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Trade Deadline Day 2012 Wrap-Up – Hodgson, Sulzer, & A 1st
Shortly after the actual trade deadline had passed, the Buffalo Sabres announced three moves. First, Paul Gaustad and a 4th round pick were sent to Nashville for the Preds' 1st round pick. Second, in arguably the deal of the day (really), Zack Kassian and Vancouver's Cody Hodgson swapped teams in a trade between the class of 1970. Lastly, not quite done, Marc-Andre Gragnani went to Vancouver for fellow defenseman Alexander Sulzer.
First, from the Buffalo Sabres' media advisory:
Buffalo Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier today announced that the Sabres have acquired center Cody Hodgson and defenseman Alexander Sulzer from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for forward Zack Kassian and defenseman Marc-Andre Gragnani.
Hodgson (2/18/1990, 6'0", 185 lbs.) had 33 points (16+17) and a plus-8 rating in 63 games with the Canucks this season. His 16 goals tie for second-most among NHL rookies this season, and his 33 points rank him fifth among all rookies. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Hodgson was selected by Vancouver in the first round (10th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Sulzer (5/30/1984, 6'1", 204 lbs.) has played in 12 games for the Canucks this season, tallying one assist, two penalty minutes and a plus-six rating. In 74 career games played with the Canucks, Panthers and Predators, Sulzer has totaled eight points (1+7) and 20 penalty minutes. The Kaufbeuren, Germany native was drafted in the third round (92nd overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators.
The Sabres also announced that they have acquired a first-round pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft from the Nashville Predators in exchange for center Paul Gaustad and Buffalo's fourth-round pick in the 2013 draft.
The first trade that went down was the Goose/4th rounder to NSH for Preds' 1st rounder. It came out in the morning that the Sabres were looking for a 1st rounder for their faceoff man, the price greeted mostly by laughing detractors. In the end, the Sabres got their pick from the Nashville Predators after sweetening the deal with a 4th rounder of their own.
Gaustad will shore up the Preds' depth, eating up penalty killing minutes and taking a lot of faceoffs. His 12 goals-per-season average doesn't translate well to the playoffs, where he has 0 markers to his name. He likely wasn't acquired for his scoring, as Nashville GM David Poile remarked that Gaustad and Hal Gill were picked up to shut down the likes of Ryan Kesler. Meanwhile, the Preds' 1st rounder in the upcoming draft will likely be a bottom-10 pick for the Sabres. In what is considered a weaker draft, the Sabres could always package this incoming pick with a player at the draft for a trade to fill a need. Like James O'Brien of Cycle Like The Sedins told me, the 4th rounder that went with Gaustad is "like peanut butter around dog food medicine."
The second trade that went down was, as slow a news day as this year's trade deadline was, the exchange of the day. Even the most cynical of fans who were shocked by the departure of Zack Kassian were pleasantly surprised to see that quality begat quality when Cody Hodgson was announced as the returning player. In what snarky fans could construe as a maneuver to shut Brian Burke, who laid into Regier's shrewd trade practices earlier in the season, up, both the Sabres and Canucks win this trade.
Fans wanted ZacK Kassian to destroy everything in his path. He was built up to be Cain Marko on skates, but spent the majority of his time in Rochester and Buffalo playing nothing like the sort. The former first round pick (13th overall, 2009) focused on his offensive production at the expense of his brute force and frequently fell into hazy lapses at the expense of both. He was your typical, rough-around-the-edges rookie with questions about consistency and motivation, but the Sabres decided that their usual slow development process wouldn't be enough. They decided that their pressing need for top six centers outweighed their surplus at right wing and so the trade for Cody Hodgson went down. Hodgson, a former first round pick himself (10th overall, 2008 – 3 spots ahead of Tyler Myers), was trapped in depth hell behind Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler on the uber-talented Canucks roster. Despite a back injury and the bad attitude schmozzle that followed, Hodgson had found success this season while stuck on the third line. His 16 goals is second among rookies and his 33 points is fifth. He's an electric pivot who will immediately improve the Sabres' top six, while Kassian may or may not make the Canucks.
Sabres fans are well-acquainted with the departed Kassian, but how well does the fanbase know Hodgson? 3rd Man In's Eric Schmitz has you covered, with an excellent post called "Getting To Know Your Newest Buffalo Sabre, Cody Hodgson".
To conclude the day, the Sabres made a second trade with Vancouver. The defensive swap of Marc-Andre Gragnani and Alexander Sulzer was quite the anti-climactic follow-up to Kassian for Hodgson. Gragnani will find himself in a ten-man jumble with the Canucks while Sulzer will see himself slotted into the 7th defenseman role for the Sabres. Like I said, anti-climactic.
The Sabres now have Nashville's 1st round pick in 2012 (which brings the pick count up to 4 in the first 44), top 6 center Cody Hodgson, and depth defenseman Alex Sulzer, making them better despite giving up their big power forward and big penalty killing center. They're poised to go into the draft and free agency with assets to use or move as they see fit, more scoring ability immediately, and another blueliner who can compete with Mike Weber for a roster spot. Let's see how the new guys look on Wednesday as the Sabres take on the Ducks in Anaheim (that Alex will be attending in person!).


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Fox is baking up a new comedy featuring American Pie star Natasha Lyonne. The actress, who guested last season on New Girl, has signed on to star in and produce a sitcom at the network. Lyonne would lead the show as Stella, a woman fresh out of rehab… Read more

