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I install many packages for Debian / Ubuntu Linux from both stable/testing environment but some time I need to find out installed package is from stable or testing environment. I can use dpkg status file to get this information. But Debian comes with perl script called apt-show-versions which lists available package versions with distribution.
apt-show-versions parses the dpkg status file and the APT lists for the installed and available package versions and distribution and shows upgrade options within the specific distribution of the selected package. apt-show-versions uses caching for the status information of installed and available packages. If you run apt-show-versions as root the cache is updated as needed. If you run as non-root uses the newest available information, but can't update the cache. If you run as root with the option -i the cache is initialized or updated only.
This is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to list all packages which are from testing and can be upgraded in testing.
Install apt-show-versions
Type the following command at shell prompt:
$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
Just type command apt-show-versions:
$ apt-show-versions
java-common/testing uptodate 0.23 libperl5.8/testing upgradeable from 5.8.7-10 to 5.8.8-2 sysutils/testing upgradeable from 2.0.0-1 to 2.0.1 autoconf/unstable uptodate 2.59a-8
To upgrade all packages in testing you can type command:
# apt-get install $(apt-show-versions -u -b | fgrep testing)
Find out a list of all available versions of postgresql database server:
$ apt-show-versions -a -p postgresql


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DENVER - A proposal to let illegal immigrant students pay in-state tuition at Colorado colleges got its first-ever Republican votes in the state Senate on Friday after a decade of failures for the bill.
Just a handful of years ago, the bill couldn't even pass the Democratic-controlled Senate. But Friday's vote puts Senate Bill 33 on track to pass the Legislature by this spring.
Two freshmen Republican senators supported the bill, and one of the Legislature's senior members - Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray - said he has had a change of heart after getting to know the children of illegal immigrants in his Eastern Plains district.
The bill allows young people who crossed the border illegally with their parents to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, as long as they attended a Colorado high school for three years and graduated, and take steps toward becoming legal citizens.
Brophy talked about a student he knows who, Brophy said, at the moment was a net recipient of Colorado tax dollars thanks to his free public education. Without this bill, Brophy said, the boy wouldn't be able to contribute much to society.
"He should be an engineer. He should be making $150,000 a year instead of $20,000, and then he would be paying us back in spades for his subsidized education," Brophy said.
Despite his arguments, the bill remains controversial.
Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, helped lead the opposition.
"Make no doubt about it. Amnesty starts today here in the policies for the state of Colorado," Lundberg said.
Other Republicans questioned the bill's claim that it would boost college budgets, without costing more taxpayer money.
Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, called it a "Jedi mind trick."
"There are no illegal immigrants," Harvey said. "Just move on. Don't look at the numbers here."
The bill died last year in the House, which was under Republican control at the time. But two other events have eased its way to passage this year.
First, President Barack Obama's executive order last year allows young people without criminal records to apply for "deferred action" on deportation and get permission to stay in the country legally for a time.
And second, the politics on the issue changed after the November election. In Washington, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing for federal immigration reform, and Brophy echoed the arguments of some national Republicans on Friday.
"I want the GOP to become a Grand Opportunity Party," he said.
Still, he acknowledged the tough politics.
"You have nothing to lose voting for this bill," Brophy told Democrats, and then gestured to his party's side of the chamber. "The folks over on this side of the aisle who vote for this bill are risking everything, politically speaking. It takes a lot of courage to vote for this bill."
Republican Sens. Larry Crowder of Alamosa and Owen Hill of Colorado Springs also expressed support for the bill Friday.
Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, maintained her opposition. In-state tuition only offers false hope to students who will not be able to work legally after graduation, Roberts has said.
The bill passed the Senate on an initial voice vote, and a final roll call vote is scheduled for Monday.

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Once again we'll be participating in Record Store Day, releasing a number of special records, exclusively through independent shops on Saturday the 21st of April 2012.
Here's what we have in store:
Smugglers Way Flexi Zine
Smugglers Way is Domino and Ribbon's first ever zine featuring five individual, multi-colored flexi discs of exclusive, unreleased songs from Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, John Maus and Villagers + a 24 page zine with exclusive art and writings from the world of Domino.
Animal Collective – Tranverse Temporal Gyrus 12"
A aural collage consisting of the original tracks and live recordings made for and at a unique performance as part of an installation by Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City in March 2010. The 12" comes with an exclusive 24 x 36 foldout poster.
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
Limited heavyweight purple vinyl 7" featuring new song "R U Mine?" b/w brand new track Electricity.
Caitlin Rose - Piledriver Waltz / Love Is A Laserquest 7"
One of our favorite contemporary singers records a couple of our favorite contemporary songwriters' compositions. This limited 7" comes with an exclusive jukebox sticker. The pleasure is all yours.
Hot Chip – Night and Day (Daphni mix) 12"
Francois And The Atlas Mountains/Slow Club split 7"
She And Him – Volume 1 coloured vinyl
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Third Swan ltd 7"
James Yorkston – Moving Up Country 10th Anniversary Edition vinyl
John Cale - Remix 12"
Listen to tracks from some of our Domino Record Store releases here:


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Jets guard Brandon Moore gathered his fellow offensive linemen in the visiting locker room and delivered a not-so-subtle halftime message.
``He told us, `Guys, however you think you played in that first half, we've got to amp it up because we're not getting it done,''' right tackle Austin Howard said. ``'What we've done so far has gotten us zero points. So we've got to come together and get the offense rolling.'''
The line responded as well as Moore could have envisioned.
The New York Jets pounded Jacksonville on the ground Sunday, grinding out 116 yards and two touchdowns after the break and pulling out a 17-10 victory that improved the team's postseason chances.
Shonn Greene ran for 77 yards and a touchdown, and Bilal Powell added 78 yards and a score.
``Both those guys found holes because there were holes to be found,'' Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez said. ``It was fun to watch.''
New York's second straight win - third in four games - combined with losses by Pittsburgh and Cincinnati left coach Rex Ryan's team a game out of the No. 6 seed in the AFC playoff picture.
And the Jets (6-7) have a favorable closing stretch that includes games against Tennessee (4-9), San Diego (5-8) and Buffalo (5-8).
If they keep playing as they did in the second half against Jacksonville, they should have a chance to win them all.
The Jets were shut out in the opening half for the second consecutive week, but they didn't need to change quarterbacks to spark the offense this time around.
Instead, they just hammered the Jaguars (2-11) up the middle.
Greene scored on a 1-yard plunge in the third quarter, and Powell added a 4-yarder early in the fourth. Powell's score made it 17-3 in a game that looked every bit like one featuring two of the NFL's worst offenses.
Sanchez, benched last week in a 7-6 win against Arizona, was hardly a factor. Neither was backup Tim Tebow, who spent his homecoming on the sideline.
Although the Jaguars turned Sanchez's first-half fumble into a field goal, he ended up having a decent day. He completed 12 of 19 passes for 111 yards, including a 37-yard completion on third down that helped the Jets milk the clock in the closing minutes.
``I tried to put extra emphasis on being smart with the ball,'' Sanchez said. ``I thought it was a good, efficient day for all of us.''
Tebow, who sat out the last two games while recovering from two broken ribs, was healthy enough to serve as New York's backup quarterback in his hometown. But he stayed on the bench.
