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Juicy Barbecued Chicken
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 55 min.
Makes4-6 servings
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (4 to 5 pounds), cut up
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon chili powder
- Pinch pepper
- 2 tablespoons onion soup mix
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, brown chicken on all sides in oil in batches; drain. Place the chicken in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish and an 8-in. square baking dish.
- Combine broth, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, curry powder, paprika, salt, mustard, chili powder and pepper; pour over chicken. Sprinkle with soup mix. Cover and bake 55-65 minutes or until a thermometer inserted in thigh reads 180°.
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Mar 3, 2016
This was a very good BBQ chicken recipe. I did make a couple revisions but don't think it affected the outcome of the recipe. I used all the ingredients but after reading the reviews that the sauce was watery I did add 1 T. honey. I didn't fry the chicken pieces but rather put dried off pieces in oven at 375* convection for 30 minutes. Also because of the watery reviews I drained off the juices before pouring on the sauce. I didn't cover and then baked for 30 more minutes until deeply browned. It was wonderful. We used the sauce to put on rice.
Jan 9, 2015
The sauce is thin but perhaps that's why the chicken is so moist :) We loved the flavor. I left out the curry (not a fan) and increased the chili powder
Nov 20, 2013
This had more taste as leftovers. The sauce was very watery so maybe adding a little flour to it would thicken it up and even leaving the chicken in the sauce over night and then cook it the next day. I also used drumsticks.
Nov 19, 2013
This was AMAZING! I am definitely going to make this again. Scrumptious flavor and ended up moist and tender. Wow!!! I didn't have curry so I left that out.
Apr 27, 2013
If I use the the 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish what is the 8-in square baking dish for?
Jan 19, 2012
I used boneless/skinless chicken thighs; it was really good. When I made the BBQ sauce I mixed all the ingredients into the ketchup bottle (there wasn't much ketchup left in it). I ended up not using the entire BBQ mixture because I only made a few pieces of chicken; so now when I want to use the BBQ sauce again I have the remaining sauce in the old ketchup bottle. I will definitely make this again.
Jul 8, 2011
Just LOVE this, the sauce is watery not thick but we love the taste! I bake for about an hour covered then uncover and baste chicken with sauce for about another 1/2 hours. Yummy!
Dec 10, 2010
Oh My Gosh, this recipe is fantastic. I will keep it forever. The chicken is melt in your mouth delicious!! Superior job on this recipe. I love it!
May 10, 2010
My husband loves this and he's very picky!!!


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The University of Utah's Department of Biomedical Informatics presents its annual Reed M. Gardner Lecture by Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., who is the current Director of the National Library of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He will speak on"Unsolved Problems in Medical Informatics" at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium. Here are the details:
- When: Thursday, March 22, 2012
- Meet 'n' Greet Reception: 3:30 p.m.
- Lecture: 4:15 p.m.
- Where: Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium (15 N 2030 E, Salt Lake City, UT)
- To view online, read a brief bio of Dr. Lindberg, or for more information, visit the event page on the BMI website.
Dr. Lindberg is a scientist who has pioneered applying computer technology to health care beginning in 1960 at the University of Missouri. In 1984 Lindberg was appointed Director of the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library. From 1992-1995 he served in a concurrent position as founding Director of the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.

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These past months have been as painful for my psyche as they have been for my portfolio. Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert summed up my feelings about the recent market movements quite well: He said watching the Dow "is like a roller coaster, only you vomit your money."
Despite my queasiness, I believe today's prices present an opportunity for investors focused on the long term -- and I'm not alone. Investing legends Warren Buffett, Marty Whitman, and Chuck Royce have all gone on record to say something similar.
So while it's been painful to be a current investor -- The Wall Street Journal reported in October that over the prior 15 months, Americans suffered $2 trillion in paper losses in their workplace retirement plans -- it's a great time to be a prospective investor.
But don't do this
Through 401(k)s, IRAs, or taxable accounts, nearly 90 million Americans own mutual funds. But if you're thinking about adding even a penny to a new fund, hold that thought ... for now.
Why? Data suggests that the majority of mutual fund investors may be going about choosing funds in a way that could undermine their long-term wealth.
Author and professor Louis Lowenstein, writing in his superb book The Investor's Dilemma, outlines the sad state of affairs: "[W]hen one considers the fierce attention that consumers devote to the cost, and to the quality, of their weekly groceries or, say, to the purchase of a new washer and dryer, their nonchalance when it comes to mutual fund cost and quality is remarkable."
Nonchalance, you say? OK, readers of this website are undoubtedly better informed than the hordes of fund investors in our country. But even those in the know may be hitching their life savings to funds that -- apologies to Wayne and Garth -- aren't worthy.
First, the good news
According to the Investment Company Institute, investors look at two main characteristics when they're researching a mutual fund -- fees and performance: "Investors usually review a wide range of information before purchasing fund shares outside these plans. Most often, investors want to know about a fund's fees and expenses, its historical performance, and its associated risks prior to purchasing shares."
That's the good news, because focusing on those data points (which takes maybe 10 minutes per fund) will get you pretty far.
But when my colleague Tim Hanson and I looked back at the 10 best-performing mutual funds of the past decade, we found two factors that mattered most: low expenses/fees and long-tenured managers.
