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16-year-old South Dakota Boy Survives 16 Hours in Forest
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A 16-year-old South Dakota boy who became lost while hunting in Black Hills National Forest says he was scared but still managed to hatch a survival plan.
Austin DuVall, of Rapid City, became lost on Nov. 3 while hunting with his father. He says his hunter's instinct kicked in and he chased after a deer, and soon found himself alone and without his bearings.
Austin tells the Rapid City Journal he relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course and from Gary Paulsen's teen-survival story "Hatchet." He eventually found a stream and followed it to an occupied cabin, finding safety after 16 hours.
Austin says he hopes others learn from his experience. He says make a plan and stick to it - and keep a level head.
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I was amazed to read in Frederick N. Rasmussen's "Alger Hiss' trial still stirs readers" (June 26) the opinion expressed by Timmerman Daughtery that Hiss made a major blunder in hiring William L. Marbury as his counsel.
As Ms. Daughtery put it, "if he'd gotten a 'real' lawyer, not a society boy in the beginning, the story would be a different one."
At the time, Mr. Marbury was approaching 50 years of age with 20 years experience as a trial lawyer. He had just completed service as chief counsel of the War Department in charge of procurement for the entire duration of World War II, and was the senior partner of one of Baltimore's most prominent law firms.
He would later become the president of the Maryland State Bar Association and the senior member of the Harvard Corporation, and he was widely recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the state and nation.
That sounds like a "real" lawyer to me.
Decatur H. Miller
The writer is a former chairman of the Baltimore law firm Piper & Marbury.

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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Mech for Sale...Cheap! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Mech for Sale...Cheap!" RagmemberMember #Joined: 01 Nov 2000Posts: 134Location: Arkansas, USA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:15 pm http://www.geocities.com/lightvamp/mech.htm This baby's a beaut I tell ya. Purrs like a kitten.:P Seriously, first Mech, first Mech modeling. I thought I would get into the spirit with all the Mech pics showin up. I couldn't for the life of me figure out legs. Could someone give me a shove in the right direction? Thanks [Edit] Just noticed the edges are way too sharp for it to be so rusty. I'll have to fix that. ------------------ I don't believe in born talent, only born desire. The rest is all work. [This message has been edited by Rag (edited January 06, 2001).] Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:50 pm it looks like you have an interesting model, underneath the surface of that rusty texture. I think the model itself might benefit from a little more detail, but I think what would really turn this picture around as more and varying textures. Right now it looks like you just put one on the thing. The rust texture would probably look cool in some parts, to show they are getting older, but I think you should definately look into different types of metallic ones, etc. I'm not really sure how you would implement this because im terrible at 3d modeling. Back to top ShadedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 2000Posts: 413Location: Toronto Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 6:39 am Oyy...those are basic geometric shapes bunched together. Explore the program till you goo blue. Check out tutorials, cry when you just cant seem to get it right. Hate life. And then revel in your magnificence as you ultimately create something others will envy you for. I swear, Ill bite your ass if you dont do this. Back to top RagmemberMember #Joined: 01 Nov 2000Posts: 134Location: Arkansas, USA Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 6:58 am Snowman: Thanks,I'll do just that. I'll see if i can get more textures. And you are right the whole thing has only one texture. Shaded: I'm not good at all with industrial design so it's hard for me to see hydralics and such, but I'll try. Thanks. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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It was only last month that Metal Slug 2 completed its journey to iOS and Android devices. As promised, SNK Playmore USA is back with a similar release for Metal Slug X, the updated version of the aforementioned game. It's available as of today for $3.99 on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Once again, this is being referred to as a "perfect port of the original NEOGEO game." While I do realize what they mean by that phrase, it still feels disingenuous given the nature of how these games are played with touch controls. I don't want my thumb to be the protagonist! For a certain group of people, it's not really an issue. I'm jealous of them.
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The turtles are being unleashed in the nick of time.
On Saturday morning, Nickelodeon will take the lid off a slicker, hipper version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." The armed reptiles, a hugely popular cartoon franchise in the '80s and '90s, are the latest effort by the children's network to combat a dramatic ratings plunge.
Over the past year, Nickelodeon has lost 28% of its young audience, according to ratings firm Nielsen. The network's signature programming, "SpongeBob SquarePants" and tween sensation "iCarly," have lost cache with kids who are turning to other channels and other entertainment such as video games.
-- Meg James, Los Angeles Times


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The Bowtie theme is an extremely versatile Drupal theme. It's built with HTML5 & CSS3 and the 960 Grid System and it includes with 7 Home Page Variations and 3 slider options. Easily add your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts and choose between other cool options like full-width inner page display, left or right column blog layout, 1, 2, or 3 column portfolio layout and more -- all with one-click changes to get the layout you want! We've added a custom pricing page, typography page, and a full-width page layout by default. Check out the other cool features of the Bowtie theme below. The Bowtie theme is based on the Bowtie HTML theme created by Jami Gibbs.
Bowtie Drupal 7 Theme Front Page Options
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1. scandir.3.man
Manpage of SCANDIR
SCANDIRSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2009-02-10
Index Return to Main Contents
NAMEscandir, alphasort, versionsort - scan a directory for matching entries
#include <dirent.h> int scandir(const char *dirp, struct dirent ***namelist,
- int (*filter)(const struct dirent *), int (*compar)(const struct dirent **, const struct dirent **));
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
versionsort(): _GNU_SOURCE
DESCRIPTIONThe scandir() function scans the directory dirp, calling filter() on each directory entry. Entries for which filter() returns nonzero are stored in strings allocated via malloc(3), sorted using qsort(3) with the comparison function compar(), and collected in array namelist which is allocated via malloc(3). If filter is NULL, all entries are selected.
The alphasort() and versionsort() functions can be used as the comparison function compar(). The former sorts directory entries using strcoll(3), the latter using strverscmp(3) on the strings (*a)->d_name and (*b)->d_name.
RETURN VALUEThe scandir() function returns the number of directory entries selected or -1 if an error occurs.
The alphasort() and versionsort() functions return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second.
- Insufficient memory to complete the operation.
VERSIONSversionsort() was added to glibc in version 2.1.
CONFORMING TOalphasort() and scandir() are specified in POSIX.1-2008, and are widely available. versionsort() is a GNU extension.
The functions scandir() and alphasort() are from 4.3BSD, and have been available under Linux since libc4. Libc4 and libc5 use the more precise prototype
int alphasort(const struct dirent ** a, const struct dirent **b);
but glibc 2.0 returns to the imprecise BSD prototype.
The function versionsort() is a GNU extension, available since glibc 2.1.
Since glibc 2.1, alphasort() calls strcoll(3); earlier it used strcmp(3).
#define _SVID_SOURCE /* print files in current directory in reverse order */ #include <dirent.h> int main(void) { struct dirent **namelist; int n; n = scandir(".", &namelist, 0, alphasort); if (n < 0) perror("scandir"); else { while (n--) { printf("%s
", namelist[n]->d_name); free(namelist[n]); } free(namelist); } }
SEE ALSOclosedir(3), fnmatch(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), seekdir(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strverscmp(3), telldir(3)
COLOPHONThis page is part of release 3.32 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
This document was created by man2html using the manual pages.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Technology startup Cylance Inc hired four prominent experts in the field of protecting power plants, water utilities and other infrastructure systems from cyber attacks as the firm gets ready to release its first line of security products.
The list includes Eric Cornelius, who just stepped down as deputy director and chief technical analyst with the Department of Homeland Security's Control Systems Security Program.
Cornelius helped manage the agency's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergence Response Team, or ICS-CERT, which investigates cyber incidents at utilities and other infrastructure operators across the United States.
He oversaw "fly-away" teams that probe cyber incidents and help companies clean up after them.
Cylance, which was founded last year by McAfee Inc's former global chief technology officer, Stuart McClure, has also brought on well-known industrial control systems experts Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle as it acquired a company that they co-founded, SpearPoint Security Services, which helps businesses protect industrial control systems.
McClure said that he plans to incorporate SpearPoint's technology for identifying vulnerabilities in industrial control networks into Cylance's emerging product line.
Rios and McCorkle have become well-known in the security community over the past few years because of breakthrough research conducted that they began doing at night and on weekends while working full-time jobs at Google Inc and Boeing Co.
They found hundreds of vulnerabilities in industrial control products, which could be exploited by hackers to do things such as remotely manage systems in power plant, water treatment facilities, ventilation systems and even control elevators.
Cylance also hired Glenn Chisholm, former chief information security officer of Australian telecommunications provider Telstra Corp as its vice president of products and chief security officer.
Reporting by Jim Finkle; Editing by Dale Hudson and M.D. Golan


