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The Prince will again most likely be AWOL from Wednesday chat. Hopefully others will attend tonight. I assume Mr. Hughes will be fashionably late as usual. For those of you who may have forgotten, chat gets started around 9:30 PM for those of us on the east coast, 8:30 PM for those of you in Chicago and 9:30 in other parts of fly over country. I guess that means 6:30 PM on the left coast. If my calculations are correct everyone in NZ needs to join us at 1:30 PM Thursday and Australia at 11:30 AM on Thursday morning for those in Sydney and eastern Oz. It will be an ungodly 3:30 AM in Israel and Helsinki, 2:30 AM in Paris, and Berlin, and 1:30 AM in London. Of course it is all worth the sleep deprivation. Come in early and see who is here. Don't be late!!!!! (I hope I have the time changes down.If not, let me know!)
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My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day. He has his food prepared for him. He can eat whenever he wants, 24/7/365. His meals are provided at no cost to him.
He visits the Doctor once a year for his checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise. For this he pays nothing and nothing is required of him.
He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep. If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep. He receives these accommodations absolutely free. He is living like a king, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever. All of his costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day.
Suddenly it hit me like a brick: holy s##t, my dog is a Democrat!


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The Porsche Cayman S debuted in 2005 as the 2006 model. It represents the second of four Porsche Cayman trim levels. Porsche also added the S Black Edition in 2012. S Black Edition marks the highest Cayman trim level available.
The Porsche Cayman S is known for its impeccable handling and arousing speed. The Cayman S epitomizes the original Porsche design, making it fun to look at and drive. One glance at this precision machine and you know it's a Porsche.
Car enthusiasts also swoon over the Cayman S design. The mid-mounted engine offers optimum balance for the car. Many discerning drivers find that this engine placement adds significantly to the vehicle's performance and handling. After all, Porsche 550 racecars from the 1950s use mid-engine architecture. That makes a pretty solid argument in favor of the Cayman S design.
Of course, all of this comes at a heavy price.
The 2012 Porsche Cayman S offers everything that the typical Porsche-buyer wants: power, great handling, and a cool look. The S comes with a 3.4-liter, six-cylinder engine that offers 320 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. According to Porsche's performance tests, the 2012 Cayman S will go from zero to 60 mph in just under 5 seconds. That makes merging a breeze and helps you get out of emergency situations.
Powerful engines don't usually have great fuel efficiency. The 2012 Porsche Cayman S, however, does rather well. The EPA estimates that it gets about 19/26 mpg city/highway. That might not impress avid environmentalists, but it proves a great number for a sports car with this amount of power. Besides, anyone spending the money on a Porsche probably doesn't worry about a few miles per gallon. It's a small price to pay for those who love the feel of a high-performance car.
The 2012 Porsche Cayman S also includes numerous features that will make you feel comfortable behind the wheel. The S comes with 18-inch wheels (an inch larger than the lower trim level), six-way adjustable seats, air-conditioning, and high-performance summer tires.
The 2012 Cayman S Black Edition adds more power and features. You still get a 3.4-liter, six-cylinder engine, but this one offers an extra 10 hp. It also features 19-inch wheels and a really cool exterior. It's not all about looks and speed, though. Porsche adds plenty of desirable features to the S Black Edition, including a lowered sport-tuned suspension and limited-slip rear differential. You also get the Porsche Communication Management system, which comes with a Bose upgrade and offers satellite radio, as well as Bluetooth compatibility and a universal audio interface.
Buyers can add tons of features to make the 2012 Porsche Cayman S fit their unique tastes. Heated seats, shift paddles, a six-CD changer, a 10-speaker surround-sound system, voice controls, rear parking sensors, and ceramic-composite brakes can really improve the car's likability. Adding these options, however, can cause the price to skyrocket.
You can also choose to add packages such as the Sport Chromo package. It comes with features that some people might call excessive (such as a lap timer), but you did just buy an awesome Porsche, so why not? If you have the money and desire, Porsche will hook you up.
No matter what features you choose to add to the 2012 Cayman S though, you only get limited space. Putting the engine right in the middle of the car has some definite advantages, but it also takes up a lot of room that most cars devote to passengers. If you need a lot of legroom or dislike claustrophobic interiors, then this won't you're your expectations.
The Cayman S does, however, offer a fair amount of trunk space. Since the engine sits in the middle of the car, you have cargo space in the front and back. The rear hatch offers nine cubic feet and the front trunk offers an additional 5.5 cubic feet of storage space. Unfortunately, these spaces have awkward measurements. Even though the car offers quite a bit of room, you will have a hard time fitting larger items into either area.
Overall, with this model you get all of the things you would expect from a Porsche. That means you also don't get certain things, such as a lot of room and an affordable price. If you seek a car of this ilk, though, it's hard to do better than the Cayman S.
Until 2012, the S trim level marked the absolute top-of-the-line Cayman. Today, the Cayman comes in Base, S, R, and S Black Edition trim levels.
Past versions of the S differ little from those manufactured today. It isn't surprising considering the car remains in its first generation.
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My favorite image for this week is this detail of the Palazzo del Te. It comes from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's Visual Resources Collection, and was taken by Professor Tom Schumacher, on one of his many visits there. Tom was a fan of black and white film, and we had many discussions of pattern, contrast, and what can be revealed about composition once the color is removed.
This image is a nice study of black and white and gray, but it also reveals several of the many playful elements of the Palazzo del Te, designed by Guilio Romano, and constructed between 1524 and 1534.


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does the diablo have a lot more slack than the razor and how is the low end on the diablo compared to the razor and is the 4 line set up on the diablo suck because i hate 5 line kites
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Hey Starsky,kite252 wrote:i just got razors and they are sickkkk!!!! super solid kite and slacks real nice when you pop. apparently they can be rigged 6 line too, if they makes any difference b/c u don't like 5 line kites. haven't tried it tho, i just ride it standard 5 line.
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Connect The Dots, October 13, 2018
Connect The Dots with Tom Edison
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CONNECT THE DOTS THEORY, from revealing to the world the first view of the most magnificent looking unidentified hovering spacecraft ever captured on 35 mm film, to the perfect light energy manifestations of the famous Twin Towers that automatically appear within any two adjacent clear crystal pyramids. Did you ever wonder why things are the way they are on Planet Earth? CONNECT THE DOTS provides the all-encompassing answer!
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What do tcp ports 32768 and 32769 do? What services use them? I port scanned myself and found them open.
Someone else posted this link to Robin Keir's Giant Port List a while back. It might help. http://keir.net/portlist.html
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23, WEB)
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Bukhari:V3B48N826 The Prophet said, Isnt the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man? The women said, Yes. He said, This is because of the deficiency of a womans mind.
