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Board of Regents
Special Meeting of the
Finance, Facilities & Land Management Committee
Wednesday, January 14, 1998; 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Room 303, Business Education Building
University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska
Committee Members:
Joseph R. Henri, Chair
Michael J. Burns
Mary Jane Fate
R. Danforth Ogg
Lew M. Williams, Jr.
Michael P. Kelly, President
I.»Call to Order
II.»Adoption of Agenda
MOTION:III.»Ongoing Issues
"The Finance, Facilities & Land Management Committee adopts the agenda as presented:
I. Call to Order
II. Adoption of Agenda
III. Ongoing IssuesA. Report on Intellectual Property ActivitiesIV. Consent AgendaA. Approval of the Sale of the Stampede Mine to the National Park ServiceV. Future Agenda Items
VI. Adjourn
This motion is effective January 14, 1998."
A.»Report on Intellectual Property ActivitiesIV. Consent Agenda
In August of this year, the University of Alaska Technology Development Corporation (UATDC) suspended its business operations and transferred all net assets and any on-going obligations to the University of Alaska.
Immediately following the suspension of the UATDC operations, an intellectual property office was established on the UAF campus. A systemwide intellectual property committee also was convened for the purpose of evaluating all existing and future disclosures. The committee met in September and made recommendations regarding over 50 open intellectual property disclosures returned by UATDC to the University of Alaska.
Additional activities of the new intellectual property office include formulating an effective relationship with the University of Washington Research Foundation, continuing support for ongoing projects like the pin bone extraction device, and beginning discussions with ASTF on an expanded relationship.
Dr. Jack Keating, Provost, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Dr. Ted DeLaca, Director, Office of Arctic Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks will be present at the meeting for the purpose of providing a more comprehensive and current briefing for the committee and to answer any questions members of the committee may have about the progress being made on intellectual property matters.
This is an information item; no action is required by the committee.
A.»Approval of the Sale of the Stampede Mine to the National Park ServiceV.»Future Agenda Items
The University of Alaska owns the mineral rights to the Stampede Mine located within Denali National Park and Preserve which consists of 71.04 acres of patented mining claims. Deed restrictions limit use of the property to research and educational activities except during national emergencies when the antimony deposit can be mined. The National Park Service owns the existing buildings as well as the surface rights to the property. The university has a limited right to use the National Park Service buildings for research and education.
The property was donated to the university in 1979 and has been used periodically by the UAF School of Mineral Engineering to conduct research and field classes. A field class was last conducted at the site in 1996. Lack of road access makes use of the site expensive.
In 1987, the National Park Service requested that the U.S. Army assist in the disposal of explosives remaining on the property from prior mining operations. The resulting explosion destroyed the mill, damaged other buildings, and prevents the university from making full use of the site.
In November 1997, legislation introduced by Senator Frank Murkowski was signed into law (Public Law 105-83, the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998) which requires the National Park Service to negotiate with and pay the University of Alaska School of Mineral Engineering for the acquisition of the university's interest in the Stampede Mine. In conjunction with the acquisition, the Secretary of the Army is directed to provide to the university, at no cost, two six-by-six vehicles in excellent operating condition and construct a bridge over the Bull River to the Golden Zone Mine Site to allow ingress and egress for activities conducted by the School of Mineral Engineering.
The Statewide Office of Land Management (SOLM), Dean Robert Trent of the UAF School of Mineral Engineering, and the National Park Service have negotiated, subject to Board approval, a sale price of $300,000 for the university's interest in the Stampede Mine. SOLM is comfortable, based on comparable sales within the park, that this value represents or exceeds the fair market value of the university's interest in the property.
The President recommends that:
"The Finance, Facilities, and Land Management Committee recommends that the Board of Regents authorize the university administration to sell the Stampede Mine to the National Park Service for $300,000 and to execute all necessary documents to complete this transaction. This motion is effective January 14, 1998."


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Medicaid reform and expansion, in front of the General Assembly this year, could in the long run provide benefits to all Virginians while also relieving pressure from human service programs run by local governments.
Medicaid is a joint Federal/State program that pays for medical care for the poor. Each state determines its own eligibility rules and the Federal government picks up about 50 percent of the cost. Virginia's eligibility rules are some of the most restrictive in the nation. Non-disabled, childless adults are not covered at all, while parents are only covered if they make under $6,915 a year, which is just 30 percent of the poverty level for a family of four. Disabled individuals who make under $8,900 per year are eligible as well.
Those who are ineligible and unable to get insurance (either due to unemployment or jobs without coverage, or who can't afford or otherwise get coverage under a private plan) tend not to receive preventive care at all and often use emergency rooms as their general practitioner. Many end up receiving government benefits, usually through programs run by local government. Hospitals provide expanded "charitable" treatment as well. In fiscal year 2011, Reston Hospital provided $34.8 million worth of uncompensated health care, and northern Virginia's non-profit Inova Health Care System provided $174 million. Make no mistake—hospitals must recoup these costs, and that means you and I pay more. Medicaid expansion would reduce these pass-through costs by providing regular coverage.
The Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as "Obamacare") offers states the option of expanding Medicaid to cover people earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level (about $32,000 for a family of four), with the Federal government paying 100 percent of the cost for three years, and 90 percent thereafter. Some Obamacare opponents oppose Medicaid expansion because they oppose anything connected to Obamacare. While I disagree with many aspects of Obamacare, Virginia's need for Medicaid reform predates its passage. Further, we will all pay the many new taxes imposed by Obamacare even if we reject the benefits of Medicaid expansion. Virginia's 10 percent share of expansion would cost about $100 million per year, much less than just Inova's current uncompensated care expense.
Medicaid expansion is not without its downsides. Medicaid is already breaking states' budgets and without further cost control measures, an expanded version could be even more costly. States also worry that the cash-starved Federal government could reduce its commitment later. Governor McDonnell and dozens of other governors are seeking Federal flexibility to engage in cost control measures. They also sought Obama Administration permission to expand to only 100 percent of poverty, but were turned down.
Medicaid reform is complex, but the need is clear and the benefits would run to all who use the health system. The Federal government needs to give states flexibility to reform the system. Virginia needs to take a step forward and expand. All of us will see the benefit through healthier neighbors, reduced pass-through costs for uncompensated care and reduced impact on other locally funded human service programs.


