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The thrill you'll get the second you set foot in your dorm room for the first time is an unforgettable feeling. The world (well, campus's teensy-tiny corner of it) is yours, and it's up to you to make the most of Week One. Those seven days are going to be jam-packed with adventure, but you'll probably encounter a few things you'd rather not experience. Wondering what you should know in advance? Check out this best/worst breakdown.
1. Finally living on your own
No parents! No siblings! No emptying the dishwasher or driving your cousin to soccer practice! Sure, having a roommate means you're technically not living on your own. But this is the most freedom you've had thus far.
2. The open doors
Throughout the first week in your residence hall, you'll likely find more doors open than shut. Everyone's so eager to put themselves out there that they sacrifice privacy for the sake of potential friendship. Because there'll be plenty of time for locks once the semester starts, you should take advantage of your door prop. You never know who you might meet!
3. Decorating your dorm room
Your walls are like four blank—no, bland—canvases, which means you get to spruce them up however you please. Photo collages? Perfect! String lights? Heck yes! This is your chance to truly own the space you've been given—no interior design skills required.
4. The parties
All those floormates who follow the open-door policy will be equally eager to throw down. Shocking, right? Get ready for zero dull moments and about a million stories you'll end up retelling to anyone and everyone you meet over the next four years.
5. Free stuff!
Week One is the time for freebies. So. Many. Freebies. From neon t-shirts to beach balls and lanyards, you'll find enough school swag to build a second wardrobe. If you're hungry, there may even be free pizza! Snag as much as your arms can carry.
1. Unpacking
Decorating can (and should!) be fun, but it'll require a lot of unpacking that, if you're like me, you'd rather not do during Week One. If you haven't already started packing, take this as your warning to pack wisely. Doing so will save you from shattering ceramic mugs and struggling with mismatched socks.
2. Sleep? Good luck.
The dorm room parties will last all night, every night, and your super-thin mattress is going to take some getting used to, so I repeat: good luck. Try to appreciate the restless week for what it is. If you just can't take the tiredness, though, pick up a pair of earplugs and nap during periods of downtime.
3. Getting lost
You won't automatically know your way around campus. Unfortunately, finding it means you'll have to lose track of where you are and wander aimlessly for a bit. Don't be afraid to ask for help! There are plenty of upperclassmen and faculty members willing to guide you.
4. Homesickness
Whether you're far from home or just a quick drive away, you're going to miss your bed. And your bathroom. And your parents' stocked fridge. Though tough to conquer, your homesickness can and will get better with time. Consider it your motivation to immerse yourself in clubs, classes, and other campus activities.
5. Pre-college nerves
This is it, the moment you've been waiting for since you got your acceptance letter! However, it also means college is officially happening. You'll be nervous. You'll have some dreams in which you sleep through an exam or lose your keys. You may wake up in a cold sweat, but hey—don't sweat it. Everyone's jittery during Week One.


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Notable Quote – Henry Hazlitt
Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can exist only in a free society; it can exist to the extent that freedom exists. Only to the extent that men have the power of choice can they be said to choose the good. – Henry Hazlitt (H/T: Cafe Hayek)


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House subcommittee unanimously passes elections bill
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A proposal designed to expand early voting days and limit the length of ballots unanimously passed a House subcommittee Wednesday, but Democrats warned the measure would need to change to continue to attract bipartisan support.
Still, the across-the-aisle support marked a striking departure from the venomous debate two years ago over legislation that restricted voting, and showed how the debate has shifted since an Election Day that featured long lines, late results and more late-night jokes at Florida's expense.
The measure (PCB EES 13-01) would allow supervisors to increase the number of early-voting days to 14, though they could remain at the current standard of eight. It would also limit some ballot summaries for legislatively-sponsored constitutional amendments to 75 words, a standard that already applies to citizen initiatives.
However, if the Legislature approved more than one summary for an amendment as a fallback to deal with court challenges, only the first would be subject to the 75-world limit. And if the attorney general were required to rewrite a flawed ballot summary, that revision would also not fall under the new rules.
The unanimous vote only happened after Democrats withdrew nine amendments, dealing with everything from making Election Day a holiday to the automatic registration of voters. They did that in part based on assurances from Republicans that the majority party would consider altering the bill later.
"But today, this is a good start," said House Ethics and Elections Subcommittee Chairman Jim Boyd, R-Bradenton.
After sponsoring five of the amendments, Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, pointed to the promise of bipartisanship.
"I'm sure, if we can get beyond Valentine's Day, show some love, we might be able to get all five of them in," he said.
There were few examples of that sort of trust two years ago, when Republicans pushed through HB 1355, a measure that slashed early voting days, barred voters who have moved from one county to another from changing their addresses at the polling place, and made a raft of other changes to elections law. After November's voting snafus, even the old measure's sponsor conceded there was room for change.
"I still think we had a great bill," said Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala. "Did we improve it today by doing some things that would make it more functional? I think we did."
Democrats, however, didn't guarantee that the good feelings on display Wednesday would last if the GOP rejected their ideas. They gave a more measured view of the legislation.
"The reality is that this bill goes a long way towards repairing the damage that 1355 caused. ... Right now, this is just an early voting bill, and that's for the most part all it is," said Rep. Jim Waldman, a Coconut Creek Democrat and a member of the party's leadership.
But Waldman declined to outline any hard-and-fast demands, instead choosing to focus on the opportunities for a bipartisan vote.
"You're certainly going to get Democratic support if it improves and resolves the problems we had with 1355," Waldman said.
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Pop singer Michael Jackson has died, according to TMZ.com
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Danny Gans, former Mt. SAC baseball player, 52
From TMZ
Danny Gans died early this morning, after a family member called 911 to say Danny was having trouble breathing. By the time paramedics arrived, he was dead.
A ticket rep at Steve Wynn's Encore hotel tells us they just got the call and the entire staff is "shocked and upset."
Gans is a legend in Las Vegas — the self described "musical impressionist" signed a $150 million contract in 2000.
We're told Gans died at 3:00 AM at his home in Vegas. There are reports his wife discovered his body and called for help.
Gans was named "Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year" a record 11-times in a row. He did not perform last night.
Besides being a gifted entertainer, Gans was a pretty good athlete — in fact, he was drafted by the KC Royals out of high school and played minor league ball.
UPDATE: TMZ has learned a 911 call was made by a family member at 3:44 AM for a 52-year-old man who was "having trouble breathing." By the time medics arrived, Gans had already passed away.


