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THURSDAY, Sept. 22, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A cardiac rehabilitation program appeared to reduce some of the risk factors for a second stroke among patients who have suffered mild strokes or the mini-strokes known as transient ischemic attacks (TIA), researchers have found.
"Overall, following the cardiac rehab intervention, the TIA and mild stroke patients improved significantly in their risk profile," study senior investigator Neville Suskin, medical director of the London Health Sciences Centre Cardiac Rehabilitation & Secondary Prevention Program in London, Ontario, said in a news release from the American Heart Association.
The investigators looked at 80 of 100 patients who'd had a stroke or TIA in the past year and went on to complete a 7.5-month outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program.
The peak exercise capacity of the patients improved by an average of about one-third, while "bad" LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and total cholesterol fell, the study found. (The changes in "good" HDL and "bad" LDL cholesterol weren't considered to be statistically significant, the authors noted.)
Also, waist sizes, weight and body mass index (a measurement that takes into account height and weight) dropped on average. So did blood pressure, but at a statistically non-significant amount, according to the report.
"While a TIA or mild stroke may seem small, in reality these events are crucial warning signs of possible catastrophic stroke or heart attack," study lead author Peter L. Prior, clinical psychologist in the London Health Sciences Centre Cardiac Rehabilitation & Secondary Prevention Program, said in the news release.
"Our study is novel because it shows that cardiac rehabilitation, involving structured programs in exercise, nutrition, smoking cessation and psychological services, is a feasible, potentially effective way for TIA or mild stroke patients to reduce their risk of strokes or heart attacks," Prior said.
The researchers are conducting a more rigorous study to compare patients who take part in cardiac rehab to those who don't.
Commenting on the findings, Dr. Michael Katsnelson, an assistant professor of clinical neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, cautioned that the study has limitations. "A much bigger, randomized trial needs to be conducted to measure carefully secondary strokes and TIA and compare it to a control group with traditional medical management," he said.
It's not clear why some people didn't finish the cardiac rehabilitation program, he noted, and it's also not certain that reducing risk factors will reduce the risk of a second stroke. "There may be additional factors that contribute to recurrent stroke that we do not yet understand or target properly," Katsnelson pointed out.
Still, he said, it's clear that "there is good evidence that lowering one's cholesterol, blood pressure and sugar to recommended levels, quitting smoking, a healthy diet and regular exercise" lead to less risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.
The study findings were released online Sept. 22 in advance of publication in the November print issue of the journal Stroke.
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New: Is Fizzled Berkeley Fair on Teley Fizzled Out?
Telegraph Businessmen and Mayor Bates kept expectations low when they closed a few blocks of Teley street traffic to hold a summer-Sundays fair, launched June 9. -more-
Telegraph Businessmen and Mayor Bates kept expectations low when they closed a few blocks of Teley street traffic to hold a summer-Sundays fair, launched June 9. -more-
More than 100 people, including some who say they plan to camp out, have gathered in front of a historic post office in Berkeley this afternoon to protest its closure.
The protesters represent the groups Save the Berkeley Post Office and Strike Debt Bay Area and are holding a demonstration and teach-in on the privatization of public services in front of the post office at 2000 Allston Way.
Strike Debt member Mike Wilson said the protest coincides with similar rallies in several other U.S. cities and will include speeches by activists and public officials, music and dance performances, street theater, free food, public forums and street art. -more-
The City of Berkeley has announced that it is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect responsible for a fatal hit-n-run collision in Berkeley on July 15, police said. -more-
I am a folk musician and I currently make my living in Berkeley, California. I sing in the downtown BART station Monday through Friday mornings. I sing at the Center Street Farmers' Market three Saturdays out of each month. I usually sing an hour-long shift at the BART station on weekday afternoons. Basically, I sing three hours a day for tips and occasional CD sales. I play guitar and sing without amplification, leaving my guitar case open to display my CD and to collect any money people wish to contribute for the music.
This afternoon I left my house later than usual and when I came to the BART station other musicians were playing, both inside the station and above ground near the entrance. Rather than go home without making a dime I decided to try singing across the street on Center Street. I chose a spot next to the side window of Games of Berkeley, tucking my guitar case under the window where the sidewalk is wider so as not to impede pedestrians. I stood next to my open case singing. I had been at it for about half an hour and earned one dollar when a Berkeley Ambassador showed up and interrupted my song.
He told me, "You can't play next to the building -- it's a business. You can play at the curb."
No musician would want to play at the curb where traffic and noisy traffic signals compete for the airwaves. No musician would want to breathe smog and exhaust. -more-
A coalition of Bay Area leaders late Thursday night approved a long-term regional plan meant to accommodate population growth over the next few decades while meeting state mandates for cutting air pollution and improving access to public transportation.
The final vote on Plan Bay Area came during a marathon joint meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) at the Oakland Marriott.
The two groups are made up of 21 Bay Area county supervisors, mayors and other local leaders.
Several hundred people, many who boarded buses from Marin and Santa Clara counties, packed a Marriott ballroom to protest the plan, voicing concerns that it will bring overcrowded housing developments and will bypass local control over development. -more-
Members of the 6 Wins for Social Equity Network and other supporters of the Equity, Environment and Jobs (EEJ) scenario came away from last night's Plan Bay Area adoption by regional decision-makers satisfied their voices were heard. -more-
The Berkeley Democratic Club ("BDC") is facing serious questions about alleged violations of state and local campaign finance laws. On July 12, 2013, the Berkeley Fair Campaign Practices Commission received a complaint against BDC alleging violations of the Berkeley Election Reform Act and state election law, including failure to file expense reports for false and misleading campaign materials that were distributed by homeless people during the November 2012 election cycle. -more-
A calm flows from the mountainside.
A murmur spiced with the sound of birds
Envelops the enclave of Neruda and Matilda:
The upstairs café serves espresso
With bait-sized bits of 70% cacao.
Metallic Nerudafish and figurines
Hover near windows, catching light
As visitors wait to navigate Neruda's rooms.
Two years ago I wrote a piece here, "Berkeley Hilton to Homeless." I had no idea how that would turn out.
Two years later, the piece still leads the Berkeley Hilton Google search result page. If you're looking for a room at the Berkeley Hilton, you might want to consider going homeless and saving hundreds of dollars. Free food and clothes, too. -more-
On 15 July, Alice Walker posted an essay in the Guardian, in which she ruminated on the slaying of Trayvon Martin. She reposted the text in her blog, with further comments, one among them alluding to George Zimmerman: "Of course if we are dealing with descendents of the Chitauri…we can expect more of what we are experiencing." This oracular utterance speaks volumes about her recent profession of faith in the doctrines of David Icke. -more-
On Saturday, August 3rd, my family will be at Totland in Berkeley celebrating our grand daughter Amiela's second birthday. Amiela and I are particularly close, so my absence will be noticed.
I will be marching along with thousands of others concerned about climate change and horrified by the fossil fuel industry's willingness to continue to place profits over worker and community safety, and over the very future health of the planet. -more-
Party politics seems less and less concerned with representing everybody in our society, including poor people. Really poor people are also US citizens but they are powerless; they get no help meeting even their basic needs. They look up to some unseen power to help them survive somehow. The USA funds the needs of other countries. We work towards bringing peace elsewhere but at home our poor and needy die in a culture of poverty. They die from poor health, from helplessness, and from stark hunger. -more-
