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In a statement issued Thursday, the Astros say they've begun a search for a successor to veteran broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who announced that 2012 would be his last season as lead play-by-play announcer. Hamilton had been in the post since 1985.
The Astros also announced that the contracts of radio broadcasters Brett Dolan and Dave Raymond would not be renewed. Dolan and Raymond had been calling Astros games on radio since 2006.


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Prep, Cook, and Store Your Food Truck's Food Correctly
When food is cooked and left out for more than two hours at room temperature (or worse yet, food truck temperature), bacteria, parasites, and viruses can multiply quickly. Most of these contaminants grow undetected because they don't produce a bad odor or change the color or texture of the food.
Freezing food slows or stops the contaminants' growth but doesn't destroy them. The microbes can become reactivated when the food is thawed. Refrigeration also can slow the growth of some bacteria, parasites, and viruses, but in the end, thorough cooking is needed to destroy them.
Most cases of food-borne illnesses can be prevented through proper cooking or processing of food, which kills bacteria, parasites, and viruses. In addition, because these contaminants multiply rapidly between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit, food must be kept out of this temperature range. Follow these tips to prevent harmful contaminants from growing in food:
Handle food with clean hands. Always wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with warm, soapy water before and after handling raw meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, produce, or eggs.
Never defrost food on the kitchen counter. Use the refrigerator, cold running water, or the microwave oven.
Never let food marinate at room temperature. Refrigerate it.
Wash all unpackaged fruits and vegetables under running water just before eating, cutting, or cooking. Scrub firm produce, such as melons and cucumbers, with a clean produce brush. Dry all produce with a paper towel to further reduce any possible bacteria.
Prevent cross-contamination. Bacteria, parasites, and viruses can spread from one food product to another throughout the kitchen and can get onto cutting boards, knives, sponges, and countertops. Keep raw meat, poultry, seafood, and their juices away from all ready-to-eat foods.
Wash utensils and surfaces before and after use with hot, soapy water. Better still, sanitize them with diluted bleach — 1 teaspoon of bleach to 1 quart of hot water.
Cook food to the appropriate internal temperature:
145 degrees Fahrenheit for steaks and chops of beef, veal, and lamb
160 degrees Fahrenheit for pork, ground veal, and ground beef
165 degrees Fahrenheit for ground poultry
180 degrees Fahrenheit for whole poultry
Use a meat thermometer to be sure. Foods are properly cooked only when they're heated long enough and at a high enough temperature to kill the harmful bacteria, parasites, and viruses that cause illnesses.
Keep cold food cold and hot food hot. Maintain hot cooked food at 140 degrees Fahrenheit or higher; maintain cold food at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
Refrigerate or freeze foods promptly and properly. If prepared food, perishables, produce, or leftovers stand at room temperature for more than two hours, they may not be safe to eat. Set your refrigerator at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, and your freezer at 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Don't over pack the refrigerator. Cool air must circulate to keep food safe.
Reheat cooked food to at least 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Reheating food helps kill off any bacteria or other contaminants that may have grown after the food's temperature dropped out of its original safety range.
Wash sponges and dish towels weekly in hot water in a washing machine.
Following the best practice guidelines of food safety handling is critical to your business. Although you may be tempted to reuse certain prepared foods, if you have a case of food-borne illness on your truck, it can affect not only your business but also the local industry as a whole. Customers will make no distinction between one truck and another.


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It's up and out for the garlic bulbs at Baker Creek garden.
(2 years ago Baker Creek was gifted over 300 varieties of garlic from Dr. Jeff Nekola from The University of New Mexico. Baker Creek has been working hard to reproduce and preserve the collection. Dr. Nekola is an avid gardener and is responsible for an large online heirloom vegetable database that you can view here.)
Harvest started in early June and is now nearing completion, filling the warehouse with fresh garlic smells as bulbs line the rafters.
"It will about five weeks to harvest all of it," said Martin, a Baker Creek employee who is helping with the harvest. "Production was very much a team effort."
Martin, along with Linda and Wilma and others at Baker Creek came together to make it a great year for garlic on the farm.
Planting and lifting multiple bulbs from 300 varieties is no easy task and needs special care.
"You need to handle garlic carefully, like you would an egg," he said.
If not, the garlic risks being bruised which can reduce its shelf-life.
Home gardeners will start harvesting garlic in the coming months, usually between July and August in most parts of the country.
Martin credits Baker Creek's early harvest to a bio-degradable plastic mulch deployed at the farm.
"In my opinion that really made a difference this season," he said.
