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The facet or point at the bottom of the pavilion of a gemstone. It is sometimes listed as a facet and would, for example, increase the number of facets listed for a round brilliant diamond from 57 to 58. Because medium to large culets may have an impact on a diamond's light performance, the preferred culet grades for a round diamond range from none to small. Culets in the preferred grades are generally undetectable to the unaided eye.
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(May 25, 2005) - East Tennessee State seniors Caleb Moore (Knoxville, Tenn.), Nick Crowe (Johnson City, Tenn.), juniors Chuck Hargis (Powell, Tenn.), Jeremy Hall (Gray, Tenn.), Blake Church (Roswell, Ga.), Shane Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) were named to the 2005 All-Southern Conference Baseball Team Wednesday afternoon on day one of the SoCon Tournament from Riley Park in Charleston, S.C.
The Bucs' six all-conference selections were second-best in the conference surpassed only by regular-season champion College of Charleston's seven players that were named to the team.
Moore was a first-team selection as a catcher while Hargis was the first-team shortstop and Church tied for first-team designated hitter honors. Crowe was the second-team second baseman, Byrne was a second-team outfielder while Hall and Moore were both selected as second-team pitchers.
Moore was also the first-team catcher last season, but the other five Buccaneers are first-time selections.
East Tennessee State will play Georgia Southern in the first round of the SoCon Tournament this afternoon from Riley Park in Charleston, S.C.

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Elvis Presley and Arthur O'Connell in the 1962 movie, "Follow That Dream." The movie also featured Anne Helm, Joanna Moore, Alan Hewitt, Herbert Rudley, Simon Oakland, Howard McNear and Roland Winters. It was based on the novel 'Pioneer, Go Home' by Richard Powell. (United Artists)
Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in undated (circa 1964-1965) photograph. She starred with Presley in 1964's "Viva Las Vegas."
Technical details during filming of "Roustabout" are studied here by Elvis Presley at the camera and Chet Stafford, chief gaffer on the film, who spots the lighting. Filmed in Technicolor and Technicscope, "Roustabout" was a Hal Wallis production starring Presley and co-starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman and Leif Erickson. John Rich directed. (Paramount)
When Elvis Presley, who rides a motorcycle in current film, "Roustabout," learned co-star Barbara Stanwyck could ride a motorcycle, Elvis promptly hoisted the four-time Academy Award nominee aboard a motorcycle built for two and they were off in a cloud of dust to the amazement of everybody March 20, 1964, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Elvis and Miss Stanwyck are shown in a cow pasture where the film company was on location. (UPI)
Elvis Presley in Stay Away, Joe. a 1968 comedy-drama western film with musical interludes set in modern times also starring Burgess Meredith and Joan Blondell.
Gary Player gives some golf pointers to Elvis Presley on the Paramount set of "Blue Hawaii" in 1961. Producer Hal Wallis slated a screen test for the golfer later that year. Player was leaving May 9 for Fort Worth to get ready for the Colonial Tournament. (UPI)
Elvis Presley greeted by an island local as he arrives for filming of the 1962 movie, "Girls!, Girls!, Girls!" Presley's manager, Col. Tom Parker, comes down the ramp behind him. (Paramount)
"Girl Happy", Elvis's 17th motion picture co-starred former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley. The movie was filmed in July and August, 1964 and involved some location shooting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It opened at theatres in April 1965. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie, "Paradise, Hawaiian Style". The movie also featured James Shigeta, Suzanna Leigh and Donna Butterworth. (Paramount)
Elvis Presley on the set of "Jailhouse Rock" with Judy Tyler. (MGM)
Elvis Presley seeks romance and adventure, but his parents, played by Angela Lansbury and Roland Winters, wanted him to settle down in the family pineapple business in the 1961 release "Blue Hawaii." (Paramount )
Cynthia Pepper and Elvis Presley in a publicity photo for "Kissin' Cousins."
Elvis Presley in the 1964 movie, "Kissin' Cousins." The movie also featured Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Pam Austin, Cynthia Pepper, Yvonne Craig and Maureen Reagan. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley and Tuesday Weld in the 1961 movie "Wild in the Country." The 20th Century Fox release also featured Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood, William Mims and Christina Crawford. (20th Century Fox)
Elvis Presley chats with leading lady, Leticia Roman, 19, on the set of "G.I. Blues" at Paramount Studio in Hollywood May 26, 1960. The film was Presley's first since his release from the Army, and the first ever for Miss Roman, an import from Italy. One Hollywood producer was already pegging her as another Lollobrigida. (Associated Press)
Elvis Presley and Suzanna Leigh in the 1966 movie, "Paradise, Hawaiian Style." Suzanna, who played a sexy aviatrix in the movie, lived in Memphis as of 2004. (Paramount)
Elvis Presley with Judy Tyler in a still from the movie Jailhouse Rock, a motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe, released by MGM on October 17, 1957. The film also starred Mickey Shaughnessy.
Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie, "Paradise, Hawaiian Style". Suzanna Leigh, (left), who played a sexy aviatrix in the movie, lives in Memphis as of 2004. The movie also featured James Shigeta and Donna Butterworth. (Paramount)
Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie "Harum Scarum." (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra star in the 1968 movie, "Speedway." The MGM release also featured Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert and Victoria Meyerink. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in undated photograph. She starred with Presley in 1964's "Viva Las Vegas," and supposedly had the King smitten until his death. (Studio handout)
"Girl Happy," Elvis' 17th motion picture, co-starred former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley. The movie was filmed in July and August of 1964, and involved some location shooting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It opened at theaters in April 1965. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman in the 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii." The movie, produced by Hal B. Wallis, also featured Angela Lansbury, Nancy Walters, Roland Winters, John Archer, Howard McNear, Steve Brodie, Iris Adrian, Hilo Hattie and Jennie Maxwell. (Paramount Pictures)
Elvis Presley looks at a camera angle on the set of the 1963 movie, "Girls!, Girls!, Girls!" In the background is director Norman Taurog. (Paramount)
Elvis Presley began work on his 8th motion picture, "Blue Hawaii," in late March of 1961 on location in Hawaii. He had previously recorded the soundtrack and later returned to Hollywood for additional filming. The film, which co-starred Jennie Maxwell, would open at theaters in late November. While in Hawaii, Elvis performed a benefit on March 25 for the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. (Paramount Studio)
Jackie Gleason (seated, left) and Elvis Presley (seated, right) on the set of the 1963 movie, "Girls!, Girls!, Girls!" (Paramount)
"Girl Happy," Elvis's 17th motion picture, co-starred former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley. The movie was filmed in July and August of 1964 and involved some location shooting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It opened at theaters in April 1965. (MGM / The Commercial Appeal files)
The Civil War western "Love Me Tender," Elvis' first movie, opened Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 21) 1956 at Loew's State Theatre in Memphis, where Elvis once ushered. The movie, which co-starred Richard Egan and Debra Paget, had premiered at the Paramount Theatre in New York City, November 15. Elvis sang four songs in the movie, which began filming in August. The film was originally titled "The Reno Brothers," but was changed to capitalize on the anticipated hit title song. (20th Century Fox)
Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie, "Paradise, Hawaiian Style." Others appearing in the Paramount release were Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth, Marianna Hill, Irene, Linda Wong, Julie Parrish and Jan Shepard. The film was produced by Hal B. Wallis. (Paramount Pictures)
Elvis Presley and producer Hal Wallis (right center) being interviewed arriving at the island location for filming of the 1962 Paramount release of "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (Paramount)
Elvis Presley with Diane McBain (left) and Shelley Fabares in the 1966 movie, "Spinout," which opened at the State Theatre in Memphis on November 17, 1966. Elvis recorded the soundtrack and began filming the movie, his 22nd, in February. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Elvis Presley in the 1968 movie "Speedway." Also featured in the MGM release were Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert and Victoria Meyerink. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)


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Her science teacher lobs facts at the 30 students about the periodic table—hydrogen is the first one, the symbols for gold and silver are based on Latin roots, and the bigger an atom's nucleus gets, the more unstable it becomes.
