currents flow even deeper in the world of sports. Imagine for a second if Tiger Woods had admitted to having multiple affairs with men. At this point, despite his so-called indiscretions, he still has his marketing deals and no one is really considering cutting them, even if they probably will use the affairs to leverage the rates they pay. But if it had been 11 men? Or even 10 women and 1 man? He'd be out the door faster than a neo-Nazi at a Rufus Wainwright concert.
Within Major League Baseball, only two players have come out and both of them did it well after their careers had ended. They knew that there was just no way that who they were would be accepted. The article linked above notes one particular anecdote that gets right to the heart of the matter:
"In his recently published memoir, Going the Other Way, [Billy] Bean
(not the A's GM) recounts how Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda constantly made homophobic
jokes, even as Lasorda's gay son was dying from AIDS."
The sad thing is, an openly gay baseball player, or even football or basketball player, could go a long way towards helping people become more comfortable with homosexuality. As support for gay marriage has grown in the US, the statistics show that much of that has to do with knowing someone who is gay. When that someone you know is the guy who plays second base for your team, well, that just might have an even bigger impact.
This isn't going to change overnight. Intolerance is a deep-seated problem that takes generations to truly root out. But like it or not, in the same way that athletes are held up as examples and role-models all over the world, our country is also held up as an example all over the world. If we want to criticize Uganda for its inhumane law, we should probably take a look closer to home as well.


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- Injuries, Part I: Just Say No
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- Recipe: Gazpacho Shrimp Salad
Injuries, Part I: Just Say NoBy Steve Edwards
One of the most frustrating scenarios we face is when we finally make that commitment to our health, begin to work out, and then find ourselves sidelined by an injury. In this first of a two-part series, we'll take a look at some simple ways to avoid getting injured in the first place.
We'll all face an injury of some kind during our lifetimes. Accidents are unavoidable. But physical setbacks are even more frustrating when you're exercising in an effort to improve your health. Although looking at the big picture—that not exercising makes your body age faster, break down more quickly, and die younger—motivates you to Push Play, nothing can derail this motivation faster than a nagging injury. After all, your main reason for exercising may be to make yourself feel better, and injuries accomplish exactly the opposite. But before you resign yourself to a negative, "What's the point?" attitude, read on. This week, we'll show you how to greatly reduce your chance of getting injured in the first place. Next week, we'll discuss how you can get back on your feet quickly when you do get injured.
Why we get injured
There are two types of injury: acute and chronic. An acute injury occurs when something overloads your system beyond its capacity to buffer it—like getting hit by a car or falling off your bike. A chronic injury is one that's created by overusing a body part until it breaks down.
Acute injuries can't be prevented. Nothing can prepare you for a car accident, unless you know how to construct a Batman® suit. But you can prepare yourself to better fend off minor acute injuries. Exercise can help you strengthen your body into your own natural version of a Batman suit. It won't fend off a car, but it can prepare you to deal with adversity more efficiently.
Chronic injuries can almost always be avoided, because overuse injuries are generally due to muscular imbalance and/or lack of proper range of motion. By properly training your body, muscles will be balanced, bones will be dense, and body parts will be supple. When you get this formula right, chronic injuries almost never happen.
But doing this is easier said than done. Even top-flight athletes have trouble keeping their bodies in balance. The reason is that it takes both dedication and discipline. Most of us just want to do whatever it is we find entertaining when we exercise. The little things that keep us injury free can be mundane. As boring as this may be, it's a lot more fun than being injured. Let's take a look at the basics of staying healthy.
Warming up
Warming up properly seems like a waste of time. Who hasn't at one time or another jumped right into an intensive workout like P90X® or Turbo Jam® and walked away unscathed? But if you want to remain uninjured, nothing stacks the odds in your favor as much as thoroughly warming up your body to get it ready for the rigors of exercise.
