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Splash into this 4 bedrm/2 bath on beautiful Outer Dr on Long Lake.(1600 sqft) sleep 11 (only 8 adults) w/3 Queens,1 Full, 1 Twin, Sofabed. Sandy bottom lake. Dock. Rowboat. Mooring, Cable/DVD/Cable/WIFI. W/D,DW. Char grill. Fire pit. FP. Pets ok. Sat-Sat
Make a splash at this "Up North" 1950's vintage cabin style home on 100 feet of beautiful Long Lake. This location cannot be beat for a family gathering together in the summer or a weekend seasonal getaway. Just minutes from downtown Traverse City, this vintage cottage has a great "step back in time" feel to it but also has many current updates to make for an enjoyable stay. Splash Landing features 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and will sleep up to 11. (only 8 adults please) This is a two level house with walk-out finished basement. The location is on a peninsula with tree lined streets just perfect for walks & bike riding. Need to see sunsets? You will see spectacular ones here.
2 bedrooms on main level--first bedroom has 1 Queen and 1 Twin, second bedroom has 1 Queen w/TV. Downstairs--the third bedroom has 1 Queen, and fourth bedroom has 1 Full. Sofabed in the lower level in spacious family room w/TV. Those who have stayed at Splash in years past will be pleasantly surprised with the recent remodeling in the lower level as well as updates through out the house! Washer/dryer. Cable TV, DVD. WIFI. Plenty of books to curl up with & board games too. Wood burning fireplace in living room. Full kitchen with dishwasher. Great lake views from the large living room windows! 3 bedrooms have a view of the lake.
Outside, beautiful Long Lake is waiting for you. A few steps down to the lake from the patio area. Swimming, boating, and fishing just outside your door! Dock, mooring, boat lift (will accom. up to 17' boat 3000 lbs. max). No tying to dock. Swim platform and a row boat for some fishing fun are included.( Dock is put in in the spring after the ice breaks up and removed in late Sept). Bring your boat and motor to Boones Long Lake Inn on what Lake. Nice sandy bottom lake for the little ones. Charcoal grill and picnic table for outdoor dining. Fire pit for roasting marshmallows under the stars. It is all just waiting for your visit.
An easy drive to all the Traverse City attractions including the National Cherry Festival or Traverse City Film Festival. About 30 minutes to the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Head to the Interlochen Arts Academy for a great concert. Frog Pond is 6.5 mile away. South Long Lake Forest Natural Area is less than 5 minutes away for a hike in the woods. Thinking about winter fun? Crystal Mountain is about 1/2 hour away for great downhill skiing.
Your well-mannered pet is welcome. No air conditioning. Linens are provided. SATURDAY-SATURDAY weekly for summer weeks.
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A new 56,915 square foot movie theater with 12 screens and 2,489 stadium-style seats is open. The new Regal Cinemas flagship theater is located between the existing JC Penney and Macy's at the Westfield Broward Mall. The previous mall entrance next to JC Penney has been revamped and upgraded with a modern architectural facade incorporating the theater marquee. Now the community is able to enjoy the most recently released movies in a modern state-of-the-art facility without having to leave Plantation. See you at the movies!


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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - New York state officials say operator error was to blame for an amputee Iraq war veteran's deadly fall from an upstate roller coaster, and have cited the amusement park for having improperly trained workers.
Investigators cited Darien Lake Theme Park & Resort, located between Buffalo and Rochester, for not properly training the ride's operators on the safety and operations restrictions and said operators were unfamiliar with the coaster's safety requirements.
The ride has been closed since July 8, when James Hackemer, who lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in 2008, came out of his seat near the end of the ride and was thrown to his death.
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Congrats to Debbie White (Col '90) for correctly guessing that the above image is a shot of the blue AstroTurf field hockey pitch at Copeley Road, behind University Hall.
Congrats to Debbie White (Col '90) for correctly guessing that the above image is a shot of the blue AstroTurf field hockey pitch at Copeley Road, behind University Hall.
After the most successful basketball season in decades, fourth-year guard Joe Harris (aka Joey Hoops) throws out the first pitch before a baseball game against Clemson. At press time, the U.Va. baseball team was ranked No. 1 in the nation.
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The Virginia football team holds a summer scrimmage at Lambeth Field. Games were first held on the field in 1902 and the stadium was completed in 1913. It served as the home for Virginia football games until 1931, after which games were contested at Scott Stadium. The field was also the site of U.Va. track meets and baseball games. Photo by Jim Daves.
Serena Bolliger (Col '07) and Jay Ward (Col '07) finished the Ironman 70.3 California in Oceanside on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Ward is already a full Ironman, having completed Ironman Texas in 2012. He will be doing Ironman Tahoe later this year.
