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In-Game Name: Onus
In-Game Class: Warrior
In-Game Level: 100
Previous Raiding experience: Current Tier Raids, I've cleared Highmaul on Heroic, and am currently 9/10 in Blackrock Foundry in Normal Mode, and 8/10 in Heroic. I took a break from WoW during Pandaria due to school and work, and since coming back for Warlords of Draenor, I've caught up on current raid strategies and requirements, along with the changes to my class, and I still have the most fun playing my warrior over other classes.
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Please list your top 2 gear upgrades and why they are valuable: Right now, the two pieces I need the most are Weapon Upgrades such as Tamer's Terrible Spine from Heroic Gruul, and the Tier piece from Blast Furnace or Flamebender Ka'graz for my 4-piece set bonus.
Why did you choose your class? What are your class' strengths and weaknesses? : I've been playing since vanilla and Onus was my very first character. I've played each expansion with every change to warriors, from stance dancing, to fury/arms hybrid to overpower spamming and the introduction of titan's grip. Although I have a good amount of alts, I have had the most fun playing my warrior due to the sheer versatility and flexibility the class has to offer in raids. No matter the changes, warriors find a role to thrive in. I've got experience in all 3 specs and right now Single-Minded Fury is the most fun. I love having a macro titled "KILL ALL THE THINGS!" which is basically an Insta-kill button, and the rotations for both AoE and single target boss fights are fast-paced, even though they're heavily reliant on procs. I never feel like there is any downtime in my rotation, even when I dont have rage for abilities, because I still have abilities and uses outside of rage consumption, like Rallying Cry/Vigilance for super "Oh Sh@!" moments. The main weakness of fury is that my rotation is incredibly reliant on procs for Execute, Raging Blow, and the Wild Strikes. If Bloodthirst doesn't proc Raging Blow, that's a loss of damage without the 20% enrage buff, not to mention the flat damage from Executes and Wild Strikes.
Explain briefly the reasons behind your current gear choices. And why you have selected your current talent build: My gear choice is based on the Best in Slot list from Icy Veins. I focus on Critical Strike, Multistrike, and Mastery mostly. My talent build changes for each fight. If the bosses are by themselves, I focus more on Single Target talents, like Storm Bolt, Avatar, and Anger Management. If the bosses have a lot of adds, like Beastlord for example, I grab Bladestorm, Ravager, and Dragon's Roar. From fighting more and more bosses, I've started to prefer Avatar over bloodbath as it requires less monitoring and is the same dps in most situations. The same can be said for Anger Management over Siegebreaker. Not worrying about as many cooldowns makes my job easier.
For DPS and Tanking classes: What is your normal rotation/ priority list during a boss fight? : I always use my abilities together with as many damage procs as I can. Enrage is the most important, so I try not to use any Executes or damaging abilities until Bloodthirst procs the Enrage buff. Execute is highest on my priorities in case another auto-attack after it procs it again. After that is Raging Blow and Wild Strike procs, for the same reason as Execute. When I have a lot of rage, I use Wild Strike to dump rage. Whenever needed, I use short cooldowns like Avatar for bursts of damage. An AoE or cleave rotation is essentially the same, except I dump rage with Whirlwind to also allow Raging Blow to hit more people, and I use my AoE cooldowns instead of single target cooldowns.
What are your favorite websites/spreadsheets for theorycrafting and raid strategies? : As far as theorycrafting, I usually just run numbers myself in-game for possible changes in dps. I know the simulation websites are getting more and more advanced, but I mostly go by my own knowledge about my class. As far as raid strategies, I use Icy Veins for all boss fights, because they get most of their data from running their own simulations, it's been around for so long, and I trust their videos and reasoning for specific strategies.
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Previous Guilds and reasons for leaving: I am currently a member of Sleep Walkers, and the reason I'm looking for another guild is due to recent loss of motivation in the leadership. A good amount of members have been leaving, and our attendance was always random, so the leadership has put a hold on raids. As a guild, I don't think we've raided in almost a month.
Why you are applying to Bloodsworn: Bloodsworn is currently ranked 4th on our server, and when Sleep Walkers was still active, we were 9th at our peak. I'm applying to Bloodsworn because Mythic fights will be a great challenge, and I know I'd still have a blast with the progression.
Comments: I'm really good at this game.
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For "Think Like a Man," which opens this weekend, Tim Story returned to thinking like a comedy director after a stint in the superhero world.
The two "Fantastic Four" films may be the Story films that the most people have seen around the world, but the filmmaker it was the raucous ensemble character comedy "Barbershop" that first put him on the Hollywood map in 2002. Now Story returns to that territory, wrapped in the romantic comedy genre, with "Think Like a Man," based on comedian Steve Harvey's bestselling 2009 advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment.
"I'm home with this film," Story tells PopcornBiz. "I fell so much in love with this genre, again, that it just reminded me. So, there's a part of me that if I could really write my future it would probably be just doing a bunch of these and make them smart, put heart in there and laughs."
Lately Hollywood's been trying to make movies out of these non-narrative dating bestsellers, but "Think Like a Man" is the first on that's worked on its own merits. How did you figure out how to translate to the screen?
Well, look, I have to put a lot on the screenwriters and Will Packer, the producer, and Clint Culpepper, in that they just figured out the characters. When the book did spell out who these characters were, since we knew about what type of women were being described it was like, 'Why don't we just put the opposite of what they would be attracted to, but give them the opposite so that there's a complete conflict of who they're getting with?' So because there's no narrative in the book, I think it was just taking the characters and thinking about conflict in terms of film, just going to what's the best drama and what's the most complex and seeing what happened. I think that's the rule.
Was there a conscious path you wanted to avoid with this movie?
Look, at the end of the day I do know that you're going into this genre and that it's going to be what it is. Most of the time people do end up together and you kind of know that's going to happen. I wanted to do was just keep you guessing on what was going to happen. I just tried to keep the conflict up as much as possible. I just never wanted anyone to settle into, like, 'I know what's going to happen,' and so that's the only thing. Then of course I just felt like I wanted it to be funny. I was hoping that I could make it funny enough where you're not just caught up with them being in love, out of love. I was just hoping I could bring some comedic chops to it and keep you guessing when something was going to happen. Kevin Hart is the kind of guy that you want on your team because he can always throw a curveball at it. So, in terms of avoiding things I just wanted to avoid the boredom of knowing exactly what was going to happen.
You get to reunite with your "Barbershop" pal Michael Ealy in this movie.
I was hoping that everyone was good with having Michael Ealy. He's not just one of my favorite actors. He's one of my greatest friends and it's our second movie together. We've been trying to work together forever and we finally got one that we could do together. Michael is just such an amazing actor and I had always told him, like, he's just going to get better as he gets older, when he starts to look more and more like a man. When I brought him into 'Barbershop' it was like, 'The kid, the kid, the kid.' But now he's got some scruff on his face and he's starting to look more and more like an older man, a leading man. So I was just hoping for him and sometimes your prayers get answered. I would do every movie with him if I could. He's just that good, and just one of my best friends in the world.
And how about the rest of the cast?
Heaven. Honestly, I knew most of them, whether we'd done a film together before – like me and Taraji [P. Henson], had done another film together. I'd done a portion of Kevin Hart's 'Laugh At My Pain,' and then of course Michael Ealy. So I knew a lot of the guys, and then I knew the other guys socially, just from being out and knowing each other. But it was pure heaven because this cast, they're just so good. Especially in this genre of black films - and I don't like to consider the movie a black film, but to be candid, it is a movie where most of the roles are for African Americans – the actors have said 'You just don't get that many roles that have a lot of depth to it,' where they have something to play in layers and all of this stuff. I knew that they could do it, and it's great when it comes together. I just knew that this cast was going to kick ass.
Can you talk about working with Steve Harvey and his role in the film – how you figured out how to integrate him, as the real-life author of the book, into the movie?
He was kind of like the Godfather. You kiss the ring and he says, 'Don't --- up.' We went out and made it and then when we brought it back to him and showed him about 30 minutes of it when we were shooting his portion of the stuff and he was laughing out loud. He told us, 'Look, I don't laugh – I'm a comedian. I see the jokes coming. It's rare that I laugh at something and I was literally laughing.' You kind of go, 'Whew! The Godfather is pleased!' So he really has just been a confidant from afar: patting you on the back and saying, 'Go for it.' He basically said, 'Look, I love what the blueprint is. Guys, just go and do your thing.' So it was that quiet cheering from afar.
What did Kevin Hart's ad-libs bring to his scenes?
We just said, 'Look, you should come to the door and interrupt the situation in some way.' And on the take he did that and we just went, 'What the f--k? Are you serious?' It was funny and he's just that guy. Working with comedians, comedians are quite brilliant just because with their perspective on things and the fact that they read so much, when you do say 'Hey, I need something here,' you would hear them just start to go, 'Okay, what happened in the middle of the night,' and they just go through this list. Then they pull something out and then they go with that, like, 'Okay, perfect.' Then they do it and you go, 'You just pulled that out of your brain?'
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For "Think Like a Man," which opens this weekend, Tim Story returned to thinking like a comedy director after a stint in the superhero world.


