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Pam Bosco, Stacy Peterson family spokeswoman, said on Thursday night: "We realized that Kathleen and Stacy had one common denominator, and that's Drew Peterson."
A pathologist investigating the March 2004 death of Drew Peterson's third wife has ruled her death a homicide, the Will County state's attorney announced Thursday night.
Dr. Larry Blum, an independent pathologist who performed the autopsy on Kathleen Savio for the state, handed over his report to the Will County coroner's office Thursday.
In it, he ruled the cause of death as drowning by homicide.
"It is my opinion based on my education, training, experience and personal observations, and to a reasonable degree of medical and scientific certainty, compelling evidence exists to support the conclusion that the cause of death of Kathleen S. Savio was drowning and further, that the manner of death was homicide," Blum wrote in the conclusion of his report.
Drew Peterson answered the door at his Bolingbrook home Thursday night. He referred all questions to his attorney.
Savio was found drowned in her Bolingbrook home's bathtub March 1, 2004. A six-person coroner's jury later ruled her death an accidental drowning, but the case was reopened after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, went missing Oct. 28. Investigators had been calling both cases possible homicides.
"We're very happy with finally knowing for sure it was a homicide; we're not just guessing anymore," said Nick Savio of Hammond, Ind., Kathleen's half-brother.
Drew Peterson has been named a suspect by police in Stacy's disappearance, and some of Savio's relatives have said they've long believed Peterson may have been involved in Savio's death. He has denied any wrongdoing in either case and has not been charged with a crime.
Savio's body was exhumed Nov. 13 and autopsies were performed by Blum and well-known pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who has already publicly stated he believes Savio's death was a homicide.
"It's been a long time coming. ... Still, it is one eerie feeling of dread," said Pam Bosco, Stacy Peterson family spokeswoman, on Thursday night. "We realized that Kathleen and Stacy had one common denominator, and that's Drew Peterson."
"We feel extreme sadness for Kathleen because she cried out so many times," Bosco said.
The long-awaited autopsy results were delayed by a round of toxicology tests Blum ordered in December. Will County Coroner Pat O'Neil declined to specify the tests but called them "complicated" and "exotic."
Baden later told Suburban Life Publications that he believes Blum ordered the tests to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Savio could not have drowned due to any pre-existing condition or drug that would have rendered her unconscious.
The full results of both autopsies are being used in the investigation into her death and will not be released to the public.
Meanwhile, a hearing on two requests by relatives to reopen the estate of Savio is scheduled for March 17. The sides have discussed the possibility of filing a joint petition and hope to lay the groundwork for a wrongful death lawsuit against Drew Peterson, according to attorney Martin Glink , who represents Savio's father.
Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, has said lawyers for both sets of relatives are wasting their time because the two-year statute of limitations on filing a wrongful death lawsuit has long passed.
Pathologist declares Kathleen Savio's death a homicide
JOLIET – Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow announced today that his office has received the final report on the autopsy performed on the remains of Kathleen S. Savio on Nov. 13, 2007.
Dr. Larry W. Blum, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy, concludes in his report that the actual cause of Kathleen Savio's death was drowning and that the legal manner of death was homicide. Dr. Blum's report was delivered to the Will County Coroner's Office on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 and immediately forwarded to the Will County State's Attorney's Office and the Illinois State Police.
"Dr. Blum's forensic report renders his expert opinion that this is a homicide," State's Attorney Glasgow said. "We have been investigating this as a murder since reopening the case in November of last year. We now have a scientific basis to formally and publicly classify it as such."
The complete autopsy report is a component of the investigation into the March 1, 2004 death of Kathleen Savio and will not be released. However, the Will County State's Attorney's Office and the Illinois State Police are releasing the following quote from the conclusion in Dr. Blum's report:
"It is my opinion based on my education, training, experience and personal observations, and to a reasonable degree of medical and scientific certainty, compelling evidence exists to support the conclusions that the cause of death of Kathleen S. Savio was drowning and further, that the manner of death was homicide."
This was the second autopsy performed on Kathleen Savio's remains. The first was performed shortly after her death in March 2004. Her body was exhumed on the morning of Nov. 13, 2007, and Dr. Blum performed the second autopsy that afternoon.
In his report, Dr. Blum notes that he reviewed photos taken from the scene at the time of Kathleen Savio's death as well as reports of the initial scene investigation. He also carefully examined the physical location of Kathleen Savio's death on Nov. 20, 2007 as part of his investigation.
His report includes the results of microscopic examinations and toxicological tests conducted on postmortem tissue specimens. The specimens examined by Dr. Blum were collected during the first autopsy on March 2, 2004, the second autopsy performed by Dr. Blum on Nov. 13, 2007, and a third autopsy performed by Dr. Michael Baden on behalf of Kathleen Savio's family on Nov. 16, 2007.
The results of those examinations and tests are part of the investigation and are not being disclosed at this time.
The Illinois State Police are investigating the murder of Kathleen Savio as well as the disappearance of Stacy Peterson. Kathleen Savio's murder and Stacy Peterson's disappearance are simultaneously being investigated by a Special Grand Jury that was convened in November 2007.


