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I need to know how to start cooking from absolute scratch because the area I'm moving to is a very remote area of Montana and you can't just go to the market and get things for dinner. The nearest food store is an hour away in good weather. I went to school for Horticulture and passed with honors, so growing the food is no problem. I have a supplier of Japanese garden seed and another for things like nori and rice, but I need to know how to make my own fermented, pickled, dried, and canned produce. I need recipes for Aka Miso, Shiro Miso, Nattou, and instructions on preserving my harvest without refrigeration.I plan to move near the end of summer after which time it will be several months before I have electricity or internet. I really appreciate any help you guys can give.
(Just one more thing I forgot...)
Does anybody have any Ainu recipes for Venison?
The land I'm trying to buy is a hunter's paradise. It is 20 acres of huntable land surrounded by land (2,000,000 acres) which has not been hunted in over 100 years. I wonder if Bison Shabu-shabu would be good? Or maybe Elk Hanbaga on a "bun" of okonomiyaki with some okonomi sauce and Kewpie Mayonnaise... Mmmm...
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To make miso or natto, you will need some cultures (sort of like yeast) to get them started. You can get them from Gem Cultures - http://www.gemcultures.com/index.htm in the U.S.
I don't know much about Ainu culture I'm afraid...but venison is traditionally eaten in a hot pot (well...Japanese people eat most things in a hot pot in the winter ^_^) I guess shabu shabu would work, if it's sliced very thinly.
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whoah, going into the wilderness! ok, there is a food store one hour off, so you won't starve if some things spoil.. have you ever preserved food before? what do you plan to plant? i'd suggest lots of beans of all kinds, they can be dried and kept quite well. squash is good for a new garden as well, it can be harvested in 1 season if the weather is right. tender leavy vegetables grow fast and are nice to have in summer, but are hard to conserve- better have some harder stuff like cabbage, turnips and beets around. those keep quite well stacked in a cool, dark place and can be made into kimchi and so on. with these, you can use the top parts like spinach, so you can get something tender and crispy here, too.
miso will take some months to a year to ferment, better bring a big batch of your favourite kinds!
have you ever cooked venison?
if you won't have a fridge, let the elk live and go for something smaller, like hares for quick roasts or stews (if you can tear the ear between your fingers it's young and to be roasted, if the ear is tough, make a stew. at least that's how grandma taught me).
what about geese or ducks- are there any? if you can get nice, fat birds in fall, you can conserve the cooked, seasoned meat with the drained fat in jars. it's delicious and keeps until spring that way-moist, too, unlike salted/smoked meat.
you'll need lots and lots and lots of screwtop jars, mason jars and such.
pack some sulphur, too, if you want to make jam/marmalade and other goodies that should NOT ferment, it's great for desinfecting. it's like a voodoo ritual you do before making jam: take some sulphur on a spoon, set fire to it, hold the clean jars over the burning sulphur and catch the stinky fumes, close lid and let stand while whatever you are making is cooking. no germ or unwanted fungus survives that! as you probably won't have a clinically clean kitchen that might be a good idea.
good luck
A friend of mine is going to be moving to the wilderness in Wisconsin and her one condition was a green house, because moving away from our lovely year-round growing seasons and our great produce here in California can be a bit of a shock to the system. So hopefully you will be able to set one up to keep you well stocked all year.
But I would look into seeing if you can find a canning/preserving class in your area so you can get the hang of that before you need to depend on it for you food supply. The writer of this blog http://foodsnobberyhobbery.blogspot.com/ lives in Minnesota and does a lot canning/preserving, so you may be able to get some information from there.
Best of luck with the move!
Thank you Maki-san.
"have you ever preserved food before?"
Yep, I've made sauerkraut, jam, pickles, and smoked meats.
"what do you plan to plant?"
Carrot, daikon, bok choy, nappa cabbage, 3 kinds of carrots, red onions, yellow onions, green onions, shimonita negi, kabocha squash, heirloom American pumpkin, spinach, edible chrysanthemum, tomatoes, 6 kinds of peppers on a 3 year cycle, short season eating corn, Yukon Gold Potatoes, azuki beans, sweet peas, shiso, parsley, rosemary, sage, sesame, gobo, cumin, thyme, eggplant, cucumber, buckwheat, quinoa, all outside in the first year.
Inside the greenhouse will be: dwarf mandarin oranges, dwarf limes, Camelia sinesis(茶), Basil, ginger(a lot of this, Granma loves the stuff), Japanese yams, yama imo (山芋), and seedlings will be started here too.
It is a lot of work, but it is worth it. Last year I planted this much but all the area crops failed due to a mold and extra heavy rains. This year I'll be taking up supplies that I already have, but next growing season is where I'll have to provide for myself. I just won't have electricity yet so I can't ask then.
"have you ever cooked venison?"
Plenty. I do hunt now already, and it is for food. I'll just be eating more of it. 1 elk will last all winter frozen naturally and whatever I don't eat can be smoked, corned, or salted. Deer and their reletives are hunted in the fall and winter.