But according to the Investment Company Institute report cited above, investors aren't that interested in the fund manager. That's a big mistake.
And now the bad news
Incredibly, the ICI found that of the 19 characteristics fund investors looked for while researching prospective investments, "information about the fund's portfolio manager" ranked 17th. Just one in four investors researched the person actually managing the money.
What's striking is that nearly one in two (45%) investors wanted information about the fund company, which is a little bit like assuming that because MI6 sent them, 006 and 008 are just as good as 007.
In The Investor's Dilemma, Lowenstein explains why this tendency plays to the desires of the fund companies: "The chief economist of the Investment Company Institute ... recently explained that team management is popular because fund complexes have been creating marketing and brand identification more around the fund and the fund complex than around the manager."
The fund companies have very good reasons for this. The fewer star managers they have, the less they're tied to the whimsy, ego, and demands of said star managers. They want to establish a brand, not a personality. It's a sound business strategy for them -- but it's much less useful for us consumers.
Take Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX), for example. What's probably the most famous actively managed mutual fund in the world became so because of Peter Lynch's supreme talent in picking stocks. The fund gained 30% per year during Lynch's 13-year tenure from 1977 to 1990.
But in 1991, after Lynch had left Magellan, what would you rather have known: Whether Peter Lynch was still in charge or whether Magellan was still a Fidelity fund?
Let's look under the hood
OK, enough with the hypotheticals. Let's look at Fidelity Dividend Growth (FDGFX) as an illustration. The vital stats:
Fidelity Dividend Growth
Vital Stats
Expense Ratio
Load Fees
12b-1 Fees
Annual Turnover
5-Year Annualized Return
(8.8%) (near the bottom of its category)
Major Holdings
Wells Fargo
Source: Morningstar.
Fidelity Dividend Growth has low fees and no loads, but earns only two stars from Morningstar and has a poor track record of performance. At least, its former manager did. See, the manager has been on the job just six months (since September 2008).
Which is to say: The lousy track record isn't his fault, just as stellar performance figures wouldn't be to his credit. That's no knock on Lawrence Rakers; he's a longtime Fidelity veteran who has impressive records running other Fido funds.
While he's had success elsewhere, until he's been on the job at Fidelity Dividend Growth a little longer -- and the performance numbers over one, three, and possibly even five years fully reflect his picks and not his predecessor's -- my money's staying on the sidelines.
What you can do about this right now
More than anything, when you invest in a fund, you're investing with a fund manager. Never lose sight of that as you entrust (via retirement accounts) ever-growing sums of money to mutual funds.
The takeaways, then, are as follows:
- Alongside fees and expenses, research and study the fund manager.
- The most important data point about the manager is his or her tenure at the fund. Motley Fool Champion Funds advisor Amanda Kish likes to see seven years at the same fund; although not a firm rule, that's a good starting point.
- Look at the fund's performance across the manager's tenure to get a sense of how he or she performed in both good markets and bad. Consistency of style is important.
- Read the fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) to see how much of the manager's own money is invested in the fund. If the manager eats his or her own cooking, then the manager's savings are on the line alongside yours -- and that's a good sign.
Here at The Motley Fool, long-term management is one of the key things we look for in a good mutual fund. Of course, if you want to see the hand-picked funds that have received the Fool stamp of approval, click here to check out our entire lineup of Champion Funds recommendations. We offer a free trial without obligation to subscribe.
This article was first published Nov. 11, 2008. It has been updated.
Brian Richards is frightened by the look in Mr. Donut-Head-Man's eyes. Brian doesn't own shares of any security mentioned. National Oilwell is a Motley Fool Stock Advisor recommendation. The Motley Fool is investors writing for investors.


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Even Taylor Kinney can't explain the secret behind his relationship with Lady Gaga.
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"I'm reserved. She's not," the Chicago Fire star told E! News at NBC's Golden Globes afterparty on Sunday night. "For whatever reason, it works. It works, and that's that."
The pair have been an item since 2011. Though they are rarely seen in public together, they were photographed holding hands and smooching as they entered the party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel after the Globes.


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Here's a fist bump, boys – or, if you prefer, a bro hug – for some hard-earned progress. In the ultimate competition, the race to stay alive, you're gaining furiously on the fairer sex.
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Between 1989 and 2009, life expectancy for U.S. males grew by 4.6 years while predicted lifespans for American women rose by 2.7 years, according to the recent report from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
That manly surge narrowed the life-expectancy gender gap to five years, one month and six days – compared to a seven-year gulf in 1989. Modern guys will live to be an average age of 76.2 versus 81.3 for women, the IHME reports.
"Men are catching up," said Dr. Ali Mokdad, professor of global health at the IHME, part of the University of Washington. He and his colleagues examined death certificates and incorporated U.S. Census lifestyle data (including crime rates and ratios of nearby fast-food restaurants and bars) to project lifespan estimates for all U.S. counties.
How'd the dudes pull closer? They're smoking less than past generations, they're less likely to be obese than modern women and more apt than females to treat hypertension and high cholesterol, Mokdad said.
When it comes to cardiovascular concerns, Mokdad said, "men are tending to be more vigilant than women."