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32768 udp filenet-tms Filenet TMS
32769 tcp filenet-rpc Filenet RPC
32769 udp filenet-rpc Filenet RPC
Look here for more ports http://www.neohapsis.com/neolabs/neo...neo-ports.html
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Why am I thinking their are more trojan ports than their are service ones? God, we live in a sick world...
*sighs* and to think it's TROJANS taking up the ports, no one likes trojans!!!! Thanks for the link preacherman to the ports list.
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Do the following on Linux:
As root, do
/sbin/fuser -n tcp 32768
Where 32768 is the port number you're interested in.
Then it should give you a PID or PIDs of process(es) which are using those port numbers.
Then do ps <that number>, for example on my machine, I did
[root@athlon ~]# /sbin/fuser -n tcp 32768
32768/tcp: 865
[root@athlon ~]# ps 865
865 ? S 0:00 rpc.statd
So you can see, on my machine rpc.statd has that port number open.
It was Yahoo! Messenger. I closed it, and the port was no longer open.
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by Bob Unruh
University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams isn't particularly reticent about his conservative viewpoint.
For example, in his Townhall.com column only a few weeks ago, he poked fun at the idea a university should exclude a Chick-fil-A restaurant from its property because of pro-family views of the company's owner.
Such exclusion, which Adams described as "queer reasoning," would make the university more "inclusive," campaigners apparently believed.
"I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that our LGBTQIA Office here on my campus makes me feel uncomfortable. In fact, the rainbow is a symbol of hate. So, next week, I plan to introduce a resolution to ban them from campus," he wrote. "I expect the resolution to be defeated because it is idiotic. I'm just hoping I get a special office as a consolation prize – simply for being a narrow minded bigot."
It was opinions like that, he said, that prompted officials in his department at Wilmington to deny him promotion to full professor. After fighting for nearly seven years, he's being given the chance now to argue his case in court.
The Alliance Defending Freedom says the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has determined that his columns and writings outside of his work environment are protected speech, and he can argue that in court.
"Put simply, Adams' speech was not tied to any more specific or direct employee duty than the general concept that professors will engage in writing, public appearances, and service within their respective fields. For all the reasons discussed above, that thin thread is insufficient to render Adams' speech 'pursuance to [his] official duties' as intended by [precedents]," the court said.
"Applying [that precedent, Garcetti] to the academic work of a public university faculty member under the facts of this case could place beyond the reach of First Amendment protection many forms of public speech or service a professor engaged in during his employment. That would not appear to be what Garcetti intended, nor is it consistent with our long-standing recognition that no individual loses his ability to speak as a private citizen by virtue of public employment."
ADF reported it was in 2006 when Adams was denied promotion.
"At the time, he had multiple awards and rave reviews from students for his teaching, he had published more peer-reviewed articles than all but two of his colleagues, and he had a distinguished record of service both on and off campus, culminating in earning UNCW's highest service award," ADF explained.
"But to his colleagues and department chair, all of this was inadequate, even though, for most of them, Dr. Adams' accomplishments surpassed their own. So – in a process replete with procedural irregularities, conflicts of interests, and vitriolic criticism of Dr. Adams' Townhall.com columns and his conservative and Christian beliefs – they denied him the promotion he so richly deserved."
His subsequent lawsuit alleged retaliation for expressing his views. In the fall, a North Carolina jury will hear the evidence.
According to William Creeley, writing on the website of the the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the case raised concerns.
"While the government as employer may reasonably expect a significant amount of control over the public speech of district attorneys, that same amount of control over the scholarly research and teaching of public university faculty members is inappropriate and amounts to an infringement on academic freedom."
The organization also noted that Senior U.S. District Judge Malcolm J.Howard subsequently rejected UND-Wilmington's motion to dismiss. The judge ruled Adams "has brought forth evidence from which a reasonable jury could find that his speech was a substantial or motivating factor in the decision to deny tenure to plaintiff."
Schools: University of North Carolina – Wilmington Cases: University of North Carolina – Wilmington: Professor Files Lawsuit Alleging Retaliation for Political Columns


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Your fish tape broke. You don't have time for the round trip to get another one and still finish the job today. Will you have to come back tomorrow? Not if you know how to fix it in the field.
Some people skimp on a quality fish tape because "those tapes break, then I'm out the extra money." Well, the newer fish tapes are much more break-resistant than their ancestors; however, fish tapes still break. The good news is you can repair a fish tape. While the procedure for repair depends on the type of tape, no matter what type of tape you are repairing, make sure to wear your safety glasses whenever you use or repair a fish tape. Always inspect the fish tape for damage or kinks. Then, remove any damaged or kinked tape prior to repairing. Let's look first at the swivel ball on spring steel fish tape.
Repairing a tape with a 1/8-in. swivel ball end. To remove the swivel ball from an old tape, unscrew the pulling eye from the base and slide the base away from the crimped end of the tape. Cut off the crimp and slide the base off of the fish tape. (If you are using a new swivel ball, this step is unnecessary.) If you are using a new fish tape coil, cut off the preformed loop.
Next, slide the base onto the fish tape. Use pliers to hold the tape, or place the tape on an incombustible table and heat its end to a dull red color with a torch. Do not hold the tape with your hands while heating; the tape gets very hot even 2 ft away from its end! While the tape is red, use a pair of pliers to make a curl at the end. Make the curl approximately 3/16 in. long.
Reheat the tape's curled end to a dull red state again and allow to air cool. Do not quench in oil or water. This reheating process will anneal the metal and reduce fatigue and brittleness. This decreases the likelihood of another break.
After the tape has cooled enough for you to handle it again, slide the base to the end of the tape and reassemble with the pulling eye. Tighten the assembly with a wrench or pliers to secure the parts together. The swivel ball should turn freely on the end. If it doesn't, you'll have to disassemble the ball. Then reheat, reform, and anneal the end of the fish tape again.
This same procedure applies to repairing a tape with a quarter-inch swivel ball end, with one exception. For the larger tape (quarter-inch swivel ball end), grind approximately 2 in. of fish tape to 1/8 in. wide. Then follow the same procedure that applies to the smaller tape (1/8 in. swivel ball end).
Repairing the loop on a spring steel fish tape. The repair method is the same for all sizes of this type of tape. First, cut off the damaged part. Again, holding the tape with a pair of pliers or placing it on an incombustible table to protect your hands, heat the tape where you need to make a bend until it is a dull red color. With another pair of pliers, bend tape to form a completely enclosed loop. To do this, make a 90 degree bend about half inch from where the loop should begin, then bend the tape over to complete the loop.
Reheat the loop end of tape to a dull red, and allow it to air cool, annealing the loop. Quenching weakens the bend, possibly causing it to break while in use, causing serious injury.


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CNBC: Some Customers Call Coach Re-branding Musty
By Bill Strange
October 12, 2017
Coach rebrands itself Tapestry as brand portfolio grows https://t.co/lJRdZaTttu— CNBC (@CNBC) October 11, 2017
Fashion house Coach is getting negative feedback on its rebranding. The parent company of Coach is changing its name to Tapestry starting October 31st. A spokesman for the fashion house said the new name reflects the company's history and the fact that its many brands are interwoven to create one product.
