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text: Speaking of Virtual Desktops, I am digging Spaces on the Mac. When I launch or switch applications it automatically goes to the Space assigned for that application. No need use the hotkey (which are available) or icon to switch spaces. Firefox runs in one, Fusion in another, RDC Client in a third, etc. Joe From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:45 AM To: THIN; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Download Pick: Desktops The guys at Sysinternals Microsoft have released Yet another app. This one is called Desktops. Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you're not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys. Get it at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx Tray Desktop Switch Window <http://i.technet.microsoft.com/cc817881.desktops2%28en-us,MSDN.10%29.png> Jim Kenzig Blog: http://www.techblink.com


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The stream upgrade model consists of four abstract base classes. We looked at the StreamUpgradeBindingElement yesterday. Since stream upgrades don't have a corresponding channel, the only purpose of the binding element is to notify the transport that this binding is interested in having a potential stream upgrade available. If the transport does not support stream upgrades, then it will ignore this request and the stream upgrade binding element will go unhandled. It is up to the transport to at some point initialize the stream upgrade.
The other three parts of the stream upgrade model are the StreamUpgradeProvider, StreamUpgradeInitiator, and StreamUpgradeAcceptor. The binding element is responsible for creating the provider. The provider is then responsible for creating the initiator and acceptor as needed. We'll look at the provider today and look at the initiator and acceptor tomorrow.
public abstract class StreamUpgradeProvider : CommunicationObject
protected StreamUpgradeProvider();
protected StreamUpgradeProvider(IDefaultCommunicationTimeouts timeouts);
protected override TimeSpan DefaultCloseTimeout { get; }
protected override TimeSpan DefaultOpenTimeout { get; }
public abstract StreamUpgradeAcceptor CreateUpgradeAcceptor();
public abstract StreamUpgradeInitiator CreateUpgradeInitiator(EndpointAddress remoteAddress, Uri via);
Although stream upgrades aren't channels, the provider shares the Open, Close, and Abort functionality of ICommunicationObject. In Open, the provider takes care of any work that needs to be completed prior to being able to offer an upgrade. For example, a security stream upgrade might use the call to the Open method to allocate credentials or certificates that the local endpoint will present as its identity. The Close and Abort methods allow the provider to clean up any resources allocated in Open or in the created upgrades.
Take note of the fact that nothing related to the initiator or acceptor has a timeout parameter. The only timeouts on the provider are on the methods that come from ICommunicationObject. This does not mean that you have an unlimited amount of time to complete operations. Stream upgrades are run as part of a larger bounded operation, such as a receive, and you simply don't know how much of that time slice is remaining. This is an unfortunate part of the model, but it also encourages you to frontload as much work as possible into the startup of the provider.
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Coverage of Friday's tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, will continue Saturday on the broadcast and cable networks.
On ABC, weekday anchor George Stephanopoulos will anchor "Good Morning America" from Newtown. Elizabeth Vargas will join him from New York. ABC's Josh Elliott, Amy Robach and Dan Harris will report from the scene in Newtown.
NBC's "Today" will also have the weekday team in, with Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie anchoring from Newtown. Lester Holt, Erica Hill, Ann Curry and Willie Geist will contribute to the program.
Anthony Mason and Rebecca Jarvis will anchor "CBS This Morning Saturday" from Newtown. CBS will also preempt "48 Hours" Saturday night for a special report on the shooting at 10pmET.
Fox News will be live at 5amET with "Fox & Friends First." An expanded edition of "Fox & Friends" will air from 6-10amET, and will be simulcast on FBN. The 10am-noon business block will be preempted for live coverage anchored by Jon Scott and Jenna Lee. Scott will also host an expanded two-hour "Fox Report" beginning at 6pmET. Mike Huckabee's program will be live from NYC at 8pmET and Jeanine Pirro and Geraldo Rivera will host their primetime shows from Newtown.
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This is a delicious cool weather salad from Guy Fieri and, I think, the first of his recipes that I have tried. It is healthy and delicious and full of flavour. Pears and blue cheese are naturally best friends and the punctuation of pomegranate seeds is genius. Absolutely delicious. I give it five stars and can't wait to try some more of his recipes.
I looked him up on amazon and could only find his Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives book, clearly we need a Guy's Big Bite cookbook, the man knows big flavour.
Thanks to Sarah and the Food Network Chefs Cooking Challenge for getting me to try one of his recipes! I won't be playing along every week, there are a lot of American shows that we don't get up here and so I am unfamiliar with them.. but I will definitely cook from the ones I know. Great idea Sarah!
Pear and Pomegranate Salad with Gorgonzola and Champagne Vinaigrette
Guy Fieri, Food Network.com
• 8 cups baby spinach or romaine lettuce
• 1 ripe pear, cut in half
• 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds
• 2 ounces Gorgonzola
• Champagne vinaigrette, recipe follows
• Fresh cracked pepper
• 1 tablespoon honey
In a decorative bowl or platter, add the spinach or romaine. Cut the pear into fans, and then slice again on the diagonal, add the greens, crumble the Gorgonzola onto the salad and then drizzle with about half of the vinaigrette. Top with fresh cracked pepper and lightly drizzle the whole salad with the honey. Serve immediately.
Champagne Vinaigrette:
• 1/4 cup champagne vinegar
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
In a small bowl or glass jar, add all the ingredients except the olive oil. Mix well, then slowly drizzle in the olive oil to combine. Refrigerate until ready to use.
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Marketing Lessons from The Hare Krishna People
Depending on your age, you may remember the days when you'd pass a group of Hare Krishna at a street corner and get a worn-out daisy shoved into your hand.
You try to avoid it. You try to say no.
But despite your protests, they swiftly force that tired daisy in your hand saying it's a gift of love.
In your head, you shout,I don't want this gift! Because you know once that daisy hits your hand, something in your brain snaps. Without warning, BAM! The dynamics dramatically change.
Now you owe them something.
As that faded daisy lies begrudgingly in your hand, you automatically feel you need to reciprocate. Even though every cell in your body screams, Take your daisy and run!
While you stand there paralyzed by moral flux, the Hare Krishna gently asks you for a donation.
Before you know it, you empty the change jingling in your pocket or pull out a buck. Then you hurry away, immediately tossing that daisy into the nearest garbage can.
So what happened?
You just experienced a powerful marketing tool called The Principal of Reciprocity. It's one of the many principals explained in Robert Cialdini's brilliant book, Influence.
In short, here's how Principal of Reciprocity works
When you give something (an item or a favor), the other person naturally feels indebted to you " especially if the gift is unexpected.
But people don't like feeling indebted. So we're hard-wired to balance the scales again as soon as possible. Eager to regain balance, you instinctively give something back. This helps you feel better about yourself and the situation.
That's why when you see that bruised, limp daisy forced into your hand, your left brain tells you it isn't worth the wadded up gum wrapper in your pocket. But another part of your brain says now you owe the guy. And you better pay up soon because you feel very uncomfortable.
So you reciprocate. In this case, you make a donation.
Before you scream it's manipulative, let's take a look at how businesses do this all of the time. And how you may want to do it too.
Think about how many free address labels, notepads and stickers you get from charities. They're not sending them to kindly fill your junk drawer. They're strategically giving you a gift first.
And because of The Principal of Reciprocity, many people donate to the charity offering the gift. Even if they promptly toss the freebie right after they write that check.
Studies prove charities not only get a higher response rate when they include free gifts, they also receive a higher dollar amount per person too.
Here's another example:
There's a certain coffee chain that adds a new drink item seasonally. When they do, they mail loyal customers a free drink coupon to try the new item for free. That's smart because most of us couldn't just walk in, grab our 16 ounce free drink and leave. We'd feel guilty for accepting their generosity. So what do we do to feel better? We buy a $3.00 pastry to go with that free drink.
Cha ching! Another sale. They got you in, they got a purchase. And hopefully, you liked their drink enough to pay for it next time.
Pretty easy, eh? Ok, your turn.
Look at the subtle and obvious ways you encounter the Principal of Reciprocity in your daily life. Brainstorm how you can apply this principal to increase repeat sales, build customer loyalty, encourage referrals, or increase the average sale amount per customer.
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By Anonymous Coward
Nov 21, 2002
|V1 tops...sorry, but this route is nowhere NEAR V4. I first did this route in 1987, and I couldn't yet lead 5.10. For a V4 on I-Rock, think The Bubble, or Borghoff's Pinch....those are closer.
