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Koen de Kort's Tour diary: Stage 2
PUBLISHED: 01 Jul 2013 13:58:13 | UPDATED: 02 Jul 2013 05:32:34PRINT EDITION: 01 Jul 20132013 Tour de France stage 1 winner Marcel Kittel wears the yellow jersey (centre) as he competes in stage 2 with his Argos-Shimano team mates. Photo: AFP
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Tour de France cyclist Koen de Kort's Argos-Shimano team mate won stage 1 of the 2013 Tour, but it was always going to be a challenge to retain the coveted yellow jersey in stage 2.
Having the yellow jersey in the Tour de France in your team is an honour and something you will defend, however small the odds you will keep it. Today was a very hard stage on paper and even though there was a possible scenario that there would be a bunch sprint at the end, there were plenty of likely scenarios where the race would be too hard for Marcel.
Defending the yellow jersey today was, on the other hand, something we were looking forward to, something we will all remember for the rest of our lives. For once, there were loads of fans in front of our bus waiting for us to come out, and it seemed everyone was cheering us on all the way from the bus to the start. That also didn't change during the race. I don't think I've heard people scream "Argos" as often on the side of the road as today. I guess that's what winning a stage and taking the yellow jersey does!
At the start of the race, everything went as well as we could have hoped, with a small break of four riders getting away fairly early in the race, and we got our moment with the entire Argos-Shimano team, including the yellow jersey, in the front of the peloton. I then helped Marcel in the intermediate sprint take some very valuable points because, as it turned out, he'll be in the green jersey tomorrow because of these few points he got there!
As soon as the hills came into sight, we knew pretty quickly it was going to be virtually impossible to keep the yellow as many of the big name GC riders moved to the front of the bunch and pretty soon we even got overtaken by their teams in their effort to get the main guys as far in front as possible. Only in the Tour de France will a breakaway be brought back solely because the speed in the peloton goes up as riders are constantly overtaking each other in an effort to be in the front of the peloton.
With a couple of teams starting to set a high pace on a climb, we definitely knew we would lose the yellow jersey and I got dropped together with some other riders and ended up in a pretty big group riding together to the finish line, well within time limit.
I had a pretty hard day mentally as I have been feeling a little sick for a good three days now, not the ideal way of starting the Tour de France, but I'm getting better day by day and, hopefully, I can shake this illness very soon. Tomorrow, we won't have the yellow jersey to defend but we will have the green jersey on the shoulders of Marcel Kittel and, hopefully, this will not be the only day he wears it!
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To our MTA classmates for whom we should have spoken up: We, the undersigned, were your MTA classmates during the 1970's and 1980's when you were being repeatedly subjected to inappropriate physical contact by Rabbi Finkelstein, contact that may well have been sexual abuse. In recent months we have become aware of the emotional and psychological scars that this has left many of you with. During the period that we were classmates, we knew what was happening to you, yet we did not speak up on your behalf. In truth, we did not fully comprehend the nature of what was befalling you, but as we look back, we are surprised and dismayed by our utter silence. Even as we continue to contemplate our inaction and its causes, we deeply apologize to you, our classmates and friends. We hope that this letter will bring you some measure of comfort, and that it will help to save potential victims in the future. Sincerely, Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky '81 Joseph Lipner '81 Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot Jason Kanefsky Yosef Fried
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30 ways things are getting better all the time
From the economy to the environment to education, there are reasons to smile
Jeff ThredgoldThe "dismal science" of economics typically focuses on "bad" news. We clearly face many significant challenges -- no argument here.
But there are also many favorable developments taking place within the U.S. economy. This is our semi-annual update of "Happy Talk."
• The recession is over! The consensus of forecasting economists expects U.S. economic growth during this year's third quarter to be at a solid 3 to 4 percent real (after inflation) annual rate, with slightly weaker (but positive!) growth in the fourth quarter and during 2010.
• Violent crime dropped slightly during 2008 versus the year before. Violent crime overall is down 55 percent since 1993, with violence by teens down 71 percent. School violence has declined by half from a decade ago.
• The number of American volunteers rose 2 percent to 61.8 million in 2008. Among young adults, the number of volunteers rose nearly 6 percent.
• Air pollution declined 25 percent over the past 30 years even as the population and the economy grew. Water quality also continues to improve. More progress will occur in coming years as companies see rising value in "going green."
• The Dow average has rebounded 50 percent since its low in early March 2009. The Nasdaq is up 68 percent from its low.
• The global economy seems to have returned to a modest growth pace after suffering its first recession since WWII.
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• U.S. exports to China have risen roughly 24 percent per year since 2001, making China the fastest growing market for U.S. goods.
• Energy-efficient appliances, cars, buildings, and other technologies that already exist could lower U.S. energy usage 30 percent by 2030.
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• Productivity of U.S. workers rose an average of 2.6 percnet annually during the past 10 years, the largest gains in 40 years. Rising productivity is a long-term key to higher standards of living.
• Traffic deaths per 100 million miles traveled during 2008 were the lowest on record.
• The Consumer Price Index (CPI) has actually declined 1.5 percent during the most recent 12-month period, helping to stretch consumer incomes.