Acute injuries aren't just accidents. Putting stress on a cold system can cause acute injury, even with resistance you can normally handle easily. The reason is that when you're cold, your muscles are actually gel-like. As they warm up, they become less viscous, kind of like oil in your car engine. This process is called thixotropy. As you increase your heart rate, your core body temperature heats up. When this happens, your muscular viscosity decreases, and you become more supple and ready to handle the stresses of exercise.
A proper warm-up starts out slow and gradually increases in intensity. Once your blood is moving, easy, short stretches help elongate your muscles so they're ready for the intense contractions that will happen later. Note that long, slow stretching should be avoided as part of the warm-up. The type of stretching you do to increase your flexibility should be done postexercise. Preexercise stretches should remain very low on the intensity scale. They serve only to loosen up the body to its current range-of-motion abilities, not to increase that range.
Cooling down
A good workout stresses your body. Your heart rate increases to near its maximum and muscles are contracted at high speed. If you finish a hard workout and walk away without a cooldown, your body settles into a contracted state. When this happens, the damage incurred during the workout is exacerbated and your body can't recover well. A proper cooldown eases your heart rate and stretches out your muscle fibers. This begins the healing process and speeds up your recovery time.
A good cooldown consists of moving your body more and more slowly, allowing your heart rate to drop. When it gets low enough—under 100 beats per minute—you should begin stretching out all the muscles you worked during your workout. It's best to start with easy ballistic stretches. These can be followed by slower, longer static stretches. If you want to do a full-blown stretching session with the aim of increasing your body's range of motion, this is a good time to do that.
Staying limber
As I said before, working out contracts your muscles. To stay in balance, you need to stretch them out. Failing to stretch out your muscles leaves their fiber strands knotted together. Muscles in this state are very susceptible to overload and hence injury. Properly stretched muscle fibers have far more of a buffer zone than unstretched ones. They can take the same force loads more easily because they have more room to contract. Staying limber is a good way to avoid injury.
Rehab before you need it
If you've ever been to a physical therapist, you've probably been given exercises that help rebuild an injured area. These tend to be low-intensity movements that stress not only your prime mover muscles, but also the smaller muscles that stabilize the larger ones. For some reason, many older-style exercise programs often leave out training these smaller muscles. This is bad, because when you build up one muscle group more than another, your body becomes imbalanced. When you have a muscular imbalance, you're highly likely to become injured. This leads to a quandary for many of us. We can't go to a physical therapist before we're injured, yet if we don't, it's hard to know when we're out of muscular balance.
Fortunately, most modern exercise programs consider this situation. P90X, for example, has many different workouts that focus on both prime mover and stabilizer muscles. But it's still easy to become out of balance because life often throws us into situations where muscular imbalance is likely to happen. Sports, yard work, and even sitting at a computer typing and "mousing" can create imbalance. Offseting this imbalance can be complicated, but here are some ideas:
- Have an annual assessment from a physical therapist. Your PT can put you through a series of exercises that can determine your muscular health. If he or she does find an imbalance, it can usually be remedied with a few simple exercises.
- Remember those physical therapist visits. Whenever you're sent to a PT, remember the exercises you're given there. Once you've injured an area, that area will always be susceptible to being reinjured. You should do the exercises prescribed, at least on occasion, for the rest of your life. If you (like me) have enough injuries, your arsenal of rehab exercises begins to grow, and eventually you'll know how to avoid any imbalances.
- Do yoga. It targets muscular balance more than any other type of exercise. Doing yoga for a day or so per week will keep your body both balanced and supple, as well as greatly facilitating all other training. Try Yoga Booty Ballet® to satisfy your yoga needs.
- Total Body Solution®. Debbie Siebers and neurophysiologist Chad Waterbury have created a DVD program that features a series of assessments and drills to increase range of motion, help relieve pain, and prevent strain in commonly stressed areas like the shoulders, neck, core, lower back, and knees. Click here to learn more.
Next week, we'll discuss what to do when you do become injured.
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Cardio: Do It for Your JointsBy Tony Horton, creator of P90X
Cardio: you do it to burn calories, build your stamina, and keep your heart young. But it turns out that cardio is a knee pleaser, too.
