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Let's get to the bowl wrap …
Theme I: Mixed bag.
Favored in all nine games, and with two teams using interim coaches, the Pac-12 was set up to fail – and it almost did.
Yes, the conference set a record for bowl victories, and it outscored opponents 316-206. But I'd argue that the 6-3 record constitutes a break-even postseason given all the favorable matchups and the Rose Bowl result.
When your champion loses, it tends to darken the overall picture.
Bottom line for the conference in 2013:
As good as it has been in years, if not ever, but only one BCS bid, no Heisman finalists, no national title participants and modest success across the sweep of the postseason.
The price of parity.
Theme II: Unhappy Holiday.
For the second year in a row, the Pac-12 was embarrassed in the Holiday Bowl. This week, Arizona State no-showed against Texas Tech. Last year, UCLA rolled over against Baylor.
Surely it's not a coincidence that both the Devils and Bruins were coming off losses in the Pac-12 title game, turning San Diego into Letdown City.
(Add UCLA's loss in the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, and the Pac-12 runner up is 0-3 in the postseason.)
Theme III: Draft declarations.
Washington TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins and TB Bishop Sankey are entering the NFL. Same with USC S Dion Bailey, C Marcus Martin and DE George Uko.
More are sure to come, including USC WR Marqise Lee and Stanford G David Yankey and S Ed Reynolds.
My guess on UCLA QB Brett Hundley: He's gone.
Best offensive player: Hundley.
Passed for 226 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 161 yards and two touchdowns and out-gained Virginia Tech all by himself.
Best defensive player: Oregon State CB Rashaad Reynolds.
Plenty of stellar performances (to name four: Arizona's Jake Fischer, UCLA's Myles Jack and UW's Timu/Kikaha), but Reynolds is the pick for returning two fumbles for touchdowns to fuel the victory over Boise State.
Close call: The Rose Bowl.
Billed as a collision of evenly-matched teams with rugged defense, power running games and old-school philosophies, the Granddaddy was exactly that.
It joined the New Mexico as the only Pac-12 bowl games to be decided by less than two touchdowns.
No contest: Ka'Deem Carey vs. Andre Williams.
Arizona's Carey out-gained Boston College's Williams 169-75 in the Tailback Bowl, providing the last bit of evidence that he's the superior runner — check the stats against top competition — despite Williams far outdistancing Carey in the Heisman.
Carey's problem this season: Exposure. With all the night games and all the Pac-12 Networks appearances (i.e., not on DTV), not enough voters saw enough of Carey.
Feast or famine (mostly famine): Stanford.
The Cardinal gained 141 yards on three plays against Michigan State. On the other 51 plays, it averaged 3.2 yards.
Say what you will about the overall state of the Big Ten — and I have certainly said plenty — but the Spartans, who beat Stanford without their version of Shayne Skov (suspended LB Max Bullough), were the best team in either league, hands down.
Worst end-of-half sequence: Arizona State.
Down 14, with first down at the Texas Tech 1, the Sun Devils: Bungled the shotgun snap, resulting in a loss of 6 yards; had a no gain (Taylor Kelly); and missed a 24-yard field goal.
That about sums it up for the Sun Devils.
Worst predictions: Me.
I went 3-6 against the spread in Pac-12 games and was 4-5 in straight-up picks.
Going out in style: Oregon's Nick Aliotti.
The Ducks held Texas to 236 yards and seven points and had two Pick-6s for their retiring defensive coordinator.
Aliotti, a first-rate coach and one of the good guys, will be missed. The Hotline wishes him well in his next life.
Meltdown for the ages: Washington State.
The Cougars gave up 18 points in the final three minutes against Colorado State in the New Mexico Bowl – a loss that will resonate in the Palouse throughout the offseason.
Flameout of the month: Arizona State.
Combine the Holiday no-show with the Pac-12 title game loss to Stanford, and the Devils were outscored 75-37 in December.
It's not 1992 all over again: USC.
Two decades after they lost to Fresno State in the Freedom Bowl (Larry Smith's final game), the Trojans were at their best.
The 45-20 win over Fresno State in the Las Vegas Bowl completed a turnaround in which they won six of their last seven games — and makes the blowout loss to UCLA all the more confounding.
Welcome back: Oregon's Marcus Mariota.
His knee healthy, the Duck quarterback was back at full speed in the Alamo Bowl, rushing for 133 yards against Texas — more than his total from the final five games of the regular season.
Had cramps not set in, Mariota could have topped 200.
Where ya' been? Oregon State's running game.
The pass-happy Beavers churned for 195 yards on the ground in their victory over Boise State in the Hawaii Bowl.
Add their 200+ yard performance on the ground in the Civil War, and it's fair to wonder if they should have been more committed to the run during the sweep of the season.
Thanks, I needed that: Oregon's Mark Helfrich.
The sterling performance against Texas was an important public perception victory for first-year coach after a less-than-impressive finish. Helfrich now heads out on the recruiting trail with momentum — the good kind.
Can't wait 'til next season: Cal, Utah and Colorado.
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Advantages of gravel driveways
By Kevin Stevens, Networx
The street I live on is about 3/4 of a mile long, and 22 homes are scattered throughout its length. Of all of these homes, 1 has a paved driveway, and it was laid last year. A couple of other homes' drives have been improved over the native soil. A handful of these homes, like mine, are close to thirty years old, and have had this type of drive since the homes were built. A few of the newer homes have had recycled asphalt applied to reduce our springtime muddiness. The most recent tally (2004) of roads in the US has a national rate of 65.5 percent paved. Our "big" city friends often go months and months without every leaving pavement, and millions and millions of other Americans also never see anything other than pavement roll by. Does it make sense to have a paved drive…even if your street is dirt?
