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The Clallam County Parks, Fair and Facilities group invites the public to celebrate the grand opening of the Agnew Soccer Fields from noon-12:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 18.
The soccer fields, located at the southeast corner of Olympic Highway and North Barr Road between Sequim and Port Angeles, are collectively the newest Clallam County park. A $205,500 matching grant from the state Recreation and Conservation Office enabled Clallam County to buy the 7.4-acre soccer fields this summer.
To RSVP or for more information, call 417-2291.
Kaps golf tourney set
The Rick Kaps Scholarship Scramble is set for Friday, Nov. 27, at SkyRidge Golf Course, 7015 Old Olympic Highway.
Donations and a percentage of green fees go to providing scholarships to several Sequim High School seniors.
Format is a four-person scramble with three divisions. Play begins with a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m.
Cost is $220 per team (or $55 per player) with optional honey pot. Included in the price is a T-shirt, a meal provided by Captain Henry and a scholarship donation.
For more information, call 683-3673.
2009 Winterfest event is this weekend
The 2009 Winterfest, featuring dinner, a ski movie and ski swap is slated for Friday-Saturday, Nov. 20-21, at the Vern Burton Center, Third and Francis streets in Port Angeles.
At 5 p.m. Friday, Winterfest kicks off with a prime rib dinner and the latest Warren Miller ski film, "Dynasty." The Port Angeles Jazz Band provides music. Cost is $40. Each ticket buyer receives a $10 gift certificate to Wilderness Outdoor Store in Port Townsend.
On Saturday is the ski swap. Admission is $3 per person or $7 per family. Drop off gear to sell/trade between 8:30-11 a.m. Return at noon to shop or swap until 4 p.m. That night is a 7 p.m. viewing of "Dynasty" for $10 each.
For more information, call 457-2879.
Wall sinks second ace
Kevin Wall of Sequim sank his second lifetime hole-in-one, achieving the feat Nov. 3 at The Cedars at Dungeness.
Wall used a 6-iron to drive the 150-yard hole No. 17 for his second ace, both coming at The Cedars.
"The first (ace) was between me and God," he said. "This one, I had witnesses."
Earl Bergman, Pat Lauerman and Mike Sutton, all from Sequim, witnessed Wall's feat.
Indoor soccer leagues planned
Officials are accepting registration forms for the annual Peninsula College indoor soccer league that starts in January.
The league features three divisions: one for competitive players, one for recreational players and a women-only division.
Games are five-on-five with two, 25-minute halves. Games are played Sunday afternoons (or Monday nights, if needed) at the Peninsula College gym, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., from Jan. 10-March 14, 2010.
Cost is $30 per player or $225 per team.
Applications and fees must be received by Dec. 30.
For more information, contact Andrew Chapman, P.C.'s head men's soccer coach, at 417-6410 or 670-6868.
Touchdown Club to help football program
The Sequim High School's football boosters are asking for public support by way of the Touchdown Club, a program that assists the football program with purchasing new uniforms, helmets and safety equipment.
With four levels of sponsorship - white, black, purple and gold - club organizers ask supporters to donate a dollar amount per touchdown scored this season. White level sponsorship pledges $5 per touchdown; black, $10; purple, $25; and gold, $50.
Donations, made through the Sequim Schools Athletic Booster Club, are tax-deductible (tax ID:91-1885052).
For more information, write to SSABC, P.O. Box 1682, Sequim, WA 98382.
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Last week I dropped by Aldebaran's studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. But then I talked with Bruno Maisonnier, the CEO of Aldebaran. And then I got really excited: what Pepper represents is another iteration in the realization of the roboticists' dream.
The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics – Pepper – is designed to live with humans. It doesn't clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts autonomously to "make people happy."
Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.
Its NAOqi operating system, a nod to Aldebaran's pint-sized Nao robot, has an "emotion engine" as well as cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) to help it understand people and respond to them.
"With cute robots, so cute that people want them at home, very easy to interact with and which are connected to the Internet, look at this potential we are opening," said Aldebaran CEO Bruno Maisonnier. "Many things can be done to improve education, healthcare, entertainment, flow management, you name it."