I live in a PDA, and I'm concerned about GHG, but the FPI and RHNA clearly forget that PM and TAC at more concentrated rates required by ABAG will kill those of us who live in TOAH. Human beings have UGB, too, unless we all give up and live in HOVs. -more-
The unarmed African-American teen, Martin, was walking back to his father's house after buying candy at a nearby store – a perfectly innocent and non-threatening activity. This was confirmed by a police report which noted there was "no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter and should not have been accosted." The police dispatcher specifically prohibited Zimmermann from approaching Martin. Ignoring police appeals, Zimmermann precipated an altercation and an innocent victim was murdered in cold blood. Responding to intense public pressure the police finally arrested Zimmermann after 44 long days. -more-
I am deeply disappointed to receive news of the final decision of the United States Postal Service to sell the Berkeley Main Post Office. Their decision ignores the will of our community to find a sensible solution, and opts for the easy way out by auctioning off our culture and heritage to the highest bidder. -more-
The Travesty goes like this.
The grounds for Zimmerman's acquittal were that he shot someone, and killed him. Pure and simple.
The grounds for Trayvon Martin's having been killed is that he decided to defend himself against someone stalking him.
Does it make sense? No. Is it true? Yes.
There's nothing to understand. That's just the way it is. But if we do want to understand it, we have to look at the "role model." Or rather, at The Role Model.
The Role Model is the US, the War Making Power. -more-
I have read Vivian Warkentin's article under "Public Comment" re: Plan Bay Area - A shocking Theft of our Democracy (June 28, 2013). Ms. Warkentin is a good writer and successfully condenses a very complex issue. Now Steinberg's Senate Bill 1, which passed the CA Senate and is before the Assembly, deserves attention. This Bill strengthens the Plan and, worse, puts property taxes at the discretion of an unelected regional body to fund the Plan. To add insult to injury, the Bill also authorizes the "taking" of land for development without the necessity of applying what constitutes the standard for "blight" designations. I hope Ms. Warkentin does an article on Senate Bill 1. Talk about shocking people out of their doldrums! -more-
Trying to reconnect with civic concerns after a month devoted to family matters, I resolved to attend last night's meeting on Plan Bay Area, a topic which has generated considerable heat and some light on this site and elsewhere in the past few months. It was a joint meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, which, the words of last week's press release from both bodies, is "an integrated transportation and land-use strategy through 2040 that marks the nine-county region's first long-range plan to meet the requirements of California's landmark 2008 Senate Bill 375, which calls on each of the state's 18 metropolitan areas to develop a Sustainable Communities Strategy to accommodate future population growth and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks."
What's not to like about that? -more-
I'm taking it easy this month since the Berkeley City Council has started its lengthy break and not much else is going on around here. A new issue will be posted only when the current one gets too long, at irregular intervals. Watch this space. -more-
Imagine not being able to watch "Person of Interest," "The Good Wife," "NCIS," and other programs on CBS or Showtime. But satellite customers like me as well as cable customers may not be able to have uninterrupted access to the major four (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) because the 1992 Cable Act requires pay TV providers to get broadcaster consent to carry the station and, since there is no limit on what broadcasters can charge in retransmission fees, pay TV providers can either pay what is asked or lose access to these networks -- a black out. -more-
For the time being, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyio Erdogan—with the liberal use of brutal police tactics and massive amounts of tear gas that killed four people and injured more than 8,000— appears to have successfully crushed demonstrations aimed at blocking the demolition of Gezi Park in central Istanbul and has weathered a similar outbreak in the country's capital, Ankara. -more-
When Barack Obama was elected President, many of us were hopeful that it signaled an end to widespread racism. We were naïve. George Zimmerman's not-guilty verdict indicates how much work remains. -more-
Hillary Clinton will likely be the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and the odds-on favorite to become the 45th President. Nonetheless, while over the last sixty years there's been a lot of civil-rights progress in the US, women remain second-class citizens. Whatever happened to the women's movement? -more-
Of the many negative stereotypes that exist about older adults, the most common is that we are forgetful, senile and prone to so-called "senior moments." In fact, research from the USC Davis School of Gerontology reveals that, while cognitive processes do indeed decline with age, simply reminding older adults about ageist ideas exacerbates their memory problems. It is an extension of the idea of "stereotype threat" — that when people are confronted with negative stereotypes about a group with which they identify, they tend to self-handicap and underperform. In so doing, they inadvertently confirm the negative stereotypes they were worried about in the first place. -more-
The world now knows that George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator, was acquitted of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. The teen was walking inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida, where he and his father were visiting his father's fiancée. -more-
Life is never perfect; it is often fraught with difficulty, and it refuses to conform to our wishes and our expectations. This seems true for all beings, yet truer if you are living with a severe mental illness. -more-
Oakland neighbors, including families with young children, will gather in downtown Oakland Saturday morning to seek justice in the case of Trayvon Martin. -more-
The word is getting out. Morgan Neville's Sundance Festival stunner, 20 Feet from Stardom, is the must see/must feel movie of the summer. Even on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I found the Landmark's screening room packed and the management promising refunds if there were no seats left. -more-
How to Make Money Selling Drugs is a message film with a simple message: It's surprisingly easy to amass a fortune pushing pot and cashing in on cocaine. Director Matthew Cooke spells it out in Ten Easy Steps that are so simple even a school kid could do it. -more-
Harmony, Not Perfect But Intriguing 07-19-2013
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Now Read This 07-18-2013
New: Go Ask Alice Walker By J. J. Phillips 07-30-2013
New: Why I'm Marching to Chevron This Saturday By Dr. Jeff Ritterman, Vice President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter 07-29-2013
New: A Quick Fix? By Romila Khanna 07-31-2013
One Bay Area, Acronymically By Carol Denney 07-19-2013
Trayvon Martin By Tejinder Uberoi 07-18-2013
The Postal Service Decision to Sell Historic Downtown Berkeley Post Office By Councilmember Jesse Arreguin 07-18-2013
Whose Ground Is It, Anyway? By Steve Martinot 07-18-2013
Warkentin on Plan Bay Area By Charlie Brown 07-18-2013
New: Is Fizzled Berkeley Fair on Teley Fizzled Out? By Ted Friedman 07-29-2013
New: Protesters Rally on Saturday
for Berkeley Post Office By Laura Dixon and Sara Gaiser (BCN) 07-27-2013
New: Berkeley Offers Reward for Hit and Run Driver By Hannah Albarazi (BCN) 07-23-2013
A Day in the Life of an Anonymous Street Musician By anonymous street musician, as told to Carol Denney 07-21-2013
Plan Bay Area Passed by MTC, ABAG By Laura Dixon (BCN) 07-19-2013
Press Release: EEJ Supporters Celebrate Plan Bay Area Victory
ABAG/MTC include some key elements of Equity, Environment and Jobs scenario 07-19-2013
Press Release: Berkeley Democratic Club Accused of Violating Campaign Finance Laws From Pattie Wall and Bob Offer-Westort 07-18-2013
La Casa de La Chascona
A visit to Pablo Neruda's house in Santiago By Gar Smith 07-18-2013
Berkeley's Hilton to Homeless now Four Stars: A Garden Grows On Telegraph By Ted Friedman 07-18-2013
New: ECLECTIC RANT: Time for the FCC to Re-Examine Its Retransmission Consent Rules By Ralph E. Stone 07-31-2013
New: DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE:Turkey: Uprising's Currents Run Deep By Conn Hallinan 07-29-2013
THE PUBLIC EYE: Racism in America: The Killing of Trayvon Martin By Bob Burnett 07-19-2013
THE PUBLIC EYE: Whatever Happened to the Women's Movement? By Bob Burnett 07-18-2013
SENIOR POWER: Senior Moments in the Dark By Helen Rippier Wheeler, firstname.lastname@example.com 07-18-2013
New: ECLECTIC RANT: Will Zimmerman Face a Second or Third Round of Litigation? By Ralph E. Stone 07-30-2013
ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Muddling Through Difficulties By Jack Bragen 07-18-2013
Press Release: March with Families to Seek Justice in Trayvon Martin Case 07-19-2013
Film Review: Redemption Song: 20 Feet from Stardom--Now playing at the Shattuck Landmark Reviewed by Gar Smith 07-18-2013
Film Review: How to Make Money Selling Drugs--Now playing at the Elmwood Reviewed by Gar Smith 07-18-2013

