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Biography of Edgar Allan PoePar Hikarina dans "Je" de l'écrivain et "Jeu" de l'écriture le 4 Avril 2012 à 21:45
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the father of the modern mystery, was born in Boston on January 19, 1809.
He was educated in Virginia and England as a child. It was during his later years at West Point that he showed a remarkable propensity for writting prose. As early as the age of 15, he wrote these words in memory of a female acquaintance. "The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young".
Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe's first love was poetry, although he was unable to make a living at it early on, he was able to publish two small volumes during these early years.
Only after becoming an assistant editor at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia, in 1835 did Poe's literary talents start to blossom. It was at this time in his life that Poe fell in love with his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. Their marriage forced him to find a source of income. When the editor of the Messenger offered employment, Poe eagerly accepted.
During his tenure at the Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe was an editor as well as a contributor. In early 1836, Poe was credited with "between 80 and 90 reviews, six poems, four essays and three stories, not to mention editorials and commentaries." (Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance)
Poe was to work for several publications as both editor and contributor. His career as an editor coincided with his growth as a writer. While working in Philadelphia for Burton's "Gentleman's Magazine" in 1839, Poe's work continued to flourish. At this time in his career he still was not secure financially, but his work was being recognized and praised, which helped greatly in furthering his reputation. During his tenure at Burton's he wrote such macabre tales as "The Fall of the House of Usher," and William Wilson. Tales like these psychological thrillers were to become Poe's trademark.
In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe began working for a man named George Graham, who offered him 0 a year to work for him as an editor. While at Graham's, Poe was preparing his famous work, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," for publication.
Published in April 1841, this story featured Auguste C. Dupin, the first-ever fictional detective. Poe's "tale of rationation," as he termed it, "inaugurated one of the most popular and entertaining forms of fiction ever conceived." (Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance)
It was during these years in Philadelphia that Poe published such trademark horror tales as "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Pit and The Pendulum."
It wasn't until the 1845 publication of Poe's famous poem "The Raven" that he achieved the true rise to fame that had been denied him until then. The public's reaction to the poem brought Poe to a new level of recognition and "could be compared to that of some uproariously successful hit song today."
In February 1847, Poe's young wife died of consumption. Poe was devastated by her death and penned these words, "Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone."
During the years following Virginia's death, Poe's life was taking a steady turn downward. He suffered through a suicide attempt, several failed romances and engagements, and a largely unsuccessful attempt to resurrect his failing career after a long bout with alcoholism and depression.
Poe died at the age of 40 in October 1849 in Baltimore. Although the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown, it seems clear that his death can be attributed to the effects of alcoholism. A contemporary of Poe's at the time remarked, "This death was almost a suicide, a suicide prepared for a long time." (Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance)
Although he lived a short and tragic life, Edgar Allan Poe remains today one of the most-beloved mystery writers in history. His contributions to literature and the mystery genre cannot be underestimated.
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Well, I don't really hate fall.
And the only reason I hate fall is that I grew up in Chicago, where fall was cold and rainy and portended a Chicago winter.
And another reason I hate fall is that it means the start of the school year, which for years meant the end of the freedom from bullying that summer provided.
But the main reason I hate fall is that it is when ginkgo trees drop their berries. According to the relevant Wikipedia article:
The seed coat contains butanoic acid and smells like rancid butter (which contains the same chemical) when fallen on the ground.
This is an understatement. The smell is in fact quite complex, and redolent of just about any foul-smelling substance or object you can think of. Perhaps the only worse smell I've smelled was produced by a small cyst on someone's back that, umm, exploded. I'll hide the identity of the afflicted, since I'm married to her. The incomparable David Sedaris describes the smell of a popped cyst thusly:
The stench... was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like—not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way.
The smell of ginkgo berries is better, but not much.
I've been obsessed with plants since the summer before I started high school, and I knew in theory of the smell of ginkgoes, though I hadn't experienced it firsthand. This was, I thought, because ginkgoes are dioecious -- there are separate male and female plants. (A more famous dioecious plant is Cannabis sativa, the females of which being the ones that are of recreational use.) There were ginkgoes aplenty in the Chicago neighborhood I grew up in -- ginkgoes are famous for their ability to thrive in harsh urban environments. Yet it was not until I was in college that I smelled ginkgoes in the fall -- there was a row of them next to the library. Studying became even more of a chore now that it involved running an arboreal gauntlet. Yet each fall an elderly woman, presumably originally from East Asia (she actually wore a conical hat) would brave the stench and gather the berries, which are eaten in many East Asian cuisines.
I was shocked, then, when I lived for a year between college and graduate school in the neighborhood I grew up in and found that in the fall the plentiful ginkgoes, or more accurately half of them, would produce copious and malodorous berries. What had changed? I can only assume that they were planted recently enough that they hadn't yet reached maturity when I was growing up. After all, I can't imagine that they were commonly planted in American cities a generation or two ago.
I quite like my current neighborhood in New York, but it is rank with ginkgoes. There is in fact not a single route I can take to campus that does not involve walking over patches of sidewalk piled with stinking ginkgo berries. Which is my current excuse for not going to the library.

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Tomorrow is the fourth Sunday after Pentecost. On it we celebrate the memory of the Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Ancyra. Here is a brief life:
The Holy Martyr Theodotus lived in Ancyra of Galatia in the third century. He was distinguished by his kindliness and concern. At the height of the persecution under Diocletian (284-305) he provided Christians with everything they needed, and gave them shelter in his home. There they secretly celebrated church services.Online resources:
St Theodotus visited the Christian captives in prison, paid their bail, and reverently buried the bodies of martyrs who had been thrown to the wild beasts. Once he buried the bodies of seven holy women martyrs, who were drowned in the sea (May 18). They reported this to the governor.
After refusing to offer sacrifice to idols, and denouncing the folly of paganism, St Theodotus confessed Christ as God, for which they subjected him to terrible tortures and beheaded him with a sword. They wanted to burn the holy martyr's body, but could not do so because of a storm which had arisen, so they gave his holy relics to a certain Christian for burial.
St Theodotus is also commemorated on May 18.
- Menaion service: Greek, Slavonic.
- Ochtoechos service (tone 3): Greek, Slavonic, English.
- Epistle reading: Romans 6: 18-23.
- Gospel reading: Matthew 8: 5-13.
- St John Chrysostom, homily 12 on Romans.
- St John Chrysostom, homily on 26 Matthew.
- Blessed Theophylact, Gospel commentary.
- Archbishop Andrei of Rockland, sermon.
- Fr Andrew Phillips, sermon.
- Fr Milan Medakovic, sermon.
- Fr George Dimpoulos, sermon.


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When I told people what I put in these cookies they were a bit skeptical about whether or not it would taste good. In my opinion, these are filled with all kinds of good stuff that go really well together: white chocolate, macadamia nuts, coconut and dried fruit. But everyone at the office loved them despite their initial apprehesion. I think the secret is using the best white chocolate you can find.
And just a reminder that the deadline to email me your Sugar High Friday Tropical Paradise submissions is
White Chocolate Tropical Chunk Cookies
(from Regan Daley's "In the Sweet Kitchen")
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temp
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
6 ounces fine quality white chocolate, chopped about the size of chocolate chips
3/4 cup unsalted macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped about the size of chocolate chips
1/3 cup dried mango, chopped about the size of chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheet pans with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream butter and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture until flour is just incorporated. Mix in coconut, white chocolate, macadamia nuts and dried fruit.
Form 1.25-inch diameter balls of dough, place them 2 inches apart on your cookie sheets, and slightly flatten the balls of dough with the bottom of a glass. Bake at 350F for 18-20 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are just golden brown.


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Everybody seems to be up in arms about it, either defending it or trying to destroy it.
Ideally, it would have provided something called universal health care. A basic level of health care for everyone, regardless of income. It doesn't do that. But, that's what conservatives were afraid it was going to deliver, since that smacks of "socialism" and they drag up old Cold War phobias to make us fear the concept.
So, what we really got was federally mandated health insurance.
Sort of.
From what I can find out, it isn't universal. If you are low income, you are likely to still not have any health care coverage, so you are still regarded as one of the "leeches" on the system and the reason that health care costs keep rising.
