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With my busy job, and physical therapy appointments, I have to settle for being a "Weekend Blogger". Most of our weekday meals are my tried and true recipes, that are already on my blog. If you follow my Facebook Fan Page, during the week I do try to share what recipe I'm making and to quickly check in to see what my friends are up to.
So, the weekend has rolled around and this is when I focus on spending time at home, with my husband and household chores. I look forward to my Saturday mornings, when our 5:15am alarm is turned off. Bliss. On the weekends, I try to make at least one new recipe and to write a blog post.
I promised to post a tutorial on how to make hamburger buns from the hot dog bun recipe that I shared. It just didn't seem like it would be enough. Then, I had an idea-- why not modify the recipe to be a whole wheat version?
I always post a printable recipe card at the end of each recipe post. If you cannot view it, you might be using an older version of InternetExplorer. You should be able to view my recipe cards with Safari, Mozilla, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
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text: Research has shown that people with autism have a perceptual bias during sensory processing that results in a focus on details, or "local" features, often at the expense of the whole, or "global" features. That is, they often "cannot see the forest for the trees." In contrast, typically developing populations are aware of global features in a sensory stimulus, and are able to see the idiomatic "forest." The effect of this perceptual bias on multiple sensory systems is unknown. Dr. Bastian's fellow will explore local versus global processing of shapes in two sensory systems: vision and touch. The perceptual bias in vision will be compared to the bias in touch using analogous stimuli. Motion perception will also be examined, and the bias in processing dynamic stimuli will be compared to the bias for static stimuli. To understand how these perceptual biases may ultimately affect behavior, the scientists will also analyze how participating subjects draw different shapes. What this means for people with autism: This research will increase understanding of perceptual abnormalities in autism, which may be at the root of some of the symptoms of this disorder. This understanding may also lead to better behavioral treatment strategies.


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The Haitian Earthquake saw the first significant uptick in responding entities. Gisli Olafsson brought this up the first time we'd met, at a talk of his at the Wilson Center . I was just starting to visually take notes (having broken my arm), and I was a year into leading a group called Geeks Without Bounds , one of the many technical response groups which had emerged and then stuck around. It was hard to know what we would be good at, where we fit in. Disaster response has such a long and complicated history, and the culture of technology is so used to being new, shiny, and the Fixer of All Things.
Seven years later, and the patterns of digital response are becoming so well ingrained in my soul that I can use the Socratic method to help new groups as they spin up without becoming frustrated, and insist on things like self care. There's still a lot to learn – especially as our physical and digital environments are changing all the time – but here is what I have figured out about where digital/technical/whatever response fits into the larger response ecosystem: crowdsourcing (and microtasking), increasing everyday capacity, information communication technology, and easing collaboration through standards.
Because each of those is a hefty thing to speak about, this entry covers crowdsourcing and microtasking.
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. Both are predicated on a very large task being broken down into many tiny pieces, which can can then be done by relatively unskilled/untrained labor. Then all those individual contributions need to be able to re-combine into a logical Whole again without too much overhead. Because of the need for a clear workflow, the problem-solving creativity of in this process exists in the creation of the workflow, the systems on which it runs, and the creation of the experience for the individual participant.
What follows is an example of an emerging crowdsourced practice and one with a smoother flow and two examples about microtasking. A later entry will cover how citizen science exists in the overlap between crowdsourcing and microtasking,
The way I'm used to seeing rescue requests happen is through an overloaded emergency response system asking people to stay in their homes and wait it out. It's never sat well with me, but I've been at a loss as to how, as a remote responder, assist. During Harvey, the Coast Guard activated the Digital Humanitarian Network to help go through rescue requests on social media to provide them with summaries every 12 hours which they could then respond to. 12 hours is a long time to wait, even if it's a quick cycle for the formal sector. Locals started using Zello to request and offer help via the Cajun Navy . (Let's return to a rant on redundancy in dispatched resources based on a lack of sharing another time, yes?) Rescue.fm has since started working on ways to coordinate dispatch beyond scribbling on pieces of paper and spreadsheets. Good work, Zello, Cajun Navy, and Rescue.fm! I'm excited to see how this evolves over time, and to see such clear improvements to systems for mutual aid.
During Harvey response (and then again for Irma), Sketch City set up a workflow for volunteers to call shelters to ask for their capacity, available beds, location, etc. That information was then entered into a data structure which could be queried via SMS through code built by the HarveyAPI team.
Eventually, something like a data standard for health and human services could automate much of this process. But until and unless that happens, this sort of information doesn't become available to people under stress unless folk are chipping in to make those phone calls and enter the data. Good work, Sketch City!
The remote mapping of regions (whether in crisis or not) is something that
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has been doing as a core component of digital response since before their mapping of Port-au-Prince in less time than it would have taken to set up a contract through a response agency. Their
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is a beacon of how can get involved in helping a response (or " Putting the World's Vulnerable People on the Map "). Those maps are then used by responders and locals to allocate resources, find useful paths across treacherous ground, or focus restoration efforts. This most recent round of hurricane response was no different, and for that we thank you.
People should be able to ask for, and offer, help in whatever language they are most comfortable in. Areas affected by extreme environmental events will always be home to multilingual populations, whether or not they are visible. The incoming and outgoing information is often so varied as to mean blanket translations won't work. Thankfully, Meedan stepped in with their Bridge tool and community to create a workflow around translating individual messages, announcements of services, and some documentation of products. Without them, we would have been even more colonial than usual (another rant for another time).
In short, there are many people in the world who want to help, and many who need help. Often, they're one and the same. Our role as remote responders and system-builders is to help them find each other and to interact with fewer things in the way. A good first step for many people wanting to help is to have a quick, easy way to contribute – often through crowdsourcing or microtasking. A next step to plug in for more complex and longer-term efforts is ethically desirable as well.
If we work together to build an ecosystem around different ways for people to contribute and request, we strengthen our social fabric and become more resilient.
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One of my early explorations, an interplay between playful, expressive linework and familiar solid shapes, intrigued the team. I took my own experiences as a teenage WordPress.com power user all the way back from high school as an inspiration point: there is something in this expressive linework that is akin to a dot going for a walk, like the on-the-fly aspect of blogging. It feels hand-drawn, imperfect, and approachable — yet finished and polished, like a professional doodle.
The progression of balancing shapes and linework
With feedback from the team, this approach was refined down to look less cartoon-ish and a bit more mature, as a huge part of WordPress's audience is comprised of businesses. The above shows a bit of that progression in balancing line against shape. Shapework is used to groud most of the composition, and linework adds in detail as well as a bit more personality.
