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Finally, Supreme Court of India cleared the way for 27% OBC quota in central and central funded institutes in India. Decision over this quota was pending in court since March, 2007 after many people objected this move and appealed in Supreme Court against this law including famous motivational book writer Shiv Khera. Though now five judge bench of Supreme Court has unanimously cleared this act of providing reservation to OBC, however, it has also put new restrictions on providing this reservation and started a new debate over reservation policies present in India.
Supreme Court has clearly said in its judgement that creamy lawyer must be excluded from getting benefits of this reservation Therefore, now children of MPs, MLAs, class 1 officer, rich people belonging to OBC will not qualify for this quota. Supreme Court has asked Indian government to come up with clear criteria of defining creamy lawyer before implementing this law and also define clearly people belonging to economically backward class. This is for the first time in the history of reservation policy when restrictions will be made on economical basis, a pending demand by many experts and people.
Court has also asked review of this policy after every five years and removes it in phased manner after objective is achieved. This ruling of Supreme Court will now start a new debate over various reservations continuing in India and should economically well people of these categories be allowed to get benefit of respective reservation benefits available to them or not. This is a small positive step taking by wise judges of Supreme Court of India, which can change the future of reservation policies in India. Soon reservations on economical grounds can become reality leaving behind reservations based on castes, which is the requirement of time.
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MALONE — Increased use of video conferencing to reduce inmate court-appearance costs is among the goals Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill has in 2013.
The Sheriff's Department takes inmates out of the jail for court, medical and dental appointments and for mental-health admissions and evaluations.
But security concerns about moving inmates from a secure setting to one that's non-secured, the cost of travel and staff time led to implementation of video conferencing, where routine appearances before a judge take place remotely instead of having the inmate appear in person.
In his annual report to the County Legislature, Mulverhill said that in 2012 the staff made more than 1,400 trips and covered more than 60,000 miles, with an average of five trips per day, compared to 1,300 trips across 53,000 miles in 2011.
Most trips in 2012 were made to the courthouse (452), Alice Hyde Medical Center (187), other county jails (138), Malone Town Court (129) and Saranac Lake (109).
In 2011, 446 trips were made to County Court, 182 to Alice Hyde, 136 to other jails, 152 to Malone Town Court and 50 to Saranac Lake.
The sheriff hopes to reduce the number of outings in the future through the video-conferencing program.
Mulverhill said the Unified Court System has used the system, "and we've opened it up to the Public Defender and Conflict Resolution Office, and Probation is starting to use it.
"Eventually, we'd like to have it tied into Family Court," the sheriff said, but criteria has to be worked out with the Unified Court administration before that can start.
He said that if usage grows and there is a need, a second video unit could be installed.
Mulverhill's annual report states that in 2012, 868 inmates (672 men and 196 women) were housed at the jail compared to 916 people (720 men and 196 women) in 2011.
Resignations, off-duty and on-duty injuries created a staffing shortage, but the sheriff said that using overtime to cover the hours was too expensive, so 126 female inmates were boarded out to other counties at a cost of $85 a day until September.
Another 146 inmates were boarded out, either because of overcrowding or mental-health issues.
Mulverhill said that overcrowding could have been worse if not for the Alternative to Incarceration Program, which allows non-violent offenders to be released to home monitoring.
That program saw 67 inmates housed at home and monitored with an ankle bracelet in 2012, which saved roughly $705,300, since it costs about $100 per day per inmate for housing at the County Jail.
The sheriff said the $70,000 program costs, including the $4.50 daily charge to track each offender electronically, provided a net savings of $600,000 to taxpayers.
The program started on Feb. 3, 2011, and by the end of that year, 65 people were wearing bracelets, saving the county about $500,000.
Four inmates in 2011 and then in 2012 violated the terms of their home-monitor release and returned to jail, he said.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Association purchased a Child Safe Identification System for $5,000 to provide an ID card with a photo, fingerprint and other information that can be easily accessed and forwarded to the Amber Alert System if a child is reported missing.
According to the report, the Sheriff's Department also:
▶ Established a website, www.franklincountysheriffsoffice.us, and Facebook page.
▶ Obtained free military-surplus vehicles and equipment, including a truck and covered trailer and a 10-passenger van.
▶ Arranged for inmates to perform janitorial work, snow removal and lawn care at both the jail and Emergency Services Building next door.
"We hope to expand that to work projects to help in the community," Mulverhill said, such as the Gleaning Program operated by the Joint Council on Economic Opportunity (JCEO).
He said inmates can't be forced to work until they are sentenced, and that participation depends on their type of conviction, so there are few who might qualify to work outside the jail.
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This week's Edge features an article on "Indirect Reciprocity . . . ." As always with Edge, the discussion is top flight philosophy and science, featuring this time an interview with Austrian mathematician Karl Sigmund. At one point Sigmund introduces the main idea of indirect reciprocity with this from Yogi Berra:
"There is a famous anecdote about the American baseball player Yogi Berra, who said something to the effect of, 'I make a point of going to other people's funerals because otherwise they won't come to mine.' This is not as nonsensical as it seems. If a colleague of the university, for instance, goes faithfully to every faculty member's funeral, then the faculty will turn out strongly at his. Others reciprocate. It works."
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Heart bypass surgery
Heart bypass surgery
Heart bypass surgery creates a new route, called a bypass, for blood and oxygen to reach your heart.
Alternative Names
Off-pump coronary artery bypass; OPCAB; Beating heart surgery; Bypass surgery - heart; CABG; Coronary artery bypass graft; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Coronary bypass surgery
Before your surgery you will get general anesthesia. You will be asleep (unconscious) and pain-free during surgery.
Once you are unconscious, the heart surgeon will make an 8 - 10-inch surgical cut in the middle of your chest. Your breastbone will be separated to create an opening. This allows your surgeon to see your heart and aorta, the main blood vessel leading from the heart to the rest of your body.
Most people who have coronary bypass surgery are connected to a heart-lung bypass machine, or bypass pump.
- Your heart is stopped while you are connected to this machine.
- This machine does the work of your heart while your heart is stopped for the surgery. The machine adds oxygen to your blood, and moves blood through your body.