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After Gregor McGregor captured the small fort and block houses at Fernandina on Amelia Island in June of 1817, he sent the Spanish prisoners to St. Augustine. McGregor planned to continue his invasion of North Florida, but delayed at Amelia Island to set up a government of his own. He established a postal delivery system, acquired a printing press for a local newspaper, issued his own currency and flew his own flag, a green cross on a white background.


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The 2020 edition will take place on July 12, in Manta, which is located on the Pacific Ocean Coast. In addition to the spectacular scenery and leisure activities, athletes and their families will enjoy mild weather and an enthusiastic, cheering community, which creates an unbeatable environment for an unforgettable race. Manta is easily accessible thanks to its international airport and offers a first-class hotel infrastructure and lots of entertainment and dining opportunities.
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INFORMATION THEORETIC MEASURES FOR PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION AND NON-RIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION by Sangeetha Somayajula A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Sangeetha Somayajula
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Ausmus begins spring days with light-hearted meetings
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Brad Ausmus might be doing a few things a little differently if he were managing elsewhere. The Tigers manager said Sunday he probably would cover things in a different way with a younger roster, and he likely would approach the roster-trimming process with a different mentality.
One thing Ausmus said he wouldn't change, however, is the meeting he holds each morning with the Tigers.
He wouldn't go into the specifics of each meeting, before which players drag their chairs from in front of their lockers to one side of the clubhouse. Instead, he described it generally as "just a mixture of baseball discussion and some team fun." Ausmus said he didn't pick up the tradition from any of his previous managers, but he saw Bud Black do something similar in San Diego.
"It's really just a lot of times getting to know younger players. I don't know if I like the phrase, but in some sense, it's some team-building-type stuff," Ausmus said. "It's fun. We laugh at each other. We laugh at things that are happening in the world. Nothing earth-shattering. It's a way to get to know each other."
There is some baseball discussion, of course, but that aspect of the meetings would remain the same no matter the audience, Ausmus said. The Tigers' roster is full of proven, veteran players with postseason experience, but Ausmus said he remembered learning new things about the game at that stage of his career.
"I make it a habit of trying not to assume that somebody knows something, even if I sound like a moron telling them. If you assume they know it and they don't, then I think it's my mistake," Ausmus said. "But if I tell them and they think I'm an idiot for telling them because it sounds elementary, I'd rather that they think I'm an idiot and have them covered."


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In a country filled with fast-food drive throughs and half-pound burger appetites, is there any hope to fill our empty bellies with something, anything that is satisfying and tasty, yet healthy? The Veggie Grill is the answer to that question and after giving a "marinated veggie protein blend" a try, you might be surprised to find that you truly enjoy the answer.
In past years a soy substitute, tofu or veggie burger probably made you cringe, but three astute businessmen took a healthy idea and turned it on its head by taking the time to find some amazing tastes that will satisfy your taste buds as well as your hunger, while filling your body with truly healthy items, ranging from salads, soups, sandwiches to desserts.
The recipe for The Veggie Grill came from two successful businessmen, Kevin Boylan and T.K. Pillan. The pair were looking for a restaurant that allowed the customer to enjoy some great tasting food, while at the same time making your dining experience healthy. Enter the third member of their party, Ray White. White was the co-founder of Native Foods, a very successful vegan chain of restaurants, and was exactly what Boylan and Pillan who looking for to perfect the Veggie Grill menu. The ability to spare no expense and having the expertise in developing a menu has brought their vision to life.
The Veggie Grill continues to expand the number of restaurants in their chain with the latest beautiful location being in Long Beach. At the same time they continue to grow the menu. The latest additions to the menu are the homestyle plates. Venturing away from the sandwich and salad items which make up the core of The Veggie Grill menu, these are more complete sit down type meals. If you are looking for a healthy alternative to a typical fried chicken meal, the Crispy Chickin' Plate was created or you. The chickin' itself lives up the name crispy as each bite you take will give you a crunch while still letting you take in the great chicken taste and still having a light and clean taste to it, not the typical greasy flavor that you get with this type of chicken. The Veggie Grill makes this a complete and hearty by adding cauliflower-mashed potatoes and a serving of their famous steamin' kale. Not only do the cauliflower mashed potatoes taste perfect, the porcini mushroom gravy takes the flavor to another level. This plate of food is not only going to leave you completely fool, it is a bargain at $9.95. The Veggie Grill also has a Blackened Chickin' Plate and the gluten free Urban Plate, which features a blackened tempeh-carmelized onion-portebello mushroom stack.
Most people when they are looking for a sandwich tend to choose some type of hamburger or chicken concoction and The Veggie Grill has you covered in both areas. At first thought a veggie burger might not sound appetizing, but your opinion will change after your first bite of the V-burger. This marinated and grilled veggie-steak burger not only has the texture and feel of a hamburger, but the taste will leave you asking yourself how did they do that. If you are looking for a little kick to your sandwich, get the Chipotle BBQ, if you are a fan of barbeque sauce, grills, and a lot of flavor, this is the sandwich for you.
These sandwiches all contain no animal products, trans-fats, cholesterol or other harmful ingredients that are present in a lot of food that is out there. The Veggie Grill also offers a wide-variety of chicken sandwiches, again combining great taste and that meat like texture that will bring you so close a real chicken sandwich, the small difference will be worth the vast difference in healthiness.
If you are looking for something beyond the sandwiches, no need to worry, The Veggie Grill has plenty of other options. A great way to start off your meal is one of the great soups that are offered. They change the soup on a daily basis, so as with everything on the menu, it is fresh. The varieties range from a hearty corn chowder, to chicken gumbo or chicken noodle, but mark your menu down for the days they serve the beef barley, as good as any five-star restaurant version. The other can't miss on the menu is the sweetheart fries. The French fries healthy brother, these sweet potato fries give you just hint of sweetness, while still giving you that crisp and salty French fry flavor to it and don't forget to dip them in the Veggie Grill's addicting chipotle ranch sauce, you will never look at ketchup the same. Finally if you really want to put The Veggie Grill to the test, try the Uptown Nachos. Using the VG-Cheese and soy cream, you will not be able to tell the difference, these are all nacho.
Adding to the list of surprises at The Veggie Grill was the fabulous desserts. Desserts that are made free of dairy, cholesterol and refined sugar, surely you are taking all of the fun out of dessert aren't you? Once again The Veggie Grill will shock your taste buds with a carrot cake that you would think was one of the most fattening treats in all of California.
