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Searching around a bit on the internet late one night, I stumbled across R. Simeon Bowring's page at MySpace. Much to my surprise, I found the following blurb:
I started Pentatonik in the early 1990s. I was signed to Deviant Records, which led to the release of an album in 1994 called Anthology. Well its been 12 years in the making but there is a new album THE FIVE ANGELS out in now on Hydrogen Dukebox records. Its a sublime mix of electronic sound and classically influenced melodies. Two tracks feature beautiful vocals from Kirsty Hawkshaw (who also has a great myspace page). Soon there will be a website for the album www.pentatonik.co.uk.
The album just came out a couple of days ago. How's that for a coincidence? I've not recieved it yet, but this is the first album that I have bought, or tried to buy anywhere even close to it's release date. I'm sure it's not everyone's cup of tea, but this music is really hard to hate. You can actually sample Movements: Part 2 (one of the best tracks on Anthology) from the tracklisting of this
ambient collection, at Amazon US. Something about the coincidence of me finding out about an album that I have always been certain would never exist makes me feel like I should share it with everyone.


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There is little argument that the federal government wastes money — $3.3 million to bail out a failing Alaska tourist boat; $505,000 to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs; and $97,000 for floating outhouses for Oregon fishermen.
As sequestration draws near this week, the question you need to ask yourself is: "How much?"
Unless Congress and the president act, the federal budget will start to be slashed at the end of the week by $1.2 trillion. Due to a budget deal agreed to by Democrats, Republicans and the White House that amount will be divided equally between defense and non-defense spending. While there are some exceptions, like services for our veterans, the cuts will be arbitrary and across the board.
As passed, sequestration gives agency heads little to no choice where they cut, thus making sequestration painful.
But the dirty little secret not being talked about is that the sky doesn't have to fall this week.
The $1.2 trillion of sequestration monies represents only 2.4 percent of the federal budget — an amount any student of Economics 101 should be able to find.
To assist we offer some more examples of waste from the notebook of U.S. Tom Coburn:
■ $27 million for Moroccan pottery classes:
■ $639,884 for beef jerky research
■ $450,000 for an airport that averages one flight per month, bases no planes, and is only two miles from other airports.
■ $325,000 to help study interactions between squirrels and rattlesnakes.
■ $49,447 for Smokey Bear hot air balloon appearances
■ $20,000 for circus classes
From the Heritage Foundation some more egregious examples of money misspent:
■ $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
■ $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
■ Lawmakers diverted $13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers — the agency partially responsible for the failed levees that flooded New Orleans.
■ $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Ga.
Then there is this from a letter writer who asks: Why should we pay for someone else's defense and cut ours?
■ Vietnam $2,590,000
■ Egypt $1,301,900,000
■ Turkey $5,116,000
■ Afghanistan $6,800,308,625
■ Iraq $1,005,989,000
■ Pakistan $913,899,800
■ Thailand $5,695,000
And the list goes on.
Unfortunately, what often avoids finding its way into the halls of Congress are simple answers.
In the case of sequestration the problem is not cutting $1.2 trillion from a bloated budget. It is where to cut that money. We have no doubt that if Congress gave agency heads the ability to pick and choose or horse trade among departments, the economy would suffer little if at all. Meanwhile Congress could do some real soul-searching over how much is wasted annually overseas on foreign aid.
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British Airways operates daily non-stop flights between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur.
British Airways operates daily non-stop flights between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia's buzzing capital may be best known for its ultra-modern skyscrapers and super-sized shopping malls, but Kuala Lumpur is also blessed with a fantastic geographical location. You'll discover contrasting landscapes and world-class destinations on its doorstep.
Bursting with energy - this forward-thinking city manages to balance contemporary design with ancient culture, as larger than life shopping malls and sky-skimming buildings sit beside traditional temples and nature sanctuaries. Often described as a melting pot of cultures, the colourful food-stall-lined streets highlight Kuala Lumpur's love for gastronomy. While the glitzy sheen of the city's nocturnal scene gives an insight into its hip persona. Just footsteps from the city centre, you'll find Kampung Baru, an authentic Malay township that will charm you with its less polished appearance. If you enjoy this contrast, you'll love Sekinchan, with its sprawling paddy fields, and the verdant peaks of the Cameron Highlands.
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There is world-wide demand for more efficient products to reduce energy and resource consumption. The EU legislation on ecodesign and energy labelling is an effective tool for improving the energy efficiency of products. It helps eliminate the least performing products from the market, significantly contributing to the EU's 2020 energy efficiency objective. It also supports industrial competitiveness and innovation by promoting the better environmental performance of products throughout the internal market.
The ecodesign directive and the energy labelling regulation also establishes a consultation forum (X03609) to consult stakeholders on the implementation of the directive and regulation. The list of members includes representatives from EU countries, industry and civil society. The group is open for observers from candidate and EFTA countries, and from organisations that have a legitimate interest in the discussion.
The ecodesign directive is implemented through product-specific regulations, directly applicable in all EU countries.
See the lists of all ecodesign and energy labelling regulations. See also the list of all voluntary agreements.
Ecodesign and energy labelling regulations are complemented by harmonised European standards. These technical specifications indicate that a product complies with the mandatory requirements. Only then can the manufacturer affix the CE marking and sell it in the EU.
National market surveillance authorities verify whether products sold in the EU follow the requirements laid out in ecodesign and energy labelling regulations. See the list of national contact points in charge of market surveillance under the ecodesign directive
A number of non-EU countries (USA, Australia, Brazil, China and Japan) have legislation similar to the EU's ecodesign and energy labelling directives.
An international conference on product policy was organised by the Commission in February 2014.
The enterprise Europe network ecodesign SME specific action project provides advice to SMEs on ecodesign as part of an overall business strategy.
The methodology for the ecodesign of energy-related products is used to prepare draft implementing measures.
Material efficiency study for MEErP (published in December 2013)
MEErP : The final report of the study (published in December 2011)
MEEuP : Documents related to the 2005 MEEuP for energy – using products
The ecodesign working plan sets out a list of products that are a priority for implementing measures


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Mozilla has announced the availability of the third Firefox 4 beta. The release brings several improvements, including JavaScript optimizations and support for multitouch interaction on Windows.
The APIs are specific to Mozilla's browser and are currently only implemented on the Windows platform. In a recent blog entry, Firefox developer Felipe Gomes says that Mozilla hopes to bring the new APIs to W3C so that they can start to discuss the possibility of standardization. At the Mozilla Hacks blog, you can see some nice demo videos that show the multitouch feature in action, including one in which pinch-zooming is used to transform an HTML video element.
Another major change in this beta is an update to how Mozilla implements tagged integers in its JavaScript engine. In the old system, each JavaScript value was stored in a 32-bit space, with the last three bits used to specify the type. For strings and objects, the type data was accompanied by a pointer to where the actual value was in memory, but for numbers the actual value would be included alongside the type data if it could fit within the remainder of the 32-bit space.
The new system uses Fat Values, which are 64 bits wide. It typically uses the first half of the space to store the tag and the second half to store the value or pointer to the value. For floating point numbers and bigger integers, it can use the full 64 bits. This change means that floating point numbers can be retrieved faster during JavaScript execution, leading to better performance on mathematically intensive code. Mozilla's Rob Sayre has a detailed explanation.
Users who want to test the beta can download it from the Mozilla website. For more details, you can refer to the release notes.


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Monday, August 7, 2017
Get Yer Na Na Na Na Na Na Nas Out
McCartney and (from what I've read) Ringo Starr approach this mammoth responsibility with a bemused expression and an old-fashioned work ethic. McCartney played three hours of classic material augmented by dazzling technical effects, but consistently addressed the crowd as though he was chatting with some mates at the corner pub. His tales centered on encounters with other famous musicians, as well as the simple events that sometimes provide inspiration for a song.
"We're going to take you back in time," he announced before harmonizing perfectly with members of his first-rate backup band on the pre-Beatles Quarrymen song "In Spite Of All The Danger." The concert also included the engaging "Queenie Eye" and "New" from his most recent release, New. McCartney's days with Wings were well represented with rousing versions of "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five," "Letting Go," and "Band On The Run." An extended jam at the end of "Let Me Roll It" honored Jimi Hendrix and led to a funny anecdote about the iconic musician playing to a star-studded audience that included McCartney and Eric Clapton. After realizing his guitar was out of tune, Hendrix reportedly spotted Clapton and asked if he'd come on stage to tune it for him. According to McCartney, Clapton refused.
