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Onion Soup Gratinee
Jacques Pepin
Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook
Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang
I have many memories of late-night gratinée parties in our Lyon restaurant kitchen or at our house when I was a young man. When my brothers and I would go out at night, we usually came back with friends at 2 or 3 A.M. and traditionally prepared onion soup gratinée in the winter—and even in the summer—in the middle of the night. There are several versions of onion soup, and the ones served in restaurants rarely match the rich and crusty version we enjoyed as children. My mother's recipe for this soup was made with water rather than stock. I liked it, although I have come to prefer the ones made with chicken stock. Using butter, she browned her onions more than anyone else I've ever seen, for 20 or 30 minutes, or until they were a mahogany color, with some of them almost black. She would then add a little sprinkling of flour, a little garlic, and some water, and cook this mixture for 30 minutes before putting it through a food mill. The result was a rich, dark, slightly thickened onion bouillon. She poured this into a large soup tureen containing a lot of sliced leftover country bread (grospain) that she had browned in the oven. Half the tureen was bread, and the rest was filled with her broth. She then covered the broth with grated cheese and baked the soup for about 1 hour in a hot oven. Often, in the classic Lyon style, she would bring the large tureen of puffy golden soup to the table, make a hole in the center with her ladle, and pour in a mixture of egg yolks and port wine that she had combined in her soup plate. She then would stir the gratinée, crust and all, into a thick, hot mélange and serve it right away in hot soup plates. It was a meal in itself. I make my gratinée the way we prepared it in Paris. It is baked in brown earthenware onion soup bowls that have a little ear or handle on either side. Do not use bowls with a straight edge; use slightly rounded bowls with a wide rim around the top. This is important, because it is on that wide rim that the grated cheese topping is pressed, hanging a little over the edge. As it cooks, the cheese sticks to the rim of the bowl, preventing the beautiful crust from sinking into the soup. Use a good chicken stock, flavorful, not too heavy, not too dark, and preferably homemade. I like yellow Bermuda onions; they have character but are not too acidic or strong in flavor. In 1970, I opened a soup restaurant called La Potagerie on Fifth Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets in New York City. We prepared four different thick stewlike soups every day, but we made only thirtysix onion soup gratinées—we didn't have oven space to do more. They were made like this recipe and were ready at the beginning of the lunch service. When we brought them to the dining room, they disappeared in the first fifteen minutes of the service. Gloria and I have to have onion soup a few times during the winter, and when we prepare it like this, it is essentially dinner. We usually enjoy it with a salad, a bottle of red wine, and fruit for dessert. Be careful not to burn yourself when eating through the brown, crusty cheese top that keeps this soup boiling hot.
Cooking Methodbaking
Total Timeunder 2 hours
Kid FriendlyYes
OccasionCasual Dinner Party, Family Get-together, Formal Dinner Party
Recipe Courseappetizer, main course
Dietary Considerationegg-free, peanut free, soy free, tree nut free
Taste and Texturebubbly, cheesy, crisp, garlicky, savory
Type of Dishhot soup, soup
- 1 baguette
- 1 pound onions
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon corn oil or peanut oil
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ¾ pound Emmenthaler, Gruyere, or Jarlsberg cheese
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Cut the baguette into ½-inch slices, arrange the slices in a single layer on a cookie sheet, and bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes, until nicely browned.
Peel and slice the onions by hand or in a food processor. Brown the onions in a sturdy saucepan with the butter and corn or peanut oil over fairly high heat for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. The onions should be golden brown, soft, and have a wonderful aroma. Add the chicken stock and the garlic (a little touch of garlic makes this soup taste more like my mother's). Bring to a strong boil, then reduce the heat and cook at a gentle boil for about 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Using the big-hole side of a box grater to create thick threads, grate the cheese.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Arrange six rounded onion soup crocks with about a 1½-cup capacity on a cookie sheet. Place 6 to 8 toasted baguette slices in each of the bowls, and sprinkle 1 or 2 tablespoons of the cheese on top. Fill the bowls to the rim with the soup mixture, adding water or chicken stock if you don't have quite enough liquid to fill the bowls completely. Just before putting the bowls in the oven, sprinkle about ½ cup of grated cheese on top of each. (You will notice that some of the bread will have risen to the top at this point, so you will have a bread base for the cheese.) Make certain that the cheese adheres to the rim of each bowl, pressing it around the edge with your thumb, so it will hold firm and melt there as it cooks. Let some of the cheese hang over the edge; it will form a crust. Place the tray in the oven, and bake for about 30 minutes, or until the cheese is golden, puffed, and crusty and the soup is very hot.
2007 Jacques Pepin


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Your Child's Checkup: 6 Months
What to Expect During This Visit
Your doctor and/or nurse will probably:
1. Check your baby's weight, length, and head circumference and plot the measurements on the growth charts.
2. Ask questions, address concerns, and offer advice about how your baby is:
Feeding. If you haven't already, it's time to introduce solids, starting with iron-fortified single-grain cereal or puréed meat. Let your doctor know if your baby has had any reactions to a new food (bloating or gas, vomiting or diarrhea, fussiness, rash). Breast milk and formula still provide most of your infant's nutrition.
Peeing and pooping. You may notice a change in your baby's poopy diapers once you introduce solids. The color and consistency may vary depending on what your baby eats. Let your doctor know if stools become hard, dry, or difficult to pass or if your baby has diarrhea.
Sleeping. At 6 months, infants average about 14 hours of sleep per day, including two or three daytime naps. Most babies this age usually "sleep through the night" for a stretch of at least 6 hours.
Developing. By 6 months, it's common for many babies to:
- blow raspberries
- say "ba," "da," and "ga" and start to babble ("babababa")
- reach for and grasp objects
- use a raking grasp (using the fingers to rake and pick up objects)
- pass an object from one hand to the other
- roll over both ways (back to front, front to back)
- sit with support
There's a wide range of normal, and children develop at different rates. Talk to your doctor if you're concerned about your child's development.
3. Perform a physical exam with your baby undressed while you are present. This includes an eye exam, listening to your baby's heart and feeling pulses, checking hips, and paying attention to your baby's movements.
4. Update immunizations. Immunizations can protect babies from serious childhood illnesses, so it's important that your child receive them on time. Immunization schedules can vary from office to office, so talk to your doctor about what to expect.
Looking Ahead
Here are some things to keep in mind until your next routine visit at 9 months:
- If you are breastfeeding, continue for 12 months or for as long as is mutually beneficial. Breastfed babies weaned before 12 months should be given iron-fortified formula. Wait until 12 months to switch from formula to cow's milk.
- Start giving your baby solid foods:
- If there's a history of food allergies in your family, talk to your doctor before introducing foods.
- Begin with a small amount of iron-fortified single-grain cereal mixed with breast milk or formula. You can also offer pureed meat, another iron-rich food.
- Use an infant spoon — do not put cereal in your baby's bottle.
- Wait until your baby successfully eats cereal or meat from the spoon before trying other single-ingredient new foods (pureed or soft fruits, vegetables, or other meats).
- Introduce one new food at a time and wait a few days to a week to watch for any allergic reactions before introducing another.
- When introducing finger foods, usually around 9 months, choose small pieces of soft foods, and avoid those that can cause choking (such as whole grapes, raw veggies, raisins, popcorn, hot dogs, hard cheese, or chunks of meat).
- Pay attention to signs your baby is hungry or full.
- If you give your baby juice, limit it to 2–4 ounces (60–120 ml) a day. Always give juice in a cup, which is safe to introduce at 6 months.
- Talk to your doctor about giving your baby fluoride supplements.
- Do not put your baby to bed with a bottle.
