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At least two people have been killed in a massive pile-up in Texas. A hundred vehicles wrecked in dense fog on interstate 10 outside Houston Thursday morning. About 120 people have injuries ranging from broken bones to scrapes and bruises. It all started with one accident, which caused several chain-reaction wrecks.
An iconic roller coaster is no more. The final pieces of Kings Island's Son of Beast roller coaster came crashing down on Tuesday near Cincinnati. The ride was billed as the world's tallest and fastest wooden coaster when it opened back in 2000. The coaster had closed permanently in 2009.
So what does a turkey do if it survives Thanksgiving day? It goes shopping of course. A wild turkey was spotted this morning sitting on top of a car in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Missouri. A man left the store, went to his car and found the turkey perched on the roof, perfectly content and unafraid, no doubt thankful to survive another holiday.


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Although much media attention weather-wise (at least recently) for Hawaii has been about tropical storms (Kilo's possible impact on the Hawaiian Isles and more in the pipeline) an even more interesting story has been the exceptional rainfall that has drenched the islands in recent days and the on-going record hot summer. Despite a record warm July, accumulating snow managed to dust the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Here are some details about the above events.
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El Burro is a character in Grand Theft Auto 1 and is a homosexual Mexican living in the Aye Valley area of San Andreas. El Burro is in a feud with Uncle Fu and his nephew No Chin. No Chin even attacks El Burro's Love Wagon. El Burro gives missions to the protagonist. These missions include destroying buses, a Yakuza Limousine and a drugs lab; killing Paco, Pepe, Jorge, Jose, Pedro, Alfonso, Rodrigo and Mike Tallon. In a mission for Samuel Deever, he can be murdered by the protagonist due to him drug dealing with the Rastas.
- His appearance is similar to the appearance of El Burro from GTA III. The El Burro in GTA 3 could be an alternate universe version of the character as they look and sound exactly alike.
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- El Burro, a character in Grand Theft Auto III
- El Burro, a character in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
GTA 1 characters
|Protagonists (Bubba • Divine • Katie • Kivlov • Mikki • Travis • Troy • Ulrika)
El Burro • Samuel Deever • Uncle Fu • Brother Marcus • Robert "Bubby" Seragliano • Sonetti
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We want to store some cardholders data in our database. The card we want to store are all connected to our own company account. Does this fall under the PCI framework? For example do I have to comply with the requirements relating to storage of cardholder data?
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@Rook is right. You don't have to be PCI DDS compliant to store your own data, but you still should adopt the protection methods (but no all the added "bureaucracy") suggested by PCI DDS bill.
What is this DB used for, besides storing card info? Is it (even a part of it) accessible to outsiders? If used only internally, a IP restriction will give you enough peace of mind, if not - a PCI compliant WAF would be a good idea.
PCI is about protecting consumers and "consumer data". I don't think the PCI-DSS applies here, although it isn't a good idea. SQL Injection can be used to read these values, it is slightly better to hardcode these values in a configuration file, it is also a more appropriate design.


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Kenny Barron - Interview and Shuffle
August 27, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: Digital Life, Discovery, Interviews, Masters
We're presenting pianist Kenny Barron tonight at the Village Vanguard. Barron's new recording, The Traveler, released yesterday. We talk about living with music, something that Kenny Barron has done for most of his life. Hear the honesty, humility, and everything else that makes Kenny Barron one of today's most well-regarded jazz musicians. It's all in this interview.
Now seems as good a time as any to tell you about an idea that has been germinating in my mind. I have been building a Frankenstein in WBGO's covert ops laboratory. It's a radio show/new media platform/chimera called Living With Music, and you will be hearing more about this in the coming months. One of the features is called Shuffle, where I invite a musician into the studio, ask them to bring their digital music player, set it to access their playlist randomly, and we improvise from there. I always thought it was a perfect vehicle for the broad listening habits of jazz musicians. Jazz covers of Sting and Radiohead, a string quartet playing a famous jazz tune, an original composition... that's just some of the stuff on Kenny Barron's iPod. So here's a sample of the feature, before it gets edited into a finely-crafted production for Living With Music. Let's call it a rough edit, if you care about the nitty gritty details of production terminology.
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Mark O'Connor Interview with Bill O'Donnell
August 27, 2008. Posted by Simon Rentner.Add new comment | Filed under: americana, baltimore symphony orchestra, benny thomasson, bluegrass fiddler, breadth, classical country, fashion, fondness, hot swing, Jazz Alive, jazz festival, jazz styles, labor day, labor day weekend, marin alsop, mark o connor, musicians, orchestral work, rentner, violinist, wbgo
A preeminent violinist stopped by our studios yesterday. The breadth of Mark O'Connor's work is nothing short of astonishing, yet one wonders how he remains so humble and approachable. He leaps from one idiom to another in effortless fashion, as you will encounter after listening to his interview with WBGO's Bill O'Donnell. He's one of the original cross-over musicians, equally adept at playing in classical, country, world, or jazz styles. He talks about his new orchestral work "Americana" being recorded this month by The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop, his fondness of for bluegrass fiddler Benny Thomasson, and his upcoming performance with his "Hot Swing Trio" at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival this Labor Day Weekend. - Simon Rentner
Aaron Parks at J&R Music Fest - Listen Online
August 25, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: aaron parks, concerts, invisible cinema, j&r, Jazz Alive, Live Music, music fest, wbgo
Pianist Aaron Parks opened the day of free music at City Hall Park on Friday. Parks played music from his newly minted Blue Note recording, Invisible Cinema, released earlier in the week. Perhaps you heard our studio session?
Or checked out the Song of the Day on NPR?