By Aron Quiter
From: Oakland, CA
Nov 21, 2002
|I think the person above is thinking of the overhung roof problem that moves left. If you go straight up the overhung roof, this is a comitting balancy move 9 or so feet off the ground. I think it's a V4. leave a comment if you agree / disagree.
By Anonymous Coward
Nov 22, 2002
(The above AC comment is from me...)
Right - guilty as charged. I was, in fact, thinking of the left variation. I misunderstood the description.
The straight through problem is definitely harder, and may be ... maybe ... V4, though (and there are, of course, several variations here) I think the easiest version is probably more like V3. But, hey, that's splitting hairs, and I've always been terrible at rating routes. The important thing is that this is a really fun problem that requires good body tension and some faith on the last hard move!
That said, I'd like to comment on the general comment left in the I-rock opening page re: rating routes "too easy" by the oldtimers. Certainly, once you have a problem/route dialed, its easier to you. But, in general (like grades in college these days), there is a trend of grade inflation, perhaps especially in the bouldering V-scale. Talk to Vermin about this -- not only does he hate the ratings at all, but he definitely feels they're sliced too thin. Of course, this is just his opinion, and its obviously not an exact science. But, I would say the trend these days is *definitely* to overrate problems, not sandbag them. Hey, who doesn't like to know they can crank V5, or V10, or 5.12 or whatever?!?Come climb in Eldorado Canyon for a different perspective on what 5.10 feels like! I've seen Rifle-rats struggle on 5.10d in Eldo...
And, for what its worth, I do think the flake traverse is around V1 or so for those with reach, a tad harder for those with shorter arms. No move on it is harder than 10+ or so. IMHO.
Enough for now-...the coward
By Anonymous Coward
Sep 14, 2003
Why do people always set Eldo as the gold standard for ratings? Scary trad routes have nothing to do with sport climbs or bouldering. They're simply different sports.
The trend is not to inflate routes today; it's just that there are a lot of strong climbers now. v9 and 5.13 are relatively easier today, because more people are doing them - there is less of a mental barrier. In this sense, it's like Eldo - all mental.
I'm not just talking shit here. Eldo is one of my favorite places in the world, but the fact is, the only reason the Bombay pitch on the Edge, for instance, feels hard is because of that shitty pin, not because the moves are harder than a route of the same grade elsewhere.
By Aron Quiter
From: Oakland, CA
Sep 15, 2003
At least it's Eldo, and not Yosemite in my opinion! Yosemite is like Eldo, but with all the feet smoothed out from 30 years of climbing. A 5.10 trad route is absolutely nothing like a 5.10 sport route placement placement placement...
My thoughts...
By Anonymous Coward
Dec 8, 2004
|If you are 6' or taller, this is not V4. and yes im not talking about the 5.8 route to the left. The sidepull is better than you think and with feet high its one lunge to that jug. V2 ish sounds about right, but old guides call it a 5.10
By Tavis Ricksecker
Mar 13, 2007
rating: V4 6B
|The real Center Overhang variation is pretty solid V4, but you have to eliminate most of the good holds to make it that way. Start right under the jug and go straight up to opposing gaston-pinches. That crimp to the left is off, as well as the jug further left. Now get your feet way high and go to the lip. If you do it this way it should feel about the same difficulty as the bubble. Its v2+ish if you use the crimp, and 5.10 if you use that jug over there. White Crane starts in the same place and eliminates the left gaston-pinch thing and goes up and right at V- 6?.. i could never do it.
By timothyrgriffen Griffen
May 29, 2010
rating: V3 6A PG13
|The holds are really good, the whole grade is just nerves
By Victor K
From: Denver, CO
Jul 6, 2011
|There are tope rope anchors here as well, so actual cowards like myself can get busy.
By A.Javi.Gecko
From: San Diego, CA
Jul 28, 2012
rating: V3+ 6A+ PG13
There are 3 versions of this climb that I know of...
The original uses a small right-hand side pull that goes at about V3+. It feels harder at first but thats only because its so high up.
There's also a V3-/V2+ version that involves a short dyno (or deadpoint if you're tall) from the two awesome crimps just before the sidepull up to the jug at the top. Don't eff up though or you'll fall onto the slab to the right (I've seen many near-misses when friends jump too hard).
Finally, there is C+, the big dyno from the jug-match about half way up the climb (where it changes from slab to overhung) all the way to the big hold at the top. It goes at about V6. I'm 5'10" and it really is a big jump, but with 3 pads and 2 spotters its probably safer than the shorter dyno because you go straight up rather than out right.
That's my two cents. Just remember that this climb is all mental but with adequate spotting/pads its quite safe-- save for the metal pole that sticks out of the ground a bit behind the landing. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY THIS HAZARD IS IN THE PIT? My only guess would be to tie up your dog.
By Brandon Bateman
From: Montrose, CA
Jan 21, 2013
rating: V2- 5+ PG13
|This is one of the most fun routes at Indian Rock. Ive seen and done it with two different betas. One (using the right hand side-pull) and Two (Using a reachy left hand sloper) both moves coming after you reach the mini-jug. I would rate them V2 V1 respectively. Extremely fun and rewarding climb!
By Aturboford
Feb 2, 2013
rating: V3-4 6A+ R
|Very fun if you eliminate the jugs and go up the center on the sidepull


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The Church of St. Patrick is the home of Trinity Elementary West. Originally, the Catholic school system in Dickinson had three elementary schools: St. Joseph's, St. Patrick's, and St. Wenceslaus. When the Catholic school system of Dickinson consolidated into the Dickinson Catholic Schools in the early 2000's, two elementary school buildings (St. Patrick and St. Wenceslaus) became the home of the elementary portion of our Dickinson Catholic Schools.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. solar stocks are on a roll. Over the last 52 weeks, shares in First Solar (FSLR) , the largest U.S.-based producer of solar systems, are up 90%. SunEdison (SUNE) , which makes silicon wafers for solar systems, are up 203%. Shares in SolarCity (SCTY) , which finances residential and small commercial systems, have more than doubled, up 112%. Shares in SunPower (SPWR) , which makes high-yielding photovoltaic systems, are up 80%.
But these gains could be given back over the next few months. Some of these stocks have already begun to stall or roll back to the down side. This doesn't mean renewable energy itself is "a gamble," as a recent story on German energy insists. Cost parity between fossil and renewable energy -- without incentives -- is coming to many areas, and low-cost energy is the name of the game.
But will U.S. companies win that game? And how should investors play it?
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First let's look at First Solar. Its results are profoundly impacted by its ability to create and sell off utility-scaled solar projects. It booked sales of $950 million for the March quarter, but just $544 million for June. Profitability nearly disappeared, from $112 million in the March quarter down to $4.53 million for June.
First Solar uses cadmium telluride (CdTe) rather than silicon-based photovoltaics. It has driven the yield on such cells to as high as 21%. But CdTe is a mature technology. Efficiency gains are slowing. Cadmium is toxic and tellurium may be increasingly rare. First Solar's ability to compete on a cost-per-kilowatt basis with other solar technologies is subject to question.
Or consider SunEdison. Before changing its name to SunEdison, MEMC Electronic Materials (the first M stood for Monsanto (MON) , of which it was a business unit) traded for as low as $1.60 per share just over two years ago. It is not profitable and revenues are not growing. Its debt-to-assets ratio has been climbing steadily and operating cash flow is negative. TheStreet Ratings has it rated as a sell.
But there's hope for SunEdison in a solar plant operator purchased in 2009. It has a joint venture with Samsung (SSNLF) to open a solar materials plant in Korea, and it acquired cheaper production technology in 2010. The top line has also grown 50% between the June quarter of 2013 and this year. But where are the profits?
Read More: Your Retirement Will Probably Start Earlier Than You Want
SolarCity's rise has two reasons behind it, Elon and Musk. Musk's cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive, run the company. SolarCity announced recently it would buy Silevo, which makes high-yielding photovoltaic systems, and produce those systems at a plant near Buffalo, NY. It was Musk who took the questions, and the stock zoomed upward on the news.
Financially there is little to recommend SolarCity, despite Musk's allure from his Tesla (TSLA) venture. Revenues are up for SolarCity, but so are losses -- for the March quarter those losses were $75 million on revenue of under $64 million.
This is to be expected. SolarCity's business is financing homeowners' installations of solar power. As with a bank, money goes out fast and comes back slow. TheStreet also rates SolarCity as a sell.