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The DNA molecules produced during the sequencing reaction are separated from each other by a process called electrophoresis. DNA molecules are negatively charged. The sequencing machine sets up an electric field; all the DNA moves through a porous gel toward the positive electrode. The gel acts like a sieve; shorter DNA fragments move more quickly through the holes of the gel than do larger DNA fragments.
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Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe
Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement of the universe's rate of expansion - a value that has been debated for over half a century.
These new results yield ranges for the age of the universe from 9-12 billion years and 11-14 billion years, respectively. The black and white photograph from a ground-based telescope shows the entire galaxy. The color image from the Hubble telescope shows a region in NGC 1365, a barred spiral galaxy located in a cluster of galaxies called Fornax. A barred spiral galaxy is characterized by a "bar" of stars, dust, and gas across its center. Astronomers used Cepheid variable stars in Fornax to estimate the cluster's distance from Earth, about 60 million light-years. Cepheids are bright, young stars that are used as milepost markers to calculate distances to nearby galaxies. Galaxy distances are important in calculating the universe's expansion rate and age.
Images of a Galaxy in the Fornax Cluster of Galaxies
Two international teams of astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement of the Universe's rate of expansion - a value which has been debated for over half a century.
These new results yield ranges for the age of the Universe from 9-12 billion years, and 11-14 billion years, respectively. The goal of the project is to measure the Hubble Constant to ten percent accuracy.
The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team, an international group of over 20 astronomers, is led by Wendy Freedman of Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, Robert Kennicutt, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, and Jeremy Mould, Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatory, Australia. The group's interim results, announced at a meeting held at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, are consistent with their preliminary result, announced in 1994, of 80 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/sec/Mpc), based on observations of a galaxy in the Virgo cluster.
``We have five different ways of measuring the Hubble Constant with HST,'' said Dr. Freedman. "The results are coming in between 68 and 78 km/sec/Mpc." (For example, at an expansion rate of 75 km/sec/Mpc, galaxies appear to be receding from us at a rate of 162,000 miles per hour for every 3.26 million light-years farther out we look).
Two months ago, a second team, led by Allan Sandage, also of the Carnegie Observatories, Abhijit Saha, STScI, Gustav Tammann and Lukas Labhardt, Astronomical Institute, University of Basel, Duccio Macchetto and Nino Panagia, STScI/European Space Agency, reported a slower expansion rate of 57 km/sec/Mpc.
The value of the Hubble Constant allows astronomers to calculate the expansion age of the Universe, the time elapsed since the Big Bang. Astronomers have been arguing recently whether the time since the Big Bang is consistent with the ages of the oldest stars.
The ages are calculated from combining the expansion rate with an estimate of how much matter is in space. The younger age values from each team assume the Universe is at a critical density where it contains just enough matter to expand indefinitely. The higher age estimates are calculated based on a low density of matter in space.
"A point of great interest is whether the age of the Universe arrived at this way is really older than the independently derived ages of the oldest stars," said Saha, an investigator on both Hubble teams.
"The numbers lean on the side that the stellar ages are a little lower, or that the hypothesis that we live in a critical density universe needs to be questioned," said Saha. "As further results accumulate over the next few years, we hope to tighten the constraints on these issues."
The Observations
The Key Project team is midway along in their three-year program to derive the expansion rate of the Universe based on precise distance measurements to galaxies. They have now measured Cepheid distances to a dozen galaxies, and are about halfway through their overall program.
The Key Project team also presented a preliminary estimate of the distance to the Fornax cluster of galaxies. The estimate was obtained through the detection and measurement with the Hubble Space Telescope of pulsating stars known as Cepheid variables found in the Fornax cluster. The Fornax cluster is measured to be approximately as far away as the Virgo cluster of galaxies - about 60 million light-years.
The Key Project team member who led this effort, Caltech astronomer Barry Madore said, ``This cluster allows us to make independent estimates of the expansion rate of the Universe using a number of different techniques. All of these methods are now in excellent agreement. With Fornax we are now at turning point in this field.''
The team is measuring Cepheid distances to the Virgo and Fornax clusters of galaxies as a complementary test. Their strategy is to compare and contrast expansion numbers from a variety of distance indicators.
The Key Project team is systematically looking into a variety of methods for measuring distances. They are using Cepheids in a large sample to tie into five or six ``secondary methods''. One such secondary method relates the total luminosity of a galaxy to the rate at which the galaxy is spinning, the Tully-Fisher relation. Another secondary method makes use of a special class of exploding star known as a type Ia supernova. This phase of the Hubble Constant research will be completed within another two years.
In contrast, the Sandage team focused on a single secondary distance indicator, one of the same indicators also used by the Key Project team, the type Ia supernova. Sandage maintains that these stars are ``standard bombs'' according to theory. He suggests that when they explode they all reach exactly the same intrinsic brightness. This would make them extremely reliable ``standard candles,'' (objects with a well-known intrinsic brightness) visible 1,000 times farther away than Cepheids. Since they are intrinsically brighter than any other standard candle, they offer the opportunity for an accurate measurement of the Universe's overall expansion by looking out the farthest.
Although both teams are still in disagreement over the precise rate at which the Universe is expanding and on how old it is, they are optimistic that their estimates will continue to converge with further observations and analysis.
Members of the Key Project team include W. Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona), J. Mould (Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories, Australia), L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University), H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University), J. Graham (Department of Terrestrial Magnetism), M. Han (University of Wisconsin), P. Harding (University of Arizona), J. Hoessel (University of Wisconsin), J. Huchra (Smithsonian/Harvard University), S. Hughes (Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge), G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), B.F. Madore (IPAC/Caltech), R. Phelps (Carnegie Observatories), A. Saha (Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Silbermann (IPAC), P. Stetson (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and S. Sakai (IPAC).
Members of the Sandage team include A. Sandage (Carnegie Observatories), A. Saha (Space Telescope Science Institute), G.A. Tammann, and L. Labhardt (Astronomical Institute, University of Basel), F.D. Macchetto and N. Panagia (Space Telescope Science Institute/European Space Agency).
Credit: W. Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), the Hubble Space Telescope Key Projects Team, A. Sandage (Carnegie Observatories), et. al., and NASA
Don Savage
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Phone: 202-358-1547)
Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301-286-5566)
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4514)


