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Now that just about every writer has a Web site, blog and/or MySpace, Facebook and GoodReads pages, are they finding the effort of keeping up with it all worthwhile? Do authors even need a Web presence? And if so, is it worth the $3,000 to $35,000 fee that professional Web site creators/marketers charge? "Yes," said Steve Bennett, who has written more than 50 books and is president of AuthorBytes, which builds and markets author Web sites. "A Web site is your locus in space. It's not that people can't get basic author information on Amazon. But they're looking for extras. The Web has changed the way we learn about products and services; it's hard to imagine succeeding without it."
There's little question about the value of author Web sites for Carol Fitzgerald, founder and president of the Book Report Network, either. As she sees it, having a Web presence gives writers a chance to extend the conversation with their readers. When her company signs an author, she reads their books to make sure that the site her company creates captures the same attitude and tone, beginning with the welcome letter on the home page. Fitzgerald is less concerned about authors having a message board or book trailer than with providing a go-to place for fans. "If you're going to get a book review over the Web," she said, "you want to be sure to have a Web site to send people to, not just the publisher's site." She does have one caveat, though: don't overdo the Flash. "If I'm waiting for a site to load, it ought to be pretty good," said Fitzgerald. "Like it ought to clean the floor."
In the absence of clear proof that an expensive, Flash-driven site makes any difference when it comes to sales, some authors, even well-known ones, are opting for a bare-bones Web presence. Susan Cheever, who was given her first Web site 15 years ago, chose a no-frills, DIY Authors Guild site, where writers pay up to $9 a month for Web hosting. She said that she would upgrade if there were any way to prove that sites sell books. In addition to saving money, the Authors Guild arrangement allows Cheever to update her site (www.susancheever.com) directly, unlike many Web services. Not that she changes it often—her most recent book, Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, is still listed on her home page as due out in the beginning of October. Nor is there a blog. Still, for her the site does what she wants: it enabled this reporter to track her down at Yaddo, and she uses it to sign up speaking engagements.
Despite Cheever's decision not to blog, both Bennett and Fitzgerald argue that a blog is the easiest way to keep sites fresh. And there's no reason the blog has to be only about the book; at least that's James Frey's approach at BigJimIndustries.com. On his blog, he collects funny news items, videos he likes and stray Web commentary.
But it's not just bestselling writers who use the Web to keep their names out in the blogosphere. Relatively unknown authors, especially nonfiction writers, have found the Web to be an effective tool for generating interest in their work. Months before her combination travelogue/humor book Queen of the Road came out in June, Doreen Orion used her advance from Broadway to hire AuthorBytes to create QueenoftheRoadtheBook.com. Her objective, she said, was to have a site that would give people a sense of her book without reading it. She chose to have every Web page look like a postcard sent from a different destination, with a stamp of her wearing a tiara. Although Orion estimates that she spent eight hours a day for six months before her book came out working on the site and posting YouTube videos, she said the money and time were well spent. She credits the site with getting her a speaking engagement at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, Calif., as well as making her book a reading group selection. She viewed her advance as "my book's money. If you don't have a really good Web site, you're hampering yourself." Clearly something's working. Queen of the Road is in its sixth printing and has close to 38,000 copies in print.
Meg Cabot has a similar approach to Orion's and has used her advances to create a Web presence from the start of her career. But with a heavy writing schedule—three hardcovers and one paperback original due out in the first five months of 2009—she prefers to have someone else manage MegCabot.com, as well as her Facebook and MySpace pages. "I'd rather be writing," she said. However, she still finds time to blog and act in videos for YouTube. However, even she questions an author Web site's sales potential. "I have no proof whatsoever it sells books," she said. "But it lets people know when stuff is coming out, and every time I update the blog, I can see people coming back." And she can also monitor the message board, where she looks for cultural references, like what bands are hot. As a children's author, Cabot does face one problem that most adult authors don't have to worry about: keeping kids under the age of 13 from participating on her message board. In addition to registering those who want to use the message board and posting a list of rules, she has worked out an arrangement with Scholastic to keep younger readers off her site.
Unlike Cabot, some writers find having a blog and Web site energizing. "I find myself writing more now that I blog. I know I read more, too," says E. Ethelbert Miller, director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. He posts many of his new poems on his E-Notes blog (www.eethelbertmiller1.blogspot.com), which he started in 2004, and invites guest bloggers to contribute as well. And he uses another site, eethelbertmiller.com, to promote his work. Not only can visitors read selections from his upcoming poetry collection, On Saturdays, I Santana with You (Curbstone), they can also download files of him reading from it as well as from his new memoir, The Fifth Inning (PM/Busboys & Poets). PM marketing head Craig O'Hara credits the site with early orders from individuals for the book.
For journalist Chris Bohjalian, blogging is the easy part of maintaining an online presence. He reruns his weekly column from the Burlington Free Press. Still, it can be time-consuming to respond to every guest book entry on his site (www.chrisbohjalian.com), to monitor the message board and to keep up with online requests from reading groups to set up speakerphone chats.
"It's my way of supporting readers in the digital ages, when most people are downloading pictures on Facebook. It all goes back to that notion that an author is no longer a disembodied face on the back of a book jacket. I have an interaction with my readers I never imagined I'd have," said Bohjalian, who fosters that interaction with a specially designated reading group area on his site, where he posts backstories, discussion guides, book trailers and podcasts.
While the jury is still out on whether author Web sites sell books, the social networking value is clear. So is it worth it? As Bennett noted, "A Web site enables you to connect with people you never would have connected with before. How do you put a price on that?"