We also realized that whenever possible, extra details connoting a personal touch go a long way in humanizing these illustrations. Here, the whimsical flip of a piece of printer paper or small little piece of hair out of place adds a lot of personality to an otherwise serious scene (a person on their computer).
Along these lines, adding in a character interacting with a UI rather than a static computer yields a far more engaging visual. I then documented guidelines around the style on how to best balance this line and shapework, so as to allow illustrations to more firmly hold their own weight against UI.
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I extended this style across spot illustations, badges, and devices using these very principles! One thing I love about this style is that it is extremely versatile; given the context, we could switch from blockier shapes to singing linework, and because of that, can also adapt well against both light and dark backgrounds.
It's been exciting to see these illustrations start to roll out in the product, especially given the reach that WordPress.com has across millions of websites.
For more about the project itself, check out an interview with myself and collaborator designer
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This project was a true joy to work on! One of my first experiences learning how to design and develop was with my first WordPress blog, back in high school. Friends can attest that I was a true power user — a Teenage Girl Blogger (that's what I called myself); I wrote every day and WordPress.com is one of my favorite websites. As such it was really neat to be able to come back almost a decade later and contribute in the form of illustrations and branding — full circle, almost.
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Policy Statements
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) supports evidence-based public health practice,* including the following:
The Community Guide, through the systematic review of scientific literature, and its evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of existing research evidence for community-based health promotion and disease prevention programs, services, and policies provides LHD with the tools necessary to:
Evidence-based practice for public health involves using the best available evidence to make informed public health practice decisions. The foundation for evidence-based public health practice is a combination of multidisciplinary empirical research and evaluation evidence, community beliefs and opinions, accumulated public health practice experience, and other local considerations. Together, these factors determine which programs are most likely to be effective in a given jurisdiction.
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Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN, is the nutrition
authority on eating for strength, and her Power Eating program has
reshaped the lives of thousands. She is the owner of High Performance
Nutrition, LLC, a consulting firm based in Mercer Island, Washington.
Dr. Kleiner has worked as a nutrition consultant to the Seattle Seahawks
(including quarterback Matt Hasselbeck), Seattle SuperSonics, Miami
Heat, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Repertory Project Dance
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are 2008 Olympic BMX bronze medalist, three-time mountain bike 4X world
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of diet and anabolic steroid use in competitive male bodybuilders, Dr.
Kleiner received a Young Investigator Award in 1987 from the American
College of Nutrition. She is a fellow and cofounder of the International
Society of Sports Nutrition and a fellow of the American College of
Nutrition as well as a member of the American College of Sports Medicine
and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Dr. Kleiner
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One Direction Announce 2014 U.S. & Canada Stadium Tour!
American & Canadian Directioners are in for a treat this morning! One Direction has announced through Live Nation that they will be hitting the road on a North American leg of their upcoming 2014 stadium tour!
The guys – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson – can be seen posing in all of the different sports team jerseys for each stadium they will be performing in. Check out all of the pics below!
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It looks like 1D will be kicking off their tour on August 1, 2014 at Rogers Centre at the Meadowlands in Toronto, Canada before heading to the U.S.!
ARE YOU EXCITED to see One Direction touring America & Canada again?
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August 1st – Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada
August 4th – MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
August 7th – Gillette Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts
August 11th – Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
August 13th – Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 16th – Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan
August 19th – LP Field, Nashville, Tennessee
August 22nd – Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas
August 24th – AT&T Stadium, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
August 27th – Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, Missouri
August 29th – Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
September 12th – Rose Bowl, Los Angeles, California
September 16th – University of Pheonix, Pheonix, Arizona
September 19th – Sunbowl Stadium, El Paso, Texas
September 21st – Alamodome, San Antonia, Texas
September 23rd – BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma
September 25th – Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana
September 27th – PNC Music Pavillion, Charlotte, North Carolina
October 1st – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
October 3rd – Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida
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Experts say virtually no threat to Hawaii from Japan nuclear radiationUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Mar 18, 2011
According to experts from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Department of Meteorology, the risks to Hawai'i from the situation at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are extremely negligible.
Dr. Thomas Schroeder, director of the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, and professor Steven Businger of the Department of Meteorology, lead scientist for the modeling of vog dispersion from Kilauea Volcano, explained that there are several factors keeping Hawai'i safe from this potential threat.
First, they explained, based on reliable sources (including a number readily available by internet searches), the highest altitude of the plume of radiation is no higher than 5,000 feet. The low-level winds from Japan (latitude 38 degrees north) show no particle tracks aimed near Hawai'i. Also, they noted, there has been confusion surrounding comments about jet stream transport of the nuclear particles, however, this event is occurring at low elevations. The jet stream is not a factor in the current situation.
In addition, the wide geographic distance between Hawai'i and Japan is a very important factor. Dr. Schroeder noted, "According to dispersion models, any radiation from the plume will be dispersed into a very wide area, and as it diffuses and spreads the concentrations become lower and lower. As it is diffusing and spreading over the Pacific Ocean, the rain is also another benefit, which helps to cleanse the radiation out of the atmosphere."
They pointed to the fact that the U.S. government has determined for purposes of the U.S. citizens in Japan that the risk zone was bounded by a 50-mile radius of the Fukushima facility. The air mileage from Tokyo to Honolulu is slightly more than 3,800 miles and the plume would be spread over a much greater volume.
While it is natural to be concerned about this issue after tragedies such as the Chernobyl nuclear accident and the bombing of Hiroshima, the situation is actually more similar to a smoke stack at a power plant. Outreach faculty at the UH Sea Grant College Program caution the public to look at this from a scientific perspective. For most of the population this is a great unknown, but there are a number of sources of information available, beginning with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


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Michael Chertoff and Dallas Lawrence: Investigating Terror in the Age of Twitter
After an arrest was reported in error, Boston police quickly knocked it down online.
In an incredibly short span of five days last week, America went from a nation under attack by terrorists to one made proud as law-enforcement agencies quickly identified the suspected Boston bombers and tracked them down. The attack, the investigation, the manhunt and the swift resolution were unprecedented. So too was the way that law enforcement employed digital tools to do its job.
A dozen years ago when the terrorists struck on 9/11, there was no Facebook or Twitter or i-anything on the market. Cellphones were relatively common, but when cell networks collapsed in 2001, many people were left disconnected and wanting for immediate answers. Last week in Boston, when mobile networks became overloaded following the bombings, the social-media-savvy Boston Police Department turned to Twitter, using the platform as a makeshift newsroom to alert media and concerned citizens to breaking news.