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1. When you've been living in New York, the rhoticity of pretty much anywhere west of the Hudson starts to sound a little weird.
2. I got to compare speakers from the eastern and western extremities of the South/ Southern Midland border (from Oklahoma City and eastern Maryland, respectively). The Oklahoman sounded, for lack of a better word, twangy - I think this is due to a more advanced Southern Vowel Shift on her part. The Marylander, on the other hand, had the classic Mid-Atlantic fronted long /o/.
3. At one point I listened to three Inland Northern speakers talking - they were from southwest Michigan, Northern Illinois, and Chicago. Though I wouldn't swear to it, I believe that if I hadn't known who was from which place, but I had known that there was one speaker from each place, I would have known who was from where. And if you understood that beast of a sentence you deserve a prize.
I figured the best thing to read while traveling would be a book about traveling by a fun writer, so I chose Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. I'm back home and not done with it yet - it's long and I'm a slow reader (which makes grad school ever so fun), but I like it a lot, though parts of it are either too staid or too over the top, and other parts are fairly offensive by contemporary standards. Oh well - despite his bigoted asides, he clearly believed in the common humanity of, umm, humanity.
I am particularly interested in attempts by writers to relate and locate America and Europe conceptually (this is my area of research), and Twain's portrait of Europe can be summarized thusly:
1. They don't speak English very well over there.
2. They don't use soap, either.
3. The buildings might have been nice once, but now they're old and falling apart.
4. Catholicism is silly and superstitious.
5. European governments are corrupt and oppressive, and have always been so.
I'll reserve judgement on #4 for fear of repeating the Scientology controversy, but I'll say that the rest of these points are all much less true nowadays than they were then.
Overall, though, this is an extremely fun read, and parts of it rank among the funniest things I've read. My favorite part so far is a description if the elaborate ways Twain and his friends amuse themselves by pestering their tour guides. In Rome, for instance, they decide to ask about everything they're shown if Michelangelo designed it, including the forum and an Egyptian obelisk. In Genoa they pretend never to have heard of Christopher Colombus:
"Pleasant name--is--is he dead?"This "is--is he dead?" routine is so good that they repeat it when shown a mummy, and then with various statues. It is only with great restraint that they keep from doing it in the catacombs.
"Oh, corpo di Baccho!--three hundred year!"
"What did he die of?"
"I do not know!--I can not tell."
"Small-pox, think?"
"I do not know, genteelmen!--I do not know what he die of!"
"Measles, likely?"
"May be--may be--I do not know--I think he die of somethings."
I'm reading a facsimile edition, which has some quirky spelling that I like: 'staid' instead of 'stayed,' for instance. I also learned from this book that the expression "tricked out" is at least a hundred years older than I would have guessed.
A footnote about the name Mark Twain. Or rather, about the pen-name of the Yiddish Mark Twain, Sholem Aleichem. There is a shibboleth of sorts in Yiddish studies, whereby those who refer to Sholem Aleichem as Aleichem are cast down as dilletantes. (My field is a minefield of such shibboleths.) The explanation is this: 'Sholem aleichem' is a phrase - a formal greeting. Thus it doesn't make sense to refer to him as 'Aleichem.'
Okay, fine. But the same could be said for Mark Twain. Indeed, both pen-names are similar in that they are two-word phrases, the first word of which is also a common first name. Sholem Aleichem's real first name was in fact Sholem. If the appeal to logic that is purported to explain why you shouldn't call Sholem Aleichem 'Aleichem' is valid, then it should apply equally to Twain -- which it doesn't.
I'm generally dubious about pre- and proscriptions in language that are based in logic. Does this mean that I think Yiddish scholars should start calling Sholem Aleichem 'Aleichem?' No - you can't call him this, for the simple reason that he isn't called that. It's just a convention, and those who call him 'Aleichem' reveal their ignorance of this convention, and thus their status as outsiders.


