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The Tifton Gazette
Folks throughout South Georgia know it is hard to see Larry Dean without a smile on his face.
Dean is getting to live out his dream of playing in the National Football League. But the 2012 football season is giving him more reasons to smile.
A former Tift County Blue Devil and Valdosta State Blazer football player, Dean's Minnesota Vikings are one of the NFL's surprise teams with a 5-3 record at this point in the season. On top of that, Dean is one of 16 players in the National Football Conference that is on the Pro Bowl ballot as a special teams player.
"It is definitely a big honor to be even brought up in the conversation (about the Pro Bowl)," said Dean. "It's an honor to know the coaches and other players think that much about my ability."
Dean leads the Vikings' special teams in tackles with seven on the year. He also has been on the field for several big plays, including a 105-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Percy Harvin and a 77-yard punt return by Marcus Sherels that also went for a touchdown. Those two plays happened Sept. 30 in a game against Detroit. It was only the third time in the history of the Minnesota Vikings that the team had two such returns for touchdowns in the same game.
According to Dean, every player has contributed to the Vikings' 2012 success.
"Since day one of training camp, we have been working hard. We have a family, and we have been showing that by playing for each other," said Dean, who finished his VSU career as the school's all-time leader in tackles with 368, passing Atlanta Falcon great Jessie Tuggle for the honor.
"Last year was a down year for us, but we all knew if we came in, played hard, things would get better. We were only a play or two away in several games last season, and this year, we are getting some of those plays to go our way."
Dean's play has also been helped this year by the fact he got to take advantage of not only having played last season, but also having a full off-season with the team.
His 2011 rookie season saw Dean have to miss several off-season workouts due to the lockout before the season. In fact, Dean went straight from a special graduation ceremony just for him at Valdosta State to going to the Vikings preseason camp within hours.
"I am more familiar with my surroundings this year," said Dean. "I am playing with a lot more confidence, because I know more about what I am expected to do."
That new familiarity has helped become one of the best special teams players in the league.
He has earned the respect of his coaches, who were the ones that put his name in consideration for the Pro Bowl. That carries weight in his possible selection as coaches count for one-third of the Pro Bowl vote, along with fans and other players in the league.
Counting as a third of that vote, fans can play a big part in his selection. To vote for Dean, fans can simply go to http://www.nfl.com/probowl/ballot?module=HP11_content_stream_voting_probowl or http://www.vikings.com/team/pro-bowl-ballot.html. You can also vote as often as you choose.
"I am living out my dream, but I wake up every morning dream-chasing," said Dean. "It's a honor for me that so many people in Tifton and Valdosta are pulling for me to do well. I do my best to represent Tift County and Valdosta State to the best of my ability. It's a blessing every day for me to say I am from South Georgia."


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Amesbury — Richard R. Morse, 80, longtime Amesbury resident, beloved husband of 59 years to Frances (Bowser) Morse, passed away peacefully at Anna Jaques Hospital surrounded by his loving family on Thursday November 22, 2012 due to complications of surgery.
He was born April 6, 1932 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, son of the late Leslie and Elizabeth Morse.
A veteran of the Korean War, he served with the US Navy aboard the USS Orion from January 11, 1951 until his honorable discharge on Novvember 3, 1954.
He was a Facilities Manager at Munters Corp in Amesbury, retiring in 1999.
Dick and his wife Fran were avid walkers and also loved mountain climbing. They also enjoyed hiking the many trails in the local area.
Besides his wife of 59 years, he leaves behind daughters, Susan Paszkowski and her husband Tony of Riverview, FL; Caren and her husband Greg Gosselin of Kingston, NH; and son Keith Morse and fiance Maryanne Balogna of Haverhill, MA. He also leaves four grandchildren, Kerri Van Buskirk and husband Deric of Kissimmee, FL; Caity Gosselin of Kingston, NH and Christopher and Tyler Morse of Plaistow, NH, as well as three great grandchildren, Julia, Jordan and Jenna Van Buskirk of Kissimmee, FL.
ARRANGEMENTS: Visiting hours at the Highland Chapel of Paul C. Rogers & Sons Family Funeral Home, 2 Hillside Avenue, Amesbury, will be Monday, November 26, 2012 from 5 to 8 P.M. Funeral services and interment in St. Joseph Cemetery, Amesbury will be private for the family. Donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701.


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Also, please note, students must submit completed health forms before access to move in is permitted. Our Nurse will be available all day on Saturday (Founders Hall Lobby, 1st Floor) to accept outstanding paperwork and provide shots as needed. Please click here for more health services information.
Saturday, August 23, 2014: Resident Move-In / Orientation
Pack it all up and get ready to make yourself at home! Move-In for resident students is on the morning of Saturday, August 23rd, 2014. You will receive more detailed instructions for this process in early August.
Not living on campus? Sleep in a little and then join us after the residents have moved in! Orientation will be held throughout the rest of the day. We have lots of activities set up for everyone to get to know the campus better.
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Sunday, August 24, 2014: Transfer / Commuter Orientation
Today is specifically designed to allow residents to settle in while transfer and commuter students get orientated to the campus and its resources. There will also be a session for student veterans and veteran dependents who are joining the Centenary family. Laptops will also be distributed to all full time students in the early afternoon.
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Monday, August 25, 2014: Community Plunge Day
Join members of the Centenary community in a day filled with community service based locally at locations who benefit tremendously from our support. This day also fulfills the college's graduation requirement for community service hours while developing bonds with other new students.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014: Orientation Conclusion
Today covers Equine Orientation, International Orientation, and a variety of events for everyone. Orientation ends and classes start the next day!
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Please check back frequently as schedule is subject to change.
Orientation is an excellent opportunity to begin learning about the Centenary experience so we hope that each and every one of you will be in attendance for these events. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the New Student Hotline at 866-696-8108.
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JAYCEE MARQUEZ earned his AA in Cinema from Los Angeles City College. Jaycee is an accomplished cinematographer who has established his own production company, Brillian Films. He recently served as Associate Producer on the sci-fi feature Fate.
"I want to pursue a career in the motion picture industry because of the connections that films can make. It amazes me that a series of pictures can generate such an emotional impact on people. I want to reach out to audiences, make them laugh, cry, and to explore places few tread. In my opinion the best films are the ones that embody the human experience. With a career in film I can gain the skills and tools to do just that while connecting to people around the world. I'm interested in a film career because it deals with the people who make the silver screen come to life. Collaboration with other artists towards a project greater than the sum of its parts is one of my best experiences."


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Sabres winger Tyler Ennis had never been hurt so badly before, a remarkable accomplishment considering he's a 5-foot-9, 157-pound scorer unafraid to zoom into traffic and get dirty.
Ennis said he once sat about three games in junior. Then, as an AHL rookie two years ago in Portland, a concussion sidelined him a few more.
That was until Ennis suffered a high-ankle sprain Oct. 22 in Tampa Bay. The 22-year-old missed the next 17 games, finally returning Friday for the Sabres' 4-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings at the First Niagara Center.
"It (stinks). I mean, you don't want to be hurt," Ennis said prior to his 100th NHL contest. "It's tough when you're watching the boys out there in a big game. You can't do anything. You're just sitting there. You just want to be back. I'm glad I'm ready to go."
Ennis' slow start only added to the misery of watching. He was pointless in seven games before getting injured, a surprise considering he never bottomed out during a slick rookie season in which he scored 20 goals and 49 points. His longest point drought in 2010-11 was only six games.
Right now, Ennis is trying to treat his return like a new season.
"I've had some time look at the habits of other guys and get my body stronger," Ennis said. "I've just been able to kind of focus on how I'm going to play when I come back. I'm ready to do that now. It's a fresh start almost. I'm real excited. I feel good. I feel healthy."
He skated 13:03 Friday, going pointless on the left wing, mostly with Derek Roy and Drew Stafford.
The problems began in the preseason, when Ennis and linemates Stafford and Ville Leino weren't getting enough pucks to the net, Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said.