He's talking too fast for Hae Nay. When she arrived in Portland from Thailand three years ago, she knew two English words: water and eat. She's now almost fluent in English, an A student who dreams of becoming a nurse. But she still must concentrate more than other students and struggles to keep up with some teachers.
"Atom comes from the Greek word atomos, which means 'indivisible,'" the teacher says. "Who knows what 'indivisible' means?"
Hae Nay's attention is divided between her teacher and a loud-talking girl in puffy pastel high-tops who flirts with a boy nearby and fiddles with a friend's sparkly scarf.
"This is so cute," she says.
The teacher glares at the girl. "Zip it," he says.
"I can't do that," the girl says with a big smile.
Hae Nay wants to follow the lesson, but she admits later the girl's chatter fascinates her, and that her attention drifted from the elements. Science may be her future, but she is also trying to master the ways of American teens.
"I listen to her all day," Hae Nay says of the girl. "I learn from her."
Wearing pink press-on fingernails and a sweatshirt and Nikes—the David Douglas uniform of teenage girls—Hae Nay has succeeded at blending in. But David Douglas has also succeeded at propelling Hae Nay—and thousands of immigrant students like her—toward graduation in an Oregon educational system too often defined by failure.
With 2,893 students, David Douglas in outer Southeast Portland is Oregon's largest high school. The district as a whole has the highest rate of low-income students in the Portland area. It has gangs, drugs and enough teen pregnancy to warrant an on-campus day-care center.
David Douglas High is also a United Nations of teenagers. Students here speak more than 55 languages, and almost half started school speaking little or no English—numbers unmatched anywhere else in Oregon.
These challenges would sink most schools. But the David Douglas School District has the highest graduation rate—nearly 69 percent—of any district in Portland except Riverdale, which is fed by the wealthy Dunthorpe neighborhood.
In 2010, Education Week named David Douglas High one of 21 national "education overachievers" for a graduation rate that outperforms expectations. Superintendents from Texas to North Carolina have called asking what's behind the David Douglas magic.
The 2013 Legislature has just convened, and Gov. John Kitzhaber is insisting lawmakers push for big improvements in Oregon schools. The state has one of the worst graduation rates in the nation, and Kitzhaber wants to push it to 100 percent by the time today's kindergartners are high-school seniors.
Real change will come from figuring out what works—and a model for that is David Douglas.
"They are putting together a way where kids don't get lost," says Samuel Henry, a Portland State University education professor and member of the new Oregon Education Investment Board. "Let's take their best practices and spread them around."
David Douglas' six buildings spread across its 26-acre campus, surrounded by streets of neat bungalows, boarded-up houses, check-cashing operations, strip clubs, auto-body shops, quinceañera suppliers—the low-zoning mishmash known as East Portland.
Inside, you could be visiting any giant high school—trophy cases, dim hallways and the mascot, a red-and-white kilted Scotsman, painted on the wall.
When the bell rings, students pour into the hallways and through the breezeways between classes. Trying to move through the crowds is like swimming against a riptide. Students' voices melt into one unbroken sound. Most kids wear jeans and sneakers. Only an occasional girl in a headscarf and long skirt hints of the international nature of the school.
But when the PA comes on, morning announcements include after-school meetings of the Somali and Burmese clubs. And flags of nations representing the home countries of students hang from the cafeteria ceiling. The school started with 46 flags in 2004, and there's barely room to hang another.
In Jennifer Healey's English-conversation class, Spanish speakers sit near the window, Ukrainians sit up front, and four Chinese boys sit on their desks speaking Cantonese.
"English," Healey says to the Chinese boys. "Practice English."
Hae Nay Paw has no choice. No one else speaks her native tongue, called Karen (pronounced ka-REN). She chats with her friend Vic, a recent immigrant from Myanmar, about Hae Nay's pink fingernails.
Healey, with red hair and a deep voice that grows scratchy as the day wears on, begins the class by explaining the word "the." Say it with a long "e"—theee—when the next word starts with a vowel.
"You say, 'We are going to theee exhibition,'" Healey says, drawing out the eee sound. "Native speakers make this mistake all the time. It drives me crazy."
Hae Nay raises her hand.
"Why do we say thuh with 'hour'?" she asks.
"Good question," Healey says. "The silent 'h' separates the 'e' of 'the' and the 'o' from 'hour.'"
"What is 'exhibition'?" Hae Nay asks.
Healey switches to a pronunciation game. Hae Nay volunteers first to read words that sound similar.
"Our and are," she says. "Sheep and ship. Police and please."
Healey smiles. She thinks Hae Nay has turned out to be a fantastic student. "If I had to bet," Healey says later, "she's one I'd put money on."
But Healey has seen her share of frustrations and defeats in trying to help immigrant students survive David Douglas. A week earlier, Healey saw four immigrants withdraw from school; her eyes tear up when she mentions it.
Latino, Vietnamese, Russian and Chinese speakers make up the larger groups. But more than half of immigrant students at David Douglas account for most of the 50-plus other languages, including Tagalog, Serbian and Creole. Healey has had students who came to her speaking only Maay Maay, Krahn and Yapese.
She's been a teacher for 16 years, most of them at David Douglas. As a kid, her family moved from state to state, and she attended six high schools in four years. "I know what's its like to be a smart kid and be failing," Healey says. "I also know that moving gives you the chance to reintroduce yourself."
