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dexter riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Posts: 2
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:12 am
Post subject: Homemade Pie Crust or Die Trying
Hello, all! I have tried twice to make a homemade pie crust, but both times the results have been...suboptimal. I've tried the Good Eats butter crust recipe, and a different shortening recipe, but each one failed with the same result: a crumbly mess that falls apart when I attempt to roll it out. I think the problem is not adding enough water to the dough, but how much is enough? Damn it, Jim, I'm a molecular biologist, not a pastry chef...I need mililiters, not "It should hold together when compressed but remain relatively dry to the touch." Qualitative descriptions! They hurt my brain!
So, does anyone have any good protocols for making a flaky, tender pie crust from scratch? Or am I doomed to unroll the Pillsbury ones for all eternity?
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:38 pm
Post subject: homemade piecrust
Here is a recipe from Betty Crocker's Cookbook. I have used it many ti.mes and everyone raves about my crust.
Single crust pie (just double for a two crust recipe.
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon of shortening
1 cup of all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 to 3 tablespoons of cold water
Cut shortening into flour and salt until particles are size of small peas. sprinkle in water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost cleans side of bowl. small amounts of additional water can be added is necessary.
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dexter riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:48 am
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Thank you! I'll give it a try!
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:32 am
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I love butter crusts. The recipe above is fine, just use butter for something different. But it has to be cold and cut into small chucks, and the best way to mix is with your fingers gently squishing the butter into the flour. I start with water and butter first with a little bit of flour and keep adding flour until a soft dough forms a ball, then I add flour until it is smooth (not sticky) and able to be rolled out.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:18 pm
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ktexp2, that sounds like you're mixing the butter really thoroughly. That won't result in a flaky crust at all. That's sometimes fine, even prefered, but for most pies, a flaky crust is better. The flakiness comes from the fact the the butter isn't mixed in very well, so when it gets rolled out, there are basically a ton of layers of butter and flour.
If you want flaky crusts, you need those pieces of butter. Some chefs even leave pieces larger than peas. If you mix/cut until the pieces are tiny, you're not going to get a flaky crust.
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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
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Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:25 pm
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I use a squishing technique just like ktexp2. You're not trying to smoosh the butter into the flour (like making a paste), you're just trying to flatten the butter into discs and mixing with the flour. This is actually a really useful technique for biscuits, pastry dough, and anything else that needs layers.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:40 am
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Hmm, then I guess I misunderstood/misunderstand the technique. If it works, then keep doing it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:49 pm
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Pie crust is a 3 2 1 dough. 3 parts all purpose flour, 2 parts shortening, 1 part ice water
by weight
. Perfect for an engineer.
Cut the flour into the shortening using a pastry cutter
until you have something that looks like dried lentils. Add the water a little at a time and try to form a dough with your hands. Knead the dough a few times on the counter, flatten into a disc, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate at least an hour (the point is to let the gluten relax).
Flour your rolling board and set the cold dough on it. Flour the top of the dough and your rolling pin. Roll the dough gently, and keep moving it, adding more flour so it doesn't stick. to move it to the pan, roll it loosely arounf the pin and lift.
Using more shortening makes a flakier crust, less shortening makes a sturdier crust. I use a butter/shortening/lard blend and a little salt.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:29 pm
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I've also found that using frozen butter helps when it comes time to make a crust or a biscuit. Using the cutter until the mix is like a bunch of peanuts then just sprinkling the water. I try to handle it as little as possible and find that it works like a charm everytime!
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:34 am
Post subject: use ice water
My mother made the very best crust in the whole world and she (and since other cooks) have taught me to use ice water to make the crust. Also sprinkle a little, mix just a little, sprinkle a little and the mix a little. If you add it all at once, it all adheres to the same area of the flour/fat mixture. I also use a pastry cutter and make sure I have nice small flour/fat peas before adding the water. I also put ice in a plastic bag on my marble rolling board and put my marble rolling pin in the frig before I get ready to roll. But I always make sure that the rolling pin warms a tad and I wipe it free of all the condensation. I hope this helps you!
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Jay Francis
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:59 pm
Post subject: Cuisinart Pie Crust
If you have a Cuisinart food processor, I may be able to help you make a perfect pie crust. I actually prefer and use Alton's recipe that has some lard in it. There is a book, however, called PIE that has great recipes.
The trick I have found, is put your dry ingredients with the blade installed in the Cuisinart bowl. Then add the fats and put the whole thing in the freezer overnight. When you are ready to make your crust, pulse your ingredients until just blended, then add ice cold water to bring it together. The trick is to have everything super cold.
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:18 pm
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I agree with the food processor comments- I've never been able to make a really good crust by any other method (I've tried my hands, a pastry blender, and two knives). I'm sure it can be done, but the other methods requires more skill than a food processor. Next, if you use butter, try using a plugras butter. I use Straus unsalted butter that I've put in the freezer to make sure it stays very cold through the processing. I think the extra fat in plugras butter makes for a better textured crust than ordinary butter. Yes, it's more expensive, but I think it's worth it. Finally, there's a reason that recipes for pie crusts can't be completely precise. Our ingredients aren't precisely made. Flour varies greatly from brand to brand, and even from batch to batch. Some flour will absorb more moisture than others. Water content in butter varies from brand to brand as well. It's impossible to say
how much water is needed in any given recipe.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:37 pm
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Yeah, If you're having a problem making crust, the food processor is the way to go. Using Cold butter and Ice water and then placing the flattened ball in the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap to solidify and keep the butter from melting after processing and just before you roll it out. Butter is rough to work with because it has a low melting point.
Lard = high melting point and tender crust
Butter = low melting point and flaky crust
Shortening is similar to lard in that respect
I agree with one of the posters about Alton Brown's recipe - it's a good one.
I would try the food processor and shortening to start until you're happy with it and then try the butter - make sure your kitchen isn't hot when working with butter.
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Mary Conner
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:46 pm
Post subject: Easy Pie Crust
OK. If you JUST WANT A PIE CRUST, DAMMIT, this is the recipe for you. It's not fancy, but it comes out exactly the same every time.
