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CHELMSFORD ,MASS.—ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL), a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, today reported that a growing number of EMS agencies in the state of Virginia are deploying the AutoPulse to help better manage cardiac arrest. Most recent customers include Goochland County Fire-Rescue Department, which purchased six devices, and Sterling Volunteer Rescue Squad, which purchased seven devices.
Goochland County Fire-Rescue provides 24-hour fire and emergency medical services to more than 16,800 people in Goochland County, just west of Richmond, Virginia. "We implemented the AutoPulse county wide at all six of our stations," said Eddie Ferguson, Goochland County's Deputy Chief of EMS. "After several uses, the AutoPulse has yielded positive results. Beyond the increased perfusion benefits that we have seen our patients gain, the AutoPulse allows for a more efficiently run code, impacting our providers and EMS system in a positive and safe way. I would highly recommend the AutoPulse to any EMS system wishing to improve its resuscitation effectiveness."
Sterling Volunteer Rescue Squad offers emergency services to approximately 70,000 people over 25 square miles. It is the first system in the Northern Virginia area to place AutoPulse devices on all of its responding units. According to Sterling's Chief Byron F. Andrews, III, "We believe the AutoPulse is a tool that helps our medics give patients a better chance at surviving cardiac arrest. By providing automated and uninterrupted chest compressions, medics can focus on other life-saving interventions. The AutoPulse helps them improve resuscitation efforts so that they believe they are doing everything they can for the victim. I cannot say enough about the benefits of the AutoPulse in terms of its ability to improve circulation and our efforts to help cardiac arrest victims."
A recent study, completed in conjunction with Richmond Ambulance Authority (RAA), compared 499 manual CPR cases and 284 cases using automated CPR, which involved the use of the AutoPulse. The study analyzed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases between January 2001 and March 2005 and evaluated data before and after RAA paramedics began using the AutoPulse. Overall, the data showed a survival-to-hospital-discharge rate of 9.7 percent using automated CPR, compared with 2.9 percent using manual chest compressions. According to its Medical Director Joseph P. Ornato, M.D., RAA is the first EMS agency in the country to have shown that significantly more patients survive and are discharged from the hospital with use of the AutoPulse.
Other Virginia agencies that currently use the AutoPulse as part of their resuscitation efforts include Christiansburg Rescue Squad, Chase City Rescue Squad, Colonial Heights Fire & Rescue, Cumberland County EMS, Ettrick Matoaca Rescue Squad, Ford Volunteer Fire Department, Gloucester Emergency Service, Gloucester Volunteer Fire & Rescue, Henrico Volunteer Rescue Squad, James City County Fire Department, James City Volunteer Rescue Squad, Kilarnock Lancaster Volunteer Rescue, Lakeside Volunteer Rescue, Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad, Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad, Medical College of Virginia Hospital, Mid-County Public Safety Equipment, Middlesex Volunteer Rescue Squad, Midway Volunteer Fire Department, Moneta Volunteer Ambulance, Montross Volunteer Rescue Squad, Powhatan County Fire Department, Providence Forge Volunteer Rescue, Richmond Ambulance Authority, Richmond Fire Department, Southside Virginia Emergency, and Tuckahoe Volunteer Rescue. More than 235 EMS agencies and hospitals worldwide employ the AutoPulse.
New AHA 2005 Guidelines note that interrupting chest compressions can decrease the rate of survival from cardiac arrest.* The AutoPulse is an automated, portable device with a simple, load-distributing LifeBand® that squeezes the entire chest in a consistent, uninterrupted"hands-free" manner, delivering maximum blood flow to the heart and brain.* Additionally, it offers the benefit of freeing up rescuers to focus on other life-saving interventions.
ZOLL Medical Corporation is committed to developing technologies that help advance the practice of resuscitation. With products for pacing, defibrillation, circulation, ventilation, and fluid resuscitation, ZOLL provides a comprehensive set of technologies that help clinicians, EMS professionals, and lay rescuers resuscitate sudden cardiac arrest or trauma victims. ZOLL also designs and markets software that automates the documentation and management of both clinical and non-clinical information.
ZOLL markets and sells its products in more than 140 countries. The Company has direct operations, distributor networks, and business partners throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. For more information, visit www.zoll.com or call +1 (978) 421-9655.
Certain statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking" statements (as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, ZOLL's ability to compete in the resuscitation business; acceptance of the AutoPulse; changes in regulations affecting the healthcare industry; general economic conditions; and those other factors discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in ZOLL's Annual Report on Form 10-Q, which was filed with the SEC on February 10, 2006.
© 2006 ZOLL Medical Corporation. All rights reserved. 269 Mill Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4105. AutoPulse, LifeBand, and ZOLL are registered trademarks of ZOLL Medical Corporation. All product names are the property of their respective owners.
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Midday presents "No Jews Allowed," an MPR documentary originally aired in 1992 that explores the anti-Semitism that was prevalent in Minneapolis in the 1930s and 1940s. Later in the hour historian Hy Berman reflects on that dark chapter of history and how the Twin Cities have changed over time for minorities.
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What does Ariel say to show how well he's worked?
When Prospero questions Ariel in 1.2 about the tempest that he had been commanded to orchestrate, Ariel very proudly assures Prospero that he obeyed his orders implicitly. Prsopero asks:
"Hast thou, spirit, performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?"
Ariel responds:
"To every article."
Throughout the remainder of the play Prospero commends Ariel for his faithful service. At the end of the play just before he is set free, Ariel brings the Boatswain before Prospero. As the astounded Boatswain relates his fantastic story of recovery, Ariel is delighted that he was responsible for saving the ship and crew. He asks Prospero:
"Was't well done?"
Of course, Prospero agrees it was. Ariel seeks to please Prospero and eagerly awaits approval for his faithful service.
Ariel says quite a bit. In Act I, Scene II, the spirit says the following:
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Recipe Without Eggs And Wheat, Slef, And All Purpose Flour
Baking By garmanwd Updated 5 Nov 2009 , 3:07am by luv2bak4myboys
Have a friend who has alergies to eggs, wheat, self rising and all purpose flour and he is begging me to find him a cake he can eat and that taste good. Help I have no idea how to find this.
Your friend has as many allergies as my mom and I'm still looking for yummy recipes for her too! Sorry I couldn't help!
My son has a soy and dairy allergy, so I've been down this road for birthdays and such. I have a cookbook called Sophie Safe Cooking that I ordered online that omits the 8 main allergens or explains how to substitute for them. It suggests rice and oat flour as well as some others. HTH
Try looking in a Whole Foods or other alternative/organic food store. They have cake mixes there that are gluten free (made with rice or almond flour). Also, anyone who is allergic to wheat would therefor be allergic to any wheat flour (AP and self-rising flour are both Wheat flours).
Basically, you need rice or almond flour in place of wheat flour and an egg substitute. 1/4 cup silken tofu = 1 egg is a common substitution.
Now, if he's also allergic to nuts and soy...he might just not be able to eat cake.
Why wouldn't he be able to eat cake if he's allergic to soy???
Have you looked at the Babycakes Bakery Cookbook? Their recipes are very good for people with allergies to many common cake ingredients.
Why wouldn't he be able to eat cake if he's allergic to soy???
Because he's allergic to eggs. AFAIK, all egg substitutes are soy based.
Why wouldn't he be able to eat cake if he's allergic to soy???
Because he's allergic to eggs. AFAIK, all egg substitutes are soy based.
That is true. My little man is also sensitive to egg yolks, but can tolerate whites...which is according to our allergist, abnormal. Even the 100% egg whites in the box contain soy. However, I make eggs free cakes all the time for my guy and they are delicious. It can be done. His birthday cake was a pumpkin cake and a chocolate cake.
You can also get a shortening at Whole Foods or order it onlline that is not made with a soy base. The name brand is Spectrum, but Whole Foods just started making their own brand for about $3 less.


