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Office of Air
Tonya Baer, Deputy Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
Air Grants
Mike Wilson, P.E., Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
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Air Permits
Sam Short, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Air Permits Division processes air permits and authorizations for facilities that, when operational, would emit contaminants into the atmosphere. The division does this through two major air permitting programs, New Source Review (NSR) Permits and Title V Federal Operating Permits.
New Source Review Permits
Several potential air authorizations fall under the category of NSR Permits:
- De Minimis
- Permits by Rule (PBR)
- Standard Permit (SP)
- Construction, Modification
- Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
- Nonattainment
Title V Federal Operating Permits
Two kinds of permits are possible under the category of Title V Federal Operating Permits:
- Site Operating Permit
- General Operating Permit
Air Quality
Donna Huff, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Air Quality Division works to protect and restore air quality through four programs.
Air Implementation Grants
Under the Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), Air Implementation Grants provide funding and financial incentives to offset the costs of eligible projects that reduce emissions of NOx from high-emitting diesel sources.
Air Industrial Emissions Assessment
- Provides information about the Toxic Release Inventory Program.
- Maintains the inventory of point source emissions for industrial sources of air contaminants.
- Develops the emissions inventory for area emissions, such as those from small businesses that are not regulated as point sources.
- Develops the emissions inventory for mobile sources of air contaminants.
- Assists companies in interpreting emissions and inspection-fee rules and performs audits to ensure fees have been correctly reported.
Air Modeling and Data Analysis
- Analyzes data and conducts photochemical modeling in support of pollution control strategies and designs.
- Manages air quality research for the agency.
- Coordinates the Rider 7 program, an initiative that supports air quality planning activities to reduce ozone in specified areas of the state. The areas include: Waco, El Paso, Beaumont, Austin, Corpus Christi, Granbury, Longview-Tyler-Marshall, San Antonio, and Victoria.
Air Quality Planning
- Coordinates the development and implementation of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) — the state's plan for air quality protection and improvement — which explains how the state will comply with federal air quality standards.
- Performs research to identify and develop appropriate pollution control measures.
- Reviews federally funded projects such as airports, roads, and ports to ensure they comply with the SIP. Also reviews transportation projects in nonattainment areas to ensure emissions do not exceed budgets in the SIP.
- Administers the state's Low-Emission Diesel, Low Reid Vapor Pressure Gasoline, and Gasoline Vapor Recovery programs.
- Implements a number of other programs to reduce pollution related to transportation:
- AirCheckTexas Motor Vehicle Emissions Testing
- AirCheckTexas Drive a Clean Machine Program, which provides financial assistance for replacing or repairing qualifying vehicles in certain counties
- Vehicle Emissions Enforcement and Smoking Vehicle programs
- Administers the Air Emissions Banking and Trading Program, which:
- provides flexibility for compliance with the federal Clean Air Act through a market-based framework for emissions banking and trading while achieving net reductions in air emissions, and
- offers incentives for voluntary air emissions reductions.
- Implements the Tax Relief Program for Pollution Control Property, which provides determinations of whether certain pollution control property may be exempted from property taxes.
- Evaluates appropriate pollution control strategies, develops plans to implement the stationary source control measures necessary to comply with federal air quality standards, and provides technical guidance to stakeholders affected by these regulations.


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Jewish Death Practices:
Phases of Death Observance
Spiritual Aspects
Chevra Kadisha:
Tahara Manuals and Procedures
Learning & Resources:
Burial and Cremation
Jewish Views
General Articles
Other Religions and Decomposition
Does Jewish Law Permit Cremation? - Rabbi Isaac Klein - Conservative Responsa - 1976
Does Jewish Law Permit Cremation? - Rabbi David Golinkin - Commentary
Cremation in the Jewish Tradition - Rabbi Morris Shapiro - Conservative Responsa - 1986
Cremation in the Jewish Tradition - 1986 Short Summary by Rabbi Morris M. Shapiro; Edited by Rabbi Robert Binder
On Cremation. Harold M. Schulweis - Yizkor Passover April 24, 2003
Concerning cremation. One rabbi's perspective. Rabbi David Abramson - Conservative Judaism Magazine - Vol. 51, No. 1, Fall, 1998, pp. 32-45.