From where I'm sitting, in Mississippi, it looks like business as usual, but great for insurance companies.
Okay, I went through the enrollment process. The website everyone makes fun of worked just fine for me, and this was a couple of weeks ago when it was all new. We were offered very limited choices to start off. One company, that's it, folks. Reminds me of the electric company, we've got another monopoly going on. Maybe we'd have had more options if we lived on the coast or in Jackson, but even so, we're only 30 minutes from Hattiesburg now, and that's one of the larger cities in Mississippi. So it's one company with two plans, and they don't include the highest coverage, the platinum level. (Not that it mattered, we couldn't afford either one we were offered anyhow.)
The two lowest plans did not offer very good coverage, and it included a large deductible. To add to the injury, the crappy plans cost roughly $850-950 per month for a couple.
The state of Mississippi, like a number of other states that have vocalized their dislike of the "Obamacare" Affordable Health Care Act, has refused to consider expanding their Medicaid program. Likely it's due to the impoverished state of the Mississippi economy to begin with. After all, where would the money come from?
They are being generous. They will not fine those below the income threshold, which I assume is the poverty line. Whatever that line is, we're below it. So, it is status quo. No fine, no health care, and nothing has changed at all for us.
But let's do some math. Let's assume that a couple who is working 40 hours a week at minimum wage ($7.25 per hour). That would mean that they got an annual gross income of $30,160. They are paying an average of 26% of their income to taxes, Social Security, etc. That's $7841.60 leaving them with $22,318.40. Let's say that they select the lowest cost plan at $850 per month. Their annual costs will be $10,200. That leaves them with $12,118.40.
That sounds reasonable, right? Surely they can live on that, right?
Well, let's experiment. The average rent is about $600 per month, totaling $7200. Their annual income is now down to just $4918.40.
But, they have to get to work, and most of Mississippi doesn't have mass transportation of any kind. They don't live close to work, but they are careful with managing their lone vehicle so they are both able to get to and from work. Even so, they average 25 miles round trip each day, their vehicle is older so the annual cost of license and tags, combined with the inspection, totals to just $45 per year. They carry the minimum insurance, but it still costs $90 per month. Being an older vehicle, it also does not get good gas mileage, coming in at only 20 mpg, at an average cost of $3.15 per gallon. It also requires two annual oil changes, which cost $35 each, for another $70 per year. On average, they have to buy tires every fourth year, which cost $400, adding another $100 to their annual expenses. They pray it does not break down, as they are already spending a lot on their transportation, a grand total of $2732.19. That leaves them with $2186.21.
But, remember, they are still left with bills to pay for utilities, clothing expenses, and their grocery bill. The real problem is that after getting their affordable insurance, paying their rent, and getting to and from work, they are left to figure out how to survive on $182.18 per month.
That won't even cover their utilities, let alone let them cover their deductible, pay a co-pay, or buy a prescription. They won't be able to eat either.
But, a couple earning minimum wage, in the eyes of many, is not below poverty level.
I'm not seeing anything affordable in this. I'm not seeing anything resembling universal health care either. I damn sure don't see anything resembling socialism in it. The only ones who are actually going to have health insurance are the same ones that have it now, barring the ones who can afford it but are too cheap to pay their portion of the premium for their families through the plan offered by their employer.
I can remember those people well. Back in the "good old days" when I had an employer that offered health insurance and treated their employees as though they were a company asset (like good companies do), we had a giant hike in our health insurance premiums. They had a meeting with all of us, explained what was happening and why, as well as what their options were in terms of offering us health insurance plans. They listened to us, then came back with an option. The costs of extending insurance coverage to our families was going to have to be deducted from our paychecks, and we could elect to have coverage if we so desired. I desired–I had a kid with a chronic health problem (she was a type 1 diabetic who was often in the hospital). My co-workers, knowing that I paid about half of my paycheck to health insurance, asked me how I could afford it. For me it was simple. I could not afford to NOT have it. There is a vast difference in the kind of health care one receives with health insurance versus without it, and I had witnessed it first hand.
I also had pretty good insurance. I didn't have a lot of out-of-pocket expenses. Sure, I had a co-pay at the doctor's office, as well as for prescriptions, but it was reasonable and affordable. I didn't have big bills for the hospital stays, and I had both dental and vision coverage as well.
Even if I could afford the insurance plans offered via the so-called Obamacare plan, neither of them included dental or vision insurance. The co-pays were reasonable, but the deductible was a serious issue. So was the percentage of coverage on procedures and hospitalization. With only 60% coverage on these things, how is someone with $182.18 per month to pay utilities and groceries out of, going to pay even a $1000 procedure (far less than a single emergency room visit) which is going to cost $400 out-of-pocket.
The Affordable Health Care Act may have had some great intentions, but some how, along the way, it got left with loopholes and giant black holes that once again put insurance corporations into the drivers' seat leaving the rest of us clinging to the bumper and terrified. The worst part is, it hasn't even gone into effect yet. We have sticker shock, as well as discovering that we're ordered to choose from models X, Y and maybe model Z for health insurance, but we're standing here realizing that the other shoe hasn't dropped yet. What kind of problems are waiting to appear?
We, as a population, has little faith in the government in general and even less in the federal government. It's notorious for favoring those with mega-money and tromping on the little guy without regard for the welfare of the masses. It's all about special interest groups, with an ample seasoning of mismanagement and bureaucratic red tape.
It seems that there is only one escape from the tyranny of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Get elected to Congress.
Yep, they were smart. They made sure none of them would ever have to deal with this monstrosity that is neither affordable nor healthy.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer George Duke, best known as a pioneer of fusion jazz and for his collaborations with rock musician Frank Zappa, has died, his publicist said. He was 67.
Duke, who died on Monday night in Los Angeles, had been suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, publicist Mike Wilpizeski said.
Duke, known for embracing synthesizers and fusing jazz with other genres such as rock and funk, began his career in the mid-1960s after joining San Francisco's Half Note jazz club's house band, which was fronted by singer Al Jarreau.
The musician's international breakout album was 1969's "The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio," which is considered as one of the first fusion jazz recordings, combining jazz with the electric violin of the French virtuoso Ponty.
Duke's albums "Faces in Reflection," "The Aura Will Prevail" and "Liberated Fantasies," all released in the 1970s, are considered classics of jazz-funk fusion.
During that time, Duke also collaborated on several albums with Zappa as a member of his Mothers of Invention band, including "Chunga's Revenge," "The Grand Wazoo" and "Over-Nite Sensation."
Duke, who was born in San Rafael, California, was first exposed to jazz at the age of 4 when his mother took him to a performance by pianist Duke Ellington. He began his formal training at age 7 with the music of his Baptist church as his earliest influence.
His production work spanned jazz, R&B and pop music, including work on recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis, pop singer Barry Manilow, R&B singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson and country singer Lyle Lovett.
Duke also scored a pop hit in 1981 with "Sweet Baby," a collaboration with bassist Stanley Clarke. Duke earned Grammy awards for his jazz production work for singer Dianne Reeves in 2000 and 2001.
The last of 40 Duke's albums, "DreamWeaver," was released last month.
He is survived by his two sons.
Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Patricia Reaney and Bill Trott


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Modified Mustangs & FordsFeatured Vehicles
1965 Ford Mustang Convertible - Rolling Business Card
Iron Hill Auto Body's annual project car is designed to draw a crowd
While perusing a local car show you might stumble upon a ride that just looks right. It has mile-deep paint, a serious bit of power bolted between the framerails, and an interior that wows. You might even mutter something under your breath about wishing it was in your garage with your name on the pink slip. It's possible that you've just been wooed by a local shop's rolling business card. The concept is nothing new, as even the OEMs build customs and concepts to display at shows that have you going to their showrooms to check out this year's new cars. Iron Hill Auto Body's owner, Randy Space, loves to reel them in with similar builds, often starting with a fairly rough Mustang and putting upwards of $30,000 into the build, on average.
Iron Hill Auto Body builds a shop project to display at local events on an annual basis, with the "big" show being the Ocean City, Maryland "Cruisin' OC" event held each year in mid-May. Once the car has made its rounds and (hopefully) brought in some customers, the car is sold off to fund next year's project.
