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Students at the Sandy Hook Elementary School will not have to make up the days they missed in the wake of last month's massacre in Newtown.
The state Board of Education on Wednesday granted a waiver shortening their school year from the mandatory 180 days to 177 days. The school district originally had planned a 183-day school year.
The Sandy Hook school was closed after the Dec. 14 shooting that left 20 students and six faculty members dead.
The more than 400 students from the school returned to classes on Jan. 4 at a former middle school in Monroe that was renovated for them.
Because of an already planned holiday break, students missed just six scheduled days of classes.
The General Assembly in December passed legislation allowing for the waiver.

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I have witnessed and taken part in the many changes in HIV care over the past 25 years. At the beginning of the epidemic, silence and fear was the name of the game. It took HIV activists taking control of their health care destiny to force the medical community to treat the disease and the patient.
HIV is now a chronic treatable disease, but it has a whole new set of issues regarding conditions related to prematu cian should feel for any tender areas, thickened lesions, shallow indentations, firm masses, or other abnormalities. I also ask the patient if they have performed an anal self-exam by using their finger to feel around for any lumps or bumps inside their anus. This can help guide me when I perform the digital anorectal exam.
Anal Pap smears are performed in a similar fashion to cervical Pap smears, with the area being swabbed to collect cells, which are then examined under a microscope. They can detect abnormal cells (anal dysplasia), but the anal Pap smear may be less likely to correlate with the degree of anal dysplasia that can be seen on a biopsy of an anal lesion revealed by high resolution anoscopy (HRA). Because such specificity is lacking, and there haven't been any evidence-based clinical trials to evaluate anal cancer screening methods in preventing anal cancer, many clinicians feel that anal Pap smears should not be done at this time. However, I agree with other experts in the field who have proposed yearly anal Pap smears for all HIV-positive individuals. If the anal Pap is normal, continued annual screening is suggested. Experts also recommend anal Pap smears every one to two years for other high-risk groups and if normal, continued screening every two or three years. If any abnormal cells are detected, HRA with biopsy is recommended. However, these guidelines may be limited by the need to train a greater number of clinicians in performing HRAs and biopsies. It is also important for these screening tests to be administered in a non-hospital setting, to maximize patient compliance with screening and follow-up.
High-risk HPV subtypes, especially 16 and 18, are associated with cervical, anal, penile, vulvar, vaginal, and oral cancers. Cervical cancer is an AIDS-defining malignancy and its incidence has been decreasing with aggressive screening and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions or higher grade cervical dysplasia. Cervical cancer affected 35-40 per 100,000 women in the general population prior to cervical cancer screening and treatment and has now decreased to about 8-10 per 100,000.
Though most genital and oral cancers are caused by high risk HPV, these cancers are not increasing as fast as anal cancer in HIV-positive individuals and other high-risk groups. Compared to the more common lung cancer, penile, vaginal, and vulvar cancers are rare -- between 0.42 and 1.8 per 100,000. Oral cancer affects an average of six men and 1.76 women per 100,000.
Anal cancer in the general population is still very rare and affects more women than men. The incidence in men is 1.14/100,000 compared to 1.76/100,000 in women. Individuals at increased risk for developing anal cancer include HIV-positive men and women; HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM); women with a history of cervical, vaginal, or vulvar cancer or cervical dysplasia; chronically immunosuppressed organ transplant patients; men and women with a history of anal warts; and people who smoke tobacco. But anal cancer, a non-AIDS-defining malignancy, is increasing in the HIV population and other high-risk groups. The incidence of anal cancer in HIV-positive MSM is now much higher than the incidence of cervical cancer was in the general population before screening and treatment became the standard of care. Some studies have shown that the rate ranges from 70-175 per 100,000 HIV-positive MSM. There is a two-fold increase in anal cancer in HIV-positive women age 40 or older than in women that age in the general population.
Like HIV, there is also a stigma associated with anal cancer compared to other forms of cancer. The most recent high-profile person with anal cancer was Farrah Fawcett and many people did not even know that she died from it. Though screening tests can find early signs of disease in people who are not yet sick, that stigma may keep people from getting screened the same way it keeps people from getting tested for HIV. The fact that there is no consensus from the medical community about the need for anal cancer screenings is an additional obstacle.
The New York State Department of Health's AIDS Institute is the only body that recommends screening with anal Pap smears and digital anorectal exams. It makes sense to perform anal cancer screening in selected high-risk groups, given the increased rates of pre-cancerous anal dysplasia and anal cancer in these groups. Unfortunately, routine screening guidelines have not yet been established by most major medical organizations, such as the American Academy of HIV Medicine, American Cancer Society, American College of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, or the International Antiviral Society (IAS-USA).
It took about eight years for cervical cancer screening and the treatment of pre-cancerous cervical lesions to become standard of care. There weren't any controlled clinical trials conducted to show that cancer screening with Pap smears prevented cervical cancer. What was seen over the course of many years is that cervical cancer rates decreased because of screening and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions. High-risk groups for developing anal cancer should not wait to be screened and treated for high-grade anal dysplasia or these pre-cancerous lesions. Take charge of your anal health. Ask for your DARE exam and your anal Pap smear! If you have any abnormality on either, make sure you get a thorough high resolution anoscopy and treatment for any pre-cancerous lesions.
Gary Bucher, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., is a leading anal dysplasia and anal cancer prevention specialist in the U.S. Dr. Bucher is certified in performing high resolution anoscopy for the evaluation and treatment of anal pre-cancerous lesions. He is the founder and medical director of Anal Dysplasia Clinic MidWest with locations in Chicago and St. Louis, and is involved in clinical trials in the field. Dr. Bucher can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or www.AnalDysplasiaClinic.com.


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Kingfish Labs Raises $500,000 To Turn Facebook Profiles Into Dating Profiles And Mutual Friends Into Matchmakers
There are a lot of dating sites and many of them pull in Facebook data. Few of them actually sit on top of Facebook and reorder profiles based on your dating preferences.
Yoke is Kingfish Lab's first Facebook app. Kingfish Labs is a new company that raised $500,000 from Lerer Ventures and Softbank Capital to crunch Facebook data and create recommendation apps.
"Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's first five years were about building a user base and the next five are about creating an app economy. We believe that," says Kingfish Labs co-founder Rob Fishman.
Kingfish Labs and Yoke were founded by Fishman and a fellow Huffington Post employee, Jeff Revesz.
Rob Fishman served as Huffington Post's social media editor. Jeff Revesz joined the company in 2010 when his startup, Adaptive Semantics, was acquired. There they met Ken Lerer, Huffington Post's co-founder and an investor in Kingfish Labs. They're working out of Lerer Ventures' office at 560 Broadway in New York City.
Yoke launched out of private beta last week; 2,500 people have signed up to use the service. When a user signs up for Yoke, they can say if they're single or in a relationship. If they're in a relationship, they become a matchmaker and can introduce single friends to each other. If they're single, they can send a Yoke or Facebook message to a friend for an introduction to the second degree person.
Fishman says he and his team of four have been working to analyze Facebook data for future Yoke-like products.
"It's easy to imagine a situation where the Facebook recommendation data we have on the back end can be generalized," says Fishman. "You could have an app that recommends music to you, and it becomes easier to make because we've already done the work on the back end. Or if you're a publisher like Huffington Post and a Facebook user stumbles across an article, they can recommend it to other like-minded people. The most obvious layer is recommending people to people, like Yoke, but you can drill down deeper."
Here's Yoke in action:
On Facebook, sign up and choose your relationship status:
Yoke will then recommend people for you to set up, or people for you to meet based on things like your mutual friend count. It will tell you what you have in common along with mutual friends. There's currently no way to block against de-friended exes though.
