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Alan Simpson was on CNBC yesterday, talking about the debt ceiling.
Calculated Risk has his comments. He nails it:
Maria Bartiromo: "Do you believe the GOP should be using the debt ceiling as leverage point to get the President to agree to the cuts?"Alan Simpson: "I think that would be a grave mistake. I don't think that would solve anything. I know they are going to try it, and how far you go with a game of chicken, I have no idea. But I can tell you … you can't, you really can't … This is stuff we've already indebted ourselves. If you're a real conservative - a really honest conservative, without hypocrisy - you'd want to pay your debt.And that's what this is, they are not running up anything new."
This is part of a bigger trend: There's a fair amount of outside pressure, even from the right, on conservatives to not take a stand on the debt ceiling.
This is something that Ben White, in his Morning Money note, does a great job summarizing today.
In addition to Simpson, you have folks like Newt Gingrich and the Koch Brothers saying the same thing, that the debt ceiling isn't the place to take a stand.
You also have a fair number of folks, like former Treasury official Tony Fratto, pushing back against the idea that "prioritization" is anything but bonkers.
Inside the House GOP, there may be a rising appetite to take it to the limit. Outside the GOP, there's a growing number of folks yelling STOP.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The United States doesn't have a fiscal problem. Or an economic problem. It has a political problem. The workings of the government are so gummed up that we're in danger of falling into a recession that's completely avoidable.
Our budget problem appears impossible to solve. About half of the country votes for Republicans who want to cut taxes and shrink the government. The other half votes for Democrats who want to raise taxes on the upper class and maintain the scope of the government.
Neither side has enough political clout to get its way entirely, but each has just enough power to drive the economy into a ditch.
We've been trying to put the budget back on course for more than two years now, but we've gotten no closer to an agreement that we can all live with.
We've put Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson in charge of a special presidential commission. We've tried Rivlin and Domenici and the Gang of Six. We've tried ambitious negotiations between Barack Obama and John Boehner over a grand bargain. We've tried a supercommittee with an automatic sequester tax-hike doomsday machine. Nothing has worked.
And now that doomsday machine is about to go off the cliff.
The only thing we haven't tried is good, old-fashioned legislation, the kind where responsible lawmakers from both parties and both houses of Congress get together and hash out the details of a budget plan. The results aren't pretty, and no one is completely satisfied. But it does get the bills paid, and it keeps the creditors (and the credit-rating agencies) at bay.
The sad truth is that Congress is so broken that it can't legislate anymore. That's why we thought we needed Simpson and Bowles and all the rest of the budget gimmicks that didn't work any better.
The sad truth is that Congress is so broken that it can't legislate anymore. That's why we thought we needed Simpson and Bowles and all the rest of the budget gimmicks that didn't work any better.
I think it's high time we locked the members of Congress in a room and told them that we'll let them out when they reach a deal.
Honestly, this stuff isn't that difficult. Humans have been peacefully negotiating for millions of years. Democratic decision making is highly evolved.
Our Constitution lays out a basic framework for how it's done in America: Revenue bills originate in the House, are passed and then sent to the Senate for agreement or amendment. A simple majority rules. The two chambers work out any disagreements and send a final bill to the president, who may veto it for any reason. A supermajority of each house may override a presidential veto. That's it. No Simpson-Bowles, no supercommittee, no doomsday machine.


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Swiss tennis great Roger Federer says he is still playing his best tennis and hopes to continue in the same vein for many years.
"I want to try and make this last as long as I can. I don't want to fizzle out," he told reporters in Singapore on Friday during a stopover on his way to Melbourne for the Australian Open.
"People always tell me everything has to fade away eventually, but I'm not 89 years old yet, you know," he said. "I think longevity is the word here that I'm looking for."
The winner of a record 17 Grand Slams and father of twin girls is now World No.2 at the age of 32.
Federer is going to the Australian Open without taking part in any warm-up tournament, but said that he has been practising very well.
"I have been practising really hard the last few weeks and didn't play a leading up tournament this year just because I thought practice is very important for me coming up in the next year, year-and-a-half," he said.
"It's a bit of a different preparation for the Australian Open this year but I'm confident I am mentally refreshed, which I am, and physically I am fine and that I will play a good Australian Open."
Federer won his first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2003, which he said was probably the best moment in his tennis career, and now he is still one of the most competitive players in the sport.
"I love the pressure of playing with a new generation coming up, who are, you know, improving quickly, and I have to work harder than them to stay at the top," he said.
He said it was a "surprise" that he managed to make it to travel around the world with his twin daughters.
His official website said that he wanted to play only 14 events in 2013 in order to stay healthy.
He also said that the strings and racquets used nowadays are different what used to be used some ten to twenty years earlier, making it possible to have "so much spin and so much angle."
The changes also make it more difficult for the players to come up to the net and have quick winners. Players usually have to have ten or fifteen great shots before they can make a winner.
"I think that's also one of the tricky reasons why there aren' t so many juniors coming through any more," he said, citing names such as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and earlier, Marat Safin.
Nadal has decided to withdraw from the Australian Open because of worries over his weak knees.
"Obviously with Rafa not around it is unfortunate, we would love to see him back so we were all hoping he was going to come back, but it creates opportunities for many other players with one less guy who normally runs through 90 percent of the guys so it is an interesting Australian Open," he said.


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The successful disruption of an effort to place a suicide bomber on a US-bound plane is an intelligence coup any way you slice it. An agent went to Yemen, won the trust of members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), convinced them he was interested in attacking a US plane, and arranged delivery of their latest concealable bomb.
Then he scooted over the border back to Saudi Arabia and handed the bomb over. Now the underwear bomb is being poured over by experts seeking to determine how easy it would have been to get past current security procedures and what needs to be done to plug any holes in airport security.
The agent also provided information on the whereabouts of Fahd Mohammed al-Quso, a militant on the FBI's most wanted list for his involvement in the attack on the USS Cole off the port of Aden in 2000. Quso was killed in a US drone attack in Yemen's Shabwa mountains last week. Quso, who had also assisted some of the 9/11 hijackers, had escaped from Yemeni prison in 2003. He was recaptured the next year, but was released in 2007 by the government, which refused a US extradition request.
