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WASHINGTON, May 16 — For a loyal George W. Bush Republican, James B. Comey has made a remarkable amount of trouble for the White House.
As deputy attorney general in 2003, he appointed his old friend Patrick J. Fitzgerald as independent counsel in the C.I.A. leak case, leading to the perjury conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr.
In 2004, he backed Justice Department subordinates who withdrew a legal memorandum justifying harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. This spring, more than a year after leaving the government, he publicly praised several United States attorneys who had been dismissed, undermining the administration's claim that they were removed for poor performance.
Finally, at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Mr. Comey gave a riveting account of how he intervened in 2004 at the hospital bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft to prevent two top White House officials from persuading Mr. Ashcroft to reauthorize the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program. The Justice Department had ruled that the program would not be lawful without certain changes, and President Bush subsequently directed that the changes be made.
Colleagues say Mr. Comey is, even now, a reluctant critic of the administration he served. But they say he feels strongly that there was no justification for the purge of prosecutors and remains furious about what he saw in 2004 as an improper attempt by the White House to bypass the Justice Department.Continue reading the main story
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who led Mr. Comey through his dramatic tale on Tuesday said it was clearly an emotional release for the former No. 2 Justice Department official. "When we asked him about it, it was like a dam broke," Mr. Schumer said.
"He had been carrying this weight around inside him and wanted the appropriate opportunity to get it off his conscience," Mr. Schumer added. "When you watched him, he was both pained and relieved."
Mr. Comey, a former federal terrorism prosecutor in New York and Virginia, is described by colleagues as a solid Republican but one whose devotion to the law trumped political considerations.
Steven R. Peikin, who prosecuted securities fraud cases under Mr. Comey when he was United States attorney in Manhattan, said he found Mr. Comey's intervention in the N.S.A. program "totally unsurprising."
"We always joked that Jimmy Stewart's going to play him in the movie," Mr. Peikin said. "He's the picture of rectitude — a charming, engaging, funny guy, but one who set a tone for the office about doing the right thing, not necessarily about winning every case."
With his recent testimony, he has become involved in a highly partisan battle over the fate of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, who as White House counsel in 2004 made the hospital visit to Mr. Ashcroft along with Andrew H. Card Jr., then White House chief of staff.
On Wednesday, in a letter to Mr. Gonzales signed by three other Democratic senators, Mr. Schumer reminded Mr. Gonzales that he had testified last year that "there has not been any serious disagreement" about the N.S.A. program and asked about the apparent contradiction.
On Wednesday, Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, joined the calls by lawmakers for Mr. Gonzales to step down.
As with other Bush administration moderates, including former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, Mr. Comey's standing in the White House declined after he challenged some positions championed by Mr. Cheney. But also like them, Mr. Comey ultimately chose not to resign and, while he unquestionably had some influence, he did not fundamentally shift the administration's policies.
At this week's hearing, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, compared the hospital standoff between Mr. Comey with Mr. Card and Mr. Gonzales to the so-called Saturday night massacre in the Nixon administration.
At the height of the Watergate scandal, the attorney general, Elliot Richardson, and his successor, William Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than follow Richard M. Nixon's order to fire the Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. But there is a difference. By his own account, Mr. Comey threatened to quit — along with Mr. Ashcroft, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III — but never did.
Mr. Bush allowed new procedures in the N.S.A. program, which officials have said included Justice Department audits, and the eavesdropping continued without the court warrants some legal authorities believe the law requires.
Former colleagues say strains with the White House began after the arrival in 2003 of Jack L. Goldsmith to head the department's Office of Legal Counsel. With Mr. Comey's backing, Mr. Goldsmith questioned what he considered shaky legal reasoning in several crucial opinions, including some drafted by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo.
Mr. Goldsmith's review of legal memoranda on the N.S.A. program and interrogation practices became a source of friction between Mr. Comey and the White House.
"He had a strong sense of personal integrity and he felt that the legal judgments of the Justice Department were not being honored," a former Justice Department colleague said, speaking on condition of anonymity about confidential discussions. Mr. Yoo had the strong support of Mr. Gonzales and David S. Addington, Mr. Cheney's legal adviser. Mr. Comey testified that both Mr. Cheney and Mr. Addington opposed the N.S.A. program changes sought by the Justice Department.
A graduate of William and Mary and the University of Chicago law school, Mr. Comey worked as a federal prosecutor in New York from 1987 to 1993 and in the Eastern District of Virginia, from 1996 to 2001. His success bringing an indictment in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American service members, first brought him to the attention of the Bush White House.
In 2002, Mr. Bush appointed him United States attorney in New York's Southern District, where he oversaw the prosecution of more terror cases as well as several high-profile fraud and securities crimes, including the insider trading investigation of Martha Stewart, the homemaking guru. He was confirmed as deputy attorney general in December 2003, under Mr. Ashcroft, a former senator and staunch conservative. He stayed on after Mr. Gonzales arrived in January 2005, but friends say he soon began talking about plans to leave. He became general counsel at Lockheed Martin Corp. in August 2005.
Democrats who have criticized the surveillance program have embraced Mr. Comey, but former associates said he was an aggressive, sometimes stubborn prosecutor who opposed neither tough interrogation methods nor eavesdropping without warrants but wanted them on a firmer legal footing.
"Clearly people were searching for the boundaries of what was legally acceptable," said Michael E. Horowitz, who worked under Mr. Comey in New York. "Jim was not a prosecutor who was afraid to use all the available tools in serious cases as long as you were doing it within the law."Continue reading the main story


