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QUICHE. It's honestly one of my favorite foods. So much that I really don't make it that often because I'm inclined to eat half of it when I do. But a couple weeks ago, I won two free product coupons from Wholly Wholesome (at Leslie Loves Veggies) to promote their current pie recipe contest. Free organic pie shells? YES PLEASE.
Spinach, Mushroom & "Bacon" Quiche
serves 4
- 9" Wholly Wholesome Organic pie shell (they have traditional, whole wheat & spelt!)
- 4 strips vegetarian bacon (I used the Lightlife stuff I got to review)
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- 6 oz mushrooms, stemmed and chopped
- 1 cup frozen spinach, thawed (or 8 oz fresh spinach)
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 1 Tb. flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 2 eggs
- 6 oz evaporated milk*
I'm currently reassessing my meals. I know that sounds weird but to be the cheapest possible, I eat pretty much the same thing each day of the week. It's cost effective and it's easy to make sure that I eat a balanced diet. But after a couple of months, it gets boring. And lately my breakfast has stopped filling me up! : ( I'm thinking about adding a green monster somewhere in my day for energy...but I'm worried about the price of 2 cups of organic spinach a day. We'll see. Any suggestions?
Do you ever reassess your nutrition? I think it needs to be done as often as possible to avoid boredom. It makes eating healthy more fun!


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Consignment sale helps parents save and earn
The mission: Buy all the clothes, gear and toys your children will need for the next six months — on a budget, with a time limit, accompanied by a toddler, an infant or some squirmy combination of the two. That's a tall order for anyone, but many of the women who showed up at Friday's pop-up consignment sale in Spring Valley weren't just any shoppers. They were the elite, superbly prepared and rigorously trained experts otherwise known as mothers.
View the photo gallery: Pop-Up Sale Strategy
Rule number one: create diversions while you focus.
"Snacks and videos," said Sarah Baumgart, 29, who heard about the twice-yearly sale from her daughter's preschool. The sale, which is called Just Between Friends, ends today. As Baumgart, who drove down from Rancho Bernardo, inspected a miniature green smocked sundress for her 17-month-old daughter, the girl was quietly entranced by a cartoon on mommy's smartphone.
Rule number two: set priorities.
"I love the shoes," said Lindsey Vander Pol, 27, who came from Escondido. "I look for brand name shoes in good shape for a good price." Behind her, tiny, shiny pink ballet flats from Gap for $8 and tap shoes for $10 gleamed on a rack. Other mothers agreed: for clothing hunters, shoes are the place to start. Overall, furniture and strollers sell fastest, they said.
Rule number three: Team up.
Alyssa Reil, 27, and Nikki Howell, 31, met three years ago through a pregnancy buddy app. Each woman took turns holding Reil's 7-week-old baby while the other shopped. Howell, who came down from Fullerton with her toddler, added that the vibe in the warehouse was collaborative, not competitive — picking up a baby's fallen sock here, making room for a stroller there, oohing and aahing at one another's finds.
Teaming up is how Amy Fernandez, 40, and Tammy White, 52, started the sale in 2011. Fernandez previously worked in human resources and White was a stay at home mother of two and a volunteer fundraiser. Fernandez got the idea shortly after she had her daughter, now a twirly 4-year-old with a passion for glitter. "Holy mackerel it's expensive to clothe these little things!" she remembered thinking. Fernandez, who sports ruler straight bangs, had heard about pop-up family sales, but she found nothing along those lines in East County, where she lives. And she was itching for a new business venture. So their families joined forces and bought a Just Between Friends franchise for $13,000, tapping into a resale industry worth $13 billion, according to the Association of Resale Professionals.
"It's not brain surgery. We're just trying to sell onesies," Fernandez said. "We're just a couple of moms trying to make a business work." Moms and dads, she clarified — both of their husbands support the business, she said.
The sale benefits parents three ways, she added: consignors earn money, shoppers get lightly used items at a discount, and leftover items get donated to Father Joe's Villages. Because baby and children's clothes and toys are outgrown faster than they are worn out, trading and reselling goods is a time-honored practice among parents. Many women return to shop year after year, and some return as sellers, Fernandez said.
So far the business is not profitable; it's growing on track with the franchise's projections. At the fall sale, the space was "busting at the seams. We had no idea that this concept was going to take off as big as it did," Fernandez said.
As the morning wore on, sharp voices occasionally rose over the aisles. "Get back here! No, no, no, no, no!" one mom cautioned an errant toddler. Two babies had claimed the same pintsized basketball hoop and another mother intervened. "Be nice, please. No. You've got other toys you can play with," she instructed. All in a day's work.
Just Between Friends
When: Today 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Faith Chapel in Spring Valley, 9400 Campo Road.
Cost: Free.

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Bill O'Reilly Attacks Jennifer Aniston: She's 'Destructive To Our Society!' It's His Most INSANE Statement Yet!
Bill is seriously hating on Jen! Do YOU agree with his nonsensical argument?
I'm not going to lie — I love watching The O'Reilly Factor. It's where I get my nightly dose of crazy. But even I was shocked at Bill O'Reilly's latest insane rant, in which he accuses Jennifer Aniston of being "destructive to our society" because she said modern women don't need men in order to have children. He goes on to say that hard-working fathers in the United States are "underemphasized" and "under-appreciated," which he then blames on "people like Jennifer Aniston."
Talk about taking a small statement and blowing it WAY out of proportion! (Seriously, Bill, that's our job.) Single women have been visiting fertility specialists to get pregnant for YEARS, and one comment from Jen isn't going to destroy the fabric of our society. At least correspondant Margaret Hoover attempts to argue with Bill's point — because we all know how well that normally goes.
Also, just a side note: Does Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson actually say Jen has "never been married" without catching her own mistake? Come on, now.


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One of the proving grounds for artificial intelligence is games. Classic games have a fixed set of rules, and these make it easier for researchers to develop new techniques and algorithms that enable computers to play (and hopefully win) various games. Tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess are all games where researchers have developed software that is capable of winning or drawing when paired off against the best human players in the world. Last weekend, researchers at the University of Alberta added another classic game to this list: poker. In a series of matches that took place over the Fourth of July weekend in Las Vegas, the researchers' Polaris poker program won against a groupof top-ranked online poker players.
The first three games mentioned above are known as perfect information games. In games of this type, each player has all the available knowledge about the current state of the game. With that information, the player can, in theory, work out every possible outcome from that point. Given a computer's ability to evaluate hundreds of thousands (or more) of scenarios each second, they are an ideal tool for calculating probabilities in such games. Theoretically, with enough computing power, every possible outcome at each point in the game could be calculated, and a computer could never lose.
Poker, on the other hand, is not a perfect information game. Each player has a limited subset of the total information regarding the current state of the game. In Texas Hold 'Em, the poker variation played here, players are aware of the two cards they hold, plus the cards that are open to all on the table. But, critically, they do knot know what their opponents hold in their hands. Each action must be based on this limited amount of information. According to Prof. Bowling, the principal investigator on the Polaris project, "when you look at games where players are asked to make decisions with different amounts of information, missing information, poker is the quintessential game."
This was the second year that the Polaris software went head-to-head, so to speak, with human players. Last year, in a series of four matches, human players Phil Laak and Ali Eslami edged out Polaris 2-1-1. Over the course of the year, the researchers fine-tuned Polaris by improving its learning capability. The new Polaris was capable of identifying opponents' playing styles and could adapt by countering with a strategy that would be expected to give it the edge. To practice, the researchers said Polaris played eight billion games of poker against itself.
This year, Polaris again played four matches and, thanks to these improvements, it came out ahead. Each match consisted of 500 hands of poker. In the first of four matches, Polaris and the human players wound up in a draw. The second match ended with the human players up by $50,000. The third and fourth matches were decisive wins for Polaris—it won the two matches by ending up with nearly $150,000. While Polaris won, it is still not unbeatable, as shown by the first match. According to Bowling, though, given enough computational power, a computer could play perfectly. That would inevitably lead to a win, since people could be counted on to make mistakes.
With the win under their belt, the researchers are headed back to the lab—or cube—to code some new abilities for the Polaris system. Currently, it is limited to playing against two players and to playing a game of poker where the maximum bet is capped. The researchers hope to enable it to start playing more advanced versions of poker, such as the very popular no-limit Texas Hold 'Em. They also hope to extend this line of work into more real-world problems. "In general, problems in the real world are going to be more like poker than chess. You're not always going to have all the information," said Bowling.


