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The village of Burr Ridge was recently ranked second on a list of 955 Midwestern communities in 12 states for quality of life and favorable living conditions.
The Business Journal published their findings on Dec. 7, 2011, in their On Numbers column, after using a "20-part formula to find Midwestern communities that enjoy healthy economies, light traffic, moderate costs of living, impressive housing stocks and strong educational systems."
This accolade confirmed the belief of many area residents that they live in the ideal place in the Chicago metropolitan area and reinforced the desire of long-time residents to remain in Burr Ridge when they downsize.
Until recently, options for those who no longer needed all the space in their homes and sought a maintenance-free lifestyle in walking distance to many conveniences were extremely limited.
The Residences at Burr Ridge Village Center fill a void, and buyers know it.
Offering homeowners a maintenance-free lifestyle on a single level that is walking distance from shopping, dining and more and located just off of Interstate 55 at County Line Road, the residential buildings are situated in the heart of the bustling Burr Ridge Village Center.
Within the center are a variety of well-known shops, as well as several dining options, that are mere feet from the residences. Cooper's Hawk Winery features handcrafted wines paired with delicious appetizers and entrees, while Topaz Café was recently selected as one of the prestigious Michelin Guide's Recommended Restaurants. A recent addition to the dining scene is the fifth Chicago-area location of Wok n'Fire, which features Pan Asian cuisine from Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, and Japan. Sushi is a specialty at Wok n'Fire, along with creatively prepared soups, salads and sauces. The center also includes a Starbuck's for a daily caffeine fix.
Another area destination within Burr Ridge Village Center is the Kohler Waters Spa, one of only three such spas in the world. Chicago Magazine touted it as ideal for an all-day retreat that offers a "serene, hydrating experience."
Convenient to Burr Ridge Village Center is a Lifetime Fitness Club, with state-of-the-art equipment, indoor and outdoor pools, a yoga studio, classes and other fitness opportunities. The Burr Ridge Community Center and Hinsdale Center for the Arts are right down the road, while the Metra station is also only a few minutes' drive.
"The location of this luxury community is ideal, affording our buyers quick and easy access to downtown Chicago, both airports, and most major expressways while allowing them to enjoy the many features and benefits of an affluent 'urban chic' maintenance-free lifestyle," said Marie Jungles, a member of the sales team at Burr Ridge Village Center. "We offer a practical, yet attractive, alternative to living in the city minus traffic congestion and problematic parking."
Nestled in this ideal location, the Residences at Burr Ridge Village Center have been selling well in recent months. Since the beginning of 2012, there have been 28 sales.
Although the largest group of buyers has been empty-nesters, who would like to remain in the area but want the maintenance-free lifestyle that comes with condo ownership, new residents at Burr Ridge Village Center have come from all backgrounds and demographics. A number of buyers have also been young professionals moving from the city.
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Suaeda calceoliformis (Hook.) Moq.
American Sea-blite
- State Rank: S2
- Global Rank: G5
- State Status: Threatened
Habitat: Rocky or gravelly saltmarshes and sea-strands. [Tidal wetland (non-forested, wetland)]
Range: Cote Nord, Quebec, south to southern Maine. Also listed as rare in Massachusetts; does not occur elsewhere in New England. This species may still occur at some historic locations but may not have been carefully searched for. It can be difficult to distinguish from the common species, and thus can be easily overlooked.
Aids to Identification: Sea-blites are succulent halophytes with flowers borne consistently in clusters of 3 in the axils of the leaves. The flowers lack petals and have 5 green sepals. This species resembles the common sea-blite (S. maritima). It differs from common sea-blite in that the sepals, at maturity, are not all the same size: one or two of the flowers are much larger or bear an appendage on the outside surface. The fruits are 1-1.5 mm long (vs. 1.5-2 mm long in S. maritima).
Ecological characteristics: Little information is available on habitat characteristics for this species in Maine. It appears to most often occur near the upper intertidal limit and has been found both in saltmarshes and along sandy or gravelly shores.
Phenology: Flowers August - October.
Family: Amaranthaceae
Synonyms: Formerly known as Suaeda americana (Pers.) Fern.
Known Distribution in Maine: This rare plant has been documented from a total of 10 town(s) in the following county(ies): Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, York.
Dates of documented observations are: 1892, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1905, 1932, 1959, 1997, 1998 (2), 2001
Reason(s) for rarity: Near northern limit of its range.
Conservation considerations: Unknown. It has not been documented recently from several historic locations but may have been overlooked due to resemblance to common species.


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I first met Boris Kodjoe in 1994 in New York when we were both modeling with Ford Models. In less than 20 years, he's come a long way. Boris is a busy actor, but more importantly, he has become a father and an activist, bringing important research and hospital facilities to Ghana to treat birth defects like spina bifida for the very first time.
Boris grew up in Germany with a German mother, a psychologist, and a Ghanaian father, a physician. His parents divorced when he was six years old, but Boris visited Ghana often and still keeps in touch with a lot of family there. He has always believed in the importance of his Ghanaian heritage and today, he is making sure that his own children are exposed to the same history and culture.
Boris came to the United States as a high school athlete on a tennis scholarship. Soon he became a successful model. He started taking acting classes to lose his German accent and in 2000, he moved to Los Angeles and landed his first job on Showtime's comedy, "Soul Food."
He met and married Nicole Ari Parker, another successful actor and model, and together they have two children: Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe and Nicholas Nerunda Kodjoe.
Boris' story took a turn when their eldest daughter, Sophie, was born with spina bifida in 2005.
When Sophie was born with the condition, Boris and Nicole started the Sophie's Voice Foundation, or SVF. They opened a Ghanaian chapter of SVF in 2009 and sent volunteers there to collect data on child mortality related to birth defects in order to better serve the spina bifida community in Ghana. They are also working with the health department in Ghana to build the first spina bifida Clinic in Accra, which will be the first of its kind in Africa. SVF is also building its first center for spina bifida in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.