CNBC says Coach customers they interviewed had a negative reaction to the name, with many saying "Tapestry" sounds old, and musty.
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As I've mentioned to y'all before, I was raised rural. I know that still comes as a shock to some, given my cosmopolitan mien (That means manner, by the way, but all us cosmopolites already knew that.). And then there is my total suaveness that seems to belie any rumor that I might have been raised in the country. I have even been known to sniff a wine bottle cork at fine restaurants so the wine steward would appreciate how sophisticated I am (Seems like they all smell like a piece of wood with old grape juice on them.).
But I was brung up in the country and am right proud of that. The reason I mention this is that while riding recently to a trout stream that's a fer piece from Denton, my good friend and self-proclaimed international fishing expert Ted and I started talking about what the world's going to be like when the oil runs out and transportation and communication is set back about 150 years worth.
Where are folks going to get groceries?
"Kids these days would just think they could put a seed in the ground and get food a week or so later," Ted said. He's also a philosopher, by the way.
But his point was not wasted on my sharp mind. I got to thinking. It's not been that long ago that folks were a bit more self-reliant than they are today, especially country folk.
When I was a mere lad, we lived on about 60 acres (my dad's place plus my grandfather's holdings across the road) of rocky ground with a few good garden spots, a field or two big enough to raise some corn and wheat and enough pasture to keep two or three head of cattle.
We had chickens, so we also had eggs and frequent chicken dinners. I remember when I was really little we had a milk cow. I also remember how bad that milk tasted when the cow got into a patch of bitter weed or wild onion. Yucchh.
We raised vegetables and took some to a community cannery to put up for winter. We kept meat in a rented freezer locker. Few country folk had freezers back then (We're talking the 1950s, by the way.). We dried beans.
We caught fish from the creek and brought home squirrels, rabbits and quail to add a bit of variety to our diets.
We still needed the grocery store, but we were much more self-reliant than we are today.
My mom and dad depended even less on store-bought goods and their parents, with transportation limited to horse and buggies and early model automobiles, made rare excursions into town, and then mostly for staples: coffee, sugar (if they didn't have homemade molasses or honey from their own hives) and a few other items they couldn't raise.
They got by. I'm not certain we could.
I figure when the oil runs out I want to find a little place somewhere near a stream, with a good patch of squirrel infested trees and a few acres of land for a garden, some chickens, maybe a goat and a hog. I'll have to learn a bit about animal husbandry and may need to find a mule and breaking plow, but I believe we can survive.
Then again, I might just move in with one of a dozen or so farmers I know who have an extra room or two.
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December 6, 2010
Connecticut Maritime Association names Angeliki Frangou as its next Commodore
The Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) has named Angeliki Frangou, Chairman & CEO of the Navios group of companies, as its Commodore for the year 2011.
Ms. Frangou follows a long succession of influential maritime industry leaders as Commodore.
The award is given each year to a person in the international maritime industry who has contributed to the growth and development of the industry. It will be presented to Ms. Frangou on March 23, 2011 at the Gala Dinner marking the conclusion of the annual CMA conference and trade exposition.
Ms. Frangou has been Navios Maritime Holdings (NYSE: NM) Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since inception in 2005. She is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Maritime Partners, L.P. (NYSE: NMM) and Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA).
Previously, Ms. Frangou was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of International Shipping Enterprises Inc., which acquired Navios Holdings. From 1990 through August 2005, Ms. Frangou was the Chief Executive Officer of Maritime Enterprises Management S.A., and its predecessor company, which specialized in the management of dry cargo vessels. Ms. Frangou is the Chairman of IRF European Finance Investments Ltd., listed on the SFM of the London Stock Exchange.
Ms. Frangou is the Vice Chairman of the Mediterranean Committee of the China Classification Society and member of the Hellenic and Black Sea Committee of Bureau Veritas, as well as a member of the Greek Committee of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai.
Ms. Frangou received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University (summa cum laude) and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.
Beth Wilson-Jordan, President of the CMA, upon making the announcement, stated "Ms. Frangou has consistently demonstrated superior business judgment and integrity which has allowed her to grow an international group of companies and provide consistent value to her stakeholders. Ms. Frangou joins an elite community of leaders who have been honored in the past as Commodores. Ms. Frangou's vision is demonstrated perhaps most conclusively in 2004, when she adopted a little known vehicle, called a SPAC, to raise significant funds from the public markets. Subsequently, she acquired Navios and has since built Navios into a leading company in the shipping industry. The group now controls 95 vessels (73 bulkers and 22 tankers) and a growing logistics company in South America. We are delighted to have her join the distinguished community of Commodores."
Former CMA Commodores include: Ole Skaarup, Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, George Livanos, Phil Loree, Thomas Moran, Gregory Hadjieleftheriadis, Helmut Sohmen, Gerhard Kurz, William O'Neil, Richard du Moulin, Per Heidenreich, Mark Saverys, Frank Tsao, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Peter Georgiopoulos, C. Sean Day, Torben Jensen, Morten Arntzen, John Fredriksen, Capt. Wei Jiafu and Philippe Louis-Dreyfus.


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K's an occupational hazard for Red Sox hitters
BOSTON -- When Mike Napoli singled in his final at-bat of Sunday's 12-4 loss to the Blue Jays, it marked the first time in four games that he didn't strike out at least once in a game.
At one point this season, he struck out in 16 of 17 games. With 50 strikeouts through the Red Sox's 38 games, Napoli could come close to breaking the all-time Major League record of 223, set by Mark Reynolds in 2009.
BOSTON -- When Mike Napoli singled in his final at-bat of Sunday's 12-4 loss to the Blue Jays, it marked the first time in four games that he didn't strike out at least once in a game.
At one point this season, he struck out in 16 of 17 games. With 50 strikeouts through the Red Sox's 38 games, Napoli could come close to breaking the all-time Major League record of 223, set by Mark Reynolds in 2009.
Napoli is on pace for 213, which would be the third-highest mark in Major League history and would break Boston's club record of 177 set by Mark Bellhorn in 2004.
Led by Napoli, the Sox could break the American League strikeout record of 1,387, set by last year's Oakland A's. Boston has fanned 317 times through 38 games. And that number isn't even big enough to top the Majors: the notoriously free-swinging Braves have 345, while the very young Astros lineup is on pace to shatter the AL record with 381.
All of this means very little to the Red Sox's players and coaches.
Because while Atlanta and Houston rank somewhere in the middle of baseball's best offenses, Boston is right near the top with 181 runs, while leading the big leagues in extra-base hits with 136.
For the Sox, striking out is a predicted failure.