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By Kreighton Bieger
Jan 1, 2001
|One route left of Karma Mechanic. Identified by a high first bolt and a roof up higher.
By Steve Merschel
Jan 1, 2001
|Steve Merschel - My favorite route on the trip. The start is bouldery as hell and the sharp edges on the first few pockets define pain. Bring tape if you e a Nancy like me. Whew! This route is awesome! The mini-roof at the end is also fun. You get on this edge and then throw for this huge ledge (watch out, its pretty sharp too). A great place to spend a day. We found a lot of great routes around this area and were running 3 ropes all day long.
By Anonymous Coward
Mar 30, 2002
|New first bolt added 2/2002.
By Michael Amato
Oct 14, 2003
|I found the crux to be off the ground past (new) first bolt to second - rest up beneath the roof and climb straight up on solid holds.
By Michael Amato
Oct 15, 2003
|I didn't use that stem, I swear I didn't! I just had to check it out to see why everyone else was using it. And I can tell you, it goes just fine straight up! Thanks for the photo Ron!
By Anonymous Coward
Jan 9, 2005
|Paul Lanz not Kevin Mcglaughlin did the FFA of this route.
By Anonymous Coward
Jan 9, 2005
|Just some brief history on "the village idiot". This route was originally partially equiped by an ex C-springs local. The individual abandoned the project, Paul Lanz finished bolting it and then led it. Obviously, the name is aimed at its original would be first ascentionist....
By Matt Richardson
From: Longmont, CO
Sep 4, 2007
|Depending on how you approach this climb, I think that surmounting the roof is another crux. If you use the wall to the left, then the roof will be a little easier....if you huck for the large, positive ledge above the roof and high step to the lower ledge, then this portion will be harder.
By Ken Cangi
From: Eldorado Springs, CO
Sep 8, 2007
rating: 5.11a/b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|This was my first Shelf Road route. Not a bad route, but would be better if it weren't so close to the corner.
By jarthur
From: Westminster, CO
Jan 14, 2009
|This climb is not height dependent unless your pushing 7-ft. I'm 6'3" and still found the start reachy as hell with nothing but smears for feet. No matter how tall you are I think the start is just as hard for just about anyone since there are several options for the start. None of the holds felt better than the others until you finally clip the 2nd bolt.
By Noah G
From: Alma, Co
Sep 28, 2009
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|A favorite. Climbs slightly harder, though better quality, on a plumb line through the slab bolts all the way to the roof instead of stepping right.
By richard magill
Jan 23, 2012
|Pretty darn fun.
By Chrissy Crushes
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 19, 2015
rating: 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
|For someone who is 5' 5"...I did the crux at the bottom first try but found the roof super reachy and challenging.
By SammyJ
From: Colorado springs
Dec 5, 2016
|Good route, but beware of the choss on the right side of the boltline midway up. There is a lot of chalk on those hallow sketchy flakes.
By Parker Wrozek
From: Denver, CO
Mar 12, 2017
I enjoyed this one. The crux for me was the roof. The bottom has an additional bolt, so you feel really safe, the moves are not hard, and the feet are pretty good. The route is really fun and stays more sustained in the 11a range if you keep left/on the bolt line from bolt 3 to the roof. Most people follow the big holds and chalk to the right though it seems.
4 of us climbed the route. 3 people 5'8" and 1 6'4". All the short people had to cut feet dyno at the roof vs. a big but static move for the tall guy.


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Quote highlights from the Mike Brown news conference:
On getting a second chance with the Cavs: "Things work in mysterious ways."
On the upcoming season for the Cavs: "Our mantra this year is, 'Commitment to the Journey.' We'll have players around us who are selfless, who are accountable and have a blind trust in the group.
"We'll have a tough-minded, physical, defense-first group that is smart in all aspects of the game, at both ends of the floor."
On the question of whether he got enough credit for five straight playoff seasons his first time around as Cavs coach:
"I'm not looking for credit. I just want to win a championship, especially for this city."
On whether he felt any bitterness about circumstances that led to the end of his previous stint with the Cavs:
"No. That's just my nature. You appreciate opportunities people give you on your personal journey through life. At least for me, I'm able to move on. We had a nice run. It doesn't do any good for me or anyone else to dwell on the past. I prefer to stay in the present and look ahead to the future."
On re-hiring Brown: "Welcome to Mike Brown 2.0."
On whether it was a mistake to fire Brown in the first place: "Yeah, it was a mistake. For sure, it was a mistake. With the benefit of hindsight, yeah, it was a mistake."
On three straight losing seasons since the Brown firing: "The last three years have been extremely painful. We knew we had to go through this. That's the price you'll pay to establish a long run of success. That's what we're shooting for."
On the possibility of LeBron James returning to the Cavs as a free agent in 2014: "You can't get too far ahead of yourself."
On taking less than one week to finalize the re-hiring of Brown: "We did our due diligence. The one thing about our staff, we tend to turn over every stone. It was very clear, when Mike and I first spoke Friday or Saturday, this would be interesting for him. We moved quickly after that."


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The patents relate to the Advanced Access Control System used in Blu-Ray and Digital Transmission Content Protection used in wired and wireless distrubtion of compression aaudio and video.
"We have invested heavily in ECC research and development over many years and feel strongly that our shareholders deserve fair value from companies using our patented technology," said Certicom president and chief executive officer Bernard Crotty.
"We prefer to resolve these issues through commercial discussions and without litigation. However, at this point we are left with no alternative but to file suit."


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While the news surrounding Volition's sequel Saints Row IV may have first focused on its origins as DLC for Saints Row 3, this game is shaping up to be a one of a kind adventure. Fans already know they'll be stepping into the shoes of the President of the United States in the series' fourth entry, and a new trailer shows what responsibilities will accompany the office.
Forget Secret Service; this President – the player's character imported from Saints Row 3 – is capable of handling his own personal security. While also dealing out violence and super-power-fueled insanity to any who get in his way. Namely, aliens.
The newest Saints Row IV trailer from Volition and Deep Silver wastes no time in reminding fans that the studio's new corporate structure hasn't affected their sense of humor. With testicle jokes, profanity and yes, dubstep, it's clear the new path set with Saints Row 3 is one the developers intend to follow for the foreseeable future. In that game's universe, it's no surprise to see the American President tasked with defending the world(?) from an alien invasion.
Those aliens are of course known as The Zin, a varied race of extraterrestrials that range from offering players a means to unleash their super-powers, to seriously challenging enemy types. We'd like to think there's no enemy too powerful to be subdued by the aptly named 'Dubstep Gun' featured in the game, but some of the alien invaders might be up to the task.
Besides giving a look at the Uncle Sam suit included with the Commander in Chief Edition of the game, the trailer once again reminds us that while Saints Row IV may have started its life as DLC, it's now an entirely different animal. The developed have spoken in the past about just how much of the original 'Enter the Dominatrix' DLC had to be scrapped or rewritten, and with each new look at gameplay, our concerns over this game being simply a padded-out expansion are disappearing.
Are you as convinced that the open world, super-powers, enemy types and unique weaponry will be making Saints Row IV an even bigger and more memorable experience than its predecessor? Or is one irreverent and crass action game enough to tide you over for a few years?
Saints Row 4 releases August 20, 2013 for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
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Redskins losing streak hits four, Ravens pull off dramatic victory
Come on in, Washington Redskins fans. The Daybreak 5th Quarter psychiatrist's couch is open for business.
Let's talk about the last time you really felt good about your team. It must have been on the afternoon of Oct. 2, in the hours after a 17-10 win over the St. Louis Rams in the Gateway to the West.
Your guys were 3-1. They sat on top of the NFC East. Remember how good that felt?
Now, like Journey once said, hold onto that feeling. You might need the remnants of them for the rest of the season.
Nothing finer than the 49ers - When one player is accounting for nearly half of your total offense and your team is still down by 16 points, something is going wrong.
That's exactly what happened with rookie running back Roy Helu, whose 148 all-purpose yards was exactly 48.1 percent of the Redskins offensive production in their 19-11 loss to San Francisco.
Once again, the ire of the fans in Landover was directed toward John Beck.
By the middle of the 3rd quarter of Beck's 30/47, 254 yard performance, nearly everything Beck did got booed. Incompletion? BOO! Sacked? BOO! Handoff for loss? BOO! Jogging off the field after another stalled drive? BOO!
Helu's breakout game was overshadowed by an inability to move the football otherwise, including a paltry 52 yards on the ground against the NFL's stingiest rush defense.
"Right now you take a look at the offense and it's tough to take. It's tough to take for me," head coach Mike Shanahan said.
By the 5:00 mark of the 4th quarter, so few Redskins fans remained in the stadium that a loud, raucous, "Let's go Niners!" chant echoed much louder than a rendition of "Hail to the Redskins" after Washington's late touchdown.
Hey, but Graham Gano nailed a team-record 59-yard field goal, an impressive line-drive boot from nearly midfield. So they've got that going for them, which is nice.
In the grand scheme of things, the Redskins haven't won in over a month now and now sit by themselves at the bottom of the NFC East.
As usual, here's a recap, here are the stats, here's the Post's Thomas Boswell waxing poetically about the old days, and honestly, I'm running out of funny videos to distract you with. Here are some Art Monk highlights from 1986.
Irony of the day - The Redskins honored legendary linebacker Chris Hanburger at halftime, presenting him with this Pro Football Hall of Fame ring. As they showed his highlights on the video board, I couldn't help but think that three-quarters of his tackles would have been flagged in today's NFL. How times have changed.
Winning at the gun - In a span of three hours on Sunday night, the Baltimore Ravens went from dominating victors to near calamitous losers to hyper-dramatic victors...again.
The Ravens cemented a season sweep of division rival Pittsburgh with a 23-20, last-second victory at Heinz Field, but not before Baltimore almost blew it in the fourth quarter.
By all means, the first three quarters were all purple and black. Ray Rice rumbled (from Rutgers!) for a touchdown to give Baltimore a 16-6 lead late in the 3rd quarter, and by the looks of things, the Ravens' defense had more than enough momentum to make the lead stick.
Until they didn't. Rashard Mendenhall punched one in 28 seconds into the 4th quarter, and that was followed up by a Mike Wallace touchdown catch to give the Steelers a late lead.
But as Joe Flacco continues to do in his young career, he and the offense found the strength necessary to push down the field and win the game.
This time, it was a 92-yard drive in just over two minutes, capped off by a 26-yard strike to rookie WR Torrey Smith with eight seconds left to seal the victory.
"The Ravens have swept the Steelers this season, and more importantly, Flacco has started to show he can beat good quarterbacks consistently," Mike Preston wrote in the Baltimore Sun.
Also, Terrell Suggs pulled off what potentially was the play of the year with his 3rd quarter interception of Ben Roethlisberger. If you haven't seen it yet, scroll to the :36 mark of this video and prepare for your jaw to hit the floor.
After the jump, your weekly NFL Hot Reads and a look at Saturday's Maryland/Virginia game.
NFL Hot Reads
Spotted in Indianapolis - A guy wearing an Indianapolis Colts "LUCK 12" custom jersey. Man, if the Colts win a couple games this year, that's going to be $150 well spent.
Deja vu in Foxborough - In Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning drove the New York Giants down the field and scored in the final minute to stun the New England Patriots and win the NFL Title. This game certainly didn't have that kind of magnitude, but Manning did it again! The 24-20 loss was New England's first at Gillette Stadium in their last 25 home games.
Extra Skyline Chili for these guys! - If you had the Cincinnati Bengals and rookie quarterback Andy Dalton at 6-2 at the midway point of their season, raise your hand. Put your hand down. You're lying. But 6-2 they are after a 24-17 win over Tennessee.
Stunning OT win in the desert - By all means, Sunday's Rams/Cardinals game was a total snooze-fest. That is, until Patrick Peterson got his hands on a punt in overtime, and this happened. Wow.
No postseason for Maryland - Randy Edsall could have never seen this coming, nor could anyone involved in the Maryland football program, realistically.
With a new coach, renewed energy and a standout quarterback returning, 2-7 after the first week of November is somewhere not many people thought the Terrapins would be.
On the flip side, Mike London has got to be feeling good after the Virginia Cavaliers' 31-13 win in College Park on Saturday, sending the Wahoos to the postseason for the first time since 2007.
The Terps let another running back - this time Perry Jones - run roughshod over the defense, allowing Jones to rush for 139 yards and two scores.
Maryland's final three games are now moot when it comes to getting to a bowl games - they can't - and the lame duck portion of the Terrapins' season begins Saturday when they host Notre Dame at FedEx Field.


