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Liberal code words are ordinary-sounding terms which are used by liberals to promote their worldview.
- "Think for yourself" is a liberal code word for "reject wisdom merely because it comes from another person"
- "Progressive" sounds good by invoking "progress", but it refers specifically to making progress towards liberal goals
- "Fascist" means "anything I don't like involving Conservatives or the Government."
- "Bigot" is a term for anyone who disagrees with liberal social values.
- "Equality" equates equal opportunity with equal results.
One could even consider the word "liberal" itself to be a liberal code word, given its original association with classical liberalism.

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Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey documents the annual Tribal Journeys of Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Indigenous tribes and First Nations from Oregon, Washington, Canada and Alaska follow their ancestral pathways through the waters of Puget Sound, Inside Passage and the Northwest Coast. Families and youth reconnect with the past and each other. Ancient songs, dances, regalia, ceremonies, and language were almost lost and are coming back.
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The photographs from the Molecular Expressions Art in Photomicrography project appear to capture local landscapes and alien worlds, but the photographers can create these images without ever leaving the lab. These "microscapes" are made with vitamin C crystals, aspirin, penicillin, and other ingredients to create the illusion of sunsets and grand mountains.
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The Queens Center for Progress was originally founded in 1950 as the United Cerebral Palsy of Queens for parents with children with cerebral palsy, however now the center has expanded to address all persons with both physical and mental impairments.
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Before becoming one of the first big, black movie stars -- thanks in large part to legendary director John Ford's faith in him -- Woody Strode was a star on the gridiron. Just ask fans of the Calgary Stampeders. Strode almost singlehandedly won the 1948 Grey Cup for the team. His wrestling career? A footnote in the life of a great man.
Born in Los Angeles on July 28, 1914, with his mother a full-blooded Blackfoot, Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode grew into a solid 6-foot-4-1/2, 220-pound stud. He competed in track and field and played football as a tight-end at UCLA. Two teammates at UCLA were Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington. Of course, Robinson would go on to break major league baseball's colour barrier in 1947. Washington and Strode? They broke the NFL's modern colour barrier the year before, suiting up for the Los Angeles Rams. Unlike Robinson, however, neither played much. Of course, their football rhythm had been broken up by World War II. Strode served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1946, including time in Guam and the Marianas where he unloaded bombs.
While at UCLA, he met his future wife when the football team was playing the University of Hawaii in Honolulu -- Hawaiian princess Luukialunan Kalaeloa. They were married in 1940 in Las Vegas. The couple would have a son and a daughter to compliment Kalaeloa's two sons from a previous marriage. (After she died in 1980, Strode would marry Tina in 1982, and they were together until his death.)
After being cut by the Rams after just a season, Strode headed north to Canada, where he suited up for the Calgary Stampeders. Under coach Les Lear, the young team made it to the Grey Cup, November 27, 1948, set to face the Ottawa Roughriders. Working with quarterback Keith Spaith, he excelled as a receiver, and did double duty on the defensive side as an end as the Stamps compiled an unbeaten record.
In the Grey Cup game, Strode grabbed a misplayed lateral pass by Ottawa quarterback Peter Karpuk off the ground, and lumbered almost to the end zone. Pete Thodos would score shortly thereafter to seal a 12-7 Calgary win.
"That was one of the great days in my life and I can remember it very clearly," Strode told the Toronto Star's George Gamester in 1977. "Never had so much fun as I did in Canada. When we won, we all got drunk. And when we lost, we cried like babies."
Besides marking Calgary's first Grey Cup championship, the 1948 game proved to be a turning point in Grey Cup lore as well. The Stampeder supporters invaded Toronto and a national party was created. Strode, doing his part, is reported to have ridden a horse in the famed Royal York hotel.
Strode would play two more seasons in Calgary before an injury ended his football life. (He never forgot Calgary, however, and returned to the city in 1986 to aid fundraising for the financially-ailing team.)
Wrestling was next on his resume. "Actually, I had been rassling in the off-season anyhow," Strode told the late, great Canadian newspaper columnist Jim Proudfoot. "I just started to do it full-time in 1951."
His wrestling career lasted until 1960, but by 1952, Strode had started getting movie parts. (A small role in 1941's Sundown marked his actual debut.) The fame he had built through football and movies helped open up wrestling as well, and Strode wrestled white grapplers in Texas in the early '50s.
As an actor, Strode is forever tied to John Ford (see our Pepper Martin biography for some stories that involve both Strode and Ford). It was Ford who cast Strode in the lead role in Sergeant Rutledge. Strode was a black cavalry officer on trial for rape and murder, and during the court-martial his story is recounted in flashback.
Strode praised Ford in a 1960 interview. "I was lucky enough this time to have John Ford as my director. That means everything, working with a man like that." Ford and Strode would also work together on Two Rode Together, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Besides Ford, Strode also worked with storied directors Cecil B. De Mille (The Ten Commandments as the King of Ethiopia); Stanley Kubrick (Spartacus); and Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West).
Spartacus is probably Strode's most famous role as the warrior Kirk Douglas refuses to kill. "I would have lost that role if I hadn't been in shape, and if I hadn't had a lot of experience as a wrestler," Strode told the Pittsburgh Courier in 1961. "It took skill to do that fight scene without actually hurting myself or hurting Douglas."
He left for Italy in 1969, frustrated with the lack of meaty roles as an African-American. Strode lived in Italy for five years and made 12 films there. "Race is not a factor in the world market," he said in a 1982 interview with the Globe and Mail. "I once played a part written for an Irish prize fighter. I've done everything but play an Anglo-Saxon. I'd do that if I could. I'd play a Viking with blue contact lenses and a blond wig if I could." (Proving the point: In Androcles and the Lion, Strode actually dressed as the lion.)
In 1990, Strode's autobiography, Goal Dust, was published. In 1992, he was honored by the Cauliflower Alley Club with wrestling's top award, the Iron Mike Mazurki Award. Strode died in his sleep at his home in Glendora, California of lung cancer on December 31, 1994. His last film was The Quick and the Dead, which starred Sharon Stone.
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Plants, animals and agricultural systems have adapted to thrive in certain climates, be they arid or wet, tropical or temperate.
At the globe warms, those climates will shift, potentially disrupting ecosystems and agriculture. A study published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change shows for the first time that the shift will happen faster the more the globe warms.
Before she did the study, Irina Mahlstein, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, anticipated that the relationship between warming and climate zone change would be linear. Each degree of warming would lead to a certain amount of the Earth's land area changing its climate zone.
But that was not what Mahlstein found when she used model data to predict changes in climate zones.
"That was a big surprise for us," she said.
"The implications of this nonlinear relationship is that the pace, how fast these changes are happening or how often they are happening, is increasing the warmer the Earth gets."
The faster the pace of that shift, the less time plants, animals and agriculture systems have to adjust.
Mahlstein's analysis shows that if the globe warms 2 degrees Celsius, which is the amount often seen by scientists as a threshold to avoid catastrophic results, 5 percent of the land on the Earth shifts to a new climate zone.
But if it warms 2 degrees more, 10 percent of the land area experiences a climate shift.
Mahlstein did this analysis by using data from 13 atmosphere-ocean climate models, running them from 1900 to 2098, and tracking how climate zones changed. She went into the past to ensure the models were accurately representing the shifts and calibrated the data using what was known about how climate zones have shifted in the past.
Coffee and cacao could be early victims
Another new aspect of the research, she pointed out, was the finding that in lower latitudes, like the subtropics, the mountainous areas are most vulnerable to climate zone change due to global warming.