A newer type of bypass surgery does not use the heart-lung bypass machine. The bypass is made while your heart is still beating. This is called off-pump coronary artery bypass, or OPCAB. This procedure may be used if you could have problems while on the heart-lung machine.
During bypass surgery, the doctor takes a vein or artery from another part of your body and uses it to make a detour (or graft) around the blocked area in your artery.
- Your doctor may use a vein, called the saphenous vein, from your leg. To reach this vein, a surgical cut will be made along the inside of your leg, between your ankle and groin. One end of the graft will be sewn to your coronary artery. The other end will be sewn to an opening made in your aorta.
- A blood vessel in your chest, called the internal mammary artery (IMA), can also be used as the graft. One end of this artery is already connected to your aorta. The other end is attached to your coronary artery.
- Other arteries can also be used for grafts in bypass surgery. The most common one is the radial artery in your wrist.
After the graft has been created, your breastbone will be closed with wires. These wires stay inside you. The surgical cut will be closed with stitches.
This surgery can take 4 to 6 hours. After the surgery, you will be taken to the intensive care unit.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Your doctor may recommend this procedure if you have a blockage in one or more of your coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are the small blood vessels that supply your heart with oxygen and nutrients that are carried in your blood.
When one or more of the coronary arteries becomes partly or totally blocked, your heart does not get enough blood. This is called ischemic heart disease, or coronary artery disease (CAD). It can cause chest pain (angina).
Coronary artery bypass surgery can be used to treat coronary artery disease. Your doctor may have first tried to treat you with medicines. You may have also tried exercise and diet changes, or angioplasty with stenting.
Coronary artery disease is different from person to person. The way it is diagnosed and treated will also vary. Heart bypass surgery is just one treatment. It is not right for everyone.
Other procedures that may be used:
- Angioplasty and stent placement
- Heart bypass surgery - minimally invasive
Risks for any surgery include:
- Blood clots in the legs that may travel to the lungs
- Breathing problems
- Infection, including in the lungs, urinary tract, and chest
- Blood loss
Possible risks from having coronary bypass surgery include:
- Chest wound infection, which is more likely to happen if you are obese, have diabetes, or have already had this surgery
- Heart attack or stroke
- Heart rhythm problems
- Kidney or lung failure
- Low fever and chest pain, together called post-pericardiotomy syndrome, which can last up to 6 months
- Memory loss, loss of mental clarity, or "fuzzy thinking"
Before the Procedure
Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, even drugs or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before your surgery:
- For the 2-week period before surgery you may be asked to stop taking drugs that make it harder for your blood to clot. These might cause increased bleeding during the surgery. They include aspirin, ibuprofen (such as Advil and Motrin), naproxen (such as Aleve and Naprosyn), and other similar drugs. If you are taking clopidogrel (Plavix), talk with your surgeon about when to stop taking it.
- Ask your doctor which drugs you should still take on the day of the surgery.
- If you smoke, try to stop. Ask your doctor for help.
- Contact your doctor if you have a cold, flu, fever, herpes breakout, or any other illness.
- Prepare your home so you can move around easily when you return from the hospital.
The day before your surgery:
- Shower and shampoo well.
- You may be asked to wash your whole body below your neck with a special soap. Scrub your chest two or three times with this soap.
On the day of the surgery:
- You will usually be asked not to drink or eat anything after midnight the night before your surgery. This includes chewing gum and breath mints. Rinse your mouth with water if it feels dry, but be careful not to swallow.
- Take any medications that your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.
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After the operation, you will spend 3 to 7 days in the hospital. You will spend the first night in an intensive care unit (ICU). You will probably be moved to a regular or transitional care room within 24 hours.
Two to three tubes will be in your chest to drain fluid from around your heart. They are usually removed 1 to 3 days after surgery.
You may have a catheter (flexible tube) in your bladder to drain urine. You may also have intravenous (IV) lines for fluids. You will be attached to machines that monitor your pulse, temperature, and breathing. Nurses will watch your monitors constantly.
You will be encouraged to restart some activities and may begin a cardiac rehab program within a few days.
It takes 4 to 6 weeks to start feeling better after surgery. Your health care providers will tell you how to take care of yourself at home after the surgery.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Recovery from surgery takes time. You may not see the full benefits of your surgery for 3 to 6 months. In most people who have heart bypass surgery, the grafts stay open and work well for many years.
This surgery does not prevent the coronary artery blockage from coming back. You can do many things to slow this process down, including:
- Not smoking
- Eating a heart-healthy diet
- Getting regular exercise
- Treating high blood pressure
- Controlling high blood sugar (if you have diabetes) and high cholesterol
You may be more likely to have problems with your blood vessels if you have kidney disease or continue to smoke.
Ferraris VA, Mentzer RM Jr. Acquired heart disease: coronary insufficiency. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 61.
Gopaldas RR, Chu D, Bakaeen FD. Acquired heart disease: coronary insufficiency. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 60.
Morrow DA, Boden WE. Stable ischemic heart disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 57.
Greenhalgh J, Hockenhull J, Rao N, Dundar Y, Dickson RC, Bagust A. Drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents for angina or acute coronary syndromes. Cochrane Database of Syst Rev. 2010:5:CD004587. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004587.pub2.
Moller CH, Penninga L, Wettersley J, Steinbruchel DA, Gluud C. Off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for ischaemic heart disease. Cochrane Database of Syst Rev. 2012:3:CD007224. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007224.pub2.
Review Date:5/14/2012
Reviewed by:Shabir Bhimji MD, PhD, Specializing in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Midland, TX. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.
