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- Sunday Recipe - Apple Harvest Blondies
- ETSY in the NEWS!
- HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! AND Recipe Sunday - Apple Fre...
- What's Growing at the Orchard? - ANSWERS
- What's Growing at the Orchard?
- Recipe Sunday - Apple Pie Cake
- I don't Sew - What Would I do at the Dyeing Workshop?
- An Experiment with Pumpkins
- Sunday Recipe - Microwave Apple Muffins
- Planting SQUASH (lots of it)
- New Shed - Pictures
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Sunday Recipe - Apple Harvest Blondies
Apple Harvest Blondies
Mary Jurgensen Halpern, Walworth
2000 Finalist
2/3 cup butter
2-1/4 cup packed brown sugar, divided
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 medium/large Paula Red apples, peeled, cored and chopped
3 oz. cream cheese
2 oz. chopped pecans
1 tsp. cinnamon
Place cream cheese in freezer for one hour. Preheat oven to 350^. Melt butter in a large saucepan. Remove from burner and stir in 2 cups brown sugar and stir thoroughly. Add the eggs, flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla and stir until well blended. Fold in chopped apples and place the mixture in an ungreased 9x13 baking pan. Chop the cream cheese into small pieces (much easier when has been frozen) and mix with the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, pecans, and cinnamon. Sprinkle mixture on the batter and bake for 35 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature. Refrigerate leftovers.
ETSY in the NEWS!
I took this article directly from the DeForest Time's Website. I'm so excited!
Businesses turn to the Internet
Scott De Laruelle
Assistant Editor
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Kim Lapacek works on project at her home outside of Poynette. Lapacek is one of several area residents who are selling items on etsy.com, a website dedicated to hand-made crafts.
Kim Lapacek likes to keep things pretty laid back at her "store," Kim's Crafty Apple.
In fact, you can "show up" to browse the selection in your pajamas and no one will even bat an eye. That's because Lapacek is one of several area retailers who are using the Internet to sell handmade crafts and clothing to try to beat the recession.
Last February, she started selling quilts, bags, clothing and jewelry on her site on Etsy.com. So far, she has 38 sales, to places as far away as the U.K., with more than 30,000 views.
Etsy.com is one of several Web sites that have sprung up in recent years to connect consumers with independent creators and designers; focusing on handmade goods. Etsy was launched in 2005 and has about 2.1 million members and more than 200,000 sellers listing more than 3.4 million items.
Retailers moved $87.5 million worth of merchandise last year and $32 million already through the first quarter of 2009. According to the site, "We created Etsy to reconnect producer and consumer, and swing the pendulum back to a time when we bought our bread from the baker, food from the farmer and shoes from the cobbler."
Making the leap
Many people in the area are familiar with the Lapacek name because of family orchard, something she helps out with in the fall. But she was not trained as an apple salesperson or produce-grower; she earned a degree in civil engineering from UW-Madison in 2005.
After having her second child, though, Lapacek decided to make the leap to stay at home full-time and try to sell her crafts on the Internet.
"It seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to bring in a little income doing something I loved while being able to watch my kids grow," she said. "I had a really good job and a great boss, but I'm so much happier doing this."
Before long Lapacek found a groove and is now plugging away and using the Internet to its full potential to help raise awareness about her business.
"I didn't realize how involved you have to be to get your name out there, so now I have a blog, I go on the forums, I 'Twitter,' I have a Facebook page, you have to comment on other people's blogs," she said. "It is time-consuming."
Lapacek was trained as an engineer, designing residential developments, but in recent months she has become an adept photographer in the past year or so; something she said is critical to running a successful sales site on the Internet.
"You have to take good pictures, which is unbelievably difficult, especially jewelry," she said. "I've learned a lot. You're basically creating a storefront."
While Lapacek selling over the Internet isn't "recession-proof," she said the lack of overhead (monthly bills around $10) has kept her burgeoning business from running deep into the red during the past few months.
Etsy charges 20 cents to list an item for four months, and they take 3.5 percent of all sales. Lapacek also uses a Pay Pal account, which takes another 2 percent.
"Overall you're losing around 5 percent, but if you sell through a gallery, it can be 30-35 percent, plus you're just not getting the exposure," she said.
Being able to sell to a wide variety of people has also helped ease the pain of the recent economic downturn, she said. "It's a worldwide thing, so you're out there for people overseas, or people in different parts of the country that aren't having as many problems as other parts," she said. "Sales are a little slower, but my shop is getting full, and I'm getting ready for when the recession is over."
Local artists
Judy Percy of Waunakee was laid off work and looking for ways to earn some income at home. She has always sewed - everything from kids' clothes to Civil War uniforms - but when the recession hit, she wanted to make items people needed on an everyday basis.
"I came up with diaper bags - people are still having babies - and purses and reusable totes," she said.
She found out about Etsy while doing some Web searches and decided to take the plunge. "It felt really comfortable," she said.
Joni Doyle-Sims of DeForest was looking for an economical way to create a Web site to sell her jewelry online, and found Etsy.com. She creates nature-inspired jewelry with precious metal clay, and had sold her work at art fairs throughout the state, but was looking to expand her market, which she has - her first sale was to Scotland.
"I've had amazing experiences selling my jewelry and buying from other artists as well," she said. "I truly believe in supporting handmade art and Etsy is one of the best resources online."
Jill Long of Waunakee said the great thing about Etsy is she doesn't have to concentrate on just one area.
"I love pottery, jewelry, painting, sewing; I'm kind of an "ADHD artist," she said. "I can sell an assortment of art because Etsy reaches a large audience. Anyone across the country, or across the world, can shop in my store."
Kristin Graves of Waunakee joined Etsy.com after her cellular business was hit by the economic downturn and she wanted to be more productive with her spare time. She now has around 200 finished pieces and is starting to list them on the site as she has time.
"I found that I had a lot of downtime at my office so I picked up my jewelry tools again just to pass the time," she said. My friend would stop in to visit about once a week to keep me company and when she saw what I was making, she had to have some pieces. If she was willing to pay me to make things for her I thought, what the heck, maybe someone else would too."
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! AND Recipe Sunday - Apple French Toast
Maybe your wife and children decided to bring this to you for 'breakfast in bed' this morning...
from the Wisconsin Apple Grower's Association Cookbook
Apple French Toast
by Nancy Voge, Black River Falls
1997 Finalist
8 slices of white bread
3 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 T milk
3 large Golden Delicious apples or 5 mediums
1-1/2 cups water
1 cup sugar
6 eggs
1 cup milk
1/3 cup honey
Cinnamon (optional)
Crumble bread; place half of crumbled bread in a greased 9x9x2 baking dish. Mix softened cream cheese with milk; spoon over bread. Cook apples, sugar and water; bring to a boil and let boil gently 10 minutes stirring occasionally, until apples are softened. Then spoon all of the apple mixture over bread mixture. Top with remaining crumbled bread. In large bowl, beat eggs. Add milk and honey; mix well. Pour over bread mixture. Cover and chill 8 hours or overnight. Remove from refrigerator. Cover and bake at 350-degrees for 30 minutes. Uncover; bake 25-30 minutes more until golden brown and the center is set. Remove from oven and sprinkle lightly with cinnamon if desired. Serve warm, with syrup. Yield: 6-9 servings
What's Growing at the Orchard? - ANSWERS
What's Growing at the Orchard?