While introducing the rollicking "I Wanna Be Your Man," McCartney related how he and John Lennon decided to give the song to The Rolling Stones so they could have a hit single with it. "Here Today," served as a knowing and heartfelt tribute to Lennon, and later in the show, McCartney quietly strummed "Something" on a ukulele before the full band joined in and photos of George Harrison spread across the big screens surrounding the stage. McCartney also took a moment to honor producer George Martin, suggesting there wouldn't have been a Beatles without his guidance.
Throughout the show, he seamlessly blended highlights from his solo career—"Maybe I'm Amazed," "Temporary Secretary," an eye-popping "Live And Let Die"—with Beatles classics. "Blackbird," which he explained was inspired by the civil rights movement in America, "And I Love Her," "Fool On The Hill," and "Let It Be" were pure magic, while "Back In The U.S.S.R.," "Can't Buy Me Love," and "Lady Madonna" were performed at full power by McCartney and his band. He dedicated "Birthday" to everyone in the crowd who was celebrating their birthday that night (which included me), and in honor of the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper, played "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" and "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!"
As "Hey Jude" sparked its customary audience sing-along on the "Na na na na na na na" coda, it was amazing to glance around the stadium, as well as back across the lawn area, and see so many exuberant people joining together.
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We Try Burgerville's Fresh Blackberry Shake
Keeping tabs on the chains.
With strawberries and raspberries under its belt, Burgerville closes out its summer milkshake series with a fruit that almost anyone living in the Pacific Northwest can find growing in their backyard: blackberries. Be they a child's delight or a gardener's bane, blackberries are an unstoppable force in the Northwest, so it makes good business sense for Burgerville to cash in on the berries' wide availability and round up as many of them as possible for its shakes, smoothies, and lemonades.
The primary drawback of Burgerville's raspberry shake lay in large, frozen chunks of raspberry drupelets that got lodged in the straw and prevented a smooth sucking experience. Luckily, this problem didn't surface with the Vancouver, Washington-based chain's blackberry milkshake. With more finely chopped pieces of berry swirled throughout the vanilla ice cream base, drinking the entire shake through a straw was effortless.
But these are real blackberries we're talking about, so the sharp textural contrast of the seeds cannot be avoided. Resign yourself to swallowing a small handful of them as a gesture of Burgerville's commitment to local produce. Liepold Farms, located less than an hour from Portland and just one of the 26 different farms and businesses in the area partnering with Burgerville, provides the fresh fruit for nearly all of the chain's seasonal shakes, including the blackberry variety.
Pity then that, like Burgerville's fresh strawberry and raspberry shakes, it feels as though the fruit has been augmented with some sort of flavored syrup. This unfortunately eliminates any authenticity when it comes to what actual blackberries ground up into vanilla ice cream would actually taste like, although perhaps that's not what Burgerville's customers are looking for.
Quibbles of purity aside, Burgerville's Fresh Blackberry milkshake is a cheap dessert that's refreshing on a hot late-summer day, as long as the seeds don't drive you bonkers. At the very least, it should scratch the blackberry itch until Burgerville switches gears and releases its popular pumpkin shake next month.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 6, 2013) – USA Volleyball has announced its 22-player roster for the 2013 FIVB World League.
The World League is the premier annual men's international volleyball tournament, where 18 teams from around the world compete over seven weeks of pool play in hopes of advancing to the Final Round on July 17-21 in Mar del Plata, Argentina and the chance to win $1 million.
| David Lee holds up the second place trophy at the 2012 FIVB
World League trophy ceremony as Paul Lotman, left, and David
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Each weekend, 12 players from the 22-player roster will be selected to play in two World League matches.
John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.), first year head coach of the U.S. Men's National volleyball Team, said he wants to put the focus on newer players early in the quadrennial leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"As I've observed teams such as Russia, Poland and Italy develop over the last couple quads, the most successful teams are those that have taken a look at young talent early in the quad," Speraw said. "They are not afraid to look at young players under pressure circumstances.
"As we project four years down the road, we know we would like still have the contributions of proven veterans such as Reid Priddy and Clay Stanley, who aren't on the World League roster this year. But veterans have to learn how to manage their training over the next four years so they can peak at the right time."
Seven players on the 22-man roster return from the 2012 U.S. Men's National Team that took silver at the FIVB World League and finished fifth at the Olympic Games: Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.), Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and David Smith (Saugus, Calif.). Lee and Lambourne also played on the 2008 U.S. Men's National Team that won the Olympic gold medal in Beijing.
Evan Patak (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio), Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Alfee Reft (Honolulu, Hawaii) have all been on rosters for major U.S. Men's National Team events including the FIVB World League, the FIVB World Championships and the NORCECA Continental Championships.
The 11 other players on the roster have all competed on a U.S. Men's National Team for a Pan American Cup, a Pan American Games or as part of the Junior National Team.
"I think the strength of this World League team is in their team chemistry," Speraw said. "They have played together on youth and junior national teams and at the university level. They have a great deal of camaraderie. I think it will help us mitigate some of the lack of experience."
The U.S. Men, ranked fifth in the world, won the World League in 2008, finished second in 2012 and finished third in 2007 and 1992.
In the 2013 world League, the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team will host Argentina on June 7-8 in Wichita at Charles Koch Arena; France on June 14-15 in Tulsa at the Tulsa Convention Center Arena and Bulgaria on June 28-29 in Reno at the Reno Events Center.
The team will then travel to Poland for matches on July 5 and 7 and to Brazil for their final pool play matches on July 13-14.
To purchase tickets for the FIVB World League matches in the United States, click here.
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2. Jeff Menzel (OH, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
3. Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4. David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5. Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7. Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
8. Kyle Caldwell (S, 6-9, Newport Beach, Calif., UCLA)
9. Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., USC)
10. Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
11. Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12. Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13. Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Los Angeles, Hawaii)
14. Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
15. Carson Clark (Opp, 6-8, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
16. Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
17. Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
18. Garrett Muagututia (OH, 6-5, Oceanside, Calif., UCLA)
19. Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawaii)
20. David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
21. Brad Lawson (OH, 6-7, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
22. Erik Shoji (L, 6-0, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
Head Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Team Manager: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Mike Sealy (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Physiotherapist/Athletic trainer: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Technical Coordinator: Anton Willert (Berlin, Germany)
Doctor: Andrew Gregory (Nashville, Tenn.)


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Take the time to come and play. Graham has much to offer from great natural beauty of the hill country and lakes, cultural activities, and outdoor recreation.
Graham is a thriving community of 9,000 located in North Central Texas.
Texas is the top-rated state for business, and Graham follows that trend.
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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
By Mick Krever, CNN
To read the headlines, Egypt since the ousting of President Mubarak two-and-a-half years ago has been in a hopeless state of constant tumult, divided between Islamists and secularists, the government and the opposition.
A new documentary – "The Square," a reference to the now-famous Tahrir Square – tries to get beyond that and tell the street-level story of the activists on all sides who have been fighting for change.
"We've been filming in the square – myself and a team of talented filmmakers – for the past three years," Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim told CNN's Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Tuesday.
"There has been a separation and a division," Noujaim said. "But I think we do have to remember that we have to avoid getting stuck in these binaries, this conversation of it's either the Muslim Brotherhood or the military."
"What our characters stand for, even our Muslim Brotherhood character, is the fight for a social movement, a change," she told Gorani. "And it's a founding period in Egypt and we need to look at it that way."
The film captures the complexity of Tahrir: The army that says it will sacrifice its own blood before firing on protestors, and the army that fires on protestors; the kinship between all different kinds of protestors in Tahrir, and the mass crowds calling for the ouster of President Mohamed Morsy.
"I think it's a very dark time right now," Noujaim said. "But we've all seen dark times before. Six months after Mubarak stepped down, protesters were being run over by tanks; and people rose up from that again."
"Nobody ever sees the Martin Luther King or the Gandhi when they've lost everything and when they feel like they've lost," she said.
Often by necessity, Noujaim acknowledged to Gorani, the news media overly simplifies the Egyptian story.
