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Spirit Airlines will begin charging some travelers $100 for carry-on bags that require overhead bin space, more than doubling its current $45 fee. It's the largest such fee charged by any airline for either a carry-on or checked bag.
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When I go to "Add a new lineup" and try to preview one of the C-Band lineups or the 4DTV lineup it shows me an empty list. I tried multiple postal/ZIP codes. Am I doing something wrong or does it not work? I'm trying to get PBSHD and some other channels that are on C-Band FTA.
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Beaufort County has permission from transportation agencies to accept a bid for the bridge connecting Bluffton Parkway to the Hilton Head Island bridge after contract issues delayed the project.
State and federal agencies bounced back the six contract bids in August primarily because of issues "complying with wage regulation and Davis-Bacon Act requirements," said Rob McFee, director of engineering and infrastructure. The New Deal era law established wage requirements for projects using federal money.
"They included outdated wage and hours scales, so that had to be fixed," said Pete Poore, director of communications for the S.C. Department of Transportation. He directed further specifics to the federal Department of Transportation's Office of Public Affairs, which was closed.
Agencies cleared Kentucky-based R.R. Dawson to construct the "flyover" bridge passing over the marsh from Bluffton Parkway's intersection with Buckingham Plantation Drive to the Karl S. Bowers Bridge over Hilton Head Island.
Fuel and labor expenses pushed cost estimates to about $34 million from $31 million, and bids arrived about 7 percent above that, McFee said. Impact fees from developers and penny sales tax proceeds will make up the difference from $15 million in grants.
The contract requires County Council approval, and construction is scheduled to begin before the end of the year, though Mcfee "could not say within any degree of specificity."
The project is expected to take between 24 and 30 months.
Construction won't result in daytime lane closures on a bridge crossed by upwards of 64,000 vehicles a day.
"That doesn't mean we'll build everything at night," McFee said. "It means we won't close the lanes during the day."
Meanwhile, widening of 4.5 miles of S.C. 170 between S.C. 46 and U.S. 278 from two to four lanes will begin in the "next couple of weeks" as pre-construction surveying winds down, McFee said.
A $24.9 million award from the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank pays for the bulk of the project, with impact fees and sales tax revenue footing the difference. Construction could take up to two years.
As with the U.S. 278 flyover bridge, the county has a plan to mitigate traffic buildup resulting from construction.
"Obviously (S.C.) 170 is not as heavily traveled as (U.S.) 278, but it is our intent to minimize traffic impact and we have a traffic control plan in the contract," McFee said. With the S.C. Department of Transportation managing the contract, "There will be day-to-day oversight, and if we have to change operations to avoid a particular impact, we will do that," he added.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) and Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) each scored 15 points to pace the Cobra women in their 74-72 loss to Queens University of Charlotte in Conference Carolinas women's basketball action Wednesday night.
An extremely evenly matched game, the Cobras and the Royals found themselves neck and neck in nearly every statistical category. Both teams had 39 rebounds and 17 turnovers, with Queens holding the slight advantage shooting, hitting 47.3 percent from the floor compared to Coker's 42.6 percent.
The real difference in the game came at the charity stripe where the Royals scored 18 of their points, compared to just eight points from the line for the Cobras.
Cohen and Godbout pulled down seven and six rebounds respectively in addition to scoring 15 points apiece for the Cobras. Hailey Yohn (Durham, N.C.) and Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) each scored 10 points and Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) added in nine points.
For the Royals, Shatonya Hardy had a game high 25 points with six rebounds, while Shonice Pettaway scored 16 points and Sarah Myatt had a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
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We'd love to have you follow @PlantWPurpose we just received our 4th consecutive 4 star rating for sound fiscal management from Charity Navigator! Thanks so much!
- October 13, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Jacqueline said...
Here's Life Inner City NYC is also on Twitter (http://twitter.com/HLICNYC) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HLICNewYork).
In New York City, the average cost for a meal out is $40.78 per person. This year HLIC NYC is hosting an event called "Dine In". By asking everyone to cook at home for one night and donate the money saved to sponsor a "Box of Love".
Each Box of Love feeds a family of six and includes a ham or chicken along with vegetables, potatoes, juice, yams, apple or cranberry sauce, bread, fruit, dessert, and more ... plus Scriptures and children's literature.
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Ryan Reynolds"s dog is having a lively week!
The actor"s multi-breed pooch, Baxter, has been spending quality time with a new lady – one Blake Lively – who sent tongues wagging when she stepped out with beau Reynolds this weekend in New York City.
And now tails are wagging, as the Gossip Girl star was spotted taking Baxter for a brisk walk during a break in filming her show Tuesday in Manhattan.
Lively held her teacup Maltipoo, Penny, in her arms and kept her wrapped in a fuzzy brown blanket as a leashed Baxter pounded the pavement.
Later that night, Lively and Baxter left the Gossip Girl set together, and the following morning, headed off to another day of work.
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Thursday, 24 June 2010
All Corners Else o' the Earth Let Liberty Make Use Of; Space Enough Have I in Such a Prison.
It's possible that fear isn't the only spontaneous reaction to the revelation of the unsubstantiality of the ego. All things, all energies, all responses are possible. The ego, relieved of its burden of mistaken identity, might feel joy upon letting go of itself, if that is, indeed, the mechanism of awakening. Relief is possible. Complete surrender is possible. Expansion into All is possible, the movement from a small thing to an unlimited one.
But know, fully, that whatever stories the mind weaves to make sense of boundless existence are just that - stories, fascinating tales full of comfortable hooks for the ego. Stories of subtle levels of enlightenment: just a guru, or a full satguru; simply self-realised, or fully liberated; awakened, or integrated; look them up, and find that many hierarchies of enlightenment have been catalogued, sorted, prioritised and conveniently arranged in order, from "a small glimpse of eternity" to "full liberation, without desire". "What enlightenment is like" can be, it seems, succinctly described, and this is the ideal, more or less: a perfect state of pure existence; no ideas, no thoughts, no desires, no needs, no changes, no doubts, no imagination; just being. No humanity. No passion. No desire to participate in the drama, although the drama is participated in, by no one, not by an ego, not by a mind, not by a persona or identity. This is the top level. This is the ultimate. This is what the ego can aspire to, if it will only give itself up. It starts with a revelation and ends, through an apparent slow process in time, with the death of the ego, still in the body, a stateless state, reached on a pathless path, the best of the best.
Question it; question it all; if there be mind, this is what mind excels at. And live it; live it all; the doubts, the passions, the lack of desire, the intimate, all-consuming longing, the pain of suffering and resistance. This is what is happening already. This is what is, whether there is mind and thought and concept or not. Whatever conclusions are arrived at (or dismissed), it is a movable feast. What is certain is that whatever is experienced, it is experienced just as it must be, for it is.
This clip, from Bullets Over Broadway, is a masterclass of the pull of the drama (or melodrama!) of the ego and its interactions with the world. And what a fine study of an ego...Dianne Wiest won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress) for her interpretation of an aging grand dame of the theatre. Note how her immovable stance on the role in question does an about-face, seamlessly, when confronted with a few lines of well-constructed flattery...and the sweetly vulnerable revelation, right at the end. Egos are a lot of fun.
