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How To Make Creamy Stovetop Polenta
Somewhere in its past, polenta picked up a reputation for fussiness. I am here to tell you that it is anything but fussy. You can whip up a pot of creamy polenta in about 30 minutes, and it makes a luscious bed for anything from quickly sautéed mushrooms to a hearty slow-cooked meat ragu. Here's how to do it yourself.
Once upon a time, it was thought that polenta needed to be stirred and stirred and stirred as it cooked. You can try this method if you need an upper body workout, but I find the cover-and-forget-it approach much easier to handle on a weeknight. This is a method most famously espoused by Marcella Hazan (and which we've talked about before), and I've adopted it wholeheartedly.
The idea is to get the polenta going by whisking coarse-ground polenta or yellow cornmeal into boiling water and stirring until it gets thick. Then you cover the pot and let the polenta cook while you go about making the rest of dinner. Every 10 minutes or so, uncover the pot and give it a good stir to make sure it's cooking evenly and the sides aren't drying out. Thirty to forty minutes later, your polenta is ready for the table.
A tense moment might come around the 15-minute mark. At this point, the polenta looks done. And indeed, if you taste it here and like it, by all means serve it! But if you let it cook for a little longer, you'll find that the polenta tastes sweeter and more deeply corn-like, and any last lingering grittiness from the ground corn smooths away. I love it at 30 minutes, but go a little longer if you have time or want a thicker polenta.
Any leftover polenta will set into a solid block as it cools. You can actually cut it at this point (say, for dinner the next night) and grill it, roast it in the oven, or deep-fry it. If you're really craving creamy polenta again, you can warm the leftovers with some water or milk, and stir until it becomes soft again. Or, since you now know how easy it is, you can just make yourself another batch.
How to Make Creamy Stovetop Polenta
Makes about 4 cups
What You Need
4 cups
1 teaspoon
1 cup
polenta or yellow cornmeal
1 cup
cheese (optional)
1-3 tablespoons
butter (optional)
- Equipment
2- to 3-quart pot with lid
Long handled spoon or sturdy spatula
Bring the water to a boil. Bring the water to a brisk boil over medium-high heat. Add the salt.
Pour the polenta into the boiling water. While whisking gently, pour the polenta into the boiling water in a steady stream.
Continue whisking until polenta is thickened. Turn down the heat to low and continue whisking until the polenta has thickened enough that it doesn't settle back on the bottom of the pan when you stop stirring.
Cook the polenta 30-40 minutes. Cover the polenta and continue cooking. Stir vigorously every 10 minutes or so, making sure to scrape the sides, bottom, and corners of the pan. Cook 30 minutes for softer porridge-like polenta or 40 minutes for thicker polenta.
Stir in cheese and butter, if using. Stir the cheese and butter into the polenta, if using. Serve immediately, or cover the pan and let it sit at the back of the stove for up to 15 minutes before serving.
Recipe Notes
Leftover Polenta: Polenta will solidify into the shape of the container in which you store it. Leftover polenta can be sliced or cubed before being roasted, grilled, or deep-fried. To make it creamy again, warm it with a little broth, milk, or water, and stir vigorously. It won't be quite as creamy as it was originally, but it should still be pourable.


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The new National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is an exciting new program where young men enhance their leadership skills in the Philmont Backcountry. Scouts will expand upon the team building and ethical decision making skills learned in National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT). NAYLE uses elements of the Philmont Ranger Training as well as advanced Search and Rescue skills to teach leadership, teamwork and the lessons of selfless service. NAYLE will offer Scouts an unforgettable backcountry wilderness experience where they live leadership and teamwork, using the core elements of NYLT to make their leadership skills intuitive.
The Philmont leadership is committed to making NAYLE a very special experience. Scouts will live in a patrol setting at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp where they use their leadership skills to resolve exciting and challenging backcountry situations. The week will conclude with a closing challenge for each Scout to build upon the legacy of Waite Phillips, the benefactor of the Philmont Scout Ranch.
NAYLE will equip youth leaders to be better troop leaders, NYLT staff members and/or superior camp staff. It will help guide their journey to become true "servant leaders', able to develop all members of whichever team they lead. It provides life skills for now and the future.
NYLT now provides the content needed for councils to develop high performing youth training teams. As such, the "train the trainer" elements are now provided to the entire NYLT staff by their council rather than to the select few who attended the old NJLIC program. While these "train the trainer" elements have been removed from NAYLE, all the excitement remains, with even greater, life long leadership skills included.
Scouts must be 14 and not yet 18, hold a troop leadership position and have completed either NYLT or JLTC. Councils may send a council contingent or troops may send their Patrol Leader Council. Concurrent adult training will be available most weeks at Philmont for contingent leaders.
Be a NAYLE ambassador in your council. Help promote NAYLE by downloading and distributing the NAYLE flyer .

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Beyonce doesn't deserve to be on the cover of TIME's 100 most influential people issue ... according to Bill O'Reilly -- who says her raunchy music videos are proof she's a HORRIBLE INFLUENCE!
O'Reilly's beef with Beyonce is no secret ... last month he said the singer negatively influenced teenage "girls of color" with her hyper-sexualized music video "Partition."
Bill re-upped his outrage on Friday while talking about Bey's TIME cover, saying -- "she knows that young girls getting pregnant in the African-American community now is about 70% out of wedlock. She knows and doesn't seem to care."
