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Planning for a road trip from guwahati assam to deoghar jharkhand via road by my car ertiga , can anyone help me with the best route options and how is the road condition ? , Is it safe to travel with family via road ?
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Hi , guys Bilal here this is my second post on India drive . Early I posted Hyderabad to Nuzividu the roads conditions are so good ,But now me and my childhood friends are planning to visit Machilipatnam.
Is there any interesting places to visit in Machilipatnam , which route should I prefer Vijayawada route or Tiruvuru Lakshmipuram route guys please give me the best suggestions.
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I did not travelled for three months and the traveller in side me is thirsty.
Few plans to West Maharastra and Goa with friends did not materialised.
I had also planned a trip to Chitrakote falls with family friends but they were afraid of travelling in Chattisgarh.
It was late night of 27th July, 2018 Friday and I was desperate to go to some place.
I asked my wife and son Shall we go to Chitrakote Waterfalls? They said yes.
Rough route plan was with me. No bookings for night stay made.
Got up early on 28-07-2018 Saturday and started from Home by 5.30 AM and reached Warangal by 7.30 AM.
I know the route up to Eturunagaram before Bhogatha and I know very well that once we cross Warangal,
it is difficult to get any food. So we had Breakfast at Hotel Ashoka, Hanmakonda, once my favorite. Entered in to Mulugu road (from here entire roads are 2 lane) by 8.30 AM.
Our original thought was to come back in the same route from Chitrakote but it proved wrong.
Initially we thought of seeing Bhogatha falls in return journey so as to reach Chitrakote early.
By 10.30 we were at Bhogatha Falls cross road and its only 1 Km from there. We thought lets have a look without wasting much time.
It proved to be good decision.
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I am looking for the first husband of Sara Ellen Hook. His surname was McIntosh. Sara was born in 1849 in Hancock County, Ind.; on 5 Aug 1882 she married John Ladd in Indianapolis, Ind. What happened to Mr. McIntosh?
Does anyone know of a Eliza Stanford Willson who married a John Johnson in Indiana. Eliza was born in Kentucky and may have been a widow when she married Johnson.
I am trying to make a connection between the Cropper/Crapper Family and the Hook Family. A Will, dated 18 October 1817 of one Anderiah Riggen (I am assuming this is a woman) named as beneficiaries a number of Hooks and Crappers. She named Margaret, her
sister, as a wife of McKinney Hook. The executor of the Will was Thomas Crapper. Any help connecting the Crappers/Croppers/Hooks/Riggens would be appreciated. Thanks.
Jacques in Brownsville, Pa.
I need information on the family of my 2d-ggrandmother, Amanda Melvina Jacques. She was born in Brownsville, Pa. on July 11, 1811, the daughter of John Jacques. Her mother's surname, I believe to be Hampton. I do not have a given name. Amanda had two sisters: Esther and Catherine.
Amanda married Matthias M. Hook; she died in Indianapolis, Ind. on August 12, 1896.
Looking for Townland in County Donegal for Meehan
Cornelius "Neil" MEEHAN was born about 1829 in County Donegal; he died April 12, 1909 in Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania. Neil married Bridget BRYCE June 4, 1855 in Donegal County. Bridget was born about 1836 in Donegal and she died in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1911.
Neil's father was John MEEHAN and his mother's name was Ellen GILLESPIE. I have no information on Bridget's parents.
Both Neil and Bridget were born in County Donegal but I cannot find a home town for either of them. I am assuming (not always a good thing to do) that they were born in the same town.
Neil and Bridget must have gone to Scotland shortly after their marriage in 1855 because their first child, John, was born in 1857. Neil was an iron worker in Bothwell, Lanark, Scotland.
I learned that the owners of the iron works in Scotland recruited men in Ireland to work in their factories and that is most likely the reason for the young couple to move to Scotland within a year of being married.
Neil and Bridget had 4 more children: Ellen, born December 10, 1861 (my grandmother); Neil, born March 29, 1964. Baby Neil died just one month after birth; Patrick, born April 23, 1965; and Catherine, born July 3, 1868.
John and Patrick (although only a boy of 15) worked with their father in the iron works; but it appears that all of the children attended elementary school because they all knew how to read and write. Catherine, the youngest, was not put out to work as a child. The 1881 Census in Scotland shows that she was attending school at age 12.
Ellen was not living with her family in Bothwell; she lived in Holytown, Lanark, as a boarder with the McIntear family and she worked in a mill.
My research indicates that the family came to the US at different periods. John, the eldest, came first on October 2, 1884 into N.Y. on the ship S.S. Ethiopia.
I cannot find a record of Ellen's travel to the US.
I believe that Neil, Bridget, Patrick and Catherine arrived in N.Y. on May 24, 1886 aboard the S.S. Furnessia.
The US Census for 1900 shows that Neil and Bridget were living in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, PA. Neil worked as a mail courier and they lived next door to their daughter, Ellen and her husband, George MULLEN.
On the 1910 Census, Bridget was living with George and Ellen, as Neil had died the year previous.
My primary goal is to find the home town of Neil and Bridget MEEHAN in County Donegal.
I am searching for the home town of my great grandparents, Cornelius "Neil" Meehan and Bridget Bryce Meehan. They were married in County Donegal on June 4, 1855 and emigrated to Scotland. First child, John born in 1857 in Bothwell, Lanark Scotland.
Neil's parents were John Meehan and Ellen Gillespie Meehan; parents of Bridget are unknown.
I am searching for the home town of my grandfather, George M. Mullen. He was born in the North of Ireland about 1875; Father's name Hugh; Mother's name Rose (surname unknown).
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Smartphones have become anarchy in a pocket. They have the power of a full desktop system of just a decade ago, and that power is increasing quickly. With that power is ostensible responsibility, but smartphone users are often either unaware or oblivious to how much accessibility and potential damage can be done with smartphones—and the large amount and types of data that many smartphones can store.
Without control, mobile devices are walking security time bombs in addition to being fascinating tools. As a result, system administrators find themselves becoming involved and responsible for an entirely new category of devices, which often have far wider management variance than is found in server farms and cubical villages—lots of models, lots of operating systems, lots of carriers, and perhaps lots of bad habits to break and potentially damaging behavior to confine.
