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By SALLY ANN SHURMUR
The weekend, combined with Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, makes for four days of feasting possibilities.
Whether you are brunching or dining, casual or formal, always fix the exact same menu or are open to new suggestions, there are many opportunities to celebrate in the kitchen.
Here are some mix and match ideas that you might want to try, stretching from breakfast to late-night munching.
Here's wishing your household peace and joy through the season.
Christmas Morning Oatmeal
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 medium apples, peeled and sliced
3/4 cup dried cranberries
2 tablespoons butter, cubed
2 cups old-fashioned oats
2 cups water
2 cups cranberry-apple juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add apples and cranberries; toss to coat. Transfer to a 3-quart slow cooker. Dot with butter.
In a large bowl, combine the oats, water, juice and salt; pour over apple mixture. Cover and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours (can be cooked overnight) or until liquid is absorbed. Yield: 6 servings.
(Recipe courtesy of "Taste of Home Holiday & Celebrations 2012," Reiman Publications)
Sugared Bacon-Wrapped Sausages
Nonstick cooking spray
24 small cooked smoked sausage links
8 slices bacon or applewood-smoked bacon, each slice cut crosswise into thirds
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder or apple pie spice
Preheat oven to 300. Line a 15 by 10-inch baking pan with foil; lightly coat with cooking spray. Set aside.
Wrap each sausage link with a bacon piece, overlapping the bacon piece at the end. Press the end of the bacon piece to seal or secure it with a wooden toothpick.
In a large resealable plastic bag, combine brown sugar and five-spice powder. Add several bacon-wrapped sausages to bag; seal well. Shake bag gently to coat sausages wih brown sugar mixture; place sausages in prepared pan. Repeat with remaining bacon-wrapped sausages and brown sugar mixture.
Bake for 1 hour or until the bacon browns. Serve immediately.
To make ahead: Prepare as directed through wrapping with bacon, except do not preheat the oven or line baking pan. Cover and chill for up to 24 hours. To serve, preheat oven to 300. Line baking pan as directed. Continue as directed.
Per sausage: 54 calories, 4 g fat, 8 mg cholesterol, 133 mg sodium, 3 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 2 g protein.
(Recipe courtesy of "Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cooking from the Heart," Meredith Corporation)
Cranberry-Pecan Coffee Cake
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup butter, cubed
1 cup chopped fresh or frozen cranberries, thawed
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar and butter. Cook and stir over medium heat until butter is melted. Transfer to a greased 9-inch round baking pan. Sprinkle with cranberries and pecans.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in orange juice and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Pour over cranberries.
Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Serve warm. Yield: 8 servings.
(Recipe courtesy of "Taste of Home Quick Cooking Annual Recipes 2012," Reiman Publications)
Christmas Eve Chowder
4 cans condensed cream soup (two cream of potato, one New England clam chowder, one cream of shrimp), undiluted
2 soup cans whole milk
2 cups finely chopped celery
1 can whole kernel corn, drained
Lots of salt and pepper
1 package frozen tiny salad shrimp, thaw as directed
Saute celery in melted butter until nearly tender. While that's sizzling, add 4 cans soup to large crock pot. Whisk well to blend. Add 2 soup cans of milk. Add celery and drained corn to crock pot. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low 3 to 4 hours. If soup is too thick, add a bit more milk, but you want it to be thick like chowder. About 30 minutes before serving, add shrimp. Continue cooking until shrimp is heated through and chowder is hot. Serve with oyster crackers and baked ham sandwiches on Christmas Eve or as a casual supper on Christmas evening.
(Sal's recipe)
Tenderloin in Puff Pastry
4 beef tenderloin steaks (1-3/4 inches thick and 5 ounces each)
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
4 green onions, chopped
1/4 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
In a large skillet, brown steaks in oil on both sides. Place a wire rack on a baking sheet. Transfer steaks to wire rack; refrigerate for 1 hour. In the same skillet, saute mushrooms and onions in butter until tender; drain. Stir in the salt and pepper.
On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into a 13-inch square. Cut into four squares. Place one steak in the center of each square; top with mushroom mixture. Combine egg and water; brush over pastry.
Bring up corners to center and tuck in edges; press to seal. Place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight.
Bake, uncovered at 400 for 20 to 25 minutes or until pastry is golden brown and meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a meat thermometer should read 145; medium, 160; well-done, 170). Yield: 4 servings.
(Recipe courtesy of "Taste of Home Almost Homemade 2012," Reiman Publications)
Baked Ham with Sauteed Pears and Apples
3 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon red curry paste
1 5- to 6-pound ham, rump half
3 tablespoons butter
4 ripe pears, cored and sliced
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
4 red cooking apples (such as Rome, Jonathan or Braeburn), cored and sliced
Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)
Preheat oven to 325. For glaze, in a large saucepan stir together the water, sugar, honey and curry paste. Bring to boiling, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar. Boil gently, uncovered, for 25 to 30 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Remove 1/2 cup of the glaze (set remaining glaze aside).
Place ham on the rack of a roasting pan. Roast, uncovered, for 1-1/2 to 2-1/4 hours or until thermometer registers 140. Brush ham with reserved 1/2 cup glaze during the last 20 minutes of roasting.
For fruit, melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pears and ginger. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes or until pears begin to brown, gently stirring occasionally. Remove from skillet and keep warm. Add apples to skillet; cook for 5 to 7 minutes or until apples begin to brown, gently stirring occasionally. Combine apples with pears.
To serve, arrange fruit on platter. Slice ham and arrange on platter with fruit. Drizzle ham and fruit with remaining glaze. If desired, garnish with thyme sprigs. Serves 16.
Per serving: 343 calories, 14 g fat, 82 mg cholesterol, 930 mg sodium, 29 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 28 g protein.
(Recipe courtesy of "Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cooking from the Heart," Meredith Corporation)
Pomegranata Splash Salad
4 cups fresh baby spinach
4 cups spring mix salad greens
3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
3/4 cup pomegranate seeds
3/4 cup fresh or frozen raspberries
1/3 cup pine nuts, toasted
Cranberry Vinaigrette
1/2 cup thawed cranberry juice concentrate
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
Dash salt
In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. In a small bowl, whisk the vinaigrette ingredients. Serve with salad. Yield: 8 servings.
(Recipe courtesy of "Taste of Home Holiday & Celebrations 2012," Reiman Publications)
Creamy Brie-Topped Potatoes
3 pounds Yukon gold potatoes (about 9 medium)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
5 slices thick sliced bacon, chopped
1 large onion, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 cup dry white wine
2 teaspoons snipped fresh thyme
1/4 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup whipping cream
2 8-ounce rounds Brie cheese
Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 2-quart gratin dish or rectangular baking dish; set aside. In a covered Dutch oven, cook potatoes in enough simmering salted water to cover for 25 minutes; drain. Rinse with cold water; drain again. Slice potatoes about 1/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place half of the potatoes in the bottom of the prepared dish.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet cook bacon over medium heat for 1 minute. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir about 5 minutes or until bacon is crisp and onion is tender. Drain off fat. Carefully add wine to bacon mixture. Simmer, uncovered, until wine is almost evaporated. Stir in the snipped thyme.
Spoon bacon mixture over potatoes in dish. Top with the remaining potatoes. Pour broth and cream over potato mixture. Cut Brie crosswise into 1/4-inch thick rectangles and layer on top of potato mixture.
Bake about 40 minutes or until potatoes are tender and cheese is lightly browned. If desired, garnish with fresh thyme sprigs. Serves 12.
Per serving: 267 calories, 15 g fat, 49 mg cholesterol, 468 mg sodium, 22 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 12 g protein.
(Recipe courtesy of "Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cooking from the Heart," Meredith Corporation)
Caramelized Brussels Sprouts with Lemon
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
4 cups Brussels sprouts, rinsed, trimmed and halved lengthwise (4 cups)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons water
Juice of half a lemon, about 1 tablespoon
In a very large nonstick skillet, heat 3 tablespoons of the oil over medium heat. Arrange sprouts in a single layer, cut sides down. Drizzle with remaining olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover and cook for 3 minutes. Remove lid and sprinkle sprouts with the water. Cover and cook for 2 minutes more. Sprouts should just be beginning to caramelize, and when pierced with a fork, slightly tender.
Remove cover and increase heat slightly. When cut sides are well caramelized, toss sprouts in pan, drizzle with lemon juice, and sprinkle with more salt and pepper to taste. Serves 6.
Per serving: 106 calories, 9 g fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 209 mg sodium, 6 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 2 g protein.
(Recipe courtesy of "Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cooking from the Heart," Meredith Corporation)
Peppermint Panna Cotta with Warm Cocoa Syrup
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup cold water
2 cups whipping cream
1/2 cup sugar
1-1/4 cups sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
1 recipe Warm Cocoa Syrup
Unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder (optional)
Crushed peppermint candies (optional)
Place eight 4 to 6-ounce ramekins or 6-ounce custard cups in a shallow pan; set aside.
In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over the cold water. Do not stir. Let stand for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, stir together 1/2 cup of the whipping cream and the sugar. Heat over medium heat until hot but not boiling. Add gelatin; stir until gelatin is dissolved. Remove from heat. Whisk in sour cream until smooth. Stir in the remaining 1-1/2 cups whipping cream, the vanilla, and peppermint extract. Divide among ramekins. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours or until set.
To serve, immerse bottom half of each ramekin in hot water for 10 seconds. Using a sharp knife, loosen panna cotta from sides of ramekins. Invert a small shallow bowl or deep dessert plate over each ramekin; turn bowl and ramekin over together. Remove ramekins.
Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the Warm Cocoa Syrup around base of each panna cotta. Store leftover syrup in refrigerator. If desired, dust lightly with cocoa powder and/or garnish with crushed peppermint candies.
Warm Cocoa Syrup: In a medium saucepan comgine 1-1/2 cups sugar, 3/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Stir in 1 cup hot water. Whisk over medium-high heat until boiling; reduce heat. Boil 3 minutes more. Remove from heat; stir in 2 tablespoons light color corn syrup and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Cool slightly before serving. (Or pour syrup into an airtight container; cover. Chill up to 1 week. To reheat, transfer to a small saucepan; heat and stir over low heat).
Per serving: 505 calories, 29 g fat, 98 mg cholesterol, 204 mg sodium, 60 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 6 g protein.
(Recipe courtesy of "Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cooking from the Heart," Meredith Corporation)
Molten Chocolate Cakes with Mint Fudge Sauce
1-1/4 cups unsalted butter, cubed
10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
4 eggs
8 egg yolks
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
Chocolate Mint Sauce
5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup hot water
1/4 cup corn syrup
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
Vanilla ice cream, optional
In a double boiler or metal bowl over hot water, melt butter and chocolate; stir until smooth. In a large bowl, beat the eggs, egg yolks and confectioners' sugar until thick and lemon-colored. Beat in flour until well blended. Gradually beat in butter mixture.
Transfer to eight greased 6-ounce ramekins or custard cups. Place ramekins on a baking sheet. Bake at 450 for 15 to 17 minutes or until a thermometer inserted near the center reads 160 degrees and sides of cakes are set.
Meanwhile, in a double boiler or metal bowl over hot water, melt chocolates; stir until smooth. Whisk in the hot water, corn syrup and extract; remove and keep warm.
Remove cakes from the oven and let stand for 1 minute. Run a knife around edges of ramekins; invert onto dessert plates. Serve with warm chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
(Recipe courtesy of "Taste of Home Holiday & Celebrations 2012," Reiman Publications)


