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Cacao Barry® L'Art du Chocolatier™ Challenge 2013
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Chicago/USA – May 28, 2013– Cacao Barry®, the premium French chocolate brand, held its annual Chocolatier of the Year challenge at the state-of-the-art Barry Callebaut CHOCOLATE ACADEMY™ Center in Chicago this weekend. Jerome Jacob, Assistant Pastry Chef at the Bellagio Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was declared the overall winner.
Jacob, who also took home the awards for Best Tasting and Best Showpiece, was one of five who competed to win the coveted title after being selected in a nationwide search that took place last December. Second place was awarded to Sean Pera of The Umstead Hotel & Spa in Cary, North Carolina, while Romain Fournel from Jean-Philippe Pâtisserie in Las Vegas, Nevada claimed third place. The other contestants that competed at the prestigious event included:
- Kei Hasegawa, Pastry Chef, Matsuhisa Restaurant, Beverly Hills, California
- Santosh Tiptur, Executive Pastry Chef, Co Co. Sala Restaurant and Chocolate Boutique, Washington, D.C.
As L'Art du Chocolatier™ Challenge is an unparalleled demonstration of chocolate proficiency in working with the French premium brand, the competition requires a team of judges with demonstrated talent and expertise in the field. This year's panel of esteemed chefs included:
- John Kraus, Proprietor and Chef, Pâtisserie 46, Minneapolis, MN
- Jérôme Landrieu, Cacao Barry Technical Advisor & Director of the Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy™ Center Chicago, IL
- Frédéric Moreau, Cacao Barry Ambassador & Executive Pastry Chef, The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA
- Christophe Morel, Master Chocolatier, "Christophe Morel", and Cacao Barry Ambassador, Canada
- Josep Maria Ribé, Technical Advisor, Chocolate Academy™ Center, Gurb, Spain
Cacao Barry Technical Advisor & Director of the Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy Jérôme Landrieu noted, "L'Art du Chocolatier is a great opportunity for pastry professionals to showcase their skills and chocolate expertise. Contestants' personalities and unique craftsmanship are portrayed in the artistic pieces they create. As a team, we strive to challenge and inspire the next generation of pastry professionals to innovate and embark on new creative experiences."
About Cacao Barry® (www.cacao-barry.com):
By constantly inventing and reinventing Pastry and Gastronomy, France gave its name and mark to this art. It is a tradition envied by the whole world. It is all about creativity, innovation, and above all passion. Since its creation in 1842, Cacao Barry® has been entirely committed to this heritage. Today Cacao Barry® provides the most complete palette of products, to all passionate chocolate craftsmen around the world: chocolate and couvertures, pralinés, origins and exclusive plantations, decorations and moulds, inspiring them and opening doors to new creative experiences. Besides, Cacao Barry® offers the widest international community of chocolate professionals, Ambassadors' Club and Chocolate Academies to support craftsmen and chefs on their quest for perfection. Cacao Barry® is a global Gourmet brand of Barry Callebaut, the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate.
Barry Callebaut (www.barry-callebaut.com):
With annual sales of about CHF 4.8 billion (EUR 4.0 billion / USD 5.2 billion) for fiscal year 2011/12, Zurich-based Barry Callebaut is the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate – from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. Barry Callebaut is present in 30 countries, operates around 45 production facilities and employs a diverse and dedicated workforce of about 6,000 people. Barry Callebaut serves the entire food industry focusing on industrial food manufacturers, artisans and professional users of chocolate (such as chocolatiers, pastry chefs or bakers), the latter with its two global brands Callebaut® and Cacao Barry®. Barry Callebaut is the global leader in cocoa and chocolate innovations and provides a comprehensive range of services in the fields of product development, processing, training and marketing. Cost leadership is another important reason why global as well as local food manufacturers work together with Barry Callebaut. Through its broad range of sustainability initiatives and research activities, the company works with farmers, farmer organizations and other partners to help ensure future supplies of cocoa and improve farmer livelihoods.
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quote:The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday afternoon, suggesting that blocking the project would not have a significant impact on either the future development of Canada's oil sands region or U.S. oil consumption
quote:Keystone XL pipeline being approved by state department as environmentaly sound
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quote:Why is the State department commenting on the environmental soundness?
quote:It was insanely stupid/polical to hold this up.
quote:That and the fact that gas is over $4/gallon
quote: No. Obama held off on permitting the pipeline before the election to keep the extreme left wing environmentalist happy. He doesn't need them now. So it's on to helping the unions by approving the pipeline now that the election is over.
quote:Do we even know if it's going to be union labor doing the work?
quote:are the environmentalists mad?
quote:Preventing this pipeline was considered by many a must win as NASA climate scientist James Hansen said the Canadian tar sand exploitation was game over for the planet. Seems like Game Over then. Obama will be reviled by coming generations, as will we all who are living through these times. However, most of our names will never be known. His, and some others, will be known. And despised, hated, and oft cited as examples of terrible leadership. Should the human race continue with knowledge of this part of its civilizations. Hilary left to avoid blame. Game over for the planet. Obama is a spinless weaking, who retreats when forcibly confronted unless he can use drones.


