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Agave blended Homemade Yogurt with Kumquat Preserves (without Using a Yogurt Maker)
I've made a French version of a homemade yogurt recipe. In French I would call it yaourt brassé à la conserve de kumquat au sirop et au nectar d'agave. I got the recipe from a close family friend named Jeannie. She was born and raised in Vietnam and moved to America a decade ago. She always tells me how her family struggled during the Vietnam war, and how she had to learn how to preserve food and make a lot of stuff herself. I love her homemade yogurt and the recipe is quite easy. No need to spend big bucks on a yogurt machine. All you need is a few yogurt jars (or use baby food jars), a big cooler and a warm day.
The result is creamy and sweet. I added some agave syrup that I got from my last trip to Florida and some kumquat preserves from our orchard. I still have probably 2 batches of kumquats that need to be picked. I've made some kumquat marmalade already, some caramelized kumquats for a green salad and some baby zucchini-kumquat relish that I served with some fish. If you guys have any suggestions on recipes that use kumquats, I'm all ears. Do not hesitate to leave me a message.
I miss French yogurt. I remember in the supermarkets in France, there were probably 2 or 3 long aisles of dairy products like mousses, yogurts, crème caramels, flans, etc.I tell Lulu all the time that when I'm pregnant I want to go back to Paris and gorge myself on delicious French food to make sure our baby is a chubby wubby.
Attention: The measuring tool in this recipe here is the can of the condensed milk.
Yields: 8 servings2 cans condensed milk, 14 oz. each
4 1/2 cans water
8 oz yogurt, plain
2 cans whole milk, organic
1/3 cup milk powder, optional
kumquat preserves plus syrup, as needed
agave syrup, as needed
Place all the yogurt jars in the cooler. Measure the amount of water you would need to fill up the cooler up to 1 1/2 inch below the top of the yogurt jars. Write down or remember the exact amount of liquid needed. You'll need to use 1 part warm tap water and 2 parts boiling water later in the recipe.
Sterilize all your utensils. Fill a big pot of water and bring to just under a boil. Line the bottom of the pot with a piece of cloth so the jars does not move or break. Place the yogurt jars, the lids and tongs in the pot, cover with a lid and let it boil for 10-20 minutes. Transfer all the items using tongs (jars face down to drain the water) on a clean kitchen towel. Dry everything with a clean towel.
In a saucepan, bring 2 cans of water to a near boil. You can optionally add 1/3 cup of milk powder to the water to get a creamier consistency in the final product. I did not use it this time as I was running out of milk powder. Dissolve the condensed milk in the hot water. Stir with a wooden spoon.
Let the milk cool down to about 122°F then add the store-bought yogurts, 2 1/2 cans of cold water and fresh milk. Allow the yogurt bacteria to incubate. The temperature should not exceed 130°F or the lactobacilli bacteria that curdles the milk will die.
Transfer all the mik mixture to yogurt jars, plastic-wrap each individual jar and place them all in the cooler that can host all the jars. Mix one part warm tap water and two parts boiling water. The amount of water needed is what you measured previously. Mix the warm and boiling water in a big bucket and fill up the cooler. The temperature of the water bath should be approximately 98°F.
Close the cooler and let it rest next to a warm area (like near the stove).
Let the jars rest in the bath for at least 8 hours. The longer you wait, the more tart the flavor you will get.
During the winter time: wait for more than 12 hours. Usually start at 7pm and remove at about 9am the next day.
During the summer time: wait for about 9 hours. I start at 10 am and it's done by 7 pm on the same day.
A yellowish liquid (whey) will form on top of the yogurt. Remove the whey, cover the jar with its lid and store the jars in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. The temperature of your refrigerator should be about 40°F. The cold will slow the growth of the yogurt bacteria but will not kill them.
You could eat the lightly sweetened yogurt now as is. If you want to fancy it up a bit, after processing and refrigerating the yogurt, transfer the contents of one jar (or as many as you want) into a bowl. Sweeten the yogurt to taste with agave nectar and the syrup of the kumquat preserves. Fill up new yogurt jars with kumquat preserves and a little bit of its syrup and fill up the rest of the jar with the yogurt. Cover with the lid and store in the refrigerator or eat immediately.
Attention! The measuring tool in this recipe here is the can of the condensed milk.
I use the Longevity Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, the one with the picture of a white long-bearded old man. You can easily find it in Asian stores, well at least it's very easy to find it in California.
Agave nectar, sometimes called agave syrup, is a natural sweetener. In France, it's called Agave honey. Unlike honey, agave nectar has a long shelf life and does not crystallize over time. Agave nectar is made out of the purified sap of cactus-like desert plants. It is very popular in Mexico.
It is not heated during production and is considered raw, which make it very healthy like raw honey. Unlike raw honey, agave nectar is easy to spread beacuse of its consistency.
The addition of a ready-made yogurt (starter) will help curdle the milk. I usually use the Dannon brand plain yogurt or Greek style or Iranian yogurt. Also make sure you pick the freshest yogurt (check the expiration date) to get a strong yogurt bacteria.You can also save one of the homemade yogurt you just made and keep it for your next weekly yogurt batch .
The yogurts can be kept up to a week (plain yogurt without the kumquat preserves) in the refrigerator or stored in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Home-made yogurts have a lot of advantages. You know what is in your yogurt, it's all natural, no chemical thickening agent, emulsifiants, no preservatives, artificial flavors, gelatine and food coloring. I strongly recommend that you read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Your food will never again look the same, please check the ingredients list on the products you buy.
The other good thing is you're going to reduce your carbon foot print by polluting less with homemade yogurts, no need to create more trash that needs to be recyled.