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Actor Zachary Quinto, 34, who is known for playing Spock in the "Star Trek" remake and serial killer Sylar in NBC's "Heroes" has publicly referred to himself as a gay man for the first time in an interview in New York magazine.
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Or so it seems.
The Oregonian has a rather decent article about the height issue in Old Town. "Old Town: developers vs. preservationists" by Lisa Grace Lednicer
I would agree that "Old Town's heyday is decades in the past. Parking lots have replaced several of the elegant buildings. Developers have largely bypassed the area in favor of its glitzy neighbor, the Pearl. Tax incentives meant to spur redevelopment are going away."
But, I would disagree with the 'praise' for PdC: "The PDC has injected $14.8million into the area through grants and loans -- $4.3million to Mercy Corps and $6.6million to UO alone."
Mercy Corps and UO were the fallback position for the failed moving of the fire station and development of high end condos along Naito.
Look PdC also put $ 5+ million dollars into infrastructure into Old Town, i.e., area north of Burnside, which did absolutely nothing for the area. A catalyst it was not.
Moreover, while dollars into UO and Mercy Corp sounds great - it has produced little value to Old Town. Both of these recipients were and are financially secure non-profits.
While Mercy Corps has a way to go before completion - a completed UO has contributed little to any economic resuscitation of Old Town.
Not that I am unappreciative of UO and its preservation of historic buildings and the 'promise' of future contribution to that area. But it ain't there yet.
The Oregonian noted: "Opponents of the height increases suggest that the district's original, low buildings represent a perfect opportunity to market Old Town to travelers interested in visiting historic sites."
That sounds really nice doesn't it? I wonder when that marketing might take effect. And what historic sites would they be marketing? I think these people - who don't live in Old Town - haven't made a trip around Old Town.
Are we to market those empty and underutilized buildings as having some value? Oh, by the way, you can't go in there because it is uninhabitable, but use your imagination.
I was rather impressed with the comments by developer John Russell: "Russell said he's not anti-development. In fact, he and his wife like the area so much that they hope to retire to the second floor of his redesigned building on Naito Parkway. "There's no one who wants development to happen more than I do," Russell says. "But not at the expense of the integrity of the district."
Isn't that special? Another rich person seeking to have it his way. Please!
Look - I sat in meetings where the preservationist like Russell could not come up with a realistic method other than massive public infusion of dollars to fund development on infill, i.e., parking lots.
His only proposal - tax the those property owners until they submit, i.e., where developing will be cheaper than paying taxes.
Of course he is not one of the parking lot owners.
Paul Verhoeven, executive director of Saturday Market, has it right: "It's better to have height just to see some projects move forward," he says. "We don't want to see another 20 years of stagnation."
The article is a good read with more than what I have alluded to - it has history and background about Old Town.
© 2009 Larry Norton