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San Francisco, CA, United States, 2010/12/03 - WebGreek, a provider of fraternity and sorority chapter management tools and fraternity and sorority websites, is pleased to announce the addition of an online polling application.
WebGreek, the leading chapter management platform for fraternities and sororities, announces the release of a full integration with PollDaddy. The new application will appear on the dashboard for existing members, and chapters using WebGreek will be able to send out unlimited polls and surveys to their members.
We added polling because we knew from first-hand experience how much time we wasted in our fraternity meetings when we were in college, says CEO Patrick Allen. It made much more sense to gather opinions and feedback online, and come to meetings prepared to take action. Because of WebGreeks open platform and PollDaddys API, the integration took only five weeks to complete. Now our members can easily vote on shirt designs, elections, party themes, dates, or anything else they need."
The new online polling feature is automatically added to existing users accounts, with no downloading or manual upgrading necessary. The application also syncs with existing member information, so that polls can be sent out through email directly from the application. Results are gathered automatically and displayed with attractive pie charts or bar graphs. Additionally, poll creators can blog repeat voting by cookie, or by IP address.
Alongside all of the other applications, this new addition seems to be very popular. Hundreds of polls were sent using the PollDaddy application in the first week. WebGreek (webgreek.com) continues to gather user feedback and will continually add new features to make fraternity management easier.
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Guidelines for Documentation of Psychiatric Disorders
Students with psychiatric disorders must provide the Office of Student Disability Services (OSDS) with documentation that meets general documentation guidelines established by this office. This information not only serves to validate the presence of a disability under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, it is useful in providing information which supports accommodation needs. All documentation will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Psychiatric Disorders
Students who have been diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder may be eligible to receive services through the Office of Student Disability Services if the disability significantly limits major life activities. Examples of psychiatric disorders are major depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and adjustment disorders.
Preferred Documentation
Students seeking accommodations for a psychiatric disorder should submit a report from their licensed mental health care provider. The mental health care provider is requested to fill out a form providing the following information:
- Diagnosis/Date of Diagnosis
- Specific psychiatric diagnosis from the DSM V-TR
- Description of nature, frequency, and severity of symptoms
- Impact on student's ability to participate in the university setting


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It speaks potently about the parallel evolution of taste and commercial interest that "Stomp" – which launched a five-performance run Friday night at the Mahalia Jackson Theater – began in 1991 as a darling of the fringe theatrical movement and over two decades has evolved into something utterly mainstream. No longer eccentric, stripped of its one-time radicalism amid myriad spinoffs, "Stomp" is perilously close to becoming a mere commodity of contemporary stagecraft.
That it escaped such a fate Friday night testified to the exceptional gifts of the eight performers who rendered the Mahalia Jackson stage into an ongoing celebration of glorious cacophony. Originally conceived and directed by Luke Creswell and Steve McNicholas, "Stomp" is a laboratory for revealing how found objects, items we tend to throw away at one moment and forget the next, can reveal as many aural textures as the most formalized of musical instruments. The conceits, whether founded in the ear or in the eye, aim to tease and beguile you. Leave your idealism in the lobby, give yourself over to the winking investigations in front of you, and are likely to emerge suitably gobsmacked.
Nobody says anything (apart from a few grunts and whoops) throughout the nearly two uninterrupted hours of "Stomp"; this is not a show in which the word ever trumps the sound. Yet there is plenty of narrative expression intrinsic to this piece, evident from the very first vignette. A lone figure appears underneath the looming set, wielding a push broom. We hear a few barely discernible attacks – accents, really – as the bristles meet the floor. It is as though a drummer has exchanged sticks for brushes, except here there is an immediate incongruity between traditional and anti-traditional form and function.
Moments later the broom is turned on its side, and the brushes become staccato ticks. More figures appear, young men and women clad in streetsmart downscale outfits, and what were unremarkable textures soon gain layer upon layer of rhythmic and dynamic nuance.
This is a critical point. It's easy to regard to "Stomp" is a lot of banging and sonic grandstanding. To do so would be to make a serious misinterpretation. The core of "Stomp" can be found as much in understatement as via slambangery. Witness an interlude in which the eight performers, bathed in darkness, wield Zippo lighters to produce a succession of blended clicks and minute explosions of flame. Or a sequence where the artists tap on varying lengths of plastic pipe – tuned percussion, surprising and subtle.
At the other extreme of "Stomp" lies humor that is unabashedly ribald. A bunch of guys with kitchen sinks hanging from their necks (I kid you not) delight in ending their routine by draining water into waiting buckets. Let's just say that the winner of this contest isn't satisfied with mere drips and dribbles.
Elsewhere, whether dangling in harnesses from the top of the set or engaging in hyper-speed clashes of sticks and trashcan lids, "Stomp" revels in giddy physicality. My 13-year-old son, who accompanied me on Friday and is himself a percussionist, confirmed that the show's coolness factor never flagged. He may not have been alive when "Stomp" was hatched, but it's a safe wager that the show will still be whisking, pounding and winking when his own children are ready to surrender themselves to its eclectic pleasures.
performances of "Stomp" -- presented by Broadway in New Orleans -- are Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets:
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Posted 9/10/16, and pictures taken on 8/20/16. Farren was running free with her mom Amelia and siblings in Lindale, TX, and was trapped on 6/8/16. She has tamed down to where she likes getting pet, and is a Torbie, which is a mix between a Calico and Tabby.
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$70 adoption fee will pay for her spay and vaccinations.
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EUE/Screen Gems Studios will reinstate its studio tours
EUE/Screen Gems Studios will reinstate its studio tours in spring 2014, Executive Vice President Bill Vassar confirmed Friday.
The tours, which ended in 2011 after the locally filmed teen TV drama "One Tree Hill" wrapped production, will allow movie and TV fans the opportunity to take a guided tour of the backlot stages at the studio.
Vassar said set pieces from the CBS hit summer series "Under the Dome," based on a science fiction novel by Stephen King, will be featured in the new round of tours. The show started filming in the Wilmingon area in February.
In the past, the studio tours have taken fans on the sets of "Dawson's Creek" and "One Tree Hill."
An official start date has not yet been determined.
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As the stock market's rampage has snatched billions from investors' portfolios, the spotlight is on golden parachutes for exiting CEOs of troubled firms. Lehman Brothers' Richard S. Fuld Jr. was hammered in Washington over the hundreds of millions he collected (between $250-million and $480-million since 2000, depending on who's estimating) before its bankruptcy nosedive. Part of his take: $24-million as he walked out the door. On the flip side is AIG ex-chief Robert Willumstad, who took the politically safe route of declining a $22-million parachute when the government took over. Here's a look at some past and potential exit packages (cash, pension, benefits, accelerated stock and options and other compensation).
Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer
$161-million: Merrill Lynch, Stanley O'Neal
O'Neal left Merrill in October 2007 in the wake of an $8.4-billion write-down. The bulk of his hefty payout was for accelerated stock and options ($87.3-million) and vested options ($43.5-million) with a $24.7-million pension tacked on.
$56-million: Countrywide Financial, Anthony Mozilo
Under Mozilo, Countrywide became the kingpin of subprime mortgages. Bank of America, which bought Countrywide in June, has agreed to give $9-billion to Countrywide customers to settle predatory lending suits.
$44-million: Washington Mutual, Kerry Killinger
J.P. Morgan Chase acquired Washington Mutual last month after subprime loans drove the Seattle-based bank under. Killinger had left before regulators seized WaMu assets, marking the biggest bank failure in U.S. history.
$24-million: Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld
Fuld accepted some culpability while blaming the media, short sellers and the government for an "extraordinary run'' on the legendary investment bank. Mark it down as the biggest corporate bankruptcy ever.
$19-million: Washington Mutual, Alan Fishman
Fishman wins the prize for efficiency. On the job for less than three weeks before WaMu's sale to J.P. Morgan Chase, he was eligible for $11.6-million in cash severance and entitled to keep his $7.5-million signing bonus.
$16-million Freddie Mac, Richard Syron
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has indicated Syron may not receive the exit pay spelled out in his employment contract now that Freddie is under federal control. The thinly capitalized lender was placed into conservatorship Sept. 7.
$13-million: Bear Stearns, James "Jimmy'' Cayne
The exit pay was chump change. Cayne reportedly made $161-million before the company collapsed in June and was sold to J.P. Morgan Chase.
$9-million: Merrill Lynch, John Thain
Hold on. Bank of America, which bought Merrill, said Monday that Thain will stay on board with a major role in the combined company. He's on the short list to succeed BofA chief Ken Lewis, who faces mandatory retirement in four years.
$8-million: Fannie Mae, Daniel Mudd
Like Syron, Mudd stands to lose part or all of his exit pay after the government took control. Mudd reportedly disregarded warnings from his managers that lenders were making too many loans that would never be repaid.
Source: James F. Reda & Associates