Routine Care
- Babies' first teeth often appear around 6 months. To ease teething discomfort, rub your baby's gums with a clean finger. Or offer a teething toy or a clean, wet washcloth, which can be frozen for 30 minutes first.
- Wipe your baby's gums with a wet washcloth to clear away bacteria. Once teeth come in, use a soft infant toothbrush with a tiny bit of toothpaste (about the size of a grain of rice) to clean your baby's teeth.
- Between 6 and 9 months, babies who previously slept through the night may start waking up. Allow some time for your baby to settle back down. If fussiness continues, offer reassurance that you're there, but try not to pick up, play with, or feed your baby.
- Read to your baby every day.
- Create a childproof space for your baby to move around, play, and explore.
- TV viewing (or other screen time, including computers) can interfere with the brain development of young children. Therefore, TV is not recommended for those under 2 years old.
- Place your baby to sleep on the back, but it's OK if he or she rolls over.
- Don't use a walker. They're dangerous and can cause serious injuries. Walkers do not encourage walking and may actually hinder it.
- While your baby is awake, don't leave your little one unattended, especially on high surfaces or in the bath.
- Brush any baby teeth without toothpaste twice a day. Schedule a dentist visit soon after the first tooth appears or by 1 year of age.
- Keep small objects and harmful substances out of reach.
- Always put your baby in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat.
- Avoid sun exposure by keeping your baby covered and in the shade when possible. You may use sunscreen (SPF 30) if shade and clothing don't offer enough protection.
- Childproof your home. Get down on your hands and knees to look for potential dangers. Keep doors closed and put up gates, especially on stairways.
- Limit your child's exposure to secondhand smoke, which increases the risk of heart and lung disease.
These checkup sheets are consistent with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)/Bright Futures guidelines.


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Re: "Law-abiding gun owners aren't cause of violence," Feb. 25 letter to the editor.
After listing several valid observations gleaned from a PBS presentation on gun violence, letter-writer Steve Park reverted to standard NRA-speak by insisting that gun safety legislation introduced by Democrats in the state legislature represents an attempt to "punish and disarm law-abiding citizens."
It is imperative to distinguish between reasonable measures such as background checks for gun purchasers and limits to magazine capacities, and actual gun confiscation. Advocates for responsible gun ownership should explain why they believe that a law which could deprive convicted felons and the mentally ill from possessing weapons would not promote gun safety, or why a civilian has a legitimate need for a weapon with a 30-round capacity.
To his credit, Mr. Park also mentioned the need to address the connection between mental health issues and the nation's scourge of gun violence.
Frank Tapy, Denver
This letter was published in the March 1 edition.
Is anyone else as tired of hearing about "law-abiding gun owners" as I am? The problem with the argument that they are not the problem isn't what they do with their guns when they are law-abiding; it's what they do when they stop being model citizens. When Adam Lanza went to bed on Dec. 13, he was law-abiding. By noon on Dec. 14, 20 children were dead. The "real" problem, as gun nuts like to put it, is not gun control. It is too many guns.
Andrea B. Stutheit, Centennial
This letter was published in the March 1 edition.
In watching the news stories on television and reading the newspapers, it has become painfully obvious that nothing proposed in any gun-control legislation will have any effect whatsoever on gun violence. As long as politicians ignore the root causes of mass shootings and other gun crimes, they will always exist. However, I believe that is exactly what the government wants, because every time it happens they will have more justification to continue their assault on the Second Amendment.
The anti-gun movement led by the president and his Democratic Party has only one objective and that is to remove the Second Amendment from the Constitution one step at a time.
Criminals will always have guns, and by disarming the rest of us, our government will only make us targets. There will be lions and there will be sheep.
Roy Wilson, Thornton
This letter was published in the March 1 edition.
I attended a town meeting at the Evergreen library called by state Sen. Jeanne Nicholson on Feb. 23 to discuss Colorado safety issues, including guns and the bills to be considered by the Senate. I hoped to hear a balanced discussion of the issues.
At the library entrance, a child (about 6 years old) approached asking me to take a "PRO GUN" label for my jacket. I was stunned and did not accept the label. Everyone entering wore a "PRO GUN" label.
Sen. Nicholson introduced herself and tried to explain her goals for the meeting. The audience interrupted, shouted disagreements, booed and demanded she answer their questions. After 45 minutes I left ashamed and embarrassed that our elected senator was subjected to this. What has happened to our civil society?
Thank you, Sen. Nicholson.
Janet Way, Evergreen
This letter was published in the March 1 edition.
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There is a vulnerability where some applications (such as explorer.exe) respond to Unicode characters that change the direction of the text (right-to-left vs left-to-right). This may be used to mask an EXE file into one that looks like a text document.
More information on this topic...
What applications are vulnerable to this threat, and what are the mitigations/countermeasures?
For example:
- Mitigate Windows Explorer with AntiVirus product XXX
- Filter email attachments using YYY
- Limit Mac exposure with product iZ
My personal experience suggests that most products need updating or configuration to prevent end users from being taken advantage of.
Perhaps calling 'Backwards Unicode names' a vulnerability is incorrect of me. However I consider any application that does not provide the controls to mitigate hostile use a vulnerability. Perhaps this security is regulated to a class of products such as email filters or AV products.
My intent is to identity the products needed to prevent this from being exploited and maintain the reasonable and appropriate use of B.U.N.'s.


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The beautiful island of Santorini (also called Thera) sits in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of mainland Greece. Its volcanic origins make it a place of rugged beauty and spectacular scenery. It also, however, enjoys the very favourable Mediterranean climate, boasts a great many picturesque villages and provides a number of exciting and entertaining opportunities for holidaymakers to make the most of their visit. Taking advantage of the holiday rental accommodations available in the form of apartments, traditional houses, or villas allows the Santorini experience to be enjoyed at your leisure.
Although Santorini is a small island, it has various options available for your rented holiday accommodation. One is to rent a holiday apartment or house in one of the island's larger villages such as Fira, the island's capital. Renting accommodation of this type does not prevent you exploring the wonders of Santorini but it will give you easier access to the shops, restaurants and bars which you may wish to visit. A different option is to rent a villa in a more rural part of Santorini. Although the views from all of the villages are spectacular, renting a villa of this type may be better suited to those truly seeking the get away from it all type of holiday in tranquil yet stunning surrounds.
Getting around on Santorini is possible by bus or by taxi but, in order to make your time truly your own, you may wish to hire a car, or perhaps the little individual scooters which are popular on the island. This will allow you to explore the numerous villages, all of which are built by the sea on cliff tops and each of which has something to offer in its own unique way. Fira allows visitors to take a cable car ride down the cliff face to the old port of Santorini, or alternatively to negotiate the path on foot or on the back of a donkey. You may wish to visit the picturesque village of Oia and witness its spectacular sunset, or Akrotiri to admire its magnificent archaeological sites and largely unspoiled beauty. Megalochori is another village with beautiful ancient buildings to admire, including many cave houses. It is also located in the heart of Santorini's wine producing area and is an excellent place to sample the local produce.
You should not miss admiring the island's nearby volcano from various cliff-top vantage points and watch the gases escape from its active fissure. You should also take a dip in the hot springs caused by the volcanic activity and let the warm, muddy waters pamper you in style. Boat trips are popular on Santorini and one option is to go on the island's submarine and explore beneath the waves. Those who prefer to stay afloat on the water, however, may wish to consider a trip to the nearby island of Thirassia and sample some of its legendary seafood at one of its small restaurants.


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Please note that this site is no longer active and OpenEYE has now merged with Early Childhood Action http://www.earlychildhoodaction.com
NOTE: This website contains a wealth of information, including films, which, taken together, serves as a detailed historical record of the principled struggle of the 'Open EYE' Early Childhood campaign, which was formed in the autumn of 2007, and subsequently merged with Early Childhood Action in early 2013.
