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ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abstraction classes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Oracle, MS SQL 7 and 2000, SAP DB, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, Netezza, LDAP, ODBTP, ADO, and generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in different databases. It also features portable database creation, database-backed session support (with encryption), SQL performance monitoring, and database health checks.
Allegro is a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions, compressed datafile, and a GUI.
'App' is a preprocessor for C++ that accepts as input arbitrary C++ code that may contain embedded constructs for specifying algebraic data types and associated pattern matching operations, and produces as output the same code with all such constructs translated to normal C++. What app essentially does is provide for C++ pretty much the same capabilities that functional languages have regarding algebraic types. 'Applib' is the associated runtime library that supports the core run time requirements of the translated code, and which provides additional utilities (applib is covered by the LGPL).
BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide strong and fast cryptography in the form of a toolkit usable by commercial and open source projects. Included in the library are entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines, and public key primitives.
bigFORTH is a native code Forth. It was originally developed on the Atari ST for the Motorola 68k processor and was recently ported to Intel 386, running under a DOS extender (GO32). bigFORTH is available for Linux and Windows 95/98/NT in pre-beta-test. This version is available under GPL. The most striking new feature is the graphical user interface MINOS and the form editor Theseus. MINOS is a graphic user interface (GUI) for X, written for bigFORTH-Linux and bigFORTH-Win32. It includes a rapid GUI developement editor (Theseus).
BlueJ is an interactive Java development environment. It provides a unique user interface that presents a graphical display of the application classes and their relationships, and it lets users interactively create objects of any class. Once objects have been created, users can interact with them directly. This interaction mechanism allows for much greater testing and experimentation than in conventional environments. BlueJ is suited for teaching and learning OO and Java.
ccaudio2 is a simple, highly portable, stand-alone, C++-based framework for manipulation of audio data. Its goal is to be a C++ framework that is as useful as "audiofile" or "sndfile" is for C programming, and to cover various generic and useful manipulations of audio data as well as audio file access. A stand-alone audio processing command line tool is also provided to demonstrate library functionality. ccaudio2 compiles under Mac OS X, POSIX systems, and Win32 systems.
CGI::Application is a Perl framework intended to make it easier to create sophisticated, reusable Web-based applications. This module implements a methodology which can make Web software easier to design, easier to document, easier to write, and easier to evolve. CGI::Application builds on standard, non-proprietary technologies and techniques, such as the Common Gateway Interface and Lincoln D. Stein's excellent CGI.pm module. CGI::Application judiciously avoids employing technologies and techniques which would bind a developer to any one set of tools, operating system, or Web server.
A tool for making disk space optimized snapshot backups onto another disk.
An applicant tracking system.


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April 11, 2014
Why We Need Local Reporting
LOS ANGELES -- Last Thursday was an interesting news day around here -- and one that highlighted the importance of local reporting as newspapers fade away across the country. A woman named Angela Spaccia was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined $8 million for 11 felonies. She was fraudulently being... continue

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September – December
- (Freshman/Sophomores/Juniors) Meet with a Pre-law advisor, declare your interest, determine if law school is right for you, and start to think about what type of law would interest you.
- Join a Pre-law society, Phi Alpha Delta, Facebook pre-law groups (New England Pre-law Consortium), Poly Sci/Philosophy/Government/Public Policy, Model UN, etc. and try out for Mock Trial or Debate Team.
February – June or June – October
- Prepare for the LSAT.
- Take a free practice test to get a baseline. Decide on a target score, determine your prep strategy.
- Do not undertake this lightly, it is an extremely challenging test to score well on and requires 100-150 hours of prep in addition to starting early.
- Research law schools and application deadlines. Find the right law school for you by using LSAC's searchable online database.
- Register for the LSAT and sign up for LSAC's Credential Assembly Service (CAS).
- You need not register for the CAS at the same time you register for the LSAT; however, you should register long before your first law school application deadline.
- Most law schools require that the LSAT be taken by December for admission the following fall. Taking the test in June or September/October allows for earlier submittal.
- Test date or location changes can be made through your LSAC.org account.
- Obtain your LSAT Admission Ticket.
- Ask registrars to send your official transcripts to LSAC. Request forms available at your LSAC.org account.
- Allow two weeks from the time of receipt to process your US or Canadian transcripts.
- Transcripts from undergraduate and graduate schools located outside the United States, its territories, or Canada require additional processing time.
- Contact your recommenders and evaluators to request your letters/evaluations.
- Letter of Recommendation forms and information about the Evaluation Service can be found on your LSAC.org account. Requirements will vary by school.
- Allow two weeks from the time of receipt to process your letters of recommendation.
June or October
- Take the LSAT.
- Obtain your LSAT score by e-mail and view your answer sheet, score conversion table, and test book (for disclosed tests only) in your LSAC.org account.
- E-mail score reporting is free for LSAC online account holders.
- View your Academic Summary Report in your LSAC.org account once all US/Canadian undergraduate transcripts have been summarized.
June – November
- Work on your application. Personal statements will be the most challenging and time consuming. Resumes will require many edits by more than one person.
August – September
- Request catalogues, applications, and financial aid information from target schools.
July – November
- Approach recommenders and secure letters of recommendation. Have them submitted through CAS.
September – December
- Apply to law schools electronically right from your LSAC.org account (to US member law schools only). Schools will then request your CAS law school report from LSAC.
- Order LSAC Law School Reports online.
- Use your LSAC.org account to verify that your reports were sent to the law schools to which you applied. Check your file status through your LSAC.org account.