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A recent MTV Online editorial opined that heavy metal is "the dog bone buried in the background of pop culture these days." If that's the case, then Megadeth's singer, guitarist and residing conscience, Dave Mustaine, is undoubtedly one of the fiercest pit bulls digging around the pen. After all, this is a guy who formed the group out of spite back in 1983, after he was ejected from another little outfit called Metallica. Megadeth was Mustaine's way of saying "up yours" to his former band mates. In the loud-and-angry process, he became a founding father of thrash metal.
Mustaine's sneering vocals, smart, sociopolitical lyrics, double-time guitar attacks, and general pissed-off attitude have subsided somewhat since the landmark Megadeth efforts Peace Sells ... but Who's Buying (1986) and Rust in Peace (1990), but that doesn't make his band's direction any less interesting. Megadeth -- which now includes co-founders Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson, as well as drummer Nick Menza and guitarist Marty Friedman (both aboard since '89) -- continues to put on a forceful live show, always with a slight hint of unpredictability. (During an opening slot in Houston some years back, Mustaine viciously berated the crowd for sitting passively through the set.) While other former monsters of metal are rarely mentioned with a straight face these days, Megadeth is still screaming from the waste. On Friday, April 3, at the International Ballroom, 14035 South Main. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $22.50. Coal Chamber and Life of Agony open. 629-3700. (Bob Ruggiero)
Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas -- Nathan Williams often speaks of the moment that cemented his decision to pursue zydeco full-time. He'd just returned home from a wake for Clifton Chenier, the accordion ace who pioneered the modern zydeco sound, when he had a vision: It was Chenier, telling him to keep on playing. With six releases and over a decade of touring to his credit, Williams has done just that. And while it hasn't been an easy road, the Louisiana-born student of Stanley Dural (a.k.a. Buckwheat Zydeco) has parlayed his talent into a deal with Rounder Records. Williams's greatest asset has always been his songwriting, but he's no slouch on the accordion. At 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Grand Kids Festival, 1894 Grand Opera House, 2020 Postoffice Street, Galveston. Tickets are $3 (adults) and $2 (children). (800) 821-1894. (Alan Sculley)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones -- A stylist who owes as much to John Coltrane, Chick Corea and the Allman Brothers as he does to bluegrass, Bela Fleck has redefined the banjo's vocabulary. He's dubbed his unorthodox mix of jazz and 'grass "blu-bop," and like Pat Metheny, he also incorporates rock elements, makes use of electronics and relies heavily on improvisation. Because Fleck routinely traverses several genres, his music goes over equally well with folkies, Phish-heads and Branford Marsalis fans. That in itself makes him an innovator. At 8 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Aerial Theater at Bayou Place, 520 Texas Avenue. Tickets are $22.50 and $28. 629-3700. (Paul MacArthur)
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Foxes linked with Marshall
Leicester manager Nigel Pearson remains keen to strengthen his squad amid reports he wants to sign Stoke winger Ben Marshall.
Last Updated: 25/01/12 3:12pm
Leicester manager Nigel Pearson remains keen to strengthen his squad in the January window amid reports he wants to sign Stoke wide-man Ben Marshall.
Injuries, with Paul Gallacher having picked up a new back injury, and departures may have altered the King Power Stadium boss' plans slightly, but at the beginning of the year he said he was interested in wingers.
Marshall is out of contract at the end of the season and has yet to sign an extension to make him a prime candidate and several clubs are monitoring his situation.
But Leicester could progress in their interest this week, as Pearson said in the Leicester Mercury: "I am always looking to strengthen the team and the squad, because we have picked up one or two knocks.
"With the departure of one or two players this week we don't have great numbers.
"We are trying to build on a squad ethic so when we do pick up injuries or players are out of form we have players who can go in there.
"One of our aims in the window was to bring in some wide players, but circumstances have changed a bit and we are just trying to get good players into the football club."
Meanwhile, teenagers Liam Moore and Shane Byrne have agreed new contracts with Leicester, which will keep them at the club until the summer of 2013.


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RICHMOND, Va. - Junior midfielder Matt Starker (Summit, N.J.) and freshman attack Tim Atkins (West Chester, Pa./Malvern Prep) have each been honored with weekly awards by the Colonial Athletic Association, the team learned yesterday. Starker joined Bobby Griebe of Towson as Co-Players of the Week, while Atkins was named the league's Rookie of the Week.
Starker scored four goals and had one assist in an 11-5 conference win over 11th-ranked Hofstra on Friday night. Playing on the road, Starker scored three goals during a run of seven straight by the Wildcats that put the game out of reach of Hofstra. Starker also had two assists in an 11-7 loss to ninth-ranked Notre Dame at home last Monday.
For the season, Starker leads the team in goals scored (16) and points (23). He is also tied with teammate Brendan O'Donnell for the team lead with seven assists. Starker has registered at least one point in all nine games this season, including four games with multiple goals scored. He also scored four goals in the season opener against Colgate.
Atkins scored two goals and had an assist in the 11-7 loss to Notre Dame. The assist was the first of his collegiate career, and he notched the first two-goal outing of his career as well. Atkins produced three of his four points on the season in the game, as he had previously scored his first goal of the season in a 10-7 win over Penn on March 5.
Both players earned weekly awards for the first time this season. Earlier in the 2005 campaign, junior goalie Joe Canuso (Moorestown, N.J.) had been named the conference Player of the Week on March 1. Atkins is the first Villanova player to be Rookie of the Week this season.
The Wildcats have a 6-3 overall record and are 2-0 in conference play this season. They play their next two games at home against league foes, beginning on Saturday night with a 7 p.m. contest against Towson.


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Fifteen years ago, the Florida Marlins made the headlines by making the biggest splash in team history, signing Bobby Bonilla, Moises Alou and Alex Fernandez in an attempt to seriously challenge the Atlanta Braves on the National League East. While the team didn't win the division, it did win the wild card and brought home the bigger prize, a World Series title. Despite the ugliness of owner Wayne Huizenga's fire sale following the season, the 1997 Marlins remain a textbook example of what can happen when teams make a big push at just the right time.
The now-Miami Marlins hope to repeat that feat in 2012, signing Jose Reyes, the best shortstop available this offseason, and closer Heath Bell, who is fresh off saving 132 games over the last three seasons. All indications are that the team isn't done yet either, with rumors swirling that the team still hopes to make a serious run at Albert Pujols. After watching the team cut payroll to the bone for a decade, it appears that the formerly penny-pinching team owner, Jeff Loria, is willing to use the new stadium money for more than just horribly gaudy home run displays.
With Reyes in the fold, likely rebound seasons from Hanley Ramirez and Chris Coghlan, and no major losses from last year's lineup, the Marlins figure to do better than 11th in the league in run scoring. Add in the return of most of the contributors in the bullpen -- the departed
Leo Nunez Juan Oviedo (4.06 ERA) was actually mediocre -- and the hope that Josh Johnson can start more than nine games in 2012, and the Marlins start to look like a team that can bounce back nicely from their 72-90, last place season.


text: We love Halloween so much here at Navy Pier that we're not limiting ourselves to just a haunted house (although it is terrifying!), we have a whole list of fun activities you can do from now until All Hallows Eve! From watching artist Steve Dahlke carve a 500-lb. pumpkin to costume contests and trick or treating, we have it all! Show off your kids' scariest costumes right here at the Pier on our trick-or-treating days! Dress up, trick-or-treat and have fun celebrating Halloween for three days at Navy Pier. Children ages 12 and under in costume are invited to take part in trick-or-treating throughout the Pier! Put on their cutest/scariest/prettiest/most creative costume and join in on the fun night by collecting all the candy you can handle! Come down any of these dates for trick-or-treating at Navy Pier: Saturday Oct. 26th, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday Oct. 27th, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday Oct. 31st, 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Special thanks to the Ferrara Candy Company for providing the treats! Quantities are limited so make sure you get here early. As you're running around Navy Pier dressed in your best Halloween costume, register to participate in Navy Pier's third annual Costume Contest on Saturday, October 26 in the Family Pavilion! Prizes will be given to the first, second and third place winners in two categories: child and adult. Pay attention adults: The first prize for adult costume 2 free tickets on American Airlines! Additional prizes will be provided by Absolutely Segway, Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, America's Dog, Billy Goat Tavern, Bubba Gump, Carnelli's Deli, Chicago Flower and Garden Show, Chicago Toy and Game Fair, Connie's Pizza, The Fear haunted House, Haagen-Dazs, Harry Caray's Tavern on the Pier, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Riva, Shoreline Sightseeing, Spirit of Chicago, and Winter Wonder Fest! The children's contest (17 and under) starts at 3 p.m. and the adult contest (18 and over) starts at 7 p.m. When you're moving from trick-or-treating to the costume contest, make sure to find glow and fire spinners that will be performing to your favorite Halloween tunes from the Zombie Zydeco Band! The glow and fire spinners will be out October 26 & 27 at 7 p.m., 8 p.m. & 9 p.m. on Dock Street! The Zombie Zydeco Band will be playing live October 26 and 27 at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. If you're making it out again on Halloween, you can see the band performing again at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m. & 9 p.m.! In between trick-or-treating and participating in the costume contest, there's always THE FEAR Haunted House, where you can join in on a zombie hunt! All you need is a paintball gun, a dozen paintballs, and some courage! It's really easy to turn one Halloween adventure into a whole day at Navy Pier! Don't forget to grab lunch at one of our delicious restaurants to keep your monsters spirits high. Navy Pier is the place to be this Halloween season – so join us for all the festivities! Happy Haunting!


