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She went on to write: "What's my point? Don't be deceived by what you see in magazines & on Instagram.. You never see the dozens of other pics they took that wernt as flattering. Photoshop can make a pig look hotter then Beyonce."
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Heineman and Daugaard said the shutdown's chief impact has been the loss of National Guard jobs. Daugaard also said the uncertainty caused by the shutdown "is not helpful to any of our economies."
Heineman said both parties are at fault for the situation in Washington and Branstad said President Obama should stop attacking the Republican leadership in Congress because that lessens chances of compromise.
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JEFF GORDON: "Half the battle and goal of this race is to learn something for next week's Duel and the 500. The car was definitely, as far back as I was, they become a handful a couple laps before that. But handling wasn't an issue. We had good handling. We need a little more speed, so we'll work on that. But I can't tell if guys are just getting out of control or if they're getting hit or what's going on. But several guys started shuffling back to the back and right there I saw somebody loose on the inside and the outside lane somehow was affected by it and it was a domino by the time it got back to me and we were in it. CAN YOU TELL US YOUR VERSION OF THAT AND WHAT WERE YOU FEELING OUT THERE? "I couldn't see much. We were in that bottom lane that just got shuffled back early and so we were just slowly working our way back up there. I saw handling started to become an issue for quite a few guys, a little bit for myself, but not too bad. I just saw somebody get sideways going down into (turn) one and then our lane checked up and they started getting turned and we started wrecking." TALK ABOUT THE HANDLING IS THAT A GOOD THING FOR NASCAR RACING? "Yeah, but you as a driver have more responsibility now about how you are going to drive out there because the cars are going to move around a little bit more. They are going to get turned around a lot easier, so you can't be running into one another. You can't be turning across guys; you have to utilize that handling to your advantage after a longer run. I like that part of it." ANY SURPRISE IN YOUR MIND THAT IT HAPPENED THIS EARLY? "Yes and no, I thought at the start of the race everybody was doing a pretty good job of watching. Even when we were three-wide it wasn't too bad. Then I started seeing some guys start to lose the handling on their car and start to get a little out of control. I started paying a little bit more attention and was looking for cars to slide around. They were, but no incidences until then." DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE 150'S ARE GOING TO BE LIKE NOW? "Well, if it warms up during the daytime handling is going to be a big, big issue. That is going to be important and so we will look at the weather. We weren't there long, but we learned a little bit and now we will watch what these guys are doing and try to learn some more for the duels." IT SEEMED LIKE THE INSIDE LANE WAS A BETTER LANE? "It wasn't for me at the beginning. At the beginning the inside lane was no good at all. Usually it's not the lane it's just how it's formed. If you get guys stacked up that lane will start moving, the outside seemed to move early, but then it looked like the outside also started having some handling issues as we started to get more heat in the tires." -Team Chevy PR HANDLING DIDN'T CAUSE THAT WRECK RIGHT? "I haven't seen it, but from what I heard no. I think handling at the end of this race when people started getting more aggressive it will probably contribute to some. The handling is what can lose some speed. It shouldn't necessarily cause a wreck unless you are trying to be aggressive towards the end of a run and the handling is just not going to be as good." -Team Chevy PR
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3. Examine both of your wheels for missing or loose spokes. Check the rims for cracks or dents. 4. Lift the wheel off the ground and spin it. Then watch its motion, listen for noise and move it from side to side to check for looseness. 5. For smooth operations, inspect the controls. Watch for kinks or broken strands in your cables. Also, lubricate the control mechanisms at each end of the cables. 6. Oil the chain and check the sprockets for worn teeth. 7. Does the motorcycle bounce several times after you ride over a bump? Do you hear a big clunk? If the answer to either of this is yes, adjust or replace the shock absorbers.
8. Be on the lookout for loose or missing nuts, bolts or cotter pins. If you keep your bike clean, it's easier to spot the missing parts. 9. Adjust your brakes so they lock the wheel when fully applied (see your owner's manual for instructions). If the wheel does not lock, or if you hear a scraping sound when you're trying to stop have the lining checked. 10. If you suspect that your motorbike can land you into trouble, fix things right away. That is the only way you can avoid an accident.
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There are two kinds of batsmen in the world. One, Sachin Tendulkar. Two, all other batsmen. - Andy Flower
The man has been playing astounding cricket for the last two decades and is still nothing short of a blitzkrieg! He refuses to age or get less aggressive with time. Still a bowler's worst nightmare (bowlers like Shane Warne and Glen McGrath stand in testimony to this); Sachin is also known for his sportsmanship and gentlemanliness.
He has emerged as a source of inspiration to crores of Indians exhorting them to rise above mediocrity and can single-handedly elevate the mood of the nation.
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Not difficult to make his fans believe that Sachin can walk on water who might also probably believe that he has X-Ray vision and can stop trains. The man has been elevated to a Godly status in India and his worshippers can be found almost everywhere.
Born in Mumbai to Ramesh Tendulkar, a novelist and Rajni Tendulkar, who worked in the insurance sector Tendulkar was soon identified as a cricket prodigy. It didn't take him much time to embark on his cricketing journey and he became a mentee of Ramakant Achrekar in his early years. There's an interesting incident from his kid-years: When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-Rupee-coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Young Sachin got thirteen Re 1 coins from his coach and he considers them his most prized possession.
Tendulkar started to make his presence felt as he touched teenage. He was being talked about in the Mumbai cricketing circles. Many started predicting that the boy would be the next big thing in cricket. There's a legend which goes around that Sachin would make bowlers shed tears while he played for his school, as he would refuse to get out.
The world came to know about Sachin in 1989 when a 16-year old 'genius-in-making' put on his batting gloves for his first international test match.
Despite a humble start in his first two series (against Pakistan and New Zealand respectively) he hit first test ton against England in 1990 (119 not out) and then there was no looking back. The little genius now has a plethora of records in his kitty; some are the ones which other players can only dream of achieving.
Sachin, Lord Rama of the world of Cricket.
Even though it took him 70 ODIs to get his first century in the limited-overs edition of the game, Sachin is just a hundred short from making a 'century of the centuries' in the International cricket (tests and ODIs combined). Sachin's most memorable ODI inning (which is also the most memorable inning in the history of ODI cricket) came against South Africa.The master scored an unbeaten 200 on 147 off 147 balls and Indian went on to maul the Proteas by 153 runs. Sachin's greatness touched new heights and so did his humility.
One can safely assume that Sachin is the greatest batsmen to have ever walked on this planet. Over the course of time it has been Tendulkar's rare combination of mastery and bravado that has enchanted aficionados and crowds alike. One of the most striking aspects of the master is his hunger for more. He has achieved numerous milestones in his journey but every time he makes a record he starts focusing on reaching the next level.