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If you had been hiding in the mountains or floating in an isolation tank for the past two weeks, and upon returning home were told that last night the Nets point guard had 13 assists, eight points, seven rebounds and only two turnovers, you'd nod your head.
Makes sense, right?
After all, that has been a fairly typical linescore coming from the Nets point guard the past several seasons.
But the point guard last night at Izod Center was Marcus Williams, who came off a terrible game Friday to give a Jason Kidd-like performance in the Nets' 102-91 victory over Indiana, and recorded a career high in assists -- not that anyone should start making career comparisons between the two players, as someone did.
"Were you drinking during the game?" Lawrence Frank said when someone asked what Williams does that Kidd doesn't. "I will never, ever, ever compare anyone to Jason Kidd. Marcus Williams is a good player in his own right. I don't want to even.¤... Marcus is a good player and hopefully he'll continue to grow.
"Jason's in another stratosphere for all players. I think Marcus has a very good upside and we're only concerned about Marcus right now."
In other words, Williams isn't even the anointed point guard of the future for the Nets because when Devin Harris gets back from a sprained left ankle, he will become the man in the unfortunate position of being compared to Kidd.
"I just try to play basketball and not try to add any extra pressure," Williams said. "Devin Harris is a great player and whatever coach goes with, I am for it. Coach is giving me a lot of leeway to go out there and play."
Although he didn't shoot particularly well, going 2-for-7 from the floor, one of his shots was a clutch 3-pointer with 5:33 left that gave the Nets a 90-81 lead. The Pacers would cut the lead to five with 2:22 to play on a 3-pointer by Danny Granger (team-high 29 points), but the Nets wouldn't allow them to score again.
In his three-game audition, Williams has been mostly impressive, if only because the Nets are 2-1 in the post-Kidd era, and in both victories he has played very well.
After a lackluster performance in Friday's loss to the Pacers in Indianapolis, Williams listened to his coaches and teammates tell him that his intensity wasn't up to snuff, and he went out the next night and earned the highest praise a point guard can get from his coach, getting called the "quarterback."
He was also the linebacker, helping to hold Pacers point guard Travis Diener to four points one night after he tied a career-high with 19 and set a career high with eight rebounds.
In a rare back-to-back, home-and-home series with the Pacers, Williams and the rest of the Nets had the chance to make up for a bad performance in just 24 hours.
"Marcus was phenomenal tonight," Vince Carter said. "He ran the show. He was patient, got guys the ball and took shots when he was open. He did a lot better tonight and did a good job on Travis."
But Williams wasn't the only second-year player to play well after struggling Friday night. Josh Boone, his Connecticut teammate, had 19 points and 13 rebounds 24 hours after a pretty worthless 21 minutes in Indy.
Of course, the high-profile stars on the Nets helped, too. Richard Jefferson scored 26 of his 36 points in the second half and Carter added 24 points on 9-for-17 shooting as the Nets shot 46.7 percent from the floor.
Most important, the Nets, who had 23 turnovers Friday, didn't throw the ball away nearly as much (only 10 turnovers) and did a much better job defensively.
They held Mike Dunleavy to 19 points after Dunleavy had scored 34 points in Friday's 113-103 victory in Indiana, and kept Diener from doing much of anything.
The Nets weren't perfect defensively by any means. But when it mattered, especially in the fourth quarter when the Nets held the Pacers to 34.8 percent shooting, they did the job.
"Our pride took over," Carter said.


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Firearms course in schools legal but not likely yet
Associated Press | April 25, 2005
PHOENIX A new law will let Arizona students set their sights on a new frontier in high school education, but the gun safety course isn't likely to appear in course catalogs anytime soon.
The bill, recently signed into law by Governor Napolitano, allows Arizona school districts the chance to offer an elective in marksmanship and gun safety alongside those such as ceramics and yearbook.
But many administrators in the Phoenix area say their budgets and schedules are over-taxed as it is, and offering an elective that doesn't relate to life skills or state standards isn't in the cards.
State law already allows the Arizona Game and Fish Department to provide training in safe handling of guns and bows at schools requesting the training.


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An Air Canada flight from London, England, to Toronto was diverted to Happy Valley-Goose Bay Sunday morning due to a medical emergency.
The RCMP says it received a call at 11 a.m. Sunday from Woodward Aviation that Air Canada Flight 869 was being diverted.
The flight landed at Goose Bay where a 37-year-old man from Toronto was escorted off the plane and transported by ambulance to the hospital in Goose Bay for treatment of diabetic shock.
The passenger was admitted to hospital overnight for observation.