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King Kooker Hot Tub Multi-Purpose Outdoor Cooker
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Steam, boil, fry and simmer. This multi-purpose portable propane cooker includes a timer.
The King Kooker Hot Tub Multi-Purpose Portable Propane Outdoor Cooker allows you to prepare an endless variety of dishes. This 33,000 BTU propane cooker has a recessed top for safety. Cook a wide array of foods in the large 26 qt. rectangular aluminum pot with drain rim which reduces splash and has a spigot for easy draining. Use the steam rack for steaming your favorite veggies and seafood, or use the turkey rack for frying an 18 lb. turkey. With 4 skewers, you can also fry 4 chickens at once. Fry or boil 2 different foods at once using the 2 frying baskets. The deep fry thermometer monitors temperature, and you can adjust the flame with the adjustable regulator which includes a battery operated timer. Cook all your foods to perfection every time. Try the suggestions in our detailed instruction and recipe booklet, or create your own favorites. King Kooker lets you eat like a king.
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- 33,000 BTU outdoor propane cooker with recessed top for safety
- Four legs with large bottom base for stability
- Listed LP hose & regulator with Type 1 connection
- CSA certified battery operated timer
- Large, rectangular 28 qt. aluminum pot with cover and drain rim which reduces splash
- Spigot for easy draining
- Two baskets for frying or boiling two different items at once
- Unique rack for steaming and frying
- Steam tray and four skewers
- Deep fry thermometer
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You may recall that the dismal August jobs report reflected a decline in the unemployment rate from 8.3 to 8.1 percent. Funny how that works, however, as Conn Carroll points out: "The U.S. economy actually lost jobs according to the survey the Labor Department uses to calculate the unemployment rate. And not for the first time. The U.S. workforce has declined for each of the last two months as has the number of employed Americans."
The reported decline in the unemployment rate was attributable to a big drop in the labor force participation rate (the share of Americans with a job or looking for one). Analyze this: "If Obama can get everyone out the the workforce, the unemployment rate will be 0%!"
!s this really the way it's supposed to work (so to speak)?
UPDATE: Among astute editorials addressing the August jobs are report are those by the Boston Herald and the New York Post, both of which are worth reading.


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I'm not sure if this is a good place to post this or not, but it seems to be the most likely option. Last weekend, I tried on an old Lego Adventurers shirt, which must have shrunk, because it no longer fits. Which got me thinking about trying to have a new version made up.
So, I'm looking for some very high resolution images or logos, which would be suitable for apparel and could be used to print onto a t-shirt.
I'd be interested in Adventurers (any subtheme) or Castle or the collectable musketeer.
I found some high resolution collectable minifigures. Can anyone photoshop them to have a transparent background, so I can print them on a shirt?


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NBA Superstar Carmelo Anthony Presents Diego Ca$h C.O.D. Video Pt 5 - Electronica [User Submitted]
"Krossover Ent. - Indie Hip Hop Label Owned by Carmelo Anthony - home to Cassidy - and home to Atlanta's finest Diego Ca$h - this video is the final installment of the 5 part video series we dropped to promote Diego Ca$h's mixtape "C.O.D. CA$H ON DELIVERY" avail now on Datpiff.com - the mixtape/album includes a mixture of original Diego Ca$h music, along with Diego rippin some of your favorite hip hop beats - all 5 videos were shot and directed by Alex Acosta Prestige Filmworks - @Alezzyworld on twitter - Stay up on Krossover Ent. and Diego Ca$h at Krossoverent.com - ThisisDiegocash.com - and follow us on twitter - @Krossoverent - @DiegoCash - special shouts to VP Stew @YaBoyPstew"
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passaterer is taking over the map from me so email (his profile is linked) him with your information . I do not go on here that often...getting old sucks....DO NOT PM Me looking to get on the Map
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intentio needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Intentio.no is a small ISP company which is re-launching the website with new focus products.
We will have focus on three products, but will have a total of six products.
The main products should also be represented in the product slider which will be an important part of the design.
We are looking for a formal, innovative (but simple), clean and professional design. We need product pictures for all six products which are in same style and give the design the "extra touch" and completeness.
Webdesigners, SMB businesses with need of VPS/Dedicated/Co-location services, private and business customers with need of webhotell and mail services.
the current logo is attached as EPS. If the designer feels a color change is a correct move the final design should also provide an updated .eps with logo's as attached.
The designer is more or less free to select color scheme, but should of course fit with the current logo and color of the logo if the designer doesn't choose to change this.
The layout
Is fixed and decided by Magento eCommerce template which is attached in a flat version, the design should be kept in those boundaries as best it could. If a layered & grouped version of the .psd is required it can be requested by contacting me directly.
The final design
Adobe Photoshop .psd file – layered & grouped
Productslider template(s) can be layered and grouped in .psd file, if more examples is created own layers and groups can be created.
If changes on color on logo, .eps file for logo.
If other thant standard Fonts is used they should be provided.
With referral to the wireframe;
Section 1 and Section 2, will be on frontpage and sub pages.
Section 3 – the product slider. This part is quite important. We will have 6 products but will focus on 3 products in the slider section. The final design should be provided with at least one product slider template and at least 1 example of a good product slider. Appreciate creativeness and extra product templates. This section will only be on frontpage.
Section 4 – the search bar. A divider between the productslider and the product browser. In the subpages this section will connect with Section 2, so the designer should consider this.
Section 5 – the productbrowser. Wireframe is shown with 4 products, but will be six. Could be more in future.
Section 6 - standard "bottom" section for different links and information about the company.
The Products
As described; we will have 6 products. With focus on 3 products. But all products need a product picture which represents the actual product in one way.
Main focus products are:
VPS – Virtual Private Servers
Dedicated Physical Servers
Co-Location services
Webhotell (for webpages and email services)
Domainname (registrar, dns, domainadmin services; main domainnames will be .no/.com/.net if used in productpicture)
All product pictures should have a similarity (in design).
Serverpictures have been added which can be used in products.
Should not be used as a guideline whatsoever.
This is something in the direction which we are looking for. Have that professional look, using pictures of servers which people may relate to when looking for services we provide.(Added different images of servers)
http://osc.template-help.com/drupal_27501/ has the clean and professional look we are after.