- Visit Law School campuses, attend information events and seminars
January – April
- File FAFSA and other financial aid applications, with or without offers from schools.
April – June
- Pay your seat deposit on time for your accepted school.
June – August
- Consider a 1L prep course to be prepared as possible.
LSAT Test Dates (2012)
- Saturday, October 6, 2012 8:30 AM
- Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:30 AM
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Exploiting My Baby
Because It's Exploiting Me
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Teresa Strasser made her baby a spleen and some eyebrows.
He got her a book deal.
Everyone loves babies-and pregnant women-so TV and radio personality Teresa Strasser decided to use this obsession to her advantage. She came up with a way to provide for her newfound family and help other mommies- to-be with this down- and-dirty memoir about first-time pregnancy.
An award-winning writer, Teresa is achingly honest about the motherhood she begins experiencing at age thirty-eight. With a biting sense of humor and heart, she portrays the tribulations that come with each trimester, from nausea, weight gain, and bladder infections to dealing with those other kinds of pregnant women. (You know the ones. The ones who glow-and gloat about it.)
Exploiting My Baby is a must-read for anyone pregnant, trying to get pregnant, or who is just more crazy than baby-crazy. Hopping on a trail pioneered by such lions as Laura Ingalls Wilder, Erma Bombeck, and Tori Spelling, Teresa has no problem using her pregnancy, childbirth and difficult relationship with her own mother for material. It's her blunt and plain-spoken approach to exploiting her family for literary success that sets her apart.
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On New Year's Eve, my husband Daniel and I stayed home, ordered Thai food and watched a documentary on Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany. I guess you could say we partied like it was 1939. By my calculations, that's when our baby was conceived.
I immediately started worrying about everything from birth defects to vaginal tearing. I agonized about my lack of ability to make decisions about birth plans, stroller brands or preschools. I had nightmarish visions of morphing into my own cold, reluctant and baby-disdaining mother. About the only thing I didn't worry much about was the prospect of being a working mother in show business. For that, I thank Barbara Walters.
In fact, a few years ago, not having a kid may have actually cost me my dream job, filling the chair left by Lisa Ling on "The View."
I sat in for a couple of episodes, had some wholesome, well-lit laughs with Barbara Walters, trotted out on stage arm-in-arm with new BFF Meredith Vieira and felt an almost narcotic sense of belonging. Despite a career characterized mainly by paralyzing self-doubt and bad, impetuous decisions to quit jobs, I began to think: I could do this. I was about to link elbows with destiny, as I had with Meredith, who when you get close to her smells like a combination of baby powder, lilacs and poise.
As my cab sped toward JFK to fly home to Los Angeles after taping my second episode of the popular morning chat show, producers called my agent to say I was one of their top choices. Before I'd even checked my bags curbside, we'd agreed on contractual terms.
I spent that flight envisioning my move from Los Angeles to a furnished apartment on the Upper West Side. I fantasized about the breezy rapport and private jokes I would have with the full-time driver they promised, the non-pretentious but clearly expensive collection of Burberry trench coats I would acquire, and of course, the non-stop cold splash of "I told you so" my new post would throw in the faces of anyone who had doubted me. It would be hard to keep up my persona of self-deprecation with near toxic levels of smug coursing through my veins, but I would manage.
By the time I landed at LAX, I was out of the running.
The producers said not only did they want a conservative, but also, they really needed someone who was likely to get pregnant by the coming season. In the parlance of street fighters, or middle managers trying to rally their sales force after a bad quarter: It was go time. Or more specifically, it was gonad time.
Too bad mine were not likely to be in use anytime soon.
Just like that, I was plunged back into an obscurity so profound it made Debbie Matenopoulos look like Gwyneth Paltrow. I cried like the babies Elizabeth Hasselbeck would eventually have, endearing her not only to her bosses at "The View" but to the stay-at-home moms of America.
Sure, I can't complain. I got jobs in deep cable, on local news and in radio, and frankly any work that doesn't involve taking over my dad's automotive repair business is a blessing. But I couldn't help thinking that if I could just procreate, I would have ascended to the next level, and my gonads and I would have enjoyed the chauffeur driven ride all the way to the middle.
It's just that, on "The View" and elsewhere, being a mommy seems to be good for business.
Babies are transformative. Yeah, they make you more loving and patient, blah blah blah, but I'm not talking about that kind of change. I'm talking about the magical baby dust that converts, say, Brooke Burke from an icy and unapproachable swimsuit model to the champion and co-host of popularity contest "Dancing With the Stars." Sprinkle some magic mommy dust on Angelina Jolie, and she goes from knife-wielding, blood vial-wearing, scary force of sexual energy to earth mother/goddess breast-feeding on the cover of W magazine.
So effective is this magic dust that it has the power to make you reconsider loathing Nancy Grace.
A Google search for the term "baby bump" yields nearly two million hits, with most of the top ten devoted to celebrity pregnancy. Think about the following babies and ask yourself how many times you've seen their lovable mugs: Ryder, Shiloh, Apple, Seraphina, Suri, Zuma, Brooklyn, and Sparrow. I used to think this was a brand new phenomenon, that because women have increasing power and earning potential, it's somehow comforting to know that we are still partially just baby-making machines. The threat we pose is mitigated by the hours we'll spend pregnant, nursing, changing diapers or otherwise tending to kiddies.
Then I read that, back in 1953, the country basically screeched to a halt to watch the birth of Little Ricky on "I Love Lucy." A record 71.7% of all television-owning households tuned in, partly because the subject was still new for television, but also because the characters Lucy and Ricky were played by Lucy and Desi, who in real life were married and the parents of Desi Jr. Media coverage of the event was so massive, it overshadowed the inauguration of President Eisenhower the next morning.