That's all pretty good work. But while a major win for international security efforts, the leak of the successful penetration to the press will now make it easier for AQAP to plug holes in its own security procedures, making it harder to put agents in place in the future. While the group would have worried when the promised bomb attack never happened, there would have been plenty of ambiguity: Perhaps the attacker had been arrested, or simply lost his nerve. Now AQAP knows to a dead certainty what happened.
The Associated Press broke the story on May 7, after keeping the story under wraps for a few days at the request of the CIA and the Obama Administration. The AP didn't identify its source or sources at all, saying only that it "has learned" of the foiled effort. The story carried a Washington dateline, which points in the direction of a leak from the US end.
"It's really, to me, unfortunate that this has gotten out, because this could really interfere with operations overseas," Peter King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in Congress, told CNN yesterday. "My understanding is a major investigation is going to be launched because of this."
Much of the early reporting that the CIA was responsible for disrupting the latest bombing effort has since been walked back. Saudi Arabian intelligence, led by Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, are the experts on AQAP and have been keeping close tabs on the group for years. The New York Times ran a good piece yesterday, sourced to unidentified officials, that identified the man who posed as a would-be bomber as working for the Saudis.
Saudi Arabia of course has strong tribal and cultural ties to Yemen, and militants based there have been a source of intense focus for the Saudis for over a decade. One of Al Qaeda's stated goals is to overthrow the Saudi monarchy, and the Kingdom has cracked down hard, and successfully, on Al Qaeda inspired militants. Over the years, it has managed to place agents inside militant cells, and more frequently convinced militants to turn on the organization. The Saudis have provided extensive targeting information for the CIA's drone campaign in Yemen, and also uncovered an AQAP plot to bomb US bound cargo planes in 2010.
Prince Nayef, the country's counterterrorism boss (he personally delivered the warning on the cargo plane plot to the CIA), escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in 2009. The attacker, the wanted Saudi Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri who had fled to Yemen, contacted Prince Nayef and said he wanted to defect from the group. At an arranged meeting outside Nayef's home, he detonated a bomb hidden in his rectum, killing himself but dealing only minor injuries to his target. That bomb was built by Ibrahim al-Nasiri, Abdullah's brother, and the man believed responsible for the latest underwear bomb now being studied by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
The surviving Nasiri is now almost certainly beyond the reach of drones. The latest news, punctuated by the killing of Quso, will have almost certainly see him and other militants relocate and rework their communication protocols. His ability to teach other militants how to construct bombs remains intact.
A lot of the initial coverage of the plot has been breathless. For instance, ABC reports that "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula... is known for its ideological purity and for carefully screening its recruits." Is it? The Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was only trained for a few weeks before heading out on his failed mission to destroy a US airliner.
He's now in federal prison on a life sentence after pleading guilty to the crime. AQAP has, if anything, shown itself to be opportunistic, and was willing to work with Mr. Abdulmutallab because he had a US visa. It's likely that the man involved with the latest foiled attack likewise was trusted because of promised access to the US, rather than because of extensive vetting.
AQAP is in fact a threat, despite its toothless international efforts so far. Abdulmutallab failed, as did an attempt to smuggle bombs on to cargo planes headed for the US. And there have been a number of high-profile assassinations of its leaders. For instance Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born cleric who'd been an important propagandist for the group, was killed in a US strike in Yemen last September. US officials said Mr. Awlaki had contact with both Abdulmutallab and US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who murdered 12 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009.
But the group remains interested in exporting its jihad to US soil, and will continue to seek an opening. The disclosures in this latest round of spy vs. spy in Yemen's badlands will make it easier for AQAP to plug its leaks, and harder for the intelligence agents tracking them.


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Santa Clara, Calif. - The Santa Clara men's tennis team opens its spring season this weekend in San Diego at the Aztec Invitational. The Broncos will face San Diego State and Arizona State at the event, which will not count on the team's record although the matches will count towards the players' rankings. SCU travels to San Diego Friday and will play matches Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the campus of San Diego State. The team is looking to get off to a good start in the spring after a solid fall season. The team's first dual meets take place on Saturday, Jan. 20 when the Broncos face UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz at the Degheri Tennis Center. Matches start that day at 9:30 a.m. PT.
Following an up and down 2005-06 season, Santa Clara men's tennis returns with one of its deepest and most balanced squads in recent memory. Last year the Broncos were a young team with two juniors, four sophomores, four freshmen and no seniors at the helm. In 2007, however, Santa Clara returns all but one starter and has added four newcomers who will have a significant impact on the program's immediate future. The deep and versatile squad will allow Santa Clara to compete with the country's best from the top to the bottom of the lineup.
The Broncos will once again be led by George Husack, who enters his fifth season on the Mission Campus after leading the team to back-to-back 14-win seasons. Husack's enthusiasm for the sport, tennis knowledge and his ability to fire up the team has made the Broncos one of the most competitive teams in the West Coast Conference and in the nation. Husack will also have an experienced staff with him as Brian Eagle and Nick Fustar both return for a second season as assistant coaches at Santa Clara. Eagle and Fustar both competed on the ATP Tour after very successful college careers at California and Fresno State respectively.
"I am blessed to have two outstanding coaches in Brian and Nick," said Husack. "They have tremendous knowledge and understanding of the game after garnering success at a very high level of tennis in college and the professional scene."
The team will count on the experience of its upperclassmen this spring. Jan Macek returns for his final season at SCU after capturing All-WCC First Team honors in singles and honorable mention recognition in doubles in 2006. Macek was a solid fixture at the No. 1 singles position last year and has his sights set on furthering the Broncos' accomplishments in the 2007 campaign.
"Jan was such an inspirational leader for us last year and his impact on our team was invaluable," Husack said. "The team is elated with his decision to return for his final season of college competition and I look forward to seeing him enjoy the ride."
Macek's doubles partner, Bobby Rasmussen, is the second member of the senior class. In 2006, he captured 13 victories despite being sidelined for six weeks with an injury. A solid doubles player, Rasmussen and Macek teamed up to win several key doubles matches and earned All-WCC honorable mention accolades.
