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Pork Confit - Part 2: The Quintessential Charcuterie Experience
First a definition for those not familiar with "char-koo-ter-eee" from Wikipedia: "Charcuterie (from either the French chair cuite, cooked meat, or the French cuiseur de chair, cooker of meat) is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products such as sausage and confit primarily from pork. The practice goes back to ancient times and can involve the chemical preservation of meats; it is also a means of using up various meat scraps. Hams, for instance, whether smoked, air-cured, salted, or treated by chemical means, are examples of charcuterie."
Since the traditional method for cooking our pork confit would be to cover it completely in duck or pork fat, we'll have to adapt for the home chef. We'll wrap our meat in plastic wrap and then foil, and roast it in a slow oven which will get us very close to the product produced by the traditional method. After 4 hours at 275 degrees, pork is left to cool completely. This can only be sliced cold, otherwise it would fall apart, so it should be refrigerated overnight. Then we give it a very classic plating with mustard, cornichons, olives and pickled red onions. Throw in a couple slices of toasted dark bread and you are in Charcuterie heaven.
12 comments:
- Thomas said...
Video no longer available?
- October 26, 2007 at 9:37 AM
- Chef John said...
its right here and working fine. Sometimes YT's servers are down.
- October 26, 2007 at 10:57 AM
- Thomas said...
Ok. I see. Now it works fine for me too.
- October 26, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Impressed with how this turned out however a little confused on letting the duck sit to room temperature. That seemed to take a few hours to cool to room temperature before putting it in the oven. My instinct says the duck will get dried out that way. Is this so? How long should you let the duck sit before putting in the fridge overnight?
- January 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM
- Chef John said...
You just dont want to put a hot package in the fridge. It wont dry out because its wrapped and covered in fat. I probably should be out an hour at least before going in. BTW, you said duck, but this is the pork recipe page? Do you mean pork?
- January 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Sorry Chef John - I meant to put this comment under the Duck Confit Recipe. By the way served the Duck for appetizer for Christmas Dinner and my Family still can't get over the dish - unbelievable they said!
- January 9, 2008 at 5:48 PM
- Chef John said...
- January 9, 2008 at 6:01 PM
I've tried this method with country style ribs, and even corned beef and loved the results. However, I went to Clorox's product page (they make Glad Wrap) and they do not recommend any use of polyethylene wrap in convetional ovens.
See http://www.glad.com/faqs/plasticwrap.php
- January 20, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- Chef John said...
of course not, used as is, without protection in a hot oven it would melt. But, in this recipe, wrapped in so much foil at low temp its fine.
- January 20, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Dan said...
I had never had a confit. I had no idea what to expect.
I made this this week for a valentines appetizer.
It was fantastic!
Thank you for the easy to follow instructions and lessons.
- February 15, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I'm afraid I do not understand. It seems to me you have made what I'm sure is a delicious slow roasted type of ham. Why do you call it confit? Does it taste like real confit? I just made some pork cofit and it was AMAZING. I just can't imagine that this would have the same flavor.
- February 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Amazing recipe. Tried it and it was delicious.
My piece of shoulder from the supermarket came with a huge portion of skin and fat which I cut away and I was left with a pretty shapeless piece of pork shoulder about 1 kg in weight which I eventually cut into 4 pieces and slow roasted your method for 3 hours.
The remaining three pieces after the one I ate I'm storing unwrapped in the freezer, but it occurs to me that I can probably just store them in the fridge a few weeks in their original wrapping.
Would that be right?
- April 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM


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Back in May, we wrote about how the Belgian music royalty collection agency SABAM was taking ISPs there to court over its demand for 3.4% of Internet subscriber fees as "compensation" for online piracy in Belgium. In yet another slapdown for SABAM -- it had previously failed in its attempt to turn ISPs into copyright cops -- the Belgian regulator says SABAM's plan falls foul of the EU's e-commerce directive, as IT World reports:
the Belgian government's FPS Economy (Federal Public Service Economy) agency, which has regulatory power, believes that Sabam is wrongly asking providers for compensation, said Chantal De Pauw, an agency spokeswoman.
Even more dramatically, FPS is taking legal action against SABAM to stop it proceeding with its own lawsuit:
While the FPS opposes any kind of illegal downloading, Sabam's solution penalizes Internet users and this is against the E.U.'s e-commerce directive, according to the authority. Providing Internet access is not the same as publishing protected works, the FPS said in a news release, adding that there are other ways to fight illegal downloads than posing levies on ISPs.
The FPS has ordered Sabam to stop its lawsuit, but the association has argued that they are operating within the bounds of the law, said De Pauw. FPS has therefore decided to sue Sabam in October to force it to stop its legal procedures against the ISPs, De Pauw said. If FPS wins the suit, Sabam faces penalties of up to €100,000 (US$137,600) per day if it continues its quest, she added.
