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Healthy How-To: Steaming Veggies
by Toby Amidor in Healthy Tips, May 5, 2009
Steaming is one of the healthiest cooking techniques around. It's also a quick-and-easy way to cook up dinner veggies (especially for my family of 5). Here are some of the best vegetables to steam and tips for keeping them nice and crisp.
The Benefits of Steaming
You may have heard this before: steaming is one of the best ways to cook veggies so they keep their nutrients. Vitamins are easily destroyed when you cook with water for long periods of time (i.e. boiling), but steaming uses the steam from boiling water to cook your food — not the water directly.
Another advantage of steaming is no added fat or sodium (do you dab butter in a boiling pot of broccoli or load in the salt?). Any veggie you steam will be around 25 calories per half-cup and chock-full of vitamins and minerals.
Veggies to Choose
Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, asparagus, artichokes, zucchini and green beans are great choices because they're sturdier and won't turn to mush too easily. Leafy greens — baby bok choy, spinach and Chinese broccoli — also steam up nicely but take less time. If you want to try something new, steam some radishes or quartered new potatoes.
How to Steam
Large chunks of veggies are tough to steam quickly — so if you're in a hurry, cut or trim your vegetables into smaller pieces first.
A steaming basket is a cheap way to steam food. Fill a pot with 2 ounces of water and place the basket with the veggies on top. Once the water boils, it takes anywhere from 5 to 12 minutes to cook. It depends on the thickness of the veggie so you may want to check periodically (but don't keep lifting the lid!) and pull them off when they hit your preferred softness. And, please, don't forget the lid. You won't get anywhere unless the steam is trapped in the pot.
Immediately after steaming, have a colander of ice or bowl of ice water ready to plunge — or "shock" — your cooked goodies. This will stop the cooking process so your veggies stay nice and crunchy.
While we prefer the old-fashioned way, you can also steam in the microwave. There are some microwave-ready steam veggie packs you can buy at the grocery store. Or just place evenly cut veggies in a microwave-safe bowl (glass), add a little water to bottom and top with microwave-safe plastic wrap. You'll want to pull back one corner of the topper so some steam can escape — no need for an explosion. Usually, the stovetop method takes the same amount of time.
Tools to Use
I always have trouble steaming asparagus because it doesn't fit well. I checked around and found this asparagus steamer, which is my next kitchen purchase. There are also stack & steam sets available, which let you cook pasta and steam veggies at the same time (a real time, energy and dish-washing saver). You might have a bamboo steamer at home — they're typically used for Chinese dim sum but also work for steaming veggies. A double boiler is a make-shift solution, too, as long as there are holes in it.
The Flavor Traps
Now that you've used a healthy cooking method, don't go adding tons of high-calorie toppings such as oil, cheese or butter (my clients do it all the time!). If you decide to add butter or oil, stick to 1 tablespoon and measure it out. Lemon, garlic or just a dash of black pepper work wonders. I love a spritz of fresh lemon on my steamed asparagus. Try mixing a few minced garlic cloves with a teaspoon of olive oil and drizzle over broccoli.
- Recipes to try:
- Steamed Baby Vegetables
- Steamed Green Beans with Pine nuts
- Steamed Baby Spinach
- Steamed Asian Greens with Honey Soy Sesame Dressing
- Steamed Artichoke
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To steam asparagus, I put a rack in a frying pan and lay the asparagus on the rack. Steam for 6 minutes.
After steaming green beans, marinate them overnight in balsamic, olive oil, tarragon, pressed garlic and a tiny smidge of dijon mustard.
Pampered Chef makes a great plastic like pan with a vented lid that snaps on. It is great for steaming vegetables in the microwave and then draining the water off. I use it all the time for broccoli and steam it for 3 minutes in the microwave and it comes out perfect.
I have a microwave steamer set – similiar to the steamer pans, it has a bottom you add water too and a steamer basket that you fill with veggies and a top that you can steam it with. I keep the veggies hot on the table by moving them to a bowl, seasoning them and then placing the bowl on the top of steamer basket with the hot water below and top with the lid – they stay nice and warm!
The Pampered Chef plastic steamer pan is the best -I use it daily and you can even drain the water. I'm glad someone else is a fan of it.
I love the rice cooker by Pampered Chef. If that is what the previous comments refer to, I whole heartily agree. I never thought I would need/want to use a rice steamer/cooker, but I really appreciate the fact that one can cook rice without lifting the lid or turning down the temperature. This takes the guesswork/diligence/art needed to keep the rice water from boiling over.
