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This is a full time, on-site, salaried Software Security Assurance Architect position located Reston, VA paying $170,000-$200,000 depending on experience + benefits + equity + relo if required. No telecommuting allowed. US Citizens or Green Card holders only please. Local candidates preferred, but client will pay relocation expenses too. Full job/client details shared with qualified applicants.
Do you have a passion for both security and software? Are you able to identify technologies and processes to enhance overall product security? Do you like working in growing, fast-paced environments that get you close to the customer and their problems? Are you a technical leader with good communications skills, a penchant for working in a team, and the ability to convey information to colleagues and customers? Would you like to work with top-notch engineering talent to make a vision into a reality? Look no further, for we may have the job for you!
Our client is looking for motivated, experienced, intelligent candidates to be a part of its Product organization. Be part of an innovative start-up atmosphere, by designing and implementing software security practices for a software product organization. Work with the Chief Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and product engineering organization to establish, enact, and enforce software security standards and practices for products. Work with stakeholders to implement processes, programs, and technology within existing engineering processes to reduce the risk of software security flaws.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
* Develop and implement software security processes inside of product management and product engineering processes.
* Serve as the subject matter expert for compliance of products with desired industry and government standards and certifications, such as FIPS and Common Criteria.
* Identify and implement software security testing tools inside a continuous integration process.
* Establish a product security testing process; use internal and external resources to achieve testing goals.
* Conduct product security testing and source code review on products as needed.
* Evaluate security of third party and open source components.
* Work with Engineering leadership to define secure coding standards and integrate security tests into automated unit and integration testing frameworks.
* Develop and deliver a software security training curriculum in conjunction with the Chief Architect and Director of Engineering.
* Communicate with customers as needed to understand and address their security and compliance requirements.
Required Skills and Experience:
* Software development experience using C or C++, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, or other common languages in use in industry.
* Experience assessing software security via source code and design review as well as penetration testing.
* Strong written and verbal communications skills; ability to communicate security needs and ideas with positive energy.
* Ability to build consensus via individual communication and in group settings.
* Background implementing or using source code review technologies, such as Fortify or Veracode.
* Experience integrating software security tools into continuous integration processes.
* Ability to manage software security process improvement projects in a matrixed environment.
* Ability to produce and deliver training on software security issues to an engineering audience.
* Experience certifying products versus common industry security standards.
Education / Experience:
* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
* 10+ years total professional experience, including:
* 4+ years experience in software engineering.
* 6+ years experience in a software security related role.
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Experience the open road and earn Top Pay while doing it. Shaffer Trucking is currently hiring professional team drivers to join their national fleet. On this fleet, you will be out up to 21 days, earning one day off for every six days out. Starting pay on this fleet is $.55 per mile. The top 50 percent of our fleet will average more than $72,000 per year. If you want more miles, more freight and more money, call us today at 800-669-0322.
- Our average OTR driver will earn $62,000 and the top 25% of our OTR fleet will earn $72,000
- GUARANTEED Detention Pay
- Gold Standard Driver Benefits
- Health, Dental, Life, and 401K
- Profit Sharing Opportunities
- Deposited $7.5 Million in 2016
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- Industry Leading CSA Scores
- Average Equipment age of 2 years
- Dedicated Dispatch 24/7
- Debt Free and Privately owned
- Minimum 22 years old
- Stable & verifiable work history
- Acceptable driving record
- Valid Class A CDL
- Minimum of 4 months OTR experience*
- No alcohol related offenses or positive drug screens in the past five years
About Shaffer
Founded in 1937, Shaffer Trucking has a 75-year history of excellence. Joining the Crete Carrier family in 1974, the two companies, along with Hunt Transportation have become one of the nation's largest, privately owned transportation companies. Shaffer specializes in temperature-sensitive freight, and is a premier carrier for the candy and confectionary industry.
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Now customers at Fifth Third Bancorp can get free tips on finding a job at the bank's website at www.53.com.
The bank along with NextJob, a nationwide reemployment solutions company, created the multi-media Job Seeker's Toolkit to help customers brush up on their job interviewing, networking and resume writing.
"Our relationship with NextJob continues to provide unique benefits for our customers," said Steven Alonso, executive vice president and head of the Consumer Bank, Fifth Third Bancorp.
Fifth Third first offered an homeowner reemployment initiative to help distressed mortgage borrowers find their next career and avoid foreclosure. "Now, this phase II effort enables us to offer a key component of that homeowner reemployment program—the online job search assistance—to a much broader audience, and therefore, help more people gain financial security," Alonso said.
The Job Seeker's Toolkit includes video interviews with job search experts, job seekers and hiring managers and provides learning examples from real-life hiring experiences.
Once registered, Internet banking customers will be able to access the training for 39 weeks. They will be able to work at their own pace to develop or strengthen their job search skills.
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Helmet cam vision shows moment officer struck by car
LATEST: Police are appealing for public assistance after a highway patrol officer was struck by a car at Collingwood Park yesterday.
Initial information suggests that an officer on a motorcycle was travelling on the inbound lanes of the Ipswich Motorway around 7.50am when he noticed a car travelling at excessive speeds.
The officer followed and pulled the vehicle over at the Mine St exit.
As he was pulling up behind the car, it will be alleged that it reversed toward him at speed and he had to take evasive action to avoid being hit.
The vehicle then accelerated forward and collided with the rear of the police motorcycle, causing the officer to be thrown from the bike.
The car then fled the scene and was last seen turning under the Ipswich Rd overpass.
The officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries to his hand and leg.
The vehicle that police are looking for is described as a dark green older model Ford Falcon sedan.
Police are appealing for anyone that may have witnessed the incident and hasn't already contacted them or has a dash cam and was driving in the area at the time to contact them.
Investigations are continuing.
Anyone with information which could assist with this matter should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day.
Police officer may have been deliberately run down
UPDATE: IPSWICH detectives are investigating after a police officer on a motorcycle was allegedly run down by a motorist.
Police say the officer had attempted to intercept a speeding vehicle near Mine St at Redbank about 7.55am, when the driver of the car allegedly reversed at the motorcycle.
The officer took evasive action, but the car then drove forward, striking the motorcycle and injuring the officer.
The alleged offender drove off and is yet to be located.
The officer sustained leg injuries and has been taken to the Mater Hospital.
EARLIER: A POLICE officer has been injured in a traffic crash on the Ipswich Motorway this morning.
The officer was riding a service motorcycle when he was involved in a collision with another vehicle at Redbank, about 7.55am.
Police say the officer has been taken to hospital with leg injuries.
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Kristy A. Keene 4/29/2008 11:29:11 PMOutstanding Portrait, Kelli! #911490
Charles F. DIorio 4/30/2008 4:58:46 AMBeautiful eyes, fantastic one of the best I have seen this month. #5861704
Judi Morrissey 4/30/2008 5:06:26 AMKelli, this is stunning. What a beautiful model. Great comp and lighting, too. I love how the green of her eyes matches the door frame. Excellent job! #5861736
Amy Sansbury 4/30/2008 1:15:12 PMwow! This is stunning. Beautiful subject and lighting!! #5863526
Teresa Norris 5/19/2008 10:18:59 AMWow, Kelli, this is beautiful!!! Congratulations on this wonderful finalist!! #5942680
Teresa Norris 5/19/2008 11:11:09 AMThis is gorgeous, Kelli! Congrats on your finalist! #5943359
Kelli J. j 5/19/2008 11:43:48 AMThank you so much everyone! I am so excited about being a finalist! What an honor!!! #5943706
Kelli J. j 5/19/2008 11:46:42 AMThank you so much everyone! I am so excited about being a finalist! What an honor!!! #5943743
Marie Fields 5/19/2008 12:26:05 PMGorgeous portrait, Kelli! Simply perfect! Congratulations! #5944241
Daniella Puente 5/19/2008 12:46:01 PMJust see this precious portrait, and congrats is an EXCELLENT finalist!!!! #5944510
Jennifer L. Alder 5/19/2008 1:28:01 PMVery gorgeous! Congrats on this wonderful finalist :) #5944954
Bill Knaps 5/19/2008 3:39:43 PMBeautiful Portrait Kelli. Perfect in every way. Congrats on making a well deserved Finalist. Bill #5945885
Sherry S. Boles 5/19/2008 4:27:41 PMVery beautiful, Kelli...Congrats on your win! #5946242
Eugenio Diaz 5/19/2008 4:36:44 PMCongratulations on your Beautiful Winner!