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BRANDON - A South Dakota man who created a business in his garage is now shipping his pet-grooming products worldwide, and has even gotten attention from the White House.
Tim Dressen of Brandon says his Groomer's Choice business ships products to countries he's never even heard of through distributors in the United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Dressin says that last summer, the White House arranged for a dog bathtub.
Dressen began his business in his Dell Rapids garage in 2002, building tables, sinks, tubs and cages. Since moving to Brandon in 2006, the business has grown even more and appeared on HGTV's Dream Home Giveaway.
The Argus Leader reports that some of Dressen's equipment will be featured on the upcoming TLC Network show "Little People, Big World."
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(RIBA) is pleased to announce that American architect Steven Holl is to receive the 2010 Jencks Award: Visions Built. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution simultaneously to the theory and practice of architecture internationally. The presentation of the award will take place at the RIBA on 30 November 2010, followed by a public lecture by Steven Holl, chaired by Charles Jencks.
Considered one of Americas most important architects, Steven Holl is recognised for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. His work ranges across cultural, civic, academic and residential projects in the United States and internationally. Some of his most acclaimed buildings include the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (1998), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, the Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam (2000) and the Chapel of St Ignatius, Seattle, Washington (1997). Steven Holl Architects have recently won international design competitions including an extension to Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, Cite du Surf et de lOcean, Biarritz and Sail Hybrid, a seaside resort project in the town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium. Steven Holl is a watercolourist, a widely published author and a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. In his lecture he will be discussing his work alongside his interest in the poetics of space, colour and material.
Charles Jencks commented on Stephen Holl winning the award: Steven Holl has divided his time between writing and architecture, as he says, making a book is like making a building. It takes a lot of effort and is agonizing, but somehow also very fulfilling because you have to make things coalesce. This two-way traffic between theory and practice has led to the considered development of several themes, which work on different scales. For smaller commissions, houses and chapels, he has explored a tightly layered and faceted aesthetic based on light studies direct, oblique and reflected colours that play over intricate surfaces. This research is furthered through his watercolours and writings on phenomenology - both a form of theoretical investigation. From them comes a haptic architecture, related to that of Carlo Scarpa, and one that engages many senses, not just the visual. At the large scale Holl investigates more conceptual and systematic models, such as structural and scientific ideas of porosity or the fractal known as Mengers Sponge. Here his urban work in the USA and China creates formal order at several scales, and is tied to social ideas of passage, meeting and communal well-being. Colour, light and phenomenology also inform his city buildings and together with his domestic architecture, writing and watercolour, form a consistent body of work that is as rare as it is impressive.'
Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he joined the Architectural Association in London and established Steven Holl Architects in New York City and subsequently a further office in Beijing. His publications include Architecture Spoken (2007), Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture (2007) and Parralax (2000).
He has received architectures most prestigious awards and prizes. In 2003 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA). In 2002 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, awarded him their National Design Award in Architecture. In 2001 France awarded him the Grande Médaille dOr, for Best Architect of the Academy of Architecture; and in the same year Time Magazine declared him Americas Best Architect for his buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye. In 1998 he was awarded the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and in the same year was the recipient of the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal. The New York American Institute of Architects awarded him with their Medal of Honor in 1997. In 1990 the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Steven Holl to receive the Arnold W. Brunner Prize for Achievement in Architecture as an Art. Most recently, Steven Holl Architects' Horizontal Skyscraper and Knut Hamsun Center received 2010 AIA NY Honor Awards, and the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art received a 2010 RIBA International Award.
Previous recipients of the prestigious Jencks Award: Visions Built include Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Peter Eisenman, Cecil Balmond, UNStudio, Wolf D. Prix &Coop Himmelb(l)au and Charles Correa.
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Talking backThursday, September 15th, 2011 by ExhibitFiles
Co-created content and community participation are now part of the standard vocabulary of museum exhibits — in theory if not always in practice. Running into Janet Kamien the other day was a reminder that at one time it was a brave step for a museum to invite visitors not just to comment, but to talk back — to assert that their voices had a place alongside the curators'. At the Boston Children's Museum from 1972 to 1986 and the Field Museum from 1986 to 1996, Janet helped pioneer the approach. In this post, she looks back at what was to become "a temperature-taking device, a venting mechanism, a dialogue enhancer, and an integral part of the exhibition content."
The Boston Children's Museum was probably not the first museum to engage in organized methods of direct visitor feedback, but we were surely in the game early.
It was an obvious step. We believed in being "client centered," so finding out what the client needed, wanted, or thought about our museum was important to us. This was in the late 1960s and early'70s. Visitor research, as we now understand it, barely existed.
In our beginning use of "talk-backs," as we called them, we simply cut to the chase and asked people what they thought about the Children's Museum. We posted many of these comments, both good and bad, and the suggestions for improvements or new exhibits and programs for other visitors to see.
We eventually began to incorporate talk-backs into specific exhibitions. One of the first of these was for a project called Lito the Shoeshine Boy. This 1974 exhibition was based on a photo-documentary-style children's book about a day in the life of a poor, abandoned street boy in Guatemala. A maze-like space, stage-set-style rooms and large black-and-white photos and text from the book suggested the environments and activities of Lito's everyday life, as he made it more or less on his own, with little adult help and no schooling.
Visitors were asked to consider this story and write to us about it on notepaper that could be tacked up on a bulletin board. And write they did, about their sorrow for this boy, with thanks for telling his story, or appalled that we were telling such a sad story in a "fun" place. There were also political opinions about how the Litos of the world had been created—one writer blamed the United Fruit Company and included a snide suggestion about our possible connection to those scoundrels!
Our motives may have been a bit disingenuous. We knew that this exhibition would raise a few eyebrows, and we wanted feedback about this risk from our visitors. We suspected that visitors who opposed our installation for whatever reason would feel a bit more forgiving of us if offered the chance to tell us so in public. We also thought that visitors who were emotionally touched by the exhibition would be grateful for a place to reveal their feelings.
Thus was born the notion of the talk-back as a Boston Children's Museum device that might do three things:
- inform us, the producers, if our products were found to be useful and enjoyable to the people for whom we had produced them;
- provide a place for people to vent strongly felt emotions or opinions that the exhibition may have evoked;
- mitigate controversy evoked by some of our possibly risky undertakings by providing a public forum for naysayers to "tell us off."
Subsequent experiments would bear out the utility of all three of these suppositions and eventually add two others:
- provide a medium for visitors to talk to each other;
- provide a way for visitors to become part of the exhibit by continually adding to its content.
If ever an exhibition cried out for the use of talk-backs for all these purposes, it was the 1986 Endings: An Exhibit about Death and Loss. We designed three talk-backs for the 5,000-square-foot space. (As developer of this exhibition, I should have known to have made it four… but more about that later.)
The first component asked visitors if they had been named for anyone. We expected a light response, mostly citing grandparents, aunts, and uncles. The response was light, but surprisingly featured many examples of children named for soldiers—kin and friends—lost in the Vietnam War. This was fascinating both to us and our visitors.
The second component asked for opinions about the afterlife. After describing a variety of beliefs (unattached to a specific religion), including the notion that there is none, visitors were asked, "What do you and your family believe?" Two of my personal favorites were, "My family believes in heaven, but I'm not so sure," and "Our soils (sic) fly up to heaven," complete with an illustration thereof.
The third component should have been two: It asked visitors to tell us what they thought of the exhibition or to share an experience they had had with death. I think some visitors were confused by this double question, though most chose to answer one or the other. Visitors answering the first question were all over the map, often responding to other people's postings. Some thought it brilliant, others that it was inappropriate for a children's museum, or that we should read our New Testaments—then we'd know that there was no such thing as death! Some younger visitors wanted to tell us that they thought the material was OK for them (9- or 10-year olds), but they feared it was inappropriate for "younger" visitors.
Answers to the second question were sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and sometimes so personal they weren't posted, but placed in the box we provided. Many of these were written by adults. Many were very long and heartfelt. One often had the sense that some of these visitors had been looking for a way to tell someone about their feelings for a very long time. In many ways, the content provided by our visitors was just as engaging as the exhibition itself.
Talk-back boards were used with equal effect and poignancy in an exhibition called Families, about the love and commitment of members of nontraditional families to each other. Here again, we, and our visitors, heard how grateful kids felt that their own particular type of family had been recognized, although some adults took issue with the appropriateness of the presentation of a homosexual couple in a children's museum.
In the mid-1980s, Michael Spock and I took our love of this device with us to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. One of its first uses there was to help us and our visitors focus on an old, miniature diorama called "Morning Star," in the Native American Hall. In it, a young woman was being sacrificed by a group of men. Label copy explained that this was an annual event meant to please the gods. Though the diorama had sat un-remarked upon for 30 years or more, a white feminist visitor was so outraged by it that she wrote a scathing letter to us. We consulted a Pawnee eldress, and she too wrote a letter explaining that this really did happen, that they weren't proud of it, but that there was no reason not to talk about it. These two letters were posted in a talk-back, in which other visitors could state their opinions. Should we get rid of this exhibit, we asked, or keep it? In the meantime, staff research revealed many flaws in both the presentation and the label copy. Based on visitor commentary over a long period, we decided to keep the diorama and correct it. It became a less lurid presentation and more accurate—for instance, the whole village had participated, not just a group of overexcited-looking men.
Other talk-backs were used, especially in Life Over Time, the Field Museum's large exhibition about evolution and the history of life on Earth. These talk-backs addressed some sticky issues that would be seen by some to have religious implications. One asked (in the context of the Urey-Miller experiment* of the 1950s and a book of creation stories from all over the world) what visitors thought about how life began on Earth. Responses to this ranged from "kill all abortion doctors" to "Darwin is God" to "evolution is a glove on the hand of God." None of these, of course, addressed the question we asked, but all made it clear that visitors of every persuasion were eager to state their opinions and show what side they were on or, like the last, that they could see both sides.
One important lesson learned at the Field Museum was in Animal Kingdom. An early talk-back in that conservation-minded exhibition asked, "What can you do to help the environment?" and provided some prompts, such as recycling, or saving gas or electricity. To this, visitors replied with observations like "Charlie loves Sally" and a variety of four-letter words. Why? Because they knew they were being set up. We weren't really asking them what they thought, we just wanted them to parrot something back to us, and they refused. We took it out.
Now, a few words about technique. Readers will have noticed that every example uses paper and pencil and not computers. The biggest innovation seems to be that of the Post-it. (And how glad I am of it—no more worrying about little ones with thumbtacks or pushpins!) Though computers were considered at the Field Museum, we eventually decided in each case to stick to the old technique. There are a couple of reasons. One is that it is much easier (and easier for more people at one time) to scan the comments of others or to add their own. Another reason is that people can place their comments in relationship to others or to graphics that are supporting an idea.
This is not to say that the variety of uses of computers and video kiosks for feedback in many institutions doesn't work fine. In addition to having innate appeal for some visitors, computers also offer the institution a simple way to keep all the comments, instead of having shoeboxes of "stickies" floating around. But it is also important to remember that no matter how consistently or scientifically talk-backs are collected, they are no replacement for actual visitor research, and that collecting talk-backs will not yield a reliable database for analysis.
At the Field Museum, we also experimented with the use of a "comment book" at the end of Daniel's Story, a traveling exhibition about the Holocaust. This is a perfectly good way to allow for visitor feedback. But even using paper and pencil, it shares some of the aspects of computer feedback, in that only one person can use it at a time, and it's more difficult for other visitors to review what others have written or to respond in a direct way to the comments of others.
It is for these reasons that the single question "talk-back" seems to me to be the most useful format. It becomes a temperature-taking device, a venting mechanism, a dialogue enhancer, and an integral part of the exhibition content. All in all, talk-backs, by their very participatory nature, help to turn every exhibit they are in to one of dynamic daily change and thereby change the tenor of each installation for the better.
* In this stunning experiment, the combination of water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and an electrical spark yielded the creation of three life-essential amino acids in a week's time, suggesting that life on Earth could have begun through a happy, but accidental combination of common materials.
Janet is now an independent museum consultant and member of the Museum Group. This post was adapted from articles that appeared in the Journal of Museum Education, Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall 2003), and in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions, edited by Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock (ASTC 2007).


