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The December Roadshow Concludes
Bob and I have put the wraps on the December Roadshow, having spent the last two weeks traveling many miles (over 1,400 total) to bring a technical bounty to five northeastern cities.
We'd like to extend a large "Thank You!" to everyone who attended and made this in many ways our best series to date!
Update - Read Bob's Roadshow summary , too!
I was also pleased with the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFests. They worked well attached to the Roadshow series as ways to cap of a day of learning with some fun and networking. Many thanks to Bob for stepping up to help, though he did take undue advantage of hapless noobs in Halo 3. ;)
I'll post a separate follow-up for the InstallFests soon.
Presentations and Content Available
We're leveraging SkyDrive to store our slides and code from the sessions. Bob and I have posted our content to our respective SkyDrives:
Chris' Content:
"Visual Studio 2008" and "The Strongest LINQ"
Bob's Content:
"Multi-Tenant Data Architecture" and "Expression Studio"
BTW, it's easy to get your own SkyDrive with free online space to store your files privately and/or share them with others (named or anonymous.)
Rochester, NY - 12/4
For our first stop, we packed tons of stuff and drove our huge black "government-issue" Suburban through the white-out conditions in the Utica area to make it to Rochester. Our Rochesterian (I'm making up words now) attendees were seemingly unfazed by all the snow, and drifted in for the show.
As with Burlington and Hartford, we had a new venue in Rochester - the RIT campus itself! Thanks to the very helpful Cheryl McLean, everything went smoothly (though Bob and I had to ask a few students where to go.)
Burlington, VT - 12/6
From Rochester, we traveled to less-snowy Burlington, VT (never thought I'd say that.) Our new venue, Vermont Technical College in Williston, was also great. Special thanks to Julie Lerman for introducing us and to Mike Soulia at VTC who took things from there.
Conveniently just down the street from Starbucks (whom we surprised with our morning "5 boxes of coffee" order), we'll be back!
Hartford, CT - 12/10
The following Monday saw ice in Massachusetts, but Bob and myself in Hartford, Connecticut. We had strong attendance at UConn's Hartford-based Financial Accelerator facility.
An interesting L-shaped space, overlooking a simulated trading floor (you can see the top of it in the picture at left,) we had a great show with an engaged audience asking insightful questions and ducking errant orange ball throws in exchange.
Portland, ME - 12/11
On Tuesday we returned to our trusty location at techMAINE (formerly MESDA) in Westbrook. As always, the room was packed with an attentive crowd, more than happy to help exhaust our supply of orange balls.
Great questions and a good day!
Waltham, MA - 12/13
A good (3/4) day of content followed by a not-so-good drive home.
Though we worked through lunch and had planned a 3:00 finish, we still had to cut the day one session short since the snow arrived earlier than originally expected by the weather folks.
THANK YOU to everyone who braved the weather to join us.
Bob and I especially hope that those of you who chose to stay through the last session arrived home safely and with as little hassle as possible.If you had a long drive home, I'll commiserate with you. Things got so bad on Route 20 that I ended up waiting it out halfway home and finally drove in late that night.
Bob plans to record his session on Expression Studio that we had to cut and will post that when it's ready.
I don't have the numbers handy, but I was definitely impressed by how many people came out for the show, knowing snow would join us at day's end. Again, thanks for coming.
Homework (for Me, not You)
I have some questions that I collected from the Roadshow and will post answers as a FAQ later on. If you have any other questions from the sessions, please feel free to ask!
The Next Time...
Look for us to return in March with a brand new name and a few format changes too (but don't worry, our senses of humor will remain intact (well, we think that's a good thing.))
Enjoy the holidays and have a great new year!


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The trails were rugged, steep and incredible. Much of them went through very dense red spruce forests that were darkened even more by the thick sea fog. Lush, green moss blanketed much of the grounds. It was unlike any other place that I've ever run, much less seen.
As the trail descended down the ridge, a meadow opened up and I spotted several snowshoe hares. I soon reached the park road and ran the last stretch on the grassy shoulders. It was here that I saw a coyote while coming around a bend. It was probably around a 100 feet away and I saw it first, but once I was spotted it took off running in the woods.
The people in New Brunswick and PEI both are very friendly and down to earth. Really loving it up this way. Below is a GPS track of my run and a few pics.
Ran 4.9 miles @ 10:55/mile pace.
Trails, some roads.
Extremely hilly.
Lower 60s, foggy.
Adidas Adizero XT, shorts, short sleeved shirt.
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Just up at Future Tense
If you are here to find stories about the intelligent design controversy, scroll down. Today is the day I do volunteer work for The Word Guild, an orgnaizatin of Canadian writers who are traditional Christians like me.
So here are my contributions to Future Tense, a blog sponsored by The Word Guild, to provide information and help to all interested writers during a historic transition to new media.
If you ever thought you wanted to write an article or a book, have a look:
Books: What sales mean and what they don't (Like ... what's your blood group?)
How writers and publishers are coping with the recession? (Ramen noodles, basically)
Bailout for newspapers: Who would have imagined it? (Die, monster, die)
Top religion books of 2008 (Single whoop.)
Google: This is just SO not your father's brown paper bag censorship! (Here's why you don't get access to all the news.)
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Clip: Season 44 | 6m 13s
What makes a brain or machine conscious? This theory is beginning to provide some answers.
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The Mt Washington Valley Ice Fest will be here before you know it. Make your plans now!
Too early? But if there is Ice and it is climbed? I'm confused. I always thought this was a site to promote climbing.
Quote from: Mike G on November 12, 2012, 04:34:54 PMToo early? But if there is Ice and it is climbed? I'm confused. I always thought this was a site to promote climbing.Al was saying last year that ice in Huntington Ravine was out in March, and it continued to be climbed in April. Two years ago he called a couple climbers crazy for climbing Shoestring in thin conditions. Living three hours south I always appreciated his ice reports, but they're very much on the conservative side. Although the report may sometimes tell us it's not worth the drive, we should all draw our own conclusions about conditions.Reggie
I'd say you're a bit of a fool if you only rely on one mans report in deciding on what to do for the day. No one ever complains when he's off on the bug report.