Cut vegetables into bite-sized pieces and wrap well in a double layer of microwaveable paper towel. Run packet under water until thoroughly wet. Place on revolving platter in microwave and cook on high for approximately two minutes, more or less depending upon quantity of vegetable steamed and desired crunchiness. Remove and carefully open packet. You can also steam and even reheat corn on the cob similarly, but reduce cooking time 30 seconds.
I add sauted onion, little ginger paste along with little salt and red chilli powder with all the vegetables I steamed. my kids love eating them with tortillas.
Is it really safe to microwave plastic wrap? I've read studies that say this can leach chemicals into the food. I prefer to microwave in glass dishes topped with a damp paper towel. I feel much safer, and I can reuse the paper towel to clean up any spills.
Looking for a glass microwave steamer – cant find one any where>> I dont want to microwave-steam in plastic anymore – any one know of one?


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There is something special about being able to play in the city you grew up in.
Sebastian Telfair will be afforded that opportunity Friday when the Suns visit the Brooklyn Nets for the first time since the Nets' move from New Jersey.
"It's definitely special. I can't downplay it at all," he said. "I'm excited about it. It's my hometown."
Telfair is a veteran of nine NBA seasons so he has played several times in New York, where the Knicks call Madison Square Garden home.
"Of course playing in the Garden is one thing," he said, "but actually playing in the borough that I'm from which is Brooklyn, it's going to be special to me and a lot of people that watched me come up coming from Lincoln High School in Brooklyn (to) playing in the pros.
"It's going to be a pretty cool game."
What's not going to be cool is finding enough tickets to satisfy all his friends and family.
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Getting started with JDK7
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We are all aware that the next version of Java is about to make its flashy entrance this July; We've seen the list of features it brings to the table and we are nothing less than anxious to take the JDK for a "test drive". So why not do just that?
Even though the current build (127 at the time this post was written) is available for download, we must take into account that it is still under development, so don't expect the binaries you download now to provide the same functionality and stability as the stable release which we will get to see in summer. However, you have an opportunity to get an early impression of how the new Java version will behave at your fingertips and you should definitely take advantage of it. Moreover, if you want to track the progress of the various projects composing JDK 7, you may want to subscribe to their mailing lists.
On January 13th 2011, Mark Reinhold – chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle – announced on the jdk7-dev mailing list: "The JDK 7 Project has reached a major milestone: It is Feature-Complete. This means that all of the planned features have been implemented and integrated into the master forest, along with their unit tests, and all other planned tests have been written and run on a representative set of platforms".
Without further ado, below is a step-by-step detailed description of downloading and setting up the latest JDK 7 build (for Debian/Windows/MacOS X) on your machine.
1. Download binaries from http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/
Alternatively, open a terminal and type:
- for 32 bit OS:
wget http://www.java.net/download/jdk7/archive/b125/binaries/jdk-7-ea-bin-b125-linux-i586-13_jan_2011.bin - for 64 bit OS:
wget http://www.java.net/download/jdk7/archive/b125/binaries/jdk-7-ea-bin-b125-linux-x64-13_jan_2011.bin
2. Run the previously downloaded self-extracting .bin file (first make sure you have executing permissions by chmodding those files to have +x access), by typing in the command line:
- for 32 bit OS
./jdk-7-ea-bin-b125-linux-i586-13_jan_2011.bin - for 64 bit OS
Accept the license agreement by writing "yes" in the command line and the JDK 7 will unpack itself in the same folder as the .bin file . You are required to press "enter" to finish unpacking.
3. Move the newly unpacked jdk1.7.0 folder to the /opt/jvm/ folder – creating /opt/jvm folder first:
sudo mkdir /opt/jvm ; sudo mv jdk1.7.0 /opt/jvm
If you have more than one JDK's installed, type:
sudo update-alternatives –-config java.