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The term, "split-system," also describes some central air-conditioners and heat pumps. If you ask about ductless, split-system air-conditioners, make sure the dealer understands which system you are talking about. Another common term for ductless split-systems is "mini-splits."
The advantages of ductless split-systems over room and central air-conditioners are: easy installation, quiet operation, versatility in zoning and design, and security. The split systems also eliminate the loss of cool air as it passes through the ductwork.
A key advantage of split systems is their ease of installation. Hook-up requires only a three-inch hole (7.62 centimeters) in the wall for the conduit. Unlike with central air conditioning, you do not need ductwork. Since the compressor in most ductless split-systems is as much as 50 feet (15.24 meters) away from the indoor evaporator, it is usually possible to cool rooms on the front side of the house, while still hiding the compressor in a less conspicuous area. The compressor units also fit well on flat commercial building rooftops.
Ductless split-system air-conditioners operate relatively quietly, since the compressor is outside and the evaporator unit's fan generally runs at a low speed. Variable speed high efficiency fans are also available.
When compared to other add-on systems, split-systems also provide better interior design options. The air handlers can be suspended from a ceiling, mounted flush into a drop ceiling, or hung on a wall. Floor-standing models are also widely available. Most indoor units are low-profile models, no more than seven inches (17.78 centimeters) deep, and come with decorative jackets. Most new models come with a remote control unit as standard equipment. This allows the positioning of air-handling units high on a wall or suspended from a ceiling, without compromising convenience.
Unsecured room air-conditioners provide an easy entrance for intruders. Split- systems are more secure than window units since there is only a small hole in the wall.


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Circus drama: 'Water for Elephants' an old fashioned love story
There's something endearingly old-fashioned about a love story involving a beautiful bareback rider and a kid who runs off to join the circus. What makes Water for Elephants more intriguing is a third character, reminding us why Christoph Waltz deserved his Academy Award. He plays the circus owner, who is married to the bareback rider and keeps her and everyone else in his iron grip.
The story, based on the best-seller by Sara Gruen, is told as a flashback by an old man named Jacob (Hal Holbrook), who lost his parents in 1931, dropped out of the Cornell veterinary school, hit the road and hopped a train that happened, wouldn't you know, to be a circus train. Played by Robert Pattinson as a youth, he is naive and excited, and his eyes fill with wonder as he sees the beautiful Marlena (Reese Witherspoon) on her white show horse. The owner, August (Waltz), is prepared to throw him off the train until he learns young Jacob knows something about veterinary medicine. Full review.


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Things That Go Bump in the Night!
We have had a little bit of excitement here in the last two days. It certainly explains some of the nocturnal sounds emanating from our third floor in recent weeks. Yesterday I was up in the attic area because I needed to measure some things relating to our roof (which is an entire series of posts that will be forthcoming) when I heard some unusual ruffling sounds. Walking towards the noise I heard a hiss and found myself looking into the eyes of a black cat that isn't one of ours. Upon a little bit of investigating, in a nearby box standing on its side there were a pile of kittens. They are about a week old. The cat is getting into the house via a hole in the roof of the fire escape. Don't ask me how it gets on my roof. I can only assume it climbs up the fire escape. We left the cat some food and water in the hope that it doesn't abandon the kittens.
Of course Elizabeth is excited. The wife and myself are not.
This morning Elizabeth and I went up to check on the kittens. There was only one in the box. This meant that the mother cat realized the box was not a secure location and was moving her litter. Possibly outside the house.
The wife and I were excited. Elizabeth was not.
A few hours later Elizabeth and I went up to see if the last kitten had been moved. It had. Now I was really excited .... until we heard a ruffling noise on the other side of the room in an area that is pretty inaccessible. Upon closer investigation I could see the mother cat with her kittens in a spot that I don't even want to try to get to right now.
Elizabeth is excited .......
Anybody going to need a kitten in a few weeks?


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Swimmers plunge into the New Year at the annual Polar Bear Dip
Published: 01/07/2010 12:25:00
Barbara Greening, one of the five original founding members of the Polar Bear Dip, tells us "This is our 17th year, it got started because one day, it was a beautiful day like this, we were coming down from Eaglecrest after a fabulous time skiing and we were just so charged up we just said, letÆs just go jump in the water. And this was the last day of New Years and we said you know what? We need to do it for the first day of New Years. Who else but people that are full of spirit, love of life, would come and jump in this forty degree water?"
Narrator: "Certainly not me, but there were around a hundred people looking forward to it."
I asked an Attendee, "You came clear from Vancouver just to jump in the icy cold water?"
Her reply was "Yep, IÆve been hearing about it for years, and finally got to come up for the first time last year so..."
I then asked "So was this GOT to come up, or COERCED INTO coming up?" (Bystanders Laugh)
Her Reply was "GOT to come up! IÆm in college now and IÆm more in charge of my Winter Break".
Narrator: "Coercion aside, there must be some compelling reason for all of this."
I asked some more attendees, "What on Earth possessed you to come out and do this?" Their replies varied somewhat, "Masochism", "Tradition", "Great way to kick off the New Year" and "Lost a Bet".
Narrator: All together now. Ready? Set, Go!
(a large group of people dash into the water, cheering with excitement and audibly gasping at the effect of the frigid water on their heretofore comfortably warm extremities)
Narrator: "I noticed that nobody lingered in the water very long, but they were still happy for having done the dip on New YearÆs Day."
Another attendee commented "Yeah, Happy New Year everybody this is awesome, a great high tide, so you didnÆt have to go far down the beach, sunshine, what more could you ask for?"
Narrator: What more you say? How about a nice warm fire afterward to ward off the chills? The perfect complement to this popular annual event.
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I discovered the Library 2.0 Gang podcast series a couple of weeks ago, which is delivered in a host/moderator + panel discussion format. The most recent podcast on social software was great, so I decided to listen to previous recordings. I suppose I'm a little late to the party because it's been going on since 2008, I believe.
The episode I listened to today was about mashups. For anyone unfamiliar, Webopedia explains that
the term mashup refers to a new breed of Web-based applications... mix[ing] at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs.
On this particular panel was Frances Haugen, who made some really interesting contributions to the discussion about what mashups could be and how libraries could benefit. For example, a forgotten book from the 60's might be essentially "dead," but with a recommendation mashup (similar to Amazon's), people might start interacting with the resource again, revitalizing its use. Another example she explained was regarding smart phones being used to help direct patrons to resources by showing them how to locate resources: the librarian would help them figure out how to find the information, and the smart phone would guide them to the materials, physically.
While being enrolled in the LIS program here and using the library heavily, I had sort of daydreamed about there being a map feature for *within* the library. I don't have a smart phone, but if I did, I could have my position listed as "you are here" with specific directions to get to the section of the library I would want to go to. I especially thought this would be useful when the UA Main Library was moving materials around, or even just when I was new to the library as a new student. Western Illinois University's Text Me! service is such an innovative idea and could potentially be the start to a mashup of this sort. While searching the catalog, you can elect to have a call number texted to your phone so you don't have to write it down and could more easily find it while in the library. If that information could be mashed up with directions inside the library, it would be so easy to find materials.
**Edit (1/3/2010): After now finishing the most recent issue of American Libraries, I just read that my daydream has essentially come true in Bozeman, MT at Montana State University. Joseph Janes (p.34) talks about a new Flash tool in use to "mouse over stack locations on a map, the LC call number ranges and subject areas appear on the side." Pretty excellent!**
An example of a great mashup I recently found is Rent Sleuth, combining information on available apartments in NYC, nearby public transportation, crime rates, and incidents of bedbug infestations all on one map. For my job I also recently created a mashup to show students all the buildings they would need to know of for a summer science internship program on campus, as well as which researchers and mentors are in those buildings plus their websites.
As the panel pointed out, not all mashups are or should be maps (but those just happened to be some examples I had to share). Nicole Engard, also on the panel, shows further examples of library mashups in her book, Library mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data, and that link also has further online resources listed.
Anyhow, I think mashups are very exciting and it's so interesting to think of all the ways libraries could combine various data to make collections and services more accessible to users, as well as provide better tools for assessment. I look forward to seeing what the new year will bring in these technologies.
On that note, this is definitely my last post for the year, goodbye 2009, and happy new year!


