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If you fell behind on your San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley sports news in the pre-holiday rush, here's your chance to catch up on the biggest developments of the past two weeks.
The Glendale Fighting Club's Ronda Rousey took a break from preparing for her history-making bout against Liz Carmouche at UFC 157 in Anaheim on Feb. 23 to stop by Morton's Steakhouse in Burbank with Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White. In explaining his decision to sign Rousey as the UFC's first female fighter, White praised her unique combination of skill, savvy and sex appeal.
"She's cute and she's articulate and she's intimidating," said White, "but when she goes in [to fight], she's mean, nasty and she likes to finish people."
Having won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and later appearing on the cover of ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" in 2012, Rousey is far more well-known that her opponent, Liz Carmouche, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of the Iraq War who trains in San Diego, California. In her "Message to UFC President Dana White and Ronda Rousey" with MMAprime.tv, Carmouche outlines her respect for Rousey as the pioneer for women in the sport.
As it turns out, UFC 157 wasn't the only fight on Rousey's mind when she addressed the media in Burbank, as Edmond Tarverydan, who trains Rousey at the Glendale Fighting Club, was set to take on Dominic Gutierrez at "Chaos at the Casino II" on Dec. 22. Rousey stood in her trainer's corner as Tarverydan battered and bloodied Gutierrez en route to a three-round victory by unanimous decision.
The news for another locally-trained fighter, Burbank's Jared Papazian, isn't so positive. As Melissa Seguro reported on SI.com, Papazian entered his Dec. 15 bout with Tim Elliott at "The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale" at a crossroads in his young career. Having emerged with a third straight loss blemishing his record in the octagon, Papazian's stint with the UFC is likely over.
In women's soccer news, former Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer star Brooke Elby helped the University of North Carolina capture its 22nd national title. The sophomore forward logged 40 minutes off the bench in the Tar Heel's 4-1 victory over Penn State.
Randy Lilavois, an accomplished soccer coach, announced his planned departure from Southern California and the teams he turned around--the women's program at Pasadena City College and the girls' program at South Pasadena High School.
Finally, we'd like to recognize just a few of the local stars who received end-of-the-year honors this month:
Glendale, Hoover and Crescenta Valley football players earned six first-team All-Pacific League selections, including Michael Davis (Glendale), Jesse Pina (Hoover) and William Wang (Crescenta Valley).
Taryn Nelson (Bell-Jeff) was named Santa Cruz League MVP for volleyball, tallying 315 kills despite often being double or triple blocked. Caitlin Cottrell (Buroughs) joined Nelson on the All-CIF First Team.
LaSalle football players picked up 12 Del Rey League honors, while Blair, San Marino and South Pasadena football players collected 34 selections from the Rio Hondo League.
The Pasadena Poly water polo team grabbed eight All-CIF selections, including Player of the Year (Spencer Rogers) and Coach of the Year (Ryan Katsuyama).
Haley DeSales (LaSalle) was named CIF Player of the Year for leading the Lancers to the Del Rey League volleyball championship.
--Peter Madden, Times Community News
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On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which aimed to reduce poverty among the elderly.
Eight decades later, it is the one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in U.S. history. So, why do some people hate it?
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Ford Will Debut New Aluminum F150 at 2014 Detroit Auto ShowPosted in News on January 3, 2014
According to a Bloomberg News report, Ford Motor Company will be debuting its all-new 2015 Ford F150, which is supposed to feature an aluminum body construction, at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show next month in the hopes of educating consumers about the strengths and attributes of using aluminum in modern day trucks by demonstrating its military applications. According to the report, Ford has asked ALCOA to allow them to display their aluminum military blast shields in order to show just how strong aluminum can be while tipping the scales at half of what conventional steel would.
Ford is said to have cut down the weight of the 2015 Ford F150 by as much as 700 pounds through the use of aluminum body panels. Being that the F150 has been the best-selling truck for more than 30 years, the new model has big shoes to fill which is why Ford is going to talk up the merits of aluminum to customers who might very well be misinformed about aluminum and associate aluminum body panels with crushed beer cans rather than strong lightweight metal that is sure to be the future of the next generation of trucks with the upcoming fuel efficiency mandates.
700 pounds is quite a lot of weight to cut out of a modern day truck and although Ford has not disclosed how they have managed to trim so much fat out of the F150, we're willing to bet the framework of the 2015 Ford F150 might just be made of aluminum as well. If you don't think aluminum frames are strong enough to hold up to the stresses of hauling heavy loads or flexing over off road obstacles, consider the fact that some semi tractors have been built with aluminum frame rails in the not so distant past. Even if the frame isn't made out of aluminum, the reality is we will probably see the use of an open C-channel frame which would no doubt be way lighter than the current hydro-formed fully boxed ladder frames.
At the top of the rumor mill is speculation that the 2015 Ford F150 will get a 2.7L EcoBoost V-6 but unlike all the other me too media outlets on the web, we're going to go out on a limb and say this is probably not the case. It just plain doesn't make sense for Ford to offer a smaller 2.7-liter EcoBoost V-6 that produces less power than the current 3.5-liter Ecoboost V-6. There really is no need for an engine that small in the F150 especially considering the truck is going to be a lot lighter which means the current engine platforms will no doubt produce better fuel economy as they stand. It's hard to beat a 365 HP 3.5L V-6 that pumps out 420 pound feet of torque with a 2.7-liter EcoBoost V-6 that is said to produce 320 HP and 370 pound feet of torque. There really isn't room in the lineup for a little engine that could that doesn't hold a candle to the current 3.5-literEcoBoost V-6.
Less power means a lot more throttle which equates to burning more fuel at which point the weight savings would likely yield the current fuel economy that the F150's are achieving.
All we can say is we're looking forward to checking out the unveiling of the 2015 Ford F150 to see just what Ford has up their sleeve for the future of the Ford F150 platform and whether or not aluminum constructed pickups have a shiny future ahead of them.


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Rihanna has added more fuel to rumours she is back with Chris Brown – after posting a picture of her hugging him.
The chart-topping Talk That Talk star, who is taking a break after her "exhausting" 777 tour to promote her seventh album Unapologetic, put up the photo of her giving her ex a bear hug on Instagram.
"i dont wanna leave!!! Killed it tonight baby!!!" she wrote alongside the image.
Earlier, both Rihanna and Chris – who reunited for new track Nobody's Business on her new album – shared pictures of matching his-and-hers Rolex watches.
"Don't believe me just watch #newtoy#justcusimnumber1 #roleylife #dopedealer," she wrote.
Rihanna recently insisted she was still single, but the rumour mill went into overdrive when she tweeted a picture of Chris in bed a few days ago.
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Someone had to do something.A Kickstarter campaign had been launched by me.Spread the word. Widely.The monies collected (if any) will be 100% used to stop the vehicle's imminent destruction and to transport it to a suitable home at a yet to be determined location.The main point of this campaign is to demonstrate to the powers that be, the National Museum of the USAF and the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology the the public cares about this vehicle and to hold off the bulldozers and torches and fund the maintenance of the vehicle in its current state until a proper move can be accomplished.If you cannot donate I completely understand. No one has deep pockets for this sort of thing. If you cannot donate then call/message the USAF museum and the Canadian museum to tell them to hold off destruction.Public outcry backed up with a plan is the only thing that's going to save this Atlas from the scrapper.Thanks.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/287720970/save-the-atlas
That is a good idea - and does no one else want it? What about for the new space wing going up at the Air Force museum in Ohio?