Of course, no one does bombastic over-reaction like O'Reilly -- but on this issue, we gotta ask ...


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Our FY 2014 AFR provides information enabling the Congress, the President, and the public to assess our stewardship over the financial resources entrusted to us and our performance as an organization. The report provides a discussion of our programs, organization, and how we benefit the public; a high-level summary of our accomplishments during the year; a discussion of the challenges we face going forward; and an analysis of our financial position. The AFR also includes information on our program integrity efforts, as well as the Inspector General's Statement on SSA's Major Management and Performance Challenges. The report includes our annual audited financial statements and the report on the audit of those financial statements. FY 2014 marks the 28th year that we published audited financial statements and the 21st year that we received an unmodified opinion on our financial statements.
In accordance with Office of Management and Budget guidance, our AFR addresses the mandatory reporting requirements of the Chief Financial Officers Act, the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act, and the Debt Collection Improvement Act. The AFR also satisfies the reporting requirements of Section 206(g) of the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act, as well as the Improper Payments Information Act, as amended.
We divided the online AFR into the following sections:
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Lesley Longstone doesn't look particularly "beleaguered" sitting in her expansive office at the Ministry of Education in Wellington, overlooking the cathedral in Molesworth St.
Beleaguered is how MP Te Ururoa Flavell described her this week after she apparently insulted teachers by saying that "we" (New Zealand) are not entitled to call ourselves world-class while our education system continues to under-perform for Maori and Pasifika learners.
Exasperated might be a slightly better description as she reflects on why a few words in the foreword of the Ministry of Education annual report pointing out the weaknesses of the system caused outrage from teacher groups.
It was not a comment made carelessly, the Secretary of Education says in her Yorkshire accent.
"I do wish we could get away from this blame - who's fault it is. If we could just get that and say 'It is what it is and what can we each do about it?'
"Collectively we have to do something different because what we are doing at the minute isn't working. The issue is, why is that the case."
While some, including Flavell, congratulated her on her straight talking, teacher unions NZEI and PPTA interpreted it as an attack on teachers.
John Minto's Quality Public Education Coalition called for her resignation, saying she had been brought in from the poorly performing British system "to implement its failed policies here".
Ms Longstone moved to New Zealand to take the job about a year ago. She had been to New Zealand once before - in 1999 to see a cousin in Auckland - although she has a distant connection with Wellington.
One of her grandfathers came to New Zealand in the 1920s and sent for his betrothed, whom he married in Wellington. The couple lived in Napier but, after the 1931 earthquake, they returned home to Sheffield.
She left two of her older children in Britain at university. She lives with her husband, a primary school teacher who is on a sabbatical, and her younger son is at Wellington College.
Her last job was with the British Ministry of Education. She was responsible for the operational and capital funding of schools and for overseeing the major change of turning secondary schools into academies, or to "free schools" - similar to charter schools in that they are free of charge, state-funded schools, but independently run under contract with the state.
"I really loved the work but just wanted to get out of the big city and I just heard about this job and thought this would be a great place to go next."
She believes there have been advantages in coming from the outside.
"I think you do bring a completely fresh perspective. You see things more clearly for a little while, but you don't understand the nuances and complexities as well. It takes you a while to understand those."
Asked if she had experienced any prejudice she says "in recent days there have been one or two references to my English background. It's not a serious impediment to anything I need to do."
She is chirpy, relaxed, and says she has the best job in the world in one of the nicest places in the world.
Ms Longstone's interview panel comprised State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie, professional director Paula Rebstock, former Ministry of Social Development chief executive Peter Hughes and Wellington College principal Roger Moses.
It has been suggested, not fancifully, that Ms Longstone was appointed because she is an outsider, not despite it.
The education sector, long a difficult one to manage for National governments, was particularly toxic after the implementation of the national standards policy, which was resisted by many teachers and was against the judgment of many in the ministry.
Ms Longstone's predecessor, Karen Sewell, earned respect within National for doing what should be a relatively basic job of the public service - implementing government policy. But that goes to show how the ministry is historically seen by National governments as being bound closely with the teacher unions and Labour.
The next big step in National's agenda was the now ill-fated increase in class sizes, ostensibly to fund professional development of teachers.
With the combination of a new Secretary of Education, a new Minister of Education in Hekia Parata, and negligence among experienced ministers, the deep flaws of the formula were not tested beforehand. The policy was cancelled at great embarrassment to the Government.
Another of the big controversies has been the restructuring plans of schools in post-quake Christchurch.
Ms Longstone says that in hindsight there are things she would do differently to handle it better but she does not believe closing schools can ever be a pain-free process.
"I don't think there is a way to make people happy about the way you do that."
One of the biggest challenges in the immediate future is to address the Government's Better Public Service Results goals.
Three out of 10 are to be overseen by her, including increasing the number of 18-year-olds having NCEA level two to 85 per cent by 2017.
The 2011 rate for all school leavers was 78.5 per cent. But it was 60.9 per cent for Maori school leavers and 71.8 per cent for Pacific students.
"That is driving a lot of our work at the minute ... and we know we won't reach any of those targets unless we address the issues of Maori Pacific learners."
The disparity is evident in other measures - New Zealand is seventh out of 65 countries in the latest OECD Pisa assessment for 15-year-olds. But broken down, New Zealand Europeans are second, Maori are 34th and Pacific students 44th.
Some people attributed the disparity in achievement to poverty, she said.