Recipe Sunday - Apple Pie Cake
I picked this recipe because it was on the page that I was currently editing...good reason, huh?
Apple Pie Cake
by Diane Lapacek
1/4 c butter
3/4 c sugar
1 egg
2 T water
1 tsp vanilla
1 c flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cloves
2 1/2 c chopped apples
1/2 c chopped nuts
Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg, water and vanilla. Stir in flour, soda and spices. Add apples and nuts and mix thoroughly. Spread batter in 9 x 9 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
I'm off to plant pumpkins......
I don't Sew - What Would I do at the Dyeing Workshop?
One of the fabulous things about this dyeing day is that you can dye anything you want as long as it's a cellulose fiber – cotton or rayon. My husband's aunt is a basket weaver and we've dyed the reed she uses for her baskets to create some amazing effects. If you are into knitting or crocheting many of the yarns you use can be dyed to be something even more amazing…as long as it's a cellulose fiber.
I will be teaching a section on 'tie-dyeing' techniques. You can use these techniques on either fabric or CLOTHING! You can either bring your own clothing to dye or you can purchase some white cotton clothing from us. We will have things from onesies (all sizes), t-shirts, overall rompers, bubble rompers and little girl dresses for sale.
You will learn a wide variety of folding and tying techniques to get some amazing effects when combined with the dye. I have posted a quite a few images of clothing that I have dyed in the past to show you some examples of what you will be able to create. To see even more visit my website http://www.kimscraftyapple.etsy.com/ and look in the Onesie section, Rompers/Dresses/T-Shirt Section, Hat Section and the Adult Clothing Section.
We will also teach you how to discharge a design onto your clothing once it has been dyed if you desire. To the right I have a picture of a onesie that I discharged a rose onto.
People have brought many different articles of clothing to dye…from baseball hats, to onesies with socks to match to even their husband's boxers! Be creative and have fun…that's the whole purpose of the day!
To sign up for the dyeing class at Lapacek's Orchard in Poynette, WI on Saturday, June 20th please click HERE!
An Experiment with Pumpkins
This year, we were dreaming about the benefits of the plastic in a field high up on the hill where water is not easily accessible. I suggested we try laying the plastic in rows close together and plant between them. That way the water would run off the plastic and onto the plants between rows. It sounded like a good idea and I have pumpkin plants popping through in the greenhouse, so Friday afternoon we thought we'd take a try at prepping the field.
We put the first row down, then tried to decide how close we could put the next one without pulling the first row of plastic back up. It took a little playing, but I think it turned out pretty well.
This is how the prepped field looks. That really wide space in the center is so we can still drive through after the vines are full size. It gets to be a really long way to haul pumpkins to the edge otherwise.
We'll be putting the plants in later this week. After some discussion, we decided that we'll plant in every row, but at twice the usual spacing between plants.
You may be wondering why we're starting pumpkins in the greenhouse instead of just putting seeds in the ground. We thought that setting plants would give them a faster start before the weeds have a chance to get going. We first tried it last year and were pleased with the results. With this layout, the vines should fill the open areas fairly fast and the plastic will keep the weeds down on the rest of it until the vines grow to full size. The plastic mulch is photo degradable, so by fall it will be quite brittle and tear as we walk on it and harvest the pumpkins (also gourds and some extra squash, I think). But by then it will have done its job.
It all sounds like a good plan, but it is an experiment, so we'll see what we think by fall.
Sunday Recipe - Microwave Apple Muffins
Microwave Apple Muffins
by Iva Donahoe
1 egg
1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. milk
1 1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 grated apple
Mix egg oil, and milk. Blend in dry ingredients. Add grated apple. Use double paper in muffin cups. Fill 1/2 full. Cook on high 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 minutes for six muffins.
Planting SQUASH (lots of it)
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Interview with Brad Bird, the writer-director of "Incredibles" and the man who saved "Ratatouille" and made it what it is.
All Brad Bird wanted to do was take a vacation. Riding a light-speed rocket to animation stardom, the writer-director had witnessed critical adulation but box office failure with his brilliant cold war cartoon "The Iron Giant," then gone on to joyously hoist the golden statuette at the Oscars when his hit science fiction action-comedy "The Incredibles" was voted Best Animated Feature Film.
Settling in at Pixar Studios, he became known as the go-to guy for anyone wanting notes concerning upcoming projects. But before he could get any well-deserved R&R, producer Brad Lewis did indeed go to him. Trouble had started brewing well into production of a film that would eventually be called "Ratatouille," the tale of Remy, a rat in France who is a food connoisseur with dreams of becoming a master chef.
"The movie was conceived of almost six years ago, with another director," Lewis says. "And Pixar committed to it. But it got to a place where we were not finding the spine of the story that made the film work. We needed to go to a story craftsman and veteran filmmaker that could pull this together."
That man was Bird, who replaced the director, scrapped the script and started from scratch, devised ways to use existing sets, kept some voice actors, got some new ones and finished the film in a whirlwind 18 months.
Although Bird coaxed excellent voice performances out of his actors — Remy is played by Patton Oswalt ("The King of Queens"); Colette, the only female in a busy restaurant kitchen, is played by Janeane Garofalo; others include Peter O'Toole as a snobbish food critic and Ian Holm as a nasty head chef — he's just as thrilled with the work of his dazzlingly talented animation team.
"I think you'll find even in the dialogue scenes, if you turn off the dialogue, you can tell very much what's going on in the character's minds, even when they're conflicted, because the animators really dig deep," Bird says. "I don't think people pay enough attention to the performances by the animators."
Like every great Disney film, this one relies on multiple story planes and something for all ages. It's about family relationships and dreams coming true and a little bit of romance. There's high comedy, wild escapades, a few scenes of peril and, in this case, food — lots of food.
And though the premise — of a rat secretly becoming a star chef — is, according to Bird, "completely absurd," the film maintains an air of reality.
"If you're going to do a completely absurd premise, shouldn't you try to make it as convincing as possible?" reasons Bird, concerning the authenticity of the busy kitchen. "And it's not something that I knew much about, so I really counted on a lot of other people. I would say, 'I don't know what they would be serving here, somebody please help me out.' One of the people on our team had studied to be a gourmet cook and had taken several years of serious cooking school and worked in restaurants, so we relied on him and others within Pixar who knew about food."
With the insightful Bird writing the script, the film is also filled with a range of emotions. Early on in the story, Remy pulls away from his large family, the rest of whom would rather eat scraps in the streets than do their own cooking. Remy shows that he's different when he stands up on two legs.
"I felt that it was a physical barometer of somebody trying to move into a different way of being," explains Bird of that sequence. "Remy is questioning the common knowledge of rats that you walk on all fours. It doesn't work for him. He doesn't like handling food after walking on his hands. He doesn't like constantly stopping to wash his hands before picking something up. It's a practical matter to him. But it's also a way to physicalize his desire to move into another arena — to become more human. But it's also something he has to hide. His brother says, 'If Dad sees you walking like that, he's not gonna like it.' It's like he was attempting to be the enemy."
There's no doubt that Bird is deliriously happy with the work he does, even with all of the accompanying challenges.