Law-enforcement agencies around the world will note how social media played a prominent role both in telling the story and writing its eventual conclusion. Some key lessons have emerged.
One is that misinformation—always the bane of law enforcement during emergencies—now spreads instantaneously. Boston police, recognizing the problem, took to social media to correct the record quickly. Early in the investigation, on Wednesday last week, news outlets such as CNN incorrectly reported that an arrest had been made. The story appeared at 1:46 p.m. ET on CNN's blog and was tweeted minutes later. Tens of thousands of social-media posts quickly shared the news of the arrest, and word was spread further through cable-news broadcasts. This was one of many inaccurate reports that spread across the Internet.
Within the hour, the Boston Police Department Twitter handle (@Boston_Police) posted a tweet correcting the media's claims. The tweet generated more than 10,500 shares on Twitter, ensuring that the mistaken arrest report lost steam. The episode established the BPD's social-media channels as the go-to source for authoritative information that transformed media coverage of the bombing investigation from that point forward. News outlets even took to re-tweeting the police department's posts.
Boston police didn't just use social media to correct errors. The department recognized that the news media were starved for information as the investigation continued. The traditional periodic law-enforcement news conference isn't enough to feed the news cycle—which is not so much 24/7 as 1,440, the number of minutes in a day.
Media outlets hunger for news updates, videos and short 140-character quotes to fuel their own social and digital channels. The flow of information from the Boston police discouraged the media's overreliance on unofficial sources.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the bombing investigation was the way that law enforcement employed social media to actually aid the investigation, not merely to manage the news and inform the public. Moments after photos and video of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were posted to FBI.gov, the government's website nearly crashed from the crush of visitors. BPD posted all of the official photos and video to social media to compensate for the lagging website and to encourage their online distribution. Many people shared these posts online—with some posts re-tweeted 16,000 to 17,000 times.
Each one of these "shares" on social media increased the visibility of the pictures and video that were key to identifying and locating the suspects—and to letting the suspects know that their images were everywhere. That knowledge is likely what prompted the Tsarnaev brothers to bolt from hiding.
The ubiquity of social media had its unsettling effect on law enforcement agencies during the investigation. Police departments across the country are by now well aware that criminals use social media too, whether bragging about crimes on Twitter or even posting YouTube videos that ultimately prove helpful to prosecutors.
Early Friday morning, some Boston-area residents began sharing details of the investigation they gathered by listening to police scanners on social media. As the search continued, people also posted photos and videos marking the location of law enforcement. These folks might have thought their posts were harmless or even somehow helpful, but they could have provided suspects with information they needed to evade law enforcement. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after all, was on Twitter in the days following the bombing.
During the search for Tsarnaev, Boston police went on social-media outlets to post requests that the public "not compromise officer safety/tactics by broadcasting live video of officers while approaching search locations." Almost instantly, major media outlets from MSNBC to Fox News began admonishing their on-air guests to avoid mentioning specific details of the hunt.
The Boston Marathon bombing was a horrific crime, but it offered many lessons for law enforcement and for the country. Some of them were reminders of what we knew too well in the aftermath of 9/11—that militant Islam, for instance, wants to spill blood in America by any means possible. But some of the lessons were new ones. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis and his department set a social-media standard for security emergencies that will benefit law-enforcement agencies everywhere, and the people they serve.
Mr. Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush administration, is chairman of the Chertoff Group, a security-advisory firm. Mr. Lawrence, chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, was a spokesman for the military coalition in Iraq during the Bush administration.


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HP Gets Another $138 Million to Keep the Old Navy Network Operational
Boost reflects delay in transition to new network.
The total value of the Naval Marine Corps Internet contract has reached $15.7 billion thanks to an extension last Friday to the NMCI bridge contract valued at $138 million.
Electronic Data Systems, now HP Enterprise Services, won the $10 billion NMCI contract in 2000, followed by a $3.4 billion Continuity of Services contract in July 2010 and numerous extensions since then, which pushed the value of the bridge contract up to $5.6 billion.
The Navy last June awarded HP its Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract, designed to serve 800,000 Navy and Marine users, but HP could not start work on the new contract until the Government Accountability Office tossed out a protest by Harris last November.
The $138 million bridge contract extension will run from June through September of this year to continue NMCI services for those sites which have not yet transitioned to NGEN, the Navy said – that's unless, in my view, there is yet another extension.
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Sabé is the most important of Queen Amidala's royal retinue of handmaidens. During crisis situations, Sabé and Amidala switch roles. Sabé becomes a decoy, disguised as the Queen, while Amidala adopts a simple gown of a handmaiden, and goes by her less formal name of Padmé Naberrie. When in this role, Sabé and Padmé secretly communicate with subtle signals as to not divulge their true identities. During the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, Sabé posed as the Queen on several occasions.
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The Naboo Royal Handmaidens are a group of young women handpicked to aid the Queen of Naboo. On the surface, it appears as if the handmaidens only assist with the Queen's gowns, hairstyles, and makeup. However, they are all trained in self-defense and remain vigilant against any threats to their sovereign. In fact, during times of turmoil, a handmaiden actually poses as the Queen. The Naboo Royal Handmaidens have been selected for their various talents as well as for their resemblance to the Queen, which is useful if a decoy is required. After being invited to join the Queen's entourage, each handmaiden was trained in self defense and marksmanship. They often carry small, concealable blasters.
An idyllic world close to the border of the Outer Rim Territories, Naboo is inhabited by peaceful humans known as the Naboo, and an indigenous species of intelligent amphibians called the Gungans. Naboo's surface consists of swampy lakes, rolling plains and green hills. Its population centers are beautiful -- Naboo's river cities are filled with classical architecture and greenery, while the underwater Gungan settlements are a beautiful display of exotic hydrostatic bubble technology.
A resourceful astromech droid, R2-D2 served Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker in turn, showing great bravery in rescuing his masters and their friends from many perils. A skilled starship mechanic and fighter pilot's assistant, he formed an unlikely but enduring friendship with the fussy protocol droid C-3PO.
Boss Nass
The stout and stern leader of the Gungans, Boss Nass was a proud keeper of his people's ways. His booming voice issued decrees on behalf of all the Gungans of Otoh Gunga. He kept a tight rein on Gungan affairs, continuing a longstanding custom of isolationism. Though Nass' temper is short, displays of courage and humility can pierce through his preconceptions. When Queen Amidala prostrated herself before the Gungan leader to request his aid in fighting off the Trade Federation invasion, he was impressed. Nass committed the Gungan Grand Army to wage war against invading battle droids.
