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Olympic National Forest
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Supervisor's Office
1835 Black Lk Blvd SW
Olympia, WA 98512
(360) 956-2402
Hours: 8-4:30, M-F
Hood Canal Ranger District - Quilcene
295142 Highway 101 S.
PO Box 280
Quilcene, WA 98376
(360) 765 2200
Pacific Ranger District - Forks
437 Tillicum Lane
Forks , WA 98331
(360) 374 6522
Pacific Ranger District - Quinault
353 South Shore Road
PO Box 9
Quinault, WA 98575
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29-554 Rayonier Tailhold
Five tailhold trees or stumps. No tree removal.
Calawah OHV Project
The proposed action is the development of an Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) trail system and staging area in the Bonidu area within the North Fork Calawah watershed. The proposal would provide about 21.1 miles of interlinking trails.
Calawah Watershed Road Decommissioning
The proposed project would decommission or decommission and convert to trail approximately 36 miles of existing classified roads in the Calawah Watershed.
Dedmore Private Road Special Use Permit Reissuance
Proposal to reissue 20-year term special use permit for 500 ft of private road.
Dedmore Waterline Special Use Permit Reissuance
Proposal to reissue a special use permit for a 20 year term for a waterline (1000 ft. of 1 1/2 in. pipe) and associated improvements.
Department of the Army Training Exercises
The Army Corps of Engineers requests a reauthorization of their existing permit to conduct training exercises at locations and schedules specifically approved in advance on the Olympic National Forest.
Dungeness Large Wood Enhancement Project
The Forest is partnering with the Jamestown Sklallam tribe to construct 15 large wood jams and stabilize 3 naturally occurring wood jams in the Grey Wolf and Dungeness Rivers.
Early-Seral Open Wildlife Habitat Enhancements
Wildlife habitat enhancement activities on up to 500 acres. Includes removal of small trees (<18" dbh) and shrubs using hand tools to expand existing openings or create new openings (less than 5 acres; generally <1 acre) in densely stocked stands.
Fahnestock Easement
Rayonier is proposing to reconstruct approximately 400 ft of road and construct another 800 ft to access private timber land. Total right-of-way length would be 1292 ft by 60 ft in width. Total acreage would be 1.7 acres.
FSR 2345-100 Spur Easement Exchange
Proposal to exchange easements with Green Diamond Resource Company for segments approximately 900 feet long on Forest land and 1,550 feet long on Green Diamond Resource Company land, to provide long-term access to the lands of both parties.
Grays Harbor Public Utilities District Neilton Point Maintenance Special Use Permit Modification
Modification to Grays Harbor County Public Utilities District existing special use permit to remove or top up to six trees that are interfering with transmission from the Neilton Point electronic site.
Hendricksen Waterline Reissue
The proposed action is to reissue waterline permit, in use since the 1930's. No changes to the existing footprint.
Interfor Tailhold Authorization
Interfor has requested a special use authorization to tie onto five trees or stumps on Kugel Ridge (off of FS Road 2929) adjacent to Kugel Den Timber Sale on DNR land. The selected trees would be left on site and standing.
Lower Skokomish Vegetation Management Project
Vegetation management and restoration treatments on about 4,500 acres to improve and restore late successional forest habitat conditions for wildlife and watershed health and to contribute to local economies.
Norwood Conveyance
Sell property that is surplus to Forest Service needs. The property contains a number of structures\improvements, including but not limited to two residences.
Norwood Structures Removal
The project would remove and dispose of two open-sided, wooden trailer shed structures, and 9 storage sheds. These structures are in poor condition and a safety hazard and were previously part of the administrative residential site that is unoccupied
Pacific Northwest Electronic Warfare Range Environmental Assessment
Navy is proposing training electronic warefare (EW) range consisting of the movement and operation of EW mobile emitters. This EA is tiered from previous EIS. Several sites are on Forest Service Roads. Navy documents at: http://go.usa.gov/kQ6e
Queets Vegetation Management
Approximately 5,000 acres would be commercially thinned using variable-density thinning. The purpose of the project is to restore and improve late-successional habitat conditions, generate economic activity, and provide jobs in the local area.
Quinault Indian Nation "Inclined Tailhold"
Logging located on Quinault Indian Nation land but tailholds located on Forest Service.
Quinault National Recreation Trail Repair and Reconstruction
Repair and reconstruction of approximately 2 miles of trail, including tread relocation and reconstruction, replacement of gravel surfacing, drainage structure repair, and replacement of two trail bridges.
Rocky Brook Hydroelectric Permit Renewal
Rocky Brook Hydroelectric Limited Partnership is seeking a new 20-year special use permit for their existing facilities. The project diverts up to 40 cubic feet per second (cfs) from Rocky Brook, with a minimum in-stream flow of 5 cfs.
Schoemake Waterline Reissue
The Forest proposes to reissue waterline permit, in use since the 1930's. No changes to the existing footprint.
South Fork Calawah Easement Exchange, including FSR 2900-030
Proposal by Rayonier to open a closed Level 1 segment of FS Road 2900-030, use it for timber haul, and close it again after use is complete. The reconstruction and use of an existing 0.4-mile spur off the 2900-030 is also proposed.
Trapper Creek Aquatic Organism Passage
The existing culvert on Forest Road 2850 at the Trapper Creek crossing (MP 0.8), would be replaced with a structure designed to allow passage for all aquatic organisms. Structures made of rock and wood may be incorporated in the design.
US Cellular Authorization
Proposed issuance of new lease to US Cellular Corporation to replace expired lease, for continued operation and maintenance of communications facilities at Neilton Point Communications Site.
West Fork Humptulips River Trail Construction
This project would convert about 2.5 miles of decommissioned road to trail status; and construct two ½ mile trail segments to create a 6-mile loop trail.
Westside Paging Authorization
Project is listed as Neilton Point Communications Use Lease Reissuance project #40612. This is a duplicate project and will be cancelled and removed.
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
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Achievement versus Entitlement
by Michael David Franklin | July 21, 2011
After putting hundreds and hundreds of hours into a career-defining case, a lawyer is stunned by the judge's decision: he and his client have lost. Before court adjourns, he approaches the bench to speak with the judge. The lawyer pleads with him to reconsider the verdict. After all, he has worked so hard on this case. If only the judge knew how hard he has worked. If only the judge knew how many hours he logged, how many sleepless nights he stayed at the office and away from his family, how fiercely he wanted to win. If only the judge could see what the lawyer thinks is obvious: that his hard work deserves a favorable verdict, and anything else is unfair.