Forced to Permit Jewish Burial of Cremated Body, Kehillah Board Resigns Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 1929
Exploring Jewish Reasons for Ground Burial - An Alphabetic Acrostic - David Zinner
Cremation and Modern Jewish History - Alan Brill - 2011
Burial society stuggles with increased demand for cremation - Sue Fishkoff - 2009
The Great Cremation Debate - David Marchese - 2008 - Israel
What is the Difference Between Burial and Cremation - Aron Moss - 2007
Jewish Burial and Cremation - England
Data show that in 2007, there were 327 Jewish cremations, amounting to 11% of the total number of deaths recorded, or 43% of those funerals carried out under Reform or Liberal auspices (the percentages in 2006 were 10% and 40% respectively). By comparison, around 72% of all deaths in the UK generally in 2006 (the latest year for which data are available) were followed by cremation.
Is it Better to Bury or to Burn - A Biblical Perspective on Cremation and Christianity in Western Culture - Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary
Cremation Vs. Burial: Jewish & Christian Beliefs
Abraham, Lazarus and the Catholic Funeral
Burial Versus Cremation In Jewish Tradition - Jack E. Shattuck - Orthodox Perspective
Why cremation is the antithesis of Judaism - Rabbi Avi Shafran (Orthodox)
Why does Jewish law forbid cremation? - Naftali Silberberg - Chabad
Cremation – Ask the Rabbi - Rabbi Raymond Apple
Burying the Last Taboo - New York Jewish Week
Response to Burying The Last Taboo - Rabbi Elachanon Zohn
"We are working with religious and lay leaders, funeral homes and cemeteries, as well as agencies that serve the elderly, and the community-at-large. We are also working to assist and ensure reasonable burial costs for those with real financial difficulties. It is my sincere hope and belief that the Jewish community is not ready to give up on this "last" mitzvah."
Cremation and Burial in the Bible
He Was Buried (Roman Catholic)
Why Cremation Is Unscriptural - Christian
Cremation From The Jewish Standpoint - Reform - 1891
Burial of Ashes in a Mausoleum - Reform - December 1981
Scattering the Ashes of the Dead - Reform - April 1988
The Ashes of a Couple in a Single Urn - Reform - February 1990
A Tombstone for Scattered Ashes - Reform - December 1990
When A Parent Requests Cremation - Reform - 2005-06
Debatable: Is Cremation an Acceptable Practice for Reform Jews? - Reform Judaism - Spring 2009
Jewish Buiral of Cremated [Remains] - Rabbi Michael M. Remson - 1998
Public Health impact of Crematoria - British Columbia
Conclusions of Grinnell community residents studying mercury emissions from crematoria
Crematory Controversy - Stonebank, Wisconsin
Adverse pregnancy outcomes around incinerators and crematoriums
Weep for the Grim Reaper - As cremation becomes more popular, funeral homes get burned
Cremation or Burial - Video
Human Decomposition After Death
Decomposition Of Organic Matter

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The Phoronix Guide To Oktoberfest 2011: There's just over 60 days remaining until the 2011 Oktoberfest gets underway in Munich, but here's the official Phoronix guide for any readers that are still contemplating a visit to this annual Bavarian festival where the yearly "PhoronixFest" meet-up takes place. Contrary to the popular American belief, the "real" Oktoberfest in Munich is much more than just being a festival about beer and is well worth visiting.
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Mary K. Okheena
Canadian, b. 1957
Bear Tracks, 1992
woodcut on paper, Co-op Proof 1/3
91.4 x 111.6 cm Image: 78.6 x 99 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Holman Eskimo Co-operative
Mary K. Okheena began working in the Holman print shop in 1977. She had 74 of her drawings made into prints, printing 36 of them herself. She has also printed 31 drawings by other artists. The WAG work was printed from a large piece of plywood which Okheena carved herself. The artist described this print in an interview with WAG Curator Darlene Wight, in 1999: "The year I did this print, we had a lot of bears coming into the community. The men would follow the bears' tracks to find the bears." This stark black-and-white woodcut reveals Okheena's skills as a designer, as a wonderful mix of negative and positive space is integrated within a complex network of line and form.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
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FARMINGTON — If the weather is bad and the roads are not safe to travel on be sure to call the library at (603) 755-2944 before heading out. We want to keep our staff and patrons safe and we are happy to renew materials for you. You may self-renew online or by email (firstname.lastname@example.com). We do not charge late fines for days that we are closed.