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Early Intervention: The Essential Readings
Early Intervention: The Essential Readings
ISBN: 978-0-470-75577-8 January 2008 Wiley-Blackwell 368 Pages
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- A collection of the best recent papers on Early Intervention.
- Brings together current theory, research and practice in EI with young children.
- Covers a range of topics in childhood development and intervention.
- Each paper is introduced and contextualised by the editor.
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Introduction: What is Early Intervention? (Maurice A. Feldman).
Part I: A Model of Early Intervention.
Introduction To Chapter 1.
1. Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Vulnerable Children: A Developmental Perspective. (Michael J. Guralnick).
Part II: Early Out-of-home Programs: Primary Prevention of Cognitive Deficits and School Failure in At-risk Children.
Introduction to Chapter 2.
2. Applying the findings of developmental psychology to improve early childhood intervention. (Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco).
Introduction to Chapter 3.
3. Persistent Effects of Early Childhood Education on High-risk Children and Their Mothers. (Craig T. Ramey, Frances A. Campbell, Margaret Burchinal, Martie L. Skinner, David M. Gardner, and Sharon L. Ramey).
Introduction to Chapter 4.
4. Day-care Participation as a Protective Factor in the Cognitive Development of Low-income Children. (Margaret O'Brien Caughy, Janet A. DiPietro, and Donna M. Strobino).
Part III: Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Programs for Children with Established Disabilities.
Introduction to Chapter 5.
5. The Effectiveness of Early Intervention: Examining Risk Factors and Pathways to Enhanced Development. (Lisa J. Berlin, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Cecelia McCarton, and Marie C. McCormick).
Introduction to Chapter 6.
6. Randomized Trial of Intensive Early Intervention for Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder. (Tristram Smith, Annette D. Groen, and Jacqueline W. Wynn).
Part IV: Home Visiting Programs: Primary and Secondary Prevention in At-risk Children.
Introduction to Chapter 7.
7. Effectiveness of Home-based Early Intervention on the Language Development of Children of Mothers with Mental Retardation. (Maurice A. Feldman, Bruce Sparks, and Laurie Case).
Introduction to Chapter 8.
8. Effects of Early Intervention on Psychiatric Symptoms of Young Adults in Low-risk and High-risk Families. (Eeva T. Aronen and Terttu Arajarvi).
Introduction to Chapter 9.
9. Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal an Antisocial Behavior: Fifteen-year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial. (David Olds, Charles R. Henderson, Jr. Robert Cole, John Eckenrode, Harriet Kitzman, Dennis Luckey, Lisa Pettitt, Kimberly Sidora, Pamela Morris, and Jane Powers).
Part V. Family Aspects.
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10. Revisiting "Rethinking Early Intervention". (Carl J. Dunst).
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11. The Effect of Early Intervention Services on Maternal Well-being. (Marji Erickson Warfield, Penny Hauser-Cram, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Jack P. Shonkoff, Carole C. Upshur).
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12. Family Predictors of Maternal and Paternal Involvement in Programs for Young Children with Disabilities. (Susana Gavidia-Payne and Zolinda Stoneman).
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Benthem Crouwel's expansion and renovation of the Stedelijk Museum of contemporary art and design in Amsterdam is neither morphology nor alchemy, writes Felix Mara. Photography by Jannes Linders
The Netherlands' unique social dualism, balancing narrow, bourgeois, conservative values with liberalism, laissez-faire and multiculturalism, is perhaps most pronounced in its capital, Amsterdam. The city's Stedelijk Museum of modern and contemporary art and design thrives on this dynamic. Dwelling in a purpose-built neo-Dutch Renaissance pile designed by AW Weissman since 1895, it is a pedestal for a renowned collection rendered near-priceless by scarcity and esotericism but, despite high admission charges, it trades on accessibility and seemingly courts controversy.
In 1938, with the director away, Willem Sandberg, who later replaced him, influentially stripped out and whitewashed the interior, throwing exhibits into stark contrast with their setting. Many of these displays, and the museum's landmark temporary exhibitions have themselves been controversial and, in 2006, marking the start of demolition work on Sandberg's 1954 glassy extension prior to the Stedelijk's expansion and renovation, a council member threw a stone through one of its windows.
Since its reopening in September, the Stedelijk is more completely an architectural duality. As in its Anne Frank House project, architect Benthem Crouwel has worked at opposite poles on new and existing fabric. The renovation work to the 1895 museum is sympathetic to Weissman's approach, which is, in the linguistic sense, morphological, working with traditional architectural vocabularies and design disciplines, whereas the expansion project sees the architect in the role of alchemist, seemingly materialising something unprecedented and remarkable out of thin air.
Cultures and man-made environments are inherently unnatural, but the artificiality of Amsterdam, with its dense population, high water table and complex religious and colonial history, rivals Venice, Tokyo and New York. At the Stedelijk, this context is conflated with the museum's artificial and rarefied role and its focus on transformations and radical events. In place of a typical Amsterdam canal corridor or a commanding dockside site, its setting is the Museumplein, a plaza with a large public lawn and a string of cultural buildings: Cuypers' eclectic Rijksmuseum, originally home to the Stedelijk's collection; Rietveld's Van Gogh Museum, extended by Kurokawa in 1999, into which most of the Stedelijk's Van Goghs were decanted, and the Concertgebouw.
Whereas these neighbours retain entrances to the north, Benthem and Crouwel have radically moved the Stedelijk's to its south side, and this integration with the Museumplein is reinforced by concentrating its public facilities, including the entrance area, restaurant and shop in a large, virtually column-free space in a glass-enveloped space within the new extension, level with the external plaza and plugged into the central circulation axis of the original Stedelijk.
The price tag for this generous ground-floor space is the location of what is the nations' largest free-span exhibition gallery in the basement, a major undertaking, given Amsterdam's ground conditions. This gallery, served by a lift in a freestanding tower to the south, provides a permanent home for the museum's remarkable collection, which had outgrown the substandard accommodation and inadequate climate control in Weissman's museum.
Adding this gallery to the upper floor accommodation for temporary exhibitions, offices and auditorium would have increased either the extension's height, constrained by the original Stedelijk's, or its footprint.
The extension makes a clean break with Weissman's architectural language, with no attempt to match and rhyme with its banded masonry, quoins, bullseyes, gables, pinnacles, scrolls, parapet urns, alternating sun-ray voussoirs, flattened arches, diamond panels and bosses, contrasting smooth surfaces and simple forms with Weissman's texture and elaborate detail, just as Sandberg had transformed his interiors. 'We painted everything Sandberg white,' says partner Mels Crouwel. Like the glazed junctions between old and new, this leaves the original museum visually intact by avoiding a muddle.
Of course, the best-known fact about the Stedelijk extension is its 'bathtub' sobriquet. Although Crouwel is very much part of Amsterdam's architectural establishment, his tone of voice conveys a familiar, urbane, blasé and culturally gridlocked Continental cynicism. 'I'm getting a bit tired of it: we nicknamed it "the bathtub" ourselves - a nickname is expected in Amsterdam, so we got in there first.' 'The bathtub' is accurate enough, because of the colour, finish and sump of the volume, which hovers above ground-floor level and with its rooftop flange it resembles a modern tub ready to be lowered into its housing.
These sobriquets are a fact of architectural life and hardly terminal. Actors refer to inadvertent onstage laughter as 'corpsing', because it shatters an audience's suspended disbelief and Prince Charles has used epithets to dismiss buildings, as though picking off game with a shotgun: 'Old 1930s wireless'. Bang! 'A dustbin on the outside'. Splat!
But architectural life can go on after these comparisons have been made, just as architects can move on after word pictures have served their purpose in design development, especially where the resemblance stops well short of mimesis, as it does at the Stedelijk. It's more surreal than hyper-real.