Vigorous, maintained workouts that keep your heart rate elevated could increase the amount of bone-cushioning cartilage you have in your knees. There's just one little two-pronged caveat:
- Vigorous exercise = good for the knees
- Vigorous exercise that causes a joint injury = really, really BAD for your knees
So while the cardio parts of your P90X workout may help build joint cartilage, play it safe. Don't overdo it and risk joint injury—that'll only set your knee health back. Waaaaay back. Knee injuries can more than double your risk of arthritis down the road.
Here are a few more ways to keep your knees in great shape:
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Strengthen the muscles that support your joints.
- Stretch.
Lucky for you, all these bonuses are built right into your P90X workout. So stay committed to your exercise routine and keep on Bringing It!
Power on!
Tony Horton
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Listen to Your Body
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Recipe: Gazpacho Shrimp Salad
Here's a cool, refreshing salad just in time for summer. Cut back on the couscous a little if you're watching your carbs. It's easy to prepare, and leftovers make a great lunch to take to the office.
- 1 cup uncooked whole wheat couscous
- 1 lb. medium uncooked shrimp, deveined, shells removed
- 2 14-oz. cans diced tomatoes with green pepper and onion
- 1 small cucumber, diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 tsp. ground coriander
- Salt (to taste)
- Ground black pepper (to taste)
- Large saucepan
- 2 quarts water
Prepare couscous according to package directions. Place water in large saucepan, add salt to taste, and bring to a boil. When water boils, add shrimp, cover, and reduce heat. Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes, or until shrimp float to top and flesh is opaque and pinkish in color. Drain shrimp immediately and plunge into ice water to prevent from overcooking. Set aside.
In large bowl, combine tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, cilantro, and coriander. Mix well. Add shrimp and toss to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place couscous on plates and top with shrimp mixture. Makes 4 servings.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes (including couscous and shrimp)
Nutritional Information (per serving):
Calories Protein Fiber Carbs Fat Total Saturated Fat 254 20 g 4 g 43 g 0 g 0 g
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Article abstract: Dunbar's writing is recognized as providing the most authentic representations of African American life in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Early Life
Paul Laurence Dunbar's parents, Joshua and Matilda Murphy Dunbar, were slaves until the early or mid-1860's. Matilda had been married to another slave, Willis Murphy, with whom she had two sons, both born in slavery. Willis, who joined the Union army and was never heard from again, sent his wife and sons to Dayton, Ohio, where they remained, presuming Willis was dead.
Matilda, ever eager to learn, attended night school. She soon became literate and mastered enough mathematics to keep her own accounts. In 1871, Matilda married Joshua Dunbar, who was twenty years her senior. In the following year, their first child, Paul Laurence Dunbar, was born.
Joshua never tired of telling his young son about his exploits, about how he clandestinely learned to read and write when slaves were punished, sometimes even killed, for trying to achieve literacy. Joshua recounted to his fascinated son details about his escape from slavery with the help of abolitionists via the Underground Railroad and his subsequent enlistment in the Fifty-fifth Division of the Union army, where he achieved the rank of sergeant. The tales Joshua wove eventually found their way into Dunbar's writing, which his mother had encouraged from Dunbar's earliest days. When Joshua and Matilda's second child, Elizabeth, died before her first birthday, Matilda focused all her attention and centered all of her hopes upon Paul.
Meanwhile, Joshua, unable to find work despite being literate and having a spotless military record, began to drink, causing dissension in the household. To relieve tension, Matilda spun tales about plantation life, which helped create a basis for much of Dunbar's later writing. Matilda finally divorced Joshua, after which Joshua spent his remaining years in the Soldier's Retirement Home in Dayton, where Dunbar often visited him.
Dunbar, who was the only African American in his high school graduating class, was class president and class poet. While still in high school, Dunbar published poetry in the Dayton Herald and worked as an editor for the Dayton Tattler. One of his fellow students was Orville Wright, who, along with his brother Wilbur, constructed and flew the first airplane. Dunbar and Orville remained good friends throughout their lifetimes.
