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Sometimes it doesn't take much effort to bring out the flavors in an ingredient and roasting asparagus in the oven is one of those times. Lightly seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper, asparagus is not only a delicious accompaniment to any main course, it's also rich in vitamins and antioxidants.
Lately, I've received a lot of mail requesting recipes that take little or no preparation time - for the busy student, hard working professional, or web junkies eager to get back to surfing online. Since I've been working fairly long hours lately, I haven't been able to spend much time in the kitchen. When I do cook, it's basic but flavorful fare. This asparagus recipe is one that requires less than five minutes of preparation time and works well with most entrees (which can be prepared while the asparagus is in the oven).
First, place a rack into the center of your oven and preheat it to 350°F. While the oven is warming up, wash the asparagus to remove any dirt particles that may be lodged in the tips or stuck to the stalks. Snap off the bottoms of the asparagus stalks. The bottom of the stalk is fibrous and not very pleasant to eat, so just grab the bottom and bend until it snaps. Let the stalk snap at a natural breaking point as close to the cut end as possible. This position will be different for each stalk, but will very nearly guarantee that all your asparagus stalks will be tender. (Cutting off the bottoms doesn't work too well since you have to guess where the stalk stops being tender.)
Pour about 1 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil per pound of asparagus onto a sheet pan lined with aluminum foil (for easy clean up - saving time after cooking and dining is important too).
Using your hands, roll the asparagus through the oil and rub them against each other until the oil coats them all. Spread the asparagus out in the sheet pan to form a single layer. Apply freshly ground black pepper and salt to the oiled asparagus.
Place the asparagus laden sheet pan into the oven and allow it to roast for 10 to 15 minutes.
Roasting the asparagus until it just changes color from a medium green to a dark green will result in tender but still somewhat crisp texture. Continuing to roast until some light browning appears will provide a mushy and somewhat limp texture with a heightened flavor. Continuing to roast will dehydrate the asparagus and result in a fibrous mass in the shape of blackened asparagus.
This recipe can be doubled or quadrupled without adding additional roasting time. If you need to use more than one sheet pan, then set two racks near the 1/3 and 2/3 positions in the oven. After about 6 or 7 minutes or roasting, rotate the pans and finish.
Roasted Asparagus
(serves 2)
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)
1 lb. (450 g) asparagus
season to taste
roast 10-15 minutes
1 Tbs. (15 mL) extra virgin olive oil
Salt & pepper
Copyright 2005 Michael Chu
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:15 am
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I ususally add a chopped shallot, or a chopped slice or two of red onion, if I can't find any shallots. It caramelises in the oven, and adds a nice flavor.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:15 am
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This is a little (actually, a lot) less healthy, but quite tasty.
On some foil put about 1/4 of an inch of butter. (oil would work too)
Then put half-a-bundle of asparagus on there.
Drop in a chunk or 2 of garlic.
Sprinkle on some Johnny's Seasoning Salt
tightly wrap the foil up, so no juices escape
toss on the BBQ at medium heat.
It usually takes about 15 minutes for mine to be done the way I like. You get some nice soft (and cooked) chunks of garlic too.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:15 am
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I usually pan fry them. I'll have to give this a try.
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Chris Bellamy
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:16 am
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I like to cut the asparagus up, put it in a covered baking dish, and add the zest and juice of one lemon to the other ingredients you mention, and cook it for the same amount of time. Yummy! For an extra special dish, i also sometimes add a can of marinated artichoke hearts.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:16 am
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This approach on the grill is equally delicious (top grill for a little less heat - unless you like it a little charred, like I do). ---Kay
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:17 am
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Great idea to roast asparagus! We usually steam it....
I just learned that there is a use for the bottom discarded part of the asparagus (other than putting it into the garden compost heap). Patricia Wells, in "The Paris Cookbook", suggests making asparagus velouté out of the bottom halves of asparagus stalks, leeks, olive oil, chicken stock and seasalt. She serves the velouté in espresso cups as an appetizer.
The following is not exactly the same as Wells' recipe but the method is similar.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:17 am
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I follow the same recipe with the following twist.
I place the asparagus, 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls of water, 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls of virgin olive oil and salt to taste in a Reynolds "Hot Bag" and place it on the grill. Seal the "Hot Bag" and remove after 5 or 6 minutes -- careful not to leave on the grill too long.
ANTHONY J. PATTI, Esq.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:17 am
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Instead of rolling the asparagus through the oil with your hands, try tossing the stalks in a ziploc bag with just a little oil. It takes very little to coat a lot of asparagus.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:18 am
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DaveC here...
1. 500 degrees for 8 minutes works fine.
2. I always use kosher salt - I like a coarser salt on these.
3. When they're done, sprinkle on some freshly grated parmesan cheese, or, while the asparagi are cooking, fry up a tablespoon or two of capers (drain them first & pat them dry if they are coming from a jar) for about one minute in a bit of olive oil. Delicious!
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Patrick Corcoran
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:18 am
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If you've never before tried roasting asparagus, you will be amazed... it is incredibly easy and has become the only way I cook them now. (With the sole exception that I sometimes blanche them in boiling salt water for 2 minutes and toss them in an ice bath -- this preparation is mainly for salads.)
Another seasoning variety for roasted asparagus is to use toasted sesame oil instead of olive oil. Grate a light amount of fresh ginger over the spears, and then drizzle the whole assembly with some low-sodium soy sauce. This is still a "busy schedule" kind of dish, but one which causes people to sit up and take notice of the unique character of the dish.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:18 am
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I love this recipe and have been making my asparagus this way for a while...i suggest shaving off some real parmesano reggiano on them before you bake at high heat. Crispy cheezey goodness.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:18 am
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Another variation is to add a mixture of soy sauce and ginger.
It's my favorite!
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:19 am
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good tips! I'm another fan of the "ziploc trick"
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:19 am
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re: ziploc bag
I feel that rolling the asparagus in olive oil by hand is just as effective as the ziploc bag - but after I simply wash my hands. Washing a ziploc bag is troublesome and just throwing a large one away after oiling asparagus seems like a waste.