"You're so close to it, and you're focused on the problems," he says of the complicated computer animation process. "If everything's working great but that one thing in Act Two, then you forget all about what's working nicely and you go after the thing in Act Two. You're focused on the fires that need to he put out, the things that need to be gotten right, that aren't quite there."
Yet he's quick to admit that there are also all kinds of little victories. He mentions a sequence in which Remy, clutching onto a big cookbook, is swept through a torrent of water in a sewer.
"You have to animate the camera angles, and even the character and the book, before you have the water, because the water is a simulation," he says. "And once you have the water simulation and the water doesn't do exactly what you want it to do, you have to then change the animation of the book to fit the water. So you're only seeing pieces of it down the line, and making your best guesses. But when you get it all together, and it's lit and you have the sound and everything, there's this (he makes a wooshing sound), then you go, 'Wow! That's cool! Did we do that?' "
Now that the film is done, Bird, who also has the title of executive consultant for "The Simpsons" TV show on his resume, will put the art of animation aside for a while. His next film will be the live-action drama "1906," about the San Francisco earthquake, based on the novel by James Dalessandro.
"I'll get started on it as soon as I get done with the vacation I was on when I got pulled off to do 'Ratatouille,' " Bird says with a sigh. "I'm going to take that vacation."
"Ratatouille" is rated G and opens on June 29.
Ed Symkus can be reached at email@example.com.

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Maiz Mexican Cantina restaurant opens in Pittsfield Township
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A full-service Mexican restaurant and bar, Maiz Mexican Cantina, has opened on Washtenaw Avenue in Pittsfield Township, replacing the former Brahma Steakhouse & Lounge.
General manager Jason Branham said Maiz, 4855 Washtenaw Ave., opened Jan. 21. Branham, who has prior experience in restaurant conversion consulting, was approached about opening a restaurant by building owner Demos Panos. The Brahma Steakhouse & Lounge closed in January after being open for nearly a year.
"He informed me that this building space was available and he knew of my previous work and thought it would be a great concept to install at that location," Branham said.
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"Based on our business plan research, we determined there was no full-service Mexican restaurant in this area," he said. "There are several in Ann Arbor and outskirts of Ypsilanti, but nothing in this general area."
Branham said he conducted a market analysis study to make sure the location was a good fit.
"There's a very large Hispanic community concentrated in that area as well as just dense population in general," he said.
Branham said some renovations have been done to give the 230-seat restaurant a more authentic feel. Branham hired Ypsilanti-based artist Danielle Murphy to create two murals in the restaurant.
"She's being commissioned to do an 8-foot-by-5-foot mural reflecting a Mexican street market," Branham said. "It's located in the lounge area, which is the bar area."
The other mural is above the fireplace in the dining room.
Some of the renovations, including new floors and a hand-carved wood bar, occurred under the Brahma ownership. Brahma owner Louie Vushaj invested nearly $100,000 in renovations.
"We wanted to build upon the building's history and keep the warm, refined looks of the wood and dark tones, but then we wanted to add a lot of energy and color to the space," Branham said. " We did that through extensive lighting renovations."
Multi-colored lights were added, creating a splash of colors on the wall. "It brings the traditional colors you would see in Mexican art," he said. "I've gotten tons and tons of great feedback on the decor."
Branham said 90 percent of Maiz's menu is under $10, which he hopes will attract customers looking for an authentic, yet affordable meal.
"My head chef is originally from Mexico and he's been fantastic in bringing in recipes he cooks at home with his family," Branham said. "Mexican food is very regional and we're trying to cover a lot of the flavors from across Mexico."
One signature dish, chili relleno, which consists of a stuffed, roasted, fresh poblano pepper, is proving to be an early favorite. All of the dishes are prepared from scratch and are made fresh daily.
"It's one of the things people have to try," Branham said. "Because the previous restaurant was doing smoked meats, that large commercial smoker came with the building and now we're utilizing that to introduce smoke into our food."
The Smokehouse Grill and Pub operated in the space for about 15 years. Before that, the location was home to Herc's Roast Beef restaurant.
Since the Maiz is one of a few bars on Washtenaw, a diverse bar crowd has already started to form, Branham said. The bar offers three Michigan microbrews on tap as well as other beers. Several styles of margaritas, cocktails and martinis will be offered as well as Mexican beer.
The restaurant has 26 employees, some of which are former Brahma employees. Branham said he may potentially add more depending on sales.
"I retained almost everyone on staff," he said. "No one lost their job over this and not only did I retain staff, but I've doubled the size. As we grow and expand into our lunch service and get busier, I plan to be hiring additional staff."
Beginning next week, the restaurant will offer a full-sevice lunch and dinner menu.
"I've talked to my staff and said people are going to be surprised when they get their food because it doesn't look like regular run-of-the-mill Mexican food," Branham said. "The food is going to be as beautiful to look at as it tastes. ...The feedback on the flavors has been overwhelming so far."
Katrease Stafford covers Ypsilanti for AnnArbor.com.Reach her at email@example.com or 734-623-2548 and follow her on twitter.
Mon, Jul 15, 2013 : 10:16 p.m.
The people are great and the food good. I have been there several times and the only complaint that I have is the salsa. It is like water and no flavor. We have mentioned it to the manager on several occasions and it doesn't change.
Tue, May 21, 2013 : 9:31 p.m.
I really enjoyed this restaurant last night. I had the Chilaquiles with chicken and it was delicious. The portion was so large I took more than half of it home with me. Excellent authentic Mexican food! I loved eating at Maiz. The workers are very friendly, welcoming and fast. The environment is clean and beautiful. I will be back and soon.
Sat, Mar 2, 2013 : 4:30 a.m.
Terrible! Maybe you shou Not good, service or food wise. Rather have La Casita or Tmaz any day over this! .
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 1:40 p.m.
Tried to eat there yesterday. Sat for a long time and no one waited on us. Finally when a waitress came she took our beverage order and then brought that with some chips and salsa. We told her we were ready to order. She said she would be right back. Again she disappeared. Then we saw her waiting on a table that the folks had just been seated. We grabbed our coats and left. No one said a word to us as we walked out. Very disappointing.
Wed, Jan 30, 2013 : 10:08 p.m.
Wow. I am so excited a place with great food finally arrived in Ypsi. I live in the area and i was tickled to see this place when i drove by it on my way back from work. Me and my husband ate their this past weekend and when we heard that they try and do everything local and they DON'T freeze their food, that means they will have our business. Not to mention the food was FANTASTIC! I've already buzzed about this place to people at work, i work at both u of m and st joes and also to my friends, i'd love for this place to have good business. They deserve it! It's ABOUT TIME!!!!!
Tue, Jan 29, 2013 : 5:20 p.m.
We stopped by Maiz over the weekend and had a GREAT experience. The food was delicious, service was good, drinks tasty, and the atmosphere was perfect. Not to mention the prices were fantastic. The owner stopped by our table to check in and was very receptive to our comments, questions and ideas. Parking lot was packed, too - looks like they're doing a good business already. We'll definitely be back soon!
Mon, Jan 28, 2013 : 2:38 a.m.