She was an acting major in college who started out teaching kindergarten and never saw herself as a language instructor. But Healey, who spoke French, was identified by school officials as someone who could teach language skills. When the number of immigrant students increased sharply a decade ago, the district offered intensive training to teach English as a second language. Healey jumped at the chance.
The Chinese students are talking in Cantonese again.
"Since there's already a lot of talking," Healey says, "we are going to end with extemporaneous speaking. Do you remember what 'extemporaneous' means? It means speaking off the top of your head. Speaking without preparation."
Students reach into a tin soup can and draw slips of paper with prompts.
Hae Nay stands in front of the class and reads her prompt: "What is your favorite hobby?"
"My favorite hobby is to play with friends, knitting and reading," she says, her voice soft, the "r's" sticking in the back of her throat.
"They tend to be more open; they have an excitement and appreciation that kids who have been in our school system for 10 years might not," Healey says.
Many immigrant students grew up in refugee camps, some having never gone to school, sat at a desk or used a notebook. (Teachers say refugee kids often talk of becoming doctors and nurses.) Math teachers tell of high-school-age students who could not count or understand the concept of numbers.
Nor do many know what a test is. One year, immigrant students taking a multiple-choice test were instructed to choose A, B, C or D on a computer screen and then hit "Enter." The answers all came back "D." Teachers investigated and realized the students clicked A, B, C and D—and when they entered their answer, their last choice got recorded.
"We weren't as prepared to teach a room," Healey says, "where there may not be one kid who shares anything with your background."
Healey says a 15-year-old Chinese boy was so traumatized before his arrival he spent his first year just staring out the window. An Iraqi student of Healey's withdrew two weeks ago to care for his younger siblings because his parents are too paralyzed by their experiences to cope.
A student from Myanmar on a field trip to downtown Portland saw a soldier dressed in camouflage and confided to a teacher that the sight triggered memories of her mother's rape by soldiers. Last week, a girl from Bhutan began screaming in the hallway; no one present could speak Nepali to help her.
"Some kids come with what I call 'invisible backpacks'—trauma, malnutrition, abuse, whatever," Healey says. "Until they learn some English, we don't really know what is inside them."
Hae Nay Paw grew up in a Thai refugee camp watched by guards and surrounded by pig manure, bamboo houses and trees she loved to climb. Today she might be 14, maybe 15. She has no records, and has never celebrated a birthday.
She is Karen, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, and her family fled to Thailand before she was born. Her relatives shunned her because her father wasn't Karen. She sometimes lived with her drug-addicted mother and violent stepfather, who she says once tried to kill her with a knife.
"My mom say, 'Run away!'" Hae Nay says. "I ran into the forest. I didn't know what to do."
She was 7. Her aunt found her asleep in the woods and brought her home. Her new family—the aunt, an uncle and four younger cousins—immigrated to the United States in January 2010, part of a wave of Karen immigrants to East Portland. Hae Nay's family lives in a two-bedroom apartment near Southeast 122nd Avenue and Lincoln Street and attends a local Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In the past 20 years, as Portland Public Schools' enrollment shrank, David Douglas' grew by 35 percent. While other districts saw increases in Spanish-speaking students, the areas around David Douglas became such a magnet for immigrants that Portland now has the 12th-largest per-capita refugee population in the country.
By the time Hae Nay arrived, East Portland had already seen waves of immigrants from Vietnam, Russia, Somalia and Nepal.
At Ron Russell Middle School, she could not communicate with anyone. "I was really scared," she says. "But I'm not so shy. I didn't know how to say, 'I need a drink of water' so I just say, 'water' and let the teacher figure it out."
She now listens to Selena Gomez and One Direction and counts among her favorite movies The Lorax, The Incredible Hulk and anything starring Jackie Chan.
Hae Nay says she doesn't have close friends and wouldn't have time to hang out with them outside school—she has homework and chores.
She is fine-boned and short for her grade, not yet 5 feet, possibly the result of malnutrition.
"I know I look 12. I hate it!" she says. "The only time I cried at school was when this girl cut in front of me. I tried to say, 'Hey, you cut.' She couldn't understand what I was saying. She say, 'You are so little, why are you talking to me?' I went to the bathroom and cried so hard. Why am I so little?"
The David Douglas district—when faced with dramatic demographic changes starting in the 1990s—had some inherent advantages that helped its schools adapt.
One was thrift. The David Douglas tax base has never been wealthy, so the district—unlike Portland Public Schools—never had the money to create a large, expensive overhead of administrators and executives. With one giant high school, David Douglas doesn't have to pay a busload of principals and administrative staff, and spends 4 percent less on overhead costs than the average Oregon high school.
Conversations with teachers and administrators about why the school succeeds often leave more questions than answers. Some point to the determination of immigrant students. Others point to a strong sense of community. The school offers after-school English lessons for parents, and teachers are encouraged to seek out parents, even to visit them at home if they can't be reached by phone. And others argue the teaching staff is especially committed to the challenges posed by language barriers as well as dealing with low-income students.
John Harrington, David Douglas High's principal until he retired in 2004, says the district and the school gave themselves permission to go out and find solutions, without looking over their shoulders at what state officials in Salem might say.
In turn, he says, he hired teachers who had foreign-language skills, but looked even more for those who would share the school's sense of community. "I looked for a willingness," says Harrington, now president of Central Catholic High School, "to join what we were doing."
Fourteen years ago, David Douglas High also created sheltered core classes for non-English speakers, creating a place where students and teachers weren't embarrassed to try new methods and make mistakes. Math teacher Kaitlin Nelson recalls teaching students about prisms, and one student thought she was talking about prisons.
"I wrote both words on the blackboard, we practiced saying both," she says. "When you are teaching math, you are teaching language."
The district has reduced the number of sheltered classes in elementary and middle schools, and started phasing them out at the high school after it cut 30 teaching positions in 2010. District administrators were concerned they could not offer sheltered classes to all who needed them. They also suspected some sheltered classes were actually remedial and not up to the grade level, as federal law requires.
The dilemma is apparent in Hae Nay Paw's experience. In sheltered classes, she's engaged, outspoken and eager to help others. In her language arts class, Hae Nay is assigned to work with two other students—her friend Vic, and Mahamed, a tall, thin 17-year-old sophomore who came from Ethiopia two years ago. They're supposed to answer questions on "The Quilt," a short story about immigrant traditions, which they will present to the class.
Hae Nay corrects the others' English. Vic says "lifes." Hae Nay pronounces it "lives."
"He gave her dry flowers," Mahamed says of a character in the story.
"No," Hae Nay says. "It's dried flowers."
But she says she prefers non-sheltered classes because they expose her to how American kids talk—without accents, and with the latest slang. Other immigrant students won't correct her pronunciation.
"American kids do," she says. "The best thing for learning English would be having class with American students, and with the teacher explaining how to do class work clearly."