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In conjunction with its current exhibition, "Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents "Female Surreal Cinema: Animation," followed by "Female Surrealist Cinema: Performance and Montage," Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater.
LACMA's Tuesday matinee is Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 dark comedy "The Trouble With Harry," which marked the feature film debut of Shirley MacLaine. http://www.lacma.org
The New Beverly Cinema presents John Frankenheimer's nightmarish 1966 thriller "Seconds," with Rock Hudson in one of his most well-received performances, on Friday evening. James Wong Howe did the black-and-white cinematography. The second bill is John Woo's 1997 "Face/Off" with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. Screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary are scheduled to appear in person. http://www.newbevcinema.com
The Autry presents two films Saturday afternoon starring the museum's namesake-singing cowboy, Gene Autry: 1941's "Down Mexico Way" and 1949's "The Big Sombrero." http://theautry.org
UCLA Film & Television Archive is collaborating with the California State Parks Foundation and Environmental Media Assn. to present The ParkFilm Fest, a daylong festival of movies Saturday at the Paramount Theatre on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. The festival, which celebrates the use of California state parks as locales in films, will present a marathon screening of the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films directed by Gore Verbinski. http://www.calparks.org/filmfest.
The archive's current celebration of Universal's centenary at the Billy Wilder Theatre features two of the studio's silent film classics Sunday evening: 1919's "Blind Husbands," starring Erich von Stroheim, who also made his directorial debut with the hit, followed by the 1925 version of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Lon Chaney in his seminal role.
The archive's Wednesday night programming at the Million Dollar Theatre in downtown L.A. presents Billy Wilder's classic 1959 gender-bender comedy "Some Like It Hot," with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
Hollywood Heritage Museum's Evening @ the Barn presents a look at "Homes of the Stars in Hollywood and Beverly Hills" Wednesday evening. Author Mike Oldham will show his vintage postcards in a video presentation. http://www.hollywoodheritage.org
The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre's Wednesday evening vintage flick is an early one from William Wyler -- the 1929 romantic comedy "The Love Trap" -- plus Vitaphone shorts. http://www.cinefamily.org
Stan Lee to host 'Avengers' screening at the Catalina Film Festival
-- Susan King
Photo: Stan Lee will be receiving an award at the Catalina Film Festival this weekend. Photo: Matt Sayles/Associated Press


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A letter in the July 1, 2008, Tomahawk Leader:
To The Editor:
"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."_
-Lucille Ball
Hard work, there is something to say about those that are willing to work hard; setting goals and working to achieve them. Not just reaching them, but working hard to get there. I recently achieved a fairly important goal, graduating college. College for me was fabulous. I cannot believe how much I learned and how much I matured in a short four years that, looking back, flew by.
Graduating high school and getting thrown into the real world was a shock. College demanded a great deal from me. There are no ivy-covered walls separating the university from the world. Challenges faced everyday by those out in the real world are also faced by college students; one in particular being financial challenges. Not only do students find themselves looking at the calendar to see the 100 pages to read by tomorrow, the 15-page paper due Friday, and the three finals next week, but there is also the looming feeling of, "How am I going to pay for this?" Unfortunately, this puts a damper on education.
Here is where opportunity set in for me. I had the opportunity to apply for a grant from the Tomahawk Area Foundation for Youth (TAFFY). Their generosity made my college career significantly less stressful. TAFFY gives those students from Tomahawk who are willing to work hard to receive an education a chance to do so by thoroughly lessening the financial burdens.
I do not think that the citizens of Tomahawk realize the effect that the TAFFY Foundation has on the city and surrounding area. This allows students the opportunity to achieve a degree and, in turn, contribute to society, resulting in a better community. For me, this would not have been possible without the assistance I received from TAFFY. TAFFY made it possible for me to focus on my education and not on, "How many hours can I work this week?
Because of the generosity of the foundation, work came second and a good education that would not only benefit me, but also help others was more easily obtainable. Their kindness has truly made a difference.
It is important the community of Tomahawk realize the overwhelming amount of generosity each and every member of TAFFY possesses. They are there to not only help students, but help the community. For this, I express my sincere appreciation and I hope that there is a new sense of gratitude from the community.
Natasha Myre
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Zamora, newswriter
SOCORRO, N.M., March 25, 2003 -- New Mexico Tech is commencing with a major upgrade of its seismology capabilities, and the research university is also poised to play a major role in a continental-scale geophysics research project that will use arrays of ultra-sensitive seismometers to obtain detailed images of the Earth's inner workings.
Last month, President Bush signed into law a 2003 Omnibus Spending Bill that includes $3 million to support new instrumentation acquisition and $30 million for the first year of operation of EarthScope. Both projects have received bipartisan Congressional support, notably from New Mexico's U. S. Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman.
The $3 million instrumentation appropriation, which was spearheaded by Senator Domenici, represents the third year of a planned $9.5 million upgrade of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) seismological instrumentation pool that is maintained and operated by the New Mexico Tech IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center, now in its fifth year of operation on the Socorro campus.
The hundreds of new instruments provided by the recent funding will be fully Internet-capable and will be used in scientific research throughout the United States and the world on earthquakes, volcanoes, and Earth structure, as well as to advance capabilities necessary to detect clandestine weapons tests. The data collected are used by hundreds of research groups, including national laboratories operated by the U. S. Department of Energy and other universities.
EarthScope is a cutting-edge science and research initiative of unprecedented scale designed to address fundamental questions about the Earth's interior.
Pending final approval of a proposal submitted to the NSF, New Mexico Tech is also positioned to take on a key role in USArray, one of the four major components of EarthScope.
Utilizing recent developments in sensor, recording, and telecommunications technology, including those funded by Senator Domenici's instrumentation appropriation, USArray will spend the next decade instrumenting the contiguous 48 United States and Alaska with a moving 600-mile by 600-mile array of small, automatic earthquake recording stations that will migrate from west to east.
Data from these instruments will be used to perform a high- resolution "CAT scan" to reveal the internal structure of the North American continent, its underlying mantle, and the Earth's core.
