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Return of the Neuropundits!
Should presidential candidates have their brains scanned?
The neurological pundits are back.
Last month, the New York Times foolishly gave space on its op-ed page to a team of self-promoting brain researchers and political consultants who claimed they could use functional magnetic resonance imaging to read the minds of American swing voters. The flaws in their study were numerous and egregious (as I explained here), and three days later, the newspaper published a stern rebuke signed by 17 prominent cognitive neurobiologists: "We are distressed," they wrote, "by the publication of research in the press that has not undergone peer review, and that uses flawed reasoning to draw unfounded conclusions about topics as important as the presidential election."
Consider that lesson unlearned: On Wednesday, a second piece of spurious, brain-based punditry made its way into the opinion pages of a major newspaper. This time it's an essay in the Los Angeles Times from psychiatrist and self-help guru Daniel G. Amen, a medical maverick who runs a chain of private brain-scanning facilities across the country. Amen doesn't want to read the minds of swing voters; he wants to study the candidates themselves.
Why? Because the leading candidates appear to be messed up in the head. "Underlying brain dysfunction" might explain Rudy Giuliani's marital failings, he says, or John McCain's temper, or Hillary Clinton's inability to seem authentic. After all, three of the last four presidents "have shown clear brain pathology": Reagan's forgetfulness was a symptom of his Alzheimer's, Clinton's escapades were a product of prefrontal damage, and George W. Bush's linguistic gaffes reflect some form of temporal lobe impairment.
When it comes to the brain health of our leaders, the stakes are very high. In the op-ed, Amen argues that both Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein must have had "poor brain function," which would have predicted their naughty behavior. In other writings, he has declared it "very likely" that Adolf Hitler had "faulty brain wiring" while Mahatma Gandhi had "optimal brain function." So, if we're looking for a presidential candidate who's less Hitler and more Gandhi, we'd better get the whole lot of them in a scanner, pronto.
The proposal is doubly outlandish: first, for asserting that it's possible to distinguish a tyrant from a peacemaker—or a philanderer from a loving spouse—on the basis of a few single photon emission computed tomography scans; and second, for suggesting that we might want to use this putative ability to make a priori judgments about anyone. (What if one of our presidential candidates turned out to have a Hitler brain—would we throw him in precautionary lockup?) Amen isn't indulging in Swiftian irony, either. He truly believes that brain scans can predict behavior and that it's a good idea to screen the general population for neuropathology: "I'm just always looking for the perfect brain," he recently told the Sacramento Bee. "If I date someone long enough, they get scanned."
The notion that we can use cortical maps to improve our lives—romantically, politically, or otherwise—forms the basis for Amen's business empire. Walk into an Amen Clinic, and you can have your brain scanned for $3,250 (with a 10 percent discount if you bring along a member of your family). Trained interpreters will explain how all your personal problems relate to cerebral blood flow, and they'll figure out if you have attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety, brain trauma, Alzheimer's disease, autism, substance abuse problems, or marital issues.
Amen admits that "all doctors might not agree" with the interpretations he draws from these brain scans, which is a bit like saying that all paleontologists might not agree with Kirk Cameron's interpretation of the fossil record. In fact, Amen's work is well outside the mainstream of psychiatry: There's little evidence to show that brain scans can be used to separate a "normal" brain from one that suffers from autism, Alzheimer's, or mood disorders. (Some physiological differences have emerged from group studies, but they're too small to see on a subject-by-subject basis.) The American Psychiatric Association views this work as exploratory and inconclusive (PDF), and major insurers won't reimburse for the expense.
But Amen's employees are ready to prescribe an entire treatment program on the basis of these scans. Once they've identified your particular brain problems, you'll be assigned a smorgasbord of flaky and unproven therapies. In addition to the talking cure and psychoactive drugs, your treatment might include hypnosis, prayer, meditation, biofeedback, dietary supplements, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and eye-movement desensitization.
Can't afford a scan? You can still benefit from his wisdom at a lower price point online. His Web store offers branded brain-boosting pills (containing raw neurotransmitters and fish oil, among other things), audio CDs designed to mesmerize you into losing weight or quitting smoking, and books on how to improve your sex life and heal "painful deep soul memories." (A graduate of the Oral Roberts School of Medicine, Amen claims to have been led by God to pursue his work on brain scans.)
Of course, you won't learn any of this from his op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. The paper allows him to identify himself as "a neuropsychiatrist and brain-imaging expert," as if his oddball theories reflected a degree of scientific consensus, rather than a sales pitch for his private clinics. Perhaps the paper's editors assumed Amen was credible because of all his appearances in other publications. In that case, they've only exacerbated the problem, further padding his résumé as an "expert" on the brain.
In the last month, two of the most prestigious opinion pages in journalism have succumbed to the delusion that MRI machines and SPECT imaging have anything meaningful to say about the upcoming elections. Clearly ill-equipped to distinguish between good and bad science, they've handed over column space to fringe researchers with glaring commercial interests. When is this brain-based punditry going to stop?


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Randy Humphrey Racing driver Nelson Piquet Jr. will make his Sprint Cup Series debut at the Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International Sunday, Aug. 10.
Fantasy Tip: Piquet could pique the interest of fantasy owners looking for a low-cost ringer for the road course event. The Brazilian-born racer is a talented driver who has been competing in Rallycross events this season.
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Pedestrian seriously injured after hit and run in Burlington
Pedestrian seriously injured after hit and run in Burlington
A man was airlifted to the hospital late Thursday night following an apparent hit-and-run collision in Burlington.
Justin Troy Holland, 23, of Burlington, was found lying in the roadway in the 2200 block of North Church Street around 11:10 p.m.
Holland was taken by helicopter to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, where his condition wasn't known as of Friday morning.
Burlington police believe Holland was hit by a vehicle that fled the scene before officers arrived. Police didn't have a vehicle description.
Anyone with information on the incident or possible suspects is asked to call Crimestoppers at (336) 229-7100 or Burlington Police at 229-3500.