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French ATPer and Hottie McHotterson Gael Monfils appears in the most recent issue of Sport & Style, the Bruno Danto-helmed insert in L'Equipe.
Gael poses in clothes from Givenchy, Giorgio Armani, Alexander McQueen, Chanel, as well as his own sponsors, Nike and Head. And in the article, he talks about his non-tennis passions: music and breakdancing. "I often organize freestyle 'battles' with my group of friends. I've been brought up under the MTV culture. Music and dance are my life."
Accessories: The house of Chanel, under Karl Lagerfeld, continues to top itself with the ball-as-necklace on the left. They've dabbled in tennis-themed accessories before, including racquets and the stiletto pump.
S&S is slowly making its way stateside, and we can't wait to see it on the newsstands!
(via ATP; photos via MTF's Monfils forum and ATP)


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In Peru I received three very different 'first impressions.' The first was when I landed in Lima to get my next flight: fog. The second was driving through Cusco: heat. And the last was when I finally arrived at my destination of Huyro: if I fall down one of those mountains I am so dead. When I left, my impressions had changed dramatically; friends, fun and a longing to return.
I had taken a month during my summer to head from little Northern Ireland to Peru for the Inca project. Having done a year of Archaeology in secondary school I was eager to push away the textbooks and plunge head first into some practical work; the project did not disappoint.
The Start of my Inca Project
On the second day (the first had consisted of getting to my destination, having a superb dinner by gas light and playing cards around the table) I headed off with those I would soon start referring to as my new family, into one of the numerous valleys and started hacking away with a machete. In time I became able to fell a small tree with ease. All breaks during that and every other morning were accompanied by friendly banter, a huge quantity of water and the most amazing coconut biscuits that we squabbled over each day.
Although each hike was challenging it was always well rewarded. Not only by the beautiful scenery and blue skies, but also by the surprising little treats such as the pineapple that we found growing on the mountainside as well as sugar cane. To keep the atmosphere lively we played many games. Cards, netball and board games became spectator sports.
The Festival of Inti Raymi
Whilst I was there the hugely celebrated festival of Inti Raymi was going on in Cusco, so early one morning, while it was still dark, we drank a vast amount of hot chocolate and travelled back to Cusco for a five day visit. All of the hostels and food was very cheap. Each morning we headed to a smoothie and fruit salad bar before hurrying off to watch the parades, poke around museums or just soak up the local ambiance at the open air markets.
Weekend Trip to Machu Picchu
Every weekend, after all the hard work of the week, we were allowed to head off in our group and visit whatever attractions took our fancy. Now where in Peru might you possibly want to go? Machu Picchu; and that's right where we went! To get there we had to travel in the convoy (a battered minibus) for several hours, following the high twisting roads over blue rushing rivers beneath. We stopped every now and again to give small children lifts as they travelled to and from school, their eyes staring up widely at these strange pale people.
Then it was a walk along a train track, lush greenery providing welcome shade and sparkling expanses of water on one side. Machu Picchu quite literally takes your breath away. I could hardly believe my eyes when I turned one corner and the settlement was spread right out in front of me as far as the eye could see. I ambled around it with one friend while the rest of the group tackled the hike up Huayna Picchu.
The buildings were amazing and we were having a great time until we went up a daunting set of stairs and were told that we were going around the site in the wrong direction and we had to turn around and go back down. By that time the heat was truly intense and we decided to head back to our hostel for a nap before hitting the hot-springs later that night. It was an amazing experience and one that I am eager to try again.
Before setting out I believed that one month would surely be enough if not too much. Looking back on all the experiences I had, the friends I made and the laughs we had, I wish that it hadn't come to an end so soon…but then again I am still planning what to do in years to come. I'm sure I'll return one day. After all, I'll never be late returning according to 'Peru Time.'
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Return Of The Adirondack Moose | News
For an animal that's not only quite large, but also an iconic symbol of the North, moose in the Adirondack Mountains can be very difficult to find.
Part of that has to do with the vast range of the area, over 6 million acres, but most of the blame for their scarcity falls on man.
Moose were once abundant in the region, but the forests critical to their survival were decimated in the 1800s, and unregulated hunting completed the devastation.
Extirpated from the region by 1860, and absent from the Adirondacks until the 1980's, wandering moose eventually began moving back into the area from neighboring states. The recovery of the moose today has gone hand in hand with the restoration of the forests. Connie Prickett of the ADK Nature Conservancy is studying the moose in the Adirondacks." Now these forests are regenerating beautifully, this is a story of restoration and recovery for forests, so for the moose to make a comeback after the forests have made a comeback is really exciting."
Heidi Kretser of The Wildlife Conservation Society is also researching the big mammals." Once there were proper hunting regulations in line and habitat started to come back, the moose population expanded from Northern Maine, down into New Hampshire, into Vermont and finally we had the first moose come into New York State down near Whitehall around 1980."
The present population of moose in the Adirondacks is thought to be about 800, but a really accurate count has been difficult to determine. Studying these forest giants is difficult for a variety of reasons, and the researchers currently conducting studies have their work cut out for them.
Other than trail cameras, they rarely get to see a live moose. Much of the knowledge they gain, explains Alissa Rafferty of the ADK Nature Conservancy, is from clues the animals leave behind.
"We do use some of the motion detecting cameras that have been pretty successful in collecting supplemental data. Tracking is another method and WCS has used their method of scat collecting, and using scat sniffing dogs," she explained.
In a pilot study, the Wildlife Conservation Society brought in the specially trained dogs to locate moose droppings. The study was highly successful and shows great promise for future research, says Kretser. "Once you have scat, there's so much information in it," she said. "You can amplify the DNA, you can identify the moose down to an individual, you can identify whether it was a male or a female, and you can look at how that particular moose is related to other moose in your sample."
One of the most critical aspects in the health of the moose is habitat. They need lots of room to roam, said Rafferty. "At the Nature Conservancy, we're involved with wildlife connectivity efforts, trying to maintain linkages for wide ranging mammals like moose to be able to move freely from protected lands."
For the moment, the future of the Adirondack moose is still in question, it's populace still tenuous at best. Rafferty says just getting a glimpse of these magnificent mammals in the wild make all the efforts at preserving them worthwhile. "It's very cool, I've seen one on this property driving on the roads and just two others in the Adirondacks, and I grew up here. So they are hard to see, but it's a very special experience when you do."
Kretser agrees. "Overall, I think people do like the idea of natural re-colonization, and bringing back the wildlife that once roamed these great woods. It's been talked for wolves, it's been talked about for lynx, moose, it's been talked about for mountain lions! So there's a lot of interest in sort of re-wilding these wild areas."