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Marilyn, Sandy and I started at a bit after 5 AM -- it was 76 degrees and very humid. We'd hoped for cooler temps based on the NWS and were sweating heavily by the picnic tables.
On the positive side, the clouds helped provide a beautiful sunrise.
We met a fellow from Orange County and a couple from Alaska -- it was the first time for all and we continued to leap frog each other throughout the climb. From 3 K on, we were very grateful for the cloud cover and cooler temps.
It was howling at Grubbs Notch -- we donned additional clothes and hustled up to the tram, where the real adventure began.
After enjoying Angel's Demise IPA, we headed down to the boarding area. Andy Hollinger was there for an event and came over to say hi. Just as it was about time to board, we learned that the tram was not running due to lightning. Went back to the bar and was treated to another beer by a nice gent who'd heard we had hiked up. Went back down to the boarding area to wait, then all hell broke lose -- thunder, lightning, hail, flickering lights and sound of alarms.
Things seemed to settle down and we boarded. Started down but then had to come back up and disembark. Rather than go in and out again, everyone waited on the platform and moved around to keep warm. Finally got the A-OK, boarded and reached the valley station. The tram personnel were fabulous and professional throughout the entire E-ticket experience (old Disneyland reference). They have my thanks and gratitude for keeping us informed and safe.
Completed the adventure with wonderful food at the Original Las Casuelas.
Miles of smiles,


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"[Anti-Semitism] maintains conspiracy theories that spread without limits. Conspiracy theories that have, in the past, led to the worst "(...)" [The] answer is to realize that conspiracy theories are disseminated through the Internet and social networks. Moreover, we must remember that it is words that have in the past prepared extermination.
We need to act at the European level, and even internationally, so that a legal framework can be defined, and so that Internet platforms that manage social networks are held to account and that sanctions be imposed for failure to enforce"
President François Hollande
Remarks at the Shoah Memorial
January 27 2015
Charlie Hebdo was founded in 1960 by former (Vichy) French State Bureaucrats to attack (with Satire) General DeGaulle and his Third Force and Algeria policies.
They are Fascists.
Social Fascists.


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Chamblee apologizes for insinuating Tiger was a cheater
- Brandel Chamblee said he was not forced to apologize
- He had said Tiger was cavalier with the rules and compared his actions to cheating on a test
- %22I want to apologize to Tiger for this incited discourse%22
Former golf professional and current Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee apologized to Tiger Woods via Twitter on Tuesday for insinuating that the world's No. 1 golfer cheated.
"Golf is a gentleman's game and I'm not proud of this debate. I want to apologize to Tiger for this incited discourse," Chamblee said on Twitter.
In a column Chamblee wrote for Golf.com, he gave Woods an "F" for his five-win season. He said Woods "was a little cavalier with the rules," citing four rules incidents Woods was involved in. In the column, Chamblee wrote of an incident in which he cheated in the fourth grade.
"When I was in the fourth grade, I cheated on a math test and when I got the paper back it had "100" written at the top and just below the grade, was this quote, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" It was an oft-quoted line from the epic poem "Marmion" by Sir Walter Scott, and my teacher's message was clear. Written once more beneath that quote was my grade of "100", but this time with a line drawn through it and beneath that an F. I never did ask my teacher how she knew I cheated and I certainly didn't protest the grade. I knew I had done the wrong thing and my teacher the right, but I never forgot the way I felt when I read that quote.
" … I remember when we only talked about Tiger's golf. I miss those days. He won five times and contended in majors and won the Vardon Trophy and ... how shall we say this ... was a little cavalier with the rules."
Chamblee then gave Woods a "100" but wrote a line through it and followed it with an "F."
Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, told ESPN.com that he would "have to give some thought to legal action."
Earlier, Chamblee told the Associated Press that he stood by his comments, although he did say in an email that he never said outright that he thinks Woods cheated.
Chamblee did not respond to an email or text message from USA TODAY Sports, nor did Steinberg.


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well guys, good news...
There is something in the air....
Here is the special FIGZ figure 2018:
Made by our own master sculpter Alex, and only 50 are made.
For sale in the FIGZ shop in Arnhem june 3th for 10 euro.
Susofrick wrote:There was a nude version too!
Michael Robert wrote:Hello Dad
Can I reserve one witch? Buy by sending?
I gladly take one as well
Graeme wrote:If there are any of those witches left I would also like to buy one.


text: Long-suffering Browns fans have faced a decade of hardship when it comes to games against the hated Pittsburgh Steelers. Clevelanders struggle mightily to respond to 'Burgher taunts with little to show for it, though yesterday's miracle win (thanks mostly to eight Steelers turnovers) might put a few weapons in their verbal arsenal. Words, though, escaped this James-Michael Johnson supporter, who stuck with the tried and true middle finger.