Mobile device users can become frustrated, too. In their quest to do their jobs, mobile device users are offered comparatively sophisticated communications platforms that they're often untrained to effectively use, control, and make productive. Often a single common application like email is an organization's incentive for smartphone use, and increasingly- the prospect of using a line-of-business application or set of communications features becomes the compelling reason to provision smartphones and mobile devices like the iPad and tablets. Like any new hammer, it seeks a nail, and initial deployments may lead to rapid fleet expansions, depending on popularity and real productivity with new mobile apps.
Obtaining applications away from the auspices of organizational distribution mechanisms can also be fraught with difficulty. Some sources of applications vet available applications more thoroughly than others, as recent "app store" problem investigations have determined. Some organizations have gone to the trouble of hosting their own application resources—like app stores— and sequester mobile device downloads strictly from these resources in a quest to contain user download behavior. Often, these "company stores" provide popular publicly-found (and checked) applications alongside those associated with the organizations desired vendors and mobility-related resources.
Hearding mobile cats
Many organizations impose mobile fleet order by implementing Mobile Device Management (MDM) applications across their installed base and subsequent mobile device fleet deployments. MDM apps are designed to corral smartphone functionality in explicit, policy-based ways. As a by-product, many MDM applications also provide proof of compliance for regulatory and other audit needs. Indeed a hallmark of the current crop of MDM applications is heavy reporting. Popular MDM applications provide pathways for international regulatory compliance proof, carrier usage reports, group costs, fleet/group/individual usage patterns, even how popular games and apps are used.
MDM applications are hosted either as an in-house deployed and managed application, or externally deployed via SaaS or "online" hosted models. Some MDM applications are telco/carrier-specific. Carrier-hosted MDM applications often cover only devices issued by the carrier. Many of these carrier-based MDM applications are OEM versions of other MDM applications, modified in some cases to handle carrier-specific service level agreements/SLAs, or specific carrier features or policy controls.
Other MDM applications may have either organizationally-based and/or hosted/SaaS versions available for deployment. Licensing is often flexible. But no matter where the MDM application is hosted, the scope of an MDM's scalability is important as organizations that seek to corral smartphone and mobile device use often must do so for their entire organization's field deployment of mobile devices. This mandate is often spawned by regulatory needs, audit/compliance policy adherence, or the fear of liability, security breaches/data loss, and employee safety.
It's for the audit reasons that some current device tracking management application vendors have extended their desktop/notebook management applications to extend to smartphone and mobile device users. Organizations such as Wavelink and Fiberlink/MaaS360 already had industrial-strength fleet management skills before they launched in to MDM. Others, like Tangoe, built highly-focused MDM applications that were used by carriers before they became available for large organizations.
Mobile device OS factors
Some, but not all mobile device/smartphone OS makers have MDM applications available and their management capabilities are often specific to the mobile device they make. RIM, as an example, has the Blackberry Enterprise Server as a nexus for controlling the Blackberry.
While Microsoft currently manages only their own phones using Windows Mobile OS through Microsoft's System Center: Mobile Device Manager/SC:MDM, the MDM functionality will soon be bundled into other System Center modules for production use in late 2011. In addition, Microsoft will also control iOS/Apple and Android phones, and perhaps others, a trend likely to be followed by other mobile device OS makers.
Smartphones and other mobile devices are controlled in the classic client/server model. An agent client application is initially installed on the smartphone or mobile device, sometimes in the smartphone's system software, but more often via software download provisioning. This adds client monitoring and device control. Provisioning can be as simple as a smartphone user clicking on an SMS message that has an embedded URL to the MDM resource server. Sometimes an agent is downloaded thru an "app store", emailed URL, or is initially provisioned under the auspices of a carrier or contractor.
MDM applications like Afaria (from Sybase) and Tangoe have user agent software that's downloaded in this way and smartphone agents become the focal point for communications with the desired MDM server. Microsoft's Exchange smartphone client software, ActiveSync, is sometimes used as the proxy agent for communications from an MDM server. There are also ActiveSync-like agents for MS Exchange like NotifySync for Blackberry phones that add Exchange and ActiveSync client policy control nexus for Blackberry mobile devices.
After the appropriate client agent is downloaded, it's installed onto the device. From there, the agent software examines the phone or device state, reports findings to the MDM control server, and the MDM control server then delivers instructions to the phone. The agent then makes adjustments to the phone's or device's behavior according to rules/policies dictated by selections made administratively in the MDM application via the received messages.
The smartphone user agent app periodically "phones home" or receives messages via an email or SMS proxy application to communicate the smartphone state. Messages are pushed (sent to the mobile device), where the resident agent software reacts to them, changing policy, adding or disabling features, perhaps backing up phone data, or reacting to changes.
As an example, a locality change might change a policy on a smartphone. International dialing might be disabled (or enabled). Perhaps a smartphone has been reported as missing, and the phone is remotely "killed" or wiped back to factory state with a new passcode. A new contact list is delivered. Updated software might be silently downloaded. Resident software might be tallied. The possibilities are as endless as smartphone features and the intelligence of the MDM application and its features. There are many common denominators of policy control item for mobile device features, like demanding that the phone has a PIN, or that only a specific group of phones having a certain revision level of OS and/or phone firmware gets a specific update, and so on.
Agents do their best to deliver information about the mobile device's state back to the MDM application. The mobile device state is a summary of conditions, settings, and where enabled, additional data such as the location of the phone, messages/calls sent received, software installed (and versions), security data, and policies in place.
Devil's in the details
MDM applications must control a range of features and be able to detect numerous smartphone or device states. This becomes complicated for MDM application vendors for many reasons as there are strong differences between platforms, carriers, operating systems, and user options.
One of the major detection problems surrounds differences in operating systems and their versions—and there are numerous operating system versions to track unless an organization has selected a single mobile OS—which has become increasingly rare. The most popular smartphone operating systems include Windows Mobile in three distinctly different versions; Apple's iOS in four versions; Android in three+ versions; Blackberry OS in two major current releases; HP/Palm's WebOS in two versions (more coming soon); and Symbian, which can be found on numerous phones, especially from Nokia and Sony-Ericcson. Each of these vendors plans upgrades in the near future.
Smartphone and mobile device hardware makers usually develop their phones to work at a "spec" designed to meet the requirement of a smartphone OS version. The vendor's operating system components may or may not allow user updates to core software. Smartphone hardware vendors can limit specific smartphone phone features, or the telco/carrier used by the phone. As data plans vary vastly for smartphones, some vendors limit browsers to specific sites to conserve data transfer costs. Some limit GPS functionality to save battery life. Others change defaults to various applications like POP email—to point mail to a carrier's favored host. Uniformity across an operating system for smartphones isn't guaranteed.