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Unfortunate circumstances darken this article. I had been labouring on an article about Portuguese poet Manuel António Pina for some days now, and yesterday I had given it the finishing touches to have it ready to post today. So it was a sad coincidence to discover, moments ago, that Manuel António Pina passed away hours ago, at the age of 68.
Manuel António Pina was a Portuguese poet who had a vast oeuvre published from the 1970s onwards. His first book was in fact a children's book, in 1973. The following year he made his poetic debut. Since then he had been active in these fields, as well as in writing for newspapers, for which he was better known. In spite of a large and praised body of work, I only discovered him after he received the Camões Prize in 2011. Curious, I recently read him for the first time. I'll leave his poetry for another time, today I'm going to write about his enigmatic novella Os Papéis de K. (K.'s Papers, 2003).
Perhaps it's because I have a tendency to see Kafkaesque vestiges in everything, but I bought this book exactly because the title resonated with Franz Kafka. Although his name isn't anywhere in the story, his presence however impregnates every page. From the opening paragraph we enter a vague, unstable world, where memory doubts itself, reality is a work in progress, and the narrator, a nameless interpreter, questions the facts of his own bizarre narrative, as if he were living in one of Kafka's many waking nightmares:
That which I remember (in a present that also seems past to me) is full not only of strangeness and improbability but equally of lacunae, of hesitations and of imprecisions, for maybe I don't remember the facts but my recollection of them. It may thus happen that what I remember is not what I heard; or that I heard it from another person, in another place, in other circumstances; or even that I myself have dreamt or imagined it.
In the early seventies, the narrator, a Portuguese interpreter, after accompanying a group of businessmen to Hamburg, uses the occasion to travel to Paris to visit his brother, deserter of the colonial wars, forbidden from returning to Portugal (the action occurs before the Carnation Revolution), and who works at Gallimard. Due to an incident, the narrator makes an emergency landing in Amsterdam, where he meets Agnes, a Norwegian woman accompanying K., a Japanese scholar, to a conference in Paris. On the same night of their meeting, K., author of books on history, anthropology and religion, dies from a heart attack. The narrator continues his journey and doesn't hear from Agnes again until she contacts him asking him if his brother would be interested in reviewing K.'s final manuscript, which K. asked her to destroy, for publication. The narrator gives her his brother's contact but she never sends him the manuscript. Years pass and they unexpectedly meet at a NATO meeting. She tells him she destroyed the manuscript as requested but that she needs to talk to someone about it. Since she was the one who typed it, she remembers the content well.
I was starting to get curious. "Was it a history book?"
"I don't know, perhaps. Or a novel, I don't know…"
"Ah, he also wrote novels…"
"No, at least not that I knew of… But it was such a strange text, with so many coincidences, that, although it looked like a scientific work… it was a scientific work, I'm certain… and of all the documentation that he gathered…"
K.'s book proposes a fantastic thesis: it was not Jesus, but one of his brethren, who died upon the cross. This is no longer remarkable thanks to Dan Brown. But K.'s thesis continues: Jesus and his followers escaped to Japan, to the region of Hokkaido, where he lived to be 106 and started a dynasty. Agnes also explains that one of Jesus' great-granddaughters or great-great-great-granddaughters, Hana, was raped and murdered. The culprit, one Sesshu, drowned to death when the river magically flooded his hut near the riverbank. This was, according to K., a punishment meted out by the kami, spirits. Only one of Sesshu's sons, Genji, survived.
Agnes then tells the narrator that one of the documents she also destroyed was a copy of a school composition written by a girl called Michiko, whose 9th birthday was on August 9, 1945, and who was a victim of the Nagasaki atomic explosion. The original document, which she claims to be in the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, is at the centre of K.'s thesis. But more of this later.
Agnes then reveals (Agnes has many things to say; the chapters are short, as if Agnes has to stop a lot to catch her breath because she has so much to say) that K. wasn't completely Japanese. He had French nationality, and he was Jewish. After he lost his family during the war, he left to France and then Norway, where he hired Agnes as a secretary. He was the father of Michiko and believed he was the descendant of Genji. Furthermore K. believed, and wanted to rigorously prove with historical and scientific documents, that the atomic bomb had been an act of the kami, the Japanese spirits that influence human will, in order to punish Sesshu's last descendant, Michiko.
"It was the Christian kami that (…) inspired Otto Hann, two years after Michiko's birth, to discover the process of uranium nuclear fission and, next year, Einstein the letter which he wrote to Roosevelt and was in the origin of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb," says Agnes. "As it was the good kami who made, later on, other scientists involved in the project to try to avoid launching the bomb."
And after she tells this amazing fable to the narrator, she disappears again. Although the narrator finds the thesis of the kami fantastic, he believes nevertheless in K.'s despair. The way he sees him is that he was a troubled man who tried to find meaning in chaos, a sort of supernatural explanation to the tragedy of his life. But years later he travels to Japan and starts doubting all the facts in Agne's story. He visits the Atomic Bomb Museum and finds a poem written by one Michiko, but not the school composition Agnes spoke of. There are other discrepancies between the two Michikos. He investigates further and discovers that Agne's K. never existed. Some time later he discovers that an Israeli writer has just published a book called K.'s Papers. This writer claims he got the idea for the book from a strange woman who in her turn got it from a young man accompanying the mysterious K. Confused, the narrator even starts wondering if he wasn't the young man who told her the story.
Anyway, memory is a fiction and the past a sort of dream that dreams us as much as we dream it. But can two men dream the same dream, or the same dream dream them both? If I ever met Amir Zach, the Israeli writer, who would I find? A man or a shadow?
I have no answer as to why Manuel António Pina filled this novella with so many Franz Kafka parallels. They're simply there, in the text. A writer of Jewish origin who dies before he completes his book and asks a person to posthumously destroy it. The similarities aren't just with Kafka's life but with his fiction. K. shares the same single-consonant name as the protagonist of The Castle. K. is writing, not about revenge, Agnes makes a point of stressing this, but justice. For K., the kami were performing a work of justice by continuing to punish Sesshu's descendants until the line was extinguished. Kafka's The Trial is also about justice. In both cases, justice seems like a tenebrous abstraction whose scope transcends human dimension. The narrator is baffled to think that spirits would use an atomic bomb just to kill a little girl. But the gods, Agnes argues, can't have a sense of human proportion, making their actions incomprehensible by their excess, much in the way that Joseph K. can't understand the gigantic bureaucratic machinery that governs the legal process that ensnares and ultimately kills him.
But more than Kafka, the book is also about memory and the effect of time over memory and facts. Let us then say this novella springs from a point of confluence between Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust. But it's not just about memory, but also the unreality of reality, the vacuity of facts. Agnes herself is only telling what she remembers of the book she typed. "I'm not sure if I'm doing right by telling you this. He asked me to destroy his papers…" she says. And the narrator replies, "And you destroyed them. You're telling what you remember. He couldn't ask you to forget, no one can." But time itself distorts and erases memories, and beyond time there's the creative force of every person that changes things alongside time. And this is where I started thinking about the differences between Kafka's protagonists and K. It occurred to me that Joseph K. and K. the surveyor lack this imaginative faculty. Thrown into horrible circumstances, the threat to their existence is so pervasive that it makes them totally lethargic and impels them to their own destruction. K. the Japanese scholar, supposing that he exists, concocts an alternative history of Western civilization just to explain his tragic life. This is wonderfully terrifying.
I think the book is especially about that. It's about reality as a work of creation, as a narrative that collapses upon itself. One thing is to think K. was crazy and made up a mad thesis; a different thing is to suspect K. never existed. Another very different thing is realizing the "I" may be the author of this forgery and not remember it.