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The Clone Wars is back and with that yet another season of Expanding the Clone Wars, where we explore how The Clone Wars TV series fits in with current Star Wars Expanded Universe stories. In Episode 5.01 "Revival," brothers Maul and Savage look to build an army of pirates by forcibly recruiting Hondo Ohnaka and his gang only to be confronted by Obi-Wan and Adi Gallia. Join us in this week's edition of Expanding the Clone Wars as we discuss Adi Gallia's fate, Snaggletooth, Sith/pirate alliances in galactic history and more!
Look for EUCantina's review of "Revival" on We Talk Clones later this week.
Adi Gallia's Death
Discussed ad nauseam by Star Wars Expanded Universe fans since "Revival" aired has been Adi Gallia's death at the hands of Savage Opress. Adi Gallia, the Tholothian Jedi Master, was originally killed off in the comic Star Wars: Obsession but her death depicted in the season 5 premiere drastically contradicts any parts of the original comic detailing her demise.
Adi Gallia was present on the Jedi High Council in 22 BBY but was killed in action during the Clone Wars and her spot on the Jedi High Council was replaced by Stass Allie sometime before 19 BBY. During the Battle of Boz Pity, Adi Gallia alongside Mace Windu and Soon Bayts, fought against General Grievous and during their duel the General surprised Gallia by splitting his arms in half, grabbing her by the throat, and stabbing her in the chest.
Now with her new death at the hands of Savage, Gallia dies twice in the Expanded Universe. Leland Chee, the Keeper of the Holocron continuity database, has announced that her death depicted in "Revival" overrides any parts of the Obsession comic and any parts detailing her death in it should be treated as non-canon
In this episode, we never actually saw Adi Gallia's corpse in The Clone Wars since the killing blow occurred off screen but due to the fact that the episode was aired on a Saturday morning and needs to have a family friendly rating it was clearly just an editing choice and we have to assume there is no way for her to be resuscitated after that killing stroke. There is no easy way of retconning this one to make it fit in with current Expanded Universe. Unless Adi was wearing some Cortosis armour underneath her robes on Boz Pity, this either means Adi never played a role during the Battle of Boz Pity and we have to pretend she doesn't exist on the pages when we reread Obsession, or the Boz Pity storyline is based before these episodes like I suggested in earlier editions of "Expanding the Clone Wars" and Adi Gallia somehow survived Grievous' death blow and lived only to die at Savage's blade.
Maul managed to survive being cut in half and K'kruhk survived his duel against Grievous so who knows, maybe Adi Gallia was saved from the battlefield of Boz Pity by the magic of Jedi Healing, but that's probably a stretch.
It wouldn't be surprising if the Snivvian at Cybloc station was Zutton, better known as "Snaggletooth, the artist who was present at Chalmun's Cantina in 0 BBY when Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan were looking for transport to Alderaan.
During the Galactic Civil War, Zutton worked for Jabba the Hutt as a bounty hunter on occasion and sold much of his art for his spice addiction. If Zutton is in fact the Snivvian who was present aboard Cybloc station, how did he go from there to becoming a lowlife on Tatooine? Was he victim to Imperial persecution against alien species post-Clone Wars which caused him to go underground and become hooked on spice? Potential for an interesting backstory to fill in the blanks.
Other Stuff
Maul looked to recruit members of Hondo's pirate gang to assist him and this is not the first time in the Expanded Universe Sith have used pirates for their plans. During the New Sith Wars, pirates flew under the Sith flag in the Outer Rim and Jedi Knight Rohlan Hoth fought them in a showdown on Hoth, freeing the Corellian Trade Spine from their pillaging.
Cybloc station was in the Meridian Sector which was first mentioned in the novel Planet of Twilight where refuges from the Meridian sector colonized Nam Chorios.
The cargo that Jiro and the Weequay pirates discovered on the Zabrak brother's vessel included pure Sansanna Spice which first appeared in the Marvel comic Star Wars Annual 2: Shadeshine in which Han Solo and Chewbacca travelled to Ventooine to deal in Sansanna spice.
And finally, Obi-Wan Kenobi mentions that with the Jedi preoccupied with the Clone Wars, the Crime Lords of the galaxy have been allowed to flourish unchecked as we have seen in previous Expanded Universe stories. Mika, leader of the Crimson Nova bounty hunter's guild, flourished as she set bounties on the heads of Jedi, and Black Sun vigos such as Lord Xist were profiteering off of weapons and intelligence.
Thanks for joining us this week as we expanded Episode 5.01 "Revial" and make sure you join us next week as we explore Episode 5.02 "A War on Two Fronts" and delve deep into Onderon during the Clone Wars, a planet very familiar to Expanded Universe fans!
Obsession, Planet of Twilight, Republic: Show of Force, Secrets of Tatooine, Star Wars: Clone Wars – Chapter 21, Star Wars Annual 2: Shadeshine, and The Essential Guide to Warfare,
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The Deal
- $29.50 for one G-Pass to The Summer Nationals Tour feat. The Offspring w/ Bad Religion, Pennywise and Stiff Little Fingers (up to $59 value)
- When: Friday, August 15, at 6:30 p.m.
- Where: Cruzan Amphitheatre
- Seating: upper house, reserved section 4–8
- Door time: 5:30 p.m.
- Ticket values include all fees.
How G-Pass Works: Your G-Pass will be ready to print 48 hours after the deal ends. Print the G-Pass and use it to enter the venue directly; you won't need to redeem at will call. Due to security restrictions, G-Passes cannot be redeemed through the Groupon mobile app. Discount reflects the merchant's current ticket prices - price may differ on day of event.
The Summer Nationals Tour Featuring The Offspring
- Which record to bring if you're vying to get something signed: their third album, Smash, which they'll be playing it in its entirety
- Better known as: the record that launched "Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," and "Gotta Get Away" onto alt-rock radio and the band into international success
- Why they're playing it now: they released it 20 years ago, just before playing a three-day, sold-out Epitaph Records showcase at the Hollywood Palladium.
- Who else was sweating alongside them: fellow Cali acts Bad Religion and Pennywise, who'll also appear on this tour
- Most surprising recent Bad Religion release: an album of Christmas songs—a surprisingly apt fit for their trademark three-part harmonies


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Tufts University School of Medicine and Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management have formed a partnership that will allow medical students to receive an accredited degree from each school in four years.
The program will start this fall with the entering class of 2013, which has 10 students in the program. The students will receive a medical degree from Tufts and a master's in business administration from Brandeis.
The four-year combined degree is the latest iteration in a curriculum instituted 10 years ago, says John Ludden, who directs the MD/MBA program. In the past, he says, students received a medical degree from Tufts and studied business at Northeastern and at Brandeis. Now Brandeis will be totally responsible for the MBA and will ultimately grant the degree.
Ludden says the change will allow medical students to receive an accredited MBA degree. In the past, students received their MDs from Tufts, but because Tufts does not have a business school, the MBA was not accredited and so was designated as an MBA in health management.
The Heller MBA program prepares students to manage organizations with a social mission, including the nonprofit and public sector. Its training addresses issues facing organizations that help underserved and vulnerable populations.


