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The big game may still be a few months away, but at least one enterprising travel company is selling a super-deluxe Super Bowl package for $49,000 and billing it as the perfect holiday gift "for the man who has everything." Charles Passy has details on Lunch Break.
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Taliban poetry. The very idea may make some people snort. How can a group of mountain fighters who spent weeks shelling the face off stone Buddha statues and ordered millions of Afghan women to cover their faces under burqas, have anything of value to say about beauty?
You'd be surprised.
Following a release in Britain a few months ago, "The Poetry of the Taliban" has been released this week in the United States, published by Columbia University Press.
I will let the literary set decide what is good poetry or bad poetry, although the estimable New-Delhi-based British historian William Dalrymple did have this to say:
"This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project – uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak. But it is also an important political project: humanizing and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions, and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little-understood resistance movement that is about to defeat yet another foreign occupation."
For those who have spent any length of time at all in Afghanistan, it will come as no surprise that Afghans are a poetic people.
As a young war correspondent in Jalalabad, one of my keenest memories was not a night of bullets flying and prayers spoken, but rather a night of poetry. We had just eaten a meal of rice and lamb, and my host and his cousins and friends were passing around a watering can to wash their hands.
And then it began: One gentleman among us recited a love poem of startling romantic sincerity. Then came another poem about the feebleness of human character. Then another about a fickle lover. Then another about the terrors of battle, and the loss of a loved one. Some of these poems were ancient, but most had been written by the men who were reciting them, all doctors and merchants and political science students. And there wasn't a cheap and dirty limerick in the lot.
My hosts turned to me, and I had nothing to offer, except appreciation for the beauty of their words.
Today, the release of this Taliban poetry book is an odd echo of that evening session. Odd, because I had probably assumed that poetry only occurred among the semi-elite, and especially those of the enlightened democratic sort who would have been fighting against the Taliban. But poetry is a potent weapon that only gets stronger in the hands of someone faced with an impossible cause and a powerful enemy.
One doesn't have to agree with the Taliban worldview to appreciate the haunting power of this poem, written in 2007 by Taliban poet Shahzeb Faqir:
"The village seems strange, this is separation
As if my beloved has left it,
The grief of separation is so cruel that it is not scared of anyone;
When the soul does not leave the body it shakes,
Like a flower withering in the autumn,
Autumn has now come to my love."
The ambiguity of those lines – who is this love: God, his wife, his country? – is what gives them power. And for a people who are supposed to be in the thrall of literalist mullahs, who deny the possibility of the Quran ever being open to interpretation, other than by the mullahs themselves, it should give us pause to rethink our prejudices about the Afghan people, and specifically about the Taliban.
The poems in this book are full of patriotism and exhortations to fight, as one would expect from people who have been at war almost constantly since the Soviet invasion of 1979, and the devastating civil war after the Soviets left in the early 1990s. A British man of a certain age might recognize in this collection a similar spirit to the quintessential Stiff-Upper-Lip poem of Rudyard Kipling, "If."
Taliban poems are war poems, to be sure. But they are also full of reminders of the reasons why people fight, for family, for honor, for freedom, for nationalism, for religious expression.
In this way, the Taliban are just following in a long tradition of Afghans who found words as a powerful weapon. One of the most famous of Afghan couplets comes from the mouth of a woman named Malalai. On the battlefield of Maiwand in the first Afghan war, faced with the prospect of annihilation at the hands of a superior British Army, Malalai used a poetic couplet to urge Afghan fighters to die with honor.
"Young love! If you do not fall in the battle of Maiwand,
By God, someone is saving you as a symbol of shame!"
Myra MacDonald, a former Reuters reporter in South Asia and now author of a book about the Siachen war between India and Pakistan, warns against romanticizing the Taliban. But she says that the value of reading the "Poetry of the Taliban" is to avoid the extremes of seeing the Taliban as either fanatics or poets, and instead "to study the insurgency on its own terms and in its own words and work backwards into what fits best. We might or might not like what we find."
I think that says it pretty well.
Related: Who are the Taliban and what do they want? 5 key points
But let's end with an entirely different poem, written by the anti-Taliban poet Rahmat Shah Sayel, and given to me by its publisher, Najib Manalai on my most recent trip to Afghanistan in March. In the poem called "Prediction," Mr. Sayel writes this comment about the disappointments of many Afghan people with the wasted opportunities of the last decade.
"If upon our passing
Our new generations
Do not hurl stones at our tombs
Verily, they will be
The humblest, noblest people of the new twenty-first century!"
Wa wa, Sayel sahib, I can hear my poetic Afghan friends saying. Well said.


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Syrian rebels are using their country's northern and southern borders as a strategic fighting position, forcing the Syrian military to limit its response to rebel gains in an effort to avoid triggering a confrontation with neighboring countries, an Israeli military officer said Tuesday.
Speaking from a hilltop overlooking the Syrian border, the officer, who serves in the country's northern command, told McClatchy that in the last three weeks there has been a sharp increase in fighting between the Syrian military and rebel forces just a few miles from the Israeli border.
"They know that near the Israeli border the Syrian army is limited in how they can hit them," said the officer, who under military rules spoke only under the condition of anonymity. He described a cat-and-mouse game being played between rebels and the Syrian army. "The Syrian army doesn't want to start a new front with Israel, they can't maneuver as they'd like once the rebels get too close to the border," he said.
The official said well-publicized incidents earlier this week in which Syrian mortar rounds fell inside Israel were accidents, the inevitable result of the Syrian army trying to engage rebels who'd taken up positions near Israel.
To illustrate the point, the official indicated on a map how close rebels who'd recently taken up positions between the villages Beerajam and Bariqa were to Israel. He noted that Syrian forces targeting the rebels were using "very basic, not very accurate" artillery and that any slight miscalculation would send a shell into Israel. He shrugged off rhetoric by Israeli politicians earlier this week that Israel was ready to escalate with Syria if need be.
The same rebel tactics are also on display on Syrian's northern border with Turkey. There, however, the Turkish government, which supports the rebels who are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, has retaliated by opening fire on Syrian military positions every time a Syrian shell lands in Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cautioned Damascus not to test his country's "limits and determination."
The delicacy of the rebel strategy has been on display recently in fighting for the Syrian border town of Ras al Ayn. On Tuesday, Syrian planes bombed rebel positions there, shaking buildings in the neighboring Turkish town of Ceylanpinar.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking to reporters in Rome, said Ankara had formally protested the bombings near the border, saying the attacks were endangering Turkey's security, state-run TRT television reported. He said Turkey had reported the incident to NATO allies and to the U.N. Security Council.