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Somebody could write a road movie around the lengths Brian West goes to every day to drive his Tesla electric sports car back and forth across Michigan despite its limited range.
His story reminded me, loosely, of the plot of The Swimmer, a 1968 pic starring Burt Lancaster at his hunkiest. Burt decides to 'swim home' across his suburb, hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool, paddling his way one backyard at a time. Drama ensues.
West is a 43-year CEO the Concept Factory, a computer interface company. He does business across Michigan and beyond and would be stranded if he didn't plan ahead. He's got to make sure he doesn't reach the end of his 300-mile battery tether without a recharging option.
So, Burt-like, he hops from plug to plug, depending on the kindness of strangers to keep him rolling toward his destination.
As I learned first hand when I test drove his personal Tesla at the Business of Plugging In conference in Dearborn, Mich., West carries a trunkful of charge cords and adapters. He's got a 120-volt extension cord, "just in case" he's so desperate for juice he's willing to endure part of the 12 to 14-hour recharging time the car has at household voltage.
He recently got an adapter so that the Tesla can be recharged with the SAE standard five-prong plug found on the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, which wasn't adopted as the North American industry standard (photos here) until after the Tesla was already on the market.
I'm pretty sure I was the first to write about an appliance in 2009 that will soon be as familiar in some people's hands as a tooth brush. "But they don't really exist yet in the real world," as West points out. His has never been used.
West's "real world solution" is a four-prong, 240-volt heavy plug like the ones on your electric stove or dryer. Call it what you like – RV plug, appliance plug, 50-amp plug – West calls it his salvation. He's installed dryer plugs at his home and his office building to plug in his Tesla.
The plug allows him to plug in at camp grounds, tool shops, garages and anywhere else a 240-volt welding machine can be found — which is a lot of places — and top up his lithium-ion batteries in a few hours. "If they've got Wi-Fi, I just sit in the car and get some work done until I'm ready to go."
West says he bought the Tesla as a promotional tool for his automotive-linked company, and figured it would spend most of its time sitting in the Concept Factory's lobby, looking pretty. Instead it's become his daily driver — thanks to his ingenuity with finding places to plug in.
One day, as various members of the world's electric car experts told us during the conference, there will be EV charge stations all over North America, including commercial "quick charge" stations which will be able to dump 53 kilowatt hours of power into a Tesla in less than an hour.
Most EVs will be able to "fill up" a lot faster than that at a quick charge because they have smaller battery packs; the Nissan Leaf, for instance, has about 24 kw/hrs on board, as will the Ford Focus EV when it hits the market late this year. Quick charging those babies will take only 26 minutes.
The Chevy Volt has only about 16 kw/hrs of batteries on board — but it can get by with less because it also has an on-board gasoline generator to keep the car going forever, if need be.
Although there are hardly any places to plug in an electrical vehicle in North American right now, that is expected to change quickly, starting right about now.
General Motors has issued a public challenge to any other company to top its total of 500 charging stations installed at its various facilities in Michigan. Nissan says it has a "big announcement" coming soon about quick charging stations.
"Solar canopies" — car-port-like charging stations for public use, powered by the sun — are expected to be the next big thing in the electrification of the vehicle. Oregon is already installing them along one highway, and hundreds are expected to appear in Michigan and nearby states soon.
Home charging stations, which currently cost as much as $2,400, installed, are about to become a cash-and-carry commodity "available at a big box store near you, soon," according to Mark Perry, director of product planning and strategy for Nissan Americas.
West figures he can already "get across the country pretty quickly" without any of those options just by looking up enough RV parks and welding shops before he leaves home.
But he's got a Tesla S sedan on order, just to make the ride a little more comfortable.

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NHL'S ALL-TIME GREATEST DYNASTIESby Staff Writer / Columbus Blue Jackets
What constitutes a dynasty? Is it a team that wins the Stanley Cup at least three-straight years? I'm not so sure. If it is, you have to immediately eliminate from consideration teams like the Montreal Canadiens of the 1960's and the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980's. Both of those great teams won the Cup four times in a five year period. Out also are the Detroit Red Wings of the 1950's, who had seven straight first place finishes and won four Stanley Cups in a six year stretch.
You certainly can make a strong argument for any of those teams, as well as the Toronto Maple Leafs of the late-1940's and early-1960's. Each one of those teams dominated in those years! They were all great teams and I believe could be considered a dynasty in their own right. So lets look a bit closer and come up with a list of the "Best of the Best."
Right at the Top of the list we again point to Montreal and the Canadiens teams of the mid to late-1950's. Those Montreal teams from 1956 through 1960 won five-straight Stanley Cups. I should point out in those years it might have been a bit easier to win the Stanley Cup as there were only six teams in the NHL and a team only needed to win two rounds to hoist the Cup. But make no mistake, with the likes of Hall of Famers Maurice "Rocket" Richard, his brother, Henri the "Pocket Rocket", Jean Beliveau, Jacques Plante, Bernie Geoffrion and Dickie Moore, not to mention their great coach Toe Blake, they would have had no problem winning the four series it takes to win a Stanley Cup in this era.
Montreal again would dominate the National Hockey League in the late-1970's, winning the Stanley Cup four-straight years from 1976 to 1979. I had the good fortune of spending my early years in the NHL watching that dynasty up close as the pre- and post-game host of Canadiens radio broadcasts. Those outstanding teams amazingly lost just 56 of 378 regular season and playoff games. In fact, in one Cup year, the Habs lost only eight games in the regular season!