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Mix It Up: King's Town Punch at Quarter Bar
Upon first glance, Quarter Bar in Windsor Terrace looks very much like a brew pub, with artfully battered wooden tables and a somewhat rustic feel. But look closely, and you'll find a handful of wines being offered by the glass, a pretty oasis of a backyard garden, and a thoughtful selection of unique cocktails.
David Moo changes his list a few times per year, and the night we visited, the torrential rain seemed to steer us towards drinks reminiscent of sunnier summer evenings. After glancing at the Chili Lime, a vodka-based drink spiked with a Serrano chili and hot sauce, and the Rita Lee, a margarita flavored with salted plum powder and garnished with a jaunty umbrella, I settled on the Kings Town Punch.
Unlike some rum punches, this isn't an super-sweet fruit bomb—the main flavor note, beyond the rum and lime juice, comes from a subtly floral house-made hibiscus iced tea and artisanal bitters. I can only imagine that it would have tasted even better sitting in the garden. Perhaps I'll check the weather before my next visit.
King's Town Punch
3/4 ounce Gosling's Black Seal Rum 1 ounce gold rum 1/4 ounce fresh lime juice 1 barspoon simple syrup 1 short dash Fee Brothers Whiskey Barrel Aged Bitters 1 short dash A.B. Smeby Hibiscus Rose Bitters Agua de Jamaica* Candied ginger and lime wedge for garnish
Build in a highball glass with ice. Add Agua de Jamaica to fill. Garnish with a skewer of candied ginger and a lime wedge.
*Agua de Jamaica
2 ounces Jamaica flowers (dried hibiscus; available at Kalustyan's) 4 cups water 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 inch disc fresh ginger, grated 1 ounce fresh lime juice
Boil water with ginger; remove from heat. Add flowers and sugar, steep 15 minutes, then strain. Add lime juice, then cool.
Quarter Bar
675 5th Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215 (map) 718-788-0989


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SATO America Announces The Appointment Of Tim Cook As New VP Of Sales
CHARLOTTE, NC – SATO America, Inc., a leading manufacturer of thermal printers, labeling, software and EPC/RFID solutions for the Auto-ID and Data Collection industry, today announced Mr. Tim W. Cook as the new Vice President of North America Sales.
"Having supreme skill in leadership and sales management along with a great deal of experience and industry knowledge, Cook brings to SATO America the right combination of leadership and vision we were looking for in a professional of our industry," stated Bob Linse, President of SATO America, Inc. "As our new VP of North American Sales, Tim will drive revenue and sales development processes that ensure growth and customer satisfaction throughout the channel."
Cook, an industry veteran of 15 years and having held executive positions previously with Honeywell Scanning and Mobility, and Zebra Technologies, recently stated "I am energized to have recently joined this remarkable SATO team and look forward to leveraging my AIDC experience to develop and lead a world class, professional sales organization for SATO America.
Cook's unique advantage is in knowing how to successfully position a channel centric organization that also enjoys a strong presence among enterprise accounts. With this ability, an important contribution in his new role will be in providing C-Level sponsorship to the SATO sales team. The industry insight Cook brings to SATO will help improve the company's position in this increasingly competitive market.
About SATO
SATO is a pioneer and leading global provider of integrated Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions that leverage barcode and RFID technologies. SATO manufactures innovative, reliable auto-identification systems and offers complete solutions to businesses by integrating hardware, software, media supplies and maintenance services. Customers rely on SATO for accuracy, labor and resource savings helping to preserve the environment.
Founded in 1940, SATO is publicly listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan. It has sales and support offices in over 20 countries and is represented globally through a world-class network of partners. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, it reported revenues of JPY 78,368 million (US$ 914 million). More information about SATO Holdings Corporation can be found at www.sato.co.jp/english.
For more information about SATO America, visit www.satoamerica.com or email email@example.com
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Made in the USA Health & Wellness
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Health and wellness products made in the USA say a lot more about a brand than just what the imprinted message states. After all, purchasing products manufactured in the United States goes beyond simple act of supporting the domestic production of goods and also empowers the American economy as a whole. Combined with an emphasis on products that meet health standards and consumer protection laws and you've got a recipe for success with health and wellness product made in the USA. Choose to keep yourself, and your recipients safe and healthy with Primary Care First Aid Kits, Kidz Medi-Spoons, Sun Care Kits, pill dispensers, and more, all branded with your organization's logo and message. Additionally, if you are a part of the healthcare industry, consider using custom imprinted clipboards to hold prescription to provide an excellent means of internal advertising.


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In recent months economist and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has been saying that the American economy is "in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession". It's an interesting metaphor. The U.S. economy is assumed to be a satellite of some heavy object, and just needs a little more push (in the form of Federal stimulus) in order to achieve escape velocity and go on its merry way.
Perhaps the metaphor makes more sense if it's reframed slightly. Maybe it is more accurate to think of the economy itself as the black hole. At its heart is a great sucking void created in 2008 by the destruction of trillions of dollars' worth of capital. The economy used to be a star, spewing out light and heat (profits and consumer goods), but it imploded on itself. Now its gaping maw will inevitably draw all surrounding matter into itself.
You can't see the black hole, of course; it's invisible. It is composed largely of unrepayable debt in the form of mortgages, and of toxic assets (mortgage-backed securities and related derivatives) on the books of major financial institutions, all of which are carefully hidden from view not just by the institutions themselves but by the Treasury and the Fed. Added to those there is also a growing super- gravitational field of resource depletion—which is again invisible to nearly everyone, though it does create noticeable secondary effects in the form of rising energy and food prices.
The Treasury and Fed are perhaps best thought of as a pair of powerful Battlestars orbiting just outside the singularity, zapping propulsive jolts of energy (in the forms of stimulus packages, bailouts, and quantitative easing programs) at hapless spaceships (banks and businesses) in the vicinity in order to keep them from falling into default, bankruptcy, and foreclosure. Unfortunately, the Battlestars—with their limited and depleting energy sources—are ultimately no match for the black hole, whose power grows silently and invisibly with every further addition to its hidden mass. The Battlestars will themselves eventually be assimilated.
What are we puny, rank-and-file space voyagers to do? Sadly, we must resign ourselves to being absorbed by the black hole at some point. There's at least the theoretical possibility, though, that at the heart of the singularity there exists a wormhole—a magical pathway to some other reality. In that alternate universe the economic rules are entirely different: money is not based on interest-bearing debt, and the economy is assumed to be a subset of the ecosystem, rather than the other way around. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get to this through-the-looking-glass world without passing through the singularity.
However, what we do now may have some bearing on our prospects: a few physicists reportedly believe that there are many alternate realities, and by visualizing and acting according to the rules of the reality we prefer, we might be attracted toward it rather than some other.
At least that's the way it works in science fiction.
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Transcriptions continue for hand-written notes found in the BISHOP family file at the New York State Library in Albany.
John Bishop, one of the founders of Guilford 1639.
Probably born in England and was at least 45 years old when he came here. He married Ann before coming. Died in Guilford Jan 1660. She in April 1676. His son was
John Bishop Jr. Died in Guilford Oct 1683. His son was
Nathaniel Bishop. Born in Guilford 1666. Died in Guilford May 1, 1717. His son was
Ebenezer Bishop. Born in Guilford Sept 22, 1701. Died Jan 26, 1788. His son was
James Bishop. Born in Guilford Jan 3, 1745. Died Jan 16, 1832. He was a Rev. Army Soldier. His son was
Jonathan Bishop. Born in Guilford Aug 28, 1783. Died in Guilford Dec 20, 1852. His son was
David C. Bishop. Born in Guilford May 7, 1814. Died in Branford Nov 18, 1884. My grandfather.
Thanks to Jan Franco for posting headstones at Find A Grave.


