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In Memory of
Asuncion Martinez Arroyo
September 13, 1927 - November 20, 2011
September 13, 1927-November 20, 2011
Beloved brother, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and Uncle, Asuncion was more commonly known as "Chon" to all who knew and loved him. He was born on September 13, 1927 in Riverside, California to immigrant parents: Mr. Macario Arroyo and Mrs. Rita Vera Arroyo. He is survived by his wife (his girlfriend) of almost 60 years, Mrs. Eva R. Arroyo. He is a beloved father to his only biological daughter, Dolores A. Martinez, and he is a beloved grandfather of Benjamin, Adrian, Erika and Diana Martinez. It should be noted that while he is survived by many others who consider themselves "adopted" children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of "Chon Arroyo." Chon Arroyo was the youngest of three brothers; he is survived by his middle brother, Guadalupe "Pablo" Arroyo. In spite of him being the youngest of the three brothers, he held the role of family patriarch, and served as the parental figure to his brother's children. Chon Arroyo worked from 1952 to 2000 with the Bianchi & Sons Packing Company in the company's extensive tomato growing operations. Chon had an amazing work ethic which was unwavering even as he retired; he was an avid, yet unofficial "Master Gardener," whose amazing green thumb can best be described as the Midas touch of gardening. If you stop by the Arroyo household, you will leave with an ample arm-full of "Chayote Squash" which is an abundant staple and sense of personal pride from his annual garden harvest. Chon Arroyo lived his life by the philosophy of charity, kindness and respect. No person who came to his door was ever turned-away or treated unkindly or not invited-in. He gave respect and kindness indiscriminately to all whom he came in contact with… This is why any person who came to know him, undoubtedly came to love him and appreciate him. Chon Arroyo lost his courageous fight against Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, a most rare, invasive and incurable form of cancer, on Sunday, November 20th, 2011. To one and all who wish to come bid farewell to this amazing man, the Arroyo Family and its extended family members invite the community to bid "Chon" farewell at the Rosary and viewing for him at Stratford Evans Merced Funeral Home on Thursday, December 1st 2011. The viewing will begin at 3:00 p.m. followed by the Rosary at 7:00 p.m. at the Stratford Evans Chapel located at 1490 B Street, Merced, CA 95341. The Mass for Mr. Chon Arroyo will take place on Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church on the corner of M and 13th Street Merced, CA. For further information please contact the Stratford Evans Merced Funeral Home at (209) 722-4191.
Arrangements under the direction of Stratford Evans Merced Funeral Home, Merced, CA.
Thursday, December 01, 2011 | 3:00pm - 7:00pm
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Residents of the 42nd State Senate District are invited to contact Senator Bonacic at any of his offices:
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"Ordinario" project by David Vera and "type-ish.com your lettering source" by Sofia Dezaki, both ESDi graduates in graphic design; and "Made to be seen" by Oscar Boix, "Eficook" by Pol Mas and "View Sound" by Damià Armengol, design graduates in audiovisual itinerary, have been selected by the students Laus Awards 2015. This means that the jury has chosen them among all the projectes and they can win a Laus medal: Laus Bronze, Laus Silver, Laus Gold and Grand Laus.
"type-ish.com your lettering source" by Sofia Dezaki
"Ordinario", project by David Vera
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|Look up hey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hey or Hey! may refer to:
- Hey (interjection)
- "Hey hey hey!", an exclamation used by the character Fat Albert in the animated TV series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- "Hey hey hey!", an exclamation used by the character Rerun in the TV series What's Happening!!
- Hey, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
- Hey Hey, Iran
- Hey (band), a Polish rock band
- Hey (Andreas Bourani album), or the title song
- Hey! (Julio Iglesias album), or the title song
- Hey! (Jullie album), or the title song
- Hey! Album, by Marvelous 3
- Hey! (The Gruesomes album), by The Gruesomes
- Hey (Toni Price album), by Toni Price
- Hey: A Pixies Tribute, a Pixies tribute album
- Hey (EP), an album by alternative hip hop artist Le1f
- "Hey" (Lil Jon song), 2010
- "Hey" (Mitchel Musso song), 2009
- "Hey!" (Masaharu Fukuyama song), by Masaharu Fukuyama
- "Hey", by Bic Runga from Drive
- "Hey", by Crystal Bernard, Don't Touch Me There, 1991
- "Hey", by Fais & Afrojack 2016
- "Hey", by Gillmor, opening theme for the U.S. sitcom Unhitched
- "Hey", by the Goo Goo Dolls from Hold Me Up
- "Hey", by Hanson from Underneath
- "Hey!", by The Hellacopters from Payin' the Dues
- "Hey", by Leeland from Sound of Melodies
- "Hey!", by MF Doom from Operation: Doomsday
- "Hey", by Movielife from Forty Hour Train Back to Penn
- "Hey!", by Oingo Boingo from Boingo
- "Hey", by the Pixies from Doolittle
- "Hey", by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from Stadium Arcadium
- "Hey", by The Suicide Machines from Destruction by Definition
- "Hey (I've Been Feeling Kind of Lonely)", by Danny Saucedo from Heart Beats
- "Hey! (So What)", by Dannii Minogue from Neon Nights
- "Rock and Roll" (Gary Glitter song), commonly known as "The Hey song"
- Hey Ya!, by OutKast
Hey Hey
- "Hey Hey (Swami song)"
- "Hey, Hey", by Dispatch from Silent Steeples
- "Hey Hey", by The Planet Smashers from No Self Control
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- "Hey Hey Hey", by Katy Perry from Witness
- "Hey, Hey, Hey", by Elvis Presley from the soundtrack for the film Clambake
- "Hey, Hey, Hey", by Michael Franti and Spearhead from The Sound of Sunshine
- "Hey! Hey! Hey!", by The Riverboat Gamblers from Something to Crow About
- "Hey Hey Hey", a single by Natasha
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- "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!", by Little Richard
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- Hey, a dance figure in English Country Dancing and Morris dancing
- Hanchey Army Heliport (IATA: HEY), a military heliport serving Fort Rucker in Dale County, Alabama, United States
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- All pages beginning with "Hey"
- Hay (disambiguation)
- Interjection
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- WP:HEY (Wikipedia editing term)
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We're starting to understand more about about the people involved in the double homicide at the Pruitt residence.