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Any thoughts on the best iphone chess app? Anyone know of any apps that let you play against live people.
Their arn't much chess apps in iphone yet. However i do know of a chesspuzzles application.Its basically solving the "mate in one,mate in two,mate in three" puzzles.
over at daringfireball. so I guess i am still waiting for a good "live" or "turn based" app.
I know Erik and the team are thinking about iphones; but as he has said before iphones arent a priority for chess.com.
In anycase, for a mobile device, I want an app, not access to the website. with a small screen, its going to be hard to maintain all of the normal websites functionality. For me what makes chess.com attractive isnt just playing a game, but how the game IS played. I want practice boards, and conditional moves, and what not.
Maybe you should try "RealDice Multiplayer Championship chess" I have it on my N95 8G and it rocks :-)
It works on many smartphones but I'm not sure it runs on the iPhone though.
I have Caissa Chess on mine; it's a pretty decent program against which to play. I know there is some app that provides for "live" chess against other iPhone users, but I don't know if many people have it, or how reliable it would be. I think it requires a Wi-Fi network too, which is no surprise -- the regular 3G connection is way too slow for normal blitz play.
Does the Ipod touch run the same apps as the iphone?
some found a way to do pocket fritz 2 if you can figure it out for the iphone you will have a good chess parnter
I know Erik and the team are thinking about iphones; as he has said before iphones arent a priority for chess.com.
In anycase, for a mobile device, I want an app, not a web app. with a small screen, its going to be hard to maintain all of the normal websites functionality.
The more i think about it, the more i am convinced that until other wish list features are fulfilled, like the practice board and better integration of live chess, there can be no chance of a iphone/android app. even with a great UI the functionality is just not possible on a touch screen device until there is a better web function-- at least not if you want to enjoy the game.
I will stick with Green for the time being; as i dont want to jail brake a phone.
But i would buy an $99 iphone app if it were bundled with a premium membership or the like.
JoshH- yes iphones and touches run the same apps.
There is a IPhone App that is currently free called Chess "Games with Friends".
It is worth looking at.
Any thoughts on the best iphone chess app? Anyone know of any apps let you play against live people.
Caissa Chess is my favourite App and you can even play an email game with now. BTW I play on Chessworld.net and regularly use my iPhone with very little control issues, most sites work fine (excluding Flash based ones).
JoshH - Yes ipod Touch & iPhone run the same Apps
All the best
More Chess tips for beginners and kids at Learn to Play Chess with Fritz blog.
seconding Deep Green - http://cocoastuff.com/deepgreen/
no question really
definitely on our to do list. we're starting on it this month.
I've tried pretty much all of them (and there's more now than there used to be)... Here's my 2 cents:
ChessGenius is King. It's got the best combination of options, a fine interface (one of the few that shift when the device is turned), a killer engine, the ability to show analysis and announce openings, lots of levels, and you can also employ the a 'next best move' feature to force the engine to play alternative moves.
Best of all, in addition to managing saved games in multiple PGN databases on your iPod/Phone, you can also email games (complete or otherwise) in PGN format from the app. This means that you can set the app on human vs. human and use your iPod/Phone as an OTB game recorder, with no trouble transferring the game to your PC later on.
The one limitation of this app, which may bother some people more than it does me is that it doesn't give the user a view of captured pieces anywhere that I can find. (Personally, I tend to worry more about the stuff on the board than the stuff off of it.)
tChess Pro is also pretty excellent. It does probably the best job with analysis, giving you the ability to step backwards and forwards through a game as the engine shows you its analysis. (Surprisingly, the ability to step back and forth through moves already played is still rather rare in the world of iPhone chess.) tChess is a good-looking app, but very straight-forward.
I have also enjoyed playing Deep Green, which has a bit more personality in terms of its look & feel. It plays a great game and has a very nice interface - which is important because you can't customize it in any way. It's awesome for casual chess but lacks many of the features of Genius.
Caissa Chess has maybe the nicest looking chess board of them all, but again, from a features perspective, it's not as robust as Genius.
There are a few others out there that really aren't worth the time it takes to install them, but the field has changed a lot in a very short time. The first time I searched 'chess' in the App store, I came up almost empty - and that has already changed a LOT, so there are more good things to come.
Also, I've never tried any apps that feature online play against other humans. That's what I come here for. :)
Yay! If you see a sudden spike in iPhone traffic on the site... it's just me. With my new iPhone I now have another facilitator to my chess addiction.
That's the best/worst news I've heard all month... the worst because it will mean MORE time taken out of my life and spent playing chess!
I've tried pretty much all of them (and there's more now than there used to be)... Here's my 2 cents:
Thank you for your reviews! I have been looking into chess apps now that I got an iPod Touch for Christmas, and appreciate your feedback!
Nice! How many GB? You must have been good this year. :)
Anyway, my pleasure... I've now deleted every app except ChessGenius (whose awesome analysis level I recently discovered) and Deep Green (because I like the name ).
Also, just for a larf, I pitted ChessGenius (iPod) against my Novag Obsidian over the holidays (full strength, no permanent brain, 10 seconds per move) in two games. The iPod beat the chess computer mercilessly both times. It wasn't even close. I wouldn't be surprised if the ChessGenius app does come in around the 2500 Elo that its author estimates. Not too shabby for a glorified mp3 player.
Yeah, I must have done something right this year, got a 16 GB! Even though it was for Christmas, I still think this means multiple "ulterior motive-free" backrubs for my wife.
I would like to see a chess game for the iPhone/Touch in which you can review and annotate the game yourself right there, and then maybe email/export the PGN (with your annotations built-in). But it seems like some developers are focused on the strength of the engine, rather than the features. The engine strength doesn't matter to me, probably because I am a beginner.
I agree with your sentence "a glorified mp3 player" -- with all the apps out there, it seems like the mp3 playing capability could easily take a back seat to the other apps. Before you know it, it could be called "a PDA with web browsing capabilities, video viewing, game playing...oh, and it plays music, too".
Too true. I've had my 'pod for a little over a year now, and I must admit that most of the time I'm using it (say, 60-70%), I don't even have head-phones plugged in. It's nice to be able to get in bed and choose between a novel and my RSS feeds. Or playing more chess. Or email. Or Facebook. Or Tetris. Or... etc. Then when I'm done reading (or whatever), I leave it on my night-stand (because it's also my alarm clock).
You should try Versus Chess for online playing (really cool!). And chess With Friend for turn based games on the iphone.
There is also Cyber Chess for online play at FICS.
I also have tried tChess Pro: Really one of the best engines for iphone.
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The performance of HSDPA-HDR in delay constrained applications: closed-form expressions
Document typeConference report
Date issued2007
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Scheduling in a Downlink channel based on partial Channel State Information at the Transmitter (CSIT) is carried out through an opportunistic technique. Within a more practical perspective, this paper first presents a transmission strategy where a minimum rate per user is required, which in a wireless fading scenario, can only be guaranteed under a certain system outage constraint. This minimum rate is demanded within a given time interval to satisfy maximum delay restrictions for the user application. Closed form expressions for maximum scheduling delay and maximum jitter are obtained, standing as possible Quality of Service (QoS) indicators for the system behaviour. The derived expressions are then tested via simulations in several transmission scenarios.
CitationZorba, N.; Pérez, A.; Lagunas, M. The performance of HSDPA-HDR in delay constrained applications: closed-form expressions. A: WSEAS 07. "WSEAS 07". Creta: 2007, p. 0-6.
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Recently, the Federal Trade Commission issued a detailed report that summarized extensive data collection efforts that it uncovered in its study of the data brokerage industry. The FTC recommended that Congress require the data broker industry to give consumers greater control over their personal information to police the questionable data practices the study revealed.
Yet, just a few weeks later, a Wall Street Journal headline read, "Facebook to Give Advertisers More User Data." The article summarized Facebook's efforts to vacuum up its users' web browsing habits and sell that data to advertisers. According to media reports, Facebook collects web browsing histories by placing code on its users' computers, thereby gathering data about the websites its users visit. Facebook apparently also gathers data about which apps its users have downloaded onto their mobile devices.
Facebook's sale of web browsing history demonstrates the steady growth of mining of customer data—and brings with it a number of questions about data mining, consumer rights, and data privacy. Many assume that someone is regulating the space, protecting consumers, and providing a legal framework on which businesses can rely to guide legitimate commercial interests.
Data mining's big surprise? Right now, a substantial legal and regulatory void exists regarding data mining's most critical privacy and business questions.
Data collection: Harmless or harmful?
Data brokers collect and store billions of data elements covering virtually everyone in the United States. Brokers collect and aggregate data regarding everything from shopping preferences to healthcare data to public records such as lawsuits and arrests. Often the nature of the information sold is disturbing: a list of individuals in financial distress, diabetics, smokers in the household, and political and religious affiliations. Recent reports reveal utterly shocking data aggregation, for instance the identity of rape victims, AIDS victims, and people with addictions. Frequently this information is gathered and sold without consumers' knowledge. As an FTC Chairwoman put it, "you may not know them, but data brokers know you."
At first glance, some of the data these companies collect may appear fairly harmless. For instance, software-generated groupings could simply label a person assumed to be a "biker enthusiast." That might lead to the individual receiving special offers from the local motorcycle dealer. But that same person could also pay higher fees for life insurance because insurers reason that the person engages in risky behavior.
The information gathered by data brokers poses a risk to consumers, including the denial of opportunities based on inaccurate information, public disclosure of information many consumers regard as private (e.g. their health), or even something as menacing as stalking. Moreover, storing vast amounts of aggregated data indefinitely may create security risks.
Regulating data mining
The opaque nature of how companies use consumer data to make credit, housing, employment, and similar determinations led to the passage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") in 1970. The FTC has brought over 100 law enforcement actions under the FCRA since then, but huge portions of the data mining business fall outside the statute.
In February 2014, Senators John D. Rockefeller and Edward Markey[1] introduced a bill to address those shortfalls. The proposed legislation would require data brokers to disclose more information about their practices. It also would require brokers to give consumers more control over the information these companies collect and sell.
In addition, the FTC has called for transparency across the data broker industry, providing more information about the sources of data brokers' information, and giving consumers access and the ability to correct data used for marketing and risk mitigation products. Other proposals encourage data brokers to be more accountable by conducting due diligence on their customers' use of the data, and creating contractual requirements that prohibit their customers from using the data in an unlawful manner.
The data broker industry generally opposes the proposed legislation, asserting that effective self-regulation is the preferred solution in an industry that is changing quickly and growing rapidly. Yet many caution those collecting, aggregating and selling data to take steps to get out ahead of legislative and regulatory efforts. The absence of standards only serves to lead to further abuses and unwanted media attention—all of which could easily create a backlash against the industry.
Tremendous benefits can flow from the insights of data mining—especially as powered by new big data technologies. But a backlash of consumers offended by the continued encroachment on their privacy, coupled with the risks of long-term storage of that data, could easily lead to upending business models based on fluid use of consumer's data. A proactive effort to regulate data collection and aggregation efforts is more likely to preserve the beneficial insights and opportunities data mining has and will continue to offer.