HGM-16F Atlas is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. For years the missile was displayed outside the museum. In 1998 it was removed from display. It was restored by the museum's restoration staff and returned to display in the museum's new Missile Silo Gallery in 2007. The white nose cone atop the museum's Atlas is an AVCO IV re-entry vehicle built to contain a nuclear warhead. This nose cone actually stood alert in defense of the United States, as it was initially installed on an Atlas on 2 October 1962 at a Denton Valley launch site near Clyde, Texas.(The National Museum of the United States Air Force does not have an Atlas on display currently; they do have two in storage, these are visible on the Behind the Scenes Tour.)Atlas 5A (56-6742) is on display on the lawn in front of the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Canada.(5A was on display throughout the 1960s at the former location of the Air Force Museum, at Wright-Patterson AFB Building 89 near Xenia Drive in Fairborn, Ohio. Formerly a static-test article, it is the only surviving Atlas in the original A-series configuration, before the boat-tail modifications that solved thermal issues which caused the early termination of the first two Atlas test flights, 4A and 6A.)Atlas 8A is displayed in front of the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska; reconfigured as an Atlas D.Atlas 2E is on display in front of the San Diego Air & Space Museum at Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California.Atlas 2D mounted with a Mercury capsule is on display in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, Florida
Maybe a $1,000 for shipping. Another $2k to stabilized and ship?
Presumably it also needs the leaks plugged before anything can be done with that. And you'd have to disconnect what is probably an electric compressor and attach another compressor that was transportable, maybe battery powered.
Something like this?This is a "Lost Ottawa" picture from it's arrival in 1973. It looks to be about the right size for a legal road trailer.


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Sir Alex Ferguson has urged football's authorities to stop Tottenham Hotspur registering new signing Zeki Fryers in order to carry out an investigation into alleged wrongdoing.
Former United defender Fryers, 20, left Old Trafford last July after failing to agree a new contract with the Red Devils, and he ultimately joined Standard Liege.
This week, though, it was announced by Tottenham that the club had "reached [an] agreement with Standard Liege for the signing of Fryers".
Ferguson has expressed his disappointment at the signing after United missed out on receiving a fee for the defender.
Speaking to MUTV, the United boss said: "To me, I think it's a blatant manipulation of the rules.
"Tottenham did nothing wrong as he went to Standard Liege. They tried to buy him off us and we'd been looking for a certain figure. They wouldn't pay it but asked if they could take him down there on trial and, at that time, he was out of contract in June anyway.
"So he went down on trial and he went to Portugal with them. They then said they weren't prepared to pay the money and, all of a sudden, he signed for Standard Liege.
"We knew immediately and suspected that he would return to Tottenham in January and that's happened. It's a [Spurs chairman] Daniel Levy deal. You know, it's his fingerprints all over it. It's the kind of thing we expected he was going to do.
He continued: "There's nothing we can do about it but I think that really we should, first of all, register our discontent in it. I think the league should look into it.
"I think the registration should be stopped until they investigate it thoroughly. There's bound to be a trail, either mobile phones or e-mails, that could give you the full story of it.
"I must say I'm disappointed in Tottenham. For whatever reason, a club that size has decided to go down this route. I'm disappointed."


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At halftime of last Wednesday's Pa. Independent Schools quarterfinal game, the girls of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy seemed to be following the scenario of their first two meetings with Shipley School this season.
The SCH lost to the Gators in a tip-off tournament, 53-37, and in a December 22nd meeting, 56-36, and last week in the third go-round the Lions trailed 34-19 at the intermission. The Gators did go on to win the third game, but this time it was only by a one-point margin, 50-49.
"We had the ball a couple times down one point, but we just couldn't score," said first-year SCH coach Steve Purcell. "Still, we played much better in the second half, at both ends of the floor."
A week earlier the Lions had tied Penn Charter for fourth place in the Girls Inter-Ac with a final league record of 7-5. Last week, seventh-seeded SCH opened up in the Pa. Indy tournament with a 45-24 home court victory over number 10 Abington Friends. Two days later the loss to second-seeded Shipley, the eventual champion, ended the Lions' season with an overall record of 14-14, reflecting a strong finish after the team had been 7-13 on January 27.
After taking a 12-2 lead in the first quarter of Monday's tournament opener with AFS, the Lions appeared to ease off a bit, increasing their margin gradually over the last three periods. Of course, that whole time they had at least two starters on the bench, and the reserves saw plenty of action.
It was the final appearance in the Vare Field House for four seniors: Michelle Boggs (13 points, nine rebounds), Sydni Epps (11 points, 10 rebounds, three assists), Elana Roadcloud (four points, five rebounds), and Alexis Giovinazzo. Junior Gianna Pownall finished with 13 points and five assists, and the Lions got two points apiece from sophomores Madi Sehn and Katie Shields.
SCH travelled to Shipley two days later, and despite a first-round bye the host Gators came out ready to rock, and rolled to a 34-19 halftime lead against the locals. The Lions slipped behind 8-3 in the first period, and the second quarter turned into a track meet that Shipley won, 26-16.
"When we both started to run, it favored them," said Purcell. "Things got a little crazy and we put up some bad shots."
In addition, Boggs, the Lions' power player in the post, had to take a seat with two personal fouls, giving a more of a free rein to Shipley's 6'3" sophomore Aja Ellison and 6'4" freshman Martine Fortune. SCH's Pownall had scored 29 points in the first two encounters with the Gators, and this time they clamped down on her, holding her to one point with four assists.
In the second half it would cost the Lions nothing to take risks, so they concentrated pressure on Shipley's primary ballhandler, sophomore Tamesha "Sox" Alexander.
"When she got the ball we ran at her and always tried to double-team," Purcell said. "We got some turnovers and steals, and we scored on a lot of them to get back in the game. That second quarter was what killed us; we gave up 26 points, and then we held them to 16 the whole second half."
The Lions came on for 30 points after the interlude but couldn't quite get over the hump.
Epps had 17 points and three rebounds and Boggs had 16 points and six boards to lead the Lions. Roadcloud (seven points) and sophomore Julia Schumacher (eight points) had four rebounds apiece.
Shipley received 13 points from Alexander, 10 from Ellison (11 rebounds), and four from Fortune (12 rebounds), while sophomore shooting guard Colleen Walsh canned three three-point field goals in the second quarter.
Although the Lions lost in their season swansong, as most teams do, they came into the Shipley game with a seven-game winning streak, and they had won their least four league games, including contests against Penn Charter and the teams that tied for second place in the Inter-Ac, Episcopal and Notre Dame. They eliminated many of the recurring mistakes that had cost them second-half leads earlier in the season.
"We started to settle down and play more as a team," explained Boggs. "It took awhile with a new coach to get our plays right and things like that. Our coaches were behind us and kept telling us to keep working."
The senior said that after some potential wins turned into defeats in the middle of January "We had a bunch of meetings, we hung out together, and we had a team sleepover, and I think that helped a lot. We needed to come together and focus more at practice, which we did. We tried to stay positive, even if we missed a shot or something. Coach said it just takes one person to put their head down and get negative, and there's a ripple effect, so I think we all improved our attitudes."