"And I think that is where the power of a film like this can come in," she said, "because you can actually understand the complexities of what these characters have dealt with over the past two and a half years."
All of the characters in her film, she told Amanpour, would say that the "revolution will continue," and that their efforts thus far had not been in vain.
"I don't think that anybody can take away what happened in January of 2011," Noujaim said. "A fear was removed and people decided that they were going to reclaim their futures."


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Grocers and Refrigerator Companies with New England Presence Chill for the Environment
Release Date: 08/28/2009
Contact Information: David Deegan (617) 918-1010
(Boston, Mass. – Aug. 28, 2009) – EPA's GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership announced its 2009 partner awards this week, and the awardees included Whole Foods, Hill Phoenix and Supervalu, the parent company of Shaw's Supermarkets and Star Market. All three companies have a significant presence in New England states.
An EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry, the GreenChill Partnership works with supermarkets to reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerants.
Whole Foods, a nationwide chain of supermarkets and a GreenChill Founding Partner, received the award for Most Improved Emissions Rate. Another food retailer with many outlets in New England and nationwide, Supervalu, was recognized for achieving its emissions target in 2008/09. Supervalu's stores in New England are Shaw's Supermarkets and Star Market.
Refrigeration manufacturer Hill Phoenix also earned a Distinguished Partner Award for its advanced refrigeration technology, including compact chillers and secondary loop systems. Advanced refrigeration systems manufacturers play a significant role in the GreenChill Partnership because their designs and innovations play such a big part in pushing energy efficiency for supermarkets across the country.
"EPA is proud of our partners' accomplishments to find meaningful solutions to energy-use problems. Advancing energy efficiency in refrigeration and supermarkets helps reduce air emissions and reduces greenhouse gases," said Ira Leighton, acting regional administrator of EPA's New England office.
EPA estimates that if every supermarket in the U.S. reduced its emissions to the current GreenChill average, the nation could save the equivalent of 22 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and 240 ozone depleting potential (ODP) tons every year, all the while saving $108 million in refrigerant expenses annually.
GreenChill's founding food retail partners created baseline measurements of corporate-wide refrigerant emissions in 2007 and set goals to reduce those emissions in 2008. These partners reduced their aggregated total corporate emissions rate from 13 percent to 11.9 percent in 2008, an emissions reduction of 8.5 percent in one year.
GreenChill now has a total of 46 partners, including 37 food retail partners with over 6,500 stores in 47 states.
More information: EPA GreenChill Partnership (www.epa.gov/greenchill)
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Keeping ESA's 'lady of space' cool
These days, people wear hats to stay cool in the Sun. In days gone by, women carried parasols to shade them from the sunlight. ESA's lady of space, Gaia, will revive this tradition with an 11-metre parasol, the largest sunshield ever placed in space...
If you step out of shade into sunlight, you will experience what engineers call a 'thermal gradient'. This is a temperature change over a set distance. Changes in temperature cause things to heat up or cool down and materials respond in different ways, usually moving by either expanding or contracting.
In a precise optical system such as the one to be flown on ESA's discovery machine, Gaia, even small movements caused by tiny temperature changes will ruin its measuring capability.
It is not a question of keeping Gaia cool, but of keeping it at a constant temperature for its entire mission. So the Gaia sunshield is as essential as the instruments themselves.
Without it, the spacecraft will not be able chart the position and movement of one thousand million stars in our Galaxy.
The sunshield will be made from two separate blankets. The side that faces the Sun will be a highly reflective layer that allows very little of the Sun's energy to be transmitted to the shadow side, where the main spacecraft resides. Any heat that does pass through is dissipated into space by the second blanket before it can influence the instruments.
The biggest challenge is that, at 11 metres across, the sunshield has to be packed around the spacecraft for launch otherwise it would not fit into the rocket. Once in space, the structure then has to be unfurled and deployed.
"Going from a folded configuration to a fully deployed one is very difficult because we have to ensure the sunshield is flat to an accuracy of a few millimetres," says Eduardo Urgoiti of Sener, a company in Spain working under contract to produce the sunshield for ESA.
If the sunshield is not flat, then different sections will let through different quantities of heat and produce the very 'thermal gradients' that engineers are trying to prevent. So the blankets will be specially stiffened and the engineers have developed a mechanism similar to an umbrella for opening it.
Once deployed, after a launch in 2013, at 11 metres across and 90 square metres in area, Gaia will possess the largest sunshield in space until the James Webb Space Telescope (the Hubble Space Telescope's successor) is launched.


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I've written before about my childhood obsession with Star Wars. And of course, as a Gen Xer, I am not alone in the cultural impact that film had on me. And while my 5 year-old self would have been most eager to meet Carrie Fisher, My grown up was incredibly excited to meet George Lucas and hear about his creative process and sources of inspiration for his new film Strange Magic. (I'd still be THRILLED to meet Carrie Fisher, by the way, and even more so for her work as a fantastically witty and bold writer.)
Strange Magic is a a fairy tale (really, it's all about fairies) that gets to the heart of true love that comes from seeing someone for who they truly are, and not just what is on the surface. One of the things George Lucas discussed was his own long quest to find someone after his first marriage ended in divorce. He said he and his current wife seemingly have nothing in common, and yet in the most important ways they have everything in common – their outlook on life, their beliefs, their morals, the way they think about things in the same way at their core. And that is the thread that runs throughout Strange Magic. Plus, I loved that he talked about how having daughters influenced him to tell a different kind of story from the female point of view.
Strange Magic is above all about the music. In a very throw back, American Graffiti kind of way, music fills very second of the movie, and is central to how the characters tell the story. The entire cast, director and musical director joined us for the second half of the press conference, and I couldn't have been thrilled to see Sam Palladio as one of the main characters since I'm a nutty Nashville fan. And of course, Alan Cumming can do no wrong.
Gary Rydstrom (Director), Meredith Anne Bull (voice of "Dawn"), Sam Palladio (voice of "Roland"), Evan Rachel Wood (voice of "Marianne"), Alan Cumming (voice of "Bog King"), Elijah Kelly (voice of "Sunny"), Marius De Vries (Musical Director)
Watch this wonderful featurette of the cast talking about their characters:
The cast reiterated much of what George Lucas talked about – that sometimes you find love where you least expect it, or in the words of Elijah Kelly, "No matter how weird and strange you are, there is someone else out there just as weird and strange as you," And if that's not a great message for kids I don't know what is.
STRANGE MAGIC opens in theatres everywhere on January 23rd!
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Vermont Mapping Software Wins National EPA Award
Release Date: 11/09/2011
Contact Information: Dave Deegan, 617-819-1017
(Boston, Mass. – November 9, 2011) A computer mapping program that lets you calculate your carbon footprint and that was developed by a company in Shelburne, Vt., was recently recognized in a national challenge by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Hootroot, developed by Brighter Planet, was given the overall runner-up award in EPA's Apps for the Environment challenge, which encourages the development of innovative environmental applications..
The mapping program provides directions and carbon footprints for driving, transit, flight, and human-powered transportation options on any route.
According to Brighter Planet's website, Hootroot "helps you navigate efficiently from point A to point B" and is powered by web services from Brighter Planet, Google Maps, and HopStop. Data for the footprint calculations comes from the EPA's US Greenhouse Gas Inventory and eGRID database, as well as from other sources. As a web app, it requires no installation.
Hootroot was one of five winners in EPA's challenge, which aimed to engage the software developer community to create new and innovative uses of EPA's data to address environmental and public health issues. Applications covered a range of topics such as local air quality, contaminants in fish, and games to learn environmental facts.
"I am not at all surprised to see a Vermonter create such a useful and innovative application that will help people make good environmental decisions about their everyday actions," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "New England has a long history of smart, creative citizens who care about how to protect our environment and apply green thinking to their lifestyle. This is another link in that long chain."
"We are witnessing a revolution in finding ways to harness massive amounts of data to empower individuals, companies and governments to make smarter decisions," said "Andy Rossmeissl, the lead designer on HootRoot. "The EPA has emerged as a leader in the push for opening government data and engaging the developer community in creating apps that are innovative as well as user-friendly. This competition really showcases these efforts and we are very honored to be among the winners."