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Recent delays at the Leeville Bridge have some residents criticizing the new toll system state officials put in place to increase revenue for the financially troubled structure.
Recent delays at the Leeville Bridge have some residents criticizing the new toll system state officials put in place to increase revenue for the financially troubled structure.
Traffic backups reached the point Thursday where police allowed motorists free passage to clear the congestion, said Henri Boulet, executive director of the La. 1 Coalition that lobbies for improvements to the highway that serves as the only route to Grand Isle and Port Fourchon. �
Boulet said the delays were because of road work to improve access to the new toll machine that went into use Wednesday.
"When they were doing that work, it impacted traffic and caused some delays. We are hoping those enhancements have alleviated potential to future buildups," Boulet said, adding state transportation officials are monitoring the traffic problems.
Some motorists said the problem wasn't road work but was the design of the new system that requires drivers passing through without a prepaid pass to stop at a single machine to pay their toll while heading south.�There is no toll for northbound drivers.
The new toll machine requires drivers to stop, select the number of axles on their vehicle and insert payment. The old method had motorists pay before reaching the bridge, either at kiosks at local businesses or online.
The bridge itself is two lanes, but on the north side of La. 1 approaching the bridge, there is an added lane leading to the toll machine. Those who do not have a prepaid Geaux Pass are to use this side lane and allow those with a pass to enter the bridge without stopping.
But when traffic is backed up far enough, all motorists have to line up in the road, causing a bottleneck, said Jai Bourg.
He saw more than 100 vehicles waiting to pass the booth on Thursday afternoon, he said.
"If it is backing up that far, then the ones with passes are going to have to wait until the line subsides so we can get to the Geaux Pass lane," said Ryan Blanchard, who drives the route to work regularly. "This is the worst toll setup I have ever seen. I have not�experienced�traffic delays yet, but I have seen the lines."
Motorists said there were still backups on Friday, but the flow had improved from Thursday afternoon traffic.
Bambi Hall, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development spokeswoman, said her department is working to improve traffic flow by installing better signs directing those who must stop to pay into the proper lane.
"It is a process of people going through it once or twice to pay their toll and become familiar with the steps," Boulet said. "People who do it the second time are much quicker. We are just having to fine tune the access lanes to the toll gantry."
It's been a tough week for bridge supporters who also saw Fitch Ratings downgrade a $60 million bond that helped finance the bridge to junk bond status on Monday.
The bond is completely reliant on toll revenue for repayment, but failures in the previous toll system caused the bridge to miss 20 to 30 percent of the revenue it should collect, according to a statement from the ratings agency. The agency noted the collection rate for the toll was well below industry standards at 70 percent.
Hall said the downgrade will not affect the daily operation of the bridge. The new toll system coupled with a commitment to pursue instate and out-of-state violators is projected to cause the toll revenue to increase by 95 percent.
Boulet said the old system was confusing as it required motorists to buy a pass before reaching the bridge or use an online system to pay afterward during a grace period that has been eliminated with the new system.
"No one warned me that there was a toll system down there," Jason Bourgeious of Houma said of the old toll system, "I hadn't been to Grand Isle in over seven years, and I started seeing signs about a toll coming up and something about a tag. I kept an eye out for a toll booth but didn't see one at all. About three weeks later, I received a fine in the mail for failing to pay the toll."
Boulet said there were also motorists who bought a pass, but because they likely entered their tag number incorrectly when purchasing the pass, they were still hit with the $25 fine for ignoring the toll.
The difficulty paying off the bond under the old system was exacerbated by lower than projected traffic on the bridge, Fitch said. This is likely because of hurricanes, the BP oil spill and the worldwide economic downturn, the ratings agency said.
Fitch also noted there is continuing uncertainty over the amount of traffic due to "enhanced" regulations on the oil and gas industry.
The rating agency said there is a strong likelihood of default if the debt is not restructured and added increasing the toll rate from its $2.50 fee for two-axle vehicles could be a solution.
Boulet said there are scheduled toll increases that will occur every five years over a 25-year period, and he thinks the new toll system will be enough for the bridge to satisfy the financial demands.


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Will There be a Wedding?
They bicker, argue and call each other names ... Do any of these couples stand a chance of having a successful marriage? To help them decide whether or not they should take the plunge, Dr. Phil reviews the five key questions every couple should ask before saying "I do."
They've been together for four years and got engaged eight months ago, but their constant fighting, arguing and name-calling makes them wonder if they're compatible for marriage.
They called off their wedding right before the invitations were mailed out. Since then, their relationship has been in limbo. Rick's unresolved issues with his former girlfriend has Jennifer wondering who Rick really wants to marry.
Cindy says her relationship with Eddie is great " as long as they're having sex. When she's not in the mood, Eddie becomes suspicious, accusing her of cheating on him. Cindy admits she's had it with Eddie's third degree.