text: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 Brian.M.Ironside at frb.gov wrote: > Hello All, > I've been searching for resources on the topic of parallel algorithms > for function minimization, and existing implementations of such algorithms. > So far, I've come up with very little. I was hoping someone on this mailing > list might be able to point me in the right direction. From what little > research I've done into serial minimization algorithms, there certainly > seems to be room in a number of algorithms for speed-up through parallel > computation, and I'd love to know if anyone was done anything with this. You mean like books on parallel programming? Yes, there are several, although I wouldn't quite say there are a lot. Of course, I don't really know how many there are as I haven't done a really systematic search for them, just encountered a few along the way, so to speak. Real Computer Scientists have been messing with parallel algorithms, MP systems, communications models, and all of that for many years, and I'm certain that useful and interesting research continues in the field today. A few "standard text" type references: G. S. Amalsi and A. Gottlieb, Highly Parallel Computing (2nd edition), Benjamin/Cummings, 1994. I. Foster, Designing and Building Parallel Programs, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Also see the online version of the book at Argonne National Labs, http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/ V. Kumar, A. Grama, A. Gupta, and G. Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Benjamin/Cummings, 1994. Probably some list person can provide some post mid-90's texts, and an amazon or google search would likely turn up some as well. You might start with Foster's book, since it is online and is a partial model for what I'm trying to do with my own online book, except that I haven't yet finished a deal with AW or any other publisher because I literally do not have time. Overall I'd rather buy a book from somebody that provides it online for free than from somebody who doesn't, in a paradoxical sort of way. A paper copy is a specific, not horribly portable resource that one can read deeply and study "at home", the online copy means that no matter where you are, you can access chapter X and review something you learned from your deep reading. HTH, rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Anyone knows here how to Call DOS/BIOS interrupts from protected mode Windows. While writing assembly code for windows, I wrote the "int 21h" instruction and my computer hung. Anyone can provide a solution?
As far as I'm aware:
Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, Win95, Win98, possibly WinME:
DOS int21 calls can be used inside a 16-bit Windows module or program (which under Windows 95/ 98/ ME can be called from a 32-bit program)
You should not call int21 in protected mode.
Under a DOS box, (in v86 mode), you can make int21 calls and they will be redirected. Again, in DOS you can't call them in protected mode (however most dos extenders' libraries switch to real mode for it)
In Windows NT, 2000, XP
- You should never call any dos interrupt at all, except in a DOS box.
- In a dos box it might work because the ntvdm will intercept it and do the appropriate windows calls.
So you want to call it from protected mode? Why?
All int21 does is provide an interface into filesystem operations that you can do anyway. You have two options:
- Make a call into the C library DLL to call things like fopen()
- Make a call into kernel32.dll to call things like CreateFile()
I came in to the world with nothing. I still have most of it.
Actually, I gave the int 21H as just an example. I want to issue any interrupt that I can like all the BIOS interrupts, keyboard interrupts, video interrupts etc. I know interrupts are not allowed in Windows Applications, but I thought, maybe, someone must have found some methord.
You are not allowed to call any interrupts:
- Video bios interrupts - would screw up the screen by conflicting with the video driver
- Bios interrupts - some of them could do things that would be undesirable, for example, block IO, which would conflict with Windows cache
- Dos interrupts - most should be harmless enough, but some do things that would break windows, like Terminate and Stay Resident, exit program etc
You just aren't allowed to do it. There are other ways of doing all those things.
Yes, that is what I want to know. The Undocumented techniques or in your langage "the other ways of doing stuff". I also want to know how to have direct memory access. For example, we know that the keyboard status is stored at address 0x417. I want to write to that address directly but Windows just wont allow it because my program runs at ring 3(least privileged). I want to know how to transfer my program to ring 0.
I know these stuff is quiet advanced, but I want to have these inside knowledge.
I have to agree wholeheartedly with slarty on this, the whole point of the protected sub-systems is to prevent this sort of shenanigans, If you are however determined to follow the dark path there are ways. I suggest you begin my studying the NT kernel: the NT executive and the HAL in particular. There are a few ways to go about it, one being to use the HAL functions,the other is to bypass the HAL completely doing this however will most likely render your code totally un-portable. Since you want to be able to execute your code from windows you are going to need a Kernel mode device driver which will allow you to skip the LPC, which is used as RPC for user-mode api's, and implement the HAL functions. You will need the Windows DDK(Driver Devolpement Kit) for all this. The other and even more suicidal method you could use to destroy your computer with, would be to create a DMA kernel mode driver which will basically allow you to overwrite your kernel if you feel like it(and dont blame me if you do! this will not use IRQ's just pure memory acces so you better know where you're going) There is also the interesting method of abusing undocumented kernel entry points with drivers,so I have provided some links for you but you will most likely find the best information on this from Hoglund at http://www.rootkit.com. He's a great guy and IMHO the undisputed champion of mucking about in the seedy underworld of the Windows kernel. Now that I have sufficiently attempted to disuade you, if you do have a go at the daunting task ahead have fun and let me know if you find something interesting.
Edit: You can of course do all the interrupt access you like in a 16-bit environment due to the fact NT creates a VDM(virtual dos machine) in memory and just pretends for your sake to make you happy, but if you're attempting something you shouldnt Windows will catch you(still protected process aka user-mode)
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The National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) Julie Segre, Ph.D., is fascinated by how the body responds to the world around it, so she focuses on the body's largest organ: the skin.
"The skin is a major organ system that has to interact with and adapt to the environment," said Dr. Segre. "It's the interface between our complex physiology and an often hostile environment that dries us out and exposes us to chemicals and infectious agents. You don't want kitchen cleanser in your bloodstream and your skin is the way you keep it out."
Although Dr. Segre's research centers on just one organ, what she has discovered gives us more information on every tissue that has contact with the outside world, including the surface of the eye, the intestinal tract, and the mucus membranes in the nose and lungs. Her work may also help create treatments for conditions as diverse as psoriasis, asthma and dehydration in premature babies.
Psoriasis and eczema are the principal disorders that Dr. Segre studies. Both show up first on the skin, but can affect several other areas of the body.
"These disorders are complex, multi-system problems," explained Dr. Segre, who is an investigator in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research. "If we can understand what happens with the skin, we may get clues about their underlying causes and how they create difficulties for us."
"While skin disorders primarily affect the quality of life, they can lead to serious problems if left untreated. Kids with eczema often develop asthma. Is it because the allergens that get in through breaks in the skin travel to the lungs or because one inflammatory process sets off another? We don't know yet, but we hope that if we learn how to manage eczema the patient won't develop asthma down the line. If they already have asthma, we hope that treating the skin problem will cause the asthma to improve."
Eczema starts between six months and one year of age with red, itchy patches that are sometimes mistaken for dry skin. The disorder is chronic, and the skin patches will come and go throughout life. Psoriasis usually develops between the ages of 20 and 30. Silvery patches form at places where the skin bends and breaks, such as knees and elbows. Psoriasis is also a chronic, relapsing condition and involves a lifetime of treatment. In the United States, 20 to 30 percent of the population has developed eczema, and 2 to 3 percent suffer from psoriasis.
Current medical wisdom says that both problems are caused by an overactive immune system that creates an allergic reaction in the skin, but Dr. Segre and her colleagues think that psoriasis and eczema can start with, rather than cause, skin breaks.