• The number of people using public transportation hit a 52-year high during 2008.
• Conventional 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have been just slightly above 5 percent in recent weeks, some of the lowest levels on record.
• New cancer cases and deaths are falling for the first time since the government began compiling a report on long-term trends.
• Average U.S. life expectancy has reached 78 years (men 75, women 80), the highest ever. This compares to 76 years in 1995, 68 years in 1950, and 47 years in 1900.
• For every dollar of U.S. economic output generated today, we burn less than half as much oil as 30 years ago.
• The U.S. trade deficit with the world averaged $28 billion monthly during the past six months, down more than half versus an average of $61 billion monthly during 2008's first half.
• Roughly 30 percent of trash was recycled or composted in the latest year, versus 16 percent in 1990.
• A record 50.5 million foreigners visited the U.S. during 2008.
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• A recent poll of more than 12,000 global business figures conducted by the World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. as the world's most competitive economy.
• A record 29 percent of men have earned a bachelor's degree or higher, versus 26 percent of women, also a record. This compares to a combined 7.7 percent in 1960. A record 84.6 percent of adults over age 25 now have at least a high school diploma, versus 24.5 percent in 1940.
• Donations to charity set an all-time high in 2007, with more than $300 billion donated by individuals, foundations, and corporations. As a percentage of GDP, Americans gave twice as much as the next most charitable nation: England.
• The upward "mobility" of the typical American remains the greatest in the world. Why? The U.S. economy "rewards" the combination of hard work and educational achievement more than ever before...and more than any other country in the world.
• Women earned nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees awarded in recent years, versus 43 percent in 1970 and 24 percent in 1950. Women earned a similar share of master's degrees.
• Flexible work schedules are now the norm for 43 percent of workers, up from 29 percent in 1992 and 13 percent in 1985. This allows greater flexibility for more people, especially those with children.
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Hawick Lau's (劉愷威) first television drama as producer, Sheng Xia Wan Qing Tian <盛夏晚晴天>, has been very well-received by the public. To Hawick's surprise, the 46-episode modern drama has garnered fantastic viewership reception on Hunan Jingshi, achieving an average rating of 6.4 and a peak at 8.74. The drama is currently the #1 television show on the Hunan Jingshi network.
Supported by a successful debut, the 38-year-old Hong Kong actor has now turned on gears to make his second television drama, Heading North <一念向北>, in which he will also act as actor and producer. "My new drama's script is currently undergoing its fourth revision. Everything is almost settled and done. The script is the only thing that is on my crew's mind right now. We have been discussing it every single day, and we really hope to add some new subject matters to the story."
Similar to the genre of Sheng Xia Wan Qing Tian, Heading North will also be a romance drama, with business intrigue added to the story as a major plot device. Hawick's character, the cold-blooded Lu Xiangbei (North), will be a foil to his playboy character, Qiao Jinfan, in Sheng Xia Wan Qing Tian.
"I've never approached a role like this before. I am very surprised that the scriptwriters decided to give this role to me. The character itself can give more life and excitement to the script."
Mak Koon Chi (麥貫之), the director of Sheng Xia Wan Qing Tian, will return to direct Heading North. "I trust Director Mak's arrangements, and he is great at controlling filming environments. As for the scriptwriter, I chose Xu Run (徐闰). She is an extremely talented young screenwriter in this industry, and although this is our first collaboration together, I am very confident with her work. She is great at writing character-driven stories."
In regards to Sheng Xia Wan Qing Tian's successful ratings, Hawick breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was worried about its performance right before the broadcast. Although many distributors gave the show a positive rating, it still didn't pass the test of the audience yet. The drama still hasn't received a nationwide broadcast, and over half of the country hasn't seen it. I admit, I have regained confidence after I heard about the viewership results."
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Hawick looks like Raymond in the above pic.
I think he looks much much cuter and handsome than RL. He also looks pretty good for his age. 38 in that picture? wow..
I find him to be cuter than RL tho. :/
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yup, me 3 hahaha lol way cuter than RL.
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But I'm a fan of both xD
He looks cute! Don't know if it just me but I can barely watch his series and the same with Yang Mi.
same with me. quite like to watch Hawick, he looks cute for his age, but can't stand how yang mi looks like now after all her plastic surgeries. Gross. Her acting has gone worse now from what she shown during the time of Beauty scheme too. guess popularity got into her head.


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ALBANY, Ga. — The Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County and Phoebe Putney Health System have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the acquisition of Palmyra Medical Center violated federal antitrust laws.
A news release posted on the FTC website Thursday stated that the Hospital Authority and Phoebe had agreed to settle FTC charges that the acquisition of Palmyra harmed hospital competition in six counties — the Albany Metropolitan Statistical Area and Mitchell County.
The proposed consent includes provisions to aid competition in those markets, but because of the unique circumstances of the Certificate of Need (CON) laws in Georgia, the agency said it was unable to require that the hospitals become independent competitors.