"Taking an analogy from our distinguished astronomy colleagues, USArray can be considered to be a 'Very Large Array,' pointed down instead of up, for imaging the deep interior of our planet and unraveling its history and ongoing geologic processes using seismic waves," says Rick Aster, professor of geophysics at New Mexico Tech and principal investigator at the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center.
"Since New Mexico Tech is hosting the primary operations of the USArray and is expanding its IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center, the immediate impacts to the university and surrounding area will include an additional $2 million in annual payroll, the creation of 14 new professional-level jobs, and new on-campus research opportunities and resources for both scientists and students, as well as significantly heightened national and international recognition for the university and the State of New Mexico," says New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López.
"By combining support from Senator Domenici with the resources of the university, we have been able to create a significant economic development in central New Mexico," López notes.
"It is particularly noteworthy that even though all 100 of the U. S. research universities that make up the IRIS consortium have been involved with planning for EarthScope, only two of the consortium members will actually have lead roles in EarthScope's operations," the Tech president adds, "and they are Stanford University and New Mexico Tech."
In addition to the New Mexico Tech-based USArray, EarthScope's other components are the San Andreas Fault Observatory, a deep observation hole drilled into the San Andreas fault; the Plate Boundary Observatory, a network of permanent and portable GPS receivers and strain meters deployed along the western coast of North America; and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, which employs a satellite capable of providing spatially continuous strain measurements over wide geographic areas.
"I anticipate that the geophysics program at New Mexico Tech will become deeply involved in the scientific analysis of data from USArray and other components of EarthScope, and in national education and outreach efforts that will stem from this momentous Earth-science project," Aster says.
Additional information on EarthScope can be found online at www.earthscope.org.


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A popular spot to stop for a meal and experience the charm of Gastown.
Whether you're looking to order catering or a good review has found you here, welcome to Brioche!
Ten years strong in the historic Gastown district, Brioche has continued to be a Vancouver staple known for serving great food both in house and on the road.
Please browse our website to learn more about your experience with us including menus, maps and reviews.


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Petit dictionnaire de termes musicaux français - roumain ♫ Mic dicţionar de termeni muzicali francez – român
these novels of ideas. You read
Aldous Huxley, Island
- By carleta
- On Thursday, 04 september 2014
Aldous Huxley, Island – Perennial Library, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-06-080985-X
Read from: August 12th to September 3rd 2014
My rating: 3/5 stars
Strange things, these novels of ideas. You read, you read, so charmed and challenged by the intellectual debate that somewhere along the road you completely forget to pay attention to the plot, to the characters and generally to all that makes the essence of a novel. And only in the end you ask yourself if it is a novel what you've just read after all. The explanation is of course quite simple: plot and characters are only embodiments of ideas and such writings, while mimicking the narrative structure, with its setup, conflict and resolution, follow subtly in fact either the Hegelian dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis or the essay questioning parts of what-how-why.
Island, the last Huxley's book, is the perfect example of such writing. It was seen as the utopian answer to the dystopian Brave New World, but is it? It seems to me both novels develop, in different ways, the same thesis: that mankind cannot stay beauty. Oh, humans may create it, recognize and even admire it for a while, but in the end they always pervert and destroy it. And beauty is not artistic creation, at least not only. Beauty is superior knowledge and constant seek of harmonious relationships – be it in or between people, or between people and nature, or between people and gods. In the name of this coveted harmony was built the World State with its strict regulations and its five casts and its fix-numbered population and its soma to appease any metaphysical anxiety, the perfect, brave new world where happiness was induced artificially from birth and knowledge was forbidden as dangerous. This is civilisation way, Huxley warned then, the Gotterdammerung of mass culture.
Thirty years after, he imagines another way to reach harmony: isolation from civilisation, reinterpretation of all the values of the society, from family to economy and politics. After identifying all the wrongs in human civilisation and finding a solution for every one of them, Pala becomes a true terrestrial paradise, whose inhabitants are in permanent touch with nature and themselves helped by (this time) a beneficial drug, moksha medicine, and by a deep and original understanding of Tantra philosophy:
If you're a Tantrik, you don't renounce the world or deny its value; you don't try to escape into a Nirvana apart from life, as the monks of the Southern School do. No, you accept the world and make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.
But of course, such a society cannot compete with the human genius of destruction. Furthermore, it is not allowed to exist (I cannot help thinking this was Huxley's foreboding of Tibet). The brave new world is waiting just around the corner for the moment to step in and swallow this world and re-create it in its image. Why?
First, because it simply isn't possible for Pala to go on being different from the rest of the world. And second, because it isn't right that it should be different.
And third, because the world as a rule has no place for Karuna, that is for compassion. The people of Pala will always be "the savages" of the World State as John was, to be isolated, ridiculed and finally destroyed. The conclusion is therefore identical in both novels: humanity cannot to be saved, for even when it is shown a glimpse of happiness it does its utmost to destroy it. And it is only natural to be this way, since the purpose of the society has never, never been to turn its members into "full-blown human beings":
What are boys and girls for in America? Answer: for mass consumption. (…) Whereas in Russia there's a different answer. Boys and girls are for strengthening the national state. (…) And in China it's the same, but a good deal more so. What are boys and girls for there? For cannon fodder, industry fodder, agriculture fodder, road-building fodder.
…I close the book with a sad smile and I realize that I probably forget one day Will Farnaby, and Robert MacPhail and Murugan and the Rani, but I will never forget the utopic society of Pala, which really believed that Shiva-Nataraja would forever dance for them, while stamping on Muyalaka, to free them of the world's malignity.


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Brazen Man Steals Puppies by Shoving Them Down His Pants [VIDEO]
It's hard to resist an adorable puppy.
Police in Orlando are on the hunt for a man who stole two puppies from a pet store by shoving them down his pants.
Authorities say the man, who was caught on surveillance camera, walked into The Puppy Stop with what looked like a family to look more legitimate and not bring attention to themselves.
The man first swiped an $800 pug before leaving the shop and then returning and pulling the same stunt with a $750 dachshund.