Gardener's Roundtable
The next meeting is on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. We will not be meeting in January as it is right after the holidays but we will be meeting in February for our annual organizational meeting. Come join us to discuss dates for a seed swap, the next harvest dinner, garden tours, a Stonyfield trip and speakers we would like to have. Enjoy those seed catalogs and know that spring will come!
Goodwin Library Book Club
The next session is on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. This month we will be reading the recent best-seller: The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch. Set in Germany, 1660: when a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play. The author is a descendent of the Kuisls', a famous Bavarian executioner clan. Check out a copy and join in on the discussion!
Goodwin Library Writers Group
The next meeting is on Wednesday Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. Would you like to share your writing with other writers and get feedback (but not criticism)? Then come sit in and meet some of the best writers in the area (and become one of them!). Whether you are a poet, a memoirist, a playwright, author of fiction or non-fiction or even a singer/songwriter … there is a place at the table for you.
Heads-up, poets! The Goodwin Library's 11th Annual Poetry Contest will be kicking-off in February to give you an early start to write or compile your poems for entry. The Annual Poet's Tea and Awards Ceremony will be Wednesday, April 24 at 6 p.m. so mark your calendars. The deadline for entries will be Friday, April 5. Forms will be available online and at the library the beginning of February.
Children & Young Adults
Winter Story-Times: Check with the Children's Room for space availability: Story times begin Wednesday, Jan. 16. Pre-School (4-5) — Wednesdays, 1:30-2:15 p.m.; Sleepy-Time (K-3) — Wednesdays, 6:30-7:15 p.m.; Babies and Books (1-3 years) — Thursdays, 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Reading with Ava
Our wonderful therapy dog Ava is taking a short vacation during this holiday season. She will be returning to listen to your stories after the New Year. Please watch for more information!
For more information on our Children's and Teen Programs, check out our Blogs and Face Book pages! Children's Room Blog, http://goodwinkidsblog.blogspot.com/
For more news, check out our teens' blog at http://goodwinteensblog.blogspot.com/ and "friend" Goodwin Librarians on Facebook!
Reminder: Our Historical/Genealogical collection is a secured collection and requires the assistance of Staff for access. Due to staffing limitations, we are unable to assist patrons on a drop-in basis. Please e-mail your requests to firstname.lastname@example.com and include your contact information. We will make every effort to find your information prior to your visit. If you have a library card, you may access our database Heritage Quest from the Library and/or home. We also offer Ancestry.com Library Edition; however, this database can only be used in the Library. Visit www.goodwinlibrary.org and click the "Catalog" tab to access this information.
On the Shelf reviews
In Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, our protagonist, Rory, (short for Aurora) is a nice southern girl whose professor parents are taking a sabbatical leave to teach American law in Bristol, England. Rory is all set for adventure and doing her senior high school year at an English boarding school in East London called Wexford. She gets a little more adventure than she bargained for, as she arrives at Wexford in the midst of a serial killer recreating Jack the Ripper's infamous crimes on the same dates, more than 100 years later! And the school is right in the classic kill zone, near Whitechapel. You might think this is just another serial-killer story and you might be wrong. That's something you'll need to discover for yourself, as Rory does.
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Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has recovered enough from a bullet to the brain to ask for toast with breakfast.
Few details are available, but Pia Carusone, Giffords' chief of staff, confirmed that the congresswoman made the verbal request on Monday when hospital workers at TIRR Memorial Hermann brought her a meal.
"Yes, that's accurate," Carusone said in an e-mail.
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She is now speaking "more and more" since she uttered her first words several days ago, spokesman C.J. Karamargin said on Wednesday. He said he didn't know what her first words were and couldn't say how her voice sounded, since he hadn't spoken to her himself.
Karamargin said Giffords is undergoing regular speech therapy as part of "aggressive" daily rehabilitation therapy for about six hours each day. Doctors are pushing Giffords, but, even more, she's pushing herself.
"Don't discount the grit and determination of this particular patient," he said.