Open EYE waged a concerted media campaign against aspects of England's statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) over a number of years, was highly regarded, and had a number of major critical and media successes. Its persistent re-statement of core perennial values about early development and learning was an inspiration to large numbers of practitioners, and helped to keep alive a holistic, child-centred ethos in England's early childhood sphere.
The arguments rehearsed on this website about early learning are just as relevant as you read this as they ever were, and so we are leaving the website up in its entirety for researchers, students and concerned citizens to consult and enjoy – for alas, the issues we are addressing here aren't going away in the foreseeable future.
We would be delighted if Open EYE supporters and sympathisers would like to join us in ECA – we are easily contactable through the ECA website, at http://www.earlychildhoodaction.com/contact.html
A sincere thanks to you all for your support.
The OpenEYE Core Team
OpenEYE consisted of a unique, multi-disciplinary team of experts who came together through a shared concern about Early Childhood in the UK. They had the support of an increasing number of childminders, parents, practitioners and teachers. Additional support came from a prestigious group of international researchers, authors and early childhood experts. OpenEYE was an entirely voluntary group who give their time freely to the cause.
The OpenEYE team consisted of:
Richard Brinton is a former Waldorf teacher and Principal of Hawkwood College, Stroud. He joined the Open EYE campaign as one of its founding members. One current project of his is a book, Finding Family; through story, biography and pilgrimage, it explores the challenges as well as joys and hope of parenting at a time when traditions can ring hollow and an understanding and feeling for childhood seem increasingly lost.
John Dougherty is a former primary school teacher with extensive classroom experience who, after eleven years of tick-boxes, OFSTED and endless government initiatives, decided that enough was enough. He is now a full-time writer of fiction for children. John is also the father of two children who spent most of their early years education in the kindergarten of a school which subscribes to a well-respected alternative educational philosophy. He believes that state education should offer access to a range of philosophies, and that government micro-management is bad for schools.
Margaret Edgington is an independent early years consultant, trainer and author, and a Vice President of the National Campaign for Real Nursery Education. She has campaigned throughout her career for an approach to early years policy making that puts the needs of young children first.
Wendy Ellyatt is a writer and researcher with a particular interest in societal values and well-being and the importance of safeguarding natural development in the early years. She is a fellow of the RSA, the founder of the Unique Child Network (www.uniquechildnetwork.com) and co-founder and CEO of the Save Childhood Movement (www.savechildhood.net). Wendy joined the Open EYE Core Team in 2008 and was the creator and editor of the Open EYE Newsletter.
Grethe Hooper Hansen is a former head of SEAL (the Society for Effective Affective Learning), an international organisation founded to explore the pedagogy of Dr Georgi Lozanov and other innovative approaches to learning. Originally a school teacher, she moved into teaching English as a Foreign Language, worked in Italy and England. and is currently writing a book on a new concept of education based on Lozanov's learning beyond the confines of the conscious mind.
Dr Richard House is senior lecturer in early childhood (Dept Education Studies and Liberal Arts) at the University of Winchester, and a trained Steiner Kindergarten and class teacher. He edited Open EYE's best-selling edited anthology Too Much, Too Soon?: Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, 2011), and continues to campaign on early childhood with the Save Childhood Movement, founded in 2012 by fellow Open EYE member Wendy Ellyatt.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher and teacher trainer with over 40 years experience.
Lynne Oldfield is Director of The London Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Training Course and author of Free to Learn: An Introduction to Steiner Early Years Education (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, 2012). A co-founder of the Open Eye Campaign, she has championed the rights of children to have a healthy early childhood for over 40 years. Her current focus is to encourage early years practitioners to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate early years curricula.
Sue Palmer is a specialist in primary literacy, notably grammar, an educational speaker, author, mother and grandmother. Research for her 2006 book Toxic Childhood convinced her that current UK policy on childhood and education is seriously flawed, and led to collaboration with Dr Richard House on campaigns to draw attention to these issues. She is a founder member of Open EYE and Early Childhood Action, a former President of Montessori AMI UK and a member of the Scottish government's Early Years Task Force.
Kim Simpson has owned and run Montessori nurseries for 35 years; trained in parent coaching, is a practising psychotherapist and and was Chair of the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust. She has campaigned, and has a passion, for all children to be protected from any policies which erode their rights to a natural childhood, and is co-founder and Director of the Save Childhood Movement.


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Looking for a holiday destination where you can have maximum fun can prove to be a daunting task. This is because there are many destinations that holiday makers can visit. However, those who want to enjoy something out of the extra ordinary can consider taking a vacation to the Caribbean Islands. Scuba diving, breath taking golf courses, wonderful sandy beaches and the general ambiance make the flight to the Caribbean Islands stand out from the rest of the holiday destinations. With the unbeatable hospitality and fine weather, it becomes difficult for anyone to decide otherwise about the Caribbean Islands.
About the Caribbean Islands
The Caribbean Islands consists of a total of thirty Islands (inlcuding Cuba) with each having its own unique culture and history. Each Island has got something different to offer with some of the common factors being the great climate. Due to the variety presented in these Islands, it is difficult to resist the temptation of visiting them again.
Low budget travelers should not be afraid of visiting the Caribbean Islands since there a good number of options available. Those with the financial muscle can seek accommodation from the upscale kind of resorts. Family packages and all inclusive holiday packages are also available. Affordable bed and breakfast and apartments can also be identified within the Islands. Irrespective of your budget, it is possible to make your visit to the CaribbeanIslands very memorable.
The activities
There are a myriad of activities that are available in the Caribbean Islands. Snorkeling, water sports, fishing, cycling and swimming are juts some of the fun activities that one can enjoy while at the Islands. When it comes to places to visit, there are many attraction sites and visits to engage during a holiday to the Caribbean Islands. Those who have strong attachments to contemporary conveniences such as the internet and the satellite TV should not worry about accessing these facilities while on holiday at the Caribbean Islands.
There are several accommodation options that are available in the Caribbean Islands. Villas, hotels, resorts, bed and breakfast and apartments are all available. It is advisable to do an early booking especially during the peak seasons so as to avoid last minute disappointments.
Turks and Caicos
Visiting the Turks and the Caicos Islands is an experience that one cannot forget in a long time. There are several resorts that are located in the Islands, which provide the visitors with a wide variety to select from.
Those with a business eye can consider investing in the Caribbean Islands. There are many properties available for sale. Several businesses have been booming in these Islands especially during the peak seasons.


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Stephenson has tools to be star pitcher for Reds
Cincinnati's top prospect can hit triple digits with fastball, but he struggled this spring
The 2011 First-Year Player Draft was so deep in pitching, right-hander Robert Stephenson went to the Cincinnati Reds with the 27th overall pick.
In his senior season at Alhambra High School in Martinez, Calif., Stephenson began the year by pitching back-to-back no-hitters. It helped earn him the California Gatorade Player of The Year Award. An extremely good student-athlete, many thought Stephenson could have gone earlier in the Draft.
But it was the year of the pitcher, such as Gerrit Cole, Danny Hultzen, Trevor Bauer, Dylan Bundy and Archie Bradley, just to name a few. Position players Bubba Starling, Anthony Rendon, Francisco Lindor, Javier Baez and George Springer were also all products of the same class.
After being in the Reds' Minor League system for parts of three seasons, Stephenson is ranked No. 1 on the team's Top 20 Prospect list.
At 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, Stephenson may even fill out some more in his upper body. His size and his mound demeanor are two important components that should help trigger his future success. Throwing a bit across his body, Stephenson has good extension, and he finishes his delivery in a clean and skillful manner. And the 21-year-old is prepared to defend his position.
