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Webroot, today announced that it is a sponsor of SIFMA Tech 2013 and will exhibit at booth #1839 from June 18-19, 2013 in New York. Webroot security thought leaders will also provide an in-depth look at cloud intelligence and cybersecurity in two speaking engagements on June 19. As more customers access financial services and accounts from personal devices, financial institutions worldwide are utilizing Webroot solutions to improve their online security, protect their customers, and gain access to critical security intelligence to mitigate fraud losses.
Newer and more inventive social-engineering techniques, such as watering hole attacks and spear phishing, are combined with malware attacks to trick banking customers into handing over their financial and personal information. As a result, online banking from a desktop or a mobile device presents a prime opportunity for highly motivated cybercrime, capitalizing on ineffective traditional security approaches and customers with no security in place. Keeping online banking customers, employee devices, and networks safe requires advanced, layered threat protection powered by cloud security intelligence.
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- Webroot SecureAnywhere® Business — Endpoint Protection — Cloud-based endpoint protection that provides advanced real-time security against known and unknown malware. Unlike traditional security solutions, SecureAnywhere installs in seconds, scans in less than two minutes, and never requires security patches or signature updates which consume bandwidth and leave users exposed.
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The electronic diecutting segment of the scrapbooking industry has been growing rapidly in recent years. The CHA Mega Show 2015 was a chance to see the latest from many of the segment's manufacturers.
A new version of the Sizzix Eclips 2 will hit stores this May, featuring Bluetooth technology. Electronic diecutting enthusiasts will be able to beam image files from tablets, smartphones, and other enabled devices right to the machine. The recently updated, cartridge-free Eclips 2 has an MSRP of $299, and the new Bluetooth version will retail for $349.Continue Reading →


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After many years of shameless "Raving Rabbids" mini-game collections across a number of platforms, the series has finally come home to roost, and returned to its 2D platforming roots in Rayman Origins. That said, can a 2D platformer properly hold up as a full-priced retail title, or does it end up feeling like something you might have downloaded off of PSN?
The core gameplay in Rayman Origins will be familiar to anyone who has played a 2D platformer before. Rayman and his buddies have to run and jump from left to right, rescuing creatures and gaining new powers as they progress through the game. Rayman Origins is perhaps the most technically proficient 2D platformer in recent history, with tight and responsive controls pushing the action along nicely. Rayman Origins can be frustratingly difficult at times, but like any well-made game, you always know that you are the one at fault for your inability to progress, not the game. Like any other challenging game, you will eventually manage to surmount even the most impossible challenges through trial and error.
The environments that all this running and jumping takes place in looks absolutely incredible. Rayman Origins takes advantage of the PS3 as much as a 2D platformer possibly could, using its power to create a world that looks like a particularly beautiful Saturday morning cartoon. The game also makes use of a whimsical soundtrack that matches every level blow for blow. There are even several levels that revolve around instruments that create the games soundtrack.
In fact, the sound in general does more for Rayman Origins than any other single element. From the aforementioned music to the noises made by the adorable Electoons that you are supposed to rescue and beyond, Rayman Origins bleeds a weird sort of whimsy that it seems like only this team can manage to pull off.
Can't take all that whimsy on your own? No problem, Rayman Origins has a co-op mode that I consider to be the best way to play the game. Like a number of other co-op platformers, having up to four players in cramped areas takes the whimsy and turns it on its head, creating a chaotic vibe as people jump all over the screen, accidentally or purposefully punching each other in the face as they move across the screen. If all you want to do is play through the game, perhaps co-op isn't for you, but if you're just looking to have a ton of fun, the co-op offers a unique experience for you and 3 of your closest friends.
Thanks to all of its individual elements, Rayman Origins manages to come comes across as a AAA title, even if it was denied a AAA budget and a proper marketing campaign. Massive amounts of care that are above and beyond that of most games have gone into this title, and help to make it worth every cent, and even more importantly, worth every minute of your valuable time you spend with it.


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Paula Abdul has issued her approval for her "American Idol" replacement.
"I think Ellen will b a gr8 judge on Idol," Paula Tweeted on Thursday.
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In August, Paula announced via Twitter that she would not be returning for the show's ninth season after spending the previous eight sitting next to Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and, starting last season, Kara DioGuardi, at the judge's table.
"She is wildly funny, talented and I wish her the best of luck!" Paula added about Ellen.
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The former "Idol" judge said much the same in a statement to Access Hollywood on Thursday afternoon, complimenting her former show as well.
"'American Idol' is a fantastic show that offers an invaluable platform to young talent. Ellen DeGeneres is wildly funny and talented in her own right. I wish her and the show only the best of luck," she said in the statement.
Comedienne and daytime host Ellen DeGeneres was announced as the show's new permanent judge on Wednesday night. A number of stars have filled in for Paula during the show's audition rounds, ranging from Neil Patrick Harris to Katy Perry to Victoria Beckham.
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And Kara, last year's fresh face, also weighed in on Ellen's addition, telling Sirius XM's Larry Flick in an interview to air on Friday that her first year on "Idol" was "hellish."
"[I'm] thrilled," she said, adding she was glad not to be the new kid on the block any more. "I'm a huge Ellen DeGeneres fan. I think she's going to bring so much to the show. She's somebody who loves music, she's positive she's somebody who's watched the show from the beginning, she knows everything there is to know about 'American Idol.'"
Aside from judging the show, Kara hopes Ellen will be a new pal on the "Idol" set.
"I'm so excited to hang out with her," Kara said. "I've only met her once. I would love to say, 'This is great,' to let her know that I'm completely ecstatic."
Former "Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe also weighed in on the decision, praising Ellen as "excellent."
"I was just as surprised as anybody to hear that Ellen would be joining the Idol judging panel - pleasantly surprised," he said in a statement to Access. "Ellen was just a guest judge on 'So You Think You Can Dance' and she was excellent. Prior to that, she hosted 'Idol Gives Back' for us in 2007. Each time, audiences loved her - she 'gets' people, really connects and keeps them laughing.
"It's no secret that music and dance can break down barriers and bring people together. Add some comedy to the mix and you have a winning formula," he continued. "We saw it in the banter between Simon and Ryan and now I have no doubt we will see more of it with Ellen. No one will ever replace Paula, she will always be part of the original 'American Idol' family - the history behind the magic. Now, I will be watching, along with the rest of the world, to see what new magic Ellen will bring to the show."
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DARTMOUTH (AP) — A Massachusetts junior hockey league coach is facing charges he tried to seduce two Florida boys online.
The Fall River Herald-News reports (http://bit.ly/WbL4yH) 41-year-old Anthony DeSilva of Acushnet was arraigned Thursday on a fugitive charge and will go to Polk County, Fla., to face charges of using a computer to seduce a child and transmission of material harmful to a child.
DeSilva is coach and general manager of the Massachusetts Maple Leafs.
The Bristol, Mass., district attorney's office said DeSilva was arrested Wednesday. Florida authorities said a woman told police a man tried to solicit her 16-year-old son online. Detectives posing as that teen and another 16-year-old communicated online with the man, allegedly DeSilva, and said he described sexual acts and sent them naked pictures.
A telephone listing for DeSilva wasn't answered Thursday night.