The other four winners of the EPA award are:
Winner, Best Overall App: Light Bulb Finder by Adam Borut and Andrea Nylund of EcoHatchery, Milwaukee, Wis.
Winner, Best Student App: EarthFriend by Ali Hasan and Will Fry of Differential Apps and Fry Development Company, Mount Pleasant High School in Mount Pleasant, N.C. and J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, N.C..
Runner Up, Best Student App: Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping by Robert Sabie, Jr. of Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash.
Popular Choice Award: CG Search by Suresh Ganesan of Cognizant Technology Solutions, South Plainfield, N.J.
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Climb aboard our little trains for a scenic journey on our three and-a-half mile long, 15" narrow-gauge railway.
The Kirklees Light Railway runs along the old track-bed of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's Clayton West branch line. The journey from Clayton West to Shelley offers fine views of the Grade II listed Emley Transmitting Station and passes through the ancient woodland of Blacker Wood which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The trip also includes passage through the Shelley Woodhouse Tunnel which – at 467m long – is the longest tunnel on any 15" narrow gauge line in Britain!
You will start your journey at Clayton West Station where there is a large free car park which can accommodate even the largest of coaches.
The Buffer Stop Cafe at Clayton West Station is ideal for grabbing a quick drink, snack or something more substantial before you begin your journey. All dietary requirements can be catered for with advance notice.
A return journey on the train can be completed in 70 minutes, however you may choose to lengthen your time with us by adding different aspects into your visit: we can happily organise tours of the engine sheds and workshop, talks with our drivers and enginemen, photographic run pasts of the train, afternoon teas, light snacks, full meals, stop offs for group walks and more!
We are ideally situated just 10 minutes from the M1 and in close proximity to a number of other local attractions such as the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the National Coal Mining Museum, Standedge Tunnel, Last of the Summer Wine country (Holmfirth) and the Peak District, should you wish to continue your day out.
How Much Do Group Visits Cost?
The below fares cover a return journey on the railway. Additional requirements can be discussed at the time of booking.
Drivers and guides travel for free and receive complimentary refreshments (maximum of two people per coach).
Railway Operational Day 2019
15 - 29 People
- Group rate: £6
- Child (3-16 years): £5
- Child (under 3 years): FREE
30+ People
- Group rate: £5.50
- Child (3-16 years: £4.50
- Child (under 3 years): FREE
Railway Non-Operational Day 2019
If the railway is closed on the day you wish to visit, you are able to charter a train for your visit:
- Steam locomotive minimum charge - £200
- Diesel locomotive minimum charge - £150
Railway Operational Day 2020
15 - 29 People
- Group rate: £6.50
- Child (3-16 years): £5.50
- Child (under 3 years): FREE
30+ People
- Group rate: £6
- Child (3-16 years: £5
- Child (under 3 years): FREE
Railway Non-Operational Day 2020
- Steam locomotive minimum charge - £210
- Diesel locomotive minimum charge - £160
Catering packages & further information
Treat your group to a scrumptious meal or afternoon tea alongside their journey. Catering can be provided either before or after your journey – please just advise your preference at the time of booking.
Please see our information sheet for further details.
How Do I Book a Group Visit?
Please contact the office to book your visit on 01484 865727 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Group bookings should be made at well in advance of your desired travel dates
- To qualify for group rates, a minimum number of 15 fare-paying passengers is required, otherwise standard fares will apply
- Final passenger numbers are required no later than seven days before travel
- After your booking has been made, a letter of confirmation will be sent to you. Please inform us of any errors or amendments as soon as possible
- A non-refundable 30% deposit is required at the time of booking
- Cancellations should be made in writing, or by email, at least seven days in advance of travel, although the deposit will not be refundable
- On the day of travel, please ensure you arrive at Clayton West Station at least 20-30 minutes before your scheduled departures to allow time for boarding
- Carriages will be reserved for your party, although seats within those carriages will be unallocated
- The Kirklees Light Railway reserves the right to alter, cancel or suspend services and accepts no liability for any loss, inconvenience or delay caused thereby
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So, if you asked me 5 years ago if I would ever eat (let alone prepare) this Pasta with Three Kinds of Garlic for our dinner tonight, I would have probably done some odd gagging sound and said "I'll just have a bowl of cereal, thanks!". Thankfully, I finally pushed myself to just get over it as I knew I was missing out on such an abundance of new foods or ingredients and got tired of saying "Sorry, I don't eat that", even though I had probably never even tried it before!
Garlic is prepared in three different ways for this dish - first, we wrapped an entire head of garlic in foil and roasted it until the cloves were soft and golden. Once it was cool enough to handle, the garlic pulp was easily squeezed out, releasing a sweet mellow paste. A few raw cloves are then sliced thinly - these are added to a skillet with a thin layer of olive oil and gently toasted until they turn golden and crisp. Be watchful to not let these go too dark or they may end up being bitter. The third set are finely chopped and added to the same olive oil as the previous garlic, except these are only cooked until they begin to just turn translucent - a little color won't hurt, but try to not let these brown. The roasted garlic mash and a little less than a cup of dry white wine are tossed into the chopped garlic and oil - after a few minutes of simmering, cooked spaghetti (I tried out a whole-grain blend version), fresh parsley and for a nice kick, a few dashes of crushed red pepper rounded out this recipe. None of the garlic was in-your-face, but you could pick out the subtle differences between the three. We didn't think this dish needed any, but feel free to sprinkle on some fresh grated Parmesan or Asiago when serving for a salty edge.
Pasta with Three Kinds of Garlic


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(Poem #1832) Even Such is Time
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days: But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
I'm 59 years old, and though a lifetime avid reader (mostly history) I really hadn't often "clicked" with a poem and so hadn't done much exploration of the genre before stumbling onto your site a couple of years ago. While on what was supposed to be a 'round the world bicycle trip - Odyssey 2000 - I missed a turn in the Drakensberg range in the Transvaal in South Africa and augured into a mountainside, breaking my pelvis, sacrum and some ribs. End of trip for me, and after surgery I spent a couple of months living in the home of a Boer couple in Mpumalanga. In a way the accident wasn't a completely bad thing, in that our discussions provided each of us insights into the others' country we didn't have before and I got to know some wonderful people. While I was recovering they took me one day to a used bookstore, where Petra found a 19th century anthology of English poetry and gave it to me. I stumbled onto Sir Walter Raleigh's "Even Such is Time" and in my near-death experience PTSD frame of mind it struck a deep chord. I loved this poem so much I even posted most of it on my country-store website along with a local photograph of a spot which always reminds me of the poem: [broken link] http://www.dayvillemerc.com/time.htm Steve Cookinham.


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What must Obama do in tonight's speech?
Simply put, he needs to clarify the nation's war aims in Libya and place that in the larger context of the situation in the Mideast. His primary audience is not the partisans on either side, but the large portion of the public that wants to support the Libyan intervention, but are unsure of what is at stake there, and in the Mideast more generally. In effect, he needs to lay out the "Obama doctrine" when it comes to foreign intervention.
Interestingly, the President has opted not to deliver this message from the Oval Office – a good choice, in my view. In previous Oval Office addresses he has not mastered the more intimate approach required of such speeches. Look for him to stress the humanitarian aspect of the Libyan intervention, and to emphasize the limited nature of the engagement.Look for him also to explain why this intervention was necessary, where other Mideast areas do not rise to the same level of concern.
I think he will steer clear of the debate re: whether he needs congressional authorization to engage militarily in Libya. This is not a topic that one can resolve in a 20-minute address.
In the end, the effectiveness of this speech will be determined by what happens on the ground – if, in fact, the military engagement is limited, and successful – which most Americans will define as removing Gaddafi – then it will be deemed an effective speech. If events on the ground contradict his presentation, it will almost certainly be used against him by partisans on both sides.
An interesting backdrop to this speech is the mixed signals coming out of the Obama administration. If you watched the Gates/Clinton dog and pony show on yesterday's talk shows, you'll recall that Gates practically admitted the U.S. had no strong national interest in Libya. And Clinton basically acknowledged that our participation was in large part driven by a commitment to our NATO allies.
This is the dark side to Obama's emphasis on multilateralism. Supporters of the multilateral approach tend to argue that intervention becomes more legitimate when the U.S. has international support. Less well understood, however, is that a true commitment to a multilateral foreign policy also means that we may get forced into engagements that we may not see as fully in our national interest. That's the other side of the multilateral coin.