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[SBS] "Sotnikova was very hard to beat": IOC fabricates an interview with Yuna KimKim Hyung Yeol | 2014.03.07IOC is in the middle of a heavy controversy, misquoting South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim.On their official website, IOC has published the article "Youth Olympic Games inspire Sochi successes" which emphasizes the positive result gained by the young athletes who participated in the Youth Olympics.The article sites the story of Sotnikova, who won the gold medal in 2012 Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games, and Kim, who participated as the games ambassador.It is confirmed that the article misquoted Kim.The article states Kim having said: "(Sotnikova) put on a great show. She's a highly technical skater and was very difficult to beat tonight. I saw her in Innsbruck as part of my role as Games ambassador. We both battled for gold tonight, but she managed to come out on top." Kim had never said this.Kim's agency, All That Sports, denies that Kim has ever said such a thing in her interviews with any media and that the quote is certainly fabricated.All That Sports added that it will come up with a contingency plan after an internal meeting.■ The Original ⓒ [SBS] http://bit.ly/NV2MF1■ More on this topic - [thewire.com] The IOC Printed Fake Quotes of Kim Yu-na Praising Adelina Sotnikova****>>Add article & Fevers' Comments: According to All That Sports' interview with JTBC, the agency has communicated with IOC communication team through email and phone calls and has requested a correction as Kim has never said those lines. (http://bit.ly/1fRohT9 in Korean)As of now(2014 March 08), the quote has been deleted from the article; however, IOC has not announced the correction nor an official apology to Kim regarding the fake interview as they should have.Kim has said in an interview that she has not yet seen or later watched on video the performance by the other skaters that night. She said she did hear backstage as the event was in progress that her competitors' score was coming out generally higher.Kim is very proud of and satisfied with the fact that after her two clean programs at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, she managed to produce yet another two flawless Olympic performances. (which even the gold medal winner at Sochi didn't manage to achieve)Kim has been consistently saying that she embraces the result from the 2014 Sochi Olympics as she has done everything she could have done, adding "I showed everything I had prepared to, with my clean performance; there is nothing I could do further with the decision of the judges".It cannot be emphasized enough that this doesn't necessarily mean that she "agrees" to the result nor should it be seen that way.One more interesting fact is that unlike the footage from the previous Olympics that IOC has shared in the past that didn't have commentaries, IOC has exclusively added commentaries to the videos from the 2014 Sochi Olympics in their official Youtube channel.And it is in this video that IOC's commentator is falsely calling Kim's strongest and most famous 3lutz-3toe jump combination, a 3lutz-2toe.Kim's 3lutz-3toe has been well known over the past years for its scale, quality and success rate. Such was the case in Sochi Olympics as well, as captured in many mediums such as photographs and videos.NoCutNews in Korea has reported on this subject. (http://bit.ly/1quUItt in Korean)On top of the publishing of a fake interview, this act of fabricating Kim's strongest element into a technically less achieving one can be read as IOC's attempt to justify the controversial result at Sochi Olympics. This is a violation of the Olympic spirit itself.It is a tragedy to see the amount of disrespect from IOC toward Yuna Kim, one of the rare figure skaters to have earned medals in two consecutive Olympics including a gold medal, who was one of the hottest public figures on the social networks as well as one of the most Googled athletes during the Sochi Olympics, a game ambassador at a Special Olympics and a Youth Olympic from whom IOC took a great advantage in promoting the events.It truly shows an unjustifiable manipulation, for political means, by those who deny the legacy of one of the greatest figure skaters in history.■ Translation ⓒ 궁신 / FEVERSKATING
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Mindspeed Technologies
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended Dec. 28 (Q1), Mindspeed Technologies beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue increased significantly and GAAP earnings per share grew. The non-GAAP profit was a surprise, as analysts had predicted a loss.
Margins grew across the board.
Revenue details
Mindspeed Technologies logged revenue of $44.4 million. The six analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ hoped for revenue of $38.2 million on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 31% higher than the prior-year quarter's $33.9 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.16. The five earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ predicted -$0.03 per share. GAAP EPS were $0.03 for Q1 compared to -$0.17 per share for the prior-year quarter.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 66.0%, 790 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 9.2%, 2,520 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 2.4%, 1,890 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $37.9 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is -$0.01.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $159.2 million. The average EPS estimate is $0.01.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a four-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 123 members out of 138 rating the stock outperform, and 15 members rating it underperform. Among 16 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 15 give Mindspeed Technologies a green thumbs-up, and one give it a red thumbs-down.
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Journalists are currently abuzz about the University of Washington men's basketball team– not for its play but for how it's allowed to be covered.
Athletics officials at the school recently told a local sports reporter to stop live-tweeting so much during an early season game. The weird warning revealed a new official rule instituted for all live coverage of UW games by outside press– 20 tweets tops at basketball games and no more than 45 tweets during football games.
Hmm. The restriction, known formally as a "live coverage policy," is apparently similar to those being enacted or considered by other sports programs at colleges and universities nationwide. On spec, it seems to be an attempt to have more netizens check out the school's own live online coverage.
It is also undoubtedly a larger push to control as much of the in-the-moment media coverage of its teams as possible, in exchange for reporter access to the fun and games. As former sports reporter Brian Moritz confirms, "Yes, every reporter who gets a press credential signs a release that includes the rules. No, none of them ever read it. Seriously, when's the last time you read the terms and conditions when you update iTunes?"
It is the latest sports reporting body blow at the college level brought to light this semester, including increasing limits on reporting on team practices and student-athlete injuries. Heck, University of Kansas head football coach Charlie Weis does not believe the KU student newspaper should provide any negative coverage of his dismal gridiron squad at all.
So, big question of the day: Does your school have a social media policy for live sports coverage? And bigger question: What other limits, if any, do sports reporters at your news outlet face, especially when covering your school's A-list players and teams?


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By Lois Barber
I have a breath of spring sitting on my desk in the form of Blue Grape hyacinths. The bulbs of these little beauties were forced commercially in a greenhouse for holiday gift-giving, and I plan to transplant them into my yard later, so they can live as the perennials they were meant to be.
