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The City and County of HonoluluÆs Department of Environmental Services will be working on 13 major sewer projects in December that may impact roadways and traffic on Oahu.
The projects are:
Ï Amelia Street Sewer Relief Sewer û Installation of gravity lines along Amelia and School streets (between Amelia Street and Kino Street).
Ï Houghtailing Street Area Sewer Rehabilitation û Sewer rehabilitation work in Kamehameha Heights area on various streets within the area bordered by North School Street, Kokea Street, Kamalii Street, Aulii Street, Ilima Drive, Makanani Drive and Kapalama Drive.
Ï Kailua/Kaneohe Reconstructed Sewer Rehabilitation û Spot repairs along Papalani Street, Wanaao Road, Pamaele Street and Popua Loop.
Ï Kailua/Kaneohe Sewer Rehabilitation Phase 2 û Installation of new gravity sewer lines on Papalani Street (Kailua) and Likeke Place (Kaneohe).
Ï Kalihi/Nuuanu Area Sewer Rehabilitation (All Phases) û Sewer rehabilitation work on School Street (east of Nuuanu Avenue), Kuakini Street (west of Nuuanu Avenue), Liliha Street and Malanai Place.
Ï Kalaheo Avenue/Mokapu Road/Aikahi Loop Sewer Rehabilitation û Installation of cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) along Mokapu Boulevard and Aikahi Loop.
Ï Kaneohe Bay Trunk Sewer Reconstruction û Installation of a new gravity sewer line on Kaimalu Place and Kaneohe Bay Drive, between Mokapu Saddle Road and Malukai Place. Installation of cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) along Kaimalu Place, Kaimalu Way and Ikenani Drive.
Ï Peterson Lane and Pua Lane Sewer Rehabilitation - Installation of a new gravity sewer line on King Street, Peterson Lane, Dillingham Boulevard and Pua Lane.
Ï Saint Louis Heights Sewer Rehabilitation û Sewer rehabilitation work on various streets with the area bordered by Bertram Street, Kaminaka Drive, Saint Louis Drive and Dole Street.
Ï Waipahu Street/Plantation Village Sewer Reconstruction û Installation of gravity sewer line within Plantation Village.
Ï Waimanalo Sewer Rehabilitation û Installation of replacement sewer lines along Kalanianaole Highway (between Humniki Street and Poalima Street), along Poalima Street, and Humniki Street.
Ï Wanaao Road/Keolu Drive Reconstruction Sewer - Installation of a gravity sewer line along Wanaao Road (Auwina Street to Keolu Drive) and Keolu Drive (Akahai Street to Akalani Loop).
Ï Wilhelmina Rise Sewer Rehabilitation û Sewer rehabilitation work in Wilhelmina Rise area on various streets within the area bordered by Paula Drive, Lurline Drive, Wilhelmina Rise, Keanu Street and Claudine Street.
Approximately 120 projects are underway focused on OahuÆs wastewater treatment plants, pump stations and collection system. These projects are part of $605 million of ongoing wastewater projects, including planning, designing, construction, project management and equipment project phases.
Collins Lam, DDC Deputy Director, 768-8481
Markus Owens, ENV Public Communications Officer, 768-3454


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Recycled Wine Bottle Torch. 08.09.09 | by Erik Anderson Whether it's product branding, package design or projects for ourselves, we're pleased when we find a solution that's very effective and creative, while keeping resources to a minimum.
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SHREVEPORT, La (KMSS) — Two suspected burglars were arrested Wednesday afternoon with the help of a four legged friend.
Shortly before 1:00 p.m., officers were called to a burglary in progress on the 5700 block of Bienville Avenue. When authorities arrived, witnesses told them they they saw two men taking items from inside a home and loading it into a car.
While at the scene, a car matching the suspected vehicle was spotted near the intersection of Prentiss Avenue at Conmar Street. Officers tried to speak with the passengers in the vehicle, but they jumped out and ran in opposite directions. The suspects were able to dodge arrest for a short time, until a K-9 cop made it to the scene.
K-9 Mico and his handler were able to catch Victor Johnson, 24, of Shreveport, hiding inside a house on the 3000 block of Conmar Street. Johnson was quickly taken into custody.
With the second suspect at large, officers searched the area and eventually found him with the help of Mico. The suspect was hiding in a storage shed behind a house in the 2900 block of Valley Ridge Road.
Officers took into custody, Roderick Vinson, 26, who was found hiding inside the storage shed. Both Johnson and Vinson were treated for minor injuries.
Authorities were able to recover items stolen inside the abandoned car.
During their investigation, detectives learned Johnson had already pawned a television about half-an-hour earlier that was allegedly taken during the burglary.
Johnson and Vinson were booked into the Shreveport City Jail. The duo is charged with burglary of an inhabited dwelling, theft and trespassing.


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Design Kindle: New Resource For Web Designers Offers Icons, Textures, UIs And More For Free
Web designers are natural born searchers. They are on a continuous quest for icons, textures, inspiration, whatever helps get the next project done. If everything works fine they find what they were looking for and if things run really well the findings can be used freely. I know that Design Kindle is exactly where you should start your search. I assume a high probability that your search not only starts but also ends there. Design Kindle, a new resource for web designers, offers freebies – well – freely and in high quality and with no restrictions for commercial projects. Get the point?
Wide Choice Of Fully Editable Components
On Design Kindle you find lots of valuable resources, spanning from icon and UI sets to templates for websites and textures. Textures are available in high resolutions sutiable for print projects also. To have you not lose your way around the site, everything is nicely arranged in categories.
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The available preview for each layout gets completed by an info-box offering details such as file types, formats, sizes. While textures are available as Jpegs, templates and other graphics usually come with an accompanying Photoshop PSD. PSDs are fully editable, therefore customizable to your needs. Web templates are not only in PSD-format, but usually also include the resulting HTML and CSS in the download.
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The creators behind Design Kindle follow a very simple approach to things like licensing, registration and download restrictions. They demand none. The demand no sign-up, the do not even demand a valid email address.
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A separate page is dedicated to the introduction of the designers behind Design Kindle. They claim to be offering their work for free as a sign of respect and love for the community and a chance to give back.
Conclusion: A great, valuable and also usable site carrying some of the nicest offerings in web design today. As ist is rather new, the portfolio is not too crowded up to now. But remember: Rome wasn't built in a day…
Denis works as a freelance web designer since 2005.
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- Rod Salm, 23 November 2012
Love it. Nice textures and great UI icons on Design Kindle. I'll bookmark that site. Thanks for posting and letting us know about it.
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Eugene tells Uber to stop service
City officials have ordered the ride-sharing service to cease operations in the area or be fined.
Downtown Portland hotel to receive $10M makeover
The Hotel Vintage Plaza will undergo a complete remodel and rebranding in January.
Oregon businesses have a say in employee pot use
Drug use policies will remain the employer's decision if Measure 91 is passed.
Alta Bicycle Share sold to New York investors
The Portland-based bike-sharing company was purchased by Bikeshare Holdings for about $40 million.
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The chipmaker's new headquarters will be located in the U.S. Bancorp Tower in downtown Portland.
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The Portland-based company developed a software that aims to enhance communication between physicians and patients.