Naboo Royal Starship
The Naboo Royal Starship boasts a strikingly beautiful design that embodies the craftsmanship that prevailed in the peaceful years of the Republic. The polished, streamlined J-type 327 Nubian vessel lacks any offensive weaponry, but does feature strong shields and a competent hyperdrive. During the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, Queen Amidala and her retinue escaped aboard the Royal Starship. Piloted by Ric Olie, the vessel narrowly avoided the Trade Federation blockade, though its hyperdrive was damaged. The ship limped to Tatooine, where a replacement T-14 hyperdrive generator was procured.


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Kevin Bieksa has provided his fair share of highlights over the years. From his days of a feared middleweight fighter, to his goal that sent the Canucks to the Stanley Cup Final back in 2011, to his foray into glove tossing this past season, the man known as "Juice" is an integral part of the Canucks, both on and off of the ice. He and Dan Hamhuis form one of the best two-way defensive pairings in the entire league.
In 2011-12, Bieksa set a career high with 44 points in 78 games. The Grimsby, Ontario native now has three NHL seasons of 40 or more points. Even with a career year offensively, his play in 2011-12 could be best described as inconsistent, as his defensive game was a bit of an adventure at times.
One of those times was in early February in Colorado. He struggled mightily against the Avalanche that night, turning the puck over numerous times. However, just like Lloyd in Dumb & Dumber, Bieksa went ahead and totally redeemed himself at the end of the game.
The Canucks pulled Roberto Luongo late in the third period for the extra attacker, and Colorado looked to seal the game late. Bieksa had other ideas. The save (and the goal) from February 4th, 2012:
Let's break it down, shall we?
Bieksa does what Roberto Luongo never could – make a save while lying on his stomach (I'll be here all night).
After making the save, Bieksa now leads the rush up the ice. He has several passing options, including Cody Hodgson and Mason Raymond. Well, maybe just Hodgson… He chooses to dump it in.
Bieksa's friend, Mr. Stanchion, makes a return here and delivers a perfect pass right onto his stick. Since Colorado was overplaying along the boards, Bieksa has all the time in the world to carry the puck into the middle of the ice.
[Insert lame diving joke here]
Bieksa makes a great play by dragging the puck in a bit to change the angle. David Booth (who sets a terrific screen here) is the one getting shot at, for once.
Bieksa finishes off with a fist pump that Danny Briere would be proud of. A great save and a timely goal, all within the span of less than a minute. The last player to do that was probably Martin Brodeur.


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I have to say one of the best parts of my childhood was being both a Cub and a Boy Scout. Because I was a non-swimmer, I never quite made it to the top as an Eagle Scout, but many things I learned I still practice today.
"Be Prepared" is the scout motto. If you look in the back of my van you might conclude I'm prepared for most any contingency. I don't need your help AAA or FEMA, I've got it covered.
In Cub Scouts it was nice to have my dad involved with me, although I'm not sure how much I actually did to build the 6 inch Pinewood Derby cars we raced down the track.
Through those years I learned how to tie knots the right way, shoot with a bow, target practice with a rifle, build a good campfire and then cook over it, safely use a knife and ax, dig a latrine, and get along with others when camping out together.
My biggest Scouting adventure was with my dad and our troop on four day 40 mile hike around Mt Rainier. I'm fairly certain I had the world's worst back pack… I may still have indentations in me from those canvas straps.
Even though we weren't involved in a church for a good part of that time, Scouting sure wasn't bashful about instilling moral values. At one time I had the Scout Oath and Law memorized. It's such a good starting point for any of us on how we should live our lives out.
Scout Oath (or Promise)
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,
brave, clean, and reverent.
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Daytona Beach, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - NASCAR handed down penalties to Kurt Busch's No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing team on Tuesday for failing post-race inspection in the July 6 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Busch was docked 10 driver points, and Gene Haas lost 10 car owner points. Crew chief Daniel Knost received a $10,000 fine.
According to a news release from NASCAR, the infraction is a P2 level penalty. The sanctioning body noted the No. 41 team violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 20-12 (l) of the 2014 NASCAR rule book.
Section 20-12 (1) in the rule book states, "For events at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, at all times, the Delta (or difference) of the Z-height measurement between the center of the panhard bar mounting bolt located at the left truck trailing arm and the center of the panhard bar mounting bolt, located at the right rear sub-frame mounting bracket, must not exceed three inches."
Busch, the 2004 Cup Series champion, finished third at Daytona. Following post-race inspection, his car was taken to the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, where it underwent further inspection.
With the points loss, Busch dropped from 24th to 26th in the standings (currently 412 points for the season).
Busch won the spring race at Martinsville Speedway, which has virtually guaranteed him a spot in this year's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. He must be in the top-30 in points when the regular season concludes (Sept. 6 at Richmond International Raceway) in order to qualify for the Chase. Busch is presently 156 points ahead of 31st-place David Gilliland.


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June 16. 2013 12:12AM
Judge to allow trial in wrongful termination suit
By NANCY WEST
New Hampshire Sunday News
A health policy analyst who says she was fired from the state Insurance Department two years ago for refusing to ignore competitive bidding to hire a consultant will have her day in court.
Leslie Ludtke's lawsuit against Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny and Deputy Commissioner Alexander Feldvebel can proceed as a wrongful termination case because of a recent ruling by Judge Larry Smukler in Merrimack County Superior Court.
Several of Ludtke's other claims, including being fired for being a whistleblower, were previously dismissed by the court.
"We're very pleased. It means we get our day in court," said her attorney, Charles G. Douglas. "She gets to be able to have a jury decide whether politics or competitive bidding rules should be the law of land."
Ludtke's duties included giving analytical and policy advice and recommendations to Sevigny, including how to implement the federal Affordable Care Act. The consultant was going to study setting up a health care insurance exchange under the ACA
Ludtke, who formerly served as associate attorney general, has been unable to find work since her termination, Douglas said.
After the Insurance Department issued a request for bid proposals to find the best insurance exchange model for the state and develop a plan to implement it, the department recommended Wakely Consulting Group, a Massachusetts firm.
But it was turned down by the Executive Council.
Ludtke says she was fired for disagreeing with Sevigny, who wanted to then offer a no-bid contract to another firm that would be more palatable to the council.
"They were trying to get around Wakely and get the contract to someone else. That's when (Ludtke) stepped up," Douglas said. "They said she was insubordinate."
Senior Assistant Nancy Smith, who represents the state Insurance Department in the lawsuit, said the court has made it clear that Ludtke was an employee who served at the will of the insurance commissioner.