Cut to Demi Moore pregnant and nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, then to cable sensation "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." I guess the secret is: we even love pregnant teens! And that means you, too, Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin.
With the proliferation of media outlets (People Magazine even has a Celebrity Baby Blog; read it to learn why pregnant Nancy O'Dell craves baked beans), we can fill the need we've always had to see the adorable little faces that result from celebrity DNA, or to observe someone known for her svelte body, like Heidi Klum or Kelly Ripa, enlarge. Entertainment news is now a non-stop "Bump Watch."
As a culture, we have a voyeuristic fascination with famous mothers, but we're simply gaga for multiples. More babies equals more baby mania.
How much did we want to see the Jolie-Pitt twins, Vivienne and Knox? People Magazine reportedly paid a record $14 million for first photos.
Watched TLC lately?
I remember when it used to be all home decorating shows (back when I was scratching for my seat on "The View," I used to host TLC's "While You Were Out"). Now it's mostly shows about babies and families with many, many babies, including the Duggars, who have nineteen kids with "J" names, including Jedidiah and Jinger.
Don't worry about the crazy monikers. They won't get bullied on the schoolyard because 1) Jesus loves them and 2) They are home schooled.
Why this obsession of ours? Aside from the miracle of childbirth being inherently interesting (a living, breathing entity squirms right out of a human vagina--it never gets old!), and the thrill of seeing some tiny starlet get fat and then thin again (how Jessica Alba or Gisele Bundchen or any other celebrity lost their baby weight sells magazines every time), and the soothing sense that even our most kickass power women (Madonna, Katie Couric, Christina Aguilera, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton) had a baby yen, there is also just this: Moms are so … maternal.
Welcome to facile conjecture-ville, I hope you'll have a pleasant stay.
Mothers know things. They have superhuman strength. They are selfless, protective, gentle and sacrificing. Not my mother exactly - who should have named my brother and me Burden and Buzz Kill for how much she dug being a single parent - but in general, who wouldn't want to be imbued with these qualities in the eyes of the public?
Did I want to be the girl with one dead ficus and two perhaps overly adored cats? Did I want to be the woman who forgets birthdays, remembers petty grudges and drives around in an unwashed car littered with empty water bottles and crumpled scripts for jobs she didn't get?
Or could I use not only a whole new fan base, but also a wealth of new topics to mine for material?
Hell yes.
So, I certainly didn't have a baby to help my career. But it shouldn't hurt."...A raw, often unsettling and always entertaining look at pregnancy and childbirth. Strasser flaunts her ability to worry about anything, her many documented imperfections and brings it all down to some seriously funny prose."
-Rick Kleffel, NPR
"If you read this book you will laugh until you're sick, I swear, but it's also very insightful."
-Dr. Phil
"Teresa Strasser cuts right through the mucus plug with Exploiting My Baby: Because It's Exploiting Me. With such chapter titles as 'Sitting Stretch Mark Shiva' and 'I'll Miss You, Toxins,' Strasser's funnier than your funniest friend and her neuroses are more acute than Joan Rivers' Having a Baby Can Be a Scream."
-LA Weekly
"I laughed my ass off - which is great, because now I don't have stretch marks anymore."
-New York Times-bestselling author Jenny McCarthy
"Exploiting her baby, perhaps, but most certainly rewarding her readers, Teresa Strasser trudges, nay, romps with us down the road from the anxiety of no baby to guilt of not deserving a precious child. All the while she reminds us that the echoes of our families of origin, although carried along with us like so much muck in a river-bed, need not choke our ability to flourish and find joy as parents."
-Dr. Drew Pinsky
"Hilarious first time memoir about motherhood."
-Life & Style
"Teresa's pain is your gain. The toll pregnancy and birth have taken on her marriage, career, psyche and cervix are all laid bare for your info-tainment. Her neurotic neonatal journey will make you laugh and cry. It might even make you aroused (if you're into that sort of thing)."
-Adam Carolla
"Exploiting My Baby: Because It's Exploiting Me is a hilarious, honest, often raunchy account of Strasser's pregnancy and delivery in which no subject is too sacred to broach: Porn, STDs, the fetal benefits of oral sex and a particularly disastrous clogged toilet scene all get their day. This is the stuff What to Expect When You're Expecting elegantly omits."
-The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
"If Woody Allen was a woman with big giant ovaries and wrote a book about his pregnancy, it still wouldn't have been this funny, warm, brassy and insightful."
-Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, bestselling author of Sippy Cups are Not for Chardonnay
"Strasser's collection of essays is a comic, poignant and no-holds-barred revelation of her anxiety-strewn road to motherhood."
-Laguna Beach Independent
"If this is what it's really like to have a baby, I should have been a lot nicer to my lovely wife. Also, she should have made me laugh this much. So we're even. If you think you worry too much about being a parent, Teresa Strasser will inform you of all the things you forgot to freak out about."
-Joel Stein
"I loved this book. Teresa Strasser has blessed us all with an amazing, inspired work. I laughed, I cried, I learned lessons about marriage and love and pregnancy and motherhood that will last a lifetime. Teresa knows how to speak directly to every one of us, and offers us the inside story every pregnant woman wishes someone out there would finally share. Her very personal, hysterical and moving story is universal. I can't wait to buy this book for all my pregnant friends."