Judi Morrissey 5/19/2008 8:01:53 PMCongrats Kelli. I knew this would go far the first time I saw it! #5947918
Teresa Norris 5/19/2008 8:04:06 PMYay!!! A beautiful winner, Kelli!!! #5947933
Joannie Bertucci 5/19/2008 9:32:32 PMAbsolutely stunning Kelli!
Kelli J. j 5/20/2008 1:26:50 AMWhat an amazing honor! I am glad I finally got the nerve to post photos here after watching the site for SOOOOO long. It is pretty intimidating to see the talented photos month after month. Thank you so much everyone! #5949367
Megan p 5/20/2008 5:07:11 AMThis is beautiful and so pure. CONGRATULATIONS to you! #5950224
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Bill Knaps 5/20/2008 1:22:57 PMAnd a big Congrats on the Big Well Deserved Win Kelli. Bill #5952758
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Amy Sansbury 5/22/2008 7:44:10 AMCongratulations! This is a beautiful portrait. #5962099
Ross Throndson 5/23/2008 8:06:01 AMGorgeous Portrait.....Congratulations on this Lovely Winner!! #5966724
Amanda O. Cannon 5/23/2008 5:29:19 PMBIG CONGRATS to you on your win...This is Beautiful, shes gorgeous and th elighting is PERFECT! #5968650
Mitzie Loland 5/26/2008 3:42:14 AMCongratulations on your beautiful winner - great work Kelli!! #5977818
Michelle L. Frick 6/2/2008 7:11:35 PMCongratulations Kelli! Beautiful portrait with outstanding light, and of course a stunning little model! #6010801
Lisa Kryschuk 6/4/2008 1:38:48 PMCongrats Kelli...indeed worthy of winning. Stunning image! #6019053
Bob Sticco 6/8/2008 6:43:56 AMWow, Kelli. . .This young lady should be your model until she becomes a grandmother....:) What beautiful eyes!!! Great composition!!!! Much deserves finalist!!! #6033126
Dawn M. Schneider 6/10/2008 6:24:42 AMthis is such an amazing and beautiful portrait and little girl. her eyes draw you into the image, stunning. #6042359
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/17/2008 3:51:31 PMCaptivating portrait Kelli, congratulations on your win! #6071713
Philippe Vieux-Jeanton 6/18/2008 4:11:12 PMAbsolutly beautiful.. Congrats Kelli!! #6075765
Kara L. Hendricks 6/20/2008 4:35:38 PMThis is gorgeous Kelli... You do have a wonderful eye and style... Keep posting what you love and success will come to you! #6086994
Sharon Sawyer 6/20/2008 6:32:29 PMCongratulations on a well-deserved winner. Absolutley beautiful, Kelli!!!! #6087411
Dawn M. Schneider 6/20/2008 7:51:30 PMcongrats im very happy for you, well deserved!! #6087699
Dawn M. Schneider 7/8/2008 5:07:38 PMCongrats on this stunning winner! WOW! I saw it on the main page as I was clicking past and immediately had to back up to see it again. The colors and the girl are gorgeous!!! #6156195
Shelly A. Van Camp 10/23/2008 9:37:28 AMShe is so cute! Great capture and congrats on the win! #6646013
My niece and favorite subject is standing in her doorway in the late afternoon sun. Using only available lighting with my Canon. Adjusted levels in Photoshop CS3.
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Coach reminds me of birds, that when you get near their nest, they run around faking a broken wing.
JT & Stephen must have split their vote so Coach would not know who voted for him
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Hawks Field at Haymarket Park
|Hawks Field at Haymarket Park
Since its opneing in 2002, Hawks Field at Haymarket Park has been one of college baseball's best ballparks. Set on 32 acres one-half mile west of campus near downtown, the complex combines private and public entities, giving the University of Nebraska and the City of Lincoln a one-of-a-kind facility for the Huskers and the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Independent League Professional Baseball.
On July 30, 1999, the University of Nebraska, the City of Lincoln and NEBCO Inc., announced plans to construct two new stadiums, an 8,500-seat ballpark for the Husker baseball program and the Saltdogs – marking professional baseball's return to the Star City for the first time in 40 years – and a 2,500-seat softball stadium located next door.
Building a complex for the Huskers, as well as the Saltdogs, whose season runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day, required leadership and a forward-thinking vision from all three entities. The $29.53 million cost was primarily divided between the city, NEBCO and the University with additional sources contributing for the rest of the project.
In March of 2000, Howard and Myrna Hawks guaranteed UNL's commitment to the baseball/softball project, enabling the University to move forward on the complex on schedule. An avid supporter of the Husker baseball program, Myrna Hawks never had the opportunity to see the finished product, as she passed away on Jan. 24, 2001. In her honor, the playing surface was named Hawks Field in February of 2002 and was formally dedicated on April 28, 2002, before a doubleheader against Kansas.
"She was a baseball fanatic," Howard Hawks said of his wife of 45 years. "She went to baseball games before we were married, but I know that after we were married, she never went to a game where she didn't keep score.
"She felt you didn't really know what had happened if you didn't know how this guy hit last time, and how they pitched to him, so she kept track of all those things."
The DLR Group was hired to be the principal designer of the ballparks, as well as the plaza between the two fields, and to create a design unique for Lincoln. Early on, one of the goals of the project was to enhance the experience for the fans who attend games at the new park. According to the DLR Group, the intimate atmosphere at Haymarket Park was intentional.
"One of the primary concepts driving this whole facility was to create a 'park within a park,' which meant the fans would be able to view the action from anywhere in the park," says Pat Phelan, principal project manager at the DLR Group in Omaha.
"There's an open concourse, so when fans are waiting in line for concessions or restrooms, they can still see the field from there. There's also a bermed seating area around the outside of the park, so you can literally walk around the perimeter of the diamond while viewing the action, but you're still within the confines of the stadium."
In the months leading up to the start of construction in April of 2000, former Nebraska Baseball Coach Dave Van Horn and Saltdogs President Charlie Meyer toured many of the top minor league facilities in the country, looking for ideas that could be implemented in the new ballpark.
The influences of parks such as the Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Victory Field in Indianapolis and Franklin Covey Field in Salt Lake City, are evident throughout the structure. The exterior is a red-brick facade, while the spacious concourse level is highlighted by exposed ironwork. The playing surface is nestled in a bowl, allowing berm seating along both lines and throughout the outfield and a raised batter's eye consisting of pine trees in center field. The features make Haymarket Park a first-class facility. The ballpark's setting also allowed the designers to use Memorial Stadium and downtown Lincoln to provide a picturesque backdrop in the outfield. There is also a pedestrian connector that allows fans to make the walk from downtown Lincoln to the center field entrance of Haymarket Park.
The park features many fan-friendly amenities, including 4,419 chair-back seats on two levels in the main seating bowl, 16 suites, a towering video board/scoreboard in right center field, the Buck Beltzer Playground for kids down the right field line and numerous restrooms and concession stands. In 2009, the facility added seating in right field, as the Husker Home Run Terrace bringing more fans closer to the action.
Hawks Field at Haymarket Park was selected as the best playing surface in each of its nine years of existence. In November of 2007, Hawks Field received another honor, as it won the Baseball Field of the Year Award in the College/University division by the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) for the second time. The field earned its first honor in 2003 and is the only college park in the country to be a two-time winner.
In the fall of 2008, the field was completely resurfaced while the underground drainage system was improved, making the field more playable during the early spring months.