SABAM has always been frustratingly out-of-touch with reality in its demands, but now that it is being sued by its own government, perhaps it will finally take the hint and drop its ridiculous and unjustified scheme.
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The Bengals haven't announced any roster moves yet, but one of the ones they make to get to 53 players looks like it will be placing linebacker Emmanuel Lamur on injured reserve.
Lamur left Thursday night's preseason finale early with a shoulder injury and Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports reports that he will not return during the 2013 season.
Lamur didn't play as much nor did he earn as much acclaim as Vontaze Burfict, but he did give the Bengals a pair of undrafted success stories at linebacker last season. Lamur didn't make his debut until the ninth week of the season, but he racked up 19 tackles on defense and special teams between that point and the end of the year. He was expected to be a key special teamer in Cincinnati this year while also backing up James Harrison at outside linebacker.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A total of 29 UC Santa Barbara student-athletes were named to the Big West Academic All-Conference teams for the spring 2011 season it was announced by the league. The Gauchos tied Long Beach State with the most honorees and the UCSB women's track team had the most recipients of any other team in the conference with 12 athletes making the grade.
To be eligible for the Big West Academic All-Conference team, student-athletes are required to maintain at least a 3.2 cumulative grade point average, complete one full academic year at the member institution prior to the season for which the award is being received (at least a sophomore academically), and compete in at least 50 percent of their team's competitions.
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Network APIs: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Today we feature a deep-dive guest post from Scott Atchley, HPC Systems Engineer in the Technology Integration Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This post is part 1 of 2.
In the world of high-performance computing, we jump through hoops to extract the last bit of performance from our machines. The vast majority of processes use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) to handle communication. Each MPI implementation abstracts the underlying network away, depending on the available interconnect(s). Ideally, the interconnect offers some form of operating system (OS) bypass and remote memory access in order to provide the lowest possible latency and highest possible throughput. If not, MPI typically falls back to TCP sockets. The MPI's network abstraction layer (NAL) then optimizes the MPI communication pattern to match that of the interconnect's API. For similar reasons, most distributed, parallel filesystems such as Lustre, PVFS2, and GPFS, also rely on a NAL to maximize performance.
Each of these software stacks maintains its own NAL and incorporates new interconnect APIs as needed. Any new applications that wish to run on high-performance clusters or supercomputers must choose between using MPI, TCP sockets, or the interconnect's native API. Each has their strengths and weaknesses.
MPI: As outlined above, MPI is the default choice for most HPC applications. MPI provides a rich interface of point-to-point communication, collective operations, and remote memory access. Every MPI implementation tunes its NAL to achieve good performance. Unfortunately, MPI is a specialized API — most programmers have not used it. The matching interface can be quite powerful, but also confusing to new programmers. The connection model is communication groups (i.e., communicators) which implementations have not made robust (e.g., any single communication error between a pair of hosts can bring down the whole MPI job).
TCP sockets: The TCP sockets interface, on the other hand, has been around since the 80s and runs everywhere. It is well known and most programmers have experience with it. SOCK_STREAM (TCP) provides a reliable, in-order stream semantic that mirrors the UNIX "everything is a file" semantic. It also provides a simple to understand connection model with client and server. By default, the send and receive calls are blocking, but sockets can be used in a non-blocking mode. The downside is that sockets was designed in the 80s when networks were a lot slower and it was tailored for IP networking (especially TCP and UDP). All communication goes through the kernel which increases latency and all communication requires multiple copies which reduces throughput. Buffering for SOCK_STREAM is per connection as is checking for incoming messages.
Native: Lastly, a developer can port to the interconnect's native API. This generally will lead to the best performance, but will require more work in the future if he ever wants to run on any other modern interconnect. These APIs are typically more complicated to use than the sockets API since they are designed with a particular set of hardware specifications in mind. Even fewer programmers have experience using native APIs than those using MPI.
We believe that there is a need for a common NAL that can serve both HPC and more general applications. A new NAL would need to be simple to use, portable to any interconnect (and provide optimal performance for that interconnect), scale to the largest HPC systems, and provide robustness in the presence of faults.
Want to know what this common NAL is? Stay tuned for part 2!
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Most programmers _who do not implement anything related to applied math or physics_ know TCP, while those that do (in parallel) are all familiar with MPI, generally do not find matching semantics onerous and frequently have never used TCP.
I know us science types are the minority of your blogosphere, but we are non-zero in number 🙂
I look forward to Part 2 on CCI 🙂