``I never felt comfortable enough to go with him in the wildcat,'' Ryan said.
The Jets ran it just fine without him, finishing with 166 yards on 42 carries. They had 116 yards in the second half.
``Coming into this game, we felt like the Jets were going to run the ball,'' Jaguars linebacker Paul Posluszny said. ``We didn't feel like they could beat us throwing the ball and then they rush for over a 100 yards. You have to give them credit. They were the more physical group, and that decided the game.''
The Jaguars were inept on offense most of the day.
Montell Owens ran for 91 yards, including a 32-yard score in the fourth that seemed to catch the Jets by surprise on a second-and-17 play.
But Jacksonville mustered little else.
Chad Henne had a pass tipped and intercepted near the goal line. Rookie receiver Kevin Elliott, starting in place of Cecil Shorts III, dropped two balls and was flagged for illegal touching on a key play with about a minute left. Guard Eben Britton was manhandled inside, giving up three sacks.
Josh Scobee missed a 55-yard field goal attempt wide left to close out the first half. And the Jaguars just missed blocking two punts.
Especially gut-wrenching for Jacksonville was Dwight Lowery's touchdown return that was overturned in the second quarter.
Lowery picked up Jeremy Kerley's fumble and took it 62 yards for an apparent score that would have given Jacksonville a 10-0 lead. But officials reviewed the play and ruled that Kerley had touched Lowery down. The Jaguars punted five plays later.
``We need things like that to happen for our team to help us win and help us with momentum,'' Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey said. ``We're coming up short with them in one way or another.''
NOTES: Jets rookie WR Stephen Hill injured his right knee in the second quarter and did not return. Ryan said tests would determine the extent of the injury. The Jets already have WR Santonio Holmes on injured reserve. ... Owens' rushing touchdown was his first since December 2008. ... Owens, CB Derek Cox and TE Marcedes Lewis all left the game for Jacksonville, but later returned.
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In the wake of Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez's recent breakup, "Bachelor/Bachelorette" franchise host Chris Harrison is defending the reality pair, saying what the former couple had was real and not just for cameras.
"I get a little upset when people say, 'Oh, another one bites the dust.' It's like, no, that's not the case," Chris told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Thursday's Access Hollywood Live, when asked about Ali and Roberto's recent split announcement. "They very much loved each other. They were trying to build a life in San Diego and it didn't work out."
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With Ali's face gracing the cover of this week's People magazine, Billy pointed out that many cynics may deem their breakup as an attempt to stay in the public eye – something Chris said he thinks is reflective of the public's growing fascination with the "Bachelor/Bachelorette" franchise stars, and not a publicity grab by Ali.
"There is this 365-day/year news cycle now of the people on our show," Chris — who is also hosting ABC's new game show, "You Deserve It" — said of the hit reality series. "The last couple of years, it's become this phenomenon where the tabloids and everything have kind of followed the people on our show. It's been interesting to see how it grows."
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Season 16 of "The Bachelor" premieres on January 2 on ABC.
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text: Devilishly fun. Seductively sexy. Mischievously playful. FUNTASMA is an all-encompassing footwear collection that caters specifically to themed events and costume parties-offering an unparalleled selection of custom shoes and boots befitting for children, teens and adults of both sexes and of varying wide-width and wide-calf preferences. With styles ranging from red glitter Dorothy shoes to retro saddle shoes and everything in-between, FUNTASMA is the natural and eye-pleasing enhancement to any and all outfits used for Halloween, Christmas, Mardi Gras, masquerade ball, and Carnival festivities.


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All those jellyfish are trying to tell the world something
The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View:
Are jellyfish massing against humankind? Not really; it just seems that way. They may be sending us a message, though.
Enormous aggregations of the diaphanous sea creatures have been wreaking havoc from shore to shore: clogging water intake valves on seaside power plants, destroying fish farms, crowding fishing nets and, yes, stinging people (sometimes fatally). It's nothing personal. Jellyfish, lacking brains, do not wish us harm. They're merely going about their lives as they have for more than half a billion years: swimming, eating and reproducing, lately in mind-boggling numbers.
If anyone is to blame for recent destructive jellyfish "blooms," as their regional population explosions are called, it is not them, but us. That's because jellyfish can tolerate waters that are warm and polluted -- conditions that human activity promotes. And as people have fished predators and competitors from their midst, jellyfish reign.
One question is whether we are witnessing an irreversible jellyfish takeover of the seas or just a natural waxing of the jellyfish population that will eventually wane. Scientists don't know. But finding the answer is crucial to keeping the oceans safe for every sort of undersea life.
One reason for the mystery is that jellyfish, lacking skeletons or shells, leave little trace in the geologic record. Another is that they have not been studied much; fishery biologists have long ignored jellyfish as a small nuisance.
One recent study of the existing scientific data found "no robust evidence for a global increase in jellyfish." The researchers noted that populations oscillate in 20-year cycles, and an expansion that began during the 1990s is only making it seem as if jellyfish are taking over. Another study, which looked at not only recorded data but also anecdotal reports from experienced fishermen, found that jellyfish populations have increased beyond what natural cycles can explain.
Either way, it's clear that at least in individual ecosystems, poor human stewardship of coastal waters has been giving jellyfish an edge. Consider, for example, the Black Sea, a repository for the sewage and agricultural runoff of 22 countries, where one species of comb jellyfish began taking over in 1982. The pollution had lowered the water's oxygen level, giving the low-energy jellyfish an advantage over other creatures. And fishermen had taken out the tuna, sturgeon, mackerel and other species that either ate or competed for food with jellyfish.
At one point, the comb jellyfish achieved a mass of more than 1 billion tons -- more than 10 times the weight of all the fish caught in the world each year. The population began to recede only after a different species of comb jellyfish arrived, via ballast water, and began eating the first kind.
In the Sea of Japan, there have been six blooms of gigantic Nomura jellyfish since 2002 -- something that happened just three times in the 20th century. In Antarctica, melting sea ice is helping jellyfish thrive. In the Bering Sea, it's overfishing. And so on.
What can be done to keep jellyfish in check? Not a whole lot. South Korean robots that can chop up thousands of them an hour may be able to protect power plants, but even a single local population can include hundreds of millions of jellyfish, so the robots won't make a huge difference. Nor can we eat our way out of the problem, as only a handful of species are palatable to humans.
The ways to deal with this excess of jellyfish are more indirect. More data about how jellyfish populations wax and wane, and move about, might make it possible for scientists to predict when coastal regions can expect problems. (The rest of us can help by reporting our observations, and stinging experiences, to jellywatch.org.)
The other response is to do all that stuff we should already be doing anyway: Stop polluting, overfishing and emitting so many of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. If keeping the world fit for human habitation isn't a good enough reason, then do it to prevent the jellyfish, however innocently, from taking over the seas.


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Built for the track, the Civic Type R has racing in its DNA. Every inch of this icon draws on the Honda pedigree. With three spine tingling driving modes: Comfort, Sport and +R mode, which at the touch of a button, automatically retunes the suspension, throttle and steering settings for maximum performance. On the road or track, the Civic Type R is made for a special breed.