The ballpark is more than a playing field for the Huskers. It includes medical and laundry facilities, coaches' offices and a 1,400 square foot locker room and adjacent clubhouse, giving the Husker program one of the best baseball setups in the country. The clubhouse was completely renovated in January of 2010, with a new entryway, remodeled player lockers, new locker chairs, electronic reclining theater seating, a team dining area, two 25-inch touch-screen monitors, a new video messaging system and a gaming area.
The Huskers have enjoyed their new home, posting a 229-77-1 record at Hawks Field over the past 10 years, including a school-record 33-4 mark in 2005 and a 29-5-1 mark in 2008.
Fans have also turned out in record numbers, as Nebraska has ranked among the nation's top 20 schools in average attendance in nine of the past 10 years. In 2006, Nebraska set a single-season attendance record by averaging 5,092 fans per game. NU also established a single-game record with a crowd of 8,757 against Texas A&M on April 14, 2006.
Project Timeline
July 30, 1999 - Nebco Inc., Lincoln Mayor Don Wesley and UNL officials announce plans for a baseball/softball complex located near Sixth and Charleston steets.
August 10, 1999 - Lincoln City Council approves the stadium project.
April 1, 2000 - The University of Nebraska Regents unanimously approve UNL's funding portion for Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
April 12, 2000 - Ground is broken on Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
April 20, 2001 - Sod is laid down inside the baseball park for the first time.
June 1, 2001 - The Lincoln Saltdogs defeat Sioux City, 7-6, in front of a capacity crowd of 6,827 in the first game at Haymarket Park.
Aug. 10, 2001 - The Husker baseball program moves their offices to Haymarket Park.
March 5, 2002 - The NU baseball team makes its Hawks Field debut against Nebraska-Kearney, a 23-1 Husker victory.
April 28, 2002 - Dedications ceremonies were held prior to the start of Nebraska's doubleheader against Kansas
May 26, 2002 - The pedestrian walkway from downtown Lincoln to Haymarket Park is completed, giving fans easy access from the historic Haymarket District.


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Downtown Baltimore gained 10,000 jobs in 2012 — after losing the same number of jobs in 2011, according to the annual State of Downtown report to be released Thursday by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc.
"At the very least, this is a correction," said Kirby Fowler, the organization's president, who was skeptical of the loss reported in 2011. The same firm, Nielsen Co. LLC, calculated both this year's and last year's job numbers for the Downtown Partnership.
There are 113,100 workers within a one-mile radius of the intersection of Pratt and Light streets, according to the report. Baltimore "held its rank as the 15th-largest employment center among the top 25 largest U.S. metro areas," the report said.
The numbers do not reflect estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor, which determined that the entire city gained about 5,000 jobs last year.
The federal government uses a payroll survey to arrive at its estimates. Nielsen's data is largely derived from its proprietary database of businesses. Nielsen contacts the businesses in its database by phone and asks for employment numbers.
Despite downtown's apparent job growth, the office vacancy rate held steady at about 18 percent, the Downtown Partnership said. Companies are using less space per employee than they used to, Fowler said.
As more downtown commercial buildings are converted to residential use, the office vacancy rate should drop significantly, he said.
The population of the downtown area, including Harbor East, Federal Hill and much of Mount Vernon, remains unchanged from 2011 at about 40,000 people, the report said. Downtown apartment occupancy remains strong at more than 96 percent.
For Fowler, the story of Baltimore's downtown in 2012 was its advancement as a cultural destination.
The Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District was created last year, Everyman Theatre moved downtown and the Redwood Trust building was purchased by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Co. for its future home.


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The project I am currently doing is WooCommerce website and I am right now almost done with the development of the website. I am requesting Wordpress developer to finalise along with me the website to maintain the following points:
* CSS and Banners
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* Seach Box is already exist but needs to make it bigger and wider.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Ballincollig Dental
Going to the dentist can be scary so we need a relaxing and professional web design that gains our future client's trust.
We are looking to appeal to a wide audience. It will be mainly adults (male and female) in the age range 25 - 50
Going to the dentist can be scary so we need a relaxing and professional web design that gains our future client's trust.
We are a dental practice based in Ireland and we are looking to the Internet to source new business.
We want a very clean design (avoid clutter). There must be a strong call to action on the website. Our main point of contact is the phone, so the design must be focused on getting people to ring our dental practice.
We have provided a logo that we use. We would like to continue using this logo.
The colour schemes to use should relate to the logo.
You can use stock photos for this if you wish
We need 2 pages for this project.
There will be a homepage and a content page. The homepage will need to have a well constructed footer. The footer must allow us to list the dental services we provide, and contact details
The content page will be more text oriented. It can be similar to the homepage (same header and footer). The page that needs to be designed will be a service page. It will contain text and a photo related to that service. We don't expect the design of this page to take long.
http://www.guineydental.ie/ - we do not like this site. It is too old, conventional and stale looking. We need something that is more fresh and clean call to action focused.


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YOU'VE seen them in supermarkets and elsewhere: whole peeled cloves of garlic, packed in jars or plastic foam trays. Like me, you probably figured their flavor was half gone by the time they were packed.
This summer I saw a package that appeared better. The cloves looked plump and fresh. Or maybe I was just willing to gamble a few dollars. I took the plunge, and the impact on my cooking was immediate, and promises to be permanent.
The cloves had good flavor, a lot better than the dried-up or sprouted peel-your-own ones I'm often forced to use. Cooked, I couldn't tell the difference. Your palate may be better than mine, but no one I fed them to could tell the difference.
Garlic addiction is not a universal trait, but virtually all the cuisines I love are garlic-dependent, from French and Italian to Chinese, Indian and Thai. Recipes calling for a clove or even a teaspoon of garlic barely give me a fix; more often it's the impact of a tablespoon that I'm after or -- even better -- a handful of cloves. And that's when the process of peeling becomes an issue.
Peeled garlic has been around for about 20 years. The country's biggest supplier is Christopher Ranch, in Gilroy, Calif., southeast of San Francisco. (Gilroy is the home of an annual garlic festival, but it turns out that most of the garlic -- like everything else -- is actually grown in the Central Valley. Gilroy is the processing center, and the town has acquired a powerful, distinctive smell.)Continue reading the main story
How, I asked Christopher Ranch's vice president of marketing, Patsy Ross, does one peel 70 million pounds of garlic a year? "Everyone in our industry was trying different ways to do this," Ms. Ross said, "using the equipment designed for peeling onions to soaking the cloves in chemicals. It's like peeling an apple; it must be done precisely or the clove will break down very quickly."
As with so many discoveries, this one came accidentally. A worker was cleaning a warehouse with an air hose, saw a coffee can with garlic in it, and sprayed some of the compressed air into the can. "The peels came flying right off," Ms. Ross said. So now high-pressure air is blown onto cloves in stainless steel buckets. That's it; there are no preservatives, and the garlic is packed in ordinary jars.
At that point the key to maintaining quality is temperature. Ms. Ross claims a shelf life of six to eight weeks -- depending on the time of year and the variety of garlic -- if the cloves are kept under constant refrigeration. Because the garlic must travel from Gilroy to its destination by truck and is loaded and unloaded at least once -- and more likely two or three times -- the danger of it sitting unrefrigerated (especially on the East Coast, 2,500 miles from its source) is real. If the garlic is abused, it will start to brown and become a bit slimy; if you see this, you shouldn't buy it.
Of the four places I've bought peeled garlic, three seem reliable. One is Chinatown; someone always has it, usually for a dollar a pound or so, on plastic foam trays. Another is Fairway, where it's sold in the jars packed by Christopher Ranch. A third is Costco, where it's sold in small and large jars, and in three-pound packs (restaurants buy these, and don't think for a minute that they haven't caught onto this enormous time-saver). The fourth, and least dependable, source is my standby Connecticut supermarket, where probably no one but me considers buying the stuff; it's usually pretty sad looking.