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A man who worked as a driver for Eddy Curry is suing the New York Knicks center, contending Curry owes him money, sexually harassed him and berated him with racist slurs.
Curry, who also played for the Chicago Bulls, denies the accusations.
"I'm shocked, really," said Curry, who missed the Knicks' 101-95 victory at New Orleans on Monday night because of a sore right knee. "He approached my friends awhile back, trying to get money. I just never, ever thought it would go past what it did, which was just idle threats, money-or-else kind of stuff."
Dave Kuchinsky alleges in the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Curry owes him $98,000 in back pay and expenses. Newsday reported Tuesday that Kuchinsky is also seeking $5 million in compensatory damages.
Kuchinsky also accuses Curry of exposing himself and harassing the former driver and said Curry referred to his Jewish heritage in a derogatory way, calling him a "cracker," ''white slave," ''white devil" and "grandmaster of the KKK."
Curry said he never made such comments.
"Everyone who knows me knows I'm not a racist. I've never made a comment like that, playing, or nothing," Curry said. "Aside from the fact I wouldn't do it because I'm not racist, I wouldn't do it because I wouldn't want someone to play with me like that. That's incredible, man."
Curry is married with four children. The 26-year-old player is in his eighth NBA season and fourth with the Knicks. He has played in only one game this season because of knee injuries.
The lawsuit comes a little more than a year after former Knicks team president and coach Isiah Thomas was found by a jury to have sexually harassed former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders. MSG, the company that owns the Knicks, was ordered to pay $11.6 million in damages.
Curry portrayed the lawsuit against him as a desperate ploy for money by Kuchinsky, who was his employee for three years ending last October.
"It's like a prime example of you got to watch who's around you," Curry said. "This is a guy who I really thought he was my friend up until the last four, five months. I can't even believe this happened. ... I can't believe it went this far. I can't believe someone would represent something like that."
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All for a Father's Blessing
"Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.
Genesis 27:1–29, New International Version
Rebekah told her younger son Jacob, "Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it." Deceived by the meal, Isaac gave his blessing to the younger son and had no blessing to give to Esau, the older. Angry and embittered, Esau left his family and settled in Edom ("red"), linking the famous cheese to the tale.
As described in Chapter 2, Jacob tricked his brother, Esau, into trading his birthright for a plate of stew. But their mother, Rebekah, so favored Jacob that she urged him also to steal the blessing of Isaac that rightly belonged to Esau.
Among the ancient Hebrews, the words spoken by parents had power—the power to determine the future, to bring forth good or ill (blessing or curse) upon their children. For example, Noah blessed two of his sons, Shem and Japheth, who had refrained from looking at him when he was naked, and cursed his other son, Ham, who had not turned away; the blessing determined that the offspring of the first two sons would prosper, and the curse, that the descendants of the third son would live in servitude (Genesis 9). Furthermore, the father's blessing (or curse) was believed to be a pronouncement from the One God, and once uttered, the words could not be taken back or redirected or shared with another. The parents' blessing and goodwill were the greatest happiness that a child could desire.
Thus when Isaac felt the approach of death, he wished to bestow his blessing upon his favored son, Esau, to pass on to him all the wealth and power that the family had accumulated, not to mention the covenant that they had made with God. Rebekah, perhaps seeing God's intentions better than her blind husband could, and perhaps knowing that Jacob, not Esau, was the only son strong enough to shoulder the responsibility of the Covenant, directed Jacob to pretend to be Esau in order to steal Isaac's blessing. Other factors may also have been in play: Esau had married outside of the tribe, taking two Hittite women, Judith and Bashemath, as his wives. Later on, he married a half-cousin, one of Ishmael's daughters, but this was no better, as Abraham had disinherited Ishmael.
When Isaac discovered the deception, he was distraught, but God had spoken, and one could neither countermand nor protest God's declaration. However, when Esau discovered the deception, he vowed to kill Jacob upon Isaac's death. Rebekah stepped in again and sent Jacob to Haran to live with her brother Laban until her sons could be reconciled.
Verse 3: The King James Version of this text uses "venison" in place of "wild game." The Hebrew word itself, tsedah, and its variant, tsayid, most often mean simply "meat" or "provisions that have been hunted." The Hebrew word for gazelle, tsebi, which has a similar etymological origin, was probably what the translators had in mind when they looked at this text. Where it appears elsewhere in the Bible, it was translated by the scholars in King James' day as "roedeer," which was better known to Europeans. The question of exactly what type of animal Esau would have hunted for food is rather complicated, given that many animal species common in Palestine when the text was written have since become extinct in that location—for instance, the lion, the ostrich, the fallow deer, the onager, and some antelope species. As a consequence, there are still several animal terms that cannot be translated with certainty,1 including the animals in this particular biblical passage.
Verse 17: Rebekah gives Jacob bread to serve Isaac with his meal. It is not a loaf, and it is not unleavened (Hebrew matstsah). It is the very staple of Middle Eastern life, that which provides sustenance, most likely a semiflat bread that contained some yeast. It is fascinating that the Hebrew word used for bread in this text, lechem, can also mean provisions, meat, or food for the feast, just as tsedah carries the same meaning in verse 3 (see previous paragraph). Perhaps such closeness in meanings and usage indicates the serving of a type of ritualistic or very traditional meal, one at which the diner would expect certain foods to be present to make the meal complete, all interconnected, one imperfect without the other.2
Verse 25: What exactly did Jacob give his father to drink? Was it good red wine, or white wine, or merely juice? The Hebrew word used here is yayin, "that which is pressed out, grape juice." It is the most frequently used word for wine in the Hebrew scriptures (other words, chemer, chamar, tirosh, are used to describe a thick, syrupy or mixed drink, or mead). Yet yayin is the meal wine, sometimes called the banqueting wine, and it is more than grape juice; it is the end process of fermenting the grapes, and it is intoxicating. 3So suffice it to say, Isaac enjoyed his meal with a nice, full, heavy (and heady) red wine.
Verse 28: Though not part of the recipes in this chapter, it bears mentioning that "the grain" of this verse, rendered "corn" in the KJV, has caused quite a bit of confusion among biblical readers. The New World version of corn, or maize as Native Americans called it, was unknown in the Middle East and to the early English translators of the Bible. This verse in Genesis uses the term dagan, one of five types of grain mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures. The Catholic Encyclopedia says that these grains were barley, spelt (fitches), vetch, millet, or pulse, all of which can be used in the making of bread.4
The "new wine" (Hebrew tirosh) of this verse is in contrast to the wine discussed in verse 25. Tirosh is a sweet wine, new in that it is young, and usually unfermented, a kind of grape juice. Isaac's blessing was meant to confer a vast genesis of good fortune, the land of milk and honey promised to his father, Abraham, a place of ever new beginnings and fine living.
This is an intriguing tale, not the least because it involves a small family and a simple meal that affects the fate of entire generations to come. The author of the tale knew a lot about the subjects—especially regarding their needs and greeds—and (s)he capitalizes on all their hungers—the hunger for land, the hunger for power, the hunger to control destiny, the hunger for food—to demonstrate to the reader just how primal our urges are or can become.
The adjectives used by the characters themselves in this passage are both cunning and culinary. One almost gets the feeling that the teller of the tale is as interested in the gastronomical as (s)he is in the recipe for deception. The "tasty" food of verse 4 is more than a compliment to Esau's talents as a chef. This is the language of fairy tales, of the Big Bad Wolf with huge teeth ready to consume an unsuspecting Little Red Riding Hood, or the evil witch in the forest coaxing Hansel and Gretel into the oven. We know that the undoing of someone in the story will be linked to tasting. Isaac is a perfect foil. We learn in verse 1 that he is old, blind, quite feeble, yet astute about his physical limitations. With age might have come the dimming of the taste buds also, so he asks for something "tasty," the implication being that something "spicy" was necessary to pique his appetite. (Some translations of this text substitute the word "savory," a pun, no doubt, as the herb savory [Saturejua hortensis L., Hebrew zaatar] has been widely used in Middle Eastern cooking for hundreds of generations.)
The same can be said of Rebekah's instructions to Jacob regarding two "choice" goats. The goats were to be tob (Hebrew for "good"), which can mean sweet, fine, or pleasing. The translators of the New International Version (used above), in their use of "choice," seem to foreshadow the choice that Isaac makes between his two sons, and underscore the choice that Rebekah has already made as to who is her favorite. That they were also to be "young" goats or kids (in Hebrew, gedi) reemphasizes just whom the battle in this story is between: two young twin brothers fighting for their place in the world, asking the blessing of an old goat who is near death. (The biblical text tells us earlier that Isaac is 137 years old!) That the young kids chosen for the meal are sweet to the taste and not as sinewy or tough as the older goats of the flock betrays the writer's experience in the kitchen. In the guise of Rebekah, this cook knows just what will be tasty and pleasing.
To serve Rebekah's meal as a dinner or for a weekend luncheon will require some advance preparation. Though the biblical text gives the idea of a hastily prepared meal, one should plan to give over an entire day to cooking. To make this more facile, we have framed the meal around a ragout. According to some scholars, this was probably the way in which Rebekah would have prepared the meal herself, the young goat meat marinated with salt, onions, garlic, and lemon juice.5 With enough of all these ingredients, and with the right preparation, goat can taste as good as the finest game of the field.
We know from the biblical text and from the strong storytelling traditions of the Israelites that Isaac and his family, though somewhat settled in Beersheeba, a town in the southernmost part of present-day Israel, were sheep-herding seminomads. This means that though Isaac had grown richer and God blessed him with flocks, herds, and a large household, he also spent some time tilling and keeping the land. The book of Genesis tells us that he was very successful in agriculture, reaping "a hundred-fold the same year" he sowed. Therefore, in contrast to the tents used by full-fledged nomads, Isaac and Rebekah's home was not a temporary shelter (no hastily erected tent) but more of a permanent structure with built-in cooking facilities. Biblical cooks prepared their meals in open courtyards outside their homes, 6using a pit that had been filled with dry grasses and sticks or cattle dung as fuel. Bread was often baked by placing the coals on top of the dough (as in Chapter 1), or sometimes on a griddle or earthen oven. Archaeological evidence has turned up clay cooking pots, cauldrons, and even frying pans, along with some utensils for carving or stirring, but undoubtedly most meals were eaten with the hands, using the folded bread as both a scoop and a sponge, while the fingers picked up the larger or more slippery morsels.
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Dudley tops $2,200 mark for Sun Theatre improvements
If you think kids these days are self absorbed in playing video games and texting friends, think again.
Many from Dudley Elementary are ridding yards of walnuts, stepping up household chores and thinking of other ways to raise money for a digital projector for the Sun Theatre.A band of sixth-grade girls circled Lake Helen several times Saturday to raise money while a fifth grader asked for donations for the projector instead of birthday presents.
Since the elementary kicked off a "Dimes for Digital" campaign two weeks ago, students have raised $2,217.
The realization that Gothenburg will lose its only theatre, without a digital projector, is the driving force behind the campaign, according to a handful of fifth graders.
All new movie releases will become digital in a couple of years and the 35-millimeter film the theater uses now will become obsolete.
The Gothenburg Community Playhouse is hoping to raise at least $100,000 to buy a projector and drop-down screen.
Music teacher Ernie Blecha, who is also a playhouse board member, suggested the campaign at Dudley so youngsters could take ownership in the project.
The class that raises the most money will be treated to a free movie with popcorn and pop.
Several fifth graders were interviewed about the project.
Lauren Johnson said she's been motivated because "everybody loves watching movies at the theatre."
Johnson noted that Gothenburg's theatre, operated by volunteer help on weekend nights, is the only place to watch movies between North Platte and Kearney.
"I don't like to drive all the way to North Platte to see a movie," Max Jinks said.
Blecha noted that Arnold's theatre recently bought a digital projector with a $75,000 individual donation.
Ryan Healey asked for donations for the projector, instead of gifts for his birthday, and raised about $200 he plans to give to the campaign.
"I got the idea from my brother who had done it to raise money for the earthquake victims in Haiti," Healey explained. "I thought it was a good time for the theatre to be getting a new projector so I'd have a good thing to donate to."
Healey added that it feels good to donate money "because it feels like we're doing a good thing for the community."
Johnson said she's earned money for the project by doing household chores and working at the local veterinary clinic.
Taylor Wenger said she's donated money she received while helping her grandma in her yard while Jill Smith has picked up fallen walnuts from trees on her block.
Max Jinks said he and his brother are saving money to buy an Xbox video game and plan to donate leftover funds to the projector campaign.
Last Saturday afternoon, eight sixth grade girls spent about two hours walking around Lake Helen.
Emma Jorgenson said she remembered how students raised money in fifth grade to go to Halsey and thought it would work for the "Dimes for Digital" campaign.
Jorgenson called friends to participate, created pledge sheets and got relatives and others to donate.
The girls walked for about two hours and raised about $400.
One of the walkers, Ali Bartels, said "it made us feel really good."
"Even if we don't win (by raising the most money), we want the movie theatre to stay open because that's going to benefit us all," Bartels said.
During the walk, she said a man walking his dog asked the girls what they were doing.
"He gave us $10 and said he liked seeing people in the community step up and do what we believe in," Bartels said.
The movie theatre, she said, is one of the few things kids can do for entertainment on weekends.
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- Andrew Flintoff v Richard Dawson
Price: Flintoff side-show is disrespecting boxing
David Price has accused Andrew Flintoff of "disrespecting boxing" as the former England cricketer prepares to make his ring debut on Friday.
Flintoff fights on the same show - although at a different venue - as Price's British and Commonwealth title bout against Matt Skelton, which itself has been derided as a mismatch as the vicious Liverpudlian takes on the 45-year-old Skelton.
Plenty of interest has been paid to the debut of Flintoff, who takes on 23-year-old Richard Dawson at the Manchester Arena. The former England cricket captain insists he is serious about his career in boxing, but Price is not impressed.
"What he is doing is disrespectful to boxing, especially if it turns out to be a farce on the night," Price said in the Independent. "That would be a dreadful advert for the sport.
"I am sure he is taking it seriously - and he needs to. At least he seems to be in shape. I wish him well but I can't see him making a career out of it. I think this is a one-off, a sideshow.
"I remember my first amateur fight, I thought I was fit and about 20 seconds into the bout I realised I wasn't. I just hope he doesn't get badly hurt. When that first punch lands on his chin he'll know this isn't cricket."
Flintoff has worked with trainer Barry McGuigan to prepare for the fight, but he does not have the same upbringing as Dawson, who spent three months in jail last year for aggravated assault and battery.
"We ain't here to play cricket," Dawson said. "I looked at some tapes [of Flintoff playing cricket] and it don't mean nothing to me. It looks like a female sport, you know, sissy stuff.
"I grew up in a real rough neighbourhood close to Tulsa, fighting my whole life. There was drug dealings and shootings happening the whole time. My best friend got shot and killed by drug dealers.
"I did the driving and I got shot in the back four times. When I was lying in the hospital I was sure I was going to die. I only stopped fighting on the streets when I went to the gym and learned to box."
Dawson has won both his professional bouts to date, and he was nearly two stones heavier than Flintoff at Thursday's weigh-in.