The more I think about it....this is the dynasty I would rate above the others. In the four Championship years they finished first overall each time. In the middle two seasons, they lost only 18 of 160 games… the eight I spoke of earlier and just 10 the following season. They then won 12 playoff series in winning the four Cups. Of those 12 series, Montreal swept its opponents six times! Count 'em, 10 future Hall of Famers were on those teams… the likes of Larry Robinson, Ken Dryden, Serge Savard, Guy Lafleur and Bob Gainey just to name a few. They were coached by the legendary Scotty Bowman. Why they stand above the rest is the fact that no other NHL team as dominated both the regular season and the playoffs the way those teams did!
So with the Canadiens of the late-1970's my first overall choice as the NHL's greatest dynasty, lets now look at the honorable mentions (with no disrespect to these teams).
The New York Islanders dynasty of the early-1980's deserves some recognition. In fact, the Islanders set a standard likely never to be duplicated! Those Stanley Cup teams won 19-consecutive playoff series and many of those series wins were won after the team rallied from behind to win. Like the Canadiens before them, the Islanders roster was full of Hall of Famers. The Likes of Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Billy Smith and my former broadcast partner in Florida, Denis Potvin. Those Islander teams were terrific playoff performers, but what hurts them in this debate is that they did not dominate during the regular season. They won their division only twice in the four years they won the Cup.
Last, but certainly not least, there is the Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980's. Those Edmonton teams won four Cups in a five year period, including 1990 when they won a championship after "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky was traded. The Hockey News "fan poll" actually picked those Edmonton teams as the all-time greatest dynasty ahead of the Montreal teams of the late-1970's.
Aside from that Cup win in 1990, Gretzky was the headliner on those teams with the likes of goaltender Grant Fuhr, defensemen Paul Coffey and Kevn Lowe and the high-scoring Jari Kurri and Mark Messier up front. Their championship team of 1983-84 set what likely will be the all-time record for goals scored in a regular season with a staggering 446. So there you have it… another great debate.


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Coolsculpting and Smart Lipo are both excellent therapeutic options for managing localized fat of the lower abdomen and flanks. Both procedures offer advantages and the choice of procedure depends on a variety of factors.
Without pictures or a physical exam it's hard to know which option is best for any given patient. When larger amounts of fat are present, liposuction will most likely yield a superior result. Unfortunately, this procedure may be associated, with more pain and longer recoveries.
When smaller amounts of fat are present, excellent results can occur with coolsculpting with shorter recoveries and less pain in the post-operative period.
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Next week in Omaha, Neb. CenturyLink will fire up a fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) service that feature speeds of up 1 Gbps.
The service will eventually be available to 48,000 business and residential customers in CenturyLink's Omaha footprint. CenturyLink is upgrading its existing fiber architecture in west Omaha in order to offer the FTTP service. When the project is completed, CenturyLink's 1 Gbps service in Omaha will have a direct connection to the company's recently upgraded 100 Gbps network.
"CenturyLink is pleased to offer its Omaha customers ultra-fast broadband speeds up to 1 Gbps to help keep pace with growing broadband demands," said Karen Puckett , CenturyLink chief operating officer. "This demonstrates our commitment to deliver communications solutions that provide our customers with the technology they need to enhance their quality of life, now and into the future."
The 1 Gbps offering is $79.95 a month when bundled with other CenturyLink services while the stand alone price is $149.95 a month. Business customers will have to call CenturyLink for pricing.
After next week's launch, CenturyLink expects to have the service in front of all 48,000 customers by October. CenturyLink will evaluate the results of the 1 Gbps offering in Omaha before deciding whether to expand it to other markets.
CenturyLink competes with Cox Communications in Omaha. Cox's fasted DOCSIS-3.0-based Ultimate tier features download speeds of up to 150 Mbps, and up to 20 Mpbs on the upstream. Cox prices its Ultimate tier at $82.99 for the first three months and then $99.99 a month thereafter.
Currently, CenturyLink's fasted residential data tier clocks in at 40 Mbps.
A spokesman for Cox said that the nation's third-largest cable operator has been offering a 10 Gbps service to Omaha businesses for some time.
"Cox provides a comprehensive Internet service portfolio that includes multiple speed options to meet a variety of customer needs," Cox spokesman Todd Smith wrote in an e-mail to CED this morning. "We've upgraded our Ultimate residential package to 150 Mbps in several markets, including Omaha, and are expanding nationally this year. This upgrade is available to all Cox customers within our footprint and isn't limited to a specific geographic area.
"It is important to note that our most popular Internet package remains the one that provides speeds of 25 Mbps, which meets the needs of the majority of customers. Cox was the first cable provider to serve businesses and for several years has provided multiple broadband data services that include fiber connections faster than 1 Gbps."
Google Fiber is offering its 1 Gig service in Kansas City, where it competes against Time Warner Cable, and will add Provo, Utah into the mix later this year. Time Warner Cable executives have contended that subscribers won't support the prices that come with Google Fiber's 1 Gig service.


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UncoveredRichard Clark, Jon Stewart and Air America are about to get some company in the media assault on George W. Bush. From Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, an incendiary attack on U.S. foreign policy and the Bush-bin Laden connection (which just premiered and screened for an unprecedented five nights in Cannes), to the moveon.org-co-produced Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (which screened at the recent Newport Beach Film Festival and opens in movie houses during the Republican National Convention), politically charged documentaries are showing up in theaters and on television over the next several months. Along with anti-corporate works such as The Corporation, Super Size Me, The Yes Men and Go Further, an unprecedented surge of activist documentaries is poised to join the election-year debate.