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Portland businesses find paid sick day law problematic
The Bureau of Labor and Industries has received 72 complaints about the ordinance so far.
Salem city council considers Uber's legality
The transportation service has been operating illegally since July.
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Government as God
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Government as God
Ever wonder what happened to common sense and personal responsibility in this country? Ever wonder what people used to do prior to government social programs? Ever wonder why there is little difference between Democrats and Republicans? Ever wonder why all the rancor and decadence? Think about it: God has been removed and replaced by government. We have lost our trust in God.
God wishes for us to put Him first in our lives. Our Constitution was based on this premise. Government was to serve by providing we the people with limited essential services. Elected representatives were expected to be servants and not career politicians.
Unfortunately, a majority of Americans (and our elected representatives) have removed God from first place. We no longer trust God will provide. Government now is first -- government has become our god -- we have become utterly dependent upon the state. We look to it for our sustenance and view government officials as our voice of moral authority. Many politicians have abandoned their personal faith in order to gain political power. Wisdom (13:10) states, "But doomed are they, and in dead things are their hopes, who termed gods things made by human hands."
This major transition did not happen overnight, nor is it unique to one political party either -- Republicans and Democrats are equally guilty. Social Security was the first great social program. Many have followed once we found we could vote ourselves huge benefits from the federal treasury. Washington now has become firmly entrenched. The concentration of power is startling. If you believe the rhetoric, nothing can get done in this country unless the federal government is involved. Freedom quickly is vanishing. How sad.
Most people of the world live in poverty and tyranny. Government is the source of tyranny and poverty. It is not the solution, as is now popularly held in this country. What started out as a great safety net (Social Security) has turned into hundreds of other social programs, trillions of dollars in debt and most Americans dependent on the government for their basic needs (food, shelter, health care, etc.). We are headed for widespread poverty and tyranny in this country. Economic disaster is soon to come.
The beginning of the solution is new leadership in both political parties. We need to cleanse Washington and start anew. It's absurd to believe those elected officials who have become part of the problem somehow now could be the solution. They firmly have established themselves by power and greed and have become complacent. We must demand a return to "public servants" and destroy the power and corruption that now is Washington.
No senator should serve more than two consecutive terms. No Congressman should serve more than four consecutive terms. The president was limited to two terms for good reason. The source of wealth for professional politicians is the government. They would never, never consider limiting their own terms (and thus their power and source of wealth). It is up to we the people. Eliminating career politicians will help to weaken special-interest groups and ensure fresh ideas.
Both political parties need godly men and women willing to serve and challenge these longtime, powerful incumbents. We cannot be afraid. It won't be easy. It will take several election cycles. Our citizens must be willing to take a risk to support these men and women financially, with our volunteer time and with our prayers.
Thomas Jefferson correctly stated, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." It is time for all people of "good will" to take appropriate action. We are a democracy. We can and still do elect our representatives.
Let us together humbly seek to return our government to serving we the people and return God to His rightful place in our society.
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How to allocate keep cache on 32 bit linux using VLM
- From: "Harvinder Singh" <Harvinder.Singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:02:50 -0500
Hi, We have a 2 Node development RAC cluster with oracle 10.2.0.3 on RHAT AS4 32 bit. This is 32 GM RAM machine and we are using VLM to allocate 12GB to db_buffer_cache using db_block_buffers parameter. Now we need to try some tuning exercise and need to set keep cache and I am not able to find how to set this parameter when using VLM (I can only see parameter DB_KEEP_CACHE_SIZE but nothing for db_keep_block_buffers, we will move to 64 bit soon but now need to fix this issue) Thanks --Harvinder -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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On this week's Glazov Gang, Nonie Darwish, Eric Allen Bell and Dr. Nancy Bonus gathered to discuss How Our Enemies Brainwash America. The discussion shed light on how our jihadi adversaries mold our thinking and get our leaders to do their bidding. Below is Part III of a three part series. To see Part I, which dealt with When Egypt Fell, click here. To see Part II, which dealt with Islamic Slavery, click here.
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Sotheby's annual shareholder meeting tomorrow morning in New York may stir a scream or two.
A 1941 Picasso to be offered at Sotheby's tomorrow night with a $20 million to $30 million presale estimate was damaged while in the care of New York's Acquavella Galleries, according to a lawsuit filed by the insurer of its owner, Ted Forstmann.
A Chinese Imperial jade seal and album of calligraphy are being re-offered for sale this week after their Asian bidders failed to pay.
A Pontiac convertible formerly owned by Keith Richards may fetch as much as $35,000 as Rolling Stones fans and car collectors are lured by a U.K. auction.
A painting of a blue-eyed nurse by Richard Prince and an aluminum couch by Marc Newson were among the artworks sold by Halsey Minor that helped the CNET Networks Inc. founder raise $21.1 million to pay his creditors.
A four-month labor dispute at Sotheby's has brought out actress Susan Sarandon and hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters on an issue that comes down to who gets to haul the Chippendales and Picassos.
James Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer, is cutting some of his ties to London ahead of a move to New York that was delayed amid a phone- hacking scandal that engulfed the U.K. business.
A purple Andy Warhol portrait of himself looking wild-haired and gaunt fetched $32.6 million at a New York auction last night, twice the work's presale estimate, as buyers sought rare art amid financial-market volatility.
Marguerite Hoffman , a prominent Dallas art collector, filed suit this week against Mexican financier David Martinez for failing to keep her 2007 sale of a star Mark Rothko painting a secret. The suit stems from the painting's public sale tonight at Sotheby's , estimated to fetch as much as $25 million.
"Sotheby's has a judgment lien on any sales proceeds in excess of the amounts payable to Phillips and Merrill Lynch as a result of an order entered by the court in Merrill Lynch's action against Mr. Minor."
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272 of 334 people found the following review helpful
Highly recommended. It does exactly what it says on the box - and more!
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Easiest set-up of any IT product I ever bought. Very intuitive interface and menu structure. Integrates 100% with Skype. If your family uses Skype and a land-line, you need this phone.