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U.S. crude production climbed to a 28-year high last week as the shale boom moved the world's biggest oil consuming country closer to energy independence.
Output rose 78,000 barrels a day to 8.428 million, the most since October 1986, according to Energy Information Administration data. The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unlocked supplies from shale formations in the central U.S., including the Bakken in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford in Texas.
"This is an incredible phenomena that looks set to continue," John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund that focuses on energy, said by phone. "There's a long way to go before we explore and exploit all of the shale deposits out there."
The U.S. met 87 percent of its energy needs in 2013, and 90 percent in December, the most since March 1985, according to the EIA, the statistical arm of the Energy Department.
Crude output will average 8.46 million barrels a day this year and 9.24 million in 2015, up from 7.45 million last year, the EIA said in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook on May 6. Next year's projection would be the highest annual average since 1972.
The EIA forecasts that the gain in production at shale fields will be augmented by greater offshore output this year and next. Crude output in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico will climb by 150,000 barrels a day in 2014 and by an additional 240,000 barrels in 2015, following four consecutive years of declines, according to the May 6 report.
Stockpile Gains
Production gains helped send U.S. inventories to 399.4 million barrels in the week ended April 25, the most since the EIA began reporting weekly data in 1982. Stockpiles increased 947,000 barrels to 398.5 million barrels in the week ended May 9, according to the agency.
Inventories along the Gulf Coast, known as PADD 3, grew 2.33 million barrels last week to 215.7 million, the most in EIA data going back to 1990. Supplies there have been growing since January as the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline began moving oil to Gulf Coast refineries from Cushing, Oklahoma, the largest U.S. storage hub.
Futures(NYMEX:CLM14) rose after today's EIA report showed supplies at Cushing, the delivery point for WTI, dropped for the 14th time in 15 weeks. Inventories fell 592,000 barrels last week to 23.4 million, the lowest level since Dec. 5, 2008.
West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery increased 78 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $102.48 a barrel at 12:08 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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MILAN (AP) — The CEO of Italian bank Unicredit says Italy doesn't run the risk of default, but needs urgent reforms to promote growth.
CEO Federico Ghizzoni welcomes Silvio Berlusconi's about-face decision to back the government in Parliament confidence votes as a signal of political stability. In remarks to foreign journalists Wednesday, he called political stability "fundamental" for Italy to take advantage of early signs of an economic turnaround.
He says the government must now focus on reforms like decreasing payroll taxes on workers, making the labor market more flexible and trimming public administration.
Ghizzoni notes that Italy's triple B rating put it at higher risk than other countries, adding "there's no risk of default, but it's a county that needs to change gears."
The remarks were embargoed for Thursday.