"The FTC's efforts in this case produced a tremendous victory for consumers when the Supreme Court unanimously reined in overbroad application of state action immunity and allowed federal antitrust review of this merger," Deborah Feinstein, director of the FTC Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. "Regrettably, that legal victory will not undo the acquisition's clear harm to competition.
"Because divestiture is unavailable in light of Georgia's strict certificate of need legislation, this proposed order is the most effective and efficient resolution that can be achieved at this time."
Under the terms of the settlement, the Hospital Authority will retain ownership of the former Palmyra and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital will continue to operate what is now known as Phoebe North. The FTC said that Georgia's strict need assessment criteria have Albany rated as "over-bedded" and that it was unlikely that a new owner of Palmyra would be able to qualify for a CON to operate an independent hospital.
"We are pleased with today's news and look forward to a new, exciting era for our hospital, staff, and the patients we're proud to serve," Joel Wernick, president and CEO of Phoebe Putney Health System, said in a statement Thursday. "We will soon be able to put this proceeding behind us and move forward with our plans to deliver world-class medical care for women and children, to provide new and expanded in-patient rehabilitation services, and to increase Phoebe's ability to handle critically injured and ill patients who need intensive care. From the beginning, Phoebe's goal has been to bring the finest medical talent and technology to the citizens of Southwest Georgia, and to serve all citizens of the community regardless of ability to pay. Our ability to fulfill our mission has been challenged by a need for additional capacity. That is what the transaction has always been about.
"Today's settlement means Phoebe Putney will be able to use the Phoebe North campus as planned, to meet current capacity needs and to expand its tradition of high-quality health care for our entire community. The citizens of Southwest Georgia are well served by this compromise solution we believe to be in the best interests of all parties. It will also allow us to continue moving forward at a time of great change in our country's health delivery system."
An order was issued in earlier this year by U.S. District Judge Louis Sands barring Phoebe from taking any further steps to make changes at Phoebe North, which officials say they expect will soon be dismissed.
"I don't want to presume what Judge Sands will do, but I anticipate there will be a joint motion from Phoebe and the FTC to dismiss (the preliminary injunction)," said Tommy Chambless, senior vice president and general counsel for the health system.
As part of the settlement, Phoebe and the Authority have agreed that, for the next 10 years they will not acquire, without prior notification to the FTC, a general acute care hospital, an inpatient or outpatient clinic or facility or a physician group practice of five or more physicians within the six-county region, which includes the counties of Dougherty, Terrell, Lee, Worth, Baker and Mitchell.
Phoebe and the Authority have also agreed that, for the next five years, they will not file any objections with the Georgia Department of Community Health to the issuance of a CON for a new general acute care hospital in the same six-county region. Phoebe and the Authority are not restricted from objecting to CON applications for other projects, but have agreed to provide a copy of any such objection to the FTC. Lastly, Phoebe agreed to provide annual reports of its compliance with these provisions for the next decade, officials with the health system say.
Phoebe and the Hospital Authority have stipulated that the acquisition of Palmyra might substantially lessen competition within the relevant service and geographic markets. The settlement reserves the rights of Phoebe and the Authority to contest that allegation in any other proceeding.
The agreement is subject to a 30-day public commenting period that began Thursday continues through Sept. 23. After that, the FTC is expected to decide whether to finalize the proposed consent order. Officials with the FTC say they will accept comments in paper form that are sent to: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex D), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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- FTC rejects proposed agreement with Phoebe Putney Health System, Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County ( September 5, 2014 )
- FTC asks for extension in Palmyra acquisition decision ( April 14, 2014 )
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- Case of FTC opposition to Phoebe North purchase pulled from administrative proceedings until March ( February 3, 2015 )
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As cash plan providers continue to develop solutions to help employers and employees cover PMI excesses, Sam Barrett looks at some of the implications
As cash plan providers continue to develop solutions to help employers and employees cover PMI excesses, Sam Barrett looks at some of the implications
Using a cash plan to mop up a medical insurance excess is a common sales strategy in the corporate arena. But, while it has been operated on an unofficial basis for the last few years, it has now been formalised with the launch of medical insurance excess cover by Simplyhealth and Medicash.
The two providers have taken slightly different approaches to offering the cover. On Simplyhealth's corporate cash plan it is available as an optional module. Three levels are available, starting at 25p per employee per week, which gives £100 of excess cover, and rising to 75p per employee per week for £300 of excess cover. Conversely, Medicash includes it automatically on its Proactive corporate plan, wrapping it up with its specialist consultation and diagnostic tests benefit. It has four benefit levels, starting at £1 a week for £200 of cover a year and rising to £5 a week for £400 of cover.
For Howard Hughes, head of employer marketing at Simplyhealth, formalising excess cover was a logical step.
"It makes sense," he says. "Advisers are shrewd and are selling cash plans to fit alongside medical insurance and soak up the excess. If it's going to be sold this way, we have to make sure it works properly."
Making sure it works properly is welcomed. Without a separate excess benefit, an employee would have to pay the excess and then send the excess statement letter they receive from the insurer on to the cash plan provider, claiming for it under the specialist consultation benefit.
Paul Gambon, head of sales at Medicash, says this was not always the smoothest of procedures.