I call this area "no man's land." We had some favorites in NML over the years (an ice cream place, a middle eastern place, Tios) but this area had no other anchors that people might be shopping at and just drop in for lunch or dinner etc. I think people tend to go places where they can get a lot done in a short time. If the food is amazing it might draw people from further afield, but not as often if you don't live close. I'm hoping the best for them-- It's not far from me and I really don't want to get spoiled only for it to close down. I love supporting and recommending local places. I often wonder what kind of research people do when a opening business of any kind in that Washtenaw mile strip between EMU and 23. So many closures there in good times and bad.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 6:42 p.m.
We were very excited about having a Mexican restaurant in this area and tried it out last night. The atmosphere is great - charming room with a fireplace going and the other w/ a 'bar' type atmosphere with tv's. The service, however, was not stellar (especially for a new restaurant trying to earn a customer base) and the food was less than ordinary. We sampled the American Tacos and were completely disappointed in how bland they were. Given this experience, we'll be driving to the other, not quite so close, mexican restaurant options.
Sat, Jan 26, 2013 : 2:20 p.m.
Completely disagree. I also had the American tacos too, mine were fantastic. Place looks beautiful with a new, exciting energy. Probably still working out the kinks... they haven't even been open a week. If you're as excited as you say you are about a Mexican restaurant, why would you start with American tacos? I've been there 3 times now. Food has been great every time!
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:43 p.m.
Hello, and thanks for all the great comments. Dos XX's Amber is on tap, and Negra Modelo is coming soon! I can't wait to see you all. Don't forget to try the smoked corn salsa too! More menu items will be coming over the next two months along with Lunch Specials and $2 taco Tuesday! We're trying hard to keep up with the overwhelming reaction, so please be patient as we get faster and deliver outstanding food.
Unusual Suspect
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 3:49 a.m.
The prices look good, the interior looks good, we'll come give it a try. Good luck, guys!
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 10:19 p.m.
Hooray for more Mexican choices in greater Ann Arbor/Ypsi! Drove by today and the signage looks good; here's another vote for Modelo or Bohemia on tap soon hopefully..
Ann English
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 10:33 p.m.
The signage must look different than it did last Sunday. When I drove by there to use the car wash next door, I thought they were already open for business, with no sign of the previous restaurant in sight, and no Opening Soon banner, either.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 9:54 p.m.
I heard the new Mexican restaurant in Saline has opened. Have not read anything about it though. Wonder when A2.com will review that restaurant.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 5:18 p.m.
You're talking about Cancun Mexican Grill. I've been to their location in Okemos and it was delicious. http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/new-mexican-restaurant-soon-will-open-in-saline/
Carrie Rheingans
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 2:25 a.m.
Which one? There's a relatively new one at Liberty/Maple called Chela's and it's really quick, fresh, and delicious!
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:35 a.m.
I'll review any new Mexican restaurant that opens. I miss that one in Ann Arbor off Liberty. Sigh.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 9:52 p.m.
Buena suerte to Maiz! But let us never forget the wonderful La Fiesta Mexicana on W. Cross St. in Ypsilanti near EMU. OMD!
Sun, Jan 27, 2013 : 3:13 a.m.
I wanted to add that also. As a Southwesterner it's about the only authentic food in the area, believe me. Most of what we get in Michigan are Tex-Mex restaurants.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:37 p.m.
You don't have to be Hispanic or Mexican to love Mexican food... I can't wait to visit Maiz soon! I wish them the best of luck.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:20 p.m.
No other full service Mexican Rest. in the area? Guess they haven't been here. It's .15 miles down the road in the Fountain Square Plaza. Food's good here but the service is slow La Casita Taqueria 2866 Washtenaw Ave Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Carrie Rheingans
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 2:24 a.m.
I was wondering about this too! I didn't realize that they didn't have a liquor license... I always get other yummy drinks there instead.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:31 p.m.
Full service means alcohol too. La Casita doesn't have a liquor license, so technically they aren't a full service restaurant.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:06 p.m.
I remember when Don Carlos Mexican restaurant was in that area. I hope this one is successful.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : noon
Other than the one case of food poisoning I had after eating there, Don Carlos was great!
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 9:28 p.m.
Don Carlos was a favorite of mine, too. The lunch buffet, especially on Friday, was the best. It closed because the family that ran the restaurant simply wanted to retire. I guess there was no one who wanted to buy the business from them.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 9:15 p.m.
mun...Don Carlos was directly across the street.I'm still not sure what made them go under
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8 p.m.
Chille Rellenos, YUMMMEEEE
Julie Baker
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:47 p.m.
Has anyone been here yet? The signature dish chili relleno sounds great.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:34 a.m.
Will be going this weekend. I love trying out new restaurants.
Atticus F.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:34 p.m.
I wish them success! Mexican food is irresistable to me, especially when I can sit down and have a margarita. Unfortunately, this area is notorious for failing restraunts. I remember 30 years ago, my grandparents lived in Brighton and would travel to Ann Arbor to dine at the Red Bull. Now if you go to Brighton, there is an Olive Garden, Outback, TGIF, ect. as soon as you get off the highway.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:36 a.m.
Sangria is my choice drink and lots of it.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:32 p.m.
Go to Los Amigos on Michigan Ave. and make an effort to emulate EVERYTHING they do . That place is packed on the weekends, has your food to you in minutes, and serves Negro Modello on tap. Can't beat it!
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 5:15 p.m.
Don't forget Tmaz on Packard!
Carrie Rheingans
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 2:23 a.m.
The one on Whittaker is called La Fuente and they are great! La Casita is right down the road too, on Washtenaw, near the Kmart plaza. They're delicious as well! I'm actually a little surprised that the owner says there aren't many Mexican food options nearby... La Casita is under a half-mile away, and Fiesta la Mexicana is just a little past that. Then there's also Taqueria la Fiesta on Packard/Platt too... and I'm probably missing some! We're lucky to have so many great options around here.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 : 1:33 a.m.
Another hidden gem is the one on Whittaker Road. That is a rare find for fajitas. Los Amigos has a to die for shrimp quesadilla. Otherwise, Hercs is one I do remember and did frequent a lot. I do agree with most posters here, a great fit. Better then that burger joint going in on the other side of 23. I smell a reason to go out to eat this weekend.
Kyle Mattson
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 9:24 p.m.
Faygo- I've driven by Los Amigos more times that I can count but never been moved enough by the exterior to stop and go in. I guess I was missing out, its rare to see Modello on tap.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:35 p.m.
SHHHHH! I remember when Los Amigos was my own little secret, but the cat is out of the bag. That place is great.
Katrease Stafford
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:14 p.m.
Local, Maiz has a happy hour from 3-6 as well.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:06 p.m.
And Happy hour 3-6 everyday of the week. The food is really good and the prices are reasonable. Anxious to try this new place as well.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 6:53 p.m.
Katrease Stafford
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:10 p.m.
FrankOZ, I searched for one, but I don't believe a website has been created yet.
Cole Bertsos
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:09 p.m.
Hey, FrankOZ! I poked around and it doesn't look like they have a menu up online yet. Since they are new, they might still be crossing their t's and dotting their i's.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 6:41 p.m.
Nice, good luck to them! Location (area, really) is cursed though, so, yeah, good luck.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 8:39 p.m.
The location had Herc's for many years and then Smokehouse for 15. That is NOT cursed in the restaurant world. The Brahma concept was a VERY bad fot for the neighborhood. Ann Arborites were not willing to cross US 23 to try a steakhouse when they have plenty already in town. The people who live close by do not have the income to maintain a high end steakhouse.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 7:30 p.m.