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As talks between Republican and Democratic leaders lumber on in Washington, the American public sees an economic crisis looming if Congress is unable to raise the country's debt ceiling. But the people seem just as conflicted on the issue as their elected representatives.
An Associated Press-GfK poll released last week highlights the apparent conflict in public opinion. Six in 10 said that if no deal is reached and the U.S. defaults on its debts, a major economic crisis was likely. Yet only half as many, 30 percent, said they supported raising the debt limit to avoid such a default.
What gives?
There is a connection between the two questions. Those who said an economic crisis was "extremely likely" if the U.S. defaulted were most apt to say they backed an increase in the debt limit — 40 percent said they would support raising it and 17 percent said they opposed an increase in the debt limit to avoid default, while 42 percent were neutral. Similarly, those who said a crisis was unlikely were more apt to oppose raising the federal debt limit — 47 percent opposed it, 16 percent supported it and 37 percent were neutral.
The common thread? All those neutral views. On this deeply complex issue, a lot of people are just not sure what to do, regardless of how big a crisis they see in the distance. All told, nearly half of Americans say they neither support nor oppose raising the federal debt limit in order to avoid defaulting on U.S. government debts.
The plurality choosing a neutral position could reflect a public that hasn't yet sorted through the implications of such a policy change. Or it could reflect a lack of knowledge on the issue or simply a lack of strong feelings about it.
A CBS News poll conducted in early October found 77 percent of Americans would rather see an agreement on the debt ceiling that they didn't fully support than have Congress not reach an agreement and see the U.S. default on its debts.
A separate question in the AP-GfK poll prompted a similar response: Just 10 percent said they thought Congress should avoid increasing the debt ceiling under any circumstances, while 41 percent would support an increase if it is made at the same time as significant spending cuts, and 44 percent would support an increase with a separate debate on spending and deficits.
The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Oct. 3-7 and involved online interviews with 1,227 adults. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for all respondents.
The survey used GfK's KnowledgePanel, a probability-based Internet panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Respondents to the survey were first selected randomly using phone or mail survey methods and were later interviewed for this survey online. People selected for KnowledgePanel who didn't have online access were given that access at no cost to them.
AP-GfK Poll: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com
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Novak Djokovic kicked off his bid for a first French Open title with an opening-round victory against Joao Sousa.
The French Open is the only grand slam that does not sit in Djokovic's trophy cabinet and he has been widely tipped to amend that over the coming weeks – largely due to Rafael Nadal's recent failures on clay.
Sousa did little to stop him in this one, with Djokovic winning 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 – as easily as he did when the two met at the US Open last year.
There was enough to suggest that Djokovic may not be as good a bet as had been claimed, though, with a number of loose shots and concentration lapses likely to be noted by the Nadal camp.
That Djokovic stopped chasing balls down in the third set will be of particular concern to him and coach Boris Becker, with the match going on for far longer than it should have done.
Djokovic made his mark on the match early on, eventually breaking at the end of a nine-minute second game when Sousa netted a forehand to cash in a fifth break point.
He held to love and then broke again, this time at the first attempt, as his opponent planted a two-hander wide.
Sousa would at least respond with a break of his own before a lengthy rain delay, but offered his serve up again on the other side of it.
Not entirely settled on his own delivery Djokovic then went three break points down as he looked to close out the set, but recovered with five points in a row.
The second set started a little tighter but the six-time major winner got the break he was looking for in the fifth game, Sousa double-faulting on break point.
That became a double break as the Serb upgraded a second bonus point when Sousa put a forehand wide, before the rain came again. The players did not leave the court this time and Djokovic entertained the crowd by inviting a ball boy to sit with him under his umbrella.
He had to sharpen up after the restart as he went a break point down but quickly did so and took the set 6-2.
Sousa appeared to be done for now and lost his serve in the third game of the next set, slapping a forehand into the net, and also in the fifth via a brilliant forehand.
The Portuguese did fashion two break points back, though, and took the second of them as Djokovic relaxed. The world number two responded with another break but then lost his own serve as he looked to serve his way into the next round.
Sousa kept it alive for another game, with Djokovic showing minimal interest in returning his shots before finally getting the job done.


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BONIFAY-- The South Walton Seahawk offense scored and scored often to spoil the Holmes County Blue Devils homecoming with a 55-40 district football victory.
"The difference was the offense," said South Walton Coach Phil Tisa. "We just continued to score.
"We went to a football game and it turned into a track meet."
South Walton junior quarterback Johnathon Ortner put up some stellar numbers completing 21 of 39 passes for 405 yards and four touchdowns. Junior Alex Smith was on the receiving end of two of those TD catches, the first a 61-yard strike in the first half, and a 67-yarder in the second half. Vinnie Ciurleo had a 25-yard catch for a touchdown and Zach Lance had the other TD catch, a 23-yarder in the fourth quarter.
Not only did the Seahawks get the job done through the air, but also on the ground rolling up 236 yards. Senior running back Zach Reese was the workhorse with 141 yards in 19 carries, including a 44 yard touchdown run. Ortner rushed 14 times for 66 yards, and the first TD of the game on a 29-yard scamper right up the middle on a fake.
The Blue Devils had their best game of the season putting 40 points on the board; all scored by junior tailback Chad Leavins. Leavins rushed 28 times for 349 yards and five TD on the ground. He also had a catch for a 54-yard score.
"They (Holmes) had a great game plan and we made some mental mistakes, it's just one of those things," Tisa said.
"I'm just glad to get out of here. Holmes County played their tails off."
South Walton scored on its first two possessions with, Ortner scoring on a 29-yard run up the middle and then hitting Ciurleo on a 25-yard strike for the second TD and a 14-0 lead.
South Walton stuttered on its third and Holmes County answered with a 70-yard day for the goal line by Leavins.
Midway of the second quarter, South Walton put together a 13-play drive with Chandler Parrett scoring on a 2-yard run. Parrett scored again on a 3-yard run late in the game.
The Seahawks scored again on a 61-yard strike from Ortner to Smith to take a 28-7 lead with less than 3 minutes to go in the first half.
Holmes came out the second half and scored on their opening drive on a 14-yard run by Leavins.
South Walton fumbled the ball on their first possession and the Blue Devils scored two plays later on a 41-yard run by Leavins for a 28-20 game.
The Seahawks came right back with an eight-play drive for the score.
Holmes struck again on a 54-yard pass from Cole Marell to Leavins for the TD.
In less than a minute, the Seahawks answered with a 44-yard TD run from Reese.
Both teams would score two more times each, with South Walton taking a 15-point lead and running out the clock.


