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GU2 Radio needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
We require a fresh, young, vibrant logo for a UK student radio station that is easily visible on any poster/banner/website.
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GU2 radio is a student run radio station, broadcasting a range of music and shows. The station is targeted at students predominantly aged from 18 to 24 years.
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Now that Food52's Editorial Assistant Brette Warshaw has stocked her First Kitchen, she's ready to throw parties in it: no-stress weeknight parties for anyone, anytime, and (almost) every kitchen. You're invited.
Today: A game plan for a fist-pump-worthy version of taco night.
Growing up, there was something foreign and exciting about taco night; the announcement was worthy of my brother and I throwing our hands up in the air, screaming wildly, and running around the kitchen like googly-eyed maniacs.
This happened often, since taco night was once a week.
But now -- as a quasi-grown-up, far away from home -- taco night does not come once a week. It comes rarely ever. So when I decided to have friends over for my own iteration -- a grown-up one, complete with cajeta fondue and margaritas -- they reacted just like my ten-year-old self: they pumped their hands in the air and bounded on over.
Because in all of its foreign-ness -- we're in West Philadelphia, miles away from Mexico -- taco night is both celebratory and comforting. In other words: it's perfect for a weeknight dinner party.
The Menu:
Lemon Lime MargaritasRoberto Sanibañez' Classic Guacamole (and chips!)Diana Kennedy's Carnitas Corn tortillas + picked onions + citrus slawCoconut Cajeta Chocolate Fondue
The night before: Juice your lemons and limes for your margaritas. Slice your pork shoulder for your carnitas into strips around 2 x 3/4th inches, and put them, covered, in the fridge. Make these pickled onions for the tacos; they'll need to rest overnight.
As soon as you get home from work: Get your pork and your water rolling on the stove. Now: leave it alone. Forget about it.
An hour before company comes: Make your citrus slaw -- I made enough to both garnish the tacos and to serve as a salad -- and put it in the fridge. Mash your onion, chile, salt, and cilantro together for the guacamole. Turn the heat up on the carnitas; the pork will start caramelizing. Enlist a friend to bring over crushed ice -- because no margarita is a real margarita without crushed ice.
When the guests arrive: Mash the avocados in with your chile/onion/cilantro paste, and serve to your hungry guests (make sure to reserve some in the fridge for the tacos). Wrap the corn tortillas in foil, and stick them in the oven to warm. When the pork is ready -- and by now, it should be -- set it out on the table with the slaw, pickled onions, tortillas, and hot sauce. Top off everyone's margarita glass.
After the taco rush is over: Get that fondue started -- it will take 20 minutes of simple, stove-top cooking. Serve with pretzels. Pour yourself another margarita. Taco night is complete.
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Patch: Port Washington cancels Pirate Fest
Port Washington's Pirate Festival will be looking for another port.
According to WISN 12 News' media partners, the Port Washington-Saukville Patch, the festival -- scheduled for June 7-9 -- has been canceled this year.
Tuesday evening, the Port Washington Common Council was scheduled to discuss a new event for that weekend.
The festival's website makes no mention of the cancellation yet.
But its Facebook page posted this message:
"Cancelled. Dear Friends of the Pirate Festival please make plans to invade another port June 7, 8 & 9th, 2013, you are not wanted in Port Washington. More information to follow including auctioning off Pirate Festival treasures. We are so sorry to pass along the bad news. Hopefully in the future we can find a port where we and our money are welcome. Please keep posted."
You can read more on the story on the Port Washington-Saukville Patch.


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Pizza Stone with Frame
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- Summary
Cooking up brick oven–style pizzas at home is easier than ever with this pizza stone, which sits inside a stainless-steel carrier for safe, quick transfer to the oven or outdoor grill. The stone is made of even-heating cordierite ceramic, an ideal choice for pizza and bread baking that produces a beautifully browned, crispy crust.
- Made of cordierite, a high-fired ceramic that offers excellent thermal shock resistance.
- Eliminates hot spots while cooking and produces a uniformly browned crust.
- Draws out moisture from dough for a crisp crust.
- Includes a stainless-steel frame with handles for easy transfer.
- Frame is dishwasher safe.
- 15" sq. surface area for pizza.
- Also useful for baking breads.
- Convenient for heating and reheating frozen pizzas and baked goods.
- 19 1/4" x 15 3/4" x 2 3/4" high.
- 9 lb. 3 oz.
- Made in China.
- Use & Care
- For best results, pre-heat oven or grill to 500˚F (260˚C) and place stones in the middle of the lowest rack of the oven or at the center of the grill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat stones, then with dust with cornmeal before placing the food on top.
- If baking a prepared food item, follow the manufacturer's instructions on packaging.
- If baking freshly made dough, a flat metal spatula or a pizza peel dusted with cornmeal works well for transferring food to the baking stone.
- Do not place pastry or cookies directly on the stone; the butter or fat content will cause the stone to smoke.
- Stones will get hot — use oven mitt or glove when handling.
- Scrape off any excess food with a spatula.
- When the stones have cooled, run them under hot water while scrubbing with a brush.
- Do not use soap on the stones as it may leave a soapy aftertaste.
- The natural properties of the baking stones will cause them to darken and spot with age — do not attempt to remove this discoloration.
- Air-dry the stones and store inside the oven.
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Orders received by 9:00 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
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At Williams Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
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Rated 2 out of 5 by featherybubbles from too fragile I ordered one and it came completely packaged but an edge was sheared off. Went to the store to return and they had one in stock, but when we opened it to check it was in worse condition. Clearly doesn't ship well. The frame seems incredibly convenient thoughDate published: 2018-01-01Rated 1 out of 5 by Midnightsmom from Don't Bother Ordering I've ordered two, and both arrived in pieces. I've a feeling it's just too delicate for real life usage. This is very disappointing as the quality of the products I've purchased from Williams Sonoma is usually top notch.Date published: 2016-12-14Rated 5 out of 5 by SonomaReviewer from Love this! My husband wanted a pizza stone for the grill and this is a very nice one. It is too bad that it is no longer available for sale. We used it for a make your own pizza night Christmas Eve and people loved it!Date published: 2015-02-01Rated 5 out of 5 by ChefDeJour from Fantastic Crust Great pizza stone! It produces an incredible crust. Perfectly sized. Clean with spatula to remove any debris, then wipe with warm water only. The frame makes it easy to handle but you must use gloves it handling hot. I use a pizza peel to remove the pizza, then let this cool in the oven before removing. Excellent stone that works in oven and on grill. I personally prefer putting this in the oven then preheating oven. Allow the stone to get hot for 30 minutes.Date published: 2013-10-03Rated 5 out of 5 by Mary87 from AWESOME!!! This helped us make pizza like we got in Italy. Obviously, not quite as good as Italy but extremely close. Will never order pizza again. The first pizza stone was broken during shipping but we called customer service and had another one within two days. The stone is a little fragile but with a little careful storing its not really a problem.Date published: 2013-07-18Rated 5 out of 5 by NicSF from Excellent Pizza Stone We thought this Pizza Stone was a unique idea for using on our grill for a summer rooftop party. What a HIT! This pizza stone was fantastic.....we couldnt get the pizza's out quick enough to feed our guests! Our only complaint is that we didnt buy two of them!Date published: 2012-07-23Rated 5 out of 5 by MamaR from Grilled Pizza with friends! Purchased this at my local Williams Sonoma store along with a box of pizza crust and small cookbook for grilling pizza. Invited some friends over on Friday and thought we would see just what the big deal with grilled pizza was! This stone fit perfect on our grill and turned out three beautifully grilled pizzas. The cookbook helped guide us on how to grill the pizzas and using the Stone helped avoid any accidental messes on the grates. We all had a great Friday night thanks to our new purchase.Date published: 2012-06-25