20 comments:
- piers said...
Another great post Suzanne. Beautifully put.
- 24 June 2010 at 09:03
- No One In Particular said...
Thanks so much Piers.
- 24 June 2010 at 10:18
- Brenda said...
Nothing like a little flattery to make the ego preen.
- 24 June 2010 at 12:34
"This is what is, whether there is mind and thought and concept or not."
That's all that needs be said, isn't it?
Great post, Suzanne.
- 24 June 2010 at 14:30
"Space Enough Have I in Such a Prison'...'Why am I nervous?!?!'
Another post from the wonderful mind-let-infinitely-loose. Thank you Suzanne.
- 24 June 2010 at 18:30
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Brenda...lookin' good!
- 24 June 2010 at 18:43
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Mike, yes, that's all there is to say...except that you're a retard! (annoying winking sideways smiley face)
- 24 June 2010 at 18:44
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Leslie, thanks a bunch.
- 24 June 2010 at 18:45
LOVE your blog! but how "to live" the fear and pain of suffering, resistance and apparent "life threatening" illness when realization is not perceived (or whatever the is word for what cannot be experssed in words) yet?...
- 24 June 2010 at 20:20
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Biba, it doesn't matter...it is done, you're doing it, no matter what you think about it. Realisation...lack of realisation...it's all the same thing. It's either oneness, or it isn't, and it is. And it's not going to get any "one-er" while you hang around, trying to figure it all out!
- 24 June 2010 at 20:49
"It's possible that fear isn't the only spontaneous reaction to the revelation of the unsubstantiality of the ego. All things, all energies, all responses are possible."
and how was it for "you"? and has it changed since happening?
- 25 June 2010 at 05:04
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Anonymous, astonishment. And it's still astonishment.
- 25 June 2010 at 05:47
The thing is... despite the fact that I'm doing it, no matter what I think about it - which I "know" it's true - once one is still identified with the body, appearances can be really very frightening, sometimes - and it's hard NOT to desire beeing in a nicer dream.
- 25 June 2010 at 14:46
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Biba, what you are is limitless. How "nicer" is defined is limited.
- 25 June 2010 at 16:25
THANKS for the reminder! (grateful smile)
- 25 June 2010 at 17:55
These titles are kind of like the appearances. I really have to loosen the mind…almost let it blob out…kind of like the clocks in Dali's 'Persistence of Time'… just let the mind droop over and then the meaning kind of seeps in. Loosening up like you have to when looking at one of those stereograms.
- 25 June 2010 at 17:57
XOXOback, Leslie!
- 26 June 2010 at 01:33
- Colleen Loehr said...
While reading this post the wattage of present moment awareness increased like a dimmer switch being turned up, especially with the last line:
"What is certain is that whatever is experienced, it is experienced just as it must be, for it is."
Also loved the video clip and artwork, thanks Suzanne.
- 27 June 2010 at 04:54
- No One In Particular said...
You're welcome Colleen, and thanks also for the kind commentary on the Youtube videos.
- 27 June 2010 at 05:42
Dianne Weist is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and really really good too.
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Mamas & Papas Comes to the U.S.
No, you're not California Dreamin', "Britain's #1 Baby Brand" Mamas & Papas is hitting our shores and they're bringing their "A" game. The British Invasion includes strollers, high chairs, bouncers and accessories.
No offense but English is not always synonymous with stylish, but unquestionably Mamas & Papas has designed their goods to appeal to modern, design-conscious parents. From the sleek lines to the all-star lineup of "modern colors" (orange, green apple, raspberry, black) and especially the minimalism - we're impressed with how easily these products will integrate into homes with a mature aesthetic.
Here's a quick run down of their U.S. offerings:
• Strollers 5 lightweight strollers (ranging from $130-330), 3 larger models ($300-500) and oodles of accessories (diaper bag, cup holder, liners, footmuffs, parasols, etc.).
• Bouncers 5 bouncers ranging from $80 - $200 with all kinds of features (multi-position, music, MP3 speakers, etc.). We especially like that you can watch videos of several models so you can hear just how annoying (or not) the music is going to be.
• High Chairs Two models - the Go Eat Highchair which is foldable for small homes ($200) and the Loop which rotates 360 degrees as well as has 3 height adjustments ($300).
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Soon, we will be launching a year-long-ish Vote For Conquer Club Campaign. In the way-past, we participated in a few of these campaigns on various Top Gaming Websites, but these previous endeavors were more haphazard than not. Going forward, we are organizing and maintaining a full-blown campaign.
The basic details are as follows:
- For about 9 total months of the year, for a single month we will sponsor an Official Vote For CC 'Operation,' based on our target list of Top Gaming Websites.
- To participate and vote in our Official Active Operation for the Designated Month, you will click on our Voting Button, which will located in the top right corner of the website. Make sure you are logged into Conquer Club to get your vote tallied on our end!
- You will then be brought to a screen or series of screens where you will 'vote up' Conquer Club. Most websites have a Voting Term of once every 12 or 24 hours, so you'll be encouraged to vote throughout the Designated Month.
- At the end of the Designated Month, we'll know how we've done compared to the competition.
- Our plan is to have unique voting websites for each of the 9 months, but if we do really well or get close to the top, we may repeat an Operation and skip over another. Any repeated Operation is treated just like a new one---a reset of sorts.
So, all that sounds sweet and dandy, but what is in it for you individually, you say?
- For participating and voting at least half the designated month
So, without further ado, the details of our First Active Operation:
- Where: Xtreme Top 100.com
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Right: Dr. Richard Mah of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Daniel H. López of New Mexico Tech, and Dr. John Birely of the University of California signing the MOU on June 28.
SOCORRO, N.M., June 28, 2004 – New Mexico Tech and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have officially entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that is designed to strengthen interactions between the two entities by providing additional opportunities for research, education, recruitment, and retention. Tech President Daniel H. López and LANL Associate Director Richard Mah held a signing ceremony at the university on Monday, June 28.
"This MOU provides excellent opportunities for faculty, researchers, and students at New Mexico Tech and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory to fully develop collaborative efforts in areas of mutually beneficial research and education," said López.
"The new academic and research interactions created by this initiative will help New Mexico attract and retain top-notch faculty and students, while at the same time introducing them to the varied programs and careers available at Los Alamos," he added.
Through the framework provided by the MOU, researchers at New Mexico Tech are allowed to use LANL facilities, resources, and intellectual capabilities, while LANL scientists and engineers are encouraged to actively participate in Tech academic and research programs as part of their work with the national lab.
"This is another example of successful partnering with New Mexico's universities," said Los Alamos National Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos. "This partnership allows New Mexico Tech to participate — along with the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University and New Mexico Highlands University — in the outstanding science for which Los Alamos is known, and this allows the Laboratory to potentially recruit more of its future scientists locally. This is a win-win for the whole state."
Initially, three collaborative programs will be supported through the MOU, specifically a Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Program, a University Faculty and Laboratory Staff Program, and a Collaborative Research Program.