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PLEASE, PLEASE pray for our marriage as we will have been separated 2 years on 3-27. Eddie "pretended" to be a Christian as we dated for four years. He was the drummer in the worship band, the in-church counselor, had devotions in the morning by phone with me and more! He made a 100% turn around when we married. He was VERY abusive in EVERY way and I thought I was losing my mind as a result. I've asked him forgiveness as I see other areas that I should have been more Christlike. However I got a text this morning saying, "I am truly sorry, but you still don't get IT (He had the last word capitalized.). I've done my part so God and Eddie will have to do their parts. Eddie has NEVER apologized for all the very sick things that he did to me. Don't get me wrong as I LOVE sex and I did more than Eddie did! However the counselor told me that the way Eddie was treating me sexually at the end was totally disrespectful. Thank you for listening and PLEASE pray! I've memorized Mark 10:6-10 and try to say it daily. I just heard at 6:00 this morning the song "As For Me and My House" by John Waller as I was intensely praying for Eddie, for my need of wisdom, for skilled communication (Eddie says that I can't communicate.) like Moses prayed for, and for my listening to the Lord and Eddie without being defensive.


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Did we say its possible for no handle or are they all coming with the same one?
Did we say its possible for no handle or are they all coming with the same one?
The prototype is now in the hands of the next tester. Although I am reserving my critique until after testing is complete so not to bias the other testers, I will say that I am very positively impressed by the prototype. I can't wait for the production knives to become available.
Earlier in the thread questions were raised about the profile, and I made tracings of the prototype against three knives that may be familiar to members: the Masamoto 24 cm KS wa-gyuto, the Misono Swedish 24 cm gyuto and the Forgecraft 10" chef's. The prototype profile is in red; the other knife in black.
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I'll also share a few photos of the saya Tom made for it. It's a really nicely fitting saya, in every way equal to Eamon's sayas.
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Very nice. And thanks for the sketches, certainly answered some thoughts/curiosities I've been pondering
Thanks for the sharing the profiles! I'm concerned about the thick neck, I tend to find thinner neck knives more comfortable.
sorry if this is posted elsewhere, but where do we stand at this time for the knife? How far are we from getting production rolling?
Some kind of an update on this would be awesome!
Sorry guys. Still gathering information from our testers. We're onto 4 of 6.
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quote: ya'll stop talking about our coach- he's a little fluffy, just more to love!
quote:So if LSU fans are to be believed, Miles was our first choice and Patterson was the fall back option? Yeah that sounds legit......
quote:CONSIDER if he brings an NC.
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Fougeron Architecture
An arty steel staircase connects the open courtyard and main-level living spaces with a master bedroom penthouse above.
Richard Barnes
Conceived as a light-filled link between gardens in the front and back, the house is made of transparent, translucent, and reflective materials.
Jacek Gaczynski
The one-story concrete volume holds two more bedrooms and a roof terrace.
Floor-to-ceiling windows, skylights,a glass-floored balcony, and an interior courtyard stream light into the middle and sides of the infill 1532 House.
Matthew Millman
At night, the bath's fluorescents give off a warm glow. A ribbed clerestory at the Jackson Family Retreat extends daylight after the sun drops over the canyon wall.
Fougeron's kitchen and bath remodel of the Victorian 21 House plays with light, shadow, and color.
Stilts reduce the Jackson Family Retreat's impact on the land and protect it from flooding if a nearby creek over- flows.
A ribbed clerestory at the Jackson Family Retreat extends daylight after the sun drops over the canyon wall.
Cedar slats screen the front façade from the road, while the rear of the house opens to nature.
The Buck Creek house in Big Sur, Calif., reinterprets the area's mid-century homes.
By day, the south-facing kitchen illuminates the bath through a translucent wall.
Anne Fougeron, AIA, is the kind of architect who follows her endless enthusiasm for design, and it has taken her to far-flung places. "The Pantheon is one of my favorite buildings," she says. "I had to stop breathing when I saw it for the first time." A visit to the Aga Sophia church in Istanbul, Turkey, also left her momentarily speechless. "I had to sit down," she remembers. Fougeron's undergraduate degree in architectural history instilled a love of the wide-ranging work of great architects—from Michelangelo and Francesco Borromini in the old tradition, to Alvar Aalto, whose buildings she toured on a trip to Scandinavia last summer, and contemporaries such as Renzo Piano, Kengo Kuma, and Hitoshi Abe. "I'm a great admirer of people who have a passion for architecture," she says. "It just sort of soaks through. Style is less the issue than commitment to a certain vision you can sense in the work."
Born to French parents, Fougeron had a trans-Atlantic childhood. She lived in Paris until age 5, when her father's work as a CEO for tire manufacturer Michelin brought the family to New York. By age 12 she was back in France, and then later returned to the United States to attend Wellesley College. She went on to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley; married an American; and settled in the Bay Area, opening her San Francisco practice in 1986.
Since then, she's developed a reputation for houses that are meticulously crafted and colorful and that make use of innovative materials and technology. Fougeron counts on fabricators of all kinds to help execute her ideas, and as a result, there is little separation between production and the schematic phase in her work. She favors glass and metal, wood and stone, rectilinear shapes, and lithe, layered geometries that interact imaginatively with California's pleasant climate and golden sunlight.