"There seems to be a groundswell of activists who are willing to challenge the information we've been force-fed," says Eamonn Bowles, a Magnolia Films distributor who launches the documentary invasion in New York this week with Jehane Noujaim's Control Room, an inquiry into the media coverage of the current Iraq war as related by Al Jazeera journalists. "Not too long ago, it seemed obvious to me that Bush would get re-elected easily," continues Bowles, "but there really has been this incredible mobilization of the dissatisfied exercising their voice."
"This presidency has galvanized many who are lethargic on the left, and I include myself," echoes Lawrence Konner, a Hollywood screenwriter (Mona Lisa Smile) who founded an organization called the Documentary Campaign in late 2002. Aimed at producing nonfiction work that advocates social and economic justice, the company's first feature, Persons of Interest, co-directed by Alison Maclean (Jesus' Son) and Tobias Perse, looks into the Justice Department's post-Sept.-11 detentions. "I feel like more of an activist on this issue than a filmmaker," says Perse. "You have an administration that has this idea of unilateral force, both in the world and domestically. And this film helps to question that policy."
Acquired by First Run/Icarus (sister company First Run Features will distribute the left-wing portrait Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train this summer), Persons of Interest will also be broadcast on the Sundance Channel. "We're trying to figure out how the film can be used on a grassroots political level," says Maclean.
Adds Perse, "This film is designed to open up a conversation that was short-circuited within a month of Sept. 11."
The film medium, say documentarians, can be very useful as a political weapon, tapping into the emotions of voters that stories in print can't deliver. Konner cites Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine as "a great model. Moore makes movies that are politically progressive, cinematically exciting, and get people emotionally involved as much as they are intellectually involved," he says. "People hear the information all the time, but it doesn't always get through."
The record-setting $21.5 million box-office gross of Columbine also supplied a financial precedent for distributors that once winced at the thought of releasing documentaries on a wide scale. "[Columbine] broke down a lot of barriers for docs," says Eamonn Bowles. "But it also identified a strong presence of the 'skeptic' audience, the folks who don't buy the party line."
Still, Moore's success hasn't shielded him from alleged attempts at corporate and government sabotage. Disney blocked its subsidiary Miramax from releasing Fahrenheit 911 because the movie is "against the interests" of the conglomerate's tax status and family-friendly image. "This struggle has been a lesson in just how difficult it is in this country to create a piece of art that might upset those in charge," Michael Moore countered on his website the day after the story broke. Since then, Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein bought the film back from Disney so it could be sold to another distributor.
Morgan Spurlock's Michael Moore-esque Super Size Me, which follows the deleterious effects of the filmmaker's 30-day McDonald's binge, is proving how effective Moore's populist style can be. Long before opening in theaters on May 7 (with box grosses of more than $500,000), the documentary made headlines when McDonald's declared it was eliminating the Super Size option (while denying that Spurlock's film had anything to do with the decision). "The movie is definitely shaking the trees," says Spurlock. "There need to be movies that are not beholden to anyone, whether it's a media corporation or a government agency . . . to get ideas out that are getting buried in today's society."
Robert Greenwald—who made the Abbie Hoffman drama Steal This Movie!—felt an urgency to finish Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War while the Bush administration's push to war was left unquestioned by the mainstream media. (Completed in November 2003, the movie has sold nearly 100,000 copies online; an expanded 90-minute version will be released in theaters in August.) "Part of the power of the movie and the hunger for the film is that we were in the middle of something," he says. "And here was a tool that was more user-friendly than a book, and it had this extraordinary relevance because the story, up until recently, hadn't been available."
Indeed, these documentaries of dissent indict the media's passivity as much as the right wing. "The press offers this monolithic point of view," complains Control Room's Noujaim. "The situation that we're living in is really complex and volatile, so it's difficult to get a 'truth' out of one channel or one station or one voice. It's important that U.S. citizens have a better understanding of why things are happening and who are the people behind it, rather than just what's on the news."
Henry Thomason and Nickolas Perry's The Hunting of the President, an adaptation of the best-seller by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, suggests an extreme "right-wing cabal" conspired with decidedly un-independent counsel Kenneth Starr to unseat President Bill Clinton. But the film's other main target is, says Thomason, "the good old liberal press," which published stories based on unreliable sources or no sources at all and jumped on Monica-gate for the salacious headlines. With the documentary circulating in theaters this June, Thomason hopes the film "can sway a reporter or two to be really fair and balanced," he says, "and not be bullied by the extreme right and their network of AM radio and e-mail."
Other filmmakers have a more pointed goal. Michael Shoob, co-director with Joseph Mealey of Bush's Brain, an investigation into the "dirty tricks" of Republican puppetmaster and alleged "co-president" Karl Rove, says, "Obviously, we wanted to push this information in an election year."
But can docs really rock the vote? "Sometimes films influence events beyond their origin. Sometimes they don't," says nonfiction veteran George Butler (Pumping Iron), who is currently rushing to complete Tour of Duty, a biographical portrait of his longtime friend John Kerry. "Sometimes you make a film like The China Syndrome, which causes all kinds of changes in the nuclear industry, or a film like Pumping Iron, which causes 100,000 gyms to open up in America and eventually makes Arnold [Schwarzenegger] the governor of California."