The judge cannot believe what he is hearing. He has made his decision based upon the evidence presented and the arguments given. This is how the legal system works. He tells the lawyer that the stronger case won, plain and simple. He tells the lawyer that he doesn't care how hard he worked. He lost. If he doesn't like it, he can appeal and hopefully learn from this experience to make a stronger case in the appeal.
I begin with this allegory to illustrate a key difference between achievement and entitlement, a difference that is crucial to understand if you are in a doctoral program. In brief, the lawyer did not achieve what he felt entitled to. The judge responded to what was presented to him. If the evidence had been better or a different approach had been taken, perhaps the outcome would have been different. But the fact that the lawyer worked hard on the case makes no difference. The other side worked hard, too. They just had a better case.
Doctoral advisors have conversations with learners who have worked hard on iterations, but have not gotten the mentor response they believe they deserve. Learners may become angry that they are asked to make further revisions on a chapter that they believe is finished because they have worked hard on it already and are ready to move on. They may tell their mentor that the expectation for further revision is just holding them back. This is entitlement.
But just like the judge's response, any mentor has an obligation to point out that there is a system by which dissertations are written. If the iteration submitted is deficient, it is their duty to identify this and to provide feedback for improvement. And through cooperation with the mentor and continued hard work on the dissertation, the learner can finally win approval. If the iteration is deficient, it's deficient. It doesn't matter how hard you've already worked on it. But with continued hard work through the iterative process, you can get there. This is achievement.
Anyone writing a dissertation may feel entitled to advance through the milestone process due to a number of reasons: the hard work already invested, the amount of money spent on tuition, the determination to complete the dissertation within a very short time frame, etc. But you should not expect advancement if your work doesn't meet the standards to which your mentor, the University, and the academic community holds you.
Do not let feelings of entitlement get the best of you. Work to be humble yet diligent as you strive to complete your dissertation.
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Inemibo K.Opuiyo says:
This is an excellent advice for a new learner at Capella like me.Thanks a million.


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City Of Bunbury Selects IBM PureSystems To Take The Lead With Government Cloud
SYDNEY, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the City of Bunbury, one of the largest Regional local governments in Western Australia, has selected IBM's PureSystems technology to streamline and simplify their IT infrastructure and provide a cloud-ready environment to deliver future initiatives such as local Government private cloud computing.
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Faced with exponential growth of data and server sprawl, the City needed a scalable solution to address not only current needs but to take them well into the future. Working closely with IBM Business Partner Stott + Hoare, Bunbury selected the IBM PureFlex System that integrates server, IBM Storwize V7000 storage, networking and software into a highly automated, simple-to-manage system. Bunbury, along with Stott + Hoare, will virtualize their desktops and mobile devices to reside on the IBM PureFlex system for greater organisational flexibility and ongoing cost reductions."Our end goal is to not only deliver exceptional 24/7 levels of service to Bunbury's residents, but establish the City as a technology leader whose IT systems can become a template for other councils throughout the state and beyond; PureFlex offers us this long-term technical solution," said City of Bunbury CEO, Andrew Brien. "We are on the cusp of significant reform where, for instance, the National Broadband Network is only one of several macro changes which will radically shape governance in Bunbury and Australia more broadly. Our primary goal has always been to make sure our IT systems can handle whatever changes may occur while remaining cost-effective and efficient. That way we know that when our own functions of government have to adapt and expand, the technology we use will be able to match us at every turn." The City of Bunbury expects the PureFlex-enabled virtual server environment to reduce hardware replacement costs, power consumption and time spent maintaining the multiple platforms that currently sustain the City's IT operations. Another key factor in its selection was the ease of managing mass storage and disaster recovery . The IBM PureSystems family offers clients an alternative to current enterprise computing models, where multiple and disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain.
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Independent panel backing for cabinet allowances
Our Leader Anne Western has welcomed a report by an independent panel backing changes to allowances for some councillors.
The county council's Independent Remuneration Panel − made up of three business people, a professor and a magistrate − advises us on changes to councillors' allowances and expenses.
Councillor Western said:
"In May we streamlined the cabinet from nine to six members which has allowed us to create an effective, efficient and strong structure to face the difficult decisions that lie ahead.
"I am pleased the panel has given its backing to changes in allowances to reflect extra responsibilities for the Deputy Leader and a smaller number of cabinet members and also for our deputy cabinet members.
"It's important to stress that we are not changing the basic allowance for our 63 councillors or the Council Leader − there has been no increase in the councilllors' basic allowance scheme since 2001."
She added:
"Together with changes to the Chair's office − including stopping plans by the previous administration to recruit a chauffeur and purchase two new civic cars − these plans will save taypayers £15,000."
The Independent Remuneration Panel also agreed with the council's proposals to:
- make reductions of one to two per cent to allowances paid to chairs of scrutiny committees
- reinstate a scrutiny committee to keep a close watch on what is happening to NHS services, the impact on local people and to challenge and test any proposed changes to local health services
- provide a special responsibility allowance for the Chair and Vice-Chair of a new committee formed from two smaller committees to improve management of the council's pensions and investments.
But the panel does not support the council's proposal to reduce the allowance for the leader of the main opposition. In 2012 the previous council administration voted to raise the opposition leader's allowance by £6,500.
Councillor Western commented:
"The previous administration agreed a significant increase in the leader of the opposition's allowance.
"At the time I was the opposition leader and I refused to accept the increased allowance. Our proposal is simply to restore the opposition leader's allowance to its original level."
The report of the Independent Remuneration Panel will be considered by a full Council meeting on 2 October 2013.
The report of the Independent Remuneration Panel can be read at: http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/2013-10-02%20Members%20Allowances%20Report_tcm44-232331.pdf (opens in a new window)


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I'm sure you can tell from the pink and red rainbow that has vomited all over everything from Target to Pinterest that Valentine's Day is around the corner. You may roll your eyes at the cheesiness, be exhausted from the December rush, or think it is a corporate, meaningless holiday. And to that I say- why do you want to kill love? (Imagine me with a pout and doing the heart sign with my hands.) But truly, I fully embrace the love fest. Pink, hearts, candy, chocolate, and sweetness around every corner! Valentine's is the Hallmark Movie of holidays and I will always get sucked right in.