My husband Lulu is a vegetarian. He's a vegetarian for taste reasons though but we just discovered that store-bought yogurts contain pork gelatin, originally from the bone and the skin of the pig. Yuck.
If you don't own a big enough cooler, you can use a regular large bucket and fill it with warm water but make sure it's a very warm/hot day to get a good consistency. You'll have to "seal" the bucket with several layers of plastic wrap and then cover it with aluminum foil. I usually use the giant cooler that we have for summer picnics. It's so much more convenient.
You can add your favorite fruit preserves at the bottom of your yogurt. Get creative! In case you didn't know, yogurt is very good for you. It is easily digested because of the live active bacteria, and is packed with calcium and vitamin D. Yogurt is a treat that you can feel good about long after you've eaten it. Try and say that about a slice of cheesecake...Published By: on March 15, 2009.


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TELLURIDE — Sunday morning Nicolas Cage looked good for a guy who just arrived from the Venice Film Festival in time for a quick Q&A after a screening of "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" directed by Werner Herzog.
Set (and shot) in the Crescent City post-Katrina, Cage plays a detective who mismanages his pain — the outcome of an in-the-line-of-duty accident — with all manner of prescription and illicit drugs. Eva Mendes plays his codependent girlfriend, a call girl.
He's corrupt and yet… The legendary Herzog wanted the film to be about "the bliss of evil," said Cage. For his part, "I wanted it to be about the hideousness of drugs." Cage's crazed and calibrated turn is reminiscent of his go-for-broke portrayal of an alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas." But if that was a "photo realist" approach, helped by a "drinking coach," this powerfully physical performance is, he thinks, impressionistic.
It was a "filtering of the experiences through my sober mind." Cage told the audience he hadn't had a drink for five years "for personal reasons." An expanded note: Our waitress at Honga's later that night reported that Cage, who was leaving the restaurant with family as we entered, was lovely.

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I have a number of systems and services that send email alerts when some sort of event takes place. This works fine for a small number of systems but as the number of alerts grows the important message become less visible among the informational notices. Email filtering can only be effective to a point.
What sort of solution can I use in place of emails that will allow me to send arbitrary alerts from various services and that will scale easily as the number of services grows?


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IC class attends UN climate conference in Poland. By Julissa Treviño '10
Recent graduate Anjuli Kronheim '08, who majored in politics and minored in environmental studies at IC and graduated magna cum laude, is working with Green Corps in Iowa. The national organization places college graduates around the country to help communities improve their environmental responsibility, while giving the young activists a solid grounding in organizational work for...
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In the absence of a national policy on climate change, IC steps up institutional efforts. by Doug McInnis
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A Chic, Whimsical Wedding at Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, California
Mira Kostishak did not have to look far for wedding inspiration. Her chic, bohemian outdoor wedding to Nate Bourque at Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, California, was inspired the earthy style at her parents' wedding in their native Ukraine. "She wore a simple white gown with a garland sewn into it and a crown of tiny white roses in her hair," Mira says. "Simple, white, ethereal, fresh, chic, effortless. I wanted this to be the theme for my wedding." Decor was kept minimal, letting the ranch's natural beauty take center stage. The ceremony took place under one of its largest shady trees, which was decorated with flower garlands in soft sunset hues—pink, violet and coral. In a nod to Mira's Ukrainian heritage, the couple exchanged vows while holding a rushnyk made by Mira's mother. The flower-filled, bohemian theme continued at the on-site reception, where string lights hung over round, white linen-topped tables set with flower garlands and geometric terrarium-style vases. The couple's playful side came through in the reception's details. They opted for a nacho-cheese fountain and a custom wedding cake topper that resembled a couple on a Vespa—Nate picked Mira up in one for their first date. "My favorite part of the wedding was our personally written vows," Mira says. "Nate's favorite part may have been the nacho-cheese fountain, which was his only wedding request." —Carolyn Meers


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Blind War Veteran Enjoys View from the Top
By John J. Kruzel
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STERLING, Va., Feb. 5, 2007 - At the Sport Rock Indoor Climbing Center here, a sign warns that climbing can cause serious injury. If Army Capt. Scott Smiley could see the cautionary sign, he would probably disregard it.
"I know I've done more dangerous things than this," Smiley said Feb. 2 from the base of the 50-feet-tall rock he prepared to climb.
In April 2005, Smiley's 25th Infantry Division platoon was patrolling Mosul, Iraq, for suicide car bombs when the soldiers saw a suspicious vehicle on the road.
"He was facing west, and I was headed north when I saw him. I stopped in my Stryker vehicle and yelled at him to get out of his car to interrogate him," Smiley recalled.
"You don't know if they're bad or good," he said. "The shocks could have been out in the back of his car."
But Smiley's initial suspicion was correct. The driver was a suicide bomber.
"He raised his hands," Smiley said, "and then he blew up."
The blast sent shrapnel into Smiley's eyes and brain, leaving him permanently blind.
Smiley, who's assigned to the office of the Army's deputy chief of staff for operations, now wears prosthetic blue eyes. He is one of six wounded Iraq war veterans that Disabled Sports USA and Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports brought here to transcend their disabilities and climb toward recovery.
Disabled Sports USA and Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project are partners in the Defense Department's America Supports You program. The program highlights activities, grassroots groups, corporations and private citizens are doing to support the men and women in uniform.
"With other climbers, they can look ahead and predict where their body needs to be to reach the next hold," Jeremy Hardin, director of route setting, said. "But he takes it step by step. Where we break it down into to two or three steps, he's got to break it into 10."
Smiley stands on the padded floor while his climbing guide, Ocean Eiler, describes the craggy wall in front of them.