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MONTREAL - When it comes to Montreal chef Martin Picard, there are a few words that would never come to mind: conservative, mild-mannered, predictable, vegetarian. No, Picard has made his name by being Quebec's wild chef, a man with unbridled culinary imagination, an appetite for fat-rimmed pork products and a no-holds-barred lust for excess. Be it by serving highbrow foie gras on lowbrow poutine or presenting a pig's head to diners with the snout sheathed in gold leaf, political correctness is not part of his vocabulary. Judging by his latest book, Au Pied de Cochon Sugar Shack, the wild chef is still at the peak of his creative powers. By placing the focus this time on a product, maple syrup, Picard has lifted this signature Quebec ingredient from the breakfast table to the realm of haute cuisine. And by exploring syrup's sensual side, he's not only made maple delicious, but downright sexy.
Picard was already lauded on the local scene when his first cookbook, Au Pied de Cochon, The Album, was published – self-published – in 2006. But when the book hit the top of many a chef's wish list, his fame went viral. At a time when cookbooks were epitomized by star-chefs' books laden with nitpicky recipes, Picard's album broke the white-bread mold. Chock full of original dishes (many of which were based on little-known Québécois classics), the book also featured pictures of this lumberjack shirt-wearing rebel with pig producers, skinning a deer, and even wearing a purple toga while drinking a bottle of beer and holding two dead chickens. Save for the definite sense of humour behind it all, it verged on being the Caligula of cookbooks.
Between braised lamb shanks and monster lobsters, Page 131 of the book began a chapter focused on Picard's future. Not his signature ingredient foie gras, but maple syrup, or more specifically the tradition of the French Canadian cabane à sucre. In that chapter, Picard confesses: "One of my secret ambitions is to run a sugar shack. I have always dreamed of acquiring a small sugar bush where I could tap between 1,000 and 1,500 maple trees and set up an experimental kitchen and bakery. Once it's stripped down of its folksy, down-home allure, the possibilities are endless."
In 2009, Picard's sugar-shack dream was realized. Located in St. Benoît de Mirabel, the Au Pied de Cochon Cabane à Sucre was a 106-seat shack open only for 10 weeks a year. What fun it was to see a creative thinker let loose on the traditional cabane-à-sucre menu. There was the classic tourtière and pea soup, but also ducks braised in maple syrup, lobster maki rolls and maple baked Alaska. The ambience was electric, and the fine wines flowed. And this was a family affair as I recall seeing Picard's beautiful children Emile and Charlotte carrying in buckets of sap to his uncle, Marc "Mon oncle" Picard, who is in charge of all maple-syrup production.
So, of course, the next logical step was a cookbook. Yet the resulting 382-page tome (compared to the Album's 289) is so much more than a cookbook.
Picard sees this book as vastly different than the last. Though as eccentric as the first, with its inclusion of short stories and extremely sensual photographs of women in various states of undress, the core of the cookbook includes detailed descriptions of both the maple syrup-making process and a diary of a week in the life of the Cabane at the height of the maple tapping season. And yet this is most definitely a cookbook, with a plethora of original recipes calling for arguably Quebec's most famous ingredient.
Cooking with maple syrup provided Picard some unexpected challenges.
"I bought this place to force myself to use this product," says the chef, sitting on a fur-lined stool in the cabane's kitchen. "It's bizarre that there weren't many cooking references, recipes or books to get us going, so when we began, we just brainstormed about what we wanted to do with maple. Working with maple is like learning a language. When you learn to speak French or English, you have to think in that language, dream in that language. It has to become part of your thinking process. The same goes for cooking with maple syrup. You can't just think of it in recipes as a replacement for white sugar."
When collaborating with sous-chef Vincent Dion Lavallée to create savoury recipes, Picard found it difficult because "the flavour is too subtle to stand out in a dish. In savoury dishes, it can only enhance. With desserts, you really get the maple flavour. Milk and cream are great conductors for maple."
Though many of the recipes look complicated, Dion Lavallée suggests eliminating a few homemade ingredients like bread or smoked meat to simplify the task. And Picard wants people to cook from this book.
"There are more technique photos in this time. It's more encyclopedic. In this book, the comical side is less prevalent. It wasn't easy to do these recipes, but – 'tabarnouche' – I stuck to it. Everything had to be perfect. Whenever I do something I do it well."
However, there may be a few recipes here even the most ambitious home cooks might prefer to avoid. Let's just say the squirrel sushi and confederation beaver will not be on my to-do list any time soon. I give huge points for Picard for transforming these destructive rodents into dishes worthy of an outlandish sushi bar (the squirrel) or haute French restaurant (the beaver), though he doesn't even consider these recipes odd.
"I did everything not to shock this time around," he says with a bit of a shrug. "The hunting chapter (titled The Feather and the Furry) is at the end of the book. And it wasn't designed to provoke anything. I just like to cook animals."
And there's a reason to cook some of these animals, too: survival.
"Squirrels are all over the place here," Picard says. "But squirrels also eat all the pipes and tubing in the forest used to pipe in the sap. It's terrible. They're a nuisance, just a f---ing rat with a fur coat on. But it's also great meat."


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CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. – A high school junior was shot and killed on his walk to Central High School just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, police say.
Marckel Norman Ross, 18, was killed in the 6100 block of Old Central Avenue, Prince George's County investigators say.
No one heard any gun shots, but police say they got calls from other people who saw the high school junior's body. Police initially said Ross was walking alone to school but now they are not sure.
Officers are conducting a grid search, combing over the scene step-by-step to look for clues in the killing. They are also interviewing fellow students and looking for witnesses.
Principal Charoscar Coleman called Ross' killing a "tremendous loss for the school community." He tells reporters that Ross was a big part of a modeling program at the school. Grief counselors are available for students at Central High School throughout the day, Coleman says.
"We extend our deepest sympathies to this young man's family and friends, along with our fervent hope that those responsible for his death will soon be brought to justice," the school released in a statement.
There is a $25,000 reward for an arrest that leads to a conviction, police say.
Police initially identified Ross as a senior at the school, and later said he was a junior.
WTOP's Darci Marchese is following developments in this story. Follow Darci and WTOP on Twitter.
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Emeritus/Emerita Designation for Faculty
Policy Statement
Emeritus status is an honorary title awarded for distinguished service to the academic community. The title may be bestowed on a faculty member who is entering permanent retirement and who has served the University and academic community with distinction. The bestowal of Emeritus status is a distinctive honor, not a right.
Criteria for Nomination
- Minimum of 10 years of service.
- Must hold the rank of Associate or Full Professor.
- Must be within one year of retirement date (either before or after formal retirement date).
- Must have achieved eminence through teaching, service, and scholarship (or creative work) in college, professional, and community activities.
- All University benefits granted to faculty retirees;
- Listing in University catalog and directory at highest rank achieved with incorporation of Emeritus designation;
- Presentation of a certificate or resolution, appropriate for framing;
- Receive University ID/business card designating as Emeritus faculty, if requested;
- Ability to request institutional affiliation for proposals to funding agencies;
- Use of University stationery when in correspondence related to her/his professional role while a Marywood faculty member (e.g., submission of journal articles, serving as a reviewer for journals or books);
- Maintain access to campus email;
- Retain use of campus dining facilities;
- Any other privileges conferred by the University President/Board of Trustees.
Nomination Process
- In order for the retiring faculty member to be considered for Emeritus/Emerita status, he/she must be nominated by the appropriate College/School Dean, chairperson of department, or a tenured member of the University.
- Upon nomination, the candidate must submit to the Provost an application for such status which includes a current CV, three letters of recommendation (two must be from current Marywood faculty members) that discuss the individual's contributions in outstanding teaching, service, scholarship, or creative work throughout her/his career at Marywood University.
- The Provost reviews the application and then submits a recommendation to the University President.
- The University President will review the application, consider the Provost's recommendation, and render a final decision.
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Deadlines for these rosters are extremely important. Please check your email and mailbox regularly. Please help your School's staff by turning these in on time.
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You can access your class rosters through PeopleSoft (see instructions in MyVWCC Help). Please check your class roster regularly. You should check them before each class during the drop/add period as your roster will change during that time. You should check it every week or two during the rest of the semester, specifically looking for students who are either mysteriously dropped from or added to your class. If you find such a situation, call, or have the student call, the Enrollment Center immediately. It is very important that these situations be resolved prior to grade rosters being generated toward the end of the semester.
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The no-show roster is used to report any student that has never attended an in-class class or has never made contact with a distance learning faculty member. If they attended at least one class or contacted a distance faculty member do not report them, even if you have not heard from them since then. This roster is driven by the financial aid process. Failure to comply could put the college's ability to give federal financial aid in jeopardy, making this an important process.
These rosters will be put in your mailbox shortly after the start of classes and an email will be sent letting you know that they are there. Please use only the rosters that are provided for you and return them by the due date.
If you report a student on the roster, please be sure to remove them from your Blackboard site. This is important as we have had a number of circumstances where students decide later in the semester to start participating and complete work in Blackboard. This puts the college in an awkward position.
When students are dropped, they will not receive a refund of their tuition, they will not be reinstated, and they will not receive financial aid for the class.
Withdrawal Roster
Because students figured out quickly that they could come to one class, avoid being turned in as a no-show, then drop out and continue to receive financial aid, we started using the withdrawal roster. This roster comes out at the 60% mark of the semester, just before the last day to withdraw without a grade penalty. Please turn in any student that has stopped attending your class on this roster. This roster is more difficult in that sometimes it is hard to know if a student has stopped attending. Please do your best and ask if you have a student that you are unsure about. If they have stopped and you don't catch them, they will be caught on the grade roster. Like the no-show roster, please use the roster that is provided for you. Unlike the no-show roster, don't remove the student from Blackboard, but rather make the course unavailable to them.
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Grade rosters are done in PeopleSoft (see instructions in MyVWCC Help). The due date for these is firm. Please have these in by the due date at 9:30 AM. The academic school office will call those who have not turned in their grades on time. The Records Office posts grades for the college at one time. Any late grades should be entered through MyVWCC, then notify the academic school office and the Records Office who will complete the grade entry.
After entering a grade of F, U, or R in the Roster Grade field, the Last Date of Attendance field will appear. Click in the Last Date of Attendance field and enter the correct date as indicated below:
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Enter 01/01/1900 (unknown Last Date of Attendance/student stopped attending/participating in course)—In this case, the faculty member does not know when the student stopped attending/participating. The placeholder date of 01/01/1900 indicates that the last date of attendance/participation is unknown. Using this date equates to the faculty member not knowing when the student stopped attending/participating in the class.
Students who attended/participated/completed the entire course and failed to satisfactorily complete the course requirements earning a grade of F, U, or R
Enter the last date of the semester/class end date (not last day the class actually met). For regular session classes the end date of the semester must be entered in the Last Date of Attendance field. For 5W1 and 5W2, use the end date of that session. Please refer to the Academic Calendar. The start and end dates for the class appear in the group box located at the top of the self-service grade roster.
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As "Bunheads" pirouettes to a finale, star Sutton Foster admits she's loving slinging one-liners as fast as she moves her feet.
The fast-talking ABC Family series created by "Gilmore Girls" scribe Amy Sherman-Palladino emerged as one of the summer's sassy-snarky-sweet series, especially given ballet-skilled, Broadway-trained Foster's enviable facility with both the trademark warp-speed dialogue and the frequent jettes. With the finale about to air and a second season assured, Foster fills PopcornBiz in on her spin in the TV spotlight.
How are you adjusting after coming to Hollywood from Broadway?
It's been awesome. I'm having the time of my life and I think it's because it was the right project. I wasn't actively looking to do TV, but when this came along, I'm a huge fan of Amy from "Gilmore Girls," my favorite show of all time. It jus felt like the right time and the right show.
Was it a learning curve, getting Amy's dialogue right, sort of akin to learning how to deliver Shakespeare?
In many ways, yeah. It's like a whole other skill set and it has to be verbatim, and I think that can be torture, but it's also the greatest challenge because as an actor you dream to be able to get to say pretty fantastic dialogue. So, you want to do it well, and so I spend a lot of time memorizing and wanting to try and nail it. But it's hard.
Did you also have to learn to adjust your acting style for television rather than playing to the back row of the theater?
I guess. It's more intimate. What's great, I'll say, about the world Amy creates is that my character luckily is very expressive, thank God – she's incredibly expressive which helps. I'm only encouraged to do that because often I'm like, 'Are you sure?' But that's been fun, to be able to play a character that has no boundaries. She's a flailing character, a bit, and so that allows for more animation, I guess.
You're coming off doing eight shows a week on stage. Is television a slower pace?
I've just learned. I felt like I went to college for three months, shooting these first ten episodes. It felt like an education. The crew and everybody was so great. They all knew this was really my first thing and I would get the DP, and I'd be like, 'What is that and that and that?' I didn't know. I felt like I just learned so much. A lot of it just learning how to pace your day. On Broadway it's two and a half hours of intense performance and on TV it'll be a 15-hour day where you might work for 20 minutes and then you'll have a two-hour break or whatever. I've just learned how to kind of work that pacing.
What's the experience of having fans even before the show aired? Amy's following as well as the dance element of the show had people learning about you way ahead of the premiere.
Yeah. It was exciting. I have nothing to compare this to. The best part about it is that I feel really proud of the show and I'm such a fan of Amy's. It's like my head could explode. It's all just been a good thing. As someone who's been known as a Broadway actor, to sort of transition or move into something that's brand new, into a world where I'm not known, it's been great. It's been really…I couldn't have asked for a better experience.
What can you say about what the show is building towards?
I think it's building towards Michelle, my character, sort of taking a more permanent role in the studio, with the girls. Although at the end of the first 10 episodes, some things change in regards to that, but I do think that it's heading towards her becoming a real mentor to these girls and becoming an influence.
You and Alan Ruck had great chemistry in the pilot, it was a shame his character was killed off even though it set the story in motion. Has there been a flashback or dream sequence discussed, just to get you two back together?
Tune in!
Is there a dream Broadway role that you'd jump at the chance to do?
"Sweet Charity" – Shirley MacLaine and Gwen Verdon! There's something about Charity. She's kind of similar to Michelle in a way, kind of a hot mess. There's something that's very similar to Michelle. She's just trying to do well and there's something there that would be fun to tackle.
Sutton Foster: Raising the Barre On "Bunheads"
The Fleet-Footed, Motormouthed Actress Reflects On Season One
As "Bunheads" pirouettes to a finale, star Sutton Foster admits she's loving slinging one-liners as fast as she moves her feet.