Anyway, as Darcy Argue points out, Parks and company (guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist Matt Penman, drummer Kendrick Scott) started promptly at 5pm. Sharp. You can thank or curse me for that (radio is a slave to the clock, folks). Or you can just listen to the full set now, and dig the shape of jazz to come.


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"Winner of a 2012 SXSW Film Festival audience award, Brooklyn Castle is an irresistibly uplifting doc..." Joe Leydon, Variety. Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.
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With the goal of finding a unique way to test her Advanced Placement environmental science students, Herndon High School teacher Erin Sikes-Thurston created a contest of ideas as a final exam .
�It�s not a test,� Sikes-Thurston said. �It�s an alternative assessment. For some of the kids, it�s the best thing they did all year.�
Based on ABC�s business competition show, �Shark Tank,� Sikes-Thurston challenged students to come up with or research an existing environmentally-friendly innovation, craft a marketing strategy, and research the idea�s pros and cons. These ideas were pitched on Tuesday to a panel of judges from Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with offices in Herndon.
�They had to come up with a product, a product that would sell, that was good for the environment,� Sikes-Thurston said. �The idea is that there is science behind the product. But it also had to improve the environment in five ways � One of the kids, he developed an air car.�
Students pitched their ideas to about 20 Booz Allen Hamilton employees, who were divided into five-person judging panels. Booz Allen employees then voted on the best idea, creating a contest winner.
Students won gift cards of as much as $15 each from iTunes or restaruants, which were donated by local businesses, Sikes-Thurston said.
Students were judged on their research, pitch and development of the idea. They also answered questions on their product, target market, goals, costs and drawbacks. Students were allowed to work in groups as large as three for the contest.
Rawan Nour�s environmental idea was a curtain aimed at reducing the time someone spends in the shower.
�We call it the spiky curtain,� said Nour, 18, a senior. �The longer you stay in the shower, the more the spikes inflate. The spikes — which look like pointy, coned pool floaties attached to a curtain — are harmless but cause the person showering to slowly move closer to the opposing wall in annoyance.�
Fellow seniors Kayla Kent, 18, and Fahduma Majid, 17, pitched a type of cement that absorbs pollution.
�We are trying to sell photocatalytic cement,� Kent said. �We realize it�s hard to prevent people from driving their cars, so we found a product that would help.�
Majid added, �It helps prevent the heavy buildup of smog by reducing pollution through exhaust.�
Although their product promised a 50 percent reduction in emissions in urban areas, the cement also was estimated to be about 30 or 40 percent more expensive than regular cement used on roadways, the students told Booz Allen judges.
The team answered a dozen or so questions about their product, including its feasibility in a profit-driven market place. Majid and Kent said they were surprised at some of the questions, which were at times difficult to answer.
�Most of the finals we�ve taken are more paper tests,� Kent said. �This is better because it�s more interactive. It basically allows us to use what we�ve learned all year.�
Majid added, �It�s an added stress, though.�
Seniors Julia Lloyd, 17; Anastasia Pechler, 17; and Amanda Pascarelli, 18, chose a simpler product they said is seen in every household: water bottles.
�These are water bottles that use less plastic,� said Lloyd, while holding a prototype that resembled a plastic bag with a nozzle. �We call them �Power Bottles.��
Pechler said, �I think our product is the best because it�s simple and more people use it. It�s cheap.�
Lloyd added, �It lasts a long time and it�s dishwasher safe.�
Booz Allen Lead Associate Katie Jones said her firm has been involved in science fairs at Herndon High School, which was a connection that led them to participate in Sikes-Thurston�s final exam.
�Booz Allen has a sustainability office. We do a lot of things to help reduce our footprint,� she said.
Speaking to the final exam, Jones said she was impressed by what the students were able to learn from the project, beyond what they would normally receive as in-classroom instruction, for example answering questions professionally and pitching ideas to a client.
�I think it�s a preparation for employment, but also for college because you don�t know what a college professor is going to throw at you and they won�t know you as well as [your high school teacher] does,� Jones said.
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Powell Draper is a structural engineer with experience in the building, bridge, and shipbuilding industries. He has degrees in history from Wake Forest University and civil engineering from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation in structural engineering from Princeton University provided the basis for a chapter he coauthored in Felix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist (Yale University Press), named as one of the best architecture books of 2008 by ArchNewsNow. His research interests include: visualization, modeling and optimization of structures; the historical, environmental, and artistic context of structures; and new technologies for sustainable design.
PhD - Princeton University 2008
MS Engineering - Princeton University 2005
BS Civil Engineering - University of Virginia 2000
BA History - Wake Forest University 1994


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The third green home in our Great Green Homes series is a shining example of adaptive reuse, thoughtful materials, and sustainable systems. The Brooks/Cadora home in Southern California, designed by Santa Monica-based David Kellen and Associates, took a mid-century ranch home and added 1400 square feet of new eco-friendly space. The result is a lovely contemporary home with all the modern, high-tech green trimmings that also pays homage to the beauty of original structure. From solar power to hemp countertops, a solar yurt on site, and a waterless urinal, this home embodies future-forward green design in every way.
There are far too many impressive green features to list, but standout highlights include a 3.5 kilowatt AC photovoltaic system, passive solar cooling (no air conditioning system), and solar hot water collector with a 90 gallon storage tank. Green interior materials include everything from cork flooring and recycled glass tile to wheat stalk panels in the kitchen and hemp countertops in the bathroom. If you're curious about the stucco, it's an all-natural material imported from Italy. To top it all off, the home uses a Bosch tankless water heater, EnergyStar appliances, a waterless urinal in the master bath, and CFL and LED lighting.