"I don't agree with that analysis. I do agree that poverty makes a difference, but what I don't agree with is that that explains everything because all those OECD countries have poverty."
There was already plenty of evidence about what affected education, and poverty was only one factor.
"It is about really understanding the child in their context, understanding where they are coming from, having strong ties between schools and families and whanau, and just the quality of the teaching and learning practice that happens within the classroom."
There was excellence in the system already.
"I don't blame teachers for where we are, but it is a truth that we can't do without teachers because, fundamentally, achievement is based on what goes on between the learner and the teacher."
It was a matter of working out what each part - the ministry, teachers, school leaders, the community - could do better.
"So I don't feel beleaguered. We've got lots of real challenging things to do. But they are all important things and they are good things to do.
"I'm just getting on with the job."


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Welcome. We tend to specialize in indie, foreign, and documentary films - you know, the kind of movie you want to discuss afterwards! Naturally, a lot of these films are at the Tower Theatre at 16th and Broadway. (We do meet at other theatres once in a while, too!) Come and meet us in the lobby before the show, sit through the end credits, and then meet in the lobby afterwards for discussion. We're a diverse group with lots of different viewpoints... and our discussions tend to be very interesting!


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We are in the process of moving to a different hardware and cluster technology and the quesiton on everyone's mind is: will it perform.
Good question. The QA team has been helping us in definign some QA. Then, one day, the manager of the QA team sees my interview on eWeek: and sends me a quizzical email: "so, you think my team has outlived its useful life?" or words to that effect. and he also wants to know how RAT really is.
Here is my response:
It's really, really cool! It does not replace what you are doing for [the current buisness project] or for that matter any future development efforts. It does however help in situations like the data center migrations as we are doing now where we can capture the workload from [primary site] and replay every piece in [new site] to see if the hardware and design keeps up or crumbles. Currently we don't do that for a variety of reasons – the enormous time requirement to create synthetic transactions for [third party tool] being the primary one. RAT will alleviate that and make that testing possible and realistic.
So, your team's job is more value added; not replaced.
He may have accepted it with a grumble.
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The following is a letter sent from Newfoundland and Labrador comedian and actor Shaun Majumder to Torrence Collier via his Facebook page.
Dear Torrence Collier of Wesport NL,
You are a great kid. You are a cool kid. You have a million talents and can do anything in the world you ever dream of. I mean that. ANYTHING.
You are the only Torrence Collier on this awesome planet, and no one can ever take that away from you. Listen, people can be really mean sometimes. Not just those mean kids in your class... but everywhere. People are mean because one of the only ways they can feel good about themselves is by putting someone down or calling them names. It makes them feel tough. Makes them feel like they are somehow powerful. Its not powerful, its cowardly.
BULLIES AREN'T COOL. Never have and never will be.
Listen when I was living in NL, in both Baie Verte and Burlington, I too looked a little out of place in a tiny outport. My father is E. Indian and Mom was white. So I got a lot of questions asked, but no one was ever as cruel as those kids in your town. But I learned to roll with questions about why I was different. But even if they did say something mean from time to time, it didn't matter, because I knew who I was I would just laugh at them. They were wrong. And so are those kids in your class. You are a great kid. You are a cool kid. Don't let them get you down. Focus on what you LOVE TO DO. Focus on who you are. Let them be who they want to be. You can't ever change that.
To Torrence's Friends. You guys, the time is now. Step up and tell Torrence how awesome he is. And Torrence you turn around and tell them how awesome you are!
And to the Bullies. If you are really tough ... if you are truly powerful, show some serious courage, and give Torrence a hug and say your sorry. That's corageous.
I hope to meet you some day Torrence! I want you to meet my Dogs Jazzy, Freddy and now their best friend India. Come on down to Burlington! All the best, and if you ever need to chat just send me a DM.
Love is way cooler than Fear.
You go Torrence!


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Sodium hydroxide is a very strong chemical that is also known as lye and caustic soda. This article discusses poisoning from touching, breathing in (inhaling), or swallowing sodium hydroxide.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or a local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Lye poisoning; Caustic soda poisoning
Poisonous Ingredient
Sodium hydroxide
Where Found
Sodium hydroxide is found in many industrial solvents and cleaners, including flooring stripping products, brick cleaners, cements, and many others.
It may also be found in certain household products, including:
- Aquarium products
- Clinitest tablets
- Drain cleaners
- Hair straighteners
- Metal polishes
- Oven cleaners
Note: This list is not all-inclusive.
Airways and lungs
- Breathing difficulty (from inhalation)
- Lung inflammation
- Sneezing
- Throat swelling (which may also cause breathing difficulty)
Esophagus, intestines, and stomach
- Blood in the stool
- Burns of the esophagus (food pipe) and stomach
- Diarrhea
- Severe abdominal pain
- Vomiting, possibly bloody
Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Drooling
- Severe pain in the throat
- Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
- Vision loss
Heart and blood
- Collapse
- Low blood pressure (develops rapidly)
- Severe change in pH (too much or too little acid in the blood)
- Shock
- Burns
- Irritation
- Necrosis (holes) in the skin or underlying tissues
Home Care
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person water or milk, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do NOT give water or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
If the person breathed in the poison, immediately move him or her to fresh air.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- The patients age, weight, and condition
- The name of the product (ingredients and strengths if known)
- The time it was swallowed
- The amount swallowed
Poison Control
In the United States, call 1-800-222-1222 to speak with a local poison control center. This hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
What to Expect at the Emergency Room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patients vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate.