3/4 C flour
1/4 C water
1/4 C shortening (or for an extra flakey crust, use delicious lard)
tiny amount of salt
Start by getting out your trusty fork and a bowl and combining your flour, shortening/lard, and about two shakes from the salt shaker. You do this by mashing at the shortening/lard with your fork until the individual particles are crumb-sized (cake crumbs, not the bread crumbs you buy in a can) or somewhat larger, but not big enough to pick an individual one up. This should take you about 5 minutes max. Then, add in the water and mash/stir the stuff around, until through the magic of a "physical change," all of the water is indivisibly mixed in with all of the flour/shortening/salt. Here comes the part with finesse involved. Flour your countertop LIGHTLY. (Pretend you're in a Fred Astair movie and Fred needs to do a soft-shoe routine, with your dough being Fred Astair and your counter being the dance floor.) Before dumping the dough onto your Fred Astair-worthy countertop, make it into a ball in your hands by kind of lightly slapping it back and forth between them the way you would a softball. After it is in ball-form, keep this up for two to three more times. What you are doing is toughening up the dough so it doesn't fall apart when you roll it out, but you don't want to toughen it so much that the pie crust turns into that institutional glue on the bottom like something from a Robert Orr-Sysco nightmare. Now your dough is ready to roll out. Put it on the FA-W countertop, roughly in the center of the floured area. Also flour your rolling pin by putting flour in the palm of your hand and rubbing the shaft of the rolling pin through it in a distinctly pornographic way. Now, when you roll out your dough, your intended thickiness is 1/4" or LESS. Too thick dough also results in a Robert Orr-Sysco nightmare. So be firm with your rolling pin, making sure to roll over the dough in all cardinal directions so that it more or less makes a big pancake. Roll about 6 times on one side, fold your dough in half, and then in quarters, and gently peel it off the countertop, flip it over, and repeat until it is thin enough. (IE you will turn it over about 3 times.) Fold it up like that again the last time and then you can lay it in your probably-round pie dish. If you're making a chilled pie, prebake the crust in a 500F oven for 10 minutes, making sure to prick holes in the pie crust dough before putting it in the oven. Otherwise, you can just put your fruit or whatever into the unbaked crust and bake as directed by the pie recipe. This crust will turn out tender and moderately flakey, but strong enough to be cut into and support the lifting of a piece of pie out of the dish. If you want to get super-fancy, before baking the pie, use the following technique around the edges after you've trimmed the dough to fit the pie pan:
Make a 'v' for Victory with your index and middle fingers on your non-dominant hand. Place the fingertips of the 'v' on a section of the edge of the crust. Using the index finger of your dominant hand, pull the dough in between your two fingers towards the center of the pie firmly enough so that it remains standing up in this position after you move your hand. Repeat all the way around the crust until you have a nice ripply edge.
Even more fancy-fance:
Brush your pie crust with a beaten egg yolk or some milk for a golden hue after it's baked.
Unbelievably fance:
Make a lid for your pie using the above method and cut out shapes with a cookie cutter. (Otherwise, cut vents in the lid so that it doesn't rise up in stupendous glory in order to disappoint all who eat it with a large vacant space between its underside and the actual filling of the pie.)
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:39 pm
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You can also freeze your shortening/butter/lard and grate it on a box grater. Toss it with the flour then start adding water.
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In a new occasional series, I'll be covering some of the content of the books I read on usability and design principles. Why? Well, to start off, these are awesome books. You read them, and you start to rethink how you do your project plans and interfaces. They're full of gems that can be applied immediately.
They're also, well, books. How many of us have books on our bookshelf that we swear we're going to read when we have the time? How many of us have picked up a book, gotten a chapter or two in, then gotten distracted by the nearest shiny object like a new video game, a pesky deadline, or the need to eat?
These are not book reviews. There are reviews out there on these books. This is a post covering a particular gem in a book and my take on it.
Today, I want to talk about The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper. This is a book that is both very useful, and that many developers will likely hate. That's not because it's boring, full of manager-speak, or tries to be too cute. Developers, you would not like it because it has one pretense:
Don't let developers design your interface.
Once drilling that home, they talk about how to do interface design, and the tricks their company uses. My favorite so far? The Personna.
When you read through use cases, you often catch mentions of 'the user.' Exactly who that user is stretches infinitely. In one use case, the user is a rather savvy power user who doesn't mind five or ten steps to properly encrypt, upload, and check a file. Sometimes, the user is your gran, who finds computers terrifying and needs everything one click away. Sometimes, it's a designer wants every feature to have a clever icon rather than a text label.
This will not do.
Cooper, in his consulting business, constructs concrete personnas that will use their application. They have names. They like certain kinds of foods over others. They like to dress in certain ways. They have physical ailments. They have specific experiences with computers. They're stereotypes, but they're supposed to be. If you can make that personna happy, you can satisfy a huge chunk of your market.
Let's say I'm going to make a new application. I could just assume that everyone that will be using the software will be as snazzy as me, willing to learn interfaces in order to get software to do what I want it to do. I'm tricky enough to just make shortcuts to the parts of the application I really want, and ignore most of the keen navigation.
If only this software was just for me.
Realistically, this software is going to be used by people who are not computer geeks who can keep the interfaces of their favorite programs in their head. It will be used by secretaries or lit majors or computer haters. There may be some geeks, but you want to go after the lowest common denominator. Make them happy, make a LOT of people happy.
So you make a personna, and get into their head.
I get a request to make a new file sharing site (something I'm actually doing at the moment). All sorts of people are going to use this site, but I'm going to make a personna who is my lowest common denominator. If I can make him happy with my system, then I can make anyone happy with it.
Let's call him Bill, if only because I don't know any Bills personally at NASA.
Let's make Bill an Earth scientist. His job is to review proposals for new satellites from everywhere: companies, other sections of NASA, universities, think tanks. Two decades ago, when he started doing this, it was in the form of dead tree sent by post to HQ. He'd lock them in a cabinet, and when he wanted help reviewing them, he'd call a meeting and they'd all review them together. One copy. No one else saw them unless they could get in the building, find his office, find the filing cabinet in the mess of his office, and procure a key.
It was simple, and it was secure. There was no ambiguity.
Then came the damn internet.
Now, everyone wants to share things online. He tried email, but they couldn't keep the versions straight. Sometimes the files were too large. Sometimes, they were full of sensitive data that wasn't to go through unsecured lines. He's used the shared drive, but he can never tell who can see the files, and those outside of NASA certainly can't get to the shared drive.
We're making this app for him.
The first idea we had, to have lots of customization available, went out the window. Would Bill want to take tons of time to tweak folders at every level? Not likely. It would just frustrate him and have him using us at every turn to tweak and recheck the configurations.
So we went from having tons of customization to having a few stock options that could cover 90% of all requests. The last ten percent could be covered by experts.
The old system had admins making all the boxes. Would Bill want to wait? No. He never needed someone to set up his locked filing cabinet. He'd just make a new folder and put everything there. So we'd have to make it simple enough so that he could make the box on his own.
And as for who could access them, that had been easy. Whoever he gave a key to, or whoever he invited to his meetings could see the files. He knew who could add files (whoever had a key). So, we want to make this information readily apparent to him every time he uploads a file. Who can see the file, and what else they can do, is everywhere.
As a mental trick, I find that it's helping us streamline our designs. It takes some practice, but it keeps your apps from being a bucket of functions with nothing to hold them together, a thing that could only satisfy an elastic user.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Katie reads so you don't have to! (Inmates are Running the Asylum)
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3 comments:
- Reinout said...
Your "Bill" example is useful, thanks. I've just been reading some persona articles this morning and suddenly I saw your post on twitter.
That's what I call service :-)
- April 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM
- kcunning said...
I live to serve, sir!
- April 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM
First "Twisty Little Passages" and now this! Yay!
- April 24, 2009 at 10:14 AM
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|MB detainees Thursday's morning !! "Reuters"
Here is a photo gallery showing the detainees at Heliopolis prosecution office late last night.
These detainees were kept away at the gates of the Presidential palace for more than 12 hours tortured and mistreated while they are handcuffed. Here is the video testimony of ambassador Yahia Negm.
He says that the police was actually orders from the MB and that even the MB doctors mistreated them. He says also that they accused him of being spy because of his work in the ministry of foreign affairs !!