Though small, the request for toast first reported by Politico marks a milestone for the congresswoman, who was shot in the head in a Jan. 8 shooting spree in Tucson that killed six and injured 13.
In a Facebook update on Tuesday, her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, said that Giffords is eating three meals a day and enjoying it, "even though it's hospital food."
Doctors at Giffords' Houston rehabilitation center, one of the top five sites in the country, on Tuesday said that she's recovering well and that they hope she can make enough progress to attend her husband's space shuttle launch in April.
Kelly is scheduled to command the space shuttle Endeavor on April 19, when it leaves for a two-week mission to the International Space Station. It remains unclear whether Giffords will be well enough to travel to the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
"The doctors say she is recovering at lightning speed considering her injury but they aren't kidding when they say this is a marathon process," Kelly wrote on Facebook. "There are encouraging signs every day, though."
Story: Giffords' rehab fully covered, but not so for other victims of brain injury
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Archive::Unzip::Burst - Featureless but fast ZIP extraction
use Archive::Unzip::Burst 'unzip';
unzip("zipfile.zip", "targetdirectory");
This module is a thin XS wrapper around a copy of the well-known InfoZip library but it does not expose its full functionality. Instead, it only lets you extract a ZIP archive to some directory, about as fast as if you were using your system
unzip command itself.
The module comes with its own copy of InfoZip's UnZip 5.52 included.
If you are looking for a full-featured interface to ZIP archives, you should look at Archive::Zip or the various
IO::Compress::* or
IO::Uncompress::* modules instead. Furthermore, this module is to be considered experimental. It has only been tested on x86 and x86-64 linux and is known to fail on, for example win32. Any help in this regard would be much appreciated.
If available, the module uses the prefork pragma to load its dependencies either on-demand run-time or at compile-time (if in a forking environment). It does not, however, require the
prefork module to be installed for normal operation.
None by default. But you may choose to export the
unzip function.
Takes a file name and a target directory as arguments. Extracts the zip file to the target directory. Returns the integer status code from the underlying ZIP library. Presumably, zero means success as with system calls. The return value may change in future versions.
The InfoZip homepage at http://www.info-zip.org.
Steffen Mueller, <email@example.com>
The Perl and XS code as well as the compilation are copyright (C) 2007 by Steffen Mueller. The following paragraph describes the license for these components:
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
The UnZip library which is included in full and unmodified in a subdirectory of this distribution is Copyright (c) 1990-2005 Info-ZIP. All rights reserved. The full license text from the
LICENSE file in that directory is reproduced below.
This is version 2005-Feb-10 of the Info-ZIP copyright and license.
The definitive version of this document should be available at
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/license.html indefinitely.
Copyright (c) 1990-2005 Info-ZIP. All rights reserved.
For the purposes of this copyright and license, "Info-ZIP" is defined as
the following set of individuals:
Mark Adler, John Bush, Karl Davis, Harald Denker, Jean-Michel Dubois,
Jean-loup Gailly, Hunter Goatley, Ed Gordon, Ian Gorman, Chris Herborth,
Dirk Haase, Greg Hartwig, Robert Heath, Jonathan Hudson, Paul Kienitz,
David Kirschbaum, Johnny Lee, Onno van der Linden, Igor Mandrichenko,
Steve P. Miller, Sergio Monesi, Keith Owens, George Petrov, Greg Roelofs,
Kai Uwe Rommel, Steve Salisbury, Dave Smith, Steven M. Schweda,
Christian Spieler, Cosmin Truta, Antoine Verheijen, Paul von Behren,
Rich Wales, Mike White
This software is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, express
or implied. In no event shall Info-ZIP or its contributors be held liable
for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages
arising out of the use of or inability to use this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
definition, disclaimer, and this list of conditions.
2. Redistributions in binary form (compiled executables) must reproduce
the above copyright notice, definition, disclaimer, and this list of
conditions in documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution. The sole exception to this condition is redistribution
of a standard UnZipSFX binary (including SFXWiz) as part of a
self-extracting archive; that is permitted without inclusion of this
license, as long as the normal SFX banner has not been removed from
the binary or disabled.