The master batsman has had his share of rough form. Several injuries have dotted his career line. Critics committed the misdemeanour of wiritng him off. But he remained undeterred. Like a true gentleman he let his action speak louder than his words. The way he regains his form has gagged the critics on several occasions. One can only marvel how he continues to march on against all odds.
Critics and media have tried hard to find skeletons in his cupboard only to fail miserably. Tendulkar is a man of impeccable integrity and would always be one. Few can match his off-the-field stature, let alone his on-the-field stature. A mere request from him on Twitter could generate Rs 1 crore for the 'Crusade Against Cancer' foundation he is associated with. For his fans (the number runs into millions and they don't give a damn about the critics and the media), he's a demi-god, a colossal figure capable of pulling of miracles.Sachin is known to live a cagey life due to the cult following he has attained. He is known to put on disguises to move about on streets, drive his cars in the dead of the night for the fear of a crowd following him like mad and take his family to Iceland for holidaying. As Peter Roebuck observes, "The runs, the majesty, the thrills, do not capture his achievement. Reflect upon his circumstances and then marvel at his feat. He is a person whose entire adult life has been lived in the eye of a storm."
There's something singularly special in the master blaster. Beneath the helmet, under the disorderly curly hair, inside the skull, there's something beyond our interpretation. There's something which enables him to rise and shine above others and reach those territories of the sport that, forget us, even those fortunate enough to play on the same pitch as him cannot even fathom. The man is the embodiment of endurance and true grit.We fail to fully decipher his recipe for success. We can't figure out how a 37-year old cricketer stays at the top of the game for 20 years and continues to be a bowler's worst nightmare. All we know that he is a man who pulls off a jaw-dropping feat every now and then.
The entire country is all set for the March 30th's big game. Cricket mania is touching new crescendo and jingoism is acquiring new definitions. Our hopes are pinned on Sachin and we pray that he smashes his hundredth ton against Pakistan and leads Team India to a victory, thereby landing it a spot in the finals. 1.2 billion people have one dream: India winning the World Cup with Sachin in the team.
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more magnificent than this: We know that we are stardust — recycled stardust from the generations of stars that preceded the birth of our own sun. Only stars at least eight times the size of our sun can take this path of elemental creation. And those that do are so busy burning hydrogen and helium into the full spectrum of elements that they blaze and die in a mere 10 million years, rather than the expected 10 billion year life span of our own modest star. It is one thing to create the palette of elements; it is another to launch them into the galaxy. A
star that forged the Periodic Table as far as iron will collapse upon itself. Then, rebounding in a supernova explosion of unimaginable brightness, the remaining heavy elements churn into existence — all the gold-leaf in an ancient Koran, all the silver in a Hanukkah menorah, all the copper in a bronze Buddha, all the tin in Christmas tinsel. All the complex atoms in your body and everything around you were at one time streaming away from just such a dying star. This is truly a miracle of Creation. The birth of chemical elements manifests divine creativity, however one may think of God. Does it not make sense to celebrate this common reality? We can begin by telling the story of stardust in ways that inspire and delight. And we can further cultural wisdom by weaving into this story the teaching of values and virtues. What emerges will be parables of the new Cosmology. Following is one of the first. Paula Hirschboeck draws from her Zen tradition for this story of stardust. How many more renderings of this same story will the future call forth?
Zen Buddhism has a teaching tradition based on koans. Koans are short stories or conversations designed to awaken the human potential for insight into the nature of reality. Usually
the teacher gives Zen students koans apppropriate for the next level of their realization. A koan does not make logical sense. In order to open the mind and heart, the student surrenders to not-knowing by meditating (zazen) within the mystery of the koan. Zen has many stories of students struggling with life's predicaments through koans. The great masters often embellished and commented on these little stories. An example is the famous Blue Cliff Record of 100 koans compiled by Zen Master Hsueh-tou (980 to1052). For the past one thousand years, teachers have been adding their commentaries to these koans. A long conversation!
The Story
Emperor Wu had an ancient treasure, a bowl made from the skull of a revered Buddhist master. Whenever he drank tea from the delicate polished skull, he felt at one with the wisdom of the ages. It was his "Buddha Bowl."
One day a nun from the nearby monastery was serving the emperor his tea. Fu was a rather dreamy Buddhist nun and, on this particular day, she spilled a few drops of tea on the emperor's hand. The hot liquid burned. The bowl fell, shattering into numberless
pieces. Fu stared at the white bone bits on the black stone floor. "Like stars strewn through the night" she mused. Then she heard Emperor Wu shouting: "My precious
Buddha bowl, gone, because of your clumsiness!"
Fu looked up and met the emperor's eyes. " You must find me another," he warned, "or I will have your skull, nun Fu!" Kicking aside the bits of broken skull, Emperor Wu stormed out.
Fu returned to her monastery, approached her teacher's door, knocked three times as prescribed , and soon heard the answering bell admitting her. She bowed. Then she told of her predicament.
The two nuns sat in silence. The Zen teacher spoke a koan for Fu:
Fu bowed and left. The koan rang in her ears. As she repeated it, the words echoed within
her skull. They reverberated through her bones.
The Emperor's official tea ceremony was to be held at the next full moon. When Fu went into the monastery garden, she saw the white sliver of the new moon appear in the west as the sun set. She sat zazen into the night until even the dimmest stars appeared. Each evening for the next twelve days, Fu practiced zazen in the monastery garden, breathing her koan into her bones.
By day the nun was assigned by her teacher to work in the little Zen garden. There she raked patterns into the sand around the carefully placed rocks. Sunlight glinted off the myriad bits of quartz — of silica — at her feet. "Daytime stars," thought Fu.
Each evening Fu watched the stars appear and scatter themselves into deep space. Breathing in the dark, sitting without end, she surrendered herself to the koan. It was taking her deeper and deeper into the emptiness of space, to the time before the light of stars was born.
Fu herself became this Vastness. She became Vastness watching Itself unfold. Fu was light and air and water and earth. She became the Universe of stones and bones, sunshine and sand.
On full moon day, Fu shaved her head. She softly touched her smooth round skull. She whispered her koan: " Find your Great Self. The Buddha Bowl of the stars shall appear for you to use at will." It was time to return to Emperor Wu's palace and prepare for the tea ceremony. The sun was setting.
Emperor Wu appeared in his finest silks, welcomed his noble guests, and took his seat. He held out his hand, waiting for the new Buddha Bowl.
Fu stood before him, her hands clenched at her sides. Suddenly she flung open her fingers. Sand scattered across the floor. At that moment the light of the full moon shone through the eastern window on to the black stone floor. The sand glistened as brightly as stars in the night sky.
Fu bowed deeply. She waited until she heard the rustling of silks. When she rose, Emperor Wu was there, serving her a cup of tea…


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Re: All your eggs in one basket - Strategy?