In any respectable country the MB members and leaders would be arrested and prosecuted for the illegal detention and torture of other citizens !!
The MB media machine online "RSSD"published another video from their own view , from their own camera not Al Watan newspaper's camera to show the so-called thugs in captivity. In Any respectable country this video can send the MB and RSSD to jail !! You see ambassador Negm and Mohamed Abdel Fatah in the video.
|Ramy in detention and police was there !!
Another detainee is Ramy Sabry from the Popular alliance Party recounted how he was dragged and beaten from El Khalifa Al Mamoun street to the Presidential palace while that RSSD guy was asking him an provocative interrogating way. The RSSD guy then showed some detainees' partisan cards from Al Wafd and Al Karma party in order to prove the Sabbahi/Badawy conspiracy.
Speaking about the videos , here is a video I showed yesterday and I show it again. This is how the detainees were treated. You can see Mina beaten in that video.
The guy wearing a suite screaming and interrogating men like a State security officer is called Alaa Hamza and he is from Zagzig.
In 1960s the Egyptian TV aired the confessions of the MB prisoners accused of plotting against Nasser from jail in an episode presented by veteran Hamdy Kandil. Till that day Kandil feels sorry for that interview up till now !! MB is notorious like Nasser regime unfortunately !!
I used to write and read a lot of about POWs to know how POWs internationally should be treated. I know how POWs should be treated in Islam and yet unfortunately these follow Egyptians were not treated by the Muslim brotherhood "Egyptians" even as POWs !!
Yesterday Morsi announced that those thugs confessed by taking money in order to create chaos according to the prosecution's investigation !! Ironically the official investigations of the prosecution in Heliopolis were not concluded at time.
Mohamed Morsi was simply repeating the Muslim brotherhood statements and accusations.
Some saying that last night Morsi was acting as if he were giving orders to the Heliopolis prosecution to frame the charges !!
Nevertheless human rights lawyer Malek Adly stated on his twitter account as well to the media tonight that the Prosecution Lawyers told him that the Public prosecutor , the new one appointed by Morsi did not want them to release the detainees for political reasons !!
This is why we refused to have a public prosecutor appointed by the President after the #Jan28 because there should be another mechanism to appoint the public prosecutor in a way that allow his independence so he could be the people's attorney
I want to thank the fantastic human rights lawyers and activists that have not slept in those 72 hours except very few hours till these detainees are rescued medically and released.
I still can not believe the amount of hatred the MB leaders fill the minds and hearts of the members so we would see these scenes !!


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In the past year, I came in contact with some unique developments Europe-based, primarily in Germany. Just leaving the links here, in case it helps.
Trial of Adoptive T Cell Therapy With Activated P53 Specific T Cells for Treatment of Advanced Colorectal Cancer (ATACC)
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Patient treatment and follow-up will be performed at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg. Leukapheresis will take place at the DRK-Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg-Hessen in Mannheim and generation of therapeutic cells will be performed at the GMP Unit Cellular Therapy of the DKFZ. Analysis of blood samples with respect to special immune parameters is carried out at the Immune Monitoring Laboratory, Department of Translational Immunology at the NCT, Heidelberg."
(Similar to the NHI TIL trial)
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VXM01 Phase I Study in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastasis (oral immunotherapy)
Phase I study in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with liver metastasis under second or third line therapy to examine safety, efficacy, and immune biomarkers after treatment with VXM01, Oral immunotherapy targeting VEGFR2
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Screening Platform for Clinical Trials in Advanced Colorectal Cancer (SPECTAcolor)
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Information technology in government began less than a decade ago, riding on the hot wind of fired-up dot-coms and clever applications that sometimes held more promise than productivity. Over the years, government IT leaders sorted out the policies, politics and technologies that best served governments' goals; unsuccessful models, along with countless IT start-ups, disappeared from the scene.
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This evolution from the glitter of new technology to the grit of effective electronic government required a new kind of leadership -- men and women who possessed a vision of how technology could change the relationship of citizens to government. But these leaders needed to do more than advocate for an idea; they needed to be instruments of change who proved the value of information technology in the government marketplace.
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Vice President, Progressive Policy Institute
Atkinson directed the Technology Reshaping of Metropolitan America, a report that examines the impact of the information technology revolution on America's urban areas. He is currently director of PPI's Technology & New Economy Project.
Technology challenge: "For governments to assert leadership to break down bureaucratic barriers that stand in the way of creating functionally oriented, citizen-centered government Web presences designed to give citizens a self-service government. Notwithstanding the considerable progress many governments have made in getting online, most governments' Web presences remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes most sense to citizens. Achieving citizen-centered digital government will require resources, political leadership and hard work. It will require a fundamentally different view of government -- one that puts the needs of citizens first."
Kenneth Blackwell
State Treasurer, Ohio
In public service since 1977, Blackwell built a national reputation for advocating the use of information technology throughout government. As state treasurer, his implementation of an electronic system for the payment of Uniform Commercial Code filings cut processing time from 15 weeks to three days.
Technology challenge: "Developing and conducting online government transactions through an enterprise model, providing customers with one-click access to a wide variety of government services. For example, customers expect government to provide one-stop e-commerce centers where they can incorporate, apply for small business assistance and file and retrieve the necessary tax documentation. Many of these services are currently offered by government entities operating independently of each other. Our challenge is to coordinate these services across the board as one enterprise and offer the consumer seamless online information."
Ralph Campbell
State Auditor, North Carolina
Ralph Campbell brought the state's Auditor's Office into the information age. He is chairman of the NC Information Resource Management Commission, which guides the utilization of technology in state government. He also serves in positions of responsibility on numerous state and national boards and commissions. His commitment to minority participation in government is a hallmark of his successful tenure.
Technology challenge:
"Meeting citizens' expectations in the areas of privacy and security, while ensuring the continuity of operations under any circumstances. The need to protect the individual privacy of our citizens must be recognized and at the same time balanced against the need to provide the proper information to organizations, law enforcement and government charged with protecting citizens. Recent events demonstrate that our technology infrastructure is a national asset and, consequently, has become a target to affect our economy, financial operations and everyday life. Today more than ever, our citizens have a high expectation that we will deploy secure information technology systems on time, on budget and in response to business needs."
Gary Cooper
Executive Director, National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
Cooper heads the non-profit organization that is dedicated to improving the criminal justice system through the application of information and identification technology. SEARCH's primary objective is to identify and help solve information management problems experienced by state, local and federal governments.
Technology challenge: "The events of September 11 have filled 2002 with challenges associated with preventing terrorist activity. This not only includes identifying and tracking terrorists but eliminating others from consideration of being a terrorist. In an attempt to address this, initiatives calling for the use of smart cards and biometrics and the creation of watch lists, [as well as] tracking systems are replete in proposals before Congress and federal executive branch agencies. How the criminal justice component of "digital government" responds to those initiatives is certainly one of the biggest challenges for 2002."
Bill Cox
Director, North Carolina Division of Information Resource Management
As the director of the Division of Information Resource Management within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Cox is responsible for business and client record-keeping needs. Cox's division also provides technical services to the department and assures access to records for more than 14,000 local computer workstations across the state.