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Consensus Report
Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management (2007)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
In the past few years the United States has experienced a series of disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which have severely taxed and in many cases overwhelmed responding agencies. In all aspects of emergency management, geospatial data and tools have the potential to help save lives, limit damage, and reduce the costs of dealing with emergencies. Great strides have been made in the past four decades in the development of geospatial data and tools that describe locations of objects on the Earth\u0092s surface and make it possible for anyone with access to the Internet to witness the magnitude of a disaster. However, the effectiveness of any technology is as much about the human systems in which it is embedded as about the technology itself. This report assesses the status of the use of geospatial data, tools, and infrastructure in disaster management, and recommends ways to increase and improve their use. It explores emergency planning and response; how geospatial data and tools are currently being used in this field; the current policies that govern their use; various issues related to data accessibility and security; training; and funding. The report recommends significant investments be made in training of personnel, coordination among agencies, sharing of data and tools, planning and preparedness, and the tools themselves.
Key Messages
- Finally, the committee found that funding for geospatial preparedness is insufficient and the funding that exists is often used ineffectively.
- Issues of training, coordination among agencies, sharing of data and tools, planning and preparedness, and the attention and resources invested in technology turn out to be the critical factors and the ones that have to be addressed if future responses are to be more effective.
- The committee found that while enormous amounts of data relevant and indeed essential to emergency management exist, they are frequently scattered among multiple jurisdictions, in disparate and often incompatible formats. Numerous impediments exist to data sharing, including lack of interoperability at many levels, lack of knowledge about what data exist and where, restrictions on use, lack of training on the part of users, concerns about data security, and lack of operational infrastructure in the immediate aftermath of disaster.
- The committee's central conclusion is that geospatial data and tools should be an essential part of all aspects of emergency management from planning for future events, through response and recovery, to the mitigation of future events. Yet they are rarely recognized as such, because society consistently fails to invest sufficiently in preparing for future events, however inevitable they may be.


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I'm thrilled to be introducing a new writing friend this week - Speculative Fiction Writer, Thomm Quackenbush. Over to you, Thomm.
Q: Where are you from, and what do you do when you're not writing short stories or novels?
I live in Red Hook, New York, where most of my books take place. I moved here for a teaching job coincidentally after Danse Macabre was published. Living in one's fantasy universe does make it a bit richer. My fiancée and I wander or bike the town often, especially now that the weather is improving. I am also a voracious mocker of drive-in movies, blessed as I am to live within forty-five minutes of three.
Q: If you had to choose five books to send to an alien civilisation, what would they be and why?
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, because it would help explain the mistakes, the reasons, and the insatiable drive of humanity. I have long said that I believe that science is the language of the divine. If one wants to talk to God, head out to the forest with a microscope.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, because it is gorgeously written. It is one of those books I can (and do) reread and always find something new. Plus, Humbert Humbert requires the reader to commit to a sort of moral gymnastics. He is reprehensible in his actions, yet so beautiful in his descriptions. I have encountered literate, young men trying to seduce their lovers with passages from the book. I almost cannot blame them, but might want to redirect them to some poetry that isn't about raping a teenager.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (which I acknowledge is something of a cheat), because Shakespeare was instrumental to our language, both in words and concepts. I cannot imagine aliens grasping Western culture without thumbing (or tentacling) through Hamlet.
Gun, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, because I think that it will frighten them away from ever wanting to invade us. We are filthy and violent. Best give us a wide berth.
And, finally, The Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini, just to keep the aliens guessing.
Q: What is your favourite writing quote?
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison
I continue to try to write the book I want most to read. I haven't done it yet, which gives me incentive to be more daring and, frankly, stranger.
Q: What three words best describe your writing?
Researched, occult nonsense.
Q: I notice from your website you are a prolific writer, having penned short stories, three novels, and several scripts. How do you make the time to write?
I think that it helps that I see writing as my way of processing the world. Writing isn't even second nature to me. It is the only nature, everything reducing down to words and phrases. It is rare that I am not writing something in my head, trying to learn how best to phrase pain and boredom in such a way that I will smile in rereading it later. I do allot myself at least an hour of uninterrupted writing a night, which is to say that I glare at my fiancée when she interrupts it inevitably because she missed me.
Q: Can you tell us a little about your Night's Dreams Series?
Overall, the books take place in a world that operates my consensus reality, heavily reliant on actual historical curiosities. Human beings are the most powerful magical beings ever, but we have given away the vast majority of our power in the creation of gods and their children, called daemons within the book but essentially the satyrs, devas, fairies, and the like that litter mythology. Even were you to see an act of true magic, you would rationalize it away or cancel it out with the force of your disbelief. Thus, I have descendants of gods who act as waiters and baby-eating ghouls who are nurses, because it is better to keep a low profile than to be destroyed through disbelief.
Q: Would you like to share an excerpt?
From Artificial Gods:
Jasmine slouched in the backseat. This was not so bad, she figured. They could just look up at the stars and would be easily dissuaded from searching the town further. Jasmine had gone for most of her life without seeing anything in the sky that should not be there. Statistically, it was unlikely a ship would appear that night, no matter the reputation Pine Bush suffered thanks to Dr. Devareux's book. It would be a relaxing night of stargazing with three people she, on average, endured well.
Once home, she purloined a couple of quilts from the linen closet and set to making hot cocoa. True to her expectations, their talk of aliens and UFOs transitioned into general scary stories, then idle philosophy, and finally into contentedly and silently cuddling as the night found its chill.
Jasmine looked up at the stars, charting for Greg what constellations she could recall from her freshman astronomy class. She heard more amorous sounds coming from Kathleen and Sid, twenty feet away, but put these out of her mind. Greg nestled against her, resting his head on her chest, and she found herself stroking his hair as he fell asleep on her. As she listened to his light snores, the gasps coming from farther afield, she began to look at the stars with wonder for the first time in a decade.
The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew. The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word. More than once when she was a child, her parents had found her asleep on the back porch with no more covering than the night gave her and would tuck her back into her bed before she woke again.
It changed when she hit her teens, as her body developed into that of a woman before her mind could catch up. Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight.
Until very recently, she never felt any real fear from the night, though she did go through aggravating insomnia for much of puberty. In retrospect, she blamed it on any number of issues: rampant and undiagnosed pet allergies, a bad diet, a vitamin deficiency.
She was desperate for sleep then and even now a little envious Greg snoozed blissfully on the pillows of her breasts. As a teen, she had made an art of creeping around her house, as though sleep were contagious, or in hopes that, in supine states, her family would be more susceptible to the magnetism of her dark-rimmed eyes, and she would not have to be alone in the night. But no one ever woke, and she eventually managed to get a few hours of sleep before waking for school each morning.
Jasmine, for fear of waking Greg, stayed still, staring at the stars until she, too, fell asleep outside, watched over by the heavenly lights.
Q: What do you know now that you wished you'd known at the beginning of your writing journey?
The biggest lesson is that it is much easier to edit a finished book than it is to rewrite individual sentences to "perfection" before moving on. We Shadows took me years to write and most of the "perfect" sentences (60,000 words worth!) were deleted prior to publication.
Another is that publication is well within the reach of writers. I frequently speak to beginning writers who are fed the worst sorts of urban legends; how one has to have connections, how publishers only want Twilight clones, how authors only get 2% of their sales. Last night, I spoke to a presumptive fantasy author who claimed to have never heard of Tor or DAW and assumed these were scammers rather than two of the biggest names in speculative fiction publishing. Do your research before believing someone else's lies. All you have to do to get published is not give up.
The last is something that big emotions came from big words, to paraphrase Hemingway. We Shadows is a bit clumsy with my attempts to write beautifully rather than well. My publisher's editor actually complimented me on my vocabulary, which should have been a warning sign.
Q: What are you working on now?
I am doing final edits on my fourth book in the Night's Dream series, Flies to Wanton Boys. I did a final read through on my Kindle and it is now a matter of making those changes to the actual text. Tedious, but it is the best way I have found to make myself do it. After this book is sent out, I intend to take a small break from my series and write a novel based on my coming wedding, along with a few other projects I have on the back burner.
Thomm Quackenbush is a novelist and teacher in the Hudson Valley. This is his third novel with Double Dragon Publishing. He has been previously published by Cave Drawing Ink, the Journal of Cartoon Overanalysis, and Paragon Press. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. He finds that friends do not enjoy the extremes he goes to in order to research books, as these involve mortuaries and UFO support groups. He posts his work at http://xenex.org
Thank you, Thomm. It was wonderful having the opportunity to get to know the writer behind the books. Being from the UK, I've never been to a drive-in movie. It's something I'd like to experience one day. I agree with your choice of sending The Complete Works of Shakespeare - how many words was he responsible for introducing to the English language? I think it's over 400.
That's it for today. I'll be back on Friday to help Simon Kewin celebrate the release of Hedge Witch. Have a great week.