Literature is, by its very nature, mystification, perhaps Agnes had been deluded by the fact that the manuscript didn't belong to a precise genre and was instead some confused sort of historical novel, alternating facts with fiction; or, like in Macpherson's Scottish epopee, mixing documents and imagination under the appearance of a work of investigation. Or maybe K. had simply gone mad. Or Agnes.
Or the nameless narrator, we're forced to add. Although the novella has less than 80 pages, Manuel António Pina keeps it dense and fast-paced: Shinto, Franz Kafka, the atomic bomb, alternative history, intertextuality, and post-modernist techniques make Os Papéis de K. a mysterious and inventive book. Portuguese literature lost a great writer today.


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RiverCats' games mercifully end early
Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.
There was never any doubt about the Duncan RiverCats Peewee AA baseball team winning the zone playoffs at Duncan's Evans Park. Tournament play Friday through Sunday bore that out, with the RiverCats taking all four games the quick way via the mercy rule.
Outstanding pitching, solid defence and productive hitting was just too much for opponents to match, as Duncan swamped Nanaimo 19-0, Campbell River 12-2, Oceanside 26-6 and Victoria 14-0.
The numbers add up to 71 runs scored and just eight against.
"You guys really hit the ball well this weekend,'' head coach Ken Ramwell told the players in the final post-game huddle after shutting out Victoria.
Top to bottom, it was hard to match Duncan for consistency in the batting lineup.
"One through 12, there is no top of the order for us,'' said Ramwell. "Our 12th batter hit two triples (Saturday).
"The only downfall with the mercy is we don't get to pitch everybody we want to.''
Everybody played and moved around to various positions around the field, just the way Ramwell and the coaching staff of Western Higbie, Gobind Sall and Steve Bossons like it.
"That's our philosophy is to develop the whole team,'' said Ramwell. "We've got the depth.''
It would have been easy for the players to lose focus with so many commanding leads, but they didn't.
"They're pretty grounded and we've rarely had to talk to them about confidence,'' said Ramwell. "They're confident, not cocky, and they all get along. They're a great group of kids. There's no ego.''
"They all have each other's backs,'' added Higbie. "The temperament on this team is good — never too high, never too low.''
The RiverCats ran roughshod over Nanaimo in 4 1/2 innings, with 15 strikeouts thrown between Luc Wilson and Matteo Iorio.
Billy Ramwell had three singles and scored three runs; Brody Deverill added a triple, single and two runs; Josh Hill three singles and two runs; Morley Scott a single, double and two runs; Connor Caskenette a single, double and one run; Hayden Plester one run, a double and a single; and Jackson Stephen two runs and two singles.
The second game against Campbell River was expected to be tight, but Duncan also finished that one in five innings.
Starting pitcher Ramwell finished with seven strikeouts and closer Gavin Pringle added two in the last inning.
Mike Arscott managed a double, two singles and two runs; Pringle collected a double, one triple and two runs; Caskenette contributed a run and two singles; and Scott chipped in a triple and scored a run.
Against Oceanside, it was 20-0 at one time before the RiverCats had their one tough inning of the tournament and surrendered five runs.
Offensive totals included: Arscott, with a single, double and two runs; Stephen, two singles and two runs; Iorio, two triples and three runs; Evan Pywell, a single, double and two runs; Deverill, two triples and three runs; Hill, three singles and two runs; Wilson, a triple, single and one run; Scott, three singles and one run; Caskenette, two singles and one run; Plester, two singles, a double and one run; and Pringle, a single, triple and a run.
Stephen gave up only two hits during his three-inning pitching stint.
The RiverCats scored eight times in the first inning against Victoria and coasted from there to the five-inning mercy.
Batting highlights were: Arscott, a single and two runs; Stephen, two singles and a run; Iorio, a triple and two runs; Ramwell, a double, single and one run; Deverill, two runs and a single; Wilson, two runs and two singles; and Scott, two singles and a run.
The RiverCats head straight to Port Coquitlam for the provincial championships, starting Thursday. Duncan has already beaten some of the other main contenders in the draw, including North Delta, Richmond and Port Coquitlam.


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Its been a long time since Ive walked out of a show unable to put into words how much I loved it. But with The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (now playing at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater) not only was I speechless at the premiere, but I felt equally as impacted when I went back to see it a second time.
The show is a gorgeous mix of Scottish magic, outlandish comedy, modern culture, and old-world beauty. It tells the story of a scholarly woman with a snappy personality and the unpredictable night which unravels her world and challenges everything she knows. CST has transformed their upstairs theater into an intimate pub that puts the audience right in the middle of the onstage actionyoure not just viewing the show, youre experiencing it with the characters.
The show is especially appealing to the under 35 crowd. Because of this, the theater is offering a special discount for the 7:30pm performance on October 14th; by using the promo code UNDER35 online at www.chicagoshakes.com/strange, you only pay $20 to see the show (and get a free sample of Benromach Single Malt Scotch Whiskey!)
Just wanted to spread the word about this great deal and fantastic show!


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April 11th, 2013 by John Kim
So there's some serious concern that the Los Angeles Lakers might miss the Playoffs altogether – it all comes down to the final few games of the regular season. To put away any doubt of missing the postseason, Kobe and crew just need to win out, and last night's gutsy win over the Portland Blazers proved that sometimes that extra 10% and the "will to win" do make a difference. For last night's crucial game, Kobe Bryant debuted the Nike Kobe 8 Elite in Black/Gold – a shoe that as of now won't release until June, which is separate from the release dates of the KD and LeBron Elite releases. If the Lakers manage to pull into the Playoffs, do you think Nike will push forward the release date? Check out the high-def gallery of Kobe below and stay tuned for updates.
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No doubt there have been several letters arriving into your inbox regarding last week's 'Library Sell-Off Fears' article.
We have realised over the years since Kirklees became the Metropolitan Council, that Batley is definitely the outpost of the Kirklees Empire but
this latest move to save money by 'selling-off' the Carnegie Library is bureaucratic vandalism.
Batley's Library and the land on which it stands were given to our town, not bought by it, for the townspeople's benefit over a hundred years ago. Do we need to regress in 2013?
The suggestion that the Library's services could be successfully provided in the Town Hall is quite outrageous.
Not only is the building itself a tribute to Batley's fine architect Walter Hanstock but there is a wide choice of books attractively displayed with
room to move comfortably between the shelves. This was not the case a few years ago when the library was moved across into the redundant Court Room
during building work. The children's library hosts weekly story, rhyme and craft sessions for pre-school children and the I.T. room is well used.
Upstairs there is a valuable Reference Library and a superb Art Gallery which hosts displays - now doesn't that say something about its worth?
It will be interesting to note if there is any feedback from our worthy councillors.
Val & Gordon Asquith
(Members at Batley Library since the 1940s)


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Federal water mangers and scientists Monday began ratcheting up releases from Glen Canyon Dam as part of a five-day experiment to push sediments down the Colorado River in hopes of restoring sandbars that play a vital ecological role in the river channel.
This week's high-flow releases, designed to mimic the pre-dam natural flooding, mark "an historic milestone" for river management, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
"It was an honor to open the door to a new era for Glen Canyon Dam operations and the ecology of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon National Park a new era in which we realize that the goals of water storage, delivery and hydropower production are compatible with improving and protecting the resources of the Colorado River," Salazar said after he personally triggered releases at noon through the dam's outlet tubes that bypass the turbines.


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Far Breton Cake
Far Breton Cake
Aunt Jeanette's "Far from Breton" Cake
It is winter, and we live in Vermont. That means some good cooking, a little experimenting, and a lot of time to let things simmer while sipping tea. It is also a time to dust off old recipes, and our family's variation on Far Breton is a recent retrieve from the recipe box.
This is a variation (including name) on my Aunt Jeanette's recipe and the classic French "Far Breton," a custardy flan traditionally from Brittany. Is it a cake? Is it a tart? A flan? A smooth custard pie? A little of all the above, perhaps. My Aunt called it a cake, so I'll stick to that. It is rich, and creamy and silky, and with a unique flavor and texture. My Aunt made it with prunes only. My own touch to the recipe was to use half apricots and half prunes. I noticed the kids picked out the prunes and wanted just the apricots, and I agreed they tasted better. So our newly modified family recipe uses just the apricots!
9 ounces dried unsulfured apricots, sliced once the long way (about 1½ cups)
½ cup brandy or Grand Marnier
2 cups whole milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs and 1 egg yolk
1 tsp. salt
1 cup flour
½ stick unsalted butter, browned
To make the Far Breton, place apricots in a small saucepan and cover with the brandy. Heat to boiling, reduce the heat and cook for a few minutes. Remove from heat and set aside until you need it.