Victim #1 was Robert Pruitt, a well-known local defense attorney who had a big trial due to start just after he was killed. He also had a wife, a law partner, a secretary and more than one angry ex-client.
Is all of that just interesting information or is the reason he's dead in there somewhere? Maybe we'll learn more when we talk to Pruitt's ex-wife.
We've only begun to scratch the surface of Victim #2. We've got a name and a background for the stranger but still no explanation for his presence in that basement.
- Did someone want Robert Pruitt out of the picture?
- Can the people in the stranger's life shed light what he was doing there?
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Traveling Luck for Hilderbrand Bend, Arkansas, United States
Where is Hilderbrand Bend?What's around Hilderbrand Bend?
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The timezone in Hilderbrand Bend is America/Rankin_Inlet
Sunrise at 06:47 and Sunset at 17:52. It's light
Latitude. 34.7450°, Longitude. -91.3872° , Elevation. 47m
Weather near Hilderbrand Bend; Report from Batesville, Batesville Regional Airport, AR 59.9km away
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Temperature: 23°C / 73°F
Wind: 11.5km/h South gusting to 21.9km/h
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Temperature: 23°C / 73°F
Wind: 11.5km/h South gusting to 21.9km/h
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Geographic features & Photographs around Hilderbrand Bend, in Arkansas, United States
- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
- Big Twin Lake (0.8km)
- Roc Roe Lake (1.7km)
- Miller Lake (2.6km)
- Big Brushy Lake (3.1km)
- Little Brushy Lake (3.8km)
- Peppers Lake (4km)
- Upper Old River (4.1km)
- Otter Lake (4.2km)
- Straight Lake (4.2km)
- Slaughters Lake (4.3km)
- Rainbow Lake (5.1km)
- Goose Lake (5.2km)
- Old River Lake (5.4km)
- Hendricks Lake (6.3km)
- Middle Old River (6.5km)
- Big Weidmann Lake (7.7km)
- Horseshoe Lake (7.9km)
- Long Lake (8km)
- Hole in the Wall (8.3km)
- Little Weidmann Lake (8.3km)
- Upshaw Lake (8.8km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Fish Slough (2.8km)
- Whisky Creek (3.3km)
- Honey Creek (3.6km)
- Buck Branch (4.1km)
- Sevenmile Bayou (4.2km)
- Pate Branch (5.4km)
- Washington Creek (5.7km)
- inlet;
- a narrow waterway extending into the land, or connecting a bay or lagoon with a larger body of water.
- Reeses Fork (3.5km)
- Middle Prong (5.5km)
- Burnt Bayou (5.6km)
- Horn, The (6.2km)
- Right Hand Prong (6.5km)
- Fish Lake Slough (9.1km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Hilderbrand Bend (0km)
- Hider Bend (2km)
- Pumps Bend (4.5km)
- Wolf Bend (4.8km)
- Crooked Point Cut-off (7.1km)
- Berden Slough Bend (7.4km)
- cape;
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- Dunns Shanty Point (1.5km)
- Big Eddy Point (4.6km)
- Franklin Point (7.7km)
- Sycamore Point (9.2km)
Accommodation around Hilderbrand Bend
- swamp;
- a wetland dominated by tree vegetation.
- Little Twin Lake (0.4km)
- Crosslay Slough (1.9km)
- McFarland Brake (7.9km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- Cache, Township of (8.2km)
- Lower Surrounded Hill, Township of (8.3km)
- cliff(s);
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- Worshams Bluff (4.2km)
- Arkapola Bluff (7.4km)
- populated place;
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- Peppers Landing (0.3km)
- Peppers Lake (6.5km)
- ridge(s);
- a long narrow elevation with steep sides, and a more or less continuous crest.
- White Oak Ridge (4.5km)
- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Little Hill (5.3km)
- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Pleasant Home Cemetery (3.5km)
- bridge;
- a structure erected across an obstacle such as a stream, road, etc., in order to carry roads, railroads, and pedestrians across.
- White River Bridge (9.3km)
- church;
- a building for public Christian worship.
- Peppers Lake Church (3.4km)
- bay;
- a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
- Peppers Eddy (2.2km)
- reservoir(s);
- an artificial pond or lake.
- Whiskey Creek Reservoir (4.3km)
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Arkansas Noname 131 Dam (4.3km)
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Hilderbrand Bend
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- Fredonia (Biscoe), Arkansas city city o
- Clarendon, Arkansas city city o
- Roe, Arkansas city city o
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- Prairie County (Arkansas) adm2nd adm2nd
- Hazen, Arkansas city city o
- Ulm (Arkansas) city city n
- Stuttgart Municipal Airport airport airport
- Holly Grove, Arkansas city city o
- Brinkley, Arkansas city city o
- Des Arc, Arkansas city city o
- Fargo, Arkansas city city o
- Cotton Plant, Arkansas city city o
- Wheatley, Arkansas city city o
- Carlisle, Arkansas city city o
Airports close to Hilderbrand Bend
Little rock afb(LRF), Jacksonville, Usa (91.1km)
Adams fld(LIT), Little rock, Usa (97km)
Grider fld(PBF), Pine bluff, Usa (102.5km)
Robinson aaf(RBM), Robinson, Usa (106.7km)
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Down the street from the office there lives a little Cheesesteak restaurant called Shorty's. They bill themselves as "NYC's only authentic cheesesteak." I have to assume they mean authentic to Philly, especially because there is all sorts of Eagles and Philthies merchandise everywhere (BLEH!) Now seeing as though I have never been to Philly, I can't really comment on authenticity. (And yes… I know… it's crazy that I have grown up less than an hour away and never been to the City of Brotherly Love. But I will try to go soon, just so I can lick the Liberty Bell… special Nom cred to anyone that gets that reference).
The inside is a long bar with a few small tables on the side. It's not easy to jocky for seats, but it is feasible for lunch.
And for this special, you can see why it's usually packed! $9 gets you a "shorty" cheesesteak (that's 6 inches of sandwich for ya) and a beer from 12pm-7pm and 11pm to close.
We started making a tradition at work where we would go each Friday. Unfortunately, 2 Fridays into the plan and I was out. It's all tasty, but I literally was useless at work on Friday afternoons. And I'm not a fan of being unproductive, no matter how delicious cheesesteak is. Not to mention the waistline damage!