This system, which finds long strips of plastic laid over the growing area, with small holes cut in it to allow plants to grow, keeps weeds from growing around the plant, holds moisture in the soil and keeps the ground warmer, longer early in the season. All this combined to give the Baker Creek garlic a jump start early this spring.
Martin said home gardeners should watch for the bottom leaves to die back, this indicates when the bulb is nearly ready for harvest.
"Then I check the rest of the leaves. If they are dark green then I know they are still nourishing the bulb," he said.
But, once those leaves start to lose their color then harvest is very near.
Garlic can be eaten immediately or cured for storage. To cure the bulb, gently pull it from the ground and brush dirt off the bulb and roots.Then place the garlic in a cool, dry and dark location that provides good airflow around the bulb. This can be accomplished by hanging bulbs or placing them on a grate of mesh table top.
Allow the bulbs to cure for at least three weeks. After that trim the roots off the bottom of the bulb back to about ½ inch and all but two to three inches of the top leaves.
If handled properly garlic will last for many months after harvest.
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Fabulous article, thank you so much for offering my favorite vegetable. :)
Would love to see pictures of each stage as the garlic moves toward the "ready" stage. That has been the hardest part for me (as a "farmer's daughter, no less), as I am completely unfamiliar with garlic growing because my parents not grow that.
I have raised garlic in my flower beds for years but I'm looking forward to looking at your selection in your seed book.


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FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- In the late morning of Nov. 6, a commercial jet touched down at Syracuse International Airport, marking the ending of one Korean War Soldier's saga that began with his enlistment into the Army in 1948, and ended with closure for his family.
Soldiers from C Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, rendered honors as the flag-draped casket bearing his remains emerged from the jet, now parked on the tarmac, in a plane-side ceremony.
According to the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, Pfc. Elmer C. Kidd, a native of Seneca Falls, N.Y., was assigned to the Heavy Mortar Company of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, or RCT, in late November 1950. His unit was deployed to Korea, and at an area east of the Chosin Reservoir near Sinhung-Ri, South Hamyong Province, North Korea, engaged an enemy force that was immensely greater in numbers.
On Nov. 29, 1950, what remained of his unit along with the remnants of the 31st RCT, which historically went to be known as Task Force Faith, named for Lt. Col. Don Faith, then commander of the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment. Task Force Faith began to withdraw, fighting furiously as they sought to establish more readily defendable positions near Hagaru-Ri, south of the reservoir.
It was during this withdrawal a day later, that Kidd was reported Missing In Action. A military review board held in 1956 determined that he likely did not survive the withdrawal and therefore changed his status to presumed dead. He was promoted to the rank of corporal while on MIA status.
The location of Kidd remained a mystery to his family for over 60 years, until Sgt. 1st Class DeWayne Beasley, the appointed Casualty Assistance Officer, or CAO, whose normal job is as the platoon sergeant for the 2nd Platoon of C Company, 2-87 Infantry, reached out to them.
"I received the call from the CAO in Hawaii on October 30th that [Cpl. Kidd] would be here [Nov. 6.]"
Beasley's job as a CAO is a complex and sensitive one, encompassing many duties that are all critical in bringing home Soldiers who lost their lives in the line of duty. He knew the phone call was just the beginning.
"From there I had to notify the family, give them the times and dates as well as to notify the Honor Guard and the Soldier's unit," said Beasley. "I also had to take care of all of the arrangements, making sure they fulfill the family's wishes, answer any questions they may have and act as the liaison between the family and the Army."
Kidd was among numerous other servicemembers whose remains were turned over to the United Nations Command by the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, according to the Joint Prisoner Of War/Missing In Action Command.
The funeral service for Kidd was held at the Sanderson-Moore Funeral Home in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Nov. 9. The battalion executive officer for the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, presented a complete dress uniform, known as the Army Service Uniform, complete with corporal chevrons and a Purple Heart, to Kidd's family. It would later be placed upon Kidd's remains shortly before his casket was closed for the last time and the American flag was draped over it, just prior to the Honor Guard moving him to the hearse that would carry him on the last move to his final resting place.
"He would have wanted to be buried in his uniform," said Maj. Edward Sedlock Jr., the 2-87 Infantry Battalion executive officer.
The motorcade that escorted the hearse and the family, law enforcement officials, the Patriot Guard Riders and veterans of the Korean War, made its way thru the streets of the town of Seneca Falls. Masses of residents lined the sidewalks, some waving flags, others holding handmade signs either welcoming him home or wishing his family well. Local businesses also paid their respects.
Kidd's burial ceremony was held at the Sampson Veterans Cemetery in Romulus, N.Y. Although the family had the option to bury him at Arlington National Cemetery, they chose Sampson so they could visit him more easily. He was buried with full military honors, rendered by the Honor Guard from the 2-87 Infantry Battalion.