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Sarah used to walk through the cornfield from her small-town home in Michigan to her grandparents' farm. Along the way, this is likely where her dreams of cacao began, or perhaps it was when she danced with the 'Not Just Vanilla' dance group at the age of 9.
During college, Sarah used to host her friends for tractor rides and horseshoes at the Crump Pump Bar - however, it's important to note that she never forced them to play in country ditches or attend the Auburn Cornfest as she had as a child. She grew up with an entire Smurf village toy set, dogs and cats, and loves Slurpees - like big-time.
When Sarah is not climbing a cacao tree, she is found Latin dancing all over the globe or hanging out with family and friends. At 21, she won a stereo in a singing contest in Germany but never received the stereo - guess she wasn't really American Idol material. Nevertheless, Sarah loves to sing a cappella and has done so in Boston, NYC, Germany, Michigan, Seattle, and San Francisco.
After studying in Europe, Sarah's university thesis research took her to Hungary, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Mexico, and Venezuela, which was the first time she circumnavigated the globe and saw Asia, Africa, and Latin America - one minute a safari at 6 am, the next minute salsa at midnight. She has lived, traveled and worked in more than 50 countries. Sarah also loves theater, independent film, and the movie, Grease.
Sarah has launched products, created brands, founded and run organizations, and worked many places like Yahoo!, Microsoft, the World Bank, AIESEC, and The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE); Sarah loves the work at sweetriot best. Sarah has been an active member of many non-profit boards including those for NFTE, Harvard, UMichigan, and AIESEC. Sarah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA from The University of Michigan. (Go Blue!)
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Clare was photographed as a baby with a bottle in one hand and a shrimp cocktail in the other. Her specialty eating began early thanks to her loving parents and 3 older siblings. Lamb baby food was one of her all time favorites!
Clare was raised in Michigan, and is extremely proud of her Midwestern roots combined with her German, Norwegian, and Lebanese background. Her outgoing multi-cultural background likely led her to her involvement in dance, swim team, cheerleading, track and soccer. Clare headed East for College to pursue Fashion. After graduating from Marymount University in Virginia with a BA in Fashion Merchandising, she moved to New York City to begin her career and journeyed from Norma Kamali to lingerie design. Eventually, she was the 'brainchild' behind an online clothing boutique start-up project, called Fresh Picked Daily, which operated for an exciting year and half. She was determined to find a "home" after her first entrepreneurial adventure, and it came full circle when she met a fellow Michigander, Sarah. The movement to fix the world with something chocolate is contagious, and she returned to her "foodie" roots to become a full time rioter!
When she is not rioting, she enjoys busting a move on the dance floor (thanks to Motown), hanging with her best friends, seeing live bands, finding the diamonds in the rough at the local flea market, taking long walks with her husband, daughter Charlie and lab indie ... and sometimes staying up late to watch the sunrise on a rooftop in NYC.
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I wonder what's going through Mitch "oorange3" Adair's head in this picture. Is he annoyed that someone made yet another joke about hacking the Gibson or did he just lose the US Cyber Challenge? Either way, that's one unhappy-looking hacker.
The US Cyber Challenge in which Adair participated is a huge competition with the goal of hacking your opponents' computers while defending your own from attacks. It's not just a silly game for the sake of showing off either: The competition is designed to find talented individuals and recruit them to defend our country, companies, and computers from evil-doers' cyberattacks.
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I imagine this is what happens when one allows their dust bunnies to grow a little too large.
I had a hankering to do some illustration work, and this is what came out of it. May end up turning this one into a proper story (the mind tends to wander when absorbed in a painting, and I've already fleshed out a little adventure for these three). It'll have to wait, though — I've got another story that I'm gunning to get out by the end of the year, so this one joins my already crowded back burner of someday projects.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Well-known Utah businessman and benefactor L.S. "Sam" Skaggs, who shunned the spotlight while quietly helping pioneer the development of the retail superstore, died at his home in Salt Lake City Thursday.
He succumbed from causes incident to age, said Ronny Cutshall, president of The ALSAM Foundation, the Skagg's family charitable institution. Skaggs was 89.
He built a retail food-and-drug empire from his Salt Lake City headquarters that operated under the American Stores name. And during his long career he quietly funneled untold millions of dollars to charitable causes, including the Skaggs Catholic Center, a 57-acre complex that houses Juan Diego Catholic High School, St. John the Baptist Elementary and Middle School, and the Guardian Angel Daycare.
"He was a lifelong Baptist, and was converting to Catholicism (in 1995) when the need arose in our diocese to build a school," said Galey Colosimo, principal of Juan Diego, who announced to the student body during morning prayer that Skaggs had died. "It is a sad day, but we remember (him) with gratitude for all he has done for us."
Skaggs, who rarely gave media interviews during his years in business, was the grandson of a Baptist preacher and grew up in Yakima, Wash., and in Idaho, working in his father's drugstores.
His father, Leonard S. Skaggs one of six sons of Safeway founder Marion Skaggs had purchased PayLess Drug Stores in Salt Lake City in 1939, using his Safeway stock proceeds.
Sam Skaggs took over the PayLess chain at age 26, after his father's death from stroke in 1950.
In 1965, when the business had 69 locations, it incorporated as Skaggs Drug Centers and went public. In 1979, Skaggs took over American Stores in Philadelphia.
Several strategic acquisitions turned the Utah-based company into the second-largest U.S. food retailer behind Kroger and one of the biggest drugstore chains in the country.
There were 11 stores when Sam Skaggs took over the company. Before his retirement in 1995, he was head of one of the world's largest food companies with 1,700 stores in 26 states and annual revenue of $22.2 billion.
Skaggs was one of the pioneers of what would become the superstore, said David Davis, president of the Utah Food Industry Association.
"I'm not sure anyone who has participated in the grocery industry over the past half century didn't know Sam Skaggs or had been touched in some way by his efforts," said Davis. "He was among the first to bring together hard goods, or non-foods (and pharmacies), into the food world. He also was a giant in the community, an incredible philanthropist who gave back to communities across the country."
Skaggs dropped out of Westminster College to serve in Europe during World War II. He witnessed the compassion and generosity of Roman Catholic chaplains during the war, resulting ultimately in his conversion that faith.
Attorney and former U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Pat Shea described Skaggs as a brilliant businessman who had a sixth sense of the marketplace.
"After his conversion, he went about fulfilling his sense of social justice, building churches, schools and research centers that would benefit current and future generations," Shea said, noting that Skaggs also had a commitment to good politics and civic affairs. For many years he was the sustaining force behind the Democratic Party in Utah.
Skaggs' generosity, along with that of his family, has rivaled the philanthropy of other famous Utah families, such as the Huntsmans, Sorensons and Eccles. Other major beneficiaries include the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and the University of Utah.
For years, Skaggs had quietly funneled tens of millions of dollars to pharmaceutical research and education, which helped build the U.'s pharmacy programs, among other endeavors. That legacy reached a critical milestone in 2009 when the U. broke ground on a 150,000-square-foot pharmacy research center named after Skaggs. The family, through its foundation and Skaggs' personal fortune, gave $30 million toward the $69 million project.
At the time, daughter Claudia Skaggs Luttrell said that growing up, her father's job at the drugstore "was to sweep floors and make ice cream, but he would migrate back and watch the pharmacists compound medicines."
Sam Skaggs also watched the construction of the pharmacy building, and was planning on attending the ribbon cutting on April 12, said Vivian Lee, U. senior vice president for Health Sciences.
"He will be in our hearts and minds on that day," said Lee of the ceremonies. "The excellence of our programs and faculty are due, in part, to his generosity and to the generosity of the Skaggs family."
For the past 32 years, the College of Pharmacy has been ranked among the top four pharmacy colleges in the nation. It is ranked second by the National Institutes of Health for peer-reviewed research.
The new building is just south of the College of Pharmacy's current home, built with Skaggs' money in 1965, and which he asked to be named after his father.
"Through Mr. Skaggs' contributions, the College of Pharmacy has been able to excel in pharmacy research and education," U. pharmacy dean Chris Ireland said in a statement. "Our college is forever indebted to the Skaggs family and hope we can carry forward the legacy of Sam Skaggs."
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Dozens of lawsuits used to hide 'Islamic realities'
Think-tank report cites 150 attempts to silence free speech
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which according to FBI evidence was founded by the Egyptian-based, Saudi-funded Muslim Brotherhood, has filed more than 150 lawsuits over a two-year period that have been aimed at stifling speech – all with the goal of hiding "Islamic realities," according to a think tank's report.
CAIR has been described by authorities as a front group for Hamas to promote Islam in the U.S.
It was the Florida-based national security think tank Citizens for National Security that released the report, "Council on American-Islamic Relations: Its Use of Lawfare and Intimidation" to every member of Congress.
CFNS co-founder William Saxton said the study focuses on CAIR's practice of "lawfare" to silence critics and force corporations, private citizens and charitable organizations to pay large sums of money to settle lawsuits out of court.
Saxton said the two-year task force project found CAIR has filed more than 150 lawsuits with the intention of silencing critics.
"CAIR has a pattern of behavior and a specific campaign of intimidation to stifle free speech. By stifling free speech, they're hoping to prevent the public from seeing Islamic realities," Saxton said.
Peter Leitner, also a co-founder for CFNS, confirmed other Islam analysts' findings that the Muslim Brotherhood established CAIR to engage in "misinformation."
"CAIR is the operational part of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. As such, and as part of Hamas, they're the domestic side of an international terrorist group. What they're doing is psychological operations," Leitner said.
"Their mission to do misinformation and psy-ops is for the purpose of supporting jihadist movements in the United States and Canada," Leitner said.
Contacted by WND, CAIR declined to respond to a request for comment.
Some of CAIR's activities came to light during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trial.
Leitner says CAIR hopes to stay one step ahead of the public.
"More people in the U. S. know about CAIR and their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. But they're hoping that not enough people will recognize who they are until the Muslim population in the U. S. can grow big enough to be politically powerful enough," Leitner said.
Leitner said CAIR's "masquerade is to divert attention from the Islamic threat in the U. S. by oversensitizing law enforcement and intelligence officials."
"To make that happen, they've infiltrated their agents into the various national security agencies," Leitner said.
CAIR intimidates the government agencies into providing "trainers" for law enforcement, he pointed out.
"They want to provide sensitivity training to misdirect people's attention away from the real threat," he said, and "stifle free speech among critics of Islam via lawsuits and further threats of legal action."
Leitner explained that the Muslim Brotherhood begin infiltrating universities and colleges in the U.S. in 1962 through the Muslim Students Association, beginning with Palestinians and later through Pakistanis.
A significant portion of Muslim Brotherhood funding comes from outside the U.S., Leitner noted.
The money, Leitner says, is used to fund an entire network of Islamic groups tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Along with stifling free speech, Leitner points to a second major purpose.
Groups such as the Muslim American Society, Muslims of the Americas and Jam'at al-Fuqua, which began in 1980, have infiltrated the culture enough that American converts to Islam have formed their own groups.
"John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, is an example of one of their converts. We all know he ended up in Afghanistan fighting against U. S. troops," Leitner said.
Leitner added that the method employed once influence has been gained is disinformation.
"Their greatest work is to create a grand illusion of a peaceful religion to distract attention from what their real plan is," Leitner said.
He also says the lawfare tactics ares fundraising mechanism.
He cited a fight with Nike.
"They threatened to boycott if Nike didn't change their logo because 'it looked like' the Arabic name for Allah at a great distance," Leitner said.
CAIR forced Nike to apologize to the Islamic community, globally recalled the shoes in question, cooperated with CAIR in a redesign of logos and images and donated $50,000 to the Dar al-Hijra mosque in Washington, D.C., for playground equipment.
The report has details on CAIR's 150 lawsuits or cases against government agencies, corporations and private foundations.
"CAIR even went after the producers of 'South Park' for how they portrayed Muhammad. They've gone after cartoonists, TV producers and tea party groups," Leitner said.
Leitner said the sheer volume of CAIR's legal actions prompted U. S. law enforcement agencies to dig into CAIR's extended relationships and connections. Once the FBI and city police departments began to investigate, they found CAIR had connections to the network of the "blind sheik," Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Leitner said CAIR takes advantage of constitutional freedoms "to deny us our freedoms."
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., a frequent advocate for persecuted Christians, affirmed that his committee research shows that CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated terrorist organizations pose a real security threat.
"The threat is real and I serve on the committee that has jurisdiction of the FBI. We've put language in a bill that will completely prevent the FBI from involving themselves with CAIR," Wolf said.
"An example of the depth of the threat comes from the Somali al-Qaida-affiliate al-Shabaab. Imams recruit for al-Shabaab from Somali groups in Minneapolis. Not only that, they're telling Somalis not to cooperate with federal authorities who are investigating the Somali mosques," Wolf said.
The FBI has become more cautious in its dealings with CAIR, he said, as has his committee.
"I know we've been very careful interacting with any group that is involved with CAIR," Wolf said. "I refused to go to any group that has connections to CAIR."
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If you've cooked with duck fat before, you can jump into this simple dandelion greens and garlic recipe with gusto because you've experienced duck fat as the culinary gem that it is. Its unctuous and rich flavor is worth going that little bit out of your way for. Believe it or not, it's close to olive oil on the health meter. You can buy containers of duck fat at fine grocers, or you can buy a duck, render the trimmed fat, and have a lovely duck ready to roast another night.–Connie Green and Sarah Scott
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A sign of any great recipe is that it begins by gently bathing garlic cloves in warm duck fat until they're imbued with ducky, fatty goodness, not unlike confit. (We should note that the authors suggest that you can swap olive oil for the duck fat. While not the same, it's lovely in a quite different way.) While the garlic cloves are then tossed in with the dandelion greens, garlic-imbued duck fat isn't called into use in this recipe. We can think of dozens of uses for it, perhaps none so tempting as diving right in, face first. If you wish to show a little restraint, however, simply reserve it to toss with potatoes or bone-in, skin-on chicken prior to sautéing or roasting. You won't be disappointed.
Dandelion Greens and Garlic Cooked in Duck Fat
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- Serves 4
- For the duck-fat-roasted garlic
- 1 cup rendered duck fat
- 12 small garlic cloves, peeled and tough stem ends removed
- For the dandelion greens
- 2 bunches dandelion greens, or other hearty greens such as spinach or Swiss chard (about 1 pound total)
- 2 tablespoons rendered duck fat
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 12 small cloves duck-fat-roasted garlic
- Make the roasted garlic
- 1. Place the duck fat and garlic in a small, heavy bottomed sauté pan over low heat. Slowly bring the mixture to a simmer. Cook just until the garlic begins to turn light golden brown. The garlic will turn too dark quite easily, so keep an eye on it. If it cooks too much, it will taste bitter and unpleasant. Turn off the heat and let the garlic cool in the fat for about 30 minutes. The garlic will continue to brown slightly as they sit in the fat.
- 2. Remove the garlic from the fat. If not using the garlic immediately, store the garlic and fat separately in covered containers in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before using.
- Prepare the dandelion greens
- 3. Trim the ends from the dandelion greens and discard. Wash the greens thoroughly and drain.
- 4. If the dandelion greens are young, slice them into 2-inch-wide ribbons. If the dandelion greens are mature and relatively tough, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Drop the greens into the boiling water and cook for 1 minute. Drain well in a colander. When the greens are cool enough to handle, place them on a cutting board and cut into 2-inch ribbons.
- 5. Heat the rendered duck fat in a large sauté pan or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. When the fat is hot, add the greens, stirring to coat with the fat. Add the salt, pepper, and garlic cloves. Cook, stirring frequently, until the greens are just tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Serve immediately.
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Nicolas Anelka has been given the public support of former Chelsea team-mate Romelu Lukaku after being charged over his controversial 'quenelle' gesture.
West Brom's French striker Anelka is facing a minimum five-match ban after being charged over the salute which some people regard as anti-Semitic.
But Belgium forward Lukaku, who is on-loan at Everton, said the gesture should not be "a big deal".
Speaking in a video interview posted on Everton's website and later removed, Lukaku said: "He was my idol as a kid and he still is.
"I don't think he should be banned for that, he was just supporting a comedian in France. We don't have to make such a big deal about it.
"I hope he doesn't get suspended because he is a player people want to play on the pitch."
Everton distanced themselves from 20-year-old Lukaku's interview, which was conducted after the 1-1 draw at West Brom on Monday.
Anelka was charged by the Football Association with making an improper gesture and that it was an aggravated breach, in that it included "a reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief".
Under new FA rules, such aggravated offences carry a minimum five-match ban and possibly a longer suspension.
Anelka has denied the salute was anti-Semitic, but pressure groups have called for him to face significantly more than the minimum five-match ban due to his lack of apology.
Jonathan Arkush, vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told Press Association Sport: "I know under the rules that on a first-time offence there is a minimum five-game suspension but I think what he did was sufficiently serious to justify a longer suspension than five matches.
"He has not indicated one bit of remorse or regret or apologised for his actions.
"He has simply said he wouldn't do it again and that is not good enough."
The quenelle has been described as an inverted Nazi salute and was created by French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, who has been prosecuted for anti-Semitism. Anelka is a friend of Dieudonne's and the player has insisted his salute was a gesture of support and aimed at the French establishment.
Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust, which advises the Jewish community on security and anti-Semitism, said the FA should take action against Anelka.
He said: "Anelka has introduced a very ugly phenomenon into British football. Anelka's action risks the 'quenelle' being taken up by actual anti-Semites and used against British Jews: as it has been in France and elsewhere. The FA should throw the book at him."