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Recently, there has been a heated debate on differing approaches to the design and evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives, and a publication by Reina Neufeldt does an excellent job of exploring the differing approaches and identifies emerging models and practices that mediate tension between the two perspectives. She describes the two camps as framers--
those who develop linear, cause-effect thinking, measurable indicators, and empirical findings-- and circlers-- those who are relationship-focused, context-driven, and adaptive.
Hot Resource! "Frameworkers" and "Circlers"—Exploring Assumptions in Impact Assessment by Reina C. Neufeldt
Neufeld begins by explaining that this debate is not just a superficial one but instead lies on an epistemological and ontological level. In this table, the framers are closely associated with the positivist approach, and the circlers are associated with the interpretive approach:
Beliefs and Assumptions
Positivist Approach
Interpretive Approach
Nature of Reality
Reality is single, tangible, and objectively given
Realities are socially constructed, there can be multiple constructions and realities, they are accessed through shared meaning
Relationship of knower to the known
Knower and known are independent (dualism)
Knower and known are interactive and inseparable
Possibility of generalization
Generalizations are possible, and are time- and context-free
Only time- and context-bound working hypotheses are possible
Possibility of causal linkages
There are real causes, that precede or are simultaneous with their effects
All entities are in a state of mutual simultaneous shaping, so that it is impossible to distinguish causes from effects
Role of values
Inquiry is value-free
Inquiry is value-bound
Research methods usually used
Aim of knowledge
Increase predictive understandings of phenomena
Deep and insightful understanding of phenomena
Attitudes to field practice or action
Practice and research inquiry are separate enterprises
Research is a type of practice that affects the context and can be a deliberate intervention strategy (action research
As this table indicates, framers and circlers often see how the world operates in a very different light, which causes them to subsequently take their approaches to evaluation very differently. It is important to note that not every framer is a positivist and not every circler is interpretive. Often each camp borrows from the other, overlapping in some categories, or at the very least acknowledges the other approach in some circumstances.[1]
To look at these approaches specific to the peacebuilding context is difficult. At first look, circlers and the interpretive approach aligns closer to the underpinnings of peacebuilding: relationship-focused work in complex, fast-changing environments. However, when it comes to evaluation, peacebuilders also need to develop rigorous measurement systems that attempt to find causality, or at the very least, contribution.
This is where it starts to get complicated. How do peacebuilders make sure our systems of evaluation are in fact more rigorous? Often times this means evaluation becomes quantitative in nature, or more in line with the framers perspective. Despite the belief that quantitative and cause-effect questions are generally believed to add rigor to an evaluation, sometimes this may not necessarily be the case.
Take for example, Randomized Control Trials (RCTs), which over the past few years have become the "gold standard" of evaluation. RCTs have been glorified because of their scientific rigor and their supposed ability to test any sort of intervention.However, in the excellent Randomised Control Trials for the Impact Evaluation of Development Initiatives, Carlos Barahona notes two problems: scale and contamination. On one hand, the indicators for RCTs need to be limited to a size in which they can be accurately measured, and on the other, a level of control must be held that nullifies the contamination of outside variables.[2] Often what occurs in RCTs is the question that it seeks to answer is so miniscule that it ends up being a "well that was obvious" moment or they run into context-specific results that fail to generalize. In other words, RCTs can run into many of the same problems of an interpretive approach and therefore may not necessarily add significant rigor to an evaluation.
Hot Tip! Check out this TED Talk by Esther Duflo, founder of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, on why RCTs are important in international development.
This is not to say that RCTs and Framer approaches do not have a place in peacebuilding evaluation. Rather, Framer and Circler approaches are just that – a place among other approaches, not the methodological approach to all evaluation contexts.[3] RCTs are not a "one size fits all" evaluation approach. Instead of defining credible evidence by which approach is used, evidence that is credible should be determined by the question, the context, the methodological assumptions, the theory of evaluation and the resources available.[4]
Hot Resource! Check out evaluator Jane Davidson's blog post on why there is no best tool to measure effectiveness!
The question that arises now is how to add value to peacebuilding evaluation methodologies in the midst of the framer-circler debate. Despite the differences between the two, there are common goals that can be built upon. Both groups desire to transform conflicts, promote peace, and respond to community needs.[5] With this in mind, Neufeldt suggests that there are two emerging models that combine both circler and framer approaches.
First, Neufeldt mentions theory of change as an approach in which both circlers and framers can apply their pre-existing worldviews. Framers can develop potential cause-effect relationships within theories of change while circlers are not limited to linear approaches and can still use more nuanced language.[6] More specific to evaluation, Neufeldt states "Frameworkers can look to test theories of change, while circlers can look to reflect on practice and better understand what is going on and what they are learning in the process about how to impact change."[7]
Hot Resource! Peacebuilding with Impact: Defining Theories of Change by CARE
Second, the Most Significant Change approach is identified as a bridge in the circler-framer tension. Through "systematic storytelling," MSC allows enough rigidity to appease framers but still allows fluidity for circlers; for framers it is a system, and for circlers it is storytelling. This fluid rigidity allows for a group of stakeholders to systematically review and collect stories to determine what is the most significant change or impact of the intervention.[8] MSC also works to solve the differing "value-free" framer perspective and the "value-bound" circler perspective. Because MSC must determine what exactly is "significant" it must choose between competing value systems, but this is done through a decision-making process that is equitable to donors, implementers, and community members.[9]
Hot Resource! The Most Significant Change: A Guide to its Use by Rick Davies and Jess Dart
Hot Resource! Check out our blog post and DM&E Tip on theories of change!
Despite differing and often opposing worldviews between circlers and framers, there is space in which collaboration is possible. These creative approaches that attempt to incorporate both worldviews have a potential to add value and rigor to peacebuilding impact evaluation.
Hot Resources
Randomized Control Trials for the Impact Evaluation of Development Initiatives: A Statistician's Point of View by Carlos Barahona
"Frameworkers" and "Circlers" – Exploring Issues in Impact Assessment by Reina C. Neufeldt
The Most Significant Change: A Guide to its Use by Rick Davies and Jess Dart
Why "What's the best tool to measure the effectiveness of X?" is totally the wrong question by Jane Davidson
[1] Reina Neufeldt "Frameworkers" and "Circlers"—Exploring Assumptions in Impact Assessment, Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, 2011, p. 491, accessed 6 June 2012, http://dmeforpeace.omnidev3.com/learn/frameworkers-and-circlers-exploring-assumptions-impact-assessment.
[2] Carlos Barahona, Randomised Control Trials for the Impact Evaluation of Development Initiatives: A Statistician's Point of View, ILAC Working Paper 13, 2010, pg. 10, accessed 6 June 2012, http://www.cgiar-ilac.org/files/publications/working_papers/ILAC_WorkingPaper_No13_Randomised%20Control%20Trials.pdf
[4] S. Donaldson and C. Christie, What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?, Sage Publications, 2008 quoted in Barahona, Randomized Control Trials, 11.