"That's always been thought of, but it's never been shown," she said.
Coffee and cacao are two significant crops grown in the mountainous tropical regions that could be affected by climate shifts.
Mahlstein was clear on the limitations of the study, noting that, for example, climate models have a hard time predicting changes in precipitation.
On the other hand, she found that temperature was the primary driver of shifts in climate zones. Climate models are much better at calculating average temperature change, said John Daniel, a co-author on the paper and a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory.
"The zones get crossed more readily when you change temperature; you have to change precipitation a lot" in order for the climate zone to change, Daniel said.
One of the results the researchers were looking for in their analysis and did not find, he added, was evidence of a threshold effect, that after 2 degrees or some set amount of warming, there would be big shifts in climate zones.
"Even if there were thresholds for particular climate zones, that might be an interesting thing to study further," he said.
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Articles tagged with in the studio, television
Spotlight on Héloïse Delègue
We interview Héloïse Delègue, a London based artist that skillfully riffs between her textural memories, both past and present.Simultaneously revealing and concealing, Delègue's work provides a rewarding insight into a world that brims with possibility and only teases at catharsis.
Peeling Back Contemporary Collage with Peter Horvath
Horvath's work demonstrates the power of collage to subvert expectations and create thought-provoking works. Using mainly images from early 20th Century advertising and Hollywood, these pieces explore early consumer culture. However, by taking these images out of their usual context, Horvath repurposes them and completely redefines their meaning in fresh and interesting ways. We caught up with Peter to find out a little more about his artistic journey, process and some of his plans for the futur
Krista Kim: Understanding Techism
We interview Krista Kim, who's bold digital colorfield DNA has become a modern icon. "It is integral that art and the intention of serving humanity is at the core of all technological innovation and that is why I feel compelled to advocate this philosophy as a bridge between art, Tech."
Nadia Day Q&A
Nadia Day is an Impressionist landscape artist based in Teddington near Richmond. She paints views of nature, both local and further afield through seascapes and commissions. Nadia studied art at Kingston University and gained a BA in Drama & Theatre Arts from Birmingham University. She describes herself as a self-taught artist, her path evolving from a career in illustration and advertising visuals to today's strong, painterly style. We caught up with Nadia to find out more about her journey as
Alexandra Gallagher | Where The Surreal Meets The Bizarre
Alexandra Gallagher is a British artist whose work celebrates the surreal and the bizarre. Her thought-provoking paintings and collages explore the realms of dream, memory and the imagination. The artist allows her imagination to run in any creative direction resulting in visually appealing works that are evocative of the Surrealists while offering a contemporary take on both the materials and the subject matter. We ask the artist 5 questions about her work and life as an artist.
5 Questions With Heidi Thompson
Heidi Thompson was born in Vernon, Canada. After graduating high school she moved to Europe to study. Her extensive education includes a degree in photography from the University of Art & Design in Zürich and some time at the Hungarian State University for Fine Art. We catch up with Heidi to find out more about her process and the philosophy underlying her awe-inspiring art.
Q&A With Philip Vaughan
Meet Philip Vaughan, the artist behind the landmark 48ft tall Light Tower which sat above the Hayward Gallery from 1972 to 2008. Philip has been involved for the last 10 years or so in an effort to restore the Light Tower. It was a rare example of a large contemporary kinetic artwork on the streets of London but it was never returned after it was taken down from the roof of the South Bank gallery for renovation.
Joe Hesketh | A 21st-Century Woman
Joe Hesketh's paintings are dynamic statements about the human condition. We ask her about her experience as a woman in the male-dominated art world.
Turning Music into Colour with Robert Dunt
We interviewed the artist who spends his days transforming music into paint on canvas.
Dawn Beckles | Putting the Life in Still Life
London-based artist Dawn Beckles reinvigorates the classic still life style by incorporating in her works vibrant colour, contemporary settings and exotic flora inspired by her native Barbados.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. – Truckee's own homegrown brewery, FiftyFifty Brewing Co., recently took home top honors at one of the world's most prestigious beer competitions.-
The 2012 European Beer Star Awards awarded the Gold Medal in the Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer category to Eclipse Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Grand Cru from FiftyFifty. In addition to the Gold, FiftyFifty was also honored with the Bronze Medal for their "Iced Eclipse" in the Ultra Strong Beer category.-
The European Beer Star is one of the most recognized beer competitions in the world, committed to the traditional European art of brewing. The competition evaluates the beers on the basis of purely sensory criteria. Judging of the beers was done by an international expert panel at the Doemens Brewing Academy in Gräfelfing near Munich, with more than 100 beer and brewery experts from all over the globe. "We are so proud to represent Truckee this way in the international beer scene!" said brewer Alyssa Shook.
The entire crew at FiftyFifty is incredibly proud of this accomplishment.- "We couldn't be happier with our results at the European Beer Star," said fellow brewer Gene Curtin. BrewMaster Todd Ashman added, "For the Eclipse Grand Cru we picked 12 of our favorite barrels ranging from three to 20-years-old with a broad spectrum of robustness, depth, and layered complexity. The 2011 Grand Cru was some of our best barrel aging work!"
The 2012 vintage of Eclipse is due to release to the public on Friday, Dec. 7. "We've been sampling the barrels intensively over the past month, and this year's batch definitely lives up to its stellar reputation," said co-founder Andy Barr.
In addition to being available for purchase at the brewery, this year Eclipse will be distributed across the globe to eager markets including San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston, Japan and others.
FiftyFifty Brewing Co. at The Rock, located in Truckee at 11197 Brockway Road, between Highway 267 and downtown Truckee. Open daily at 11:30 a.m. To contact FiftyFifty, please call Alicia Barr at 530-587-BEER or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Grab a seriously stuffed sammie at new Truckee Togo's
Tahoe-Truckee residents now have a new go-to deli inspired restaurant serving up big, made-to-order sandwiches stuffed with the freshest ingredients. Togo's Eateries, Inc., a "West Coast Original" since 1971, announced the opening of its newest restaurant located at 11991 Highway 267.
At Togo's, there is a commitment to use only the freshest, superior-quality ingredients and meats. California avocados are mashed daily, artisan bread, abundant quantities of lean pastrami, roast beef, turkey and other premium meats are part of Togo's exceptional menu and set the brand apart from other sandwich shops.
The new location is now serving guests daily 10 a.m.-9 p.m. For more information on the new Truckee Togo's, call 530-550-7220 or visit http://www.togos.com.
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Dragonfly gives back to customers who support local business
'Tis the season of giving, and holiday shoppers in Truckee can look forward to a gift from Dragonfly Restaurant and Sushi Bar. Guests who show a sales receipt from a downtown Truckee store for a purchase of at least $25 will receive a 25 percent discount off their bill at Dragonfly.
The discount applies to the entire check except for alcoholic beverages. Dragonfly encourages visitors and locals to support Downtown Truckee merchants with this holiday special. The special lasts Dec. 5-23.
Dragonfly is also giving the gift of great cuisine and healthy competition to Downtown merchants. The merchant who sends the most customers to Dragonfly will receive a complimentary holiday party for their entire staff.
Dragonfly Restaurant and Sushi Bar is located upstairs at 10118 Donner Pass Road in downtown Truckee. Reservations for dinner are recommended at 530-587-0557. The Sushi Bar is first come, first served. Check out Dragonfly on the web at http://www.dragonflycuisine.com or "like" them on Facebook.