But find a good bottle of peeled garlic and you will start using it by the handful. For me it has changed garlic from a seasoning, an aromatic, to a root vegetable, easier to use than onions or potatoes. (And there are the health benefits of garlic, too.) I have become even more addicted than ever to the flavor. I'll chop a clove or two to throw into dishes where I previously wouldn't bother, just because I can. But it's using 20, 30, 50 whole cloves at a time that has really made a difference.
If you assume that whole cloves of garlic are harsh tasting, reassess. Make the garlic braised in oil here, and count yourself as a garlic hater if it doesn't make you faint with pleasure. This is roasted garlic without the nuisance of peeling, grilling or squeezing out the beautiful, buttery mass inside. This is a spread, an ingredient in dips, the basis for dozens of sauces (like the pasta recipe here), a garnish. This is heaven.
Then go make yourself the classic French dish, popularized by Richard Olney, James Beard and the other great cookbook writers of their generation, usually called chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, a delicious braise that used to take at least a quarter of an hour of careful peeling. Or try my twist on that theme, the chicken, garlic and soy stew.
At that point, my guess is you'll either think I've lost my grip, or you'll be like me, with a jar of peeled garlic permanently established in the fridge, right next to the capers, and reached for about 50 times as often.
Garlic Braised in Olive Oil Time: 30 to 45 minutes
1/2 cup good extra virgin olive oil 40 or more cloves peeled garlic Salt.
1. Put oil in small skillet over medium-low heat; a minute later add garlic. Sprinkle with salt. Adjust heat so garlic just sizzles.
2. Cook, occasionally turning garlic so it browns evenly, until it gradually becomes golden, then begins to brown. The garlic is done when perfectly tender. Store, refrigerated, in the oil, and use within a few days.
Yield: 40 or more cloves garlic.
Pasta With Fresh Tomatoes, Braised Garlic and Basil Time: 30 minutes
Salt 4 medium tomatoes, cored and roughly chopped, with their juice 1 cup washed, dried and shredded basil 30 to 40 cloves braised garlic, more or less, with about 4 tablespoons of their oil (see recipe) Freshly ground black pepper 1 pound long pasta, like spaghetti, linguine or fettuccine.
1. Bring large pot of water to a boil and salt it. Run large serving bowl under steaming hot water to warm it. Dry bowl and combine in it the tomatoes, 3/4 of the basil, 3/4 of the garlic and all its oil, a liberal grinding of pepper and a large pinch of salt. Mash a little bit with a potato masher or wooden spoon, just to let tomatoes release their liquid. 2. When ready to serve, cook pasta until it is tender but not mushy. Drain it, but leave it moist. Toss it in bowl with the tomato mixture, then garnish with remaining basil and garlic. Serve immediately.
Yield: 3 to 6 servings.
Chicken, Garlic and Soy Stew Time: about 1 hour
3 tablespoons neutral oil, like corn or grapeseed 8 chicken thighs, skin-on Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup minced Chinese ham or sausage, prosciutto or bacon, optional At least 40 cloves peeled garlic 1/2 cup dry white wine or water 1/4 cup sugar 4 star anise 1 stick cinnamon 5 nickel-thick slices ginger 1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns 1/3 cup soy sauce Chopped fresh cilantro leaves for garnish.
1. Put oil in large well-seasoned or nonstick skillet that can later be covered and is large enough to accommodate chicken in one layer. Turn heat to medium-high and a minute later add chicken, skin-side down. Cook, adjusting heat so chicken browns on one side without burning. Turn and cook another minute or 2. Remove chicken to plate and pour off all but about 3 tablespoons fat. 2. Return pan to medium heat and add meat, if using it, with garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally, until garlic is nicely browned,adjusting heat so it does not burn. Add wine or water and cook, scraping bottom of pan with a wooden spoon to release any browned bits, meanwhile adding sugar and spices. When sugar dissolves, add soy sauce and about 1 cup water. 3. Return chicken to pan, skin side down, and adjust heat so mixture simmers gently; cover and cook about 15 minutes. Turn chicken; if mixture is very watery, raise heat and leave cover off. If less than 1/2 inch of liquid remains, leave cover on. Cook for another 10 minutes. 4. When chicken is done (it will be tender and no blood will be visible when you cut into it), uncover and raise heat; cook until sauce is thickened slightly. Remove the chicken to a deep platter. Remove cinnamon stick and star anise from the sauce, then spoon or pour sauce over chicken. Garnish with cilantro and serve with white rice.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I've missed blogging...
I quit writing at "nothing of importance" for a multitude of reasons. Second-guessing that decision now is pointless. I'm not sure why things went haywire after that though. I started new blogs, hoping to make some sort of better new home for myself. One of those situations where you're desperately searching for what's right in front of you.
So here we go again...yep, I'm back, still with nothing of importance to say. :) And this time around, I've made a few promises to myself:
*I can talk about whatever the hell I want to talk about.
*Said another way, I not going to try to make myself fit into any neat category.
*I do not have to make my way through my reader before I'm allowed to post myself.
*And similarly, I am not going to feel guilty when the dreaded "mark all as read" button needs to be used. There will be times in life, such as now, when that happens more frequently than I'd like...but I must learn to deal with it.
*This is it--no starting any new blogs. If I can't make this work for me, then I just need to stop trying.
Home sweet home...I hope this is it.
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- Jean said...
Welcome home. I have missed you and worried about your silence. I don't really care what you write about; I just want to know that you're doing it since it--the writing--is one of the things that makes Debi Debi. It is good to have you back.
- January 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Debi said...
Okay, you just said about half a dozen things to make me feel good in that one comment. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! And I've really been missing you, too!
- January 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- Care said...
I AM THROWING YOU A PARTY!!!! This fills my heartbwith joy because I have missed you. and it GREAT that you tried a variety of other stuff. To quote all those platitudes that make sensible people groan, "You fail forward to success.". Not that those other blogs are failing but that you EXPERIMENTED and explored and that is awesome. back to being sensible. You and I are not sensible people! Creative, sensitive, questioning, daring and doubting perhaps.... JOYFUL! Embrace yourself and have some fun. whenever I get too critical thinking my blog is silly and unprofessional and I don't think my words make any sense, I just remember I do this for me and that is usually when I get the most back in wonderment and friendshihp. i have so missed you!!! :)
- January 26, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- Care said...
I almost joined tumblr cuz of you but I already have too many directions to spin. :)
- January 26, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Carl V. said...
A couple months! You've been away for years!!! Or at least it feels like it. I have missed, missed, missed, missed you. Don't put outside pressure on yourself to blog 'regularly', but also please let us know how you and the family are doing once in a while. Did I mention I missed you?
BTW, I left a link in my response to your comment on the Apex review. It is a fun story from last month's Apex that I think you might enjoy.
- January 26, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- Nymeth said...
This makes me happier than you can imagine :D And I love those guidelines! I'm still coming around to NOT feeling like I have to make the rounds before being "allowed" to post myself.
- January 26, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- Chris said...
Yay Debi :D Oh I'm so very excited about this blog :D I can't tell you how much I enjoy reading your blog posts...honestly, I just can't express to you enough how much they bring smiles to my face!!! And I love your goals for this blog so much :) They're perfect!!
- January 26, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Debi said...
In case you couldn't have guessed, you totally made me cry. :) And sheesh, woman, how the hell did you get so wise anyway?!!
Okay, did you all just get together and decide to try to make me cry...'cause you all certainly succeeded! But I swear I am going to try to take those words to heart.
And I can't wait to go check out the link! I also can't wait to go pull The Starry Rift off the shelf and read some stories for the Sci-Fi Experience, of which I've experienced none so far. :( But Rich has! Too bad I can't seem to get him to blog about it.
It makes me pretty darn happy, too...and I really feel like I have you to thank for it all! But then you're always doing things to make me happy, aren't you? :D And yeah, I think those guidelines were a necessity--why is it we feel the need to put so much pressure on ourselves anyway?!!
Awww...thank you. I feel like you just gave me a big old hug! And I loved it!!!
- January 27, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Amanda said...
Just saw this for the first time - Welcome back! :)
- January 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Debi said...