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Just another day in paradise….sigh You know when you stop and think about it, just about any day we wake up, take a breath and are able to stand up, it's a good day. We might have aches and pains, it could be 100 degrees outside (without the heat index) or it could be suffering torrential downpours, but the truth of the matter is……it could be a lot worse. So even though I wasn't standing quite as straight as I may have liked this morning, I did in fact take a deep breath and walked under my own power downstairs to start the flow of coffee into my system.
Lisa and I had a great time in Florida, as rushed as it was. We did get to spend a little time immersed in Disney, visited with some old friends and saw more houses in two days than we can even remember. This was definitely a time when too many choices were not a good thing. We did narrow down the search a bit, but there will surely be a return visit in about a month to make sure we weren't just delirious. I think I may even have to use the video portion of my 7D (time to bring out the manual).
Enough of my rambling for now, because today is Guest Post Friday!! Woo hoo!! That's right my favorite day of the week, the day I get to share my blog with a friend and let them show off their culinary creations! Today my friends it's my great pleasure to introduce Jen from Juanita's Cocina to those of you that don't already know her. Jen is still fairly new to the food blogging community but since the arrival of Juanita's Cocina in January, she has been tempting us with a constant source of delicious and creative dishes, featuring everything from Huevos Rancheros to Blood Orange Panna Cotta. I can also promise you that every time you visit Jen, you'll get a healthy portion of Texas Hospitality, and that my friends is a very good thing……take it from a native Texan!
So sit back, relax, take off your hat and kick your boots off , and get ready for some down home cookin' as I give you………
Juanita's Cocina
Hi, y'all! I'm Jen from Juanita's Cocina! I was thrilled when Chef Dennis asked if I would guest post for him here in his kitchen! You'll hear over and over again how great Chef Dennis is, how friendly he is to his fellow food bloggers, how supportive he is…and I absolutely have to agree. So, when the Chef comes a knockin' on your door and asks you to step into his kitchen, you jump for joy (a lot) and then you say, "Abso-stinkin'-lutely!"
So, here I am.
I thought long and hard about the perfect dish to share here at Chef Dennis' place. I wanted something that was not only delicious, but something that spoke about me as a food blogger and home cook.
I thumbed through recipes. I searched the net.
And then I found a recipe for sopa de fideo (a spicy, noodle and tomato-based soup) in my very favorite cookbook, "The Homesick Texan" by, Lisa Fain.
And my heartstrings got a little tighter. And I knew this was the dish to share.
You may wonder why I had such a reaction to a plate of food. I'll begin by saying that I think food has emotional ties for many of us. Food is bonding, it connects us with past memories, and it comforts us. This dish is no different for me.
When my son was very young and I was a very young mother, we ate sopa de fideos all of the time, sometimes several times a week. I was a single mother, putting myself through college, while trying to raise a child who had multiple health issues and other challenges.
Fideos was an inexpensive dish to make. It filled our bellies but it didn't break the bank. In leaner times, my son and I had only noodles and tomato broth. When times were better, I'd add meat and veggies to the soup. The one constant ingredient each time I made fideos was love.
I went on to graduate from college and entered my career of choice. I no longer had to make fideos every week for us to share. I promised myself that I'd never be back at a place in my life where all I ate was the same things, over and over, because that was all that I could afford.
Sopa de fideos is often referred to in the Mexican culture as "poor man's food". And while I may not agree and I would never say we were "poor", I would say that we had times where we had to eat what we could afford. I don't know that I ever promised myself to never eat fideos again, but I never stopped at that section of the grocery aisle. I never put the ingredients in my basket. Whether that was by choice or because of some subconscious decision, I'll never know.
What I do know is that I'm in a very different place now. And I settled on sopa de fideos for this guest post because it brought me back to a time when things were simpler, and it conjured images that were comforting and satisfying…and delicious.
While this dish may seem simple (it is), it is layered with deep, earthy flavors and spice. Simple doesn't have to mean bland or unappetizing. Simple can mean satisfyingly comfortable. Simple can be all of the best memories of your life.
I hope you make this dish to share at your family table…not because it's simple, but because of all it has to offer.
- 3-4 dried chiles I used 2 guajillos and one ancho
- 2 tsp . oil divided
- 1/2 medium onion diced finely
- 4 cloves garlic diced finely
- 1 cup canned crushed tomatoes
- 6-8 cups chicken broth depends on your desired consistency
- 1/2 tsp . chili powder
- 1 tsp . ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp . ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp . cayenne
- 8 oz . fideo pasta (you can substitute angel hair pasta broken into small pieces)
- 1 lime cut into wedges
- Chopped cilantro for garnish
- In a large skillet or saucepan, toast the chiles on each side for about 10 seconds, or just until they begin to puff. Cover the chiles with enough water to submerge them, bring the water to a boil, and then turn off the heat. Allow the chiles to soften in the water for approximately 30 minutes. Once the chiles have soaked, remove them from the water, remove the stems, and place them in a blender.
- Heat 1 tsp. of oil in a large pot/dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until translucent, for approximately 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 30 more seconds.
- Add the cooked onions and garlic to the blender with the chiles. Add the tomatoes, 1 cup of broth, chili powder, cumin, allspice, and cayenne. Puree the mixture until smooth.
- In the same pot you used to saute the onions and garlic, add the other tsp. of oil and heat over medium heat. Once oil is hot, add the fideo and cook for 2 minutes until it becomes a little toasted and brown, ensuring that you stir constantly.
- Add the chile/tomato mixture to the pot with the pasta. Add approximately 5 more cups of broth. Bring the sopa to a boil over high heat, reduce the heat to medium and allow the pasta to simmer for approximately 10 minutes until it is tooth-tender. If the broth thickens or disappears too much for your liking, feel free to add more chicken broth.
- Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper as needed.
- Serve fideos in a bowl with cilantro and a lime wedge. You can add a sprinkling of Mexican cheese (such as queso quesadilla or queso fresco) when serving as well.
Making this dish brought back lots of memories for me. Wonderful memories and reflections.
The best part of making this dish? I was able to share new memories with my wife. I was able to serve her a simple yet delicious dish, and I was able to share with her the history behind this dish for me.
What's that dish for you? What's the one dish that brings back a flood of memories and comfort?
Thank you, Chef Dennis for allowing me to share this fabulously simple dish with you here in your kitchen! This post has been one of my favorites to do. It truly demonstrates how food leaves us with strong memories and feelings, no matter how simple the dish.
Now that's some good eatin', and I loved those images of that delicious Sopa de Fideo! Thanks so much for such a beautifully written guest post Jen and for sharing your memories with us!
Now before Y'all forget head on over to Juanita's Cocina and say hi to Jen, just don't forget to tell her Chef Dennis sent you! Make sure to bring a glass of sweet tea with you and sit a spell, you're going to love what you see!
Have a great weekend my friends!


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multicast dns
UDP port 5353 is open on my computer. Do I need this port open? I know what dns is but have no idea what a multicast DNS is. I assume it is something of a group like nature.
My network has been very laggish and connections often timeout.
Apparently I cannot block access to this port lol I know that my computer needs the dns in order to access the web but I always thought by default it used port 53. Not port 5353. I did not change it from 53 to 5353. How can I change it back?
You may not need any of this if you have configured all of the networking stuff (router, printer, file server...whatever is relevant) manually, but, if you are relying on automatic configuration of any of this stuff, it'll stop wotking once you block this protocol.
Mind you, that can be done without mDNS, so0 it is still not clear that mDNS is the only possible cause.
The default for dns is port 53. You probably haven't changed that, but that's unconnected with mDNS (although, if something that doesn't listen on 53 uses mDNS to tell the rest of the network that it does listen on port 53, that could be problematic, but you don't need to block mDNS to cure that, just configure the devices that advertise resources to advertise them correctly).
I tried blocking port 5353 but I guess that's the DNS my laptop is using. I used iptables -A INPUT -p udp -j DROP to drop all incoming I reset my iptables then rebooted. I was not able access the net.
My DNS originally was bound to tcp port 53. Then all of the sudden a local server on port 53 appeared. Now its gone and 5353 is open on the udp side. How do I manually change it back? What file do I have to edit?
This sounds like IP6 to me. It does use Multicasting, with such a large address space to consider. Check to see how this is implemented, does your local router have this enabled? My2cents
I think this is when I was running 12.xx. I have been using Lubuntu recently. My laptop crapped out and I had to buy a new one. I really didn't feel like installing Arch again. But I upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 and the port 5353 was open once again. I think it has something to do with how 12 is set up. I reinstalled 11.10 and stuck with it. No more open port 5353.
Anyway, my wireless drivers dont agree with the newer kernel. I will never ever buy a Toshiba again. Thanks
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Councillors Andrew Fender and Pat Karney joined engineers to ride Metrolink's new Second City Crossing and witness first-hand the rigorous testing and commissioning process.
The new route, which will connect the major new St Peter's Square tram stop with Exchange Square and Victoria Station, is on track to open to passengers soon.
The Second City Crossing is the final piece of Metrolink's £1.5bn 'big bang' expansion programme – which has seen extensions to MediaCityUK, East Didsbury, Rochdale via Oldham, Ashton and Manchester Airport – and will allow more trams to run through the city centre and across the 93-stop network.
Councillor Fender, Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, said: "We're on the home stretch now as engineers carry out the final phase of testing to check all the infrastructure and test out the tram management system on this important new route through the city.
"While the Second City Crossing is a relatively short stretch of line, it is a crucial piece in the Metrolink jigsaw – allowing us to run more trams on a more flexible and reliable tram network. That's great news not just for the city centre, but for customers right across Greater Manchester."
Councillor Pat Karney added: "It's a thrill to be one of the first people to experience a journey on the new Second City Crossing. We've all seen the progress as the work to lay the line through the city has gone on, and to be able to see the finish line in sight is fantastic after the years of hard work."
The Second City Crossing is part of the transformational Grow project which is seeing more than £1 billion invested into city centre infrastructure improvements, including bus priority measures, six new and better cycle routes into the city centre and major rail improvements.
The first phase of the Second City Crossing opened from Victoria through to a new stop at Exchange Square in December 2015. Fast-tracked thanks to the European Regional Development Fund, this new line is allowing a six-minute daytime service to run between Shaw and Crompton, Oldham and the city centre from Monday to Saturdays.
The final stretch of the Second City Crossing continues along Cross Street and Princess Street through to a major new two platform stop at St Peter's Square.
The Deansgate-Castlefield, Victoria and Market Street tram stops have all been upgraded in readiness to handle more services when the Second City Crossing opens.
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Linfield boss David Jeffrey has been named Northern Ireland Football Writers BT Sport Manager of the Month for December.
This is the 32nd time the Linfield manager has collected the prestigious award since his first in February 1998. It is his second of the season, having also won the September award.
"I'd like to say thank you very much for this award, to the Football Writers' and their sponsors," Jeffrey said.
"I've won 32 of these award and I've never tire of them. Whilst it's an individual award, it's the team that wins this trophy, so I have to give credit to the players and my staff. It's privilege to collect this award on their behalf."
In December Linfield won all four of their league games, beating Coleraine, Ballinamallard United, Portadown and Glentoran.