Technology challenge: "There are at least three concerns that I have in moving to e-government. Two are infrastructure related. (1) The government agencies that are responsible for the delivery of the e-services have limited resources and skill sets, and (2) The infrastructure at the local level limits the ability of citizens to participate. The last concern is the ability to identify users and secure private/confidential information of the citizens."
Richard Daley
Mayor, Chicago
Best known for improving the Chicago Public Schools, Daley also has developed innovative programs to improve city neighborhoods, reduce crime through community policing, remove illegal guns from the streets, build new libraries, beautify the city and attract high-technology industry.
Technology challenge: "The biggest challenge for digital government will be making sure it delivers direct and tangible benefits to everyone. We in government have to look at things from the citizen's perspective, rather than government's own internal perspective. In difficult economic times, it is more important than ever that government delivers measurable results for its constituents in the form of better and more accessible services and greater efficiency and openness. Digital government also can be used to spur economic development. We also have to be careful that certain groups -- the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the non-English speaking -- don't get left behind as we rush to permeate the government with technology."
Hon. Hunt Downer
State Representative, Louisiana
Rep. Hunt Downer became a catalyst for digital democracy when he put the state assembly online in 1997. It was Downer's vision that led to the historic assembly chambers being retrofit to implement new technology and bring all 105 members into the Information Age. Downer has become increasingly involved in national security issues and IT implementations.
Technology challenge: "Once digital government is in place, it faces the
challenge of keeping it current in technology, software and hardware. That challenge is compounded by the slowness with which government moves because of the constraints in purchasing, and is further compounded by the constraints of the availability of revenue for funding. I believe that a successful balance among these challenges is achievable, depending upon the dedication and commitment of the governmental entity and its leadership in bringing government to the people."
Anita Givens
Senior Director, Educational Tech Division, Texas Education Agency
Givens has been instrumental in successful efforts to bring technology to Texas' 1,044 districts and 6,465 schools and in developing the Texas Education Network, which serves as an Internet provider for schools and trains teachers in helping them integrate technology into the classroom and evaluating instructional resources.
Technology challenge: "The biggest challenge to digital government is twofold: awareness and access. There are such rich digital resources and services available - but unless the various customers are fully aware of these resources and services and have access to them, the benefits will not be fully realized. The most frequent response I get when sharing news about nearly any digital resource or service is 'I didn't know that!' Once people realize what is available, their enthusiasm begins to emerge until they then think about access. The how, when, where, and how much does it cost questions may become the biggest challenges depending on the number and type of customers being addressed. Communication is the key to overcoming these challenges, and there are so many messages being delivered, it is difficult for many to sort out what they really need to know to move forward in this digital age. Challenges are just opportunities in disguise so as we identify each one, we must continue to take the steps necessary to move forward."
Tom Hall
City Manager, La Grange, Ga.
La Grange's initiative to link all of its citizens to the Internet via the local cable television system won nationwide acclaim. The city received Government Technology's Leadership Award in 2000 and was named Intelligent City of the Year by the World Teleport Association.
Technology challenge: "I see the biggest challenge as getting government services used online by all members of a community. Proficiency in the use of technology is becoming increasingly important as a life skill. Those who don't develop that skill are in danger of being left behind economically and socially. Our challenge is to ensure appropriate infrastructure deployment and access, develop compelling content that is relevant to the daily lives of our citizens, and promote the use of technology in all of our community institutions."
Don Heiman
Chief Information Technology Officer, Kansas
Heiman retired last month, leaving a legacy of statewide IT architectures and standards. His efforts resulted in a first-place finish for Kansas in the 2001 Digital State survey.
Technology challenge: "Today we have taken a defensive strategy for safeguarding our critical infrastructure. This year, IT will be increasingly challenged to augment defensive strategies with offensive tactics. These tactics will require changes to state IT governance structures as we adopt enterprise security councils, security analysis centers to parse intrusions, reverse engineering of security hacks and aggressive tracking of hacks back to their sources. Year 2002 will also bring a new understanding on how states can best balance open records, privacy and security."
Don Hutchinson
Secretary, Department of Economic Development, Louisiana
Hutchinson helps lead an effort to reinvent and diversify Louisiana's economy based on bold technology and education initiatives.
Technology challenge: "There are three significant components necessary in order to create a successful digital government. The first component is policy. The second is infrastructure. The third is education. By developing policy that
creates a digital government mindset, building the infrastructure to address the needs of today and tomorrow, and educating our citizens in order for them to take full advantage of technology opportunities, we can prepare for the future. And we must begin now, in 2002. Ultimately, connecting citizens today will ensure tomorrow's future."
Randy Johnson
County Commissioner, Minnesota's Hennepin County
A past president of the National Association of Counties (NACo), Johnson has the distinction of being one of the few elected county officials ever to become a National Academy for Public Administration Fellow. He has been invited to testify before Congress more often and on more issues than any elected county official in history.
Technology challenge: "The opportunity is that the tragic events of Sept. 11 will focus attention and funding on public safety and security issues -- and that means that law enforcement, corrections and related areas will find elected officials more amenable to funding research and implementation of biometric identification, GIS crime analysis, interoperability of databases, etc. That's good and overdue. The challenge is that the concern about public safety and security may reduce attention to other important functions of local government that have digital applications -- licensing and permitting, wireless communication, CAD for transportation, telecommuting, distance learning, and everything else where we can improve service and keep taxes down."
Edward Lazowska
Professor, University of Washington
Lazowska is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. During his tenure, Lazowska has conducted key research on digital libraries software and has worked to forward the importance of IT research on a national level.
Technology challenge: "I think the big issue right now is to define and promulgate a shared architecture for electronic government -- Internet applications and the back office. This is a technical challenge, and also a management challenge. Going beyond electronic government, the greatest long-term challenge is to figure out how to utilize information technology to actually improve teaching and learning. In K-12, we are spending enormous amounts on technology, but we are achieving very little in terms of demonstrable improvements in student outcomes. There is the clear potential to transform learning by coupling advances in educational technology with advances in the learning sciences. We've got to buckle down as a nation and figure out how to achieve this potential."
Mike Leavitt
Governor, Utah
Michael O. Leavitt is only the second governor in Utah history to be reelected to a third term. During his tenure, Leavitt has carried out a vision of improvement and innovation while positioning Utah for success in a new millennium. Under Leavitt, Utah has been named the "best-managed state" in America, the "best place to locate a business" and host of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Technology challenge: "Economic competitiveness in the 21st century requires interaction with government that is efficient and seamless. The biggest challenge we face as we move government online is the potential for a loss of momentum as the economy slows and state revenues decrease. We must realize that the investment in more efficient, better government is even more important now. As we invest in e-government, we not only bring core government services to citizens in a more convenient format, we also change the way that government agencies think about their business processes and, as a consequence, make government more efficient and responsive. We must move ahead and continue to find innovative ways to remove the friction from interacting with government."
Georgia Marsh
Associate Director, Illinois Department of Revenue
Marsh is a recognized public-sector visionary strategic thinker, evangelist and change agent with 20-plus years of hands-on experience with demonstrated success in change-management within a risk-adverse environment. While with the DOR, Marsh developed a convenience-fee
concept for electronic payment of government services and developed a 24 x 7 voice response system for the purchase of Illinois Secretary of State services, including vehicle registration renewal.
