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A 22-year-old Sioux Falls man is in jail and facing charges in the death of another Sioux Falls man over the weekend.
Police Chief Doug Barthel says Robert Cornelius Bass III is charged in the beating death of 50-year-old Crescencio Conde-Vargas.
Police Chief Doug Barthel Speaks About the Arrest:
The victim was found dead in his apartment in the 1000 block of East 8th Street at noon on Monday. Chief Barthel says it's believed that Bass killed Conde-Vargas around 4 am Saturday.
Minnehaha County State's Attorney Aaron McGowan says Bass is charged with one count of second-degree murder and two alternative counts of first-degree manslaughter.
Barthel says drinking was involved, and he says Bass and Conde-Vargas were acquainted through a third person.
Barthel says the homicide is the first in the city this year, after three in 2012.


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Won't be until the 2nd week of August. I won't have much time, I'm actually spending the week in Mountain View but I have family in SF that I will be visiting for a weekend.
Tried a BevMo today and they didn't have Pliny. An employee said they don't get much and it sells out fast. But he suggested I try Knee Deep Brewing's Hoptologist DIPA which was supposed to be a Pliny clone. Drinking it right now and liking. Anyone know how close this is to the real thing?
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I slowly dry my tomatoes; this is lovely to do under a hot summer sun, but is easily accomplished in a low-temperature oven as well. The rich and sticky tomatoes are an integral part of my favorite frittata, but also make for a delicious addition to or garnish for many dishes.–Jessica Theroux
LC On The Necessity & Versatility of Sticky Tomatoes Note
The only teensy peeve we could possibly imagine having with the charming Jessica Theroux and her sticky, chewy, squidgy-in-a-good-way tomatoes? The nonchalant mention that they make an able accompaniment to "many dishes." We can certainly come up with our own list of uses–tossed with pasta, plopped alongside grilled meat or fish, smooshed onto ricotta-slathered crostini, stirred into stews, and gobbled greedily, one after another, as you stand at the counter–yet we're curious to hear what those Italian grandmothers that Theroux spent a year interviewing suggest. We know that at least one of them harnesses sticky tomatoes in a frittata, as Theroux shares a lovely recipe for a jumble of eggs, pecorino, and these very tomatoes in her lavishly photographed book. But if anyone has any other suggestions, we and our stash of sticky tomatoes are standing by….
Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6 to 8
- 1 pound mixed tomatoes (cherry and regular tomatoes; meaty and firm tomatoes work particularly well)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Sprinkle granulated sugar, if it's not tomato season
- 1. Preheat the oven to 325°F (162°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 2. Slice the cherry tomatoes in half and the larger tomatoes into slices 1/3- to 1/2-inch thick. Place the tomatoes on the baking sheet and drizzle with the olive oil, gently turning and sliding and rubbing the tomatoes around in the oil to coat them on all sides. Sprinkle with the salt and, if desired, the sugar.
- 3. Bake for roughly 1 hour to 1 1/4 hours, until the tomatoes look a little wrinkled and sticky and are starting to brown on the bottoms but still have some moisture left in them. Remove the parchment and the tomatoes from the baking sheet and let cool on a wire rack while you try not to inhale all of them, one after another.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.


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The return of "The Ultimate Fighter" to Brazil officially has its coaches set.
As previously reported, Brazilian veterans Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (34-7-1 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Fabricio Werdum (16-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) will serve as coaches on the second season of "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil." UFC
UFC officials on Tuesday announced the two fighters will square off as coaches on the reality show before squaring off in the octagon following the season.
"TUF: Brazil 2," which is expected to feature welterweight fighters, will begin filming in early 2013 with an expected debut of next March. Earlier this month, more than 300 hopefuls attended an open tryout to get on the show following UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro.
"TUF: Brazil" was the first international edition of the long-running reality competition series. The show, which featured coaches Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort, debuted this past March and aired on Globo in Brazil. In the U.S., the show streamed on TUF.tv, and FUEL TV carried it on a delayed basis starting in June.
Following "TUF: Brazil 2," Nogueira and Werdum will fight in the traditional season-ending coaches fight. That bout will be a rematch between the two. Nogueira beat Werdum by decision at a 2006 PRIDE event in the first round of an open-weight grand prix.
Nogueira is coming off a submission victory over Dave Herman at UFC 153 in Rio. But he has alternated wins and losses in his past seven fights. Werdum re-signed with the UFC after a 3-1 stint with Strikeforce, where he upset Antonio Silva and Fedor Emelianenko. He's on a 5-1 run, including a TKO win over Mike Russow at UFC 147 in Brazil in June.
Nogueira coached Season 8 of the U.S. version of "The Ultimate Fighter" opposite Frank Mir.