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A huge hedge fund war is breaking out between two of the richest and most famous hedge fund managers in the world.
The battlefield? Herbalife, the distributor of its own nutritional products.
Hedge funder Bill Ackman is famously short Herbalife, likening it to an illegal pyramid scheme, which he hopes/expects the government will go after.
Today it's been revealed that hedge funder Dan Loeb has now gone LONG Herbalife, taking a massive 8.2% stake.
The stock has spiked on the news.
Ackman first announced his short with a dizzying multi-hour presentation that he delivered near the end of December.
The premise of the short was that the stock was a pyramid scheme, and that the government could be induced to investigate the company, causing it to go to zero.
Ackman's short is understood to be massive.
While Herbalife plunged initially, the stock has recovered somewhat, as some have questioned the plausibility of the bet.
Among those already betting against Ackman is blogger John Hempton, who thinks his thesis is preposterous.


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For those who are not aware of what is a keystore in Java and what is certificates, we will see the brief introduction in next section, but for more detailed discussion you refer my next post how SSL, HTTPS, and Certificates work together in Java application.
Basics of SSL Certificates and Keystore in Java
If certificate provided by the secure site is present on JRE's trustStore SSL connection would be established but if the certificate is not there than Java will throw an exception and to solve that you need to add that certificate into trustStore.
Terms like keyStore and trustStore are often used interchangeably and the same file can act as keystore as well as trustStore it just matter of pointing javax.net.ssl.keyStore and javax.net.ssl.trustStore properties to that file but there is a slight difference between keystore and trustStore.
A keyStore is used to store individual identity or certificate while trustStore is used to store other parties certificates signed by CA. See difference between keystore and trustStore, for more differences.
How to add, remove and list certificates from Java keystore
Example of listing certificates from Java Keystore:
javin@localhost:C/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_26/jre/lib/security keytool -list -keystore cacerts
Enter keystore password: changeit
Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 76 entries
digicertassuredidrootca, 07/01/2008, trustedCertEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): 87:CE:0B:7B:2A:0E:49:00:E1:58:71:9B:37:A8:93:72
trustcenterclass2caii, 07/01/2008, trustedCertEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): CE:78:33:5C:59:78:01:6E:18:EA:B9:36:A0:B9:2E:23
Example of adding Certificate on Java KeyStore:
Important point about SSL, KeyStore and keyTool in Java
Further Reading
Understanding the Java Virtual Machine: Security
Learn Spring Security by Eugen
Java Performance The Definitive Guide
- How to read from Memory Mapped file in Java
- 10 Java debugging tips from Eclipse IDE
- How to remote debug Java application in Eclipse
- 10 Example of display tag in JSP and Spring
- 10 interview questions on Spring framework
- How to convert HashMap to List in Java
- How to traverse Map in Java with 4 ways
- How to change default port of Tomcat from 8080


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Elliptical CONCRETE Planter (TF4340)
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- Dimensions: 36" x 30" x 18"
- Weight: 495 lbs
- Additional Features:
- Hardware: 5/8" dia. lifting inserts. Note: Lifting inserts are to ONLY be used when planter is EMPTY.
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- Shape: Oval
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Our driver will have the final determination if unloading or placement can be made at the site. If we are unable to unload using our equipment because of lack of access, or because of overhead power lines, it shall be the receiving customer's responsibility to provide a location where we can either unload the shipment to the ground in one location (without placement), or the customer may provide equipment to complete unloading our truck within the 2 hours normally allowed as free time, before any detention charges would begin to accrue.