Technology challenge: "Creating and sustaining the value proposition for collaboration within and between all levels of government. Shrinking IT budgets coupled with the critical need for secure, cross-jurisdictional communication and information sharing dictate a "new economy" government mindset in which turf and power are supplanted by sharing and integration. The events of 9/11 accelerated the transformation process, but maintaining the momentum and rewarding stakeholder buy-in are essential for success. CIOs and IT leadership throughout government are being called upon to create the environment for this change, and we must respond positively to the challenge."
David Molchany
CIO, Fairfax County, Va.
Under Molchany's watch, Fairfax County has become a national model for the implementation of digital government.
Technology challenge:
"Meeting customer expectations in a more constrained budget environment. Governments will need to determine how to invest wisely in IT, and this investment really needs to be centered on what the customer wants. To enable a strong digital environment, governments will also need to invest in the right infrastructure to maintain a strong foundation for their digital government vision. Reducing investment in IT drastically because of budget constraints would be the wrong move in 2002. Not only can IT be used to meet the expectations of a government's customers, it can also be used to stretch the resources that provide service, especially in an economic downturn."
Ben Nelson
Chief, Computer Services Bureau, Kansas Department of Transportation
Nelson led the development of KDOT's award-winning construction management and document management systems.
Technology challenge: "To make it easier to do business with government. We do this by initiating broad-based education efforts targeting our managers and Web developers to help them understand public needs. In state government, it is important to maintain partnerships among the agencies in order to provide a coherent user experience to our customers seeking services. Robust and secure systems that are easy to access are essential. Currently, our concentration is in deploying data warehousing, records and workflow systems, GIS systems, a comprehensive Web portal, and very secure telecommunications. In all of these areas, maintaining a well-trained and highly motivated staff is critical."
George Nicholson
Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, Third District
Nicholson is a strong promoter of governmental cooperation between branches and effective use of technology in criminal and civil justice. He was elevated to the Court of Appeal by Gov. George Deukmejian in 1990.
Technology challenge: "Human resources, rather than technical ones, impede efforts to identify, acquire and utilize just the right technologies, whether in a single home or the largest government. Only with effective leadership and productive teamwork can we realize the potential of technology as a tool to make society better. As it has always been, effective leadership is the biggest challenge for digital government in 2002. The crucial issue affecting [the] use of technology in government is the effectiveness of leadership and the consequent collaboration and integration of efforts. The sophistication of technology far exceeds our ability to utilize it. Through inspired leadership, however, we can take advantage of technology successfully to provide effective government."
Carolyn Purcell
Chief Information Officer, Texas
Purcell has been a tireless advocate for electronic government and a familiar presence at major IT events throughout the nation. During her tenure, Texas empowered the CIO's office to create enterprise-wide systems and performed one of the nation's first security audits.
Technology challenge:
"Events of Sept. 11 underscore the role of government as protector and restorer of the American way of life. As information technology systems underlie every
function of government, public servants must assure that these systems are robust, redundant and continuously available. Financial crises in many states require that digital government solutions contribute to assurance, cost effectiveness or strategic goals."
Major Riddick
Chief of Technology, Maryland
Major Riddick is a high-profile advocate for the use of information technology to tackle social and economic challenges. He was a key mover of Gov. Glendening's aggressive IT agenda from digital signature legislation to network development. Riddick's work in this arena has been recognized by many business and education organizations.
Technology challenge: "To ensure that applications and systems are secure from outside threat. Governments will have to demonstrate careful review and great restraint when balancing constitutional protections and monitoring of citizens' activities online. Given the fact that governments must now protect their systems by developing redundant backups, strict policies and backup plans, it must not be forgotten that we are here to offer service and value-added to the citizen base. In the wake of Sept. 11, it will be more challenging than ever to continue in our quest to offer citizen services online and protect our critical systems."
Todd Sander
Chief Information Officer, Tucson, Ariz.
Sander's belief that technology should be a foundation for innovation has resulted in innovating projects such as a redesigned city Web portal and broad-ranging CRM and GIS initiatives.
Technology challenge: "We are still faced with a need to improve the process of governance at all levels. However, the tragedies and fiscal downturn of 2001 require that we focus our efforts away from mere transactional convenience and concentrate on supporting better decision-making by elected and appointed officials. One definition of leadership is 'an un-anxious presence.' If our leaders are to express that kind of leadership in 2002, they must understand the challenges they face and have the information they need from both traditional and non-traditional sources to make good decisions."
Al Sherwood
Chairman, Utah Electronic Commerce Council
Sherwood has served state government for 20 years, and currently serves as a liaison to 14 state agencies, reviewing and making recommendations with regard to agency IT plans, funding proposals and overall IT strategic direction.
Technology challenge: "If government is ultimately to save money, we must look at a number of creative ways to cut e-government deployment costs. We must keep credit card fees to a minimum and offer additional alternatives, such as debit or ACH e-payment services. We must buy and build enterprise infrastructure that supports full end-to-end transactions, including electronic signatures. Otherwise we continue to exit the off-ramp and go back to paper. We must look carefully at, and purchase where appropriate, component-based products, such as [the] portal, personalization, content management, work flow and electronic forms packages."
Jabari Simama, Ph.D.
Senior Public Technology Advisor, Atlanta
Jabari Simama has been a national symbol for the effort to bridge the digital divide. In his post with Atlanta, he was the guiding force behind the development of cyber centers in the city's underserved neighborhoods. The program has trained more than 7,000 students and elder citizens to use technology to improve their lives.
Technology challenge: "Keeping the momentum of the e-government movement going despite the economic downturn. Many governments are facing budget cuts and other belt-tightening measures. It will be a challenge to continue to fund and use governments' digital infrastructure to deliver services, information and content to citizens, particularly those who are on the wrong side of the digital divide. This entails funding community technology centers that focus on workforce skills, education and community development. Community technology centers also serve as access points for citizens who don't have computers and Internet service in the home, enabling them to participate in digital government on an
equal footing."
Fran Ulmer
Lt. Governor, Alaska
Ulmer started her career in Alaska politics and government almost as soon as she arrived in Alaska in 1973. Lately, Ulmer has been pushing wireless technology to improve communications in rural parts of the state.
Technology challenge: "Maintaining progress in digital government in the face of growing economic pressures and increased security needs. The nation's recession and state budget deficits will create pressure to reduce financial and human resources devoted to investment and innovation in technology. Although the application of technology often increases efficiency and customer satisfaction, it can't happen without the necessary commitment of personnel and IT hardware and software."
Aldona Valicenti
Chief Information Officer, Kentucky
Aldona Valicenti is a familiar presence wherever digital government is discussed. Over the past year, her tenure as president of NASCIO has raised the organization to new levels. Her accomplishments in Kentucky have garnered honors and attention from jurisdictions throughout the nation.
Technology challenge: "Funding of digital government and selecting services to deploy in a difficult budget cycle will be at the top of the list. Security of the infrastructure is equally critical and has now taken center stage, but there is a strong commitment to safeguard the privacy of our citizens. Cultural change and business redesign will continue as top issues. Possibly the most important challenge is for government to assess the skills of its employees to be able to support this new way of doing business. The bottom line is that 2002 may turn out to be the year that we take the opportunity to integrate all of the facets of digital government."