Now, to be fair to the ladies, cardiovascular disease - the leading cause of mortality for U.S. females - is often unrecognized and untreated in women, according to the American Heart Association. "In this country, we haven't done a good job," Mokdad said, "of raising awareness for women about the risk factors for cardiovascular disease."
Mokdad did mention one dark caveat in the seemingly sunny data: the life expectancies of American males and females are both lagging when compared to those of men and women in other developed countries. Infants born this year in the United States will have an average life expectancy of 78.9 years, according to a United Nations study, versus babies born in Japan (83.5), Switzerland (82.3) and Spain (81.5).
Still, the stats should spark healthy smiles for the men of Marin County, Calif., near San Francisco, (where guys live, on average, the longest in this country, 81.6 years), and in New York City where, since 1989, the average male lifetime has increased by 13.6 years (to 79), the IHME reports.
Many Big Apple boys have bolstered their golden years via wholesome individual habits. More broadly, that city pioneered a spree of health initiatives, including blunt anti-smoking ads. In 1988, New York banned cigarette puffing in public restrooms and cabs, later adding restaurants, bars, parks and beaches. In 2006, New York became the first city to prohibit artificial trans fats at restaurants. In 2008, the city required chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus.
"The whole (local) culture has changed," said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner and a marathon runner. "Smoking used to be seen as cool and hip – now it's the opposite. Exercising and eating healthy (once were deemed) things only strange people did. Now they're mainstream."
So, peering ahead toward the Big Finish Line In The Sky, can American men somebody hope to pull even with women in the life-expectancy race? Historically, females on this planet tend to live longer then males because the guys have a higher collective risk of heart disease and of being killed in road accidents, stats show.
Blame it on the testosterone, maybe.
"For me, someone working in public health, I would say both genders should live the same amount of years, respective of our race, sex, whatever," Mokdad said. "But there will always be a gap."
Historically, men tend to die earlier than females mainly due to higher heart-ailment risks.
Can that eternal gender gap ever be eliminated?
"Cardiovascular disease is now the leading cause of mortality for women in this country," Mokdad said. "(What's more) women don't seek medical care as much as men seek it … The data is showing -- men are trying to stay close."
Biggest male life expectancy gains 1989-2009
1. New York City +13.6 years
2. San Francisco +11.7
3. Kings County, N.Y. +11.5
4. Bronx, N.Y. +11.1
5. District of Columbia +10.3
6. Yuma County, Ariz. + 9.5
7. Fulton County, Ga. + 9.3
8. Queens, N.Y. + 8.9
9. Essex County, N.J. + 8.4
10. Hudson County, N.J. + 8.2
Places where men live longest
1. Marin, Calif. 81.6 years
2. Montgomery, Md. 81.4
3. Fairfax, Va. 81.3
4. Douglas, Colo. 81.0
5. Island, Wash. 80.9
6. Los Alamos, N.M. 80.7
7. Gunnison, Colo. 80.7
8. Pitkin, Colo. 80.7
9. Collier, Fla. 80.7
10. Santa Clara, Calif. 80.6
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Outfit Details:
hat - Bobby's
ugly sweater - thrifted, hand-me-down from my mom (she wore it to an ugly sweater party)
tank top - Parker
cut-offs - Free People
Bernice Gold heels - c/o B.a.i.t. Footwear
You're so gorgeous and your style is perfect! Love the outfit and the way you styled your jumper :)xReplyDelete
beautiful place and beautiful style.
The title of your post made me smile! I do have an ugly sweater, it's something I always wear for some extra Xmas spirit ;)
That place really seems to be magical, I can't wait to see your other pictures!
I don't think the sweater is ugly at all. You styled it perfectly!! Anywho - I am definitely missing the snow, I hope we get some before spring but it's not looking good with these mild temps creeping in every other week!
xx, sweet bird
Ugly sweater, hot tights, beautiful.
It's not ugly at all!
Gorgeous as always.
That sweater is too cute. Some people really know how to rock the whole "ugly sweater" thing. Me? I just look goofy ;). Glad you had a nice weekend away!ReplyDelete
Great cardigan and shoes!
love the prints and colors here, especially on that ottoman!
kw, Ladies in Navy
oh, you've got me dreaming about a little winter trip away! it all looks perfectly put together on top of the leopard print!ReplyDelete
You look lovely! Sometimes "ugly" sweaters can be super cute - like this case! You have great settings for your pictures. Is this your house?
glad to hear you had a restful time. The photos you shared on IG were beautiful! That's one gem of a house!
♥ laura
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Love this sweater and your hat! Your make up looks beautiful!
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Honey, you can make any ugly sweater look cute and pretty. I'm glad you got away and connected with nature, we all need it.ReplyDelete
I grew up in the lower Hudson Valley. Definitely a beautiful place that not too many people are aware of. Actually, most of New York state really is beautiful and a sharp contrast to the five boroughs!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! You make an ugly sweater look amazing!
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I love that Parker top!
xx Kait
adorable! i would probably wear that sweater every day haha looks comfy! that trip sounds like perfection, can't wait to see the photos. i have instagram now!! i've been feeling so left out hahaReplyDelete
Love the sweater and your hat! You totally rock it girl! The combi with the red lips.. perfect =)
Adorable shoes. ❤
well you sure know how to make an ugly sweater look pretty! :)
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Great shoes! Love mustard on you!