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Mondays With Bob Greene: The Summary Of The First Week Of The US Open
(US Open First Week)
Petra Kvitova beat top-seeded Dinara Safina 6-4 2-6 7-06 (5)
Kim Clijsters beat third-seeded Venus Williams 6-0 0-6 6-4
Melanie Oudin beat fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva 5-7 6-4 6-3
John Isner beat fifth-seeded Andy Roddick 7-6 (3) 6-3 3-6 5-7 7-6 (5)
Yaroslava Shvedova beat fifth-seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-3 6-7 (4) 7-6 (6)
Francesca Schiavone beat eighth-seeded Victoria Azarenko 4-6 6-2 6-2
"I learned, once again, proved to myself that I can compete with these top girls. And if I believe in myself and my game, then I can beat them." – Melanie Oudin, after upsetting Maria Sharapova to advance to the fourth round.
"She was playing very aggressively, really enjoying this atmosphere, the crowd support and really going for the winners. So it's just the beginning, but it looks like she has a good future." – Elena Dementieva, on American Melanie Oudin, who upset the fourth-seeded Russian in a second-round match.
"I like to do aces on the match points. I did it (at) the French Open. I did it twice. Yeah, close my match with an ace. So it was nice." – Yaroslava Shvedova, who finished her upset of Jelena Jankovic with an ace.
"She pretty much takes my advice if I offer good advice. I don't traditionally offer good advice, so she doesn't normally take it." – Serena Williams, asked if she gives advice to her sister Venus.
"I can't tell you how many times I've come here a little bit tired, a little bit sore, a little bit injured, a little bit distracted. There's nowhere to hide out there, so I've lived and died on this court many times and taken a lot of people with me." – Andre Agassi, talking about playing at the US Open.
"What Andre did in his career is incredibly impressive. But to have someone who can be more impressive after their career is so rare. It's why someone like Arthur Ashe is my idol. I'm sure a lot of kids have grown up in this era after mine. I hope they have someone like Andre Agassi as their idol." – James Blake.
"I was jealous. I was happy for everybody that was doing well. I'm friends with them all, but I was jealous. I wanted to be here competing and playing well and playing matches. So to be back here accomplishing that is pretty remarkable. I still have a long way to go. I still feel like my game is still pretty rough around the edges, but it's extremely exciting." – Taylor Dent, making his first US Open appearance since 2005 and after three back surgeries.
"My goal (was) to not get crushed and make it interesting for a little while at least. I got up a break a couple of times and that was fun while it lasted." – Devin Britton, a wild card entry who lost a first-round match to top-seeded Roger Federer.
"I don't want to make the decision to stop and then after two, six, eight months thinking, it was not quite the time yet. Because then it's too hard, I would say, probably to make a comeback as Kim (Clijsters) is making now, given the age." – Amelie Mauresmo, now 30 years old, saying she will wait until the end of the year before making a decision on whether to retire.
"I love winning tennis matches. If I get more money for more matches I win, that's why we play. … It's nice to get money for what you love to do." – Jesse Witten, a qualifier who reached the third round before losing to Novak Djokovic.
I hated to lose more than I liked to win. – Jimmy Connors, explaining his mindset when he played.
In 2010, the women's tennis tour returns to San Diego, California, and will stage new events in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Copenhagen, Denmark. The 2010 calendar features 53 tournaments, in addition to the four Grand Slam events, with total prize money of more than USD $83 million. The international breadth of tournaments includes 24 events in Europe, 15 events in the Americas and 18 events in the Asia-Pacific region. "With three new tournaments investing in our sport in each of the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, the Tour's 2010 calendar continues to showcase the global commercial strength of women's tennis," said Stacey Allaster, chairman and CEO of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. "I am proud of the fact that despite a worldwide recession we have been able to achieve modest growth."
When John Isner's upset victory over fifth-seeded Andy Roddick went so late in the evening, tournament schedulers moved Dinara Safina's match against the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova from Arthur Ashe Stadium to Louis Armstrong. Safina wasn't happy with the switch. "I'm number one player in the world, why did they move me?" Safina asked. "This is not an excuse, but I don't think it's a fair decision they made." To make matters worse, the Russian lost to Kvitova 6-4 2-6 7-6 (5).
Sabine Lisicki left the court in a wheelchair after she severely sprained her ankle on the final point of her second-round match. Qualifier Anastasia Rodionova of Australia, ranked 139th in the world, upset the German 6-3 3-6 7-5. On match point, Lisicki, seeded 23rd in the year's final Grand Slam tournament, raced to her left. But as she slid for the ball, she rolled her left ankle and stayed on the court for several minutes. The ankle was heavily wrapped and a wheelchair was brought to the court. Lisicki was taken to a hospital where x-rays showed there was no break.
Numbers don't lie. Sometimes they just don't tell the truth. Philipp Petzschner of Germany out-aced his foe 17-1 and had 52 winners – 24 more than his opponent. Yet when the 3-hour, second-round match was over, the winner was 24th-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 1-6 3-6 6-4 6-2 6-4. The reason: Petzschner had 20 more unforced errors than Ferrero, 68-48, and the Spaniard won 147 points, nine more than the German.
Marat Safin had 15 aces to eight for Jurgen Melzer in their first-round battle. The two each had 40 winners, and Melzer had one fewer unforced errors, 28 to 29. The Austrian won three more points than his Russian opponent, 107-104, and when the contest was over, Melzer was the winner 1-6 6-4 6-3 6-4.
Andy Roddick won everything but the score in his third-round match against fellow American John Isner. Roddick won 162 points to Isner's 155 and had his serve broken only once. Isner lost his serve twice, but he boomed 38 aces in the 3-hour, 51-minute battle and advanced to the fourth round at a Grand Slam event for the first time. It also was Isner's first victory over a top five player.
The story of Rod Laver's second Grand Slam season, capped by winning the US Open, is the subject of a book, "The Education of a Tennis Player." Written with Hall of Fame journalist and historian Bud Collins, the book is Laver's first-hand account of his 1969 Grand Slam season. Laver also writes about his childhood and early days in tennis, his 1962 Grand Slam and offers tips on how players of all levels can improve their games. Originally published in 1971, "The Education of a Tennis Player" was updated by Laver and Collins in 2009 with new content including Laver's recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1998. Laver won 11 major singles titles during his career, including Wimbledon in 1961, 1962, 1968 and 1969.
The US Open had its latest night session start in history during the first week. On Saturday, James Blake and Tommy Robredo took to the court at 10:35 p.m. following a special ceremony honoring Pancho Gonzalez. The night session normally starts at 7 p.m., but the last day match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, an all-American affair between fifth-seeded Andy Roddick and John Isner, lasted until 9:26 p.m. Officials moved the scheduled first night match between Dinara Safina and Petra Kvitova to Louis Armstrong Stadium and began the Blake-Robredo match in Ashe. Kvitova upset the top-seeded Safina, while Robredo beat Blake in a match that ended just shy of 1 o'clock in the morning.
The US Open battles between Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe are legendary. The two left-handers, who defined a generation and won 15 Grand Slam tournament titles between them, still excite the crowds at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Now tennis commentators, Connors and McEnroe returned to the courts to face other during the first week of the US Open. The practice courts, that is. "Definitely brings back a few good memories," McEnroe said.
When James Blake walked onto the court to play his first-round match, the umpire made the American change his headband. "I didn't know the rule," Blake admitted. "I didn't know you couldn't have any writing on the headband or wristband." A player can wear a logo on their headband, as in the Nike swoop. But Blake's clothing sponsor, Fila, had the name "Fila" written on the headband. That's a no-no. "I didn't know we couldn't do that," Blake said.
The US Open honored two-time winner Richard A. "Pancho" Gonzalez on the 60th anniversary of his second consecutive victory in America's premier tennis tournament. Gonzalez won the US Championships in 1948 and 1949, then turned pro at a time when only amateurs were allowed to play the Grand Slam tournaments. He went on to become the top draw on the professional circuit, then, when he was 40 years old, reached the semifinals of the French Open and the quarterfinals of the inaugural US Open. That same year he was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1972, three months shy of his 44th birthday, Gonzalez became the oldest man to win a tournament title, capturing the championship at an event in Des Moines, Iowa. Among those participating in the on-court ceremony were members of the Gonzalez family as well as several Hispanic dignitaries.
You can't find former US Open champion Martina Hingis on the tennis courts these days, thanks to a two-year ban after testing positive for cocaine. But the 28-year-old Swiss star has signed up to take part in the seventh season of BBC's reality talent show "Strictly Come Dancing," which starts September 18. Other former athletes participating in the show include boxer Joe Calzaghe, Olympic long jumper Jade Johnson, cricketer Phil Tufnell and jockey Richard Dunwoody.
The town of Midland, Michigan, has been named winner of the USTA's "Best Tennis Town" search. The initiative by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) was designed to identify and reward American communities that "best exemplify the passion, excitement, spirit and impact that tennis brings to the local level." Midland, which received the most votes during the nationwide, online balloting, will receive a USD $100,000 grant from the USTA to be used for community-wide tennis programming or facility enhancements. Finishing second was Ojai, California, which received a USD $50,000 community tennis grant from the USTA, while Independence, Kansas, was third in the balloting and received a USD $25,000 USTA grant.
US Open: www.usopen.org
Davis Cup: www.DavisCup.com
Kim Clijsters: www.kimclijsters.be/
Roger Federer: www.rogerfederer.com/en/index.cfm
Rafael Nadal: www.rafaelnadal.com/nada/en/home
Serena Williams: www.serenawilliams.com/
Quebec: www.challengebell.com
Guangzhou: http://sports.21cn.com
(All money in USD)
ATP and WTA
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$120,000 Genoa Open Challenger, Genoa, Italy, clay
$150,000 Pekao Open, Szczecin, Poland, clay
$220,000 Bell Challenge, Quebec City, Canada, hard
$220,000 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China, hard
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Croatia vs. Czech Republic at Porec, Croatia
Spain vs. Israel at Murcia, Spain
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Chile vs. Austria at Rancagua, Chile; Belgium vs. Ukraine at Charleroi, Belgium; Brazil vs. Ecuador at Porto Alegre, Brazil; Netherlands vs. France at Maastricht, Netherlands; South Africa vs. India at Johannesburg, South Africa; Serbia vs. Uzbekistan at Belgrade, Serbia; Sweden vs. Romania at Helsingborg, Sweden; Italy vs. Switzerland at Genova, Italy
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Group I Playoff: Peru vs. Uruguay at Lima, Peru
Group II Final: Dominican Republic vs. Venezuela at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Asia-Oceania Zone
Group I Playoff: China vs. Thailand at Jiaxing, China
Group II 3rd Round: Philippines vs. New Zealand at Manila, Philippines
Europe/Africa Zone
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Ron Paul won't be in attendance when the Colorado Libertarian Party has its state convention this weekend, but nonetheless, chairman Jeff Orrok remains hopeful the Texas congressman will eventually run as a Libertarian candidate for president.
"He has received a lot of attention and I think it'll be good for the party," said Orrok. "But it's hard to say what's really going on in his head in terms of what decision he'll make in the presidential race."
Math is not in his favor as Paul, with just 47 delegates, is unlikely to win the Republican presidential nomination. Yet speculation still swirls as to whether he'll run as an Libertarian candidate in the general election.
But for now, there are three candidates running as Libertarians for the presidency: Gary Johnson, Scott Keller and Lee Wrights.
And all three will duke it out in a debate at this weekend's convention.
According to a news release, the two-day event will include a number of speakers, including a banquet Saturday evening featuring David Bergland.
Bergland was the party's presidential nominee in 1984, and has served as its national chairman for six years.
Orrok says that at the convention the party will nominate candidates for state and county races.
The weekend convention is being held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Aurora.
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Snow Blowers Direct gives you the option to order "Lift Gate Service" on all snowblowers weighing more than 100 pounds.
Due to the weight of these snow blowers, they cannot be shipped via UPS Ground.
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ESPN's Buster Olney to Speak at Northern State Graduation
ABERDEEN - ESPN sports journalist Buster Olney will speak at Northern State University's spring commencement.
The Aberdeen American News reports that Olney has ties with the university through his work writing a book about legendary Northern basketball coach Don Meyer.
Olney will deliver the commencement address at the ceremony in the Barnett Center, which is scheduled for May 4 at 10:30 a.m.
NSU President Jim Smith says having Olney on campus for commencement is a wonderful honor for the university.
Olney says he feels like an adopted son to the Northern community after spending so much time there over the last five years. He joked that if he doesn't prepare properly, Coach Meyer will give him an earful.
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PI road closed for now
The planetary interaction I mentioned last post looks really good but has a major road block, one that makes it unavailable till I get past the trial barrier. See, you have to carry the equipment to the planet on which you're installing it. It's large, about 1000 m3. The ships and skills available to me have a max capacity of 700 m3, and that's only by doing games with cargo skills and expanders.
Um. It is possible that the device can be carried "packaged", then unpackaged on site for delivery. I just thought of this, I'll check. See, it's not a lot of income – probably as low as 100K ISK per day. However it's money that doesn't need me standing over it to earn it. Multiple small low-effort income sources add up, and for my goal I need the additions.
But as of this instant I think PI is off the table. It's back to pure trade and haul.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The president of the National Rifle Association said Sunday posting a police officer in every school wasn't so far-fetched and has been in practice for years.
Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, David Keene said about 23,000 U.S. schools already had armed security guards patrolling the halls and the concept was endorsed by President Clinton after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
"What we were saying is that really the question that parents across this country are asking is how do we protect our kids?" Keene said.
Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchinson, R-Texas, said the 23,000 schools amount to roughly two-thirds of the schools in the United States and told CNN's "State of the Union" it would cost about $2 billion to create a federal program to place armed police in every school. "It always should be an option that the local school board finally makes the decision," she said. "So I can understand skepticism, but I think that school safety is the debate."
Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman who is taking the lead in the NRA's controversial school proposal said having a police officer or some other armed guard on duty in each and every school should be voluntary and up to local school districts.
"If you have a choice of sending your child to a school that has that type of protection versus not, I think most people in America would say, let's go to what would be the school that invests in that type of safety and security," Hutchinson said on ABC's "This Week."
The NRA leadership, which was out in force for the weekly Sunday television news shows, called its proposal to increase armed security at U.S. schools the best short-term solution to the threat of unbalance killers storming a relatively unprotected school building.
"If it's crazy to call for putting police in and securing our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think the American people think it's crazy not to do it. It's the one thing that would keep people safe and the NRA is going try to do that."
One Republican senator argued there was unlikely any type of law the federal government could implement that would effectively prevent incidents like the one in Connecticut. "I think we can get a false sense of security from Washington, and in passing more laws," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said on "Fox News Sunday. "We need real solutions to a significant problem in our country, and I'm not sure passing another law in Washington is going to actually find a real solution."