I do love their Italian Fries, however. These have Italian seasoning and Romano cheese. Nom Nom Nom. Delish!
They must be used to groups, because they conveniently label each sandwich so you know who gets what.
I went with a chicken cheesesteak my first go-around and it was topped with sharp provolone (not sharp enough… at all), mushrooms, and onions.
Delicious… but HEAVY.
And definitely missing out on that oozy, cheesy goodness that I usually expect with cheesesteaks. The steak version I would level set in about the same place.
They do have the classic option of Cheese Whiz, and I hear this is the way to go.
You can also top it with sweet and/or spicy peppers. My coworkers went for the pepper duo.
The last time I was there I tried something a little different and went with the Potato Skins with steak, wiz, bacon, and sour cream. They were DELISH, but I couldn't even make my way through half of the course before my stomach said "ENOUGH!"
My coworkers love this place, and the special is pretty awesome, but only go if you are prepared to dedicate a few hours to digestion and digestion only!


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MANKATO, Minn. — Linebacker Desmond Bishop headlines a foursome of injured Vikings whose status is uncertain for Friday's exhibition opener against the Houston Texans at the Metrodome.
Bishop, who missed the entire 2012 season with the Green Bay Packers recovering from a ruptured hamstring, was solidifying his role at outside linebacker before a groin strain slowed his progress last week. Coach Leslie Frazier said he was "not overly concerned" about Bishop, but the Vikings will remain cautious before determining how much he can participate in this week's three practices.
"He'll be day to day," Frazier said following the Monday morning walk-through practice. "Hopefully we'll get him back and get him some action on Friday night, but we'll have to wait and see if it lingers."
Hamstring injuries were expected to keep cornerbacks Josh Robinson and Xavier Rhodes, and safety Mistral Raymond out of Monday's practice as well.
Minnesota has three padded practices scheduled this week before returning to Minneapolis to play the Texans. Frazier said some starters would be deactivated to allow the coaching staff to evaluate players lower on the depth chart.
Backup center Joe Berger was excused from camp to tend to a personal matter.
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The bone of his contention is that Albom is a proven exaggerator and outright fabricator in his columns. He never let the facts stand in the way of creating a good story for publication:
Albom is and always has been the king of feel-good fairy tales about dead sources, make-believe dead people in heaven … and any other source willing to keep quiet while Albom poured syrup and exaggeration on some cute anecdote.
Albom is not unique in this regard, nor is the phenomenon limited to sportswriters. It seems every metro area bred these ethically challenged storytellers in the guise of sports and news columnists in the 80s and 90s. Or maybe they've always been with us, and I just started paying attention in this time frame. But the Twin Cities should have been so lucky to have one that merely twisted and made up the facts to provide "cute anecdotes". Instead, our variations were vicious partisan hacks who used the rarefied real estate of the local monopoly newspapers to advance social agendas, attempt to manipulate elections, demonize those that disagreed with them politically, and generally poison the public life of the community. In part, because of this, an entire generation of potential readers have been turned off to the idea of ever subscribing to the the mainstream newspapers in town.
Whitlock addresses this issue, and the decline of newspapers generally, focusing on another relevant dimension, the poor quality of columnists that a monopoly environment created:
We keep selling the copout excuse that the economy is the reason we're failing. Or that young people are too stupid to realize how good we are. It's all bull****.
We refused to change. .... We remained beholden to an APSE contest that in no way takes into account context, impact, relevancy, traction or innovation.
That approach is fine and dandy when there's no competition and local newspapers printed money. You can ignore your readers and put out content targeted at contest judges when there's no place else for readers to go.
Unfortunately, it's 2010 and not 1986. You don't need the newspaper to find out what's playing at the movies, or what the weather is going to be like, or what's on TV, etc. The things that made newspapers essential can be found other places.
We now have to survive on creativity, original ideas and innovation. Television, YouTube, laptops, blogs, Twitter and cell phones have made narrative sports writing less valuable. It's made fictional, feel-good, narrative bull**** far more risky.
Heh, it's true. A lament from back in the days when our monopoly newspapers were still riding high was not only that they have us an unremitting stream of one political perspective, but that is was also a crappy unremitting stream, quality-wise. But as long as people needed to find out what was at the movies or sell their used cars, the captive audience would be there, there would be no incentive for improvement, and these people would be given a podium from which to lazily pontificate and hector us for the rest of our lives. It all seemed to dark and dismal.
But then the Internet happened. And everyone lived happily ever after. Thanks again Al Gore.


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What does TIK mean?
Definitions for TIK
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word TIK.
The local name for crystal methamphetamine crystal meth or speed.
Origin: from "Narcotic"? this needs to be verified.
TiK is an open source instant messaging client for the AOL Instant Messenger system, which uses AOL's TOC protocol. It is a GUI client which is written in the Tcl/Tk programming language. Reportedly, the "T" and the "K" in TiK's name stands for "Tk", and the "i" stands for "instant messenger". It was originally created and maintained by AOL, the first releases seemed to occur in the 1998 time frame, but roughly around 1999 AOL abandoned the project after producing version 0.75, the last AOL produced version. Following this, several independent developers continued to add new features to the client, however work has stalled and the client is currently unmaintained, the last version released was version 0.90.
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Warehouse/DC Operations: Conveyors and sortation turn up the volume
With intelligent circuit boards, dexterous handling, and ultra-low maintenance, new technologies illustrate how what's underneath the product can help a company stay on top.
Modularity and ease of maintenance enable the latest conveyor systems to sustain maximum uptime.
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To meet the needs of the high velocity world of e-commerce, conveyors and sorters must be a smart, fast, and efficient component of a production or order fulfillment engine. Driven by the need for flexibility, speed, and maximum uptime, customers are turning to a new generation of technologies—and new ways to minimize and optimize conveyor and sortation solutions—that enable nimbleness while cutting costs.
"A successful warehouse now is about flow control and pulling levers at individual processes to keep the whole facility in balance," says Lance Anderson, director of sales, sortation, and distribution for Beumer Corp. "Going toward this sort of 'flow control' requires less conveyance and more flexible conveyor technologies that can re-route things in creative ways."
E-commerce could reasonably be credited for the dismantling of conventional thinking about conveyors. When automated materials handling systems were first introduced years ago, they were a way to move things easier and faster without back-breaking labor. "Equipment got its start handling large items," says Tim Kraus, product management supervisor for Intelligrated. "It's now shifting to smaller orders, smaller items, and piece handling instead of full cases. Conveyor and sortation designs have evolved to match this shift."