Senator Michael F. Nozzolio, a member of the New York State Senate, was in attendance and spoke at the ceremony. He conveyed his thanks and appreciation for Kidd, saying, "He has taught me many things today -- courage, service to country and the real meaning of sacrifice."


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Fred Blum, president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia, will share techniques to track down Jewish ancestors. Blum, a licensed private detective, has been researching his own family since 1998 and located more than 1,200 relatives dating back to 1810 in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Israel. He will also discuss his work in locating Holocaust survivors for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A handout will be distributed with useful Internet research sites.
Admission to HSP's research library (an $8 value) is included in your registration fee.


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by Rob Cox, July 23, 2012
Phosphates and Nitrates in Swimming Pools
Phosphates and Nitrates are naturally occurring combinations of Phosphorous and Nitrogen with oxygen atoms. They are also produced synthetically for various industrial and agricultural products.
In lakes and ponds, a measurement of good health would be a proper level of Nitrates and Phosphates to assist in the growth of beneficial underwater plants and algae. Nitrates and Phosphates are one of aquatic plants main food sources. Add a little sunlight and Carbon Dioxide and you have a perfect recipe for a healthy lake or pond.
In swimming pools however, we don't like anything green growing. Swimming pools will always have a residual of Phosphates and Nitrates in the water, and roughly speaking, ppb (parts per billion) is OK, but ppm (parts per million) will give you trouble with algae, if you let your chlorine regimen slip now and then.
Phosphates and Nitrates need oxygen to form. Where do they get this oxygen? Many times, these sneaky petes are stealing the "O" from HOCl, which renders our killing form of chlorine inert. And, while they're doing this, they are filling the cabinets with tasty food for algae to enjoy.
How do Phosphates enter the Pool?
- Windblown fertilizer
- Soaps, lotions, creams
- Mulch or soil run-off
- Bird droppings
- Ducks and Dogs
- Sweat, Cosmetics, Urine
- Contaminated fill water
- Leaf debris
- Acid rain
How do I know if I have Phosphates in the Pool?
- Difficulty maintaining a chlorine residual
- Repetitive algae blooms
- Test it ~ with a phosphate test kit.
How to Remove Phosphates from a Pool
- Add a Phosphate remover containing Lanthanum
- Remove and replace the water from a low-phosphate supply
Phosphates and Nitrates are in your pool, all the time, you can't see them or taste them, but they are there. To keep them at bay, keep your pool as clean as possible, and keep your water balanced, including a constant chlorine residual. Be careful with fertilizers as you apply them, and if your pool is prone to flooding from surrounding planter beds, do what you can to mitigate the possibility of overflowing into the pool.
I took care of a pool years ago that had a huge phosphate problem, primarily due to the regular mud-slide that would come into the pool nearly everytime it rained. At the time, I didn't know that it was a Phosphate problem, I thought it was an "Algae problem". When the idea of phosphates was introduced to the pool industry, we added a new product, called Phos-Free, and our algae problems were over. The mud-slide problem continued, unfortunately.


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Beachcomber Island is one of the most popular destinations in Fiji and you can experience it for a day with either a Half or Full Day Pass on the island. The island is a picture-perfect paradise and has a fantastic atmosphere overflowing with activities.Beachcomber is best known for its fun reputation as 'party-island by night, paradise by day'. And paradise it truly is. Situated in a tranquil marine sanctuary in the beautiful Mamanuca Islands, Beachcomber has a lot to offer day visitors.
Try your hand at Fijian craft lessons, or dive into the beautiful surrounding waters to discover the underwater world below. If snorkelling is not your thing, then have a ride in glass bottom boat to get a good view.
At Beachcomber there is a huge range of watersports available. And when you've had enough activity, enjoy your day relaxing with an island cocktail and just sit back, relax and admire the beauty of the white sand beach.
A buffet lunch is included in your day cruise.
Highlights- Coral viewing in glass bottom boat
- Swimming at all tides
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- Watersports available at extra cost
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LunchA buffet style lunch is included as well as afternoon and morning tea on the Full Day Cruise.
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Beachcomber Cruises offer both Full and Half Day cruises to Beachcomber Island Resort. Pick-ups are provided from Martintar, Wailoaloa area, Nadi Airport to Vuda courtesy with the rate. Email res2 [at] beachcomberfiji [dot] com [dot] fj to confirm pick-up point.
