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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Pile of Wood
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You've outdone yourself Ben, a great shot of an amazing entance. Must go look at your others! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Very interesting shot and the artist can stop by and stack the wood that I need to stack anytime.ReplyDelete
Cheers John,ReplyDelete
I still get better result from film camera (SLR) , may be the lenses.
I agree, I almost tempted to invite them to stack mine for Beer+BBQ.
Amazing how it all stays together and without nails or screws. Thanks for your visits to my ghost fest this week! :)ReplyDelete
how cool! for me, i like the textures that's createdReplyDelete
loved your photoblog... beautiful place to live...ReplyDelete
visit me, tell me what u think... bye...
yes, pretty amazing...ReplyDelete
yup, brilliant shot!ReplyDelete
Love the textures and the angle of this shot.ReplyDelete
When the artist comes to stack your BBQ wood can I come too? Nothing like a good BBQ.
Thank you all!ReplyDelete
I agree. It was very interesting textures.
All the gravity hold the wood together like brick arch on some old building.
Wow, this reminds of my 'books & mirrors' exhibit a few weeks back.ReplyDelete
No, don't ask where I have been. Leave it! I'm here now though and in the planning stage for something for you......:)
I was thinking about THAT yesterday - your exhibit of books, that is.ReplyDelete
Always see the bright side of life : even if it collapses, you will not get cold during next winter ...ReplyDelete
Mile, that book cell shot is amazing, too.ReplyDelete
Matthieu, after the festival, all wood were packed in wooden boxes and gone somewhere.
It was small truck load and may be used by the artist in next winter.
Indeed, who knew wood could be so lovely?ReplyDelete
Thank you Phlegmfatale.ReplyDelete
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I'm in the middle of writing the first chapter of my book. I'm not just ready to announce the working title yet. I'll probably wait until I finish the 5th chapter (total of 10 chapters).
I thought it would be fun if I open up my writing process so that you could ride along with me in this journey. Hop in!
Let's start with the tools. In my recent post, I've shown you some of the tools that I use to study SQL Server. I'm using the same tools for this book project.
What I'm going to share this time is my writing toolkit:
Technet Subscription Pro
I need full versions of the software I use for development for one reason – to make sure that everything in the book will work in your development and production servers.
One year of Technet Subscription Pro is not cheap (Retail Price of $349). But I think it's all worth it. I have access to critical Microsoft technologies – Windows 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL Server 2012, Office 2013, etc. Real tools, real experience.
Of course, I can't use them in production but I have the privilege of using the greatest and latest software as they become available.
I am using SkyDrive as my cloud storage for this book project. DropBox might be a better option but I'm OK with SkyDrive for now. As long as I can sync my local files to the cloud, I'm fine.
Office 2013
I haven't upgraded to Office 2013 yet as of this writing but I am planning to. I cannot just ignore the improvements in Office 2013. Cleaner and less clutter in the interface? Yes, I'm in!
I love OneNote. You can argue that EverNote is better in more ways than one. But I like OneNote's simplicity and its, again, clutter-less interface. It's just clean. And it automatically and seamlessly syncs to my SkyDrive.
I use SnagIt for convenience. The publisher has some requirements on the size and quality of the images I need for the book. SnagIt just works every time. I can set different "profiles" for different projects.
What's your writing toolkit (for blogging if you haven't written a book)?

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Kitchen Parade is the food and recipe column written by Alanna Kellogg, a second-generation food writer and a home cook in a home kitchen in suburban St. Louis. It features fresh seasonal recipes for everyday healthful eating and occasional indulgences.
Alanna also writes A Veggie Venture, the food blog about vegetables and a weekly column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
But of course, there's more to the story.
A Mother's Legacy
My mother started Kitchen Parade in 1959 for the weekly newspaper serving my hometown, a Minnesota-Ontario border town of just 1600 people. Mom was a young wife and a new mother then, also a home economist and city girl finding her place in a small town. Week in, week out, she wrote the column for twelve years and only stopped when our family moved away. When my parents returned twenty years later, Mom was tickled when local cooks would stop on the street to welcome her home and add, "I got my favorite recipe for such-'n'-such from your column." When I visit my dad there now, decades after Mom's column ended, people still say, "I made your mother's such-n-such just last week."
That's Kitchen Parade's column heading between 1959 and 1971, when my mother wrote the column. That man with his nose in the newspaper is my father and those two "boys" (oops) represent my sister and me. The dog? She looks pretty much like our sweet border collie named Rusty but how my mom is depicted with such an unstylish kerchief is incomprehensible for she had a genuine flair for fashion. In 2009, I marked the 50th anniversary of my mom's first column by collecting her recipes in one place in Kitchen Parade by Shirley.
Now my father, my sister Adanna and I remember that during the Kitchen Parade years, meals could be, errr, interesting at our house. But I believe it was the rich mosaic of Mom's cooking that instilled my appreciation for simple food prepared well.
After my mother's death in 2002, I read her columns for the first time and learned that Mom was a woman ahead of her time, counseling teenage nutrition and advocating fresh food years before the topics became common. Moved by both grief and admiration, I felt called to resurrect her column in my own style under the Kitchen Parade banner. And as mothers and daughters and life come full circle, now people stop me on the street and in the grocery store and leave comments online to say, "I made your such-n-such this week!"
I ♥ Food Blogs
I also write A Veggie Venture, the month-long project that took on its own life back in 2005, one of the very first food blogs. For a year, I cooked a vegetable in a new way every single day. Now A Veggie Venture is the award-winning home of 1200+ free vegetable recipes, including the famous Alphabet of Vegetables, Weight Watchers low-point point recipes and five-minute vegetable recipes. From Asparagus to Zucchini, from simple sides to vegetable salads to soups and even desserts, A Veggie Venture is my food playground, a true "food blog".
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The online audience for Kitchen Parade has grown many-many-many fold. Thank you, readers! It thrills me that so many cooks are inspired by simple recipes made from whole and wholesome ingredients. Your notes, your e-mails, your comments, your pins, your shares, your likes, they truly inspire me. I wake up every morning thinking about what you might want to cook today, tonight, this weekend.
With Kitchen Parade, my goal is to inspire both new and experienced cooks, even as I learn more about food and explore new recipes, ingredients and techniques. Here's what to expect from Kitchen Parade.
- A familiar, over-the-kitchen-table writing style
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- Recipes tied to the seasons, holidays and family festivities
- Kitchen tips for busy cooks, or cooks new to the kitchen
- Nutrition information and Weight Watchers points
- Product and cookbook recommendations only when I really love them myself
Here you may count on: fresh and seasonal ingredients; classic recipes, though often with a twist and often simplified; real ingredients, especially pantry ingredients; an emphasis on getting supper on the table; plus recipes for special occasions.
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Many thanks for visiting, for reading. I hope you'll come back often. And if you have a favorite recipe Kitchen Parade's readers might like, just drop me an e-mail via firstname.lastname@example.com. I do love hearing from readers! Often, your comments and messages make my day!