Today, Sophie and her parents live in Los Angeles and the family is thriving.
Nicole is rehearsing for her big Broadway debut in March 2012, when she will become the first African-American actress in history to star in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," as Blanche Dubois. Boris just starred in the film "Resident Evil: Retribution," which will be in theaters in September. On the entrepreneurial front, they have launched a custom clothing company called World of Alfa, which is available all over Africa, and enables people to design their own custom shirts and suits and receive them within 21 days of ordering.
I asked Boris, if like me, he feels that this is Africa's moment. He said:
I've been watching Africa take big strides in the past ten years and I've also noticed an increased awareness here in the United States about opportunities to generate economic growth with Africa. It's exciting to see how the world has gotten closer through the internet and social media and how people worldwide connect with one another now. I love Africa and hope to be able to spend more time there in the future working on various projects.
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You won't find wabi-sabi at your local sushi bar. Though it sounds like a spicy condiment, it's actually a Japanese worldview centered on acceptance of transience, and it's the way New York-based DJ, singer-songwriter, and producer Moby determines the aesthetic value of his recordings.
"When things are kind of broken down and entropy has entered the system, oftentimes things become more endearing and more sympathetic," he explains. "I kind of want to make noisy, endearing, broken-down records using old, broken-down pieces of equipment. I'm 45 years old, and I'm kind of a broken-down piece of equipment, so it makes sense to me."
That stands in contrast to Moby's 1999 pop-friendly album, Play, which incorporated loops of old, static-washed gospel and blues field songs with arrangements so impeccable the album became a breakout success, certified ten-times platinum. But the Moby of the early '90s was a producer of deep, tribal acid house, and he transitioned from Ecstasy-rich funky techno to aggro-industrial before hitting on the Play formula. From the very beginning, he loved a mangled analog synth bass line. And his upcoming full-length, Destroyed, encapsulates Moby's production initiative to show how "the familiar can sometimes be strange and disconcerting, and conversely the strange and disconcerting can sometimes be familiar."
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Despite the final 5-0 tally in favor of host Marmion, even St. Edward was able to take a positive view of Tuesday's Suburban Christian match.
The Cadets remained in the SCC title chase improving to 5-0 in league play and also boosted their season record to 9-5-2. Despite being shut out and dipping to 6-11 and 2-4, the visiting Green Wave also saw reasons for encouragement.
"We had some good chances early and eventually it showed how much talent they've got. There's a reason they finished fourth in the state in 2A," St. Edward coach Tim Brieger said in acknowledging his 1A club's underdog status. "In several stretches we had a good showing, but they had a very nice back post goal and a very nice header which few keepers or teams could stop."
St. Edward goalie Matt Hesch did an admirable job withstanding the Cadets' onslaught as the Green Wave trailed by only one at intermission.
Claudio Jasso's 37-yard blast from the middle of the field after 13:21 sailed just under the crossbar for the senior midfielder's second strike of the year.
"I was left open and just rocked it, while I knew it was a good shot I thought it might go high, but instead it went down and in," Jasso said.
Despite a 19-7 advantage in overall attempts for the first half — which turned into a 36-9 edge for the game including a 20-4 lead in on-target shots — Marmion coach Ricky Del Toro wasn't happy.
"In the first half I had to take many of our starters out because they were simply not playing to the level they're capable. We were far too impatient," Del Toro said. "At half we talked about needing to be closer to our prime this time of the year and thankfully we started finding people in spaces during the second half and did a better job of finishing opportunities."
With 26:55 left, Trevor Jones slipped a stellar pass to Conor Morton for a six-yarder near the right post that gave the freshman a team-best 10 goals. Just 42 seconds later, the Cadets were back on attack with sophomore Gavin Sanchez continuing his improvement in serving corner kicks as veteran Matt Switzer outleaped everyone for a five-yard header.
Junior Flynn Collins used a Jake Hutchinson assist to register his ninth goal and came close to adding to that total if not for Hesch tipping one over the crossbar and smothering another hard shot. Hesch finished with 15 saves and another seven defensive clears as Marmion also compiled a 10-1 edge for corner kicks. The Cadets' Eddie Graham served a cross into the box with 10:21 left which became a St. Edward own goal for the final tally.
"I'd prefer not to be quite so busy," Hesch said. "But this kind of match can definitely help us at our level for the postseason. They had a couple nice shots and I also had a couple mistakes, so I know I can play better and I'm positive we can play better as a team."
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In today's issue of Science, CSIRO astronomer George Hobbs and colleagues in the UK, Germany and Canada report that they have taken a big step towards solving a 30-year-old puzzle: why the "cosmic clocks" called pulsars aren't perfect.
"We now have a more fundamental understanding of how pulsars work," Dr Hobbs said.
"We've shown that many pulsar characteristics are linked, because they have one underlying cause."
Armed with this understanding, astronomers will find it easier to compensate for errors in their pulsar "clocks" when they use them as tools - for instance, in trying to detect gravitational waves, which is something Dr Hobbs is doing with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope.
The work is based on observations of 366 pulsars collected over several decades with the 76-m radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, run by the University of Manchester, and grew out of work George Hobbs did for his PhD thesis.
Pulsars are small spinning stars that emit a beam of radio waves. When the beam sweeps over the Earth we detect a "pulse" of radio waves. The rate at which the pulses repeat, fast or slow, depends on how fast the pulsar spins and so how often its radio beam flashes across the Earth.
Each pulsar generates a cocoon of magnetic fields around itself - its magnetosphere.
The astronomers found that a pulsar's magnetosphere switches back and forth between two different states.
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The change in a pulsar's magnetosphere shows up both in the shape of the radio pulses recorded on Earth and the pattern of the pulses' arrival times.