Traces of the original structure peak through corners, giving the house a sense of history in unexpected places. And beyond the house's walls, the Brooks/Cadora home includes a solar-powered yurt on site, solar powered fencing for the horse corral, and all vehicles run on biodiesel, with the exception of a Prius. Does it get greener than this?
Thanks to Eric Cadora, green consultant and the house's lucky owner for nominating the home and providing such lovely imagery.
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October 10, 2007 at 8:51 pm
This house is eco-chic and shows that green can have elegance and style. Plus, this project was done a few years ago before the availability or variety of sustainable materials. If mainstream is going to adopt green building practices, there is going to be a transition period, which might mean a bigger house, no gray water system or some imported materials. If we are to be idealistic, maybe all new building should be made from 100% compostable materials, all food grown locally and eradicate petroleum use. But that is not realistic. Codes won't allow it. Even if our species decided to make those changes, it would still take decades for the transition. Let's appreciate the positive steps taken and then set and live up to a higher example ourselves.
October 9, 2007 at 7:12 pm
It saddens me to once again see people of rigid and unreasoning idealism throwing stones at anything that doesn't meet their own standards. A home like this featured in Architectural Digest is worth far more to the cause of green and sustainable housing that all of the Earth ships that have ever been featured in all of the issues of Mother Earth News combined. Preaching to the choir may feel good but you aren't changing anyone's mind The idea that a home must be built in an area that can support a building industry with "local" materials to be green is simply beyond reason unless all homes are to be made of used tire and rammed earth . In my mind keeping people concentrated into urban areas and out of the areas that produce our resources is a far more worthy goal as it is far more difficult to grow F.S.C. lumber in a housing development than in the woods. Moving people to the resources is far browner that moving the resources to the people. As far as the Italian plaster is concerned I can understand the embodied energy argument if there were a " Local" source for a natural product, however in the absence of such you can chose to buy a "Local" chem. Intensive product or you can chose to source them from abroad. This is called the market and it will if enough people chose to take their business elsewhere become a motivator for someone to produce it "Locally". As an example the Prius that this couple owns. "Local" manufactures haven't produced a product that meets the demands of the green consumer so they take their business to an overseas producer. This has caused the big three to begin producing products that they never would have produced otherwise. So if we are ever able to buy a locally produced plaster product we have the people who paid the premium and started to demand it to thank for it. The same goes for led lighting (Chinese) or solar panels (German or Japanese). These things don't happen because we all stand in a circle and pray to the Goddess, they happen because forward thinking people take the difficult road and drive the market, period.
As far as the reduce, reuse, recycle argument is concerned this house is to be admired. The article labels it a mid century ranch which in my eyes is far from the "beautiful cozy" home that Mark is so proud of. In fact if I'm not mistaken in the 5th picture there is a bit of the concrete block the original structure is built of. I wonder if while Oli asks the builder to think of green building not in isolation he is considering that the vast majority of people would simply have torn down the whole thing and started over. This of course would be energy intensive and wasteful as well as cheaper as the cost of building onto a structure of 0 earthquake resistance as most block structures are is quite costly. This structure is now far more likely survive in the future than before which is by any measure a green outcome. So while some people may require that others wear clothes that agree with what their ideas of "punk" is it seems that in fashion as well as green building it takes more that a harsh judgmental glance to get at the reality of things.
Now finally I will climb down off my lofty soap box and say that while I personally am of the dumpster dive green building school I know that without people on the forefront of green building I would have very few choices when the situation demands that I shoot the lock off the wallet and by some caulk, paint, or anything else that I may need. Remember that ideology untempered by reality is what has brought us the Iraq war. So lets not be neocon greenies but greenies that live in the reality based world. Thanks a lot for making it to the end of this long diatribe, feel free to bash me as you see fit as not green enough to be taken seriously because after all I eat meat even if it's produced locally and grass fed. No surrender in the name of environmental purity. If everyone can be considered green what's the point?
September 27, 2007 at 11:26 am
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September 26, 2007 at 12:12 pm
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September 20, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Oli hit the nail on the head. While it would be ideal to incorporate many of these green ideas into new housing, I strongly feel that the phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" should be followed in that order. Reduce first, then reuse what you can't reduce, then recycle what you can't reuse. My wife and I live in an adorable 1924 cottage that's little bigger than 700 square feet, and you know what? We're doing fine. It's beautiful, and cozy, and entirely livable. Over the next 10 years, our house probably won't be using up the amount of energy it took to renovate just this one mansion above.
The whole thing feels like somebody buying carefully pre-ripped designer jeans and a $900 distressed leather jacket in order to look "punk." Eric Cadora, I hope you're reading these comments. You seem like a bright guy, and you're making a lot of money off this "greening" fad. But look more deeply at the "why" behind what you're doing.
September 19, 2007 at 11:23 pm
1400 sq feet? It would have been greener not to renovate at all, when you consider the amount of embodied energy in the new materials not to mention those shipped from overseas. Once again, people seem to be thinking about green building techniques in isolation rather than about an integral 'green' concept for the site.
That said, many of these principals are great and should be included in future new housing.
September 18, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Now, I know I will be chastised for making this remark, but I'll say it anyway. At least some of these people who do have the means to build such extravagant homes are thinking about "reducing" their impact on resources/environment/earth etc. Currently the majority of most construction, is as unsustainable as it has ever been and continues to be the prominent form of building even with this wave of "green awareness." Granted until the CRGBC's "Living Building Challenge" has been accomplished there will always be room for improvement and even then you will find critic's.
The fact is people are becoming aware and while this is a forum visited by a rather "aware" constituency who no doubt is on the cutting edge of this "green revolution" the world is still turning and running at full tilt toward the edge.
While this is something that I know everyone already is aware of I'm only mentioning it because I like this house and I have a feeling it is going to get trashed while we continue to ignore the majority of the world who hasn't even taken a step in the sustainable direction.