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In fact, I copy them, then after trying them myself, launch them far and wide to Denver, Tuscon, Kansas City, Florida.
Thank you for being so generous with your kitchen knowledge. I look forward, every Friday, to your next contribution.
I love to cook and I love your site. I am a weight watcher and I love the fact that you list the point values of your recipes. Thanks so much for the great selection on your site.
I wonder if you can include some Indian recipes. I enjoy trying new cuisines such as Indian, Thai, Mexican etc.
Also if you could include higher fibre ingredients such as spelt, kamut etc.
Thanks again!
Roberta from Toronto Ontario Canada
Thank you for the kind words! You might check out this section for international recipes, you'll find a few ideas for recipes from other countries. I'm careful about them -- ingredients can be hard to find. I'm lucky to have a huge selection very nearby -- I bet in Toronto, you do too -- but not everyone does.
Thanks for the ideas re spelt etc -- I've not 'nailed' them myself and again, there's the question of availability. Still - grains are a major priority to work on this year.
All the best,
What a wonderful site this is! I'll be visiting very often.
Thanks so much for such a wonderful site where people can come to check out a host of great recipes to try. You're helping us all get/stay slim!
Anonymous ~ So this is "Kitchen Parade" not "Parade Magazine". You'll have to search their site for your recipe. Good luck!
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Henrietta Komras
Before she started doing comedy, Henrietta was married to a rabbi for twenty years, "For our honeymoon, we went to Israel. He took me to an Israeli disco called, "let my people go go." She started thinking about doing comedy because everyone said she was funny at temple. Finally, she left the rabbi and headed for Hollywood. In her stand-up routine, Henrietta's beyond cougar, she's a saber-toothed tiger, "Young guys love me and it's not just cuz I buy them liquor." When everyone told her she had a great ass, she started incorporating that into her stand-up routine and it has now become her slogan, "I'm hot, check out this ass." Crowds go wild when she tells them about her off-the-wall "marketing" techniques to get men, "I hung a banner on the outside of my apartment building. I live next to the freeway. It says, "If you were banging Henrietta, you'd be home by now." A hilarious blend of a female Rodney Dangerfield with tinges of Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and Gilda Radner, the off-the-wall, non-stop ball of energy that is Henrietta has developed a loyal fan base from her performances at The Comedy Store, The Improv, The Laugh Factory and on television in Penn & Teller's Bullshit where her improvised scene in "Does Size Matter" continues to get rave reviews and over 6 millions hits on the Internet. Her autobiographical, hilarious solo show: Please Love Me, got rave reviews at The Hollywood Fringe Festival Whether she's jumping on men's laps, dragging men onstage to sing and dance "The Henrietta," offering "Sex Tips from Henrietta," selling photos of her jean-class "ass" on stage, or creating her own comedy/music/animation videos (more than a dozen on YouTube), Henrietta is the never-give-up comedienne who has a Master's Degree in education, and actually enjoys being fired since getting canned from over 50 insipidly dull day jobs. With her hilarious attitude and razor-sharp timing, Henrietta gets cheers on almost every lone as she shares her "never give up" attitude with her audience," Forget the personals, I put an ad in the obituaries that says, "sure you miss her but she's want you to have a good time so call Henrietta."
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Calories, Sugar Reduced in Flavored Milk for Kids
Good news for milk-pushing moms this September: kid-favorite flavored milks will have less calories and sugar, according to the Milk Processor Education Program.
MilkPEP - which runs the National Milk Mustache "got milk?" Campaign - said on Monday that flavored milk cartons will contain fewer than 150 calories and 22 grams of total sugar on average this school year.
Milk provides calcium, vitamin D and potassium that is critical for children's diet and development but in short supply in kids' diets, according to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Milk is the number one food source in America for these essential nutrients, according to MilkPEP's.
Cartons of flavored milk will carry just 31 more calories than white milk as the result of a five-year process of industry reformulations aiming to "provide nutritious new products with the same great taste kids love," said MilkPEP.
The healthy trend among milk processors will reduce added sugar in fat-free and low-fat chocolate milk by 38 percent.
"There are a lot of kids that don't want to drink plain white milk; they really love drinking flavored milk and that's very important for the essential nutrients in milk," said MilkPEP CEO Vivien Godfrey. "It's a happy balance between some added sugars but making sure that the kids actually drink the milk as opposed to taking the white milk on the lunch line and not in fact drinking it."
But flavored milk has been the subject of some debate in the national conversation over child nutrition.
Nearly one in three kids in the country is obese or overweight. On the USDA Healthy Eating Index, children's diets today score 55.9 out of 100.
Some school districts have removed flavored milk as part of efforts to reduce consumption of unhealthy drinks such as sugary soda. Such drinks are responsible for nearly half of sugar in kids' daily diet, and flavored milk represents only 3 percent, according to Godfrey.
But research has shown that when flavored milk is taken away, many students will not drink milk at all. A MilkPEP study of 58 elementary and secondary schools found that an average of 35 percent less milk gets consumed when students do not have the colored milk option.
The School Nutrition Association released their "State of School Nutrition 2011," Thursday, which found that 98 percent of all school districts nationwide offer fat-free, skim or 1% milk options, and 95.4 percent offer flavored milk.
"Changes are huge because milk is so important and we sell probably 70 percent of our milk to students," said SNA President Elect Sandra Ford. "To take away that chocolate milk to those students would be devastating to a children's calcium intake, so we like that producers have responded by reducing the sugar themselves."
MilkPEP is one of 18 agricultural "check off" programs, said Godfrey, meaning that all U.S. milk processors, excluding companies too small to qualify, are Congressionally mandated to pay into a marketing pool for the industry run by MilkPEP.


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Unborn, The (US - BD)
Gabe counts one, two, three strikes, and David Goyer's directing career is out...
Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is plagued by nightmare visions of masked dogs, and an evil child with bright blue eyes. After a particularly harrowing experience babysitting, Casey begins to develop a growing discoloured spot in her eye. Her doctor tells her it's nothing to worry about, but confides that the symptom is usually one only applicable to twins. After a little research Casey discovers that her mother had been pregnant with twins, but her unborn brother died in the womb. At first it appears that she's being haunted by the dead baby's ghost, but a little more research reveals a twisted family history trailing all the way back to the Nazi concentration camps of WWII.
The Unborn writer/director David Goyer apparently thinks his audience is made up of romantic comedy obsessed shut-ins who have never seen a horror movie or read a horror story in their seemingly short lives. He presents them with a bunch of has-been ideas and overused clichés and his musical cues mark them as 'terrifying'. Big bugs, pale faced children, loud dogs, slow motion flashbacks, images appearing in mirrors, ghostly photos, creepy old people, grainy 8mm home movies, distorted faces, and slime all make appearances in a somewhat pathetic plea for attention. What little Goyer does right here is to exploit the base human aversion to uncanny grotesquery in order to illicit at least minor fearful responses out of a limited PG-13 rating (there's nothing in the 'unrated' version that I'd call R-rated). Some of the creature designs, which owe an obvious debt to Clive Barker's Hellraiser, are genuinely upsetting, assuming Goyer reveals them in brief glimpses. Still, even when he's successful, Goyer is mostly riffing on melodies already played by better directors.