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UAlbany International Expert Teams Up with Puerto Rican University to Advance Groundbreaking Alzheimer's Research
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, graduate students Tatiana Quiñones-Ruiz (left) and Manuel F. Rosario-Alomar flank UAlbany Chemist Igor Lednev. The two students collaborated with Lednev this summer on brain research related to Alzheimer's disease. (Photo by Paul Miller)
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 26, 2013) – University at Albany chemist Igor Lednev, an international expert in laser spectroscopy, is attracting leading laboratories worldwide to collaborate on amyloid fibrils research as it relates to Alzheimer's disease.
Through one of his 14 active collaborations with laboratories in the U.S. and Europe, Lednev recently attracted two graduate students to UAlbany from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM) to aid in a study regarding how hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a poisonous gas, may inhibit the formation of misfolded protein clumps (amyloids) in the brain that are believed to cause Alzheimer's disease.
In conjunction with Lednev, UPRM students Manuel F. Rosario-Alomar and Tatiana Quiñones-Ruiz are investigating how H2S serves within the brain as a neuromodulator and a smooth muscle relaxant. Studies have shown that H2S levels are severely decreased in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients compared to the brains of healthy individuals.
Rosario-Alomar and Quiñones-Ruiz are utilizing Lednev's Deep UV Resonant Raman (DUVRR) spectroscopic apparatus to uncover new information about how H2S may affect the formation of amyloid plaques. Since building his Raman spectroscopic apparatus in 2004, Lednev, has secured more than $2 million in federal funding for the amyloid project from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.
His Raman spectroscopy research with amyloids could ultimately yield new insights into other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's.
New Discoveries
The two students, working with 2012 UAlbany PhD graduate Dmitry Kurouski and two undergraduate researchers from Brazil, Eduardo de Barros Ferreira and Rafael Amaral de Araujo, have already discovered that hydrogen disulfide prevents formation of amyloid fibrils in vitro.
"This discovery is very exciting because it may shed light on the biochemical mechanism of Alzheimer's disease and the physiological role of hydrogen sulfide," said Lednev. "This is truly a team effort and has offered an excellent opportunity for these students to perform cutting-edge research."
Quiñones-Ruiz, just accepted to UAlbany's chemistry PhD program, worked on collaborative research at UPRM involving Lednev and UPRM chemists, Juan López-Garriga and Samuel Hernandez.
Rosario-Alomar, a PhD student at UPRM, is at UAlbany via an internship supported by the National Institutes of Health- Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (NIH-RISE), a student-development program designed to increase the number of students from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research careers.
Lednev was selected to participate in the NIH-RISE program after successfully demonstrating to NIH that participants would be engaged in meaningful research experiences in the laboratory of an active investigator who has extramural support and is published in peer-reviewed journals. López-Garriga and Hernandez, who received the NIH-RISE grant, invited Lednev to participate in the program.
"We feel very good about being the first generation of students from Puerto Rico to work in life sciences at UAlbany," said Rosario-Alomar, who hopes to continue onto a postdoctoral position at UAlbany after his NIH-RISE internship. "Tatiana and I are eager to let prospective students at UPRM know about the great opportunities available at UAlbany."
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Friday, 15 October 2010
Prawn, Avocado and Pecan Herb Salad
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Chocolate Orange Loaf Cake
150g soft unsalted butter, plus some for greasing
2 x 15ml tbsp golden syrup
175g dark muscovado sugar
150g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
25g best-quality cocoa powder, sifted
2 eggs
zest 2 oranges and juice of 1
1 x 900g (2lb) loaf tin
Preheat the oven to 170oC/150oC fan oven/gas mark 3 and line your loaf tin with baking parchment or a paper loaf-tin liner.
Beat the already soft butter with the syrup and the sugar until you have a fairly smooth caffé Americano cream, though the sugar will always have a bit of grit about it.
Mix the flour, bicarb and cocoa powder together, and beat into the syrup mixture 1 tbsp of these dry ingredients before beating in 1 egg. Then add another couple of spoonfuls of the dry ingredients before beating in the second egg. Carry on beating in the remaining dry ingredients and then add, still beating, the orange zest and finally, gradually, the juice.
Pour and scrape into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes, though check 5 minutes before and be prepared to keep it in the oven 5 minutes longer if need be. Leave to cool a little in the tin on a wire rack, then turn out with care and leave on the rack to cool.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Apple and Cinnamon Muffins
Makes 12 (I ended up with 18)
2 eating apples
250g plain flour (or spelt flour)
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
125g light brown sugar, plus 4 tsp for sprinkling
125ml honey
60ml runny natural yoghurt
125ml flavourless vegetable oil
2 eggs
75g natural (unblanched) almonds
Preheat the oven to 200oC/180oC fan oven/gas mark 6 and line your muffin tin with papers.
Peel and core the apples, then chop into small dice (about 1cm) and put them to one side.
Measure the flour, baking powder and 1 tsp of the ground cinnamon into a bowl.
Whisk together the 125g brown sugar, the honey, yoghurt, vegetable oil and eggs in another bowl or jug.
Chop the almonds roughly and add half of them to the flour mixture, and put the other half into a small bowl with the second tsp of ground cinnamon and the 4 extra tsp brown sugar. This will make the topping for the muffins.
Now fold the wet ingredients into the dry. Add the chopped apple, and stir to combine but don't over mix.
Spoon this bumpy batter into the muffin papers, then sprinkle the rubbly topping mixture over them.
Pop the tin into the prepared oven, and bake for about 20 minutes, by which time they will have risen and become golden.
Take the tin out of the oven and let it stand for about 5 minutes before gingerly taking out the muffins and placing them on a wire cooling rack.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Pasta Bake
Serves 8
For the white sauce:
750ml of whole milk
100g of unsalted butter
55g plain flour
100ml double cream
plus a good handful of grated extra mature cheddar cheese and Parmesan to sprinkle over the top
Preheat your oven to 180C/350F or Gas 4
You will need a large frying pan, a large saucepan and a 2.5 litre oven proof dish. And also a balloon whisk and a wooden spoon.
In a large frying pan heat a about a tablespoon oil over a medium heat. Fry gently the onion and carrot for about 10 minutes, moving it around from time to time. Add the garlic and continue cooking for about 5 minutes. Then set this aside while you cook the meat.
Add another glug of oil to the frying pan, turn the heat up and fry the beef and pork to brown it, breaking it up with a wooden spoon. Keep it moving so it browns evenly. When it's browned nicely, now you can put the onion mixture back into the frying pan with the meat. Give it all a good stir. Add the tomato purée and cook for one minute then tip in the tin of tomatoes including the juice, oregano and red wine. Add a little salt and pepper to season. Still stirring, allow it to come up to simmering point. Once everything is simmering away nicely, leave it to cook over a low heat for about 30 minutes. Be sure to give it a stir now and then so you know it's not going too dry. By now you should be well on the way to having a nice thick, reduced concentrated sauce, that has very little liquid left in it. If you haven't - no worries just leave it for another 10 minutes or whatever it takes - you might have the heat a bit too low. Have a taste to check the seasoning, when you're happy with the thickness of the sauce, put the pan to one side and make the white sauce.
Put the butter and flour into a large thick-based saucepan and put it over a medium heat whilst stirring with a wooden spoon. Let the flour and butter cook for a minute or so (or the sauce will be lumpy). Now, remove from the heat and using a balloon whisk, add the milk in a little at a time, whisking all the time. Once all the milk is in, put the saucepan over a gentle heat and whisk continuously until the sauce comes to simmering point and thickens nicely. Add some salt and pepper to season and have a taste to make sure it's okay. Don't leave the salt out or the sauce will have no taste. Then, with the heat as low as possible, continue to cook the sauce for about 10 minutes. When it's nice and thick, remove from the heat and stir in the cream, and a pinch of nutmeg.
Once that's done you can turn off the heat and cook your pasta - following the instructions on the packet. Go for very slightly undercooked 'al dente' because the pasta will continue to cook when it goes in the oven.
Drain the pasta and reheat the white sauce, stirring all the time. Tip the pasta into your meat sauce and gently give it a stir to coat it well - you don't want the pasta to break up.
Put half of the mixture into your oven proof dish (2.5 litre in size) and spoon over a little of the white sauce. Don't fuss about the evenness of it, just pour over randomly. Add the rest of the pasta and meat mixture. Now pour the rest of the white sauce over to cover the pasta as best you can.
Sprinkle the top with a good amount of grated cheddar and Parmesan.
Monday, 4 October 2010
Banana Chocolate and Pecan Loaf
Hi everyone I'm back from a lovely restful weekend at the lodge. The weather wasn't the best and it rained on and off but we made the most of it. When the weather was dry we picked more cooking and eating apples, chopped up wood to bring back for our open fires and enjoyed our walks around the woodland and open field we have at the lodge. It was a very productive weekend and I came home with 2 gorgeous new tablecloths and matching napkins that my mother in law made with the fabric I recently bought from eBay. My Lemon Curd and Blueberry Loaf Cake was thoroughly enjoyed and didn't last beyond Sunday evening, it's definitely a must bake! In addition I also made this scrumptious Banana Chocolate and Pecan Loaf, I couldn't go away for the weekend and leave the sad looking bananas in my fruit bowl. I adapted this loaf to my taste and added chocolate instead of raisins and Total Greek Yoghurt instead of buttermilk. The end result was a moist, chocolatey, nutty and very yummy banana loaf.