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Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital"s top finance official on Thursday laid out a sobering scenario for the hospital if it chooses to remain an independent public district hospital.
Interim Chief Financial Officer Bob Dvorak, at a town hall meeting at the hospital, said it would need to increase its patient volume and raise prices enough to start earning a healthy profit after losing $10 million over the past two fiscal years and seeing its revenue streams crater.
Despite having just 40 days cash on hand, the hospital would need to start building its reserves so it can fund more than $500 million in major capital needs, including a new hospital tower by 2020.
It would have to cut $75 million in costs per year, much of it in employee pay concessions, while improving productivity on the heels of a major cost-cutting effort already completed.
At the same time, the hospital should keep its focus on developing physician-centered initiatives, new clinical co-management agreements and a new trauma center program, among other crucial improvements, Dvorak said.
The hospital must do all that within a year and a half, in the midst of an era of rapid change in health care under national and state reform that is expected to fundamentally alter delivery of care and shrink the hospital"s patient volume and reimbursement by an estimated $60 million per year.
Failing to achieve those goals quickly and completely enough, Dvorak said, could result in insolvency within three years.
Salinas Valley Memorial spokeswoman Adrienne Laurent said Dvorak"s presentation underscored that "the stand-alone option presents some significant challenges."
The hospital"s board of trustees is considering its affiliation options in light of its need for ready access to cash and an improved bottom line.
Thursday"s town hall meeting was the second in a series held as part of the affiliation review, and was focused on the stand-alone option.
At last month"s meeting, two potential suitors — giant for-profit HCA Healthcare and county-owned Natividad Medical Center — made presentations about what they could offer Salinas Valley Memorial.
HCA is seeking to acquire the hospital and select assets, while Natividad is seeking a merger with Salinas Valley Memorial under a new public authority structure.
Under the current timeline, HCA and Natividad would submit letters of intent by June 15, and the hospital board would make a decision later this summer.
Any sale or merger would require a public vote, likely to be held in the fall.
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SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 5, 2012) - St. Vincent's proudly presents its Annual Fashion Show & Luncheon on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, on St. Vincent's campus. Proceeds will benefit St. Vincent's low-income children, families, and seniors. The silent auction opens at 10:00 am, and lunch will be served at 12:30 pm.
Hosted by Claudia Lash and Pat Lupo, the fundraiser directly impacts 600 campus residents and clients. The funds realized will support St. Vincent's Family Strengthening Program providing comprehensive services for single mothers and their children; St. Vincent's Early Childhood Education Center, a fully licensed early learning facility offering quality, affordable childcare for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; St. Vincent's Heart, an on-site, volunteer- assisted food pantry and donation center; and St. Vincent's Affordable Housing Programs for families and seniors.
The annual event features a catered lunch provided by Karleskint Catering; a silent auction, raffle, and door prizes generously donated by local businesses and individuals; and the latest fashions by Chico's. Guests will have the opportunity to bid on a wide selection of gift baskets, jewelry, gift cards, and art work and also a chance to win raffle items as well as door prizes.
According to Pat Lupo, event co-chair and longtime St. Vincent's supporter: "This is my fourth year hosting the event, and each year I am more and more delighted with the tremendous response from local merchants, who so generously support St. Vincent's, along with the wonderful people who believe in this important work and come to enjoy an afternoon with friends."
Established in 1858 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Vincent's is the longest continuously-operating nonprofit human service agency in Santa Barbara. With a long tradition of responding to the evolving needs of the community, St. Vincent's serves the most vulnerable residents of Santa Barbara County by providing family enrichment opportunities, early childhood education, and affordable housing.
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Author Notes: This is a variation on a red pepper / tomato sauce that I've tossed with pasta for years. Our corn is so good right now that I couldn't resist, and thyme and cilantro from the garden rounded out the dish. My first thought was to grate a little ricotta salata over the top, but the feta is a nice stand-in. - Oui, Chef —Oui, Chef
Food52 Review: If you took all of the ingredients in this soup, threw them into a pot and cooked them together, you'd end up with a pretty delicious result. But Oui, Chef takes the soup to a new flavor planet by enhancing each component. He roasts the tomatoes, peppers, shallots and garlic until they're smoky and charred. He toasts the corn in a pan with thyme and wraps it with butter. And he brightens a cilantro oil with splashes of sherry vinegar. By the time you're done and have all the parts assembled beautifully in a bowl, you have a dinner party star and a soup that you'll want to savor the next day for lunch. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 6
large red peppers, washed, cut in half and de-seeded?
large heirloom tomatoes, washed, cored and quartered?
large garlic cloves, still in their skins?
large shallots, peeled and halved
2 1/2
cups low sodium chicken stock, plus more if needed
teaspoon pimenton (smoked paprika)
small bunch fresh cilantro, well washed and spun dry
splash sherry vinegar
small ears sweet corn, cut from the cob
teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, finely minced
shallot, finely minced
tablespoon butter
cup crumbled feta cheese
Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 425?
- Toss the pepper halves, tomato quarters, halved shallots and garlic cloves in a large bowl, drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and toss with your hands to coat. Place them all in a single layer, skin side up in a large roasting pan.
- Place the pan in the oven and roast for 45 to 60 minutes, until everything has started to take on a nice charred appearance. Check the shallots and garlic at this point, if they are nice and soft, remove from the pan and reserve, if not, you can keep them in the pan for the final 15 minutes of cooking.
- At the one hour mark, remove the pan, peel the charred skin from the tomatoes and peppers, and squeeze the garlic cloves from their skins. Place the skinned tomatoes, peppers, garlic and shallots in a medium pot with the pimenton and chicken stock, bring to a boil, then lower the heat to medium and cook, uncovered, for about 15 minutes.
- Working in batches, puree the soup in a blender and place in a clean pan, check for seasoning and keep warm.
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil, toss in the cilantro and blanch for about 30 seconds. Pull from the pot with a slotted spoon and shock in ice water. When cooled, pour through a strainer to catch the cilantro, and pressing with the palm of your hand, wring as much of the water free as you can. Finely chop the herb, then toss into a bowl with enough EVOO to maker a spoonable cilantro oil, add a splash of sherry vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. Reserve.
- Preheat a skillet over a medium flame, and when hot add a splash of olive oil and the minced shallot. Cook until the shallot starts to take on some color, then add the corn kernels, some salt and pepper, and the fresh thyme. Cook for 2 minutes, toss in the butter, and when it melts, remove from the heat and transfer to a bowl.
- To serve, place a small pile of the corn in the center of a warmed soup bowl, pour the soup around, drizzle with some cilantro oil, and finally, sprinkle with a little crumbled feta.
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Kurt Nimmo – Info Wars July 18, 2011
It's not enough to frighten Americans with personal financial disaster if the massive debt scam is not perpetuated. In order to send the message, the government has decided to stoke up the al-Qaeda threat.
Let the bankers crank up the debt even more or this cave dweller and his operatives will get you.
According to counterterrorism experts polled by Homeland Security Today, a possible downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by Moody's – and the mayhem in financial markets that would result – may inspire al-Qaeda to attack.
"So you can understand why Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist organization motivated by the jihadist ideology, would see that America is highly vulnerable right now – perhaps more than it's ever been — to an attack or attacks the impact or direct effect [of which] would be further depression of the US's economy," a counterterrorism official told the homeland security affairs website.
The credit ratings company Moody's has renewed its warning that if the United States defaults on its "debt obligations" after the deadline set by the Treasury, it may downgrade its AAA bond rating.
The debt is well over $100 trillion, although the government tells us it is a paltry $14 trillion. Obama, the Federal Reserve, and the bankers want to raise the debt limit from $14.3 to $14.5 trillion so Congress can borrow and spend even more money. Most of the budget is spent on killing people in foreign lands.
Obama threatened the most vulnerable last week. He said the government will stop sending Social Security payments to seniors if Congress does not agree to raise the debt ceiling. He didn't say missing the deadline would shut down the wars in Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
Gary Sasse, director of the Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University in Rhode Island, told Fox News a downgrade by Moody's would reach "down to every family in America."
Fox said the ripple effect from a downgrade would be widespread and potentially severe, impacting everything from local municipalities and the neighborhood bank to home mortgages and student loans.
But this threat is apparently not enough to scare Americans. Now the government is dragging a threadbare al-Qaeda out of the closet and waving it in our faces.
"Under Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda's goal had been to find a way to attack us in a way that would hurt us economically – and I mean really hurt us. So if Al Qaeda still wants to slam us economically, now is the time to do it," said one of the US counterterrorism official. "Certainly a catastrophic, mass casualty attack would have a dramatic impact on the economy, but so, too, would a coordinated small cell attack with automatic weapons at major amusement parks across the country."
Laura Hains, a retired ranking Customs and Border Protection officer, warned that the scary cave dwelling and turban wearing terrorists may attack one of America's most cherished institutions. "Can you imagine what would happen if Disney's amusement parks in Florida were attacked? Florida's economy would collapse."