There's also the difficulty of user "tinkering". Users may alter smartphone software application loads dramatically, but it's increasingly common to find users intentionally breaking the walls between operating system and/or firmware and user application space in a process called "rooting" or gaining operating system super-user status. Rooting is usually the first step towards the capability of changing a smartphone's firmware or operating system payload as a "user-mod" implementation. Such mods are frequently performed to thwart carrier-based or smartphone hardware vendor-based constraints in use. One popular root user-mod permits tethering devices (like notebooks systems or iPods) via WiFi to a phone's data connection in a process called 'tethering'. Carriers often impose constraints on tethering as such connections are often seen as thwarting their revenue plans.
Gaining this super-user capability is called "rooting". A phone is security-cracked with software that enables phone operating security bypass. The software and scripts used, often downloaded as a bundle, is called a "rootkit". Some rootkits can disable MDM agent control capability, and the step used to install a rootkit can be covered, leaving no trail. Currently, it's a cat-and-mouse game to detect rootkits on Apple's iOS and on Android versions. By the time you read this, it's likely to have changed, but we won't know how—and that's the challenge for MDM application makers as new rootkits and security-thwarting applications appear constantly.
Some organizations believe that intentionally thwarting software agents or attempting to breach security violates policy and requires strong recourse, while other organizations believe that systems security protects users from potentially dangerous security breaches and merely admonish users, then take action to remove offending software or states that interfere with their sense of security integrity.
Across the spectrum of mobile devices managed, MDM applications are also the focal point for audit, compliance, regulatory control, and reporting. Some packages have reporting capability that allows international regulatory and privacy compliance, where others are more focused towards asset assay, financial costing (for departmental or divisionally-focused accounting), and fleet quality in terms of patch-and-fix level, software inventory and licenses, and decision support.
The decision support components in turn relate to call center and support (help desk) visit costs across models and operating systems. For some organizations, the day of having a single mobile device or smartphone vendor is long gone. Decisions revolve around model reliability, field support costs, user satisfaction assays, successful user interaction with their devices, and overall productivity versus cost. As tremendous amounts of information can be accumulated with MDM tracking, trend analysis data becomes available, but is often best examined through external means, like spreadsheet and light database analysis tools.
Smartphones and mobile devices are now the equal to desktop and notebook assets in terms of accessibility, communications power, and potential for trouble. MDM applications provide the nexus to control these communications assets in flexible ways—and across a wide spectrum of operating systems. As a helpful benefit, large and articulated amounts of information can be garnered about many important qualities of mobile device usage patterns and costs. While this kind of control was once a luxury, it's now becoming a mandatory addition to IT management infrastructure. And largely, we're glad it's there.


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THURSDAY, Oct. 4, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who developed a mathematical model to help predict a couple's chances of becoming pregnant say the method may help determine how long couples should wait before seeking medical help to achieve pregnancy.
The method determines the probability of conception within the next month by using the number of menstrual cycles that have occurred during the time a couple has been trying to conceive.
For example, the U.K. researchers found that a 35-year-old woman who has been trying for six months to get pregnant has only a 10 percent chance of conceiving within the next month.
In comparison, the number of months required to reach a conception chance below 10 percent is 10 months at age 30 and 13 months at age 25, according to the study appearing online Oct. 4 in the journal PLoS One.
"Many couples are not aware that chance plays a big role in getting pregnant. People expect to get pregnant when they want to, so finding out that it isn't happening can be a shock. Approaching a doctor about such a personal matter is daunting, so knowing when is the right time to start investigations would be a useful step forward," study author Geraldine Hartshorne of Warwick Medical School, said in a University of Warwick news release.
"We can't work out exactly when, or if, a woman will become pregnant -- but this analysis can predict her chances, and give a percentage estimate of pregnancy in the next cycle," she added.
Common wisdom has been that couples who are trying to get pregnant should have regular sex for a year before seeking help, but this study shows that age also affects this decision.
"Comparatively few young couples have low fertility, and so for these couples, the most likely reason for failing to conceive in the first few cycles is simply bad luck. There is quite a good chance of conception if they keep trying," study author Peter Sozou, of the London School of Economics, said in the news release.
"But older couples are more likely to have low fertility, so it's more likely for them than for younger couples that failure to conceive after a few months is due to low fertility," he noted.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has more about infertility/fertility.


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Beulah Land
I grew up in a religous household and often my days were peppered with my mother or grandmother humming hymns while doing housework. On Sundays, more often than not, my mother would sing in the choir. I remember thinking it is the most beautiful sound in the world.
I was reminded of these times in late January of this year. January 28th. It was my Mammaw Dorothy's 87th birthday. It was a joyous if not bittersweet occasion. Mammaw had been in hospice care for about a week at that point. My mother and aunt had not left her side since she took ill a month earlier. I had just taken the bus from Wisconsin to Louisiana. I rememeber thinking, "she's looks so weak." But despite Mammaw's frail disposition, we bought a cake from the Tasty Bakery and balloons. We regailed stories about how my cousin used to stop by the Tasty Bakery on the way to school and Mammaw would give him tubes of icing. Or stories of Thanksgiving and her famous chicken and dumplings, I remember thinking it's not going to be the same this year.
After things wound down, the only people left were my mother and stepfather, my aunt, my brother and myself. We sat around visiting and around seven someone came to visit. It was the worship leader from my mom's church. He had a gift for Mammaw. A skewed cross that he carved himself. I don't remember what he called it, but the reason he skewed it was so that she can hold it no matter how bad her hands were. And at that time her hands were kind of stuck in weird position but when he put that cross in her hand she held it. And then we sang.
The song, Beulah Land, to this day brings tears to my eyes, A kind man, my mother, aunt, and my brother singing about a place worth longing for. It was a beautiful moment. It makes me think of my childhood and my Mammaw making chicken and dumplings or pumpkin pie. The last time I sat in her house and got to give her a hug and tell her I love her. All of this swirling in my mind while we sang the verses of that hymn. When my brother and I left, I knew that in the scheme of things, Mammaw had lived a good, long life. And that one day she would be singing in a choir of angels. Turns out, she's there now. Maybe one day we'll get to join her.


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Micro-OPs are not RISC because have no relative roots between them, and because there are not instructions. Actually today?s CISC instructions are very complex and they don't executed at once but in frames in space or time/hz. These frames are decided by the MicroCode of the processor and called Micro-OPs. This is the only way to produce a modern CISC, by lowering the different execution units in a number between 3 and 5 instead of 10-20(impossible), while RISC needs only one (vectors). There are more clever ways like MISC and OISC but these are not for today?s intelligence. Anything I said above is 100% correct, some of you must learn to study first.
