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Our handmade French lavender wreath makes a natural gift that showcases the vibrant purple color and soft fragrance for which the flower is known.
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Today's guest blog post is by AAA member, Ashkuff. Read more posts on Ashkuff's blog: http://www.ashkuff.com
Put simply? Sociocultural anthropologists specialize in describing one group of people, to other groups of people. Obviously, with such a broad yet elegant specialization, sociocultural anthropologists should find themselves awash in more political, business, and consultancy opportunities. So why don't we?
We sometimes get lost in communicating with our research subjects, and forget how to communicate with our audiences. Unsurprisingly, research creates little opportunity, if nobody understands it. Take, for example, the communication habits of American sociocultural anthropologists (abbr. "anthropologists") versus mainstream American businesspeople (abbr. "businesspeople").
Anthropologists communicate via thick description and comprehensive ethnographies, based on extended field research. By contrast, businesspeople communicate concisely, in terms of deliverability and value generation (i.e. "the bottom line.") Although businesspeople certainly need "other" groups explained to them — foreign labor forces, new market segments, multiculturalism within their own workspaces, et cetera — businesspeople usually cannot process what anthropologists have to say about those other groups. Therefore, it's on us job-seeking anthropologists to understand businesspeople just as deeply as we understand our own research subjects, and communicate our research accordingly.
Remember, of course, communication breakdowns between anthropologists and businesspeople are only one example. Anthropologists also communicate with politicians, lawyers, jurors, grantors, activists, home viewers and readers. I urge anthropologists to prioritize communication with any audience, just as they prioritize communicating with their research subjects.
— Ashkuff | www.ashkuff.com | How to venture out of "armchair" scholarship and into action? One anthropologist tackles business, occultism and violence! He gets spooked and roughed up a lot.

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New motorcycle models are scarce, but you'll find that manufacturers are producing more variations of existing models. Plus, safety technology has been added to both updated and new models.
It's been 8 years since the economy went into free fall, but the motorcycle business still hasn't recovered fully. The industry sold 382,000 on-road motorcycles in 2014, according to Motorcycle Industry Council. That's a 3.7 percent increase from 2013, but the number is far short of the 1.1 million motorcycles that were sold at the industry's 2007 peak.
What that means for riders: Fewer new models from which to choose exist than in previous model years. Instead, manufacturers increased the amount of variation to carry-over models by adding wind screens and saddlebags to produce touring models or by adding safety features, such as anti-lock brakes (ABS). Further, the largely flat motorcycle sales figures from the past 3 years mean that prices increased only modestly over that period.
The industry is in the process of remaking itself. You'll notice that models have been influenced by a demographic shift, as the sport's bread-and-butter buyers—baby boomers—grow older. All of the dealers, motorcycle manufacturers and industry observers with whom we spoke agree: Younger riders don't have the same desire for horsepower and ever-larger engines that older riders have, and the younger riders are more cost-conscious. "Our long-term strategy is ensuring our core customers get to ride longer, and we continue to bring new customers into the sport," says Jennifer Hoyer of Harley-Davidson Motor.
Consequently, the price that's on most models, even with significant updates, increased far less than 10 percent from 2012 to 2015. Because manufacturers shifted focus to the lower end of the market, you'll notice small price increases even on entry-level models. For example, the Honda CBR250R increased 5 percent, and the Kawasaki Versys 650 increased 4 percent, despite adding ABS as standard equipment.
Finally, both novice and veteran riders can expect more models that have stability controls and suspension modes that adjust automatically or do so with the press of a button.
UNDER CONTROL. More motorcycles than ever before include ABS as standard equipment or as an option. All manufacturers have ABS available on some models, and it's available in all motorcycle styles. You can purchase entry-level motorcycles that have ABS in every category. You can spend as little as $4,700 for a sport motorcycle that has ABS and about $8,000 for a model in the cruiser, dual-sport/adventure, standard and touring categories for that feature. Two manufacturers, Harley-Davidson and Honda, make this technology available for their entire lineup, either as a standard feature or an option. At Harley-Davidson, which began to provide ABS as an option on its touring models in 2009, the system is part of a $1,195 security package; you can't buy it separately. Honda, which introduced models that have ABS in 2009 on two of its sport motorcycles, now makes it available for as low as $500 on every motorcycle, except for one model that has an engine that's smaller than 250 cc.
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The newest advancement in ABS—cornering anti-lock brakes, or cornering ABS, which also are called lean-sensitive anti-lock brakes—is now available on three models from three manufacturers: the Ducati Multistrada S ($19,695), the KTM Super Adventure ($20,499) and the Yamaha YZF-R1 ($16,490). The manufacturers tell us that this technology gives you the ability to slow a motorcycle effectively even when it leans into a turn. Normal anti-lock brakes are effective only when a motorcycle heads straight.
These models debuted overseas and were due to go on sale in the United States in March or April 2015. We hadn't ridden one at press time, but the innovation has drawn praise. The technology "knows how far you're leaning and how rapidly, so you can stand on the rear brake and squeeze the front brake for all you're worth, and it will not activate the brakes more than it can handle," says Ty van Hooydonk of Motorcycles.org, who rode the KTM model that has this feature. In other words, the brakes won't activate to the point that they lock up and cause the motorcycle to skid. (Motorcycles.org stresses safe, smart motorcycle riding.)
The old rule in motorcycling, he says, is that when you were leaned over, you didn't want to apply a lot of brake, if any, for risk of losing control of the motorcycle. Even models that have conventional ABS can cause a rider to lose control of the motorcycle when they lean.