How about making salami from your venison? Not at all Japanese, of course, but that is the one thing I make that I can always give to my Japanese friend Yoshio to pay back the things he insists on getting me from Japan. He and all his family love it. It's a whole lot easier to make than you might think, and you don't need any special equipment other than a mincer - which I think you'd call a grinder in America. Oh, and casings and curing salts, but they're cheap and last for ages. You can even use the deer intestines for your casings if you want to go really from scratch. Most of the recipes seem to want large amounts of pork fat, but I made a really lean one a wee while ago and everyone loved it.
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I'm assuming you WILL be planting garlic? It's not on your list that I can see.
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Not that I am by any means moving to the wilderness... but thank you for reminding me to plant garlic, my garden is getting a bit crowded but I really need to plant that and remember to put saffron bulbs on my list for fall. I just hate paying for stuff that I can easily grow on my own.
Actually, I forgot garlic too. LOL, I love the stuff. Saffron was something like $15 USD per 1/2 oz, and for the same price for the supplier of my School I could get about 16 Crocus sativus bulbs from the Netherlands.
Concerning the salami; deer intestines could have parasites in that area and there is no way to tell, so I'll stick to goat or cow intestine linings. It is a good Idea I hadn't thought of to make salami. I've never had salami.
It might be getting a bit late for this year - it's almost time for me to plant it here. Plant on shortest day, harvest on longest day. Or thereabouts.
I don't grow saffron anymore.
Our growing seasons are a bit different than the majority of the US, fall is the normal time to plant saffron bulbs and garlic can be planted in spring or fall where I am. It may be a bit odd but last year tomatoes well into November. The eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its agriculture, it is generally more productive than land in the Central Valley but as the population has increased all forms of farming have decreased.
We can grow saffron in the SF Bay Area?!! Suddenly I see a mini-agribusiness! Is it easy to harvest?
It takes a bit more effort than you would think, since you are just harvesting the stamen. So unless you have a very large area to devote to just saffron (and a lot of time to commit to harvesting) I would suggest just growing it for your personal use. But if you tend not to use a lot of saffron you can stock pile it over time and sell it.
Surely stockpiling safron is bad?
I have 2 little boxes of saffron at the moment, one is a few mounths old, one is only one mounth old, and the difference in smell is phenomanal.
I really should use them soon, but as a student I am reluctant to buy ingredients for paella unless it's for a very special reason. That said, I don't drink very much so I spend my alcohol money on food, so if I can convince some friends to come round...
Are the boxes of saffron from the same source/company?
Saffron (the whole dried stigmas, not the powdered version) will last for years in optimum conditions. Generally, somewhere cool and dry is best. It's usually stored in a rust-resistant metal box, but I've known it to be stored in wooden boxes or opaque glass jars with corks on the tops - plastic isn't a great way to store it.
Where it's from will have an affect on the fragrance and flavour. Iranian saffron is supposed to be more astringent than the celebrated kind from La Mancha, Spain. My own experience is that the colour from non-La Mancha Saffron is less intense so you end up having to use more, so it isn't necessarily that much cheaper, and the extra amount could be what makes it seem more astringent. I know I've had bad results from using non-Spanish saffron.
For me, Saffron is like Cloves - less is more. Upset the balance and Saffron can taste rather horrid.
The fragrance may well diminish over time, no matter how well you store it. However, the Valencian way to cook with it requires that you lightly toast the stigmas first before grinding and then cooking with them. Once this has been done, it's very hard to tell the difference between saffrons. As they can only be harvested at the start of the year and most of the times I've eaten Spanish Saffron have been at the end of the summer I don't think there's ever been a time I could tell apart a dish where saffron from that year was used from a dish made with older Saffron.
Saffron is a hugely labour intensive food and harvesting it is backbreaking work, usually done in cold weather, so a great way to develop arthritic fingers. There's a danger of it disappearing completely as a crop from Spain as the cost of living has risen so high and, even before the property booms and the higher value of the Euro, families who grew Saffron in Spain were struggling to keep it viable. At least 1,800 crocus stamens are required to make up half an ounce - $15 for that compared to 16 bulbs from the Netherlands. As you can see, Saffron won't make you rich!
UK has a long history of Saffron Cultivation (there's the very pretty town of Saffron Walden in Essex where it was very big business) and there's a locally famous Saffron Cake from Cornwall which is absolutely delicious - and probably my favourite way to enjoy a pure Saffron taste. Again. Not much saffron grown in the UK anymore. Not a crop I'd recommend to anyone unless it was for their own personal use.
In Spain more and more families have stopped using it. And I know lots and lots of families from the Valencian region who don't much like the taste of Saffron in their paellas (I find it strange how non-Spaniards fixate on saffron being a key element in a paella, it's not a view shared by everyone in the Spanish Paella region where yellow food colour is widely used. The biggest champions of Saffron I know of are the Gypsies, I love 'la cocina gitana'. It's also strange to me how Paella ingredients are viewed as expensive when it's a peasant dish. Anyway, I've exhausted the subject here: http://justbento.com/forum/authentic-paella#comments I did come across this article recently and both my mother and I were howling with laughter over it. It's probably the funniest, and least authentic recipe I've ever seen. Everything about it cracked us up http://www.howtodothings.com/food-and-drink/a860-paella-authentic-valenc...)