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An Alaska mom faces child abuse charges after she forced her son to drink hot sauce — and footage aired on "Dr. Phil." If she's convicted, her adopted children could even be sent back to Russia.
Jessica Beagley's appearance on the show, in which she was seen punishing her son with hot sauce and a cold shower, has earned her a misdemeanor child abuse charge. And Russia's Commissioner of Children's Rights tells the NY Post that if she's convicted, "there is quite a big chance" that both her adopted kids could be sent back to Russia, where they were born. Psychologist Henry Paul says "hot saucing" is indeed abusive, and the video of Beagley and her son is frankly difficult to watch. But she also has defenders.
Beagley's sister-in-law says media coverage of the family is one-sided: "They did not discuss the challenges (the child) is going through and the problems they have had on getting him to this point. They just focus on the punishment." And Beagley didn't come up with "hot saucing" on her own. Facts of Life alum Lisa Whelchel wrote about it in her book Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline (published by Focus on the Family) — where, bizarrely, she promoted it as preventing later divorce: "I don't think that I am being far-fetched to believe that if I can teach my child the gravity of lying with the sting of a drop of hot sauce then I could conceivably spare them the exponential pain of divorce, because in marriage trustworthiness is critical."
Actually, that does sound far-fetched — and Beagley's sister-in-law's argument that "you don't know how bad this kid is" doesn't really hold water either. The Beagley family is clearly going through some pretty serious challenges, but forcing a child to drink hot sauce and stand naked under cold water until he screams isn't the way to address them. Whether what she's done is serious enough that her kids should be sent away is another question — according to the Post, a Russian official visited the family and decided none of the kids were in danger. It seems like the ideal solution would be for the family to develop better techniques of discipline and conflict resolution — which may be why they went on "Dr. Phil" in the first place. Show officials aren't commenting on their decision to actually air the hot sauce footage, which seems a questionable one at best. But maybe the exposure will spur the Beagley family to find the help it needs — hopefully from a professional who isn't on TV.
'Dr. Phil' Abuse Kid Could Be Sent Back To Russia [NY Post]
Utah Relatives Say 'Hot Sauce Mom' Getting A Bad Rap [KSL]
Mother Arrested For Putting Hot Sauce In Son's Mouth As Punishment [KTRE]
Mother's Hot Sauce Discipline Tactics Land Her In Hot Water [Yahoo! News]
"Saucing" Of Children Popularized By 2004 Christian Author [Examiner.com]


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Karen Gordon has it made. She is tall and willowy, a former fashion model with beauty, charm, two healthy children and a fat divorce settlement from her ex-husband, a wealthy TV and movie producer. Loads of women in Hollywood would love to stride in her stilettos.
But rather than live the rich life and do lunch at Spago in Beverly Hills, Gordon, 34, has set out to fix an intractable problem. She wants to improve the sad state of child care in orphanages in the developing world. In 2003 she formed a nonprofit, Whole Child International, and since then has sunk $1.3 million of her divorce settlement into it--$250,000 as a gift, the rest as a loan she hopes to recoup by raising money from other donors. So far she has collected $45,000.
"I didn't finish college, I'd never been to a Third World orphanage, and I didn't speak Spanish. Everybody thought I'd lost my marbles," she says.
Gordon's personal crusade has made her a bit of a pariah. Since the 1960s experts in child development have sought to eliminate orphanages altogether, farming kids out to foster care or small group homes. Thus Newt Gingrich got pilloried in late 1994 when, as he was about to become Speaker of the House, he suggested the return of Boys Town-style orphanages to care for neglected and abused kids; he promptly dropped the idea.
Today the very word "orphanage" is condemned. The favored (and more accurate) term is "children's home," since many of these kids' parents are alive but unable or unwilling to take care of their offspring. When Gordon offered to help United Nations officials explore how to improve care, she was turned away. She learned that the World Health Organization and the World Bank also oppose putting children in institutions--so why work on fixing them?
"I would love for all children to live in a happy, nurturing home," she says. "In the meantime someone needs to be dealing with the existing problem." The unkind reality, she notes, is that most kids in orphanages will spend an entire childhood there.
Gordon acquired her abundant grit as a girl growing up in Canada. She was born Karen Villeneuve in Edmonton, Alta., the oldest of three children, and her father's job as a national parks administrator kept the family on the move. She counts 23 homes and ten schools in 20 years. This made it difficult to build a sense of attachment and stability, she says; it is why she wants to help abandoned children do so.
In the early 1990s Gordon dropped out of college in Toronto to model for clothing catalogs, loving the pay but hating the process. While working the front desk at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto in 1994, she met Mark Gordon, an up-and-coming Hollywood producer. They married three years later. Mark Gordon struck gold with Saving Private Ryan in 1998, The Patriot in 2000 and, more recently, ABC's hit hospital drama, Grey's Anatomy.
Karen Gordon gave birth to the first of their two daughters in 1998 and signed up for parenting classes in Los Angeles; this led her into the world of orphanages. The classes were based on child-rearing practices at the Pikler Institute, an orphanage in Hungary, and Gordon became fascinated. "Instantly I knew there was something there for me," she says.
Cut to 2003: Gordon separates from her husband; he takes the daughters away for their first dad-only vacation, and Karen Gordon uses the break to visit the Pikler Institute in Budapest. What she saw there changed her life. A Hungarian pediatrician, Dr. Emmi Pikler, had founded the orphanage in 1946 with the belief that orphaned children could thrive only if they were nurtured with consistent care.
So instead of rotating caregivers, as many orphanages do, Pikler has each one looking after the same small group for several years. Each staff member watches over 6 to 8 children, compared with up to 30 at other orphanages, and pays special attention to one child at a time. Infants are free to roll around on the floor instead of being confined to their cribs all day. Bath time is stretched to a leisurely 22 minutes per child to extend tactile human contact.
The caregiver talks to the baby all the while, strengthening their bond. Children need this kind of attachment to learn and to develop into healthy adults. Dr. Pikler believed in this. The care and setting at Pikler are intended to mimic those of a home to the extent possible in an institution. The right environment can be delivered without expensive buildings and without master's degrees.
Gordon returned home to Santa Monica, Calif. intent on spreading the word about what she had seen. "I thought I would pay for a team from Unicef to go [to Pikler] for a week," she recalls. But when she called Unicef in New York to make the offer, she was shocked to be told it doesn't work with orphanages because Unicef doesn't believe in the institutionalization of children. Gordon started reading about the policies of the WHO and the World Bank and found similar disdain for orphanages.
So Gordon formed her own nonprofit, vowing to fix orphanages one outpost at a time. She set her sights on Central America, a region with many young children and scant financial resources. Her divorce wouldn't be final for three years, so she asked her ex to advance her a total of $1.3 million from the eventual settlement to fund the nonprofit's activities. He balked at first; at one point she asked for $175,000 and he gave her only $50,000. But ultimately he relented. "The money she was getting was ultimately her money," says Mark Gordon. "This is a wonderful thing that she is doing."
Gordon sought help from experts in early childhood. The Pikler Institute had developed its own training manuals and she was free to use them. To help train orphanage staff, Gordon tapped the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies in Sausalito, Calif. and its co-director, Peter Mangione. She hired a program director, Diane Harkins, the director of the Center for Excellence in Child Development at UC, Davis.