Thank you, Amanda! It's good to be back. :D
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ST. LOUIS — The plan worked to perfection, through the first round of the playoffs. Then the plan was fractured.
The eighth rib of Hanley Ramirez was fractured. So, too, was the Dodgers' season.
As it turned out, the National League Championship Series did not turn on the fortunes of Yasiel Puig, Clayton Kershaw or Mickey Mouse. The series turned on the ninth pitch of the first game, the fastball that broke a rib.
That was the last the Dodgers saw of Ramirez as an effective player this season. The breathless daily updates about whether he would play obscured the fact that he could neither hit nor field with authority, let alone reclaim his status as the straw that stirred the Dodgers' drink.
"The most important pitch of the series was the one that hit Hanley," Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti said. "Ten minutes into the series, the dynamic changed dramatically."
So dramatically, in fact, that Dodgers fans floated the name of Joe Kelly as the NLCS most valuable player. Michael Wacha won the award — and deservedly so — but Kelly was the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who took out Ramirez in the first inning of the first game.
"That's funny," Kelly said. "Not me. Obviously, it was Wacha."
The Dodgers are inclined to take Kelly at his word, that he did not intend to hit the fragile Ramirez.
"It just slipped out of the hand," Kelly said. "I don't know if it changed the series or not. I guess it was a factor. I'm not sure."
The Dodgers resuscitated themselves in June, when Ramirez came off the disabled list for the second time this season — broken thumb first, strained hamstring later — and called up Puig. Ramirez had another hamstring issue late in the season, and an irritated nerve in his back too.
Still, he hit .345 with 20 home runs in 86 games — that is, basically half a season. So the Dodgers put him in bubble wrap in the final weeks of the season. In the 19 days preceding the first round of the playoffs, he had 20 at-bats.
In the NL division series, Ramirez batted .500 in 16 at-bats, with six extra-base hits and two strikeouts.
In the NLCS, he batted .133 in 15 at-bats, with no extra-base hits and five strikeouts.
"This guy was the most dangerous hitter in the National League," Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis said. "You saw what he did in the first round of the playoffs.
"Could he have changed something? Possibly. At the end of the day, the Cardinals beat us because we didn't score runs."
The Dodgers looked up at a 9-0 score Friday, and they could not blame the end of their season on one guy. Even Superman cannot hit a nine-run home run.
Puig batted .227. Andre Ethier batted .150, Juan Uribe .130, Mark Ellis .240.
Ramirez and his .133 average fit right in.
"It's not like we were hitting up and down the lineup," Dodgers utility man Skip Schumaker said. He wasn't the only one who wasn't hitting."
Mark Ellis wasn't quite sure how much to blame the loss of the series on the loss of Ramirez. He noted the Cardinals played the entire series without All-Star first baseman Allen Craig, but he was not shy about saying what a healthy Ramirez could do.
"Hanley is an incredible player, very dynamic," Mark Ellis said. "He can change a game with one swing of the bat."
Maybe he would have, maybe not. But he never got the chance.
On the last day of the season, Ramirez was out of the original lineup, then talked his way in. He did not get a hit. He declined to speak with reporters after the game, lingering in a room across the hallway from the clubhouse.
His teammates showered, dressed and left the ballpark. He sat there, in that room.
There was nothing he could do to help the Dodgers. That, as it turned out, was the story of the series.
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When we combined three small-town newspapers into one big county paper, there were a lot of adjustments readers had to make. Sure, there was some initial resistance to the idea, but for the most part, people around the county enjoy the extended coverage. People in Augusta and El Dorado had to make some adjustments, sure, but thankfully they stuck with it and saw how much better a product the paper is.
The staff has had to make adjustments of its own, including me.
No longer was I to think just in terms of how sports affect Augusta. Now, I am concerning myself with at least up to 10 area high schools and a handful of college stuff, too.
Having said that, Augusta is still my No. 1 priority (just as El Dorado will be our new sports reporter Garrick's responsibility). Hopefully Augusta readers still felt that way this year as they adjusted to me covering more than just the Orioles. But I rarely, if ever, covered another team when the Orioles were playing; the only time is when Augusta plays in a town with another one of our papers (i.e. Wellington).
I still kept up with area schools as much as possible. I made it to plenty of Douglass, Andover and Circle games, among other schools. That gave me the opportunity to see their athletes in action, as well. But Augusta athletes are the ones I know most. They're the ones I cover the most, they're the ones who I talk with after games the most. I don't get many chances to do so with athletes at other schools.
I say all this in preface to my Awards Week, a special section I dedicate to all of the highlights that Augusta sports produced the past year. I, of course, feel qualified to do so because I'm at all the games. I do not feel so qualified to give out awards with the same weight and merit for the other area schools, but that won't keep me from giving as much recognition as I can separately.
But this Awards Week, which Augusta readers will recognize the most, mostly will be dedicated to just Augusta. Again, I know I am the sports editor of a county paper and should not favor one school more than the others, so don't think that I'm doing that. With Augusta as my main "beat" and priority, though, this is the way it should stay, at least for one more year.
As far as the way the awards will go, I'm shaking them up a bit. With the changes to the paper, I haven't really had opportunities to write my "Looking back" columns on each team after the season was done, so the first awards section will be a ranking, of sorts, of the top MVPs from each season (not from every sport, necessarily). As always, when reading my Awards Week stories, please keep in mind that they all are the opinion of just one person, and I rank, recap and highlight everything unbiasedly.
Today, we'll look at the top five Augusta teams. There will be a Top area teams list Thursday. Other awards the remainder of the week include freshman of the year (boys and girls), best wins, worst losses, top seniors, top area athletes and top Augusta athlete of the year.
Thanks for reading.
5) Tie-Cross country boys, boys golf
Team-wise, the Orioles didn't really score a lot of points during the cross country season, but the Orioles had a strong 1-2 punch and a handful of runners who had their moments throughout the season. The boys golf team also had some really high highs, including a state placer and several golfers who could lead the team on any given day. The golf team returns nearly its entire squad for next year's campaign, so it should be a great season.
4) Boys track
The Orioles had a strong core group of athletes who were consistent, multi-faceted and had plenty of talent. The Orioles had a few strong competitors in the field, several good runners, and a successful 4x100-m relay team. All in all, the Orioles were 3-for-4 in earning medals at the state track meet last week.
3) Wrestling
There's a reason this program is among the top teams every year. Just when the Orioles lost a huge crop of seniors from a record-setting year, this season's squad not only replaced that group well, but did even better. The Orioles qualified a "Dirty Dozen" for the state tournament on way to capturing the team's first-ever regional championship. Two Orioles won medals at State, and they dominated the All-League list.
2) Boys basketball
The Orioles' bitter end in a wacky sub-state tournament in no way reflected the incredible season Augusta had. The Orioles were one of the best scoring teams around and played like a unit extremely effectively.
1) Softball
For the second straight season, the softball team was the best thing Augusta High School had going. While the excitement of an undefeated season was gone after one game, the Orioles were able to finish what they started last year and, this time, win the Class 4A-Div. I state championship game. The Orioles' run through State - which included 9-1, 9-1 and 11-5 victories - showed how dominant they were. The scary thing? The Orioles return a large core group of players that very well could defend their state title.


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Under the rule of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who came to power in 1932, Jews in Austria enjoyed relative freedom and equality. For that reason, Doriane's Polish-born parents settled in Vienna, where her father ran a thriving branch of the family's multinational optical frames business.
1933-39: I was born in Vienna just two years before the Germans annexed Austria in 1938. Our family fled to the Netherlands soon after the annexation. Unlike many Austrian Jews, we went south to Maastricht on the Belgian border; Maastricht was the site of the Dutch branch of the Kurz Brothers' optical frames business. There, I attended nursery school.
1940-45: In 1940 we moved to Amsterdam, but the city soon fell under German occupation. With my father already in Auschwitz, my mother, brother Freddie and I ended up in Bergen-Belsen in 1944. Freddie and I would remain in the barracks when the adults were marched to work. We started the day by watching the carts, drawn by inmates, that came every morning to collect the dead bodies. The rest of the day we spent speaking about food, slicing our bread rations so they could last longer, and picking the lice out of our hair.