3. Altered versions--including, but not limited to, ports to new operating
systems, existing ports with new graphical interfaces, and dynamic,
shared, or static library versions--must be plainly marked as such
and must not be misrepresented as being the original source. Such
altered versions also must not be misrepresented as being Info-ZIP
releases--including, but not limited to, labeling of the altered
releases--including, but not limited to, labeling of the altered
versions with the names "Info-ZIP" (or any variation thereof, including,
but not limited to, different capitalizations), "Pocket UnZip," "WiZ"
or "MacZip" without the explicit permission of Info-ZIP. Such altered
versions are further prohibited from misrepresentative use of the
Zip-Bugs or Info-ZIP e-mail addresses or of the Info-ZIP URL(s).
4. Info-ZIP retains the right to use the names "Info-ZIP," "Zip," "UnZip,"
"UnZipSFX," "WiZ," "Pocket UnZip," "Pocket Zip," and "MacZip" for its
own source and binary releases.
To my best knowledge, it should be legal to use and distribute this Perl module and its enclosed library freely, as well as commercially provided the above license information is not stripped. Thus, the license of the InfoZip library should not collide with the license of the compilation. But I am not a lawyer.


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Half of India without power after grid failure
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India was hit by a second day of major blackouts on Tuesday after grids in a dozen states went down, leaving around half of the country's 1.2 billion population without power.
REUTERS - Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power on Tuesday as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the government as it struggles to revive economic growth.
Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan, the power cut was the worst to hit India in more than a decade.
Trains were stranded in Kolkata and Delhi and thousands of people poured out of the sweltering capital's modern metro system when it ground to a halt at lunchtime. Office buildings switched to diesel generators and traffic jammed the roads.
"We'll have to wait for an hour or hour and a half, but till then we're trying to restore metro, railway and other essential services," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters.
More than a dozen states with a total population of 670 million people were without power, with the lights out even at major hospitals in Kolkata.
Shinde blamed the system collapse on some states drawing more than their share of electricity from the overstretched grid. Asia's third-largest economy suffers a peak-hour power deficit of about 10 percent, dragging on economic growth.
"This is the second day that something like this has happened. I've given instructions that whoever overdraws power will be punished."
The country's southern and western grids were supplying power to help restore services, officials said.
The problem has been made worse by weak a monsoon in agricultural states such as wheat-belt Punjab and Uttar Pradesh in the Ganges plains, which has a larger population than Brazil. With less rain to irrigate crops, more farmers resort to electric pumps to draw water from wells.
Power shortages and a creaky road and rail network have weighed heavily on the country's efforts to industrialize. Grappling with the slowest economic growth in nine years, Delhi recently scaled back a target to pump $1 trillion into infrastructure over the next five years.
Major industries have dedicated power plants or large diesel generators and are shielded from outages - but the inconsistent supply hits investment and disrupts small businesses.
High consumption of heavily subsidized diesel by farmers and businesses has fuelled a gaping fiscal deficit that the government has vowed to tackle to restore confidence in the economy. But the poor monsoon means a subsidy cut is politically difficult.
On Tuesday, the central bank cut its economic growth outlook for the fiscal year that ends in March to 6.5 percent, from the 7.3 percent assumption made in April, putting its outlook closer to that of many private economists.


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Member Benefits Include:
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- Your Membercard benefits extend to over 10,000 locations across the United States and into Canada
Unless otherwise stated, all local MemberCard benefits are 2-for-1 for a single use only. For dining benefits, order two or more entrees and the least expensive is deducted from your check (some restrictions may apply so check the specific listing for details).
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Call or email Fina Bella Draperies today or set up an appointment online!
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Fina Bella Draperies understands that your home is a sanctuary for comfort, entertaining, and elegance. No detail is too small, from the patterns embedded into the fabrics to the matching buttons and lamp to complete the look and feel the customer desires.
Fina firmly believes that every time you walk in your home and look at her custom drapery artistry, it will continually take your breath away.
Whether you're designing a room for your newborn child or a grand living room, Fina Bella Draperies takes care of everything from bedding to draperies.
Fina Bella Draperies is a premier drapery studio for customers with exquisite taste, who are looking for the artistic touch, luxurious home furnishings, and stunning interior design. No detail is too small -- from ceiling to floor.
Fina Bella Draperies is a premier drapery studio for customers with exquisite taste, who are looking for the artistic touch, luxurious home furnishings, and stunning interior design. No detail is too small -- from ceiling to floor.