Syrian rebel commanders speaking to McClatchy by phone said that the area near the Turkish border was "strategic, for every reason possible."
"In addition to giving us border access, the border area is a haven for us and a very, very important strategic point," said Abu Muhammed, a rebel commander in the Idlib area who identified himself by a pseudonym. "We have focused a lot of attention on borders. We now have access along the border with Turkey and Iraq – we are on our way to choking off the regime."
The Israeli officer said he had noticed that the rebels had formed a strategic position around the Syrian village of Quneitra.
"They are above and below. They will, I think, move into Quneitra, allowing them to choke off the access road the Syrian regime has to Damascus," he said. "Rebel groups are using this area as a foothold, they are using whatever advantage they can get against the regime," he said.
Israeli intelligence on the Syrian rebels has increased since the start of 2012, when intelligence officers admitted they knew little to nothing about the rebel units in Syria.
Now, however, the officer speaking about the rebels identified them by their unit names and religious affiliations and said Israel was collecting information on their units' size and movement.
"These groups are the size of battalions at most," he said, indicating fewer than 1,000 fighters.
"They are all Islamists and one group, the Eagles of the Golan, are Salafists," he said, referring to a conservative branch of Sunni Islam. He identified the other two groups as al Furqan and Descendent of the Prophet and said all three spoke in "Islamic tones."
"We find this worrying because we have heard them say that after their first priority of dealing with the Syrian regime, the second thing will be to deal with Israel," he said.


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Hundreds of small business owners, community leaders, and state and local elected officials in Atlanta, Georgia, convened during the first in a series of White House Community Partnership Summits today for the opportunity to meet face to face with senior Obama administration officials and discuss key local issues.
I had the pleasure of representing the Commerce Department and engage participants about steps the administration is taking to promote economic and job growth in Georgia and across America. I especially enjoyed the open space dialogues where participants set the agenda and identify action steps with officials.Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and General Services Administration Administrator Martha Johnson highlighted key aspects of the president's economic agenda. More than 60 federal officials met with summit participants to address pressing issues facing their community. I focused on job creation, economic recovery and workforce development and shared information about federal resources, such as Commerce's Atlanta CommerceConnect center: a one-stop-shop initiative to cut through red tape and simplify access to services and resources that can help companies grow, create jobs, and become more efficient.
The Obama administration continues to make significant investments—particularly in manufacturing—throughout Georgia to accelerate economic recovery, spur small business expansion and get people back to work. Advanced manufacturing is a critical component of Atlanta's economy and will enhance the region's capacity to make products locally and sell them everywhere. Administration investments in emerging sectors have helped to increase regional competitiveness.
An i6 Challenge investment to the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) from Commerce's Economic Development Administration in 2010 has generated a significant return on investment and leveraged millions in private sector investment. A public-private partnership, GCMI has leveraged the federal funds to build and equip a prototyping design and development facility that will accelerate the commercialization of next-generation medical devices. The company is a partnership of four of Georgia's leading research and health care organizations: the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute (SJTRI), Piedmont Healthcare, and the Georgia Research Alliance.
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As before, seems like around IMperial Estates time, when I try to get on either the Imperial Estates board or the Imperial Knights board, I always have to go back and ask my old buddy Dame K for the passwords. However, this time, she tells me even her passwords do not work. Can anyone help me and Dame K with access. Thank you.
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Prior to recording their sixth studio LP, 1979′s 'Lovedrive,' Scorpions had two main problems: Finding major success outside their native Germany and hanging onto a lead guitarist. Fortunately for the band, both issues would soon be solved.
With previous lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth out of the picture following 1977′s 'Taken by Force,' the remaining Scorpions needed a new axeman, and they found him in Matthias Jabs, whose 1978 arrival came early enough to get him in the studio for the 'Lovedrive' sessions. But he wasn't alone; partway through recording, founding guitarist Michael Schenker — who'd quit years earlier to join UFO — rejoined following his firing from that band.
This left Scorpions with three guitarists: Jabs, Michael Schenker, and his brother Rudolf, who'd co-founded the group with his brother in 1965. Although Michael was only part of a small portion of what became 'Lovedrive,' contributing leads to 'Another Piece Of Meat,' 'Coast To Coast,' 'Loving You Sunday Morning,' and the title track, his inclusion hinted at a bigger, beefier sound for the band. Unfortunately, this lineup proved short-lived; when it came time to hit the road in support of the album, the Schenkers closed ranks, leaving Jabs an ex-Scorpion — for the time being, anyway.
"I was tired then," Michael said regarding the end of his tenure with UFO. "I feel more refreshed now, but I'll never play again the way UFO played, all the little clubs up and down America. Scorpions are well-known already, so we should get a guest spot on a major tour. I'd lost my enthusiasm with UFO; with Scorpions I'm excited again."
His excitement came at a pivotal time for the band, with worldwide fortunes on the rise following the release of 'Lovedrive.' As singer Klaus Meine recalled during a 1979 interview with Melody Maker, growing the Scorpions' global profile had been a long battle. "In England and America, when you say you are a German, they sigh and you have to convince them and prove yourself to them, not like English or American bands," he explained. "It's like a road in a jungle. We have the ridiculous thing of showing people that we are not like Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream."
Of course, they had nothing in common with either of those bands. "We always knew what we wanted," stressed Meine. "We wanted to play very hard and with some balls and some kick. Not many German bands play with kick. So, at the beginning people were saying: 'You gotta change the music now. This time is over with hard rock. You're not gonna get anywhere with this.' Everybody was telling us this. So we thought 'We're gonna show you' — and we proved that we were right."
It didn't hurt that 'Lovedrive' boasted an attention-getting cover, designed by the brilliant Storm Thorgerson, depicting a rather unorthodox limousine ride during which a man ends up pulling an alarming length of chewing gum off of his date's exposed breast. Banned in the United States, it proved so provocative that Thorgerson was still answering questions about it decades later, as when he told one interviewer, "I always imagined that the drive — they were on their way to the opera, and he has this fetish about bubblegum and she lets him do it because she doesn't give a s—. But I think it's also a bit silly. I quite like it, yeah."