"They had some great possession shifts," Ruff said. "But the end of the shift there was not a single shot on net, and I think you end up with ... 'I should've put a few more pucks on the net.' And you start talking 'should've.' 'Should've' usually means something didn't go right."
Ennis added: "We weren't chipping it in and getting it in. We weren't throwing pucks at the net, and that's how you score these days, by just going to the net."
Of course, handling the puck is probably Ennis' greatest strength. He's speedy and shifty, two assets that can make trying to cover him an ordeal.
"We need him to be creative when he can be," Ruff said. "He knows the situations we want him to hang on. He knows the situations where he's got to try to get pucks to the net. ... He even admitted that he passed up some great opportunities. Those are the ones.
"But part of Tyler being effective is his ability to hang onto the puck and open people up. "We need him to hang onto pucks."
Ennis said he needs to pick his spots.
"I try to be creative and use my speed, and east-west, lateral movement is part of my game," he said. You score goals by going to the net. It's more of a north-south game. I got to just use my speed as much as I can and get to the net, and hopefully they go."
When Tyler Myers experienced a long sophomore slump last season, Ruff said he was "99.9 percent sure" the defenseman would get out of it," something he echoed about Ennis.
"There a lot of players struggling in the league right now, a lot of good players," Ruff said. "It's going to start with really working hard, being diligent about your opportunities, making sure they're on net."
Winger Patrick Kaleta (groin, four games) returned, and then was reinjured after playing only 7:38. Winger Nathan Gerbe, meanwhile, was sliced by a skate in his face and left early. He is questionable for tonight's game in Nashville.
Ruff wasn't sure about a recall. The Sabres have Matt Ellis as an extra forward.
Goalie Ryan Miller (concussion, eight games) dressed, backing up Jhonas Enroth. He could start tonight.
Defenseman Jordan Leopold (upper body) missed his first game.
The much-hyped Joe Finley, a 6-foot-8, 260-pound defender, replaced him, becoming the ninth rookie to play for the Sabres this season and the fifth to make his NHL debut.
Finley skated 7:51, much of it beside fellow rookie Brayden McNabb.
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This improved coordination will allow him to:
- feed himself finger foods
- begin to scribble with a crayon
- cover and uncover jars or boxes
- tear up paper
- put items into container and take them out again
- turn rotating handles (like on a jack-in-the-box toy)
- bang items together
- put large pegs in holes
Highlight: Your one-year-old's newfound dexterity will make him eager to investigate objects around him. Musical instruments that he can shake and bang will delight him as will toys with levers, wheels, and other moving parts. Blocks are a perennial favorite game, especially the part where he gets to knock down a tower you built together.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a recollection of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 as described by editorial staffs at the Jacksonville Daily Progress and the Palestine Herald Press. The information was compiled by Herald-Press news writer Cristin Reece, who at the time worked for the Jacksonville Daily Progress.
Most would agree — for better or worse, the events that occurred in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, irrevocably changed this country and its citizens' lives.
The terroristic attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center buildings, damaged the Pentagon and killed 2,977 people — including more than 400 police officers and firefighters. Many Americans can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing during that 102 minutes. Jacksonville Daily Progress current and former staff members remember the day with crystal clarity.
"Several things stand out in my memory when talk turns to 'where were you on 9/11,'" JDP reporter Jo Anne Embleton said. "Driving the few miles from my house to the Catholic Chancery in Tyler, where I worked as a reporter for Catholic East Texas, I was amazed at how gorgeous the day was turning out to be, and it was only 8 a.m. The skies were a beautiful shade of blue, the air wasn't quite crisp, but definitely cooler than the summer heat we were accustomed to. I actually debated calling my boss to let him know I was taking a last-minute vacation day … then my cellphone rang.
"And before I could answer 'hello,' my husband urged me to turn on the radio, because 'World War III just started.'
"The drive from our apartment to the chancery was less than 10 minutes, and it was surreal hearing the reports of a plane flying into the Twin Towers in NYC," Embleton continued. "I remember reading about how, when 'War of the Worlds' first aired on the radio, the programmers continually reminded people that it was a fictional story — that the world really wasn't under attack by aliens from outer space. I think a part of me was seriously hoping that the reports were something similar, but the look on my editor's face when I went into his office only confirmed the horrible reality of what had just happened.
"About an hour later, one of the secretaries came around to each of the offices to say the school's superintendent, Deacon Vic Bonnaffee, was leading a prayer service in our chapel at 10 a.m. for the victims of that tragedy. I remember being grateful that Vic acted so quickly, because it gave us great comfort knowing that in our own little way, our little staff in East Texas were joined in solidarity with the rest of the country as we remembered those killed in that attack."
Daily Progress Editor Amy Brocato Pearson was the Features Editor at the Beaumont Enterprise at the time, and — besides the news aspect of the day, has another, more personal reason she remembers so many details of the day.
"I was on my way into work on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when I heard the news on the radio," she remembers. "The first of the planes had struck the World Trade Center. I was usually one of the first people to work in the newsroom each morning. Sure enough, when I walked in, only the business editor and I were there. He already had the television on and was tuned into the devastation playing out right in front of us.
"We watched in silent disbelief as the second plane crash into the iconic tower. My brain was going in a million different directions at once. How did this impact Beaumont, Texas? Was this an accident? My friend, Lisa, worked in World Trade 7, was she OK? (Her office was destroyed that day, but she'd stopped to vote on the way to work that morning and was not at her desk at her usual time. It saved her.)
"I grabbed a reporter's notebook and decided to run over to the Federal Building, just a few blocks away.
"Now when I say 'run,' I was about six months pregnant at the time with my first child," she said. "I can tell you what I was wearing that day — a periwinkle maternity shirt, a black skirt and the most comfortable sandals I owned. Not easy to run in, let me tell you. Clutching belly in one hand, cell phone, pen and notebook in the other, I wobbled over to the Federal Building and ran up the marble steps. I zipped through the double doors and cleared security just as the announcement came over the loudspeaker that the building was locking down. Security guards rushed into action, barring the doors. I did a few interviews with officials too discombobulated to talk before the building was completely evacuated as a precaution.
"By the time I got back to the newsroom, the Pentagon had been hit and the last plane had crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
"My son likes to hear the story of how he was 'in my belly' on 9/11. It was only in the aftermath of the attacks that it occurred to me to think, 'What kind of a world am I bringing a child into?' The child who was 'in my belly' on Sept. 11, 2001, is about to turn 12. He's mildly autistic and went through a phase where he was fascinated with everything 9/11. He'll recite facts and tell me about things he's read and I sometimes remind him that I watched it all unfold, albeit from news wire service reports.
"I really don't remember many more details after the sharp clarity of the morning, but I do know we were operating on pure adrenaline. Even though the events of the day were happening thousands of miles away, the impact of those planes changed the lives of everyone in our coverage area forever."
That's the part of 9/11 that stuck with former JDP Assistant Editor Cristin Reece, now a news writer for the Palestine Herald-Press.
"We were just ready to put that day's Progress to bed — I mean, literally, finishing up the last page of the day's paper," she said. "I remember exactly where I was standing, right next to the printer waiting on proofs to print so we could make the last edits and corrections when my fellow reporter, Stephanie Little, blurted out 'omigosh!" I looked up at the newsroom's TV just in time to see the second plane hit the building. For one single instant, it seemed, everything and everyone just stopped. I don't think the phones even rang in that one moment.
"And then we redid the front page," Reece said with a laugh. "The way our deadline fell at the time, we were an afternoon paper — I think probably lots of local, small papers were — and it just so happened the JDP was one of the few newspapers of the day that actually had coverage of 9/11 on the front page that day. Lots of the big papers that come out in the mornings and the afternoons had it in their second run, of course, but we were one of the first with front page coverage. I was a brand new reporter, so I was a little impressed at that.