I actually remember a climber partner complaining about Al's bug report one day when we were getting chowed on by black flies!
one (or two) other quick comment(s)... I do the ice report for the 'average" climber (if there is such an animal) I try and base it on what are the consensus grades for the various climbs. since I've climbed almost everything in the area, many more than once, I have a pretty good idea of what is IN/OUT at any particular time. am I always right, hardly; am I sometimes wrong, absolutely. I'm not a great climber, I'm a bit on the upper side of good, so I feel like I do have that perspective.and if nothing else, I've been putting out the report for close to 15 years now and I "should be" fairly consistent. I try not to do predictions, just talk about what I see on my Thursday romp. you can count on the fact that when I go up into Huntington in late March and find that things are getting pretty baked and there are open holes in Pinnacle, I'm going to call it OUT. are there going to be folks climbing ice up there in April or later, absolutely. that's just the way it is...look, I'm sure you will find heavyweight folks out there that don't agree with me. just ask around about the disagreement that I had with one of the local guides regarding my call on the early season last year. there's at least one person who frequents these forums who knows about it. I'm sure they'll also tell you that I don't back down on my overall calls. [wry grin] I say what I think. you can (and SHOULD) just take that as another tool to use in making "your" personal decision about whether to climb or not. and make no mistake, climbing is a personal endeavor. when you get to the bottom of that ice pillar/curtain/slab, you are the one who's going to climb it - not me. the report is just one thing you can use to make a personal decision to start up. hopefully it's a helpful one...and of course there is always this forum where YOU can post YOUR opinion....remember: "Climbing is a very dangerous sport. You can get hurt or even kill yourself. When you go climbing, you do so of your own free will. Everything on this site is to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't blame us if you get up some totally heinous route, in over your head and fall and hurt yourself."
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Intrepid Mines top brass have finally broken their silence over the intrigue in Indonesia, claiming that unscrupulous local interests are stealing their gold mine.
Chief executive Brad Gordon confirmed Monday's story in BusinessDay that the ownership of the massive Tujuh Bukit project has been transferred to other parties.
In a statement released late yesterday, Gordon and his chairman Ian McMaster said the company was working with Indonesian police to get the mine back.
Intrepid lost control of the project in July when its joint venture partners – an Indonesian couple Maya Ambarsari and Reza Nazaruddin – seized the site and ordered Intrepid workers to evacuate.
In last night's dramatic press release, Intrepid claims Maya and Reza have been working in cahoots with powerful businessmen Edwin Soeryadjaya and Garibaldi Thohir, hedge funds Provident Capital and Quantum Pacific Capital, two Singapore stockbrokers and Australian entrepreneur Paul Willis to hoodwink the company and wrest control of the 25 million ounce gold project.
Intrepid had already spent $95 million proving up the Tujuh Bukit resource, one of the top ten projects in the world with a potential 25 million ounces of gold, 80 million ounces of silver and 7 million tonnes of copper.
A month before the project was seized by Intrepid's partners Maya and Reza in June, the couple had registered a change of ownership of their company IMN. They transferred 80 per cent to new investors.
In July, they transferred the mining licence from their company IMN to a 51 per cent owned subsidiary of IMN called Bumi Sukses Indo (BSI). Via this transfer, Intrepid still had a claim to the gold project as its contracts were held with IMN and IMN still held 51 per cent.
The most recent disclosures however show that Maya and Reza are no longer shareholders of the company which holds the mining licence. The new shareholding is PT Alfa Sukses Indo (5 per cent) and PT Merdeka Serasi Jaya (95 per cent).
The type of mining license held by Intrepid's JV partner (PT Indo Multi Niaga) is known as an "IUP" and could not be held by foreigners so the company had been running some legal risk all along, since it struck the deal with IMN in August 2007.
Intrepid's former partner Paul Willis is suing the company for damages claiming he had been cut out of Tujuh Bukit in 2007, just as Maya and Reza had cut Intrepid out of the picture this year.
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The event, a benefit for the Dumb Friends League, was the seventh in a series of eight pool parties that the hotel hosted this summer.
The final one, Summer's End Soiree, is from 6-9 p.m. today. It is being presented by organizers of the Aspen Gay Ski Week as a benefit for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Co-founded by Tracy Bozarth, Jennifer McGlincy and Stephanie Richards, Dandizette launched its BETA testing in February from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.
"Tonight we bring the magazine to life," Bozarth said. "We'll be covering everything that's dandy in Denver."
Dandizette's one-of-a-kind multi-media platform includes user-generated content in the form of a lookbook and the ability for visitors to earn points that are redeemable for services, goods and experiences in Denver.
Richards, the managing editor, explained that during BETA testing users had to register to access content. "We are so excited that will no longer be the case," Richards said. "Everyone can now access our highly curated, cutting-edge and intelligent content without registering."
Registration is required, though, to earn points.
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The party also allowed the 200-some guests to enjoy cocktails from Breckenridge Distillery while shopping at popup shops hosted by A Line Boutique, Borlino, Esarsi and LipBar.
There also was a performance by Hannah Kahn Dance Company and music from Spinphony, and an art display courtesy of Mirada Fine Art Gallery.
Guests included several of Bozarth's former Neiman Marcus Cherry Creek colleagues, including Nancy Sagar and Mary Etta Curtis; Andrea Ackerman, who, like Curtis, is on the board of Dress for Success Denver; Dr. Christine Rodgers; Jessica Keegan, marketing and sponsorship specialist for the Cherry Creek Shopping Center; Adam Daurio, executive director of the SaddleUp! Foundation, and his wife, Jennifer; and Jim Guttau, the hotel's director of public relations.
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- Kat Kinsman knew as a child that she didn't want to have children
- "A married woman who chooses not to have children is highly suspect to some," she writes
- Still, friends (and their beloved children, for those who have them) enrich her life, she writes
- In marriage, friendships, career and life, she's content: "Everything I want is right here"
On Mother's Day, no one is going to send me flowers or a card. I will not be awakened by sweet, giggling toddlers bearing a tray of breakfast in their chubby hands or receive an awkward but heartfelt hug from a gangly teenage son or end a phone call with a teary, dorm-bound daughter saying, "I love you, Mom." I am no one's mother, and I never will be.
This is not by accident, a case of insurmountable physical challenges, an unwilling partner or prioritizing career over children. At age 39, the window of my fertility is sliding shut, but I feel no sense of dread, panic or regret. I have known since I was a child myself that I didn't want to have any of my own. It's simply astonishing to me how frequently people -- strangers, especially -- have felt that I should answer to them for that.
A married woman who chooses not to have children is highly suspect to some, broken in some fundamental way. My friends know that I am not and that I support their parenthood in any way I can. I have offered solace while they grieved over infertility and miscarriage. I have wept with joy, staring into the faces of their children for the first time -- seeing in them the undeniable imprint of their parents and loving them already and always, just for that. I have taken my friends' sad and stumbling teens on long walks, under the auspices of their parents to whom they'd simply stopped talking.
When my best friend of nearly two decades asked me to be present at the birth of her child, I simply said yes. I did not know that it would entail kneeling aside a tub for hours, her head in one of my hands, and her knees locked into her husband's and my elbows as she heaved and strained their son out into the world in a bloody, howling, miraculous mess. I watched her face as she held him to her chest and fell in lifelong love with him -- as her heart grew extra chambers, as she metamorphosed into a mother.
I felt nothing but pure bliss for her budding family -- and nothing but contentment for myself having been lucky enough to witness this momentous thing. Not a pang, not an emptiness, not a tick or a twinge. One of the concerns often levied at intentionally childless people is that we'll never truly know love until it is reflected back to us by our own flesh and blood. I suppose I should be grateful for that level of solicitousness, but it tends to smack of pity and disdain. So do the allegations of selfishness.