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I don't actually have a lawyer per se, but if I needed one I would choose the man I alluded to above. Not only was it his drunken, campfire brainstorming that came up with the name of this blog but he also likes to argue more than than anyone I know and as far as I can tell this is what makes a good lawyer. For example, I could say this to him: "You like to argue."
His answer would be: "No I don't."
And surely when he reads that he will think: "I wouldn't say that." His is a viscous circle of debate, and all who enter are instantly overwhelmed with argument.
Anyway, the other night my wife and I had this lawyer friend and his lawyer wife over for dinner. With their two little lawyers-to-be in tow, going out to eat was not in the cards so we settled for what was possibly the fourth-best option for eating after that (after ordering in, having someone else cook and microwaving pizza): me cooking.
I decided to cook a big pot of red pozole which if all the stars align just right is something I can do relatively well. I originally stumbled across a recipe I liked in a Rick Bayless cookbook. What caught my attention was that Mr. Bayless had somehow pilfered the recipe from a small market stall in the pozole-rich bohemian neighboorhood of Coyaocan in Mexico City. My wife is from this part of the city and we visit this exact market just about every time we go to the Federal District. It is, without a doubt the best pozole I have ever eaten. I played with the Bayless recipe for a year or so but never felt it replicated the version we know and love from Coyoacan. Maybe because I never bought and boiled a pig's head, but I think somewhere in Mr. Bayless' recipe gathering, some items or steps were lost or more likely intentionally omitted. I mean, clearly Bayless is a culturally sensitive guy and I really do appreciate his respect of the Mexican culture, but we all know he isn't sending royalty checks out to these market-stall chefs he "borrows" recipes from, so I can't blame the pozole-master of Coyoacan for holding back a little.
To supplement my Bayless recipe, over the years I have watched my mother-in-law make pozole and from that come up with more or less my own version that I like to think comes out pretty damn well.
I start with a big can of hominy. Actually going back, I start all my pozole dishes with a trip to Liborio or other similar Mexican grocery. There you will want to get the big can of hominy. Also at Liborio you can get a big menudo/ tamale-steamer pot for a great price that is a perfect size for a healthy portion of this soup.
I drain and rinse the hominy well and add it to the pot. On top of it I add probably about two gallons of water. I start the flame and bring it to a rolling boil, lower to a simmer and add in five or six medium-sized cloves of garlic. After that I throw in the pork.
The pork for the pozole is likely the most important part. While it is true that a pig's head yields the tastiest dish, I've found that it is acceptable to get about a kilo each (it's fun to order in the metric system while in a Mexican market) of pork ribs, pork stew meat and something else bony or fatty like more ribs, neck bones or even the hodgepodge of meat at Loborio labeled "para pozole". Put all that in now with the garlic and let that simmer for at least a couple hours or until the hominy is soft. Stir often.
Once that is going break out 8-10 chiles anchos and 8-10 chiles guajillos. Open them, de-vein them and remove the stem and all the seeds. Heat a cast iron skillet and toast each side of each chile briefly until they blister but be careful not to burn them. If you do burn one, toss it and try again. This is really important.
Once all the chiles are toasted put them in a bowl and cover them with boiling water. Cover that bowl and let it sit for 20-30 minutes. Don't forget to stir your hominy, it likes to stick to the bottom of the pot.
Drain most of the water out of the chiles but save it. Blend the rest until it reaches the consistency of a runny paste. Add the chile water as needed. Strain the mixture through a medium-sized colander into the pot. At this time peal an onion, cut it in half and add it to the pot.
Take the pork out thirty minutes or so after the hominy is soft. Let it cool and shred it into a bowl. Now is the time to start adding salt. Taste every time you salt, but know that it is hard to over-salt anything with hominy. I usually start by adding 3-4 tablespoons and go from there. Remove the onion halves and adjust the flavor as needed by adding salt, boiling off some more liquid or adding some of the water the chiles soaked in.
When you get pozole in a market stall in Mexico the pork is added into each bowl. Likely this is so everyone gets his or her share of the good stuff, and one can also chose which parts of the pig he or she likes best. I just toss all the pork back in after I shred it and let it boil some more.
Traditional toppings for this red pozole include sliced radishes, chopped iceberg lettuce, diced onion, oregano and chile powder. It is also good to have some tostadas handy. Enjoy. Pozole, like many slow-cooked dishes is best the next day or when it has cooled some and is re-heated.
Well, if you are so inclined to try this recipe I hope you like it. Chance are there will be more of these recipe posts in my future as my life has suddenly and wonderfully changed a week ago with the arrival of healthy and beautiful twin boys. And so it might take me a few weeks to get back on board with a restaurant review (and leave the house again).