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- 1 quart(s) honey
- 1 pound(s) sugar
- 1 ounce(s) baking soda
- 1/2 ounce(s) salt
- 2 cup(s) water
- 2 cup(s) vegetable oil
- 10 large eggs
- 3 pound(s) flour
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease nine 9X5 inch loaf pans.
- Sift into a mixing bowl the flour, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl, beat the eggs and add the oil, honey, and sugar.
- Alternately add the dry ingredients and the water.
Pour the batter into the loaf pans. - Bake on the lower rack of the oven for 50-55 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for about 15 minutes. Gently run a knife around the edges to loosen the cake, then remove it from pan.
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My research interests have evolved over the years, and mainly center around low-dimensional topology and knot theory. To me, low-dimensional topology means the topology of 3 and 4-dimensional manifolds, and the interesting interactions between these subjects. An important development in the last twenty years in these subjects has been the growth of analytical/geometric methods, especially those of gauge theory, and this has been central to my research. Knots appear naturally in this work as a source of interesting examples, and as a way of describing 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds. My oldest work is concerned with Casson-Gordon invariants, and also with high-dimensional knot theory. My published papers are in my publication list and I also have a list of available preprints. What follows is a description of some of my work, roughly in reverse chronological order. I haven't discussed every single paper, or gone all the way back to my first papers, but hope to do that some day.
The remarkable Heegaard-Floer theory of Ozsvath and Szabo turns out to be extremely useful in the study of smooth knot and link concordance. Numerical invariants such as τ(K) and the d-invariants of surgeries and branched covers give lots of delicate information about the surfaces that knots and links bound in 4-space. I have worked on several aspects of this theory, outlined below.
Knots of polynomial one: One of the remarkable results of the 1980's arose as a conjunction of Donaldson's theorem (on intersections of 4-manifolds) and Freedman's surgery theory for 4-manifolds. Together, these showed that knots with Alexander polynomial = 1 are topologically slice, but not necessarily smoothly slice. Chuck Livingston (Indiana University), Matt Hedden (Michigan State) used Heegaard-Floer theory (d-invariants of branched covers) to show that not all topologically slice knots are smoothly concordant to knots of polynomial one.
Link concordance: The main theme here is the distinction between concordance properties of a link, and those of its individual components. For instance, Jae Choon Cha (POSTECH, Korea), Taehee Kim (Konkuk, Korea), Saso Strle (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), and I found examples of 2-component links with Alexander polynomial 1, are topologically concordant to the Hopf link, have unknotted components, but which are not smoothly concordant to the Hopf link. Cha and I found examples of topologically slice links whose individual components are smoothly concordant to the unknot, but which are not smoothly concordant to any link with unknotted components. Most recently, Strle and I explored the `parallel link' construction of A. Kawauchi (two copies of a knot, drawn parallel to each other, with linking number 0; also known as the (2,0) cable, and showed that the d-invariants of a knot K give obstructions to the (2,0) cable of K being concordant to a split link.
Heegaard-Floer invariants of knots in branched covers: One of the more useful Heegaard-Floer invariants, due to Ozsvath and Szabo is an integer-valued knot invariant τ(K). In fact, τ(K) is an invariant of smooth knot concordance, and is definitely different from such classical concordance invariants such as the knot signature. Eli Grigsby (Boston College), Saso Strle, and I have extended the τ-invariant to give a large collection of concordance invariants. Our idea was motivated by an analogy with the Casson-Gordon invariants, which are signatures associated to a cyclic branched cover Y of S3 branched over a knot K. Briefly, for every surjection φ:H1(Y) -> Zp, there are invariants σφ(K) defined in terms of equivariant signatures. Roughly speaking, for a slice knot K, there is a subgroup G of H1(Y) such that |G|2 = |H1(Y)| with the property that σφ(K) = 0 whenever φ(G) =0. We showed that something very similar is true for the τ-invariants of the inverse image of K in the branched cover Y. There's a τ-invariant for each Spinc structure on Y; these are parameterized by H1(Y), and we showed that the τ-invariants associated to the subgroup G must all vanish. This turns out to give lots of new information on smooth knot concordance. Right now, our results are all for 2-bridge knots, but we are learning how to calculate these τ-invariants for covers of more complicated knots.
One of the hardest (and most important) questions about smooth knot concordance is whether a knot K whose Whitehead double Wh(K) is slice must in fact have been slice in the first place. (The converse is easily seen to be true.) More recently, the same question has been asked about the Bing double B(K), which is similar to the Whitehead double but produces a link of two components. Chuck Livingston, Jae Choon Cha and I showed that if B(K) is (topologically) slice, then K is algebraically slice. In particular, the Arf invariant of K must vanish; this result has some relevance to 4-manifold theory.
For the several years, I have been working with Nikolai Saveliev (University of Miami) on a project relating gauge theory in dimension 4 and Rohlin's invariant of 3-manifolds. We have been studying 4-manifolds that look homologically like a circle cross a homology 3-sphere; such a manifold is called a homology S1 x S3. Such manifolds have Rohlin invariants (just like homology 3-spheres) and an important conjecture states that the Rohlin invariant of a homotopy S1 x S3 must vanish.
There is a Donaldson-type invariant defined for a homology S1 x S3, and we have been working on showing that this invariant reduces, modulo 2, to the Rohlin invariant. This would imply the conjecture stated above. We have made some progress on this, and have shown it in a number of cases, in particular the case of mapping tori of diffeomorphisms of homology 3-spheres. We have also investigated similar questions, relating to homology tori, and have a new proof of Casson's result relating the Casson and Rohlin invariants in dimension 3. There are (so far) three papers coming from this work, plus a survey paper. The result on homology tori is related to a paper I wrote with Saso Strle in which we evaluated the Seiberg-Witten invariant, modulo 2, of a homology 4-torus.