She also brought in Christina Groark and Robert McCall, two experts in early-childhood development from the University of Pittsburgh, to evaluate conditions at the orphanages before and after Whole Child provides training. In 2000 Groark and McCall had trained the workers at a children's home in St. Petersburg, Russia to make many of the changes Whole Child advocates, including altering caregiving schedules to have staffers work every day instead of once every four days. The researchers followed the results over several years and found the children fared much better in mental and physical development and in social relationships than did children at another home in St. Petersburg where no changes were made.
"They act like typical children. There's a lot of laughter, and the caregivers are having fun," says McCall.
Meanwhile, Gordon began a journey that has taken her to 51 orphanages in 11 countries. She saw vivid proof of what so much research has shown: Children raised in orphanages and deprived of consistent, loving attention from adults tend to abandon their own children, fall into lives of crime and become a burden on society, unable to hold a steady job or raise a family.
At an orphanage in Nepal there was one girl who couldn't keep her eyes open and looked so weak and delirious that Gordon wasn't sure she would survive. In Guatemala, she cringed when one caregiver told of how a girl had been molested by her father, while the girl stood before her. In Vietnam and Russia, Gordon witnessed dozens of babies with blank stares, indicating their brains weren't developing properly.
In February 2004 Gordon and Harkins visited orphanages across Central America, looking for the right place to begin their work. They wanted to find a country with a relatively low rate of adoption, so that ruled out Guatemala, which managed to place almost 4,100 children with American families last year. El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua had far fewer adoptions, but Gordon would need the consent and support of the government.
In July 2006 Whole Child signed an agreement with the government of Nicaragua to work with caregivers at El Diviño Niño children's home in Managua. Separated by razor wire from a busy road, it is a clean but slightly run-down patchwork of pastel-colored bungalows that house 70 orphaned, abandoned or abused children, from newborns to kids age 6.
On a recent visit from Gordon the children are so hungry for attention that a clutch of 5-year-olds begins to chant in Spanish: "A visit! A visit!" In a nearby bungalow for girls 4 to 6 years old the kids jump into the arms of their visitors, total strangers. Five minutes later, when we attempt to leave, they hold on even tighter, until they are pried off. It is a heart-wrenching scene, but Gordon stays emotionally detached.
In the infirmary, where one caregiver tended to eight babies, a 10-month-old boy stood in a crib, his cloth diaper falling down to his knees. Two infants cried forlornly while the caregiver silently changed another's diaper. Across a "yard" made of concrete that has cracked and buckled, in a bungalow filled with 2-year-olds, some tykes are spoken to so infrequently they don't even know their own names. One boy sat alone on a linoleum floor with nothing to do. Off to his right, beyond a wooden gate, dozens of stuffed animals and toy cars were stacked neatly on shelves lining the wall, held up as special rewards rather than put out every day as objects for play and learning.
In October Gordon paid for three staff members from El Diviño Niño--its director, social worker and chief educator--to travel to Budapest for a close-up look at the Pikler Institute. They returned full of hope and intent on imposing change. "I realized that the work we do here is very mechanized," says Guillermina Obando Sanchez, the chief educator. "We're limiting the children."
In November Gordon's staff began a yearlong program at El Diviño Niño to train the caregivers for one week every month. The early response was so positive that even the kitchen staff has asked to take part. Whole Child also will fund alterations to the structure of some buildings at El Diviño Niño to make them safe for infants and toddlers.
Staff turnover at children's homes is high. Caregivers in Nicaragua make just $72 a month, barely enough to survive. Whole Child plans to supplement their pay and raise funds in Managua to continue doing so.
"How do we get the most underpaid, uneducated group in society to do the most challenging job on the planet?" she asks. She aims to expand Whole Child's work to nearby El Salvador and then to nations in eastern Africa. "The most important thing in the life of a child is a person. Not a toy. Not a building," she says. "We can give the children that."
Most of the world's estimated 16.2 million orphans will spend their entire childhood in an orphanage.
1 million Number of orphans in China.
6,500 Number of Chinese orphans adopted in 2006.1
700,000 Number of orphans in Russia.
3,700 Number of Russian orphans adopted in 2006.1
6,000 Number of orphans in Nicaragua.
43 Number of Nicaraguan orphans adopted in 2006.1
Numbers of orphans are estimates from 2003. 1Adoptions into the U.S. only.
Sources: National Council for Adoption; Unicef; U.S. Department of State.


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Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability to recognise fear in others is linked to a similar loss in immediate recall, while those with a lower general neurocognitive performance also had a reduced ability to recognise happiness.
The mechanism behind recognition of facial emotion is complex, involving many different areas of the brain, including the frontostriatal pathway and amygdala. The frontostriatal pathway is essential for learning and behavioural adaption, while the amygdale is involved in memory and emotion. The loss of this ability can be debilitating, impacting daily life and personal interactions.
Comparing people with HIV to a control group without HIV, researchers from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome discovered that from the six basic expressions of emotion (disgust, anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness) that fear is the most difficult emotion to recognise. People with HIV were less accurate in identifying fearful expressions than the controls and also tended to have difficulties in immediate recall of words indicating a link between the two.
People with a higher number of AIDS-related events, such as pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma, or tuberculosis, and people with neurocognitive problems in memory, attention and decision making, language and speed of mental processing, were less able to recognise happiness in others.
Dr Eleonora Baldonero, who led the study commented, "The severity of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders has been significantly reduced thanks to combination antiretroviral therapy. Nevertheless our research highlights a link between cognition and facial recognition and that AIDS-related events affect both. Understanding this on a individual level can help the long-term personal management of HIV."
Open access publisher BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of BMC Psychology, the newest addition to the BMC-series portfolio. This marks a significant milestone for the BMC-series family of open access journals, as it is the first new journal since 2008 and will lead the way for other new launches within the series.
In recognition of the need to keep the community up to date with the latest research in psychology the BMC series developed BMC Psychology as the first solely dedicated open access psychology journal of its kind, covering all aspects of psychology. It will also practice open peer review in keeping with all the medical journals currently published in the BMC series.
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The Cameron University Concert Band will be joined by Fort Sill's 77th Army Band for a combined concert on Thursday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cameron University Theatre. The Cameron University Concert Band is conducted by Dr. Roy Couch, Assistant Professor, and the 77th Army Band is conducted by Chief Warrant Officer 1st Class Matthew David. Admission is free.
The repertoire for the concert includes "Golden Festival Overture" by James Barnes, "The Vanished Army" by Kenneth Alford, "Six Studies in English Folk Songs" by Ralph Vaughan-Williams as arranged by CWO1 David and featuring members of the 77th Army Band, "Eviler Elves" by James Kazik, "Ecstatic Fanfare" by Steven Bryant, "The Unknown Soldier" by Quincy Hilliard and "Symphony No. 2" by Frank Ticheli.
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With the Ryder Cup coming to Chicago this week, a study of how the competition came to be is in order. Like any good sporting pursuit, it was born out of both Britain and America trying to prove they were better at something than the other. It's an argument these two have been having for a while, no?