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April 2003
This essay describes my two encounters with the United States of America's Security Agencies as they came knocking on my door in March and April 2003 in the supposed hot pursuit of the boogie man du-jour. The essay describes what transpired, how I felt, and my extemporaneous lecture to them on how dare they come visit me without any justification other than ethnic and religious profiling. Why should they want to interrogate me just because I am a Muslim from a foreign country? Is that now a crime in America?
I was startled by that dreaded knock on the front door, and not a polite one at that, nor even ringing of the door bell, but what sounded like urgent pounding. Two men flashed their badges in my face for a few seconds when I rushed to the door, stated that they were from the FBI, and asked me if I was Mr. so and so. The badges disappeared just as quickly as they had appeared in the best rendering of life imitating art I had ever seen. When I replied in the affirmative, they asked to see my ID to verify it. After I had shown them my driver's license and they seemed satisfied that I was indeed the person they had asked for, they started asking me for my SSN (Social Security Number), my telephone number, whether I was citizen or permanent resident, and if the latter to show them the Green card, how long I had been in the country, when did I become permanent resident, when did I travel last?
Now being a reasonably intelligent person under normal conditions, it suddenly occurred to me to ask them why they were talking to me in the first place, and how my name was flagged to them. They indicated that my name had loosely matched a terrorist they were looking for and it was off by only a couple of letters in the name, but that fortunately for me the guy they were seeking was thin and short, while I am tall and big, so I should relax and simply answer their questions. I questioned them that if they were already convinced I wasn't the guy they wanted, why were they still here, and why I should answer any of their questions beyond having showed them my ID to prove my identity? And in my heart I was thanking God for the first time about my overweight, for I could have been in the docks based solely on my size according to them. They mumbled something about this "terrorism thing around us" being the reason they wanted to talk to me now that they were here anyway.
My head still in a daze but starting to function again slowly, I suggested to them that the number of possible names they would be searching based on their 'partial string matching' criteria could potentially be in the thousands, and were they planning to visit them all at their homes? They said no. So now it seemed that they had picked me specifically. And if they could find out where I lived, they could just as easily find out answers to the questions they were asking me by simply looking them up on their super computers. So why this visit to my home in the first place? What did they really want to talk to me about? And what was the real criteria they used to finger me? And what was in that folder they were carrying in their hand that they kept referring to? So I asked them whether I could see what information they had on me in that folder, and I stretched my hand out to receive it from them: "Well, the FBI is not in the business of disclosing its information to anyone" was the curt reply as they moved the folder closer to their chest.
I was getting more and more perturbed that perhaps they had come to me because I was a certain nationality and a brown skinned Muslim at that, and all of the preceding dialog could just be a pretext. To confirm this further, I asked them if they were also planning to interview any of the other folks in the neighborhood, and they said no, it was just me they wanted to talk to. Why me? The fact that their story line would have been so obviously unconvincing to anyone except the most naive, also disturbed me very much. Did they think I was stupid? Or perhaps they wanted me to feel that indeed their pretext was phony so that I might get afraid? Why didn't they just leave when they indicated they were satisfied I was not the person they were chasing. And if that was indeed only a pretext, why didn't they simply come right out and tell me honestly why they had come to my house? I might have been more agreeable had they demonstrated some legitimate cause. All of these things started to whirl in my fertile imagination and I began to see the Japanese internment camps of World War II looming at the horizon. My heart was beating rather quickly, but I mustered some presence of mind and decided not to submit to any of their questioning without a lawyer present, and I told them so.
I was quite relieved when they very politely agreed, even apologized several times for having disturbed and distressed me so much, reassured me that they had not come to arrest me nor was I a suspect in any way and they were simply chasing down terrorists, and left me with their calling card and the scary recollections from Elie Wiesel's book "Night" about how the Jewish community was gradually intimidated from similar knocks on the door into a full blown Holocaust:
"They never demanded the impossible, made no unpleasant comments, and even smiled occasionally at the mistress of the house ... even brought a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced ... 'what did we tell you. You wouldn't believe us. They are your Germans ... where is their famous cruelty.' The Germans were already in the town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict had already been pronounced, yet the Jews of Sighet continued to smile."
I have no reason to smile. One of the disturbing consequences of being a thinking person who is not ignorant of the lessons of history, and who is not unwary of the propaganda in the mainstream American media that dutifully toes the government's line as if they were a state sponsored news agency of the Soviet Union of the yore, is the awesome realization that I am living in a nation that is fast declining into the worst form of Fascism ever to exist. For like the people in Plato's mythical cave, where all they can see and experience is the reality synthesized for them by the spinning controllers outside the cave, the majority of the kind people in this great nation are becoming enslaved and don't even realize it. It is worse than a gilded cage, because there is no need for a cage for the "Prisoners of the Cave" (see Part-2 of this book). Is it any coincidence that the United States is the only country in the world in which while there have been record antiwar protests in many of its cities, the vast majority of its mainstream public overwhelmingly supports the "war on terrorism" as evidenced by opinion polls and the rising popularity of its President? Does this perhaps have anything to do with the fact that the mainstream public is also incessantly being exposed to the government leaders arguing the justifications for this "fictitious war" with "fictitious facts", necessitating all this curbing of civil liberties to hunt down the "fictitious fifth columnist" – and not to the opposing voices and reasoned critics who possess the tools and knowledge to dismantle and deconstruct this "fiction" that is perpetuated through mindless repetitions of "officials say" in the well oiled media machinery? The unnerving similarities between the rise of Fascism in Germany – the Third Reich, and what is happening now in this once great and hospitable nation for all immigrants – the making of a Fourth Reich, is making me reconsider whether I should pack my bags and catch that last boat out of this place before this impending "Red Yellow and Green" travel ticket labeling technology of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) system inadvertently closes even the doors of exit for its victims.
Then the door bell rang again three weeks later. After the FBI's first visit, I had immediately called the National Lawyers Guild for advice. Thanks to the fliers they had distributed everywhere, we had put up their phone number up on the wall and didn't have to hunt for it. They immediately gave me the name and contact for a wonderful attorney, who in turn met with me to explain to me what was really going on in the immigrant community with respect to this "war on terrorism". "What they were really after was compiling an extensive database of every detail of your life", my lawyer explained. I had been under the impression that perhaps the FBI had mistakenly visited me, and I should try to clear up the matter with them so that they wouldn't hassle me at airports when we traveled during the summer vacation with the kids.
My very distinguished and kindly attorney must have surely marveled at my naiveté when he suggested that the FBI is not in the business of clearing people, there was no such thing. All they are doing is compiling a database right now, and who knows how it could be used in the future, perhaps it would be one of the feeders into the TIA system. So why were they asking me all these questions whose answers they should already have in their own computers? Because that was just a pretext to get you to talk about your brother or sister or friend or people at the mosque or to peek at your passport to see where you have been or the content of the discussion you were seen to be having around the cooler in your office or with your neighbor or colleague from 10 years ago, etc. etc. explained my lawyer.
Oh boy! I wasn't keen on participating in this Gestapo interrogation, sugar coated though it might have been, but I was still anxious to know what had really triggered the FBI to come to my house like that. Being a law abiding and tax paying engineer by profession, with more than two dozen patents, having contributed to the computer industry that fueled the silicon valley technological revolution even if only as a cog in the capitalist machinery, and having lived more than half my life in this country pursuing the proverbial American dream, of making an honest living and raising a family in the pursuit of life liberty and happiness for all, it was quite distressing to me that I should be visited by the FBI at my home. They had caught me in my pajamas enjoying a sunny afternoon, without any intimation of their visit. Not the best way to seek cooperation – only foster intimidation. So my lawyer decided to write them a letter seeking further clarification on the real reasons for their visit to my house, whether I was some sort of suspect or not, and declining to being interviewed by them or anyone else until we got some clarification.