As such, Ludtke has no grounds to sue the state, Smith said.
"(The commissioner) didn't have to have cause to terminate her, and it was not in bad faith, with malice or in retaliation," Smith said.
But Douglas disagreed.
"It is a bad-faith firing because she was trying to defend the competitive bidding laws," Douglas said.
"After the Insurance Department ran into political problems, they wanted her to come up with a solution that went around competitive bidding laws."
In denying the Insurance Department's motion for summary judgment, Smukler wrote that Ludtke continued to work with her bosses to "propose an alternative that would not run afoul of New Hampshire competitive bidding law," but was suspended and ultimately terminated.
Ludtke disagreed in her suit, saying that during the termination process, "the defendants harassed her and acted with malice," Smukler wrote.
Because the pleadings document "a genuine dispute of the material facts underlying (Ludtke's) termination," Smukler denied the motion to find in favor of the state.
Instead, the case is scheduled to go to trial in January.


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WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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I can't use this monitor now that I can see those damn lines again. Refund! Amazon picking it up tomorrow.
Seriously. Is it a thing with IPS monitors? Should I bother trying to buy another one, or just go with a TN, even if the colours and viewing angles are a bit pish? Or should I just save all the way up and get some giant fancy sucker like Snowy has?


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QUEENS — Astoria, already famous for its beer gardens and authentic Greek food, may also be soon known for smoked meats.
A new smokehouse, The Strand, is opening this weekend at 25-27 Broadway, filling a culinary gap left after John Brown Smokehouse moved to Hunters Point earlier this year.
The Strand plans to offer all sorts of meats, some of which may be unfamiliar to city diners. "Duck pastrami will be amazing," boasted the chef, Eric Miley.
The owner, Tommy Vasilis, 41, has promised "average prices" and said charcuterie would be a significant part of the menu.
Meats will be smoked at Bakeway, a bakery next door, which Vasilis also owns. Some charcuterie will come from the Astoria-based Muncan Food Corp.
"Our main cuisine is a Southern smokehouse kind," Vasilis said, distinguishing it from typical barbeque.
But the restaurant plans to also host barbecues in the summertime in its front and back yards.
Vasilis said he plans to serve a few craft beers from small local breweries, including Barrier Brewing Company in Long Island, but the focus will be on the meat.
"We want to be known for our food," he said, specifically recommending the smoked pork loin and smoked salmon.
To spice the meats the chef will be using herbs grown inside the vast smokehouse.
The 5,000 square feet indoor space, previously a Blockbuster video store, can easily fit a few hundred people, Vasilis said. There is also a stage where live bands will play music, mostly bluegrass and country.
Customers will sit at casual communal tables made of reclaimed lumber, and both water and sauces will be served in empty whiskey bottles.
"We want to be a stroller-friendly family place," he said. "The whole purpose of this space is to bring this neighborhood together."
He said the portion of Astoria below 31st Avenue, where the smokehouse is located, is often seen as a stepchild of the greater neighborhood, where people don't come to hang out. "We are hoping to change that," he said.
Vasilis also said that the name he picked for the venue is not a coincidence.
In the past, he said, many businesses in the area had the word "strand" in their names, which possibly originated from an old movie theater on Broadway — The Strand Theater — which closed in the 1980s.
"We want to honor that heritage," Vasilis said.


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In its first year The United Sorghum Checkoff has sponsored as much as $1.5 million in research and $800,000 in market development efforts, as well as launched an information effort that is helping promote the value of sorghum.
The program runs out of the National Sorghum Producers headquarters in Lubbock, Texas.
"We started from scratch about 18 months ago," said Bill Grieving, Sorghum Checkoff president and a Kansas farmer. "We got a board seated and developed three important committees—research, marketing and information. We had a successful first year, thanks to a cooperative board and a professional and competent staff. They make my job easier.
"We have developed by-laws, policies and a strategic plan to guide the board (13 members from across the grain sorghum production belt)."
He said checkoff funds resulted in 27 projects initiated in the first year.
"We have a lot on the table now," said Texas board member Billy Bob Brown, a Panhandle producer. "We hope to make sorghum a more profitable option."
Brown, Grieving and Arkansas board member Stewart Weaver say research efforts will go a long way toward achieving that goal. They cite drought tolerance, cold tolerance and herbicide tolerance as key research initiatives.
"Research efforts for sorghum have lagged behind other crops," Weaver said. "Little private industry money was available for sorghum, but with the checkoff funds we've been able to attract some private companies back to sorghum. Seed companies are looking to improve varieties."
He said a lot of excellent researchers are working with sorghum now. "We're getting a lot of good ideas."
Research goes beyond the field, too. Brown said work into human food uses promises to be an exciting opportunity for sorghum. "Sorghum flour is already used in a lot of food products, but its gluten free properties make it even more attractive."
He also mentioned early studies that show sorghum in the human diet might help prevent cancer. "This will be long-term research but it is an exciting prospect," he said.
Grieving said drought and cold tolerant research offers opportunity for improving sorghum yield and profit for producers. "Sorghum is already drought tolerant," he said, "but improvement is possible. We're also interested in an over-the-top herbicide for sorghum."
Weaver said efforts to satisfy grain and cellulose demand from the ethanol industry also gets high billing for future efforts. "We've hardly scratched the surface with sweet sorghums and forage sorghums," he said.
Ethanol will play a key role in the Sorghum Checkoff marketing effort. "Some ethanol plants (Levelland, Texas, for instance) are currently using only grain sorghum," Weaver said.
"Grain sorghum will produce as much fuel as corn." He said the feed value of the distillers' grain from grain sorghum is as good as the corn by-product.
He said a biofuel plant in Memphis, Tenn., is using sweet sorghum to produce ethanol and that industry observers contend the company is ahead of a lot of other biofuel companies.
Brown said the sorghum industry is working with the Department of Energy on biofuel initiatives.
They also are working to help ethanol producers determine the value of the grain. The Sorghum Ethanol Inclusion Calculator is a tool developed by the Sorghum Checkoff to help ethanol producers calculate their returns by including sorghum as a feedstock for their ethanol.
"We're working with feedlots to explain ration mixes," Weaver said. "They know the value of grain sorghum in cattle rations but some have veered away from sorghum and we ask if it's cheaper, why not use grain sorghum."
Marketing efforts have spread much farther than U.S. feedlots and ethanol plants, however. "We're working with the U.S. Grains Council," Grieving said. "We've recently brought in teams to work with the Mexican market."
He said that market had declined over the past two years but a renewed marketing push is bringing it back.