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Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations for the 2009 Reader Survey Wine of the Year and 2010 Wine to Watch. Nominations are now closed. In total, there are 45 nominees for 2009 Wine of the Year, and 15 nominees for 2010 Wine to Watch. See the complete lists below.
With the nominees set, we will now begin Preliminary voting. Use the two surveys on the right-hand side to vote for any three wines in each category - Wine of the Year and Wine to Watch (Note: Names are abbreviated. See full names below). E-mail and comment votes will not be included in this round. Voting on the Finalists will start this weekend based on the results of this preliminary survey (see schedule below).
To reiterate, the 2009 Wine of the Year is intended for the one Washington wine in 2009 that stood out among those you tasted. The 2010 Wine to Watch is for a wine you tasted that will be released in 2010 that you believe will be exceptional. See more about the contest here.
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Alexandria Nicole Cellars Crawford Viognier 2008
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Betz Family Winery 'La Cote Patriarche' Syrah 2006
Betz Family Winery La Cote Rousse 2007
Betz Family Winery Pere de Famille 2006
Bunnell Family Cellar A pic Stonetree Vineyard 2007
Cascade Cliffs Estate Barbera 2006
Cayuse Armada 2006
Cayuse God Only Knows Grenache 2006
Charles Smith Royal City Syrah 2006
Chateau Rollat Edouard de Rollat 2006
Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co. Syrah 2006
Columbia Crest Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Corliss Estates Red Wine 2004
Cote Bonneville DuBrul Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
Cougar Crest Estate Grown Cabernet Franc 2006
Fidelitas Cabernet Sauvignon Champoux Vineyard 2006
Fielding Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Forgeron Cellars Champoux Cabernet 2004
Gilbert Cellars Cabernet Franc 2007
Grand Reve Collaboration Series III Red Wine 2006
Grand Reve Collaboration Series I Red Wine 2005
Heaven's Cave Two Degrees Barbera 2007
J Bookwalter Conflict Red Wine 2007
JM Cellars Chardonnay 2008
JM Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2008
K Vintners The Boy 2007
Kennedy Shah Reserve Tempranillo 2005
L'Ecole No. 41 Semillon Fries Vineyard, Wahluke Slope 2008
Long Shadows Saggi 2007
Nefarious Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Olsen Estates "Heritage" 2007
OS Winery Dineen Vineyard Syrah 2006
Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley 2006
Quilceda Creek Palengat Cabernet Sauvignon HHH 2006
Reininger Carmenere Walla Walla Valley 2006
Rotie Cellars Northern Blend 2007
Rotie Cellars Southern Blend 2007
Sapolil Chardonnay 2008
Sineann Late Harvest Gewurtztraminer "The Precious" 2008
Steppe Cellars Artemisia 2006
Tamarack Cellars DuBrul Vineyard Reserve 2006
Trust Cellars Riesling Columbia Valley 2008
Upland Estates Malbec 2007
2010 Wine to Watch Nominees
Betz Family Winery 'Pere de Famille' 2007
Boudreaux Cellars Merlot 2006
Cayuse Armada Vineyard Syrah 2007
Cayuse En Chamberlin Vineyard Syrah 2008
Cayuse God Only Knows Grenache 2007
Cote Bonneville Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Efeste Jolie Bouche 2007
Gramercy Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Hestia Cellars Meritage 2007
Kerloo Cellars Tempranillo 2008
Nefarious Cellars Syrah "Rocky Mother" 2008
Pomum Cellars Tinto 2008
Quilceda Creek Columbia Valley Cabernet 2007
Reynvaan Family Vineyards The Contender 2008
William Church Malbec 2008
2009 Reader Survey Wine of the Year and 2010 Wine to Watch - Preliminary voting begins!
Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations for the 2009 Reader Survey Wine of the Year and 2010 Wine to Watch. Nominations are now closed. In total, there are 45 nominees for 2009 Wine of the Year, and 15 nominees for 2010 Wine to Watch. See the complete lists below.
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Jared Says:
It's not letting me vote. Not sure if it's my computer being a pain or the site...I'll try again later! Great idea and survey, by the way. 08 Reynvaan "The Contender" is easily my wine to watch. Have you tried their wines yet?
Jared, very strange. Let me know if it gets fixed. Others, please let me know if you have the same problem. I have tried the Reynvaan wines, including next year's releases. Should have a post on the current releases up shortly and a look at next year's releases in my Fall Release report later this month. Excellent wines with next year's releases even better with the vines having another year of age.
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Where is the love for the Spokane region! Very cool idea! Can't wait to see who the winner is.
drinknectar, good question on Spokane. Readers?
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I'm really enjoying this race. As for Spokane love-Barrister, Robert Karl, Arbor Crest-guess they just don't get the internet there!
Don't you worry. I saw some Comcast trucks driving east on 90 earlier today. They should have the whole place wired in time for next year's survey.


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With the 2014 First-Year Player Draft in the books, it's time to look at how well the Twins have developed their young players from the previous three Drafts.
Any discussion of Minnesota's Minor League system starts with Byron Buxton, MLB.com's No. 1 prospect.
With the 2014 First-Year Player Draft in the books, it's time to look at how well the Twins have developed their young players from the previous three Drafts.
Any discussion of Minnesota's Minor League system starts with Byron Buxton, MLB.com's No. 1 prospect.
Buxton, likely the Twins' future center fielder, was selected first overall in 2012, and he progressed to Class A Advanced Fort Myers in his first season. But this year, the 20-year-old has stalled out in Florida thanks to an injured left wrist.