"If I didn't think documentaries had an impact, I don't think we would make them," says Mark Achbar, co-director of the Noam Chomsky cult film Manufacturing Consent and of this year's festival hit The Corporation, an investigation into globalization and corporate power that has won audience awards at film festivals around the world. "The people are speaking," says Achbar. "Membership in activist groups is shooting up because people come out of [The Corporation] informed, engaged, enraged and ready to put thought into action. There's no question that it has an impact. It's absolutely record-setting in Canada. We even knocked Lord of the Rings off a couple of screens."
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It's official. I caught the Summer bug. Hard.
I know it is only May 15th, but yesterday it felt like Summer!
Alright, that is a major exaggeration. The temps only reached the low 60's, but for around here that is extremely warm! Granted if the sun is shinning it can definitely feel like the 70's at times, but summer in the mountains is nothing likes summers in Ohio. Where it is hot, humid and the lake is your best friend! I know the humidity stinks, but I really miss warm summer nights. Summer nights here, or in Mt. Hood where I will likely be, are COLD. I am talking 30, maybe even 20, degrees. Yeah, cold.
Anyway, all I think about is sweet strawberries, watermelon, peaches and sweet, sweet summertime corn.
Oh and obviously ice cream. I have gone on an ice cream making binge. You guys just wait, it's gonna be good.
So I know that corn it not quite yet in season, but when I ran to the grocery store on Friday (because I forgot yet another thing that I had written on my grocery list, my list that I somehow lost inside the grocery store) there it was! Seriously, I walked in the two sliding doors and there it was, just staring me down.
And it was on sale. It should of just said "buy me" all over it.
Oh wait. It did. No, really it did. There were little orange stickers on the husk that said "buy me I'm a product of the USA".
I know, that is weird. Honestly, I have never seen a sticker like that on produce. I guess it works on suckers like me though, cause I bought it! I hade no choice.
I really hope you guys like corn because I see a lot in your future.
To be honest I have never been that huge of a corn fan. It is definitely one of my least favorite vegetables, but it's not because I don't like the taste. Nope, it is because I hate eating messy food. I may like the taste of messy foods, but I actually avoid eating them.
I am a total clean freak and prefer to have my hands nice and tidy while I eat, and I HATE getting corn kernels stuck in my teeth. Seriously, I really hate that. I mean popcorn is a nightmare for me. Every time I eat it I spend ten minutes trying to pic the kernels out of my teeth.
I even like my fruit super hard so the juice does not run down my face when I bite into it.
I know, that is just plain crazy. I hear most people like super ripe, super soft fruit. Like I have said before I am totally insane.
I have had this pizza in my head for weeks now. For some reason grilled corn and chipotles sounded like they would go really well together and basically I just built the pizza from there.
This pizza is loaded with grilled onions, grilled red peppers, grilled jalapeño peppers and grilled corn, chipotle pesto (amazing!) and a whole lot of cheese. Hey, what's a pizza without cheese??
Ahh, definitely not a pizza I would eat. Unless maybe it was a dessert pizza. I don't typically like cheese in my dessert.
Obviously, I really love grilling. It adds such awesome flavor and it's so easy, plus no dishes and no mess! This is a huge score in my book!
While the veggies grill you can make the chipotle pesto which consists of chipotle peppers (which you can de-seed for less heat), cilantro, basil, pine nuts (you can sub walnuts), garlic, lime juice and queso fresco. Yeah, the queso fresco is pretty much just awesome! Way better than parmesan and then you put it together with the chipotle peppers. So freaking good!
The smell of this pizza is out of this world. Really it is. I can't even describe how good this one is. I think it's definitely one of my favorite pizzas. Like I am putting it up there with the beloved buffalo chicken pizza.
That means it's really good people.
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- 1 batch of [your favorite pizza dough |https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/whipped-feta-and-roasted-jalapeno-greek-pizza/]
- 3 ears of corn husked
- 1 red pepper
- 1 onion peeled and quartered
- 2 jalapeno peppers
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter softened
- 1 glove garlic minced or grated
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese freshly grated
- 8 ounces queso fresco crumbled
- 1 1/2 cups cheery tomatoes quartered
- 1 avocado diced
- fresh cilantro for garnish
Prepare dough 1-2 hours ahead of time. Preheat grill to the highest setting. Shuck corn ears and brush each with olive oil and sprinkle with pepper. Wrap each in a square of aluminum foil, just so there is one layer covering the corn. Brush the red pepper, onion and jalopeno peppers with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt. Wrap the onion in a sheet of foil just like you did for the corn. Grill for about 5 minutes each "side". Rotating the corn 4-5 times, the onion 3 times and pepper 2 times during grilling. I grilled the corn and onion for a total of 30 minutes and I took the peppers off the grill after the first 15 minutes.
While the corn onions and peppers are grilling make the pesto. In the bowl of a food processor combine the chipotle peppers, cilantro, basil, pine nuts and garlic. Pulse until combined and add the crumbled queso fresco. With the machine running stream in the olive oil and then season with salt and pepper.
Remove the peppers from the grill, when the corn and onions are ready remove those. Allow the vegetables to cool 5 minutes. Combine the butter, garlic, smoked paprika, salt and pepper in a medium size bowl. Peel the skin away from the peppers and de-seed the red pepper and the jalopeno pepper - if desired. Slice the peppers and onion into thin strips. Using a knife cute the corn away from the husk and toss in the bowl with the paprika butter.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Divide the dough in half and place each portion of dough on baking sheets (or pizza peel or pizza stone) and form into the shape you desire. Or you can also make one large pizza. Evenly spread the pesto over top of both pizzas and then place the red pepper and onion over top both pizzas. Evenly distribute the cheddar cheese between both pizzas and then add the corn to both. Top each pizza with 1 jalapeno pepper and and an even amount of queso fresco.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until cheese is golden and bubbly. Remove and cover each pizza with the chopped cherry tomatoes, diced avocado and frech cilantro.