For more on "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2," stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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outlastllc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 156 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
Simmons Leadership Consulting LLC
I am a "young professional" who struggled with the transition from learning (college) to leading (work). I started this company to help new leaders to quickly and effectively develop their personal leadership style based on their skills and interests, and to help them use that style to meet the new expectations of the business world.
I believe that we each have a leadership style that is uniquely us, and as familiar to us as our own name. We must simply be taught to recognize it through the experiences and achievements of our lives.
I want to create a business that is professional, but not stuffy; flexible, yet structured; premium, yet accessible. I want it to feel intuitive--as though my services were as integral to their success as their education and work training.
This is the first piece of branding for the company and will serve as the backbone for all future branded material.
My target audience would be best defined as anyone in transition from learning to leading--whether it's a new hire moving from college to corporate America, or a shift worker moving into management.
These are people who are suddenly playing a new game, with new rules and no handbook. The skills that got them there are no longer rewarded in this new world, and they are looking for someone to help them make sense of it all--someone to help them leverage the skills they have to be successful against unfamiliar and unwritten expectations. They want to connect to a sense of purpose, of fulfillment, and consider happiness to be part of their measurement of success.
I expect that the majority of my clients will be 20-35 years old and working in mid- to large-sized companies. I am located in the greater Cincinnati area and will seek to work with clients predominantly based in that region.
I am looking for a logo to represent both my company and myself.
I would love for the logo to consist of both typeface and an icon. I am open to the abbreviation "SLC" as part of the design as well.
I don't want any animals or personified characters of any kind. I'd like for it to be clean and simple, yet distinctive. No more than three colors in the entire logo.
It also needs to be scalable to different sizes and media (e.g., business cards, polo shirts, posters, etc.)
Some examples of logos I like are:
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/ - I love that the arrow goes from "A to Z" and is in the shape of a smile. Simple, but it says a lot.
Field Notes Brand http://fieldnotesbrand.com/ - They took two words, a basic black font, and a brown background and turned it into an instantly recognizable brand among their followers.
99designs.com's logo is also a great example of a logo that is simple, yet effective at bringing what they do to life.
Sony, BBC, YouTube, and Pandora are other logos that I think are great.
Please feel free to experiment with colors, but I don't want anything neon.
The file types I need are: .ai (CMYK), .eps, .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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SUSE Studio Builds Customized Linux Appliances in a Flash
Automated Customization GoodnessOne of the best ways to try out a new Linux distribution is to download a bootable ISO or USB image file and give it a quick spin. The Knoppix distribution was one of the first to distribute in a bootable CD form, making it possible to try out Linux without installing to a hard drive. VMware added another option to the mix with the release of their free VMware Player. With that introduction came the flood of new Linux-based appliances targeted at the VMware environment.
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Novell's SUSE Studio brings a slick automation process to the world of Linux appliances. All that's needed on your part is a few mouse clicks and fifteen to twenty minutes of your time. Once the process is complete you'll have a fully bootable image to download in one of several formats, including a VMware image.
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The SUSE Studio website uses a very clean wizard and dialog-based approach to lead you through the build process. Options for each step are presented in logical groupings with short descriptions to help you make your selections. The Novell / SUSE team has put a lot of thought and design effort into the SUSE Studio site, resulting in an extremely easy to use Linux-appliance building experience.
Novell has another tool called the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) that SUSE Studio leverages for a good bit of its functionality. OBS provides a simple web-based and command line interface to a tool for building software packages targeted at specific Linux distributions. With this tool in hand you can easily automate the configuration and building of virtually any open source tool targeted at your distribution. While OBS was originally built with openSUSE as the primary target platform, it does offer support for all the major Linux distributions.
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The first choice you must make when creating a new appliance is the base environment. Current OS choices include openSUSE 11.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and 11. From there you have a number of other options starting with the minimalistic "Just enough OS" (JeOS) to a full GNOME or KDE-based desktop. JeOS is a great way to build a true appliance for things like a standalone Web server. You can also choose between 32- and 64-bit architecture.
A default software configuration will be created depending on the OS choices you made, including a good general selection of applications. You can customize the default settings to add or delete applications to meet your specific needs. There's also a nice search tool to look for specific applications that aren't included in the base set. One really nice touch is the status section showing information about the size of your image in terms of final / compressed size and the selections currently in place. A "messages" section gives helpful tips on other items you might want to include such as VMware tools.
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Author Notes: This is a recipe I created to highlight the delicate taste and pretty hue of flageolet beans. And, I have to admit that I included the yellow peppers out of school spirit, for a potluck football party, but it turned out that the sweet caramelized peppers were a nice contrast to the fresh flavors of the minty beans. —Fairmount_market
Serves: 4 as a side
cup dried flageolet beans
cups water
yellow pepper
large shallot
cup plus 2 Tbsp olive oil
cup mint leaves
cup flat leaf parsley leaves
salt and pepper to taste
In This Recipe
- Sort and rinse the beans and soak them for a few hours or overnight until the plum up. Then drain and simmer in about 4 cups water partially covered on very low heat until tender but intact, about 90 minutes, keeping an eye on them to make sure there is still liquid in the pot. Salt generously. Most of the liquid should be absorbed by this point, but if there is still a lot of liquid in the pot drain the beans (and save the flavorful bean liquor for a soup stock).