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TORONTO — Stephen Drew had 17 plate appearances in spring training before he suffered a concussion March 7 that eventually landed him on the disabled list to start the season.
He reported to Double A Portland April 5 and picked up an additional 16 plate appearances over four games.
Under major league rules, players on the seven-day concussion disabled list can spend no more than five games in the minor leagues on a rehabilitation assignment. So when Drew was activated April 10, he suspected it would take some time to get his timing down.
"It was like spring training was split up," Drew said Thursday before the Red Sox faced the Toronto Blue Jays. "I didn't know when the concussion thing was going to end. It's no excuse, I had to get out there and play."
Drew was 4 for 35 (.114) in his first 11 games of the season with one RBI and one extra-base hit.
He is 7 of 24 (.292) in seven games since, with three extra base-hits, eight RBIs, and four walks. He had a sacrifice fly in the second inning of Thursday's 3-1 victory.
"I'm just working on things. A lot of it is timing," said Drew, who was 3 for 5 with a two-run home run in Wednesday's 10-1 victory against Toronto. "Like I said before, I'm getting there. I'm having great at-bats. I'm swinging at the pitches that I want to swing at and hitting the ball hard.
"I've put good ABs on and worked the counts really well. I think the timing is starting to get there."
The way manager John Farrell looks at it, Drew's first few weeks were essentially spring training all over again.
"We're seeing the timing become more consistent. [Against] righthanders or lefthanders, he's still putting good at-bats up and seeing the ball much better," Farrell said. "He gives the bottom third of our order added depth and certainly a lift."
Victorino is close
Right fielder Shane Victorino was out of the lineup for the seventh straight game. But he reported for optional early batting practice on the field and hit again before the game. He expects to start at Texas on Friday.
Farrell said Victorino tried to talk his way into the lineup. But the Red Sox want to make sure his strained lower back is healthy.
"It'll be better news as long as we don't have a recurrence," Farrell said. "That's why we're taking the extra day, just to be that much more cautious."
Victorino is hitting .292 with a .358 on-base percentage.
Planned rest
David Ortiz, who played seven games in a row, was out of the lineup. Farrell said it was a planned day off.
With Ortiz coming back from an Achilles' tendon injury, the Red Sox are trying to be proactive in giving him days off. Farrell said that Ortiz would be back in the lineup on Friday.
Bard still struggling
Daniel Bard had a rough ninth inning for Double A Portland at Reading Thursday.
He inherited a 7-3 lead and walked the first batter. A wild pitch moved that runner to second. Bard got a strikeout before throwing another wild pitch. He was then taken out of the game after a four-pitch walk.
Bard threw 15 pitches, four strikes.
In two outings for Portland since Bard was optioned there, he has walked three, thrown three wild pitches, and thrown strikes on 13 of 33 pitches.
Bard walked both batters he faced Saturday while pitching for the Red Sox and was returned to the minors Sunday.
Far, far away
According to the ESPN Home Run Tracker website, Mike Napoli's two home runs Wednesday night were among the five longest in the majors this season. They were 472 and 467 feet, respectively. Anthony Rizzo (Cubs) and Mark Trumbo (Angels) are credited with 475-foot shots . . . Jarrod Saltalamacchia turned 28 on Thursday . . . Lefthanded reliever Craig Breslow allowed two hits but pitched a scoreless inning for Triple A Pawtucket Thursday. He struck out one against Durham. Breslow, who is coming back from a sore shoulder, has appeared in three minor league games. He is scheduled to pitch this weekend for Pawtucket and will be evaluated at that point . . . Alfredo Aceves pitched six scoreless innings for Pawtucket in his first start since being optioned last week. He allowed two hits, walked four, struck out six, and hit one . . . It was 44 degrees at first pitch at Rangers Ballpark Thursday night, the third-coldest start in stadium history. The Sox open a three-game series in Texas on Friday night and temperatures are expected to be chilly.
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Howard Webb's Johnny English moment! Sport magazine report that in a fit of fury the Polish PM phoned up to threaten Howard, but ended up getting a connection to namesake Howard Webb, electrical engineer in rotherham.
Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
Thank you Al and Welcome to Football Poets..
Too often in the shadow and wake of Hillsborough, Bradford and Heysel, your powerful and emotive lines remind us of a tragic day when 66 died and many more were injured at Ibrox .
great three lines Alex…table football..says it all
Kev….. the Rev, of that place that rhymes with Les Fridge!
Lewis Carroll or Andy Carroll?
Brilliant Eddie!
with our new website format, we can now all offer suggestions on top of this.
My tuppenceworth:
AE Housman or Peter Houseman?
Spike Milligan or Mike Milligan?
I really, really wish I'd thought of that closing line!
Absolute classic!
Wow. That is a fantastic tale John.Thank you. Funny and sad but hysterical. You totally captured the vibe back then.I was too small to see in those huge crowds at the Bridge when i first went to Chelsea on Dec 25 '57 (Chelsea 7-4 Portsmouth (when Greaves scored 4) but remember …ev'ry week so well …the old Peanut sellers chucking their peanuts to the crowd .And then us chucking our sixpences back .(Tanner a bag) And then stamping on them or chucking back the shells at our mates and the cops too. God Bless Mrs Michella the Crystal Palace peanut seller….and all long gone peasnut sellers.
We have one of these shirts Clik and it is beautiful.
Great poem for a boss shirt.
Lovely poem Rhys, and That Lone Ship looks a boss book.
Great poem Clik – witty and memorable, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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Has the time come for you to get out of the dorm and move into an off campus FCC apartment? Perhaps the options available from the Frederick Community College housing office no longer meet your needs and you would like to find a cheap apartment close to the FCC campus. If so, you can search for off campus Frederick Community College apartments with MyNewPlace's college housing search.
Although Frederick Community College student housing may be very conveniently close to campus, moving to an off campus apartment can be a great way to save money, put some distance in between yourself and an RA, get accustomed to living in your own apartment and building up rental history.
FCC apartments for rent are available close to campus and in other neighborhoods around Frederick, MARYLAND. Using our map based university apartment finder, you can find off campus housing near campus to ensure you can still get to all the FCC 0 games and make it to class on time.
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the first half of the book is focused on tokyo. full of pictures. and maps. since most visitors to japan spend a bit of time in tokyo ... i scanned some of those pages and put them on flickr. see the flickr button to the right. everything is in japanese. but if you see something you like then just ask the hotel staff. or your friends over here. and they can point you in the right direction. i hope. there are also some shops in kyoto, kobe, fukuoka, and the tokai area. if you'd like your own copy of the book, just let me know. i can hook you up. quite easily.
and this is the come home magazine. that inspired the shop and cafe book.
these magazines are lovely. lovely. full of so many ideas for your home. for your clothing style. mixed with a bit of crafting. and cooking. i love them. and so do many others.
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Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Sergey Brin, is exceedingly pregnant — and Brin himself has been spotted at the maternity ward. What will their baby look like? Wojcicki's genetic-testing startup, 23andMe, lets you spit into a vial and get a map to your genetic future. MakeMeBabies is not nearly as scientific, but we thought we'd run the couple's photos through to get a glimpse of their future progeny. Can you suggest a caption for the billionaire baby to be? The best will become the post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: "French blue shirt, khakis shortage hits Valley hard." (Image by MakeMeBabies)