"It also made me realize the very scope of my job was changing right before my eyes," Reece continued. "The world became much, much smaller that day, at least as far as the newsroom was concerned. That day, a cub reporter in Jacksonville, Texas, was scrambling to cover an event that didn't even occur in the same time zone. Rather than just bringing readers the story of what happened — which we certainly did, thanks to the Associated Press and our sister papers — we also covered the impact those events had on our hometown. It really underlined that invisible link we all have with one another, no matter how far away we might be from each other."
Back in September 2011, the Palestine Herald-Press was an afternoon newspaper too.
Community Editor Cheril Vernon recalls the morning of 9/11.
"Back then my sons attended Neches Elementary School. I remember dropping them off and later hearing on the radio on the way to work that a plane had crashed into a building in New York City," Vernon recalled. "At that time, people were still trying to figure out why that happened. We turned on the TV at the newspaper office to find out, when they announced that a second plane had hit the World Trade Tower. That's when we knew it wasn't an accident."
Working on that afternoon edition, newspaper employees from all departments gathered around the television, while the newsroom would share the latest news and photos from the Associated Press.
"Because of the afternoon deadline, we were still able to get a newspaper out that day on Sept. 11, something most newspapers around the country weren't able to do. I can still remember placing color photos on a back news page — pictures of people running from the smoke covered in ash as the second tower collapsed and of people holding each other in tears. Memories like that will never leave you," Vernon said. "Our reporters at the time tried to contact people living in New York City who had local connections, such as former Palestine resident Bonnie Bentley."
Bentley, the daughter of 369th District Court Judge Bascom W. Bentley and Carol Bentley, was living in New York at the time. Newspaper staffers were able to contact her and get her account of what was happening in New York at the time. She described the devastation and chaos surrounding the tragic events via a telephone interview with the Herald-Press.
In addition to carrying Associated Press stories and photos from those events as they were unfolding that morning, the Herald-Press provided readers with a story with a local connection, thanks to Bentley.
The day is now observed as the National Day of Service and Remembrance (previously Patriot Day). Initially, the day was called the Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. When the new name was proposed, it received opposition from Massachusetts, which already had a Patriots' Day.
On this day, federal officials request the American flag be flown at half-staff at individual American homes, at the White House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home and abroad. Americans also are asked to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time), the time the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A group of Milwaukee pastors is calling on city leaders to sponsor a gun buyback program.
The pastors and their supporters held a news conference at a coffee shop Monday. They say a gun buyback program could remove weapons from Milwaukee's streets and reduce violence in their neighborhoods.
The pastors have asked the city to allot $50,000 in its 2014 budget to initiate a one-time, anonymous gun buyback, where residents could safely turn over unwanted weapons.
A spokesman for Mayor Tom Barrett's office says the mayor and Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn met with the pastors in recent weeks about a gun buyback, and were in favor of the idea.
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Runners, running fans and fitness buffs will be descending on the ArtsQuest SteelStacks campus in South Bethlehem this weekend for the Runner's World Half-Marathon and Running Festival.
The unique, first-of-its-kind event is owned and sponsored by Runner's World, a magazine published by Rodale. It is the first time Runner's World has ever operated a running event, said David Tratner, the senior director of corporate communications for Rodale's Active Living Group.
The centerpiece of a weekend filled with events is Sunday's half-marathon, which will take runners on a challenging course along the hilly streets of Bethlehem, through South Bethlehem, the Central Historic District and Monocacy Park, among other places.
Spectators are welcome, but motorists should be aware that there could be some delays while streets are closed for the race.
The same holds true for Saturday morning, when there will also be a 5K race, a 10K race and children's races.
"We are asking for your patience and suggest that you give yourself additional time for delays on both Saturday and Sunday between 8:30am and 12:30pm, depending on your location," said Tiffany Geklinsky, Bethlehem's traffic coordinator.
More than 6,000 participants have already registered for the races and more are anticipated.
Beginning today at 3 p.m., there will also be a health and fitness expo featuring exhibitors, book signings, fitness and running seminars and autograph-signing sessions with Olympic long-distance runner Shalane Flanagan, the American record-holder in the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
The expo will take place at PNC Plaza on First Street from 3-7 p.m. today and again from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free.
The 5K race begins at 8 a.m. Saturday, taking racers on a South Bethlehem course past Lehigh University and the Sands Casino Resort before finishing at SteelStacks, near the starting point.
The 10K race begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and will take runners along the same SouthSide streets, but also cross the Philip J. Fahy Bridge, move along Main Street and through the Central Historic District.
The half-marathon course will start at the southern end of the Minsi Trail Bridge and move west along Daly Avenue and Third Street before winding past Lehigh University. Runners will then turn north on Brodhead Avenue, cross the Fahy Bridge, then go along Main Street, Schoenersville Road and through Monocacy Park before ultimately turning back south. The finish line is at SteelStacks.
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10.3.4. The SSH suite
10.3.4.1. Introduction
Most UNIX and Linux systems now run Secure SHell in order to leave out the security risks that came with telnet . Most Linux systems will run a version of OpenSSH, an Open Source implementation of the SSH protocol, providing secure encrypted communications between untrusted hosts over an untrusted network. In the standard setup X connections are automatically forwarded, but arbitrary TCP/IP ports may also be forwarded using a secure channel.
The ssh client connects and logs into the specified host name. The user must provide his identity to the remote machine as specified in the sshd_config file, which can usually be found in /etc/ssh . The configuration file is rather self-explanatory and by defaults enables most common features. Should you need help, you can find it in the sshd man pages.
When the user's identity has been accepted by the server, the server either executes the given command, or logs into the machine and gives the user a normal shell on the remote machine. All communication with the remote command or shell will be automatically encrypted.
The session terminates when the command or shell on the remote machine exits and all X11 and TCP/IP connections have been closed.
When connecting to a host for the first time, using any of the programs that are included in the SSH collection, you need to establish the authenticity of that host and acknowledge that you want to connect:
lenny ~> ssh blob
The authenticity of host 'blob (10.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA fingerprint is 18:30:50:46:ac:98:3c:93:1a:56:35:09:8d:97:e3:1d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'blob,192.168.30.2' (RSA) to the list of
known hosts.
Last login: Sat Dec 28 13:29:19 2002 from octarine
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lenny is in ~
It is important that you type "yes" , in three characters, not just "y" . This edits your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, see Section 10.3.4.3 .
If you just want to check something on a remote machine and then get your prompt back on the local host, you can give the commands that you want to execute remotely as arguments to ssh :
lenny ~> ssh blob who
jenny@blob's password:
root tty2 Jul 24 07:19
lena tty3 Jul 23 22:24
lena 0: Jul 25 22:03
lenny ~> uname -n
10.3.4.2. X11 and TCP forwarding
If the X11Forwarding entry is set to yes and the user is using X applications, the DISPLAY environment variable is set, the connection to the X11 display is automatically forwarded to the remote side in such a way that any X11 programs started from the shell will go through the encrypted channel, and the connection to the real X server will be made from the local machine. The user should not manually set DISPLAY . Forwarding of X11 connections can be configured on the command line or in the sshd configuration file.
The value for DISPLAY set by ssh will point to the server machine, but with a display number greater than zero. This is normal, and happens because ssh creates a proxy X server on the server machine (that runs the X client application) for forwarding the connections over the encrypted channel.
This is all done automatically, so when you type in the name of a graphical application, it is displayed on your local machine and not on the remote host. We use xclock in the example, since it is a small program which is generally installed and ideal for testing:
Figure 10-3. SSH X11 forwarding
SSH will also automatically set up Xauthority data on the server machine. For this purpose, it will generate a random authorization cookie, store it in Xauthority on the server, and verify that any forwarded connections carry this cookie and replace it by the real cookie when the
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Power supply demand to drive growth for semiconductors in 2013
The market will offer strong opportunities for some semiconductor manufacturers in 2013
Despite a largely flat market for power supplies in 2012, IMS Research (acquired by IHS, Inc.) is predicting that the market will offer strong opportunities for some semiconductor manufacturers in 2013. Its report, The World Market for Semiconductors in Merchant Power Supplies – 2012 analyses the opportunity for semiconductors in both the AC-DC and DC-DC power supply market and provides forecasts to 2016.