"Having excess cover benefit does make it easier," he explains. "Not all medical insurance claims start with a specialist consultation and you could also run into problems where treatment ran across two policy years and two excess periods."
Additionally, given the complexity of the process, it required thorough communications to ensure that employees understood how to claim their excess payment so they did not feel out of pocket if an excess was introduced to cut costs.
Excess distress
But not everyone is happy to see cover for excesses being given such a prominent spot.
"They've taken a good idea and ruined it by making it too easy to claim on both products," says Mike Izzard, managing director of Premier Choice Group. "We've been recommending cash plans alongside medical insurance excesses for the last five years and it worked. This is a salesman's dream but there could be serious repercussions."
Recommending these excess plans is certainly something of a no-brainer for any healthcare adviser. By adding an excess to a medical insurance policy, they can generate sufficient discount to pay for a cash plan that, in addition to all the traditional benefits, also covers the excess that was introduced to pay for it. This could drive huge growth for the cash plan market.
But, for Nick Lipczynski, director of IHC, the specialist healthcare consultancy, the benefits simply do not stack up. He is concerned that the cash plan providers are offering so much more for, in some cases, no additional charge.


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By Scott R. Flick and Christine A. Reilly
Pillsbury's communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month's issue includes:
- Inadequate Sponsorship ID Ends with $44,000 Fine
- Unattended Main Studio Fine Warrants Upward Adjustment
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Licensee Fined $44,000 for Failure to Properly Disclose Sponsorship ID
For years, the FCC has been tough on licensees that are paid to air content but do not acknowledge such sponsorship, and an Illinois licensee was painfully reminded that failing to identify sponsors of broadcast content has a high cost. In a recent Notice of Apparent Liability ("NAL"), the FCC fined the licensee $44,000 for violating its rule requiring licensees to provide sponsorship information when they broadcast content in return for money or other "valuable consideration."
Section 317 of the Communications Act and Section 73.1212 of the FCC's Rules require all broadcast stations to disclose at the time the content is aired whether any broadcast content is made in exchange for valuable consideration or the promise of valuable consideration. Specifically, the disclosure must include (1) an announcement that part or all of the content has been sponsored or paid for, and (2) information regarding the person or organization that sponsored or paid for the content.
In 2009, the FCC received a complaint alleging a program was aired without adequate disclosures. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the program did not disclose that it was an advertisement rather than a news story. Two years after the complaint, the FCC issued a Letter of Inquiry ("LOI") to the licensee. In its response to the LOI, the licensee maintained that its programming satisfied the FCC's requirements and explained that all of the airings of the content at issue contained sponsorship identification information, with the exception of eleven 90-second spots. In these eleven spots, the name of the sponsoring organization was identified, but the segment did not explicitly state that the content was paid for by that organization.
Though the licensee defended its program content and the disclosure of the sponsor's name as sufficient to meet the FCC's requirements, the FCC was clearly not persuaded. The FCC expressed particular concern over preventing viewer deception, especially when the content of the programming is not readily distinguishable from other non-sponsored news programming, as was the case here.
The base forfeiture for sponsorship identification violations is $4,000. The FCC fined the licensee $44,000, which represents $4,000 for each of the eleven segments that aired without adequate disclosure of sponsorship information.
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In another recently released NAL, the FCC reminds broadcasters that a station's main studio must be attended by at least one of its two mandatory full-time employees during regular business hours as required by Section 73.1125 of the FCC's Rules. Section 73.1125 states that broadcast stations must maintain a main studio within or near their community of license. The FCC's policies require that the main studio must maintain at least two full-time employees (one management level and the other staff level). The FCC has repeatedly indicated in other NALs that the management level employee, although not "chained to their desk", must report to the main studio on a daily basis. The FCC defines normal business hours as any eight hour period between 8am and 6pm. The base forfeiture for violations of Section 73.1125 is $7,000.
According to the NAL, agents from the Detroit Field Office ("DFO") attempted to inspect the main studio of an Ohio AM broadcaster at 2:20pm on March 30, 2010. Upon arrival, the agents determined that the main studio building was unattended and the doors were locked. Prior to leaving the main studio, an individual arrived at the location, explained that the agents must call another individual, later identified as the licensee's Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), in order to gain access to the studio, and provided the CEO's contact number. The agents attempted to call the CEO without success prior to leaving the main studio.
Approximately two months later, the DFO issued an LOI. In the AM broadcaster's LOI response, the CEO indicated that the "station personnel did not have specific days and times that they work, but rather are 'scheduled as needed.'" Additionally, the LOI response indicated that the DFO agents could have entered the station on their initial visit if they had "push[ed] the entry buzzer."
In August 2010, the DFO agents made a second visit to the AM station's main studio. Again the agents found the main studio unattended and the doors locked. The agents looked for, but did not find, the "entry buzzer" described in the LOI response.
The NAL stated that the AM broadcaster's "deliberate disregard" for the FCC's rules, as evidenced by its continued noncompliance after the DFO's warning, warranted an upward adjustment of $3,000, resulting in a total fine of $10,000. The FCC also mandated that the licensee submit a statement to the FCC within 30 days certifying that its main studio has been made rule-compliant.