But in blended classes— such as Nathan Owings' science class—Hae Nay doesn't talk and can't always follow the teacher.
Owings has a bit of drill sergeant about him and has trained students to answer "Present, sir!" when he calls roll. It's in Owings class where Hae Nay tries to go unnoticed, and the chatty girl keeps distracting her.
In 1999, Owings became David Douglas' first sheltered science teacher for students learning English, and he still uses techniques he learned then, even though his class has a larger mix of kids.
In his science class—where a third of the students are learning English—Owings writes notes on the board, tells stories of physicist Niels Bohr, breaks down vocabulary, repeats important points, draws pictures, makes bad jokes, and has the kids answer questions until he thinks they get key concepts.
For his students still learning English, Owings admits, he doesn't pause and check in as often as he should.
But he points to what may be one of the secrets of David Douglas High's success: Teachers such as him who were trained to teach immigrant students found these techniques were also powerful tools for teaching native English speakers as well.
"Quite frankly, our regular kids speak a different language," he says. "They are teenagers."
Next year, the David Douglas district faces an $8 million shortfall, equivalent to 70 to 80 teaching positions. A tutoring program for immigrants may be cut when a city Schools Uniting Neighborhoods grant expires this year. The remaining sheltered high-school classes are also at risk.
But if David Douglas has one lesson for the rest of Oregon, it's this: A school that seeks to change its destiny must have the commitment of teachers and parents, a keen eye on what data show, a willingness to experiment and give up old habits, and leaders who insist on exceeding last year's accomplishments.
This determination to do better year after year has produced a catchphrase at David Douglas: "Plus one."
Students such as Hae Nay Paw only know they have been given a chance they didn't have before.
"If one day I grow up and be a nurse, I think I'd like to get kids that are like me and help them," she says. "I have a lot of things to learn. I love learning. I want to learn forever."
- David Douglas High School has counted 55 languages spoken by its students as their first languages.
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Recent rains have brought an official end to drought conditions in eastern Iowa, but southwest Iowa's drought recovery hasn't been quite as swift.
The USDA drought monitor shows nearly 20 percent of Iowa, all on the eastern side, is now out of drought conditions. That's up from less than 7 percent of the state just two weeks ago.
Approximately 20 percent of the state, mostly in northwest Iowa, remains in extreme drought conditions. Still, that is considerably better than last September, when 65 percent of the state was considered to be in an extreme drought.
Last week, Iowa experienced its wettest week since July 2010 with a statewide average of 2.90 inches of rain, compared to a weekly normal amount of 0.78 inches.
And, with cool and damp weather in the forecast for today through the end of the week, further recovery of subsoil moisture and farm ponds should continue in south-central Iowa. Now, the emerging concern could be the delay in getting in the fields to plant the 2013 crop.
"We still need rain anytime we can get it," said Tracy Cameron, agronomist for Gavilon Ag Service, "but pretty soon you'll hear griping about getting into the field. From now on is a good time to plant corn. As soon as it dries up, it's time to plant corn."
Above-average snow cover and a chilly, wet spring have helped restore moisture to many states stricken by last year's drought. In much of the farm belt, there's enough topsoil moisture to allow plants to emerge.
"With the rains and cool weather, it's been too wet and the soil isn't ideally warm enough to get in the field and plant," said Harry Hillaker, state climatologist. "Creston has not been as wet as eastern parts of Iowa, but we've seen improvement in the drought status."
Currently, Union County is in the "moderate" drought category, which is the second-least severe in a five-point scale.
"Last week northwest Iowa was the only area still in the extreme drought situation," Hillaker said.
A contributing factor was lingering frost in the ground in the northwest sector, where several inches of snow and ice accompanied the past week's weather pattern that brought a nice, soaking rain to thawed ground in Union County and surrounding areas.
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Rainfall in Creston in March was 1.30 inches, Hillaker said, followed by 1.5 inches to date in April, including more than an inch in a slow, soaking rain Wednesday and Thursday last week. Much of the same was expected today and Thursday.
Year-to-date, Creston's precipitation is 6.31 inches, which is above "normal" of 5.64 inches.
"The significance of these last rain events is that it occurred on thawed-out ground, so it can really soak in," Hillaker said. "There was some winter snowfall on frozen ground that was runoff, which helped fill farm ponds and streams that were depleted from last year. From February to now, we had above-average snowfall. In some parts of south-central and southwest Iowa, you can add two to three inches of rain on top of that."
The component still in question is deep moisture, which fed last year's crop during the extended dry spell. In those conditions, last year's crop depleted subsoil moisture.
The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska released Thursday said the weather has likely recharged the top two inches of soil, which supports planting and early emergence. But, continued substantial rainfall will be needed to improve subsoil conditions.
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On this week's USDA crops and weather report, subsoil moisture levels rated 27 percent very short, 42 percent short, 29 percent adequate and 2 percent surplus.
"This rain we got recently will help the topsoil part," said Wayde Ross, Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist for Union and Ringgold counties. "But our (soil conservation) contractors say it's dry down as deep as they can dig. It will still take timely rains to keep things going. The subsoil needs replenished."
And, not everyone received slow, soaking rains during recent weather events.
"Around Beaconsfield and Kellerton, they got hammered with that first good rain with about three inches in 45 minutes or less," Ross said. "There was a lot of erosion."
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With highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s for several days recently, soil temperatures have also cooled below sufficient planting conditions.
"When we had that niche of 77-degree days, we were there where we wanted with soil temperature as high as 57," Cameron said. "But last week it got back down to 44 degrees. You like to have 50 and above, along with a good forecast so it doesn't dip down again."
Keeping farmers on edge this year will be the knowledge that subsoil moisture isn't the "reserve tank" they had last year to bail out a thirsty crop. And, Hillaker said history shows the year after a severe drought often brings a similar warm, dry summer. Just not as extreme.
This year's crop will only be successful if there is normal rainfall through the growing season.
"When you look back to the drought of 1988, we received timely rains in 1989," Cameron said. "We raised a crop because of that, even though was no water in the soil. It's hard to count on that, but I think we're better off than some think in our subsoil. We are not full, but I've seen moisture accumulate since October.
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BROCKPORT – Brockport resident Daniel Lines addressed speeding concerns on state Route 219 during the Horton Township Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday night.
"We want to give you gentlemen a heads up to let you know that our committee [Concerned Citizens of Brockport for the Safety and Health of Our Citizens] is going to push forward on this," Lines said.
Lines distributed a letter to the board, secretary Dennis Thompson and the general public detailing a recent incident that occurred to a Brockport resident.
According to the letter, Heather Reckner of Brockport was attempting to make a left turn into her driveway when a vehicle passed her at an excessive rate of speed in the left lane.
Lines said Pa. State Police Trooper Armanini was called to the scene.