Bad points The buttons are very "rubbery" and give poor feed-back. the print on the buttons is also very small. This is the only area where the phone falls down. However, once you get used to them - it is not such a big deal. Other thoughts If you purchase this phone, make sure you upgrade the firmware to the latest version. You may have to go through the firmware upgrade cycle more than once, as it may be necessary to load interim version before latest version upgrade can take place. When I purchased the phone, I was initially dissapointed with the quality of the sound, however the firmware upgrade sorted this out. Firmware upgrade is simple - just follow instructions in the book. Ellen
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If you do not have a free USB port,you need to bye a router . This ought to be made known before purchase. Good phone , makes skyping esier. jamal
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Does this type of techonolgy work in countries like Morocco? Gary
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Excellent phones! I work overseas and have used these phones in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Australia. My freinds and family call me on my Skype number as if they was calling a neighbour in the UK. Easy to use. Saved me a fortune in roaming mobile phone bills! Asr
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My sis was in Saudi and now Bahrain. Phone works well for both countries. As long as you have broadband and a wireless router to plug into your laughing. You don't have to connect your landline if you prefer not to. Besides you may have an answer machine. So if you can use Skype on your computer you should be able to use this phone in that country. To use the landline in other countries just double check the phone socket connection. You may require a converter - as with any UK phone abroad. eheat
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are you charged for skype to skype calls, or is it free like on a pc
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Excellent Product!!!!, Combined With SkypeOut will work out a lot cheaper than standerd phone lines
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Blessed Edmund Bojanowski
Also known as
- Edmund Bojanowski Adalbert Stanislas
- Edmund Wojciech Stanislaw
A member of a wealthy, landed, Polish noble family. He studied literature at universities in Breslau (modern Wroclaw, Poland) and Berlin, Germany. Translated works from Serbia to Polish, wrote his own poetry, and a history of Serbia. Contracted tuberculosis in his 20s. He dedicated his life to the service of abandoned children, the sick, and poor, teaching and spending his fortune in the service of the needy. He founded reading rooms and libraries to provide books and education to the poor, and started the first day-care centers in the country. He funded assistance for the sick, supported orphanages, and worked in both himself. Founded the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, the Sisters Handmaids of the Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, and the Sisters Handmaids of the Mother of God, Virgin Immaculate Conception; together their 3,300 sisters continue the work around the world. Two years before his death Edmund entered the seminary, but did not survive long enough to graduate or be ordained.
- 14 November 1814 in Grabonog, Poland
- 3 July 1998 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
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My purpose was not to absorb iodine as much as to see if I could kill bacteria
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Several mattresses piled on the ground have helped a medical helicopter with damaged gear make a safe landing in South Texas.
Officials with PHI Air Medical say the patient and three crew members were uninjured in the emergency landing at San Antonio International Airport.
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Thursday February 3, 2011
Blizzard's Greg Street tells how World of Warcraft's third instalment is bringing gamers home. IT IS almost six years since the release in 2004 of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment's award-winning, massively multiplayer online role-playing game series for PC and Mac.It remains the world's leading subscription-based game, owing to the success of several expansions that have been released since its original launch. It boasts more than 12 million paying players.The third expansion in the series, subtitled Cataclysm, arrived recently and set a new sales record with 3.3 million units sold in the first 24 hours.World of Warcraft lead systems designer Greg Street says although the two earlier expansions introduced gradual improvements to the game over time, Cataclysm is a major overhaul for the series, both visually and in gameplay."We saw that a lot of the game's old environments were starting to show their age and knew our artists were that much more talented now and they had better tools to work with, so the graphics were one of the priorities," Street says.The development team also decided it was time to shake things up from a storytelling perspective."Having travelled to different environments in the previous Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions, we wanted players to come home ��� but find Azeroth had changed. So instead of it being like a celebratory homecoming, we made it a little more sensational to shock players."The team accomplished this by reviving the menacing fiery dragon, Deathwing the Destroyer, which last appeared in Warcraft II and has returned to wreak devastation and reshape the once-familiar world.Street says the team's aim was to play heavily on the nostalgic factor of the game's origins by appealing to players who haven't picked the game up for a few years, as well as giving the dedicated fan base a fresh take on the world they know well."It's also a huge challenge trying to satisfy the fans, then also having something for first-time players of World of Warcraft," he says."We try to approach it by keeping the game mechanics relatively simple but with a lot of depth ... like with really famous board games like chess, where the rules aren't that complicated, but you realise there is a lot going on when you get up to the expert level."Unlike graphic artists, who make the game look beautiful, and programmers, who get things up and running, Street says his job was simply to make the game fun to play."I think one of the things I enjoy most is just the nature of working on an online game like this," he says. "We can often get changes into the game pretty quickly."So if we find a bug first thing in the morning, it can often be fixed in the game online by midday, which is really rewarding."With the kind of games I used to work on before Blizzard, when we wanted to make a change, it would be literally 12 months before we'd see that change in players' hands."


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Check out our fave extreme sports champion and local BMX legend Bob Manchester showing his love for the music greats with a selection of our very own tees while tearing it up at an amazing dirt jump hot spot in Cambridge.
We love nothing more than to see our very own designs in their element and getting in on some real adrenaline fueled action so we just had to show you guys what he got up to.
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Check out the man of the hour in our Rolling Stones Out of Control tee from our Ikons range featuring the edgy as ever Keith Richards. Click the images to buy.
Two absolute classic designs here both showcasing the best of British bands once more.
As well as the classic Rolling Stones tee, we also spotted Bob in both our Beatles Abby Road charcoal design featuring our famous vintage fit and raw edging, as well as a distressed Stone Roses Resurrection white tee that will always have its place in our rock collection.
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Students are responsible for the design, construction, and presentation of their project, but you may assist them in completing tasks they may not be able to do themselves, such as operating power tools. Students may need advice or assistance on mechanical aspects of their project. Parents may also instruct students on how documentary or website software works, but the students are responsible for using that knowledge to create a project.
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Save the Date: World Sport Chicago Wrestling Festival on May 12, 2012
March 28th, 2012 by albevi1234
Register Online Here Download Event Flyer Saturday, May 12th 2012 Open to all ages (5th grade thru Senior Division) Folkstyle and Freestyle Round-robin style, blocked by age, weight and experience level For more information visit: http://www.worldsportchicago.org/wrestling-fest.aspx **Please Note: a 2011/12 USA Wrestling Competitor Card will be required to participate… Continue reading
Tallahassee and Toledo have joined the Beat the Streets USA program
November 5th, 2011 by albevi1234
Team Georgia Wrestling announces new "Beat the Streets" partnership focused on at-risk students
October 13th, 2011 by albevi1234
Atlanta, Georgia,9 September 2011 – Team Georgia Wresting, the non-profit state affiliate of USA Wrestling, recently announced its partnership with Beat the Streets USA Wrestling program to launch "Beat the Streets-Georgia" (BTSGA) wrestling initiative for students of middle school age boys and girls in Georgia. Beat the Streets-Georgia, a 501c (3) nonprofit organization has initiated [...]
Columbus, OH Beat the Streets Announces Fall Clinics
September 7th, 2011 by albevi1234
Ohio Colleges Beat the Streets in Columbus Nine Schools will participate in the inaugural BTS – Fall Clinic Series Kevin Schlosser; www.buckeyewrestling.com The concept behind USA Wrestling's Beat the Streets movement is simple, to promote wrestling in the local community while making a positive impact in the lives of the wrestlers they work with. To [...]
Brute Wrestling donates the largest gift ever to the Beat the Streets USA initiative
July 25th, 2011 by albevi1234
By Beat the Streets USA 07/14/2011 Brute Wrestling has donated over 3,400 singlets, 1,740 ear guards and 500 wrestling shoes to the Beat the Streets USA program. The Brute donation, valued at up to $125,000, provides essential equipment to newly created programs, which are vitally necessary to launch a new program. The mission of the [...]
Vote for Henry Cejudo BMW Performance Team On Line Contest
July 16th, 2011 by albevi1234
Henry has been a strong supporter of the Beat the Streets initiative and considers himself a "Beat the Streets Wrestler" in many of his interviews with the media. Please post on your individual Beat the Streets websites and encourage all the kids, coaches and parents to vote for Henry. Wrestling needs more media attention and [...]
"Beat the Streets" is Making a Measurable Impact.