I remember this as clear as day, being 10 years old and a friend telling me I'd be a bad mother. The children from her parents' home day care had crawled up to the tip-top shelf where she'd stashed her social studies project and smashed it all to bits. She'd brought in the tattered remains to our unsympathetic teacher, who gave her a failing grade for the project. I was livid from the injustice of it all -- from the cranky, burned-out educator who no longer had any business molding young minds, to her parents who made her live in a home that stank of diapers and was never silent, to the pint-sized savages who had laid waste to her lovely work.
"How do you stand it?" I asked. "All of it. The noise, the diaper changing, not having anything ever be private?"
She hissed at me, wounded, "You're going to be a horrible mother!"
"No, I'm not," I calmly replied. "I'm not going to be a mother at all."
Somehow I understood it in my bones, as deeply and simply as know I have hazel eyes and cannot sing: I was never going to carry a child inside my body, and I was completely at peace with that. The need, want and drive are simply not there. Nearly three decades later, that hasn't wavered, though it has hardly gone unassailed by others who have felt compelled to critique or to pry.
My family has always understood this about me and was content with my sister and me finding fulfillment in other arenas. On both sides, there were some aunts or uncles who never married or reproduced, and it wasn't seen as a metric for happiness. When my husband and I married, he was 40, it was his second time, and the next generation (and their children) were well under way. I gather that being spared familial pressure is a rare and tremendous thing, and I am grateful for it.
To friends and strangers who ask, I say I just don't want to. If they push further, "You two would make such great parents!" (Take THAT, childhood pal!), I tout the role of the fabulous New York City aunt -- an Auntie Mame (minus the mansion) or Cousin Serena (minus the magical powers). Often, that stops the interrogation, but on occasion (or online), it gets hostile. How dare I? What's wrong with me?
I toss aside the accusations of selfishness: Not having to care for children of our own makes my husband and me nimble with our assistance when it's needed. We're quick with a listening ear and a chilled cocktail for friends in need of company, share cash and volunteer time we might not have otherwise had and are fluent in cranky, misfit teen. As we often tell our friends and family, we may not be especially comfortable cradling babies, but when your kid hits puberty and decides they "hate" you and the rest of humanity, hand 'em over. We'll let them know how lucky they are to have you as parents.
Less easy to shake off is the assertion that a female who does not bear a child is somehow not a real woman. I'm secure in my choice but deeply disappointed that one woman would wield that as a slur against another. I've no right to mandate what a mother should teach her daughter, but I hope, deep down in my nullipara heart, that some of the lessons would be about personal freedom, the beauty of difference and the possibility that a person could be content and complete all on her own.
And I am not alone. In the world I've made for myself, I have a career I adore and friends who fill my head, heart and waking hours. They are in various stages of couple and singlehood, childlessness and large-brooded, and each illuminates my world in a different way. They make my heart larger, stronger and better.
At home, there is my family: the husband who I tell on a daily basis that he is my favorite person on Earth (I made sure on our second date that he didn't want kids either; otherwise, there would not have been a third), a rabbit and our two dogs. They are not our children, as they are for some people, but they are our charges, and we fuss and spoil accordingly.
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Borussia Dortmund head coach Jurgen Klopp has been fined €10,000 by the German Football Association (DFB), but has escaped a touchline ban.
The 46-year-old was investigated after he was sent to the stands during Dortmund's 2-1 defeat to Borussia Monchengladbach at Signal Iduna Park on Saturday.
Klopp was incensed by a decision that denied the hosts an equaliser when Marvin Ducksch netted, with a foul awarded against Robert Lewandowski in the build-up.
He continued to remonstrate with the fourth official until referee Deniz Aytekin sent him to the stands.
The DFB have taken a dim view of the incident and imposed a fine on Klopp for "unsportsmanlike conduct", though he will be in the dugout for Dortmund's trip to Hannover on Saturday.
Klopp, who served a two-game touchline ban in this season's UEFA Champions League for his conduct towards officials in September's defeat at Napoli, has accepted the decision.
"The sports court of the German Football Association (DFB) has (punished) Jurgen Klopp, coach of Borussia Dortmund, with a fine to the amount of 10,000 euros because of unsportsmanlike conduct," read a statement on the official DFB website.
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Expanded cover crops demonstration plot to be featured at Ag Progress Days
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Cover crops planted in rotation with main crops can help farmers reduce erosion and replenish nutrients into the soil, and cover crops increasingly are being considered for biofuel feedstocks.
Visitors can learn more about these benefits of cover crops at an expanded cover crops demonstration plot beside the J.D. Harrington Crops, Soils and Conservation Building at Ag Progress Days, Aug. 13-15.
"We're also starting to consider cover crops more for their potential use in forage production," said Marvin Hall, professor of forage management and coordinator of the Crops, Soils and Conservation Area at Ag Progress Days. "The cover crops plot has been made larger this year, and we have 13 varieties or mixtures on display."
According to Hall, cover crop varieties growing in the plot include annual ryegrass; a mix of tillage radish, sunhemp and sorghum-sudangrass; a mix of tillage radish and triticale; a mix of tillage radish and oats; phacelia; sunhemp; a mix of annual ryegrass, tillage radish and crimson clover; hairy vetch; sorghum sudangrass; pearl millet; fava bean; Austrian pea; and a mix of crimson clover and ryegrass.
An interseeder developed by Penn State will demonstrate one method used to plant cover crops. Hall noted that an interseeder can plant cover crops in fields where established crops already are growing. A planter with a built-in roller-crimper, manufactured by innovator Charles Martin, also will be featured.
"This is an innovation in agricultural machinery," Hall said. "Both pieces of equipment help integrate cover cropping into our cropping systems. It is good for soil quality and soil conservation."
The year-old J.D. Harrington Building, named for the late Joseph D. Harrington, professor emeritus of agronomy and former Ag Progress Days manager, is home to several exhibits and activities highlighting conservation and crops management. The structure, located at Harrington Lane and the end of East 5th Street, was dedicated at last year's Ag Progress Days.
The Crops, Soils and Conservation Building includes a wide variety of topics -- from crops and animals to forest management -- for visitors of any age. It will house exhibits staffed by organizations related to soil and crop management, as well as aspects of conservation such as forestry, water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and wildlife.
Hall noted that there will be several attractions in the area, including the "no-till corral" showcasing equipment used in no-till agriculture, a butterfly garden, live animals and plots of warm-season grasses and forages.
"No-till agriculture continues to gain new ground in Pennsylvania," Hall said. "Farming without tillage saves the soil, improves soil quality and reduces energy inputs."
Growing quality forages is key to raising productive and healthy cattle, sheep, goats, horses and other livestock on a farm, Hall pointed out. "The experts at Penn State and the Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council will be on hand to answer questions about alfalfa, timothy, orchardgrass, pasture and other forages," he said. "The Hay Show will occur each day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m."
