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A Confession – I Like Peyton Manning
I know Pats fans aren't supposed to but I like Peyton Manning. I like watching him play, I think he's great whenever he's on SNL, and he seems like a good guy in interviews. Heck, we even had the same neck surgery but that's another story. So why do Pats fans hate this guy?

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|Santa Barbara, Calif
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|Santa Barbara H.S.
Pre-season All-American candidate will be looked upon to lead the Gauchos on the field and at the plate. The most dangerous hitter in the Gaucho lineup.
Had one of the most impressive seasons ever as a Gaucho breaking several team records with his consistent hitting...First team all Big West selection as an outfielder and second team American Baseball Coaches Association West Regional team selection...Did his best Joe Dimmagio impression with a 35 game hitting streak shattering the old UCSB record of 22 games set by Jeff Antoon in 1991...Also set school record with 12 sacrifice bunts...Batted .375 with 54 runs, 40 RBI and 19 stolen bases...In 18 Big West games, he batted a team-leading .448 and during his 35 game hitting streak went 56-for-138, .406...Also had six assists as an outfielder...Had 25 multi-hit games...Scored two or more runs 12 times and a season-high three on four occasions...In five games against Long Beach, he recorded 13 hits in 26 at bats, an outstanding .565...Improved his batting average .125 points from his freshman season...Played summer ball for the Madison Mallards in the Northern Woods League garnering team MVP and First Team all NWL honors.
Started in 13 of 18 games for the Gauchos...Batted .250 with 11 hits and ten runs...Went 2-for-3 with three runs against Cal State Northridge...Season was cut short due an broken bone in his right wrist in March.
Redshirted for the Gauchos.
High School
Played for Fred Warrecker at Santa Barbara High School....Batted .472 at the varsity level and .519 as a senior...Hit seven home runs as a senior...Had five hits in one game including two doubles...Set school records in hits in a season (40), career hits (131), career average (.472) and season average (.519)...Was twice named to the first team All-Channel League, All-City and All-Santa Barbara County teams...Named MVP of the Channel League, All-City and All-County teams 1997...Pitched his way to a 2.84 ERA and 56 strikeouts as a senior...Also played football as a prepster...Made honor roll all four years of high school.
Born September 5, 1979 in Santa Barbara, CA...Is a Psychology major...Teammates call him Spilly...Would one day like to work in Child Psychology...Favorite sports moment was Mark McGwire's 62nd home run...Roots for the San Francisco 49ers and Anaheim Angels...Is a fan of Cal Ripken Sr. and Andruw Jones...Favorite movies include Dumb and Dumber, Fried Green Tomatoes and Major League...Enjoys Blind Date and The Simpsons...Also recruited by Long Beach State and Pepperdine...Favorite aspect of Santa Barbara is the weather...Has a younger sister, Natalie...Son of Rene and Essie Spilborghs.


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When I was a kid growing up in Ireland, I loved reading the Beano and the Dandy. Every summer, they would announce a "bumper edition", which was packed with extra stuff for those long summer days out of school. This is the bumper edition of updates from the CIO!
The summer was a very busy one in the realm of IT infrastructure. We oversaw a major rewiring of the Parsons structure; which set the building up to host a modern wired and wireless network that should serve us well for the foreseeable future. The major points of emphasis in the architecture of the new network are:
- Assume an increase in the use of wireless devices (to support this we increased the number of wireless access points from nine to sixty seven).
- Build a high capacity wired network that requires fewer physical cables (cat 6A throughout the building, fewer physical ports, but higher capacity)
- Improve switching closets and reduce their number (from six to two).
I am very grateful to our partners in Facilities and Maintenance who worked with us to make the wiring project a success, and were supportive of our idea of carrying out our project in parallel with the vacated space project. The new Clinic space in the basement is just beautiful!
We planned the new dorm wired and wireless network and, taking advantage of the construction work, have laid the groundwork for a "north campus loop" that will enhance the resilience of The Claremont Colleges network by providing alternate (redundant and diverse) networking routes to the second CINE core switch.
We bought new switches for east and south dorms, as well as the Linde Activity Center. We placed a new UPS in Kingston and new wireless access points in the LAC.
A new fiber run from Claremont to downtown Los Angeles is about to be completed, connecting with the Claremont network at the CUC building on First Street. This will increase the resilience of our connections to the internet. As you can imagine, this is ever more important with the increased use of software services that are hosted elsewhere.
IAM@HMC (Identity and Access management)
We worked closely and intensely with our project partners from Fischer Identity during the summer, meeting every day for many weeks. This let us push through to get several big wins:
- We eliminated the distinction between LDAP passwords and Active Directory passwords — it's all HMC Credentials from now on.
- Automatic Account Creation ("provisioning") went live. This meant that we could bring all the new students on board in record time, without manual account creation.
- We brought the portal (portal.hmc.edu) into the Single Sign On environment. It uses HMC credentials now and you won't be challenged to log in if you have already logged in and established a session in another application that is part of Single Sign On.
- We added payors to the HMC portal so that they can view and pay bills on line.
- We worked with other consortium members to bring up CAS, which will provide single sign on for other systems and, in our case, increases the usefulness of your HMC Credentials. In a new phase of the IAM@HMC project we hope to integrate CAS with Fischer Identity and get even more single sign on in place.
IT Assessment by BerryDunn
During the summer, representatives from consulting firm BerryDunn were in Claremont working on a Claremont-wide IT Assessment at the request of the Presidents Council. Some of you took the opportunity to meet or talk with them and give your views on the quality of IT overall at the Colleges. I understand that the BerryDunn folk will be coming back again in the Fall, so there will be additional opportunities to meet with them. I will try to send a bit more advanced notice, so please keep an eye out. If you are particularly keen on talking with them, please just get in touch with me and we can set up a telephone call. They are very eager to provide the Colleges with a high quality actionable report and would greatly appreciate your input.
IT Policy
During the summer, I completed updates to the HMC Password Policy and finalized the policy on incidental personal use of IT, both of which are now linked on our IT policies page on the HMC website. Both are the result of extensive discussion with various instances of the Computing Committee, the Presidents Cabinet and other stakeholders. I believe that policies should be realistic and should interfere as little as possible with your day to day experience, while at the same time achieving institutional goals. I have found that a good way to achieve that is to have extensive discussion with stakeholders, including college counsel and to be willing to wait until the policy is well cooked before releasing it.
Next up is a policy on safeguarding confidential and sensitive information.
Speaking of passwords, on October 27th we plan to turn on the password expiration function in the Fischer system. If your password is over 365 days old, you will need to reset it. The prompt at login will just say "invalid credentials", as we don't want to give hackers any clues. But you will receive a notice via email when your password is seven days away from expiring. When we first released the HMC Password Policy, the advice of the Computing Committee at the time was that August would be a good time to remind people to reset passwords, since everyone is coming back and doing housekeeping tasks for the new year. The timing of your annual reset is up to you though, since you can change your password at any time by visiting the Password and Account Management Kiosk. If your password is getting old, now might be a good time to change it.
When we moved to the new HMC website last January, we vowed that we would work hard to ensure that only accurate and relevant information would appear on our pages. We continue to work on that goal and have been enhancing our Service Catalog page and keeping on top of updates to the IT Projects page. Our goal is to make it valuable and effective to turn to the CIS web page whenever you are looking for a solution or are curious to know what we're up to.
We have also set up pages.hmc.edu for people who wish to host static html pages outside of any of our content or learning management systems. I wrote about this in the April update, but it is worth mentioning again as we work towards decommissioning older systems such as thuban (www2), odin (www3) and www5. www4 has already been decommissioned and replaced by pages.hmc.edu
Educational Technology
Thanks to our restructuring that placed AV operations under the wing of User Support, Educational Technology Services had become even more focused and productive under Elizabeth Hodas' leadership. Elizabeth is paying special attention to the question of how to relate technology tools to the goals of faculty and students. I hope you will notice this emphasis in the roster of workshops available during our Week of Workshops, which started on Monday.
Over the summer, there was a surprising amount of interest in trying out Google Glass. Jeho Park described our experiments in his article OK Glass,shoot a laser beam!. I found the star mapping app really compelling, even though the night on which I had Glass was a cloudy one! It was the first time I really felt for myself the potential of augmented reality applications and I will never forget my daughter's exclamation "oh wow" when she donned the Glass and went outside to conquer her fear of the dark.
Also over the summer, Deb Mashek set up a Google Apps Learning Community that several of us participated in. It was a quiet success and I heard from a number of the participants about how they liked the hands on and interactive approach of these sessions, so we're thinking of other possibilities. We are also exploring the possibility of subscribing to lynda.com campus edition through a Claremont wide agreement. This would give faculty, students and staff a large number of online professional development and learning opportunities.
Unfortunately, Corey LeBlanc left us for Pomona College, where he is now the Computer Science Dept System Administrator. We wish him the best of luck, and were very sorry to see him leave us.
Taylor Calderone will be helping to fill in as we search for a new DTA. Taylor has been with us for a while in a temporary capacity, particularly with AV support for events, so he knows the ropes.
In other hiring news, we are having more success in the search for a Sr. Network Engineer and have interviewed a couple of really promising candidates in recent weeks. Stay tuned for news on that front.
As I completed writing this update, I had a feeling of exhilaration. It is just so pleasing to see so much progress in so many areas! And, once again, my hat is off to the hardworking staff at CIS who just keep on working at a very high level.
Welcome back every one (and welcome, first years). At CIS, we missed you and are looking forward to supporting you for yet another great year at Mudd.