-Rabbi Naomi Levy, author of Hope Will Find You and To Begin Again
"Darn funny and a truthful glimpse into the realities of pregnancy."
-L.A. Parent Magazine
"Teresa is the mom you want to invite to your playgroup."
-Heather McDonald, New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Blueball in this Town Again
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Landscape changes to the north
The rain line isn't far north of here. On a quick trip to Lincoln, Neb., Friday, I was amazed at the difference in how the corn looks just north of here compared with our burned-up crop.
Once you get past Abilene, the crops are a luscious green. I saw in a Nebraska newspaper that they might be looking at a record crop this season.
According to the prices I saw at Cooperative Grain & Supply headquarters this morning, I wish I had bins full of beans to sell at around $13 per bushel.
Unfortunately, abundant rain is not something we can count each year in these parts.
My mom's uncle Leonard Schroeder would be the right guy to have in charge of our country right now. He was as frugal as they come.
I was told that when he got undressed at night he would put the sock from the right foot into the left shoe and the left sock into the right shoe, so that when he got dressed in the morning each sock would get even wear by alternating feet.
I'm not saying we should be that frugal, but something close to it.
When I got up to walk Sunday morning, I had this pain in my right thigh that made it hard to think about getting two miles in that day. But with some stretching and whatnot, I was able to get the job done.
My first thought was that I had Jake Leg—a term I had heard when I was in high school for those who walked and dragged one leg behind.
Not knowing exactly what Jake Leg meant, I searched the Web and learned it was a term given to those who were slightly paralyzed from drinking bad liquor—referring to a Jamaican drink named Jake.
If I was enrolling in high school this fall, I would be in the 59th grade.
I am still working on getting past Hillsboro High School yearbooks posted online as part of the All School Reunion committee's initiative to help anyone connected with Hillsboro High find out anything they can't remember from their high school days.
I have found there are no yearbooks from the years 1941-1945. It seems like I have been told that is because during the war years no books were produced.
If someone could verify that for me, I would appreciate it.
I remember taking a class at KU where I sat in the back of the room and, as it was a 7:30 a.m. class, was known to nod off now and then.
One day the instructor said: "Mr. Klaassen, have you stopped beating your wife?" Since I didn't really hear the question and just my name I blurted out that I couldn't answer that question.
Turns out that my answer was exactly correct. It was an example of a question that makes you look bad if you answer yes or no—yes means you used to beat your wife and no means you still do.
Nancy was at market this past weekend so I went grocery shopping by myself.
I should have paid better attention during the times I've gone with her. Anyway, I just acted like I knew what I was doing and came home with $50 worth.
I didn't even use a list.
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A couple of weeks ago, Ian Belknap, who at 47 has the haunted eyes and fixed scowl of the congenitally angry, received an Amazon box in the mail. It had finally arrived, the book he ordered: "Actors Anonymous," the debut novel from James Franco, the actor-author-poet-professor-curator-artist-celebrity. Belknap began reading. Later that afternoon, a few days before he was set to premiere "Bring Me the Head of James Franco, That I May Prepare a Savory Goulash in the Narrow and Misshapen Pot of His Skull," his one-man show at the Den Theatre in Wicker Park about hating the brazen hyphenate, Belknap began to feel pains.
Severe muscle aches, back spasms.
He went to the emergency room. The next day, he was bedridden, the show postponed a week.
"Well, of course I blame James Franco for what happened," Belknap said the other day, the morning after "Bring Me the Head of James Franco" finally opened. "My body, after spending so much time thinking and considering James Franco, collapsed into a kind of hate knot." He was somewhat serious, and somewhat joking, a smile curling across his churlishness. And yet the show itself — a 70-minute multimedia trolling that includes Power Point, poetry and the staged execution of a James Franco doll, offering both a Franco career survey and a dyspeptic vivisection of a culture that allows a Franco to proliferate — is largely serious.
Belknap, who wears several hats himself — as a Chicago writer/comic/catalyst for the live-literature scene/creator of the Write Club, the monthly dueling-author smackdowns ("literature as blood sport") at the Hideout —makes his living as a grant writer for arts organizations. He has witnessed firsthand as arts funding has dried up. His anger is directed partly at the seeming ease with which Franco finds platforms, funding, audiences.
Still, an elaborate, furious, thoughtfully organized theatrical reaction to, uh, James Franco? We had a few questions. Belknap, whose show runs Thursdays through Saturdays until Nov. 16, delivered a few answers:
Q: Basically, what's your beef with Franco?
A: The basic thrust is that Franco has taken the most bloated, lightweight approach to the arts I've ever seen. It's hard enough to make good art under the best of circumstances, but there are people trying to dismantle the National Endowment for the Arts, there's the persistent ribbon of anti-intellectualism that runs deep through this country. And fine, that's to be expected, and some people will never see value to making any art. My problem is with the people who ostensibly believe in the arts, as Franco claims he does, who then erode the value of art from within. If it was just some idiot making bad art — well, there is no end to bad art. No, my qualm is with the access to an audience, resources, publishing and galleries by people like him.
Q: Like who?
A: The dilettantes of Hollywood, the way that Ethan Hawke is a novelist, the way Kevin Bacon has a band. Franco is the biggest distillation of this tendency, because he is doing so any things simultaneously, then has the feverishness insistence we pay attention to his every move. I just zeroed in on the worst practitioner. His "body of work" — air quotes so vigorous my knuckles are breaking — occupies this annoying place where he is making unimaginative work in every discipline even as he is insulating himself rhetorically from any criticism by saying he is "working in forms," "not speaking literally" — all hollow art-speak justifications.