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Fedora Discussion: "ARM Is A Dead End"
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You can actually find studies on the Internet about: MicroCode vs RISC vs VLIW.
x86 has more risk of going dead than ARM. Dead = mainstream rarity.
Over time there has been many attempts to introduce a new CPU for Windows users. More and more stories have been added to the x86 house and it is getting tall and weak at the foundations. The makers would love a new set of registers, op codes and features. For it to die though would need a concerted effort from Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, and other users+makers of the CPU structure.
ARM: Fedora 17 ARM Release Candidate VFAD results
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Good day all,
Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in our VFAD this afternoon. Below is a summary of the results:
The following RC1 images (http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-...o-mirrors/RC1/) worked as expected and all tests were successful:
Pandaboard w/serial console & SD
Trimslice Bare/Value Pro/H/H250 w/serial console & SD
Trimslice Pro/H/H250 w/serial console & SD/SATA
Highbank w/serial console & SATA
Kirkwood(Guruplug) w/serial console & MicroSD
The following images had issues that should be resolved in RC2:
Versatile Express(Qemu) - Did not boot, kernel oops. Resolved in RC2.
Versatile Express+XFCE (Qemu) - Did not boot, kernel oops. Resolved in RC2.
Pandaboard+XFCE w/SD - The RC1 image incorrectly booted to multi-user mode. Fixed in RC2. Using the GUI, options to reboot/shutdown, automatic mounting and updating failed with an authentication error. Bug to be filed.
The following images had issues that require further investigation/action:
Beagleboard XM w/SD - Booted successfully on a Rev B board, subsequent boots produce a kernel oops. Failed to boot using a Rev A2 board.
Efika SmartTop iMX w/SD - Booted successfully, subsequent boots produce a kernel oops.
The unofficial nightly images for the Raspberry Pi (http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/) were also tested:
Raspberry Pi w/SD - Works as expected.
Raspberry Pi+XFCE - X not installed. To be resolved in future nightly images.
The full results and tests performed can be found here - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archit...ra_17_Test_Day
New images for RC2 are being created now!
Due to the overwhelming success of today, we are holding another VFAD next week:
Fedora 17 - RC2 image validation VFAD
Monday June 18th - 12pm EDT
#fedora-arm on Freenode
Special thanks to the participants today, and we hope you can join us next week.
On behalf of the Fedora ARM Team,
Lately, Phoronix seems to like to mislead their reader with the title, Or use 'strong words' to add more clicks. Like this one. Fedora Discussion: "ARM Is A Dead End. It's as if majority in the discussion agree that ARM is a dead end.
It's unfortunate. I hope for better jounalism on phoronix with each day passing, but looks like it went the opposite.
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The reason ARM is going to take over the market isn't because of performance or power consumption, it's because of price. Intel has the X86 architecture by the balls, but anyone can go out and buy an ARM license. Looks at companies like Texas Instruments, Samsung, Qualcomm, and even Apple. These are not companies known for making processors, but they're giving Intel a run for their money.
All we need is someone to come along and make a desktop ARM chip. One that is tweaked to hell and clocked at 3-4 Ghz. I could easily see AMD or Nvidia making a motherboard chipset that works for both X86 and ARM CPUs to be inserted.
Much like AMD, the purpose of ARM is to help remind Intel that they aren't a monopoly.
Originally posted by Dukenukemx View PostAll we need is someone to come along and make a desktop ARM chip. One that is tweaked to hell and clocked at 3-4 Ghz. I could easily see AMD or Nvidia making a motherboard chipset that works for both X86 and ARM CPUs to be inserted.
Where they can succeed is in the server space, where efficiency and power usage are important, and they can easily scale to many cores to provide performance.
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And it is almost lutefisk season. Some of you are probably not familiar with this delicacy. It is cod fish treated with lye, dried, shipped to America from Norway, where it is then soaked in water. When reconstituted, it becomes a rather slimy, smelly, holiday treat. It is served boiled, steamed, or baked. It is best topped with melted butter, which is the traditional way to serve it. You can serve it under a cream sauce if you are short of butter. I like it with a little salt and a lot of pepper, but that is probably an American addition. In our area it is in the grocery store from Thanksgiving through the New Year, and then again in May. Although I have never been to Norway, I understand that her citizens no longer actually eat lutefisk. Nor do they eat much lefse or flatbread. That was poor man's food and when the poor folks left for America, the Norwegians became more affluent. The Norse people progressed with electricity and refrigeration. But here in America we cling to our poor family traditions.
The very mention of lutefisk causes many people to wrinkle their noses. It is quite aromatic, especially during cooking. But as my mother does, as my grandmothers did, and as my great-grandmothers did, I cook lutefisk once in a while. We serve it every Christmas Eve. Our menu has remained virtually unchanged for over 100 years. The reason makes an interesting story.
Lutefisk reminds me of what my Great-grandmother, Kirsti Engen, did for me. Of my great grandparents, she was the only one still alive when I was born. She, perhaps, gets more credit than she deserves if all were equal, but then, long life has its own rewards. Her husband left her in Norway with two small children when he emmigrated to America. The families there were in dire need and starvation seemed a certainty for many during those times. However, there was one exciting possibility. The New World of America still had land and opportunities for all. A couple of years later he sent the money for her tickets. She packed up a wooden trunk of possessions and a small wooden box of food for her children. She feared that the fare on the boat would upset their tummies. The trip was especially dangerous for toddlers and her plan was to keep their food as close to normal as possible. She went alone with her children to meet her husband in Dakota. She traveled first by boat and then by train. There was no extra money for her husband, Einar, to travel to meet her when the boat anchored. They got off the train in St. Paul, not quite knowing what to expect. He was waiting.
Less than a year after her arrival, my grandmother was born in their sod house. Soon, a wooden frame house was built. They worked dawn to dark every day in order to stay alive. Four months before her youngest child was born, her husband died. She named the boy Einar and proceeded with their plan. She managed to keep her family on that farm by working hard as a farmer and a midwife collecting whatever fee the family could spare. Her one luxury seems to have been trips to the photographer with her children. I have often wondered if those photographs were paid for with money sent by her family in Norway, but I will never know.