In his fourth season, redshirt junior Kevin McQuaid made a triumphant return to the team after missing all of 2004-05 due to injury. He incorporated an attacking style of play to complement his strong groundstrokes and also served as a motivational leader for the team.
"Kevin made some great strides as a student-athlete last season especially having been away from competition for so long," commented Husack. "He learned to make technical and strategic changes in order to compete in the top half of the lineup. He also greatly contributed to our team's spirit with his energy."
McQuaid's impact was also evident in doubles as he and partner Blane Shields garnered All-WCC Second Team honors. Beginning the year at the No. 2 slot, the duo moved into the top position midway through the season and recorded 20 dual match victories--a new Santa Clara single season record. The pair returns this year to an impressive doubles lineup and looks to eclipse their achievements of a year ago.
Shields, a gifted athlete and competitor, should compete for a spot in the singles lineup in addition to continuing to make his contributions in doubles. He recorded an outstanding fall season in singles, posting a 7-2 record that included wins over regional opponents from California, Oregon and Cal Poly.
Rounding out the junior class is transfer Robert Gallman. After a successful junior career, Gallman spent the past two seasons at Texas Christian University. A strong all-around player, Gallman is looking to establish himself in one of the top spots in the Bronco lineup. A hernia injury kept him from competing in the fall season, but the Dallas, Texas resident should have a big impact this spring.
"Robert has a long resume of tennis experience," said Husack. "He loves the sport and has made many sacrifices in order to put himself in a position to develop into a fine college tennis player. I look forward to watching his progress and witnessing his impact on the program."
As freshmen last season, Brian Brogan and Tommy Hicks proved that they were more than ready for the college game. Both players competed at every spot from No. 2 to No. 6 in the lineup and combined to clinch seven of the team's 14 wins last year. Brogan won 16 matches with seven of those coming in the No. 2 spot in the lineup, while Hicks made history with 24 singles victories. Hicks' victory total places him fourth all-time for single season wins in school history. The pair expects even more in 2007 following an excellent fall season that saw both players score impressive wins against top competition.
"We learned a lot last year about how opportunities can come and go, which is typical with a young and inexperienced team. This season we have developed the ability to create these opportunities for ourselves and convert them into rewarding outcomes."
Kenzo Hirakawa-Wong, the final member of the sophomore class, demonstrated this fall that he made big strides in the off season. He spent many hours working on and implementing an aggressive game style that ultimately paid dividends. His 8-3 singles record during fall tournament play proved that he too will look for a starting nod in the singles lineup.
For the second straight year, Husack brought in a freshman class that figures to do more than just compete. In his first tournament as a Bronco, freshman Jay Wong captured a singles title, winning the Bronco Classic `B' flight. Overall, he led the team with 10 victories during fall competition with impressive wins over opponents from Stanford, Cal and Washington. A highly successful player in the USTA Boys 18s and 16s national divisions, Wong will find himself making an immediate contribution to the Bronco lineup this season.
Fellow freshman Steven Benvenuto comes off a junior tennis career that saw him reach personal best accomplishments in the USTA Boys 18s national standings. The two-time CCS high school singles champion from Aragon High School captured a national junior tournament title prior to his arrival on campus with his punishing groundstrokes and big serve. Hampered by injury in the fall, Benvenuto looks to bounce back with a solid spring campaign and solidify a spot in the Broncos' highly competitive lineup.
Joe Galbraith comes to Santa Clara from Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, Wash. Rated among the top players in the Pacific Northwest as a junior competitor, Galbraith brings a passionate and determined spirit to the Bronco squad. He will add even more depth to the roster and continue to develop into a solid college player. Accompanying Galbraith's entry to the Bronco program is a strong family tennis tradition, as his father John was a No. 1 player at Santa Clara and finished second in the 1975 WCC Championships. Pat Galbraith, Joe's uncle, was an NCAA doubles champion at UCLA before reaching a Wimbledon doubles final and capturing two US Open mixed doubles titles.
Steady improvement in doubles has been a primary goal for the Broncos over the past several years. In fact, when capturing the all-important doubles point in competition, Santa Clara has won more than 95 percent of its dual matches.
"Getting off to a good start in doubles is crucial for us," commented Husack. "We have spent countless hours on serve returns, first volleys and net movement which we hope will pay off in our results. Success in doubles can definitely set the tone for a dual match." The doubles lineup should be stronger than ever this season. The Broncos return a pair of all-conference tandems from a year ago in McQuaid and Shields and Macek and Rasmussen. The teams proved to be nearly unbeatable in WCC play, owning an impressive 11-3 record. Two additional combinations in newcomer Gallman and sophomore Brogan, as well as the freshmen tandem of Benvenuto and Wong will provide more options for the Broncos. Gallman has made a name for himself in doubles during his collegiate career and Brogan should thrive with a set partner after playing with six different teammates a year ago. Hirakawa-Wong will also be considered for a shot in the lineup as his aggressive play and doubles success in the fall proved noteworthy.
Santa Clara will again face a demanding schedule as more than two-thirds of their 28 dual matches will come against nationally-ranked competition. A sampling of these contests include Stanford, California, Arizona and Arizona State from the Pac-10, as well as defending national champion and WCC foe, Pepperdine. The Broncos will also host 16 home matches, including duals against the champions of three different conferences in Boise State (WAC), UC Santa Barbara (Big West) and Montana State (Big Sky). Oregon, Brigham Young, Harvard and Cornell will also visit the friendly confines of the Degheri Tennis Center in addition to a slew of tough opponents. The season culminates at the WCC Championships in April at the University of San Diego. The winner will receive an automatic berth to the NCAA championships in May.
The Broncos have the depth, talent and experience to enjoy a highly successful campaign in 2007. Playing aggressive and consistent tennis while avoiding the injury bug will determine whether the potential will turn into results this year.
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People argue about the true form of the beasts known as "Bloodtouches", since they seem to take dozens of forms. Unfortunately, their bite's effect isn't in doubt. Anyone bitten by the bright crimson beasts rapidly loses all hair; their skin color shifts to bloody red. Many people fear those under this curse; villages of blood-skinned outcasts huddle in the wilds.