For a guy that started his career as an in-demand screenwriter, Goyer isn't exactly adept concerning his dialogue (especially this film's insipid 'girl talk'), and has a self-destructive tendency to over edit, removing a lot of minor, yet necessary plot fodder, like time passage (day to night to day to night to next week is a problem). He's got a great eye and ear for adaptation, which is why his largely re-written work on the Blade and (new) Batman series warrants mention of his name on the marquee. In this case the Dybbuk stuff and the Holocaust stuff is interesting, and relatively untapped, especially in the mainstream. In the hands of a better writer/director it may have rocked our socks off. As it stands the script is by the numbers ghost story stuff. Perhaps Goyer should seek work as a producer, or 'idea man'.
There isn't a lot to report concerning this 1080p 2.40:1 transfer. The print is noisy-ish during really low-lit scenes, but is relatively clean concerning grain. The pallet is mostly natural, with a slight desaturation due to the snowy winter setting. Contrast is not extreme save a few stylized flashbacks, and gradations are impressively even, especially the softly lit skin tones. There are a few poppy colours here and there, but Goyer mostly goes for a realistic and evenly cool look throughout. Details aren't really an issue considering all the use of darkness, but the clarity is thankfully justified, as a lesser quality image would lack any discernable action during the super darkest moments. Blacks are perfectly rich, and set well against the slightly desaturated colours, though the increased sharpness occasionally leads to minor artefacts like edge enhancement.
There also isn't a lot to report concerning this perfectly adequate DTS-HD Master Audio track. On the whole the sound is a little lower than expected. Dialogue is a little inconsistent volume-wise, but is otherwise clear and centred on the track. Really big audio cues, like stab scares, are full-bodied from top to bottom, bass to treble, but less important production audio is reasonably thin, save a deep and aggressive bass track. A good example of this is the lack of sound during a club scene, where the familiar 'ompa ompa' of the techno music is not particularly loud. The exorcism scene is a pretty thrilling sequence from an aural standpoint, featuring a lot of neat stereo and surround effects, and some dynamic volume levels.
The only extra on the disc is a selection of deleted scenes, presented as a single reel (06:30, HD). Considering the film's disjointed nature I half expected these scenes to serve some kind of narrative purpose, but mostly they consist of entirely unneeded in-betweens that would've slowed the pacing. Apparently Goyer just writes overcut scripts.
I'm counting this as strike three against David Goyer's brief studio directing career. Following the uniformly mishandled Blade Trinity, and the unbearably boring The Invisible, this uneven supernatural thriller fails to connect. The editing is awkward; the story's few shining beacons of novelty are overrun with awkward dialogue and over-used scares. The Blu-ray looks great, and features a few expressive audio moments, but extras are minimal, including only a few deleted scenes.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
I still think the best thing about this film is the UK DVD/BD cover, specifically the shot of Yustman's arse.
Cinque Member Join Date: June 2007 Location: United States Posts: 710
I definitely concur with that sentiment, Mr. Gould.....
Bouncy X Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,931
Chris Gould wrote: I still think the best thing about this film is the UK DVD/BD cover, specifically the shot of Yustman's arse.
i was just gonna congratulate you guys on using that image as the preview on the main page.
i was just gonna congratulate you guys on using that image as the preview on the main page.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
Hear, hear to Yustman's arse.
rebel-scum Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,101
I remember Goyer whinging about how other directors toned down the humour in his scripts,(I.E: Blade & Blade II), which he then unleashed in Blade:Trinity and look how that turned out...
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
I wish the US got the UK cover art. lucky British.
Street Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 50
her panties are begging me to get this in 1080p blu-ray.
Edgeman05 Member Join Date: October 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,076
Might have to rent for her alone..
Gildia Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United States Posts: 241
An interesting review. I have never really understood Goyer's appeal. He seemed to show his egoism on one of the Blade: Trinity special features, in which he interviewed himself. I was interested in seeing this, especially after reading a cover story about it in Fangoria, but I missed it. Now all the reviews seem to point to it being terrible. I might rent it, just to marvel at Odette Yustman's magnificent derriere.
shaneo6930 Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 175
The movie will very well possibly suck, (I'll find out when I rent it tomorrow) but it'll all be worth it to see some Yustman booty barely concealed in those tight panties.
jp orestes Senior Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,081
I loved it! For some reason I enjoyed the hell out of this movie when I saw it in theatres enough that I keep mentioning it and quoting it like it was some pop culture masterpiece (which of course it's not). I bought it yesterday and re-watched it and still enjoyed it. I do see problems with it but I still really enjoy it.
So far this movie leads the way for biggest guilty pleasure of the year.
Oh and I don't mind the R1 cover! Odette Yustman has an okay rear-end but there isn't much there. She's too skinny, but if she were next to me I don't think I would complain.
So far this movie leads the way for biggest guilty pleasure of the year.
Oh and I don't mind the R1 cover! Odette Yustman has an okay rear-end but there isn't much there. She's too skinny, but if she were next to me I don't think I would complain.
WeirdMeta Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 103
Went to rent this this week and it was already checked out. The main chick is hot. Panties and arse oh my. (flap flap flap)
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Disc Details
Release Date: 7th July 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Spanish, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Unrated and PG-13 Versions, Deleted Scenes
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: David S. Goyer
Cast: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino
Genre: Horror
Length: 87 minutes
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New Interactive Application provides smart, easy online access for clients
Common Access Front End, or CAFÉ, integrates DCFS systems across programs and allows clients to create an online account, check the status of their application, complete a "smart" application and submit redeterminations for continued support all from a single point of entry.
"CAFÉ is a step in transforming our department and the way we do business for our clients and our workers," said DCFS Secretary Ruth Johnson. "CAFÉ unites multiple systems of client information and provides a single point of entry for client applications, redeterminations, case notes and client interviews. All combined, the functions of CAFÉ will provide for a more efficient process for clients and DCFS staff."
According to Johnson, DCFS clients across the state now can login to CAFÉ and create an account that will allow them to check the status of their applications or cases. Clients can apply or submit redeterminations online for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps), the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program, the Kinship Care Subsidy Program, and the Child Care Assistance Program.
In addition, DCFS staff now can conduct interactive interviews and input electronic case notes, which reduces duplicative data entry and key strokes. CAFÉ also includes an auto-routing feature that allows managers and supervisors to assign and distribute workers' caseloads on a regional, rather than a parish level according to staff availability.