It takes only one large Dutch hyacinth to perfume an entire room; and outside, I have only to bend down (this gets harder and harder to do each year) to stick my nose into the large hyacinths. These are the first forced Muscari armeniacum I have ever owned, and until I got up-close and personal with them on a countertop, I never realized hyacinths could be just pleasantly fragrant.
I can best describe their scent as "purple," which might sound odd, but after you smell them, you will understand what I mean.
If you'd like to force your own grape hyacinth bulbs, please note they must go through a cold period for at least 10 weeks, so now is a good time to start the forcing project if you want to give blooming spring baskets of them as gifts.
Place the bulbs in a paper bag and chill them in an unheated garage or in your refrigerator, but away from fruits and vegetables because vegetables can give off ethylene gas, which may retard the bulbs' growth. After the chilling period, plant pointy side-up and just barely cover the tips with potting soil. Keep evenly moist.
To transplant the bulbs outdoors, allow the foliage to die back. Then unearth the bulbs, cut off the foliage, and store in a dry, cool place until it's time to plant in the fall.
Lois Barber writes and takes photographs for a weekly gardening column for the Republican-American newspapers in Waterbury, Conn.
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By Lois Barber


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler said respondents to the recent citizen satisfaction survey gave the City high marks for the basics that create a livable community. The Mayor today released the complete results of a scientific phone survey of 600 randomly selected residents conducted in December. Those results are available on the city Web site at lincoln.ne.gov.
Lincoln residents love their parks and libraries and appreciate the services they provide," Beutler said. "They give good marks to City government services, even the ones that traditionally cause the most angst such as snow plowing and street maintenance. They generally have faith that City Hall makes the right choices and provides good value for their tax dollar.
Survey results announced earlier included the following:
The new figures released today include the following positive figures:
At the same time, the Mayor said the respondents satisfaction with most services does not blind them to the challenges facing the City. "While the results of this survey were overwhelmingly positive, they do point to some areas on which citizens want us to continue to make progress," he said. "This is exactly the information we need to make City government a more performance-based organization."
Survey respondents split over the question of whether City leaders put the City's interests ahead of their own. "While we need to dig deeper on this result, my initial thought is that City Hall must carefully scrutinize our ethics laws and conflict of interest rules to make sure we are not giving our citizens the wrong impression of our intentions." Beutler said.
The Mayor said he also is concerned that 45 percent of respondent disagreed that the City treats all neighborhood fairly and equally. "My Administration views a weakness in one area of the City as a weakness that must be addressed for all of us, he said. "We are one Lincoln, committed to each other, and I will work with my colleagues on the Council to make sure we stay that way."
Overall, Beutler said, "People who live here recognize what the many national rankings have been saying: Lincoln is doing better than most and is poised for even bigger and better economic gains. And they are prepared to tell others about the livability of our City - that is a key in Lincoln's drive to develop a reputation as a world-class city that provides a high quality of life."
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center conducted the survey. A non-random survey with the same questions was available on the City Web site, and those results when will be included in the Public Policy Center's final report.


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Planet Venus Facts: A Hot, Hellish & Volcanic Planet
Venus, the Mysterious Planet Next Door
Venus, the second planet from the sun, is named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet — the only planet named after a female — may have been named for the most beautiful deity of her pantheon because it shone the brightest of the five planets known to ancient astronomers.
In ancient times, Venus was often thought to be two different stars, the evening star and the morning star — that is, the ones that first appeared at sunset and sunrise. In Latin, they were respectively known as Vesper and Lucifer. In Christian times, Lucifer, or "light-bringer," became known as the name of Satan before his fall.
However, further observations of Venus in the space age show a very hellish environment. This makes Venus a very difficult planet to observe from up close, because spacecraft do not survive long on its surface.
Physical characteristics
Venus and Earth are often called twins because they are similar in size, mass, density, composition and gravity. However, the similarities end there. [Photos: Venus, the Mysterious Planet Next Door]
Venus is the hottest world in the solar system. Although Venus is not the planet closest to the sun, its dense atmosphere traps heat in a runaway version of the greenhouse effect that warms Earth. As a result, temperatures on Venus reach 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius), more than hot enough to melt lead. Probes that scientists have landed there have survived only a few hours before being destroyed.
Venus has a hellish atmosphere as well, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid, and scientists have only detected trace amounts of water in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is heavier than that of any other planet, leading to a surface pressure 90 times that of Earth. Incredibly, however, early in Venus' history the planet may have been habitable, according to models from NASA researchers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The surface of Venus is extremely dry. During its evolution, ultraviolet rays from the sun evaporated water quickly, keeping it in a prolonged molten state. There is no liquid water on its surface today because the scorching heat created by its ozone-filled atmosphere would cause any to boil away.
Roughly two-thirds of the Venusian surface is covered by flat, smooth plains that are marred by thousands of volcanoes, some which are still active today, ranging from about 0.5 to 150 miles (0.8 to 240 kilometers) wide, with lava flows carving long, winding canals up to more than 3,000 miles (5,000 km) in length, longer than on any other planet.
Six mountainous regions make up about one-third of the Venusian surface. One mountain range, called Maxwell, is about 540 miles (870 km) long and reaches up to some 7 miles (11.3 km) high, making it the highest feature on the planet.
Venus also possesses a number of surface features unlike anything on Earth. For example, Venus has coronae, or crowns — ring-like structures that range from roughly 95 to 360 miles (155 to 580 km) wide. Scientists believe these formed when hot material beneath the crust rises up, warping the planet's surface. Venus also has tesserae, or tiles — raised areas in which many ridges and valleys have formed in different directions.