Stephenson is good at using the entire plate and changing the eye level of the hitter. It's difficult to look for a particular zone when facing him.
Stephenson has a very powerful arm, having the capability of hitting the high 90s consistently, while generally sitting at 94-98 mph. He can also hit triple digits. However, the higher Stephenson goes on the velocity scale, the flatter his pitches become. Movement, or lack thereof, tends to diminish my overall evaluation of his fastball. Stephenson tends to favor a rising four-seamer that can get in the eyes of the hitter and become a very tempting pitch. But it also equates to a number of swings and misses.
Stephenson's next-best offering is probably his curveball. It's a slower curve in the mid-70s and causes late reaction from hitters. The 20-mph drop in velocity from his fastball is a good weapon Stephenson uses to keep hitters off balance.
Stephenson's third pitch is his changeup. It's a work in progress that I saw him test more this past Spring Training. The results were mixed. Stephenson's arm action was good, but the pitch didn't speed up bats or get the swings and misses he may have wanted.
Cincinnati gave Stephenson some looks this past spring. He appeared in three games, throwing four innings and yielding seven hits. Stephenson walked one and struck out one, but opponents blistered him for a .438 batting average. He had a 2.00 WHIP and a 6.75 ERA.
At one point in his career, Stephenson was the type of pitcher who would lean back and try to throw the ball past the hitter. Now, he has toned down his aggressive approach in favor of picking his spots and throwing strikes. That approach works.
Not counting Spring Training or the brief start of the 2014 season, Stephenson has two seasons on his resume. He's pitched at Rookie League Billings and Double-A Pensacola, where he finished last year and started this season. Consistently, Stephenson has walked few and struck out many.
Because they get great movement on high-velocity fastballs, some pitching prospects don't need stellar secondary pitches to go deep into games. For me, the continued development of his secondary pitches holds the key to Stephenson's ultimate role and projected success.
If Stephenson can throw his secondary pitches for strikes, his fastball becomes more prominent. He will then be able to mix and match among three pitches, even if his fastball doesn't always have great life or movement.


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Welcome to Animal Emergency Poulsbo
Trusted pet emergency veterinary care since 1993. Serving Kitsap County and surrounding areas.
Animal Emergency and Trauma Center (AETC) was established in 1993 as a critical care animal hospital to care for your pet's veterinary needs. We work as a team with your family veterinarian, sharing information and common goals. We are no further away than your phone. A well trained, experienced and caring team member can answer your questions and advise you regarding your pet's problem.
At AETC, our doctors dedicate themselves to emergency and critical care of companion animals. Our emergency animal hospital is available nights, weekends and holidays.
AETC focuses on pet emergencies in and around Kitsap County including Bremerton, Silverdale, Port Orchard, Bainbridge Islands, Kingston, Belfair, Port Townsend, Gorst, Port Ludlow, Sequim, Shelton, Gig Harbor, Poulsbo and Port Angeles.


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Kenmore Elite 79041242800 electric cooktop repair and replacement parts
Here are the repair parts and diagrams for your Kenmore Elite 79041242800 electric cooktop. The diagram(s) below can help you find the right part. If you'd like help, we invite you to call our customer service number at the top of the page, or click chat.
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text: blog postsEnglish: The official national language of the United StatesAug 18, 2006 3:15 pm by firstname.lastname@example.com on FacebookTweetEmailIn the summer of 2006, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the Immigration Law that would make English the national language of the United States. Later the same day it passed another amendment making English our common and unifying language. While political analysts and lexicographers scrambled to figure out whether a national language is divisive, and a common one, unifying, the Senate settled on making English national rather than common, without saying what that might mean.Three weeks earlier, responding to the release of a CD featuring the national anthem in Spanish, President George Bush told reporters in the Rose Garden that everybody in this country should speak English, especially when singing the Star-Spangled Banner. But then it came out that the president himself had sung the national anthem in Spanish when he was on the campaign trail. Later reports suggested that he might have actually sung "America" in Spanish, because the tune was easier. By way of explanation, a White House aide said that the president preferred singing to reading. And after the Senate made English either national or possibly common and unifying, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters that it wouldn't be a problem, because Pres. Bush didn't support a national language at all. Mr. Gonzales is something of an expert on semantics. In a famous memo to the president he once defined torture as nothing less than "organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death," or mental suffering "lasting for months or even years." That definition was quickly entered into the White House Dictionary. But the AG's statement about the national language was immediately contradicted by a White House spokesperson who said that Mr. Gonzales had been caught in a "linguistic snare." Reporters wanted to know what a linguistic snare might be, but the spokesperson reassured them that it did not constitute torture, adding that the president certainly supported a national language, just not an official one. If all this wasn't confusing enough, the House of Representatives, without checking either with the Senate or with Karl Rove, began considering its own Republican-sponsored English Language Unity Act declaring English the official language of the United States. The House proposal also orders the federal government to preserve and enhance the role of English. And it encourages any person injured by a violation of the official language law to file a civil action in order to obtain appropriate relief. The attorney general has yet to comment on the likelihood that the House bill will create a flurry of nuisance suits, filed by persons seeking relief because the president sang the national anthem in Spanish at an election rally which they were forced to attend by the Republican National Committee, although Mr. Gonzales is likely to rule that such an extraordinary rendition of the national anthem would only constitute torture if the president sang for months, if not years, or if they were subsequently forced to go duckhunting with the vice president. If the president actually sang "America, "then the question is moot. With luck, Congress will acknowledge what language teachers and minority-language speakers in the U.S. have learned the hard way, that America is a graveyard for foreign languages. We don't need an official national language, nor do we need to preserve and enhance the role of English, because – as the 2000 Census tells us – just about everybody in the United States either speaks English already, is learning English, or will start learning English by the time the National Guard sets up its southern perimeter in Arizona, where it is supposed to give newcomers English lessons and train them to serve in the local police. And if the government doesn't give immigrants the English classes they demand, they will sue. In the meantime, someone had better let Alberto Gonzales out of his linguistic snare before he starts writing another definition.stats2,766 Views 0 Comments additional actions Add CommentShare on FacebookTweetEmail


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Shortly after dawn on a typical Arizona morning, a wave of photons born eight minutes earlier in the big yellow fusion reactor in the sky clears the Superstition Mountains and sweeps across Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun. On a fenced-in stretch of gravel at the edge of booming Mesa - the largest suburb in the US - the stream of newly minted light strikes what looks like a lunar lander, all bundled wires and glinting aluminum. The photons ricochet off 25 mirrors arranged in a 5- by 5-foot square and converge in a shaft of light brighter than the sun at high noon. The tightly focused stream crashes into 100 square inches of silicon suspended over mirrors, sending a spray of electrons dancing down a copper wire. A CPU revs and tiny motors whir. As one, the mirrors adjust their positions ever so slightly. And the latest attempt at keeping pace with humanity's epic appetite for energy begins another day of pulling power from the sky.
This package of precision engineering is called the Sunflower, which is what one of its early prototypes vaguely resembled, four years and 40-odd iterations ago. The yard it sits in belongs to Arizona State University's Photovoltaic Testing Lab, where devices that turn sunlight into electricity go to prove their stuff. Over the next three months, a half-dozen Sunflowers will be toasted, roasted, scorched, and drowned. They'll endure showers of fake hailstones fired from air guns, snowdrifts simulated with water-saturated foam-rubber blankets, and 25 years' worth of punishing ultraviolet radiation. If all goes well, the spoilsports at Underwriters Laboratories will crack what passes among them for a smile. A crew of solar-energy fanatics operating out of a converted Korean restaurant in Old Town Pasadena, California, will cheer. And Bill Gross will, well, beam.
