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CASSANDRA FEELEY prefers organic ingredients, especially for her baby, but she finds it hard to manage on her husband's salary as an Army sergeant. So this year she did something she has wanted to do for a long time: she planted vegetables in her yard to save money.
"One organic cucumber is $3 and I can produce it for pennies," she said.
For her first garden, Ms. Feeley has gone whole hog, hand-tilling a quarter acre in the backyard of her house near the Fort Campbell Army base in Kentucky. She has put in 15 tomato plants, five rows of corn, potatoes, cucumbers, squash, okra, peas, watermelon, green beans. An old barn on the property has been converted to a chicken coop, its residents arriving next month; the goats will be arriving next year.
"I spent $100 on it and I know I will save at least $75 a month on food," she said.
She is one of the growing number of Americans who, driven by higher grocery costs and a stumbling economy, have taken up vegetable gardening for the first time. Others have increased the size of their existing gardens.
Seed companies and garden shops say that not since the rampant inflation of the 1970s has there been such an uptick in interest in growing food at home. Space in community gardens across the country has been sold out for several months. In Austin, Tex., some of the gardens have a three-year waiting list.
George C. Ball Jr., owner of the W. Atlee Burpee Company, said sales of vegetable and herb seeds and plants are up by 40 percent over last year, double the annual growth for the last five years. "You don't see this kind of thing but once in a career," he said. Mr. Ball offers half a dozen reasons for the phenomenon, some of which have been building for the last few years, like taste, health and food safety, plus concern, especially among young people, about global warming.
But, Mr. Ball said, "The big one is the price spike." The striking rise in the cost of staples like bread and milk has been accompanied by increases in the price of fruits and vegetables.
"Food prices have spiked because of fuel prices and they redounded to the benefit of the garden," Mr. Ball said. "People are driving less, taking fewer vacations, so there is more time to garden."
Each spring for the last five years, the Garden Writers Association has had TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, a polling firm, conduct a national consumer telephone survey asking gardeners what makes up the greatest share of their garden budgets. "The historic priorities are lawns, annuals, perennials, then vegetables, followed by trees and shrubs," said Robert LaGasse, executive director of the association. This year, vegetables went from fourth place to second, which Mr. LaGasse called "an enormous attitude shift."
People like Rita Gartin of Ames, Iowa, are part of that shift. Last year she kept a small garden. This year it has tripled in size into a five-by-seven-foot plot because, Ms. Gartin said, "The cost of everything is going up and I was looking to lose a few pounds, too; so it's a win-win situation all around."
Ms. Gartin, who fits gardening into her 12-hour workday as an interior designer and property manager, is not intimidated by the 20 kinds of vegetables she has planted: she was raised on a farm with a giant garden. A fence has been erected to keep the deer and people out, and it's where the pole beans and snap peas are already climbing.
She is ready to take a stab at canning, but reserves the right to freeze everything instead, she said.
"I probably spent maybe $50 for everything and that's less than a week's cost of groceries or the price of a gym," she said.
Seed companies and garden centers say they didn't see the rush coming. There wasn't any buildup last year, said Barbara Melera, the co-owner of the D. Landreth Seed Company in New Freedom, Pa., who takes the pulse of gardeners at the 13 garden shows she attends around the country each year.
"We pack for all the shows and bring 16 different beans, 10 packets for each kind," Ms. Melera said. In earlier years, by the time the shows end in March, she said, "we are lucky if we have sold two of the 10 packets."
"This year," she said, "we sold out the first show and literally sold hundreds. We never sell any corn; this year we sold out of corn by the end of the season. We saw the same thing in the mail order business."
She said the greatest demand was for what she calls "survival vegetables": peas, beans, corn, beets, carrots, broccoli, kale, spinach and the lettuces. "It was so different from what it has been in prior years," she added.
Randy Martell, one of the owners of the Garden Factory in Rochester, says it isn't just vegetables. "The potted fruit trees were sold out by the first week of May," he said. "Blueberries, raspberries and grapes are sold out. I think those sales have doubled. Overall sales are up about 30 percent."
Dottie Wright, greenhouse manager at one of the Dammann's Lawn, Garden and Landscaping Centers in Indianapolis, said she talks to people every day who are starting their first vegetable garden. "If they don't have a yard they try containers for tomatoes and herbs. We can't keep the herbs in this year."
Thrilled as gardening experts are about this phenomenon, they know that many first timers don't have any idea how much sweat equity is involved.
"Many people I sold seeds to have never gardened before," Ms. Melera said, "and we have to find a way to educate them so the experience is successful. They have got to be taught."
Mr. Ball of Burpee knows some of the new gardeners won't stick with gardening beyond the first year. "Some people can't get with the idea of digging a hole; getting buggy, sticky and hot," he said. "Gardening is an active hobby; it's a commitment."
Doreen G. Howard, a former garden editor for Woman's Day and now a writer for The American Gardener, is one of the committed. She has had a vegetable garden for most of the last 25 years. This year she has quadrupled the size of her vegetable plot in Roscoe, Ill., because of the economy and because she thinks the quality of store-bought produce has deteriorated. Once vegetables were just 5 percent of her garden; now they are 20 percent.
"Food prices have gotten to the point where we are seeing the difference," she said. "It's pushing our budget and we are a two-income family. It was never a concern before." Ms. Howard said her grocery bill for two went from $100 a week to $140 a week this year.
She has chosen many vegetables that freeze well, investing in a secondhand freezer to store the bounty. She plans to dry the herbs that grow on the back porch next to boxes of mesclun, and to make pickles from the cucumbers and raisins from the grapes her newest addition. And she is looking forward to a cellar full of Peruvian blue potatoes.
Some of Ms. Howard's increased harvest will also go to food pantries through an organization called Plant a Row for the Hungry, which encourages gardeners to plant extra vegetables to share with the poor.
"I'm hoping to take $20 a week off my grocery bill," she said. This is in the low range, according to Mr. Ball, who says a $100 investment will produce $1,000 to $1,700 worth of vegetables.
Ms. Gartin, now in her second year, says gardening is worth the effort.
"I got soft calluses from hoeing and digging," she said, adding cheerfully, "but my fingernails are still pretty long and not chipped. I probably spent 30 hours putting the garden in, and when I'd come into the house I'd be covered in sweat. But now it's pretty easy because of all the rain we've had."
And the vegetables, she said, are "awesome." "It's a totally different flavor from what you buy in the store. It's exciting to go out and pick the fruits of your labor."


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My wife and I were driving through Greenwood Sunday afternoon looking for a place to get a meal. We decided to try something new and chose The Olive and Grape. When I think of olives and grapes, the Mediterranean comes to mind and upon entering, this spot definitely fit the bill. We came in from the back entrance, were greeted and asked to sit anywhere we liked. Our server immediately offered coffee, Turkish tea or water and handed us our menus. It is a quaint little restaurant that looked like it could seat about 30-35 patrons. White paint with blue trimmed walls and hand painted olive trees really add to the Greek/Mediterranean theme. There's a good sized counter that could be used as a bar, but instead, displays several different varieties of olive oil and wine. It is adjacent to the open kitchen where you can watch the cooks prepare the orders. Looking through the menu took a little longer than usual because most all the dishes, being Turkish and Greek, were foreign to me. I had to read the descriptions and ingredients to see what each dish was.