"I'm going to write an official letter to [Senator Joe] Scarnati, [State Rep. Matt] Gabler, PennDOT and the state police," Lines said. "We are having all of these problems and I just wanted to inform you gentlemen and we will keep the secretary Dennis Thompson informed every step of the way."
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I grew up right along 219 before you got to Brockport Church at the bottom of the hill.I was just home July 11-26 and I sat out on my Moms porch every day .There needs to be a speed reduction big time.I myself saw some close calls in with cars racing to pass. The bad part about living there is for my 81 year old mom to check her mail .She will have to sometimes stand there for a long time to be able to make it across the road because of the speeding cars. I think all the mailboxes need to be put on the side of the road each house has and not have to cross. Please think about this in your meetings.The speed needs to be cut down to at least 45 in resident areas . I would hate a disaster to happen running into someones home .Great job Horton Twsp for reviewing all this. I am sure there will be a wise decision made .


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Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a disease that causes small blood vessels in the body to become inflamed and leak. The primary symptom is a rash that looks like many small raised bruises. HSP can also affect the kidneys, digestive tract, and joints. HSP can occur any time in life, but it is most common in children between 2 and 6 years of age.1 Most people recover from HSP completely, though kidney damage is the most likely long-term complication. In adults, HSP can lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure, described as end-stage renal disease when treated with blood-filtering treatments called dialysis or a kidney transplant.
1McCarthy JH, Tizard EJ. Clinical practice: diagnosis and management of Henoch-Schönlein purpura. European Journal of Pediatrics. 2010;169:643–650.
Henoch-Schönlein purpura is caused by an abnormal immune system response in which the body's immune system attacks the body's own cells and organs. Usually, the immune system makes antibodies, or proteins, to protect the body from foreign substances such as bacteria or viruses. In HSP, these antibodies attack the blood vessels. The factors that cause this immune system response are not known. However, in 30 to 50 percent of cases, people have an upper respiratory tract infection, such as a cold, before getting HSP.2 HSP has also been associated with
Genetics may increase the risk of HSP, as it has occurred in different members of the same family, including in twins.
2Appel GB, Radhakrishnan J, D'Agati VD. Secondary glomerular disease. In: Brenner BM, ed. Brenner & Rector's The Kidney. Vol. 1. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier; 2012: 1192–1277.
The symptoms of HSP include the following:
Though the rash affects all people with HSP, pain in the joints or abdomen precedes the rash in about one-third of cases by as many as 14 days.1
In children, the risk of kidney damage leading to long-term problems may be as high as 15 percent, but kidney failure affects only about 1 percent of children with HSP.1 Up to 40 percent of adults with HSP will have CKD or kidney failure within 15 years after diagnosis.3
A rare complication of HSP is intussusception of the bowel, which includes the small and large intestines. With this condition, a section of the bowel folds into itself like a telescope, causing the bowel to become blocked.
Women with a history of HSP who become pregnant are at higher risk for high blood pressure and proteinuria during pregnancy.
3Feehally J, Floege J. IgA nephropathy and Henoch-Schönlein nephritis. In: Floege, J, Johnson RJ, Feehally J, ed. Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology. 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders; 2010: 270–281.
A diagnosis of HSP is suspected when a person has the characteristic rash and one of the following:
Antibody deposits on the skin can confirm the diagnosis of HSP. These deposits can be detected using a skin biopsy, a procedure that involves taking a piece of skin tissue for examination with a microscope. A skin biopsy is performed by a health care provider in a hospital with little or no sedation and local anesthetic. The skin tissue is examined in a lab by a pathologist—a doctor who specializes in diagnosing diseases.
A kidney biopsy may also be needed. A kidney biopsy is performed by a health care provider in a hospital with light sedation and local anesthetic. The health care provider uses imaging techniques such as ultrasound or a computerized tomography scan to guide the biopsy needle into the organ. The kidney tissue is examined in a lab by a pathologist. The test can confirm diagnosis and be used to determine the extent of kidney involvement, which will help guide treatment decisions.
Hematuria and proteinuria are detected using urinalysis, which is testing of a urine sample. The urine sample is collected in a special container in a health care provider's office or commercial facility and can be tested in the same location or sent to a lab for analysis. For the test, a nurse or technician places a strip of chemically treated paper, called a dipstick, into the urine sample. Patches on the dipstick change color when blood or protein are present in urine.
No specific treatment for HSP exists. The main goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms such as joint pain, abdominal pain, and swelling. People with kidney involvement may receive treatment aimed at preventing long-term kidney disease.
Treatment is rarely required for the rash. Joint pain is often treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, such as aspirin or ibuprofen. Recent research has shown corticosteroids—medications that decrease swelling and reduce the activity of the immune system—to be even more effective in treating joint pain. Corticosteroids are also used to treat abdominal pain.
Though rare, surgery may be needed to treat intussusception or to determine the cause of swollen testicles.
HSP that affects the kidneys may be treated with corticosteroid and immunosuppressive medications. Immunosuppressive medications prevent the body from making antibodies. Adults with severe, acute kidney failure are treated with high-dose corticosteroids and the immunosuppressive cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan).
People with HSP that is causing high blood pressure may need to take medications that—when taken as prescribed by their health care provider—lower their blood pressure and can also significantly slow the progression of kidney disease. Two types of blood pressure lowering medications, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), have proven effective in slowing the progression of kidney disease. Many people require two or more medications to control their blood pressure. In addition to an ACE inhibitor or an ARB, a diuretic—a medication that helps the kidneys remove fluid from the blood—may be prescribed. Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and other blood pressure medications may also be needed.
Blood and urine tests are used to check the kidney function of people with HSP for at least 6 months after the main symptoms disappear.
Eating, diet, and nutrition have not been shown to play a role in causing or preventing HSP.
Through its Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) supports several programs and studies devoted to improving treatment for patients with progressive kidney disease and kidney failure. The NIDDK maintains the Pediatric Nephrology Program, which supports research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of kidney diseases in children.
Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research. For information about current studies, visit www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
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This module enables HTTPS support.
It supports checking client certificates with two limitations:
- it's not possible to assign a Certificate Revocation List for Nginx versions below 0.8.7.
- if you have a chain of certificates — by having intermediate certificates between the server certificate and the CA root certificate — they're not specified separately like you would do for Apache. Instead you'll need to concatenate all the certificates, starting with the server certificate, and going deeper in the chain running through all the intermediate certificates. This can be done with "cat chain.crt >> mysite.com.crt" on the command line. Once this is done there's no further use for all the intermediate certificates in what Nginx is concerned. You'll indicate in the Nginx configuration the file with all the (concatenated) certificates.