"I try to give him the best reference points I can, but a lot of it is a very tactile event," Eiler said. "I'm really just throwing him on the rock."
Eiler feeds the safety rope through Smiley's harness and ties two figure-8 knots. Smiley pours a small mound of chalk into his palm, and a white cloud erupts when he claps his hands together.
Smiley holds on to Eiler's elbow, and the two men walk slowly toward the bumpy surface. Rocks jutting out from the wall - called holds - are color-coded so climbers can mentally map their route.
When asked what he's picturing in his mind, Smiley jokes, "A big rock with no place to hold on."
"Belay," Eiler says, indicating to Smiley that he's ready for the soldier to beginning climbing.
"Climbing," he replies.
Smiley slides his chalky palm across wall until he finds a hold and wraps his fingers around it. He hoists himself off the floor mat.
"You've got something over to your right by about two feet," Eiler says. "Up, up, up, up."
Smiley's foot rubs blindly against the wall to his right. The hold lies just out of his climbing shoe's reach.
"Actually, that's not going to help you much," Eiler says after Smiley makes several unsuccessful leg sweeps. "Go straight up. There you go. Come over to this other wall. Come a little bit more with your left. ... So close. Come out toward me; come toward the voice."
Smiley follows Eiler's instructions until he has ascended higher than the range of Eiler's audio map.
As Smiley zigzags steadily toward the top, a small group gathers at the rock base. Eiler's instructions are drowned out by cheering, and he joins the crowd, shouting encouraging words toward the apex, "Get that foot on it, come on. Come on. Good job on that inside edge. Commit to it. Big left foot."
Smiley reaches the top of the wall, and the crowd erupts. Voices from below guide his hand toward a cowbell hanging within reach, and the mallet slaps against the cast-metal bell as clanging from the rock top mixes with the echo of applause and cheers from below.
Back on the ground, Smiley said the climb embodied positive effects of emotional and physical recovery.
"That's something big with rehabilitation," he said, "getting back to normal and getting your body to do things that you were able to do before, and sometimes doing it even better."
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House to vote on repeal next week
The House will vote next week to repeal the new health care law, making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his signature domestic policy achievement.
Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announced Monday the timeline for considering the repeal legislation: The bill posted Monday, the Rules Committee will meet Thursday, and the rule for the debate will be considered on the House floor Friday. The repeal vote will follow on Wednesday, Jan 12.
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The GOP repeal bill is only two pages long – a stark contrast to the 2,000-plus pages in the final health care legislation, a number that was cited repeatedly by Republicans as evidence the bill amounted to a massive government overreach.
Aiming to link the rollback effort to job creation, Republicans named the bill "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act."
The Republican legislation states that it would restore statutes to what they were before the health care law passed. It would also repeal the health care provisions in a companion piece of legislation, known as the reconciliation act, that fixed elements of the main health care law. The repeal bill would leave intact an overhaul of the student loan industry that was passed as part of the reconciliation measure.
The House will vote on a separate resolution that would, in effect, take steps toward creating an alternative Republican health care plan. The resolution would call on four key committees to create health care legislation that addresses 12 different goals, to "lower health care premiums through increased competition and choice," "increase the number of insured Americans," "protect the doctor-patient relationship," and "prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and provide conscience protections of health care providers," for example.
The resolution appears aimed at blunting Democratic criticism that Republicans aren't serious about enacting solutions to expand health care coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.
"Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs," Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. "Further, Obamacare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week."
The repeal effort is not expected to succeed, given that Democrats maintain control of the Senate and the president can veto the legislation. But Republicans could embarrass the White House if they persuade a number of Democrats to vote with them and, over the long term, plan to try to chip away at pieces of the law.
"We have 242 Republicans," said Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on "Fox News Sunday." "There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House last March, it only passed by seven votes."
Only 13 of the 34 Democrats who opposed the bill in March won reelection, narrowing the pool from which Republicans can pick up crossover votes.
The White House declined to comment on Cantor's announcement.


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DII Men's Basketball Player of the Week - No. 7
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Stephen Harris of Warner Pacific (Ore.) has been tabbed the NAIA National Division II Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Harris was selected based on his performances from Feb. 11 - 17 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group winners.
Harris, a 6-foot-5 senior forward, led the Knights to a share of the Cascade Collegiate Conference regular-season championship by his efforts last week. He averaged 21.5 points and 10 rebounds, while shooting 86.7 percent (13-of-15) from the floor, in two victories.
On Feb. 15, he poured in a game-high 25 points on 9-of-10 shooting to help Warner Pacific trip up No. 3 Eastern Oregon, 72-70. The native of Hillsboro, Ore., hit the game-winner at the buzzer. The next night against College of Idaho, Harris notched 18 points, 11 rebounds for his NAIA-leading 19th double-double of the year. He added three assists and two steals in the 69-56 victory.
Harris ranks first in the NAIA in rebounds per game (10.6), total rebounds (317) and is first on the team in scoring (16.1), blocks (26) and steals (53).
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The final Player of the Week announcement will be on Feb. 26. For the complete Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Brad Karp, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Jake Simpson, Indiana Southeast ; Devin Harris, Oklahoma Wesleyan ; Joseph Lightfoot III, Ashford (Iowa); Canon Fields, Kansas Wesleyan ; Bobby Naubert, Madonna (Mich.); Brandon Beasley, William Penn (Iowa); Ra'Shad James, Northwood (Fla.); Rob Hogans, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Deante Johnson, Union (Ky.); Ben Miller, Northwestern (Iowa).
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I'm putting one of these topics into the TS2, the TS3, and the TS4 areas.