Your home is a big investment and a place that you will spend many hours with your family and friends. Fina Bella Draperies believes that great design should be accessible and affordable. Whether you are remodeling or upgrading your present home or have recently purchased a new home, give it that warm feeling with a decorators touch. Nothing enhances your home more than beautiful draperies, window treatments and reupholstered furniture.
We can design all types of pleated draperies and valances; draperies, valances, roman shades, custom bedding, custom bedspreads, custom designed pillows and reupholstery are our specialty. We also offer woven wood shades with top/down and bottom up features, shutters, and wood blinds. We can bring a variety of fabric selections to your home in all price ranges. We carry any type of valance, cornice, swags, box-pleat with any and all fabrics. Our decorator comes your house, discusses interior design choices with you, and gives you multiple recommendations.
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We are different from other custom drapery shops in the Bay area. We do it all - from the first visit to your home to discuss your decorating project to delivering and mounting of the new window treatments. We have our own workroom. Most of our competition hires people to create their draperies, top treatments, valances, curtains, etc. to be created. Our decorator sees your decorating project through from start to finish. We can create your specialized window treatment, slip cover, bedspread or reupholstery project right from our own workroom.
Fina Sanfilippo has been designing window treatments for over 30 years.
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Over Fina's 30 year career, she has worked for numerous drapery and upholstery manufacturers, and also fabricated specialized designs for them. Through her own business, Fina Bella Draperies, she's become an outlet for clients of sophisticated taste and style levels with each completed job having a sense of eloquence, since her business was established in 1991.
Fina Bella Draperies specializes in custom window coverings and home furnishings with 30 years of experience in homes all over the United States.
Fina Bella Draperies can fabricate color coordinated unique valances, drapery panels, custom bedding, quilted bedspreads, specialty headboards, euro pillows, pillow shams, bolsters, duvet covers, bed skirts and accessories, and window bench seat cushions for indoor and outdoor use.
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PORTSMOUTH — RiverRun Bookstore welcomes author Laura Harrington, to read from and sign her book, Alice Bliss, on Sunday, October 14 at 5 p.m.
About the author:
Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist, and librettist. She teaches playwriting at MIT and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Alice Bliss is her first novel.
About the book:
When Alice learns that her father, Matt Bliss, is being deployed to Iraq she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her dad, working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. After Matt ships out, her mother begins to crumble under the pressure of suddenly being a single parent and Alice struggles to fill the void as she balances the drama of adolescence with the effort of keeping her family together.
But Alice is supported by a safety net strung with relationships, including almost boyfriends, a grandmother, a baker with too many children, her track coach, her kid sister, her Uncle Eddie, and even her well meaning but complicated mom. She will learn to drive, plant her father's garden, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. But the smell of Matt is starting to fade from his blue shirt that Alice wears everyday and his infrequent phone calls are never long enough.
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Inspired by the open kitchens at our favorite restaurants, we created this high-quality, hard-working and affordable cookware to use every single day. Our lightweight three-layer bonded stainless-steel cookware achieves the ideal balance of professional-level performance, classic style and modern-day practicality. Featuring a thick aluminum core for responsive, uniform heat transfer, these pieces brown and sear foods beautifully. The interior and exterior layers are made of top-quality stainless steel for durability and easy care. We've configured this essential set to include the pots and pans you'll use most often for both everyday cooking and entertaining.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by TheIslandGirl from Good sizes, but the bottoms discolor I bought these a few months ago because I had a set of waterless cookware that I could not find handle replacements for. I loved them, but they were at the point of being dangerous with handles that were compromised. Our new condo is all electric and I needed something that was compatible with the new stove we purchased. Having lived life pretty much cooking on natural gas, I wanted to purchase something that would not warp on the new stove and would sit flat. I bought these because my other pots and pans were stainless steel and I liked the fact that the handles were riveted to them. They also resembled the sizes of the pots and pans I got rid of. The three qt. saute pan is one of my favorites....it's