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For Veteran's Day, I wrote a brief story for the Dart Society Reports on "sex and the wounded soldier." It's about a lot of overlapping themes — my friendship with a wounded soldier (now dead) who worried a lot about war's impact on his intimate life; an amputee dance troupe from World War II, called "The Amputettes"; the U.S. military's long-standing awkwardness about matters of sex, heart, and family. It all seems a bit more timely with the Petraeus love triangle (quadrangle? pentagon? hexagon?).
The other stories in the issue are well worth reading. Lee Hancock has an exceptional piece about the ethical minefields that come with reporting on sexual assault within the military, called "The Rape Was Not The Only Problem." And conflict photojournalist John Moore has a photo essay on veterans recovering from major burns at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Image credits: "'Amps' Shake a Shapely Leg" and "'Amputees' Present a 'Gay 90s' Review" clippings. The Canham Collection. Otis Historical Archives. National Museum of Health and Medicine.


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It's a bad word for fantasy owners, reserved for players who completely flop under high expectations.
Scars from these busts can last a long time for owners who can't forget the pain of a season undercut by one of these despicable developments.
Alex Rios is one of these players, having delivered multiple stinker seasons, bottoming out in 2011 with a .227 average, 13 homers and 11 steals a year after a .284-21-34 line. Rios has since produced two stellar seasons, but the bad taste remains for some owners.
Most busts are actually just disappointing seasons like Justin Verlander had last year when he "only" recorded 13 wins and 217 strikeouts. But for owners who took him as the No. 1 starting pitcher, it was a season far below expectations.
Many of the biggest busts are tied to injuries, whether they are of the nagging variety that drags down performance or the type that lands a player on the disabled list for a lengthy time. The problem is that injuries are nearly impossible to predict. Having a reputation as injury prone can actually depress draft value to the point that the label makes a player undervalued.
What can be predicted with some level of accuracy is statistical performance, which is where I will focus while looking for players who are overvalued. Think of these players as being a bit riskier than it is worth for the reward:
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Marlins, catcher >> Salty cashed in on his best overall season by signing a three-year, $21 million deal with the Marlins in the offseason. The problem is that he hadn't hit over .250 since 2008 before posting a career-high .273 last year. The move to spacious Marlins Park will cut into Saltalamacchia's moderate power and Florida's pathetic lineup will hurt his other counting stats. There are much better values and higher ceilings to be had at a position that's chalk full of young studs on the rise.
Chris Davis, Orioles, first base >> It's tough to call a slugger coming off a 53-homer outbreak a bust, but here's another case of a player you'll have to pay for his career season when it's likely he will experience some regression. It already started happening in the second half last season when he hit .245 with 16 homers after the All-Star break after walloping 37 homers with a .315 average in the first half. Davis could easily slough off to his 2012 levels (.270, 33 homers), which would make him a huge bust considering he's going around the turn of the first and second rounds.
Brandon Phillips, Reds, second base >> Phillips took advantage of hitting behind on-base machines Joey Votto and Shin-Soo Choo to the tune of a career-high 103 RBIs last year. But with Choo now in Texas and Phillips expected to either hit second or fifth, there won't be anywhere near as many RBI opportunities for the veteran second baseman. His days of stealing bases appear behind him as the 32-year-old managed just five steals last year. It all adds up to a solid but limited second baseman that will be overvalued because of last year.
Jimmy Rollins, Phillies, shortstop >> Rollins is a warning of what usually happens when middle infielders reach their mid-30s, sinking from 23 homers to six over the past two seasons. The 35-year-old is a shadow of his former superstar days, but you have to pay a premium for his name value. Spend your auction dollars or late-round pick on upside instead of a has-been.
Pablo Sandoval, Giants, third base >> It's spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., must be time for the annual stories of Kung Fu Panda's offseason diets and how this will be the year that a svelte Sandoval finally stays healthy and has a big season. Even when healthy, Sandoval has never hit more than 25 homers, totaled over 90 RBIs or even scored 80 runs in a season. His best fantasy attribute is his career .298 average, but he's managed only .283 and .278 marks the past two years. Let someone else pay the inflated price for Panda.
Yoenis Cespedes, Athletics, outfield >> After a tremendous rookie season in 2012, Cespedes regressed in 2013 thanks in large part to much poorer plate discipline – his walk rate dropped while his strikeout rate rose. The big-time power is still there, but he'll need to make more contact to crack 30 homers. That lack of contact led to his average dropping from .292 to .240 and his steals fell from 16 to 7. Nagging injuries are another worry, making there too much risk for what you get out of Cespedes and the price you have to pay to get him.
Michael Bourn, Indians, outfield >> The speedy outfielder disappointed in his first season with the Indians, losing four weeks to a cut hand suffered while sliding in head first on a stolen base attempt. Bourn seemed to lose his desire to steal bases, which is the main reason to own him in fantasy, as he managed just 23 steals after averaging 54 over the previous four seasons. The growing list of concerns – the 31-year-old may have lost a step, a falling walk rate lowered his OBP and his strikeout rate was a career high – makes Bourn too risky of being a flop.
Carl Crawford, Dodgers, outfield >> Crawford is an example of what can happen when a speedster crosses 30 years old, as the Dodgers outfielder enters his age-32 season having produced just 38 steals over the past three seasons combined after being a perennial 50-steal threat throughout his 20s. Crawford has expressed a desire to run more this season, but his body may not allow it. Without at least 30 steals, Crawford doesn't have enough power or on-base skills to come close to making a good return on your investment.
Ben Revere, Phillies, outfield >> There's nothing I like less than empty steals and Revere is a perfect example. Revere has yet to homer in 1,400 career plate appearances and isn't much of a run-scorer for a leadoff hitter because of a low walk rate. On top of that, Revere's had a hard time staying healthy in his young career. Get your steals elsewhere.
Matt Moore, Rays, starting pitcher >> The Rays' talented young lefty had one of the more deceiving pitching seasons last year, going 17-4 with a 3.29 ERA. Moore was limited to just 27 starts, yet managed to pile up 17 wins, more than double the eight Stephen Strasburg got in 30 starts with a 3.00 ERA. Moore's control problems worsened, walking 4.6 per nine innings that helped lead to a less-than-stellar 1.30 WHIP. Moore's expected ERA was closer to 4.00 if not for getting lucky on balls in play finding their way into gloves. He's treated like a near-elite pitcher, but he's a long way from that as long as the command problems persist.
Clay Buchholz, Red Sox, starting pitcher >> Buchholz is another pitcher who benefitted from a lot of luck, as his expected ERA was about double the sparkling 1.74 mark he finished with last season. The 29-year-old has been plagued by injuries, including last season when he lost half a season hurting his shoulder
Travis Wood, Cubs, starting pitcher >> Wood is a soft-tossing lefty who got lucky on batted balls in much the same way as Moore and Buchholz, managing just nine wins to go with a solid 3.11 ERA. Even if everything goes right, Wood's still just a deep-league fodder at best due to his low strikeout rate and lack of win potential pitching for the lowly Cubs.
Rafael Soriano, Nationals, relief pitcher >> Despite racking up 85 saves over the past two seasons combined, Soriano had some red flags last year that could be signs that the wheels could be coming off soon. His average fastball velocity was down to 91.5 mph from 92.2 the year before and 94.6 at his peak. This likely led to his strikeout rate falling to a career-low 6.9 K/9. The presence of former Nationals closers Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard in the bullpen gives new manager Matt Williams options in case Soriano falters.
For more fantasy baseball busts, check out a more extensive story on overrated players on my blog at www.rotoace.com.