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Monday, February 8, 2010
52 Weeks to Better Genealogy – Challenge 6, Online Databases at the Public Library
On to the latest of 52 challenges for improving our research skills posed by Amy of We Tree. This one I have known about for quite a while. The closest library to me is the Falls Church City Public Library. I have been accessing Heritage Quest using my library card there for almost as long as I have been doing genealogy and had already been using it for several months before I signed up for Ancestry. I still go back to the census images on Heritage Quest when the image is poor on Ancestry; sometimes it is better and sometimes not. Even when the image is not much better, an image may appear very dark on one of the services and very light on the other, and between the two you may be able to figure out what is written. PERSI is also available through Heritage Quest and I sometimes use it for that.
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I so identify with your post. I did however lose my library card and have not had time to get a new one.ReplyDelete
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Hi Frances! That reminds me, at one point I let my card expire and I couldn't access Heritage Quest until I got it renewed - what a panic!ReplyDelete
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On to Cooperstown
While the team is finishing up a road trip over the weekend, the World Series Trophy Tour is finishing up a six-month journey. Idea was to let as many fans as possible see the prized trophy.
Tonight, it is on display at the Wilmington Blue Rocks game. Friday night, at the Williamsport Crosscutters game and this weekend, in Cooperstown as part of Phillies Weekend at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
The trophy will be on display in the Museum's Plaque Gallery from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's events include the presentation of a World Series ring to the Hall of Fame, a tradition. I have that honor.
Saturday is eight months to the day when we clinched the World Series championship at Citizens Bank Park. Only fitting that the tour ends in Cooperstown.
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Ruben Amaro Jr. talked about the lack of pitching being available, a commodity we and many other clubs are looking for.
Saw a quote from Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin recently: "There's no indication anybody dependable is available right now."
Nineteen clubs are within six games of postseason play. Trading deadline is July 31.
Minor League Notes
Reading outfielder Michael Taylor's streak of homering in three straight games ended last night. The 23-year-old had three hits to boost his season average to .340, third in the Eastern League.
Harrisburg John Stearns: "He just may be the best prospect in the league."
RHP Kyle Drabek (Team US) LHP Yohan Flande (World Team) will participate in the 11th annual XM All-Star Futures Game in St.Louis the Sunday before the July 14 All-Star Game.
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The name Fleishhacker invoked visions of fun at the beachFleishhacker Playground for amateur baseball, Fleishhacker Zoological Gardens, and Fleishhacker Pool. When I was a kid, we would dive off the top platform. It mustve been thirty feet up.--Robert W. Smith, father of the author. Fleishhacker Pool was an attraction that was unique to San Francisco. It rightfully claimed its status as the worlds largest heated salt-water pool. The pool measured 1000 feet in length by 160 feet across at the middle section and 100 feet across at each end. The depth graduated from 3 feet at the west end to 15 feet under the diving platform. It held 6,500,000 gallons of filtered
seawater pumped in from the Pacific Ocean and could heat 2800 gallons a minute from 60 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The pool maintained the constant 72 degrees required for A.A.U. (Amateur Athletic Union) Swim Meets. Unfortunately, when the ambient air temperature is in the 60s or lower with a damp breeze coming off Ocean Beach, thats a cold 72 degrees.
Fleishhacker Pool was a gift to San Francisco by financier and city Parks Commissioner Herbert Fleishhacker. He also made the initial donations of land and money for the playground and zoo. The pool was built to attract athletic competition to the city and because the waters off Ocean Beach are consistently cold year around. John McLaren, designer of Golden Gate Park and park superintendent, conceived the plan, receiving strong backing from the Parks Commission and Mr. Fleishhacker, its President.
The Fleishhacker Municipal Swimming Pool opened on April 22, 1925, as host to a national A.A.U. Swim Meet with five thousand attending the event to watch the competition. Johnny Weissmuller, the world champion freestyle swimmer, represented the Illinois Athletic Club. He later went on to a career in action films--Tarzan being his most notable role. Weissmuller made a number of later appearances at Fleishhacker, always drawing a crowd. San Francisco adopted him as one of their own. Other celebrities appearing often at Fleishhacker Pool included Ann Curtis, who set a number of world records, and movie star Esther Williams. She first appeared in Billy Roses Aquacade opposite Weissmuller in the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition at Treasure Island.
The pool opened to the general public on May 1, 1925, with 5000 bathers paying 25 cents, 15 cents for swimmers under 12 years of age. That fee purchased admission, use of the grounds, including a large dressing room with showers, plus the loan of a bathing suit and large towel, sterilized between uses. A San Francisco Chronicle news report estimated that fewer than half the bathers could swim, but all seemed to have a great time. The pool had 12 lifesavers on duty, as well as a number of life saving rowboats on patrol. It also sported a tree-sheltered beach, a cafeteria, and a childcare area in the main building.
Mayor Rolph named the entire complex for Fleishhacker in recognition of his work for and his dedication to the people and especially the children of San Francisco. The city strongly promoted the pool, sponsoring athletic competitions and exhibitions. Still, the pool failed to pay its own way. Ocean Beach was rarely much warmer than 70 degrees, even if the water was 72 degrees, which everyone doubted. After the novelty wore off, attendance fell, with the exception of special events.
Plans were drawn and redrawn to scale down the size of the pool to save heating and overhead costs. The pool remained the largest in the world, and in 1943, while American troops used it for training toward amphibious beach assaults, politicians were carving it up. Nothing came of the politicians efforts except the installation of a chain link fence in an attempt to funnel people through the pay gates. Under-funded, Fleishhacker Pool slowly slid into a state of mild disrepair. A January 1971 storm proved to be the final blow. The outflow pipe that disposed of the used pool water collapsed, and the cost of repair exceeded the departments ability to pay. An attempt to convert it to fresh water proved futile due to uncontrollable algae growth, and the pool closed forever in June of that year. The concrete was broken out and the hole filled with rubble and topsoil. The city granted the land to the San Francisco Zoo (formerly Fleishhacker Zoological Gardens). The intention was to add badly needed parking and a restaurant, but to this day they lack the funds to undertake this project.