Cursed? McDonalds and the BK lounge have been there for decades! And, there have been over 4 restaurants in that location alone!
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 6:38 p.m.
This is a much better fit for this area location than the Brahma/high-end steakhouse concept was. I wish them luck and will be checking them out soon!
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 : 6:27 p.m.
Good luck and I look forward to sampling the menu. One other thing, maybe they could run those BBQ chicken nachos that used to be on the Smokehouse Special as a special once in a while. Those nachos were great!


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Faced with the utter failure of yet another of his boneheaded, anti-American ally, foreign policy decisions, Obama finally gives up, waves his ever handy white flag, and surrenders to the good guys' rule of law in Honduras.
Honduras: Obama administration finally and completely abandons Zelaya
The Obama administration's wishy-washy attitude toward Honduran elections finally lands him on the right side of the issue: in favor of Honduras and its democracy, and against ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who was thrown out after attempting to extend his reign illegally.
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…Spokesman Kelly noted that the election, in which neither [Interim President Roberto] Micheletti nor Mr. Zelaya is running, is being organized by an electoral tribunal that was selected and installed in a transparent, democratic process before the coup. He said it is important the election be seen as free, fair and transparent, and is monitored by a credible international monitoring process.
After an Obama knee-jerk reaction to Zelaya's ouster in June, the U.S. had insisted on Zelaya's reinstatement. This would have harmed Honduras's Congress and high court, which had ousted Zelaya, even as it served no discernible U.S. interest. At the same time, Zelaya's continuation in power would have benefited one of Zelaya's main allies and alleged sources of funding — Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
By hanging Zelaya out to dry — leaving him powerless and languishing in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, possibly facing trial for illegally seeking re-election — the administration saves face in Honduras and ultimately does the right thing. The Honduran Congress will vote on Dec. 2, after the next president has been elected, whether to reinstate Zelaya as a lame duck, and with the election already decided, they won't be under any pressure to do so and reverse their earlier decision.
So all's well that ends well. But even so, as we recently opined, a happy ending is still no excuse for Obama's half-cocked diplomacy, and no number of low bows to Honduras's next president will make up for the damage he has caused there. Again, his legendary inexperience in world matters shows.
See also:
US Expresses Support for Honduran Election
Obama's Honduran debacle
Micheletti steps aside for Honduras poll
Zelaya warns US support for Honduras election divisive
INTERVIEW-US risks isolation over Honduras election-Brazil
Honduras vote to sideline president, enshrine coup
Hondurans march supporting elections without Zelaya
Our Man In Tegucigalpa Is A Raving Lunatic
Still Stuck On Stupid And Doubling Down
Selective Meddle For Communist Dictators
Well, ever since the U.S. reversed course and decided to support this Sunday's November 29th Honduran elections, all the world's communists, socialists, assorted tin pot dictators and far left loons have been screaming bloody murder.
/what does that tell you about what was the right thing for the United States to do?
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Varsity matches and autumn tries
John Griffiths
January 2, 2013
John Carter (with cup) captained Oxford to back-to-back Varsity match wins in 2011 and 2012 © PA Photos
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition, John looks at the Varisty match, autumn Test try-scorers and South African celebration matches.
Which captains led their side in back-to-back Varsity Matches? W R Davies, Wales
John Carter, who did so for Oxford last season and this, became the fifteenth back-to-back on-field skipper in the fixture and the first captain to lead successive winning sides since Mark Bailey (Cambridge) in the early-1980s.
The only other back-to-back winning skippers in the fixture were Harry Vassall (Oxford early 1880s), Ernest Brutton (Cambridge in the mid-1880s) and Angus Stewart (Cambridge in the mid-1970s).
The full list of captains in successive matches is as follows:
W O Moberley (Oxford 1871-2 & 1872-3), J M Batten (Cambridge 1873-4 & 1874-5), E T Gurdon (Cambridge 1875-6 & 1876-7), H Vassall (Oxford 1881-2 & 1882-3), E B Brutton (Cambridge 1885-6 & 1886-7), T W P Storey (Cambridge 1890-1 & 1891-2), D R Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge 1901-2 & 1902-3), E G Taylor (Oxford 1927-8 & 1928-9), H D B Lorraine (Oxford 1933-4 & 1934-5), M M Cooper (Oxford 1935-6 & 1936-7), R H Phillips (Oxford 1967-8 & 1968-9), A A Stewart (Cambridge 1975-6 & 1976-7), T P Enevoldson (1979-80 & 1980-1), M D Bailey (Cambridge 1983-4 & 1984-5) and J Carter (Oxford 2011-2 & 2012-3).
Temple Gurdon declined an invitation to play for England in order to captain his University. The 1875 Varsity match was played on December 13 - the same day as England's first-ever Test on Irish soil. He was subsequently capped against Scotland in 1878.
NB: J E "Jenny" Greenwood who led Cambridge either side of World War One (in 1912-13 and 1919-20) had given way as captain to B S Cumberlege for the 1913-14 Varsity match, Cambridge winning all three games. Similarly E Bole (Cambridge skipper in the 1945-6 and 1947-8 matches which the Light Blues won) gave way as captain to M R Steele-Bodger when Cambridge lost in 1946-7.
It was reported that Rob Stephen was the first music scholar to win a Cambridge Blue in living memory. Who was Cambridge's most distinguished musical Blue? David Scott, England
Rob Stephen was Cambridge's full-back in last month's 'Varsity Match. A King's College choral scholar studying Classics, he took part in the recent Christmas Eve carol concert from King's chapel.
This column invites interested readers to submit other candidates but arguably the most distinguished musical Cambridge Blue since the match moved to Twickenham in 1921 was Marcus Dods. He had appeared in the Rugby School first XV in 1934-5 and 1935-6 before playing in the Light Blues' back-row in the last official 'Varsity match before World War Two.
Like Stephen, Dods was a choral scholar at King's College when he won his only Blue in December 1938. Cambridge won the match 8-6 in perfect conditions in front of a crowd of 35,000, Scottish international Rab Bruce-Lockhart scoring a try which future Scotland captain, Keith Geddes, converted. Geddes also landed a penalty. The match was the first of the series in which three penalty goals were kicked, Ian Watts landing two for Oxford.
Scrum formations were generally 3-2-3 in those days but Oxford created something of a stir by packing 3-4-1 for the match. Cambridge's adherence to tradition was given as the reason for their success. The Light Blue forwards packed tighter with Dods in the middle of the back-row "locking" the scrum most effectively, it was reported.
Dods, it might be added, was born in Edinburgh of a noted Scottish family. He became a distinguished composer, arranger and conductor who worked for the Rank film organisation and for the BBC. His credits included the Friday Night is Music Night radio programme and he composed the music for the marathon 26-part BBC Television adaptation of The Forsyte Saga screened in the 1960s.
When did the convention of the past captains running the touchlines at the Varsity match end? Matthew Wheeler, England
Referees did not officiate at the early matches between 1872 and 1880. These games were overseen by a pair of umpires nominated by the Universities. The players were such gentlemen it was argued, that a referee (whose only duty in those times was to settle disputes over points of law) was deemed unnecessary.