Since CAFÉ opened statewide earlier this week, DCFS reports that more than 6,700 applications for assistance have been submitted, with 75 percent (5,074) of those being submitted online by clients themselves. Johnson said that in some areas individuals in rural communities have exceeded those in urban settings in using the online application.
"Before CAFÉ, our workers entered information in two separate systems for a single application, which required separate logins and toggling between two screens. With our previous system, DCFS workers had to re-enter the information submitted on their application online into our system. CAFÉ provides simultaneous access to both systems and syncs up the common information so that workers do not have to retype information that has been submitted. This provides more consistent information and makes work quicker and easier to complete," said Johnson.
Additionally, clients were required to complete a lengthy paper application or a manual application online. Previously DCFS had an online application that required clients to review every question on the 14 page paper application. With CAFÉ, the application is intuitive and only asks applicants questions that apply to them based on the previously entered information. CAFÉ also allows clients to login to their account 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to check the status of their case, instead of visiting a physical office, waiting for a letter or making a phone call to determine their current status.
"Increasing access for our clients and making the process of applying for benefits more efficient is the goal of CAFÉ," said Johnson.
Johnson added that that is the first phase of the implementation of CAFÉ. Future phases will include additional features and capabilities. Later in the year, document imaging will be added, which will covert all client files to electronic case records. This will free up file room space that sometimes takes up to 15 percent of an office, as well as allow access to case files by DCFS staff anywhere in the state.
"Electronic case records will allow for equitable distribution of cases throughout the state. Our higher population areas will no longer be burdened by excessive caseloads, rather, cases can be distributed equitably around the state no matter the geographic origin," said Johnson.
The statewide launch of CAFÉ followed a successful pilot of the program in the Shreveport Region, which launched on February 26. Since the launch in the pilot region, more than 4,600 applications have been submitted, with 70 percent of those, 3,250 applications, being submitted by clients in CAFÉ. DCFS staff who piloted CAFÉ in the nine parish Shreveport area reported increased efficiency in processing applications and advantages of the electronic case notes features among other positive feedback.
To login to CAFÉ, visit www.dcfs.la.gov/cafe. Computer access and assistance is available through DCFS' local community partners. For a complete list of community partners, visit www.dcfs.la.gov/partners or visit a DCFS office to access CAFÉ at a computer kiosk.
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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. – Sophomore quarterback Mike McCarthy (Edgartown, Mass.) racked up 246 yards of total offense and threw for a pair of touchdowns to lead the Bridgewater State University football team to a 38-35 victory over Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the 33rd Annual Cranberry Bowl presented by Ocean Spray on Saturday afternoon at Swenson Field.
The Cranberry Scoop returns to Bridgewater after a one year absence. The Bears now lead the series, 24-8-1, and have captured the "Scoop" 22 of the last 24 years.
Winners of five straight games, Bridgewater State ends the regular season with a record of 7-2 including a 5-2 mark in the NEFC Bogan Division. The Bears will await word on a possible ECAC Bowl game bid. Mass. Maritime wraps up the 2011 campaign at 5-4 overall and 3-4 in divisional play.
McCarthy was named the Lee Harrington Most Valuable Player of the Cranberry Bowl as he completed 10 of 14 passes for 136 yards and added an additional 110 on the ground on just 15 carries.
McCarthy connected with junior wideout Jake Scott (Somerset, Mass.) on a 20-yard touchdown pass to open the scoring with just 1:46 gone in the first quarter. The Bears took advantage of good field position on the drive as junior cornerback Vincent Henry (Middleboro, Mass.) picked off a Maritime pass on the very first play from scrimmage. The ensuing extra point however was wide right.
The Buccaneers were just as opportunistic later in the period as freshman Victor Andrade (Yarmouthport, Mass.) blocked a punt and senior Walter Butler (Bourne, Mass.) returned the block 43 yards down to the BSU five. After a holding penalty and an incomplete pass, MMA sophomore quarterback Mike Stanton (Quincy, Mass.) found freshman receiver Jonathan Wright (Newburyport, Mass.) in the end zone from 15 yards out to tie the score. Senior kicker Jake Bickley (Wilbraham, Mass.) converted the extra point to give Mass. Maritime the 7-6 lead.
Bridgewater went three and out its next possession, but senior punter Mike Pettus (Concord, Mass.) pinned the Buccaneers back at their own one-yard line with a 55-yard punt. Three plays later, it was Mass. Maritime booting the ball away, giving the Bears outstanding field position at the MMA 27-yard line. BSU took advantage two plays later as junior quarterback Caleb Gelsomino (North Scituate, R.I.) hooked up with Scott on a 22-yard scoring strike to put Bridgewater back out in front, 13-7, early in the second quarter.
Mass. Maritime would reclaim the advantage just 41 seconds later as they marched 56 yards on just five plays capped off by a Barry Reopell (South Dennis, Mass.) 30-yard touchdown scamper.
The score remained 14-13 in favor of the Buccaneers until the closing minutes of the first half. Following a Bickley 43-yard punt, the Bears took over on their own 28 with 2:16 remaining. Bridgewater moved the ball down to the MMA 11 with the key play being a McCarthy 40-yard pass to junior receiver Nick Pistacchio (Johnston, R.I.). Two runs and two timeouts later, the Bears were staring at third and four from the Maritime five-yard line with just 19 ticks left on the clock. A pass interference penalty in the end zone gave BSU the automatic first down and senior running back Justin Fuller (Berkley, Mass.) punched it in from two-yards out to give Bridgewater a 20-14 halftime lead.
BSU opened the second half with an eight-play, 73-yard drive resulting in an eighth-yard Fuller touchdown run. The Bears kept the ball on the ground for all eight plays with Fuller and McCarthy combining for 60 yards on the drive. Junior Ben Desmarais (South Hadley, Mass.) ran in the two-point conversion to put Bridgewater up by two scores, 28-14.
That lead would quickly evaporate, however, as the Buccaneers used a 30-yard kick return by Reopell on the ensuing possession to take over on the BSU 47. A 15-yard Matt White run and a 31-yard pass from Stanton to junior wideout Jonathan Emond (Green Harbor, Mass.) gave MMA first and goal from the one. White plunged in from a yard out on the next play to cut the deficit to 28-21.
Mass. Maritime junior defensive lineman Sean Carver (Summerfield, Fla.) picked off a Gelsomino pass on the Bears' next possession and returned the interception 21 yards to the BSU 35. Three plays later, Wright made a sensational diving touchdown catch on a 20-yard pass from Stanton to even the game at 28-28 with 5:36 left in the third quarter.
Bridgewater answered right back as the Bears put together a ten-play, 72-yard drive capped off by a McCarthy eight-yard touchdown pass to sophomore receiver Chris Constantine (Hingham, Mass.) on third down late in the quarter. McCarthy rushed for 25 yards on the drive and also converted a third and eight play on the MMA 27 with a 15-yard completion to Scott.
