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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wen Jun Li crossed the wrong people while racking up a $10,000 gambling debt in Las Vegas. It ended up costing him his life.
Li was slashed and stabbed 32 times while frantically trying to escape a ruthless hit man for an Asian gang who was dressed in black and had tracked him to a dark karaoke bar several blocks west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Xiao Ye Bai, 26, a man prosecutors called an enforcer for a Taiwan-based gang known as United Bamboo, was sentenced Tuesday to life without parole in a Nevada state prison for Li's bloody killing — plus what could amount to another lifetime for slashing two other people in the July 2009 attack at the Forbes KTV bar and restaurant.
With his tears falling on his written apology, Bai told a Clark County district judge through a Mandarin interpreter that he knew his sorrow couldn't atone for his crimes.
"Your honor, I understand what my final sentence will be," Bai said at the hearing. He promised to live life in a "more positive way" behind bars.
Bai's fate was sealed in December, when the same jury that convicted the martial arts-trained assassin at trial in November spared him the death penalty on the capital murder conviction.
Judge Michael Villani on Tuesday called the attack "senseless." He sentenced Bai to life in prison for Li's murder, and added a sentence of 32 to 85 years for Bai's convictions on kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy to commit murder, and other felony charges.
"You endangered numerous people in the karaoke bar ... who were in the wrong place at the wrong time," the judge said.
Prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo said later he was satisfied with the outcome. During trial, he characterized Bai as a sociopath and a "hit man for an international organized crime group" who made a living killing people.
"The sentence certainly reflects the severity of his crime," DiGiacomo said Tuesday.
Bai also was sought in California in a separate shooting several months before the Las Vegas attack that left one person dead and another wounded outside a karaoke bar in the suburban Los Angeles city of San Gabriel. It wasn't immediately clear Tuesday if Bai was believed to have been acting on behalf of United Bamboo in that attack.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office had no immediate information about the case.
Bai's mother, Ying Chen, who jurors were told beat her son with a baseball bat when he was growing up in China, was in the courtroom as her son was sentenced. She declined to comment outside court.
During trial, Chen dropped to her knees from the witness stand and pleaded for Bai's life. At another point, she unfurled a banner outside the courtroom pleading for "fair minded" judgment from the jury.
Bai's lawyers, Robert Langford and Robert Draskovich, said Tuesday they intend to appeal Bai's conviction and sentence. But they held little hope of success.
Bai's lawyers never denied Bai attacked Li. They argued instead that Bai was a product of an abusive upbringing who didn't intend to kill. They said after the December hearing that they were satisfied the jury spared Bai's life.
"We wanted to keep him off death row," Draskovich said.
Langford cast Bai as an "abused and frightened man in his 20s" who was hospitalized for three days in China after being beaten with a bat, then sent to a martial arts boarding school. Bai moved as a teenager to Los Angeles in 2005, where he became a permanent legal U.S. resident, Langford said.
The jury in Las Vegas was told that Bai searched for Li for several days prior to the Forbes KTV attack. When Bai learned that Li was at the karaoke bar, Bai's then-girlfriend, Pei "Nikki" Pei, drove him there in a black Honda Accord with the license plate covered.
Bai went inside, where jurors were told Li saw Bai coming before grabbing another man, Jian Guo, and pushing him toward Bai.
Guo was cut on his arm before Bai caught Li fleeing down a hallway and set upon stabbing him 32 times.
A woman in the bar, Lin Yao, was stabbed four times when she tried to intervene, thinking that Bai was punching Li, according to testimony.
Pei, who initially faced the same charges as Bai, pleaded guilty before trial to reduced felony charges of accessory to murder for driving Bai to and from the club the night of the killing. She testified against Bai but said she didn't know for several days afterward that Li was dead.
Pei, 26, was sentenced last month to two years' probation.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have put a hold on Bai since his felony convictions, and Langford said he could be deported if he ever is freed from prison.
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When we view paintings and other works of art our eyes usually move across the surface of the canvas, hitting on various points, objects, and figures in the picture. In this lesson students will learn about repetition, one of the techniques artists often use to highlight important elements within a painting's composition, and to move a viewer's eye around the canvas, from highpoint to highpoint.
Impressionism, Cubism, Realism, Neoclassicism, Mannerism. When we visit a museum or flip through a book we often see these terms, along with the word movement (or sometimes style). This lesson plan will help students to understand the idea of movements in the visual arts, and begin to differentiate between some of the most well known movements in Western art- particularly in painting.


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World-class ice dancer and coach Genrikh Sretenski will be allowed to leave the jail where he has been held since last week, a judge ruled Monday, provided that he surrender himself to New York authorities within 72 hours on criminal charges of sexual abuse and endangering a child.
Under conditions set by Howard County District Judge Sue-Ellen Hantman, Sretenski, 50, will have to surrender his passport and post as bond the Clarksville home that he and his wife own. If he doesn't go to New York within three days of leaving the county jail, his family could lose the home.
It was unclear if Sretenski, who has denied all wrongdoing, could meet the bond terms in time to be out of jail Monday.
In allowing Sretenski's release, Hantman agreed with defense lawyer Rene Sandler, who contended that the New York warrant for his return to face sexual abuse and related charges did not meet all the requirements of Maryland law for extradition. Sretenski appeared from the jail via a closed-circuit monitor, and was assisted by a Russian translator who was in the courtroom.
Prosecutor Ed Bellafiore, who said he believed the warrant and its paperwork did measure up, asked the judge to consider ordering the Russian-born Sretenski to turn in his passport and setting a high bond if she was inclined to find the New York documents insufficient..
Sretenski was accused of sex offenses in New York, charges that come on top of a $5 million civil suit alleging that he fondled a figure skater he mentored in Laurel. He had been held without bail in Howard County since he was taken in handcuffs Tuesday from his home, Sandler said.
The charges against Sretenski are sealed in Essex County, N.Y., home to the ice skating center of Lake Placid. Police said the charges stem from an incident last year. But no information about the four charges will be released until they are unsealed at Sretenski's arraignment, according to the district attorney's office there.
The civil lawsuit, filed in July in Prince George's County by the father of a skater Sretenski coached in Laurel, contended that he fondled her at the 2011 skating championships in Lake Placid and sent her more than 500 text messages.
The connection between the lawsuit and the charges, if any, is not known.


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Congressional leaders have done very little in the past 70 years to prevent illegal entrance via the United States' southern border. The rationale is fairly simple: Documented or undocumented individuals provide cheap labor for businesses both large and small.
The Reagan administration's amnesty plan failed mainly because of the open border that allows easy access to anyone who was willing to work for minimum wages.
Perhaps one of the biggest legislative mistakes was to give citizenship to any child born in the United States, whether or not a parent was a citizen. To my knowledge, this is not a law in any other country. Whatever rationale was used nearly 50 years ago certainly lacked common sense, in my opinion.
The amnesty plan must not be implemented until the southern border is truly sealed, and the birth provision in law must be repealed. Unless these conditions are met, I predict there will be an even greater inflow from our poor neighbors to the south if amnesty is approved. This will take great courage from both sides of the aisle. Sadly I have little faith in our politicians to use common sense in this matter, and I expect the floodgates to open, and millions will cross the border knowing we will not enforce the law.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden would make outstanding presidents. And beyond that, he's staying out of the debate about who should succeed him in 2016.
That was the message Obama laid down in an interview on Thursday with MSNBC's "Hardball" program when host Chris Matthews asked him to compare and contrast the two.
"Not I chance am I doing that," he said.
"Both Hillary and Joe would make outstanding presidents and possess the qualities that are needed to be outstanding presidents," he said.