The Ironman race is a 2.4-mile swim and a 112-mile bike ride followed by a marathon run (26.2 miles) and takes anywhere from 9 hours (for a pro) and 17 hours (the cutoff) to complete. The Ironman 70.3 is also known as the half Ironman distance, but it is certainly no small feat.
Robert Zullo (Col '97) (far left), a professor of sports management at Seton Hill University outside of Pittsburgh, was helping his students gain professional experience through working at a Pittsburgh Panthers basketball game when his former U.Va. classmate and star Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Farrior (center) stopped by to say hi just days before the Super Bowl. The 2010-2011 academic year is the inaugural year for the new business program.
Members of the U.Va. men's soccer team savor their win over Akron on Dec. 13 to claim the NCAA championship, the program's sixth national title. Goalkeeper Diego Restrepo (in blue jersey) was one of the season's heroes, allowing just three goals over a 16-game stretch. He and midfielder Tony Tchani received first-team All-America honors, and head coach George Gelnovatch was named Men's Coach of the Year by Soccer America.
UVA vs. DUKE soccer -UVA lost in double OT.
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Until the introduction of the triple expansion engine in the late 1880s, steam propulsion was quite inefficient and undependable. Contemporary ships were too small to carry the enormous amounts of coal for complete ocean cruises without auxiliary sail. The 7,770-ton Captain was an unsatisfactory compromise between the need for auxiliary sail power to augment unreliable steam engines and small fuel capacity, and the need to deploy movable turrets far from home. Captain was the result of a highly public dispute between Capt. Cowper Coles, inventor of the turret system used in Royal Navy ships, and Director of Naval Construction Edward Reed. Coles had discovered the possibilities of floating rafts with shielded guns on a turntable during the Crimean War, but had languished on half-pay since then, promoting his inventions to Parliament and the press; despite Reed's resistance, and the fact that he had already built a rigged ship with Coles' turrets (HMS Monarch, 1868), Coles had enough influence in the Admiralty and with the public to get the chance to build a masted turret ship to suit his own fancy. The project got the nod in 1867.
Coles contracted with Laird's of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, to create his dream ship. It was designed with a freeboard of 8', two 12" gun turrets on the main deck 8 feet above the waves, and a "hurricane deck" or flying bridge extending over the turrets' tops, practically the whole midsection of the ship; bulky forecastle and stern deckhouses connected by the narrow hurricane deck, with bridge above it and a single funnel just before the mainmast. To avoid problems with aiming the guns through the rigging, the masts were stayed to the hurricane deck, with thin struts tying the lower masts to the outer hull (struts shown in the model, rigging omitted for clarity.) The building of the ship was problematic, with lax supervision (Coles was ill during much of the construction) and she completed 740 tons over her designed weight, bringing the actual freeboard down to 6'2". In profile the ship looked like a sailing frigate with plumb stem, but the illusion of a normal sheer was due to the height of the hurricane deck, which was open underneath for the turrets. In fact the main deck was often awash even in light seas. Captain had a high center of gravity due to her towering rig (50,000 sf of sail) amply justifying Reed's concern about her stability.
Still, at first, Captain appeared to be a practicable ship. Under steam her twin screws churned her ahead at 14.2 kts on trials. She made a couple of short round trips to Vigo before joining the Channel fleet. During her shakedown cruise in the Bay of Biscay, the commanding admiral visited the new ship and noted with concern that she ran with her lee rail perpetually awash. On the night of Sept. 6, 1870, while sailing off Cape Finisterre in a freshening gale, Captain abruptly capsized and sank like a stone. She took with her 473 of her crew, including Captain Coles, who was on board as an observer on the voyage. Midshipman Leonard Childers, son of Sir Hugh Childers (Coles' principal patron at Whitehall) also died, as did the Captain's commander, Hugh T. Burgoyne, VC. Burgoyne had ordered shortening of sail just before the capsize. He survived the sinking, but was not among those rescued. There were only 18 survivors of the disaster, all of whom made it to a boat which wrenched free of the sinking ship. They were rescued late the following day.
Specifications for the Captain:
Dimensions: 320' x 53'3" x 25'6" Freeboard: 6'7" Armament: (4) 12" MLR, (2) 7" MLR Armor: 10"/9" turret, hull 8"/3" belt, 1" deck; main armor belt backed with 12" of teak. Engines: (2) 2-cylinder Laird trunk engines developing 5772 IHP, shafted to twin screw. 50,000 sf of sail; ship rig, 1st class scale. Crew: 500.