"That's part of the philosophy," said hitting coach Greg Colbrunn. "When you see a lot of pitches, obviously you're going to strike out a lot. That's conducive to having more strikeouts. We have certain hitters that are a little bit more aggressive with two strikes, but those are the type of hitters we have."
While strikeouts continue to change the game -- entering May, league-wide strikeout numbers had been on the rise for six straight months -- the Red Sox have adapted, accepted the frequency in which they'll be whiffing and tried to work around it.
"We don't have many contact guys," said third baseman Will Middlebrooks. "We have guys who have pop. When you have guys up there who aren't just trying to poke a ball through the four-hole -- but they're hitting it off the wall, hitting it over the wall -- you're going to have your strikeouts.
"With those type of players, that comes along with that. In some situations, it's an all-or-nothing mentality."
It all starts with patience on the first pitch of an at-bat. No team swings at the first pitch as rarely as the Red Sox, who do it just once every five at-bats.
"There's a track record by a number of guys in our lineup that aren't afraid to get deep in the count," said manager John Farrell. "It's part of the type of hitter that we look to acquire."
The Red Sox have a 1.004 OPS in full counts this season, compared to the Major League average of .801.
"Me personally, I like to get involved in an at-bat," said Napoli, who has seven home runs this season and is tied for third in the AL with 33 RBIs. "The last thing you want to do, especially early in the game, is go in there, swing at the first pitch and get out. There are situations if I face a guy a lot, I'm more likely to swing first pitch. But me personally, I like to get involved."
Won't pitchers start to pick up on the Red Sox's approach and start taking advantage?
"You can sense that," Napoli said. "If a guy is getting aggressive, throwing strike one every time, you might be a little more aggressive. You get so many scouting reports on guys who throw strike one down and away or something. I mean, you know that kind of stuff.
"The key is trying to get good team at-bats and have that same goal of getting the guy out of the game."
The counterargument could be made that with the specialization of bullpens, it's been harder to score runs off relievers than it is to score off the starting pitcher. League-wide, starters have a 4.15 ERA, while the bullpen averages a 3.66 ERA.
But there's also the idea that getting into a 'pen quickly can force the opposing manager to play all of his cards early in a series, tiring the relievers as the games progress.
Farrell buys into that theory.
"It's clear that if you build a starter's pitch count and get into that bullpen -- hopefully earlier rather than later -- I think that's been proven over time that that correlates to success," Farrell said.
With Mark Buehrle on the mound against the Red Sox on Saturday, they fell out of their approach. Buehrle, who had allowed five runs or more in three straight starts entering the game, sailed through the Sox's lineup, finishing six at-bats on two pitches or fewer, as he held them scoreless over 7 1/3 innings.
Saturday's performance was exactly what the Red Sox have tried to avoid.
"We got aggressive on the first pitch, and Buehrle ended up throwing seven, eight innings," said catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who has struck out in 34 percent of his at-bats this season, a career high. "So that's why our approach is to go up there and work the pitcher."
The Red Sox understand that playing the game this way is conducive to streaky hitting. Their failure to convert with runners in scoring position -- they're hitting .163 since May 2 -- will surely start to change.
Just as they converted those chances in April, they're missing them now.
But the process tends to trump the outcome. And the Red Sox's success in April gives them confidence in theirs.
They don't want to change.
"I preach, 'Stick to your routine,'" said Colbrunn, who had a career .289 average over 13 Major League seasons. "It's a fail-safe for hitters. Once you start changing lanes and all that -- that's one of the worst things you can do."
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Incoming Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann was involved in a discrimination lawsuit at Louisville, where an assistant track coach said she was fired for complaining about discriminatory treatment.
Mary Banker, an assistant men's and women's track and field coach, filed a lawsuit against the University of Louisville Athletic Association, saying she was let go in 2008 after she complained to Hermann and then human resources about allegations of gender and sexual discrimination. Hermann was the executive senior associate athletic director.
The New York Times first reported on details of the suit Tuesday.
Hermann testified at a 2010 jury trial about the dismissal. A jury found in favor of Banker's claims, awarding her $300,000 for mental and emotional distress. However, the university appealed and the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned the verdict in February.
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This Monday, June 18, will mark the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the War of 1812. Although a fledgling country, the United States showed it's moxie by declaring war on the greatest power in the world, Great Britain.
Americans were tired of Great Britain's domineering attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressments of U.S. sailors into service for Britain, and the continual thwarting of America's expansion into the western territory. The war would last almost three years, ending on February 17, 1815 with the Treaty of Ghent.
American's viewed the War of 1812 as the second war for independence. (They had fought their first war for freedom from English rule almost 30 years before during the American Revolution.) This time Americans vowed to eliminate Britain's hold on North America for good. It was time for the United States to become totally independent from Great Britain and Europe.
Although the War of 1812 does not garner much attention now, it was a catalyst for many amazing and familiar events and facts that are part of our lives today.
|Canada, British and Indian Troops
It was during this war that the U.S. invaded Canada three times. In the U.S., the War of 1812 is seldom celebrated but in Canada it is heralded as a time when the Canadians stood against the U.S. and won - all three times.
|Burning of the White House
While the American Revolution won the U.S. its independence – the War of 1812 cemented it. America came out of this war as a power to be reckoned with. Patriotism was high after the British army captured Washington and burned the White House on August 24, 1814. American citizens saw this act as barbaric and rallied together for the defeat of the British.
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|Francis Scott Key
The U.S. national anthem was written less than two weeks later during the Battle of Fort McHenry on September 3, 1814. Francis Scott Key watched the conflict from aboard the HMS Minden where he was being held captive. Key was so inspired by the fight that he penned the words to what we now know as the Star Spangled Banner. However, when he wrote it, Key titled it the Defence of Fort McHenry.
|'Uncle Sam' Wilson
It is also said that Uncle Sam was created during the War of 1812. New York meat packer, Sam Wilson, packaged rations for the military in barrels stamped "E.A. - U.S." The initials E A stood for Elbert Anderson, the producer, and rumor had it that U.S. stood for 'Uncle Sam' Wilson, the meat packer. (The image of the white bearded Uncle Sam came about during World War One.)
In April 1905, the last veteran of the War of 1812 died. New York City held a Grand Parade to honor Private Hiram Silas Cronk, who died just two weeks after his 105th birthday. Cronk had spent his life after the war as a farmer in the state of New York.
|Monument Dedicated to the War of 1812
|Arlington Cemetery
Also, in 1905, construction workers discovered the bodies of fourteen soldiers of the War of 1812 at what is now the Washington Navy Yard. The remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery later that year. It wasn't until April 1976, the year of the United State's Bicentennial, that the Daughters of the War of 1812 had a monument erected at Arlington as a tribute to the fourteen unknown soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812, and to all others who had also died in that war.
|Johnny Horton
For many of us growing up in the sixties, singer Johnny Horton gave us our first understanding of the War of 1812 - set to music. Horton was a rockabilly singer known for his historical ballads. He recorded his number one chart topper, The Battle of New Orleans in 1958.
|Jimmy Driftwood
The song was written in the 1950's by Jimmy Driftwood, an Arkansas school teacher. Driftwood wanted his students to become more interested in history, so he decided to put major events to music to get their attention. In 1960, the song won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording.