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|firstname.lastname@example.com (Roger L. Elowitz)
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Hi Doug, I home brewed a three band fan dipole that I just love. It consists of a full size 160-m half wave dipole stretched from a thirty foot tree in one corner of my property to a 65-ft tree in a corner of my neighbors property... God Bless That Man. Anyway, hanging about eight inches below the 160-m dipole is a full size 80-m dipole and about 8-inches below the 80-m dipole is a full size 40-m dipole. The spacers are green fiberglass perfboard strips about ¾" wide spaced every ten feet apart. Naturally all the dipoles are fed at a common center connector with RG-8X which I try to bring away at close to a right angle. The center of the antenna droops to about 23-ft off the ground. I start tuning the antenna on 160 and then continued to trim the 80 and then the 40-m dipoles. I notice very little interaction between the antennas. I can work every station I can hear running only 100-watts into the thing. Everyone says that at this low height this antenna is a "cloud warmer." This is true but I've worked my share of clouds several thousand miles away... which is OK by me. If you have the room I see absolutely no reason to use traps on these bands... baluns add nothing but weight and accomplish nothing. I'd dearly love to stick a 50'-ft mast in the middle of my yard to support the center of this thing... but then I'd end up with guy lines all over a beautiful Kentucky Bluegrass lawn which even I'd object to. Love a self supporting something there though.... but with the ends of the dipole in swaying trees... I have my doubts about the wisdom of anchoring the center somewhere. Would it contribute to a significant improvement in performance? One never knows these things until they are tried. Tuning dipoles is always fun. BTW...you don't need to solder the ends around an insulator until you are finished trimming. Just start longer than necessary and keep wrapping the excess back towards the center. Solder later if you wish. Good luck with your project. 73, Roger, K2JAS <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> At 08:27 PM 11/21/97 +0000, you wrote: > >Has anyone figured out how to string an 80 and 160 meter inverted vee off the same tower >WITHOUT them interacting. Mine really tend to detune each other, making length trimming >near impossible. Are there any published notes on adding a trap in a 160 dipole to make it tune 80? >I've tried various configurations -- and even tried loading my tower as a vertical. I get >a great SWR but it doesn't get out. Ideas? > --Doug Brede, W3AS/7 > > >-- >FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html >Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com >Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com >Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com >Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search > Roger, K2JAS Morganville, NJ Just about half-way between NYC and Philly! -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: email@example.com Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search
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The school's robotics team is in the midst of designing, programming and building a basketball-playing robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition scheduled for March 8-10 at Portland's Memorial Coliseum.
Back on Jan. 7, when we first checked in with Liberty's team, they had just received this year's competition task and a big box of parts that will become a 120-pound robot.
Late last week, just three weeks into the competition, the Liberty engineers had built what team leader Aakash Jani, a senior, calls the "exoskeleton." It's the base of the machine that will move around and hold all the other working parts.
The mechanical team decided the robot needs six wheels -- four regular wheels that help the robot move forward and backward and two "omni wheels" that help it navigate sideways and turn around.
Since the robot will be playing offense, "we need additional mobility," Jani said, speaking like the coach of a sports team. The robot will need to retrieve basketballs and shoot them at hoops in the game arena.
On Thursday afternoon, the mechanical team, happy with their exoskeleton, were busy working on a design for an air-powered launch arm. The balls might be loaded into a cardboard cylinder and launched with a pneumatic push.
Team member Kamin Beyer quickly realized all the balls, which are provided as part of the FIRST Robotics kit, were not the same size. One was a tight squeeze inside the cylinder.
In another room, Jani and others explained the electrical system and tested out a small pneumatic cylinder. Pneumatic technology -- an air pressure system -- is new for this team. "There's learning curve for all of us," Jani said.
But, he said, the team is ahead of schedule. "Once we get the pneumatics figured out, it's smooth sailing."
There are still plenty of engineering tasks ahead. The team will need to design a way for their robot to pick up the basketballs. Jani talked about a system that would "pinch then lift the balls" and place them into a hopper.
He also spoke of a raw distance sensor, a way to measure the distance from the robot's shooting mechanism to the basket. "It's kind of like echolocation," Jani explained.
With five weeks to go before the regional competition, there will be plenty of testing of the new robot. The team is now meeting four times a week after school.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen. The nonprofit's mission is to inspire youth to become leaders in science and technology.
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Additionally, most states have their own minimum wage laws and rates. A few states in the southern part of the United States have no minimum wage rate. In either case, non-exempted employees are entitled to receive the greater of the federal or state minimum wage rate. Thus, in those states with no minimum wage requirement, covered employees are entitled to receive the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25/hour.
I. State Minimum Wage: $8.50/Hour
Generally, an employer must pay its employees no less than the state's minimum wage rate of $8.50 for each hour worked. The state minimum wage is adjusted annually for inflation effective Jan. 1 of each year. Employers who employ agricultural workers under age 18 and who pay those workers "by the amount of work produced or services rendered" must pay those workers at the same rate that is paid to workers age 18 and older.
Coverage: The state minimum wage provision applies to the state and its political subdivisions. The provision does not apply to certain voluntary services performed for no pay, or without expectation of pay, for certain public employers or nonprofit organizations, or certain services performed as part of work training programs administered under state or federal law; these services are excluded from the definition of "employ".
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(Click here for profiles of all (but one) of the candidates.)
Here's her letter:
Education is one of the long-lasting gifts we can provide our children. Tuesday, your vote can determine the direction our schools will take to offer the best education possible.
As the Second Ward representative I seek to make decisions I believe are in the best interest of those I represent. The future of our students, teachers, taxpayers and ultimately our country is too important simply to vote for "slates" of school board candidates. Candidates should stand individually on their involvement, experience and the dedication toward creating a school district that works for all our children. I have been watching first hand three candidates make a difference whether serving on the board or not. They have been investing their time and efforts outside of work and family by challenging not only the school board but themselves.
Read the rest of the letter after the jump.
While regularly attending board meetings, Maureen Sullivan fights for the accountability we crave. As the Connors School PTO President, Maureen works tirelessly and gives parents unable to attend board meetings a voice. Maureen calls it like she sees it, using her skills as a journalist to expose hypocrisy in the system and like a determined mom never taking "no" for an answer. Maureen encourages parent involvement and seeks to hold administrators accountable for the decisions they make. Spend time with her and you will get to know a passionate advocate for students and taxpayers alike.
Ron Rosenberg has been an advocate for the education of Hoboken's children for many years. Ron was a founder of the Kaplan Pre-school and briefly served on the Board of Education. Ron helped reduce the influence of special interests, by working to pass Pay-to-Play campaign contribution reform at both the city and school board levels. Ron's goal of increasing student performance and lowering per-pupil costs that have skyrocketed to nearly $25,000 a year can be reached with your vote.
Tricia Snyder, educator and economist, took on a challenge few would address in their first year on the board-- serving as Finance Committee Chair. During Tricia's one-year term she fought for our students and found ways to ensure that young teachers remained under difficult circumstances. I was proud to support Tricia's successful candidacy last year, and hope you will join me in supporting her return to the board.
I encourage the other candidates who truly are interested in addressing the critical issues our school district faces to stay involved. Take a close look and I believe you, too, will vote for 2, 3, and 8--Maureen Sullivan, Ron Rosenberg, and Tricia Snyder. Vote Tuesday.
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|Sherry on the Evangelical Catholic
|Written by Michael Fones
|Monday, 16 April 2007 12:12
We're back . . . from Madison, Wisconsin.
I didn't realize that Fr. Mike was keeping you up late regalling you with his thoughts. Love the Hell: No, We Won't Go meditation and title.
I didn't get the chance to blog or attend most of the sessions because I was talking, talking, talking. It was my first chance to present the Pre-Discipleship Stages of Spiritual Development as well as do two introductory talks on discernment and charisms.
Sometimes it is like that at conferences. What you say hits a nerve and everybody wants to talk. A presenter is usually wondering how something brand new is going to hit people, especially if it is a group that you have never worked with before. The exciting thing is not only when people tell you how much they appreciate it but when they begin to quote you or ask really detailed questions. The thrill of "By Jove, they got it!" runs through you with the secondary peace of knowing that you aren't in for a massive re-write following close behind.
I got to meet a lot of interesting denizens of the Apostolic Underground* (http://blog.siena.org/2007/04/apostolic-underground.html). There was the gang from National Evangelization Team (NET - http://www.netusa.org/homepage.aspx), a young man representing the Glenmary Missionaries (http://www.glenmary.org/) who work in and support Catholic parishes in the rural south, and Emmaus Journey (www.emmausjourney.org), the ministry of Rich Cleveland, a Catholic Navigator (www.navigators.org), who attends my parish. A number of campus ministers from around the eastern half of the country as well as a few long-time friends like Bernie Vogel and Sue Lahocky. And I was excited to meet some readers of ID there as well!
I had long wanted to meet Fr. Dwight Longenecker "Standing on My Head" (http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/) and was delighted to find him at the EC Institute and we had a nice long chat. He and his wife are hoping to attend the Called & Gifted workshop (http://www.siena.org/Workshops.htm) at St. Mary's in Greenville, South Carolina next weekend.
And of course, I had many diverse and long conversations with the Evangelical Catholic (http://www.evangelicalcatholic.org/) team who are young, smart, creative, and vibrant apostles. I hadn't understood how ad hoc the whole EC thing was, arising out of a small circle of Catholic friends on the Madison campus seven years ago. They have just hired their first staff member, are bringing on a husband-wife leadership team (who both hold newly minted MAs from Notre Dame) this summer, and have been asked by their Bishop to spread the EC vision of making disciples to parishes in their diocese.
They fit the Apostolic Underground (AU) model: small, passionate, risk-taking, evangelistic, orthodox, entrepreneurial, creative, lay-lead, and hand-to-mouth. Somehow, God will provide.
The theme of the weekend: parishes and dioceses are turning to small AU groups for help. I heard this not only from the EC people but also from the NET leaders. A chronic shortage of priests, youth ministers, resources of all kinds means that small, under funded or missionary parishes and dioceses are drawing upon the resources and energy of small apostolic groups. For instance, NET has its first "long-term" parish team which will spend two years in a specific parish focusing on youth ministry and outreach rather than a single week.
And all these groups wanted to know how to successfully transfer their gifts and expertise to the parish scene. Hence, all the talk, talk, talk.
But the most moving personal moment for me was meeting and spending a little time with Cardinal Avery Dulles. He is elderly and very frail now and walks with a four pronged cane, but still very sharp and possessing a lovely sense of humor. Very unpretentious - he simply introduced himself at breakfast as "Hello, I'm Avery Dulles". I got to sit at his small table at dinner and again at breakfast but the most memorable moment did not involve any words.
I visited the large, beautiful chapel before breakfast to spend a few minutes in adoration and found three other people there. Two students and Avery Dulles. He was alone, without his young priest assistant, who had been constantly at his side, steadying him throughout Mass and helping him ascend the podium. No longer able to kneel, he sat praying in a corner, his cane beside him.
The hidden source of all that wisdom.