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The Greatest Sword And Weapon Of All
The greatest "sword" or "weapon" ever invented is one which can create life and peace and make everyone happy and is perhaps the lowly kitchen knife. It is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction because, when used wisely, one can feed others and create health and peace without any use of military force, violence and loss of human life.
We should all be peaceful kitchen warriors and strive to feed ourselves as well as our enemies – thus turning them into our friends – if we truly seek health, peace and happiness for ourselves and others. Imagine if we measured the value of today's leaders and candidates based on their skill with the kitchen knife and their ability to satisfy our palates, appetites and health!…
Rosie silva permalinkJanuary 27, 2012 6:28 am
It is in fact a magic tool! But one should know how to use and that is something you don't learn at school or university, but with love, gratitude, understanding and lot's of experience.
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Clean Up Your Mess is a short, very helpful website about visual design by Daniel Higgenbotham. It talks about things close to my heart at this blog, like alignment, boxism, and hierarchies.
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|purse from American Eagle
|top from Urban Outfitters, sweater from Aerie
Spent the day just walking around Toronto. Luckily it was really nice weather. It was pretty much one of the last warm days. Anyways, sorry about this lackluster post, 90210 just got added to netflix and i am in love with it!!


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View talks from the Service Experience Conference
Creating value is not something that designers do alone — it's something that whole organizations do. Service Design only succeeds when the whole organization adopts its practices. But our very identity and separateness as "designers" can get in the way of this. To address the WHOLE organization, we must be willing to sacrifice Service Design as a unique discipline and give over everything we have and do to the org as a whole. We must be willing to let other disciplines (engineering, product management, sales, marketing, etc.) assimilate, co-opt, and take ownership of service design practices for the greater good of providing value to the whole organization and to the end user. We'll see how this approach can be successful through several case studies.
Access Todd's slides here: slideshare.net/secret/jELWod4OTEVjuu
Setbacks happen often when launching new experiences. While embracing failure is a popular concept in tech culture today, the reality is that it can be difficult for teams to recover.
More than ever, business leaders recognize that customer expectations are changing and that the way to differentiate from the competition is not through their product or service, but through the experience delivered across all interactions with their brand. Enter service design.
Visit the The Service Experience Conference Vimeo Channel for our archive of main stage speaker videos from previous years.Click to view
The conventional wisdom is that digital is the future of everything—even the future of service design. Service design professionals increasingly report that digital is the primary channel they're working in.
The major impact of digital technologies has been to create exponential value. However, the use of software to deliver and scale human powered services, such as healthcare, has not been achieved and faces a number of critical challenges.
The next wave of technology is about to come crashing down on us, and surfing that wave are robots of all kinds, from household companions to industrial robots to self-driving vehicles and drones. These robots (who are themselves a kind of service) will infiltrate all manner of services, from taking on front-of-house duties to assembling and delivering goods.
Marc shares his story how their book This is Service Design Thinking lead to a software they used for their own service design projects and their consulting. Due to demand of their clients, "Smaply" became their first software startup in 2012, quickly followed by their second venture "ExperienceFellow" in 2013.
E-commerce in the automotive industry is virtually non-existent. It is perhaps the last large-scale industry to truly embrace a completely online shopping and buying experience.
As services grow in complexity and wicked problems surface, co-creation and participatory design approaches have emerged as powerful ways to tackle design challenges. There are standard co-creation tools out there but because the problems you're tackling are unique, creating customized tools will set you up to get the best results.
This talk highlights the evolution of the research function at Grubhub, from the days of a small and scrappy startup to the public company you know today. When getting a business off the ground, research is typically directed towards iterative product improvement.
Jet. com is an eCommerce company growing at an unprecedented rate.
While behavioral economics applied to user-centered design is already increasingly seen as a valuable lens for developing solutions for consumers, the same lens turned internally—that is, on employees as end users—recognizes that the same behavioral tendencies and cognitive biases that inform our actions and decisions outside of work are also in full force from 9 to 5. This can be especially important when organizations face the balancing act between efficiency and effectiveness, where frictionless speed is sometimes emphasized (and rewarded) at the expense of the latter.
Charu Juneja is a Director of Business and Behavioral Design at the Design Institute for Health (DIH), a collaboration between the new Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. It is a first-of-its-kind institution, dedicated to applying design approaches to solving systemic health care challenges as an integrated part of a medical education and training program.
Designing Synchronous Health Services: Gaining Consensus and Understanding For Sustainable Living Kristin Hughes, designer and educator, works with members of at-risk communities to address complex social problems. Since no one discipline holds the ultimate solution for such problems, Kristin honed a community-engagement model of design during her 15 years of practice.
Why are service designers making so many maps these days? Customer journey maps, empathy maps, experience maps and strategy roadmaps… We make maps to draw insight, catalyze ideas, to get on the same page, and as tools for understanding complex experiences and processes. At the service layer, we are using maps to drive decisions that impact end users as well as those who deliver services.
You often hear that doctors make the worst patients; same applies to consulting firms. Starting an internal service design offering at Booz Allen Hamilton is the utmost exercise of service design.
You often hear that doctors make the worst patients; same applies to consulting firms. Starting an internal service design offering at Booz Allen Hamilton is the utmost exercise of service design.