My current work with Nikolai in this area focuses on using Taubes' periodic-end technology to study the Dirac operator on the infinite cyclic cover of a homology S1 x S3. We have used this circle of ideas to give another analytical interpretation of the Rohlin invariant, and applied this interpretation to show that certain non-orientable 4-manifolds do not admit metrics of positive scalar curvature. More recently, we worked with Tom Mrowka (MIT) to define a Seiberg-Witten invariant of a homology S1 x S3. The invariant is a combination of the count of irreducible solutions to the Seiberg-Witten equations and the index of an end-periodic Dirac operator. This inspired a second paper, establishing an index theorem for end-periodic operators analogous to the famous Atiyah-Patodi Singer index theorem. We are working on calculations of the new `end-periodic η-invariant' that arises in this index theorem.
In 1998, I used 1-parameter Donaldson theory to give the first examples of diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds that are homotopic, but not isotopic, to the identity. The idea of parameterized gauge theory is that if one has a manifold X for which the formal dimension of some moduli space has negative dimension (-k), then one can define a 0-dimensional moduli space whenever one has a k-dimensional family (ie a bundle with fiber X, and with k-dimensional base). In subsequent papers, I refined the method to give lots of information about the diffeomorphism group, for instance that the kernel of the map from isotopy to homotopy is infinitely generated. (This is opposite from what happens in the topological case, where this map is basically an isomorphism.) Using this technique in the context of Seiberg-Witten theory, I showed that the space of positive scalar curvature metrics on a 4-manifold can be disconnected. I'm currently working on higher-parameter generalizations of these results.
In the early 80's, Simon Donaldson had the remarkable insight that the study of the Yang-Mills moduli space held the key to all sorts of previously inaccessible problems about the topology of 4-manifolds. My research in this area centered around the fundamental idea (originating in Donaldson's work) that one should try to understand the moduli space of a manifold cut into two pieces meeting along a common boundary, in terms of the moduli space of the pieces. It turned out that to study gauge theory on manifolds with boundary, one proceeded by adding an infinite collar to the boundary, and studied gauge theory on the resulting non-compact manifold. Several years work in this direction went into a book with Tom Mrowka (MIT) and John Morgan (Columbia) that lays the analytical foundations for this study in some generality. Technically, we made no assumptions of non-degeneracy of the critical points of the Chern-Simons functional along the boundary; this level of generality is useful in many applications.
The book was concerned with the Yang-Mills equations, but much of the analysis adapts quite directly to the Seiberg-Witten equations on manifolds with boundary. I wrote a number of papers using these ideas (and some with less analysis) to study problems about representing homology classes by surfaces of low genus. Of course most of this was superseded by the solution of the Thom conjecture by Kronheimer-Mrowka and Morgan-Szabo-Taubes, and the extension to negative self-intersections of Oszvath-Szabo.
Parallel to my work on gauge theory, I studied the analytical/differential geometric invariants of 3-manifolds known as η-invariants. These arise as part of the formula for the dimension of the Yang-Mills moduli space, and as interesting Riemannian invariants in their own right. I used the relation between gauge theory and η-invariants to prove some results about homology cobordisms; this has applications to knot cobordism that should be worked out more fully. Rob Meyerhoff (Boston College) and I got interested in understanding how the η-invariants of hyperbolic manifolds (and the related Chern-Simons invariants) behaved under various cut/paste operations, such as mutation.
With Paul Kirk (Indiana University) and Eric Klassen (Florida State University) I wrote a paper giving topological techniques to compute spectral flows and therefore some η-invariants. My first work in this general area was a proof that mutation preserves the property of having a hyperbolic metric and doesn't change Gromov's norm. The proof relies, among other things, on extending the Freedman-Hass-Scott results about compact least area surfaces to the case of least-area properly embedded surfaces in finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds. I've come back to mutations a few times over the years, most recently to show that mutation doesn't change the Floer homology of a homology 3-sphere.
A spinoff of my interest in η-invariants and Chern-Simons invariants was the observation that these invariants behave slightly differently when taking finite covers. I used this to give a new obstruction to an abstract group being the fundamental group of a closed 3-manifold.
I was always interested in the Kummer construction, in which one quotients the 4-torus by an involution (and then resolves the singularities) to obtain a K3 surface (aka a quartic surface). One day I came across an old paper of Nikulin that showed, using binary linear codes and algebraic geometry, that the maximal number of nodal singularities that a (singular) K3 surface can have is 16, exactly the number coming from the Kummer construction. Contemplating this, I eventually realized that the fact that the torus is aspherical meant that Nikulin's argument about codes was really about the topology of 2-fold covers, and his algebraic geometry argument could be rephrased in purely topological terms. So I showed that the maximal number of disjoint topological 2-spheres that could be embedded in a K3 surface is 16. Not long after I wrote this, a preprint by David Jaffe appeared that discussed the much harder problem of the maximum number of nodes on a sextic surface (the case of the quintic having been done in 1979 by Beauville). I wrote to Jaffe, and we combined some of my topological ideas with his existing work in algebraic geometry and coding theory, to establish the upper bound of 65 for the number of nodes. By an amazing coincidence, W. Barth had just at that moment constructed a nodal sextic with 65 nodes. The case of surfaces with degree greater than 6 remains tantalizingly out of reach. There are some great pictures of (the real parts of) these surfaces by Stefan Endrass, and by Oliver Labs on his page AlgebraicSurface.net.
Other work
I plan to write about some of my other research topics (doubly slice knots, embedding problems, assorted other papers) one of these days.


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Best (and worst) green/wax beans for freezing
Which snap beans have you found to keep well in the freezer?
I've been eating this past spring's beans out of the freezer lately, and so far I'm very impressed with Gold Mine. They remain sweet and have good texture. Jumbo didn't fare as well. The taste is fine, but the outer skins sort of sloughed off after reheating, and the texture was so-so. Fortex didn't freeze well, but I admit that may have been my fault, since they were the first ones I put up and I was still learning the ropes.