When referees finally took charge from 1881, the convention of involving University officials was maintained by the teams electing their own touch-judges and, at length, it became the norm for the previous season's captains to run the lines at the annual match.
The tradition ended early in the professional era. The RFU Referees' Committee ruled that, from the 1997-98 season, only qualified officials should act as touch-judges. The 1997 match also marked the end of another cherished old tradition: that of the universities themselves choosing the match referee, which was also ceded to the RFU committee.
Not that the Universities had ever encountered any difficulty securing the services of leading officials. Two of rugby's most distinguished referees of the past, Rowland Hill (in the late nineteenth century) and Gwynn Walters (in the 1950s and 1960s), hold the record for the fixture, officiating at seven Varsity matches.
Julian Savea scored six tries during the recent Tests in Europe. What is the record for an autumn series? Anon, New Zealand
The New Zealander crossed for two tries in each of the All Blacks' Tests with Scotland, Italy and England to match the feat of Australia's David Campese in 1988. The former Wallaby, who at one time held the world record for most tries in Tests, crossed once against England, twice against Scotland and managed a hat-trick against Italy that autumn.
Julian Savea scored six tries in the 2012 autumn internationals © Getty Images
Three New Zealanders have scored five Test tries on autumn visits to Europe. The Gear brothers scored five each - Rico in 2005 and Hosea in 2010 - and Sitiveni Sivivatu also grabbed five in 2006.
Do you have details of the Jubilee matches staged in South Africa in 1964 to mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the South African Rugby Board? A van Zyl, South Africa
Three matches were staged in May 1964. The details of the games were as follows:
May 9, Ellis Park, Johannesburg
White XV (4G 4T) 32 pts beat the Green XV (2G 3PG 1T) 22 pts
White XV: L G Wilson; C W Dirksen, J L Gainsford, N W Labuschagne, J P Engelbrecht; K Oxlee, C M Smith; W J Whinery (captain), A R Dawson, J E Thornett, M J Campbell-Lamerton, C E Meads, K R Tremain, A E I Pask, G V Davis
Scorers Tries: Labuschagne (2), Engelbrecht (2), Dirksen (2), Smith, Meads Conversions: Oxlee (4)
Green XV: D B Clarke; M K Flynn, P F Hawthorne, B J Ellwood, M S Phillips; D Watkins, K C Briscoe; J L Myburgh, G F Malan (captain), J F K Marais, J P Naude, H S van der Merwe, F C H du Preez, D J Hopwood, J P F Botha
Scorers Tries: Watkins, Ellwood, Phillips Conversions: Clarke (2) Penalty Goals: Clarke (3) Referee Dr G K Engelbrecht (South Africa)
May 13, Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth
Dr D H Craven's XV (4G 2PG 1DG) 29 pts beat Mr T H Pearce's XV (3G 2PG 1T) 24 pts
Dr D H Craven's XV: L G Wilson; C W Dirksen, M K Flynn, J L Gainsford, D Hughes; D A Stewart, K C Briscoe; W J Whinery, G F Malan, J E Thornett (captain), H S van der Merwe, C E Meads, R J C Glasgow, G V Davis, J P F Botha
Scorers Tries: Dirksen, Stewart, Gainsford, Flynn Conversions: Hughes (4) Penalty Goals: Hughes (2) Dropped Goal: Wilson
Mr T H Pearce's XV: D B Clarke; W J Mans, N W Labuschagne, M S Phillips, J P Engelbrecht; P F Hawthorne, C M Smith; J L Myburgh, A R Dawson (captain), R J McLoughlin, F C H du Preez, M J Campbell-Lamerton, K R Tremain, A E I Pask, T P Bedford
Scorers Tries: Engelbrecht (2), Mans, McLoughlin Conversions: Clarke (3) Penalty Goals: Clarke (2)
Referee Mr K R V Carlson (South Africa)
May 16, Newlands, Cape Town
SARB President's XV (7G 3T) 44 pts beat the Outsiders' XV (3G 1PG 2T) 24 pts
SARB President's XV: L G Wilson; C W Dirksen, J L Gainsford, N W Labuschagne, J P Engelbrecht; K Oxlee, C M Smith; W J Whinery (captain), A R Dawson, J E Thornett, M J Campbell-Lamerton, C E Meads, R J C Glasgow, A E I Pask, G V Davis
Scorers Tries: Whineray (2), Wilson, Oxlee, Engelbrecht, Smith, Thornett, Davis, Pask, Meads Conversions: Oxlee (7)
Outsiders' XV: D B Clarke; D Hughes, M K Flynn, B J Ellwood, J T Truter; D Watkins, K C Briscoe; J L Myburgh, G F Malan (captain), J F K Marais, A S Malan, A van Wyk, F C H du Preez, D J Hopwood, J P F Botha
Scorers Tries: A S Malan (2), Clarke, Du Preez, G F Malan Conversions: Clarke (3) Penalty Goals: Clarke
Referee Capt P A Myburgh (South Africa)
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A LIMOUSINE driver was arrested for drink-driving shortly after he dropped a wedding party at their destination.
WITHOUT the proper child safety seats, River Heads' couple Shane and Kerry Mandrek know their two kids could be dead.
POLICE are investigating a spate of motorcycle and moped thefts in the Hervey Bay area.
POLICE are urging the public to be on the lookout for a motorcycle and moped that were stolen from Hervey Bay in separate incidents.
THREE Hervey Bay backpackers were assaulted and robbed on Torquay beach after being set upon by a group of teenage thugs.
WITH about 1000 people turning up for the opening of Hervey Bay's new indoor skate park, owner Mandy Maurer described the launch as an "overwhelming success".
HIGH-FLYING freestyle BMX rider Jack Fahey will be carving up the ramps at Hervey Bay's new indoor skate park on Saturday.
STAFF at Hog's Breath Cafe in Hervey Bay are still hoping for a Christmas miracle that will see their stolen pig mascot returned to them.


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Def. Sec. Chuck Hagel and his Chinese counterpart face off over disputed islands
BEIJING - The defense chiefs of China and the U.S. faced off Tuesday over Beijing's escalating territorial disputes in the region, with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and telling his Chinese counterparts they do not have the right to unilaterally establish an air defense zone over disputed islands, with no consultation.
And he said America will protect Japan, the Philippines and other allies locked in disputes with China, as laid out in U.S. treaty obligations.
Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan said his country will not take the initiative to stir up troubles with Japan, but warned that Beijing is ready to use its military if needed to safeguard its territory. And he said the U.S. must "stay vigilant" against Japan's actions and "not be permissive and supportive" of Tokyo.
Washington has criticized Beijing's recent declaration of an air defense zone over a large swath of the East China Sea, including disputed remote islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. Hagel was in Japan earlier this week, reassuring its leaders of ongoing U.S. support.
In their remarks Tuesday, Hagel and Chang largely aired their countries' well-known positions about the territorial disputes, although doing it for the first time in China, shoulder to shoulder, after nearly two hours of meetings.
"Every nation has a right to establish an air defense zone, but not a right to do it unilaterally with no collaboration, no consultation. That adds to tensions, misunderstandings, and could eventually add to, and eventually get to, dangerous conflict," said Hagel, pointing his finger toward television cameras and photographers at the back of the room, as shutters clicked.