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I have been fairly successful setting up my own DIY podcast from my home. I use XLR mics, a 8-channel mixer, and record with Audacity.
The next step is adding additional sound elements to the podcast without having to fiddle around with lots of things on the computer. I do have a computer feeding into the mix, but I mainly use this for searching the web, playing the intro/outro, playing songs, etc.
For sound effects, I'd much prefer to have a physical device that is pre-programmed with the sounds of my choice. What are some of the best options for this?


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Motorists cruised round the countryside of Wiltshire in their classic cars and raised money for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
The classic car run, on Sunday, was organised by Devizes and District Motor Club and a total of 46 cars took part, the most entrants the club has had.
While some drivers were members of the club, a good number were non-members and came from all over the country.
The drivers went on a 140 mile route starting and finishing at the Oliver Cromwell pub in Bromham, through Lacock, Wraxall, Sherston, Kemble, Minety, Bushton, Hackpen Hill, Marlborough and Avebury.
Cars taking part included Porsches, Morgans, Morris Minor, MGs.
Some of the more unusual cars included a 1954 Vauxhall Wyvern, a Lancia Fulvia and a 1994 Tatra East European car that looks like a limo.
Club spokesman John Rogers said: "We had people from Leicestershire and Devon as well as from Wiltshire.
"Wiltshire is a county you travel through if you are going to the seaside so a lot of people hadn't seen the roads, even some of the locals, and they were delighted at the scenery.
"It was a gentle run, not a race and the cars went off in intervals. In total it took five to six hours."


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(one's) Venus turns out a whelp(redirected from whelp)
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(one's) Venus turns out a whelp
An outdated expression used to describe the failure of something that was once expected to be successful. The phrase comes from dice, in which the best roll was once known as a "Venus" and the worst a "canis" (a dog). A "whelp" is a young dog. I thought I was definitely going to get a promotion, but I didn't even get a raise—my Venus turned out a whelp, all right.


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A movement seeking a landmark shift in the landscape of college athletics in general and football specifically has taken another, potentially monumental step in that direction.
ESPN's Outside the Lines is reporting Tuesday that "Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association, filed a petition in Chicago on behalf of football players at Northwestern University, submitting the form at the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board." It marks the first step in those players — a group officially called the College Athletes Players Association — being recognized by/as a union and as employees of the university.
The CAPA, OTL reports, was created by, among others, Huma and Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter.
Colter was part of a movement last fall with the tagline "All Players United." Colter, several of his teammates and players from Georgia and Georgia Tech all scribbled the acronym "APU" somewhere on their (university-issued) football equipment as part of the "protest."
In addition to the filing of paperwork, union cards signed by what Huma, a former UCLA linebacker, described as "a vast majority" of the Northwestern football players on scholarship were filed with the regional NLRB. The website wrote that "to have the NLRB consider a petition to be unionized, at least 30 percent of the members of a group serving an employer must sign union cards." Only the players on scholarship — the NCAA limit of 85 — were permitted to sign union cards, meaning walk-ons are excluded from the group.
The NCPA — and ultimately the CAPA — has the backing of the powerful United Steelworkers union.
For now, the goals of the NCPA/CAPA are "better concussion and other medical protections, and for scholarships to cover the full cost of attendance" as well as "a trust fund that players could tap into after their NCAA eligibility expires to finish schooling or be rewarded for finishing schooling." Huma declined to rule out the union, if it's certified, pushing for universities to pay salaries to the players, which would initially include only those involved in football and basketball.
For Colter, though, there's one overwhelming issue on the agenda in the here and now.
"Money is far from priority No. 1 on our list of goals. The health of the players is No. 1," the quarterback told Yahoo! Sports. "Right now the NCAA does not require or guarantee that any university or institution covers any sports-related medical expenses. Student-athletes should never have to worry about if their sports-related medical bills are taken care of."
A certification that leads to such guarantees, however, is likely many, many years down the road and will face numerous obstacles as both universities and the NCAA push back.
First, this union push, for the moment, applies only to private institutions such as Northwestern. Public universities, which make up the vast majority of FBS institutions, are under the jurisdiction of state laws, not federal. And those laws at the non-federal level vary widely from state to state, which could open yet another Pandora's Box, as explained by the esteemed John Infante of the Bylaw Blog:
Assuming a crushing victory by the student-athletes and union organizers, there would still be the issue of public universities. In theory, student-athletes at public universities who became employees would be state workers, whose unionization and collective bargaining rights are governed by state law. Years from now the end result could be many different sets of rules applied at different public and private colleges in different states because of the different collective bargaining rights.
In other words, if the players are successful and unionize to the point that public universities are involved –players at those schools would need to take their case to their individual state boards — you could see football programs within the same conference, depending on where the rights are collectively bargained, operating under myriad different sets of rules — and rates of pay. And you thought recruiting in the SEC was a free-for-all now?
Any ruling in favor of the athletes will most certainly be appealed by the universities. The most likely result is years of motions and counter motions at the federal court level, with Colter and his group prepared to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States if necessary.
While Dan Wetzel states very plainly in his Yahoo! piece that "[t]his will be a war of attrition," Infante offers up a simple solution to a problem that will become more complex — for both sides — as the lawyers' billable hours do nothing but grow.
All of this begs to be resolved in one fell swoop (at least for the time being) by Congress passing a comprehensive NCAA reform act, which provides the protections the student-athletes are asking for in exchange for avoiding the employee designation and having different NCAA rules on a conference or institutional basis. The question now is whether Congress could get such a bill together and whether the NCAA sees discretion as the better part of valor and federal regulation as the lesser of two evils.
Watch your backs, though, players. There's snakes in them there D.C. Beltway suits. Be careful if you go the Congressional route.


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie "Slow Jammed" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" last night to talk about politics and his weight, while the show's band, The Roots, performed in the background.
The "Slow Jam the News" segment began with Christie defending his decision to hold a $12 million special election just weeks before the November gubernatorial election.
"As you know, New Jersey has a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate," Christie said. "Now, I had the chance to either appoint a hand-picked replacement or let the people vote on their new Senator."
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While the governor started off slow jamming about serious topics, Fallon and The Roots made sure it didn't stay that way for long. Christie's weight was the butt of many of the jokes.
"I know this election is going to cost tax payers some money," Christie said. "But these costs can't be measured against the value of having an elected member of the United States Senate. That's why I'm throwing my full weight behind this decision."
"Come on now, Christie Kreme Doughnut—how are you going to be setting me up like that?" Fallon responded. "It's too easy. It isn't even funny."
The overweight jokes continued despite Christie recent revelation that he had lap-band surgery earlier this year.
The musical number also included talk of 2016 presidential rumors. Fallon asked Christie if he had any announcements to make on the show.
"Jimmy do you really think I would come on this show to announce a presidential run?" Christie responded.
The "love gov," as Fallon dubbed him, announced last week that the state of New Jersey would hold a special election in October to fill the vacant seat left by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on June 3.