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When mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo travel to Europe on holidays, they don't expect the end of the world to follow them. Seth's murder, however, puts exactly that into motion. From opposite sides of death, the Castillo twins grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia. The Earth we know is just one of many "realms", three of which are inhabited by humans during various stages of their lives...and their afterlives.
In the tradition of Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin and inspired by numerous arcane sources, the "Books of the Cataclysm" begin in the present world but soon propel the reader to a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and fantastic.
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- 10-04-13
Overly Outlandish
This must be one of the very few audiobooks that I simply cannot get into or finish. After a superb start it simply turns freakish (apologies to those who enjoyed the book).
I've only read it part-way, but it seems the only 3 humans are the three teenagers who are there from the start. The rest are outlandish monsters I don't have enough interest to try and imagine. The living are under threat, the dead are under threat, and so is every being in higher, lower, or in-between zones. All constantly under threat. And its all so other-worldly that it feels like a chaos of confusion heading for decimation and destruction.
I love books about fantasy and magic, and have probably been thoroughly spoilt by Patrick Rothfuss' wonderfully and warmly human "The Name of the Wind" and its sequels. (Cant wait for the fourth book in the series!) But there's a difference between imagination and hallucination. I need some of what Sean Williams takes before I can digest this particular offering.
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- Lauffeuer
- 07-07-12
Mixed Opinion
It's quite a trip. Both in terms of the story and the moments that make you say, "What was the author on and is there any left?" It is hard to talk about the novel without spoilers, as the story takes twists right from the start. We quickly go from Non-fiction self discovery to Crime Drama to Otherworldly Fantasy. The multiverse created for the story is wonderful, the beings we meet are unique and alien, and the author also includes a good amount of human drama. The dynamics of the twins works well, most of all since the physically weaker twin is in the physical world while the less imaginative twin is forced into the spiritual world. This book even manages to have a love triangle that did make me twitch, which is quite an accomplishment on its own.
However the book is not without issues. The ending is a little Deus ex Machina. You aren't sure that anything the main characters did mattered other than getting from location x to location y, and again, you aren't really sure they played much of a role in that accomplishment. The book ends up being more of a tour than a story. The conclusion is very unsatisfying and while I know the story continues in the next book, that's not a good excuse for a weak ending. Also, the characters are not always fleshed out well, and so caring about any death in the story is difficult. The traitor in the group is predictable because of how the author tries to hide them. These weakness really do hurt the ability to enjoy the world the author has created.
I'm not sure if I'll continue the series. It will take a back burner while I read some things on my "must" list.
As for the performance, Eric Michael Summerer was good, but not overly so. However, I do think he helped the story along.
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Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong visited the Fukushima region with Greenpeace in the autumn of 2011 to bear witness to the effects wrought on the region by the nuclear fallout from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The shadow of radiation now looms over the people, the animals, and the environment of this area of Japan. Well-kept agricultural land is now becoming wild, children's play areas and petrol stations are contaminated and abandoned, and nature is taking back roads. Each photo captures the eerie beauty of a region left in limbo as radioactive fallout permeates all aspects of life.
Map of Japan showing the area covered in this exhibition
Radiation levels 5.7 microsieverts an hour / 70 times above normal. The normal rate before the Fukushima nuclear disaster was 0.08 microsieverts an hour. A depot sits abandoned and deteriorating in Tsushima, a village in Namie district, close to the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. With such high radiation levels, workers cannot return and it is possible they may never be able to.


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Dewey Docket: Laid-Off Staff to Have Their Day in Court
A former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP document specialist who sued the law firm last year after 450 staffers were told they would be laid off amid the firm's collapse will be given her day in court, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled this week.
Vittoria Conn had filed a class action in federal court last May alleging the troubled law firm failed to give proper notice to the employees, as required by state and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) laws. Ms. Conn sought relief on behalf of herself and the other staffers for wages they would have earned had the notice been issued within the required time period–60 days under the federal statute, 90 days under New York law and 30 days under California law.
After Dewey sought Chapter 11 protection later that month, Ms. Conn filed an adversary proceeding class action complaint in federal bankruptcy court, which if approved would allow her to present her case before the bankruptcy judge. . .


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Currently I asked my hosting provider to move my website from a windows server to a linux server. I'm trying to test if it works, but don't want to move the domain name just yet. I have to check if it works correctly. But when I try to login in wp-admin it redirects me to the old server. How can I change this?
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Cloud County Community College 2221 Campus Dr Concordia, KS 66901 Phone: (785) 243-1435
General Information About Cloud County Community College
The mission of Neosho County Community College is to enrich our communities and our students' lives.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Public
Special Learning Opportunities
- Distance learning opportunities
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- Remedial services
- Academic/career counseling service
- Employment services for students
- Placement services for completers
- On-campus day care for students' children
Credit Accepted
- Dual credit
- The acceptance of credits for work experience or military experience are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.Advanced placement (AP) credits
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
- Associate's degree
Campus Setting Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants Full Time Retention Rate 50%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 4,649 Native American 55.0 Asian 61.0 African American 313.0 Hispanic 188.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 1,070 Enrolled FullTime Graduates 0


text: Not even Rally Monkey's shocking murder earlier in the game could keep the Angels from setting themselves up to win Game 4 of the ALDS, with Reggie Willits occupying third base with one out in the top of the ninth. But then, a botched squeeze bunt, resulting Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek's ass tag on Willits, pretty much ended things for the Anaheimians. Jed Lowrie singled home Jason Bay in the bottom of the ninth to win if for the Red Sox, 3-2, and now its on to the ALCS against some expansion team from Florida. Poor Rally Monkey. Still, the tiny spokesimian fared better than Craig Sager's orange clownsuit. Unfortunately for New Englanders though, he stiill has about two dozen more in his closet. And so the Angels and the Cubs, winners of 197 games between them, will be idle after baseball's first playoff round. This is not exactly how Mike Scioscia envisioned it. Is there anyone left who thinks that fate or Bud Selig has not decreed a Manny Ramirez-Boston reunion in the World Series? That would kind of rule, actually. Phillies-Rays on the other hand would confuse foreign viewers and be a domestic ratings disaster. How could it not be fate? Lowrie was hitting hit .213 in September, and was 2-for-10 in the series, before his game-winner. Bay, who had doubled two batters earlier, beat Willits' throw from right, sliding head first across the plate. In the top of the ninth, pinch-hitter Kendry Morales doubled, and pinch-runner Willits took third on Jason Kendrick's sacrifice. Erick Aybar then missed completely on a 2-0 bunt suicide squeeze bunt attempt. Willits was tagged out tring to return to third. When the ball squirted out of Varitek's glove after he hit the ground, Angels manager Mike Scioscia argued unsuccessfully to umpire Tim Welke that Willits was safe. Red Sox Knock Out Angels With Ninth-Inning Dramatics [USA Today]


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Pingdynasty's BlipBox project combines two 5×8 LED matrices with a TO576S transparent touchscreen to create an interesting MIDI/OSC controller with visual feedback –
The BlipBox consists of a few simple elements cleverly put together. At the core there is a 10×8 matrix of super-bright LED's with individually adjustable brightness. Overlaying this is a precision touch screen. On the side you will find some more controls; in the current incarnation there is one button and one knob.
The device can also be used to emulate a monome grid controller. Bill of materials + additional info can be found @ BlipBox.org.


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Or, How I Learned To Stop Paying For Cable And Love The Internet
Comcast shut off our service last Thursday because I canceled. We've had our 802.11g router running on the 7Mbit/s DSL line for a week with no major issues, so the timing was fine. I bought a TV antenna so we could watch Ugly Betty that night. After a solid thirty minutes of increasingly abstract interpretative dance with the rabbit ears, we finally found an antenna position which wasn't too objectionable. There was ghosting, but not a ton of ghosting. There was static, but not a ton of static. There were color issues, but not a ton of color issues. It was the worse-is-better solution of the 50s.
Then, on Friday, Amber tried making the streaming video on Fox.com and NBC.com really big. Really big. Like TV-sized big. It works great. We plugged her laptop into the TV, set the websites for fullscreen, and watched a ton of streaming TV over the internet.
I think I counted two instances where the buffer ran dry during approximately four hours of television viewing. There weren't any digital artifacts. One network shows two 30 second commercials during the commercial breaks, the other relies solely on banner ads and doesn't have commercial breaks. The quality is better than the quality Comcast was delivering, because Comcast mostly has the broadcast channels as analog so we experience ghosting in our house. Also, we get far more digital problems (artifacts/black screen) per hour with Comcast than with internet streaming.
There's basically three issues to resolve now. First, we need a couch-accessible interface. Getting up once or twice an hour to change the show might have been acceptable in the 50s, but nowadays we are a little bit wiser and lazier. I'm thinking a presentation-style wireless mouse with little joystick will do the trick.
Second, we need to get back perhaps 50-75 pixels on the edge of the TV show: black on the edges and OS X/Firefox on the top. I'm hoping Firefox or OS X has the mojo to make this happen.
Third, we probably need to invest in a dedicated box so Amber doesn't have to sacrifice her laptop to the god of television. My first thought is a hacked Apple TV so we can run Firefox. At $229 that's a tough price point to beat. Are there other options in that price range or cheaper?