America's political world is a boil as to whether former Secretary of State Clinton will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Similar questions are being asked about Biden, Obama's vice president.
Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton, leads most surveys of Democratic voters, and many analysts doubt Biden would seek the nomination if it put him up against Clinton.
But Clinton has steadfastly refused to say for sure whether she will run while making carefully selected appearances around the country and working on a book.
Even Bill Clinton, who works with his wife at the Clinton Global Initiative, is professing ignorance of her plans.
"No, I don't," he told Fusion television on Tuesday when asked if he knew about her 2016 plans.
"She's trying to finish her book. She's gotten several projects up and going with our foundation. And she believes and I believe that the four-year campaign mania is a big mistake," he said.
Obama said Clinton and Biden have "different strengths" but both would be outstanding.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Pretoria Zoo says it's turning to technology with infra-red cameras to search for a two-meter-long (6.5-foot-long) black mamba snake that escaped from its enclosure a week ago.
Marketing manager Craig Allenby of the zoo in South Africa's capital said Thursday the missing snake probably is in the roof of a service building behind its terrarium. That has not stopped fearful callers to radio talk shows discussing the nearly always fatal results of a bite from one of the world's fastest and most venomous snakes.
Zookeepers realized last week that the mamba's enclosure was empty. They have been unable to search the roof area where they suspect it is preparing to hibernate.
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From the open Control Panel window, click System, choose the Hardware tab, and then click the Device Manager button.
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Emma Watson: 'The Bling Ring' Out in June!
Mark your calendars — The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, is hitting theaters in June!
The film, directed by Sofia Coppola, revolves around a group of teenagers who use online celebrity address listings and Twitter to pull off the now notorious heists at the Hollywood Hills homes of celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton and Rachel Bilson that netted them $3 million worth of goods.
"This is how much I hate myself in the movie: I don't think I'm going to be able to watch it," Emma recently told MTV about the role. "I hate myself. It was really weird. This is what's so awesome about my job, is that I had to get into the shoes of someone I couldn't relate to."
She added, "I've never had to do that before, but by the end of it, I don't know, it was really interesting getting into this girl's head. She represents a lot of what I basically stand against. It was really fascinating to break it down, and be like, 'What is this actually about?' It made me like my job a lot."
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February 3 marks a historic day in American culture. It is the day three rock 'n' roll stars died in a plane crash right at a time when their popularity and impact on a new genre of music was skyrocketing. It was Feb. 3, 1959, often referred to as the day the music died.
The musicians were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson).
February 3 marks a historic day in American culture. It is the day three rock 'n' roll stars died in a plane crash right at a time when their popularity and impact on a new genre of music was skyrocketing. It was Feb. 3, 1959, often referred to as the day the music died.
The musicians were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson).
Hannibal residents reflected on the day 54 years ago. "It was a sad day. It was quite a shock," Jerry Ruhl remembers. We hear that they were going from one location to another and bam, it hit. Their music was definitely something we listened to a lot."
"I was working. It was at work where the buzz hit," adds Dori Stanek. "They were very popular and they were young."
Holly, 22 at the time of his death, was the most popular of the three. His hits "Peggy Sue," "That'll Be The Day," and "Oh, Boy," amongst many others, put him at the top of the charts throughout the '50s. Ritchie Valens was only 17, but was hitting the airwaves with his songs "Donna" and "La Bamba." The Big Bopper, 28, became popular for singing "Chantilly Lace" with the notorious opening, "Hellooo Baaaby." He was also an accomplished song writer. "White Lightening," one of George Jones' signature songs, and "Running Bear" a number one song for Johnny Preston and Sonny James were both penned by The Big Bopper.
"That's a good one, that Chantilly Lace," Stanek said.
"Buddy Holly had so many hits in a short amount of time. It's unbelievable what he could have done if he had lived longer. How many more people would he have influenced," Jim Myers points out. "But when you listen to the Beatles interviews or some of the early English bands, they were all influenced by Buddy Holly. And you can hear it a lot in their music too."
Ruhl also acknowledges how Valens played a role at the time.
"That was probably some of the early Latin embellishment we started hearing then," Ruhl said. "You were used to things from Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) but then you get 'La Bamba' coming in and basically you're hearing some Latin music mixed in."
All three singers had just finished performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa when Holly arranged a quick flight to their next stop on the Winter Dance Party Tour in Moorhead, Minn. Holly's backup singers, Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings, were supposed to be on that flight, but the Bopper asked Jennings for his seat and Allsup lost a coin toss to Valens. The pilot, Roger Peterson, who was also killed in the crash, thought he could battle through the snow storm, but fate didn't allow that to happen.
"It had been on the radio," Larry Gerdeman, who was 11 at the time, said. "I remember hearing people talk about it."
"I heard it on the radio," remembers Mike Marx, who was 16 in 1959. "I planned to go to the concert, it was coming to Springfield, Ill., but when the crash happened that changed all that. Being a young kid like that and those guys being some of your favorites at the time, it was really kind of hard to take."
While this was a sad day for many teens and rock 'n roll listeners, some folks didn't have much to say about the crash. That's because rock 'n roll was not popular at first.
"That was the devil's music, you didn't listen to rock 'n roll," Gerdeman said. "All the kids were listening to that music then."
"It was thought of as being a little high tempo for most people," Ruhl said. "During that time, we had a lot of local bands and everything else that played at the National Guard Armory and we'd go every Friday night or Saturday night. It was thought of as — I guess you'd call it risque."
But no matter how many national news reports there were, no matter how many folks tried to encourage folks to go against this new type of music, rock 'n' roll prevailed. It has become part of an era, part of our culture and to this day still popular in its own right.
It's probably why the term 'the day the music died' is merely just a set of lyrics from the hit song "American Pie," because Marx, Stanek and Ruhl all note the singers died, but their music lives on.
And it's probably why a cornfield in Clear Lake, Iowa is sacred ground. A place of remembrance, reflection, and in some instances, faith. After all, other singers have died in plane crashes: Patsy Cline, Rickey Nelson, Jim Croce, just to name a few.
"I just think they were all riding high at the time, they all had No. 1 hits, which I don't think is the case with the others," Marx said. "Rock 'n' roll was more popular at the time."


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A challenging case: Painful periocular swelling in a cat
An ophthalmic examination provides valuable clues for diagnosing an uncommon disorder with mostly nonspecific signs.
Apr 01, 2013
A 4-year-old 10.1-lb (4.6-kg) spayed female domestic shorthaired cat was presented to the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Teaching Hospital for evaluation of painful periocular swelling of both eyes of about one month's duration.
On physical examination, the cat's temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, and body condition score were normal.
No active ocular motility could be elicited from the globe, and lateral strabismus was noted. There was a marked amount of conjunctival thickening and hyperemia of the left eye. Moderate conjunctival hyperemia and chemosis were noted in the right eye. Intraocular pressures measured by applanation tonometry (Tono-Pen XL—Reichert Technologies) were 19 mm Hg for the right eye and 35 mm Hg for the left eye. Pupillary light reflexes were slow and incomplete in the left eye and were normal in the right eye.
On slit-lamp examination, diffuse corneal edema and keratic precipitates were noted in both eyes. Additionally, marked aqueous flare was noted bilaterally along with pars planitis in the right eye and rubeosis iridis and posterior synechia in both eyes. Pigment deposition and inflammatory changes affecting the anterior lens capsule were noted bilaterally. An inferior bullous retinal detachment was noted in the right eye. Fundic examination of the left eye was limited because of the anterior segment changes.