Too poor to attend college, Dunbar discovered that Dayton offered few desirable jobs to African Americans at that time. He finally took a job as an elevator operator, which gave him time to write. He produced a number of stories and poems during this period, some of them written in the black-dialect style that first drew national attention to his writing.
Dunbar was invited to address the Western Association of Writers at its 1892 convention in Dayton. This initial appearance was arranged by Helen Truesdell, one of Dunbar's high school English teachers. At this meeting, Dunbar met James Newton Matthews, who wrote a letter praising Dunbar's writing. This letter was published in an Illinois newspaper and was subsequently reprinted in newspapers throughout the United States, bringing Dunbar considerable celebrity. James Whitcomb Riley read Matthews' letter and wrote an admiring letter to Dunbar. It was the encouragement the young poet received from Matthews and Riley that led him to collect his poems into the volume Oak and Ivy (1893). Printed at Dunbar's own expense, the poet quickly repayed the $125 printing costs by selling copies of the collection to people who rode his elevator.
Life's Work
The publication of Oak and Ivy changed the course of Dunbar's life. The collection contained many poems in standard English, which had been drilled into the young Dunbar by his mother. His "Ode to Ethiopia" remains among his most influential poems,...
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The NBA in the 1970s: Rick Barry Is SupermanI wrote the chapter about the NBA in the 1970s for the 2005 anthology Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond. This is the seventh of 12 installments reprinting that chapter in its entirety.
I have removed the footnotes that accompanied the original text; direct quotations are now acknowledged in the body of the work and I will post a bibliography at the end of the final installment. I hope that you enjoy my take on one of the most fascinating and eventful decades in NBA history.
Rick Barry Is Superman
While the drafting of Moses Malone attracted headlines, the story of the 1974-1975 season was unquestionably the stunning individual brilliance of Rick Barry. The cover of the April issue of Sport declared, "Rick Barry is Superman." His coach Al Attles said, "…right now I'm telling you he could be the best who ever played. He brings something new each night." Opposing coaches were no less effusive. "Right now he is playing as well as anyone who has ever played this game," Pistons Coach Ray Scott raved. After Barry went over, around, and through Knicks' forward Hawthorne Wingo to the tune of 44 points and four assists in an early season Warriors' victory, Wingo stated simply, "On every play, no matter who scores, he handles the ball at least one time. He makes them happen." Barry led the league in free throw percentage (90.4 percent) and steals (2.85 steals per game), ranked second in scoring (30.6 points per game) and finished sixth in assists (6.2 assists per game), a remarkable statistic for a high scoring forward. Golden State won the Pacific Division with a 48-34 record, best in the Western Conference.
Interestingly, Barry did not win the MVP. The award instead went to Bob McAdoo, who also had an outstanding season, leading the league in scoring (34.5 points per game), while ranking fourth in rebounding (14.1 rebounds per game), fifth in field goal percentage (51.2 percent) and sixth in blocked shots (2.12 blocked shots per game). While McAdoo was clearly a worthy recipient of the honor, Barry did not finish a close second but rather a distant fourth in the balloting. This can be explained in large part because the MVP voting was done by the league's players at this time and it is no secret that Barry, who did not hesitate to criticize teammates, opponents, referees or anyone else, was not particularly popular. Since 1980-1981, the official NBA MVP voting has been conducted among media members instead of the players.
The Boston Celtics and Washington (previously Capital) Bullets paced the Eastern Conference with 60 wins each. Both teams padded their victory totals at the expense of the expansion New Orleans Jazz, the newest member of the Eastern Conference's Central Division. The Jazz attempted to fill the stands by acquiring Pete Maravich--who played collegiately at Louisiana State--from the Hawks. Maravich averaged 21.5 points per game and 6.2 assists per game (fifth in the league) but the Jazz finished with the worst record in the league (23-59).
The NBA expanded the playoffs by one round, adding one more team from each conference to postseason play. New York and Detroit, owners of identical 40-42 records, were the first beneficiaries of the change. The Rockets eliminated the Knicks in three games, while the Sonics made the most of the franchise's first postseason appearance, beating the Pistons by the same score.