According to Meine, any controversy was unintentional. "We never did it on purpose, we just did not know it would be a problem in America, it was just sex and rock 'n' roll," he insisted later. "It is odd that in America that some of these covers were a problem because in the '80s when we would tour here we always had boobs flashed to us at the front of the stage. Nowhere else in the world, just here. We just did not think it would be a problem to put out a record like 'Lovedrive' in America."
While American retailers rushed to protect their customers from gummy mammaries, the Scorpions' lineup was once again in turmoil. Michael Schenker's alcoholism, reportedly a factor in his dismissal from UFO, made it difficult for him to stay dependable enough to join Scorpions on tour for sustained stretches of time. When he couldn't make it, Jabs stepped in — and in time, he'd be back in the band permanently, anchoring a position he still holds today. Meanwhile, 'Lovedrive,' released on Feb. 25, 1979, peaked at No. 55 in the U.S. and broke the U.K. Top 40, setting the stage for the worldwide success that started to take off for the band during the '80s.
As far as Meine was concerned, Scorpions' hard-won crossover was the result of other parts of the world catching up to the band's signature sound, not the other way around. "We have two very strong directions in our music," he told Creem in 1984. "The one direction, the very strong, powerful, hot and heavy side, and the other one is very gentle, melodic ballads side. They were always two very important directions of Scorpions."
As for how this set Scorpions apart from the rest of the hard rock crowd, Meine scoffed, "We do not sit down and try to write in a commercial way. We just try to write good songs, we try that the entire album is a hit, a good album. There are too many albums around, especially on the heavy metal side, where there are maybe one or two songs on the album which are good and the rest is just bulls—. For me it's boring; I can't listen to most of this stuff, because I'm into melodies and good songs, and there's too many heavy metal bands that are just boring with all their monsters and all this s—. I think when the music is good, who needs the monsters onstage and all this blood and devil are We Are Satan's People bulls—?"


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As a strategic advisor, Marcel has led various projects for multinational organizations and companies, especially in the financial services sector. All in all, he has gained experience from a high number of consultancy projects with leading insurers in Europe and worldwide. His main focus is on digital transformation and innovation, process optimization and transformation of business models.
Prior to joining BearingPoint as a Partner in 2000, Marcel held several IT management positions in the insurance industry, including CIO of an international insurance group.
As an author of numerous articles, book contributions and keynote addresses, Marcel deals with digital and general management topics. He holds a degree in actuarial mathematics and is a lecturer at several Swiss universities.
As a leader, be the person you want to follow yourself – good leaders have followers. They are not always "on" and know how important it is to switch "off" from time to time.
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27 May 2019
The Week 29 Update of the Cosmo Communicator has been published:
Four T0 samples of the Cosmo has been now produced and tested on the field, for tweaks that will be included in the next PR1 (production run). The first VoLTE call has been done on the Cosmo. Two videos have been released, demonstrating the Home screen GUI and the external cover display application. An order for the first mass production of the Cosmo Communicator has been also placed.
7 May 2019
Now that I have updated to Oreo, the names of the apps in the home screen have disappeared, only their icons are shown. Since I can't recognize some of the apps solely by their icons, does anybody know how to put back all the apps' names under their relative icons?
8 Apr 2019
Mike Halsey has released a new article on GeminiPlanet about the upcoming Android 8.1 release for the Gemini PDA, describing some of the new features that will debut on this version.
"Android 8.1 is expected to be available as an over-the-air (OTA) update later this week, with a download available for manual installation on rooted, or dual-boot devices soon afterwards."
20 Feb 2019
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Makenna Henry played in 20 games, starting 19 in her sophomore year... She made 68 saves, and had 26 goals against... She had five game shutout wins and a .723 save percentage... Her confident attitude and loud voice made her a strong leader from the back line... the team counts on her leadership for the upcoming season.
Henry played in 18 games as a freshman, starting 17 of them...As the starting goalkeeper, she made 58 saves and allowed less than a goal per game. Makenna posted six shutouts and a .773 save percentage.
Makenna Henry attended Fountain Valley High School where she played for Alyson Spencer...Earned First Team All-Sunset League as a senior at Fountain Valley...Named Second Team All-Sunset League following her sophomore season...Henry was named Fountain Valley's MVP following her senior and sophomore seasons and she was team captain as a senior...Recorded 85 saves as a senior and 99 as a sophomore...At the club level, from 2007-2010, she played for Slammers FC...Coached by Greg Larsen...Helped Slammers to fine consecutive Cal South National Cup titles...Played for the Irvine Strikers from 2005-2007...Coached by Trevor Ickes...Helped the Strikers to the 2006 GU 14 USYSA National Championship, Region IV Championship, and Cal South National Cup championship...In 2006, Henry was named the GU 14 USYSA National Championship Golden Glove Award winner...Was a member of the under-15 U.S. Girls National Team...Region IV and Cal South ODP team member.
Born August 7, 1992 in San Diego, Calif....Also competed in basketball and field hockey as a high school athlete...A four-year member of the Principal's Honor Roll at Fountain Valley HS...Hopes to major in psychology and would like to become a sports psychologist...Daughter of Pamela Henry.
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Thanks to all of you for your kind patience during an unplanned period of inactivity on CB. Your interest and support are never forgotten and always appreciated!
While I was away I had the good fortune of being hired by the excellent community college here in Lake County to teach an introductory course in anthropology, the subject of my graduate work many years ago. I've wanted to return to the classroom and teach for some time, but until recently career commitments made this impossible.
I submitted my application more than a year-and-a-half ago, so you can imagine my surprise when I received a late afternoon phone call after such a long silence asking if I was still interested. I'm excited about the class, which will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from January 19 through May 13, and delighted about the flexibility the College of Social Science is giving me to select and arrange material. Anthropological perspectives can be applied to virtually any subject.
Of course, I'll need to cover the basics of the four standard disciplines of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology, but I want my students to contribute content as well. Perhaps, after learning about the broad range of topics that anthropologists study, more than a few will want to investigate -- albeit briefly -- relationships of astronomy and culture, or the extraterrestrial life debate and culture. An early objective in teaching this class will simply be to let students know the possibilities of anthropological inquiry.
Petroglyphs of crescent moon and possible supernova of AD 1054 at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Connections between culture and astronomy offer rich ground for study, well beyond the traditional area of archaeoastronomy, a field which explores how early people understood and used their knowledge of the sky in cultural contexts. As interesting as archaeoastronomy is -- it's methodology can shed light on ancient myths, world views, calendars, political structures, art and architecture -- related subjects deserve attention, too. Examples include astronomical material culture and social change (the telescope comes to mind); contributions of astronomy to modern Western cosmology; cultural impacts of discovering life beyond Earth; and even anthropological perspectives on astronomy as a scientific practice and system of knowledge.