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The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges requires that institutions establish a Leadership Team to manage and validate the internal institutional assessment of compliance with all Core Requirements and Comprehensive Standards. In its Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation the Commission recommends that the team include individuals who have the skills, knowledge and authority to lead in this institutional effort. It is suggested that the team not be too large, but its membership should include at least the chief executive officer, the chief academic officer, the accreditation liaison, and a representative faculty member.
The Institutional Effectiveness Team initially served primarily as the core group for our SACSCOC Leadership Team. As the core SACSCOC team, the responsibilities* included, but were not limited to:
This Institutional Effectiveness Team ultimately was subsumed under the SACSCOC Leadership Team, constituted during the 2008-09 academic year. The SACSCOC Leadership Team included the President as well as others named by the President. The responsibilities* of the team expanded to include:
* These responsibilities are those recommended by the Commission in the Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation
In November, 2010, UNF filed its Annual Report with the Board of Governors. Under Institutional Effectiveness, we reported on the current work of the Institutional Effectiveness Team:
Two years ago, UNF received official notification from SACSCOC that it had been reaccredited. It is noteworthy that the SACSCOC visiting team praised UNF for its virtually flawless compliance report. More significantly, UNF not only has maintained the processes it put in place to generate that high degree of compliance; it has, in fact, built upon them so that institutional effectiveness is truly integrated into the fabric of the University. What had been an Institutional Effectiveness Team assembled for the purpose of preparing the SACSCOC report has now been transformed into a standing Institutional Effectiveness Committee. Further, home-grown strategic planning and assessment software will very shortly be replaced by sophisticated electronic programs provided by a national vendor and tailor-fit to UNF's particular needs. This investment will facilitate continuous rather than intermittent improvement across all units and programs of the University.
The Institutional Effectiveness Committee has ongoing responsibilities that include monitoring our progress in UNF's Quality enhancement Plan, "Community Based Transformational Learning" as well as to remain in compliance of all SACSCOC standards regardless of where the institution is on the reaffirmation timeline. Much of the work of the IEC overlaps with the Strategic Planning Council. For more information on the University's progress in strategic planning, visit the President's website and the Strategic Planning website to understand the process of planning on our campus.
Dr. Earle C. Traynham, Interim Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs
Ms. Shawn W. Brayton, SACSCOC LiaisonDr. Mark Tumeo, Dean, College of Computing, Engineering, and ConstructionDr. Annabel Brooks, Student Affairs Public Relations ManagerDr. Pamela Chally, Dean, Brooks College of HealthDr. Karen Patterson, Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Mr. Albert Colom, Associate VP, Enrollment Services
Dr. Lucy Croft, Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs
Dr. Elizabeth Curry, Dean, LibraryDr. Marnie Jones, Director, Center for Community-Based LearningDr. Daniel Moon, Interim Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. James Garner, Chair of the Council of Chairs, Professor, Physics
Ms. Marianne Jaffee, Executive Assistant to the Provost and Director of Planning
Dr. John Kantner, Associate VP, Researcn, Dean of Graduate School
Dr. Radha Pyati, Faculty Association President
Dr. Diane Yendol-Hoppey, Dean, College of Education and Human ServicesDr. Megan Schramm Possinger, Director of Assessment
Dr. Len Roberson, Associate VP, Academic Technology and Innovation
Dr. Mark Dawkins, Dean, Coggin College of Business
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Dan Walters
Dan Walters: Pérez gives up on vote recount, but system's flaws are shown
One can categorize politicians by many indices – honesty, intelligence, effectiveness and ideology, for instance.
One of the more reliable, however, is what one might call self-identification. Does the politician, regardless of other qualities, see politics primarily as a civic duty – something separate from family and/or professional career – or as the essence of his or her persona?
The former can lose an election – former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush come to mind – and simply get on with the rest of their lives.
But to the latter, losing an election is a traumatic, life-altering event, so they will go to extraordinary lengths to remain in office.
That probably explains why John A. Pérez insisted on a recount after failing to gain a spot on the November ballot for state controller by a scant 481 votes.
That was the margin separating him from fellow Democrat Betty Yee for second place in the June primary and the right to face Republican Ashley Swearengin, who finished first, on Nov. 4.
Pérez, a former speaker of the Assembly, seemed to take the race for granted and was shocked when he lost by such a tiny margin.
Thereupon, Pérez started spending for a recount in counties and precincts that looked the most promising for gains, only to be disappointed when the initial tallies gave him just a few more votes. Last Friday, under increasing pressure from other Democrats, he pulled the plug.
So Yee, a member of the state Board of Equalization, will be facing Swearengin, the mayor of Fresno, and that matchup is probably bad news for Republican hopes of capturing a statewide office. Yee isn't a sure thing, but Swearengin would doubtless have had a better shot against Pérez.
The other takeaway from this slightly bizarre series of events is that California's recount process stinks, dependent on a losing candidate or a voter putting up substantial amounts of money to count specified precincts.
Had Pérez actually closed the gap, Yee could have responded with a recount of her own and the process could have become a logistical nightmare by conflicting with deadlines for printing voter handbooks and ballots.
We dodged that bullet this year only because Pérez decided that continuing his recount was counterproductive. But it should be a wakeup call about the fundamental conflicts between our laws governing primary election recounts and the election calendar.
Fortunately, there's an easy solution – complete and mandatory recounts at public expense when an outcome is too close to call. Twenty other states and the District of Columbia do that, although their margin thresholds vary a bit.
With a reasonable threshold, recounts would be very rare and their cost, about $3 million for a statewide tally, is an infinitesimal amount for protecting the integrity of the ballot.


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George was always full of surprises and this surprise came straight out of left field.
In 1956 my husband Joe, who took great pride in being a navy pilot during the Korean Conflict, had completed his tour of duty and, without hesitation, he brought are growing family back to Ohio. Shortly after Joe, Joseph Jr. and I arrived in the Buckeye state we purchased a small bungalow and setup housekeeping in, where else but, Bay Village.
Our starter home was a sweet little house, although, my father referred to it as the cracker box. In spite of that harsh criticism Joe and I spent long hours painting and cleaning the inside and outside of our charming bungalow. We planted deep forest green bushes along the sides of the house and to set off this typical postcard scene we put a large ceramic pot, filled with brilliant red geraniums, slightly left of the front door.
I think it's best not to say where we displayed the pink flamingos but those shocking pink birds certainly lit up our neighborhood.
Now about George. Occasionally we would bump into each other at the Bay Village shopping center or sometimes I'd catch a glimpse of his powder blue convertible driving by our house. But, for the most part, we saw very little of each other over the preceding years.
So, when the phone rang one lazy summer's day I was startled to hear George's voice. He got right to the point, "MJ, the house next to mine is for sale and I wondered if you and Joe might be interested in buying it."
Once I caught my breath, a million questions began to march through my brain. Why now? Doesn't he understand our lives are going in different directions? What would Joe think? What would George's wife think? Would are kids get along, and more importantly, where would we get the money? On the other hand, perhaps George's call could have been a friendly gesture between two old pals. But, for whatever the reason, by the end of our conversation I was exhausted.
Before I hung up I assured George I'd talk to Joe about the house and then I thanked him and, said, "Goodbye."
Later that night when I was alone in the living room the unexpected happened. I had a vision and, to this day, I can't remember anything tickling my funny bone the way that vision did.
There we were, the Schriner family, living in the house next to the Steinbrenners. And, in the center of our front yard, lighting up George's glamorous neighborhood, spotlight and all were those shocking pink flamingos. What could be funnier than that?
Oh, in case you want to know, I neglected to tell Joe that George called today.


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The drivetrain will of course mimic the X5. That means an xDrive50i with the upgraded N63TU twin turbo V8 bumping horsepower to 445. This of course is paired to the same automatic transmission and same all wheel drive system. The other initial choice will be the xDrive35i with the N55 twin turbo six-cylinder motor.
Expect an official reveal any day now with all the official details after this leak. What BimmerBoost any many enthusiasts are waiting on is to see what BMW does with the next generation X6M model.