"To justify its use, we had to get all this literature together showing different places it was used around the world," Fougeron says. "But from the beginning, we chose that material and felt it was important to keep it," even though it was time-consuming to import and install. "It became an inherent part of the design."
In the years since the 440 House was deemed a success (it won two design awards and was published widely), Fougeron's confidence in building her trademark minimalist, light-filled dwellings has grown. "When we first did the house in Palo Alto, we were extremely concerned about how the roof hit this glass wall," she says. "It's a detail that now wouldn't begin to frighten me." A couple of houses on the boards illustrate her practice's current cutting edge—how to more organically embed the buildings into the land. One such challenge is the Buck Creek house in Big Sur, Calif. It perches on a small site—most of it cliff—with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike many modernist boxes, which one could imagine lifting from the site and placing somewhere else, this house's volumes undulate with the land's contours. To protect the delicate ecosystem, and for structural safety in case of an earthquake, it's cantilevered over the land from a line 12 feet back from the cliff's edge. The master bedroom—the lowest volume—juts out over the ocean on a dramatic double cantilever.
For Fougeron, designing exterior walls that were nonbearing forced her to think about the building in a new way. On this house, which in abstracted computer renderings looks like it could be a rocky outcrop, it meant revamping some of her original ideas so the engineering could work. "We rely on our structural, civil, and geo-technical guys to give us recommendations and work through the design issues together," she says. "We talk about certain things and go, 'Well, that's fine, but these are the consequences,' which is why you want to work with consultants you know and trust."
Although Fougeron's entire career has been defined by her desire for innovation, she was not always a modernist. After all, she came of age during the 1970s, and landing in San Francisco meant that her earliest projects were Victorian kitchen and bath remodels. "To keep motivated, I spent a lot of time eroding the corner, even though I put trim around it," says Fougeron, who cites Mark Mack and Andrew Batey as early inspirations. Partners in the Bay Area firm Batey & Mack, they were known in the late 1970s for their lectures on regionalism. Noted architect and urban designer Daniel F. Solomon, FAIA, for whom she worked from 1982 to 1985, also sparked her interest in urban patterns.
But Fougeron points to her European childhood as the deepest source of her aesthetic values. There, she observed, people respect history but aren't a slave to it. "There are many instances where you feel old and new can work together," she says. "There's nothing worse than trivializing history. In Italy I saw how Carlo Scarpa could take an old building and infuse new life into it by unapologetically adding things it needed."
Even so, her attitude is that it's not style but content—how people interact with a building—that's important. When she designs houses, she searches for the space and atmosphere the clients would like to inhabit, whether it's comforting or uplifting, light-filled or intimate. But beyond the spatial manipulation and material palette, her firm is motivated by the fundamental belief that people respond to things that are well-made. "Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright—all those guys had a series of craftspeople working with them all the time," Fougeron says. "We always try to figure out how to make things beautifully—sometimes with a lot of money, sometimes not."
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Individual Common is an exhibition of artwork created by recipients of the Artist Fellowship grant program administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development's Office of the Arts. The exhibition features film, painting, sculpture, and craft that arrive at universal truths through the artists' intense personal explorations. The focus on psychological and emotional issues personal to each artist invites the viewer to consider their own universal truths. The thoughts and feelings that make us individuals are shown to be common experiences shared by all. Open 9:00 am - 4:00 pm weekdays.


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She is famous for her love of down-home comfort food, the sort that invariably calls for such sinful substances as butter or shortening or bacon (or sometimes all three). She is also known for her devotion to her family, especially her sons, Jamie and Bobby, her husband, Michael, and her brother, Bubba. And, on this day in a Manhattan photo studio, Paula Deen is sharing yet another signature characteristic: her loud and infectious laugh.
Deen, 61, is having a ball, tossing her head back to guffaw as she spears a piece of coconut cake and cracks, No one had better get between a fat girl and her food!
This is precisely the sort of good-natured self-ribbing that, as much as her cooking, has made Deen a star. Her success has always stemmed not only from her yummy, definitely-non-diet recipes, but from her willingness to reveal her personal life to viewers. So now, as Mothers Day approaches, she is eager to share her memories of the time she spent with her mother and grandmother, and to talk about the dishes that have special meaning to her and her family.
Fans of her two hit Food Network cooking shows and five best-selling cookbooks already know Paulas tale. Raised in exceedingly humble circumstances, she married as a teen, and then lost both her parents by the time she was 23. For years afterward, she struggled with agoraphobia, a fear of public spaces that kept her trapped at home. Divorced after 24 years of marriage, she had no clue how to support herself. Until she turned to what the women in her family had always done best: cooking.
The result was a Savannah restaurant named for her little family: The Lady and Sons. It soon became a local sensation, and cookbooks followed. Before long, the Food Network came calling, and Deen began bringing her trademark mega-charm (and mega-calories) to viewers. Still sassy and self-deprecating talking to GH, she refers to herself, more than once, as a heifer she hasnt let fame make her too cautious. (She is, after all, the first host ever to have her language censored by the Food Network for a colorful word that she let slip while making hot wings.) Deen says she never really expected a career in the limelight or, for that matter, in the kitchen. Nonetheless, she wound up learning enough to last a lifetime.