You can also make this pizza using the [cast iron skillet method |https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/green-olive-pesto-pizza-with-roasted-red-peppers-and-feta-stuffed-crust/].
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There's nothing like a good rivalry to spice things up: Shaq versus Kobe, Chris Paul versus Deron Williams, LeBron versus DeShawn (sort of). Watching Rajon Rondo and Chris Paul become nemesis's this week made me think of other pairs who should be rivals. Here are five rivalries that I'd like to see start this year or in the immediate future.
1. Stephen Curry vs. Kevin Martin: A couple of nights ago, we saw Kevin Martin go off for 48 points. Everybody who watched college basketball for the past few seasons knows that Stephen Curry can fill it up as well. Being that both of these guards play in Northern California and are both skinny scoring guards, this could be a good rivalry. Of course any good rivalry has to be between two winning teams, so this one might be one to look out for in two years.
2. Brandon Jennings vs. Derrick Rose: The Milwaukee Bucks rookie has been a hot topic this week as he is showing everybody that he can score the ball at will. He is a lightning-quick guard, that's got every move in the book. Rose, the reigning Rookie of the Year, is looked at as a future superstar. If Jennings keeps it up and makes Milwaukee a winner, than the Rose versus Jennings matchup could be one of the most exciting matchups in the league.
3. Andrew Bynum vs. Dwight Howard: Averaging 20.8 points and 9 rebounds per contest, Bynum has really stepped it up this season. If he continues to post these All-Star numbers, than we can say with a straight face that Dwight versus Andrew is real rivalry. Of course, Bynum's athleticism is not even close to on par with Howard's. But Bynum has more post moves and at 22 years old, still has a lot of room for improvement. If these centers meet again in the Finals, than we could have the first real big man rivalry since Yao and Shaq.
4. Brandon Roy vs. Carmelo Anthony: Brandon Roy is on the cusp of being a superstar and every superstar needs a rival. Although they technically don't play the same position, Carmelo Anthony could be that suitor. They both play in the Northwest Division and their teams are expected to finish the year with similar records. I fully expect this matchup to get really heated, especially when playoff positioning and the actual playoffs come around.
5. Danilo Gallinari vs. Andrea Bargnani: This is just perfect. Both guys are from Italy, they play in the Atlantic Division, they're nearly the same height (Gallinari is 6-10, Bargnani is 7-0), and they both play of the perimeter. While they are probably good friends and supportive of each other now, if there comes a time when both teams are good, expect that little Italian bond to get a little testy.
Who else would make a good rivalry?
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A GREAT READ FOR KIDS wanting to discover the world of magic and fairies on their own.
Herein are not the most common folk and fairy tales. In this volume are 35 of the most unusual tales. Tales like "The Three Robes", "Lovely Ilonka", "The Colony of Cats", "Motiratika", "Niels and the Giants", "The Majic Kettle" and many more collected and translated by the late, great Andrew Lang.
But why call them FAIRY TALES? One cannot imagine a child saying, 'Tell me a folk-tale', or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'. Fairy tales are stories in which something majical occurs. Something 'fairy', something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters.
As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. The Editor never saw any himself, but he knew several people who have seen them-in the Highlands-and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must go on a fine day.
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text: Posted March 12, 2013 · Report post I moved states, and am temporarily without health insurance. Between that and being concerned with some health risks associated with Yaz, I decided to use this time to see if I can clear up my (cystic) acne without Yaz. I have been on Yaz for six years, and the last year I was on continuous Yaz with inactive pills only being taken every four months. Yaz cleared up my cysts to the point that I only had 0 to 2 at any given time. I suspect I have an either immune system or hormonal imbalance issue running through my mom's side of the family, but have had no help what so ever from doctors in trying to figure out if any of the issues I have are related. I have had to treat everything separately. Cystic, adult acne has been one of those things. ............................................ My skin was extremely clear for a week after stopping Yaz. I began making homemade whole wheat bread and started eating a lot of it. I began having huge cystic outbreaks with 1 to 3 showing up each day. These cysts have stayed with me for the past month and a half, going through a cycle of dying down into hard, flat lumps, before erupting once more into huge cyst mountains, with new ones showing up in intervals. After some reading, three days ago, I decided to try cutting dairy and wheat out of my diet. I have known since high school that commercial milk upsets my stomach. It also breaks me out, and seems to worsen other issues for me. I seem to handle (no hormones/no antibiotics) raw milk and goat's milk much better, but if I start eating three yogurts a day with milk in my cereal...I do have a breaking point so to speak. I've known for a long time that beer and coffee break me out, but that liquor does not. I looked it up, and found out that coffee can trigger gluten sensitive people, so decided to try no gluten/wheat for at least two weeks. I want to test my tolerance level for dairy too, so I made that no dairy and no gluten/wheat for at least two weeks. Day One: All current cysts were still painful and an angry red. Day Two: No new cysts emerged. Day Three: Still no new cysts. Current cysts look less inflamed and red. They are not throbbing with pain. No pain even if pushed on. I'll try to update this daily. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Single Room Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Size12 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Lockable room
- Towels
- Elevator in building
- Smoking allowed
Accommodation summary
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The room very comfortable and well located in Madrid. Ideal for one person so if you come for a few days or for long stays.