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Richard Ring necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Richard Ring | Organized Solutions
Hello, my name is Richard Ring and I work in Financial IT. I am looking to create a clean personally branded portfolio to help establish myself in the job market as a professional.
I can be seen on the following social media sites:
http://www.richardring.info/ *in progress
The people receiving the documentation from me will be potential employers, school boards (on MBA applications, etc...) as well as part of my networking efforts (peers, colleagues and rivals).
The documentation needs to be sutble but unique and professional.
My next targetted job title is Project Manager so please keep in mind that I will be in the middle of an organization; the documentation needs to appeal in the 360Degree range.
The Business Card:
The card should be two sided, one side should be stand-out with my logo and subtext (Organized Solutions) the other should have a picture of me, the logo smaller and contact information. Included on either side should be the following websites: http://www.richardring.info/ and http://jp.linkedin.com/in/richardring.
I have attached several photos to choose from, you can choose whichever for the business card.
* Your also welcome to put the Linked In symbol on the business card.
* I only have 1 pone number, so please do not include any space for 'Faxing.'
* Some space to write a small note down would be nice too ; like a new phone number or some kind of personal touch I can write down when I hand my card out at networking events.
Stationary Set:
This will be used for cover letters, thank you letters, my portfolio, emails, etc...contact information and logo should be present here as well.
No limitations just include space for a return and to address. Logo would be nice here.
If possible show a mock up of the stationary set on a powerpoint slide. I will be implementing it there too.