It will go on sale in Japan in February 2015 with a base price of AY=198,000 (US$1,929).
Read more by Tim Hornyak on ComputerWorld
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Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website.
Watch Rolf Pfeifer's farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC).
One of the most prominent figures in the "embodied intelligence" approach to AI, and the intellectual father of the Roboy humanoid, Rolf Pfeifer and his Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) at the University of Zurich have been a force of influence on the fields of robotics and AI for almost 30 years.
Special thanks again to "NateFan", whose comment inspired today's comic.
I hope the characters referenced from NASA are good sports, I figured they'd crack up over Nate's "findings" regarding facial expressions in near zero gravity.
UK's Ministry of Defense invested 1.1M GBP in a new robotic mannequin that will test protective suits and equipment for the UK's armed forces. The project is named "Porton Man" and is able to emulate the movements of a soldier (march, sit, kneel and pose). It is equipped with more than a hundred sensors that monitor in real-time the performance of the tested article.
As of yesterday, you can get the adorable and versatile humanoid robot NAO from Aldebaran Robotics for yourself, even if you are not an academic or a hardcore developer. According to Génération Robots, a European partner of Aldebaran Robotics, they are selling NAO Next Gen (that's the fourth of the four versions of NAOs out there) with the starting price of 5628 €. In North America, the RobotsLab is offering NAO for $7990 – down from $16,000.
In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want answered about Nate's experiences on Mars? I'll select the best and make comics out of them (showing how Nate answers) in the next few weeks, and we can find out what kind of trouble Nate gets into . . .
I guess all those other Mars rovers just landed in the wrong spot? I had this idea yesterday to try something a little different. In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want answered about Nate's experiences on Mars? I'll select the best and make comics out of them (showing how Nate answers) in the next few weeks, and we can find out what kind of trouble Nate gets into . . .
The mission to Mars concludes now that Nate is back on Earth, but do you think the adventure is really over? Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website.
Stay tuned next week for the exciting conclusion of Nate's "mission to Mars" experience. As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website.
I want to thank Robonaut for being a great sport and being willing to appear in this week's comic! When I got done with last week's comic, for fun I sent a tweet to Robonaut asking him to join Nate for a little "space jam" competition, and he was all in! The problem is, I found out that Robonaut is a little larger than I expected!!! Check out the conversation

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When Ken Hoffman was asked what he'll cherish most about his 16- to 18-year-old Liberty Bell Youth Organization baseball team when the season wraps up soon, his answer had nothing to do with wins and losses.
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Is Taking Daily Bath Eco-friendly (specially when Water is Scarce everywhere) ?
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Water is scare everywhere.....Answered by anantharaman, 04 Aug '12 12:08 pm
Whatever may be for Indians taking Bath is one among the daily duties.
For me without bath the day don't start.
Whatever may be for Indians taking Bath is one among the daily duties.
For me without bath the day don't start.
Now in rainy season, wait for the Rains to take Sprinkler Bath. When it does not rain, have a dip in any pond /river nearby .Answered by Nitin Ray, 04 Aug '12 12:19 pm
Es,it reduces blunders committed by people who do not take their bath.Answered by Damodar Biswal, 04 Aug '12 12:19 pm
Then don't take bath and bear the consequences.Answered by samrat, 04 Aug '12 12:08 pm
In that case better to hv a dip in the swimming pool or a river / pond everyday to freshen upAnswered by Diksha D, 04 Aug '12 12:06 pm
Getting sponge bath from someone wouldn't be Economic- friendly ;)))Answered by Gypsy, 04 Aug '12 12:05 pm
No , not eco friendlyAnswered by komal b, 04 Aug '12 12:04 pm
YesAnswered by anil garg, 12 Aug '12 05:39 pm
50-50Answered by vijay, 04 Aug '12 12:49 pm
Yes it is if one does not take bath regularly the porsons living with him will have problems due to smells etcAnswered by iqbal seth, 04 Aug '12 12:21 pm


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Belatchew Labs is a studio within Belatchew Arkitekter that works with experimental projects that aims first and foremost to investigate and test new approaches and solutions to urban and architectonical issues. The projects are visionary and strive to inspire, question and challenge.