Yep - It is not really a surprise though. The upper echelons of the banking world have amply demonstrated in recent years that they would not recognise a risk if it came past and bit them on the leg. As we all know to our collective cost.
Huge PDP-11 in a lorry: How I drove computers into schools
Same here
I've still got the punched cards today - I learned nothing from the experience (except that computers were really disappointing - Yep I got the "Syntax error" too often as well) Luckily my old man worked for Plessey and the computing nerds there convinced him that the BBC B was the way forward - they were right ! Suddenly you could see the possibilities from these computer things. Kept me in work for 20 plus years so far.
Today I look at the homework my kids do on "how to write a letter in Word" or some other such nonsense and wonder how it is that UK education can be so clueless with IT for so long.
MS Dynamics in ERP tech land grab
Would have been better off fixing the stuff they already had!
Instead of spending money beefing up MS Dynamics AX (their high end offering) they should be fixing the bugs in the stuff they already own. The Intrastat routines in MS Dynamics GP (bread and butter offering) have been broken since V6.0 - and they are still broken in V.10 six years later! I don't think they mention this in the sales pitch however - just has a tick box that says it records Intrastat records - it omits to mention it does them badly/wrong!
Microsoft's Windows 7 price gamble opens door to Linux
@ Robert Moore 15.45
"Now I admit that if you have the latest and best hardware Linux drivers can be difficult. But if you are a cheep bastard, like me, and tend to buy last years hot products, and save a stack of cash."
Ah I think you might have just explained why Linux is the no hassle option for me - Cheap Bastard would sum it up neatly. As for LAST years hot products - that sounds a bit excessive -but anyhow if it works for you that's fine. I believe there is a Netbook remix of Pclinuxos 2009 but frankly I'm unlikely to try it until someone starts throwing out perfectly good netbooks, like they do with PC's.
And yes it browns me off that just about every update for a windows machine requires a reboot, and almost every update for the Linux box does not - kinda gives it away that the windows foundations are pillars of sand.
Won't make a difference
I agree this won't make a blind bit of difference - the Gen Public simply will not "get" anything different to Windows.
And actually that's fine by me - like an earlier poster I can recommend PC Linux OS (pclinuxos.com). I have been using this on my home machine for some years (various versions) and it's no hassle at all. It just installs and runs reliably and fast. Other Distros might well be better - I don't know - all I know is that Pclinuxos has not caused me enough grief to even think about looking.
OK the non-technical will complain about it not being Windows but for the technically competent amongst us it's great that the scumbags that write various malware and network borne nasties have the great unwashed and their insecure crappy Windows install in their sights and not me!
I have to deal with Windows related nonsense and instability at work - it's a pain but I get paid for it!
At home the no hassle Linux option is the ideal solution for me.
Tiscali shares suspended on titsup fears
Shortage of idiots?
Difficult to feel any sympathy for the corporate entity - I used to have F2s as an ISP - it was bought by Pipex and started to fall apart - but it was striking just how fast the service went downhill once Tiscali got involved. I bailed out as Tiscali bought Pipex. I guess as Wall Street found out the world is beginning to run out of idiots to buy crap products.
Software outfit keeps Vulcan airborne
All of the above
Yep all these remarks are spot on - awesome machines.
I saw the Vulcan displayed in sunny Southend quite late in it's career.
A big part of the wow factor was the way it was displayed - in Southend Airshow most of the displays take place just out over the estuary - the really fast jets are displayed really far out - and are as dull as dishwater. The Vulcans however were appeared to be flown about six foot above the lampposts on the seafront, and were thrown around the sky very slowly and very very noisily, often with the jet blast wafting over the crowd as the beast climbed vertically and deafeningly upwards after appearing to hover on it's tail just above the lampposts again and again.
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Posts by steeplejack
43 posts • joined 8 Jul 2009
Want a customer's call records Mr Plod? No probs
Re: What Regulation of Powers?
If you were to head for any remote outpost, the noise of bloody wind turbines would drive you nuts.
DON'T BOTHER migrating legacy apps to the cloud, says CTO
Bullshit alert sounds loudly.
I think the person quoted in the article is really trying to avoid apologising for the Cloud's lack of flexibility and programmability.
Hey, Teflon Ballmer. Look, isn't it time? You know, time to quit?
He called it a risk. But it was worse, a certain failure.
I remember Ballmer near the start of Windows 8 betas saying he was nervous, its a risk, a gamble, one of the biggest Microsoft had taken. When you look at that, it was a stunningly wrong view. For phones and tablets it wasn't a risk, more of a sheer necessity. Writing OSes is what they do, and they just had to crack on with it. But how in the blazes can you balls up the Desktop and call that a risk or a gamble? How can it be anything other than an immediate catastrophe? Did they think the Desktop somehow doesn't matter? It makes you wonder why executives get paid megabucks for being more stupid than a village idiot.
MULTICOLOURED TARANTULAS found UP TREES in Brazil
Re: genuine question
Yes, some of the ground-dwelling tarantulas produce a great deal of silk, as a cross between a mat and a web surrounding their favourite resting place.
Seven missing buttocks could be a story.
They also missed the chance to have seven more heads, or armpits or something.
I suppose you don't really need them, just living in trees.
Arses would be useful, though.
Intel invests millions in social computing research center
I have just read this article twice. What is it on about?
Please can the writer take lessons in plain English.
Tape so does not suck, insists EMC
IT Executives are (very) gullible people.
This is partly because they don't have the ballache of constantly restoring deleted data. A few years ago some sales people (who I would love to shoot) rang around the managers and somehow told them that tape is bad. Then, another batch of execution-by-firing-squad candidates let it be known that Filesystem Imaging was the future of Backup strategy. Anyone with Acronis shares out there? And all the Managers and Executives nodded wisely.
Nah - it aint like that at all. 90% of the time you want Files, not from 12 hours ago, but from 4 days ago. If you're lucky. Not there? Bloody user is wrong again - Try 5 days ago, then a week, then a fortnight. And for good measure, you'd better take account of incremental events.
In case you hadn't realised, I am a non-Executive tape advocate. I don't believe everything Sales people tell me (until I've proved it).
Microsoft: We tried to use Azure ourselves last year, and couldn't
Architect is a professional person not a verb.
When are the yankee ignoramuses going to realise that you design something?
Microsoft's Surface proves software is dead
I bet Microsoft won't be giving-away Windows 8.
The "OEM" 32-bit edition of Windows 7 cost £100 from Amazon. Does Matt Asay claim that something similar won't happen with Windows 8?
Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming'
18 months more of dwindle.
Smartphones are a horribly immature market. Immature markets are unstable and virtually impossible for predictions of the future. Basically, in 5 years time a better, more usable, more user-friendly and adaptable kind of device will have emerged.