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Ames straw poll under fire
The storied Ames Straw Poll is under fire, but that doesn't mean Iowa Republicans want to eliminate it entirely.
Many members of the Iowa Republican Party believe the historic poll — which is one of the first early tests of voter support for Republican presidential candidates — needs some real improvements.
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But few GOP party activists are willing to say it should be abolished and think a final decision on the poll's fate won't be made until 2014.
"I think the sentiment right now [toward the straw poll] is pretty mixed across the board," said Steve Scheffler, the Republican National Committeeman for Iowa and a member of the Iowa GOP State Central Committee. "You couldn't say there's a consensus behind anything right now. … I'd like to save it if we could but we need to be realistic."
The poll, first held in 1979, is part of a big conservative confab in the Iowa city of Ames held in August the year prior to each presidential election without a Republican incumbent. Candidates buy space at the event and provide food and entertainment for supporters that are often bused into the event by the candidates' campaigns.
The poll has functioned as a first gauge of a Republican's organizing skill and in some of the past few cycles, the winner has been an evangelical conservative that didn't go on to win the GOP nomination. The results have been mixed since its inception: George W. Bush won the straw poll in 1999 and nabbed the nomination, and Bob Dole tied for first place in 1995. But in other years, it was won by candidates who quickly flamed out.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad sparked a kerfuffle over the poll's future late last month when he said it has "outlived its usefulness."
His concerns are ones that were raised earlier in the 2012 cycle, when Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won the 2011 straw poll but came in sixth in the Iowa caucuses in January. The GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012, John McCain and Mitt Romney, avoided investing heavily in the straw poll but still won the GOP nomination.
Still, it's true that Mike Huckabee, who came in a surprising second place in the 2007 straw poll behind Mitt Romney, went on to win the Iowa caucuses that year.
"This cycle, Michele Bachmann won the straw poll but didn't do well in the caucuses," said Chip Saltsman, who served as Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager. "That's not what happened four years ago; … for us, it was an incredibly useful tool."
Proponents of the straw poll see it as a way for Iowans to get close access to the candidates as well as for candidates to test their ground operation and grass-roots support in advance of the caucuses. Opponents, though, say it's an overly expensive, unscientific event that drains a candidate's funds and requires a big investment to even get on the board, let alone win.
"I think the thing that's most offensive is the pay-to-play nature," said Brian Hughes, a Florida-based GOP consultant and the former spokesman for the Florida Republican Party. "You can't make an honest assessment of a candidate and their operation when all it really takes to succeed there is spreading money to this core group of Iowa activists."