I'm looking forward to the experience and the ideas my students will unquestionably generate.
Meanwhile, for those already interested in exploring the intersects of astronomy and culture, the following links might prove helpful:
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Ever since 1960, California's community colleges have been required to admit any state resident 18 years or older who has a high school diploma or the equivalent.
It doesn't matter if an applicant has a 1.0 or a 3.0 GPA. There is no requirement that he or she submit SAT scores. No personal essay, letters of recommendation or laundry list of extracurricular activities.
The idea behind California's Master Plan for Higher Education–signed into law by then-Gov. Edmund G. Brown Sr. — was that a college education should be accessible to everyone.
The good thing was since pretty much anyone could get in, people who were motivated but couldn't afford a four-year school could take courses at community college and later transfer into the CSU or UC systems. Many were the first in their families to be able to pursue a college degree. Immigrants could come to community college to learn English. The schools offered remedial skills to students who had been awarded diplomas from California public high schools without being able to read or write at anything remotely resembling college level. There were vocational courses, certificate and associate degree programs. Then, there was the fun stuff for lifelong learners like painting, language and exercise classes. Seniors often got to go for free.
The bad thing was, anyone could get in.
A few years ago, I taught a beginning news writing class at Laney College in Oakland for two semesters. Very few of my students showed up regularly or turned in assignments. I couldn't figure out why a number of them had even bothered to enroll. Earlier this year, I signed up for a video production class, also at Laney.
There were half a dozen young men who sat in the back of the room, loudly disrupting the professor's lecture, week in and week out.
Again, I wondered, why are these people here taking up valuable space?
There are students like these who go from class to class with no goal in mind.
Meanwhile, students who are trying to get their act together can't get into the classes they need to graduate or transfer because they're full.
In the 2009-2010 academic year, 133,000 entering students found themselves in that boat.
Community colleges still can't reject applicants. But if a student can't get into any of the classes he needs, it's the same as being turned away.
Over the past four years, state budget cuts have ravaged California's community colleges to the tune of $809 million.
There are 24 percent fewer classes systemwide and nearly 500,000 fewer students — 2.4 million currently.
Meanwhile, demand has never been greater with so many people out of work and seeking retraining.
There has been a push in recent years to hold community colleges accountable for student progress and to weed out individuals who are not seriously pursuing any kind of degree or certificate.
The Board of Governors, which oversees California's community colleges, decided earlier this month to start rationing classroom seats.
Starting in 2014, priority registration will be given to two groups:
1) incoming students who have completed an academic assessment and have an education plan for earning enough credits to transfer to a four-year-college or university, getting a vocational degree or learning English. 2) Returning students with no more than 60 credits.
Veterans, active-duty military personnel and foster youth move to the front of the list, followed by low-income and disabled students.
Lifelong learners move to the bottom of the list.
The mantra now is getting students through the system as quickly as possible.
Gov. Jerry Brown faces a very different set of circumstances than his father.
Senate Bill 1456, which is now on his desk, requires, among other things, that students make academic progress in order to be eligible for a fee waiver and that students to be assessed and develop an education plan.
One thing is for sure. The old days of being able to hang out and find yourself at community college until you figure out what to do next are over.
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Contact her at email@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin


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From abstract visuals to realistic movies, this special event will showcase 360 degree fulldome film selections from the Call For Swiss Fulldome Film Projects, launched collaboratively with MySquare, the Geneva International Film Festival, creative space Le D.I.X, and with the support of la Ville de Genève. Be ready to discover the Swiss contemporary fulldome scene!
Brainstorm V.01: Brainstorm V.01 combines interactive 3D visuals, films, and neuroscience to celebrate the mysteries of the brain and the human experience. Blurring reality with fiction, its audience becomes an observer and a participant in a live neuroscience experiment. Concept: BigMap.tv and Nathaniel Evans. Motion design 2D: Matthias Grau, John'C Salansky. Motion design 3D: John'C Salansky. Neuroscience and Sound Design: Dr. Nathaniel Evans. Voice Over: Alicia Edrea Evstad. Figuration: Hanaé Lepek, Matthias Grau.
A Proximal Visit: Life in Hong Kong is extremely expensive, and public space is rare. This film, part of a documentary series, explores the research of the Hong Kong Stair Archive. The visitor becomes part of the action, able to view the scene multiple times from various angles. This project is a collaboration between the Cast / Audiovisual Media program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Directed by Nicolas Buechi, Alun Meyerhans and Melissa Cate Christ. Producer: ZHdK Cast. Audiovisual Media: Nicolas Büchi. Co-Producer: ZHdK Cast. Audiovisual Media: Alun Meyerhans. 3D Audio Mix: ZHdK Tonmeister, Thomas Rechberger. Music: ZHdK Composition for lm. Theatre and Media: Xenia Wiener , Janos Mijnssen. English Voice : Melissa Cate Christ. Cantonese Voice: Peier Wu. Technical Support : ZHdK Cast. Audiovisual Media: Valentin Mettler, ZHdK Connecting Spaces, Nuria Krämer , Peier Wu , Steve Hui, Candy Wong, Peter Bölsterli Sennheiser, Véronique Larcher, Transverse Studio, Au Wing Yan, Digitec, Thomas Schneider, Performance "Transience" presented by: Trilateral Lab Director/ Sound Artist: Alain Chiu. Assistant Director / Choreographer: Max Lee. Dramaturge / Performer: Pak-hong Chu. Performer s: Christabel Ng, Karmen Cheung, Yu Ling Tse, Kenny Kim, Fung Leung, Andy Lee. http://winterlife.com/
Garden Circle (The Circle Flute): The circle flute is a circular flute played by four flutists for one listener in the center of the flute. The circle has a diameter of 2.5m and consists of four interconnected c-flutes that are linked to each other by tube connectors. The artists Brynjar Sigurðarson and Veronika Sedlmair worked closely with renowned Parisian flute maker Jean-Yves Roosen and flutist Michael Schmid and completed the flute in Summer 2016. Immersed within and inspired by Iceland's atmosphere, flutists Michael Schmid, Bjornar Habbestadt, Marieke Franssen, Bettina Berger and composer Þráinn Hjálmarsson explored the flute's potential during a ten-day in-situ workshop in Flateyri, a small remote fishing village in the West- Fjords of Iceland. The outcome was performed throughout the exhibition FAISONS DE L'INCONNU UN ALLIÉ in Paris October 2016 by Fondation Galerie Lafayette, who produced the circle flute project. Directed by Emile Barret.