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The Leadership Development Forum (LDF) was first delivered in 1998 and received an overwhelmingly positive response from participants. Every LDF since the pilot has generated a "wait list" of employees interested in improving their leadership skills. Participants of the fourth LDF program made an impassioned plea to Fab 12's senior staff requesting that the staff attend LDF and model the way for the factory. As a result, the entire twenty-two-member senior staff attended LDF in 2000. Since its inception, eleven LDF programs have been delivered at Fab 12 to a total of 204 middle (group leaders) and senior (department manager) level factory managers.
Although the first LDF was delivered to Fab 12 leaders only, subsequent programs have included participants from other Intel business groups in an effort to proliferate LDF throughout the company. In 2002, LDF was first piloted outside of Fab 12 to Intel's Supplier Group and Corporate Quality Group. The participants' feedback about the program resulted in an expanded pilot to proliferate LDF on a large scale. LDF is now being offered to other Intel business groups across the United States and in Asia.
In 2000, the LDF program was highlighted at the corporate Intel Manufacturing Excellence Conference (IMEC). IMEC, an annual event attended by a worldwide audience of five hundred selected Intel employees, shares papers, presentations, and exhibits to proliferate "best known methods" across the company. A rigorous selection process ensues to select the exhibits and presentations (only eighty of 1,100 are selected). The focus of IMEC is primarily technical; however, due to LDF's unique design and success it was selected for the conference. The LDF program philosophy, key components, and results were shared in a presentation following the conference's keynote speaker, Intel's vice president of manufacturing. IMEC established LDF as the premier leadership development program throughout Intel.
The lessons learned are important for anyone in any organization coping with the daunting challenge of how to develop their management's leadership abilities.Read More


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Laurat kitten
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NRM 3 gives guidance on the quantification and description of maintenance works for the purpose of preparing initial order of cost estimates. The rules also aid the procurement and cost control of maintenance works.
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Aiming to assist valuers, this guidance highlights the main factors that impact the market value of woodlands and addresses some of the more complex issues that might arise in the assessment of such an asset.
Intended to assist surveyors of all levels of expertise, this note provides guidance on advising clients as to how environmental and sustainability issues impact upon all aspects of land, property and construction.
With the aim of improving consumer protection and maintaining professional standards, the code sets out the standards of practice that rating consultants must adopt.
This guidance note provides an outline of the rating appeal system in England and Wales, describing the various processes involved in making a proposal to alter a rating list.
The purpose of this guidance note is to assist the valuer in the provision of leasehold reform valuation advice whether they are acting for the freeholder (landlord), intermediate landlord or tenant.
The purpose of this guidance note is to aid the understanding of the Contractor's Basis for the general rating practitioner while providing a common framework of the basis for the more experienced practitioner.
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At Halfords, we're here from your little one's first car ride to their first bike and beyond. We pride ourselves on creating ranges that are colourful, fun, and above all: safe. We also stock products from top brands, such as Disney, Raleigh and Voodoo.
Our range of car seats and booster seats will support your child from newborn though to tot and pre-teen, boasting products from the likes of Britax, Maxi-Cosi and Joie. We'll even demo how to fit it for free (and make sure you know how to do it, too).
As they grow, get them started on their cycling journey with a balance bike so they can learn the art of steering. They'll soon move up to their very first children's bike which is guaranteed to get them jumping for joy and raring to go.
Alongside bikes, we have a huge range of kids' scooters and ride on toys. We even have electric cars for kids! They'll love their very own mini motor, and it will drive their imagination to far-flung places.


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Well folks, bear season is almost upon us and for that very reason I am going to show everyone "how to draw a bear for kids", step by step. This is an animal that all kids love to draw and I think it's because it's one of the more popular animal species along with tigers, lions, and wolves. Since this is a drawing geared towards kids and novice artists, I wanted to make sure that the bear was laid out in a very simple to follow manner. When I was younger I loved making new sketches of all sorts of animals and five of my favorite animals was snakes, lions, tigers, bears, and wolves. If you notice all the mammals I listed are known for their fangs, and bite. There is no doubt that kids and novice artist are going to have a blast learning "how to draw a bear for kids". The bear is wicked cute, and it is also very eye pleasing. Well I guess that's about it for now guys. I will return with more cool stuff for you to draw. Adios people and enjoy your drawing day.
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ThomasCrown needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Babytease.com will be selling cute and sexy screen printed cartoon design American Apparel women's baby Ts.
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When I was a kid, I used to play a game with myself by walking around the house with a vanity mirror held in front of me, face up. I'd look down at the mirror and see the ceiling above me, but projected downward. By looking at the mirror as I walked, it seemed as if I were constantly on the verge of stepping off into the void – fun!
Yep, that cliff we hear about endlessly is not the real thing: it's a manufactured illusion. Just yesterday, I had the misfortune to catch a sound-bite of a Republican congressman jabbering on about "unsustainable deficits," and the need for "spending cuts to protect our bond rates." You could read Paul Krugman almost at random to have that notion destroyed: the so-called bond vigilantes have been predicting Armageddon for years, and it just never happens. And I have a folder full of clippings about the deficit and the doom that awaits us, which also never happens. I guess the deficit is sustainable, at least for quite a while. (Oh, we did run a surplus for a few years, but that was under Clinton, so it doesn't count, and Bush took care of it.)
Frequently, we hear that "we just cannot afford our current entitlement programs." Uh…strange. So, these programs provide valuable, even essential services and support for millions of Americans, so we just have to cut back, right? Good health care is just too damn costly, by gosh! We'll make do, some of us, without it. In the most wealthy country on the globe. Where wealth is more concentrated among a few than ever before. And they'd like to keep it that way.
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Celery (cut in sticks as long as the potatoes)
Sugar peas
Fried sage
Olive oil
Lemon juice
A pinch of hing
Black pepper
Boil the potatoes until almost cooked, but still firm and slightly hard.
Place a good sprinkle of oil in a wok, heat with a moderate temperature, briefly temper hing and black pepper.
Add the celery stalks, sauté for a while (5-7 minutes).
Add the potatoes; keep sautéing until the veggies have gotten a beautiful golden colour.
Mix with the sugar peas and avocado.
Add lemon juice and salt.
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We were never really interested in tabbouleh until we tried our friend Steve's recipe recently. The combination of the mint, parsley, and cilantro was just right, and his technique yielded the perfect consistency–not too dry, not to gummy. I made it over the weekend from the recipe he gave me off the top of his head, and it was delicious.
Steve Orr's Tabbouleh
1 cup of bulgar wheat
2 cups of warm or tepid water
Soak the bulgar in the water for about an hour. Soaking it instead of cooking it means it's less gummy, and has a nice bite to it. Steve said he learned this from an Alice Water's cookbook.
Chop up a handful of parsley, cilantro, and mint, and throw into a food processor. You'll want the salad to be more green than bulgar.
For its 'dressing', mix 1/2 tsp of cumin, 1-2 tsp of aleppo pepper (we didn't have this, and it still tasted great), 5-6 tbsp of olive oil, juice of 2 lemons, salt and black pepper to taste.