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On July 26, 2012 in Montreal Canada a female pit bull Wicca was executed for a minor laceration caused to a person. There is significant question if it was even a bite, or a scratch. Due process was seriously lacking. On top of that cruel action, the city is now escalating the problem with a draconian law that requires execution of ANY dog for any caused laceration to a human or a dog. We are appalled at this entire episode and, as dog owners and dog lovers, we demand that Montreal start making things right today. Here are links to some stories:
Below is the story from the Montreal SPCA. We need to ask ourselves as dog lovers – Do we feel comfortable in Montreal? Would we live there? Would we dare visit? We will be watching. Please contact the city of Montreal and the Mayor of Montreal about your view on this. There is contact information below. The mayor's email is email@example.com
THIS FROM THE MONTREAL SPCA: On July 26, 2012, Wicca, a dog deemed dangerous by the City of Montreal, was put to death at Le Berger Blanc pound, after the City refused to consider a report prepared by a certified veterinary behaviorist who had assessed Wicca. Wicca's story, which caused indignation both locally and worldwide, highlights the inherent flaws in Montreal's current animal control by-law.
However, the new proposed by-law to be put forward by the City raises even bigger concerns, as it would provide for automatic and mandatory euthanasia in cases where a dog causes a skin laceration, regardless of the context or the severity of the injury. If a dog were to superficially scratch another dog while playing at a dog park, or bite someone in self-defence, the City would be required to sentence that dog to death. The new by-law could thus potentially result in hundreds or even thousands of dogs being killed, many of whom pose no real threat to public safety. Though the proposal establishes a review process for dog owners who wish to contest a euthanasia order, owners would only have 24 hours to obtain a behavioral evaluation, which is insufficient given the wait list for canine behaviorists in Montreal.
The Montreal SPCA is asking citizens to contact the Mayor's office to express their concern over the current by-law and proposed new by-law and to ask that the by-laws be amended to appropriately ensure for public safety without imposing undue consequences on the animals and citizens of Montreal.
A model letter to the City of Montreal for Montreal residents is available here. Please download it and send it to the mayor of Montreal.
A model letter to the City of Montreal for persons not currently residing in Montreal is available here. Please download it and send it to the mayor of Montreal.
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In 2019, the Oceania TriClub Championship continues the truly regional TriClub rivalry that Port Macquarie is so famous for.
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The Bears want to talk to Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians about their head coaching job and they might not be the only team interested in interviewing a guy who went 9-3 as the interim head coach of a playoff-bound club.
Indianapolis isn't just going to thank Arians for a job well done and drive him to the airport, though. General Manager Ryan Grigson was on the NFL Network Friday and said that the Colts plan to put forth a strong effort to keep Arians on their staff beyond this season.
"We would try to do whatever we could to keep Bruce, but again, he's his own man and will make his own decisions," Grigson said, via Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times. "It's kind of a great situation we have here. It's pure speculation, but we'd love to have him back."
The Colts can offer Arians more money, obviously, but the 60-year-old coach might not be in line for too many more head coaching opportunities before his career comes to an end. This is clearly his moment to make a bid for a top job and that might outweigh anything the Colts can offer should Arians' interviews result in a head coaching offer.


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Bombers dominate
The Barnum Bombers football team made the trek to Hinckley to take on the Jaguars of Hinckley-Finlayson on September 20.
The Bombers would kick-off first to the Jaguars, where the Jaguars began the game on their own 35 yard line. The Jaguars began by trying to move the ball on the ground, but the Bomber front line had none of that. The Bombers forced the ball to be punted away, where Brandon Newman received the ball and returned it to the Jaguar 46 yard line.
The Bombers then began the process of driving the ball down the field, with Zach Peterson getting the call to carry the ball. Peterson continued to march the ball down and punched it into the end zone from a yard and a half out. Cody Shelgren caught the pass from Newman for the 2-point conversion. The Jaguars received the ball deep in their own territory and again came with the running game. This time, though, they were more successful.
The Jaguars then stepped up and showed that they could also pass the ball with Cody Dunkley taking a 57 yard pass all the way into the end zone, but the 2-point conversion failed. The Bombers were in the lead 8-6.
The Bombers again took possession of the ball on their own 34 yard line. This time, Shelgren received the call to carry the ball. The Bombers pounded the ball all the way to the Jaguar 28 yard line, where Newman attempted a pass that was picked off by the Jaguars' T.J. Johnson.
Unfortunately, the Jaguars were not able to score on the drive and the Bombers got the ball back on their 42 yard line. This time, it was Peterson and Newman marching the ball down field. Peterson carried the ball in for the touchdown while Newman got the carry for the 2-point conversion, giving the Bombers a 16-6 lead.
The passing game of the Jaguars came to haunt the Bombers, with Dunkley taking a 52 yard pass into the end zone, with Alex Fiero taking the 2-point conversion in, bringing the score to 16-14.
The Bombers got the ball back with relatively good field position on their 46 yard line. The Bombers brought a new offensive weapon as Mitchell Weller got the call to carry the ball in this go 'round.
The Bombers continued to march the ball up the field, ending with a Shelgren 15-yard touchdown run and Newman again taking the 2-point conversion, giving the Bombers a 24-14 lead.
The Jaguars got the ball back with 5:47 left in the first half, and again came with the air game. The Jaguars passed the ball well, resulting in another Jaguar touchdown, but the Bombers remained strong, preventing the 2-point conversion. The Bombers held on to the lead at 24-20.
The Bombers got one more chance at the end zone before half time. This time, Weller received the kickoff and returned it all the way out to the Jaguars 45 yard line. Shelgren, Peterson and Weller took turns marching the ball up field. The result was a Peterson touchdown run, but the 2-point conversion fell short, giving the Bombers a 30-20 lead.
The Jaguars came out throwing the ball, however, this time Newman was not fooled and picked off the Jaguar pass.
With time counting down, the Bombers marched the ball up field one more time. With 8.9 seconds on the clock, Newman took to the air connecting with Weller for a 51-yard touchdown pass, followed by a Newman 2-point conversion. The Bombers had a 38-20 lead going into half time.
The second half, the Bombers started with the ball. Weller took the kickoff and returned it to the Bomber 35 yard line. This time Shelgren got the call to carry the ball, but was stopped at the line of scrimmage.
The Bombers again gave the ball to Shelgren, but this time he found an opening in the Jaguar defense and took the ball 66 yards for the touchdown, with Newman passing the ball to Weller for the 2-point conversion. The Bombers went up 46-20.
In the second half, the Bombers made some adjustments and the defense put a halt on the Jaguars' air game.
Bombers Tory Slater and Jaxon Lind both had some great plays, forcing the Jaguars to punt the ball. The Bombers controlled the second half with Newman connecting with Weller for a 39 yard touchdown pass. Shelgren took the ball into the end zone for the 2-point conversion. The Bombers extended their lead to 54-20.
The Bombers defense again stopped the Jaguars' passing game and the Bombers got the ball back. This time, the Bombers kept the ball on the ground, pounding the ball up field resulting in a Newman 31-yard touchdown run, with Weller taking the ball in for 2-point conversion. The Bombers lead extended to 62-20.
With the beginning of the fourth quarter and the clock on run time, the Bombers began to substitute younger players for some of the more experienced ones, allowing the Jaguars to connect with a 15-yard touchdown pass, and a Nate Nelson 2-point conversion, bringing the score to 62-28. The game ultimately ended with both teams subbing in younger players.
With this win, the Bombers advance their season to 4-0, while the Jaguars drop to a 1-3 record. The Jaguars next take on the Rangers of Crosby-Ironton, while the Bombers will host the Mesabi East Giants for Barnum's homecoming.