With conditions on Venus that could be described as infernal, the ancient name for Venus — Lucifer — seems to fit. However, this name did not carry any fiendish connotations; Lucifer means "light-bringer," and when seen from Earth, Venus is brighter than any other planet or even any star in the night sky because of its highly reflective clouds and its closeness to our planet.
Venus takes 243 Earth-days to rotate on its axis, by far the slowest of any of the major planets, and because of this sluggish spin, its metal core cannot generate a magnetic field similar to Earth's.
Orbital characteristics
If viewed from above, Venus rotates on its axis the opposite way that most planets rotate. That means on Venus, the sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east. On Earth, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west.
The Venusian year — the time it takes to orbit the sun — is about 225 Earth-days long. Normally, that would mean that days on Venus would be longer than years. However, because of Venus' curious retrograde rotation, the time from one sunrise to the next is only about 117 Earth-days long. [Gallery: Transit of Venus from June 5, 2012, when the planet transited in front of the sun for the last time until the year 2117.
Orbit & rotation
Average distance from the sun: 67,237,910 miles (108,208,930 km). By comparison: 0.723 times that of Earth
Perihelion (closest approach to sun): 66,782,000 miles (107,476,000 km). By comparison: 0.730 times that of Earth
Aphelion (farthest distance from sun): 67,693,000 miles (108,942,000 km). By comparison: 0.716 times that of Earth
Composition & structure
Atmospheric composition (by volume): 96.5 percent carbon dioxide, 3.5 percent nitrogen, with minor amounts of sulfur dioxide, argon, water, carbon monoxide, helium and neon.
Magnetic field: 0.000015 times that of Earth's field.
Internal structure: Venus' metallic iron core is roughly 2,400 miles (6,000 km) wide. Venus' molten rocky mantle is roughly 1,200 miles (3,000 km) thick. Venus' crust is mostly basalt, and is estimated to be six to 12 miles (10 to 20 km) thick on average.
The very top layer of Venus' clouds zip around the planet every four Earth-days, propelled by hurricane-force winds traveling roughly 224 mph (360 kph). This super-rotation of the planet's atmosphere, some 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates, may be one of Venus' biggest mysteries. The winds at the planet's surface are much slower, estimated to be just a few miles per hour.
The Venus Express spacecraft, a European Space Agency mission that operated between 2005 and 2014, intriguingly found evidence of lightning on the planet. This lightning is unique from that found on the other planets in the solar system, in that it is not associated with water clouds.
Instead, on Venus, the lightning is associated with clouds of sulfuric acid. Scientists are excited by these electrical discharges, because they can break molecules into fragments that can then combine with other fragments in unexpected ways.
A long-lived cyclone on Venus, first observed in 2006, was observed in constant flux, with elements constantly breaking apart and reforming. The clouds also carry signs of meteorological events known as gravity waves, caused when winds blow over geological features, causing rises and falls in the layers of air.
Unusual stripes in the upper clouds of Venus are dubbed "blue absorbers" or "ultraviolet absorbers" because they strongly absorb light in the blue and ultraviolet wavelengths. These are soaking up a huge amount of energy — nearly half of the total solar energy the planet absorbs.
As such, they seem to play a major role in keeping Venus as hellish as it is. Their exact composition remains uncertain; some scientists suggest it could even be life, although many things would need to be ruled out before accepting that conclusion.
Research & exploration
The United States, Soviet Union, European Space Agency and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency have deployed many spacecraft to Venus, more than 20 in all so far. NASA's Mariner 2 came within 21,600 miles (34,760 km) of Venus in 1962, making it the first planet to be observed by a passing spacecraft.
The Soviet Union's Venera 7 was the first spacecraft to land on another planet, and Venera 9 returned the first photographs of the Venusian surface. The first Venusian orbiter, NASA's Magellan, generated maps of 98 percent of the planet's surface using radar, showing details of features as small as 330 feet (100 meters) across.
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spent eight years in orbit around Venus with a large variety of instruments, and has confirmed the presence of lightning there. In August 2014, as the satellite began wrapping up its mission, controllers engaged in a month-long maneuver that plunged it into the outer layers of the planet's atmosphere. Venus Express survived the daring journey,
then moved into a higher orbit, where it will spend several months until it runs out of fuel. By December 2014, controllers expect to send the craft plunging to its death through the planet's atmosphere.
Japan's Akatsuki launched to Venus in 2010, but its main engine died during a pivotal orbit-insertion burn, sending the craft hurling into space. Using smaller thrusters, the Japanese team successfully performed a burn to correct the spacecraft's course.
A subsequent burn in November 2015 successfully put Akatsuki into orbit around the planet. In 2017, having successfully achieved a modified science orbit around Venus, Akatsuki spotted another huge "gravity wave" in Venus' atmosphere.
As of at least March 2017, NASA and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute have had discussions about collaborating on the Venera-D mission, which would include an orbiter, a lander and perhaps a solar-powered airship. The mission would launch sometime in the 2020s.
In recent years, NASA has funded several extremely early-stage mission concepts that could look at Venus in the coming decades, under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, although their success is not guaranteed.
This includes a "steampunk" rover that would use old-school levers instead of electronics (which would fry in Venus' atmosphere), and a balloon that would check out Venus from low altitudes. Separately, some NASA researchers have been investigating the possibility of using airships to explore the more temperate regions of Venus' atmosphere.


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Pinto Bean Fiesta Cake, Crackerjack Cookies and Minestrone Soup recipes: Helen Dollaghan
Helen Dollaghan, food editor of The Denver Post from 1958-1993, selected recipes she felt were the best and published them in this 1987 special section called "30 Years of Rocky Mountain Cooking." Most are recipes Helen or her readers developed.