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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. women's soccer team captain and New Jersey native Christie Rampone is hoping to add another gold medal to her collection in her fourth Olympics this summer.
The 37-year-old Rampone, a defensive anchor for America's powerhouse soccer team, is also the elder statesmen of the nineteen New Jersey men and women who will represent the U.S. in the London Olympics.
"It's still an honor to play for your country, even though it's the fourth time," Rampone said on the "Today Show" recently.
Rampone is the first U.S. player to be named to four Olympic teams. She needs to play in one more game to set an American record for Olympic appearances. She shares the record of 16 appearances with four other players.
The Point Pleasant native won a silver medal in 2000 and collected Olympic golds in 2004 and 2008. She'll play alongside three-time Olympian Heather O'Reilly of East Brunswick and two-time Olympians Tobin Heath of Basking Ridge and Carli Lloyd of Delran. Lloyd's goal in extra time gave the United States the gold in 2008.
The Garden State will also send a three-time Olympian in sport shooting and a wrestling standout who's favored to win gold.
Sport shooter Matt Emmons of Brown Mills will also bring veteran leadership to the Olympic squad, having won a gold medal in 2004 and a silver medal in 2008. Emmons, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and had his thyroid removed, showed exceptional accuracy as a pitcher for his high school baseball team in Pemberton, where he once threw a perfect game.
Other New Jersey natives representing the U.S. are Jordan Burroughs of Sicklerville, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion at the University of Nebraska who's a favorite to win freestyle gold at 74 kilogram (163 pounds); Dagmara Wozniak of Avenel, who's ranked 12th in the world in sabre fencing; and Michelle Vitesse of Cherry Hill, a member of the women's field hockey team that took gold at the 2011 Pan American Games.
Princeton University is well-represented in the rowing events with eight graduates participating for the United States, Canada and Australia. A total of 14 Olympic rowers list Princeton or nearby areas as their current residence. Princeton is home to USRowing, the national governing body for rowing in the United States, and a national training center is based at the Princeton National Rowing Association.
Julie Culley, 30, of Lebanon.
A 2004 Rutgers University graduate, Culley will participate in the 5000-meter race in her first Olympics. She told the Express-Times of Easton, Pa., the Olympics are about doing her best and letting it all out there. "That's how you best represent yourself, your family, your coach, your country, all of it," she said.
Jeff Porter, 26, of Somerset.
A first-time Olympian, Porter will participate in the 110-meter hurdles. Porter's wife, Tiffany, is also set to participate in the Olympics for Great Britain; she will compete in the 100 hurdles.
Asjha Jones, 31, of Piscataway.
A 6-foot-3 forward for the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA, Jones is headed to her first Olympics. She's a two-time WNBA All-Star and won two NCAA championships with the University of Connecticut. Jones began playing basketball at the age of 3 and holds the records for rebounds and points scored at Piscataway Township High School.
Maya Lawrence, 31, of Teaneck.
A four-time member of the senior world championship team, Lawrence is headed to her first Olympics. She will compete in epee, the only fencing event in which the entire body is a valid target area. She won a gold medal in the 2012 Pan American Championships.
Dagmara Wozniak, 24, of Avenel.
Ranked second in the U.S in sabre fencing, Wozniak is going to her first Olympics after being an alternate in 2008. She's a five-time member of the senior world championship team, and won a bronze medal as a member of the team at the 2012 world team championships.
Michelle Vittese, 22, of Cherry Hill.
A forward, the 2008 graduate of Camden Catholic High School is going to her first Olympics. Vittese won a gold medal in the 2011 Pan American Games. She told The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va., last month that the Olympics are "a big toss up." "Every team is capable of almost anything," she said. "I think a realistic expectation is getting on the podium anywhere, from first to third. Anything would be incredible. Obviously, gold is everyone's ultimate goal."
Rachael Dawson, 26, of Berlin.
A midfielder/back, Dawson is going to her second Olympics. She grew up in Berlin and graduated from Eastern High School. She attended the University of North Carolina, and has been a member of the U.S. field hockey national team for more than 10 years.
Steven Gluckstein, 22, of Highlands.
A student at Rutgers University, Gluckstein will compete in trampoline. He is a three-time national champion, but missed the 2008 Summer Games after stumbling at the trials. He beat out his brother, Jeffrey, to represent the U.S. in the trampoline event.
Nick Delpopolo, 23, of Westfield.
Ranked 12th in the world in the 73 kilogram (161 pounds) weight class, Delpopolo is going to his first Olympics. He was also a 2010 member of the senior world championship team. According to NBC, he is dating five-time judo national champion Carrie Chandler, and they plan to open a training center in the future.
Steve Kasprzyk, 30, of Cinnaminson.
Participating in the men's eight event, Kasprzyk is going to his first Olympics. He's a three-time national team member, and won gold in the men's eight event at the 2011 Pan American Games.
Matt Emmons, 31, of Brown Mills.
Participating in his third Olympics, Emmons won a gold medal in 2004 and a silver medal in 2008. He is married to another Olympic sport shooter, Katerina Emmons, who won medals for the Czech Republic in 2004 and 2008. Emmons once pitched a perfect game for his high school baseball team in Pemberton, N.J.
Tobin Heath, 24, of Basking Ridge.
A midfielder, Heath is a two-time Olympian. She won a gold medal in 2008. Heath was born in Morristown and attended the University of North Carolina. She's considered one of the national team's most skilled and crafty players, according to the team's website. Heath plays for the New York Fury in the Women's Premier Soccer League.
Carli Lloyd, 29, of Delran.
An attacking midfielder, Lloyd is a two-time Olympian. She won a gold medal in 2008. She was born in Marlton, and attended Rutgers University. Lloyd said on a recent episode of the "Today Show" that she hopes there are more memories to come at this Olympics. "It was a fabulous feeling standing on that podium and we want to do it again this summer in London," she said.
Heather O'Reilly, 27, of East Brunswick.
A midfielder, O'Reilly is a three-time Olympian. She won gold medals in 2004 and 2008. She was born in New Brunswick and attended the University of North Carolina. O'Reilly noted the team's confidence on the "Today Show." "We'll have nerves, of course, going into it, but we feel prepared, we feel confident and we've seen it before," she said.
Christie Rampone, 37, of Point Pleasant.
A central defender, Rampone is a four-time Olympian and captain of the team. She won gold medals in 2004 and 2008, and a silver medal in 2000. She attended Monmouth University.
Connor Jaeger, 21, of Fair Haven.
Jaeger will compete in the 1,500-meter freestyle race in his first Olympics. He was one of the top swimmers in the Shore Conference when he graduated in 2010, and was named an All-American during his recently-completed sophomore year at the University of Michigan.
Rebecca Soni, 25, of Plainsboro.
Soni will compete in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke in her second Olympics. She also competed in the 2008 Summer Games, winning a gold medal and two silvers. "I'm definitely excited about the Olympics," Soni told NJTV. "Beijing was four years ago and it was a great experience. It's been a long four years of waiting."
Christina McHale, 20, of Englewood Cliffs.
McHale, who's steadily climbed the world singles rankings since 2007, is participating in her first Olympics. In June of 2011, she won her first International Tennis Federation singles title, and also that year defeated then top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki. She's been ranked as high as No. 29 in the world in singles.
Jordan Burroughs, 24, of Sicklerville.
Burroughs is a favorite to win a gold medal in his first Olympics. He is a 2011 World Champion, a 2011 U.S. World Team Trials champion, a 2011 U.S. Open champion and a two-time NCAA champion at the University of Nebraska. He wrestles in the 74 kilograms weight class. He won the 2011 Dan Hodge trophy, and was named outstanding wrestler at the 2008 Big 12 championships. Burroughs' Twitter handle is @alliseeisgold, and at the top of his profile page it reads "Wrestle…Win…Repeat."
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Kansas City Homicide Rate Drops in 2012
KANSAS CITY (AP) - Kansas City officials are crediting a new anti-violence program for a slight drop in the homicide rate in 2012.
The city recorded 108 homicides last year, six fewer than 2011 but two more than in 2010.
The Kansas City Star reports the 108 homicides is one more than the city's average annual total for the decade ending in 2009.
Police Chief Darryl Forte says he's not satisfied with a small decrease in numbers. But the city announced last month that fewer homicides are occurring in urban core neighborhoods that once accounted for more than half the city's killings.
Forte credits a program that increased enforcement in those neighborhoods. And he says the lower overall numbers suggest the homicides aren't just moving to other parts of the city.