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But I've come up with a really good way to keep myself entertained while looking hard at work and also awake. I check out audio books at the library and listen to them all day. I get to work at 7:30am and by 8:00am I'm wearing my earbuds and listening to a story.
This week I've been listening to a book about a vampire hunter and vampires and werewolves and no it's not Twilight because I'm a grown woman and I don't read teen romance novels and I prefer more mature reading material and also I've already read it like four times.
So on Monday, I bring the cd's and put the first one in and I'm all listening and working and literally five minutes into the story, there's a three-way. For reals. Between a werewolf, a werepanther and a vampire hunter. And there's no warning at all that a big mystical creature/human sex scene is coming up. Nope, not one little hint. One minute the characters are sitting at the kitchen table talking about the werewolf's father dying and I'm all "Hmm, could be an interesting book. Let me just file this paperwork over here..." and then the lady reading the book is all "I lay across the kitchen table and spread my legs. Gary held my hands above my head while Larry ripped my shirt open" and I'm all "Wha????" and the lady is all "Gary pushed his throbbing member against my thigh" and that's when I ripped off my earbuds and looked around frantically to make sure nobody in the office could hear what I just heard.
I knew I had the earbuds on and I knew they were plugged into the computer. But when an unexpected spoken-word orgy breaks out in your cubicle, you get a little paranoid that maybe somehow everyone heard it. So I double checked that the jack thingy was plugged in all the way into the computer and then I started up the cd again and listened without the earbuds to make sure there was no way at all it could be heard by anyone else.
Once I decided it was safe to listen, I backed up the cd and started the chapter over again because hello! Miss Yvonne does not skip a sex scene. Especially a sex scene involving weremen named Gary and Larry. Who the hell names a werewolf Gary, anyway? Shouldn't he be named something like Constantine or Valentino or Dolf? And don't even get me started on Larry.
So there I am at 9:30am, sitting in my cubicle, staring at my computer pretending to be reading an important email....but actually listening to what was turning out to be a pretty hot description of a three-way. I felt dirty and naughty. So naturally I called Captain Carl....
Me: *whispering* Guess what I'm doing?
CC: Filing your TPS report?
Me: I'm listening to a three-way!
CC: Are you working in a brothel now and haven't told me?
Me: No no no...it's a spoken word three-way!
CC: Okay, explain please.
Me: I'm listening to an audio book and...
CC: Nerd alert!
Me: ....and there's a really graphic sex scene and I'm nervous someone is going to catch me listening to it and I'm starting to get turned on!
CC: Oh reaaallly?
Me: Well it's really sexy!
CC: Sooo, wanna meet up for lunch???
Me: OHMYGOD, NOW SHE'S GETTING IT FROM BOTH ENDS!
Old Gay Guy In My Office: Ohhh, you GO girl!
Me: I think I forgot to whisper that last part....
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Monday, August 14, 2006
Sourdough Olive Oil Bread
I know, it's summer-- who bakes bread? Well, I had some extra fresh sourdough starter that I wanted to use-- exactly enough for this loaf. And I got a new stove and wanted to test out the oven. The recipe I used (see below) is actually a bread machine recipe I developed, but I just mixed and rose it in the machine, and baked it in the oven. It's delicious! (I developed several bread machine recipes using sourdough because I find most bread machine recipes kind of flat-tasting. Sourdough starter or an overnight yeast sponge both create a tastier bread, in my opinion.)
To bake it in the oven, I used the dough cycle, and then formed the dough into a ball on a greased and cornmeal-dusted pizza pan and let it rise for about 45 minutes, well-covered. I heated the oven (with convection) to 400 degrees F. I slashed the loaf with a razor blade and misted it with water before placing in the oven. NOTE: For an extra-crunchy crust and bigger holes in the crumb, you can bake this in a heavy covered pot, like a mini-brick-oven, if you like. See instructions here.
I baked it for about 10 minutes, sprayed it again, baked another 5 minutes, lowered the heat to 375 degrees F and baked about 15 minutes more. (Do the knock-on-the-bottom-and-listen-for-the-hollow-sound test.) Without convection, you should lower the heat about 25 degrees and cook a bit longer.
The crust was nice and evenly-golden and crisp, and the inside moist, with a pronounced sourdough flavor, despite the yeast (the addition of yeast tempers the tangy sourdough flavor, but this bread has a goodly amount of fresh sourdough starter in it). Try to resist cutting it right away-- it actually finishes the cooking process at it cools.
NOTE: If you are unfamiliar with sourdough, see http://veganfeastkitchen.blogspot.com/2006/04/1906-earthquake-in-sf-my-grandfather.html My San Francisco starter, how to make it vegan and how to use and care for it is at that link. I actually have two vegan sourdough starters-- both are very reliable. I also use the "Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter", which I treat the same way. You can get a free (dried) starter (and it's a great story that goes with it!) here. You just pay postage. (PS: I don't use the sugar and potato they call for in the instructions., and it works fine.)
If you would like a longer version of all this info, with recipes, write to me via my contact page.
Printable Recipe
Makes a 1 1/4 lb. loaf
A pretty fast recipe made with sourdough starter and yeast.
1 1/2 c. fresh sourdough starter (less than 2 weeks old if stored in the refrigerator) (See Note above)
1 T. water (hot if the starter is cold)
3 T. olive oil
1/2 T. salt
2 tsp. sugar
1 cup wholewheat flour (or wholewheat bread flour in the USA-- Canadian flour is higher in gluten)
1/2 cup unbleached white flour (or white bread flour in the USA)
1/4 c. bran
1 tsp. dry active baking yeast or 3/4 tsp. instant yeast
Mix the ingredients in your bread machine according to the directions for your machine. Use the French or Crusty Bread cycle according to your machine's directions.
Check the dough during the first knead to make sure that it is neither too dry, not too wet. If it's too dry, add water by the tablespoonful, letting it knead in, until it looks right. If it's too wet, do the same with flour. This should be a moist dough, but it should come together in a ball.
See instructions above for how to bake the bread in the oven.
If you want a more attractive top crust to the ABM bread, 5 minutes before the bread is due to bake (I set my kitchen timer to remind me of this), you can make a decorative slash in the top of the bread with a razor blade, and you can also glaze the bread with some soymilk, using a pastry brush, or sprinkle the top with flour.
Cover the "window" in the top of your machine with foil, so that the top of the bread will brown properly. Remove the bread immediately from the machine when done, placing on a rack to cool thoroughly. This will insure a crisp crust.
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17 comments:
- KleoPatra said...
Mmmmmmmmmmmm. FRESH BAKED BREAD! So good! Thanks for the sweeeeeeet recipe.
"Lose the tooth, Keep the Faith."
Groovy photo of your granddaughter. Very sweet girl, you can tell!
- Mon Aug 14, 10:31:00 PM PDT
- Harmonia said...
Great "missing teeth" pic! The Breads look neat, too!
Sorry it has taken me a while but I wanted to let you know that I have moved my blog! Yup! A new addy! It's http://harmonia.bloggoing.com - swing by and check it out when you have time. My old one will still be active for the daily OM and blogroll. Hope to see you soon!
- Tue Aug 15, 06:10:00 AM PDT
- Dori said...
Love the bread, but I want to see the new oven. :)
Faith is beautiful, esp with a half grown in tooth. I miss the stage of missing teeth, I miss everything about my babies being children. My son turns 18 tommorrow.
- Tue Aug 15, 06:23:00 AM PDT
Who bakes bread in summer? Me, too. I found this awesome book on flatbreads by Alford + Duguid in my library, trying lots of them. Found the book by Reinhart you recommended, trying them. Also the Italian Baker, you recommended. Thanks bud. Bread kicks butt. I'm actually not 2000, but 32, and my teeth have been missing on and off since I knocked them out when I was 10.Right now I look similar to the girl, but not as adorable.
- Tue Aug 15, 08:40:00 AM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Wow! Bread looking good! Granddaughter is cute!
Did you buy a fancy oven?
I haven't baked bread for a long long time. It's too hot but yours looks so good. It may inspire me.
- Tue Aug 15, 11:02:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
No fancy oven, but a new Kenmore stove, all computerized, self-cleaning convection oven, covered bottom element, all kinds of timer settings, etc. It has one oven rack that you can remove half of it to accomodate a tall pan or pot without wasting the room on the other side! I discovered that my old oven was way too hot, so I have to figure out how to bake in the new one!
- Tue Aug 15, 11:44:00 AM PDT
- Melody said...
Your granddaughter is adorable... Love that age... they are soo cute.
What type of bread machine do you use? I've never seen a loaf of bread look that good out of a machine!
I bake bread several times a week, all year round.. I use my toaster oven. Yesterday my loaf rose too high and the top caught on fire! I managed to salvage it though.
I'm going to email you about the starter. I've never made my own and really want to start.
- Tue Aug 15, 07:39:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
I have an Oster 2-lb. Expressbake Bread Machine-- cheap, but it works well.
- Tue Aug 15, 09:33:00 PM PDT
- Jackie said...
The bread looks really wonderful so I have emailed you for the vegan starter.
Thank you in advance Bryanna :)
- Wed Aug 16, 02:33:00 AM PDT
Pardono Signora, you didn't recommend The Italian Baker, it was Galli's Il Fornaio book. Scuzi, scuzi. If I leave any more comments I'll try to get them right. I cooked up the Buffalo Chicken from the Archive's yesterday.Holy Hapsburgs, they were good. Probably half my fridge is full of your creations. I'll spare you the details, but I loves 'em.
- Wed Aug 16, 09:39:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
2000-yr-old-- I love "The Italian Baker" too!
- Wed Aug 16, 10:36:00 AM PDT
- Kate said...
I want to buy a kitchen aid mixer just for this bread. Time to start saving up. But seriously love the blog, keep it up!
- Wed Aug 16, 01:33:00 PM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
I recommend Bosch mixer instead of a Kitchen Aid. I have a Kitchen Aid the Professional one and aiming of Bosch myself. I wish I have a Bosch. It is expensive but will be worth it if you like to bake bread. We have a discussion about mixers in Bryanna's forum.
- Wed Aug 16, 03:35:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Kate, I also recommend the Bosch above the KitchenAid, having used both. Check out the "recommended cookware" page on my website. The Bosch motor is far stronger, the machine itslef, however, is less bulky and lighter, and it will do twice as much dough with ease. One of my subscribers tried to do 2 loaves of wholewheat bread in her new KitchenAid, but had to take it back when the motor started smoking! She got a Bosch! I also find that the KA leaves bits of dry dough on the bottom and you have to stop it and mix them in. This never hapens with the Bosch. It's also easier to add ingredients while kneading with the bosch.
- Thu Aug 17, 06:33:00 AM PDT
Wow! The bread looks heavenly. I can't wait to make some.
- Sat Aug 19, 01:14:00 PM PDT
- tokyovegan said...
Hi, Bryanna. Now that I have sourdough starter to keep active, I am finally working through all your bread recipes! I made this today for the first time, and we ate with a garlicky Italian tomato salad. Couldn't barely stop ourselves from eating the whole loaf...it was such a heavenly feast.
Many thanks,
- Sun Oct 03, 05:12:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
So glad you liked it, William!
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While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the development of a four-passenger sports car they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, advertising and marketing group prepared the world for the intro of an automobile they called the Panther.
All through the summertime of 1965 essentially every aspect of the car's design and advancement, from preliminary design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully recorded. Chevy utilized the assets to develop a 30 -minute motion picture The Camaro for sale in Camanche IA , which was later on shown on TELEVISION and in cinema. They likewise presented women's clothing called the Camaro Collection and even a Camaro road race video game.
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In November, Chevy sales executives and imaginative people previewed prototype models at the GM Tech Center. Campbell-Ewald, Chevy's venerable advertising agency, instantly began work on catalogs, direct-mail advertising and sales promo products, together with print, outdoor and TV/radio marketing. In April 1966, at the New york city Auto Show Press Conference, Chevrolet sales executives confessed no name had actually been selected for the brand-new car, however did reveal that pricing of 1967 Chevy Camaro for sale in Camanche IA model will be in the Corvair-Chevy II range.
Throughout early 1966 Chevy agonized over a name for its Mustang-killer. GM's upper management fidgeted about the aggressive undertones of the Panther name. A similar bout of cold feet would later cause the Pontiac version, code named the Banshee, to be relabelled Firebird. Over its short lifetime, the F-car had been called by numerous names including Wildcat, Chaparral, Leader and Nova. It's also reported that Chevy considered using the letters "GM" in the name, and developed G-Mini, which evolved into GeMini and finally Gemini. Nevertheless, GM's upper management vetoed the concept, fearing the car might be a failure.
Automotive legend has it that someone at Chevrolet lastly proposed the name Camaro and upper management quickly concurred. Although the name has no real significance, GM researchers apparently discovered the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for "friend" or "companion." It's reported that Ford Motor Business researchers also discovered other definitions, consisting of "a shrimp-like animal" and an arcane term for "loose bowels."
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I have been playing with cards since I was actually a kid. I've been learning this for a really long time. You know while learning how to become a magician I have developed a skepticism. That's really where my story starts.
Having become a magician, you understand that there is some kind of scheme or something going on behind the scenes that is ultimately fake or false. The idea of a god seems really silly, it seems really, really silly. It's like the Wizard of Oz. It's like the wizard behind the curtain making things happen.
However, one day in college, I was asked to go to church to check it out, so I did. Something happened to me that morning that I couldn't quite fit into my worldview. It was the way the version of the story that was shared. I began to ask myself the God question. Maybe there is something more to this?
If I was going to believe in this god, if I was going to believe in the Bible, I needed him to make it so real to me.
If I was going to believe in this god, if I was going to believe in the Bible, if I was going to acknowledge who the Bible ultimately points to, which is Jesus. If I was going to acknowledge all these things, I asked God to make this real to me. I needed him to make it so real to me. I needed him to take me back behind the curtain. Sometimes when you pray prayers you don't fully want them to be answered. Mine was getting ready to be answered.
Here I was, I was 29 years old. I had been married for five years, with a three-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. I had this really intense pain that started happening in my leg. I was popping ten Advil at a time, trying to make it go away. We decided that it would probably be best for me to go to the ER.
They began to run a bunch of tests on me. The doctor walked in and told me that my white blood count was real high. They wanted to do some more tests. Then another doctor walked in and on his name badge it said TX Oncology, a cancer doctor. He said, "Mr. Munroe, you have leukemia. We have to do something about this right now." This doctor basically told me I had two months and that I was going to die if we didn't do anything. They got me down to MD Anderson Cancer Center and they began to run just a battery of tests on me. CAT scans, catheter into my chest, sticking huge needles into my spine; it's a complete whirlwind.
No matter how hard we hit it, it was going to keep coming back.
The first doctor on call that was going to oversee all of my treatment came in and said, "Mr. Munroe, I've got some bad news for you." And at that point I am going, you mean like worse than cancer bad news? He said the kind of leukemia I had was more rare than what they initially thought. Even if we fought the cancer and got me into remission – this thing was going to come back. No matter how hard we hit it, it was going to keep coming back. There was something they wanted to do, something that could assist in making me completely well and healed.
They wanted to do a procedure called a bone marrow transplant. What they wanted to do was to get me into remission by treating me with chemotherapy. But then find somebody somewhere in the world, whose DNA matched mine so distinctly that doctors would literally take their immune system out of their body and put it into mine. And hope that my body would recognize it enough as its own and it would essentially start growing new white blood cells from an entirely new person. That is like real magic.
So they went and they tested my biological sister, and my own biological sister wasn't a close enough match. Which was a huge blow to the situation. So then they went into this database that the national bone marrow donor program keeps and they told me that of the 7 million-person database, I had 16 possible matches. Out of those 16 possible matches, they found one perfect match. It was a 19 year old female. We found one perfect match.
We were elated and so excited that there was someone out there who was not only a match but, after being contacted, was willing to give their blood and was brave enough to give me what I needed to live.
They used this terminology like, you will be born a new person, you will be given a new birthday. You will be like a baby inside a mothers womb all over again.
So they began the process and began the chemotherapy. Those first ten days literally destroyed me. As we went through the process, they used this terminology like, you will be born a new person, when we transplant this and put this new blood inside of you, you will be given a new birthday. You will be like a baby inside a mothers womb all over again. I had heard that terminology before in Scripture, [the Bible], so I was thinking that this was kind of weird.
I am literally dying a death, and then they brought that bag of blood into the room, the whole time, this whole process just waiting to get this new blood on the inside of me and they stuck it into my IV. The new blood began to run into my body. The doctors and nurses, everybody involved were hoping my body would accept this new blood. And it did. My body accepted this new blood and it slowly began to build a new immune system and I am completely cancer free today. I am 100% cancer free.
It's no longer I who lives, but someone else who lives inside of me. When they look at my blood now, when they investigate it, they don't see a 30-year-old male; they see a 19 year old female. I literally have XX chromosomes living on the inside of me. It was a substitution of blood on my behalf so that I could live again; and so that the deception of my body would die. That to me is really difficult to ignore when I asked God to reveal himself to me. That is very difficult to ignore.
I believe that all of us have a spiritual cancer that's eating us away on the inside. We are dying and we are begging for somebody to intervene and step in on our behalf.
I believe that all of us have a spiritual cancer that's eating us away on the inside. When we really take a look at it, we are dying and we are begging for somebody to intervene and step in on our behalf. There is not a question in my mind that the only answer for the human condition is Jesus. My life with Jesus has completely changed as a result of my darkest hour. I am actually thankful for the process I went through. As a skeptic and a magician, I fully believe. I fully believe in not only who God is, but also what He did for me. There is no question in my mind.
My name is Jim Munroe, and I Am Second.