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These authors have, in their own ways, challenged, edified and uplifted my soul. Each of these divine bards has invited me to resist evil, to subdue the world and most importantly of all, to Be, in a very real and wonderful sense.
Amanda shares her annotated list of the best books for gay and lesbian Christians.
This book on mediations seemed to be written for me. I identified with every statement
that I read. I was amazed at how the great variety of material in the
book spoke directly to me, even though I had never even heard of many of
the sources that were quoted.
As a child my faith was constantly bolstered by stories, both fiction
and non-fiction, of those whose lives had been touched by Jesus.
The subtitle of this work "For Those on the Edge of Faith" is an apt indicator of the worth of this book. It may be helpful in guiding those in that position away from the edge of the abyss toward a firmer, well-grounded and informed faith.
Words or passages will become
highlighted and at times will 'demand' to be read again. They can assist us
on our Spiritual journey and help to 'unblock' the clutter that gets in the
way of coming closer to God.
The gay, lesbian community is dead spiritually. Through no fault of our own, but rather the "Christian Church" is killing us. The methodology of killing us through its lethargy and apathy, by tolerating and perpetuating institutions and patterns of death rather than life.
Gays and lesbians often add to the burden by
believing that they have to shed this "sin" of homosexuality in order for
God to love them and forgive them. I contend that God's love and
forgiveness wrapped up in grace doesn't require any such overhaul.
"Who do the crowds say that I am?" Louie, many. Mr. Crew, others. Dr. Crew, others (but only during day time hours: Dr. turns into a pumpkin at sunset). His Royal Highness Quean Lutibelle, my innercourt. Husband, Ernest alone. But Erman Crew? Only the feds call me that, and only on solemn occasions, now that my father has been dead for 16 years, the first Erman Crew.
I struggle with society's view of gay people, my spirituality, and myself. I asked myself, "Am I disgrace to my family? Am I a disgrace to you, God? Lord, is your salvation and grace beyond my reach because I'm gay?
I personally am well acquainted with the
wilderness. I was there for 22 years. I stayed there because I couldn't allow
myself to believe that you really could be a gay Christian.
We encounter constant disapproval and disrespect from society as a
whole. Despite the fact that Jesus saw through people and brought out
what is real from within, gay people are still forced to work through
the outright verbal, psychological, and spiritual abuse; and sometimes
outright rejection and condemnation churches habitually and mercilessly
put us through.
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Bishops attending the Anglican Communion's
once-a-decade Lambeth conference in Canterbury, England, rejected
gay sex as "incompatible with the scripture" and said only
celibate gays can be priests.
The Soulforce principles of relentless nonviolent
resistance (as taught by Jesus, Gandhi, and King) make one thing clear.
Gandhi's words, "It is as much our moral obligation NOT to cooperate with
as it is to cooperate with good." The Lambeth decision is evil.
This letter is a sign of our
commitment to listen to you and reflect with you theologically and
spiritually on your lives and ministries.
A number of liberal bishops who were largely silent in debate as the
conference overwhelmingly rejected homosexual acts in any context as
"incompatible with Scripture," are speaking out strongly in the aftermath.
"Did you choose to be gay?" I ask him.
He laughs with chagrin. "Of course not. I've always known that I was gay,
ever since I was a child. I just kept it hidden, suppressed, hoping it
would go away."
I am not gay. But...do I have to be gay to be
In the summer of 1968, one year prior to the Stonewall events, there was a
little-reported West Coast bar action and police confrontation which served to
galvanize gay activists in Los Angeles -- and initiated a chain of events
that directly led to the founding of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan
Community Churches (UFMCC).
Readers sound off on what they like and dislike about Whosoever.
Readers share their praises.
Your freedom in Christ includes your freedom to decide who your circle
of closest friends will be. Freedom to chose your "family" implies your
obligation to chose wisely. You can destroy a lot of your freedom by
making bad choices.
Parents who say one thing and do another are the
ones who are undermining "family values" by setting poor moral and
spiritual examples to their offspring.
There are only a handful of young Christians in the GLBT movement. If you are reading this you either are one, or probably know one. Are you challenging them or yourself to be an Elihu?!
I read recently that 43 percent of Americans have had some kind of mystical experience, the kind of experience that lies behind the story of the transfiguration. The
title of this sermon is indicative of the growing interest in such experience. It is the title of James Redfield's most recent work in new age spirituality.
As dreadful as physical homelessness is, I believe spiritual homelessness is even more devastating.
My excuses to avoid any of God's calls, whether it be to preach to you today, or start an internet ministry to gay and lesbian Christians, mirror those of Moses.
God does not play favorites. If you take Jesus as your LORD and Savior and worship God in faith, you are the same as all other Christians. Our God is not a respecter of persons, he is a respecter of faith.
We all know those verses that are trotted out to `prove' the doctrinal soundness of the clamor for our exclusion from the assembly of the faithful - it's as if we were coming to that particular church or fellowship rather than to Jesus for salvation and spiritual succor.
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Hen 1357: A Young Planetary Nebula
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a recently-formed "planetary nebula," known as Hen 1357. This expanding cloud of gas was ejected from the aging star in the center. Much of the gas is concentrated in a ring which appears tilted 35 degrees. This research is being presented at the 181st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Phoenix, AZ on January 5, 1993. by Dr. Matt Bobrowsky of CTA INCORPORATED, in Rockville, Maryland.
Besides the big clumps in the ring, HST's detailed images reveal many smaller clumps and wisps of gas, indicating turbulent motions and other activity in the nebula. Two bubbles of gas seen above and below the ring have burst open at their ends, allowing gas from inside to escape.
Previous ground-based spectroscopic observations show that, over the past few decades, Hen 1357 changed from looking like an ordinary hot star to an obiect with the characteristics of a young planetary nebula. Although the central star may have begun to expel gas as much as a few thousand years ago, only recently has there been enough radiation from the star to make the gas glow.
Before the Hubble observations, little was known about the nebula's structure because it is too small for anv detail to be seen using ground-based telescopes. Hen 1357 is about 18,000 light-years away and located in the southern constellation Ara the Altar. (The nebulae is so named because it is the 1357th object in a list of unusual stars compiled by astronomer Karl Henize.)
The term "planetary nebula" is a misnomer because these objects have nothing to do with planets - aside from vaguely resembling the extended disk of a planet. Planetary nebulae form when an aging star swells to become a "red giant" and it then blows off some of its outer atmosphere. As the nebula expands, the remaining core of the star gets hotter and heats the gas until it glows with the characteristic colors of a planetary nebula. A fast "wind" from the star compresses the gas and pushes the gas bubble outward. A ring-like structure forms if more gas is lost from the star's equator than its poles.
Hen 1357 is one of many young planetary nebulae which Bobrowsky is observing with HST. These observations will help astronomers understand how planetary nebula evolve in their early stages.
Technical Information: This color photograph is 5 composite of separate images taken at wavelengths of light emitted by two chemical elements in the nebula. The green and yellow light is emitted by oxygen and the red light by hydrogen. The images were made with HST's Wide Field/Planetary Camera (in Planetary Camera mode) during several days in August 1992.