Glad you had a fab get away! Happy new year!
I LOVE the town of red hook! Such a perfect place. I hope you had a great time!
xo Jackie
That sweater is absolutely adorable!
Glad to hear you had a good trip :)
xo Jennifer
I like your outfits with the yellow cape that your mother fished out from a dumpster so much. I hope you don't mind that I put some of these outfit pics on my blog when I did a post about capes. If you don't want to see your photos on my blog drop me a line and I will remove them immediately.ReplyDelete
I love this post, the hat is amazing! Big fan of your blog.
R x
Wow, that house is incredible!ReplyDelete
Those shoes are to die for :)ReplyDelete
That sweater is not ugly. In fact, it's actually pretty cute!ReplyDelete
So not an ugly sweater! I think its cute!ReplyDelete
wow i like it!!!
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My little Todd loves the snow too :) Glad you had such a good getaway and I love your outfit! The top is so cute.
xo Ashley
if that's an ugly sweater... i guess i wear ugly clothes cause i kind of like it!ReplyDelete
Cute outfit and I love the decor!
The moustard shoes are so lovely! :)
xx Elle
I didn't comment on the post, but I was so feeling you when I read what you said. I have to force myself out of my house sometimes. Good thing my work and my dog push me out too. xo
that sweater is far from ugly; it's adorable!
~niki <3
nice legs. and that so-called ugly sweater looks fabulous on you. i love that hudson valley home you stayed in. maybe i could find something like that in california or nearby oregon.ReplyDelete


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Leaky's Harry Potter Home Entertainment Celebration Press Conference Rundown
Nov 12, 2011
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A number of cast members and filmmakers of the "Harry Potter" films took part in a press conference as part of the Harry Potter Home Entertainment Celebration this weekend at Universal Studios Orlando in Florida. Leaky was in attendance at the press conference and live-tweeted the event via our @leaky Twitter.
In attendance at the press conference were actors Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Mark Williams (Mr. Weasley), Warwick Davis (Flitwick/Griphook), Domhnall Gleeson (Bill Weasley), James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley), David Bradley (Filch), George Harris (Shacklebolt), Nick Moran (Scabior) and Stanislav Ianevski (Viktor Krum), along with filmmakers David Heyman, David Barron and director David Yates.
Here is a rundown of highlights from the press conference:
Part One
- Rupert Grint, talking about wrapping up the past ten years: "It's weird, it was my childhood. [The end] hard to put into words."
- Mark Williams, answering same question: "It's hard to answer because it's never happened before."
- Rupert says he took the Deluminator on he last day of filming.
- Warwick Davis, on what he got from the series: "All I took was lovely memories with me."
- Baron: "The only person who got a wand was the actor who played Ollivander (John Hurt). He asked for it, and we said no, so he took it."
- Domhnall Gleeson: "I tried to wear my wedding ring home but got caught walking out."
- Baron, on what he'd like to add to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter: "A ride based on the elevators at the Ministry of Magic. Floo powered and all."
- Warwick Davis, adds, "The Gringots ride¦ so I could work here."
- Rupert Grint speaking to the most important thing your character has taught you, "I think that we have almost become one, always felt as of we have a lot in common."
- Stanislav Ianevski on what he learned: "Well, Viktor wasn't vert talkative and maybe why he didn't get with Hermione. So, I learned to be more talkative and outgoing."
- Mark Williams: "One of the best things has been working with all the young actors and seeing them grow."
- Rupert's odd fan encounter: Following the premiere of the "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" film in New York City, a man in a wheelchair grabbed a hold of the back of his car as they tried to drive away.
- Baron: "This really hasn't been a franchise, this has been about filmmaking. About quality. Feel as if we've rather stretched the definition [of franchise].
- Rupert Grint talks about his future, says he feels "no real pressure to work right away, kind of enjoying a break," and he just finished a film in Norway about WW2.
- Director David Yates answering the hardest scene to film: "Inside the Gringots bank vault. Was a nightmare."
- Williams, on the same subject: The night shoot following the Wizard World Cup.
- Warwick Davis: "Pretty unpleasant to film the Shell Cottage shore-side scenes. Cold water and bad weather."
- Yates on remastering the films: We don't have much material to extend for extended cuts. We used every inch of film we could."
- Baron: "Always had trouble finding scenes for the bonus features… We put out all we had."
- Yates: "I can foresee a 3D conversion in the cards."
- Rupert on last day of filming: "I remember packing up my dressing room and finding toys I brought when I was 11¦ mechanical turtles."
- Baron, discussing the possibility of doing more with the Harry Potter characters: 'You could only do anything after the eight films if only it came from Jo Rowling."
- Yates on Oscar race: "WB is mounting a campaign and were going to do our best. But, the films are going to be there forever with he fans."
- Baron: "There's such a tremendous group of people in front of behind the camera and it would be fantastic if it was recognized by the Academy."
- In the London Studio Tour, accruing to Baron, "People can walk through the sets and see costumes props and much more. People who love film and Harry Potter will love it."
- Rupert favorite book: Deathly Hallows and was worried that Ron would die in he book, "only recently I found out how close Ron was."
- Yates loves the first book the most because "it was the window into the world."