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Creative Recycling Systems is committed to IT Asset Management and eRecycling. Read how "Auburn University's e-waste recycling efforts prevent computers from going in the garbage."
By Katherine Harding, Office of Communications and Marketing
In a room of Auburn University's Surplus Property Building, there are 12 pallets of six-foot-tall plastic wrapped columns of computers, monitors and other electronic components. In the course of one month, the Surplus Property department has gathered nearly 10,000 pounds of electronic waste. If thrown in a landfill, these machines could leach lead, mercury or arsenic into the ground, air or water. The plastic, metal and glass components would never degrade and would remain in the landfill forever. As a sustainable campus, this is not something people at Auburn University could allow to happen with their old electronics.
When it is time to replace a computer on Auburn University's campus, it is not simply thrown in the trash. It is sent to Surplus Property, where Bill Capps and his coworkers sort out what can be saved and what cannot.
Capp estimates that Auburn had 62 tons of e-waste in 2011 including items like computer monitors, printers, fax machines and other computer parts.
"Progress makes things better, but leaves so much behind," said Capps. "People want the latest trend in technology and abandon the older models. Auburn University has a commitment to being sustainable, so throwing out-of-date computer systems in a landfill is not an option."
Capps said Surplus Properties first looks to sell or give the useable electronics to public schools in Alabama, other departments on campus or Alabama state-funded agencies. If no one wants them, the electronics are marked for recycling.
Auburn uses Creative Recycling, a Tampa-based company that picks up e-waste free of charge and disposes of it properly. Most of the components are reused or recycled.
"We are good stewards; we have to do things responsibly," said Capps.
Creative Recycling was recently featured in the documentary film, "Terra Blight," about the unintended consequences of America's consumption of technology.
TERRA BLIGHT trailer from Isaac Brown on Vimeo.
The film's director, Isaac Brown, and executive producer, Ana Habib, traveled to Auburn to host a screening of the film, as well as a discussion about the lifecycle of a computer.
"The computer was chosen to represent the bigger habit of irresponsible consumption and irresponsible disposal," explained Brown, who has been interested in how Americans consume and dispose of products for years.
Habib agreed. "The computer is a metaphor for this philosophical issue," she said.
Habib said the film is not condemning technology, but just trying to open the consumers' eyes to the problems of disposal.
"We love technology," she told the audience. "The message is not to give up computers, but to find a way to be responsible with them when they are replaced."
Auburn University knows about being responsible. Being a sustainable campus is more than just making sure a computer system is disposed of properly.
"The university has made a commitment to sustainability, and that means being aware of the impact of our decisions," said Mike Kensler, director of the Office of Sustainability.
Auburn University has many sustainable efforts on campus, including the yearly dorm competition, "Sustain-a-Bowl," where dorms compete to reduce electricity use, conserve water and recycle more. Students also have the option to attain a 15-credit-hour minor in sustainability. The Auburn University Recycling Program was established in 2005 and has expanded to provide recycling bins in campus buildings, around campus and at special events.
"Over the past year and a half the Waste Reduction and Recycling Department has expanded its Campus Building Recycling Program to more than 50 buildings and has increased its recycling efforts with Athletics by collecting all of the plastic bottles left in the stands at Jordan-Hare Stadium," said Donny Addison, Waste Reduction and Recycling manager.
"The sustainable and recycling efforts all come down to Auburn University's core values and the dedication to future generations," said Kensler.