Although the total world market for semiconductors used in power supplies is forecast to grow at a fairly healthy 6.5% in 2013, growth opportunities differ widely by semiconductor product and by application. Strongest growth is predicted for MPU/MCU/DSP/DSC products at 35% in 2013. Although this is currently one of the smallest markets for semiconductors used in power supplies, it is projected to grow by $45 million from 2012 to 2016 owing to adoption of digital power and advanced power factor correction (PFC) techniques.
Associate Director of IMS Research's power management and conversion group, Ryan Sanderson, commented, "Demands for greater efficiency and increased power density continue to drive opportunities for semiconductor vendors. The market for digital power alone is forecast to quadruple in the next five years, as a direct result of this. Many more opportunities exist, however, linked to legislation and design changes."
Other growth drivers include the increase in demand for power supplies which use synchronous rectification at the output, a trend projected to account for a large part of the $80 million growth forecast for the power MOSFET market from 2012 to 2017. In addition, the combined market for AC-DC switching regulators (integrated FET) and switching controllers (external FET) is predicted to grow by $270 million in the next five years. This is driven in part by demand for more intelligent solutions in cell phone chargers to cope with requirements for "no-load power consumption" and strong demand from applications such as tablets and LED lighting.
Sanderson added, "2012 was a difficult year for many semiconductor vendors who sell into power supplies, with reduced demand from many sectors. Demand from end markets such as notebook PCs and industrial applications, which typically offer steady growth, was much weaker than average. Opportunities did exist, however, particularly in tablet PCs and the rapidly expanding market for LED lamps and luminaires. These opportunities are forecast to drive further growth in 2013 and beyond."
The full report is available now from IMS Research and includes analysis of five separate power semiconductor discrete products, six separate power IC products and four other semiconductor categories.
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Sunday night the 2010 Major League season gets underway, and baseball's fiercest rivals begin the action when the Boston Red Sox host the World Champion, New York Yankees. The pitching match-up features C.C. Sabathia for New York, and Boston's Josh Beckett.
Season after season, fantasy draft after fantasy draft there are always a plethora of bounce-back players. You know them. Players that were once either excellent or considered destined for greatness until they ran into statistical tragedy . Now these players can be gotten at bargain-basement prices at auction, or in the bottom half of fantasy drafts. Below is a series of installments intended to explore such candidates.
Pat Venditte is a pitcher who can deal with both his left and right arms. Although his talent has only gotten him a job pitching for the Advanced Class-A Tampa Yankees, his technique has given him the opportunity to pitch for a very curious Joe Girardi and the Bomber's tonight versus the Atlanta Braves in Lake Buena Vista, Fl. It should be very interesting to watch an ambidextrous pitcher face off against a switch-hitter like Chipper Jones. Read the rest of this entry ?
Teams throughout the American and National Leagues are paying their tokens to take a ride, and the Closer Carousel has begun spinning much earlier than usual this season. Read the rest of this entry ?
Texas Rangers skipper Ron Washington tested positive for cocaine in an MLB- administered drug test dating back to 2009.
"I did make a mistake and I regret that I did it," Washington told SI.com by phone from Surprise, Ariz., on Tuesday night. "I am really embarrassed and I am really sorry."
As if steroids, HGH, and other performance enhancing drugs weren't enough, now we have to worry about drug addict managers as well?
Whats next?
This just in… Joe Girardi's a meth head and Jerry Manuel's at a rave trippin ballz ( the second one wouldn't surprise me)?
This is getting ridiculous….
Since 2006 I have been listening to one rumor after another about a proposed arena for the New Jersey Nets which would be located in Brooklyn, New York City. Like most, I met this idea with disbelief and condescension. Read the rest of this entry ?
#1-Hanley Ramirez-SS-FLA- What's not to love about Han-Ram? Given the shallowness at the shortstop position for the 2010 season and the monstrous numbers he put up in '09 (.342 BA, 101 R's, 24 HR's, 106 RBI's, 27 SB, .410 OBP), Hanley's value is "through the roof". Oh yeah, I almost forgot, he's only 26 and it's very possible he hasn't even met his potential yet. How scary is that?
The New York Yankees and veteran outfielder Randy Winn have reportedly agreed to a one year deal worth $2 million. Prior to this off-season Brian Cashman(General Manager) stated that the Yankees, under the order of the Steinbrenner Bros(Part Owners), would limit their 2010 payroll to $200 million, and with the addition of Winn, and his $ 2 million dollar salary, the Yankees have met that limit. Read the rest of this entry ?


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Jackson Police Chief Terry Seilhamer said the 52-year-old, who he declined to name, was cutting firewood near the Verizon Wireless cell phone tower behind the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road at about 7 p.m. when he came across the Mk 2, which is commonly known as a "pineapple" hand grenade.
Seilhamer said the grenade was identifiable as the World War II-era weapon by its rough texture, including raised squares on the body, and its oval shape.
"It was quite weathered," he said.
(To check out the grenade as it appeared hidden in leaves that had fallen to the ground, click on the photo to the right)
After arriving at the scene, the bomb squad determined the grenade was "live," Seilhamer said.
Once bomb squad members cleared the area, they safely detonated it.
"With a grenade that old, it was potentially unstable," Seilhamer said.
The chief did know how the grenade wound up in the wooded area.
"It wasn't uncommon in that era to bring home those types of items as war souvenirs," he said. "My guess is that's where it came from."
The area was cleared shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, he said.


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Objective: Several open-label and double-blind studies have suggested that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors may be useful in the treatment of pathological gambling. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of sertraline in the treatment of pathological gambling.
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Results: At the end of the study, 23 sertraline-treated subjects (74%) and 21 placebo-treated subjects (72%) were considered as responders on the CCPGQ (p = .9). Similar results were obtained when the CGI-Improvement scale limited to symptoms of pathological gambling was used as an outcome measure. Sertraline was well tolerated throughout the study.
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Maui's ultimate full-day ocean adventure takes you on a Maui kayaking adventure through Makena Bay, snorkeling over colorful reefs, and surfing Maui's ocean waves. What better way to spend the day on Maui!
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---- — We must admit that it seems to have taken us much longer to recover from the rigors of our recent travels than it has in the past. Of course, our recovery was no doubt put on hold when the Ohio Ellsworths arrived for a visit in Cooperstown just three days after we had arrived home. In fact, we have figured out that during the preceding month, we have spent almost three weeks with our granddaughter and her parents. In doing so we discovered that The Widge has more energy in her little finger than we have in our entire body.
However, we were lucky that when we spent as much time with her as we did it was during a period in which her favorite song was "Let it Be" by The Beatles. And when she has a favorite song, not only does she listen to it over and over, she also really does her 3½-year-old research about the song. Thus she is able to recite at the drop of a hat that The Beatles were George, Ringo, Paul and John. She also notes that George and John are dead. And John died because Mark Chapman was not nice to him. She adds that The Beatles are boys, while Yoko, who was around The Beatles, is a girl.
We found all of that information fairly straight forward. But she also includes, when discussing The Beatles, Billy Preston. Now we were around when The Beatles first performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. But we had no idea who The Widge was talking about when she mentioned Billy Preston. She told us he played the organ on the song "Let it Be," even pointing out, as she listened to the song, when he was playing. She further told us that he too is dead because he was sick. Little did we know that we seem to have a granddaughter who, at the moment at least, is a 3½-year-old walking encyclopedia of Beatle information. Just ask her and she will tell all.
However, in spite of our sheer exhaustion, we have managed to get back into the swing of things. In fact, we greatly enjoyed the recent meeting of the Literary Discussion Group, sponsored by the Women's Club of Cooperstown, which was held at Woodside Hall. Earlier in the year, Woodside Hall had offered to host the summer meetings of the group. And we cannot thank them enough for so generously hosting two of our meetings.
We are happy to report that those in attendance quite enjoyed themselves not only because of the surroundings but also because Marly Yeomans, author of July's book A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, was able to attend the meeting which made for a most interesting discussion. The group will meet again at Woodside Hall at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The book for discussion at that meeting will be Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. As with all Literary Discussion Group meetings, anyone who is interested in the book to be discussed is encouraged to attend.