Bill Gross? The name will be familiar to veteran dot-bomb watchers - Mr. Idealab!, the Caltech geek turned manic entrepreneur who fostered NetZero, FreePC, and CitySearch. And eToys, Eve.com, and FirstLook. Not to mention MyBiz.com, Paythrough.com, Refer.com, and Sameday.com. And don't forget Utility.com, WeddingChannel.com, Zelerate, and PETsMART. The prototypical startup incubator, Idealab! launched more than one company a month during the three headiest years of the late, great dotcom gold rush.
With the Internet now slouching into adolescence, many of its early highfliers have moved on. Mark Cuban is cheerleading the Dallas Mavericks, hawking HDTV, and digitizing movie theaters. Elon Musk is building spaceships. Jay Walker is hustling "business DNA." Others are racing sailboats, polishing Ferraris, toasting marshmallows over defunct stock-option certificates, or crying in their Gordon Biersch.
But Gross is still at it, a 46-year-old Energizer Bunny blinking behind wire-rimmed specs. Idealab - now minus the exclamation point - sprawls across 50,000 square feet of Lucite and red brick in Pasadena. At the moment it's home to a clutch of startups doing everything from P2P phones to cable-free optical networking. There's X1 (Yahoo! has licensed its desktop search software) and Evolution Robotics (Sony used its technology in the Aibo). In mid-2003, Yahoo! paid $1.6 billion for Overture, Gross' pioneering Web advertising business. Last year, Google plunked down an undisclosed sum for Picasa, his online photo service.
But forget all that. On a rainy Southern California morning, the venture that has Gross struggling to stay put in his Herman Miller chair is the one that planted the Sunflower in the Arizona desert. It's as much a personal cause as a business; for the first time in Idealab's tumultuous nine-year history, the Incubator himself has stepped in as CEO. He has taken a plywood-door desk right out in the bullpen with a cheerful crew of heat-transfer engineers, Jet Propulsion Lab veterans, CAD-CAM programmers, even a vending machine specialist hired for his expertise at building things reliable and maintenance-free. An 8-foot mirror-petalled prototype hangs from the high ceiling. A banner suspended overhead blares the company name: Energy innovations.
Gross talks the way the sun spews photons. During a 7 am breakfast in an empty local eatery that seems to be open early mainly for him, Radio Free Bill is broadcasting on all channels. The infomercial is pure energy - the kilowatt kind - and the pitch includes something for everyone.
For conspicuous consumers: "America's secret," he says, "is that each of us uses an average of 17 virtual horses' worth of electric power every day." He means that approvingly; no turn-the-lights-off Luddite, he.
For the no-blood-for-oil crowd: "The rest of the world needs cheap, reliable power too, if we're going to end the wars over energy and bring on a new age of global peace and toleration."
For investors: "Reinventing energy is a multitrillion-dollar opportunity. It's the next big disruption. It dwarfs any business opportunity in history."
For Energy Innovations' crew of 35 solar geeks: "We've been looking for a big problem to get our hands around, and we think we've got an answer." That's for Gross himself, as well. What's left to do after you've ridden the Net rocket from liftoff to splashdown? Why, you save the world.
In the dark, pre-PC middle decades of the past century, before nerdy kids started building motherboards, programming Linux tools, and dabbling in viruses, two surefire signs distinguished a budding geek. One was a ham radio fixation (Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak's call sign is WA6BND, celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick's is N6NHG). The other was a fascination with solar power.
Bill Gross caught the sun bug as an undersize math and science whiz in Van Nuys, California. He entered high school during the oil shocks of the 1970s, which paralyzed the nation with high gas prices and long lines at pumps. Like a real-world Tom Swift Jr. - the heroic boy inventor in 1950s pulp fiction - Gross spent his Saturdays riding the bus to LA's Central Library, where he read everything he could find about the mysteries (and realities) of solar energy. "There had to be a way to fight back," he says, "to use math and science to allow man to harness the sun."
He didn't vanquish OPEC, but he did start a nice little business. Placing a tiny classified ad in the back of Popular Science - "Build Your Own Solar Dish: $4" - Gross sold hand-drawn diagrams and kits for making sun-powered water heaters and ovens capable of roasting hot dogs. The money was good enough to pay for his first two years at Caltech, where he stealthily changed his return address - a dorm called Ruddock House - to read "Ruddock Labs." From there, he jumped to building and selling hi-fi speakers, then hopscotched into marketing newfangled PCs. Though he took his BS in mechanical engineering in 1981, he could see which way the wind was blowing and dove into a lucrative string of software startups, capped by the CD-ROM pioneer Knowledge Adventure. By the time he launched Idealab! into the Internet gale in 1996, solar ovens - indeed, anything involving messy, low-margin atoms - were as passé as 8-track tapes.
Fast-forward to the new millennium and the dotcom flameout. Although Idealab survived, many of its bubblier projects evaporated. "We saw how people beat you up for failure," Gross says. "One of the lessons was to do things we care passionately about, things we'll go to the ends of the earth to make succeed." Soon after, California lurched into its own energy debacle, the blackouts of 2001. Prices spiked, lights flickered. Calling Tom Swift!
Alternative energy had never gone entirely out of fashion. While rabbits like Gross romped in the Net's green pastures, the tortoises of solar energy's parched commercial desert continued to poke along. Half a century after Bell Labs engineers demonstrated the first silicon-based photovoltaic cell, the cost of solar electric power was falling by 50 percent every decade - not the pace of Moore's law, but respectable. By the early 2000s, sun-powered call boxes dotted highways, and remote ranches sprouted solar pumps. Solar oases blossomed in unlikely places like Japan and Germany. A former Texas oilman put solar panels atop one of the outbuildings at his temporary residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
There's just one problem: Covering large expanses of real estate with painstakingly processed silicon is expensive. Without what the industry coyly calls "incentives" - government subsidies, rebates, tax credits, and the like - photovoltaic panels wouldn't have much of a market. Even in sunny places like California, the pre-rebate cost of PV-generated electricity is roughly 21 cents per kilowatt-hour. Coal (from 4.74 cents per kilowatt-hour), natural gas (5.15 cents), nukes (5.92 cents), even windmills (5.15 cents) offer cheaper ways to keep the lights on.
But PV's price differential isn't quite as bad as it seems, thanks to one huge advantage: Solar panels are small enough to fit on rooftops, which is darn close to the electricity user. By bringing energy production and consumption together - something coal, nukes, and gas can't do - solar has the potential to cut out the middleman, along with his markup. That is, instead of competing with wholesale power from distant power plants, rooftop solar competes with retail kilowatt-hours delivered by the local electric company, which often are marked up as much as 1,000 percent over their original generating cost. What's more, retail prices typically peak on hot, sunny summer days, when air conditioners suck every last electron from the grid - precisely when solar panels are most productive. Add a final boost from government handouts, and solar can get over the hump, especially with homeowners and other customers whose motives might not be purely economic.
Hence the mainstream solar industry's strategy: Be patient. Keep priming the pump with government money. Eventually - say, 20 years from now - mass production and technological improvements will make solar power fully competitive with coal, gas, and nuclear. And then the market will explode.
Which brings us back to Gross, who has all the patience of a guy who seized upon the Internet incubator model because it let him launch company after company while letting others do the dreary follow-up. He had made it out of the dotcom bust with his company intact, enough money to bankroll select projects, and a renewed taste for ideas that involved more than just evanescent bits. What he needed was a challenge worth his while - say, California's power crisis and its hint of a looming global energy meltdown.
The 15-year-old in him immediately saw the answer: solar power!
The Caltech mechanical engineer took only a little longer: If solar's problem was the high cost of PV silicon, the solution was to use less of it. Or maybe none at all.