Part Two
- First question for the Phelps Twins is about pranking on set, their response: "For legal reasons we can't say them."
- Jason Isaacs, talking about his character, "I like to think of myself as Luscious Malfoy." Goes on to say, "All of us struggle [to work with] rubbish writing, this (Harry Potter) is one of the rare occasions when you have a fantastically creative part."
- Evanna Lynch, commenting on getting to take part in events at the Wizarding World: "For us it's almost more exciting because we really get to have fun and hang out more, whereas premieres are so big and busy."
- Producer David Heyman speaking to his feelings on working with the Harry Potter film series: For me, I just feel privileged [to be part of this]. This is a place where people felt safe to push the boundaries and where we grew together to become a family.
- George Harris, then comments: Yates, Baron and Heyman gave me the chance to be part of the biggest movies in the world¦ it's like winning the bingo. It's an exciting day going to work to go with my mates. It's a dream to this boy from the Caribbean.
- Nick Moran to Jason Isaacs on his favorite moment from filming: "Watching you put that beautiful blonde wig on."
- Isaacs, speaking again to the Potter series: "I think I understand more than them what an anomaly this is… [Harry Potter] was an island of something entirely magical and positive. We all felt we were in service of this magical, fantastical, intangible world, we all felt like we were privileged to go work there."
- Evanna Lynch, speaking about what it feels like to play a role like Luna: "Gratitude is such a big thing that I will take away from it. I feel so grateful that they let me in [form the fan world]."
- David Bradley talking about what he'll always remember:" Watching the young actors grow… I don't know how you can tell when you meet a 10 year old kid that they can carry something until they're 20… there was a great bit of intuition there."
- David Heyman: "We are working with talented people who are ambitious for their craft. We never viewed [the Harry Potter films] as a franchise, it's a film and what we're trying to do each time is make the best film we can. It was really a place where people really pushed each other to do better than last tine. Our crew, directors never settled. And to give WB credit, they gave us the support to make the films that we wanted to make."
- Evanna, talking about her character, Luna: "I never really expected people would see me as Luna, and see [her strengths] through me. I'm not perfect the way Luna is, I have many more weakness than she has. But she inspires me to be better and if someone comes up to see me that way, I am motivated to [live up to that]. Luna is not very outgoing but she has this great inner strength and that inspires me. I am proud and privileged to portray a character like Luna."
- Nick Moran favorite moment to film: Scene when his character could smell but not see Emma Waton's character in the forest.
- David Bradley's audition memories: Doing a run though of his audition scene, when Filtch takes the Trio and Malfoy into the forest, in his back garden with his young daughter.
- Jason Isaacs, the reason why he asked for a cane: so he could wrap Draco on the hand in CoS.
- Evanna, scene that didn't make it into the film: Really sad the scene where Luna commentated the Quidditch game. Scene was originally in the script, but got cut.
- Harris: Responsibility people put on you as the character, so they think of you as a big commander when they see you in person.
- Heyman, secret to making HP films being so majestic: "Jo Rowling. They key is Jo. Without her there would be none of this. I read HP before it was published, so I had no idea. Thought it would be moderate British film, if I was lucky. First step was hiring Steve Kloves. The key is capturing Jo's voice in the film. The thing that I'm most proud of was the environment was without ego [from anyone]."
- Bradley, jokingly describes what he'll do next: "I'm available for pantomime."
- Phelps Twins: Scheduled to film a pilot for a US TV show, sometime early next year.
- Evanna: "I might just spend my life touring promoting Harry Potter, (laughs) but I just moved to here and am finding my feet."
- Heyman on glossing over character deaths: "It's very hard to make a death of a bird¦ in the air… (mimes reaching for something falling away from him) Hedddwwwiggg!"
- Heyman, commenting on the death of Fred: "What we felt was the real power in that was seeing Ron's reaction to [the death]."
- Moran's "Ah-ha" moment: Getting out of the car and seeing the full invasion forth [of the crew on set].
- Bradley's "Ah-ha" moment: Meeting fans who say "it's just like how I imagined it."
- Oliver's Ah-ha" moment: Having to go to set shielded by umbrellas in order to walk to set.
- James' Ah-ha" moment: Meeting a woman while swimming who asked if he was in Harry Potter.
- Isaacs' Ah-ha" moment: WB paying for gourmet hamburgers during the CoS film premiere.
- Evanna's Ah-ha" moment: Walking around London and seeing a sticker of herself on the pavement.
Saturday evening there will be a red carpet event at the Wizarding World to mark this celebration. Leaky will be one the scene, so stay close for the latest!


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Do you love learning? Or teaching? Are you an expert at something, or know fascinating facts that children would soak up? If you want to tell dynamic, true stories or impart your knowledge to kids in ways that will grab and hold their attention, the Writing Barn is offering a class suited for you. Award-winning author Miranda Paul will be teaching the six-week writing course online entitled, Beyond Biographies: Creative Nonfiction & Informational Fiction Picture Books will be taught on Monday evenings from Nov. 5-Dec. 10, 2018.