I understand that the paella I make bears little resemblance to the authentic recipie, but I grew up with it and it reminds me of home so I'm not sure if I want to switch to doing things the authentic way. Also, I cannot get snails and game (including rabbit) is very hard to get (I don't think it's particularly more expensive, just hard to find) around here.
I don't want to put words in Loretta's mouth, but I feel that as with a lot of traditional dishes there really is not a need to have a bunch of expensive ingredients.
One of the best examples of this I can think of is my Polish grandmother's cabbage rolls, I have seen all sorts of complex recipes with a ton of different ingredients but my grandmother's recipe is remarkable simple. The only ingredients she uses are cabbage, ground beef and rice that she seasons with salt, rosemary and thyme. I really think that there is something to special about these simple, traditional recipes that cannot be matched by more complicated modern versions of a given dish.
I'm hoping to learn to make miso this year in collaboration with a friend, but that's a while off.
Have you considered planting Yacón?
I tried this for the first time one November in Tokyo. The guy who ran the Izakaya where I ate it got it from his parents who grow it around the Yamanashi area. Apparently, it was very popular with the pigs also.
I went back the following April and it was still available. Yacón made delicious tempura.
Also, if you have the right climate for it, Jerusalem artichokes (or sunchokes) are supposed to be easy to grow. They make a great alternative to Gobo in Japanese dishes. Downsides are; their notoriety for producing gas, their potential to run rampant (classified as a noxious weed in Minnesota, as is Yellow Nutsedge - in California - AKA chufas, AKA tiger nuts, a huge favourite of mine, I love the taste and they are very nutritious, turkeys are supposed to love them too. These need to be pasteurised before consumption. They make a delicious Soy-style milk which can be made with a pestle and mortar and some muslin or just soaked and eaten as they are.)
Any lake or streams close by?
A smoke house would very useful.
I use to have a cabin up in the interior of British Columbia for recreation only.
Year round living would be a real challenge.
If you need re-supply of Japanese products let me know I am close to several stores.
Don't forget to bring a reloading kit with you.
http://www.leeprecision.com/html/catalog/rlpress2.html ( Hand press kit)
Good luck!
I reckon a smoke house would be excellent, and you'd have heaps of room to make one of those ones with a fire pit and a trench to take the smoke to it. I wish I had room to build one of those.
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A. Indigent Defense
B. Structuring an Indigent Defense System
C. Ensuring Justice Through Quality Counsel
D. Funding a Criminal Defense System for the Poor
A. Indigent Defense Generally
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Principles of A Public Defense Delivery System (February
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Improve the Delivery of Criminal Defense
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Ribbon Committee on Indigent Defense Services, Report
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A Report on How Public
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Progress Report, Indigent Defense Series (November 1999)
Jo-Ann Wallace & Scott Wallace, Planning for the Future of Public Defense:
New Leadership, New Partnerships, New Strategies, The
Spangenberg Report, Volume VI, Issue 1 (August 2000)
5394, Reg. Sess. (N.Y. 2003-2004)
Cait Clarke & Christopher Stone, Bolder Management
for Public Defense: Leadership
in Three Dimensions, Papers from the Executive Session on
Public Defense, Bulletin #2 (November
Tony Fabelo, What Policymakers Need to Know to Improve
Public Defense Systems, Papers
from the Executive Session on Public Defense, Bulletin
#2 (December 2001)
New York County Law § 722 et seq.
New York State Defenders Association, Determining
Eligibility for Appointed Counsel in New York State: A Report from the Public
Defense Backup Center (1994)
U.S. Department of Justice, Contracting
for Indigent Defense Services, Indigent Defense Series #3 (April 2000)
Cait Clarke, Community Defenders in the 21st Century: Building
on a Tradition of Problem-Solving for Clients, Families and
Needy Communities, United States Attorneys' Bulletin 49 (January
Cait Clarke, Problem-Solving Defenders in the Community:
the Conceptual and Institutional Boundaries of Providing Counsel to the Poor,
14 Geo. J. of Legal Ethics 401 (Winter 2001)
Brennan Center for Justice, Community Justice Institute, Taking
Public Defense to the Streets (2002)
Roger Conner, Community Oriented Lawyering: An
Emerging Approach to Legal Practice, National Institute of Justice Journal (January
Jonathan Gradess, Public Defense at the Crossroads: Listening
to the Voice of Clients, Drum Major Institute (September 2003)
Indigent Defense Organization Oversight Committee, General Requirements for
All Organized
Providers of Defense Services to Indigent Defendants
(July 1,
1996, as amended June 1997)
Mark H. Moore, Alternative
Strategies for Public Defenders (April 2001)
Mark H. Moore, Michael P. Judge, Carlos J. Martinez & Leonard Noisette,
The Best Defense
is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense (April
McGregor Smythe, Bridging the Gap: A
Practical Guide to Civil-Defender Collaboration, Clearinghouse Rev.