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Hosted by Penn RWJF Clinical Scholars and co-produced with Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the RWJF Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast is a monthly series featuring interviews with health policy experts who are visitors, alumni, or faculty of the Clinical Scholars Program.
Jeffrey Brenner, MD
Executives Direction of Camden Coalition for Healthcare Providers
In this 4-minute excerpt from a meeting of University of Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars, Jeffery Brenner, MD, speaks about trauma-informed primary care and the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) studies that have established a clear relationship between childhood trauma and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults. Brenner is nationally famous for his innovative health care delivery programs in Camden, NJ, one of the country's poorest cities. Here, he is interviewed by Anita Ravi, MD, MPH, a Penn RWJF Clinical Scholar involved in trauma-informed primary care.
Donald Schwartz, MD, MPH, MBA
Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner and current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Director of Portfolio
Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner and current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Director of Portfolio Donald Schwartz, MD, MPH, MBA, is frustrated that some physicians are taking a soft stance on the failure-to-vaccinate issue. In this University of Pennsylvania interview with RWJF Clinical Scholar Anita Ravi, MD, MPH, he says, "As a community of physicians, we need to be really clear about the evidence. Everybody has a responsibility to be clear in your office. Be clear with the media. Be clear at cocktail parties. Be clear everywhere that we all agree with the science on this one and that we think there needs to be a strong statement made that says Measles vaccination is safe and important."
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Former U.S. Surgeon General and Director, Centers for Disease Control
Former U.S. Surgeon General and Director of the Centers for Disease Control David Satcher, MD, PhD, is interviewed at the University of Pennsylvania by RWFJ Clinical Scholar Loren Robinson, MD. He noted that one of the least talked about aspects of the Affordable Care Act is the "Prevention Agenda" that addresses a broad range of social determinants of health but hasn't been funded by Congress.
Kavita Patel, MD
Managing Director, Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, Brookings Instituion
Former Director of Policy in the Obama White House
The accountable care organization (ACO) concept, a core element of the Affordable Care Act, is not likely to reach its full potential until there are dramatic changes across the culture of physicians and hospitals, said Kavita Patel, MD (UCLA CSP 03 - 05), in an interview at the University of Pennsylvania. The former Director of Policy in the Obama White House was interviewed by Penn Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Anita, Ravi, MD, MPH.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
RWJF President and CEO
In an interview with University of Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar Loren Robinson, RWJF chief Risa Lavizzo-Mourey clarified her organization's earlier announcement that the clinical scholars program would be closed in 2017.
Timothy Jost
Professor of Law,
Washington and Lee University
One of the least appreciated future problems for customers of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges is "reconciliation," said Law Professor Timothy Jost at a University of Pennsylvania policy seminar. Jost, a nationally renowned authority on the legal points of the health reform law, explained that people who work multiple part-time jobs or move from job to job can't reliably predict what their annual income will be -- a key element used in determining how high a health insurance tax subsidy they qualify for. If their early guess gives them a larger subsidy than their later income justifies, they will have to pay the money back -- or have it deducted from their annual income tax refund. "This will come as a huge shock" to a lot of people said Jost, a professor at Washington and Lee University and regular blogger for the journal, Health Affairs.
Scott Armstrong
President and CEO of the Group Health Cooperative
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Elizabeth Brown, MD, interviews Scott Armstrong, President and CEO of the Group Health Cooperative. Established in 1947, Group Health is an insurance company as well as a health care system that has 600,000 members and networks of clinics, community health centers and urgent care centers throughout Washington State and Idaho. In this 3-minute video excerpt, Armstrong suggests Health Group's decision to close all of its hospitals but keep all of its doctors is one of the dramatic kinds of changes that other health systems will be forced to embrace in his new era of health reform.
Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD
Professor of Health Care Policy and Biostatistics, Harvard Medical School
In this video interview with David Grande, Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program, Harvard professor Sharon-Lise Normand discusses her recent work on the Food and Drug Administration's new medical device database. The issue of the United States' lack of a unique device identifier system for medical devices has become an increasing concern in the wake of large-scale problems and recalls with metal-on-metal hip implants, drug-eluding stents and implanted cardiac defibrillators.
Nirav Shah, M.D., M.P.H.
New York State Health Commissioner
2001-2003 RWJF Clinical Scholars Program
University of California at Los Angeles
In this four-minute, twenty-eight second interview with Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price at the University of Pennsylvania, New York State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah discusses the successes and frustrations of his first two years in office. Shah, who oversees a $50 billion department, has gotten high marks for his health system reform efforts but he also points out some of the goals he has not been able to achieve. One of those is federal funding for "supportive housing" that offers chronically ill, low-income individuals subsidized living quarters in building complexes that also contain in-house medical and social services counseling. Shah was at Penn to deliver the annual Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' Samuel Martin Memorial Lecture on health care policy. Also, see the text article about this event or the video of Shah's full 69-minute presentation at Penn.
See related article on RWJF.org >
Sarah Gollust, PhD
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Management
Assistant Professor
2008-10 RWJ Health & Society Scholar
Sugary Drinks, Messaging and Taxation
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Over the last four years, 22 states and six cities have introduced legislation to levy taxes on sugary beverage sales but the $125 billion-a-year U.S. beverage industry has defeated every one of those efforts. University of Minnesota professor Sarah Gollust, who specializes in researching public opinion dynamics and obesity prevention, is exploring strategies that might help to offset that industry's political messaging. In this interview with University of Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Gollust discusses her latest work.
Craig Garthwaite, PhD
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy
Health Insurance, Labor Supply & Job Lock
Using an analysis of the Tennessee Public Health Insurance Program, Craig Garthwaite, PhD, predicts why a significant number of people are likely to leave their jobs once the Affordable Care Act provides them with public health insurance. In an interview with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, the health economist from Northwestern University explains how the data from a little-studied TennCare situation suggests that as many as 900,000 people throughout the U.S. may no longer feel the need to keep their jobs once subsidized health insurance becomes available through the state health insurance exchanges.
Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Bendheim Professor
Professor of Health Care Management
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
The Real Costs of Hospital Care
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In a video interview with University of Pennsylvania Wharton School economics professor Mark Pauly, Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, discusses the price of hospital care for patients covered by public and private insurance. The issue has been much in the news and public debate in the wake of a special issue of Time magazine that published the most extensive report ever written about the little-known systems hospitals use to set prices hundreds or even thousands of times higher than the real costs of the services they provide. This is the third in a new series of online video and audio casts jointly produced by LDI and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program.
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Department of Health and Human Services
Former Clinical Scholar
(University of California, Los Angeles '82-'84)
Assessing U.S. Health-Related Disaster Response
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Although the U.S. public expects quick and massive government response to natural and man-made disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, terror attacks and mass school shootings, federal and state legislative budget cutters have quietly eliminated 45,000 public health jobs during the last several years, according to Nicole Lurie, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services. That fact and its implications were among the points she emphasized in this seventeen minute interview at the University of Pennsylvania. In the discussion with Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, Lurie, MD, MSPH, also pointed out various areas of the health-related disaster response field that appear ripe for further scholarly study.
Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Former Clinical Scholar
(University of Washington '83-'85)
Variations in Care
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Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, the health policy researcher who originally coined the term "Accountable Care Organization," is interviewed during a visit to the University of Pennsylvania immediately after he was named Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. The Institute, which oversees operation of the famed "Dartmouth Atlas," is one of the most influential academic organizations in the field of healthcare policy research. Interviewed by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, Fisher discusses the formative days of the ACO idea and the many challenges the concept faces as proponents work to evolve it into a central structure of the Affordable Care Act's broad reforms.
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Rational Connections Puzzle #14
Our rational capabilities are what allow us to advance a society. We use our rational capabilities to take two objects and find out what connects them with one another. However, most people lack the ability to take two things that seem like complete opposites and connect them with one another. An example of how to do this would be something like this: Book and War. Sun Tzu wrote a book called the "Art of War". Or History books contain stories of many wars. Or books are full of ideas, when the ideas of different societies, conflict, war breaks out. This is the basic idea behind the rational connection puzzle. So, here are two seemingly dissimilar objects. Can you connect the two? Post your connections in the comments, let see how many we can make.