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Archive - Apr 12, 2012
NBA Mock Draft 3.0
The 2012 Hoop Summit took place last weekend in Portland, during which three of NBADraft.net's talent evaluators took a break from scouting to put together a first round mock draft. We took turns, taking into account team needs for every selection. Tyler Ingle went first, Mike Visenberg second and Aran Smith third.
Jabari Parker wins player of year
Andre Drummond Will Leave UConn For NBA, Sources Say
Josiah Turner leaving Arizona Wildcats basketball program
2012 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament: Day 1 Recap
A common sentiment among the throngs of NBA and international league representatives gathered in Portsmouth's Churchland High gym Wednesday evening was the desire to identify potential low maintenance prospects who can address specific needs faced by their clubs. Half of this year's 64 participants took the court on the tournament's opening evening in a doubleheader that featured five lesser known CPOYs and a number of under appreciated bigs. Vying to make lasting impressions in the minds of professional basketball's brain trust, this year's P.I.T.


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Tags are a cool new feature in IP.board (well, new to us! I don't know when they implemented them). Tags are a fairly common "web 2.0" feature, allowing you to categorize things multiple different ways simultaneously.
You can add tags, up to 10, in the area under the "Topic Title" section when posting a new topic. They can be separated by commas (you can use spaces in tags, so you need to separate them with commas). If you've already made a thread and want to add/edit tags, you can do so in the "edit post" screen, by using the Full Editor.
Selecting the box "Use first tag as prefix" will highlight the first tag, and will place that in the forum list in front of your topic title.
Effectively tagging topics can enable much more powerful (and easy!) searching. Clicking a tag will start a search of all posts that use that tag.
Tags are entirely optional; if you can't think of an appropriate tag, don't worry about it!
An example of good tagging would be a thread announcing a new Firefox release. You could tag it "Firefox" "release" "news" and possibly "update".
When we build up a base of tagged threads, we can see "also tagged" threads at the bottom of posts.
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 11:59 PM
A good example of tag usage is http://forums.scotsn...showtopic=54080, a post by V.T. Eric Layton
Posted 15 April 2012 - 12:05 AM
Great Tips on using Tagging, Neil!
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Thanks for posting the tips Neil
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"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984
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Bertha was worried about her husband George, so one day she took him to the doctor's. As the doctor called George in and looked him over, George began insisting, "There's nothing wrong with me. I know because God takes care of me." What do you mean?" asked the doctor. "Well," George responded, "when I go to the bathroom he turns the light on and off."
The doctor decided he had better talk to both George and his wife, so he calls Bertha into the room and begins to explain, "George says God turns the light on and off for him when he goes to the bathroom. Is it true that --" "DAMMIT, George!" Bertha bursts out, "How many times do I have to tell you not to piss in the fridge?"


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For the first time in almost 2 years I'm blogging on Little Leopard Book about something other than food, I'm actually blogging about blogging!
Today, I'm celebrating the 3 year blogoversary of Little Leopard Book. It was three years ago today that I was sitting on my couch in LA, when I opened my laptop and wrote this first post.
A three sentence post, that began a journey that has changed my life forever.


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If you haven't read it yet, check out Naoki Hiroshima's account of how he was blackmailed into giving his Twitter account away. I read it on Wednesday, and the story was all too familiar to me. My version also has a few implications that are far worse.
I'm @jb on both Twitter and Instagram. My user name is a very heavy target for these types of attacks. It used to be primarily because of the Jonas Brothers, but of course now it's all related to Justin Bieber. Because of the marketing power behind Bieber's name, there are thousands of companies or hackers who would love to get their grubby hands on my user name for profit. Like Naoki, I too have been offered inordinate sums of money for my user name, and I get a regular stream of "forgot password" e-mails to my inbox.
Last May, I got a "forgot password" e-mail from Amazon. Although I see a lot of these from Twitter and Instagram, this was the first I had ever received from Amazon. "Why in the world would someone want access to my Amazon account?" I thought.
I ignored the first e-mail from Amazon, like I normally do in these situations. Imagine my surprise when I received a second e-mail about a half-hour later saying that my password had been successfully reset! In the same amount of time, I also received three fresh "forgot password" e-mails from Apple. It was clear I was being targeted by some kind of attack.
I got lucky. Because I still had access to my e-mail account, I was able to quickly do another "forgot password" request with Amazon and reset the password myself. I had caught it just in time—in the limbo between when the attacker had gained access to Amazon but had not yet gained access to my e-mail. After I changed my password through Amazon's website, I called the company and learned that they had given access to the attacker over the phone. I promptly asked them to lock my account and make a note not to allow any requests to change it again over the phone.
My next step was to call iCloud support and ask them if they had given out any of my information. Sure enough, I finally was able to talk to a representative, who told me that there had been 4 support calls in the last hour regarding my account. The attacker was clearly calling Apple, pretending to be me by giving them my information, and attempting to gain access. I gave them the same instructions I gave Amazon—that this was not me and to please not allow any requests over the phone.
As I was on the phone with Apple, I received an e-mail from iCloud support with instructions on how to reset my password. It was clearly an e-mail from a representative and not an automated message. What stood out to me was that the e-mail was "to" a random Gmail address, and my iCloud address was only CC'd on it. That was it—I now had the e-mail address the attacker was using. I quickly sent an e-mail to the attacker, assuming I would never hear a response. But I did get a reply a few minutes later.
Caught in the act
The attacker was very open about what he was doing. He was after my Twitter user name, @jb. He explained that he first started by doing a little research and learning every piece of information he could find on me through public records. My Twitter profile linked to my website, and my website had WHOIS information. I use a very old address on all my public WHOIS records, but it happens to be my parents' address, and since I've shipped gifts to my parents through Amazon, the company had that address on file.
He then called Amazon with what little information he had gained and complained that he had lost his password and didn't have access to that e-mail address anymore. The representative eventually caved and reset the password over the phone, giving him full access to my Amazon account. His plan was to then gain as much information as he could with Amazon (the last four numbers of credit cards, current and previous addresses, etc.) and to use that as ammunition to do the same thing with Apple. And it almost worked. He had an e-mail in his Gmail inbox with instructions on how to reset my iCloud account.