"The Cruisin' OC show is a great place to drum up business and we put out a lot of business cards and have gotten restoration work from it for sure," Randy stated. While we felt bad for Randy that he didn't get to keep his shop project from year to year, we didn't feel too bad when we found out he has a '70 Boss 302 and a '70 Mach 1 428 Cobra Jet in his garage already!
The convertible you see here started off as a rough customer car back in 2005. Said customer was having Randy's shop build a Boss 429 clone for him and when the bill slid across the table, the customer came up a bit short. He offered Randy the convertible for partial payment and after Randy and his crew inspected the car, he agreed to knock $1,500 off of the bill. Randy brought the car back to his own driveway since there was no room at Iron Hill Auto Body to keep the car. Needless to say, Randy's wife, Pam, was none too thrilled, especially since the tired ragtop held their driveway down for next five years. Randy's shop was into its fifth consecutive year of building a shop project for the local show circuit when he got the idea in late 2010 to build the convertible up for 2011. That date gave them a scant seven months to build the car.
Randy and Iron Hill Auto Body employee, Ron Falkner, began the build in Randy's home shop (still no room at Iron Hill to build personal projects like this!). The tag team worked every night and all day Saturday on the car, first setting it up on a frame jig to verify the chassis datum points and to keep the car straight as metal was replaced. Randy wanted to keep the overall classic lines of the early convertible, but design a few of his own signature items to tweak the lines a bit. The fiberglass rear spoiler is his own design (and he still has the mold if anyone is interested in buying one), while the sidescoops and the hoodscoop are straight out of the Branda catalog. If you spied something was up with the taillight panel, you'd be right. Randy had a local shop with the appropriate sized press brake fashion a louvered panel for the taillight area. After cutting openings for the taillights and fuel fill, it was welded in, giving the car an interesting effect. "I probably have a 100 hours or more just in the taillight panel," Randy commented when we asked how it was made.
The body was prepped and sprayed with a selection of Spies Hecker colors, including Vivid Blue Metallic for the main base coat and Raven Black for the accent stripe. An orange pinstripe separates the two hues and is buried under several layers of clear that has been wet sanded and buffed to a depth you have to see to appreciate. Of course, with a slick, attention-getting paintjob like this, there's only one thing to do under the hood and that is to add cubic inches. Randy dropped an aluminum-headed 347 stroker down on the engine mounts and backed it with a Tremec TKO-500 five-speed. Having that Fifth gear overdrive means this car can be driven to events near and far, even with a 3.56 geared 9-inch out back. Randy does tell us, though, that the engine's powerband and the five-speed combination probably would have better liked a 4.11 gear to make overdrive more usable at lower speeds. Live and learn, right?
Keeping that 475-horse stroker in line is a full complement of 12-inch Wilwood discs with four-piston binders at each corner and a Heidts Superide II IFS up front with a matching four-link rear out back. The sticky BFG tires wrapped around 17-inch five-spokes from the ION Alloy Wheels catalog brings the convertible up to date, while maintaining a classic vibe using the charcoal centers.
"I would have liked to have added fuel injection as well, but you have to draw the line somewhere. You get to building too expensive of a car and it won't sell, and I need the money to fund the next project," Randy explained. As it is, the convertible parts receipts alone totaled $35,000!
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The interior was freshened with TMI's Sport R seat foam and upholstery along with a custom console, gauges, stereo system, and more. The most notable upgrade, though, is when the black power top goes down—a late-model Mustang light/styling bar (often found bolted into Saleen Mustangs and available in the aftermarket to add a simulated rollbar look) gives the topless Mustang a convertible Shelby look, just bring your own surfboards.
The Cruisin' OC show came and went, and while the convertible certainly got its fair bit of attention, no one with deep enough pockets showed up to take it off of Randy's hands. Randy later tried the Mecum auction, but the convertible didn't bring enough money to meet the reserve price and it came home with Randy once again. It was just recently that Randy finally sold this shop project through the popular auction site eBay Motors.
"This convertible has been the most fun car I've ever built. A real joy," Randy says when we asked him to compare it to his previous shop projects. He says, "the 428 Cobra Jet Mach and Boss 302 are just not as fun to drive." Randy's shop used to build all stock restoration type stuff, but it got "boring" and now prefers to build modified cars. Call them restomods, Pro Touring, G-machine, or whatever you like, but suffice it to say, there won't be any boring cars coming out of the doors at Iron Hill Auto Body for the 2014 show season.
|The Details
|1965 Ford Mustang convertible
|Randy and Pam Space's
|347ci small-block stroker, 475 hp
|4.030-inch bore
|3.400-inch stroke
|Bored and honed with torque plates
|Decked and line honed, ground for stroker clearance
|Scat cast steel crankshaft
|Scat 5.400-inch I-beam connecting rods
|Ross forged pistons
|Perfect Circle rings, 1.5/1.5/3mm
|Trick Flow aluminum cylinder heads, bowls blended
|Trick Flow 2.02-inch intake, 1.60-inch exhaust valves
|PAC double springs
|Trick Flow 1.6:1 roller rockers
|Trend 7.450-inch pushrods
|Bullet hydraulic roller camshaft
|0.595/0.595-inch lift, 237/241-degrees duration at 0.050
|Edelbrock aluminum intake
|Demon 650-cfm four-barrel carburetor
|MSD Ready-to-run distributor
|Concept One serpentine system
|Hanlon Motorsports prepped Tremec TKO-500 five-speed manual
|Custom shifter handle
|9-inch housing
|Traction-Lok differential
|Moser 31-spline axles
|Patriot headers, 15⁄8-inch primaries
|2½-inch aluminized mandrel-bent dual exhaust
|FlowTech 2½-inch mufflers
|Front: Heidt's Superide II double A-arm, billet aluminum coilover shocks, power rack-and-pinion
|Rear: Heidt's four-link, billet aluminum coilover shocks
|Front: Wilwood disc, 12-inch drilled and slotted rotor, four-piston polished caliper
|Rear: Wilwood disc, 12-inch drilled and slotted rotor, four-piston polished caliper
|Front: ION 625, charcoal gray finish, 17x6
|Rear: ION 625, charcoal gray finish, 17x9
|Front: BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW, P225/45ZR17
|Rear: BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW, P275/40ZR17
|Black Pony interior with TMI Sport R bolstered seats and TMI headrests; Auto Custom Carpets black carpet set; LeCarra steering wheel; JME brushed stainless gauge cluster with Auto Meter Phantom gauges; Custom Auto Sound stereo, kick panel speaker pods with 5-inch speakers; custom Shelby–style center console; custom modified styling bar from '99 Mustang convertible; interior by Iron Hill Auto Body and CE Walls Upholstery
|Speis Hecker Vivid Blue Metallic base/clear finish with Raven black and orange accents by Iron Hill Auto Body, fiberglass hood- and quarterscoops from Tony Branda Mustang, custom fabricated fiberglass rear spoiler, custom ribbed taillight panel, rear framerails moved inboard 2 inches, mini-tubbed, black power top


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Congo army takes M23 rebel stronghold
BUNAGANA, Congo (AP) — The Congolese army retook one of the last remaining strongholds of the M23 rebels Wednesday, with fighters running for the hills as the military sought to extinguish the 18-month-old insurrection, officials said.
As the army retook the town of Bunagana, leaving the M23 with a small sliver of territory, the civilian leader of the rebel movement fled Congo, crossing the border into Uganda and prompting calls for his extradition.
The recapture of Bunagana comes just days after the U.N. special representative said: "We are witnessing the military end of the M23."
In an address to the nation late Wednesday, Congolese President Joseph Kabila warned the remaining members of the M23 to turn themselves in, saying: "I reiterate my call to the members of this armed group who have just been flushed out of our territory ... to demobilize themselves voluntarily," Kabila said. "Failure to do so will leave us with no option but to force them to do by force."
An Associated Press reporter who accompanied the Congolese troops as they took Bunagana saw the soldiers fan out as they entered the town in order to do house-to-house searches. M23 fighters could be seen running away up a hill. Small skirmishes, however, continued and the government finally secured control of the town by midday, army spokesman Lt. Col. Olivier Hamuli said by telephone to The Associated Press.