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This tutorial shows one very easy way to make an animal's nose twitch. This technique can be used on pictures of mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc.
You will need Eye Candy Inner Bevel filter (or another inner bevel filter) for this animation.You can download the Eye Candy filter used in this tutorial here:
Find your picture, and open with UGA. Add a new frame.
To copy and paste your image from frame 1 into frame 2, highlight your object, at the right.
Go to edit, copy. Go to frame 2. Click edit, paste. You should now have two frames of the same image. Leave frame 1 alone. Go to frame 2. Use selection tool, circle.
Select a circular area at the cheek of your animal.
Apply your inner bevel filter.
Adjust the settings so it is kind of light, just a subtle movement is all that is required. These are the settings I used for the rabbit:
If it is too dark, or too light, etc, just undo and try again. Keep adjusting the settings until it looks right. Once you get the settings right for the first side, you can leave them the same for the other side and for the nose. You will only have to adjust the lighting (direction and inclination).
Select a circular area at the animal's other cheek, and apply the inner bevel filter again, adjusting the lighting so the filter gets applied mostly to the outer area of the animals cheek.
Select a smaller circular area around his nose, and apply the inner bevel filter, again adjusting the lighting so that the filter gets applied to the bottom portion of the circle.
Preview again. If necessary, keep adjusting the settings and previewing until it looks right.
Adjust the timing. Highlight both frames at the bottom, right click on one of the frames and click frame properties. Choose delay, 10 and pick removal method, smart.
To save your animation, click file, save as GIF.
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Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Announces Awards Nominations--
Winners will be disclosed at the "Gala Theatre Awards & Dance Party" Monday, May 6 at California Ballroom in Oakland
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC) has announced the nominees for its 37th annual theatre awards. Nearly 60 Awards will be bestowed on theatre artists from the nine Bay Area counties, along with three special achievement citations. For the first time SFBATCC will held its Awards Gala in the East Bay, at the fabled California Ballroom, 1736 Franklin Street in Oakland's uptown business district. The theme for the Gala is as new as the venue – a big, blow-out dance party with live band and a catered smorgasbord to help sustain the party-goers' energy.
"We've held the Awards in San Francisco for years, and the East Bay is past due," said Theatre Critics Circle President Barry Willis. "Award Galas can get tedious, so Vice President Linda Ayres-Frederick came up with the idea of a dance party," Willis said.
"And we were able to book the California Ballroom, which is a gem of a venue," Willis added. "It's in the safe and accessible uptown business district of Oakland, half a block from the 19th St BART station, with lots of street parking around, so everything fell into place."
Nearly 60 Awards will be bestowed on theatre artists from the nine Bay Area counties as well as three special achievement awards.
Providing live music for this night of food, drink, dancing, and awards will be the Tal Ariel Rockin' Band; Tal won the SFBATCC Award for Outstanding Music Director last year. Leanne Borghesi, two-time award winner, is flying in from NYC to sing.
Hot Chinese food and a smorgasbord are included, with gluten-free and vegetarian choices available. Wine and beer will be served at the hosted bar.
An ongoing raffle of prizes will pepper the evening, including headshots from David Allen Studios, singing lessons from Scarlett Hepworth and Pierce Peter Brandt, audition coaching from Berkeley Rep's Amy Potozkin and Seydways' Bobbie Weinapple, a free subscription to Theatre Bay Area, tickets to Marin Theatre Company, ACT, and Shotgun Players, and more.
The Theatre Critics Circle nominates and votes for awards to outstanding theatre artists for their 2012 work in categories such as Director; Principal and Featured Male and Female Actors in both musical and straight plays: Musical Director; Choreographer; Original Script, Outstanding Ensemble, Entire Production, as well as designs of Costume, Lighting, Set, and Sound. Awards are given in each of these categories, broken down into theatres according to three audience capacities: fewer than 100 seats, 100-300, and more than 300.
Bay Area theatre organizations nominated this year include:
American Conservatory Theater
Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Boxcar Theatre
California Shakespeare Theater
Cameron Mackintosh Presents/SHN
Central Works
Cinnabar Theater
Crowded Fire
Curtain Theater Company
Custom Made Theatre Co.
Foothill Music Theatre
Impact Theatre / Playground
Magic Theatre
Marin Shakespeare Company
Masquers Playhouse
Mountain Play
National Theatre of Great Britain/SHN
New Spreckels Theatre Company
Novato Theater Company
Playwrights Foundation
Ray of Light Theatre Company
Ross Valley Players
San Jose Repertory Theatre
SF Playhouse
Shakespeare At Stinson
Shotgun Players
Symmetry Theatre Company
The Cutting Ball Theater
Theatre Rhinoceros
Virago Theatre Company
Word for Word
The Gala Awards & Dance Party is sponsored in part by Actors Equity Association and Theatre Bay Area.
If you've never been to the California Ballroom, you owe yourself a visit." Says Gala committee member John McMullen. "It's a little jewel from the 1920's. And we're going upscale. Guests will sit at round tables with linen tablecloths, right next to the great dance floor and stage, with period mirrors and chandeliers making the place sparkle."
You can tour the California Ballroom at http://www.californiaballroom.com
The uptown business district of Oakland is near the Paramount Theatre and upscale restaurants. "The Ambassadors"--Oakland's security and hospitality organization--will be on patrol and available to walk guests to the cars until 11:00 p.m.
About SFBATCC
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle is a private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and serving theatres of all types and sizes in the greater region by recognizing excellence and outstanding achievement in the field.
Active since 1976, the Circle consists of reviewers in all nine Bay Area counties, across various media, who are voted into membership by existing members based on the quality and consistency of their reviews. The Circle hosts an annual awards ceremony each Spring to celebrate superior work in the previous year.
SFBATCC members include Kedar K. Adour MD, Linda Ayres-Frederick, Charles Brousse, Ken Bullock, Adrianne Casey, Susan Cohn, Richard Connema, Mario Echevarria, John Angell Grant, John A. McMullen II, Cari Lynn Pace, Jeffrey Smith, and Barry Willis. The Gala Committee is staffed by John McMullen, Linda Ayres-Frederick, and Barry Willis.
Seating is limited to 300 attendees this year; limited tickets are now on sale to the general public with the remainder available on April 1, after the nominees have ordered theirs.
Advance tickets are $25; $28 at the door. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Awards and dancing alternate until 10:30 pm.
Tickets at www.SFBATCC.org / 1-800-838-3006
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Saturday, January 20
Q:"What happened to your neck?" A:"Polenta."
My mom loves to tell this story. One day she went to visit her friend Dee. When Dee opened the door, my mom immediately noticed a half-dollar sized, bright red mark on Dee's neck. Concerned, she asked her, "What happened?" Gingerly touching the area, Dee answered in one word, "Polenta."
If you've ever made polenta, then you understand. When it boils, it takes on an bubbling lava-like behavior. When the bubbles burst they make a mess of your stovetop (and if you're not careful a mess of you too). Despite these bodily risks, I make polenta all the time. I typically use regular polenta, but the quick-cooking kind is often not bad. Although heretical to some chefs, I do not cook my polenta for one or two hours; rather, I cook it for about 30 minutes. In his cookbook, "Jamie's Italy," Jamie Oliver (whom I have a culinary crush on) says he cooks it for 40-45 minutes; I've done that too. Just be sure that the polenta has absorbed the liquid and has become thick. That's when it's done.
Polenta is one of the classic Italian "peasant dishes." Growing up, we often ate it with a simple marinara sauce and grated cheese. It's wonderfully versatile though. You can make it soft and creamy or so firm that you can cut it into slices and sautée until crispy. It can made with just water or a mixture of water and milk, like I did here (it comes a bit creamier that way). The fruit salsa is adapted from an original recipe in Cooking Light. I used Satsuma tangerines (pictured on the tree next to my apartment here) because they're in season. After reading a wonderful blog at Smitten Kitchen, I realize that some people really don't like cilantro; if you're one of them, just omit it or substitute with mint.
Fiery Shrimp with Avocado-Pomegranate-Tangerine
Salsa served over Soft Polenta
Print recipe only here.
1 small Hass avocado, diced
1 Satsuma tangerine or other tangerine
¼ cup pomegranate seeds
1 tsp lime juice
1-2 scallions, thinly sliced
1 tsp honey
½ small jalapeno, de-seeded (omit if the heat in the shrimp is enough for you)
½ tsp fresh grated ginger
1-2 Tbsp each of cilantro and basil
Salt, to taste
1 Tbsp canola oil
14-16 extra large shrimp, peeled and deveined
½ small jalapeno, with seeds (why else would I call it "fiery"?)
1-2 tsp lime juice
A pinch of lime zest
A pinch of salt
½ cup yellow polenta
1 cup water
1 cup fat-free milk*
1 tsp butter
Salt and pepper, to taste
To prepare the polenta, simply combine the water, milk, butter, and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Slowly pour in the polenta, whisking all the while. The polenta will start to bubble and spit pretty quickly. When it does, place a cover on it leaving a little space for the air to escape; reduce heat to a low simmer, and stir every few minutes, making sure to scrape the pan so the polenta doesn't stick. After about 10 minutes, add some more water and stir to keep the polenta from becoming too dry. Cook another 15-20 minutes or until the consistency is thick and creamy; Jamie says it should "lollop off the end of a spoon." Most chefs add butter to it at this point, but for this recipe, I find it too rich. It's up to you.
To prepare the salsa, simply mix all of the ingredients in a bowl and toss gently to coat.
To prepare the shrimp, mix the cleaned shrimp with the remaining ingredients. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shrimp and sauté for 5-7 minutes, turning to ensure that they brown nicely on both sides.
To serve, plate the polenta; add the shrimp and salsa; garnish with cilantro and basil. This makes 2 servings.
*TWO MORE CENTS: I actually have to use Lactaid milk which works fine. Also, I eat mine with tofu instead of shrimp.
Care of polenta injuries: According to my husband Jeff (who has just 5 months left of his Dermatology residency), if you develop a blister, do not pop it. This increases the risk of infection. If the blister becomes intolerable, however, then use a sterile needle to punch a small hole and let the blister collapse back on the wound. (Four years of medical school and four years of residency to learn that).
Note: Food Blogga is not meant to diagnose or cure any diseases caused by careless cooking. If you are injured by polenta, consider dialing 911 and purchasing cover up make-up.
26 comments:
- Melting Wok said...
wow, the shrimps sits nicely on the polenta :) The whole meal looks great, yummy ! :)
- January 21, 2007 at 2:27 AM
- wheresmymind said...
So, I guess I shouldn't pull the old skool "Rub butter" on it either, eh?? hehe
- January 21, 2007 at 10:39 AM
- rachel said...
yum, yum, yum! i LOVE polenta but like you i hate making it because it's exhausting. i've never had it with so many fresh ingredients before. i'll definately have to check out jamie oliver's instructions for a shortcut.
you are so lucky to have a tangerine tree right next to you!
- January 21, 2007 at 11:14 AM
- Susan said...
Melting Wok-
Thanks a lot!
- January 21, 2007 at 12:48 PM
- Susan said...
I checked with my husband--you're right, butter's not good for it either. But some really good extra virgin olive oil....
- January 21, 2007 at 12:50 PM
- Susan said...
I love my neighbor's tangerine tree too; but Jeff says making him go out at 3 am with a flashlight to get my fruit is getting a little old. ;)
- January 21, 2007 at 12:54 PM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I'm a polenta maniac - I love it to the bones!
Haven't made it lately because it's too hot for that.
When I was single and lived with my father I used to make polenta at leat twice a week - his father (my grandfather) was Italian and my dad grew up eating polenta.
Your dish looks yummy! :D
- January 21, 2007 at 2:19 PM
- cookiecrumb said...
I love L.A.! Thank you so much for cruising by my meager blog. I'm "collecting" L.A. food bloggers as part of my expansion project (-world domination-) and you're way-way on my list.
As for polenta pimples? Pop 'em.
- January 21, 2007 at 5:23 PM
- Susan said...
Another one of the nice things about living in LA is that it never gets too hot to make polenta. Stay cool!
- January 21, 2007 at 6:51 PM
- Susan said...
Thanks so much! I've heard Proactiv is perfect for polenta pimples.
- January 21, 2007 at 6:53 PM
- scribbit said...
I had no idea polenta was so deadly--right up there with frying bacon and wild stingrays :)
Thanks for the link, I love discovering good cooks out there and judging from this post I've found another.
- January 21, 2007 at 9:09 PM
- veron said...
Look at those succulent shrimp! Thanks for the warning on polenta, I did not realize they could be responsible for bodily injuries !
- January 22, 2007 at 4:58 AM
- Susan said...
That means so much, as I really admire your writing at Scribbit.
Thanks for the tasty compliment! Some words are just fun to say, aren't they?
- January 23, 2007 at 4:19 AM
- isabilla said...
I've never considered polenta with this ingredients! For me are unusual, I live in nord-italy, Friuli, tipically "the land of polenta", and I love polenta specially with cheese; but, altogether, why not try it?
This tangerine tree is very lovely!
- January 23, 2007 at 8:50 AM
- Lucy said...
The little pomegranate 'jewels' on top of the shrimp are divine, and the whole dish lookes gorgeous! I too have been burnt by a bubbling pot of polenta...
- January 23, 2007 at 2:16 PM
I loooove polenta. I make it all the time too, even with the dangers it holds. I'm guilty of making the quick cooking kind all the time. I've just got no patience for the other. Anyway, sounds delicious!
- January 23, 2007 at 4:46 PM
- Kristen said...
LOL - love your disclaimers.
Your polenta looks well worth any potential injury to me.
- January 23, 2007 at 7:42 PM
- Susan said...
Thank you so much for visiting! I am so excited to have someone comment who is from Italy, let alone "The land of polenta." It sounds like heaven on earth to me!
I'd love to know-- how do you make your polenta (water, milk, oil, etc)? Do you have a favorite way of eating it? I have read that the different regions of Italy have specific ways of making classic dishes and each usually thinks theirs is the "right" way. Do you find that to be true?
Thank you for that delicious compliment! Those seeds really are gems.
That's the beauty of it--you don't have to do it the long way. Just keeping eating it!
Wow! Thanks! Feel free to ask Jeff for advice if things should go awry.
- January 24, 2007 at 7:20 AM
- sher said...
Fabulous recipe!!! I love polenta, especially when it has shrimp piled on top! :)
- January 25, 2007 at 8:57 AM
- Susan said...
Thank you Sher!
- January 25, 2007 at 10:31 AM
This looks FABULOUS!!! I will definitely be making this dish along with the others. Should you need someone to test your recipes before printing them, I'm available. Ha!Ha!Ha! I particularly enjoy each story preceding the recipes. Keep up the good work. Jo-Ann No. Prov., RI
- January 26, 2007 at 7:07 AM
The stories are fantastic;the photos are "food for the eyes" and I'm sure the food is out of this world PJR No. Kingstown
- January 26, 2007 at 10:38 AM
- Susan said...
I'm game for you being a taste taster. But it depends... Is K&K gonna pick up the airfare?:)
Thank you so much for the compliment! I'll look forward to hearing from you again.
P.S. Say "hi" to Lou for me.
Thanks! What a nice thing to say!
- January 27, 2007 at 4:05 PM
In 20 years living in Rome, I always knew (and ate) polenta served with pork. I remember being at someone's house in Bracciano for holidays once and making polenta in a huge cauldron on a special low cooker so you could reach to stir - we all took turns stirring with a massive stick especially for that purpose. Something like pork butt (I think - the cuts are different from the States) was made in a tomato based sauce and served over the polenta and then grilled sausage (with no fennel as it is truly made in most of Italy) and other different cooked porks added to the same plate - a sort of melange of pork preparations...IT WAS DELICIOUS. The porky tomato sauce provided all the fat needed (without being at all overwhelming or greasy) for the polenta which was just made with water and salt. I know this is regional and there are other authentic preparations...this is just one version in answer to your question to Isabilla of - oops - almost a year ago....(I'm always late!) I'll send this anyway, you may be re-inspired.
- November 29, 2007 at 12:59 PM
- Susan said...
Many thanks for your thoughtful reply, Anna. My husband would love it prepared that way. I always thought the fennel was from Italy; I guess it's an Italian-American creation? I love it though. Consider yourself fashionably late. :) You have re-inspired me, indeed.
- November 29, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- Joe Horn said...
Susan, Love the story. I just made polenta with Gorgonzola and heavy cream a few days ago any put it on our blog. Would love your for you to come check it out.
Keep up the good work. Thanks!
- June 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM


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Karl Rove's Dying Dream
So much for the permanent Republican majority.
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Karl Rove's dream is dying. This is happening for reasons that have nothing to do with Valerie Plame.
Rove's dream was to reshape American politics by creating a durable Republican majority. In the old days, Rove told anyone who would listen that his role model in this project was the legendary political boss Mark Hanna.
Hanna was the brain behind William McKinley's political career in much the same way that Rove ("the architect") is the brain behind Bush's. McKinley was an affable, none-too-bright former congressman when Hanna helped elect him governor of Ohio. In 1896, Hanna raised an unprecedented amount of money and ran a sophisticated, hardball campaign that got McKinley to the White House. One could go on with the analogy: McKinley governed negligently in the interests of big business and went to war on flimsy evidence that Spain had blown up the USS Maine.
The key to McKinley's political success was the alliance Hanna forged between industrialists like himself, who provided the cash, and workers, who provided the votes. In Rove's alliance, the rich provide the cash, and religious conservatives provide the votes. Refuting the conventional wisdom that successful presidential candidates must lay claim to the political center, Bush has governed from the right and won re-election in 2004 with a "base-in," rather than a "center-out," strategy.
When Bush was re-elected, everyone hailed Rove's strategy as a masterstroke. But would Rove's protégé have eked out victories in 2000 and 2004 absent special circumstances, lame opponents, and good luck? Less than a year into Bush's second term, the president's approval rating is down around 40 percent. Many things have gone wrong for Bush, but the underlying problem is his relationship to the constituency that elected him. Bush's debt to his big donors and to religious conservatives has boxed him in and pitted him against the national consensus on various issues. His extremism is undermining Rove's realignment.
The problem has become clear with Bush's difficulties in filling Sandra Day O'Connor's slot on the Supreme Court. The Harriet Miers nomination was an attempt to satisfy both the militant conservative base and the eternally moderate American electorate. With the Alito nomination, Bush has acknowledged that splitting this difference is impossible. Faced with a choice, he has chosen, once again, to dance with the ones who brought him. But by appointing a superconservative, Bush risks propelling his increasingly beleaguered administration even further toward the right-hand margin—a place where his party cannot win future national elections.
Bush aims to be the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan. But he has never understood the genius of Reagan's method, which was to placate the religious right without giving in where it mattered. Reagan could proclaim his undying support for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion without doing anything to endanger Roe v. Wade. (He was the one who nominated O'Connor, remember?) In the same way, Bill Clinton managed to keep liberal interest groups onboard without advancing their politically untenable wish list. But whether because he is less adroit or because he truly believes, Bush seems able to appease his base only by surrendering to its wishes. He has caved to conservatives on Terri Schiavo, on stem-cell research, on Social Security privatization, and on "intelligent design." Now, most important, he is caving by at least creating the appearance that he is trying to get enough votes on the Supreme Court to reverse Roe.
Bush's failure at base-pacification is not entirely his fault. The evangelicals, who were pragmatically willing to settle for half a loaf during the Reagan and Bush 41 years, now feel empowered, emboldened, and owed. James Dobson and Pat Robertson don't understand that they would do their cause the most good by keeping their mouths shut and not scaring everyone witless. Conservatives of all kinds are in a militant mood heightened by their success in muscling Bush on Miers. They do not realize how their militancy alienates not just the left, but the swingers in the center whom Republicans need to win.
Rove is actually the second Republican realigner to stumble in this way in recent years. After the 1994 election, Newt Gingrich had his own visions of political sugarplums. Gingrich's unsuccessful revolution was more libertarian and less moralistic. He thought the new Republican majority would coalesce around shrinking government (a theme Bush has soft-pedaled, preferring to undermine government through neglect and incompetence). Gingrich was also, frankly, a little nuts. But he failed because he made the same basic mistake that Rove did. Gingrich thought he'd won a mandate for radical change and enshrined a new governing majority. He forgot about the country's nonideological majority, which likes Medicare, Social Security, national parks, and student loans. Republicans have retained control of Congress since Gingrich's downfall, but only by reversing his austerity program and spending like a bunch of drunks.
Of course, the failure of Rove's realignment doesn't mean a new progressive era is at hand. After winning the White House back in 1896, Republicans held on to it until 1912, years after McKinley had succumbed to an assassin's bullet and Hanna had died of typhoid fever. But Republicans retained the presidency on a basis that Hanna never anticipated. Theodore Roosevelt, a man Hanna feared and tried unsuccessfully to keep off the GOP ticket in 1900, was sworn in when McKinley died in 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a reformer and a trustbuster, taking on the corporate interests that had underwritten his predecessor's career. The GOP retained power, but only by reversing the pro-business direction Hanna had set.
Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.