I've been tossing around the idea of handmaking some little love tokens to send out or give to close friends. And I want it to be something that Claire could help me with too. I need to be more intentional about including her in these things. She may not be able to participate in the traditional sense, but I want her to know and feel that she is a part of these celebrations. Just as I would do if she were a typically functioning child. So that may mean letting her feel the craft supplies, guiding her hand to stick something on a card, having her smell the ingredients of a treat, and showing/explaining what we are making.
Here are a few options I'm thinking through. Maybe you'll see something that inspires you to share a little love as well!
Felt Fortune Cookies via Martha Stewart
Gumball Valentine Necklace via One Charming Party
Mini Baked Donuts via My Baking Addiction
Eye Love You cards via Kraze4paper
and lastly this cute Cupid Kit can be purchased from Paper and Twine on Etsy.
Know Your Birdies: Being Female
Welcome to our weekly feature "Know Your Birdies" where every Friday a question is posed and you get to know us through our answers. This week we've asked… and answered: What do you like most about being female? Keep in mind that we know that these answers have a massive potential to generalize and stereotype both sexes. And while that isn't our goal, we do feel there are basic things present in our lives that we associate with being female. So in an attempt not to offend, please know we are just speaking personally.
I think the main things I love about being female are the roles I get to play. I love being a wife, a mom, a sister, and a daughter. They allow me to express a bevy of traits that are uniquely feminine to me – brushing someone's hair or having them brush mine, giving in to immoderate tears while watching sappy tv and not worrying about ridicule, excessively (and I mean excessively) cheering for someone when they take something on, nurturing, cuddling, and hugging. Honestly, this is just the beginnings of a list. The longer I thought about my answer to this question, the more I appreciated being female. Oh, and one more thing that I can I forget… not taking out the trash. At least that's how it goes in our household.
I have so many different things that I love about being female. I would have to rank the ability to nurse toward the top of the list. I know people have mixed emotions and reactions to nursing, but it is for me. I love that God designed mothers so perfectly that we are able to give to or children exactly what they need through breastfeeding. I love the time it gives me with my babies, even if it is at 2:30 in the morning. I love the bond that it builds. I know mothers that become grandmothers that still miss that experience, and I know one day even 50 years from now I will look back on nursing with great affection and powerful emotion and feel a loneliness for that experience.
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What don't I love? Okay, except that pesky visitor we all know and loathe…But besides that bother, I love pretty much everything. I am a girly girl through and though. (Except when it comes to football devotion. Then I turn my beast on.) One of my favorite things is that as women, we share an intimate affection for one another in a way that guys usually don't. We can hold hands, snuggle, and cry together. And that comes naturally in our close relationships. There is nothing like a true girlfriend.
What do you love about being female?
Be Awesome… Today
My husband and I were talking the other day about how neither of us have ever really assumed the habit of resolution-making. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe I need to have a conversation with a resolution-enthusiast to really compare their zeal with my nonchalance. Maybe then I will uncover the source of my apathy.
However, I will readily admit that I am much affected by the amount of intentionality that this time of year brings. I'm inspired by the dedication to evaluate where we've been and conversely where we are going. I align myself right up next to those who self-analyze in an effort to become better versions of themselves. I love these practices and premeditations. They resonate in my very being.
I want to become a cleaner, more pure version of myself… who I was created to be. I want my day-to-day life to reflect the things and people who are most important to me. I want to embrace opportunities to grow and push myself past my established realm of comfort.
For me, maybe this means cleaning out closets to simplify my life, maybe it's baking something for a neighbor in an attempt to dig in to the physical location where God has me planted, maybe it's taking more walks outside to expand Lyla's space and to lessen my waist line, maybe it is setting my alarm a half hour earlier to ensure I have daily time in prayer, maybe it is dreaming with my husband when he talks about his business, maybe it's interrupting less and listening more when a friend catches my ear.
So, what about you? Are you a resolution person? Do you want to convert me? Do you think I am a closet resolution-maker based on the ramblings of this post? I kind of think that maybe I am.
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Pantry Organization
Going along with yesterday's gushing about all things January, let me tell you another reason I love this month: it is all about organization. And you know how much we love our organization here at HLB (in fact, Nicky may have already done a pantry post already.) Every store has sales on storage, blogs and magazines are full of wonderful organizational ideas. So I am jumping on that bandwagon and compiling a little montage of spectacular pantry spaces.
This one is a little snapshot of my pantry… No, I kid. I would never be able to coexist with this kind of pantry, I would just sit in there and cry tears of joy all day looking at it.
If you are digging the whole industrial chic look here is bit of eye candy for you:
I am kind of smitten with the idea of lockers as a pantry.
I am sure if you have ever googled pantry organization, you've come across this beauty. That is because it is perfection.
In conclusion, I have relized through my perusing pantry porn that in order to have a incredable pantry you must:
1. Have loads and loads of room
2. Have very little to no food. The food you do have must be put in empty containers with zero branding. Darnit I like my food to match.
3. Have time to wallpaper the back of your pantry. Really it doesn't get much better than those pantries.
Fortunately now I feel super organized just looking at these and have relieved myself of any pressure to actually organize my pantry.
An Ode to January
Welcome to January! I am wildly partial to January above all other months, even though it is kind of the month equivalent to a Monday. In full disclosure this month is the anniversary of my birth as well as the anniversary of my becoming a mother, so I really am biased.
This is the month that feels like my own bed at the end of a really fabulous trip; there is a peace to getting back to the mundane and routine. December is all about being the sensory overload month. It is full of loads of glorious food and festive music. Our surroundings are adorned with effulgent lights. Everything is ridiculously extraordinary. Then January ushers in a stark crisp silence that feels positively serene.
It is also the month that allows for renewal. I love that sense of positive personal ambition that most people have with their New Years Resolutions all fresh in their minds. Even if it doesn't end up coming to fruition, I love seeing people progress and implement positive changes in their lives. No other month provides an opportunity to welcome the mentality of "I can and will do it better" into our consciousness. After a month of overindulgences full of glorious, gluttonous excess it feels good to practice restraint and take inventory of our basic needs, wants and desires for our lives.