After spraining the pisotriquetral joint in his wrist while diving for a fly ball in a Minor League game during Spring Training, Buxton returned for five games before aggravating the injury while sliding into a base.
Twins scouting director Deron Johnson believes the doctors will play it safe.
"I think they're gonna take it slow," he said.
Meanwhile, the Twins' other prized prospect is recovering from a more serious injury. Miguel Sano -- MLB.com's No. 3 prospect -- hurt his elbow in Spring Training and required Tommy John surgery.
While most feared Sano to be lost for the season, Johnson thinks Sano could possibly return and play as a designated hitter by August. While this should allow him to knock the rust off his prodigious batting skills -- he smacked 35 home runs between Fort Myers and Double-A New Britain in 2013 -- Sano won't be able to improve his suspect fielding.
The next pitcher to be called up will likely be MLB.com's No. 24 prospect Alex Meyer. The 6-foot-9 right-hander is 4-2 with a 3.30 ERA in 12 starts at Triple-A Rochester.
Meyer was selected by Washington in 2011, but he came over as part of the Denard Span deal in 2012.
Kohl Stewart is likely at least a couple years away from the bigs, but he is MLB.com's No. 32 prospect. Stewart was the Twins' first-round pick last year (No. 4 overall), and has logged a 2.76 ERA in 10 starts at Class A Cedar Rapids this season.
Johnson plans on watching Stewart pitch in Cedar Rapids this week.
"Player development is very happy with his progress," Johnson said.
When Stewart signed with the club last June, fellow 2013 draftee Stephen Gonsalves was right there with him. Gonsalves, a left-handed pitcher initially scouted as a potential first-rounder, ran into some off-the-field trouble in high school that helped him drop to Minnesota in the fourth round.
"He's been throwing well down in the Gulf Coast League," Johnson said. "If he continues to do well, he'll have a shot at going up to Cedar Rapids as well. But I think he's penciled in to go to [Rookie affiliate] Elizabethton right now."
While Gonsalves has a little ways to go to be included as an elite Twins pitching prospect, Jose Berrios is already there.
The highest pitcher ever taken out of Puerto Rico when Minnesota selected him No. 32 overall in 2012, Berrios is MLB.com's No. 76 prospect. Currently in Fort Myers, he's 5-2 with a 2.24 ERA in 11 starts. He's also managed an impressive 74 strikeouts to just 17 walks.
But a stable of impressive arms -- including No. 6 Twins prospect Lewis Thorpe, No. 9 Felix Jorge and No. 12 Trevor May -- was not enough to keep the Minnesota front office from gobbling up pitchers early in this year's Draft.
Relievers were especially valued.
"We took a bunch of hard throwers," Johnson said. "We're probably more bullpen-oriented this year. We're hoping we might hit on a few starters out of that. If there's a guy that we think there's an outside chance he might be able to start, you always give him a try, but for the most part, we think most of the guys are bullpen guys."
While 2014 picks such as Nick Burdi, Michael Cederoth and Jake Reed won't be putting on the Twins' pinstripes any time soon, fans can take solace in a Minor League system that -- while not completely healthy -- is one of the best in baseball.
Alex Smith is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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SEA BRIGHT – Donovan's Reef, the local landmark bar destroyed by superstorm Sandy, is on the way back.
The Sea Bright Planning Board on Tuesday approved plans for Donovan's to rebuild, tweeted Sea Bright mayor Dina Long. The proposal includes elevating the site.
The state in December said the business received a low-interest $1.2 million loan from its Sandy recovery aid to help it rebuild. Attempts to reach ownership for comment and additional details on the rebuilding were unsuccessful.
Over the years, Donovan's has been frequented by Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. Bobby Bandiera wore a blue Donovan's Reef sweatshirt while backing Jon Bon Jovi on guitar during the nationally televised "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together" NBC special in November of 2012.
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Boston College, Friday from Frozen Four
By Mike Chambers
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Boston College, two-time defending NCAA runnerup, gets another crack at the national title Saturday at the Pepsi Center. The Eagles, who finished fourth in Hockey East's regular-season standings, might not be as talented as the their past two teams, but team chemistry might be at its best in the three-year span.
"Emotion-wise, this team never wavers," BC captain Mike Brennan said Friday from the Pepsi Center. "We're always on the same page. We're always emotionally the same, as focused in the first 20 minutes as the last 20 minutes.
"We have objectives, maybe one through nine, and they never change, no matter what's happening, whether we're down three goals or down three goals. I think that's the biggest thing to win hockey games, is to not ever wavering from your objectives, and I think this team has really done that the last eight, nine games."
Eagles coach Jerry York said he thought he had a championship team last summer _ before three players left early for NHL contracts. He said he saw his young team develop after it learned how to not take retaliatory penalties, and became disciplined.
"We've seen a lot of similar characteristics," York said, comparing his current team to the previous two. "We won a lot of games, a lot of pressure games. We've had some terrific players in all (three) teams.
"Our goaltending is probably different because we have a freshman (John Muse) this year. Other than that, we're pretty similar. We play up-tempo style of hockey, pressure the puck."
BC star forward Nathan Gerbe expects the experience gained from the 2006 and 2007 championship-game losses will benefit the Eagles against Notre Dame.
"Coming in this year, you're just a little bit hungrier to get that (last) win," Gerbe said. "To get here again, I just feel our team is really hungry to get that win. And it think it will be well deserved."
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Is Obama milking Bin Laden's death too much?
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A year on from the death of Osama Bin Laden - has Obama gone too far in trying to gain political benefit from it? And does al Qaeda still pose a threat to the West?