The bathtub is certainly an apt image, resonating with art works by Janine Antoni and Beuys as well as Duchamp's urinal. Like galleries, bathtubs are places for contemplation and 'Eureka moments' and you could see the new temporary gallery as a container that is periodically refilled. Its rude, crude and utilitarian connotations have helped drive the Stedelijk's well-oiled publicity machine.
Another quirky, if more detailed, moment is the squiggly movement joint in the bathtub's monocoque cladding, repeated on each elevation. With a length of 100m, the tub is said to have the largest composite building envelope in the world and its smooth, flat surface required careful and ingenious design and planning. Crouwel says these movement joints are tongue-in-cheek, provided because the architects were told they were necessary, despite the choice of a form of construction which could accommodate thermal movement.
'The rest is purely functional,' says Crouwel. I'm inclined to believe him, given Benthem Crouwel's functionalist pedigree and portfolio of high-profile architectural and infrastructure projects. Despite the quality of its daylit spaces, the original building had a leaking roof, so paintings were damaged and in 2004 the fire department closed the Stedelijk. Sandberg's glazed extension opened up views of the exhibits to passers-by but was problematic for light-sensitive objects. The new Stedelijk benefits from a rigorous functional approach, with a reason for everything.
The bathtub's roof-level flange shelters the entrance plaza from rain and sun. Its inclined walls shed rainwater, with all the pragmatism of traditional Amsterdam facades. The museum's spatial continuity and circulation work beautifully, helping visitors to choose their route, whether to the existing galleries or to new exhibition halls via broad, elegant suspended and bracketed staircases. An escalator clad in a yellow tube with radiused corners transports visitors directly from lower basement to first floor level and back again, by-passing ground-floor distractions.
The details have a nice, clean touch, from the sturdily haunched legs of the bathtub to the oval profile brackets supporting the staircase down to the basement, its balustrade elevations gently radiused. The basement library doors are also a delight and the glass walls that enclose the space below the tub are elegantly braced by dark cables connected to tapering bracket plates: they don't disappear, though clearly don't inhabit the same architectural universe as the tub and Weissman's facade.
As is often the case, you might feel short-changed if you look down on that bathtub flange only to realise that it isn't really wafer-thin. The section through this canopy also gives this trick away, however, it also reveals a surprisingly integrated relationship between the forms of the old and new fabric. Taken as a whole, and in its continuity with earlier Benthem Crouwel projects, this extension and renovation is neither morphology nor alchemy, but a metamorphosis. As Picasso said: 'There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
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Neues Museum, Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects (Kester Rattenbury)
Bijlmer Station, Amsterdam by Grimshaw Architects (Jaffer Kolb)
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh by Gareth Hoskins Architects (Richard Murphy)
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford by Rick Mather (Felix Mara)
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Team news for Tuesday night's League Two clash between Stevenage and visiting Gillingham at Broadhall Way.
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Team news for Tuesday night's League Two clash between Stevenage and visiting Gillingham at Broadhall Way.
Stevenage manager Graham Westley is set to welcome back Byron Harrison for the game. The striker returns to the squad after he was cup-tied for the FA Cup clash with Reading.
Midfielder John Mousinho missed the defeat to the Royals' after he limped off against Rotherham but could return to the squad.
The versatile Darius Charles, who scored the equaliser against Brian McDermott's side on Saturday, was substituted with cramp but is set be fit to feature against the Gills.
Midfielder Stacy Long and striker Yemi Odubade both featured as substitute's against Reading and are pushing for starts following their returns from injury.
Midfield duo Darren Murphy (shoulder) and Joel Byrom (foot/ankle) are both still struggling to be fit.
Gillingham manager Andy Hessenthaler will be without Danny Spiller.
The midfielder requires surgery on a badly fractured finger sustained against Chesterfield and faces a spell on the sidelines to ensure he does not risk losing part of his finger.
Fellow midfielder Andy Barcham missed the win against Port Vale with an ankle problem but after having an injection to numb the pain, may feature at Broadhall Way.
Winger Dennis Oli made a return to training following injury but is still likely to be two weeks away from a return to the first-team fold while long-term absentee Simon King remains sidelined with an ankle injury.
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Norma, it looks alive and happy. You can use molasses if you want but it's not necessary. You can treat it like any starter now. Just feed it and maintain it per your normal routine and the yeast will propagate itself as any other strain of yeast would. I would feed it now with 50gm of water and flour each. Your new starter is probably starving. That's not much food and water that you gave it initially for 2gm of CY.
Norma, will you continue to add molasses to the feeding regimen? If you want to see if it's possible if another strain of yeast will take over or not, which I highly doubt but never the less it would be nice to test for, you may want to not add any more molasses. It could mask other flavors that could be contributed by another strain that could potentially develop in your CY starter. Also if you plan on or interested in doing a side by side comparison of pizzas using your new CY starter versus just fresh (or thawed) CY, the molasses will have to somehow be accounted for and also added to the regular CY formula. If you like the smell of molasses, perhaps you can just keep an open jar on the counter where you can just smell it from time to time as you work. . Norma, I'm just kidding a bit with you here. For all your other starters and as you have time, can you tell me how often you use them, your usual routine for maintaining them, if you refrigerate them or just keep them at room temps, how long it typically takes for them to become active after feedings, etc? Chau
Norma, from Craig's thread, you had asked me if I had posted about my CY starter before. I did mention it in the following thread but chose to not update that thread.Reply 43. http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,12824.40.html
Chau,I remember that thread now you referenced. Do you plan on exerimenting more with a CY starter? Norma
Norma, I have been experimenting with the CY starter on and off. I go through phases of using IDY, starters, hybrid starters, and my CY starter. Just a heads up, if you leave the CY starter or even an IDY poolish on the counter or in the fridge too long without refreshing it, it will develop acidic notes to them.If that happens, just dump about 90%+ of it, refresh, and allow it to become active again. The usual flavor(less) profile wil return.Chau
Well Norma, it was really hungry and there is a huge load of yeast in it, 2gm plus! Once it is super active, I would dump 50-75% of it and refeed with just flour and water. It's ready to be used, but f you don't have plans for it, you cam also put it into the fridge immediately after feeding. He cold is the temp of your fridge?Chau
Norma no need to make a new starter. If you stop feeding it molasses, the molasses will just get diluted out over the next 4-5 feedings. No harm in feeding it molasses either though. I just suggested to leave it out so the situation doesn't become too complicated IF you want to do a comparison test between a dough with fresh CY vs a dough with the CY starter. You don't have to do this test by any means. If you want you can continue feeding the starter with molasses and just use it when you need it. The suggestions are just that, suggestions.Again, dump half, refeed, and when it domes, it's ready to be used.
Yes, you used a lot initially but it's no big deal. Since it was frozen initially, better to use a lot than not enough. So about diluting the molasses. If you stop adding molasses and just feed it with flour and water, this is what would happen....If you dump 1/2 of the starter and refeed with just flour and water, only about 50% of the molasses will remain. Once that gets active, you discard another 50% starter and refeed. Now only 25% of the original amount of molasses remains, so on and so forth. Every time you dump and refeed without molasses, the original amount is reduced by 50% until the residual amount is so small it's virtually undetectable.So first dumping and feeding = 50% of original amount of molasses remains2nd dump and feed= 25%3rd = 12.5%4th = 6.25%5th = 3.12% leftAnd that's with dumping 50% of the active starter. If you were to dump 75% -90%, the amount of molasses would be diluted even quicker. So if you dump 95% of the active starter, refeed with the same volume thatyou discarded, it would take maybe 2 cycles for most of that molasses to be gone. For now though, you can use this active starter to make dough until you are ready to do a test between fresh CY and CY starter. No need to wait until all the molasses is gone you know. Also you can also save some of this CY starter in dry form to reactivate at a later date, in case you ever lose or get tired of this CY starter.To do this, just spread a thin film of active starter on wax or parchment paper and let it air dry. Then save it in a ziplock. You can always reactivate it later like any starter, but it will take about 3 days to become active.Chau
Chau,Thanks so much for the detailed information about what to do with this starter! Do you really think this starter could be used already? Norma
You're welcome Norma. Yes, the starter is ready to use. If it is active an hour after feeding and will pass the float test, that is a bit of it will float in water, it is ready to use. I would simply treat and use it as any other starter.