If you are looking for a picnic alternative to the same boring sandwiches or burger, call up The Veggie Grill and place your order to go. You will not only truly love all the flavors that The Veggie Grill has created, but with the healthy menu you will have more energy to get in some swimming or volleyball as opposed to lying down on your blanket for a nap.
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Nader: Media is bored to 'sh—'
Political reporters of America, are you bored of a presidential campaign with the same stump speeches over and over again, with no spontaneous moments, with campaign staffers preventing you from asking questions of voters?
Then come one, come all, to Ralph Nader's third-party candidate debate Sunday.
"Why are we rationing debates?" Nader told POLITICO. "That's the question. We should have 30 presidential debates all across the country," so reporters can cover those "instead of these ditto 3-minute deliveries day after day that bore the sh— out of the media."
"They're the first to tell you how bored they are with the two candidates on the trail," Nader said.
The debate between Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson is at 7:30 p.m. at D.C.'s Busboys and Poets restaurant. Nader, who will moderate the debate, said the 2-hour debate will focus on major issues "ignored or neutered" by the campaigns: the minimum wage, climate change, corporate crime, corporate welfare, a "militaristic foreign policy." Doing something about all of these issues, Nader said, has majority support among the American public.
"The paradox of our politics is that it's up to minority parties to espouse policies with majoritarian support," Nader said, adding the topics are "not fringe stuff, some cockamamie monetary policy stuff that nobody understands." (Nader quickly added that he believes discussion of monetary policy is a good thing.)
Nader said he thinks the press will need to engage in some "introspection after the election" after largely ignoring the third party candidates — three of whom have held prominent elected positions — in 2012.
"The media basically says, 'If they don't have a chance to win, don't cover them,'" the long-time consumer activist said. "I don't know why they cover baseball teams in their areas that are in the cellar."
Nader, whose third-party run in 2000 is often credited with costing then-Vice President Al Gore the state of Florida (and as a result, the presidency), said the media should also stop claiming third-party candidates are "stealing" or "siphoning" from the major parties, calling the language "politically bigoted."
"Don't the two parties steal votes from one another?" he asked. "Don't the two parties siphon votes from one another?"


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Boxberger changes it up to dominate lefties
OAKLAND -- Right-hander Brad Boxberger has been red-hot of late. Against lefties, he's on another planet.
Entering Tuesday, lefties were 0-for-their-last-43 against Boxberger -- a streak dating back to May 20 -- and he has held lefties to an .077 average (5-for-65), best in the Majors among qualifiers.
At 26, the third-year big leaguer is becoming a poster boy for reverse-split specialists.
"I've always liked facing lefties," Boxberger said, "just because I've been able to use what I want to use against them."
This season, Boxberger has essentially been a two-pitch pitcher: fastball and changeup. His cutter has become obsolete, while his changeup has been nasty.
"It's not unlike [Mariners closer] Fernando Rodney," said Rays manager Joe Maddon. "It's very similar to that. I don't think the hitter sees him well. Because of where the ball ends up and how it moves, it can even be more difficult for a left-handed hitter. The changeup really is that good."
Boxberger can't pinpoint the reason behind his splits, but the movement on his changeup coupled with his cross-body throwing motion have certainly helped.
"From what I've heard guys telling me, it's harder to pick up, I guess," he said. "I'm not really sure. It's been working."
Boxberger has been pretty darn good against righties, too. His .142 opponent average ranks third among American League relievers, and he had not allowed a run in 15 straight appearances.
"The way the game's going and how it's changing, it's a different evolution of the lefty specialist," Boxberger said. "You can be either a lefty or a righty. It could be trending that way."
"That's another thing that fans have to get used to," said Maddon. "There's this whole group of pitchers out there that are better to the opposite side for different reasons."


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By: Bailey Myers
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Tallahassee FL- It's been a little over three weeks since a helicopter carrying Tallahassee residents crashed and killed two people. Monday night, family and friends of one of the victims came out to raise funds for a good cause in his honor.
Friends and family of Curtis Clifford came out to Madison Social in to honor their loved one. Madison Social donated a portion of the proceeds earned during happy hour to two different funds. Both the Taltech Alliance and the ALS Indianapolis chapter will receive funds from Monday's event.
Family members told us they wanted to do this because it was something Clifford would have wanted.
"He just touched people, he was very communicative, that was just the way he was. He just felt that everyone he touched he just wanted to make smile and he did so very successfully," Roger Clifford, the victims brother told us.
Pilot Terry Ooten also died that night in the crash. Passenger Sheri Devore was the only survior. Since the accident investigators have been working to piece together what circumstances led to the crash.
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March 3, 2014, 5pm
Nearly a month ago, a deadly helicopter crash took the lives of two local businessmen.
Tonight, a Tallahassee business is honoring one of the victims.
Curtis Clifford died on February 8, 2014 after he and two friends took a helicopter trip down to Wakulla County.
Pilot Terry Ooten also died that night in the crash.
Passenger Sheri Devore was the only survivor.
Since the accident, investigators have been working to piece together what circumstances led to the crash.
Tonight, friends and coworkers of Clifford's are gathering at Madison Social.
The organization will hold a happy hour from 5-7 tonight.
A portion of those proceeds will be given to the family to donate to a charity of their choice.
Anyone is invited to attend, and the even is open to the public.
By: Bailey Myers
February 22nd, 2014
Tallahassee, FL- February 22nd marks two weeks since one helicopter crashed in Panacea Florida. The lone survivor spoke to Eyewitness News about the last few moments with her friends before the crash.
Sheri DeVore was the only person to survive the helicopter crash in Panacea. In an exclusive interview, she explained the moments before the crash were totally normal. "He said, 'Okay guys lets go', and we lifted off. The next thing I saw were trees in my window," DeVore explained.
When she saw the tree branches so close she says all she remembers was yelling the name of the pilot and her close friend, 49-year-old Terry Bryan Ooten.
"I woke up when I hit the ground. I landed on my left side when I fell in the marsh... I looked over and saw there was a piece of metal, so I grabbed onto it and helped myself get up. I got up onto the helicopter."
The National Transportation and Safety Board reports her shouts for help alerted neighbors that something was wrong. When emergency responders arrived they found live power lines down, an upside down crashed helicopter, and Sheri Devore alive.
As she explained, "I walked out leaning on their shoulders and I just said help them...I'm fine."
Devore was preparing to leave for a nearby hospital when she first began to realize the damage this accident caused. She told us she, "couldn't see around because with a neck brace you can't see a whole lot of things, but in my periphery I could see people coming back from the crash. It dawned on me- why would they be coming back so soon?"