The lessons started slow. Growing up, I had a very busy social life, she says in a languid drawl. It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, Okay, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Deen says she learned the most from her maternal grandmother, Irene Paul, a fabulous Southern cook who lived to be 91. But it was a moment in the kitchen with her mom that still resonates. I had been married for about six months when Daddy died and Mama had to go back to work, she says. I dont know why Im remembering this ... because, really, my memory is so poor, sometimes I wonder how many things Im probably just blocking out. But I remember, this was when Mama was working at the linen department of JCPenney. I called her and I said, Mama, Im cooking spaghetti. When you get home from work, do you want to stop by and eat? And I just remember that when she came over, she was in my kitchen, fixing herself a plate, and she turned to me and said, Paula, honey, youre going to be a better cook than your mama. I looked at her and said, That will never happen. But wasnt that a strange thing for her to say! And isnt it odd that I still remember it?
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"It is good to know that there are many players out there who enjoy big, classic adventure games," says Jan Theysen, Creative Director at KING Art Games. "For The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 we purposely decided to steer clear of some current trends and aimed the game at core gamers, gave it a large scale, put the focus clearly on puzzles and classic gameplay. We are extremely pleased that fans also share our views and generously pledged their support."
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Ideal for toy boxes, lid supports prevent chest lids from accidentally slamming shut on fingers. Lid supports feature a solid brass slide with a statuary bronze finish. Available in right-side configuration in three load ratings.
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"Joni. Seriously. What the hell are we doing out here?" Jayme whispered to me. There we were, kneeling down in tall grass in the edge of the swamp. Our guide, Glen, had left us there to go and set up an electronic alligator call off the the right of us, up the bank about 50 yards away. In the grass all around us were spiders. BIG spiders. Now to many, the fact that spiders creeped us out sounds silly, we were after all, tough Alaskan chicks. We were bear hunters. In fact in 2012, I took a Pope and Young Brown Bear with my bow, so if I could do that, then how in the world could a bunch of spiders freak me out? I guess it just depends what you are used to! We don't have many spiders, let alone big poisonous ones in Alaska. We don't have snakes or anything of that sort either. The things that can hurt you in the woods in Alaska are big, huge actually, and you can see them coming! They don't crawl up on you without you knowing like these spiders that were as big as my fist were trying to do! Jayme was looking all around her in the weeds, trying to flip the spiders back away from crawling up on her. Glen started the baby alligator distress call and came back and we hunched down to wait.
Usually an alligator bowhunt is done out of a boat. It is a much safer alternative, its alot easier to get close and you have a far better opportunity for shot placement. But in my mind, a spot and stalk alligator hunt with a bow sounded alot more exciting! Over the course of the first 3 days of the hunt we tried calling them in from various locations, spotting them from afar sunning themselves on the bank and stalking in on them and were were having trouble getting within a good bow range. I knew I had the boat option as an alternative but I REALLY wanted to stick it out and get it on land. The alligators eye sight and hearing is great, so getting close enough for a good shot was tough; especially with the 850 grain arrow that is needed to punch through their thick hide. I needed to be 15 yards or less! The guide warned me that out of over 720 hunts that he had guided, he had only done 5 of the hunts as spot and stalk, and of those 5 – one got too freaked out and called it off. And these were all men, he had not ever had a woman do spot and stalk before. This just fueled me more. I was taking this beast on land up close and personal!
Day 4 we hiked out to a little peninsula that stuck out into a huge lake. We had seen several gators swimming in the lake and were going to try to call some in. We were walking single file down the bank and through the marshy grass. I looked down to my right and saw a snake sunning itself on the bank. I pointed down to my right and said "snake" softly over my shoulder to Jayme so she wouldn't step on it. We walked another 10-15 ft and crouched down in the weeds. I whispered to the guide, "theres a snake right there in the weeds" and described its markings. He said, "oh its probably harmless," but I could see the wheels turning in his head. A minute or 2 later he crawled over to the waters edge to take a look and came back and whispered, "Uh, guys, thats a Water Moccasin and their deadly, just don't go over there, and keep an eye out." Hmm… not too comforting for someone who had never seen a snake in the wild before! Jayme's eyes were huge and she whispered to me, "couldn't it just sneak over here in the weeds?" I shrugged, I really wanted a gator so I was just trying to not worry about it. The guide started calling and immediately the gators responded. We joked that he was the "Alligator Whisperer" because when he called vocally rather than using the electronic call – they would make a bee line for him! Right away we could see 5 different gators that were swimming towards us from all different directions. Now you have to imagine: you are on a thin peninsula sticking out with water on 3 sides of you, crouched down in tall grass you can barely see over with Big Old spiders crawling all around you, a deadly snake laying in the grass about 10 feet away and 5 different alligators are headed toward you – responding to a baby alligator call because they think he is in distress and they want to EAT him. I am not gonna lie, our hearts were pounding! One gator was now about 10 yards away out in the water, but everything was under except its eyes. Glen whispered, "thats a female, she's real close, keep an eye on her she's watching us." Jayme's nerves were getting the best of her and she said, "Oh hell no!" when she realized how close it was and started to slowly raise up and back up. I grabbed