Furthermore, the two men who had identified themselves as FBI agents left me their business card that stated they were from the local Sheriff's office, "Special Operations Division – Criminal Intelligence/Vice Unit", and not the FBI. After they had left, while waiting to get in touch with my assigned attorney, I had called the number of the Sheriff's office by first getting it from 411 (information) just to verify that it wasn't some kind of con game for getting me to divulge my social security number, and I was told that the officer was indeed working there but was on special deputation, and they could not say any more. When I told my attorney about my sleuthing, he seemed quite surprised that the local county Sheriff's office was cooperating in conducting intrusive interviews of the immigrant community when several local cities had passed resolutions not to cooperate with the FBI in their enactment of the draconian Patriot Act.
So now three weeks later when I greeted two new strangers at the door flashing their Homeland Security badges at me, I was initially stunned. They again asked for me by my name, and questioned me whether I was a citizen or permanent resident, and wanted to see my green card when I answered them. But this time, for some reason, I felt myself getting mad. I asked them what kind of information system they had that they know my name and address but cannot look up my immigration status on their computers, that they physically had to drive up here to question me when they could have simply sent me a letter requesting my presence at their immigration office to verify my status. They muttered something about their databases or computers from the 70s and 80s not working properly with modern systems, I did not quite understand their explanation. And my mind was doing a logical analysis of why couldn't they have simply written to me if that was indeed the case, to come down to their office with my green card? And if I was a flight risk or something, then why wait 3 weeks after the first FBI visit. And especially after I had specifically indicated through my lawyer to the FBI that I did not want to be disturbed like this? Or was this a brand new visit, unrelated to the previous one? And then I also got a little afraid, because two plus two was adding up to five.
So I asked them to wait until I contacted my lawyer to see what my options were, that I was only going to cooperate with them to the extent that they were lawfully entitled to, and that I was going to assert every single right that this country's Constitution afforded me. And I let them know in no uncertain terms that I was upset at their visit to my home. They warned me that unless I produced my green card right there and then, they will arrest me. I responded that I wanted to verify whether they indeed had this right to ask for my green card by making this cold call visit to my home, when they were not making similar visits to any of my neighbors nor seeking this information from anyone else other than brown skinned people. After a bit of loud argument in which they wanted to know whether I was calling them racist, and that they themselves were of Hispanic origin and were not racist, I said no I was not calling them racist and would they kindly allow me to make this phone call to my lawyer, they graciously agreed. But they also requested that I return them the courtesy by leaving the front door open, to which I agreed by saying that normally we are very hospitable people and under any other circumstance I would have invited them in and offered them tea, but that in this case they were kindly not to come inside my house without a warrant. Now that I look back on that moment, I am very surprised that I had the chutzpah to stand up to the Homeland Security people like that, and also quite relieved that they turned out to be tolerant enough to not arrest me for it. I must admit that it also gives me hope that all is not lost yet, that old laws are still being upheld and the basic decencies of their executors still does shine through their facades.
So I called my lawyer while the G men waited at the open door. The poor attorney who despite being quite sick very kindly answered his cell phone, and confirmed to me that the immigration and homeland security folks could ask me for my immigration status by making a cold call visit to my home. It appeared that the FBI had sent in bigger guns. So I dug out my green card from the secure passport container that I keep it in for safe keeping along with rest of our travel documents and showed it to them. Now a new drama ensued. First one of the officers examined it carefully and said something that sounded like "this is not valid". And I freaked out. What do you mean it's not valid? Me, the meticulous person all of my life in every such detail, how can my green card not be valid? The officer said I should get a new one, that it was a lot nicer. And now I am even more confused. What has nice got anything to do with it?
I asked him to explicitly state to me in clear language what was wrong with my green card which I had carried with me faithfully for almost 19 years now. No one at the port of entries during our summer travels previously had ever said a word about it not being valid. In fact, they would simply scan it and presumably all my history would show up on their computers and they would happily waive me on, never even asking me any of the questions they usually asked other brown people with green cards. So what was up here?
The officer called someone on his cell phone, read out my green card number, got some kind of confirmation, and made me feel quite relieved when he stated to me that there was nothing wrong with the green card and that it was still very valid, but that I should get the new one because it was a lot nicer! Now, my green card is the permanent type that does not need to be renewed during one's lifetime, whereas the new ones, I understand, need renewal every so many years. I was not about to trade in my precious permanent credential for something that might look a lot nicer. Who cares how it looks? And besides, who knows, perhaps it has a microchip embedded in it that tracks all your movements, as part of the TIA. In any case, after the Homeland security officer had cleared my green card and advised me to always carry it on my person instead of keeping it in a safety box, and panic had subsided, a strange thing occurred.
By this time it must have been at least 20 or more minutes and we seemed to have developed a rapport of some strange Orwellian sort through it all. The weeks and months of unvoiced frustration that had been building up inside me about the harassment and intimidation that the Muslim community was suffering unjustly, all due to the adventureism of the few in the White House, suddenly came to the surface. Strangely, now I became their interlocutor. I called them back as they started to leave, and started lecturing them on how unhappy I was about this whole thing, how civil liberties were being eroded in the name of security. They remarked that they were only following an order from up above and did not know why they were sent to my house, to which I reminded them of what Eichmann said in his Jerusalem trial, that he was just following orders. Then they argued that they were just doing this to keep their streets secure, and I reminded them of what their own founding father the great Benjamin Franklin had said about the preciousness of freedom, that those who trade their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserved neither.
Then my wife showed up from work, and being even more outspoken than me, and being a US citizen, she got very upset at their visiting our home like this, attempting to terrorize and intimidate us with their Gestapo tactics and she said so. And then she exclaimed: "perhaps when I return home one day I will not find my husband because he would have been hauled off to Guantanamo Bay". So what does one of the officer respond with? Instead of reassuring us that something like that wouldn't happen, that we weren't suspects or anything, like the FBI agents had done previously, he goes: "Well I have been there, it's not such a bad place". And I remarked "were you on the inside or the outside?", quite incredulous at this insane justification for hauling someone innocent off to the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay where according to all reports, the conditions of the interred even in the most optimistic manner can be best described as inhuman. And he responded by saying something even more bizarre "well aren't we are, all inside of something"! I could feel a Kafkaesque moment coming on. Were they playing with me or was it just that they couldn't think fast enough at their own interlocution at our hands?
I felt that just the fact that they had knocked on my door and no one else's in the neighborhood, was racial profiling and a presumption of guilt on their part, and a very intimidating moment for me because now I was going to have psychological problems about door knocks and door bells. And I also worried that my questioning them about their right to do so might lead them to think that I was trying to hide something. So I explained out loud to them that while I had nothing to hide, there was no reason for them to be suspicious at my wanting to assert my rights. I was living in a country which did accord me such rights, which is why I was living here and not elsewhere in the first place. I lectured them that it was unfair that they had their periscopes drawn on the Muslim community, that despite this "war on terrorism", innocent until proven guilty was a fundamental edict of this nation and cannot be wiped away by the Patriot Act 1, intrusive and obnoxious though it may be. And I even cautioned them, just in case they were not aware – few people are, of the looming Patriot Act 2 which is far more insidious and dangerous proposal for all US citizens and would impact them and their children and grandchildren far more than it would impact me, since I am not a citizen. I told them the story of the proverbial frog which can easily jump out of instant hot water and escape, but not from the reassuring warmth of gradually heated luke-warm water whose temperature is raised slowly to a boiling point, one civil liberty at a time, until there is no escape, only Fascism. They just stared at me, perhaps confounded by my spontaneous burst of outspokenness. Perhaps they had not expected such a reception, perhaps they were usually accustomed to the acquiescence of people they had been visiting up to that time, and had not thought about any of these issues as they carried out their normal course of duties. Like it used to be in Germany!