In addition, New Mexico Tech and LANL have identified five research areas of strategic importance to both institutions that will be supported under the MOU as available funds permit, including the Magdalena Ridge Observatory, astronomy and astrophysics, Earth sciences, materials engineering, and energetic materials.
New Mexico Tech academic departments and research divisions are expected to play significant roles in developing interdisciplinary research endeavors with LANL.
Under the new agreement, strategic partnerships will be further established and directed under the management of a newly formed New Mexico Tech/LANL Joint Science and Technology Laboratory.


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I think a great feature to add would be a way to collaboratively work on playlists. I am on build 6.3.9720 and currently there is no way that I have found to allow other users to add on to playlists I create or vice versa.
A few different ways I have thought of making this possible, please comment if you have any other ideas that are more efficient/effective.
- 1. User based permissions: With a user based system, there would be a playlist permissions page when creating or editing a playlist you have created. This page would have 4 columns titled username, read, write, and read/write.
The username field would be automatically populated using the database of users. Read, write, and read/write would be check boxes to allow the creator to assign permissions to a individual playlist.
Pros of this method are very granular control over access to your playlists. Cons of this method are a potential for too many users to be listed and making the system annoying to use or a creator could select everyone to have access, creating a problem where another user is seeing playlists they don't want to see.
2. Group based permissions: With a group based permissions system, the Settings->Access groups would be leveraged to allow for some control over playlist rights. Instead of the current two options of Music or Video, a third option of Playlist would exist that the admin can assign an access group to. The creator of the playlist will still have a permissions page with read, write, or read/write options, this access is only granted to groups that have Playlist checked in Settings ->Access. This is only one way that I have thought of groups being used, I am sure there are plenty of other good options.
Pros for this method is that it is easier on the playlist creator to set up permissions and allows the admin to have some more control over playlist access. Cons are that the playlist creator loses some control over who is getting access since they may not be aware of which access groups have Playlist access and which users are members of those groups.
3. Increase User interation and communication: This is a more ambitious method but could allow for some other good ideas. Essentially I am thinking that there could be more features to encourage user interaction and communication. This would be applicable for playlists as follows. Users are allowed to friend other users. A user can then create their own groups (friends, family, etc) which can be treated as access control groups. When creating a playlist, each user can assign read, write, or read/write permissions to individual friends or user groups. Another example of something that could be built on that system would be individual or group based chats instead of a full public chat.
Pros are that the playlist creator has the best blend of control and ease of use and that a more advanced user system could allow for other fun features like chat or anything else the community might come up with. Cons are that it would be the most amount of work for Madevil I think


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I'm having a crisis of faith lately.
On one hand, I'm an old school author. I got over five hundred rejections before landing a book deal. I've been preaching for years that the way to make a living being a writer is to get an agent, sell to a big publishing house, and self-promote like crazy. I've done book tours, have hundreds of thousands of books in print, and have spent many years teaching people what I've learned about breaking into this industry.
On the other hand, it looks like I'm going to earn more money self-pubbing on Kindle this year that I earned in six years on my first three print novels.
So I'm pretty conflicted about what advice to offer newbie authors.
By uploading my own ebooks to Kindle and Smashwords (which has deals with B&N, iPad, and Sony), I'm able to earn up to 70% royalty rates. My past sales, and the rate ebook popularity is growing, only points to bigger sales numbers in the future.
I've been lucky enough to make my living as a fiction writer since 2003. I've done everything I can to bigger my fansbase and brand--and my efforts have been extensive. Who else has visited 1200 bookstores? Who else has mailed our 7000 letters to libraries? Who else has blog toured on 100 different blogs in a single month?
And yet, all of my effort hasn't resulted in me appearing on the bestseller lists. I make a living, but I drive an old car, live in a townhouse, and my wife still works.
Then along comes this ebook thing.
I got onto Kindle as a form of self-promotion. My early, unpublished books were (and still are) on my website as free downloads. When some Kindlers emailed me, complaining their Kindles couldn't read pdf files, I uploaded them on Amazon. I couldn't give them away for free, so I priced them low, at $1.99, figurign they might help boost my print sales.
And now, Since April 8 of 2009, I've sold 36,000 ebooks. I'm selling over 1200 per week.
Crunching the numbers, I'll earn more on ebooks than I have in my entire print career, and I'll do it in a shorter amount of time.
All of my life, I've been struggling to break into print. And now print isn't the most valuable right anymore, at least to me.
Print has become a subsidiary right.
In a regular writing contract, the main rights are the North American (or world) print rights. Sub rights like book clubs, audio, movie, first serial, and electronic, have always been considered having lesser value.
But I keep looking at my numbers, where I'm currently making $125 a day on books NY rejected. And I keep thinking how much more money I'll make when the Kindle royalty rate goes up from 35% to 70% in June. And I really don't think I'll ever sell my erights again.
If I release an ebook novel, I'm pretty sure I'll earn over $100,000 on it within five years.
Assuming I can do two novels a year, I can get pretty rich pretty quick.
There certainly are advantages to this model. Cover art and titles are of my choosing. I can start selling a book a week after I'm done writing it, rather than waiting 8 to 18 months. I can set my own price. I can make instant changes and revisions. I can earn $2.80 on a $3.99 ebook, which is more than I earn on a $23.99 hardcover. I get monthly royalties, instead of bi-annual.
There are downsides, too. No professional editing (though my professional peers are a great help in vetting my manuscripts.) No marketing and sales teams behind me. No widespread distribution to bookstores and non-bookstore outlets. No advances. No advertising. No paper book to put on my shelf and stare at. (This is a biggie. I have an entire bookcase dedicated to the works I've published, and there are over a hundred.)
I never wanted to be the poster boy for self-promotion, even though my efforts (chronicled on this blog) have made folks think of me that way. And I certainly don't want to be the new poster boy for self-publishing.
What I want is the same thing I've always wanted: to earn money by writing fiction.
It's a huge surprise to me that I'm now able to earn more on my own than I have been able to earn through traditional print publishing. Even more surprising, I've been one of the fortunate ones in the print world. My advances, and sales, are better than the majority of my peers'. My books are still in print. I'm in royalty situations. I'm extremely lucky to have the print career I have.
But if one midlist writer working on his own (say JA Konrath) can sell more ebooks than James Patterson in various Kindle genres, doesn't that say perhaps there is something wrong with the way print publishers are conducting business?
And if one midlist author working on his own (perhaps JA Konrath) can earn more money on ebooks than he's earning on the titles his publishers are controlling, isn't it obvious that signing print deals isn't the way to go?
So for the first time in the history of this blog, I don't know how to advise newbie authors.
But I do know that if you're a writer, and you're changing your career path based on a blog, you aren't thinking long and hard enough about this business.
I've walked the walk for a long time. Your mileage my vary. Don't give up your agent search because I'm pondering aloud about the future. Don't rush to put your stuff up on Kindle without fully understanding and weighing the potential costs vs. benefits.
Print publishing and bookstores and agents aren't going away anytime soon. Ebooks are still a small percentage of the book market.
I know that percentage will grow. And I'm confident I'll continue to make money.