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This berry protein smoothie recipe is great for breakfast or post workout! It's high in protein, healthy fats and carbs to replenish your body's stores or get you ready for the day!
Berry Protein Smoothie Recipe
- 1/3 can coconut milk
- 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder or 2 raw eggs (cage free organic)
- 1 c. frozen berries (no sugar added)
- 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
- stevia to taste
- Place all ingredients in blender and blend until frothy. Serve immediately.


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The presidential debates are not a best-of-three series.
If they were, if the winner of the almost-ended campaign were selected by performance in the debates, President Barack Obama would have entered the series as the odds-on favorite. Any incumbent president would be in such a position, and Obama, always an eloquent speaker, was doubly so. But he slipped quickly to underdog after the initial match-up, during which challenger Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, clearly got the better of a sleepwalking Obama.
But the president clawed his way back into contention in Game 2, where he bested Romney. Finally, with Monday night's gritty performance, the president won the rubber match.
But the presidential debates are not like a baseball playoff series.
They are instead a sort of precursor to the main event, Election Day, the ultimate contest. The voting on Nov. 6 is the only game that counts.
That said, in the third and final presidential debate, with the focus on foreign policy, the president was in charge from the first, with challenger Mitt Romney playing defense much of the time. Romney wasn't bad, exactly, but he played from behind for the entire evening, never managing to mount a real threat.
The commander in chief was commanding throughout.
The question, of course, as it has been from the beginning, is how much the scoring of the debates will ultimately matter on Election Day. If the challenger needs to pass a minimum test in the debates – showing himself as up to the job he is seeking – then Romney did that, and then some, in the first and most important debate. How much his backsliding in the following two debates did to reverse that notion is, well, debatable.
With the election just 13 days away, the answer will soon enough become clear.


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5-htp is the intermediate between tryptophan and serotonin. As far as I know, commercial 5-htp is not synthetic (good thing). Too much can cause nausea and sleeplessness. What is considered too much is individual, so start with low amounts if you try it.
I would expect it to work only for mild depression. Since it is an intermediary that relies on others (iron, I think) for conversion it might not be effective if other amino acids or nutrients or neurotransmitters are out of whack, too. Merely flooding your system with 5-HTP won't necessarily mean that any increased serotonin levels will actually bind to receptors and make you feel better as a result. That is the experimentation side of it, I guess.
This is talked about in the Autism community (my son is on the spectrum). It works for some and not for others. They recommend it be taken at night and with a Bcomplex vitamin and magnesium. 50-100 mgs/day is the amount they typically recommend for a child on the spectrum for anti-anxiety or sleep aid.
If you tackle depression, my guess is weight changes will follow. Additionally, better sleep can help with depression, too. I don't believe you should expect to lose weight because you are taking it, though. Shy away from anyone who will tell you this supp or that supp will make weight fall off.
Bottom line is: 5-HTP isn't dangerous so give it a (smart) try if you'd like. Good luck!


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Birmingham Mayor William Bell said the city decided to add the vigil to Railroad Park's Happy Holidays event after hearing of the events in Newtown, Conn. where 28 people, including 20 children, were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The vigil also served as a stand against gun violence and to remember the 56-gun-related homicides in Birmingham this year.
"In light of the tragic occurrence in Connecticut and just violence in general, we wanted to show our solidarity," Mayor Bell said. "Hopefully the message will get out that we must be more aggressive in dealing with mental illness and gun violence."
Around 200 candles were handed out for the ceremony. Opening the vigil, Bell asked all the children to gather at the front with their candles. "One of our obligations as adults is to put our arms around our children and protect them at all times," Bell said, referencing the Sandy Hook tragedy. "We can't take their sorrow or pain away but we can show them we feel for them."
After a prayer from Mayor Bell, the crowd held their candles high during a moment of silence.Following the candlelight vigil, the crowd counted down from 10 to light a Christmas tree floating in the water. "It's important for us to continue to celebrate the Christmas season," Bell said prior to the vigil. "The tragedy brings to light the deeper meaning of Christmas."
Two other candlelight vigils were also held in Birmingham tonight. The regular Peace vigil sponsored by Pax Christi and others met at the Five Points South fountain at 5 p.m. today, and a candlelight vigil to end gun violence and a Christmas Nativity were held at East Lake Methodist Church at 5:30.


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Spring is almost here, so it's time for a little vernal cleaning of the Beer Nut virtual desk:
• As a fan of both "Hamlet" and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (both melancholy Danes) I have long had an affinity for Denmark. And now I have a third reason: Mikkeller/Prairie American Style Ale. While the beer is an international collaboration Danish gypsy brewer Mikkeller, Prairie Artisan Ales of the U.S., it was brewed in Copenhagen.
Like Hamlet–and Kierkegaard to a certain extent–this beer has some biting bitterness. It's a juicy hop bomb, but not one without a solid malt framework. I had it at The Dirty Truth in Northampton last week, so I'm not sure if there will any left by the time you read this. I may have drunk it all.
• As I mentioned in a recent story, the Northampton Brewery has now reopened. After 10 weeks of being closed, the brewery's return is great news for local beer fans. I was really excited to see the new brewhouse, kitchen and rearranged Beer Garden. I'm even more excited about being able to get Blue Boots IPA in cans (starting in a week or two). Not because I need to drink it at home–I prefer going to the Brewery and having it on draft–but because it will allow me to share with others when I go to parties. I love showing pride in my locally made products and Blue Boots is one of the best.
• Also in local brewing news, Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton has been brewing and its beer should be showing up on taps and shelves any time now. Abandoned Building Brewery strives to use as much local and regional ingredients–including locally malted barley and wheat–as possible in its beers.
• Also a springtime ritual: Here is a heads-up that NERAX (the New England Real Ale Exhibition) is coming at the end of the month. The cask ale showcase will be held at a new venue this year: Aeronaut Brewing Co., 14 Tyler St. in Somerville.
The expo will serve over 100 firkins of real ale and cider, including more than 50 British beers from England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as 50-plus American beers, mostly from New England. All the beers are cask-conditioned and served by gravity or hand-pump. NERAX runs March 26-29, with a special "tutored tasting" event from 5 to 6 p.m. on March 27.
The regular festival times are 6 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday; 6 to 10:30 p.m. on Friday; noon to 4 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. for the two Saturday sessions.