"Efforts with the U.S. Grains council have been very beneficial," Weaver said. "That relationship recently helped us move quite a bit of grain, including two big sales to Morocco."
He said the Grains Council serves as a middleman between various entities to smooth out the marketing process.
"We've also brought in teams from other countries to learn about ration mixes and have sponsored teams to visit countries to teach livestock feeders about grain sorghum. We have to make a home for the sorghum we produce."
Weaver said sorghum may have opportunities in niche markets. "I think it's worth the time to investigate."
Brown said checkoff funds allowed the Grains Council to hire a fulltime employee to work with sorghum markets.
Grieving said even with a successful first year behind them, the Checkoff Program board and staff face significant challenges.
"We have a referendum next February," he said. "We need to be ready for that. Producers will decide if they want to continue and we hope we accomplish enough to show them that we're using their check-off dollars efficiently to improve their bottom lines."
"We have to get the word out about the checkoff," Weaver said. "Surveys show that we're going above 6 percent per month (achieving) overall awareness of the checkoff program. It's best to educate folks and show them what we're doing. That usually improves support. If we don't do that, the first reaction is a knee jerk and may be negative."
He said communicating the health benefits of sorghum offers another opportunity. "We want to distinguish sorghum from other grains," he said.
Grieving said declining acreage has been a significant concern but that early surveys indicate sorghum acreage may be up this year.
"We've found that grain sorghum can be a profitable crop in Arkansas if we treat it like a crop and not a step-child for cotton," Weaver said. "Rotating with cotton helps us make decent yields."
The Sorghum Checkoff will soon offer production handbooks as pocket guides to growing better sorghum. Growers can expect to see these available for different regions of the United States this spring. The Sorghum Checkoff has also made a lot of information available to producers at sorghumcheckoff.com. This Website is updated constantly to ensure that producers always have access to new research results and resources to expand their marketing options.
"We have a two-fold challenge," Brown said. "We have to perfect the product and the market and then we have to produce the sorghum."
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The natives are restless in Allen Town.
Paul Allen's Vulcan Real Estate company is bitterly unhappy with the Seattle City Council's unanimous vote Monday to sharply increase fees that they and other developers will have to pay toward providing affordable housing in South Lake Union.
"In choosing to raise fees, they are sending a message to developers and investors that there's a lack of predictability in Seattle," Vulcan's vice president of real estate Ada Healey grouses in a recent interview with Seattle Weekly. "They are imposing fees [in South Lake Union] that are 40 percent higher than what is charged downtown. So when you are trying to promote economic development, well, this does not seem inequitable."
What has Vulcan royally ticked off is the council's rejection of Mayor Mike McGinn's proposal to keep the fee at the current rate of $15.15 per square foot of space that SLU residential developers use above existing height limits. Councilman Nick Licata went so far as to argue for a $96 per square foot charge. In the end, the council chose to go along with Councilman Mike O'Brien's more moderate $21.68 fee.
The council's plan calls for builder's to ensure that 5 percent of the new residential towers going into the high-density neighborhood be set aside for affordable housing. And if they don't do so, then they'd have to pay an equivalent fee to the city, who would invest the money into other neighborhoods.
The overriding goal of all of this is to create, in essence, places that SLU's burgeoning high-tech workforce can afford to live so they don't have to commute and cause even greater traffic congestion in the area.
Still, Healey is not pleased. "The process they used was not open or transparent," she opines. Healey suggested that the council caved to lobbying efforts exerted by the Housing Development Consortium, a nonprofit advocacy group. "They put a lot of pressure on the council," insists Healey, adding that the city relied on a consultant who is an HDC member and thereby "biased." Counters HDC's executive director Harry Hoffman, "We did what we always do -- interact with council members. We never called out Vulcan by name. It's not about them, it's about providing private benefit for the public good."
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Montgomery County Histories
The following county histories are located in the microfilms area on the second floor of the library. Please ask a librarian at the microforms desk or the reference desk if you need assistance with these materials.
F-2523 (vol. 1, A-L)
F-2524 (vol. 2, M-Z)
Title: Montgomery County, Indiana index of names of persons and of firms.
Published: Indianapolis : County History Indexing Project, Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1979.
Title: Index of Beckwith's 1881 Montgomery County, Indiana history.
Author: Zach, Karen Bazzani.
Published: Crawfordsville, Ind. : Zach, [1978?].
Title: Early history of Ladoga;also containing a brief account of its rise and the community surrounding it.
Author: Anderson W.L.
Published: n.p., [1909?].
Title: [Plat books of Indiana counties].
Author: Sidwell studio, Lombard, Illinois.
Published: Lombard, Ill. : Sidwell studio, [1925-1941].
AGLL Reel 10
Reel 6 No. 29
Title: Atlas of Montgomery co., Indiana; to which are added various general maps, history, statistics, illustrations, &c. Author: Beers, J. H. and Company, Chicago, pub.
Published: Chicago, 1878.
Reel 5 No. 21
Title: History of Montgomery County, together with historic notes on the Wabash Valley, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic ... sources.
Author: Beckwith, Hiram Williams, 1833-1903.
Published: Chicago : H.H. Hill and N. Iddings, 1881.
Reel 55 No. 219
Title: The People's guide, a business, political and religious directory of Montgomery Co., Ind. : together with a collection of very important documents and statistics connected with our moral, political and scientific history : also, a historical sketch of Montgomery Co. and a brief history of each township.
Published: Indianapolis : Indianapolis Print. and Pub. House, 1874.
AGLL Reel 10
Title: souvenir edition, 45th year.
Author: Crawfordsville journal.
Published: Crawfordsville, Indiana,, Oct. 19, 1894.
Title: Darlington, yesterday and today : an historical and pictorial review of the past century.
Published: Darlington, Ind. : The Herald, , [1936].
Title: Memories: the Centennial book (1830-1930) program of the celebration of the centennial of Waynetown and Wayne township at Waynetown, July 30, 1930, and the history of the town and township.
Author: Waynetown (Ind.) Flower lovers club.
Published: 1930.
Title: Crawfordsville--our heritage.
Author: Fortner, Viola Meister.
Published: n.p., 1964.
Title: Sugar Creek saga. A history and development of Montgomery County, Indiana.
Author: Gronert, Theodore Gregory.
Published: Crawfordsville : Wabash College, 1958.
F-2532 (vol. 1)
F-2533 (vol. 2)
Reel 40 No. 144
Title: History of Montgomery county, Indiana, with personal sketches of representative citizens.
Published: Indianapolis : A.W. Bowen & Co., [1913].