We were also heartened, as we have tended to find the reports about the comings and goings of the community not particularly to our liking, by a report we received that points out that not all communities deal with issues in the same way that Cooperstown seems to do.
Thus we were pleased when we read an online story entitled "Police raid results in several drug charges for pair of Furthur fans" which appeared on July 16 on the website NJ.com. From this article we learned that an arrest had been made of two followers of the band Furthur. When arrested, the two gentlemen, according to the article, had in their possession "...methamphetamine, LSD, marijuana, hashish oil and around $51,000 in cash ... The money is suspected proceeds of drug sales, Christopher Gramiccioni (Acting Monmouth County, New Jersey Prosecutor) said, and the pair had tickets for several upcoming Furthur performances."
In a statement regarding the incident, Gramiccioni was quoted as saying: "We will not tolerate illegal drug sales in this county, and we certainly are not going to tolerate traveling drug dealers who want to follow a band — that type of traveling sideshow is not welcome in Monmouth County."
We must say that we found the attitude taken in New Jersey to be encouraging in that it seems there are still places where enforcing the law is still undertaken. It is a far cry from what we have been led to believe was the attitude when it came to enforcing the law in Cooperstown.
In fact, in reflecting on the reports we have heard about the recent concert, we think it is all too easy to simply blame the visitors for whatever issues might arise. Yet we think it is also important to remember that those people responsible for deciding to support various events in the community are equally responsible for what happens as a result of the events. Given the entertainment at the concert, we were not at all surprised by, and in fact fully expected, the outcome. And while some of the behavior seems beyond the pale, it should not have been a surprise to those in a position of approving the contract for the concert. We can but assume they thought, in spite of issues that would undoubtedly arise, that the concert would be beneficial to the community. Unfortunately, we suspect there are those of us who would not agree with such thinking.
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Date: March 14, 2013
by: Yaryna Klimchak | Community Editor
A long white braid trails down Betty Comora's back as she plays a washboard with multiple instrument attachments. She happily sings along to a jazz tune while playing her homemade instrument. She started playing the washboard unintentionally. While playing with a Dixieland band in New York City, the tuba player suggested she give it a try, and she enjoyed it. She says she received her inspiration to sing and perform from mediocre musicians.
"Go out and see the average person and performer and it'll give you the courage to try it yourself," Comora says.
Comora has been playing the piano since grade school but got the idea to start a quartet in high school when she wanted to learn popular tunes. She and her friends were surprised when they actually landed gigs. She does not have any formal jazz training but says she has always had a good ear.
Comora moved in 2000 to Sarasota from New Jersey with her husband, Owen, after visiting Sarasota. Comora was a bit reluctant to move to Sarasota at first, but after her late friend Bill Simon introduced her to people at the Senior Friendship Centers she knew Sarasota was home. To learn more about Comora's multiple talents, visit her website, bettycomora.com.
"I think it's gorgeous. It's so beautiful, the plants the shrubbery, it's so picturesque," Comora says of her neighborhood. "I had a cousin visit and she said, 'Betty, you live in park.' It was just so descriptive and true."
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Once again Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking ideas about the nature of life itself, how emotions affect the decisions we make, and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same time.
Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of their lives. So when Molly learns that Robinan Olympic athlete and the favorite childhas suffered a massive heart attack, the news couldnt be more shocking. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness.
Feelings of guilt and jealousy flare up as Robin's family struggles to cope and their relationships are put to the ultimate test. Its up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.
Read an interview with Barbara about While My Sister Sleeps.
"Despite somewhat stilted writing, Delinskys popularity should ensure demand for this engaging exploration of every familys worst nightmare." - Booklist.
"Delinsky is adept as portraying angst, but her story would have greatly benefited from a tighter telling and more complex characters." - Publishers Weekly.
"The novel's foregone conclusion does little to help a narrow plotline to expand." - Kirkus Reviews.
"This touching and heartbreaking novel is highly recommended for public libraries where women's fiction is popular. Readers of Kristin Hannah and Patricia Gaffney will enjoy it." - Library Journal.
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Rated of 5
Beautifully written
While My Sister Sleeps was a true pleasure to read. As a sibling of one sister, I was drawn immediately to the topic of sibling rivalry and it's limits. The characters were genuine and their journey believable. Barbara Delinsky has created a terrific story, one that would be enjoyed by reading groups, as there could be no shortage of lively discussion after reading this book. This is the first book I have read by Delinsky and I am looking forward to reading more.
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thought provoking
I enjoyed this book and found it to be quite thought provoking. It forced me to think about difficult issues, and how I would confront them.
I did find the book to be lacking in character development. I never felt as if I truly knew the characters. It left me wanting more.
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Three letters...W-o-w!
I must point out that I have not read anything by Delinsky before "While My Sister Sleeps." Now I have to wonder why. This was a fabulous book, especially for book clubs who want to discuss a book with many topics that could lead to many different opinions: life support, relationships, the media, friends...and the many areas that are involved with a family crisis, even family secrets. I would have liked to read this at the same time as a sister, or friend to discuss it. That would be a great suggestion to anyone who would like to read this in it's debut. Pick up two copies and share with a friend while reading.
Without giving too much away, this was a book that forces the reader to ask questions of themselves. In fact this book sent me to the store for a journal to pass along my thoughts and feelings to my family. If a book can spark me to do anything in life...it must be good!
Thank you for allowing me the time to read this, I have to consider myself a Delinsky fan!
Rated of 5
While My Sister Sleeps
I haven't read many of Barbara Delinsky's books, something about the cover designs never seem to appeal to me (so much for judging a book by its cover). While My Sister Sleeps seemed to hold a lot of promise from the first page, it quickly became contrived and attempted to do too much. The novel spans one week in the life of the Snow family following traumatic events involving their Olympics-bound daughter. While the daughters condition remains central to the plot, the multitude of sub-plots, seemingly a new one each chapter, distracted from the initial premise and promising beginning.
Rated of 5
Delinsky consistently delivers
While My Sister Sleeps is another of Barbara Delinsky's consistent novels. She always seems to find a good voice for her characters and deliver emotional nuances that strike you as real.
In this novel, a sister and her family grapple with learning the secret life of their oldest daughter while she lies in a coma. It strikes home in that we never can fully know the interior thoughts and motivations of even our closest family.
It's a great read for a cold winter weekend with hot chocolate, a warm fire and a box of tissues. Enjoy.
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A great Young Adult pick......
I have to admit that when this book arrived in my mailbox, my 15 year old daughter scooped it up and read it before I did. She had just finished reading Barbara Delinsky's previous book, "The Secret Between Us" and really enjoyed it. She gave a great review for this one as well.
I, on the other hand, felt that it was just average. The beginning was slow and I felt that it was going to be predictable. The story line does become more complicated with some twists and more depth so I was glad that I stuck with it. The novel deals with how a family deals with a tragedy that befalls it's "favorite daughter" . She is an Olympic marathon runner who fatefully has a heart attack while training and falls into a coma. The dire situation brings forth several family secrets as well as many issues between siblings, mother, father, husband and wife.
It was an easy, quick read and as it got moving, became more enjoyable. I can't help but compare it to "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult which deals with a similar story line and explores some of the same issues. "My Sister's Keeper" was much more suspenseful and thought provoking though.
Says Barbara Delnsky: "I was born and raised in suburban Boston. My mother's death, when I was eight, was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. I took piano lessons and flute lessons. I took ballroom dancing lessons. I went to summer camp through my fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of my stories), then spent my sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served me better than all of my other high school courses combined). I earned a B.A. in Psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in Sociology at Boston College. The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed. My husband was just starting law school. We needed the money.
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I'm back with a cooking post! Yes, one of the signature sixthseal.com cooking posts complete with lots of alcohol, dubious ingredients and a healthy dose of obscure references!