Why was I so garrulously lecturing the two officers from Homeland Security on the erosion of civil rights? As I am sure they must have wondered while they seemed to have all the time in the world listening to my rant. I don't know whether they were recording my speech surreptitiously or were simply trying to placate me, perhaps they felt badly, I don't know. But I answered their unstated question quite clearly that I wanted them to go home and reflect on these persecutory orders that they were following blindly. I told them quite frankly, that well intentioned though they might be in diligently trying to do their jobs to earn a living, the unintended consequences of their actions was having a drastic effect. It was not only creating fear and terror in the immigrant community and causing discussions in families about whether it was indeed time to leave this country – their home for the past so many years, but also providing legitimacy to these draconian measures by the government. In time, it will come to bite their own families – weren't they of Hispanic origin? At some point during my tirade, they wondered why I had not become a citizen all this time, I had sure been here long enough – as if one's native nationality is of no value. I felt a bit offended at that question and blurted out that in this unfortunate climate of oppression with G-men knocking at my door, I saw no compelling reason to become a citizen of this United States.
I was making these comments to them perhaps at the risk of being labeled "uncooperative" and "non-submissive", and what if that is fed into the TIA system which in turn may deny me boarding my flight when I want to visit my mother in an emergency? Being a computer science person myself, I well understand the pitfalls of false positives of systems like the TIA, where an elephant can easily squeak by but a mouse is netted. And what of my transcribing these events and going public with it? Having been a private person all my life, not much caring for limelight or publicity, as my wife and I endeavor to raise our family with the freedom and opportunity that this country was providing us, will I now pay for exercising my free speech rights, the most prized edict of this nation?
But is anyone listening? Free speech only means something when there is someone listening. I can have all the free speech in vacuum and still die from asphyxiation.
Thus ended my saga with the two G men from Homeland Security at my door. I doubt if I made much of an impression on them besides that of a very agitated person. But I do hope I was articulate enough to make them at least think twice before they go knocking on other immigrants home like this, when they can just as easily send them a courteous letter requesting them to bring their paper work to the immigration office for verification. Similarly, there is no need for the FBI to come knocking with such urgency that they even don't see the door bell, they can do likewise and request an audience at a police station along with an attorney. There is absolutely no justification for causing intimidation and fear by knocks on the door at homes in front of family members and children. Unless of course there is a more insidious purpose behind it, that the intent is indeed to intimidate the Muslim and immigrant community and create fear on purpose, so that many of them would simply pack up and leave. This rings too familiar with what transpired with the Jews in xenophobic Nazi Germany, and I sure hope that this is not true in this country. Thus to demonstrate it is not true, why don't they just stop the harassment with the door knocks? I would have been quite willing to comply with a written request to show up at an immigration office with my green card, albeit I have grave concerns answering unjustified private questions that are just feeders into a database for the TIA. I would probably not answer them. Or would I? Two plus two can ultimately still make five!
Before they departed, the two officers did advise me that if we did not like the new laws being framed in this country, my wife being a US citizen, should write to our congress person and be an active participant in the democratic process. The conversation with them overall was quite cordial, albeit their responses at times didn't always make much sense to me – perhaps they were an invitation to keep talking, and there was indeed an Orwellian touch to the whole thing. I did not feel threatened by them except at the beginning when they wanted to see my Green card or else, and under any other 'normal' circumstance, these guys could very well have been my respected colleagues at work. And that is indeed one of my biggest fears, that ordinary well intentioned people, may end up becoming complicit in perpetuating the most heinous crimes of the future through their silence or unquestioning inadvertence of their jobs – yet again.
My attorney later told me that the first FBI agent called him up in response to his letter, and much after this second visit by Homeland security, identified himself as an FBI agent, and told him that it was a purely "voluntary" questioning they wanted to do of me. When my attorney informed him that I was quite keen on clearing up any misunderstandings they might have but that I would like my attorney to be present, the FBI agent said he did not see any point in interviewing me if an attorney was to be present, and just hung up!
In other words, if I have legal representation, they leave me alone! They only want to interrogate me if I don't have legal representation! And they don't even inform me that it is voluntary when they first come to visit and instead tell me that my name had loosely matched some terrorist they were hunting down! So much for the State's Security apparatus upholding the public's civil rights in good faith! My knowing and insisting on my rights because of the brochure that NLG had handed out was instrumental in defeating their design of interrogating me without legal representation – or so it appears for the moment. Only for the moment however, as they can always interrogate one at airports, especially on arrival from overseas. In the guise of making immigration checks, they are regularly putting Muslims through a barrage of unjustified questioning and there are no lawyers present then.
It is also somewhat confusing what precisely are their rights under the new Patriot Act 1. Contradicting my attorney's advice to show them my credentials, several other civil rights lawyers including from NLG subsequently told me that even Homeland Security does not have the right and could not have legally arrested me for not showing them my green card on demand inside my own home. This is why I had taken the stand in the first place. But those federal agents just wouldn't back off necessitating that call to my attorney. And while my attorney saved me from further unnecessary aggravation for he quickly realized that I should not become the test case for this, I am somewhat confused about where the new boundaries are between Rights of the people vs. Rights of the new laws, which are themselves unconstitutional. This has become so bizarre that we are debating the legality of unconstitutional laws, but not with respect to the Constitution as it should be, but with respect to what extent they are applicable! I thank my attorney for thinking of my personal well being over and above those of the civil rights cause for which he has devoted his entire life (he even refused to take monetary compensation from me despite my telling him that I could afford to pay him and he instead directed me to donate it when I insisted that he accept payment for representing me). For had he said no instead of yes, I was fully determined to not show them my green card and who knows what might have happened. I was not living in America to experience their State Fascism. I could certainly experience plenty of it elsewhere in much of the developing world replete with American client-states.
I do not know when there will be another knock on my door. But I dread it very much. Not because I have something to be guilty for, but because it is indeed not a question of innocence or guilt. I am no more guilty than the poor Jew was in the 1930s as he was marched to unspeakable horrors, and it had also started for him with an innocuous knock on the door, only to be apologized for later by the rest of the world vowing never to forget. Or the poor Japanese was in the 1940s as he was unceremoniously scooped into the internment camps at the orders of a US President, again beginning with a knock on the door, only to be apologized for decades later by another US President. Or the alleged communist sympathizer was in the 1950s, when a US Senator used the FBI to run a campaign of fear and terror in the pursuit of a fictitious enemy, culminating in the FBI abusing their powers of surveillance on the respected civil rights leaders in the 1960s, leading to the eventual recognition that security agencies cannot be trusted to uphold the rights of ordinary citizens and a curtailment of their powers in the 1970s, which have now been re-unleashed in the 2000s on the Muslims by yet another overzealous US President.