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the Public Defender's Office, Papers from the Executive Session on Public
Defense, Bulletin #3 (August 2002)
U.S. Department of Justice, Keeping
Defender Workloads Manageable, Indigent Defense Series #4 (January 2001)
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v. State of New York, No. 102987/00 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 3,
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Finance Law § 98-b, (Indigent Services Fund)
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Rhode Island Demolition Company Face Fines for Clean Air Violations
Release Date: 10/06/2008
Contact Information: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
(Boston, Mass. Oct. 6, 2008) - A Johnston, R.I. demolition company faces a penalty of $256,320 for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Asbestos (Asbestos NESHAP).
In 2004 - 2005, the Bilray Demolition Company, Inc. demolished the former Seaboard Foundry in Johnston, following a fire that occurred at the facility. When the Rhode Island Department of Health inspected the facility during the demolition, it found asbestos-containing materials in the facility.
EPA alleges that Bilray failed to thoroughly inspect for asbestos prior to demolishing the facility, failed to provide EPA with prior written notification of its intent to demolish, failed to adequately wet asbestos during its stripping operations, failed to keep asbestos adequately wet until it was collected and contained for disposal, and failed to properly dispose of asbestos waste.
The CAA and Asbestos NESHAP require owners and operators of demolition and renovation operations to follow certain inspection and notification requirements prior to beginning such operations, and to abide by specific work practice and waste disposal requirements when the owners and operators will disturb regulated asbestos-containing material. Violations of these requirements can pose significant health risks to the communities where demolitions or renovations occur, as well as to employees conducting these operations, who could have been exposed to asbestos fibers during these activities.
In September 2005, Bilray conducted asbestos abatement at the facility. Bilray removed eighty-one cubic feet of regulated asbestos-containing material from the facility at that time.
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DURHAM � A Mebane man accused of killing a woman in Durham several years ago and carrying her remains in a backpack pleaded guilty on Friday to voluntary manslaughter.
Michael Dorman, 35, was sentenced to at least 61 months in prison in the death of Lakiea Lacole Boxley. He will get credit for the nearly three years he has been incarcerated since his arrest.
Judge Orlando Hudson also ordered a mental health evaluation and any treatment for Dorman while he is in the state prison system.
The Dorman case was one of three that former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline mentioned in a series of court documents filed in 2011 that were the underpinnings of a rare legal process used to remove her from elected office.
�I am not pleading guilty out of guilt but out of fear I won�t get an unbiased or fair trial,� Dorman said Friday in a hearing before Hudson.
Dorman�s plea, in which he did not admit guilt but acknowledged there was enough evidence to lead a jury to that conclusion, came nearly two years after Hudson had dismissed his case.
In his 2011 dismissal, Hudson issued a 69-page order in which he accused the Durham County District Attorney�s Office, the Durham Police Department and the state medical examiner�s office of conspiring to destroy evidence and violating Dorman�s rights to a fair trial.
The appeals court judges sent the case back for trial, stating that Hudson erred by �prematurely concluding the defendant�s ability to prepare a defense was so irreparably prejudiced that a dismissal of the charge was the only appropriate remedy.�
On Friday, the assistant district attorney who negotiated the plea agreement described it as a �compromise� for both sides.
Dorman initially was charged with concealing bones. Eventually, the charge was upgraded and he was accused of murdering Boxley, 31, who had been reported missing in Durham in 2008.
An autopsy determined that Boxley might have been shot in the head. Dorman told investigators in one interview that he only found the remains and planned to use them for his sexual gratification, according to court documents.
The man who alerted Orange County law enforcement officers told investigators that Dorman told him that he put a shotgun to the woman�s head after she refused to have sex with him and the gun went off accidentally.
Dorman, according to the informant, kept the remains at his father�s house until July 2010, when he loaded portions of the body into a backpack.
Boxley�s family cremated her remains shortly after Dorman was indicted, a move that sparked complaints against the district attorney and police by the defense team.
Dorman�s lawyers had asked that all evidence in the murder investigation be preserved � a standard request in many Durham County cases. But the defense had not specified an interest in the remains until after the medical examiner already had released the bones to the family and cremation had occurred.


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Middle market firms are defined as having revenues generally between $50 million and $1 billion. They create 40 percent of Gross Domestic Product and employ 40 percent of America's workforce.
It's those two percentages that have many analysts saying these companies form the backbone of the U.S. economy and represent a lifeline to economic recovery.
Despite the economic downturn, the middle market is thriving, which makes it the sector most likely to drive job creation domestically — middle market companies tend to hire more U.S. workers than any other firms.
The companies are geographically diverse and span every industry from retail to manufacturing. They represent brands that you are likely to encounter on a daily basis — from that morning cup of coffee to your iPhone case, to how you listen to the radio. There's even a famous hot dog among them.
But only 20 percent of middle market companies are publicly traded, since the vast majority are owned by private-equity firms or families.
So how do you invest and seize on this growing sector? We've put together a list of middle market companies that trade on Wall Street and offer possible investing opportunities.
Note: The 2011 revenues (TTM) for each company are included in our list.