"We are now securing the city after the rebels fled," he said. "We have found a lot of weapons that they abandoned here. Their political leaders have crossed the border and about 40 fighters are headed toward Runyonyi and we are tracking them down."
M23 political head Bertrand Bisimwa was among those who crossed into Uganda and headed toward the capital of Kampala, officials in both countries said. Congo called for him to be returned home amid reports he left the country in vehicles that stolen during M23′s siege of Goma one year ago, the provincial capital of eastern Congo whose fall to the rebels marked one of the most humiliating defeats for the Congolese military, whose soldiers were seen running away from the front line.
The events of the last few days mark a stunning turnaround for the Congolese troops, who have long been plagued by indiscipline and corruption among their ranks, making them no match for groups like M23, which until recently was allegedly backed by neighboring Rwanda.
M23 launched its movement in April 2012, becoming the latest reincarnation of an ethnic Tutsi rebel group dissatisfied with the Congolese government. Neighboring Rwanda, whose president is also an ethnic Tutsi, provided weapons, recruits and training to the M23, according to a report by U.N experts. Rwanda's government denies the allegations, saying Congo's government has failed to police its territory.
The group has been substantially weakened in the past year by internal divisions and waning Rwandan support, according to the U.N. Defections from the M23 are up this month, totaling 80 in October. Thirty-three surrendered alone on Tuesday, according to chief U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky.
The Congolese military has capitalized on these rebel setbacks by pushing ahead with new offensives beginning in August that have been supported by a specially created United Nations Intervention Brigade.
In the last week, Congo has scored a series of successes and taken back half a dozen towns from rebel control to the cheers of local residents waving palm leaves and running alongside their vehicles. The unrest, though, also has prompted a mass exodus of civilians.
This is only the latest unrest to prompt displacement in eastern Congo, which has now been mired in conflict for nearly two decades. Ethnic Hutu militias blamed for taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide fled across the border to eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda to invade twice in an attempt to crush them.
The fighting has exposed civilians to unspeakable atrocities as groups have carried out massacres and burned down villages in recent years. Rebels including the M23 are accused of carrying out mass rapes and conscripting children as armed fighters.
Associated Press writers Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda; Krista Larson in Dakar, Senegal; and Peter James Spielmann at the United Nations contributed to this report.


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On November 7, I represented the State Department at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for its "Kristallnacht: 75 Years Later" program. The Kristallnacht, or "the Night of Broken Glass," occurred in Germany and Austria November 9-10, 1938, when Nazi party officials, Storm Troopers, the SS, and Hitler youth, joined by some civilians, carried out a wave of anti-Jewish violence throughout these countries. The term Kristallnacht refers to the untold number of broken windows in synagogues, stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the violence.
At the Holocaust Museum's commemorative event, three Holocaust survivors shared their memories of that terrible night and its aftermath.
Commemorating such anniversaries is important for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it honors the victims and survivors of that senseless violence. Secondly, it reminds us of the lessons we should learn from the passive acceptance, and at a times cheerful consent, that marked the reactions of the local population. Countless citizens stood by and did nothing.
Kristallnacht was a turning point for National Socialism. It empowered Nazis and terrorized the Jewish community. The lack of outrage or action from ordinary people in defense of Jewish friends and neighbors signaled to the emerging Nazi regime it could get away with extreme measures.
Although the atrocities perpetrated during the Kristallnacht did arouse outrage in Western Europe and the U.S., little concrete action was taken to help the Jews of Germany. At a November 15, 1938 press conference, President Roosevelt stated: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States...I myself could scarcely believe that such things could occur in a 20th century civilization." He instructed that the 12,000-15,000 refugees already in the United States on temporary visitor visas could remain in the country indefinitely.
However, the events of the Kristallnacht foreshadowed the historic tragedy of the Holocaust. Seventy-five years later, we need to heed the lessons of that day by speaking up and taking action against hate, by identifying and addressing atrocity threats, and by ensuring that mass murder, such as that which occurred during the Holocaust, is never repeated. We all have the power to be agents of positive change.
About the Author: Ira Forman serves as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.


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Simple, healthy, gluten-free cooking.
Frozen Treats
August is hot, usually. We have not had real heat here in Wisconsin yet, but are hoping for some heat to help ripen the tomatoes. But the usually cool northeast blistered in July.
So in the spirit of a sizzling summer, we will make frozen treats. Let's make them dairy, egg, and soy free, too.
A favorite is Monkey Tails. We used to call them frozen bananas with peanut butter and chocolate, but the kids said, "Those are Monkey Tails!" A much better name indeed. This is a fun recipe for the whole family to help make. Or, even the whole neighborhood of kids. Kids can sign their popsicle sticks if they want to keep track of their own. Dessert and penmanship, I like that combo. The recipe is easily halved or doubled. Monkey Tails will last in the freezer for a month, if there are any leftovers.
The amount of peanut butter and chocolate are somewhat flexible because the size of your bananas will vary. Oil is added to the chocolate to make it less brittle when you bite into it. It still gets hard though, so you do not miss a satisfying crunch, but you do not lose any chocolate that shatters to the floor.
Please try dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate here even for folks who think they do not like dark chocolate. The sweet banana and the creamy peanut butter are perfect compliments to full flavored dark chocolate. And, all of these ingredients are healthy. Fruit, legumes, and antioxidant rich dark chocolate.
Gluten-free ingredients
Many plain chocolates are gluten-free. For any brand you are considering, it is a good idea to visit their website for gluten information. Call the company if nothing is posted.
Ghirardelli is one I like. I posted on the gluten-free status of their types of chocolate. Please see http://blog.kitchentherapy.us/2009/04/does-this-have-gluten-in-it for more in depth information. Their dark and milk chocolate chips are gluten-free. Their white chocolate chips are made on a line that also makes products with wheat. And, a white Monkey Tail is just not right. Most peanut butters will work. I like creamy because it is a bit easier to spread on the bananas. Regular, organic, natural, all work. Plain peanuts and peanut butter are gluten-free. But be sure to read the label. A new brand, Naturally More peanut butter contains wheat germ. So, of course, it has gluten added.
Allergic to peanuts?
Any nut or seed butter will work. Almond, cashew, macadamia, pecan, walnut, soy nut, sunflower,tahini, your choice.
Monkey Tails
Serves 4
4 ripe bananas, unpeeled
8 wooden sticks
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1 tablespoon oil
Cut unpeeled bananas into two halves and insert stick into cut ends. Then peel then the bananas.
Spread peanut butter over each banana. Place bananas on a cookie sheet lined with plastic wrap. Freeze until cold, at least one hour.
Place chocolate chips and oil in a microwave safe bowl. Warm in 30-second intervals until the chips are melted and smooth. The chips can melt inside without losing their shape, so stir after each heating.
Spread chocolate over the frozen bananas. Return to freezer for about 10 minutes, or until the chocolate is firm. At this point, the bananas will have a hard crunchy coating, but will not be completely frozen through. You can eat now, or wrap in plastic wrap and freeze further.
For long-term storage, store wrapped bananas in a sealable freezer container. That way you can corral all your monkeys and not find an escapee 11 months later.
Monkey Tails are fun for the kids… well, for everyone. But maybe you want something a bit classier.
Frozen Blueberry Terrine makes a grand entrance. And terrine sounds fancy, mostly because many people do not know what it is. Here it is simply a dessert made in a loaf pan. Don't you think terrine sounds nicer than frozen loaf?
This recipe is from the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. They called it "Layer Cake" instead of frozen terrine. It is definitely not cake. See http://www.blueberrycouncil.org/recipes-popup.php?id=27for a pretty picture.
Sorbet and sherbet. What is the difference?
Sorbet is made with fruit juice or puree, sweetener, and water. Sherbet has these ingredients too, as well as dairy, gum stabilizers, and egg whites. Sorbet freezes a bit softer than sherbet and it seems more
expensive than sherbet. Sherbet works fine in this recipe for you do not need to be completely dairy and egg free. Again, be sure to read the labels for any wheat based additions to certain flavors. For example, Edy's/Dreyers Lemon Bar sherbet flavor has lemon bar pieces made with wheat.