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With the Microhoo deal dying off in July, Microsoft has turned its acquisitive eye to Europe, where it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online, the company behind Ciao, one of Europe's leading price comparison, shopping, and consumer reviews sites.
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It is far too early to predict who will replace Saxby Chambliss as Georgia's next senator, but it's going to be the most entertaining Senate race voters have seen in a long time.
The Democratic nominee will most likely be Michelle Nunn. As the daughter of retired Sen. Sam Nunn, she should be able to raise more than enough money to win that primary.
The Republican side is the one to watch because you have five credible candidates who will be gouging and biting each other all the way to the May 20 primary.
The candidate who stands above all the rest is Rep. Paul Broun, the ultraconservative congressman who insists the earth is only 9,000 years old and that the classes he took in medical school were all "lies straight from the pits of hell."
The prospect of Broun actually winning the nomination is causing some sleepless nights for establishment Republicans. They are convinced that the nomination of an extremist like Broun will enable Democrats to win the Senate seat.
Broun doesn't appear to be disturbed by those criticisms, however, and he is setting the standard that nearly every other candidate in this race is trying to achieve. Broun's opponents have been trying to position themselves as being even more conservative than he is, a feat that just isn't possible under the current laws of physics.
This has resulted in such developments as Rep. Jack Kingston, who had always been a somewhat moderate politician, demanding that poor children be forced to sweep out the cafeteria before they are allowed to eat a federally subsidized school lunch.
"Why don't you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch?" Kingston asked in a recent speech. "Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria ... think what we would gain as a society in getting people, getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch."
Kingston's controversial remark was too much for one of the other Republicans in this primary race: David Perdue, the retired business executive who is a cousin of former Gov. Sonny Perdue.
"With all the nonsense worth criticizing in Washington right now, Congressman Kingston chose to ridicule children who, through no fault of their own, rely on free school lunches," Perdue said. "The congressman should be focused on growing the economy so that these children's parents have quality jobs and don't need the assistance."
Perdue set himself up as a moderate candidate with that comment, but Georgia Republicans are a very conservative group; it could ultimately hurt him.
Rep. Phil Gingrey has also been working hard to show the voters he is even more conservative than Broun.
Gingrey may have gone a little too far, however, because he's been scaring off his own people with some of his rhetoric. Four of Gingrey's top staffers abruptly resigned from his campaign shortly after he complained that, as a member of Congress, "I'm stuck here making $172,000 a year."
The other major Republican candidate is former Secretary of State Karen Handel. Like Kingston, Handel was once a moderate Republican who even tried to win support from gay voters. She has become much more conservative over the past few years.
Handel's weakness has been her inability to solicit cash contributions from her supporters. She lags behind candidates like Kingston and Gingrey in raising money, although her campaign aides contend she can overcome that with the help of grass-roots organizations she put together in earlier statewide campaigns.
Broun doesn't raise that much money, either, but he has already proved he doesn't need a lot of money to win an election. His supporters are so committed to Broun's cause that they would seemingly crawl naked over 2 miles of broken glass to cast their ballots for him on Election Day.
At this point, the Republican primary looks like a battle among the four other candidates to see which one can make it into a runoff with Broun.
It will take a little more sorting out before we know who that other candidate will be, but it's going to be fun to watch the process unfold.
Tom Crawford is editor of The Georgia Report. His column appears Wednesdays and at gainesvilletimes.com/viewpoint.


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Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times, told Alec Baldwin's WNYC podcast "Here's the Thing" that she expects herself to help women succeed.
"I don't expect that I can ever raise all female boats, but I try to go out of my way, not to the exclusion of men, but I do take a particular interest in careers and work of many of the younger women at the Times and ... and I'm like open about it," Abramson said. "If anyone has a problem with that, too bad."
She also told her own ladies-helping-ladies anecdote:
"[Maureen Dowd] came up to me at the book party and she said, 'Do you know of any good women we can hire?'" Abramson remembered. "And so I looked at her with, it was kind of, 'What am I, chopped liver?' look. And she said, 'You would never leave The Journal' and I said, 'Oh, wouldn't I?' ... And she had, like, the new bureau chief call me up for lunch and he made me a job offer and I came, and then Maureen and I became completely inseparable."


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This paper develops a general framework for assessment and management of competence. It then illustrates a case study demonstrating how to pragmatically assist engineers and managers to confirm their competence, knowledge and understanding against occupational standards without placing undue pressure on their time. It proposes a form of continuous assessment over a 3‑6 month period using electronic evidence provided by the candidate in response to a set of focussed emailed questions to build up a paperless portfolio. It also briefly looks how the process can be extended to maintain and update competence and possible future steps to quantify the assessed competence based on weighted performance measures.
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Week 45 of 52- (There are 7 more and we have committed to getting them all done before 1/1/2011. A few days left. Expect some OH, CA, OR and WA spots)
Great Lakes Brewing Co. Brewpub
2516 Market Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
216.771.4466 (fax)
Monday — Thursday: 11:30 AM — 10:30 PM (bar open until 12:00 AM)
Friday and Saturday: 11:30 AM — 11:30 PM (bar open until 1:00 AM)
Sundays: Closed
Rank: 4.8/5
Type of Establishment: An aged tavern, the home to Great Lakes Brewing and the holiest of beer grails in Cleveland, Ohio
Visit: A amazing Christmas vacation back to my roots. I spent an evening in Cleveland stuffing myself with Melt Bar & Grilled's The Godfather (more on this tomorrow). After it put me in a coma, I needed to resurrect myself. A visit to Great Lakes for lunch on a Monday? Sounds amazing.
Beers on Tap (at time of visit):
The updated list is available here. Luckily for me, they broke out the big guns for my visit. This is atypical, but you know, when a local icon like me comes home……obviously this was for Xmas and they could give a shit about little ole me. I like to dream.
Lake Erie Monster (Imperial IPA)
Christmas Ale (God's Beer)
Blackout Stout (Imperial Stout) — Replaced Lake Erie after I kicked it. Not bad.
Nosferatu (Old Ale)
Cleveland Brown Ale
Wright Pils
Commodore Perry IPA
Burning River Pale Ale
Dortmunder Gold (Golden Lager)
Elliot Ness (Amber Lager)
Edmond Fitzgerald (Porter)
Bottle List:
No need for a bottle, when they pour almost everything they make on the taps. But, their gift shop is attached, where you can pick up any of their currently bottled grog.
Great Lakes bottles the last six beers above, year round. They also bottle the larger beers (Nosferatu, Dopplerock, Blackout and Lake Erie) in 4 packs released during different quarters. The seasonal brews (Grassroots Saison, Holy Moses White Ale, Octoberfest, and Christmas Ale) are available in 6 packs during each respective season.
I do not believe that you can order bottles at the pub. Again, why the hell would you? The beers are about $4-5 per pint.
Food Options:
Food! One of the reasons to come here is the food — its remarkable. Some people might disagree with me that bar food cannot be remarkable. Of course, those people are evil, shortsighted and mainly, wrong.