The New York Times says Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan is really an attempt to maximise the political opportunity of the anniversary of Bin Laden's death - but Foreign Policy says he's being widely accused of milking it.
The Atlantic takes a look at the state of al Qaeda a year on from his death - while The Independent asks if they're playing a role in Syria.
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Reading 2: The Construction of Rancho Los Alamitos
The ranch house is constructed in a U-shaped plan that has evolved over approximately 175 years. At the base of the "U" is the original, early 19th-century adobe structure now sheathed in stucco. This section consists of four single rooms off a central hall built upon foundations presumed to be field stones laid in adobe mortar. A screened porch extends across the front of the adobe. The north wing, constructed on a brick foundation around 1850, was the first major addition. Originally constructed by Abel Stearns to house his vaqueros (cowhands), this wing is sheathed in rough board with tall, narrow windows, and walls of one-inch thick board covered with painted plasterboard. In the years between 1878 and 1887, the adobe was extended to the south with another wooden addition. In 1925, a second story of stucco-over-frame construction was added over the original adobe. An open porch with a simple stick railing was added on the west side of this second story. The result imparts a flavor of Monterey construction to the entire building. (The Monterey, California, style typically featured pitched roofs, while most other Spanish-Mexican architecture in America had flat roofs.)
Adobe is the Spanish name for bricks made of mud that have been dried in the sun. They are usually fairly large in size, averaging a foot wide, 6 or so inches thick, and 13 to 18 inches long. Sun-dried bricks have been used for construction in various parts of the world since the beginnings of civilization. When the Spanish arrived in the Americas they found the Indians of Mexico and the Southwest using these adobe bricks.
An important building material for settlers in California and the Southwest, adobe brick literally could be made from the soil on which a building was erected. All that was needed was a clay soil with a small amount of sand or loam in it. Water was mixed with the soil, and straw was often added to protect against breaking. The resulting mud was then poured into wooden molds, and the bricks were left to dry in the sun. The brick walls of a completed building would be covered with adobe mud plaster. When this coat was dry, it would be covered with a lime-based plaster. Apart from the ease of finding and making this building material, adobe was popular with the Spanish and American settlers because of the superb insulation it provided against both heat and cold.
The Spanish used adobe bricks to build most of their missions and other early buildings throughout California, the Southwest, and much of Mexico. These early houses have come to be referred to as adobes, usually with the name of the owner or the ranch attachedas in the Los Alamitos adobe.
Questions for Reading 2
1. Why were adobe buildings made with such thick walls? How does this construction reflect adaptation to the environment?
2. Why might it have been important to build the various additions to Rancho Los Alamitos?
3. In what ways were the construction methods different for each phase? How do these new construction methods reflect changes in the culture?
Reading 2 was adapted from Nancy J. Sanquist, "Rancho Los Alamitos" (Los Angeles County, California) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1981).


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10 quotes that haunt Obama
Ahead in the polls, looking strong in key swing states: This must be exactly what Barack Obama dreamed his reelection campaign would look like, five weeks from Election Day and on the eve of the first debate.
But, as the president and his team well know, Obama in Denver on Wednesday will be defending a first-term record that looks strikingly different than the one he imagined when he took office in January 2009.
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( Also on POLITICO: POLITICO's Swing-State map)
Obama's own words, and those of his closest aides, culled from his first campaign and the early phase of his presidency, tell the story. Cumulatively, the quotations are an anthology of lofty aspirations that fell to earth and boastful predictions that didn't come true.
All presidents have plans that don't work out. But many of Obama's off-the-mark quotes echo because — as a president with a short history in Washington and no previous executive experience — he faced an especially jarring collision between his confident assumptions about how he would govern and the reality of what was possible.
The economy and other problems were more impervious to Obama's remedies than he expected; Washington, and the rest of the world, were less impressed by the purity of his intentions than he imagined. He is certain to be confronted with many of these contradictions by Mitt Romney in Wednesday's encounter.
( Also on POLITICO: 2012 presidential debate schedule)
What follows are 10 quotations — some famous, some not — that Obama surely hopes voters won't dwell on as he makes his case for a second term.
• "Washington is broken. My whole campaign has been premised from the start on the idea that we have to fundamentally change how Washington works."
Obama delivered those words on Sept. 11, 2008, at a ServiceNation summit. He has said similar things on countless occasions, starting with the 2004 Democratic keynote address in Boston that vaulted the then-state senator to national acclaim.
There is little doubt that Obama was sincere in his belief that Washington is driven by irrational partisanship. He was sincere also in believing that the power of his own cool and cerebral example would help drain the capital of malice and rebuild a rational center.
In retrospect, Obama's exaggerated belief in his own capacity to transform Washington — not to mention his own wavering self-discipline in resisting nakedly partisan politics — looks like his most naïve miscalculation about his own power.
Obama himself has embraced this conclusion — albeit slowly.
In a December 2011 interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," Obama said he had not miscalculated how difficult it would be to change Washington: "I didn't overpromise. And I didn't underestimate how tough this was gonna be."
In an interview last month with "60 Minutes," Obama said he had miscalculated: "I'm the first one to confess that the spirit that I brought to Washington, that I wanted to see instituted, where we weren't constantly in a political slugfest … I haven't fully accomplished that. Haven't even come close in some instances. And, you know, if you ask me what's my biggest disappointment [it] is that we haven't changed the tone in Washington as much as I would have liked."