- Prepare the caramelized yellow pepper and shallot. Core and seed the pepper and cut into ¼ inch dice. Peel and chop the shallot finely. Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add 2 Tbsp of olive oil and when it starts to shimmer, add the diced pepper and shallot. Cook over medium low heat, stirring frequently, for about 8 minutes until the onion and shallot are very soft and glassy with released sugars. Remove from heat and reserve.
- Prepare the pesto by combining the mint and parsley leaves, olive oil, salt and pepper in a food processor and processing into a mostly smooth paste with still a little texture.
- Combine the cooked beans with the caramelized peppers and the mint pesto. Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve warm or at room temperature.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Fresh Herbs
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Mint
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Need some rest and relaxation? Want an incredible view? Well, Cottage at Twin Oaks has one of the best views around. Just a mere 15-minute drive to downtown Fredericksburg, this completely secluded cabin boasts panoramic views as far as the eye can see. Even on the hottest summer days, the elevation of this property gives you a wonderful cool breeze at all times. Cottage at Twin Oaks is a perfect retreat to take a break from city life and soak in the Hill Country. This private cottage has a full living area with a queen sofa sleeper and a queen-size bed in the bedroom. There is a kitchen area with a full-size refrigerator and a bath with walk in shower. Wildlife is abundant all around the 11 acre property and you are located just a short walk away from the Chisholm Trail Winery. Talk about great location! So if the city seems to be closing in on you and you need to get away, visit Twin Oaks and enjoy the good life, here in the Texas Hill Country!
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2013 Taste of Country Music Festival Lineup Profile: Joe Nichols
2013 is a fresh start for Joe Nichols, who announced his musical partnership with the newly-formed Red Bow Records late last year. The singer will return to the road in the new year to perform at the Taste of Country Music Festival at Hunter Mountain, joining more than a dozen of his fellow country superstars for the first-ever event this June.
Nichols laid low in 2012 to focus on his personal life, including the birth of his second child, daughter Dylan River Nichols, born on April 17. "This gift is not something we take for granted," Nichols shares. "We are going to try to be the best parents possible."
Early Bird ticket packages start at $120 and go on sale Feb. 1 at 10AM ET. Country music enthusiasts can visit Taste of Country Music Festival website for more information about camping, VIP ticket options and more. The fest will run June 13-15, 2013.


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SaferRoads 2017 will be held in Auckland's premier, modern, purpose built conference facility, the ANZ Viaduct Events Centre.
Located on Auckland's vibrant waterfront, this is a premium conference and events venue boasting stunning spaces designed to a five star environmental standard and makes the most of its impressive waterfront location with glass walls, balconies and easy access to the wharf.
The exhibition will be located in a single large dedicated exhibition hall located on the ground floor with easy access for delegates and exhibitors alike. Large entrance ways and floors built to hold heavy loads makes the Waiheke Room an excellent space to display vital tools and equipment used in roading.
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Alexander Payne's seriocomic THE DESCENDANTS, an adaptation of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, stars George Clooney as Matt King, a middle-age Hawaiian who runs a trust responsible for millions of dollars worth of untouched real estate that has been passed down to him and various cousins. He is preparing to sell the area, and make millions for everyone in the trust, when his wife suffers severe head trauma during a boat race. As he attempts to get her affairs in order, he learns that she had been having an affair. With his two daughters in tow, along with his oldest daughter's doofus boyfriend, Matt sets off to confront the man who made him a cuckold. Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, and Robert Forster co-star. THE DESCENDANTS screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
Cast List
Dondi Bastone
Phedon Papamichael - Designer/Director Of Photography/Director
Phedon Papamichail - Designer/Director Of Photography/Director
Alexander Payne - Director/Screenwriter
George Parra
Brian L. Keaulana
Frank Gaeta
Radan Popovic
Matt Callahan
Richard L. Fox - First Assistant Director
Tracey Boyd
Jim Rash
Patrick Cyccone Jr.
Nat Faxon - Star, BEERFEST, (2006)
Custom Film Effects
Susan Strubel
Rick Reynolds
Modern Videofilm Incorporated
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Karen Iboshi Preiser
Debra L. Rego
Beau Bridges - American actor, THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (1989)
Lloyd Vernet Bridges III - American actor, THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (1989)
George Clooney - American actor/director
Milt Kogan - Actor, ANGEL OF H.E.A.T.