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In this brand-new workshop, award-winning picture book author Miranda Paul will show you how to dazzle 21st century kids with creative nonfiction and informational fiction books that outshine the humdrum encyclopedias and textbooks of generations past. By showcasing myriad formats beyond the ever-popular picture book biography—including narrative, expository, poetic, and layered structures—the focus of this course is shaping informational manuscripts into entertaining, engaging, and salable titles that appeal to trade as well as school and library markets.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Define creative nonfiction, informational fiction, etc.
- Categorize myriad creative picture book formats
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If you had the choice, to have every religious person in the world, and only the dumb religious ones, drop dead in an instant. Would you do it or not? Im not religous so dont worry about being a dick. I just want to know how other people feel about this. You can message me with the answer if you'd rather not post it publicly.
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"Okay, I don't pretend to be as intelligent as you guys — you're obviously very well read. But I read the Bible, and nothing you say can convince me that God does not exist. I feel him in my heart, and you can feel him too, if you'll just ask him into your life. "For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son into the world, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish from the earth." John 3:16."
someone needs to do a god damn experiment relating the "feeling of…
If there was a button.. Sitting here on my desk that could do just that..
I would slam it over and over again until my hands were nothing but bloody stumps at the end of my wrists.


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This vintage-style pulp novel is modeled after those fantastic sci-fi paperbacks of the 50's and 60's. In this twisted story of unleashed terror and spine-tingling horror, a mad scientist clones Nicole Richie in order to add to his macabre collection of human curiosities...but his experiment goes terribly wrong when the clones continue multiplying. Forming an unruly mob, they break out of the laboratory and begin to terrorize the beaches across the U.S. Can these angry starving clones be stopped before it's too late? This Halloween parody created with ink and digital color.
Gallery of the Absurd has been posting several Halloween-themed paintings during the month of October. Dracula, skeletons, space aliens, Donald Trump....all are fodder for chills and nightmares. One of the scariest images we saw this year was the Star magazine cover photo of a skeletal Nicole Richie struggling to run down the beach. Interestingly, she looks cute in many of the photos that were taken of her that day, but Star managed to find the most horrifying photo in the batch and in classic tabloid maneuver, featured it on the cover. We hope our subscription never runs out. Medium: Star magazine cover manipulated with a little Photoshop.


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Consider a smooth $k$-dimensional foliation of the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, all of whose leaves are diffeomorphic to $k$-disks.
Question: Is there a leaf whose $k$-volume is at least $\omega_k$?
Here $\omega_k$ denotes the volume of the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^k$.
Particular cases. If $k=1$, the leaf through the origin (in this case a curve) has the desired property. If $k=n-1$, the leaf which divides the ball into two regions of equal volume has the desired property, by a relative isoperimetric inequality.
A possible argument. Replace each leaf $F$ by a $k$-submanifold which minimizes the $k$-volume among those with boundary $F\cap \partial B$. Among the minimal submanifolds obtained in this way, consider one which passes through the origin: its $k$-volume is at least $\omega_k$ by the monotonicity formula, and the $k$-volume of the leaf with the same boundary is even larger.
I know how to make this argument rigorous when the foliation is close enough to the foliation by parallel affine subspaces (but a reference or a more elementary proof also for this perturbative case would be very useful). In general, besides for possible singularities of the minimizers (which should not disturb), the problem I see is how to guarantee that at least one of them passes through the origin.


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Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, on August 16, 1920, the only child of a German mother and an American soldier father. Because of social and economic difficulties, his parents brought him to the United States when he was three years old. They settled in Los Angeles, where he was raised and educated. His father spent most of his working life as a milkman until he lost that job during the Depression, a tragedy that turned an already difficult family life into an unbearable one. Bukowski's father was obsessed with pushing his son into attaining the American Dream to such an extent that young Charles left home after he graduated from high school in 1939. Their relationship was an extremely difficult one, and his father regularly beat him.
Though Ham on Rye (1982) purports to be a novel, it unquestionably documents the early life of Bukowski—his childhood, adolescence, and early manhood. The main character-narrator, Henry Chinaski, is certainly Bukowski himself as he records in vivid detail the poverty and oppression of the Depression years and the damage done to the poor and dispossessed during that bleak period.
Bukowski's two uncles both died young because of their excessive drinking, though his grandfather lived into old age in spite of an irresponsible life of drinking and womanizing. One of young Charles's earliest memories is the contrast between his family's disgust with his alcoholic grandfather and his own memory of him as a warm and generous presence. Bukowski identified with the outcasts early, the isolated and the alienated, and indeed became the writer whose major subject matter documented those empty, wasted lives.
His early family life is a litany of violent beatings from his father, who was unfaithful to his wife and beat her as well when she uncovered the marital infidelities. His grammar school days in the poorest sections of Los Angeles also consisted of endless battles with bigger and stronger boys who mercilessly taunted him because he was awkward, unattractive, and German. He spent much of his time alone, hiding out from the brutality of the daily routine of school.
While his teen years brought more self-assurance on the athletic field, they also brought violent bodily reactions in the form of acne and boils that became so inflamed that he had to be hospitalized. His face was permanently scarred, pitted and ravaged by the skin disease; in the shower room, his fellow athletes cruelly mocked his naked body covered with suppurating boils. During a time following surgery on his face and back, he first felt driven to create an alternate, imaginative world in which he could live outside the agony of reality. He realized that he could become a hero only in his imagination and that within that world nothing could hurt him. In short, he had found a refuge and power within himself that answered only to him, This realization propelled him eventually into the life of a writer.