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Obama high-speed passenger rail funds could boost slow freight
President Barack Obama's high-speed rail program was supposed to deliver faster and more frequent passenger trains to communities across the country. But some of the $10.1 billion in funding for that program could also benefit one of the nation's largest freight railroads.
Washington state received $781 million from the Obama administration's 2009 economic stimulus to improve passenger rail service in the 300-mile corridor that stretches from Portland, Ore., north to Vancouver, British Columbia.
The effort will result in two additional roundtrips on the popular Amtrak Cascade route between Portland and Seattle by 2017, bringing the total to six daily. It will add new locomotives, overhaul passenger cars and renovate stations.
Amtrak may not be the only winner, however. BNSF Railway, the owner of the tracks over which Amtrak operates, is a leading hauler of coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin and crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region, and it seeks to increase its shipments of both commodities in the Pacific Northwest.
The federal funds are paying for extended sidings to allow passenger and freight trains to pass each other, and other tracks to park slower freight trains so they don't interfere with Amtrak.
"Yes, I would call it a passenger project," said DJ Mitchell, assistant vice president of passenger operations for BNSF. "When you begin to add additional train service and you have places that are constrained, you're going to have to add some track capacity."
BNSF, based in Fort Worth, Texas, and owned by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, has partnered with Western coal producers and waterborne shipping interests to develop two coal export facilities in Washington state that could ship as much as 100 million tons of coal a year to overseas markets, including China. It also plans to ramp up deliveries of crude oil to the region's refineries.
The plans have generated enormous controversy in the Northwest. Many of the same community and environmental groups that support the passenger rail investment in the region oppose the increased fossil fuel shipments by rail.
"The Sierra Club wholeheartedly supports publicly funded rail infrastructure investments," said Krista Collard, a spokeswoman for the environmental group, "so long as they are not shipping fossil fuels that will ultimately worsen the climate crisis."
Coal and oil trains would share the same upgraded tracks as the passenger trains. And while Obama may be out of office by the time the new Amtrak trains start moving, a few coal trains are rolling daily over those rails to an export terminal in British Columbia, as are oil trains to a refinery in Anacortes, Wash.
All the improvements on the Cascade route still won't deliver the 110 mph minimum that Congress defines as "high-speed rail." Passenger trains will have a top speed of 79 mph.
"It's conventional passenger service," Mitchell said.
In a 2011 news release, the Washington State Department of Transportation hailed an agreement with BNSF to begin work on passenger rail projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It noted that the investments would boost the on-time performance of Amtrak's trains "while also allowing BNSF the ability to provide world-class freight rail service."
In the same release, BNSF Chairman and CEO Matt Rose made clear that the funds would benefit his company's operations as well as Amtrak's.
"This is an important step towards improving the trackage infrastructure to help meet current and future demands for both passenger and freight rail service," he said.
The nation's largest freight railroads have mounted an aggressive marketing campaign to tell the public about the billions of dollars they've spent on their own infrastructure. They've also received state and federal dollars in recent years, but they haven't promoted it. McClatchy reported this week that the Obama administration has invested more than $600 million in freight rail since 2009.
Kevin Thompson, a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration, which oversaw the stimulus funding that went toward rail projects, said that "passenger and freight rail are perpetually linked."
"We are constantly striving to improve passenger and freight service in response to community demands and will continue to work with the railroad industry and local communities to address their concerns," he said.
Courtney Wallace, a BNSF spokeswoman, said the railroad planned to spend $125 million to improve its rail infrastructure in Washington state this year, part of a $4.3 billion overall capital spending plan. The Washington state funds would build new capacity, upgrade signal systems and enable a "significant" maintenance program on 2,800 miles of track.
But federal funds are paying for several projects on the line BNSF shares with Amtrak's Cascade trains.
They include:
– $146 million to replace rail, ties and roadbed to allow for faster passenger train speeds on track shared by freight trains.
– $123 million for a third main track to enable passenger trains to move around freight trains entering and exiting the Port of Longview, which is one of the sites under review for a coal export terminal.
– $70 million for an upgraded and extended passing siding to allow passenger trains to move around freight trains at the Port of Kalama.
– $16 million to reduce passenger and freight train delays caused by frequent landslides between Everett, Wash., and Seattle.
"BNSF does not pay for the rail improvements," said Gayla Walsh, a spokeswoman for the state transportation department.
In other cases, the state is paying. Washington taxpayers chipped in $15 million for new tracks in Everett, each more than a mile long, to keep BNSF freights out of the way of Amtrak, as well as a curve realignment to raise passenger train speeds. The project also got $3.5 million in federal funds. The state transportation department estimated in 2007 that the investment would save two minutes on the trip between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.
BNSF's Mitchell said the railroad could have managed just fine with what it had at Everett without the publicly funded improvements.
"They needed it, and they paid for it," he said.