ContactBeachcomber operate their own boats offering Full Day and Half Day cruise options to Beachcomber Island. Departures are daily from their mainland resort - Anchorage Beach Resort Jetty. The launch also detours to Denarau Marina to pick up guests on the way. The journey to/from the island is about 45 minutes on a speedboat or our 55-seater catamarans direct to the island. Bookings are guaranteed as no minimum number is required for these transfers.
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You are invited to my photography show at Publicis in Seattle on Thursday October 1st. This will be the only night the show will be open to the public. I am looking forward to meeting many of you for the first time, and also seeing old friends. Even if you can only come for 5 minutes, I would appreciate your support. Feel free to spread the word, and bring your friends. There will also be an illustrator showing his work. Doors will be open from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Drawing for a free print is at 7:00, and you must be present to win.
Publicis: 424 2nd Ave West, Seattle Wa 98119
Thursday, October 1st from 5:00pm to 8:00pm
It's in lower Queen Anne. (Here) is a map.
I am looking forward to seeing you there!


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Beyond the Night
Like a supernatural "Winter's Bone," Jason Noto's thriller "Beyond the Night" seeks to pierce you to the marrow. To that end, perhaps, Noto (who wrote and directed) has named his protagonists accordingly: Ray Marrow (Zane Holtz), a Marine with no clear idea of how to tend to his young son Lawrence (Azhy Robinson) after the death of his wife in a traffic accident, returns to the mining town they left long ago. He's there, at first, for no reason beyond laying his wife to rest, but when Lawrence suddenly begins to put names to places and people he's never seen — including the daughter of a local thug named Benrie Coleman (Chance Kelly), a girl who went missing years ago — Ray finds himself embroiled in a mystery that might involve a murder from the past... and more than one murder in the near future.
The film makes a credible attempt to present its supernatural explanations in a calm and level-headed manner, throwing a child psychologist (Enid Graham) into the mix and serving up some hazy palaver about children with birth marks — like the one who draws stares and makes rude comments to Lawrence — being regarded in cultures worldwide as conduits to the spirit realm. But the nuts and bolts of the story don't make much sense; for one thing, the locals seem simultaneously terrified of Coleman and his family, and ferociously loyal to them. (Even when the Coleman clan pull their guns on Ray's sister Caroline [Tammy Blanchard] there are no repercussions, just nervous talk about not pissing them off... and Caroline, mind you, is a sheriff's deputy.)
Related to that is the way Ray hangs around town even after the Colemans start pointing guns at him and his family. Wouldn't most recently bereaved fathers simply pack up and head home to the city, as the town sheriff suggests?
The film's atmospherics might avoid creepy cliches, preferring pit-of-the-stomach dread over jump scares or phantasms, but its plotting has a formulaic feel that sabotages its attempt at placing real world textures into a fundamentally fantastical situation. The story spins out just as you expect; the bad guys turn out to be the villains you pegged from the start; and the ending, feeling tacked on and artificially happy, doesn't make much sense.


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The Park has been dug up and redone.
It's 4 times the size now, does get really busy.
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People love the Alaska cards because they're churnable, and the miles are good on a host of airlines, including Delta, American, British Airways and Emirates.
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How to Treat Frostbite in Chickens
If you are raising chickens in a cold area, your birds may suffer from frostbite. Of course, a well-designed chicken coop helps prevent frostbite, but no one can control the weather. One day, you may find black on your chickens' combs or wattles — a sure sign of damage. It's important to understand how to deal with the condition if this ever affects your backyard flock.
Frostbite causes blackened areas on the ends of combs, wattles, and sometimes toes. In most cases, these areas dry up and fall off eventually. Do not trim off the blackened area unless it gets infected — the blackened area gives some protection to the area below it. When you remove that, the area beneath it may be frostbitten next. Do, however, keep an eye on the area. If infection sets in, you will have to trim the black off the comb or wattle.
Rubbing chicken combs and wattles with oil, petroleum jelly, and other things doesn't prevent frostbite. If your weather regularly gets down near zero, hanging some heat lamps over the roosting area or heating the shelter may help. Don't heat shelters too much above freezing, because doing so causes moisture problems that may be worse than the cold.
Roosters with frostbitten combs may be temporarily infertile. But it's not the frostbite that causes the infertility; it's the amount of cold that the chicken has been exposed to. Usually fertility is restored after conditions improve and the rooster's body recovers from the stress.


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Whereas music blogger Paul Lamere's "most distinctive" map that one showed which bands and singers were disproportionately popular in certain states when compared to national numbers, this is the exact opposite.
Building off an idea from Randal Cooper, Lamere took a look at the data for a number of music-streaming services over the last year, and for each state, identified which artist's ranking was the lowest when compared to their national ranking.