49-year-old Terry Bryan Ooten and 53-year-old Curtis Robert Clifford were pronounced dead on scene. DeVore walked away with some broken bones.
"I'll be back to normal physically, but mentally it will never be the same," she told us.
The N.T.S.B. told us the full investigation will take twelve months to complete.
By: Bailey Myers
February 19th, 2014
Tallahassee FL- Trees may have been the cause of a fatal helicopter crash in Wakulla County. The latest National Transportation Safety Board report shows moments after the helicopter took from the Wakulla airport-- it hit surrounding trees and crashed upside down in a nearby marsh area.
The February 8th accident killed 49-year old Terry Ooten and 53-year-old Curtis Cliford. 45-year-old Sheri Devore survived. she reportedly called out the pilot's name moments before impact. The NTSB is still investigating.
"The next steps in the process are going to be looking into the man, the machine and the environment. That includes looking into the Pilot, and any certificates or ratings that he held," Shephen Stein the investigator from the NTSB told us.
According to the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office Ooten was the piloting the chopper. As Stein stated the NTSB will also look into any problems the chopper may have had or what role the environment played the night of the crash. Their full report won't be released for another 12 months.
OFFICIAL REPORT: National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB Identification: ERA14FA115
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, February 08, 2014 in Panacea, FL
Aircraft: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY R44 II, registration: N571AC
Injuries: 2 Fatal,1 Serious.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On February 8, 2014, about 1945 eastern standard time, a Robinson R-44 II, N571AC, was substantially damaged when it impacted trees and terrain after takeoff from Wakulla County Airport (2J0), Panacea, Florida. The private pilot and one passenger were fatally injured, and another passenger sustained serious injuries. The helicopter was registered to Capital Helicopters, LLC, and was operated by a private individual. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the flight, which was destined for Tallahassee Regional Airport (TLH), Tallahassee, Florida. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
The helicopter had landed at 2J0 earlier in the day with the pilot and two passengers onboard. After eating at a local restaurant the pilot and passengers were transported back to the airport, where they arrived at approximately 1930 for their return flight to TLH. According to the surviving passenger, the pilot stated they would have to "back up" the helicopter prior to takeoff. The helicopter then departed the airport and, moments later, the passenger called out the pilot's name as they impacted trees.
A witness at the airp ort reported seeing the helicopter parked "facing south" prior to its departure. He did not observe the helicopter take off, but after hearing a loud "snap," he drove to the end of his driveway, where he heard the passenger calling for help.
The wreckage was located in a marsh bordered by trees, about 353 feet northwest of the departure end of runway 36. The tree tops located next to the main wreckage exhibited impact markings approximately 50 feet above ground level. The main wreckage was oriented about 24 degrees magnetic, and came to rest inverted in several feet of water. The main rotor blades both exhibited coning in the negative direction, but remained attached to the main rotor mast with the exception of the trailing edge of one of the blades, which had been impact separated. The tailboom was separated from the fuselage and was co-located with the main wreckage.
By: Emily Johnson
February 10, 2014
It's been two days since a helicopter crash killed Tallahassee locals Curtis Clifford and Terry Ooten, friends say they're devastated by what happened.
"Complete shock. It seems like in our area in our family we've had several tragedies here lately and to have another one bestowed on us is just unbelievable," David Maus, friend of Curtis Clifford.
"I was just shocked, my thoughts and prayers and that of my entire family go out to his family and friends," said Scott Johnson, acquaintance of Terry Ooten.
Friends of Clifford and Ooten call the two wonderful family men.
"If you knew Curtis you knew you had a friend for life. He was just full of life, humor and a wonderful father," said Maus.
"Family man. Loved his kids, loved to travel and he had a huge heart and he was a really giving person," said Brett Maxwell, friend of Terry Ooten.
Now it's friends giving love and support as both families grieve during a difficult time.
"It's going to be super tough, but with our support and the community's support they know they can come to us for anything. We're going to get through this," said Maus.
By: WCTV Eyewitness News
Tallahassee, Fla. -- According to the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Sheri Noelle Devore continues to be hospitalized and has been listed in "fair" condition.
Devore was the lone survivor of a recent helicopter crash that killed two.
NTSB says the investigation will take twelve months to complete and only then will they provide an explanation as to how the helicopter went down.
By: Bailey Myers
February 9th, 2014 - 11pm
Panacea, FL - Federal Officials continue to investigate a helicopter crash in Panacea Saturday night. Two people are dead while one person recovers from the wreckage.
"I seen a big flash of blue light we thought it was an accident so we came down to check it out and just seen a lady standing hollering for help standing on the bottom of a helicopter," explained Michael Carter who was there moments after the crash.
Around 8:00 Saturday evening a Tallahassee Helicopters chopper crashed in the marsh lands right outside Carter's home near the Wakulla County Airport.
"It kicked in that I needed to call the sheriff's office and do what I could do to save the lady or at least do what I could do to help save the lady," said Carter.
When emergency responders arrived they found 49 year old Terry Ooten and 53 year old Curtis Cliford both dead inside the helicopter. Sheri Devore was the only one who survived.
Sunday the remains of the helicopter were taken out of the marsh from where it was found and put in a secure location for investigators from the federal aviation administration and the national transportation and safety board.
NTSB Air Safety Investigator, Stephen Stein explained, "Right now we are in the fact gathering phase of the investigation. So our team assembled on scene we documented the terrain, the area. We photographed the wreckage."
NTSB says the investigation will take twelve months to complete and only then will they provide an explanation as to how this helicopter is now a pile of rubble.
It's a scene Carter says he won't ever forget, "Somebody needed help I'd do it all over again."
NTSB is asking for anyone with information to please email them at: email@example.com.
By: Emily Johnson
UPDATED: February 9, 2014 - 7:55pm
Panacea, FL - "My first visual of them was they finished their meal and they came to the cash register and the cashier was going to take them to the airport, but she's so much more efficient on the cash register that I said let me take them," said Arline Petrandis, owner of Angelo and Sons.
Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday night, Petrandis says she drove Curtis Clifford, Terry Ooten and Sheri Devore back to the Wakulla County Airport. Petrandis says they talked about the restaurant and the times that the folks had eaten there.
"The last thing I said to them was 'oh what a romantic evening you've had. Tell everybody that's just wonderful that you flew your helicopter down here to eat at the restaurant.' They were just totally happy and totally pleasant. It's a shocking tragedy."