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Karen Pinkston leaned over the cracked slab and brushed away the dirt and grime of a century of neglect. The name of a young girl cast into the homemade stone, Missouri, was barely made visible.
Beth Davis may be retiring from the Levy County School Board in November to make way for "new blood" but she is not slowing down.
September 13
WWII vets meeting
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September 14
Tony's Three-Time World Champion Clam Chowder launched into the food service industry on Friday, Aug 10, at the Florida Food Service annual summer Food Show in St. Augustine.
Tony's Chowder is now available in cases of six 51 oz. cans, and is being distributed by Florida Food Service, Inc. and City Line Distributors in New England.
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This weekend
Flood Jam helps victims of TS Debby
Flood Jam, with three stages of music, an online auction of donated items and services, food and crafts, games and activities will be held at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak on Aug. 17-18.
Two-day tickets cost $40 in advance, $60 at gate and include primitive camping. One day tickets are $20 each at the gate and camping is not included.
Back on the farm at Twentymile Bend things had settled down after a brush by a tropical wave that dumped 12 inches of rain on top of us.
But my father, as usual, was thinking up ways to keep my brother Jerry and me busy. We were dreading what he might come up with next, because on a farm there were so many dirty jobs available.
I had spent one summer building fence and didn't want to have that ever again.
2nd Saturday concert
Withlacoochee Area Residents Inc. will present the third of its 2nd Saturday Summer Concert Series.
Rod Sillars will take the stage at the Yankeetown-Inglis Woman's Club at 7 p.m. Rod's smooth voice and intricate musical style ranges from the classics of Seeger and Dylan, with some upbeat ditties.
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Temporary tattoos were never this cool when I was a kid.
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Let $A$ be a C*-algebra and let $\alpha$ be an action of the circle group $S_1$ on $A$ (Gauge action). We define the following map: $$E:A\rightarrow A;\quad E(a):=\int\alpha_t(a)\textrm{d} t.$$ My question is why $E$ is a conditional expectation into the fixed point algebra for the gauge action?
For example if we take the Cuntz algebra $O_n$ and the gauge action as $$\alpha_t(S_j)=e^{it}S_j\quad \forall j=1\dots n,$$ where $ S_j $ is a generating set of isometries for $O_n$, and extending the action to the whole of $O_n$.
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week month going? The semester starts next week … and, let's just say, I'm trying to ignore that.
Scenes so far.
You know, I can't complain about August. A certain Rooster stopped by Nashville last weekend and we had a delightful time together: good food, chatting on patios, walks in the park, ice cream, take-out, and a few adventures (planned and, um, not so planned). It's so nice when online friends become real-life friends! Maybe next time we'll even manage some knitting?
As you can see, August has been filled with many things … but not much knitting. I'd like to think that ideas are percolating. Many ideas about light-weight sweaters. Many, many ideas. Here are just a few of my favorites:
Audrey in Unst and Georgia;
Manu, Whisper, and Featherweight
Mandel, Walnuss, and Boe (bonus points for German!)
I'm sure there are many more; I seem to be collecting them as I go. Any favorites that I've missed?
My dream project, however, is the slightly bonkers 4 Flowerpot Sweater from Icelandic Knitting Using Rose Patterns. I've gotten as far as shopping for yarn, reading through the directions, becoming very confused, and putting the book back on the shelf. I have not given up, though. Thing is, this is the kind of sweater I want to wear but do not want to knit. A dilemma.
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Talent Seeker needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Branding an aviation business as a dot com is a crazy idea, but we're doing it. How do you envision "newhelicopters.com" ? We'd love to see it.
Also, participate in the website design contest at http://99designs.com/contests/11852
We've decided to skip all conventional thought and brand our entire aviation business as a dot com.
See the full website design contest at
http://99designs.com/contests/11852 for detailed information the company, our goals in business and for the site.
We need a logo that is instantly recognizable and memorablerepresenting both the aviation industry and the progressive nature ofmoving such a business to an online venue. It must be clean,simple, professional, easily identifiable, and functional on a multitude of background colors.
Our logowill appear not only online but in print, physical lighted signage onbuildings, renderings in vinyl on aircraft and cars, businesscards, letterhead, and numerous other marketing materials. The logo should be as progressive as the idea and the site concept we've laid out, representing the forward thinking nature of the young 20 somethings (and one old 30 year old guy) at the heart of the business.
Colors, etc, should be in line with what we are seeking in the website contest.
- Progressive unconventional ideas on presenting the "newhelicopters.com" domain name in image form as a logo.
- If you are incorporating an actual helicopter silhouette, shape, etc in your proposed logo please insure it is representative of a Robinson R44 product as that is the primary brand we intend to build our dealership. This is not a required item - knowing that may be one of the ideas submitted I wanted to throw it out there.
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The archipelago consists of some 16 islands and numerous islets scattered over an area of some 36,000 square miles (95,000 sq km) at or near the equator. The total land area of all of the islands, islets, and rocks probably does not exceed 3,000 square miles (8,000 sq km).
Most of the individual islands were first given English names often more than one by British buccaneers and whalers and later given Spanish names by Ecuadorians. In decreasing order of size, the largest islands (with their earlier English names) are Isabela (Albemarle), Santa Cruz (Indefatigable), Fernandina (Narborough), San Cristóbal (Chatham), San Salvador (James), and Santa María (Charles). Isla Isabela, the largest of the islands, covers about 1,700 square miles (4,400 sq km), or more than half of the total land area of the archipelago, and has five major volcanic peaks ranging up to 5,540 feet (1,690 meters) in height. Several of the volcanoes on this and other islands have been active in the 20th century.
The climate varies, not only from season to season but also from year to year, and considerable differences in temperature occur between the coastal areas and the higher elevations of the volcanic slopes. In general, due to the effect of the Peru (or Humboldt) Current, the climate is mild and dry, with the temperature seldom rising above 80° F (27° C) despite the islands' equatorial location.
In 1990 the population of all of the islands was estimated at less than 10,000, including temporarily resident government employees and their families. The administrative center is Baquerizo Moreno, on San Cristóbal. A limited tourist industry, utilizing an old air force landing strip and a cruise ship, offers the general public limited access to the islands.
History. The earliest recorded discovery of these islands, which were then uninhabited by humans, occurred on March 10, 1535, when a sailing ship carrying the Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panamá, came within sight of the archipelago after having drifted for six days becalmed in the Peru Current. Later in the century, the mapmaker Abraham Ortelius plotted the "Isolas de Galápagos," or "Islands of the Tortoises," relying probably on Fray Tomás' description of the islands and of the giant tortoises he saw there. In the 17th century the Galápagos served as hideaways for various British buccaneers engaged in pirating Spanish ships and in looting and burning Spanish settlements on the mainland of South and Central America.During most of the 1700s the islands remained deserted, but near the end of the century whalers and sealers began to visit the area. In 17931794, Capt. James Colnett of the British Royal Navy extensively explored the islands as part of an effort to set up a British whaling and sealing industry in the Pacific Ocean. American whalers also began to put in there. On the shore of a bay of Charles Island (now the Isla Santa María) the whalers set up a barrel on a post where letters from outgoing ships were deposited, to be picked up later by inbound ships. This "post office," established before 1800, still existed in 1932. Throughout much of the 19th century, the Galápagos were used by whaling ships as a rendezvous and as a source of fresh water and turtle meat.
Herman Melville, during his sojourn as a sailor on American whaling ships in 18401844, visited the Galápagos and later wrote of them as "Las Islas Encantadas" the enchanted, or bewitched, islands. This name had been mentioned as early as 1684, when the British privateer Edward Davies reported that certain of his Spanish prisoners had claimed that the Galápagos were "enchanted islands
and that they were but shadows and no real islands."
Ecuador annexed the Galápagos on Feb. 12, 1832, and 60 years later renamed them the Archipiélago de Colón, in honor of Christopher Columbus. During that century a few hardy settlers established small farms at higher elevations on Santa Cruz, growing all of their own food and supplying some fresh vegetables to whaling ships.
During World War II the United States, with permission of the Ecuadorian government, operated an air base on Baltra, a small island off the north shore of Santa Cruz, from which the waters adjacent to the Panama Canal could be patrolled. An airstrip, weather station, Quonset huts, a machine shop, and a plant for distilling sea water made up the station. The base was subsequently used by a small detachment of the Ecuadorian air force. Ecuador had also maintained penal colonies in the Galápagos, but the most notorious, on Isabela, was shut down in 1958.
Ecology of the Galápagos. The islands of the archipelago all rose from the ocean floor as the tops of volcanoes, perhaps as long as 10 million years ago, and have never been connected by land to the mainland. Therefore the plants and animals must all have been introduced from elsewhere. When Europeans first visited the area, most of the islands were covered with lush vegetation, and several kinds of animals were present.
Some of the vegetation remains, its nature depending to a degree on elevation above sea level and the recentness of volcanic flows. Though many areas consist of little more than bare lava, others are covered with forests of giant cacti that rise as high as 20 feet (6 meters). Higher on some of the volcanic cones are forests of woody trees that are over 30 feet (9 meters) in height. Tree ferns and smaller plants and grasses also occur. All are descendants of mainland plants whose seeds were carried to the islands by winds, currents, or flying birds.
Land animals native to the Galápagos include a number of insects and other arthropods, land snails, lizards (notably the land iguana), snakes, a land tortoise, one kind of bat, two genera of rodents, and several birds. Many of these show no fear of humans. The birds and bats probably flew to the islands, borne by storms, while terrestrial forms were probably carried on rafts of debris that floated from the mainland. Marine animals include sea lions and marine iguanas.
As time passed, many of the plants, animals, and even shore fish changed so much in form and structure as to bear no close resemblance to their mainland ancestors. One of the most spectacular of these forms is the giant land tortoise, whose flesh was one of the chief attractions of the islands to the sailors who put in there. Uncounted thousands of these animals were carried away alive to supply fresh meat on the sailing ships, so that their numbers were reduced to the point of near extinction.
As ships sailed from the archipelago, mementos of their visits were left behind goats, pigs, rats, mice, weed seeds, and, upon occasion, sailors. The introduction of the goats left to multiply and serve as a source of fresh meat on later visits succeeded too well, for they eventually destroyed much of the native vegetation on many of the islands.
The uniqueness of the animals and plants on the Galápagos has continuously fascinated biologists, most notably Charles Darwin, who, as the naturalist aboard the survey ship H. M. S. Beagle, studied these forms from Sept. 15 to Oct. 20, 1835. Having earlier made extensive observations on the South American mainland, he speculated about the relationship of the islands species to those on the continent and noted their apparent adaption to the many dissimilar habitats that existed in the various islands of the group. Thus, according to his own account, began the train of thought that led to his formulation of the evolutionary theories described in On the Origin of Species in 1859.
The early 1960s saw the launching of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, the most ambitious organized attempt to study the ecology of the archipelago. The Charles Darwin Foundation, one of a number of cosponsoring organizations, built and staffed a laboratory building on Santa Cruz.
All of the islands are now administered by the Ecuadorian National Park Service. To save the archipelago's wildlife particularly the large tortoises Ecuador has, by presidential decree, made game preserves of most of the islands and has listed a large number of birds, mammals, and reptiles as being strictly protected.