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For the seventh consecutive year, Hope College has been named one of the "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" in West Michigan.
The competition is a program of the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA). Hope and the region's other 2012 winners will be recognized during the "West Michigan's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" annual human resources symposium and awards program on Thursday, May 3, at the Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville.
An independent research firm evaluates each company's entry based on key measures in various categories. They include Compensation, Benefits and Employee Solutions; Employee Enrichment, Engagement and Retention; Employee Education and Development; Recruitment, Selection and Orientation; Employee Achievement and Recognition; Communication and Shared Vision; Diversity and Inclusion; Work-Life Balance; Community Initiatives; Strategic Company Performance; and the Best of the Best Small Business.
The winners represent industries as diverse as the automotive, insurance, hospitality, communications and nonprofit sectors. They were chosen for practicing innovative strategies and representing best practices in human resources, according to Jennifer Kluge, MBPA president.
"We are honored to recognize the efforts of this year's 101 Best and Brightest companies. These companies have created impressive organizational value and business results through their policies and best practices in human resource management," Kluge said. "This award has become a designation sought after by hundreds of West Michigan area companies and is a powerful recruitment tool in the drive to attract and retain exceptional employees."
The winning 101 companies also vie for 11 elite awards, one granted for each category. Also, an overall winner that has excelled in all categories will be honored with a "Best of the Best Overall" award. The award winners will be announced during the luncheon.
The annual human resources symposium and awards program will begin with registration, networking and an exhibit gallery at 7:30 a.m. Educational workshops will follow at 8 a.m. The topics of this year's sessions will include "Best Practice Session: Solutions and Considerations," and "A Look Into the Future: What Skills and Talents Will We Need?" The luncheon and awards ceremony begins at 11 a.m.
Sponsors of the "West Michigan's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" include "Grand Rapids Business Journal," WOOD Radio, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, The Employers' Association, Staples, Davenport University, Spectrum Health, Rehmann, AT & T Michigan, and McGraw Wentworth.
The "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" recognition is presented annually in several markets: Metro Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and West Michigan. Nominations are now being accepted for 2013, and applications are available at www.101bestandbrightest.com.
Based in Warren, the Michigan Business & Professional Association (MBPA) is the largest business organization of small to medium-sized businesses in Michigan, representing more than 20,000 members who employ more than 200,0000 persons. Members include attorneys, physicians, architects, accountants, construction companies, banks, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and the like. Member businesses receive numerous benefits including free legal and financial consultations; discounted technology, automotive and office products; employee training and recruitment assistance; and competitive insurance rates. The MBPA is a sister association to the Michigan Food & Beverage Association (MFBA) with more than 3,400 members. Additional information is available online at www.michbusiness.org and www.michfood.org.


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The documentation for PocoMail says this about IMAP Accounts:
"If your IMAP account is correctly setup PocoMail will automatically expand your root IMAP online mailbox into currently available IMAP folders found on your IMAP server".
Is this ability implemented for PocoMail PE? I have attempted every conceivable configuration of PocoMail PE and I cannot get my IMAP server folders to display in PocoMail PE. Can anyone offer any assistance/suggestions as to what if anything I may be doing wrong.
I sent a support request directly to Poco Systems support a few days ago, but unfortunately I have not received a response.


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How does someone become a Medical Physicist?
Several U.S. universities offer academic programs in medical physics leading to a master's or doctor's degree. A thorough preparation in general physics is highly desirable before entry into these programs. The most common programs emphasize the physical properties and medical applications of radiation of all types. Important skills that should be acquired during academic training include knowledge of electronics and computer techniques. A list of training programs is available here.
Academic training alone does not make a medical physicist. Practical experience with medical problems is essential. This experience may be acquired through a residency traineeship or postodoctoral program of one or two years in a hospital. These programs are becoming an increasingly important mode of entry into the profession. A list of institutions offering such residency programs is also available here.


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When we talk about businesses we often hone in on sales and profits.
How much money did they make last year compared to the year before? Who's the new CEO? Is the company expanding? What's their marketing strategy? And let's not forget market share because that's a good indication of how big a splash the business has made in its industry.
All of these are good indicators to follow. But some businesses transcend those markers. They exist simply because someone wanted to follow their dream and create something special — something others could share.
The latter is a pretty good description of Pasadena Guitars. Jeff Taylor didn't start the business in 2008 along with partner Jon Boyer because he was hungry for profits. And he certainly wasn't looking to dominate the market. No, he launched Pasadena Guitars because he had a love for music — and especially guitars.
And he wanted to share it.
Taylor wanted to provide an alternative to the mega music stores like Guitar Center and Sam Ash that pretty much sell your basic off-the-rack guitars. Now I'm not knocking those stores because you can find some great guitars there.
But Pasadena Guitars was different. Many of the instruments there would be on virtually any guitar player's wish list.
And notice I said Pasadena Guitars "was" different. That's right, the past tense is correct in this case because the store's last day of operation was Wednesday.
They didn't have a big going-away party or a frantic "Everything Must Go" sale, although they are planning to set up an e-commerce website to sell off whatever inventory remains.
Nope, it was pretty low-key when I stopped over early Wednesday.
One customer was shredding away at some ZZ Top licks on a Gibson SG while his friend looked on.
And Laura Taylor, Jeff's daughter, was manning the counter.
"It's a little busy, actually," she said. "We had up to 10 people at a time come in yesterday. It's been busy running around trying to help everybody … but busy in a good way."
Jeff would no doubt have liked that.
Taylor, who never smoked a day in his life, died of lung cancer on Thanksgiving. Now I'd like to be able to say I knew Jeff well. But the honest truth is, I didn't.
I figure I must have met him when I stopped in at the store a couple of times last year, but I couldn't swear to it.
I will say one thing, though. Jeff's presence could be felt throughout Pasadena Guitars. Every time I stepped inside the store and tried out one of those high-end guitars or amps I felt the passion of someone who loved music and appreciated beautiful instruments and equipment.
When I picked up that 1952 reissue Fender Telecaster that was hanging on the wall, sales and profits were the furthest thing from my mind.
And for a boutique shop like Pasadena Guitars, that's probably as it should be.


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High School Students
Thank you for your interest in Thomas More College! The staff and student ambassadors in the Office of Enrollment look forward to assisting as you determine if TMC might be the right fit for you. Whether you are just getting started in your college search or are ready to submit your application today, we are here to help you and your family in this important process. Your enrollment counselor is available to answer any question you may have about the application process, academic programs, campus life or even the Northern Kentucky area. We encourage you to come to campus to experience the TMC community firsthand. Attend an event or schedule an individual visit with a personalized itinerary. We can't wait to welcome you to campus!