And the serial entrepreneur? He found his opportunity while looking out the window of a Southwest Airlines 737 shuttling from Silicon Valley to Burbank. "I saw this huge expanse of flat, commercial rooftops," he recalls, "and I realized that that could be a great market. I could just see all those buildings covered with row after row of solar collectors." Ka-ching! Solar sprawl!
There really is nothing new under the sun. According to legend, Archimedes set aflame a fleet of besieging Roman warships using "burning glass" - presumably mirrors - to focus the sun's power. The principle has not been lost on solar engineers. Even as PV researchers struggled to make their technology commercially viable, sunbelt utility companies were experimenting with solar concentrators.
PG&E's 350-megawatt Solar Electric Generating Station, for instance, sits in the Mojave Desert a couple of hours' drive from Pasadena. Built in the 1980s, the installation uses parabolic dishes, mirrored troughs, and "power towers" surrounded by fields of reflectors, aided by complex mechanical gear that tracks the sun's path across the sky.
Such behemoths still can't generate electricity as cheaply as a coal or nuke plant, but the effort to bring down the cost has driven engineers to bring up the size. The latest solar megadish from Sandia National Laboratory and Stirling Energy Systems delivers impressive 30-percent efficiency, half again better than the best commercial PV. It's also four stories tall and weighs 8 tons. Forget about mounting it on anyone's roof.
Gross turned that bigger-is-better thinking upside down. By combining Internet-age technology, clever design, and inexpensive Chinese manufacturing, he realized that a radically downsized solar concentrator could retain all the efficiencies of its giant cousins and also fit on a roof. It was the PC paradigm all over again.
Gross' R&D team tried at first to avoid silicon entirely, converting concentrated sunlight into electrons with a Stirling heat engine, a superefficient refinement of the steam engine. When that proved too difficult to bring to market, the engineers set it aside and reluctantly turned back to silicon. They tried dozens of configurations to maximize the stream of photons: 8-foot parabolic dishes, arrays of 500 tiny motorized mirrors, ridged Fresnel lenses mounted in gleaming aluminum tubes. By the start of 2004, there were two contending designs: a clamshell-style reflective dish that closed up in high winds and a grid of moving mirrors.
Then, in a weekend flash of inspiration, a young Caltech physics grad named Kevin Hickerson figured out how to reduce the number of motors needed to move 25 mirrors independently, a major cost factor. Instead of two motors for each mirror - the traditional approach - Hickerson's solution requires only two motors for any number of mirrors. The key is a mathematical curve known as the conchoid of Nicomedes (named for the ancient Greek mathematician, who discovered it). A grid of ball bearings arrayed to match the conchoid is attached to a frame inside the Sunflower. As the motors move the frame, the bearings control each mirror's position individually.
The resulting Sunflower 250 is heavy enough to stay put in high winds, but light enough to be lifted by two installers. To take full advantage of outsourced manufacturing, it's sized to fit into a shipping container; commercial units could be transported to your favorite big-box retailer's rooftop direct from the Shenzhen factory.
The Sunflower's solar receiver, suspended above the mirror field, contains a $2 chip that provides the brains, including an IP address for remotely monitoring power output and possible malfunctions. The overhead assembly also holds four high-efficiency PV wafers that convert more than 20 percent of incoming light into electricity - half again more than standard panels - for a peak output of 1 kilowatt-hour per sunny Los Angeles day. This special silicon comes from a Northern California company called SunPower, purchased three years ago by chipmaker Cypress Semiconductor. Cypress celebrity CEO T. J. Rodgers poured $10 million into SunPower and is now planning to spin out the company in an IPO later this year.
How big a challenge Gross' solar concentrator will be to conventional PV panels should start to become clear when his first 1,000 beta units begin rolling off the assembly line this fall. Energy Innovations' figures show that the Sunflower has a 30 percent cost advantage over typical PV panels before rebates and, in most locations, an even bigger advantage after. Consider a hypothetical Los Angeles light-manufacturing business with 35,000 square feet of roof space. A $684,000 investment (after rebates) in PV panels would generate 90 percent of the company's annual power needs and save roughly $52,000 a year on its electric bill. An array of 750 Sunflowers would deliver the same benefits for $228,000.
Gross hopes to push the price down another 20 percent within two years as manufacturing scale and more efficient silicon kick in. His focus is the metric nearest the hearts of penny-counting CFOs and facilities managers who rule all those endless miles of sprawling rooftops: payback period. "Right now, PV solar has a 20-year payback, but people are still buying it," he says. "Our target for California is five. In Phoenix we could do 3.3."
Of course, those alluring numbers hide a little secret: Take away rebates and other incentives, and payback periods pretty much double. The hard reality is that, even on the rooftop, even with concentrated sunlight, even with low-cost Chinese manufacturing, unrebated solar kilowatt-hours cost too much for the mainstream energy market. Gross is bold enough to think the Sunflower has a shot at competing straight up with the utility companies, and certainly sooner than the 20-year forecast for PV panels. But for now, he'd rather not have to find out. "Losing rebates would be devastating to all of us," he says. "This is still a very young industry."
The toughest question hanging over the Sunflower is whether its electronics and sophisticated machinery can survive a 15-year design life blasted by wind, dust, and - yes - sun. (Not to mention its own concentrated solar heat: One prototype accidentally focused its beam on a photographer's tripod, which burst into flames.) Underwriters Laboratories testing will go some way toward assuaging such concerns. The first set of customers will get something even more reassuring (and, potentially, expensive): a 15-year full-replacement guarantee.
But there's no doubt about the potential market. A recent report by the consulting company Navigant tallies more than 2 billion square feet of flat commercial roof space in California alone - a figure predicted to hit 3.6 billion by 2010. Some buildings offer as much as 800,000 square feet, big enough for 20,000 Sunflowers, or half a megawatt of peak generating capacity. Says Energy Innovations president Andrew Beebe, who's heading the sales team, "There are potential customers out there who could fulfill our business plan for the first two years." Pie in the sky!
Don't break out the dessert forks just yet. From nuclear reactors to windmills, new energy technologies are notoriously difficult to shepherd from brilliant concept to world-beating product. Solar, the most elegant in theory, could well be the toughest of all. Indeed, from Arizona to Australia's outback, the sun-scorched landscape is littered with formerly high-flying startups: Luz, AstroPower, TecStar's Applied Solar division. "Bleached bones," one industry veteran calls them.
When it comes to Bill Gross and Energy Innovations, the most obvious worry is the strategy of combining multiple high-risk elements: solar concentration, high-efficiency silicon, offshore manufacturing. "I wish them all the luck in the world," says Mike Rogol, an equity analyst for Credit Lyonnais who recently surveyed more than 100 solar-industry companies. "But the more things you try to innovate, the more chances there are for something to fail. That's why the PV guys have learned to keep it simple."
Gross proffers a tart reply. "Our Unit 1 beats what they've done with PV panels after 50 years of work and $20 billion in investment," he says, fiddling with an alpha-version Sunflower in his machine shop. "We've spent $12 million so far. I'd say we're off to a pretty good start."
There's also the common notion - especially on Wall Street - that solar energy is the commercial equivalent of a trust-fund kid, never quite able to stand on its own feet. "Politics, not business," an eminent Silicon Valley VC sniffs.
"We're changing that," Gross shoots back. "We're the first people to come along with enough capital, engineering ingenuity, and smarts to say 'It's the economics, stupid.'"
Gross can count on a powerful ally. One that never sends a fuel bill and self-stores waste. That's 93 million miles from anyone's backyard, and now in its sixth billennium of trouble-free operation. That sends enough photons winging to Earth every hour to meet mankind's power needs for a year. Snatch just a fraction, the dream goes, and LNG supertankers will join whale oil in the Smithsonian museum. Nukes can go back to being bombs. Peace will guide the planet. And you can tell Reddy Kilowatt to go to hell.