Luckily, I had been online when all this was happening and was able to call Amazon and Apple to lock my accounts and prevent access. Had I been even five minutes later, things might have turned out differently.
The scary thing was that I only thought of the true implications of this attack days later. As I was contemplating what had happened and how I could prevent it in the future, a very frightening thought occurred to me. This attacker started with Amazon because he knew that a commerce shopping site's customer support would be relatively easy to convince and use to gain access to my account. However, that same site offers cloud services that many startups rely on to host their data. My startup, Droplr, is completely based on Amazon's stack, from using EC2 servers where we host all of our technology to S3, which we use for file storage. This attacker had access to all of it. I was extremely lucky that in his rush to gain access to @jb, he didn't think to check if my account had anything under AWS.
I was obviously infuriated with Amazon. I spoke to an Amazon representative on the phone and they promised that it was a priority for Amazon to train its representatives better. There were a couple other very public cases of this sort of thing happening around the same time, so the company was just at the beginning of a PR fallout from its lack of security in this area.
So what did I learn?
- Even though Amazon encourages you to only have one identity, don't. Use completely separate accounts for your AWS services and your Amazon.com shopping account.
- Always use a private WHOIS service with domains that you own.
- Naoki's thesis is that you shouldn't use personally owned domain-based e-mail addresses for your logins to these services. Unfortunately, this isn't a guarantee of safety. The problem is that e-mail providers like Gmail and iCloud are so big that they deal with thousands of requests on a daily basis from people who have genuinely forgotten their password, and the only way they have to grant them access again is by "verifying" their identity over the phone. If someone can fake being "you" over the phone, they're even more likely to succeed with these large providers.
- Some of the biggest companies in the world have security that is only as good as a minimum-wage phone support worker who has the power to reset your account. And the companies have valid business reasons for giving the support workers this power.


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Becky Fenger | February 25, 2009
The "gimme" gotcha
Sheer brilliance. That's what the playful idea hatched by KFYI (550AM) radio talk show host Bruce Jacobs turned out to be when President Barack Obama visited Dobson High School in Mesa, Ariz., last Wednesday to unveil his plan to bail out mortgage holders from foreclosure.
The police estimated the crowd between 1,000 to 2,000. Not surprisingly, newspaper reporters put the numbers at 450 to 550. Lined up along Guadalupe Road, in places two or three deep, nobody in the throngs got loud or obnoxious. Nobody in the press got the joke, either. Such is the state of the nation's psyche in these times.
Obama supporters and worshipers went to great lengths to sleep out on the cold ground overnight to get first shot at the several hundred tickets to the Presidential speech at the school. Most of the students had to watch Obama weave his magic on classroom monitors, as only a select few of them got special invitations to be in the room with him.
Jacobs' plan was to draw a crowd of folks who are appalled at the mindset that the President should be Santa Claus with taxpayer money to give all things to all people who feel entitled to houses, cars, vacations and all other manner of wants and desires. Surely you remember witnessing the sob stories (reminiscent of the TV show "Queen for a Day," for readers old enough) of voters during the Obama campaign who demanded to know what he would do for them. Remember the lady who wanted a new kitchen, the kid who wanted mandated pay raises for time spent on his McDonald's job, and the woman who said she wouldn't have to worry about paying to gas her car anymore now that Obama triumphed.
The message that Jacobs asked his listeners to send, and the spirit in which it was delivered, was one of mirthful creativity. The folks who gathered at T.G. Eggington's restaurant before Obama's arrival weren't protestors or hecklers. They were mock supporters of Obama's Stimulus Plan to throw money at everything animal, vegetable or mineral.
In that vein, individuals crafted their own placards with their want lists to hold up for the Presidential cavalcade. Here's where the cleverness emerged. One bald man held a sign asking Obama for free hair plugs. Another wanted free beer for his horses. Here are some more things smiling folks asked Obama for: A cabin by the lake; My own chef; No more work; Help in getting rid of ground squirrels; Big screen TV; and a Baby grand piano. One lady wanted a Pony, but the photo on her sign was of a slick Mustang auto. Kids were there, too. One wanted a Dirt bike. On a more personal level, one woman pushed for a tummy tuck.
A man, holding his tiny Chihuahua, held a sign asking for Another Chihuahua. I guess you could say his needs were small (I couldn't resist that crack). Jacobs himself held a sign asking for Baseball tickets, not surprising with his sports background. He was joined by fellow KFYI talk show host and former congressman J. D. Hayworth who caught a glimpse of one sign which simply said: "I want; I want; I want!"
About 45 minutes before President Obama's limo arrived, one carrying Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rolled past the people lining the street. Maybe he read enough of the homemade signs to contact Obama on his Blackberry, warning his driver to use a different route to enter Dobson High School--- which is precisely what he did.
What boggles the mind is that apparently not one local news account of this event reported the fun joke. Worse, as Bruce Jacobs points out, is that not one person attending the event approached one of these fake "moochers" to call them out on their selfish, entitlement mentality. We Americans have become so accustomed to citizens (and even non-citizens) demanding stuff that no one even noticed. For shame!
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Updated ROBOTC Support for VEX Competitions
Are you part of a team that competes in VEX Robotics Competitions? If so, we've just released updated support documents that will help guarantee your success when you get to the field:
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One last thought about weird things that people do in the locker room. When your members go through your locker room doors, all of the odd behaviors that they typically keep hidden behind their own doors are on full display. That can make for some interesting tales.
For instance, some people can be real slobs in the locker room. It's more than a little discouraging to walk into your locker room just an hour after the cleaning crew has been there to see protein bar wrappers, water bottles, hangers and personal clothing items strewn about the area. (Exactly how do people forget to pack up — or wear — their underwear?)
Some members take over a corner of the locker room with their exercise bag, toiletry bag, purse, yoga mat bag and coat, then shoot daggers at anyone daring to invade their domain.
Sometimes, people take over more than a corner of a locker room. My club isn't upscale enough to provide hair dryers, but that doesn't mean some members haven't found a way to use club-provided equipment (i.e., the hand dryer) to dry their hair. These women not only take over one of the four hand dryers in the locker room for 10 minutes or more (punching the button seemingly harder each time the dryer stops), but the proximity of the dryers to each other makes it dangerous to dry your hands near one of these women if she decides to flip her long, wet hair.