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Robert Smithson Would Have Loved It
Coming around a corner
to one's first vista
of a big carbon extraction scene
like the Belle Ayr Mine
in Campbell County, Wyoming
is like stumbling
into the Nile Valley
during the building of the Pyramids
Despite losing one-third of its production
during an August conflagration
the Belle Ayr operation
still sucked out 15 million tons
Executive class townhouses are the first thing to grow out of
the empty cliffs around Gillette since the inland sea left.
The buffalo and antelope still play amid these grasslands,
but they look a little diminished next to the Minoan scale of the open pit mines.
The coal trains go through all night long
with a racket like all of hell being unleashed as noise.
A first, as you lie in bed in your motel room or mobile home,
it merely disrupts your sleep, your nervous system. Later you kill your dog and wife.
Driving through the yellow scorched vastness of the Gas Hills
you roll your windows up tight & try not to breathe
any harder than that cow skull lying along the road is breathing.
The road curves involuntarily into the Rattlesnake Range.
In Jeffrey City the snow piled up higher last winter
than anything in town except the CD sirens.
But when the sirens sounded, it was good to know
every web-hat in town could drive his house out from under it.
Life along the Overthrust Belt is Lonely. Fours by fours with
rifle racks, six packs, Willie & Waylon, Miller's & a shot
can't defeat the ultimate meaning of
having to drive 200 miles in a different direction every morning to get to work.
The '77 shootout at the Red & White Cabins
took more than the 2.8 lives the U-dust
of 25 years ago snuffs every year. Besides these mines
are safe now: says a nervous fire inspector
who's waiting get this month's rad badge
back from OSHA, so he can work next month.
Perhaps it's because it's such a threatening space
what with its great expanse of unaffectionate sky
that workers in this boom region travel from
job to job with their housing intact
& never further than ten feet behind them.
The great trans-synaptic stack flashers
of the coal-fired electrical generating plants
that tower over the Badlands across the Platte River
may provide useful power to all the Dakotas
but to the traveler they are purely retinal messengers
The clouds steely off over the mesa to the East
suggest twisters in the Badlands have taken away
what was owed them by the pilgrims there
and now are moving off to test the northern settlers,
or were those twisters we saw merely the swirl above the tipples?
They won't be there to pay if they can help it.
There's no lack of character in fleeing in the teeth
of the prop wash, particularly since the new
type of technological thresher advances only in reverse.
Coming down out of Ten Sleep Canyon into Worland
where they still haven't cleared the dust away
from last winter's thirty foot tall drifts
which just melted down and left puddles of
everything that blew through Worland since last Fall
Where Ed stiffed on a rail crew thirty years ago, has a new
cast of drifters now, not railroad but coal
but equally transient, the only thing (pancake shop included) really local
going on is the generally surrounding & impoverished Short Grasses
The big bluestem has roots six feet deep
Indian grass grows with the bluestem;
switchgrass also ripples there in the wind.
Going west you get less rain:
the little bluestem grows waist high, and so does
the side oats grama, and the bearded needlegrass.
Further west, the short grass of the Plains grows:
the blue grama, knee high; and the buffalo
grass, which grows up to the ankles.
"Grasses are a complex..."
Grasses make up a complex life which does not recover
so easily from mining and drilling as the apologists of
"reclamation" would have us believe, it now turns out
Wanting to "improve" the land is always a hit or miss
proposition depending on your definition of how said
land should be used
Checking Out
Across this whole part of the continental table
Time falls away & all that's left is the dusty light of
motels in the West thirty years ago, laughter of
women somewhere off in the distance, crickets
in the violet dusk & a lonely horizontality
against which the beast shadows of the rigs are painted.
Which meant getting across the mountains alive
But then what? You lost track of the lessons
of the journey when the beginning fell out of sight
beyond the black unreeling truck lane of eternity
Out the window it helps to sing, Goodbye
to the pronghorn, & the buffalo
drops his shaggy head into the unreclaimed sage
unremarking our mechanized passage
Rock formations, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming: photo by MONGO, 2005
Coal mine, Wyoming: photo by Bureau of Land Management, 2004
Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), male: photo by Michael Lemmon, 2007
BNSF train headed north, Platte County, Wyoming along Interstate 25: photo by Xnatedawgx, 2008
Killpecker Sand Dunes, Red Desert region, south central Wyoming: photo by Bureau of Land Management, 2007
Aspen Mountain, Wyoming, from Aspen Mountain Road, south of Rock Springs: photo Millonica, 2008
Interstate 25 southbound near exit 14B, Converse County, Wyoming: photo by Xnatedawgx, 2008
Natural gas drill rig on the Pinedale Anticline, just west of Wind River Range, Wyoming: photo by Bureau of Land Management, 2007
Oil refinery, Evansville, near Casper, Wyoming: photo by Tara Crooker, 2006
Dave Johnston Power Plant east of Glenrock, Wyoming: photo by Xnatedawgx
Route sign along southbound Interstate 25 near McKinley, Wyoming: photo by Xnatedawgx, 2008
Wyoming snow at sunset: photo by Leila Monaghan, 2008
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis), High Plains prairie shortgrass, single-sided inflorescence: photo by Curtis Clark, 2004
Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), perennial prairie shortgrass: photo by NRCS Plant Materials Center, 2005
Looking west at Bear Mountain mesa during sunrise from Hawk Springs Recreation Area, Goshen County, Wyoming: photo by Xnatedawgx, 2007
Interstate 90 eastbound at Montana-Wyoming state border: photo by Xnatedawgx, 2008
Bison roam with Teton Range in background, Wyoming: photo by refractor, 2004