Hay producers can bring samples to be evaluated during the Hay Show. These samples must have been grown in Pennsylvania in 2013 by the exhibitor. Entries officially close at 10 a.m. on Aug. 13, but exhibitors are encouraged to bring their samples in on Aug. 13 before the show begins. The hay brochure for this year is available at http://agsci.psu.edu/apd/pdfs/2013-hay-show-brochure.
Sustainable agriculture also will be represented, and visitors can meet with the experts from Penn State, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Pennsylvania Certified Organic and have questions answered.
Information on composting, biofuels, watering systems, plants that attract pollinators and deer-management strategies also will be available.
The corn maze also will return to the Crops, Soils and Conservation area. As always, it is stroller and wheel-chair accessible.
Crop and conservation topics also will be featured in other areas of the Ag Progress Days site. Tours focused on managing deer and other wildlife as part of a Quality Deer Management system will leave daily at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., with an additional tour at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
A tour on water quality and riparian buffers will leave daily at 11:30 a.m. All tours will leave from the corn crib at the top of Main Street.
Sponsored by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, Ag Progress Days is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College, Pa., on Route 45. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 13; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 14; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 15. Admission and parking are free.
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The Houston Dynamo lost their third consecutive game Saturday night, falling to the league-leading and unbeaten Los Angeles Galaxy 4-1 at The Home Depot Center in southern California. It is Houston's first three-game losing streak since May 16-26, 2007. The four goals are the most ever allowed by the Dynamo in an MLS regular season or playoff game.
Houston will now take a three-week break from MLS regular season play during the group stage of the World Cup, resuming on June 26 against the Colorado Rapids. In the meantime, the Dynamo will play friendlies against the Laredo Heat (June 10, Corpus Christi) and Salvadoran club Aguila (June 19, Dynamo Charities Cup, Robertson Stadium).
The Galaxy tied the Major League Soccer record for most games unbeaten to start a season with a 10-0-2 record, and they have outscored opponents 22-3 this year. Los Angeles is also unbeaten over its last 19 games, including playoffs (14-0-5), dating back to September 2009.
Los Angeles seized lead just 47 seconds into the game Saturday night and never looked back. Michael Stephens and Sean Franklin combined on the right to set up Jovan Kirovski for a back-post header.
The Dynamo tied the game in bizarre fashion in the seventh minute when Cam Weaver battled for a loose ball with LA goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts, and Ricketts' clearance deflected off Weaver and rolled into the empty net. The goal broke a 464-minute scoreless streak for the Dynamo against LA and was only the third goal surrendered by the Galaxy in 2010.
Los Angeles came back in the 21st minute, however, via the same combination. Michael Stephens and Sean Franklin again combined on the right, and Franklin pulled the ball back for Jovan Kirovski to slide a one-time shot into the far left corner for his second goal of the game.
The Galaxy put the game away early in the second half when the ball fell to Tristan Bowen at the top of the box, and he drove a low, left-footed shot past Pat Onstad in the 48th minute. Brazilian Alex Cazumba scored his first goal in the United States in the 56th minute, taking a pass from Michael Stephens and unleashing a low, left-footed shot just inside the far post to complete the scoring.
For Houston, forward Brian Ching made the 130th start of his MLS regular season career. Midfielder Brad Davis made his 130th, defender Craig Waibel made his 105th, and defender Bobby Boswell made his 95th career start for the Dynamo in all competitions.
The Dynamo played without forward Luis Landín (personal); midfielder Geoff Cameron (PCL surgery); and defenders Mike Chabala (hamstring) and Adrian Serioux (personal).
Next Game: Thursday, June 10, 7 p.m. CT, Dynamo vs. Laredo Heat (Ryan-Sanders Shootout), Whataburger Field, Corpus Christi TX
Next Home Game: Saturday, June 19, 8 p.m. CT, Dynamo vs. Águila (Dynamo Charities Cup), Robertson Stadium
Next Home MLS Game: Saturday, June 26, 7:30 p.m. CT, Dynamo vs. Colorado Rapids, Robertson Stadium
On his team's performance:
"I think we were doing OK in the first half, and in the second half we ran out of gas. It's disappointing, and we are all disappointed because this is a proud group and this is the [second] time we have ever lost three in a row. There are a lot of question marks about the way we are playing, how our guys are playing individually and collectively, so it's a very disappointing time."
On the game:
"It was a tough game. Every time you play, obviously, it is going to be hard. Especially every time a team plays against the Houston Dynamo, because they expect us to come out and play well. They know that we are a good team, so they're going to come out with their 'A' game. The New York game was a tough one and then a long flight out here, so I think the guys are a little bit tired, but we can't find excuses; we need to find ways to win games. It's tough, but we are going to have to bounce back for the Colorado game."
On the team's three-game losing streak:
"It's the [second] time in Dynamo history that we've lost three games on the trot, so we just have to look ourselves in the mirror, evaluate our performance, and work on it as individuals and as a team. We have to refocus over the next couple of weeks."
On the game:
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I thought I'd start a new topic to concentrate the ideas here, rather than one topic per recipe. Here's the one I tried last fall which worked GREAT.
about 4-5 lbs of honey (not measured accurately)
add enough water to make less than a gallon
Bring to a boil with fresh rosemary, a large bunch--say about a dozen stems with leaves
the rosemary helps in skimming off the wax that comes out other recipes I tried were very hard to skim the wax)
Boil only long enough to skim wax foam
Once it's skimmed, turn off the heat.
At room temp in bottle, add yeast nutrient, pitched wine yeast.
Once bubbling stopped, added a teaspoon of wine clarifier, kept in glass for another two weeks before bottling. It already tasted fantastic at bottling.
FWIW: some other mead I made was a little weak, perhaps 2-2.5 lbs honey/gallon and a few ounces of hops, and adding one sprig of rosemary per bottle at bottling time was enough to make it better, but the stronger mead without any hops is definitely better yet.
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Valtteri Bottas has suggested Mercedes could be the team most affected by any ban on Front and Rear Interconnected (FRIC) suspension and is certain it will not have any impact on Williams.
An FIA technical directive was sent to the teams following the British Grand Prix warning that cars running such systems from Germany onwards would be reported to the stewards. FRIC systems link the front and rear suspension to help control the pitch of the car under braking and maintain its ride height for aerodynamic advantage, and is believed to be one of the strenghts of the dominant Mercedes car.
When put on the spot about whether "the team in front" could be especially affected, Bottas laughed and said: "Yes! Maybe some teams could be more affected than us, I would say."
But Bottas does not think it will necessarily lead to a massive change in the pecking order.
"For some teams yes [it is an issue] but not for some others. We will see, I don't really know what is going to happen, we will see. Whatever the decision is we will be OK with it, I don't think it's going to be the key for the season or anything like that."