For his part, Chang said China stands ready to resolve the disputes diplomatically. But he made it clear that China is always ready to respond militarily to threats.
Chang also complained that the Philippines illegally occupies part of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea..
He told Hagel, "We will make no compromise, no concession, no trading, not even a tiny ... violation is allowed."
On a broader scale, the meeting focused on how the U.S. and China can build stronger ties, in the wake of years of frosty relations over Beijing's military buildup, persistent cyber-attacks against U.S. government agencies and private industry, and the aggressive Chinese territorial claims.
Washington says it takes no side on the sovereignty issue of the islands but will defend Japan and the Philippines. But it also has refused to recognize the air defense zone or follow China's demands that its aircraft file flight plans with Beijing's Defense Ministry and heed Chinese instructions.
The Pentagon chief also pressed China on North Korea, saying that Washington and Beijing have a shared interest "in achieving a verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
North Korea has been escalating its rhetoric lately, threatening additional missile and nuclear tests and conducting a series of ballistic missile launches.
Later Tuesday, at the People's Liberation Army's National Defense University, Hagel gave a speech to about 120 colonels and other staff officers, and was more direct, challenging China to play a more constructive role in North Korea.
Continuing to support the Pyongyang regime, he said, "will only hurt China's international standing" and it's position in the region.
In the defense university speech, Hagel also pointed to cybersecurity as an area where the U.S. wants the Chinese to be more transparent.
As proof that the U.S. has tried to be more open, he revealed publicly for the first time that the Pentagon gave Chinese government officials a briefing on the doctrine that governs the use of the military's cyber capabilities. And he urged China to do the same.
It has not. And Chang, when asked about the issue, said the PLA abides by the law in its cyber operations and will not pose a threat to others. He added that China "stands ready to deepen the communication with the U.S." on cyber.
While the disagreements between the U.S. and China were starkly evident during the day's events, there also was an underlying current of slowly growing cooperation.
The two countries interests outweigh their differences, said Chang, adding that "The Pacific is huge enough to hold both China and the U.S."
They also outlined several new agreements.
"Our vision is a future where our militaries can work closely together on a range of challenges, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions. However, to reach this objective, we must be candid about issues where we disagree," Hagel said.
He said the two countries have agreed to conduct a joint military medical exercise, although no date was set.
And Hagel said that Washington and Beijing will establish formal procedures that will allow their armies to better communicate and also set up an Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue between the assistant defense secretary for the Asia Pacific and China's director of the Ministry of National Defense Foreign Affairs Office, so they also can more easily exchange views.
The United States' campaign to encourage China to be more open about its military growth and intentions got a symbolic boost Monday as Hagel received a rare tour of the country's first aircraft carrier. But efforts to get the Asian giant to be more transparent about cyber attacks and other defense operations have been less successful.


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Most of the readers of this blog have followed Team T (Terry and Tawny) through an almost 10 year journey. From two kids living in Speechly Hall at the University of Manitoba, through both our graduations, through a rough time when I went to Calgary, and when I came back to the place I belonged. Through the birth of our two children. Next year we invite old and new readers to follow us through another big event - our WEDDING!
Yes, we're actually going to get married during our 10th anniversary year. Yay!
As a New Year's resolution I have to get going on our wedding. My dress especially. And I've decided (well actually I've been coerced) to keep all of you informed of every step.
It begins! And it's only fitting that it's my 200th post for this blog! I made the "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" ring pillow.
I found the tutorial at a wonderful blog called Craftystylish. Actually it doesn't take too much brain power to make a pillow. I just used this tutorial for the fun idea.
Something old: The top left corner is made out of fabric from a dress that I used to wear in high school circa 1994.
Something new: The brocade on the bottom. I bought this stuff to practice the top of my wedding dress before cutting into the good fabric
Something borrowed: Well technically you can't borrow something because it can't be returned. But I got this linen from Jen who got me to hem her baby curtains in the summer. I "borrowed" the linen that I cut off the bottom.
Something Blue: The top right is blue.
As for the applique - that's the most special touch. It's from some super cute jammies that we put both Logan and Laney in. The wording says "Snuggle Buddies" and it represents not only our two beautiful children, but the fact that Terry and I will be snuggle buddies for life.
Corny I know! But our wedding is going to be rather corny and we wouldn't have it any other way! :)
The final touch is 2 heart buttons that hold the whole thing together. Because really, there are going to be 2 hearts holding the whole thing together isn't there?
To keep up on all our wedding news this year I will be sure to tag all these posts with "wedding" for your convenience.


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Perl is not interpreted. At least it is not in the same sense as shell. Shell scripts are source-level interpreted. Perl programs go through a full-scan compilation into another form which is then executed. It isn't translated directly into machine code, but syntax errors are caught at compilation time and not run time. The process does happen generally every time you run a program, but that does not mean it doesn't happen.
Nearly every useful language has the ability to execute external commands. Most shells rely on that for most of their utility. If you think Perl is insecure because it can call an external binary, then what of shell, which often must?
Also related to how shell is used is your footprint comment. How is Perl's footprint compared to every Unix command available on every version of Unix? Undisciplined shell programmers can use every CLI-based program on the system to get their work done. They often must use the search path to attempt any kind of portability, and can be effected by other environment differences. An undisciplined Perl programmer who uses every dark corner of Perl can at least expect some compatibility among different installations of the same version. If you're depending on external tools for most of your functionality, you can't count on much of anything.
Shell doesn't have an eclectic feature set? Again, you're talking about the entire installed command set of whatever machine you're on, often depending on the search path and environment variables.
Perl has its weaknesses, but I don't think you're assessing them fairly here. Perl and most shells are worlds apart.
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Welcome to The Haiku Foundation's Fifth Renku Session: New Calendar. I am John Stevenson, leading my second Kasen (36 verse) renku on this site. We will be trying something a little different this time. Instead of making all of the selections myself, new verses will be selected by the poet who wrote the preceding verse. This will be on a voluntary basis and I remain ready to preform this task for anyone who prefers to pass up the opportunity.
Here is the report of this week's selector, Polona Oblak:
"A disclaimer: I'm generally better at intuitively perceiving certain qualities than writing about them, and failing to state the obvious is often one of my shortcomings.
There are many things to consider while selecting a renku verse, especially one as prominent as the moon. It is a good practice not to repeat any of the contexts and actions in which the previous verses appeared. We had a rising moon with music notes in #5 and a first-person insomniac waking again and again, observing the moon lighting different things during the course of the night in #13. Therefore, I was looking for a fresh approach in our final moon verse.
While hoping to be able to include a new participant, their verses were not quite there and making them work would require some heavy editing. So, I looked elsewhere. Betty Shropshire's saucer-eyed prepper haunted by the harvest moon came close but I kept returning to one particular verse:
lunar maria
resolving into
the rabbit
–Lorin Ford
Human mind has the ability to perceive familiar shapes almost everywhere. The phenomenon is known as pareidolia. Is there anyone who hasn't spent some time watching clouds, finding all kinds of animals in puffy cumuli or faces in a towering cumulonimbus? How about that rock formation resembling a face, a sphinx, an old woman? Could it be that the bacterial colonies spreading across this agar plate have formed a smiley face?