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The Devil's No Longer in the Details11 Sep, 2012 By: Lynn Allen
Circles and Lines Tutorial: New detail and section view tools in AutoCAD 2013 are easy to use and flexible enough to conform to your CAD standards.
Figure 1. Find the section and detail view tools under the Layout tab in AutoCAD 2013.
Begin with a 3D model; the detail and section views are automatically generated from that. If you're still stuck in a 2D world, now is the time to add that third dimension! (Convincing you to make the move to 3D is an article unto itself, so I'll just assume you're already convinced.) Once you have your 3D model, it's time to use the model documentation tools that were introduced in AutoCAD 2012. (For more information on that topic, check out my column, "2D Views Now Linked to 3D Models," Cadalyst, Winter 2012.) Create your standard views (top, left, front, etc.) using the ViewBase command, or by selecting the Base tool from the Layout tab on the ribbon. (You will create your detail and section views from these existing views, hence this important prerequisite.)
Figure 2. A section view is easy to create from a top view.
Create a Section View
The new Layout tab in the AutoCAD 2013 ribbon contains the detail and section view tools (figure 1).
If you are a ribbon rebel and have turned off the ribbon, you can use the ViewSection and ViewDetail commands. Here you'll find a variety of type options for creating your section lines, such as Full, Half, and From Object. AutoCAD uses the section line to generate the section view.
AutoCAD asks you to select an existing view for sectioning, the two points for the section line, and where you'd like the view to land. Voila! Now you have a fabulous section view and label (figure 2).
Don't worry if you don't draw the section line correctly; it's easy to modify or flip its direction using the grips on the section line (also shown in figure 2).
Modify the Section View
Select the view, then choose Edit View from the ribbon or use the ViewEdit command. AutoCAD displays a variety of customization options such as scale factor, appearance, and the label identifier (figure 3).
Figure 3. Choose Edit View from the ribbon or use the ViewEdit Command to access options for customizing the section view label and appearance.
If your section view still doesn't meet your standards, you'll find a Section View Style Manager (much like the Dim Style Manager) complete with four tabs of options to ensure your section views are a perfect match (figure 4). Access it via the Layout tab on the ribbon or by using the ViewSectionStyle command.
Figure 4. Use the Section View Style Manager for even more control over the appearance of your section views.
Create a Detail View
Creating detail views is similar to creating section views. Select Detail from the Layout tab, and you will see two options: Circular and Rectangular. Select an option, then choose the view to detail, the boundaries of your detail, and the location for your detail. You should find yourself with a shiny new detail view and label (figure 5).
Figure 5. Select the view, a boundary, and a location to create a detail view.
Modify the Detail View
To access a variety of additional options for editing your detail view, first select a detail view, then use the View Edit tool from the ribbon or use the ViewEdit command. This will take you to the Detail View Editor tab (figure 6) where you will find options to add a connection line, switch shapes, edit the label and scale, and more.
Figure 6. Additional options for modifying detail view appearance, boundary, and label are displayed after using the View Edit tool from the ribbon.
To modify the size or location of a boundary, simply adjust the grips, and the view dynamically updates. Super easy!
Of course, the Detail View Manager is full of options to ensure that your detail view matches your company's CAD standards. Make changes using the Detail View Style Manager (figure 7) via the Layout tab or the ViewDetailStyle command.
Figure 7. Use the Detail View Style Manager to customize your detail view settings.
Detail and section views don't have to be cumbersome anymore — not with the new detail and section view tools. Give them a try and you'll never encounter the devil in the details again! Until next month, Happy AutoCAD-ing!
About the Author: Lynn Allen
AutoCAD Tips!
In her easy-to-follow, friendly style, long-time Cadalyst contributing editor Lynn Allen guides you through a new feature or time-saving trick in every episode of her popular AutoCAD Video Tips. Subscribe to the free Cadalyst Video Picks newsletter, and we'll notify you every time a new video tip is published. All exclusively from Cadalyst!


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Published January 13, 2015
Cole Hamels hurled seven innings of one- run ball to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-1 win over the Miami Marlins to complete a three-game sweep at Citizens Bank Park.
After going 0-6 with a 4.95 earned run average over six starts in May, Hamels (2-9) finally turned things around to earn his first win since April 28. He scattered four hits and struck out a season-high 11 batters in his best outing of the year.
Domonic Brown hit a two-run homer and Ryan Howard tripled and drove in a pair for the Phillies, who have won a season-high four straight games.
The Phillies reached .500 (30-30) for the first time since they were 6-6 on April 14.
"I think getting back to .500 is key just to start over," Hamels said. "Winning series, if you're able to do that in the ultimate long run you're going to have a winning record and you're going to be near the top of your division. We accomplished a good goal."
Derek Dietrich accounted for the Marlins' lone run with a homer.
A.J. Ramos (0-2) absorbed the loss after getting knocked around during a five- run seventh for Philadelphia.
"He was aggressive in the strike zone, I thought he had solid movement," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said of starter Jacob Turner, who allowed four hits and a run over six innings. "He pounded the strike zone and held a good lineup in check. It was a good game for six innings."
Jimmy Rollins broke a 1-1 tie with an RBI single in the seventh, triggering a five-run rally all with two outs. With Cesar Hernandez and Ben Revere on first and second, Rollins dropped a single into center field to score Hernandez, then stole second to put two in scoring position.
Howard followed with a bases-clearing triple past a diving Marcell Ozuna in right and Brown capped the five-run frame with a solo shot to right field. It was his NL-leading 18th homer of the season and provided the hosts with a five-run edge.
Justin De Fratus and Michael Stutes followed Hamels with a scoreless inning apiece to lock down the victory.
Erik Kratz got the Phils on the board in second. Mayberry singled then scored as the Phils' catcher roped a double into the corner in left field.
Dietrich tied things up in the fourth after crushing a solo homer right field.
Game Notes
Home plate umpire John Hirschbeck left the game in the seventh inning after he was hit on the hand with a pitch ... Revere and Rollins each stole a base ... The Marlins have dropped three straight and 12 of their last 15 games overall.