September 18, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Importing your matreials from Italy is not eco-friendly. Consider the Carbon footprint of importing materials across the Atlantic Ocean and the amount of co2 released by shipping freighter. An eco-friendly home should also include: using materials indigenous the the area or region where the home is being built! Another example of green washing, the overall design is a bit boring as well. Not impressed to say the least…
September 18, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Let's not be too negative. It is better to be greener than not. Hopefully the changes to make this house greener will encourage even more dramatic changes.
September 18, 2007 at 10:34 am
It gets much "Greener" than that! Please reconsider how you throw "green" around in your articles. How many cars does one family need (think what it takes to produce that vehicle, not just to run it)? I love the idea of retrofitting existing homes, but 1400 additional sq. ft. is NOT GREEN. Stucco shipped all the way from Italy is NOT GREEN. Let's see someone do something with local materials and reuse some found objects (without over processing). Too many green features to list? I don't even see a rain catchment system. Are they producing their own food on site? Perhaps they are using a method such as Permaculture or something like that? What are they doing with the greywater that is produced by the residents? I am not against showcasing new "green" products, but please don't exclude truely green designs that are making a difference in the lives of most people (including those who make less than 6 figures).
Thank You!
September 17, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Building green is a technique of utilizing economically & environmentally sustainable materials and energy, at the same time reducing waste and toxins. A technique way past due.
Too bad the architecture utilizing these techniques are still stuck in the "post-modernist" age. The bland, lifeless floorplans, design elements & placement, and details are typical of today's computer-generated SIMS-like inspiration of human habitation. If the people actually living there had input into the design process: details, coves, optimized functional spaces, and creativity would bloom. Refer to Christopher Alexander's wonderful new books on architecture/design/color for inspiring a truly beautiful/livable designs within all of us.
Encapsulating foreward-thinking ideas in a "Prius" shell devalues its integrity/longevity. Speak up all you non-computer-drone architects out there!!!
September 17, 2007 at 9:17 pm
i would totally want a house just like this, its totally green and not ugly, but the downside to this.. wouldnt it be too expensive to build such a customized eco-friendly home?
September 17, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I really appreciate that this beautiful home was made with green products and materials.


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Granted, any lineup that undergoes a triple crown-ectomy is gonna be sore. But Jake Fox's promotion to Chicago leaves the Iowa Cubs really hurting.
The team hadn't even homered in Fox's last six games on the roster. After yesterday's doubleheader split and today's 9-1 matinee loss to the Sacramento River Cats on getaway day the dubious streak is at nine and counting as the team heads south for a road trip versus its divisional rivals in Memphis and Nashville.
Fox left town with 17 homers.
Today's lineup had 10 [14 if you count the four hit on behalf of the Tennessee Smokies]. And that included a DH!
A pitcher with 10 strikeouts in 22 innings+ fanned nine I-Cubs this afternoon in seven frames. At one point Dana Eveland whiffed five straight.
The defensive effort was lowlighted by Jason Dubois in left field. In the top of the 3rd he camped under a fly ball off the bat of Eric Patterson, straddling the foul line. It appeared that the ball bounced off of his noggin into the seats behind the Iowa bullpen for a ground rule two-base error! Scowling and scuffing at the chalk like a golfer tapping an imaginary spike mark after missing a gimme, Dubois returned to his post. Patterson stole 3rd on the first pitch before scoring on a sacrifice fly to, you guessed it, Dubois, who made the play of the game with a leaping catch while banging against the wall.
You just never know what you're gonna see at the old ballpark.
GOTTA HAVE HART DEPT. - Kevin Hart continued to rebound from a poor start to his season with four more scoreless innings in yesterday's nightcap. It was his second straight impressive start after 16 appearances out of the bullpen. For the year Hart has now fanned 33 in 28 innings while walking only nine...MW
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Is there a pic out there of Dubois taking that ball in the head?
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This pack features a pair of plain tapers and a pair of silver bling plugs... but wait! These aren't the real deal. They're simply regular-sized earrings that give the illusion you've stretched your ear holes. Genius! Even comes with O-rings for authenticity.
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Day Trips
The natural highs of a Yukon adventure aren't limited to those with time for a longer vacation. If you're just passing through, visiting friends or relatives, or on a business trip, you can choose an exhilarating Yukon day trip to round out your itinerary.
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As a constituent of wonderful Frederick County, I am mortified at the behavior of our elected official, county Commissioner Blaine R. Young. I don't agree with his politics, but I am always open to listening and hearing the other side. I want to be informed, even if the facts don't align with my political beliefs.
The headline, "Anti-growth whiners..." (The Gazette, Forum, March 21), should have tipped me off. In a 20-paragraph commentary, there are only seven that do not denigrate his constituents that disagree with him.
He says his detractors "whine" and "complain," are "malcontents," "selfish," and "live in fantasy world," questions their motives and says they deal in lies.
What else did I learn? Oh yes, that the school system is fine, and developers don't need to pay into the system because there are no problems.
This would have been the perfect opportunity for Young to address the article just seven pages earlier that relays the budget cuts our schools are being forced to take. It's a clear disconnect to those of us who are involved with county schools and know they and their teachers are hurting.
He then addresses the "free ride" developers take. Great — I want to know if that's false. He states they are going through hard financial times. I'm not sure that correlates to the issue.
Are developers paying what needs to be paid to address growing communities? Or are we, the Frederick taxpayers, going to have to shoulder the burden later? Are the tough times for businesses the reason they are not being asked to pay more? And if so, wouldn't that be called a bailout? Are we helping all businesses this way?