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Whoa, Nella: Grassano's Return to Chicago's Pizza Scene Is Imminent
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2423 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614 (map); 773-327-3400; pizzerianella.com
Getting There: #22 Clark Street bus to Clark and Fullerton, walk ½ block north
Pizza Style: Neapolitan
Oven Type: Wood
Since Spacca Napoli opened in early 2006, it has been, hands down, the best Neapolitan pizzeria in Chicago. At some point in the next few weeks, I predict that will no longer be the case. The reason: Nella Grassano, Spacca Napoli's original pizzaiola, the woman who taught most of Spacca's staff how to make pizza, is opening Nella Pizzeria Napoletana.
To say that Nella Grassano has pizza in her blood would be an understatement. She is a third-generation pizzaiola who has been involved in the pizza-making process since she started doing pizza prep work as a 6-year-old in her father's pizzeria in Lecco, a town about 30 miles from Milan. While two of her brothers and multiple cousins have gone on to open pizzerias, when they were all kids, Nella was by far the most passionate of the bunch when it came to devotion to pizza. Her father was happy to encourage her, and by the time she was 13 or 14, she was working as a pizzaiola in his pizzeria. [Photos of the oven build-out, after the jump.]
The new restaurant, which Nella is going to run with her husband, Franco, as well as Scott Harris of Francesca fame, is going to have 23 pizzas on its permanent menu as well as some specialty pies. In addition, Nella will serve up at least three additional members of the pizza family. There will be two or three different calzone fritos, which are fried calzones, more commonly known in this country as pizza puffs or panzerotti. Nella is also going to make meza luna, which is a cross between a Neapolitan pizza and a calzone. And finally, she will introduce Chicago (and perhaps the country?) to the Vesuvio, a Neapolitan version of a stuffed pizza that will have a bottom and top crust, sealed together. When the plate arrives at the table, the server will cut out a piece of the top crust, at which point eager diners will be treated to an eruption of cheese and sauce.
The oven itself is a point of personal pride for Grassano. Through her father, she reached out to three oven builders in Naples, a 70-year-old man and his two nephews, and brought them to Chicago to build an oven out of tufo, an Italian brick made from volcanic ash, and volcanic sand. Grassano is particularly proud of the fact that the dome was built right in her shop, brick by brick, which is apparently pretty rare in the brick oven pizza world as the domes tend to be built separately and then added onto the base.
The current plan is for Nella Pizzeria Napoletana to open in the first or second week of November. When it does, Nella will cook every pizza served for lunch and dinner seven days a week, making pies for the 120-130 people the restaurant will hold. There will be no delivery, but carry-out will be an option, though if one opts to take their pizza to go, they will be encouraged to try a bite in the restaurant so they can see what the pie is supposed to taste like.
South siders who don't want to go up to Lincoln Park for their Neapolitan fix need only be a little patient. The Grassano/Harris team are so confident that the Nella Pizza Napoletana will be a success that they are already working on their second location, which will be on Taylor Street in Little Italy. No pizzaiolo/a has been hired for that location yet, but Nella hopes to keep it in the family by getting one of her cousins to leave Italy for Chicago.
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Orchestration2 Flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, TimpaniStrings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)SATB chorus [not included in set of parts]God rest you merry, gentleman; O come, all ye faithful; Unto us is born a Son; The first Nowell; Hark! The herald angels sing. These five Christmas Carols have been arranged by David Willcocks for orchestra to accompany his SATB arrangement, the vocal score of which is sold by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0193535637). These same arrangements also appear in the Carols for Choirs books. This orchestral accompaniment may be played by strings only. The piano or organ part shown in the vocal score may be added if required. This orchestration was originally published by OUP (now out of print) and was republished by us in 2004. The new edition is entirely compatible with the OUP original edition.These orchestrations are fully compatible with the choral versions contained in CAROLS FOR CHOIRS Book 1 and 100 CAROLS FOR CHOIRS.A PACK comprises an A4 sized full score plus a complete set of parts including strings 4/4/3/4/2.
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I am thinking of writing a small booklet about better builds. this blog post might end up as a part of it. Let me know if you're interested by taking a look here.
While I do love to use Continuous Integration Servers such as teamcity, Jenkins and more, I try to use them as much as possible as "dumb triggers" to my build actions. They do one thing and one thing only, and that is to trigger the correct build script with the correct resources (source version, artifacts form other builds, etc), and nothing more.
I don't add any custom build actions such as compilation, source checking etc, because I believe that the build actions themselves have a very strong connection with the correct version of the source.
For example, at an earlier version of the source you might need to compile a specific set of projects, and in future source versions, maybe new projects were added, some were removed, or renamed etc. If you have your build scripts as part of your source control, and versioned along with the source, they will always match the current source version.
So what do those processes trigger? A script that is inside source control, tied directly to the current project`s source committed version. It might be an xml file (ugh), or a rake file, or a finalbuilder script file (my favorite).
Then it becomes easier to revert to an older build version to recreate it, or to test differences between versions, or to build multiple different branches of the same applications in parallel for different clients.
See if you can take your current CI build, and have it run on a version of the source from 6 months ago. How many changes will that require of you to make it work? If your build is tied to source version, things should feel much simpler.
Single Responsibility
To me it is also about the single responsibility principle. A Continuous Integration server should do one thing well – manage builds, their resources, and their scheduling. It should not also need to worry about what is inside each build. In uncle bob's newspaper metaphor, the builds would be like different sub headings. Each does one thing, and the caller of those functions would only call them, without caring what they do.
Thinking about it the other way around, if you have your whole build script running inside one large set of teamcity custom actions, all managed in the browser, and then you refactored that script to separate script files that are part of the source code, you'd be closer to what I am trying to do.