the back of her belt and pulled her back down in the weeds. "It can jump from there to here very quickly if it thinks you are food, stay down!" She looked white as a ghost. She kept looking back over her shoulder and I figured she was checking for the snake. Then she whispered, "there is one right behind us" and Glen says, "no I don't think so." He and I are focused on the one in front of us which was now moving forward to shore. Glen got a better look and said "she's about 9 foot, I think you can do better." About that time Jayme was frantically tapping on Glens shoulder looking behind her, "Glen! It is RIGHT there, I see its CLAW!" and her voice raised a little louder. Suddenly there wa a huge Splash! A gator spun and dove into the water. Not the one in front of us, but a huge one behind us, which Glen later estimated was close to 12 feet long. It had snuck up on land behind us! We were now all shaking, it had been less than 5 yards away, ovbiously watching us, and we hadn't even known it was there! But there was no time to worry about that because we needed to deal with the one in front of us which now had its head up on shore and was only about 4 yards away. She would easily be able to jump from where she was to where we were in a moment. Glen whispered, "just shoot her right in the forehead." "What?" I said, I was so confused. "Right in the head, you don't have a good shot on her anyhow, but she isn't backing off so that will scare her and she will just swim off." He's the gator whisperer so I didn't argue, I drew and shot her right in the head. My 250 grain, razor sharp broadhead bounced off her like a rubber ball, not even breaking the skin. She spun around with a huge splash and swam off. Jayme and I looked at each other in disbelief, we were both shaking from the last 10 minutes of excitement and finally stood up and walked back up the hill. Jayme said, "my nerves are shot. I am just about over this, its really intense!"
At this point I knew she was wondering how in the world I talked her into coming with my on this hunt – for only her 2nd hunt ever, and I was feeling a little guilty for putting her in situations where she was afraid for her life! Meanwhile, my mind was racing. I've never bounced an arrow off anything in my life. Everything I have ever shot has been a full pass through. Glen explained that I did exactly what he wanted me to do and that he knew it was going to bounce off. He said "that isn't where you would ever shoot to kill one and even a bullet will bounce off that dense area of the head". We regrouped and set out for a different area but still in the back of my mind I was thinking, CAN I actually penetrate an alligators hide with my arrow? Maybe I am not pulling enough weight?" We spotted a gator quite a ways off across a lake sunning itself on shore. We hiked out around the end of the lake which took about 20 minutes, careful not to get winded, we came down from above it. This time Jayme stayed back up on the hill, her nerves were shot from 3 days of continuous close calls with gators and I wanted to be sure she was having fun on the hunt! She videoed my stalk down the hill. Glen and I snuck in to about 20 yards and the gator must have heard us in the grass because he spooked and dove into the water. My heart sank; but then he suddenly turned around! I crouched down in the weeds, which were over my head. He was just sitting out about 15 yards away in the water, facing me. Glen was about 5 yards behind me up the bank also crouched down. The gator was looking my direction and seemed to size me up huddled in the grass and decided that I looked like a pretty tasty little snack and he decided to come in for some lunch. I was thrilled that he was coming back to give me another chance. I slowly started to stalk in through the weeks towards the water. Later, Glen told me that he was really impressed with how my instincts took over without him being near me or saying anything, I just started stalking down the bank alone, staying low. He said as he watched me he imagined that I had inherited alot of my fathers natural knack for hunting. My father is a very experienced hunter but is now too ill to hunt anymore, so this comment really gave me a sense of pride. There is no greater compliment than to be compared to him.
The gator continued to come straight at me, but I felt really calm, everything seemed like it was happening in slow motion to me. As he climbed up on the bank and started to slither out toward me, I could see the look in his eyes so well. He was angry and aggressive and there was no doubt that he was planning to make a meal of me. This was the break that I needed to get close to a gator! When he closed the gap and got to 6 yards in front of me I raised up and drew and shot, no bounce off this time! The broadhead went all the way through. The gator broadheads are barbed so they won't come back out and he spun and dove back into the water where he felt safe, as they do when shot on land. My arrow was stuck all the way through him and was attached with a cord to the reel on my bow. The line deployed from the reel as it should, but the buoy was supposed to pop off the end to float behind the gator so we could go find him but it jammed. Now I had a cord attached to my bow from a fleeing gator and my hand got caught in my wrist sling – due to the heavy tension on the attached line. As the gator swam away, it drug me down to the waters edge at a rapid pace. I could not get my hand out. I was stumbling along thinking, "oh my god I'm going in the water with a wounded alligator!" I yelled out, "Im stuck!" and Glen ran after me, grabbed the bow and pulled to relieve enough tension to get my hand out and then it pulled him out into the water up to his knees before he finally just broke the reel off the bow and tossed it into the water. The buoy floated out to the middle of the lake. Glen walked back up to where I was and we looked at each other and started to laugh, that nervous happy laugh that you do after you have just avoided a disaster. Jayme came down from the hill above us and videoed us as we hugged and I jumped around so thrilled that I had just taken my bucket list animal with a bow at 6 yards! We went and got the airboat on the trailer and went out to retrieve my gator from the middle of the lake. He measured an amazing 10.5 foot Much bigger than I had ever hoped for! I couldn't be more thrilled with the whole experience. I feel proud that I wanted to do it the "hard" way, that I stuck to my goals and that I harvested an incredible Alligator, spot and stalk.