What we can say however is that several things are dwindling. Microsoft is one. Another is the concept of proprietary anything, except Apple, and Apple aren't for the mass market.
Signs of maturity and readiness to move forward are perhaps seen in Samsung, Google, and Android. But don't gamble on anything!
Number 10 shuts wallet on closed-source IT projects
Free to download, 400 per annum for security patches.
Free software is more expensive to support, but the APIs, quality and performance are MUCH better. And, you are free to alter and share.
The big difficulty is: None of these strong points are of much interest in government or public sector circles.
Shoreditch's sparkle smokescreen leaves BBC journo 'tech-struck'
The trouble with wholeness
is that you're always approaching it. You never actually get there.
I think what Fi Glover has touched on is the intangible... Marketing hype is infinite, as it can be made from nothing.
And Fi, personally I prefer Amazon. And so do 99% of internet shoppers.
Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?
The issue isn't copyright. Its the License.
If software is under a proper Free license (GPL) then copyrights aren't a problem. The reason Google got into difficulty is that Java wasn't under a Free Software license.
Ubuntu will hit the big time on Amazon: Here's how
Rubbish for two reasons. Firstly, the hyperlink where it says that Ubuntu is doing better than Red Hat as a cloud OS goes to an article that says the exact opposite. Ubuntu have suggested that, and been vigorously disputed. Secondly, the graph here is clearly rubbish created by someone who doesn't know operating systems.
Public sector IT buyers 'hogtied by mess of red tape'
Here's another example of how it works in practice:
1. Being forced to by EVERYTHING from computers to t.paper from 1 supplier.
2. Nothing to trawl, because you are denied any choice. Place order.
3. Be sent the wrong product. Spend a fortnight answering stupid questions to explain why its not what you clearly ordered.
4. Eventually get the expected product.
5. Note that you could have got it 15% cheaper down the road.
Yes folks, GCAT is burning your hard-earned taxes, every day.
NAO: Gov open data policy disorganised and costly
Well OF COURSE its costing money!
Employee time isn't free, is it? Good grief, some mothers do 'ave em.
Microsoft retunes Intune for full Android, iOS app integration
White-listing certain apps gives no protection.
The user's device might have numerous other malware apps on it. Once they connect to your network the damage begins.
'Don't break the internet': How an idiot's slogan stole your privacy...
Just understand that Internet means Stadium
The internet is a public place in full view of everyone.
A person on stage in a stadium wouldn't have 'privacy' and a document in view there wouldn't be private or restricted.
Google are the only ones who seem to understand this.
Things like newspaper Paywalls are a sort of corruption which tries to fight against the fundamental nature of the thing.
All data can now be made public - by someone else - with or without our consent. And THAT's what the RIAA doesn't like.
Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit
Steve Balmer is Trashman.
I think MS have blown it with this one, as it doesn't have a single redeeming feature for Desktop use. My guess is that Windows 9 will follow, rapido, and will be a Desktop-centric OS.
The stupid, stupid people should have written at least 2 new OSes, not expect 1 to do for all three kinds of devices.
How a tiny leap-day miscalculation trashed Microsoft Azure
Microsoft always stressed recruiting smart people.
But there's that little saying - "You just can't get the staff these days..."
I always found that when doing arithmetic on dates, it's a good idea to convert to julian day number first, then back to a date afterwards.
if year > 2013 then PC != Personal Computer
Obviously, not everyone will work like that.
There will be those who will continue to work when there is no network connection. These will use 'proper' computers with built-in software and storage! There will also be a few who require confidentiality.
Gartner can shove off into their own smelly little cloud.
Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain
It shouldn't be a Desktop OS, that's what's wrong.
Microsoft are cheapskates. Windows 8 is a cellphone gui, and possibly (though not necessarily) suitable even for touch pad computing. For the desktop, its totally inappropriate. If they wanted a better Windows they should have written the very best they could do FOR THE DESKTOP. I hope they come unstuck over this, because they're taking the P out of the customers by trying to fob us off with rubbish!
Gagging order on G-Cloud suppliers dropped this Sunday
It is IBM, though, isn't it?
I distinctly remember reading on the web that IBM had a big "In" on this...
Peeking up the skirt of Microsoft's hardy ReFS
NTFS certainly does lose data.
Hope the new error-detection highlights the cases where NTFS loses the entire tail-end of a directory (and all the respective files have disappeared).
Windows 8 to get self-healing 'Storage Spaces'
If it's new Microsoft software, beware of bugs!
I'd be very wary about entrusting my data to any newly-coded filesystem. Its in Beta now, but give it PLENTY of time to get debugged (preferably years, bearing in mind that users lost data with Microsoft Home Server changes).
No problem for me with The Register, but then...
NoScript and AdBlock Plus are present.
Cash-bloated startup takes on data protection giants
I would speculate
that the answer might be "filesystem corruption".
UK.gov to build child army of software coders
Follow the money.
I suspect that if you (journalists) delve deeper, you might come face to face with... Microsoft. I heard an identical push for computer education in the States, on this-morning's news. Microsoft WERE behind that push, so I guess they've also been on the phone to the British education minister. In which case, this is just about software sales and raising another generation of Microsoft junkies.
Common brain parasite 'can affect host's actions'
What a life.
I can haz toxoplasma. mmm nice.
Rats! Aargh! Get away from me!
Better multithreading offered by Columbia U researchers
Yeah, but what happens when the circumstances change?
More records, different type of data, different load on the rest of the machine, changes in network environment, etc, etc. I just can't help being sceptical about their claim. And how big are their binaries? What's the performance like? How much longer does it take them to write (and tune) their program? Is it going to be a free and open source compiler?
UK gov invites bids for public sector cloud
But do they know what they want it for?
The lucky suppliers may find that satisying the application requirements is loose and easy. I doubt whether any have been properly specified. On another aspect, all users must have an ID, and the UK and public sector doesn't have any federated login system or ID. What's the betting we'll have multiple public sector networks (criminal justice, national health, social work, etc) each with different and incompatible id management...
Texan lone star Dell lassoes storage into servers
Once again, Dell values every customer.
Although 'attitude' wasn't the article's subject, the most important words were probably these:- "plain-speaking with a common touch", "photographs taken with him", "appreciating every customer and channel partner and employee".
These are the things that have differentiated Dell from HP and IBM, and apparently, they're part of the company's dna and ethos. Every customer matters, no matter how small. It's key to success, and poor attitude was the reason why some competitors faded away (or are fading now!).
Dell signals Windows 8 fondleslab range
Where is the evidence that Business wants tablets?
Dell noted that Android tablets had tanked. OK, so why should Windows tablets be wanted? The problems, or undesirability, are with tablets and really not the operating system.