May 23rd, 2011 by albevi1234
http://news.ebru.tv/us-news/wrestlers-compete-in-times-square-showdown For Olympic champion Henry Cejudo, wrestling was a way up, and out. "I was one of the Beat the Streets kids. Not necessarily here in New York, but I was a "beat the streets" in Phoenix. What I mean by that is that I was a kid that had to beat the streets before [...]
News From Around The Country
May 23rd, 2011 by albevi1234
Philadelphia Beat the Streets Clinic featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer Beat the Streets Philadelphia sponsored a youth clinic at the Shops at Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia on Thursday March 11, 2011. The clinic was run by Current University of Pennsylvania Assistant Coach and 2x NCAA Division I Champion Matt Valenti. Kids from Wissahickon Charter [...]
Beat the Streets-Philadelphia recognized by the NCAA at the 2011 Championships
March 22nd, 2011 by albevi1234
http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/2011-03-15/beat-streets-event-help-youths Roger Moore, NCAA.com Beat the Streets event to help youths The NCAA and the Philadelphia Local Organizing Committee will donate $25,000 to Beat the Streets Philadelphia this week at the Division I Wrestling Championships. In 2007, the intersection of Kensington Avenue and Somerset Street in Philadelphia was listed as the top "recreational drug" area [...]
Beat the Streets Expansion Around the Country
March 14th, 2011 by albevi1234
America Needs More Kids Wrestling Beat the Streets-Chicago sets goals to expand feeder programs for inner city wrestling By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 02/18/2011 Wrestling leaders in Chicago have announced a re-launch of the Beat the Streets Chicago program with a focus on growth and expansion. Beat the Streets-Chicago is dedicated to teaching the youth [...]


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The NBA Finals Inspiring Local Horndogs to Look for Heat-Related Sex Online
It's the playoffs. Three-peat. LeBronmania. Whatever: For horndog Miamians, the Heat games are also, apparently, the perfect opportunity to ask strangers to watch basketball. Or, you know, "watch basketball."Two years ago, local porn stars Angelina Castro and Sara Jay offered blowjobs to fans if the Heat won.
On Craigslist, more than 30 posts from the past couple of weeks specifically mention Heat games in personal posts soliciting sex. It's not the first time the NBA Finals have set hormones raging in the Magic City. Who could forget the 2012 finals, when two South Florida porn stars made a promise: If the Heat won the series, the two women would give free blowjobs to any fans who met a few stipulations.
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Reports from OSCON 2013
Guess who and guess what? That's right it's Marcus once again, at OSCON 2013, the open source convention held annually in Portland, Oregon. There is no other gathering where you can find such a diversity of computer language and tooling expertise. To say that the open source world has a richer, more collaborative programming community than the commercial world isn't just an understatement: it's the very definition.
So, thanks once again to the University of New Hampshire for sponsoring this trip. I will try to return the favor by continuing to write software which will not require expensive licenses, be poorly interoperable, or tied to the whims of a single corporate overlord.
That said, let's convey some actual information…
My first two days will look like this:
Monday morning – yet another introductory git session. I know. I take these all the time and still use Subversion. So shoot me. This talk is delivered by a github instructor. They evangelize quite well for git, as they should, and teach it very well too.
Monday afternoon – Optimizing Your Perl Development by Damian Conway. Can't *wait* to see Damian again. This session has a good chance of being the highlight of my week.
Tuesday morning – Web Accessibility for the 21st Century. I am wondering, what year will "…for the 21st Century" stop seeming forward-looking? 2020? 2050? Is there a rule about this?
Day 1
Getting Started with Git
I'm spending much of this session aping the exercises to 'git' some practice. See what I did there? Anyhow, that's why I'm not writing much about this session, but here is a tiny detail about git (vs. SVN):
Ignoring files in SVN is done via the svn:ignore 'property'; in git, you create a .gitignore file, which git looks at to know what to ignore. Add and commit .gitignore itself as well. I'm not sure which approach to prefer, but there they are.
This is perhaps my third stint in a beginner's git class.
Damian Conway's Development Talk
Neat new tool from Damian called 'polyperl', which, in conjunction with Perlbrew, allows you to designate *exactly* which version of Perl your program is running, using the normal 'env' on the shebang. It look like:
#!/usr/bin/env polyperl use 5.012;
Note that 'use 5.012;' *without* polyperl in the shebang would only ensure that the *minimum* version you run will be 5.12. Specifying the actual version, no greater and no lesser? Polyperl! Someday Perl will have this natively, but live for today people, and use the Perl and nothing but the very Perl you want.
[skipping a bunch of vim tricks and plugins here...]
Recommendation: Method::Signatures. Damian prefers it over Params::Validate. I'll have to check to see if it can be used without dying on validation failures (checked: it appears it can). I should probably mention what these modules do. They help you validate that the variables being passed to a subroutine are correct in number, type, etc.
Recommendation #2: Getopt::Euclid as a replacement for Getopt::Long (or any of the other 3,000 modules for writing CLIs on CPAN). This is one of Damian's own. Cool thing about Getopt::Euclid? The way you define the incoming parameters is to *write the POD documentation* for your CLI. That's right! Getopt::Euclid reads your POD and uses it as the interface declaration. Gorgeous. Can't get away without documenting *that* now can you?
And now, I am laughing inside. Damian has his CPAN build/test/release process completely automated. I've done the same general type of work to release/deploy my own code to UNH production environments in a scripted, less error prone way. It's pretty clear that years of reading and listening to Damian have affected me. I am now just as crazy as he is, if only 1/100th as clever.
Day 2
Web Accessibility
It's now Tuesday morning and I'm in the web accessibility session mentioned above. One point that is being hammered home from the start: there is no standard that's a silver bullet for accessibility. Many 'official' accessibility guidelines, even if met to the letter, don't *actually* address the problems that users are having in accessing and understanding the content on your websites.
Also, a website which is accessible in one way, for a certain disability, is often totally at odds for being accessible to another disability. Those things are depressing, but they are the truth. If you're designing, or redesigning, for accessibility, the best approach is to use real assistive technology tools.
NVDA for Windows (a screen reader for the blind) is particularly useful in that as a sighted person, you can turn off the audio and simply have the reader log the text that it *would* read in a separate window. This shows you the 'flow' of your page from a screen reader's point of view, without the constant screen reading chatter. Screen readers are intensely annoying if you don't absolutely need them.
One useful piece of advice: use page headings, but not to excess. Here we are talking about the h1, h2 etc. HTML elements. Use them as intended as a general outline for your content, but don't overdue them for design purposes or whatnot. A screen reader user will be using these to hop around to the different logical sections of your content.
A website highly recommended by the speakers: WebAIM.
Another key approach to accessibility testing is mouseless navigation. Stick to the keyboard and you'll get a much better idea of how the elements flow on your pages. Use the 'tabindex' attribute to fix such flow issues.
Coming under severe criticism here: carousels and privileged links…
Carousels: carousels are rotating or self-changing images or content. These are apparently hell on accessibility, for an obvious reason: elements of the page are moving around on their own. We commit this sin on unh.edu itself, despite the very nice design. Perhaps we have something in place to mitigate this for those using assistive technologies? The experts here say to avoid them wholesale. Hey, I didn't realize it either.