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I've finally found a list with the marine challenges
Spoiler: Marines Challenges: 1- Field Modified: Purchase a Marine weapon upgrade 2- Spray N' Pray: Kill 5 enemies with hip fire 3- Two For One: Kill two enemies with one shot from an Underslung Grenade Launcher 4- Boom Stick: Kill 20 enemies using the Pump Shotguns primary fire 5- Big ******* Signal: Track 5 xenos at once on your Motion Tracker 6- Heavily Armed: Kill 7 enemies using a primary weapons alternate fire 7- Kill Or Be Killed: Kill 20 enemies with any rifles primary fire 8- Straight Shooter: Get 1o headshots using the Service Pistol 9- Airtime: Kill 20 enemies that are climbing on the walls or ceiling 10- Pop Goes The Melon: Get 10 headshots on xenos with any rifle 11- Short, Controlled Bursts: Do not miss an enemy with any bullets from a full rifle mag 12- Sharp Shooter: Kill 20 enemies that are 15m away or farther, using the Battle Rifle 13- Trapper: Kill 20 enemies with Battle Rifle Mines 14- Second To None: Kill 15 enemies with any side arm 15- Carry A Big Stick: Kill 3 enemies with a primary weapons alternate fire without dying 16- Back On Your Feet: Revive 5 other players in Coop Campaign or Versus Matches 17- Equal Opportunity: Kill 20 enemies using the Combat Pistol 18- Set Em Up, Knock Em Down: Kill 10 enemies with Claymores, Mine Launcher Mines or Acid Traps 19- Spread The Love: Kill 2 enemies within 10 seconds using the SMG 20- Xenophobia: Kill 10 Soldier, 10 Lurker or 10 Spitter xenos 21- Blown To Hell: Kill 20 enemies using the Assault Rifles Grenade Launcher 22- Make It Count: Shoot enemies with an entire clip using the Service Pistol without missing or reloading 23- Down But Not Out: Kill an enemy while incapacitated 24- Amateur Surgeon: Decapitate a xenomorph 25- Flash Fire: Kill 2 enemies with fire damage within 10 seconds 26- Judge, Jury And Executioner: Execute 20 enemies using the Pulse Rifles primary fire 27- Shotty Workmanship: Kill 20 enemies using the Tactical Shotguns primary fire 28- Keep Up The Fire: Kill 6 enemies in under 60 seconds using the SMG 29- Reflex Action: Kill 5 xenomorphs that are inside a vent using the Pump Shotgun 30- The Silent Killer: Kill 5 enemies using a suppressor on the Battle Rifle 31- Amputation: Remove 20 limbs from xenos using the Tactical Shotgun 32- Stand Your Ground: Make the killing shot on a crusher using the Service Pistol 33- Combined Arms: Use the Combat Pistol to kill 10 enemies that were on fire 34- Feel The Burn: Kill 20 enemies using firebombs 35- Assault With Intent: Kill 20 enemies using the Assault Rifles primary fire 36- Light Em Up: Kill 20 enemies using the Assault Rifles Underslung Flamethrower 37- Shock Trooper: Kill 20 enemies that were stunned using the Tactical Shotguns Arc Rounds the number 24 and 31 finally give an answer....IT'S POSSIBLE DISMBEMBER THE ALIENS!!! I'm very happy! many thanks to foz_1983 for the hint that gave me some post above )) ... Last edited by Hudson78; February 11th, 2013 at 03:48 PM. |
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No worries, glad i could help a little I hope you enjoy the game as much as i am!! Day 4 and i'm still hooked!!
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A Charming Turnover (37″x46″)
A charm pack, a package of turnovers, and some background fabric will make this cute wall hanging.
Cake in the Garden (70″x90″)
A layer cake and simple machine applique are used for this quilt.
Crazy Patch Under the Stars (31″x37″)
Intermediate skills are required for the machine applique and the special techniques used in this wall hanging. The paper piecing method is used to create blocks from 12 different patterns.
Blueberry Jelly (48″x64″)
Blueberry Jelly is created using jelly roll strip pieces exclusively with yardage for background and navy flying geese. It is surprising how quickly this quilt goes together!


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All External Resources
ARTstor is an online image library with more than one million images of the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, contributed by museums, archives, artists and scholars. Users can browse in a number of different fields, or search by keyword or by using advanced filters. Image quality is generally excellent with high-resolution jpegs available for virtually all images. Note that searching for "IAP" alongside keywords will return images that have been designated by their contributor (primarily the Met) as freely publishable for academic purposes.
American Memory
American Memory is an aggregation of more than 9 million transcriptions, audio files, and still and moving images from the Library of Congress and other institutions, all documenting the American experience. The material is grouped into more than 100 collections browsable by topic (maps, religion), LC subject headings (i.e. Posters, Haymarket Affair), or by title (i.e. "African American Odyssey" or "The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920"). The metadata is excellent throughout and images range from good to excellent, with some even offered as high resolution TIFFs.
ArchNet is an online community with a specific focus on the built environment of the Islamic World. Operated by MIT, with the support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the site serves as a forum for scholars, architects, planners, and urban, landscape and interior designers to share resources, including digital images of relevant sites. The images, of which there are more than 37,000, are of good quality, and users can browse for them using relevant fields, or by keyword searching the digital library.
Arounder offers a number of 360-degree photographic panoramas of notable cultural sites throughout Europe, including Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, the Cologne Cathedral, and Piazza San Pietro in Vatican City (some American sites are available, but they are by no means notable). The available sites are not a comprehensive representation of the cultural heritage of Europe, with even some major cities like London totally unrepresented; and the site seems intended to promote tourism more than anything else; but it offers what may be the best understanding of an architectural monument short of being at it.
British Library
The British Library makes available 30,000 digital images representing key objects from their holdings. Users can search using keywords (unfortunately there is no advanced search functionality), or browse online exhibition groups such as "Victorian Popular Music" and "Philatelic Rarities". Images are very good throughout, and many bound works, like Handel's Messiah, are viewable in the Library's "Turning the Pages" software (requires Microsoft's SilverLight browser plugin) as browsable, page-flip-able virtual objects.
British Museum
Of the British Museum's more than 7 million objects, 2 million have been catalogued, and of those nearly 500,000 objects have at least one digital image available online. The Museum's collection covers the history of human activity, with objects representing ancient Europe, ancient Greece and Rome, and virtually all non-Western cultures from their pre-history to present. The Museum makes all of its digital images freely available for educational use, including limited-run academic publishing, and while the readily available digital images are quite good, it also has a registration-based system wherein users can request that ultra-high quality renditions be sent to them by e-mail.