It is true this is a low fat dish, but the healthiest parts of this treat are the blueberries and the walnuts. A small portion of this frosty confection can cool you off on a steamy day.
Blueberry Citrus Frozen Terrine
Serves 8
½ cup finely chopped walnuts
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons blueberry preserves, or jam, divided
1 pint orange sorbet, slightly softened
1 pint lemon sorbet, slightly softened
1 cup fresh blueberries
Line the bottom and sides of an 8x4 inch loaf pan with a double layer of waxed paper.
In a small bowl, stir together walnuts and ¼ cup blueberry preserves. Set aside.
Spoon orange sorbet into the lined pan, smoothing to make an even layer.
Spread the preserve mixture over the orange layer.
Spoon the lemon sorbet over the preserve mixture.
Cover tightly and freeze several hours or overnight.
Mix remaining preserves with blueberries.
To serve: Slice terrine, place on serving plate and top with blueberry sauce.
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By: Christina Gentile, NFCA Volunteer Staff Writer
August is here and soon it will be back to school for many children, teenagers, and college students. Shopping for new clothes, textbooks, and supplies are just a few hurdles to jump over when preparing your child for the new year. As the school year approaches, you may be wondering how to stock your kitchen with gluten-free foods to prepare nutritious and tasty lunches for your child, and how to create gluten-free, convenient and easy-to-make snacks. My best advice is to plan ahead! Make a grocery list of all possible items that you could purchase to make lunch time easy, affordable, and of course, delicious! You may not find all of your grocery needs at one store, and may have to shop at a retailer that has a broader array of gluten-free products, in addition to your mainstream grocer.
Nonperishable items that last several months frozen or unopened are great to stock up on and have accessible. These include gluten-free breads, bagels, frozen waffles, pancake mix, noodles, cereals, rice cakes, snack bars, tortilla and potato chips, and cookies. Some of my favorite products include Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix, Envirokidz Cereals and Bars, Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Cereal, General Mills Chex Cereal (now available in Rice, Corn, Strawberry, Chocolate, and Cinnamon!), Bakery on Main Gluten-Free Granola bars, Enjoy Life Foods (bars, cookies, bagels, trail mix, and granola), and Glutino brand foods (breads, bagels, crackers, cereal, bars, cookies, pretzels, and breadsticks). Perishable items to buy on a regular basis include dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese, and string cheese), eggs, deli meat, and fresh fruit and vegetables. Other items to have handy include pasta sauce, peanut butter, jelly, gluten-free dressings, raisins, rice cakes, and canned beans.
Preparing a filling and tasty lunch can be easy and challenge free, especially if you plan ahead for the week. And, having healthy snacks available are a great idea because most children come home from school "starving" (as they claim!), and, in most cases, they will eat the first thing they see. So stock up on healthy and nutritious snacks for your child to grab instead of calorie dense, nutrient poor foods!
Making your child's lunch can be an easy and excellent way to fuel him or her with vital nutrients. To avoid boredom, use a variety of foods, "add-ons" and different menu ideas. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich may become tasteless to your child if he or she eats it on a consistent basis, so try to mix it up with several alternatives such as: peanut butter and banana sandwich, peanut butter and jelly on rice cakes, or try a peanut butter wrap (2 tbsp peanut butter, 1 tsp honey, ¼ cup Enjoy Life Foods granola, and 1 corn tortilla). For more lunch menu ideas, see below!
Several quick snack ideas that are nutritious, easy to prepare, and child friendly include individual cups of nonfat yogurt with fresh berries, bowls of grapes and strawberries with a slice of cheese, cut up melon, a plate of cut up veggies (cucumber, carrots, and celery), healthy homemade dips for the veggies (salsa, gluten-free ranch dressing…see last month's newsletter for dip ideas!), corn quesadillas, baked corn tortilla chips with ¼ cup black beans, gluten-free trail mix, fresh fruit smoothies, milk and a gluten-free cookie, bar, or a small muffin.
Other quick snack ideas that are nutrition filled and are fun for children to make include the following:
Here are several different lunch ideas that you can prepare for your child. Try some of these in addition to the traditional PB&J sandwich!
In addition to the "main course" of the lunch, pack your child with some sides or snacks to help keep him or her sustained for the rest of the school day. These may include fresh fruit and veggies with dip, fruit salad or fruit cup, raisins, applesauce, gluten-free trail mix, bar or cookies, pretzels, pirate's booty, bag of dry cereal, crackers with peanut butter, ants on a log, a gluten-free muffin, nuts, bag of gluten-free chips or corn tortilla chips, and any of the snack ideas mentioned above!
To get you started for a new school year, here are a few lunch menus to test out with your child. I wish you the best of health, happiness, and success as you and your child enter the new school year!
By: Lynn Cicero, Registered Dietitian
Once you have gotten comfortable with the gluten-free aspect of the diet, it is time to take a look at other nutritional concerns. If not planned carefully, the gluten-free diet can be high in calories, fat and cholesterol and low in vitamins and fiber.
Gluten-free snack foods often have twice the calories of their gluten containing counterparts. This is because many of the substitute flours are highly refined and dense. That means more calories packed in an equal measure. Some baked products use a high fat content to provide tenderness to the product. A serving of regular pretzels is a low calorie, low fat snack food. A serving of regular pretzels may contain 80-100 calories while gluten-free pretzels may have twice this number of calories. The foods on the perimeter of the supermarket, i.e. fruits and vegetables, are naturally gluten-free. Try snacking on some crunchy baby carrots dipped in low-fat gluten-free salad dressing. Apples are a sweet and crunchy snack. Some supermarkets are now carrying them already sliced and vacuum packed in serving sized bags. These can be spread with a little peanut butter or dipped in low-fat vanilla yogurt. And, speaking of yogurt, how about a container of low-fat fruit flavored yogurt (without additives)? A mix of gluten-free oat cereal "O's", Rice Chex, gluten-free granola and dried fruit make a tasty snack mix.
Because highly refined grains are often used in the making of gluten-free products, they may also be low in fiber. It takes a little effort to add fiber to a gluten-free diet. Be a little adventurous and think about adding soba noodles, which are made from buckwheat as side dish or in a soup. Buckwheat is high in fiber. Quinoa which is a trendy new grain also provides fiber as well as iron. Toss it in your rice cooker with some raisins and pignoli nuts to make a quinoa pilaf for a side dish. Quinoa can also be served as a cold salad. It is good mixed with some shredded carrots, parsley and a lemon vinaigrette dressing. A good old baked potato with skin is a good fiber source. There is almost no end to the toppings to be added to a baked spud. Wild rice, which is really a grass not a rice, is also high in fiber. Amaranth may not be a household name but it should be. It has a nutty flavor that is good for thickening soups and casseroles or as a hot breakfast cereal. Amaranth is high in fiber.
Ignoring the fruit and vegetable groups in favor of meat and meat products can lead to a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol. Choose lean cuts of meat and keep portions at each meal to the size of a deck of cards. Fill a quarter of the plate with grains and the rest with vegetables and salad. Vegetables don't have to be eaten naked! Clothe them in a tasty sauce or a little flavored olive oil. Add chopped tomatoes to green beans. One slice of low-fat American cheese microwaved with three tablespoons of milk makes a quick cheese sauce. Add a touch of hot sauce for a perkier version. Grill a tomato half topped with flavored bread crumbs alongside the dogs and burgers. Shredded carrots mixed with raisins and low-fat mayonnaise can be used as an appetizer. Fruit makes a healthy dessert. Bake an apple or add some orange juice to sliced bananas and sprinkle with a dash of allspice. Grilled pineapple chunks on a skewer with a little brown sugar are an easy summer time treat.
Most gluten containing grain products are fortified with B-vitamins. The whole grains contain the germ of the grain which has Vitamin E, minerals and the B-vitamins. The gluten-free diet needs to include vitamin packed alternatives – amaranth, buckwheat, millet, quinoa and brown rice to make up for the absence of whole wheat products. The number of gluten-free grains that are available to provide high nutrient density menu items is varied both in characteristics and flavor. It just takes a little thinking outside the box – cereal box that is!