Note that the President's speech is at 7:30
We are watching the Fox feed (since I have Fox people with me!)
7:30 He's at the National Defense University – that should provide a nice backdrop to the speech, and get him out of the Oval Office.
Ah, the flags! Nice touch
The obligatory tribute to the troops – and in the context of noting the strategic objectives across the globe.
Note that he describes Libya in terms of "interests and values" – emphasis on values.
He's pitching this primarily as a humanitarian reaction to Gaddafi's crimes against his own people. This is where it gets tricky – he notes that the U.S. goal is to get Gaddafi to step down – but how deeply is the U.S. committed to achieving this objective?
This is an interesting and I think useful effort to explain how we got involved in the first place, and how it led to the "historic" U.N. resolution. This is a nice example of a president trying to use the presidency as a teaching tool.
So far he's done the easy part – explaining what we stopped by intervening. The question is how far we go to protect the rebels.
Note the "bipartisan consultation with Congress" – my guess is this was informing Congress more than consulting it.
Note also that in listing the "coalition of the willing" he includes the Arab nations – and how quickly the coalition came together.
And he's sticking to the limited nature of the intervention.
Still hasn't laid out the end game, however.
This is not going to satisfy those who wonder what the ultimate measure of success is – but he has made it clear we are stepping down – "transitioning" to NATO control.
A narrowly focused military mission – but will it achieve its goal of removing Gaddafi?
Did you miss it? He simply skipped over this key issue…..interesting omission.
He rejects the two options of doing nothing, and intervening everywhere. This is fine – but it still doesn't answer what the end game in Libya is….. it appears that preventing the imminent slaughter of civilians was the goal – that's the U.S. interest at stake here. But it is going to leave him open to criticism that he's not going far enough.
Ah, now he's getting to the question – 20 minutes in. Actively pursuing regimen change through non-military means – this is the crux of the issue.
Iraq looms large here – to be blunt: he doesn't want to go down that road. But what about Afghanistan? Why intervene there – this is not going to satisfy everyone.
He's concluding with what might be called the Obama doctrine – never fear using military to protect the U.S.'s core interests. That's why we continue to fight in Afghanistan.
Evidently, Libya is not a threat to our safety, but it is a threat to our values. This is an interesting argument – he's trying to walk a very fine line here in arguing that as part of a international alliance on behalf of core values intervention is ok, but not worth going alone – at least not for the sake of "values".
Raises the question – if we are part of a coalition – how much leadership do we cede to the coalition?
I don't think this speech in the end is going to satisfy those who want a more specific delineation of how far we should go in pursuit of fundamental U.S. values. It's was a better speech in laying out why we got involved in the first place.
The final passage, with its soaring rhetoric, almost works against the message he is trying convey here – that this is a limited engagement. It's really a difficult message to sell – how we are a beacon of hope, but in the end we are not going to intervene beyond what we have already done in Libya.
Now for the talking head bit with Fox – back in a bit.
Ok, for the locals among you the talking head bit will be on at the 10 o'clock news. (Channel 44). Let me know how it goes.
The reporter focused on what they saw as Obama evading/ignoring the question of how to define success in Libya – if Gaddafi remains in power and we see a stalemate, do we accept this, or is there a plan b that involves greater military involvement? And how does one reconcile the stirring rhetoric at the end with the enunciation of a doctrine that basically says we don't intervene elsewhere without international support?
Summary: the best part of this speech, I thought, was Obama's overview of how we got into Libya in the first place – I thought it was a useful historical lesson. But the speech was much weaker regarding what constitutes "success" in Libya and what this means for intervention in the Mideast more generally. He tried to walk a very fine line between the non-interventionists and the full interventionists, but the risk was that he pleased neither side. Moreover, the soaring rhetoric at the end seemed inconsistent with his more nuanced argument suggesting that we will not support pro-democracy movement without strong international support for intervening. In effect, Obama seemed to suggest that U.S. intervention is contingent on developing a multilateral coalition – but does that mean we intervene when other nations see it in their interest, even if it may not be in ours?
Let's see how this plays out – what will the punditocracy say? And was the general public even paying attention?
Oh, I almost forgot – what did you think? Let me know….


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Adaptive governance is defined by a focus on decentralized decision-making structures and procedurally rational policy, supported by intensive natural and social science. Decentralized decision-making structures allow a large, complex problem like global climate change to be factored into many smaller problems, each more tractable for policy and scientific purposes. Many smaller problems can be addressed separately and concurrently by smaller communities. Procedurally rational policy in each community is an adaptation to profound uncertainties, inherent in complex systems and cognitive constraints, that limit predictability. Hence planning to meet projected targets and timetables is secondary to continuing appraisal of incremental steps toward long-term goals: What has and hasn't worked compared to a historical baseline, and why? Each step in such trial-and-error processes depends on politics to balance, if not integrate, the interests of multiple participants to advance their common interest—the point of governance in a free society. Intensive science recognizes that each community is unique because the interests, interactions, and environmental responses of its participants are multiple and coevolve. Hence, inquiry focuses on case studies of particular contexts considered comprehensively and in some detail.
Varieties of adaptive governance emerged in response to the limitations of scientific management, the dominant pattern of governance in the 20th century. In scientific management, central authorities sought technically rational policies supported by predictive science to rise above politics and thereby realize policy goals more efficiently from the top down. This approach was manifest in the framing of climate change as an "irreducibly global" problem in the years around 1990. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established to assess science for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The parties negotiated the Kyoto Protocol that attempted to prescribe legally binding targets and timetables for national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But progress under the protocol fell far short of realizing the ultimate objective in Article 1 of the UNFCCC, "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." As concentrations continued to increase, the COP recognized the limitations of this approach in Copenhagen in 2009 and authorized nationally determined contributions to greenhouse gas reductions in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Adaptive governance is a promising but underutilized approach to advancing common interests in response to climate impacts. The interests affected by climate, and their relative priorities, differ from one community to the next, but typically they include protecting life and limb, property and prosperity, other human artifacts, and ecosystem services, while minimizing costs. Adaptive governance is promising because some communities have made significant progress in reducing their losses and vulnerability to climate impacts in the course of advancing their common interests. In doing so, they provide field-tested models for similar communities to consider. Policies that have worked anywhere in a network tend to be diffused for possible adaptation elsewhere in that network. Policies that have worked consistently intensify and justify collective action from the bottom up to reallocate supporting resources from the top down. Researchers can help realize the potential of adaptive governance on larger scales by recognizing it as a complementary approach in climate policy—not a substitute for scientific management, the historical baseline.
Keywords: scientific management, adaptive management, collective action, urban sustainability, decentralized decision-making, procedural rationality, case studies, resilience, common interests, historical sciences
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Visitors to Chicago are sure to enjoy our excellent food culture. To experience a little bit of that culture in your own kitchen, we've collected some of our favorite recipes. Enjoy!
Enchiladas El Popo
From El Popocatepetl tortilleria on 21st Street, owner Ernesto Avina shares this recipe using red tortillas that are flavored with guajillo chilies. Any flavored tortillas also can be used in this recipe.
Prep: 25 minutes
Cook: 25 minutes
Makes: 6 servings
1 jar (16 ounces) prepared tomato salsa
Olive oil
12 chili-flavored tortillas
2 potatoes, peeled, cooked, diced
1 chorizo sausage, about 7 ounces, crumbled, fried, drained
1 cup shredded Chihuahua cheese
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spread 1/2 of the jar of salsa on bottom of greased 13-by-9-inch baking pan. Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat; add tortillas in batches. Warm about 20 to 30 seconds per side, turning once. Keep warm.
2. Mix diced potatoes and crumbled chorizo in a medium bowl. Spoon the mixture down the center of each heated tortilla; roll up. Arrange rolled up tortillas, seam side down, in prepared baking dish. Spoon remaining salsa over the top. Sprinkle with shredded cheese. Heat until hot and cheese is melted, 20 minutes.