By default the module is not built, it is necessary to state it explicitly: give the --with-http_ssl_module parameter to ./configure. Building this module requires the OpenSSL library and respective include files; quite often the library and include files live in separate packages in your platform, the later being named like libssl-dev or similar.
The following is an example configuration, to reduce the CPU load it is recommended to run one worker process only and to enable keep-alive connections:
worker_processes 1; http { server { listen 443; ssl on; ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/cert.pem; ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/cert.key; keepalive_timeout 70; } }
When using a chain of certificates, just append the extra certificates to your .crt file (cert.pem in the example). The server certificate needs to be the first on the file, otherwise you'll get a mismatch between private and public keys.
Since Nginx version 0.7.14 the preferred way of enabling SSL is by using the `ssl` parameter of the `listen` directive:
server { listen 443 default_server ssl; ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/cert.pem; ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/cert.key; ... }
Generate Certificates
To generate private (dummy) certificates you can perform the following list of openssl commands.
First change directory to where you want to create the certificate and private key, for example:
$ cd /usr/local/nginx/conf
Now create the server private key, you'll be asked for a passphrase:
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR):
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
Remove the necessity of entering a passphrase for starting up nginx with SSL using the above private key:
$ cp server.key server.key.org $ openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key
Finally sign the certificate using the above private key and CSR:
$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
Update Nginx configuration by including the newly signed certificate and private key:
server { server_name YOUR_DOMAINNAME_HERE; listen 443; ssl on; ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/server.crt; ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/server.key; }
Restart Nginx.
Now we're ready to access the above host using:
Using Wildcard certificates with multiple servers
In some instances you may wish to provide a number of secure subdomains amongst unsecured ones, and possibly share resources across both HTTP and HTTPS subdomains. To do this one would require a wildcard subdomain, for example *.nginx.org. An example configuration follows which shows how to configure a standard www subdomain, a secured subdomain, and share images across both subdomains using a third.
When using a configuration like this it's more efficient memory wise to place the certificate file containing the certificate(s) for all domain names and the corresponding private key file directives in a http context, such that it's inherited by all active servers/virtual hosts:
ssl_certificate common.crt; ssl_certificate_key common.key; server { listen 80; server_name www.nginx.org; ... } server { listen 443 default_server ssl; server_name secure.nginx.org; ... } server { listen 80; listen 443; server_name images.nginx.org; ... }
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl.txt
Enables HTTPS for a server. (Note that since nginx version 0.7.14, the standard way to enable SSL is through the listen directive.)
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_certificate.txt
This directive specifies the file containing the certificate, in PEM format, for this virtual host. This file can contain also other certificates and the server private key. Since version 0.6.7 the file path is relative to the directory where nginx main configuration file, nginx.conf, resides.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_certificate_key.txt
This directive specifies the file containing the private key, in PEM format, for this virtual host. Since version 0.6.7 the file path is relative to the directory where nginx main configuration file, nginx.conf, resides.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_ciphers.txt
This directive describes the list of cipher suites the server supports for establishing a secure connection. Cipher suites are specified in the OpenSSL cipherlist format, for example:
ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
Since nginx version 1.0.5, the default ciphers are:
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
The complete cipherlist supported by the currently installed version of OpenSSL in your platform can be obtained by issuing the command:
openssl ciphers
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_client_certificate.txt
This directive specifies the file containing the CA (root) certificate, in PEM format, that is used for validating client certificates.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_crl.txt
This directive, introduced in Nginx version 0.8.7, specifies the filename of a Certificate Revocation List, in PEM format, which is used to check the revocation status of certificates.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_dhparam.txt
This directive specifies a file containing Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol cryptographic parameters, in PEM format, utilized for exchanging session keys between server and client.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_prefer_server_ciphers.txt
The server requires that the cipher suite list for protocols SSLv3 and TLSv1 are to be preferred over the client supported cipher suite list.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_protocols.txt
This directive enables the protocol versions specified.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_verify_client.txt
This directive enables the verification of the client identity. Parameter 'optional' checks the client identity using its certificate in case it was made available to the server. (Was 'ask' before 0.8.7 and 0.7.63)
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_verify_depth.txt
This directive sets how deep the server should go in the client provided certificate chain in order to verify the client identity.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_session_cache.txt
The directive sets the types and sizes of caches to store the SSL sessions.
The cache types are:
- off -- Hard off: nginx says explicitly to a client that sessions can not reused.
- none -- Soft off: nginx says to a client that session can be resued, but nginx actually never reuses them. This is workaround for some mail clients as ssl_session_cache may be used in mail proxy as well as in HTTP server.
- builtin -- the OpenSSL builtin cache, is used inside one worker process only. The cache size is assigned in the number of the sessions. Note: there appears to be a memory fragmentation issue using this method, please take that into consideration when using this. See "References" below.
- shared -- the cache is shared between all worker processes. The size of the cache is assigned in bytes: 1 MB cache can contain roughly 4000 sessions. Each shared cache must be given an arbitrary name. A shared cache with a given name can be used in several virtual hosts.
It's possible to use both types of cache — builtin and shared — simultaneously, for example:
ssl_session_cache builtin:1000 shared:SSL:10m;
Bear in mind however, that using only shared cache, i.e., without builtin, should be more effective.
For Nginx versions below 0.8.34 this directive shouldn't be set to 'none' or 'off' if ssl_verify_client is set to 'on' or 'optional'.
- Note that for session resumption to work you'll need to have, at least, the server configured as default for the SSL socket. Like this:
This is so because session resumption happens before any TLS extensions are enabled, namely Server Name Identification (SNI). The ClientHello message requests a session ID from a given IP address (server). For that to work the default server setting is required.
A preferred approach is to move the
ssl_session_cache directive to the
http context. The (minor) downside is that all configured virtual hosts get the same SSL cache settings.
ERROR in secure-include.php: could not read the given src URL http://wiki.nginx.org/nginx.org/ngx_http_ssl_module/ssl_session_timeout.txt
This directive defines the maximum time during which the client can re-use the previously negotiated cryptographic parameters of the secure session that is stored in the SSL cache.