To me January is a sigh and a pause. It is a time to sidle into the starting block and begin the race again, no sprinting, just a sweet jog toward where we want to be. Happy January, readers. I wish you a wonderful start towards your new year.
Farewell to 2011.
Because of our mutual affection for all things Zooey Deschanel, Nicky sent Katrina and me a link to this sweet video of Zooey and her (500) Days of Summer co-star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (another personal fave), singing New Year's Day. As I listened to it, my heart swelled within my chest.
It's sweet.
It's simple.
And it's a perfect 2011 send-off to you sweet friends who read this little blog.
Here's to a wonderful 2012 for each and all. We love you.
Know Your Birdies: Physical Attribute
Welcome to our weekly feature "Know Your Birdies" where every Friday a question is posed and you get to know us through our answers. This week we've asked… and answered: What is the thing you like most about your appearance?
This question brings out all kinds of insecurities in me. I want to embrace who I am more and more, but conversely I feel the need to temper my answer with a fair amount of self-deprecating humor. Why do we females do this to ourselves? Well, in an effort to combat this fact, I am going to be upfront and bold in my answer. I like my hair and my eyes. I'm thankful that my hair doesn't present me with any great obstacles. It's not limiting in any way. I can go curly or straight. It's not too thick nor too thin. And the color… well, that can be altered pretty easily. As for my eyes, I like them because I really do feel like they represent who I really am. They show my inner essence like nothing else does. And I'm all for transparency.
My fist inclination is to say my eyelashes are my favorite physical feature, and ascetically they are probably my best, but my hands are my favorite. I have short stubby fingers, my nail beds are all wrong, my cuticles are atrocious and they are bizarrely veiny. But I still love my hands. Growing up I was preoccupied with what my hands would look like when I grew up, not what my face would look like, but my hands. A couple years ago I remembered this and was struck with the fact I was there and these are my grown up hands. I love that they bare the symbol of my marriage. I love that they hold my children's' hands. I love that they prepare the food for my family. I love when I use them to write. I love when the left side of my left hand has paint smeared on it from painting. I love when my children take them and cup them up against their checks for comfort. I love when my husband hold them in the car still. I love that they will always show my age and be a perfect ledger of where I am in life and where I have been.
Oh the dreaded question…I am very hard on myself. I hate that I am overweight (yet I consistently put off working hard to fix that) and I am sensitive about silly things like a birthmark below my collar bone and a scar from stitches on my chin. But if I am honest with myself, there is quite a bit I like. I think I have a twinkle in my eyes, a nice smile (without ever needing braces, hooray!) and pretty hair. And my favorite thing is my dimples. They totally fit my personality to a T.
What do you love about your look?
Glitter Top Coat
If you know me, you know I am borderline obsessed with glitter. It is just so FUN for crafts and such. However, I rarely wear anything glittery on my person. My style is more classic and preppy, and glitter fashion can often veer into Ke$ha territory fast. But lately, I've been embracing the trend to add just a dash of sparkles here and there. Which is fitting since New Years Eve is right around the corner, I mean, what better time to glam it up a little than the biggest party time of the year?
So my subtle solution is the Sephora by OPI Jewelry Top Coats. I bought the one that is clear with gold flecks. I can't recommend it enough! It lasts forever and transforms any polish or plain nails into disco ball fun time. You won't be able to stop staring at your nails with this stuff on, and you may start spontaneously dancing in public. Or you might be the kind of person who does that anyway (finger pointed at me). In either case, it's awesome!
Christmas Recap
Today I am commandeering HLB and getting all family blog-ish on you guys. It is just that I had such an amazing Christmas day, I feel I should share it with you. The kids were hilarious, the food was good, the table was pretty and the company was the best. Santa brought the kids wheelbarrows. Seriously, wheelbarrows. But if you know my kids, you know that wheelbarrows are undoubtedly the best gift they could have received, they are just weird like that.
I was way more into the "tablescape" this year than the food. The food just kind of messed it up, truth be told. I thought about making everyone eat off of paper plates on the floor just so I could preserve the table for a bit longer. It started with a rabid obsession with finding gold flatware, an obsession that was satiated thanks to Craigslist. It kind of built from there. I have now decided pink and gold should be the official Christmas colors.
I hope your Christmas was absolutely wonderful!
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"When you evaluate the job he's doing, I look at the total body of work,'' Thomas said on WFAN radio Friday morning with Sid Rosenberg and Kim Jones. "Since he's been here his record is [81-53]. When you look at the season he's having, fortunately they're in the Atlantic and nobody is running away with the division. I know Mike personally. I know what kind of competitor he is and what kind of coach he's been. When he has all the pieces and the team is playing well, they're as good as anybody. Coming out of training camp they had injuries and were hit with the injury bug more than most teams." New York Post
"Absolutely,'' Thomas said when asked whether he wanted another GM job. "If the game called me back and I got the opportunity, I would love to. It warms my heart to see all players we had here whom I drafted with the Knicks, they're doing quite well. I do know if I was able to stick with the plan and let those young players develop, they'd be a pretty good basketball team in the East.'' Thomas reiterated his comments that he left New York with two future All-Stars (Zach Randolph, David Lee) and a Sixth Man of the Year winner (Jamal Crawford), all of whom were under 29. New York Post
Former Knicks president Isiah Thomas, fresh off teaching a class at Harvard University on Thursday, said he has "moved on'' from a strong desire to rejoin the Knicks. While not ruling out returning to the NBA as a general manager, Thomas said the Knicks job wouldn't be one he covets under the current structure. New York Post
According to a confidant of Thomas, he would not even want to return under the strict media-policy rules that forbid the general manager from talking to the media regularly. "The only way he would want to go back to the Knicks is if it didn't have a media policy,'' the confidant said. "He would need the full authority to speak freely and free reign to operate as a general manager. He worked under the old conditions and look what happened to him?'' New York Post
James Dolan doesn't believe Isiah Thomas can return to the Knicks because he could become a "distraction," but the team's former president and head coach says he's too distracted right now to make a comeback. "I think it's important that we are not a distraction to each other," Thomas told the Daily News on Friday. "I have a lot of things going on in my life, I am running a business, I am deeply involved in my philanthropic work in Chicago and around the country." New York Daily News