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Strawscraper – an Urban Powerplant in Stockholm
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Jigsaw Sound is a mixed voice, adult, choir based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. We regularly perform at concerts, weddings and fund raising events throughout the County of Shropshire and over the border into Wales.
Jigsaw Sound was formed in Shrewsbury in January 2007 and, together with our feeder choir Missing Pieces, now has a membership of more than 85 voices. You can see from the picture galleries that we have a membership that spans all ages.
Our primary aim, in both ensembles is to sing and have fun together through the medium of music. Operating as a close knit team we, therefore, have no need for a constitution, committee or rule book!
Whilst we are Shrewsbury based, membership of the Jigsaw Sound choir is taken from all over Shropshire and includes people from Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Oswestry, Whitchurch, Much Wenlock, Wem and Telford.
Jigsaw Sound and Missing Pieces are both operated as self-funding, non-profit making organisations. The choir give all donations they receive for concert performances directly to their chosen charity – which is chosen annually by the membership in November each year – so they do not receive any monetary benefit from their appearances.
The choir have a varied repertoire and this is presented in a light-hearted way. Concerts also give opportunities for audience participation. There are some audio files on this website and you can also find us on YouTube.
If you would like Jigsaw to sing at a concert you are organising or to participate in a wedding ceremony then please telephone Angela on
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If you would like to see the choir perform then please have a look at our diary page for details of forthcoming concerts. For the Christmas season we have a complete, separate, repertoire of Christmas Carols and Songs old and new!
If you are interested in Missing Pieces and joining us then please see the Missing Pieces page or make contact through the website or give us a call on 01743 244195 and we will tell you about the choir and answer any questions you have – you won't regret it!
Rehearsal evenings for Jigsaw Sound are Tuesdays from 7.15 to 9.30pm in Shrewsbury.
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Dear Colin and Angela,
Many thanks, it was a really joyous concert, with so many special moments. We think we speak for all of us, when we say that we really felt humbled and blessed to be present on such an occasion. We sat with the Mayor and Mayoress, and it was obvious to us that they too were very appreciative of the high standard of singing and the way in which the entire programme was presented.
We would not have missed the occasion for the world.
Thanks again for the amazing year of raising vital funds for Shrewsbury Street Pastors.
May we, on behalf of the Trustees and members of Shrewsbury Street Pastors, wish you and all members of Jigsaw Sound Choir a very Happy Christmas and a healthy, prosperous and blessed 2014.
With every blessing,
Ian & Jane Horne
Joint Coordinators - Shrewsbury Street Pastors
December 2013 - following our Christmas Concert at Holy Trinity Church, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury which raised £1,333 for Shrewsbury Street Pastors
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Shrewsbury's Jigsaw Sound choir has raised a record breaking £4,639 for its annual charity for 2012, Shrewsbury Samaritans, bringing its charitable donations for 2012 to well over £10,000!
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"Wasn't that wonderful and what a fantastic ending - something we can all hope and pray for - A World in Union.
I would like to thank you all very much for giving us so much pleasure this evening. We have been right down in the depths and we have been right up in the sky and I think we have experienced every emotion in between!
I would like not only to thank you for performing but also to thank the person that compiled the programme becuase I think that has been an absolutely splendid job to have got such a mix. Something that would appeal to everybody was in that programme and that was very skilfull"
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Friday, March 1, 2013
In Washington, D.C., lawmakers are urging Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama to reverse the law, although the fate of those efforts contain just as much uncertainty.
"Putin's ban is simply retaliatory," says U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Metairie Republican. "We need to stand up to this ridiculous order, stand by our support for human rights and continue processing the adoptions that have already been matched.
He adds that Putin's ban was issued in response to Congress's decision to hold Russian officials responsible for the illegal imprisonment and murder of Russian attorney Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
The U.S. State Department and Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that there are between 350 to 500 active adoption cases involving Russian children already matched with American families prior to Russia's ban.
Each year, American families open their hearts and homes to approximately 1,000 Russian children through adoption.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who co-chairs the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, is urging Putin and Obama to find a resolution as well.