Once the skin barrier is broken, usually by a cut or scrape, allergens and infectious agents enter and start an inflammatory process. Most people heal the skin break quickly, and their immune system soon quiets down. However, the skin cells of people who have a genetic tendency towards psoriasis and eczema overreact to the challenge and get stuck in a cycle where the skin cells and the immune system stimulate each other in a continuous loop.
Although calming the immune system has been the major focus of most therapies for these disorders, Dr. Segre's laboratory made the practical discovery that healing the skin break is just as important as immune modulation for a good outcome. The group hopes that re-establishing the skin barrier, perhaps with a protective lotion or lipid bandage, will break the inflammatory loop and allow the immune system to stop reacting. That might mean that people with psoriasis and eczema would need lower doses of drugs and less treatment.
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (Connexin 26 regulates epidermal barrier and wound remodeling and promotes psoriasiform response), Segre and her colleagues recently found an important key to determining who will develop psoriasis and eczema by studying a protein called connexin 26 (Cx26). Cx26 forms communication channels that allow cells around a wound edge to tell each other to make more cells to close the wound; that tell cells in the underlying, undamaged skin layers that an emergency situation exists and ask them to make more cells; and that alert and attract immune cells to the damaged area to fight off pathogens while the wound heals. The skin produces large amounts of Cx26 when it is developing before birth, and also increases Cx26 production when tissues are damaged so they can regenerate.
Problems arise when the body does not turn off Cx26 production after a wound has healed. This puts the affected epithelial cells into an overdrive state called hyperproliferation, which stimulates the immune system. Dr. Segre hopes that finding ways to help the skin barrier heal quickly and efficiently in people with a genetic tendency to overproduce Cx26 will encourage Cx26 production to shut down in a timely manner and make it possible to minimize or eliminate psoriatic flares.
Premature babies are another group Dr. Segre and her colleagues hope they can help. They are studying how skin develops in the womb and establishes its marvelous protective barrier, and hope their new understanding will teach them how to speed up that process in premature infants, who are born before their skin is ready to keep bacteria out or body fluids in.
"Premature infants lose fluid at an alarming rate," said Dr. Segre. "If they are born before 34 weeks, so much fluid leaks out through their immature skin that they need to take in three times the amount of liquid of a baby born after 34 weeks just to keep their red blood cells, oxygen, electrolytes and nutrients circulating. We want to change that."
Learning how the skin develops will also help researchers create a synthetic barrier for thermal and chemical burn patients, whose damaged skin must be covered until new skin can regenerate. Dr. Segre said that people with severe burns have the same problems as premature infants, including difficulty maintaining body temperature, fluid loss and infection. Creating a synthetic barrier that can be put in place immediately may be crucial to surviving these acute injuries.
"Petroleum jelly just doesn't mimic skin," Dr. Segre said. "When we understand how skin truly works, we hope people will be able to design a synthetic barrier that can perform all the functions of the real one until the skin can heal itself."
Intriguingly, the past, not the present, may hold the key to much of Dr. Segre's research.
"You can't look at the world today and understand why our bodies respond the way they do," Dr. Segre remarked, "because our bodies are still programmed for earlier conditions. Antibiotics were only discovered in 1928, so strong, even drastic responses to breaks in our skin are still encoded in our genome to correct what would have been a life-threatening situation in the past."
Dr. Segre said that the rate of eczema in children is increasing, and may be due to the fact that our skin is programmed to coexist with dirt and farm animals, not clean suburban lawns.
"This is called the hygiene hypothesis," she explained. "It's not a fully developed story, but a number of disorders, including eczema, are becoming more common as people move into increasingly urban environments. It takes thousands, maybe millions of years to change our genome from an evolutionary standpoint. Society is evolving faster than our genome can respond."
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HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - Wildcat Red and General a Rod, the one-two finishers in yesterday's $400,000 Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park, will likely take their nascent rivalry to the next level in the $1-million Besilu Stables Florida Derby (G1) on March 29. Awaiting them in that marquee event at a mile and an eighth will be Cairo Prince, who sat out the Fountain of Youth following his romp in the $400,000 Miller Lite Holy Bull Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream on January 25. General a Rod had edged Wildcat Red in the Gulfstream Park Derby on New Year's Day, but the latter colt turned the tables in their virtual match race in the Fountain of Youth.
"I couldn't stop watching the replay," Galati added. "How many dozen times? I was doing it at dinner. I was showing anybody that walked by. It was very exciting. That's why we get up in the morning, for something like him. He's like a dream come true."
Owned by Honors Stable, Wildcat Red has made all six of his career starts at Gulfstream. He drew off stylishly in the Hutcheson Stakes (G3) three weeks ago, and the Fountain of Youth marked his first attempt around two turns.
"He ate up and everything was fine," Galati continued. "He came out perfect. He was full of himself and very, very happy. He'll be laying down today. He relaxes. There's just something about him, he does everything right. We're very happy with the way he came out of the race."
A son of D'wildcat and the Miner's Mark mare Racene, Wildcat Red will attempt to stretch his speed in the Florida Derby in five weeks' time. He and General a Rod were separated by a head at the wire, with stretch-running favorite Top Billing winding up two lengths behind them in third.
"(Jose is) going to make the inevitable decision, but today I don't see any reason to have anything other than positives about the way he ran and the way he came out of his race," Galati said. "We are all very, very happy. (Top Billing), I guess the track bias was his excuse, but he ran his race. The other horse, he's legit (General a Rod). He was one of the better-looking ones in the race and I thought he was the one to watch anyway. He was a fresh horse. Pletcher's horse (Commissioner) just didn't fire, but he looked great, too. It was a legit bunch. Like we said, it was a test."
General a Rod cooled out well after the Fountain of Youth, according to trainer Mike Maker.
"He came out of the race just fine," Maker said. "Everything was great, he just came out of it on the losing end. He didn't show us anything that he didn't show us before; he just came out of it on the losing end. We're still undecided (about his next start). There's a lot of races out there, so we're just going to take our time and make a decision."
The Fountain of Youth offered Kentucky Derby qualifying points of 50-20-10-5 to the first four finishers.
East Hall, previously third in the Gulfstream Park Derby, outran his 72-1 odds to round out the superfecta in the Fountain of Youth and could get another crack at the winner in the Florida Derby.
"East Hall is officially on the Derby trail because he got five points," trainer Bill Kaplan confirmed. "I'm very proud of his performance. He gained a length on even Top Billing in the stretch, and he got the jump on us a little earlier. But he ran a superstar race, and he was still running at the end. He came back fresh, and he's doing fine. There was a discussion of maybe scratching from the 13 hole, but we decided to hang in there and it worked out good.
"The top two horses ran all the way up front, and Top Billing and he came from last and next-to-last against a speed-favoring track," Kaplan continued. "I was very pleased with my horse's performance. Everything in our mind is looking toward the mile and a quarter in May. This sets up nice for it."
Holy Bull hero Cairo Prince breezed at Palm Meadows Saturday morning in preparation for the Florida Derby. The son of Pioneerof the Nile covered a half-mile in :49.90 under the watchful eye of trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who offered his thoughts on the Fountain of Youth.
"It was a very good race," McLaughlin said. "I thought the two that were one-two all the way they ran great, and for Shug's horse, Top Billing, to break from way outside and come from last on a speed-biased track, he ran well also."