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Los Angeles Lakers Need More From Pau Gasol In Game TwoApril 20, 2011 – 1:03 am by Ryan Phillips
On Sunday afternoon the Los Angeles Lakers dropped the opener of their first round series against the New Orleans Hornets 109-100. The fact that the Lakers were at home and played like absolute crap should be comforting to no one. But the solution for the Lakers is fairly simple: Get Pau Gasol involved early and often.
The 7-foot Spaniard was almost invisible on Sunday, finishing the game with eight points, six rebounds and six assists, and shot just 2-of-9 from the field. Against a New Orleans front line that features the smaller Emeka Okafor and Carl Landry, Gasol should be able to have his way up front.
On the flip side, Gasol's defense at the rim (in tandem with Andrew Bynum) should be able to keep Hornets point guard Chris Paul from scoring at will in the paint.
It's a good bet Gasol will bounce back Wednesday night in Game Two. You might want to get ahead of the curve and bet on NBA Props at BetUS while you still have time before Wednesday night's action.
The Lakers won't be down for long and after three days to stew over their loss on Sunday, expect Gasol and co. to right the ship.


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KENTWOOD, MI — A bicyclist struck by a car in southeast Kentwood late Thursday afternoon has died of his injuries, according to police.
The bicyclist, who is reportedly in his 30s, was struck just after 5:30 p.m. while trying to cross 60th Street from Deaver Drive SE, police on scene said. He died of his injuries on scene.
Investigators said the bicyclist did not have the right of way, and was struck by a westbound sedan traveling at a high rate of speed. The car's driver, an unidentified female, was uninjured in the crash.
Paramedics tried resuscitating the bicyclist — who was reportedly suffering cardiac arrest when emergency workers arrived on scene — for some 20 minutes, according to police dispatch reports.
The bicyclist sustained extensive and severe injuries, according to emergency personnel on scene, including head trauma and multiple fractured bones.
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It has been a year of big-budget busts at the multiplex as gigantanormous pics such as Ghostbusters, Ben-Hur, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Steven Spielberg's The BFG barely broke even — if that. The epic disaster Ben-Hur cost $100 million to
Previewing the biggest movies this holiday season
Actor was widely ridiculed for a music performance last week.
Except where indicated, all area codes are 419. Toledo Museum of Art: 2445 Monroe St.; 255-8000; Shakespeare's Characters: Playing the Part; through Jan. 8; "I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads" Exhibit; through Nov. 8;
Leslie Adams' new piece shown ahead of Michigan competition.
Broadway hit 'Kinky Boots' coming to Stranahan next June.
Last fall, Matthew Weiner was walking on Manhattan's Upper East Side when he saw a teenage girl having a tense conversation with a companion near a building under construction. Weiner, creator of the AMC drama Mad Men, was carrying the
In a nondescript Burbank, Calif., business park, the creators of stop-motion animation house Stoopid Buddy Stoodios keep a 1970s Winnebago parked inside their offices. In keeping with the campground vibe, the company behind Adult Swim's Robot
LOS ANGELES — Oliver Stone had no desire to make a movie about Edward Snowden. That might seem surprising for a man who has tackled everything from the Vietnam War to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his 40-some years as a filmmaker.
Hollywood isn't just discriminating by gender and race, but also by age — and that might shorten the lives of underrepresented seniors who tend to be the butt of jokes rather than stars of the silver screen, a new study shows. Of


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Only days after being admonished by the United Nations for refusing to halt construction on a newly revealed nuclear enrichment facility, the Iranian government approved a plan to build 10 more industrial scale enrichment sites.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Computer Information Systems and what do they do?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Retrieved 6/20/2016):
Computer and information systems managers, often called information technology (IT) managers or IT project managers, plan, coordinate, and direct computer-related activities in an organization. They help determine the information technology goals of an organization and are responsible for implementing computer systems to meet those goals.
The median annual wage for computer and information systems managers was $131,600 in May 2015.
Employment of computer and information systems managers is projected to grow 15 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. Demand for computer and information systems managers will grow as firms increasingly expand their business to digital platforms.
What is Marketing and what do they do?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Retrieved 6/20/2016):
Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in products or services. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.
The median annual wage for advertising, promotions, and marketing managers was $124,850 in May 2015.
Employment of advertising, promotions, and marketing managers is projected to grow 9 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Advertising, promotions, and marketing campaigns will continue to be essential for organizations as they seek to maintain and expand their share of the market.
Where are CIS alumni working?
- CorpHealth, Inc. - Database Administrator
- Bank network analyst
- Taylor and Hill -- Cost Control Analyst
- The Planet Internet Services, Inc. -- NOC Engineer
- Wal-Mart – Programmer
- School Technology Director
- Americredit -- Tier One Help Desk Technician
- City of Waco -- Computer Analyst (Database Manager)
- Buxton Company - IS/Planning Manager
- Fiesta Pages / Rio Grande Publishing Co. -- Publishing Manager
- Hotel Reservations Network (AS/400 Prog/Analyst)
- US General Services Administration -- IT Specialist
- Dell Computers Austin-- Business Analyst/Application Architect
How do I get advised?
Tarleton recently moved to a distributed advising model which means that we have an advisor stationed right here in the College of Business. Ms. Allison Jones, MBA is our Senior Academic Advising Specialist with the Academic Advising center. Her contact information is:
Allison Jones, MBA
Box T-0955
Stephenville, Texas 76402
254-968-9746 (voice)
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What is the difference between the BAAS, the BBA, and the BS in CIS?
Great question. These are three different degrees offered in CIS that are targeted to three different groups of potential students:
- BAAS is well suited for more non-traditional students who come in with significant, relevant work experience and/or relevant community college work.
- The BBA is more business oriented and well suited for incoming freshmen who have a talent for technical things but an eye on advancing within an organization to higher leadership positions.
- The BS is for those who have a greater interest in learning the technical details of systems.


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Jesus defined great faith that amazes him when a Centurion sought his help for an ailing slave. Before we talk about "God pleasing" faith, let's identify the characters in this encounter: Jesus, the Centurion and a servant. Jesus, of course, was the image of God in human flesh who said, "if you have seen me, you have seen the father." Plebeians usually held the office of Centurion, a commander of one hundred men in the Roman army. Before the plebeian joined the army he may have shared a single room in a four story badly constructed wood apartment house with another family. The sewer system was a pot emptied out the window creating an unsanitary and putrid environment. Slaves serving a patrician family had better living conditions. The ailing slave, a child perhaps teenager who tended to the needs of the Centurion.
Jesus had just preached his most famous sermon and returned to Capernaum with large crowds in tow. On the way home, he amazed the crowds by healing a leper. At this time in his ministry, Jesus was famous with many demands on his time.
The Centurion, who lived in Capernaum, was no stranger to the Jews religion. He had financed the construction of a synagogue and the Jews, without doubt, had taught him is "Gentile place" in their religion. Jewish men began their day blessing "the eternal one, our God" for not making them a woman, gentile or a slave. Therefore, the Centurion did not consider himself worthy to bring a petition to Jesus. He sent the elders of the Jews to plead for the healing of a slave.
The elders considered the Centurion worthy of Jesus consideration because he "built them a synagogue". According to Jewish beliefs (Acts 10:28), the elders had broken the law and defiled themselves when they had dealings with the Gentile. Insert sarcasm. Apparently, exceptions could be made when "religion" is advanced.
Jesus, the image of God, didn't have a problem defiling himself in the home of a Gentile to relieve the suffering of a slave. Yep, Jesus got his hands dirty with the very lowest of his societies lowly. But Jesus never made it to the unclean home to pray for the suffering slave. On his way, the Centurion sent friends with a message: "Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof. Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it" (Luke 7:6-8,NKJV).
Jesus was amazed at "such great faith". Before announcing the slave would be healed, he warned the Jews that this kind of faith would result in many gentiles taking the place of Jews who had no faith in God. Who your human father is will not give you citizenship in God's kingdom with all of its benefits. God pleasing faith will.
I've often pondered what was so amazing about the Centurion's faith. Society had given him a putrid slum to live in. Religious people used him to advance their agenda yet had no place for him as an equal among them. Life had not been kind to the Centurion. The unfairness of life has driven multitudes away from God but it did not drive the Centurion away. He recognized the immense power and authority of God to command everything and he still believed God cared about a slave.
Do you have great faith? Do you count yourself unworthy yet still believe God cares that the slaves to sin we love are suffering? Now that would take "great faith" – God pleasing faith.
Teena L Myers is a freelance writer and minister who lives on the westbank of New Orleans. She converted to Christianity in 1973 and attends Hosanna Church with her husband who has ministered to children for twenty-five years. In addition to her material, she posts articles donated to the Faith, Beliefs and Spirituality blog by talented friends. To learn more about Teena and read some of her longer teaching works visit teenalmyers.com