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Nina Dobrev & Eric Bana Help Welcome Alexander Ludwig As Bulgari Brand Ambassador
Eric Bana gets together with Alexander Ludwig for a photograph while attending the Bulgari Cocktail Event held at Apicius as part of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday (July 8) in Paris, France.
The two actors were joined by Nina Dobrev, Jared Leto, Luke Evans, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Carver, Olivia Palermo, and model Poppy Delevigne at the event welcoming Alexander, 22, as brand ambassador for the brand's mens watches and eyewear.
"I feel very privileged to be associated with such an incredibly prestigious brand such as Bulgari," Alexander said in a statement. "I've long admired its tradition of impeccable design and it is also very appealing to me because the product is very youthful and modern. I am also proud of their fundraising work on behalf of Save the Children and look forward to working more closely on their humanitarian projects in the near future."
FYI: Nina is wearing a Elie Saab gown and belt with Bulgari jewels. Jared, Eric, Luke, and Alexander are all wearing a Bulgari watch. Zachary is wearing a Dior Homme suit. Jared is also wearing a Enfants Riches Déprimés tee.
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Today Madiison came for a visit to the fiesta party. I asked how she had heard about the party and she said a few friends from college told her about it. They said they had loads of fun so she wanted to check it out. Well you know we couldnt disappoint her so I called over Greg to come over and hang out and really show her what a fiesta is all about! Madiison was ready she started masturbating on the couch and wrapped her self up into a little ball, shes very flexible Greg wasted no time in taking it from
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I have never lived in a house with a porch, so I had no idea what I was missing until this past Canada Day weekend, when I stayed with friends in Port Hope. Everything changed for me.
To give a bit of the backstor y, nine years ago my friends bought a 100-year-old farmhouse 45 minutes east of Toronto. The house had been in the same family since it was built and was not occupied at the time of their purchase. They lovingly restored the interior, adding modern amenities while keeping as many original features as possible. As time allowed, flower and vegetable gardens were put in, trees were planted and a shed was refurbished into a chicken coop to provide daily farm-fresh eggs. Bucolic, really.
I visited about five years ago, and was suitably impressed, though at the time they did not have a porch. Again, not knowing the pleasures of one, I thought nothing of it.
Fast forward to my longoverdue return visit and not only do they now have a swimming pool and a guardian peacock named Atticus, but they've built a porch that wraps around three sides of the back of the house.
Two doors (one facing west and the other north) allow access to the porch from the kitchen. The west-facing door has steps leading down to the driveway and the north-facing door has stairs off the porch onto the back lawn (which, I'm told, takes 10 hours to mow).
This country veranda has everything needed to transition from winter life indoors to a summer spent outside. There's a dining area (with an antique sideboard to serve from) that faces east, taking in a sweeping view of Lake Ontario to the south.
There are two separate seating areas, one with a rattan sofa long enough to stretch out on, the other with a wicker loveseat and chairs. The ceiling is painted sky blue so even grey days appear cheery, and hanging baskets make the entire porch experience that much more authentic. Add an occasional table with lamp, a magazine rack and the perquisite barbecue, and you won't even remember the Farrow & Ball wallpaper in the elegant sitting room.
The porch pictured above was designed by Rick Clanton of Group 3 (group3designs.net) and looks little like the one I spent my past weekend on. It does, however, instill in me the same sense of home. The hanging Arts and Crafts porch swing, the two rockers and the jute rug all help create comfort and relaxation. This well-built porch is screened in, and, truth told, at about 11 p.m. Sunday evening (after returning from Coburg's spectacular fireworks display), I was wishing my friends had a screened area where we could escape the buzz of mosquitoes while still being able to enjoy the night air.
Having had a porch for three glorious days, only to return to life in my city loft, I now know what it is to miss one. I napped on it, belly-laughed on it and enjoyed the view from it. My friends' porch was a place to gather for morning coffee, enjoy alfresco lunches and sip late afternoon Pimm's.
After dinner on the porch I snuggled Fred, the resident terrier, while watching fireflies do their awkward night dance. It was where we greeted our hosts when we arrived and where we said our goodbyes before heading down the road for home.
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Zack Hample, the ballhawking fan
Zack Hample, the ballhawking fan
Zack Hample has made it his mission to catch baseballs, more than 6,000 of them, at major league baseball parks.
Hample recently failed in his attempt to catch a ball released from a helicopter 1,000 feet above him at LeLacheur Park in Lowell.
But Hample is normally found in places like Fenway Park angling for baseballs thrown or hit into the stands.
Hample has eight barrels full of balls in his mother's apartment, souvenirs of what he has caught over the years.
Hample played baseball in college, but ended up content with his role in the stands. Said Hample, "I put on a good show, don't I?"