Michael Ontkean - Canadian Actor
Robert Forster - American Actor/Director
Robert Foster Jr. - American Actor/Director
Laird Hamilton - Featured, STEP INTO LIQUID (2003)
Matthew Lillard - Actor/"Serial Mom"
Judy Greer
Mary Birdsong - Actress, RENO 911
Tom McTigue
Shailene Woodley
Rob Huebel
Matt Corboy
Scott Michael Morgan
Matthew Reese
Amara Miller
Nick Krause - Actor, HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS, 2006
Patricia Hastie
Grace A. Cruz
Kim Gennaula
Karen Kuioka Hironaga
Carmen Kaichi
Matt Esecson
Stanton Johnston
Jonathan McManus
Hugh Foster
Tiare R. Finney
Aileen "Boo" Arnold
Esther Kang
Melissa Kim
Barbara Lee Southern
Celia Kenney
Zoel Turnbull
Linda Rose Herman
Darryl K. Gonzales
Koko Kanealii
Romey "Keola" Yokotake
- Format: DVD
- Color Format: (unknown/unconverted)
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: August 2017
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"Alexander Payne has made his best film yet with THE DESCENDANTS....George Clooney is in very top form in a film that will connect with any audience looking for a genuine human story..." - 09/02/2011 Hollywood Reporter
5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]riter/director Alexander Payne returns in top form with this extraordinary dramedy....George Clooney has never been better..." - 09/13/2011 Box Office
"[A]n exceptionally smart and enjoyable comedy..." - 09/09/2011 Wall Street Journal
4 stars out of 4 -- "Clooney gives one of his best performances in this film....Payne is gifted at using the essence of an actor..." - 11/16/2011 Chicago Sun-Times
"[T]he film is conversational in its pathos, wry in its wisdom, very much an extension of the smart, sardonic sensibility Payne brought to SIDEWAYS and ABOUT SCHMIDT." - 11/16/2011 Los Angeles Times
"Throughout this beautifully textured portrait of a family at a crucial juncture, we're swept up and buoyed along, as if riding a series of waves in Hawaii, the setting for the film." - 11/16/2011 USA Today
"Mr. Clooney and the director, Alexander Payne, proceed to shake up our expectations....Surprising, moving and frequently very funny." - 11/18/2011 New York Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] pitch-perfect movie that threads a microscopically tiny needle between high comedy and devastating drama." - 11/18/2011 Washington Post
"THE DESCENDANTS thrives primarily because of Paynes staging....the Hawaiian setting gives the story a distinctive flavor..." -- Grade: B - 11/17/2011 A.V. Club
"[A] beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking -- sharp, funny, generous, and moving -- that writes its own rules as much as ABOUT SCHMIDT or SIDEWAYS did." -- Grade: A - 11/25/2011 Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he film plays to Payne's strengths -- not just the emotional complexity and the constantly shifting kaleidoscope of moods, but his skill at eliciting in-depth performances from his cast." - 02/01/2012 Sight and Sound
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] wry, intelligent look at the contradictions and complexities of human emotions. And the cast is exemplary, down to the smallest role." - 03/01/2012 Total Film


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We successfully landed in Washington/Dulles and are about one hour from boarding for Kuwait! It hasn't been without a bit of unfortunate news as Bill Beck, our Senior Director of Team Travel was unable to fly with us due to an illness, and Fredi Gonzalez has been stranded in Atlanta because of weather. Plans are optimistic for Fredi however, who will hopefully join us in Kuwait a day later and join the tour in progress.
In the meantime, Larry, Chris, John, Carin, Stef, Christina, Natalie and I are watching the 4th quarter of the NFC Championship game and counting down the minutes until we leave for our 12-hour flight to Kuwait. Thank you to everyone who sent us your best wishes and positive thoughts over the past fews days.
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At one point, the man, identified as 55-year-old Daniel Shilts, came out of the residence, stood on the front deck, then went back inside, ignoring deputies' commands.
A woman shot and wounded by her ex-husband before he took his own life was able to escape by barricading herself in the bathroom and texting her neighbor for help, a Pine County sheriff's official said Thursday.
The woman was shot in the upper chest by her ex-husband at her home in Brook Park Wednesday about 9 p.m., Chief Deputy Steven Blackwell said.
Deputies from the Pine County and Chisago County Sheriff's Department responded, established a perimeter around the house and tried repeatedly to reach the woman by phone, but got no response.
At one point, the man, identified as 55-year-old Daniel Shilts, came out of the residence, stood on the front deck, then went back inside, ignoring deputies' commands. A short time later his vehicle was found parked about a quarter mile away from the home, authorities said.
Blackwell said SWAT team members busted into the house with a flash-bang device to rescue the woman.
"We didn't know if he (shooter) was in there or not," the chief deputy said. The victim, identified by the Pine County sheriff's office as Dawn Christen, 55, was removed and rushed to St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, where she was in serious condition.