The owner of The Pet Stop has offered a $250 reward for anyone with information leading to the arrest of the thief.


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Rich Salz, Akami, OpenSSL Developer
TLS 1.0 was a slight modification of the original SSL protocol by Netscape, published in January 1999. Basically the same as SSL3 - it is bad, it is weak, it has no good ciphers and it's still in wide use.
TLS 1.1 came out in April 2006. It would be great to kill both TLS 1.0 and 1.1 off - but it's just too hard.
TLS 1.2 has been around since August 2008. Since then, there's been a bunch of new RFCs and algorithms from all over the world.
TLS 1.3 was approved in October 2015 in IETF.
Background on IETF: If it doesn't happen over email where everyone can see it, it didn't happen. It is divided into areas like Security, Operations, DNS, etc - each area has area directors and working groups and working group chairs. Very well laid out process, very egalitarian.
The working groups work by consensus - they demonstrate by humming, so people can't be singled out by raising hands or doing a verbal roll call. Many documents now do their iterations in GitHub.
IETF also has RFC editors who make sure final revisions follow the consistent and correct format for an RFC.
TLS 1.3 had a few goals - encrypt as much of the handshake as possible, reduce the handshake latency - ideally to one or zero roundtrip for repeated handshakes, update record payload and make it more privacy friendly.
Only uses ECDH and DHE (but nobody will use DHE - too expensive). All connections have perfect forward secrecy. Most things are encrypted (SNI is not). The most common curves will be NIST P-256 or X25519.
There will be improvements to bulk encryption. Three cipher types and two variations: ChaCha220/Poly1305, AESGCM128(256) and AESCCM 128 (256). The cipher lists and choices were just getting too long and mistakes were being made. these are the ones you need. The cipher suite no longer specifies key exchange or authentication mechanism - they are negotiated now.
The bulk encryption ciphers chose are all modern, secure and AEAD-only - in addition to confidentiality, you also get integrity (authenticity).
Authentication improvements: DSA was removed, RSA was kept and prefers RSA-PSS over PKCS #1.5.
There was general cleanup, like the removal of renegotiation (ie export crypto). Almost every message now has extensions: OCSP or Certificate Transparency stapling on server and client side. There is now padding at the TLS layer (this was slightly controversial). There is only one hash mechanism: HKDF (RFC 5869) and it's used consistently (and correctly). They've done cryptanalysis and attack events, found issues and fixed them. There will be no SHA. Does that mean SHA3 is no good? No, there were just concerns about performance and newness when TLS 1.3 work started.
SHA will still be around in certificates, though even SHA1 is being rapidly phased out.
Renegotiation is gone. There were many use cases: request client cert, "step-up" crypto algs and re-key. It was buggy and unclean and a source of problems. Only strong crypto is available.
There is allowance for session resumption. It prefers sessions over tickets. Sever can send session information at any time and the session is like PSK. PSK is like session resumption. If you're reconnecting, send data with the resumption :-) This gets you O-RTT - Zero Round Trip Tickets.
0-RTT: client connects, C&S do the ECDHE dance. Client remembers the server's key share. Next time, client reconnects and sends data encrypted with that key. This helps to avoid an extra round-trip with less latency. This makes your web faster and then we can all make more money.
0-RTT has a big butt... there is no PFS with early data. That data can be replayed elsewhere (GEt is idempotent). Nobody was really listening to these concerns until Colm@Amazon spoke and posted two weeks ago. No everybody's trying to figure out what to do. We want to do the right thing, but one of the primary goals was to improve performance - and browser vendors will use it anyways.
TLS 1.3 status is very close to IESG review. Chrome and FF and some others are at Draft-18. Draft 19 had minor changes, Draft 20 is incompatible.
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January 27–29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Join these longstanding DJ Skate Night veterans as they heat up the ice with a blazin' mix of dancefloor burners all mixed, mashed and played with love!
Event run: January 28, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at York University where she teaches the history and theory of photography.
Event run: January 29, 2012
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
New Music Concerts has commissioned Jeffrey Ryan to compose an extended vocal cycle based on The Whitening of the Ox (Inside the Zen Ox Pictures) by Canadian poet K.V. Skene for solo baritone voice (Tyler Duncan) and large chamber ensemble.
Event run: January 29, 2012
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A new season of Baahubali The Lost Legends begins as a new threat to Mahishmati arises from out of its dark past. Baahubali and Bhallaladeva find themselves exiled from their own kingdom and must journey a great distance to expose the hidden past of Mahishmati and regain the throne for the honor of Rajmata Sivagami!
As Mahishmati celebrates an era of peace the kingdom is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious stranger whose claims may shake its very foundation.
The mysterious Dharamraj stares down Sivagami and challenges her right to rule as Baahubali and Bhallaladeva have to take an unthinkable step to save their kingdom.
Baahubali and Bhallaladeva come across an unusual group of survivors in the woods as they begin their journey to save Mahishmati.
A mysterious village where the the dead come back to life haunts Baahubali and Bhallaladeva in their quest to reveal the truth about Dharamraj.
Baahubali and Bhallaladeva are under attack by unknown assailants in the dark woods as they struggle to fight back against their sinister attackers.
Baahubali has to race against time to save his brother from an ancient threat that threatens to finish Bhallaladeva off once and for all.
Dharamraj faces the biggest challenge yet to his rule - the people of Mahishmati.
Baahubali seeks an alliance with the mysterious and ruthless warriors, known only as the Obsidian Blades.
Seeking the truth about Dharamraj leads Baahubali and Bhallaladeva into a perilous journey into the desert
Separated from Bhalaladeva in the desert, Baahubali encounters the deadly and majestic desert warlord Zohravar.
Zohravar reveals a secret about Dharmaraj as Bhallaladeva plots his own agenda.
Baahubali and Bhallaladeva have run out of time as Mahishmati prepares to crown Dharamraj as their new king.
The epic saga of Dharmaraj concludes and Mahishmati will never be the same again!