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Crunchy and Colorful: 10 Winter Salads
I'll confess, I've always been more of a summer-salad person than a winter-salad person. But this year I've resolved to set aside my leafy-green biases and change all that. The first step: browsing through our archives for inspiring winter salad recipes. Not surprisingly, there were a number of tantalizing choices featuring a gamut of ingredients, from cauliflower and celeriac to peanuts and persimmons.
Before I began digging, I was expecting to find lots of color, but I was still impressed with what turned up. From pale lemony yellow to deep purple, this is a visually exciting array of dishes. So now my goal is to eat my way through this herbaceous rainbow by trying a new salad every week until spring. Any other takers?
- Cauliflower, Fennel and White Bean Winter Salad
- Celeriac and Carrot Salad
- Kale Slaw with Peanut Dressing
- Carrot Slaw
- Fresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw
- Green Salad with Walnut Oil, Celery and Radishes
- Rainbow Chard Salad with Raisins and Walnuts
- Quick Celery Root Salad with Capers and Lemon
- Warm Butternut Squash and Arugula Salad
- Crunchy Peanut Slaw
Related: Gallery: 11 [Other] Winter Salads to Eat Right Now
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Orleans Parish Coroner's Office Confirms Identity Of Missing Teacher Found In Bayou St. John
26-year-old Terrilyn Monette, who has been missing for more than three months, was found dead in her car after divers located it in Bayou St. John Saturday afternoon. The Orleans Parish Coroner's Office confirmed the identity on Monday.
Toxicology results are still pending. The coroner's report says Monette died from an apparent drowning. Also, according to this article, there were no signs of pending trauma.
According to this article, Monette went missing on March 2 after leaving Parlay's Dream Lounge, a Lakeview bar. Other cars have been pulled out of nearby water bodies over the past few weeks, before New Orleans Police realized they had not found the missing teacher they were trying to find.
"I don't understand why it took them so long to find her car," Monette's mother, Toni Enclade said between tears. "This is supposedly one of the first places they would have checked. I'm just overwhelmed. It doesn't make sense."
This was an effort that gained national attention, as well as the attention of New Orleans Rep. Austin Badon, who spearheaded car retrieval and other efforts and got "to know the family extremely well."
Monette, a California native, was a second-grade teacher at Woodland West Elementary School in Harvey.


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Photos of Aleea Lee the 19 Year Old Deion Sanders Allegedly Cheating on Pilar With
You may recall this was the original story that got ball rolling toward the divorce between Deion and Pilar (Deion Sanders Cheats on Pilar With 19 Year Old? Pacman Jones Wing Man?).
Text messages, flight records, Pacman Jones playing Wing Man and alleged pics of Deion sleeping while the 19 year old girl went through the belongings which you can view at the link above.
It was quite messy, Deion denied it and we told both side of the story.
Now the identity of that young lady has come out. She is random Twodel named Aleea Lee. You can see some of her pics above and a video below.
I figured once Deiondra went on her Epic Twitter rant yesterday afternoon (Deion Sanders' Daughter Deiondra Goes on Twitter Rant, Calls Pilar a Gold Digging Ho) that the gloves would be off and both Pilar and Deion's alleged infidelities might come to light.
Expect more of this as we head into 2012.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress formally confirmed on Friday, nearly two months after polls closed, that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won the 2012 White House election.
At a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, lawmakers carried out the final phase of a process known as the Electoral College that dates back to the founding of the nation.
They verified the vote of 538 electors from the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, each of whom represented a presidential and vice presidential candidate. Electors were picked on Election Day, based on the popular vote.
In approving and then adding up individual certification documents, they confirmed that Democrats Obama and Biden beat Republican challengers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, 332-206. At least 270 electoral votes are needed to win.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Biden, as Senate president, presided over the process that lasted about 30 minutes.
(Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Vicki Allen)


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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A U.S. government employee who struck and killed a man while driving in Zimbabwe in 2008 wasn't drunk and any driver in the same situation would have collided with the pedestrian, a defense attorney for the man said Monday.
Andrew Pastirik's lawyer made the argument during opening statements in his trial in federal court. Pastirik is not charged with killing the pedestrian. Instead, he's accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the government-owned Toyota Land Cruiser he was driving. If convicted, Pastirik could face up to 10 years in prison.
Prosecutor Pragna Soni told the judge hearing the case in place of a jury that the government's evidence would show Pastirik was drunk when he hit 34-year-old Zimbabwe national Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga in the capital of Harare.
"It was the kind of damage that cannot be undone," she said.
Pastirik's attorney, Joseph McCarthy, said his client had largely stopped drinking hours earlier and spent much of the night helping a friend who was a Marine safely get home. He said it was dark in the early morning hours of Oct. 18, 2008, when Pastirik hit the man, who was wearing dark clothing and had dark skin. And he said Pastirik swerved the best he could but an oncoming car prevented him from going farther.
McCarthy said when his client, who worked in the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, arrived home and saw the vomit on the front of his car he realized he had hit the man and that the accident was more serious than he thought.
Witnesses who testified Monday didn't agree on whether Pastirik was drunk on the night of the crash. Pastirik's former mother-in-law, who he called shortly after the accident, said he did not sound drunk on the phone. A man who saw Pastirik before he got on the road, meanwhile, said he had poured both of them two to three shots of vodka and pineapple juice at the Marine House where the Marines who guard the embassy in Zimbabwe are stationed.
He said he urged Pastirik not to drive, but that Pastirik was only "a little impaired," not drunk. Pastirik's lawyer said the drink sometime after 3 a.m. was his client's only one since around midnight and he had driven without difficulty earlier in the night.
A U.S. embassy security official who photographed the damage to Pastirik's car, however, said Pastirik slurred his words, dragged his feet and smelled so strongly of alcohol that she took a step back. The woman, Jonica Brooke Hogenson-Counts, described vomit on Pastirik's car as going up the hood and windshield and said he repeated the words "This is bad."
She said Pastirik told her he saw the man and swerved and that he felt an impact but thought he'd hit an animal or pothole or just brushed the pedestrian.
The trial is expected to last two days.
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BuyOlympia.com is an online store that features a wide variety of unique, handmade things. Founded in Olympia, Washington, to help promote local artists, they have since moved to Portland, Oregon and have expanded to include many wonderful products from all over the world.
Check out some of these kitchen-y items from BuyOlympia:
• Sustain, Process, Share Your Table note cards and posters from Nikki McClure
• Corn Mugs, Recipe Cards, and Vegan Punk Cookbooks
• Feeding the Whole Family Cookbook
Related: Kiosk: Online
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Chairman, Buro Happold
Gavin joined Buro Happold in 1987 and became a partner of the practice in 2000, before becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2005. He became chairman of the company in May 2011. In addition to active design roles on projects he currently leads practice wide business development and work winning.
A strong desire to explore has seen Gavin live and work in the UK, mainland Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South East Asia and retains a key interest in developing Buro Happolds global presence and influence. During Gavin's time as CEO he lead the opening of several new Buro Happold offices worldwide, including; Belfast, Copenhagen, LA, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Moscow, Pune, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Beijing. Buro Happold continues to extend its global reach, with recent project wins in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.
Gavin is a chartered building environmental engineer, however as one would expect from someone who has grown his career within Buro Happold his interests extend right across the built environment. His design work has been focussed on maximising passive building performance linked to complimentary active environmental systems. A true passion for design in its broadest sense flows through Gavin's work, coupled with a deep technical interest in low carbon design. He is currently pioneering the development of rapid optioneering techniques for zero emission building and community design in China.
For the past 15 years Gavin has lectured at Universities within and outside the UK, in particular teaching multi-disciplinary design, running architectural low carbon master classes in the US and acting as an external examiner at Northumbria University.
Gavin is currently a board member of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering.