GLBC does pub food the right way. They source ingredients from a number of extremely local providers (there is a list on the back of the beer menu). You can actually pick your meal based upon the farm, baker or butcher that you prefer. Awesome.
While many people prefer the pizza, I am a huge fan of the sausage. If you know Cleveland, you know they are sausage people. GLBC serves some wonderful bratwurst and kraut. They also have excellent BBQ pork sandwichs, a crowd favorite.
You really cannot go wrong on this menu. These guys are food people, even suggesting pairings for your brew.
Bar Opinions:
Which part of the bar do you want first? How about the cave-like cellar? Why not the indoor/outdoor retractable roof patio — or no — the long bar lounge. Wait, but there is also a restaurant, wrapped around the small test batch brewing system. Get my drift — there is a lot to this place.
It has been about 6 years since I last truly explored the GLBC's Brewpub. I know that its supposed to be my first visit — but the brewery has grown a lot since then. I need to give it another go.
Located in Ohio City, its a mere 5 minute trek from downtown Cleveland. Its a "got to go" destination. The brewery is nestled back off the main roads, disconnected from the Brewpub. But, the pub is right down the alley, less than a 3 minute walk.
No more than a block away is Cleveland's epic West Market. After visiting again, I'm fairly sure it blows Seattle's Pike Place Market out of the water, in terms of food offerings. I'm talking 30 places to grab a sausage, a dozen or more pierogi stands (a Cleveland fave) and the infamous Steve's Gyros (bring your cash and something to do for 45 minutes).
This is also not far away from the home that housed Randy, Ralphie and the old man, stars of A Christmas Story. Though the movie took place in Inidiana, it was shot in Cleveland. The storefront next the Brewpub pays homage with its very own leg lamp. My brother was entranced.
The Brewpub spans about a half block. Over time, it appears to have grown. They have added a side patio, which is covered and sealed in the winter time. We get seated here.
Its not my first choice for seating. The cellar basement is incredible. For good reason — its packed. So, we are relegated to the brightly lit patio. Not the best choice for a couple of hungover guys trying desperately to cling to life. We manage.
I have already notice that the Lake Erie Monster was on tap before even arriving to Cleveland. I had been scouring their website endlessly in the week before my trip, praying that the beer would stay on tap. I order one, I drink it, I fall in love. Then another.
According to the brewery, Lake Erie Monster has a tale: "a beer this distinctively hoppy inspires many a tall tale. And they don't come taller than South Bay Bessie, the legendary monster that roams the shallow depths of Lake Erie." The monster in this bottle is attractive, sexy, provocative and deeply addictive. Thanks Bessie, for my drinking problem.
The beer is described as being brewed with Simcoe and Fuggles hops, exclusively. That seems to be an interested combination, but the taste is magnificent. Pineapple and lemongrass are both popping up in this glass. At 9.1%, every sip packs a punch. Check out the stat sheet here.
GLBC also brews one of the greatest porters on earth — Edmond Fitzgerald. This is a must try for anyone who loves cocoa and coffee in their brew. On top of that, we also enjoyed the Cleveland Brown Ale, a homage to the lovable losers of Lake Erie.
After consuming 8,000 calories of sandwich the night before, I had to opt for a salad at the Brewpub. Sue me. I promise you would have had nothing to say after seeing what I did to my stomach the night before (tomorrow, i promise). But, my salad was briskly whisked down and we paid up so that we could move about and jockey for position at the bar.
The cellar was still flooded with lunch visitors who had given up on the thought of returning to work, so we opted for the upstairs lounge and bar. We grabbed two seats and had a few more pints. I immediately kicked the Lake Erie. Instantaneously, I felt the gaze of every waitress and patron in the place. Not to fear though — they have tapped Blackout Stout.
Blackout Stout is amongst my favorite imperial stouts to compliment a meal. It has an uncanny roasted flavor, matched with a brightly bitter hop profile. Though 9.0%, it doesn't weigh you down. Its an incredible beer that has won a bevy of awards. Check out its profile here.
After we finished our beers, we hit the gift shop. GLBC will sell you just about anything with its logo on it. We got a tap handle for the old man's keg/fridge and some new glassware and hit the road.
Another amazing beer adventure ends in Cleveland's old town. Alas, there is much life to this place. A second brewery called Market Garden Brewery will be opening in 2011. The brewery will feature many german styled brew, crafted by Andy Tveekram. Andy was a former brewer at Dogfish Head and GLBC. So, 2011 brings much promise to Ohio City.
Filed under: 52 Weeks: 52 new places, in the 52 weeks of 2010., Cleveland, US, The Grog Spot Tagged: Blackout Stout, Cleveland beer, cleveland beer bars, cleveland brewery, Great Lakes Brewing, great lakes brewpub, great lakes pub, lake erie monster, nosferatu, ohio brewery, ohio brewpubs


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Models, data and the Arctic
While I was at the Met Office the other day, I had a very interesting presentation from Jeff Knight, who IIRC runs the season-to-decadal forecasting unit there. Jeff's talk included discussion of a paper that Lucia had looked here. Lucia's comments are, as always, very interesting and address a range of concerns that I'm not going to touch on here. The paper itself is here.
The headline image of Jeff's talk was what the Met Office refers to as "the Celery Stick" graph, which assesses the range of model predictions against data:
ENSO-adjusted global mean temperature changes to 2008 as a function of starting year for HadCRUT3, GISS dataset (Hansen et al. 2001) and the NCDC dataset (Smith et al. 2008) (dots). Mean changes over all similar-length periods in the twenty-first century climate model simulations are shown in black, bracketed by the 70%, 90%, and 95% intervals of the range of trends (gray curves).
As can be seen from the graph, CRUTEM is on the cusp of falling outside the envelope of the projections of the models, although this was surprisingly of little concern to the Met Office. As we saw a few weeks ago, the new version of CRUTEM will be issued soon, and will have an increased warming trend, which is apparently the result of a reassessment of warming in the Arctic. This involves a shift from the "admit our ignorance" approach used now to a new one incorporating a GISS-like extrapolation. The enhanced warming will shift CRUTEM back towards the centre of the envelope of the models.
This bothers me. It seems to me that for assessing model peformance, you should only compare models to data, not models to data-plus-extrapolation. If we don't know anything about the Arctic, then we should presumably test models versus data only for those regions of the planet outside the Arctic.
Richard Betts in the comments advises that the new temperature series will not involve extrapolation. I'm scratching my head here, because I'm sure we discussed this while I was down in Exeter, but I'm going to defer to Richard.


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The Creation Of The Universe
The Basic Concepts in the Qur'an
Praying for Forgiveness and Repentance
All through their lives, certain people pursue a flawless image for themselves. Their efforts center around one goal: to be perfect and to look perfect. This is a natural consequence of finding it degrading to make a mistake. The ideal person, they consider, is one who can project an aura of impeccability.
However, this "flawlessness" is an illusionary goal. Neither is it one of the attributes of a believer we find extolled in the Qur'an. We would go so far as to say that such a "believer model" does not exist. For man is inherently weak, humble and helpless before Allah; and can consequently make mistakes all throughout his life. No doubt, he will always do his best to avoid mistakes and sins, yet, being a frail servant of Allah, he will not be successful in being free of all mistakes.
If Allah were to punish men according to what they deserve, He would not leave on the surface of the earth one single living creature: but He gives them respite for a stated term: when their term expires, truly, (they will know that ) Allah has in His sight all His Servants.(Fatir, 45)
In accordance with this divine command stated in the Qur'an, the attitude expected of a believer is not that of being faultless or sinless. He is only expected to constantly seek forgiveness from Allah.