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I don't tend to read my own blog that often, which means I don't spend much time looking at it. So it wasn't until I started investigating how to disable Blogger's forced lightbox viewer that I spotted I had a problem with the followers gadget on some of my blogs. Developing my original fix to that problem involved reloading my blog over and over again as I tried different things. Sometimes the followers gadget appeared and sometimes it didn't. There didn't seem to be any pattern but there was definitely a problem.
Given that a lot of the gadgets you find on blogs are JavaScript based the first thing I checked was the JavaScript console (I use Firebug in Firefox for most of my web development work) which showed the following two errors whenever the followers gadget failed to appear; window.googleapisv0 is undefined and google.friendconnect.container is undefined.
Strangely it wasn't a script associated directly with the followers gadget that solved the problem, but rather a script for the +1 button. This did, however, explain why I was only seeing the problem on my blogs which included the sharing buttons below each post. So if you find that your followers gadget sometimes doesn't appear then it might be worth trying the following fix.
You need to edit the HTML version of your template (you might be able to do this via a HTML/JavaScript gadget as well but I've had less success) so in the old style Blogger dashboard go to the design page or in the new style go to the template page and then click to edit the HTML version of your template. Now directly after
<head> insert the following:
<script src='https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'/>
This fixed the problem for me, and I've suggested the fix in a couple of threads on the Blogger forum and it seems to have worked there as well, so hopefully it should stop your followers gadget disappearing for good!


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Apple's Big Blue Dilemma
Aug 5, 2014 2:18 PM PT
Apple reportedly is gearing up to do what it does best -- introduce a new gadget or two. Word is the company will hold a spellbinding iPhone event come Sept. 9.
With the dust not quite settled over Apple's recently announced liaison with IBM, it will be interesting to see whether there are any new corporate nuances in the upcoming presentation. Will Apple maintain its strong consumer focus, or will enterprise interests begin to seep in and threaten to vaporize the company's cool factor?
The shift -- if there is any -- is not likely to be dramatic or immediate. However, at some point, the need for enterprise security might outweigh the value of adding a cool new feature, for example, and Apple might go that route, risking consumer disfavor for greater acceptance in the enterprise.
From Apple's perspective, it's highly unlikely that the team-up is viewed as a trade-off. Instead, it adds another string to Apple's bow. IBM will develop custom apps in industry verticals and sell iPhones and iPads to the enterprise. What's not to like?
Even from the enterprise perspective, it arguably would be foolish for Apple to divert its attention from the consumer. It was broad consumer acceptance that led to the iPad's penetration of the enterprise, after all. Remember the stories a few years ago of C-level executives bringing iPads in to work and demanding IT find a way to get them into the corporate network infrastructure?
Any potential freeze, if not shrinkage, of Apple's consumer base also would impact its earnings in other ways. Advertisers would be turned off by the smaller potential market if consumers were to turn away from Apple. IT would hardly be likely to allow ads on corporate iDevices.
That would translate to fewer purchases of music, apps and publications from the iTunes App Store, which in turn would reduce Apple's cut of the developers' take.
All You Need Is Love
So, will Apple's partnership with IBM blur its focus on the consumer?
"No way!" snorted Ezra Gottheil, a principal analyst at Technology Business Research.
"Apple's entire business and its culture are based on focusing constantly on the end user and the end user's experience," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Apple has a history of accommodating what organizations want -- both in education and in corporate America -- so long as that doesn't impinge on the user experience, Gottheil pointed out.
"This is what the company is -- not what the company does," he said. "This approach also leads to enormous business success."
Shifting its focus to the enterprise "would be the destruction of Apple as it is now, and the creation of a new and different company with the same name," Gottheil maintained.
Indeed, "we love our users, we love them," the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs said during a 2010 press conference.
The Business of America Is Business
On the other hand, current CEO Tim Cook is "more of an enterprise guy" than Jobs was, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "There is a tendency to change the company to match your skillset if you're a CEO, and not the other way around."
Cook's and Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer's focus at the company's Q1 2014 earnings call may be taken as an indicator: They told analysts that the iPhone is used in 97 percent of the Fortune 500 and 91 percent of the Global 500; the iPad is used in 98 percent of the Fortune 500 and 93 percent of the Global 500.
Enterprise revenue "is a massive incentive, and Cook is more focused on the top than the bottom line -- so I think [Apple] will go in this direction regardless of the risks," Enderle opined.
The Apple-IBM partnership will give enterprises one point person to go to when they experience difficulties with their mobile solutions, observed Carl Howe, a research vice president at the Yankee Group.
Apple will offer 24x7 premium AppleCare to enterprise customers, and IBM staff will provide field service.
Implications for BYOD
Over the past few years, corporations have moved toward a Bring Your Own Device approach that allows staff to use their personal mobile devices for work.
BYOD has let Android devices make inroads into the enterprise market. They have been given a boost by Samsung's Knox technology, some of which recently was turned over to Google.
The IBM-Apple partnership will give iOS users access to Big Blue's Big Data analytics, which "opens up a large market opportunity for Apple," Cook said.
It will strengthen Apple's hand against Android in the enterprise.
Further, IBM's custom apps will be hardened.
Something for Everyone
"The unspoken element that makes this deal important is trust," Howe said. "As one of the most trusted vendors in IT organizations, IBM brings many decades of enterprise credibility to Apple that ... would have taken years to develop."
While in the past IT used to say that no IT manager ever got fired for buying IBM, the partnership "now means that no one will get fired for buying Apple either," he suggested.
That doesn't necessarily mean the consumer will lose out.
"From Apple's perspective, this move is brilliant," Jeff Orr, a senior practice director at ABI Research, told the E-Commerce Times.
"It will let Apple continue its focus on the consumer and address any of the opposition that says it is ignoring the enterprise," Orr continued. "Now Apple can point to its friend IBM."


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The Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX) file format has the .xlsb extension. This file type originates from Microsoft Excel. However, other spreadsheet software can be used to display these files as well. These include:
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Former Glendale Police Capt. Ray Edey is not one to relax, so when he had the opportunity to return to writing grant applications for the city in September 2011, about a week after he retired, he took it.