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Cooperstown's Seamhead Notes: Stats, Beast Mode and Journeymen
Last week kicked off the first Seamhead Notes of the season and we talked about Jamie Moyer's age and artifacts which have already arrived at the Hall of Fame in 2012.
Couple other quick residual facts from that research: Toronto's Jason Frasor has appeared in the most games without a plate appearance at 482 and counting, followed by Arizona's J.J. Putz. Most plate appearances without an AB award goes to Jose Parra with four (walking twice with two sac hits). Who has Jamie Moyer faced most? Former NL West rival Garrett Anderson (112 PA), while Manny Ramirez has taken him deep most (10 times) and Bernie Williams has the most hits (35 to Anderson's 34).
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Quick Hits: The Blue Jays broke the longest active triple play drought on Friday, turning three for the first time since 1979 – the third longest in history behind the Dodgers 47 years and 50 day drought from 1949 to 1996, and the Yankees' 41 years and 323 days, from 1968 to 2010… Josh Willingham matched but could not break a Twins franchise record, etching his name next to two Hall of Famers in the process. He hit in 15 consecutive team games to start the season, equaling Goose Goslin in 1927 and Kirby Puckett in 1994… On Tuesday, Chipper Jones belted his fifth career birthday home run – this one marking his 40th b-day celebration. He is the seventh player go deep on his 40th-or-older birthday since 1900, including Hall of Famers Joe Morgan (1983) and Wade Boggs (1998) and current Phillie Jim Thome (2011)… On Wednesday, Paul Konerko passed Andres Galarraga and Hall of Famer Al Kaline on the all-time list with his 400th home run.
KeMVP?: If Matt Kemp was in Beast Mode last season when he made a run at the Triple Crown and finished second in MVP voting, he's cranked Beast Mode up to full blast. Playing in his 14th game last Friday (April 20), he collected three hits and two RBIs, bringing him to 26 hits and 20 RBIs. In the span of 50 years, two other players reached 25 hits and 20 RBIs by their 15th game: Hall of Famer Willie Mays in 1962, who finished second in the MVP race, and 1997 MVP Larry Walker.
Furthermore, the following day Kemp and his partner Andre Ethier each drove in two more, giving them 22 and 21 respectively. The 1949 Red Sox are the only other team to boast teammates with more than 20 RBIs in their team's first 15 games as Hall of Famer Ted Williams and Vern Stephens each had 21. Williams would win the AL MVP that season.
To go along with his 22 RBIs, Kemp had 27 hits and nine homers by the end of play on Saturday, April 21. Willie Mays in 1964 is the only man that can top those numbers through the first 15: 29 hits, 10 homers, 25 RBI.
New in Cooperstown: New this week in artifacts arriving at the Hall of Fame was the cap worn by Detroit's Octavio Dotel on April 7 when he made his debut for the Detroit Tigers. A 19-year vet, Dotel has now pitched for a record 13 major-league teams, passing Matt Stairs, Ron Villone and Mike Morgan, who each played for 12 teams.
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No 5 Vicars Close. Wells.June 16th 1910My very dear CousinI have sung my little songs of Tintagel & Clovelly many times over to different friends; possibly thee may have heard some fain echoes thro Sister EPC of the progress of these pilgrims since leaving their nature shores: no doubt she told thee of their favorable sea (flight?) which in these days of scientific sailing is really reduced to-- (almost) a mere nothing. I think of one dear Friend after another wishing I could make them partake of the good things that are giving us so much pleasure, but


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Contact Sports Desk: Call: 603-516-2949 / E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Belichick expects changes from Patriots' rout of Texans
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A regular-season rout can be a poor predictor of the postseason rematch.
"That is and always will be the case, but it's an example to point out of how little relevance the previous game with the same team really does have."
"There's no question that he's the key guy for Houston and their offense, but his production also complements the other players as well and the other parts of the game," Belichick said. "Yesterday I thought he made a decent amount of yardage breaking tackles and making the defender miss a tackle in the hole or that kind of thing."
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-Posted on message board of sports betting website and was eventually hired by the site to write columns.
-ESPN contacted her on Twitter and hired her to write a weekly column on sports betting for Page 2. Nobody met her in person prior to offering her the job (and possibly to this day).
-She used her status as an ESPN freelance columnist to try to start a website for comedy/sports.
-In the process of doing this, she scammed people. She got them to send her money or give her access to successful Twitter accounts and/or facebook pages in exchange for partial ownership of the website. Other people she "hired" to work for the site and conned into getting access to their Twitter/facebook logins.
-She has a partner that she works with. They were fired from T-Mobile together in 2010 for selling phones on eBay and activating them for commission.
The article is really well written IMO and explain the situation well. It's a long read, but it's interesting. There are several other stories updating this out there now too.


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Javetts Eall Raksha wrote:huh, never thought much of that, good catch. now will her powers act on it's own to try and return to her? or will it seek out a new host?
I'm not exactly sure on the sentience of the demon symbiote. It could have ties with Mimi, or controlled by her to an extent. We see that it was completely inactive as a scarf and only sprang up when the trap was released. Somehow it knew to bind, either inteligently waiting for the right time, waiting for a signal to spring into motion, or guided towards Mimi. She at that point seemed to resist it and was uncomfortable possibly painful for her.