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iParty Corp. (NYSE MKT: IPT - news), a party goods retailer, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012, which ended on December 29, 2012.
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- Consolidated 52 week revenues of $79.1 million, a 2.2% decrease compared to the 53 week fiscal year 2011; and a 0.1% increase compared to the 52 week sales in fiscal 2011.
- EBITDA of $539 thousand compared to EBITDA of $494 thousand for fiscal year 2011.
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- Net loss before taxes of $949 thousand, compared to $1.3 million in 2011.
- Net loss of $1.5 million, after a $588 thousand non-cash tax related charge, compared to net loss of $1.3 million for fiscal year 2011.
Sal Perisano, iParty's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "For the second consecutive year, a weather event affected our fourth quarter and annual performance. The anticipation of Hurricane Sandy affected our sales the week leading up to Halloween and hit our primary market on October 29th, knocking out power and closing a number of our stores in southern New England. This storm was the major cause of the loss we sustained for the year, and our business remains otherwise healthy. Despite the unfortunate timing of this Hurricane, sales in our non-seasonal categories remained solid through the year helping us regain positive momentum going into fiscal 2013. "
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Posted By Douglas Brown On July 17, 2012 @ 9:24 pm In Brunch,Events,Lunch,Meats,News,Photos,Profile | No Comments
The vehicles are elaborate knives, long spikes of carbon fiber and rubber topped with enormous engines that propel the machines to 330 mph in less than five seconds. The races are short — seconds.
But getting the Top Fuel dragsters [2] ready for races takes lots of people, from drivers to mechanics to administrative workers. And for the Al-Anabi Racing team [3], which is at Bandimere Speedway [4] this weekend for the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals [5], there's a guy who works another, much simpler, kind of knife.
Front Range-native Dustin Gagna [6], 33, who grew up in Westminster, cooks for the team and a handful of others in the drag-racing circuit. His kitchen is eight feet wide and 13 feet long. He buys the food, preps it, cooks it, serves it – often for more than 150 people. He even does the dishes.
Last week, during races in Norwalk, Ohio, he served Cajun shrimp pasta with fresh vegetables and a spicy cream sauce. The team ate his grilled New York strip steaks with coffee and chipotle au jus, his breakfast burritos with smoked brisket grilled pork greeen chile, his tiramisu and homemade buttermilk biscuits and shredded cabbage and cilantro salad. They ate quite a bit more, too. This week in Denver, it will be a completely different menu.
"It's a pleasure because I have a lot of freedom to do whatever I want to do," he said during an interview Monday as he got ready to go on a tour of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey distillery in Denver [7]. "I'm not under somebody's thumb in terms of what to cook, the money I want to spend. I get good product and serve our guys a good healthy meal every day."
Gagna cooked in Oregon and in Boulder's The Med and at The Sunflower, a defunct organic place in town, before hitting the road with Al-Anabi, a team funded by Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Thani, a member of the ruling family of Qatar. Champion drag racing manager Alan Johnson is in charge of the team, which has 23 races a year.
Gagna, said team spokesman Rob Goodman, "blows me away."
"Everybody wants to eat his food," said Goodman. "He consistently puts out some of the finest dishes I've ever tasted. It's unbelievable."
The work has its challenges. Since they travel so much, Gagna must be hyper-organized about ordering his supplies, from the pork shoulder to the mustard to the lemons to the cleaning soaps. If he picks up an order and the distributor messed up, it's usually too late to just place another order; Gagna has to run out and find ingredients, or just change the menu. He is loath to do either.
The working conditions, too, can be tough.
"The past two past races, in Chicago and Norwalk, every day was ninety-nine degrees in the kitchen," he said. "Everything is firing, the oven and stove. It can get pretty hairy in there."
The weekend forecast at Bandimere is hot – low '90s – but not the otherworldly, even demi-worldly, heat of a few weeks ago. Good news for the drag-racing chef.
Either way, until the weekend of races begins Gagna will busy himself with family time and a different kind of heat – he will visit Mexican restaurants in the area, a favorite cuisine that often falls flat in other cities.
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[2] Top Fuel dragsters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel
[3] Al-Anabi Racing team: http://www.alanabiracing.com/
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The Health & Wellness Alignment in the Division of Student Affairs is privileged to honor a colleague who retains an amazingly sunny sense of humor in a torrential workload and during the frequent stress storms working in Student Health Services. Compassionate, caring, collaborative, and confidante are only the first few expressions that coworkers use to describe the wonderfulness of Program Representative Mary Lloyd-Rex.
Mary's work with the medical insurance plans for students is complex and often demanding. With unwavering dedication to the students, she tirelessly works to make sure that they are all covered correctly under the Oregon and Federal Insurance laws, correcting coverage issues within the Aetna system, and with external doctor offices billing systems. A fierce advocate for students, she makes the time-consuming phone calls with outside providers, tenaciously working to correct an error so a student doesn't end up in a collection process.