Calisphere is an online image resource made available by the University of California system. It offers more than 200,000 digital representations of primary materials documenting the history of the state of California, from its origins through the 1970s. Materials are browsable by subject or by thematic collections, and searchable by keyword. Images are available in high-resolution zoomable form, but are only downloadable as average quality JPEGs.
Catena, The Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes
Sponsored by the BGC with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes is an interactive image database focused on the history of gardens and landscapes from ancient Roman archaeological sites to 19th century Hudson Valley estates. Images are of good quality.
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art makes available more than 23,000 digital images representing objects from its collection. The museum's holdings span the range of visual and material culture and include works from virtually all cultures and periods of human production. Images are searchable by keyword or using advanced parameters, and available images are of good quality. Also of note, the museum makes requesting the rights to reproduce images fairly straightforward, with an online form linked from each catalog entry.
Database Machine Drawings
Database Machine Drawings (DMD) was developed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and makes available more then 1600 high quality digital images of Medieval and Renaissance (1235-1650) mechanical drawings. Users can make use of either simple or advanced search parameters for finding images, and the metadata is extremely thorough from image to image.
David Rumsey Map Collections
The David Rumsey Map Collection offers users access to more than 21,000 ultra high quality digital images of rare maps and other cartographic material, focused on the 18thand 19th centuries and spanning world geography. The images are made available through a number of different platforms, including Luna Commons (best for downloading), Google Map overlays, and 2- and 3-D GIS viewers. The website also includes other useful features under the "Blog" category, particularly the blog itself, related websites, and videos on the subject of mapping.
Digital Image Collections Wiki
The Digital Images Collections Wiki, compiled by the Visual Resources Department of Wellesley College, is a wiki-formatted index of Free- and Fair-Use online digital image collections relevant to the study of the visual and decorative arts and architecture. The wiki overlaps with the BGC's list of image resources and is ultimately more extensive, though less topically relevant and less rigorously edited.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture is an excellent decorative-arts-centric, early-American-leaning online resource. They make available a number of classic texts (such as Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament and Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses) as ultra high quality jpegs and also offer a small, focused digital image database representing two of their special collections. Even further, they include a list of online resources that, though there is some duplication, extends the range of our list. Thanks to Karyn in the Library for finding this.
Digital Resources from Libraries, Museums and Archives
Digital Resources from Libraries, Museums and Archives features descriptions of and links to digital media resources developed by IMLS grantees (a few notable examples include "Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project" and "Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books"). Collections range in focus widely, from oral histories of rural farmers to historic costume to rock art, but users can search or browse to access specific collections. Media types and quality also vary from collection to collection (and sometimes within collections) but may include transcriptions, still and moving images, or sound files.
Domestic Interiors Database
The Domestic Interiors Database tracks the evolution of the domestic interior (through secondary representations) from the Renaissance until today. It includes interpretative data as well as standard reference information, and both simple keywords and advanced parameters can be used to search records. The database includes both visual and textual sources, in the first case prints, paintings, photographs, film stills, etc and in the second novels, correspondences, advertisements, periodicals, etc. The depth of information and the breadth of sources make this a particularly valuable resource for scholars of domestic spaces.
Duke Digital Collections
This page brings together all of the digital media collections made available by Duke University. A few individual collections are Duke-only but otherwise are open to all. The subject matter ranges widely across the visual and literary arts, history, popular culture, and more. Of particular interest are several collections focused on the history of advertising, African American women, and a collection of Vica comics, which were produced by the Nazi-controlled government in German-occupied France as a propaganda tool against the Allied forces. Collections can be keyword searched individually or all together and images are of excellent quality across the different collections.
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and Renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford; the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence; the British Museum, London; and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. It consists of a browsable and searchable digital catalogue with 520 objects ranging from astrolabes to nocturnals to surveying instruments. And while the catalogue entries are of principle interest, the site includes valuable accessory information such as a glossary and maker biographies. Images are of consistently good quality.
Flickr is an image hosting and sharing website which claims to host more than 4 billion digital images uploaded by its users. Though many of the images will have nothing to do with the decorative arts and material culture, there is a wealth of vacation photographs, book scans, etc. that may be of value. Being generated entirely by users the image quality will vary widely (though they're often available as large JPEGs), as will the quality, extent and accuracy of metadata. Of note, all images have rights notices displayed, and some users have released their work for free use (including commercial use) under a creative commons license.
Flickr Commons
Flickr Commons offers cultural heritage institutions a centralized, easy-to-use site to host selections from their digitized collections, and in so doing facilitate much wider public access to these collections than might otherwise be possible. At present nearly forty institutions, American and international, contribute digital images to the Commons, with the Smithsonian, Brooklyn Museum, Getty, and Library of Congress being just a few of them. Metadata and image quality vary by institution and only limited search options are available, but users can browse by tag or by contributing institutions (which often create thematic image groups).
Google Patents
Google, in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, makes available for full-text searching approximately 7 million patents and 1 million patent applications. Patents are available to view in their original form, which can also be downloaded in PDF format, and many patents include accompanying documentary drawings. Users can search for patents using keywords or advanced options. Thanks to Tom in the library for finding this.
Great Buildings Collection
Great Buildings Collection is an excellent online resource for information about and images of architecture. The site features 1200 architectural historically significant buildings from all points of human history and on (nearly) all continents. Great Buildings presents key information about each building alongside photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, and 3D building models. Users can access buildings by browsing maps and timelines, by creators and locations, or by searching essential fields. Images vary in quality, and some are externally linked, but on the whole are good.
Harvard University Digital Collections
Harvard University makes a number of its special collections available in digitized form. They range widely by object type and subject matter, and highlights include "Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the US & UK, 1815-1914" and "Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics". Collections are only searchable and browsable individually, and the interface, metadata, and image quality vary from collection to collection, but are generally good to excellent.
Images from the History of Medicine
Images from the History of Medicine provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic arts illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to 21st century. The collection uses the Luna interface to browse, search, and download images, which are of excellent quality and which have excellent metadata.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum makes available digital images of a large number of the works in its collection, which ranges from painting to furniture to architectural elements and includes some particularly fine examples of decorative arts objects. The image database is searchable by keyword or browsable by artist, work type, or subject, and the images available are of good quality.