You will need:
Organic Black Bean Noodles
Pig's heart (whole – available at the non-Halal section of your friendly local hypermarket)
Grozette FORMAGGIO da Pasta powdered cheese
Leggo's Alfredo Pasta Sauce
Grapeseed Oil
Tabasco sauce
MasterFoods Mixed herbs
Onions and garlic
It's a battle of premium vs. proletariat ingredients! The measly pack of scallops set me back a staggering RM 42.35 while the gargantuan whole pig's heart retails at a very affordable RM 3.50.
Let me clarify – this was supposed to be an angel hair pasta dish, but I forgot to get the pasta and thus we made do with this pack of organic black bean noodles. The texture is surprisingly similar and it looks the bit too. Heh!
Okay, to start off, you'll need to ingest some ethanol to get you into a righteous cooking mood. My tipple of choice is Absolut Vodka.
The Tell-Tale Heart. Hmph. I shall give you a heart massage, CPR style.
How do you cook a pig's heart? Beats me, I've never cooked one before. I decided to wrap it in aluminum foil and chuck it into a fan assisted oven for 10 minutes.
It turns out that 10 minutes isn't quite enough so I suggest 20 minutes instead. I also took the liberty of rubbing salt all over the pig's heart for my version of marinating. Heh!
Next comes the scallops – scallops are reasonably fast to cook after defrosting so I just dunked it in warm (not hot) water for about a minute before draining.
With the major ingredients out of the way, let's get to the all-important sauce!
Leggo's ready made sauces already has bits of meat and stuff inside but we decided to fry some onions and garlic and chopped some sausages into it for a heartier sauce.
We used grapeseed oil instead of olive oil for the frying, no particular reason for the choice - it was just there. The sausages were seared for a bit before the entire container of alfredo sauce was emptied into the mixture.
Leave the sauce on (very) low heat and start cooking the noodles.
I put in salt and a dash of grapeseed oil in the boiling water, much like cooking spaghetti. Drain the noodles after 3 minutes. I'll love to inject the word al dente somewhere in here but there's no way to get black bean noodles al dente. Oh wait, I just put it in twice. ;)
I emptied the noodles into a high sided plate and liberally poured the pasta sauce with garlic, onions and sausages on top. This is also where you add the powdered cheese and Tabasco sauce.
The sides are important as a barrier against spillage when you start mixing the alfredo sauce into the noodles.
Add a dash (or three) of mixed herbs and toss the pig heart's on top.
Arrange the scallops on the side and I present to you:
Alfredo Organic Black Bean Noodles with Scallops and Whole Pig's HeartIt tastes better than it looks, trust me.
You get to bite into the baked whole pig's heart like a barbarian too. Get in touch with your Neanderthal roots yo!
I pronounce it Good (TM)!
41 Responses to "Alfredo Organic Black Bean Noodles with Scallops and Whole Pig's Heart"
Wow.. Nekid Chef! Lol…
Looks good. Minus the pig heart. Haha..
hmmm…looks like squid ink pasta :) love your kitchen!
Nasty. did you really eat the heart?
ew. the pig's heart is gross. >.
You should remove the big artery/vein, whatever from the pig's heart ler…
Also, so high cholesterol. You eat the whole thing? Aiyer.
But then, keep the cooking post coming! :D
wow more creative than an italian chef!
wow! I just love it, you got the seal of approval! Let's share the piggy heart!
Okay. I must confess I am a pork person – like you know I love pork intestine and pork stomach in BKT. I even bought a pair of pig skin shoes. But hey, piggig heart with aorta wide open, you are hardcore! *salute*
ok why is everything looking so neat and tidy here!
Lol. that looks more like an anatomy class to me.
Have you been putting on weight since you're in kl? Just asking! XP
Thanks for helping me save money for tonight's dinner!!! I don't think I can eat anything today or tomorrow!!!
i like pig's heart but man, i wont want to have a whole pig's heart on my platter! Look too scary! Hahaha. But pig's heart is better cooked chinese style. Braised with soy sauce. Awesome stuff. :P Oh ya! selamat bercuti! :)
Now that's one good way to eat the heart.
ugh. the whole heart is just… i like my meat selectively and 'spare parts' like this isn't something i would usually ingest…
but the pasta looks nice though ^^
Next time try pig's brain. How's the taste like? From the pic i can tell it's medium cooked.
da pigs heart is ewww….never likey innards :(
a creative dish though. keep it up! :D
really have to praise you for your courage for eating the whole heart, i wouldn't dare. i wonder how black bean noodle taste like, never tried them before.
looks good to me!
i'd marinade the heart with garlic, ginger, salt and a lil bit of ajinomoto. oven roast it.
fuh, sure sedap one! ;p
I just had lunch, and seeing that pig's heart made my tummy churn. Big time.
Looks like a torture chamber scene off Eli Roth's The Hostel.
You can be awesomely disgusting at times.
HB, Dude Man you're cooking again??!!
Are you the new Malaylsia Naked Chef? That black noodle looked like Korean noodle.
Hmm… definitely not for the faint hearted! Only for the pig hearted :-)
I'm boarding a plane to Sri Lanka!
See ya all on the flipside, will reply comments tonight at Holiday Inn, Colombo!
w00t! :)
omg…da pig heart look so gross !!
Enjoy your trip ;)
omg, the entire dish looks good minus the pig heart hahaha :x
ish..what a portion of pig heart and you eating the whole thing..geng!
and once again, this post, a smack in the face with the pigs heart!! hhahahah u sure know how to get me awake! heheh
safe journey!
You disgust me.
On a more serious note, have fun in Sri Lanka! God knows what you're having for dinner. I can never tell it with you.
Ugh, the pig's heart is really gross! You must have an iron stomach. It is an almost sure way to send your cholesterol level sky-rocketing. I wonder what your cardiologist sister would make of this. ;)
Allow me to reply all the comments tomorrow. I've got a bottle of arrack to deal with. ;)
o.m.g! hmmm saying the pig's heart contained the most parasites, would scare you any how. however, wow! you have potbelly! :|
maggot: The pig's heart is surprisingly good. Chewy. ;)
sibu food diva: Yeah, it looks a lot like squid ink pasta eh? That's what I thought the first time too. :)
dj.ezn: I not only ate the heart, I ate the ENTIRE heart. It was a bit hard to swallow towards the end. It's not meant to be eaten in large portions or on a regular basis. :S
Christine: I think it provides a nice contrast to the dish. ;)
Joyce: Eh, but if I remove that it won't be a whole heart already. Besides, I relish eating the arties and valves. Heh! :)
eiling: Haha! Thanks. My cooking posts are all…er, creative. ;)
Big Boys Oven: Heh! Sure, no problem. We can cook it again! :)
cynthia: It's very chewy coz the inside is still quite raw…but it sure as hell tastes good! :)
KY: Haha! Coz it's not my place. :)
Ryan: I not only put on weight, I put on A LOT of weight. :(
I need to exercise more. Swim a bit, perhaps. :)
Momon: Haha! No problem, glad to be of assistance. :)
chefmel: Hmm…with soy sauce eh? But I want the whole, entire heart. I don't want to chop it up and lose the presentation. :)
Simon Seow: Yup, it's awesome stuff! :)
seth.frostheart: I have a very adventurous palate…there's nothing I wouldn't eat. I even had lamb brains in Melbourne. :)
Justin: Pig's brain? I've had lamb brain before and pig's brain from restarants but never cooked it before. I'll try if I can get hold of some. Cheers! :)
annant: Thanks! I love innards, the best part of a chicken is it's stomach. I love the shape an texture. I like chicken heart too but it's so small. :)
Cheesie: Where? :p
cindy khor: The noodles tastes a bit like charcoal, but the alfredo sauce covers it well. :)
Damn Dirty Angel: Yeah buddy, it's the best! :)
wj: Whoa…but it looks good (to me). ;)
steben lim: I'll take that as a compliment. Heh! Cheers bro!