How the Sunflower Solar Concentrator Works
1. The sun's rays strike the Sunflower's 25-mirror array.
2. The mirrors are aligned to focus incoming light into a concentrated point.
3. The concentrated light strikes an overheadé panel of photovoltaic silicon, creating electrical current. A processor analyzes the reflections to track the sun's position and instructs a pair of motors in the base of the Sunflower to realign the mirrors accordingly.
The challenge for Energy Innovations' engineers was to keep a grid of 25 mirrors focused on a single point as the sun travels across the sky - and to do it cheaply. The goal: control each mirror independently without requiring separate motors for each mirror.
The key: a surface - based on a mathematical curve called the conchoid of Nicomedes - that dictates the position of each mirror. The surface, sampled at 25 points, is represented in the Sunflower by a grid of ball bearings attached to a swinging frame.
Moving the frame requires only two motors: As it swings on an x-y axis, the bearings move the mirrors in tandem, yet each mirror follows its individual path.
Contributing editor Spencer Reiss (firstname.lastname@example.com) profiled Richard Branson in issue 13.01.
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Looking up: Bill Gross, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Energy Innovations.
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The Sunflower 250: the first solar concentrator small and light enough to fit on a roof.
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By Paul Fattig
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Crater Lake National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument brought in more than $38.5 million in 2011 to communities in the region, according to a study released Tuesday.
The peer-reviewed spending analysis of national park and monument visitors was conducted by Michigan State University for the National Park Service.
Nationally, it found $13 billion in direct spending by 279 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park or monument.
The lion's share of spending included 63 percent supporting jobs in lodging, food and beverage service, followed by 17 percent for recreation and entertainment, 11 percent other retail, 7 percent transportation and fuel and 2 percent on wholesale and manufacturing.
In Oregon, some 839,000 in 2011 spent about $56 million in communities surrounding national parks and monuments. The visitor destinations support 947 full-time jobs, the report noted.
In addition to Crater Lake and the Oregon Caves, the sites in Oregon include the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.
Crater Lake drew 423,551 visitors that year who spent a total $34.7 million in communities surrounding the park, supporting 565 jobs, according to the report.
The Oregon Caves attracted 76,194 visitors who spent $3.85 million in local communities, it concluded. That spending supported 59 jobs in the local area, the study said.
All told, the two tourism attractions boosted the local economy by $38.5 million, the assessment found.
"The national parks in Oregon are great places to learn about America's story," said Chris Lehnertz, regional director of the National Park Service, in a prepared statement.
"We attract visitors from across the U.S. and around the world who come here to experience these parks and then spend time and money enjoying the services provided by our neighboring communities and getting to know all that this state has to offer," he added.
For more information about national park facilities in Oregon, check out www.nps.gov/oregon.
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OTTAWA - The opposition pounced Friday on the Conservative government's insistence that the Canadian economy is still strong despite unexpectedly grim job numbers and an unemployment rate that ticked upwards in December.
The numbers serve as a reminder that the "economic recovery remains fragile, and we must stay focused on our plan to grow the economy and keep taxes low to create the environment where job creation can flourish," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in a statement.
Monthly job numbers are "volatile and our overall trend is positive," he added.
That proclamation was met with ridicule from Flaherty's political foes on Parliament Hill.
"When they say, essentially, 'don't worry, be happy,' they are showing how completely out of touch they are with Canada's youth and their middle-class families," said Scott Brison, the Liberal finance critic.
Youth unemployment is a particularly stubborn problem for the federal government.
The jobless rate for Canadians aged 15-24 climbed last month to 14 per cent from 13.4 per cent — almost double the rate for the general population, pegged at 7.2 per cent by Statistics Canada for December.
The youth jobless rate peaked at 16.4 per cent in July 2009. It was at 11 per cent a year earlier, before the global recession took hold.
"Youth unemployment and under-employment has led to a record number of young Canadians, in their 20s, with good educations, living at home because they can't find work," said Brison, who added that subsidizing young family members is a main cause of debt for many Canadian middle-class families.
Peggy Nash, the NDP's finance critic, said the numbers prove that Conservative boasting about their strong stewardship of the economy isn't based in fact.
"It sadly reaffirms what we've been raising with the finance minister for some time now," said Nash.
"They've been bragging about their employment record but the facts simply don't back them up. And according to the parliamentary budget officer, their last budget, in fact, caused more job loss than job creation due to the cuts they've made to the public sector."
She added: "Of course we have jobs that have been gained from the depths of the recession. But are we keeping up with our population growth? Absolutely we are not."
Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy lost 45,900 jobs in December as the unemployment rate rose to 7.2 per cent for the final month of the year, compared with 6.9 per cent in November.
The December drop was led by a decline in full-time jobs, which fell by roughly 60,000. That loss was offset in part by a gain of 14,200 part-time jobs.
Sonya Gulati, senior economist for TD Economics, urged cooler heads to prevail in Ottawa and beyond, noting that retail sales, consumer spending and the still-hot Canadian housing market bode well for the economic outlook in the months to come.
"When you take a look from the broader perspective of the overall economy in Canada, there are still a lot of positive factors to highlight, and that leads us to believe that the December number is a one-off," Gulati said.
She added that the falling Canadian dollar might represent a looming boon, even though currency fluctuations create winners and losers in any economy.
"But it's the export sector that we've really been counting on and relying upon to drive external demand, and so this is one sector that really needs strong, contributing momentum," she said.
"And so a lower Canadian dollar does help out this particular sector which represents a third of the Canadian economy, and 70 to 80 per cent of our trade is with the United States, after all."
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But Fellaini scored his second of the afternoon to add to Victor Anichebe's first-half strike and cancel out Christian Benteke's double and a goal from Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Everton's remarkable powers of recovery came to the fore again and they are second only to Manchester United having taken 21 points from losing positions this season, although the draw was not enough to take them back into the top four for the first time since December 22.
It was a huge blow to Villa, who since their last league success at Anfield seven weeks ago - which in itself was something of a surprise - have now picked up just three points.
Lambert's side arrived in the north-west in much worse form than when they turned over Liverpool and, although they left with a point, they will be disappointed.
Everton had shown in the midweek 2-1 win over West Brom - another side in a poor run of form - that their defence was not entirely watertight, but conceding in the second minute lead was disappointing even for them.
John Heitinga, whose defending could best be described as haphazard, was completely culpable as Benteke went past him as if he were standing still - which he may as well have been - to slide a shot across Tim Howard from Charles N'Zogbia's pass.
Fellaini almost produced an instant response, rolling a shot just wide of Brad Guzan's right post before Anichebe had an effort patted down by the American.
Benteke continued to look threatening, however, and his shot from Agbonlahor's cutback was deflected behind before Everton drew level thanks to their own powerhouse forward.
Anichebe was again preferred up front to Nikica Jelavic, and he repaid manager David Moyes' faith with a 21st-minute equaliser.
Having held up Kevin Mirallas' pass by using his superior upper body strength, he then turned Ciaran Clark to fire a left-footed shot past Guzan for his fifth goal in eight league starts.
Both sides looked weak defensively and Heitinga, who has not enjoyed the best of seasons, was again involved in Villa's second.
A corner was only partially cleared and Ashley Westwood's right-wing cross saw Agbonlahor lose the Holland international and outjump Fellaini to head in at the far post.
Heitinga's afternoon failed to get any better after the break as he went to head the ball and succeeded only in connecting with team-mate Phil Jagielka - the player moved out of his best position in central defence to accommodate the Dutchman.
Fellaini received an even more painful blow when he collided with Guzan trying to reach Leighton Baines' inswinging free-kick and, although he returned, his movement was restricted.