If any of you want to make a lot or a Sim (or more than one of either or both) to give away for Christmas, just add a reply to one of the topics, and post your downloadable gift.
Please do not use CC or store items, because others may not have the same items you have--no matter which game for which you choose to create.
Nothing has to be fancy (unless you want to create fancy stuff just for the fun of it). All of these forums are open to our guests as well as our members, so we may not see a lot of thank-yous or ooohs and aaahs. This is just for us to give something away that we haven't posted somewhere else.
Nothing needs to be expressly-holiday related. Just make a little gift for someone else to enjoy during their coming year.
I had planned to make an Advent Calendar and post a gift for every day from December 1 through December 25, but I just haven't had the time to do it. I confess...I've been playing Minecraft more than Sims, so it's entirely my own fault that I haven't had the time.
At any rate, I hope some of you will join me in posting at least one gift. I hope to get several done. I have a residential lot and a family to go with it, for TS4, that are in the works right now. I should get them posted in the next couple of days.


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Senate Democrats tell Obama they'll cut his budget plan
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats gave President Barack Obama a warm welcome on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, even as they prepared to cut as much as $180 billion from his proposed $3.55 trillion fiscal 2010 budget.
Democrats downplayed the adjustments and said that they felt only harmony with the president.
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., a centrist leader, said "there's nothing unusual about the Senate making some changes," while Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who led the effort to modify the budget, said he'd "preserved the president's key priorities."
The White House was similarly pleased, and Budget Director Peter Orszag called the congressional budgets "98 percent the same" as Obama's.
Budget committees in the House of Representatives and Senate hope to finish writing their versions of the 2010 budget on Thursday, with votes expected next week in both the full Senate and House.
Obama's Capitol visit was his latest public-relations effort on behalf of his $3.55 trillion fiscal 2010 budget. It followed last weekend's mobilizing of volunteers to knock on doors urging public support — which failed to generate much pressure on Capitol Hill — and a Tuesday night prime-time news conference.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the president's budget would create a $1.38 trillion deficit next year and a $749 billion deficit in 2014.
The congressional budget committees worked Wednesday from blueprints prepared by their chairmen. The House approach would reduce the federal deficit, estimated at $1.7 trillion this year, to $1.22 trillion next year — $158 billion less than Obama's deficit — and to $598.4 billion by 2014. The Senate version aims for a 2010 deficit of $1.2 trillion — $180 billion less than Obama's — and forecasts a $508 billion deficit by 2014.
The House and Senate plans eliminate the $250 billion "placeholder" that Obama wanted for future government bailouts of ailing companies.
They also reduce Obama's bid to increase by 10.1 percent nondefense discretionary spending, which includes many of his key domestic initiatives. Conrad proposed a 7 percent increase, while House Democrats want to trim the increase to 9.5 percent.
Congressional Democrats' changes could be seen two ways: As the work of lawmakers gently asserting their independence from the president, or as members of Congress smoothing the legislative path for Obama by making the budget more palatable to moderates and thus easier to pass.
Conrad said the motivation was simple: The CBO's new, bigger deficit projections last week made adjustments to the Obama budget necessary.
"When we got the new forecast, and I had the responsibility of delivering that news to him, he understood immediately the implications," Conrad said. "He understood immediately that I would have to make adjustments."
The outline the committees are writing is only intended to set legally-binding general guidelines for spending and revenue for next year. The budget bills leave to other committees future crucial decisions on health care, global warming initiatives, the federal role in education and Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax break — his core priorities.
Though no funds are provided for any of those plans, the budget leaves doors wide open for congressional action.
"We didn't exclude or include. What we did is leave open to the committees of jurisdiction maximum flexibility to make these judgments," Conrad said. "We have not prejudged a legislative outcome."
The reason for the vagueness, he and others suggested, is that including controversial items would hurt the budget's chances of passage. Once Congress passes its final budget, probably next week, other committees can begin creating what Conrad calls "reserve funds that could include the president's proposals," as long as any new spending is offset by cuts or revenue generators.
That's why, after the Obama meeting, Democrats could claim victory, because they'd met the president's broadest goals of cutting the inherited deficit in half in five years, making a "down payment" on health-care changes, creating a "path to energy independence" and examining the federal role in education.
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Below Joshua the city spanned the azure horizon. He wished it felt like home here, that the kids at school didn't make fun of him. He couldn't help that he didn't speak English well. He'd lived outside of Beijing almost his entire thirteen years.
Even though his English was improving, the kids in his classes still teased him, mimicked his Asian accent. Joshua didn't understand why they made fun of him, specifically. There were many kids of diverse ethnicities in his classes. The difference was they'd been born here, or had picked up English as toddlers.
When some of the bigger boys punched and pushed him around one day at school, Joshua ran home immediately. There were tears running down his cheeks and he was embarrassed to be crying. He wasn't surprised when his legs took him to his favorite place in the city. Joshua had found it one day wandering the streets and deserted buildings close to where he lived.
As he presently stood on the corner of the brightly spray painted building, he swore to never cry again. No matter how much the other kids teased him, no matter how badly they bruised him; Joshua would show them he was stronger.
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Powderhorn Mountain Resort continues to expand and improve its terrain parks. From beginner to expert, come to Powderhorn to hone your skills and show your style. With three parks across the mountain to choose from you are sure to find what you're looking for.
EZ Park: Our newest addition to Powderhorn's Terrain Parks! The EZ Park begins your progression. Designed for the rider just starting out or the moms and dads who want to see what the park is all about. Safe and Simple features including rollers, boxes, and rails. Master this one and move forward to "The Peace Park"
Lower Peace Park: Located on Lower Peacemaker and easily accessible from the Easy Rider lift or from the Flat Top Flyer down. Something for everyone, from first-time park riders to the seasoned lapper. Rollers to round-bars, always switching it up to keep things fresh.