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Dimensions: 97.5m x 16.23m x 7.77m. Freeboard: 2.1m. Armament: (4) 305 mm MLR, (2) 178 mm MLR Armor: 254/229 mm turret, hull 203/76 mm belt, 25 mm deck; main armor belt backed with 305 mm of teak. Engines: (2) 2-cylinder Laird trunk engines developing 4,304 kW, shafted to twin screw. 4,645 square meters of sail; ship rig, 1st class scale. Crew: 500.
The Captain affair became a long-lived naval controversy, and immediate steps were taken to improve the stability of warships built for the Royal Navy. This was not the most decisive time in finding an ironclad warship design that worked, and the Captain controversy -- replete with political recriminations -- did little to clarify the vision of naval architects and strategists. In fact, the period was later dubbed the "Age of Indecision". In truth, the period was one of experimentation, leading to many freakish-looking vessels (especially in the French and Italian navies). Most capital ships retained vestigial auxiliary sail until the early 1880s (the early 1890s in the Russian fleet). The disappearance of sail coincided with the advent of more reliable engines and the development of fueling infrastructure: the Royal Navy, particularly, established coaling stations worldwide to maintain its global fleet, with courtesy service provided to fellow imperial powers.
- The Complete Story: Official HMS Captain website
- Black Night off Finisterre - Arthur Hawkey's Book on the Tragedy
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Indiana landed a historic in-state haul with its 2013 football recruiting class.
But IU coach Kevin Wilson wasn't focused on his success during an interview in late May.
He was still mulling over the Hoosiers' misses.
Even though we did a good, good job this past year recruiting, it's been hit and miss. We went after some guys we didn't get, some guys we liked and they didn't like us, or we didn't like them – whatever as you're doing your (evaluation), the third-year coach said. I still think there's a little distrust. We haven't had overwhelming success as far as victories yet.
After putting together a top-50 class with five of the top-20 players in the state, the ones that got away – Bishop Luers linebacker Jaylon Smith, Avon defensive end Elijah Daniel, Center Grove tight end Nate Wozniak, Carmel linebacker John Kenny and Warren Central linebacker Tim Kimbrough – still sting.
It's part of the new attitude in Bloomington.
Wilson and his staff feel they can compete with the Notre Dames of the world, who scooped up Smith, and SEC programs Auburn and Georgia, who nabbed Daniel and Kimbrough.
Fort Wayne, in particular, has been marked as a battleground for IU in the coming years – just as it was in 2013, when the Hoosiers missed Smith but grabbed Homestead receiver Isaac Griffith.
There's a number of quality players again this year, Wilson said. We got to keep doing a good job in this state. We hit it hard this spring recruiting. A couple kids we're after hard, we want to get them down this summer to build some stronger relationships.
Hopefully we get them. We need to get them. Because the best players in Indiana need to play in Bloomington.
And as the culture at IU changes, some of them are.
Donovan Clark of South Side, the best cornerback in the state among rising seniors, gave his commitment to the Hoosiers on July 2. Wilson moved early to offer Bishop Luers wide receiver Austin Mack, a 2016 prospect.
And IU has a pipeline growing in Fort Wayne, one that includes current Hoosier Kenny Mullen, among others.
That pipeline will be essential in the coming years, AWP Sports president Michael Ledo said. Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert , now in the NFL, as well as Ohio State running back Rod Smith and Carroll senior Drue Tranquill are among those he said prove that northern Indiana is a recruiting hotbed now.
Obviously, in any business, you don't want to lose what's in your backyard, Ledo said. Maybe they thought the talent wasn't here before, or the athletes weren't as polished or what.
But now, I think that we're proving with the Tyler Eiferts of the world, and the Rod Smiths, and the Jaylon Smiths, and the Donovan Clarks, and the Drue Tranquills that we have that talent here.
That talent has brought IU, and other schools across the nation, to Fort Wayne as well as the rest of the state.
The Hoosiers have to recruit against nationally recognized programs with only five wins to their name in the past two seasons.
Carroll coach Doug Dinan said the staff has made up for a lack of recent success by selling a vision and building strong relationships with in-state high schools.
Wilson has been in Dinan's classroom on multiple occasions – not just to recruit his players, but to talk.
The Indiana staff has been very open in their communications in terms of recruiting all kids within Fort Wayne and the northeastern Indiana area, Dinan said. They try to do a tremendous job of being in the schools and assistant coaches coming into the schools. If they're not recruiting a specific athlete from your school, there are open lines of communication and inquiring about athletes that are in the area.
Those connections have gone a long way in building up the IU program despite the lack of success on paper.