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US Scores Silver in Sitting Volleyball
LONDON – The U.S. women's sitting volleyball team claimed the silver medal Friday at ExCel, falling to China in a thrilling gold medal match.
Team USA started strong, winning the first set 25-22. China struck back quickly and won the next three sets in a row (15-25, 30-32, 15-25) to capture their third consecutive gold. In the history of sitting volleyball at the Paralympic Games, the U.S. and China have always met in the gold medal final, always with the same result.
"Today's match was absolutely a battle," Katie Holloway said. "We went out there confident; we left it all on the floor. I feel good with our play – it wasn't good enough. China brought the best game we have seen throughout the tournament, so you have to give it up for that."
Holloway was the team's leading scorer through the Paralympic tournament, and had 28 spikes and 3 blocks in tonight's match. She said the initial win and China's semifinal game against Netherlands were both confidence boosters.
"They're a great team," she explained. "We knew exactly how they play, and we knew we could control the outcome of this game if we played our absolute best. Unfortunately that best was not good enough, and you can't see that coming."
Heather Erickson, who is a veteran of the team and also a top contributor in scoring, said the team hoped to leave it all out on the court, which she believes they did, even though their overall goal was to win the gold.
"It's not what we came here for, but I still feel so privileged to have this medal around my neck," she said.
The U.S. and China have played many times, though the U.S. has not been able to best China in international competition. Team USA is proud of its efforts, but there is unfinished business where the gold medal is concerned.
"I definitely want that gold. I want USA's national anthem to be played and a gold medal around my neck," said Erickson. "That's always everybody's expectation and goal. We'll see what happens in Rio – I'll be back."


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Jenna Lipe and Derek Carley
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Michael and Kathy Lipe of Woodinville are very pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Lipe, to Derek Carley, son of Jim and Debbie Carley of Woodinville.
Jenna and Derek are both graduates of Woodinville High School although they didn't attend at the same time. Derek graduated in 2005, just before Jenna transferred from Redmond High School and graduated from Woodinville in 2007. They were both heavily involved in the Woodinville Drama Department.
Derek and Jenna met and fell in love at Studio East youth theatre when Jenna was 15 and Derek was 16. They spent four of their nine years together in a long-distance relationship while they each studied musical theatre — Derek at the University of Michigan and Jenna at New York University.
They are currently living and working as actors in New York City. The happy couple will be married in Washington on August 31, 2013!


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TUSCALOOSA | Leaders with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said the civil rights of a 5-year-old boy with special needs were violated when he was bullied by teachers at Skyland Elementary School in early November.
TUSCALOOSA | Leaders with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said the civil rights of a 5-year-old boy with special needs were violated when he was bullied by teachers at Skyland Elementary School in early November.
The Rev. Paul Sanders, vice president of the Tuscaloosa chapter of SCLC, told the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education on Thursday that a flier was circulated by email to Skyland Elementary School employees. It depicted a kindergartner in a mug shot-like pose with a caption below the photo telling school staff to ignore the boy.
Sanders said unnamed teachers at Skyland treated the student like he was a criminal. He said the student has been suspended repeatedly by school officials and has only been allowed to attend school for half days during the past month.
"This school system has a history of mistreating young black males and punishing them more harshly than their non-black counterparts," Sanders said.
The caption with the black and white photo reads:
"Hi, I'm (student's name). I am working on improving my behavior at school and I need your help! If you see me while I am following the PAWsome expectations, please tell me what I am doing well. If you see me NOT following expectations, please do not talk to me. Sometimes you might see me being held by an adult in the building. If so, please pretend I'm not there and walk on by unless the adult asks you to go get help."
The student's mother, LaKeishia Brown, said she was livid when she found out about the flier.
"I got a call about what happened from (a member of the SCLC) who showed me the flier," Brown said while crying after the meeting. "I said, 'This is my baby.' I couldn't believe it. I wanted to go to the school and cut up, but she told me to hold my peace and said they (the SCLC) would handle it."
Brown said her son, who is cognitively delayed, has been suspended seven times this school year and now is allowed to attend school only half days. She said his teachers claim that he runs around in class and hits them, but she said she doesn't believe that because he's calm at home and is treated with a calming medication.
"I want them to stop doing stuff to my child," she said. "Stop doing stuff like these fliers to him. He doesn't know what's going on."
Sanders said the SCLC became involved a week ago. He said the group knows which teachers are involved. The SCLC also believes a secret meeting was called by a school administrator who told school employees that they would be fired if they told anyone about the flier, he said.
Sanders asked the school board to investigate the matter, reprimand the employees involved and provide sensitivity training for all teachers in the school system. He said the SCLC wants the issue fully resolved.
Dan Meissner, the school board's chairman, said Superintendent Paul McKendrick will handle the situation.
McKendrick said he's known about the issue for several weeks and has investigated it, but will look into it further.
"Some of the claims made tonight were not what we heard, but we'll go back and based on what we heard tonight do another investigation," McKendrick said. "We don't condone this kind of behavior. Not psychological or physical violence."
McKendrick said he couldn't discuss the details of any discipline that was or might be administered to the employees involved but said the initial investigation found some inappropriate actions by employees.
Board vice chairwoman Earnestine Tucker told school administrators that she wants the issue to receive their immediate attention and for a resolution to occur promptly.
"Do not allow little (student's name) to be railroaded and sent off to another school," Sanders said while the child, sucking his thumb, held on to Sanders' leg.
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Struggling Torquay sack manager Knill
League Two strugglers Torquay United have sacked manager Alan Knill as the club battle to stay in the Football League.
Knill succeeded Martin Ling at Plainmoor last year, initially on temporary basis before getting the job permanently in May.
However, Torquay have won only five of their 24 league games this season and are second bottom, prompting the Devon club to party company with the 49-year-old former Bury, Scunthorpe United and Rotherham United boss.
A club statement read: "The first half of this season has not gone as we all hoped and the board at Plainmoor believe now is the right time for a change.
"The search for a new manager begins immediately but, in the meantime, our head of youth Geoff Harrop will take the team for Saturday's game with Morecambe at Plainmoor."
Torquay, who avoided relegation by two points last season, endured a mixed festive period that included back-to-back defeats against local rivals Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle.