By: Dr. Vikki Peterson, DC, CCN
Here are some answers…
Too often patients come to us with health complaints intact despite removing gluten successfully from their diet.
Engaging in a meticulous search for any "hidden" gluten is definitely a first step but if symptoms persist, there's much that can be done.
Let's look at the various secondary effects that having celiac disease or gluten sensitivity can create and how to treat them.
The first thing to realize is that consuming gluten for many years has resulted in intestinal damage. And, while removing gluten is a very good thing, the deficiencies created don't "turn around" overnight.
Sometimes, without some assistance, they don't turn around at all.
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PPM stands for parts per million. It is the basic measurement used by toxicologists to determine levels of toxins, in our case gluten. The best research available says that someone with celiac disease can
The NFCA's Gluten-Free Lifestyle Webinar Series is sponsored by Blue Diamond Growers Nut-Thin Crackers.
We are still hard at work planning the next Webinar session! Be sure to check our "Education" tab for frequent updates on upcoming information sessions
We hope you will all register and join us for one of these fantastic and informational sessions!
Early Bird and Sponsorship Deadlines Approach for Appetite for Awareness
NFCA's signature event, Appetite for Awareness, is a dream come true for the 1500 attendees who experience the rare treat of both safe and delicious food at every turn. Guests can sample delicacies from more than 25 of Philadelphia's top chefs, plus those of dozens of vendors – all of which are not only gluten-free, but are lusciously mouth-watering as well. The event features an "Iron-Chef" like competition, where eight teams of prestigious chefs and top docs strive to create the best gluten-free dish.
Held at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on September 30th , the evening features a pre-event VIP Reception that will provide you with an opportunity to congratulate our honorees, John Binswanger and his Family and enjoy personal face-time with our chefs who include Jose Garces, Marci Turney and Mark Vetri.
Early Bird registration is available for $75 if you secure your spot by September 1st. VIP tickets can also be purchased online. Sponsorship opportunities also are available for both individuals and businesses. To ensure your spot as a sponsor in all of our upcoming promotional opportunities, please contact Jennifer North at [email protected].
For more information, visit www.appetite4awareness.org.
NFCA's Gluten-Free Cooking Spree Comes To San Francisco
On October 30, 2009, the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) will host the 2009 San Francisco Gluten-Free Cooking Spree in the stunning Administration Building (Building 1) on historic Treasure Island located in San Francisco Bay and created in 1936 for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Event guests will enjoy a surprising and dramatic view of the city.
The Gluten-Free Cooking Spree joins the medical and lifestyle aspects of celiac disease to increase education and awareness about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet.
Ten top chefs will partner with renowned area doctors and media representatives to create delicious gluten-free food for all to sample as these teams compete for the Best Gluten-Free Dish of the evening. Guests also will enjoy a buffet of hearty hors d'oeuvres, desserts, beer and wine--all gluten-free. Come hungry!
NFCA is proud to announce that Dr. Phillip G. Zimbardo will serve as a judge for this Cooking Spree. Dr. Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, two-time past president of the Western Psychological Association and past president of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Zimbardo is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, researcher and media personality, winning numerous awards and honors in each of these domains. He has been a Stanford University professor since 1968, having taught previously at Yale, NYU and Columbia. Dr. Zimbardo is noted for his books that bring the study of psychology to the public. His most recent book, "The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life", was published in 2008 by Free Press preceded by "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" (Random House, 2007).
NFCA welcomes people who have been eating gluten-free for years, those that have been newly diagnosed, their friends, family and those just wanting to learn more about the disease and the living gluten-free.
Enjoy the Marketplace where vendors will share samples of their products, give product coupons and sell their wares. All attendees will take home a fabulous goodie bag filled with treats from a variety of gluten-free vendors. NFCA staff will be on hand and resources and materials concerning celiac disease and the gluten-free diet will be available. And, you can take a chance on a silent auction and win terrific prizes!
For information, please go to the NFCA website, www.beyondceliac.org, or call 215-325-1306, ext. 101.
Every week, NFCA receives calls, cards and letters asking about ways to make a connection within the celiac community. Some want to sell their businesses, some want to hire a baker, and others just want to know who to contact about that special something. With that in mind, we are launching Celiac Connections, a section of the CeliacCentral newsletter that offers a venue for this exchange.
If you would like to have an entry in this portion of future newsletters, please contact the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness at [email protected].
Lundberg Creamy Parmesan Risotto
Risotto is one of my favorite side dishes. Lucky for me it is naturally gluten-free so I can have as much of it as I please! The only down side to risotto is that it's not the quickest dish to make. I love Lundberg's Creamy Parmesan Risotto because it is on the table in 20 minutes flat and has microwave cooking instructions, as well as stove top. It comes out creamy, full of flavor and reheats well over several days. Aside from Creamy Parmesan, my personal favorite, you can also find Lundberg risotto in Italian Herb, Porcini Wild Mushroom and Garlic Primavera. You can find Lundberg risotto in mainstream grocery stores in the rice aisle. If you fall in love with it as I have, you can also buy in bulk from Amazon.
Kinnikinnick's Kinnikritters
When I was young, animal crackers were a staple in my house. I always had a baggie of them with me and my mom always had a spare in her purse. As I grew older, I always kept them on hand for nieces and nephews and took them with me on babysitting jobs. Now that we are all becoming more aware of the prevalence not only of celiac disease, but of a host of common food allergies, I have switched over to Kinnikinnick's Kinnikritter. They are the gluten-free version of animal crackers and are also free from casein, dairy, egg, peanuts, tree nuts and yeast. The Kinnikinnick website has a store locator feature that will help you find these and other Kinnikinnick products near you. If you prefer, you can also order right from their website. http://consumer.kinnikinnick.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/consumer.home.htm
Premier Japan Hoisin and Teriyaki Sauce
When I was first learning to cook gluten-free meals for myself, I was disappointed time and again when I would take bottle after bottle of Asian stir fry sauce off the store shelf only to see wheat listed in the ingredients. I finally discovered gluten-free tamari and a handful of other spicy chili sauces and sort of settled into the idea that that's what my stir fry would consist of from now on. That is until I found Premier Japan's gluten-free Hoisin and Teriyaki sauces! I was absolutely thrilled to taste these flavors again and to jazz up my stir fry once again. Not all of Premier Japan's sauces are gluten-free, so be sure to check that you are, in fact, purchasing one of their gluten-free varieties. You can order gluten-free Premier Japan Sauces here: http://www.glutenfree.com/item_detail.aspx?ItemCode=955042
Bi-Aglut – Sedani
Since beginning my gluten-free diet, I've found rice pasta, corn pasta, quinoa noodles and several other varieties of pasta, but only recently did I find egg noodles, which I love. I think they are the most delicious kind of noodle to put in soups. Whether it's chicken noodle soup to cure the common cold or a simple broth, adding egg noodles make for a heartier dish. They are also fantastic served with a gluten-free marinara sauce. Bi-Aglut - Sedani brand is very much like traditional egg pasta. This company also offers gluten-free egg lasagna noodles and tagliatelli. I have not personally seen this product in stores, but that doesn't mean it's not. For now, I just order mine here: http://www.glutenfree.com/Bi-Aglut-Sedani/Item404001
Celiac and the Elderly
New research out of Finland shows that celiac doesn't just affect the younger population, but can also be detected for the first time later in life. In this study, researchers specifically investigated whether some older people had actually developed celiac disease later in their lives, or the disease had just gone undetected. Researchers tested over 2000 individuals over the age of 55 in 2002 and again in 2005. In 2005, there were five new cases in individuals that tested negative back in 2002. This finding led researchers to conclude that the elderly can develop the disease late in life. To learn more, visit:
Phillies Host 2nd Annual Celiac Awareness Night
On July 20th, the Phillies hosted the second annual Celiac Awareness Night at Citizens Bank Park with great success! The event raises money for and spreads information about the autoimmune digestive disease that affects roughly three million Americans. Working together with the Phillies, the NFCA sold over 500 tickets, raising over $2,000 at the Phillies vs. Cubs game. Thanks to Aramark, fans were able to visit a stand of gluten-free food including cheeseburgers, hot dogs, chicken fingers, Redbridge beer and Woodchuck draft cider. "Oz" Ostrofsky, whose wife, Nancy Lozoff has celiac disease and whose daughter is gluten-intolerant, was selected to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Read more about this fantastic event here:
Canker Sores and Celiac
A new study has revealed that individuals with persistent mouth sores, commonly known as canker sores, may actually be suffering from celiac disease. Furthermore, in some individuals, this may be the only symptom that would indicate to a doctor that someone should be tested for celiac, as stated by Dr. Farhad Shahram, lead researcher of a group from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran: "It has been reported that in five percent of celiac disease patients, aphthous stomatitis [persistent canker sores or open ulcers] may be the sole manifestation of the disease." According to the study, patients who were in fact identified as gluten-reactive all saw a "significant improvement" in frequency and severity of canker sores within two to six months of going on the gluten-free diet.