Privileged links: links that, when clicked on, do not grant access to the resources behind them (even with login). A typical message would be "you do not have permission to access this resource" or similar. Repeat offender? Sharepoint. I've always despised this. The geniuses at Microsoft probably call these 'teasers' or something. Don't tease me, thanks.
Backbone.js is an MVC (Model-View-Controller) Javascript framework. There are approximately eight thousand of these coming out every week these days (slight exaggeration). Aside from separation of concerns via the MVC approach, Backbone.js and other similar JS frameworks focus on moving state management to the client side. This means getting away from the request/response model that even AJAX employs. Instead, the client says 'Saved!', and *then* sends the data to the server.
I know. Sounds dangerous. But there are ways of handling errors with this approach. The whole goal is raising the perceived performance of an app. Milliseconds matter, which the speaker supports which such figures as: if Amazon pages load just 100ms slower than usual, they lose 1% of sales. That's compelling.
Another thing Backbone.js brings to Javascript programming is better scoping, which is absent in JS. By default, you are generally searching the entire DOM (think: an entire webpage) for an HTML element that you'd like to work with. This narrowing of scope means selectors are greatly simplified and you get further separation of concerns.
The speaker seems to be assuming that we studied for this or something. The exercises are like Go! … with no 'Ready… Set…'. I think the majority of folks here spend 90% of their time writing Javascript on similar frameworks already. With about 10% of my time allotted for Javascript, I'd need to move a bit more slowly until I get comfy. (Let me take a moment to express my envious hatred for natural polyglots who see new syntax and immediately parse it effortlessly. I hate you. I've always had to work for it.)
Yeah… he's literally explaining the exercise *after* we're suppose to have finished it. What? I'm not psychic, man!
Still, it's a good talk, and I'm picking up the spirit of things. I can see that somewhere down the road, I'll likely be using of the 8,000 JS MVC frameworks.
Note: things like Backbone.js work at a slightly different layer of abstraction as jQuery, which is *also* called a Javascript framework. In fact, Backbone.js works in conjunction with jQuery. jQuery provides better looking code to write JS in, while something like Backbone.js helps wrangle the overall structure of a large client-side application. That's a gross over-simplification, but… gross and simple are two things I do well. :)
Day 3
The convention proper really starts on Day 3, today, with some relaxing keynote talks attended by all. There are a couple thousand people here, ballpark.
First there was a neuroscience/AI guy who actually got me excited about the state of brain research for a few minutes. Next up, a Facebook honcho. No matter how much I may resent Facebook and distrust the current look of 'social', it can't be denied that Facebook is a more modern company than, say, Microsoft or Oracle, in its disposition towards open source.
If you are reading this and remain a bit unsure about the open source approach, let me take a moment to explain why a company like Facebook would open some of its coding projects to the world. Wouldn't this reveal trade secrets and squander the intellectual property value they've created? Not really, as it turns out. The code they are open sourcing is attacking difficult problems such as the scaling of big data storage and delivery. These problems are nowhere *near* perfectly solved. By open sourcing these code projects, Facebook can attract meaningful contributions from other interested companies like Intel and Broadcom. This collaboration raises all boats without diluting the core competencies of each company.
What's even cooler about open source is that *even little guys like me* have access to that work. Had I more entrepreneurial spirit, I could fuel a startup on the very code running some of Facebook's systems today. I could contribute my own R&D back to the project.
That's how it works. You might also check out this amazing open source effort for another perspective on the kinds of problems open source can help us all to solve together.
Back to the keynotes… just saw an incredibly futuristic demo of a flying drone being controlled by open source Clojure code. This drone hovered as well as any Hollywood robot has ever hovered, could recognize images, stream video, recognize faces… you name it. Audible "wows" in the audience, one of which was mine.
Final keynote (after a good one from In Bloom, who are here to open source their work) is Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. He's talking about Ubuntu's one-OS (very Windows 8ish) approach to unifying user experience across all types of devices. But of course, on Linux. Now he's talking about Juju, a tool for deploying and connecting various software infrastructure elements (think MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, WordPress, etc… whatever your cocktail may be). Pretty amazing level of automation.
Shuttleworth just called Mac OS X (perhaps the primary Ubuntu competitor, if you think about it) "the gilded cage". Great line. But gilded it remains, by comparison, for the time being… and they know it. He was in the process of announcing Juju for Mac OS X.
The first focused session of my day is about Asterisk, an open source PBX. Asterisk has been around for quite some time and is very mature. Although we are invested in Avaya at UNH, I myself can definitely benefit from any PBX-related knowledge, as a non-PBX-expert in the Telecom group. It's possible we could add Asterisk as a sort of sister system connected to the main PBX, to offer discrete features that we are otherwise unable to provide (or unable to provide cost effectively). It does call queuing! Neat.
I once wrote a CDR reporting app on top of Asterisk, almost ten years ago now. It was not open sourced by the company I worked for. Looking around, there is so much more available out there now.
The speaker is recommending Wireshark's advanced VOIP diagnostic features. Never realized Wireshark had stuff as specific as this. Also 'ngrep', for 'network grep', a sort of filtering tool for tcpdumps similar to some of Wireshark's functionality. Now 'sipp' which is a SIP performance testing tool. Now 'sipsack' for generating specialized SIP packets for troubleshooting purposes. It's good to know these tools are out there in case I'm ever asked to work on this stuff, which is always possible.
Of all new PBXs deployed in North America today, 16-18% of them are Asterisk. One guy in the audience suggests it's closer to 35%. The FAA is looking at it as a possible solution to connect control towers.
Next up, a session on running on your company's internal applications using open source practices. We are collaborating more and more across IT units at UNH, as the desire for better interconnected systems grows. The speaker begins with how to deal with the necessary communication overhead involved in working together. Some key concepts are transparency (work in the open, make your code source examinable across organizational units, govern projects in the open), quality (code reviews, good testing), community (points of contact outside your primary team). This latter point she illustrates can lead to good people staying longer at a company, having connections across business units.
The central concept is "internally open source". Yes, please! We would gain ridiculous efficiencies if we did this, I think. Silos are full of nothing but corn. :P I am sure we have countless shared needs that would be opportunities to work smarter, not harder. A small DevOps swat team could do wonders in this area if we could dedicate the resources. The speaker is expounding on that very thing: a core team which "owns" (think of ownership loosely) all centralized code for an organization.
Note that the above is not geared towards homogenizing our various codebases. Different coding standards and technology choices can be applied on a project by project basis. We can continue to pursue diverse approaches while doing this. It's important to preserve the evolutionary advantage of using diverse technologies while centralizing certain efforts. <– Yes, this is a challenging balance to achieve, but the first step is to be mindful of it.
Belly full of lunch now, the next session for me is Randal Schwartz's Half My Life With Perl. My four planned afternoon sessions are in fact all on the Perl track. That is part of what's great about OSCON: you can fill your own schedule with talks most pertinent to your work or interests. As always there is a strong contingency here for Perl. After all, OSCON started off as just The Perl Conference way back when.
This autobiographical talk from Randal is a bit unusual as these talks go, but, very interesting to us Perl folk. Perl has a few more years of history behind it than most of the projects here.