Young insults the people who take their personal time to be active participants in our community. They care and fight for what they believe. How sad that their elected official chooses to deride them as "people ... with no clue about the facts." As their official, he should take the time to find out their concerns and address them. Instead, they are mocked in the newspaper and on his ridiculous radio program.
As a resident who has only been here seven years, I guess I'm one of those know-nothings. I love this county and would love it to stay as is. I think that can be done by smart-growth planning, and I do not believe the current plans exhibit much in the smart department.
But I'd be willing to listen and able to accept I'm wrong if I'm given hard numbers and whole facts. Please don't tell me the schools are fine when there is talk of ending summer programs, sports and many other much needed programs. It's insulting.
I find it ironic that in his last paragraph he proceeds to lecture his constituents on what constitutes being neighborly. I thought it meant being kind and courteous regardless of disagreements. If he wasn't my commissioner, I'd think it was hilarious that he had the audacity to complain about being called derogatory names. Did he read his own article full of defamations?
Sadly, he is my commissioner, and I find his behavior atrocious. It is not representative of the warmth and spirit of Frederick County.
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Finishing 12th was never going to go down well with Lewis Hamilton, but the Mercedes driver is confident his team can solve their tyre woes.
Having qualified second fastest behind team-mate Nico Rosberg at the Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton found himself slipping down the grid as soon as the lights went out.
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He eventually finished out of the points, behind the likes of Daniel Ricciardo of Toro Rosso and Esteban Gutierrez of Sauber.
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"I don't understand what it is - it's obviously the tyres," said Hamilton.
"It's something to do with how you prepare the tyres, or use the tyres, or something like that. It seemed to work quite well in Bahrain, but didn't in Barcelona, so it's something we haven't quite caught on to just yet. But it's nothing to do with me as a driver. It's about what we do before we get in the car.
"In the race there was no grip. I was just sliding around on all fours, just tip-toeing around. It didn't matter whether I went slow or fast, it didn't do anything different. It was very, very strange. One of the strangest feelings I've had for a long time.
"We had a long discussion about it afterwards and we just have to understand what went wrong and how we can improve it for the upcoming races."
Hamilton is off to Orlando, Florida, over the next few days to take part in a sponsorship event for Mercedes, but he will return to the team's headquarters in Brackley later this week to try to get to the bottom of their tyre problems.
"After that I'll get back to the factory. I don't know why it's taking us so long to really grab hold of this problem. It's not rocket science," he said.
"Ferrari and Lotus have done it, and we just need to do it, and I'm sure we will at some point.
"If we all pull together, which we have been doing all year, but now is more important than ever, particularly after a race like the one we had.
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Would it still be wearable without a hard hat or helmet inside?
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June 18 will mark the 20-year anniversary of what is believed by county police to be Fairfax County�s deadliest traffic accident.
On that date in 1992, four teenagers were killed at the intersection of Va. 7 and Lewinsville Road after the driver of the car they were in turned into the path of a dump truck, which pushed the car into another dump truck. A memorial marker has stood at the spot of the accident for nearly 20 years.
According to police reports and retired police detective J.D. Bean, who investigated the case, Pam Hawver, then 49, was the driver of the car and mother of one of the teenagers.
Hawver survived the crash but could not be located for comment.
According to police, Hawver and her 15-year-old daughter Robin were in the front of the four-door Oldsmobile sedan and three other teens, Kendra Kristinsen,15, of Sterling; Jeremy Daly, 15, of Vienna; and Scott Sloan, 16, of Vienna, all were in the back.
According to Bean — who did not wish to be quoted directly — the crash occurred at 2:55 p.m. when Hawver, who was heading eastbound on Va. 7, attempted a left turn onto Lewinsville Road while the traffic light was red and was broadsided by a dump truck driven by a Fairfax man, Willis E. Brown. Bean said Brown was not charged in the incident. Brown also was not able to be located for comment.
Bean said Hawver was cited with reckless driving, but that the record of that citation has long since been destroyed. �Fairfax County only keeps those records for seven years,� said police spokesman Eddy Azcarate.
Bean said Hawver�s vehicle was pushed by Brown�s truck into another dump truck that was being driven by Lewis Alexander, then 44, of Falls Church. At the time, Alexander worked for B&D Trucking Corp.
Now 64, Alexander is retired but said he still can remember the incident as clearly as the day it happened.
�I was just sitting at the red light,� he said last week. �I had been transporting some rock from a quarry in Leesburg to some job I was working at on Lewinsville Road. I saw the Oldsmobile make a left turn onto Lewinsville Road from Route 7 against the red light and get hit by that truck, which had the right of way.�
Alexander said the memory is one he never will forget.
�The truck pushed that car into me. I felt a tremendous jolt to my truck and my head hit the ceiling, hurting my neck a little. I couldn�t get out of the truck on the driver�s side because the car was up against it,� he remembered. �As I went to get out of the truck on the passenger side, there was a kid laying there on the ground and I didn�t know where he had come from or anything. There was blood coming out of his ears, so I assumed he was dead. When I stepped down out of the truck, I saw two more kids under it.�
Alexander said he was taken to the hospital and his physical wounds healed but the image of the teens never has left him.
�I carry that with me to this day,� he said. �I can still see them every day. I still live in Falls Church and go by that Lewinsville Road memorial all the time.�
Alexander said it took him many years to come to grips and peace with the incident.
�I was just sitting still at that red light and got hit myself,� he said. �I think I was finally able to come to peace with it all because I knew in my heart that it was not my fault. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.�
According to Fairfax County police, the Lewinsville accident is only the second within the county that has ever claimed four lives, and the only one to take the lives of four teens.