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Pantelleria, Italy
This summer retreat by ASA Studio Albanese is referred to by the owner and architect as an "innocent" design. Working with portions of an existing building juxtaposing the volcanic surround, this sun kissed adobe is a graceful intervention on a small isle just off the shore of Italy. Gauze-like fabric drapes effortlessly through the space to provide shade and transitions to public and private space while an open floor plans allows guests to move easily from space to space. The indoor/outdoor component of this villa epitomizes island living and the abundance of seating encourages conversations at every turn.


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March 20, 2017 09:00 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 20, 2017) - Canadian Banc Corp. (The "Company") declares its monthly distribution of $0.10833 for each Class A share and $0.04167 for each Preferred share. Distributions are payable April 10, 2017 to shareholders on record as at March 31, 2017.
Under the distribution policy announced in September 2013, the monthly dividend payable on the Class A shares is determined by applying a 10% annualized rate on the volume weighted average market price (VWAP) of the Class A shares over the last 3 trading days of the preceding month. As a result, Class A shareholders of record on March 31, 2017 will receive a dividend of $0.10833 per share based on the VWAP of $13.00 payable on April 10, 2017. The yield will remain stable at 10.00% (based on the VWAP) under this distribution policy.
Preferred shareholders continue to receive prime plus 0.75% with a minimum rate of 5.00%.
Since inception Class A shareholders have received a total of $12.22 per share and Preferred shareholders have received a total of $6.27 per share inclusive of this distribution, for a combined total of $18.49.
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Fort Knox soldier last seen visiting his parents reported missing by relatives
FORT KNOX, Ky. – The family of a Fort Knox soldier last seen visiting his parents on Thursday in Sarasota, Fla., has reported him missing.
The Manatee County sheriff's office in Bradenton, Fla., says Pfc. Daniel Dezinno left his parent's home to return to the central Kentucky military post but hasn't reported or been heard from since.
Relatives say they contacted the Florida Highway Patrol and Georgia Highway Patrol, but no one reported seeing the 30-year-old soldier.
Sheriff's department spokesman Dave Bristow says Dezinno's credit card was last used Friday. Bristow says Dezinno's phone was shut off the same day.
Bristow says there is no evidence indicating foul play or that Dezinno might be in danger.
Dezinno may be driving a 2005 silver Subaru sedan with Kentucky tag 168PHP.


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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976, respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-Pontoise. Ronan began independent design work immediately after completing his studies, while his brother, who was still in school, assisted him. Since 1999 both brothers have worked together as joint partners in their own design firm. Their work ranges from small utilitarian objects to architectural projects. In addition to the design of domestic and office furniture, vases, porcelain dishware, jewellery and diverse home accessories, a primary focus of their work is the design and organization of interior space.
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Among contemporary furniture manufacturers, Mattiazzi, a family owned producer of wooden furniture in Udine, Italy, is uncommon. While many producers in that region rely on third party factories and work in diverse materials, Mattiazzi operates with their own machines and hands, and has developed a healthy obsession for woodworking. Since 1978, when brothers Nevio and Fabiano Mattiazzi founded the company, Mattiazzi has steadily cultivated its local manufacturing culture. Each of their network of wood shops has its own focus, from milling to lacquering, and a particular process always belongs to a specific part of town. Their highly specialized craftsmen operate the most sophisticated machinery available to the wood industry. An eight-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft.


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Cyanuric Acid Commonly Added to Animal Feed
The IHT is reporting that the second chemical believed to have reacted with melamine to cause pet deaths is commonly used in animal feed in China. (Emphasis ours)
Three Chinese chemical makers said that animal feed producers often purchase, or seek to purchase, the chemical, cyanuric acid, from their factories to blend into animal feed.
The chemical producers said it was common knowledge that for years cyanuric acid had been used in animal and fish feed.
The disclosure is noteworthy not just because it is another indication that Chinese animal feed producers were intentionally doctoring the ingredients they sold, but because the practice of using cyanuric acid may provide clues as to why the pet food in the United States became so poisonous.


text: Thanks to Flickr user Matt Jones for hipping me to Udi Tirosh's recent homemade softbox design contest over on DIYPhotography.net. For those, like myself, who may be unsure, a "softbox" or "soft box" is simply a diffuse lighting source for taking photos, commonly with a reflective interior and one or more diffusing panels that scatter the light and help prevent it from casting harsh shadows. The contest had seventy submissions, reportedly, and Udi has winnowed it down to his top 24. My personal favorite is one of the runners-up, shown above, by Minneapolis photographer Frank Syse. It consists of two bright CFL bulbs, an IKEA lamp cordset, a socket Y-adapter, and a cut-and-paste foamcore box.