For me, print has officially become a subsidiary right. If I ever sign another print deal, it will be to supplement my ebook income.
This is a strange development, but not a bad one. The writer, for the first time ever, gets the lion's share of the profits from his work.
Never thought I would see that. But I'm sure glad it's happening.
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A Heritage Foundation policy analyst who co-authored a study slamming the U.S. Senate immigration bill, is resigning, the conservative group said on Friday, after revelations he once wrote that Hispanic immigrants had a lower IQ than white Americans.
The comments Jason Richwine made in his 2009 Harvard dissertation have overshadowed the Heritage Foundation's immigration study, threatening to undermine its message that the bill would cost taxpayers trillions of dollars.
Four days after the controversial study was released, the conservative think tank issued a short statement on Friday afternoon announcing that Richwine had decided to resign.
"He's no longer employed by Heritage," a spokesman said in an emailed statement. "It is our long-standing policy not to discuss internal personnel matters," he said.
In a summary of his dissertation at Harvard, Richwine said the average IQ of immigrants in the United States was "substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations."
In his dissertation, he wrote, "No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against."
Throughout the week, the Heritage Foundation had tried to deflect criticism of Richwine and said that his Harvard paper was not a work product of the conservative think tank.
It also said Richwine did not shape the methodology or the policy recommendations in the Heritage paper, but provided quantitative support to the lead author.
Richwine was listed as a senior policy analyst in empirical studies on the Heritage Foundation's website.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the committee that is working on the immigration bill, called Richwine's comments racist. "They certainly don't reflect the Latinos I know. They don't reflect the people I've known in the community," he said in an interview with Univision News.
The Heritage Foundation's study has warned that the Senate's proposed path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants would cost $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years, as they gain access to government benefit programs.
The study has been criticized by liberal supporters of immigration reform as well as some conservatives.
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Q: Is the Dash diet effective for extremely high blood pressure? I really want to avoid taking medication.
A: Research has found the Dash diet to be an effective way to lower blood pressure in people who have slightly elevated high blood pressure (prehypertension) and in those with stage 1 (mild to moderate) high blood pressure (hypertension.) For people in your situation with severe high blood pressure, this diet alone may not be enough to lower your blood pressure to goal level. But combined with other lifestyle changes, the Dash diet may significantly decrease your need for blood pressure-lowering medication.
Dash stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension. The Dash diet is low in saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat, and is a lifelong approach to healthy eating that's designed to help treat or prevent high blood pressure. This diet encourages you to reduce sodium and eat a variety of foods rich in nutrients that help lower blood pressure, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium. In particular, the Dash diet emphasizes eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy foods, and includes some fish, poultry and legumes. You can eat red meat, sweets and fats in small amounts.
By following the Dash diet, you may be able to reduce your blood pressure by several millimeters of mercury, or mm Hg, in just a few weeks. Over time, this diet may help drop your systolic blood pressure (top number) by about 11 mm Hg and your diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) by 6 mm Hg, which can make a significant difference in the health risks posed by high blood pressure.
In studies of people with stage 1 high blood pressure (140-159/90-99 mm Hg), research has found that the effect of following the Dash diet is similar to the blood pressure-lowering effect of taking one high blood pressure medication. When the same people followed the Dash diet and made additional healthy lifestyle changes, such as exercising regularly, losing weight and further reducing dietary sodium, the effect was equal to taking two drugs used together to lower blood pressure.
Although the Dash diet and other healthy lifestyle changes may not be enough to control severe high blood pressure, these steps often lead to less need for blood pressure-lowering medications and lower doses of those medications. In addition, because the diet is a healthy way of eating, it offers health benefits beyond just lowering blood pressure. Following the Dash diet may help protect you against osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. While this diet is not a weight-loss program, you may lose unwanted pounds by following the diet, because it can help guide you toward healthier meals and snacks.
Talk to your doctor about the Dash diet. Your doctor can work with you to create a comprehensive program focused on reducing blood pressure that includes the Dash diet and other positive lifestyle choices. Although you may still need to take some medication to control blood pressure, it's likely you will need much less medication than you would require without making these healthy changes.
30% of Americans have high blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Gary Schwartz specializes in nephrology and hypertension at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.


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At its June 22 monthly meeting, the Kalamazoo Public Library board of trustees approved a process for filling a trustee position that became vacant with the resignation of trustee Ian Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy will be moving out of the Kalamazoo Public Library district. His current term would have ended June 30, 2013, however his vacant seat will be filled by appointment only until 2011, the date of the next library board of trustees election.
Persons interested in serving on the board of trustees are invited to send a letter of interest and a description of their qualifications to the board no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 17. Trustees must be registered voters within the Kalamazoo Public Library district, which encompasses the City of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Township, Oshtemo Township, and the Kalamazoo Public Schools district.
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WASHINGTON — Rejecting his ex-wife's claim that he owes more than $100,000 in child support, U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh contends that he and she informally modified their support agreement for five years and that she is now trying to "exploit" his position as a new member of Congress.
In his court filings Tuesday, the McHenry Republican said that he and Laura Walsh agreed to informal modifications of child support — both upward and downward — from 2005 to 2010 because they were both "tired of court appearances" and neither of them "had the financial and emotional wherewithal to continue the battle."
But the battle has continued.
Laura Walsh, who lives in the Chicago area, said in Cook County Circuit Court late last year that he owes her more than $117,000 in unpaid child support and interest and nearly $10,000 for the children's expenses.
In his new filings, Walsh says his ex-wife is demanding money "not rightfully due her" and that she is seeking to take advantage of his election to the U.S. House last November.
The couple divorced in 2004 after 17 years of marriage. Their children now are aged 24, 20 and 17.
The lawmaker said he's now paying $2,134 a month in child support; his ex-wife's lawyer said that money is being withheld from his government paycheck as support for the teen.
Joe Walsh issued a press release Wednesday saying he had been a "loving, supportive, involved dad from the beginning."
He noted that for several months in 2009 and 2010 his youngest child lived with him while his ex-wife, who works for Eli Lilly & Co., worked during the week in Indianapolis, where the firm is based.
Joe Walsh said he had been "pummeled" by the media and dubbed a "deadbeat dad" because of Laura Walsh's allegations.
Yet their children have "experienced an unabated life of private instruction, private schools, dance classes, private sports instruction and European trips," he said.
Walsh said a trust fund established by his grandparents paid most of the cost of his oldest son's private-college expenses; he said he paid the rest and did not seek money from his ex.
He also said Laura Walsh had enjoyed a six-figure income while his fluctuated: about $86,0000 in 2005; $92,000 in 2006; $80,000 in 2007; $11,000 in 2008; $39,000 in 2009; and $61,0000 in 2010.
Joe Walsh said money loaned to his political campaign "did not primarily come" from his income and that his new wife, whom he married in 2006, chipped in some assets.
He also said that while his family has given him some money as gifts and paid for family vacations, he and his new wife "have continuously budgeted and reduced their living expenses when necessary." He said he does not have a savings or investment account.