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When the kids are here, it livens everybody's spirit.
Director Kenny Ortega
They sing, they dance, they play basketball and they capture the heartfelt wishes of seriously ill children.
"I want to kiss Troy!" Three-year-old Paytlee says gleefully before she is off to Hollywood with her family to meet "Troy," High School Musical star Zac Efron, before the premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
Paytlee – diagnosed with a brain tumor – is one of more than 70 children with life-threatening conditions who have requested wishes related to Disney's High School Musical through Make-A-Wish®.
As the East High Wildcats say no matter what challenge comes up: "We are all in this together." Words of encouragement for wish kids in need of strength and hope to thrive through their conditions.
But these HSM wish experiences don't just empower the wish kids; Director Kenny Ortega says having the children on the set brings courage and inspiration to everyone.
"When the kids are here, it livens everybody's spirit," Ortega says during the filming of Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year. "The minute you arrive (one set) it's like 'Where are they? Where are they?'"
The wish kids go behind the scenes to watch rehearsals on set, walk the red carpet at the premiers and visit with the movies' stars – Efron, Corbin Bleu, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, KayCee Stroh, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren Jr. and Ryan Sanborn.
For HSM 3, 13 children visit the movie set in Utah enjoying the action of rehearsals and filming, getting photos and autographs with the stars and enthusiastically joining in some East High Wildcat cheers.
Three more wish kids attend the world premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year in Los Angeles. Jennifer, Rachel and Scarlett parade down the University of Southern California's Galen Center's red carpet and receive a variety of HSM treats complete with an East High Wildcats yearbook.
Efron, Hudgens, Tisdale, Ortega and the rest of the cast even stop by for photos and sign the girls' yearbooks. Inside, the girls can't believe they are watching the movie not far away from their HSM idols.
As for Paytlee, her wish is granted when she meets Efron during an HSM fan event at the El Capitan Theatre. Though a little star-struck at first, Paytlee gets her chance to kiss Efron and even sit on his lap.
"It's a humbling experience," Efron tells People.
Disney is proud to be a long-supporter of Make-A-Wish® and uses its magic to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. With more than 6,000 wishes granted every year – including visits to the Disney Parks, Disney Cruises, meeting Disney characters, attending sporting events and visiting TV and movie sets – Disney themed wishes are the most popular requests to Make-A-Wish.
For a minute we can let them forget about whatever issues they are currently going through and take them into the High School Musical world, which is more carefree and fun, that's a pretty thrilling aspect.
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This tells me that anyone can have their wishes come true and anyone can make those wishes come true. Even movie stars can do something nice and make a change in the world!!
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As a general rule, the only thing I hate more than romantic comedies is talking animal movies. I think I've made that clear. But for some reason there will always be one of the latter every couple of years that has me enthralled from the marketing get-go, which somehow convinces me to fork over my hard-earned cash and sit down in a family-filled theater to watch something really, really dumb.
Alvin and The Chipmunks was an example of this inexplicable phenomenon, and I fricking loved it. Loved it. And now it seems G-Force has filled my stupid talking animal movie excitement quota, because I really want to see it. Not that there aren't drawbacks: Penelope Cruz is involved and there's a fart joke in the trailer, but there actually seems to be a lot of good outweighing the bad in this movie.
Zach Galifianakis is Not Animated
And neither is Will Arnett or Bill Nighy, who are also in it. Is there something depressing about those three making this movie, and David Cross making Alvin and the Chipmunks, in all likelihood just for the paycheck? Yes, but this is not a time for thinking! This is a time for G-Force! And Zach Galifianakis and Will Arnett are really funny in the trailer, and likely really funny in the movie, so we're already light years ahead of Racing Stripes here.
The Rest of the Cast is Awesome
While it's true that a lot of really famous people frequently do voice work because it's such easy money and studios like that they can still put their names on the poster even though they don't actually appear in the film (Angelina Jolie in Kung Fu Panda, anyone?), the voice work here isn't just famous people, it's awesome people, for the most part: Tracy Morgan, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi and Jon Favreau, all taking orders from their boss, Zach Galifianakis, who takes orders from his boss, Will Arnett. How can that not be at least slightly face-meltingly awesome?
It's Burn Notice, but with Gerbils, for Chrissakes
They are "an elite team of animal spies" who get too close to the truth and are shut down by the government. I'm sorry, that's hilarious.
Stupid Entertainment Can Be Cathartic
A few times a year, I like to take a break from hating everything that doesn't live up to a certain intangible standard and just enjoy something idiotic. And I think that's an important thing to do. You watch nothing but The Wire and Mad Men all the time and you'll go nuts. There's an art to light entertainment, and in small doses, it can be good for you.
So come July 24, I'm just going to ignore that the people who wrote The Shaggy Dog and Bad Boys 2 (god love it) wrote this movie and just laugh at gerbil spies and singing mice with my fellow five year olds and our sitters. I'm only human, after all.
For more from Television Without Pity
- "The Ugly Truth": Katherine Heigl's Fake Set Diary
- Which Movie Stars Should Play Smurfs?
- "Harry Potter": A Magical Guide
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
BUSTED: Major Metro No No
Photo: mr_t_in_dc Original pic here.
8 comments:
- Anonymous said...
What about filing nails... is that acceptable?
- May 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Unsuck DC Metro said...
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- May 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- Unsuck DC Metro said...
Oops. Meant NO. Don't file your nails on Metro, please.
- May 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
Do all of your grooming in the privacy of your own home. Clipping your nails on the metro is disgusting and no one wants to see your nasty nail pieces on the seat or floor.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Meg McCormick said...
I recently rode next to a young woman who decided train time was the perfect time to paint her fingernails! Forget the polish fumes; what if the train lurched and her bottle of polish spilled on me?
- September 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- discojing said...
i gave someone a very, very dirty look when I had to sit by her and she was filing her nails.
she put the nail file away and stopped filing.
one very small victory.
- September 18, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow, you people are petty
- July 11, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Extremely petty. I can see how clipping nails is gross because they fly all over the place. Or even the nail polish because the fumes are bothersome in a closed spaced. But filing nails? My, aren't you all uppity. I've filed a nail or two plenty of times if it chipped or broke and I couldn't stand the snag. Get over it.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM


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Ok, is there a number, an ideal or a maximum amount of people that can participate in a single real-time conversation? Something similar to the Dunbar's number.
I'm asking this because I'm developing an instant messaging system and I want to limit the quantity of people that can be invited in a chat room.


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Tyler John- son and Ondrej Palat both scored their first NHL goals, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Saturday night.
Nate Thompson and Teddy Purcell also scored for the Lightning, who stopped a five-game losing streak at home. Tampa Bay is 3-8 in its last 11 games.
Eric Staal scored the only goal for the Hurricanes, who dropped to 3-7 against fellow Southeast Division games.
Tampa Bay, with Mathieu Garon starting in goal each time, has won all three games this season against the Hurricanes. Tampa Bay has beaten three Carolina goalies -- Justin Peters, Cam Ward and Dan Ellis -- in the process.
Carolina claimed Adam Hall off waivers from the Lightning before the game, and the veteran forward made his Hurricanes debut against his former team.
Johnson put the Lightning ahead 1-0 when he beat Peters from the low left circle with 9:06 left in the first. Tampa Bay (12-15-1) is 11-1 when leading after one period.
After Palat scored on a redirection of Sami Salo's shot from the blue line at 6:35 of the second, Thompson made it 3-0 with 7:05 to go in the period with a breakaway goal.
Purcell scored on a breakaway to put Tampa Bay up 4-0 at 3:54 of the third.
Staal ended Garon's shutout bid during a breakaway at 6:21.
The Hurricanes have allowed at least four goals in 12 of the past 16 games against the Lightning and have a 2-8-2 mark when they do.
Garon stopped three shots by Jordan Staal in the first and second periods. Peters made a glove save on Palat's diving backhander 7 minutes into the game.
Carolina defenseman Joe Corvo left in the second because of an undisclosed lower body injury.
The Lightning wore green warmup jerseys during the pregame skate in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The jerseys will be autographed and auctioned on the team's web site ... Hurricanes D Joni Pitkanen returned after being sidelined by a lower body injury. ... Tampa Bay recalled C Dana Tyrell from Syracuse of the AHL. ... Lightning C Tom Pyatt played after missing one game due to an upper body injury. ... Tampa Bay has sold out all 14 home games. Philadelphia is at the Forum on Monday.
Bolts snap home losing streak at 5
Tyler John- son and Ondrej Palat both scored their first NHL goals, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Saturday night.