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text: Update: Changes to Child Labor Regulations in the Works October 31, 2011 08:00 AM Tweet UPDATE 10/31/11 The U.S. Department of Labor has extended the commenting period on new regulations for child labor on farms. Comments must be submitted through Regulations.gov, the federal government's public comment portal, by Thursday, December 1. Instructions for using Regulations.gov: 1) Click here to access the Regulations.gov portal 2) Fill out the requested information under ENTER INFORMATION 3) Copy the following text, paste it into the box under TYPE COMMENT and click SUBMIT The U.S. Department of Labor is hoping to improve the safety of young workers in agriculture by revising the current child labor regulations. The proposed changes prohibit children under the age of 18 from working with animals and in pesticide handling, timber operations, manure pits and storage bins. They also prohibit youths at grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feedlots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions. Children under the age of 16 would be prohibited from operating most power-driven equipment as well as connecting or disconnecting an implement or any part of the machine. All youths would be prohibited from using electronic devices while operating equipment as well. The proposed revisions do not apply to farm owners' children, but they do apply to other young relatives. These revisions mark the first time the Fair Labor Standards Act has been updated since 1970. The changes have been on the horizon for months and were announced in September. Their release came shortly after the agriculture community was deeply saddened by the loss of two girls in an irrigation accident in Illinois and the severe injury of two boys in Oklahoma from a grain auger accident. In a statement regarding the proposed changes, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said, "Children employed in agriculture are some of the most vulnerable workers in America. Ensuring their welfare is a priority of the department, and this proposal is another element of our comprehensive approach." The safety of youth is of utmost importance, but the proposed changes will make it more difficult for young people to learn the ropes of production agriculture. They also hold implications for FFA members who use farm labor as part of their supervised agricultural experience. Public comments are welcome until Nov. 1, 2011. To file electronically, visit www.regulations.gov. Mail comments to Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S-3502, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. Comments need to be identified as RIN 1235-AA06. Corn College Events Coming to You To help you take yields to the next level, Farm Journal announces its 2012 lineup for agronomic training. Kicking off the series will be Corn College for the South, followed by two Wheat College seminars. Our crew will then crisscross the Corn Belt and dip into Tennessee for five Planter Clinics. Mark the summer events on your calendar now as well: The week of July 16, we'll host Corn College near Bloomington, Ill. The week of July 30, Soybean College and Corn College events will take place in Coldwater, Mich. Check www.FarmJournalCornCollege.com for final dates, locations and registration details. Back to news


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In the last couple of years, my preferred BLAST output format has switched from BLAST XML to plain tabular output. The main reason for this it is easier to parse, and now gives easy access to more fields - BLAST+ 2.2.28 added descriptions and taxonomy output to the tabular and CSV output, but the cumulative effect is BLAST XML has been lagging behind.
However, there is a simple change the NCBI could make to greatly improve the usability of the tabular or CSV output - label the columns with a header line! This is vital meta-data: No-one should be forced to guess-the-columns when presented with a data file.