This will get you a list of the installed JDK's and their indexes. To install JDK 7 you just type:
sudo update-alternatives –-install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/bin/java 2
where 2 is the next unused index from the previous command. This should be repeated for javac and javadoc if you are going to use them via the command line. Finally check that the proper Java is installed by typing:
java -version
- Download binaries from: http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/jdk7/binaries/index.html
- Run the downloaded .exe file and go through the installation wizard, we recommend installing it to "C:\Java\jdk1.7.0_build<x>"
- Set JAVA_HOME & PATH environment variables: In the command line write:set JAVA_HOME="C:\Java\jdk1.7.0″
set PATH=C:\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;%PATH%
NOTE: GUIs for setting path variables can be found here:
- For Windows XP
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- Windows 7
4. [OPTIONAL]run java -version & javac -version to check that they point to the correct jdk version
MacOS X
On 12 January 2011, Richard Mayhew wrote an article on The Server Side about the MacOS and JDK 7 tandem. He stated the following: "Just in case you didn't know: wikis.sun.com has directions for building OpenJDK7 for MacOS. Also, code.google.com has a prebuilt JDK7 for 32-bit and 64-bit MacOS." Following the links provided in this article you will be able to set up JDK 7 on your Mac OS.
You are now ready to start juggling with the new features which JDK 7 has to offer. You may test your code in your favourite text editor, or perhaps you wish to try Netbeans 7.0 Beta IDE which introduces language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 platform.
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U forgot Taunt lines ^^ Some of the skills are OP but the passive is cool
I hate champions that ruin the game
I love the Ultimate and passive
Updated some things. Mind I ask how he ruins the game? Constructive criticism is quite nice to have, and suggestions on what to do is even better. Thank you ^^ And I'm considering changing his Ulti to where it just removes everyones icons from the opponents minimap and their minisights, gives them the chance to ping where they are to have SOME coordination, but it'd take a decent team.
I realy like your ideas! Although one thing I am worried about is that the hero might become useless late-game.
Do you think I should scale AP on his skills a bit better? Like +1 per AP? Then late game he can initiate ganks by using his slow, randomizing their skills (Which would cause a user to panic, because he now has to look at his bars to find his cleanse or flash and press the right key), and then use his non target spike skill to hit harder. I could alter his United we stand/Divided they fall to initiate a 1 second stun if the opponent isn't within x amount of range of his allies.
people say "i loved it" because they like to play with op heroes just to get victories and thing they know how to play... the concept is ver very nice... but the ult is too op... minimap is everything in this game... without it you can't gank... you can't even get out of your base so if the ult is going to be something like this it should give your team the victory already instead of disabling the minimap
Seems people either like it or think it's OP. It does no damage, and if need be you can raise the cooldown to 120-180 seconds. It may scream OP, but it does no damage and only turns the minimap off for a short while, not the entire game. Also new option for an Ulti: SuperNova virus.


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Tiger men win in overtime
By CONOR NICHOLL
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- The Fort Hays State University men's basketball team was in constant foul trouble and had trouble with turnovers, especially when freshman point guard Craig Nicholson missed eight minutes in the second half after he picked up his fourth foul.
Plus, junior forward Dwayne Brunson and senior guard Lance Russell suffered from illness the last couple of days and played at less than 100 percent. Fort Hays lost a big lead late.
However, the Tigers made just enough plays and maintained a lead nearly all game. Fort Hays collected an 84-74 overtime road victory against Missouri Western State University on Saturday at MWSU Fieldhouse.
"Right now, you are disappointed with how you finished the game, but you are not sad," Tiger coach Mark Johnson said. "So it was important to get a win, to get a road win."
Fort Hays moved to 5-2, 2-0 MIAA, while Missouri Western dropped to 4-4, 0-2 MIAA. The Tigers have won five in a row against the Griffons, but at Missouri Western has always proved challenging for FHSU. This winter, Fort Hays is 2-2 in games decided five points or fewer or in overtime, while Missouri Western fell to 0-3 in such contests. The last five meetings in St. Joseph have been decided by six points or fewer or in overtime.
"We are a hard-working team, and we are just going to keep playing together," Brunson said. "We love each other and we are just going to grind it out until the end."
Fort Hays never trailed in the second half. Nicholson left the contest with 13:52 remaining in the contest and the Tigers leading 53-47. FHSU led 68-61 when he came back with 5:02 left. He finished with 17 points, 10 assists and five turnovers.
"We have to have him out on the floor," Johnson said of Nicholson. "He is the guy. He is a freshman. He is being a freshman at times. He had five turnovers -- he had too many turnovers, but we will take (that line) every time. He is just playing tremendous right now the last two games. But we are just putting so much pressure on him. The other guys they have got to want to step up and take the ball and be confident with it."