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popular pairings list behind counter/bar
The Food:
spinach & feta gozleme with side of tzatziki
nonna's spaghetti polpettini
The Review:
I looked for something that was both new and somewhat familiar. I chose the Golzeme – which is described as a "Turkish quesadilla." The only filling they had that day was spinach and feta. It was so-so. The "hand rolled" pastry looked and tasted just like naan bread with a barely there filling of spinach and feta. Imagine a single slice of deli meat, and you've just pictured how much filling was in this gozleme! The filling was so minuscule that I could barely taste the feta, which is a strong flavor cheese! The tzatziki added a nice cool and mildy sour compliment to the dish and might have been the best part of the meal. The menu also stated it would come with a side of sambal, a spicy chili, which would have been nice, had I received it. I chose garlic fries as my side item, which was also, just ok. Feta and parsley were sprinkled atop the fries which also had a side of tzatziki. There was no taste of garlic at all – disppointed!
My wife had Nonna's Spaghetti Polpettini. It came in a small bowl with 6 meatballs atop a bed of pasta with zuchini shavings, fresh basil and grated parmigiano. The pasta was cooked perfectly and the tomato-mascarpone sauce had the makings to be a very good sauce. The initial taste of the sauce was very good especially with the zuchini shavings, but then it was overshadowed by the saltiness. The meatballs also had a lot of potential. The initial bite was bursting with flavors of herbs and spices, but again, it was overshadowed by a salty aftertaste. Think of a tequila shot: the kick from licking the salt, a quick burn from the tequila and then the sour-cooling relief of the lemon…but in reverse.
To end the meal, we both shared an order of baklava – another highlight. The filo dough was nice and flaky and went well with the rich syrup and nuts. It was served with a halved strawberry which when eaten together, was really delicious! The clean and cool texture of the strawberry really helped cut the richness of the syrup.
My Conclusion:
The Olive and Grape has potential to be something really good. I'm not sure if it was my personal taste, but the entrées we shared were both too salty for my liking. Maybe we came in on an "off" day for the cooks, but this place definitely has promise. The Olive and Grape is also particpating in the upcoming Seattle Restaurant Week , should anyone want to sample a larger portion of the menu. By the time we left, the restaurant was nearly at capacity, which tells me there's something good at The Olive and Grape… I just didn't find it.

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Intimacy on a grand scale10/04/2009 at 4:42 pm | Posted in About town, I take too many pictures, Listening | 7 Comments
Tags: About town, I take too many pictures, Listening, U2, U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium
Now, a moment of silence.
I've been trying to think of how on earth to describe their show last night in Raleigh, but all the words that come to mind are so cliche. Awesome. Amazing. Other-worldly.
I can't help it. My head is still spinning.
Goosebumps covered my arms pretty much the entire time. And I couldn't wipe the ridiculous grin off my face. If it wasn't the music making me shriek like a teenager, it was the spectacle.
Bono described the spaceship set as the band's attempt at "intimacy on a grand scale." It was breathtaking.
I've been waiting a long time to see these guys, and it was more than I'd ever expected.
Here are a few of the bazillion photos I took last night:
Tailgate lot
Moon rising
The herd waiting to get in
Finally inside!
The spaceship
Smoke! They're coming!
Just one shot of the screen
Gimongous disco ball
These photos betray how freaking good our seats were. Fourth row from the wall; just heads above the folks on the stadium floor.
One of my favorite moments of the show was when Bono plucked a random kid out of the crowd to join him onstage. They completed a couple of laps, then Bono gave the little boy his sunglasses. That kid will now be the coolest in his entire school, for sure.
Were you there? What did you think?
(P.S. We missed most of Muse's set, but the two songs we heard were pretty awesome.)
(P.P.S. I now have a small crush on the Edge. Must be the skull cap.)
Makes me smile09/28/2009 at 10:33 am | Posted in Listening, Watch this! | 3 Comments
Tags: Beyonce, Listening, makes me smile, Watch this!, women who rock
I'm a huge Beyonce fan. But you don't have to be to love this video (thanks, S, for sending my way):
Viva la free music08/26/2009 at 2:30 pm | Posted in Listening | 2 Comments
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Can't stop listening to Left Right Left Right Left, a FREE live album by Coldplay. Download it here.
(Thanks, A, for turning me on to this).
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Located at the top of the house just below the roof, the attic is where you should begin with efforts to control the natural drying out of your home.
Proper attic ventilation is very important. In most homes, vents are installed along the peak of the roof. Moisture or surface discoloration near the vent is a red flag; find the source of moisture and repair the problem. When inspecting the roof, remove any birds' nests and debris blocking the vents.
Good insulation is thick, soft and fluffy. When damaged by moisture and water, the insulation becomes thin and flat. Check the insulation frequently, especially after the rainy season.
Touch it. If it feels moist, find the moisture source and fix the problem right away. After being wet, most insulation is ineffective, but it will continue to hold moisture for a long time and will create high moisture conditions. If the insulation is wet, remove it and dispose of properly.
Be sure to look up and down while inspecting the attic. Focus on openings through the roof such as skylight wells, plumbing pipes, vents and chimneys. Look around and confirm that all surfaces are dry and that there is no visible rotting or mold growth.
Check the bottom side of the roof sheathing, roof rafters, and trusses for water stains. If inspecting during the daytime, make sure that the roof is completely sealed and that no daylight penetrates through roof cracks.
Inspect the floor and make sure it is dry and no dampness is visible. Remember that the water may run along the attic floor, rafters, or trusses for quite a distance before coming through the ceiling.
Check for holes, air leaks, or bypasses from the house and make sure there is enough insulation to keep house heat from escaping and causing condensation.
Periodically, check attic air conditioners, swamp coolers and HVAC (heating, ventilating, and cooling) systems. Look for wear and tear and loose connections. Inspect around and under these appliances. Remember that appliance failures may cause water damage to everything that lies below.
Inspecting recessed lighting canisters may provide you with reliable information regarding excessive attic moisture. The presence of rust and corrosion indicates possible moisture invasion and a potential electrical hazard.
Stains above or near the wood, or on the insulation around the canisters are a good indicator of moisture-related problems.
Consider upgrading old recessed lights canisters with newer, safer ones that include built-in insulation.
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There comes a time when you just have to let loose and be yourself. Throw away all the fears, and open to what is there. No matter what. Open to it…
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You never know what you'll discover when you find the courage to be true to yourself. You'll be about the raddest person alive in your skin!


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Frankly, I'm not yet a partisan. I read the hubbub and the furor and I examine the work, and the two don't seem commensurate--but then it often takes time for a writer to grow on me. Perhaps this book, which I have overlooked for a year or so might do it: Nazi Literature in the Americas.


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As the clocks go back this weekend and the winter nights start to draw in, Crabtree & Crabtree launches its Stargazing Season.
Partnering with Astro Ventures, Crabtree & Crabtree offers Really Wild Stargazing Tours and late-night STAR-B-Qs (starry BBQs) with your very own expert astronomer and has over 90 holiday homes in and around Northumberland International Dark Sky Park. Starry skies await those looking for an autumn escape to this, the least populated county in England.