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The historic tornado outbreak last year that killed 248 people in Alabama has become a giant laboratory for weather scientists.
Foremost in that laboratory has been Dr. Kevin Knupp, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who has intensely studied the April 27 storms almost since the winds calmed.
Knupp gave a seminar Wednesday at the National Science and Space Technology Center on the UAH campus and summarized that while much has been learned, much still remains to be learned.
The ultimate objective, however, is to gather enough knowledge to pull back the curtain somewhat on tornadoes.
"I think we're going to improve our understanding of how tornadoes form in various systems, how topography plays a role," Knupp said. "The gravity wave aspect of this research has tremendous potential of advanced warning. I think that has a lot of potential to extend the warning window and the confidence of that warning to longer lead time - particularly in these situations where you might have conditions that are marginal for tornado production."
Digesting the full breadth of the tornadoes that day, however, is still an exhaustive process before even getting to the science.
"There never was a dull moment hardly," Knupp said of the daylong deluge of tornadoes across the state.
Read the full coverage of the April 27, 2011 tornadoes from The Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News and Mobile Press-Register.
But among the findings Knupp, with the research help of a team of a graduate students, revealed in his seminar is that at least 1 percent of the land in Alabama was hit by a tornado touchdown on April 27.
"Does 1 percent sound large to you?" Knupp asked his audience as his Power Point presentation revealed a slide indicating that it is indeed a large number. "Well, it might not (seem large) to some."
Knupp showed photos and graphs that marked the tornadoes on April 27 compared with the outbreak in 1974 - which saw tornadoes spanning from central Alabama northward as far as Michigan.
"(The April 27) outbreak had more tornadoes in it over a much smaller geographic region, so it was really concentrated," Knupp said.
Perhaps nowhere in the state were the tornadoes more concentrated than Marshall County, where 16 tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down April 27. Most were weak twisters - rated either EF-0 or EF-1, but there was an EF-2, as well as two EF-4 tornadoes. All touched down in the Arab-Guntersville area in the northern half of the county.
Of those 16 tornadoes in Marshall, 13 began between 6:12 a.m. and 6:49 a.m., according to surveys conducted by the Huntsville office of the National Weather Service. Four tornadoes began at 6:30 a.m.
"There were multiple witnesses who saw multiple tornadoes on the ground simultaneously," Knupp said. "We don't know why yet. We could speculate that maybe this vorticity-rich environment interacted with the topography to produce this flurry of tornadoes. But at this point, we don't have a good answer."
More concrete answers have been formed on the creation of one of the day's worst storms - the EF-5 monster that began near Hackleburg and barreled across the state, packing sustained winds of more than 200 mph and killing 72 people.
Knupp said his research indicated the Hackleburg tornado formed just 16 minutes after the creation of the supercell storm - a relative blink-of-the-eye compared with the average of two hours. Some tornadoes on April 27 took eight hours to form after the supercell emerged.
"The Hackleburg storm got its act together really quickly," Knupp said. "I think it did because it was along a boundary."
As for the significance of forming along a boundary, Knupp went high-tech to his audience of science students and weather experts.
"Why did Hackleburg storm produce a tornado so quickly?" Knupp asked. "The hypothesis is that it formed and evolved along this well-defined pre-existing thermal boundary that happened to be well-sampled in this area by our instrumentation.
"That boundary provides potential for enhanced vertical shear generation and additional generation of vorticity along the horizontal axis, which can then be tilted into the vertical. A detailed analysis of that boundary is forthcoming."Follow me on Twitter @paul_gattis or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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TRURO – Truro's mayor says a regional approach to economic development should soon see another hurdle cleared.
Bill Mills told the Truro Daily News he recently met with officials from Stewiacke, Amherst, Cumberland County, East Hants and the Department of Economic and Rural Development regarding the creation of a regional enterprise network (REN). An area REN would provide regional economic leadership, assist in the development of economic strategies and offer support to small local businesses.
"We discussed what it's going to take," to move forward with a regional approach, said Mills.
The mayor said one relevant topic is in-kind services between the communities.
"No money would be put into this; rather people, phones, and facilities would be the contribution."
The "conversation was quite positive," said Mills, adding he's waiting to hear what the next step is and expects word will come "soon."
Another area to consider is how long of an agreement between the areas could occur. Mills said the provincial government suggested two years but the local areas are considering a five-year agreement with a review in the third year.
The Municipality of Colchester County recently hired its own economic development co-ordinator and was not part of the area REN meeting. Mills said despite that, he expects continued communication with the county on some topics.
"The county would not be part of this REN but I imagine we'd still collaborate … there will be discussion on some things," said Mills.
The REN replaces local regional development associations, which recently shut down after federal funding was discontinued.
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For Dan Etherington, the key to business success
is innovation. Hardly an earth-shattering insight, you
might say. But consider that Dan's company, Kokonut
Pacific, manufactures hand-operated coconut oil
machinery that uses a traditional extraction technique
and sells it to rural communities in developing
countries. Even in this low-tech market, innovation is
Dan's first innovation was to match supply with
demand. In 1992, when he was an agricultural economist
at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra,
he led a consultancy team to Mozambique. There, a
village soap maker said he needed a way to extract oil
from coconuts. Dan later recalled that people on an
island in Tuvalu had developed a method to press oil
from sun-dried coconuts.
Working with the CSIRO, he used this approach to
develop a coconut oil machine. After testing designs,
they came up with a disarmingly simple unit: a metal
plate for drying coconut flesh to the right moisture
content and a hand-operated press for squeezing out the
Ready to take his equipment to the market in 1994,
Dan retired from ANU and started Kokonut Pacific. Though
a few units were eventually exported to Mozambique and
elsewhere in Africa, Dan set his sights on the island
nations of the South Pacific and Caribbean, where
coconuts were plentiful, but people struggled to make a
living producing copra, the raw ingredient of industrial
coconut oil.
The design and innovation process continued as
teething problems cropped up. For example, villagers
would sometimes damage the press by using more force
than was needed to expel the oil. Now the press has a
shear pin that can easily be replaced if excessive force
is applied.
"It's been a continuous
process of learning and developing in-house expertise.
People rise to the challenge if you give them the
Dan and his team of four employees have also had to
take an unusually far-reaching approach to marketing.
While some villages produce oil for local use, others
need to sell it further afield. Kokonut Pacific has
helped them with product development and sales of
certified organic virgin coconut oil, coconut oil soap
and coconut oil biodiesel fuel.
In the Solomon Islands, where producers lack the most
basic infrastructure and support, Kokonut Pacific has
created a local joint-venture company that buys back the
coconut oil for export. "Our main problem now is
managing rapid expansion because so many communities
want to join the scheme," Dan says.
Thanks to growing demand for coconut oil among
health-food shops and the successful launch of the
Niulife brand of products, which Kokonut Pacific sells
through its website, machinery sales have boomed. The
company sold 100 units last year and Dan hopes to match
that number this year.
He sees innovation as a way of keeping his team
engaged. Each problem has become an opportunity to
challenge employees to think in new ways. For instance,
the Kokonut Pacific website was developed internally,
even though no one on staff had online experience. It
paid off: Internet sales in the first year were
"It's been a continuous process of learning and
developing in-house expertise," Dan says. "People rise
to the challenge if you give them the chance."
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