Mack was the first player in his class in Indiana to get an offer from the Hoosiers.
He said the perception of IU, for both him and other players he's talked to in the state, has evolved since Wilson took the reins.
An IU scholarship offer means more than it used to, especially after the Hoosiers' recruiting efforts in 2013.
Indiana's not a basketball school. It's also now a football school, Mack said. We think that if you're good enough to play Indiana football, you're good enough to play anywhere.
Clark, the second instate commitment of 2014, is tangible proof of that. His commitment to the Hoosiers relied heavily on his comfort level with the coaching staff, as well as the positive momentum in Bloomington.
They just got a winning attitude, said Clark, who was the seventh commit in the 2014 class. It's a whole new attitude down there at IU. You see they're getting recruits they never got, the whole attitude has changed there, and I can definitely see they're changing the program and turning it around.
But Wilson knows a winning attitude isn't enough. Actually winning, and doing it this season, is crucial.
Year Three needs to be a bowl-game season, Wilson said. If his team meets that goal, and the in-state talent keeps coming, then the Hoosiers could climb from the bottom of the Big Ten.
But we're battling right now, we're competing right now. It's a dogfight. Some guys we get, some guys we don't get – just like some of those Fort Wayne guys, Wilson said. We want to build relationships and earn trust and earn the right to get some good players. But there's great ball in Indiana. It's getting better every year. And the better we do instate, the better our program's going to be.


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Jonah Goldberg: Torture helped get Osama bin Laden?
"Some of it came from ... interrogation tactics that were used," he said. "But the fact is we put together most of that intelligence without having to resort to that. I think we could have gotten bin Laden without that."
In other words, the movie exaggerates the role played by enhanced interrogation techniques - torture to some - but they did have a role in the hunt for bin Laden. But why stop there? Like most films about real events, "Zero Dark Thirty" exaggerates all sorts of things. For starters, the hunt for bin Laden wasn't conducted single-handedly by a very attractive red-haired woman, recruited from high school by the CIA.
The movie also exaggerates how the detainees were treated. To watch the film, torture was used every time a detainee - pretty much any detainee - gave a false or partial answer to a question. The interrogators could beat, humiliate and waterboard prisoners on an impulse. In reality, they didn't beat detainees at all.
As former George W. Bush aide Marc Thiessen notes, of the more than 100,000 prisoners in the War on Terror, only about 100 were ever held by the CIA and of those, only about a third were subjected to any enhanced interrogation methods. A total of three detainees were waterboarded - and then only under medical supervision and with written authorization from superiors.
Though the film exaggerates some things, to the dismay of critics on the right (and in the intelligence community), it ignores other issues. For instance, critics on the left fairly complain that the stark cost in Iraqi, Afghan and Pakistani innocent lives is never referenced. More relevant, nobody ever raises moral objections to the torture of detainees (in part, because the objectionable treatment doesn't need a monologue for the audience to recognize it).
All these complaints are fair game as far as movie criticism goes. Director Kathryn Bigelow had every right to make whatever movie she wanted. And critics have every right to respond however they want. That said, most of the complaints from the left and the right can be boiled down to the fact that Bigelow didn't make the movie her critics wanted.
In the process, many critics fail to appreciate some of the film's nuance. For instance, many on the left and right tend to see the protagonist as a heroic character. But her single-minded focus on justice - or revenge, depending on your perspective - should more properly be seen as a cautionary tale. After bin Laden's death, Maya, the hero, suddenly has nothing to live for and no place to go.
But I'm not looking to write a movie review. The film is newsworthy because of how lawmakers have responded to it. A bipartisan group of legislators, led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is furious that the film "credits these detainees with providing critical lead information." Put bluntly, they believe that Panetta is lying when he says waterboarding provided anything useful. The senators have been badgering the CIA to explain how Bigelow could be so wrong. After all, as McCain often says, "Torture doesn't work."
This is something of a mantra from opponents of waterboarding. One activist lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, wrote on Daily Kos that the film is "revolting - for its blatant propaganda, glorification of torture and false narrative that torture led to the demise of bin Laden." She wanted the following disclaimer: "Torture does not work and was of no value in finding Osama bin Laden."
Whether waterboarding is torture is probably the most emotionally fraught semantic argument of our lifetimes. Opponents sincerely believe it is torture. Even so, stipulating that it is torture does not suddenly mean that you must also concede it doesn't work. Many in the intelligence community will tell you that the interrogation program yielded crucial information, starting with Panetta, who ran the CIA when we found bin Laden.