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Designed to challenge what's possible in a compact hatch, the Civic Type R redefines performance. And it does so in thrilling style. Built with a stiffened front-wheel drive chassis, scalpel sharp 6-speed manual transmission and 2.0-litre VTEC turbo engine – the Civic Type R owns the title of the ultimate hot hatch.Download Brochure
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Maximise performance with three track-tested modes like +R. With the touch of a button the suspension, throttle and steering are retuned to take things to a whole other level.
2.0-Litre VTEC Turbocharged Engine
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Exclusive to the Civic Type R, the 2.0-litre VTEC turbocharged engine is so finely tuned it has helped to deliver the fastest, most agile Civic ever.
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For precise handling and stability, the Adaptive Damper System (ADS) controls the suspension to match all driving conditions.
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The centre-exit triple-exhaust tip system bellows a throaty growl that announces the arrival of the Civic Type R to the world.
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That's all it took for the Honda Civic Type R to set the new lap record for the world's fastest front-wheel drive car at the famous Nürburgring in a development car representative of the final production vehicle. On April 3, 2017 the Civic Type R realised its true racing potential, leaving the competition in its wake.Download Brochure
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Despite growing global outrage at the practice, the world's premiere captive marine mammal company, SeaWorld, is still employing lip service and doublespeak when it comes to the bloody horror that is the annual whale and dolphin slaughter underway in Taiji, Japan.
SeaWorld—and much of the US captive animal display industry it helps steward—unequivocally condemns the Taiji massacre and other "drive-hunts" that corral and kill hundreds of whales and dolphins for human consumption, except for some of the cutest animals, which are furtively spared the knife by cash-wielding buyers who procure performers for amusement parks and "swim-with" operations, mostly in the developing world.
But SeaWorld, which no longer sources animals from an activity it now calls "horrible," doesn't seem to have a problem with other entertainment parks re-stocking their collections from the Taiji tragedy.
Full Op-Ed at: http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/14/seaworlds-convoluted-logic-taijis-dolphin-slaughter


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Private lessons are offered Monday – Friday at the Moore Community Center in Ellsworth. To sign up for lessons or a class, please contact us through this website or via phone (207-664-9258). We look forward to making music with you soon!
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ROCK HILL, South Carolina - When a beloved museum in upstate New York needed a new master plan for its sprawling campus, it turned to a potent resource to spark the brainstorm: students at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Architecture.
They delivered in a big way, producing "Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer," an exhibit at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. Running February 11, 2012 - April 16, 2012, the exhibit comprises 14 visionary proposals for conceptually unifying the seven-acre campus, its three historic homes, a 1989-vintage addition and future expansion. 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) proudly sponsored RPI in 3D printing the architectural models for this cutting edge exhibit.
"Our students came up with some wonderfully bold proposals," observed Andrew Saunders, assistant professor of architecture at RPI, who led the project. "They expressed some inventive ways of reconsidering the problem and the potential of the site. Polemically charged, the proposals take the master planning discourse to new, unexpected places, putting different levels of emphasis on the physical, regional, environmental, institutional, historical, economic and cultural contexts. If we help the museum's leadership explore new areas as they ponder its future, we have succeeded."
3D printing is a new and affordable way of creating architectural models faster and more accurately than traditional, labor-intensive handcrafting. RPI's ZPrinter® from 3D Systems creates physical models from 3D computer-aided design data much as a document printer creates a business letter from a word-processing file.
RPI has used 3D Systems 3D printers since 1998, and its current full-spectrum color ZPrinter operates "non-stop" during a typical semester, says Saunders. He sees its speed, quality and affordability as a major advantage for students needing to create models, especially 11th-hour end-of-semester projects. As at many campuses, RPI students in other disciplines, such as mechanical engineering and fine art, have caught wind of the ZPrinter's capabilities and are using it in their projects.
"The Hyde exhibit, in addition to revealing possibilities for a new museum campus, is exposing a large community of museum patrons to what the Rensselaer School of Architecture can do with the newest technologies," said Saunders. "A lot of people are fascinated with what we've created and how we've created it. It's just one illustration of the progressive mindset of the school, museum, faculty and students."
About the Hyde
The Hyde Collection encompasses more than 3,000 objects. The institution is a product of the golden age of the private art collector (ca. 1890-1940) and was created during the American Renaissance. The Hyde is the legacy of art collectors Louis and Charlotte Hyde, who left the collections for the public to experience and enjoy within an environment created for their display.
The history of The Hyde goes back to 1888, when Charlotte Pruyn (1867-1963), daughter of Samuel Pruyn, co-founder of the Finch, Pruyn & Co. paper mill, met Louis Fiske Hyde (1866-1934), a Harvard law student in Boston. The two married in 1901, and six years later, they moved to Glens Falls, where Louis was appointed the vice president of the paper mill. The seven-acre family estate that later became The Hyde Collection still overlooks the working mill on the Hudson River.
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Fatherhood driving some of NASCAR's biggest stars
Squealing children gleefully wheel pastel-colored electric cars while peeling between million-dollar motor homes. Others chase each other through obstacle courses of golf karts and grills. Doting parents laugh while trading tips about maintaining feeding and sleeping schedules while barnstorming around the country for 10 months a year.
These are the scenes unfolding inside the driver motor home lot at a Sprint Cup track virtually every weekend.
A baby boom has transformed the gated infield communities where NASCAR's stars eat, sleep and raise families during the downtime from racing at 200 mph.
"Five or six years ago, nobody really ever came outside their motor homes," Kevin Harvick told USA TODAY Sports. "Now everyone does, and it's like a kidfest, especially at the tracks that have (playgrounds). That's the gathering spot for all of us that have young kids.
"There's a lot of energy in here."
Harvick, whose son, Keelan, turns 2 next month, is one of many feeling it heading into this year's Father's Day race at Michigan International Speedway. Thirteen drivers are first-time dads with children under the age of 7, with David Ragan becoming the latest Thursday. Clint Bowyer is slated to join the club in a few months, and Kyle Larson announced Friday that he will become a dad in December.
"It's changed a lot," said Matt Kenseth, whose wife, Katie, just had their third daughter since 2009. "I'm not sure who started it, but suddenly everyone started having kids. It makes us all be more social. It's fun."
Actually, the revolution can be traced fairly directly to Ella Sofia Gordon, who turns 7 on June 20.
The arrival of four-time champion Jeff Gordon's daughter marked the first of 23 kids born from 2007-14 to the 43 drivers who competed last Sunday at Pocono Raceway.
Gordon waited through 14 seasons and until a second marriage before he felt prepared for fatherhood, but he said the environment since has changed for younger drivers — particularly with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson winning his fifth and sixth championship in the years he had daughters.
"It seems to be far more accepted these days," Gordon told USA TODAY Sports. "Once Jimmie Johnson starts having babies and still is winning championships, then it's "Oh, it's OK to have children." Prior to that, it seemed everyone with children hadn't won a championship. It seemed like "well, was that a hindrance?" It doesn't really matter. If you're a good driver and committed and have a good team, having your family (at the track) can be wonderful. Now it's encouraged for all the young drivers coming to the sport.
"I think everyone understands you can be successful here and have children."
It also has been a natural life progression for several veterans in their mid-to late 30s and early 40s. When Johnson, Kenseth and Harvick entered NASCAR's premier series between 2000-02, their priorities were much different.