Chicago hot dog
The well-dressed Chicago hot dog is typically, but not always, made by Vienna Sausage Co. All-beef, it has a natural casing that makes it snap just so upon being bitten. It's cooked in water (that keeps it juicy) and cradled in a steamed poppy-seed bun. Bright yellow mustard, never the dark stuff, is applied. Some use celery salt, but this is optional. (Some South Siders say celery salt is an unwanted addition from North Siders.) Bright green relish follows, then chopped raw onions, a long sliver of jumbo pickle, sport peppers and several slices of tomato.
1 Vienna Sausage all-beef hot dog in natural casing, steamed or charred
1 steamed poppy seed bun
Bright yellow mustard
Celery salt, optional
Green relish
Chopped raw onion
1 long sliver of jumbo pickle
Sport peppers
Tomato, sliced
Place hot dog in bun. Top with remaining ingredients in descending order.
--Alicia Tessling, Chicago Tribune
Frango mint brownies
Frango mints have been a Chicago favorite since the 1920s. The date for this recipe is not known, but it is a perfect way to showcase these melt-in-your mouth chocolates.
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20-25 minutes
Makes: 16 two-inch squares
2 ounces baking chocolate
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup each: chopped pecans, chopped Marshall Field's Frango Mints
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Melt chocolate and butter together in double boiler.
2. Beat eggs with an electric mixer until thick and lemon colored. Gradually add sugar to eggs, beating thoroughly, until batter is smooth and light; stir in chocolate mixture and vanilla.
3. Sift flour and salt together; blend into batter. Fold in pecans and chopped Frangos.
4. Pour brownie mixture into well-greased, 8-inch-square pan. Bake until top is shiny and a crust has formed, 20 to 25 minutes. Avoid overbaking. Allow to cool completely, cut into 2-inch squares.
Eli's-style original cheesecake
Eli's cheesecake was sold by restaurateur Eli M. Schulman at his restaurant, Eli's the Place for Steak, on Chicago Avenue. The cheesecake made its first appearance outside the restaurant in 1980, at the first Taste of Chicago. Six thousand slices were sold. Today, Eli's Cheesecake World, located on Chicago's Northwest Side, bakes thousands of cheesecakes in dozens of varieties every day. This is the simple recipe that started everything.
Prep: 20 minutes
Chill: 8 hours or overnight
Cook: 45 minutes
Makes: 12 slices
4 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 large eggs
1 egg yolk
6 tablespoons sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Graham cracker or cookie crust for 9-inch springform pan
1. Heat oven to 360 degrees (if you oven doesn't read 360, bake at 350 but may need longer baking period). Beat cream cheese, sugar and flour in mixing bowl of an electric mixer until light and creamy. Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, scraping down sides of bowl until completely incorporated. Add sour cream and vanilla. Beat mixture, scraping down sides of bowl, until smooth.
2. Pour mixture into prepared crust in ungreased 9-inch springform pan; place on cookie sheet. Bake until cake is firm around edge and center barely jiggles when tapped, about 45 minutes. Refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight to completely set up before serving.
Chicken Vesuvio
Chicken Vesuvio is a true Chicago original, served in many of the Italian restaurants in town. It's fried and then baked with plenty of garlic, olive oil and potatoes. This recipe was developed at Harry Caray's Restaurant.
Prep: 35 minutes
Cook: 1 hour, 16 minutes
Makes: 4 servings
1 cup frozen peas
1/4 cup olive oil
4 large Idaho russet potatoes, peeled, cut in quarters lengthwise
10 whole cloves garlic
1 roasting chicken, cut into 8 pieces
1 1/2 cups white wine
1/3 cup chopped parsley
1 tablespoon each: oregano, granulated garlic
1 teaspoon each: salt, freshly ground pepper
1 1/2 cups homemade chicken stock or canned low-sodium chicken broth
1. Heat a small saucepan of water to a boil; add peas. Cook 1 minute; drain. Rinse with cold water to stop cooking; set aside.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat; add the potatoes and garlic cloves. Cook, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are golden brown on all sides, about 12 minutes. Remove the garlic cloves; discard. Transfer the potatoes to paper towels; set aside.
3. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Add chicken pieces--in batches and adding additional oil, if necessary--to the skillet; cook, turning once, until lightly brown, about 5 minutes per side. Stir in the white wine, stirring to scrape up browned bits in the skillet; cook until reduced by half, about 10 minutes. Return potatoes to the skillet. Season with the parsley, oregano, granulated garlic, salt and pepper. Add the chicken stock. Transfer the mixture, with the juices, to a roasting pan and into the oven. Bake until instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest piece of chicken reads 165 degrees, about 45 minutes.
4. Transfer the chicken to a serving platter; arrange the potatoes around the chicken. Pour the sauce from the pan over the chicken; sprinkle with reserved peas.
Shrimp de Jonghe
Shrimp de Jonghe is a Chicago survivor, having endured Prohibition police raids that closed Henri de Jonghe's Monroe Street hotel and restaurant where the dish was created -- though nobody is sure whether it was invented by De Jonghe or his chef Emil Zehr. This simple recipe is a close approximation of the delicious original.
Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes
Makes: 4 servings
1 1/2 quarts water
1/2 small onion, sliced
1 rib celery, halved
3 black peppercorns
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 pounds large raw shrimp in the shell
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, melted
2 tablespoons dry sherry or white wine
1 1/2 cups coarse French bread crumbs
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1 tablespoon minced shallot
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
1. Heat the water, onion, celery, peppercorns, bay leaf and salt to a boil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the shrimp; cover. Return to a boil; drain. Run shrimp under cold water to cool.
2. Peel shrimp; transfer to a large bowl. Add half of the melted butter and the sherry; toss to mix.
3. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Combine the remaining melted butter and one third of the bread crumbs in a small bowl. Stir in the parsley, shallots, garlic, paprika and red pepper.
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2 envelopes (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups warm water (105-115 degrees)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
4-6 cups flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes with puree
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
1/4 teaspoon each: salt, freshly ground pepper
2 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
3 packages (10 ounces each) frozen, chopped spinach, thawed, drained well
8 ounces sliced fresh mushrooms
1/2 cup freshly grated each: Parmesan cheese, Romano cheese
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon each: salt, freshly ground pepper
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Late fall at the UC Davis Arboretum
The Arboretum on the University of California Davis campus is only a few miles from our house. I visit frequently and have written several related posts (1 2 3 4).
Sunday was a gray day but temperatures were fairly mild so the whole family joined me on a walk along Putah Creek, the main body of water that winds its way through the Arboretum.
I knew that there would be fall color from deciduous trees such as Chinese pistache and cohorts, and I wasn't disappointed.
To my surprise, I also encountered two species of deciduous conifers I had never noticed there before: bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), common in the Southeastern U.S. but not often seen here in the West, and dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), a redwood relative native to Central China.
|Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) glowing like a beacon
|Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
|Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
|Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
|Left: Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Middle: Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)
Right: Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
The Arboretum has quite a few ginkgos, many of them planted as memorial trees. Unlike the blazing yellow specimen I photographed last week, many were still mostly green, with just a hint of yellow around the leaf margins.
|Ginkgo biloba 'Fairmont'
Some of the trees planted right along the banks of Putah Creek are very sculptural, their branches reaching down and almost touching the water. With leaves beginning to turn, or already gone, they are reflecting the time of year.
|Unidentified big tree by the water
|This small dock is a popular hangout for kids who like to feed the ducks (officially discouraged but…)
|Trees that have already shed their leaves present a majestic outline against the gray sky
While deciduous shrubs and trees bear witness to the season, many Mediterranean plants look the way they always do. In fact, winter is when rosemary blooms best in our climate.
|Blooming rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
|Blooming rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) and bush germander (Teucrium fruticans)
|Not a Mediterranean native, but flowering merrily at this time of year: a winter-blooming red hot poker (Knipfhofia sp.)