also the only pan that doesn't sit totally flat on my stove. I wish it did because I know I would like it even better! I made cheeseburgers the other night in my twelve inch fry pan and the the burger discolored the pan. The performance of them is fine, but they don't really look as good as my old set did when you cleaned them. I took pictures after I used Astonish cleaner on them and they still look bad even after cleaning. Would I buy them again? I don't really know. On the upside, they stack well in my new kitchen drawer and they do well on our new LG stove. The downside is I was hoping they would look as good as my old set. The handles work for me, but I'm also big on potholders. I can say I understand why someone would not care for the handles though because they do get uber hot. I tried to add photos, but for whatever reason I can't get them to upload.Date published: 2017-08-26Rated 5 out of 5 by TopNosh from So Far So Great! I ordered the Williams-Sonoma Open Kitchen Stainless-Steel 10-Piece Cookware Set during a sale. It arrived and I was very happy with the quality and value. I look forward to preparing many meals for my loved ones! Thanks for always putting out a great product!Date published: 2016-09-26Rated 5 out of 5 by AgentPerry from cooking in style While at my local store I was picking up some towels and other essentials when I noticed this set. I remember browsing the Web looking for a good deal when these bad babies came up. I thought for our first RE AL set it was a bit of a stretch, But seeing them in person and a quick in store demo sealed the deal. Buy it now! I made a alfredo sauce from scratch and the even heat insured consistent flavor with every bite. Not to mention I felt completely chic at the same time.Date published: 2015-10-08Rated 5 out of 5 by selftaughtchef from Great set for a new journey I'm so glad I got this set! After landing my first salaried position out of college I decided it was time to ditch my mix and match set of pans. I picked up this set after doing some research and talking with the sales associate at the store. These pans have never disappointed me and always do an amazing job. Not to mention they look fantastic so I keep them out on display. I'm looking forward to years of good meals with my Open Kitchen Set.Date published: 2014-12-20Rated 5 out of 5 by FriendlyCook2 from Quality Cookware Set I received this as a gift, and I am thrilled with each piece. The pans heat evenly so I don't have to be moving everything within constantly. They are thick metal so as to feel substantial, but not heavy enough to detract from use. The sizes are useful. It is a thoughtfully-designed product with beauty as well as practicality in mind.Date published: 2014-09-20Rated 4 out of 5 by KeggerFLA from Good quality - minor wish list This is a great set, especially if you got the deal that I did. My only wish list would be that you can forget that these pans get hot, it would be so much nicer if they had their own heat resistant handles and finally, with a gas stovetop, they discolor on the bottom really quickly....I used the utmost care and even cleaned the stove and burners before ever using....all in all, I am pleased with my purchase though.Date published: 2014-06-04Rated 5 out of 5 by Chefwannabe08 from Great Overall Set Bought this set just before the Christmas holiday and an onslaught of visitors for a couple of weeks. It got a lot of use from a lot of different cooks and did a wonderful job with a wide array of dishes! The set comes with all the basic pieces one needs without any you would not use and for a very good price. A little Bar Keepers Friend and the cooking surface cleaned right up! First, and hopefully only, stainless set we will ever need to purchase!Date published: 2014-01-01


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This is the eighteenth installment of Sunday Dinners, a biweekly column from our own Tom Hirschfeld featuring his gorgeous photography, stunning Indiana farm, and mouthwatering family meals.
Today: Tom shares his life lessons in cooking the perfect steak (hint: butter is the key), with recipes for Pan-seared Porterhouse Steaks with Maitre d' Butter, Long-Cooked Romano Beans with Pancetta, and Jamie Oliver's Genius Smoked Beets.
On a half-sheet tray sits ten pounds of butter, gently softening on a cold stovetop next to the warm convection oven.
The kitchen is old, but then so is the classic French restaurant that fronts the dingy and worn-out heart of the place. To most it probably looks dirty, but the kitchen isn't. It is just worn from hard work.
Friday night after Friday night for twenty five years, this kitchen turned out the best food in town. It is in this kitchen that I cut my teeth. It is the kitchen where I learned the most about cooking. It is where I learned about maître d'hôtel butter, the luxurious green stuff we made by the bucket.
Maître d'hôtel butter is a workhorse of the old school French kitchen. It is a compound butter made of parsley, shallots, garlic, and lemon juice, and it goes into or on almost everything. There is more butter than escargot in the classic snail dish. Steaks get a big glob, right out of the big broiler that is hotter than a blast furnace. A spoonful in assorted sautéed wild mushrooms, or into a hot pan of seared, crispy-edged, and browned jumbo sea scallops makes the world go round.