"Then everybody was worried about where the party was," Johnson told USA TODAY Sports with a laugh. "It moved to who they were dating. Then wedding dates. And now it's all about kids. I don't know if in past generations (of drivers) there was such volume. Maybe people were at different stages of life. We have all been in that same wave."
Those shared experiences are occurring in the 21st century's digital era of social media immediacy that has created a wealth of new challenges for parents, particularly in high-profile situations.
USA TODAY Sports talked with seven of Sprint Cup's newest fathers about their approach to parenting, handling family life in the public eye and whether they are raising their kids to race.
How do NASCAR stars' lives change on the road and at home with kids? The answers are as varied as the setups on their cars.
Gordon: "We like to bring them when it suits their schedule. We're more focused on their at home schedule, school schedule and sleep schedule. We probably don't bring Ella and Leo as much as some others do. They don't come to the night races. If it's a day race nearby, then they're there.
"The Daytona 500 seems to be the congregation of all the families. We're there for such a long period, there's a little more downtime. They have the nice playground there. Everyone has their kids at Disney on days we're off."
Johnson: "They aren't traveling as much with Lydia being so young. At home, it's being a chauffeur and trying to get the kids to and from doctor's appointments, swim lessons and dance recitals. That's where I can help. Moms are flat-out amazing, and I'm gone on weekends, so it's anything I can do to help. Genevieve was at Charlotte (when he won) but was sound asleep, and Chani didn't want to wake her. Lydia is just so small. With a lot of the West Coast travel and the season starting with a fair amount of night races, we didn't want to put the kids through that whole mess. But they were both at Dover, and we got to take them to victory lane."
McMurray: "Your priorities change dramatically when you have kids. What you used to want to do on a Wednesday or Friday night is totally different. It's all about getting together with other families and not really doing what you want but what your kids want to do and hanging out together. You can go to a complete strange environment, a pizza place, and run into another dad who has a kid, and you're automatically friends with this guy because your kids are playing together. That's awesome. It's fun for me, too, when they don't know who you are because you're just having a conversation with another dad. It's a great time."
Gordon: "Having one kid was an eye-opening experience and amazing, and it's harder than you ever imagine it being. Having two is a whole other level. I tell Matt (Kenseth) that I admire him because they travel all the time with the kids. That's amazing. Because for me, Ingrid and I talked, and we want to make sure they're not missing out on anything Friday. We're not going to home-school them, and then there's the focus (on racing) for me. When they're there and spending the night, it has its challenges. Maybe if you're in a routine like Matt is, you get used to it, but we're not in that routine. They typically come on race day. It suits our schedule and how I like to prepare for the race. When they are there for the whole weekend, it's a big adjustment and it's hard."
Harvick: "DeLana and I were worried about how it was going to work in general. For the first year, we didn't bring him a lot because he didn't sleep very well. We've learned fast we don't take him on the West Coast trips. We did that one time, and it was a total disaster the next couple of weeks getting him back on his schedule. We've learned where to travel and how to travel. But kids are changing on a daily basis, and you just have to keep up with what they like on that particular day. Cold, rainy days aren't near as much fun as warm, sunny days because you can go outside. My son wants to be outside constantly."
Newman: "It's tricky (for drivers) raising kids. Our lives are inverted compared to a normal person's life. We're doing our jobs on the weekends when they get their time off. We get a little bit of time during the week, but it's not the same."
Kenseth: "I'd imagine it gets harder to travel as the kids are in school full time. I really enjoy this age. The pre-kindergarten age where they've got their personalities and are learning so much stuff. It's fun to share all that with them. You just can't wait for them to get up in the morning. So it just changes what you do. Certainly, you find yourself hanging out with people that have kids. Probably the friends who don't have kids, you see less."
Greg Biffle: "She comes every week. My wife is very strict on keeping a schedule. We always have to adjust what time we leave for her nap and when she eats. We're not traveling before she has her nap."
Harvick: "It's made DeLana and I more normal. You don't mind going out in public because you need to take him out to dinner, and he needs to be around people. We were always a lot more to ourselves. You want him to be around other kids so he's comfortable and social around people. This is what normal people do. You go to the zoo, go eat dinner, go to the park. You still have to do those things on race weekends because he isn't going to sit in (the motor home) if he can hear cars on the track and it's warm enough to be outside. He'll be miserable."
The common bonds of fatherhood has increased the collegial vibe among Cup drivers, many of whom lean on each other for advice.
Kenseth: "More than not before, everyone went into the motor home after practice and pretty much locked the door and never was heard from again. Now everyone is out walking kids or playing with them or hanging out at the playground. You're definitely socialized more and get to know each other better, which is nice."
Johnson: "(Harvick) would ask a lot of questions (about kids). I'm proud of him for it. Because it's not something you just decide to do. So I really couldn't read him. Then DeLana started asking questions, and I'm like, 'OK, this is pretty far down the line.' That was a good sign they were really considering it — the schedule, the sleepless nights, the structure of sleep cycles, eating cycles. When DeLana was pregnant, it got much more specific."
Harvick: There's a lot of people to lean on that have already been through the process. I went to Jimmie and Matt and asked the silly questions."
Biffle: "The first one through has to pave the way. I can remember Nicole calling Katie (Kenseth) twice a day. You learn a lot from each other, from baby cameras to seats. We're all similar so a lot of what works for them works for us."
Harvick: "Kids are the common ground that everyone can talk about to each other whether you're the CEO or the guy shoveling dirt. If you have kids, you can strike up a conversation."
McMurray: "I was watching Carter ride around in a car for an hour laughing with Casey Mears' son, Hayden. Those are great memories Carter's going to have in 10 years. That's so cool."
Harvick: "Keelan has a little Corvette and a 4-wheeler. Everyone's got cars around here. Jamie's kids roll around in their 2-seater and then get out and fight over who's going to drive. A lot of kids are going to bicycles now, and scooters are becoming popular with the older kids."
With the encouragement of sponsors and of their own volition, many drivers have turned their Instagram, Facebook and Twitter feeds into a stream of family photographs, and their children often join them in the pits before the race, putting them in public view.
Harvick: "It's hilarious; Keelan loves to watch himself on Vine. He can unlock your phone, push the Vine app and figure it out. If you'd let him, he'd sit there all day. It's fun to show the experiences that are new and funny. They're normal experiences. I think people see you're in this extravagant job, but you live a fairly normal (existence) because raising a kid is pretty common. I can post something that I think is cool, and it won't get the reaction. If it's not about a race car or Keelan, my social media doesn't even really react. It's strange."
Gordon: "I've always said I feel we've got the best kind of celebrity. We seem to have the type of notoriety that has more benefits than downfalls. I don't have people hiding in my bushes, looking over my fence, following me every step I take on vacation. At the track, the kids get photographed a lot. That's one day out of the week. If that was happening at school, at home, going to the grocery store, then I'd be concerned. Ingrid is very active. She takes a lot of pictures, and she likes sharing them. There's probably going to be a time where we do less of that when they get older. I haven't seen any challenges so far. I've seen more benefits from it. It's cool to be able to share that with our fans. They really appreciate it. Yeah, that could backfire on you in some ways, but so far it hasn't for us."