Before they could even start their journey home, authorities say their four passenger Robinson R-44 helicopter crashed into trees and power lines while leaving the airport in Panacea.
Petrandis says Angelo's restaurant is shocked that something like this happened in the small town.
"Everybody was just rocked to be that close to death. To see three people happy and 10 minutes later two of them have left this world. It rocks you."
Press Release: Tallahassee Helicopters
UPDATED: February 9, 2014 - 7:45pm
We, at Tallahassee Helicopters, are shocked and deeply hurt to hear of the tragic accident last night. On Saturday afternoon, Terry Ooten, who has been a long time customer and close friend to all of us at Tallahassee Helicopters, rented the helicopter to fly with two of his close friends to have dinner at a restaurant in Panacea.
The accident occurred as they were taking off to return to Tallahassee from Wakulla Airport, taking the life of Terry and his friend Curtis Clifford. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those two families and friends. We also join with all others in concern for the recovery of Sheri Devore.
Tallahassee Helicopters is collaborating with the FAA and the NTSB in their investigations."
By: Bailey Myers
UPDATED: February 9, 2014 - 8am
Panacea, FL – Two Tallahassee men are dead, and woman was injured after their helicopter crashed into a Wakulla County marshland.
"We had a crash out here of a helicopter," said Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel. "We were notified on the way that we had two deceased, and one survivor."
53-year-old Curtis Robert Clifford and 49-year-old Terry Bryan Ooten were found dead in the Tallahassee Helicopters WTXL labeled chopper. The lone survivor is 45-year-old Sheri Noelle Devore.
Officials believe the helicopter had just taken off when it hit trees close to the Wakulla County Airport's runway. The helicopter then cut nearby power lines, and came to rest in a marshy area.
"We were able to treat on victim and have them transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. We removed the other two victims later on," said Wakulla County Fire Rescue Chief Mike Morgan.
The blades of the chopper were visible from the roadway, and teams of emergency responders spent hours combing through the wreckage.
"We don't know if it was pilot error, mechanical error, we have no idea. That's left to the NTSB," Creel said.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were both notified. They will be investigating what circumstances led up to and resulted in the crash.
WTXL says the helicopter was not being used for their news gathering purposes at the time of the crash.
UPDATED: February 8, 2014 - 11:47pm
The Wakulla County Sheriff's Office has released the names of the victims in the helicopter crash.
Curtis Robert Clifford, 53 and Terry Bryan Ooten, 49, both of Tallahassee were found dead at the scene of the crash.
Sheri Noelle Devore, 45, of Tallahassee was the lone survivor. She has been rushed to an area hospital. We are still waiting on her condition.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation and Safety Board have been notified and will be investigating tomorrow.
UPDATED: February 8, 2014 - 9:09pm
Two people are dead after a helicopter crash in Panacea Saturday night. The pilot and a passenger died at the scene. An additional passenger survived and was taken to an area hospital by Life Flight.
The Wakulla County Sheriff's Office says the crash happened after the helicopter took off and hit either power lines or tree limbs.
The helicopter crashed in a marshy area right by the landing strip.
This is not a military helicopter. WCSO has not released the names of the victims yet.
By: James Buechele
February 8, 2014 - 8:45pm
Panacea, FL - A helicopter has crashed near the Panacea landing strip in Wakulla County.
Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel has confirmed a helicopter crashed sometime after 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. A large portion of Panacea is without power right now.
Few details are known at this time. We have a reporter headed to the scene. As soon as more information comes in we will post it on WCTV.tv


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ALS 2001 Summary
The Annual (ex-Atlanta) Linux Showcase and XFree86 Conference took place last Thursday through Saturday in Oakland, California. Representing KDE at the
In related news: NLUUG 2001
(Grmbl. Because of the presence of the file upload field in the reply submit form, Lynx doesn't work and I had to type this all over again.. :( )
Last Thursday, I attended the annual Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG) conference, themed "Unix and the desktop". (The www.nluug.nl website is offline because it was defaced this weekend, using an old sshd hole.)
If you read this, Martin, many thanks for your talk! I'm not yet a KDE developer, but I hope once to give some code in return! :)
By Stonehead at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Presentations available?
Are the presentations available online somewhere, in particular the one about "hidden features"?
By Someone at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: Presentations available?
what would be nice, would be to have persons to follow such events only to do reports of them. There is always many persons who ask how they could be involved in this or this project without programmer skill. There is a need for such reports being done in a regular way, not only when one of the attendee has time.
By try at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
[OT] release of KDE 2.2.2 ?
Hi isn't today the announced release date of KDE 2.2.2 ?
By ac at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: [OT] release of KDE 2.2.2 ?
Yes, and today's the day afterwards, and still no sign :-(
By Hywel Mallett at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: [OT] release of KDE 2.2.2 ?
By hal at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: [OT] release of KDE 2.2.2 ?
It's delayed one week.
By Someone at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
Is there any information available regarding the KDE/Thin-client installation in Largo, Florida? To my knowledge, there are some people working on a white-paper on the subject. I'm writing my final thesis on the subject, and any information would be appreciated!
Re: Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
Although this probably isn't what you're interested in, I read today that MS wants to "take Linux the win of the City Of Largo" again. This was from an internal ms email. Its covered both at /. and the heise newsticker... Great to hear ms is scared!
By me at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
Yep, I heard of that. That was what reminded to ask about this.
Re: Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
Have a look in the archives of newsforge and the dot. The sysadmin of Largo posted some intresting replys in the article on the dot.
By brambi at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
I have contacted him directly, and he told me that someone(s) from the KDE-community is writing a white-papers on the project. But I will take a look at the archives :)
Re: Largo - MS Targeted
This is hitting close to home, as I live just north of Broward county. Here's an extract from a memo leaked from Microsoft. The full text can be found at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html and reprinted in NewsForge.
"Speaking of fights, Brett Cocking and team from the SLG vertical just don't know when to quit! Not only did they displace RedHat for a 40+ web server deal at Broward County in Florida, they're also going straight after one of the Linux community's key wins at the City of Largo (dubbed the City of Progress). "If they're the city of progress, why are they running Linux?", Brett jokes. "We're going in there to show them how much value exists in the Microsoft platform and take this win away from Linux!" Key in both accounts is the way Brett's team positions Microsoft's future .NET vision as well as providing great products like Windows 2000 to start building on that vision today. Thank you team! I know Brett digs tattoos, but this is one less he is going to have also."
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: Off Topic: the KDE installation in Largo
By cjm at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Imagegallery Plugin at work!