If getting whipped by long, wet hair isn't bad enough, what about getting hit by the errant toenail of a stranger who plops down next to you to cut his or her toenails, a personal grooming activity that I think is best performed at home?
Not quite as "dangerous" but still a bit befuddling (and, yes, amusing) is the woman who paints her toenails in the locker room, then proceeds to walk barefoot with toes up (or encircled in toe separators) over to the hand dryer, which she uses to dry her toenail polish — one foot in the air at a time.
One guy I know saw a man walk into the shower area wearing his baseball cap, so he informed the man that he'd forgotten to remove his cap. The guy responded, "Yeah, I know," and proceeded into a shower stall with his cap on.
Even more perplexing was the man he saw walking into a shower stall with all of his clothes on (sans shoes). The guy turned on the water, stood under the shower head, wet all of his clothes, lathered them with soap and then rinsed them off before taking off each piece of clothing, hanging them over the shower stall and continuing with his shower.
These behaviors may be a bit odd, but other behaviors border illegal. I'm sure that if your club provides shampoo, soap or lotion in your locker rooms, you've occasionally caught a few people filling plastic bottles with these liquids. And who hasn't had towels stolen? That all comes with the price of the members' dues, right? (Then again, maybe not.)
Plastic bottles are easy for members to hide in gym bags, but what about larger items? One person told me about a staff member who restocked the women's rest room with a full load of toilet paper only to come back a few hours later to find most of the toilet paper missing. Someone obviously had an aversion to shopping for toilet paper but not an aversion to stealing it. How exactly did the woman get out of the building without being seen with all that toilet paper?
If this behavior is what people consider putting their best foot forward, I wonder what they do in the privacy of their own homes? Then again, perhaps that's something best left unknown.


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Hesky wrote:PAINKILLƎR wrote:I can sort of relate to that lol. The Clippers have been sorry for most of their existence and now that they're a solid playoff team they're the most obnoxious fans.
Remember all the Pats' fans that just came out of nowhere during the last decade? I've never seen such an obnoxious uprising in all my life. The Seahawks' fans at present are giving them a good run for that title, though.
Hesky wrote:Horse wrote:lmao i fucking hate tebow. i've always been surrounded by people who worship him because he's "such a good christian." not gonna lie, i took pleasure in watching his fall from relevancy. he's an obnoxious twat. sure, he was great in college, but he was never cut out to play pro football, and he certainly didn't make any friends in the NFL with his self-righteous attitude.
Tebow was my man whilst with the Broncos; I loved those defying the odds fluke wins that happened more often than not. His followers are too much, though.
He'll likely never play a down in the NFL again because of them, and his own stubbornness.
Menzo wrote:Its cuz you're dope and Daddy Dubs. No one fucks with that
I love you Daren
Hesky wrote:Kaepernick $126m deal with $61m guaranteed, unreal:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... -extension
Menzo wrote:Its cuz you're dope and Daddy Dubs. No one fucks with that
I love you Daren
classthe_king wrote:Yeah huge Buckeye fan
Browns fans only annoy me because I'm surrounded by a ton of them and I have to hear about how every year is their year and they've finally got the pieces they need to make a playoff run only for them to go 4-12 again. I can't imagine if they were actually good.
Solace wrote:Finna catch Tony brushing his teeth in the middle of chugging Jack Daniels
Hesky wrote:classthe_king wrote:yeah tru
i really want him to succeed because I loved him in college but at the same time I hate the Browns and I don't think I could handle them as a team succeeding
He's got his work cut out for him playing for that franchise, that's for sure. They've been a mess ever since they re-entered the league as an expansion team, which is a shame really. Their fan base deserves credit for sticking by them, it must have been tough when the original Browns relocated to Baltimore.
The Seahawks' fan base are annoying me the most at the minute.
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[Photo Credit: Gus Black] Tomorrow, longtime California rockers EELS are releasing their first album in four years, The Deconstruction, via E Works/PIAS....
"The world can be a real mean place / and no one's got your back," Mark Everett of Eels mourns solipsistically on his third track to be released this year, "Premonition"....
Eels have been around a long time -- twenty years to be exact. That's a lot of material. But, when you stick around that long, you learn to understand polish and how to connect with your fans....
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At the advent of the Internet 30 years ago, having large amounts of personal information accessible on a shared network would have been unthinkable — even if that network would make our lives easier. But we found a way to navigate this privacy minefield with one straightforward idea: Entrust our personal information to certain entities with the expectation that it will be secured, and, in exchange, we get a life with more choices. While there is sometimes an inverse relationship between access and privacy, it is a challenge we have overcome.
The tension between data access and privacy is evident today in the smart electrical grid. It is "smart" because it can harness new information and communications technology to expand its functions while increasing efficiency and accessibility. The transformative potential of this information intelligence is amazing — just ask anyone making the choice between a landline and a smart phone.
Over the next few years, deployment of new technologies will ensure that the quality and quantity of energy information increases dramatically. Qualitatively, smart appliances will reveal much more detailed feedback about consumers' patterns, such as time and length of use. Quantitatively, the data points about a consumer's energy usage will go from thousands to millions annually.
This data will empower consumers in two ways. First, managing their energy consumption will help save them money. They'll see lower energy bills from setting HVAC systems to operate intermittently when no one's home and having appliances go dark when they're unused. Second, two-way energy flow between consumers and electric utilities will allow consumers to participate in energy commerce, selling unused energy back onto the grid for profit. Harnessing distributed generation projects, such as rooftop solar panels, using demand response by getting cash rebates for not consuming energy at peak hours, and taking advantage of personal electric vehicles as battery storage units for the grid are all examples of how people can use enabling technology to change the game.
But here's the rub. The data reveals a tremendous amount of real-time information about the consumer, which could lead to severe privacy violations if it were mined for behaviors and preferences.
This data clearly needs to be secured. However, if the security is too restrictive, it will inhibit third-party innovation, hurting businesses trying to enter the market. If it is too lax, consumers may be exploited, and companies could face serious legal action.
Compounding the problem is the fact that deployment of new technology is rapidly changing ownership schemes, clouding responsibility for securing data. Traditionally, data has belonged to the consumer. But because electric utilities own the meters — and are expected to collect enough data to do their jobs — consumer access has been limited. Even with increased access, the aggregate energy information reports produced by last-generation meters limited the scope and impact data could have on energy use.