Scottish rats scoff optic fibre, take down broadband
There's not much that can stop them - rats have been known to gnaw their way up through three inch thick concrete. Many mouths make light work. Cables don't taste too bad - that's the problem - we need cables that taste awful. This icon means "they've shredded my coat".
UK gov needs better data skills to cut spending
Changes are v. expensive to implement.
The government's cuts mean that all departments have to re-invent the way they work, in an attempt to survive on a smaller budget. While this distraction is going on, less work gets done, ie. productivity suffers badly. But to cap it all, the deep changes are being made without any planning or change-management processes. In other words, a state of dysfunction with broken systems and demoralised staff. Some skilled staff then leave, and can't be adequately replaced.
Smut oglers told to opt in to keep web filth flowing
Well they are out to get you. I was once a victim of O2's default restrictions and wasn't allowed to see Whisky distillers sites, or airgun sites. I know drinking and shooting probably ain't a great combination, but I am 58 and have so far managed not to kill anyone.
Ellison: 'There'll be nothing left of IBM once I'm done'
There seems to be a market here,
for a sensible, customer-focused, value-conscious Unix-linux-and-database company.
Firefox needs heavy hitter Linux power
"Strategic mistake" - I don't think so!
Why should it be a mistake for a company to have its application running in someone else's browser? Quite the opposite - we all want common standards such as HTML, and all companies want to reach the widest audience. Also users shrink away in instinctive avoidance of proprietary software. I think Matt Asay had a brain-fart today (as he often does).
Parliament's expenses body spent £2.2m on IT
The Government/Public Sector refuses to follow its own Policy.
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Dad acquitted in slaying of driver who killed sons
A southeast Texas man says that despite his acquittal Wednesday for the shooting death of the drunken driver who caused a crash that killed his two sons, there are no winners.
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A southeast Texas man says that despite his acquittal Wednesday for the shooting death of the drunken driver who caused a crash that killed his two sons, there are no winners.
"This was a loss for everybody," said a visibly relieved David Barajas, who cried and hugged his wife, Cindy, after the verdict was read.
Prosecutors had alleged that Barajas killed 20-year-old Jose Banda in a fit of rage after Banda plowed into Barajas and his sons while they were pushing a truck on a rural Southeast Texas road near their home because it had run out of gas. Twelve-year-old David Jr. and 11-year-old Caleb were killed.
Authorities said that after the accident, Barajas, 32, went to his home about 100 yards from the crash site near Alvin, got a gun and returned to shoot Banda.
Defense attorney Sam Cammack said Barajas didn't kill Banda and that he was only focused on saving his sons. The gun used to kill Banda wasn't found and there was little physical evidence linking Barajas to the killing.
The jury deliberated for about three hours Wednesday before acquitting Barajas of murder.
After the verdict, Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne insisted that investigators had correctly zeroed in on Barajas and that the actual killer wasn't still at large, as Cammack had suggested at trial.
"What the state's perspective is and will always be is that if you or I or anyone we know had a horrible collision and killed another human being, that you get the fair review of the criminal justice system, not a roadside execution," Yenne told reporters.
Banda could have been sentenced to up to life in prison, if he had been convicted.
Legal experts said prosecutors also likely had to overcome jury sympathy for Barajas, who had the support of many residents of Alvin, which is about 30 miles southeast of Houston. Further complicating their case was that there were no witnesses who identified Barajas as the shooter, and gunshot residue tests done on Barajas came back negative.
While both sides differed on who might have been responsible for Banda's death, they agreed that this was a tragedy for everyone involved.
"Three sons were lost that day. The state has compassion for every single one of them, the Barajas children and the Banda son," Yenne said.
Barajas said he is hoping to move forward and get closure with regard to his sons' deaths. But he also said that he is praying for Banda's family.
"They lost a son, too," Barajas said.
Banda's family did not speak with reporters after the verdict. Felicia Leija, Banda's common-law wife, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
During the trial, investigators testified that a bullet fragment found in Banda's car could have come from a .357-caliber gun, and that ammunition for such a gun was found in Barajas' home.
A forensic scientist testified blood found on the driver's side door and driver's arm rest of Banda's car was consistent with that of Barajas.
Cammack spent most of his closing argument earlier Wednesday trying to knock down the prosecution's evidence. He said tests showed the bullet fragment found in Banda's car could have also come from another weapon besides a .357-caliber gun. He said the blood found on Banda's car that came from Barajas was spilled when Barajas was attacked by Banda's cousin and half brother, who witnessed the crash but later told investigators they fled the scene.
Cammack also suggested that Banda's cousin or half brother could have been responsible for the shooting. Banda's cousin and half brother testified they did not shoot Banda. Cammack also told jurors that a search of Barajas' home failed to find any evidence that directly linked him to the crime scene.
The defense attorney also used 911 calls to create a timeline that suggested Barajas would not have had enough time to shoot Banda.
Only three defense witnesses were called during the trial, which lasted a little over a week.
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'Later medieval Chester 1230-1550: City and crown, 1350-1550', A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 part 1: The City of Chester: General History and Topography (2003), pp. 55-58. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=19188 Date accessed: 28 November 2014.
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In 1351, as part of a more general investigation of his
earldom's franchises, the Black Prince instituted quo
warranto proceedings in Chester. For a ratification of
their charters and a declaration of the bounds of their
liberties, the citizens agreed to a fine of £300, which
because they were impoverished was to be paid by
instalments over five years. (fn. 11) Royal officials delayed the
matter until the prince himself went to Chester in
1353. (fn. 12) His visit, which lasted some two months,
involved a meeting in the city at which the men of
the shire paid a fine of 5,000 marks to maintain their
franchises. (fn. 13) Chester itself, in accordance with its
exempt status, did not contribute, (fn. 14) and in 1354
obtained a charter defining the boundaries of the
liberty, confirming its admiralty powers over the Dee,
and further excluding royal officials by annexing its
escheatorship to the mayoralty. (fn. 15) The payments promised in return for those privileges were extracted by the
prince only with considerable difficulty. (fn. 16)
The Black Prince again visited Chester briefly in
1358, but is not known otherwise to have gone
there. (fn. 17) The links of his son, Richard II (1377-99),
with the city and shire developed only in the later years
of his reign. The king visited Chester for the first time
in 1387 and granted the citizens a murage for the repair
of their ruined bridge. (fn. 18) His favourite, Robert de Vere,
earl of Oxford, whom he made justice of Chester,
established his household in the city and while based
there raised the army which was defeated at Radcot
Bridge (Oxon.) later in 1387. (fn. 1) The failure of Vere's
campaign was celebrated locally by his enemy Richard
FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, who from his base in Holt
(Denb.) caused a copy of the appeal against the royal
favourite to be nailed to the door of St. Peter's church. (fn. 2)
In 1389, after the king had reasserted his personal
authority, the men of the shire met at Chester and
granted a subsidy of 3,000 marks. (fn. 3)
In 1393 there was a mysterious rising in Cheshire,
apparently aimed primarily against Richard II's hated
enemy Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester,
then justice of Chester. The king proclaimed his
innocence of any involvement, but the fact that he
found it necessary to do so casts doubt upon his
protestation. At all events it provided him with a
pretext to remove Gloucester from the post of justice
and enabled him to consolidate his authority over city
and county. (fn. 4) The result of those manoeuvrings became
apparent in 1394, when Baldwin Radington, controller
of the royal household, at Chester to recruit for the
king's expedition to Ireland, broke into the abbot of St.