Although the War of 1812 is known as the "Forgotten War," it is because of these three years of battles that America stepped out from Britain's shadow and became a world power to be taken seriously. Let us remember this on Monday and honor what our ancestors believed in and fought for.
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How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.
Since that time, "deep geological disposal" has replaced shallow trenches as our preferred nuclear-waste-storage technique. But another, more abstract problem—raised by the Hanford message in a bottle—remains unsolved: not how to store waste but how to label it. Not what container to use or where to bury it but how to explain the long-term dangers of what's inside to a trespasser. This seemingly simple conundrum (just use a radiation hazard symbol!) is complicated by the fact that such a trespass would prove lethal if it took place not only in 60 years but in 10,000 or 100,000. China, the planet's oldest continuous civilization, stretches back, at most, 5,000 years. And the world's oldest inscribed clay tablets—the earliest examples of written communication—date only from 3,000 or 3,500 B.C. It's impossible to say what apocalyptic event might separate 21st-century Americans from our 210th-century successors. Successors, mind you, who could live in a vastly more sophisticated society than we do or a vastly more primitive one.
Communicating the dangers of nuclear waste to unfathomably remote descendents may seem like a topic best left to third-drink philosophers in dorm rooms. It's actually been left to the most humdrum of all Cabinet-level departments after commerce, agriculture, and the interior: the Department of Energy, which oversees the disposal of radioactive trash at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. According to government guidelines, DoE must plan for the continuing safety of the site over the next 10 millenniums.
So in 1991, the department (through Sandia National Laboratories) hired 13 linguists, scientists, and anthropologists at a cost of about $1 million to devise a conceptual plan for a 10,000-year marker system. DoE has yet to hash out the practical details, and probably won't until just before the pilot plant closes in the 2040s. Yet the summary report, dryly titled "Expert Judgment on Markers To Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion Into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant," is a bizarrely fascinating read. Since its publication in 1993, there have been sporadic flurries of media interest in its existence—notably in 2002, after the Senate voted to authorize Yucca Mountain as a permanent waste repository—but few considered assessments. The paper takes seriously the quixotic goal of warning far-off civilizations and ultimately proposes a system as elaborate as it is futile.
The academics dismiss, out of hand, a "Keep Out" sign—a woefully lacking solution, since nuclear waste will remain dangerous much, much longer than such a message would remain intelligible. David Anthony, author of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, argues that "very few natural languages, those that are learned and spoken at home, remain sufficiently unchanged after a thousand years to be considered the 'same language.' " Case in point: Although modern English grew out of Anglo-Saxon, Americans need either a translation or special expertise to make their way through the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf. Radiation-hazard symbols, as well as other icons immediately recognizable to 21st-century observers, are similarly insufficient. A red circle with a diagonal slash, the report notes, could look like a pictograph of a hamburger if knocked on its side. In a telephone interview, Harvard historian of science Peter Galison—who has lectured on the permanent-markers project—added that a skull-and-crossbones is also too ambiguous: Even today, it connotes danger only to some. Latin Americans may associate it with the Catholic Day of the Dead holiday—during which celebrants wear skull masks and bring sugar skulls to graveyards. An intruder who happens to be familiar with pirate lore might assume the image signifies buried treasure.
Even if future trespassers could understand what keep and out mean when placed side by side, there's no reason to assume they'd follow directions. In "Expert Judgment," the panelists observe that "[m]useums and private collections abound with [keep out signs] removed from burial sites." The tomb of the ancient Egyptian vizier Khentika (also known as Ikhekhi), for example, contains the inscription: "As for all men who shall enter this my tomb … impure … there will be judgment … an end shall be made for him. … I shall seize his neck like a bird. … I shall cast the fear of myself into him." It's possible that the vizier's contemporaries took Khentika at his word. But 20th-century archaeologists with wildly different religious beliefs had no reason to take the neck-cracking threat seriously. Likewise, a scavenger on the Carlsbad site in the year 12,000 C.E. may dismiss the menace of radiation poisoning as mere superstition. ("So I'm supposed to think that if I dig here, invisible energy beams will kill me?") Hence the crux of the problem: Not only must intruders understand the message that nuclear waste is near and dangerous; they must also believe it.
The report's proposed solution is a layered message—one that conveys not only that the site is dangerous but that there's a legitimate (nonsuperstitious) reason to think so. It should also emphasize that there's no buried treasure, just toxic trash. Here's how the authors phrase the essential talking points: "[T]his place is not a place of honor … no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here." Finally, the marker system should communicate that the danger—an emanation of energy—is unleashed only if you disturb the place physically, so it's best left uninhabited.
As for the problem of actually getting these essentials across, the report proposes a system of redundancy—a fancy way of saying throw everything at the wall and hope that something sticks. Giant, jagged earthwork berms should surround the area. Dozens of granite message walls or kiosks, each 25 feet high, might present graphic images of human faces contorted with horror, terror, or pain (the inspiration here is Edvard Munch's Scream) as well as text in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Navajo explaining what's buried. This variety of languages, as Charles Piller remarked in a 2006 Los Angeles Times story, turns the monoliths into quasi-Rosetta stones. Three rooms—one off-site but nearby, one centrally located, and one underground—would serve as information centers with more detailed explanations of nuclear waste and its hazards, maps showing the location of similar sites around the world, and star charts to help intruders calculate the year the site was sealed. According to 1994 estimates, the whole shebang would cost about $68 million, but that's just a ballpark figure based on very incomplete data.
Proposals for the "earthworks" component demonstrate that the whole project of communicating with the future is really a creative assignment, more dependent on the imagination than on expertise. What'll really scare off 210th-century tomb raiders? The report proposes a "Landscape of Thorns" with giant obelisklike stones sticking out of the earth at odd angles. "Menacing Earthworks" has lightning-shaped mounds radiating out of a square. In "Forbidding Blocks," a Lego city gone terribly wrong, black, irregular stones "are set in a grid, defining a square, with 5-foot wide 'streets' running both ways. You can even get 'in' it, but the streets lead nowhere, and they are too narrow to live in, farm in, or even meet in."
The Sandia panelists were not the first to devise a several-thousand-year warning system. In the early 1980s, the semiotician and linguist Thomas Sebeok wrote a paper for the U.S. Office of Nuclear Waste Management titled "Communication Measures To Bridge Ten Millennia," which proposes a folkloric relay system to pass along information: "The legend-and-ritual, as now envisaged, would be tantamount to laying a 'false trail,' meaning that the uninitiated will be steered away from the hazardous site for reasons other than the scientific knowledge of the possibility of radiation and its implications; essentially, the reason would be accumulated superstition to shun a certain area permanently." Sebeok further suggested a Dan Brown-like "atomic priesthood" of physicists, anthropologists, semioticians and the like who would preserve the "truth."