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - My take on Joe Mad's Bats/Supes (230k image) Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "My take on Joe Mad's Bats/Supes (230k image)" CuddlymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 161Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 10:10 pm Hi all, my first attempt at comic-book coloring using the by-now ubiquitous Joe Mad's Batman/Superman story. Nowhere near finished yet, but I think I'm progressing nicely so far. What do you guys think? [This message has been edited by Cuddly (edited January 05, 2001).] Back to top -LiQuiDcRoW-memberMember #Joined: 16 Nov 2000Posts: 61Location: Canoga Park, Ca Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 11:22 pm great start Back to top burn0utmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2000Posts: 1645Location: california Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:43 am yea thats lookin real good, keep at it Back to top g:techmemberMember #Joined: 11 May 2000Posts: 195Location: Beaverton, OR Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 7:38 pm you bastard! So perfect! PERFECT I TELL YOU! Keep it up! I'm jealous ---------- Back to top CuddlymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 161Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 7:20 am Aw you guys.... Thanks for the kind words people. You really make me wanna go on with this. Will post an update once I have one. Thanks again. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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This year's midwinter bald eagle survey conducted Jan. 10 along the Missouri River in North Dakota revealed 61 bald eagles, slightly above average since the survey started in 1986.
Patrick T. Isakson, conservation biologist with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the survey route from Bismarck to the Garrison Dam is conducted at the same time each year and in coordination with other surveys nationwide.
"Conducting the surveys close to the same day throughout the nation reduces the number of eagles that may be counted by other surveys, as eagles tend to move around," Isakson said.
Large numbers of waterfowl are allowing a high number of bald eagles to winter in the state. "A change in weather conditions will force waterfowl to migrate further south, thus the eagles will follow," Isakson said.
Eagles are relatively easy to spot as they prefer to perch in large cottonwood trees along the river. Adult bald eagles have a white head and tail and a dark brown body, while immature bald eagles are brown with irregular white plumage. Golden eagles, which are also counted, are dark in color and have a gold cap on their head.