But the evolution of conveyors extends beyond the multi-channel paradigm. Product tracking and visibility is becoming essential to many operations, and the pressures to do more in less space are universal. Conveyors therefore must be intelligent, more reliable, and less maintenance-intensive—all while collecting data about product movement at every opportunity. Trends in packaging such as the increased use of poly bags can also challenge conventional conveyors, even as new solutions allow for the effective handling of a wider variety of materials.
Similarly, sortation technologies have traditionally worked best with predictable packaging in large volumes. But as everyone from Amazon to Mom and Pop work to achieve speed, efficiency, and visibility, sortation solutions become more scalable, reliable, and flexible. And because downtime is not an option, new sortation systems are built with redundancy and ease of reconfiguration in mind.
"I see the industry, with e-commerce and parcel handling, going toward lots of smaller, single-line orders," says Mitch Johnson, director of systems development for Hytrol. "It's changing the way we think about sortation. We used to think about sorting faster and in higher quantities. Now, it's better to be able to sort smaller things and greater numbers of orders."
Conveying information
The conveyor industry is seeing an increased interest in 24-volt or motor-driven roller technologies according to Johnson, who says 24-volt systems are now Hytrol's No. 1 product. Unlike traditional conveyor, these new modular systems don't rely on centralized, hardwired controls to direct the system components. Instead, the intelligence driving each conveyor segment is distributed throughout the facility. Paired with intelligent software, these technologies allow smart routing, energy efficiency, and the ability to easily rearrange modules or sections of conveyors and sorters with minimal disruption.
"Each 24-volt motor has a circuit board with embedded intelligence," says Johnson. "Each conveyor segment can look at upstream and downstream traffic, communicate with other segments, make decisions on the fly or send detailed information to management. The more we can move the brains from a distant location to a very specific location, that's a direct increase in flexibility."
A brainy circuit board might be located every 30 inches or 10 feet, depending on the application, and decisions are made on the conveyor rather than 500 feet away on a panel. Each segment can then adjust speed, monitor the movement of label-free product, or activate diverts. This modular approach enables easy installation and reconfiguration as well as more targeted diagnostics. Management can respond to precise areas if problems arise, and the intelligence of each motor can provide proactive information about wear rates or other potential issues.
Intelligent circuit boards at each section of the conveyor or sorter also send data back to the equipment supplier, who can remotely monitor wear indicators to reduce unplanned downtime. The ability to monitor the overall flow of a facility in real time is also a powerful tool for efficiency and uptime, according to Ken Lento, strategic business unit manager for unique products for FlexLink.
"People will say they achieved 85 percent efficiency in production and consider it a victory," says Lento. "But they can't explain why they lost the 15 percent because they're not gathering the data. Now, they can start to analyze when and why a conveyor was down and how long it took to reset. They can respond and react in real time instead of looking at a report the day after."
The management of real-time, case-level data throughout a warehouse is driving the development of mobile solutions for managers, according to Mike Khodl, vice president of solution development for Dematic. For example, a manager can use a mobile app to see if voice-enabled pickers are meeting standard rates, while another screen can illustrate sortation rates, conveyor status and overall productivity. "They can remotely see the flow of a system," says Khodl. "Traditionally, they might focus a lot on the physical flow, but not on the data flow that goes with it. Now they are one and the same."
Sorting it all out
When people think of sortation systems, many envision a massive 600-foot linear shipping sorter with dozens of inducts and destinations. Just as with conveyors, says Khodl, the tendency now is to work with point-solution sortation systems. "Maybe you want a divert point for a replenishment process or inside of a pick module," Khodl says. "You now have the ability to drop a modular sorter component into a standard conveyor in an hour or two. In the past you couldn't do that without open-heart surgery."
In the midst of the e-commerce boom, unit sortation systems designed to handle eaches are more common. Whatever the size of the sorter, this equipment plays a critical role in speedy, intelligent product movement. In a flow-based facility, any downtime of any step in the process will disrupt the entire fulfillment engine. Therefore, sorters are increasingly geared toward scalability, redundancy, and ease of maintenance.
Scalability is essential when working to cost-justify a sortation system that will meet peak seasonal demand while scaling back for the remainder of the year. During peak volumes, the sorter might direct totes to temporary stations with specific packaging or value-added specialties. "Off-peak, one order might go to a multipurpose station where it is packed to an outbound shipper right there," Anderson says. "That's one touch instead of three. That sort of flexibility is one of the ways to justify this capital equipment. Putting in a sorter that extends the life of a building is never as expensive as a new building or a third party."
On the induction side, sorters can get bogged down when workers are paired one-to-one with inducts. The first person in line will always have an empty tray, whereas the fifth person might have to wait for an opening. Instead, five workers could continuously induct into short segments of conveyor that feed the sorter continuously, ensuring a balanced workload and optimal use of sorter locations. If fully automatic induction is not viable, this semi-automatic approach to induction is gaining popularity, according to Stephen Cwiak, vice president and general sales
manager for Interroll.
On the discharge side, sorters might feature double- or triple-level destinations that transition between batches. Between the sorter and the packer, a divider door stops product from flowing down until the order is ready. This also ensures a steady workload while taking up less space by stacking orders vertically instead of linearly. "What tends to be forgotten is how many cases per hour you can induct and how many you can close," says Steve Schwietert, vice president of integrated systems sales for TGW Systems. "Closing is the choke point and can drop rates from 1,000 cases per hour to 500."
To further minimize downtime, two sortation loops might be layered on top of one another, says Cwiak. This also addresses issues of SKU proliferation, as one sorter might be designed for larger, heavier items while a second handles smaller items.
Or, one could handle fulfillment while the other handles returns. If either goes down for any reason, the second sorter can take up the slack, providing redundancy and continuity of operations. Additionally, new sorter systems allow for quick repairs to individual trays or belts even as the rest of the system continues to operate.
Handling whatever may come
With the intelligence and flexibility to react to changing volumes, conveyor and sortation solutions must also adapt to changing product characteristics. Piece handling lacks the predictability of cases, and can be difficult or impossible to manage with conventional conveyor systems.