After forcing a punt, Bridgewater moved the ball 66 yards on 11 plays and ate up over six minutes of the fourth quarter clock. The drive stalled at the Maritime 17-yard line, but freshman kicker Jarred Diorio (Kingston, N.H.) delivered a clutch 34-yard field goal to give the Bears a 38-28 lead with 6:11 left to play.
The Buccaneers would not go quietly as Stanton led them on a 86-yard, two-and-a-half minute drive capped off by Emond's 31-yard catch and run to the end zone. Mass. Maritime forced a three and out on the Bears' ensuing possession, but Bridgewater was helped out by a favorable bounce on a Pettus 49-yard punt.
Taking over on their own 26 with 2:24 remaining and just one timeout, Mass. Maritime moved the ball down to the Bridgewater 33 thanks to a 15-yard Keith Caruso (Hingham, Mass.) reception on fourth and ten and a Caruso 27-yard catch on third and 11 which kept the drive alive. On third and eight from the BSU 31, sophomore defensive end Tate Doehler (Lakeville, Mass.) came up with a big eight-yard sack which forced MMA to use their last timeout on fourth and 16.. An 11-yard reception by Emond was well short of the first down and Bridgewater took over and ran out the final 35 seconds.
Stanton finished 18 of 3,me3 in the air for 230 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. Emond caught five passes for 107 yards and a score, while Wright had three catches for 46 yards and two touchdowns.
Along with McCarthy's big day running and throwing, Fuller added a game-high 125 rushing yards to go along with two touchdowns, while Scott finished with six catches for 79 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Constantine rushed for 36 yards on five carries and caught two passes for 17 yards and a score.
Fuller moved past Dung Nguyen (1991-94) into sixth place on the Bears' all-time rushing list. Fuller has amassed 2,261 yards on the ground in 22 career games.
The Bears outgained the Buccaneers by a margin of 452 yards to 311 including a 278-81 edge on the ground. Bridgewater also dominated in time of possession holding onto the ball for 38 minutes and 35 seconds, and converted 6 of 13 third down plays (1-for-1 on fourth down).
Junior linebacker Justin Cruz (Dartmouth, Mass.) paced Bridgewater defensively with eight solo tackles including two for loss and a sack. Sophomore linebacker Dillon Huber-Parker (Longmont, Colo.) added five solo stops with two for loss, while Doehler and junior linebacker Alex Monteiro (Portsmouth, R.I.) chipped in with four solo tackles a piece with three of those going for loss.
Senior linebacker Mike Bois (Lakeville, Mass.) led all players with 11 tackles (seven solo) to go along with a sack. Sophomore defensive back Stefan Gustafson (Plymouth, Mass.) notched nine tackles (eight solo), while junior defensive lineman Kevin Griffin (Worcester, Mass.) registered eight stops (seven solo) with two for loss.


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House Speaker Robert DeLeo says the state Department of Public Health should rescind its preliminary approval of 20 medical marijuana dispensaries.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo says the state Department of Public Health should scrap its work on granting medical marijuana licenses and start over.
DeLeo, a Democrat from Winthrop, where there are no conditionally-approved marijuana dispensaries, told NECN's Jim Braude on "Broadside" that he has heard from some elected officials who told him their names were included on license applications in support of projects without their permission.
Asked whether the DPH should rescind its preliminary approval of 20 dispensaries, DeLeo said: "Yesterday or this morning I would have said no. They should just take a look at those where they have found errors.'
"Today I'm probably saying yes because of the fact that I've heard other stories today from people who have made applications who said, 'not only did (DPH) not review or try to verify what I said but they didn't even talk to me in terms of what this process was about,'" DeLeo said
Good Chemistry, which was granted provisional approval for a dispensary in the Back Bay and a cultivation site in Worcester, has admitted to mistakenly including statements of local support from Worcester-area lawmakers and city councilors in a rush to file its application on time.
Similar concerns have been raised about an application for a Haverhill dispensary, and many critics have questioned whether DPH Commissioner Chery Bartlett's political ties to those associated with license seekers, such as former Congressman William Delahunt of Quincy, may have tainted the process.
Bartlett removed herself from the licensing process and appointed Karen van Unen director of the medical marijuana program. Delahunt's group eventually won three provisional licenses.
The Department of Public Health has put all applications under further review and stressed that final licenses have not yet been issued, but Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowitz has said he does not believe the department should have to restart the application process.
Gov. Deval Patrick, in a radio appearance Friday, also said the licensing process does not need to be restarted, citing nine additional steps before final licenses are awarded, including verification of information submitted on applications. He said the fact that the 20 finalists were made public shows the DPH's desire to be transparent with the process.
"If somebody lied on their application, they're not going to get a license," Patrick said, urging the public to "relax" and defending the steps Bartlett took to avoid a conflict of interest.
The governor called the inclusion of unauthorized testimonials from public officials in support of dispensaries on applications "very, very troubling stuff," but insisted that references would be checked before final licenses are granted.
Applicants who say they played by the rules are dismayed that some officials are calling for the process to be rebooted.
Van Unen said this month she expects medical marijuana dispensaries to be open by the summer. State officials are setting up one-on-one meetings with each approved applicant to explain inspectional processes, security procedures and product-testing policies, as well as steps with which they need to comply before receiving final certificates of registration.
Provisional licensees are also being urged to connect with local officials and boards of health to work through zoning, permitting and other issues, van Unen told municipal officials at a meeting on Beacon Hill.
The Department of Public Health's medical marijuana page cites the month of March as the time for the verification phase of the licensing process, including verifying letters of local support and meeting with municipalities to confirm siting and local support.


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Last week, I helped lead a workshop for humanities faculty on campus who were looking for ways to document their impact for P&T purposes. While the workshop mostly focused on documenting traditional forms of scholarship (journal articles, books, etc.), I encouraged faculty to consider documenting their teaching impact as well. By openly sharing learning objects – syllabi, assignments, classroom activities – or teaching materials (e.g., textbooks, online tutorials, presentations), faculty can transform teaching in their field. Imagine if there were a peer-reviewed open introductory textbook to writing. Imagine, if it were well done, how much it would be used and shared.
Professional associations and certain publications (like Syllabus) offer means for peer review of learning objects. Open Educational Repositories and institutional repositories (like ScholarWorks! Hint, hint.) offer a way to share your learning objects easily and of documenting their use (via the number of download hits). For more information about OER, check out this research guide created by Amherst librarians. Think about the kinds of teaching materials you might share and contact a librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship to find out how!


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Earth Island Institute
Green Life
The Green Life peer education self-sufficiency and eco-literacy program teaches incarcerated individuals and those reentering community the importance of a healthy relationship with the Earth.
Past and potentially future activities include teaching permaculture principles, life skills, and emotional readiness to inmates inside San Quentin prison. Current activities include working with re-entry (post release) programs to design a permaculture-based training program along with partners for job readiness and restorative healing.