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Burrows, Donald, 1945-
New York : Schirmer Books : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994
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|George Frideric Handel; George Frideric Handel; George Frideric Handel; George Frideric Handel; Georg Friedrich Händel
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Donald Burrows
|0028703278 9780028703275
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|xii, 491 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, pls., music, facsimiles, gen. tables ; 25 cm.
|Germany, 1685-1706 --
Italy and Hanover, 1706-10 --
Music for Germany and Italy, 1706-10 --
London: The first decade, 1711-19 --
The music, 1711-19 --
The 'academy' years, 1720-32 --
The music of the 'academy' years --
The transitionall decade I: competition, 1732-7 --
The transitional decade II: confusion, 1737-41 --
The music, 1732-41 --
The oratorio composer I: Dublin and London, 1741-5 --
The oratorio composer II: towards victory, 1745-9 --
The music of the 1740s --
The final decade I: The last major works, 1749-51 --
The final decade II: A career completed.
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|Master musicians series.
|Donald Burrows.
George Frideric Handel was a defining figure of the late Baroque era, shaping its music for the theatre in much the same way J.S. Bach dominated the writing of music for use in church. Perhaps best known for bringing the oratorio form to an English-speaking audience with masterworks such as Messiah, Handel also had a distinguished career as a composer of Italian operas, and furthermore found time to influence the development of orchestral music by writing such works as the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Donald Burrows's new biography relates Handel's life and his music, devoting particular attention to two crucial junctures in Handel's development: his transition from a church-trained musician in Germany to a successful opera composer in London, and the gradual transformation of his theatre career from opera to oratorio, some thirty years later. In the oratorio form, as Burrows demonstrates, Handel was able to combine the techniques of large-scale construction and of aria writing that he had developed in his operas with an experience of choral music that went back to his earliest training as a church organist. The result was music that succeeds to this day in capturing the imagination of a vast audience. The last half-century has seen Handel take a major place in modern musical scholarship. This book takes into account not only recent knowledge of historical sources and significant studies of Handel's major works, but also research on Handel's "borrowing" practices, his habit of using the existing musical ideas of other composers as well as his own. Yet Handel remains unsurpassed as one of the greatest compositional architects in the history of Western music, with a sure instinct for both balance and originality in the final result. In this insightful study, Donald Burrows brings to life not only the glory of Handel's artistry, but also his sometimes elusive personality, and the flavor of the times and places in which he lived.
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MOSCOW -- If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said that economic sanctions or similar moves during the current standoff with Iran about its nuclear program would be "counterproductive."
Clinton's response was measured -- she said that America also wants to pursue dialogue with Iran -- but her remarks made it clear that Tehran's gestures have yet to convince the Obama administration that Iran is willing to negotiate.
"We have always looked at the potential of sanctions in the event that we are not successful, that we cannot assure ourselves and others that Iran has decided not to pursue nuclear weapons," Clinton said at a joint news conference.
Lavrov said that the Geneva meetings at the beginning of this month between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany, were promising enough to shelve talk, for now, of punitive measures.
Iran has agreed in principle to allow international inspectors at a previously secret nuclear facility near Qom -- the first round is scheduled for Oct. 25 -- and to ship most of its enriched uranium to Russia to be refined for civilian uses.
Lavrov's announcement came despite President Barack Obama recent decision to scrap plans for a ballistic missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, a system that the Kremlin had strenuously opposed. While both sides denied that the decision about the missile defense sites was linked to a deal with Russia about Iran, observers had suspected otherwise.
Last month, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during the United Nations General Assembly in New York that, "in some cases, sanctions are inevitable." Later he said during an economic summit in Pittsburgh, "If all possibilities to influence the situation are exhausted, then we can use international sanctions."
However, Lavrov Tuesday seemed to signal that the Kremlin doesn't think all other approaches have been exhausted yet.
Analysts in Moscow said the bottom line is that Russia isn't going to back sanctions against Iran -- at least not anytime soon.
"Russia will try to postpone, postpone and postpone the discussion on sanctions," said Dmitry Suslov, the deputy director of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a policy institute with close ties to the Russian government.
Beyond wanting to wait for the results of inspections, Suslov said that Russia does a lot of business with Iran. Russia helped build Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor, for example, and has given conflicting signs about its willingness to sell Iran its S-300 missile defense system, which could provide sophisticated air defenses for nuclear sites.
There are broader considerations about Russia's place at the global table, too. The Kremlin's role as an intermediary with Iran gives it a strong bargaining chip with the U.S., Suslov said. If Russia signed off on an American push to get the U.N. Security Council to consider sanctions, he said, Russia would "reduce its own weight and its own importance in the eyes of the United States."
If the Kremlin is sending conflicting signals about Iran, and presumably is bargaining for more concessions from the U.S. in the meantime, fellow Security Council member China is even less willing to consider sanctions against a key supplier of natural gas.
"It's quite possible that Moscow can give guarantees to Clinton that it will not work as a spoiler against future resolutions" -- on sanctions against Iran -- "in the U.N.," said Alexander Goltz, a leading military expert who writes for an online journal in Moscow.
Before it does so, however, Goltz said, the Kremlin would ask for just one guarantee: "That the Chinese will do the same."
That condition would make such an offer basically worthless, at least for now. A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman told reporters last month, "We believe that sanctions and exerting pressure are not the way to solve problems," according to Western wire services.
"In this context, it's very convenient to say our position depends on China," said Yevgeny Volk, the coordinator of the Moscow office of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington-based policy organization. "It's a way of trying to explain why Russia is pursuing a policy that is in many ways anti-American."
As Volk spoke Tuesday afternoon, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing signing multibillion-dollar agreements with the Chinese government that included extensive plans for natural gas deliveries to China. Official newswires in both capitals praised the deals as a sign that the two countries are growing closer.


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The speedometer on the Toyota Yaris says the tiny car can go 140 miles per hour. In reality, the bulbous subcompact's 106-horsepower engine and automatic transmission can't push it any faster than 109.
DETROIT | The speedometer on the Toyota Yaris says the tiny car can go 140 miles per hour.
In reality, the bulbous subcompact's 106-horsepower engine and automatic transmission can't push it any faster than 109.
So why do the Yaris — and most other cars sold in the U.S. — have speedometers that show top speeds they can't possibly reach?
The answer has deep roots in an American culture that loves the rush of driving fast. The automakers' marketing departments are happy to give people the illusion that their family car can travel at speeds rivaling a NASCAR racer. And companies often use one speedometer type in various models across the world, saving them money.
But critics say the ever-higher numbers are misleading. Some warn they create a safety concern, daring drivers to push past freeway speed limits that are 65 to 75 mph in most states.
"You reach a point where it becomes ridiculous," says Larry Dominique, a former Nissan product chief who now is executive vice president of the TrueCar.com auto pricing website. "Eighty percent plus of the cars on the road are not designed for and will not go over 110 mph."
Last year, speedometer top speeds for new versions of the mainstream Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Malibu were increased from 120 or 140 mph to 160, which approaches speeds on some NASCAR tracks. The speedometer on the Honda Accord already topped out at 160. All are midsize family haulers, the most popular segment of the U.S. auto market, and like most new cars, have top speeds that seldom exceed 120 mph.
The Yaris got its 140 mph speedometer in a redesign for the 2012 model year, giving it the same top reading as the original 1953 Chevrolet Corvette sports car. Even the new Nissan Sentra compact has a 160 mph speedometer.
There are several explanations for the speedometers.