Werburgh's lodgings, detained two of his servants, and
raided the neighbouring houses. The mayor, John
Armourer, having intervened in the dispute, Radington
attacked the sheriffs; during the affray one of his own
men was killed and in retaliation he and his supporters
rode out 'in manner of war', terrorizing the city and its
environs, an outrage to which the king's only response
was to indict one of the sheriffs for the death of
Radington's follower. (fn. 5)
Royal involvement in the city's affairs brought
benefits as well as problems. In the 1390s royal
favour secured for the monks of St. Werburgh's the
long-sought licences to appropriate their livings. (fn. 6) The
resumption of building work at the crossing of the
abbey church may also be attributed to royal interest,
contact with a refined and sophisticated court being a
factor in the community's acquisition of such accomplished works as the late 14th-century choir stalls. (fn. 7) At
St. John's, too, royal patronage may have played a part
in the refoundation in 1393 of the fraternity of St.
Anne, the chaplains of which were to pray daily for the
king and his family. (fn. 8) In his last years Richard visited
the capital of his new principality with increasing
frequency, staying there at least six times in 1398-9. (fn. 9)
His growing fondness for the city was demonstrated in
1398 when he granted an exemplification of its charters
and extended its privileges by authorizing the outlawing of any foreign or unpropertied defendants
who failed to respond to summonses to appear in its
courts. (fn. 10)
Despite such favoured status, in 1399 the city surrendered to Henry Bolingbroke, duke of Lancaster,
without a fight. (fn. 11) Before the king's arrest the duke
stayed at Chester castle for 12 days, drinking the king's
wine, wasting fields, and pillaging houses. While there,
he also secured the arrest and execution of Sir Peter
Legh of Lyme, one of Richard's leading retainers in
Cheshire. (fn. 12) Richard himself, captured at Flint some two
weeks later, was taken to Chester and detained for a few
days in the castle, while Bolingbroke received a deputation from the city of London renouncing fealty to the
prisoner. (fn. 13)
Early in 1400 there was a revolt in Cheshire, linked
with the Earls' Rising. Those involved included prominent members of Richard's Cheshire retinue and a
large group of townsmen from Chester, who, dressed
in the livery of the deposed monarch, removed Legh's
head from the Eastgate and unsuccessfully besieged the
castle, then held by the chamberlain of Chester, the
sheriff of Cheshire, and the constable, William Venables of Kinderton. (fn. 14) Clearly there remained some
sympathy for Richard II among the civic élite. (fn. 15) The
Chester Carmelites, themselves well favoured by the
citizens, also apparently harboured Ricardian sympathies, and gave burial to Legh's mutilated body,
together with the head after its retrieval from the
Eastgate. (fn. 16)
The new dynasty exacted a price for such attitudes.
Some notable local offices changed hands in 1399-
1400, including the constableship of the castle and the
tenancy of the Dee Mills. (fn. 17) The Carmelites' complaint
of poverty in 1400 perhaps stemmed partly from
Bolingbroke's ravaging in 1399. (fn. 18) There was a reckoning, too, for St. Werburgh's: in 1400 Thomas Arundel,
archbishop of Canterbury, ordered a visitation to
investigate the monastery's financial administration.
Although Abbot Sutton survived, he was subjected to
humiliating restrictions, and soon afterwards the
appropriations of livings which Richard II had approved were revoked. (fn. 1)
The civic authorities appear nevertheless to have
reached a somewhat uneasy modus vivendi with the
new dynasty. The leading citizens were pardoned for
their role in the rising, (fn. 2) and in 1401 Henry, prince of
Wales, confirmed the charters. (fn. 3) Late in 1400 the mayor
and sheriffs were required to supply provisions protected by an armed guard for an expedition planned by
the king and prince, (fn. 4) and the portmote was suspended
while they fulfilled their commitments. (fn. 5) In 1402 the
city evidently agreed to provide and man a barge and
three small ships in the king's service, and later it was
required to furnish all the richer citizens with equipment necessary for its defence. (fn. 6) Despite Chester's cooperation, the new dynasty continued to be distrustful,
taking sureties to ensure that supplies sold in the city
were used to provision royal troops rather than the
rebels. (fn. 7)
In 1403 Sir Henry Percy ('Hotspur'), lately justice of
Chester, stayed in the city and raised the standard of
revolt there before the battle of Shrewsbury. (fn. 8) The
citizens were far less involved with the rebels than in
1400, and indeed the mayor and the constable of the
castle were present at Shrewsbury in the king's retinue. (fn. 9)
After Percy's defeat one of the quarters of his body was
sent to Chester, together with the heads of Sir Richard
Venables and Sir Richard Vernon. (fn. 10) The continuing
insecurity of both the new dynasty and the city
authorities was demonstrated in the instructions
issued by Prince Henry in response to defections in
north Wales in the weeks after the battle. The corporation was required to impose a curfew upon all Welshmen visiting Chester, and to ensure that they left their
arms at the city gates and did not gather in groups of
more than three; all Welsh residents were expelled and
any who stayed overnight were threatened with execution. Such measures against the Welsh were the most
extreme to be proclaimed in any English city during
Owain Glyn Dwr's revolt. (fn. 11) Shortly after their issue the
mayor and citizens were pardoned for their role in
Hotspur's rebellion, in return for a payment of 300
marks or for supplying shipping for men going to the
relief of Beaumaris castle (Ang.). (fn. 12)
In 1404 the government still found it necessary to
order the citizens not to sell arms or merchandise to
the rebels and to commission keepers of roads out of
Chester. (fn. 13) In 1405 Prince Henry visited the city, (fn. 14) and
by 1407, when grants of murages were resumed,
relations had probably been restored to some semblance of normality. (fn. 15) As the Welsh revolt crumbled,
Chester witnessed a steady stream of prominent local
Welshmen making their way to the castle to submit to
the English authorities. (fn. 16) Even so, in 1409 the Crown
nominated a governor temporarily to replace the
Welsh mayor, and in 1412 intervened again when
some citizens banded together to prevent a free election. (fn. 17) After the Welsh threat receded, no royal visits of
note were recorded, a sign perhaps that relations with
the Crown remained distant.