Pro and Cons of Pavement
In many urban environments, pavement can cover vast expanses of land and create some problems that rural folks never see. The two biggest concerns with paved surfaces are usually their cost and storm runoff. When rains come, these surfaces do not allow moisture to be absorbed and great quantities of runoff often overwhelm municipal wastewater facilities, instead of absorbing into forests, lawns and gardens. Billions of dollars are spent each year to clean this water, which would otherwise be an asset. Pavement also contributes to the "heat island" effect that many cities experience during the summer months.
On the positive side, pavement provides convenience for snow plowing, reduces levels of roadside dust, and prevents excess wear and tear to our cars and trucks. In the early days of automobiles is was not uncommon to see a team of horses pull a car out of knee deep mud --something today's motorists would simply not tolerate.
Alternatives to Concrete and Asphalt
A few years ago I cleared a bunch of trees from around my home, as part of a wildfire mitigation effort. At the end of that project, I had a nice supply of firewood and a slash pile that ran the entire length of my driveway. To kill two birds with one stone, I chipped the slash and applied it to my muddy dirt drive, thinking this would keep the mud down, and make the slash disappear. The first few years after that were great, no driveway mud and a refreshing pine scent. Eventually, the wood chips composted and I had even more mud. It was time for plan B.
Last summer I applied about 4 yards of road base (gravel) and then about 10 yards of crusher fines (some people call this crushed stone, "breeze") to my drive. The mud is now gone; the drive is level and smooth; and it looks good. The crusher fines cost about $50 a yard and my new driveway cost me about $600 total. One way I saved tons of money was with picking up the material myself and applying it myself. I shoveled each load (1/3 of a yard at a time) into buckets and brought it home in my truck. One reason it took all summer to improve my driveway was I would only get one or two loads per week. I combined trips down the mountain with other errands, so as to make each trip efficient. Each load could be loaded and unloaded in less than an hour and at 1100 pounds, was about right to keep me from overloading my truck, and keep me from being too worn out from a day's effort. Another benefit to the crusher fines is I can do "touch up" work whenever I need with a few buckets of material and a rake. The gravel I chose still allows moisture to permeate, so I do not contribute to excess runoff.
The Costs and Benefits of Pavers
Other materials that allow water to percolate through that are often used in more urban areas are brick pavers, large concrete tiles and natural stone. Here the gaps between these elements allow the water to percolate down and not run off. Set on packed beds of light gravel or sand, these are projects that are well within the grasp of a DIY enthusiast but are very labor intensive. I have seen prices for "installed paver" driveways from $10 to $60 a sq foot. This style of drive is at the top of the list, for both cost and the amount of work involved. If I had used 6" square "bricks," my drive would have used over 7000 piece -- each one laid by hand. You can quickly see why the labor cost can be so high with this type of drive.
Concrete & Asphalt Driveway Costs
If I had used concrete for my drive, the cost would have exceeded $3,000 for the concrete alone. Concrete delivered to my home runs about $130 per yard, plus truck time at $75 hr. This cost varies by your specific locality and can range from $120 to $150 per yard. Concrete, when used for driveways, is normally 4" thick -- a bit thicker than the crusher fines I used. Labor to install forms, the added cost of rebar or reinforced wire "grid" and its installation cost, the labor cost to "pour," screed, and "float" my drive would have put the final figure up near $5,000 to $6,000. That translates to basically 10 times the cost of my DIY crushed rock version.
Asphalt is cheaper than concrete, but still pricey compared to gravel or crushed stone. Asphalt is an oil based product, so it is closely tied to the price of crude oil. For an asphalt driveway to last, proper preparation is needed. This "prep" work can run from $.50 - $1.50 a square foot. One advantage to larger drives is usually a cheaper rate per square foot. Labor and base "equipment cost" are pretty constant. Its not that much more work to prep 1,000 square feet than 500 feet once all of the heavy machinery is transported to your site, unloaded and fired up. This is why getting an "onsite" estimate is valuable. In my neighborhood asphalt runs about $2 -$2.50 per square foot, including the "prep", so my 1,800 sq foot driveway would have been about $4,000.
The "Greenest" Driveway
A new trend in these greener driveways is just that: Green, as in the form of grass. Many companies make a product that is comprised of a coarse plastic mesh, or a grid-like structure that allows grass to grow in the open spaces of the grid. The structure of the grids disperses the weight of the vehicles so it does not damage the root structure of the grass. This compression of the roots is why repeated driving on lawns can harm them. These companies claim that up to 5 trips a day over this surface will not harm the grass, which for most people is well within their schedules. The cost of these "grids" can vary, but ballpark pricing is in the $2- $3 per square foot range. Who would have thought a few years ago that people might need to mow their driveways?
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A gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) test measures the levels of this enzyme in the blood. GGT is produced in many body tissues, with particularly high concentrations in the liver and gallbladder.
The liver stores fuel from food, makes proteins, helps remove poisons and toxins, and produces bile, a digestive fluid that helps the body absorb fat. The gallbladder stores bile until it's needed.
Testing for GGT helps doctors evaluate diseases of the liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts (tubes that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder and intestine). It also can be used to check for liver damage related to ingestion of toxic substances or alcohol abuse.