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Okay guys, here is a lesson that is super cool, super cute, and super funny. As I was looking through the hundreds of requests I have, I noticed that there was multiple suggestions that I do a lesson on "how to draw gangster Spongebob", step by step. As you know I am a huge fan of the Spongebob cartoon series. Once I reviewed the e-mails I decided that a tutorial on a gangster version of Spongebob would be an awesome idea. There really isn't too much to say about him except this version of Mr. Squarepants is ruthless, hardcore, and absolutely amazing. I had so much fun drawing him out in his ghetto outfit. I was going to add a small teardrop on the right side of his eye, but then I decided that would be a little too gangster. After all, we definitely don't want to associate Spongebob as a figure that busts caps! Along with his yellow colored square body, he is wearing a red bandana, a white muscle shirt or wife-beater, a pair of extra baggy jeans, and a pair of quality sneakers. His arms are crossed because he is not to be reckoned with, and as you can see he has a hardcore expression on his face. I think he came out awesome and I also think you will have a blast learning "how to draw gangster Spongebob" too. I have to bounce outta here peeps but I will return. Peace out and be sure to stick around because the night is not done yet!
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While in Mexico, Kamron decided to be a wild man and jump off of this:
We should know that we are too old for these kinds of shenanigans. Between that and the bumpy airplane ride home, he ended up with a ruptured eardrum.
And then...
It was finally time for my big colonoscopy/endoscopy. Just in case that in itself is not torturous enough, my doctor wanted me to do the tests on a three day clear liquid fast. Three freaking days. People. I was not fun to be around. At all. At multiple points over the whole ordeal, I considered pulling the heads off the children just for sport. There were lots of biopsies taken and now I just wait for the results. I've also got a CT scheduled next week. I'm beginning to think I have the most photographed guts ever! Also, MoviPrep colonoscopy prep juice tastes like pee + ocean water + one drop of lemon juice. Just sayin'.
Me coming out of anesthesia. I don't care how old you are- toots are funny.
Needless to say, I laughed a lot that day.
And then...
Sadie has been having similar tummy issues. I'm no doctor, but I'm inclined to say that we have something hereditary going on here. So she got her guts and blood all checked out at the hospital this week as well. Just FYI- they do not give a family discount.
And then...
Noah started running a fever and getting migraines. He tends to do this seasonally, so we think that it is somehow allergy related. So this week, in addition to all the rest of it, Noah was stapled to couch incapacitated with a high fever and a splitting headache.
And then... (is it getting freakishly comical yet?)
Our dog, Emma, sprained her "wrist" and couldn't walk. And we ended up in the vet's office for a looooooooong time. We were in there so long that the boys got bored and decided to lay on the floor and pretend to be dogs.
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Well, that's all. But I think that's enough. It's enough that on the one day that everyone felt decent enough to go to the pool, I may have experimented to see if this would fit in my travel mug. The lid wouldn't go on, but I tried!
I know, I know. You're saying, "Meg! Take your grown up juice box out of the package and just dump it in the cup!"
I couldn't find the scissors. I just wasn't quite that desperate. But by today, I may be!
In all seriousness, though, I think we are finally on the mend and can hopefully return to regularly scheduled programming soon! I hope your week has been a little better than ours! :-)
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[Editor's note: Powerful charting compares official stats to reality for the agricultural "ecosystem refugees" who find themselves in the city. Related: US Census releases data on geographic mobility for 2008.]
Republished from the Economist.
Until China breaks down the barriers between town and countryside, it cannot unleash the buying power of its people—or keep its economy booming.
ON THE hilly streets of Chongqing, men with thick bamboo poles loiter for customers who will pay them to carry loads. The "stick men", as they are called, hang the items from either end of the poles and heave them up over their shoulders. In a city where the Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, likes to sing old revolutionary songs, these workers should be hymned as heroes. Yet few of them are even classed as citizens of the city where they live.
Most of the stick men were born in the countryside around Chongqing. (The name covers both the urban centre that served as China's capital in the second world war, and a hinterland, the size of Scotland, which the city administers.) Since 1953, shortly after the Communists came to power, Chinese citizens have been divided into two strata, urban and rural, not according to where they live but on a hereditary basis. The stick men may have spent all their working lives on the streets of Chongqing, but their household registration papers call them "agricultural".
The registration system (hukou, in Chinese) was originally intended to stop rural migrants flowing into the cities. Stick men were among the targets. In the early days of Communist rule in Chongqing the authorities rounded up thousands of "vagrants" and sent them to camps (vagrants, said Mao Zedong, "lack constructive qualities"). There they endured forced labour before being packed back to their villages.
Rapid industrial growth over the past three decades has required tearing down migration barriers to exploit the countryside's huge labour surplus. Hukou, however, still counts for a lot, from access to education, health care and housing to compensation payouts. To be classified as a peasant often means being treated as a second-class citizen. Officials in recent years have frequently talked about "reforming" the system. They have made it easier to acquire urban citizenship, in smaller cities at least. But since late last year the official rhetoric has become more urgent. Policymakers have begun to worry that the country's massive stimulus spending in response to the global financial crisis could run out of steam. Hukou reform, they believe, could boost rural-urban migration and with it the consumer spending China needs.
In early March 11 Chinese newspapers (it would have been 13, had not two bottled out) defied party strictures and teamed together to publish an extraordinary joint editorial. It called on China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which was then about to hold its annual meeting, to urge the government to scrap the hukou system as soon as possible. "We hope", it said, "that a bad policy we have suffered for decades will end with our generation, and allow the next generation to truly enjoy the sacred rights of freedom, democracy and equality bestowed by the constitution." Not since the Tiananmen uprising in 1989 had so many newspapers simultaneously cast aside the restraints imposed by the Communist Party's mighty Propaganda Department, which micromanages China's media output.