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Union look to bounce back against Fire at PPL
Chester, PA – The Philadelphia Union go in search of a bounce-back performance on Saturday when the club hosts the Chicago Fire at PPL Park.
It's been a difficult stretch for Philadelphia as the Union will play their third match in eight days on Saturday with mixed results through their first two games last week.
Things got off to a good start last Saturday at Toyota Park against the Fire as Philadelphia was outplayed for most of the game but nicked a late goal in the 75th minute through Jack McInernrey and goalkeeper Zac MacMath made six saves to ensure the club took three points away from home.
Riding a wave of momentum from last Saturday's win, Philadelphia met the Los Angeles Galaxy at home on Wednesday and were humbled by a 4-1 score as Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane combined for two goals and three assists for the Galaxy.
The loss brings Philadelphia's home record to 1-2-2, something the club will need to correct if they want to make the postseason.
"I think our mentality might be a little tougher on the road, and we're trying to push things at home, Union manager John Hackworth said. "That game [against the Galaxy] opened up a lot, which hasn't been something we've been good at. We keep it a little tighter on the road."
As for Chicago, the Fire dominated the majority of last week's match with the Union and had several glorious chances to score. But MacMath came up with the best performance of his young career and the Fire came up empty at home.
"I don't think we dominated most of the game, I think it was the whole game," Chicago head coach Frank Klopas said. "You look at games like this and you scratch your head when you lose a game like this. We came out, we had good energy, we were good with the ball.
"In the first half there were opportunities where we forced the ball in bad spots. We knew they were a good team in transition. You walk away from the first half, we created enough opportunities but we didn't score. We had possession and pushed the game. Then a bad call on not even a foul. We fell asleep, they fell asleep on a quick restart and they give up a goal. The game is like that, that's soccer. You scratch your head. I felt we played well enough not to lose but to get the three points."
Saturday's match will also serve as a homecoming for Chicago midfielder Jeff Larentowicz, who was born in California, but grew up in Philadelphia, leading Chestnut Hill Academy to back-to-back Inter Academic League titles in 2001 and 2002 and helping renowned club powerhouse FC Delco to two United States Youth Soccer Association titles in 2002-2003.
"It's always nice," he said. "Every year it seems like my mom gets in touch with someone I haven't seen in a while and they come to a game. My immediate family goes to a lot of games on the east coast but this one's extra special because it brings a lot of people out."