In 1920, a journalist for Golf Magazine proposed the idea to the PGA of America, but it was met with only blank stares and dismissive waves. However, the next year he was joined by someone from the other side of the pond in the suggestion. This added support led to an unofficial competition in 1921 that took place in Scotland. The British won pretty easily. They decided to have a second one in 1926 in Virgina.
This one, also easily won by the Brits, was witnessed by rich, British seed merchant Samuel Ryder. He loved the idea so much he decided to pursue making this an official competition between the PGA of America and that of the UK. A year later was the first official match between the two sides, including some luminaries on the American side like Walter Hagan and Tommy Amour. Ryder donated a golden cup and put his name on it, as well as a promise to give the winning team a small pot of money. And we know that makes the world go round.
And that's how the competition continued until after the second world war. From the years 1947-77, the Briitish side won exactly once. Making things worse, they weren't even coming close. With such dominance, the competition threatened to become irrelevant. To beef it up, one Jack Nicklaus suggested to the Players Association in the UK that it might be a good idea to allow players from all of Europe to partake. It wasn't a coincidence that at the time superstar Seve Ballesteros from Spain and legend Bernhard Langer from Germany were hitting the heights at this point. Just their inclusion in 1979 made the competition actually competitive.
In the 16 occasions since the Europeans joined the party, they've won eight of them. There's been one tie, with the Americans taking seven. They've won four of the last five and five of the last seven. They come in holding the trophy, having won in 2010 in Wales by a solitary point in one of the more dramatic Ryder Cups in the history of the competition.
But in the end, it's still an argument between Americans and the English. Which is fine.


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The cuisine of the Basque Country
Fish in green sauce
- Autonomous region: Basque Country
The Basque Country, a culinary paradise
With regards food, the Basque Country is probably the most important tourist destination in Spain. A coastal and border region, whose very varied culinary delights are due to the mixture of sea and mountain cultures with modern top-quality cooking. This trend emerged over the last decades with the appearance of the so-called Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. But most importantly, the good food is a reflection of the character of the Basque people, a people devoted to tradition and good food, the centre of any social occasion. The Basque Country, a culinary paradise
Due to its geographical position in the Bay of Biscay, the Basques have been avid sailors for many centuries. Its constant fishing on the shore of Terranova has resulted in the consumption of cod on mass. The cod is a fish which in the past was consumed on the mainland to fight off the famine and which today has been converted into a delicacy, forming part of numerous recipes. The sauces which have emerged due to this fish - "pil pil" (garlic), Biscay sauce, green sauce, "ajoarriero" (eggs and garlic) - have become real institutions over the years and are proof of the region's age-long capacity of producing sophisticated meals with the excellent raw materials at hand.
Fresh fish Hake, bonito, red bream, spider crab, small cuttlefish, anchovies from Getaria or the very sought-after eels are other sea delicacies which are always present in the local cuisine and which are used to prepare seafood casseroles such as "marmitaco" and "zurrukutuna". Cuttlefish in ink and other local specialities such as barbels, which can be enjoyed in the popular dining-rooms of the fishing guilds in the small towns along the coast, tuna belly and sardines and red bream cooked on the griddle prove the Basque dexterity with regards cooking techniques. In the Basque Country, the griddle has become something of a ritual and is used for cooking both fish and beef. Those in the know ask for their enormous T-bone steaks or the local cut of beef known as "villagodio" to be cooked rare. The wild mushrooms known as "perretxikos" (especially the "boletus") and small game (pigeon, woodcock, turtledove...) are eaten during the months of Autumn, as are the local vegetables which have given rise to dishes such as stuffed peppers from Gernika or haricot beans from Tolosa.
Good desserts The majority of traditional dishes are prepared using local products, which is logical in a mountain region with isolated hamlets and valleys. Many of the desserts are based on milk: deep fried custard slices, "mamía" (curdled sheep's milk with walnut sauce), "intxaursalsa" (milk pudding with cinnamon and walnuts), fried puff pastry rolls with custard, "pantxineta" (with liqueur), "franchipán" (with almonds), "sopa cana" (cinnamon and capon)... A piece of the famous idiazábal cheese is a must before tucking into a dessert. Apples are used to make the local cider. In one of the many cider bars found in the province of Gipuzkoa, the visitor can serve himself cider directly from the casks or "kupelas" and accompany the drink with a set menu comprised of cod omelette and T-bone steak served at large collective tables.
Wines and the pleasure of tapas The other typically Basque drink is wine. It mustn't be forgotten that the Rioja Denomination of Origin lies to the south of the interior province of Álava, giving rise to a sub-zone called Rioja Alavesa where some of the oldest Rioja bodegas are found, such as Marqués de Riscal, next to more recent and innovative companies such as Artadi, which has gained international renown. Together with Rioja, the ultimate Basque aperitif which is served in local bars is the "txakoli" - a light, acid and aromatic white wine which is the perfect accompaniment to the famous "pintxos" (tapas). The very Spanish custom of going from bar to bar eating tapas is seen at its best in the Basque Country and has become an almost daily social ritual which all visitors must try. In traditional neighbourhoods such as the old quarter of the town called Donostia-San Sebastián, there is a line of bars all down the street and the locals go from one to another with their friends, tasting the different "pintxos" on offer at the bar. Another great Basque tradition with regards collective tables are the dining clubs or "txokos": these mainly male clubs were created during the middle of the nineteenth century and today, in Gipuzkoa alone, there exist more than 300 clubs where the members get together and cook, eat, drink and talk. It is a great honour to be invited to one of these meetings - an experience which shouldn't be missed if the opportunity presents itself.
Restaurants Lastly, the traveller should not leave the Basque Country without dining at least once in one of the top restaurants. During the eighties, chefs such as Arzak, Pedro Subijana and the popular Karlos Arguiñano established the foundations for the so-called Basque Nouvelle Cuisine, especially in Guipúzcoa. Their inspiration came from the similar actions taken by Paul Bocuse, Michel Gérard and others in France. Since then, various generations have joined in, striving to convert the Basque Country into one of the indisputable references of modern European gastronomy. Martín Berasategui and his pupils, amongst which is the important Mugaritz, revitalised the cuisine of Guipúzcoa in the nineties. And a new generation of very young chefs is currently doing the same in the region of Vizcaya. International gastronomy guides are supporting this trend by awarding these restaurants with the highest possible qualification. In the year 2002, the Basque Country had two establishments with three stars in the Michelin Guide (Arzak and Martin Berasategi), two restaurants with two stars (Zuberoa and Akelarre) and quite a few with one star. The four restaurants mentioned above have been awarded three suns by the CAMPSA Guide.
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The Bag Lady in Me
By Patti Shea , April 09, 2012 03:21 PM
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of guest blogs by Lee Woodruff.
A recurring nightmare visits me in the middle of the hormonal sweat lodge that my bed becomes at 3:30 a.m. I'm toward the end of my life, crone-like and alone (always alone) with all of my possessions in a paper bag. My house and family are gone and I am living on the street.
I once read somewhere that this phenomenon among middle-aged women is dubbed "Bag Lady Syndrome" and I took solace in the fact that this was a collective nightmare. I was not alone marinating in my worst fears.