With all my snap beans, I prepared them according to these directions, and vacuum-sealed them in plastic.
FlipTx, I know what you mean about the skins sloughing off; I had a lot of varieties do that, especially some of the Romano types. "Goldmarie" was the worst, but "Garafal Oro" fared better. A lot of beans are wonderful fresh, but freeze poorly.
For freezing, the round-podded varieties seem to be the best. "Fortex" has done well for me, and is now my favorite variety for freezing. "Emerite" is even better in terms of quality - probably the best - but is less disease-resistant in wet summers. "Rattlesnake" did well in freezing trials, and has an excellent flavor. "Pole 191" & "Kentucky Wonder" are also good, but try as I might, the skin always sloughs off a little when heating them... wonderful "beany" flavor, though.
I've learned that how you reheat them is just as important as how you freeze them. No more boiling water for me. I heat them slowly in the microwave (just covered by water) until they are al dente, then drain them immediately. They still "squeak" like fresh. You might be able to get the same results dunking them in boiling water for only a few minutes, under close scrutiny.
Haven't tried as many new snaps lately, I have been preoccupied with my search for good shellies.
Yeah, I don't boil them when reheating. I put them in simmering water for a couple of minutes, just till they're not icy anymore. I'm glad to hear Rattlesnake did well for you. I plan on growing that one for the first time this coming spring.
The bean skins remind me of this PBS thing on whales I saw once. A marine biologist was testing the DNA of pods of whales, and did so by collecting thin sheets of their sloughed-off skin from the surface of the water.
My mother's "boiled to death" green beans never tasted quite right - all the flavor and vitamins had long dissipated into open steam while the water with the flavor and vitamins was dumped down the sink! And, the skin sloughed off no matter what variety was grown. It IS all in how you prepare them.
I love Contender green snap beans. Very prolific and tasty, but there are other snaps just as good.
After picking early in the morning, I do not wash them until they are ready to be processed, keeping them in the fridge with a paper towel loosely around them in a slightly opened plastic bag.
To prepare for freezing, it is best to find a colander or metal basket that fits into your largest soup pot for the easiest and quickest way to get the beans in and out of the water. If you don't have one you'll need a strainer to do the multiple drainings. I snap off only the ends, rinse quickly under running warm water, put them into the colander and submerge in boiling water to blanch for 3 minutes (begin counting when you put them in), drain quickly, then submerge them in a bowl of ice water for 1-3 minutes to stop the cooking action. Drain then let air dry for a while on cookie cooling racks. Lay them out on wax paper on a cookie sheet and put into the freezer for an hour or so until well frozen (sometimes I don't get to them for a few days and they are fine). Then they go into large freezer zip bags for up to 6 months so I can take out just the amount I need since they are not a clump - each is separate. I also use vacuum sealer bags to make up "veggies for two" that keep until next year's harvest begins.
To cook green beans, I use a Black&Decker or Oster electric food steamer. They are under $30 at Target, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, etc. Easy 12-15 minutes from frozen state to crisp fresh, 10-12 minutes from fresh harvest to the dinner table. It is the only appliance I have on my counter, other than the coffee pot, since it gets the most use, like every day! I think it is cheaper to use than the microwave and keeps all the vitamins and flavor inside the vegetables.
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I am glad to find this discussion about freezing green beans because I was just about to give up as mine always turn out mushy. But I will try again with emerite vert which I have grown for the first time this year, and will watch the blanching time and dry the beans before freezing. Wish luck!
I have been making green bean pickles instead. Folks love 'em, the sweet ones more so than the dilled. I use a variety of beans cut into pieces, including Kentucky Wonder Wax- they look festive, like a bean salad.
A tip: a Presto Kitchen Kettle is great for blanching as it comes with a handled wire basket that makes it easy to drain the beans and dump them into ice water. It is intended for deep frying but works well for blanching. I got mine for $20 at Walmart- what a deal- but now they are more like $30 at Walmart or Amazon.com. There's a stainless version, too, for more $$. Mine is teflon lined and has a tight fitting lid- it can also be used as a soup stock pot. I also use it for heating milk to make yogurt. It has a temperature controller that helps to just scald the milk. It doesn't control low enough to incubate the yogurt though. Otherwise, I love my Presto kettle!
Here is a link that might be useful: Presto Kitchen Kettle Multi Cooker
I'm finding the same as zeedman in that the rounder-podded varieties seem to be freezing best. In addition, I've found that the more mature beans freeze a lot better, too. I like them very young for fresh eating, but the young ones don't handle freezing as well, in my opinion.
I'm also finding that having two bowls (or in my case, a very clean double sink) of cold water is cooling them off MUCH faster than letting them sit in one bowl/sink. Ever since I started doing the double dip thing, I've not had any sloughing of the skins; the faster you can cool them the better. I've got a stainless steel collender that sits in my big soup pot so I can just lift them out quickly and plunge them into the first cold sink. I swish them around a bit, then promptly scoop them out into the second sink of cold water. I change the water in the first sink every second batch (it warms up fast), but the water in the second sink is still ice cold after six or seven batches are dumped in there.
Since I freeze them in those vacuum-sealed bags in meal-sized portions for our little family (two adults and two young kids), all I do to cook them now is stab a few holes in the top of the bag and use the microwave on the frozen vegetable setting. After the beeper goes off, I find if I leave them to sit in the microwave for a few minutes more (not on, just resting there), the texture is a lot more like they are cooked from fresh.
The "squeak" is still there for the first few months of storage. I've never been able to freeze them for a whole year and not have the quality change at least a little. They still far surpass store beans, but they're defninitely not the same as they were earlier on.
Macky, your technique is quite similar to mine. I have two matching stainless steel kettles with large strainer basket inserts... this works well for large-scale freezing, since one basket can be cooling while the other is blanching.