When people are comparison shopping, cars with higher speedometer readings appear to be sportier, and buyers favor them even though they have no intention of driving faster than 100. "People really want to see higher numbers," said Fawaz Baltaji, a business development manager for Yazaki North America, a large supplier of speedometers for auto companies. "It is indicative of a more powerful engine. There's a marketing pitch to it."
Although cars with high-horsepower engines can come close to the top speedometer speeds, most are limited by engine control computers. That's because the tires can overheat and fail at higher speeds. Tires now common on mainstream cars often can't go above 130 mph or they could fail. Many tires, especially on older models, have speed limits as low as 112. But that's still faster than most people will ever drive.
Automakers, in a push to cut costs, now sell the same cars worldwide and use the same speedometers in different cars all over the world. In China and Europe, governments require that the top number on speedometers be higher than a car's top speed. Cars sold in Europe, for instance, have faster top speeds than those sold elsewhere because they can be driven over 150 mph on sections of Germany's Autobahn. So to sell the same car or speedometer globally, the numbers have to be higher, said Kurt Tesnow, who's in charge of speedometer and instrument clusters for General Motors.
Also, some mainstream cars have some souped-up cousins that go faster and need higher speedometer numbers. A Chevy Malibu with a 2-liter turbocharged engine, for instance, can go 155 mph, far higher than the mainstream version. The little Toyota Yaris gets its speedometer from another Toyota model that's sold in other countries. "It's not that each speedometer is designed for that specific vehicle," said Greg Thome, a company spokesman.
In a similar vein, U.S. automakers can make engines that blow past 70 mph because they make cars for global drivers and speed limits vary around the world. And drivers like the security of knowing they could outrun a natural disaster, such as a tornado, if necessary.
The speedometer designs also reflect research that found most people like the needle to hit highway speeds at the top of the speedometer's circle, said Yazaki's Baltaji. So the common freeway cruising speed of 70 to 80 mph is right in the middle on a 160 mph speedometer, he said.
The rising speedometer numbers aren't surprising to Joan Claybrook, the top federal auto safety regulator under President Jimmy Carter. She's been fighting the escalation for years and says it encourages drivers — especially younger ones — to drive too fast. During her tenure, she briefly got speedometer numbers lowered.
"They think that speed sells," she said of automakers. "People buy these cars because they want to go fast."
Some drivers at dealerships Tuesday conceded that marketing the higher speeds could have worked on them — at least when they were younger.


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New Mexicans for Science and Reasoning racks up enemies. The group's infuriated creationists, ticked off psychics and has alien believers convinced it's part of a vast government conspiracy. NMSR makes no apologies, but angering people isn't the goal.
"Our group seeks to promote scientific reasoning and making decisions based on data instead of emotions," says NMSR President Dave Thomas. "We work on employing the scientific method to look at things like homeopathy and creationism."
So why all the hate? Thomas says it's because science makes folks uncomfortable. People cling to their ideologies, and when NMSR presents facts that conflict with those ideologies, people throw out the facts. Thomas says his group tries to convince people to keep the data and adjust their ideologies accordingly.
NMSR has close to 100 regular members who attend monthly meetings with guest speakers from New Mexico's scientific community. Each month, the group puts out a newsletter for its members, and every Saturday, NMSR hosts a radio show on Air America's 1350 KABQ AM.
Since 1990, New Mexicans for Science and Reasoning attracted folks from all walks of life. "We've got a pretty diverse group," Thomas says. "We have a lot of scientists, but we have other professionals, non-professionals and students as well. Our website gets hits from all over the world."
NMSR Vice-President John Geohegan says there's more to NMSR than examining claims of alien abduction. At its core, the group wants to impress upon members the value of scientific reasoning in everyday life. Rather than taking everything at face value, Geohegan says, it's better to make sure there's some science behind the medicines we take and the products we buy.
In some cases, blind belief can be fatal. "Taking medicines that have no effect on you, such as homeopathic remedies, can be harmful," Geohegan says. "If people put off getting medicine that will do them some good because they're only taking homeopathic things, they could potentially put themselves in real danger."
"When it comes to the existence of God, for example, science can't prove or disprove anything like that."
NMSR President Dave Thomas
Most times, skepticism isn't about life or death, Thomas says. It's used as a tool to help figure out the boundaries of science.
We asked Thomas for his take on some of the most popular phenomena that make NMSR cringe.
Creationism and its latest incarnation, intelligent design, attempt to combine science and religion—which cannot be done, Thomas says. "When it comes to the existence of God, for example, science can't prove or disprove anything like that."
"God is beyond science, and it's perfectly fine to be a scientist or anyone else and believe in religion, because they're separate," Thomas says. "The trouble comes when people try to combine them."
Thomas says he believes creationism stems from people's insecurities about their religious beliefs. "They're not sure the Bible is true or that they're going to heaven. They look around to see how they can prove things, and they say, Aha! Science is how you prove things."
There are very little, if any, active ingredients in homeopathic medicines, Thomas says. That's why it's impossible to overdose on most of them, he adds. The reason people might get better using homeopathic treatments, he explains, is because of the placebo effect: When people believe they're getting powerful medicine, it affects their attitude, which can have an impact on how their body deals with disease. "That has nothing to do with what's actually in the medicine itself," Thomas says.
When people tout the success of homeopathy, Thomas says, they're relying on stories that have often been exaggerated. "People forget or disregard situations in which homeopathy hasn't worked and only remember the times when it seems to have helped."
As for acupuncture, once again the placebo effect comes into play, he says. "People might feel better, but it has nothing to do with where the needles are placed. You can put them anywhere, and they'll say they feel better."
Thomas relates the story of an astrologer who was invited by NMSR to prove the field's merits. The group gave him a person's birthday, and because the astrologer believed the person was a member of NMSR, he began describing the person as a scientist who was a good communicator and wanted to help people, according to Thomas. "We had given him the birthday of Ted Kaczynski the unabomber, and he flat-out misread the personality."
When examining astrology, Thomas says, evidence such as more doctors being born in October rather than June would help prove astrology's powers of prediction. "The fact is, doctors' birthdays are all spread out. People want to believe there's a preordained fate controlled by the planets, but there isn't any good evidence for that."
Psychics make intentionally vague predictions and, Thomas adds, even those tend to fall flat. "They miss the big events like 9/11—and most of the small ones, too. Again, it's a selective bias in which they look at the case they got right and ignore the 20 other cases they got wrong."
Thomas doesn't discount the idea that there could be aliens in our galaxy. He just doesn't think there's proof they've visited us. "People want to believe in a higher authority that can help us out of our jam or save us from our evil ways," Thomas says. "With any fringe belief, there's a handful of people who promote it by ignoring evidence that contradicts their belief and looking for evidence they think supports it."


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26 U.S. Code § 5392 - Definitions
For purposes of this subchapter the term "standard wine" means natural wine, specially sweetened natural wine, special natural wine, and standard agricultural wine, produced in accordance with the provisions of sections 5381, 5385, 5386, and 5387, respectively.
For purposes of this subchapter the term "heavy bodied blending wine" means wine made from fruit without added sugar, and with or without added wine spirits, and conforming to the definition of natural wine in all respects except as to maximum total solids content.
For purposes of this subchapter the term "pure sugar" means pure refined sugar, suitable for human consumption, having a dextrose equivalent of not less than 95 percent on a dry basis, and produced from cane, beets, or fruit, or from grain or other sources of starch. Invert sugar syrup produced from such pure sugar by recognized methods of inversion may be used to prepare any sugar syrup, or solution of water and pure sugar, authorized in this subchapter.
For purposes of this subchapter the term "total solids", in the case of wine, means the degrees Brix of the dealcoholized wine.