It is nice to see your stuff being used :)
By Andreas at Mon, 2001/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: Imagegallery Plugin at work!
Hahaha, of course! Same feeling here :)
By Lukas Tinkl at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
THX for the good news!
By Matthias Fenner at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
MS and Largo
I really wouldn't put it past Microsoft to give then free copies of Win XP/Office XP, just so that they can make a PR puff piece out of it...
By AC at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: MS and Largo
Well, can MS also sponsor pay for the 5 or 6 extra tech support people they'll need as well? :-)
By Carbon at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: MS and Largo- DANGER
Don't put this off too lightly.
Microsoft knows they have a hell of a lot to loose as soon as their customers figure out they have a choice. Microsoft's software doesn't sell so well because it's good, or because it's cheap, but because most of their customers just assume they have to live with it.
The City of Largo showed them otherwise. They've got clued admins, satisfied users, GOOD community feedback and a well supported and running network - all without not a single Windows machine (or 'because of lack of', more likely). Microsoft doesn't like that and will chase their PR people to hell and back over this.
So watch out, and help. Do some (sane!) local advocacy. Get friends to try out Linux (and not your own überhacker distro, but a distro they won't feel completely stupid with). Tell workmates you refuse to open 'winmail.dat' attachments because of virus danger (they probably won't understand the problem with 'because only Outlook can read them'). Etc.
Read http://www.jensbenecke.de/sicher-trotz-windows.php - through babelfish if you don't grok German.
Make people *AWARE* they have a choice, and they don't have to take this any more.
Microsoft doesn't care about money or ethics here (as if they ever did). They want something and they will build snow castles in Africa if that's what it takes to win them over.
Example: One of the people of the German government (very vivid OSS supporter now) was recently invited to the US to be "educated" by Microsoft people. He came back and was "shocked", he was constantly treated by MS officials who told them it's ridiculous for the state to make such (ie. "non-Windows") purchase decisions, it's absurd that an organization as big as his relies on a bunch of hackers, etc etc etc. Result? Some time later another branch opened a competition(?) for companies to stock their new IT center. Lowest price wins. Catch: One of the requirements was "everything must run Windows". I wonder how much money they got from MS.
One other very influential society that acts like this is Scientology. I'm not proposing there are any more ties than there really are (e.g. disk fragmenter in Win2k), but who knows.
By Jens at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: MS and Largo- DANGER
For what it's worth, there is a scientology building in Redmond... Pretty close to a mall, I saw it when I went to visit the evil empire last summer.
(Wanted to know what we're up against... ;-) )
By AC at Wed, 2001/11/14 - 6:00am
Re: MS and Largo- DANGER
if u want to know more about what we're up against go
By patrick darcy at Wed, 2001/11/14 - 6:00am
This article made me try Xnest. Way cool program. ;)
By Johnny Andersson at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: Xnest
Have you ever tried VNC? You can do similar stuff and (a little bit) more: It's seperated into a server and a viewer that communicate via TCP/IP, so you have the same network-transparency as with X11. But there are two bonuses:
By Holger Benl at Wed, 2001/11/14 - 6:00am
Re: Xnest
Yes, VNC is very useful. Actually, to me VNC often feels faster than X, at least over slow connections. I use it all the time to access Solaris-boxes over an ADSL connection.
I'd love to use it the way you describe, with one desktop running all the time, but then I'd have to use my desktop through VNC when using my computer locally too, and that has a lot of problems (no antialiased fonts, no xvideo extension, much slower update sometimes).
It'd be very useful if the Unix VNC server was able to connect to my already-running X session and let me use it on another computer, just like the Windows server does. This is also mentioned in the VNC FAQ... Anyone had any success with this?
By Johnny Andersson at Wed, 2001/11/14 - 6:00am
remote X very fast...
Actually, to me VNC often feels faster than X, at least over slow connections. I use it all the time to access Solaris-boxes over an ADSL connection.
Even faster: http://www.medialogic.it/projects/mlview/
Advantage: It uses the X protocol itself, just very weell compressed and with a pixmap cache. Has worked 100% stable for me so far.
This is what I use to work on my office machine from home. Excellent compression, good enough to be usable over ISDN! If I reduced colordepth it would probably be even better.
By Moritz Moeller-... at Wed, 2001/11/14 - 6:00am
Xnest & kde3
Using Xnest is easy:
first, start Xnest:
Xnest -ac -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo :1'
-ac makes it accept connections from anywhere (you may or may not need this)
Then prepare a non-conflicting KDEHOME
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 # where to store local data
export DISPLAY=:1 # use the Xnest server
startkde # start kde
By Charles Samuels at Tue, 2001/11/13 - 6:00am
Re: Xnest & kde3
Wasn't there one app that allowed (among other things) using Xnests as textures on 3d objects, mostly as a demo? k3dworkbench or something like that.
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AUG. 2 will be the 50th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Station picket line, and the familiar dirge will sound for the majestic structure, thrown away, it is said, by philistines blind to its value.
But, even after half a century, is there no one to write an elegy for Lester Tichy's luminous, soaring, swooping 1956 ticket counter? Conceived as a way to revitalize the majestic space, it was instead condemned as a nail in the station's coffin, in Lewis Mumford's words "an indescribable botch."
Poor Tichy — a lifetime devoted to modernism, and he winds up remembered for what most people consider the final insult to McKim, Mead & White's heroic 1910 station.
Tichy studied at Columbia University, and, after travel through Europe, began work in 1926 in the office of the strict classicist John Russell Pope. He struck out on his own in the late 1930s, and joined the American Institute of Architects under the sponsorship of Alfred Easton Poor, who had worked with Pope. Poor was another traditionalist who later embraced modernism.
By the time Tichy set out on his own, Penn Station's haughty classicism was a musty antique, and soon automobile and air passenger service began to encroach on the near-monopoly of railroads. In 1948 La Guardia Airport hired Tichy for a streamlined metal and glass snack bar. But he was no air-age partisan; in 1950 he designed a new color scheme for the Long Island Rail Road cars.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was beginning to groan under the maintenance costs of its station, and in the same year it retained Tichy to design a garage for 923 cars and a seven-story addition over the southeast court of the station.
Four years later he collaborated with I. M. Pei on a 32-story structure that would have eliminated the aboveground portion of the station. In these years, Tichy's help-wanted ads for employees described the firm as "progressive" and "contemporary," and he was designing shops, residences and retail structures in a fresh, modern style.