Sebeok's concept for an artificial myth is, in a word, silly. Indeed, he acknowledges the shortcomings of the system himself: "Folklore specialists consulted have advised that they know of no precedent, nor could they think of a parallel situation, except the well-known, but ineffectual, curses associated with the burial sites (viz., pyramids) of some Egyptian Pharoahs." Given that even organic religious movements have trouble imparting site-specific information—scholars continue to debate whether Moses parted the Red Sea or the Reed Sea, a large lake close by—it's unlikely that eggheads could devise a myth haunting enough to turn the Carlsbad site into a permanent no-man's land.
We've seen this before—or, at least, we have on screen. In Alien, the crew of the Nostromo picks up a transmission from a derelict spacecraft. Only after deciding to investigate do they realize that the transmission is a warning signal. But by then it's too late; the Nostromo is well on its way to becoming a maternity ward for extraterrestrials. All the attention paid to the site seems as likely to encourage unwanted visitors as to ward them off, since surely future anthropologists, or just Mad Max dystopia types, will be curious to explore a spike field in the middle of the desert. The proposed systems are imaginative, but that's all. They depend, necessarily, on the intruders' willingness to decipher messages laboriously before simply acting—drilling to find oil, say, or precious metals.
There's also something oddly short-sighted about this far-sighted project. Radioactivity causes cancer and a host of other medical problems—that much is certain. But the report fails to note that we may find cures for these ailments in the next century or, perhaps, even earlier. In that case, should the EPA convene a new panel to communicate the most advanced chemotherapy technique? Ultimately the option of doing nothing—of leaving the site devoid of markers— seems like the most elegant solution of all. It may at first appear callous, lazy, and irresponsible, but at the very least, this relaxed approach is cheaper than erecting spiked granite monuments and building fancy information centers—not to mention commissioning additional panels to work out all the details.


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An Australian girl, aged 15, will have both her breast cut off so she can feel more like a boy and avoid developing 'a beard and hairy chest with an E-cup bust.'
The Australian Family Court has given the girl, who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, permission to go ahead with the surgery.
The girl is only referred to as Quinn in court documents, has dressed as a boy since the age of four, according to The Australian.
She has not been taking any hormones to suppress puberty and as a result, has developed large breasts.
The decision to approve the major surgery is believed to be a first for a child who wants a sex change before they have begun hormone treatment.
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A psychologist gave evidence in court and said ''Society has begun to accept transgender individuals. However I am highly doubtful they would accept an individual with a beard, hairy chest and an E-cup bust.'
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Back in October, CNN's Erin Burnett interviewed Sesame Street's Elmo, getting his advice on how Congress might actually stop bickering and get their work done. (CNN replayed this interview recently following the super committee's disappointing failure.) From the CNN transcript of the original airing:
ERIN BURNETT, HOST, CNN'S "ERIN BURNETT'S OUTFRONT": Elmo, you could solve the world's problem right now.
ELMO: Really? How?
BURNETT: OK. So, in Washington –
ELMO: Yes?
BURNETT: — everybody hates each other. Nobody will do anything together.
ELMO: Really?
BURNETT: And it's hurting America. How do you fix it, Elmo?
ELMO: Play dates.
BURNETT: Play dates?
ELMO: Yes, everybody has play dates.
BURNETT: Like put a Democrat and Republican play date?
ELMO: Play dates.
BURNETT: Harry Reid, John Boehner, play dates?
ELMO: Yes, play dates. And everybody brings their own food.
BURNETT: OK. Yes.
ELMO: And they have to sing songs.
BURNETT: I think that might solve it. It's better than anything we tried so far, Elmo.
This reminds me of the Concord Coalition's new "Two by Two" initiative, where–as Bob Bixby explained, also back in October (anticipating, like Elmo, that the super committee in the end would not play so well together):
Just as they did for the State of the Union Address, members of Congress should pair up. They should join together in "two-by-two" fiscal forums in which they present agreed-upon facts and engage with each others' constituents about policy options. Public engagement is of little value if it just means listening to people who already agree with you…
Any number of formats could work so long as the goal is to broaden understanding of the issues and seek consensus solutions – and not to score a partisan "victory."
A good example was set earlier this year by Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who held joint forums in Richmond and Atlanta. And this is just one model. Over the past six years, The Concord Coalition has brought together analysts and political leaders of diverse perspectives on our "Fiscal Wake-Up" and "Fiscal Solutions" tours.
Audiences across the country have been very receptive. They often express the wish that their political leaders would talk about the issues with the same appreciation of each other's point of view. More importantly, audience members begin to accept the need for compromise.
The public is hungry for a nonpartisan dialogue on such big issues as the long-term fiscal challenges, and elected leaders need political cover to "do the right thing." Two-by-two forums fit both needs. Indeed, if President Obama and Speaker Boehner had made their case for a "grand bargain" to the American people instead of vetting it with other party leaders, they surely would have found a more receptive audience.
In other words, playdates with "parallel playing" are not enough. You have to communicate and engage with your playmate–find out what toys and games he likes and what he does not, reconcile those preferences with yours, and find ways to play together that make both of you happy. As all parents and preschool teachers know, moving on from the parallel playing mode takes some maturity–getting beyond the "terrible twos" actually. We've been talking about the need for "adult conversation," but maybe we can set the bar even lower for starters and just try to get past the temper tantrums!


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When acquiring, using, and releasing various resources, it can be quite convenient to write a function to manage the acquisition and releasing, taking a function of the acquired value that specifies an action to be performed in between.The function
can be used to build such functions in the IO monad. It is commonly partially applied to its first two parameters, giving a function which manages the resource in question, allocating it for the context of a specific action.
In general, throughout the libraries many functions having names beginning with
bracket :: IO a -- computation to run first ("acquire resource") -> (a -> IO b) -- computation to run last ("release resource") -> (a -> IO c) -- computation to run in-between -> IO c
are defined to manage various resources in this fashion. One passes in a function of the allocated resource that says what to do, and the with-function handles both the allocation and deallocation. For example, in
, there is a function:
that manages opening and closing a filehandle, or in
withFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> IO r) -> IO r
, there is a function
withArray :: Storable a => [a] -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b
which manages the memory associated with a foreign array.
A common thing one might want to do is to collect up a list of such resource-managing with-functions and build from them a single with-function that manages the whole list of associated resources.For this one can use what is effectively
in the
monad, "unwrapped" appropriately:
As an example of the use of
nest :: [(r -> a) -> a] -> ([r] -> a) -> a nest xs = runCont (sequence (map Cont xs))
, here is a with-function that allocates each of a list of
as a
(which as the name suggests, is a C-style pointer to an allocated block of memory holding the characters of the string), and then allocates a null-terminated array holding these
s, runs the given action, then deallocates all the resources.