No special preparations are needed for this test. However, certain drugs might alter the test results, so tell your doctor about any medications your child is taking.
On the day of the test, having your child wear a T-shirt or short-sleeved shirt can make things easier for the technician drawing the blood.
A health professional will usually draw the blood for the test from a vein. For an infant, the blood may be obtained by puncturing the heel with a small needle (lancet). If the blood is being drawn from a vein, the skin surface is cleaned with antiseptic, and an elastic band (tourniquet) is placed around the upper arm to apply pressure and cause the veins to swell with blood. A needle is inserted into a vein (usually in the arm inside of the elbow or on the back of the hand) and blood is withdrawn and collected in a vial or syringe.
After the procedure, the elastic band is removed. Once the blood has been collected, the needle is removed and the area is covered with cotton or a bandage to stop the bleeding. Collecting blood for this test will only take a few minutes.
Either method (heel or vein withdrawal) of collecting a sample of blood is only temporarily uncomfortable and can feel like a quick pinprick. Afterward, there may be some mild bruising, which should go away in a day or so.
The blood sample will be processed by a machine. The results are commonly available after a few hours or the next day.
Although an elevated GGT level may indicate a problem with the liver or gallbladder, this result alone can't enable doctors to identify the specific problem or disease. In the case of an abnormal result, further testing may be necessary.
The GGT test is considered a safe procedure. However, as with many medical tests, some problems can occur with having blood drawn. These include:
Having a blood test is relatively painless. Still, many children are afraid of needles. Explaining the test in terms your child can understand might help ease some of the fear.
Allow your child to ask the technician any questions he or she might have. Tell your child to try to relax and stay still during the procedure, as tensing muscles and moving can make it harder and more painful to draw blood. It also may help if your child looks away when the needle is being inserted into the skin.
If you have questions about the GGT test, speak with your doctor. You can also talk to the technician before the procedure.
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WASHINGTON – A 23-month-old Texas toddler became the first confirmed swine flu death outside of Mexico as authorities around the world struggled to contain a growing global health menace that has also swept Germany onto the roster of afflicted nations. Officials say the death was in Houston.
"Even though we've been expecting this, it is very, very sad," Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday of the infant's death. "As a pediatrician and a parent, my heart goes out to the family."
Sixty-six infections had been reported in the United States before the report of the toddler's death in Texas.
The world has no vaccine to prevent infection but U.S. health officials aim to have a key ingredient for one ready in early May, the big step that vaccine manufacturers are awaiting. But even if the World Health Organization ordered up emergency vaccine supplies — and that decision hasn't been made yet — it would take at least two more months to produce the initial shots needed for human safety testing.
First-quarter results highlight solid execution and we are incrementally positive on Stanley Works' ability to weather the macroeconomic downturn via structural improvement initiatives. Growth and high returns in the security business, early-cycle exposure at CDIY [construction & do-it-yourself], and solid free-cash-flow profile drive our constructive investment thesis.
Restructuring actions implemented are expected to yield $320 million in savings annually with a substantial majority considered permanent. The company's $2.00-$2.50 EPS forecast incorporates approximately $2 per share in benefits from restructuring actions, helping offset significant volume pressure (a $2.40-$2.90 impact).
We believe portfolio is well positioned to generate operating margins in a 15% range once macroeconomic headwinds stabilize with resulting earnings power approaching $5 per share. The company continues to invest in growth initiatives during the downturn: $15 million of restructuring savings is being reinvested into various initiatives, such as expanding security sales force and promoting the brand through sponsorships.
The security business is holding up. Sales declined 4% organically in the first quarter. Management believes that organic declines could be limited to the mid-single-digit range as recurring revenues provide approximately 30% of the segment's sales. We believe Stanley Works' 4% organic sales decline could be indicative of market share gains as other industry competitors appear to have reported slightly steeper declines in comparable end markets. We are forecasting Security sales to decline 2% organically in 2009. Ongoing acquisition integration provides further operating margin upside to the business as well.
Material acquisition activity appears unlikely with Stanley Works focused on deleveraging.
Why is this important? For one, you always hear about the security risks with laptops, the danger they pose to a company if they are lost or stolen and contain sensitive information. Here were six laptops, just out in the open, for any of the expo attendees to examine or in the worst (do it and go to jail) case scenario steal. The other reason is that RSA is a security focused event, and physical security is just as important as digital security. Granted, Google is not a security company by default. However, why were the laptops left unattended?
GE ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH SAFRAN FOR SAFRAN TO ACQUIRE A MAJORITY STAKE IN GE SECURITY'S HOMELAND PROTECTION BUSINESS
Newark, CA, April 24, 2009 – GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with SAFRAN for SAFRAN to acquire 81% of GE Security's Homeland Protection business for $580MM. Upon close, GE will own 19% and SAFRAN will have majority interest with 81%. The transaction has been approved by the Boards of both companies, and will be subject to customary regulatory approvals.
The Homeland Protection business will become part of SAFRAN's Defense Security division of Sagem Securite, led by Jean-Paul Jainsky, Chairman and CEO, Sagem Securite. Dennis Cooke, will continue as President & CEO, for the Homeland Protection business and headquarters will remain in Newark, CA.