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2 cups
uncooked long grain brown rice
1 cup
chopped carrots
1/2 cup
chopped celery
onion, chopped
8 cups
1 cup
vegetable broth
1 teaspoon
garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon
ground black pepper
1 tablespoon
1 cup
sliced fresh mushrooms
I prefer to soak the lentils in water overnight and set the crockpot on high for aobut half of the cook time. (We like them very soft.) Also, try part wild rice in this recipe--it adds lots of flavor!! Very hearty and makes a huge batch!
Okay...call it morbid curiosity, but I came across this recipe and just had to try it because of all the bad reviews. Is it really that bad?!?! Well, no. The ratio of water to lentil/rice is 2:1. After reading all of the reviews, clearly the amount of liquid is one issue, so I upped it to 3:1. It could have used more, but oh well. Also, reviewers complained about blandness. Well, this is a site where everyone tweaks things according to their own preferences (aside from those who substitute raspberries for jalapenos and salmon for beef and peas for potatoes, decide to cook it on a Coleman instead of the oven and then say it was terrible). So I added chopped sweet peppers, cumin, red pepper flakes and italian seasoning and used all chicken broth instead of water. Length of cooking time seems to also be an issue, so I only cooked it 4 hours on low which was enough. It turned out to be a fine lentil and rice dish. It is by no means soup, but it does taste good. Whether or not I will make it again, I do not know. It does make a good side dish or quick meal.
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I followed suggestions of previous reviewers. I soaked the lentils for 14 hours. I used 1 cup of rice and 1 cup of lentils. I used 2 cups vegetable broth and 7 cups of water. I used about 3/4 tsp garlic powder. I cooked on high for 3.5 hours, added mushrooms and cooked for 30 minutes. The soup thickens a lot as it stands, too. This is a thick soup, but that is what makes it really good. It has great flavor.
I made this recipe without looking at the reviews first. I was very surprised to come home and find all the water had been absorbed! I believe this recipe has a misprint; the dry lentils and rice should only be 1 cup each or maybe even 1/2 cup each.
I used 2c lentil and only 1c rice, and there was no liquid left after 7 hours of cooking. I salvaged the soup by transferring it to a stock pot, added ~6 cups of chicken stock that I had been thawing anyway, plus more water til it was a soup consistency. I simmered it on the stove for another half hour to soften the lentils that didn't cook through, added a little Polish Sausage and it was pretty good soup, but I've got a gallon of it now! I actually will try this soup again, using a half cup each of lentils and brown rice.
Others complained about it being to dry and more of a lump than a soup---they were right. I added extra water and vegetable broth to try and make it more of a soup and soaked my lentils before cooking. None of this helped I ended up with a large gloppy lumps. At least I didnt waste to much money on the ingredients.
I make something very similar to this but I do find that I have to periodically add water. I use 1 cup lentils, and 1 cup brown rice and 4-6 cups water. It's also good with cumin, chili powder and garlic salt(to flavor) and used as a vegetarian burrito filling.
Well...I also did not read the reviews before I made this "soup". I basically ended up with a gigantic pot full of some sort of pilaf even though I added 2 extra cups of water. Thankfully I was home to keep an eye on the crock pot otherwise I'm sure I would have ended up with lentil sludge as well. Make sure you Don't use instant wild rice for one thing. I agree that the amount of lentils and rice should be cut in half, and some spices need to be added. Definitely reduce the salt if you use less rice and lentils though.
Something must be wrong with the ingredient measurements in this recipe. It calls for 7 hours of slow cooker time but by 3 hours it was a sodden dryed out mass of oatmeal like stuff. Maybe too little liquid for the amount of lentil/rice called for?
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Professional Background
Educational Background
Ed.M. in Education Policy and Management, Harvard Graduate School of Education
M.A. in Social Studies Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
B.A. in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Scholarly Interests
Urban school culture
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Literacy and identity
Reading motivation
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(Forthcoming). Francois, C. Getting at the core of literacy improvement: A case study of an urban secondary school. Education and Urban Society.
(2011, Summer). Francois, C. A review of Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research. Harvard Educational Review.
(2010). Brion-Meisels, G., Cooper, K., Deckman, S., Dobbs, C., Francois, C., Nikundiwe, T., & Shalaby, C. Humanizing education: Critical alternatives to reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
(2009). Francois, C., & Zonana, E. Catching up on conventions: Grammar lessons for middle
school writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
honors and awards
-Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship (National Academy of Education), 2008-2010
-Jeanne Chall Reading Lab Doctoral Research Travel Grant (Harvard Graduate School of Education), 2011, 2010
-Founders Fellowship (Research for Action), 2010
-Harvard Graduate School of Education Travel Grant, 2010, 2009
-CASE ResearchFellowship (Council of Alumni for Social Enterprise), 2007
-MetLife Fellowship (Teachers Network Leadership Institute), 2004
-Department of Anthropology Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis (University of Pennsylvania), 1998
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Prerequisite: C&T 4138. Examination of theory and practice on teaching reading in intermediate grade classrooms. Consideration of curriculum design, assessment practices, teaching methods and childrens literature. Emphasis on curricular structures and strategies for teaching comprehension and critical analysis of fiction and nonfiction texts.
C&T 4151: Teaching of writing
The course integrates theory and practice for teachers. Topics include writing development, research on writing, curriculum development, methods of teaching writing, models for responding to and evaluating student writing, and classroom methods for teaching the writing process in elementary classrooms.
C&T 4200: Fieldwork in curriculum and teaching
Permission required. Majors work under guidance. Students should have had previous coursework with their supervising staff member and should select a problem relating to this work.
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Ming Court - Magnificent Dim Sum and more.... that fit the most discriminating palette!
Whilst one can find Boulangerie selling Baguettes in almost every street corner in Paris, the same can be said about Cantonese restaurants and Dim Sum in Hong Kong. However, quanity is one thing, quality is another matter!