I remember celebrating her 100th birthday in the old frame farm house. This photo was taken in the 1940's after years of relative prosperity in America and many additions. The inside remained humble, with no carpeting, very basic furnishings, and no indoor plumbing. There was a dip in the yard where the sod house had stood.
All seven of her children celebrated with her on that day. We buried her the next year on my eleventh birthday. Because I was her namesake, it seemed a fitting end. I keep her wedding ring, a simple, well worn, gold band in my jewelry box. I received it as a gift from her spinster daughter Ada. She is wearing the white necklace on the photo. My grandmother is on the left behind the cake.
Back to lutefisk.
Great Grandma ate lutefisk, lefse, flatbread, and many other simple foods. They reminded her of the home in Norway that she left and never saw again. She came here hoping for a better life and lived that life with loyalty, courage, and faith. The aroma and ritual of preparing these recipes made her feel closer to home, especially on Christmas Eve, when all Norwegians are celebrating.
I don't know if her life was better for the sacrifices she made, but I know mine is. I am inspired by the loyalty she showed her husband. I am amazed by the courage she mustered raising seven children alone on the prairie in a country so strange that she barely spoke the language. I admire her constant, unwavering faith. In our family we were taught to thank God we are Americans. We keep our Norwegian traditions not because of where they come from, but because of those who taught us to enjoy them. These poor traditions bring the generations closer, and I cherish them each Christmas Eve.
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NEW YORK (AP) Carmelo Anthony scored a career-high and franchise-record 62 points, most at the current Madison Square Garden, and the New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Bobcats 125-96 on Friday night to stop a five-game losing streak.
Anthony made 23 of 35 shots, one when he leapt from halfcourt to beat the halftime buzzer, and even added 13 rebounds in the NBA's highest-scoring performance this season.
Anthony had 56 after three quarters, bettering Kevin Durant's previous season high of 54, and stayed in for the first few minutes of the fourth to break Bernard King's Knicks record of 60 points and Kobe Bryant's arena record of 61, set five years ago.
It was easily the highlight of the season for Anthony, on pace to miss the playoffs for the first time in his career and facing frequent questions about his future with the team as he heads into free agency this summer.
BOSTON (AP) – NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant missed his first game of the season and Serge Ibaka scored 21 points to lead the Thunder to a victory over the Celtics.
It was the Western Conference-leading Thunder's sixth straight victory.
Jeremy Lamb came off the bench to score 19 points, and former Celtics center Kendrick Perkins had nine rebounds for Oklahoma City. The Thunder were playing with neither Durant nor Westbrook for the first time since the franchise moved from Seattle in 2008.
Jeff Green scored 16 points and Gerald Wallace scored 12 of his 13 points in the first half, before the Thunder pulled away with a 17-2 run in the third quarter.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Kevin Martin hit a step-back jumper with 8.4 seconds left, lifting the Timberwolves over the Warriors for their third straight victory.
Martin finished with 26 points despite playing with a cut on his right pinkie. Kevin Love added 26 points and 14 rebounds in a back-and-forth game that featured just about everything – except defense.
Harrison Barnes missed an open jumper before the final buzzer sounded, leaving Golden State with its second consecutive loss.
Stephen Curry had 33 points and 15 assists, and David Lee finished with 23 points and seven rebounds for the Warriors, who outshot Minnesota 55 percent to 50 percent but were outrebounded 44-41.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Paul George scored eight of his 36 points in overtime and the Pacers defeated the Kings.
The Pacers overcame a 17-point deficit and rallied in the fourth quarter to tie the game. Indiana outscored the Kings 13-8 in overtime to avoid a rare two-game losing streak.
Marcus Thornton scored 42 points and hit seven 3-pointers for the Kings. Isaiah Thomas scored 38, tying a career high. The undermanned Kings played without injured leading scorers DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay.
Lance Stephenson had 24 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for Indiana. David West had 22 points and both Roy Hibbert and George Hill scored 10.
ATLANTA (AP) – Tim Duncan had 17 points and 16 rebounds in another dominant performance against Atlanta and the Spurs coasted to a win over the short-handed Hawks.
Duncan, who blocked four shots, and point guard Tony Parker didn't return after leaving the game with the Spurs leading 77-50 late in the third quarter. The Spurs used backup players in the fourth.
Boris Diaw led the Spurs with 21 points. Patty Mills, who made six of eight 3-pointers, had 18 points.
The Hawks, already short-handed without Pero Antic and DeMarre Carroll, lost point guard Jeff Teague to a left ankle sprain in the second period. Teague didn't return.
Paul Millsap's 15 points led the Hawks, who set a season scoring low.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Kyle Lowry had 18 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds, and DeMar DeRozan scored 34 points to help the Raptors beat the 76ers.
DeRozan scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight early in the period as the Raptors opened a double-digit lead.
Lowry grabbed his 10th rebound late in the fourth, continuing a string of strong games he's had for the Atlantic Division leaders. He's a Philadelphia native and played at Villanova.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Tobias Harris had 28 points and a career-high 20 rebounds to lift the Orlando Magic to a 114-105 victory over the Lakers.
Arron Afflalo added 23 points and Jameer Nelson scored 22 as the Magic won for only the second time in their last 14 games. Rookie Victor Oladipo had 15 points, 12 rebounds and five assists.
Pau Gasol led Los Angeles with 21 points and 10 rebounds. The Lakers, playing the sixth game of a seven-game road trip, got 19 points and 14 assists from Kendall Marshall and 17 points.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – Eric Gordon's driving layup with 1.9 seconds left gave the Pelicans a victory over the Pistons.
Detroit blew a 16-point third-quarter lead, and the Pistons inexplicably didn't call time after Gordon's winning shot.
Instead, Brandon Jennings rushed a shot from midcourt that missed while coach Maurice Cheeks stood yelling for a timeout.
Detroit wasted a 28-point performance from Jennings and 21 points and 20 rebounds from Andre Drummond. Anthony Morrow scored 21 points for New Orleans, which won for only the second time in 11 games.
The Pelicans were without Jrue Holiday, Ryan Anderson, Jason Smith and Tyreke Evans because of injuries.
NEW YORK (AP) – Mirza Teletovic scored 24 of his 34 points in the second quarter and Deron Wiliams had 18 points and 11 assists as the Nets beat the Mavericks for their fourth straight win.
The Nets improved to an NBA best 9-1 in January. Paul Pierce had 12 points and Kevin Garnett added 10 points and 11 rebounds for New Jersey.
Former Net Vince Carter had 19 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 18 points for the Mavs, who lost their second straight game.