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THERE is something to be said about wake-up calls — and not just those made by hotel receptionists seeking to shake awake sleep-deprived guests. As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, sometimes all it takes is that one defining, dramatic, moment to spur individuals, leaders or even entire nations to change course.
It's not a question of one-size-fits-all. One man or woman's life-changing event or wake-up call can leave another person completely unmoved.
But warning signals, red alerts or wake-up calls — call them what you will — have one thing in common: they shake you up, put an end to complacency and smugness and make you wonder if there is not a different and better way to conduct yourself. The event can be small or big, personal or national. It can be happy or sad, joyous or tragic. But once it happens, life, attitudes, behaviour are never the same again.
This is certainly true as regards the Sept 11 attacks. The attacks and the 'war on terror' that followed have changed the destiny of thousands of individuals and many nations. The sinking of Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is a more recent case in point.
Italy has been shaken in recent months by the euro crisis, the erratic conduct of its former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the spate of scandals he spawned in his wake.
Yes, most Italians were angry and embarrassed by Berlusconi's outrageous antics. And yes, they were shocked by the impacts of the sovereign debt crisis on their daily lives.
But nothing has shaken Italy as much as the tragic maritime disaster. Part of the grief is over the fact that more than 30 people are dead or missing and that hundreds more could have been killed during the botched rescue operations. However, it's the cowardly conduct of the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, that seems to have shocked the Italian nation into undertaking some much-needed soul-searching.
Critics say Schettino's decision to disembark early, leaving hundreds of people behind, is a metaphor for how the country's key politicians have often abandoned duty and put personal interest over the common good. Schettino is under house arrest and expected to be tried for manslaughter. A tape of his conversation with Capt Gregorio De Falco at Livorno Port Authority — who shouted "You get back on board!"— has gone viral. The exact Italian wording is now available on T-shirts.
As Italian writer Beppe Severgnini wrote in the Financial Times, Schettino is now a villain. "Italians today are all for Capt Gregorio De Falco who shouted 'Vada a bordo, cazzo!' Because this is where we want to be: on board, safely in Europe and within the eurozone, possibly without hitting the bottom first."
Certainly, Italy's technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti is not one to abandon ship. And if the cruise disaster does indeed work as a wake-up call, then Italians will be ready to follow his orders and stay on board as he steers Italy to calmer economic waters.
The latest move to downgrade the credit rating of an array of eurozone countries, including France, by credit rating agency Standard & Poor's is another wake-up call — this time aimed at the oft-squabbling European politicians who have failed to get their act together on easing the eurozone debt crisis. Some EU leaders do appear to have got the message. For example even as he raged against the downgrade, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has responded to the criticism by ushering in a series of ad hoc measures to cut unemployment.
Last year, unexpectedly the Arab Spring was a huge wake-up call to an entire region — and indeed the Islamic world more generally — to listen to the voice and aspirations of an entire generation of frustrated people. Some leaders like Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak were shocked out of their complacent dictatorial lifestyles by angry demonstrations. But Libya's Muammar Gaddafi never really woke up to the new reality around him until his violent death while Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad also seems to be sleepwalking his way towards a disastrous end.
Pakistan's civilian and military movers and shakers appear to be equally indifferent to warning signals and wake-up calls. One would have thought that the break-up of Pakistan and the establishment of Bangladesh in 1971 would have been a humbling 'lesson learned' moment for Pakistan's arrogant political and military elite. Since then, however, there have been so many more red lines that have been crossed and so many 'never again' moments that have occurred over and over again. From the assassination of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and then of his daughter Benazir to the murders of Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti and to earthquakes and floods, Pakistan has received more than its share of wake-up calls which could have resulted in action and policies to put its house in order and stop repeating the errors of the past.
And yet, these and other tragedies have done little to provoke any real national reflection and debate on how to change course. Instead of learning from past mistakes, the latest stand-off between the army, civilians and the judiciary illustrates that Pakistan's so-called leaders take an almost sadistic pleasure in taking their country over and over again to the edge of the abyss.
Yes Pakistanis are a resilient lot and yes they are patient with their leaders. But they also know that when the crunch does come, like the disgraced captain of the sunken Italian cruise liner, most of Pakistan's politicians will jump ship, rushing to safe havens abroad, while the rest of the population is left scrambling for a limited number of lifeboats.
The writer is Dawn's correspondent in Brussels.


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Li-ion batteries have proven to be an efficient high performance power source; however, safety functions such as voltage monitoring, over-/overdischarge detection, cell balancing and temperate measuring play a crucial role in order to secure stable and safe operation. Rohm provides a portfolio of different families addressing the needs of the respective target applications, further offering chipsets for complete multiple-cell control and protection solutions.
These are low consumption current protector ICs compatible with multiple-cell series-connected Li-ion battery packs (five to ten respectively 13 cells), detecting the over-charge or over-discharge and over-current of each cell. They also integrate the Gate driver for an automatic ON/OFF control of the external PMOS-FET or N-ch FET (depending on the version) for the charge and discharge. Based on the results of the voltage control of each cell or the entire battery pack, as well as the monitoring of the charge and discharge current, an external MCU can perform corresponding actions to protect the batteries and to prevent the system to get into an irregular state. For a complete protection solution, Rohm also offers the MCU ML5227 which can be used in combination with the battery monitoring IC. The monitoring IC can supply 3.3V power supply to the MCU so that no external voltage regulator is needed. The MCU is an 8bit high-performance controller based on the low power Microcontroller series ML610Q4xx with integrated Flash memory to store the register settings. With these chip-sets of MCU and monitoring IC Rohm offers a highly efficient solution for multiple cell Li-Ion battery packs which can be adopted to various systems according to the customer's needs.
The ML5218 is a Li-ion battery monitoring IC for packs of four to 14 cells especially designed for the use in automotive applications. It features a highly accurate voltage measurement function to detect overcharge/over-discharge, passive cell balancing and the possibility of four temperature measurements with externally connected sensors.
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Mapping the results of local statistics
The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) – a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity – has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory analytical tool that generates a set of location-specific parameter estimates which can be mapped and analysed to provide information on spatial nonstationarity in relationships between predictors and the outcome variable. A major challenge to GWR users, however, is how best to map these parameter estimates. This paper introduces a simple mapping technique that combines local parameter estimates and local t-values on one map. The resultant map can facilitate the exploration and interpretation of nonstationarity.
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BP's list of unpaid bills growing, Fox 8, November 12, 2010:
The men and women who've been charged with laying boom and vacuuming oil that got into marshland say the cleanup effort is far from over.
"They have so much work out there. It's unbelievable," said [Wanda Lane, employee of BP contractor].
Rocky Barrois of Venice said, "I found a big spot of oil on the beach we was cleaning up, and I was told by one of the safety inspectors to stop finding new oil that they had to put an end to this .. it was getting overwhelming."