With a staggering 85% of the UK population having never experienced a truly dark sky, Crabtree & Crabtree invites you to experience the dazzling spectacle that is Northumberland's International Dark Sky Park: 572 sq. miles of English countryside and the largest swathe of protected night sky in Europe. With upwards of 2,000 stars shining on any given night, Northumberland's pristine skies have been awarded Gold Tier status by the International Dark Sky Association: a stellar seal of approval from the world authority on light pollution. Dark Sky Park highlights include: the wonderful Kielder Observatory, Battlesteads Observatory and the Sill National Landscape Centre.
Not only is autumn the perfect season to stargaze – with the nights becoming truly dark allowing stars to really glint and gleam – but this is also a great time of year to get outdoors, enjoy the fresh air and take in the beautiful autumnal colours: the perfect time to refresh and reboot. So wrap up warm, pack the binoculars and a thermos of hot chocolate and prepare to be dazzled…


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The Middletown Arts Center, in collaboration with EWC (Elizabeth White Creative), presents PERSEPHONE, an immersive multimedia dance theatre production centering around a unique intersection of two traditional Greek Myths: Persephone and Hades and Orpheus and Eurydice. This is the first official production by EWC as a Middletown Arts Center Resident Company. "A story of abduction, transformation, transcendence and ultimate liberation." PERSEPHONE reimagines the fall of young goddess Persephone, and the grueling obstacles she must face to harness her ultimate fate of transforming the heart of the underworld. World-class contemporary dance fuses with state-of-the-art technology to bring inventive forms of immersive storytelling to life before audiences. Synchronized soundscapes, dynamic projection-mapped environments and spirited emotional landscapes all merge into one omnipotent channel of expression to produce a magnificent, never-before-seen, story of abduction, transformation, transcendence and ultimate liberation. Elizabeth Caroline White is the founder of EWC (The Elizabeth White Creative), an immersive multimedia dance theater company at the intersection of contemporary ballet, visual arts and interactive technology. She has been creative director, choreographer, and visual designer on performances and events for leading companies, including Google and Teach for America. After twenty years of classical ballet and modern dance training, Elizabeth earned an MPS (Master of Professional Studies) from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program, also known as the "Center for the Recently Possible." There she explored innovative ways of combining the performing arts with emerging technologies. Preceding NYU, Elizabeth trained and performed at The Ailey School while obtaining a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. On a continual exploration of movement, visual arts and technology, her work aims to expand possibilities for deepened expression through performance and transport audiences to heightened states of reality through immersive and innovative multimedia creations.
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I had previously blogged about the World's Easiest No-Rise Pizza Dough. Well, I made a few changes to make it healthier. The new and improved recipe is:
- 1 packet of yeast
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 T honey
- 1 t salt
- 2 T olive oil
- 1/3 cup flax seed
- 1/4 cup steel-cut oats(plus 1/4 cup water)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a microwaveable bowl, combine 1/4 cup steel-cut oats and the 1/4 cup water and microwave on high for 2 minutes. This will soften up the oats but not fully cook them.
In a large bowl combine packet of yeast with 1 cup of warm water. Stir until the yeast dissolves. Add in all other ingredients, stir until combined. Let rest for 10 minutes.
Divide dough in half and make 2 large pizzas. This dough has a tendency to rise, so press your crusts out a little thinner than you want your end product. Top with your preferred toppings. Bake 20-25 minutes and eat a guilt-free pie.
–One of my favorite ways to top the pizza is use a little BBQ sauce as the sauce and add minced garlic, broccoli, tomato slices, mushrooms and spinach(or any other veggies you have on hand). No cheese. Bake and devour.


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There are certain things that I will not be missing from my painting trip to France. Reliable internet, showers that can get your body wet all at one once and, well, I can't actually think of anything else right now. What I will be missing are those huge artichokes from Spain that were in season, outdoor fresh food markets with stalls of roasted chicken and an unbelievable variety of cheeses, quiet afternoons spent painting at the charming Hotel du Soleil, lingering sunsets that glowed against centuries old buildings, fields and fields of red poppies, meeting up with French friends, making new friends, red doors, blue shutters, lavender ice cream, olive groves… I think the list is endless!
|The fabulous Francoise and Guy, Proprietors of the Hotel du Soleil. Thank you so much for another lovely time in St. Remy de Provence!!!
|Merci Doris for all your insightful painting critiques!


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VERMILLION, S.D. -- Five students from the University of South Dakota traveled to Fort Thompson, S.D., recently to work with Dacotah Tipis Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit housing organization on the Crow Creek Reservation. The students assisted in construction projects to complete the Dacotah Tipis Volunteer Center, which will house groups who plan to volunteer with the organization. In addition to the service component, the students learned about the challenges residents of the Crow Creek Reservation face with finding affordable housing.
The service-learning project took place Oct. 17-19 through the Alternative Week of Off-campus Learning (AWOL) program. AWOL designs Alternative Weekend experiences to provide students with short-term service-learning opportunities that focus on important local and regional issues. Each month a different Alternative Weekend takes place, providing an outlet for students to explore social issues relevant to the region and build a closer connection with the local community.
Like other AWOL events, Alternative Weekends are entirely student-led. Students participating in October were Megan Bartels of Yankton, S.D.; Sidney Heisler of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Alexa Moeller of Watertown, S.D.; Alex Plendl of Earling, Iowa; and the site leader for the event was MacKenzie Huber of Vermillion, S.D.
Dacotah Tipis Habitat for Humanity mission statement is "alleviate poverty housing on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation by recruiting Habitat partner families, help them build their homes, and provide long-term support thereby creating responsible homeowners within the community." Their vision is "a world where everyone has a decent place to live." Habitat for Humanity invites people from all walks of life to work together in partnership to help build houses with families in need. Habitat has built or rehabilitated more than 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
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Farm Breakfast Casserole
No time for breakfast tomorrow with all the Thanksgiving baking? No problem! Toss this casserole in the fridge tonight - it will be ready to bake in the morning and will start your feas...
Thanksgiving is the killer-of-all-killer, stuck in the kitchen day. There have been years when we only had to participate and bring a side-dish or two, but lately we have been on our own...which means a really long day in the kitchen. It puts a serious crimp in my wanting to cook a good breakfast when I have so much to do to prepare the Thanksgiving meal...cold cereal is definitely the answer. When I found out that I was going to be one of the guest bloggers on the Rhodes Bake N Serv Blog, and it would post the day before Thanksgiving, I started scouring the Home Baked Family Favorites cookbook for a recipe that would be suited for the holiday. When I came upon the Farm Breakfast Casserole recipe, I knew it was the one I would choose! A recipe that can be prepared the night before and baked in the morning...perfect! I can have my breakfast and prepare turkey, too!
Farm Breakfast Casserole
1 Loaf Rhodes Bread Dough, baked and cooled
1 pound sliced bacon, diced - I used a small box of pre-cooked bacon, cut up
1 small yellow onion, chopped - I used 1 medium red onion
2 1/2 cups chopped fully cooked ham - I used a little more because I was shy on the bacon
1 1/2 cups frozen southern-style hash browns
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese - I had shredded cheddar jack, so I used that
8 large eggs
3 cups milk - I only had 2 cups of milk, but I had some half and half, so I finished off the liquid with that
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ground dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Spray a loaf pan with a non-stick vegetable spray. Place frozen bread into the pan.