But rather than fill a sink with cold water, I place a kettle in the sink large enough to immerse the basket, and keep the tap running slowly into it. My well water is cold enough to make your teeth hurt! The cold water sinks to the bottom, and the warmer water is constantly flowing over the top. I stir constantly when the basket is first immersed, for about a minute, then let the veggies sit under the running water. Meanwhile, I strain out any fragments that might remain in the blanching kettle (the wide hand strainers sold in Asian stores work great for this), place the second basket in, and once the water resumes boiling, put in another batch to blanch. I remove & drain the batch that is cooling about a minute before the blanching is complete; by that time the water in the cooling kettle is cold.
The other sink holds a colander for draining; but it's not that important to get the veggies completely dry. I initially freeze veggies in square plastic freezer boxes, then vacuum seal the frozen "blocks" into bags (this lessens the chance of debris interfering with the seal). A little water helps the veggies hold together during the transfer.
I freeze greens (such as chard) covered in water; this reduces freezer burn. If you don't use a vacuum sealer, covering with water is a good alternative for extended storage. Place the veggies in a ziplock freezer bag, cover with water, squeeze out air bubbles, and seal. Be sure to leave enough room for the bag to expand as it freezes. In my experience, you don't want to use a cheap freezer bag for this, the seam might pop open or leak as it freezes.
For me, vacuum-sealed green beans will last for over a year with good quality, if kept at 0 degrees F. A refrigerator ice box generally doesn't get that cold, so storage life would be reduced in the warmer conditions. A small chest freezer is a worthwhile investment if you want to freeze enough veggies for the year.
Oh, one last note about blanching. For the best quality, it is best to work small batches. For me, one pound seems to be the magic number... the blanching times tend to match those listed in the Ball Blue Book, which is my reference of choice for canning & freezing. When freezing a new variety for the first time, it's a good idea to do a test batch & check for proper blanching, before freezing large quantities. One tip I've noticed is that when properly blanched, the beans (and most other cut veggies) will sink as they cool.


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*Updated 8/20 with new events and guests* There are dozens of horror and comic events every year, and that gives fans plenty of opportunities to meet Robert Kirkman or one of the many cast members from The Walking Dead. Although it's a bit early for some of the bigger conventions to announce their full guest list, we put together an initial list of stops so you can start making your travel plans.
New to the The Walking Dead convention circuit in 2014 are Michael Cudlitz (Abraham) and Alanna Masterson (Tara), along with some of the other new cast members we saw in Season 4. If you're looking to catch most of The Walking Dead cast together at once, your best chance will be at the San Diego Comic-Con in July and the New York Comic Con in October. Those looking to meet Norman Reedus will have plenty of opportunities, as he is the one who usually attends the most conventions each year.
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Evenly distributing the energy
Within REhnu's receiver, or power conversion unit (PCU), are unique optics at the dish focus that take concentrated sunlight energy and apportion it evenly among the triple-junction cells. The optics comprise a ball lens and a concave array of optical funnels. Sunlight from the dish reflector enters the ball lens and comes to a highly concentrated focus near its center. On emerging from the ball, the light forms a concave image of the dish at ~400x concentration. Here, the array of optical funnels constructed to match the size and shape of the image captures all of the light. The light is further concentrated as it passes through the funnels, emerging at 1200x geometric concentration. Immediately behind the funnels are the triple-junction photovoltaic cells.
The funnels are sized so that all the cells receive the same power. This ensures that all cells generate the same electrical current, as required for efficient electrical connection. Because the funnel entrances lie at the dish image, the uniformity of illumination is preserved even when there are tracking errors, as caused by wind gusts. Another powerful feature of the optical system is that all the collected light is directed toward the active areas of one cell or another. No sunlight is wasted on the light-insensitive cell edges or gaps.
Triple-junction photovoltaic cells
Regular photovoltaic cells—such as the silicon cells that make up most conventional PV panels—have a single photoelectric junction and can only capture a small fraction of the energy of solar photons to make electricity. In contrast, triple-junction cells have three different junctions, which separately capture the energy of different wavelengths (colors) of light. The result is more than double the conversion efficiency of single-junction cells.
Triple-junction cells with close to 40% conversion efficiency under field-operating conditions are manufactured commercially by technology that is already mature. More advanced cells with conversion efficiency 44% have been demonstrated in the lab and will shortly be commercially available. It is anticipated that by 2020 cells will be made with 50% conversion efficiency.
Triple-junction cells are more difficult to manufacture than silicon cells and cost much more per unit area, but, when used with highly concentrated light, cost much less per unit power generated. When sold in the quantity needed to generate several megawatts, the cost is ~$5/cm2, which at 1200x concentration and 30% module conversion efficiency, works out to $0.16/watt. This is one sixth the power conversion cost of photovoltaic panels with single-junction cells, which operate without concentration.
Thermal management—Active cooling
To illustrate the power of concentrated light at the dish focus, we replaced the ball lens with a ¼-inch-thick steel plate and melted a quarter-sized hole in seconds. Even with highest efficiency cells available today, most of the sunlight energy still goes to heating the cells. This heat is removed by mounting the cells on a thin copper substrate which is actively cooled from behind by a closed-loop system. Liquid coolant is circulated behind the cells and through a fan-cooled radiator, as in an automobile. While this process is more complex than the simple aluminum heat sinks used in conventional CPV, it uses much less aluminum, about 10 kg per kW of electrical output power. The sealed cooling system consumes no water. The pumps and radiator fans within the power conversion unit are designed to be very mechanically efficient, so their power consumption is more than offset by the extra cell power that results from efficient cooling.


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Peacemaker breaks the ancient grip of Albania's blood feuds
Agim Loci works to help his countrymen observe a time-honored code for resolving disputes – but without violence.
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FushëKrujë, Albania
In 1994, when Agim Loci was 23, his friend tried to rape a girl.