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- 11-20-2012
- Series
- Axis Powers Hetalia
- Character
- Prussia / Gilbert Weillschmidt
- Special Variation:
- Nyotalia
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- Difficult
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About this Costume
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I used a dark blue bottom weight cotton for the coat and gold trim and lace for the edging. It took around a month, though it was due to machine troubles mostly, and a chunk had to be hand stitched
- Personal Thoughts:
- She has been fun to wear, though I've never taken it to a con before.
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- Arda Wigs
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- Le Tigre Long
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- I love Arda wig, they're always really great, and despite being so long, it's not really heavy or anything
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UAB Magazine Online Features
Street Smarts
By Grant Martin
If you have driven any distance along an Interstate highway in the past couple of decades, you have probably passed the work of UAB engineering professor Dean Sicking, Ph.D. And if you've had the misfortune to crash your car along that Interstate—and lived to read this story—it could be that you have Sicking to thank.
For more than 30 years, Sicking has been a leading figure in highway safety research. His designs have reshaped guardrails and other roadside barriers throughout the United States. He was also one of the developers of the Steel and Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) barriers that are used on NASCAR and Indy Racing League tracks around the world. Last fall, Sicking joined the UAB School of Engineering as a professor and the vice president of product development.
of safety devices, to the point where it's virtually impossible to drive more than a mile on any major freeway in this country without encountering one of our systems," says Sicking, who spent the past two decades as director of the Nebraska Transportation Center at the University of Nebraska. "Our roadside safety devices save hundreds, if not a thousand, lives per year without getting a whole lot of attention, but when we build a device that saves one or two racecar drivers, everyone wants to know about it.""Over the years, we have generated dozens
Study in Success
Beckman Scholars Jumpstart Research Careers
By Matt Windsor
Tim Fernandez has been fighting killers throughout his college career. As a UAB freshman, Fernandez began tracing the cell signaling pathways that allow the HIV virus to replicate. He eventually moved on to cancer, targeting the interactions of the cell death receptor known as Fas and the protein Calmodulin, which play a major role in cancer. By his senior year, Fernandez's research journey produced more than a dozen conference presentations, four papers in professional journals, an acceptance letter from the UAB School of Medicine—and more than $19,000 in funding.
Opportunity of a Lifetime
President Ray Watts and the Future of UAB
By Matt Windsor
Somewhere outside Boston; Washington, D.C.; and Atlanta are homes with lovely gardens, lovingly tended by a physician with a flashlight.
At each stop on his path from a prestigious neurology residency to the presidency of UAB, Ray L. Watts, M.D., has spent his limited spare time coaxing the best out of his backyards. Any doctor can tell you that gardening is a great blend of exercise and stress relief. Most gardeners do their work while the sun shines, but Watts has rarely had that luxury. "I'll look outside at night, and he'll be out there," says his wife, Nancy. "He has a vision, and then he just creates."
"I like to grow beautiful things," Watts says, simply. But those who know him best say this is less a hobby than the outgrowth of a lifetime habit—for Watts, beautiful results are just another example of the power of careful planning, hard work, and devotion to detail.
Flow of Ideas
Designing Solutions to Community Problems
By Charles Buchanan
Can graphic design save a river—and a region? Doug Barrett, M.F.A., UAB assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Art History, and his students have laid out a plan to do just that, creating logos, brochures, signage, and more to draw attention to the Cahaba River and surrounding communities. And it seems to be working. A campaign they created last summer in partnership with the economic-development organization >Alabama Engine won a 2013 Ideas That Matter grant from Sappi Fine Papers—one of only 13 awarded to designers nationwide to help them create and implement print projects for charitable causes.
"Graphic design is more than mere styling," Barrett explains. "Good design is doing deep research and creating meaningful concepts and stories around products, ideas, and initiatives that connect with consumers on an emotional level." That deep research, known as "design thinking," is increasingly used as a tool to develop solutions to social issues, he adds. The American Institute of Graphic Arts has embraced design thinking in its "Design for Good" initiative, which has inspired the students' projects.


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Sci-fi fans will be using the force and honing their lightsaber skills this weekend as they prepare to celebrate Star Wars Day.
The day, held on May 4, a date chosen for its similarity to the film's popular line "May the force be with you", gives fans the chance to watch the classic films and embrace all things Star Wars. To help you prepare here are 10 tracks inspired by Star Wars.
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Cosmic Girl
The second single from the British funk band's third album, this track features numerous references to Star Wars and other science fiction shows.
Taken from the band's debut album, Blunted on Reality, this track includes the line "When it come to rappin', I'm the Darth Vader".
These Aren't the Droids you're looking for
Queens of the Stone Age
Appearing on their album The Split, this track is named after one of the most famous lines from Star Wars. Frontman Josh Homme said: "The song's about mind control. I guess I sort of am a Star Wars geek in a way, hence the song title."
Happy Valentine's Day
Taken from the band's album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, this track features the lyric "Han Solo till I'm hit by the bullet, so may the Force/Be with you, and I'll hit you when better time permits".
Rhyme or Reason
Taken from The Marshall Mathers LP2, this track contains several Star Wars references including "A Jedi in training, colossal brain and, thoughts of entertaining" and "Luke Skywalker, but sound like Chewbacca when I talk".
Darkside Lightside
Released on the band's album 1977, this track ends with a choral version of the Star Wars theme. The band are big Star Wars fans and performed a cover of Cantina Band as the b-side for their single Girl from Mars.
Bicycle Race
Written by Freddie Mercury, this track includes the line "Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars".
Viva Life on Mars
Robbie Williams
Taken from Williams' seventh studio album Rudebox, this track includes the lines: "Take a ride on your high horse/If the horse is blind, use the Force/The Falcon flies in two straight lines/Red Five standing by, it's not a moon it's a space station".
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released in 2000, this track mentioned Alderaan and references both Star Trek and Star Wars. The song is about the dark side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry. It was influenced by The Cure track Carnage Visors.
Kanye West
Taken from his second album Late Registration, this track features the lyrics "and if I ever switch sides like Anakin/you'll sell everything including the mannequin". The song contains samples of It's Too Late as performed by Otis Redding.


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Nutritious snack recipes for little munchers
Children are active by nature, so it is OK for them to snack in between meals as long as they are using up the calories they take in.
Snacks play a big part in supplying your child with their daily nutritional needs and most need three meals plus two to three snacks each day. Making sure the snacks they eat are healthy is important, but it is not always easy – especially for busy families on the go! Also, when a child begins school or preschool, their parents or carers can feel they lose some control over what their child eats. Parents can reinforce messages of healthy eating by giving their child healthy snacks.
Here are some quick and easy suggestions you can try at home.
Healthy snack tips
- Encourage nutritious snacks from the five food groups, rather than junk foods like chips, lollies and ice-creams. The five food groups are;
- Bread, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles
- Vegetables, legumes
- Fruit
- Milk, yoghurt, cheese
- Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, legumes
- Many kid's diets are lacking in calcium. Calcium rich foods like yoghurt, milk and cheese are quick and easy nutritious snacks.
- Get children involved with their own snack preparation. When they choose healthy foods you should praise them.
- Use a cookie cutter to make shapes out of sandwiches or arrange fruit pieces and vegetable sticks on a plate to make "funny faces", patterns, or animals.
- Cut food into bite sized easy to hold pieces. Many children are active and on-the-go so smaller snacks are ideal.
Nutritious snack ideas
- Dairy foods: Plain or fruit yoghurt, custard, plain milk, smoothies made with fruit, cheese, cottage cheese. Dips can be made with yoghurt such as tzatziki (cucumber and yoghurt).
- Fresh fruit: Sultanas, apples, bananas and mandarins are easy to carry snack foods. Apple slices can be given with a small yoghurt pot for children to use as a dip. In summer, freeze fruit pieces in a bit of fruit juice for a substitute icy pole.
- Veggies: These may be a child's sworn enemy but if you cut them up into strips and offer peanut butter or a dip as a side, they can be much more appealing!
- Wholegrain foods for the fibre it provides: Wholegrain bread, biscuits and crackers with a dairy spread such as cream cheese or avocado.
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CLEARWATER — A task force charged with looking at Pinellas County's public transit future endorsed a regional sales tax and raising the county's gas tax to pay for light rail and bus upgrades Monday.
But some group members acknowledged that this is a dicey time to ask voters to approve higher taxes.
The 1-cent sales tax increase and adding 5 cents for each gallon of gas together could raise up to $135 million a year. They would help pay for $4.5 billion to build and run trains and operate more buses over 25 years.
The 25-member panel didn't discuss a date to go to the polls, a sign of how much Hillsborough County voters' rejection of a sales tax for rail has set back Pinellas advocates. "I don't think we can decide that now," said member Craig Sher, executive chairman of the Sembler Co. "With Hillsborough losing that referendum, we've got to regroup on the political side."
Before Hillsborough voted down the proposal Nov. 2, Pinellas County Commissioner Karen Seel, the task force chairwoman, had planned to seek a recommendation on a date and tax sources at Monday's meeting. Some members suggested a 2011 vote was possible, if not 2012.
The panel will now take up that question and polish its recommendations on funding into formal findings at a December meeting.
Working in small groups over 3 ½ hours Monday, members endorsed giving the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority oversight of a 1-cent sales tax in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties — a power the agency lacks now. The sales tax is key because estimates show it would produce $120 million a year in Pinellas, almost five times the property taxes paid for transit now.
But Florida lawmakers would have to give the agency power to do that, and Seel, a backer, acknowledged that was uncertain.
"I would have to have someone come in and convince me that it will meet a different fate than the tax that failed … before I would stick my neck out on that one," said newly elected state Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, who became chairman of the Senate's transportation committee Monday.
State Sen. Mike Fasano, a sponsor of the 2007 legislation creating TBARTA, also said he would oppose giving the agency such authority. Besides the poor timing — during a recession as a more conservative Legislature takes over — Fasano, R-New Port Richey, opposes giving an appointed board taxation powers, though some members are elected officials.
Failing that, supporters would have to get each county to pass the tax increase and turn over some control to TBARTA. County commissions also would have to agree to put the measure on the ballot.
The gas tax increase faces a similar uphill fight. A supermajority of the seven-member Pinellas County Commission would have to approve an increase. "For a relatively little amount of money, it's not worth the heat," said Seel, who opposed it Monday.
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