I am certainly a last minute girl, and working with frozen bread is not a particularly quick task. But I learned this very cool trick from the back of the bag of Rhodes Frozen Bread Dough.
Put about 2 quarts of water in a pan to boil. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and then turn the oven off. Pour the boiling water into a 9 X 13 casserole pan; put on the lower shelf in the oven. Place the loaf pan with bread on the center rack of the oven, uncovered. The steam from the boiling water helps to make the bread rise faster...it still took about 3 1/2 hours, but quicker than the 6 to 8 hours. I'll have to remember this for other recipes!
When the bread is about 1" above the top of the pan, it is time to bake. Remove the pan of water, leave the bread in the oven, and turn the oven on to 350 degrees. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the bread is a golden brown.
Let cool for a few minutes, then remove bread from the pan and let cool on a rack.
Slice and cube the baked bread; set aside.
Next, cut up the sliced bacon.
I thought I had some raw bacon in the frig before I left for the weekend, but when I was looking for it, it was no where to be found! Luckily, I had some pre-cooked bacon on my shelf, but it was a small package. (I will make up for it with extra ham!)
Add the onions.
It didn't seem to have any drippings when I warmed it in the pan, so I added just a little olive oil to help cook the onions until they are tender.
Next, add the cubed ham.
Can I just say that it is smelling really good at my house?
In a sprayed 9 X 13 pan (or equivalent sized casserole), layer half the bread cubes,
the potatoes,
and cheese.
Top with all of the meat and onion mixture.
Repeat the layers of bread, potatoes and cheese on top.
In medium mixing bowl, beat the eggs; add milk (and/or half and half), Worcestershire sauce, dry mustard, salt and pepper.
Pour the egg mixture over the bread layers. If your casserole dish is very full (like mine!), pour carefully so it doesn't overflow.
Cover and refrigerate overnight or at least 4 hours.
Remove from the refrigerator about 30 minutes before baking. Remove the plastic wrap and bake at 325 degrees for 65 - 70 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cover with foil the last 15 - 20 minutes of baking, if necessary, to prevent over browning. I didn't exactly use as big a casserole dish as I should have...I wanted it to look fancier than my 9 X 13 pan...so I think mine was a little thicker in the middle. I ended up cooking it about 30 minutes longer than the recipe called for, but the knife wasn't coming out clean. It was covered with foil and it didn't get over brown.
This was so yummy that I think I might just have to repeat this...very soon! When I got done making this recipe, I was thinking that it might be really yummy to use up some of that leftover turkey instead of the ham and maybe more jack cheese than cheddar...maybe a little swiss would be nice. I like to mix things up sometimes. I will let you know how my alterations turn out!
Farm Breakfast CasseroleServings: 6 | Skills: Intermediate | Prep Time: 15 min (not including thaw time) | Bake Time: 15-20 min
Breakfast ingredients like bacon, cheese and hash browns make this tasty casserole a family favorite.Farm Breakfast Casserole
1 loaf Rhodes Bread Dough, baked and cooled
1 pound sliced bacon, diced
1 small yellow onion, chopped
2 1/2 cups chopped fully cooked ham
1 1/2 cups frozen southern style hash browns
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
8 large eggs
3 cups milk
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ground mustard
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Slice and cube baked bread. Set aside.
In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp; add onion. Cook and stir until onion is tender; drain and add ham.
In a sprayed 9x13-inch pan, layer half the bread cubes, potatoes and cheese. Top with all of the bacon mixture. Repeat layers of bread, potatoes and cheese.
In a bowl, beat eggs; add milk, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt and pepper. Pour egg mixture over bread layers.
Cover and refrigerate overnight or at least 4 hours.
Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Remove covering and bake at 325°F 65-70 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cover with foil last 15-20 minutes of baking, if necessary, to prevent over browning.


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First, plug the USB cable in the USB miniB onboard connector and make sure the blue LED is lighting.
Alternatively, plug in the FTDI connector (or "FTDI basic breakout"), making sure that the USB (power-only) cable is unplugged. Unlike Wiseduino board, Duino644 is powered by the 5V FTDI pin. Blue LED should be on.
Before uploading any sketch to Duino644, we need to install the Sanguino libraries. (Remember that Duino644 is compatible with Sanguino.) At the end of the integration we will see Sanguino listed in the Tools/Board menu of the Arduino IDE. This is the board that must be selected when working with Duino644.
Before proceeding further, we need to modify boards.txt file, specifically the "Sanguino" section, to look like this:
This is because Duino644 comes with ATmega644 instead of Sanguino's ATmega644P. The difference between the two processors is a second UART in ATmega644P.
(Note: Future revisions may ship with ATmega644P, although the extra functionality is not required nor used in Wise Clock 2.)
Using the FTDI cable, upload the first sketch, the one that sets the real time clock.
(Note: This is just for testing the RTC, since the clock itself can be set using the method described here).
If you feel adventurous you can start directly with the main sketch. It should work, unless you skipped a step or two (forgot to insert the DS1307 chip in the socket, for example) .
Download this file and unzip it in the hardware/libraries folder of your Arduino IDE.
It contains rtc.pde sketch and DS1307 class (header and cpp files).
To set the clock, un-comment the portion of the code in setup(), upload the sketch and run it once. To avoid setting up the same time at every reset and power-up, modify the sketch by commenting out the setup() portion, then upload it again. Now, the board will just send back the time from RTC on serial port.
Testing the EEPROM is done similarly with Wise Clock and detailed here.
(Note: The Wise Clock 2 functionality does not use the EEPROM so far. In the "glass dome" Wise Clock, the quotations were stored in EEPROM, there was no SD card.)
If everything works fine so far, let's take the big jump and load the sketch for Wise Clock 2, which reads the SD card and displays the content of quotes.txt file onto the LED display.
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Yoga is something that can't always be put into words because it really is an experiential art. I just know that when my practice is committed and regular, magic happens – Laura
Laura Colless
Laura is SAMA Studio's founder and Principal teacher. First introduced to Yoga around 10 years of age, she has fond childhood memories of chanting the ancient Gayatri Mantra, meditating, gazing endlessly at paintings of Hindu deities and playfully hanging upside down or putting a leg behind her head.
By 2007 Laura was a regular student of Yoga and in 2008 her interest in Buddhist philosophy and mindfulness practices led her to taking vows with his HH the 14th Dalia Lama. In 2010, she began studying with Kate Pell to become a certified teacher and has been teaching Yoga as her full-time profession since 2013. She is a Yoga Australia Level 2 registered teacher.
Laura holds over 1000 hours of formal Yoga teacher training and additional certifications in pregnancy, postnatal, kids, partner and community Yoga. Most recently Laura has taken opportunities to study intensively with and be inspired by the work of Jason Crandell, Noah Maze, Ana Forrest and Jose Calarco. She has assisted Kate Pell on Teacher Training Courses and has also studied with Donna Farhi, Simon-Borg Olivier, Sue Everett and Peter Scott in Australia and Rajiv and Swati Chanchani in India.