"The U.S. families matched with these children already love them like their own and have invested a great deal of time and resources in pursuit of a final adoption," Landrieu says.
In a letter cosigned by both of Louisiana's senators, the two presidents are urged "to look beyond politics and see the people this law most directly affects."
Russia's own Ministry of Science and Education estimates that 110,000 children in Russia live in institutions, many of whom have special needs that many orphanages cannot adequately address.
Long-term institutionalization has been proven to lead to neurological and emotional difficulties in children, Landrieu points out.
The senior senator from Louisiana also visited Vietnam in February to seek an agreement to begin allowing Americans to adopt children there. "The government of Vietnam seems to be willing to restart, and there are just some final details to be worked out with the government of the United States," Landrieu told Associated Press reporters in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital. "We hope that it will be in the near future."
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Physical Properties of Minerals and Determinative Techniques
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This teaching activity was originally published in: Brady, J., Mogk, D. W., and Perkins, D., (editors), 1997, "Teaching Mineralogy," a workbook published by the Mineralogical Society of America, 406 pp. All teaching activities in this volume received two external peer reviews from mineralogy faculty focused on content and pedagogy, and a final review by the co-editors to comply with the publication standards of the Mineralogical Society of America.
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- Identify minerals based on streak, luster, cleavage/fracture, hardness, density, and other characteristics
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'Sherlock': First Full Season 3 Trailer Debuts (Video)
Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes plans on surprising his friend John Watson at the start of season three, but he's in for a shock.
After a few teasers, a minute-long trailer for British drama Sherlock has debuted.
In this one, John Watson (Martin Freeman) has discovered that his partner-in-crime Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) faked his own death at the end of the last season, though he doesn't care for the details on "The Reichenbach Fall."
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"I don't care how you faked it, I want to know why," Watson tells his friend.
"The one person he thought didn't matter at all to me was the one person that mattered the most," Sherlock says.
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It's been two years since that fateful fall, and in an attempt to bring things back to some sense of normalcy, Sherlock concocts a grand plan to surprise Watson of his "resurrection." But he learns that his friend isn't residing at 221B Baker Street anymore.
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A committee of educators, foundation board of directors, and a representative from Education Minnesota will select the winners. Scholarship recipients will be notified in April of 2015.
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United Educators Foundation will award three $1,000 college scholarships to graduating High School Seniors who are UECU members or a child or grandchild of a UECU member. Applicants must be planning to attend a post secondary school in the fall of 2015.
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23 May 2007 - National Grid and TenneT Holding has announced plans to construct a new 260km, 1000 MW electricity interconnector - 'BritNed' - between the Netherlands and the UK.
The UK's National Grid said that the €600m ($808m) joint venture project will increase diversity of supply and provide greater opportunities for BritNed's customers to participate in European electricity markets.
It will also promote competition and contribute to security of supply in both energy markets, the UK firm added. Construction of the interconnector will commence this summer - subject to the relevant regulatory exemptions - and is expected to be commissioned by late 2010.
A contract has been awarded to Siemens for the construction of two high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations at the Isle of Grain in Kent and Maasvlakte near Rotterdam, and a subsea cable contract awarded to ABB for construction of the HVDC cables, that will be laid beneath the North Sea.
Electricity will be able to flow in both directions and will be determined by power prices in the Netherlands and UK. BritNed will be a commercial/'non-socialised' interconnector, funded and operated independently from National Grid and TenneT's regulated businesses.
Customers will have open access to BritNed's capacity through a combination of 'implicit' auctions facilitated by APX, and short term 'explicit' auctions.
This approach will give customers real choice on how they can bid for capacity. It also ensures BritNed supports the ambitions for greater transparency in the European energy markets.
Both companies have experience in HVDC interconnector projects of this magnitude. TenneT are jointly constructing the 580km link, 'NorNed', between the Netherlands and Norway.
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Backpacking in the Alsek Valley of Kluane National Park in the Yukon is a solitary venture in the early spring. This popular Park, a Unesco Heritage Site and home to Canada's highest mountain peak, Mount Logan (5959 m) is a popular spot. That's why I prefer to hike either in the spring or late fall. That and well…no bugs.