You can play around with the data yourself here. Let's take Florida as an example. Whereas Haim ranks 39th nationally, it's only the 150th most listened-to artist in Florida, the state's biggest gap. (Florida hates indie rock.) You can even sort by region: the Mountain states don't do R. Kelly, the Deep South ignores Bob Marley, and the Mid Atlantic can't stand Luke Bryan.
Earlier: Each state's favorite musical artist. (This is the last of these maps, we promise.)


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Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite depicts one of the nation's most admired natural wonders and is, appropriate to the scale of its subject, among the artists most ambitious compositions. The painting was created during a period of self-discovery for Americans fascinated by the western landscape and its awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Photographs and landscape paintings by artists, including Bierstadt, who traveled with government survey expeditions during the late 18505 and 186os captivated popular audiences and inspired pioneering environmental legislation to protect the region from commercial exploitation. Abraham Lincoln officially granted the Yosemite Valley to the state of California in 1864, creating the first public land trust in American history. In an era when California remained a distant and inaccessible region for most Americans, Bierstadt's monumental painting offered viewers a compelling personal experience of its grandeur and uniqueness.
Bierstadt's beginnings foretold little of his later fame as the nation's most celebrated portrayer of the American west. Born in Germany and raised in coastal New Bedford, Massachusetts, he only began his academic training in 1853, when he traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany to study. He spent the next four years traveling through Germany, Italy, and Switzerland before returning to the United States. Conditioned by his experiences in the Alps, Bierstadt cultivated a taste for mountainous landscapes and made his first trip west in 1859 with Frederick W. Lander's government survey party. With him, the artist brought a stereoscopic camera, which emulates human sight by taking two photographs simultaneously just inches apart, a forerunner of three-dimensional glasses. Stereoscopic landscape photography immerses the viewer in the experience of space, much like Bierstadt's magisterial Domes of the Yosemite would do on a vastly larger scale in the ensuing years.
Bierstadt first visited the Yosemite Valley in 1863, while on his second trip west. The author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, who was traveling with the party as well, wrote about his impression upon first entering the valley:
We did not so much seem to be seeing from that crag of vision a new scene on the old familiar globe as a new heaven and a new earth into which the creative spirit had just been breathed. I hesitate now, as I did then, at the attempt to give my vision utterance. Never were words so beggared for an abridged translation of any Scripture of Nature.
Our vantage point in Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite is from midway up Yosemite Falls near Columbia Rock. Visitors coming to see the painting when it toured to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston received a key identifying the sites visible in the landscape and a topographical map showing the vantage point. The latter makes clear that Bierstadt dramatically compressed the valley's features to narrow the valley and juxtapose various well-known elements. The landscape's soaring features answer one another across the valley, echoing the elegant whorls of rock known as the Royal Arches at the composition's center. By emphasizing the site's vertical elements, Bierstadt was able to accentuate the scene's soaring heights, deliberately evoking the architectural forms of a medieval cathedral's central nave.
The Domes of the Yosemite fits so seamlessly into the Athenaeum's Art Gallery that it is difficult to imagine it elsewhere. Nevertheless, the work was originally commissioned for the Connecticut home of financier Legrand Lockwood well before the Athenaeum was founded. Lockwood was devastated by the depreciation of gold in 1869, however, and died soon thereafter in 1872. The $5,100 that the painting sold for at auction after Lockwood's death paled in comparison with the astonishing $25,000 that he originally paid Bierstadt for the work in 1867. The Domes was then purchased by Horace Fairbanks to be the visual centerpiece of the Athenaeum's Gallery addition. Whereas the polygonal north and south alcoves maximize the wall space for exhibiting numerous smaller works, the broad, single face of the western wall offers pride of place for a single, dramatic composition. The addition of a viewing balcony on the opposite end of the Gallery in 1882 completed the Gallery's arrangement in its current form, and offers an excellent vantage from which to explore Bierstadt's composition.
Today, Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite remains the centerpiece of the Athenaeum's art collection, drawing visitors from around the country and the world. Its presence in St. Johnsbury is a testament to Fairbanks' desire to make the Athenaeum a center for the study of art and culture.


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Colorado Rapids defenders Chris Klute and Shane O'Neill, Sporting Kansas City defenders Chance Myers and Seth Sinovic, and Houston Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall will return to their clubs. Columbus Crew defender Michael Parkhurst has been added to the training camp roster and will join the team in Los Angeles.