Several other key incidents reinforced his decision to become a writer. One took place in the fourth grade, when the teacher was asking all the students what their fathers did for a living; young Charles was struck by the fact that virtually everybody in the class lied, as most of their fathers had lost their jobs during the Depression; the teacher seemed to be accepting the lies at face value. The other incident occurred several years later when a sensitive teacher realized that young Charles's "eyewitness" account of Herbert Hoover's visit to Los Angeles was an elaborately constructed hoax and, instead of punishing him for lying, rewarded him for how accurately he presented his fiction.
Bukowski became a frequent visitor to the local library and would read a book a night. His early literary heroes were writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Aldous Huxley, and especially D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway. There is certainly little question which of these writers have influenced Bukowski's...
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Leading figures from the municipalities of Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour paid a visit to the pope last month, to update the Vatican on the current status of their fight against Israel's plan to annex a large swath of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area by building a further section of the separation wall. The goal was to raise international awareness on the issue and gain support in order to put pressure on Israel to cease its construction plans.
The story goes back to 2006 when Israel's Ministry of Defense issued a revised section of plans for the wall that, when completed, would effectively annex the Palestinian area of Cremisan Valley of Bethlehem province into Israel. Situated in the Cremisan Valley is the Salesian Sisters Convent and the Convent of the Don Bosco Brothers. The nuns run a school for young children, and the monks manage a winery famous for high-quality wines. While most of the land currently set to be annexed into Israeli territory belongs to the convents, private Palestinian farmland is also under threat of appropriation.
Deputy Mayor of Bethlehem Issam Juha told the Palestine Monitor that the Cremisan Valley "forms about 50% of the municipal borders of Beit Jala, so we are talking about a large area that Israel is trying to annex to Jerusalem. This would leave Bethlehem area without any green area. In addition to that, we will lose (…) the winery, which creates jobs (...) and creates a source for selling grapes." The annexation of the Don Bosco winery to Israel would mean losing a major buyer of grapes produced and sold by local Palestinian farmers. The flow of goods between Palestinian farmers and the wine factory would be prevented by the wall.
In addition to the issue of the winery and the negative economic implications for the area if it were to be lost, there would be fatal consequences for the convent's school, run by the Salesian Sisters. The Society of St. Yves, the Catholic Center for Human Rights, states on its website that the building of the wall according to current plans would mean the end of the school and thus the end of the education of 400 children, mostly from needy families. The children (Muslim and Christian) would be deprived of their right to education, as their parents wouldn't be able to send them anywhere else.
The joint appeal by landowners and the Salesian Sisters to the Israeli Supreme Court called on the Ministry of Defense to reconsider its plans. The Court thus requested the Ministry to develop an alternative itinerary for the wall. This alternative was rejected by all Palestinian parties fighting against the wall. According to Deputy Mayor Issam Juha, "We were surprised by the new proposal they offered, in which they separate the winery from the convent and put two gates, one going to the Israeli territories and the other going to Beit Jala. And the people, who control the two gates should be the priests living in the convent." Issam Juha smiled in view of the proposal's absurdity of putting the priests "in charge of controlling the border between the two sides."
Dalia Qumsieh, Head of Advocacy of the Society of St. Yves, told the Palestine Monitor, "We have been waiting for the Supreme Court's reaction. The last hearing was in November 2014. As far as I know there are no additional hearings scheduled."
Until the Supreme Court reacts, this means "business as usual for the school," the winery and the landowners. Business as usual, but with swords of Damocles hanging over their heads.
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PureDWTS Season 18 Cast Watch: Interesting Things on Twitter/Instagram
So I know I've warned you guys not to read too far into who follows who on Twitter – but that's exactly what I'm going to do right now. 😛 Do as I say, not as I do, kids! But for what it's worth, in the past, we have been able to deduce some partnerships based on who the pros and/or rumored celebs recently started following on Twitter – and in season 11, we had a negligent casting director to thank for inadvertently spoiling the entire cast by following all of them of Twitter mere days before the announcement. So what interesting stories might Twitter tell about this season's celebs? Keep an eye on this page, as we may update it if some other interesting followings occur between now and the cast announcement…which we will be live blogging starting Tuesday morning, hint hint 😉
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No longer with the team, or enrolled in school, as of March for violating team rules, Vanderbilt defensive tackle Jared Morse has found his way back to the Commodores.
James Franklin confirmed to the Tennessean on Thursday that Morse was back on the team and enrolled in summer classes.
"He's back," Franklin said. "He was not with us for a number of reasons, and he had some obligations that he had to fulfill. He fulfilled them and he's back. To me, we're in the business of educating kids on the field and off. And this was a great opportunity for Jared to kind of grow up, and he's done that.
"We couldn't be happier about it. I know he's very, very appreciative of being back. You're talking about a guy who's played at least two years and been productive. And going through that experience, leaving and now coming back, he's hungry, he's humble, he's motivated and he's appreciative."
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Same Bird
6 comments:
- Callan Bentley said...
Oooh! Clearly a RAVEN... Very different silhouette from a hawk.