Michael (Mike): It's made in Taiwan, Taiwanese noodles. :)
Yiling: Hahaha! Touche Yiling! :)
mars: It looks nice! :)
Simon Seow: Cheers!
princess: …but it's the pig's heart that provides the all important contrast to the dish! :)
taufulou: Yup, and it's quite a huge heart too! :)
shimmers999: Heh! sixthseal.com cooking posts will definately have a twist. ;)
Doria: Hell, we can cook together sometime. I bet we can think of something totally nasty to look at but yet tastes awesome! :)
Cheers: I know! I already have sky high cholestrol. Oh well, once in a while doesn't hurt. :)
jg: I've had that potbelly since I came out of rehab! :)
I'm getting fatter and fatter as the days go by. Gotta exercise! :)
oh hb, how could you do that to the little pigge?Well to be honest, the pig heart was pretty gross. But what caught my eye was the scallops. mumm, they looked good. But of course, the coast is 450 miles from where I live. we all desire that what is difficucult to obtain. As it should be. Otherwise, wherse the fun? As far as the pig heart goes? Well, I am blessed to be a christian. I dont have to follow Hallel or keep Kosher. The older I get, the more vegtibles i eat. My heritage is Brittish. But I still cannot eat kidney pie. or lambs kidneys but i like sheep meat ok.. nor do I like liver, be it foie grass, or beef. yuck But how come i like chicken eggs, but hate caviar, HB? Please excuse me now, while I make me a BLT. ( bacon letuse and tomato sandwich) People are weird, I guess, the world over. I love blue chesee, but I have a nephew that says that is gross, and rotten, and will only eat cheddar chesse, but loves blue chesse dressing on his salad. Go figure. Glad you are well, HB. Bless you. tom
eat the scallops and greens and pasta, kiss that wonderful looking lady, and throw the antelope heart to the dogs. Then consider yourself a lucky, lucky, Man, HB. Cause you are. As I am. Lucky. some times I just forget it. tom
Well got to tell you. If it is like there as here. Somtimes they give you a potasism sparing dirureteic. ( ie spirelactone) It makes, uh, well, changes to the male anatomy– to put it bluntly, you got tits. Deal with it. Can you work it off. No, unless you starve yourself to a Dachauh like thinness. Boy that is sexy, right? Can it be reversed? yes. Got about 6k usd?, two or three months an a high pain tolerence? You look fine, HB. ( and I dont mean fine, but you look ok, ok).Sorry, but got to ask, since it is comming up in halloween. Did you all hear, thump, thump,: thump, thump: Tis the beating of his hideous heart… Edgar aaaaaaaaaaaaleen poe. I love autumn. Hope wou are well. tom
tom r: Well, it was already dead. ;)
Pork comes from pigs and obviously the heart is either thrown away of sold. I'm all for using it since the pig is already six feet under. Heh!
BTW, we're pretty far from the coast too and scallops are not native to Malaysia so it's quite expensive – about USD 10+ for 8 small scallops.
Take care my friend! :)
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"American Horror Story: Coven," With Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole and More, Sets October Premiere
By Adam Hetrick
The new season of "American Horror Story: Coven," set in New Orleans and featuring a host of Broadway actresses — including Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole, Angela Bassett and Jessica Lange — will premiere in October on FX, according to Deadline.com.
The 13-episode series is currently filming in New Orleans. Created by Ryan Murphy ("Glee"), the first episode will air Oct. 9 at 10 PM.
As previously reported, "Coven" will also feature Lily Rabe, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates and Denis O'Hare as well as Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Taissa Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Alexandra Breckenridge and Jamie Brewer.
The story will center on a group of witches who fled Salem before the infamous trials, and have continued their secretive lives for centuries in New Orleans, where they encounter the voodoo culture.
Lange will play the "supreme" role, with Paulson cast as her daughter. Bassett will play the historical character of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Bates will portray another historical figure, serial killer Marie Delphine LaLauri (Madame LaLaurie). Part of the plot will pit Lange and her coven against the voodoo witches, as well as the non-witches. Ebersole (Grey Gardens) has been cast as a "Glenda the Good Witch-type of gal," Murphy said in an earlier interview.
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The U-18 LFC boys played two matches after two weeks off from competition Saturday. The club defeated Sumter 5-3 and tied Georgetown 2-2. The layoff did not interfere with the offensive progress the boys have exhibited this season. Scoring a total of 7 goals in two matches reenforces the philosophy of the club to attack beautifully with creativity.The directors have encouraged the players from the goalkeeper on up to look for scoring opportunities and to attack with courage and flair.
Bruins' senior defensive back Brion Strothers has a lot to live up to in his Lancaster High football career, but so far he's holding his own.Strothers, a senior defensive back for the 4-1 Lancaster Bruins, is following in the challenging footsteps of his older brother Anthony, a 2007 LHS graduate.Anthony Strothers, a Bruins football and baseball standout, was a two-time all-region pick in football as well as an honor student.
The Buford Lady Jackets rolled to a 3-0 win to down Lewisville for their first Conference III-A volleyball win this season on Tuesday at home.The Lady Jackets, 3-6, 1-2, prevailed 25-22, 25-19 and 25-23."I thought we played well and it was good to get our first Conference III-A win," BHS coach Janet Watson said. "I thought we were in control."Our floor coverage was good," she said.
A trio of county teams will be seeking to rebound this week as the sixth week of play unfolds.Lancaster, Andrew Jackson and Buford will be looking to bounce back after dropping home losses.Indian Land, the lone winner last week, is hoping to continue its winning ways after winning on the road.Lancaster, AJ and Indian Land will be at home, while Buford hits the road.The Bruins, 4-1, cap non-region play as they host Nation Ford of Fort Mill.Andrew Jackson, 2-3, hopes to celebrate homecoming with a victory in its Conference IV-AA open
Four Lancaster County athletes were spotlighted at the weekly meeting of the Founders Federal Tri-County Football Coaches Association meeting Tuesday.Two Indian Land players and one player each from Lancaster and Andrew Jackson were honored.Tyler Watkins and Keyadd Miller led the Warriors' honorees in IL's 20-0 win over North Central.AJ's Ricky Wilson and Lancaster High's Casey Truesdale each earned recognition.Watkins graded 89 percent on run plays which helped IL produce two 100-yard rushers – Breyon Williams (
KERSHAW – Camden used a ball-control "grind-it-offense" to amass 437 yards of total offense and defeat pesky Andrew Jackson High School 24-14 at rain-soaked Volunteer Stadium on Friday night.The game was a defensive struggle as Camden's Addison Harrelson's 29-yard field goal was the only points of the first half."We made a couple of mistakes tonight that probably would have been," AJ coach Louis Clyburn said.
Opportunistic Northwestern High School rained on Lancaster High School's football parade on a rainy Friday night.The second-ranked Trojans, 5-0, took advantage of LHS turnovers to knock the Bruins from the unbeaten ranks in a 27-7 win at Memorial Stadium.A trio of turnovers – two fumbles and an interception – helped NWHS build a 20-0 halftime lead on the way to the 20-point win."We dug ourselves a hole and never recovered," LHS coach Bennie McMurray said.
BUFORD – The Buford Yellow Jackets hosted the Lewisville Lions, sloppy conditions, as well as a Conference III-A football clash Friday night. The Jackets and Lions were deadlocked through this contest until the game's waning moments.Lewisville converted a key turnover to turn back the Jackets, 21-12.Buford, 2-3, 0-2, was the first to strike, coming off a 53-yard touchdown run from junior running back Andrew Jennings.
BOONETOWN – This time, in timely fashion, Indian Land finished in a flurry.Warriors' coach Mike Mayer said the manner Indian Land had finished games in two of its three losses had been an IL concern."We hadn't finished the game well and if we had, our record would probably be better," Mayer said. "Those past games we couldn't do much about. Tonight, with the game in the balance, we stepped up and made a statement with our second-half play.