Though he has finished third and second in the last two races, Bottas does not think Williams is as close to challenging Mercedes for outright victories as recent results suggest.
"It's tough to say, Mercedes still has so much more pace than us. I think Austria was a different thing but for example at Silverstone, no matter what we would have done with strategy, second place was the absolute maximum so we would also need some luck to be ahead of them. This season it's going to be difficult but you never know."


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Don't trust the BNP! They're horrible, the BNP! They manipulate figures on immigration and misrepresent the truth and whip up fear! BOO THE BNP! BOO THEM!
This was necessary leading upto the 2009 European Parliament elections, because this was the time of the BNP actually looking organised for once, with the Labour government dancing around an orchestra of innuendo and the Conservatives still elbowing each other with hints about 'thinking what we're thinking." It all came to naught, in a way, as Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons became elected parliamentarians, a result which led to the inevitable demise of the BNP, but that's perhaps a story for another entry...
The aftermath of 2009 and all that was shown for all its glory with the fall of Phil Woolas. Using the Labour Party's innate ability to speak the language of race and immigration with all the subtle undertones of a firework being thrown through a takeaway. It was the style at the time.
We wouldn't be in the position where all three party leaders have to play some kind of Navy-based wang measuring contest were it not for two factors; the Census and UKIP.
Let's start with the Census. We're less Christian and less white than at any time in modern history, and nobody outside Fox News thinks that's one of those bad things we keep hearing about. Oh no, hang on, they've just copied a Daily Mail article in full. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
I've not considered the reduction of a white, Christian population on these islands anything of a bad thing for as long as I can remember. But I was young when an Ugandan Asian family moved into a considerably white part of council-estate Preston, so my first experience of 'immigration' was a family where a woman whose name was difficult to pronounce made a living cutting hair in their conservatory, and that's not the "coming over here, claiming our benefits" truth right from the start.
The growth of UKIP is not directly linked to the demise of the BNP, though the coincidence of the timing might as well have been written by a soap opera script consultant. "Let's pair up the end of one career with the start of another," they say, pushing a doting father under a bus and dragging an attractive and available doctor through the door. And so here comes Farage, all dressed up, tanned and nowhere to go.
Using the same tricks as the BNP, the sound of drums coming out of the election leaflets pushed through the doors of Eastleigh suggested that 38 million Bulgarians and Romanians were about to leap in a single bound over the English Channel. Wholly inappropriate, wholly scare-mongering and misleading. Such is the immigration debate, though, and the level to which all parties feel it's necessary to plunge whenever it's mentioned.
Armed with spades and helmets, off the main party leaders go to ape Farage and his immigrant mouth-frothing. Does a bell go off in their heads, I wonder? Do blood-stained words flash in front of their eyes? MUST SOUND TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION.
It's counter-productive because the sound of all British political leaders saying exactly the same sort of misleading, misrepresenting anti-everything is EXACTLY the things which keep Indian University students heading to the USA. And that's saying something when the US has a more attractive attitude towards immigrants than Britain. It's the opposite of "better the devil you know", to an almost perverted degree. But when you've gone from "Don't listen to the BNP, they mislead you on immigration" to "Frankly, this country has become a soft touch." then you've made the leap into exactly the territory you wanted to avoid only a few years ago. It would be like football fans happily sitting down amongst away fans, whilst still chanting their own songs.
Parading in front of us within a fortnight has been Nick Clegg talking about "cash bonds" for immigrants, Ed Miliband pledging to dissuade people from taking low-paid jobs, and Cameron making a speech on the horrors of letting people in which has been effectively ripped apart by his own side. Yawn-a-rama, guys, you're not convincing anyone.
This country would grind to a halt without the work of people born outside the UK. Indeed foreign workers are over-represented in both the very highest and very lowest professional sectors. It's not any foreign person's problem that the native population have chosen to focus on employment opportunities in the middle. If the opinion is, "they come over here taking our jobs", I can only respond with "they're taking the jobs nobody else applies for."
Over-arching all of this, for me, is the big neon-lit sign flashing "I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE". (I'm not sure how much neon costs for so many words plus apostrophe). Maybe it's because I had to stop listening whenever my Dad began his anti-everything rant, or because I've grown up thinking more about lightbulbs than the exact percentage of non-Britons living here. I've tried to care, it's just the inevitability of the topic being reduced to some gross name-calling tennis match. Our political leaders should know better to keep blowing dog whistles, particularly when the shrill only attracts a minority of voters and a majority of non-voters. The tracksuited circus that is the very splintered far-right won't be won over by Ed Miliband saying "Immigrants are bad, k?", it makes no sense to try. Why should all three parties - LibDems in particular - swerve to the right on an issue which actually helps the British economy more than it harms?
I love watching people tiptoe around bank bonuses and high-tax rates on the basis that the City of London could move to Zurich within months, whilst merrily throwing hospital cleaners and bin-men on the next train home. If this country loses its financial heart, there will be trouble, I understand that. I'd love to see how a specific region would suffer, never mind the whole country, if low-paid immigrants were suddenly ordered to pack their bags.
It's just so much fluff and nonsense. I expect whinging against people willing to come here to suffer colder weather and terrible food just for the sake of a better job from that subsection of obsessed numpties who have "PROUD ENGLISHMAN" as their middle name on Facebook. I'm not one of those wishy-washy, bring down the borders libertarian type, but neither am I happy or comfortable to watch the Tabloid Corps of our ruling classes playing top trumps with peoples lives. If clever, qualified, educated people are dissuaded from coming here in fear of being labelled as "a dirty immigrant" from the Prime Minister downwards, then well done to all involved when the exact result you wanted turns out to be exactly what you get. We don't need to frame this debate in terms of "immigrants verses native", but that's what we've got. And why?
Because it's easier to follow Nigel Farage than it is to turn off his microphone. That's more depressing than whether the head of year at a local school is Latvian.


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Duncan_Idaho wrote:Paige wrote:I wish this diet worked for me. In theory it sounds awesome. However, I like to train, hard. I tried the 80/10/10 earlier this year and could barely get out of bed, much less pick up a weight. Everyone must find what works for them, especially vegans and even more so vegan athletes. I am impressed by those who can handle the 80/10/10 because I could not.
Strange. the 80/10/10 diet is about performance. I can train 2 times a day on it and it's the only way to recover from a 2 hours judo training in a couple of hours (to train a second time). May be the fruit you ate was not sweet enough? Or you underate? It's easy to undereat on this diet because it takes a great amount of fruit to match the energy equivalence of dry food.
Yeah, I agree. The 80/10/10 diet (actually a lifestyle and not a diet) requires you to consume a MINIMUM of 5 grams of carbs per pound of bodyweight. If you don't get this you can become glycogen deficient rather easy!


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The early 1800s was a watershed era for the vintners of Portugal's Douro Valley, On one hand, the grape harvest of 1820, after fermenting and aging for four years, presented connoisseurs with a wine of remarkable sweetness, with "plenty of crust and plenty of color…and a well-stained cork," according to T.G. Shaw, who recorded his views in Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar (1863), The remarkable vintage established Portuguese wine as a favorite among the British.