On Friday, Dolan reiterated in a published report that he still consults with Thomas but expressed doubt that he'd ever rehire his long-time friend. "For Isiah, I don't know that he'll ever be able to work in New York," Dolan said. "I just don't know that he'll ever get a fair shake, going forward in New York. New York Daily News
And you surely know the panic that ensues when a Glen Grunwald gets fired and people wonder, "Is Isiah coming back?" James Dolan: I can't control what's in other people's minds. I can tell you that he's a friend of mine. We speak, but not as often as we used to because he's really involved in other things now. We'll message back and forth once in a while. We used to talk a lot more often. He seems to be moving into another phase of his life, he's not as basketball-centric, he's doing a lot of charity work, he got his masters [in education, from Cal-Berkeley], he actually uses me to bounce business ideas off of … MV: Do you still consult him, too, about basketball ideas? James Dolan: Not really. For Isiah, I don't know that he'll ever be able to work in New York. I just don't know that he'll ever get a fair shake, going forward in New York? New York Post
Ask NBA legend Isiah Thomas, who signed Crawford as a free agent in 2004 and later coached him with the New York Knicks, if there has ever been a ballhandler this good at 6 feet 5. Thomas laughs. "No," he says quickly. "You've seen people who have street game, so to speak. But they can't bring that game into an NBA game. Jamal can do anything against real, live NBA players in front of 20,000 fans." Crawford and King led Rainier Beach to its first state title of the Bethea era. Bethea has six now, the most in state history. "Jamal opened the floodgates for Rainier Beach," Bethea said. Seattle Times
B/R: Who's in your all-time starting five? KI: Michael Jordan, Big O, Wilt Chamberlain, Isiah Thomas and Bill Russell. Bleacher Report
There is brutal honesty in Thomas's voice and a perception that nearly 20 years after playing in his final NBA game, he is underappreciated because of his clashes with Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and most recently, Magic Johnson. Thomas is not a man who swims in disdain and regret. "I live my life and do my work and not necessarily look for any kind of glory or anything," the Hall of Famer said last week. "I love the game. I love helping people and that's what I've always done. But I really haven't thought about how people perceive me." Boston Globe
Steve Mills, who once hired Isiah Thomas to run the Knicks, got his hackles up when asked if Thomas still had a behind-the-scenes role with the club. "He doesn't have any role with the team,'' Mills snapped. Mills said he "hopes'' Thomas either is voted in as executive director of the Players Association or replaces Magic Johnson on the ESPN basketball crew. New York Post
Isiah didn't hold back during shooting for the premiere of the critically acclaimed show's third season (it will air on Oct. 8 at 6 p.m. ET on NBA TV) . In fact, he made sure "Open Court" will get off to an explosive start when he identified his former rival and fellow Hall of Famer Karl Malone as the man who cost the Utah Jazz a title. "I thought Utah, going back to that team, I thought they had everything it took to win a championship," he said. "They had the system, the players, the toughness, they were defensive-minded and everything. I always thought like Malone was the weakest link because he wasn't a good foul shooter. Had he been a good foul shooter they would have beat Chicago." NBA.com
When pressed by Johnson about using the term "weak link" in regards to Malone, Thomas didn't flinch. "That's a weak link, because at the end of a game when you are playing at that level, you come down to the last 30 seconds or the last minute of the game, if that guy can't make fouls shots then he's the weak link. He's the guy that you are fouling, the guy you want to put on the line. You're not fouling [John] Stockton. You're not putting him on the line, you're not letting him take the shot. Everything is going to Malone. I thought Malone's inability to hit free throws is what stopped them from winning a championship." NBA.com
Mills quashed the idea of Thomas returning to the fold during an interview with ESPN New York 98.7 FM on Monday following media day at the Knicks' practice facility in Greenburgh. "No, Isiah will not be coming back to the Knicks," Mills said. "I've known Isiah for a long time. I think he has a lot of good things going on in his life. . . . He's probably an excellent candidate for the executive director's job at the NBA players' association." New York Daily News
Steve Mills, the newly installed president and general manager of the Knicks, finally addressed his recent hiring and demotion of Glen Grunwald on Monday. While Mills revealed little of the back-room dealings involving the Garden that led to his hire, he did disclose plans to hire more people to work under him, immediately sparking speculation that he might find a position for Isiah Thomas. It was Mills, after all, who suggested that Jim Dolan hire Thomas as president of basketball operations, leading to one of the most tumultuous periods in Garden history. "I'll definitely take an entire look at the organization, think about where there are holes and where I need to add people," Mills said. "I would anticipate bringing additional people in." New York Daily News
Thomas has since been dismissed by F.I.U., so that conflict no longer exists. A person with ties to Madison Square Garden and with knowledge of the Knicks' situation maintained that the hiring of Mills would not set the stage for Thomas to have an influential role with the team. "This is not an Isiah story," said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity. New York Times
"We as former Pistons are still Pistons," Isiah Thomas says. "We lived by a certain code of honesty. Unfortunately, in some places, honesty is not valued. As a matter of fact, they tell you, 'Don't be honest.' People like Bill Laimbeer and I have a hard time not telling players the truth." ESPN.com
In an effort to lift itself from the dysfunction and ineffectiveness of the Billy Hunter-Derek Fisher regime, the NBA players association has spent the past month identifying four candidates to succeed Hunter as executive director. Led by 18-year veteran Jerry Stackhouse, the NBPA has narrowed its options to former NBA coach and league executive Stu Jackson, Pistons legend and former NBA coach Isiah Thomas, former Madison Square Garden executive Steve Mills and Charlotte Bobcats president Fred Whitfield, FOXSports.com has learned. Sports attorney David Cornwell is said to be a longshot candidate. "I'm totally denying we are down to those four prospects," Stackhouse told me Sunday afternoon. "Those are just four well-known guys, guys who know our business, guys who have ideas we wanted to hear from. They are not the only guys we want the search firm to vet. I haven't even had a chance to talk with Fred Whitfield yet. I was planning to do that on Monday." FOXSports.com
Stackhouse said the timetable for the union to name an executive director is between Christmas and NBA All-Star Weekend. He said the union needed to first clean up its bylaws and structure. "Our long-term deadline is to have our guy in place around the same time as when Adam (Silver) replaces David Stern," Stackhouse said. "We want our guy in place to begin the process of forging a relationship with Adam." FOXSports.com
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8 chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
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Mix tomatoes and chiles and soup in a large skillet. Add cheese and chicken. Stir until cheese melts. Place vermicelli in a greased casserole. Pour mix over vermicelli.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Serves 8.