Laura Walsh's attorney, Jack Coladarci, responded to the claim that she was trying to "exploit" the congressman's position, noting that their side had said nothing to the media about the case between December, when it was filed, and July, when reporters learned of it.
"How is that exploiting?" asked Coladarci, who charged that Joe Walsh "ran for Congress knowing full well all the skeletons he has rattling around."
The attorneys for the Walshes are scheduled to go before a judge Friday, according to Coladarci.
Janet Boyle, who represents Joe Walsh, could not be reached for comment.


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Conceptual IntegrityBy Bruce F. Webster | Posted 2008-07-24 Print
If your organization is spending more than 50 percent of its IT budget on maintenance, give serious consideration to setting up a position and staffing it with an outstanding IT engineer.
Fred Brooks set forth the compelling need for a chief software architect more than 30 years ago, arguing for the essential quality of conceptual integrity within a given software system. The role I'm proposing is more of a conceptual clearinghouse for all systems currently in production.
The maintenance architect would have the responsibility of learning—and documenting, if necessary—the essential architecture of all production systems, with a special focus on their interdependencies and interfaces. He or she would have to review all proposed changes to those systems or their operating environments (hardware, operating system and so on), including retirement or replacement of a given system. This architect would then issue an "environmental impact statement," listing all the significant potential or actual repercussions and costs of the proposed bug fix or feature addition. This impact statement does not need to be lengthy or complicated, though it may well be. It would be circulated to the engineers responsible for the affected systems, as well the business stakeholders for those systems.
This is clearly not a simple or a "make-work" position. It requires—or would development—a significant technical breadth and depth. It would also have a real impact on the enterprise's IT budget by allowing a better approximation of the true cost for a given change in a given system. Equally important, it would help to avoid the cascading chain of errors that often occurs when a fix or an improvement is hastily (and often silently) slipped into production.
This role would be a great training position for chief software architects. Someone who has spent a year or two in this position would have a tremendous understanding of the existing enterprise technical architecture. He or she would also have a great appreciation for the interconnectedness of systems and the often-large and sometimes-intractable consequences of seemingly small decisions regarding software architecture, design and implementation. Most important, the maintenance architect would keep all these production systems in mind when developing a new program, lowering the barriers to integration and deployment.
Almost as important, since this job would be seen as the fast track to becoming a software architect—the most prestigious job in software engineering—you'd have your best and brightest IT engineers competing to fill that slot. If your enterprise is large enough, you might even want to make this a team of two or three maintenance architects. That would make it easier to deal with the vast IT production infrastructure; it would train more software architects; and—if you stagger promotions in and out of the group—it would maintain continuity and ease knowledge transfer.
So, if your organization is spending more than 50 percent of its IT budget on maintenance, give serious consideration to setting up this position and staffing it with an outstanding IT engineer—the position will likely pay for itself within the first 12 months. And if your organization is spending less than 50 percent of its IT budget on maintenance, look around carefully—there's a good chance that you'll find someone who is, in effect, filling this role already.
Bruce F. Webster is a consultant specializing in reviewing and rescuing large-scale IT projects. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via his Web sites at brucefwebster.com and bfwa.com.
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akburk2 wrote:milkmaid wrote:It seems as if everyone and their dog has bottle calves nowdays, and no idea how to care for them. So, I figure it's about time to put together a post with some basic calf-raising information.
The cow's colostrum contains important antibodies that will protect the calf from disease for the first few months of life, and so it is vital that the calf get colostrum within the first 24 hours of life. Between 0 and 24 hours the bovine gut is "open" and will absorb those antibodies. After 24 hours of life it is almost pointless to give colostrum and if the calf has not gotten colostrum yet, chances are high that keeping the calf alive will be an uphill battle for the first few months of life. Ideally the calf would get 1/2 gallon of colostrum within 2 hours after birth, and then 1/2 gallon 12 hours later.
Feeding a bottle calf for the first few times… I've seen people try to stand in front of the calf and simply hold the bottle out. Note that feeding a calf is not like coaxing a puppy over for a treat. The calf has no idea what the bottle is, and your job is to show him. Back the calf into a corner and either stand to the side as shown, or straddle him and stuff the bottle in his mouth. Notice the hand below the calf's jaw to support her head.
Look for a milk replacer designed for calves that is at least 20% protein and 20% fat, and made from real milk. Some replacers are made from soy milk and are inadequate for raising a calf.
Opinions differ on whether a bottle calf must be raised on a BOTTLE or if they can be given their milk in a bucket. Some studies have shown that the action of nursing causes the milk to be sent directly to the abomasum where the milk is best digested, whereas simply drinking from a bucket results in the milk going to the (currently undeveloped) rumen. Because of this, some people choose to bottle feed calves from birth to weaning. It is worth noting, however, that dairies bucket feed all calves, and it is done with no ill effects to the calf. In fact, most dairy heifers are big enough to breed as 12-14 month olds so bucket feeding evidently didn't stunt their growth.
Grain is essential for raising bottle calves, and they need to stay on grain until they're at least 400-500lbs and their rumen is big enough it can hold enough grass/hay to provide them with enough nutrition for growth. If bottle calves are not properly fed they will look "potbellied" and will be smaller than they should be for their age. A bottle calf really needs 2-2.5% of their body weight in grain that is at least 14-16% protein on a daily basis. Check the labels at your local feed store and try to find a specific "calf starter" for the first few months of the calf's life.
Potbellied calves:
severe case...
mild case... she's in good condition, but slightly potbellied
The calf needs to be eating at least 2% of their body weight in grain before they can be weaned – otherwise they will not be getting adequate nutrition from their feed and will become stunted and potbellied.
Opinions also differ on when to feed hay to bottle calves. Some don't introduce hay until after weaning so that the calf will learn to eat grain, since that is what will provide the most nutritionally for the calf. Others introduce hay right away to help develop the rumen (stemmy hay is ideal for kick-starting the rumen)… IMO it is simply a matter of preference as I've seen it done successfully both ways.
"Scours" is the cattleman's term for diarrhea.
It can be caused by anything from too much milk, to bacteria (ie. ecoli), to viruses (ie. rotavirus) to protozoa (ie crypto). Regardless of what caused it, the most important thing in a scours case is supportive therapy (fluids, electrolytes, etc.). Almost any antibiotic labeled for cattle is acceptable for treating scours. Preferred antibiotics are oxytetracycline 200, Spectam, sulfas (Sustain III or SMZs), terramycin, and occasionally penicillin, Baytril, Excenel… the only one I wouldn't recommend is Nuflor, since diarrhea is a side effect of using Nuflor, and is not a good idea for a calf that's already scouring. (Also note that while gentamicin is often effective against scours, it is also not legal for cattle use and it has an 18-24 month slaughter withdrawal. Don't use it!)
Dehydrated calf… note sunken-in eyes
Note that dehydration doesn't become evident until the animal has lost about 6% of their body weight in fluids, and kidney failure sets in around 11-12% loss. The calf above is severely dehydrated and needs to be on IV fluids. (For that matter, any scouring, recumbent –down – calf needs to be on IV fluids.)