Neither project went ahead, but it seems the railroad had not given up on the station itself. In 1956 it tried to update the place with Tichy's great soaring luminous arch sheltering a bowed ticket counter with advanced ticketing equipment.
The steel canopy, suspended by cables from the station's classical columns, prefigured Eero Saarinen's swooping, birdlike T.W.A. terminal of 1962 at Idlewild Airport, which became John F. Kennedy International in 1963. The glowing fluorescent curve under the soiled classical space was like a jet plane next to a grimy locomotive.
Critics saw no salvation in Tichy's addition, which was widely published and widely denounced. Architectural Forum described it as "how to turn a monument into cash." "A fluttery fatuous kiosk," fumed the historian Walter C. Kidney in a 1956 letter to the editor of Architectural Forum; "jukeboxes in Westminster Abbey."
In a New Yorker column in 1958, Mumford didn't stop at "an indescribable botch"; he said it was a "great treason to McKim's original design." In a 1961 letter to Progressive Architecture, the architect B. Sumner Gruzen wrote that the ticket counter had "brutally raped" the station.
But any one of its detractors would have embraced "tickets on the clamshell," as The New York Times soon called it, in place of the demolition of the station, announced in 1961. That provoked the greatest and most unequal preservation battle in New York history. In retrospect, The Times said, no one should have been surprised as soon as "the Age of Elegance bowed to the Age of Plastic." And from that flowed the mournful saga ending in rubble and regrets in 1964.
There is no evidence that Tichy took the slightest notice of his reviews, and he continued his career with structures like the circular, spaceshiplike East New York Savings Bank of 1958 at Kings Highway and Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn. It resembled a giant hatbox, with a circular brise-soleil and huge irregular windows. If the bank had not been demolished about 10 years ago, it could be a landmark today.
In 1966 Tichy redid the bottom of the 1930s Goelet Building at Fifth and 48th in a lean modern style, but this work was also swept away, by a restoration. That and the bank were the only entries for him in older editions of the A. I. A. Guide to New York City by Norval White and Elliot Willensky; now his name is entirely absent.
Tichy died in 1981, just as modernism was in full retreat. Since then the reputation of much of the architecture of the 1950s has been rehabilitated, but his clamshell seems doomed to be an architectural untouchable — it is difficult to illustrate the incremental insults to Penn Station, the ticky-tacky additions, the grimy travertine, but a photograph of Tichy's structure is always ready to stand in.
Anyone of the opinion that his light, jet-age design did not contradict but instead complemented the magnificent interior of Penn Station — well, such a person would be considered hopelessly romantic, against all common sense, just like the Penn Station protesters of August 1962.


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NEW DELHI (CBSDC/AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that it would be "deeply troubling" if Russia or Hong Kong had adequate notice about Edward Snowden's plans to flee to a country that will grant him asylum and still allowed him leave.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor and a self-admitted leaker of state secrets, fled from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday after the U.S. moved to extradite him to face espionage charges. He was expected to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
He was booked on a flight from Moscow to Cuba on Monday, but he was not seen on the plane. It was unclear where he was or where he was he was trying to go, Kerry said. The U.S. has revoked Snowden's passport.
Related: Paul Ryan: Snowden Must Be 'Brought To Justice'
"We don't know, specifically, where he may head, or what his intended destination may be," Kerry said, responding to a question during a news conference in New Delhi where he was discussing bilateral issues between the U.S. and India.
He also was asked about whether the Snowden incident would affect the U.S. relationship with China and Russia.
"It would be deeply troubling, obviously, if they had adequate notice, and notwithstanding that, they make the decision willfully to ignore that and not live by the standards of the law," Kerry said.
"There is a surrender treaty with Hong Kong and if there was adequate notice — I don't know yet what the communication status was. But if there was, it would be very disappointing if he was willfully allowed to board an airplane … and there would be, without any question, some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences. With respect to Russia, likewise."
The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, but does with Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. Even with an extradition agreement though, any country could give Snowden a political exemption.
In the past two years, the U.S. has transferred seven prisoners to Russia that Moscow wanted, he said. "I think reciprocity and the enforcement of the law is pretty important," Kerry said, but he did not identify the law he was referencing.
Kerry also noted the countries involved in the incident.
"I suppose there is no small irony here. I mean, I wonder if Mr. Snowden chose China and Russian assistance in his flight from justice because they're such powerful bastions of Internet freedom, and I wonder if while he was in either of those countries he raised the question of Internet freedom since that seems to be what he champions."
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Holly A. Heyser
I've been restless lately. Unsatisfied. In one of my moods. I grew up with this funny notion that, if I put my mind and effort to it, I could indeed be the best at something, really anything. That if I worked hard enough, I could approach something akin to perfection. Funny, isn't it? Intellectually I know this is foolish, even emotionally dangerous. Yet the belief is so deeply ingrained within me that when I fail to meet my own expectations, I find myself wandering around for days, feeling wounded.
So it is with food. It is a general belief among serious cooks that only an exalted few can truly call themselves artists; the rest of us are merely craftsmen, and imperfect ones at that. Cooking as art, at least to me, reaches beyond taste and nutritional satisfaction—it should affect both the cook and the eater on some higher level.
I want that. I want to make food that people remember for years, like the lines from a classic film or a picture in a gallery. It is a genetic urge, as I come from a family of artists: I am the son of a surgeon and a concert organist. One sister is a professional artist, another designs books. One of my brothers writes books for a living. Art is in our blood.
Even though I cook almost every day, and all day several days a week, every now and again I cloister myself in the kitchen to walk the high wire. I've convinced myself that only by walking this tightrope again and again and again—falling every time—will I reach the other side and create a dish that reaches the higher level I've been seeking for so long.
This is why you see a crazy-looking croquette in the picture above. It is one of four dishes I made on the high wire last week, all involving doves. It's dove season, and Holly and I have shot plenty of birds for me to work with. I know I already have plenty of dove recipes that work, and some are downright fantastic. But to me, none even remotely qualify as "art."
These dishes had to be better, somehow. I am a nose-to-tail eater, as I believe all great cooks must be—you cannot ignore anything edible if your canvas is food. To do so would be like a painter refusing to use the color yellow. So most every bit of the dove would go into these dishes: hearts, skin, bones, legs, and wings, no matter how small.
A great dish needs to have lots of different textures, a cohesive color scheme, a striking aroma or series of aromas, varying temperatures, varying flavors. Everything on the plate needs to be there for a reason, and restraint is our highest virtue.