Nowadays, with material and labour costs all playing a major factor in restaurants' operation, cutting corners, using mass produced Dim Sum doughs from China and machine grind meat fillings are becoming rampant. Establishments still using traditional, 'starting from scratch', hand made method for dough making or manual dual cleavers approach for chopping and mincing ingredients are becomng rare and few.
As such, I cannot help but become super excited when my wife's 'Bride's Maid', invited us for a Dim Sum lunch with Champagne pairing at the famed 2* Ming Court - one of few refined dining establishments that employs a whole team of Dim Sum chefs still using traditional approaches to Dim Sum making.
The result was one of the most impressive and memorable Dim Sum lunch experience I have ever attended. So refreshing and glad to see so mant traditional Dim Sum dishes made the old fashion way! A testament to the skill of the Chefs and the commitment of the restaurant to remain a 2*....and more?!
The newly renovated dining space was gorgeous, adorned with Chinese modern art and replica porcelain art work. Now comes the food!! For our party of four, we had the following traditonal and modern fusion dishes:
- Vegetarian Pot Sticker - sponge wrapping
- Foie Gras and Pork Pot Stickers with tradional thin wrapping
- Vegetarian Spring Rolls
- Shrimp and Pork Shui Mai two ways with Tobiko and mushrooms
- Shrimp Har Gow
- Fried rice with diced Silken Chicken, Pinenuts, Goji berries, Gai Lan in
Claypot infused with Shiao Xing wine
- Poached Baby Spinach with mushrooms and fresh Yuba Skin in Shang
Tong Broth.
- Shrimp eggs and Abalone sauce 'Lo Mien'
- Desserts Trio of ' Jello ' four ways, Syrup glazed Chinese Pretzels and
Mango Crepe rolls with roasted almond coatings
All these were paired with a Laurent Perrier Brut Champagne.
Once again, with so many dishes ordered, it would be unrealistic for me to comment on each and every dish. However, I will touch on the few outstanding and unique ones.
1- The 'Sponge' pot stickers were so fluffy soft and light. Its like eating a
savory Mashmallow!
2- The addition of Chinese Rice Wine to the Foie Gras and pork filling
was a nice match. Interesting and delightful.
3- Spring rolls were totally greaseless and the wrappings light and crispy
Fillings were very tasty
4 - The Shrimp Har Gow was near perfection! 13 fold wrapping,
taut, malleable and optimal thickness that remained intact when
picked up. Crunchy and fresh tasting prawn filling with diced bamboo
shoot. Super juicy!
4a - I'm not a fan of Shui Mai since I find most mechanically grind shrimp
and pork filling to be too densely packed, dry and unappealing.
However,the Ming Court hand chopped version renders the filling to
be loosely packed, juicy and a joy to eat!
5- The fresh Yuba skin in the perfectly cooked veggie dish has a
mesmerizing aroma and taste thats unfamiliar to us. Broth was full of
umami and tasted awesome
6 - Shrimp egg tossed noodles was very very good, IMO, even better
than 'Lau Sum Kee's famous version!
7 - The Mango Crepe with toasted almonds was a winner!! Man!
Was it good!!
Overall plate presentation might not be as fancy and visually appealing as Lung King Heen, but the taste of most dishes were definitely comparable or better! The 'dry ice' fog generator stand for the dessert was a cool touch!
A most impressive Dim Sum lunch that undoubedly ranks amongst my top 3 Dim Sum experiences!
Keep up the great work and may be use this as a base to build up for a future 3*??!! However, fancier plate presentation and more 'exotic' dishes might be needed to get through the hurdle??!!
re: klyeoh
My wife's friend treating and pre-ordered everything so just sat back and eat!! Ha!
BTW, any luck on your schedule change? HKTraveller is also thinking about persuading his wife to let him go on family day to join us!! First time 'really old chowhounders' got a chance to meet in person!!
re: Charles Yu
Still trying to rearrange my schedule - I have some meetings in UK/Europe coming up near that time :-(
re: Charles Yu
OK, Charles, am flying into HK this Saturday (arrive early afternoon), have whole day on Sunday to catch up with you. Leaving HK Monday after lunch. I've emailed my contact numbers to you on FB :-)
See you this weekend, it's been a while since we met, eh?
re: Lau
Before 'Guo Fu Lou' opened up, with the team intact, I would say 'Fook Lam Moon' in Wan Chai. However, I heard part of the team went to GFL and since I haven't been back to FLM this time, I am not in the position to say. Todate, my experience at Ming Court was very impressive. However, my wife's friend intent to take us to 'Forum' for a comparative tasting, since in her opinion, quality between the two are similar?!!
re: Charles Yu
Charles Yu - thanks, I've had dim sum @ FLM but honestly it was so long ago and really before i took to blogging / chowhound seriously, so i just remember it being good, but i can't recall any of the details as i never paid attention to what i was eating that carefully just got kind of went with the flow.
I will def give that, GFL, Forum or Ming Court a try next time i'm in town (too many options!)
btw with GFL any difference between the Wan Chai and TST branches?
re: Lau
I know the q wasn't directed at me, but I wanted to say that if I only had one place to pick for dim sum, it would be the Country Club's Island Room. The menu isn't extensive, nor is it imaginative like the Michelin starred places, but what they do offer is executed really well.
I've tried modern, Michelin starred places (like Sun Tung Lok), high-end regular places (Lei Garden) and local chains, but I keep gravitating back to this one.
re: Jon914
Jon914 - wow wouldn't expect a recommendation in deep water bay! maybe ill run into li ka shing j/k, but seriously do you have to be a member to eat there?
re: Jon914
ahh ok i figured
This place is very impressive indeed!
Thanks again for the writeup!