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Jobs are good. Exports create jobs. We create exports. Renew our charter.
Such is the essence of the marketing pitch of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, whose officials have begun ramping up their lobbying efforts ahead of a 2014 vote concerning reauthorization of the Bank's charter, which expires in September. Last go around, in 2012, Ex-Im ran into some unexpected turbulence when free-market think tanks, government watchdog groups, and limited government Republicans in Congress raised some compelling – but ultimately ignored – objections to reauthorization.
The ostensible purpose of the Ex-Im Bank is to assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets. Even if that were a legitimate role of government, the public must keep a watchful eye on how much and to whom loans are made – especially given the current administration's tendency to bet big on particular industries and specific firms, and in light of its commitment to seeing U.S. exports reach $3.14 trillion in 2014.
From the U.S. Export-Import Bank's 2013 Annual Report:
The Ex-Im Bank's mission is to support American jobs by facilitating the export of U.S. goods and services. The Bank provides competitive export financing and ensures a level playing field for U.S. exporters competing for sales in the global marketplace. Ex-Im Bank does not compete with private-sector lenders but provides export financing that fill gaps in trade financing. The Bank assumes credit and country risks that the private sector is unable or unwilling to accept. It also helps to level the playing field for U.S. exporters by matching the financing that other governments provide to their exporters. The Bank's charter requires that the transactions it authorizes demonstrate reasonable assurance of repayment.
The defensive tone of this mission statement anticipates Ex-Im critics' objections, but it certainly doesn't answer them. The objectives of filling gaps in trade financing passed over by the private sector and expecting a reasonable assurance of repayment are mutually exclusive – unless the threshold for "reasonable assurance" is more risk-permissive than the private-sector's most risk-permissive financing entities. Therefore, Ex-Im is either putting taxpayer resources at risk or it is competing directly with private-sector lenders for customers in need of finance. And if the latter, then as it seeks to create the proverbial "level playing field" for the U.S. companies whose customers it finances, Ex-Im is un-leveling the playing field for the finance industry, as well as for the U.S. firms in industries that compete globally with these U.S-taxpayer financed foreign companies.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The first time Frank Gore got a look at a pistol offense, he was watching television.
"Probably Oregon," Gore said. "I didn't like it at first."
After all, the pistol and the read-option ran counter to everything Gore knew. He played in a pro-style offense at the University of Miami and was used to being a traditional tailback — and very good one — for the San Francisco 49ers.
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"I just felt like that's not real football," Gore said. "But if it helps us get to where we want to go, I'm good."
Consider Gore the latest convert to the wonders of the read-option. As the 49ers implemented more option and pistol elements since switching starting quarterbacks from Alex Smith to Colin Kaepernick in November, Gore found a way to adjust.
He said he has learned to be more patient, and also has come to understand that even on designed running plays, he won't always get the ball. Sometimes, he'll be a decoy as Kaepernick carries the ball.
Still, Gore's rushes per game actually increased since Kaepernick took over as starter in Week 11 (from 15.5 per game to 17.6), and he finished the regular season with 1,214 yards, the second-highest total in his eight-year career. But he's had to accept that some weeks, Kaepernick will end up with more rushing yards.
That was the case last week in San Francisco's 45-31 win against Green Bay, when Kaepernick set a quarterback rushing record with 181 yards. Gore had 119 rushing yards, his second-highest total of the season.
"Hopefully they keep looking out for (Kaepernick), and 21 keeps getting the ball," Gore said.
Gore left the practice field after a walk-thru Thursday, pulled off his No. 21 practice jersey and replaced it with a blue mechanics shirt with "Frank" embroidered on the chest. Gore hasn't worn the shirt in public for a while, but grabbed it from his locker as a sign that he wanted to "have a good work day," he said.
Though Kaepernick has attracted much of the attention over the past two months, 49ers coaches said Gore has had an important role in the evolution of the 49ers' offense, so much so that offensive coordinator Greg Roman has joked to Gore that he wants Gore to coach with him when his playing career is over.
Roman said Gore has become a mentor to young running backs Kendall Hunter (now on injured reserve) and LaMichael James, especially when it comes to traditional elements of being a tailback with figuring out pass-protection schemes.
James, a rookie, played at Oregon, in the scheme Gore disliked. Now they thrive in it together.
"He will adapt quickly," Roman said of Gore. "I thought he had some just incredible runs in our last game on those types of plays. It's no surprise to us here."


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Behind the Curtain: Obama's tax problem
President Obama faces huge, and probably insurmountable, obstacles to reviving a grand bargain — none higher and more difficult to overcome than his decision to increase taxes by $600 billion in December.
At the time, Obama claimed victory, slapping new taxes on the rich while protecting George W. Bush's cuts for everyone else. In retrospect, it looks more like a missed opportunity than a political or policy triumph.
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Instead, it now seems likely that $600 billion in tax increases is all the new revenue Obama gets. That's a far cry from the $1.6 trillion he wants, or even the $1 trillion-plus many Republicans were discussing in previous grand bargain talks.
( Also on POLITICO: Key takeaways from dueling budgets)
Obama thought he would be able to stare down Republicans over the sequester, and get them to double the size of his tax increase to avoid heavy defense cuts. He was wrong. Once Republicans swallowed the $600 billion in hikes, they made plain they were done raising taxes for this Congress. And they really are done, Republicans say.
This is the biggest reason top Democrats and Republicans alike tell us talk of a grand bargain this time around is way overhyped — though, as our colleagues Jake Sherman and Carrie Budoff Brown wrote last week, Obama's recent charm offensive shows he knows he now needs a sweeping deal more than ever.
"Nobody is even talking about a grand bargain," one of the Senate's most influential Democratic leadership aides told us. "It is not even on our radar right now." An adviser to Speaker John Boehner told us that window was slammed shut by Obama's hardball tactics since the tax hike. "He missed the chance."
( Also on POLITICO: More from Behind the Curtain)
Another reason is the rancid relationship between Obama and Republicans on the Hill. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the third-ranking House Republican, told us about an exchange he had with Obama at Saturday night's white-tie Gridiron dinner. During a break in the program, McCarthy saw an empty chair next to Obama and decided to seize the chance. Surprised Obama wasn't working the room, and thinking the president really is a loner, McCarthy walked up to the head table. He found the president was reading his BlackBerry. (Another attendee said Obama was talking to Ken Burns, the documentarian, who was showing POTUS pictures of his family on his phone.)
"I'm waiting for my dinner invitation," the Republican joshed to Obama, referring to the president's recent evening out with Republican senators. "I listen to Paul," Obama replied, according to McCarthy, referring to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan. Then, in what McCarthy took as a reference to a political charm offensive, he recalled Obama saying, "You guys give us too much credit. We're not doing all that stuff you think we are." As told by McCarthy, Obama then said that if Republicans are going to get entitlement reform, "You need me." As McCarthy walked away, the congressman thought: "He's still a law professor. He'd rather lecture you and put a red mark on your paper than talk to you."