The introduction of new technologies and capabilities, such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), home energy management systems, and two-way energy and information flow, fundamentally alters this equation. The roles and responsibilities between new players will have to be clearly defined.
In a balanced and secure system, smart meters should receive consumer data blind and in aggregate (how much energy is used and when), while providing signals to the home's management system (energy price and total energy consumption). The electric utility would be responsible for securing that data. The management system would contain settings for home appliances (TV goes dark and HVAC system floats 5°F during the day) and gather the specific information it needs to fulfill its capabilities.
The third party who creates the management system would be responsible for security and privacy as part of its customer service. The two-way energy switch would require careful coordination between the management system and the AMI, but predetermined conditions under which energy should be bought and sold (selling at peak hours, high prices, or when there is surplus distributed generation) would likely govern those interactions.
Although these issues will take time to work out, one thing is certain. Decisions about data access and security will determine whether the smart grid will open up a new era in privacy violations or empower consumers in unprecedented ways while creating exciting new markets.
James is a special assistant for energy policy at the Center for American Progress, Washington D.C. He can be reached at: [email protected].
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Strawberry Fennel Ice Cream
This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Strawberries.
Amanda & Merrill's Testing Notes:
You would think that the key ingredient in this ice cream would be the fragrant fennel pollen, but it's actually the agave nectar. It makes for a featherlight custard and a sweetness that recedes to the shadows, allowing all the attention fall on the berries. The fennel does its work, too, and we liked how gluttonforlife let it infuse the ice cream without overpowering it. If you can't get fennel pollen, don't sweat it -- just add ground anise seed or fennel seed in the same proportion. - A&M
I haven't been very active on Food52 of late as I've been on a rather intense journey discovering the benefits of raw milk, lacto-fermentation and ancient grains—perhaps a bit out there for this crowd? But I came up with this recipe using raw cream, eggs straight from the farm, agave nectar and fennel pollen that tastes just like spring. The beautiful pink color comes from a puree of strawberries but there are also chunks of whole berry to add texture to the creamy base.
Makes about 5 cups
- 1 3/4 cups heavy raw or organic cream
- 3 fat strips of lemon zest
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel pollen
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 large free-range eggs
- 2/3 cups plus 3 tablespoons agave nectar, separated
- 3 cups ripe strawberries, trimmed and halved
- 1 cup strawberries, trimmed and cut into chunks
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- Combine cream, zest, fennel pollen and salt in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and discard zest. Ask a question about this step.
- Whisk eggs with 2/3 cup agave nectar in a bowl, then add hot cream in a slow stream, whisking constantly. Pour back into saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened and an instant-read thermometer registers 170°. Do not boil! Ask a question about this step.
- Immediately pour custard through a fine sieve into a metal bowl, then cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Cover and chill until cold, at least 2 hours and up to 1 day. Ask a question about this step.
- While custard is chilling, purée strawberries with lemon juice and remaining 3 tablespoons agave nectar until smooth, then force through fine sieve to remove seeds (or not, this step is optional) into chilled custard. Stir purée into custard. Ask a question about this step.
- Freeze in ice-cream maker. About ¾ of the way through (time varies depending on your machine), stir in strawberry chunks. Finish freezing, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.
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A barge carrying a crane crashed into the west side of the Brooks Bridge on Wednesday afternoon, damaging parts of the span and rupturing the main water line to Okaloosa Island.
FORT WALTON BEACH � A barge carrying a crane crashed into the west side of the Brooks Bridge on Wednesday afternoon, damaging parts of the span and rupturing the main water line to Okaloosa Island.
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The bridge was closed to motorists and pedestrians for several hours, snarling traffic for miles in each direction.
Westbound traffic was crossing the bridge again Wednesday evening, but the eastbound lanes remained closed as of 7:50 p.m. while inspectors from the state Department of Transportation checked the west side of the span.
At 9 p.m., law officers were preparing to open one lane in each direction. Pedestrians were still kept off the bridge.
Crews from the DOT and the Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Department were to work throughout the night to make repairs to the bridge and the water pipe.
�We don�t know how bad the leaks are in the pipes,� county Water and Sewer Director Jeff Littrell said shortly after the accident. �We have a 16-inch water main that runs across the bridge. That is the water supply to Okaloosa Island.�
Littrell said the water supply and water pressure was holding up well as of late Wednesday afternoon.
�We�ve got 900,000 gallons of storage we can rely on. � We may need to close valves on the other side of the bridge,� he said.
By Wednesday evening, officials were urging island residents to conserve water if possible.
The crash occurred at 3:15 p.m. as the tugboat Miss Lizzy was pushing four barges two-by-two east in Santa Rosa Sound, according to officials at Coast Guard Station Destin. The crane on one of the barges hit the bridge.
It took down several feet of the concrete guardrail and broke a water pipe that runs underneath the eastbound sidewalk on the bridge. Concrete and water from the pipe poured into Santa Rosa Sound.
No one was hurt and no vehicles crossing the bridge were damaged, said Randy McDaniel, Okaloosa County�s emergency management director.
Okaloosa Gas District lines running under the water across the sound were not damaged, said Eddie Springle, vice president of marketing for Okaloosa Gas.
The bridge was closed immediately to vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
It didn�t take long for traffic to snarl in both directions. Motorists were directed north off U. S. Highway 98 west of the bridge and over the Mid-Bay Bridge on the east side. Tolls on the bridge were lifted on the bridge to accommodate traffic in both directions, according to the DOT.
The Coast Guard also closed the area to all boats. The closure extended for a half-mile on each side of the bridge Wednesday night, Coast Guard Petty Officer Corey Walters said.
When the crane struck the bridge, the front of the barge was lifted 15 to 20 feet out of the water, said Colton Shipp, who saw the crash.
Chris and John Wolf also saw the crash while fishing from a pier under the bridge. John Wolf said he saw the accident coming.
�Oh my God, the crane is going to hit the bridge,� he remembered saying.
The barge kept going forward for about 15 seconds, the Wolfs said. The crane tipped back so far that it touched the barge behind it, they said.
�I really thought the crane was going to fall back and into the water,� Chris Wolf said.
They said it took about 15 seconds for the barge to stop and reverse. By that time the pieces of concrete and water from the pipe were pouring down.
�It just took him forever to stop and slow down,� John Wolf said.
DOT inspectors arrived a couple hours after the crash and eventually determined the bridge was structurally sound.