JISC Digital Media
JISC Digital Media is a UK based site dedicated to supplying the further and higher education communities with the knowledge needed to create and distribute high-quality digital media (still and moving images, sound, and multi-media). Though the site is oriented to a UK-based and professional audience, the information it provides is nonetheless invaluable, covering the range of production practices that one would need to understand to create a personal archive of high-quality digital media.
Library of Congress, Online Catalog of the Prints and Photographs Division
The Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress holds a massive collection of printed and photographed materials, 75% of which is cataloged and a substantial portion of that for which digital images are available. Objects span the fullest range of subject matter and so the collection has a wide potential relevance. Users can browse specific collections (i.e. National Child Labor Committee Collection, British Cartoons), or find images using the limited search options. Metadata is excellent throughout and the catalog interoperates with the Library's Thesaurus of Geographic Material (TGM, see thesauri). Images are another high point: all that can be made available are (some have copyright restrictions or have not yet been scanned), and are available as excellent quality JPEGs and uncompressed archival TIFFs.
Life Magazine Photo Archive
Google hosts millions of prints and photographs from Life Magazine's photography archive. Works date as far back as the 1750s and many were never published. Images can be browsed by decade and by some suggested subjects, but otherwise keyword searching is the only available search tool. Even with limited search options this remains an immensely valuable image resource, particularly for scholars of American social history and/or material culture. It should also be noted that images are of extremely high quality.
Luna Commons
Luna Commons hosts a number of freely available collections (permissions based collections require a subscription, which we don't have) from participating institutions. These include our own Catena Collection, the Farber Gravestone Collection, and Cornell's Political Americana Collection. The searching and viewing interface is elegant and the metadata and image quality is excellent across all collections.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the United States' preeminent art museum and holds more than 2 million works of art representing all periods, cultures, and manners of human creative production, and the Museum's online database features more than 130,000 digital images of these works. Metadata is thorough throughout, and users can find images by browsing curatorial departments, or by using keyword or advanced searches. While image quality is good for all objects, keep in mind that many (though not all) are available as higher resolution JPEGs through ARTstor, and many of these are made available to publish for academic purposes for free.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, is an extraordinarily comprehensive informational resource for students of the history of visual and material culture. The site offers essential information about the full temporal, geographical and material span of human productivity, all illustrated with works from the Met's collection. Users can access information by browsing maps and timelines, by accessing thematic essays such as "Wisteria Dining Rooms, Paris", or by using keyword searches.
Morgan Library and Museum Collection
Morgan Library and Museum Catalog
The Morgan Library and Museum makes available digital images of many of the manuscripts and objects in its holdings. Users can access these images either by using Corsair, which takes the format of a standard Library catalog, or by using the collections page of the Morgan's website. The collections page is user-friendly but offers less information, while the catalog features extensive metadata but in an awkward format.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art has more than 30,000 images of works from their collection available for browsing and searching online. Of particular interest are the more than 6000 works in the Architecture and Design department, ranging from the mid-19th century to present and representing a wide variety of object types. Images are of average quality, but the browse and search tools are both intuitive and extremely refined. Note that some of MOMA's collection has been made available as high resolution JPEGs via ARTstor.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, and include illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, posters, prints, photographs and more. The subject matter extends far beyond New York City, giving this resource wide potential relevance. Users can search for materials using basic and advanced options, or by browsing by subject. The Library has also grouped images to form collections, for example "Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian Art Deco" and "Vintage Holiday Postcards". Images are of very good quality, non-commercial uses are encouraged, and it's easy to acquire rights and high-quality TIFFs for publishing.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is both an excellent informational resource for the study of the visual arts and an image search engine. At the main page you can choose between an informational search and one that only returns images, with these images being of good quality. While Oxford itself hosts only 6000 or so images, available articles often include links to external image resources such as museum websites.
Oxford University Digital Collections
Oxford University offers a number of its special collections, particularly those from the Bodleian Library, in digital form. Collections are disparate in subject, from Athenian pottery to 18th and 19th century board games and at present are presented in isolation, with no cross-collection browse or search options available. Images vary in quality by collection, some are large and high resolution, others are small and pixilated.
Smithsonian Archives Image Gallery
The Smithsonian Archives Image Gallery offers a single interface for the browsing and searching of the vast holdings of the Smithsonian's many sub-institutions, including the National Museum of the American Indian, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and National Anthropological Archives. Users can browse by sub-institution, subjects, or object types, or access images using keyword searching. A variety of media types are available, including very good quality still and moving images, sound files, transcriptions, etc., and users can limit searches by media type.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum, a UK based institution dedicated to the decorative arts and material culture, makes a substantial portion of its collection available in digital format through its online image database. The database has more than 1 million entries, with metadata and image quality varying from record to record. The search functionality allows users to restrict results to only the highest quality records, and other search and browse features are both extensive and intuitive. The V&A also makes acquiring image rights and high quality digital files extremely easy (and when possible free) by incorporating "shopping cart" style ordering into the site.
Visual Arts Data Service
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) makes available more than 100,000 images across 45 different collections submitted by participating UK institutions. Collections of particular interest include "Designing Britain" from the Design Archives at the University of Brighton and the "John Johnson Collection of Trades and Professions". Collections can be searched by keyword or, using the advanced search options, within individual fields, and both metadata and images are of good quality from collection to collection.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is an online database of more than 24,000 digital images of European painting and sculpture from the Romanesque period through Romanticism. Its coverage of both major and minor artists is extensive, and significant works often have multiple details available. The site also includes guided tours for periods and places, biographies for many creators, and a glossary with definitions of subjects, materials, and more. Metadata and image quality are both good, search options are extensive, and browsing is intuitive. If you need images of painting or sculpture to supplement a paper or presentation this is an excellent resource.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons hosts more than 6 million media files contributed to the site by users. Images range across all subjects, time periods and geographic regions and, because users contribute them, will necessarily vary in their quality and the extent of their metadata. Virtually all images made available through Wikimedia Commons (though not necessarily Wikipedia) may be freely re-used without the granting of individual permissions, though copyright information is supplied by contributors and should be verified if you choose to publish or publicly display any provided media.