The team has spent the last 12 days in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as part of an opportunity to go through a "dry run" for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Sao Paulo will be the site of the team's base camp this summer ( Watch Now). The MNT will return to the United States on Saturday and have the weekend off before resuming training Monday. "All of the players have put in a tremendous amount of work and effort these past two weeks," said Klinsmann. "We had a great opportunity to introduce some new players into the Senior National Team Program and they have done extremely well. I think they have a bright future, and now they go back to their clubs with a better understanding of what it takes at the international level. We now move forward with the chance to finish off the camp with the goal of getting a result against Korea."
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little trinkets. They're dyed just as one would dye any regular hard boiled egg. A treasure is then placed inside and using paint brush, glue and a bit of tissue, the hole is sealed. They can then be hidden on Easter morning to be found by throngs of delighted children.
I think they're best just tucked away in outdoor hidey holes and in the tall grasses so they can be stomped open right on the ground (great fun for kids, assuming that the contents are not breakable). Because here in the Pacific Northwest our holiday is often Very WET however, they can also be opened indoors. (As seen in the photo above, our daughter placed hers a towel then cracked them open with her hands.)
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- Brining:
- 1-- (15-pound) whole turkey (not self-basting or kosher), thawed, giblets and neck removed
- 2cups table salt (do not substitute equal amounts of kosher salt)
- 2gallons icy cold water
- 4cups brown sugar
- 1/2cup dried rosemary leaves
- 1/2cup dried thyme leaves
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- 1small onion, peeled and quartered
- 1-- carrot, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1small stalk celery, cut into 1-inch chunks
- 4 to 6tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- -- Fresh fruit for garnish
- To brine the turkey, rinse turkey in cool water.
- In a very large, clean container (non-corrosive pan or stockpot such as stainless steel or glass or a food-grade plastic container), mix salt and water together until salt dissolves. Stir in brown sugar and spices, mix well until sugar dissolves.
- Totally submerge turkey in solution and store, covered, in refrigerator for at least 6 hours and up to 8 hours. Since brining does not preserve meat, the turkey must be kept below 40F throughout the entire brining process. Ice packs may also be used to keep turkey at a safe temperature of below 40F.
- Remove turkey from brine. Discard brine. Thoroughly rinse the interior and exterior of the turkey by placing it on a wire rack and setting both rack and turkey in a clean, empty sink. Use cool water from the spray hose and rub gently to release the salt and sugar from the turkey.
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- To roast the turkey, place onion, carrot and celery in the cavity of turkey.
- Brush turkey with melted butter.
- Roast turkey, breast side down, in a preheated 325 degree F oven for 2 hours. During this time, baste legs and back twice with melted butter.
- Remove turkey from oven and protecting your hands, grasp turkey with several layers of clean paper towels at both ends, and turn turkey, breast side up.
- Return turkey to oven and continue to roast, basting twice with pan dripping. Continue to roast until internal temperature reaches 170F in the breast and 180 degrees F in the thigh. NOTE: A brined turkey cooks slightly faster than an unbrined turkey, so check the internal temperature frequently.
- Remove turkey from the oven and allow to stand for 20 minutes before carving.
- Transfer to a platter and garnish with fresh fruit.
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- Fat 18g
- Cholesterol 145mg
- Sodium 550mg
- Potassium 513mg
- Carbohydrate 1g
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Most of the attention around the Fiscal Cliff has been focused on income taxes.
The way the deal went down, a tiny portion of American taxpayers — households that earn more than $450,000 per year — will see their income taxes rise modestly, from 35% to 39.6%.
Everyone else's income taxes will stay the same.
But that's not the whole story.
By not addressing the payroll tax, the Fiscal Cliff deal will also result in a tax hike for all working Americans, including those in the middle and poor classes. All income up to $110,000 will now be socked with a 2 point increase in the payroll tax, from 4.2% to 6.2%, which will pluck $2,000 out of the pockets of families making $100,000 a year.
Meanwhile, thanks to a deal on dividend taxes, the highest earning Americans have gotten a massive tax cut over the taxes that would have taken effect had a Fiscal Cliff deal not been agreed to.
Dividend taxes for households making more than $450,000 per year will rise from 15% to 20% (plus an additional 3.8% surcharge for Obamacare, to a total of 23.8%). But they won't rise all the way to 39.6%, which they were scheduled to rise to without a Fiscal Cliff deal. Meanwhile, dividend taxes for those earning less than $450,000 a year will remain at 15% (18.8% with the surcharge, for those with income between $250,000 and $450,000). So the richest Americans have dodged a big tax bullet.
Importantly, the dividend tax deal will disproportionately help the richest Americans:
- 47% of all dividend income is earned by the 3.8% of American households that make more than $200,000 per year (2009 tax data).