AGLL Reel 10
Title: The revised Montgomery county atlas, containing besides a complete atlas, histories of the townships and county, and treatises on civil government, surveying and civil engineering ...
Author: Hoffman, F.
Published: Crawfordsville, Ind. : Indiana printing company, 1898.
Title: Yountsville history.
Author: [McCormick, Ruth Glee (Clodfelder), 1904- ].
Published: Yountsville, Ind.?, 1968].
Title: Early days in college town, and Wabash college in early days and now, with autobiographical reminiscences.
Author: Mills, Frank Moody, 1831-.
Published: Sioux Falls, S.D. : Sessions printing co., 1924.
F-2536 (vol. 1)
F-2537 (vol. 2)
Title: Centennial history of the New Ross community.
Author: [Nees, Ruth, 1902-].
Published: [New Ross, Ind. : New Ross Centennial Committee, 1975].
Reel 57 No.229
Title: A portrait and biographical record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain counties, Indiana, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States.
Published: Chicago : Chapman Bros., 1893.
Title: A history of Waveland, Indiana.
Author: Sharpe, Virginia Banta.
Published: Montezume, Indiana : Wabash Valley Printing Co., 1958.
Title: Montgomery County remembers.
Author: Riggs, Constance Kakavecos.
Published: Crawfordsville, Ind. : Montgomery County Historical Society and the Crawfordsville Community Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
AGLL Reel 10
Title: Standard atlas of Montgomery county, Indiana; including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county; map of the state, United States and world ... .
Author: Ogle, George A. and co.
Published: Chicago, 1917.
Title: Fredericksburg (Mace) and Mace Station (Linnsburg) and vicinity, Montgomery county, Indiana, 1823 to 1969.
Author: Walters, Crystal Pauline Randel, 1907-.
Published: Fort Wayne, Ind. : Fort Wayne Public Library, 1970.
Title: History of Whitesville and community [Montgomery county, Indiana.
Author: Walters, Crystal Pauline Randel, 1907-.
Published: Fort Wayne, Ind. : Fort Wayne Public Library, 1970.
Title: History of Clark Township, Ladoga and part of Scott Township, Montgomery Co., Indiana, 1828-1971.
Author: Walters, Crystal Pauline Randel, 1907-.
Published: Fort Wayne, Ind. : Fort Wayne Public Library, 1971.
Title: Pioneer physicians and surgeons of Montgomery county, Indiana.
Author: Williams, George Thomas, 1865-.
Published: [1945].
Title: New Richmond Christian Church, New Richmond, Indiana.
Author: [Boone, Phyllis (Waye)].
Published: [New Richmond, Ind.?, 1971].
Title: [Historical sketches of Ladoga, Ind.].
Author: [Anderson, W. L.].
Published: Ladoga : Ladoga Leader, 1909.
Title: Montgomery County in the War of 1917.
Author: Central States Life Insurance Co., Crawfordsville, Ind.
Published: Crawfordsville, Ind. : Journal Printing Co., 1917.
F-2552 (vol. 1)
F-2553 (vol. 1)
Title: History of Montgomery county, Indiana in the World war.
Author: Cranston, Harriet Hill.
Published: n.p.,, [1923?].
Title: Crawfordsville, the Athens of Indiana.
Author: Crawfordsville (Ind.)--Commerce, Chamber of.
Published: Chamber of Commerce, 1929.
Title: Mortuary records, Montgomery County, Indiana.
Author: D.A.R. Indiana. Dorothy Q Chapter, Crawfordsville.
Title: Farm ownership atlas of Montgomery County, Indiana.
Author: [Stacy Map Publishers, Rockford, Ill.].
Published: [1937?].
Title: 100th anniversary, 1856-1956.
Author: Free and Accepted Masons of Darlington, Indiana--Darlington Lodge no. 186.
Published: [1956?].
Title: One hundred years of service by the Gravelly Run Friends' church organization [1842-1942].
Author: Hall, Oakel Fowler.
Title: One hundred years: a masonic history of Eminence, Indiana.
Author: Littell, Noble K., 1920-.
Published: Martinsville, Ind. : N.K. Littell, c1972.
Title: Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Title: Gleanings from eminent authorities... relative to the King's keys to his kingdom... .
Author: King's Publishing Company, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Published: Crawforsville, [1915?].
Title: [Descriptive booklet]. Author: Linden, Ind.--Linden-Kirkpatrick Methodist Church.
Published: Marceline, Mo. : Walsworth Bros., c1950.
Subject: Linden (Ind.) --Church history --Methodist.
Title: Ripley Township schools, Montgomery County, Indiana.
Author: McCormick, Ruth Glee (Clodfelder), 1904-.
Published: Fort Wayne, Ind. : Fort Wayne Public Library, 1975.
Title: Official program ... June 9-14, 1916.
Author: Montgomery county centennial association.
Published: [Crawfordsville, Ind., 1916].
Title: A history of Union Presbyterian church, Walnut township Montgomery county, Indiana, 1834-1934.
Author: Porter, W. Arthur (William Arthur).
Published: [Indianapolis? 1934?].
Title: History of the Pleasant Hill Christian Church of Wingate, Indiana.
Author: Thomas, James Derostus, 1850-1915.
Published: [Wingate, Ind.] : the Friendly Volunteer S.S. Class, [1928].
Title: Centennial; a brief history of the origin, progress and present condition of the church.
Author: Crawfordsville (Ind.)--First Christian church.
Published: Crawfordsville, 1926.
Title: History of New Ross and vicinity, 1829-1967.
Author: Walters, Crystal Pauline Randel, 1907-.
Published: Montezuma, Ind. : Wabash Valley Printing Co., [1967?].
Title: The history of churches in Montgomery County, Indiana, 1821 to 1975.
Author: Walters, Crystal Pauline Randel, 1907-.
Published: [n.p., 1975].
Title: The house that quality built. A professional writer looks at R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, its people and their work.
Author: Waltz, George H.
Published: [Chicago, Ill : R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co., c1957].
Reel 29 No. 107
Title: Some early history.
Author: Harrison, John W.
Published: Ladoga, Ind. : Ladoga leader, 1909.


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When I was a kid, I listened to the "Dr. Demento Show" religiously. It played on the local radio station on Sunday nights. A couple of friends of mine would also listen, and the next morning at school we would compare notes about which songs made us laugh the most, which ones we thought were just stupid, etc. I often taped the shows so I could collect the funniest songs, and I spent hours copying the best songs from each week onto a single tape.