HOUSTON (AP) – Courtney Lee scored 19 points, Zach Randolph added 15 and the Grizzlies held off the Rockets.
Mike Miller drew an offensive foul to give Houston the ball back with 8.3 seconds left. But Patrick Beverley shot an air ball 3-point attempt under heavy pressure to give the Grizzlies the victory.
It is the first win for Memphis over a Southwest Division opponent after it started the season 0-10 in the division.
The victory ruined a spectacular night for Houston's Chandler Parsons. He had a career-high 34 points and made 10 3-pointers – all in the second half. It is an NBA record for 3s in a half and a franchise record for 3s in a game.
CHICAGO (AP) – Blake Griffin had 26 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Clippers to a victory over the Bulls.
Jamal Crawford added 19 points for the Clippers, who had six players score in double figures and shot 54 percent from the field – including 13 for 21 on 3-pointers. DeAndre Jordan added 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Carlos Boozer scored 22 points for the Bulls, who snapped a three-game winning streak.
The Clippers, playing without injured All-Star Chris Paul, have won four straight against the Bulls, and improved to 3-2 on their seven-game trip.
CLEVELAND (AP) – Anderson Varejao scored 16 points and Kyrie Irving had 10 points and 10 assists, leading the Cavaliers over the Bucks.
Varejao scored eight points to spark a 12-2 run that gave Cleveland a 64-46 lead late in the third quarter. Irving, named an All-Star starter for the first time Thursday, had seven assists in the second half.
Khris Middleton led Milwaukee with 13 points. Brandon Knight, who leads the Bucks with a 15.9 average, was held to eight points and went 4 of 12 from the field.
The Bucks (8-34) have the worst record in the league and have lost 10 of 11.
PHOENIX (AP) – Trevor Ariza scored 23 points, Bradley Beal sank a pair of crucial shots down the stretch and the Wizards opened a four-game road trip with a victory over the Suns.
Beal's 3-pointer with 2:03 left gave the Wizards the lead for good at 96-93. His 15-footer made it 99-95 with 26.9 seconds to go, then he finished with a game-ending dunk.
John Wall had 18 points and 12 assists for the Wizards. Nene added 18, Beal 17 points and ex-Sun Marcin Gortat 14 for Washington.
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The identity of iSchools has drawn widespread attention in the iSchool movement. What is special about an iSchool? What do people do in an interdisciplinary iSchool? How does one iSchool differ from another? How do iSchools fit together as a community? There are many ways to address these questions at different levels. For example, one may choose to interview all the iSchool deans, all the iSchool faculty members, and/or all the iSchool graduates; and one may choose to study the mission statement and strategic plan of each individual iSchool. In this paper, we introduce a macroscopic-and-microscopic analysis of the nature of the iSchool community in terms of scholarly communication patterns and emerging as well as established specialties associated with individual iSchools. Two different types of thematic maps are illustrated: author-concept maps depicting what iSchool authors publish and citation maps of what iSchool authors regarded as important. Author-concept maps of four iSchools and one overall thematic map of 19 iSchools are included.
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TWOTREE needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
A California POP design firm seeks an updated logo. We are looking for a fresh and modern take on our old logo.
RICH LTD (http://www.richltd.com)
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Modern, fresh, design-oriented.
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We are a young and design-oriented POP firm. We have a slightly outdated website you can reference at http://www.richltd.com. We don't like this logo because it is dated and difficult to work with. A new tagline we have been working with is "California design. Global reach." We don't think it's necessary to include in the new logo, but it's an idea for the feel of the company. We don't really like our insignia, but we do have some brand recognition with it, so we'll need an updated take on the boxed aspect. We are looking to seperate out the insignia from our main typeface logo. For our typefaced logo, we want to drop the "merchandising solutions" tagline. We want to focus on the "RICH" aspect more than "LTD." We also think its a more modern look to spell out "LTD" as LIMITED.
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text: Aluf (Major General, res.) Amos Yadlin (Hebrew: עמוס ידלין, born 1951) is a former general in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) and was the head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, known as Aman. Before being promoted to head of Aman, Yadlin was the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military attaché to Washington, D.C.. Previously in his career he headed the IDF National Defense College. When Yadlin was an officer in the IAF he participated in Operation Opera, which destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor. He also served as Deputy Commander of the IAF. Yadlin obtained a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. He received a master's degree in Public Administration from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.


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A little while ago, a box arrived in my mailbox that was filled with these.
Yes, bags of pappardelle from the Al Dente pasta company in Michigan. They had emailed to me ask if I might be interested in trying out some of their pasta, and I am a girl who can't say no to pasta. So I said yes please, and it happened to coincide with a Jamie Oliver recipe I had been dying to try for slow-cooked meat over, yes, pappardelle, so the whole thing seemed like fate.
First the recipe. It called for slow-cooking meat in a mixture of red wine, chopped carrots and celery and red onions and herbs, with some plum tomatoes and barley thrown in for good measure. The interesting part of this was that the recipe gave you COMPLETELY free rein over whatever kind of meat you chose. It suggested everything from venison to wild boar to squab to rabbit to beef.
I can't cook venison. Venison cavorts through my yard on a regular basis. On one occasion, we had a baby that couldn't jump the stone wall at the end of our yard and get to its mama, so the Southern husband picked up up, wrapped it in a towel and deposited it on the other side of the fence so it could grow up and come back and eat up all my parsley. But as a result, I can't cook venison.
Short ribs, on the other hand, I can cook. (And this makes no sense at all, since I have met so many more cows during my life than deer. Sorry cows. It's completely unfair.) So short ribs it was, cooked until they were tender and falling off the bone. I then shredded the meat and returned it to the amazing sauce, and then tossed the whole thing with the pappardelle.(By the way, this recipe calls for making a cartouche, and before you get worried, please click here. It's super-easy, and then you can work into your next cocktail party conversation that you made a cartouche the other day. It's the little things in life.)
On to the pappardelle. It cooked up in no time and let me tell you – it was DELICIOUS – perfect consistency and flavor and just right with the shredded meat. And while I used the regular flavor for this dish, it also comes in a whole raft of flavors, including garlic parsley, lemon chive and spinach. Heaven, heaven, heaven. If you are in need of some rocking great pappardelle (and trust me, you are), click here. You won't be sorry.Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to chasing the venison out of my yard.
Shredded Short Ribs with Pappardelle
From Jamie Oliver's recipe via the fabulous Leite's Culinaria
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About a month before his 15th birthday, Robert Price left his family in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England for London. He was to become an apprentice pawnbroker under Henry Ashman.