Next up: Start Contributing to Perl, It's Easy! This is a good overview from a relatively (2007) new Perl community member. I have a grand total of 1 patch accepted on CPAN, but that's one more than I did last year at this time.
I am pumped for the next session: Carton: Manage CPAN Dependencies Without The Mess. Carton is a tool I am hoping to use within the next year in conjunction with Perlbrew, cpanminus aka cpanm (also written by the speaker), and Damian's polyperl, mentioned way up above. Armed with all these goodies I hope to create my first set of discrete Perl stacks on the same box, each running their own chosen version of Perl core, and its own CPAN module dependencies right down to the module versions. This panacea has eluded me for some time, but luckily Miyagawa is hard at work to make my life better.
"Dependencies are part of the app." Yup!
Note to self: run 'carton check' as part of the IX::update() routine, and if there are installations to perform, run 'carton install –deployment' or 'carton install –cached –deployment'. This is going to be like butter! Mmmmmm.
Day 4
First session for me is: Evolutionary Architecture and Emergent Design, which sounds fancy. He has an interesting graph up showing the relative complexity (complexity-per-line) of a code base over time. Add features tends to increase complexity, refactoring (paying off the technical debt) lowers it. He makes some good arguments for component-based architecture and against over-engineering early in a project. A high level talk but engaging.
Belly full of lunch, I will now be hearing about The Perl Renaissance from Paul Fenwick. Paul is a fun Australian who can often be seen in a funny hat. He is reminding us of some great tools such as cpanm, perlbrew, and Dist::Zilla (for CPAN authors). Now some talk of Moose and Moo, and another positive word this conference for Method::Signatures. Now a reminder about a feature available as of Perl 5.10: named captures from regular expressions (a good description of these can be found here). This frees you from having to use ordinality in capturing string matches from regexes.
And now for Ricardo's (the Perl Pumpking) update on Perl 5. This is really the Perl 5.18 changes update I saw last month, some of which I covered in my Reports on YAPC::NA 2013. Can't wait to get my stack upgraded. But, one step at a time.
Day 5
Thank goodness they schedule Friday to break earlier in the afternoon, because after 5 days of conferencing I really am shot. But today does have my most anticipated session, the Damian Conway Channel. He has a new module called Running::Commentary which is a nice way to write scripts that have lots of system commands. I could see using this for something like Oracle database backup scripting. Lexical::Failure is a way to give your module users a choice of return types upon failure, rather than imposing an undef, a die, or anything. Lexical::Hints is an advanced way to implement debug statements, which could even be code references. Lingua::EN::Grammarian is a fairly ambitious attempt to find grammar (not spelling… grammar) mistakes in English text. He's got it plugged into vim. Wow!
Next up: BASH As A Modern Programming Language from an eBay guy. He is explaining why eBay selected BASH to write a utility to set up user environments to run their specialized web framework (surprise! eBay has a custom web framework). Reason #1 is portability as expected, BASH being the default shell in all major OSes except Windows, which can run it via Cygwin… so no problem there either. As a shell, it easily calls other binaries (perhaps even the runtime of other languages) and all languages have a way to call back out to the shell. This talk is reminding me how badly I want to avoid ever trying any serious programming in BASH. Gosh, what a clunky and confusing language. Tip of the hat to Mario Malizia who has worked wonders with BASH in the creation of CMU (ECG's venerable Code Management Utility).
My final session of the conference is on Secure Open Source Development, from a Red Hat guy. This is a high-level discussion of how to communicate about security issues proactively (before release) in the open source development cycle. Red Hat in particular has a huge challenge because they are pulling hundreds of projects from various communities into their releases. He makes the fairly obvious point that things like static code analysis (programs that analyze code for security) are the future of the field. These tools exist in the present but are far from perfect; manual audits remain necessary. Unsurprisingly, security hasn't become a whole lot easier in 2013 than it was in 2012.
Well, that concludes my visit to OSCON this year. As usual the week flew by. The hardest part was paying attention to each session while dying to try out something I'd learned in the previous one. So now I'm taking a little time to play around with cpanm/perlbrew/polyperl/local::lib before lunch and perhaps a dip in the hotel. Life is good!
If you read this far, congratulations, you're a nerd. If you're *that* interested in this stuff then I hope you'll consider going to OSCON yourself next year.


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YHC Concert Band to Present Tribute to American Composers
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Young Harris College Concert Band to Present Tribute to American Composers
YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – The Young Harris College Concert Band will present a musical tribute to American composers on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium of the Clegg Fine Arts Building on the YHC campus. Admission is $5 for adults and free for students and children 12 and under. Tickets will be available at the door.
Directed by YHC Senior Instructor of Music and Director of Bands Mary Land, the YHC Concert Band will present a concert featuring the works of contemporary American composers including John Mackey, Eric Whitacre and David Gillingham.
The show will open with "American Overture for Band," a famous piece written by Joseph Wilcox Jenkins at age 25. The piece will highlight the ensemble's horn section during its well-known opening fanfare. Additionally, the low brass section will be spotlighted during Henry Fillmore's fast and furious march "Rolling Thunder."
Several YHC students will be featured as soloists during the concert. Timothy Linley, trombone, a senior music education major from Cartersville, Ga., and Jeff Stewart, trombone, a senior music education major from Young Harris, Ga., will be featured during David Foster's Academy Award- and Golden Globe- winning song "The Prayer" from the film "Quest for Camelot." Shelby Brown, clarinet, a senior music education major from Calhoun, Ga., will be featured in a traditional jazz clarinet solo.
In addition to these soloists, the YHC Concert Band is comprised of Allison Arnold, flute, of Young Harris, Ga., Rachel Bettis, flute, of Dawsonville, Ga., Jade Lester, flute, of Cedartown, Ga., Michelle Queen, flute, of Rome, Ga., Chloe Cook, oboe, of Blue Ridge, Ga., Kallie Epperson, oboe, of Winder, Ga., Kirsten Anderson, clarinet, of Elberton, Ga., Savannah Ash, clarinet, of Blue Ridge, Ga., Joanna Burrell, clarinet, of Dawsonville, Ga., Ryan Piscopo, clarinet, of Blairsville, Ga., Jasmine Redding, clarinet, of Atlanta, Ga., Courtland Walters, clarinet, of Stockbridge, Ga., Kayla Wentzek, clarinet, of Blairsville, Ga., Wade Orr, bassoon, of Bishop, Ga., Carli Kidd, bass clarinet, of Blairsville, Ga., Brandon Rennolds, bass clarinet, of Kennesaw, Ga., Adam Shelp, alto saxophone, of Dawsonville, Ga., Brian Montgomery, tenor saxophone, of Powder Springs, Ga., Liz Granados, trumpet, of Cleveland, Ga., Samantha Grinstead, trumpet, of Eatonton, Ga., Jake McDonald, trumpet, of Marietta, Ga., Anthony Peters, trumpet, of Milledgeville, Ga., Emily Stewart, trumpet, of Eatonton, Kaleb Swanda, trumpet, of Buford, Ga., Clint Vaughan, trumpet, of Talking Rock, Ga., Nolan Walker, trumpet, of Ellijay, Ga., Madison Crespin, horn, of Acworth, Ga., Nicholas Fortenberry, horn, of Powder Springs, Ga., Spencer Murray, horn, of Ball Ground, Ga., Sally Petty, horn, of Cumming, Ga., Katie Rittenhouse, horn, of Blairsville, Ga., Bryson LaPrairie, trombone, of East Ellijay, Ga., Zachary Wagoner, trombone, of Powder Springs, Ga., Deena West, trombone, of Andrews, N.C., Terell Heard, euphonium, of Elberton, Ga., Christian Nicholson, tuba, of Dalton, Ga., Patrick Young, tuba, of Dawsonville, Ga., Nathaniel Arnold, percussion, of Young Harris, Ga., Celeena Corbin, percussion, of Hiawassee, Ga., Trisha Gallagher, percussion, of Jasper, Ga., Armando Granados, percussion, of Euharlee, Ga., Carrie Moll, percussion, of Suwanee, Ga., Robert Payne, percussion, of Smyrna, Ga., and Sarah Stogsdill, percussion, of Shalimar, Fla.