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I don't browse by section... but by unread topics since last visit. I'm not sure how many people do the same, but this wouldn't help in that case.-Ath (April 20, 2012, 01:08 PM)
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If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have supposed that posting a remembrance to the 6 million murdered in the Holocaust could have provoked such an outpouring of...something (I can't quite describe it) like what is seen in some of the ensuing comments.This post is "political"? "Religious"? "Borderline appropriate for DC and is only becoming more so"?The thread is "disruptive"?
That is, the Holocaust was a historical landmark and a trigger that released the idea of an indelible and greater humanitarianising and civilizing force into a world which previously had nothing quite like that before. So the 6 million deaths might not have been entirely in vain. The Holocaust taught us something which has arguably enabled humanity to take a further social evolutionary step - not that all societies/nations necessarily want to take that step, unfortunately.-IainB (April 19, 2012, 05:35 AM)
Through the Holocaust museum and non-profit organizations, Americans and others around the world can give funds and spread education about genocide prevention and conflict resolution. There are also a few ways in which someone can get a formal education in Jewish Studies, Hebrew, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Conflict Resolution.
Master of Arts in Jewish Studies, Hebrew College:Through Boston-area-based Hebrew College, students can earn several online degrees based on the study of Jewish texts, history, language, and tradition. The Master of Arts in Jewish Studies allows students to enrich their personal knowledge of Judaism and tailor their education to their desired career paths in Jewish communal organizations, rabbinic or cantorial studies, or Jewish academic scholarship.Graduate Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College:This 18-hour fully online certificate is designed for those who would like to expand their knowledge of the Holocaust, or those who would like to be able to teach its historical significance better or create an interfaith dialogue. Two courses, The Holocaust and European Mass Murder, and Comparative Genocide, are required. Elective courses include: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Teaching the Holocaust; History of Antisemitism; Children of the Nazi Era; The Warsaw Ghetto; and The Problem of Evil.Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey:In New Jersey, the Holocaust and its historical significance are required subjects in schools. This degree program is geared not only at teachers, museum curators, and clergy, but also at those who would appreciate a better understanding of the Holocaust and its historical significance as well as an understanding of current conflicts. The interdisciplinary program includes coursework in general European history, genocide education, contemporary genocides, Nazi art and propaganda, and non-Jewish victims of the Nazis.Graduate Certificate in Conflict and Peace Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro:This 18-credit-hour program is designed to provide students with the tools to communicate effectively and design conflict resolution systems for a variety of situations. Students will study topics including fundamentals of conflict and peace studies, organizational conflict, and cultural dimensions of conflict resolution.Master of Arts in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding, California State University, Dominguez Hills:The 36-semester-hour program is designed to prepare students for a career in mediation, public policy, social work, teaching, inter-cultural and community conflicts, among others. Courses cover topics including: ethics of negotiation, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding; theories of conflict; intercultural conflict resolution; and conflict and the media.
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Shop Geocaching September Newsletter
Arrh! Always searching for Treasure!
For geocachers and pirates alike, searching for treasure never ends! Like many geocachers in the community, we appreciate the fun connection the two share. We've recently added some fun new items to our "Pirate Collection" including a Cool Cloth Bandana, a Signal Pirate Geocoin and tattoos! See the rest of the collection here!
What's New!
The original Limited Edition Cache Dragons coin was so popular that we've decided to release a Black Nickel version of the coin (also Limited Edition). The first batch sold out in 11 days, so get yours today! We've also recently added two new Energizer Flashlight options to our night caching collection. Also for those Geocoin collectors out there, we've released the 2012 version of the Groundspeak Lackey Geocoin as well as the 2012 Mega Event Tour Geocoin. If you attended a Mega Event, you'll definitely want to get one of these great coins! Check these out and more in our What's New section!
Trackable Week
How far has the furthest active Trackable traveled? Who's moved the most Trackables? And who's taking part in the Great 2013 Geocaching Block Party Travel Bug Race? Watch the official Geocaching.com blog, Latitude 47, for the answers to these questions and more during Trackable Week. See new incredible stories of Trackables Monday through Sunday from September 17 through the 23. Explore the creative ways to experience Trackables and share your stories about Trackables Geocoins, Travel Bugs® or Promotional Trackables. You'll also be able to take advantage of deals on never before seen Trackables, and a limited time special discount off Trackables this week only (available on Shop Geocaching and with participating vendors).
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Inspiration: Pumpkins on Display
Fall has made its way to the streets of New York and pumpkins have found themselves smiling from the stoops. Pumpkin displays are forever being reinvented and pushed to the seedy limits, but here are a few examples and tips before you break out the carving knife.
The first two photos are obviously over-the-top. This takes time, patience and above all a love for Halloween. But large displays don't have to be overwhelming. Plan ahead, and take it one pumpkin at a time.
Photos 3 & 4 are traditional displays where the pumpkin isn't carved. Easy enough, but think about non-traditional placement like inside the window in the 3rd photo or above the window in the 4th.
Photo 5 falls in the painted pumpkin category. A great way to dress up your steps without getting your hands slimy. Head over to Martha Stewart for simple instructions on how to glitter your gourd.
Photos 6 & 7 are themed displays, using several pumpkins together to create a look. Again, leave it to Martha, queen of the pumpkins, for instructions on how to make works of art like the pumpkin snake.
And of course there's something to be said for the classically carved pumpkin like the little guy in the last pic.
Whatever pumpkin décor you decide on, be sure to let us know how it goes!
(Images: 1 Solar Energy Dream; 2 Country Living; 3 the nest; 4 Katy Elliott; 5 Aaron Able for Apartment Therapy; 6 Martha Stewart; 7 The Daily Cork; 8 Geoff Bentz)
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Candidate presented by: Dr. Thomas J. "Toby" Peters, Associate Senior Vice President
Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, O.S.F., is a humble servant of God whose formal education never went beyond the fifth grade. Undeterred by her lack of a formal education, she has raised and educated over the past fifty years more than 40,000 Honduran orphans. As an orphan herself, Sister Maria Rosa understood the challenges that children face without a family. At the age of six she became curious when she encountered two German religious sisters. After learning from a local priest about religious life, she decided at that young age that this, too, would be her life's work. Over time and as a result of her persistence and determination, she joined the School Sisters of Saint Francis at that order's Mother House in Milwaukee. She completed her novitiate at the age of 24, and is celebrating her 60th anniversary of religious life this year.
In 1949 Sister Maria Rosa returned to her homeland to begin her mission of helping others. As a young sister, she was assigned to work in a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She was committed to her work, especially that of comforting the sick and dying. It was this sense of compassion that led her to found Sociedad Amigos de los Niños, an orphanage. Today with her colleagues at Sociedad Amigos de los Niños she houses 625 children at four different sites, providing not just a roof over their heads and hot meals, but an education, love and care, and religious instruction that provides these children with the opportunity to live life fully and become responsible citizens. Sister Maria Rosa has saved literally thousands of children from lives of poverty, disease, and neglect.
Sister Maria Rosa has also served as a catalyst for many other programs that assist the people of Honduras, including 86 free health clinics across that country. With assistance of health care teams from an organization called Global Brigades, thousands of people are served each year at these mobile medical clinics that bring medical and dental care to remote areas of Honduras. At present more than 80 universities now contribute to this effort, with Marquette University being in 2003 the very first to do so. To date, more than 200 Marquette students, professors, and staff members have participated in Sister Maria Rosa's program of physical, personal, and emotional care.
For her extraordinary acts of compassion, for being an inspiration to people all over the world, and for exemplifying the spirit of magis by being a woman for others, Reverend President, it is my great pleasure to hereby recommend Sister Maria Rosa Leggol of the School Sisters of Saint Francis for the Marquette University Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.


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I've had the advantage of accepting on the affairs end of hundreds of parent/teen car-buying transactions. One affair I've concluded: I'm not affairs my kids a car if they are teenagers.
Parents who buy cars for their kids about accent safety, reliability, and affordability while teenagers accent the "cool factor," including color, styling, and speed. While parents are in the average of allurement their kids to let them buy a reliable car, the kids are agitated because they aren't accepting a air-conditioned car for free.
It's consistently fun if the parents adjudge to annoyance this altercation into the car dealership, acquisitive the car agent will advice them ancestor their kid.
What I've noticed is that if kids are amenable for affairs their own cars, or at atomic paying for a cogent allocation of their own cars, al of a sudden believability and affordability move abundant college on the list. If those aforementioned adolescence are amenable for affairs their own insurance, administration and acceleration move lower on the list.
This may not consistently be the case, but afterwards celebratory hundreds of such situations, I can aswell say that teenagers who buy their own cars yield affliction of them better, acknowledge them more, and appearance added responsibility.
What activity acquaint to teenagers apprentice if their parents buy them a car? What accept they abstruse about the amount of cars and money? I would altercate that affairs your jailbait a car does them added abuse than good.
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If you went to the 420 Fest in Candler Park last weekend or plan on going to the Inman Park Festival this coming weekend, you should be aware that these intown neighborhoods would have been a lot different had the initial vision of Freedom Parkway been realized. The plan for the road that Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young backed would have extended past Moreland, had seven bridges, and wiped out the Olmsted parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue. The intown neighborhoods galvanized against the Ex-Pres Way, as they called it, and formed a legal and an activist group to halt the clearing and construction for the road. In 1991, ten years after the fight initially began, the city, the Georgia Department of Transportation, and the intown neighborhoods reached a settlement that included a two-lane parkway that ends at Moreland and the vision for green spaces connected by a bike-jog path.
In this segment, we interviewed Cathy Bradshaw, a long-time resident and advocate for Inman Park, one of the main neighborhoods affected by Freedom Parkway. Cathy provides a brief introduction to the neighborhood and then discusses the long fight over the road. If you appreciate the green spaces of Freedom Park and the quality of life in Inman and Candler Park, remember to thank passionate residents like Cathy who worked hard to fight the road and preserve Atlanta's intown neighborhoods.