And yet I was not surprised to learn that so many of us average, semi-well adjusted, wives, mothers, partners and daughters have an irrational fear of being left destitute after we have finished caring for everyone else.
There is no basis for my personal bag lady fears, no reason in my life that I should feel this way. My family would call me a thrifty person, even cheap. I'm a saver more than a spender, more planner than spontaneous soul. There is nothing in my life or anything I yearn for that's extravagant. When I rifle through my family history my father has provided for my mother and in my case, I have always worked, dutifully socking money away in my own self-employed retirement fund. We've never lived beyond our means and we pay off our credit card bills regularly.
But it's no surprise to learn that many of us women put ourselves last on the list. With all the multiple hats we wear in life, we often delay thinking about our own futures and planning for the "what ifs." Who wants to think about the what ifs anyway?
So the fact remains that most of us could do much better job in the long-range planning department. Perhaps the Bag Lady Syndrome is our subconscious mind prodding us to get busy, understand what the future looks like and plan accordingly. If life is what happens when you are making plans, than I venture to add that anxiety is what happens if you ignore the future, even though none of us has our hands on the script.
When my husband, Bob, was critically injured by a roadside bomb while covering the war in Iraq, my world came off its axis. And in my darkest days, as his life hung in the balance, I realized how little I really knew about our financial situation. My 3:30 a.m. thoughts then were questions like:
- What is our long-term care?
- Did we have adequate life insurance, exactly how was our money invested, had we adequately provided for our children in our will?
- Did we need advanced directive?
I was shockingly unprepared to take over the reins of our lives and embarrassingly under-educated about our financial picture.
I'd been the sort of wife who'd been more than happy to let my husband handle all of that, elated when we married and I no longer had to balance a checkbook. After Bob was injured, my learning curve of what I needed to know was a trial by fire, and I don't recommend that for anyone.
I smile today when I hear young women say they want to be married at 29 and then have three kids and quit work. I was that young planner and list maker once. But there are very few people for whom life works out that simply. And so if anyone asks what my life lesson is from our own family's brush with tragedy, I answer "always have a Plan B." Human beings are capable of surviving amazing things, but while you're in survival mode, it's nice to have a safety net of a plan in place.
In working with AARP on a caregiving program, I was introduced to "Decide. Create. Share." ( www.aarp.org/decide). The program walked me through the basics about planning for the future. Tackling what I needed to know in bite sizes was much less overwhelming. We still have a few steps to put in place, but at least I understand the landscape now.
And when my personal bag lady appears at 3:30, and I scroll through the mental worry beads of all the people my husband and I care for, the children still under the roof, the college tuition, the mortgage and the current orthodontic bill for braces, I tell myself to slow down. Everything always looks worse at night.
I remind myself of the planning we have done and I take a deep breath. Most nights I can make the bag lady in me vanish. I can walk her back in the house, give her a warm meal, show her the long term disability and retirement plans. And then I pull up the blanket, tuck it over my body and that of my sleeping husband as I reach for a few more hours of sleep before dawn.
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State Highlights
Some areas where Nebraska has moved the needle relative to other states includes providing contract rights for youth experiencing homelessness, independent health insurance coverage, and maintaining a state plan to end homelessness.
Law & Policy
- State law provides youth experiencing homelessness some contract rights.
- The state has a grievance process in compliance with federal law.
- State allows unaccompanied youth under 18 to apply for health insurance coverage on their own.
- There is a current state plan to end homelessness that contains a youth-specific strategy component.
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Recommendations for Improvement
There is room for improvement throughout the metrics for the Cornhusker State, with emphasis on the Environment category. Creating a coordinated state response to youth homelessness and protecting the rights and interests of youth experiencing homelessness, including LGBTQ youth, should be prioritized.
Law & Policy
- Enact and fund a state law similar to the federal RHYA to provide key intervention and emergency services for youth experiencing homelessness.
- Enact state law that allows youth in need of supervision to receive services without court involvement.
- Declassify running away as a status offense.
- As part of the state plan to prevent and end youth homelessness, include a strategy to address homelessness among LGBTQ youth.
- Create a state entity - such as an Office of Homeless Youth Services - that focuses solely on designing, implementing, and evaluating youth homelessness programs.
- Create an Interagency Council on Homelessness that mirrors the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), providing a multi-sectoral approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.
- Organize and maintain a self-governing youth action board or council to inform youth homelessness policy within the state.
- Require training about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, healthy sexual development, or issues specific to LGBTQ youth for staff working in runaway and homeless youth systems.
- Ban controversial and ineffective service provision that includes conversion therapy.
- Promote safe and inclusive environments in child welfare, juvenile justice, and runaway and homeless youth programs by providing protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.


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Presentations: SubCulture Series
Tanya Bannister, piano
Tanya Bannister, piano + String Quartet
CD Release Concert for Intimate Piano Concertos on CAG Records
works by Mozart, Chopin & Schubert
Upcoming in the Series
Yi-Nuo Wang, piano
First Prize Winner, 2018 CAG Comeptition
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Chinese pianist Yi-Nuo Wang was selected as first prize winner of the 2018 CAG Competition, which is just the latest in a series of impressive first-prize performances, along with the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition in Louisiana.
Bartók: Piano Sonata
Brahms: 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 76
Piece in D minor
Daisies, Op.38 no.3
Prelude in G-flat major, Op. 23 No. 10
Chen Yi: Ba Ban (2000)
Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
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Instrumental Storytellers
Performances | Sunday, March 8, 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Leonard Nimoy Thalia At Peter Norton Symphony Space
Instrumental Storytellers awakens excitement and passion for classical music in young people and inspires traditional concertgoers to experience the music in a new way, featuring storytelling, movement, comic sketches, and poetry. Be taken on an imaginative journey for audiences of all ages!
A co-presentation with Creative Stage Collective.
Quartet Extravaganza!
Featuring the Aizuri and Argus Quartets and Kim Kashkashian, viola
CAG partners with Music for Food, a musician-led initiative for local hunger relief, for this concert, which will raise resources and awareness in the fight against hunger. Featuring Mozart's Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614, Garth Knox's Satellites, and Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings, Op. 20.
A co-presentation with Music For Food.
Suggested donation at the door is $30/$10 students and seniors. No ticket required.
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Shelby's New York Auto Show dance card includes the previously announced Super Snake, but now we're also hearing dropped hints about a mystery model that Mustangs Daily suspect will be the Shelby GTS, a less-expensive upgrade slotted below the GT350.
Although Shelby won't make any official announcements until Thursday, we're told Mustangs Daily fully expects the new model to be the GTS Mustang. We're told to expect the package will
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Fun, Get in Shape and Help Augie's Quest by taking a ZUMBA class? Yep!
It is perhaps the best opportunity of the year for you to feel great after a workout both inside and out! On Saturday, February 23rd at 3pm LA Fitness is holding a special Zumba class that you can attend in order to support Augie's Quest and help find a cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). CLICK here to learn more about this event and make a donation. *LA Fitness clubs not participating in this promotion: Grove City, OH (Former Urban Active), Grandview, OH (Former Urban Active), and Presale locations.