This was Cairo Prince's second drill since his Holy Bull triumph.
"It was very hot(Saturday), muggy, but he ate up and he's happy and bright, and all is well," McLaughlin commented. "That's all we want to do is maintain his happiness. He worked very well. It was a little bit slower than last week, but the track was pretty dry and it was very, very hot. He got a little warm, but it was just hot. The humidity has been terrible. Next week we'll probably move his work earlier in the morning, maybe 7-7:30. They might start having two breaks, so that might help us work after the first break at 7:30. He went out after the first break this am, close to 9 o'clock. We'll keep him going every Saturday."
The Florida Derby, which provides Kentucky Derby qualifying points of 100-40-20-10 to the top four, will be run for the 63rd time on March 29. Last year's winner was Orb, who swept the Fountain of Youth and Florida Derby on his way to bringing home the Kentucky Derby trophy for trainer Shug McGaughey.


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Gallstones arise when there is an imbalance among the bile components. Bile is composed of: bile salts; bilirubin; cholesterol, phospholipids, and fatty acids; water; electrolytes; and other substances. The most common stones are mixed, containing cholesterol and its derivatives along with varying amounts of bile salts, bile pigments, and inorganic salts of calcium. The required step in mixed stone formation is elevations of cholesterol within the gallbladder. The solubility of bile is based on the relative concentrations of cholesterol, bile acids, phosphatidylcholine (lecithin) and water. Since free cholesterol is water-insoluble, it must be incorporated into a lecithin-bile salt mixture. Either an increase in cholesterol secretion or a decrease in bile acid or lecithin secretion will result in the bile becoming supersaturated with cholesterol. Once the bile is supersaturated with cholesterol, it sets the stage for any particulate matter to begin attracting the cholesterol and initiate stone formation.
A low fiber diet is one of the main causes of gallstones. Such a diet, high in refined carbohydrates and fat and low in fiber, leads to a reduction in the synthesis of bile acids by the liver and a lower bile acid concentration in the gallbladder. Thereby, significantly reducing the solubility of the bile. A high intake of refined sugar is also a risk factor for gallstones.
The frequency of gallstones is two to four times greater in women than in men. Women are predisposed to gallstones because of either increased cholesterol synthesis or suppression of bile acids by estrogens. Pregnancy, use of oral contraceptives, or other causes of elevated estrogen levels greatly increase the incidence of gallstones. Obesity is also associated with a significant increased risk for gallstones.
For prevention and treatment of gallstones, increase intake of vegetables, fruits, and dietary fiber, especially the gel-forming or mucilaginous fibers as found in flaxseed, oat bran, guar gum, and pectin; reduce consumption of saturated fats, cholesterol, sugar, and animal proteins; avoid all fried foods; and drink at least 6 eight-ounce glasses of water each day to maintain the proper water content of the bile.
A vegetarian diet has been shown to be protective against gallstone formation. While this simply may be a result of the increased fiber content of the vegetarian diet, other factors may be equally important. Animal proteins, such as casein from dairy products, have been shown to increase the formation of gallstones in animals while vegetable proteins, such as soy, have been shown to be preventive against gallstone formation.
Achieving ideal body weight is an important goal in the treatment and prevention of gallstones. Obesity causes an increased secretion of cholesterol in the bile as a result of increased cholesterol synthesis. It is important to recognize that during active weight reduction, bile cholesterol saturation initially increases. The secretion of all bile components is reduced during weight loss, but the secretion of bile acids decreases more than that of cholesterol. Therefore, it is a good idea for people on weight-loss programs to support liver function with high-fiber foods and plenty of liquids. Consumption of 6-to-8 glasses of liquids is necessary each day to maintain the water content of bile. Pure water or fresh fruit and vegetable juices are the preferred ways to meet your body;s water requirements. Once the weight is stabilized, bile acid output returns to normal levels while the cholesterol output remains low. The net effect of weight loss is a significant reduction in cholesterol saturation.


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infomedia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Twitpwr.com is a new url shortener site just for Twitter users. Like TinyURL.com, BudURL.com and Is.Gd, you can paste a long url and the site returns a short Twitpwr.com url that redirects to your site. We need a cool logo that will work with any design, whether we stick we our current background or go with plain white.
The summary explains it all. View the current site at http://www.Twitpwr.com
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- No .com in the logo
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On Tuesday, the company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Desert Communications put out news announcing, that it has completed another $515,000 worth of network solutions projects for Lamesa ISD and San Eli ISD. "Inova Technology has the largest backlog in its history as the company moves towards the busiest part of the fiscal year," said CEO, Mr. Adam Radly. "The company has also bid on numerous additional projects and expects to report the results of those bids during May 2011."
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Glenn's Alignment & Brake Service
At a car show one of the first questions that usually pop out of a spectator's mouth when they begin to grill an exhibitor about their classic car or truck is what is it, and how much is it worth? When it comes to one classic owner talking to another the first couple of questions are usually where do you find parts for it, and who did the work? After the part sources have been revealed, and the conversation moves on to who did what, there's a good chance the owner performed a lot of the work himself. Interestingly though there is one task classic car, and truck enthusiasts rarely handle themselves and that's the frontend alignment. Ninety-nine percent don't, would probably be a safe bet.
When the topic of frontend alignment, brake and suspension work came up recently at the Donut Derelicts in Huntington Beach, California, an impromptu custom car show that has occurred early every Saturday morning for almost 25-years it was interesting to hear what the guys had to say. Right out of the gate the number one complaint was that it's hard to find an alignment shop that's knowledgeable about older vehicles. Contrary to what it would seem with the newer vehicles all having more sophisticated suspension and steering systems one might think the older simpler designs would be a snap to get serviced. That said the reality of it is there's not a lot of frontend shops left that are familiar with rudimentary suspensions. That is until the name Glenn's Alignment & Brake Service in neighboring Costa Mesa, California came up. As we spoke with more and more classic owners at the donut shop they all agreed Glenn's wasn't a discount chain store where a zit-faced kid hops in your vehicle with a screwdriver in his back pocket, but rather a quality shop that specializes in restoration grade suspension work..
Of course we realize not everyone reading this can hop in their truck, and make the trek to Costa Mesa, California, to have Glenn's do alignment work, but after a firsthand look for ourselves we did learn a few tips to share. The first thing Glenn did when we arrived was to give us a tour of his 10,000-square-foot facilities, and explain how the 30 year-old business has evolved through the years. The key right from the start was to never cut corners and always use the highest quality parts available. The second half is where the problem really begins because with the advent of countries like China, India, and a few more involved in the game of re-popping inferior knock-offs it's easy to end up with rubber lacking polymers, or low-grade metals that are too soft. Glenn told us he would rather spend three-times the amount to buy a part from a trusted source rather than install parts he suspects will expire prematurely. Beyond good quality, Glenn mentioned having a fully equipped machine shop with a lathe, mill, and TIG welder was also an advantage when the need arose to custom fabricate, or modify parts to fit properly. The tip here is before having someone work on your truck, take a good look around their shop, and evaluate what their commitment to the trade is. If they don't have the right equipment, they can't do the job.
If you ever find yourself in Costa Mesa, and you'd like to see a neat shop full of cool vehicles, or have quality suspension work done give Glenn's a call at (949) 631-2998 and they'll be happy to give you directions.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it has re-evaluated the current science on fluoride and is taking steps to begin a phased-down withdrawal of the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride on food, a pesticide that breaks down into fluoride and is commonly used in food storage and processing facilities. EPA is proposing to phase out the uses on food over a three year period.