James R. Smith, a fourth-generation native of San Francisco, is the author of San Franciscos Lost Landmarks (2005, 2007).
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Divers jumping from the tower sometime between 1925 and 1935.
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Saw this on reddit and I was curious it's just of theoretical interest or if it's on the road to practical quantum computers. Anyone know more about it?
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Room temperate fault-tolerant Quantum computing?
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Since 1998, Santiago has owned, operated and studied the ins and outs of creating her handmade supply of soaps, body lotions and balms with her company, CeleBriTay: Time For Yourself.
With three soaps on the market - the Oatmeal Milk and Honey Unscented, made with palm fruit oil, goats milk and honey; the Bentonite Tea Tree Antibacterial Soap, made with products like bentonite clay and a variety of organic oils; and the Organic Olive Lavender Conditioning Soap, with organic olive and lavender oils - Santiago thinks she has found what it takes to successfully mass produce an affordable organic product.
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Before she mixes her oils and creates her soaps, Santiago says she spends a day with her family and the people she loves to calm her soul and bring out her inner peace.
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Named after her children Celene, Brittini and Ayden, Santiago wants the brand CeleBritAy to remind her customers to take time to truly celebrate life.
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"Chemistry, Sciences, Culture and Society in the making of Europe"Activity by David Coates | added on Jul 26, 2011 | France
Sponsor(s): Academia Europaea, UNESCO, CNRS, Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation, International Foundation of Chemistry, the French Chemical Society, the Académie des Sciences.
An international conference exploring the impacts and relevance of chemistry on both the past and modern European society.
Tuesday 20 – Thursday 22 September 2011, Paris
"Chemistry, Sciences, Culture and Society in the making of Europe"
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A 'bridge-section', will be devoted to how applied chemistry influenced and changed the destiny of entire generations during peaceful periods dramatically interrupted by world wars, the programme will visit the Humanities and Social sciences to tell a wider story of chemistry expanding into a philosophical, literary, aesthetic and social culture, from the Age of Goethe to the contemporary frontiers of chemistry such as molecular gastronomy.
The event follows the ususal pattern of Academy events - it is highly interdiscplinary linking science, arts and the humanities. It will demonstrate how chemistry supports and shapes our modern European Society.
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The following sections describe the general principles for read and write protection of data in each of the CoS entries. The detailed procedure for defining individual access control instructions (ACIs) is described in Chapter 6, Directory Server Access Control.
Although the CoS definition entry does not contain the value of the generated attribute, it does provide the information to find that value. Reading the CoS definition entry reveals how to find the template entry that contains the value. Writing to this entry modifies how the computed attribute is generated.
You should therefore define both read and write ACIs for the CoS definition entries.
The CoS template entry contains the value of the generated CoS attribute. Therefore, at a minimum, the CoS attribute in the template must be protected by an ACI for both reading and updating.
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Computed CoS attributes can be defined in terms of other generated CoS attributes and roles. You must understand and protect these dependencies to ensure that your computed CoS attribute is protected.
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of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 27, No. 4 April / May 2001
ASIST SIG/CR Classification Workshop 2000: Classification for User Support and Learning
by Dagobert Soergel
Editor's Note: This report from the ASIST 11th
Classification Research Workshop, presented by ASIST SIG/CR, was prepared by Dagobert Soergel, with contributions from the session rapporteurs Edie Rasmussen, Corinne Jörgensen, Linda Rudell-Betts, Jian Quin and Barbara Kwasnik.
The 11th Classification Research Workshop of the ASIST Special Interest Group in Classification Research (SIG/CR) was held on Sunday, November 12, 2000, as part of the 62nd ASIST Annual Meeting. The ASIST SIG/CR 2000
co-chairs were Dagobert Soergel, Padmini Srinivasan and Barbara Kwasnik. A highly competitive selection process brought together papers under the theme Classification for User Support and Learning
. The program is given in Figure 1.
Editor's Note: This report from the ASIST 11th Classification Research Workshop, presented by ASIST SIG/CR, was prepared by Dagobert Soergel, with contributions from the session rapporteurs Edie Rasmussen, Corinne Jörgensen, Linda Rudell-Betts, Jian Quin and Barbara Kwasnik.
The 11th Classification Research Workshop of the ASIST Special Interest Group in Classification Research (SIG/CR) was held on Sunday, November 12, 2000, as part of the 62nd ASIST Annual Meeting. The ASIST SIG/CR 2000
co-chairs were Dagobert Soergel, Padmini Srinivasan and Barbara Kwasnik. A highly competitive selection process brought together papers under the theme Classification for User Support and Learning
. The program is given in Figure 1.
Some of the papers are available on the workshop website athttp://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr/
Final versions of the papers will be published mid-2001 by Information Today as Advances in Classification Research, v. 11.
The first part of this report gives short synopses of the papers; the second part lists themes and research questions that emerged.
Introduction and Foundation
The leadoff speaker was David Jonassen, Distinguished Professor, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri. He provided a perspective underlying the workshop in his talk, "Knowledge is complex: accommodating human ways of knowing." The paper's main message: we need classifications for different kinds of knowledge that users hold and seek, particularly types of knowledge that are intimately tied to doing. The types of knowledge he outlined are shown in Table 1.
Session 1: Developing user-oriented classifications
Following the leadoff presentation, Session 1 covered a wide range of methodological tools for constructing thesauri/classifications/ontologies. There were two papers.
In her paper, "Domain analysis, an important part of thesaurus construction: methodologies and approaches," Marianne Lykke Nielsen introduced and illustrated domain analysis. Domain analysis is a multi-pronged method to discover users' task approaches, resulting information needs, conceptual frameworks, and terminology as the basis for constructing a truly user-oriented thesaurus, exemplified by a thesaurus for a pharmaceutical company. Domain analysis focuses on the following factors:
It uses the following methods:
In the second paper, "Terminology development and organization in multi-community environments: the case of statistical information," Stephanie Haas and Carol Hert presented a conceptual framework and methodology for discovering concepts, concept relationships and terminologies used by different user communities concerned with the same subject matter. Their example concerned statistical data. The method consists of three parts:
The experts who create the website can use the results to construct a crosswalk from the search terminology of "lay" users of a statistics website to the terminology.