You probably want to know more, right? Well, who better to tell you than Augie Nieto himself? So, we contacted Augie for a Q&A about Augie's Quest, ALS and the LA Fitness Zumba event.
Why is it important for everyone to participate in this event?
Augie: The fitness industry has been instrumental to MDA's Augie's Quest…we've raised over $35 million to date because of clubs and members around the country. YOU have the opportunity to be a part of history and help families fighting ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Plus, I can't think of a more entertaining way to get a workout!
How will the donations received from the LA Fitness Zumba event help Augie's Quest, ALS and MDA?
Augie: Donations received will go directly to fast-track research for ALS. Our goal is to find an effective treatment for this disease as soon as possible.
How far has research and treatment come since you were first diagnosed?
Augie: When I was first diagnosed, there were ZERO dollars being invested in ALS research from 'Big Pharma.' We've been able to change the landscape of ALS research drastically. The lab we fund is called ALS TDI (www.als.net). It's the largest ALS research lab in the world and we are focused on finding drugs to treat ALS. We currently have two drugs moving into Phase 2 clinical trials and 11 more in the pipeline. I know that one day soon, thanks to the support from the fitness industry, we'll have effective treatments for ALS.
Your challenges, and the challenges faced with treating ALS are daunting, and yet you continue to persevere with Augie's Quest, how do you do it?
Augie: What keeps me going is the momentum we have right now…we are truly making great strides in ALS drug development. Right now there is only one FDA approved drug on the market for ALS patients and it doesn't do much. I'm confident the research we are funding will result in new effective drugs for the ALS community.
What would you like to tell those who are attending the Zumba event?
Augie: THANK YOU! Most people who attend probably haven't had their lives touched by ALS…it's amazing to me that so many people come out to support our cause. Oh…and get there early to get a front row spot!
Fun Question: What would you like to tell those who are hiding behind their poor dance skills as an excuse to skip the Zumba event?
Augie: If I can do it, you can do it! Zumba isn't about perfect choreography…it's about having fun. I promise you won't regret it…no one has ever left a Zumba class and said "that wasn't fun!"
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Arvest Bank and Shred-It will host a free Shred-a-Thon for the Harrison community on Saturday, April 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Arvest Bank branch located at 1402 Hwy 62-65 North at the corner of Hester Drive.The Harrison community is invited to bring personal documents that need to be disposed of properly to reduce the risk of having confidential information compromised and their identity stolen.
"Consumers need to take advantage of every safety measure possible when it comes to protecting their identity, both digitally and with printed documents," said Scott Tennyson, market president for Arvest Bank in Harrison. "Our annual Shred-a-Thon provides our community with a trusted resource for shredding documents, while also protecting the environment through recycling."
Document shredding will take place on-site, so residents can be assured that personal information has been destroyed. The event is free, but monetary donations will be accepted to support Ozark Share and Care, a local hunger relief organization, to help feed hungry families in the Harrison community.
The Shred-A-Thon is one of several projects Arvest Bank is holding to help fight hunger in Boone County, as part of the bank's annual 1 Million Meals campaign that lasts through June 2. As part of the 1 Million Meals campaign, Arvest encourages associates, customers and the general public to drop off nonperishable food items or monetary donations at any Arvest Bank branch across the four-state area the bank serves. The goal is to collect the equivalent of one million meals across the bank's footprint to reduce food insecurity in local communities. All donations to the campaign remain local.
During the past two years, a total of 17,175 pounds of paper have been destroyed at the Shred-a-Thon and cash donations on-site provided 10,827 meals to those who receive food through Ozark Share and Care.
Refreshments will be available at the Shred-a-Thon while supplies last and radio station 102.9 "The Z" will broadcast on-site from 10 a.m. to noon.
There is a limit of five boxes per household for shredding.
Submitted questions will be answered by an Arvest banker and may appear on the Arvest Blog.
All Arvest banks are Equal Housing Lenders and Member FDIC.
Investment products and services are provided by Arvest Investments, Inc., doing business as Arvest Asset Management, member FINRA/SIPC, an SEC registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of Arvest Bank. Trust services are provided by Arvest Bank. Insurance products are made available through Arvest Insurance, Inc., which is registered as an insurance agency. Insurance products are marketed through Arvest Insurance, Inc., but are underwritten by insurance companies.
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General Manager Steve Yzerman has led three entry drafts for the Tampa Bay Lightning and twice raised eyebrows when he chose an injury-risk player with a top-10 pick. The first was Brett Connolly [6] (hips) in 2010, which has worked out okay so far. In June of this year, Yzerman selected promising defenseman Slater Koekkoek [7] of the Peterborough Petes with the 10th overall pick despite the fact Koekkoek missed all but two months of the season with a severe shoulder injury. Koekkoek, who had his shoulder surgically repaired, passed all medical examinations before the draft.
The Petes' kicked off their preseason last night and Koekkoek – named captain earlier in the week – played his first competitive game since he was hurt on November 27, 2011. Koekkoek took a hit from Blue Jackets prospect Boone Jenner of Oshawa and later left the game. According to the Peterborough Examiner [8], Koekkoek was taken to the hospital for further evaluation. His coach, Mike Pelino, classified the injury as an "upper body injury," which opens speculation that it could be the same shoulder.
"I don't want to jump to conclusions until I know more," Pelino told the Examiner Thursday night. "Right now I don't know anymore. Right now, he's being evaluated and that's all we know."
Koekkoek was reportedly in the penalty box serving a delay of game penalty in the second period when he left the box and went to the Petes' locker room.
The Lightning view Koekkoek as a potential first pairing, 2-way defenseman at the NHL level. He is Bolt Prospects' second-ranked prospect in the organization behind only Andrei Vasilevski.
UPDATE: Mike Davies of the Examiner reports [9] Koekkoek suffered bruising and the early prognosis is he'll be out of action for "a couple weeks." Peterborough General Manager Dave Reid told the newspaper Koekkoek requested that further details about the injury not be released. The club continues to call it an "upper body injury."
Davies said Koekkoek's surgically repaired left shoulder banged against the boards when hit by Jenner.
"Considering it was his first game back from surgery and all he's gone through," Reid told the Examiner, "no question when he leaves the game early you think 'Oh boy, it could be bad.' It was definitely the right thing for him to do to leave early and get it looked at by the proper doctors just to make sure. That's what we've done the last 12 to 14 hours."
"It's not a serious thing, so I'm happy about that," Koekkoek told Damian Cristodero of the Tampa Bay Times [10]. "Obviously, it's tough. I worked so hard to get it back. But this isn't affecting (the surgical repair) at all."
Davies reported that Yzerman called the Petes (Yzerman's junior club) to check up on his prized prospect.
"Sometimes you've got to get used to getting banged around and get that strength back," Yzerman later told Cristodero. "He'll be all right in the long run."
(Pictured: Koekkoek at the Lightning's post-draft prospect development camp. Eric DuBose photo)


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STERLING – In a handwritten petition, twice-convicted murderer Nicholas Sheley has filed for divorce from his wife of 5 years.
In documents filed in Whiteside County Court, Sheley, who turned 34 on Wednesday, says Holly Sheley, 35, now of Naperville, cheated on him on numerous occasions with multiple individuals and has "been guilty of extreme and repeated mental cruelty."