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UPDATE: OK, this was so blindingly obvious that half the bloggers and pundits in the world came up with it. Can't win 'em all.
In the end, my favorite take on it has to be Rachel Maddow's.
When I say that last night's events are a huge win for science, I don't mean that the funding situation is more promising, though of course the result is far more benign for the scientific community than the alternative "tea-party" beholden administration would have been.
I refer rather to the stunning demonstration of the value of quantitative expertise that has been provided by Nate Silver and his critics, and the very impressive demonstration of how people without quantitative skills would be wise to defer to those who have them. This may end up being a consciousness-changing event in the Beltway culture, and it is very much to the advantage not so much of science as an institution nor of science as a body of knowledge, but to the renewed respect for science as a process within the capital culture.
I'm not the only person to notice the similarity between climate denialism and "Nate Silver denialism". To someone interested in both climate and US politics, it is plain as day. Various tweets confirm. Even Sarcastic Rover gets in on the act. (Lots more where that came from, as a little Twitter searching can easily reveal.) But even though it verges on a ploddingly obvious connection, I can't resist adding my two cents, since this all was very revealing on some of the key topics that exercise us here. Specifically, why does the press spin climate science and sustainability matters so execrably, and what can we do about it.
Let me offer some background for the apolitical and those watching from a decent distance in other countries.
Nate Silver is a data nerd.
American elections are a delightful field of endeavor for the data nerd, surely unequaled in other countries' electoral processes. This is attributable to the antiquated and ill-adapted method of voting, wherein the majority in a state, however slim, votes in proportion to the population of their state. (It's also slightly skewed to the smaller states but that is neither here nor there.) Thus, a presidential election effectively constitutes 50 simultaneous mini-elections with effectively identical choices, among strongly overlapping but hardly identical demographics. Economies of scale appear in the process of public opinion polling. Motivated by the political sector itself, a few organizations conduct such polling.
Because America is a two-party system the dynamics of democracy pull strongly for a very close split. One aspect that is remarkable is how thoroughly polarized these sides have become, but that doesn't concern the thrust of my argument here. Rather, the point is that we a handful of organizations produce a handful of polls gauging the opinion of 50 otherwise identical elections with a variety of overlapping demographics. Now these polls are noisy. We have been hearing in various states and nationally, it's Obama, it's Romney, back and forth. Huge spikes appear even in the individual calculations of a particular state by a particular polling agency. Margins of error are typically quoted as +/- 4% or 5%, and margins of victory in key states are substantially lower than the uncertainty.
That one could obtain a viable prediction from such data is quite a reasonable expectation from those who are familiar with quantitative thinking, but to others who are not, it seems absurd. If you have twenty polls with a five per cent margin of error and an eight percent range, surely combining them makes for a huge 18% uncertainty, which is to say your guess is as good as mine. More to the point, from the professional commentator's point of view, my guess is at least as good as yours.
The idea that more information is hiding in the copious data than might be casually obvious is anathema to some of them. They didn't pick political journalism as a career because they enjoy math.
Their defense was simple. Nate Silver, they argue, called 49 out of 50 states correctly in 2008 out of sheer luck. Lots of people made predictions, I suppose, so one of them might just get lucky. There is no reason to make a New York Times blogger out of him for that, no reason to believe that his predictions will hold yet again. Besides, it is more dramatic if Romney has the momentum, which he obviously has, see?
We're familiar with this at the most rudimentary and empirical levels in climate. I don't have a good temperature record here and I don't have a good one there, I hardly have one anywhere. So why am I so sure about the damned hockey stick?
In both the political and climate prognoses, the technical answer is broadly the same. Uncertainties do not add. More information reduces uncertainty. That's why it's called information. The set of all polls contains more information than the polls from any individual organization.
C. P. Snow complained a half century ago about the "two cultures" problem in academia; the lack of acculturation among scientists and the lack of rational constraint among liberal arts types. And while it's true that there's a fair amount of autism spectrum personality types among scientists (though not as much as among engineers, I'd wager) it turns out to be easier to add culture to a scientific worldview than to add science to a culture-focused one. Some folk just really hate math, and that their bread and butter job can be better done by an algorithm terrifies them. So denial is unsurprising. As Al Gore pointed out in his movie, it's hard to convince someone of a fact when that person's livelihood depends on disbelieving it.
Reporters on the science beat seem to feel very much like reporters on the political beat, that it is their job to weigh the evidence and present "narratives" that pass their gut check. The Nate Silver incident gives us another instance where we can watch them fail to identify where the real expertise is, and do so out of loyalty to their own professions rather than to the truth. And besides, looking too carefully just gives them a headache.
Anyway, the point is this is not going away. It really may be a turning point for the injection of objective methods into public discourse, which obviously have been at an appalling low point. How? Well, what about Silver's final predictions for the 2012 presidential election? Here they are:
He was on the right side of the line on
at least 49 out of 50. (Florida was still undecided last I looked.) 50 out of 50. Even Republicans noticed this.
images: Slate, xkcd, Nate Silver's blog.
UPDATE: Joe Romm makes the connection too, (h/t R L Miller) pointing to this peculiar tweet from David Frum:
but Frum should be cut some slack here. He was being sarcastic.
UPDATE: Jay Rosen points to this remarkable example of strident, willful cluelessness among the old school pundits:
Time magazine's Joe Klein told POLITICO. "Polling is inexact, especially with the cell phone factor — not enough data over time for pollsters to be absolutely sure they're getting it right."
In a column headlined "I don't know," Klein wrote earlier this week, "Anyone who claims to know who is going to win is blowing smoke."
UPDATE: In comments, Dan Olner points to Krugman's column The War on Objectivity, defending Silver before the outcome was known. Krugman may have been the first to publicly compare Nate Silver denialism with climate denialism among others:
They know, just know, that Nate must be cooking the books. How do they know this? Well, his results look good for Obama, so it must be a cheat. Never mind the fact that Nate tells us all exactly how he does it, and that he hasn't changed the formula at all.
This is, of course, reminiscent of the attack on the Bureau of Labor Statistics — not to mention the attacks on climate science and much more. On the right, apparently, there is no such thing as an objective calculation. Everything must have a political motive.
This is really scary. It means that if these people triumph, science — or any kind of scholarship — will become impossible. Everything must pass a political test; if it isn't what the right wants to hear, the messenger is subjected to a smear campaign.
UPDATE: Rachel Maddow makes the point in free verse
UPDATE: Gavin beats me to the punch!
UPDATE: Peter Gleick tweets: the success of @fivethirtyeight is not what makes #climate science right. It would be right even if his projections had been off.


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NASHUA – Law Warehouses, Inc, a family-owned business, has filed a petition in Superior Court under New Hampshire's Right to Know law to compel the New Hampshire Liquor Commission to release information relative to the Commission's competitive bid process for a 20-year liquor warehousing service contract.
On November 20, the Liquor Commission announced it had awarded a contract for warehousing services to the German-owned company Deutsche Post Exel. Nashua-based Law Warehouses contends in their petition to the Court that apparent deficiencies with the Deutsche Post Exel bid "raised serious concerns about the legitimacy and lawfulness of the process used by [the Liquor Commission] to evaluate bids and award the contract to Excel."
Based on the limited information released by the Liquor Commission to date, it would appear these deficiencies have the potential to cost the State of New Hampshire millions of dollars over the terms of the contract in contrast to the Commission's claim of millions of dollars of savings, the firm said in a press release.
Law's Petition to the Court outlines the Liquor Commission's refusal to respond to numerous requests by Law Warehouses for the additional information needed for the public to fully evaluate the Exel proposal. New Hampshire Law requires public bodies such as the Liquor Commission to release such information. Since the Commission Request for Proposal (RFP) process only allows 20 days for bidders to protest the process for awarding the contract, "We have no choice other than seeking a court order releasing these public records," said Law Warehouses President Brian Law.
"From what we know about the Deutsche Post Exel proposal it appears to have some serious flaws because it does not provide the state with the key service improvements they are looking for and does not provide the best return to the people of New Hampshire," Law added. "This is supposed to be a transparent, public bidding process and the Liquor Commission is obligated to let the bidders and public know the details about all of Exel's proposals including the complete bid scoring."
The Law family has been in business in Nashua for more than 130 years. Through the generations the family has successfully grown their business ventures to encompass six Law companies, all operating in New Hampshire. From lumber to wine, Law Warehouses is a public and contract warehousing company experienced in the management and execution of approximately 65 distinct regional and national distribution programs. Currently, two generations of the Law family are involved in the Law companies.