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A Calgary officer opened fire Sunday morning after a stolen van drove in the wrong direction on Deerfoot Trail and rammed several police cruisers before being stopped.
The officer fired his gun "believing the driver posed an imminent threat," said acting Insp. Bruce Walker of the major crimes section, but he declined to elaborate as the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is now investigating.
The provincial agency investigates events involving police that result in death or serious injury, as well as sensitive allegations of police misconduct.
The events unfolded at 2:20 a.m. when police were called to Deerfoot Trail and Freeport Boulevard N.E. to respond to a report of car prowling, Walker said.
Officers confronted a man and woman as they got into a 2005 Dodge Caravan. The pair managed to escape police, slamming into parked vehicles before they fled down Deerfoot Trail, heading the wrong direction in the northbound lanes, said duty inspector Guy Baker.
"Given the dangerousness of the way this person was driving, we determined very quickly that we had to stop this individual before members of the public were seriously injured or killed," Baker said.
Police followed the stolen van down Deerfoot Trail to try to stop the driver and keep the public out of the way, he said.
They caught up to the stolen vehicle nearly eight kilometres away on 64th Avenue N.E. near the Deerfoot overpass, where they managed to block the van's path with patrol cars.
The driver of the van then began ramming police vehicles in an attempt to flee but he was immobilized. Walker said "several" cruisers were rammed in the incident.
At one point, an officer in one of the rammed vehicles believed the driver posed an imminent threat and fired his weapon.
Walker would not say how many or where the shots were fired, citing the ongoing ASIRT investigation.
Fire crews were called to help extricate the female passenger from the vehicle. The 26-year-old woman was taken to hospital in stable, non-life threatening condition, said EMS spokesman Adam Loria.
The driver, a man in his early 30s, was assessed at the scene and released to police, Loria added. Police said the man is known to them.
Pascal Marchand, a freelance photographer, said he arrived at the scene just as an ambulance was pulling away with a police cruiser following behind.
"I noticed at least three cop cars that were damaged," Marchand said. "One was right next to the suspect car, and I assume that's the one that gave the last hit. Two other cop cars were also quite badly damaged."
He counted about 20 police cruisers, and a couple ambulances and fire trucks at the scene. There were no civilian vehicles in sight at the time, though police had begun to close access to and from 64th Avenue to Deerfoot Trail.
Road closures continued through part of Sunday.
Charges were pending.
ASIRT spokeswoman Sarah Jackson confirmed the agency was investigating but still in the process of gathering information and could not offer further comment.


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Editor's note: While Patrick Caneday takes some time off, we're running some of his choices for re-publication. This column was first published Aug. 29, 2009.
I was feeling rather morose the other day. Kind of pathetic, lowly, defeated and self-loathing. There was a dull pain in my chest that I attribute to being unsatisfied with my job, having not left a significant mark upon this world by the age of 42, having neither made the best-seller list — which would actually require writing a book — nor being a millionaire and owning a vacation home in either Cambria or Palm Springs. Or it could be the high cholesterol.
I needed to get myself out of this funk. Sometimes we have to do something physical to trigger something emotional and spiritual.
I started looking for something to write about — forcing myself, really — and opened an old journal I'd written in 1994 while on a road trip through the Four Corners region of the Southwest.
Not long ago I read that the Four Corners marker is not actually in the right place. The cement block famed for being the exact location where the corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet is in fact 1,875 feet away from the real geographical location, experts say. Placing too much faith in the man-made can be a mistake.
I recognize the words in this journal and the person who wrote them, and I am embarrassed for him. He was young, so young in so many ways — single, and without responsibilities. His words are the rhapsodic ramblings of an adventure-seeking dreamer. And he's scared to death when he finds it.
With the music of Arcangelo Corelli blaring from the tape deck, I'd left Flagstaff, Ariz., and drove through Monument Valley into the remotest regions of southern Utah. As day's end neared, I followed a line on a map that was supposed to lead me to a small town. The paved road turned to dirt, and the dirt to mud as an ominous rain began to fall. And what I found in place of civilization was an abandoned motel and several acres of junked cars.
I turned back, gas gauge showing empty, and retraced my route. It was at least 50 miles in any direction to any dot on the map, not that I trusted the map anymore. The words in this journal entry are that of a scared, lost, intimidated and humbled fool; lost in the wilderness that I'd put myself in, about to stall out on a dirt road and overcome with panic at being alone in the wilds of Utah.
I haven't changed much in 15 years.
I have days when I feel like a competent parent; never a great one, just coping and not making too many mistakes. Those are the good days. Most of the time I feel like fodder for my daughters' tell-all book 30 years from now; a lazier, heavier version of Joan Crawford in "Mommy Dearest."
I go to church, but often forget to take it with me. I am an employee, but would rather not be in the office. I am a son, but haven't said thank you enough to my parents. I am a citizen, but water my lawn more than recommended. I am a cook, but don't feed enough people. I am a human, but am too often inhumane.
I am not a man of action. Never have been. I'm one who lets life unfold before him, rather than wrenching it open myself. And while I'm letting the world happen, I'm constantly distracted — by work, chores, tabloid headlines and Discovery Channel shows about fish or bridges. All of the things we fill our time with, the things that keep our minds occupied so we can't hear the silence or feel the real emotions inside that scare us. We're so distracted that we neglect to see that the needle is on empty.
What we need to do once in a while is put ourselves 50 or 1,000 miles out of our comfort zone down a dirt road and see what happens. We need self-discovery, not just the looking-inward kind, but the looking-outward-at-the-world kind. Make things out there known in here, in yourself. The Grand Canyon is just a myth until you see it for yourself. And so is happiness.
Ever notice how you feel a little more at peace with yourself when you wear your favorite shirt? How your car seems to drive better after you've washed it? How much more you appreciate life after you've jumped out of a plane and the parachute opens?
It's communion. Taking a cracker and imparting it with the power to change you. A physical action symbolizing a spiritual benchmark. An expression of faith in something outside yourself, for we can't do it on our own.
You don't have to walk on hot coals, but there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe all you need is a new haircut.
As my car sputtered into a campsite that wasn't on the map, I came across a park ranger named Nate. I about cried. He told me he could only sell me four gallons of gas; more than I needed. I took his gas, but stayed the night in his beautiful hidden campground. I can still picture that southwest sky catching fire as the sun set after the rains.
I've been thinking a lot lately about change. And it scares the hell out of me. It's an understandable fear, but it paralyzes me with inaction nonetheless.
At some point I have to learn that I'm not in control. Nate is.
PATRICK CANEDAY is a Glendale native who lives and works in Burbank. Stay in touch with him on Facebook, at www.patrickcaneday.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.