"The industry is reaching out to things previously considered non-conveyable," says Johnson. "Cartons are a cinch, but bags of dog food or grass seed, for instance, have been a problem in the past. The more you can convey those things, the better the return on investment."
This might include the deployment of specialized conveyor zones for certain product types, a process made easier by modular systems. Non-rigid items like poly bags or envelopes also prefer more continuous conveyance surfaces to prevent jams, Cwiak says. Belts are therefore replacing rollers in certain applications.
New sensor technology must also work with conveyors to detect irregular items. "A carton's front and back edges are easily and consistently detected," says Intelligrated's Kraus. "With something shaped like a pillow, you have to detect where it starts, ends, and comes in contact with the rollers."
Similarly, sortation technologies must allow for gravity in the case of light products sliding from tilt trays, or sensitive systems for the smooth discharge of light items from a cross-belt or sliding shoe sorter. "I have seen customers successfully adapt a sliding shoe sorter to sort poly bags, which was previously considered a recipe for disaster," says Schwietert. "But people are starting to stretch the limit of what was thought of as a no-no."
Maintenance is also a concern, says Johnson. "In the near future, each conveyor section might have a specific QR code label, which you could scan with a mobile app to pull up everything about the conveyor, or even order the parts right from there."
Schwietert says 24-volt rollers tend to be easier to service, taking only five minutes to change as opposed to as much as an hour when working with a drive and reducer. He adds that in sortation systems it is now possible to add or move a divert without system downtime. "Say you have four diverts for UPS, and the next day you want to add four for FedEx. That doesn't need to be disruptive."
Another way to minimize disruption is to plan ahead. Traditional conveyors feature fixed guide rails, heights, and widths. New systems—that can also be retrofitted to make use of existing conveyor—use adjustable guide rails to make for quick manual transitions or even software-directed automatic transitions.
"In the past, if you wanted to switch products on a length of elevated conveyor, you would have to use a ladder, deactivate the equipment, and complete the change in a day or two," says Lento. "Now you can go to a control panel and switch over an entire line in a matter of minutes."
"A lot of customers ask for solutions based on what they're doing today, just to get the line running," Lento adds. "It's always more expensive to make changes later than to do it during the initial project. And who today knows what their packaging will look like in two years?"
The impact of conveyors and sortation on downstream logistics
Whether to serve e-commerce or not, service levels and responsiveness are critical, and are rooted in the efficiency and nimbleness of production and fulfillment operations. Smart conveyor and sortation systems contribute to balanced product flow through a facility, but their impact doesn't stop at the dock door. In fact, the dock is a good place to gauge the effectiveness of upstream processes, because minutes and seconds count when working to meet shipping deadlines.
Mike Khodl, vice president of solution development for Dematic, says even the smallest ripples in product flow can become big problems by the time orders reach the dock. "A simple jam on a merge somewhere can cause a batch to not meet its shipping cutoff time," Khodl says. "With smart conveyors, all those real-time interaction points are now available to help an operator control his destiny before he's in a situation he can't recover from."
Traditionally, managers would look at equipment for operational data, then at the warehouse management system for inventory information. "We're working to bring harmony to all of that info to control the warehouse in a different way, and conveyors play an important role," Khodl says. Conveyors can even begin to impact labor management when paired with increasing levels of visibility into individual worker performance. "If picking is an hour ahead of shipping, that's a sign of inconsistent flow through the warehouse. When conveyor and pick rate data is overlaid, it allows the movement of labor from one module to another," says Khodl, "or conveyor speed can increase for one hour to move product out of picking, then slow back down with no manual intervention required."
From a maintenance perspective, Khodl says every conveyor and sorter product should offer a 15-minute average time-to-repair window, including the induction belt, sorter motor, or photo eye. "To change out a belt in the past could take two hours to four hours. Quick-access modularity means four screws and a lever, and you can pop in a new belt in 15 minutes."
The multi-channel challenge involves using creative conveyance and sortation techniques to allow a common inventory to serve multiple outbound processes.
"If you're trying to blend five lines of flow into a single sorter, you have to be sure the sequence of events at a specific dock door are managed properly. It's not just about bulk movement of cases onto the sorter," says Khodl. "You need to be smart and fast, not just fast."
Smaller, modular sorters come into play in a multi-channel methodology, enabling some product to be routed direct to the trailer and some through packout or value-add to a cart for UPS, Fedex, DHL, or all three. "What's changing is we are being forced to be more dynamic in our shipping process depending on the type of outbound flow," Khodl says. "Say suddenly you want to do quality control checks for a new e-commerce approach. You can drop in a small module to pull one in 10 cases to QC. Use a tablet to perform the check, and no hardwired terminal is needed."
Once product reaches the trailer, the right picking approach, software and sortation solutions can ensure the product is properly sequenced for quick loading of the trailer and optimal utilization of the space. "In transitioning to a well-balanced facility, you can take three trailers a week off the road for each store the DC serves," Khodl says. "That obviously has a huge impact on transportation costs."
Track and trace capabilities are also critical to effective shipping. Sorters and conveyors that monitor product movement become an important piece of that verification.
New twin DCs feature two unique sortation systems
When Germany-based Adidas Group purchased British-based rival Reebok in January of 2006, the company decided to examine its combined U.S. distribution network. When consolidating DCs, the company installed a range of customized sortation systems to handle 18,000 units per hour.
The new campus in Spartanburg, S.C., would become the largest Adidas Group distribution site in the world at more than 2 million square feet. Two DCs, set on a 258-acre site, receive and ship hundreds of thousands of units of footwear and apparel each day. DC1 handles apparel and provides value-added services (VAS), such as hangers and price tags, while DC2 handles footwear and hard goods.
According to facility manager Bob Henriques, planning for the DCs began with three overall goals: improving service levels, reducing operating costs and preparing for future growth, particularly in e-commerce. "Our direct-to-consumer business is growing significantly," says Henriques. "The ability to fulfill these types of orders was an integral part of our planning process."
The company selected a system integrator and an equipment supplier to develop specialized conveyor and sortation systems. Two custom materials handling concepts were engineered. For poly bags and irregular garments, a "waterfall" induction in DC1 replaces manual sorter induction with a gaylord dumping system. Belt conveyors then lift garments into induction stations nearly 20 feet overhead. A "domino" system for DC2 uses conveyors to singluate shoe boxes into the cross-belt sorter. Boxes are manually inducted in groups of as many as eight at a time, oriented vertically on edge, like a domino. The boxes are then toppled one at a time onto the incline conveyor to the sorter.