Johnson: "We're definitely aware of it and have some idea where that line is. I'd say with Genevieve we were much more concerned with it being the innocence of a child and our first experience. But unless you're in the solitude of your own home, you can't really control much. Everyone has a phone or a camera now. Every once in a while, I'll post something from home because I know it means a lot for people to see our family unit. There already are a lot of eyes inside our world. We're probably a little more relaxed now than when we started. We're trying to keep the innocence of our children protected for sure."
McMurray: "Everyone takes that differently. Kevin Harvick posts 10 pictures a day and videos, and I like watching them because I know Kevin and I know Keelan. So I watch those, but I don't put any pictures of my kids, my family or my home. I got a little wigged out (after) I did MTV Cribs a few years ago. So they come to your house, film it, and people for years later would talk about items that were in my house. How do you know that? 'Oh, because we paused the VCR and looked around.' They weren't being creepy, they just were looking at stuff, and that freaked me out a little bit. So we're just really private now. And because I don't think it's fair to our little boy or girl to put a lot of pictures out there because they might not want that when they get older."
Harvick: "Everything I do is public anyway. So my life revolves around a camera in my face. No reason to hide from it if someone is going to cover it. Everything we do is about raising our son. You have time to be a parent and to do your job, and that's about it, but I have no problem with that. They're going to shove a camera in our face, which is going to be in his face. It's kind of fun and helps you document everything anyway. It's like a family album on Twitter."
Kenseth: "I just don't worry about it that much. You do everything you can to protect your kids and keep your family safe and do all that kind of stuff, but man, you've got to live life, too, as far as just sheltering them and keeping them out of everything. If someone really wants to find out where you live, these days with technology and social media, it's not like someone can't find you. I think race fans are great. I think the kids really like going out to pit road ahead and seeing the car and what their daddy does for a living. I think it's a fun experience for them to be able to be part of that. So we try to include them in pretty much everything we do."
Newman: "I like keeping my life personal, but there's a part of our personal lives that need to be seen by the rest of the world so that it helps with sponsorships, it helps with fan clubs, fan memberships, things like that. There's a balance in there. You can share too much to the point that you dilute your own worth, though."
Gordon: When we go in a public place away from the track and someone recognizes me, Ella sometimes will say, 'They knew you as Jeff Gordon the race car driver!' Sometimes she clings to me in that moment, other times she's just watching them and finds it interesting."
Harvick: "We own everything with his name on it, whether it's a website, or Twitter or Facebook. Just so you don't have those creepy moments. The intention was to protect his name. We have a good website company that suggested and takes care of all that."
Jeff Gordon recently put his daughter in a quarter-midget for a closed practice, and other drivers' children have expressed plenty of interest.
Gordon: "We'll probably do it another couple of times to check out her interest level. If she continues to show interest, then I think we should pursue it and let her race a little bit.
"She did great, but I was petrified … because I know the things that could happen. She really didn't. I was nervous because I wanted her to do well. I didn't want to scare her. I didn't want her to crash. We had a throttle stop so it wouldn't get full power. But it was getting too much power, and she was going way faster than I thought she should her first time. I let her go because she was doing good, then she got wider and got out near the wall and pulled away from me, and I was like, 'Stop!'
"She didn't let off (the throttle). The funniest thing is we had these radios where I could talk to her and she could hear me but couldn't talk to me. She said, 'Could you hear me? I was saying, "Poppa I'm scared!"' I would have never known it. I told her, 'You were flying.'
"This was no different than trying horseback riding or gymnastics. You have to expose them to all these things to see what they like and are good at, and then if they show an interest in wanting more of it. I didn't say anything other than, 'If you ever want to do this again, you need to tell me, and we'll make it happen.' (A week later), she was like, 'When do I get to drive a car again?' We'll probably do the same thing with Leo when he gets 5½ or 6. He loves cars and dinosaurs and airplanes."
McMurray: If he wants to play baseball, that's what we'll go do, but I don't want to force him into anything. You don't know now what they're going to like or want to be. He loves racing. He loves Lightning McQueen. He loves racing little Hot Wheels, but most little boys love that. I don't think that has anything to do with whether you're going to want to be a race car driver or race go-karts. I think that's part of being a little boy. It's so awesome, because Carter thinks at the end of every national anthem, you're supposed to say, "Start your engines!" He's into racing, but it's also what he's around all the time. He hasn't experienced soccer, baseball, football. You have to open their eyes to it."
Johnson: "Evie loves racing. She is way into it. Of course, I pushed early. She's more into princesses and all that stuff. But of late, she is asking a lot of questions, and even says at times that she wants to be a race car driver. And live in a castle. And ride a unicorn. And all the good things we do as racers."
Harvick: "Keelan likes cars. At some point in order to drive something that's not funny and cute and not in the driveway, it's going to cost money, and he's going to have to figure out how to get it himself. I have no problems buying golf clubs and baseballs. I guess you never say never, but that would be my preferred option."
"It's just so hard now. To even run a Late Model team is a lot of work to be competitive. It's a tough, tough sport to come up through the ranks now because it's so expensive. … It would be a big commitment for him. It'd be a lot of work. It wouldn't be just show up and put your driver suit on, because I don't think you're going to learn anything that way."
Kenseth: "Whether they want to race or not doesn't matter because I'm not going to let them race. (laughs) No racing for my girls."
Jimmie Johnson: "From a young age, I wanted to be a dad. It was just something inside of me, and I was convinced I would have three girls. So here we are at two, and I'm totally cool with that. My life just worked itself into a place where it was time. I was probably a little more anxious to get started on a family than Chani. Once we got married, she said, 'Let's take our time, try to get five years in and enjoy being married and then start a family.' That was the loose mindset, and I'm glad that we did. Because things change so much, and your responsibility factor goes through the roof as a parent. We had a good run of being newlyweds, and now we're buckled down in The 'Burbs sitting in carpool lines and going to dance recitals.
"The only planning I've had is I ideally wanted to have kids later in my career so I could be slowing down and be there for my kids through junior high and high school where the connection with parents is so important. I still feel there's 10 years in me, so maybe I didn't time it just right, but where I am in my career, I can say no to some things. The team works with me very well to make time."
Biffle: "Starting to see kids around or your friends having kids makes you think differently about it. We always thought we'd have kids but weren't sure exactly when and then all of a sudden, your friends are like, 'We're going to have a baby.' It has changed dramatically. We laugh about it. Me and McMurray and Kenseth were at dinner at Watkins Glen last year, and we all brought baby seats."
Harvick: "Honestly, I never paid attention to it. It was like, 'I don't want to hear kids or be around kids.' Then you have your own kids, and man, it changed everything that we did. It's very enjoyable. There are some that progressed to kids a lot sooner than De Lana and I. But it's been great."