Credit: Matt Bobrowsky (CTA INCORPORATED), and NASA.


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Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks—and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous events in Tibet's history, of which he left us a vivid and dramatic account.
Desideri explores key Buddhist concepts including emptiness and rebirth, together with their philosophical and ethical implications, with startling detail and sophistication. This book also includes an introduction situating the work in the context of Desideri's life and the intellectual and religious milieu of eighteenth-century Catholicism.


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Who knew? Peas zap zombies.
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- It would be best if everyone on the street got them
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Meanwhile, in La-La Land: Naked Man Stomped Out a Windshield For Some Reason
You know what they say: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You know what they don't say, ever? When in Hollywood, smoke enough voodoo dope to make your clothes fall off and then stomp the car of an innocent bystander with while they wait for the traffic light to turn green.
Maybe they should start saying that though, because unfortunately it's exactly what Los Angeles county police say happened earlier this week at a downtown intersection. According to reports, witnesses watched a naked man come out of a building near Spring and Sixth Street and without provocation,jump on the hood of a red Mustang, stomping out the car's windshield.
As you can imagine, this bout of streaker tweaker vandalism did not go over very well with the owner of the car, and before authorities could arrive on the scene, the driver gave the naked man a fully clothed beat down.
The naked, bruised and possibly psychotic man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for a possible drug overdose and a well deserved knot on his forehead.


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Hyundai showed an extended Equus sedan customized by Hermes at the Seoul auto show. With the collaboration, the Korean automaker is continuing its upmarket aspirations. Premium materials cover the interior, and this is one of our first looks at an extended-wheelbase Equus.
Hermes covered the Equus' interior in leather of similar quality and workmanship as the company's Birkin leather bags that can cost between $9000 and $15,000. The exterior features a special top coating. Hyundai hopes the one-off Equus will appeal to the ultra-rich around the globe. In total, Hermes customized three Equus sedans for the automaker. Five years ago, Hyundai asked Prada to customize three Genesis luxury sedans, which were displayed in downtown Seoul in a specially made glass tower.
Earlier in the week, the refreshed 2014 Hyundai Equus was unveiled at the New York auto show. While the ultra-luxury market may be a tough segment to enter, the automaker claims the Equus is a strong seller in South Korea where the new President Park Geun Hye chose the Equus to ride to her inauguration last month. The U.S.-spec 2014 Hyundai Equus has tweaked exterior styling and a number of improvements inside the cabin.
Should Hyundai consider a limited-edition Equus for the U.S. market like the Equus by Hermes?


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Have you ever wanted to see someone eat time? What about a gun, a cult or a library?
Well, the Epic Meal Time crew doesn't eat any of that, despite what they say in their videos. Instead they eat pizza covered in onion rings, fries, burgers and chicken nuggets. Then there's the Meatball Deathstar, a meatball approximately the size of a soccer ball stuffed with tortellini, meat sauce and vegetables, placed on a huge round of garlic bread and smothered in extra meat sauce.
Those meals – and many like them – are all part of Epic Meal Time's series of weekly videos of the crew making and eating food that's extremely high in calories and fat. In less than three months, the videos have garnered more than 10 million views on YouTube.
Harley Morenstein, 25, along with a few of his friends, all Montrealers, came up with the idea for Epic Meal Time based on personal experience.
"Normally, it was just called Sunday," he says. "Then [me and my friends] decided to start filming it and showing it. "We all love eating. I don't know if you can tell on camera, but I'm like 6-6 and 260 pounds – I'm a big guy.
"So we've always been eating a lot, and we decided to get more creative with it and film it. At the end of the day, it's basically just myself and my partner Sterling [Toth] – he's the guy holding the camera in the videos. We're the creative forces behind it."
Epic Meal Time's first culinary creation, the Worst Pizza Ever, is topped with delicacies from various fast-food chains. It has 5,210 calories and 286 grams of fat.
Then there's the Angry French- Canadian, also known as "the greasiest sandwich in Canada." Picture 50-cent hot dogs and a few pounds of poutine piled onto French-toasted baguettes with a Quebec maple syrup topping. This very Canadian concoction weighs in at 5,343 calories and 207 grams of fat.
When asked about the most disgusting thing he's eaten with Epic Meal Time, Morenstein says he initially doubted the wisdom of combining poutine with maple syrup.
"It was delicious, but initially I thought it was going to be gross," he says. "It ended up being good, and not only that, I've remade that sandwich personally for myself and I put mustard on it as well. And it was excellent."
These creations are nothing, however, when compared to Epic's first stab at dessert. Black Legend is the "fully loaded crepe" that will "take your sweet tooth for a magical ride through Candy Land," Morenstein says in the video.
The chocolate crepe is stuffed with deep-fried pastries, including apple pie, cinnamon twists and McDonald's McFlurry balls that are covered in chocolate-chipcookie crumbs and deep-fried. It's held together using "chocolate glue" – chocolate cake and icing – and is 19,177 calories and has 684 grams of fat.
While he thought Epic Meal Time would be an online hit, Morenstein had no idea it would become as popular as it has.
"When we first started [Epic Meal Time] we did a pizza video, which was like we put hamburgers on a pizza… At the time I [said], 'This will probably be pretty popular.'
"I was just like let's prepare [more] in case it happens to be popular. And it was. Did we think it would get over 10 million views in three months? No.
"Especially now in the New Year, I can only imagine that it'll increase more so [in popularity]," he continues.
"People are trying to diet, people are trying to be health conscious. There's a lot of negative media attention on obesity problems, and paying attention to organic food. People are trying to change their lifestyles – less Mc- Donald's, less KFC Double Downs, more whatever it is that would be healthier, but at the end of the day people still love junk food. I think a lot of people vicariously eat it all through us."
For those who want to make the Epic creations at home, Morenstein says a cookbook is in the works, because they get a lot of people asking for the recipes. Other plans for expansion, he jokes, include "Epic Meal Time in Imax 3-D, directed by James Cameron."
As for where the ideas for their Epic creations come from, Morenstein says it's usually pretty random.
"Maybe I'll be sitting there and it'll come to me while I'm daydreaming. Or I'll be inspired by something and put in a phone call to my buddies. [Then] we'll start to say 'and then we'll do this, and then this and this' until we've taken something that was a crazy idea and mutated it into something even crazier. I think we're pretty creative guys, and together as a bunch we get even more creative."
To see Epic Meal Time embark on their culinary adventures (including consuming the Epic Eggroll), visit www.epicmealtime.com.


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We've yet to adopt the whole "different is better" mindset when it comes to the arrival of coach Chip Kelly to the NFL. To assume that Kelly's unconventional methods instantly will be successful at a level of pro football where he has zero experience is to subtly disregard the work, the ideas, and the accomplishments of the men who have climbed to the top of the profession doing things in a more traditional way.
Regardless, Kelly has an approach that could end up being successful in its own way. But he's learning quickly that the men he's working with are very different, too.
College coaches have far more control over their locker room and their program. College players have no union (although they need one), and it's extremely difficult for a player who wants to go play somewhere else to leave if the coach doesn't agree. Likewise, the media coverage and scrutiny at the college level is a lot less intense and probing.