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On HHVM and Hack
Facebook officially announced the new Hack programming language last week. Since we paid close attention to Facebook's alternative PHP runtimes since the original "HipHop for PHP" and had the chance to work with Hack since last fall, the German PHP magazine asked us for a statement on Hack's release:
Facebook has created a programming language based on PHP that may become a serious alternative to PHP thanks to its many additional features. Hack's extended and stricter type concept makes it possible to find many programming mistakes before executing the code. This is especially important for large and complex code bases. — Stefan Priebsch
PHP has only limited support for the static analysis of code with the data provided by its Tokenizer extension. HHVM supports the analysis and transformation of Hack and PHP programs using an abstract syntax tree (AST) through its Code Model API. This AST holds more information when Hack syntax is used. — Sebastian Bergmann
We have to wait and see whether Hack will be adopted – and how quickly. I think that this is a chicken-and-egg problem for many PHP users as Hack requires the HHVM runtime and migrating to HHVM is neither trivial nor without risk for a company at the moment. A key factor for the success of Hack will be the support for HHVM by the major hosting providers. — Arne Blankerts
HHVM and Hack at IPC Spring 2014
There will be an afternoon at the International PHP Conference – Spring Edition that is dedicated to HHVM and Hack:
Attend the session "HHVM: The New PHP?" by Stefan Priebsch to get an evaluation of HHVM and Hack from a business perspective.
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Attend the session "Goodbye LAMP Stack?" by Arne Blankerts to experience the installation and configuration of HHVM as well as the deployment of Hack and PHP applications on HHVM.
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Only in Korea Can You Do Stand-Up Comedy About Starcraft
God help me, I think I was born in the wrong country. I should be in Korea, where Starcraft is the goddamn national sport, which means I could actually participate in coversations around the water cooler about last night's "big game."
How popular is Starcraft in Korea? So much so that a guy doing impressions of the game's characters is a smash hit on the stand-up circuit. This video is pretty amazing, as watching him spit out two-thirds of an SCV's English phrases is hilarious to watch. His Zealot impression is a huge audience hit, and I have to say, the guy's good, but he's really missing some "YOU REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS!"
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Madden NFL 25 - Super Bowl XLVIII Prediction
Madden NFL 25 Super Bowl Prediction is calling for Peyton Manning to be the first ever quarterback to lead two different franchises to Super Bowl victories, with the Broncos defeating the Seahawks 31-28 in overtime.
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[Rapid Review] Aneesoft HD Video Converter
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Aneesoft HD Video Converter is the best HD video converter that converts among HD video formats, such as HD AVI, AVCHD M2TS, MTS, TS, HD MOV, HD WMV, HD MP4, HD FLV. The converted video can be play on almost any portable device including iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP and can be used to video editing or playback on different media players.
Meanwhile, it can also support converting HD video to SD video formats, and even extract the audio from your videos, capture pictures from various videos, edit video by trimming, cropping, watermarking, etc.
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{for="Ease of Use" value="7″}The program itself is fairly easy to use. However, there are a few things that may annoying many users (including me): No option to keep output video resolution the same as input video resolution (doesn't matter for SD -> HD conversions but is very annoying for SD -> SD or HD -> HD conversions), no drag + drop support, no ability to add an entry in the Windows Explorer right-click context menu, etc.
{for="Performance" value="6″}Aneesoft HD Video Converter uses FFMPEG as its backbone; so performance, in regards to conversion quality, is great. However, Aneesoft HD Video Converter is very RAM intensive (i.e. it uses almost 150 MB when doing SD conversions, and upwards of 600 MB of RAM when doing HD conversions), lacks the ability to make use of multi-cores (if applicable), and does not have NVIDIA CUDA support. The lack of multi-core and CUDA support, of course, make Aneesoft HD Video Converter slower than rival products on machines that have the newer hardware, such as multi-cores and CUDA capable graphic cards.
{for="Usefulness" value="7″}Since Aneesoft HD Video Converter does support many input and output video formats, I can see a good number of people finding it useful. However, lacking the ability to also do audio conversions and lacking the ability to support newer hardware will turn off some potential users.
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This review was conducted on a laptop running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. The specs of the laptop are as follows: 3GB of RAM, a Radeon HD 2600 512MB graphics card, and an Intel T8300 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor.
iSkysoft iMedia Converter [5] [Temporarily available for free, grab it while you can]
FormatFactory [6]
Handbrake [9]
Super [10]
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The primary downside to inviting employees into your home is the resulting lack of privacy. Your lifestyle, Walton notes, is on constant display: the unwashed laundry, the pizza box on the floor, even prescriptions in your medicine cabinet. He suggests examining how your lifestyle may affect the way employees view you. Will they respect you as a strong, capable boss if they see your pink bunny slippers in the bathroom?
Walton points to another consideration: "If you've built a successful business, you want to reward yourself for that success, and this can sometimes create resentment." While traditional CEOs go home to a house their employees will never see, yours won't miss the fancy new car in your driveway or the new furniture in your living room.
According to Walton, your most important task is to separate your work and your home, both mentally and physically. Creating boundaries is crucial, he says, and the first step is to establish "no go" areas for employees. "In a normal office, if you step out for lunch, you can't be reached," he says. "In your home, however, this could mean stepping into your kitchen for a sandwich or into your living room for a chat with your spouse. It's tempting for an employee to feel that since you're so close, you're available to take calls or answer questions." Walton adds that your staff also needs to understand that when you leave the official work area, you have "left the building" and can't be reached, even if you're just a few steps away.
Walton also recommends establishing "no go" times for your employees. "You don't want to have someone in your home when you're not there," he points out. "Also, if you want to stop working at 5 p.m. but someone else may be finishing a project, it may be hard for you to switch off and `go home.' Nor do you want employees showing up for work early, while you're still in your pajamas drinking coffee." His recommendation is to establish specific work hours--and to give employees the freedom to take work home, with the assurance they'll be paid for that time.