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Horowitt, co-author of "The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley," will participate in a free public "innovation rainforest launch" for Oswego County at 7 p.m. in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon Hall ballroom.
The program is the first part of a yearlong series of workshops to be held in the county on creating an "innovation ecosystem" with Global CONNECT, an applied research and technical assistance consultancy Horowitt co-founded at the University of California-San Diego, focused on the development and growth of innovation clusters.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior captain Eric Beren, joined by rookies Kevin Pang, Ken Van Tilburg, and Robert Wheeler, represented MIT at the ITA New England Championship held this past weekend at Williams College.
In the singles bracket, Pang cruised past Chris Pappe (U.S. Coast Guard Academy), 6-1, 6-2, but then fell to Jeremy Weinberger (Williams College), 6-0, 6-4. Van Tilburg defeated Brett Ramsay (Trinity College), 6-4, 6-0, which was followed by a tough 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 loss to Jamie Neely (Bowdoin College). Beren dropped his opening match to Robbie Norton (Salve Regina University) by scores of 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Beren and Van Tilburg collaborated for a 9-8 win over Weinberger and Ari Binder (Williams) before losing a hard-fought battle to No. 3 seed and eventual champions Filip Marinkovic and Andrew Thomson (Middlebury College), 9-8 (7-5). Wheeler and Pang lost to NEWMAC foes Trevor Romanzi and Rahul Bala (Springfield College), 8-5, in their only match of the weekend.


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March 5, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - This past weekend, the MIT men's fencing team competed in the IFA Championship, the oldest collegiate championship in the country. The Engineers finished 10th out of 11 teams as all three weapons captured ninth place. Senior Trevor Chang was the lone Division III recipient of the Georges L. Cointe Award, which is given to an individual who excels in high-level competition with excellence in sportsmanship. He became the second fencer in the program's history to receive this accolade since MIT's initial honoree, Guy Pommares, was chosen in 1969-70. Athletes from Brown University, Columbia University, and Harvard University rounded out the remaining award winners.
The Cointe Award was created in 1962 to honor the memory of the longtime coach of Cornell University's team, Georges L. Cointe (1899-1961). The presentation of the trophy is made annually to the male and female fencer at the IFA Championships who best demonstrates the qualities of sportsmanship. The selection is made by the coaches of the member teams from among the fencers nominated by the competitors. The criteria include: superior fencing skills; well thought out and executed actions; showing a "will to win" through initiative, determination, drive, and aggressiveness; being courteous and gracious towards opponents and officials; knowing the rules and accepting officials' decisions; and is an example for others to follow.
Jason Chen recorded the highest individual finish for MIT as he took fourth place with six victories in foil. Sebastian Castro claimed 10th place in the "B" pool while Benjamin Switala placed 11th.
Chang's five wins powered him to a ranking of sixth in the top epee pool as Gabriel Chan recorded a 13th-place finish in the "B" pool. Lukas Schmitt and Matt Gethers represented the Engineers in the "C" pool, finishing eighth and 12th, respectively.
In the sabre "C" pool, Raymond Wu placed sixth with four victories. Rangarajan Nadadur picked up five wins for eighth place in the "B" pool while Namit Setia finished in 11th place in the top tier.
The field included Boston College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Vassar College and Yale University.


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Basic Gluten-Free Pie Crust from Jacqueline Raposo on Vimeo.
Last year, the day before Thanksgiving, an odd turn of events had me running all over Manhattan and Brooklyn collecting gluten-free sweet treats for my first Easy Eats shoot (Treat Yourself, from Jan/Feb). First thing that morning, I found myself with some time to kill after picking up a product by Union Square. I climbed the steps to the Barnes and Noble cafe and sat by a window overlooking the farmer's market. It's a gorgeous city scene that early the day before Thanksgiving; cold, still somewhat quiet, and full of excitement for the next few days spent cooking, eating and sharing. I looked down with my hot tea through the frosty window, watching shoppers buying local squash, apples, pumpkin, cider… and thought…
Next year, that will be me. And now it is!
Somehow I convinced my family to come to my little city apartment, grandparents and all. I'm definitely the most domestic of my siblings with the best cookware and kitchen skills, but I have a feeling I won my grandparents over with "I have an elevator" (my siblings places both have lots of stairs). Wednesday morning I'll head to Union Square for my produce, then spend the day with my sisters brining my bird, making gluten-free cornbread for stuffing, shaving Brussels sprouts, toasting pepitas and pecans, blending soup, and mulling wine. We'll wake up early on Thursday, and my brother will join us for the parade and a batch of pumpkin doughnuts and cranberry-walnut scones. My mother and grandparents and a cousin and friend or two will then come with tablecloths and extra silverware, and we'll spread out some folding tables in my living room.
One thing I make every year, despite locale, is the apple pie. I like my pie to be a mound of local apples (often coated in bourbon and molasses) and freshly-ground spices.
I'm a dork for pie. No matter the season, this is my go-to basic gluten-free pie crust recipe, with 3 ways to make it depending on your tools. The video is silly. Silly AWESOME (I hope)!
Wishing you good things this holiday season and all year 'round,
– Jacqueline
Easy Gluten-Free Pie Crust
- Gluten-free flour blend: 1/2 cup brown rice flour, 1/2 cup tapioca starch OR arrowroot starch, 1/4 cup millet flour, 1 tsp xanthan gum, 2 Tbsp sticky rice flour.
- pinch of salt
- 1 Tbsp palm, sucanat or white sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter (higher fat the better)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp lemon juice
If you have a standing mixer, place the flours, salt and sugar in the bowl and fix with a paddle attachment. Mix flours to combine thoroughly. Cube or thinly slice the butter, add to the bowl, toss to mix. Then mix on low until the butter is just incorporated into the flour, making it look like cornmeal or buttery flakes. Make a well in the center, add the egg and lemon juice, and mix on low until just combined, to the point where it doesn't pull into a ball but is about to. Gather with your hands, wrap in plastic, flatten to a disk and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
If you have a food processor, use the directions above but pulse the butter into the flour, and then the wet ingredients into that mixture.
If you have neither, don't despair!! You have ten awesome little kitchen gadgets at the ready! Use the tips of your fingers to blend the butter into the flour, being sure not to use your whole palm or the fleshy part of your fingers (you want as little of the heat from your hands transferring to the dough). Then use a fork to pull the egg and lemon into the mixture.
Once the dough has been chilled to where it's not sticky but not too hard to roll, flour a pastry board, parchment paper or Silpat with rice flour, and roll to desired thickness. Fit into a pie plate, tart plate or slide onto a baking sheet for the perfect galette crust!


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Luz Dary Santiesteban stands by the Pacific Ocean in a small Colombian town. "If that sea could talk, it would tell us all about the victims," she says, pointing to the water. "They all were made to disappear."