For more information, call the Young Harris College Division of Fine Arts at (706) 379-5182.
About Young Harris College
Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia. Founded in 1886 and historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts education. The College currently has more than 1,100 students across five divisions—Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing major campus improvements to accommodate the College's growth, including recent completion of a 226-bed residence hall that is expected to earn LEED certification, a 248-bed, apartment-style residential village and a 57,000-square-foot, LEED-certified recreation center. In 2011, the College was granted candidacy for NCAA Division II athletics, and in 2012, was invited to become the 14th member of the Peach Belt Conference. YHC is among fewer than 300 colleges and universities nationwide named to the 2013-2014 list of Colleges of Distinction. For more information, visit yhc.edu.


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Frozen Chocolate-Chestnut Pie
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Recipe By: Grace Parisi
Make this rich pie ahead of time so that you can focus on preparing dinner.
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Calories | 0 |
Total Fat | 0 |
Saturated Fat | 0 |
Cholesterol | 0 |
Sodium | 0 |
Total Carbohydrate | 0 |
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Serves: 8
Total Time: 4 hr
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- 24 chocolate wafer cookies, crumbled
- 1/4 cup(s) toasted blanched hazelnuts
- 1 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 4 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
- 5 ounce(s) bittersweet chocolate (1 scant cup), finely chopped
- 1 cup(s) plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 500-gram can sweetened chestnut puree with vanilla
- pinch(s) salt
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) unflavored gelatin
- 1 tablespoon(s) cold water
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a food processor, combine the cookie crumbs with the hazelnuts and sugar and pulse until fine crumbs form. Add the butter and process until incorporated. Press the crumbs evenly over the bottom and up the side of a 9-inch glass pie plate. Bake the crust for 8 minutes, or until set. Using a flat-bottomed glass, lightly tamp down the crust and let cool.
- Put 2/3 cup of the chocolate in a large bowl. Put the remaining chocolate in a small bowl. In a saucepan, heat the cream until bubbles appear around the edge of the pan. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the cream into the small bowl of chocolate to melt it; stir in 2 tablespoons of the chestnut puree. Set the ganache aside.
- Pour the remaining 1 cup of hot cream into the large bowl to melt the chocolate. Whisk in 2/3 cup of the chestnut puree and the salt. Refrigerate the chocolate-chestnut mousse mixture until very cold, about 2 hours.
- Using an electric mixer, beat the mousse until soft peaks form. In a glass bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over the water and let soften. Microwave for about 8 seconds on high to melt the gelatin. Beat the gelatin into the mousse. Stir the remaining plain chestnut puree and spread it in the cookie crust. Spread the mousse on top and freeze until firm.
- Rewarm the ganache in the microwave for 10 seconds, then spread it over the frozen mousse. Freeze until just set. Refrigerate the pie for 10 minutes before cutting into wedges and serving.
- Make Ahead: The pie can be wrapped in plastic and frozen for up to 1 week.
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Soba Noodles with Shrimp, Snow Peas and Carrots Video
Cleaning the Kitchen: Susan mixes an all-natural surface scrub solution
Hi. This is Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Kitchen and tonight, although it doesn't look it, we are gonna make Shrimp with Soba noodles. Now, we are in our cleaning week and I wanted to show you one more trick because I have a lot of friends who complained to me about their flat top electric stoves and how they are suppose to wipe clean and they don't and they end up using all this abrasive stuff. So, here is one that you can make in your pantry that is better and I bet you have a container of cream of tartar that you probably had for years and are wondering if it's still got or why you need it. It's great for stabilizing egg whites. It helps them keep up their volume, but when you mix it with vinegar, it becomes a pretty powerful cleaning agent. So, we're just gonna make a paste out of that and then I'm gonna attack this top stove up here, 'cause you can see we've got some burnt on grease and other stuff. We'll just go here and it will-- I can smell the vinegar up here. Suddenly it seems to be doing a pretty good job. I love these little scrubby things but you can actually also just use the sponge side-- seems to be coming up nicely. I'm gonna let that just sit for a minute and then I'll just wipe it off. I'm getting a whole bunch of stuff here. Okay and I've got one surface here that's a little bit hot. So, we'll see how this does with that too. That is caked on. Let's see how that goes, all right. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna let that sit and I'll sip up my sponge and come on back. I'm getting a lot of vinegar fumes. Okay, I'll be back in a second. Here we are and it looks worse than ever because it's all streaky, but hopefully this will take it down and it does look like we've gotten rid of the burned-on oil stains. And we'll just keep swabbing this until we get nice, clean surface, but it looks like we are getting-- how exciting. One more-- one more pass. I think that's good. I'm just gonna show you one more thing. So, you'll see that I'm not-- there. Here we go. So, if we shined it up just with a piece of towel, you can see that it really did work beautifully. Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Kitchen helping you clean and take back dinner. Good week.
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4 A 'smashing' game!remaskedfoe | 15/07/2008 | See all remaskedfoe's reviews (1)My main gripe with the Gran Turismo series of games is the lack of car damage (and personally I'm more of an 'arcade' than a 'simulation' racer). This game fills the gap between GT and the Burnout series of games which has, in my view, leaned too far towards being a 'sandbox style' game (vis-a-vis GTA). A thoroughbred racer with well designed tracks (most virtual representations of real life circuits) and all the cars that I as a young boy used to dream of driving (now lumbered with a Vauxhall Corsa - practical but without punch - there's a reason that didn't make the cut for this game!). If you want a solid racing game that provides a multitude of different styles (Track, Drift, Formula and Derby) this is the one for you. None of the nonsense of having to drive around looking for a race and a lot easier to get to grips with when all you want to do is start having fun - the best all-round next-gen racing game released to date marred only by the lack of split-screen multiplayer.