"I don't golf, fish or hunt," said the 30-year employee. "I need to keep my mind busy."
In addition to more work, he also reaped more money. He took home both an annual pension of $198,386 and a self-reported salary of roughly $80,000 a year until about four months ago.
Edey is one of 46 city employees who, since 2000, retired and then returned to work at City Hall, according to an analysis of records from Glendale and California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS.
City officials call the practice a money-saver. Critics call it "double-dipping."
Pension reform has been in the limelight nationally as public agencies grapple with rising liabilities. While the public has been stunned by underfunded pension systems into the hundreds of millions of dollars, news of government employees collecting two paychecks has also sparked its own controversy, experts said.
"When they find out about it, they're usually not very happy," said Jack Dean, editor of pensiontsunami.com, a project of the conservative California Public Policy Center. "The average taxpayer assumes when you start collecting a pension, you've retired. If [employees] really wanted to continue working, they should continue working."
Of the rehired Glendale retirees, 37% are from the police department, a common situation since the retirement age among public safety personnel tends to be lower than other employee groups.
But when Police Chief Ron De Pompa, who is set to make $103 an hour and collect an annual pension of roughly $192,000, hears the term double-dipping, he gets frustrated.
"People really don't understand the system," he said, adding that employees contribute portions of their paychecks to their pensions.
It could also take months before a newly retired employee starts collecting benefits, De Pompa added, and it's difficult to fill high-ranking positions, such as Edey's.
But Rosanna Westmoreland, a CalPERS spokeswoman, said the goal is to have benefits paid within 90 days of receiving a retirement application and a mixture of employee and employer contributions fund benefit checks from the beginning.
By returning to work, De Pompa said he and Edey saved the Police Department more than $40,000 that would have gone to cover the full-time benefits of their replacements. Those savings, he said, can cover overtime clocked by other employees.
"If you look at it from the city's point of view, we do save money bringing them in part-time rather than hiring full-time," said Councilman Ara Najarian. "If you look at it from the employee's point of view, it's very lucrative for them. It's very generous compensation."
While David Draine, senior researcher at Pew Charitable Trusts, affirmed double-dipping as an accurate term, he said it's the system that should be criticized, not employees.
"They're not breaking the rules, they're following the rules," Draine said.
Some states, such as Florida, have adopted programs that hold pension payments in a trust account — which can collect interest — if employees continue to work and draw a paycheck from the public agency. At the end of their extra service, which is limited to about five years, they can access the deferred benefits.
Part of the incentive to "double dip" is due to the retirement age being so low, experts said.
Glendale, as well as the state, has increased retirement ages in recent years. Long-time Glendale workers can retire at 55, or 50 for public safety employees. The retirement age for new hires who weren't formerly part of CalPERS is now 62 and 55, respectively.
CalPERS has guidelines for employment after retirement, but they can be circumvented. Public safety employees and those with specialized skills are exempted from a six-month waiting period before returning.
Former city employees are also free to work at private companies. Former Glendale City Manager Jim Starbird — the city's top pension earner at $238,686 a year — works as a principal at the city's sales tax consultant firm. And former City Atty. Scott Howard, who draws a $191,080 annual pension, works at a downtown Los Angeles firm.
About a quarter of the rehired retirees in Glendale came back in September or October of 2012 after the city reduced its workforce to about 1,600 people through early retirements, layoffs and eliminating vacant positions. Some of them, such as John Pearson, a community services and parks project manager, were brought back on to finish projects.
Pearson was supposed to work for three months on a park project, but he's been at City Hall for double that tying up loose ends. He can collect a maximum of $1,010 a week in addition to his $35,645 annual pension, according to city documents and CalPERS records.
"While it's not a big financial driver of the pension challenges we've been seeing across the country, it doesn't reflect what voters like seeing," Draine, the pension researcher, said.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Daoust signs with the Wild
Jean-Michel Daoust, a player for the Minnesota Wild's AHL Houston Aeros team, has recently signed a one-year contract with the team. Last season, Jean-Michel was the lead scorer with 21 goals and 34 assists. These points were racked up in the 78 games the Aeros played. Jean-Michel is originally from Quebec and signed with the Houston Aeros before the 2009-10 season began. He had come from the Pittsburgh Penguins' AHL affiliate team and is really excited to finally get his chance in the NHL.
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ya hes a stellar forward. he'll do great things for the Wild this next season!
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This study will investigate the occurrence and molecular characteristics of thyroid cancer in residents of the Bryansk Oblast of the Russian Federation who were up to 50 years of age at the time of exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl Power Station accident on April 26, 1986. The study has three primary purposes: 1) to characterize cases of thyroid cancer according to specific molecular markers of genetic change, and to investigate whether the presence of such markers is associated with individual thyroid radiation dose to the thyroid from the Chernobyl accident; 2) to investigate whether age-at-exposure dependent radiation dose response for thyroid cancer differs between cancers that are positive versus negative for the molecular markers investigated; and 3) to investigate whether the presence of these same molecular markers is associated with clinical outcome. Thyroid cancer cases diagnosed between April 1, 2001 and March 31, 2005 will be identified and the diagnosis confirmed by a panel of expert thyroid pathologists. Controls, equal in number to the cases of thyroid cancer, will be selected among residents in the Bryansk Oblast, without thyroid cancer, individually matched to cases by sex, age, type of settlement and raion. For all cases and controls, the following information will be collected: 1) demographic and health history; 2) details of residential and dietary history; 3) physical samples from the home; and 4) a blood sample. Individual radiation dose to the thyroid will be estimated for each case and control. Paraffin embedded tissue or fresh frozen tissue will be obtained for each case to assess tyrosine kinase growth factor and tyrosine kinase receptor expression, and to assess gene amplificaton in each sample for purposes of estimating the association between the presence of each of the markers and individual thyroid radiation dose. Clinical history and outcome data will be collected from medical records for investigation of the association between adverse clinical outcome (e.g. recurrence) and individual thyroid radiation dose, patient characteristics, and molecular markers of genetic change.