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Nokia puts out more cell phones than any other manufacturer - and there's good reason for this - they make sleek devices packed with tons of great features. They also aren't cheap. You've made the investment in a great cell phone, so now you should make sure it stays in the same shape as the day you bought it with Clear-Coat. Put Clear-Coat on, and your Nokia is protected as long as you have it. Clear-Coat uses a high-tech polymer thousandths of an inch thick that can be easily applied and completely scratch-proof. Sure, you may have heard that it's the same material used on rotor blades, and that's all completely true, but most of our customers don't own helicopters, so we found that statistic a bit unnecessary. Clear-Coat has tested hundreds of feet of this material to find the absolute best for its customers - giving you a clean, clear, and strong protector that is guaranteed to stand up to keys, purses, and other abrasives. We're also the only company to give you a double-guarantee: We guarantee your Clear-Coat will protect your device and stay put, otherwise, we replace it. We also guarantee that our product is the easiest to install, so just in case you make a mistake in installation, we'll give you another Clear-Coat until you get it right.


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Will These Stocks Be the Dow's 2013 Dividend Winners?
If you like to keep your investing simple, strategies that are easy to understand and set up can look awfully attractive. With so many investors focusing on stocks that can produce ample, stable, and reliable dividend income as well as potential for growth, one strategy you should know about is the Dogs of the Dow, which kicked off its latest installment this past week.
The big question about any strategy, though, is whether it will produce winning stocks. I'll give you some answers later in this article, but first, let's meet this year's Dogs of the Dow and explain the strategy further.
What are the Dogs of the Dow?
You can explain the Dogs of the Dow strategy in just a few simple sentences. Start with the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average , and then rank them by their dividend yield on the last day of the year. The top 10 on the list qualify as the Dogs of the Dow for that year, and to use the strategy, you buy equal dollar amounts of all 10 stocks. Hold them until the end of the year, and then if you want to keep using the strategy, check to see what changes there are to the list and then buy and sell stocks accordingly.
The nice thing about the Dogs strategy is that it emphasizes two important characteristics of stocks: dividend yield and value. Yield is obvious, but the reason value gets considered is that for the most part, dividend yields track with stock valuations, so that when a stock gets cheap, its dividend yield usually goes up.
A look at the 2013 Dogs
Here's the list of Dow Dogs for 2013:
Dividend Yield as of Dec. 31, 2012
General Electric
Johnson & Johnson
You can see the value bent of the Dow Dogs from the list's 2013 additions, Hewlett-Packard and McDonald's. McDonald's entered the group after suffering a 12% drop in 2012, as the company suffered its first monthly same-store sales drop in nine years amid the headwinds of slow overseas economic growth and the ongoing challenge of high food commodity prices. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard was in the bottom 10 stocks of the Dow by yield at the end of 2011, but a 44% plunge because of a number of missteps sent the yield skyrocketing.
Will the Dogs beat the Dow in 2013?
As simple as the Dogs of the Dow strategy is, it's not guaranteed to produce better results. Last year, the average share-price increase for the Dogs was 5.7%, quite a bit less than the 11% average across all 30 stocks. The Dogs also underperformed the Dow's actual performance of 7.3%, based on the average's price-weighting rather than the equal-weighting strategy the Dogs use.
Looking forward, the strategy's success is likely to hinge on whether the telecom and pharmaceutical contingent can lead the way with strong gains. Despite some of the best returns among the Dogs in 2012, the four stocks in those sectors weren't able to produce enough gains to lift the Dogs to victory. But if General Electric keeps recovering with its new emphasis on its core industrial businesses, and if Pfizer can keep defying low expectations as some of its biggest drugs go off-patent, then that could set the stage for a Dow Dogs win in 2013.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
My Letter To Venice Neighborhood Council, Concerning Road Diet Proposal With Bike Lanes On Main St. West Of Santa Monica
I am very much in support of the spirit of continuing the bike route of Main St. in Santa Monica through into Venice. It makes sense since many cyclists already use the entirety of Main St. to ride between destinations in Venice and Santa Monica. However I have some reservations about the proposal. As it appears in the diagrams I have seen, it looks to apply very much the same treatment in Santa Monica onward.
Currently in Santa Monica, the Main St. bike lane is one of the more stressful and collision prone bike routes in this city, and I believe that the primary reason for this is that the bike lane is very narrow, and the turn over of parked cars is very high. This means that cyclists frequently have to avoid opening car doors and cars pulling into and out of the bike lane. Due to the very narrow width of the bike lane, have little room to do so without swerving into oncoming traffic in the standard vehicle lane. This design of narrow bike lanes centered in the path of opening car doors contradicts the best practices for riding as taught by the League of American Bicyclists in their traffic safety classes for cyclists.
Santa Monica planners have acknowledged the problem of "door zone" bike lanes, and are exploring design configurations which may mitigate this issue for their pending bike plan update. I think that this Venice Main St. redesign represents not just an opportunity to extend the bike route, but to perhaps improve upon it or try something different.
I would prefer to see a configuration which widened the bike lane over what exists in Santa Monica, or would create a small buffer between the bike lane and the parked car doors, as some cities have done. This could be accomplished by narrowing the vehicle lanes, and recent studies indicate that on lower speed local roads, there is little difference in safety between 9, 10 and 11 ft. lanes.