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Campaign management allows you to plan, and keep track of the campaigns in your SkyDesk CRM account. This includes planning the campaign, preparing your mailing list etc. In SkyDesk CRM, campaign management helps you to plan, execute and monitor campaigns in an organized way. You can do the following:
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What happens in Vegas, stays on Madison Avenue.
After a decade of selling Las Vegas to tourists around the world, the "What Happens Here, Stays Here" slogan created by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and R&R Partners has earned a place on the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in New York City.
The catchphrase dominated online voting, securing 54 percent of votes. In a distant second was Capital One's "What's In Your Wallet?" That slogan received 11 percent of votes and will also be honored on the Walk of Fame. The two campaigns beat out Nike's "Just Do It," the National Milk Processor Board's "Got Milk?" and DeBeers' "A Diamond is Forever," among others.
"The 'What Happens Here, Stays Here' branding campaign is the most successful in the history of the tourism industry," said LVCVA President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter in a statement. "The campaign has given millions of people the idea to visit Las Vegas, and it resonates with the consumer because it's based on their Las Vegas stories. It reinforces that Las Vegas is all about having fun."
Also being honored this year are Allstate's "Mayhem" and the Coca Cola Polar Bears as favorite icons of the year. Meanwhile, the party-rocking Kia Hamsters won in the inaugural rookie of the year category. Other nominees in those categories included The Most Interesting Man in the World, Mr. Clean, the Keebler Elves and the Energizer Bunny.
"Mayhem," the polar bears, "What's In Your Wallet?" and "What Happens Here, Stays Here" will receive permanent positions on the Madison Avenue Walk of Fame, located between 42nd and 50th streets in New York City. The Walk of Fame was created in 2004 by Advertising Week to focus on the power of advertising. Previous inductees include the Pillsbury Dough Boy and M&Ms "Melts In Your Mouth, Not In Your Hand."


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Concentration in Policy Analysis and Administration
The concentration in policy analysis and administration will give you the analytic and technical skills, broad understanding of public policy formulation and implementation, and a specialization that will help you succeed in your area of interest. Students in this concentration:
- Learn the nature of the policy-making process;
- Gain an understanding of the techniques of policy analysis and social science research methodology;
- Investigate at least one substantive areas of public policy (e.g., health, environment, human services, community development).
A concentration in policy analysis and administration prepares graduates to devise, analyze and implement policies to respond to today's challenging social and political problems, to work as administrators or policy analysts in public, private and non-profit organizations.
Students concentrating in policy analysis and administration complete the following required courses:
- PLCR 503, Quantitative Analysis
- PLCR 506, Social and Public Policy Analysis
- PLCR 526, American Politics and Policy
- A theory course, such as: Politics of Civic Problems, Women and Politics, Policy Implementation, Global Public Policy and other courses by petition to the Policy Center Curriculum Committee at least one month prior to the start of the term in which the course proposed is to be taken.
With a core of 6 or 9 credits (depending on the choice of an expanded research paper or a thesis) and a concentration of 12 credits, students in the concentration in Policy Analysis and Administration take 15-18 credits (5-6 classes) in elective courses. This will give you the freedom to build your understanding and skills in policy analysis, policy-making and policy implementation, and to specialize in a substantive area that interests you. You can also choose to use your elective courses to earn the certificate in policy analysis and administration.
A few relevant elective courses to consider on policy-making and policy implementation are:
- PLCR 518, The Politics of Civic Problems
- PLCR 524, Women and Politics
- PLCR 525, Policy Implementation
- PLCR 605, Internship


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Camp of Champions Camp D 2011
Updated (August 1st)
All good things must come to an end, as did Camp of Champions for 2011. Although the weather didn't exactly cooperate all the time; campers, coaches and pros were on the glacier 6 days a week, all smiles, garbage bags or shirts off. The park was the best it's been with the addition of two rope tows, a 22-foot pipe, 2 regular airbags, 1 pipe airbag, 24-27 box and rail style feature, 9 jumps, 1 variation of a quarter pipe, 1 hip, 1 wall ride and some other random side hits and no one can forget the snake run.
Featuring: Viktor Simco, Chris Grenier, Zak Hale, Jake Kuzyk, Rob Kingwill, Harrison Gray, Derek Livingston, Alex Beebe, Sean Genovese, Lucas Ouellette, Robjn Taylor, Rusty Ockenden, Rupert Davies, Phil Tardif, Frank April, Charles Reid, Colin D. Watt, Torstein Horgmo, Frank Bourgeois, Jason Dubois, Robby Balharry, Jeremy Cloutier & Zach Aller.
Filmed by: Cole Taylor & Eddie Grams
Edited by: Cole Taylor
Windell's Session 5 2011
What a summer it's been. Seems to be flying by. Cam Pierce, Austen Sweetin, Eric Willett and Jonah Owen were here just to name a few. The park is as long as its ever been and we're still taking full laps from the top of Palmer to the bottom of the Mile. What could be better…
Edit: Paul Heran & Tyler Malay
Filming: Tyler Malay, Alexandra Erickson, Paul Heran, Jake Strassman, Jake Durham. Additional Shots: Brett Spurr
High Cascade: Session 4 2011
High Cascade's Session 4 is now officially one for the books! While the temperature might not have been too hot, the action on and off the hill was definitely some of the hottest.
Filmed By: Tanner Pendleton, Matt Roberge, Skylar Brent, Sean Lucey,
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Bozeman Mountaineers - Hill and Hole 2013Posted in Events on July 29, 2013
The Bozeman Mountaineers Hill & Hole was held April 27, 2013, at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, Montana. Spring was finally just starting to come around in Montana, and the high for that day was 57 degrees F. Bozeman is a quaint small town with a population of 38,000. It's located in southwestern Montana about an hour's drive north of Yellowstone National Park. The area is a haven for many outdoor activities, including mud racing.
There were 63 driver entries for the event and about 500 spectators in attendance. Attendance was better than expected, and the bleachers filled quickly, leaving standing room only for late arrivals. Drivers were allowed to bump one class and run twice.
The Mountaineers kicked off the event with the Stock class, which was limited to vehicles with no performance or suspension modifications and a stock tub. Mike Jongeling won this class in his '68 Ford Bronco. He completed his run in 9.16 seconds, catching big air on the first bump.
Next up was the Street class with 24 entries. The rules for the Street class were as follows: suspension modifications allowed, stock tub, minor performance modifications, and the rig must be street legal. Justin Uiterdyk won the Street class in his '79 Toyota Pickup converted to run on propane with a time of 10.21 seconds.
The Modified class saw 21 entries. The class allowed suspension and performance modifications, but vehicles had to run on pump fuel or diesel (no race fuel or alcohol). Donnie Maxwell caught some truly impressive air with his Cummins-powered '75 Ford F-350, winning the class with a time of just 7.7 seconds. Many of the drivers in the Modified class were sticking after landing the first jump, but Donnie's "Fummins" powered right through. Brian Galvin also put on a show with his '55 Reo M-55, which also has a Cummins under the hood. Brian took Second Place with a time of 9.2 seconds.
The final class of the day was the Race class. Rules? Anything goes. Donnie Maxwell won the Race class as well, catching even bigger air and with a time of 7.9 seconds.
The racing lasted about four hours and ended at 4 p.m. Not all of the racers walked away with payouts, but everyone did have a blast playing in the mud as the spectators cheered them on.
Bozeman Mountaineers 4x4 Club
The club is a nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting safe and fun motorized recreation (bozemanmountaineers.org). The club holds racing events such as the Hill & Hole to raise money, which is then used to fight to keep out trails open for motorized recreation. The Mountaineers do this by donating proceeds from events to organizations like United Four Wheel Drive Association, Citizens for Balanced Use, Red Rock 4-Wheelers, and BlueRibbon Coalition. The Mountaineers help to keep our trails open by working on conversation projects and performing trail maintenance and cleanup.
Hill & Hole Race Winners
Stock Class (11 entries)
1st: Mike Jongeling won with a time of 9.16 seconds in his '68 Ford Bronco.
2nd: Corey Dwaldon came in Second Place with a time of 9.94 seconds in his trusty '79 F-150.
3rd: Justin Uiterdyk took Third Place with a time of 9.94 seconds in his dependable '79 Toyota Pickup running on propane.
Street Class (24 entries)
1st: Justin Uiterdyk with a time of 10.21 seconds in his '79 propane-powered Toyota Pickup.
2nd: Christopher Ross with a time of 10.95 seconds in the old '70 Chevy K30.
3rd: Ed Fitzpatrick put on a great show with a time of 12.34 seconds in his '85 Chevy Blazer.
Modified Class (21 entries)
1st: Donnie Maxwell was the leader of the pack with a time of 7.7 seconds in his '76 Ford F-350 powered by a Cummins diesel engine.
2nd: Brian Galvin with a time of 9.2 seconds in his '51 Reo M-55, a great time for a heavy military truck.
3rd: Shane Jongeling placed with a time of 10.35 in his classic '74 Ford Bronco.
Race Class (7 entries)
1st: Donnie Maxwell blasted down the course and finished with a time of 7.9 seconds in his Cummins-powered '75 Ford F-350.
2nd: Brian Galvin took Second Place in this class too with a time of 10.5 seconds in the old '51 Reo M-55.
3rd: Chris Rogers pulled 13.4 seconds out of his '55 Chevy Truck, winning a place on the podium.