Senior Ben Congiusta ran the point effectively. He had couple of poor decisions, but did find Russell and junior Carson Konrade for 3-pointers in the stretch. Without Nicholson, Russell had six points and forced a miss on a breakaway layup from junior Adarius Fulton. Russell and Brunson led the Tigers with 18 points. Alfreeman Flowers led Missouri Western with 19 points.
"Sometimes when you are a little under the weather, you have some of your better games," Johnson said.
However, Missouri Western went on an 8-0 run and eventually tied the game up late.
With 40.4 seconds left, Fort Hays lost the ball near midcourt. A scramble ensued at the Griffons gained possession on a jump ball. After a timeout, Reed Mells immediately tied the game at 70 with a trey from the right wing.
Fort Hays had a chance in the final seconds, but Brunson missed inside and Missouri Western grabbed the rebound with 2.7 seconds left. Fulton missed a three-pointer from midcourt to send the game into overtime.
Fort Hays started overtime with Nicholson and Congiusta playing with four fouls. Senior center Rundell Mauge had already fouled out. But the Tigers never lost the lead.
"Things just run better when Craig is out there," Johnson said.
Junior Carson Konrade hit a trey in the first few seconds after overtime started. With 2:36 left in overtime, Nicholson had a steal and layup for a five-point lead. Fort Hays led 77-74 and Missouri Western had a chance to tie after it grabbed an offensive rebound after a Griffon missed free throw, but Brunson intercepted a pass underneath the basket.
Fort Hays is off for a week before it plays at Oklahoma Panhandle State University in non-conference action Saturday.


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By Paul Yeager, author of Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities
The Great Pumpkin hasn't even come and gone yet, but winter storm watches are in effect for portions of eastern Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey for Saturday and Saturday evening.
Significant snow by winter standards is a threat from West Virginia and Maryland northeastward into much of southern New England, including the potential for more than eight inches from northeastern Pennsylvania to interior southern New England.
If this Eastern snow storm does materialize–and that's not certain yet due to model uncertainty and the depth of the cold air so early in the season–it would fall in a region where many trees still have their leaves, resulting in widespread tree damage and downed power lines. This would be more of a concern than the traditional travel problems since the snow would melt fairly quickly on paved surfaces after being plowed or treated with salt.
The downed trees and power lines could be a major problem.
Let's just hope that it's more computer model mayhem than a legitimate fall snow storm, but the computer models are frightening–and not in a Halloween sort of way.
Here are images from the 18z run of the GFS, meaning the mid-afternoon run of the main American computer forecast model for those of you who don't speak meteorology-ese.
This map is the model output for midday on Saturday:
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Thomas Michael "Tim" Scanlon (/ˈskænlən/; born 1940) is an American philosopher. He is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. He has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana; obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University; earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard under Burton Dreben; studied for a year at Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship; and returned to Princeton University, where he taught for many years.
His dissertation and some of his first papers were in mathematical logic, where his main concern was in proof theory, but he soon made his name in ethics and political philosophy, where he developed a version of contractualism in the line of John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Scanlon has also published important work on freedom of speech, equality, tolerance, foundations of contract law, human rights, conceptions of welfare, theories of justice, as well as on foundational questions in moral theory.
His teaching in the department has included courses on theories of justice, equality, and recent ethical theory. His book, What We Owe to Each Other, was published by Harvard University Press in 1998; a collection of papers on political theory, The Difficulty of Tolerance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. Other recent publications include "Moral Theory, Understanding and Disagreement", Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 55 (1995), pp. 343–356, and "Intention and Permissibility I," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. 74 (2000), pp. 301–317.
Scanlon is the father-in-law of philosopher and scholar of African American studies Tommie Shelby, and was a close friend to professors Gerald Cohen and John Rawls.
Contractualism is an attempt at providing a unified account of the subject matter of a central part of morality which Scanlon calls 'what we owe to each other'. The normative domain of what we owe to each other is meant to encompass those duties to other people which we bear in virtue of their standing as rational creatures. A broader conception of morality includes whatever else we may owe to specific people, such as the special obligations we bear in relations with friends and family, or whatever else morality may require of us, such as the way in which we treat ourselves or nature. Scanlon believes that what we owe to each other, or what we could loosely call 'the morality of right and wrong', is distinct from this broader conception of morality in that contractualism provides a unified account of its content [1]
We can begin our description of Scanlon's contractualism by noting that judgements about right and wrong, unlike empirical judgements, are not theoretical claims about the nature of the spatiotemporal world but rather practical claims about what we have reason to do.[2] Further, they are a particularly important class of practical claims in that the judgement that an action is wrong is taken to provide reasons to not do that action which are most often considered to be decisive against competing reasons.[3] Following this point, Scanlon takes questions about the reason-giving force of moral judgements to be prior to questions about the subject matter of the morality of right and wrong.[4] More explicitly, he thinks that if we provide an account of the extraordinary reason-giving force of moral judgements then this account could largely form the basis for a characterisation of the subject matter of what we owe to each other.