Q: But why does he have to justify himself? Doesn't he have the right to just try stuff?
A: He has the right to characterize and justify his work in any manner he chooses. My criticism is the merits of that work are wanting. It could be promising, but because he is so frenzied in everything he makes, it requires more thought before it's ready for public consumption. But he is a brand, he does what he wants. His book of short stories ("Palo Alto") should never have been published. His two books of poetry are the worst poetry I have personally encountered. I read one of his poems during the show, and I am so confident it will be bad that I flip pages and tell the audience to stop me, then I read that poem. Unfailingly horrible.
Q: OK, but that famous, good-looking people get more attention than struggling artists is not news...
A: Yes, I know that the world is not fair. My problem is that he is knowingly exploiting that tendency to grant famous people attention for whatever they want to do. And I am not hyperbolically using that word, "exploit."
Q: But that may also be the point, no? There is something knowing about his relentless output.
A: That's fair, yes. But ubiquity as a goal is not a point. Having achieved ubiquity, is he doing anything with it? Is it a running commentary on the way celebrity affects culture? OK, but make some point about that.
Q: Still, stating an explicit point could be too on the nose. Even Andy Warhol left a little mystery.
A: That's apt. But Warhol also worked with the vapidity of image then, with intelligence and penetration, dove into the relationship between vapidity and culture. My difficulty with Franco is I don't see that kind of understanding of his own art: Does he honestly believe the standards that apply to other artists apply to him? That he is being judged on the same level? He's either a simpleton, a liar or both. He's not simpleton.


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Where's the Gold in Goldfinch
Color can be confusing. All winter long, you've adjusted your eyes to drab-looking birds at your feeders. Then spring comes, and you see a whole new array of color, plus some odd-colored birds you just don't recognize. What's going on? Color confusion throughout the year can be explained by three things: sex differences (sexual dimorphism), molting into winter plumage, and juvenile birds.
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Customers queue up at El Corazon food truck, which was parked on Commercial Street in Portland on Sunday.
By Meredith Goad
Staff Writer
At long last, Portlanders will be able to walk up to a food truck this summer and grab a hamburger, taco, hand pie, cup of coffee or other casual fare – years after the food truck revolution invaded other cities across the country.
The presence of a few food trucks downtown (see this comprehensive guide to the fleet) will be a huge step forward for this food-loving city, which struggled over the regulations and made the whole process way more complicated than it needed to be. We should celebrate the fact that the city has finally embraced an idea that will make life here just a little bit better.
But don't crack open the Champagne too fast.
When food truck operators actually went to get their licenses and open their businesses, they got a couple of unwelcome surprises. Turns out there are still two big regulatory hurdles to get over before we can declare Portland a food truck-friendly place.
First, food truck operators are being required by the city to pay $105 in fees -- $30 for a building permit and $75 for an occupancy permit -- for every place they park on private property, even though they already have paid for a lease agreement with the property owner. That's on top of their $500 food truck license and $110 inspection fee. (Night vending is another $200.)
This means that some trucks will have to limit where they can do business, since all those fees add up quickly.
But food trucks are supposed to be mobile, right? That's the whole point.
"They wrote the ordinance so that it would encourage people to park on private property, basically, instead of roaming around the city and trying to find parking spots, especially in the Old Port and the peninsula," notes Sarah Sutton, who owns the lobster roll food truck Bite Into Maine and has been trying in vain to get the City Council to take a look at the issue. "It's really restrictive. And now -- I don't even know how it happened -- they're charging building permits for every spot on private property that they know you're going to park on."
This is important because, truck operators say, in order to make their business work at all they must have a place to park on private property. There just are not enough public parking spots available on city streets because of the restrictive limits that were put in place to spare Portland's restaurants a little competition.
The second issue has to do with clustering. When the ordinance was being developed, food truck operators made it clear they wanted to be able to cluster together in a parking lot, especially for specific events. But when the regulations were published, the rules said food trucks had to stay at least 65 feet from each other on the Portland peninsula, and 200 feet away from each other off-peninsula.
That hasn't kept some trucks from clustering anyway, at the popular monthly "Flea Bites" gatherings at the Portland Flea-For-All on Kennebec Street, for example. But they are always looking over their shoulders while they're selling their sandwiches, worried that these popular events will be broken up by the city because of a rule that they didn't expect to be in the ordinance in the first place.
The rule raises a lot of questions: Who pays the building and occupancy fees when these trucks cluster at an event? The property owner, since there are several trucks involved? Does each truck pay a separate fee, or do they all chip in together and pay once? And do they have to buy a new permit every time they gather, even if it's a regular weekly or monthly event?
"We had talked to City Council and said we want trucks to be able to cluster, and they had all agreed that was a good idea," said Ben Berman, owner of Mainely Burgers. "And then the ordinance came out, and it said you can't. I don't know why that happened. It was sort of a surprise, but truly we're not mad at anyone. We're frustrated that this hasn't been resolved yet, but happy that some progress has been made."
The situation is clearly making food truck owners unhappy, but most are limiting their public comments to low-level grumbling, both because they still have to work with the city and are hoping someone in power will take notice and help them fix things.
In referring to the unexpected permit fee, they use phrases like "double dipping" and call it "a little unfair."
"That does come into play when you move from location to location," city spokeswoman Nicole Clegg acknowledged. "I will say that these are still kind of new rules and regulations. This is kind of a new concept that we're applying to existing ordinances. So when issues like the one that you've raised come up, it kind of forces us to examine if how we're applying it is fitting in with the goal of supporting the industry."