On Fridays we share several of the recipes from her collection.
Week 18: Pinto Bean Fiesta Cake, Crackerjack Cookies and Minestrone With Kidney Beans
Taste-testers were shocked
to learn this cake contained
mashed pinto beans, which
gives it a moist, rather
heavy texture. Grand-prize
winner in a pinto-bean
cooking contest in Colorado's
Four Corners area, the recipe
came from Mozelle Schafer
of Cortez. Lots of callers
were curious about its lack
of baking powder. That's
right. There is none.
Pinto Bean Fiesta Cake
2 cups cooked, unseasoned, mashed pinto beans (measure after mashing)
1 cup sugar
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter or margarine
2 extra-large eggs, beaten
1 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
2 cups fairly finely diced, peeled raw apples
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup raspberry jelly, melted
Walnut halves or pecans for garnish
Mash cooked beans with potato masher or in food processor. If using potato masher, add a small amount of the bean cooking liquid to make it easier. Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs, Mix well. Add beans. Mix well. Sift together flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Add dry ingredients to sugar mixture. Mix well. Add apples, raisins, nuts and vanilla. Spoon into well-greased 10-inch tube pan. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven 45 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack about 30 minutes. Loosen edges and remove from pan. Drizzle warm jelly down sides of cake. Decorate with nuts.
Millie Smoth's crisp
cookies get their name
from those hidden
treasures that used to be
in cereal boxes.
Crackerjack Cookies
2 sticks (1 cup) butter or margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup ligtly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups unsifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
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4 to 5 leaves Swiss chard or 8 to 10 small spinach leaves, cut in fairly small pieces
1/2 cup dry sherry
1/4 cup uncooked large or small elbow macaroni
Grated Parmesan cheese
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As many have noted, two weeks ago, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked Chipper Jones what he thought of the one-game playoff. He said he thought the new double-wildcard, play-in game system was "stupid," because it potentially puts the second best team in a given league in the position of playing one game for their entire season. And why is that a problem?
"Now if you were to say the two wild-card teams will play a best two-out-of-three [series], I'd be OK with that. We play three-game series all the time, and we concentrate on winning those series all the time. I think it's more fair from a standpoint that anything can happen in one game – a blown call by an umpire, a bad day at the office … at least in a two-of-three-game series you have some sort of leeway."
The umpires weren't the only ones to have bad days at the office, but yeah. After 19 years in the majors, it's probably tough to trust the umps with your team's destiny. Veterans like Jones understand the human element well enough to know that one contest won't necessarily say all that much about who has the better team. At least he never has to in another one-game playoff again.
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Development of electronics and communication requires hardware capable of increasingly larger precision, ergonomics and throughput. For communication and GPS navigation satellites, it is of great importance to reduce the payload mass as well as to ensure signal stability. Last year, researchers from Moscow State University (MSU), together with their Swiss colleagues, performed a study aimed at certain improvements in this direction. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the scientists reported that the primary source of noise in microresonator-based optical frequency combs (broad spectra composed of a large number of equidistant narrow emission lines) is related to non-linear harmonic generation mechanisms rather than by fundamental physical limitations and is, in principle, reducible.
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Chris Bianco's Pizza Cookbook
While it is known that Chris Bianco has a cookbook in the works, details have been scarce beyond the publisher and the fall 2013 release date. However, an article from yesterday's Phoenix NewTimes reveals Gary Nabhan as the co-author of the forthcoming cookbook. Naban was a founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH (a seed bank located in Arizona), and is an award-winning author and heavyweight in the local food movement and sustainability efforts. In addition to assisting Bianco in translating his pizza knowledge to the page, Nabhan's expertise in desert cultivation and agro-biodiversity will serve to provide insight into the indigenous ingredients that Bianco will discuss in relation to the art of pizza-making.
The cookbook won't be "a gospel," he quickly adds, explaining that much of it will be based on his own experiences in pizza-making as well as insights gleaned from artisans and farmers.
Well, even if Bianco says it won't be a gospel, I'm sure it will serve as a pizza bible to many.
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Barnett Newman's Untitled Etching #1, First Version, 1969, was recently installed in the first-floor galleries. The print features a thick, black vertical stripe down the center of a broad white field, stretching from the top of the paper to the bottom. This white field is framed on either side by a thinner black band down the left and four very thin lines down the right, creating a symmetrical balance. Newman referred to these stripes as "zips;" their verticality relating to our bodies in front of the work and injecting the composition with energy.
In his 1948 essay "The Sublime is Now," Newman discussed his interest in the sublime, a state beyond beauty that incorporates an overpowering feeling of transcendental awe. Rather than depict landscapes that illustrate the sublime, such as eighteenth-century images of infinite seascapes or turbulent storms, Newman wanted to create paintings that would evoke a sublime response through abstract fields of color and zips.
Newman inaugurated the New Gallery at Vermont's Bennington College with a retrospective in 1958. Howard Nemerov was the poet-in-residence there at the time and wrote this two-stanza poem in response to criticism of the show on campus. Curator Ann Temkin asserts, "Newman loved the poem, a transparent defense of his work's apparent simplicity as a vehicle for miracles and an identification of the artist with the Prophets."1
who amused themselves over the simplicity of Barnett Newman's
paintings shown at Bennington College in May of 1958.
When Moses in Horeb struck the rock,
And water came forth out of the rock,
Some of the people were annoyed with Moses
And said he should have used a fancier stick.
And when Elijah on Mount Carmel brought the rain,
Where the prophets of Baal could not bring rain,
Some of the people said that the rituals of the prophets of Baal
Were aesthetically significant, while Elijah's were very plain.