In addition to responsibilities for the enrollment and reporting of the student insurance, Mary educates students about what insurance really is for young people who have never had to deal with it on their own before. She explains coverage and walks them through the intricacies of covered and non-covered services so they will be well educated health care consumers in the future.
Mary's ability to perform with excellence while dealing with heart-breaking realities in the lives of some of our students represents the dynamic spirit of our Student Affairs values. Even in the most horrific of medical situations, Mary's respectful manner, reliable knowledge base, and painstaking effort brings comfort and confidence to those who are coping with extraordinary issues. Her excellence in this area extends beyond our campus; recently she was called on to assist University of Oregon staff dealing with a tragic situation involving one of their international students.
We celebrate Mary for many reasons but her heroic effort to assist an international student obtain a much needed motorized chair deserves special accolade. Sensitive to preserve the student's dignity and honor the student's beliefs, Mary selflessly worked with vendors, the student, and the student's family to the outstanding result of obtaining the equipment the student needed to safely navigate campus.
We commend and celebrate Mary for the work she does for others without requesting credit, for the extra miles she travels without question for students, for her easy, ready, steady humor, and for her leading in the development of a positive sense of community.
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Paula Deen's Holiday Spice Cake
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Warm up your holiday table and your home with the scents of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves with this comforting cake from Paula Deen.
Catch Paula Deen on Paula's Best Dishes, only on Food Network.
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- 3 cup(s) cake flour
- 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 1 teaspoon(s) ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon(s) ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) ground cloves
- 2 stick(s) butter, softened
- 2 cup(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 4 eggs
- 1.25 cup(s) buttermilk
- Finely chopped nuts, for garnish
- Cocoa powder, for garnish
Buttercream Icing
- 3/4 cup(s) butter, softened
- 1/4 cup(s) shortening
- Pinch of salt
- 6 cup(s) confectioners' sugar
- 1.5 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup(s) heavy cream
- Quick buttercream: Beat the butter, shortening, and salt together until creamy with an electric mixer. Add half the confectioners' sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Then gradually beat in the remaining confectioners' alternating with the vanilla and cream until it is all incorporated and the frosting is very light and fluffy.
- Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour three (8-inch) round cake pans.
- In a small mixing bowl whisk together dry ingredients: cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and ground cloves.
- Cream the butter, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the dry ingredients and the buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
- When the batter is well mixed and smooth, divide it among the three prepared cake pans and bake about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes come out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn out to cool completely. If the cake layers have domed a little during the baking process, slice off the tops with a long, serrated knife so they are flat and even.
- Place the first layer, cut side down, on a cake pedestal or serving plate. Spoon about 3/4 cup of buttercream onto the center of the cake. Spread it almost to the very edges with an offset spatula. Repeat with the remaining two layers. Garnish the top of the cake with finely chopped nuts and cocoa powder.
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Oscar Pistorius To Be Grilled By 'The Pit Bull'
After two harrowing days in the witness box, things are about to get even tougher for Oscar Pistorius under cross-examination.
Canine metaphors abound when it comes to the man who will lead the interrogation.
Advocate Gerrie Nel is known as the "pit bull" prosecutor in South Africa, and he has bared his fangs at plenty of high-profile defendants in his career.
Mr Nel is famed for securing the conviction for corruption of the country's former police commissioner, Jackie Selebi, whose defence crumbled during a marathon eight days of cross examination.
Pistorius' ordeal might be shorter, but it certainly will not be sweet.
How the athlete, who has frequently broken down giving evidence even under the gentle guidance of his own lawyers, will cope must be of serious concern to his defence team.
Pistorius wept uncontrollably when he described the moment he realised he had shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder.
The trial had to be adjourned several times because of the athlete's emotional state.
During the cross-examination, Mr Nel will likely ask him to relive the shooting time and again, testing the credibility of every detail of his account.
The state is trying to prove the athlete killed Miss Steenkamp deliberately - that it was a case of "pre-meditated murder".
The key to securing a conviction is "intent".
So Mr Nel will have a barrage of questions ready.
What was Pistorius thinking as he fired through the locked toilet door?
Why did he fire four shots when he must have known they would likely to be fatal to anyone behind the door?
How could he have failed to notice his girlfriend was not in the bed when he grabbed his gun from beneath it?
Pistorius' defence is that he was terrified for his own life and Miss Steenkamp's when he opened fire.
He also felt particularly vulnerable as a double amputee who was on his stumps at the time.
Mr Nel will seek to chip away at this claim of "self-defence" because it relies on an imagined threat - not a direct one - an intruder that never was.
Even if the prosecutor fails to convince the judge there was "intent" he may still be able to prove a lesser charge of "culpable homicide", by showing the athlete acted "unreasonably" and was negligent when he opened fire.
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Until around the very end, when he started talking about the role of the vice president.
Basically, what he said is this:
The vice president's role is to support the president. There should be a line for the vice president and he should adhere to that line.
In contrast to what Palin was saying:
Give me even more POWER!
In other words, Biden is going to do nothing with his vice presidency while Palin would probably kick McCain's head in if she disagreed with him.