We used maître d' butter like it was salt.
I stand on a chair so I can reach the top of the meat grinding attachment that attaches to the very tall commercial stand mixer in the same way the grinder hooks to a KitchenAid on your counter at home. I feed the auger two cups of whole peeled shallots, a cup of garlic cloves, and 12 bunches of parsley. It grinds them into a grisly stew and drizzles the mix out into a heavy-gauge mixing bowl. I connect the paddle attachment and add the ten pounds of butter. I turn the mixer to low.
The pure yellow butter smears with green steaks, like vanilla frosting when green dye is added, then it all comes together in one homogenous mass. I add salt and white pepper to the mix, and a touch of lemon juice. I can smell the garlic and shallots. It gets divided between three stainless steel bain maries for the three cook's stations that will use it, and then I put it into the walk-in.
I am sure people assume that when you work in a restaurant, you get to try all the food. That is a myth. I actually contend that most people who work in restaurants not only do not get to eat the food, but they don't really like to cook. It is a mere job, and they prefer not to bring their job home with them.
As for myself, I made maitre d' butter for months at my job before one Sunday at home, with a couple of big fat steaks in the fridge, I decided I would give it a whirl.
It is the same Sunday I decided I needed to learn how to cook great steaks -- not just cooking the steaks, but how to treat them once I got them home from the store, what was the best method, what were good practices.
I studied, tried, failed, and triumphed, but in the end I think this steak is as good as any I have had.
I started by using what I have come to call the Rodgers technique. Judy Rodgers, owner of Zuni Cafe, is right: salting meat and letting it sit in the fridge overnight, uncovered, might just be the one, and most important, thing you can do in preparing a good steak (or for that matter any animal protein). Not only does it get rid of excess moisture, kind of like reducing a stock and intensifying the flavor, but it also absorbs the salt and dries the exterior so you can really caramelize the meat without making for a dry steak.
Second is letting the steak rest after its initial cook time. I can't imagine cooking a steak without letting it rest for 10 to 15 minutes before I put it back on the grill or into the oven to finish cooking it.
I have found it does matter where you buy your meat -- the old compliment, which I always found to be an insult, "Oh that was so, so good, where do you buy your meat?" is at least a little bit true. I have tried free-range beef, I have tried dry-aged beef, but what I like most is the local Indiana producer who raises his or her cattle responsibly on natural grass, finishes them on grain, and sends them to a local processor when they reach weight. I have found the flavor of this beef to be the best; it is what I want beef to be. This is a decision you have to make for yourself for what tastes best to you.
I like steaks on the grill or broiled, but my favorite way to cook a steak is in a cast iron skillet. I like the way it caramelizes, the control, and the simplicity.
And finally, I like them best with maître d'hôtel butter and I like to finish them in the oven like they do at Peter Luger's Steakhouse in New York City. After letting the steak rest, you slice and then rewarm it under the broiler, melting the butter into all the cuts and cracks and making the steak rich and tasty beyond words.
It is how I like my steaks. It took practice. It took some learning, some reading, and eating some overcooked meat, but eventually it all paid off.
Sunday Menu:
Pan-seared Porterhouse Steaks with Maitre d' ButterServes 42 porterhouse steaks, 1 pound each1 stick unsalted butter1 1/2 tablespoons flat leaf parsley, chopped1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced1 teaspoon shallot, mincedfresh ground white pepperhalf a fresh lemon kosher saltoilSee the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Long-Cooked Romano Beans with PancettaServes 41 pound Romano beans3 ounces pancetta, cut into small cubesolive oilkosher saltfresh ground black pepperSee the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Jamie Oliver's Genius Smoked BeetsServes 48 small beets, with greens if possible1 small bunch fresh rosemary1 tablespoon red wine vinegarExtra virgin olive oilSea salt and freshly ground black pepper1 small bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked and roughly chopped1 small bunch fresh tarragon or basil, leaves picked and roughly chopped4 heaped tablespoons cottage cheesejuice and zest from 1/2 lemon, plus more to tasteA few sprigs of fresh thyme, leaves pickedSee the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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