1 Ann Temkin, "Barnett Newman on Exhibition," in Barnett Newman, ed. Ann Temkin (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2002), 55.
2 Howard Nemerov, "On Certain Wits who amused themselves over the simplicity of Barnett Newman's paintings shown at Bennington College in May of 1958," The Nation, volume 187 (September 6, 1958): 119.


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Albert Flynn DeSilver, the inaugural poet laureate of Marin County, California, has created a public project that invites the community to sit down with poetry. With the help of sculptor Todd Pickering and a load of used books, DeSilver created a portable "poetry chair" that he plans to display at area readings and festivals, as well as in less predictable locations like the county fair.
The chair, which has already been featured onstage at the Marin Poetry Festival, was constructed using fifty-eight collections and anthologies, with Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot among the poets represented. A box in the chair's arm, made from a book titled The Case for Poetry, holds pencils and paper for visitors to write new poems.
"People can sit in it, write poetry, leave poetry there, and read what other people have written," Argo Thompson, executive director of the Marin Arts Council, told the Marin Independent Journal. "It's there to spark a conversation about poetry, and to bring the extraordinary into the everyday."
DeSilver, author of Letters to Early Street (La Alameda Press, 2007) and a veteran teacher and workshop leader, conceived of the project in an effort to bring poetry into the community in a unique way. On the project Web site, the poet called the chair "a kind of traveling poetry circus."
"We wanted to take it to public places, places you wouldn't expect: Stinson Beach on a Saturday in July, or the mall in Corte Madera, or perhaps a gas station or two," DeSilver told the Journal, mentioning tourist sites and a mountain stage as other potential venues for chair appearances.
Over the next year, the chair's travels will be documented on the project Web site. In addition to inviting community members to visit the chair, DeSilver asks guests who have experienced the chair to post poetry, commentary, photos, and video, as well as creative works related to poetry in Marin County.


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Dear Johnnie: Last week our block had several flags placed in the yards and along our driveways. Areas of grass and sidewalks were spray painted bright pink and blue.
The yellow flags are labeled Xcel Energy Buried Gas. The blue flags are labeled City of Longmont Buried Utilities.
We have no idea if we are allowed to remove the flags or not. There has been no communication from Xcel or the city regarding this project. We have no clue what is going on and wondered if the project is complete or not.
The location is on Fourth Avenue between Gay Street and Bross Street (across from Central Elementary School).
I would appreciate it if you are able to find out if and when we can remove the flags. Is there a way to remove the markings on the sidewalks?
Thank you. — Kathy
Dear Kathy: Don't remove the flags. Don't scrub the sidewalk. Not yet, at least.
I walked over to take a look for myself. You're not kidding about "several flags." There are dozens of them — blue, yellow and a few green — on Fourth, Third, Bross and Gay. The sidewalks, streets and lawns are marked, too, with colors including pink.
Deb Cameron, customer service and marketing manager, was not sure what work is being done there, other than it is not city work. But she was clear about one thing: "People should not remove the flags."
The flags and markers denote the location of underground lines, so usually you will see them go up right before someone's about to do some digging, as a way of notifying a crew what to avoid. But what's about to be dug in your neighborhood?
I had noticed a crew doing work at the intersection of Third Avenue and GayStreet a day before, so I headed over to see if their work was related to all of these markers. They happened to not be busy at that moment, so I walked up and asked them if their work is related to all of those flags and markers.
They were working for an engineering company that is helping map out the underside of your neighborhood — where natural gas, water and sewer lines and storm drains run beneath your homes, yards and streets, and how deep they are. The purpose: To prepare for the replacement of natural gas lines in your neighborhood.
Xcel will be boring tunnels for new lines in the coming weeks, a crewmember said, and would like not to run into any existing infrastructure.
I reached an Xcel spokeswoman Friday afternoon to have Xcel confirm what the crew told me. She was going to have to contact someone else to confirm, but I had not had heard back as of press time.
"We have a lot of projects going on," she told me.
I couldn't help but ask the engineering crew about the flags and markings. What do the colors represent?
Blue is water.
Green is wastewater and storm sewers.
Yellow is natural gas.
Orange is phone and cable.
Red is electric.
Pink is engineering. Those are survey marks.
So, Kathy, please do your part by not removing the flags just yet. Imagine that they are colorful flowers.
For general information on these flags, you can go to co811.org, Cameron told me. And if you are ever about to dig, first dial 811, and someone will come out and mark locations of underground lines.


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Davis' breakout season nets massive pay raise
Slugger joins Hunter, Matusz, Norris, Patton in avoiding salary arbitration
The Baltimore Orioles reportedly handed first baseman Chris Davis a significant raise on Friday, one of five one-year contracts they worked out with arbitration-eligible players ahead of a 1 p.m. ET deadline to exchange salary figures.
While Baltimore also avoided arbitration with pitchers Tommy Hunter, Brian Matusz, Bud Norris and Troy Patton, the process will continue for catcher Matt Wieters. The two-time All-Star has exchanged salary figures with the club, although he can keep negotiating with the O's until his arbitration hearing, which will take place between Feb. 1-21.
That won't be necessary for Davis, whose salary will climb from $3.3 million to $10.35 million, plus incentives, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. The 27-year-old was due for a sizable boost after an All-Star season in which he hit .286/.370/.634, led the Majors with 53 home runs and 138 RBIs and finished third in the American League Most Valuable Player Award voting.
Davis would become Baltimore's third-highest-paid player, after right fielder Nick Markakis and center fielder Adam Jones. Davis is eligible to go to arbitration one more time before becoming a free agent after the 2015 season.