Here's the lunch menu
The gourmet claypot rice seems interesting, but a whooping $238 on average. Stuff you will never find in the USA (nor will restaurants be able to get away with charging US$30 for that).
And here's the dinner menu
I'm told Ming Court also makes an excellent XO sauce that you can buy. Probably similar to Man Wah's (consume within 7 days or less, no preservatives).
re: K K
Even the regular rice & noodles are in that same $238 range, but it's about par for the course when you dine in a hotel restaurant. That's the price you pay for the experience of dining in comfort.
It's not quite as outrageous as a popular Tonkatsu chain (Tonkichi), which charges about US $30 for a single porkchop - now *that* is outrageous. I had it, it's really good for what it is, but nowhere near $30 bucks good.
re: Jon914
If one talks about noodles and rice, nothing beats the $680 a plate ' Spaghetti a la Vongole ' of Causeway Bay's Da Domenica!!!
re: Jon914
was tonkichi really that expensive? ive eaten there and i dont remember it being that expensive, that's way more expensive than a really really good place i ate at in tokyo recently (that was definitely better than tonkichi)
re: Jon914
wow i mean that is a pretty decent sized portion, but $30 for tonkatsu seems kind of expensive out of principle haha
re: Uncle Yabai
The lunch set menu Katsukura @ Takashimaya Times Square building in Shinjuku was roughly 1,700-1,800 yen per person, so roughly $20 per person back in december (now like $18 USD....i timed my trip poorly haha)
Katsukura is excellent
re: Uncle Yabai
i like tonkichi, i just found it alot more oily and heavy that katsukura, which i found to be very light and not oily at all. i also thought katsukura was well priced for tokyo
re: Uncle Yabai
man i wish someone like katsukura would open up a place in NY...i need to go back to Asia soon, following the asian board is killing me haha
re: Lau
In the end it wouldn't work. It would open to great fanfare and high prices, have great stuff early on, and then end up facing the realities of the US market. It would go downscale, swap the original Japanese chefs and staff with whatever works at minimum wage, stop importing Kurobuta, get a local supplier with no sense of pride, and end up like Katsuhama, which used to be excellent and is now but a shadow of its former self.
re: Uncle Yabai
you're totally right, but i can still dream
you know i've totally realized when i'm in the US for a long time my taste buds get dulled to what asian food should taste like, i'm pretty sure i rate some stuff higher than i should if i havent been to asia in a while. that totally happened to me in tokyo where i was like man this is what stuff should taste like
re: Lau
you know i've totally realized when i'm in the US for a long time my taste buds get dulled to what asian food should taste like
Off-topic here, Lau - but the same thing happened to me each time I visited India (like I did recently). The food there is *so* good, I realised how we tend to over-rate top Indian restaurants in Singapore, London or elsewhere: they don't hold a candle to the real deal and what you'll get in the land-of-origin.
re: klyeoh
oh yah the food in india is very good, i spent 3 weeks in bombay at my college roommate's house right after college that's when i realized how crap most indian food is in the US. although i cant eat indian food everyday like i can with chinese or japanese food, i started getting sick of it after a couple of weeks, but it is quite good
Far too many years since we ate there - but really good to hear it is still superb. I feel a long slow Saturday lunch coming up.
I may not be as discerning as others but for me the best dim sum is so far above good dim sum that the difference simply hits you. That's what I thought of my lunch at Ming Court all those years ago.
I feel I snack at places Fu Sing and Tim Ho Wan, good as they are, but you only get the top dim sum when you pay top dollar, and if you are not paying top dollar you are not likely to get great food. This CY's intro about mass produced dim sum really resonates - there is no such think as cheap great dim sum (although plenty of cheap stuff is tasty).


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I already made a thread like this earlier today and it got moved to the lounge. :mad: :wink:
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hey did u hear Culpepper hurt his knee again and is out for the year, and Ronnie Brown killed someone and is in prisonfor 20 years.......Rickys appeal didnt go through and Saban is a child molester??
Now do I get my present of gettin "Hung by your feet and beaten with an acoustic guitar."?? LMAO
I know Nubs, that is why I said MERGE! Not sure why they moved you with a strong as a figure you are here!Originally Posted by Nublar7
Darn, now I'll just have to create usernames on the Patriots' fanblog and mess with them all day! Go Dolphins. I think we should get as many people as we can from here to create usernames on NE's site and post so many threads that they won't know which way is up.... Sort of like a perpetual drive-by blogging, FIN FAN style!... Just a thought....I'll keep my April Fool's pranks away from here...The Mods didn't say whther it'd be a Six String or a Twelve string, either!! OUCH!!Originally Posted by Muck
Your thread will always be the #1 "April Fools News Warning" Thread in my heart Nub.:hug:Originally Posted by Nublar7
So I cannot start a thread about Ronnie Brown holding out for 20 million guaranteed bonus.
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That better be a cheap piece-of-crap acoustic guitar...I hate people who abuse good instruments...Originally Posted by Muck
hey guys did you hear the Dolphins acquired Julio Franco in the first cross-sport trade ever?
"I'll believe in God when one and one are five"
--(Bad Religion, "Do What You Want")
uh oh. PFT just put up some Dolphin related material on their rumor mill. How many of you want to bet that there will be threads called "Ricky is free to play!" and "Culpepper bashes Childress!"?
Hopefully everybody reads this thread(or the one I started earlier Friday. :wink: ) and doesn't flip out over these stories.
lol but imagine somethin like that really DID happen!! haha that would be pretty funny! Like your tellin the truth but NO ONE believes u! lol I would get pissed cause all u would hear is "nice try bud, or f-u, we know your lying! haha ya that would get me pretty mad if no one actually believed me! lolOriginally Posted by Nublar7


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