Laura's motivation to share Yoga and the gifts the practice brings with others are in service to cultivating and strengthening a greater sense of Kula – Community of Heart. Having also experienced first-hand the support a Yoga practice offers in times of trauma, illness and injury (a back break and then cancer in her late 20's) Laura hopes to inspire and connect students to the wisdom and intelligence of their own bodies moving.To feel and know the resiliency and courage of one's own Spirit.
Drawing on a background working in Allied Health as a young adult, a strong interested in functional anatomy and healthy movement comes through in her teaching style. She sees that it is her job to help her students strengthen and condition not just touch their toes through the process of learning asanas.
Laura is known for helping students connect to the intelligence of alignment and progressively builds her students to meet their edges in their practice – be it in a flow, alignment or restoration class. She shares information in a fun and light-hearted fashion, without skipping the particulars, weaving mythological storytelling and philosophy throughout.
My practice and the philosophy of Yoga have taught me to be more gentle and loving to myself. The process has revealed to me that I have the strength of a mountain and it has helped me to endure things with spirit when life gets tough. Yoga reminds me to be my authentic self. It's taught me to love the moments of struggle because there's always an answer to something that comes from that space. Yoga has helped me to really feel into my body and has nursed me back to good health on more than one occasion.
Through yoga, I have been opened to so many incredible experiences and opportunities. It has introduced me to the most amazing people and given me back more than I could have ever imagined. You know, I was 30 before I ever looked into the mirror and just saw this person that I really liked, loved in fact. I wasn't trying to be – I just was. I wasn't worried about keeping up a certain appearance or measuring my success with the material, I was just happy, present and appreciative of this life and I'm sure that was the direct impact of a very committed and regular practice.
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Anyone out there, other than Graham, have a TR 25? I wbought one two years ago on Graham's recommendation. Fantastic 25-watt amp. Solid sate, and sounds as warm as a tube amp. Nice vibrato and reverb.
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It's now rare for a family to live in the one home for decades. According to the 2007-2008 Survey of Income and Housing by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 43% of Australians age 15+ had moved in the last five years.
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Surge protectors for whole home or commercial business use are far better than any portable surge protection you can purchase and install yourself. These systems keep all your electrical appliances and equipment safe as well as any electrical wiring or components supplying the power, and they keep working even after they have handled a surge -not like many portable, plugin surge protectors. Our Fort Lauderdale surge protection experts will be happy to go over the pros and cons of each type of power surge protection device with you, so you can get the right product for your specific needs.
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Car Rental Bookings System
Orçamento $500-2500 USD
I had posted this project 4 days ago but there had been misunderstandings about the requirements, so I decided to close it and post it again. Let me describe exactly what I will need for the Car Rental Bookings system:
1. The car company will be able to enter cars with photos and descriptions into a database. The system will create thumbnails and also compressed and re-sized photos from the original photos. For example, if the admin uploads a 1024*768 pixels photo, then the system will resize it to 600*400 and compress it and then create the thumbnail as well.
2. The admin will be able to update availabilities for each car type. Every car type will include a different number of cars, for example SUZUKI VITARA is the car type and the company owns 5 of them.
3. The admin will be able to update prices for each car type and choose different prices for different time periods (high season, low season, etc.). A Special Offers feature will also be useful.
4. The visitor of the website will be able to browse cars and see availability for each of them.
5. The visitor will choose start and end date from a calendar (like [url removed, login to view]) and the car type. The system will show availability for that car and calculate the total price and the deposit required.
6. If the visitor is satisfied with the above, then he will move to the Bank Credit Card system where he will complete the transaction. The Credit Card Transactions system will be provided by a certain bank but it has to be connected to the Reservations system.
7. The system will keep a record of the transaction, send a confirmation email to the client and the ADMIN and will update the availabilities.
8. The ADMIN will be able to make reservations directly bypassing the online transactions.
9. The system should be easy to translate in other languages, especially the Front Office (what the visitors will see).
11. The system should be able to generate reports about the sales made, reports for agents and everything else that will help the ADMIN to run his business effectively.
12. Technical support is essential. All bugs should be corrected VERY SOON, especially if a system is running online. How shall we handle the technical support issue? I would like your suggestions about this.
Please give a price separately for each of them:
a. Webdesign for a site for the car hire company with 5 pages: HOME/CARS/BIKES/POLICIES/CONTACT
b. It is possible that a bigger company will be interested in this reservation system and they may have different offices (branches) in different cities. All of these offices should have access to the reservation system. Will the system be able to handle different simultaneous requests? Will there be any problem with making bookings from different offices at the same time? Will the availabilities be updated in real time?
c. Agents will also have access to the reservations system with username and password and they will be able to make reservations directly for their own clients. In this case NO online transactions will be made. The system will record the transaction, estimate the commission for the agent and inform the ADMIN by email. Reports about the activity of each agent (No of reservations made in a specific time period, value of reservations, agent's commissions) must be generated.
d. An extra option are the Split Days for a car reservation. For example a visitor (client) wants a car for 3 days: not 3 continuous days but 3 separate days, like Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
e. I believe that the reservation system will be sold to more clients in the future. Those clients will probably need a simple website like the one mentioned above plus the same reservation system. How much would you charge in this case?
I try to make my requests as clear as possible. I am the owner of a big travel portal for the island of Crete in Greece and I will probably need similar systems for hotels and real estate agents. I also need websites designed for clients. What I mean is that we may have a constant and long co-operation. I prefer to have one or two associates for all my projects than looking for a new co-operation each time there is a new project.
Communication between you and me is very important and I must be able to reach you easily and get answers and solutions as soon as possible. I try to reduce my business stress and I need associates who will be effective, skilful and creative.
Please give detailed answers. If you need additional info or explanations you may PM me.
Yannis Samatas.
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Please take look in PMB Regards Ambili N Kutty [login to view URL]
99 freelancers estão ofertando em média $1640 para esse trabalho
Hello! Pls check PM for details... Thanks, Team Panacea [login to view URL]
Sir we can do this. We have done big projects in the past like this and we are sure we can handle this quiet well. Hoping to do a business
we can develop an efficient, robust and easy to booking system for [login to view URL] me via PMB for enquiries. Regards, Abhishek
Dear Sir, I can make this website with all the features described, already developing a auto website for a japanese company, Please reply, Regards - Manpreet
Dear sir, we can do it as per ur requirement, we have understood the concept and can do it . We are available almost 18 hours [login to view URL]
dear sir we can communicate via yahoo at intelligencei_saurabh@ yahoo . com . being an profesional i can assure you for gud work at time and quality at priority. hope to get you soon. Regards, Saurabh[Intelligencei]
We can do this [login to view URL] PMB for [login to view URL] Marius.
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Hello sir, We have gone through your project description and are very sure that we can make the site as per ur specification with best [login to view URL] chk [login to view URL] for our qiuality work. T Mais
Hi, We understand your requirements and are bidding for the same. Sending details by PM. Best Regards, Sourav
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We have study your requirements and have several questions to confirm our bid. We have developed a similar system for apartment reservation system that integrate with several third party systems as well. Pls check PMB Mais


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U.S. employment of the atomic bomb looked like anything but an act of renunciation; it might turn out to be just that.
In the tools of pre-atomic war the U.S. had a headstart that would require at least a generation for any nation to overcome. In atomic war, the advantage was hazardous. Sir James Chadwick, chief British adviser on the atomic bomb, said that any nation with the raw materials could make a bomb in five years without help from the U.S.