syntax: ssl_engine
This allows specifying the OpenSSL engine to use, like PadLock, for example. It requires a recent version of OpenSSL. To verify if the OpenSSL version installed in your platform supports this, issue the command:
openssl engine
On a Debian testing with OpenSSL version 0.9.8o from 01 Jun 2010 it returns:
$ openssl engine (padlock) VIA PadLock (no-RNG, no-ACE) (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support
Built-in variables
Module ngx_http_ssl_module supports the following built-in variables:
- $ssl_cipher returns the cipher suite being used for the currently established SSL/TLS connection
- $ssl_client_serial returns the serial number of the client certificate for the currently established SSL/TLS connection — if applicable, i.e., if client authentication is activated in the connection
- $ssl_client_s_dn returns the subject Distinguished Name (DN) of the client certificate for the currently established SSL/TLS connection — if applicable, i.e., if client authentication is activated in the connection
- $ssl_client_i_dn returns the issuer DN of the client certificate for the currently established SSL/TLS connection — if applicable, i.e., if client authentication is activated in the connection
- $ssl_protocol returns the protocol of the currently established SSL/TLS connection — depending on the configuration and client available options it's one of SSLv2, SSLv3 or TLSv1
- $ssl_session_id the Session ID of the established secure connection — requires Nginx version greater or equal to 0.8.20
- $ssl_client_cert
- $ssl_client_raw_cert
- $ssl_client_verify takes the value "SUCCESS" when the client certificate is successfully verified
Nonstandard error codes
This module supports several nonstandard error codes which can be used for debugging with the aid of directive error_page:
- 495 - error checking client certificate
- 496 - client did not grant the required certificate
- 497 - normal request was sent to HTTPS
Debugging is done after the request is completely "disassembled" and it's components are accessible via variables such as $request_uri, $uri, $arg and more.


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Written by Adam Colpack, Posted in Local, Regional, Posted: Fri, December 28 2012 at 5:20 PM, Updated: Fri, December 28 2012 at 5:26 PM
Adam Colpack
NBC5 News Meteorologist Adam Colpack comes to us from KMVT-TV in Twin Falls, Idaho, where he was the evening news meteorologist for five years. His career has also taken him through Waco, Texas and Buffalo, New York.
Adam loves traveling, photography, classic sports cars and classic rock.


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Cooking from SLOW COOKER Cookbooks
Let's pull out our slow cookers, and our slow cooker books, and search out the best recipes we can find to make use of this hands-off cooking method. Use this thread to post reports from any slow cooker book, or slow cooker recipes from more general cookbooks.
As per chowhound rules, you may summarize recipes, but please to not post a recipe verbatim. Also, since we will be cooking from several different books, please remember to include the book title, along with the recipe title and page number, in your post.
Fiery Eggplant - The Indian Slow Cooker, p. 104
I'll get us started with a report about the third recipe I made from this book. Even though I made a major goof, I think this is the best thing yet that I've made from the book.
This recipe has you take 15 small eggplants, cut into wedges, salt them and let drain for half an hour. Now, this is one area where I wish the author had given a little more information. How big is small? 15 is an awful lot, to go in the 4-5 qt cooker called for, so I assume she has a very small eggplant in mind - like the Asian ones that are actually egg-sized. Mine weren't quite supermarket giants, but they were "normal" eggplant. I used four, and a 3 (or maybe it's 3.5) quart slow cooker. It was filled to the tip top.
So back to the recipe. After you eggplant has drained for 30 minutes, you rinse it and put it in the slow cooker. You then peel a few tomatoes, and whiz one of then in a food processor with a lot of garlic and ginger. Add that to the cooker. Then heat some oil and briefly fry some fennel and nigella seeds. Put the seeds and oil in the cooker. Then add the rest of the tomatoes, chopped, quite a lot of chopped green chiles, ground coriander, turmeric, red chile powder, and salt. Toss that all together. The recipe instructs you to cook on high for 4 hours, then low for 3 hours more.
I made this overnight, so I sure wasn't going to get up at 1am and turn the slow cooker down. I cooked it at high for about an hour, then turned it to low and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning, one of the first thoughts that came into my mind was that I'd left out the chile powder! Dang. When I checked on the eggplant, it was nicely soft, and had reduced in volume. It smelled fantastic. I packed some up for my lunch, and refrigerated the rest.
So despite leaving out the red chile powder, this was spicy and delicious. Something happens to this eggplant in the slow cooker, and the recipe is really more than the sum of its parts. I was surprised that the eggplant had a somewhat tangy taste. I am still wondering where that came from. The only thing acidic added was the tomato, and I skimped on that, using two small romas. Interesting.
If I had made this exactly according to directions, I think "fiery" would have been an apt description. I assume I was using a bit less eggplant than called for. For the green chiles, I used jalapenos, which were huge, so I only used four of them. It just seemed like the right amount, and I would say it was. My dish was spicy, but not incendiary. If I had added the red chile powder, it would have been quite hot. Next time I will add it, but the dish had plenty of flavor without. Overall, a big winner that I will be making again, especially in the summer when I always seem to get overrun with eggplant.
re: MelMM
Two weeks ago I bought about 6 Indian eggplants. This is the shape.
I'd like to make this recipe this month - and the next time I get to the market, hopefully they'll have these. They were perfectly ripe, one overly ripe. To me, it's hard to tell when an eggplant is just at the right stage - but then again, perhaps that is not of importance.
re: MelMM
This recipe is certainly adaptable! I got a late start and had a bowl full after dinner.
The eggplants cut through easily with a fork. Just like butter! They looked sort of like a dish of dried shiitaki mushrooms cooked slowly for hours in soy sauce. The skins even were delicious.
I used 15 small Indian eggplants. The skins even were delicious which I'm happy about because there certainly was a lot of skin - see pic of these sweethearts. I cooked 4 hours on high, then 3 hours on low. I am happy with my new slow cooker in that the high is not too high and the low is not too low.
I did not use a food processor to make the puree. I cut the 3 ingredients to be pureed very fine and added it. I did peel the tomatoes.
Spices: I halved the garlic, oil, fennel seed, kolonji, coriander, tumeric. I 1/4'd the 'red chile powder.' As to the amount of fresh chiles, I used One; yes, I said One :-)) Thai.
There were two reasons I reduced all the spices and hot chiles; one, I was not certain as to the weight of the eggplant she was basing the recipe spices upon; two, I felt that the hot ingredients were too hot for my taste.
I bought a new type of rice - I've been using basmati forever - but this looked pretty good to me from Costco - Sona Masoori - reasonably priced, too.
I'll be looking forward to eating this tomorrow with rice - can't wait for more.
re: Rella
Love it. Thanks for the report. I really liked your picture of the little Indian eggplants. That is surely the size the author intends, but I wish she gave a weight or even a volume amount, so we would know when we had the right amount relative to the seasoning.
I also loved that the skin got tender. Even with my larger, but not huge, eggplants, I had skin on every piece, and it was great that it was totally soft and it never felt like you were eating skin.
I'm generally very happy with this book, it's just a matter of making sure I have the right cooking time, and adjusting the heat a bit to my own taste.
Did yours have a tangy taste? Mine did and I haven't figured out where it came from. I went a little light on the tomato, so I don't think that was enough to do it.
re: MelMM
No, mine did not have a tangy taste. The tomatoes I used were certainly not the ripest of plum tomatoes; typical of this time of year, but certainly normal.