So when I see companies boasting about how many custom tools their CI server can do, and how you can manage it all in the browser easily, I remind myself that the more I use those custom build features without the context of a current source version they are attached to, the more work I will have to do to change them every time I need to go back and forth between versions.
Version Aware Artifact Paths
Following that line of thinking, I might argue that version aware build script "cubes" in source control should also be internally-deciding on what artifacts the encompassing CI process that is running them will be exposed to, and allowed to share with other builds. Today such things are managed solely at the CI tool level, but it would be good if the tools enabled artifact paths to be tied to the current version of the source.


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CHANDLER, Arizona — A woman has been accused of trying to kill her hospitalized husband by injecting fecal matter into his IV line, police in suburban Phoenix said Friday.
Rose Mary Vogel of Sun Lakes was arrested Thursday on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after a nurse found the 65-year-old handling her husband's IV line, which was found to contain a brown substance, police said. Police don't have a possible motive.
A hospital lab test identified the brown substance in the IV line as fecal matter, and a trace amount of a brown substance also was found in the needle of an otherwise empty syringe found in Vogel's purse, police said.
When it was searched in the hospital, Vogel's purse contained a total of three syringes, including two with a clear liquid, police said. Police documents said Vogel is a retired registered nurse who formerly worked at the hospital, Chandler Regional Medical Center.
Investigators plan to conduct forensic tests on all the materials involved over the next week or two, police Sgt. Joe Favazzo said However, the hospital had to test the brown substance in the IV line immediately for treatment purposes.
The incident occurred after the 66-year-old man had undergone a heart procedure. He's expected to survive that, as well as the alleged attempt on his life.
Vogel declined to be interviewed by police and asked for an attorney. Favazzo said he didn't know whether she has one yet. Her bond was set at $100,000 at her initial court appearance Friday.


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The suspect in Colorado's deadly movie theater attack was barred from university property for threatening a professor, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday, raising more questions about why campus police didn't report his actions to other authorities.
The revelation conflicts with the university's statements that James Holmes was denied access to non-public parts of the campus because he had withdrawn from school.
The name of the person Holmes allegedly threatened has been blacked out. In court testimony Aug. 30, University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, also a professor at the school, said she contacted campus police after meeting with Holmes on June 11.
University officials did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
After weeks of secrecy surrounding the case, most of the documents filed in court were released to the public on Friday. But the release failed to answer several key questions about the July 20 tragedy — including what allegedly drove Holmes to commit the attack and what, if anything, the University of Colorado did once he reportedly threatened people there.
Holmes, 24, faces 152 charges in the July 20 shooting at an Aurora movie theater during a special midnight showing of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises." The attack killed 12 people and injured 58 others.
Defense attorneys claim Holmes is mentally ill. Documents show Holmes' defense team includes a psychiatry expert, who was not identified, and legal experts presume that Holmes will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Just minutes before the shooting, Holmes tried unsuccessfully to call Fenton, defense attorneys have said.
Fenton also received a notebook in the mail from Holmes that reportedly contains descriptions of a violent attack, attorneys said. The package was seized by police from a university mailroom after the shooting.
Defense attorneys don't want it to be used as evidence, saying it's protected by doctor-patient privilege.
In the documents released Friday, prosecutors say the professor reported the threats and that Holmes was denied access to campus "as a result of these actions."
The documents show defense attorneys say the prosecutors' allegations are false, based on university statements.
In court, prosecutors suggested Holmes was angry at the failure of a once promising academic career and stockpiled weapons, ammunition, tear gas grenades, and body armor as his research deteriorated and professors urged him to get into another profession. Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Pearson said Holmes failed a key oral exam in June, was banned from campus and began to voluntarily withdraw from the school.
Not all documents are included in those released Friday. Judge William Sylvester kept from the public documents that contain privileged information, an arrest affidavit that contains details of the investigation, and subpoena and search warrant requests that contain address and names of witnesses.
Documents filed in the case from now on will be public, unless prosecutors or defense attorneys ask they not be released.


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Somerset, NJ -- The Northeast Conference (NEC) will be conducting its first in-person Basketball Media Day in a decade on October 23, but with a modern twist to the traditional format.
As NEC men's and women's hoops coaches descend on the brand new, state-of-the-art Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, the entire "NEC in NYC" event has been designed to enhance the fan experience.
Billed as NEC "Social" Media Day, the festivities will be webcast live and in HD on NEC Front Row beginning at 11:00 am. NEC Media Day will also air on delay in condensed form on Fox College Sports (FCS) in early November.
"We are excited to bring the NEC Basketball "Social" Media Day to New York City and to partner with Barclays Center, said Noreen Morris, NEC Commissioner. "This event will highlight the NEC's continued commitment to increase exposure for our basketball programs as well as to promote the recently launched NEC Front Row, our state-of-the art digital network."
The program is set to include interviews with every NEC men's and women's basketball coach. NEC preseason polls and all-conference teams will be announced, and a number of the league's top bloggers will engage in a hoops roundtable discussion on the coming season. Longtime NEC commentators Dave Popkin and Tim Capstraw have been tabbed to host the proceedings.
The interactive nature of NEC Media Day will begin well in advance of the event as fans can Tweet questions for NEC coaches to @NECsports. During the broadcast, NEC Director of Social Media Ralph Ventre and NEC Front Row announcer Craig D'Amico will be interacting with fans and highlighting the best tweets on air. By using the hashtag #NECinNYC, the most active and engaging tweeters will have the opportunity to win NEC prize packs.