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Oliver's nursery came to me while driving by a garage sale and seeing the largest, ugliest yet coolest lamp I had ever seen with a Mama Owl and Baby Owl. That $5 purchase grew into what Oliver now calls home.
While it wasn't easy to find baby boy nursery items in the color palette of grey, orange, and blue, we really love how it all came together. Living in a home built in the 1920s, we wanted to honor the character of the room, and instead of hiding or masking the character, slants, and nooks, we embraced them! We couldn't be happier with the result!
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It's finally here. Today is officially moving day and I'm already tired. I've been at the house every night this week cleaning so we won't have to do much after we bring in the furniture.
Here are a few pictures of the new place:
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Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday January 9, 2012 as she talks with guest John Kane, Mohawk, host of "Let's Talk Native...with John Kane" which airs on WWKB 1520AM in Buffalo, New York and WQRS FM98.3 in Salamanca, New York. He takes pride in tackling the tough issues that face Native people and refuses to participate in speeches that dumb down Native culture and beliefs. John also writes the Native Pride blog which can be found at www.letstalknativepride.blogspot.com. His radio shows and appearances are posted on the blog as well as in articles, quotes and links. John also has a page on the WWKB website at www.kb1520.com and "Let's Talk Native with John Kane" group page on facebook.
John Karhiio Kane is a Mohawk from Kahnawake. His wife of 30 years is Oneida and they have three Oneida children, all of whom are married with children of their own (6 grandchildren in all). He lives On the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation and has a direct connection to the people and territories of the Six Nations. John has been involved in Native issues and specifically defending Native sovereignty most of his adult life. He was part of the First Nations Dialogue Team in the late 90's and worked extensively with the League of First Nations in battles with New York State over taxation.
He has been a frequent guest and guest host on First Voices Indigenous Radio which broadcasts from WBAI in New York City and a guest on The Nightwolf Show on WPFW in Washington D.C.. John is now 2 years into his own radio show, "Let's Talk Native...with John Kane" which airs on WWKB 1520AM in Buffalo, New York and WQRS FM98.3 in Salamanca, New York. His voice on Native issues has brought invitations to appear on The Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter, a public radio program that airs from NY's Capitol in Albany and airs in 20 markets throughout the state. Ms. Arbetter has featured John on her television news segments (The Capitol Report) that air during local news throughout the state as well. John is a frequent guest on WGRZ Buffalo Channel 2's 2 Sides with Kristy Mazurek; called on as a voice on Native issues. John and "Let's Talk Native..." have been featured in Buffalo Spree Magazine and the ARTVOICE and have been mentioned in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. John participated in the UN's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples program on August 9, 2012, in a program titled, "Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices".
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Yes, It Would Be Prohibitively Costly For Google To Offer Google Fiber Everywhere, But It Shouldn't Have To
from the think-outside-the-box dept
Building out the infrastructure will be expensive. In his September 17 report Still Bullish on Cable, although not blind to the risks, Goldman Sachs Telco analyst Jason Armstrong noted that if Google devoted 25% of its $4.5bn annual capex to this project, it could equip 830K homes per year, or 0.7% of US households. As such, even a 50mn household build out, which would represent less than half of all US homes, could cost as much as $70bn. We note that Jason Armstrong estimates Verizon has spent roughly $15bn to date building out its FiOS fiber network covering an area of approximately 17mn homes.Of course, even if we accept this number to be true -- even though that seems unlikely to be the case -- it seems to miss the point. Google has been pretty clear all along that the goal of the Google Fiber project was not to turn Google into a national broadband competitor, but to drive others to really up their game by showing what's possible: super cheap, super fast broadband with friendly customer service.
And, while Google shied away from its initial promise to have its network open for other services to compete, it still seems like that might be a better way to offer such a broadband. That is, rather than dumping the expense entirely on one company, imagine if it were split up among a bunch of companies (or even individuals), with a promise of openness and competition at the service level, rather than at the infrastructure level. In effect, this is what is happening down in Australia, via government fiat, in which it's building out a national fiber network, with plans to have it open for competition at the service level. That way, the costs of the infrastructure are spread out, but it opens up massive new opportunities for service providers if they provide good service.
The problem -- and the reason such a thing is unlikely to move forward -- is, once again, this insistence by companies that there's more value in owning the pipe entirely, and keeping it locked up and scarce, even if it means less overall efficiency and less overall opportunity. A long term view would recognize that investing in the best network possible, but sharing those costs, and then letting the real competition happen at the service level, would benefit everyone. Instead, we end up with fighting over slow, limited and fragmented networks. It's too bad.


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26 Years Ago: Gary Moore Closes a Chapter with 'After the War'
Gary Moore's remarkable career was as long as it was eventful and unpredictable.
With the arguable exception of Jeff Beck, no other guitar legend experimented with a greater variety of musical styles as successfully, radically shifting creative gears every few years, from blues to jazz to fusion to pop to metal and, of course, rock — often without the slightest warning.
And yet, reinvention was not on the agenda when the tellingly named 'After the War' arrived on record store shelves on Jan. 25, 1989, boasting much of the same, Celtic-influenced hard rock and '80s metal as its 1987 predecessor, 'Wild Frontier.' About the only major surprise on hand was a guest cameo from Ozzy Osbourne, who helped Moore make a case against late-'80s Led Zeppelin-wannabes like Kingdom Come and Badlands with the cheeky, violin-adorned 'Led Clones.'
Beyond that, 'After the War' offered predictable samples of the commercial, synthesizer-spiked heavy metal (see 'Think for Yourself,' 'Running from the Storm'), the likes of which Moore had already perfected way back in '85, on 'Run for Cover'; plus a few moody instrumentals ('Dunluce,' 'The Messiah Will Come Again'), the aforementioned Celtic rockers in 'Blood of Emeralds' (his grandest tribute to fallen Thin Lizzy comrade Philip Lynott) and the title track, which addressed the continuing hostilities in his native Northern Ireland.
Admittedly, somewhere in between surprise and familiarity there were also a pair of unexpectedly well-realized, downright infectious pop rockers in the wistful 'Livin' on Dreams' and bouncy 'Ready for Love,' but these ultimately turned off as many fans — perhaps more — as they won over.
At the end of the day, 'After the War' suggested that Moore simply didn't know precisely what to do with his talents at that particular point in time — hence the willful, almost haphazard recycling of musical styles already beaten to death with better results on earlier efforts, and the subliminal question that seemed to scream behind every vocal and guitar lick, demanding: "Where to next?"
The answer, of course, arrived in resounding form a year later, when Gary Moore shocked everyone (once again) by digging deep into his earliest musical roots and re-emerging as a born-again bluesman via 1990's 'Still Got the Blues.' Once again, Moore proved that his only true enemy was stagnation, and that embracing the most basic, fundamental, yet infinitely nuanced of musical forms — the blues — was exactly what was needed to give his career a new lease on life, all the way unto his untimely death, in 2011.


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Super Bowl Snack: Snickers Popcorn Recipe
If you love Snickers, then this popcorn is for you! It's loaded with gooey goodness!
15 minPrep Time
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- 4 quarts popped corn (about 1 cup kernels)
- 1 cup salted butter
- 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 30 fun size Snickers bars chopped up
- 3 oz melted choc chips
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Pop your popcorn and put popcorn and peanuts in a big brown paper grocery bag.
- Over medium heat boil butter, brown sugar, salt and corn syrup for 5 minutes (stirring constantly). Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Pour over popcorn in the brown paper bag, roll closed and shake well. It blends so much easier than trying to fit it in a big bowl and stir. After the popcorn is coated well, spread onto a cookie sheet. Spread chopped Snickers over top of popcorn and put in oven for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and drizzle melted chocolate over top of popcorn. YUM!
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Florida is facing a fiscal crisis. There's talk of slashing everything from public safety to help for the disabled.