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Illustrations of various Spiers & Pond properties on cover. "P.D., 2667. 200" at lower right of page 3.]]>
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President of society, Rawlings, H. D., Esq.; Chairman, Darby, T.H.;]]>
Handwritten menu; shows a picture of a steamship on the front page; resembles a postcard; Paris-Londres indicated on the front page;]]>
Chairman, Lord Strathcona; wine list included; music program included; committee member list included; toast list included; red string in menu spine]]>
Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Q. C., M. P., Chairman]]>
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Grand pianoforte by Ascherberg;]]>
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Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton was a Scotsman. He was the creator of the well-known Lipton tea brand.]]>
[The Sydenham Medical Club was founded in 1775 by six physicians, six barber surgeons, and six apothecaries. Members of this club meet regularly since then. The Sydenham Medical Club is located in London, England]]]>
Drawings on the front cover; includes toasts and music program; Erard's pianos exclusively used; Chairman: W. H. Cullen, Esquire]]>
Chairman: A. E. Rose; Back cover shows a list of the Bachelors' and Old Boy's Club members]]>
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Includes photographs of prestentation cup given to Field Marshal the Right Honourable Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria.]]>
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Illustrations of various Spiers & Pond's properties on cover. "Erard's pianos exclusively used."]]>
Includes music program; menu with scalloped borders; back cover contains table plan and room dimensions]]>
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The emblem presented on the menu seems to refer to Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1837-1897). It depicts the young and old Queen Victoria head busts.]]>


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Premier League - Magpies V Dragons
- Round 16
Magpies Unable to Hang On. Written by West Football Club Monday, 27 June 2005 The Magpies were hit hard by injuries leading into this game and had to call on Shannon Gallant and Peter Mannion from Jersey Flegg and four players from the Balmain Tigers in order to field a team. The Magpies were fortunate in that the Jersey Flegg team had a bye. Despite a spirited performance Wests were unable to hold out the Dragons and went down 20-10.
The team travelled to the Dragons lair where they were met by a vocal crowd and a rain drenched ground. From the kick off the boy?s enthusiasm was obvious and they went straight on the attack. In the 4th minute the ball moved to five eight Ben Roberts, who put in a clever kick which was gathered in by winger Michael Crockett and the Magpies took an early 4 ? 0 lead.
The Magpies continued to play well, and with a bit of luck could have scored a couple of extra tries, but their consistency was rewarded in the 20th minute when young full back Shannon Gallant received an offload from prop Aaron Sweeney, and he ran 50 metres to score under the posts, leaving several Dragons players in his wake. Ben Roberts added the extras, taking the score to 10 ? 0. The clouds opened and the remainder of the game was played in very wet conditions.
The Dragons lifted with some clever kicking in general play. Two quick converted tries saw the Dragons take a half time lead 12 ? 10.
The second half saw the Dragons with a majority of possession, however the Magpies, led by the forwards, tackled themselves to a standstill. An injury saw Ben Roberts leave the field and his direction and kicking game was sorely missed. The score remained unchanged until the closing stages when the Dragons scored their third try and with the conversion and a late penalty, they took out the game 20 ? 10.
The Magpies were a vastly improved team and several players lifted their games substantially, and although they lost the game, head coach Steve Georgallis praised the effort of all 17 players.
Best for the Magpies ? Aaron Sweeney, Jeff Lima, Michael Crockett, Shannon Gallant and Isaac De Gois.
Tries: Crockett, Gallant Goal: Roberts
Premier League plays Newtown at Henson Park on Saturday 2 July 2005 at 3pm.
Jersey Flegg plays Cronulla at Henson Park on Saturday 2 July 2005 at 1.15pm.


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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
14 comments:
- Barbee' said...
Love the photos, especially the last two that appear to be a wash of purple deadnettle.
- March 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Becca's Dirt said...
Beautiful. My favorite time of year.
- March 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Illoura said...
Wow that's a lot of color! (I enjoyed your smooth snow-frosted field pictures too).
Thanks for sharing.
- March 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- IsobelleGoLightly said...
Oooo! Thank you! We are having snow and ice up here in New York so your photographs are very welcome!!!
- March 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- linda m said...
Oh Christy, thank you so much for the pictures of Spring. Your Farm looks so lovely with everything blooming. I thought our snow was gone but then last night it snowed again. UGH!!! Now after looking at your picture I can "think Spring" again.
- March 24, 2011 at 5:47 AM
- Gail said...
Such a beautiful view of spring!
- March 24, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Sandy said...
I've been missing my forsythia this early spring. Great photos. How is the butterfly garden coming along? Let me know when you are up for a spring mountain trip!!!!!
- March 24, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Kelly said...
Thank you so much. Made my heart pitter patter.
- March 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- ~mel said...
Thank you for sharing your spring ~ it's snowing today at my place :(
- April 20, 2011 at 6:33 AM
- Gail said...
I know Georgia was one of many states hit with these storms. Checking in to make sure everyone is okay.
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Mar 25, 2013
GREENWOOD, S.C. – The Coker men's golf team is tied for tenth place after two rounds at the Bearcat Golf Classic on Monday (Mar. 25), after shooting a combined team score of 616.
Nicklaus Kennedy leads the way for the Cobras, after shooting a team low 148 and recording seven birdies on the day. Aaron Beebe and Josh Clay are neck-and-neck with scores of 154 and 156, while Christopher Fuga and Luke Coates signed off on scorecards of 159 and 162.
As a team, Coker collected 17 birdies and sunk 98 pars.
The Cobras will have one final chance to narrow the lead, as they play the third and final round of the tournament on Tuesday (Mar. 26).