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College Honors Faculty/Staff for Serviceby Steve Charles • May 12, 2012 Share:
The Wabash College community gathered Friday in the Knowling Fieldhouse for the third annual Service Recognition Luncheon, paying tribute to staff and faculty who have served the College from 10 to 25 years and honoring Professor of Political Science David Hadley, who retires from the College this year after 43 years.
Members of the National Association of Wabash Men and the Board of Trustees joined President Pat White, administrators, faculty and staff for the event. Photos of the individuals honored can be found in the photo albums accompanying this article.
At the conclusion of the event and following a sustained standing ovation for Professor Hadley, President White paid special tribute to the late Bill Degitz, the College's former business office manager who died Wednesday at the age of 91. "One of Wabash's most loyal and quietly influential sons, he did much to advance the cause of Wabash in the 1950s and 1960s," President White said. "He was also a strong and vibrant leader in Crawfordsville—a gentleman and a citizen, Bill will be missed."
White noted that those honored Friday had served a combined 513 years at the College.
"But more than for the time you have served, we thank you for the contributions you have made to our mission," President White said. "Without your commitment, passion, spirit, and dedication, Wabash could not be Wabash. Thank you for your service in shaping our best imagination of who we are."
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THERE are many reasons why London is one of the best cities in the world, but all of them come in second behind the fact that London never stops changing. And if you think a sluggish economy put a stop to that, think again; if anything, the pace is picking up, in no small part due to next summer's Olympic Games.
Yet none of the changes coming to the city in the run-up to this momentous (and contentious) event — new rail links, a tarted up Leicester Square, what have you — merit quite as much attention to the grass-roots regeneration of East London that's been gathering steam for some years now. From Brick Lane to Homerton, Spitalfields to Dalston and back again, it seems at times that everything Londoners are talking about is happening somewhere out here, east of Liverpool Street Station.
Want to see what all the fuss is about? Next time you come to town, set aside a day or two and get to know a whole new side of London. Here's a handy little guide to an introductory (and rather leisurely) weekend in the new East End — go now, though; by this time next year, everything might well have changed all over again.
Lunch Hop onboard a sleek new East London Overground train — transfer at multiple points from the Tube or Docklands Light Railway — and head for Shoreditch High Street; a few steps in any direction from this station and you'll bump into some of the city's most up-to-the-minute shopping, dining and nightlife. North of the station, on unobtrusive Arnold Circus, ring the bell at the old Rochelle School for access to Rochelle Canteen
, an almost-secret little café in what's now an artist-studio complex. The proprietor is Margot Henderson; her husband Fergus is renowned for his cooking at London's famous St. John restaurant. Consequently, the brief lunch menu (served from noon until 3 p.m. only) goes far beyond the usual, with finds such as tiny smoked sprats, brown shrimp salad and foie gras terrine served with chutney, not to mention the likes of macaroon ice cream for dessert.
Afternoon What East London lacks in iconic museums, it more than makes up for with its gallery scene, a sprawling, shape-shifting beast of a thing, often involving trips to places where there are no tube stations (Hackney Wick, for instance). As a casual visitor, though, you should start at the Whitechapel Gallery
, an East End institution that recently completed a $21 million expansion that nearly doubled the size of the 100-plus-year-old institution. The gallery has played a significant role in the careers of many modern greats, bringing their work before London audiences for the first time. Today, visitors come to view the Kahlo's, Pollock's and Rothko's of tomorrow (free admission).
Evening No matter what time in the afternoon you get to Brawn
, the restaurant that's heating things up culinarily on an increasingly gentrified Columbia Road, you'll be welcomed in. They may not serve dinner until 6 o'clock but that doesn't mean you can't satisfy yourself with their fascinating booze list, which focuses on sustainably and organically produced wines from small growers around the globe. The same fanaticism extends to the menu — even for London, everything is obsessively sourced, from the smoked eel (Lincolnshire) to the oysters (Maldon, Essex) to the lardo (Tuscany) and beyond. This is at once both a small plates / wine bar type place and a real restaurant — oxtail & snail bourguignon, anyone?
Brunch After the evening's culinary adventures, the simplicity of Albion
will come as a relief; this smart rethink of the humble, all-day cafe is a highlight in sleek Shoreditch, an area that feels like London's Soho without the sleaze, or New York's TriBeCa with a little more grit. Bright décor, an open kitchen, big windows and piles of tasty baked goods in the shop at the front of the room all add up to the perfect day starter. Then again, with Terence Conran behind the scenes, you expect everything to be visually stunning. Luckily, the food isn't bad, either — the roasted root vegetable salad is enough to make anyone wonder why they ever bothered with red meat.
Afternoon If the streets of Hackney seem a little bit quiet on a Saturday morning, that's because pretty much everyone who's out and about is either on their way to, leaving or in the thick of the Broadway Market
fray. Dating back to the late 1800s but for years strictly a local thing, seeing and being seen along this bustling street, book ended by Regent's Canal and leafy London Fields Park, has become one of London's most popular weekend activities. Cupcake bakeries, coffee roasters and other artisanal whatnottery rests comfortably side-by-side with old school farm stalls and the classic Cooke's, a handsome old café known for its jellied eels. Nibble your way through the market, then stroll through London Fields on up to the center of Hackney. Stop in at The Wilton Way Café
; this little neighborhood hangout (from the gents behind the Notting Hill Arts Club) is just a short walk from the impressive art deco town hall. It is also one of the prime spots to observe just how deeply coffee fanaticism runs in London's café scene these days. Everything is prepared with care, using beans from Climpson & Sons in the Broadway Market, one of the roasters of the moment; the small food menu has been assembled with the equivalent attention to detail.
Evening Even the most ardent of London enthusiasts would have to admit that for years, eating out in the capital wasn't nearly the highlight of a visit. That's all in the past now, with meal after meal exceeding expectations. Perhaps no restaurant quite shows just how much London has changed than Hawksmoor
. Just a few doors up from the home office of retailer AllSaints Spitalfields, on grimy Commercial Street, Hawksmoor is a straight forward, simple place. It is a steakhouse, with meat sourced from one of the top butchers in town (The Ginger Pig). There are cocktails. The service is really nice. The whole thing feels luxurious and almost giddily American, except that the steaks are better by half than those served at some famous New York addresses, and the bartenders mix classics such as the Sazerac better than plenty you'll sip in New Orleans, the drink's spiritual home. Late last year, the owners expanded their empire to Central London, where most nights, a table is still nearly impossible to come by. At either restaurant, make sure to reserve.
Late night There are still plenty of places in London where the streets roll up after dark; Shoreditch is not one of them. A casual observer wandering through the nightlife zone around the bottom of Kingsland Road at 3 o'clock in the morning might get confused and think it's still before midnight. (It's not — you can tell by looking at how drunk everyone is.) Should you be feeling energetic in the later hours, repair to Mason & Taylor
, one in a handful of smart beer bars popping up around London. Here, staff are all about microbrews from both near and far. Their downstairs bar is open until 2 a.m. on weekends.
Morning Of the handful of Sunday markets that draw tourists out to the East End each week, perhaps the best is the Columbia Road Market
. Famous for its flowers — so many flowers! — the market is a little further off the beaten path; it's also a more charming neighborhood. Columbia Road has a High Street, Anywhere, UK, feel to it, visually, except that it's home to one of the city's best collections of one-off, independent shops dealing in everything from fashion to art to interior design. Devotees like to be at the market right when it gets started at 8 a.m.; if you're afraid of crowds, early is definitely better. But for maximum people watching, sleep in a little. The market runs until 3 p.m.
Lunch Steps away from the action on Columbia Road and tucked away inside the pleasant confines of Haggerston Park, Hackney City Farm is one of the East End's more charming little surprises. It's here that city kids come to pet sheep and feed goats and watch pigs rutting around in the muck. It's all very Detroit, this idea of urban farming (the abandoned industrial buildings across the road help set the scene as well). On premises, the simple but welcoming Frizzante
, a casual, family-oriented restaurant, feels a little like something at an Italian agriturismo, but with a less formidable language barrier. You've already spent an entire weekend having your impression of London turned on its head — why not have one more go?
East London isn't exactly crawling with excellent hotels, but it certainly offers more choice nowadays than in years past, from the hard-to-get rooms at Shoreditch House
(a member of the ever-expanding Soho House group) to the Conran clan's Boundary Project
, a collection of 12 artfully done rooms atop their popular Albion café on Redchurch Street — it's actually just another piece in a mini-empire at this address that also includes a fine dining restaurant and a rooftop bar. Other entries include the now mostly-overpriced Hoxton Hotel
, the overreaching, pretentious RE Hotel Shoreditch
and the oddly located Town Hall Hotel
in Bethnal Green, notable mostly for being home to Viajante, one of London's most talked-about restaurants. (A visit there, which you ought to consider, does not require that you spend the night.) Quite frankly, it's hard to imagine a better hotel on this side of town than the Crowne Plaza Shoreditch
, which offers quiet, clean rooms at attractive rates, particularly if you pay in advance. Sexy it ain't (though the décor is remarkably un-heinous), convenient it is, within walking distance from nearly everything we've recommended here. Plus, if you feel like cheating, the 242 bus stops right at the front door, whisking you into the West End in under a half hour on weekend evenings.


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CarComplaints.com Notes: If you're looking for a vehicle with one of the most complained about transmission on the road, look no further than the 2001-2003 Toyota RAV4.
In 2001 Toyota completely redesigned the popular SUV. While some enjoyed the new look, they did not enjoy the harsh shifting, jumping from gear-to-gear and eventual transmission failure that cost owners well over $3,000 to fix. The problem stems from a malfunctioning Electronic Control Module (ECM).
Consumer outrage coupled with pressure from different agencies led Toyota to extend the warranty nationwide back in 2010. The previous power train warranty only covered 5 years/60,000 miles, while the extended warranty now covers the transmission and ECM for 10 years/150,000 miles. Toyota also pledged to reimburse any owners who had previously paid for repairs, if they had "proper proof". Good luck collecting on that one.
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- Average Mileage:
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- Toyota Extends Warranty on Troubled 2001-3 RAV4 - Toyota is extending the warranty on automatic transmissions and electronic control modules on almost one quarter of a million 2001-2003 RAV4s and offering to reimburse owners who had already paid for repairs.


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An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is a test that evaluates problems in the urinary tract. It is done with an injection of material that is seen in the urine on
An IVP is done to identify:
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems like:
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Pregnant women should not have this test.
Leading up to the test:
An IV will be inserted. This will provide the contrast material and any medication that you will need. For the next 30-60 minutes, you will lie on a table while x-rays are taken at regular intervals. You may be asked to hold your breath each time an x-ray is taken. The material will highlight your urinary system on the x-ray. This will allow your doctor to see these body parts at work and detect problems. Before the last x-ray, you will empty your bladder in a bathroom.
You will be able to resume your normal activities and diet.
About 60-90 minutes
No, but you may feel a sensation of warmth or heat as the contrast material travels through your body.
It may take a few days to receive your test results. Your doctor will discuss the results with you, as well as any recommended treatment.
It is important to monitor your recovery. Alert your doctor to any problems. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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