But on the other hand, it acted vigoriously when Minnie approached it with strong negative emotions.
So is it smart enough to know its own host and possibly choose another, or is it attracted to negative emotions, or is it controlled completely by Him?
Interesting question you presented there, Javetts.


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Can The X Factor muster another number one?
UK X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix (covering Damian Rice's Cannonball) were beaten to the Christmas number one by the Military Wives Choir (Wherever You Are composed by Paul Melor). The girl band (Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall) the first group to win the X Factor couldn't have experienced stronger competition this year against Gareth Malone's Military Wives. The choir had been the bookies favourite in the weeks leading up to the Christmas number one.
Military Wives, a choir formed from the wives of serving soldiers that needed distraction whilst their husbands are away, has a huge fan base; a core following that resonated with the nation pulling massive support from different many quarters. Other the hand, although Little Mix's popularity and social fan base continues to grow, the group received criticism for the video that was created. The consensus was the Cannonball cover deserved a dedicated new video, rather than clips taken from X Factor broadcasts. Although it attracted unwanted heat, support in the girl group didn't falter and they still received backing from fans. It wasn't enough to secure them the Christmas number one though. Sky News reported that Military Wives sold more records in two days
then the X Factor winners sold in a week.
It's only the second time in three years that the X Factor has been denied the festive top spot, after Rage Against The Machine beat Joe McElderry to number one in 2009 after a massive social media protest. It just goes to show if the public's imagination can be captured in a different way, a programme that effectively advertises the prospect of a X Factor winner securing a number one spot for many weeks can't secure what may be perceived to be an inevitable outcome.
The US X Factor used many different approaches than its UK counterpart, particularly from digital and social media perspectives as evidence stacks up in the growth of digital programme viewing and interaction (including the type of devices audiences are using). The US X Factor was able to incorporate voting via Facebook and Twitter and its sophisticated mobile app (with live behind the scenes and in-app voting).
Despite lower than anticipate viewing figures in the US, Simon Cowell has still managed to secure a second series, so it's all still to play for in 2012 - for both sides of the pond. It will be interesting viewing in itself how the programme adapts to the digital challenges that rapidly evolve and what other channels will be offering, namely, BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother (which kicks off in the next couple of days) and Big Brother.
As for Little Mix, they will need to sustain their magic, continue to build upon their popularity (offline and across social media) to steer clear of the pitfalls of X Factor winner stardom, avoiding becoming 'the ones that were'. In addition to producing records that sell and intelligent promotions that enable this, social media will most certainly be a huge factor in the girl group evolving in one of the most fickle and competitive industries. Boosting the social following they now have amassed will be a critical element in their future success, and who knows, a number one from more of their own making.
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I'm sure this kid will serve more time than a many murderers(the human kind), but its a no brainer this kid has severe mental issues. Maybe just watches too many Dexter's!
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MIAMI – A South Florida teenager accused of a string of cat killings and mutilations is set to appear court.
A bond hearing for 18-year-old Tyler Hayes Weinman is scheduled Monday afternoon. He was charged Sunday with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body.
In the past month, residents in two Miami neighborhoods found more than two dozen dead cats. Police say some had been skinned, and it appears a sharp, straight instrument was used in some cases.
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Weinman's attorney has said that his client is innocent.
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The Committee makes recommendations to the Governor and Legislature on disability issues; promotes compliance with disability-related laws; promotes a network of local committees doing similar work; recognizes employers for hiring and retaining employees with disabilities; and recognizes media professionals and students for positively depicting Texans with disabilities. The members and staff also provide technical assistance, information and referral services to citizens of Texas on issues affecting Texans with disabilities. Members of the Committee work on issues related to Access, Communications, Education, Emergency Management, Health, Housing, Recreation, Transportation, Veterans and Workforce. The Committee's enabling law is outlined in the Human Resources Code, Chapter 115.
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NeoWarrior7 wrote:Blanks can kill a man, yo.
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NeoWarrior7 wrote:Blanks can kill a man, yo
Whatis6times9 wrote:Kinda, they used a squib load which is a round that doesn't properly fire, the bullet didn't leave the barrel, they reloaded the gun with a blank for a different scene without checking the barrel and the charge off the blank fired the bullet at a high enough velocity to kill him. But there was also an actor who got bored on set and played Russian Roulette with a blank and killed himself because even without a bullet the pressure of that shot at close distance is enough to cause skull trauma, especially if it had some wadding.
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My long time reader and friend Mike told me that barn door cycling was now featured on the Daily Register webpage. �See, about a year ago I was approached by the Harrisburg IL. newspaper and asked if they could use my blog on their webpage. �I was like, "sure man." �I signed some paper work and nothing happened. �A long running technical issue prevented my blog from connecting up with their content�management�software. �Well now it appears I'm there, so if you're reading this from the Daily Register, welcome!