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(Originally published by Kavli IPMU [1])
February 26, 2019
[2]Fig 1: Astronomers observed that the dark matter does not seem to clump very much in small galaxies, but their density peaks sharply in bigger systems such as clusters of galaxies. It has been a puzzle why different systems behave differently. (Credit: Kavli IPMU - Kavli IPMU modified this figure based on the image credited by NASA, STScI)
Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, say researchers in Japan, Germany, and Austria in a new study. Their idea helps explain why galaxies from the smallest to the biggest have the shapes they do.
Dark matter is a mysterious and unknown form of matter that comprises more than 80 percent of matter in the Universe today. Its nature is unknown, but it is believed to be responsible for forming stars and galaxies by its gravitational pull, which led to our existence.
"Dark matter is actually our mom who gave birth to all of us. But we haven't met her; somehow, we got separated at birth. Who is she? That is the question we want to know," says paper author Hitoshi Murayama, a University of California Berkeley Professor and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Principal Investigator [3].
Astronomers have already found dark matter does not seem to clump together as much as computer simulations suggest. If gravity is the only force that drives dark matter, only pulling and never pushing, then dark matter should become very dense towards the center of galaxies. However, especially in small faint galaxies called dwarf spheroidals, dark matter does not seem to become as dense as expected toward their centers.
This puzzle could be solved if dark matter scatters with each other like billiard balls, allowing them to spread out more evenly after a collision.
[4]Fig 2a: When two dark matter particles approach each other, then tend to simply pass each other. (Credit: Kavli IPMU)
But one problem with this idea is that dark matter does seem to clump in bigger systems such as clusters of galaxies. What makes dark matter behave differently between dwarf spheroidals and clusters of galaxies? An international team of researchers has developed an explanation that could solve this riddle, and reveal what dark matter is.
"If dark matter scatters with each other only at a low but very special speed, it can happen often in dwarf spheroidals where it is moving slowly, but it is rare in clusters of galaxies where it is moving fast. It needs to hit a resonance" says Chinese physicist Xiaoyong Chu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Resonance is a phenomenon that appears every day. To swirl wine in a glass to get it more oxygen so that it lets out more aroma and softens its taste, you need to find the right speed to circle the wine glass. Or you dial old analog radios to the right frequency to tune into your favorite station. These are all examples of resonance, says Murayama. The team suspects this is precisely what dark matter is doing.
[5]Fig 2b: But when they come at a special speed, they "resonate" and stick with each other for a brief moment, and move out to different directions afterwards, causing them to scatter. This way, dark matter can spread out so that we can understand smooth profile in small galaxies. (Credit: Kavli IPMU)
"As far as we know, this is the simplest explanation to the puzzle. We are excited because we may know what dark matter is sometime soon," says Murayama.
However, the team was not convinced that such a simple idea would explain the data correctly.
"First, we were a bit skeptical that this idea will explain the observational data; but once we tried it, it worked like a charm!" says Colombian researcher Camilo Garcia Cely, a postdoctoral researcher at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany.
The team believes it is no accident that dark matter can hit the exact right note.
"There are many other systems in nature that show similar accidents: in stars alpha particles hit a resonance of beryllium, which in turn hits a resonance of carbon, producing the building blocks that gave rise to life on Earth. A similar process happens for a subatomic particle called phi," says Garcia Cely.
[6]Fig 3: Using the idea of resonance, the plot demonstrates that we can explain all systems at the same time. (Credit: Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia Cely, Hitoshi Murayama)
"It may also be a sign that our world has more dimensions than we see. If a particle moves in extra dimensions, it has energy. For us who don't see the extra dimension, we think the energy is actually a mass, thanks to Einstein's E=mc2. Perhaps some particle moves twice as fast in extra dimension, making its mass precisely twice as much as the mass of dark matter," says Chu.
The team's next step will be to find observational data that backs their theory.
"If this is true, future and more detailed observation of different galaxies will reveal that scattering of dark matter indeed depends on its speed," says Murayama, who is also leading a separate international group that intends to do precisely this using the under-construction Prime Focus Spectrograph. The US$80-million instrument will be mounted on the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea on Big Island, Hawaii, and will be capable of measuring the speeds of thousands of stars in dwarf spheroidals.
[7]Fig 4: Paper authors (from left) Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia Cely, and Hitoshi Murayama (Credit from left: Xiaoyong Chu, DESY, Kavli IPMU)
The team's paper was published online [8] on 22 February by Physical Review Letters.


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The IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award was established in November 2010. Recipient selection is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.
Presented to: An individual, a team, or multiple recipients up to three in number
Scope: For outstanding contributions to the field of biomedical engineering
Prize: The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and cash honorarium.
Basis for judging: In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: impact on the profession and/or society; succession of significant technical or other contributions; leadership in accomplishing worthwhile goal(s); previous honors; other achievements as evidenced by publications, patents, or other evidence; and the quality of nomination.
Nomination deadline: 15 January
Endorsement deadline: 31 January
Notification: Recipients are typically approved during the June IEEE Board of Directors meeting, usually held towards the end of the month. Recipients and their nominators will be notified following the meeting. Subsequently, the nominators of unsuccessful candidates will be notified of the status of their nomination.
Presentation: IEEE policy requires that its awards be presented at major IEEE events that are in keeping with the nature of the award and the cited achievement.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday morning lauded "great coordination" of government agencies responding to devastating Hurricane Harvey in Texas, including the rescues of "thousands."
Many people are now saying that this is the worst storm/hurricane they have ever seen. Good news is that we have great talent on the ground.
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If you or a loved one are thinking of getting a pet this holiday season, won't you please check out your local shelters and animal rescues? So many animals needing loving, forever homes. Be it a big dog or a smaller breed, your shelter will have them all. Not able to walk a dog or have a yard for them to run around in? Consider a little kitty that is lower maintenance, but still gives you unconditional love and will make you their whole world. Give someone life this holiday season and adopt! Spread the love and joy! Happy Holidays!
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Too harsh, big mistake: World reacts to Steve Smith, David Warner ball-tampering suspension
Steve Smith and David Warner were banned for one year by Cricket Australia over their role in the ball-tampering scandal that erupted in the Newlands Test against South Africa.cricket Updated: Mar 28, 2018 22:09 IST
Reaction after Cricket Australia (CA) banned sacked captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner for 12 months and opening batsman Cameron Bancroft for nine months for their roles in the ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town.
MICHAEL VAUGHAN, former England captain
"Steve Smith I think is a good guy who made a huge mistake. He needed punishing but I think this is too harsh. Bancroft who I don't know was led astray but deserved punishing but again too harshly IMO (in my opinion). The other guy I really don't care about."
TOM MOODY, former Australia all-rounder
"What happened in South Africa is incredibly sad on so many levels but what appears clear in my view is the punishment certainly doesn't fit the crime."
HARSHA BHOGLE, cricket commentator
"I honestly do not believe any other country would have handed its captain and lead player a 12 month ban for attempted ball-tampering."
SHANE WARNE, former Australia spinner
"We are all so hurt and angry and maybe we weren't so sure how to react. We'd just never seen it before. But the jump to hysteria is something that has elevated the offence beyond what they actually did, and maybe we're at a point where the punishment just might not fit the crime."