Officers searched the house and found the suspect in the living room where he was holding a pistol to his head, sheriff's officials said.
For the next two hours sheriff's negotiators tried to convince Shilts to surrender. Blackwell said negotiators, protected by shields, were about 10 feet from the suspect when he shot himself.
Blackwell said the woman had visited the sheriff's department several weeks ago to ask about a restraining order. She was in the process of getting legal help, he said.


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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST caitanya mahāprabhu) (Bengali চৈতন্য মহাপ্রভূ) (1486–1534) was an ascetic Vaishnava monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) and Orissa, India.
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- Conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations. Therefore, it is erroneous to say, "this is good" and "this is bad".
- David Ross, 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom, 2006, p. 47


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Author Notes: We recently went out for a fabulous vegetarian meal at Beast, a Portland restaurant most commonly known for it's meat. They serve a monthly vegetarian supper, and it was kismet that for April it fell on my vegetarian sister's birthday. One of the courses was "Pan Crisped Farro with Poached Egg, Grilled Spring Onions, Carrots, and Maitakes." It was fantastic, and the crispy farro was a delight. This dish is my much less complicated version.
I preferred a mix of crisp, nutty farro with more traditionally cooked farro. I also wanted to minimize prep and pans used, so ended up just using sautéed spring onions, with some fresh herbs and lemon for brightness. A dusting of grated cheese and a poached egg on top turns the dish into a satisfying meal. —hardlikearmour
Serves: 2
cup farro
cups chicken stock or low-sodium chicken broth
ounces spring onions (or scallions if it's not spring)
cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
large mint leaves, chiffonade
small to medium lemon
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 eggs
freshly grated black pepper
Parmesan or Pecorino
- Cover farro with water by at least an inch, and allow to soak for 30 to 40 minutes.
- Bring chicken stock to a boil in a medium saucepan, once it's boiling reduce heat to maintain a simmer. Clean the onions, and remove any less than fresh leaves. Cut the onions at the junction where the leaves start. Add the greens to the stock. Set the rest of the onions aside. Allow stock to simmer while the farro is soaking, then remove the greens. Taste for salt, and adjust so it's fairly salty, essentially like pasta water.
- Drain the farro, and add to the stock. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to maintain a simmer. Simmer until the farro is tender, but still slightly chewy, about 20 minutes (depending on your farro.) Drain the farro well, and transfer to a sheet pan lined with a clean tea towel to dry.
- While the farro is cooking, zest and juice your lemon. Set aside. Chiffonade your mint and chop your parsley. Set aside. If your spring onions are fat, cut them in half lengthwise then into thin (1/8-inch or so) slices. If they're thin, bias cut them into thin slices. Set aside.
- Get ready to poach your eggs, if you already have a tried and true method, go ahead and use it otherwise give this a whirl: Place a rack or folded towel in the bottom of a large saucepan or stock pot. Place 2 6-oz ramekins on the rack and fill the pot with water so it spills into and just fills the ramekins. Remove the ramekins draining the water back into the pot. Crack an egg into each ramekin (if your eggs are less than fresh, strain them through a slotted spoon to remove the wispy whites first.) Bring the water to a boil, then add 2 to 3 teaspoons of salt. Remove the pot from the heat, then carefully lower each ramekin into the water using a jar lifter or wearing heatproof and waterproof gloves. Eggs will be done in approximately 6 minutes, start checking them after 5. Use slotted spoon to carefully fish the cooked eggs out.
- Heat butter and olive oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Once the butter quits sputtering add 1/5 to 1/4 of the farro. Shake or stir to get the farro coated with the oil. Cook the farro, stirring occasionally, until it starts to get nutty smelling and crispy, about 5 minutes. Be cautious, it will start to pop like popcorn. Put a lid on it and continue to cook another minute or 2, shaking frequently and peeking every 30 seconds or so, until it is nicely golden brown and crispy/crunchy.
- Remove the cover and add the sliced onions. (Now is the time to remove your boiling water from the heat and get the eggs into it.) Cook until starting to soften, about 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the remaining farro, and season with salt and black pepper. Cook stirring frequently to continuously, for 2 to 3 minutes, until the farro is heated through. Remove from heat and add the parsley, mint, lemon zest, and 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice. Stir well to combine. Taste for seasoning, and add salt, pepper, or more lemon juice if desired. Divide between 2 dishes and grate Parmesan or Pecorino over each portion. Top with a poached egg and some black pepper. Serve immediately.
- Note: if you're concerned about the timing of the poached eggs you can make them ahead of time, and store them in cold water in the fridge. Heat them with hot (not boiling) water for a minute or so before serving. You could also fry an egg instead if you're more comfortable with it!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Favorite Way to Eat Eggs for Dinner
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A week on from its World Cup soccer victory, Germany may return to center stage, though this time not with fan celebrations but concerns over the health of Europe's economic motor.