There is one teeny issue when hiking in the spring that you have to be aware of. The mountain run-offs can cause the rivers to have high, powerful, cold and unpredictable crossings. It's important to have a plan B, just in case.
This Alsek Trail isn't technically difficult and in fact, if you are lucky you can bypass the first 15 km since it's accessible via 4-wheel drive. Did I mention that the spring offers some challenges?
For us, this meant that only 1 km was passable by vehicle. Due to the late and cooler than normal spring, snow pack levels were still high in places including on the path, making it impassable for a vehicle. Unfortunately the snow pack was only 1 km into the hike but included a deep gully rushing with water. Much of the rest of the path would have been fine except for this one spot early on. Nonetheless, we had to adjust.
The initial plan was to drive the 15 km to the end of the trail at which time we would hike to either the 25.9 km post or even a couple of km before where we would set up camp at the junction of the Alsek, Dezadeash and Kaskawulsh Rivers. Instead we would have to hike the first 14 km in addition so we decided that we would go as far as we felt like it. Admittedly we were not in the best of shape.
The start of this hike reminded me of hiking in Mexico. The weather was starting to turn and the sun was beating on us. We were very exposed along the surprisingly dusty road and later along the rocks where the path crosses rock slide areas…the few patches of Spruce and Poplar made for a welcome respite from the sun.
As the kilometres fell behind us we were able to see incredible views into this expansive Alsek Valley. It's a stark and lovely valley. High beach ridges left behind by a succession of glacial lakes are obvious here. "Further down the Alsek valley, the Lowell glacier has surged across the valley four different times during the past 12,000 years, damming the Alsek River and creating glacial lakes, the last one having drained only just over a century ago" (Parks Canada).
We made good progress until we arrived at the 18 km mark or so. The afternoon heat caused the snows to melt and the rivers were starting to run. It started slowly as we crossed along the muddy, tar like terrain and eventually the mud began to stream into small rivers and eventually larger more challenging streams. We lost sight of any type of route. Neither my husband nor I have the best route finding skills. We thought it wise to stop here, find some higher ground and set up our camp for the night. This we did.
It was a beautiful evening although at one point some very strong winds blew up and storms threatened. We had to secure the tent better and wait for it to pass. The worst missed us, instead following the ridges of the mountains and the sun came back out. It was warm and quiet. Very very quiet. With no other hikers except one couple earlier in the day who were just out for a short day hike, we felt incredibly alone in this vast valley. There were numerous sightings of bear, wolf scat and paw prints, but even more caribou tracks. The latter were huge. Luckily or unluckily depending upon your perspective, none chose to join us at our camp that eve.
We both eventually fell asleep only to shocked awake by the sound of a huge crash. I thought it was thunder and lightning but it turned out to be a giant rock slide. We were safe and a distance from the slide, but were able to watch the exciting event from the comfort of our tent through the door flap. It went on for some time and was spectacular to watch.
Tomorrow's walk home seemed a like a lifetime away. That was okay with us.
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What's with the obsession (yes, revealing my opinion :-) ) of skinning and peeling tomatoes? There's no question the 'skins' contain nutrients and roughage that are beneficial - as well as having taste. (It becomes totally ludicrous to me when one is speaking of cherry tomatoes).
If for some cosmetic and/or texture reason the product should be smooth then almost any stick blender should handle that - never mind blenders and food processors.
but if you want chunks of tomatoes without big flakes of tomato skin....
Peel 'em or don't -- it's your choice.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
It's hard enough to do I usually don't, but easy enough so that if I see the need I don't feel put-upon. And if I want a purée I have a dandy Italian machine that suction-cups to the work table and spits pure juice and flesh out the front and skins and seeds out the side.
Some of the baby cherry tomatoes I'm getting lately have annoyingly heavy-duty skins, by the way. Not a whole lot to be done about that …
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a friendly obsession - albeit not to the tomato :-)
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re: Harters
oh, Harters.
I revel in eating tomatoes fully intact with seeds and juice and skin -- but only if they're just-picked right off the vine and still warm to the touch from the sun.
The late, great American humorist Lewis Grizzard wrote this ode to juicy, homegrown maters:
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"only if they're just-picked right off the vine and still warm to the touch from the sun."