In your blender, combine the milk, vanilla, sugar, eggs, salt, and flour. Blend until well combined.
In a small saucepan, place butter and heat until melted. Continue to heat until the butter bubbles, swirling the pan. When the bubbles start to subside, keep an eye on it. As soon as it starts to brown and you start to smell a nutty aroma, remove from heat and add slowly to the rest of the liquid mixture, while blending.
Set the batter aside in the refrigerator for several hours, as you would a crepe batter. You can do this in the morning to make the cake for dinner, or do this mixing step the night before.
Once the batter has rested, preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Retrieve the batter and let come to room temperature. Butter and flour a 9-inch cake pan with deep sides (mine is 2 ½ inches). Line with waxed paper or parchment, and butter and flour that as well. Or you can use a 9-inch round casserole dish, and you'll serve the cake directly from this, no fuss.
Drain the fruit, and add a couple of tablespoons of the liquid to the batter. Arrange the dried fruit in the bottom of the prepared pan in an even layer. Add the batter to the pan. It will be thin.
Place the cake in the oven, turn the heat down to 375, and set your timer for 50 minutes. It might take another ten minutes, but every oven is different so you want to keep a lookout. When ready, the cake will be browned, nicely puffed, and will smell like it is done! To reinforce your instincts, check to see if a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
If you have baked the Far Breton in a regular tin and want it presented on a serving plate, you will have to flip it out once it is cooled. It sounds scary, but it is pretty easy:
Loosen the cake from the pan after it has rested for ten minutes or so. Cover the top with a large plate, take a deep breath, and flip it over. Remove the waxed paper, place a pretty cake plate on the top (which is really the bottom) and flip it again to its presentation plate, pretty side up. Dust with confectioner's sugar.
New England Spider Cake!
New England Spider Cake!
New England Spider Cake is everything from a side dish to dessert! Get out your cast-iron frying pan, your cornmeal, your roasted corn, and treat your family and friends.
New England Spider Cake
When my kids were little they loved hearing we were going to have "spider cake" for dinner. With a little drizzle of maple syrup on top, it could easily stand in for dessert.
This is an old New England technique, a cross between luscious, creamy corn pudding and traditional corn bread cooked in a cast-iron skillet with either cream or milk poured directly into the center just before baking. The cream sinks into the cake and makes a lovely custard-like layer just under the crisp top. The "spider" was a cast iron Dutch oven with little legs that could be placed directly in the coals for baking or long braising. I've made this camping, and it works great if you have a nice fire going.
My variation on this recipe is the fresh roasted corn! It adds a nice dimension to the dish. Also, my mother's recipe called for souring two cups of milk with a few tablespoons of white vinegar. I found myself with only cider or balsamic vinegar in the house one day, and so I acidified the milk with a half cup of sour cream instead. It was even more delicious, so that is the way I make it now (unless, of course, I want to make it and I have no sour cream but plenty of white vinegar on hand…).
This is not a diet food, so don't even think about skim milk in this one! My mother made this with whole milk poured on top rather than cream, but the cream is definitely better! She also used bacon fat rather than the butter, it adds another dimension of flavor, so if you happen to have a coffee can filled with this fat, go ahead and use it.
¾ cup cornmeal, fine to medium ground, local if possible
1 cup unbleached white all purpose flour
½ tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
½ cup sour cream
About 1 1/2 cups whole milk
2 eggs plus one egg yolk
1/3 cup sugar
¼ cup melted butter, cooled a bit
1 cup fresh roasted corn kernels, or frozen corn
1 cup heavy cream or whole milk
Place a 10" cast-iron frying pan in a 450-degree oven. It needs to be smoking hot when you pour the batter in. Alternately, you can use any heavy skillet.
In a large bowl, mix together the cornmeal, flour, soda, powder, salt and pepper. Set aside.
In a two-quart measuring cup, add a large blob of sour cream, about a half cup. Add enough whole milk to come to the two-cup mark. Mix with the eggs, sugar, and 3 tbsp. of the melted butter, blend well, and toss in the corn. Add the liquid all at once to the dry ingredients and gently combine, just until there are no large pockets of flour. Don't over mix.
Remove the frying pan from the oven and add the last tablespoon of butter, brushing it around the pan. It should be bubbly and sizzling.
Quickly, add the batter. It will sizzle and start to set on the edges immediately.
Here's the magic. Now, gently pour the cup of cream directly into the center of the batter. You'll be tempted to pour it all around, but you want it dead center. It will look totally wrong, but will come out deliciously right.
Return to the oven. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or so, depending on your oven, but check at 30. The top will be browned, but not overly so, you don't want it to go too far and dry out.
Let cool for a few minutes, and cut into eight or ten pie-shaped pieces and enjoy! This needs no assistance from a topping except perhaps a drizzle of dark amber maple syrup.
Variations: Sometimes, I add some sweet red pepper, diced and sautéed, along with the corn, just a 1/3 cup or so, no more. Or, if you like heat, add a bit of crushed red pepper, or some finely minced hot pepper. Freshly snipped chives are really good in this as well, and a cup of shredded Cheddar Cheese is never a mistake either!
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp – Yes, please!
When the rhubarb hits the farm stands, you know the first strawberries will be close behind. The two spring treasures are a perfect balancing act – the berries sweet and vibrant, the rhubarb tart and sour. The good news is that both the strawberries and the rhubarb freeze beautifully, so there is no excuse not to serve local all winter long. This recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp is on the tart side, with minimal sugar. I must take after my mother for this; she liked to eat rhubarb raw, with a little salt sprinkled on top. If you like things sweeter, add an additional quarter cup to the fruits, and a few extra tablespoons to the topping mixture. We often serve this at Readmore as a starter, and no one argues about having dessert first!
For the Filling:
1 quart of sliced rhubarb, ½-inch cuts
1 quart of strawberries, cleaned, sliced
½ cup of white sugar
¼ cup cornstarch
A large pinch of salt
The zest of one lemon
The juice of one large lemon, about ¼ cup
2 tsp. vanilla extract
For the Topping:
1 cup of old fashioned oats
1 ½ cups unbleached white flour
½ cup white sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
A large pinch of salt
1 ½ sticks unsalted butter
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Butter a large baking dish, the 8" X 13" Pyrex dish I stole from my mother's kitchen is perfect (you probably have one).
Place the fruits in the baking dish and add the other filling ingredients. Mix well.
With a wooden spoon, or in the bowl of a mixer with the paddle attachment (easiest), combine the topping ingredients and mix until it becomes a unified mass. Most recipes for toppings for a crisp tell you to just barely mix the topping ingredients with the butter until it looks like coarse meal or peas, and sprinkle over all. But if you do this, the topping won't get really crispy. You need the butter to marry with all the other ingredients. You want it to look like stiff cookie dough.
Drop by heaping spoonsful on top of the fruit, trying to cover most of it. Bake for about an hour, check at 50 minutes and rotate the pan, front to back, if it is browning unevenly.
Let cool to warm before serving, if you can wait that long. I love Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp as is, but you can top it with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream if desired.
Spring Arrives in a Vermont Kitchen
Spring Arrives in a Vermont Kitchen
Sometimes spring takes its time settling in. We'll have beautiful sunny days, followed by snow flurries! There is mud everywhere, loosened up by the melted snow and the spring rains. For many, it is a time to stop for a while and think about the season ahead and all its possibilities. Vermont is usually quiet this time of year; there are few tourists around, and many folks take a holiday to warmer climates to get away from grey skies. Just a week away, and we can return to blooming daffodils and some green grass.
Outside, we have a bounty of chives as spring arrives! I pick them and put them on just about every savory thing I make. Other herbs are popping up as well, and soon we'll be cooking fiddlehead ferns and ramps.
In the kitchen, we are using the last of the winter CSA deliveries – turnips and potatoes, onions and carrots, and the first real crop of the year, irresistibly sweet spring-dug parsnips. They are best simply cut up into coins, steamed, and served with butter, salt, and pepper. They are also delicious roasted, almost like candy! If you are lucky enough to find some, think about making them into a spring soup. Salute and onion, add a few chopped up parsnips and a large diced potato, salt and pepper, a little ground ginger, and vegetable or chicken broth to cover by a few inches. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer until everything is nicely soft. Puree and enjoy. You can add some cream if you like.
If you are longing for something fresh and light, scout the co-ops for some blood oranges. They are lovely this time of year, and a simple sorbet made from them is refreshing. For a get-together, fancy it up by serving it in the orange shell!