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When I first saw that this month's Daring Baker Challenge was strudel, I was absolutely thrilled, excited and terrified. I don't know how familiar you are with the making of strudel, but it involves creating outrageously thin sheets of dough (like filo) that are wrapped around a filling in flaky layers of dough. In an ideal universe, the dough is stretched so thin in becomes transparent. The miraculous ingredient that allows a dough to stretch so thin and yet still be manageable? Gluten, of course. So what is a gluten-free lady to do besides cry over her sorghum? I've always felt confident that gluten-free foods can be just as tasty as their gluten equivalent, but even in my most optimistic, I'd never tried making anything to replicate strudel dough. I knew some gluten-free cookbook authors had,though. Rebecca Reilly, in her masterful Gluten-Free Baking had a gluten free filo dough worthy of baklava, and the CIA cookbook (Gluten-Free Baking with The Culinary Institute of America)also includes a gluten free filo dough recipe. I wanted my first attempt to be based on a master gluten-free cookbook recipe, but reports had come in that Reilly's filo dough was more like a typical pastry. The CIA cookbook recipe called for two complex blends of flours that were only used in small amounts, as well as weird ingredients like powdered egg white and soy flour. I found the powdered egg at Whole Foods for many a pretty penny, but Bob's Red Mill didn't have a gluten-free line soy flour and thus I was out of luck there. I also just balked at how complicated the recipe was. Luckily, Carol Fenster also had a apple strudel recipe, inspired no doubt by her travels in Austria, and it wasn't terribly complicated. Some time ago I received an advance copy of her book1,000 Gluten-Free Recipesand had gotten permission to reprint several recipes. I demonstrated her easy-to-handle pastry in my first video review post, but thought it would be fun to share the strudel pastry recipe as well- providing it turned out to be a good recipe.
Although I am not crazy about the flavor of sorghum in her blend, the dough was extremely easy to work with and I was pleased at how thin I was able to get it and yet still shape it around a hearty apple filling. It also baked up beautifully and kept its shape nicely, although there was some cracking. It was not extremely flaky, but it was an excellent beginning. I filled it with my own version of the apple strudel filling proposed by the Daring Bakers, and didn't use Carol's apple filling. The DH pronounced it tasty and enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, but was not sure I would make it again just because the flavor was not exactly what I was hoping for.
My next attempt was based on the Daring Baker recipe, but I used Whole Foods Gluten-free flour (which includes guar gum) and added freshly ground chia seed which acts as a binder much like flax seed. The dough was reasonably easy to work with, but the dark chia seeds and lack of colorant resulted in a pasty dough flecked with chia meal. I made my favorite filling for this pastry dough- a thick, lovely and sweet blueberry filling offset by fresh mint bread crumbs. The filling was a success- and I'd have loved it in a nice gluten-free pastry dough, but the dough was flat and gummy. I wouldn't make it again, but the blueberry filling will definitely be appearing in pie sometime soon!
My third and final trial was using an old favorite- the gluten-free Chebe mix made from tapioca starch. I thought this would be a good substitute because the tapioca has certain stretchiness that may be slightly similar to gluten. And, it is easy to handle just as the wheat version might be. I have experimented before with Chebe mix as a pastry with excellent results. Unfortunately, for the filling I chose a cherry ricotta-cream cheese filling with black cherry jam which tended to ooze out of the pastry in a highly dramatic fashion. In the second version of this, I found a way to keep the pastry self contained, but I was still dissatisfied with the filling overall (although the fresh cherries were lovely.) The DH loves cherries and seemed very well pleased with the pastry- as I do, he enjoys the slight chewiness of the dough, and the powdered sugar really did compliment the dish. I don't know if I would call it strudel, exactly- but of all the pastries I tried, I am most likely to make this kind again, with a different filling.
Ultimately, this Daring Baker Challenge was the most disheartening one I've participated in yet. I was really forced to acknowledge the limitations of gluten-free flours. Although it is possible to make a perfectly nice pastry, it is very, very hard for the home baker to approximate something like filo dough with gluten-free flour. I've heard promising rumors of some european gluten-free puff pastry, produced with amazing equipment no doubt. Unfortunately, such a thing is not available here, yet… so, I'm afraid puff pastry and proper baklava or strudel is out of reach for THIS daring baker, at any rate. I hope my gluten-free peers had more success than I did… and I look forward to seeing their results. Many of the resultant products that I came up with were tasty- I just don't feel that they were a proper strudel, ultimately…
Curious about how other gluten-free cookbook versions of Strudel stacked up?
Jill Elise tried Rebecca Reilly's strudel recipe at Hey that Tastes Good
Mary tried the CIA gluten-free strudel at Beans and Caviar
The May Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers.
Carol Fenster Strudel Recipe
1 cup Carol's Sorghum Blend
3/4 cup tapioca starch flour
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
1/4 sugar, divided
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon guar gum (*or more xanthan gum)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast
1/2 cup shortening (*I used Earth balance, but you could also use spectrum)
1/3 cup 1% milk (non dairy is fine)
1 tsp. vinegar or lemon juice
1 egg, beaten to a foam, for brushing/ OR butter or margarine, melted
*1) Make the dough. Place the dry ingredients and shortening in your food processor and blend. Add milk and vinegar and blend again, letting the dough form a dough. If it doesn't form a ball, add a little extra liquid until it does. Form into two 1-inch-thick disks, wrap tightly in plastic wrap,and chill 1 hour.
2) Warm one disk in your hand and put on a 15-inch sheet of *wax paper. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and roll it to a 1/8 inch thin rectangle about 10*12 inches.
3) Place a rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350F.
4) Make filling of your choice. *MY MODIFICATIONS sprinkle middle of rectangle with seasoned bread crumbs. Then add filling of choice. Turn in ends, and start rolling up into a long cylinder. Carefully lift and roll onto a piece of parchment paper* Transfer the strudel to a 15*10 baking sheet.
6)Bake 30 minutes on the middle rack or until the crust starts to brown. Baste with egg mixture or meltedmargarine and sprinklewith sugar,and return to oven to bake 10 minutes more or until the strudel is completely browned. Cool the strudels on the pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Cut each strudel into 6 slices.Serve warm or at room temperature.
*abbreviated from the cookbook instructions, but essence remains*
Apple Cardamom Streudel Filling
juice from 1/2 lemon
4 medium apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1 1/2 tbsp butter or dairy-free margarine (Earth balance etc.)
freshly ground cardamom to taste (1/8 tsp or so)
freshly grated nutmeg (1/8 tsp or less)
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 capfuls of vanilla essence (2 scant tsp)
2 tbsp. vanilla sugar (sugar with vanilla bean stored in it)
1 tbsp. butter or margarine
1/4 cup pecans
1 tbsp. organic sugar
sprinkle of salt
1 1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine
Spritz sliced apples with lemon juice in a bowl.
Heat 1 tbsp. butter or margarine in pan and add your apples. Season and sprinkle with sugar as they turn brown, turning as needed. Melt remaining tablespoon of butter in pan and add pecans. Mix together with apples then add last bit of sugar and salt. Remove from pan and reserve.
Melt butter or margarine in pan on medium, add bread crumbs and let brown. Season with cinnamon and vanilla sugar. After 3 or more minutes when bread crumbs are browned, remove from pan and let chill.
Use as filling for gluten-free strudel recipe.
Blueberry Mint Strudel Filling Recipe
4 cups frozen blueberries
2/3 scant cup vanilla sugar
1 tbsp. cornstarch, mixed with 1 tbsp. of water
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup almond slices
2 tbsp. butter or margarine
Bring blueberries and sugar to boil in a pan. Then add vanilla and almond slices. Whisk cornstarch and water together in a small dish. Add a little of the blueberry juice from the hot pan into the cornstarch slurry and whisk. Next,add slurry to blueberry mixture in pan and combine thoroughly. Lower heat and let simmer, thickening. If it doesn't seem thick enough you can add more cornstarch mixed with water or blueberry juice.
Meanwhile, in a cast iron pan melt 1 1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine on medium heat. Add your gluten-free bread crumbs and sautee for 2 minutes or so, then drizzling the vanilla on the bread crumbs and mixing together. Make space in the center of the pan and melt the remaining 1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine, adding the mint to the butter. Let the herb wilts lightly and fold into the bread crumbs. Remove from heat.
Use in gluten-free strudel recipe.
Chebe Strudel Pastry Recipe
1 7.5-ounce package Chebe All-Purpose Gluten-Free Bread Mix
2 large eggs
2 tbsp butter or margarine
5 tbsp milk, liquid milk substitute, or water
1 tbsp.sugar
Extra butter for basting dough
Combine ingredients from mix through sugar in medium mixing bowl. Stir until ingredients come together, and then knead to form a smooth ball. Refrigerate for one hour or overnight.
Preheat oven to 375.
Separate dough into two parts. Put one half in a gallon ziploc bag, preferably freezer quality. Sprinkle with sweet rice flour as needed and use rolling pin on TOP of bag to roll dough out inside the bag. When dough is rolled out into one thin sheet, cut out sides and top of bag (where zip portion is). Baste dough with butter and fill as you would any small strudel. Roll into strudel cylinder onto a sheet of parchment paper. Remove to pan and bake for 30 minutes. Turn and bake in increments of ten minutes until dough is browned and crispy and filling is done to taste. Remove from oven, let cool and then cut individual servings, sprinkling with powdered sugar.
Not a traditional dough, but easy to work with and has good flavor.