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NASCAR's recent baby boom
Jeff Gordon
Daughter: Ella (6); Son: Leo (3)
Jimmie Johnson
Daughters: Genevieve (3), Lydia (9 months)
Kevin Harvick
Son: Keelan (1)
Ryan Newman
Daughters: Brooklyn (3) Ashlyn (1)
Denny Hamlin
Daughter: Taylor (1)
Jamie McMurray
Son: Carter (3); Daughter: Hazel (1)
Greg Biffle
Daughter: Emma (2)
Aric Almirola
Son: Alex (1); Daughter: Abby (6 months)
Casey Mears
Daughter: Samthana (5); Son: Hayden (3)
Matt Kenseth
Daughters: Kaylin (4), Grace (3), Clara (2 months)
Paul Menard
Daughter: Remi (2 months)
Justin Allgaier
Daughter: Harper (10 months)
Carl Edwards
Son: Michael (3); Daughter: Anne (4)
David Ragan
Daughter: Julia (born Wednesday)


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Online holiday shopping continued to break records and many predictions, in spite of the lingering recession. IBM's Coremetrics unit said online sales on Monday jumped 19% and the average online order rose 8.3% to $194.89.
The increases, which seemed to surpass even the most optimistic predictions, could bode well for the remainder of the holiday shopping season. However, the bargains were so good that there were fears consumers had spent too much too early.
Coremetrics said so-called Cyber Monday has been the biggest shopping day in the year thus far. Monday's purchasing was largely fueled by the tradition of consumers logging onto online retailing sites at work after the long Thanksgiving holiday.
Online sales momentum appears to be on track to fulfill ComScore's prediction that online retail spending for the November-December shopping period would reach $32.4 billion. The figure represents an 11% gain over the previous year and indicates that online shopping could soon surpass the growth recorded for bricks-and-mortar retailers, which recorded low single-digit gains in holiday shopping so far this year.
"Despite continued high unemployment rates and other economic concerns, consumers seem to be more willing to open up their wallets this holiday season than last," said ComScore chairman Gian Fulgoni at the start of the holiday season. "This early spending surge reflects, in part, heavy promotional activity on the part of retailers occurring earlier this season."
This year, more consumers were using smartphones for their shopping, even as many sites struggled to make their offerings more mobile-friendly. A survey by Compuware's Gomez unit found that 58% of surveyed consumers expect mobile sites to be better than the classic sites they regularly visit from their computers.
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SOMERSET, Wis. – Time has not dimmed her parents' pride.
"So that's her nose and her mouth," says JoAnn Hardegger, pointing to the ultrasound photo in the baby book propped on the lap of her husband, Darrin Swanson.
The book's pages are neatly organized. One holds a tiny diaper, others a knit cap and birth records. Scattered throughout are JoAnn's handwritten notes to a baby girl.
JoAnn treasures the book like she did when she created it. "Because it's the only thing I have," she says, wiping away a tear.
The baby book documents Brighid May Swanson's gift to the world.
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CaringBridge did not exist 20 years ago. No one had conceived of a website to keep people with serious illnesses and injuries connected to their families, miles or even an ocean away.
Meaning there was no CaringBridge when, 24 weeks into her pregnancy and undergoing horrendous complications, JoAnn heard these words from her doctor: "We have to deliver the baby."
JoAnn resisted. "I said, 'Well, what if we don't because it's not time for the baby?' And he just said, 'You will die.'"
Brighid was delivered three months early, weighing one pound. Her mother not out of the woods herself.
"We were in survival mode, both of us," says Darrin, glancing toward his wife.
When a family friend asked Darrin if she could help in any way, he didn't think twice. Darrin had been so consumed with the fragile state of his wife and daughter he had been unable to keep the updates flowing to concerned family and friends.
"I said, 'Well, it's so hard to get back to everybody,' and she said, 'How about if I find a way to do that for you?'"
That friend, Sona Mehring, was uniquely qualified to make good on her offer. A year before Google and seven years before Facebook, the computer programmer hastily designed a website on which she could provide updates about JoAnn and her baby while, in turn, deliver supportive messages from family and friends.
Brighid and CaringBridge were born on the same day. Almost as quickly, Sona realized she was onto something.
"It helped everyone really come together in almost a healing environment, even from that very first CaringBridge post," she says. "I became very obsessed with this idea of being able to use a website, use technology, during a health journey."
Today, a new CaringBridge site is created every six minutes. More than 700,000 sites in all with more than 2 billion visitors.
Michael Bischoff's site is among them. "I think it was the same day I found out I had a brain tumor I started a CaringBridge page," Michael says from his Minneapolis home.
As Michael posts written updates and reflections about his cancer battle, his wife Jenny Larson, a photographer, fills her husband's CaringBridge gallery with photos.
"I read the comments and I get that support and community feeling too," Jenny says.
In a similar way, JoAnn and Darrin felt the love when their daughter's page announced nine days after her birth that Brighid had died.
"I don't think we could have ever gotten through that crisis without that community of support and every day CaringBridge does that for another family or another child," JoAnn says. "Brighid's the angel in heaven and Sona's the angel on earth."
Brighid's name is in CaringBridge's name. Her birthday is celebrated each year by the three dozen employees at the organization's Eagan headquarters.
"CaringBridge is Brighid's legacy," says Sona. The very thought brings comfort to Brighid's parents.
"I think she left a bigger legacy in nine days than a lot of us are ever going to leave in a lifetime," says JoAnn.
JoAnn and Darrin now have the family they dreamed of. A son, Sepp, is 18. Their daughter Anya is 16.
In June, the 20th Anniversary of CaringBridge, Sona will retire. The non-profit she founded will move forward.
Meantime, the girl who made a name for CaringBridge will go on making her parents proud.
"That's our daughter," smiles JoAnn.


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June Foster reviewed the book A Time for Remembering for the Thursday, Feb. 19 meeting of the Shakespeare Club at the Tall Tree Club House. The book was published in 1983. Paul Harvey stated that Ruth Graham was "The Wind Beneath the Wings" of Billy Graham.
"I wanted to whet your appetite so that you will read the book and share it with friends," Ms. Foster told the group.
A brief business meeting was conducted before Rae Harper introduced the speaker. Nancy Miller, Mary Lou Russell and Susan Sample served as hostesses. After the meeting, dessert was served while the ladies talked of the review.


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Disaster-Proofing IT After Katrina 8By Alison Diana Print
After Hurricane Katrina destroyed numerous court documents, Gulfport Municipal Court streamlined its infrastructure, invested in a digital imaging solution, integrated three databases and stored data in multiple sites to prevent such a disastrous loss from ever happening again.
When Hurricane Katrina roared its murderous path into Mississippi and Louisiana in August 2005, the howling winds and punishing rains destroyed lives, homes and businesses—and temporarily blinded Lady Justice in Gulfport.
The storm, blamed for more than 1,800 deaths and more than $81 billion in damages nationwide, tore the roof off Gulfport Municipal Court, water-logging files and destroying the walls that housed them. Years of supporting documentation in criminal and civil complaints became sodden and illegible.
"We lost a number of cases—I mean they were gone," says Odell Thompson, the court administrator who was hired in March 2007.
Determined that the Mississippi court would never again face the destruction of so much valuable information, Thompson needed to develop a disaster recovery solution. While working from a trailer and waiting for the construction of a new courthouse, he began rebuilding and improving the court's infrastructure.
"I bought 600 Rubbermaid containers," Thompson recalls. "The plan was to take every last one of our court records off the shelf—and we had close to 90,000 court records—put them in those containers and have them taken inland, either to a storage facility or another trailer.