Boston easily shot down the Rockets (4-1) in one Eastern Conference Semifinal but McAdoo and the Braves took the Bullets to the limit before Washington won a game seven rout at home, 115-96. In the West, the Bulls defeated Nate Archibald and the improving Kings four games to two, while the Warriors knocked off the Sonics by the same margin. The Bullets beat the Celtics in the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals and eventually closed out the series in six games, while Barry and the Warriors narrowly escaped the clutches of a determined Bulls team with an 83-79 game seven win.
The Bullets were heavy favorites over Golden State in the Finals but the Warriors produced one of the most stunning upsets in playoff history, sweeping Washington. Due to scheduling conflicts, the Bullets played game one at home and then the next two on the road, instead of starting the series with two games in Washington; after Golden State won the first game the Bullets were already behind the eight ball, heading west for two games. The Bullets were also without the services of ABA free agent guard Jimmy Jones, a key contributor who injured his knee in the Boston series and was unable to play in the Finals. Several other factors contributed to the unlikely Golden State triumph: undersized rookie Jackson Keith (later known as Jamaal) Wilkes did a remarkable defensive job against perennial All-Star Elvin Hayes, holding him to 29 points in the first three games, the unheralded Clifford Ray provided steady play at center and an attitude of togetherness permeated the entire roster; whenever the Warriors' starters faltered, the reserves came in and outperformed their opposing counterparts. However, none of this would have been enough without the heroics of Rick Barry, who averaged 28.2 points per game and 6.1 assists per game in the playoffs and was awarded the Finals MVP.
Such a perfect ending would be hard to top and the 31 year old Barry actually considered retirement: "It had been the perfect season, perfect in its drama, perfect in its outcome, and one of the first thoughts that went through my head was I want to quit, I want this to be my last memory of my last game, I don't ever want to play another basketball game because it would have to be anti-climactic." Barry eventually decided to continue his career, playing for several more years, but never duplicating the individual or team success of that magical 1974-1975 season.
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Almost 500,000 still without power in Pa. after storm
Almost 500,000 Pennsylvanians remained without power Thursday, a day after a winter storm left a thick coating of ice across much of the state.
The storm, which dumped more than a foot of snow across parts of the Midwest and East on Tuesday and Wednesday, knocked out power to more than 1 million people across the region.
But it saved its iciest wrath for Pennsylvania, where tree limbs heavy with ice crashed down on power lines across the eastern and central parts of the state.
At one point, almost 1 million electric customers in the state were without power, the vast majority in the Philadelphia area. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission spokeswoman Jennifer Kocher said many residents won't have power restored until well into the weekend.
That is a problem in an area where the National Weather Service is calling for high temperatures to barely reach the freezing mark for the next several days.
Kocher said progress had been slow overnight as wind, cold and darkness made power restoration work difficult and dangerous for linemen.
"We expect to make strong gains in the daylight," she said. "We understand that it's a difficult situation for everyone."
Some homeowners fired up generators. Dave Dixon and his wife, whose suburban Philadelphia home went dark at 6 a.m. Wednesday, were staying with neighbors. But it wasn't clear how long that would be.
"If we wear out our welcome, we'll get a hotel," Dixon said.
Late Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett issued a disaster emergency proclamation allowing state agencies to use all available resources and personnel to cope with the storm damage.
"People are going to have to have some patience," Corbett said.
There were modest improvements Thursday. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and State Police have lifted speed restrictions. And only four flights out of Philadelphia International Airport had been canceled as of mid-morning.
AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Pydynowski had little good news for the area, saying another storm system could sweep across the region Saturday and Sunday.
"There seems to be no end in sight for these snow-weary areas," he said.
The American Red Cross opened three shelters in southeastern Pennsylvania and stood ready to open more.
"We've been told to be prepared for four to six days. We are gathering staff and volunteers for up to a week," spokesman Dave Schrader said.
Contributing: Associated Press