At the end of our walk, we circled through the Ruth Storer Valley-Wise Garden which showcases both native and climate-appropriate plants from other parts of the world. Here you find Japanese barberries planted next to yuccas from the Southwest, and brachyglottis from New Zealand juxtaposed with a smoke bush from the Southeast.
|Yucca recurvifolia 'Margaritaville' and Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii 'Rose Glow')
|Calla lilies (Zantedeschia aethiopica) and Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii 'Rose Glow')
|Silver Spider maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberspinne') and Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)
|Sarabande maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Sarabande') and autumn sage (Salvia gregii)
|Smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria x dummeri 'Grace')
|Smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria) and Brachyglottis 'Sunshine'
|Brachyglottis 'Sunshine.' This small shrub from New Zealand used to be part of the gigantic Senecio family
|No sign of late fall here: Texas sage or cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens) and an unidentified rose cultivar
Unsung beauty
Whenever we visit my in-laws, I look forward to the panoramic views of Mount Shasta, at 14,179 ft. (4,322 m) one of the highest peaks in California. However, this time the mountain was covered by clouds the entire time we were there and I never saw it in its full glory. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it caused me to focus on the beauty closer at hand—the beauty of a tree full of berries, of moss growing on a rock, of cedar seeds floating in a puddle in the driveway.
All too often we're seduced by the grand views and we forget to look at the little things around us. This post is meant to celebrate the kind of unsung beauty we too often miss. All of the photos below were taken either on my in-laws' property or in their rural neighborhood on the outskirts of the town of Mount Shasta.
|A glimpse of Black Butte, the "other" mountain in Mount Shasta
|Cloud and trees
|Birch filigree
|The colors of winter
|Winter meadow
|Backlit ferns
|Still life with oak leaves
|New life from an old oak tree
|Moss so soft you want to lie down on it
|Forgotten apple tree
|Mountain ash
|Mountain ash berries
|Leaf litter on driveway
|Western redcedar seeds and leaves
|Cedar seeds floating in puddle
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Collecting a Western redcedar for bonsai
On a whim, I attended a bonsai show in Sacramento last month (click here to read my post). The exotic-looking miniature trees really struck a chord in me, and I started to read up on bonsai. I'm still at the very beginning of what might end up being a life-long journey and I feel I need to learn a lot more before I even attempt to work on a living plant. However, when we were at my in-laws for Thanksgiving, I couldn't help but notice the thousands (literally!) of saplings growing everywhere on their 2½ acre property. There is white pine (Pinus monticola) and Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), but above all there is Western redcedar (Thuja plicata).
As its Latin name already indicates, Western redcedar isn't a true cedar (like Lebanon, Atlas, or Deodar) but rather an arborvitae. That's why "redcedar" is spelled as one word rather than as two, as would be the case if it were a true cedar.
|A few of the many mature Western redcedars on my in-laws' property
While Western redcedar doesn't seem to be used much as bonsai material, there are so many of them at my in-laws' that I decided to collect two of them to experiment on down the line. (A close relative, eastern whitecedar, Thuja occidentalis, is a popular tree for bonsai on the East Coast and in Canada. If you're curious to see what it can look like as a bonsai, go to the website of the Toronto Bonsai Society, click the Galleries button on the top and then click Cedar on the left.)
Picking likely candidates was actually the hardest part. One of the most important criteria for a bonsai is a strong, interesting trunk. I bypassed many saplings because their trunks were too spindly or ordinary and finally settled on two that had a relatively thick trunk relative to their size, with peeling bark and some scars to give them character.
|My first candidate, about 2 ft. tall with a trunk diameter of ½" at the base.
I removed some of the rocks for better access.
As with any plants you did up in the wild, the goal is to remove a generously sized root ball that has as many fine feeder roots as possible. At least that is the theory. On my first sapling I ended up with hardly any feeder roots; I think they broke off as I rocked the tree out of the ground with the shovel. I was disappointed and felt guilty for potentially having killed a tree. I don't know what its odds for survival are but it went into a bucket which I filled with native soil.
|Did I just kill this sapling?
|I asked my mother-in-law to take a few photos of me digging. She ended up taking more than 70 so I combined them into a little movie.
For my second tree, I picked a sapling that had good clearance on all sides, and I was more careful as I dug around it.
|My second candidate, 3 ft. tall with a trunk diameter of 1" at the base.
In spite of recent rains, the soil below the top inch or two was completely dry and it fell off as I lifted the root ball out. While there aren't as many roots as I had hoped for, it looks like there are enough for the tree to survive. Knock on wood!
|I was able to preserve what I hope are enough roots for the tree to survive
The next time I attempt to dig up a tree at my in-laws', especially a taller one with a thicker trunk, I'll ask my father-in-law to fire up his backhoe. That should make it much easier to preserve as many roots as possible.
The next step now is to pamper these young trees until they show sign of new growth. Then I can begin to train them for bonsai. By then I will hopefully have taken a workshop and acquired more knowledge and skills.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Revisiting the bamboos-in-law
In the summer of 2010 we started to plant bamboos at my parents-in-law's property in Mount Shasta in the mountains of far Northern California (USDA hardiness zone 7). It started with a golden vivax (Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis') and was soon followed by a black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra 'Punctata'). Now there are 12 different species of running and clumping bamboo growing in what we jokingly call "Experimental Bamboo Garden North."
I've blogged about my "bamboos-in-law" before (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and now it's time for an early winter 2011 update. Most of the bamboos have been in the ground for a year or more now, and we're beginning to see progress.
The first photo is a panorama of the backyard looking towards the house.
1 Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis'
Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis'
This was the first bamboo we planted at my in-laws' place. I got it as a 15-gallon specimen from a grower in Fair Oaks, CA. With its vibrant yellow culms, it has always been one of my favorites. Unfortunately, in the spring the leaves started to turn brown and the plant was looking like it was dying. After some initial puzzlement my mother-in-law identified the culprits as moles digging tunnels which were then used by voles eating the roots and possibly rhizomes. She collapsed the tunnels and installed a sonic mole repeller. Within six weeks, new leaves started to appear, sparse at first but eventually more numerous. In the summer, the plant produced a survival shoot, much smaller than the other culms but enough to keep the plant going. Hopefully within another year the plant will have made a full recovery.
|Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis'
|Survival shoot on the right
|New branches and leaves on existing culms
|Sonic mole repeller
Chusquea gigantea and Chusquea culeou 'Roja'
Chusqueas are native to Central and South America. Many species are extremely cold-sensitive and only grow in tropical regions. Others are very cold-hardy but won't tolerate hot summers, especially hot summer nights. These idiosyncrasies have severely limited their spread. They grow best in places like the Pacific Northwest (see my post about Tradewinds Bamboo Nursery in Gold Beach, OR). Judging from our initial experience with the Chusquea gigantea and Chusquea culeou in the next set of photos, Mount Shasta looks to be an agreeable environment as well.
|Chusquea gigantea, planted in the fall of 2010
|Late shoot on Chusquea gigantea. I'm not sure it will make it through the winter. After I took this photo, my father-in-law completely covered it with bark chips to give it some protection.
The next one is Chusquea culeou 'Roja,' a special form of this clumping bamboo from the Andes that Tradewinds owner Gib Cooper found in batch of more than 1,000 seedlings. Similar to Chusquea culeou 'Caña Prieta,' new culms are dark red when exposed to the sun, slowly fading to greenish yellow. We planted this bamboo in July 2011 and it's produced a couple of new culms since then. This will be its first winter in Mount Shasta, and it looks like it wasn't fazed by the 19°F they recently had.
|Chusquea culeou 'Roja'
Phyllostachys nigra 'Punctata'
This giant form of black bamboo started out in a half barrel but we put it in the ground in October 2010 (check out this post for details and photos). It's grown much bushier this year but is still a fairly tight clump. I wonder if it will start to run next year?
|Phyllostachys nigra 'Punctata'
|Phyllostachys nigra 'Punctata'
Phyllostachys bambusoides
This is one of the most recent additions to my in-laws' bamboo collection. I obtained it as a small 2-culm division from another collector and we planted it this past April. Looking at such a small plant, it's easy to forget that Phyllostachys bambusoides has the potential to grow to 50+ ft.
|Phyllostachys bambusoides
|Phyllostachys bambusoides
The next photo shows a different view of the backyard bamboos, this time looking away from the house towards the southern end of the property. Bamboos # 3, 4 and 5 were already described above.
1 and 2 Fargesia dracocephela 'Rufa'
Fargesia dracocephela 'Rufa' and Fargesia denudata
The two 'Rufas' we planted in the fall of 2010 are doing well. The larger one, seen below in front of the chimenea, has quadrupled in size. The smaller one has doubled. Both started out as 1-gallon tissue cultured plants from Booshoot Gardens, purchased from Mad Man Bamboo.