"During the 2008 hurricane season, the plan changed, and we moved all the court records that were on the bottom two shelves up to at least be off the ground. We took tarps and dropped them over the shelving and just prayed a tornado wouldn't come along and suck everything out of there."
Moving to Digital Records
Thompson realized that the combination of Rubbermaid and prayer was unsustainable and did nothing to reduce the court's paperwork. Mother Nature was not the only force working against him: Gulfport's legal offices were using a hodge-podge of three incompatible databases. "That was time-consuming," Thompson says in an understatement.
A former officer with the Illinois state police, Thompson was accustomed to working with electronic files. Determined to bring the court into the digital age, he researched his options, seeking a proven solution to integrate all three databases and eliminate space-hungry, easily lost paper files.
While at a court administrators' conference, Thompson saw a demonstration by Syscon, a developer of an electronic court records and docket management system. Intrigued by the system's ability to digitize paper files and organize the docket, he reviewed solutions by that vendor and its competitors.
"We looked at [Tyler Technologies], but the way their software was set up, there were too many other windows you had to open up," Thompson says. "It was like having separate applications as opposed to an integrated solution, and that did not meet my goals. I observed [Syscon's] software demonstration live with one of the Circuit Court judges, and I saw it work and that's what really sold me."
Thompson was sold on the technology but needed funding. He took a grant-writing course, put his new skills to work and won a $460,000 grant from the Department of Justice.
The court notified Syscon on July 7, 2009, that the project was approved. On July 8, the vendor started converting the court files from 2006 and moving data from the existing databases to its management solution, according to Thompson.
Rather than forcing the court to adapt, the vendor customized its solution to meet the court's terminology and operations, says Thompson. "It was laid out the way we wanted," he explains. "What we were calling a docket number, they called a case number. They sat down with our court clerks, the collection manager and warrant officers, and then designed the court software to accommodate the way we operate."
After four weeks of training for 25 court staff, four members of the prosecutors' office and two judges, Gulfport Municipal Court went live in October 2009.
The court's information is contained in both an Oracle database and an image archive. The database is stored on mirrored drives and includes both metadata and recently scanned images. It is backed up on a physically and logically independent server drive, as well as on one of a rotating set of removable hard drives, which can be carried off-site daily.
In addition to storing each image on the workstation where it was scanned, the image archive is stored on the Gulfport server, plus a server located at Syscon's office in Tuscaloosa, Ala., as well as on CDs at both facilities.
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According to sources, Texas Black Foot Soldiers have issued a unified statement expressing relief that a thirty one year old Racist Johnson County Police Regime Terrorist is dead and no longer has the ability to racially profile the historically racist state's African American citizens.
"Our people live in fear behind these State Commissioned Racial Terrorists who masquerade as bearers of the law," controversial Dallas Black Foot Soldier Elijah Hays is reported as saying. "We must celebrate the fall of any aspect of the terrorism our people face. Particularly white police terror."
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Dekline Day 5
1 Everyone wanted to start the day off back in Five Points
2 Zarosh shredding the curb outside of Stratosphere Skateshop
3 Zarosh frontboard
4 Olly chums it up with a local
5 Olly got into a heated debate
6 The bar across from Stratosphere is a magnet
7 Skate Graffiti inside the bar
8 Headed out to peep some spots
9 Zarosh spotted this one
10 Jason warming up at Foundation
11 Melcher rigged something up
12 Rodent throws out a backsmith
13 Dune Front Lip
14 Zarosh ollie
15 Dune taking a breather
16 OG ATL ripper Fred Reeves was at the spot
17 We bumped into Graham Bickerstaff too
18 Gareth on the way to the next spot
19 Zarosh cools down in the shade
20 Olly fighting the heat
21 Dune's got one more day on the trip
22 Jason
23 Gareth just heard about a party with a mini ramp
24 Oh Fuck
25 Dan-O
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
What I'm Having for Dinner: Roast Pork Loin
9 comments:
Looks DELICIOUS! Thank you!
You feeling OK? You don't seem to be as chipper in this video!
Best wishes, Chef John!
- September 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- Chibby said...
Thanks chef;)
- September 12, 2012 at 1:25 PM
First!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one that uses paper plates!!
- September 12, 2012 at 2:45 PM
- KPeff said...
I had a brined pork chop off the grill, sweet potatoes mashed with coconut milk, sauteed yellow squash with onion and garlic, and for dessert I had a pear and some blackberries.
- September 12, 2012 at 10:14 PM
- Razors Edge said...
Greetings Mr. Chef John. In your expert opinion do you think this method of brining would have similar results with a beef roast?
I await your rational and very logical answer, as always. Thank you.
- September 13, 2012 at 12:11 AM
- Kimmy said...
Hi, thanks for sharing this pork recipe. I'm referring to your earlier posting for the details.
- September 13, 2012 at 1:20 AM
- Chef John said...
I've only seen/used brined for pork and chicken, things that tend to dry out when cook. Not sure why you never see on beef.
- September 13, 2012 at 9:27 AM
What about pork loin that is "enhanced" and, in effect, already brined? Hard for me to find non-enhanced pork. Brining extra would be overkill, right?
- September 17, 2012 at 1:08 AM
- Claire said...
This pork dish looks out of the world. I am sure it taste awesome too. great job done chef very very impressive :)
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"Abortion is the defining experience of this generation. It is an experience involving the shedding of innocent blood, a sin of bloodguilt, a sin that can only be addressed by a forthright, compassionate, and unapologetic gospel." In his new book Innocent Blood, John Ensor makes a passionate plea for the church to "prevent the death of innocents and the bloodguilt that results." Ensor grounds this plea in Deuteronomy 19:7-10:
Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities. And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers…then you shall add three other cities to these three, lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
The numbers are staggering:
- There are 42 million induced abortions performed worldwide very year.
- At the current rate, one-third of all American women has or will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
- Women who have an abortion are at an elevated risk of death caused by many things such as suicide and depression.
- China alone is responsible for over 400 million deaths by abortion which is 25% more than America.
- 56% of the world's female suicides occur in China which is five times the world average.
Ensor's aim is simple, to present a biblical case for why believers should not partake in the shedding of innocent blood and do what they can to stop it from happening. This is a call to protect the innocent among us.
Who are the innocent among us?
They are
The harmless, pure, or free from guilt before our fellow man or the laws of man. Babies and little children come to mind first when we speak of the innocent in this sense; they are harmless and without guile. But adults, too, are called innocent when they have done nothing wrong toward their neighbor. To punish them without due process, or on the basis of a false report, or because they are poor and have no proper defenders, or to please the wealthy or powerful, is to harm the innocent.
Why should we care for the innocent and vulnerable among us?
Christ cared for them and they have value because He made them. Being made in the image of God gives value to every person despite the color of their skin or the stage of their human development. Because the innocent Christ shed His blood to save us we should seek to save the innocent among us. God shows His value for our lives through Christ's shedding of blood and so we should value the life of others.
Who is guilty of shedding innocent blood?
The answer may shock you. Ensor rightly points out that it is not just those who have a direct hand in the killing of the innocent but those who can do something to prevent it and don't. This second category joins more of us into it than we may want to think and the weight of our responsibility is heavy. Ensor is clear that God will exact justice and judgment on those who shed innocent blood and it goes for both parties – the active and passive participants.