Treatment depends on how the poisoning occurred. You will be given pain medicine. Other treatments may include:
For swallowed poison, the patient may receive:
- Chest x-ray
- Endoscopy -- the placement of a camera down the throat to see the extent of burns to the esophagus and the stomach
- Fluids through a vein
For inhaled poison, the patient may receive:
- Breathing tube
- Bronchoscopy -- camera down the throat to see burns in the airways and lungs
- Chest x-ray
- Oxygen
For skin exposure, the patient may receive:
- Irrigation (washing of the skin) -- perhaps every few hours for several days
- Skin debridement (surgical removal of burned skin)
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well a patient does depends on how fast the poison isdiluted and neutralized. Extensive damage to the mouth, throat, eyes, lungs, esophagus, nose, and stomach are possible.
The ultimate outcome depends on the extent of this damage. Damage continues to occur to the esophagus and stomach for several weeks after the poison was swallowed, and death may occur as long as a month later.
Keep all poisons in their original and/or childproof container, with labels visible, and out of the reach of children.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents. Volume III - Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures: Sodium Hydroxide. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; 2002.
Harchelroad FP Jr, Rottinghaus DM. Chemical burns. In: Tintinalli JE, Kelen GD, Stapczynski JS, Ma OJ, Cline DM, eds. Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2004:chap 200.
Wax PM, Young A.Caustics.In: Marx JA, ed.Rosens Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Saunders Elsevier; 2013:chap153.
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In a quiet corner of rural Israel, a group of schoolchildren is trying to save a globally threatened species. Every winter, the kids prepare nesting boxes for the lesser kestrel, (Falco naumanni), a small falcon that is rapidly declining in Europe and the Middle East.
Then, they wait.
Sometime in February, the males arrive to search out a suitable nesting place. A few weeks later, the females arrive to mate and nest.
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"Fewer birds come to breed here every year," Shalom Terem, the principal of the Alona Regional School, tells ISRAEL21c. "But we are doing everything we can to preserve and strengthen their population."
This includes protecting the kestrels from predators such as feral cats and owls, looking after nestlings and treating injured birds.
The lesser kestrel breeds in the spring and early summer across the Mediterranean region before continuing its migration from southern Africa across central Asia to China. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 pairs once bred in dozens of natural colonies across Israel. Now only a handful of lesser kestrel breeding grounds are left.
The last countrywide survey found only 566 breeding pairs, mostly in greater Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Safed and Alona, where 109 pairs were spotted – and that was 12 years ago. In all likelihood, fewer than 550 lesser kestrel pairs now breed in Israel.
"In the past half century the numbers have dropped drastically, although this decline seems to have evened off in recent years – but not here in Israel," says Dr. Adiv Gal of Kibbutzim College, who heads the school's preservation project.
Gal notes that "the children don't just study the birds — they play an active role by physically building the nesting boxes. This makes them feel part of the effort to save the birds. This year, 13 of the 29 nesting couples are in our boxes."
Transmitting a passion for birds
Part of the reason for the boxes' success, says Gal, is a change in local building practices.
"The lesser kestrel does not build a nest of its own; rather it utilizes 'dimples' in cliffs or trees. There used to be a time when they would make their nests in the space under roof tiles, but nowadays most houses in Israel are built with concrete walls flush with the roofs, leaving no such gap."
The lesser kestrel has been part of Gal's life since 1999. "My doctoral thesis at Hebrew University of Jerusalem was on the lesser kestrels of Alona and the Jerusalem area. I'm fascinated by this bird."
It seems that Gal's passion for the subject has rubbed off on his students.
"The program has been ongoing for 16 years and is now stronger than ever," notes Terem, the school principal.
"Every year a different fifth grade takes it on. The fifth-grade classes devote two study hours a week to the birds and are responsible for maintaining the nesting boxes and gauging the birds' progress. All of our first- to sixth-graders are involved in some fashion – when they're not busy maintaining the school's petting zoo. The baton is passed from year to year, while the younger kids wait for their chance."
Terem talks with pride of his school's unique study track.
"We had 1,300 guests on our Open Day this year, including a delegation from the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. The children themselves – not their teachers or parents – guided the visitors for group tours of the project."
Ultimately, he says, the aim is to preserve the lesser kestrels and help their numbers grow until they can be removed from the list of globally threatened birds.
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Three years ago, the Israeli security company G4S donated a set of infrared video cameras that broadcast live 24/7 from inside nesting boxes via the Internet.
"Every classroom in the school has an Internet connection and large screen," notes Terem. "A few weeks ago I sat with some of the children transfixed for an hour, watching a chick hatch and gradually emerge from its egg — and missed an important meeting. It's gripping to watch the mothers feed the chicks, bringing them mice, in real time."
Established in the late 1950s, the Alona Regional School in Moshav Amikam serves children from Amikam, Givat Nili and Aviel, plus about 30 children from nearby towns. Twenty-one years ago, the school became part of the Tali network, an educational system in which non-Orthodox schools or classes within schools offer enriched Jewish studies.
"We have room for 310 students and a very long waiting list for places," says Terem. "The Jewish studies attract parents and children alike – and so does the lesser kestrel preservation project."
But children that age can be fickle. How do you maintain their interest?