Clegg said the permits are required because the food trucks are being treated like tents and other temporary structures you might set up on your property for a special event.
"We knew when we enacted the rules that there probably were going to be some things that need to get adjusted as we learned more about how the industry operates," Clegg said. "And this was a good one to point out. We recognize that for someone who's trying out their business, and trying out a location, that this is a challege for them."
Sutton said the loose coalition of food truck owners that has formed in Portland has been trying to get the permits and the clustering issue brought up as an immediate concern at City Council for weeks, "and it hasn't happened yet." She just found out that Christopher Hall, CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber, will be meeting with the mayor soon to discuss these two issues.
These glitches could just be considered a learning curve for the city, but they also point to larger concerns that Portland is making it too difficult for food trucks to work here.
"Right now, I think the majority of the rules that are on the books have been influenced by those who are concerned about the impact of the food truck revolution on the standard brick-and-mortar restaurant," said Carson Lynch, owner of the Gorham Grind truck. "I don't think that's necessarily justified. I think it's fear of the unknown. If you look to other more developed cities, you'll see that with food culture, there's a 'rising tide lifts all boats' sort of thing. If you're selling falafel in front of a barbecue place, you're just going to bring more consumers in general to that neck of the woods, and that's a good thing. So the code is written based on some fear."
Jim Chamoff, owner of Gusto's Italian Food Truck, has been running his business since December and has already found it difficult to work within the city's rules.
"The biggest issue we're having quite frankly, is Portland," he said. "They didn't make it easy for anybody to do a food truck in Portland. It's very difficult. We can't go in the heart of the city where all the foot traffic is, so if you want to find us you have to walk a block or two in a different direction and you have to be looking out for us. We're not in the center of it. That changes after 10 p.m.; we can pretty much go anywhere. For the late-night crowd, it works pretty well."
Chamoff tried leasing a spot in a private parking lot, but discovered quickly that he wasn't going to be doing much business there. So he moved, and everywhere he moves, he has to get a new building permit.
When he has parked on city streets, Chamoff has found it difficult to abide by the parking regulations for food trucks. Moving every couple of hours is not always practical in a big food truck that has to be set up and taken down every time it moves.
"The parking guys are all over us," Chamoff said. "I mean, they're just brutal. I've literally gotten tickets while on the truck serving food. The bottom line, quite frankly, if they want food trucks in Portland, they're going to have to change the laws or it's not going to fly in Portland. Not the way it's written now. It's just too restrictive."
The rules are supposed to be reviewed again in August, a year after they were put in place. Sutton said she hopes that once more people start food truck businesses here, there will be a stronger voice for the movement in the city.
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Police are on the lookout after vandals struck half a dozen locations across Glassboro near Rowan University. The suspects went on a holiday weekend tire slashing spree that left drivers aggravated and worried.
"I was a little scared. They were in our driveway close to our house, vandalizing our property," tire slashing victim Michele Heilmann told FOX 29.
Police say the vandals struck two apartment complexes where students live off campus and a row of off campus homes on South Delsea Drive, where at least five cars were damaged.
"It's pretty terrifying when it comes down to it," said Travis Gensamer, who says tires on two of his roommates' cars were slashed, even though they were parked in this garage.
"We don't know who did it," he said. "We'd like to know after all these houses got hit. It's kind of scary when you have somebody in the garage where all the cars are. It's weird."
Heilmann lives right next door. Last Friday, she came out to find the front tire on her Honda CRV slashed. She says the vandalism not only caused a lot of worry, but time and $150 for a new tire.
"Definitely an inconvenience. I had no car," she said.
The vandals also struck at a Pep Boys parking lot, where employees say at least five customers' cars had their tires slashed. The vandals were caught on tape. One on a bike, the other walking. Police now have the video.
"You can't just go around vandalizing people's property, it causes inconvenience and can cost a lot of people money," Heilmann added.
"I'd like them to get caught, but what can you do?" Gensamer said.
So far, police have no suspects. Most of the cars that were damaged, have now been repaired. Police don't know why so many Rowan University students were targeted by the vandals.
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The play on words comes from the central focus on the road improvements and site development along Iron Mountain Road and Pappy Dunn Boulevard. Frankly, what we call it is less important than the deed. And, given the long years it has taken the former Army post to get to this point, the actual $8 million project announced this week is less important than the idea of regionalism behind it.
Calhoun County Commissioner Tim Hodges and Anniston City Councilman Jay Jenkins say they began discussing ways to work together on a project at McClellan last year. The result of those discussions was Wednesday's press conference announcing the project aimed at attracting new industry. Assembled at the table were local governments from Anniston, Calhoun County, Jacksonville, Piedmont, Weaver, Ohatchee and Hobson City, as well as the McClellan Development Authority, the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce, the Calhoun County Economic Development Council, Jacksonville State University and Gadsden State Community College. There's still more room at that table, meaning Oxford is more than welcome to join in this cooperative effort.
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Rumor: New Xbox 360 Dashboard in November [Updated]by Blake Ellison, Sep 24, 2008 11:36am PDT
Update: NeoGAF member Kafel corroborated the picture from Joystiq and added a shot from another page of the ad section. It reads:
"Coming in November, playing Rock Band 2 and meeting up with your band mates on your Xbox 360 will be better than ever thanks to the New Xbox Experience," and links to a features list and videos of the new dashboard.
Original Story: The Xbox 360 dashboard has outed itself: the pending avatar-loving update, dubbed the New Xbox Experience, will arrive in November--if a Rock Band 2 advertisement on the console is to be believed.