JOHN HOLDER, former Test match umpire
"The problem with cricket is this perception that cricket is a gentleman's game. Cricket is not a gentleman's game... as you get more and more money in cricket the pressure to win big money increases. Cricket now is about winning and players will cheat... do whatever they can get away with."
SANJAY MANJREKAR, former India batsman
"As expected, CA have been very strict in their punishment to the offending players. The major take away from this is how critical your track record is."
MOHAMMAD KAIF, former India batsman
"So with the one year ban on Smith and Warner and also a two year captaincy ban on both, think India will be favourites when they tour Australia later this year. Wonder, who will captain Australia at the World Cup. Aaron Finch?"
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The speakers at the two-day MIT 150 symposium on computing, "Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything," included the inventor of the World Wide Web, the founders of Akamai and iRobot, one of leaders of the Human Genome Project and five winners of the Turing Award, the field's most prestigious prize. But interspersed with the insights of computing pioneers of the 20th century were presentations by MIT's young computer science and electrical-engineering faculty on the most exciting research of the 21st.
As befit a 150th-anniversary event, many of the speakers spent at least a little time on historical reflection. A few took the long view: Tom Leighton, MIT professor of applied mathematics and founder of Akamai, a 13-year-old $7 billion company that speeds content delivery over the Internet, pointed out that in 300 B.C.E., Euclid proposed an algorithm for finding the largest common prime factor of two numbers that hasn't been bettered since; Patrick Winston, the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, went back further still, arguing that artificial-intelligence researchers should seek to explain what suddenly prompted humans to make the cave drawings at Lascaux 100,000 years after we reached our biologically modern form.
Others invoked the early days of computing. David Mindell, Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and chair of the MIT150 steering committee, extolled the differential analyzer — a mechanical device developed in the late 1920s by MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering Vannevar Bush and his students — as probably the first programmable computer. "All it took was a week with a wrench and oil adjusting rods," Mindell said. Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, got what was probably the biggest laugh of the symposium's first day when, complete with well-timed PowerPoint illustration, he pointed out that "the computational power of the computer that guided man to the moon is literally embodied in the Furby."
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But for the most part, the history recounted by the symposium's speakers was the history they had a hand in making. The five Turing Award winners discussed their groundbreaking work in the order in which they received the prize. Professor emeritus Fernando Corbató, who won in 1990 for his contributions to real-time computers that could run more than one application simultaneously, described "the frozen attitude of industrialists" who, in the early 1960s, seemed to find nothing wrong with loading data onto a computer in the evening in order to get an answer by the next morning.
Adjunct professor Butler Lampson, who was at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the heady days when it was inventing most of the technologies that enabled the personal-computer revolution, said that PARC researchers had even worked on protocols for a large, decentralized network that anticipated the Internet, but that they had been forbidden to discuss their research publicly at the time. According to Lampson, Vinton Cerf, who (with Bob Kahn) is commonly described as one of the two "fathers of the Internet," gave a lecture at Stanford in the 1970s in which PARC researchers asked him so many penetrating questions that at some point he paused and said, "You've done this before, haven't you?"
Andy Yao of China's Tsinghua University and CSAIL professor Ron Rivest won in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and their work has important points of contact. Yao won, in part, for his demonstration that computers could generate sequences of numbers that, to all intents and purposes, were perfectly random. Rivest won for helping develop the RSA encryption system, which still protects most online financial transactions. RSA depends crucially on random-number generation, and Rivest joked that if Yao, who taught at MIT in 1975 and 1976, had stuck around for a few more years, the algorithm might be known as RSAY. "Or YRSA," Yao quipped.
Institute Professor Barbara Liskov won in 2008 for her work on abstract data types, a vital component of "object-oriented" programming languages such as C++ and Java, which changed the way programming is done. Liskov explained that she had an "aha moment" in the fall of 1972 and spent several years building working systems that instantiated it; then, in 1980, she abruptly moved into the largely unrelated research area of distributed systems. At the end of the session, when the panelists were asked to provide one-sentence summations of what they'd learned over their careers, Liskov said, "Avoid doing incremental work. If that means changing fields, do it."
Practically everything
In keeping with the symposium's title, many of the sessions were organized around fields that computation had transformed. In the travel and entertainment session, Jeremy Wertheimer SM '89, PhD '96, co-founder of ITA Software (which Google is trying to buy for $700 million), described how a single airline, in an attempt to manage the tradeoff between filling seats and maximizing fares, can offer more than 500 different fares between just two cities, all determined and tracked algorithmically. Tony DeRose, who heads Pixar Animation Studios' research group, took the stage joking that it was almost 30 years to the day since he had been rejected from MIT. He went on to mention that in 1995, when Pixar released the first Toy Story, it had taken four hours to computationally generate each frame of the film. In 2010, however, when the studio released Toy Story 3, its computers were 600 times as powerful. So it took … eight hours to generate each frame of film. Moore's law hadn't been able to keep up with the complexity of the algorithms that govern animated films' lighting effects.
A session on business and economics dealt primarily with the havoc that electronic trading and algorithmic pricing of securities could wreak — and has wreaked — on the financial sector. The MIT Sloan School of Management's Andrew Lo pointed out that computation is also part of the solution, allowing researchers to, for instance, reverse-engineer the closely guarded hedge-fund investment strategies that led to the "quant meltdown" of 2007. Former CEO of the New York Stock Exchange John Thain '77 argued for the importance of human oversight of computerized trading, offering by way of example a case in which the NYSE's specialists were able to intercept a mistaken order to sell 500 million, rather than five million, shares of one company's stock.
In a session on the life sciences, Eric Lander, who was one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project, said that in 1999, he and his colleagues were "so proud of ourselves" because they had managed to sequence a billion letters of human DNA in only a year, but that technological advances since the draft human genome was first presented meant that last year alone, biological researchers had sequenced 125,000 billion letters. And in a session titled "Computing for Everyone," Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, pleaded on behalf of a discipline he called "Web science," which would employ analytic techniques from fields as far flung as math and psychology "to understand how information propagates across the Web." That type of analysis is a "duty," Berners-Lee argued, lest "the Web turn suddenly into some network that spreads unfounded rumors and conspiracy theories."
Sprinkled amid the themed sessions and panel discussions were several rapid-fire presentations by MIT faculty on a bewildering variety of recent research. Russ Tedrake described how the same control system that led to his group's perching plane could also improve the power output of wind turbines whose turbulence interferes with each others' ability to capture wind energy. Shafi Goldwasser described new techniques that would allow servers in the computational "cloud" to perform operations on encrypted information without decrypting it, preserving user privacy. Dina Katabi described a new method of encoding Internet video so that fluctuations in the strength of wireless connections wouldn't cause it to cut out, showing a video that drew gasps from the audience. Many faculty described research that MIT News has previously reported on, including that of Daniela Rus, Scott Aaronson and Rob Miller.


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The first one-day international in the United States begins on Friday in Florida between the US and Papua New Guinea, 175 years after the US played cricket's first recognised international against Canada at Manhattan.
The match at Lauderhill's Central Broward Regional Park is part of a tri-series with Namibia, and also a seven-team competition which will reward the top three sides with berths in the final round of qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup in India.