In DC2, full cases of shoes are distributed to workstations in a round-robin pattern. The company completes emergency waves (e-waves) two or more times per day, once in the morning for those orders that were placed after 3 p.m. the previous day, and once around 4 p.m. to fulfill the guarantee of same-day shipping response.
Another key difference between DC1 and DC2 is how and where individual cartons are packed. The unit sorters can sort both apparel and footwear, up to 18,000 units per hour, and are very similar in each DC. In DC1, totes are packed off the unit sorter and sent to the mezzanine level for packing and VAS. Because footwear in DC2 requires significantly less VAS, cartons are sorted directly from the chute to a final shipping carton.
After a carton is complete in both DC1 and DC2, it is then transported through the print-and-apply area, where boxes receive up to three labels. Cartons move onto the central packing merge and are routed to shipping via a sliding shoe sorter. In both shipping departments, Adidas has the ability to load parcel, less-than-truck (LTL) or full truckload (TL) trailers. Each DC's shipping area also processes consumer and associated returns.
The adidas team was able to bring both DCs online on-time and on-budget. "We are happy to report that we're meeting our productivity numbers," says Henriques. "Our savings are on track as calculated and we improved our service levels."
About the AuthorJosh Bond, Senior Editor Josh Bond is Senior Editor for Modern, and was formerly Modern's lift truck columnist and associate editor. He has a degree in Journalism from Keene State College and has studied business management at Franklin Pierce University.
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Despite the Tea Party movement's high hopes for Tuesday's Capitol Hill rally to kill health care reform -- an event that featured appearances by numerous GOP lawmakers -- it appears the crowd was not as large as expected.
Tea Party organizers told CNN that somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 people gathered today in Washington D.C.
But the Democratic National Committee estimates placed the number of attendees at a mere 300, an amount that they later mocked and used as evidence that "the air is out of the tea party balloon," as DNC spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine said, according to the Hill.
"Today's dismal showing on Capitol Hill coupled with the turnout we're seeing at health reform rallies across the country where supporters are outnumbering opponents by three to one and four to one clearly demonstrates that the momentum is squarely on the side of those who support reform," Hoffine continued.
"I've been to birthday parties that drew more people," the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, Brad Woodhouse, told Politico in an email.
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By Hildy Agustin, Psy.D.
Therapist and Facilitator of the Recovery & Renewal Support Group at Breast Cancer Connections
I work a lot with people who have had gone through difficult experiences. And the one thing I hear over and over again is that people seem not to know what to say to someone who is going through a hard time.
I understand how this can happen. Some people drift away when someone they care about is suffering; they don't know what to say, don't want to say the wrong thing, so they say nothing. Other people, while trying to be helpful, say something, and end up hurting the person they care about.
I think we all know that most people mean well and are doing the very best they can. Very few people wake up in the morning with the intention of hurting someone, even less so related to someone they care about. People are trying their best, they just don't know what to do or say.
No one always knows what to say, and everyone is different. But I'd like to offer you some guidelines that I've learned while working with people who have been through a wide variety of difficult experiences.
1) You don't have to do anything spectacular, as long as you let the person know you care. If you don't know what to say, it's okay to say so. Just saying "I heard about _________________. I was sorry to hear it, and I want you to know I'm thinking about you," is a lovely sentiment. It keeps the doors of conversation open, and lets the person know that you care.
2) You don't have to be a very close friend to let someone know that you care. My clients tell me that they have been touched to hear from people they didn't know very well-that all warm thoughts are appreciated. For instance, you might say "I know we don't know each other well, but when I heard about ________________, I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that you're in my thoughts."
3) Please do not presume you know how they feel, even if you've experienced something similar. Each person is so different, your experience cannot be exactly like theirs. Saying "I know just how you feel," or "I went through the same thing, and trust me, you'll get over it," usually comes from a very empathetic place, but the truth is that you don't know how they feel. Get curious about how they feel, and you may be surprised that even if the events are similar, the feelings may be quite different.
4) Let them know that you're available if they want to talk (if this is true), but that it's also fine if they don't want to talk. People vary widely in their interest in talking following difficult experiences. Some want to debrief, others want to withdraw and recover. You can support this by saying something like "If you feel like talking, I'd love to be a listening, supportive ear. If you don't feel like talking, just know that I'm thinking of you and I'm here if you need me."
5) Don't try to make meaning of the suffering for them, or try to place your understanding of the meaning on the other person's suffering. Telling the person that it is part of a divine plan, or that everything happens for a reason may not match their own vision of the world. Let them arrive at their own understanding of what their suffering means to them.
6) Let the other person know that they're not alone. You don't have to fix it, don't have to explain it, don't have to do anything at all. All you have to let them know that you're on their side.
It's a real gift to reach out with compassion and care to someone who is suffering. I encourage you to give it a try, even if you're not feeling perfectly confident about what to say. I encourage you to use the guidelines above as a jumping off place, but not as a script. Be yourself, communicate your genuine care, and let me know how it goes.


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David Kahn Bungles Kurt Rambis Firing: Even When He Is Right, He Is WrongJune 23, 2011
Two years ago, Minnesota Timberwolves president and general manager David Kahn went into the NBA Draft without a head coach. Many wondered if Kahn was making a mistake.
In the NBA, the coach and the general manager have to be on the same page if the team is going to have success.
No team can be successful when the general manager is drafting players that don't fit into the scheme the coach is trying to implement.
Two years ago, many wondered how Kahn could draft the right players without knowing what players would fit into the new coach's plans.
Kahn assured everyone that there was no reason to panic as he had everything under control.
After all, all Kahn knew what style of play that he wanted to bring to Minnesota.
Kahn simply needed to draft players to fit his proposed style of play and then hire a coach that understood Kahn's vision.
The first player drafted by Kahn was point guard Ricky Rubio, the next player taken was point guard Jonny Flynn.
In taking Rubio and Flynn, fans had reason to believe that they would see a pick and roll offense as both point guards had cut their baby teeth in pick and roll offenses.
Kahn however brought to Minnesota a disciple of the Triangle offense when he hired Kurt Rambis away from Zen Master Phil Jackson.