Session 2: Classification in the User Interface (Reported by Corinne Jörgensen)
Session 2 dealt with using classification for enhanced searching and display. It brought to the fore issues of user interaction and navigation with graphical and text-based information and the role that a thesaurus or structured display can play in these areas.
Nina Wacholder et al in "Accessing and browsing 3D anatomical images with a navigational ontology," presented the Vesalius Anatomy Browser :http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/vesalius/.
The Browser is an elegant system for searching and displaying anatomical images that is based on an ontology of body systems and body parts using several types of relationships.
The presentation elucidated the problem of learning how to make massive amounts of data in a visual display useful and comprehensible. The solution taken by the project team was to add explicit conceptual information to the system; otherwise the displayed information is only meaningful to an expert, in this case an anatomist. Their "navigational ontology" supports restricted inference and restricted relationships. In this case, the anatomically significant relationships are conceptual, functional and spatial. The two major types of relationships in the system are part-of (component-structure) and is-a (taxonomic). Is-a and part-of, however, are not simple relationships; in a visual environment their complexity becomes more obvious, as there are matters of granularity and scale and multiplicity of types. For example, in addition to component structure there are other kinds of part-whole relationships, such as region and marker relationships; some things only makes sense as part of a larger structure.
One important point that holds implications for thesaurus display is that not all combinations of structures have names; therefore the system is designed to show relationships among structures, enabling the user to choose non-named sets or groups.
One question is whether, in a visual navigational ontology, there are other relationships besides is-a and component structure that need to be added. Wacholder stated that currently more spatial relationships are needed, such as "nearby" or "part of two systems," enabling the user to search on more combinations. Adding 3-D creates another set of relationships, and the major issue becomes one of classification, not interface design.
What other non-visual relationships may need to be added in the domain of anatomy? And when does one start adding other relationships outside the scope of anatomy but of interest in a wider medical research domain, such as similar biochemical processes? One can see far in the future a system encompassing many types of knowledge about the functioning of the human body and capable of displaying not only non-named "things" but also facilitating new discoveries by relating previously unrelated structures, processes and outcomes.
Susan Dumais et al, in "Use of classified displays of Web search results," presented empirical evidence that classified displays of Web search results are indeed useful. They perform better than simple ranked-list displays both for user tasks and in user preference. Figure 2 is an example of a category display that has been abridged and simplified. All titles are hyperlinks.
Here, automatic techniques map search results to a pre-established scheme of categories. The advantages of this approach are that a user can quickly know the structure of the information and that users easily understand this type of display. In contrast, clustering techniques are used primarily to discover structure. In a retrieval interface clustering is slow, and it is hard for the user to interpret the resulting unlabeled groups.
The user study reported here confirmed the advantages of a category display over a list display, both in terms of search times and user satisfaction. Interestingly, the researchers found that users could tolerate some ambiguity and "fuzziness" in the display. Items could be in multiple places. In the study they could be placed in up to 13 categories. Subjects noticed this cross-listing and liked it. The automatic classification is not perfect, and users noticed errors. However, the errors did not bother them.
These results raise the question of how "perfect" a classification process should be. While a large amount of error will cause users to distrust a system, greater accuracy requires larger amounts of time and, thus, money. To what extent should we strive for "perfection" in classification of heterogeneous documents in very large databases such as the Web? Since the standard for a worthwhile improvement is generally taken to be a 10% increase in precision, techniques that create only small incremental improvements may not be worth the time and money invested in their creation. Related to this argument is the idea that while in creating a classification system tailored to the needs of a particular user community we reinforce domain boundaries, classification of large heterogeneous collections would seem to need some permeability across these boundaries. As the work of Dumais, Cutrell and Chen shows, improvement in display of search results can minimize the impacts of "imperfect" categorization.
In "SERUBA - A new search and learning technology for the Internet and intranets," Winfried Schmitz-Esser gave a preview of a Web search system that uses a thesaurus with a rich set of relationship types to help the user explore her search topic. The relationships used are
When the user enters a search term, the system uses synonym relationships to identify the corresponding concept and then displays other concepts in an array arranged by type of relationship. An abridged display is shown in Figure 3, where each referenced concept is a hyperlink.
The system displays results using its Basic Semantic Reference Structure, a frame whose slots can be seen in Table 2.
Session 3: Automatic Creation of Representation
Session 3 dealt with automated methods to create the knowledge structures necessary for good user support.
Susanne Humphrey et al described in "Automatic indexing by discipline and high-level categories: Methodology and potential applications" a system developed for automatically indexing documents with broad descriptors that express the general nature and orientation of the document and thus are useful complements to specific descriptors. Two types of broad descriptors are assigned:
Rules for assigning journal descriptors were developed based on statistical association of document features such as title words with journal descriptors assigned to documents in a training set. The rules for assigning semantic types rely on a more complex indirect method.
In the second paper of the session, "Classification of research papers using citation links and citation types: Toward automatic review article generation," Hidetsugu Nanba et al presented a tool box for the automated or computer-assisted generation of reviews based on analyzing citation relationships. The three tools would each be useful individually. They are as follows:
The citation area tool starts from the sentence containing the citation and adds sentences preceding or following based on the occurrence of cue words that indicate text cohesion. The citation type tool is also based on cue words and assigns a citation to one of three types: (1) shows other researchers theories and methods; (2) points out problems or gaps in related works; and (3) other. The paper discusses both word-based and citation-based approaches to automatic classification.
The Idea Mart
In the middle of the day an "idea mart" was held. It was devoted to extensive discussion of emergent research ideas or projects in small groups in five parallel sessions covering two topics each. For a list of presenters and topics, see Figure 1.
This experiment turned out very well, producing many useful suggestions for the researchers who presented at the sessions. As the final section to this paper we report the themes that emerged from the papers and discussions. Some themes are clearly tied to one paper while others emerged in several papers. We list the 8 themes followed by brief summaries and/or outlines of the points developed.