- Households that make more than $200,000 collect a total of $70 billion of qualified dividends per year (2009). This tax change will save these households about $14 billion a year vs. the pre-deal tax rates.
- The top 400 highest earning taxpayers collect about $10 billion a year in dividends, or $25 million apiece. This tax change will save these folks a BOAT LOAD of money: About $2 billion in total, or an average of about $5 million apiece (2009 data).
In other words, the tax deal that Congress just agreed to will raise $125 billion from increased payroll taxes from all working Americans (poor and middle class alike), while saving the richest Americans at least $20 billion in dividend taxes.
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Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight Prove Predictive Analytics Getting Real
Information analytics is emerging as one of the most powerful tools to help companies make better decisions, plans and forecasts. But, like any such IT-based tools, it's most effective in the hands of people who understand its pitfalls and limitations as well as its potential. It's one of the key areas where CIOs can help their companies leverage advances in technology to improve their overall competitiveness.
Our recently concluded 2012 presidential campaign is an interesting case study in the effective use of information. Up to the very end, many pollsters and political pundits were saying that the election was too close to call. But, whenever friends and colleagues asked my opinion, I invariably told them to go look at FiveThirtyEight.com, the political polling website and blog created by Nate Silver.
Silver launched the FiveThirtyEight in March of 2008. He gained national attention when he correctly predicted the results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries. His final forecasts for the 2008 presidential elections predicted the winner in 49 of the 50 states, as well as the winner of every race in the Senate. The FiveThirtyEight has been affiliated with the NY Times since August of 2010.
Political forecasting attracts a variety of people. Many pollsters seem to still be using methodologies that worked well a decade or two ago, but look woefully behind the times in the emerging world of big data and advanced analytics. Most political pundits seem to inhabit a kind-of magical realism world of their own: if you say what you want to be true often enough and loud enough, it will eventually come to pass.
Silver, on the another hand, views information-based predictions, including political forecasting, as a scientific discipline. You use all available information; you analyze and extract insights out of all that information using sophisticated models and algorithms; you apply human judgment to make predictions based on those insights; and you keep evaluating and adjusting your models and predictions based on how well they perform in the real world.
But equally important, you must be aware not only of the possibilities but also the limitations and pitfalls inherent in any such predictions. In political elections, as is the case when dealing with any highly complex, fast changing, chaotic and unpredictable system, predictions can only be expressed in terms of probability distributions, and they are generally quite volatile as new information and unanticipated events are factored in. Moreover, predictions are based on models reflecting your views of how the future is likely to evolve. Different models applied to the same data can lead to widely different predictions.
Silver started tracking the 2012 election in June. In his initial forecast he estimated that Obama would win the election with 291.3 electoral votes, compared to 246.7 for Mitt Romney, which gave the President a 61.8% of reelection. As he explained in his blog, there are wide error margins inherent in such early forecasts, so they should only be taken as a pretty rough guide, not unlike forecasting the path of a hurricane five to seven days later. You can give an estimate, but the cone of uncertainty is very wide.
As it turned out, Silver correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states, including all nine highly contested swing states. He also correctly predicted the winner in 31 of the 33 Senate races.
How does he do it? The answer, I believe, is that Nate Silver brings a scientific point of view to the Wild West world of forecasting political elections. This is evident throughout his recently published book, The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't. In the book, Silver explains not only his own particular approach to information-based predictions, but examines the growing field of predictions and why so many fail in spite of--or perhaps because of--the vast quantities of information we now have available. He writes:
"The exponential growth in information is sometime seen as a cure-all, as computers were in the 1970s. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, wrote in 2008 that the sheer volume of data would obviate the need for theory, and even the scientific method. This is an emphatically pro-science and pro-technology book, and I think of it as a very optimistic one. But it argues that these views are badly mistaken. The numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning. . . Data-driven predictions can succeed - but they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves."
Silver learned his craft in the new field of sabermetrics--the use of statistics in baseball to project a player's performance and career. Sabermetrics was popularized by Michael Lewis in Moneyball, his bestseller book--later turned into a film--about Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics general manager who used such statistical techniques to make his small-market team highly competitive against teams with much larger budgets.
Sabermetrics combined Silver's love of statistics and baseball. He developed a sophisticated statistical system,PECOTA, for forecasting the future performance of baseball players by comparing the characteristics of the player being evaluated to the characteristics of all past and present players, and then looking at the actual career paths of those players with the most similar characteristics. This enabled the system to assign a probability to different career trajectories for the player being evaluated.