You do this to taunt me, knowing full well that I live on a small, cold island off the coast of northern Europe ;-)
FWIW, I would never eat tomatoes until I was in my 20s. Then came 1976 when I decided to grow them in a "Gro-bag", outside the back door. That was probably the last "proper" hot summer we had.
re: Harters
I had them here a couple of years ago...
two years ago we had a drought = no tomatoes
last year we thought we were going to drown = blight on all my lovely tomatoes.
We were at Chatsworth last August and it made me feel much better to see how rubbish their tomatoes looked, too -- I figure if their tomatoes looked that bad with a hive of professional gardeners tutting over them, I didn't feel nearly so inadequate that mine looked anemic, too.
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When the brother-in-law first moved to the UK, he picked tomatoes as his job. Bloody hard work for very little pay. Of course, these were tomatoes grown under glass, not outdoor ones.
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I hail from a part of Florida that supplies an enormous percentage of the US eastern seaboard with tomatoes...it's thankless work, and I'm reminded of it every time I head to the you-pick fields for canned tomatoes/sauce/salsa/juice.
It's all about what you're trying to make. There are recipes that require a smooth pureed texture and those that are more rustic. Same with potatoes.
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Mine is.
Core, put little X on blossom end, maybe 30 seconds in boiling water and skin will slide right off.
I can tell an extreme case of eating something with the 'skin' - I once sat behind a 'well-lubricated' Cubs fan at Wrigley and he was eating peanuts WITH the shell!
I confess that I have never done this. I don't find any reason to do so. As Lynne Rosetto Kasper points out in "The Italian Country Table", many of the factors in a tomato's flavor are in the skin, the seed, and the gel around the seed.
Plus, as a devotee of the late Laurie Colwin's theory of ""a cuisine de la 'slobbe' raffinée," (The Cooking of the Refined Slob), it seems needlessly "fussy" to me.
And for the earlier poster, yeah, I think even if you are One Of Those People who peel when cooking, peeling when eating a tomato raw is rather extreme.
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Exactly -
"As Lynne Rosetto Kasper points out in "The Italian Country Table", many of the factors in a tomato's flavor are in the skin, the seed, and the gel around the seed." -
to say nothing of the nutrients, etc,
I only peel roma/plum tomatoes that I use in sauces and soups, and I cut off about 1/3 inch of the stem end that can be off-color and a bit fibrous. An easy task.
I very, very rarely peel tomatoes. But for those times when they're to be peeled and finely chopped for a cooked dish, I was really happy to learn the trick of grating a halved tomato on the coarse holes of a box grater (or equivalent flat or microplane grater). The tomato pulp comes through the grater in a pile, and the skin is left behind in your hand.
re: Caroline1
I always skin tomatoes (the quick dip in boiling water way) before dicing them for guacamole. Something about the bits of skin just bugs me as over against the smoothness of the avocado. I usually deseed them as well, to ensure the dip doesn't get too liquid.
You can freeze them whole and washed. When defrosted, the skin slips right off and the tomato flesh is nearly puréed. All you need to do is strain the seeds out. Not something for July or August, perhaps, but nice on February.


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A boon to small brewers
WTOP's Megan Cloherty reports.
D.C. breweries are likely to be toasting the D.C. Council after lawmakers on Monday approved a rule change that will allow them to sell pints of beer to customers in their tasting rooms.
Though the District has become an increasingly hospitable place for brewery businesses during the past few years, the so-called "pint law" is one of the last big changes that brewers were arguing for. (They told me as much back in March when I profiled the region's booming beer business.)
Previously, production breweries such as D.C. Brau, Atlas Brew Works and Three Stars Brewing Co. could only offer free tastes of their beer to customers in their tap rooms. Now, breweries will be able to obtain a separate permit for on-site sales and consumption.
Breweries will be able to sell beer for consumption between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. seven days per week, according to the change, which was approved Monday as part of the fiscal year 2015 budget act.
The owners of Three Stars told me back in March that the pint law was the big push they were making with the council this year. With people coming to the brewery to get growlers — large-format bottles of beer — and tastes, the fact that they couldn't sit in the brewery and buy a beer was confusing to many patrons, they said.