Investors saw dark clouds building on Friday after a Malaysian airlines jet was shot down at the Ukraine-Russia border and Israel launched a ground offensive in Gaza. That depressed shares and other risk assets, but the events are yet to disturb economic forecasts.
"We've seen a delayed impact of China and the Ukraine crisis," said ING economist Carsten Brzeski. "This is an explosive cocktail, but right now with limited impact on growth. The Ukraine/Russia issue was already there."
In a week relatively light on U.S. indicators, economists are looking for further signs that Europe's recovery and even German growth may be stalling, putting more pressure on the European Central Bank to act.
Across the Channel, minutes from the Bank of England may be the last to show unanimous backing for a stable bank rate of 0.5 percent. The case for tightening may then be reinforced by second quarter GDP estimates likely to show solid growth.
For Germany, the views of purchasing managers (PMIs) on Thursday and of company chiefs surveyed for Friday's influential Ifo report should show whether a slowdown of Europe's largest economy detected in the second quarter has spread to the third.
Weakness in German industrial output and both domestic and foreign orders have pointed to a poor April-June period after 0.8 percent expansion in the first three months of the year, the fastest rate in three years.
Last week's ZEW index of analyst and investor morale for July, which dropped this month to its lowest level since December 2012, suggested that the third quarter had also started shakily.
Forecasts for German manufacturing and services PMIs are broadly stable this month from last, with a third consecutive decline expected for Ifo's business sentiment index, albeit only a slight dip following a sharper than expected fall in June.
"Latest data have been on the soft side and it has really raised people's attention," said Reinhard Cluse, chief European economist at UBS. "But we believe the German economy is still very solid and healthy and we believe this is a breather, not the first signs of a clear deceleration."
The Bank of England publishes minutes of its July meeting on Wednesday which will be scrutinized for any signs of growing unease among policymakers at the prospect of keeping interest rates at a record low while Britain's economy recovers quickly.
The bank last month expressed surprise at some financial market prices it said implied a relatively low probability of a rate increase this year.
Many economists expect some members of the Monetary Policy Committee to break ranks and vote for a rate hike, especially if a jump in inflation in June proves not to have been a blip.
British inflation surged to a five-month high of 1.9 percent in June and house prices rose at their fastest pace in a year, prompting investors to increase bets on a rate rise before the end of 2014. The consensus is for a first hike in November.
Gross domestic product data due on Friday is expected to show that Britain's economy finally regained its pre-crisis size in the second quarter of this year, much later than the United States and other big European economies.
A Reuters poll of 25 economists forecasts a repeat of the 0.8 percent quarterly expansion of the first three months of 2014, though some economists have said growth may fail to match that level after some weaker than expected data in recent weeks.
Across the Atlantic, consumer price inflation is seen pulling back to 0.3 percent month-on-month in June from 0.4 percent in May.
May's price rises, the largest in more than a year, may have reassured Fed officials who had expressed concerns that inflation was too low.
However, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told the Senate last week that early signs of a pickup in inflation were not enough for the Fed to accelerate its plans to raise interest rates, a move currently expected in mid-2015.
While data on economic activity and jobs have been broadly positive, there are mixed signs from the housing market, struggling since a rise in mortgage rates caused it to stall in late 2013.
New home starts fell in June to a nine-month low, but permits are running ahead of starts, which suggests building activity will pick up in the months ahead.
Housing price figures for May are due on Tuesday after declines of annual home price inflation for eight of the nine months to April.
In China, the first round of monthly PMIs, due on Thursday, should show whether the world's second largest economy is stabilizing thanks to Beijing's measures to shore up growth.
The preliminary HSBC PMI survey showed in June that factory activity expanded for the first time in six months.
The July index will come a week after data showing China's economy grew slightly faster than expected in the second quarter while new home prices fell in June for a second straight month, prompting speculation about further state stimulus.
For actual central bank action, New Zealand offers the best hope. Its Reserve Bank increased rates in March for the first time since 2010 and is seen carrying out a 0.25 percentage point hike on Thursday, although a dip in inflation could make it a close call.
Additional reporting by William Schomberg in London; Editing by Catherine Evans


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How DNA Can Be Used to Store Data
Scientists have used DNA stored audio and text on fragments of DNA and then retrieved them with near-perfect fidelity-a technique that may provide a way to handle data in the digital age. WSJ's Gautam Naik reports.
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As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
If you still have a "welding shop" in your town, you're lucky. An earlier generation called them blacksmiths. Whatever the name, they were the place you went when you needed planter runners or anhydrous knives hard-faced, cast iron components welded, or mangled metal straightened and made near-new. There were also always a few old school bus seats in a back corner next to a coffee pot, where customers could wait for quick repairs, and where a crowd of loafers would gather to discuss world affairs, local affairs (literally), and offer opinions on every repair job that came through the door.