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Fast Ice (Jan, 1946)
Fast Ice
The cold facts about the smooth sheet of ice that gives wings to the feet off the skaters in Icecapades, biggest of Ice shows.
BY Margot Patterson and Allan Gould
IF THE millions of people who witness the big ice-travaganzas yearly ever stop to think about the sheet of ice on which the skaters pirouette, it is probably only to wonder idly how the red, white and blue pattern gets inside the ice.
Yet the manufacture and maintenance of that thin sheet of frozen water is more important than the stars of any show. A featured performer could break a leg and the show would continue, but without the ice there could be no performance. So in each of the arenas where an ice revue plays during a season, the ice is pampered and babied, sweated and scraped, barrelled, planed, sprayed—all in all. treated with more care than a connoisseur gives the patina on a treasured antique.
Before a show arrives at any arena, the basic ice must be prepared for a cast of over a hundred people to go right into rehearsal. An ice surface may vary in thickness from three-eights of an inch to two inches, but in every rink the method of building the ice is similar.
The floor on which the ice lies is on top of a system of pipes. In many rinks the pipes are imbedded in a cement floor which in turn may have a Terraza top. (Terraza is the name of a tile that originated in a town of that name in Italy.) It is on this Terraza top that the ice is made. Water sprayed on the surface of the rink, or Terraza top, becomes ice as the heat is extracted from it. The heat is removed by the circulation of refrigerated brine through the pipe system within the floor.
The cold brine which circulates in the pipes within the floor may have a temperature between 12 and 20 degrees Fahrenheit, varying with local conditions of the rink. The brine itself is cooled and circulated through the pipes from a refrigeration plant at one end of the rink.
Refrigeration in the plant or unit results from the expansion of liquid ammonia into a gas. The cooling chills the brine which is then circulated through the rink pipe system. The ammonia gas is recondensed by the simple method of allowing cold water to flow over the ammonia pipes. The process repeats itself continuously; first liquid ammonia to ammonia gas, then gas back into liquid.
Brine is a strong solution of sodium chloride or common salt and water. Calcium chloride, a white flaky salt, may also be used. Either the sodium or the calcium chloride is used to lower the freezing point of the water in the brine solution.
Basically, this is the method of freezing any indoor rink, or for that matter, any artificial ice, but the rapid manufacture of ice that is ornamental and yet "fast" enough for a two-hour professional show is more complicated.
For the Icecapades, a show which plays to two million people in twenty cities of the United States and Canada, the method of obtaining fast ice quickly has been reduced to an easy system. A quarter to a half-inch of water is flooded on the rink floor and frozen as a foundation for the decorative patterns. .A layer of white paint is spread over this base and allowed to freeze in turn. On this, from a detailed color diagram, a design in powder blue and vermilion is measured off with tape and stencilled on the ice. The paint is then applied, preferably with a spray gun, but a brush can be used.
The paint used on the ice is a water paint, because oil won't mix with ice any more than it will with water. Fifty-five gallons of a paint powder which was especially developed for this use is needed for the colored water solution with which on the ice base it freezes quickly. When the painting is solid, water is sprayed on the surface of the ice, lightly at first to prevent the running or dissolving of the color. Then heavier sprays are applied until a thickness of approximately one half-inch covers the paint design. Since this covering is of clear water, the colors underneath show through. The covering must be thick enough so that no skate blade will go through to disturb the painting underneath. That the painting should not be disturbed is important for two reasons: one scratch through to the paint would mean a difficult spotting job, and might also mean severe injury to a skater. "Paint can kill skaters," Norman Frescott, general manager of Icecapades, warns. "Any blemish on the ice might do it. That is why it is so important that the ice be crystal clear and clean."
The covering of ice must be kept in ideal condition both for rehearsals and for performances. It must be crisp enough to be "fast," but not so brittle as hockey ice. It must not be wet, yet it must be damp enough to take an edge that will help a skater create a fancy figure three or eight.
Once the perfect "fast" surface has been achieved, the problem of maintaining it begins. Between halves of a performance the ice is "barrelled" and "scraped." Six men rush out at intermission with large metal scrapers to clean the ice of "snow" (ice shavings) and other debris. They are followed by men with metal barrels on wheels to which sprinklers are attached. In the "barrelling" process, the sprinklers spray hot water over the entire rink to fill the cracks and scratches.
Within ten minutes this breezes and the ice is completely resurfaced with a new and perfect finish ready for the second half of the performance.
Scraping and barrelling must be done at rehearsal intermissions and after rehearsals as well, and, if there is a matinee, during and after it. The continual sprinkling and resurfacing builds up the ice beyond the desired thickness. Three and a half-inch ice is not enough on an outdoor rink, but it is too much indoors.
After the show is over, the ice, like a prima donna, still demands attention. It must be either "planed" or "sweated" to reduce the ice and prevent it from becoming more than two inches thick.
"Planing" is done with a large steel blade pulled by a small tractor. The blade shaves the ice down to the thickness desired. The shaved or "planed" rink is then given a shallow layer of water and the surface is ready for the next rehearsal.
"Sweating" consists of shutting down the refrigerating machines overnight to reduce the ice, much as a housewife will defrost her electric refrigerator. This process is not so satisfactory as planing because it lessens the "tone" of the ice and allows air spaces to form if the sweating is irregular. It must be done, however, if the arena does not own a plane and tractor.
Although the maintenance of ice show rinks is almost an industry in itself, ice showmen argue that steel blades and ice make up an unbeatable precision sport. To get precision in anything calls for the best ingredients available, so every bit of care lavished on the chilly ice floor is a good investment.