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- 6 to 8 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves (1 large bunch)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 8 pounds boneless top or inside round of beef, or sirloin tip
- 1 cup water
- Combine garlic, thyme, olive oil, salt, pepper, and vinegar to make a rough paste. Rub onto all sides of the roast. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
- Remove meat from the refrigerator 1 hour before roasting.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Place beef into a roasting pan fitted with a rack. Sprinkle with additional coarse salt and pepper.
- Roast, uncovered, 2 hours (15 minutes per pound for medium rare), or until a meat thermometer reaches 125F. About halfway through the cooking time, rotate the roast in the oven. Add water to pan bottom to keep the juices from getting too browned.
- Remove from oven and loosely tent with foil. Let rest 20 minutes before carving.
- Deglaze the bottom of the roasting pan with additional water, if needed, to get all the savory drippings. Serves 30.
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Twenty-second Sunday After Pentecost
October 24, 2010
CCloser attention to the "voice from heaven" suggests further aspects of the baptismal experience of Jesus. When the Father addressed Him as "beloved Son" and declared Himself "well pleased," these expressions were not entirely — if the word be allowed — original. Indeed, they evoked in the mind of Jesus two biblical texts with which He was already familiar from those years of study in the synagogue. Consequently, these two passages likewise pertained to the full message Jesus heard that day, as He continued in prayer:
The first text contained the electrifying word spoken by the Lord to Abraham: "Take now your son, your only one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you" (Genesis 22:2). The memory of this dramatic story, evoked by the "voice from heaven," beckoned Jesus to assume in His own life the sacrificial role of Isaac. Thus, in the beginning of His ministry, our Lord is already summoned to consider the tragic events that will end it. Prior to proclaiming a single word of the Gospel, Jesus receives an intimation of the Cross.
The reference to Isaac and his father in the baptismal scene is even more apparent if we consider the Greek (Septuagint) version of Genesis 22:2, where the Hebrew word for "only" (yahid) is changed to "beloved" (agapetos): "Take your beloved son, whom you love . . ."
Nothing in this Gospel story compels us to insist that Jesus, at that moment, completely grasped the meaning of His correspondence to Isaac. Although we readers are aware of Simeon's prophecy of the Cross (Luke 2:34-35), the evangelist gives no indication that our Lord knew of it. Nor has Jesus as yet encountered the homicidal hostility of those to whom the Gospel came as a threat. Consequently, it is reasonable to suppose that the full inference of His likeness to Isaac grew in the mind of Jesus as events unfolded in the course of His ministry.
It did happen, however. Our Lord, once the murderous intent of His adversaries became alarmingly apparent, recalled this Isaac theme and invited them to consider it in the setting of what they plotted to do. To these enemies, priding themselves as "Abraham's descendants," Jesus asserted, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw and was glad."
To the opponents of the Gospel, Our Lord identified Himself as the true Isaac, whose promised arrival inspired the joy — the laughter! — of ancient Abraham (cf. Genesis 17:17). It was for this assertion, and for His further claim to antecede the days of Abraham, that they "took up stones to throw at Him" (John 8:37-59).
The "voice from heaven" at Jesus' baptism evoked a second biblical text, likewise familiar to Him. It came from the Book of Isaiah and introduced the coming of God's Servant. Indeed, this passage stands at the beginning of the Servant Songs: "Behold! My Servant whom I uphold; / My soul delights in My chosen one. / I have put My Spirit upon Him" (42:1).
Although I have quoted this prophecy as it appears in the transmitted Hebrew (Massoretic) text, early Christians were familiar with another version of it, a translation closer to the words Jesus heard at His baptism. Matthew quotes the passage thus: "Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen, / My beloved [agapetos] in whom My soul is well pleased! / I will put My Spirit upon Him" (12:18).
Thus, even as the Holy Spirit descends on Jesus, and the Father's voice addresses Him as "Son," the vocabulary of the scene recalls the Servant from the Book of Isaiah, the image which will largely determine, in due course, our Lord's understanding of His redemptive role. The Father's Son, the true Isaac, is identified as God's Servant. More and more, as the events of His life unfold — especially the conspiracy of His foes — Jesus will sound the depths of that identification. In straight lines, both images point to the Cross.
In the experience of His baptism, then, our Lord received an earnest intimation of what it finally symbolized. Luke's narrative will return to this motif in a later scene where Jesus foretells the strife and divisions attendant on the proclamation of the Gospel: "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!" (12:50; cf. Mark 10:38).
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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So, I keep getting asked - here and on other sites, how to generate random characters - say, for creating a new password or creating a unique identifier - or just because you want to generate random characters for no specific reason, but to have them at your disposal. So, I started looking around and didn't really find anything here - or on the other sites that I belong to. With that in mind, I created this simple example on how to generate the random password - and email it to someone.
It's a simple process and I hope you find it helpful.
SO! Essentially what I did, first, was create a "public string" called "GeneratePassword()" and had it return a value that I called later in my project.
While, yes it is true, that I COULD do this all in one function... but where's the fun in that? For this tutorial, it also shows how to call one thing into another.
Also, please note that I do realize that this is not the only way to do it... it's just one way that I thought would be easy for most people.
public string GeneratePassword() { //Since I'm big on security, I wanted to generate passwords that contained numbers, letters and special //characters - and not easily hacked. //I started with creating three string variables. //This one tells you how many characters the string will contain. string PasswordLength = "12"; //This one, is empty for now - but will ultimately hold the finised randomly generated password string NewPassword = ""; //This one tells you which characters are allowed in this new password string allowedChars = ""; allowedChars = "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0"; allowedChars += "A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,"; allowedChars += "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,"; allowedChars += "~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,+,?"; //Then working with an array... char[] sep = { ',' }; string[] arr = allowedChars.Split(sep); string IDString = ""; string temp = ""; //utilize the "random" class Random rand = new Random(); //and lastly - loop through the generation process... for (int i = 0; i < Convert.ToInt32(PasswordLength); i++) { temp = arr[rand.Next(0, arr.Length)]; IDString += temp; NewPassword = IDString; //For Testing purposes, I used a label on the front end to show me the generated password. //lblProduct.Text = IDString; } return NewPassword; }
Now, let's take this to the next step and have it sent to someone who just forgot their password and needs it reset.
For the sake of argument, there's a form on this website where a user had to put in some information and their email address... and just clicked the "Send New Password" button.
Here's the code-behind:
protected void btnSendPassword_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //create your variables string strSubject = "Your Password Has Been Reset"; string strFromEmail = "[email protected]"; string strFromName = "My Website Administrator"; string strNewPassword = GeneratePassword().ToString(); //This is where you'd call the new password string. try { //create the new mail message[/color] MailMessage MailMsg = new MailMessage(); //cretate the FROM[/color] MailMsg.From = new MailAddress(strFromEmail); //create the subject[/color] MailMsg.Subject = strSubject; //We obviously need to create the TO - otherwise it goes nowhere. MailMsg.To.Add(txtEmail.Text); //assuming there was a form to fill out and they put the right email address in. MailMsg.IsBodyHtml = true; //I decided to make it html - so I could format the text. MailMsg.Body = "
The following email was sent to you by " + strFromName + ".

"; MailMsg.Body += "
Apparently, you needed your password reset - So here it is:
"; MailMsg.Body += "New Password " + strNewPassword + "
"; MailMsg.Body += "If you didn't request this, then - oops, you might wanna think about changing it, now. ""; MailMsg.Body += "
Click the following link to change your password:
"; MailMsg.Body += "
http://www.mywebsite.com/passwordChangeThing/Default.aspx
"; //utilizing SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(); smtp.Host = "email.mywebsite.com"; //if my domain had a way of sending out emails. smtp.Send(MailMsg); //send it lblMessage.Text = "Message Sent Successfully"; //tell the person that the email was sent. } catch (Exception ex) { lblMessage.Text = "Error: " + ex.ToString(); //or tell the person that they screwed up and it's all their fault.... or what the actual error was. } }
That's it. Enjoy! If this tutorial was helpful in any way, and you thought it was good, then I was happy to do it.
Please feel free to leave comments at the bottom and, even boost my reputation.
If not, than please tell me ("nicely") that you hated it and never want me to do another one as long as I live under penalty of Bobo the Clown - King of the Underworld, where no amount of peanut M&M's will get me out of there.
Have a great day!


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Well today I finally had some luck.
A little big ben clock from around 1960 and it still works!!! I really fell in love with it right away. When I look at it, I have to think about my father, this is something he would have loved.
The other find was a teapot, with cup. I was looking for one like this for a long time, but because everyone wants them these days, normally the prices are way to high. But now I got these both for 10 euro´s which is about 14 dollars! I think this was a pretty good deal and I am really happy! Take a look for yourself and let me know what you think!
|Big Ben clock around 1960
|my new old teapot