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DeezNutz needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
I need a new, modern design for my auction website UniversitySurplus.com.
Surplus Auctions for Academic Institutions.
Desired Color Scheme:
Modern colors...nothing is mandatory, but like the colors blue, silver, white, black
Desired Style:
Collegiate inspired, Web 2.0 inspired
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I need a new design frame for my website. My website is UniversitySurplus.com. It is an auction site that allows universities and other institutions to put up their surplus property for sale to the public and other universities, by way of auction.
Currently, we have the programming for the auction designed in flex, but we need a new website frame to outline the application. To see what I am talking about, please visit:
This is a version of our website that we build for the state of illinois. As you can see, the interior flex/flash design is really cool, but the outside framework (which remains locked through browsing) is very basic and dull. We need a new framework design that is: modern, flows well with the flex auction design, is collegiate inspired... we have a logo, but if you can come up with something better we will include an additional $100 (the logo is REQUIRED to have collegiate type font to represent our commitment to universities), not too noisy, simple- yet elegant, and basically visually pleasing, maybe web 2.0 style.
We leave creative inspiration up to you. Once again, this is for the design of both our new website frame, and maybe a NEW, unique logo. Make sure your ideas flow with the FLEX auction design on Illinois' ibid site! We prefer the colors blue and silver, but ONLY the following are required:
- Homepage design with larger header, login box, menu bar
- Smaller design header for when users are logged into the website
- Adequate room for the FLEX auction design in the middle
- Flowing Web 2.0 style design that blends well with the Flex
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The Crimson will look to extend its dual-meet win streak to seven at the Shamrock Invitational (Kevin Burns).
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The Harvard men's swimming and diving team will put its unblemished dual-meet record on the line this weekend when it faces No. 20 Notre Dame and Towson at the Shamrock Invitational in South Bend, Ind. The meet will run Friday, Jan. 25 through Saturday, Jan. 26.
Live results will be available for the meet by clicking here.
Harvard enters the weekend with a perfect 4-0 record in dual meets and has won five straight duals dating back to last year.
Harvard owns an impressive dual-meet record of 117-11 all-time under head coach Tim Murphy. The Crimson is 43-5 since 2007-08 with a 17-3 mark at home in Blodgett Pool against a 26-2 record on the road. This includes a pair of undefeated seasons in 2007-08 and 2010-11, a 34-3 record against the Ivy League and two Ivy League Dual Meet crowns.
Record Setters
Sophomores Chuck Katis and Mike Mosca have combined to set four school records this season. Katis bested his own marks in both the 100 breast and 200 breast at the UGA Fall Invite, posting NCAA 'A' standard times of 52.49 and 1:54.08, respectively. Both times stand as the fourth fastest in the NCAA this season.
Mosca, the previous record holder on the one- and three-meter diving boards, also eclipsed his own personal bests in both events with scores of 372.45 and 412.42 at Brown.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's swimming and diving team won 14 of 16 events and received a pair of record-breaking performances from Mike Mosca en route to a 206-90 victory over Brown Thursday afternoon in Ivy League action. Harvard cruised to its 19th straight win against the Bears thanks in part to three 1-2-3 finishes.
Related Article: Mosca's Record Day Helps Men's Swimming and Diving to Win at Brown
Rank and File
Harvard has come in at No. 2 in the second CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Rankings with a total of 249.59 points. The Crimson moved up three places from its original ranking of No. 5, and trails only top-ranked Princeton (253.95 pts.) which was also featured at No. 1 in the original poll.
Fun in the Sun
Harvard recently returned from its annual trip to Puerto Rico where it trained for 10 days to prepare for the championship portion of its schedule. Senior co-captains Owen Wurzbacher and Greg Roop kept a blog throughout for GoCrimson.com, giving fans an inside look into the program.
Related Article: Blog: Men's Swimming and Diving Trains in Puerto Rico
Top Plays
GoCrimson.com introduced a new video feature to its lineup for the 2012-13 season, "Top Plays of the Month," counting down the greatest moments from your favorite Crimson student-athletes and teams from the previous calendar month. Use the hashtag #CrimsonTop10 to nominate your favorite plays for inclusion.
Punching His Ticket
Sophomore Chuck Katis has already punched his ticket to the 2013 NCAA Championships with a pair of NCAA 'A' standard times in the 100 and 200 breast. Katis also set new school records in both events in the process, turning in a time of 52.49 in the 100 and a time of 1:54.08 in the 200. Both times rank as the fourth fastest in the NCAA this season while is 200 IM time of 1:45.86 ranks 16th.
Catch us if you can...
Harvard has been dominate in dual meets to open the 2012-13 season thanks in large part to junior Chris Satterthwaite, sophomores Mike Mosca and Chuck Katis and freshman Christian Carbone. Satterthwaite has won the 100 and 200 freestyle twice for the Crimson to begin the year after taking first in 50, 100 and 200 free at the 2012 Ivy League Championships.
Mosca, the Ivy League's one-meter champion and runner-up on the three meter from a year ago, is unbeaten in both events in dual-meet competition.
Katis won the 100 breast in the Crimson's first two meets of the year and also boasts victories in the 200 IM, 400 IM and 100 back.
Carbone is unbeaten in the 200 fly to start his college career and has also won the 200 breast in two straight meets.