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Sebastián Burga-Minimals Toys
At Design Interviews
Interview with Sebastián Burga : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Sebastián Burga : At one point throughout the evolution of Minimals, I realized that, besides the ironic interpretation of traditional toy industry, the main principle was the concept of "collecting". .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Sebastián Burga : The creative challenge was to make one unique modular code that would be recognizable in every character, even when each has different characteristics depending on the animal they represented. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Sebastián Burga : I want to reach the point of producing Minimals industrially in 2 formats: small collectible toys to have in your desk and big decorative pieces to have in your living room. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Sebastián Burga : From the first drawing of Minimals in the Mauerpark (Berlín) to their first exhibition in La Despensa (Lima), around 3 years. ( first version http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.148433851921375.31382.148412435256850&type=3 ) .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Sebastián Burga : It was commissioned by myself I guess. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Sebastián Burga : I would accept to sell the production rights as far as I can manage all the artistic direction as the top designer. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Sebastián Burga : When I arrived in Lima with this proposal, I realized that it was the perfect artistic scene to do business with them since there is a good market for childlike art and public that uses art as a vehicle to pullout their inner child. So I decided to go on designing Minimals as my first comercial inversion. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Sebastián Burga : My partner Claudia Hermosilla (aka Mona Herbe) & I gave shape to the Minimals bipersonal exhibition in La Despensa on December, 2011 ( http://www.ladespensa.pe/?p=2085 ). Since then, she has been my main consultant for any decision related to them. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Sebastián Burga : Any kind of collectors. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Sebastián Burga : Maybe there're no difference except from the fact that Minimals synthesize better all the classic formulas of the toy industry. It's like using german rationalism in order to reach childish empiricism. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Sebastián Burga : The name "Minimals" derives, at a time, from the word "Minimalism" and the contraction of "Mini-Animals". Certainly, they're set out to expose the essence of toys through eliminating all non-essential forms, features and concepts. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Sebastián Burga : Programs like Blender, Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Sebastián Burga : "I don't know, I just want to have them all!" says my inner child. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Sebastián Burga : As I said, there was active collaboration between my partner Claudia Hermosilla and I and it is important to recognize all her contributions as an experienced designer. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Sebastián Burga : Technology allowed me to design all the Minimals in a 3d program called Blender. It allowed me to make about one thousand changes in their particular designs before I build them. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Sebastián Burga : I started by searching anything related to toy collections, giving special attention to all the classic & repetitive archetypes. In my facebook art page "The Chita's Clitoris" we have one album dedicated to them. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.228676647155256.58430.184334104922844&type=3 .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Sebastián Burga : The most difficult part was to find an effective, fast & cheap process to build these toys in wood with an industrial finishing in duco paint, in particular, since they were all handcrafted. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Sebastián Burga : I had never heard about this competition. I hesitated a bit at first specially after seeing the nomination fees. However, I sold one "Herr Bytes" (the krokodil) so I guess they ended paying their own nomination. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Sebastián Burga : With the Minimals I learned more about design software and all the mechanics involved in serial production design. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Sebastián Burga : I remember very well how these characters came up as my only alternative to survive in Berlin. I was an artist who had no income or alternatives at that moment so I started selling silly drawings of animals in a local flea-market. Afterwards, I realized that Minimals were the one creation conceived out of necessity as well as my most promising project of design. So, how is that for a coincidence? .
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Valencia Orange & Almond Cake
Difficulty: Medium
Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 120 mins
Cooking Time: 60 mins
1. Place oranges in a pot of boiling water. Simmer for 2 hours. Allow the oranges to cool. Discard water. Blend the oranges in a fruit processor.
2. Preheat oven to 180°C. Combine eggs and sugar in a pastry mixer and beat at speed 5 till light yellow.
3. Add the blended oranges into the egg mix. Stir the almond meal, flour and baking powder. Mix well at speed 2.
4. Grease a baking pan with butter and dust with flour.
5. Pour batter into the pan and bake for 1 hour or until the top is golden brown. Check that an inserted skewer comes out clean.
6. Dust with snow powder before serving.
Product Used
MultiTalent Food Processor MCM68861GB
Saves on space, not on possibilities thanks to 50 functions


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SAN FRANCISCO—In order to implement Judicial Council directives on staffing and to reduce costs, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced today that it is reducing up to 18 information technology contractor positions and establishing regular AOC employee positions to provide critical long-term technology maintenance and support services.
"We determined that this change will save the agency from $350,000 to $750,000 a year without increasing the number of positions," said Curt Soderlund, the AOC's chief administrative officer. "We intend to post 18 positions and begin recruiting for them this week. All qualified persons are free to apply for the positions."
Since the Judicial Council halted deployment of the California Court Case Management System for fiscal reasons in March 2012, the AOC has let go of 33 technology workers. In the last year, the AOC lost about 30 percent of its workforce due to budget cuts.
The newly established technology positions are critical to judicial branch operations because they implement and manage systems for the trial and appellate courts, including existing case management systems.


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I am very happy to bring you these Golem Design Studio beads as an exclusive for Jasmine Tea Designs.
This listing is for 9 beads:
1 ~ pendant ~ oval shaped pendant, 48mm (length) oval x 32mm (wide) with a 4mm hole
2 ~ lentils ~ diameter 23mm, 11mm thickness, 2.8mm hole
6 ~ rounds ~ 2.8mm hole
Golem Beads are hand crafted in Bulgaria.
You can use the Lace or Paisley tutorial for this set or the Magnolia tutorial in the special issue Kumihimo Bead&Button magazine from 2016.
3-5 business days
I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 0 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Tutorials and patterns are for personal use only; reproduction and distribution of these instructions in whole or in part, in any form, without the author's consent, is strictly prohibited. If you wish to teach these instructions, please contact Diana Miglionico-Shiraishi at email@example.com directly for permission and additional copies. Should you sell your creations, please give credit for the original design to Diana Miglionico-Shiraishi, Jasmine Tea Designs.
If you are interested in a custom design please contact me directly at email@example.com I gladly take special requests and orders. You can choose from any beads or designs listed at my Etsy shop for a custom size or color. Don't see exactly what you want, just let me know your interests. I love to work with brides, special outfits and to complete your special look or event. I offer pearl knotting, stringing, bead embroidery and beaded kumihimo.


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Make a cricketing prediction for a match or a series. The prediction must be made before the match starts. 3 points for getting a test match right, 1 for a one dayer. People get negative 3 and one for getting a wrong prediction as well.
At the end each month, the person with most points wins the prediction thingy.
Ah yes, no predictions for matches involving Bangladesh and Zimbabwe will be taken in and only international cricket. Prediction must be made 'before' the match or series starts.