Theme 1: Expanded use of classifications
Theme 1: Expanded use of classifications
Several presentations call into question the restricted uses that classification schemes have played, being used primarily for organization of information for retrieval. Other roles that need to be explored more fully include roles in learning, such as the use of the visual anatomist for training and education, exploration and browsing, creativity, discourse, problem solving, and information.
Question: How can we build classification systems that would enable us to discover and see relationships that have not yet been established?
Theme 2: Requirements for diversity in classification
Classifications should serve a given purpose for a given user community. Language terms and their relationships is complex; it shows differences not only across domains but also across user groups in the same domain. This introduces many sources of diversity in the design of classifications:
Role of classification in bridging diversity
Classification should honor diversity by reflecting different perspectives, etc. But classification should also bridge diversity by mediating between different points of view, different knowledge and cultural systems. For example, a classification of concepts in "alternative" medicine could include scope notes and relationships that relate its concepts to concepts in "standard" medicine. By elaborating concepts, concept relationships and conceptual structure in different realms, classification can help identify commonalities and differences and the nature of differences, supporting an effort at sharing and mutual refinement of conceptual structures.
Theme 3: The quest for unity multipurpose classifications, reuse
Classifications require considerable intellectual investment, so one would like to reuse them. Tension with diversity! Some thoughts from the discussion:
Can a thesaurus be reorganized for multiple purposes?
Classification modules that can be used in different schemes: How do we build modular ontologies to better represent dynamic domains? These would be ontologies that could flexibly extend the working ontology, for example extending the ontology of basic business processes by adding a module about auctions.
How can we build classification schemes that store basic-level (mid-level) attributes that are neither too abstract nor overly specified so that they can be used effectively by people in a variety of contexts, when we know neither who the people are nor what the contexts are?
The mapping of ontologies one to another must include more than just terms and their relationships, but must also include information about the context/situation.
Is it possible to reorganize an existing thesaurus into a "navigational ontology" to support searching and browsing? Or does such a tool have to be created initially with these goals in mind (re question one)? Can one thesaurus be reorganized in different ways to serve multiple purposes, such as searching, navigation, instruction, "stimulation" (creativity)?
Theme 4: Types of knowledge covered in classifications
Importance of stepping back from what we "know" about building an ontology based on domain knowledge.
Theme 5: Orientation of classification
Should classification reflect
How can a classification be constructed that mediates between these two orientations?
Theme 6: Types of relationships in a thesaurus / classification / ontology
Traditional thesauri use just BT/NT and RT (broader term/narrower term and related term) as conceptual relationships. However,
Theme 7: Display and user interaction issues
The following points were noted:
Theme 8: Practical issues
Classified displays are useful but
What can be automated? (Session 3)
Dagobert Soergel, professor in the College of Library and Information Services, can be reached at 4105 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD 20742-4345; 301/405-2037; e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com
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"And the Broken Hip" - Max and Caroline pay a high price for attempting to remove a street performer away from the entry to their cupcake shop, on 2 BROKE GIRLS, Monday, Feb. 18 (9:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Comedian Andy Dick guest stars as J. Petto, a litigious puppeteer.
2 BROKE Girls is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg Brooklyn, and form a bond over their dream of one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way - they're broke. Sarcastic, street-smart Max Black met the sophisticated, school-smart Caroline Channing when the uptown trust fund princess was having a run of bad luck due to her father's Wall Street scandal, which caused her to lose all her money and forced her to give waitressing a shot. At first, Max sees Caroline as an entitled rich girl, but she's surprised to find that Caroline has as much substance as she does style. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she visualizes a lucrative future for them and they begin to save money to reach their start-up money goal of $250,000. As the girls' cupcake tally expands week-to-week, they become closer to their goal and to each other. At the diner they are surrounded by their offbeat, colorful "work family:" Oleg, an overly flirtatious cook; Earl, a hip 75-year-old cashier; Han, the eager-to-please owner of the diner and Sophie, the girls' outrageous upstairs neighbor. As Max and Caroline climb toward their goal, we see that their "smarts" plus their "hearts" might just be the recipe for success.


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Home to Columbia's men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball teams, the Francis S. Levien Gymnasium opened at the start of the 1974 season. With a capacity of 2,700, Levien Gym is one of the larger facilities in the league.
In the summer of 2014, a brand new state of the art playing surface was laid down at Levien Gym with refreshed coloring and updated marks. Prior to the 2008-09 season, Levien was further upgraded with brand-new sideline panels, promoting Columbia Athletics' corporate sponsors.
Levien Gym has drawn some of the largest crowds in the building's history in recent years. On December 2, 2016, 2,271 fans packed Levien to watch the women's basketball team take on UMass-Lowell. It was the largest crowd ever to watch a Columbia women's basketball game.
Since January 2010, the men's basketball team has played to 15 sold out, standing room only crowds.
The Columbia landmark also hosted a piece of history during the 2015-16 campaign, when the Columbia men became just the second Ivy League team to win postseason championship after claiming the 2016 CollegeInsider.com Tournament title in front of 2,703 spectators. The Lions also set a program record for home wins, securing 18 on their home floor that season and have posted 12-straight winning seasons on Morningside Heights.
Levien Gym is part of the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center.
Getting to the game:
Levien Gymnasium is located inside the Dodge Physical Fitness Center on the Columbia campus on Morningside Heights in Manhattan. The main entrance to campus is through the gates on 116th Street; enter here and proceed through campus in the uptown direction.
For men's basketball contests, Levien Gymnasium can be entered through the Northwest Corner Building on 120th Street, just east of Broadway. Because of the proximity of this entrance to the basketball court, access through these doors is temporarily halted during game play beginning at tip-off. Once the game begins, guests may enter through these doors only during official timeouts and halftime. The box office for men's basketball is located on 120th Street, just east of Broadway.
The gym can also be accessed through the Dodge Fitness Center from campus level for men's basketball contests. This entrance is open throughout the game.
For women's basketball contests, Levien Gymnasium can only be entered through the Dodge Fitness Center from campus level. Ticket sales and will call pickup are located inside the Dodge Fitness Center on the 2nd and 4th floors, respectively.