2 Aint Got Nothing On Gran Turisimo - Demo ReviewStanTheMan898 | 28/05/2008 | See all StanTheMan898's reviews (19)I found this game annoyingly unrealistic. You could literally fly around corners and by the 3rd corner you were in the lead and you could crash about 6 times before the other racers could catch up. The handling on the cars is so unrealistic you barely have to break to go round corners and was very violent, like you move the anolouge stick to the left and your car has violently swerved off course. Ok i did like the damage which Gran Turisimo doesen't have but there is an update for it soon and i find myself picking stunning graphics, realistic driving experience over damage on cars. Gran Turisimo is far better, much more realistic, this is more of a casual gamer type of game where as Gran Turisimo is more of a simulator for the true gamer who wants a real racing game that is realistic. DEMO BASED REVIEW, but i dought the real game will be any better.
5 What all racing games should be like - Step up GT5!!BoyCharlie | 18/01/2009 | See all BoyCharlie's reviews (23)My first impression of Grid is how similar to DiRT it is; being a Codemasters title the menus and general feel of the game is very similar and the graphics too are equally as stunning as the rally sim. The campaign mode is recreated similarly with US, Euro and Japanese racing events for you to compete in, but only when you've earned the entry fee. Everything is recreated in such detail but as you fly past at 200 mph it all becomes a blur as the game also runs so smoothly. To start with the controls are only slightly tricky to get the hang of; but this is the beauty of Grid- it's a proper racing sim. You have to break or you will crash. You have to go easy on the throttle if you drift onto the grass on European circuits or you will spin. Take care with turning the traction control off too as you will almost certainly spin (I struggled to make it to the first bend (honestly)). DiRT was you against teh clock off-road. This takes the same racing experience onto the track against real competitors who will nudge, bump and force you fof the road. You can't just use opponents as stoppers either into that final corner as you'll write yourself off and not earn any money.The US muscle events are fantastic with no room for error on the tight streets of San Francisco and other cities. The European circuit racing is excellent with genuine feedback from swaying off the track , even slightly, and losing traction. The drifting is a bit daft in my opinion as it's not about racing but scoring points for your drifting technique, but then Codemasters appeal to all by including sveral types of racing. Stock car racing, midnight duels on the open road, with traffic for those who like street racing, and other formats, each with their own skill required.Whilst Burnout is a bit of fun and NFS and Midnight Club LA are all about street racing in an unrealistic world where you barely need to break and everyone calls you 'homey' and says how good your 'rims' look although there is a small part of Grid where you have to design your car into team colours and choose your sponsors this is only a small part and is by no means a feature to keep the creative entertained. This game is about racing, fast. I can't believe I waited 6 months to buy it. Pick up a bargain if you can but worth the full price. 9/10 (only because the drfting isn't for me and a little bit silly in my opinion-who races for points instead of position anyway?). Play the demo on PSN and see for yourself.
5 the nuts of a gamepogo41 | 12/09/2008 | See all pogo41's reviews (2)This is the best racing game i have played ,love the drifting comps and freestyle drifting.Loads to do on this game ,muscle cars,touring cars build a career,sign sponsors,and drivers highly recommended, very addictive game
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Chelsea Will Sign Willian This January
Chelsea look increasingly likely to sign Willian from Shakhtar Donetsk this January, with the Ukrainian club willing to accept offers of 20million pound for the player.
The Brazil international recently failed to return to Donetsk in time for the club's winter training sessions, leading Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu to brand him as 'unprofessional.'
Reports suggest that Shakhtar, who qualified for the Champions League last-16 at the expense of Chelsea, are willing to sell Willian for the right price.
Chelsea and Tottenham are both reportedly interested in the midfielder, who can play in a number of advanced positions, and Willian himself is believed to be willing to talk to either club - although the Stamford Bridge side are thought to be better positioned to make a higher offer.
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Voters to Colorado lawmakers: 'You're fired!'
Colorado (CNN) — Voters booted out two Democratic state lawmakers in Colorado on Tuesday in a heated recall effort that generated national headlines as a referendum on the renewed gun control debate.
Both lawmakers voted in favor of the state's unpopular new gun laws earlier this year, sparking a wave of protest that got their names on the ballot for the state's first-ever recall at the state level.
State Senate President John Morse, who was a little more than a year shy of finishing his final term in office, conceded after he narrowly failed to win enough votes to keep his seat representing Colorado Springs. He was term-limited and would not have been able to run for re-election next year.
According to results from the secretary of state, 51% of voters in his district said "yes" to the recall, while 49% said "no." He'll be replaced by Republican Bernie Herpin.
Morse's colleague, state Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo, was also on the ballot and conceded late Tuesday night. She lost in a 56%-44% yes-no vote, and will be replaced by Republican George Rivera.
Giron's loss came as a bigger surprise, as her district is more Democratic than Morse's.
The new laws in Colorado, which took effect in July, limit firearm ammunition magazines to 15 rounds and require universal background checks on all firearm sales.
National groups on both sides of the gun rights debate jumped into the race, pouring money into a state level contest that normally would generate few headlines beyond Colorado's borders. But gun rights activists and gun control supporters nationwide saw the election as a chance to score an electoral victory for their respective movements.
Following the deadly movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado last July and the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut in December, the Democratic-controlled legislature and Democratic governor quickly ushered the laws into place by mid-March.
A former police chief, Morse spent the past six weeks going door to door, asking voters to help him keep his job.
"You have to take it personally to some extent," Morse told CNN in an interview before the election. "But I also understand this is way bigger than me. I need to do it for those way bigger reasons."
While campaigning, Morse argued he doesn't have any regrets in his fight for tighter gun laws. Asked why he advocated for new regulations in the face of fierce opposition, he pointed to the real catalyst of the renewed firearm debate.
"The vision of 6- and 7-year-olds in Newtown being carted out on stretchers, with their Power Rangers T-shirts now covered by a white sheet," he said. "We can't continue to bury our children."
Giron also said she was "proud" that she voted for the gun laws.
"This is not the wrong business to be fearful about doing the right thing," Giron told CNN before the election.
But in a state with rich gun culture and tradition, a majority of voters, however, disagree with the laws. According to a Quinnipiac University poll last month, voters in the state opposed the gun laws by a margin of 54%-40%. Democrats were supportive of the measures, 78%-16%, while Republicans more strongly opposed them, 89% to 7%.
More importantly for electoral purposes, a majority of independent voters opposed the laws, 56%-39%.
Tim Knight, founder of the Basic Freedom Defense Fund, the group that initiated the recall against Morse, labeled the election as a "victory" for the state and those "who have been subject to the overreach of a Democrat agenda on guns, taxes, and accountability to the people."
"Since day one, they said it couldn't be done," Knight continued. "Tonight, this is a victory for the people of Colorado, and we share this victory with them."
The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, which helped mount the recall effort, also celebrated the results as a major milestone.
"(NRA-PVF) is proud to have stood with the men and women in Colorado who sent a clear message that their Second Amendment rights are not for sale," read a statement from the group.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, argued the gun laws are still in place in Colorado, despite the lawmakers' ouster. The pro-gun control group vowed to continue supporting like-minded candidates, hoping to tamp down fears that the recall sent a message to lawmakers across the country.
"For the last 20 years, the NRA has had the field to themselves in contests like these, but no more. We're committed to backing elected officials across the country who are willing to face these attacks because they agree with Americans about the need for better background checks," Bloomberg said in the statement.
Gov. John Hickenlooper said he was "certainly disappointed" by the outcome but acknowledged voters in the two Senate districts "have spoken."
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