Another possibility is using a sharrow treatment while keeping the road 2 lanes in each direction, but making it clear that cyclists may ride in the right lane and outside of the door zone. This along with other traffic calming measures has been successful in Hermosa Beach on Hermosa Ave, one of the first streets in Southern California to have sharrows. I find from my riding experience sharrows work best on 2 lane each way roads because they allow an easy lane for drivers to go around who do not wish to wait behind a cyclist, and that they reduce hostility compared to when sharrows are not present.
As a Santa Monica resident, I welcome the extension of bike routes into neighboring Venice, but I hope that this opportunity is taken to explore design possibilities beyond simply doing what has already been done in Santa Monica. I support the idea of bike lanes, but when their width is narrow and directly adjacent car parking, I find that their safety is compromised. If a bicycle lane as part of a road diet is the desired treatment, I would recommend exploring lane width alternatives that ensure the bike lane is a truly safe place to ride.
Gary Kavanagh
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Thanks for the feedback, Gary. Getting insightful comments like yours was what the presentation at the Venice Neighborhood Council was all about.
- January 20, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Joe Linton said...
Huh??? Two traffic lanes each direction with sharrows??? Really?
That configuration exists on Adams, on Reseda Blvd... and it's crap... bike-unfriendly - with all but the most intrepid cyclists riding on the sidewalk.
A counter example would be 2nd Street in Long Beach - a federally approved non-standard pilot [the kind of project that LADOT could drag out until your future children are in high school], that works well - 2 lanes with a serious green ribbon with sharrows... leading to that facility are bike lanes, adjacent to parking.
I don't bike there more than a handful of times each year, but when I ride it, Main Steet in Santa Monica vs. Main Street in L.A. feels to me like night and day. SM being bike-welcoming (hence novices feeling comrtable enough to bike there) and LA being bike-inhospitable, cars moving faster, and less safe for everyone.
The Federal Highways study shows that road diets reduce crashes and make roads safer for all - see http://www.hsisinfo.org//pdf/10-053.pdf
Please don't give LADOT an excuse they'd love to do nothing here...
- January 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Gary said...
Two lanes each way is not the same every where. I am not familiar with Adams or Reseda, but Hermosa Ave., which is one of the only places I have ridden where sharrows actually felt like they were truly successful, is 2 lanes each way, very slow traffic speeds, and the free lane to pass means groups of cyclists riding together can control right lane and drivers have room to pass without getting aggravated and road ragey. I mention as well that in Hermosa, there is more than just the sharrows for traffic calming. I would not recommend this unless other things were done in conjunction to keep speeds lower.
It was really transformative to me having ridden through very frequently before and immediately after sharrows on rides I used to do through Hermosa out to PV every weekend. Drivers stopped honking and tail gating when I rode out of the door zone, and the supporting signage makes it clear this is okay. I saw a lot more cyclists out as well, and not just the usual roadies.
Yes novices come out to ride on Main St., and then they recall to Meghan who works at REI selling bike stuff to newbies, stories of being hit by doors and of course not reporting these incidents to police, so we have no clear data how often this is happening. Our own former Deputy Cheif of Police, now Chief in Pasedena, was doored on Main St., and also did not file a police report.
I'm not opposed to a road diet and bike lanes, what I find troubling is the false sense of security and hazard represented by minimum standard facilities. I think we can do better.
On Broadway in Santa Monica, same road diet door zone configuration, I used to commute very frequently along that route. It is insanity at rush hour where cars all shoved into 1 lane form a solid wall of traffic on your left, while high turn over of parked cars to your right makes you a human ping pong ball with inches of room to spare on either side. One especially heavy traffic block of Broadway I took to calling the gauntlet.
Traffic speeds are a lower during the day On Broadway than adjacent streets, but trying to ride home at night drivers go right back to speeding, and with a straight line and a wide cushion presented by center lane, they blast off, and since you have to hug left of the bike lane to avoid doors you get passed at high speed uncomfortably close. Many cyclists still ride on the sidewalk on bike lane streets in Santa Monica, just not so much on Main St. because people actually walk there.
When Spoke did a park[ing] day space on Broadway, we had a bike count going for a while, and we had a pretty high number of sidewalk riders (which is illegal in SM) even though a bike lane was there, but sadly a very claustrophobic one.
- January 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Gary said...
Another thing about Hermosa sharrows that sets them apart, is they are painted with higher frequency, much higher than ones I have seen in L.A. and Santa Monica so far, spaced not very far apart from each other, and every couple blocks includes the supporting signage that bikes may use the full lane.
I really need to get out and try more of the sharrows around, I have not seen all of the L.A. ones, or the crazy Long Beach one, but of the sharrows I have ridden I never felt they fully got the intended effect except for those in Hermosa Beach.
I would prefer bike lanes, I don't like interacting with cars any more than I have to, but only if the bike lanes are designed as such that you can safely ride the center lane position.
If well designed bike lanes which exceed minimum standards are out of the cards, I would prefer sharrows over being legally obligated to put my self in the path of car doors.
- January 20, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Joe Linton said...