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The Drop: Electronic Music With Nuance (And Saxophone)
When it comes to electronic music production, there are a bunch of ways tracks can be made. There's the "arranging digital samples" approach, where producers layer pre-recorded sounds or loops to compose a piece. There's the "analog to digital" approach, where a producer will play analog synthesizers or program drum machines and feed them into a digital audio work station like Ableton. And there's what I'll call the "organic to digital" approach, where producers record more conventional instruments and then process the results in a computer. Most producers employ some combination of these techniques. One who uses all of them in really interesting ways is the 27-year-old producer Brian Allen Simon, or Anenon.
Inner Hue, Anenon's full-length debut, out next week, maintains a sort of astral narrative for just over half an hour. Created mostly on a Rhodes keyboard, Roland 909 and a tenor saxophone (as detailed in this wonderfully geeked-out interview on XLR8R) and then arranged on a computer, Inner Hue is two parts dream to one part beat. Sometimes Simon's Roland 909 drum machine runs under glistening bell-like timbres, sometimes under what sounds like effervescent clouds. Oftentimes beats give way completely to expose ambient voices or his tenor saxophone. The title track, "Inner Hue," has a shuffled rhythm backing echoing guitar plucks, and steady Rhodes atmospherics.
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Inner Hue
- from Inner Hue
- by Anenon
Here's what Simon had to say about making the piece.
"Early mornings and late nights spent toiling over timbre and feel, weeks and months to perfect. My entire body going deeper and deeper into the sound of the Rhodes (which makes up the entirety of the harmonic and melodic material of this track) with each stare into the computer screen."
When I read this email, I thought of a conversation that I've been hearing for as long as I've followed electronic music, the one where people question or laud a producer's methods as a way of undermining or celebrating their product. Recently, Spin.com writer Philip Sherburne addressed this issue in a piece about the revelation that Steve Angello's 2010 smash hit, "Knas," was the product of a pre-recorded sample. Some listeners felt cheated.
I must confess, I dig that song. When "Knas" blasted through the speakers at Electric Zoo in 2010, I raised my hands, stood on my toes waiting for the drop, then jumped up and down madly when that infamous sample kicked in.
"Knas" resonates with me in certain times and places in ways that Anenon's music never will. But when I'm sitting home alone in my small apartment in Washington, D.C., and have time to unpack the nuances in Simon's reverb, the patterns he tapped out on his Roland 909 drum kit or the lilting melodies he found in that Rhodes, this is the kind of music I prefer. When I hear Inner Hue, it's clear that this is not a work that's been patched together from sample kits; I can hear that its been meticulously fine-tuned, and that it's something very personal to its creator.
There's no right way to make a song, but in the case of Anenon, you can certainly hear that its been done right.


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Developing with Docker and Webpack
One of the big advantages of using containers in general is that you can keep your environments (whether that's dev, test, staging, prod or even another developer's machine) the same, which helps in tracking down those "prod only" bugs. Because of that, I won't be using webpack-dev-server. I know, I know, but I'm really interested in making sure that my development environment matches the others as closely as possible, and webpack-dev-server is definitely not a production ready server. So, here's the plan:


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Potato Knish Recipe
- Yield:Makes 8 knishes
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- Total time:2 hours 15 minutes
- For the Dough:
- 2 1/2 cups (12 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice from 1 lemon
- 1/2 cup water
- For the Filling:
- 1 pound russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces (about 3 medium)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup finely sliced scallion whites and greens (about 4 scallions)
- 1 egg, beaten
For the Dough: In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt and whisk to combine. In a separate bowl whisk together egg, vegetable oil, lemon juice, and water. Pour wet ingredients over dry and using a wooden spoon mix until a dough forms. Using your hands knead until dough comes together and is smooth, about 1 minute. Wrap dough tightly with plastic wrap and let sit for 1 hour at room temperature or up to overnight in the refrigerator. Allow to come to room temperature before proceeding.
For the Filling: In a large pot cover the potatoes with water, season well with salt, and bring to a simmer. Cook until potatoes are easily pierced with a knife, about 10 minutes. Drain potatoes and let dry for a few minutes before adding the butter and mashing until almost smooth. Add scallions and mix, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Allow to cool to room temperature.
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper.
Divide the dough in half and roll it out into a wide, thin rectangle, less than 1/4-inch thick. Divide half the filling into 4 balls and place them along the bottom of the dough. Loosely roll the dough around the filling balls then twist and pinch off the dough between each ball. Leaving one end of each knish open, pinch the dough on the opposite end of the knish until sealed and place the knish sealed side down on the baking sheet and press gently on the top to form a short, squat roll. Repeat with remaining dough and filling then brush the knishes with beaten egg. Bake until golden, about 45 minutes. Serve immediately.
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The Flying Wallendas were the most famous high-wire act of the 20th century. They worked without a safety net and were known for their high-wire headstands, bicycle rides, and especially for their acutely dangerous signature act: the seven-person human pyramid. The Wallendas troupe was created in 1922 by family patriarch Karl Wallenda, and began touring with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1928. (Their original name was The Great Wallendas; the "Flying" nickname came later.) The family has endured various tragedies over the years, including a famous 1962 pyramid crash in Detroit which left two performers dead and one paralyzed. Karl Wallenda died in a 1978 fall from an outdoor wire 10 stories high in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1998 the sixth generation of the Wallendas returned to Detroit and performed the seven-person pyramid again, this time successfully. Various members of the family have continued performing into the 21st century; one, Nik Wallenda, made a successful walk over Niagara Falls on 15 June 2012.
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A 1978 movie, The Great Wallendas, starred Lloyd Bridges as patriarch Karl Wallenda.
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Purity Select Launches New HGH Supplement Release
Purity Select, owner of HGH.com, currently produces several popular health supplements. They continue this tradition with Somatropinne, a natural growth hormone. Already a famous HGH release, Somatropinne is now launched with a better formulation. HGH.com is a leading online store and manufacturer of HGH supplements, bodybuilding supplements, and general health supplements.
Human Growth Hormone
Purity Select Launches New HGH Supplement Release
The natural substances in our body, human growth hormone (HGH) helps the body and organs of a person to grow and become strong. As they age, the amount of HGH in their bodies decreases. Increasing levels of HGH in the body in adults has several important benefits including anti-aging properties and increases muscle mass.
Main Objectives of Somatropinne
Created as a HGH supplement, Somatropinne is the number one body prohibited body manufacturer and an anti aging growth hormone supplement on the market. A nice somatropinne pile with Clenbuteral XDV to burn fat and build lean muscle faster. Many of the benefits of Somatropinne include:
– Increases biceps, pectoralis, abdominals, and obliques
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For beginners, 3 months supply is recommended. A free 5-day sample trial is available. Purity Select Launches New HGH Supplement Release
Somatropinne Species
Somatropinne is a combination of amino acids and growth factors that are formulated to improve how the body looks, feels and performs. Somatropinne also gives an advantage of the doctor's growth hormone injection prescribed by doctors in easy-to-swallow pills. With a full 90 day money back guarantee, Purity Select believes that those with Somatropinne effects will be 100% satisfied. Purity Select Launches New HGH Supplement Release
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I have heard that generally the Dzogchen masters only authorize people to to teach Dzogchen if they have reached the third vision. And, of course, he or she is someone who is a suitable teacher. Scholars shouldn't teach from books about what they have not experienced for themselves.Malcolm wrote:I don't know. I don't know Lama Drimed personally.heart wrote:
So you are saying he reached the third vision himself? Or isn't that necessary to be able to guide people through the visions?
I have friend of mine who did an 8 year retreat under Chagdud Tulku focusing on thogal. But I don't think he got past the second vision himself.
It took Kunzang Dechen Lingpa seven years to reach the third vision in strict retreat.
Although I do not know him personally, I think we should all assume that, since Chagdud Tulku named him his Dzogchen heir, Lama Drimed is a very high level Dzogchen practitioner. I would think this whould be encouraging for those of you who practice Dzogchen because he did not do three year retreat until after Chagdud Tulku passed. However, I hear he was unbelievably diligent in practice... and of course he was officially recognized as a tulku as well.
I'm a ngondro practitioner myself.