The triangle offense in the Rambis era got off to a very rocky start as the Timberwolves went 15-67 in his first season at the helm.
Timberwolves fans weren't overly concerned as Rambis had no ability to shape the team.
The second year would be different for Rambis as he could bring in free agents that would understand what he was trying to accomplish and draft impressionable rookies that could be properly molded.
Despite almost completely overhauling the team, the Timberwolves struggled in the triangle offense in year two under Rambis' tutelage winning an anemic 17 games.
Ordinarily a coach would be summarily fired after going 100 games under .500 in just two seasons. Kahn however has not fired Rambis but instead gave him the cold shoulder, a very cold shoulder.
Rambis was noticeably absent from the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.
When Kahn was asked about Rambis' absence and Rambis future with the team, the silence from Kahn was deafening.
In the vacuum, Rambis was asked whether he expected to be involved in preparations for the June 23 draft.
Rambis answer was short and clear, "Don't know." Really?
How could Kahn even think about going into this year's draft without coming to some resolution about his head coach given the past two years?
If the Wolves fail to make the right decision because Kahn and the Wolves head coach are not on the same page, Minnesota could be stuck in basketball purgatory for the next three years as they don't have a first round pick next year.
If the Wolves keep the pick, Minnesota will likely have the opportunity to select either Duke's Kyrie Irving or Arizona's Derrick Williams.
If Irving is drafted, how do the Wolves manage the dynamic of having two young point guards in Rubio and Irving on the same squad?
If the pick is Williams, how does Minnesota juggle playing time for their new rookie when they have Michael Beasley, Kevin Love and Wesley Johnson on their roster?
Alternatively, because of the players already on the Wolves roster, should Minnesota package the pick with someone on their roster to get a more established player?
Kahn, clearly committed to march to the beat of a different drummer, has once again decided that he does not need the input of his head coach in making such decisions.
Today Yahoo Sports and the UPI have begun reporting that Kahn is set to fire Rambis after the draft.
The news is no surprise to anyone who follows the NBA.
The decision to fire Rambis is the right decision. Remember, Rambis was 100 games under .500 in just two seasons.
Rambis might be able to coach at the NBA level but both he and the Wolves need a fresh start.
While the decision to fire Rambis is correct, the execution by Kahn was all wrong.
Any shred of credibility that Rambis could have hoped to retain to position himself to continue as the Timberwolves Coach was lost when he was invited to the Chicago NBA draft combine.
There is no way Rambis could have come back next year to coach the Timberwolves after being given the cold shoulder by Kahn.
Rambis has simply been dead man walking since the Chicago NBA draft combine.
There was no need for Kahn to be unequivocal in his comments about Rambis for so long. Kahn should have thanked Rambis for his efforts on behalf of the team several months ago.
Instead of telling Rambis directly that his services were no longer welcome, Kahn publicly ignored Rambis to the point of no return.
Now the Wolves fan base instead of being focused on the future now have to be reminded of how impotent Minnesota has been over the past two years as they contemplate when Rambis' firing becomes official.
Kahn by delaying the inevitable concerning Rambis has stolen joy from tonight's announcement of the "new" beginning that is about to occur with the Wolves.
Even when Kahn is right, he is wrong. Kahn simply dropped the ball in firing Rambis.
Hopefully, Kahn will orchestrate the hiring of the new Wolves coach such that this chapter in Wolves history is quickly forgotten.


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I am currently researching and reviewing pros and cons of DL law schools. For Concord students, how many tasks are in a typical module? What is expected to be done in each module?
Thanks for your help :)
READ and brief EVERY case, be prepared with your briefs for online classes and lectures. Plan on spending at least 20 hours a week studying, briefing cases, taking notes from online lectures and classes and preparing your rule statements. My advise for you right now is to sit down and figure out a schedule of how you will plan your day, your week and if you work, plan on spending at least 8 hours on your days off studying. AND STICK TO THAT SCHEDULE. Before any test, review all your materials. Join the Concord SBA, start practicing multiple choice questions for the FYLSE immediately through the SBA daily email. Talk to the SBA officers and members on additional material you may purchase to help you learn the material. Lastly, if you don't understand something - e-mail your professor for HELP. Good luck on your DL choice.
You should really study 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. That is what it will take to pass the FYLSE the first time.
I passed the October test and studying 8 hours a day was not an option. I work full time, plus I had to study my 2L classes at the same time. I had Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure and Real Property this year on top of studying Contracts, Criminal Law and Torts. BUT it is recommended, those that have more on their plate actually do better. Initially, I didn't start studying for the June FYLSE until the 2nd week in May and stopped all 2L study at that time but I was about 4 weeks ahead so I felt comfortable doing that. When I got the fail letter in August, I hit the books again and kept on top of everything. October's test was harder by far than the June test so passing surprised me.
Anyways, typing out the rule statements was a great way to practice and I thoroughly knew them, can recite them in my head, when I'm falling asleep. We had Professor Dodge helping us prepare at Concord. He helped me address what we call is our KNOWN Unknowns, that program is the only reason I passed. I would have passed the first one if I would have started studying for it at least two months earlier. Smarter students that started as late as I did passed the June test, but I'm just a little dense and think I'm just as smart sometimes;) I figure I'll have to study at least 6 months in advance of the bar exam to pass on my first try - which is my intention and I signed up for BarPassers, their essay lectures are great!
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Many of the available global exchange traded funds (ETFs) track MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) indexes. MSCI provides investment tools to equity, fixed-income and multi-asset class investment choices worldwide. Aaron Siegal for Investment News reports Morgan Stanley (MS) plans to sell a minority interest in an initial public offering of the subsidiary, MSCI, by the end of the year.
What will this do for the ETFs that track the MSCI indexes? There shouldn't be much of an effect. Some of the MSCI ETFs include:
- iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA)
- iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM)
- iShares MSCI Canada (EWC)
- iShares MSCI Japan (EWJ)
Perhaps the First Trust IPOX-100 (FPX) will pick this up as it includes IPOs.
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Growing up, I looked forward to Thanksgiving every year for one reason alone, turkey croquettes. After my Brady Bunch of a family had our fill of turkey, my mother would take the leftovers and turn it into pure unadulterated awesomeness. This year I decided that I would take the leftovers from my own Thanksgiving and continue the delectable tradition.
After poking and prodding my mother ('s memory) I got my hands on her secret recipe. And before she could remember my name I was out the door and back in my kitchen. Which is where you should be.