About The Northeast Conference
Now in its 32nd year, the Northeast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association consisting of 12 institutions of higher learning located throughout six states. Media coverage of the NEC extends to four of the largest markets in the United States - New York (#1), Pittsburgh (#23), Baltimore (#27), and Hartford/New Haven (#30). Founded in 1981 as the basketball-only ECAC Metro Conference, the NEC has grown to sponsor 23 championship sports for men and women and now enjoys automatic or play-in access to 14 different NCAA Championships. NEC member institutions include Bryant, Central Connecticut State, Fairleigh Dickinson, LIU Brooklyn, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary's, Quinnipiac, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (NY), Saint Francis (PA) and Wagner. For more information on the NEC, visit www.northeastconference.org or follow the league on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @NECsports.
About Barclays Center
Scheduled to open on September 28, 2012, Barclays Center will be a major sports and entertainment venue in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. Developed by Brooklyn-based real estate developer Forest City Ratner Companies, and designed by the award-winning architectural firms AECOM (www.aecom.com/architecture) and SHoP Architects (www.shoparc.com), Barclays Center will have one of the most intimate seating configurations ever designed into a modern multi-purpose arena, with unparalleled sightlines and first-class amenities. Barclays Center will offer approximately 18,200 seats for basketball and up to 19,000 seats for concerts, and will also have 100 luxury suites, four bars/lounges, three clubs, and 40/40 CLUB & Restaurant by American Express.
Barclays Center will host an extensive variety of events, including premier concerts, monthly major professional boxing cards, top college basketball, family shows, professional hockey, and the Brooklyn Nets. Some of the special programming that is already scheduled includes JAY Z, who will open the building on September 28 with the first of his eight concerts, Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Journey, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Bob Dylan and His Band with Special Guest Mark Knopfler, Rush, John Legend, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, UB40, Shaggy, Beres Hammond, Maxi Priest, Hezekiah Walker, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The King's Men gospel concert with Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin, and Israel Houghton, 2012 Verizon's How Sweet the Sound™, Russell Peters, the Barclays Center Classic men's college basketball tournament, Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship, Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, Islanders vs. Devils game, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Disney on Ice, Kellogg's® Tour of Gymnastics Champions, and the New York Masters equestrian show jumping. Current programming alliances with Barclays Center include Golden Boy Promotions, IMG, Feld Entertainment, Lagardère Unlimited, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In addition to Barclays, the naming rights partner, Founding Partners for Barclays Center include American Honda Motor Co., Inc., American Express, Calvin Klein, Cushman & Wakefield, EmblemHealth, Foxwoods Resort Casino, GEICO, MetroPCS, Stolichnaya, and Ticketmaster. Other sponsors include: adidas, Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola Company, Haier America, HighPoint Solutions, LIU Brooklyn, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, SONY, Tyco, and Willis.
Located atop one of the largest transportation hubs in New York City, Barclays Center will be accessible by 11 subway lines, the Long Island Rail Road, and 11 bus lines.
For more information on Barclays Center, please visit www.barclayscenter.com. For more information on the Brooklyn Nets, please visit www.brooklynnets.com.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
See beneath the surface of 13 great works of world literature that have traveled the globe with this course resource for teachers, students, and lovers of literature.
The Epic of Gilgamesh in iBook format is now available for purchase in the Apple iBooks and iTunes store.
Produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation with Seftel Productions. 2010.
Check out Invitation to World Literature on the new Learner beta website!
0. Overview
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
The first known human story is that of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Images of artifacts from ancient Iraq mix with beautiful illustrations, dance, and costume to tell of the relations between gods and mortals, the search for friendship, love, and immortality. Featured cast members include Assyriologist Ben Foster, comic book illustrator Jim Starlin, and poet and playwright Yusef Komunyakaa. Go to this unit.
2. My Name Is Red
Both an historical novel and a graphic murder mystery set among the miniaturists of the Ottoman court. With its focus on Istambul, a major crossroads of the world, it tells of the artistic/cultural contest between Europe and the East. Cast members include the book's Nobel-prize winning author, Orhan Pamuk, and its English translator, Erdağ Göknar. Go to this unit.
3. The Odyssey
Odysseus must travel the known and unknown world before he can return home to his beloved island kingdom of Ithaca. What does this ancient story say to readers today? In this program, Odysseus's story is given ancient and modern historical and philosophical context, and illustrated with centuries of art. Featured are theater director Mary Zimmerman, actor-director Tim Blake-Nelson, and psychologist/author Jonathan Shay. Go to this unit.
4. The Bacchae
The city of Thebes is torn apart by the conflicting demands of reason and religion, as the disguised god Dionysus returns to his home town demanding to be worshipped. Opposing him is the young king Pentheus, who is doomed to suffer the ultimate punishment for his disbelief. Featured speakers include world-renowned playwright/author Wole Soyinka, actor Alan Cumming, and Daniel Mendelsohn of Bard College. Go to this unit.
5. The Bhagavad Gita
This epic tale of the warrior-prince Arjuna confronting a life-or-death dilemma during civil war presents a unique and powerful philosophy of duty, discipline, and serving a higher purpose. Beautiful illustrations connect the story with its rich history and culture. Featured speakers include Sheldon Pollock, Professor of Sanskrit Studies and acclaimed composer Philip Glass. Go to this unit.
6. The Tale of Genji
This portrait of court life in medieval Japan follows the life and exploits of the great Genji. Written by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Japanese court, it provides an insider's view of Japanese court life, the official and behind the screen. Art, clothing, music from the time of the novel illustrate the obserations of authors Jane Smiley and Chiori Miyagawa, among others. Go to this unit.