Sulfuryl fluoride is currently registered for the control of insect pests in stored grains, dried fruits, tree nuts, coffee and cocoa beans, and for use in food handling and processing facilities. Although sulfuryl fluoride residues in food contribute only a very small portion of total exposure to fluoride, when combined with other fluoride exposure pathways, including drinking water and toothpaste, EPA has concluded that the tolerance (legal residue limits on food) no longer meets the safety standard under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the tolerances for sulfuryl fluoride should be withdrawn.
Sulfuryl fluoride is an important replacement for several post-harvest uses of the stratospheric ozone-depleting pesticide, methyl bromide. Methyl bromide has been phased-out in developed countries under the Montreal Protocol, and many industries that previously relied on methyl bromide to control insect pests in stored and processed food commodities and in food processing and handling facilities now depend on sulfuryl fluoride.
Since sulfuryl fluoride is an important alternative to the ozone depleting pesticide methyl bromide, EPA is proposing to phase out uses of sulfuryl fluoride over a period of three years. EPA will work with users of sulfuryl fluoride to identify potential alternatives.
EPA will continue to work collaboratively with other government agencies to address fluoride comprehensively in a way that ensures the public's health while minimizing the risk of overexposure.
EPA is also responding to an ongoing administrative proceeding involving the Fluoride Action Network, the Environmental Working Group, and Beyond Pesticides. These groups filed objections challenging EPA's action to establish the tolerances.
EPA will be accepting comments on the proposed decision, assessment and benefits assessment for 90 days.
For more information, please visit http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/sulfuryl-fluoride/.


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Shooting Outside Burnsville Bar Leaves 1 Man Dead
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) - A shooting outside a bar in Burnsville has left one man dead.
Police say it happened around 2 a.m. Sunday at Nina's Grill after an argument in the parking lot escalated into a shooting around closing time. Officers arrived to find the victim dead in the parking lot.
The department says an extensive search of the area for more than three hours did not find the suspect. But they say they don't believe public is at risk.
The victim's name has not been released.


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Indian Museum Taking Shape
Lawrence Cooke of Montauk is on a one-man mission to get a Montauk Indian museum built in the hamlet. He has the collection, which includes several of his own pieces as well as some from the collections of others, but he needs money to get the job done, about $500,000.
A local storeowner donated $1,000 to the cause, which helped Mr. Cooke get T-shirts made and fliers printed. "I wish there were 4,999 more people like him," he said this week in his front yard, where chickens clucked, tomatoes grew in tubs, and kayaks were scattered about.
At the last two crafts fairs on the grounds of the Second House Museum, Mr. Cooke set up an information booth with several displays to collect donations. On hand was a rough-hewn, hand-carved canoe that he made. Used for people to toss dollar bills and coins into, it featured a face etched by Malcolm Frazier, who sculpted the Lost at Sea Memorial at the Montauk Lighthouse.
"I'm appealing to the people of Montauk," Mr. Cooke said. "If they want an Indian museum they have to pay for it."
He was set up near the area where he'd like the museum to sit, at the back of the Second House property. It would be attached to a small cottage there that is part of the property managed by the Montauk Historical Society, of which he is a member. The plan is being considered by the East Hampton Town Planning Board. Mr. Cooke applied for septic approval weeks ago from the Suffolk County Department of Health and said no news is good news.
The cottage sits on a berm to the north and is used for meetings. A building would be attached to its west side and include a small gift shop, classroom space, and the museum's exhibit, which would be comprised of photographs, ancient tools, arrowheads, steel points, hammerstones, pottery shards, and other items from private collections, some of which have already been donated to Mr. Cooke. Some of the items are now displayed in the Second House Museum.
"I want people to walk down that path to Fort Pond and be able to envision what Montauk was like thousands of years ago," he said, adding that his main goal is to honor the original locals. He also wants to provide a place that would honor the collections of old-timers after they die. "A lot of these collections get lost," he said.
The exhibits would be interchangeable to draw people from outside Montauk. Some of the items Mr. Cooke has collected have come from places across Long Island, as far west as Queens. There would be interactive exhibits, lectures, and various other events held at the site. Although the museum is currently just a vision, it is one that Mr. Cooke plans to see through. "But it can't become a reality without real financial help," he said.
More information can be found at montaukindianmuseum.org.
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text: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:59:32PM +0300, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > By RedHat it was declared that x86-64 support will be realized > in the frames of RH Linux Advanced Server distributive. > But what is known about much more cheap RH Linux professional (according > our experience, it is enough for building beowulf clusters w/2-cpu's > nodes) ? According my data, x86-64 support in RH may be realized > just at summer. Mandrake and Suse are also doing support. However, all you need with the Opteron is (1) a few kernel mods, and (2) an update to gcc/glibc/etc. The rest of the user-land doesn't _need_ to change. So, it's a fairly easy thing for you to do yourself. Just make a nice webpage so we can all follow your recipe ;-) greg


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A font for all sizes.
The size of a typeface affects not only how it reproduces, but the way in which we experience it. Because we expect different things from fonts at different sizes, Requiem comes in three different versions that ensure peak performance at every size.
One size never fits all.
At small sizes, typefaces are designed to favor distinguishability. Letterforms at text sizes need to be as open and clear as possible, in order to resist the effects of limited resolution (whether it's a shortage of pixels or an abundance of ink.) But they must also be unambiguous, a requirement which emphasizes letters' differences rather than their similarities. A good text face will use every possible technique to heighten the differences between similar characters — even changing a design's core proportions, or dispensing with its most noteworthy characteristics — to ensure that the lowercase l, capital I, and number 1 are as easy as possible to tell apart.
But the controlled inconsistencies that aid reading at small sizes become thundering distractions when enlarged. Our brains are conditioned to immediately detect the tiniest disruptions in a pattern — the hole in a screen door, a sweater's loose thread, the one discolored bathroom tile — and though a good text face can distribute its inconsistencies evenly, the details of a display face seldom have anywhere to hide. A good display face therefore emphasizes consistency over distinguishability.
Mechanical concerns
Add to all of this the simple mechanical problem that thin lines get thinner as they get smaller. A typeface whose design depends on contrast between thin and thick strokes is especially susceptible to this effect, and the greater a typeface's contrast, the more its design needs to be adjusted as it gets smaller. So that Requeim's delicate serifs can always be kept as thin is possible, the each of its styles is provided in three different masters: a Text version for small sizes, a Display version for large sizes, and a Fine version for monumental sizes.


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by Patricia Hatch and Katherine Fennelly
As a result of the LWVUS Immigration Study, the League supports a path to earned legalization as part of comprehensive immigration reform. This essay highlights reasons why creating a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants already in the U.S. would be preferable to mass deportations for both the immigrant families and their U.S. citizen neighbors.
by Katherine Fennelly
This introductory article for the League's three-year Immigration Study is the first in a scheduled series of three articles. It provides a historical overview of immigration issues and immigration legislation in the United States, and brings us to the current situation and ongoing debate. The author points out that few subjects are as controversial as immigration and have as contentious a history.