Wikimedia Free Image Resources
Wikimedia's Free Image Resources page features links to sites exclusively or primarily hosting freely usable digital images. These links are categorized by subject and briefly described. While similar in form and concept to Wikimedia's Public Domain Image Resources page the links themselves are generally unique.
Wikimedia Public Domain Image Resources
Wikimedia's Public Domain Image Resources page features links to sites exclusively or primarily hosting public domain digital images. These links are categorized by subject and briefly described. While similar in form and concept to Wikimedia's Free Image Resources page the links themselves are generally unique.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library offers historically significant primary documents (including books, manuscripts, and still and motion pictures) from all inhabited regions of the world in high quality digital format. One can browse by region, time period, object type and more, or search by keyword. Individual images can be saved as high quality TIFFs; multi-page works can be saved page-by-page as TIFFs, or as whole documents in PDF format; and video and audio recordings are available for download as MPEGs or MP3s, respectively.
WorldImages, the product of the California State University system's IMAGE project, contains nearly 75,000 images representing the arts, sciences, history, material culture, and natural and built environments of virtually all human cultures. Images are grouped into more than 800 portfolios (such as "Food & Kitchens"), which are further organized into subject groupings ("Material Culture & Daily Life"), allowing users to browse related groups of images
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library offers more than 250,000 digitized images of photographs, textual documents, illuminated manuscripts, maps, works of art, and books in the Beinecke's collections. Images are browsable by subject specific collections, such "Book of Secrets: Alchemy and the European Imagination, 1500-2000" and "Russian Graphic Art and the Revolution of 1905", or searchable using keywords or extensive advanced search options. Throughout all collections the metadata and image quality is excellent.
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In early February a pair of United Airlines 747s from Victorville, Calif., landed at Mojave. They won't leave intact. The two aircraft will be cut to pieces and their parts repurposed for the Stratolaunch prototype, including the six engines that will be mounted on the Roc's wings. Engineers will also cannibalize the airliners' landing gear.
The Roc's airframe will be new, built of carbon fiber. Aerospace engineers are finalizing that design in Scaled's engineering offices in Hangar 78 at Mojave. "We've grown up with airplanes that are of a scale where you call 10 of your buddies over and say, 'I'm going to put this wing on today,'" Kevin Mickey, Scaled's executive VP, says. "Building an airplane of this size is more of a shipyard-type logistic challenge." So cranes and big jigs will be the order of the day.
The Roc is not regarded as pretty, even by its creators. "We're all aircraft guys; we love swoopy shapes," Scaled program manager Joseph Ruddy says. "But that's not this thing's job. This thing's job is to carry this rocket and drop it."
Engineer and test pilot Doug Shane, Rutan's successor as head of Scaled, says the team will fabricate as many identical carbon-fiber-skin sections as possible. "If you look at our products, it's very unusual to have any common geometry to any adjacent part of the vehicle," Shane says. With flat sides on the fuselage, Scaled can make panels and clone the part for use almost anywhere on the airplane.
Given Rutan's penchant for aviation firstsaircraft based on his designs have set multiple round-the-world recordsone might suspect he joined the Stratolaunch project partly because it gives him a shot at one last career-capping superlative. But Rutan strongly disagrees with that view. "It would be nice to not have to build the world's largest airplane to do the Stratolaunch mission."
Private Space Planes
The huge plane in the Stratolaunch system is used to hoist a rocket to high altitude, release it, and then veer away as the rocket launches into space. But the mother ship itself is not a space plane. That designation is reserved for aircraft that can reach space under their own power, maneuver there, return to Earth, and land. Private space companies are busy designing these reusable craft. Here, three new models.
30 feet long
This suborbital-only space plane from XCOR, based at California's Mojave Air and Space Port, is designed to fly microgravity research payloads, as well as tourists, just past the edge of space. Taxi tests are scheduled for late 2012; a short first flight could come by year's end.
30 feet long
This seven-passenger space plane, developed by Sierra Nevada Corp., will launch from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket, enter orbit, return to the atmosphere, and land on a conventional runway. NASA-funded testing means first flights as early as this summer. Sierra Nevada says regular flights will start in 2016.
269 feet long
This single-stage unpiloted craft, made by England's Reaction Engines, will blast directly into space from a runway without a boost from an airplane or rocket, carrying cargo or a passenger compartment. Engine tests began last year; company engineers expect flights within a decade.
For-Hire Rocketeers
No one at Mojave is currently building rockets at the Stratolaunch scale, so Allen turned to Elon Musk. His SpaceX skunkworks is brazenly rewriting the rules of spaceflight by creating and launching rockets quickly and cheaply.
The company has already flown the Falcon 9 rocket, named for its nine main engines, and the Dragon space capsule into orbit. The company is now preparing for cargo flights to the International Space Station. Musk says manned flights could commence as early as 2014.
The Stratolaunch rocket will have the same diameter as the Falcon 9 (12 feet), but engineers will trim its length by about 60 feet. "We call it the Falcon 9 Shorty," SpaceX president Shotwell says. Engineers will stunt the rocket by taking out some of the barrel sections that they weld together to make up a typical Falcon 9.
Many elements of the design are not yet finalized. Even the number of rocket engines has not been settled: Shotwell wants to stick with nine engines; Wentz wants fewer. "Nine engines are not required for the performance or control of this rocket," he says. "Including them would add cost and mass."
They have to come to an agreement quickly, as the project is on a tight schedule. Wentz's timetable calls for Roc flight tests to start in 2015; flights with an actual rocket won't begin until 2020 in Florida.
Scaled must lure engineering and design talent to Mojave to staff up Stratolaunch. "The biggest challenge is finding the people who have the right mindset to do this kind of work, who want to take responsibility for the parts they do [create]," Ruddy says. "We have to adjust them to our culture. A lot of aerospace is geared to production-type mentality. The prototype world is a little different."
Stratolaunch suits Witt's vision of Mojave as the center of this prototype world, where cutting-edge aerospace companies have the room to innovate. "What brought the Wright brothers to Kitty Hawk was freedom from encroachment of the press, freedom from industrial espionage, and a steady breeze," Witt says. "The fact that we were able to keep this under wraps for nearly nine years says that we still enjoy the elements that took Orville and Wilbur to Kitty Hawk."