7. Journey to the West
The powerful and mischievous Stone Monkey King brings chaos to heaven and earth. Freed from a mountain prison in order to guard a Chinese monk on his journey to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures from India, Monkey seeks his own spiritual transformation. Modern performance, contemporary art, and Buddhist philosophers provide a rich context to the ancient tale. Featured cast members include playwright David Henry Huang, storyteller Diane Wolkstein, and translator Professor Anthony Yu. Go to this unit.
8. Popol Vuh
The Mayan book of creation, the dawn of life, and the glories of gods and kings. This magnificent epic was saved from destruction at the hands of the Spanish by Quiché chroniclers. Once repressed, the story is now interwoven with the history of today's Mayan people. Featured speakers include archaeologist Richard Hanson, humorist Mo Rocca, and Guatemalan artist Shuni Giron. Go to this unit.
9. Candide
A satirical novel following the travails of Candide, a hopeless optimist whose faith in his tutor's mantra that his is "the best of all possible worlds" is tested beyond all limits. Voltaire's challenge to the aristocracy of his day proves refreshingly amusing and biting today. Original illustrations, songs, and comic book figures plumb the depths of this satire. Featured speakers include director Harold Ramis, actress Kristin Chenoweth, and cartoonist Chris Ware. Go to this unit.
10. Things Fall Apart
In this foundational modern African novel, Chinua Achebe's story follows the lives of people trying to understand which belief systems deserve their loyalty. The protagonist, Okonkwo is a tribal leader who battles neighboring villages, the English, and his own demons in early colonial Nigeria. The perspectives of readers from around the world reveal the novel's universal themes. Cast members include playwright and professor Tess Onwueme and theater director Chuck Mike. Go to this unit.
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez's multigenerational saga of the Buendía family in the isolated town of Macondo inaugurated the boom in Latin American literature in the 1970s and marked the beginning of magical realism. Writer Sandra Cisneros and scholar of Latin American literature, Ilan Stavans lend their thoughts and voices to the discussion of this epic novel. Go to this unit.
12. The God of Small Things
Fraternal twins Rahel and Estha struggle to reclaim their lives after their childhood is destroyed by tragic circumstances. As past and present merge in this narrative of Indian society and politics, the many layers of the caste system are mirrored in the poetic and inventive language of the author. Featured speakers include Simon Gikandi of Princeton University, author Evelyn Ch'ien. Go to this unit.
13. The Thousand and One Nights
Shahrazad must hold the interest of her despotic husband the sultan with nightly tales, lest she lose her life in the morning. This wellspring of storytelling, circulating from medieval Persia to Egypt to Iraq, like its wily raconteur lives on in many modern adaptations. Art, performance, and film images are employed to show the collection's broad span of influence. Featured speakers include Marin Alsop, musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezai, co-producers of the 1001 Nights animated series. Go to this unit.
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boot out
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boot (someone or something) out
To force someone or something to leave a place, usually unceremoniously. Maria has to get up early tomorrow morning, so she booted us out before 9 PM. When dad got home from his business trip, he booted out the stray dog we'd taken in while he was away.
boot out
To force someone or something to leave a place or position: The principal booted the troublemaker out of the school. I booted the peddler out the door. The fan who threw a bottle at the umpire was booted out of the ballpark.


text:
I miss Ian.
We've been here for less than 24 hours and I've pulled two ticks out of loved ones--one from Ruby's back and one from Esther's belly button.
Already I am realizing the getting used to that not having Ian's adept hands to remove ticks without severing heads will require. Could I ever get used to it. Will I?
And what of culture shock?
The radio this morning--noise, noise, noise coming from it. All that loud, ugly talk. The ads. Where is my beloved VPR? How could it be that I cannot remember the frequency? And don't get me started about the cereal aisle at Hannaford's. And what of all those friendly people treating us like best friends at the shoe store?
I hadn't realized just how much I tuned out in France. When you are not living in your own language you might as well be living behind glass. Everything is slightly muted, muffled. It's so easy to listen but not listen to the radio or television in French. It is impossible to tune out American radio. It punches you in the face while assaulting your ears.
And it's so easy to be invisible, even while shopping. Not in America you don't.
We've settled in, sort of, to my parents' cabin in the woods. We'll stay here until our tenants move out at the end of the month. This is our halfway house. Our limbo. Our island.
I haven't unpacked our bags yet. I am curious how long it will take me to do that. There is a symbolic aspect to actually taking our things out of our wheely bags and putting them in stationary bureaus that I'm not ready to reckon with just yet. I'm not here. I'm here.
My body is here. My brain, like a large ungainly turkey, is still flapping its reluctant, corpulent way across the Atlantic, trying to catch up with me.
And my computer is still fighting with my camera. It won't recognize or acknowledge it. Won't give it the time a day.
I am lost without the ability to import my photos. I have so many good ones and they are being held captive. Has anyone experienced full- on, random, digital -camera rejection by a MacBook?
It's not like the MacBook and the camera are strangers. Suddenly, one day in England, they just decided to become incompatible. Life is unpredictable like that, I guess.
So I have decided to revisit, one last time, some of my final glimpses of France.
|Louis and Marie were in residence at Versailles.
|If Bilbo Baggins had been French...
|Thought the Pantheon was in Rome...
|A place for the Boule players to hang their coats.
|Bacchus, I think.
|Even the sculptures in Paris are in love.
|Or voyeurs
|Jardin Luxembourg
|I'm going to miss mannequins with nipples.
|Our last morning in France.
|Finally figured out what café gourmand was.
|The last supper was somehow more delicious than anything I have eaten in France before.