Gluten-Free at Coors Field
Even more sports and celiac news! Aramark, the same food vendor that delighted fans at the Phillies game with their gluten-free options, will be opening a gluten-free concession stand at Coors Field in Denver. "Aramark said it's believed to be the first such stand in the major leagues." At this stand, fans will be able to buy gluten-free hot dogs, burgers, chicken sandwiches, brownies and beer. Colorado any-one?
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Cirque's latest resident show, "Iris," was temporarily booted out of its home at the Kodak Theatre for the Super Bowl of the cinema world: the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The evening-long lockout wasn't total, though. More than 50 artists from several of Cirque's productions flipped, twirled and tossed each other through the air in an artistic interpretation of what it's like to go to the movies.
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Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers.
The closings, reported today by the Associated Press, are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has struggled with falling sales and shabby stores.
In an internal memo Tuesday to employees, CEO and President Lou D'Ambrosio said that the retailer had not "generated the results we were seeking during the holiday."
Sears Holdings Corp. said it has yet to determine which stores will close but said it will post on http://www.searsmedia.com when a final list is compiled. Sears would not discuss how many, if any, jobs would be cut.
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text: Yes a sad day, especially considering they were supporting shared memory, and i can just compile my chess engine, modify 2 settings and it works right out of the box there at up to 2048 processors, no problem. MPI is a lot slower and would require a huge rewrite of my code. Of course you can complain about 100 different things, but in the end it is intel messing up with itanium. Too late, too slow, too expensive, too little cores, too outdated process technology, too complicated to port software to, too intel c++ compiler dependant for performance, too little attention given to integer performance, too testset L3 size based approach, too low clocked because of the outdated process technologies, too weak engineering teams (as compared to the genius guys who designed core2 and opteron). There is still entire, once very expensive, itanium machines idling everywhere, sometimes 1 scientist runs a RAM intensive program on it that hardly eats the cpu's. As i posted at RWT, initially a single partition altix3000 series of 64 processors (note bigger partitions allowed), had a cost of 1 million dollar. Already half of that was just cpu costs, as the 1.5Ghz itanium2 had a cost initially of 7500 dollar a piece. That's if you could get it for that (who buys 1000 at a time?). That my government ordered the 5+ times cheaper 1.3Ghz versions already is very selfexplaining the fact that the cpu was simply too expensive for its performance. Of course if just 64 cpu's is already half a million, SGI had no choice but to get a similar profit margin. On hardware that's not too massively you need simply such a margin. If processors would've been 50k dollar for 64 of them @ 1.5Ghz, then of course it is possible to consider charging 50k profit on top of that, which would have made the itanium2 really attractive platform. Of course SGI never could deliver cheap, except for a few machines where intel basically didn't earn on the cpu's, like that NASA machine. Typically those machines got ordered. Without that machine, SGI might have sold nearly nothing. Vincent On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: >> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:58:22 John Hearns wrote: >>> http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/ >>> april/rackable >>> .html >>> >>> Not an April Fools. >> Whoa. That, and IBM eating Sun, the market is really shrinking... > > Read the note from SGI. This was done as a bankruptcy filing this > morning, and not all liabilities are going over. That is, it is an > asset purchase. Creditors may still object, and force this to be a > chapter 7 filing (sell the thing bit by bit). I had been wondering > if they had made their $5M debt service payment on friday, and > whether or not their creditors believed them to be in default. The > speed of this and its construction, have a feel of a "rush" job ... > last minute to stave off a complete shuttering and sale. > > I sympathize with my friends and former co-workers at the > company ... this is a whopper of a layoff ... with likely no > severance (SGI was ~3x Rackable's size w.r.t. people, and I would > bet only a small fraction will follow the asset sale, if Rackable > makes them an offer). > > Sad day. > > As for the market shrinking, well ... this does happen. We > (Scalable) are happy to help customers out (service/support on > existing systems, new clusters/storage), as is Don's company > (Penguin), as are other companies here. Some of us are doing well > and growing. > > Joe > > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics LLC, > email: landman at scalableinformatics.com > web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Teresa Panza is a small Brooklyn-based collective, taking its first awkward steps, before leaping from contemplative reflection into a protracted theoretical struggle with the State. Our definition of the State – not to mention our aesthetic – was shamelessly appropriated from a recently disbanded group; who nevertheless distinguished themselves as an unsurpassed vanguard during their all too brief existence. Taking their lead, we understand the State as a structural and strategic relation, with varying effects, each aimed at inhibiting and impeding the development of revolutionary re-composition and organization by conforming the latter's independence and autonomy back into the uniform state of things. While this interpretation makes sovereignty, law, and repression obvious targets for our analytic weapons, the waking nightmare of social harmony prompts us to direct our ruthless critique more towards consensus, identity politics, embodied liberalism, and all other gentle forms of governance that promote a reconcilable synthesis. For us, White Terror is not a shocking and momentary deployment of reactionary violence that begins a period of restoration, but is instead the relentless stability, tranquility and unending calm of the present epoch-less time. Hell is not so much a brutal inferno, but rather it is the guarantee that nothing will ever happen, except endless ridicule and unavailing toil. The Kronstadt myth is, today, the myth of Sisyphus.
From the French Revolution to Hikmet's prison poetry to Zapatismo's Durito, Don Quixote has always been heralded as a heroic symbol of defiance in the face of an unforgiving reality. Yet, in the Hidalgo, we see nothing but defeatism; foreshadowing generations of rebels, who will, again and again, blindly run up against the same granite walls. We instead take our inspiration from Sancho Panza's shrewd wife, Teresa. Never once lapsing into her husband's malapropism, her proverbs display the sturdy, peasant wisdom necessary in order to make real decisions in an increasingly mystified and groundless age. In what has been considered the first modern novel, Teresa Panza is indeed the only character both able to avoid the knight and his squire's delusions, while also, grasping the exceptional, just at the precise moment, when it propitiously appears. Today, we identify the same lucid peasant wisdom whenever the facade of serenity, the reign of placid subordination, the prevailing silence and neutrality is exposed for what it truly is: a primitive and permanent war. It is the recognition that an uninterrupted battle shapes peace, and that civil order – its basis, its essence, its essential mechanisms – is, at once, a bellicose order. As our motto, we revive the age-old proverb, which before Clausewitz famously inverted it, was once well known and widely understood:
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Kick Kennedy calls her stage debut 'magical'
NEW YORK (AP) — The storied Kennedy family has produced a president, ambassadors, an attorney general, senators and plenty of congressmen. But not a professional actor.
Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy hopes to change that.
The 25-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy is making her professional stage debut off-Broadway this month in, of all things, a Greek tragedy.
Kennedy plays the title role in "Antigone," the Sophocles play about a young woman willing to die in order to defend her family's honor and defy the state.
"I'm really lucky," Kennedy said this week during a break in rehearsals. "I've grown a lot just studying this part and I hope I can do it justice. I couldn't really ask for a better story to tell right now. It's just sort of magical that everything fell into place."
Kennedy is a Stanford University graduate who has appeared on TV in shows such as "The Newsroom," ″Gossip Girl" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." She acted onstage in college and at summer camp but knows this is a big step.