This is actually an attribute which makes the distinction between a believer and non-believer: Unbelievers struggle to cover up their faults and sins. Yet, a believer never tries to do this.
What is important for him is to feel an inner regret and consequently turn to Allah and seek His forgiveness.
While reading the Qur'an, we see that the willingness to ask for forgiveness is a natural and unfailing attribute of the believers. On that account, we understand that believers never see themselves as beings purified of all sins and faults. On the contrary, they continually seek refuge in Allah's mercy. In the following verse, turning to Allah in repentance is regarded as one of the important attributes of a believer:
Those that turn to Allah in repentance; that serve Him, and praise Him; that fast in devotion to the cause of Allah; that bow down and prostrate themselves in prayer; that enjoin good and forbid evil; and observe the limit set by Allah, shall be richly rewarded. proclaim the glad tidings to the believers. (Al-Tawba, 112)
The distinction between and inter-relatedness of the concepts of repentance and forgiveness should be carefully considered.
Asking for forgiveness of Allah is a regular aspect of worship for believers. Man can ask forgiveness of Allah all day long for all his sins, whether deliberately or unintentionally committed. Moreover, as well as asking for forgiveness for oneself, one can also do it for other believers, as stated in the Qur'an.
In Arabic, the word for "asking for forgiveness' is "istigfar" which is "asking for Allah's attribute of Gafur. (Gafur (G-F-R), in Arabic, means to "cover, protect, hide totally, recover.")
Thus, asking for forgiveness of Allah is like pledging to purify oneself and hence seeking refuge in the mercy and grace of Allah. In the Qur'an the believers pray saying, "Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, remove from us our iniquities, and take to Yourself our souls in the company of the righteous." (Al-Imran, 193).The judgement of Allah regarding this is as below:
I am with you: if you (but) say your prayers regularly, practice regular charity, believe in my messengers, honour and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, indeed I will rid you of your evils, and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you, after this, denies Me, he will truly have wandered from the path of rectitude. (Al-Maeda, 12)
As mentioned above, praying for forgiveness of Allah may be both for sins, committed intentionally or unintentionally, as well as for the sins of other believers. This is the most important distinction between asking for forgiveness and repentance. Although praying for forgiveness is a regular prayer of the believers, repentance is the steadfast attitude taken towards a particular sin or fault, or the giving of a firm decision not to turn to that sin again.
Repentance is seeking refuge in Allah for one's sin, promising not to commit that sin again and, to this end asking the guidance and help of Allah. The exact meaning of repentance is "to turn back". Thus, repentance expresses an absolute commitment not to commit any particular sin again.
The intention behind repentance is not to repeat the same sin. Allah enjoins the faithful thus: "O you who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance, in the hope that your Lord will remove from you your ills and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow..." (At-Tahrim, 8)
However, this is not to say that a believer repents for a sin or fault only once. He may repent on one occasion, and then, in a moment of weakness, repeat the same sin.However, the mercy of Allah never ceases to encompass him . This is why he can still repent to Allah and seek refuge in Him. Allah is always ready to show grace and mercy to the believers. This is stated in the Qur'an as below:
"O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Do not despair of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. Turn to your Lord (in repentance) and bow to His Will, before the Penalty comes upon you: after that you shall not be helped. (Az-Zumar, 53-54)
Still, there is one kind of repentance Allah will not accept: the insincere repentance offered when death comes to a man. This is actually the moment a man meets the angels of death. Of this the Qur'an says:
Allah accepts the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and repent soon afterwards; to them Allah will turn in mercy: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. Of no avail is the repentance of those who continue to do evil, until death faces one of them, and he says, "Now I have indeed; repented indeed" nor of those who die rejecting Faith: for them We have prepared a most grievous punishment. (An-Nisa, 17-18)
In the Qur'an Allah gives the striking example of such an act of repentance made at the last moment. Pharaoh, who chased Moses and the believers in order to kill them, ended by expressing his repentance while he drowned in the sea, a miracle wrought by Allah.
"...At length, when overwhelmed with the flood, he said: I believe that there is no god except Him Whom the Children of Israel believe in: I am of those who submit (to Allah in Islam).(Jonah, 90)
However Allah's response to him was as follows:
"...Ah now! But a little while before, you were in rebellion! and you perpetrated mischief and violence! (Jonah, 91)
Since repentance is essential to the eternal salvation of man, one should well be aware of its importance and observe this form of worship to the best of one's ability. One may have sinned extensively or have rebelled against one's Creator. Yet, Allah encompasses His servants with so much mercy that He grants eternal salvation in response to a sincere repentance:
When those who believe in Our signs, come to you say: "Peace be upon you: Your Lord has decreed for Himself (the rule of) mercy: truly, if any of you commited evil in ignorance, and thereafter repented, and mended his ways, he would find Allah Oft-forgiving and Most Merciful. (Al-Anaam, 54)
Keep in mind that Allah even forgives unbelievers and hypocrites who fought against Him and His Messenger, if they turn back to Allah with sincere and true repentance:
The Hypocrites shall be cast into the lowest depths of the Fire: no helper will you find for them;But those who repent, mend their ways, hold fast to Allah, and are sincere in their devotion to Him—they shall be numbered with the believers. And soon Allah will grant to the believers a reward of immense value. (An-Nisa, 145-146)
This is a great opportunity Allah grants to His servants. He commands man never to be overwhelmed by despair due to any sin he has committed and always to turn to Him in hope. However, misinterpretation of this concept and an insincere attitude do not earn a man divine approval. Knowing the commandments of Allah, yet deliberately committing sins, saying "no matter what happens I will be forgiven" shows completely flawed reasoning. Such are the people who "reject faith after they accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of faith." Only the repentance of those who out of ignorance commit sins accepted. The repentance of an insincere person who simply take repentance as the freedom to commit sins is, however rejected. Stress is laid on this in the Qur'an:
"But those who reject faith after they have accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of faith, will never have their repentance accepted; for they are those who have of set purpose gone astray." (Al-Imran, 90)
One point needs clarification here: it is quite possible that, due to ignorance, being in a state of heedlessness or indulging oneself in one's own desires, one may very well commit sins. However, if one realizes one's faults and sincerely repents, Allah may well be forgiving. However, people who commit sins, although knowing the judgements of Allah, saying, "I will be forgiven no matter what happens," are merely deceivers. That is why their repentance is not acceptable to Allah.(Allah knows the best).
It is hardly necessary to say that heartfelt regret and sincerity are the keys to divine forgiveness. The Quranic injunction: "Call on your Lord with humility and in private..." (Al-Araf, 55) also applies when showing contrition asking for forgiveness. While repenting for serious errors especially, deep regret and a sincere attitude are essential. As an example of repentance and forgiveness, the Qur'an cites the case of the three Muslims who were left behind, when all others had gone to fight in the cause of Allah, thereby committing a great sin;
Allah turned with favour to the Prophet, the Muhajirs, and the Ansar, who followed him in a time of distress, when the hearts of some of them had nearly swerved from duty; but He turned to them (also): for He is Most Kind, and Most Merciful to them. He turned in mercy also to the three who were left behind; they felt guilty to such a degree that the earth seemed constrained to them, for all its spaciousness, and their very souls seemed straitened to them, and they perceived that there was no fleeing from Allah and no refuge but in Him. Then He turned to them, so that they might repent: for Allah is the Forgiving One and Most Merciful. (Al-Tawba, 117-118)
Asking forgiveness of Allah and repenting one's sins serve as pure expressions of being a sincere servant to Allah. The believer should be well aware that he may commit sins, but that he should take refuge in the mercy and grace of Allah. Simply worrying, or feeling grief for one's former sins is quite pointless. Man should consider the story of the messengers who made some errors, yet continued their struggle after sincerely repenting. Man should trust in the forgiveness of Allah.