Director: Angela Sevin
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VMware opens Mac virtual machine tech to public
Parallels updates VM code too
Virtualisation software specialist VMware has posted a pre-release version of 'Fusion', the Mac version of its desktop virtualisation software. The public availability of the beta release was accompanied by VMware competitor Parallels' posting of a update to its own Mac virtualisation tool.
VMware announced Fusion in August this year. At the time, it said it would offer a public beta "later in the year".
Fusion runs on any Intel-based Mac to run other x86 operating systems - not only Windows but also Linux, Solaris and NetWare, for example - alongside Mac OS X. Like Parallels, but unlike Apple's own Boot Camp utility, Fusion runs guest operating systems from within the host, allowing users to run guest apps without the need to restart their hardware.
Fusion provides immediate support for the USB 2.0 devices, something that has only now come to Parallels Desktop, courtesy of the update Parallels announced last night. Fusion also provides access to the broader range of corporate-oriented virtualisation tools VMware produces and the environment of third-party tools that has grown up around them.
VMware said Fusion supports dragging and dropping folders between host and guest OS. It also said the app can be configured to use specific processors and processor cores in multi-CPU and/or multi-core machines.
VMware Fusion can be downloaded here. A trial version and the new version of Parallels Desktop can be downloaded here. ®


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Inside-out chicken Kiev
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 20 mins
A quick, easy low fat recipe with just 3 ingredients
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Healthy
- kcal218
- fat7g
- saturates4g
- carbs5g
- sugars0g
- fibre0g
- protein34g
- salt0.37g
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Place the chicken on a baking tray, rub with a little of the butter, season and cook under the grill for 15 mins, turning once until cooked through.
Mix together the remaining garlic butter and breadcrumbs. Remove the chicken from the grill and top each breast with a smear of the breadcrumbed butter. Return to the grill and cook 3-5 mins until the breadcrumbs are golden and the butter melted. Serve any buttery juices, alongside new potatoes and peas or broad beans.
Recipe Tip
Make it spicyStir 1 tbsp korma paste through the breadcrumb mixture, then cook as above.


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Leadership After Clintonby L. Brent Bozell III
October 19, 2001
In their most idealistic moments, journalists must wish for peace and prosperity in the world, just like anyone else. But that dream doesn't sell newspapers or newscasts, and it doesn't leave much of an opportunity for reporters to prove their societal worth. We've had almost ten years of relative peace and prosperity, and journalists grew restless and self-loathing.
In the last few weeks, in the shadow of an unthinkable set of terrorist attacks, an entirely new world has emerged, along with a lot of reassessing of our lives. As most Americans have rediscovered a love for their country, journalists have begun a new romance with their profession, a profession which seems most important when the most awful things happen in the world. The new decade has a purpose, resisting terrorism and Islamic extremism, while the last decade was a completely worthless carnival of sex and other sleazy scandals.
A few columnists have hinted at the mood. Richard Cohen dismissed the foolishness of the Clinton impeachment managers keeping diaries, sure they were participating in something historic. "It does not seem so now. The impeachment, the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal, has come and gone and barely left a footprint." Cohen dismissed the whole '90s parade - all the Clinton scandals, O.J. Simpson's fumbled trial for a double murder, and as an honorable mention, the Condit-Chandra Levy story.
The best summation of the media mood came from Newsweek's Anna Quindlen, who remembered what she called the "Monica Lewinsky debacle," and of a reporter friend who said "every time I write a story, I feel like I ought to take a shower afterwards." She enthusiastically waved goodbye to a "catastrophically seamy decade for the press in America, a decade that began with Long Dong Silver, Gennifer Flowers, and the pathetic posturing self-pity of O.J. Simpson and wound up with Gary Condit's self-obfuscatory interview with Connie Chung."
Somewhere in this argument you can hear the echoes of Bill Clinton, the man who always wished for greatness to be thrust upon him, that his terms in office could have contained some disastrous cataclysm full of American deaths like World War II so that he could make the historians' Top Ten list. Instead, he presided over a time of tawdry tranquility, and as his era fades, he's looking about as important as Franklin Pierce. Relentlessly impressed by Clinton's compassionate poses, daring behavior and glib intellectualism, the many journalists with a soft spot for this rogue missed the point. Bill Clinton was a small man for a small time, a panderer and pollster and not a leader, a man who was not up to the challenge of a major war against terrorism.
The first President Bush's greatest achievement was the creation of a worldwide coalition, followed by the most extraordinary (if incomplete) military operation in history to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. One shudders, just shudders to contemplate how Clinton would have handled the crisis. Clinton would have temporized, polled, held national security meetings that went on for days and never reached a conclusion, and ultimately would have dropped a few bombs before rushing out to the next party.
The second President Bush, mocked for so many months on the campaign trail as a simpleton, has demonstrated his father's decisiveness and diplomatic skill in his own military crisis. Isn't it remarkable to witness long-time Democrats like author Gerald Posner admitting in major media outlets that they are glad that Bush, and not their choice, Al Gore, won the office? Posner added: "I must sadly admit that Bill Clinton, for whom I voted twice, could not have delivered that same clear speech last Thursday. His almost compulsive need to please all sides would have prevented him from casting the issues as starkly or as unequivocally."
Polls have shown the same sentiment: a vast majority prefers George W. Bush to Clinton in this crisis. Even Clinton's foreign policy team bluntly apologized for not doing enough against terrorism in their time. Osama bin Laden was only targeted when Clinton needed to change the subject from his Lewinsky testimony. Only Bill Clinton is arguing he did so much more.
All the "haters" who opposed Clinton are vindicated, not shrunken, by this crisis. His self-centered career (loathe the military, but preserve your viability) and lax attitudes toward defense and intelligence (so what if the Chinese gain all our missile secrets?) were something America could only tolerate in a time of peace and crumbling vigilance. Without the willingness of brave politicians to insist on the rule of law against so much heat from the media "mainstream" after the November elections, would we have President Bush to lead this battle for us?
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Budget Minded: 10 Fun Toys You Can Make
With many families still struggling in today's economic climate, showering your children with expensive toys is not as easy as it once was. Many families are focusing on being thankful for what they have and thinking of creative solutions for the upcoming holiday season.
My husband and I personally are saving for baby number two and trying to purchase gifts for a large extended family this Christmas. We're hoping that with a little time and elbow grease we can still give our daughter that thrilling 'mountain' of gifts, so I've been scouring the web for DIY toy ideas. Here are ten of my favorites that any little one is sure to love this holiday season (or any time of year).