So what burning issue are some of our legislators pushing?
Gifts for themselves!
Specifically, they want more freebies.
Florida is facing a fiscal crisis. There's talk of slashing everything from public safety to help for the disabled.
So what burning issue are some of our legislators pushing?
Gifts for themselves!
Specifically, they want more freebies.
After all, what's the point in being a "public servant" if you can't get free steak dinners and open bar tabs?
But fear not, hungry, thirsty and gift-deprived lawmakers. Here comes Senate Bill 1322 to the rescue.
Filed by Tampa Bay area Republican Dennis Jones, this bill would take Florida back to the good ol' days when Tallahassee politicians could suck up gifts of up to $100 from lobbyists or anyone else without seeking permission.
Apparently shame is no longer just an endangered emotion in Tallahassee; it's officially extinct.
Jones and his fellow legislators know they can't make a straight-faced argument about how they all deserve free rib-eyes.
So the heaping helping of hogwash they've come up with is to argue that they can't meet with well-meaning citizens groups at apple-pie festivals and hot-dog roasts when they're prohibited from accepting free meals.
Jones went so far as to describe the gift ban to the St. Petersburg Times as "the most destructive thing to interacting with our constituents."
Perhaps someone should give Senator Jones the gift of a lobotomy. Or at least a reality check.
Because this is very simple: Politicians are free to meet, greet, listen and speak with every single person on God's great green earth — as long as they don't take something from them.
And if you're incapable of meeting with people without accepting things from them, please give Florida residents and taxpayers a gift — your resignation.
For more on this one — including the argument for why problems with gifts pale in comparison to cash donations — check out the video version of the Malarkey Meter at OrlandoSentinel.com/takingnames.
Rail ranting
You may have heard that some state senators recently defied Gov. Rick Scott, telling federal transportation officials they still supported high-speed rail.
Wondering where your senator stood?
Well, among those still promoting rail were Republicans Thad Altman, Andy Gardiner and David Simmons and Democrat Gary Siplin.
Those not signing the letter and/or outwardly campaigning against high-speed rail include Republicans Alan Hays, Evelyn Lynn and Senate President Mike Haridopolos.
Now for the fun part:
Both Lynn and Haridopolos now oppose high-speed rail (or at least refused to sign the letter of support), even though they voted in favor of the rail package back in 2009.
Conversely, Siplin opposed it back then — but signed last week's letter supporting it.
Still, none of those flip-flops top Panhandle Republican Sen. Greg Evers, who signed the letter supporting high-speed rail on Feb. 17 — but changed his mind four days later after tea-party protests erupted.
Some of these people have the conviction of a weathervane.
A taxing issue
Wednesday's column about Florida's inconsistent sales-tax policies attracted a storm of support from business owners throughout the state.
I heard from employers from Fern Park to Fort Lauderdale — all of them frustrated that Florida forces them to collect sales tax without forcing their out-of-state online competitors to do the same.
"You so eloquently said what many of us have been saying for years," said Charles O'Meara, the marketing chief of Shoot Straight gun dealer in Apopka. "We are constantly at a disadvantage when our online competition is 6 to 8 percent cheaper right out of the gate. And on competitive, low-margin items, that could represent half of the profit. It's time to do the right thing."
Similar sentiments came from everyone from jewelers in Seminole County to appliance dealers in South Florida. Also those who sell pool equipment and flooring — many of the things where sales tax can make a significant difference in total price.
State law, after all, requires sales tax to be paid on online purchases. Florida simply doesn't enforce it, robbing public coffers of as much as $1 billion a year at a time when programs and services are being cut left and right.
Many business owners found this injustice — which costs them profits and ultimately jobs — particularly maddening, given our politicians' penchant for crowing about their "pro-business" policies.
If you want to encourage your lawmaker to speak up for Florida businesses — and ask the state to collect the online sales taxes it is already supposed to be collecting — the legislative switchboard is 850-488-4371. The governor's office can be reached at 850-488-4441.
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If god is pissed off at America about gay rights and same-sex marriage, he should be positively INCENSED that we haven't done anything about Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack! Or doesn't Leviticus 11:9-12 carry the same weight that Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 does?
Nope, they are Cafeteria Christians.
From the article: McTernan noted that "God's judgement" began 21 years ago, on October 20, 1991 when President H.W. Bush initiated the Madrid Conference to negotiate peace between Israel and Palestine.
Yup. That's right. You sure don't want to have peace, now, would you. Israel must be under constant threat of attack. If not, then Jesus will never have his chance to come down from his perch to begin the wonderfully glorious period of apocalypse and the total destruction of mankind so that the righteous can end their wretched physical lives and be with their lord and savior up in heaven for eternity. Please don't make me wait any longer!
What a complete crackpot.
Hurry up to die in the name of the Rupture.
This is the silliest interview I think I have ever heard. It is just plain goofy. So the guy is in a funk, so the Trade Center came down, so the storms are hitting and where does he come up with the ludicrous ideas he has. He needs a good mental enema and douche.
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Faculty contribute to new Bob Evans Farms corporate campus
November 12, 2013
RIO GRANDE, Ohio – Bob Evans Farms and the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College have enjoyed a unique partnership dating back to the 1950s.
So when the company unveiled its new corporate campus Oct. 26 in New Albany, Ohio, it should come as no surprise that Rio Grande faculty played a vital role in helping Bob Evans create "an interactive, educational farm experience" that pays respect to the original Rio Grande farm.
"This campus is a true representation of our brand," said Bob Evans Farms Chairman and CEO Steven A. Davis in a release. "It is a symbol of our heritage and of the transformation of our BEF Foods and Bob Evans Restaurants business. Most importantly, it's focused on food, founders and farming form start to finish."
A quartet of Rio Grande faculty was commissioned to provide artistic works for the 40-acre campus, which consists of three buildings and more than 175,000 square feet.
Associate Professor of Art Benjy Davies created a 6-foot by 18-foot triptych of paintings depicting the iconography of Bob Evans – from the signature Stetson hat worn by the founder, to the architecture and flora of the original farm in Rio Grande. The native Ohioan's work, "Evans Essence," brings the Bob Evans brand to life in a bright and vibrant display for all who visit the campus to enjoy.
"Joe Eulberg, who is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Bob Evans, approached us about doing artwork for the new corporate headquarters," said Davies, who teaches courses in graphic design and printmaking. "Joe is also on the Board of Trustees for the university."
Fellow Professor of Art Kevin Lyles crafted stainless steel and 5 ½ ton of Ohio glacial stone into a 10-foot by 12-foot sculpture entitled "Farmland Forest." Reminiscent of the hills and forests seen on the original Bob Evans farm adjacent to the university, the piece greets guests at the new corporate campus.
Fine Woodworking instructors Eric Matson and Mark Nelson produced multiple pieces for the campus, all crafted from Gallia County burr oak. The duo utilized a natural edge style to make six benches totaling 48 feet long, six saddle-seat stools and a 66-inch diameter table in the café.
"It was pretty cool to be a part of the new Bob Evans Farms corporate campus," Matson said. "Mark and I worked about two months over the summer on the project."


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If you goStephen Malkmus, besides being very good at making music, is very good at explaining himself.
What: Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12
Where: Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206
Cost: $20-$25
What: Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12
Where: Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206
Cost: $20-$25
"Well, it just came, in the end, from my weird mind."
That's his explanation for the title of his latest record with The Jicks, Wig Out at Jag Bags. It really explains his entire career, though.
By now, there are more albums from Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks than Pavement. He's done more with this band than the iconic '90s indie rock group, and that says a lot. He's not bored and he's not out of ideas. To hear him tell it, a lot of his great ideas just crop up from a winding train of thought.
"There is an album called Wig Out at Dinkos, it's by this band called Dag Nasty. I mixed it with "jag bags" and it just looks cool and sounded cool," Malkmus said. "It wasn't some big plan. It's just, you know, your mind wanders. It goes places you don't know. That's kind of fun, like in a dream."