Sabermetrics is now widely used by every team in baseball. But, Silver asks in his book, can statistics alone tell you everything you want to know about a player? When Moneyball first came out, many viewed it as a story about the conflict between the traditional approach of the scouts versus the new approaches being introduced by the statheads. Is there still a valuable role for the scouts, the professional talent evaluators who personally travel to learn about the players first hand by actually watching them play and meeting them in person?
Billy Bean attributes the success of the Oakland A's not just to their statistical aptitude but to their careful scouting of amateur players. In fact, their scouting budget is now much higher than it has ever been as a way of complementing their statistical analysis. Scouting is particularly valuable when evaluating young amateur players, while they are still learning the game. This is when a good scout can spot certain intangibles that may make a player stand out, such as their mental makeup and overall attitude toward the game.
"The key to making a good forecast," writes Silver, "is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. Rather, it's having a good process for weighing the information appropriately. This is the essence of Beane's philosophy, collect as much information as possible, but then be as rigorous and disciplined as possible when analyzing it."
The Signal and the Noise describes a number of areas where information-based predictions have been successful, including baseball, political elections and the forecasting of hurricanes. Good hurricane forecasting has life-and-death consequences. Twenty five years ago, for example, you could only predict a hurricane's landfall 72 hours in advance to within 350 miles, an area way too large to evacuate if necessary. You can now come within a much more manageable 100 miles, and the forecasts are getting better every year. As we just saw with Hurricane Sandy, such accurate predictions truly help save lives.
"But," writes Silver, "these cases of progress in forecasting must be weighted against a series of failures."
As one reviewer observed, given his accomplishments and notoriety, it's slightly heartbreaking that instead of a "geek-conquers-world" book about "his rise to statistical godliness", Silver wrote a book examining the state of predictions in a variety of fields, with a handful of successes amidst a large number of failures. "As science, this investigation is wholly satisfying. As a literary proposition, it's a bit disappointing. It's always more gripping to read about how we might achieve the improbable than why we can't."
But, good scientists and engineers are fatalistic by nature, always worrying about what can go wrong with their predictions and designs. We have gotten pretty good at predictions and designs in the more mature fields like physics and civil engineering, but we are just learning how to do so in sociotechnical systems, that is, systems involving people and organizations. Such systems generally exhibit a level of complexity that is often beyond our ability to understand and control. Not only do we have to have to deal with very tough mathematical problems, but with the even more complex issues involved in human and organizational behaviors. Our instincts will often lead us to see patterns where there might be none. We have to work very hard to become aware of and try to overcome our biases.
In business, for example, we are surprised when our strategies did not work in spite of being based on a careful analysis of market conditions. Often, the reason is that we use our analysis to confirm our biases and prejudices, - what we want to be true, - even without realizing we are doing so.
"Prediction is difficult for us for the same reason that it is so important: it is where objective and subjective reality intersect," writes Nate Silver in the concluding paragraphs of his book. "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a former vice-president of technical strategy and innovation at IBM. He is a strategic advisor to Citigroup and is a regular contributor to CIO Journal.


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In this week's issue of the magazine, I write about the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas. You can listen to many audio samples of his work at the Web site of Universal Edition. Here is an excerpt from Haas's extraordinary ensemble piece "in vain" (2000), which, like many of his works, derives much of its material from the natural harmonic series:
Sylvain Cambreling conducting the Klangforum Wien; Kairos 1233.
I asked Ari Streisfeld, one of the violinists of the hyper-virtuosic JACK Quartet, to comment on his experiences performing Haas's Third String Quartet, "In iij. Noct.," which takes place in a completely darkened room:
We've played the piece seven times, with three more performances scheduled in January, at New Music New College in Sarasota, Florida. The first time we played it was in March, 2008, in Chicago, at a venue called the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art gallery at the University of Chicago. Nobody that I know of has had an adverse reaction to the piece or to the darkness. Most people are completely enthralled by the experience and don't even realize that an hour or more has passed. Haas states that the performance needs to be at least thirty-five minutes but that it can be much longer. He was rather surprised that our performance went on for as long as it did! But the length was never something we discussed. It was merely the time we needed to fully realize his musical material. The music coupled with the darkness has this incredible ability to make you completely lose track of time. We don't even realize how much time has gone by. Our longest performance was eighty minutes, in Pasadena, and when we had finished I felt we had only begun to realize the possibilities embedded within the musical parameters. Every performance seems to invite new ideas and possibilities. In the performance you heard of ours back in September there were some moments that I couldn't believe what we had accomplished. Moments where we were passing material around the ensemble in such a fluid fashion you would think we had planned it out, but it was totally improvised in the moment. The more we perform the piece, the more in tune with each other's minds we become.