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Hi - I am BRAND new (happy to be here!) and can't find info on or figure out how to add photos. How do I add one to my "bio" when I make posts (is that an Avtar -sp?) and to add one in the body of a post - do they have to be pre loaded on a web site first? I couldn't find a "photo 'how to'" and will be embarrassed if I overlooked it.
Please get me started!


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We are hoping that Cowes Classics Week competitors will support the event charity by including a minimum of £20 as a donation with their regatta entry, and those who donate through this website will be entered into a draw for a Magnum of Champagne kindly donated by David Gower, Regatta Chairman. It's really easy to help the charity; simply follow this link and select 'Charitable Donation to National Coastwatch Needles Station and Champagne Draw'
The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is a voluntary organisation set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed. NCI is a registered charity managed by a board of Trustees with a Constitution agreed by the Charities Commission.
In 1994 when two fishermen lost their lives off the Cornish coast below a recently closed Coastguard lookout, local people decided to open and restore the visual watch. When the first station was opened at Bass Point on the Lizard, NCI was born. Today 49 stations including the important post at The Needles keep a visual watch around the coastline of England and Wales, with more in the pipeline subject to available funding.
NCI stations have been set up along the coast from Rossall Point in the North-West, through Wales, to Sunderland in the North-East. Each station has a qualified and highly trained team to watch over its own particular area whether it is a popular seaside town, busy port or shipping area. Accidents will always happen at sea and along the coastline. Wherever there is an NCI station a watchkeeper will be looking out for danger and ensuring your safety on the water.
High technology and sophisticated systems such as radar and telecommunications have vastly improved safety at sea, but there is no substitute for a watchful pair of eyes. Accidents do happen and a computer or technology cannot spot a distress flare, an overturned boat, a yacht with problems, a water sports enthusiast in difficulty, or children or adults in trouble, or possible pollution incidents. That is why our lookouts and watchkeepers are an important service provider to all those who use our coastal waters, footpaths and coastline.
Work of the NCI
Each station is manned by a team of fully trained and dedicated volunteers who keep a daylight watch up to 365 days a year. Stations are equipped with telescopes, radar, telephone and weather instrumentation as well as up to date charts. Close contact with the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) aims to promote stations to Declared Facility Status in order to become an integral part of the National Search and Rescue Structure.
Watchkeepers come from all walks of life and offer a wide range of skills and experience. Full training ensures that volunteers reach the high standard expected by the NCI and the MCA. Regular assessments take place at all stations and retraining programmes are held to maintain standards and keep watchkeepers up to date with the latest legislation or improved operational procedures.
Watchkeepers are the eyes and ears along the coast, keeping a visual watch, monitoring radio channels, using radar and providing a listening watch in poorRadar
visibility. They remain vigilant at all times. Surveillance work is mainly routine but watchkeepers are trained to act in an emergency, report to the MCA and, if required, co-ordinate with the search and rescue services.
A log of all water-based activities is kept during each watch and, when requested, weather conditions can be passed to yachtsmen and fishermen before they put to sea. Also with the new generation of web cams we can identify sea conditions for those who wish to check on the weather or sea state prior to doing any watersport activity, hopefully reducing the need for MCA response and RNLI call-outs. During each watch other activities such as canoeing and diving etc are closely observed, as are bathers, walkers and climbers who use our shoreline.
Watchkeepers provide a vital link with all the emergency services and can provide an emergency contact point on land for both sea and shore users.
Find out more about the NCI Needles Station at https://www.nci.org.uk/stations/needles
Thank you for your support!
Drone image showing the Needles and the NCI station.
HRH Princess Anne on a visit.
The heart of the Needles NCI station
Varvassi bump!
An amazing mix of traffic comes through the Needles watch area.
AIS screenshot during as Fastnet 2017 competitors pass the Needles.


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Editor's note: Amanda Lopez joined the San Antonio Area Foundation in 2010 and has been a key member of the Animal No-Kill team. On June 4, she begins a new career with the City of San Antonio. While we are sad to see Amanda go, we wish her well in her new career, and offer her our heartfelt thanks for all she has done for the people and pets of San Antonio.
By Amanda Lopez
Recently, I was loved by a puppy that I named Noki. I met him at the city Animal Care Services "Owner Surrender Intake." He had been hit by a car and turned in as a stray. Noki had a broken leg and a few other medical issues. The wonderful people at San Antonio Pets Alive were trying to find him a foster home because he needed extra TLC.
When I first walked in, he immediately caught my eye. He was an American staff mix and was about 2 months old. His fur was the perfect mix of brown, black and white. When I rubbed his head, he made a soft sound, almost like a cat's purr. He was the sweetest puppy ever. He had a darling stripe of white fur on his face, but his eyes are what got me. They were searching for someone to care for him. I was his person.
The doctor examined him and gave him pain meds to comfort him. She told me that he was very hurt and might not make it through the night. I wanted to give him a chance, so knowing this, I agreed to foster.
When I placed him in my passenger seat, he looked at me strangely for sitting him so far away. Even with everything he had been through, he tried to move closer to me. So I scooped him up, and he slept on my lap the whole way home.
At home, my cousin Iris and I cared for this baby. We gave him a warm blanket and a soft bed. We gave him sugar water and tried to feed him. We rubbed his head and tummy. He opened his eyes sometimes and gave us those tender puppy eyes, but mostly he slept. We adored Noki and showered him with attention.
Soon, it was time for bed, and Iris left. It was just Noki and I. He opened his eyes, and gave me love. Then, all of a sudden, his breathing became labored. In only a matter a minutes his breathing slowed down significantly. Noki gasped, and then he stopped breathing. Tears began falling uncontrollably from my eyes. I didn't know what to do. I rushed to the animal hospital, and they took him to the back room. After a few minutes, the nurse called me. She told me Noki had passed away. Tears flooded my eyes in that moment. I will never forget that feeling of losing him.
I felt so much sadness, so much grief. He was an innocent being who wanted to love me, but it was all too much for him. I cried myself to sleep that night, but my pain is eased knowing Noki spent his last hours comforted and cared for.
I mourned Noki's passing. He wasn't the only one who fell in love that night. I did, too. This little angel of hope made it impossible not to love him back. It's amazing how quickly it happens, but the bond I felt was so strong.
I couldn't save Noki, but there are so many animals that can be saved today. So many pets who want to have a chance to find their family.
This story is very sad, but the story of pets being put down every day is so much sadder. Noki was sick, but so many others are perfectly healthy. Tears are filling my eyes as I write this story, but I know that I need to share this. Noki meant too much to me for me not to speak up for all the puppies out there. Please go to the shelter and adopt or foster. You will be saving a life, and maybe a little one will save you. If you can't adopt, please donate to one of the San Antonio Area Foundation's No-Kill partners. This will help them save other babies.
In honor of Noki, please act today because many others like him might not have a tomorrow.