While Kelly can shrug and say "football is football," Kelly now has a team full of grown men who will speak their minds both internally and externally on matters about which they feel strongly. NFL players don't fear their coach (especially since many of them make more money than their coach), and NFL players know that they have options — even if they have contracts.
They also know that the coach of an NFL team isn't the unofficial emperor of the land where the team is headquartered. At some schools, the practical pecking order is: (1) coach; (2) university president; and (3) athletic director. For every NFL team, the coach answers to the owner. In many cities, the coach also answers to the General Manager and possibly to others in the organization, like the team president.
So when it comes to the Riley Cooper situation, Kelly can't simply address the team once and impose his will on them. At Oregon, that may have worked. With the Eagles, it won't.
During a lengthy (but appropriate) grilling from the Philly media on Friday, Kelly acknowledged that this is new territory for him.
"We had issues," Kelly said of his time at Oregon. "I don't know. Not of this ‑‑ I don't think anything's been like this, you know what I mean? I think because of what he said and in the locker room itself, I think that's a little bit different."
It's a lot different. And even though Kelly claims "there's never been any question of cutting Riley [Cooper]," it's obvious that sliding Cooper out of the locker room for now gives the team a chance to assess whether it can proceed without him. If the Eagles are satisfied with the performance of the other receivers, the question of cutting Cooper will emerge, even if it truly hasn't already.
Though the immediate headline from Kelly's Friday remarks was that Cooper won't be cut, closer inspection of Kelly's words shows that he has given himself an out, if Cooper ends up off the team.
"[W]e're way ahead of ourselves in terms of roster spots," Kelly said, cutting off an "if he's cut" question. "Again, there hasn't been one question about a roster spot. This isn't a roster spot issue for us right now."
It isn't a roster spot issue "right now." But in four weeks or less, it will be.
Until then and thereafter, it will continue to be an issue unlike anything Kelly ever encountered in college. Which makes it necessarily harder for him to import his style and approach to a football league that is far more different for him than his methods are to it.


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YORK, PA – The York College women's basketball team ran their win streak to six with a 88-39 rout of Hood College in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon in York. The Spartans improve to 16-3 overall and 10-1 in the CAC, keeping pace with first-place Mary Washington as the Eagles also won on Saturday. The Blazers fall to 5-14 overall and 1-10 in the league in their final CAC season.
The Spartans got off to a quick start, scoring the first 10 points of the game. The Blazers were scoreless until Dyanna Prater hit one of two free throws at the 16:13 mark. The Spartans lead grew to as many as 12 before the Blazers cut their deficit to eight five different times before the Spartans scored 13 of the final 15 points of the half to roll to the 38-19 halftime lead.
The Green and White didn't let up coming out of the break as they scored the first 17 points of the half, removing any doubt about the final outcome. The Spartan lead would not fall below 33 the remainder of the contest as York put together one of their most dominating performances of the season. The 49 point margin of victory is their largest of the year, besting the 45-point win at Wesley on December 1.
Senior April Sparkman paced the Spartans as she poured in a game-high 24 points as the guard also pulled in 10 rebounds her for her seventh double-double of the year. It was her first double-double since the December 30 loss to nationally ranked William Paterson. Sparkman finished 10-for-20 from the floor including 1-for-4 from three and 3-for-6 from the line. Sophomore Kristen Haley continued her strong play as she notched her ninth double-double of the year with 22 points and 10 boards. Haley, who's double-double was her third straight, was a blistering 8-for-10 from the floor, 2-for-3 from three and 4-for-8 from the stripe. She also had two blocked shots, two assists, and one steal.
Sophomore forward Brittany Hicks was the third Spartan in double figures as she was nearly flawless on the night. Hicks tallied 14 points, eight rebounds, a season-high tying four rebounds, four steals, and one blocked shot. Hicks was 7-for-11 from the floor but did not make a trip to the free throw line for just the second time in a game this year. Her previous free throw-less game came in the 44-point dismantling of Goucher on November 22. Sophomore point guard Aja Wallpher was again dynamic for the Spartans as she handed out a game-high nine assists with no turnovers in her 30 minutes of action. Wallpher also had four points, five rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals.
The Spartans placed 12 players in the scoring column for the game as the 88 points is the second-highest scoring output for the Green and White this year.
Hood was led by Prater as the guard was the only Blazer to reach double figures with 14 points. Prater was just 5-for-20 from the floor including 0-for-3 from downtown as the Spartans' guards harassed her into a very tough shooting night. Prater also had four rebounds, three assists, and two steals. Emily Maerz led the Blazers on the boards with eight caroms while she also had five points and two blocked shots.
The Spartans finished the game shooting 52.9% from the floor including a sizzling 63.6% in the second half. York's shooting percentage was a season-best, just edging the Spartans' 52.3% accuracy mark in their win over Salisbury on January 14. The Green and White went 5-for-19 (26.3%) from three while they shot a season-worst 52.9% (9-for-17) from the free throw line. The performance is the first time all year that York had not made at least 62% of their chances from the stripe. York scored 50 points in the second half, their best second-half scoring effort of the season.
The Blazers finished the game shooting just 22.4% from the floor while they also went just 1-for-10 from three. Hood's shooting percentage was identical to Frostburg's mark in the big Wednesday night win for the Spartans. The Spartans have now held eight opponents to sub-30% shooting in a game. York has also held their last five opponents to a combined 5-for-34 (14.7%) mark from beyond the arc.
Hood did convert 12-of-18 (66.7%) from the free throw line.
The Spartans handed out a season-high 27 assists on a season-high 37 made field goals. The Green and White were also fantastic in taking care of the ball, committing just seven turnovers in the game. The Spartans, who are seventh in the nation in team blocked shots, swatted away another 10 shots while they also recorded 11 steals. The 10 blocks marks the third time this year they have reached double figures in rejections.
The Spartans return to action on Wednesday night when they travel to St. Mary's College in a Capital Athletic Conference contest. Game time in St. Mary's City, MD is set for 6:00 pm.
April Sparkman photo courtesy of Theresa Dark - Athletic Communications Student Photographer


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Talent Seeker needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
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We're seeking to put a new face on rotorcraft sales and service inthe Southeastern United States. Quite frequently, the first "face" tobe seen is a company's website. As this is a startup, we don't have aface to show you now to model your proposal on. We will give you agreat deal of feedback on who we are, what we're doing, and why.
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Our final goal in sales is to make the processof buying a new Robinson helicopter truly as easy as buying a car bywrapping together financing, escrow, and insurance resources on thefront end to make the buying process quick and simple. On thebackend, warranty service for customers using our service departmentwill be handled much like an automobile as well - end to end warrantycoverage on all parts and labor for the duration of the warranty.
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The following routes (not all located at the Cornice) were re-equipped by Jon Clark amongst others:
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- Powerplant
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- Cordless/Cosmopolitan
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- De Vine (and another route at Rhubarb Buttress)
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...and enjoyed by many.
In addition, the people involved in this work also spent a great deal of time and effort cleaning up a host of other routes which, though in no state to climb, didn't need re-bolting.
Many thanks for their efforts and for all of the donations that made this work possible.