He also cites irreconcilable differences, and notes that the two have been separated for 5 years – the length of his incarceration. He filed the documents pro se – acting as his own attorney.
Holly Sheley could not be reached for comment, and it was not clear from the document, a handwritten copy of which Sheley mailed to Sauk Valley Media, if she had been served.
Sheley is accused of killing eight people, including the two for which he was convicted, over a week's time in late June 2008. He and the former Holly Gaul had been married a little less that 2 months at the time.
They have two children, an 8-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl, who live with their paternal grandparents, per court order. Sheley is requesting that the guardianship remain the same after the divorce.
After winning a change-of-venue motion, jury selection in his third murder trial is set to begin Jan. 10 in Rock Island County Court. He will stand trial for the deaths of Brock Branson, 29; his fiancée Kilynna Blake, 20; her 2-year-old son, Dayan; and Kenneth Ulve, 25, who were bludgeoned to death in a Rock Falls apartment.
He is serving two life sentences without parole in Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet for the murders of Ronald Randall, 65, of Galesburg and Russell Reed, 93, of rural Sterling. He has appealed the decision in the Randall case.
His wife testified against him in his October 2012 trial for murdering Reed; in return, she was given immunity from prosecution for any crimes she may have committed in relation to the killing spree.
She testified that he was a "violent drunk" who often turned to crack cocaine when he had been drinking, and that he was spending $300 a day on the drug at the time of the murders.
Holly Sheley, who could not be reached for comment, also has an extensive criminal history.
Most recently, she was sentenced April 4 in Lee County court to 180 days in jail for unlawful possession of another person's credit card, along with 2 years, 6 months of probation.
She was sentenced March 25 in Ogle County Court to 180 days in jail and 4 years' probation for selling less than a gram of heroin, a felony, on Aug. 17 in Oregon, followed by 4 years of probation. She received day-for-day credit, and was released for time served.
She also has multiple convictions for burglary, retail theft, and forgery, dating back to the late 1990s. Most have resulted in short jail terms.


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Day's best: Sixty years of music
The upcoming fall/winter season will mark 60 years that the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra has been making music for its dedicated fans.
Started in 1953 as the Mines Chamber Ensemble, the orchestra has become a community favorite. In 2011, it was named the Best Community Orchestra by Westword.
William Morse has been music director and principal conductor of the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra since 1999. The 2012-13 season includes a performance of "Carmina Burana" and participation of the Evergreen Choral.
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First, Jay Comes and Trails by Takashi Homma
Two new books by Takashi Homma, Trails and First Jay Comes, present a departure from his usual concentration on the urban and suburban world. The work, photographs and some paintings, concentrate on three basic components; snow, forest, and blood. Described with simply a few lines and contrast of color, these undeniably beautiful works sit in each book with very different tenor.
The more known of the two is from Hassla Books, First, Jay Comes. This small 5x7 inch, 24 page booklet includes more paintings than photographs. The cover, a photograph of mostly virgin snowfall despoiled by a few dark specks of red and perhaps a footprint of crushed snow. The evidence of violence remaining visible in the stillness of the natural world.
Homma's paintings follow in the traditional simple single brush-stroke tradition of sumi-e with their sparse, abstraction which gives but a suggestion of the content that is immediately grasped. The paint, especially the red and the slashing gestures with which it was applied, suggest more of an aggressive violence; speckles of blood turning into great smears of crimson.
The book's center photograph (there are only three in this booklet) depicts the scene that might have inspired the paintings, trampled snow and twigs and a center pool of blood that has seeped or been spread into the surrounding snow. Where as the other two images describe blood trailings of something bleeding being carried or dragged through the forest, this image seems to be the site of the attack.
The title, First, Jay Comes is as ambiguous and as harmonious as the work itself. As a book this Hassla edition is good but feels a bit unsubstantial and perhaps due to the paper stock it seems to clash a little with the content. That said, this edition is easiest to get and is only $12.00. First, Jay Comes was published in an edition of 500.
Takashi Homma's Trails from Match and Company in Japan is harder to get a hold of due to the difficulty in paying them but worth the extra effort and cost.
This is a much larger and altogether different take on this work. At approximately 11 x 12 inches and in combination with the beautiful OK Muse Gulliver Shiromono paper this feels like an actual fully realized work.
Trails opens to an image of mostly virgin snow speckled with a bit of frozen blood but acts as a moment of foreshadowing as the following three images have us venturing deeper into the forest and discovering animal tracks left in the snow. It is several images in that we pick up the fading blood trail and follow it to the source. The images are deeply tinted cyan which gives a cold, silent feeling and the blood an odd unrealistic hue which for me makes them less aggressive. Whatever has taken place and whether the act was made by man on animal or animal on animal, the harmony seems to be relating to the cycles of a food chain than with acts made out of anger.
As a book Trails is simply beautiful in its printing and design. Clean and simple, it has two gatefolds which reveal more photographs among the 24 pages. The cover plate is one of Homma's brush paintings and avoids announcing this as a photobook. This was published in a an edition of 700 and although the money transfer and shipping will greatly increase the cost, in Japan this book is only the equivalent of $21.00.


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The nor'easter that moved into the northeast Wednesday continued to lead to flight cancellations and delays in South Florida Thursday, officials said.
As of 11 a.m., six fights were canceled and another nine were delayed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Broward County Aviation Department spokesman Greg Meyer said.
Nor'easter Brings New Outages for Sandy-Weary Northeast
The cancellations were impacting Newark and JFK Airport in the New York City area, Meyer said. The delays are impacting flights to Newark, JFK, Long Island, Washington, D.C., Boston and Newburg.
At Miami International Airport, a total of 16 flights were canceled Thursday, Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesman Marc T. Henderson said.
On Wednesday, the nor'easter led to 18 canceled and 6 delayed flights at FLL. Another 33 flights were canceled at MIA Wednesday.


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After months of tense negotiations, Palo Alto and its largest employee union have forged a new labor agreement that provides pay raises and salary adjustments to hundreds of workers.
All 570 members of Service Employees International Local 521 would receive a 4.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment — 2 percent would be retroactive to Dec. 1, 2013, and the remainder to Dec. 1, 2014.
In addition, the salaries of 315 workers in 89 job classifications identified as "under market" would be adjusted. Several positions would receive an additional adjustment to address recruitment and retention challenges.
The two-year agreement also changes the formula for employer-paid medical costs. The city would pay a flat fixed rate instead of covering 90 percent of a worker's premium cost.
The city council is scheduled to consider approval of the contract on March 17. The union has already ratified the agreement.
"We are pleased that the SEIU membership has voted to accept this proposal, which offers a fair and balanced deal that seeks to ensure we can retain our excellent employees, where we are seeing heightened marketplace competition, especially in the utilities and enterprise services sector, while also controlling health care costs in the future," City Manager James Keene said in a news release.
Margaret Adkins, SEIU Local 521 Palo Alto chapter chairwoman, said in a statement that the agreement was a "step in the right direction" but warned that it might not be enough to end an employee exodus.
"This contract provides city workers with some immediate relief, but I doubt the wage realignments and cost-of-living adjustments will be enough to reverse Palo Alto's current staffing and retention crisis," Adkins said.