I like this book, too. However, I see that I am going to have to temper the spices. Not speaking of this eggplant recipe but another one: 5-10 green Thai, serrano or cayenne chiles per recipe, plus 1 heaping tablespoon of red chile powder, plus 20 cloves of garlic and 1 tablespoon of garam masala is much more heat than I can handle.
Oh, oh! I'm wondering if it was the tumeric in the "Fiery Eggplant" that could have caused the tangy taste. Hmmm -- I'll just bet!
re: Rella
turmeric is what i'd describe as "earthy," and not "tangy."
and wow! that IS A LOT OF FIREPOWER in those spice levels -- for JUST that amount of eggplant?
i had to look up "kalongi"-->
"""In English, Nigella sativa seed is variously called fennel flower, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, blackseed or black caraway. Other names used, sometimes misleadingly, are onion seed and black sesame, both of which are similar-looking, but unrelated.
The seeds are frequently referred to as black cumin (as in Assamese: kaljeera or kolajeera or Bengali kalo jeeray), In south Indian language Kannada it is called "Krishna Jeerige", but this is also used for a different spice,
It is used as part of the spice mixture paanch phoran or panch phoron (meaning a mixture of five spices) and by itself in a great many recipes in Bengali cookery and most recognizably in naan bread.
Nigella sativa has a pungent bitter taste and smell. It is used primarily in confectionery and liquors. Peshawari naan is, as a rule, topped with kalonji seeds. Nigella is also used in Armenian string cheese, a braided string cheese called Majdouleh or Majdouli in the Middle East."""""" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_...
re: Rella
The fiery eggplant heated wonderfully on the new induction hob I bought last week at Costco $49.99. It is a few inches smaller than the other induction hub I have.
Before I heated the eggplant, I used the hub/hob to make some ghee/clarified butter, then heated the eggplant in the same pan.
The Sona Masoori Indian rice is absolutely wonderful. Even though I like many types of rice, this is a little different and organic as well. I'm hoping this is a product that Costco will keep in stock.
I'll not be making paneer until the calves are born at the farm where I buy milk.
I saw paneer for sale at the Indian market last week, two different brands, but it didn't appeal to me.
Today I served a feta cheese (not Greece) which was not as strong as the Greece/in-a-box at Costco. Also a tasty orange; I ate half, then put a little Himalyan salt on the second part - made a totally different taste and was wonderful.
Green beans steamed in the steamer rack on top of the rice.
Thanks so much for creating this thread and kicking us off with a delicious sounding dish Mel.
I thought I'd paste a link to my review & photos of the first dish I've tried from the Indian Slow Cooker book in case folks are interested:
Dry Spiced Dal - p. 68 - The Indian Slow Cooker by Anupy Singla
- we thoroughly enjoyed this dish and it comes together in no time.
Thank you, MelMM. Your timing is impeccable. I'm planning to try this Spiced Basmati Rice Breakfast Cereal from Alley's Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker tonight. Winter in Minnesota means darn cold mornings, especially if you've got to get up and shovel your way out of the driveway first thing. So, there's nothing better than a hot breakfast ready to go...
I'll let you all know in the morning how it goes.
If anyone is interested, I have this Hamilton Set and Forget Slow Cooker. It's $40 on Amazon. http://www.hamiltonbeach.com/products... I like it because it has a removable crock (almost all modern ones do), and you can set the cooking time in half hour increments after which it switches to warm. It has the temperature probe for meat which I basically never use. Its best feature is portability. I have an annual event every winter (coming up in the next month actually) where I bring my slow cooker. The latching lid and spoon holder are perfect on the go.
re: The Dairy Queen
Spiced Basmati Rice Breakfast Cereal from Alley's Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker
Eh, so we tried this recipe last night. Super easy, but only about a 4 out of 10. She gives the option of making the rice with soy milk or water. We used water. 1 1/2 c of brown basmati rice (rinsed) and 3 1/2 cup water. Set your cooker to low and let it go for 8 hours. Ours went for 8 hours and then we let it sit on "warm" for about an hour an a half. The rice was gummy (which I imagine is how it's supposed to be) and crusty right around the edge of the crock (which I imagine was as a result of letting it sit on warm for an hour and a half). She then has you add some freshly ground cinnamon and cardamom and some raisins. (I used golden raisins.)
After about 15 minutes she has you serve it up sprinkled with chopped (we used sliced) toasted almonds (or walnuts) and shaved coconut (we used shredded because that all we could find, milk or cream (we used half and half), and drizzled with honey.
It was fine as a change of pace but nothing crave worthy and not that filling. I'll probably not bother with this again. I prefer Steel Cut Oats in the slow cooker...
re: The Dairy Queen
Sorry this was "eh". How do you do your steel cut oats in the SC?
re: greeneggsnham
A variation of this: http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-baked... It's like pumpkin pie oatmeal.
I've got my eye on this recipe from Slow Cooker Revolution: http://salutogenicsteve.blogspot.com/...
I want to try the banana and walnut variation he mentions. I imagine it will be like banana walnut bread, but oatmeal...
re: The Dairy Queen
I am looking at the spices in the "Indian" book. It lists 'Black Salt" (kala namak). It shows a picture on p 22, which looks like powder form to me. Have any of you used it?
re: Rella
Yes, I've used it and it does come in a fine powder. As smtucker said, easy to find in an Indian market.
It has a slightly sulfurous aroma, you'll recognize it immediately if you've enjoyed chaat masala. I don't have a lot of other applications, using it mainly when a recipe specifically calls for it, but I've been able to purchase it in small packets, and it doesn't seem to go stale as with dried herbs and other spices.
Glad to see this thread up! I will link to the review I posted on the Essential Pepin COTM thread for Puerto Rican Pork and Beans adapted to the slow cooker. This worked beautifully in the slow cooker. All leftovers got eaten enthusiastically.
Looking forward to more slow cooking during the week. I think I will be cooking something new from Mexican Everyday....
re: greeneggsnham
Ah... Great minds, Greeneggsnham. I'm cooking his Slow Cooked Pork in my slow cooker as we speak. The meat marinated overnight in a plastic bag, then earlier this morning G roughed chopped an onion and threw everything into the insert. Cooking it on low till whenever. We'll be watching the Patriots whop that other team... then the Giants game later. Nothing must interfere.
re: Gio
Sounds great, Gio. Is that the Slow Cooked Anchiote Pork? Let us know how it is. It certainly looks succulent in the pic in the book.
I think I am going to try the Chicken a la Veracruzana this week. I am still looking for a good slow cooker recipe for Chicken. Crossing my fingers...
re: greeneggsnham
The roast was wonderful, GENH...Really care-free cooking. It cooked on Low for about 8 hours. We made sandwiches with the slices because it was the easiest thing to do and we were watching The Game. Will definitely make this again...
Here's my report on the Essential Pepin Meat, etc. thread:


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