1. Cardboard Guitar - Makedo
2. Marble Maze - Hellobee
3. Play Dough - Modern Parents Messy Kids
4. Child Swing - Pinjacolada
5. DVD Coloring Case - Handmade by Stacy Vaughn
6. Handmade City Play Mat - Playful Learning
7. Duct Tape River Raft - Handmade Charlotte
8. Cozy Car Caddy - Homemade by Jill
9. Magnetic Case - Land of Nod Blog
10. Cardboard Parking Deck - Kinderpendent
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Reviewed By Cameron S (PENSACOLA, FL) Reviewed for a 2007 Hummer H3 —11/14/2012 4:41 AM
First off, auto anything was great. Okay on to installation, for my H3 hummer. Well, the L brackets when lined up left a huge gap to the engine compartment defeats the intakes purpose. To eliminate this problem I attached it to the bolt that holds up the inside fender well (3 inches away closest to the grill). I also finished with a lot of random screws and bolts lol. It looks good, it sounds good and performs better than expected. Easily 10hp. It lowered my RPMs. I got a 2mpg increase.


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Northeast Texas wheat farmers face an annual dilemma: They make significantly better yields planting soft red winter wheat but they get more money per bushel of grain with hard red winter varieties.
"Back in the mid-1980s we planted a lot of hard wheat in this area," said Grayson County farmer Eric Akins. "We switched to mostly soft wheat because of yield." But Akins, along with a number of other wheat farmers in this Northeast corner of Texas, tried some hard wheat varieties last year, hoping to pick up enough extra on price to make up for a little less yield and the extra cost of disease control.
"We tried some hard wheat last year and we had some mildew problems," Akins said. But yields were close enough to soft wheat varieties that he increased the hard variety ratio this year. "I planted about two-thirds of my acreage in hard wheat," he said. "That's opposite of what most farmers planted."
He said hard red winter wheat typically brings from 20 cents to 50 cents a bushel more than soft varieties. But mildew and other diseases hit those varieties harder. Making a good yield with the hard wheat usually means adding a fungicide spray to production costs.
"I have not seen as much mildew so far as I did last year," Akins said, "but the wheat is not as lush. Wheat on poorly drained soils are not performing as well as on better soils. We've had a lot of rain."
He was not planning to apply a fungicide with a February topdressing but will be ready to apply one at the boot stage, if necessary.
Jack Norman, who farms in Grayson, Hunt and Fannin counties, planted 20 percent of his acreage in hard wheat varieties last year. He maintained that balance for the 2004-2005 crop.
"A lot of us have looked at hard red varieties," he said. "We have a few more problems with diseases and have to spray for mildew and rust on the hard wheat." He said farmers "probably" have to count on spraying hard wheat "if they want to make a decent crop. With soft varieties, it's a fifty-fifty proposition."
Norman figures he makes from 5 to 10 more bushels per acre from soft wheat varieties. "It's almost an even deal. I get fewer bushels with hard wheat but the price is better, from 30 cents to 40 cents higher and then we have to spray it more often." He said he does better with hard wheat in Grayson County then he does in counties he farms that are further east and where humidity typically runs higher.
"Years ago, in the mid-1980s, we planted a hard variety, NK812, that performed as well as or better than soft wheat. And we had no price differential then. Unfortunately, the Hessian fly took it out."
Hard wheat garners a better price because of demand. Baking characteristics are better in hard wheat, Norman said. "But sometimes my soft wheat varieties will grade hard. Weather conditions affect how they grade. I hope we can find a hard wheat that will perform well in this area."
He says when wheat prices are good, growers see little incentive to plant hard varieties. If we have to invest $20 in the crop, we have too little wiggle room," he said. "If we can get by with $10, we may be OK. Most of us have spray rigs so we can apply fungicides ourselves."
Glynn Dodson grows wheat, corn and grain sorghum near Royse City, Texas. He's sticking with soft red winter wheat. "I can usually make 15 bushels per acre more with soft wheat," Dodson said. And he gets about as much for soft as he would for hard varieties. "I sell most of my wheat to the flour mill so I won't have an advantage growing hard. I've made good quality wheat the last few years."
Dodson says if wheat goes into the loan, the price differential hits farmers who grow soft varieties hard. And the gap changes throughout the year. In mid February, Dodson said the Kansas City Board of Trade price for hard red winter wheat was $3.08 and soft was bringing $3.00. "But that's not what the farmer would get," he said. "It's too cheap."
Akins says the increase in hard red winter wheat acreage in the area may have boosted the price for soft wheat.
Jim Swart, Extension integrated pest management specialist based at Texas A&M-Commerce, said farmers have tried several varieties of hard and soft varieties in the past few years.
Swart said variety trials last year showed a new hard wheat, 2145 out of Kansas, to be the best of the HRWWs, with 81.2 bushels per acre. "That wheat variety tolerated mildew better," he said.
A crucial part of the annual variety trials in the area is to test for disease tolerance. Swart said of the three Northeast Texas locations where hard and soft winter wheat varieties were evaluated "one had light rust pressure, one had heavy pressure and one suffered severe stripe and leaf rust pressure."
Below are highlights of SRWW and HRWW trials. Of the three comparison locations in Northeast Texas, one was harvested on May 27, one on June 15 and one on July 8 because of adverse harvest conditions. Both quality and yield were affected.
Swart said many wheat growers in the region, this year, planted significantly less acreage than desired because of heavy fall rains.
"Some areas got less than 40 percent of intended acreage in," he said. Akins got "within 200 acres of planned acreage planted. We had a narrow window to get it in," he said. "A lot of folks did not get all they wanted planted."
Akins planted a few acres as late as Dec. 21.
Norman says he got most of his intended acreage in. "We have a good stand. The crop tillered well and we have a chance to make a decent crop if we get good weather from here on."
He said Grayson County farmers got most of their intended acreage planted. Fannin growers planted only about one-fourth of planned acreage. Hunt County put in about 40 percent of intentions.
Dodson says he seeded all the wheat he had planned on. "We got it all it in about seven days," he said "It looks good now. We put 150 pounds of 32 percent nitrogen solution on it before it started raining and that made all the difference in the world."
Swart said wheat planted on well-drained soils has stood up well under the unusually wet conditions. Poorly drained fields have not fared as well. "But we still have time to make a good crop," he said.
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Eventide releases two new Stomp Boxes
Renowned manufacturer of broadcast delay and multi-fx units, has turned its sights to guitarists, and released two stompboxes that have a quality that matches studio equipment.
The TimeFactor features 2 independent 3-second delays and 10 Stereo or Dual Mono Delay effects in a stompbox format with mono and stereo 1/4" jack I/O. Both input and output levels are switchable between line and instrument levels to suit a wide range of applications from guitar amp effects loops through to use with other studio equipment.
The TimeFactor incorporates real-time control via the 10 knobs, MIDI, or an expression pedal input. A Tap Tempo function is also included. 27 user presets are accessible direct from the pedal switches, with unlimited presets available via additional MIDI switching.
Effects include: Digital Delay, Band Delay, Vintage DDL, Filter Pong, Tape Echo, MultiTap Delay, Modulated Delay, Reverse Delay, Ducked Delay and a 12-second Looper.