Is this nation so "memory challenged" that it needs refreshing every decade or so at the expense of witch hunting another minority community? The only thing Muslims are guilty of, is perhaps the hijab they wear, the mosque they visit, the country they hail from, or their skin tone. Why should that elicit a visit from the FBI, when blond haired, church going, white Christian folks are exempt from such visits? Weren't Timothy McVeigh and Terry McNichols Christian terrorists who blew up the Oklahoma state building? While it has not been proven that 9-11 was the work of Muslims, only unsubstantiated blanket assertions made by the American government that it indeed was the handiwork of a handful of Arab "Muslim terrorists" (their bodies were never found, 5 of the 19 names attributed to the dead hijackers were later discovered to belong to innocent people quite alive and healthy), why is it suddenly okay to hold culpable an entire people because of the sins of individual criminals, even if they were "Muslims"? Such standards if applied to the Jews would lead to an uproar in the American society with charges of Anti-Semitism. And of course never applied to the Christians themselves. Double standards can ultimately, never win – but a price has to be paid for it – again and again.
Wake up sleeping and complacent America!
It may have started with the Muslims, but it will not end there. You might be next. Fascism usually starts against a minority group, because it is easier to tolerate since it is only happening to those "damn Arabs" – not to us – how did our oil get under their sand anyway? But the laws that are getting on the books in the persecution of the minority, tend to stay there for a long time. If not you, then your children will surely pay the price. Are the Bill of Rights so trivial that you can stay silent? If not for reasons of compassion for another, then at least for the logic of self preservation, do not let this injustice prevail.
It will be of no compensation when several Ph.D. theses will be written by the succeeding generations about why and how their parents' generation could remain so silent, as a once democratic country with such lofty ideals, slowly descended into a Fascist state within, and the world's most barbaric imperial power outside. All the warning signs are plain to see, their designs even documented by the imperial perpetuators themselves, if only one can read. The images of reality pleadingly tell the truth – if only one is allowed to see them.
If we, all of us, do not arm ourselves with knowledge and critical thinking now, and don't exercise our Constitutional rights in publicly challenging the injustices done in our name, it might indeed be too late by the time we do finally wake up, when they would dare knock on anyone's front door, not just the Muslims. And no rights left to legally protest! Countless would have paid the price for our privilege of writing remorseful theses, soul searching books, sorrowful poetry, and sheepish apologies, in the future – yet again.
Taking a leaf out of my own book, I gave my first interview to the American news media in a joint press conference with the ADC (American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and the NLG (National Lawyers Guild) on May 28, 2003, attempting to tell the whole world what they were trying to do to the Muslims. I called up all the organizations I could think off, from Washington DC to San Francisco, including CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), and told them my story if they had 5 minutes to spare. I was quite certain that my phone was tapped, and I made it a point to speak very openly about my views in the hope that any eavesdroppers might actually learn something from me that would make them ponder. The authorities have mercifully left me alone since their last visit. I traveled overseas during the summer 2003 despite apprehensions of getting a grilling at the airports, and was pleasantly surprised to face no questioning of any sort, either upon departure, or upon re-entering the United States several months later, using the same Green Card that I have had for 20 years now. Perhaps some guardian angel has been watching (over) me.
The two visits by the FBI and Homeland Security occurred in mid March and early April 2003, respectively. For days after the second visit by the Federal agents, I was very stressed out. I just could not figure out what they wanted from me, and why they had chosen me. I kept bugging my attorney with questions about how they could get hold of my name, until he suggested I take a look at the local newspaper of that day in which there was an article about the success of the FBI interviews with the local immigrant Iraqi community just as the bombing of Iraq was underway. He suggested that if their visits were bothering me so much that I couldn't sleep, that perhaps I should consider talking to the reporter who had written that story and enlighten them on the tactics the FBI was using that was being called "success", and that perhaps this would bring further attention to the Patriot Acts and how they were being used intrusively against innocent people. The idea of going public with my story took instant root, but instead of talking to the media as I was apprehensive that they will not tell the entire story or butcher it up as they normally tend to do, I sat down the same day, on Tuesday April 6, 2003, and wrote the bulk of this essay. The next day I surprised my attorney with a copy as a record of these events for his file. I also gave a copy to the NLG. They showed it to a TV documentary crew from Germany, who in turn called me up and asked to make a documentary on my family as part of their coverage of the emerging police state atmosphere in America showing how the Patriot Act had affected the lives of ordinary people in America, to be aired on public TV in France and Germany. I offered them an interview in my lawyers office, but they didn't think that would make good television viewing, and instead wished to film my family in our daily routine and open up the privacy of our home to the world. I wasn't ready for that yet, and declined.


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Techniques for Sewing Sleeves
There are two methods for sewing sleeves. Neither method is particularly difficult, although sewing sleeves in flat tends to be easier. Sewing patterns for set-in sleeves tend to have a higher sleeve cap, while patterns for sleeves that are sewn in flat, such as robes, have a wider or somewhat broader sleeve cap.
Sewing set-in sleeves is often more intimidating to sewing enthusiasts. Most blouses, jackets and coats have set-in sleeves. To sew set-in sleeves, the shoulder seams and the side seams of the bodice are already sewn and pressed open. The armhole that is created in the bodice is called the armscye.
The next step after sewing the bodice shoulder and side seams is to prepare the sleeve. Most set-in sleeves are supposed to be smooth at the sleeve cap when the garment is being worn, but this can be a bit tricky to achieve during the sewing process because the sleeve cap must be eased in order to fit into the armscye properly. Personally, I like to set my stitch length on about five and sew these easing stitches while the sleeve is still flat. Most sewing patterns will instruct you to sew at 5/8 inch and again at 1/2 inch, which is easier when you're first learning how to sew, but I like to sew at 3/8 inch and just a little bit less than 3/8 inches instead because when I sew the seam to join the sleeve to the garment at a standard 5/8-inch seam allowance, the easing stitches don't show, although it is easy enough to pull them out if they should show after sewing the sleeve into the bodice.
After you sew the stitches on the sleeve cap, then you should sew and press open the sleeve seam. When I sew set-in sleeves, I prefer to finish the raw edges of the seam prior to sewing construction, sew the seam and then press it open. This creates less bulk, especially in the underarm area where the seams intersect. Now you are ready to insert the sleeve into the armscye. Remember that the right sides of the fabric will be placed together, so the bodice will be turned so that the wrong side of the fabric is facing you. Match the sleeve seam and the bodice side seam as well as the notches. A double notch indicates the back of the sleeve, and a single notch indicates the front of the sleeve. Pull the stitches on the sleeve cap so that the sleeve fits into the armscye. Then it is time to sew the sleeve to the bodice.
Using the free arm of your sewing machine when sewing set-in sleeves makes it easier to sew. Some seamstresses place the bodice next to the feed dogs of the sewing machine and sew the sleeve in that way, but I prefer to place the pinned sleeve on the free arm of the sewing machine (with the sleeve next to the feed dogs) and sew around the armscye, slightly overlapping where I started sewing, which is usually at the seam. I like to finish the seam that is created when the set-in sleeve is joined to the bodice. I usually serge finish this seam. If the set-in sleeve has been sewn in correctly, there should be no puckers on the sleeve cap when the garment is turned right-side out.
Another method for sewing in sleeves is to sew them in flat. You sew and press open the shoulder seams on the bodice, but leave the side seams unsewn. Although many sewing patterns don't instruct you to ease the sleeve cap to fit, I often have to slightly ease the sleeve cap for it to fit correctly. Place the sleeve on the bodice with the right sides of the fabric together and match the notches on the open (because the side seams are not sewn yet) armscye, pin the sleeve and then use your sewing machine to sew the sleeve cap to the bodice. This seam will be slightly curved but is quite easy to sew. If the sleeve has been sewn correctly using this method, the sleeve cap will be smooth with no puckers.