Fluids can be given IV, SC, or orally (the preferred method unless the calf is down and cannot get up, then one really needs to run an IV). Note that if giving fluids IV or SC, you need to get saline solution or lactated ringers from your vet – don't try plain water! Hopefully that's a no-brainer but I feel obligated to mention it.
IVs are easiest if the calf is placed on its side (not too hard on a recumbent calf), the area is shaved and then doused with a good dose of rubbing alcohol -- it makes the vein stand up and it's much easier to see and hit with the needle, especially on a dehydrated animal. Sometimes it's easier to find the vein if you have a syringe attached to the needle and a couple cc's of dex or a similar relatively-harmless substance in the syringe so you can pull back. Make sure your saline solution/lactated ringers are at body temperature.
Electrolytes are very important as the calf loses a LOT of them when scouring. Anything that has dextrose, sodium chloride (salt), and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) can be used. It is possible to make homemade electrolytes, but is not ideal… especially sugar or corn syrup is not easily digested in the calf and can cause more scouring. Spend the money and buy the real stuff at your feed store or vet clinic that is actually designed for calves.
I did discover something new recently; an oral solution called "Double A solution" (my vet says it can also be given IV) and contains electrolytes, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. I feel it's equivalent or better than the powder stuff the feed stores carry and I've been pleased with the results I've seen after giving it to calves.
Calf's normal rectal temperature is 102.5'F. Navel ill/joint ill... I'll add that info soon.
Vaccinations... common question. Opinions differ on this one too. Maternal antibodies from the colostrum interfere with attempts to vaccinate the calf, and its own immune system isn't in top working order yet. Generally accepted opinion is to wait until 2-3 months before vaccinating. Much sooner than that and you're really just wasting your money. Won't hurt the calf, but probably won't do a bit of good either!
Common things to vaccinate against are:
Viral diseases:
BVD types I and II, IBR, BRSV, PI3
5 strains including hardjo
7 or 8-way clostridial including blackleg
...and depending on location, often pinkeye, tetanus, and/or redwater too. Some people also vaccinate for pneumonia (pasturella, etc), footrot, neospora, scours (in calves), but those are less common vaccines. Consult with your vet about what might be needed in your area.
Brucellosis (bangs) is required in some states (heifers only!) -- check with your vet.
Remember to booster all vaccines as recommended on the label!!!
That's all for tonight... experts feel free to add to what I've already said... and I'll work on it more later.
I first want to say that you have created a really nice post. I would like to talk a little about the remarks made about colostrum in the opening paragraphs. It is true that colostrum contains antibodies that will support the newborn's immune system for the first 90-120 days of life. It is true that after a certain period of time once the "gut" is no longer open IgG (the anti-body that is the protein carrier) can no longer be absorbed, however all of the other antibodies can still be absorbed, espically IgA. IgA is absorbed through the mucosal membranes of the respiratory and G.I. tract. and is found in blood, sweat, and tears. IgA contains lactoferrin and transferrin which work together to help the immune system become established. IgG is carried in the lymphatic and circulatory systems where it helps to neutralize toxins and other unwanted invaders, but like you said the absorption is only good for the first few hours of life. I agree that if a calf doesn't recieve colostrum within the first 6 hours of birth the battle has started, because his strength(IgG ... protein) levels are way behind. I disagree that colstrum is an unusable product after the first few hours of birth because of all the other benefits that it has to offer.... immunity boost, growth factors, feed efficiency factors.. etc. What you have to realize is that the powdered products have been denatured because the have been taken out of their original state (liquid) and made into a powdered product... not as powerful.Tragus
I have been hearing talks about a product called Re-Borne that is being used within the horse industry right now. There are talks that it could move into the cattle, swine, and possibly poultry industries. It is colostrum that has been sourced from USDA certified dairies and went through a special sterilization process and the product has never been altered from the original state. So it is 100% colostrum... the real deal. It has many uses not just for newborns, but backgrounders, farrowing houses etc. I believe that it might be a great product that we will need to keep our eyes and ears open on. I will try to do some more research on this product and see what happens. If you get time check out their website...www.Re-Borne-Equine.com.
That's really awesome. thanks


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Although there is a 5-kilometre-long sandy beach here, it is rarely the reason why people come to Venice Beach. This sandy stretch and boardwalk is mostly famous for its eclectic mix of eye-catching people, street performers and California beach boys. Venice Beach is all about people watching.
Venice Beach belongs to the Venice city district, wedged between Santa Monica Boulevard and Marina del Rey. The neighbourhood takes its name from the many canals that were dug here in 1905 to turn the land into a residential area. In the 1920s, a number of canals were filled in again to build streets for the horse-drawn carriages. Fortunately several canals have survived and form this charming neighbourhood right by the beach.
It is always busy along Ocean Front Walk, the 'boardwalk' of Venice Beach. Numerous street performers – ranging from musicians and singers to acrobats and magicians – entertain the crowds. Muscle Beach is where bodybuilders and fitness fanatics sculpt and flex their muscles on outdoor equipment. It is not always clear whether they are actually trying to get fitter or simply showing off their bodies to the ever-present crowds.
Sports are a very popular pursuit here. There are numerous volleyball and basketball courts on and around the beach, and the long cycle path that runs from Venice Beach to Santa Monica is popular with skaters and cyclists. There are also several rental shops along the boardwalk where you can rent rollerblades and bicycles if you don't have your own. For the ultimate California experience, rollerblade along the boardwalk under the palm trees as the sun sets.
Venice Beach is a great destination to shop for unusual and fun souvenirs. The boardwalk is lined with dozens of shops selling clothing and jewellery. You can also pick up a quick tattoo, although that may be a somewhat permanent souvenir to take home. For more options, browse along Abbot Kinney Boulevard. This street runs diagonally through the Venice neighbourhood and offers a great mix of boutiques, restaurants and trendy bars.


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If Ken Burns produced a Miley Cyrus documentary instead of MTV, we imagine it would be just like this sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night. But unlike Ken Burns's productions, let's hope her twerking at the VMAs, "an obscene cataclysm of foam fingers," isn't shown in future U.S. history classes!
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[The Mineral Wells High School Concert Band]
Description: This picture, showing the concert band of the Mineral Wells High School Marching Band (standing on the steps of the school) was taken around 1922. James Walker Calvert is on the top row at the far right. Mr. Brunswick, the bandleader, is on the front row at the far left. Ellis White is the trombone player on the left. See also "Mineral Wells High School Marching Band."
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I never get tired of eating spinach. Good thing it's so good for you!
This is a fun take on spinach, a Korean version, with the spinach wilted in sesame oil with garlic, and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds.
I found the recipe years ago in Mark Bittman's The Best Recipes in the World. In typical Bittman style, the spinach is quick, easy, and good.
Updated, from the recipe archive. First posted November, 2005
Spinach with Sesame and Garlic RecipePrint
If you are using bagged baby spinach, the presoaking is not necessary, as that spinach is pretty clean. Also baby spinach does not need to be chopped. The spinach you get in bunches from the farmers market can have a lot of dirt at the root ball that needs to be washed out before you use the spinach.