But a great dish also needs a reason for being, a story to tell. Otherwise it will lack focus. For these dishes, the story is a dove's life. I like to pair wild game both with foods the animal ate in life and with other plants or animals it would have known. In the case of doves, that means grain, seeds, and quail. Doves and quail live alongside one another.
Holly A. Heyser
I got two of the three in this dish. It is Mexican-inspired, and I really made it because my brown and black Tepary beans were ready to harvest. I decided to make a two-bean Mexican salad, with queso seco, green onions, etc. and sauce it with a cilantro-green chile sauce. The fried quail egg is gratuitous, but I love fried quail eggs.
The breakthrough is the dove. I boned out a dove breast to get the supremes—each only about the size of a half-dollar—and dipped them in beaten egg and then in ground sunflower seeds. Doves, if you did not know, really, really love sunflower seeds. I suspected they'd taste good together, and I was right. Doves are lean (usually), so the rich sunflower seeds added needed fat. (Here is the recipe.)
I like this dish, although I failed to cook the Tepary beans enough; they require a long time to soften, apparently. Was it a great dish? Maybe not. But I got the sunflower crust out of it, and that counts as a victory.
I made the croquette with all the dove legs and wings I'd collected from some dove breast recipes I'd done earlier in the week. These are teeny, teeny little appendages, only a couple inches long. If I were to make this a fine dining dish—and I was in that frame of mind at the time—then I'd need to strip the meat from the bones. To me that meant confit, which is what I did.
Where the Mexican dish focused on seeds and the quail, this one would focus on a mainstay in a dove's diet: wheat. I mixed the confited dove meat with farro flour and an egg, then rolled it in panko bread crumbs. To complete the trope I made an aioli using wheat grass. The dish needed some acidity, so I added preserved lemon.
Holly A. Heyser
I love the look of this plate. Problem is, it is prettier than it tastes. I should have made the croquettes smaller and used less farro. The whole dish needed a bright note, too. The preserved lemons, while beautiful, added more salt than acid—and I needed acid.
The dish has promise, but no recipe for you yet. When I nail this, I'll post it.
NEXT: Two more recipes, including one that comes close to the level of art
Back to sunflowers. After the fried dove experiment, I wanted to combine dove and sunflower again, this time using the seeds as a texture. I also had the dilemma of what to do with the dove hearts, skin and the itty-bitty tenders that came off the back of each dove breast. An odd salad is what I came up with.
Holly A. Heyser
Yeah, it's in a tomato. I blanched it and peeled the skin, then hollowed out the center to make a sort of boat. The salad itself is a simple play on texture and color: Peas simmered in butter for color and softness, seared dove bits and roasted sunflower seeds, brought together in a basil vinaigrette.
It was good. A perfectly fine dish. Nothing earth-shaking, though. I liked the meaty-starchy-sweet-salty thing going on, fer sher. But something about this dish just seemed, well, not right. Can't place it yet.
But I do like the concept of the tomato boat a lot. I know, it's not terribly original, but it works and can be played with later.
The last dish I came up with was the one I think came closest to what I was looking for, but even here there is a caveat...
Holly A. Heyser
These, my friends, are dove roulades wrapped in blanched cabbage leaves, served with a saffron-corn sauce and garnished with some teeny popcorn I just happened to have in the house. And in case you haven't grokked the theme yet, yes, doves eat corn.
I love this dish. It is beautiful, flavorful, and, most importantly, simple. There are not 500 things going on with this plate. It is corn, a green thing, and doves, plain and simple. You have vivid color, and the texture contrast between the popcorn and the roulades is everything I could have asked for.
The saffron was originally included because my corn was white, and I wanted a yellow sauce, but the end result added a hayfield-like aroma to the plate that mimics the fields we've been hunting doves on lately.
But does this dish rise to the level of art? If it does, then the author is not me, but Thomas Keller. As good as this plate of food was, it is a riff off Keller's duck roulades with creamed corn in his French Laundry Cookbook.
So there it is, laid out before me. My best dish was wholly derivative of a master's work. At best I've become a competent technician.
Holly A. Heyser
Yet there's something to be said for that. Albrecht Durer is still remembered 500 years later because of his exquisite technical skill, and, as many artists know, Jackson Pollock was a master technician before he became famous for his action painting—the canvasses of splattered paint we all remember.
It's Pollock who keeps me striving. Few people know I was an art major in college, before I changed and studied the history and political science that would become my career for nearly two decades. I loved art, and still do. And I will never forget what one of my teachers told me about greatness: Every great artist—no matter how abstract—was also at the very least a competent technician. It is the prerequisite for making real, true art.
So I will keep pushing, failing often and marking down my little victories. Maybe someday, I'll stand back, exhale, and be satisfied. But I don't think that day will ever happen. There is just too much to learn, and life is short.
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The Bogardus Social Distance Scale is a psychological testing scale created by Emory S. Bogardus to empirically measure people's willingness to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups, such as other racial and ethnic groups, sex offenders, and homosexuals.
The scale asks people the extent to which they would be accepting of each group (a score of 1.00 for a group is taken to indicate no social distance):
- As close relatives by marriage (score 1.00)
- As my close personal friends (2.00)
- As neighbors on the same street (3.00)
- As co-workers in the same occupation (4.00)
- As citizens in my country (5.00)
- As only visitors in my country (6.00)
- Would exclude from my country (7.00)
The Bogardus Social Distance Scale is a cumulative scale (a Guttman scale), because agreement with any item implies agreement with all preceding items. The scale has been criticized as too simple because the social distance in intimate relations may not be to attitudes concerning far-away contacts, such as citizens or visitors in my country.
Research by Bogardus first in 1925 and then repeated in 1946, 1956, and 1966 shows that the extent of social distancing in the US is decreasing slightly and fewer distinctions are being made among groups. A Web-based questionnaire has been running since late 1993. Internet users are encouraged to submit their responses here where the maintainer of this site has posted at least two papers that update research on social distance.
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- Bogardus, Emory S., Social Distance in the City. Proceedings and Publications of the American Sociological Society. 20, 1926, 40-46.
- Babbie, E., 'The Practice of Social Research', 10th edition, Wadsworth, Thomson Learning Inc., ISBN 0534620299
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In our Friday news wrap, the chairman of the Federal Reserve sought to ease Wall Street's concerns over future interest rate hikes. Speaking at a forum in Atlanta, Jerome Powell said the Fed is "listening" closely to the market. Also, China announced that a U.S. delegation will travel to Beijing on Monday, to restart trade talks that have been stalled for weeks.
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