"This is a great move for our Homeland Protection business,†said Dennis Cooke, President & CEO, GE Security Homeland Protection. "Our business has a strong leadership team, dedicated and talented employees, innovative technology, a large installed base and a strong brand. This move aligns Homeland Protection with a business that is committed to globalization and further investment in new detection technologies and new products for the Homeland Security space.â€
The combined company will focus on identification solutions and detection offerings globally and will benefit from continued access to technology advancements from GE's Global Research Center and GE Healthcare. The combination of the complementary technology of both businesses will provide customers with the benefit of new technology solutions to keep ahead of the changing threats.
SAFRAN and GE are expanding their already strong relationship as the companies have been working together for more than 35 years to deliver Aviation technology solutions. The new entity will feature SAFRAN's industry-leading ID management, plus Homeland Protection's world-class aviation safety, checked baggage screening, military & critical infrastructure protection together with new growth platforms in Chem/Bio, X-ray and Radiation/Nuclear detection.
Jean-Paul Herteman, CEO of SAFRAN, said: "Following our 2008 acquisitions of SDU-Identification (a Dutch manufacturer of secure passports and ID documents) and Motorola's biometrics business (Printrak brand), adding GE Homeland Protection will significantly bolster our Group's third core business. This makes SAFRAN a pivotal player in the security market, a business that will generate 20% of the Group's total revenues in the medium term, with double-digit profit perspectives and reducing exposure to aerospace cycles. Furthermore, this transaction is the latest step in our long-standing relationship of mutual trust and partnership with GE that reaches back some 35 years.â€
Jean-Paul Jainsky, Chairman and CEO of Sagem Sécurité, added "There is growing demand from both governments and private industry for cutting-edge security solutions, based on long-term projects anchored in advanced, very-high-reliability technologies. From this standpoint, the SAFRAN Group is in a perfect position to meet today's most demanding public security requirements.â€
"This newly combined company is an excellent fit for our Homeland Protection team,†stated Dean Seavers, President & CEO, GE Security. "GE Security will continue to focus on our core security product portfolio with a strong commitment to delivering security innovations that bring value, quality and high performance to our customers and end users.â€
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With just a one word command, service dog Dora jumps up and brings a phone, a crutch or a water bottle to her trainer Melissa Mooney of Helping Paws. Dora was one of three dogs who performed for the Interagency Committee on Employees with Disabilities awards ceremony on May 22 in Springfield. The Helping Paws support program is run by the Illinois Department of Corrections at Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln.
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This is Walter Koenig's first episode as Pavel Chekov, although Chekov himself likely served aboard the ship during the first season, as Khan recognised him by sight in the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
Writer Robert Bloch based this episode loosely the short story "Broomstick Ride", which he also wrote.
This episode is a nominee for the DITL "Worst of Trek" award.
Kirk beams down with Spock and McCoy, leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the ship. They arrive in a fogbound environment, quite at odds with what their sensor readings indicated. Detecting lifeforms nearby the landing party investigates, only to be confronted with a ghostly apparition - three witches, warning them to leave or face disaster. Undaunted, the officers press on and discover a large castle. They enter and begin to explore, but a section of floor collapses beneath them, knocking them out.
They wake to find themselves chained in a dungeon. Scotty and Sulu appear, but they appear to by drugged or hypnotised, not recognising their fellow officers. They free the landing party and take them at gunpoint from the room to meet a robed man. He is, apparently, some kind of magician - complete with a wand and black cat. The man's name is Korob, and he appears intent on getting the Enterprise officers to leave as soon as possible. Korob claims that the events have been staged to test the Enterprise crew, but he clearly seems to be hiding the truth.
A woman, Sylvia, enters. She demonstrates her own power to Kirk, holding a small model of the Enterprise over a candle - and action which causes the real ship in orbit to grow unbearably hot! Although she spares the ship, Korob seals the model in a glass block, which paralyses the real ship within a strange forcefield.
Kirk and Spock are taken to the dungeon, whilst Sylvia questions McCoy. She argues with Korob about their plans - Sylvia states that she enjoys the sensations she is experiencing in her present form, as apparently their normal existence does not afford them such. Korob argues that they have a mission to complete, but Sylvia seems in favour of abandoning it.
Sylvia brings Kirk back to talk, and reveals that she has become enamoured of him. She is thinking of getting rid of Korob and keeping Kirk for herself. Kirk plays along for information, and learns that the "magic wand" is a transmuter, able to reform matter into different forms - this is how the pair create the various strange things Kirk has encountered. She realises the deception and has Kirk returned to the dungeon.
Korob, beginning to fear Sylvia's intentions, releases the Enterprise and Kirk and Spock. He expresses regret for how things have gone, wishing there could have been peaceful contact. As they attempt to flee, Kirk and Spock encounter Sylvia's black cat, only grown to enormous size. The cat kills Korob, and Kirk grabs his transmuter wand and escapes. Sylvia demands the transmuter wand, which is more powerful than her own device, but as Kirk begins to hand it over he instead smashes it. At once the castle and everything within it vanishes, leaving only Sylvia and Korob in their true form - two small, vaguely birdlike aliens who quickly die. With the menace defeated, the officers beam back to the ship.
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Not so at the cruciferous vegetables table. There lie the Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbages, broccoli, and cauliflower (of which only the funky Romanesco variety is getting any attention). These uncomely vegetables patiently wait for someone to come by and check them out. It is a long wait.
This past Sunday the Brussels sprouts were carelessly dumped in a lop-sided pile, causing stray runaway sprouts to keep rolling off the table's edge and onto the concrete. Inspired by Molly's witty post at Orangette, I thought I would take on a challenge. A makeover for three undatable vegetables: Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and broccoli. The make-up? Breadcrumbs.