Villa should have put the result to bed soon after when Agbonlahor played in Andreas Weimann, but the Austrian blazed well over with only Howard to beat.
He made up for it with his involvement in the third goal, which saw him exchange passes with Matthew Lowton, allowing the right-back to curl in an inviting cross to which Benteke beat Heitinga to nod in at the near post and take his Premier League tally into double figures.
The Dutchman was put out of his misery when he was replaced by Bryan Oviedo soon after with Jelavic coming on for Mirallas, who has yet to find his early-season spark after a niggling hamstring injury.
Some home fans booed Mirallas' departure - more did so Heitinga's for different reasons - but the change had the desired effect with 20 minutes to go.
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Jelavic had one shot batted away by Guzan but the form guide appeared to be against the Toffees, who had not scored three in a league game since late September.
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg produced another miniseries. The Pacific is a 10 part war epic that will air on HBO beginning March 14. To add star power to the event, HBO trotted out its True Blood stars: Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Deborah Ann Woll, Ryan Kwanten, and Alexander Skarsgard who looks like he's had the hot sucked out of him by that starving twat Kate Bosworth.
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So that the hell does this do? Based on the shape and feel, it could be either a knob or button. Maybe it's for driver hypnotizing? Auto-spin-out feature? Time warp tunnel opener? Coriolis Effect tester?
I eventually learned what it's for, so there is a correct answer. And I'm sure someone will recognize the car pretty soon as well. But first, let's get in Kinja and do some speculating!
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38 comments:
- Carol said...
Great way to start the year off, with two delicious soups. Especially the chicken with rice, nice flavors in there!
Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Julie said...
Happy New Year!! Soup is a perfect meal for New Year's Day and these look yummy!
- January 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Unknown said...
Happy New Year Beth!
Yum and double yum, how I would look forward to a bowl of your soup. I will be making soup this week , one of my favorite comfort foods anytime of year;-)
- January 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Valerie Gamine said...
Happy New Year, Beth!
Wow, both soups look scrumptious (especially now that it's snowing outside!) I love Worcestershire sauce, so the first one sounds extra tasty!!
- January 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM
- Joyti said...
Yes, soup is delicious...especially this time of year. Both of your soup recipes look and sound delicious.
- January 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM
- GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...
I have been hankering for more soup and think these recipes sound delicious!
- January 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM
- Claudia said...
I must remember to make chicken soup with rice instead of pasta. This family needs a change! And the alphabet soup just brought me back to my youth - always a good thing. Love feeling like "six" once in a while. Just a comforting, welcoming post to ring in the New Year. Hope 2012 brings you many joys.
- January 1, 2012 at 3:23 PM
- Kitchen Belleicious said...
oh this looks just simply delicious! I love comforting soup that is good for the soul!
- January 1, 2012 at 3:55 PM
- Katerina said...
Both of them would be perfect for my cold Beth! I wish to you and your family a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM
- Belinda said...
Really, now, can anyone dare not fall in love with chicken soup with rice (it's a song!) or alphabet soup? Fantastic and in time for that cold spell coming.
- January 1, 2012 at 6:31 PM
- Jeanne said...
Happy 2012, Beth! Soup is my favorite wintertime dinner. Both of these look so comforting, and it's been ages since I've had alphabet soup. I better fix that!
- January 1, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- Fresh Local and Best said...
It's been unseasonably warm in the NE, so soups have been very slim this winter. The chicken soup looks wonderful, I like the addition of milk and rice. Happy New Year Beth!
- January 1, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Looks simple and delicious. Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Happy New Year Beth - I hope you and your family have a happy and healthy 2012. I've so enjoyed tagging along with your tales of travel and lovely dishes over the past year. I very much look forward to another!
- January 1, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Soup really is the perfect thing to eat after all the holiday excess. I made soup for dinner tonight!
Happy new year!
- January 1, 2012 at 9:54 PM
- Cindy said...
Both soups look delicious. I love soup, can't wait to try them.
I made a pot of ham and bean soup today. I don't love beans so I put more veggies than beans in the soup. It was delicious!
Have a wonderful 2012!
- January 1, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Awesome soups, we are making quite a few during the winter season as well. Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 11:06 PM
- Liz That Skinny Chick Can Bake said...
Both soups look delicious, Beth! And our weather has taken a nose dive so soup will be on our menu soon! Happy New Year!
- January 2, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Kitchen Simmer said...
Now this is what I call a comforting and healthy soup! I would love a bowl of this on a cold winter's night. :) Have a Happy New Year 2012!
- January 2, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Both soups look wonderful! I like that chicken soup slightly more though.
- January 2, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- grace said...
homemade alphabet soup--yippee! one of my favorite things to do is eat soup whilst watching it snow (even as i laugh at the people trudging around in it while i'm nice and warm...). :)
- January 3, 2012 at 4:29 AM
- Sprigs of Rosemary said...
I adore soup of all kinds! I keep scraps of this and that in the freezer and pretty soon I'm able to make one great soup. SO comforting to eat, and fun to make. (I saved all the turkey bones, too!)
- January 3, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Jessica | Cajunlicious said...
This looks delicious and so comforting, I love using rice in soups.
- January 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM
I so love soup after a glut of big meals. All the very best for 2012.
- January 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Golden Eagle said...
It looks delicious! And since it's cold right now, soup sounds perfect . . .
- January 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM
- lisa is cooking said...
Now I want to go shop for alphabet pasta! I also love wild rice, and it sounds so good in the chicken soup. Both soups look great, and this is a perfect time for soup. Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2012 at 4:23 PM
- Elisabeth said...
Beth-both of the soups are so perfect, and delicious. I made a huge pot of chicken soup today, and that was my dinner for my WW diet plan.
Thanks for sharing both recipes, it's gonna be a welcome addition for me to make a different style!
Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2012 at 9:16 PM
- Miriam said...
Love that alphabet soup, and so simple!! Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
- January 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM
- Couscous & Consciousness said...
That's a couple of lovely looking soup recipes. My partner is the usual soup maker in house, so I must steer him in this direction.
Sue :-)
- January 4, 2012 at 5:02 AM
- Joanne said...
I am all about the soup lately and I am LOVING these recipes! Both simple, delicious comfort food.
- January 4, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Lorraine said...
I do love soup this time of year too. They both look delicious. I especially like the alphabet soup. The letters look so darn cute:)
Happy New Year!
- January 4, 2012 at 8:11 AM
- Velva said...
Soup this time of year is soulful and comforting. After all the over indulgences of the holidays, a bowl of soup is perfect.
Happy New Year beth! Looking forward to all of your posts n 2012.
- January 4, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Kitchen Riffs said...
I love soup! And I've got a bunch of turkey stock in the freezer that needs to be used. A couple of good recipes here. But what I really like are your photos - soup isn't the easiest thing to photograph. I particularly like the top & bottom pictures - you've deliberately added more solids than liquid, and I like the emphasis on the pretty colors and shapes.
- January 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Rita said...
My husband's favourite soup is chicken Rice, but have never made it with milk. Gotta try this for sure. January and soup go hand in hand.
- January 4, 2012 at 3:37 PM
I've never perused the grocery store aisles for alphabet pasta, but next time I'm going to look.
I've been eating more soup, especially with this cold weather we're finally getting.
- January 5, 2012 at 4:39 AM
- julie said...
The best part about the turkey is the broth that comes from the bones! I have buckets of it in my freezer as we speak and I think it's about time to bring one out and whip up a little turkey soup. thanks for the inspiration Beth!
- January 5, 2012 at 7:53 AM
My kids would love the alphabet soup - and I'm sure it's so much better than the canned kind.
- January 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- shaz said...
Ooh I love soup too. I'll even eat it when the weather is boiling hot (which my husband finds really weird). Love the sound of the second soup, but even more, I love the title of the cookbook!
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