Close to several areas of interest and surrounded by all kinds of shops and services. It is only the accommodation, there is no access to the kitchen. The rate includes sheets and towels. There are hairdryers in the bathrooms.
Services available for guests: There is daily cleaning, towels, shampoo. We do our utmost so that they are as comfortable as possible.
We have WiFi throughout the House and rooms with beds or single beds and flat-screen TV. We offer daily maid service. We also are available to help organize his trip to Madrid, showing them what can be the most interesting of the city.
The House is situated in a very quiet area with all kinds of shops such as restaurants, shops, gyms, clubs, bars, as well as also tourist attractions such as plaza de toros de Las Ventas.
From the House there is easy access both by metro lines 2, 4 and 6 in Manuel Becerra or list; as in bus lines 1 and 74 that lead directly to Gran Via. Both just 3 minutes walk from the floor.
House rulesThere is an extra charge of €10 for washing and drying clothes.
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An experience to repeat.
Treatment of the host, and especially the apartment itself, well located, clean, spacious, all say something, a microwave and coffee, to drink warm.
They put complimentary: water and sweet, it is appreciated.
You get cleaned floor that is included in the price.
And you get the option to leave the bags to collect them later 12h.
Recommended 100%
Una experiencia para repetir.
Trato de la anfitriona, y sobre todo el apartamento en sí, bien ubicado, limpio, amplio, lo único por decir algo, un microondas y cafetera, para poder tomar algo calentito.
Te ponen de cortesía: agua y dulces, es de agradecer.
Te realizan limpieza del piso que está incluido en el precio.
Y te dan la opción de poder dejar las maletas para recogerlas más tarde de las 12h.
Recomendable 100%
Prior treatment and for excellent, very friendly and attentive to anything we needed. I recommend it. The apartment was central, nice, care, and expensive. I Liked, in short.
El trato previo y durante excelente, muy amables y atentos de cualquier cosa que necesitasemos. Lo recomiendo. El apartamento estaba centrico, bonito, cuidado, y a buen precio. Me gustó, en resumen.
All good, clean, warm and also the timely delivery of keys we were only a few hours so I can not say much more. Individual bathrooms would be great, but this price pr in the center can not have everything.
Todo bien, limpio, caliente y tambien la entrega de las llaves puntual, solo estuvimos pocas horas por eso no puedo decir mucho mas. Baños individuales serían genial, pero pr este precio en el centro no se puede tener de todo.
Thanks for your kindness! Were all fine.
gracias por vuestra amabilidad! Estuvieron todos muy bien.
We spent a extraordinary weekend in a well located apartment, with every comfort, spacious, clean and the staff treated us very kindly. REPETIREMOS
Hemos pasado un fin de semana extraordinario,en un apartamento bien ubicado,con toda clase de comodidades,espacioso, limpio y el personal nos trato con mucha amabilidad. REPETIREMOS
Gracias, Silvia!
Silvia responses very quickly. She was busy when we got there, so we didn't meet her but she took care of us via email before very well. Thanks again.
Everything was well prepared and clean.
You don't make a mistake if you book her room.
Silvia met but not those who stopped were majísimas contact and helped us a lot.
No conocimos a Silvia pero las personas que dejo de contacto fueron majísimas y nos ayudaron mucho.
Just perfect.
The apartment is located in a quiet neighborhood just a few minutes walk from the metro.
E 'bright and spacious with four bedrooms and a large living room with two sofa beds.
Clean: cleaning every day with linen.
Silvia, the owner, very friendly and welcoming.
Semplicemente perfetto.
L'appartamento è situato in un quartiere tranquillo a pochi minuti a piedi dalla metro.
E' spazioso e luminoso con quattro camere da letto e un ampio salone con altri due divani letto.
Pulitissimo : pulizie tutti i giorni con cambio della biancheria.
Silvia , la proprietaria, molto gentile e ospitale .
Unfortunately I do not agreed with Silvia because he was traveling, but his teammates were very nice to us. Everything was clean and quiet, would recommend it to anyone who asked me to review. By putting a "but", the heating was a little high !, but all very well overall.
Desafortunadamente no coincidí con Silvia porque se iba de viaje, pero sus compañeros fueron muy amables con nosotros. Estaba todo limpio y tranquilo, lo recomendaría a cualquiera que me pidiera opinión. Por poner algún "pero", la calefacción estaba un poco alta!, pero todo muy bien en general.
Magnificent apartment in the center though.
Outstanding treatment received. I will come back.
Magnifico apartamento en el centro muy bien ubicado.
Sobresaliente trato recibido. Volveré.
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What I mean is that successive locks would not find the same spot if the tire is truly locked, as it would be not rotating. You would have to be on the edge of it. In which case I don't know... lol Flatspots are visual and physical, your grip on that area of the tire is reduced but whether it would work that way with successive flatspots I can't confirm for sure...
Thanks for all the answers.
Another example - NASCAR forbids crossing lanes during double-file restarts. Even leader can be black-flagged if he crosses lanes before finish line, as it happened during this year's Daytona 500.
Last year in IndyCar about 4 drivers wasted their "push to pass" on race start, because cars were not properly lined-up and there was no green flag.
Paul Tracy nearly won Indy 500 once - he passed the leader but like 2 seconds later there was a FCY. Indy 500 rules stated that track order will revert to end of previous lap.
In NASCAR there can be a "competition yellow" on say, lap 50, and no refuelling is allowed before that lap.
And so on... Implementing all this would be insane and rules keep changing.