Upper Peace Park: This Park is all about logging airtime. 3 jump lines, advanced boxes, rails and features to keep every run unique. A focus on flow, rhythm and enough rails to link a solid slopestyle line. Precisely groomed daily for smooth riding. Dial this one in to truly achieve "Inner Peace"
Make A Plan
- Every time you use freestyle terrain, make a plan for each feature you want to use. Your speed, approach and take off will directly affect your maneuver and landing.
Look Before You Leap
- Before getting into freestyle terrain observe all signage and warnings
- Scope around the jumps first not over them
- Use your first run as a warm up run and to familiarize yourself with the terrain
- Be aware that the features change constantly due to weather, usage, grooming and time of day
- Do not jump blindly and use a spotter when necessary
Easy Style It
- Know your limits and ski/ride within your ability level
- Look for small progression parks or features to begin with and work your way up
- Freestyle skills require maintaining control on the ground and in the air
- Do not attempt any features unless you have sufficient ability and experience to do so safely
- Inverted aerials increase your risk of injury and are not recommended
Respect Gets Respect
- Respect the terrain and others (freestyle terrain is for everyone regardless of equipment or ability)
- One person on a feature at a time
- Wait your turn and call your start
- Always clear the landing area quickly
- Respect all signs and stay off closed terrain and features
Be sure you Know the Code: Your Responsibility Code provides safety tips while on the slopes. Smart Style is a terrain park specific safety program that you should check out before using terrain parks.
Freestyle terrain may include half-pipes, as well as terrain parks and terrain features. They are provided for your enjoyment and off adventure, challenge and fun. However, freestyle terrain use, like all skiing and riding, exposes you to the risk of serious injury. Prior to using freestyle terrain, it is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with all isntructions and warnings and to follow the "Your Responsibility Code."
- Freestyle terrain contains man-made and natural terrain variations
- Freestyle terrain changes constantly due to weather and use
- Inspect freestyle terrain before using and throughout the day
- In jumping and using this terrain, you assume the risk of serious injury
- Be courteous and respect others
- One user on a terrain feature at a time
- Never jump blindly – use a spotter when necessary. Look Before You Leap!
- It is your responsibility to control your body on the ground and in the air
- Always clear the landing area quickly
- Always ride or ski in control and within your ability


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4 HASKINS & SELLS July Classification and Appropriate Certificates THE IDEA of classifying accountancy services originated some seven years ago. A palpable need preceded the idea. The need was for some device which would overcome confusion. The results of confusion were wasted time, unnecessary expense, and annoyance. The confusion arose from diversity in technical concept, technical performance, understanding, undertaking, and reference in relation to professional engagements. Those who contributed to the diversity were principals who took engagements from clients, supervisors who observed the execution, in-charge accountants who planned and gave instructions to assistants concerning the work, and general executives charged with technical administration of the organization as a whole. The results of diversity were conflicting opinions, uncertainty as to technical policy, unwillingness to accept responsibility, un-evenness in service and reports. Each practice office served its clients, according to the best judgment of those responsible for the office. Each accountant in charge of an engagement did the best he could under the circumstances, or as he was directed by his superior. How widely the judgment and direction differed is too sad a memory to be recalled or recounted. The correction of these conditions may be attributed to a service classification. The classification was conceived in theory. It was born in trial on five thousand engagements coming from all parts of the world and from all lines of business, as they flowed by a central point. Its practical usefulness has been demonstrated by application in some twenty-five thousand additional engagements. Few changes have been required since the classification was first prepared. Those were minor in character and were made in the early years. The organization now has a common language relating to engagements. Those who deal with engagements have only to learn the language. The newest member of the staff may learn in a short time as much about the firm's policy concerning classes and general specifications of work as the oldest accountant or executive. The person who takes an engagement from a client, whether the person is a staff accountant, or a partner; whether the client is an individual, or an officer of a corporation; whether the location is New York, or Shanghai, China, has a definite outline for discussion, a helpful guide in considering the client's needs, and a prescribed basis on which to arrange the undertaking, once the type of service desired is ascertained. With this start, uniformity follows naturally. The type of service is indicated by number and name on the engagement memorandum. Records are kept and statistics are compiled accordingly. A basis is afforded on each engagement for checking performance from executive offices, down the line through practice offices to the field where the engagement is in progress, and back, in reverse order, to culmination in reports. Technical administration is facilitated. Unnecessary discussion and correspondence are eliminated. Order replaces disorder. Every one has a standard for guidance. One particular advantage of service classification has been the almost complete disappearance of differences with clients concerning the kind of service undertaken. Clients understand now, apparently, that the greater the limitations placed by them on the scope and character of the work, the less chance the auditor has of uncovering irregularities, or discovering errors in principle and practice. This may be attributed to the fact that the classification is discussed with the client before he decides on the service to be engaged. Thus, he is afforded an opportunity of understanding the scope and limitations of the various
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Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 14, no. 03 (1931 July), p. 4-5
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I'm only just now getting around to Frozen Synapse, which was released back in May and about which a bunch of people I know have had only nice things to say. So far, it's like some glorious combination of X-Com and Tron with maybe a touch of Rainbow Six and Ubisoft's fantastic 3DS game Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars. (Which is still my favorite 3DS game—Crecente agrees.)
Frozen Synapse's developers, Mode 7, are now offering a free demo on their website, and this weekend, the full game is 50% off on Steam. That means that for $12.99, you'll actually get two copies of the game, one for you and one to send to whichever friend you'd most like to cleverly ambush and kill, over and over again.