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Some of you may prefer the titanium backup and other similar applications available for this task. For these applications you have to pay and they are available for the rooted android devices only.Unlike IFTTT,they will not provide you searchable spreadsheet.
What you require:
• Install IFTTT on your android device.
• Make a Google account
Here are the steps for setting automatic backup for your SMS's and logs as spreadsheets in Google Drive:
Allow the application to run for creating new "recipe"
For setting the backup for all kinds of call logs, three different recipes are required:
• Received calls
• Missed calls
• Dialed calls
1. Firstly choose the channel for "IF" (Tap the + button infront of IF). In the appeared list, select the "android phone call" and press the + sign in blue color present next to " any phone call placed"
2. Now, choose the channel for "then". Scroll and select the "Google drive". Again press the + button in blue present next to "add row to spreadsheet".
3. Select whether you want the notifications or not when the recipe is running. Click on finish.
Now its done. After completing this, every phone call made on your device will automatically get saved in spreadsheet file of your Google drive when the internet is connected or will work the same when it will get connected.
In the similar way, you can make recipe for missed and received calls, by selecting it in the initial step.
The process is quite same to that of phone logs. But the difference is that you have to choose "Android SMS" as the channel for "IF" in the initial step.
Note: although this application does not covers the older messages received by you, but you can download and install "sms backup & restore" available in play store and utilize it.
In this way, you can create your backup plan to store the SMS and logs in the spreadsheet for all time (until you want to delete them). Acknowledge us with your experience and other alternatives in comments.


text: Armani's given us the first look at fall's Giorgio campaign. It stars a pretty elegant looking Sasha Pivovarova in a mauve fur with an orange python bag. Mert and Marcus also shot Diego Fragoso, the Brazilian model who just covered the spring/summer edition of Hercules and walked everything from Mugler to Louis Vuitton during men's fashion week. Click through to see!


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Recruiting Rumor Mill: 09.27.10 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on September 27th, 2010
After a prolonged absence from the summer circuit it appears like Sonny Vaccaro, who was once quiet possibly the most powerful man in AAU basketball, is making his triumphant return. As Gary Parrish notes, Vaccaro should make things more interesting.
- It's already almost a week old, but ESPN released its team recruiting rankings and you will be shocked to see who is #1.
- Arizona was able to land some big names like Josiah Turner and Nick Johnson over the past few weeks, but as we pointed out last week their haul would be coming to an end soon due to the Lute Olson-era sanctions against the program. Now we see the results as Sean Miller has told super recruit LeBryan Nash that there isn't any room for him in Tucson.
- Speaking of the Wildcats, last week we mentioned the refreshing case of Norvel Pelle who was just starting to do in-house visits, but now Pelle has moved ahead to planning official visits as he recently expressed interest in St John's, UTEP, UConn, and "the whole PAC 10 except Arizona" according to a phone interview with Adam Zagoria, although Pelle has not committed to any official visits yet.
- In yet another reaction to Arizona's filling its scholarships already . . . Quinn Cook, who had been high on Arizona before Turner's surprise commitment, is now considering Duke, Kansas, UCLA, Villanova, and UNC. In a rather unsurprising surprising comment, Steve Smith, his new coach at Oak Hill, says Cook is "comparable" to Rajon Rondo, Ty Lawson, Marcus Williams (hopefully leaving the laptops out of it), and Brandon Jennings who all played at Oak Hill. Cook is a talented prospect, but outside of Williams I think Smith might be stretching the truth a bit. To be fair, I can say my paycheck is comparable to John Paulson's paycheck, but Paulson made way more than I did (at least before the RTC royalty checks get processed).
- Last week we noted that Austin Rivers had taken Florida off his list of potential schools and now it seems like he has set dates for his official visits: UNC (October 1st), Duke (October 15th), and Kansas (October 22nd). You can guess that the basketball coaches will be especially interested in the football team's performances those weekends against East Carolina (could be challenging for the depleted Tar Heels), Miami (this one could be ugly), and Texas A&M (depends on the week for the inconsistent Jayhawks).


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Two northern Washington County communities have received notice from candidates to run for elected positions.
There are three open spots on the Wellman City Council up for election. Wellman City Clerk Donna Wade says three incumbents will run again.
Those candidates are Johnny Schwartz, Steve Slaubaugh, and Marc Pennington. Wellman resident Bob Goodrich will also run for a position.
In Kalona, there are two open city council positions, and the mayor's position is also open. City Clerk Karen Christner says Ken Harrington will run for mayor and incumbent Claudine Miller-Zahradnek and Greg Schmidt are running for the city council positions.


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A former sheriff's deputy in northwest Iowa has been accused of sexually abusing a teenager.
The Lyon County Sheriff's Office says 35-year-old Christopher Wayne Lincecum was arrested Tuesday and charged with third-degree sexual abuse.
The department began investigating Lincecum at the end of June. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says Lincecum had inappropriate sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl on one of two occasions when the victim went on a ride-along with Lincecum while he worked.
Officials say Lincecum was booked and subsequently bonded out. Court records do not list an attorney.
The department says Lincecum left the department in the spring due to an unrelated matter. Additional information was not provided.


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group: bookmarks: more: link - 47 views
Re-opening this topic for a minor improvement suggestion. It's impossible to learn the URL of the group bookmark if you are not a member of the group. Example: at http://groups.diigo.com/group/...
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Blue Shield
International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS)
- 1st International Conference of ICBS on Protecting the World's Cultural Heritage in Times of Change: Emergency Preparedness and Response - 08-10 December 2011, National Museum of Korea, Seoul - Web site - Programme (December, 02 2011)
Blue Shield statement about the worrying situation in Libya. (June 21, 2011)
- Blue Shield statement on Syria. (May 20, 2011)
- Blue Shield statement about the worrying situation in Libya. (March 4, 2011)
- Blue Shield statement about the earthquake in Christchurch, New-Zealand. (March 3, 2011)
- Statement by the International Committé of the Blue Shield on threatened cultural property in Egypt (January 31, 2011) - [Version en français]
The Blue Shield is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is the protective emblem specified in the 1954 Hague Convention (Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict) for marking cultural sites to give them protection from attack in the event of armed conflict. The Blue Shield network consists of organizations dealing with museums, archives, audiovisual supports, libraries, as well as monuments and sites.
The International Committee of the Blue Shield, founded in 1996, comprises representatives of the five Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in this field:the International Council on Archives (www.ica.org),
the International Council of Museums (www.icom.museum),
the International Council on Monuments and Sites (www.icomos.org), and
the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (www.ifla.org)
the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (www.ccaaa.org)
National Blue Shield Committees have been founded in a number of countries. The Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS), founded in December 2008, is coordinating and strengthening international efforts to protect cultural property at risk of destruction in armed conflicts or natural disasters. The ANCBS has its headquarters in The Hague.Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS) Office
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
2517 AN The Hague,
The Netherlands
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com">contact[at]ancbs.org


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Motorists traveling an eastern Boulder County stretch of U.S. Highway 287 should expect lower speed limits and some delays as crews fill potholes and make pavement repairs this coming Monday through Thursday.
Maintenance work to slow traffic on U.S. 287
The Colorado Department of Transportation said the maintenance project will be on parts of U.S. 287 between Colo. Highways 7 and 52. The work is scheduled to take place between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Monday through Thursday.
CDOT officials said they're working with the Alexander Dawson School to temporarily shut down the school's access from U.S. 287 while the new asphalt being installed at that intersection cools for two to four hours.


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Quoting from whyquit.com:
The Law of Addiction
"Administration of a drug to an addict will cause
re-establishment of chemical dependence
upon the addictive substance."
Smokers are often furious with me because they believe I caused them to go back to smoking. Why do they think this? Well, I have this nasty habit of making a really big deal any time a clinic participant takes one puff or maybe just a few cigarettes. The smoker feels I am so persuasive in my arguments that he has no choice but to have a full-fledged relapse. In his opinion, I forced him back to the lifetime dependency which will impair his health and may eventually cost him his life. He is convinced that if I had not made such a major issue out of the incident, he would just have smoked that one time and would never have done it again. How can I sleep each night knowing what I have done?
I sleep quite well, thank you. For, you see, I am not responsible for these people's relapses to cigarettes. They can take full credit for becoming smokers again. They relapsed because they broke the one major law of nicotine addiction - they took a puff. This is not my law. I am not setting myself up to be judge, jury, and executioner. The law of physiological addiction states that administration of a drug to an addict will cause reestablishment of the dependence on that substance. I didn't write that law. I don't execute that law. My job is much simpler than that. All I do is interpret the law. This means, by taking a puff, the smoker either goes back to full-fledged smoking or goes through the withdrawal process associated with quitting. Most don't opt for the withdrawal.
Every clinic has a number of participants who have quit in the past for one year or longer. In fact, I had one clinic participant who had stopped for a period of 24 years before he relapsed. He never heard that such a law existed, that even after 24 years, the ex-smoker is not totally freed from his imprisonment of addiction. He didn't understand that the day he tossed his "last" cigarette, he was placed "on probation" for the rest of his life. But ignorance of the law is not excusable - not the way the laws of a physiological nature are written. By the American standards of justice, this seems to be cruel and unusual punishment. But this is the way things are.
Maybe instead of going to a smoking clinic, a recently relapsed person should contact his attorney to plead his case of why he should be able to have an occasional cigarette when he desires. Maybe he can cheat just once, get a sympathetic jury, be judged innocent, and walk out of the courtroom a free and independent person. Surely, in pleading his case before twelve impartial people, he will probably have no problem convincing them that he is innocent of any wrongdoing. And, as he happily walks out of court a free and independent person, he will probably have an uncontrollable urge and then light a cigarette.
Don't look for loopholes in the law of addiction. You will be convicting yourself back to smoking. While it may seem harsh and unfair, to many, smoking is a crime punishable by death. Don't try to cheat the system - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!