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Abbot, George, 1562–1633, archbishop of Canterbury. He was one of the collaborators (from the Univ. of Oxford) on the Authorized Version of the Bible and was an authority on geography. He became archbishop in 1611. His firm Puritan views and antipathy toward the growing High Church party made him unpopular. His accidental killing of a gamekeeper while hunting (1621) was used against him. His steady opposition to William Laud , together with his refusal (1627) to countenance the elevation of the king's prerogative over law and Parliament, led Charles I to force him from active control over church affairs.
See biography by P. A. Welsby (1962); bibliography by R. A. Christophers (1966).
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Darren Wilkinson has an interesting blog post, comparing execution times of a Gibbs sampler implemented in various different programming languages. His sampler generates draws from the following joint distribution
by drawing iteratively from the full conditional distributions
Darren presents different implementations of this sampler in R, Python, C, Java, Scala, and Groovy, and then compares their running times. You will have to take a look at Darren's blog post for the complete results, but one thing they show is that popular interpreted languages such as R and Python are many times slower than compiled C code.
With this in mind I decided to give his sampler a try myself, using one of my favorite languages for quick prototyping: Matlab. Here's the code and corresponding running time:
function [x_samp,y_samp] = gibbs(n,thin) x_samp = zeros(n,1); y_samp = zeros(n,1); y=0; for i=1:n gammarands=randg(3,thin,1); normrands=randn(thin,1); for j=1:thin x=(y^2+4)*gammarands(j); y=1/(1+x)+normrands(j)/sqrt(2*x+2); end x_samp(i) = x; y_samp(i) = y; end end
tic gibbs(5e4,1e3); toc
Elapsed time is 10.027671 seconds.
Although Matlab is also an interpreted language, this running time of 10 seconds is remarkably close to the ~8 seconds Darren reports for compiled C code (using a PC very similar to mine). The reason that the code above is so fast is that Matlab internally compiles the inner loop of the 'gibbs' function; a trick called 'Just In Time' compilation. For obtaining the random numbers used by the function, Matlab uses fast built-in code (the 'randn' and 'randg' functions) which are only called once every 1000 iterations of the inner loop (1000 being the value of the 'thin' parameter). Despite its similar speed, coding and running the Matlab example above is much easier than coding, compiling, and running the corresponding C code.
The Matlab JIT compiler is powerful, but not very smart: it can only compile very simple operations like those found in the inner loop of the code above. This means that we have to be very careful with the operations we perform in the inner loop of a function. The example below shows what happens when we move the random number generation ('randn' and 'randg') to the inner loop:
function [x_samp,y_samp] = gibbs2(n,thin) x_samp = zeros(n,1); y_samp = zeros(n,1); y=0; for i=1:n for j=1:thin x=(y^2+4)*randg(3,1,1); y=1/(1+x)+randn/sqrt(2*x+2); end x_samp(i) = x; y_samp(i) = y; end end
tic gibbs2(5e4,1e3); toc
Elapsed time is 218.589886 seconds.
The new code takes 20 times as long! The problem with the new code is that Matlab does not know what to do with the 'randn' and 'randg' functions until it executes them, and is therefore no longer able to compile the inner loop of the algorithm.
To summarize: compiled code can be much faster than interpreted code for number crunching, but if we are smart and use JIT compilation well, we can get remarkably close!
Note that many other languages besides Matlab also support some form of JIT compilation: Darren Wilkinson's post has a nice example of speeding things up by JIT compiling Python code.


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So many people have asked us exactly where we are in the process now. We don't have too much longer to go. Last week our attorney told us that our adoption is "almost complete". Once it is considered complete, meaning that Miles is legally ours and we have all the accomanying documents that will get him into the US, Miles has to stay in the DRC for 30 days (stupid law) then we can bring him home. So most likely it will be January before that darling bundle of joy is in our arms. We filed our first papers on 4th of July weekend. So if everything goes as scheduled and we get to pick up Miles in January, our adoption from start to finish will have taken just 6 months. We could not be more thrilled with the whole thing. Please keep praying for the health and safety of our baby.
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Musicians of the Globe • Biography
In 1993 the late Sam Wanamaker expressed the desire to form an associate ensemble to carry the name and ethos of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre around the world through concerts, recordings and broadcasts.
The Musicians of the Globe were soon formed from among the very best of England's early music instrumentalists. Together with distinguished vocal soloists they explore a colourful and varied repertoire of Elizabethan and Jacobean music, much of it inspired by Shakespeare.
The nucleus of the group - an English consort of violin, recorder, lute, bandora and bass viol - can be expanded to perform large-scale programmes of 17th-century music.
Following their Purcell Room debut in 1994 the Musicians of the Globe were invited to make three live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, to give a concert in the 1995 Purcell Room lunchtime series and to appear at the Seville, Aldeburgh and South Bank Centre Early Music Festivals. In June 1997 they began a summer concert series at the Globe Theatre, and brass, wind and percussion players from the group provided the music for Richard Olivier's production of Henry V. Highlights of 1998/99 included four fully-staged performances of Blow's opera Venus & Adonis at the Globe, A Restoration Tempest for the City of London Festival, and concerts in Belgium, Italy, Sicily, at the BBC Proms, London's Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Rome's Accademia Filarmonica and Barcelona's Palau de la Musica.
More recently they have visited South America and Hungary, toured Japan twice, returned to Rome, Barcelona, Seville, Bruges, London's South Bank Centre and the City of London Festival, made their debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Cité de la Musique in Paris, and appeared at the Antwerp, Turin, Ravenna, Sienna, Utrecht, York, Sandwich, Chester, Cheltenham, Neuss, Dubrovnik, Mexico City, San Luis Potosi, Carinthian Summer, Prague Spring, Buxton, Cambridge Summer Music, Seville, Estrella, Logrono, Victoria and Almagro Theatre Festivals. In June 2008 they were invited by the Singapore Arts Festival to take part in Awaking, a staged production featuring the Musicians of the Globe, Singapore Chinese Orchestra and Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre. In June 2009 they were invited by Marianne Faithfull to perform as part of her carte blanche at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Highlights of the past few seasons have included performances at Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Glasgow City Halls, London Cadogan Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Rotterdam De Doelen, Antwerp De Singel, Bruges Cultuurcentrum, Eindhoven Philips Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Cheltenham Music Festival and Zagreb Summer Music Festival. In 2010 the Musicians of the Globe collaborated with acclaimed folk/rock guitarist and singer Richard Thompson for a programme of early London ballads. In 2013 they were joined by Galician star Carlos Nuñez and his musicians for a programme of early Celtic music which toured major concert-halls and festivals in the UK.