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Summit County bus crash results in attempted murder charge
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A man who police have accused of intentionally crashing his car into a Summit Stage bus in May, injuring several people, is set to appear in court Jan. 2 facing charges of attempted murder and several counts of assault.
Joshua Stephen Pierce, 32, was reportedly fighting with his on-again, off-again girlfriend when his car veered across Highway 6 and crashed into a Summit Stage bus, injuring his girlfriend as well as a 3-year-old and 15-year-old on the bus.
Pierce pleaded not guilty to the eight charges against him. A trial date will be set at the Jan. 2 arraignment hearing.
He is currently out on a $50,000 bond.
Attempts to locate Pierce for comment Wednesday were unsuccessful.
After the crash, Pierce reportedly told authorities his girlfriend grabbed the steering wheel of his Subaru and caused the car to strike the bus in an attempt to commit suicide, according to an arrest affidavit released by the district attorney.
But video taken inside the bus allegedly showed Pierce in full control of the steering wheel, his arms braced for impact, when he directed the vehicle from the left westbound lane on Highway 6 across the left turn lane and into the front of the bus, the affidavit states.
No part of the woman's body was seen touching Pierce or the steering wheel, according to the affidavit.
She was airlifted to a Front Range hospital after suffering several broken bones, internal damage and a torn aorta in the collision.
No info was released regarding the condition of the other victims.
Officers who later contacted Pierce at Summit Medical Center reported he told them he drove his car into the bus on purpose in the midst of an argument with the woman in the car.
Pierce is charged with first-degree assault, attempt to commit murder in the second-degree, endangering public transportation, all class 3 felonies, as well as vehicular assault, a class 5 felony, and four counts of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.
Charging documents characterize the crimes pertaining Pierce's girlfriend as domestic violence.
If convicted, Pierce faces 10-32 years in prison for both the first-degree assault and attempted murder charges, 4-16 years for endangering public transportation and 1-3 years behind bars for the vehicular assault charge. Each of the third-degree assault charges carries a penalty of up to two years in county jail.
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Quick hits from Avs' 3-2 victory over St. Louis
Tight deadlines, stiff back, icy roads, practice tomorrow … So I'll make this quick:
— Avs (17-17-1, 35 points) have won a franchise record-tying seven straight at home. Last time was in 2003. They are 11-9 at home.
— JS Giguere is 3-0 with a 1.62 GAA and .949 save percentage in Colorado's last three games. I asked coach Joe Sacco if there was "a good chance" Giggy would again get the nod Friday against Tampa Bay, and Sacco smiled and said the obvious: "I'll sleep on it tonight, but I always let the goalies know first. But he certainly has come in and played very well. All we ask of our goalies is to give us a chance to win, and he's done that, no question."
— Avs blanked the Blues on four power-play chances, including three in the first period. The hero, Jay McClement, played 4:23 of his 16:32 on the kill (Blues total time on the PP was 7:45). Only defenseman Jan Hejda played more shorthanded (4:46) for the Avs. McClement, who scored an ugly game-winning goal, was my No. 1 star. Throw in young D Duncan Siemens and that big trade with STL in February doesn't look so bad right now.
— Ahem, Chris Stewart had a goal, was plus-1 and a game-high seven shots for the Blues. Kevin Shattenkirk also had a nice game, even, with three shots in 22:36 (second most for STL). The Avs' Erik Johnson (one shot, even, 19:26) was fine.
— The Avs are 2-0 against St. Louis this season and have won six straight and nine of the last 10.
— Rookie Brad Malone made a nice play to set up McClement's goal, which came on a 2-on-1 rush. It was Malone's second helper in as many games. "It's getting more comfortable," said Malone, who played in his sixth NHL game. "It's exciting (about the assists) but as long as the team wins — my job isn't really to produce. It's to keep it simple. If the points come, it's a special bonus."
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A workshop to prepare your core team for an upcoming CRM initiative on Dynamics 365, arming them with best practices and a plan.
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When CRM is initiated, many companies assemble a team of Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs) representing various parts of the business who they charge with becoming power users. In high-performing organizations, this core team of SMEs is an ongoing construct.
When the core team understands best practices, they will have a strong plan going into a CRM initiative. Fullscope has seen a dramatic increase in the level of customer success when this methodology was introduced.


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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a state-of-the nation address in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Putin delivered his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has taken a tough course on dissent since his inauguration, with opposition activists arrested and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters.Putin said Wednesday that the government would focus on developing high-tech industries to make sure that Russia succeeds in global competition. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to preserve the nation's identity against interference from abroad.
Putin's speech was his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has pursued a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests and searches of opposition activists and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters and rigid rules on civil society groups.
Speaking to lawmakers, officials and clerics who gathered in the Kremlin's ornate St. George's Hall, Putin said Russia would follow its own view on democracy and shrug off any "standards enforced on us from outside."
"Direct or indirect foreign interference in our internal political processes is inadmissible," he said. "Those who receive money from abroad for their political activities and serve alien interests shouldn't engage in politics in Russia."
One of the laws passed by the Kremlin-controlled parliament requires non-governmental organizations that receive foreign funding and engage in vaguely defined political activities to register as "foreign agents," a move the groups said was aimed to intimidate them and destroy their credibility with Russians for whom "agent" is synonymous with "spy."
Putin also pledged to support "institutions that represent traditional spiritual values," a hint at even more state support for the Russian Orthodox Church.
In August, three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for performing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral. One was released on appeal, but two others are serving their sentences despite international outrage.