Blood Orange Sorbet in Caramelized Orange Shell
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup blood orange juice, freshly squeezed
Zest of about six blood oranges
4 large oranges of another variety
Crystalized sugar
Mix the sugar and water together and heat until the sugar dissolves. Let cool. You now have a simple syrup. While the sugar is warming and dissolving, zest the blood oranges, then squeeze them being careful not to leave any little seeds behind. You want about a cup of juice. If you are a little short, add some regular orange juice. When the syrup is cooled, mix with the juice and zest and chill for a couple of hours.
Put the mixture in your ice cream maker and process according to your machine. It will probably take around 20 minutes to thicken. Place in a covered container and put in the freezer to firm up more.
To prepare the dish, cut the top third of the oranges off and scoop out the pulp with a melon baller. Slice a sliver off the bottom if it does not stand straight. Dip the rim of the orange shell in some juice from the orange, then dip in the crystalized sugar, a nice healthy amount.
Place on a cookie sheet and pop under the broiler until the sugar starts to lightly brown. You can also do with your handy blowtorch. Let cool completely in the refrigerator!
When cooled, add a scoop or two of the sorbet, and garnish with a few grates of lemon peel or even a lovely mint leaf.
Blueberry Season in Vermont!
Blueberry Season in Vermont
It's Blueberry Season in Vermont, and high summer, and everything is possible.
Blueberry season also means there is a delightful bounty of fruits and vegetables of every sort, and no reason to have anything on your plate not grown locally. Our gardens are filled with blooms, our streams with canoes and kayaks, our country stores with the curious, and our back roads and byways are dotted with painters and photographers.
The shelves at our farm stands creak under their loads of squash and beans, corn and peppers, tomatoes and cabbage. And if you are not careful, your back porch will become the unsuspecting repository for drive-by zucchini drop-offs from well-meaning gardener friends who planted, let's say, a couple of extra plants "just in case."
We measure time in Vermont in terms of our own seasons: blueberry season, corn season, tomato season, mud season, leaf peeping season, and, of course, ski season.
Right now, we have blueberries tucked in every corner of the kitchen. We pick them at bountiful best, when they are practically falling off the bushes, and freeze them for use all winter long. Well, at least those that actually make it to the berry pail and not our mouths! One of our favorite starters at Readmore is a simple bowl of freshly picked sweet blueberries, light cream, and the tiniest dusting of fine sugar on top. Our guests seldom complain about this one, and often it sparks childhood memories! And in February, High Summer in Vermont is served up on your plates in the form of blueberry pancakes and muffins!
Here is one of my favorite recipes for Blueberry Muffins: RECIPE.
Supper tonight will be corn, that's it, just corn, roasted or grilled outside (with or without butter, it's not necessary at all). What's left, I'll take off the cob and use in corn fritters in the morning. The early corn this year is much sweeter than some years, so it will be a treat for my guests.
Soon, it will be my favorite season, blackberry season, so stay tuned!
Strawberry Season!
Strawberry Season in Vermont:
Our Official Beginning of Summer
Strawberry Season! It is one of Vermont's official seasons, the one that comes after Black Fly Season and Trout Season.
This is the time I wait for all year! First of all, the roses are blooming. A morning stroll in the garden with a steamy cup of coffee, a few quiet moments in the Gazebo at dusk, and the scent of roses fills the air. Life is good. The farm stands are filled with everything from quirky little garlic scapes to vine-ripened tomatoes, and every kind of green imaginable! We can pick a rainbow at the counter, and feel virtuous with every meal.
When strawberries are in season, you know that summer is really here, and now they are coming fast and furious. Blueberries are poised for their debut, and local cherries have already made their way to a large jar of brandy for use next year.
I spent an afternoon this weekend making and canning my conventional strawberry jam recipe, to pull out all winter long. I just follow the basic powdered pectin instructions, and since this year the strawberries are nice and sweet, the jam is terrific. Some years, the strawberries are watery, and I've found it is hardly worth the time of putting them up because the flavor will be lacking. Sometimes I add a little orange zest and juice for an extra element, but when the strawberries are as good as this year, that is not necessary.
I also made a quick fresh jam this past weekend, with the addition of a little lavender balsamic vinegar. It was great, and it was done in 20 minutes. I was using up the last of a quart of strawberries, and it this hassle-free version will keep in my refrigerator for about a month (assuming, of course, that it lasts that long…). And it's not just for toast, I put it on roasted chicken the other night for supper, and it was a hit with all. Here's the recipe>.
Our guests have feasted on Strawberries Romanoff, Strawberry Soup, Strawberry Smoothies, Strawberries and Cream, and Strawberry Shortcake Waffles.
When we are not wiping strawberry juice off our chins, we are enjoying all the wonderful things Vermont has to offer in the summer: long, long daylight hours, peepers at dusk, fireflies, hiking, boating, swimming, garden tours, chamber music, plays, art and crafts fairs, book sales, antiques, fine dining. You name it, we have it!
May and the Fiddleheads have arrived!
Fiddleheads: A New England Delicacy!
Not a moment too soon, the fiddlehead ferns (or just fiddleheads if you prefer) have arrived and I've already cooked up a big batch! My sister-in-law has her secret patch by the river all staked out for us, and she has promised more, if I cook them, and indeed I will. Last night's dish was prepared with a little garlic and a bunch of luscious ramps, which are wild leeks and an enticing early spring green. These are my favorite. Mix the two together, and there is nothing better, especially for sun-deprived northerners who need some fresh green in their diets just about now.
My Uncle Leonard used to forage many things from the forest, a variety of mushrooms, butternuts, ramps, Indian cucumbers, groundnuts, all kinds of delicacies. But he loved the fiddleheads best, perhaps because they were the first harvest of the year. Many of our guests, especially those who are not from New England, have never even heard of fiddleheads. Once they try them, with their delicious asparagus taste and texture, they become fans. I've had guest write to me and tell me that since they tried them at Readmore, they now see them everywhere. Of course, they were always there, but now they are on their radar.
As my fiddleheads were soaking, and the rain drizzled outside, the mail arrived and quite by surprise I received a package from Yankee Magazine. Imagine how delighted I was to find that Readmore has been named one of the Best of New England lodging establishments (only six in Vermont, and 40 New England wide) and the editors' choice for May/june for the "Best B&B for Readers." They sent a lovely plaque which I'm planning to have framed. I have daffodils and violets and any number of other spring bulbs dancing about. The weeping cherry is blooming, grass actually needs to be cut, and my chives are already giving me great bounty. Spring in Vermont is good! P.S. for the recipe for fiddleheads, and explanation of what they are exactly, click HERE.
Take a tour of the Vermont Country Store while in Rockingham
Vermont Country Store Rockingham
The Vermont Country Store in Rockingham is just a few minutes from Readmore, and is famous for not only the unique selection of "general store" items, but for the nostalgia they carry as well. The old floors still creek, the scent of apothecary fills the air, and even in the winter, the light that filters in through the windows highlights many a long-forgotten item.
Yes, as you cruise the aisles of the Vermont Country Store, you'll find and sample a lovely selection of our famous Vermont cheese, many made right in the Rockingham area from sharp Cheddar to soft bries, and to serve alongside, there are chutneys, mustards, and flavorful dips. There's Coke in a bottle, Ovaltine, dried beans, wax lips, old-fashioned sour pickles in a barrel, candy by the piece and black licorice whips, homemade fudge, blackberry jam and apple cider jellies, ladies cotton nightgowns, flannel shirts, and rose-scented bath salts. There's pepper crackers and corn relish, hard-to-find cleaning products, feathered hats, hand-knit sweaters, books, striped linen dish towels, bird-feeding supplies, bag balm and duct tape (don't forget the various salves, potions, and lotions your grandmother used, still offered in the same tins)! Just to ensure you are on the right track, there are testers of everything so you can douse yourself in the same Evening in Paris perfume you bought your mother for Christmas when you were seven.
Are you looking for a gift for a child? The Vermont Country Store carries a great selection of both hand-made toys and (new) vintage toys you forgot you loved, such as Mr. Potato Head or Operation. A loaded checkerboard invites shoppers to stop for a few minutes for a quick game, while the kids delight in trying out the new finds (from their parents' childhood) and looking at the assortment of board games that don't even require a battery!
Another really popular feature of the Vermont Country Store is the sales room on the second floor where many a bargain is to be found, and the famous summer-long tent sales on the front lawn of the Rockingham store, rain or shine, right through the Autumn foliage season. Where else can you find a Princess telephone or typewriter that uses an inked ribbon?