So what is the hope of the bloodguilty?
The hope of the bloodguilty is nothing other than the shedding of blood in the atonement of Christ. Ironically, it is the shedding of the innocent Christ's blood that provides the atoning covering for the bloodguilty. Innocence for guilt. Ensor masterfully points out that Satan tried to attack baby Jesus as an infant. Jesus Himself as a baby was the target of innocent killing. Herod tried to take his life as a baby and Pilate succeeded while he was a man. The first attempt on his life would have stopped the gospel from becoming a reality. The second attempt resulted in his death and made the gospel a reality.
Innocent Blood: Challenging the Powers of Death with the Life of the Gospel is a jolt to the conscience of anyone who reads it. It is a much needed gut check on how truly pro-life one is. It will challenge your heart and make you ask yourself if you are doing your part to stop the shedding of innocent blood. You will finish the book asking yourself one question – do I have the blood of the innocent on my hands?
NOTE: I received this book for free and was under no obligation to provide a favorable review.


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Another day, three more "Friday the 13th" Special Edition DVD's with horrible covers. And as someone who checked out all three that came out before, the new "special features" aren't all that special either. The one shining light here is if you're a fan of commentaries, because all three films (4-6) come with commentaries for the first time.
I'm not sure that this means anything, but it's wacky so here it goes. A Japanese Tim Burton fansite seems to have gotten its hands on a WB release schedule, and claims that they have "Dark Shadows", Burton's remake of the classic vampire soap, slated for a 2010 release in Japan. That's all the info available, and I linked to the Japanese site just for the fun of it so it's probably not worth clicking on it, unless of course you're really curious as to what a Japanese Tim Burton fansite looks like. Let's face it, who isn't.
George Romero's going to write Zombie novels now, apparently. Me, I'm still waiting for time to wash away the sour aftertaste left in my mouth from "Diary of the Dead", aka the worst student film I've ever seen. The man may have made some of the greatest horror films of all time, but that doesn't mean he's infallible, people.
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Just a sophomore, Willie Bourbon cant drive yet.
But the Stevenson quarterback knows exactly who to ask when he needs to bum a ride home from practice.
I just ask these guys, Bourbon said, pointing to three of his top four receivers. They are older, and have cars.
Bourbon jokes that the rides they give him are a thank you for all the nice passes he throws them.
And there have been a few of those this fall. Theyve totaled 2,189 yards, to be exact.
Now talk about a ride. Bourbon, and his athletic, speedy and sure-handed receivers seniors Alan Velev and Anthony Bozin, junior Matt Morrissey and sophomore Cameron Green have been taking the Stevenson offense on one heck of a wild and exciting ride all season. Through the air.
In just 10 games, theyve managed to take a program known for decades as a smash-mouth, rushing juggernaut to a high-flying, high-octane passing machine that hits defenses from all angles. All four receivers boast between 26 and 34 receptions. And they average anywhere from 10 to 23 yards per catch. Between them, they have scored 15 receiving touchdowns.
I caught up with Bourbon and his fearsome foursome as they prepared for their Class 8A second round playoff game against Glenbard North, a team that eliminated them in the quarterfinals last year, 28-0. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Saturday in Carol Stream.
Patricia Babcock McGraw: It seems almost sacrilege to say that Stevenson is primarily a passing team. Running the ball is just what Stevenson did. For years, and years, and years. Of course, Stevenson can still run the ball effectively, but the offense has certainly become more passing-centric. How and why did this change came about?
Green: A lot of coaches are trying to model their offenses after Oregons spread offense, with the speed and fast tempo. Its the new offense to try now.
Velev: Running plays can be scouted up pretty easily. Having a spread is harder to scout and it gives you more options.
Bozin: When I was a freshman, (longtime head coach Bill) Mitz was still here and we ran the ball a lot. One game, (fullback Mark) Weisman (now a starting running back at Iowa) just kept running up the middle. It was against Lake Forest. I think he had something like 46 carries. But I think when (current Stevenson coach Bill) McNamara took over, he looked at what he had coming up and he wasnt seeing those huge, every-down running backs like Weisman. He saw a lot of fast, skilled guys and he changed the offense away from the smash-mouth type of football.
Morrissey: This offense definitely fits our personnel. We had a lot of tall, talented skill players coming up and the coaches saw that.
PBM: There definitely is a lot of height in this group. Velev is 6-foot-4 and Morrissey and Green are 6-foot-3. Height helps make a good receiver. But what else does? What makes you good receivers?
Velev: Im really competitive and I love the challenge with all the corners and defensive backs. I have good size and speed and moves.
Morrissey: I run precise routes. Ive got good hands and size and speed. I make good cuts, not rounding any of them. I worked a lot in the off-season on routes with Willie. Its all about timing and Willie knowing that Ill be there when he needs me.
Green: Its my sharp routes, too. I run hard routes and make really good cuts and then I have good acceleration.
Bozin: Im the one guy who doesnt really have the height (5-foot-9), but I can do shifty things to get in and out of gaps. I find the holes and then Im able to go with my speed.
PBM: Good size, good speed, good route running lead to one thing for wide receivers: good results. But out of all the highlight reel moments for you this season, what was your best game?
Velev (34 catches for 784 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2012): It was the Libertyville game. I had my most receptions in a game, seven. I think I helped the team out pretty well.
Bozin (28 catches for 279 yards in 2012): Last week against Warren I had 2 touchdowns and 10 receptions.
Morrissey (31 catches for 524 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2012) : Against Lyons, I had 2 touchdowns. I also play defense and I had an interception, too.
Green (26 catches for 442 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2012): Last week against Warren, I think I had my best blocking game of the season. I was lucky to also catch two passes for touchdowns.
PBM: Some people might wonder if there is enough wealth for Willie to spread around in every game, if there are too many cooks in the receiving kitchen, so to speak. But you guys see it a different way, right?
Green: Having four receivers on every play is harder to guard than just one or two. We have a lot of people to worry about. You have to worry about deep routes, short routes, and if thats not open you have to worry about Willie running the ball. That spreads teams out and it opens the run game, too. It puts teams in a tough situation.
Bourbon: Having four or five guys who can go out and make plays is great because if one guy isnt open, I know I can go right over to the next guy and I know that hes going to be there at the right time in the right spot and able to catch the ball. If you have just one or two receivers some of that stuff might not be open.
Bozin: If the defense keys on one or two of us, that leaves two of us open. Thats huge. With smash-mouth football you can kind of key in on one guy. With four guys, you cant do that. One of us is always open. We open each other up.
Morrissey: I looked at the stats the other day and all of us kind of have the same number of receptions. Its amazing how Willie spreads it around like that. It makes it tough for the defense.PBM: Clearly you guys have a chemistry on the field that allows you to play off of each other. Are you just as close off the field, too?
Velev: This summer, Willie was calling us all the time, asking us to go play catch with him and wed do that two or three times a week to work on our chemistry and timing. We hung out a lot this summer.
Green: (Laughing) A lot of the hanging out I do is when Im getting rides from some of these guys.
Morrissey: We make a point of hanging out a lot. But even if we werent all wide receivers, I think wed all be hanging out. Were all good friends. For us, its a brotherhood.


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