For purposes of this subchapter the term "same kind of fruit" includes, in the case of grapes, all of the several species and varieties of grapes. In the case of fruits other than grapes, this term includes all of the several species and varieties of any given kind; except that this shall not preclude a more precise identification of the composition of the product for the purpose of its designation.
For purposes of this subchapter the term "own production", when used with reference to wine in a bonded wine cellar, means wine produced by fermentation in the same bonded wine cellar, whether or not produced by a predecessor in interest at such bonded wine cellar. This term may also include, under regulations, wine produced by fermentation in bonded wine cellars owned or controlled by the same or affiliated persons or firms when located within the same State; the term "affiliated" shall be deemed to include any one or more bonded wine cellar proprietors associated as members of any farm cooperative, or any one or more bonded wine cellar proprietors affiliated within the meaning of section 17(a)(5) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, as amended (27 U.S.C. 211).[1]
For purposes of this subchapter the term "liquid sugar" means a substantially colorless pure sugar and water solution containing not less than 60 percent pure sugar by weight (60 degrees Brix.)
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Section 17(a)(5) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, as amended (27 U.S.C. 211), referred to in subsec. (f), was renumbered section 117(a)(5) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act by Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(2), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4517, and is classified to section 211(a)(5) of Title 27, Intoxicating Liquors.
A prior section 5392, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 672, consisted of provisions similar to those comprising this section, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859.
1976—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 94–455 struck out "49 Stat. 990;" before "27 U.S.C. 211".
1965—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89–44, § 806(b)(3)(A), added fruit, grain, or other sources of starch to cane and beets as sources of "pure sugar".
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 89–44, § 806(b)(3)(B), added subsec. (g).
Amendment by Pub. L. 94–455 effective on first day of first month which begins more than 90 days after Oct. 4, 1976, see section 1905(d) of Pub. L. 94–455, set out as a note under section 5005 of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 89–44 effective Jan. 1, 1966, see section 806(d)(2) of Pub. L. 89–44, set out as a note under section 5383 of this title.
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Fighter, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe goes a few rounds with Mark Wahlberg to test his new glass jaw...
Based on a true story, The Fighter follows Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a welterweight boxer from a working class family in Lowell, Massachusetts. Micky is managed by his larger than life mother Alice (Melissa Leo), and trained by his brother Dicky (Christian Bale), a formerly successful boxer himself. Dicky's drug addiction makes him difficult to trust, and Alice's guilt trips keep Micky from moving onto bigger and better things. After hooking up with a local barista named Charlene Fleming (Amy Adams), Micky battles with his loyalty to his family and his need to break out on his own.
The Boxing Film – often an underdog story, always concerned with self-destruction, and commonly popular among film critics and the Academy. I've come to realize I'm not really a fan of the subgenre, despite years of my best efforts. Rocky and Ali never brought me to my feet, Million Dollar Baby and The Boxer didn't manage to touch my heart, and even older classics like The Great White Hope have done little to rile my spirit. Only Martin Scorsese's incomparably poetic Raging Bull, and Shinya Tsukamoto's incomparably weird Tokyo Fist ever really amazed me, and have inspired multiple viewings. I kind of gave up on changing my mind on the subgenre after special ordering and not really enjoying Ryu Seung-Wan's heavy-handed (gloved?) Crying Fist. I have the capacity to love these films, but there's something about the formula that usually doesn't do it for me. At the same time I'm very torn on director David O. Russell's work. I didn't like Spanking the Monkey or Flirting with Disaster, and haven't ever felt the need to re-watch I Heart Huckabees, even though I think Three Kings remains one of the more overlooked films of the '90s. These factors kept me from seeing The Fighter upon its initial theatrical release. I'm happy Paramount sent me an unsolicited review copy, because I may have gone my entire life without bothering, and that would've been tragic.
First of all, I'm very happy Darren Aronofsky decided to pass the project on to Russell. This story is too close to The Wrestler, we wouldn't have gotten The Black Swan, and in all the material plays to Russell's strengths without being a retread of his other work. I'd heard that The Fighter was an actor's film, which isn't a lie, but cheapens Russell's involvement. The director has a special brand of dry, dark comedy, and without it The Fighter would be just another boxer flick. The script features strong characters (based on real people, which solves most of that problem), and some incredibly canny dialogue, but the story itself isn't particularly novel. Without the director's stylistic influences I'm almost positive even performances as strong as these couldn't have made it a believable Oscar contender. I'm assuming the film-within-a-film documentary style aspects would've been just as well handled by Aronofsky, based on his similar work on The Wrestler (at least visually), but Russell deals with human interaction on less melodramatic terms. The Fighter has a compassionate and funny angle that keeps it from retreading The Wrestler, or more importantly all those depressing boxing movies I mentioned above. There are a few times where the narrative drags, but for the most part I was surprised how effortless and entertaining the whole affair is.
The biggest surprise is that Russell has come up with an original way to film the boxing scenes. If Scorsese put a cork in anything with Raging Bull, it was dynamic boxing scenes. Russell's editing practices, and some of his camera work during non-fighting scenes, is reminiscent of Goodfellas, but when it comes to the ring he doesn't even try to compete with Scorsese's incendiary fisticuffs. The more important fights are shot to look like a real cable TV match, complete with strange film quality, and less than ideal camera angles. Besides being a novel approach, this sets the movie audience up in a similar mindset to audiences that may've seen these fights the first time around. This choice also lets Russell ramp the more subjective camera work during the climatic fight, which requires a bit more suspense and build than the others (all the other fights are really incidental compared to the drama of the character interactions anyway).
I wasn't about to take the word of hundreds of critics and the Academy when it came to Christian Bale's performance. I've grown sick of the actor's miserably method performances, and assumed a washed up, crack head boxer was right up this particularly depressing alley, but Bale plays Dicky with genuine warmth and affection. Despite all the horrible, worthless crap he puts his family through it's almost impossibly not to like Dicky, especially when he's making peace among his family members. I'm often confused by Mark Wahlberg, who can be either consistently amazing or terrible, depending on the film and material. Scrutinizing his work it's pretty clear that his performances depend on his director, and casting to his strengths. Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson both got good work out of him, but Russell has done it three times now, and arguably I Heart Huckabees marks Mark's one time stealing the show from everyone else on screen. Wahlberg's role in The Fighter is pretty thankless – he's a good person, he doesn't have much of an emotional arc, and he's forced to play straight man to Bale – but he makes it work, and ultimately almost half the film rests on his shoulders. Melissa Leo earns her supporting actress award, and proves that she's an incredible chameleon, but I came away more impressed with Amy Adams, who was also nominated for best supporting actress. Perhaps it's just seeing her successfully work so hard against type (she even kisses against type), but her delightfully blusterous performance is believable, rough, and tender all at the same time.
The Fighter is a rare bird in that it's both raw and pretty. David O. Russell and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema colour timed the movie to be quite warm (on the commentary Russell describes it as the opposite of Hoytema's work on Let the Right One In). Skin tones are a little redder than normal, interiors are yellowed, and outdoor scenes feature poppy cooler hues, especially the lush greens of vegetation. There are a few different kinds of film used, including standard 35mm, 8mm home movies, and recreations of NTSC/HD video television events. Most of my comments above refer to the 35mm base stock, which does feature some reasonably heavy grain, especially considering the natural lighting, which leads to particularly dark night sequences, but this never becomes a real problem. Extreme facial close-ups feature plenty of fine textures, but it's the wider shots of the streets that impress with their varied details, and expressive colours. The video scenes are still sharp and colourful, but feature rough scan lines, and heavy edge enhancement. Russell discusses the process on the commentary, which apparently involved shooting on older video cameras with a real HBO boxing crew, then altering the footage digitally to ensure it didn't look too jagged when blown up on the big screen.