The ModFactor delivers 10 Eventide modulation effects in a stompbox format with mono and stereo 1/4" jack I/O. Both input and output levels are switchable between line and instrument levels to suit a wide range of applications from guitar amp effects loops through to use with other studio equipment. The ModFactor incorporates real-time control via the 10 knobs, MIDI, or an expression pedal input. A Tap Tempo function is also included. 27 user presets are accessible direct from the pedal switches, with unlimited presets available via additional MIDI switching.
Effects include: Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, PolyMod, TremoloPan, Undulator, Vibrato, Q-Wah, ModFilter and RingMod.
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Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone
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Electro-Harmonix Worm Analog Wah/Phaser/Vibrato/Tremolo
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April 3, 1931 - January 4, 2013
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Gerald "Jerry" Moore, age 81 of Wurtsboro, NY passed away Friday, January 4, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, NY.
He was born on April 3, 1931 in Queens, New York, the son of the late Patrick and Clara Brinkman Moore.
Jerry proudly served our country during the Korean War with the U.S. Navy and then with the U.S. Marines. He was a truck driver with the Teamsters Union Local 707 in Queens, NY. Following his retirement he continued working as an auto mechanic for Pete's Auto in Westbrookville, NY for many years. He then he worked for Blue Sky Homes in Wurtsboro, where he resided.
Jerry was a member of the N.R.A. and a former member of the Westbrookville Fire Dept. He was an excellent craftsman with his woodworking; he enjoyed motorcycling, and sailing his antique sailboat on Toronto Lake. Above all spending time with his family was most important to him.
He is survived by his son, Gregory Moore and his wife, Jessie of the Town of Grreenville, NY; his daughter, Elizabeth Genova and her husband, Joseph of Westbrookville, and his grandson, Giuseppe Genova.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Knight-Auchmoody Funeral Home, Inc., 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY. A Blessing service will follow at 4 p.m. at the funeral home, with Rev. Michael Palazzo officiating. Interment will be private.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 419 E. Main St., Suite 307 B, Middletown, NY 10940. Arrangements are by the Knight-Auchmoody Funeral Home, Inc.; for information, directions or to send a condolence note to the family visit knight-auchmoody.com.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's track & field team opened its season with a bang, winning all but one track event while also taking home first place in the long and triple jumps, on its way to a convincing tri-meet victory over Bates and Colby. The Engineers totaled 223.50 team points to easily outscore runner-up Bates, which finished with 125.50. Stephen Morton had an outstanding day for MIT with four event wins.
The Cardinal and Gray dominated the shorter sprints, placing four in the top six of the 55m hurdles and five of six in the 55m dash. Freshman Brian Djaja led the way in the hurdles with a personal-best time of 8.01 seconds. Each of the other three hurdles, Nick Leonard (8.17), Andrew Musacchio (8.20) and Josh Duncavage (8.50), would also set personal records. Morton ran 6.64 seconds in the 55m, as Tech went 1-2-3-5-6 in the event.
Morton also secured individual wins in the 200m (23.02), long jump (22-2.50 feet) and triple jump (47-8.00 feet). Teammate Mattias Flander was the runner-up to Morton in both jumps.
Daniel Ronde (52.24) and Leonard (52.79) went one-two in the 400-meters. John Granta took first in the 600-meters with a time of 1:25.33 while Gilbert O'Neil paced the field in the 800m, finishing in 1:58.23.
Tech teammates also finished one-two in the mile and 3000m. Kyle Hannon's time of 4:26.13 was just over two and a half seconds better than Hemagiri Arumugam in the mile. Paul Welle ran 3000-meters in 8:52.47 to best Richard Prevost. Gihan Amarasiriwarden was the top finisher in the 5000m, with his time of 15:38.83.
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The Syrian civil war is moving closer to Damascus as fighting will soon enter its third year. Syrian President Bashar Assad has remained defiant despite widespread calls for him to step down.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday the death toll in Syria was moving closer to 70,000 since conflict began, up from the estimated 60,000 she reported last month.
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In the first instance, lets consider VE Day. The 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe will result in lots of extra commentary in the media about the events of the secnd world war, the rise and fall of national socialism and of memories of VE Day. What can schools and history departments in particular do to commemorate these events?
There have been several suggestions on the forum in recent weeks that act as a useful starting point. The Rationing Challenge would be a good way of getting across some of the social consequences of the conflict, for example.
Other thoughts posted in a thread specifically about VE Day include:
I think it would great have a whole school WW2 day involving historical re-enactors and local people who survived the Blitz. (I live in a London suburb). We could even have a victory party WW2 style - using rationed food. (I think rabbit pie would go down well.) WW2 music and games could be played, 1940s clothes could be worn.
I think this is probably a bit idealistic but I would like to mark the occassion somehow.
Lou Phillips:
I want to do a street party type thing- put up bunting, and perhaps invite grandparents (or more likely great-grandparents) in to talk about their experiences. Not sure how I'm going to manage it though in a school of this size. any other ideas would be v. much appreciated- I have volunteered to do something and don't want to look silly!
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I have decided to do a few small but (hopefully) high impact things: Tomorrow I am taking two year 9 pupils to a local OAP home to interview a veteran from the war, and I have also arranged for students to interview veterans from the West Indies ex-servicemens association. However the real coup is that the mayor of Hammersmith, whose grandson I teach in year 7, has agreed to be interviewed by me for a school assembly. All of these interviews will be typed up by the pupils to go onto the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/ as well as on the display that I am doing. The other thing that I am doing is creating a display of memorabilia to go into a display cabinet and I have been asking staff to dig out anything that they have that can be used. I have also been scouring ebay and for a reasonably small budget (less than £20 so far) I have bought a letter from a soldier from 1944, a general service medal, a box of matches, a civil corps armband and a buying permit. I am currently bidding on things like commemorative tea towels and mugs as well as postcards and maps. I will be able to use these artefacts in my lessons afterwards. The key is to do something manageable and try to get as many other people to help you out.
I have started to put together a few webpages about the plans that I have for VE Day plus 60 and the first interviews have been posted. You probably aren't that interested in reading my grandma's experiences but shoud you fancy you can find it here: http://www.comptonhi...VEDay/title.htm
The things that seem to crop up over and again with commemorations of this kind of events are Using testimony of people who lived at the time along with some form of re-enactment.
The Royal British legion has prepared a number of packs that would be helpful if planning anything to commemorate the end of the war: http://www.britishle...3214&tabid=2619
A large collection of memories of VE Day and the war is avaiable via the BBC website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
Pathe newsreels of the VE Day celebrations can be downloaded, free of charge (do this at school to get the best quality and to help ensure that teachers' usage is noted) http://www.britishpa...archword=VE Day
Examples of local reactions to the end of the war in Europe are likely to enage pupils a little more, especially if they're families were involved. Online examples include:
East Midlands
West Yorkshire