Parking is available on local streets and in private garages on West 120th Street between Claremont Avenue and Riverside Drive, on West 122nd Street just east of Broadway, and on West 114th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
Drivers should note that in New York City right turns at red lights are illegal unless traffic signs state otherwise.
Take the New York Thruway (I-87) or the New England Thruway (I-95) south to the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95) in the direction of the George Washington Bridge. Take the exit for the Henry Hudson Parkway south (the last exit before the bridge). Exit the Parkway at West 95th Street and Riverside Drive and follow the directions "From Riverside Drive and 95th Street," below.
Take the New Jersey Turnpike north or I-80 east to the George Washington Bridge. As you cross the bridge, take the exit for the Henry Hudson Parkway south. Exit the Parkway at West 95th Street and Riverside Drive and follow the directions "From Riverside Drive and 95th Street," below.
Take the Long Island Expressway or the Grand Central Parkway west to the Cross Island Parkway north. Cross the Throgs Neck Bridge onto the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95 south) and proceed as in "By Car from the North," above.
From LaGuardia: Take the Grand Central Parkway west to the Triborough Bridge, to Manhattan. Follow 125th Street across Manhattan 12 blocks to Broadway, which is under an elevated subway structure. Turn left onto Broadway and go south to 116th Street.
From Kennedy: Take the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) to the Whitestone Bridge and across. Get onto I-95 south and follow the directions under "By Car from the North," above.
From Newark: Follow directions under "By Car from the South or West," above.
Go north on Riverside Drive to 116th Street. Turn right and go two blocks to Broadway and the University's main gate. Please note that the main gate is not open to traffic.
Trains to New York arrive at Grand Central Station or Pennsylvania Station, while buses stop at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Visitors arriving at these stations can take either public transportation or a taxi north to the campus.
Five bus lines (M4, M5, M11, M60, M104) and one subway line (the #1 local) serve the Columbia neighborhood. The M60 bus is a direct link between campus and LaGuardia Airport. The Columbia stop is 116th Street. Do not use express trains #2 and #3, which follow a different route and do not stop at Columbia University; if you do, be certain to transfer at 96th Street to the #1 local.
The maps page on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Web site has PDF versions of all Subway and Bus maps.
For visitors coming into LaGuardia, Kennedy, or Newark airports, taxi service is available to the campus (about $25 from LaGuardia; from Kennedy a flat rate of $45 plus tolls), and there is bus service to Grand Central Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Bus service directly from LaGuardia airport to Columbia, the M60 city bus, is also available.The Columbia campus on Morningside Heights is located at Broadway and 116th Street in Manhattan. Drivers should note that in New York City right turns at red lights are illegal unless traffic signs state otherwise.


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• Gardyloo! •Pronunciation: gah(r)-di-lu
Part of Speech: Interjection
Meaning: An exclamation alerting passers-by to dirty water or more offensive liquid about to be dropped from a window above their heads.
Notes: The second-floor dwellers in parts of Scotland traditionally shout this warning before emptying their wash bowls and slop buckets onto the street below. It is a good word to know when strolling the by-ways of Kiltland even if it is of little use elsewhere.
In Play: If you are a student with so little homework that you have time to drop water bombs out the window of your dorm, you should at least show the courtesy to shout, "Gardyloo!" before loosing your next aquagrenade. But why restrict this rippingly cute heads-up to plummeting liquid? "Fore!" on the golf course always struck me as a limp sound, too easily ignored. If we shouted, "Gardyloo!" other golfers would fall down laughing, clearing the way for our ball much faster.
Word History: According to legend, King Philippe Auguste of France (1180-1223) was drenched with the contents of a chamber pot on while strolling the streets of Paris. The upshot of his misfortune was a regulation directing all upstairs Parisians to exclaim, "gare à l'eau!" (look out for the water!) before dumping sordid liquids out the window. Why the Scots took to this word is anyone's guess. However, for whatever reason. they did add their magic to the sophisticated French phrase to create today's good and funny word. (Miriam Brown's suggestion of this word seemed to have the ring of experience but perhaps I read too much into it.)


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Tampa Pro 2004 Day 2: Thursday
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 by Rob
Tampa Pro 2004 Day 2: Thursday, March 11, 2004Words and Photos by Rob Meronek
Chris Cole is definitely going to be in the Finals if he
keeps skating like he did yesterday. Perfect switch 360 flips and high speed kickflip backside tail slides
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My intent was to use this recipe to make the version of Dublin Lawyer that's in this photo. Gorgeous isn't it? The problem was the cost - it was obscene. I played with some other ideas, but I didn't come up with anything that tickled my fancy. So, rather than do an Irish meal I decided to do one that was green. Save for the salmon, we'll be green from start to finish. The first course is going to be an avocado soup from the Andalusian region of Spain. The last course is going to be lime sherbet that comes from a midwestern kitchen. The soup is lovely and I suspect you'll want to keep the recipe in your roster. For best flavor, the soup should be made in the morning and allowed to chill until meal time. It needs the day for the flavors to ripen. The soup thickens as it sits, so, you'll want to dilute it with ice water before serving. As with all chilled soups, you'll have to adjust the seasonings. I think you'll find it needs to be liberally salted. This is a very simple recipe. I think you'll like it. Here's what you need to do.
Chilled Avocado Soup - Sopa De Aguacate
1 bunch scallions (about 8)
3 large ripe avocados
1 to 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
1 large lemon, juiced
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika (pimenton)
2 cups chicken broth
1 small handful cilantro or parsley
1-1/2 to 2 cups ice water
Salt and pepper to taste
Cilantro or parsley leaves for garnish
1) In the morning, trim scallions. Coarsely chop white part and place in jar of a blender. Add flesh of one avocado, garlic, and lemon juice. Puree. Add flesh of second avocado; puree. Add third avocado, cumin and paprika. Puree until smooth. Add cilantro. Slowly add chicken broth; blend until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate.
2) Just before serving, stir in iced water to thin puree. Check seasoning, adding salt and pepper if needed. Transfer to serving bowls. Garnish with cilantro or parsley leaves. Yield: 4 to 5 servings.