The next step is to sew the bodice side seam and sleeve seam as one seam. When you come to the area under the arm, make sure you match the seam lines (where the sleeve was joined to the bodice). Sometimes you need to clip the seam under the arm because this allows the seams to be pressed open more easily.
When sewing sleeves, remember that sleeve caps should be eased in order for the sleeve to fit into the armscye properly. Most sewing patterns have a dot on the pattern, and this dot should be marked on the fabric and placed on the shoulder seam, which makes it easier to fit the sleeve into the armscye. Matching the notches is also important. Double notches indicate the back of the sleeve, while single notches indicate the front of the sleeve, so cutting the notches is always important when cutting out sleeve patterns. When easing the sleeve cap, the threads are slightly pulled in order for the sleeve to fit into the armscye. These easing stitches are not gathering stitches, which are pulled much tighter.
The key to sewing sleeves is to not rush the process. Learning how to sew sleeves may sound challenging at first, as you will see, it really isn't too difficult.
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Brined Roast Turkey with Pan Gravy - Wolfgang Puck
By Gams
- Brine:
- Ingredients
- 1 gallon water
- 1/2 ounce ground cloves
- 1/2 ounce ground ginger
- 4 ounces cracked black peppercorns
- 12 bay leaves
- 1 pound kosher salt
- 24 ounces honey
- 24 ounces maple syrup
- 1 (10-pound) whole fresh turkey, giblets and neck removed and reserved for stock
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary leaves
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh sage leaves
- 2 apples, quartered and cored
- 1 onion, peeled and quartered
- 2 rosemary sprigs
- 3 sprigs sage
- Olive oil, for drizzling
- 1 cup cubed carrots
- 1 cup cubed celery
- 1 cup cubed onions
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1/2 cup Madeira wine
- 4 cups turkey stock, recipe follows
- 1 sprig thyme
- 2 sprigs parsley
- Beurre manie (2 ounces butter mixed with 2 ounces flour until it forms a soft dough)
- Salt and pepper
Step 1
In a large stockpot, bring the water, cloves, ginger, black peppercorn, bay leaves and salt to a boil. Lower to a simmer and stir in the honey and maple syrup until well blended. Turn off heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
Rinse the turkey inside and out with cold tap water. Reserve the neck and specialty meats for pan gravy. Set the turkey in the brine, making sure that the turkey is fully immersed in the brine. Place a weight on top of the turkey to make sure it is always covered with brine. Marinate for at least 4 hours to overnight, depending on the weight of the turkey, in the refrigerator.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
In a shallow roasting pan, place the carrots, celery and onions. Remove turkey from brine.
Mix together the butter, garlic, chopped rosemary, and sage to make a compound butter. Using your hands, loosen to the skin from the breast by gently inserting your fingers between the skin and the flesh. Rub the compound butter underneath the skin. Insert the apples, onions, and whole rosemary and sage into the cavity of the turkey.
Place the turkey over the vegetables, breast-side up, in the roasting pan. Tuck the wings back and under the turkey. Using kitchen twine, tie the legs together. This will make a compact shape and will create a great presentation. Drizzle the turkey with olive oil and rub it into the skin. Roast the turkey to at least 165 degrees F in the breast, about 2 1/2 hours. If the skin gets too dark during roasting, tent with foil.
Transfer turkey to a platter and allow to cool.
Meanwhile, prepare the pan gravy.
Tilt the pan and skim as much fat as possible off the juice with a spoon. Set the pan on 2 burners set on medium heat. Deglaze roasting pan with white wine and Madeira. Scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen any brown bits. Reduce until only a quarter remains. Add the turkey stock, thyme and parsley. Bring to a boil and strain into a saucepan. Bring back to a boil, skim and lower to a simmer.
Whisk in the beurre manie until well incorporated and continue to cook until gravy has thickened. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
Turkey Stock:
Giblets and neck from 1 turkey
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup port wine
1 cup roughly chopped onions
1/2 cup roughly chopped carrots
1/2 cup roughly chopped celery
2 sprigs rosemary
5 peppercorns
Water, to cover
Heat a saucepan over high heat. When the pan is hot, add the olive oil and heat. Add the neck and giblets and cook until browned all over, about 7 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and deglaze with the port. Return the pan to the heat and cook until the port is almost completely evaporated, about 10 minutes.
Add the carrots, onions, celery, rosemary and peppercorns. Cover with cold water by 4-inches.
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, and simmer for 2 hours, adding a little more water, if necessary. Skim any scum that rises to the surface of the stock and discard.
Strain the stock. Use immediately, or cool and refrigerate for up to 4 days.
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After our nVidia chipset graphics card exploded a few weeks ago, we just suffered three live hard-drive failures. One was an old laptop drive and the other two were both 250Gb Western Digital Caviars in two separate machines (one Linux and one Windows) both hosted by nVidia nForce chipsets on Asus A8N-SLI S939 Premium motherboards.
Hard drive problems are always terrifying. In this case, we had several theories about what might have gone wrong. The symptoms in both cases were the drives starting to click. This problem is lovingly referred to as the "click of death", after the famous ZIP disk problem. The death of the HD in the Windows box gave us a heads-up about the imminent demise of the identical HD in the Linux box so we at least managed to get a totally fresh backup from that box. Of course, the major pain is actually reinstalling Windows and all of your software rather than getting the data copied off a backup (even if you do lose a couple of days work!). As my glass is half full, I see blitzing the Windows XP Professional install as an opportunity to address its utterly shameful reliability, which had gradually deteriorated over the period of 14 months to an average unladen up-time of only 3 hours compared to a laden up-time of 9 months for our identical Linux box!
Researching the hard-drive problem turned up several interesting leads. Like all HD manufacturers, Western Digital have a brand tarred by tales of doom. Interestingly, the IBM Deskstar series (since taken over by Hitachi) acquired such a bad reputation that it is referred to as the "Deathstar" series. In fact, we have reverted to using two old Deskstar drives here and both have worked much more reliably than the Western Digital, which makes me lean towards buying a Deskstar from Hitachi as a replacement and lean away from believing the negative reviews about them. Like any highly-competitive market, search results are inundated with suspicious reviews by "Bob" who gives one manufacturer five stars and all others only one.
Perhaps the most interesting lead turned up by our research is the fact that nVidia's SATA support for their nForce chipsets has remained broken since the nForce 3, rendering drives inoperable and even silently corrupting data, both under Linux and under Windows and on a variety of hard-drives from (at least) Western Digital, Maxtor and Hitachi. Coupled with the fact that their nForce chipset is temperature intolerant and their GeForce graphics chipset is cooking Asus' fanless nForce chipset on our motherboards, you've got yourself cause for concern. Even if we had opted for the higher-specification "Deluxe" model than includes a chipset fan, apparently these are notoriously unreliable.


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Senior Catie Baker Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 1, 2012
DePauw University senior Catherine "Catie" Baker has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support Ph.D. studies she will begin in Fall 2012. Baker is a computer science and mathematics double major and was an honorable mention all-American in swimming.
The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.
Last spring, Catie Baker was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Details can be found in this article.Back


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We'll get to what the above screenshot means a little bit later. Sorry, no PvP Weekend update post this time around. Wait…no PvP? Yep, nada. Was it because of Isle of Conquest weekend? Nah, I decided to take a break from smashing Alliance heads and just settled for some old raid fun time. Maybe you'll get a PvP update next week, lol.