In 1442 Chester castle was chosen for the imprisonment of Eleanor Cobham, whose husband, Henry VI's
uncle Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, had been justice
of Chester 1427-40. (fn. 18) The king himself visited Chester
in 1445 and reduced the annual farm from £100 to
£50, on the grounds that trade had suffered from the
silting of the port and that 'restrictions and charges'
had been imposed by the Welsh rebellion. (fn. 19) His visit
marked a period of warmer relations between the city
and the Crown. The king's son Edward was created
prince of Wales and earl of Chester in 1454, and in
1455 Queen Margaret apparently visited the city to
seek support. The queen and the prince and very
probably Henry himself were all again in Chester in
1456. After the battle of Blore Heath (Staffs.) in 1459,
two of the Yorkist leaders, the earl of Salisbury's sons
Thomas and John Neville, were imprisoned in Chester
castle. (fn. 20)
Despite such links between Chester and the house of
Lancaster, in 1460 Richard, duke of York, granted the
city's mayor, John Southworth, an annual pension of
£10 for past services. (fn. 21) In 1461 Edward IV renewed the
reduction of the farm, but his anxieties about the city
were reflected in a proclamation requiring the mayor
and sheriffs of Chester to arrest all within the shire who
supported the king's Lancastrian enemies. (fn. 22) In 1472
Edward again renewed the reduction of the farm, and
in 1484 Richard III cut it further to £30. (fn. 1) Even so, by
1485 the citizens' sympathies seem to have been with
the Tudors. Their mayor from 1484 to 1486, Sir John
Savage (d. 1495), had close links with the Stanleys, and
his son, also Sir John (d. 1492), led the left wing of
Henry Tudor's forces at Bosworth and was afterwards
well rewarded. (fn. 2) The serjeant of the Bridgegate, Sir
William Troutbeck, also fought for Henry at that
battle. (fn. 3)
The citizens received their reward in 1486 when
Henry VII reduced the annual farm to £20 in perpetuity. (fn. 4) The king visited Chester with his queen and
his mother in 1493 or 1495, and in 1498 or 1499 his
son Prince Arthur attended a performance of an
Assumption Day play and presented a silver badge to
the Smiths, Cutlers, and Plumbers' company. (fn. 5) The
main mark of the king's favour was his grant in 1506
of the Great Charter, which constituted the city a
county in its own right. (fn. 6)
Henry VIII had few dealings with Chester. In 1522
the city was called upon to supply forces to defend
the Scottish borders, and the mayor mustered a force
of sixty soldiers to serve with Thomas Howard, earl of
Surrey. (fn. 7) The Dissolution passed largely without incident, although in 1536 one of the city's merchants was
imprisoned together with the abbot of Norton and
Randle Brereton in Chester castle. (fn. 8) In 1543 the city
acquired parliamentary representation at Westminster; henceforth it was to return two M.P.s, selected
by the aldermen and presented to the freemen for
election. (fn. 9)
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Cooking whole chicken in hot weather
- chowser May 13, 2014 08:22 AM
I don't want to break it down but it's going to be 90+ degrees today. Any ideas of cooking it w/out getting hotter? I might just poach it in the crock pot but then need to so something w/ the meat. Thoughts? Thanks.
do you own a grill? Beer can that sucker.
poached in crock is great for chicken salads - good hot weather food
or to make a curry with pre-made paste like maeploy or maesri
Its hard to transition to warm weather cooking!
In a parallel situation I once put a frozen turkey breast in the crock pot---I didn't want to heat up the kitchen--- and it worked so well that this became my standard practice. I would unwrap it and leave it frozen, put in in a bare crock pot, turn it on low, and go to bed. Next AM, ignore it and go to work. When I got home around 5 it was nicely done and slightly brown. So I should think you could modify this for a chicken.
Beer can chicken might be it. We have the stand up roaster, too. Even better, I'll have my husband do it.;-)
Good 'ol beercan chicken (you can always use soda, of course) or, as you say, poach the chicken and then make a gorgeous salade nicoise. (lettuce, chicken, sliced potatoes, haricot verts, black olives, anchovies, vinaigrette) or just a tasty chicken/cashew salad to stuff into the best tomatoes you can find.
re: mamachef
how do you do beer can or soda chicken -- is it only for grilling or can you do that in the oven too? ( Can you use flat soda, as sometimes we have unfinished sodas in the 2 lt size bottles.
re: cookinglisa
You can do it on the grill or in the oven. Here's my most recent one on the grill. We basically start with Steven Raichlen's recipe and then alter to taste from there.
re: cookinglisa
re: cookinglisa
re: mamachef
So you sub chicken for the tuna in a salade nicoise?
Spatchcocked, to make chicken under a brick. Cut the back bone out of a small chicken and then flatten it. You can add herbs and seasonings under the skin of the breasts. Put the chicken breast side down and weigh it down and cook on medium heat until golden and cooked through. It will not heat up your kitchen noticeably
I bought a small chicken (3lbs.) yesterday to do exactly that for our dinner tonight. That with a nice green salad will be lovely.
re: Candy
something special about "brick chicken" the skin is sheer perfection!
re: Candy
Nobody hates hot weather more than I. So after turning off the oven, I put a large covered pot of water in there. Best is a shallow one with a large diameter. Dump it out and refill every 15 min until the oven cools. You can use the heated water for washing up so as not to waste resources. I do the same on the stovetop after using a burner. And in cold weather, do the same on the stovetop, but leave the pot there, so it releases heat into the room more slowly, as the water cools down.
If I roast chicken in hot weather, it's in parts, or spatchcocked, at 450-475F, because that way it's done in 40 minutes or so.
re: greygarious
Clever tips!
re: greygarious
oh wow, great idea. actually, I probably hate hot weather more than you do. I grew up in the humid part of NC without a/c until I was in my teens, and the heat/humidity combo really bothers me. I regret the day we finally put our down comforters away in Boston, used to be June, now May (except today).
I do roast vegs and fish and meat parts for stock during the summer so I will use this to cool down the gas oven faster.
re: Madrid
Agreed - I like the idea of extra BTU's going down the drain when I have already paid dearly to cool the house!
re: Madrid
We all need two houses and the flexibility to migrate. I live in TX, born and raised, and I hate the hot weather here. I'm from English stock, so I guess it's in my DNA. I installed a vent fan for my chambers oven, but did not realize that I couldn't run it while the oven was cooking (the flame goes out because of the contraption under it. I have to run it after turning the gas off..