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In one of the more peculiar sidebars to the story of Facebook\'s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, Business Insider is reporting Thursday that the mobile-texting-app builder had another suitor, Google, and could have gotten more than $19 billion from it.
The reasons Google CEO Larry Page was jilted, despite direct appeals to WhatsApp\'s founders and funders alike, was that WhatsApp feared Page didn\'t as fully grasp the WhatsApp opportunity and was chiefly motivated by a desire to keep it out of Facebook\'s hands, according to the report.
A source at Google , Business Insider cited The Information as reporting, indicated Page had not actually been making a play for WhatsApp at all but was merely urging it to remain independent rather than be subsumed by Facebook .
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The Toyota Prius Proves Unpopular…With Car Thieves
Here in America, a car is stolen somewhere in the country every 33 seconds. While anti-theft devices have grown ever more complicated, the tools used by thieves have not. Anybody can be the victim of a random automotive theft, but drivers of the Toyota Prius apparently have less to fear; the Prius is one of the least popular cars among car thieves.Read more


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text: "Paul Redfern" <red at tc.cornell.edu> writes: > The first four months (initial period of analysis) with Windows 2000 > Advanced Server, MIT reported 99.9986% uptime. Since then, the > machine got hardened and reliability for it and our other clusters, > has gotten better, not worse. We've been operating Windows 2000 > clusters since the server OS was first introduced. Typically outages > are handled in less than ten minutes on one node with spare memory > and hard drives. Outages don't affect the overall cluster; the > scheduler works around it, and the cluster continues to run. So a single node failure doesn't count against the uptime, is that what you are saying? If that is the case, precisly what definition of "uptime" are you using? -- Leif Nixon Systems expert ------------------------------------------------------------ National Supercomputer Centre Linkoping University ------------------------------------------------------------


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Touchless Interaction in Medical Settings
With advances in medical imaging over the years, surgical procedures have become increasingly reliant on a range of digital imaging systems for navigation, reference, diagnosis and documentation. Interacting with images in these surgical settings offers particular challenges arising from the need to maintain boundaries between sterile and non-sterile aspects of the surgical environment and practices. Traditional input devices such as keyboard, mouse and touch screen surfaces are reliant on physical contact. Such contact-based interaction introduces the possibility for contaminated material to be transferred between the sterile and non-sterile. This constraint creates difficulties for surgical staff who are scrubbed up and are dependent upon others to manipulate images on their behalf. This can create inefficiencies, which in turn can entail potential medical complications. Additionally, it can interfere with the surgeon's interpretive and analytic use of the images.
The aim of the project then was to explore the use of touchless interaction within surgical settings, allowing images to be viewed, controlled and manipulated without contact by using camera-based gesture recognition technology. In particular, the project sought to understand the challenges of these environments for the design and deployment of such systems, as well as articulate the ways in which these technologies may alter surgical practice. While our primary concerns were with maintaining conditions of asepsis, the use of these touchless gesture-based technologies offer other potential uses. For example, such systems offer interesting possibilities for interacting with emerging 3D imaging technologies. They also enable new possibilities for how the surgeons spatially configure themselves with respect to the various screens within surgical settings by enabling interaction at a distance. Such technologies then also offer potential to re-imagine the spatial environments within which image-based surgery takes place.
Working with two partner hospitals, we developed two systems for manipulating image data. One was in partnership with vascular surgeons at Guy's and St. Thomas' hospital in London, and the other with neurosurgeons at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Both systems supported surgeons to manipulate 3D renderings in ways which are sensitive to their existing practices and teamwork.
See below for a video of the system we developed for vascular surgeons.
This work was funded by MS Connections in collaboration with the Computer Vision group at MSRC, Kings College London and Lancaster University.
News Coverage
Trial of "touchless" gaming technology in surgery, Adam Brimelow, BBC News Health (May 31, 2012)
Touchless technology put to test by surgeons (video), Adam Brimelow, BBC News (May 31, 2012)
Kinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focus, MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist, Tech (May 17, 2012)
برنامج 4 تك - الحلقة - Tech program 4 - Episode 73 - BBCArabicNews (May 11, 2012) [in Arabic]
Interacting without Touching, Inside Microsoft Research (March 8, 2012)
Microsoft's TechFest Trots Out 'What is Now Possible' for Computers, The Seattle Times, Business/Technology (March 7, 2012)
Microsoft Installe Kinect Dans les Salles D'operation, 01net (March 7, 2012) [in French]
Microsoft Shows Off Kinect-Based Projects at TechFest Research Fair, The Tech Journal (March 6, 2012)
Microsoft showcases new Kinect-centric projects at its TechFest Research Fair, ZDNet (March 6, 2012)


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Got some Ivy from home Depot for $1.99. Planted in 2011.
Have put it in the front ornamental section.
Seems to be establishing itself. the new shoot is a mottled sort of green which seems odd, but maybe thats because its relativly new. Been there a year now I guess, planted in 2011
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Use of University Lecture Rooms for Departmental Storage or Disposal
University Lecture Rooms are not to be used as department storage space nor as a location for disposing of unwanted office equipment and furniture. Such practice is not only inconsiderate to all and a disservice to students, it can also create a fire and/or health hazard. Recycling/disposal of unwanted office equipment and furniture can be requested through FD&O by submitting a service request.