There aren't many foods in Italian homes that don't get egged and breadcrumbed to spectacular results. Vegetables from eggplant to zucchini, meats from chicken to veal, and seafood from calamari to smelts, when made with the right breadcrumbs, are brilliant in their simplicity and fabulous in their flavor. Fortunately, my mom and dad had recently sent me a fresh container of Buono's Bakery breadcrumbs from Rhode Island.
Seriously. My parents actually ship me breadcrumbs.
Turns out that the closest place to get good breadcrumbs from my apartment in LA is exactly 2,970 miles away (I Google mapped it). We cannot get good breadcrumbs here. "You're crazy!" you say. Nope. We're not. We have lived in California for 3 ½ years; we have tried pounds of breadcrumbs. They just don't compare. Every time we got breadcrumbs, we would always say, "Well, they're not as good as Buono's." So we decided, why not have mom ship us some? And so it began. As you will learn from this blog, there are many things which are shipped from RI to CA, most of which originate from Federal Hill in Providence.
If you can't get Buono's breadcrumbs, you can:
1. Make them from scratch.
2. Use Panko breadcrumbs.
3. Ask my mom to send you some. Actually, don't. She seriously would send them to you.
Today, I'll share the Brussels sprouts recipe; the cauliflower and broccoli ones will follow shortly. To keep my meals low-cal and healthy, I don't fry vegetables; I prefer to bake them in a hot oven or to sauté them with a little bit of olive oil or butter. While I often make Brussels sprouts with a maple syrup or brown sugar glaze, I love this lighter, cleaner version as well. Here, the sprouts are par-boiled then sautéed until blistered, browned, and slightly crunchy. The savory butter and garlic mellows the sprouts' bitterness, and the citrus adds a tangy, bright touch. It's a breeze to make, and with the right lighting and make-up, even Brussels sprouts can look pretty.
Brussels Sprouts with Toasted Breadcrumbs and Lemon
Makes 4 servings.
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3 cups Brussels sprouts,halved
1 small garlic clove, minced
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Pinch of lemon zest
¼ cup breadcrumbs, toasted
Salt & pepper, to taste
Peel off any marked outer leaves of the sprouts and trim the bottoms; slice in half. Boil for 3-4 minutes. Drain and plunge into a bowl of ice water; this will stop the cooking and maintain the sprouts' vibrant color.
To toast the breadcrumbs, place in a dry skillet over medium-low heat. Cook for 2-3 minutes, while giving the pan handle a few shakes to toast the breadcrumbs evenly. Once they begin to turn golden, remove them from the heat and place in a bowl, as the heat from the pan will continue to toast them.
Meanwhile in a skillet over medium heat, sauté the garlic in the butter. Once the butter begins to bubble up and the garlic starts to jump a little, add the sprouts. Cook about 5 minutes, turning occasionally, until brown spots start to appear on the sprouts. Add the lemon juice, lemon zest, salt, and pepper. Add the toasted breadcrumbs into the skillet and toss gently. Add more breadcrumbs on top before serving; sprinkle with lemon zest if desired.


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The city was not beautiful; no one made that claim for it. At the height of summer, people in suits, shellacked by the sun, moved like harassed insects to avoid the concentrated light. There was a civil war–like fracture in America—the president had said so—but little of it showed in the capital. Everyone was polite and smooth in their exchanges. The corridor between Dupont Circle and Georgetown was like the dream of Yugoslav planners: long blocks of uniform earth-toned buildings that made the classical edifices of the Hill seem the residue of ancestors straining for pedigree. Bunting, starched and perfectly ruffled in red-white-and-blue fans, hung everywhere—from air conditioners, from gutters, from statues of dead revolutionaries. Coming from Berlin, where the manual laborers are white, I felt as though I was entering the heart of a caste civilization. Untouchables in hard hats drilled into sidewalks, carried pylons, and ate lunch from metal boxes, while waiters in restaurants complimented old respectable bobbing heads on how well they were progressing with their rib eyes and iceberg wedges.
I had come to Washington to witness either the birth of an ideology or what may turn out to be the passing of a kidney stone through the Republican Party. There was a new movement afoot: National Conservatives, they called themselves, and they were gathering here, at the Ritz-Carlton, at 22nd Street and M. Disparate tribes had posted up for the potlatch: reformacons, blood-and-soilers, curious liberal nationalists, "Austrians," repentant neocons, evangelical Christians, corporate raiders, cattle ranchers, Silicon Valley dissidents, Buckleyites, Straussians, Orthodox Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Tories, dark-web spiders, tradcons, Lone Conservatives, Fed-Socs, Young Republicans, Reaganites in amber. Most straddled more than one category.
The second-worst thing about cancer chairs is that they are attached to televisions. Someone somewhere is always at war with silence. It's impossible to read, so I answer email, or watch some cop drama on my computer, or, if it seems unavoidable, explore the lives of my nurses. A trip to Cozumel with old girlfriends, a costume party with political overtones, an advanced degree on the internet: they're all the same, these lives, which is to say that the nurses tell me nothing, perhaps because amid the din and pain it's impossible to say anything of substance, or perhaps because they know that nothing is precisely what we both expect. It's the very currency of the place. Perhaps they are being excruciatingly candid.