"That's not a problem," shrugs Terem. "This is one fascinating subject. It's also active and outdoors. It takes them away from screens and into the fields. The kids love watching the birds and monitoring their progress in the field."
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In the postseason for the first time since 2008, the Warwick Vets boys' soccer team didn't waste that opportunity last week.
The 'Canes did something that no Vets team had done in seven years, grabbing the reigns in a 3-1 preliminary round victory over Scituate on Wednesday for the program's first playoff win since the 2005 season.
But the No. 8 seeded 'Canes ran into a championship-minded, top-seeded Exeter-West Greenwich team on Sunday in the Division III quarterfinals and saw their season come to an end with a 5-1 loss to the Scarlet Knights.
"They have more weapons then we do," Vets head coach Mike Kenney said. "My kids, they gave us everything they had. It was a tough year. We went further then any team ahead of them has in a while. To get to the quarterfinals and lose to the No.1 seed, there's no shame in that."
The game was 2-1 through 53 minutes, and Vets was riding a wave of momentum after Brad Robert scored on a penalty kick in the 47th.
Over the last 27 minutes, though, EWG came alive, scoring three goals and coasting to the win.
As a team that went 12-0-2 and outscored its opponents 48-8 during the regular season, the Scarlet Knights simply had another gear that the 'Canes couldn't quite match.
"I think that made it a little more real," EWG head coach Matt Savoie said of Robert's goal. "At 2-0, you're comfortable; 2-1, not so much. They had to pick it up a level. It is what it is. They played well."
J.P. Connolly and Mark Christofaro each had two goals for EWG, while Jack Livsey had the other.
And while the score looks lopsided, the 'Canes were very much in the game until the Scarlet Knights turned on the jets.
"The boys played well," Kenney said. "I'm proud of them."
Vets nearly took a 1-0 lead in the first minute of the game, as Justin Batista got loose behind the EWG defense and had a clean look at the goal.
Batista's shot wasn't quite hit cleanly, however, and EWG keeper Benjamin Andrews was able to scoop it up without a problem.
"Justin had that breakaway, if he could stuff that maybe it's a different momentum thing," Kenney said.
Two minutes later, EWG was in the same position, as Livsey found himself all alone with Vets keeper Mike Riccitelli. Livsey hit the ball solidly, but Riccitelli made a sprawling save to his left, keeping the game scoreless.
"That first three minutes of the game, with a one-on-one for each team," Savoie said. "Any one of those could have changed the game for either team."
After that, both defenses settled in until the Scarlet Knights struck in the 13th minute. Livsey took a throw-in and sent the ball into the box from the right side. Connolly controlled it and touched it past Riccitelli for a 1-0 lead.
"They work really hard," Savoie said. "The forwards, the rotation forwards, they work hard. There's no ball they won't try to run down. They make some great shots."
Down only a goal, Vets kept pushing, Dylan Robert took a shot from 18 yards out two minutes later that Andrews knocked down, and in the 26th minute Brad Robert sent a free kick to the box that Will Hay just missed heading towards the net.
The half ended with EWG ahead by the lone goal, but it made it 2-0 just three minutes into the second half when Connolly beat Riccitelli to a ball at the front of the box and headed it over the charging keeper for a goal.
It looked like that second goal might sink Vets, but the 'Canes kept coming. In the 47th minute, Dylan Robert was taken down in the box and Brad Robert came up from the defense to take the penalty kick. He easily buried in the right side, cutting EWG's lead to 2-1.
Suddenly, Vets was right back in it. Five minutes later, Batista got a clean look but again didn't quite connect, and it rolled harmlessly to Andrews.
Then, EWG flipped the switch.
Off a throw in, Christofaro slipped behind Vets' defense and pounded a shot just inside the left-post from a tough angle that beat Riccitelli for a back-breaking goal.
Three minutes later, on a counter-attack, Livsey found himself all alone and he calmly scored. In 10 minutes, Vets had gone from potentially tying the score to trailing 4-1.
"For a couple minutes there it looked like it was going to go our way, and then they grabbed it back," Kenney said. "They beat us pretty good last time we played them, and that's in the back of the kids' heads. And then we saw when they went up by a couple goals that it's hard to get back in it against a good team."
At that point, there was little the 'Canes could do. Christofaro scored on a header in the 61st minute to make it 5-1 and that's how the game remained until the final whistle.
The loss brought an end to a resurgent season for Vets, which hadn't won a game since the 2009 season prior to this year. Even in that 2009 season it only won once.
This season, it won six games and earned a playoff victory. Nikone Soupharath, Dylan Robert and Tyler Oliveira all scored in the win over Scituate, lifting Vets to a place it hadn't been in quite a while.
"The kids were excited to be in the playoffs for the first time, and we rode it," Kenney said.
The 'Canes will say goodbye to three seniors off this year's team, and they're all key pieces. Hay and Dylan Robert will graduate, as will Cody Sullivan, who was hurt for much of the second half of the season.
Everybody else should be back.
"I'm proud of these guys," Kenney said. "They did a nice job. It's a good group of kids. But we'll regroup, realign and start again August 20."


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PES 2014 skipping PS4, Xbox One, Vita and 3DS
Konami's latest football release won't be released on next-gen consoles this time around.
PES 2014 was announced just minutes ago but the publisher's European PES community manager Adam Bhatti has already taken to Twitter to confirm that the game will definitely be Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP only this year.