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An Amazon Review, and a Quirky Approach to Disclosure
Is it ethical for a venture capital investor to praise a product put out by a company he's invested in without disclosing his financial interest?
James D. Robinson IV, a founder of RRE Ventures in New York City, which is currently investing from a $280 million fund raised this year, did just that. RRE is an investor in Quirky Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and OnDeck Capital Inc.
In a review on Amazon.com, Mr. Robinson praised Aros, an air conditioner introduced in May by Quirky Inc. and General Electric Co., rating it a high five out of five stars.
"Beautiful, functional, smart," he wrote. More on this after the jump…


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Mail Business, Real Estate Business, or Both?
In the late 1950s, McDonald's executives discovered that being in the real estate business was more profitable than focusing solely on the food business. McDonald's founder Ray Kroc had a business partner, Harry J. Sonneborn, who devised a plan to purchase or lease the land on which nearly all McDonald's restaurants would be located. He then charged franchisees a monthly rental fee for the land, or a percentage of their sales, whichever was greater. The rest, as they say, is entrepreneurial history.


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The Norris Group is private money lender headquartered in Riverside, CA. They provide funding in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and Kern County. They offer lending solutions for ...


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Upgrading Your Search Experience
January 19, 2012
More News & Resources:
As an organization that does a lot of research, we at Reconnecting America appreciate the importance of quickly finding something. That's why we recently asked our website developer to enhance the tagging system for our content.
Getting on the Right Track: Real-world Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation
January 17, 2012
More News & Resources:
The Federal Transit Administration will hold a free workshop on climate change adaption on March 21-22 in Arlington, Va. "Getting on the Right Track: Real-world Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation" will be held 1310 North Courthouse Rd, Suite 600, Arlington, Va.


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These Indian James Bond comics are devoid of context and proper translation, but they're better that way. After all, it's a spy's job to act mysterious, and I honestly have no idea what the hell's going on here. Semi-NSFW.
You can find more head-scratching strips at Bully's Comics. [Spotted on NYMag]


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A lot of web designers are mainly concerned with creating beautiful
websites for their clients. They want the websites they create to be
picture-perfect, impressive, and works of art. They don't put much
thought into a website after they hand it over to the client.
If this is your mindset, you're leaving money on the table. Also, my
experience training web designers for over 8 years tells me results
(not design) make the biggest difference between the web designers who
earn a lot and those who don't.
In other words, you should be making websites that make your clients
more money. By thinking like a business owner you'll be able to charge
a much higher hourly rate. This mindset starts by viewing your
websites as more than just a pretty face.
Business owners care more about the statistics of their website. How
many visitors did they get this month? Is that more than last month?
How many people purchased something? How many people left without
buying? Why?
To a business owner, traffic is very valuable. They work hard to get
people to visit their site so they want them to stay a while and buy
If you understand this and can help your clients make more sales,
you'll be seen as a complete expert. You'll have more referrals than
you know what to do with and you'll be able to increase your rates.
The first step in getting a website visitor to remain on a website is
creating a website that passes the 5-second test.
The 5-Second Test
Most visitors will come to a website, give it a quick glance and, if
nothing captures their attention, they'll hit the "back" button and
disappear forever. Sadly, they don't read every word and most of them
ignore 95% of the stuff you worked so hard to create.
You can try this test now with your portfolio website or a client's website…
- Go to the site you want to test. Spend just 5 seconds looking
at it. Then, come back to this page.
- Then, answer this question: Did the website grab my attention? Was
there anything that made me want to find out more?
If you find it difficult to answer this question about your own
website, ask a handful of people to do the same thing you just did to
your site. You might be surprised to learn that your visitors aren't
looking at what you expect.
Here are two steps to make sure the websites you create pass the 5-second test:
1. Fix the headline.
The headline should be the first thing a visitor sees and it should
practically force them to read more. Don't make the mistake of
assuming your visitors will read all the text on the page. Studies
show 80% of visitors read the headline, only 20% read the rest. Can
you see why the headline is so important?
So what makes a good headline?
- Good headlines are specific. Make sure the headline you write
could only be at the top of the website you're creating. If it could
work on a competitor's site, it's not specific enough. Dig deep to
find out how your client is different from everyone else and use those
- Good headlines use powerful words that grab attention and inspire
action. Some examples are Shocking, Limited Offer, Effective,
Rewarding, Irresistible, Discover, Critical, Fascinating, Masterpiece,
Tempting… (Tip: Look through your client's customer testimonials to
see what words they use.)
2. Ask the visitor to do something.
Most websites ask the visitor to do something, but they don't give
anything in return. If you want visitors to take action, you need to
reward them.
Let's say your client wants to get the name and email address of
everyone who visits his site so he can follow up with them. He should
offer something – like a free report, a trial, a consultation or maybe
a sample product – in exchange for their name and email address.
This is known as an irresistible offer. It just means the visitors are
going to get something for giving something. It's based on a promise
from both parties: If you give me your name and number, I'll give you
this widget worth $27. To get more people taking you up on the offer,
it should be something they can't walk away from.
Without a great – and obvious – offer, visitors will come to your
site, glance around and leave. With an irresistible offer, you can
turn visitors into loyal fans who return and buy.
Each paragraph of the rest of the copy should support this goal
(visitors exchanging their info for the offer). Remember to be
specific and explain what the visitors will get out of the deal.
Remove any distractions that get in the way of the message. Get rid of
extra info, any links that take them away from the main message or
away from the site, and images that aren't relevant.
At this point, you might be wondering why your client would want the
visitor's information…
The answer is so they can follow up (by email or newsletter) with
these visitors, gain trust, build a relationship, get repeat visitors,
and increase their chances of getting a sale.
Web Designers Beware
I often see websites where web designers let their ideas and design
get in the way of the message. Beautiful sites are great, but design
alone won't make money. People buy because of the message. Work with
your clients to create compelling copy and irresistible offers and
you'll be unstoppable.
To learn more about creating websites that get results, join our next
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But let's focus today on the fashion of Downton Abbey, which as always represents the culture and the lifestyle of the times.
Needless to say that Susannah Buxton as a costume designer for the series won a few awards.
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