Moscow' task on the global stage will be to preserve its "national and spiritual identity," Putin said, adding that a strong military should "guarantee Russia's independence and security."
He added that Russia would continue to push for "coordinated collective efforts" in dealing with global issues.
The Kremlin has said that its continuous refusal to support international sanctions against Syria's President Bashar Assad is rooted in international law that bars interference in a sovereign country's affairs.
Putin sought to boost patriotic feelings by promising to honor heroes of World War I and restoring the historic names of old imperial regiments of the Russian army.
In a speech that focused heavily on social issues, Putin encouraged families to have more children, promised to create 25 million new jobs and develop new incentives for teachers, doctors, engineers and others.
He also made new promises to boost the fight against corruption.
Russia is considered to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. A group that tracks global perception of the problem ranks Russia 143rd out of 183 countries.
"A sustained and visible effort to reduce corruption is one of the catalysts that could cut the current high risk premium investors apply to Russian equities," Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Sberbank CIB investment bank said in a note to investors earlier this week
Putin called for sanctioning officials who own foreign stocks or bank accounts abroad, and said they will have to explain the source of financing for big purchases including real estate abroad.
His statements would play well with the domestic audience, which has relished in the recent ouster of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov over a military corruption scandal and investigations of other officials suspected of graft. Still, Gleb Pavlovsky, a political analyst and former Kremlin political strategist, told the Interfax news agency that "Putin had failed to send a message of purging the high ranks."
The opposition ridiculed Putin's statements as lacking substance and novelty. "Everything will be fine soon, I promise," opposition activist Alexei Navalny wrote, sarcastically summing up the address.
Another opposition activist, Vladimir Ryzhkov, called the speech a "manifesto of preserving political status quo."
Putin repeated pledges to reduce the nation's reliance on exports of oil and other mineral resources and encourage the development of high-tech industries. He also lamented a huge capital outflow and Russian companies moving abroad to avoid the uncertainties of Russian laws and courts.
Russian authorities are expecting capital outflows of up to $65 billion this year. Putin quoted analyst estimates that nine out of 10 major deals of Russian companies are registered abroad to be governed by foreign laws. He urged the government to seek more information on Russian companies from nations where they are registered.
Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report.


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A protest in Portland, Oregon, against Donald Trump's election boiled over into what police described as a "riot" overnight after some demonstrators armed with bats smashed stores and cars, and others lit fires.
Police arrested 26 people, but said many in the crowd were trying to stop those responsible from vandalizing property.
Trump initially tweeted saying that the "professional protesters" had been "incited by the media" and called the situation "very unfair!" He followed that up with a more positive message early Friday: "Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!"
People have taken to the streets in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and elsewhere, rallying around the slogan "not my president."


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What do electric sheep dream of? My guess would be fields of lights like this—except, you know, edible.
This installation at the Holburne Museum in Bath, UK is the brainchild of renowned artist Bruce Munro and inspired by his walkabout in the Australian outback more than two decades ago. Dubbed Field of Light, it comprises over 5,000 bulbs atop acrylic stems lit with fiber optic cables running from a color projector. Check out more incredible images on both Harry_S and Ricksphotos101's Flickr streams. [Kuriositas - Image courtesy: Chris Harrison Photography / Flickr]
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Copyright minister: Those missing TWO copyright exceptions? We're still on track
EU law niggles and other issues push them back beyond 1 June
Just this morning it appeared that the government had quietly dropped two of the five changes it wants to make to UK copyright law - but copyright minister Viscount Younger has just released a statement saying it "remains firmly committed to implementing each of these important exceptions".
All five SIs are still listed on the House of Lords business schedule for consideration on 14 May (Wednesday), but the two "missing" SIs must be scrutinised by JSCSI before they are yea-ed or nay-ed.
Younger said today: "The Committee has some questions about the private copying and parody exceptions that they would like to discuss with us...It is likely to mean these two SIs are implemented later than 1 June 2014."
We need to talk about ... oh dear
When the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee yesterday quizzed [Oral evidence transcript p13-18 PDF] the copyright minister and two of his bureaucrats, only three of the five were discussed.
Parliament gained the ability to introduce major changes to copyright by using secondary rather than primary legislation last year - and it is using the mechanism of Statutory Instruments (SIs) to make these changes, as recommended in the Hargreaves Review. We detailed the five areas here.
The government had previously stated it wanted the five SIs in law by 1 June.
The two missing SIs cover two areas: the private copying of media from one format to another for media (like music CDs, but not eBooks*) that consumers have already bought, and parodies. Sources tell us the SIs were withdrawn after two scrutinising committees reported problems with the instruments.
Any changes to UK legislation must be compatible with EU law - and in the case of copyright, any exceptions or limitations on copyright Parliament wants to make are very tightly prescribed. In the case of private copying, the EU stipulates than any exception must compensate the copyright-holder. As a consequence, almost all European member states** have made the exception, and specified that users must pay a token levy.
As an example, just last month a CJEU case related to the Dutch private copying levy said this:
In that regard, it must, first, be pointed out that, under that provision, Member States which decide to introduce the private copying exception into their national law are required to provide for the payment of 'fair compensation' to right-holders.
Controversially, however, the Hargreaves Review recommended that the private copying exception should be introduced and not a penny be paid.
Why do it?
The reasons the UK should wish to go it alone aren't clear - but the Hargreaves review was written in the era of Ed Quilty. Quilty moved on from the IPO (Intellectual Property Office) in January, but his former colleagues - possibly lacking Quilty's ideological zeal for hacking down copyright law - now have to clear up the mess.