[We're] not in the business for high-res next-gen ports. We can't and shouldn't do that. Bad habit etc," he stated. So the fact we're not on PS4/Xbone with PES 2014 is simple. We can't and shouldn't be just using higher quality textures etc should be new.
In the past people accused us of being lazy. We're adamant of not making the same mistakes, and making sure we create amazing football games. It's hardly amazing making the next-gen version prettier. We shouldn't have that mentality, and you shouldn't expect that. Aim higher.
I'm a gamer like you, can't wait for next-gen, so I feel your pain. But once you see PES 2014 in action, that pain will disappear. It's stunning."
When pressed on the subject, Bhatti listed a number of additional reasons why the publisher didn't feel a next-gen release was appropriate this year.
I think it's important to remember our biggest markets, where we are number 1 (Latam/Asia) [sic] won't shift to next-gen as quick as Europe," he added. We can't just leave our most passion fans behind. Besides, the quality of the current version is high enough.
There will be possibly 2m next-gen consoles available to buy this year. Majority will be US based. European market will have less than US = small market to sell to in general for a long time.
We're Konami, not Ubisoft, EA etc. We don't have deep pockets. We have built one new engine, we don't have the money or resources to build two unique engines. AC4 for example will be just prettier. You want that? How many people do you think will buy a next-gen console this year alone? Think about availability too."
Bhatti also said that no 3DS release was planned as no-one bought" PES 2013 on 3DS and that a Vita version is not planned because: The install base isn't great. We're doing a PSP version because there's still demand for it. A very small team work on it. Very small."
When pressed on the decision to skip PS4 and Xbox One when their arrival is just around the corner and whether that could damage PES 2014's potential sales, Bhatti added: There's always a concern, but you're overestimating the speed of uptake."


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Congratulations are in order for Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes, who got engaged to her ex-husband, Gregg Leakes, on New Year's Eve ... we think. The whole announcement is a little cryptic, but what else could this series of tweets mean?
It started out with this picture of her and her ex-husband together. Then there was a hallway lined with candles and rose petals. That was followed by a picture of a bottle of champagne chilling along with Hershey's Kisses spelling out their initials -- "G" and "N" -- and a tweet that read: "Look @ our nite cap! #new beginnings."
Then came the final two kickers.
And there's only one thing that can mean right? Well, we hope so anyway. It's so much more romantic than their first engagement, which she recently recounted on RHOA: "We got engaged drivin' down I-20. We straight ghetto."
The only problem is that since New Year's Eve she's been silent on the matter. And that's not very NeNe-like now is it? Her reps haven't commented, and she hasn't addressed in on Twitter, which is a little strange.
I hope it's not just some trick to mess with our minds and grab some publicity, because that would be kind of mean. I would have never expected to be rooting for them to get back together, but they really seem happy on this season of RHOA, and they seem better together than apart. It's crazy that it took a divorce to show them what they mean to one another, but it seems to have been what they needed.
So I hope it's true. I just wish she'd really come out and say it loud and proud, so we can offer an effusive congratulations rather than the guarded one we're feeling now.
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Southington Community Theater is presenting "Score" this Saturday evening, a variety show meant to entertain guests and raise money to help the group.
The community theater group is run entirely by volunteers and has been active in Southington for decades. Their rehearsals are in the Marion firehouse, an antique building on Marion Avenue with a boiler that is beginning to fail.
"It's a very old building and we've noticed that it has been getting colder and colder," said co-director Amanda Savio Guay. "The boiler needs to be replaced and this is one way to help raise money."
The cost of a new boiler is expected to be high and the directors know that the proceeds from one performance, even a highly popular one, won't be enough on their own. They hope to take advantage of potential grants and private donations to make up the rest. The day after the fundraiser, the group will begin auditions for the musical "Li'l Abner" and rehearsal during the winter months could be very unpleasant with the current boiler.
"We usually perform at the schools, but we can't be at the schools all the time so we need our own rehearsal space," said co-director Chris Palmieri. "That boiler is not energy or fuel efficient at all and we've seen escalating heating costs over the years."
The show itself features a wide variety of different acts, including bands, dancing, comedy and dramatic monologues. A total of 29 acts are expected to perform.
"We call it 'Score' because most of the acts are linked to music," Palmieri said. "It's a great way to showcase local talent."
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(Heb. tinshemeth ), thus rendered by the Authorized Version in ( Leviticus 11:18 ; 14:16 ) where it occurs in the list of unclean birds Rut either of the renderings "porphyrio" (purple water-hen) and "ibis" is more probable. Neither of these birds occurs elsewhere in the catalogue; both would be familiar to residents in Egypt, and the original seems to point to some water-fowl. The purple water-hen is allied to our corn-crake and water-hen, and is the largest and most beautiful of the family Rallidae . It frequents marshes and the sedge by the banks of rivers in all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean and is abundant in lower Egypt.
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Usman M. Bajwa 12/17/2009 10:19:47 PMWTG Leslie. CONGRATZ. on your outstanding Second Place GOLD Win. Seasons Greetings too!
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Katarina Mansson 12/18/2009 3:34:21 AMSuperb light, colors and detail. Congratulations on your win Leslie! #8229202
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Christopher Budny 12/18/2009 5:39:58 AMBeautiful winner! Ready for a Frank Lloyd Wright coffee table book! Congratulations Leslie! #8229602
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Karen Bacon 12/18/2009 4:24:03 PMCongratulations on your 2nd Place Gold Award Leslie. A very well deserving win for this Photo. Im so very happy for you. Great job.