Shouting "torture doesn't work" amounts to taking the easy way around the harder argument: that torture might work, but we shouldn't do it anyway, even when American lives are in danger. It's politically unpopular, particularly when waterboarding amounts to the most extreme form of torture.
But that's Panetta's position. He has said that waterboarding is torture and it's wrong. But he has also said that it yielded valuable information we might or might not have gotten some other way. Like it or not, at least Panetta's honest.
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International urban planning guru Brent Toderian fed more than 100 London residents a bitter pill of truth Wednesday evening (Dec. 12).
London is falling behind in key areas related to land use planning, development and transportation, the CEO of Toderian UrbanWORKS told the captive audience during more than two hours of speaking and answering questions at the London Convention Centre.
"To my eye, seeing the rest of Canada and internationally London has fallen behind but it has an opportunity," he said.
That opportunity is ReThink London, the city's vehicle for public consultation and input as it writes a new Master Plan. He said it has the potential to drive the Forest City into a leading role in this country.
"London, given its position, its size, the Forest City (moniker), is well positioned to be a leader in smart city building," he said. "But if it's too focused on the minutia, or continuing to debate these false choices, like good planning versus speed (of development approval) then it's going to be hard to make progress."
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His talk, attended by city councillors Judy Bryant, Sandy White and Harold Usher, was sometimes painfully honest, often soberingly frank and ultimately inspiring.
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Toderian is a noted speaker and author on municipal planning new-speak. The self-described "urbanist" has worked as a chief planner for the cities of Calgary and Vancouver. He steered that city of 600,000, the most expensive place to live in Canada, through the massive developments precipitated by the Olympics and helped design the uber-green, off-the-grid Olympic Village. He was contracted by the city to assist with ReThink London for the duration of last week.
Toderian calls Vancouver home now, but the University of Waterloo alumnus spent almost a decade in southwestern Ontario, and has worked before with London's chief planner, John Fleming.
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"A lot of cities don't perceive a problem," he said. "It would be a problem if London didn't perceive a problem.
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He said there is a "really, really energetic and powerful discourse" taking place in London right now.
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Bleeding is a major limitation of antithrombotic therapy among invasively managed non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) patients; therefore, we examined the use of radial access and its association with outcomes among NSTE-ACS patients.Clinical characteristics and geographic variation in radial access were examined, as well as its association with bleeding, red blood cell transfusion and ischemic outcomes (96-hour death/myocardial infarction/recurrent ischemic/thrombotic bailout; 30-day death/myocardial infarction; 1-year death) in the EARLY versus delayed, provisional eptifibatide in acute coronary syndromes trial.Of 9126 patients, 13.5% underwent radial-access catheterization. Female sex, age, weight, and prior revascularization were inversely associated with radial access, and its use varied widely by country (2%-97%). There were fewer GUSTO severe/moderate bleeds and red blood cell transfusions in the radial access group; however, it was attenuated after adjustment (odds ratio 0.73, 95% confidence intervals [CI] [0.50-1.06], P = .094 and 1.00 [0.71-1.40] P = .991). Ischemic outcomes did not differ by access site.In this post hoc analysis of a large clinical trial, there was significant international variation in use of radial access for NSTE-ACS patients undergoing invasive management, and it was preferentially used in those at lower risk for bleeding. Radial approach was not associated with a significant reduction in either bleeding or ischemic outcomes. Further study is needed to determine whether wider application of radial approach to acute coronary syndrome patients at high risk for bleeding improves overall outcomes.
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Basically I changed the results for listings and for each individual value like (price, location, property type, area, check this listing) but I can't manage to change these values for the search result page. The values are still displayed in English.
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The issue is after translating the values for all the values like (location, property, area and range, if I use the drop-down menu to select one of the values I added, the filter results produce the English version as a result for the listings.
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Hi can someone please help, when I click check this or the view link on slide,
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After i filtering the listing from the right filter on the page the listings appear in english, i want to translate them in other languages.
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After i filtering the listing from the right filter on the page the
listing atributes "Price", "Location"…. and "Check this listing" appear in english, i want to translate them in other languages.