There is a cancer camaraderie I've never felt. That I find inimical, in fact. Along with the official optimism that percolates out of pamphlets, the milestone celebrations that seem aimed at children, the lemonade people squeeze out of their tumors. My stoniness has not always served me well. Among the cancer staff, there is special affection for the jocular sufferer, the one who makes light of lousy bowel movements and extols the spiritual tonic of neuropathy. And why not? Spend your waking life in hell, and you too might cherish the soul who'd learned to praise the flames. I can't do it. I'm not chipper by nature, and just hearing the word cancer makes me feel like I'm wearing a welder's mask.
When Demétrio Martins was ready to preach, he pushed a joystick that angled the seat of his wheelchair forward, slowly lifting him to a standing position. Restraints held his body upright. His atrophied right arm lay on an armrest, and with his left hand, he put a microphone to his lips. "Proverbs, chapter fourteen, verse twelve," he said. " 'There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is . . .' "
The congregation finished: " 'Death.' "
The Assembly of God True Grapevine was little more than a fluorescent-lit room wedged between a bar and an empty lot in Jacaré, a poor neighborhood on Rio de Janeiro's north side. A few dozen people sat in the rows of plastic lawn chairs that served as pews, while shuddering wall fans circulated hot air. The congregation was largely female; of the few men in attendance, most wore collared shirts and old leather shoes. Now and then, Martins veered from Portuguese into celestial tongues. People rose from their seats, thrust their hands into the air, and shouted, "Hallelujah!"
On December 7, 2016, a drone departed from an Amazon warehouse in the United Kingdom, ascended to an altitude of four hundred feet, and flew to a nearby farm. There it glided down to the front lawn and released from its clutches a small box containing an Amazon streaming device and a bag of popcorn. This was the first successful flight of Prime Air, Amazon's drone delivery program. If instituted as a regular service, it would slash the costs of "last-mile delivery," the shortest and most expensive leg of a package's journey from warehouse to doorstep. Drones don't get into fender benders, don't hit rush-hour traffic, and don't need humans to accompany them, all of which, Amazon says, could enable it to offer thirty-minute delivery for up to 90 percent of domestic shipments while also reducing carbon emissions. After years of testing, Amazon wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration last summer to ask for permission to conduct limited commercial deliveries with its drones, attaching this diagram to show how the system would work. (Amazon insisted that we note that the diagram is not to scale.) Amazon is not the only company working toward such an automated future—UPS, FedEx, Uber, and Google's parent company, Alphabet, have similar programs—but its plans offer the most detailed vision of what seems to be an impending reality, one in which parcel-toting drones are a constant presence in the sky, doing much more than just delivering popcorn.
Every year in Lusk, Wyoming, during the second week of July, locals gather to reenact a day in 1849 when members of a nearby band of Sioux are said to have skinned a white man alive. None of the actors are Native American. The white participants dress up like Indians and redden their skin with body paint made from iron ore.
The town prepares all year, and the performance, The Legend of Rawhide, has a cast and crew of hundreds, almost all local volunteers, including elementary school children. There are six generations of Rawhide actors in one family; three or four generations seems to be the average. The show is performed twice, on Friday and Saturday night.
The plot is based on an event that, as local legend has it, occurred fifteen miles south of Lusk, in Rawhide Buttes. It goes like this: Clyde Pickett is traveling with a wagon train to California. He tells the other Pioneers: "The only good Injun's a dead Injun." Clyde loves Kate Farley, and to impress her, he shoots the first Indian he sees, who happens to be an Indian Princess. The Indians approach the Pioneers and ask that the murderer give himself up. Clyde won't admit he did it. The Indians attack the wagon train and, eventually, Clyde surrenders. The Indians tie Clyde to the Skinning Tree and flay him alive. Later, Kate retrieves her dead lover's body and the wagon train continues west.
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At Ivanwald, men learn to be leaders by loving their leaders. "They're so busy loving us," a brother once explained to me, "but who's loving them?" We were. The brothers each paid $400 per month for room and board, but we were also the caretakers of The Cedars, cleaning its gutters, mowing its lawns, whacking weeds and blowing leaves and sanding. And we were called to serve on Tuesday mornings, when The Cedars hosted a regular prayer breakfast typically presided over by Ed Meese, the former attorney general. Each week the breakfast brought together a rotating group of ambassadors, businessmen, and American politicians. Three of Ivanwald's brothers also attended, wearing crisp shirts starched just for the occasion; one would sit at the table while the other two poured coffee.
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On the 20th of August HSBC City ride will take place in Bristol with a traffic free route designed to celebrate all things cycling.
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|Appologies for not sorting out the poll before now, but it's a bank holiday (public holiday) in the UK and we forgot. Anyhow the winner of last weeks poll was 'Trials and Tribble-ations'. This week it's Voyagers turn.
|We've been busy scanning new pictures for DS9, so far season 1 to 3 have new, and in some cases, vastly improved versions of the original pictures. There are also some new images which we'll get time to add over the comming weeks.
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|So The Trouble With Tribbles is the funniest TOS episode. I must say I'm confused by the two people who thought "Balance of Terror" was funny, not to mention the two who voted for "City on the Edge of Forever!" This week, it's TNG's turn.
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Data logged nightly by the UKIRT Telescope Operators over a ten-year period (13 September 1985 to 4 August 1996) have been analysed. Their reporting includes cloud cover (in eighths), cloud type and the number of usable and available hours. The data may be summarised thus:
Usable time: Excluding nights for which no information was available (e.g., due to telescope shutdown), approximately three-quarters of the available time (31419 out of 43427 hr) was identified as "usable" i.e., the telescope was open and data were collected.