I am very surprised how strong Palin was in the debate. She proved the media wrong, she showed she wasn't just a proxy of McCain's words (while Biden proved he was Obama's), and she showed that her inexperience with Washington politics is actually a good thing.
She started off a little shaky, especially one question where it sounded like she was avoiding it, which is what the media accused her of, but after that she really exceeded my expectations and kicked some ass.


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In his short story "Capital of the World", Ernest Hemingway tells about a Spanish father who wanted to be reconciled with his runaway son. The despairing father missed his son so much that he placed an advertisement in the local newspaper. The advertisement read simply, "Paco, meet me at the Hotel Montana at noon on Tuesday. All is forgiven! Love, Papa." But Paco is a very common name in Spain—and when the father went to the hotel the next day, there were eight hundred young men named Paco waiting for their forgiving fathers!
Many of us are weighted down by the problems, mistakes, and hurts of yesterday, living with guilt over things we wish we'd never said or done. Others are full of resentment and bitterness because of injustices that have been done to them. Deep down inside, we seek a way to get rid of the weight of these unresolved past issues. We try to submerge them, but it's like trying to keep a beach ball under water in the deep end of a swimming pool. We can do it for a while but over time we get weary, until it eventually takes all of our effort and energy just to keep it down. When we finally release the ball, we are amazed at how light it feels.
Learning the power of forgiveness has the potential to change our lives.
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NY Times-Speaking with the parents of a sick infant, Michael Argenyi, a medical student, could not understand why the child was hospitalized. During another clinical training session, he missed most of what a patient with a broken jaw was trying to convey about his condition. His incomprehension, Mr. Argenyi explained, was not because of a deficiency in academic understanding. Rather, he simply could not hear. Mr. Argenyi, 26, is legally deaf. Despite his repeated requests to use an interpreter during clinical training, administrators at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb., have refused to allow it. They have contended that Mr. Argenyi, who is able to speak, communicated well enough without one and that patients could be more hesitant to share information when someone else was present. They added that doctors needed to focus on the patient (not a third party) to rely on visual clues to make a proper diagnosis. Mr. Argenyi took a leave of absence at the end of his second year, in 2011, after suing Creighton for the right to finish his medical training with an interpreter.
You know how everyone used to tell you that "College will prepare you for the real world" and then you went to college and realized it was mostly bullshit? How it slowly dawned on you that it was better to pick your classes based on how they fit into your schedule even if they didn't teach you anything? That you could do all the reading and get a good grade or not buy a single book and still end up passing the class? Well medical school is nothing like that. It is literally preparing you for the real world where your job is to save people from dying. I'd argue being able to understand what's wrong with someone is a major part of that job. It's great that he wants to be a doctor. It really is. In an ideal world he'd have an interpreter at his side at every waking moment and I'd be a high-class escort making a thousand dollars an hour to have sex with people. He lacks ears that work and I lack a vagina and good looks but curiously enough only one of us is suing people because they can't comprehend how reality works. It's great that there's laws protecting people with disabilities from discrimination until those laws put everyone that person will every work with at risk. Sorry I don't want another random guy standing in the hospital room with me so you can understand just exactly what's wrong with my penis.


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But Communism doesn't have to operate under a Democratic or Republican governmental platform, and neither does capitalism. The principals of its economics can operate the economy but politically it can be anything -- and that is the problem, really. Communism is really an economic and social system. It has a political feel to it, such as a one party state, but that is the basis to minimize infighting etc etc.
It can also be seen as an attempt to recondition people into different ways of thinking. Capitalism, on the other hand, is inherently greedy and forthcoming about it.


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I'm basically just a storm chaser that got into photography because video captures weren't doing things justice. I started chasing in 1999, but had always watched storms around town. I usually drive around 20,000 miles a year just chasing storms, from Texas to North Dakota, Colorado to Indiana. Though more and more I'm satisfied with South Dakota to Oklahoma, Colorado to Iowa.
I've always shot with Canon Digital Rebel SLRs, except for briefly having a Canon 5D II DSLR. Not a massive need for anything beyond a Rebel for shooting storms. I have a 10-22 EF-s, a 50mm 1.8, and a 100-400L and that is it for lenses. I shoot strictly in RAW. I guess I started with a Sony F707 in 2002, then went through about all the rebels.
Second to a love of storms, is a love of all other things weather. I love witnessing rare weather and sky scenes, such as atmospheric optics, fog displays from above, ice-storms, blizzards, and even massive geese migrations, topping 1 million in one location.
In 2004 this became my soul income, not on purpose. In early 2011 it remains so, though highly doubtful for much longer.