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Back in 2006, storage tech talk was intermittently buzzy with a few different innovations. One was wrapped around the pending release of Windows Vista, particularly two bullets on its feature list: ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive. In parallel with all of the Ready_____ talk, many tech pundits asked why it would be necessary to have the flash talk to Windows through special drivers. Why couldn't the flash memory just act like a larger RAM cache already present on?
A prototype ReadyBoost-enabled HDD by Samsung.
The answer, which nobody was aware of at that time, was that management of flash memory was a tricky thing to do successfully. It would not be until several years later that SSD's would (mostly) beat the issues of Long Term Performance and other issues that crop up when attempting to store randomly written data onto a device that can only be erased in relatively large blocks.
ReadyDrive required a special 'Hybrid' disk drive to be connected to and recognized by Windows Vista, containing both spinning platters and flash memory. Vista would then place frequently used small files on the flash. Since flash memory has negligible access times when compared to seek times of a HDD, the drive overall would boot significantly faster. Other tasks using those cached system files also saw a benefit. While ReadyDrive looked great on paper, there were very few devices ever released that could take advantage of it. Seagate was the earliest to release such a drive, and their Momentus 5400 PSD laptop drive did not see the light of day until Vista was nearly a full year old.
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In my last post about O Olive Oil, I mentioned that I was one of the lucky bloggers who was chosen to participate in the O Olive Oil challenge over at erecipecards.com. Each blogger was asked to do two posts – one a tasting and the second a recipe. Please take a second to read my fist post – A Naked Tasting. I was generously provided a bottle of the O Meyer Lemon Olive Oil and the Pinot Noir Wine Vinegar to taste and create a recipe with.
As I mentioned in my last post these have a higher sugar content and in turn a lower burn temperature which make them great for finishing oils and vinaigrettes. I decided to do just that – make a vinaigrette and then create two dishes to use it with, both of course are gluten-free and can easily be made vegetarian by simply omitting the chicken in one and the fish in the other – you can also add in some delicious tofu!
Meyer Lemon and Pinot Noir Vinaigrette (adjust this to meet your needs)
3 parts O Meyer Lemon Olive Oil
1 part Pinot Noir Wine Vinegar
Small Shallot – minced
Kosher Salt – to taste
Fresh Ground Black Pepper – to taste
Pinch of sugar
I know you are probably wondering where the exact measurements are but I think vinaigrettes are a personal judgement call. Taste as you go, adjust as needed based on your likes and needs. This oil and vinegar make such a delicious vinaigrette – its sweet and tangy all at once.
Quinoa Salad with Meyer Lemon and Pinot Noir Vinaigrette
1/2 cup quinoa
1/2 cup red quinoa
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
1 small zucchini diced (1/4 inch)
1 small summer squash diced (1/4 inch)
1 1/2 cups roasted chicken (omit or sub with tofu for vegetarian option)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Meyer Lemon and Pinot Noir Vinaigrette – to taste
Lemon Zest
- I roasted mine with a lemon pepper compound butter that had a light drizzle of the olive oil in it and placed it under the skin. When done – let the chicken rest and cool – shred and set aside.
- Cook quinoa according to package instructions.
- In a small non stick pan over ow-medium heat add 1/2 teaspoon olive oil and gently cook the mushrooms, zucchini, and summer squash – just to warm them up a bit.
- In a large bowl add the vinaigrette, shredded chicken, and veggie mixture – toss to coat.
- When quinoa is finished cooking add directly into the bowl with the chicken, veggies, and vinaigrette – toss to combine and let sit for at least 20 minutes so everything soaks up the awesome vinaigrette.
- Toss in the tomatoes and zest lemon over the top before serving.
- This makes for a great entree or as a side dish. You can add anything you really wanted to this dish as quinoa to me is like a blank canvas just waiting to be jazzed up a bit. This dish can be served warm or chilled, which makes it great for the summer and a picnic or BBQ!
Grilled Tilapia Pasta with Meyer Lemon and Pinot Noir Vinaigrette
Penne pasta (gluten-free)
Broccoli florets and pieces
1 – per person, Tilapia Fillet
1 slice of lemon per piece of Tilapia
Meyer Lemon Olive Oil
Meyer Lemon and Pinot Noir Vinaigrette – reserve 1-2 table spoons
Salt and Pepper to taste
- Heat grill to medium-high.
- Create foil packets – in each packet place lemon slices, and two fillets of fish, season with salt and pepper, drizzle with just a little bit of the Meyer Lemon Olive Oil, and seal the packet.
- Grill the packets lemon size side down first for 3-4 minutes, flip and repeat.
- Remove fish packets and set aside for one minute.
- Open fish packets and flake the fish into chunks. Set aside until pasta is complete.
- Cook pasta according to package.
- During the last 4 minutes of cooking add in broccoli florets and pieces.
- Strain pasta and broccoli, place in a large bowl and toss with vinaigrette – the warm pasta is going to soak up all of this beautiful vinaigrette.
- Place pasta on individual plates or bowls – top each plate/bowl with grilled Tilapia fillets and drizzle with reserved vinaigrette.
- Another dish perfect for the summer, especially on a week night – quick, easy, delicious, and full of flavor from just a few ingredients!


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After a long while I've finally managed to create a release version. I've also added some cool new features.
It is completely free and has no expiration date like the prior beta versions.
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In SSMS Tools Pack 1.0 you can find these features:
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In the last two posts, Lide Plowman has told the story of her childhood — homelife, schooling, and childhood play. Today she concludes the true story, recalling spelling bees and courting. Her account makes us remember the things that are positive and good for families today. As usual, the family tree chart is at the end of the post to assist you with keeping the family members and relationships straight.
The spelling bees were a source of much pleasure and profit. Each school would train their pupils on a certain part of the speller and use that part when they spelled at their own school, their teacher being the one to pronounce the words. It was quite a honor to spell another school down. Every one was eligible to try. The first part of the evening was spent in choosing sides and spelling and after a social time at recess, the contest was between the different schools.
I remember especially one with Mr. Macumber when Mrs. Macumber came with her school. Among them were Naomi, Harriet and Maryette Dutton. I was younger but I see Maryette yet standing when nearly all were down. I admired her very much and in a few years loved her as a sister. I do not remember who won. At recess the young people visited and at the end paired off for the home trip. Some tomed they went to some home and had a short party or dance if there happened to be a musician present. George and Granvil Peck, Hermans cousins, had violins, and Sidney Bliss a dulcimer, which considered good music. There were neighborhood parties, no public dances near us. Young folks found places to meet for amusement then the same as now.
Till and had two escorts, the one Till liked best liked me, and one I liked best liked Till. When Till would refuse one, he would ask me, but sometimes through such maneuvers I would be left out and one of the boys sisters would go instead, which did not please our sister nor myself either.
As I have written you before, our elder brothers spent many winter evenings shelling corn to be ground at the mill, chopping sausage meat in the winter on a bench made of hard wood using a ax to get it fine. It took some meat to supply our family and the fresh meat would keep sweet and good in that way a long time. The bony parts had to be eaten first.
We had apples, peaches, plums and cherries when I first remember and using our own sugar with our own fruit gave us a good supply of desserts. Later cider applesauce formed quite an item in our fare. It was planned to make a good supply and send some to Ezra, also dried fruit and fresh apples and any thing else that they lacked.
Our first experience in canning fruit was in a small mouthed jar, (crock). Met had given me instructions and I did as near as I could remember, but it was a sad failure. I was probably 16 then. Met's kept alright and mine did the next time. Glass jars came soon after and our preserving days with equal parts of fruit and sugar were over.
I wanted to tell how Sate came to be called Eber, how mother and her children rented a house for a school week where Sate was teaching. John went for them each Friday and took them back each Monday with provisions for the week, and Till at home always glad to welcome them. How Lute went to Ezra's to do chores and attend school where I was teacher. How George went with Jule and me to attend school in St. Johns. How Jule went to care for Barbara and keep people from killing her with kindness, and Ezra gave Jule a cow when she was married. No use to enumerate, the thoughts come faster than I can write.
As I look back it seems we have much to be thankful for, in a home of plenty and enough work to keep us interested in our home, each having a share and doing it cheerfully. The boys helping out doors the girls helping Mother, spinning, knitting, sewing and tending baby, — all loving each other in a happy simple life.