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At 1:00 a.m. deputies arrested Nicole Erin Kwosek, 18, of Minnesota City, for fourth degree driving while intoxicated, under 21 drinking and driving and underage consumption after officers noticed her car with the headlights on parked at K-Mart. When officers approached the vehicle Kwosek told them she was waiting to feel better to drive and she had been punched in the eye at a party. Kwosek had a blood alcohol content of .14 percent.
Sunday, April 8
At 4:31 p.m. deputies arrested Sheila Marie Johnson, 39, of Winona, for a controlled substance crime in the fifth degree after she was stopped for speeding, following too close, and improper parking. Officers first noticed Johnson when she ran from a residence to her vehicle, which was parked facing the wrong direction on Fifth Street. Officers reported that Johnson was shaking, had body tremors, and was talking quickly. Upon searching Johnsons wallet, officers found a small straw and a bindle with a white powdery substance. The substance tested positive for Methylenedioxyphentermine.
At 12:27 p.m. police responded to a report of theft from a storage shed located near Hwy 74 in St. Charles. It was reported that during the night someone had taken a hunting bow valued at $1,400, a chainsaw valued at $342, an oxygen torch kit valued at $500, and a ¾ inch dry socket set valued at $200. It was reported that the same shed was robbed again the next night. Taken was a Sears floor jack valued at $80, a 6,500 watt generator valued at $1,200, a Honda generator valued at $800, three 6-volt batteries valued at $200, an 18-inch red pipe wrench valued at $40, a 1997 Bombardier snowmobile valued at $1,500, a 2000 Bombardier snowmobile valued at $2,500, a 1998 Polaris snowmobile valued at $1,500, a 2009 Bombardier snowmobile valued at $8,000, a trailer valued at $3,800, and $350 worth of hunting and work clothes.
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At 10:18 a.m. it was reported that a Twins flag and a 3-foot personalized concrete sign was taken from a yard located on the 550 block of East Seventh Street.
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Saturday, April 7
At 5:04 a.m. police arrested Ryan Joseph Heinlen, 19, of Winona, after an employee interrupted him while he was attempting to rob Anderson Fertilizer, located at 1020 East Second St., wearing only socks and boxer shorts. When officers failed to locate Heinlen at the burglary scene, they attempted to find him at an address located on the 850 block of East Mark Street. Officers reported Heinlens vehicle rapidly accelerating away from the residence and he was eventually stopped near Hwy 61 and Mankato Avenue. Heinlen was referred to the Winona County Attorneys office for fourth degree burglary, minor consumption, third degree test refusal, fourth degree criminal damage and fourth degree driving while intoxicated.
At 11:44 p.m. police arrested Albert Lee Ward, 29, of Winona, for felony domestic assault, fleeing on foot, trespassing, and domestic assault fear after he attempted to enter a residence in the Maplewood Townhomes. The complainant said Ward has harmed her before. When police arrived on the scene, Ward ran away and was later found hiding in the 1700 block of West Seventh Street.
At 11:46 p.m. police arrested Timothy Michael Peterson, 44, of Holmen, for fourth degree driving while intoxicated, third degree test refusal, no proof of insurance and no Minnesota drivers license after he was found parked suspiciously in the Sinclair parking lot located at 50 Riverview Drive. Peterson had a blood alcohol content of .27 percent.
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At 12:20 a.m. police ticketed Bradley James Schueler, 20, of Minnesota City, for underage consumption. He had a preliminary breath test of .083 percent.


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Hot Chicken Salad
Yield: 1 serving
Community Recipe from
- 5 cup(s) chicken cooked and cubed
- Hot chicken salad is another southern classic that was probably served first at a ladies luncheon or for a church meeting of some sort. Although it seems that most people, men, women and children enjoy this dish. It's one of those 'classics' that every southern cook has their own recipe for and no one makes quite the same.
- Here is what you will need for this casserole:
- 5 cups cooked chicken breast meat, diced
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 1 cup celery, finely diced
- 1/4 cup onion, finely diced
- 1 (8 oz.) can of sliced water chestnuts, drained
- 2 cans cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 Tbs. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. seasoned salt
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup sliced almonds
- Topping
- 3 cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
- 1 stick butter or 1/2 cup, melted
- Mix all of the casserole ingredients except the sliced almonds. Pour and spread evenly in a 9"x13" baking pan that has been sprayed with nonstick spray. Sprinkle with the sliced almonds.
- Mix the lightly crushed cornflake crumbs with the melted butter and sprinkle evenly over the top of the casserole.
- Place in a 350 degree oven and bake for 40 - 45 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
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This recipe is a personal recipe added by Daphne H and has not been tested or endorsed by MyRecipes.
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- COURSE: Casseroles
- CUISINE: Southern
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Poultry
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
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Kucha and the Silk Road
USC College hosts inaugural event for an international consortium advancing the study of the ancient Kucha Kingdom and the Silk Road.
Scholars from the United States and Europe met at USC recently to discuss topics related to Kucha, an ancient Buddhist kingdom along the Silk Road.
Located in what is now the westernmost part of China, Kucha was once a major center of Buddhism and a trading hub in Central Asia. Kucha's later history was intertwined with the dissemination of Islam and the great game of empire building across the region.
The Nov. 13 symposium was organized by Sonya Lee, assistant professor of art history and East Asian languages and cultures in USC College, with support from the Fisher Museum of Art International Museum Institute at USC; the Visual Culture in the Ancient World Initiative; East Asian Studies Center; and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture.
Panelists discussed the visual culture of Buddhist cave temples in Kucha, and addressed the place of Kucha in world history in premodern and modern times. The audience included students and faculty from USC and other institutions in the greater Los Angeles area. Moderators were Lee and UCLA's Lothar von Falkenhausen.
Participants included Angela Howard of Rutgers University who spoke about the visual language of meditation in the pictorial decoration of Kucha caves. Neil Schmid of University of North Carolina at Greensboro offered a case study of the Ksitigarbha and paths of the rebirth motif in Kumtura Cave 75. Lilla Russell-Smith of Asian Art Museum of Berlin, Germany, introduced the audience to her research on her museum's Kucha artifacts.