The Musicians of the Globe recorded 7 CDs for Philips Classics ranging from Shakespeare's Musick through Purcell's Fairy Queen and Linley's Shakespeare Ode to Henry Rowley Bishop's music for the early 19th-century Shakespeare revivals at Covent Garden. Their very first US release in 1997 was nominated for the coveted Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
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"Bob's notes" are reports from CFCA President Bob Hentzen, who regularly accompanies mission awareness trip participants. You can see Bob's full update on his Facebook page.
It's a joy to share with you the beautiful people of Nicaragua.
With a population of more than 5 million, statisticians rate Nicaragua as the largest in geographical size and economically poorest of Central America.
It is popularly known as the land of volcanoes, poets, artists and good baseball, but let's add beautiful harmonies and colorful dances to that list.
CFCA serves 9,626 children and their families in Nicaragua, along with 856 aging friends. Currently, 1,280 families are on our waiting list for sponsorship.
The spirit of the mission awareness trip travelers runs high as we head out to the agricultural area of San Lorenzo, Boaco. CFCA has been serving here for six years. We have 448 children and 28 aging people sponsored in San Lorenzo.
It was good to work on this mission awareness trip with Stacy King, CFCA trip coordinator, and it was also great to welcome Stacy's sister, Aubree, from Michigan.
The relationships between sponsors and their sponsored children, in Nicaragua and around the world, are tender and beautiful.
The Nicaraguans are a gentle people who need and deserve our very best efforts. We were able to experience the grace and elegance of the Nicaraguan children and staff during their talent show on our last evening.
I see the sponsored children, youth and aging friends attentively listening to the encouraging words of their sponsors.
In our visits to the homes of sponsored children and their families, we could feel dynamism and confidence.
At Leon
Our experience in Leon was heartwarming. We visited families who were economically poor but rich in many other ways.
A stage in a large hall was the scene of a culturally rich presentation by mothers, staff and families. Sponsors remarked that the children in Leon demonstrated strong skills in English. The mothers groups seem strong and united. We are touched by the joy and beauty of our CFCA community in Leon.
I have listened to the sponsors say things like, "I have learned so much about your country, your people and myself," and "I have heard beautiful music and the voices of your children."
Final note
As we leave Nicaragua, Cristina and I look forward to visiting all of our projects in Honduras and finishing our tour with a mission awareness trip in Ocotepeque.
The television station, channel 13, will be waiting for us at the airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with all the scholars from the Suyapa project.
Our hearts and prayers go out to Miriam Cartagena and her family at the loss of their dear mother, Dona Lucila.
Miriam and her family have been instrumental in the development of CFCA-Ocotepeque.
Over the years, Dona Lucila has loved and watched over so many children and grandchildren, cousins and friends.
In action and prayer she loved and cared for CFCA, our children of Honduras and the world. May she rest in peace.
Please know that we bring your love to Miriam's family and to all the CFCA families of Nicaragua and Honduras.
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The Mercedes-Benz Classic Center is one of the finest restoration facilities in the world. Vanity Fair's Brett Berk recently stopped by to drive a vintage Gullwing, giving Jalopnik this exclusive behind-the-scenes peek. —Ed.
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Last week, I had a chance to visit the Mercedes Benz Classic Center in Irvine, California. There, I got a tour from the manager, Mike Kunz; I also got to wander around, sit in, and fondle some of the hottest cars ever. I even got to pretend I was Imelda Marcos in the back of 600 limousine. Oh, and I also got to drive a 1955 300 SL Gullwing. You can read about my whole adventure in the silly car column I write over at VanityFair.com. But this is a special, exclusive Jalopnik feature that contains many previously unpublished photos.
Brett Berk writes gaily about culture, politics, and cars for VF.com, and is the author of The Gay Uncle's Guide to Parenting. He is a friend of Los Jalops, he once helped Jamie Kitman buy a car, and he famously gave Sam Smith the nickname "Halfie." Sam has not yet decided how he feels about this.
The Center provides parts, customer support, and service for Mercedes vehicles that have been out of production for 15 years or more. It is housed in an old Saleen showroom, but it has been fully renovated so it looks tasteful and classy.
Some of these vehicles are part of the Classic Center's permanent collection, some are customer's cars, and some are for sale (like in a real car dealership.) How many can you name?
1933 290 Cabriolet: The S-Class of its day, the 290 came in two lengths, short and long. The long one was often chauffeur-driven. This one has a 2.9-liter straight six that puts out 60 hp. It can be yours for just $125,000.
1935 150 Sport Roadster: In the mid-'30s, Mercedes experimented with rear- and mid-engine vehicles. This is one of eleven prototypes that were produced in the mid-engine configuration. In case you didn't notice, it's being given a full restoration. The engine and all that mechanical stuff is in the foreground, the body is in the background.
1935 130 H: One of the rear-engine people's cars from the 1930s, this water-cooled cabriolet had its radiator right behind the rear seats. Cooling air only reached this system through side vents behind the passenger compartment, and only when the car was in motion, leading to some rather obvious issues with overheating.
1936 150 H: Another water-cooled, rear-engine vehicle, this one with its radiator on the side and more cooling louvers all over. Squint and you'll see the Beetle. This is no accident. Mr. Porsche was involved in this program.
1956 300sc Cabriolet: For no apparent reason, the collection skips right over the late 1930s and all of the '40s, and we end up here. Hello gorgeous! This handsome car had the Gullwing's 3.0-liter, direct-injected straight six, good for 175 hp in this configuration, and is for sale for $595,000.
300sc luggage: Did I mention that it comes with two sets of custom fitted, dove-grey interior-matching luggage — one in its ample butt, and one that took the place of the back seat — as well as acres of burl wood trim for a wicked classy effect? Now the price seems reasonable, right?
1956 300 Custom Station Wagon: Let's say you're a rich lady in New York who wants a Mercedes station wagon. But Mercedes doesn't make a station wagon. What do you do? Well, obviously, you get the folks that customize their sedans into ambulances to make a wagon for you. One that features 60/40 split folding rear seats and a flat load floor, of course.
1957 300 SL Roadster: Max Hoffman wasn't satisfied with the Gullwing (we'll get to that, don't worry), so he had Mercedes make him up a batch of these convertible SLs. (While they were at it, they revised the rear suspension to make it less…kill-y.) I think they look pretty good, don't you? This is a rare, original, Strawberry Red Metallic car — a color available only in '57. You can buy it for $719,000.
600 Limousine: A favorite of celebrities and brutal dictators the world over, the 600 was the most technologically advanced car, like, ever, with a hydraulic accessory system that silently ran the windows, seats, doors, trunk, sunroof, and a bunch of other stuff. I got to see it in action. Shhhhh. Shhhhhh. Shhhhhh. And I got to sit in the back of this one and pretend to be Idi Amin.