Cloudless: Of the usable time, 62% (19371 hr) was noted as being "cloudless". It is recognised that this is a subjective assessment e.g. it is difficult visually to detect thin cirrus in a dark sky. There are, however, two caveats: (a) we have included in this value only nights which were classified as cloudless throughout; and (b) there may be a partial compensation from nights which were recorded as having some cloud cover (1/8 or 2/8, say), and which are treated as having these conditions all night, but which may have experienced substantial clear periods. Nevertheless, for the purposes of the Gemini observing condition constraint we have assumed that only 50% of the usable time is actually photometric.
Thin cloud: The UKIRT cloud cover and cloud type often were logged as a single value for an entire night. To estimate the time during which thin cloud was present, we have taken the nights explicitly reported as "thin cirrus" and added the fraction (1.0 - cloud cover) of nights reported as having "cirrus" (with a cloud cover of 4/8 or less). The UKIRT data shows these conditions occuring 23% (7096 hr) of the usable time. For the Gemini observing condition constraint, we have assumed that thin cloud is present 20% of the usable time.
Thick cloud: For the Gemini observing condition constraint, we have assumed that
thick cloud is present 20% of the usable time.
Cerro Pachon
Although there is evidence that Cerro Pachon experiences significantly more photometric nights than Mauna Kea, at this time we have adopted the same values for the observing condition constraints.


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My hair was still wet from snorkelling when I walked into the Chabad House of Cozumel, following the Star of David sign off the busy beachside road.
Inside, Rabbi Shlomo Peleg and his wife, Noy, both in their mid-20s, looked happy – but not surprised – to see me. "We get so many Jews coming here," he confessed as he showed me around the synagogue, lounging area, small gift shop and administrative offices.
It was the Jewish family at the helm of the retail giant Diamonds International that first suggested Chabad come to the Mexican island of Cozumel. "They told us there's a Jewish community here and they need programming," Rabbi Peleg explained. He arrived four years ago and quickly expanded from his first small premises to a larger, 200-square-metre space upstairs in the central village courtyard.
One by one, people living on or visiting the island stepped forward to help furnish the space. One volunteered the floor tiles, another the ceiling fans and a third offered a second air conditioner. Mexican Jews donated two sefer Torahs, held in an Aron Kodesh whose shape mimics the design of the home of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
On a recent trip to New York, as Rabbi Peleg made panicked calls trying to borrow a copy of Megillat Esther for Purim, his path crossed that of an American Jewish woman who had recently visited Cozumel. "Wouldn't it be better to own your own copy rather than have to borrow one?" she asked him. It would, he agreed, but as usual, money was a challenge. A new Megillah would set Chabad of Cozumel back $1,000. "I'll pay for it," she had declared immediately.
As we talked, a group of tired-looking Israeli backpackers walked into the room, relieved to set down their backpacks and grateful for Rabbi Peleg's warm welcome and offers of cold water and advice on where to stay. "We have relationships with hotels who give our travellers a good deal," he confided to me later. The island also boasts a kosher restaurant, Jerusalem, where Chabad staff serve as the mashgichim.
Some travellers come to put on tfillin and pray, but many seek out Chabad of Cozumel for a sense of community and connection when they're far from home, Rabbi Peleg said. "Last Rosh Hashanah we had 280 people show up for dinner!" he says. An average Shabbat dinner will bring between 60 and 80 through the doors.
Many visitors come to dive famous reefs like Cozumel's Palancar Reef, though the day we sped through town, dive operators had cancelled all outings due to high winds. Instead we headed to a beach inside Chankanaab Park, a nine-acre tourist park where visitors can learn about Mayan culture and history, swim with dolphins, zip through the air in a zipline and glimpse crocodiles in captivity. Then they peel off their sweaty clothes and snorkel out to a nearby reef to inspect the beauty below Cozumel's turquoise, picture-perfect ocean. Above us, large frigate birds soared on the thermals, while below magnificent rainbow fish swam within touching distance before darting away.
"The white beach you see here will be filled with turtles laying eggs in May," said our guide, Ignacio Cureno, who has lived on Cozumel for 35 years. He's seen tourist numbers increase since the cruise ships began arriving in ever larger numbers after 9/11. He's witnessed first-hand the destruction caused by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, the rebuild that followed and the most recent trend: the construction of high-rise beachside condominiums, many of them purchased by Americans and Canadians.
We're standing at Punta Sur, the island's southernmost point, marvelling at the long expanse of beach from the zenith of the Lighthouse of Point Celarain. A conservation park for birds, turtles and crocodiles, the rocky shores on the south coast of Cozumel are forbidden to swimmers for their large swells and undercurrents, but under the governance of Cozumel's Parks and Museum Foundation, they're a great sanctuary for wildlife. While other parts of the island are increasingly colonized by hotels and retail, this is an area of peace and refuge. And on an island where tourist numbers continue to boom, it's a place of peace and solitude, one where you can still find a quiet spot on the beach to gaze at the extraordinarily blue ocean and watch the waves crash on the rocks in a state of meditative bliss.


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The Teddy Roosevelt fans were out in force this afternoon as the Washington Nationals hosted the Toronto Blue Jays for the final match of their 3-game interleague series.
After last night's race, in which George Washington was ejected for arguing with the umpires, George was forced to serve the first-ever 1-game suspension in the history of the Nationals' presidents race. Perhaps the father of our country was just trying to engineer a day off for Fathers Day.