To a farm kid, a welding shop was a wondrous place. Dark, cluttered, filled with machines capable of straightening what was bent or bending what was straight. The proprietors of welding shops were oil-stained magicians who could take a mangled piece of machinery and beat, heat, twist and tease it back into useful condition. They had welders capable of near-nuclear fusion, and their welding beads were things of beauty. It was a crime to paint a welding shop repair job---the welding beads were too pretty to cover with paint.
On our farm, we managed "average" repairs in the dirt-floored corner of the machine shed that was our designated shop, but it was a matter of simultaneous shame and pride if I busted a piece of equipment badly enough to require a trip to the welding shop.
Today, welding shops are fading from small towns. Many farmers now own their own acetylene torches, mega-amp welders and other metal working tools. Welding shops have been replaced by machine shops--well-lit, shiny-clean mini-factories with computer-guided lathes, plasma cutters and other machines that require a tech-school degree to operate.
Machines shops may actually get the job done even better than the old-style welding shops, thanks to all those gee-whiz-fancy machines. Heck, their bills are computer-generated, printed as neat, tidy and fancy as a bill you'd get from a lawyer or accountant. I sort of miss those carbon-paper bills, the ones the old guy in the greasy welding apron would laboriously write with the broken stub of a pencil he kept in his shirt pocket. The bills with greasy fingerprints smeared right beside the cheerful "Thank You For Your Business!" printed at the bottom of the bill.
Really enjoyed youur story today about welding shops. I grew up on a West Texas farm in the late 1930's and 1940's and remember well the trips to town with Dad. I loved the dark shops with dirt floors and soot on everything. It was a wonderworld for a small boy, and I usually came out looking like the blacksmith (Everything on me covered in black dust.) Later, when I became a farmer, the welding shop was a treasure trove of metal to use for almost anything you wanted to build or repair.
Thanks for recalling the memories!


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Weather reports indicate that the northeastern United States is about to be slammed with a blizzard that will drop as much as two feet of snow on Boston and New York. Which sounds like fun to me. We have been snowbound from time to time in Minnesota and in my home state of South Dakota, but never more epically than in January 2005, when I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, along with my wife and two of my daughters, to participate in a "new media" event at Harvard's Kennedy School. According to Wikipedia, the blizzard we experienced that weekend dropped as much as three feet of snow on Boston and environs. It seemed like at least that much to us.
We managed to get the Kennedy School program in, but by the time it was over the snow was falling so thick you couldn't see. By the next morning, everything was shut down. We weren't well prepared for the storm, especially since the airline lost Loree's luggage. A couple of days later, they said they had found it and delivered a duffel to the Charles Hotel, where we were staying. Loree opened the suitcase–which admittedly looked a bit like hers–and found that it contained unwashed hockey gear. Later that day, we found a sweatshirt shop open in Harvard Square and stocked up on cold weather gear. No vehicles were moving anywhere, so we walked around Cambridge for a couple of days.
My daughters, somewhere between the Charles Hotel and Harvard Yard:
Same girls, with the Yard in the background:
We went out in search of something that was open, and found a bar/restaurant off the square that was playing country music. Here is the square, snowbound:
The Charles Hotel was completely snowed in. Staff who were there couldn't leave, and no one could come in. So the employees all stayed, and continued serving food as long as it held out. There was a Legal Seafood restaurant across the hotel's back lot, and we walked there for dinner one night. In the midst of the blizzard, the New England Patriots played a playoff game on a snowy field. Tom Brady was at his best in those days, and the Patriots won. We watched the game in a hotel restaurant with lots of local fans, an experience I hope to duplicate someday with a Minnesota team. But I am not holding my breath.
As things cleared a bit, we continued walking around Cambridge. This is my youngest, who seems rather garishly garbed for reasons I really can't explain, atop a snowbank in Harvard Yard:
As we were walking along somewhere in Cambridge, we passed a store where mannequins were incongruously wearing bikinis. I couldn't resist this shot of my daughter Laura, who insisted that no braces be visible:
Our original plan had been to rent a car and drive north into New Hampshire and Vermont after my Kennedy School program was done, but that of course was impossible. No cars were going anywhere. So we passed a few days happily snowbound, and by the time we were due to fly back to Minnesota, the roads were clear enough for us to get to the airport. In the meantime, we visited the North End, and Old North Church, where we enjoyed a wonderful narration of Paul Revere's ride. These cars were snowed in, somewhere in the North End:
In my opinion, there are few things in life more fun than being snowbound. Nature is much bigger than we are, a fact of which it is always useful to be reminded. Mostly, though, it is just fun to be on your own in a world of snow. I hope that tomorrow's New Yorkers and Bostonians will enjoy being snowbound as much as we did in 2005.