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The Iron Butt Rally (IBR) is the world championship of long distance, endurance, motorcycle riding. It is held every odd year, and covers all of North America. It is billed as "11 Days, 11,000 Miles" and claims proudly that finishers are "The World's Toughest Motorcycle Riders". As of this writing, since the Iron Butt began in 1984, worldwide there have been 403 people who have finished. The author finished this ride in 2009. He was fifty-seven years old. The motorcycle was a thirty-three year old BMW. It started the 2009 rally with over half a million miles on it. The organizers put them both solidly in the Hopeless Class. This book, which includes 65 photographs and 6 maps, is the story of the author's long distance riding experience, from the time when he considered riding three hundred miles a day an incredible achievement, to his covering over 13,000 miles in 14 days in 2009. The total mileage is 13,000 because after he finished the IBR, he had to travel over 2,650 miles in two days in order to return home and be on time for work. The author rode an average of nineteen hours a day for eleven days to gather points needed to be declared a finisher. One hundred and one riders started the rally in 2009. Seventy finished. Prior to this Iron Butt Rally, the author had been riding motorcycles as his main form of transportation for over forty years. He bought the BMW R60 new in 1976 and it was his only motorcycle for a third of a century. Over that time he decided that riding endless miles was a great way to relax and see the world. Think of the IBR as a giant scavenger hunt covering the forty-nine states and Canada. The riders are hunting for bonuses that are described by the organizers. The harder it is to ride to and from a bonus, the more points it is worth. At the start of each leg of the rally, the riders are given a list of bonuses. Each rider has to figure which bonuses he, or she, can ride to and still be on time at checkpoints. No two riders follow the same route. Bonuses can involve walking across the sea floor at low tide to take a photograph, or a visit to a historical location, or meeting a specific person at a specific time. Wind, rain, desert heat, traffic, illness, or mountain cold does not stop these riders.The author had ridden the same motorcycle in the 2007 IBR, but due to poor planning, inexperience, and dehydration, he lost an entire day during the rally. One can't lose a minute during an IBR, and he knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that there was no way that he could be a finisher. However, he developed a route for the last three days that covered over four thousand miles and seven states to try and gain enough points to somehow be successful. The IBR gives no quarter for bad luck or poor health. He was a DNF (did not finish).During the 2009 IBR the author had good days and bad. Some days were spent riding on beautifully paved roads in perfect temperatures. Other miles were done on gravel roads, or in storms that damned well seemed to approach biblical proportions. Riders must be ready for anything. On day five the author stopped for a few hours sleep at eleven o'clock on a Friday night in Mississippi only to find that his footpeg and sidestand had broken loose from the motorcycle. Unable to ride, and knowing that no one would have parts for a 1976 motorcycle, he thought that his rally was over. Three hours later, with the help of a mobile welding service, he was back on the road and back in the rally.This book is written for those who ride motorcycles for long distances, short distances, and for those who have never wanted to ride a motorcycle at all. It's about the adventure that can still be found by pursuing the love of a sport and a dream.
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Farro and Cucumber Salad
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- 1 cup farro
- Kosher salt
- 2 cups 1-inch pieces pumpernickel bread
- 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon honey
- 3 small or 1 large cucumber, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 4 baby red or yellow beets, very thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup dill sprigs
- 1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
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- Calories (kcal) 340
- Fat (g) 19
- Saturated Fat (g) 2.5
- Cholesterol (mg) 0
- Carbohydrates (g) 45
- Dietary Fiber (g) 8
- Total Sugars (g) 7
- Protein (g) 7
- Sodium (mg) 330
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Cook farro in a medium pot of boiling salted water until tender but still al dente, 30–40 minutes. Drain and let cool.
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is there a listing of chefs that have attained the c.m.c. designation? i have googled and checked the american culinary federation and c.i.a. sites to no avail. i would like to know who is a c.m.c. (there are only about 80) and where their restaurants and/or schools are located.
You can look at the link below and scroll through. It lists all certified chefs (not just CMC) and their restaurants.
Or you can call them and find out.
(800) 624-9458.
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i'm curious as to why you're looking into this. i just used the link and did a quick search for my state. none of the chefs work anyplace i'd ever want to eat. they're mostly working at 3rd tier hotels; one is at a sporting arena. it would seem something that benefits those who want to do institutional cooking.
clearly this is not a certification that has anything to do with fine dining. james beard awards, di saronna awards, mobil guides, etc. are far more indicative of a chef's talents...
re: hotoynoodle
c.m.c. is a pretty small club and it is a pretty big achievement to pass the exam. many celebrity chefs are not c.m.c.'s. i was just wondering who these people are and where they are at. interesting that many go to work for big hotels or are instructors at cooking schools.
there was an expose in the local paper a while back about local chef, keith famie (whose broader claim to fame is being the chef on the australian "survivor" that could not cook rice), in his second failed attempt to pass the rigorous c.m.c. exam. it was an interesting read.
re: hotoynoodle
It isn't about where they work, the examination for that certification is intense and even qualifying to take it is no small achievement. One of the chefs at my school is currently attempting it, he spent all last year just doing the qualifier for the exam. much like the other c.m.c. at my school, he isn't doing it because he wants his restaurant to be great, its about the achievement and the pride of being one of the few.