And the change couldn't have come at a better time for D.C. Brau, which recently reopened its tap room July 12 after closing it during the brewery's expansion.
D.C. is catching up to local Maryland and Virginia jurisdictions in making the on-premise consumption change; the Virginia General Assembly approved such a change in 2012 and Montgomery County recently implemented a similar change.
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Jemini, Amp, and Oria are covered in this episode of Ruby5. Also, Rails 2.3.5 has been released and projects are springing up making use of the Google Closure Compiler.
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RubyConf 2014 wrap-up, accelerating your Rails app, RubyGems.org gets redesigned, Heroku wants you to try HTTP Git, and new versions of Rails were released
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|The USDA's Healthy eatin on a Budget program makes understanding how families can make healthy choices with free online planning tools.
The school bell will soon ring one last time and the kids will be playing in the sprinklers, sleeping late and no doubt asking you, "What's for dinner?" Growing children are hungry, but it doesn't mean they should be diving head first into a giant bag of cheese puffs.
Families want to keep their kids healthy, and summertime is notorious for snacks like ice cream, burgers, and other indulgences. The Choose My Plate initiative by the U.S. Department of Agriculture understands and wants to help keep families healthy and also keep that grocery budget from spiraling out of control.
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to healthy eating is knowing where to start with planning. The new Healthy Eating on a Budget program by the USDA includes free online downloads like sample menus, grocery shopping lists of ingredients and recipes for some suggested menu items.
If you already have an idea of what you'll be cooking for the week, there are also blank templates for organizational tools to create menus and shopping lists.
INDfamlily really loves the link to smart shopping tips for each aisle including how to read price tags on shelves and nutritional labels on products.
We give the USDA's Healthy Eating on a Budget tool two big thumbs up — and we encourage you to share it with your kids in these quick and easy ways:
Let the kids help fill in a blank menu with some of their favorite meals and then tell them you will review making sure they have made smart and healthy choices — you might want to review the choosemyplate.gov site first for suggestions on how to create a balanced meal, or use the pre-prepared menus as a guide.
Next, let them help make the grocery list. For your little junk foodies, get each child to list one fruit and one vegetable they like and purchase those in place of those not-so-real-fruit snacks and faux veggie sticks
Pick one meal from the weekly list that you will help prepare as a family. Even the youngest children can feel included with easy tasks like wiping lids of cans or getting a plastic bowl and spoon to pretend cook with — the smallest initiatives can create a desire to learn more about the vital life skill for health: Cooking one's own meals.
Sit at the table together for dinner — when busy schedules allow — and turn off all TVs and other distraction devices like cell phones. This is an unplugged dinner, folks. Talk about what everyone liked about the meal and maybe some ideas for what they can help make in the future.
Healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive and you don't have to be a Julia Child to cook — all you really need to know is how to read. So get a recipe and get cooking. Not exactly what you were hoping it would taste like? Don't give up — try it again and show your kids that dinner doesn't always come from a drive thru.


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Dr. Henry Louis Gates: The 'Black in Latin America' Interview
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Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates – author, literary and cultural critic and noted documentarian – talks about his latest PBS series, "Black in Latin America." Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates – author, literary and cultural critic and noted documentarian – talks about his latest PBS series, "Black in Latin America."
Kam Williams: Hi Dr. Gates, thanks for the time.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates: Thank you, Kam….
KW: Boston-based children's author Irene Smalls asks: "What do you hope to accomplish with 'Black in Latin America?'"
|Dr. Henry Louis Gates in Cuba for his latest PBS series "Black in Latin America." (Photo courtesy of Graham Smith)
But obviously, over 10.5 million black people landed in countries throughout the Caribbean and South America. My goal with the series was to unveil that world to the average American. Did you know that the first black president of a multi-racial society was not Barack Obama but Vincente Guerrero, who became president of Mexico in 1829? How come we don't know that? It's incredible!...
KW: Teresa Emerson asks: "How did you settle on the countries which would be the subject of the series? Which one has the largest presence of Africans outside of Africa: Brazil or Colombia?"