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Gluten Free Baked Goods: Cranberry Muffin Recipe and Cranberry Pecan Coffee Cake Recipe
I love the fall and winter season, and one of the first signs that it has arrived is when fresh cranberries appear in the supermarket. For the longest time, I could never figure out what to do with them. Then I stumbled on some recipes for homemade cranberry sauce, and realized that I could do way better than the Ocean Spray jelled cranberry sauce sold in the store. I started making homemade cranberry sauce for our Thanksgiving dinners, and loved cranberries simmered into a sweet, jammy sauce. It was fun to add different flavor elements and see what happened to the sauce. But it wasn't until I attended a gluten-free potluck and had a gluten-free cranberry pie/crumble that I realized how delicious cranberries could be in baked goods. That's why this season when I found that special first bag of cranberries at Trader Joe's, I immediately decided to try to come up with a killer cranberry muffin using fresh, rather than dried, cranberries. My first effort was way too healthy- I tried converting a recipe to be both gluten-free and vegan recipe with severely reduced oil and sugar- and I didn't like them at all. The next time, I decided to go for flavor and texture, taking inspiration from a southern-style recipe for cranberry muffins. The recipe I converted was quite big, and I only had one muffin tin, so I decided to bake half of it as muffins and half as a cranberry coffee cake, sprinkling it with brown sugar and chopped pecans just for fun. It occurs to me you could do this to the muffins as well, to make them even more decadent, but I like having the option of a healthier muffin as well as the option of yummy, sweet cranberry coffee cake. I loved the texture of the muffin crust- it was almost like cornbread, sans corn. The cake had the same lovely texture with the added bonus of caramelized pecans. Mmmm, I think I'm really on to something with this whole cranberry baked good thing… So the next time you can't decide between making muffins or cake- and have a lovely bag of fresh cranberries in your fridge, just make both! Enjoy!
Gluten Free Cranberry Muffin Recipe with Cranberry Pecan Coffee Cake Recipe
1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup white rice flour blend (such as Bette Hagman's gourmet mix containing tapioca starch)
1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
1/2 cup garfava bean flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup yogurt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup milk
For cake variation:
Combine cranberries and 1/4 cup brown sugar in a small bowl and reserve. Combine dry ingredients including sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Cut in butter or margarine into the dry ingredients until the texture becomes slightly crumbly. Then combine your eggs, milk, and yogurt in a bowl and whisk together. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry crumble and gently stir together. Fold in your cranberry-sugar mixture.
For muffins, pour into 2 muffin tins sprayed with nonstick cooking spray and bake for 20-25 minutes.
For cranberry cake variation, combine your brown sugar and pecans in a small bowl. Spray up to two square 8 in. cake pans with nonstick cooking spray. If you like, you can like the cake pan with wax paper Pour your batter into the cake pan. Sprinkle the top with your brown sugar and pecans and bake for 25-30 minutes.
You can use half the batter for a batch of muffins and half the batter for a cranberry coffee cake!
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A House of Leaves
A new museum has opened in Camden and although it's not that hard to find – the long, snaking building, formerly a furniture workshop, is tucked away in a mews off the High Street – it is initially hard to fathom. The space's inaugural exhibition, entitled 'A House of Leaves', actually comes in three parts with an epilogue, like the movements of a symphony or a trilogy of novels. The display will be gradually rotated, the pieces changed and rooms rehung until well into next year, when the gallery will be left more or less bare for the final week. All but one of the works hail from a private art collection and are, bar none, tricky, thought-provoking objects, especially so those you can't see – of which more later.
Previously based in a temporary gallery space in Fitzrovia, this is the new home of the David Roberts Art Foundation – DRAF for short – and at first sight it seems, well, a bit drab. The colours are monochrome, the bronze, clay and steel materials often harsh and the themes invariably doomy and disaster-laden. As far as newly launched art factories go, this is an entirely bling- and fanfare-free zone. In its stead is only understatement and seriousness – no bad things once you tune into the contemplative feel of the place and the art.
Roberts himself is the latest in a new breed of smart art collectors opening venues in London who value ideas in art over status symbols or baubles. Chief among the portentous works on show in the first 'movement' is a giant three-dimensional map of a seemingly bombed-out London, created from charred lumps of wood with a pool of molten lead running along in place of the Thames. This post-nuclear plan of our currently fair city, by American artist Matthew Day Jackson, is superb in detail and spotting the incinerated remains of your own home or office is as close as you can get to apocalyptic fun.
At every turn, something abject, dirtied or darkened lurks in 'A House of Leaves'. Someone's home is wrecked by an earthquake, two boys spied through a window are considering erotic auto-asphyxiation and a pot of paint has left a nasty white stain on the concrete floor. Thankfully, almost every painting, photograph or object is fascinating in its own right; especially so the sinister leather glove fashioned into a collage by Man Ray in 1967 and the humble jersey cast as a totemic, mysterious bronze sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, just three years before her death in 2010. But together, they really start to resonate and spark a whir among those underused cogs in the brain.
The ambitious, symphonic structure of the show seems to me better thought of as a changing of the seasons. An autumnal atmosphere wafts through 'A House of Leaves'. First it will drop some of its foliage in November when a few new buds – including a reddish Gerhard Richter – will inject a bit of much needed colour, before all the spaces are then emptied like the branches of a tree in winter. Except there will always be art embedded in the fabric of DRAF even when the walls are bare, as there are a number of secretive, minimalist interventions hidden throughout the building. See if you can spot the one golden nail hammered up high, the dislodged brick in the wall (behind which is supposedly a single high-heeled shoe) and the peephole slowly being filled up with an artist's discarded materials. Such high concept art may not be to everyone's taste, but there's nothing wrong with a spot of mental ping-pong.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Some Happy Easter Lamb Ideas
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Chef John
Hey..you and yours,have a happy easter.
- April 23, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- Barbara said...
Buona Pasqua anche a te!!
- April 24, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- Vic said...
Happy Easter
- April 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM
I have a question relating to whole lamb legs. I've noticed that basically every recipe I've seen calls for cutting slits in the meat and inserting garlic and spices into the slits. Why is this always done for leg of lamb? And why is it never done for pork roasts or beef roasts or anything else?
Thanks for all of your recipes and tips.
Happy Easter!
- April 24, 2011 at 4:37 PM
- Chef John said...
Just the most traditional recipe, so people go to it since they only do once a year, unlike pork or beef. btw, it is commonly done to those also, just so many more options.
- April 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Thomas said...
Why no love for the classic butterflied leg of lamb? Talk about easy -- rub some pesto on the inside, truss it up, and let 'er ride in a 375 oven!
Unlike the classic -- I'm going sans garlic cloves stuck in it. I can't help but think all those little holes are letting out precious juice!
- April 24, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- April 24, 2011 at 8:04 PM
I ended doing a semi-boneless lamb leg in a home sous vide machine. I rubbed it with oil, spiced it up and vacuum sealed it. Then it went into the water bath for 24 hours at 138 degrees. After it came out of the bag, I dried it off and browned it under the broiler for a few minutes. It was incredibly moist, tender and evenly cook to a light pink color. It was described as being a night-and-day difference compared to a traditionally roasted lamb. I was told that I'll be making Easter dinner from now on. Lol.
- April 25, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Serenity West said...
Hmmmm those are nice collection of photos. those made me hungry. yum yum! On the side note, here's expressing my yummy eeerrr happy easter wishes to all. Have a great spring time!