Other participants were Valerie Hansen of Yale University who analyzed the history of Kucha Kingdom in terms of religious, linguistic, political and economic developments. Adele di Ruocco, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the College, discussed the historical significance of Russian imperial expeditions along the Silk Road.
Bruce Zuckerman, professor of religion and linguistics in the College, gave a presentation on the use of the latest computer imagining technologies for the study of wall paintings from Kucha.
The symposium was the inaugural event for the Kucha Research and Database Project, an international consortium based at Yale University and supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the collaboration is to advance the study of Kucha through a series of conferences and scholarly publications, as well as the development of a digital database to document pertinent cave-temples sites in China, and artifacts now in overseas collections.
Among the participating institutions in the consortium are USC, UCLA, Yale, Asian Art Museum of Berlin, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Kucha Academy of Xinjiang, China. The next event related to the Kucha project is the visit of two scholars from Kucha Academy of Xinjiang to USC in January.
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All Souped Up
I am in LOVE with soup! And I have fallen even more in love with soup since the acquisition of my heavy-bottomed bright green Calphalon dutch oven. The layering of flavors, the flexibility, the aroma, the presentation, and the taste all make me wander back to this staple fare on a regular basis. I am typically an avid recipe-follower, down to the last detail, tested and true, before I head outside of the box to take it up a notch; but for some reason, I have never been that way with soup. It becomes a melting pot of whatever I have a hankering for and whatever I can find in my fridge.
Craving new flavor combinations and always looking for a hands-on experience, I perused the class list at my trusty local cooking school, Bon Vivant. Sure enough, there it was, Soup as a Meal, taught by Chef Hope Sandler. I quickly signed up and anxiously waited for the ringing of the school bell.
My last Bon Vivant class was an initiation by fire experience, so I walked into this class ready to chop some vegetables. The atmosphere was much more relaxed and demonstration-focused, so I poured myself a glass of water, took a seat, and breathed in the aromas of the already simmering soups.
Chef Sandler and her assistants roasted a collection of eggplants, red onions, garlic cloves, red bell peppers, and tomatoes prior to class so we could start straight away with the Roasted Vegetable Soup with Three-Cheese Ravioli. The all-clad soup pot was layered with olive oil and herbs, the roughly chopped roasted vegetables, and the vegetable broth. After bringing to a boil and simmering for 30 minutes, an immersion blender pureed its way through the soup and it was served over pre-made three-cheese ravioli.
Itching for a chance to get hands-on, I volunteered to form the meatballs for the Italian Wedding Soup. The flavor base consisted of olive oil, onions, carrots, celery, and garlic. After adding the broth and bringing it to a boil, Chef Sandler added the diced chicken thighs and the beautiful balls of meat. The soup was finished off with spinach and parsley and served with shredded Parmesan cheese. The combination of flavors was a mouth-watering delight.
We made two kinds of chicken soup – one with herbed matzah balls and the other with cornmeal-sage dumplings. The two broths were somewhat similar, but the liquid for the matzah balls was drained of its ingredients, leaving it clear and full of flavor. Both were absolutely delicious!
The final compilation of ingredients was a Lentil & Spinach Soup with a Roasted Red Pepper Rouille. It was my first experience with a rouille, a sauce made from jalapeno, roasted red peppers, garlic, thick-sliced bread, salt, and olive oil. Lentils make a hearty soup and the addition of the saucy dollop really brightened the small feast.
The day following my lesson, I was overly jazzed to make soup. It was almost stressful trying to decide which recipe to try first. Perhaps the Italian Wedding, no wait, the Chicken Soup with Cornmeal-Sage Dumplings; how about the Lentil & Spinach Soup? In the end, I caved, following my traditional soup-making ways. I had a hankering for bacon and black beans and I had leftover chicken and green peppers in my fridge. Thus my version of black beans, bacon, chicken, and green pepper soup emerged, served with a spoonful of plain yogurt and a squeeze of lime juice. Perhaps next week I will return to the recipe pages.


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Free Entry
This park features ancient and recent volcanic flows, open grassy woodland, the headwaters of several creeks, and an island of dry rainforest remnant in a sea of eucalypt woodland. Large bottle trees, along with fig, Burdekin plum and white cedar trees drop their leaves in the dry season but spring to life with summer rain.
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Break your journey along the Kennedy Highway and have a picnic at the sheltered tables at Forty Mile Scrub. Learn about the plants and animals found in this park on the short, self-guided walk through this unique forest. Listen for the ringing calls of pied currawongs and look for lemon-bellied flycatchers, rufous fantails and other birds in the trees.
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How To Get There
Drive south-west along the Kennedy Highway to Mount Garnet. Forty Mile Scrub National Park straddles the Kennedy Highway, 65 kilometres south-west of Mount Garnet. The Kennedy Highway is sealed—conventional vehicles can access the park. The park may also be reached from the south, via Greenvale, or the west, via the Gulf Developmental Road through Georgetown
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology
Structural Biology
Faculty Position in Structural Biology (002270-2009)
Requirements: The Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in Structural Biology associated with the Lucille P. Markey Center for Structural Biology (http://www-structure.bio.purdue.edu/). We particularly interested in applicants with programs in structural biology of viruses, membrane proteins and large cellular complexes. Purdue University and the department (http://www.bio.purdue.edu/) are committed to expanding structural biology research utilizing new laboratories in Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology, completed in the fall of 2009. The successful candidate will have available outstanding, staffed facilities for X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and cryoelectron microscopy/electron tomography, and will interact with colleagues in many disciplines and interdisciplinary centers on campus. Advances imaging analysis and biophysical instrumentation are available at the neighboring Bindley Bioscience Center and the Birck Nanotechnology Center.
Qualifications: Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in an appropriate discipline and at least 2 years of post doctoral experience. We expect to fill academic year appointments at the Assistant Professor level, but appointments at the Associate level will be considered. The successful applicant is expected to conduct research in structural biology to address fundamental questions in the areas listed above; teach undergraduate and/or graduate students, and participate in ongoing programs in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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