- 3 Tbsp dark sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 1 lb fresh spinach (if using mature spinach, soak in water to clean, drain, squeeze out excess water, remove and discard large stems, roughly chop leaves)
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce (use gluten-free soy sauce for gluten-free version)
- Salt to taste
- 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
1 Toast the sesame seeds: If you haven't already toasted the sesame seeds, do that first. Heat a stick-free skillet on medium high. Add raw sesame seeds and use a spatula or wooden spoon to stir.
The seeds may make a popping noise and jump up, almost like popcorn. They will toast very quickly, so stir constantly until they begin to brown and smell like they are toasted.
Remove from pan into a separate bowl as soon as they are done.
2 Cook garlic and spinach in sesame oil: Heat 2 tablespoons of the sesame oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, add the garlic. As soon as the garlic begins to sizzle, add the spinach and cook, stirring occasionally, until the spinach is completely wilted. Turn the heat to low.
3 Add sugar and soy sauce: Stir in the sugar and soy sauce. Remove from the heat. Add salt to taste.
Serve hot, warm, room temperature, or cold, drizzled with the remaining sesame oil and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Batata Saung / Konkani style potatoes in a chilli tamarind sauce
Its a funny name for a dish and friends always wonder why its called a song ! The logic I once heard is that its so spicy, it will make you sing !!
Actually, it isn't that spicy. Its just the magic of the byadgi chillies, that gives it this beautiful bright red colour, with just the right amount of heat. Byadgi is named after a town in Karnataka, that's famous for these chillies
Its easy to make and adds the zing to a regular meal.
My favourite is dali saar and rice with batata song...
Give it a shot, its really good !
Batata Saung
Adapted from Rasachandrika, the Saraswat cookery book
What you need -
1/2 kgs potatoes / 5-6 medium potatoes
10-12 red chillies (byadgi chillies are the best for this)
3 medium onions
1 small ball of tamarind / 1 tsp ready tamarind paste
2 tbsp oil
1 - 1.5 tsp salt
What you do with it -
Chop the onions
Cook the potatoes, peel and chop into bite size pieces
Byadgi chillies are the best option for this. If you are using any other variety, you may want to reduce the number of chillies to about 7-8
Grind the red chillies and tamarind to a smooth paste, using a little water
I usually soak the red chillies in hot water for 10 mins, before I grind it-makes it easier that way
In a pan, heat the oil and then add the onions and fry till it turns light brown in colour
Then add the ground masala, salt and potatoes and stir well
Add about 1/2 cup of water and allow it to simmer for about 10 mins
For an authentic Mangalorean taste, use coconut oil - I find it a bit overpowering though
Serve hot with rotis or a simple dal and rice
14 comments:
- Sumee said...
My fav style!. Though I use shortcut and use chili powder..
- March 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Paaka Shaale said...
The curry looks delicious and very well styled. Great post Arch!!
- March 6, 2012 at 7:02 PM
- maha said...
curry looking yum tasty dear......book marked...
- March 6, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Flavourful curry...sounds new to me..drooling here
- March 6, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- Aarthi said...
This looks awesome...bookmarked
- March 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM
- SJ said...
I tried this from Dakshin didn't like it at all was too sour or something. This is one as usual B.O.O.K.M.A.R.K.E.D :D
- March 6, 2012 at 10:14 PM
- Achu's Amma's Kitchen said...
delicious and colorfull
- March 6, 2012 at 11:05 PM
- Only Fish Recipes said...
simply wow.....bookmarked !
- March 7, 2012 at 3:38 AM
- Home Cooked Oriya Food said...
wow - looks lovely...
- March 7, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Kalpana Sareesh said...
simply yummy ..
- March 7, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- Nagalakshmi V said...
so simple yet flavours i hadn't thought of. must-try :)
- March 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM
- Sensible Vegetarian said...
Delicious looking curry.
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- March 14, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Our neighbours used to prepare this dish they were konkani's one of my all time fav
- August 24, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Wow, I did not expect to see our humble saung on the net, Dont have the holy grail of Manglorean cooking- Raschandrika recipe book. Thanks for posting.
- September 7, 2014 at 6:55 AM


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Today at the Design of Life blog
Two stories just up:
Does the peahen really care about the peacock's display? Apparently not, and that is bad news for the increasingly convoluted theory of sexual selection.
(Also, just for fun: Lonely British peacock romances a petrol (gas) pump (Times, June 17, 2006) "Ornithologists believe that Mr P is confused by the clicking sounds of the pumps, which resemble the cries of a broody peahen. ... His two brothers are also showing signs of confusion when it comes to finding a mate. One appears to have a crush on the family cat, and the other has been seen attempting to mate with a garden light.")
Does natural selection select new traits for the dog? The evidence of thousands of years show otherwise.


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March 9, 2007
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jenna Green scored a game-high 27 points and Chisa Ononiwu added 12 Friday afternoon to lead second-seeded UC Santa Barbara to a 57-52 victory over No. 5-seed Cal State Fullerton in the semifinals of the Big West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Gauchos overcame a sluggish first half and a six-point halftime deficit to defeat the Titans and advance to Saturday's championship game.
With the win, Santa Barbara improves to 18-12 overall and will play in the title game for the 11th consecutive year Saturday at 1:00 p.m. The Gauchos will square off with No. 1-seeded UC Riverside - a team that has won the four previous matchups - after the Highlanders defeated No. 6-seeded Long Beach State, 59-53, in Friday's first semifinal.
The win was also the 28th in a row for the Gauchos over the Titans. Fullerton's last victory over Santa Barbara was in the semifinals of the Big West Tournament back in 1995, the last year UCSB did not capture the top seed and also the last time the Gauchos lost before the championship game.
Green's 27 points were two off of her career-high and came on an impressive 11-for-14 from the floor. She added seven rebounds, two steals, and a block.
"Our goal is always to get the ball to Jenna and we did a pretty good job of that," head coach Mark French said. "She has been unbelievably consistent for us this year and she came through big in the clutch."
Ononiwu scored seven of the Gauchos' first nine points and finished with 12 overall to round out the UCSB scoring leaders. She was 5-for-11 from the field and 2-of-6 from three-point territory to go with six rebounds and three assists. Jessica Wilson struggled from the floor, making just 2-of-11 shots, but had an excellent game otherwise, finishing with eight points, 13 rebounds, and nine assists, both of which were game-highs.
Charlee Underwood had 16 points and Toni Thomas had 14 for the Titans, who end their season at 16-16.
Underwood hit a triple with about six minutes to play to give Fullerton a 49-47 lead. But the Gauchos outscored the Titans, 8-0, over the next five minutes to take a 55-49 advantage with 1:25 left. Thomas made a 3-pointer to make it 55-52 with 1:08 to play but she and Andrea Adams missed game-tying shots in the final 15 seconds before Jessica Wilson hit two free throws with three seconds left.
Green scored nine unanswered points to turn a 39-33 deficit into a 42-39 UCSB lead midway through the second half. The teams traded baskets until Ononiwu put the Gauchos ahead to stay with a jumper at 4:30 that started the 8-0 run.