A bit about animals:
I'm a huge animal lover. All life really. I am truly bothered by how animals are treated and wish I could somehow change things. Example. A dog on a chain is just flat out wrong. If it were up to me this would be illegal. So easy for me to see how wrong it is. It boggles my mind someone can do this to their pet. Accepted things aren't always right. It's a LIFE on a chain, no other way about it. One night after a chase I saw this little dog in a backyard on a chain, sitting there all by itself in the world, looking towards this house. I hoped it was just out there for the time it takes to go potty and that that wasn't the norm of its life. I really sort of doubted that was the case. I just see this LIFE just like mine and yours with all this curiosity stuck to that pole for its little eternity. What was its point in being created if that is its life? Fed and ignored perhaps, we know this happens out there. I want to run around and cut chains when I see it's not just out going potty. Sucks there have to be pets as is, least one could do is make that animal's life as free as they possibly can. And a chain....well.....truly horrible if you stop and look at it and think. I can see a few of your faces as you read this. Probably saying, "what a wuss". Ah well. Thinking is not the hardest thing to do. We all see the same thing(s). Wish we all could have a bit more compassion even if it means "going out of our way". Accepted things aren't always right. Take a second and look again. Open up your mind to what it is you are seeing, not the fact you are used to seeing it. Here is one way to look at it. Say 10 years is the average life span of a dog. Now think back 10 years and how long ago that was. Imagine all of the things that have happened in your life and instead of those times being free to you to do what you wanted, put your neck in a chain and strap it to a tree or pole for that whole time...long boring day after long boring day...years worth of them. And it really isn't about just pole and chain, but even just being ignored and left isolated. It is not hard to do a few things to make a LIFE better.
By the way, I don't hate people who have things this way with their dog. I only wish it could bug them like it does me now. It never used to bug me, but somewhere along the way, I noticed enough to be bothered. Hell I feel sorry the 2 cats I "rescued" have to be locked up in my apartment now and can no longer be free(yeah, being free has its own issues too). I obviously don't have any answers to "what else to do with them", but I only hope some can at least notice enough, then care enough, to do what they can. I feel bad for my parent's bored indoor dogs, so I go and take them for walks pretty much every single day, even when I don't want to get up and go anywhere. If I had a dog on a chain, or in a tiny fence, the first thing on my to do list would be build a bigger fence, if there was just no way to let it inside. I just see far too many sad cases where surely the owner could do better. I'm all over the plains, and anymore, I really fear glancing over to back or front yards, for what I'll probably be seeing, again and again.
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Inspiring Employee Ownership Interest in Denver
Later that morning, we had a conversation with Chris Martinez of the Denver Office of Economic Development. He agreed that the office should set up some kind of outreach program on succession planning and employee ownership. He was enthused about proceeding. Later, we enjoyed lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Southwest Denver with Jose Esparza of BuCu West in regard to potential Morrison Road employee ownership projects. Although Rosen's primary interest and expertise is in ESOPs, he expressed support for worker cooperatives. The cooperative model would be the most applicable to the Morrison Road economic environment.
An event at the Denver Bar Association was held in the late afternoon and included a panel presentation by Corey Rosen, cooperative attorney Linda Phillips, and financial expert, Greg Weiss. Jenny Briggs and the New Belgium Brewing Company provided beer and snacks. Those present expressed interest and participated in follow-up discussions and conversations with Rosen.


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A disposable "pay as you go" cell phone.
Proposition Joe talking to Marlo from The Wire "Me, I aint so much touched a burner for a year now"
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each of the guys you are dating is a called a burner and you rotate them as you would when cooking on a 4 burner or 6 burner stove.
never keep them in one position for too long. keep it fresh and rotate their positions from front to back as necessary.
never keep them in one position for too long. keep it fresh and rotate their positions from front to back as necessary.
Heather 4 burners are Steve, Jack, Sam, & Chuck but Steve is on the front burner because he is the hottest and takes her on the most exciting dates. The other guys are on the back burner.
canegirl가 작성
2009년 03월 20일 (금)
A blunt, joint, etc. Called a burner because it burns the whole time, as opposed to a bong or bowl which needs to be re-lit
Yo man, u tryin to spark this burner?
jody breeze가 작성
2006년 02월 03일 (금)
A Binghamton way of saying sunglasses.
yo I wore my burners at that party because i was too high
h00dh0pper가 작성
2009년 12월 07일 (월)
a jazz musician who is technically proficient and plays his instrument really fast and takes long multi-chorus solos, often sacrificing thought and substance for pure flash.
There are three guys on stage playing interesting jazz, but the burner on guitar is playing predictable patters really fast. Annoying.
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2007년 10월 18일 (목)
A skank who hides the fact that she has global thermo-nuclear VD until after you have went all up in that thing.
"Man, my dick has been raw and I have been pissing fire since I hooked up with that burner."
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2004년 11월 25일 (목)
A derogatory term for the people who attend the Burning Man event. It mainly refers to the cliquish almost cult-like aspect of the event itself. The event is supposed to be about freedom of expression and acceptance of all. Sadly to many "participants" of the event this means "We accept everybody as long as you are just like us! This is mostly observed on social websites like The Burning Man Corporations own website "e-playa" or on sites like Tribe.net where cliques form tribes with names like "burning man a**holier than thou" to attack anybody outside of their cliques. .
"I asked a simple question on Tribe.net but was attacked by the so-called "Burners" because I was not a member of their little clique
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This is an incredible project. Excellent work and please keep it up!
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Thank you! I'm trying to! A lot of stuff is getting in the way right now, but I'm eager to get back to a regular schedule.
- April 30, 2013 at 11:06 PM