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On Richard Wright's Poetry
Richard Wright's poetry has ironically suffered a dearth of critical attention given its significance as a record of his entrée to both American Communism and a literary career. Wright joined the American Communist Party in 1934, the same year he published two poems in the CP's John Reed Club journal Left Front. "A Red Love Note" and "Rest for the Weary" appeared in the January-February 1934 issue. Between 1934 and 1941, Wright published more than a dozen poems in the Left press, including the famous "Between the World and Me" in Partisan Review (July/August 1935) and the poem included here, "We of the Streets," in the April 13, 1937 New Masses.
Keneth Kinnamon, in a 1969 essay, has rightly contended that "the ideology of his (Wright's) proletarian poems was a basic, even essential, motive force of the first--and major-- phase of his literary career" ("Proletarian," 250). Poems like "I Have Seen Black Hands" welded Wright's power as imagist to an explicitly revolutionary radicalism:
I am black and I have seen black hands
Raised in fists of revolt, side by side with the white fists
Of white workers,
And some day -- and it is only this which sustains me--
Some day there shall be millions and millions of them,
On some red day in a burst of fists on a new horizon!
In other poems from the 1930s Wright conducted experiments with point of view and the graphic political protest that would inform the violent stories of Uncle Tom's Children and later Native Son. In "Between the World and Me," for example, the narrator/persona writes from the midst of a lynching:
And then they had me, stripped me, battering my teeth
into my throat till I swallowed my own blood.
My voice was drowned in the roar of their voices, and my
Black wet body slipped and rolled in their hands as
They bound me to the sapling.
In his recent study The New Red Negro James Smethurst re-locates Wright not as marginal but central to the enthusiastic embrace by black poets of a political aesthetic much shaped by Communism and the American Communist Party. For example, Smethurst identifies the recurring imagery of "black hands" in Robert Hayden's 1940 debut book of poems Heart-Shape in the Dust as well as in Owen Dodson's Powerful Long Ladder as part of a "genealogy of Left African-American poetry" inspired by Wright's early radical verse. Smethurst also notes how later Popular Front poetic efforts by Wright, like "King Joe--Part I" and "King Joe--Part II" (about the boxer Joe Louis) as recorded by Paul Robeson and the Count Basie Orchestra helped to establish a clear genealogy between the folk culture of the rural South and the popular culture of the urban North. Similarly, William J. Maxwell has argued recently that Wright's theory and practice of a folk aesthetic in his poetry and elsewhere worked as a means of preserving, rather than repudiating, the northern black writer's connections to a southern past.
Such critical repositionings as these illuminate not simply the importance of Leftist influence on Richard Wright or African-American writers generally, but the centrality of African-American poets to the "project" of shaping -- and radicalizing -- modern verse traced by Cary Nelson in his book Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Michel Fabre has noted that the poetic influences on Wright range from Langston Hughes to Whitman to Sandburg to Eliot; in "I Have Seen Black Hands" and elsewhere Wright's imagery, idiom and form reconstitute poetic convention into a more militant version of what Michael North has characterized as the "dialect of modernism." North argues that Wright's affinity and affection for the dialect of Stein's "Melanctha" can be seen as part of the liberating project of his own adaptation of black vernacular as "popular" or mass cultural idiom. Both "Red Clay Blues" (New Masses, August 1, 1939) and "The FB Eye Blues" rethink the genre's relation to the larger discourse of "protest poetry"' and the speaking subject of black militancy:
Woke up this morning
FB eye under my bed
Said I woke up this morning
FE eye under by bed
Told me all I dreamed last night, every word I said.
Wright wrote "FB Eye Blues" during the Cold War on his way to Argentina, long after abandoning the "project" of his revolutionary poetry. Wright's self-refashioning as cosmopolitan traveler and global intellectual after his exile to Paris found logical extension in his obsessive embrace of haiku in the late 1950s. Between 1958 and his death in 1960 Wright wrote more than 4,000 haiku, publishing a small handful in scattered publications. While helping to create a cottage industry of Wright criticism in Japan, the haiku are relatively unstudied in the U.S. beyond Eugene Miller's closing chapter in Voices of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright and Robert Tener's essay "The Where, the When, the What: A Study of Richard Wright's Haiku." The unsatisfying absence of criticism of Wright's haiku mirrors the disappointing lack of analysis of his late work after The Outsider, including long out-of-print texts like Savage Holiday, recently reissued by University Press of Mississippi.
The significance of Wright's poetry, political and otherwise, thus remains to be explicated in full. Wright's radical verse of the 1930s was written at a time when what might be called his political "vision" was most coherent, his role in U.S. culture and letters most easily understood. After publication of Native Son, as Bill Mullen has argued, Wright's and American criticism's own anxiety about his relationship to both his literary celebrity and his earlier political militance both obscured and distorted the critical legacy of Wright's 1930s writing. A full recovery of Wright, then, demands a restoration and recovery of the poetic Wright, the one whose verse predicted and dovetailed with the "proletarian moment" as well as that of any other poet, black or white, of his time.
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And people wonder why we don't make anything in America anymore. It's because somewhere along the line the idea of working with your hands is somehow demeaning. Everyone is not equipped to be an academic .