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2. Sheila Jackson Lee, Queen of the 'Aisle Hogs' at State of the Union. Before Tuesday's ceremonies, Texas on the Potomac noted some local lawmakers who made Salon.com's list of "aisle-hogs," those who consistently get a premium spot to see the president before his speech. Richard Dunham reports >>
3. Texas State co-ed isn't congressman's lover — she's his secret daughter. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., set aside rumors that his flirtatious tweets to a Texas State student were an affair, and announced it was a long-lost daughter. Joanna Raines reports >>
4. The Hug: Ted Nugent embraces Sheila Jackson Lee. Really! After the State of the Union speech, the Houston lawmaker embraced the gun-control opponent. Richard Dunham reports >>
5. Sheila Jackson Lee is only Texas lawmaker to receive donations from gun-control groups. Though she embraced Ted Nugent, the Houston lawmaker was the only member of the Texas delegation to receive contributions from the gun control lobby. Richard Dunham reports >>
6. House officials order Steve Stockman to take down 'Obama Failometer'. The Capitol Sergeant-at-arms orders Stockman to drop a 10-foot sign posted outside his Capitol Hill office. Alison Sullivan reports >>
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BANGKOK — An anti-corruption body on Thursday recommended criminal charges against Thailand's ousted prime minister over her government's rice subsidy program, which cost the country's billions of dollars.
National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Vicha Mahakun said the commission voted unanimously that former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra committed dereliction of duty for failing to stop the program, a flagship policy of her administration.
"The defendant insisted on continuing the rice subsidy, causing further damages to the state, even though she had the direct authority to stop or cancel the government's rice scheme to prevent more corruption and losses, which is considered the biggest loss to the country," Vicha said.
The commission had already ruled in May that Yingluck was liable for impeachment because her government's rice policy was prone to corruption and massive losses. That decision came one day after she was ousted by a court over alleged abuse of power. The military seized power in a coup later that month.
Vicha said the commission will forward the case to prosecutors next week for indictment by the country's supreme court for political office-holders.
The rice subsidy program, which paid the farmers double the market price, helped Yingluck's government win votes in the 2011 general election, but it accumulated losses of at least $4.4 billion and also cost Thailand its position as the world's leading rice exporter for two years.
Yingluck has not spoken publicly since the coup, but she defended the program while in office as a benefit to the country.
The anti-graft commission, one of several independent state agencies with powers similar to those of a court, is seen as part of the country's conservative establishment, which has removed several governments allied with Yingluck's brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He was ousted by a military coup in 2006.
Junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree said earlier Thursday that the government gave permission for Yingluck to travel overseas for the first time since the military took power. Thai media speculated she and her son will go to France to celebrate the birthday of Thaksin, who fled overseas in 2008 to avoid a corruption conviction. Thaksin turns 65 on July 26.
The junta agreed to Yingluck's request to leave Thailand on a personal trip to Europe from July 20 to Aug. 10 since she "has not violated any orders of the NCPO or any agreements, being the ban from politics or the ban on overseas travels" and "has given good cooperation all along," said junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree.
Yingluck, along with other former Cabinet ministers, were summoned and held briefly by the military after the May 22 coup. Upon their release, the detainees were asked to sign a form saying they will not go abroad without the junta's permission and that they will not engage in any kind of political action.


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Bowling? I'll be happy to win 5 games at this point ** -- BrevardHoo 03/13/2017 3:56PM
Depth Chart Highlights and Concerns -- JR_Hoo 03/10/2017 2:55PM
Benkert was essentially a first year starter, without spring practice -- Beetle 03/12/2017 09:56AM
But he started well, finished poorly... -- sasha 03/13/2017 10:27AM
Excellent points..I think he'll be very good this season ** -- Hoos1&1 03/12/2017 3:48PM
A couple of names you left off -- TY-HOO 03/11/2017 8:44PM
Still looking for speed at WR ** -- 141lile 03/11/2017 2:05PM
Reed and now Pratt are both big and fast. We have speed elsewhere -- Beetle 03/12/2017 10:10AM
Re: Depth Chart Highlights and Concerns -- rocket 03/11/2017 09:57AM
I'm not as high on the WRs. We always seem to have good depth at that -- PCB HOO 03/11/2017 09:51AM
NT and QB, then a couple others -- 4thYear5th 03/11/2017 09:20AM
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Remember you're taliking abiut a 2 win program ** -- gohoos 03/10/2017 9:36PM
Nice thoughts -- Aquarian81 03/10/2017 9:23PM
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I'm excited about the potential at RB, but we're in a rare spot -- JR_Hoo 03/10/2017 6:19PM
Benkert will start, but Zanders will be on his heels -- Hoo23 03/10/2017 3:35PM
OL and Rbs are always connected. -- 141lile 03/11/2017 08:02AM
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Friday, February 10, 2012
First Day Of Wake
Went to the funeral parlour, went to buy some black pants for my nephew and niece, drove to church... by the time we finished driving here and there, it was almost 2pm when we reached home...
I was exhausted and I think I dozed off immediately on my sofa.... but woke up at the sound of my phone ringing an hour later, I think...
Anyway, a short nap helps to freshen up the mind.. At 6pm or so, we had to go to the funeral parlour in town... but now I am back... 11pm... hungry... and eating two slices of bread with sambal dried prawns as fillings...
Tomorrow will be another day....
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take care. Dont faint.ReplyDelete
May God watch over you and your family, Claire. Take care... dun get too exhausted.ReplyDelete
kathy: hopefully i wont..ReplyDelete
cleff: thank you..
Hope everyone stays strong during thee hard times. My condolences to your sister and her family.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2012 at 1:20 AM
My condolences to you and your family, Claire. I hope all goes well after this terrible event. Stay strong.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry you have to go through this Claire. Condolences to you and your family. You are in our prayers. =)ReplyDelete
Take care. I'm very tired too, but ok now...hopefully. Will post on it in a day or two.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM
My heartfelt condolences, Claire. Please take care and God Bless. KGReplyDelete
take good care ClaireReplyDelete
- Irene TanFebruary 11, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Take care of yourself too. May the Blessing of the Lord be upon you & your sister's family.ReplyDelete
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isaac: thanks!