Russell's audio choices are very basic, very natural and mostly centered, which makes total sense given his pseudo documentary look. Even the relatively noisy street scenes, and sequences of cheering inmates are relatively subdued when it comes to stereo and surround effects. The biggest aural moments come out of music, and during the various boxing matches. The fight scenes still aim for a 'realistic' mix, but sound more like a modern 5.1 sporting event, and slowly build to something more stylized and dynamic. Crowd noise is the main surround event, though the swinging punches do connect with a stereo swoop. The more impresses aspects of the audio design is the juxtaposition of image and sound between scenes. The most impressive example is early in the game when Bale runs across town to the sound of Wahlberg smacking the speed bag. There's very little score to the film (mostly ambient, swelling strings, or a subtle bass throb), but there are some choice pop and rock cuts, and these define certain scenes, just like the best Scorsese films.
The special features begin with a solo commentary track featuring director David O. Russell. The important thing I learned from this particular track is that much of the film was made on the fly. Many of the cinematography techniques were off the cuff creations, and though most of the dialogue was scripted, the tone belonged to the actors. The other especially exciting aspect of this relatively subdued commentary is discussion concerning the real story and Mark Wahlberg's place in the project. Until I watched the film with the track I had no idea that Wahlberg was really the person that ushered the project to completion over the years. Russell isn't great at maintaining his flow, and loses his momentum at times, but overall the track is worth listening to.
'The Warriors Code: Filming The Fighter' (30:00, HD) is a rather intimate look behind the scenes of the film, including interviews with Russell, Wahlberg, Bale, producer Todd Lieberman, the real Micky Ward, the real Dicky Eklund, and other real life folks and crew members. Subject matter includes location shooting, casting, interactions with the actors and their counterparts, filming the boxing scenes, and basic direction. The footage of the real people and locations is the most interesting stuff, as are the bits where Wahlberg discusses his four year preparation (at one point he lists the films he made after finishing reading the script before The Fighter started filming). 'Keeping the Faith' (8:30, HD) is a further exploration of the actual family, and fills in the events that occur before the film. I'd personally prefer a full on, feature length documentary on the subject, but this does fill a void. The extras are completed with 16 deleted/alternate/extended scenes (16:50, HD), four of which feature optional commentary from Russell, and a theatrical trailer. Most of the deleted scenes appear to be part of a cut that included more of the documentary aspects, and some of Bale's best performance.
The Fighter has real heart, power performances, dynamic direction, and all the other stereotypes that go along with reviews of great movies. It's certainly not my personal best picture pick, but it's the first acclaimed boxing flick I've thoroughly enjoyed in years, and I'm happy to join the chorus of excited supporters. This Blu-ray release looks quite pretty, and sounds pretty good, despite a less than spectacular audio mix. The extras could be a little more substantial given the real life stories behind the film, but what we do get is solid enough to enjoy.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer. Thanks to Troy at Andersonvision.com for the screen-caps.
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Matt Thompson Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 236
I didn't like it much. A few good performances aside, it's Rocky: The White Trash Cartoon Version. And Wahlberg's "Aw shucks, I'm nice" shtick is always rough to sit through.
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
^ I uh.. no comment
I really enjoy David O. Russel's work, and the trailer for this one bummed me out. It looked like a bunch of pseudo-inspirational schmaltz. With low expectations going in, I ended up loving this movie. I was pleased with the family drama taking center stage instead of the fights. I was also happy to see that it was very much an O. Russel film, and kept his trademark style and sense of humor.
Gonna pick the blu-ray up tomorrow for sure, along with the Criterion "Yi Yi" if I can find a copy.
I really enjoy David O. Russel's work, and the trailer for this one bummed me out. It looked like a bunch of pseudo-inspirational schmaltz. With low expectations going in, I ended up loving this movie. I was pleased with the family drama taking center stage instead of the fights. I was also happy to see that it was very much an O. Russel film, and kept his trademark style and sense of humor.
Gonna pick the blu-ray up tomorrow for sure, along with the Criterion "Yi Yi" if I can find a copy.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I really liked Bale in this one, it was good to see him playing something a little different and the second time he jumps out fo that window made me chuckle lots.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
I'm always amused when I hear people complaining about the weak story in this one. There's only so much you can do with a feature based on true events.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th March 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director's Commentary, The Warrior's Code: Filming The Fighter, Keeping the Faith, Deleted Scenes, Trailer, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Malissa Leo
Genre: Drama
Length: 115 minutes
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New DI Press at University of Colorado
Since overseeing the installation of a Presstek 34DI digital offset press last July, Al Goranson, manager of Imaging Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has achieved his goal of taking in more long-run, full-color work.
"As our volume of four-color work continued to grow, especially in run lengths greater than 1,000, we needed something that could produce the work at a cheaper cost than our HP Indigo 3050 digital press," recalls Goranson. "We had opportunities on longer runs that were just not economic to produce on the Indigo. That was why we chose the Presstek 34DI press."
Working with limited floor space, Goranson had to take out the shop's Ryobi 512 press to make room for the Presstek 34DI, a certified pre-owned model. He says he likes the quality produced by the new machine much better than what the Ryobi offered.
While the nine-employee in-plant still operates the HP Indigo press, as well as a Heidelberg Digimaster, it is now able to produce long-run postcards and publication work using the Presstek 34DI. The quality, Goranson says, is excellent.
"The Presstek 34DI registers exactly; there is no registration that is manual at all," he says. "Our customers are also ecstatic about the quality the DI delivers and its small environmental footprint."
Goranson is excited about the new possibilities that the press will open up for the in-plant, and adds that he would like to start printing university calendars and small publications—in quantities of 2,000 and 5,000.
"Those types of jobs are really what I am trying to bring in, and get the opportunity to bid on," he says.
In November, Imaging Services also brought in a black-and-white Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 951.
"The total cost of ownership on that was very competitive with other devices we looked at that were very similar to it," says Goranson.
So far, what he likes best about the printer is that it does punching/finishing inline. The machine can also copy graphics and take digital files much easier, unlike the bizhub 920 that it replaced.
"We will now be able to produce course pack work on the bizhub PRO 951 that we were not able to produce before," Goranson says.
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Author Notes: These are salty, sweet, fragrant, finger-licking good. You can either make them in the pods, slurping the sauce clinging to the outside while stripping out the beans with your teeth or use shelled beans in a saucy side dish. We often serve a version of this for guests to snack on while we tend the grill or finish in the kitchen. —savorthis
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WHAT: Edamame shellacked with a a salty-sweet range of flavors, perfect as a pre-party appetizer.
HOW: It's as simple as adding the ingredients in groups to a blazing-hot wok. Stir fry and serve!
WHY WE LOVE IT: The sauce on the edamame shells was finger-licking good -- we love that savorthis calls for either shelled edamame or whole pods depending on how you want to serve them. —The Editors
Serves: snackings for 8
pound edamame (in shell or not)
teaspoons fermented black beans, rinsed and chopped
tablespoon garlic, minced (2 medium cloves)
teaspoon ginger, minced
tablespoons shallots, minced (1 medium)
teaspoon mirin
teaspoons soy
teaspoon sesame oil
teaspoon chili sauce (or a fresh red chili sliced crosswise)
- Rinse edamame, then boil in salted water (or microwave covered with 3 T water and pinch of salt) about 5-7 minutes for frozen, 2-3 for fresh. Drain.