With his odds improved by George's misfortune, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to further boost his chances by slamming Thomas Jefferson into the right field wall as they turned into the home stretch. Tom fell, but Teddy failed to take advantage, losing his lead to Abe Lincoln.
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The 2013 Technology Tools for Today (T3) conference ran last week in Miami, Fla. Entering its eighth year, the event is hosted by financial advisor technology consultants Joel Bruckenstein and David Drucker, and continues to grow, as this year's conference included more than 600 total attendees and more than 75 companies (generally handpicked by Bruckenstein and Drucker) that provide technology-related solutions for advisors. This means it's by far be the largest advisor-centric technology conference of the year.
And notwithstanding how the event has grown, the reality is that the conference still has ample room to expand further, given that several problem areas for advisors still had relatively few solutions present. In fact, it was somewhat ironic that the conference had a thriving Twitter hash tag but only one provider of social media archiving tools.
In looking among the vendors and solutions available at the conference, several clear themes emerged, including an ongoing shift to web-based "cloud" solutions, the rising trend of software integration around CRM as the hub, and the availability of software on mobile devices. But perhaps one of the most striking themes heard from advisors in the hallways at this year's conference is simply that the available technology solutions have become so numerous, now one of the greatest challenges is just choosing among them all.
To say the least, the T3 conference is now a permanent "fixture" of the financial advisor conference space, and the growth of the event suggests the future still looks bright, both for the conference itself and the growth of technology solutions for advisors.
The Ongoing Shift to the Cloud
Although not all financial advisors run their businesses using web-based "cloud" software, the strongest growth in the world of advisor software has clearly been toward cloud solutions, from MoneyGuidePro and eMoney Advisor for financial planning software (with NaviPlan slowly migrating to the cloud over the past two years), to Redtail and Salesforce for CRM (with Junxure migrating to the cloud this year). Numerous vendors at the T3 conference were available to provide web-based platforms for portfolio management and reporting software.
Notwithstanding the shift to the cloud from vendors, though, the theme of several general sessions at the conference made it clear that most companies still find themselves needing to explain and justify why a cloud-based solution is superior to the advisor's traditional in-office on-servers-and-local-computers approach to technology.
The discussion ranged from how most quality cloud solutions really are far more secure for data than an advisor's own office, to the cost efficiencies for advisors to get out of the business of buying and maintaining their own server hardware, to the productivity of being able to access and interact with key information from anywhere (such as pulling up client portfolio or financial plan information directly from a tablet in a client meeting, or being able to record important notes and assign client tasks to staff members the moment you walk out of the meeting). In addition, several speakers noted the disaster recovery benefits of cloud technology solutions—several advisors that had been displaced by the New England blizzard that had preceded the conference, not to mention Hurricane Sandy a few months prior, noted the benefit that even when their local office had no power they could access all of their client information and data directly from their cloud providers.
The trend toward the cloud still appears to be in the early stages for the financial advisor industry overall, but the direction is clear, especially as everything from connectivity to security continues to improve.
The Rise of Integration and Integrators
Another strong theme apparent at the T3 conference is the rising level of integration among software packages, with CRM (client relationship management) software increasingly operating at the hub. Supported by industry initiatives like Your Silver Bullet, open architecture pushes from custodians like TD Ameritrade's Veo, and core software packages with a heavy API offering like Salesforce CRM, the software written for financial advisors is increasingly capable of "talking to" the other key software packages.
Although there is not yet a universal language that allows all software to easily connect from one program to another—the integrations are still built one connection at a time—the world of software for financial advisors is clearly being turned upside-down as the ideal solution shifts from a "holy grail" (a single combined piece of software that does everything) to instead an integrated series of software packages that are each best in class in their respective role and able to port key information to the other core software components.
In fact, it's notable that at T3, many of the exhibitors are there not to meet advisors at all, but to network with other exhibitors and develop relationships that can lead to further software integrations.
In addition, the emergence of "integrators"—companies that focus on building middleware software or doing custom programming that helps to handle the heavy lifting of getting one software package to talk to another—is accelerating the trend toward software integration, and promoting the software companies that are the most flexible for integration. For instance, AppCrown facilitates integrations across many key advisor software packages back to Salesforce, and Concenter Services (which makes the XLR8 template) and The Athene Group help to adapt and customize Salesforce CRM to an advisory firm's needs (it's no surprise that Salesforce continues to be popular as an advisor CRM platform with so many middleware integrators promoting it). In addition, Salentica (albeit not present at T3) provides a similar role for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Similarly, the newly launched CloudRIA (which was announced at T3) seeks to help advisory firms create and integrate workflows that might run across multiple software packages used in the business. In other cases, the integration focuses on the portfolio accounting software and works back to the other platforms, an advisor integration strategy that has been particularly effective for firms like Orion Advisor Services.
Of course, the caveat to all of this is that in many cases, the ultimate blocking point is not actually the integration of the software itself, but the fact that it is often underutilized in the business, due to a combination of insufficient training for staff and a lack of standardization to the processes and workflows of the firm. As a result, another noticeable trend at the T3 conference was the number of exhibitors that provide consulting services and support to help advisory firms actually get the most out of their technology, including Trumpet Inc., XTrac Solutions, Orchestrate LLC, the Fox Financial Planning Network, and popular conference WiFi sponsor ActiFi.
In the second part of our post, we'll discuss emerging technology challenges as well room for growth at the conference itself.


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