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Tomorrow night we are heading up to Virginia to meet my family for a mini pre-Easter vaca. We are going into DC on Friday and then the American Girl Store in Tyson's Corner on Saturday…along with a trip to LaMadeline for lunch. I used to work in McLean, Virginia and I always loved to go to La Madeleine for lunch so I can't wait! They have the best tomato basil soup I have ever had.
Then on Saturday we are driving up to Maryland to see Jim's family for Easter. I am sure there will be an Easter Egg hunt and a trip to Annapolis somewhere in there. Hopefully we will make a trip to Carlsons again!
So this will probably be my last post until Monday. Have a wonderful holiday and I wish everyone a Happy Easter!
This is a great recipe to serve if you are feeding a crowd – especially if there are kids involved. It's also easy to split into two pans and freeze one for a busy night!
This is a great twist on baked ziti and what makes this a bit different is the sour cream. It gives the dish a little tang and adds some creaminess that you will love.
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Baked Ziti
- 1 pound ziti pasta
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 pound lean ground beef I sometimes use half Italian sausage
- 2 26 ounce jars spaghetti sauce
- 6 ounces provolone cheese sliced
- 1 1/2 cups sour cream
- 6 ounces mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9X13 pan with cooking spray.
- Cook ziti in boiling water until al dente. Drain
- In a large skillet cook ground beef and onion. Add the tomato sauce and simmer about 15 minutes.
- In the bottom of the baking dish add half the ziti. Cover with the provolone, sour cream and then 1/2 of the sauce mixture. Add the remaining ziti, mozzarella, sauce mixture and then sprinkle the Parmesan cheese on top.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
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I don't think that's really the way the saying goes, but this has been my experience this week. I've spent hundreds of enjoyable hours exploring the Find A Grave web site and have been rewarded with photos of headstones and gravesites of many ancestors. In addition to numerous photos, I've gathered vital information on them, such as birth and death dates, burial locations, even cemetery locations and occassionally have come across a wonderful obituary or biography of an ancestor. It didn't take me long, after looking around, to volunteer to photograph gravesites in my home county after I became the beneficiary of precious photos generously posted by others across the country.
This week I received an email from Find A Grave notifying me that someone wanted a photo of an ancestor's gravesite in a local cemetery, so I put a "Claim" on it, which indicated my intent to take the photo and load it on the Find A Grave site within 14 days. It's hard for me to not run out immediately to fullfill that claim when I get one. My husband went with me the next day to photograph the site and I had it on the internet later that evening. I always send a personal email to the person who requested the photo to let them know I provided the photo and I offer to email them the photo. They get an automated notice from Find A Grave that the photo has been uploaded to their memorial page, but I like to make personal contact anyway. This week I emailed a gentleman in a neighboring state and was delighted that he replied to me in a very gracious return email. As it turns out, his hometown was the hometown of my step-father. And to my great joy and surprise, he often returns to that small town, and is familiar with the local library and cemeteries. You guessed it...he offered to photograph the gravesites of my step-father's parents who are buried there. He contacted the local librarian and received by mail copies of their newspaper obituaries. Today I got copies from him in the mail!!!! And soon I should have photographs of their gravesites---hopefully they have headstones.
Do you see why I called this little story "One Good Deed Returns Another"? When I posted that photo earlier this week on Find A Grave, I thought that little story was over. But my personal email to that "requester" brought unexpected rewards! I've made a new friend, I have obituaries now that I'd have never found otherwise and may soon have actual photographs of family gravesites.
I happen to live 1 mile north of a really old local cemetery so at noon today I made a quick trip to it and photographed another headstone for someone. She didn't post her personal email on Find A Grave but I was able to leave her a public note. Maybe she'll be inspired to take a picture for someone else in return for the kind gesture. And so it goes on and on. One good deed returns another.


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These drums are kettle drums (hemispheres about 1-1/2 feet in diameter on stands). They come in pairs and are unremarkable in appearance. If both of the pair are sounded, all creatures within 120 feet (with the exception of those within a 20-foot-radius safe zone around the drums) are affected as by a fear spell (Will DC 16 partial). Drums of panic can be used once per day.
Moderate necromancy; CL 7th; Craft Wondrous Item, fear; Price 30,000 gp;Weight 10 lb. for the pair.


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Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. and New York State Electric & Gas Corp. have been honored for their response to Hurricane Sandy, officials announced Thursday.
RG&E and NYSEG, along with Central Maine Power Co., were among the winners of Edison Electric Institute's Emergency Recovery Award and its Emergency Assistance Award for 2012. All are subsidiaries of Iberdrola S.A.
The awards, given to EEI member electric utility companies since 1998, were awarded Wednesday at EEI's CEO meeting in Phoenix.
"These awards are a testament to the hard work and commitment of all of our employees who rapidly restored power to our customers and then moved on to help other utilities recover from Hurricane Sandy, one of the largest and most destructive storms in history," Iberdrola CEO Robert Kump said in a statement.
The three utilities delegated 6,000 employees to handle nearly 500,000 electric service interruptions in Maine and New York, company officials said. After power was restored to customers, the three companies dispatched nearly 1,800 line, bucket, pole-setting, digger, tree, gas and supervisory employees to assist other utilities.
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