"Check out the New Xbox Experience coming in November!" reads the screen in the Rock Band 2 ad section as pictured on Joystiq.
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One of these modifications could be differences in burial of electrical cables depending on the local ground conditions. For example some areas have permafrost. Others have a very high water table. Others lots of sharp rocks in the ground. Some areas have plenty of nice [non-wire damaging] sandy soil.
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Buttermilk Bagna Cauda
- Amanda
I love bagna cauda, the warm Italian garlic-and-anchovy sauce, almost as much as I love my children. And I especially love my husband because he likes to prepare bagna cauda for our dinner parties. If you've never made it, you're in for an hors d'oeuvre revelation -- all you do is warm garlic and anchovies for a few minutes in oil (or butter and oil, depending on which bagna cauda school you belong to) and then serve the toasty warm sauce with a bunch of fresh cut or lightly blanched vegetables. Do you see the beams of light breaking through the clouds yet?
This past week, a certain food52 member -- brooke's kitchen -- came up with this stunning Caesar dressing based on buttermilk, and this got me wondering what would happen if you combined pungent bagna cauda with a bit of taming buttermilk (and a thyme sprig or two)?
I will tell you: you get a pungent sauce that's a little rounder on the edges and more fragrant -- I won't say it's tangy, and I can't promise creamy, but you will get something subtly different, something you'll want to immediately plunge a blanched green bean or tiny carrot into.
Buttermilk Bagna Cauda
Serves 4
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and halved lengthwise
- 2 sprigs thyme
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 anchovy fillets
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Pinch salt, more if needed
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- Fresh and lightly blanched vegetables, like asparagus, green beans, cauliflower, Romanesco broccoli, small carrots, etc., at room temperature
1. Drop the garlic and thyme into a small saucepan, add the butter and melt over low heat. Simmer the garlic (pulling the pan off the heat if the butter ever bubbles actively) until it's softened, about 10 minutes.
2. Add the anchovies and mash with a wooden spoon to dissolve them. Stir in the olive oil and let heat through. Season with salt -- taste as you go!
3. Whisk in the buttermilk. Serve with a platter of vegetables.
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about 3 years ago Mollyh
Superb. The buttermilk makes it just a little bit nicer to the arteries.
almost 4 years ago Rhonda35
I have never tried bagna cauda - what's wrong with me?! I am going to give it a shot this week - our farmer's market is in full swing for the season. Think I will try the original version and this buttermilk version and see which I prefer.
almost 4 years ago cupandtable
yum. have never made bagna cauda. however, i am always trying to dream up new excuses for eating wonderful anchovies, and this suffices very nicely. i like the buttermilk option to mix things up now and then. great idea.
almost 4 years ago
Amanda Hesser
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
You're in for a treat -- classic or with buttermilk, it's just a terrific sauce to have in your repertory, especially if you have a good farmers market nearby.
almost 4 years ago thelastcourse
Hmmmmm this bagna cauda with dymnyno's battered beans....what a combo.
almost 4 years ago
Amanda Hesser
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
like the sound of that.
almost 4 years ago
AntoniaJames is a trusted source on Bread/Baking.
Oh me, oh my. Doesn't this look tasty! ;o)
almost 4 years ago
Amanda Hesser
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
thank you -- and you can add the buttermilk to taste, obviously. Could add quite a bit more if you want the emphasis to be tangy. Also, I should have mentioned that it's not the prettiest sauce! The brutti ma buoni of sauces.
almost 4 years ago lastnightsdinner
You've got me craving bagna cauda at 10 am! This sounds like a wonderful spin on the classic - can't wait to give it a try.
almost 4 years ago
Amanda Hesser
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
That was my goal -- enjoy!


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My son, Douglas, loves to play with toy guns. He is thirteen. He loves video games in which people get killed. He loves violence on TV, especially if it's funny. How did this happen? The way everything does, of course. One thing follows another, naturally.
Naturally, he looks like me: shorter than average, with a fine build, hazel eyes, and light-brown hair. Like me, he has a speech impediment and a condition called "essential tremor" that causes involuntary hand movements, which make him look more fragile than he is. He hates reading, but he is bright. He is interested in crows because he heard on a nature show that they are one of the only species that are more intelligent than they need to be to survive. He does beautiful, precise drawings of crows.
Mostly, though, he draws pictures of men holding guns. Or men hanging from nooses. Or men cutting up other men with chainsaws—in these pictures there are no faces, just figures holding chainsaws and figures being cut in two, with blood spraying out.
My wife, Marla, says that this is fine, as long as we balance it out with other things—family dinners, discussions of current events, sports, exposure to art and nature. But I don't know. Douglas and I were sitting together in the living room last week, half watching the TV and checking e-mail, when an advertisement for a movie flashed across the screen: it was called "Captivity" and the ad showed a terrified blond girl in a cage, a tear running down her face. Doug didn't speak or move. But I could feel his fascination, the suddenly deepening quality of it. And I don't doubt that he could feel mine. We sat there and felt it together.
And then she was there, the woman in the car. In the room with my son, her black hair, her hard laugh, the wrinkled skin under her hard eyes, the sudden blood filling the white of her blue eye. There was excited music on the TV and then the ad ended. My son's attention went elsewhere; she lingered.