The 1851 census finds him in St. Martins, Middlesex, England, 65 Long Acre street, living in the household of Henry Ashman listed as a 15 year old servant pawnbroker.
Robert was released from Mr. Ashman's employ after 3 years. While he started as a stock boy, he must have had a few dealings with customers; maybe just enough to influence his decision to leave the trade. After all, pawnbrokers weren't a very much liked 'lot'.
The following is an excerpt from his biography written by Ezra J. Poulsen:
"...One has but to reflect on the nature of the pawnbroking business to clarify his mind on some of Robert's probable reactions during those years. The banks of that day had not developed to their present status in the small loan field; nor was credit used as widely in a constructive sense as it is today in America. the pawnshop, therefor, was the main contact for those in financial distress; the poor, the improvident, those involved in sudden crises, such as sickness or death. This type of clientele could have had a depressing effect on a sensitive youth like Robert Price.
Pawn brokers were not a popular class. They were probably looked upon as a sort of necessary evil, and often hated by the very people who came to them for help. the risks they took were great; consequently, their rates were high, and their methods sometimes extortionist. The debtor's prison was still a grim reality..."
Ezra claims in his book that Robert eventually went to work for a silversmith, but according to the 1855 passenger list to New York he was still a pawnbroker. The 1860 census of Connecticut however, finds him as a painter.
pawnbroker's symbol? It is three golden balls. I had no idea.
The illustration on the left is the cover of a book written by George Robert Sims. This story is a narration of some of the customers of pawnbrokers.
Coincidentally, George Sims is the name of another pawnbroker who was an apprentice with Robert under Henry Ashman.
And did you know that the nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" comes from pawnbroking?
If you have pawnbrokers in your ancestry, don't forget to check newspaper archives. Pawnbrokers often found themselves in legal situations for receiving stolen property, most of the time innocently of course. The Old Bailey even found Mr. Ashman as witness to such thievery.
Many victorian writers wrote detailed accounts about pawnbrokers. GoogleBooks would be a good place to start.
Thanks to Denise Spurlock for suggesting for suggesting this prompt.
Leslie Ann
- Robert Price, by Ezra J. Poulsen
- Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851. - Class: HO107; Piece: 1482; Folio: 264; Page: 21; GSU roll: 87807.
- Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - 1855; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237; Microfilm Roll: 159; Line: 21; List Number: 1256.


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This stainless steel pangolin cup features our original endangered anteater design, and comes in two unbreakable sizes: 12oz or 16oz. The rolled edge of the larger tumbler can snugly hold a silicone lid, to protect your drink from hazards like spilling, dirt, and pesky insects while you're picnicking. Add an optional lid to your 16oz cup (in your choice of color) for just $3 more before adding to cart.
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In Search of the Novel: Ten Novelists
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents. She received a master's degree in Bible and Christian education and was a teacher as well as a missionary in Japan. She is the author of more than twenty-five books and has established herself as the most celebrated of children's book writers. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. Her awards include the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Among her most popular books are The Master Puppeteer, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Bridge to Terabithia, and Jacob I Have Loved. Mrs. Paterson lives in Vermont with her husband who is a Presbyterian minister. They have four children.
Web Sites
- Terabithia.com
The author's own Web site. The "Questions" section features answers by the author!
- Katherine Paterson on the Reading Rockets Web site
A section devoted to Paterson with a link to a video interview.
- IPL Youth Division: Ask the Author
An interview by students and facts about Katherine Paterson.


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Two Men Sue Chicago Police; Claim They Were Abused And Falsely Charged For Filming Officers
from the shameful dept
In the past year, we applauded two Illinois courts for protecting every citizen's right to record on-duty police, and ruling that a law criminalizing the act is unconstitutional. We similarly pointed to Boston, where a court forced the city to pay someone they arrested for filming the cops. Of course, it's pretty concerning that this was ever in question to begin with—normally, the argument that "you don't need privacy unless you've got something to hide" is fallacious for a number of reasons, but that doesn't extend to people who are empowered and armed, ostensibly with the consent of the citizenry and on the condition that they follow their own strict code of behavior. The fact that there is a clear push to let officers operate without public scrutiny is intolerable on every level.
But, perhaps worse still, there is the fact that police don't always need a law to protect them from the public's lenses—they can just take matters into their own hands. There are plenty of examples of police harassing people who film them, often threatening to arrest them or going ahead and doing it. It's an intimidation tactic, and really just part of a much larger problem, which is that no matter how much a person is in the right (and how much they know it), the police have plenty of ways to make their life hell for a long time before they see justice, if they ever do. This appears to be the case in a recent Chicago lawsuit, where two men allege they were battered, strip-searched and falsely charged for filming a traffic accident caused by a police car.
Benjamin Perez and Bobby Milton sued Chicago and nine police officers in Federal Court.
The men say they were talking outside with some friends in an early morning in August 2011 when a friend rode by on a motorcycle, heading south on Chicago Avenue.
"At the same time, defendant Captain [Kevin Navarro] was driving a marked Chicago Police Department vehicle, an SUV, northbound on South Chicago Avenue in the wrong lane of traffic, heading northbound in the southbound lane," according to the complaint.
"Defendant Captain drove his police vehicle into plaintiffs' friend, who was traveling southbound on his motorcycle, causing plaintiffs' friend to suffer serious injury."
Numerous police officers arrived quickly.
"Defendant officers observed plaintiffs using their cell phones to record the collision scene, and immediately took plaintiff Perez's cell phone and placed handcuffs on him, taking him into custody even though Perez was not doing anything illegal," the complaint states.
"Defendant officers placed Perez in the back of a police car and demanded that Perez show them how to delete the photographs he had taken with his cell phone.
"After plaintiff Perez was taken into custody, plaintiff Milton, who had also been using his cell phone to record the scene, was seated on his motorcycle, when defendant [Officers] Frahm and Hernandez approached him.
"Defendants Frahm and Hernandez grabbed plaintiff Milton, forced him off of his motorcycle, and threw him to the ground.
The suit continues, claiming that the men were taken to the police station and threatened with felony charges if they didn't help officers delete the recording, and one was strip-searched to check for "other cameras and recording devices" (because most people keep a spare iPhone taped to their inner thigh, of course). They are seeking damages for "false arrest, excessive force, unlawful search, conspiracy, false imprisonment, battery, and malicious prosecution".