The Americans have played three ODIs, including two at the 2004 Champions Trophy, and lost all of them.
Having played Canada at Manhattan's St George's Cricket Club in what is considered the first ever international cricket match in 1844, the US were granted ODI status in April and will play nine tri-series over the next two years.
"The team have worked really hard after our challenging journey through ICC World Cricket League Division 3 and Division 2," US captain Saurabh Netravalka told the International Cricket Council.
"We are all really looking forward to giving it our best shot at our first ever home ODI series and the first ODI ever to be played in the USA.
"To be part of this is quite something ... We hope our efforts will inspire the continued growth and development of cricket in the United States. And to start our journey in our aim to qualify for the ICC men's Cricket World Cup 2023."
In recent times, Lauderhill has hosted West Indies' Twenty20 series against teams such as New Zealand, Bangladesh and India.
Former Australia spinner Shane Warne and India batting great Sachin Tendulkar captained rival teams in a series of three Twenty20 All Star matches in the US in 2015 as part of an attempt to raise cricket's profile around the globe.


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I started writing this post much, much earlier today- after unloading/reloading the dishwasher after yesterday's party, after gathering dishes, plates, and cups from corners of the house, after reflecting with my husband about what a success everything was and how well things went in spite of the weather.
Before I sat down I took some dreary but sort of pretty photos of the snow… and began thinking about the shoveling that would need to happen… and then the computer completely shut down to install updates. *sigh*. Hence no post until so late! The driveway. It's a big square, and then a single lane to the road. The square part is a real PIA to shovel. Mike offered to dig my car out so that I could get to the gym (last night I really thought running outside would be an option, but after seeing the condition of the roads I thought better of it)- but instead, I got my boots on, found my gloves and headed out to help. You see- I actually really enjoy things like shoveling snow and doing yardwork- steady, productive physical tasks can be comforting and rewarding- especially when you are working as a team. The other half of my team thought my socks were pretty neat- they kept me warm!
This is the part where I brag about how awesome our neighbors are. Our neighbor George saw us physically shoveling the whole dang driveway and offered us his snowblower! Lifesaver! I still had to dig out the mailbox, porches, cars, and the perimeter of the driveway while Mike did his thing with the snow thrower- but we got it done.
And then came the part of the day where I began saying to myself "you don't have to run 17 miles today, you've been shoveling, and yesterday was a big day"- I began thinking maybe I should just skip. The excuses were rolling through my head like loose marbles "It's late, my feet hurt, shoveling is already a workout"- but then I remembered something my BFF Sarah said to me last night at the party- I was complaining about the 17 that I probably needed to do on the dang TM- and she goes (I'm paraphrasing here) "it's just two episodes of Grey's- which were awesome, and an episode of Top Chef. Just do it". This is why my friends are awesome- they are definitely NOT impressed/ don't want or need to hear the complaints- so they give the best coaching advice- follow the damn plan.
So I DID. Sarah- I watched my Grey's, but I traded out Top Chef for Scandal- and it was AWESOME. I had heard a rumor that this past week's Grey's was good- and boy did it deliver. I think I was laughing and crying all by myself just slogging along. I am SO MAD we have to wait! Ugh. I need Downton Abbey and Madmen and GoT to come baaack so that I can be rescued for some of this winter long running inside crappola.
The lesson here is to not let the excuses get the best of you. Just do it. If it was easy, then EVERYONE would train for races and run marathons. This applies to all of the things you are avoiding and putting off- I promise you, following through with your plans is SO REWARDING.
You are capable of more than you think you are. I have noticed lately that I am fully capable of running a bit faster, comfortably, for longer distances- but I have trouble committing because I get scared that I won't finish the distance I need to get to. Doubt and fear are very powerful forces to overcome- but today as I was happily cruising- I did up the speed a bit. I felt more tired at the end of my run- but I decided not to let fear ruin my afternoon. Finishing the last mile (which coordinated perfectly with Scandal!) I began to fully process that not only did I run the 17 miles I almost talked myself out of- I ran them strong and smart.
Thank you Sarah
Some pics my other BFF Kristen took of some of the food from last night: Roasted shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce (freshly grated horseradish, ketchup, lemon, and a touch of allspice) Roasted Brussels sprouts with black truffle creamMeatball sliders! Antipasti platter.
So I do have to admit something now-
I am FREAKING EXHAUSTED. PJs are ON, some type of mac and cheese is going to happen for dinner, and I have eaten ten hundred piparkukas (Latvian spice cookies).
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Shiffrin wins WCup slalom for 3rd victory
FLACHAU, Austria – American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup night slalom Tuesday, buoyed by a roaring crowd for her third victory in her first year on the circuit.
Shiffrin was second after the opening run and third fastest in the final run to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 51.45 seconds.
"It's unbelievable," she said. "I heard the crowd and I tried to let them take me down the course. They wanted me to win. That gave me wings."
The Vail, Colo., skier was already the first American to win two World Cup races before turning 18. She is exactly the same age – 17 years, 308 days – as Austrian great Annemarie Moser-Proell was when she earned her third career victory in 1971. Moser-Proell holds the career record of 62 World Cup wins.
Shiffrin leads the slalom standings, her earlier victories coming in Are, Sweden, and Zagreb, Croatia. With the win in Flachau – the race with the highest prize money on the women's World Cup circuit – Shiffrin's earnings this season rose to $175,500.
"Maybe I will make a trip to Maui," Shiffrin said. "I am a 17-year-old. What do I have to do with money?"
Frida Hansdotter of Sweden was second, 0.85 seconds behind. Tanja Poutiainen of Finland was third, trailing Shiffrin by 1.10. Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, who led Shiffrin by 0.56 after the first run, straddled a gate shortly before the end of her final run and failed to finish.
Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia placed fifth, extending her lead over second-place Hoefl-Riesch to 590 points. Defending champion Lindsey Vonn skipped the race because she has not been able to train enough in the slalom. She returned to the circuit after an almost four-week break to recover from an intestinal illness.
Shiffrin wasn't strong in the first section of both runs but accelerated in the steeper middle parts and finished strongly.
"I just kept going," Shiffrin said about her second run.
In her final run, Hoefl-Riesch stretched her lead over Shiffrin to 1.03 seconds before straddling a gate and missing out on her 25th World Cup victory.
"I made a turn just too early," Hoefl-Riesch said. "I knew Mikaela had a good run, and I knew that a lead of half a second can disappear pretty quickly."
The former overall champion, who won November's season-opening slalom in Levi, Finland, would have been the first German skier to earn 10 World Cup slalom victories.
In Flachau two years ago, she shared a victory with Tanja Poutiainen of Finland.
"You can't explain why but sometimes it suddenly all fits together," said Hoefl-Riesch, whose Levi win is her sole victory of the season. "I am not having a bad season, it's just some minor things that have been missing to be at the top."
Four racers were faster than Shiffrin at the first intermediate time, but only Hoefl-Riesch managed to beat the American from top to bottom.
World slalom champion Marlies Schild, who won two of the last three races in Flachau, is recovering from knee surgery. Younger sister Bernadette finished sixth for her second straight top-10 finish after placing seventh in Zagreb 10 days ago.
The women's World Cup travels to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for speed races this weekend. The final slalom before next month's world championships is on Jan. 27 in Maribor, Slovenia.
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