Irene: thanks to u too.
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NMT Ph.D. Candidate Studies Upper Rio Grande Runoff Processes, Dec. 14, 2007
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Dec. 14, 2007 – New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Marty D. Frisbee can often be found hiking the high elevations of the northern San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado, not in hopes of taking in more of the beautiful scenery, but in trying to better understand the runoff and recharge processes of the Upper Rio Grande.
Frisbee's research study of a portion of the headwaters of the Rio Grande, titled "Runoff Processes and the Evolution of Water Chemistry in the Saguache Creek Watershed of the Upper Rio Grande," is funded in large part by the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI).
"So far, during the first two years of this study, we're beginning to see some very interesting temporal and spatial trends in the stream, spring, and groundwater chemistry of our field samples," Frisbee says. "After analyzing water samples collected from 32 spring and stream sampling locations ranging from the headwaters to the lower reaches of this particular subcatchment, we're finding that stream chemistry appears to be heavily dependent upon groundwater contributions. Also, some interesting trends in chemistry emerge as the sampling scale changes within the watershed.
"Not a lot is known about the nature of deep groundwater flow within a mountain block, and, consequently, not much is know about deep groundwater contributions to streamflow in these settings, but what we're finding is that these contributions from the fractured bedrock may be significant," he adds.
Furthermore, Frisbee's initial findings about the water chemistry of streams in the high reaches of the San Luis Valley, which is being done in conjunction with his faculty and research advisor, New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred Phillips, is likely directly applicable to watersheds found in geologically similar mountain ranges, such as the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas.
"The results of this study will aid in understanding the partitioning of water and also will help develop better distributed models that simulate and predict mountain front recharge and flow and transport at high-elevation catchments," Frisbee says. "Also, the information we gain on water residence times, flow paths, and runoff mechanisms in headwater systems of the Rio Grande can be applied to larger-scale climate change models of the region."
Frisbee and his research colleagues at New Mexico Tech have used much of the WRRI funding made available for this particular study to purchase and install equipment to continuously monitor and data-log the chemistry at a long-term monitoring site located in the lower reach of the stream. Other lab equipment was purchased to measure the chemical composition of samples which are collected along a longitudinal transect of Saguache Creek.
A typical set of field measurements includes conductivity, pH, temperature, TDS, and various chemical components naturally present in the water, such as chloride, sodium and calcium.
"It takes at least three or four days to retrieve the collected data from all the monitoring stations and gauge the flow at each site situated throughout this watershed during each sampling trip," Frisbee says. "And then after that, there's a good deal of lab work involved to identify and evaluate these deep groundwater contributions to streamflow. . . . Nevertheless, my research at New Mexico Tech has introduced me to some beautiful places, which is a fringe benefit of studying hydrology."


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Socorro's First "Community Yard Sale" Set for August 18
by Tiffany Chisum
SOCORRO, N.M., July 11, 2007 – Socorro is scheduled to have its first "Community Yard Sale" on Saturday, August 18, 2007. The community wide event will be centered mainly on the Socorro Plaza, in conjunction with the weekend Farmer's Market.
The Community Yard Sale will include food and arts & crafts vendors, along with entertainment in the gazebo and activities for children. Socorro businesses are also being encouraged by event sponsors to open up their doors and actively participate by holding Sidewalk Sales throughout town.
With New Mexico Tech's New Student Registration Day being held on Friday, August 17, and regular Registration Day scheduled for August 20, Socorro's biggest yard sale ever promises to be a perfect time for Tech students to pick up some of those remaining needed items.
"It is also a great time for returning students to get rid of unwanted or no longer–needed–things that have accumulated over the semesters and are really no longer of use," said Deborah Dean, coordinator of the event. "What is that old saying, 'One man's trash is another man's treasure?'"
The city wide sale is a part of the Keep Socorro Beautiful Campaign, which is an affiliate of New Mexico Clean & Beautiful Campaign. The program is designed to deal with the issues of litter control, beautification, recycling, graffiti, and weed eradication.
The Community Yard Sale is sponsored by the City of Socorro, in partnership with the local Farmer's Market. Organizers hope that this will become an annual event here in Socorro.
"I think it is good for the community and tourism," said Dean, who also works as the tourism director for the City of Socorro.
The Socorro County Chamber of Commerce is also involved by encouraging its business members to participate in Sidewalk Sales.
The event will run from 8 a.m. until noon; however, if there is a bigger turn out than expected (and people can handle the heat) it may well run longer. Yard sale vendor spaces currently are available for $5; food vendor spaces are $25; and arts & crafts
vendor spaces are $5 for the day or can participate in the Farmer's Market or $25 for the season. For more information on the upcoming Community Yard Sale, contact Dean at (505) 835-8927.


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Matt Leinart never developed into the kind of NFL starter that the Cardinals anticipated when they took him 10th overall in 2006, but his NFL career will continue all the same.
Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports reports that the Bills will sign Leinart to help them shore up the quarterback spot with both E.J. Manuel and Kevin Kolb battling injuries. Leinart and John Beck were both in Buffalo to work out for the team on Sunday, which leaves Beck to look elsewhere for a job. That could wind up being in the AFC East, where the Jets are reportedly interested after Mark Sanchez injured his shoulder in the latest episode of their quarterbacking soap opera.
A league source confirmed to PFT that Leinart is joining the Bills and adds that he could wind up starting in Week One against the Patriots.
Leinart played in two games for the Raiders last season and spent the two seasons before that as a backup with the Texans. He got one start in Houston in 2011 after Matt Schaub was lost for the year with a foot injury, but broke his collarbone and T.J. Yates steered the Texans into the playoffs.
Leinart will join Jeff Tuel, an undrafted rookie, on the roster for this week's final preseason games. Whether he lasts beyond that will likely have to do with how well Manuel and Kolb progress in their recoveries.