The moon rabbit has been a subject of tales and legends all over the world. It features most prominently in Asian and some indigenous American folklores. A popular legend has an old man begging for food. Other animals brought what they could gather but the rabbit, having nothing to bring, offered its body as a meal by throwing itself into the fire. The man, turning out to be a deity, saved the rabbit from the flames and rewarded it by putting its image on the moon for all to see.
The dark spots on the lunar surface can be seen from anywhere on Earth. Early astronomers mistook them for large bodies of water and named them accordingly. The poet is observing the patterns of the moon's seas until the magic happens and she can see the rabbit. The moon may but need not be full. A few days before or after the image is just as discernible, and perhaps the observation has been made over a longer period of time.
Thank you, Lorin, for a memorable verse."
Lorin Ford will be offered the opportunity to select the next verse. Lorin, please contact me, either in a reply below or by e-mail ([email protected]) to let me know whether you accept this offer. If you do, I will ask you to choose the next verse in accordance with the requirements listed below and to write a paragraph or two about your selection and send it to me on Wednesday morning (July 26, eastern US time) so that I can incorporate it in the next posting, which appears on the following day. If you would rather not make the selection, I will do so, but I would prefer to know that I'll be doing that as early as possible
Verse thirty will be an autumn verse, written in two lines, the second in this series of three autumn verses. Verse thirty will also be the final verse in the ha (middle section) of the renku. I've heard a variety of ideas about what that might mean in terms of the appropriate tone. As part of the ha, this verse is still in the party section. But there is also the possibility of subtly anticipating the calmness and pleasantry of the Kyu (verses 31 – 36 in a Kasen renku).
Verse thirty must link to the twenty-ninth verse (and only the twenty-ninth verse) but it also must clearly shift away from it in terms of scene, subject, and tone.
You will have until Tuesday night to make your offers. The Haiku Foundation site has been busy lately and the link to our renku session has not always been obvious on the home page. There is a permanent "Renku Sessions" button a little further down the home page and you can always reach the current session via this route. We will continue to check for new verse offers through each Tuesday.
With best wishes to all,
New Calendar to Date
new calendar
a year of
"Natural Wonders"
- –John Stevenson
a clownfish offers
the first greeting
- –Peter Newton
taking a fistful
of freshly tilled earth
to my cheek
- –Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy
café aromas
on the warm breeze
- –Maureen Virchau
sound of a flute
slowly rising
with a hazy moon
- –Dru Philippou
flickering light of a bike
from the side road
- –Marina Bellini
under the bed-sheet
tales of bold highwaymen
and horse-drawn coaches
—Lorin Ford
has the lord executed
his droit du seigneur
—Polona Oblak
Jimmy Carter
and Rosalynn
on the kiss cam
—Judt Shrode
after the picnic
some spirited croquet
—Michael Henry Lee
the old quarry
so deep and cold
and daring
—Mary Kendall
her scars stay hidden
though the neckline plunges
–Debbie Feller
each time I wake
the moon lights
something different
—Gabrielle Higgins
the whir of dragonfly wings
in the remaining heat
—Sally Biggar
a neutrino
passes through the chestnut
and the worm, too
—Lorin Ford
the tension of the needle
piercing linen
—Carmen Sterba
Dutchman's breeches
sprout along a cliff's
ragged edge
—Maureen Virchau
six pairs of boots
by the pilgrim shrine
–Polona Oblak
in full flight
fledglings skim
through the archway
–Barbara A. Taylor
my toddler puts her milk glass
on the kitchen counter
–Paul MacNeil
on the store's intercom
comes a cleanup request
for aisle thirteen
–Michael Henry Lee
recalling where they were
on Jerusalem Day
–Debbie Feller
falling north and south
of the peace wall
—Marion Clarke
Tolstoy in Russian
by a roaring fire
–Michael Henry Lee
could it be
that women prefer
a room with a view?
—Karen Cesar
absinthe and "that look"
as they suck on sugar cubes
–Betty Shropshire
date nights
for conversation
–Marietta McGregor
all the agar plates
–Polona Oblak
lunar maria
resolving into
the rabbit
–Lorin Ford


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Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) have partnered to help researchers and healthcare professionals improve patient care and explore new treatments for Parkinson's Disease through big data analytics.
The medical community's approach to Parkinson's disease has changed little since Dr. James Parkinson first described the condition in 1817, Todd Sherer, CEO of MJFF, said in a webcast news conference. "We are limited now by our ability to track the disease in an objective way and we rely on subjective measurements," he noted. "Assessment tools have not advanced dramatically since [1817]."
Intel and MJFF aim to change that, said Diane Bryant, senior VP and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group, through a jointly developed open solution that includes wearable devices, smartphones, and Cloudera CDH Hadoop-based big data analytic.
[For more on the potential of wearable devices in healthcare, see Wearable Tech Can Extend Clinical Analytics.]
Patients who suffer from the neurological disease, which affects about 5 million people worldwide, face symptoms such as tremors, sleep disruption, unsteady gait, and rigidity. In its first test of the new solution, 25 individuals -- 16 patients and nine control volunteers -- wore smartwatches to collect data on symptoms over four days and two clinic visits. Data was shared with search partners at Mount Sinai Hospital and Tel Aviv Medical Center in Israel.
All information is anonymized and secured in transmission and analysis, Bryant said. Going forward, patients' smartphones could transmit this information to the Hadoop solution for analysis. All information is anonymized and secured in transmission and analysis, Bryant added, and because it's an open system, other pilots or full-scale rollouts could use a variety of wearable devices from multiple vendors.
Currently, many physicians ask Parkinson's patients to keep daily logs with pen and paper, a time-consuming and error-prone task that individuals often fail to complete. Data scientists now are correlating digital data and manually collected patient information to develop algorithms to measure symptoms, according to Intel.
"I know that many doctors tell their patients to keep a log to track their Parkinson's," said Bret Parker, 46, who lives with Parkinson's. "I am not a compliant patient on that front. I pay attention to my Parkinson's, but it's not everything I am all the time. The wearables did that monitoring for me in a way I didn't even notice, and the study allowed me to take an active role in the process for developing a cure."
Wearable devices can capture more than 300 observations per minute, per patient. Intel's big data platform, housed in an Amazon Web Services cloud, uses an analytics application Intel developed to process and find changes in real-time. This allows researchers to objectively measure the disease's progress and eventually determine how various treatments help patients.
Soon, Bryant noted, the platform also could incorporate patient genome and clinical trial data, along with machine learning and graph analytics, to further support researchers' work.
This work could also help patients suffering from other conditions, Sherer pointed out, because Parkinson's disease includes symptoms seen across different illnesses or patient groups. In addition, the platform could be replicated to address the big data and analytics needs of researchers in other healthcare fields or even beyond the medical market, Bryant added.
Intel's involvement in Parkinson's research developed when Andy Grove, the company's third employee and a foundation board member who suffers from the condition, brought the idea to Bryant's team. Intel data scientists met with MJFF members, researchers, and patients to better understand the challenges faced by those with Parkinson's disease.
Relatively few Parkinson's patients participate in clinical trials, which are expensive, Bryant said, and researchers limit their sharing. To spur more research initiatives, MJFF has previously shared de-identified patient data and bio-samples with qualified researchers. Through its partnership with Intel, Sherer said, the foundation hopes to attract the attention of many more researchers through crowdsharing.
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