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I. In Focus This Week
A Tale of Two Special Elections
Costing Out Louisiana and Massachusetts
Hundreds of special elections are held across the nation each year and because there is no way officials can plan for them, budgeting can be difficult. Below is an analysis of how two states, Louisiana and Massachusetts handle special elections.
A recent report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office calculated that special elections in the state, from 2005 to 2010, cost state and local governments more than $1 million with the direct costs of running these elections ranging between $12,000 and $137,000 a piece.
As already reported, a potential conclusion from this report is that Louisiana is spending unnecessary resources to hold special elections rather than postponing these races until the next regularly scheduled election days.
Legislation to reduce the number of standalone local elections has already been introduced by the state Legislature, but underneath the headline of the cost of each election is the story of how states and localities divvy up the costs of running those elections.
Louisiana's Election Code — specifically sections 18:1400.1 through 18:1400.8 — deal with the reimbursement of counties and parishes who bear the costs of elections. The state, in essence, pays for half of all ballot and election materials so long as there is a statewide measure on the ballot. The remaining half is then prorated between the state and localities based on the number of offices that each level has on the ballot.
For example, if there is a gubernatorial special election — a statewide office — and no other ballot issues or races, the state pays for the whole cost of the ballot and election materials. If there is a municipal bond issue in a place like Baton Rouge, but nothing else on the ballot, the local election authority pays all the expenses.
If both the statewide special election and the municipal bond issue are on the ballot, the state would automatically pay for the first half of the ballot and then the state and the local election authority in Baton Rouge would apportion the remaining half based on the number of items on the ballot. Since this example has one state and one local, the state would pay for three quarters of all expenses and the municipality one-quarter.
Calculating the pro rata share of election costs from the parish up to the state would be extremely time consuming, mind numbing and complicated were it not for Louisiana's advanced tracking and auditing system. Secretary of State Tom Schedler, says all election related expenses are run through the secretary of state's office. Some expenses, such as hauling the voting machines or printing the ballots, are paid for directly by the secretary's office. Other expenses are paid at the local level, by the parish clerk of court or the parish registrar, which they submit to the state for reimbursement.
All of this cost information is loaded into the Louisiana's Election and Registration Information Network (ERIN), the state's voter registration and canvassing system, which quickly breaks down the pro rata costs of the election for each election jurisdiction. Invoices are sent out and then each municipality is required by law to pay back their share as spelled out in the Louisiana Election Code (18:1400.6).
Calculating Cost Savings for Policy Change
Yet even given Louisiana's excellent system, calculating the full range of the cost savings of the proposed policy change has proven to be difficult.
"We found that a special election policy change would result in changes to the cost-sharing arrangement for regular election days because of the additional state issues on the ballot," said Bradley Bourgeois, senior auditor at the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office and one of the authors of the auditor's report. "We therefore had to recalculate the cost shares for state and local government for our hypothetical cost-savings scenario. Even then we were not able to calculate the full extent of the cost-savings due to the uncertainty surrounding indirect costs."
Indirect costs, such as overtime pay, owed compensatory time, and mail costs are not included in the auditor's analysis of the costs of special elections. Being more variable year after year, these are hard to calculate consistently, especially going back 6 years.
One counterfactual of Massachusetts election history is that the 2010 special election for the U.S. Senate would not have occurred had Chapter 236 – a 2004 amendment that removed power from the Governor to appoint an interim Senator – not gone into effect. There would have been no special election, and no costs to cities and towns and Ted Kennedy's Senate seat would have been filled until the next regularly scheduled state election.
This story is well known and is often cited as a case-in-point tale of unintended consequences.
What is less well known is how the 2009/2010 special election that elected Scott Brown provided a unique opportunity for a decentralized state like Massachusetts to begin seriously assessing the cost of a statewide election.
Since the passage of the 1980 Local Mandate Law in Massachusetts – one component of the property tax limit initiative, Proposition 2 ½ - the state legislature has had to pay for any new unfunded mandates imposed on communities. Chapter 236 fit this criterion – and thus, the state was now obligated, by statute, to foot the bill for municipalities during a special election.
This task of determining the full cost of conducting the mandated special election for each city and town fell to the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates (DLM). The state had to both estimate the cost of the special election and reimburse its 351 municipalities accordingly.
However, prior to 2010, the auditor's office had experience in calculating costs across elections. Since the passage of the Chapter 503 in 1983, the state mandated that polling places run for an additional three hours, to ensure uniformity across the state in non-local elections (7am-8pm). In accordance with the Local Mandate Law, the first three hours would be funded by the legislature, while municipalities funded the rest of the costs.
Because of the Uniform Polling Hours mandate, the auditor's office had a 26-year history of collecting data to 'cost out' the first 3 hours of an election – every biennial election since 1984.
In collecting this data, they found several discernable trends. The first was a 5-6 percent increase in costs across elections. The second was that the cost of elections are primarily personnel driven, predictable year after year, since the number of polling places remains relatively constant.
Knowing these trends, the auditor's office used this data to project the cost of the 2009/2010 special elections, by making an initial extrapolation of these 3-hour figures for a 13-hour day.
Their projection for the election was around $7.2 million; the actual cost was around $7.8 million.
DLM director, Emily Cousens, cautions, "for the most part, that relationship – extrapolation vs. actual cost – did not hold for specific cities and towns. This is at least partly because the elements of cost for a full election are more comprehensive than the items that factor into the cost of the uniform polling hours mandate."
Nevertheless, the state auditor's office provided a relatively close estimate; moreover, our own analysis demonstrated that spending was proportional to a town's population for municipalities with a population of greater than five thousand. For smaller towns, spending was on average level.
The type of cost analysis conducted for the 2010 special election was completed under unusual circumstances, a somewhat haphazard byproduct of conflicting state mandates. That said, it is a welcome byproduct, and provides a unique glimpse at election costs that will never be calculated for a regular election.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jason Vargas pitched a three-hitter for his first victory with his new club, Mark Trumbo and Mike Trout homered and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-0 Friday night.
Vargas (1-3) threw 107 pitches, striking out three and walking two while getting 15 groundball outs. The shutout was the fourth by the left-hander in 136 career starts and his ninth complete game. He lowered his ERA to 1.63 against the Orioles in seven starts against them, his best against any team.
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Vargas did not allow a hit until J.J. Hardy slapped an opposite-field single to right with two out in the fifth. The left-hander walked his next batter, Steve Pearce, on four pitches before Alexi Casilla grounded out.


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Anyhow i've checked everything on my side, i've cleared the browser cache etc, and even tried on 2 other Browser's. Opera, and Internet Explorer..


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By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two-thirds of New Jersey voters say Chris Christie deserves to be re-elected next year, and the Republican governor would trounce Newark's Democratic Mayor Cory Booker in a hypothetical match-up, a poll found on Wednesday.
Christie's popularity has soared due to his response to Superstorm Sandy, which slammed the Jersey Shore on October 29, tearing up boardwalks and leaving homes in ruins. On Monday, he filed papers stating an intention to seek re-election.
Christie, whose blunt style has helped make him a Republican star, appeared to set aside politics. He toured the damage with Democratic President Barack Obama days before the November 6 presidential election and showed a personal touch with residents who lost their homes or loved ones in the storm.
Asked if Christie deserved to be re-elected, 67 percent of respondents said yes versus 25 percent who said no, according to the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University.
"Remember, we have a state election in 2013 and the only Democrat who shows any oomph against ... Christie, the hero of Hurricane Sandy, is Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Even he trails the Republican governor by double digits," said Quinnipiac poll director Maurice Carroll.
Like Christie, Booker is a charismatic politician who has cultivated a place on the national political stage in part thanks to an aggressive use of social media. The two men have made much of their close working relationship.
According to the poll, Christie would beat Booker by a margin of 53 percent to 35 percent. Just over half of voters have a positive view of Booker, but about a third say they do not know enough about him to form an opinion.
Still, with the election 11 months away, Democrats have cautioned Christie's popularity may subside.
"I appreciate, and I think the residents of our state appreciate, his leadership. But once we get through the crisis, I think people are going to start thinking of other things," said State Senator Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat who said she was hopeful Booker would enter the race.
The survey of 1,664 registered voters was conducted from November 19 to 25 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points, Quinnipiac said.
(Editing by Daniel Trotta and Cynthia Osterman)


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