HLG: We picked the countries strategically, because we couldn't cover everything in a 4-hour series. We had different categories, and one was size. For instance, we passed on Columbia, the second largest, because we went with Brazil, the largest. Brazil is also Portuguese, which we wanted to contrast with the Hispanic experience. We picked Cuba, because it's so fascinating and mysterious to Americans. So, I wanted to bring that country to the fore. The island of Hispaniola was interesting because it's divided into Haiti, where the people are very proud to be black and they speak Creole and French, and the Dominican Republic, where the national motto was that the country was Catholic, Spanish and white.
Finally, we chose Mexico and Peru. Why? Because nobody thinks about their ever having sizable black populations. All anybody remembers are the Aztecs and the Incas. But they had 700 thousand slaves combined, compared to America's 450 thousand. That's astonishing! So, the series was designed to offer some amazing revelations and to reeducate the American people.
KW: I found the episode about Haiti very informative, particularly about how President Thomas Jefferson tried to sabotage its independence movement.
HLG: Yeah, America systematically attempted to undermine it. Jefferson called it a terrible republic and referred to the people as cannibals. Man, that's cold. But Haiti has a long and noble history as a free civilization…
KW: Dr. Karanja Ajanaku, (executive editor of the Memphis Tri-State Defender, says: "You seem to be making the point that in the U.S., we are mostly unaware, substantively, of "blacks" in Latin America. Would you speak to how aware or unaware, substantively, "blacks" in Latin America are of African Americans?
HLG: Blacks in Latin America are keenly aware of African-American popular culture, entertainers, athletes, Oprah Winfrey, movie stars and musicians. The whole world is enthralled with hip-hop. They're listening to the same music as our kids. And then there's Obama! Good Lord! But in terms of a more profound understanding of the black experience in America, I'm not sure. I'd guess that they would have a long way to go.
KW: Dr. Ajanaku also asks: "Did you encounter any signs and/or reasons to be hopeful that "blacks" in Latin America and Africa Americans could transcend the boundaries of country and culture and forge an economic union of sorts that would be uplifting to both?"
HLG: No, I didn't see any sign of that, because most of those folks' first identity is a national one, as a Brazilian or a Cuban, not as a black person. For instance, in the Dominican Republic episode, Juan Rodriguez says he never even thought of himself as black until he visited New York. One of the points of the series is that identity is a very complex and ever-shifting matter. We might think that these people are obviously black, but they might not identify themselves that way. During this whole trip, I never met anybody who said they were black first and their nationality second, in the way that African-Americans tend to say, "We're black first." That's another important lesson of the series….
KW: Irene says: There has reportedly been a great deal of tension between African-Americans and Latino immigrants. Can blacks and Latinos find a common ground to work together in this country?
HLG: Yes, I believe so. I think that all Americans should speak Spanish, just as I also think that all Americans should speak English. If blacks and Latinos begin to form alliances across ethnicity and realize that they should be voting as a bloc, they would have a tremendous amount of power. But we can't expect them to be like us. Just because their skin is dark and their hair is curly doesn't mean they're going to approach issues of race and racism in the same way as someone born in the continental United States.
("Black in Latin America" airs on PBS check local listings)


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Service for two (#160)
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Series: Ethically Speaking
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DEAN: This is ethically speaking with Dean Ritz and Deni Elliott.
DENI: My physical therapist expressed concern over serving two clients at once: the doctors who make the diagnoses and referrals, and the patients.
DEAN: It seems to me all caregivers ought to be on the same team, working in the patient?s best interest.
DENI: Ideally, you?re right. But, in the real world, patients come to the physical therapist with prescriptions from doctors. The physical therapist is just supposed to carry out the doctor?s orders.
DEAN: And what?s wrong with that?
DENI: The physical therapist might find that the doctor didn?t understand the whole problem or even make the right diagnosis.
DEAN: Oooh, that?s tricky. The therapist ? who is an adjunct caregiver -- needs to figure out how to communicate with the doctor, the principal caregiver. And she must do so without violating the patie...
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Bomb squad removes grenade found in Miami Gardens
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Police closed the roadway from Northwest 191st Street to 199th Street during the investigation.
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