In the Qur'an it is mentioned that praying for forgiveness and expressing repentance are ways to eternal salvation:
If it were not for Allah's grace and mercy to you, and that Allah is Forgiving and full of Wisdom, (you would indeed be ruined). (Al-Noor, 10)


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Taste Test: Delivery Pepperoni Pizza
Reviews of pizza at chain restaurants.
"There were definitely two winners, and two that would require a lot more beer-drinking."
Since pizza is right up there with wings and guacamole as far as Super Bowl cuisine goes, we ordered pepperoni pizzas from the four big nationwide chains (Little Caesars, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Domino's) to find the tastiest. Why pepperoni? Because most people order pizza with at least one topping and pepperoni is the most popular one in the U.S.
Pizza Hut
Pepperoni: Whoa, they did not hold back. There's sure enough of pepperoni but, gack, it's pretty bland. Though it does get points for having nice, crisp edges.
Sauce: Opposite from the pepperoni situation. There's very little sauce and what's there is too herby.
Cheese: "Wished this was lighter on the cheese," said one taster. (That's probably not a compliment to the cheese.)
Crust: Doughy and heavy without much flavor. Maybe a hint of garlic (maybe).
Papa John's
Pepperoni: Good—spicy, meaty, crisp around the edges, and it kind of dissolves in your mouth. Plenty of it too.
Sauce: Sweet, but for some reason people seem to get behind the Papa John's sweetness. Thankfully it doesn't taste like ketchup or fake herbs, and it actually has a hint of a buttery undertone.
Cheese: A little tangy; tastes like real cheese.
Crust: A bit more done than the others (decent browning and crunch on bottom) and nice hole structure (those network of air bubbles). Not too thick, which is good—the others can be a chewing party. "Weird, weird crust...not a horrible crust but it sure had a weird aftertaste," a few testers agreed.
Little Caesars
Pepperoni: Underseasoned (not quite spicy or salty enough) and undercooked (not browned at all).
Sauce: Not as candy-sweet as the others, but the problem was all the herbs. Or shall we say "herbs." It had that shaked-on dry spice taste.
Cheese: More like greasy rubber. No real flavor, except maybe chemical.
Crust: Doughy and crunchless, this barely passes as cooked. Actually, one taster felt like it was cooked in a toaster, comparing it to Ellio's frozen pizzas. "If you like toaster pizza, this is for you," said one taster.
Pepperoni: More of a dark red (like real meat) than the disappointing, fake-looking orange. Nice meaty texture with a good amount layered per slice.
Sauce: Still has that delivery pizza sweetness, but with a slight kick.
Cheese: The best cheese of the four: tangy, well-seasoned, and actually tastes like mozzarella.
Crust: Breadier than the Papa John's crust but still had the same nice browning underneath. Intensely garlicky. There were food scientists hard at work here, but whatever you guys did, nice job. We'd eat another slice of this.
Final Thoughts
There were definitely two winners, and two that would require a lot more beer-drinking. We'd recommend ordering Papa John's and Domino's. While Papa John's would be easy to graze on all game long, Domino's was the most aggressively flavored, so you might actually be good after a couple slices. Pizza Hut and Little Caesars, on the other hand, oh boy.
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Iran, the UN and the USS Liberty–Why Israel Is Preventing Ahmadinejhad from Speaking At The World Body
Well folks, it is time to finally let the cat out of the bag. My co-host of the Liberty Hour radio program (found at www.republicbroadcasting.org) USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney and I want this story out there just in case anything untoward happens to either (or both) of us as well as making sure that the record is set straight in the event President Ahmadinejhad of Iran is not allowed to speak on the floor of the UN General assembly.
Earlier this week, I released a piece I wrote entitled 'Killing The Messenger Before He Arrives–The Real Reason For Israel's Latest Threat To Kidnap Ahmadinejhad' in which I put forth the theory that the reason Israel is threatening to kidnap Ahmadinejhad and why the US has (at least as of this moment) denied him an entry visa into the US is because he might 'possibly' be planning on divulging information 'so embarrassing' to Israel and the US that it would prevent them from launching an attack on Iran.
Well the truth of the matter is, we know a lot more about this than the article suggests and the wordcraft I used in the article was me 'playing dumb' until I had a better handle on what Israel and the US were planning to do with regards to Ahmadinejhad being allowed to come to the UN. Now, just a few days before he is scheduled to speak he is not being given the opportunity and therefore Phil and I have decided that it is time to strike out with the truth.
The fact is this–There was the very good likelihood Ahmadinejhad was going to discuss Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on the floor of the UN General Assembly or (per our request) even that he would yield 3 minutes of his time to give USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney an opportunity to tell the world what Israel did to him and his shipmates 41 years ago.
Phil and I have no doubt that in the 2 months we were putting this thing together that our conversations regarding this were being monitored as well as our emails. As soon as we got word from our contact in Iran (who works closely with the president) that he was very positively disposed towards our request and that he had ordered his staff to assemble as much information on the USS Liberty possible, BOOM!!!–Israel threatens to kidnap him. This, coupled with the US preventing his visa into the US when the request was made months ago cannot be mere coincidence, and anyone who believes Israel is not listening in on every conversation going in and out of Iran needs to come into the 21st century.
Our hope was that by mentioning the unmentionable topic of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty 41 years ago (as well as the subsequent cover-up by the US government) that it would start a chain reaction of awareness–not only in the US, but all over the world–that would in essence draw a big red circle around Israel, where her past, present and future proclivity towards false flag operations would come under intense scrutiny, thus precluding her ability to launch another made-to-order event that would lead to the war to end all wars.
Therefore, Phil and I are requesting that everyone reading this press release shout it from the top of your lungs–THAT THE REASON AHMADINEJHAD IS BEING PREVENTED FROM SPEAKING AT THE UN IS BECAUSE HE MOST LIKELY PLANS TO DISCUSS THE ONE STRAW THAT MAY BREAK THE CAMEL'S BACK WITH REGARDS TO THE DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE US AND ISRAEL–ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY.
Now, just as it was 41 years ago, dark, treacherous and treasonous elements operating within the highest levels of power in the two countries conspired to sink the ship in order to bring the US into Israel's wars and now, just as they did 41 years ago, they are attempting to hide the truth from the American people. DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT AGAIN. THIS MAY BE THE LAST CHANCE WE HAVE OF SAVING OUR COUNTRY. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY THAT IS KEEPING AHMADINEJHAD OUT OF THE US!!!
Mark Glenn
Phil Tourney
The Liberty Hour Radio Program
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Paul Walker
Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973), perhaps best known from the movies The Fast and the Furious (2001) and Into the Blue (2006)
>==Paul William Walker IV== Paul Walker born 12 Sep 1973 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, the second child of Paul William Walker III and his wife Cheryl A Crabtree. He has an older sister Amy, a younger sister Ashlie and two younger brothers Caleb and Cody.
Paul Walker began his film career early, appearing in the 1986 spoof-film Monster in the Closet. In 1987 he was cast in the film Programmed to Kill. He appeared in 1993 on the soap opera The Young and The Restless. In 1994, he co-starred in Tammy and the T-Rex opposite the equally unknown Denise Richards. He went to a community college, majoring in Marine Biology.
In 1998 he starred in Meet the Deedles, followed quickly by "Pleasantville" starring Resse Witherspoon & Tobey Maguire, "Varsity Blues", "She's All That", "Brokedown Palace" and then "The Skulls".
In 2001, he co-starred in perhaps his most well-known role in The Fast and the Furious and the 2003 sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious. He has a daughter named Meadow Rain, born 4 Nov 1998 from a former girlfriend. Meadow lives with her mother in Hawaii, while Paul lives in California.