More sociology and psychology classes, at my school they just had two intro classes and that was it until you graduated. Culture classes would help kids understand the world a bit better, forcing them outside of their personal bubbles.Philosophy I think would also be a great class for teenagers. At a time where people spend most of their time questioning who they are and such, I think it would be great to throw some big philosophy names at them to make them ask even more questions.
Not so much high school, but I think in the early years it should be required that kids learn Spanish and then their 3rd language could be a choice.
Sadly, Adriana my high school was seriously all test based for the stupid state tests. There is no critical thinking needed. Just memorize test review take test, forget everything you learned, repeat.
Like I said in a old blog post. I have learned more on How Stuff Works .com than all of high school.
I just googled "critical thinking" syllabus (with quotes). 2-1/2 million links.
Haha, but who knows how good those links are? Put on your critical thinking cap.
Has anyone ever had a separate class called "critical thinking" or something similar?
shouldn't the schools be teaching critical thinking skills every second they are teaching something?
Absolutely, but Language is also like this. Critical thinking and language (etc.) comes along as a bonus with the regular courses. Meanwhile, imo we need to boost critical thinking skills somehow, but how can that be deployed across several classes by policy?
One way might be to require a class with broader (or similar) context, like Critical Consumption of Media, especially in light of the pervasiveness of internet media. So I'll at least nominate that, Matthew.
(Whoops, sorry Mr. Matthew. I should have said Morgan.)
While I can still edit this...
I'll add that a class like "Critical Consumption of Media" should also include weekly or monthly assignments concerning Current Events. Even further, perhaps such a course should be taken every year, for at least a semester.
Some student's work could become controversial (e.g. overly political), but learning how to "report" the news factually and without spin is also part of the process of critical thinking.
Nope, no critical thinking in schools. You memorize facts and take tests.
Mark Twain: "I never let my schooling interfere with my education"
How true that is...
I nominate more music courses. Stop cutting the damned music classes in favor of a football team.
Also , philosophy and psychology. Both of those will teach children how to think and why we think the way we do.
I was just thinking about this yesterday, when a bill to teach about Christianity in public schools, was passed in some state.
Aside from the basic of reading, writing, mathematics, I think critical thinking and some type of foreign language class should be taught. A class on different cultures should be taught, that way students are exposed to other cultures and they are not culturally ignorant.
I agree with Morgan Matthew on having trades being taught in schools. That would save a lot of the burden on community colleges in this nation, which are being overwhelmed with students and not receiving the funding to reflect that.
I was lucky enough to attend a high school that helped train pharmacy technicians and nursing assistants. I didn't take these classes though some days I wish I had trained to be a pharmacy technician. It's decent money for while I'm in college.


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Last weekend I was working on a few recipes and one of them was for this sweet treat. In the midst of tackling the weekly dust buffalos at home, I managed to come up with a nice recipe for gluten free galettes.
As un-romantic as cleaning sounds, these galettes were perfect for the two of us. Forgive me as I find myself lost in these galettes. Sometimes it's just the way it goes.
As we sat enjoying the galettes, my mind starts to wander off dreaming of new house projects, a new coat of paint for the office, one for the bathroom, a few new furnishings, and of course some new kitchen essentials. I am definitely ready for some bright new kitchen towels, updating some cookware and more baking supplies… where to start?
Spring is on the way and approaching fast, lists need to be made; paint needs to be bought, projects checked off before gardening and outdoor fun can begin. January and February are still times of nestling away and daydreaming of spring. Certainly a great time to refresh the home where time is still a bit relaxed.
Cleaning continues, unfortunately. Each time I passed the galettes, dustpan in hand, I smiled, sneaking another bite. When you're alone in the kitchen, who's to see!
Do you have any favorite desserts for two? I would love to hear about them!
Pear-Berry galette Recipe [serves 4]
1 cup millet flour
½ cup tapioca flour
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
8 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
6 Tablespoons confectioner's sugar
2 egg yolks
1 whole egg
½ teaspoon sea salt
2 large firm, ripe pears, cored and thinly sliced
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 large egg, beaten
2 Tablespoons granular sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 Tablespoon finely chopped pistachios
½ cup fresh raspberries
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
preparing the galette dough:
1. Combine millet flour and tapioca flour together, set aside.
2. Cream the butter with the salt and whip in confectioner's sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in egg yolks and whole egg.
4. Add flour mixture and mix until smooth and dough forms.
5. Press into a flat disc and chill for 4 hours.
preparing the fruit filling:
1. Core and slice pears.
2. Combine the granular sugar and cornstarch and toss with pears. Set aside.
assembling & baking the galettes:
1. Divide dough into four equal pieces.
2. Roll out each dough piece on a millet floured parchment paper into a rustic circle shape.
3. Place one-fourth of the pears in the center and gather up edges; place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
4. Repeat with remaining dough.
5. Combine the remaining sugar with cinnamon.
5. Brush the dough with beaten egg and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until galettes are lightly golden.
7. Garnish galettes with fresh raspberries and finely chopped pistachios.
*note: When working with this gluten-free galette dough, allow the dough to warm up a bit before rolling, as cold dough will crack. Keep the rolling surface well-floured so the dough will not stick to the parchment. This dough is rather soft at room temperature, so if it needs a quick chill down, throw them in the refrigerator for a few minutes and continue. Once you have the time limit down you will enjoy making these as much as I do!
*note: If you are not going gluten-free then try this galette dough recipe.


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