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Robert Nichols, 43, was at Cedar Creek Reservoir's Stumpy Pond boat landing, with several family members when the accident happened about 6:20 p.m. Saturday, said Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Tony Broome.
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The Jawa and I would like to announce the birth of our baby boy, Cael Peter (aka Mini Jawa). He was born 4 May and was 9 pounds, 12 ounces - eventually arrived by caesarian.
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A composer of his time and birthright, Daugherty is a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native and the musical embodiment of Americana. His canvas reflects a 20th century cultural mosaic dotted by the likes of Elvis and Superman and Jackie Onassis. At age 55, Daugherty is also the exuberant master of his craft, an artist whose sophistication and compelling appeal can seem utterly at odds with the often kitschy titles of his works.
Such is the quirky, sly, smart composer whose "Mount Rushmore" for chorus and orchestra will receive its world premiere this week at the Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival, led by music director Carl St.Clair.
Daugherty, the Pacific Symphony's composer in residence for its 2009-10 season, was commissioned to write "Mount Rushmore" for the festival, themed "The Greatest Generation." It will be performed by the symphony and the Pacific Chorale.
The new work is typical of Daugherty's creative process. Its inspiration harks back to childhood experiences, when the family would pile into the car for road trips that included a visit to the famous granite sculpture in South Dakota where presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are enshrined.
"Mt. Rushmore is a complex icon of American history," Daugherty says. "It means a lot of different things to different people. It can be viewed as a symbol for democracy, a travesty against American Indians in that it carved up sacred ground, or a huge tourist trap, or an icon you must visit.
"I've always been interested in those kinds of polarizing attitudes, from Superman to Rosa Parks to Abraham Lincoln."
Take the comic-book hero celebrated in Daugherty's earliest work for large orchestra, the 1988 "Metropolis Symphony." In this deceptively brilliant suite, with its funky movement titles such as "Krypton" and "Oh, Lois" and "Red Cape Tango," you'll find all the formative elements of the creative force Daugherty has become. You think you're in for parody but get dramatic invention. You expect something slight and cavalier, only to be first shocked, then absorbed by music of depth and complexity.
Assured craftsmanship and persistent seriousness shape the progress of Daugherty's compositions from "Dead Elvis" for solo bassoon and chamber orchestra (1993) and "Route 66" for large orchestra (1998) to the violin concerto "Fire and Blood" (2003) and the piano concerto "Deus Ex Machina" (2007), the last inspired by the disappearance of trains from the American landscape.
Yet the challenge of "Mount Rushmore" has drawn Daugherty onto uncharted ground. While he has one opera to his credit, the well-regarded "Jackie O" (1997), this is his first work for large chorus and orchestra. He admits he needed a compass.
So he went to the examples of Britten's "War Requiem," Verdi's "Requiem" and Poulenc's "Gloria."
"I was looking for what works in balancing chorus with orchestra," he says. "First of all the choir has to carry the piece. So first I wrote the choral part and workshopped that with piano, then added the orchestration."
Daugherty, who teaches composition at the University of Michigan, found a ready test bench in the University of Michigan Chamber Choir and a knowing advisor in its director, Jerry Blackstone.
The composer's home studio, just off campus on Ann Arbor's old west side, is surrounded by large elm trees on the outside and is resonant of his eclectic spirit within. Bookshelves are packed with antique-store finds, "Star Trek" collectibles and 1950s science-fiction movies. At the center of it all are the instruments of his trade.
"I work like a director in a film," Daugherty says. "I work off the energy of the actors or in this case the singers. A lot of composers rely strictly on technology, but the human element is very important to me. I do have my own little world -- my studio with my computer and MIDI gear, but in the end the music has to be performable."
John Alexander, artistic director of the 140-voice Pacific Chorale, calls the result "very accessible to the singers as well as to the listener. The colors Michael creates in the work come from a very inventive orchestration that continually weaves itself around the choral declamation of the texts."
Alexander also notes a strong resemblance in "Mount Rushmore" to Copland's approach to Americana, with its strong rhythmic intensity and vigorous melodies. And one can't help thinking of Charles Ives in Daugherty's colorful peppering of such period tunes as "Chester," "Yankee Doodle," " Rock of Ages," "Dixie" and, of course, the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Yet by no means do these quotations summarize Daugherty's effort at spiritual authenticity. Not only did he visit Mt. Rushmore several times before beginning work, but he made pilgrimages to Washington's home, Mount Vernon; Jefferson's home, Monticello; the Gettysburg battlefield; and the Dakotas, whose natural splendor inspired Teddy Roosevelt's creation of the National Park Service. And he read extensively.
"With Jefferson," Daugherty says, "you have these collisions between his ideals and practical reality -- and his ambivalent attitude toward slavery. Both Jefferson and Washington were reluctant presidents. Washington dreamed of becoming a farmer.
"Lincoln was the pontificator, on the mountain. Roosevelt was robust, masculine. He loved the wilderness and uncharted territories."
Daugherty distilled his texts from the writings of each man. From Washington, we hear: "I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers." In Jefferson's words resound the terse essentials of the Declaration of Independence: "Tyranny, Liberty, Slavery, Dignity, Justice." Roosevelt celebrates "the hardy life of the open." And we are reminded in Lincoln's rhetoric of those who fought and died that democracy should not perish from the earth.
The trail that led Daugherty to "Mount Rushmore" can be traced to his Iowa roots. But he says his love of Americana bloomed only at long distance.
The product of a musical family in which everyone played an instrument or sang, Daugherty taught himself to play piano at age 8, then migrated to drums and played with rock, jazz and country bands while growing up.
After taking up composition at North Texas State University, he relocated to New York for studies with Charles Wuorinen at the Manhattan School of Music.
A Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to go to Paris, where he won the notice and nurturing of celebrated avant-garde composers such as Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio. Later he worked with György Ligeti.
"I liked the music of those composers," Daugherty says, "but sometimes you have to be far away from something to see what really moves you emotionally. I realized the thing that meant most to me was my experiences growing up in America."
In 1980, Daugherty returned to the U.S. for doctoral studies at Yale University with Jacob Druckman. At Yale he also met and became fast friends with another bright young composer, Los Angeles native David Lang, who would go on to help found the seminal Bang on a Can Festival in New York City. Lang's "Little Match Girl Passion" won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
What first impressed Lang about Daugherty in their student days was the Iowan's size. He's well over 6 feet tall, broad shouldered and instantly approachable. "He was the Shaquille O'Neal of classical music," says Lang, who now teaches at Yale. "He was really into strange jazz and playing all sorts of weird music as a keyboardist. Now he's everywhere. He might be the most recorded American composer."
St.Clair, whose friendship with Daugherty goes back many years, offers a sort of inverted compliment: "Michael is not a composer who is long in the tooth. He deals with popular idioms, but his way of capturing them is distinctly his."
Indeed, Daugherty says he's surprised more composers haven't joined his pursuit of Americana.
"After all these years," he says, "I'm still the Lone Ranger."
Johnson is the music critic for the Detroit News.