Of the Orioles pitchers who reached settlements, Norris received the biggest raise, with The Baltimore Sun reporting that he will go from $3 million to $5.3 million in his second season of arbitration-eligibility and his first full season with Baltimore. The club acquired the right-hander from the Astros at last year's July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline and now has two seasons of control remaining before he hits free agency.
"Today was a great day," Norris tweeted after agreeing to his deal on Thursday night. "So blessed and grateful. And so excited for 2014. #GoO's #blessed #stayhungry"
Norris made 11 appearances for the O's, including nine starts, and went 4-3 with a 4.80 ERA. Overall last season, he was 10-12 with a 3.93 ERA and rates of 7.5 strikeouts and 3.4 walks per nine innings.
Hunter, also in his second arbitration year, will see his salary rise from $1.82 million to $3 million, according to The Sun. The righty, a top candidate to take over as the Orioles' closer in 2014, posted a 2.81 ERA over 86 1/3 relief innings last season, with a 68 to 14 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Left-handed relievers Matusz and Patton are both in their initial arbitration season. Matusz, who converted to the bullpen full-time in 2013, will go from a $1.6 million salary to $2.4 million -- per the New York Post's Joel Sherman -- after posting a 3.53 ERA across 51 innings, with 50 strikeouts, 16 walks and a .168 opponents' average against lefties. Patton will go from $825,000 to $1.275 million -- according to The Sun -- after producing a 3.70 ERA in 56 relief innings, with 42 strikeouts and 16 walks.
Wieters made $5.5 million in his first year of arbitration eligibility and filed at $8.75 million on Friday, while the O's countered with $6.5 million, according to Heyman. Wieters is two seasons away from free agency and is represented by agent Scott Boras, making a contract extension a difficult and expensive proposition. The 27-year-old Wieters should get a raise despite the fact that his offensive rate stats dropped last year, when he hit .235/.287/.417, with 22 homers and 79 RBIs.
Teams and players often meet somewhere close to the midpoint of their proposed figures, although they also can negotiate multiyear deals. If no agreement comes before a hearing, both parties present their case to a three-member panel of judges that weighs the arguments and chooses one of the two salaries.
The O's, like many clubs, mostly avoid hearings. They did, however, take part in one as recently as 2012, when a panel sided with them over pitcher Brad Bergesen.


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Among other advanced equipment, the center features a new Elekta Synergy linear accelerator. It is the world's first fully digital radiation therapy treatment system with integrated 3-D imaging, enabling clinicians to see a tumor at the very moment of treatment. This results in more accurate targeting of radiation to treat the cancer, but spare more healthy tissue and reduce side effects. The facility also has GE, 16-slice, wide bore CT scanner to assist in radiation therapy planning.
SCCA Radiation Oncology at Northwest Hospital strives to provide well-coordinated care for every patient. We work closely with physicians throughout the Puget Sound area, including medical oncologists surgeons, radiologists, pathologists and other specialists and primary care physicians at Northwest Hospital. Patients benefit from the ongoing collaboration among Northwest Hospital's cancer specialists, who meet frequently to discuss and evaluate cases and develop integrated care plans.
Cancer patients at Northwest Hospital receive radiation therapy from our leading radiation oncology team who specialize in particular cancers and are experts in their field. They design an individualized treatment plan to target your tumor and minimize the effects of radiation therapy on healthy tissue. Your team also works closely with you to manage any side effects and helps you take the best possible care of yourself during treatment.
Depending on your diagnosis, your care team may also coordinate and schedule your treatment at other SCCA facilities, including the central SCCA clinic or at the University of Washington Medical Center. All SCCA facilities feature state-of-the-art equipment to ensure patients are getting the best treatment available, including a wide range of radiation therapy services. We also offer many of the latest and most innovative options through clinical trials.
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We have updated 3DMark 11 to version 1.0.4, which makes the benchmark fully compatible with Windows 8. The update also addresses other compatibility issues and a few uncommon bugs. Benchmark scores are not affected and scores from this new version can be compared with scores from the previous version 3DMark 11 v1.0.3.
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Trevor Garnham boldly attempts to rehabilitate the notion of meaning in his study of the role of history in architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote
Architectural history is sometimes in fashion, sometimes out. At the moment, I think, it is out. When I was studying – and taught by Trevor Garnham at Kingston Poly (now University) during the era of high Postmodernism – it was very much in. Architectural students now seem to have little interest in history and the inspiration that was once found in books and subsequently magazines is now found in instant internet images. We now consume images at a rate unthinkable even a couple of decades ago, but they are images entirely devoid of context.
Garnham takes the title of his new book Architecture Re-Assembled, the Use (and Abuse) of History, from Nietzsche, who, in his essay 'On the Use and Abuse of History for Life' seemed to advocate the necessity of our forgetting of the burden of history so as to get on with our lives unhindered – but was actually saying something more subtle – that, in Garnham's words 'we do need history, but only if it is considered in the right spirit.'
'History,' Garnham writes, 'might be thought of as akin to memory. To be human is to be poised between memory and anticipation.'
Architecture Re-Assembled is a thoughtful cruise through the way in which architects since the Renaissance have used the history of architecture for their own purposes. It is not a book on how historic elements of architecture have been re-used but on the role historiography has played in the manner in which contemporary architecture is justified. The author points to the approximate simultaneity of Giambattista Vico's Scienza Nuova (1725), often referred to as the first history – or, rather, philosophy – of history, and Fischer von Erlach's Entwurff einer Historischen Architektur (1721), arguing that before this an architectural treatise was effectively little more than a prescriptive text on how to use the elements derived from Vitruvius. After this date, he writes, 'Time and change became central and man became historical man.' The Enlightenment subsequently presented a challenge to Vitruvian authority and was followed by a 19th century which became bound up in the past, in the historicism from which Nietzsche attempted to escape through the creation of what Garnham calls 'a history beyond history', and what Nietzsche termed 'eternal recurrence', something more akin to a cycle than the familiar linear history.