I know a Chinese food take out place that has a CMC George Wong . Peking House on Nostrand Ave and he has another rest in Brooklyn. Cool
"it would seem something that benefits those who want to do institutional cooking"
Indeed, that seems clearly to be whole point. From their site:
Certification is a combination of culinary work experience, specialized training in key management, nutritional cooking, sanitation as well as passing a certification level test.
While it may be a good credential for employers (depending on the details of course), it doesn't mean anything to me as a diner.
re: MikeG
I think that all certifications, and even degrees (in some ways) are preciseley as you describe. We all know incredible mechanics that never became ASE certified, Network Engineers that never got a CCIE, etcetc... and when we need a car fixed or a network problem resolved, we want the person that can do it - certificates are totally meaningless in that context. If I'm looking for an incredible molé or the most incredible omakase, I want an experienced, knowledgeable and capable chef - not one that necessarily has a piece of paper saying that he's knowledgable.
Nevertheless, those that take on the responsibility of getting professional certifications are doing a lot of extra work - they're intent on getting recognition for what they've learned and the work they've done. As an IT manager, I recognize the work that goes into a CCIE or equivalent, and it does count for something in the hiring and review/promotion process. But it doesn't count as much as what I can garner from technical questions in the interview, or from observed work. Additionally, I would never put out a job description that says that a CCIE is mandatory - why would I want to limit the incoming talent pool? If I were hiring a chef, insitutional or otherwise, I'd ask that person to cook me something and evaluate the results and methods regardless of his certification, But if two cooks were pretty much the same, I might throw the selection to the one with certification.
Read Michael Ruhlman's The Soul of a Chef. There he questions what makes a chef. There's a section in there about a group trying to get certification. He examines technical proficiency, then passion and creativity with the final section on Keller who seems to combine both. Overall I foud it a good read and good follow up to the first book, The Making of a Chef.
re: mangorita
I was just about to ask the OP if s/he had read this book- great read!
judging by the chefs who have this certification in my state, it looks like they're really numbers-crunchers. nobody is "dining out" when they go watch an nba game, but unless that guy make his numbers work on all the outlets in the arena, he will not keep his job.
there's a need for that kind of head in this industry as well. not everybody wants to worry about truffle harvests, ya know?
"If I were hiring a chef, insitutional or otherwise, I'd ask that person to cook me something and evaluate the results and methods regardless of his certification,"
Well, there is a key issue here. A CHEF runs the kitchen everything. From buying food to hiring and managing the people who cook it, to supervising sanitary and health code compliance to managing costs. Cooking skill is important, but that alone won't get you very far running a kitchen.
COOKS cook the food. They are not chefs. COOKS don't need to be be able to do anything but cook, show up for work more or less on time, and more or less manage not to get into fist fights with their coworkers.
A credential like this, if well administered, demonstrates a person's semi-proven ability to run a kitchen. On the other hand, common sense suggests that the biggest reason there are only 80 of them is that the credential isn't (yet?) widely accepted enough to warrant the cost and effort of obtaining it, not because only 80 out of many thousands of foodservice professionals are able to attain it.
re: River Rat
(This isn't targeted towards everyone..just some culinary nerd rage..).
The list isn't of those considered "Top Chefs." It is a list of ACF Certified Chefs. You're "Driskill Grill" chef may be amazing, but that doesn't mean that they are certified through the American Culinary Federation. After browsing through various states, I have not yet seen one that says "CMC" most say "CEC" or "CCC." Just because you eat at a restaurant doesn't mean you know everything about the culinary arts. And just because the title of Master Chef means nothing to you as a consumer does not mean that it isn't important to those who earn the title or aspire to. As it was mentioned earlier, chefs and cooks are different. You can be a prep cook without knowing squat about being a chef.
"A CHEF runs the kitchen everything. From buying food to hiring and managing the people who cook it, to supervising sanitary and health code compliance to managing costs." - Yes, if you are an executive chef. Sous-chefs and Garde Mangers, etc don't necessarily deal with these aspects. It's called culinary ARTS for a reason. People who pursue a higher education and greater credetials are usually looking for more than just flipping burgers at the local Hamburger Shack. It is also an art form, not merely a way to make eating more pleasant.
I came across this thread while on my own search for a list of CMCs. I would like to research more about the title, because I after viewing the exam manual..I was astounded. If those of you doubting the title still believe its a bunch of bologna...you may want to look at the actual requirements.