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By Selwyn Duke
"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877. Today, anxiety about the weather is more common than ever, although it's not inborn but cultivated in schoolrooms, through television sets and by lying, rapacious ex-vice presidents. And I have anxiety about the weather, too — especially when it's being used to promote a destructive agenda.
This brings us to Climategate, the scandal everyone is talking about and that inspired British journalist James Delingpole to write "it's [the climate con is] all unravelling now." I only wish I could be so optimistic. Sure, we have the smoking gun of the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia, which provide evidence that we "deniers" were only denying a lie. And the erstwhile head of its Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones — a con man with a science degree if ever there were one — had to resign in disgrace. But don't for a moment confuse a smoking gun with a coup de grace, or being sacrificed for the team with waving the white flag. I say this because I long ago realized something about man's nature, something that may sound like a gross exaggeration: If a person has a strong enough vested interest in believing 2+2=5, he will surely insist it is so — in the face of all evidence to the contrary. But before I talk about who the real deniers are and what is being denied, let's discuss the ugly reality reaffirmed by Climategate.
Here is the lowdown in a nutshell: Governments have used billions of dollars of our money to fund fraudulent science, which, in turn, is used to justify policy that would steal untold billions more from us through taxation and the handicapping of the private sector. This will, of course, stifle the creation of wealth, but it will also be a transfer of it. But this would not be so much from the rich to the poor; it would be from the poor and middle class to the rich and well-connected. Carbon-credit con men such as Al Gore will add to their many millions, while subtracting from the many millions some of the latter's few dollars. It would move us toward a situation in which we'd have two Americas, as John Edwards might say. One would be a lying, covetous ruling class of John Edwardses. The other would be the masses, who would be perpetually mired in serfdom.
Yet defeating the climate con won't be easy, because it isn't just money that drives the con men. In fact, many of them are so married the climate con that they have become one with their misguided notions. Call it the Zen of Being Wrong.
One reason not to do wrong is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Obviously, Bill Clinton, John Edwards and Tiger Woods would never have felt the urge to lie about their affairs if they had never had affairs. Of course, the lying was immoral, but this is how one sin leads to another. A transgression leads to a lie, which leads to a full-blown cover-up, etc. And the deeper you dig that hole, the harder and more painful it is to climb out of it.
In the case of the climate con artists, the pain would be great and the price steep. Their creed has been likened to a religion, and in many ways it is. They aren't global-warming theorists.
They are global-warming fundamentalists.
They have invested so much of their time, energy, emotion, ego and reputations in the climate con that to relinquish it would be to relinquish themselves; to call it a lie is to call their lives a lie. It's just a bit like asking a Jihadist to give up Islam. These are not people who subscribe to AGW theory; they have submitted to it.
Then you have those who are using this religion to make money — and they and the true believers are often one and the same. These are the carbon-credit capitalists, the green-technology givers and greenback grabbers.
And we have to add to this the fact that all these people had become science's Torquemadas, inquisitors bent on stifling inquisitiveness. Al Gore told us "The debate is over" as he and his co-religionists strove to root out heresy and sought to destroy the "deniers." Thus, they have no reason to expect mercy. Surrender is simply not an option.
So forget about icebergs; the meltdown the climate con artists fear is that of their reputations, egos, finances and faith. Scientists or not, to admit error is not merely the alteration of a hypothesis to them; it is the loss of religion and meaning, the end of empire, the fall of Rome. It is complete and utter personal destruction.
Yet destruction is precisely what the climate-change con men would visit on the economies of nations in their delusional grip. Other lands, such as China and India, will never yield to such insanity. They may pay lip service to it, though, especially if doing so will encourage us to more thoroughly handicap ourselves. Then they can laugh and rise to prominence while we become the most recent great civilization to descend into backwater status.
As I write this, the climate-change con artists are meeting in Copenhagen, where useful-idiot communists are protesting in the streets while their standard bearers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales are railing against free markets and beating the red drum. Do you really think these folks care about the environment? The green that really concerns them is your money — and I do mean your money. Because if there is an "international" agreement to fight the phantom of climate change, you can bet your depreciating bottom dollar that we Americans will pay the freight. We are, after all, the world's biggest energy suckers.
The question is, are we just the world's biggest suckers?
Chavez, Mugabe and China are betting yes. And if we want to make fools out of them, we'll cause radical climate change — to the political climate in Washington in 2010. It's probably our last chance to prove who the fools really are.


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Halloween is known as a scary holiday, but sometimes not for the right reason. On average, children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a vehicle and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year.
In preparation for Halloween, Safe Kids coalitions across the country team up with Walk This Way program sponsor FedEx to provide kids with reflective materials to promote visibility, including reflective trick-or-treat bags and zipper tags that can be attached to costumes. Coalitions also provide important safety information such as tip sheets for children, parents and drivers.
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