1979 450 SEL 6.9: I would give away my kidneys and live out the rest of my years tethered to a dialysis machine to own this clean an example of this vehicle. Though the 6.3 is arguably better looking, this one is somehow more brutal, and thus sexier. Particularly if it's a restored, all original one with only 229 miles (not a typo) on the clock. If you want to buy my organs, or the car, they are each $175,000.
SLK on G-Wagen: This Millennium Mercedes was built from a pu**y magnet yellow SLK mounted (heh-heh) on a G Wagon platform. Two people drove it around the whole world to celebrate the 2000s. (I bet they feel stupid now!) After all that, it apparently needs to be restored. It — along with its douche-y matching trailer — is sitting in the back parking lot at the Classic Center, awaiting space in the shop.
Paint shop: Speaking of the shop, this is the part of the shop where they paint the cars. It is stunningly clean in there, as it is everywhere in the shop. Here's a W112 coupe awaiting fifty fresh coats of some gorgeous color, hopefully that burnt-caramel brown that looks so good on these cars.
Storeroom: Mike Kunz, the Classic Center's manager, walked me through this opening and closing drawers that were filled, randomly, with: screws, clamps, coconut-fiber horsehair seat filler replacements, motor mounts, dome light bulbs, bolts, wires, and about ten zillion other things. At one point, when he came upon a taillight lens, he literally said, "I was just looking for this yesterday. I'll have to remember where it is." Then he closed the drawer and we walked on.
Gullwing 1: Did I mention that I got to drive this Gullwing? It's one that the Classic Center bought and is doing a bit of work on, and then planning to sell for $675,000 (in case you want it, and happen to be one of the lucky people born with eleven kidneys.)
Gullwing 2: H.O.T.
Gullwing Interior: Simple, yet elegant.
Gullwing Interior 2: I love this little ashtray, though I ashed out the side window opening (the glass had been removed; the windows don't go down) for fear of marring the dash with my cigarette.
Gullwing 3: If I had taken this photo just a second earlier, you would have seen the speedo registering 120. That's m.p.h., though Mike said it clocks just a bit fast. This car is awesomely stable at these speeds. (Except, apparently, if you lift off the throttle when you try to turn, in which case, the swing axle will swing you into oblivion.)
Gulliwing + SL 63 AMG: I couldn't drive the Gullwing the whole time I was in L.A., so the folks at Mercedes gave me this for my off times. This car is also fun to drive, particularly in second gear, on the highway, as it makes an extremely mellifluous blat.
Gulliwing + SL 63 AMG 2: This reminds me of one of those family photos in which Grandpa is looking extremely hot.
Gullwing + SL 63 3: Also, who is Grandpa's dentist? I would like to hire him.
Gullwing Grille: Smile!
Gullwing Engine: I don't know what all this stuff does, but I do know that there's some direct injection buried in there somewhere, and that the engine is tilted so it'll fit. And it's very clean. You should buy this car, really.
Gullwing Vent: Breathe!
GullwingFrame: This is where all the tubes that hold the car together meet up. It's like the car's belly button. If you tickle it right in the middle, I'm told that the whole car will unfurl.
Gullwing washer-solvent jar: This is the coolest thing under the hood. It holds the windshield shpritz, and it's made of real glass. If you can't afford the whole car, you can buy one of these from the Classic Center. Really.


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In 2003, Paulo Adario and fellow Greenpeace activists meet with communities from the Guajará river to discuss the creation of the Forever Green Extractive Reserve, in Porto de Moz, Pará state. The communities wanted to tell the loggers that this is their land; their forest and they want them out. There were more than a 100 people, half of them children and several pregnant women. These people did not want any trouble; they just want their land back.
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K10D Dust Proof?
As we all know, the K10D is designed to be dust and weather proof, as the official information always shows us:- http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/35mm/k10d/feature_04.html
Look at the sealing diagram and it is not difficult to discover that all critical but vulnerable parts and positions are sealed, this includes the colour LCD panel at the back.
However, there have been different reports of dust are getting into the inside of the LCD panel, here are two reports that I have seen recently:-
The latter has also clear photos of the affected LCD posted by the K10D user, which looks indeed rather terrible.
Whilst the sealing has actually imposed some kind of stiffness and "stickiness" to the knob, switches and buttons (particularly try the AF mode switch), which is in fact highly undesirable, the trade-off seems not to have been rewarded. The dust sealing capability of the K10D is now in question for the reported cases. Again, still just "bad copies from the factory" or "unlucky user" or alike to be argued (with)? :-)
Update (Sept 15):
Below is another recent user report on the same issue, with an even more clear image of a dusty-inside K10D LCD panel shown:-
The common thing as seen in both photos is that dust particles go inside the LCD from the right hand side, and more close to the top. So, where is the loophole and path? In the last DPR thread, someone suggested that the path might be through the SD card slot. Some others suspected that it might be certain place(s) at the LCD cover where the sealing had not been made well and might be even less tight than typical non-dust sealed Pentax DSLRs. However, no matter where the loophole actually is located, its existence is for sure for those affected K10D units and there is a path for letting the dust to go inside.


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I've mentioned in the past (and I'm sure you know this anyways) that it's difficult to come up with interesting winter salads. In the summertime, it's so easy to stroll through the farmers' market grabbing various ripe, tasty veggies, but in the winter, one needs to be a little more creative to come up with something as flavorful. It also doesn't hurt if you can work a splash of color into a winter salad.
When I made that hearty lamb shank dish I shared the other day, I knew I wanted to pair it with something light and fresh, and a brussels sprout salad came to mind. I searched for some recipes, landed on one from Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef that featured a Dijon-based dressing, and adapted the recipe to suit my tastes.
I started by thinly shaving the brussels sprouts using the slicing blade on my food processor. Just before serving the salad, I tossed the sprouts with some thinly sliced shallots and the dressing, and then I topped them with segments of Cara Cara oranges and goat cheese. (I go nuts for Cara Cara oranges in the wintertime. They have a gorgeous pink color.) The bright citrus paired with the crunchy sprouts, vibrant dressing, and creamy goat cheese made for an amazing winter salad -- one that I'll be making over and over again with different tweaks.
Brussels Sprout Salad (adapted from Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef)
24 brussels sprouts
1 thinly sliced shallot
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
9 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Kosher salt and pepper
2 Cara Cara oranges, sectioned
4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
Core the brussels sprouts (I usually make a v-shaped cut in the bottom) and then shred them using a food processor fitted with a slicing blade.
Combine shredded sprouts with shallot in large bowl.
Whisk together apple cider vinegar, olive oil, mustard, and salt and pepper in small bowl or measuring cup.
Toss the brussels sprouts and shallot with the vinaigrette. Transfer to a serving dish.
Top the brussels sprout mixture with the orange segments and goat cheese. Serve.
I think this salad would also be wonderful with toasted pecans or walnuts and pomegranate seeds, grapes, or cherries. You could try different cheeses as well, though I'm partial to the creamy texture of the goat cheese to complement the crisp texture of the raw brussels sprouts.
What sorts of salads do you make during the winter?