Chowser, a couple of days ago I found the Crockpot owner's guide that came with my slowcooker and when leafing through I saw a recipe for what is basically Coq au Vin, "Chicken in a Pot". It was pretty tasty even though it cooked for about 8 hours on Low. 2 carrots/2 onions/2 stalks of celery all sliced. A whole chicken 3 - 4 pounds, ours was 3 lbs. 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper - we used 1 tsp, 1 cup water or wine - we used white wine, 1 tsp dried basil - we used dried oregano. I added 1 tsp garlic powder & 1 tsp ground cumin. I really thought the vegetables would be mush, but I was very wrong.
Very little sauce but just enough to moisten the sliced meat. I hope this works out for you.
I do it in the slow cooker all the time. Spice rub inside, outside, and under the skin and shove a cut onion into the cavity, then cook on low. I remove the skin after cooking, since it gets rubbery, but no one in my family is a chicken skin fan anyway.
If you want it to be a little less 'cooked in it's own juices', ball up some aluminum foil and put in the bottom of the crock to raise the chicken up a bit.
re: c oliver
The first day I usually serve it as chicken dinner - carve it up and make mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, dinner rolls.
I use the leftovers to make all sorts of things: chicken salad, lettuce salad with chopped chicken, chicken quesadillas, chicken nachos, a shepherd's pie like casserole with chicken instead of lamb, hot chicken sandwiches with leftover gravy, throw some chopped chicken into a homemade alfredo sauce for chicken alfredo, creamed chicken over biscuits, all sorts of varieties of chicken soup, quiche with chopped chicken and whatever veggies I have laying around.
There is probably more, but that's what I can think of for now. We've been trying to eat a little more frugally lately, and my current strategy is to cook something in the slow cooker (whole chicken, beef roast, turkey breast, corned beef) at the beginning of the week, and then use it for variations for the rest of the week. If we get sick of it, I freeze the leftovers for a short time (about a week or so) and then come back to it when we're ready.
re: jw615
Vietnamese chicken salad is extremely popular here on hot days - I use chicken that I've shredded after cooking on low in a crockpot, e.g.,
re: c oliver
That is a great idea, but something I've never though of (foil). I don't have a rack that fits, so I usually just use mirepoix or a matignon. In a slow cooker situation, the veggies can turn to mush. Thanks for the tip, y'all.
re: rudeboy
I think Will Owen may have given me the idea. He's taken a square/rectangular rack and snipped it to fit a round/oval.
re: c oliver
How about one of the round steamer baskets that has those curved fins that fold out to fit various diameter pots?
re: greygarious
Good idea. The post in the center is removeable. I have two sizes and will try that next time. Thanks, gg.
re: c oliver
The post in the middle is removable? I've had mine for more years than I can count and I never knew that, CO. How does it happen? Guess I've been living under a rock. Sure feels like it these days.
When I need to steam a larger quantity, say fish or the like, I use a SS steamer that fits on top of the pot I'm going to use.
re: c oliver
Thanks! As for pork shoulder I just put a couple of sliced onions in the insert then the meat, In the case of the whole chicken I made, upthread, the chicken simply went in breast side up, lots of vegetables around it, and wine poured over it, and cooked for 8-ish hours on low. Easy peasy.
re: c oliver
No, c oliver, it was a round rack snipped to fit inside an oval pot or gratin pan. Fits inside of my newish oval West Bend crock pot too. Fast work with side cutters …
I have an elderly Amana wall oven whose best characteristics are (a) being placed well off the floor in a high-ceilinged room and (b) its insulation is amazingly good. I can feel heat if I hold my hand near the door, but a foot away it's almost undetectable. What heat does escape goes to the ceiling. Roasting a chicken in 100º weather is kinda painless around here.
re: Will Owen
I knew you'd told us something :) Among other things.
re: c oliver
When they wanted more of a dry heat technique in a slow cooker, the Cooks Country people put an inverted disposable foil pan in the bottom of the cooker, then the vegetables around it, and maybe some broth (can't recall), with the meat then placed atop the pan. The magic of physics resulted in the juices migrating under and filling the foil pan, so the meat browned quite well.
Once it was done, they pried the pan out and tinkered with the juices to get a correctly-seasoned gravy of the proper intensity and thickness.
re: greygarious
I never add liquid for cooking a chicken in the slow cooker - I find that it makes more than enough liquid while cooking. I don't use the foil pan though, so perhaps that is different, though I wouldn't think so. I strain the juices and drippings in the pot and make gravy with them as well - usually get a ton of gravy, which is good for using for leftovers as well.
re: jw615
I cook whole chickens in the crockpot the same way and I like the moist, tender result. If you do like the skin, it can be pulled off at the end and fried.
Another heat-hater, I make it my mission to avoid the oven between June and mid September. The grill, crockpot, and pressure cooker see the action.
re: ipsedixit
No joke... They eat raw chicken in Japan.
re: firecooked
re: ipsedixit
Nor is a first time dinner date.
re: Ruthie789
Isn't it difficult to wrap a whole chicken in parchment?
I just park my car in the sun and set up my hood top spit.
I kid, but I live and Phoenix and while whole chicken often sounds good, it not practical 5 months of the year. I found that flattened chicken under a brick on the grill is the fastest and is quite tasty right away and shredded in salads later on.
The flavors of Trini-Chinese chicken are fabulous for this method! http://www.nytimes.com/recipes/101463...
re: alliegator
Funny you mention that recipe. It's on the menu for this weekend! Such a keeper, isn't it?
re: alliegator
LOL, maybe I could put it in water in the car and just do sous vide!
That chicken does look good. We did the beer can chicken--keep it outside but there are a lot of great ideas in this thread. Thanks everyone. Perfect one to mark for the summer.
re: alliegator
I have spatchcocked many chickens in the oven but just did my first ones on the bbq grill. Because of turning of big birds I started thinking maybe smaller pieces would be easier to maneuver and cook more evenly. Chicken was good, a little overcooked but nice and crispy skin. Next time I'm thinking quarters or even individual pieces. Spatchcocked does remove the back from the whole chicken equation and gives a nice broth that now will go into Dave Lieberman 's clam chowder.
re: divadmas
Do you use a meat thermometer? It's my MOST valuable kitchen tool?
Also I've not seen a recipe for clam chowder that uses chicken broth. Clam juice and cream are my go-to's. Can you share that recipe please?
re: c oliver
just google dave lieberman clam chowder. new england style, a little rich but quite good. i add corn, maybe use bacon instead of butter. i never have clam juice on hand.
i mostly go by time and went overtime because it is chicken. my fault and i should use a thermometer.
re: divadmas
For others, here it is:
I have neither clams nor clam juice on hand so I buy them together.
I find chicken as sensitive to overcooking as other meats so I'm convinced.
I'd cook in the crock pot, then break down and package the results for the freezer. And go out for dinner.
Or, butterfly and grill, but with a plan to freeze whatever's left, in reasonable meal-sized packets.