When I was a kid, I liked walking through neighborhoods alone, looking at houses, seeing what people did to make them homes: the gardens, the statuary, the potted plants, the wind chimes. Late at night, if I couldn't sleep, I would sometimes slip out my bedroom window and just spend an hour or so walking around. I loved it, especially in late spring, when it was starting to be warm and there were night sounds—crickets, birds, the whirring of bats, the occasional whooshing car, some lonely person's TV. I loved the mysterious darkness of the trees, the way they moved against the sky if there was wind—big and heavy movements, but delicate, too, in all the subtle, reactive leaves. In that soft, blurry weather, people slept with their windows open; it was a small town and they weren't afraid. Some houses—I'm thinking of two in particular, where the Legges and the Myers lived—had yards that I would actually hang around in at night. Once, when I was sitting on the Legges' front porch, thinking about stealing a piece of their garden statuary, their cat came and sat with me. I petted him and when I got up and went for the statuary he followed me with his tail up. The Legges' statues were elves, not corny, cute elves but sinister, wicked-looking elves, and I thought that one would look good in my room. But they were too heavy, so I just moved them around the yard.
I did things like that, dumb pranks that could only irritate those who noticed them: rearranging statuary, leaving weird stuff in mailboxes, looking into windows to see where people had dinner or left their personal things—or, in the case of the Legges, where their daughter, Jenna, slept. She was on the ground floor, her bed so close to the window that I could watch her chest rise and fall the way I watched the grass on their lawn stirring in the wind. The worst thing I did, probably, was put a giant marble in the Myers' gas tank, which could've really caused a problem if it had rolled over the gas hole while one of the Myers was driving on the highway, but I guess it never did.
Mostly, though, I wasn't interested in causing that kind of problem. I just wanted to sit and watch, to touch other people's things, to drink in their lives. I suspect that it's some version of these impulses that makes me the most successful real-estate agent in the Hudson Valley now: the ability to know what physical objects and surroundings will most please a person's sense of identity and make him feel at home.
I wish that Doug had this sensitivity to the physical world, and the ability to drink from it. I've tried different things with him: I used to throw the ball with him out in the yard, but he got tired of that; he hates hiking and likes biking only if he has to get someplace. What's working now a little bit is fishing, fly-fishing hip deep in the Hudson. An ideal picture of normal childhood.
I believe I had a normal childhood. But you have to go pretty far afield to find something people would call abnormal these days. My parents were divorced, and then my mother had boyfriends—but this was true of about half the kids I knew. She and my father fought, in the house, when they were together, and they went on fighting, on the phone, after they separated—loud, screaming fights sometimes. I didn't love it, but I understood it; people fight. I was never afraid that my father was going to hurt her, or me. I had nightmares occasionally, in which he turned into a murderer and came after me, chasing me, getting closer, until I fell down, unable to make my legs move right. But I've read that this is one of those primitive fears which everybody secretly has; it bears little relation to what actually happens.


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Citysearch Editorial Review – Tickets aren't cheap at this country house-turned-music venue and bar, but the atmosphere is priceless. Though walls have been knocked down to turn the first floor of this old house into a performance space, it's still an intimate venue. Christmas lights illuminate the bar, and, unless the act warrants a dance floor, the mismatched tables are set close to the stage. Performers run the gamut from folk singers to world music ensembles to reggae artists and more. And though the live music is a year-round draw, come summertime, hordes of young sharehouse residents come in droves to binge drink and mingle in the outside space and back bar area--a rowdy, meet-market scene packed with sun-kissed prepsters ordering shots of Jack in bulk.
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We are delighted to host this year's Minnesota All-State Choir camp. "Participate" in the week by following our daily pictures show on this page and/or come to the final concert at 10:30 am in the Abbey/University Church on Saturday, August 10, 2013 and listen to these 250 wonderful musicians make incredible music!
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It's all about what you're used to, I just got used to the mouse.
You know, I've actually never really drawn Sonic much, like a few times in highschool for this girl that was into sonic, but otherwise not so much. I mean I've played a handful of the games, 1,2,3, and sonic and knuckles on the genesis, then Sonic adventure 1 and 2, and sonic heroes. I've draw a TON of Mario.
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Does that have anything to do with Diamond Apparel
Diamond apparel?
Sketchin sketchin'
Fukken badass and yeah DMND or whatever is some clothing brand idk here's a shirt of theirs
I'm diggin that sketch :O
btw sparky, can you please add your forum name to the thread title thanks
Cloudy: Sorry, I should've read the rules. Title fix'd.
Just colored these inks I did on this other dude's drawing.
If I was gay and a fury, I'd totes have sex with that pic of Sonic. Just sayin'.
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I have had some students who, when the Self has come in and sabotaged them, have made the choice not to go on with their study. The power of the Self and fear is so strong. The Self is an expert in bringing up the fear and often has hidden away pockets of fear for the future so that, even when one has dealt with one's issues, there will be something it can bring out if it needs it. It is not easy as we pull back the layers of past-life and present-life issues to cope with.
My worst year for me was in 1998. It was a horrible year. I faced some pretty horrific fears which I had created in a past life. Maitreya told me it was not easy watching me go through that experience. I set it up for myself right down to having a daily paper delivered where every single day I had to see my actions – which brought out even more fear.
This was to do with something I have written about in my book, Born To Be A Channel, where I had to face my fear on the 6:00 PM news as the lead story. By this time I had already faced so much fear since connecting with Maitreya, and this would not be the last experience either. It just kept going after this experience and, like my graduate student, I remember asking at the time, "When will this end?" It was to be another 11 years before it got to a level where I could actually say it was mostly over. But now, of course, with the TV show I am facing new challenges. Hopefully there will be no fear anymore, but I cannot say "No" definitely to that as I have only just walked through the door to the new experience.