The girl's two brothers thwarted the attack at the last moment. But the matter did not stop there: The family wanted revenge. But Mr. Loci made a highly unusual decision: He took his friend, tied him up, and made him stand in a field before the girl's entire family.
"I said, 'If you want to kill him, kill him. But then his family will come and kill one of you,' " Loci recalls. "Of course, nobody was going to kill him then."
Loci now works as a bodyguard for the Albanian Ministry of Justice. But he regards that day 14 years ago as the beginning of an unlikely second career as a volunteer peacemaker.
In addition to his ministry job, Loci is one of the leading coordinators for the Committee for Nationwide Reconciliation (CNR), a nongovernmental organization that works to broker truces between families caught in the murderous cycles of blood feuds, a custom rooted in the tradition of an "eye for an eye" and sanctioned by a centuries-old Albanian code of conduct. Feuds and revenge killings have resurfaced significantly since this Balkan country's transition from communism to democracy and are sometimes spark by issues as basic as property disputes.
World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization that monitors Albania, says that more than 5,000 have been killed in blood feuds since 1992.
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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Bamba Fall tied a season-high with 16 points and scored the go-ahead free throws in the final minute, as the SMU Mustangs notched a 67-65 win over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in Conference USA action at Moody Coliseum.
Mouhammad Faye led SMU (9-19, 3-12 C-USA) with 18 points, while Derek Williams scored 14 in the win.
Jeremy Wise led all scorers with 26 points for the Golden Eagles (14-15, 4-11), who have lost four straight and nine of their last 10. Courtney Beasley chipped in with 16 points, and R.L. Horton finished with 10.
SMU jumped out to a 42-28 halftime lead after shooting 51.7 percent from the floor in the opening period, which included a 5-of-13 effort from beyond the arc.
The Mustangs never led in the game, but they gradually chipped away at the deficit in the second stanza. They tied the score at 65-65 on a three-pointer by Craig Craft with 1:05 to play. SMU's Williams missed a jumper on the other end, but Fall was there to grab the offensive rebound and draw the foul, then hit the deciding free throws with 32 seconds on the clock.
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Had one right after delivery and was it a dissapointment.The burn was a real nightmare,had to keep a lighter in hand at all times.It canoed awful and it kept going out,it draws ok but the burn was awful.Good flavor and aroma.Hope humidification helps,as here it is a week later and they are a little better after the third one.
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Got these even cheaper on auction. They are much better than the Lonsdales (see my review) but that's not saying much. They are ok but I'm glad I got them cheap and won't be looking for more.
Michael 47 in Gaffney SC March 27, 2010
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I was impressed..I'm always looking for a decent cheap cigar..For some reason I liked the taste of the Corona size a bit better than the Pancho and the Toro..
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I am a firm believer that you can find wonderful smokes out there that don't have to cost you a fortune. And I have found many great deals at Famous before. But these La Floridita Coronas were awful. I paid less than a dollar a stick and I still feel ripped off! Harsh taste, harsh smoke, bad time. I am not going to even bother giving these away. Spend your money else where!
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I met this girl somewhere, don't remember where, and don't want to. Some dumb ass cigar buddy of mine talked me into it with the old put a bag over her head reasoning. We were real drunk at the time. I was feeling lonely so I decided to go out with her, and we had a one night stand. Now I keep seeing her down town and I have to say hello, and make like she is my friend. I hate it because I always have to make up an excuse why I haven't asked her out again. Blah Blah Blah. I will never have cheap one night sex again. The consequenses are just not worth it.
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Groupon Stands by Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Dumb Commercials
When we think about commercials that offend us, we think of those that glorify antisocial behavior - like the scores of Super Bowl ads that are built around the crass objectification of women. Unlike those ads, no one walks away from our commercials taking the causes we highlighted less seriously. Not a single person watched our ad and concluded that it's cool to kill whales. In fact - and this is part of the reason we ran them - they have the opposite effect.Oh, silly us, we're just too stupid to understand CP+B's high minded advertising and the "cultural tensions created by brands" it highlights. Whoops! Oh, wait, actually, that's not the issue at all. Groupon could have made fun of themselves in any number of ways. The problem is that it the ads give the impression that they're actually making fun of charity while shameless self promoting the site's services.
The firm that conceived the ad, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, strives to draw attention to the cultural tensions created by brands. When they created this Hulu ad, they highlighted the idea that TV rots your brain, making fun of Hulu. Our ads highlight the often trivial nature of stuff on Groupon when juxtaposed against bigger world issues, making fun of Groupon. Why make fun of ourselves? Because it's different - ads are traditionally about shameless self promotion, and we've always strived to have a more honest and respectful conversation with our customers. We would never have run these ads if we thought they trivialized the causes - even if we didn't take them as seriously as we do, what type of company would go out of their way to be so antagonistic?
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Former Federal Reserve bank president Eric Rosengren says the Fed should do more to stimulate the economy. He thinks the current Fed is acting too slowly and that the unemployment rate needs to be addressed more aggressively.
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The Fed's Operation Twist program is scheduled to be complete at the end of June. At that point, the total amount of the short-term bond that have been converted through sales to longer maturities will be $400 billion.
Rosengren's concerns lie primarily in the political arena, specifically regarding actions that leaders in both America and Europe might take. The future health of the US economy is directly tied to those decisions and he feels a structural problem can be pre-empted if more stimulus is added to spur job growth.
Although the private sector has been growing, less government spending is counteracting the effect of those gains. World Bank president Robert Zoellick adds that the global economy is in danger. Europe is the largest direct threat but global economic factors are also affecting developing countries, which have conglomerately been the primary global growth engine to this point.
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I picked up a Telluride a couple weeks ago and got inspired to pull out my old RCs. I have no clue if the Super Saber will even run but it needs work.