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TJX should have had stronger Wi-Fi encryption, say Canadian officials
TJX Cos. should have moved faster to upgrade its Wi-Fi security from WEP encryption to WPA encryption, say Canadian officials.
The TJX Cos., collected far too much consumer data for far too long and failed to upgrade its Wi-Fi security to the stronger WPA encryption protocol, according to the findings of a report issued Tuesday by Canadian privacy officials.
"The technology that TJX was using at the time was not up to the task and in fact the credit card industry has suggested that industries in its sector migrate to a higher level of encryption technology," said Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in a press conference following the release of the report.
At the time of the breach, TJX was using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption protocol, an older security standard. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) replaces the original WEP security standard. It is compatible with the latest standard, IEEE 802.11i, referred to as WPA2.
TJX has acknowledged that at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards were stolen over an 18-month period by hackers who managed to penetrate its network. The attackers began their assault on TJX by exploiting Wi-Fi weaknesses. The Canadian officials said Tuesday that the point of entry for the attackers was two Marshals stores in Miami.
TJX maintains that it acted within a reasonable amount of time and acted earlier than other retailers to enable Wi-Fi encryption. TJX started a WPA conversion project in October 2005 and completed it in mid-January 2007. The final conversion to a higher level of encryption will be completed soon, according to the report.
Investigators believe the thieves aimed a telescope-shaped antenna at the store and used a laptop, cracking the WEP encryption to snatch data transmitted between hand-held price-checking devices, cash registers and the store's computers. The exploit eventually led them into the central database of TJX, where they would repeatedly rob the system of sensitive customer data.
The Canadian report also recommends that the retailer institute a hashing system to avoid using driver license numbers to track fraudulent returns. TJX said it was collecting the data to track customers who returned items without a receipt. The hashing technique would transform the string of characters into a shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original driver license number.
"When the technology exists to protect data, we expect companies to move quickly to adopt that technology," said Frank Work, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.
The Canadian officials said the report is intended to guide other merchants to enable proper security protocols and technologies. They said merchants should be proactive in meeting the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS), but acknowledged that medium and smaller businesses don't have the resources to adopt the latest security technologies. Finally, the privacy officials also said that consumers need to ultimately keep a tighter grip on their personal information.
"We're not interested in beating up on TJX," Work said. "They got burned but so did a lot of other institutions and a lot of customers also got burned. The criminals are good and we just have to be better."
The Canadian report was issued within days of a tentative settlement reached by TJX in a class-action lawsuit with customers who were victims of the breach. TJX is offering affected customers three years of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, according to a public statement released by company president and CEO Carol Meyrowitz.


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Menswear sales beating the pants off retail expectations
Men have long been the second-class citizens of Big Retail, banished to the nosebleed section of department stores and offered all the variety of a kids menu. "God's waiting room" is how a top design expert describes the traditional model, and you can certainly see why given the demographic these stodgy conditions tend to attract.
Led by Millennials, however, a massive sea-change is finally seeing male consumers get the respect — and retailers the returns — they previously lacked. The NPD Group reports this week that in the year ending December 2013, Canadian apparel sales for men aged 20 to 35 saw staggering growth of 64 per cent in department stores, versus 18 per cent for that same demographic across all retailers.
The market researcher concludes that menswear is "primed for continued prosperity," with room for tremendous growth. To wit, its current value is just under half that of womenswear: $7.5 billion versus $13.5 billion.
"Because the women's market is saturated, major retailers and manufacturers have to grow their business elsewhere," said Sandy Silva, fashion industry analyst for The NPD Group. "Millennial men are getting married later, they've got more money, they've got more time, and now they've also got more awareness (of trends) … Put all that together and you've got a brilliant cocktail for a new market in apparel."
Silva described this segment as "low-hanging fruit," which is resulting in department stores offering men greater brand variety, more space and an improved overall experience.
Holt Renfrew, for example, will open its first free-standing men's store this fall, while the retailer's recently renovated Yorkdale location in Toronto features a 1,500-square-foot men's lounge with a variety of luxury labels, shaving station, motorcycle display, man-cave with game table, and such special events as cigar-rolling and Scotch-tasting.
On the more mainstream side of retail, Hudson's Bay – Canada's oldest department store – is also "aggressively going after" young male customers.
Recent efforts by the company include a 2014 ad-buy in GQ; sexier brand offerings aimed at Millennials; more lifestyle-oriented displays; dedicated spaces for such niche styles as streetwear and upscale contemporary; and modern tailoring that addresses the physical proportions of a generation likelier to hit the gym than the bar after work.
These changes, however, haven't come easily. Men's fashion director Nelson Mui said "you have to fight for that real estate," explaining that everything in retail is based on prior success.
"Once upon a time, there was the stereotype of the guy forced to come in with his girlfriend but was more interested in keeping up with the latest sports scores," said Mui. "But you're starting to see a customer who knows what he wants, and who knows that to get the best job and to get the girl — or the guy — he needs to look good."
JGA, a brand strategy and design firm, said this new direction is clear in recent visions put forth by major retailers in both the U.S. and Canada. Chairman Ken Nisch observed that department stores are increasingly aiming for spaces that offer a total experience — personal grooming, music, suiting and so on — as opposed to relying on the old model, which catered to the goal-oriented shopper who occasionally showed up to make premeditated purchases ("someone getting married or buried") and then immediately left.
Said Nisch: "The fifth-floor men's department was once one of the dullest, drabbest places in the store. In some ways, it was God's waiting room: one or two 'suit dogs' who'd worked there 30 years, and racks and racks of brown and grey stuff hanging on the wall. Now, we're seeing a whole new chapter."


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Johnny Manziel taking only online classes at Texas A&M
Johnny Manziel has become the big man off campus.
The Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman winner said Monday night at the Davey O'Brien Award reception that all of his classes for this semester are online, though Texas A&M spokesman Brad Marquardt refused to confirm or deny Manziel's schedule in a phone call with USA TODAY Sports.
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Manziel also told reporters at the reception that he's only on campus once every month.
Though the arrangement might seem odd, Manziel is well within his rights to tackle his course load online. He even tried to take an English course on campus this semester but had to drop it when his peers' requests for photos and autographs became too much.
"I didn't think anything of it, and it kind of turned into a little more of a big deal than I thought," Manziel said, according to the Associated Press.
Manziel's various outings since winning the Heisman – sitting courtside at NBA games, attending the Super Bowl and being photographed at Mardi Gras – have been well documented, and being under a microscope has taken a toll on him.
"I know plenty of friends who went down to Mardi Gras to New Orleans and other guys who went to the Super Bowl too," Manziel said. "I was down there with other college football guys too, so I don't know, people like to give me a hard time more than others. There's college kids doing what I'm doing all around the country. People just think I'm going wild with it, when it's not like that."


text: Net Zero Action Plan Net Zero Action Plan Infographic In December 2013, the City of Cambridge created the "Getting to Net Zero Task Force" charged with advancing the goal of putting Cambridge on the trajectory towards becoming a "net zero community," with focus on carbon emissions from building operations. This includes reducing energy use intensity of buildings and taking advantage of opportunities to harvest energy from renewable sources. To guide this process, former City Manager Richard C. Rossi appointed a thirteen-member committee comprised of residents, community advocates, business and property owners, developers and representatives of local universities. This committee worked collaboratively with a team of technical consultants with support from City staff to examine strategies and develop recommendations that addressed the following topics: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment Improve energy efficiency and conservation in existing and new buildings Support renewable energy generation both on- and off- site Best practices to engage and educate users and influence occupant behavior The Task Force was assigned to study the technical aspects of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in greater detail and develop comprehensive, actionable, long and short term recommendations. In June 2015, the Net Zero Action Plan was adopted by City Council. Read the Summer 2019 Newsletter for more information on current progress. Stay Connected! Join the Net Zero Mailing List for plan implementation updates.