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Man back in custody hours after escaping from Arizona jail; sheriff says he faces new charges
PHOENIX – An Arizona inmate being held on attempted murder and robbery charges escaped from his jail cell Sunday before detectives apprehended him hours later in downtown Phoenix, said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Adan Orduno Jr. gained access to an overhead crawl space by tearing open a hole in the ceiling of his county jail cell, Arpaio said. The crawl space eventually led the 26-year-old inmate to a fence, which he climbed to escape the facility, Arpaio said. Orduno was discovered missing just before 9 a.m. and authorities captured him around 6:15 p.m., according to the sheriff.
"We were fortunate to arrest him quickly," Arpaio said.
Orduno was being questioned by authorities late Sunday and booked on suspicion of escape, the Arizona Republic reported. Officer Christopher Hegstrom, a sheriff's spokesman, said the escape was the first for the 7-year-old south Phoenix facility.
Before his escape, Orduno stripped off his black-and-white jail stripes, placed the suit and milk cartons on his bed and then draped a blanket over the top in an attempt to lead officers to believe he was in his cell sleeping, according to the sheriff.
"He probably escaped with the pink underwear I make all these guys wear," Arpaio said.
The Arizona lawman, who rose to prominence by toughening conditions in his jails, famously forces inmates to wear striped jail suits and pink underwear. The inmates also are banned from cigarettes and porn magazines.
After Orduno jumped the county jail fence, a driver apparently saw him, picked him up and took the suspect to his mother's house, Arpaio said. The suspect was able to change into jeans and a jacket.
Later Sunday, an investigation led undercover officers to arrange a meeting with Orduno at 7th Avenue and McDowell Road in Phoenix, where he was arrested, Arpaio said.
Authorities originally thought Orduno might have been hiding somewhere at the sprawling jail, which also houses Arpaio's famous "tent city" lockup. But jail personnel searched the 600,000-square-foot complex and determined Orduno wasn't here.
The entire facility, which holds about 2,000 inmates, was placed on lockdown once detention officers discovered Orduno wasn't in his cell, the Arizona Republic reported. Authorities also warned the public to be on the lookout for Orduno, whom the sheriff described as a violent "troublemaker."
Orduno has served time in state prison for burglary, theft and aggravated assault, online state records show.
He was being held at the Maricopa County jail on attempted murder and robbery charges. The Republic reported the charges stemmed from an October 2011 robbery at a Phoenix jewelry store that led to a police chase in which either Orduno or an accomplice fired at pursuing officers. No one was injured.
Orduno had been in custody since Phoenix police arrested him Nov. 4, 2011, and he recently was declared competent to stand trial.
Deputy Chief Brian Lee, another sheriff's spokesman, said the cell that Orduno occupied at the jail's psychiatric ward had a small window. Detention officers look through the windows every 15 minutes to check on inmates, per department protocol, he said.


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A community backwater homestay endeavor based at West Chennamkary right at the heart of the picturesque Kuttanad of Alleppey district, famed in the world's tourism map.
The home-stay is spread across a number of houses owned by different families with ample amenities and water frontage for a comfortable and memorable stay for the guests. Here various activities such as Canoeing & Village walk, Bicycle tour across the village, Cooking class & other interesting activities are arranged for the guests.
Eco-friendly home stay in paddy farm houses in the backwaters of Kerala. Accommodation and food with the village family enables you to know the typical life and cuisine of Kerala and the opportunity to learn the ethnic culinary tradition of Kerala.
Village walk facilitates you to meet the villagers and to interact with them.
This also enables you to have a closer look at the exotic flora and fauna that are typical of kerala rare birds and herbs, especially Hands-on experience of a unique farming system typical Kuttanad, which is sub-sea level geographically 2 to 3 hours of guided day tours.Activities include all these spectacular experiences which takes care of accommodation, dining and guided village walk, cultural programs and the like.
The home stay is just 10 kms away from Alleppey town, accessible by water and road.
We recommend the waterway because it provides you with an unforgettable sail through the serene backwaters and sinuous rivers, bordered with lush green coconut palms and other trees, bamboos and shrubs.
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The second run opened a strip of land which included present day Pawnee County, Oklahoma, where I knew that Joseph lived and was buried. Was it possible that he received the land through the land rush of 1893? Through my research I learned that the Federal government kept a listing of all homestead applications in Oklahoma territory in a series of books called the Federal Tract Books. A microfilmed version of the books is owned by the Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society (SWOGS) and the organization has made an index of all the homesteaders. For a $5 donation the Society will conduct a search on your ancestor.
I received a quick response from the SWOGS and Joseph Creed did indeed receive 160 acres of land in 1893. I got a jolt of joy over the information, then quickly filed it and forgot about it. That is until today. I once again decided to look in on Joseph Creed to see if I could find more information on him. To remind myself of what I had already accomplished I flipped through the Creed section in my family history binders. I came across a piece of paper titled "Federal Tract Books of Oklahoma Territory." It must have come with my response from the SWOGS, but I had never read it...or at least not the back of it. It describes, in detail, that once you receive information regarding your ancestor's tract from the Federal Tract Book, you can then order a Case file of that individual from the federal government. The case file could include land surveys, a Homestead application, testimony regarding citizenship and birth date, among other things. There could be some very interesting information in it and I couldn't even bother to turn the page over.
Well, today I did. I also went to the National Archives website and ordered a copy of Joseph Creed's land patent case file using NATF Form 84. I used the eServices portion of the site and was able to order the documents online. In order to use the online system you must know the individual's first and last name, the state their land was located in, an approximate date of entry, and the section, township and range number for the land. In my case, this information was provided in the packet I received from the Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society. The charge for research and shipping of the documents from the National Archives is $40 for this particular type of document. The fees are not charged if the archivist cannot find any documents related to your search.
I am very excited to see what may come from this request and I have been reminded of how important it is to read through documents thoroughly before filing.


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The Service Learning Program works to support faculty in the use of this important pedagogy and to encourage greater community engagement on campus. Throughout the year, the program offers a variety of professional development opportunities for faculty, including individual meetings, interdisciplinary project planning, a faculty reflection series, new faculty group conversations, community-faculty roundtable discussions, faculty field trips into the community, workshop opportunities, research symposiums, and guest speakers.
Each year the Program hosts five to six informal discussions with faculty about various service learning related themes, including community based research, reflection, social justice, interdisciplinary projects, and assessment. Here you will find descriptions and a calendar of this year's Conversation series.
Each spring the Program sponsors a bus tour of the community. Faculty are able to visit several of our agency partners and learn more about the needs of the community. Visit this page for a description of both upcoming and past field trips.
Several Marquette faculty have been successful in publishing articles on service learning. Here you will find some of their articles.
Reflection is an integral aspect of the service learning experience. Visit this page for more information on integrating reflection into your course.
For a list of current service learning, civic engagement, and community-based research workshops and conferences please visit this page.
In order to promote the use of service learning and undergraduate community-based research as high impact pedagogy, the Center for Teaching and Learning will support community partner and faculty collaboration(s) through the funding of three $500 mini seed grants. Grants will be awarded to faculty and community partner teams working to address educational inequality in Milwaukee. Projects should equally benefit both the University and the community agency or school. Click here to learn more about the Problem Solver SEED Grant and to read about previous recipients' work.


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