- Zest orange (I prefer the thin strips to a microplane. You can peel the outer part of the peel, trim any pith and cut into thin strips) and then juice the orange. Mix shallots, garlic, black beans and ginger in one bowl, mirin, soy, sesame oil and 2 T orange juice in the other. If using chili sauce, add it to the liquid. If using fresh chili, add it to the shallot mixture.
- Heat a couple tablespoons oil in a wok or cast iron pan over very high heat. Add edamame and stir until just beginning to blister. Add shallot mixture and stir for several minutes until very fragrant and shallots just begin to brown/crisp. Add 1 T (packed) zest and toss another minute. Stir in mirin mixture and toss until the edamame are thick and glazed and no liquid remains. Poor into a bowl immediately and enjoy.
- NOTE: you can follow these steps for either pods or shelled edamame though you can boil/cook the shelled beans a little less.
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Be clear: Back in my day, mumbling under one's breath and slamming doors and talking back to the 'rents was an indictable offense punishable by a meeting with an open hand, leather strap, or a freshly shorn switch, accompanied by lots of shrill screaming and an extended stay in your bedroom sans TV, radio, and any form of human contact.
Let's just say that when it came to kids disrespecting authority, my mom, Bettye, didn't play. She and my Dad raised my brother and I without the benefit of parent coaches, without a parade of childrearing segments on morning news shows, without a subscription to best-selling parenting magazines. What she knew and what she practiced and what worked for her was one simple philosophy: Children were to be seen, not heard, and their opinions on most subjects—no matter how much they made sense—definitely weren't welcome. Keeping my mouth shut and doing as I was told was the only option. For me, it was about self-preservation—survival.
But I promised myself that when I had children of my own, I would use different tactics to get them to obey me—tactics that didn't involve physical, verbal or mental intimidation. My goal: To have my children respect rather than fear me. Instead of hitting, I reasoned—rather than holler and scream like a banshee when they did something wrong, I praised when they did something right. "You're the adult and therefore smarter than them," I'd tell myself. "Use your Mighty Isis smart powers to get them to bend to your will."
At least that's what all the parenting books said I should do.
None of them warned, though, of the visceral reaction I'd have when the 12-year-old, refusing to yield to mommy pressure to show her little sister some mercy, muttered under her breath, or the 9-year-old, ticked that she didn't get her way (again) stomped off, leaving slammed doors in her wake. I can't say I was prepared, either, when my older daughter, who, toe-to-toe, is tall enough to look me in the eye, actually started walking around the house with her little flat chest poked out, making clear in word and deed that she thinks she's smarter, stronger, and faster than me.
Like I'm a slow, weak, idiot.
This! This is what throws me off. Because, though I'm no punk when it comes to disciplining my kids, I feel like the discipline techniques I use should earn me a little respect, right? That they should appreciate my embracing of the new school parenting techniques—the ones that spare them the rod. I mean, if one of my girls is, say, running through the living room when I've just told her not to, I'm not yelling and slapping and sending her to her room; I'm using my grown-up logic to help her understand the consequences of running through a room full of glass, and breakables, and sharp objects, and imploring her to learn the value of self-control—a teachable moment that ultimately makes her feel good when she makes a better choice all on her own later on down the line.
The saving grace is that though my tweens have plenty of their "can't get right" moments behind our closed doors, they do show deference and respect to their elders outside of our home. Family elders, teachers, coaches, even teenage babysitters (if you remove their 18-year-old brother out of that group!)—my girls give them all the respect any one child can muster. I can't help but to think that it's because we've taught them to not only think logically about the consequences they'd face if they refused to follow the rules of the grown-ups in charge—loss of recess if they act up in class, less play time on the soccer field if they don't listen to coach—but also made clear to them that getting into trouble over such things is not an option. After all, Mommy would be sorely disappointed with reports of bad behavior. And the mere idea of making their mother disappointed stings my girls more than any open hand or belt or switch ever could.
I try my best to remind myself of such things when the muttering and the door slamming and the "that's not fair" outbursts invade our otherwise peaceful house: My girls are, ultimately, good girls. At least this is what their teachers and their coaches and their babysitters and other grown folk charged with their care outside of my presence tell me.
For this, at least, I'm grateful.
To read more of Denene Millner's musings on parenting, check out her personal blog at MyBrownBaby.com.


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A return to solid hiring in March, reported by the government Friday, eased concerns that the U.S. economy was slipping back into lower gear.
Employers added 192,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7 percent. Coming on the heels of two consecutive months of what was thought to have been weak hiring, the strong March hiring suggests that the economy instead shrugged off bad weather and showed underlying strength.
"The job market is back on track after being sidetracked by the brutal winter weather," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for forecaster Moody's Analytics. "The economy is back to creating close to 200,000 jobs per month, which is resulting in a steadily tightening job market."
That means the jobless rate is likely to decline, Zandi said, and will begin to put upward pressure on wages, attracting more workers back to the labor force.
"All the preconditions for even better job growth this spring are in place. Businesses are highly profitable, their balance sheets are strong and labor costs are low," he said. "The only missing ingredient had been confidence, but even that is improving as the political vitriol in Washington has faded."
The Labor Department on Friday also revised hiring estimates for previous months. They show that hiring wasn't as weak as had been thought. February's first estimate of 175,000 jobs was revised to 197,000. January numbers were also increased, from 129,000 to 144,000.
Those revisions suggest that winter weather wasn't as big a hit on hiring as had been feared. But winter's impact was felt in the measure of hours worked. The average workweek for all workers grew by 0.2 hour in March, reversing a net decline over the three consecutive previous months.
"Some of the decline in those months was likely due to unusually severe winter weather, including the major snowstorm that hit during the survey week in February," said Jason Furman, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. "Consistent with the unwinding of weather effects, the average workweek in manufacturing jumped in March and returned to its 68-year high."
The unemployment rate was unchanged in March, 6.7 percent.
The labor force participation rate _ a measure of how many working-age Americans have jobs or are looking for them _ inched up to 63.2 percent. A declining participation rate has vexed economists, who are trying to determine how much of it reflects demographic trends and how much is related to tepid economic growth.
Some of the previous declines were likely due to baby boomers retiring early and other factors, but some stemmed from the economy itself.
"At least some of the decline is cyclical and reflects the frustration of trying to find a job when unemployment is high and job turnover is extremely low," Ethan Harris, a co-head of global economics research for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, wrote in a note to investors.
"We expect a reversal as young workers finish their extra time in school and as middle-age workers attempt to address widespread inadequate retirement savings."
About 10.5 million Americans were unemployed last month, and more than a third of them _ some 3.7 million _ had been out of work for 27 weeks or longer.
Professional and business services hiring rose by 57,000 last month, pointing to improvement in the white-collar sector. Temporary help services, often a harbinger of future hiring, improved by more than 28,000 jobs. Retailers, a loser in the cold months of January and February, added more than 21,000 jobs last month.
"We're encouraged by the progression seen in March related to hiring and other indicators that point to overall economic growth," said Jack Kleinhenz, the chief economist for the National Retail Federation.
"First-quarter results have been less than stellar thus far thanks to a variety of factors, including unusually bad weather in almost every part of the country. As the year progresses, I expect the job market to strengthen, which will put consumers in a position to feel even more confident about spending, bolstering the sub-par economic recovery."
The struggling construction sector posted a gain of 19,000 jobs. That stands out, especially compared with the labor-intensive manufacturing sector, which shed 1,000 jobs last month.
"While this was disappointing, the good news was that manufacturers added 15,000 workers more than previously estimated in January and February," said Chad Moutray, the chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers. "Since August, the manufacturing sector has averaged 12,125 additional workers each month, a sign that the rebound that we have seen since the beginning of the third quarter has resulting in a pickup in hiring."