That's why I suggested a plugin interface for this on RSC forums, and here, on this forum: LINK
People would be able to write their own server-side plugins that ask rFactor for things like: "is that guy in pitlane?", "is safety car in pitlane?", "are these guys side by side?", "did that guy serve S&G?", "is that car out of control?", "is that car on track?". And the same plugin would tell rFactor: "Let safety car go on track now.", "let safety car accelerate to 130 mph now", "give that guy a DT penalty", "tell that guy to stay behind that guy" and so on.
So more less something like spotter interface, but server-side and related to race control.
Simply put - implementing various race rules would cost you time. You could stick to just basic race rules ("road", "road with rolling start" and "oval") and invest saved time on implementing such plugin interface. Not necessarily in initial release of rF 2
That's interesting. Bringing up the same game again (lol) but what you're asking for sounds very similar to the modding plugins for Egosoft's games. It works very well there...
That doesn't mean, there shouldn't be any, even if that could be possible... you can always disable them in options :P
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Just a question that came to mind. Sorry if it's already been asked before. On an oval course, if the programmed racing line (used by AI and in rF1, makes a visible groove) is on the bottom, but the line being used is on the top, will the line that's actually being used be the one with the most grip? I know that in the rain, the one that's used is dryer and has more grip, but what if you are already in dry weather?
And one more thing, how programmable are the racing flags? Can they be used the way that this page describes them being used for? Different leagues using the same flags for different things?
If you program the AI to use varying lines, you'll be able to 'find grip' elsewhere. Marbles form off line though so if a line is used by most of the AI it could ruin other parts of the track.
I don't know the answer to your second one. I heard mention of programmable timers, triggers, etc in tracks, but I don't know how far they got/will get with that. Infact Scott may have mentioned it in his recently track update?
Imagine I have to use sun position to control my cloud and water animation in shaders.
Or store spotlight direction, radius, center point and blend angles in UV coordinates for lightflare shader.
Having a generic set of constants would allow extending rFactor's engine much easier without the need to write some specialized parameter encoding tools for GMT files.
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Thanks for the answers. Programmable triggers sounds interesting, but that's not quite what I was after. I was thinking more in terms of this for programmable flags:
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Missouri schools face lofty cuts
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:54:23 GMT —
A decision by the Missouri General assembly is getting some mixed reviews from school districts all over the state. Earlier this year, Governor Jay Nixon warned schools that due to declining state revenue, Missouri wouldn't have enough money to make $43 million in scheduled midyear payments to school districts.
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education anticipated two percent cuts to all 523 school districts across the board.
But the House and Senate have voted to exempt about 150 districts, called hold harmless districts -- those are districts that did not benefit from an increase in state aid under the funding formula passed in 2005. That designation basically means a district receives more revenue locally from higher tax assessments or property taxes than from the state funding formula.
There are about ten Northeast Missouri school districts that fall into that category. They include: Adair County R-1 , Audrain Community R-6 ( Laddonia), Clark Revere C-3, Luray 33, Monroe County Middle Grove C-1, Monroe City R-1, Paris R-2, Pike Boncl R-10, Scotland Gorin R-3, North Shelby
Here's a complete list of them from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: http://www.dese.mo.gov/divspeced/Finance/documents/PPFSupportingFY10.pdf
But while some districts will avoid this round of cuts, others will end up paying more than their anticipated two percent share.
I talked with two Northeast Missouri superintendents on both sides of the issue.
Monroe City School Superintendent Jim Masters has spent much of his time these days trying to find places to cut his budget to make up for state cuts. He says his district is barely on the edge of being considered a hold harmless school district, but says the news that Monroe City dodged this round of cuts came as a relief.
Masters said, "It's a breath. At least for districts that are held harmless, there is $40 thousand in revenues that were going to be taken away but now they're back. It allows us to catch a breath of air."
The hold harmless designation means Monroe City is sheltered from these mid year cuts, but that's not the case for many neighboring school districts like the Palmyra School District.
Sheltering a quarter of Missouri's schools from the two percent across the board cuts, means fewer districts will pick up a larger percent of the tab.
Palmyra Superintendent Eric Churchwell says now instead of losing two percent of his state funding from this current school year, his loss is more like five percent at around $127 thousand. He says it's a tough pill to swallow.
Churchwell said, "It just depends what side of the fence you are on."
But what's more -- the cuts are just beginning. The state warns of education cuts of four to six percent for the upcoming school year, percentages which could get even bigger by the time the dust settles on the Missouri budget chopping block.
"The biggest problem we're having is the unknown. We have to plan for the worst case scenario and look at all of our programs."
In Palmyra the worst case scenario means planning for possibly a ten percent cut in funding. That could add to up to a $350 to 400 thousand loss for the upcoming school year. Churchwell says those figures mean examining costs across the board...from not replacing retiring teachers, to freezing salaries and capping insurance.
It's the same story in Monroe City. Masters says he's looking at trimming the budget anywhere and everywhere possible...to prepare for the worst.
We're trying to hunker down to weather this and trying to figure out how to position our district to be in a good situation when this finally works its way out."


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BALDWINSVILLE, NY - Five Baldwinsville high school students competed Feb. 28 at a bench press and dead lift meet at G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton.
Mike Kerniski, Alec Corso and Raeshaun Jones, all juniors, and sophomores Nate Stoughtenger and Tim Grant, placed third in the team category.
Grant also finished in third place in the 132-pound weight class.
Baldwinsville varsity football coach Jamie Cuyler assisted the students throughout the day.