>===Primary documentation for 1===
- California Birth Index, 1905-95 showing : "Paul W Walker, born 12 Sep 1973, Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Crabtree"
- "Close-Up with Paul Walker" in Big Hit Magazine, Sep 2002 where he states that his name is "Paul William Walker IV" and that when he is in trouble his mom calls him "Paul Four"
Secondary sources for 1
- "Paul Walker" on IMDb
- "Paul Walker" on Wikipedia
Paul William Walker III
Paul Walker was born 10 Mar 1946 in Los Angeles County, California to Paul William Walker II and an (currently unknown) Miss Walker.
About his parents, Paul William Walker IV said:
"My mom was a model. My father was a fighter who was a two-time Golden Gloves champion. They both gave up their careers when they fell in love and got married. My dad didn't want my mom to work and she didn't want him getting pounded in a ring" [1]
The offical Golden Gloves website however does not list any Walker who could be him. Paul Walker age 25 married Cheryl Crabtree age 18 on 12 Feb 1972 Los Angeles City. They were divorced Nov 1977 in San Diego, California, after having five children : Amy, Paul, Ashlie, Caleb and Cody.
Paul is a retired sewer contractor.
In this same interview, Paul William Walker IV mentioned one of his grandfather's, I'm not sure which one yet, probably the paternal one:
"My grandfather raced factory cars for Ford in the 1960s. My father still races cars. There were always stacks of car magazines in the house and I would help my father work on the cars in our garage. [2]
Primary documentation for 2
- California Birth Index showing : "Paul William Walker, born 10 Mar 1946, Mother's Maiden Name: Walker, Birth County: Los Angeles"
Secondary sources for 2
- "Paul Walker" at Moono.com
Cheryl Ann Crabtree
Cheryl Crabtree was born 31 Oct 1953 in Los Angeles County, California (mother's maiden name Smith).
Cheryl Crabtree age 18 married Paul Walker age 25, on 12 Feb 1972 Los Angeles City. They were divorced Nov 1977 in San Diego, California.
Cheryl is a former fashion model.
"My mom was a model. My father was a fighter who was a two-time Golden Gloves champion. They both gave up their careers when they fell in love and got married. My dad didn't want my mom to work and she didn't want him getting pounded in a ring," Walker explains. [3]
Primary documentation for 3
Secondary sources for 3
- "Paul Walker" at Moono.com
Paul William Walker II
There are possibly multiple men named Paul William Walker II.
First there is the father of Paul William Walker III in this ancestry research. He had a son Paul William Walker III in 1946 in Los Angeles County.
But secondly we have a Paul William Walker born 15 Jan 1924 in Los Angeles County, California, with mother's maiden name Willey. Apprently he married a woman named June Oefinger, and they had at least one son named Rhett O Walker born 13 Jul 1960 in Los Angeles County.
There is a woman who, at her death was named Gladys Uriene Walker who was born 26 Mar 1892 in Ohio and died 13 Jan 1947 in Los Angeles County, with father's name Willey and mother's name Derrickson who would appear to be an eligible candidate to be his mother. There is a potential issue of confusion in the IGI where they give his mother as "June H Willey".
Both of these men have an association to the Navy in World War II. The first is called a "Pearl harbor survivor" and a "Navy middleweight boxing champion". While the second was buried as a F1C, having served in the Navy in WWII, at Eagle Point National Cemetery, in Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon.
Are these two men actually the same man? Perhaps married twice? We don't yet know.
Primary documentation for 4
- California Birth Index, 1905-95 stating : "Walker [no first name given], born 15 Jan 1924, Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Willey"
- California Birth Index showing that his siblings were most likely: "Lucille Josephine Walker 1925, Adele Jeraldine Walker 1926, Adabur Urirur Walker 1930"
- California Death Index showing "Gladys Uriene Walker, born 26 Mar 1892 Ohio, died 13 Jan 1947 Los Angeles County, father's name Willey, mother's name Derrickson"
- The below items are all obviously the same family, but are they Paul's family?:
- California Birth Index : "Rhett O Walker, born 13 Jul 1960 Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Oefinger"
- US Public Records Index showing : "Paul Walker, North Bend, Oregon age 83; June V Walker age 83; Rhett O Walker age 47"
- Social Security Death Index stating : "Paul W Walker, born 15 Jan 1924, died 25 Apr 2006, SSN issued by New York, last residence North Bend, Coos County, Oregon"
- US Veterans Gravesites showing : "Paul William II Walker, F1C US Navy World War II, born 15 Jan 1924, died 25 Apr 2006, Eagle Point National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Oregon"
Secondary sources for 4
- "Paul William II Walker" in the International Genealogical Index at Familysearch stating :"Paul William II Walker, born 15 Jan 1924 Los Angeles, CA, died 25 Apr 2006, son of Paul William Walker and June H Willey"
- "Paul Walker" at Moono.com
- "Celebrity birthdates Sep 12" at Cwebnews stating : "His paternal grandfather, William Walker (aka. "Irish" Billy Walker was a Pearl Harbor survivor and a Navy middleweight boxing champion while his maternal grandfather commanded a tank Battalion that invaded Italy under General Patton during World War II."


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Suppose a finite 2-group G acts freely on X = $\prod_{i=1}^k$ *S*$^{2n_i}$, a product of k even-dimensional spheres, k > 2. Is it possible for G to be non-abelian? What if we additionally assume that spheres in the product are equidimensional?
Some comments: The equality 2k = $\chi(X)$ = |G|$\chi(X/G)$ coming from the covering X $\to$ X/G ensures that a finite group acting freely on X is a 2-group and also answers the question for k = 1, 2. (Actually, for k = 1 this gives a proof of a classical theorem: the only group which can act freely on an even-dimensional sphere is the cyclic group of order 2. Does anyone know who is this result originally due to? Sorry for a question inside the question; perhaps someone can comment on this one.) Hence if one would like to construct a sort of "minimal" example, it should involve an action of either the quaternion group Q8 or the dihedral group Dih4 for k = 3. I thought about this a little bit, but I feel like I'm not comfortable enough with non-abelian groups.
I've stumbled across some papers where authors characterize arbitrary finite groups acting freely on X in terms of existence of particular representations, but explicit examples are given only in the abelian case.


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AJ Morris necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
SurfCubes, LLC or SurfCubes
We are a mobile and web development shop that works with local businesses to enrich their customers online experience. We work with their budget to create an affordable solution all while involving them every step of the way.
We're currently a small business with 1 fulltime employee and 2 interns. We are strapped for cash as we're just getting going, but we take our work serious. We focus mainly on iPhone/iPad/Android mobile devices and work with either WordPress sites or custom Ruby development depending on what the client is looking for and their budget.
We are looking for businesses that are local. We're all about local and so we hope to help other local businesses that are looking local. Ideally we'd like to work with people in a certain mile radius, but that always doesn't work out, so we're willing to work with others in Michigan. We're also looking to work with Non-Profits, Churches, Community Organizations, etc. Biggest thing we're trying to accomplish is to "keep it local."
We're looking for a logo that can be easily applied with the name of the company, but stands out without it. We currently do not have a logo so we can only go up from here. It would be cool to have some sort of a 2D cube (a box) containing waves to bring out the name SurfCubes. Ideally the logo could be used with or without the company named, and will be a center piece of our website. It should also look good enough to go into marketing materials, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, etc.
We're looking for something with the following:
- Something that stands out! :)
- Waves (like ocean, sea, etc.) drawn in vector form.
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- Colors: Must contain some sort of Blue
- Can contain Greens, reds, light browns
- You be the judge of how many colors end up in the final design
- Gradients are OK.
- Drop Shadows are OK.
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