Thanks for clarifying. I will have to check out the Hermosa sharrows. I am curious what the other cues are there that make for the more manageable speeds. (As I said the LB sharrows work - but it occurs to me that there are landscaped median islands... and, I think, relatively few mid-block driveways - and the supportive signage you mention)
I agree, too, that sidewalk riding is fairly common on many local streets with bike lanes... so there are other design cues that foster or discourage riding in the street... we have a long way to go.
While you point out that the bike lane experience isn't perfect (such as in your "gauntlet") - I wonder what that street would be like without the lane. My guess is that it would be worse.
I think our streets/infrastructure give drivers the message that they're the only legitimate users... and that adding bike lanes, while it doesn't solve everything, is very cheap and moves us in the right direction.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Gary said...
Hermosa Beach situation they have not only landscaped median, but parking in the center of the road as well as curb side. I think the having parked cars left and right is a big part of slower speeds, along with stop signs. I'm not a big fan of frequent stop signs, I think there are other intersection treatments that can bring down speed to manageable level without full stop, which can be annoying on bike, but the stop signs undeniably contribute to calmed pace.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM
Is Main Street really 4 lanes? Looking at Google Earth, Main Street in Santa Mo is about a 1.3 mile long, about 60 ft wide, with 2 lanes plus a turn lane and parking, with shorter blocks, lots of peds, lots to look at, and lots of stopping and street parking; the LA stretch is about the same, but less than a mile long.
Reseda Blvd is an 11 mile long alternating raceway and traffic jam, mostly 80 ft wide with 4 lanes plus a turn lane and parking, with the average block probably twice as long as Main St, and except for the Old Towns of Reseda and Northridge, fronted by large apartment bldgs and businesses with off street parking.
It looks like Adams is 60 ft wide up to Crenshaw, 70 ft after, but 4 lanes the whole way.
- January 21, 2011 at 2:27 PM
I have a love/hate relationship with the Sunset Blvd bike lanes in Silver Lake/Echo Park for this reason. There are certain sections (the areas near Intelligentsia and Dusty's) where I'm extra aware of parked cars and make a point to stay out of the door zone (and consequently on the very edge of the lane). Tuesday night I had to slam on the brakes to miss a car pulling out of a driveway in front of me. A half hour later I was incredibly thankful I had decided to ride on the edge when I narrowly avoided getting doored during rush hour as I coasted down the hill near Silver Lake Blvd at a fast speed.
The sharrows on Fountain are an improvement, but some drivers are still pretty cranky about my desire to ride safely out of the door zone. I wish the speed limit were lower and enforced (damn those stupid speed trap laws!) so that people didn't view it as their fast alternative to Sunset. You point about the frequency of the sharrow markings is also good.
- January 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM


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Leading up to the 2008-09 ETSU women's basketball season, the ETSU media relations office, with help from graduate assistant Lindsay Christensen, will feature player profiles on all 12 of the Lady Buccaneer student-athletes. This new segment allows fans to catch a glimpse of what each player is doing off the court, as the Lady Bucs look to make a run at their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
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Pickwell, a 5-11 freshman sharpshooter, was a three-sport all-conference selection at
LC: Natalie, why did you decide to come to ETSU?
NP: I liked the team and the coaches. It seemed like a fun place to play. Most importantly it was close to home, which is a big deal for me. Also, Coach White (a former assistant) was the first person to recruit me. He stuck out in my mind when I was choosing where to go.
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NP: I am going to major in Interior Design. They have a good program for it here at ETSU. It is something I have always been interested in and wanted to do. For a while I considered doing nursing, because there isn't a huge market for interior designers around here, and I thought I'd probably have to move to a big city. However, I'm going for it though, and I'll make it happen wherever I have to (preferably here), so I can do what I love.
LC: What are your strengths and weaknesses on the court? Also, what are you most focused on improving?
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LC: What are your expectations for this year's team?
NP: Everyone's expectations are obviously high for us this year. I think we can do it, as long as we stop having so many injuries.
LC: What are you expectations for yourself as a first year player at the Division I level?
NP: I'm just hoping I can get some playing time, and build my confidence. I want to be able to play to my potential.
LC: What do you do in your spare time?
NP: What spare time? I don't have much, but when I do get some, I like to spend time with my friends. A lot of the people I went to high school with are around here, so I try to catch up with them as often as I can. I also go to "The Well," which is a church group for college students. They have music and a message each week, and religion is really important to me, so I go whenever I can to that. In addition, I do a lot of scrapbooking. I like all the artsy stuff.
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LC: Who has been your biggest motivator?
NP: I'd say my parents. They have always been there for me, no matter what. They give me the speech after every game. "This is what you did well. This is what you need to do better."
Also, my AAU coach, Justin Wimmer. He was very influential for me. He pushed me to play to my potential.
Finally, my boyfriend, Spud. He is always there to pick me up when I'm down. He encourages me to be my best and is a very important part of my life.
LC: What is the biggest difference between college and high school?
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LC: What is one drastic change you would make about yourself?
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LC: What is the best part about being so close to home?
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LC: The worst part?
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LC: If you could trade places with any teammate, who would it be, and why?
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LC: What are your plans for after graduation?
NP: I want to travel after I finish school. Explore the world, especially
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