Thus began a certain passion for weird music. Partly, my father is to blame -- he had been a DJ at a couple Massachusetts radio stations in the 1960s, and took home many of the 45's the station didn't want. Some of my earliest musical experiences were with these 45s, and there's some pretty bizarre stuff in there. Just like marijuana leads to heroin, those 45s led me to my current situation -- all sorts of stuff in my iTunes library that is utterly without redeeming social importance.
I was going through some of my father's records last weekend, and discovered the stash of 45s. What I really wanted to find was one that had remained in my memory as just about the worst record I'd ever heard in my life. I couldn't remember the singer, but I knew it was a rendition of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by someone who, I remember my father telling me, was a rabbi trying to get young people to realize that rabbis can be, you know, cool. (Later, I would spend a year teaching at a yeshiva, so got to know plenty of rabbis. Some of them can, indeed, be pretty darn cool.)
I found the record. A 45 with four songs on it sung by Sam Chalpin. It was as hilariously awful as I remembered. Now that we have this internet thing, I decided to see if anybody else had heard of Chalpin, and if the LP mentioned on the 45 (My Father the Pop Singer) actually existed. I also wanted to see if there was an MP3 of the song, because I really wanted some other folks to hear it.
First, the song. An MP3 of it can be found at this extraordinary collection of links -- scroll down to "Oytunes". (And while you're there, check out some of the others. 2 Live Jews! Oh, how I loved them when they were on Dr. D!)
Now to Sam Chalpin. The first thing I discovered with the Google was this article from Spectropop about the making of My Father the Pop Singer -- yes, it does exist as an LP, and the legendary Ahmet Ertegun apparently signed it to Atlantic himself! It's a somewhat sad story, though, of an obnoxious son forcing his unwitting father to make a fool of himself. But some more digging led me to this Batman message board (the album includes Chalpin's rendition of the TV show theme) where Sam Chalpin's grandson says, "As for the album itself, it was recorded as a comedy. A gag. My grandfather believe it or not WAS a good singer. He used to be a cantor for his temple. That album was basically clowning around." Some interesting conversation ensues.
Further googling didn't turn up much, but I did find this excellent collection of strange MP3s, where Sam Sachs is compared to Chalpin (though I don't find him quite as humorous). Don't miss the two songs there by the medical glee club The Four Skins. Really. You can download the whole collection as one big zip file ... and, of course, I did....


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Brown, Barden help Giants pound Panthers
In a year of replacement officials, it was a pair of New York Giants substitutes who shined on Thursday.
Andre Brown ran for two touchdowns and 113 yards, while Ramses Barden matched his 2011 receptions total with nine catches for 138 yards in the New York Giants' 36-7 thumping of the Carolina Panthers.
Brown was filling in for Ahmad Bradshaw, who injured his neck during the Giants' 41-34 come-from-behind win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Barden got the start after Hakeem Nicks hurt his foot and third-receiver Domenik Hixon suffered a concussion during Sunday's game.
Coming off a 510-yard passing performance against Tampa Bay, Eli Manning was an efficient 27-of-35 passing for 288 yards and a touchdown for New York (2-1), which dropped its opener to the Dallas Cowboys before prevailing in its next two contests.
Martellus Bennett hauled in six balls for 73 yards and a score in the win.
Cam Newton threw three interceptions and completed just 16-of-30 passes for 242 yards, but did rush for a touchdown, while Greg Olsen racked up 98 yards on seven receptions and Steve Smith added 86 yards on four catches for the Panthers (1-2), who defeated the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart was inactive for the game due to a toe injury.
New York scored on each of its first four possessions and jumped out to a 20-0 lead.
Brown asserted himself on the opening drive and carried the ball three times for 38 yards before Bennett caught a 14-yard seam route from Manning, which capped the 8-play, 80-yard march.
After Jason Pierre-Paul stopped Newton for no gain on a 3rd-and-3 on Carolina's first series, Brown scampered for a 16-yard run off the right guard and Barden added a 21-yard reception before Lawrence Tynes booted through a 47-yard field goal.
Following another Panthers punt, Barden hauled in passes of 20 and 14 yards, which preceded Brown's 1-yard TD plunge to conclude a 9-play, 72-yard trek.
Osi Umenyiora forced another Carolina punt after sacking Newton on a 3rd- and-3, and Barden caught two more passes for 44 yards, before Tynes kicked a 49-yard field goal.
The Giants, who led 20-0 at the break, outgained Carolina 287-125 yards in the first half. Brown registered 96 yards on the ground, while Barden tallied 123 yards on seven catches.
Joe Adams fumbled the second half kickoff, which led to a 30-yard Tynes field goal.
Newton finally got the Panthers into the end zone on their next touch when he took a quarterback draw up the middle for a 1-yard score midway through the third.
A pair of Tynes field goals, 36 and 27 yards, respectively, sandwiched around another Brown 1-yard touchdown, concluded the scoring.
Game Notes
Victor Cruz had 42 yards on six catches for New York after registering 179 yards receiving against the Buccaneers … DeAngelo Williams racked up 50 yards rushing on 11 carries for Carolina … New York outgained Carolina, 405-327.


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EDF Energy raises tariffs by 10.8%
Another three million households face higher energy bills after EDF Energy became the latest supplier to increase tariffs.
The company will raise prices for domestic gas and electricity by 10.8%, meaning its typical dual-fuel bill for a direct debit customer will rise by £122 to £1,251 a year.
EDF, which is the fifth major supplier in recent weeks to announce higher prices, said the change will take effect from December 7. E.ON is the only big supplier yet to announce price rises after it made a promise not to raise tariffs this year.
EDF, which has 3.1 million customers and 5.5 million accounts overall, said its annual dual fuel bill was the lowest of the suppliers to have announced price rises so far.
Companies have blamed the changes on rising wholesale prices and increased running costs, especially for transporting gas and electricity to customers' homes, and the cost of energy efficiency programmes.
EDF director Martin Lawrence said: "We know that customers will not welcome this news and do not want to see prices going up. Our new prices will, however, be cheaper on average than those of all the other major suppliers which have announced standard price rises so far this autumn."
He added the company was taking steps to help vulnerable customers by ensuring that those whom the Government identifies as most in need will automatically benefit from a discount equivalent to being on its cheapest tariff.
Downing Street described the latest price rises as "very disappointing".
"It is up to energy suppliers to explain their prices to their customers," a Number 10 spokeswoman said.
"While we can't control world energy prices, we have been working very closely with the energy companies to make it easier for people to switch to find cheaper deals. We want to ensure customers get the lowest tariffs. That is why we are going to use the law to help people get the best deals."
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