Last week, SR decided to head into 25-man Icecrown Citadel and work on Zug's Shadowmourne quest. We had Adoe, Cayle, Chewy, Lyssi, Bocat, Van, Zug, Slice on his chain-healing noob shammy and me. Zug was on the part we he had to take Sindy's bad breaths to the face four times. So we made quick work of the Lower Spire, Lootship 1.0, Deathbringer Saurfang and healed Valithria Dreamwalker to full. It took us a few tries to get Sindy down, but Zug got his Shadow's Edge all covered with Sindy's halitosis and we got a nice achievement for it.
So Zug turned his completed quest into Darion Mograine, and Darion told Zug that now he had to bring him 50 Shadowfrost Shards, which only drop off 25 man ICC bosses. 50!!! According to wowhead, all normal 25-man bosses have a 25%-50% chance to drop a shard, while heroic 25-man bosses have a 50%-75% chance to drop a shard. /facepalm >< So we headed over to the Plagueworks and decided to try the Abomination twins on heroic. We used SR's long-standing tactic, the Brute-Force, and one-shotted both Rotface and Festergut. I think Zug might have gotten a shard or two out of the twins. Adoe then said hell no to Heroic Putricide, which everyone pretty much agreed, lol. I took up the Abom driving duties since I was also working on my own Shadowmourne on the Unholy Infusion quest, just a couple behind Zug. The pools ended up getting out of control and I died before I could complete my quest, but it was fun watching Cayle soloing Putricide for the last 10%. We did get two achievements out of it and a shard, so that made up for my missed quest.
We finished the night clearing the Blood Princes and Blood-Queen Lana'thel on normal, grabbing another achievement.
I think Zug ended up with 4 shards for the night…..we gots a long ways to go, lol. And we might need a couple more peeps to down Lich King on 25-man too. =)
I picked up the last Conqueror's Mark of Sanctification in that run to complete my Tier 10.5 Lightsworn set and in my excitement, rushed over to Tirion to show him the good stuff. I don't think he was impressed though; he was being all "Mr. Srs Bznz" and stuff. =P
Saturday morning, Navimie, being the awesome person she is, rounded up a couple of the Frostees (Tacky, Aza and Faithless) to help me get Shocking in 25-man Naxx. I also brought Chewy along for the ride since he was up just as early as I was. I had just missed joining the Frostees last week when they had just finished Shocking and Navi was so kind enough to help me get it this week. Getting Shocking also gave me Glory of the Raider, so a very nice one-for-two special. Thanks guys for helping me finish this up! FAFA!
Now you're probably wondering what the hell this Half-Mogs stuff is that I mentioned in the post title. Well, from these two ICC and Naxx runs, along with some gear stashed in my bank, I tried another attempt at mogging my gear into something visual-worthy. Slice and Zari probably think I'm sick, but I wanted to redeem myself from my prior failures, which you can see for yourself below:
So, yeah….um….yeah. Pretty bad huh? I think JD and crew would definitely throw me out of the Mogolympics if I tried entering this atrocity into their competition, lol. Hey JD, maybe for the next Mogolympics, you could have a Juggling event…I could definitely whip up a mad clown suit, haha.
Anywho, I managed to gather up a couple of pieces together and create a new look for my Prot set. When Adoe first saw this on me, he said that I looked pretty cool and I was ready "to tank the shit out of something", lol. Navi kinda dubbed my look as the "Unholy Paladin", so I'll go with that.
Unholy Paladin set
- Head – Obsidian Greathelm
- Shoulders – Burdened Shoulderplates
- Hands – Zeliek's Gauntlets
- Weapon – Millennium Blade
- Shield – Wall of Terror
- Tabard – Tabard of the Void
I couldn't half-mog my Prot set without having done my Ret set too, so I put together some pieces which are basically recolors of the Unholy Paladin set. Couldn't think of a name for this set, so I came up with the first /facepalming thought that crossed my mind.
Snow Knight and the 7 non-matching pieces set (not including rings, trinks and relic and yes I know you can't really see bracers or neck =P)
- Head – Helm of Diminished Pride
- Shoulders – Elevated Lair Pauldrons
- Hands – Gloves of the Pythonic Guardian
- Weapon – Quel'Delar, Might of the Faithful
- Tabard – Tabard of Brilliance
So yeah, I'm still using my Cataclysmic Gladiator PvP gear for the rest of the pieces and I know I have more work to do on it, but I think it looks ok for now. I don't know how crazy I'm gonna go with the whole transmogging craze most players are into now, but I did have fun putting these half-assed sets together. =) I think the best mog outfit, though, is in the image below, I call it the Magic Arv set, lmao.


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View of Santiago de Compostela from Monte do Gozo
In Santiago de Compostela, northern Spain, you have a date with history. As soon as you enter its old town, which has the UNESCO World Heritage designation, you will see that this is no exaggeration. The capital of Galicia has some of Europe's best conserved monuments, in surroundings that call to mind historic times. This is the city, the final stop on the Camino de Santiago, the first route to be designated European Cultural Itinerary.
Santiago de Compostela is synonymous with art and culture. However, if there is one outstanding thing in this city in Galicia, it is its impressive heritage of historic monuments, most of which are concentrated in the old town. This can be seen in the palaces, churches, narrow streets and squares to be found in this part of the city. The beauty of its historic centre is hard to match. At each step along the way there are real artistic gems of different architectural styles. Buildings with centuries of history that give the capital of Galicia a unique appearance.
The best way to see all this is to take a stroll through the cobbled, granite streets and squares of the old town. Many of these monuments date from the Middle Ages. The Cathedral is particularly outstanding. Its majestic façade towers above Plaza del Obradoiro Square. Try to attend the pilgrims' mass if you can. It takes place daily at midday and you will see the "botafumeiro", a huge censer that swings down from the cathedral ceiling. Make the most of the occasion to head up to the roof of this Romanesque masterpiece and look out over the whole city.
Strolling through Santiago you will have the feeling that time has stood still. Nova, Vilar, San Pedro and Preguntoiro Street; Plaza Toural, Cervantes and Praterías Squares… they are all witnesses to a splendid past and a living present reflected in the animated student atmosphere that fills the city streets, thanks to its University.
It is impossible to talk about Santiago without mentioning the Camino: an age-old pilgrimage route that was born in the 9th century and has linked the city with rest of Europe ever since. Every year many thousands of pilgrims set out on foot, by bike, or even on horseback, to live this experience that combines adventure and spirituality. The final goal is the Cathedral in Santiago, a sacred city in the Christian faith.
However, Santiago is much more. Be sure to sample the delicious gastronomy of Galicia; stroll through the many parks and gardens; visit any of its museums, and make the most of its busy, year-round cultural agenda: music, conferences, theatre, concerts, exhibitions, festivals... are you coming?
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Timed perfectly with The Armory Show, ANALOGIA's Opening Event will take place on Saturday, March 8 at Bryant Park. There will be an assortment of live music and dance performances interpreting the different figures represented in the paintings. Followed the performances, there will be an Art Tour with Art Historian Vanessa Gates-Elston. The Art Tour will give visitors a perspective on ANALOGIA as a site specific installation. In special consideration of the event, the park will be open until 9pm on Saturday, March 8.
ANALOGIA Opening Event
Saturday, March 8
6pm - 8pm
Fountain Terrace
Performances inspired by the Installation
Dina Fanai (Babel soundscape)
Rebecca Stenn (Mother Goddess dance)
Ernest Baker II (Power Congo Figure dance)
Peter Knoll (Knight soundscape)
Dzul Dance (Mexican Baby Figure dance)
Michael Mao Dance
Dina Fanai (Legends Song)
In case you can't make it out on Saturday night, the sculpture will remain in the park through March 19. The last few days will feature the disassemble process.