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It's that time of year again, and for most of us it's tucking our old cars in for another long cold winter! But don't tuck your car in too tightly yet, ididit is opening our doors for its 25th Anniversary and we want you to come and be a part of it! On October 1st, 2011 we are hosting our annual Car Show & Open House right here at ididit in Tecumseh, Michigan and this year were celebrating 25 years! Starting at 9:00am until 3:00pm come and check out the baddest rides that Michigan and the surrounding states have to offer! There will also be door prizes, food, live entertainment and much more to make you want to stay, relax and catch up with your buddies all day long! To learn more about this year's event and to get signed up visit www.ididitinc.com! We hope to see you all here October 1st, 2011!
For more information visit www.ididitinc.com or call (517) 424-0577


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Good article! I updated it though to correct errors in the instructions I ran into.
20090309 - fukawi2 Excellent. Spent 3 days fiddling around with courier-mta... Spent a couple of hours tweaking this to use PostgreSQL for auth and works perfectly :)
Everything is ok but pacman -Sy postfix-mysql do not anything. There is no such package.
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pacman -Si postfix Replaces : postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql
- I updated the article.--Gog 06:34, 22 October 2009 (EDT)
Any chance the MySQL portion could be made to be more explicit? In particular, how to create postfixuser and what permissions to give it. This is the SQL I had to use that wasn't in this page:
CREATE DATABASE postfix; USE postfix; ...create tables... CREATE USER 'postfixuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'XXXXXXXXXX'; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON domains TO postfixuser; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON forwardings TO postfixuser; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON users TO postfixuser;
I'd add it myself, but I'm not too savvy on databases and I'd like someone else to look over the permissions I used before recommending them in the wiki page. Buce 16:49, 6 April 2011 (EDT)
- I tried to expand the section with your code: it's up to each user to understand, possibly modify, and take responsibility for using it. -- Kynikos 04:01, 7 April 2011 (EDT)
Using without MySQL
Good article, but it doesn't even speak about one important fact: it's possible to have postfix without mysql.
Mysql is quite heavy for what is required by postfix, and I want to manage users separately in an LDAP database. I'll see if it's possible to do it and perhaps update the wiki.
FAM is obsolete
Hi! Could you please update the article, since
pam FAM (section 8) is now obsolete? People are supposed instead to use gamin now, which loads automatically.
I sort of followed the instructions blindly, skipping the fam part, and it worked beautifully.
I don't want to break that, so I'll leave the editing to someone more experienced with Postfix.
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Step 1: Ensure DNS setup - What does this mean?
It sounds like you have to be running a dns server to run postfix, and although I'm just starting to work on learning postfix I don't think that's what is intended. Without any reference (and really the end reference is not enough), anyone reading the article is going to have to dig this information up - not necessarily a bad thing, but when Step 1 is something that sounds pretty intimidating, it probably should be fleshed out. Once (If) I figure this out, I'll stop back and edit it. Timm (talk) 00:17, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In another dominant performance, the MIT women's tennis team backed up their recent national ranking with an 8-1 victory over Vassar College on Saturday afternoon. The Engineers were recently ranked 27th in the country and 9th in the New England Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and have now notched their seventh straight victory, upsetting 22nd ranked Vassar College. It was the first win for MIT over the Brewers since 2003.
MIT took two of the three doubles matches, with the pairs of Candace Wu and Lauren Quisenberry and Julia Hsu and Bianca Dumitrascu each winning 8-2. Caroine Dunn-Rankin and Jennifer Ruther captured Vassar's only point with an 8-1 over Jenny Dohlman and Jen Rees at third doubles.
Dumitrascu got revenge on Ruther, beating her 6-1, 7-6 at fourth singles, as all six MIT singles players won in straight sets. Wu and Hsu each posted shutouts in their first set, while only Melissa Diskin and Dumitrascu needed seven games to win sets. Katie O'Neal jumped off the bench and won 6-4, 6-2 over Natalie Santiago at fifth singles.
The Engineers remain undefeated this spring season and improve to 12-4 on the season. They will host Skidmore College on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM. Vassar falls to 13-5 on the season and will travel to Hamilton College to play against Bowdoin on April 24th.


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Newport Beach, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/06/2012 -- Respected Orange County plastic surgeon Dr. David Benvenuti, M.D. is reporting that patients are seeing wonderful results from his new Modified MACS facelift. The procedure provides natural and lasting changes in mid face and neck tightening in a shorter procedure with less recovery time. Dr. Benvenuti has studied extensively with world experts and specializes in a number of plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures that incorporate the latest advances in plastic surgery techniques.
When it comes to obtaining a more youthful appearance through facelift procedures, the best plastic surgeons are known for skillfully balancing maximum results with minimally invasive procedures for faster recovery time. Noted Orange County plastic surgery innovator Dr. David Benvenuti recently introduced his Modified MACS facelift procedure, which has been producing wonderful results that optimize that delicate balance. The Modified MACS incorporates the best aspects of the new Minimal Access Cranial Suspension Lift (MACS) with Dr. Benvenuti's Composite Lift.
"After spending time with noted European plastic surgeons Drs. Verpaele and Tonnard in their Ghent, Belgium operating room, I imported their new MACS techniques to the United States and incorporated its best aspects with the best aspects of my own Composite Lift technique," said Dr. Benvenuti. "The resultant hybrid, or Modified MACS as I call it, gives a superb and lasting result without scars behind the ears, in the scalp, lateral neck or chin for the same natural look that my patients have expected for the last 20 years."
According to Dr. Benvenuti, his Modified MACS is what he considers a "mid facelift technique that addresses the mid-face as completely as with the full facelift while successfully tightening the neck." "The modified MACS is less aggressive than the Full Composite Lift but is still phenomenally effective while creating a shorter procedure with less recovery time," said Dr. Benvenuti.
The new cosmetic surgery procedure is excellent for younger patients who are even in their 30's as well as patients in their 50's and 60's with certain skin and neck qualities. The modified MACS is also a great surgery for patients that have already had a full facelift with their necks treated by plication of the muscles and with fat sculpting under the chin. Dr. Benvenuti utilizes light sedation with the new procedure.
Dr. Benvenuti's office is an accredited surgical facility for plastic surgery and is fully certified at the highest level by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF). Dr. Benvenuti offers a private facility to those patients that need post-procedure recover time. Among the procedures offered by his practice are breast surgery, facelifts, nose surgery, cheek implants, chin advancement, and several others.
Dr. Benvenuti's website provides detailed explanations of each procedure as well as further information in his free newsletter and blog. The website also has numerous patient comparison photos. For more information, please visit http://www.drbenvenuti.com/
About Dr. Benvenuti M.D.
Dr. Benvenuti established his practice exclusively for plastic and reconstructive surgery in Newport Beach in 1983. The experienced and dedicated physician has studied extensively with world experts in New York, Dallas, Honolulu, France, and Belgium, and he continues to incorporate their latest advances in plastic surgery techniques into his daily practice. Dr. Benvenuti is a Diplomate American Board of Plastic Surgery as well as a Diplomate American Board of Surgery.


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Mantralayam Temple to Panchamukhi Anjaneya Temple & Bichali, you can easily hire Shared Autos outside of the temple. Panchamukhi Anjaneya Temple is 23km(Approx.) First, you have to pass through Madhavaram village. From there, take a right turn and proceed till you reach R.Tungabhadra. The roads are very bad and a permanent bridge is under construction.
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Whenever out-of-towners email us to ask what kind of gearhead stuff they should see when they're in Southern California, we always advise to try and be here during one of the six or seven weekends per year that the Pomona Swap Meet is held. It happens at the historic Fairplex in Pomona, site of the very first NHRA drag race and where two meets per year are still held. The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is also on the property.
Our most recent trek to Pomona was Sunday, December 4, and we cruised the car corral seeking new project cars but didn't find anything we couldn't live without. The swap meet was a little smaller than usual, as it often is in December, but there was still lots of sheetmetal to choose from. See it below in out gallery of 260 photos. For more information, see PomonaSwapMeet.com