Until recently, the city and union had been at odds over a contract to replace one that expired on Dec. 1, 2013. The city declared an impasse on Jan. 7 after the union presented its "last, best and final offer." The two sides, however, agreed to return to the bargaining table to hammer out an agreement.
The agreement is expected to cost the city an additional $7.6 million when fully implemented.
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Say I produce some software with a genetic algorithm. In order to be certain that the software works correctly in all situations, I would need to test all situations, which could be prohibitively (or infinitely) many. So I evolve the software with evolving test input (some fixed, some inherited, and some random). Now, with each generation, the probability measurably increases that the fittest functions will be general solutions, not just solutions for the known data at hand.
As developers, we are flawed, and our software may fail, in fact quite often. Generally speaking, we have no idea of the probability of failure at any given point, though we may be able to discern specific cases in which the software will fail. All we can do to reduce the failure rate is test thoroughly and practice good software development. But logically, we distribute flawed software all the time.
Would it make you uncomfortable as a developer to know how often your software might fail, but to know nothing about the specific cases in which it might? What failure rate is acceptable? 0.01%? 0.0001%? Would you hold a genetic algorithm to a higher standard than a human when it comes to failure rates?


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I frequently whisper to all three of my kids "I love you the best. Don't tell the rest." To my knowledge, they haven't compared notes. I've been telling them this for years. I may be doing psychological damage, but they think it is super fun to be the "most" loved. And I love seeing their tiny faces light up when they think they are the very center of my universe.
One of my favorite things about parenting many small children, is having one on one time with each of them. Around here we call it "special time". We rotate around whose turn it is to have mommy or daddy all to themselves for an outing. Each of the kids have their "group" personality- who they are as a big sister, little brother, middle child, etc. But when you get them alone and away from the group we see such neat aspects of their personalities that only come through when they are nurtured with uninterrupted attention.
Yesterday, our school system had a two hour delay so Noah's preschool was cancelled. Sadie went on to school and Miles still had his group therapy, so Noah got two hours of special time. I told him that we could do whatever he wanted on our date and he chose to have breakfast at McDonald's and then go to Target. (He is sooooo my child!) Over pancakes and sausage biscuits, we discussed some really important things. Noah wanted to know if I'd ever pooped in the dark. Then he wanted to know if I've ever pooped when someone was flicking the lights off and on. (I'm going to coin the term "strobe pooping" here) He wanted to know if I'd ever wished that I could have a tail with spikes on it. He wanted to know if I'd ever fallen into a volcano. He wanted to know if I'd ever heard anyone toot so loud that the house shook. I wish I could just spend one day in his brain.
Then we went on to Target. It's rare that I go there with just one child. We didn't need anything in particular, so we just went wherever Noah wanted to go. When he started screaming that we were being chased by a dromeosaurus we ran away from it because well- why not? Everyone needs to run away from a dinosaur every now and them to keep them young. He told me all about how we could run as fast as we could but that eventually we'd get eaten because dromeosauruses can run 55 miles an hour and he could only run for 6 minutes on the wii. Then we found an endcap with all of these singing Valentine's Day animals. They sang "Who Let The Dogs Out" so we had to line them all up and let the dogs have a concert, of course.
All in all, it was such a fun morning together. For me, these are the things that make motherhood worth while. Well, that, and strobe pooping. Which, if it wasn't a two man operation, would be tops on my list of things to accomplish today.
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Shirley has been with her husband for 12 years. There have been some good times, a few great times, and a moment when their relationship hit rock bottom when she caught him cheating.
That cheating incident happened three years ago, but her sexual satisfaction has never really returned. She loves her husband and has forgiven him, but a question lingers in her mind: what if?
What if she were to seek sexual satisfaction outside of the marriage like her husband?
Religious values dominate many countries on the planet and dictate that people be in certain relationships. Threats of "eternal damnation" or "burning in Hell" are associated with sexual desires that fall outside of the accepted societal norm. Shirley can't help but wonder if it is possible to love her husband and another man just as he loves her and another woman.
Is it possible for 2 guys and one girl, or 2 girls and 1 guy, or a set couples coming together as 4 to have a fulfilling, meaningful relationship that is based on love?
Does Love Have a Specific, Defined Structure?
It's a thinking error to believe that one person cannot deeply love more than one person at the same time. We might force ourselves into socially acceptable circles of conduct, but that's not enough for some people to be able to truly lose themselves in another. Some people cheat or stray because they are being mistreated. Others, however, look for relationships outside of traditional structures because that's the only way the can merge love and satisfaction.
This is where the Law of the Vital Few comes into play. This law, which is sometimes called the Pareto principle, basically says that 80% of anything can come from 20% of a source. In other words, when it comes to relationships, a loving spouse or significant other can provide you with 80% of your needs at best. A loving spouse will give of themselves freely, but their very best efforts cannot provide everything.
Some people are satisfied with 80%. There's nothing wrong with the people who are. Others, however, want to experience 100% satisfaction. That's why non-traditional relationships, as defined by modern society, are sought after.
How Can Multiple People Lose Themselves In Each Other?
Although monogamy is the emphasis of many societies today, it hasn't always been this way. In the Bible, someone couldn't become an elder in a church if they had "multiple wives." Think about what that says for a minute. It was perfectly acceptable in 1st century Christianity to have sex with more than one person and still call it a marriage. When Islam came along a few centuries later, a similar message was given.
It is only in our modern society where we stress coupling. Love must certainly play a role in any relationship, no matter what the structure might be, but in looking at all historical books, one truth comes out: people want to be with other people. They want to create their own social groups. That means it is perfectly feasible for a couple of 3 or a two couples to make 4 to exist together in meaningful, loving harmony and still have sexual satisfaction.
What about jealousy? Jealousy is only present when love is absent. Love doesn't get jealous because love wants the best for the other person. That's the whole concept of loving someone as much as loving oneself. Love doesn't envy and it doesn't lie. It simply exists, supports, and rejoices in the truth.
For Shirley, her thoughts of being with another man came about because of jealousy and a slight tinge of revenge. She wanted her husband to feel betrayed like she had felt. There is betrayal in cheating because outside of a relationship, no matter what the structure is, because love is honest. Love comes forward and says that a need isn't being met and suggests changes that benefit the entire relationship, not just a selfish component of it.
What Does This Mean For the Modern Relationship?
If you're thinking about changing how you see a relationship, whether that's with two men or two women in your life – or some other combination – it is important to distinguish whether you're feeling lust or love. Lust is destructive and causes you to chase after things for your personal benefit only. Love, on the other hand, benefits everyone involved. If greater sexual satisfaction can be achieved and everyone can have 100% of their needs met, then a different relationship structure makes a lot of sense.
If you're satisfied in the modern tradition of a 1:1 pairing, then there is nothing wrong with this either. People shouldn't be judged on how they love. Different people have different needs based on their own unique life experiences. The definition of "normal" is only how we each define it for ourselves.
Without love, however, no relationship can exist. It will fail because there is no emphasis on the relationship. There is only an emphasis on personal needs being fulfilled. That's why with love, any relationship structure can have sexual satisfaction.