The Federal Reserve is likely to stick to its timetable for removal of economic stimulus. The Fed has been tapering back its purchases of government and mortgage bonds to support the economy, now at a pace of $55 billion a month. It's expected to end the bond buying late this year or early next year.


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Looking for a fine dining experience for your family or date? How about a bar where you can hang out and enjoy a variety of tasty tapas offerings? Or maybe an inviting spot to hold a party for 150 or more?
North Bergen's newest restaurant, 90 Park, has you covered. The large, comfortable space is divided into different sections, including a bar and lounge, a two-tiered dining area, and a banquet room.
Formerly known at Antonia's by the Park, the restaurant changed its name about nine months ago when owner and head chef Antonia Vene was joined by her cousin Domenic Vitulli as a partner.
"We're trying to make it more of a New York, younger style restaurant," said Vene. "To give it a different spin."
The food is the same mix of elegant Italian fare and Iberian cuisine that has garnered a local reputation for the restaurant over the years and led to it being featured on the Food Network.
The restaurant
Born in Italy, Antonia Vene spent most of her life in North Jersey.
"Believe it or not, I'm from the art industry," she said. "I was a fashion designer for 20 years. In New York City I had a line of clothing in Bergdorf. I designed for Revlon. I had private clientele. I used to do very high-end clothing. I always loved creating. And my family and everybody else used to say I should open up a restaurant."
So she did. "Noni's" (from her nickname) was opened in Edgewater in 2001, in partnership with an old friend. A BYOB bistro with about 60 seats, it was popular with the lunchtime crowd.
Then, a few years later, the partners spotted a Turkish restaurant for sale in North Bergen. In May 2006 they took it over. Noni's closed in September, and one month later, Antonia's by the Park opened, with many of Vene's customers following her to the new location. Her silent partner eventually bowed out, to be replaced by Vene's cousin.
Originally an Italian restaurant, Antonia's expanded the menu about three years ago to include Iberian food. "Our cuisines -- Italian and Spanish -- are very similar," said Vene. "We use the same kind of ingredients, just a little bit different technique."
Vene has been head chef through all the different restaurant incarnations. "I develop all the recipes, I do all the menus, I go in the kitchen and I teach my staff," she said. "I make all the sauces, and I'm there when it's busy."
"The recipes I pull from different places and then I create it with my own technique." --Antonia Vene
"We do a lot of events for fundraisers and stuff," Vene said, "so I invite chefs to cook and help me. They donate their time, and a lot of professional chefs from Hell's Kitchen and Food Network have come in and they told me my food is wonderful."
The menu
"Our seafood we're very well known for," Vene said when asked about the most popular dishes. "Our salmon is unbelievable. We do an amazing paella. Short ribs. Those are our specialties."
For St. Patrick's Day she served her annual corned beef and cabbage special. "You don't know how many phone calls I got from people from last year: 'You making it? We're coming in!'" Altogether she cooked about 150 pounds of corned beef over the weekend.
In addition to an extensive lunch and a dinner menu (including many gluten-free options), 90 Park offers a bar menu. "We do 21 different tapas at a $6 price, which people love," said Vene. "At the bar we also offer pizzas, we offer burgers, sliders, wings. We do have customers that come in and they know we offer the tapas and they will ask for it [in the restaurant]. Just tapas for dinner. And that's fine, we don't have a problem with it."
With a staff of about 12, 90 Park is very much a family affair. Vene's son works there, along with another cousin who just came from Italy. Several of the staff members have been with Vene for years.
"I have one gentleman that's working in the kitchen with me that's been with me 13 years," said Vene. "He was with me in Edgewater and came up here and he's still with me. I don't change my staff very often. I think that's beneficial because you get better quality control. If you change the kitchen staff, your food doesn't stay consistent. And then you wind up with people coming in and saying it was good last time, now it's not so good. I don't have that problem. People come in and say that it's always good."
But that doesn't mean she's not involved. "I'm a hands-on person," she said. "It's very difficult for me to relinquish my kitchen to anyone else. I'm always there. I step out, but like this morning I was there all day until 5:00, that's when I got out of the kitchen. You need to be dedicated. Because otherwise the quality of the product suffers."
The meal
Our meal began with a light, refreshing red sangria, garnished with a smattering of tiny fruit pieces. Accompanying this was a warm loaf of Italian bread served with both butter and seasoned oil for dipping.
The vast menu and specials offered a wealth of options to choose from. For appetizers we settled on tempura shrimp from the main menu and one of the daily specials: Portobello mushrooms stuffed with seafood.
The shrimp arrived alongside a salad of julienned fresh greens and sweet red peppers served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs. Lightly battered and fried, the shrimp were large and exceedingly flavorful, especially with the excellent homemade garlic aioli sauce. Also on the plate was a honey mustard sauce, which we bypassed for the delicious aioli.
The mushroom appetizer was another gem. Stuffed with crab, shrimp, and scallops, cooked in a white wine garlic sauce and topped with melted mozzarella, the dish was hearty and delectable. The mushrooms themselves were fist-sized and meaty, cooked to a rich consistency and served atop a bed of green leaf salad.
Our waiter, Oscar, who had been with the restaurant since it opened and knew every nuance of the menu, recommended the short ribs from the daily specials menu. My wife asked for it to be served over pasta, and she couldn't have been happier with the results.
Antonia slow cooks the ribs for hours to get them especially tender, and indeed the meat not only peels apart with a fork but dissolves in your mouth. The rich, tasty gravy soaked into the pasta making for a delightful meal.
My Veal Milanese was a pan-fried breaded chop topped with a colorful spread of arugula, red onion, fresh mozzarella and cherry tomatoes. A large and impressive cut of meat, it was cooked beautifully and tasted marvelous.
As a side dish we ordered the lumicone, a thick, cylindrical pasta with porcini mushrooms in a roasted garlic cream sauce with fresh diced tomatoes. My wife found the rich sauce too cheesy; I enjoyed it tremendously.
Dessert consisted of a chocolate lava cake for her and a warm apple walnut tart for me, both with vanilla ice cream. Accompanying this was a delightful cappuccino.
90 Park certainly didn't skimp on either quality or size. The ingredients were all fresh and flavorful and the portions were more than generous.
The details
Parties are a specialty at 90 Park. The Sunday we visited, there was a large group set up in a U shape in the spacious dining room, amidst the columns and chandeliers. This, Vene told us, was the fifth party of the weekend.
On Friday and Saturday nights the restaurant presents music in the cozy lounge area by the bar, including theme nights. "We do Elvis night, we do Frank Sinatra night, we do oldies, we do disco, we do salsa, we do flamenco, different things," said Vene.
Upcoming on April 12 is France Joli, the 1980s disco queen, performing live.
The kitchen is open Sunday through Thursday until 10 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday until 11. The bar stays open until 1:30 a.m. Weekdays there's a happy hour from 3 to 7 p.m., with a complimentary buffet on Fridays and other specials throughout the week. Check the website for details at 90parkrestaurant.com.
Appetizers at 90 Park cost $6 to $12, with main courses running from $13 for eggplant rigatoni to $29 for a rack of lamb.
A $19.95 "sunset menu" on Monday through Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. includes two glasses of wine and a three-course meal. And the $8.95 lunch special includes any of the pastas or sandwiches on the menu, along with a salad or a side and a soda.
90 Park is at 9011 Palisade Ave. in North Bergen, phone number (201) 868-0750. Free parking is available in the adjoining lot.
Art Schwartz may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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