Fargesia dracocephela 'Rufa'
Fargesia dracocephela 'Rufa'
The third fargesia, Fargesia denudata, was the same size as the two 'Rufas' above but hasn't fared nearly as well. After last winter's snow had melted, my in-laws thought it was dead, but it did produce leaves eventually. However, it has not increased in size. I have no idea why it's not thriving. Fargesia denudata is certainly hardy enough for a zone 7 winter, so it can't be that. Maybe its roots and/or rhizomes were nibbled on by voles? Hopefully we'll see a big jump in size next spring.
|Fargesia denudata
There are three additional running bamboos on the western edge of the property. The largest one is a stone bamboo (Phyllostachys angusta) we planted in the summer of 2010 from a 15-gallon can. It's as nice and bushy as it ever was and produced several tall culms this fall—much later than one would expect for a Phyllostachys (they typically shoot in the spring). With any luck, this stone bamboo will soon form a dense hedge to hide the mother-in-law cottage next door.
|Phyllostachys angusta with Phyllostachys aureosulcata on the right (looking toward my in-laws' house, away from the neighbors)
The second bamboo in this area is a yellow-groove bamboo (Phyllostachys aureosulcata). This was a small 1-culm division when planted last summer. It's still very small, but it did add another culm this year. Next year we should see a big increase in size and number of culms. Within 5 years it should live up to its potential (up to 40 ft. in height). The plan is to route its growth along the property line to provide visual protection from the neighbors.
|Phyllostachys aureosulcata
The final bamboo in the backyard is Phyllostachys bisettii. Like the fargesias described above, I bought it as a 1-gallon tissue culture plant. It has been in the ground a year now, and it has tripled in size. But it's still small and difficult to spot, surrounded as it is by yellowing weeds. Things will look very different in this spot in just a few years!
|Phyllostachys bisettii
|Phyllostachys bisettii surrounded by weeds
Just on the other side of the chain-link fence, in what is technically the front yard, is the last of my in-laws' bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon.' Like many other bamboos, I got it as a small division. Planted just this past spring, it looks very happy in this spot on top of a rise. I have high hopes for this bamboo: With any luck, we should see the beginnings of a grove in 3-5 years. In zone 6, 'Henon' has the potential to grow to 60 (!) ft. in height.
|Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon'
|Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon'
The last photo in this post isn't really related to bamboo, but it was taken from the spot where the 'Henon' is planted. It shows the house on the right and the tree-studded hill on the left. This is where we planted several dozen ornamental grasses and lavenders this past Easter (read about our planting party in this post).


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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
rantrant and some rawrness
well my birthday is coming up and to tell you the truth i'm not too happy about it. if you asked me i would skip it in a heartbeat. i know some people are super excited about their birthdays. thats not me. because mine usually suck and result in me crying and being depressed on a day that is supposed to be happy. well it just makes me sad thinking about my birthday cause i know it won't be a joyus happy day. i won't get presents i mean i guess i dont' normally get presents anytime so its not anytime different. no one will remember it or call and no one will want to do anything.
i want to feel appreciated and i don't. i feel like it doesn't matter. does it even matter that i'm around? i mean no one really says anything. i feel jipped because i do so much for others and i never get anything back. i'm not a selfish person but seriously on my birthday? shouldn't i get things? i should be at least appreciated and loved but i don't even get that. i'm not trying to be selfish or mememe. but crap i just want to be loved and appreciated on my birthday. gifts welcome hugs and all such things. but its too much to ask for. i can't even get one ounce of anything for all that i do for people.
i always showered people with gifts and love and every time i'd get money for christmas or my birthday i'd ALWAYS spend it on other people and not me. its just sad that no one thinks to do anything for me. and that my friends is why i would like to skip it. i'll just end up crying anyways.
in other news i'm kind of sick of being blown off. i'm a person too i have feelings i do want to do things but i dn't because why even bother? i mean i try to get people to do things with me but in the end i'm a boring person and no one would want to hang out with me. (i know this is a stupid blah post but its mine so deal)
i just get sick of trying.
in other news hormones are fun. but that isn't why i'm writing this i've felt this way for a long time.
thats all for now i guess.
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- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM
I Love You Amy and you bring so much good to others. Know that daily and enjoy this upcoming year of life. Embrace new things and live life awake and adventurously. You can, and you have the support of so many. (if you get two messages from me it's blogger's fault, but you deserve two anyway:))ReplyDelete
I kinda know how you feel about the birthday thing. I'd rather just skip mine, no event no fuss and then suddenly I'm a year older. No such luck, though. We're stuck with birthdays... blah. I was planning on trying to send you something. Money is kinda tight right now, but the thought is there and I'm a gonna work on it! I was thinking (cheesy idea) of getting a sweatshirt and hugging it tons then sending it to you so you could have the hugs!ReplyDelete
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being pushed aside is the story of my life. you have no more chance of that even when you have kids. you sadly may have to adjust. people will not get over their selfishness.ReplyDelete
OK - I deleted the double and triple posts! LOL!!ReplyDelete


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Hey, Do You C My Potatoes? Determining Vitamin C Amounts in Cooked Potatoes *
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As you know, vegetables not only taste good, but they are good for you. Many vegetables are a great source of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a water-soluble antioxidant that plays an important role in protecting the body from infection and disease. Humans do not make vitamin C on their own, so we must get it from dietary sources. Potatoes, like the ones shown in Figure 1, below, are one good source of vitamin C. Does cooking them affect how much vitamin C they have? In other words, if you boil a potato, is some of the vitamin C lost to the water that the potato is boiled in? In this cooking and food science project, you can investigate this and determine whether boiling a potato for a longer amount of time makes it lose more vitamin C or not. To quantify the amount of vitamin C, you will need to do some titrating.
Figure 1. Potatoes, like these large Russet potatoes, naturally have vitamin C.
Titration is a chemistry technique used to determine the unknown concentration of a chemical in a solution. For information on how to titrate, consult the references in the Bibliography and the science fair project idea Which Orange Juice Has the Most Vitamin C?. You could use the titration kit from our partner Home Science Tools and follow the Procedure for that science project idea, but instead of using orange juice, use liquid that potatoes have been boiled in for different amounts of time. To get a good vitamin C yield, you will want to boil the potatoes in as little water as possible (by filling a pot with a layer of potatoes and just barely submerging them all in water). To take your vitamin C measurements, you could take water samples after the potatoes have boiled for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, and 60 minutes, or you could try different time points. Let the liquid cool to room temperature before titrating it. You may also want to further dilute the Lugol's iodine solution to have more accurate readings (since potatoes have less vitamin C than orange juice). For more information about doing a titration, visit the Science Buddies webpage Titration Tutorial: Tips & Tricks for Titrating.
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- Helmenstine, A. (n.d.). Vitamin C Determination by Iodine Titration. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2008). Vitamin C. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
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I am hoping this would pass code and would prefer to stack so if there is someone that knows if it is okay or if it is okay with workarounds - I would love the input.
My family and I are putting in electric boxes in SIP walls and that is no fun to begin with much less start down the wrong path, scoop out and have to put foam back in.


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NC regulator lets Duke Energy keep higher rate
A Duke Energy Carolinas electricity rate increase that took effect last year will stay in effect while state regulators review it under a state Supreme Court order.
The Charlotte Observer reports that the North Carolina Utilities Commission on Monday refused Attorney General Roy Cooper's request to put the 7 percent rate increase on hold during its review.
The Supreme Court in April ordered the commission to further examine last year's power cost increase. The court backed Cooper's claim that the commission didn't fully weigh the impact on customers.
Duke Energy Carolinas has 1.9 million customers from Durham to western North Carolina. The rate increase cost typical residential customers an extra $7 a month, beginning in February 2012. Duke is collecting an extra $310 million in annual revenue.


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Shop → Skin Care - Face → Hydrosols & Mists → Solubulizer
We sell polysorbate 20, a solubulizer for mists, room and linen sprays, dissolving essential oils in water. This is an innocuous product which makes sprays really easy to make for yourself.
Choose your essential oil or essential oil blend and find a spray bottle (eg. from Bunnings), mix well with equal quantities of solubulizer, then add water. For example, for a 5% room spray in 100ml spray container, add 5mls (100 drops or 1 teaspoon) essential oil plus 5mls solubulizer, mix really well, then top up with water.