"Doing something the first time is scary," she said, wearing an ankle-length black dress in the empty 90-seat theater inside the Church of Notre Dame, close to Columbia University.
She's aware that people might be curious about a Kennedy onstage but hopes no one makes the trip to upper Manhattan for that reason alone.
"Hopefully one day people will come see me for something that doesn't have to do with my last name," she said. "For me, it's just two different things. This is a job. That is my life."
Peter Dobbins, the artistic director of The Storm Theatre, which is co-producing "Antigone," met Kennedy at the reading of another play, and "she kept coming into my head" when "Antigone" was being discussed.
He said she combines a steely resolve with a deep vulnerability. "You're drawn into her," he said. "She's someone who when onstage you definitely go out to her. She doesn't have to work hard to go after you."
This version of "Antigone" is adapted by Jean Anouilh, who wrote it during the height of the Nazi occupation of France. His interpretation became a symbol for freedom fighters. This version sets the play in a fascist near-future.
Dobbins said he's seen flashes of the Kennedy clan's pride in the young actress' Antigone, as when the heroine cries out, "I am a queen!" Says Dobbins: "I can't see that many people saying that in a way that it resonates."
Kennedy is named after her great-aunt Kathleen, who also had the nickname Kick and worked for the Red Cross in London before and after World War II. She married a lord and died in a plane crash in 1948.
Her great-niece grew up in New York, the daughter of environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his first wife, Emily Black. Her stepmother, Mary Richardson Kennedy, hanged herself in 2012.
The notion of a curse on her family is to her a ridiculous notion. "We're an ambitious family and there are a lot of us. And with a lot of numbers comes some painful things here and there, and also a lot of joyful things," she said.
Kick Kennedy put on plays as a young girl and later made movies with her close friend Annie Starke, Glenn Close's daughter. Acting was as natural as her love of falconry and deep-sea diving.
"It's just been the funniest thing for me throughout my whole life," she said. "Here I am and I'm giving it a go. It seems to be the thing that I like doing and people tell me I'm kind of good at."
While her family is most closely associated with politics, environmentalism and public service, Kennedy said acting isn't that different.
"Everyone thinks it's so crazy and I'm such a tangent from this tree, but I see it all kind of relating, personally," she said. "I mean, if you break down what a lot of politics is you get stage presence, charisma and, more importantly, a search for truth and the desire to serve a common good, which I believe theater does."
Kennedy, who is dating singer-songwriter Paul Simon's son Harper, isn't sure what her next acting gig will be, but suspects her famous last name won't help.
"It's all about the performance at the end of the day," she said with a laugh. "I certainly don't think my name is going to help me in this world at all."
The author of this story, Mark Kennedy, is not related to the famous Kennedy clan. He is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits
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Congratulations to Oui, Chef, who won this week's contest for Your Best Red Pepper Recipe with his Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Corn and Cilantro.
Q&A with Oui, Chef
Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking.
Sunday dinners at my Italian Grandmother's house were a seemingly endless feast of great food, love and laughter, all orchestrated and executed by my tireless Nana. I have very fond memories of watching her at work, and occasionally being recruited to her side to help. These days I find I'm happiest when the house is full of family and friends, all milling about and having fun, while I'm up to my ears in it, just like she used to be.
What's your least favorite food?
I was about to say "fishy" fish, but I think I have to go with Andouillette sausage. Andouillette, not to be confused with Andouille (which was the mistake I made in ordering one in the first place), is a French sausage stuffed with tripe, or pig chitterlings (intestine and colon). A Brit I know likes to call it "arse sausage", and that moniker pretty well captures the horrific smell and taste of the stuff.
What is the best thing you've made so far this year?
I recently made two quiches for a friend's 50th birthday brunch that were really outstanding. They were Thomas Keller's Florentine and Lorraine quiches from the "Bouchon" cookbook, and I must say that they were among the best things I've ever put in my mouth.
Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
Years ago, when I first started to cook "seriously" I made a shrimp and pasta dish for a visiting friend who I knew to be a gourmand. I had pulled the recipe from a popular cooking magazine, and there was a typo in it which called for 1 cup of flour (as opposed to 1 teaspoon, or tablespoon which I suspect is what was really required) to thicken the sauce. It seemed odd to me at the time, but I didn't yet have the kitchen confidence to trust my instinct and question the recipe, so I added the full cup of flour to the dish. Ugh....I can still see the look on my friends' face as he graciously choked down that truly inedible meal.
What is your idea of comfort food?
Almost anything that is cooked low and slow qualifies for me, whether it be a confit or cassoulet, braised short ribs or osso bucco, or a delicious tagine.
Apron or no apron?
Generally no apron.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
The prep and consumption of the final meal in "Big Night".
If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
I can't decide on just one, it would have to be both Amanda and Merrill.
You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood
There are somedays when I like the peace of cooking alone, but I'm usually in the mood for company.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
My wife will almost certainly raise an eyebrow of disbelief if she gets to read this, but I am a clean as I cook kind of guy. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me when I studied at LCB, and one that I am most thankful for. It is hard for me to cook well, or efficiently, if my "station" is not clean and organized.


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Blackfoot wrote:8th ave wrote:Ou forgot to mention that the West gets a little weaker and East gets a little stronger. That's something that needs to start trending, because the amount of competition in the West is ridiculous.
Yeah, that is a good thing.
I still think the Grizzlies hold on the fourth seed, but barely. Tayshun Prince is a very good fit, plays great defense and hits the three ball better than Gay. Which I think is the motivator here, he spaces the floor better. They might get worse, but I can't image more than a game drop off. I remember them beating the Spurs in the playoffs and taking the Thunder to seven without Gay.
Gay was inefficient offensively this year, but I think that has more to do with the very bad offensive system they run. He was forced to take a lot of bad shots. He should probably be better with the Raptors. And his defense will always be there.
I agree it doesn't totally criple them. Davis is good and will be a good fit off the bench, but who still I think this deal plus the previous deal could destroy the chemistry they had going. I think they have lost a lot of thoughness by trading Spieghts, Ellinton, Shelby, Gay, Haddadi, for John Leuer, Ed Davis, Austin Daye and Prince, plus a pick.
When you look at it that way, they do look considerably less talented, and less though.
In my opinion Toronto looks much better after this trade. They aren't a big hitter in FA anyway so don't have to worry about cap space too much, and they be just under the luxury with 12 players.
Starting lineup of Lowry, DeRozan, Gay, Bargnani, Valancuinas, is a good lineup. Then with Fields, Ross, and serviceable bigs Amir Johnson and Aaron Gray coming off the bench, not bad.


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A third suspect in the late-night stabbing of Mike Adams was captured as he attempted to flee his Florida motel room, Pittsburgh police said Friday.
Officers used a stun gun on 26-year-old Jerrell Whitlock after he tried to flee through a back door in his Gainesville motel room and refused officers' commands to get down, police said.
Whitlock had been sought on charges of attempted robbery, aggravated assault and conspiracy since Adams was stabbed twice in a June 1 attempted carjacking on Pittsburgh's South Side.
Two other men are already jailed on similar charges.
Adams had surgery for stab wounds, but the 6-foot-7 345-pound lineman expects to recover by training camp in late July. Adams told police the three men tried to carjack him, but he didn't have his car keys. One man then pointed a gun at his face while the other stabbed him twice before all three fled, according to police.
Police said detectives received a telephone call on Tuesday from a family member that helped lead them to Whitlock's motel room. Whitlock and his girlfriend were taken to the Alachua County Jail, police said.
Whitlock was also wanted on an Allegheny County warrant for a probation violation for a firearms offense.


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Chris Sale is closing in on the Ed Walsh's 107-year-old franchise strikeout record and still has an outside shot at reaching the 300-strikeout mark.
But when your team is as inconsistent as the White Sox, it's hard to enjoy your own accomplishments.
"It's cool to talk about, to talk to your buddies and your family about stuff like this," Sale said after increasing his league-leading strikeouts total to 248 in a 3-2 loss to the Indians.
"But I see a (reporter) wearing a postseason lanyard right there. You don't get to the postseason with strikeouts. You don't get to the playoffs with fancy numbers and stuff like that.
"You get there by wins,...