You have to take into consideration what makes a great Chef. Is it mostly personal opinion? I think so..... If you receive 3 or 4 stars from your local newspapers that state greatness? If a certain patron, who has dined all over the world, in every acclaimed restaurant cited your meals some of the best, define you as a master of your craft? Does the fact that you produce chemically altered food to create an effect or just being inventive make you genius? These all have some validity to them.
What I know for sure is as a Chef myself, professionally trained ( by a few CMC's), having worked side by side with four star chefs of tremendous talent, is that we are all striving for excellence in it's many forms. The CMC program and the levels of achievement prior to are some of the most rigorous and demanding exams/cooking practicals that I have ever endured. Unfortunately the testing sites at the Culinary Institute Of America are closed to the public. I was fortunate to share a kitchen with the CMC examination while completing my Pro Chef Certification( a precursor) exam. For me it's the challenge, achievement, discipline and life experience. A CMC is one of the most intelligent, disciplined and with out doubt talented people in food service today. Most chefs will not attempt it for fear of failure and rightfully so.The success rate of CMC's exam is about 15%.
I've worked with many talented chefs, most educated and one who could not even read. What made them great was the respect they showed to everyone and everything they came in contact with. Not how many stars or what letters show on their Chef jackets.I have to say that if you spend at least two minutes conversing with one of these CMC's you will understand that they are a fountain of knowledge and are willing to share all they know.They may not have a cooking show or The New York Times shouting their praise but they certainly deserve a lot of credit and maybe just a little respect.
re: SHAUNS
I totally agree with you. The CMC at my school, though angry and sometimes unpleasant, could tell you anything you could ever want to know about food, and especially butchery.
You may be able to get one from world master chef's society. they require master chef status for membership, so they would know the answer for you. currently, CMC john kinsella is at MCI and one of his apprentices, is attempting the CMC test this year, maybe there will be one more CMC by years end.
re: brad87561
I've met Chef Kinsella, well actually a handful of CMC's. Anyone who dismisses the CMC as being irrelevant obviously does not know exactly how rigorous the exam is. It's a grueling 8 day long exam that really pushes the applicant to the limits.
re: chefellison
More facts from a chef: There are about 75 CMC in the US. Approx 35 are instructors at the CIA (I'm guessing both NY and Greystone, CA.) Next is Johnson & Wales with ONE on staff. The rest work at exclusive country clubs across the country. I'm sure a handful are employed by the biggest food manufacturers like Kraft or Campbells Soup The exam is approx 10 hours each day for approx ten days. They weigh your trash, for chrissakes! The ultimate in dedication and professionalism. I've attained CEC, and that written test gave me a headache for two days!
re: chefdaddyo
Agreed. I too have my CEC & would put it to any doubters like this. The requirements to even qualify for the exam are more stringent than any other industry I can think of and that's just to be allowed to take the exam. Then you have to pass it - 2 parts, a practical exam during which your cooking skills are tested and a written exam during which not only your culinary knowledge, but sanitation, wine & liquor, HR, the whole gamut are tested. There are approximately 3000 CEC's in the country - placing it at a level of difficulty comparable to the highest of traditional educational goals. I'm quite sure there are more than 3000 PhD's in any other given field. One seems to be a little more strenuous to obtain than the other no?
re: chefellison
chefellison, I can understand your sentiments, but to say that its easier to get a PhD just because there are more of them is fallacious reasoning. Might there be more PhD because there are more people interested in getting them, multiple fields in which you can get them, PhDs have been around for hundreds of years, etc? Compare that to a certification in a single profession from an organization that has been around a few years in comparison? You think its easy to go through several years of post-graduate school and defend your dissertation?
re: Bkeats
I know exactly what goes into attaining both a doctoral degree and CMC. It's my opinion that obtaining a CMC is more difficult. You don't have to agree with me, but I doubt you have the firsthand knowledge of both processes that I do...
re: chefellison
I don't dispute that training as a chef is not an easy thing. Coming from a family with a restaurant background, I know all to well. But as you note, we will just agree to disagree. I will quote a paragraph from an article in the Economist from a while back.
In most countries a PhD is a basic requirement for a career in academia. It is an introduction to the world of independent research—a kind of intellectual masterpiece, created by an apprentice in close collaboration with a supervisor. The requirements to complete one vary enormously between countries, universities and even subjects. Some students will first have to spend two years working on a master's degree or diploma. Some will receive a stipend; others will pay their own way. Some PhDs involve only research, some require classes and examinations and some require the student to teach undergraduates. A thesis can be dozens of pages in mathematics, or many hundreds in history. As a result, newly minted PhDs can be as young as their early 20s or world-weary forty-somethings.
Maybe we're talking about different programs. I'm thinking about programs that often take years to finish and many times, individuals never do.