Andrew Jackson Middle School and South Middle School each posted shutout wins to set up a football showdown at AJ on Thursday.AJMS, which defeated South last season, improved to 3-0 with a 16-0 win over Camden Middle School on Wednesday.South Middle School, on a road trip to Winnsboro, rolled to a 28-0 win over Fairfield Central Middle School at Fairfield Central High on Wednesday.In the AJ Middle win, the 3-0 Vols forged an 8-0 halftime lead and added a second-half score to seal the win.Javaris Clyburn dashed 10 yards and added the two-point
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Rockin' the Blues Everything else about Blue Man Group Live at Luxor is unorthodox, so why should the sound design be any different? The main "vocals" are the PVC tubes the Blue Men play throughout the show (the only human voice is heard via voiceover). Because of the heavily percussive nature of the show, there are an impressive number of inputs - nearly 200. And it's a theatre piece designed by two sound veterans with years in the recording and touring fields, but virtually no theatre experience.
In fact, the project was the first of its kind for Todd Pearlmutter and Ross Humphrey. Pearlmutter, who started out as a drummer in the Boston show, later produced the Blue Man album and has served as the group's music director; Humphrey handled the sound for such rock groups as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the Goo Goo Dolls before turning Blue. "It's the first time I've worked as a theatre sound designer," says Pearlmutter. "Ross has never done theatre sound design either, but I wanted him to be involved because what I felt the Vegas show really needed was for it to have a kick-ass rock-and-roll feel to it, as opposed to regular theatre design."
"Luckily, the show is much more rock than theatre, so there were no surprises as far as that goes," adds Humphrey. "It was just a matter of keeping in mind that it's a wide demographic that comes to see this, from little kids to bluehairs, so you have to take that into consideration, without losing the balls."
Providing the pair with the requisite theatre design background was Mike Cusick and his company Specialized Audio-Video Inc. (SAVI), veteran of nearly a dozen major systems projects in Las Vegas, including the original audio installation of the Luxor venue. "They helped us bridge the gap from the rock and recording world to the theatre world, which was huge," Pearlmutter says. "They were able to foresee situations we had no idea about."
Working in tandem, the trio conceived two discrete systems that also worked in tandem, one with a standard left-right stereo configuration with the other offering a unique twist on the surround-sound format. "The sound design strips away layers of system complexity that had been building up with each new production. It's back to basics, based in large part on analog components," Cusick explains. "Blue Man Group's sound, at its essence, is more about drums and rock and roll rather than ethereal sounds moving all over the place."
Cusick, already quite familiar with the space as the designer of the venue's original system, notes that its acoustic signature has always been acceptable: "not too live, not too dead." Some of the previous system's Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) loudspeakers were retained, such as SB-600s housed in special chambers under the stage to supplement the new system's low end.
Both the main/stereo and surround loudspeaker systems are fueled by approximately 180 inputs supplied by no fewer than five consoles at the house mix position, located centrally just behind the primary aisle. "Drums take up most of the inputs," says Pearlmutter. "If you have one drummer, you have 12 inputs, because they're big kits. There are four kits on this production; that's 48 inputs right there. And we had to figure out how to get all the inputs managed." Basically, the main system provides playback of the band, while the surround system handles myriad tracks and effects that enhance a particular mood or environment. But there's also some interchangeability to the approach as well.
The stage is flanked by left and right arrays made up of EAW KF700 Series loudspeakers that provide complete coverage of the lower seating section. Each array includes three KF750 three-way loudspeakers above three KF755 specialized downfill modules. Below each array, four SB1000e subwoofers are subtly stacked vertically onstage, incorporated into a custom concrete bunker SAVI constructed to reduce low-frequency resonance.
At midpoint of the room, approximately above the main aisle, two more stereo arrays are flown left and right. They include four SB750 subwoofers topping four KF755 downfill boxes. "I found that the 750s were the best-sounding subs I'd heard in a long time," Humphrey says. "Even hanging in the air they're tight. I wish I could have used all 750s instead of the SB1000es, but with the constraints of the scenery and lights, they wouldn't work. The SBs worked better physically than sonically."
The surround system takes a unique twist on the 5.1 format. Rather than offering a center channel at the front of the listening area, this channel is fed to a grouping of loudspeakers flown from the ceiling at the midpoint of the theatre. The group includes four EAW ASV7923 three-way loudspeakers, each firing diagonally across each "quadrant" of the listening area. These loudspeakers are mounted together with four EAW BH822 "SuperSubs" configured in a block and firing straight down. The other surround channels are fed to pairs of EAW ASV Series loudspeakers (one long-throw, the other short-throw) flown in each corner of the theatre.
"Everything that happens on the stage, such as when Blue Man is playing, comes through the mains," Pearlmutter explains. "But when there are things happening in the audience, especially at the end of the show, the surround system is used, because that's where the action is. There are other times when the two work together, such as when the voiceover comes through the mains, and the incidental music comes through the surround."
All loudspeakers are driven by Crown Macro-Tech Series amplifiers exclusively, which are distributed among six locations, putting them as close to the loudspeakers as possible. "We used the entire MA line. Reliable power and plenty of it," Cusick says. "They also offer good reserve power, which is handy in this application, because you're dealing with transient drum sounds."
An Otari Radar multitrack unit, backed up by a Tascam DA-88, delivers the surround soundtrack to a Yamaha 03D digital mixer, one of the few digital pieces incorporated into the design. Located at the front of the mix position, the 03D drives the surround system, handling levels, distribution, and programming. The main system offers a rather extensive mix situation, with two Soundcraft K3-32 consoles and a Midas Heritage 2000-48 console working in tandem with a Yamaha PM3500-48 console that essentially functions as a master section for all of these channels. The Heritage 2000 is dedicated to drums only, with the K3s handling all other instruments and performing auxiliary submix capability.
The only other concession to digital technology came in the form of XTA DP226 processors, utilized for all house loudspeakers. Distributed among the amplifier racks, the DP226s are networked (via RS-485) on a loop established in the multicable subsystem. Additional main system tailoring can be done at any time with a Klark-Teknik DN3600 digitally controlled analog equalizer inserted at front of house. This can be done within specific zones or system-wide.
The other challenge on the Vegas production was the same facing other versions of Blue Man: miking the unusual collection of "instruments," which this time around range from backpack tubulums (a musical application of PVC pipe), to Airpoles to the three-story-high drum wall. "Those instruments don't generate a huge amount of acoustic volume," explains Pearlmutter. "And when you have a band that's making a lot of sound, you really have to make sure these instruments can be heard."
"Todd and I talked about what they should sound like," adds Humphrey. "He did a lot of the musical part of it and would tell me what it was to sound like, and I'd do my best to achieve it through mics, equalization, etc. I found the hardest thing was to get them to sound how they should sound through a microphone, because they're actually pushing air through them, especially the tubulums. Those are difficult because all the individual PVC tubes are different lengths, and they try to bring them together into a cluster. But just trying to get an even balance between them and then get them loud enough to be heard over the band was difficult, because they're essentially the lead vocals."
Luckily, previous productions had generated a huge amount of research already, so after conducting their own tests in New York, the designers opted for a combination of Audio Technica 4051s, Audix SCX1s, and beyerdynamic M88s on the PVCs. For the tubulums, they drilled little holes in the reeds where the instruments are hit and placed Shure SM98s.
In addition to the various Blue Man instruments, the band, usually made up of a trio of musicians, has been expanded to seven, all of whom have been placed on two platform areas behind a scrim stage right and left. A guitar, zither stick, and one drum kit are perched stage left; another drum kit, two percussion stations, and a bass are located stage right. Both the musicians and the three Blue Man performers are outfitted with Shure in-ear monitoring systems.
"There are a few songs where the drummers and percussionists go onstage, while the strings stay up top," says Pearlmutter. "if we didn't have the in-ears, there'd be complete soup due to the delay."
The end result is a show that serves up its rock and roll in doses equally at home in the theatre and the Las Vegas showroom. "It's a rock show, and it should sound like rock, but you can't have it at 120dB," says Humphrey. "For me, that was the hardest thing: trying to make it sound like a rock show without scaring anyone off too badly. I think we might have achieved it. You still have people saying, `Oh my God, that was loud,' but not too many people saying it wasn't loud enough."