But the most important step of all, says Walton, is to observe your own rules. If you blur the boundaries between work and home--eating lunch at your desk or leaving the kitchen door open when you're on a break--you can't expect your employees to respect those boundaries. "Your staff needs clarity," he says.
Boundaries are also important from your employees' perspective. While you're used to your home's idiosyncrasies, employees may find it difficult or unpleasant to work in a dirty, cluttered, noisy or disorganized house. Employees might not appreciate sharing a bathroom with a litter box, making lunch amid piles of unwashed dishes or trying to work around mounds of personal clutter. Shouting children, barking dogs and loud music can also disrupt employees. Such an environment may lead to a higher turnover rate.
Hannah and Boyd offer the following tips to help you handle these issues:
- Hire a housekeeper. Don't add to your workload by trying to keep a spotless home/office; let someone else do it for you. This will not only help you keep your own messes private, but will also make sure you won't be stuck cleaning up your employees' messes.
- Designate a work area for your employees. Even if you can't provide an office with a closed door, make sure your employees have a designated area to store paperwork, projects, equipment and personal items.
- Install a vending machine. "Whenever I went to the refrigerator, someone had always taken the last Pepsi," says Boyd. To solve the Pepsi problem, she installed a soft-drink vending machine and also placed a minifridge in the garage for employees to use. You might also install a snack machine and set aside a specific area of the sink with coffee supplies for employees.
- Designate an employee bathroom. Keep the bathroom clean, well-stocked and off-limits to the rest of the household.
- Try to arrange for off-street parking. This is important, as the zoning laws in some neighborhoods require it.
- Be flexible about hours. If your home office is in a residential area, employees may have to drive some distance just to pick up a sandwich. Longer lunch hours give employees a much-needed break.
- Remember that your employees are not babysitters. Clear lines should be drawn between work and family. Ensure that family members don't disrupt your employees' work; and don't expect an employee to take care of pets or plants.
Hiring an employee to work in your home affects the entire family. Before you make the decision to hire, discuss the situation with everyone involved. This will help you identify needs and potential problems in advance, and will also help establish ground rules for everyone. Only take on the employees you really need, so it will be easier to keep the help you hire. Hopefully, you can find someone who will not only grow with your company but also help your company grow.


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Donald graces the cover of 'Plex' upcoming issue, which will drop in a few weeks. However, you can check out the cover story here. Check out a small "short film" up top, the issue's cover down bottom.
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amazing cover
Okay, this is a dope ass cover. The composition is clean, bold and simple. Dope shit!
Shit Coulda Been An Album Cover...
I agree. This cover encompasses more of the feel of the album than his actual one does.
if only he would jump off or just stick to comedy
suicide isn't a joke fonzo. There's a tasteful way to say you dont like one's music. smh. Degenerate.
Yeah, no. He's a much better rapper than comedian.
"Kid is a HELL of a talent" - Ders
I personally find his comedy ass and for white hipsters or wannabe white hipster impressionists. I think his music is much better, After all he had one of the best albums out of any genre.


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Dynex Capital, Inc. Declares Second Quarter Common Stock Dividend
Dynex Capital, Inc. (NYSE: DX) announced today that it will pay a dividend of $0.29 per common share for the second quarter of 2012 on July 31, 2012 to shareholders of record on July 6, 2012. The $0.29 dividend represents a $0.01 increase per common share from the first quarter. There is no dividend reinvestment discount for the second quarter dividends reinvested through the Company's Dividend Reinvestment and Share Purchase Plan.
Dynex Capital, Inc. is an internally managed real estate investment trust, or REIT, which invests in mortgage assets on a leveraged basis. The Company invests in Agency and non-Agency RMBS and CMBS. The Company also has investments in securitized single-family residential and commercial mortgage loans originated by the Company from 1992 to 1998. Additional information about Dynex Capital, Inc. is available at www.dynexcapital.com.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding the business of Dynex Capital, Inc. that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of these risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Interview I Did With the University Daily Kansan
By Valerie Skubal
Comedian Michael Ian Black says, "You'd have to shit in my mouth to make me really uncomfortable," and you have to believe him.
From movies such as Wet Hot American Summer and comedy sketch shows such as The State and Stella, he shows the audience that he has no limit to his humor. The comedian talks to Jayplay about his new sketch comedy show, Michael & Michael Have Issues, who the real headlining Michael is and what he thinks about the University.
Jayplay: What inspired Michael and Michael Have Issues?
MIB: Michael and I have been friends for a long time and we thought it would be fun to do a show based on our lives. We also wanted to do some sketch comedy because we haven't done that for a long time and that's where we got our start. This was a kind of natural way to do both with a sketch show and about our real relationship: best friends who hate each other.
JP: You guys are pretty mean to each other on the show. Is your real-life relationship with Michael Showalter as love-hate as it is on the show?
MIB: It's obviously a huge exaggeration. Our real relationship is far more love than hate. But there is some hate. I think we have a very competitive relationship in real life and exaggerate it for the show. It's not so far off though.
JP: Who really is the headlining Michael?
MIB: Well, in terms of who's the more famous and talented, obviously I am. But Michael has his good qualities too, he's good at doodling. I'm clearly the headliner. I spend a lot more time on VH1 than he does.
JP: Would you say who you are on the show reflects who you are in real life?
MIB: Like everything else, it's an exaggeration. Theres nothing on the show that is exactly like it is in real life. At the same time theres nothing so far removed from real life. How much Showalter gets laid is an exaggeration. As far as I know, he's a virgin. He's overcompensating with all the women on the show.
JP: Why do you use Twitter so much?
MIB: I'm an attention whore. That's the main reason. And I'm trying to get more followers than Weird Al Yankovic. I'm not sure how many he has. We're pretty close.
JP: What makes you uncomfortable when doing comedy?
MIB: There is very little that makes me uncomfortable. You'd have to shit in my mouth to make me really uncomfortable. I want you to print that. That needs to be your lede. If the article doesn't start with that I'm going to be very upset with you.
JP: How do you think your approach to comedy has changed over the years from The State to Stella to Michael & Michael?
MIB: It hasn't. By the time you're 12 your sense of humor is pretty much what it's going to be. It's just a question of getting better at it. I don't know if I've gotten any better at it. I just keep doing it. The things I was doing with The State make me laugh and will probably make me laugh for the rest of my life.