Before we begin you're going to need a few things and a bit of hardware. Get 'em and proceed to the good part.
A Few Things
1 cup Thick White Sauce (below)
2 cups ground or finely chopped cooked turkey
1 tablespoon minced onion
1 teaspoon parsley
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
3/4 cup fine bread crumbs (plain or seasoned)
Enough oil to fill your deep fryer up 3″ to 4″
For 1 cup of Thick White Sauce
1/4 cup butter (don't you dare use margarine)
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 cup milk
*FYI, make sure you have these last few things b/c you're gonna need 'em for the secret sauce.
Bit of Hardware
Deep fryer
Sauce pan
Mixing spoons
Mixing bowls
Slotted spoon (that won't melt)
Square or rectangular glass baking dish
Paper towels
Some other things I'm probably forgetting
The Good Part
1. When my mother made this, she would use her very ancient, but still in working order, Oster meat grinder. I do not own such a device, and I would have to go venture back out into the wild to borrow it so I'm just going to finely chop the turkey.
2. Set the turkey aside and proceed to making the white sauce. In a saucepan, melt the butter over low heat. Whisk in flour, salt, and pepper. Cook over low heat and stir until the mixture is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in milk.
3. Return to heat. Boil and stir for 1 minute.
4. Add the turkey to the sauce and stir. Then add minced onion and parsley to the sauce. Stir some more.
5. Take the mixture and put into a square or rectangular dish. Cover and chill for 2 to 3 hours. Overnight works too. After a few hours (or eight), remove the mixture from the fridge and move on to the part that will take you closer to awesomeness.
6.Get two bowls and a plate. One bowl is for the breadcrumbs and the other is for the egg and water mixture. Combine the egg and water and beat lightly.
7. Remove the turkey mixture from the fridge and shape it into 12 equal balls (or more if you choose to double or triple the batch).
8. Dip each ball into the egg mixture then roll it in the breadcrumbs. Set the egged and breaded ball on a plate and repeat the process until you have used all of the mixture. Personally, I put the balls back into the dish I used before and then placed them back into the fridge for another 2 hours to let the flavors mingle.
9. Pour 3″-4″ of oil into the deep fryer and heat to 365°. As you wait, heat your oven to 350°. When the oil is ready, carefully place the croquettes in the hot oil and fry until they are delicately browned; ~ 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Remove them from the fryer (being careful not to break the croquette's crust) and place them on paper towels to drain (this is where I used the plate I had out before). After they've drained for a few minutes slide 'em in the oven to keep 'em warm until you're ready to serve 'em.
With the croquettes waiting in the oven it's time to make the best part. For this I must give a shout out to my mom for sharing her secret recipe with the world. When you're ready, gather the last few things then proceed to the best part.
2 tablespoons butter or margarine (again just use butter)
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup chicken broth (you can use a bouillon cube and dissolve it in one cup of boiling water to make the broth)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
The Best Part
Melt the butter over low heat and blend in the flour. Continue to cook over low heat until it is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat and add in the chicken broth. Return to heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil for one minute and continue to stir while it boils. Stir in seasonings. Count to 20. Bam! Velouté sauce is done. Now, just plop your croquettes on a plate and pour on the velouté sauce.
From the Chef
Honestly, this really is my favorite part of Thanksgiving. Sure family is nice, but when you bite into a velouté-covered turkey croquette there is simply nothing like it. Now go and start making these and be sure to invite me over because I love these things and I'll eat 8 or 10 of them in one sitting. So make extra. Go! Now!
Cooking Deets
Prep Time: 20-25 minutes to prep turkey and white sauce; 15-20 minutes to prep croquettes; 5 hours chilling time
Cook Time: 15 to 20 minutes (based on 28 croquettes and velouté sauce)
Cost: $10-$20 (cost will increase if you don't have leftover turkey)
Difficulty: Medium
Taste: ★★★★★


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Tea has long been known for its healing and healthy attributes — not surprising considering it was "Divine Healer" Chinese emperor Shen-Nung who is thought to have discovered tea more than 5,000 years ago. From black tea's ability to increase mental alertness to the antioxidants found in green tea, steaming hot teas worldwide continue to heal and appeal to the masses. Try adding the following varieties to your teapot, and reap a slew of health benefits, from cold prevention to cancer prevention.
If stress-free days are your cup of tea, make it black. Earl Grey, Lapsang, Assam and Darjeeling black teas, mostly originating from Asia and India, have been shown to significantly reduce levels of cortisol, the stress-producing hormone. Drinking black tea can also lower cholesterol levels, encouraging not only a stress-free day but also a stress-free and healthy heart.
In addition to alleviating stress and increasing mental awareness and memory, black tea also serves as a powerful preventive illness elixir. It's been linked to a reduction in the risk of many types of cancer, including stomach, colon, lung, ovarian and breast cancer. As of now, black tea is the only tea linked to thwarting the progression and prevention of Parkinson's disease — close to 75% of those in Parkinson's clinical studies experienced positive results from drinking black tea regularly.
In the tea world, green is the new pink. There is a valid reason for the health-benefit buzz created by green tea varieties, such as Dragonwell, Craigmore Estate and Sencha. Loaded with antioxidants that fight free radicals and duke it out with DNA-damaging compounds, why wouldn't green tea deserve a day in the sun — or teapot?
A few clinical studies suggest that the polyphenols found in green tea both prevent and kill cancerous cells. In fact, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, "In one study of 472 women with various stages of breast cancer, researchers found that women who drank the most green tea had the least spread of cancer." Green tea has also proven successful in aiding weight loss and preventing Type I diabetes. On a smaller teacup scale, studies have suggested that green tea is a strong contender in combating the common cold and flu.
This tea grouping, which consists of chamomile, ginger, hibiscus and peppermint teas (to name a few), encompasses a wide-reaching scope of health and medicinal properties. Those experiencing stomach ailments, for example, may appreciate the soothing effects of ginger, milk and thistle, and peppermint teas. Ginger and milk thistle teas aid in the digestive process, while the peppermint tea is helpful in easing nausea.
During cold season, brew a pot of rooibos or rosehips tea; both are high in vitamin C. They can also be of service in healing skin conditions like eczema. Hibiscus tea, while also high in vitamin C, is proven to reduce blood pressure.