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Don't be scared: Outback acts worth the risk
SAKE, Adelyn, T.O.W.
at the Outback Lodge
Thursday, January 29
A few days ago, just around the corner from my house in front of the Outback Lodge, a 15-year old girl stabbed two women. In another matter, the police recently detained a guy wanted for a shooting in the alley behind my house two years ago. My neighbor goes to court in two weeks for allegedly possessing cocaine with the intent to sell.
Ironically, ever since he moved on the block two years ago, there has been a decrease in the number of dealers selling crack on the street and in the alley. Between his .45 caliber and his 120-pound Rotweiller named Bear, we have all the crime deterrent we need. My wife and child will miss him.
Despite the drama, I feel safe. Go figure. I was at the Outback Lodge the night before the most recent stabbing. There was hard rock happening upstairs. I really had no idea what to expect from the three bands playing. I just knew I was in the mood for something hardcore, something that spoke to my current reality.
The first band was SAKE, a wake-up call from the depths of hard-rock hell. They weren't welcoming, but I sure couldn't stop watching or listening. There was a definite formula: melodic vocals that built into raging scream metal. They were tight from note A to note Z. If there's a way to express the angst, no one could do it better than SAKE.
The next band was a crew from Harrisonburg called Adelyn. Pretty-boy-emo-hiphop-hard-rock describes them in six words or less. Adelyn has much potential. With a little vocal coaching, the singer could be the middle ground between Justin Timberlake and the guy who sings for Linkin Park.
Needless to say, the ladies loved Adelyn. Finally T.O.W. took the stage. I left before they finished because it was late, but from what I saw they're a very talented group of musicians. They write the kinds of songs that appeal to musicians of their genre. Intricate, brooding guitars and synths back up a vocalist whose presence and voice magnify his sub-5'6" frame.
My only complaint is they lack a bass element sufficient to carry the music. The tones just weren't fat enough to fill the Outback. What I like about all three bands is that they aren't afraid to take chances. In this day and age, you can't be afraid. If you think about the stabbings and drugs, then you'll miss the music.
And trust me, there's music out there you don't want to miss.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Yet another theory is taking shape about what might have happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Maybe it landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.
The suggestion — and it's only that at this point — is based on analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggesting that the plane wasn't just blindly flying northwest from Malaysia.
Reuters, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, reported that whoever was piloting the vanished jet was following navigational waypoints that would have taken the plane over the Andaman Islands.
The radar data doesn't show the plane over the Andaman Islands, but only on a known route that would take it there, Reuters cited its sources as saying.
The theory builds on earlier revelations by U.S. officials that an automated reporting system on the airliner was pinging satellites for hours after its last reported contact with air traffic controllers. That makes some investigators think the plane flew on for hours before truly disappearing.
Aviation experts say it's possible, if highly unlikely, that someone could have hijacked and landed the giant Boeing 777 undetected.
But Dennis Giles, editor of the Andaman Chronicle newspaper, says there's just nowhere to land such a big plane in his archipelago without attracting notice.
Indian authorities own the only four airstrips in the region, he said.
"There is no chance, no such chance, that any aircraft of this size can come towards Andaman and Nicobel islands and land," he said.
The Malaysian government said Friday it can't confirm the report.
And a senior U.S. official on Thursday offered a conflicting account, saying there is probably a significant likelihood" the plane is on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
Regardless, Indian search teams are combing large areas of the archipelago. Two aircraft are searching land and coastal areas of the island chain from north to south, an Indian military spokesman said Friday, and two coast guard ships have been diverted to search along the islands' east coast.
The jetliner, with 239 people on board, disappeared nearly a week ago as it flew between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing. The flight has turned into one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, befuddling industry experts and government officials. Authorities still don't know where the plane is or what caused it to vanish.
Suggestions of what happened have ranged from a catastrophic explosion to hijacking to pilot suicide.
Malaysian officials, who are coordinating the search, said Friday that the hunt for the plane was spreading deeper into both the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
"A normal investigation becomes narrower with time, I understand, as new information focuses the search," said Hishammuddin Hussein, the minister in charge of defense and transportation. "But this is not a normal investigation. In this case, the information we have forces us to look further and further afield."
On Friday, the United States sent the destroyer USS Kidd to scout the Indian Ocean as the search expands into that body of water.
"I, like most of the world, really have never seen anything like this," Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet said of the scale of the search. "It's pretty incredible."
"It's a completely new game now," he said. "We went from a chess board to a football field."
More on the landing theory
James Kallstrom, a former FBI assistant director, said it's possible the plane could have landed, though he added that more information is needed to reach a definitive conclusion. He referred to the vast search area.
"You draw that arc and you look at countries like Pakistan, you know, and you get into your Superman novels and you see the plane landing somewhere and (people) repurposing it for some dastardly deed down the road," he said Thursday.
"I mean, that's not beyond the realm of realism. I mean, that could happen."
Even so, he acknowledged the difficulty of reaching firm conclusions with scraps of information that sometimes conflict.
"We're getting so much conflicting data," he said. "You veer one way, then you veer the other way. The investigators need some definitive, correct data."
Other developments
On the seventh day of efforts to find the missing Boeing 777-200, here are the other main developments:
• Another lead: Chinese researchers say they recorded a "seafloor event" in waters around Malaysia and Vietnam about an hour and a half after the missing plane's last known contact. The event was recorded in a nonseismic region about 116 kilometers (72 miles) northeast of the plane's last confirmed location, the University of Science and Technology of China said.
"Judging from the time and location of the two events, the seafloor event may have been caused by MH370 crashing into the sea," said a statement posted on the university's website.
• Tracking the pings: Malaysian authorities believe they have several "pings" from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane flew to the Indian Ocean, a senior U.S. official said.
That information, combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel range, leads officials to believe the plane may have made it as far as the Indian Ocean, which is in the opposite direction of the plane's original route, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
• Why the Indian Ocean? Analysts from U.S. intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have been scouring satellite feeds and, after ascertaining no other flights' transponder data corresponded to the pings, came to the conclusion that they were likely to have come from the missing Malaysian plane, the senior U.S. official said.
Indian search teams are combing large areas of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a remote archipelago in the northeast Indian Ocean.
• Malaysian response: In a statement Friday, Malaysia's Ministry of Transport neither confirmed nor denied the latest reports on the plane's possible path, saying that "the investigation team will not publicly release information until it has been properly verified and corroborated." The ministry said it was continuing to "work closely with the U.S. team, whose officials have been on the ground in Kuala Lumpur to help with the investigation since Sunday.
U.S. experts are using satellite systems to try to determine the possible location of the plane, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation, said at a news conference Friday.
On Thursday, Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said that Rolls-Royce, the maker of the plane's engines, and Boeing had reported that they hadn't received any data transmissions from the plane after 1:07 a.m. Saturday, 14 minutes before the transponder stopped sending information. He was responding to a Wall Street Journal report suggesting the missing plane's engines continued to send data to the ground for hours after contact with the transponder was lost.
The Wall Street Journal subsequently changed its reporting to say that signals from the plane — giving its location, speed and altitude — were picked up by communications satellites for at least five hours after it disappeared. The last "ping" came from over water, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified people briefed on the investigation.
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As the first digitally native generation in history, millennials know frequent updates are a part of life, whether for new operating systems (OS), push notifications, or social media posts. Now as millennials gather momentum in their careers and begin building families, forecasters predict that their ability to adapt to new circumstances will be crucial for long-term success.1
At the same time, the era of updates has given people a sense that change always means a step forward. But change can go both ways — it can bring setbacks, as well. We guard ourselves against some misfortune through health insurance and other financial protections. But what happens when you're hitting your stride in your career and, slowly or suddenly, you find yourself unable to work because of illness or injury?
This break in your earning power can have a long-term effect on your financial well-being. Now, maybe, as a young and healthy millennial, it's easy to think: That won't happen to me.
Again, in the spirit of updating, it's time to refresh the thinking here.
Most employer-funded plans will replace only 40 to 60 percent of your income. What does that look like? Imagine 60 percent of your home, your dinner, or your gas tank disappearing in a blink. Furthermore, the average disability claim lasts for over two and a half years. It can be difficult to do without income for such an extended period.
There is a way to protect your income, even if these kinds of changes come your way. Individual disability income insurance can protect a portion of your income to help you live more confidently now, and cover you for the future.
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[1] PWC, Workforce of the Future: The Competing Forces Shaping 2030, 2017
[2] U.S. Social Security Administration Fact Sheet, June 2017
[3] Council for Disability Awareness, Long-Term Disability Claims Review, 2014
[4] Council for Disability Awareness, Long-Term Disability Claims Review, 2014
[5] Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime Earnings, 2011
[6] CNN Money, Intuit: Gig Economy Is 34% of US Workforce, May 24, 2017