Finding the record's title was sort of the same process as writing lyrics. He said every song starts with a strong melody or rhythm -- guitar is his thing, after all -- but the lyrics are coming to him from just about everywhere.
"It's hard for me to say, song to song. Like there are ones that are story songs. Others are just old ideas I had, just memories or things I always thought were cool and wanted to get in song. Some are the first thought you say, and you build from that, a psychedelic narrative from that," he said. "I guess I just try to be around, be there for things to come to me and just be patient until the last vowel sound."
And you should be listening to the lyrics.
When he's not being playful with the lyrics, he's being pretty damn straightforward and honest. On "Rumble at the Rainbo," named for an indie rock bar in Chicago where "there would never be a fight," he sings about "slam dancing with some ancient dudes." It's a little bit of a jab, but it's a sentimental jab: "Can you remember the thrill and the rush? You're not out of touch. Come tonight you'll see. No one here has changed and no one ever will."
His own song reminds him of a song by the Stray Cats called "Rumbled in Brighton," which he visualized as a "West Side Story-style throwdown" between the mods and the punks. "Rumble at the Rainbo" manifested in a friendlier way.
"The song itself, when I hear it, I imagine a flyer for a show that's like, 'Come to this gig and see our band.' The venue could be -- it could even have, every week, a reunited band playing. It's a fictional place where you go, there's the same cobwebs on the wall from 1984. It could even be two skeletons playing like the "Touch of Grey" video from the Grateful Dead," Malkmus said. "You get a good show. They're just gonna play the hits, but maybe one guy has gone rockabilly or something. He's not as punk as he was."
He likes reunion shows if they're good, but doesn't see the dominance of '90s nostalgia and worship in music and general culture right now. He's recognized a Pavement-like sound in Parquet Courts and Speedy Ortiz, but he's listening to what's wildly popular, too, and he doesn't hear the '90s.
"There's Dinosaur Jr. touring. But even Dinosaur and the Pixies are '80s bands, really. If there's a '90s thing, that's fine with me. Again, I don't feel it," he said. "When I look at the media, I feel Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire are trying desperately to be 2004. There's, like, Odd Future or Kanye West. They're not really '90s either."
"If there is, and it relates to us and people being into our band, that's great."
Pavement is long done, though, and it's all about Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. In the wake of Wig Out at Jag Bags, the second in the line of more concise and less jammy records from the band, they're getting a nice, long tour in. That's where they get to play with the songs.
"I think we're still looking for some good things to improv on and stuff, and try to jam on, at least in concert," Malkmus said. "It's not that hard for us to jam. We go places with it. I don't really like noise jams so much. The jammy jams. I don't like totally fluffy jams either, where it's totally soft and kind of too much, a little hacky sack. There's some middle ground there."
Find out what that sounds like on Feb. 12 at the Gothic Theatre. And don't worry, the band still isn't done.
"You have to like each other a lot, and you have to trust each other, and we have that," Malkmus said. We're not at a level of success where it's a job. We're just digging it."


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In a small bowl, COMBINE flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually ADD flour mixture into mixing bowl, BEATING on low speed until combined.
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by Tom Utescher
Last weekend, the wrestling teams from Germantown Friends School and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy returned to the annual Ralph Wetzel Classic to test their mettle against a 25-team field made up mostly of large public school squads.
The 12th edition of the event, which is hosted by Hatboro Horsham High School, drew mostly from Southeastern Pa. and neighboring Delaware, although a team from Park Vista High School in Lake Worth, Fla. travelled up to the tourney and placed fourth overall.
GFS and SCH normally only enter their most experienced wrestlers in the varsity bracket, and so they don't garner many points in the team standings. Germantown placed 22nd this year, with senior heavyweight Khari Goosby earning a medal with a fifth-place finish. The Tigers, the only Friends Schools League team at the Wetzel Classic, had freshman Nick Wells place second in the junior varsity bracket in the 113 lb. class.
The best outcome for the SCH Blue Devils belonged to senior Jordan Wang, who wound up eighth in the 113 lb. varsity draw. The only other varsity entry for the Devils, sophomore 120-pounder Jackson Bistrong, lost his first two matches to end his run in the double-elimination tourney, and SCH ranked 24th in the final team standings.
Penn Charter had attended the event for several years, but was not present this time around. Two other Inter-Ac League schools joined SCH, though. Malvern Prep gave an impressive performance, winning three weight classes and placing second overall to Downingtown East High School, 203.5 points to 161.5. The third Inter-Ac franchise, Haverford School, came in 16th with a total of 57 points.
One of the senior captains for SCH, George Kunkel, had to sit out the tourney after suffering a flare-up of a chronic shoulder injury, and another Blue Devils veteran, junior Ben Rubin, was away for the holiday break. In addition, the team's talented sophomore light heavyweight, Desmond Johnson, was out sick. At last year's Wetzel Classic he finished second in the 195 lb. class.
Bistrong's two matches last weekend included a bout against the eventual silver medalist from Malvern Prep, Matt Lattanze. Meanwhile, Wang won his opener with a first-period pin, then lost a one-point decision in the quarterfinals and moved into the consolation bracket.
There, the SCH senior advanced with an 8-3 decision in his first match. Next, he was the victim of a second-period pin engineered by the eventual bronze medalist, Mike Driver of Central Bucks East.
In a bout to determine seventh and eighth place overall, Wang was ahead by a point late in the match, but Cheltenham High School's Noah Rosenbloom took a 5-4 decision when he was awarded a takedown with three seconds to go.
Like SCH's Bistrong, Germantown Friends' Andrew Wilson, a 160 lb. sophomore, had a short stay in the tournament as he succumbed in his first two contests. Joining Wilson and Goosby in the varsity draw was junior Matt Reed, who performed at 138 lbs. This was a tough weight class that produced the winner of the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler Award, Francesco Fabozzi of Central Bucks East High School.
In his initial outing, Reed rolled up the points for a second-period technical fall, then he came out on the short end of a 7-2 decision when he faced Lower Merion's Scott Chieu, who would go on to place fourth. The Tigers junior registered second-period pins against each of his first two opponents in the wrestle-backs, and his weekend concluded with a loss by decision (8-4) to Floridian Aaron Santosus, of Park Vista.
Germantown's Goosby got going with a second-period pin, then, early in the third round of his next bout, he pinned Malvern's Peter Ciesielski. That put him in the semifinals, where he was matted in the middle of the second stanza by silver medalist Will Hart, of Unionville High.
Later, in the consolation semifinals, Goosby appeared to be holding his own against Perkiomen Valley's Luke DiElsi when he got caught in a headlock while still in the neutral (standing) position. DiElsi parleyed his hold into a takedown and a pin, leaving Goosby to compete in the match for fifth and sixth place.
The Tigers' titan finished out with a victory, taking a 3-0 decision from Upper Dublin's Andy Rose. For a time it looked like Goosby would have to ride a solitary point (awarded for an escape) all the way to the buzzer as Rose tried in vain to score a takedown near the end, but instead the GFS grappler was the one who picked up two takedown points in the final seconds.


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One Direction reportedly has signed on to perform at the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November. [Sun]
[Updated, 10:50 a.m. Aug. 27: Oops. No they're not. Although the Sun and a number of other media outlets reported that a deal had been cut, Victoria's Secret released a statement Tuesday saying, "The recent reports regarding One Direction appearing in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show are untrue. The band is not performing in this year's show. We will announce our artists in early October."]
Fashion stylist Michael Raphael is suing former client Drake, TMZ reports, claiming the rapper owes him $76,400 in unpaid shopping bills. [TMZ]
Rebecca Taylor announced a new Black Tie Collection of women's gowns and cocktail dresses on Monday. According to a news release, the line will be available in Rebecca Taylor stores, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks.com, Bloomingdales.com, Shopbop.com and other specialty stores. Prices range from $495 to $1,600.
J.C. Penney's largest investor, William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management, is selling his nearly 18% stake in the company, which amounts to 39.1 million shares. [Los Angeles Times]