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In the present economic climate the mantra in most companies is do more with less. In all too many companies, hiring is frozen, there may even be layoffs, but at the same time the number of people in I.T. is frozen, there is more work required to keep the company going.
There are things we can all do to improve productivity. There are a number of things we can do to manage people so they are more productive (some good ideas here). There are a number of things we can do to better determine what must be done in each project, and equally important, what is not needed.
There are also programming tools that make programmers more productive. That is the focus of this post. The following are the items I have found to deliver a tremendous return on investment. The kind of help that does help you do more with less:
- Dual 21" monitors. Numerous studies show as much as a 20% increase in productivity over a single monitor. If your dev team drops from 6 to 5 people but you get the monitors, you may end up even.
- VmWare or Hyper/V. Having a virtual machine that is configured identically to the production system, and that can be rolled back to it's initial state before installing each new version, lets developers test their code in it's production state. This reduces the number of bugs in a developer's code.
- Java developers - IntelliJ. The capabilities in the IntelliJ IDE far surpass Eclipse and the additional refactoring alone can save a developer hours to days a month.
- Reporting - Windward Reports. By using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) as the design tool, developers can design reports in 1/10 to 1/20 the amount of time required by other reporting packages. For someone working fulltime on reports, that saves 36 - 38 hours/week.
- Oracle Forms - FMB Merge. A diff tool for Oracle forms. It not only save the developer a lot of time, but it also reduces the bugs in modifications to the program.
- PeopleSoft - Araxis. I think it would be impossible to merge PeopleSoft updates with local customizations without this. The difference in development time and reduced bugs is gigantic.
Upgrading to the above should give you a clear measurable increase in productivity. It's not a silver bullet, but it does help. If you have any suggested additions to this list, please add as a comment.


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Although the Ancien Regime is still quite close to us in time, since we daily come across men who were born under its laws, it already seems to be lost in the obscurity of the past. The radical revolution which separates us from it has the same effect as centuries would have- it has cast a veil over everything it did not destroy. Thus few people exist today who might give a precise reply to this simple question: how was the countryside administered before 1789? In fact, it cannot be answered with any accuracy or in any detail unless you have studied, not the books, but the administrative archives or that period (Alexis de Tocqueville The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution)
I love this quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville: in part because it reflects the thought of Geoffrey Elton about history- one of the intellectual legacies that I've grown up in the shadow of. Partly though I think what Tocqueville gets at here is a really interesting distinction. There is a history that we all know and a history that was documented at the time. Neither history is free from distortion: the history that we remember is interpreted through what happened next. You can see this everywhere. Take two periods in American history. The 1850s are always remembered as the prelude to the 1860s: we think of them through the lens of the war that was to come. It can lead to mistakes. Some might argue that the divisiveness of the politics of the 1950s in the UK is forgotten because of the breakthrough of Thatcherism in the 1980s. What comes after often means that we forget about what came before.
Tocqueville's history is based on what he sees as more contemporary evidence and that's a very modern concern. Memory though is important and can itself be underrated. Tocqueville in this way is a predecessor to Ranke- but documents can deceive as much as they can illustrate. To privilege what is recorded over what is not recorded may privilege those activities which are recorded and those actors who author the records. This can have sinister implications. Tacitus in the annals speaks of the control that emperors had over those who kept records and we know from our own century too well the danger of propaganda. However distortion doesn't need to be sinister to be there. For example, Geoffrey Elton's histories of the reign of Henry VIII were focussed on Thomas Cromwell because Cromwell was the master of the records: more recently historians have embraced a more expansive vision of court culture precisely because they recognised that documents may distort. To use another example, documents only preserve the trace of an activity which is documented: take an operation, a document will preserve what the operation was, it will preserve how much it cost, it might even preserve what the medical outcome was and possibly a scale of patient satisfaction. It won't preserve the doctor's forgiving manner, the nurse's smile, the feeling of pain and of relief: those things are lost.
I'm not criticising Tocqueville here- more I'm riffing on his words- but I do think its interesting to think about what he was trying to analyse. He was trying to get to the meaning of an event: the French Revolution. The key question there though is that the meaning of an event may be dual. It may be what the event meant in reality: the actual conditions which provoked and ended up sustaining or failing to sustain that event and the change it brought. It may mean that we are interested in the meaning of the event for those who lived through it- people who might have believed all sorts of inaccurate things about it. Meaning is multifaceted and the stories people tell about events can be more important than the events themselves: the revolution in France for example only meant something to the world because people told stories about it as the origin of democracy or the bourgeois moment of conquest. Its worth us both reexamining the validity of those stories but also enquiring into what stories people told about events: we must go back to the documents for both halves of that picture.


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A young English princess tries on her wedding gown with excitement only for her betrothal to the French Dauphin to be broken shortly afterwards. So begins the first chapter of The Tudor Rose, a novel about Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. I knew who she was but what was she like? This wonderful novel by the late English novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes provided an answer for me.
Margaret Campbell Barnes (1891-1962) began her career by writing for various leading British literary publications before turning to historical fiction. Her agents at Curtis Brown Ltd. encourage her to write historical novels. She wrote ten novels between 1944-62. In 1944 her son Michael's death in World War II combat operation devasted her and her husband Peter. Her love for her son shines in her writing. (A fuller biography may be found in any of her reissued novels)
I first discovered Margaret Campbell Barnes in high school. The copy of The Tudor Rose in my high school library wasn't very distinctive on the shelf: it was a hardback rebound with the title engraved on the spine. (I don't remember if any of Barnes's novels were there) I went on to read other historical fiction novels but I didn't forget this novel. Years would pass before I saw it again…
What I enjoy about Barnes's novels is her writing style and how she brings her subject and the time period to life. As I read, I feel I'm watching what's happening: the battles, political upheaval, murder, vying for the throne, feasts and royal pageantry, and domestic life. The individual people in her novels, both well-known and lesser known, come alive on the pages. Because it's actual history, there are no surprises about the ending. The way Barnes tells the story will have you wanting to know. Barnes follows the historical records about her subjects accurately, and she includes an acknowledgement about her research in her novels. As an undergrad history major, I appreciate that.
If you enjoyed reading Margaret Campbell Barnes when you were younger, you'll be delighted her novels have been reissued with beautiful covers after being out of print for many years. I've bought four of the reissues including The Tudor Rose. Three of them were new to me so I was in for a treat. (My second favorite is My Lady of Cleves) Below is a list of Barnes's reissued novels in chronological order in English history and their original publication dates:
The Passionate Brood (1944)
Within the Hollow Crown (1947)
The Tudor Rose (1953)
Brief Gaudy Hour (1949)
King's Fool (1959)
My Lady of Cleves (1946)
Mary of Carisbrooke (1956)
This is the first in a three part series about my favorite historical fiction novelists. Next installment: Margaret Irwin.
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