It is a thoughtful cruise through the way in which architects have used the history of architecture for their own purposes
Ultimately, of course, what all this leads to is Modernism, the movement to end all history. Garnham shows how the proselytisers of the Modernist myth (most notably Pevsner and Giedeon) defined the new movement against history and, instead of illustrating a continuity of history as it develops, worked backwards to find (often spurious) 'pioneers' who could have been said retrospectively to have prefigured some of the concerns of Modernism. This is history as written by the victors. The story ultimately takes us to the rediscovery of history and the humanities in the 1960s with Rossi and Venturi, as well as the rise of a phenomenological approach.
Although the ostensible subject is history, the underlying theme (and, the reader infers, Garnham's real purpose) is meaning. The author is particularly in thrall to a Heideggerian analysis of architecture as the coincidence between dwelling and being, a fundamental expression of our being-in-the-world. He relates this back to Greece. The Greek goddess Mnemosyne, whose name means 'memory' was born to the earth goddess Gaia and the god of the sky, Ouranous. Mnemosyne, Garnham reminds us, was the mother of the muses and was married to Zeus, the ultimate sky god. Thus the original arts were inspired by a memory of earth and sky – the context in which Heidegger believed it should still be seen. Garnham contrasts this solid existence between earth and sky with the 'fragmentation and flux of the digital world'. He also argues against form-making for form-making's sake. 'Nietzsche,' he writes, 'was against unbridled originality. "Most original thoughts are foolishness".' The great, mad, moustachioed philosopher also wrote of the 'fairground garishness of the modern world', a view Garnham implicitly shares.
Garnham is attempting to rehabilitate an idea of meaning in contemporary architecture
Most of the themes covered here are notably out of fashion. The schools which attempted to attribute meaning through a collective subconscious, to read architecture as an expression of being, have been tainted either indirectly or directly through associations with Nazis, Fascists and assorted right-wing and nationalist headbangers. Nietzsche and Heidegger, alongside Mircea Eliade, Christian Norberg-Schultz and others who have espoused these readings, did themselves and their reputations few favours during or after their lives through unsavoury associations or through being picked up by others who used and abused their ideas. Garnham is attempting to rehabilitate an idea of meaning in contemporary architecture and his analysis of the work of architects from Boullée through Loos, Le Corbusier, Asplund and up to Rossi and Zumthor is astute and convincing. 'History,' he writes, 'helps to give us insights into the essential nature of humanity.' This is a humane, readable and philosophically literate book which entirely avoids the usual barely-readable academic jargon and over-familiar quotes which have for so long defined the dense confluence of architecture and philosophy. I can't recommend it enough.
- Edwin Heathcote is architecture and design critic of the Financial Times
Architecture Re-Assembled, the Use (and Abuse) of History, by Trevor Garnham, Routledge, 228pp, £29.95
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Fears grew yesterday of a foreign-fed arms race in Syria as EU countries decided they could provide weapons to the rebels and Russia disclosed that it has signed a contract to provide Syria with sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles.
Either development would significantly raise the firepower in the two-year civil war, which has already killed more than 70,000 people and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, just as the key countries prepare for a major peace conference in Geneva that had been described as the best chance yet to end the bloodshed.
Russian officials criticized the EU decision on Monday night to allow their arms embargo against Syria to expire, freeing its member countries to provide weapons for the outgunned rebels. Russia, which has been a strong supporter of the Syrian government, said the British and French-driven decision undermined peace efforts.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov yesterday said that Moscow has signed a contract with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to provide it with state-of-the-art S-300 air defense missiles, which he said were important to prevent foreign intervention in the country.
Ryabkov would not say whether Russia has shipped any of the missiles to Syria yet.
He said Russia understands the concerns about providing such weapons to Syria, but believes that may "help restrain some hot-heads considering a scenario to give an international dimension to this conflict."
EU diplomats have said Britain and France are considering providing equipment to the rebels, and Syrian neighbors Turkey and Lebanon risk being drawn into the conflict.
Britain yesterday said it did not have to wait until an Aug. 1 meeting of EU foreign ministers before taking a decision to arm Syria's rebels, but stressed it had not yet taken any decision.
"I must correct one thing of concern. I know there has been some discussion of some sort of August deadline. That is not the case," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told BBC radio, adding that Britain was "not excluded" from arming the rebels before August, and that it would not act alone if it chose to do so.
Ryabkov called the EU move to end its arms embargo "a manifestation of double standards" that will hurt the prospects for the Geneva talks, which are expected to happen next month.
In Damascus, a Syrian lawmaker yesterday criticized the EU decision, saying that efforts to arm the rebels will discourage the opposition from seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict. The comments by Essam Khalil, a member of the parliament for the ruling Baath Party, were the first by a Syrian official.
Meanwhile, US Senator John McCain made an unannounced visit to rebel forces in Syria on Monday, putting more pressure on al-Assad to seek a negotiated settlement.
A US Department of State official said the department was aware of McCain crossing into Syrian territory, but referred further questions to McCain's office. McCain spokeswoman Rachel Dean confirmed the Monday trip, but declined further comment.
He met with leaders of the Free Syrian Army from across the country, who asked him for increased US support, including supplying the rebels with heavy weapons, enforcing a no-fly zone, and conducting airstrikes on Syrian government and Hezbollah forces, according to The Daily Beast, which first reported the senator's visit.