The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee is believed to have issues with the latter two SIs' compatibility with EU law, sources tell us. The Committee's report has been seen by ministers but has not yet been made public. You can see an Early Day Motion tabled last week which had called for a withdrawal of the copying exemption from the draft regulations here.
Copyright Minister Younger described a French copying levy on music players – with a full 50 per cent of the proceeds going to support young artists – as "admirable", but added – "we have to remember that is still a tax". Most European compensation levies are far smaller, however: Romania's is €0.02. The point is you can throw the rights-holders chicken feed, but you have to throw them something. The UK argued it was "priced in".
The status of the SI making a parody exception is murkier. The SI doesn't actually define what "parody" is - leaving the matter for the courts to decide - which will take years of lawsuits to clarify. Nor does it make any recommendation how much of an original work can be used. That too would require years of litigation. An ongoing case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-201/13) will help to clarify exactly what a parody is.
Another committee, the JSCSI or Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, also has to report on whether the SIs are wise, or compliant with the EU law.
*eBooks are not covered, although the Government's bureaucrats managed to say they are and are not, at the same time.
** There are levies on blank media in 22 EU countries, on MP3 players in 18 countries, on printers in 12 countries, on personal computers in four countries. Revenues collected per capita vary between €0.02 (Romania) and €2.6 (France). (via IPO - see PDF)
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For several years now I've written various articles and newsletters on the topics of estimating and funding strategies for software development projects, and in particular for agile software development projects. Whenever I talk to people about agile software development, or coach them in how to succeed at it, some of the very first questions that I'll be asked, particularly by anyone in a management role, is how to fund agile software development projects. Apparently a lot of people think that you can only apply agile strategies on small, straightforward projects where it makes sense to do a time and materials (T&M) approach. In fact you can apply agile strategies in a much greater range of situations, as the various surveys that myself and others are showing time and again. My goal with this blog posting is to summarize the various strategies for, and issues surrounding, the funding of agile software development projects.
There are three basic strategies for funding projects, although several variations clearly exist. These strategies are:
- "Fixed price". At the beginning of the project develop, and then commit to, an initial estimate based on your up-front requirements and architecture modeling efforts. Hopefully this estimate is given as a range, studies have shown that up-front estimating techniques such as COCOMO II or function points are accurate within +/- 30% most of the time although my July 2009 State of the IT Union survey found that on average organizations are shooting for +/- 11% (their actuals come in at +/- 19% on average, but only after doing things such as dropping scope, changing the estimate, or changing the schedule). Fixed-price funding strategies are very risky in practice because they promote poor behavior on the part of development teams to overcome the risks foisted upon them as the result of this poor business decision. It is possible to do agile on a fixed budget but I really wouldn't recommend it (nor would I recommend it for traditional projects). If you're forced to take a fixed-price approach, and many teams are because the business hopes to reduce their financial risk via this approach not realizing that it actually increases their risk, then adopt strategies that reduce the risk.
- Stage gate. Estimate and then fund the project for given periods of time. For example, fund the project for a 3-month period then evaluate it's viability, providing funding for another period of time only to the extent that it makes sense. Note that stages don't have to be based on specific time periods, they could instead be based on goals such as to initiate the project, prove the architecture with working code, or to build a portion of the system. Robust agile process frameworks such as Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) have built in, light-weight milestones which enable this sort of strategy. When the estimation technique is pragmatic, the best approaches are to have either the team itself provide an estimate for the next stage or to have an expert provide a good gut feel estimate (or better yet have the expert work with the team to develop the estimate). Complex approaches such as COCOMO II or SLIM are often little more than a process facade covering up the fact that software estimating is more of an art or a science, and prove to be costly and time consuming in practice.
- Time and materials (T&M). With this approach you pay as you go, requiring your management team to actually govern the project effectively. Many organizations believe a T&M strategy to be very risky, which it is when your IT governance strategy isn't very effective. An interesting variation, particularly in a situation where a service provider is doing the development, is an approach where a low rate is paid for their time which covers their basic costs, the cost of materials is paid out directly, and delivery bonuses are paid for working software. This spreads the risk between the customer/stakeholder and the service provider. The service provider has their costs covered but won't make a profit unless they consistently deliver quality software.
The point is that there are several strategies for funding agile software development projects, just like there are several strategies for funding traditional software development projects. My experience is that fixed-price funding strategies are incredibly poor practice which increases the risk of your software development projects dramatically. I recognize how hard it can be to change this desire on the part of our business stakeholders, but have also had success changing their minds. If you choose to persevere, which is a difficult decision to make, you can help your organization's decision makers to adopt more effective strategies. Like you they want to improve the effectiveness of your IT efforts.
Further reading: (In recommended order)
- Something's Gotta Give: Argues for a flexibly approach to funding, schedule, and/or scope.
- Agile on a Fixed Budget: Describes in detail how to take a fixed-price approach on agile projects.
- The Dire Consequences of Fixed-Price IT Projects: Describes in detail the questionable behavior exhibited by IT teams when forced to take a fixed-price approach.
- Is Fixed-Price Software Development Unethical?: Questions the entire concept of fixed-price IT projects, overviewing some of the overwhelming evidence against this really poor practice.
- Reducing the Risk of Fixed-Price Projects: Describes viable strategies for addressing some of the problems resulting from the decision of fixed-price projects.
- Strategies for Funding Software Development Projects: Describes several variations on the strategies described above.
- Lies, Great Lies, and Software Development Project Plans: Summarizes some results from the July 2009 State of the IT Union survey which explored issues related to project funding (among many).
- Comparing Approaches to Budgeting and Estimating Software Development Projects: Compares up-front detailed estimates, pay-as-you go, and high-level initial estimate with narrower updates throughout the project strategies.


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