After Santa Barbara took an early 5-0 lead, Fullerton used a 10-4 run to take its first lead and was on too most of the first half. UCSB, who trailed by as many as 10 points in the opening period, shot just 33.3% (9-27) in the first half with 10 turnovers, while Cal State Fullerton hit 10-of-28 shots.
The Gauchos were much better in the second, hitting 13-of-25 shots (52%), to finish 42.3% for the game. UCSB held a 41-32 advantage on the glass and outscored Fullerton 14-8 in the paint. Santa Barbara recorded 17 assists on 22 made baskets.


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Montana Gas Prices Drop Below $3, Low Prices Expected Until January
Montana gas prices dropped another two cents and are back under the three dollar mark, but the big question is how long they can stay that way.
"We continue to see a nominal decrease in gas prices nationwide and in Montana as well," said GasBuddy.com Petroleum analyst Gregg Laskoski. "The national average is $3.21 a gallon right now. That's down three cents a gallon from a week ago. In Montana, we have a statewide average today below $3.00. The statewide average is $2.98. That's two cents below where we were a week ago, and a year ago we were looking at $3.22 so we are certainly in a better situation this year than last year."
Laskoski said he predicts prices to jump up by mid-January, when refineries will start doing yearly maintenance and the markets prepare for new mix.. The low prices right now are partially due to refineries flooding the market with winter fuel to make way for the production of summer blend gas.


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I think Greg Laden has gone a little far with that one. But…
He didn't say the right thing.
Okay, so…latest drama in the Sex Wars. DJ Grothe, the current president of JREF, and the man responsible for running The Amaz!ing Meeting every summer in Vegas (which I've now attended three times and Matt and Beth once), made a comment concerning the serious drop in the number of women who have pre-registered for this year's show. Unwisely, he made this comment.
Last year we had 40% women attendees, something I'm really happy about. But this year only about 18% of TAM registrants so far are women, a significant and alarming decrease, and judging from dozens of emails we have received from women on our lists, this may be due to the messaging that some women receive from various quarters that going to TAM or other similar conferences means they will be accosted or harassed. (This is misinformation. Again, there've been no reports of such harassment the last two TAMs while I've been at the JREF, nor any reports filed with authorities at any other TAMs of which I'm aware.) We have gotten emails over the last few months from women vowing never to attend TAM because they heard that JREF is purported to condone child-sex-trafficking, and emails in response to various blog posts about JREF or me that seem to suggest I or others at the JREF promote the objectification of women, or that we condone violence or threats of violence against women, or that they believe that women would be unsafe because we feature this or that man on the program. I think this misinformation results from irresponsible messaging coming from a small number of prominent and well-meaning women skeptics who, in trying to help correct real problems of sexism in skepticism, actually and rather clumsily themselves help create a climate where women — who otherwise wouldn't — end up feeling unwelcome and unsafe, and I find that unfortunate.
There are too many mixed messages one can get from that paragraph. On the one hand, DJ is understandably concerned about over-the-top Internet rumors that TAM somehow condones pedophilia and misogynist violence. But the very next sentence conflates that kind of irresponsible rumor-mongering (and I wish there were examples he'd presented of those kinds of heinous falsehoods) with the very real concerns women in the movement are expressing regarding plain ol' sexual harassment and creeper behavior at conferences in general (not really TAM specifically). And that wasn't a good move.
What he ought to have said is simply something like this. "I understand that there are a great many concerns about reported instances of sexual harassment and similar disrespectful behavior at skeptics' events. I would like to reassure our supporters and attendees that regardless of what you may have heard, TAM is strongly committed to its own anti-harassment policies, and any reported violations of those policies will be swiftly and responsibly dealt with in order to ensure a positive convention experience for all attendees."
As it stands, he comes across as shooting the messenger. As DJ is very much a politician in his interactions with people, it ought to have occurred to him to choose better wording. (Granted, he was making a comment on Facebook and not an official statement via a JREF source. But when you are president of anything, guess how every word out of your mouth will be taken?) His inability to remember an incident last year when he himself threw a guy out for harassing Ashley Miller just decreases everyone's confidence that DJ's really clued in here.
I'm a little disenchanted with TAM myself, mainly because I think they've been going off-message with the whole skepticism thing, bizarrely making room for selective inclusion of woo while increasingly marginalizing the more overtly atheistic among us. DJ's reaction to a proposal I made to do a live Atheist Experience taping from the TAM stage went from "I like that idea!" at last summer's show to "We aren't doing any atheist programming this year" when I spoke to him at Reason Rally. Last year there was a workshop on, of all things, "Spirituality for Skeptics," and one of the speakers was astronomer Pamela Gay, a devout Christian. While she commendably kept her religious beliefs out of her speech, some of what she writes about her beliefs on her own blog make me wonder if she's best suited to speak at a skeptics' conference rather than just at astronomy ones.
I don't want to see DJ resign, I simply want to see him take everyone's concerns to heart and make an effort to understand and improve. If he is seen to do this, it will go a long way toward rebuilding confidence that JREF's ship is being well-steered away from any looming icebergs.
Addendum: In response to DJ's remarks, Rebecca Watson has pulled out of TAM. This will fire up her haters, no doubt ("Yeah, and she said she wouldn't buy any more Dawkins books either — I'm sure his career is over now!" "Hooray, I can ride the elevators again without having to register as a sex offender!"), but the fact is that Skepchick and Rebecca have been a major factor in TAM's success in diversifying its audience and making the conference a welcoming place for women. Her quiz show was a popular part of TAM programming, and the Skepchick party at Caesar's Palace in 2008 is something I'll remember for years to come. A lot of people will accuse Rebecca of drama-queening this and elevating her own importance to the show (and it should be mentioned that TAM this year has so far scheduled 15 female speakers out of 32), but her concerns stated in her blog post — including her personal experience of harassment — should be given a respectful hearing. This is something I hope DJ and JREF won't ignore, given the history of cooperation and partnership between TAM and Skepchick.


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Using a melon baller, scoop the gelato into 48 (1-inch) balls. Transfer the balls of gelato to a small tray and keep the gelato in the freezer until ready to serve.
When ready to serve, cut the ladyfingers in half lengthwise. Spread the nutella on both sides of the split ladyfingers. Place 3 scoops of gelato on the bottom half of the ladyfinger. Top with slices of strawberry and mint leaves. Place the top ladyfinger over to make a sandwich. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Serve immediately.


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Hartsville, S.C. – The Coker Golf team earned their first tournament victory of the fall season, as they won the 2008 Coker Intercollegiate Tournament at the Hartsville Country Club. The Cobras defeated Fayetteville State by five strokes, while Wingate University's "B" team finished in third place.
Individually, Scott Caragher of Wingate held off Coker's Chris Marsh (Georgetown, SC) for a one shot victory, shooting seven under par (137), while Marsh shot six under par (138). Samy Aiden of Edward Waters was third with a four under par, 140.
Coker's Mason Ambler (Atlanta, GA) was the come back player of the tournament, dropping 15 strokes from day one to day two.
The Cobras hit the links for their final tournament of the fall on Oct. 20-21, at the Conference Carolinas Preview Tournament at Lake Tillery, N.C.