Santiesteban is one of thousands of people in the country whose relatives were murdered during the country's conflict, which started in 1964 and continues to this day. Although a two month cease fire is currently in force, the war has seen human rights violations against civilians, including extra-judicial executions, kidnappings, forced displacement and land theft carried out by all sides.
- Over 173,000 murders and more than 77,000 cases of forced displacement occurred during the civil war
- 219 UNDP supported legal and psychosocial workshops have helped over 13,500 victims across the country
- Over 57,000 investigations have now taken place and legal aid has been provided to nearly 10,000 victims
In Meta, central Colombia, Maria* is one of the thousands of women estimated to have suffered sexual violence during the conflict. "The crimes that I have experienced generate serious physical and psychological problems that are difficult to deal with every day," she says.
Santiesteban and Maria are just two of the millions of victims of this conflict. However, they are also taking a stand to help themselves and their country. Both are active members of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported victims' organizations working to help those affected by Colombia's armed conflict.
To date UNDP has assisted 980 such advocacy groups, many of which were only recently created, providing legal counsel; management and leadership training; and advice on how to build and consolidate an organization. Colombians have been using these groups to better understand and advocate for their own rights.
An example of the help UNDP provides is the workshop on legal rights that Maria, along with 30 other survivors of sexual violence, recently attended. "This training helped me a lot to come to terms with what I have faced. Thanks to the spaces provided we can use this experience to provide care, and offer help to other people and institutions trying to overcome this difficult phase," she says. In all, 219 UNDP supported legal and psychosocial workshops have helped over 13,500 victims across the country.
Because the crimes and human rights abuses were so widespread during the conflict, until recently, no precise record existed of the number of victims. UNDP gave technical and legal help to the government to document the 1,614 massacres, over 173,000 murders and more than 77,000 cases of forced displacement that occurred during the war. Over 57,000 investigations have now taken place and legal aid has been provided to nearly 10,000 victims.
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There's a new cafe in town.
Twenty/20 Cafe opened through the combined dreams of Michael Hausman, Dr. Ken Farr of Palmetto Eye Specialists and his daughter, Lauren Farr.
Twenty/20 Cafe is located in the SunGate Medical Center near Sun City, where Ken Farr's practice resides.
The cafe's beginning stages included focus groups Ken hosted in Sun City to receive feedback on the type of restaurant residents desired.
The answer was a coffee shop.
But Twenty/20 offers more than coffee. Hausman, 59, had a dream to open up a shop that was similar to Tartine Bakery in San Francisco.
Hausman has lived in Bluffton for eight years. He baked the artisan bread recipe from Tartine for two years before he met Ken Farr.
Lauren Farr, 23, graduated from the College of Charleston with a business entrepreneurship degree and talked with her dad for years about opening a family business.
The three merged their ideas and dreams together to create a relaxed atmosphere that offers coffee, gelato, chocolates, assorted baked goods and more.
"We're working with a lot of local partners to offer the best and who also had a great story," Hausman said. "We wanted to offer the best food, fairly priced. In the first few weeks since opening, we've already established a few regulars who come every day."
Local partners and products include: River Dog Brewing Company, Chocolates and Sweets of Hilton Head, King Bean Coffee of Charleston and Sea Island Local Outlet (SILO).
Hausman said Twenty/20 Cafe will be the pick-up location for SILO south of the Broad River.
"Now it will be easier for Bluffton folks to receive SILO goods, all locally sourced to freshest meats, produce and baked goods right in the cafe," Hausman said.
Though Twenty/20 Cafe held its soft opening earlier this month, it is planning its first art event on Friday.
The three business partners decided to host "Twenty/20 Presents" events once a month to feature local artists, chefs and products.
The artwork of Vickie Jourdan and Terry Hannock will be on display from 6-9 p.m. Friday. Both artists bring bright, abstract images to life.
Lauren Farr said the event will allow for local artists, photographers and others to share their talents in a new type of setting. She's looking forward to seeing what the future holds for the cafe as she works and learns from Hausman.
"Michael has become by business mentor," Lauren said. "I've learned more about what it takes to run a business in the last nine months from him than I did during my college career."
What: Twenty/20 Presents artists Vickie Jourdan and Terry Hannock
When: 6-9 p.m. Friday
Where: 10 William Pope Drive
Details: For more information, go to twenty20cafe.com or call 705-1505.


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Nov. 17, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Behind an Institute-record seven three-pointers, Clara Yuan helped power MIT to a 72-35 victory over Eastern Nazarene College in the opening game of the MIT Women's Basketball Tip Off Tournament on Friday. Stevens Institute of Technology picked up a 61-52 win over Connecticut College to advance to the championship game tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. The Crusaders (0-1) and the Camels (0-1) will square off at 1:00 p.m. in the consolation game.
MIT (1-0) tallied eight unanswered points during the first four minutes before Rebecca Welch put Eastern Nazarene on the board with a trey. It was a close as it would get for the Crusaders as the Engineers outscored them, 32-8, for a 40-11 lead at the intermission.
The Engineers continued to cruise in the second stanza as they extended their advantage to 39 points (56-17) with 13:12 left to play. At the 5:44 mark, Yuan connected on her seventh three-pointer of the night, breaking the MIT record for three-pointers in a career with 63. The sophomore guard, who entered the season with a total of 56 buckets from behind the arc, finished the night with 25 points.
Christa Margossian collected a game-high 21 rebounds and added 17 points on 11-of-13 shooting from the charity stripe. Sharon Prange and Michal Ruchelsman each posted eight boards while Prange contributed 14 points. Kimberly Soo Hoo dished out a game-high nine assists for the Engineers.
Jessica Schoppee paced the Crusaders with 11 points while Rebecca Welch contributed nine points and six steals. Cristina Winchester grabbed a team-high nine caroms as Nicole Culbert totaled eight boards, including six off the offensive glass.
In the night cap, Stevens recorded a 14-3 run that spanned the opening seven minutes. Sparked by a jumper from Laura Coderre, the Camels scored 15 of the next 20 points to narrow the margin to one (19-18) with 5:44 remaining in the half. After trading baskets during the next minute, a free-throw by Dani Dudek helped propel the Ducks to a 30-21 lead at the intermission.
Stevens extended its margin to 10 (35-25) after three minutes had expired in the second stanza. Connecticut slowly chipped away at the deficit, coming within two (40-38) at the 13:34 mark. The Camels stayed within striking distance, but they could not generate another run to overcome the Ducks.
Dora Enright led all scorers with 18 points and 15 rebounds while Dudek finished with 12 points, 11 rebounds, six assists, and three steals. Brittany Fuller contributed 13 points, eight rebounds, and three blocks to Stevens' cause.
Coming off the bench, Coderre tallied 11 rebounds, 10 points, six steals, and three blocks for Connecticut. Kate Kenly recorded 13 points while Katy Serafin totaled 11 rebounds and nine points.