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Texas Instruments Uses Thermal Simulation to Speed Disk Drive Time to Market
September 2005
Texas Instruments (TI) engineers helped a disk drive manufacturer get their product to market six months early by using thermal simulation to solve problems prior to the prototyping phase. The potential thermal problems centered on a disk brake integrated circuit (IC) that consumed 9 watts. The challenge was optimizing the package design to move this heat out to the PCB and then moving as much as possible of this heat to the chassis. "Using traditional build-and-test methods it would have probably taken a year to identify a design that maintained junction temperatures at or below specifications," said Frank Mortan, Packaging Engineer for TI. "Instead, long before the prototype stage, we began simulating alternative printed circuit board approaches and so we were able to optimize the design from a thermal standpoint in only six months."
TI's approach to assisting customers with thermal design relies heavily on the use of thermal simulation to evaluate a wide range of alternative configurations in software without the need for prototype parts. In this case, the customer got TI involved in the project early and TI recognized the potential for a problem and offered its services in helping to resolve it. Mortan and Sandra Horton, also a TI Packaging Engineer, modeled the customer's product using the FloTHERM thermal simulation environment from Flomerics. They used the "FloTHERM.PACK" web site to create a detailed thermal model of the IC die, package and the PCB. Instead of creating the geometry manually, all they had to do was enter simple parameters defining each component and the web site generated the model components automatically, allowing a detailed system model to be built within FloTHERM. "This approach made it possible in the space of a single day to model a complex electronic system to a high level of accuracy and predict cooling performance," said Mortan.
After running a large number of iterations over a period of several months, Mortan and Horton were confident they had optimized the design. They ordered physical prototypes built and found that, as predicted by the simulation, their design was well within thermal specifications. The measured die temperature was 121oC while the model predicted 125oC for the bulk silicon. So the model was off by just 4oC, or 3.2%. "When we showed our results to the customer they were very pleased," said Mortan. "They were happy that we were able to resolve potential thermal concerns up front while the electronic design was being completed rather than discovering them during the prototyping phase. I don't think there's any doubt but that the product reached market six months early because thermal simulation solved the problems prior to the prototyping phase."
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The employees at Florida Studio Theatre are accustomed to actors shouting across the open-floor-plan office space. Be it actors Eric Collins, Kevyn Morrow or director Arthur Marks, the yelling is all the same: "Kaylene!"
Everyone at the theater knows and loves Kaylene Torregrossa, but this season, they'll get to know her as general manager. She took over for former General Manager James Lemmons as of Nov. 30. Lemmons took the job as executive director of Lake Placid Center for the Arts in New York.
The 25-year-old started as an intern in the literary department in 2010. That was her first role at FST after graduating from the University of Arizona. Since then, Torregrossa has been the volunteer coordinator, the assistant box office manager, assistant Cabaret manager and, most recently, the literary manager.
She has proven she's willing to take on any role, even it if is just part of the ensemble. It's been that way since she was 8 years old when she played Captain Hook in a Tucson, Ariz., acting-class performance of "Peter Pan." She knew she wanted to do theater since then.
Ten years after that first experience, her parents sat her down and said, "Are you sure you want to major in the arts?" She was sure.
"I told my dad that I don't care what I'm doing," she says. "I could be sweeping the floors as long as it's part of the bigger picture —and I've had to sweep the floors! Someone's gotta keep it clean!"
It's even Torregrossa's voice on all of FST's voicemail greetings.
She says her most eye-opening role was managing the Cabaret because she went into it with no customer service experience. "You think you wouldn't be good at it because you haven't done it before," she says. She was wrong.
All of her FST positions have given her a more developed understanding about the inner-workings at the contemporary theater.
"I have a good knowledge base of FST and what we do from all different perspectives: I've read the plays, I've cleaned the kitchen, I've sold tickets," she says. "You get a really well-rounded view that way."
At first, Torregrossa was worried that she'd become a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none. But it was all rehearsal for her latest role, which requires a variety of knowledge.
"The joke is in the title," she says. "I generally manage everything."
Her responsibilities include company management; guest relations; keeping up with residential and commercial properties (that house actors, directors and interns); and making sure everything is up to par with the construction process at the new theaters. But what she looks forward to the most is connecting with the people — from the interns and volunteers, to the staff and the patrons.
Torregrossa wasn't expecting the promotion, but it makes sense based on the experience she has acquired during the past two years. She also wasn't expecting Sarasota's art scene to be what it was when she first arrived from Arizona.
"I remember driving down 41 (for the first time), saying, 'There's a theater. There's a community theater. There's an ad for the opera," she says. "It was really impressive. I wasn't expecting to see such a supportive arts environment here."
She initially came to Sarasota because her mother, Margaret O'Connor Torregrossa, was born and raised here, and her Scottish ancestors, the Brownings, were a founding family of the area.
But, now, Torregrossa has made Sarasota her home. She recalls her first Thanksgiving as an intern when FST staff had an "orphaned Thanksgiving dinner" and spent the day together, cooking and laughing.
"When you work in the arts community, you have your chosen family," she says.
" … (There's) a really great feeling of support and that we are all in it together."
Torregrossa is all for teamwork.
"I enjoy working with others to make something happen," she says. "There's nothing worse than a selfish personality in a collaborative environment."
Although, someday, she hopes to run her own theater and direct productions, she's content where she is now — embracing her new role at FST.
"I'm going to dive in," she says.
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