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:13:00 PM PDT
- Callan Bentley said...
Well.... Maybe not "clearly"... but that's what it looks like from this angle... the diamond shaped tail and what-not.
But... as I look through the Sibley guide, some of the hawk silhouettes look pretty similar. Maybe it's not so different as I thought at first glance... but I'm 65% positive it's a raven.
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:16:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
A raven! Well, I may have known that when I was taking the picture - but maybe not. We have all kinds of ravens around the mine property.
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:17:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
I think our Sibley's is back at the lake. Or maybe it's around here somewhere. Maybe. I think you're right, though.
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:18:00 PM PDT
- Koneko said...
It's a raven not because of the tail feathers or anything, it's a raven 'cos it has "fingers" on the end of its wings, something rather unforgettable. :D
- Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:40:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks, Koneko!
- Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 8:10:00 PM PDT


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Instant ScalabilityBy Doug Bartholomew Print
With its Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon is blazing a trail to Web services and mixing it up with the likes of IBM and Sun — and maybe even Microsoft and Google.
Instant Scalability
One of the biggest advantages of Amazon's Web services is its scalability. "We make it easier for self-funding, self-scaling businesses to succeed, because there are no gigantic technology investments they're liable for," Amazon's Barr says.
Start-up CEOs and other entrepreneurs like the idea of being able to launch a new product or service for which the real-world demand is largely unknown, and still have the confidence that their support systems will handle whatever gets thrown their way—whether that's 100 customers a day or 10,000 per hour.
"You have to plan for success," Animoto's Jefferson says. "Do we make it so only a hundred users can log in per week? It's silly to prevent growth. We wanted a way we could scale to the world on day one."
Jefferson and his partners looked at a number of other options, such as buying a batch of servers. "But a lot of those servers would have been dormant after the initial launch," he says, "and it would have meant a huge capital expenditure."
Amazon even tailors its offering according to the size of the computing job. Amazon charges 10 cents per compute hour per instance on a machine with a single processor. For a four-processor instance, for example, the cost is 40 cents per compute hour, or 80 cents per hour for an eight-processor machine. Similarly, data storage costs 15 cents per gigabyte per month. And there is no charge for moving data from EC2 to S3.
By contrast, the Sun Grid Compute Utility charges users $1 per CPU per hour. Sun aggregates each customer's job usage and then rounds it up to the nearest whole hour. For instance, a job that uses 1,000 CPUs for one minute would be billed as 1,000 CPU minutes or 16.67 CPU hours, with the latter figure rounded up to 17 hours, for a total of $17.
As of January, Amazon customers had stored 14 billion objects on S3. Amazon won't say what its data storage capacity or computing capacity limits are, nor whether the company has had to purchase additional hardware to handle AWS growth.
For startups—and even for large companies looking to do specific computing projects—this incredibly minuscule price tag for mojo-size computing tasks is a big draw, because it means they can forgo investing in yet another server farm with all of the associated operating and maintenance costs. Microsoft is using the storage service to help speed software downloads, for example, and Linden Lab is using it to deal with the blizzard of software downloads for its popular virtual world Second Life.
For some large companies, such as SanDisk and The New York Times, Amazon made it possible to launch new products or additional services.
SanDisk, the $4 billion maker of flash drives, uses Amazon's data storage as an automatic backup for its new Cruzer Titanium Plus. SanDisk adapted BeInSync's application for automatic backup of the Cruzer, allowing the company to promise customers automatic backup of their data even if the device is lost or stolen. "Amazon Web Services made it possible for us to pursue this very innovative new idea," says Mike Langberg, a SanDisk spokesman.
For The New York Times, Amazon's low cost was the main selling point. "The cost structure is so minimal that we didn't have to make the traditional budget requests to get our project done," says Derek Gottfrid, the newspaper's senior software architect.
The project was massive and complex. America's "newspaper of record" wanted a way to archive 11 million articles published from 1851 to 1980 as PDF files and make them available on the Web.
"We wanted a system that would be scalable, could handle a lot of traffic and could generate PDFs," Gottfrid says. "We also needed a place to store these files. We weren't really sure it would work using EC2 and S3, but we thought it was worth a chance to test it and see."
Gottfrid was able to do the whole job in a few days. Each article that was to be put into PDF format consisted of a series of TIFF file images that had to be assembled and put together in a particular geometric arrangement, including photos, captions, headlines and columns of text.
One of the biggest challenges was managing the large number of computer instances simultaneously, because running computations on large data sets is difficult to set up and manage. For that, Gottfrid took advantage of Apache's Hadoop, an open-source implementation of the MapReduce idea developed at Google.
Hadoop, which provides a framework for running large data processing applications on clusters of commodity hardware, enabled Gottfrid to use EC2 to test-generate a few thousand articles using only four EC2 instances.
Upon successful completion of the test, Gottfrid calculated he could run through all 11 million articles in just under 24 hours by harnessing 100 EC2 instances. The project generated another 1.5 terabytes of data to store in S3. He even ran it a second time to fix an error in the PDFs.
"Honestly, I had a couple of moments of panic," he wrote in his blog. "I was using some very new and not totally proven pieces of technology on a project that was very high profile and on an inflexible deadline. But clearly it worked out, since I am still blogging from open.nytimes.com."
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