JP: What will your kids think?
MIB: I'm sure my kids will be deeply mortified by me when they get old enough to see my work. We made a Stella video where we took turns sucking Ms. Claus' dick. I'm sure that won't go over well with my children but what are you going to do? This is who I am.
JP: Where do you get your inspiration for the sketches you do?
MIB: They just happen. People ask that a lot but I don't know how anyone comes up with ideas. They're like the little big bang in your brain. The answer is not 'smoke a lot of weed.' People who assume that smoke a lot of weed themselves and look to justify their behavior. That's a theory, I can't back that up.
JP: What did you want to be when you grew up?
MIB: A long-haul trucker. When i was growing up in the late 70s that was the coolest thing you could be. There was a TV show called B.J. and the Bear about a long-haul trucker and his chimp. I didn't need the chimp but I felt like I needed the truck. In retrospect I was lusting after the wrong thing, it would be far better to have the chimp than the truck.
JP: What were you like when you were in college?
MIB: The same. But just with cheaper clothes and an even worse haircut and slightly more acne.
JP: What got you to leave college at New York University?
MIB: I took a job as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, me and Ben Garant who was in The State. We traveled the country as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I left for a semester and didn't go back.
JP: What is your favorite thing you've done?
MIB: I would say the Stella TV show. I think it's really good and it's what might be called 'underrated.'
JP: Who are your comedic influences?
MIB: John Belushi, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy.
JP: You've been doing Klondike bar commercials, what would you do for a Klondike bar?
MIB: Make Klondike bar commercials. I had never had one before I ate one for the commercials. Terrific.
JP: Any new projects we should know about?
MIB: Waiting for Comedy Central to decide whether Michael & Michael is up for another season. I'm just writing a book and waiting. But if you have a job for me I'll take it. Michael Showalter and I are going on tour but we're not coming to Kansas but if you want us to come we can. I like doing colleges, I like Lawrence a lot.
JP: Any last words for the University of Kansas?
MIB: Just the University of Kansas is my favorite university in the world. There is no better university in Lawrence, Kansas than the University of Kansas.


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Do you find yourself inexplicably drawn to tables of leafy greens or crates of winter squash? Do brussels sprouts on the stem raise your heart rate? Do bowls of heirloom apples and quince and Meyer lemons cover most of the surfaces in your kitchen? Do you ever unload your canvas bag after a trip to the market and not even remember buying that big bag of carrots or yet another bunch of radishes? Have you been known to secretly "borrow" fruits from a neighbor's tree?
For the almond flour in this recipe, you can either buy it (Red Mill makes a good one) already made, or make your own. To make it yourself, buy blanched almonds (10 oz) and toast them until very lightly browned. Let them cool, and then grind, along with the sugar in the recipe until they are a fine powder (but not a paste).
You can use any kind of sweet winter squash in this recipe. I used delicata, but kabocha, butternut or any of the pumpkin varieties would work just as well. You want about 1 cup of roasted squash from whatever variety you are using. That will mean about 2 regular sized delicatas or kabochas, one butternut, one carving sized pumpkin, or three or so of the mini varieties. It's best to roast more than you think you'll need... if you have a bit of roasted squash left over, just drizzle it with some syrup, butter and a sprinkle of salt and dig in!
1 - 3 winter squashes, about 3 pounds 1 t butter or vegetable oil 10 oz almond flour 3/4 c all-purpose flour 1 T baking powder 1/2 t finely grated lemon zest 1 1/2 c granulated sugar Salt 3 large carrots (10 ounces) 3 large eggs, separated poached quince (optional)
Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare your squash by cutting them in half, and scooping out the seeds. Light coat them in butter or oil, and place them cut side down on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Bake until very soft, 1 to 2 hours depending on the size of the squash. Let cool, and scoop out the roasted pumpkin.
Line a loaf pan (or several mini loaf pans) with parchment (a swipe of butter in the pan will help the parchment stick).
In a large mixing bowl, using a fork, blend both flours with the baking powder, lemon zest, sugar and a pinch of salt.
Finely grate the carrots in a food processor or with a box grater and add them to the flour mixture.
In a blender or food processor, puree about 1 cup of squash until smooth. Then, blend in the egg yolks. Add this to the flour mixture, and stir until just combined.
In a large stainless steel bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they hold firm peaks. Using a rubber spatula, stir one-third of the egg whites into the batter to loosen it, then gently fold in the remaining whites until the batter is just blended.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Line the top with the poached quince slices and bake for 30 minutes, or until the cake is just set. Transfer the cake to a rack and let it cool slightly in the pan. Unmold the cake onto a serving dish. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Simple Poached Quince
This recipe (and the quince garnish on these tea cakes) was inspired by this wonderful spiced-quince brown butter cake recipe on Chefs Gone Wild... a recent discovery that is packed with some amazing sounding recipes.
3 quince, peeled, cored, and each cut into 16 slices 3/4 cups sugar 1 whole clove 1 cinnamon stick 2 star anise orange peel from one orange 10 or so peppercorns (of the color of your choice. I used red) 3 cups water
Add all the ingredients to a large pot and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat, and simmer for about an hour, checking on the fruit every so often to make sure it is still submerged in the liquid and not getting overly mushy. Once the quince is fork tender, turn off the heat and let it cool to room temperature in the poaching liquid. You can use the quince with the liquid over ice cream (yum), or drain it and gently dry the quince with a towel (paper or otherwise) for use on the tea cake.


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Q-Tip Hints at 'Cruel Winter' Album
If you were wondering why Q-Tip, Mos Def, and others weren't on Cruel Summer, there may be a G.O.O.D. reason. Q-Tip has revealed that a sequel could be in the works.
When asked why he didn't appear on the compilation, the legendary rapper/producer apologized, but offered a hint at what's to come. "I know, I know, I'm sorry about that but I have to let the cat out of the bag. Kanye's probably gonna get…" he told MTV News at Saturday's BET Hip Hop Awards.
He called his G.O.O.D. labelmate Pusha T over and asked him if it was OK to spill the details. "If there's a Cruel Summer then there's got to be a Cruel Winter, right?" he said.
The compilation featuring Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Common, and Teyana Taylor opened at No. 2 this week on the Billboard 200 with 205,000 copies sold.
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