The Sledgehammer hasn't been run in 15 or so years and it needs some work. The tires need to be replaced. The body obviously needs to be replaced. The wires to the motor are shot but a new motor will fix that. A few small parts and screws should finish it off. I even have the original charger.


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Old & Middle English Language and Literature, Other Medieval Literatures (Norse, French, & Italian), Literature of Exile, Film Studies, Literary Theory, Modern Eastern European Literature
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The theme of this year's Simmons Leadership Conference, held in Boston last week, was "Passion & Profession," and the program examined how passion fuels success. The Conference took place at Simmons College, home of the first and only MBA program in the US designed specifically for women.
Eileen McDargh, a speaker at this year's event, helps individuals and organizations transform their careers, their lives and their businesses by connecting them with their passions. We had the opportunity to sit down with McDargh during the conference and examine how women can blend a productive career with a personal passion.
McDargh has first-hand experience. Thirty year ago she walked out of her public relations job and never looked back. "I just couldn't write another press release," she said. And she leapt at a time when she needed the money. She was confident, though, that if she followed her passion, she would land on her feet.
And she was right. Realizing, of course, that not all women can walk out on a steady paycheck to pursue a new idea, McDargh acknowledged, "Sometimes, it's our job that supports our work."
She encouraged women to pursue their passion, even if they aren't totally clear on the outcome. "You don't have to be crystal clear," she says. "But you must be crystal on the intention." And forget about achieving work/life balance.
Balance is Baloney
"Balance is baloney," she said. She used the metaphor of a sailboat in describing how women manage the many roles they play. In a sailboat, she explained, the sailor is consciously connected with the most important parts of the boat. And when the wind shifts, you "come about" – the sailing term for "change directions."
McDargh furthered the metaphor by explaining how the five key parts of a boat represent the five key elements that must work together to maintain a successful career. The mainsail represents the intellectual, the work. The tiller represents the physical – nutrition, exercise, sleep. The centerboard represents the emotional. And, McDargh noted, to maintain this aspect of life it's important to determine who you want to have sit in the boat with you, and who you toss overboard. The rudder represents the spiritual, and the material e.g. teak or fiberglass, represents the lifestyle you choose.
She pointed out that sailors never sail in a straight line to their destination. Instead, they tack according to the wind, zigzagging across the water. "How do you figure out how to chart the course? Focus on the quality of the journey, not on 'Will I get there?'"
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Marilyn Carlson Nelson is focused on the journey. Nelson is the chair and former CEO of Carlson, the largest travel and hospitality company in the world with brands that include Radisson Hotels, T.G.I Friday's restaurants and Carlson Wagonlit Travel. She also serves on the board of ExxonMobil and is Chair of the Mayo Clinic Board.
Nelson is proud of the work she's done as the head of Carlson. When she first joined the company, then headed by her father, she formed a woman's support group. Since that time, the company's management team has evolved and is made up of 49 percent women. She credits the gender parity with creating a corporate culture of inclusion. "We found the culture we were creating for women was attractive to men," she explained.
But it is clear that Nelson's true passion is her family and that she has connected her business accomplishments to the legacy she is building for her grandchildren. Following the tragic death of her daughter, Nelson made a commitment to evaluate each night whether she lived the kind of day that she would sign her name to, much like an artist signs her canvas.


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The age of one-off product development may be nearing an end. By 2020 we will see more integrated systems, especially those relating to building enclosures. Product assemblies that combine integrated components designed to work together to optimally manage heat and moisture flows and maintain good air quality will become increasingly available. These will likely carry warranties, as we're already seeing in the commercial building market with some products, such as Tremco, which offers guaranteed water and air barrier performance on an integrated suite of moisture and energy management products for building assemblies.
By 2020 seat-of-the-pants design of building assemblies will be replaced by robust hygrothermal (moisture and thermal) analysis. This will be driven by liability concerns and publicity about premature building failures. The tool most likely to fill this need is a German modeling program called WUFI (Wärme und Feuchte instationär or "transient heat and moisture").
While WUFI is a complex tool whose use will likely remain beyond the scope of many, if not most, building practitioners, it should not be beyond the reach of the technical and engineering staff of leading building product manufacturers.
We predict that by 2020 the leading manufacturers of building assembly products and systems will offer WUFI analysis for projects that are being designed with those manufacturers' products.
Such work will be enhanced by a materials database being compiled in the United States through Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Manufacturers can submit hygrothermal performance data of their proprietary products, and that growing database is becoming a tremendous resource that by 2020 should be fully fleshed out.
And just as a systems approach will improve the products we use, efforts to control performance and costs will drive innovation in modular and panelized housing, perhaps finally challenging the dominance of stick-built, one-off, single-family homes. By 2020 look for significant optimization through integration of systems and material efficiencies. Properly approached, these areas hold tremendous growth opportunities for building product manufacturers.
And finally, one of the most important emerging forces driving change in our industry is signaled by the increasing frequency and intensity of storms and flooding, incidents of widespread wildfires, and more persistent droughts that all point to the need for increasing our resilience—defined as an ability to bounce back following a disturbance or interruption of power and/or services.
Power outages, in particular, are a looming concern. Few people realize that the vast majority of our power production (89%) is dependent on adequate water for cooling thermoelectric power plants; during the extended power outages of the future, we may see episodes where large numbers of power plants shut down for lack of cooling water during times of peak cooling demand.
Adapting to the realities of climate change will become increasingly important by the year 2020 as these trends continue. Resilient design offers a way not only to ensure safer homes and communities but, in so doing, also an important way to mitigate climate change by dramatically reducing energy consumption.
By 2020 resilience will not only be on the way to becoming common practice in home building, it will also begin appearing in residential building codes. Visionary builders will begin incorporating resilient design practices into their work, and innovative manufacturers will look for opportunities to introduce products reflecting this feature—from finish materials that can be flooded and dried out without growing mold to foundation insulation materials impervious to Formosan termites migrating north to toilets that can function without water.
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