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Welcome to Shohko Café
Welcome to Shohko Café, Santa Fe's original Japanese restaurant. Since our founding in 1975, we have strived to serve delicious and wholesome food. Our menu was developed with your utmost health in mind and abounds in organic and all-natural ingredients. We remain committed to serving you good food for good health. Thank you for being our guests for more than three decades. We hope you enjoy your meal!
—Shohko and Hiro Fukuda, 2010
Eater.com on Santa Fe's First Japanese Restaurant
The Yums Review of Shohko Cafe
Fodors - Green Chile Sushi Review of Shohko
Shohko Cafe Still Tops the List for Sushi in New Mexico
Santa Fe Touts Magnificent 4-Star Dining, Mind-Blowing Cuisine - 10Best.com
3.5 Chile Review - Pasatiempo
Santa Fe's Ten Best Restaurants - Santa Fe Restaurant Guide
The History of Shohko - Santa Fe Travelers
Now in its 35th year of continuous operation, Shohko Café is one of Santa Fe's premier restaurants and a local institution. Ask any local and they'll tell you, for the freshest sushi and organic Japanese food, for the most innovative, modern Japanese specialties and for the best premium sake selection in New Mexico, Shohko Café is the only place to go.
Located downtown just paces from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and only a few blocks away from the new Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Shohko and Hiro Fukuda opened Shohko Café in 1975 as a small bistro serving healthy Japanese food with a macrobiotic bent. Five years later, at the forefront of an increasing national health consciousness, Shohko Café moved to its current, larger location and opened New Mexico's first sushi bar. Housed in a former 19th century bordello with 3-feet thick adobe walls and original vigas, the restaurant's décor fuses simple Japanese and Northern New Mexican design elements. Organically curved doorways and whitewashed walls mingle with the warmth of hand-hewn tables and chairs, light fixtures, rice paper and willow screens, and sunken nichos with Japanese river rocks and baby aspen branches—all made by Hiro's hand. As always, Shohko's personally arranged fresh flowers, locally bought or cut from her flower garden, brighten the tabletops and hallways.
Some of Shohko's specialties include green chile tempura, invented in the mountains of La Madera and inspired by the popular New Mexican chile relleno. Green chile tempura can be found in several of Shohko's original creations, including the Santa Fe Roll, a delightful green chile marriage with shrimp tempura and avocado. The freshest sushi in town rivaling any fresh fish found on either coast; modern takes on traditional favorites such as teriyaki and tempura; macrobiotic dishes such as soba and hijiki; organic "Washu-gyu" Kobe Beef tenderloin and organic tofu, miso, soy sauce and sea salt—all can be enjoyed at the acclaimed Shohko Café.


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Photos: Living off the land in Maine
Photos: Living off the land in Maine
Before opting for a quieter existence in Maine, Kitchens, now 40, worked in the film industry in New York and Los Angeles and lived in Davis Square in Somerville.
Sharon Kitchens's new life in Raymond, Maine, includes tending beehives and growing her own produce.
The "gals," a.k.a. Kitchens's 11 chickens, are named for her favorite female authors: Jane Austen, Flannery O'Connor, M.F.K. Fisher, and company.
Kitchens waters the sunflowers and shows off some of the fruits of her labor—a Blacktail Mountain watermelon . . .
. . . and Montesino tomatoes.
Kitchens writes two blogs, The Root for the Portland Press Herald, as well as her own, called Delicious Musings.
The homestead includes a two-story barn.


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New Statesman threatens a blogger - Defending Oxfam and Barbara Stocking's rebuttal
Curt is director of the Committee to Protect Bloggers. They have good connections with Media Bloggers Association which has as its General Counsel the Coleman Law Firm.
The email from the New Statesman does not explain what they propose to do if I ignore it, so I emailed Curt at the address given at his blog Morpheme Tales.
See the post NEW STATESMAN THREATENS BLOGGER that Curt published today in response. I would have liked to have written a more in-depth post on this but will have to make do for now with posting just the link to Curt's post. I've overdone my time online today and am over tired.
By the way, the folks that do great petitions for the Committee to Protect Bloggers are at Sudan Activism Blog
Tags: Curt Hopkins Morpheme Tales Committee to Protect Bloggers Technorati Media Bloggers Association USA Sudan Activism Blog Kathryn Corrick New Statesman Copyright Infringement Coleman Law Firm Oxfam Barbara Stocking Blogger


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The St. Francis Stage Company is challenging its creative abilities in acting and set design with Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "The 39 Steps," opening at 8 p.m. Friday and continuing for two weekends in the social hall of St. Francis Xavier Church.
Co-Director Jesse J. Adams saw the award-winning production on Broadway and thought it would be a perfect fit for the sixth annual production that raises funds for the church and school, he said.
What makes this play fun is the producers are encouraged to use their imagination to interpret the script any way they want.
It is a unique concept, Adams said, because usually scripts are very structured.
It's about a man who is not happy with his life and finds himself amid a conspiracy spy story that takes him on a journey throughout the United Kingdom.
Playing the lead and serving as co-director is professional actor Daniel Roebuck, who appeared on TV's "Matlock" for three seasons and recently has been on "Glee" and "NCIS." Others starring are Chenoa Mitsui, Jim Roope and Chris Kenney.
The play has some 30 short scenes, and each actor except Roebuck changes into a different character for each scene. They portray more than 100 characters throughout so it makes for fast costume changes that add to the hilarity — like men changing into women's costumes. There are also a lot of allusions to Hitchcock films.
They have a team creating set pieces and lighting and special effects because the play takes place in numerous locations, which is new to the company because past productions have always taken place in one room.
Set designers used their imagination in the modes of transportation, specifically the train and car, Roebuck said.
He likened the comedy to watching Monty Python do drama.
"It should be ridiculously funny!" Roebuck said.
Tickets are $15 and a senior special $10 matinee is on Jan. 20. For information, call (818) 504-4400. The church is at 3801 Scott Road.
Former Bob Hope writer visits guild
Providence St. Joseph Medical Center Guild will have Bob Hope's comedy writer Gene Parret as the guest speaker at today's meeting held at the medical center.
Parret worked on Hope's writing staff for 28 years, from 1969 until the comic's retirement, many of those years as Hope's head writer.
He also wrote for all of Hope's personal appearances and TV specials as well as traveling with Hope and his troupe to the war zones.
Parret wrote for other comedians and won seven Emmy nominations and other various awards.
Collecting coats for veterans
The Retired Senior Volunteer Program will collect gently worn coats for male and female military veterans and their families from Jan. 14 to 18. There are four drop-off locations: Joslyn Adult Center, 1301 W. Olive Ave.; City Hall, 275 E. Olive Ave.; Burbank Police/Fire Headquarters, 200 N. First St.; and Community Services Building at 150 N. Third St., first-floor lobby.
For more information on this project or other volunteer opportunities, contact RSVP Staff Patty Molinar at (818) 238-5370 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Poker and bingo night helps youth club
The annual poker and bingo night fundraiser supporting the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and Greater East Valley is Feb. 1 at Woodbury University's Woody's Cafe, 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd. Poker tutorials begin at 6 p.m. The poker tournament and bingo begin at 6:30. Dinner will be served.
Download registration forms www.bgcburbank.org/PokerTournament.
Fax it back to (818) 842-0694.
For more information, call Shanna Warren at (818) 842-9333, Ext. 10.
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