Now, we don't have the officers' side of the story yet, but the allegations certainly look bad—and it's not hard to find plenty of instances of similar actions by the police. Assuming the complaint is even close to true, hopefully the court recognizes the affront to justice that this kind of police behavior represents, and joins the growing ranks of courts that are affirming the right to record the police and hold them accountable for their actions.


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I'll be honest: it's been exceedingly difficult to scare up the necessary motivation to write much about the Blue Jays lately, what with the team languishing in the basement of the AL East and its most exciting talent in various stages of recovery from injury. Earlier in the season, when the team was healthy, even if they weren't consistently winning games, I could content myself with watching Brandon Morrow and Jose Bautista, because you never knew when they were going to do something special. Nothing against the Mike McCoys of the world, but it's not like his at-bats get me tingling with anticipation.
Maybe that's giving short shrift to the fill-ins who've had to make the best of it as the every-day lineup gets better. The effort has been there, but it's abundantly clear that the talent gap between the "championship calibre offense" they are capable of fielding and the second or third string is fairly daunting.
For the sake of comparison, we need only look -- as is so often the case -- at the top of the AL East standings, where an injury-riddled New York Yankees team continues to succeed. When offensive starters have gone down, the Yankees have had the capacity to replace them with talent that seems to fit the role almost perfectly. Some of that might seem lucky; I don't think they were counting on a career renaissance from Eric Chavez or for Ichiro Suzuki to land in their laps. Regardless, they've smartly -- and perhaps more surprisingly, cheaply -- assembled real depth on their roster.
Meanwhile, a quick glance down the Toronto bench, such as it is, has been discouraging all year. I'm not going to dwell on the offensive ineptitude of Omar Vizquel and Jeff Mathis, because that ground has been well covered. Yes, the injury epidemic has forced them and others into far more plate appearances than anyone would have liked. And you can't fill an entire 40-man roster with above-average major leaguers to prepare for the worst. But no matter who is filling the backup roles, they're going to end up with playing time in 2013.
So what's the solution? Especially with a few remaining starting spots to fill this offseason? I could do a little furious rosterbation here and start plugging holes with David Ortiz, Brandon Phillips or Shin-Soo Choo, but given the state of the pitching staff, I have a feeling Alex Anthopoulos is going to have a little less in terms of resources to commit to not only those starting offensive spots, but the bench as well. If his focus, as he has said, will be on the rotation, he might have to be a little creative on the side of the ledger that includes extra position players.
I'm open to suggestions as to what that creativity should look like. It's still just August, and it's a bit depressing to be looking ahead to 2013 already anyway. But I do hope that some serious effort is made to find the kind of depth that always seems to show up on winning teams, if only to relieve me of the sense of impending doom I get whenever the bench is called upon. It might mean moving up a level from picking through the scrap heap that produced the likes of our beloved Omar -- the non-roster invitees and minor league free agent deals. Maybe it's time to move on to a better class of scrap heap.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Envoy Marc Grossman's visit to Pakistan has been put off at Islamabad's request, a State Department spokesman said.
Spokesman Mark Toner disclosed the change in plans Tuesday after The Washington Post reported the Obama administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan had asked to visit Pakistan on his current trip but that Pakistani officials had said it would not be convenient.
"I think we talked about that even on Friday, that we received word that the Pakistanis felt -- the Pakistani government felt it would be best to wait until this parliamentary review is concluded," Toner said in reply to a question, the State Department Web site reported.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported Grossman has been talking with U.S. allies in the Middle East about involving the Taliban in the reconciliation process in Afghanistan. The newspaper said the issue over Grossman's visit indicated further worsening of relations between the United States and Pakistan, arising from the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May by U.S. forces, and the accidental deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers during a NATO airstrike last November.
In this charged environment, a Pakistani parliamentary committee is currently reviewing terms of cooperation with the United States.
Toner, in response to other questions, said, "We absolutely view Pakistan as an essential partner to these -- to this Afghan-led reconciliation process."


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NEWS | November 15, 2013
LeVar Burton Shares MAVEN's Story in a New NASA PSA
As NASA prepares for next week's launch of the agency's next Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), actor LeVar Burton shares the excitement of the mission in a new NASA public service announcement (PSA).
The video, containing newly edited NASA's animations, will be used at events around the country and shared on the web and social media. The goal is to educate the public about MAVEN and NASA's efforts to better understand the Red Planet and the history of climate change there.
Burton has been a lifelong advocate of education through his many STEM initiatives and participation in educational programming. He is also known worldwide as Geordi LeForge, chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," as Kunta Kinte in the breakthrough mini-series "Roots" and beloved by generations of children as the host and producer of the "Reading Rainbow" television series.
"NASA is thrilled to have LeVar Burton explain this mission to the greater public," said Bert Ulrich, NASA's multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations. "Thanks to Burton's engaging talents and passion for space exploration, audiences of all ages will be able to share in the excitement of NASA's next mission to Mars."
MAVEN is targeted to launch Monday, Nov. 18 at 1:28 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to help scientists understand climate change over the Red Planet's history. MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.
To view the PSA, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/psa
To view the original NASA release, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/november/levar-burton-shares-maven-s-story-in-a-new-nasa-psa


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The center-finding tape has normal Imperial graduations on the top edge and half-scale graduations on the opposite edge. To find the center, find the identical measurement from the top scale on the lower scale.
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Win Two Tickets to the Lucky Rice Grand Feast, May 3rd
Last year's Lucky Rice Asian food festival was a weeklong hit of delicious food events, and this year's looks like it'll be even better.
On the roster: dumpling parties and ramen dinners, Asian-inflected cocktails, Chinese-Jamaican fusion, a night of Filipino cooking, and more. But the biggest event is the Grand Feast, a tasting from 20 chefs featuring dishes from all over Asia. This year's participants include Sakamai, Morimoto, Perry Street, and Public, just to name a few.
Tickets ($150 general admission, $250 VIP) are expected to sell out, but we're giving away two right here. To enter, tell us about your favorite Asian restaurant in New York in the comments below. We'll select a winner at random on Friday, March 29th at 5 p.m. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.
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Rainbow Hat with a Propellor Art Transfer on Wood #2
$ 80.00
This is a transfer on wood technique created at an art workshop led by KeyHan Lee to support Lucian Williamson.
Lucian passed away in arms of his parents on June 6th, 2014. Thank you all who came and supported him.
More info about the workshop find HERE.
Size approx. 10x10"Material: Wood