My Grandmother's French Canadian Meat Pies "Tourtiere"
Dorothy's grandmother offered up French Canadian Meat Pies on the holidays
French Canadian Meat Pie, or Tourtiere is a traditional dish passed down in my family, a treat that was served in our family on Christmas Eve and other special occasion. This is my version as I have substituted the local ground turkey and sausage for the usual beef and pork, but if you eat red meat, you may use it here; there are many options for locally raised, sustainable meats. Of course, when my grandmother made a French Canadian meat pie, she used the most sustainable meat possible, that which was raised on her own farm. I've also made it with ground soy protein, and it tastes pretty much the same! In fact, one meat eater grabbing seconds didn't realize he had served himself from the vegetarian pie!
This makes two bountiful pies, and they freeze well.
Mémé's Good Times French Canadian Meat Pie "Tourtiere"
recipe for French Canadian Meat Pie
One large luscious onion, diced
1 tbsp. duck fat or olive oil
2 pounds Vermont ground turkey
1 pound fresh Vermont pork sausage, broken up
tbsp. poultry seasoning
1 tsp. dried sage, or 1 tbsp. fresh, minced
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. hot Hungarian paprika (my addition!)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 large bay leaf
Chicken stock or water to almost cover, about two cups
One sleeve crackers smashed into crumbs
1 cup local, organic diced potatoes, precooked but still a bit firm
2 Double butter crust pastry recipes
Egg wash
Sautee the onion in the fat in a large pan. Add the turkey burger, sausage, spices, and enough stock to just cover with bits poking their heads up. You can also use just plain water here, that's what my grandmother used. Bring to boil, cover, reduce, and slow cook on low heat, covered, about an hour, stirring now and then. The house will smell like Christmas Eve!
Remove the lid, stir, and remove some of the fat and liquid that has accumulated. Add crackers and potatoes. Stir well, and spoon back a little of the liquid if need be. The mixture should be very soft and moist, but with no visible pools of liquid.
Pour into two prepared bottom crusts and make smooth. Add the top crusts, and always a little pastry decoration. This is, after all, holiday food, so it should look as pretty as it tastes. I like to decorate with little leaves made from the pastry trimmings. Brush all with an egg wash made of an exquisite organic egg and a little cold water.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 to 50 minutes. It should be golden brown! Check when the house starts to smell really good.
Let set at least 20 minutes before cutting. Traditionally, this was served with a brown gravy, but I like it much better with a wild foraged hen-of-the woods mushroom gravy on the side.


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Sleep 101 for Dummies?
Some questions about Windows 7 sleep mode. My machine is a desktop and I know a laptop would have different answers.
I have my box set up to go to a screensaver after 45 minutes, black screen after two hours, and sleep after four. This seems to nicely fit my usual pattern of use - generally restarting the machine at bedtime around 11, the antivirus scan runs at 1:30, and I'm not on the machine at all again until 6 or 7 the next night.
So I feel like I'm doing the thing a favor with 12-15 hours a day of no spinning drives, no heat.
But I know there are other schools of thought saying "always on" is a better way to go, and that there's too much stress to the electronics, the drive hardware, etc., when jarred from dormant to engaged.
So better to do what I'm doing, or better to never put a desktop to sleep?
Also, in XP, the screensaver/black screen settings were different when logged in versus not, and the machine would blacken the display a lot faster if I wasn't logged in. In Windows 7 it looks like my current settings leave the bright blue login screen glowing for two hours. I realize I could always turn off the monitor at night, but wondering if there's a way to blacken the screen faster when not logged in.
Lastly for now anyway, I have a printer USB connected to my Windows 7 box, shared wirelessly with the other computers in the house. If they tried to print while my computer is in sleep mode, will the document print or will the printer not be found, and if it prints, would that wake the computer from sleep? I realize I could always just try this for myself and see!
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There is no need for a screensaver with today's flat screens as there is no risk of burn-in. Try the spectacular Win7 scenic backgrounds set to a slideshow.
Sleep/hibernate work perfectly in Win7 at their default so if you walk away from your work it will save the desktop and go to sleep after 30-45 minutes for quicker wakeup, then if you don't come back for longer it will save desktop from memory to HD and shut down (hibernate) ideally around 1-2 hours later - set depending on your normal likelihood to return. However hibernate wakes up only slightly slower than sleep, and faster than starting up from Shutdown.
My favorite settings for average install are 20 minutes for Display, 30-45 minutes to Sleep, then 90 minutes to Hibernate.
Here are 120 national edition Win7 backgrounds downloads, some of the most fantastic pictures ever taken: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...free-download/ Download into Pictures, then browse and Select All for slideshow by rightclicking Desktop>Personalize>Desktop Backgrounds.
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|07 Mar 2011
Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
I disagree about the need for screensavers. I have two LCD monitors. I use the space on the second infrequently. I notice the eagle in my background is persistent on the screen. I have noticed this on other LCDs where the same image is displayed over time as well. It is not usually permanent damage like CRT burn-in, but it is annoying.
As for sleep mode, it is fine. I have always put my system to sleep (when windows cooperates to do so ) for many years. I think the folklore that this will result in an early failure arises from the fact that you are power cycling the components and that is when a impending failure is likely to happen even though it would occur around the same time even if you had left the system on 24x7.
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TRS govt to sign pact with Maha govt over Godavari projects today - NTv
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The TRS government to sign an agreement with the Maharashtra government in Mumbai on Tuesday over utilisation of water in the river Godavari for various projects in Telangana State. Both states will sign agreements in the presence of the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. Even, the modalities will be framed for setting up an inter-state water board on Godavari projects.


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Senator Thomas Byrne has said that Meath is losing out big time on property tax receipts. In Meath, only 52% of the Property Tax collected has been returned to the county. As a result Meath is losing out by at least €4.8m based on 80% retention of the tax in the County as promised by the Government.
"This is an anomaly that needs to be addressed. Crumbling local roads can be directly related to the Property Tax paid in Meath not being spent in Meath. There will be huge anger among residents and property tax payers in the County. Meath does not have a commercial rates base comparable to surrounding counties and badly needs these funds.
"The Property Tax was sold by the Government to fund necessary local services. In Meath, nearly half the money is not being spent in the county at all," said Senator Byrne.
Co Meath will receive grant aid equal to just €48 per person, equating to 52% of the local property tax paid by residents of the county. The worst faring counties in terms of property tax retention are Dublin, Cork, Clare, Kildare, Wexford and Meath. Rural counties such as Leitrim and Longford will receive grants equal to 400% of their LPT receipts.
"In terms of per capita funding from the property tax, Meath is one of the lowest recipients. This is outrageous. No more excuses are acceptable from Government representatives. They need to ensure that the property tax paid locally is spent locally," concluded Byrne.


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University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
For more information, please contact the author.
Bureau Seminar, January 25, 2013
Drought and the Energy Water Nexus in Texas
Drought and the Energy Water Nexus in Texas
Link to streaming video: available 01.25.2013 at 8:55am
Dr. Bridget Scanlon, Robert Reedy, Ian Duncan, Nalun Fernando, Jon Paul Pierre, Alex Sun, and Michael Young
Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Texas experienced the most extreme one year drought on record in 2011 with projections of 3000 MW of electricity shortages if drought extended another year. Lack of electricity storage results in the need to meet peak electricity demands during the hottest times (Aug 1 – 4, 2011) when water supplies are lowest (reservoir storage reduced to ~60% during drought), amplifying the water energy nexus problems. The objective of this study was to evaluate drought vulnerability of electricity generation in Texas. Water use for electricity generation was determined from federal (EIA) and state (TWDB and TCEQ) databases for 2010 and 2011. Most (86%) electricity generation required water for cooling, consuming 0.46 million acre feet (maf, 2011), and representing 3% of total water withdrawal in the state. Although ~19 maf is recirculated for cooling, 98% of this water is returned to the source. Drought vulnerability of electricity generation in Texas results from reliance mostly on surface water, with runoff reduced to < 1 percentile during 2011, reservoir storage for power plants decreasing to < 50% in a third of the monitored reservoirs, close to intake levels in only a couple of plants, and high temperature discharges in a few plants. Drought resilience can be increased by reducing electricity and water demands, increasing supplies, and storing more water. Recent trends towards combined cycle natural gas plants with towers has reduced water withdrawal and consumption rates since the late 1990s and is projected to further decrease to 2030. Understanding the controls on drought vulnerability of power plants and exploring various options to increase resilience is essential for continued reliable affordable electricity production in Texas.