Scanlon grounds the reason-giving force of judgements about right and wrong in 'the positive value of a way of living with others'.[5] A way of living with others which is typified by an ideal of mutual recognition between rational agents, where mutual recognition demands that moral agents acknowledge the value of human life and respond to this value in the right ways.
How ought we to value human, or rational, life? Scanlon argues persuasively that different valuable things require different ways of valuing. In contrast to teleological accounts of value, often to take something to be of value is not only to see reason to bring about a maximal amount of that thing.[6] This is especially true when we come to consider the value of human life. When we value human life we do not see this as a reason to create as much human life as we can. Rather, we tend to see reason to respect other human beings, to protect them from death and other forms of harm and, in general, to want their lives to go well. More important for Scanlon, to value rational life is to recognise the features which distinguish rational life from other valuable things, specifically, the ability of rational creatures to assess reasons and judgements, and to govern their lives in accordance with these assessments. Scanlon asserts that the proper response to the recognition of these distinctive features is to treat rational creatures in terms of principles which they could not reasonably reject.[7]
From this point, Scanlon's account of the value of rational life provides a locus around which his account of the reason-giving force of moral judgements dovetails quite neatly with a characterisation of the method of reasoning which we use to arrive at judgements of right and wrong, a method, moreover, which seems to be phenomenologically plausible. The reason-giving force of moral judgements is grounded in an ideal of mutual recognition which requires treating others in accordance with principles that they could not reasonably reject. Because mutual recognition requires that these other people are also appropriately motivated, this entails Scanlon's formulation of wrongness: 'An act is wrong if and only if any principle that permitted it would be one that could reasonably be rejected by people moved to find principles for the general regulation of behaviour that others, similarly motivated, could not reasonably reject'.[8] I will call this the contractualist formulation. An act is right, quite simply, if a principle permitting it could not reasonably be rejected in terms of the aforementioned formulation.
A few, rather discordant, summary comments are needed regarding how moral principles are derived from the contractualist formulation. When considering whether a principle can be rejected we must take into account the consequences, in general, of its being accepted, not only the consequences of the particular actions that it allows.[9] Because we cannot be sure about who will be affected by a principle, and how they will be affected, we must draw on our experience of life and consider the 'generic reasons' which individuals are likely to have, as a result of their general circumstances, to reject a principle.[10] In order to determine whether a principle is reasonably rejectable we must impartially weigh these generic reasons against each other [11] and, exercising our judgement, draw a conclusion about what the weight of reasons support.[12] Given the motivation of finding principles for the general regulation of society that no-one could reasonably reject, if the weight of reasons support a certain conclusion then it would be unreasonable to reject that conclusion.[13] Importantly, principles can only be rejected by individuals; aggregation of reasons across individuals is not allowed.[14] So if the generic reasons of an individual carry more weight then any other individual's generic reasons then his generic reasons are (for the most part)decisive in determining principles.
The generic reasons which are open to consideration under the contractualist formulation are any reasons which we judge as relevant to reasonable rejectability. This requires that we exercise our judgement in determining whether such reasons would be suitable grounds for mutual recognition.[15] Therefore, that a principle would negatively affect a person's well-being is not the only kind of reason which may be brought against a principle. Other considerations, such as how a burden would be imposed by a principle, can serve as reasonable grounds for rejection.
Finally, while contractualism only provides an account of that central part of morality which deals with what we owe to each other, Scanlon observes that this part of morality is related to the broader realm of morality in complex ways. There is pressure for the morality of what we owe to each other to acknowledge the values included in the broader realm of morality insofar as principles which don't make room for these values could be reasonably rejected. In turn, these values must accommodate the dictates of what we owe to each other to the extent that they involve relations with others, who have separate moral standing.[16]


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Weekly Address: The President and First Lady Extend a Holiday Greeting and Thank our Troops for their Service
In this week's address, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and thank our brave troops and their families for their service. The President and First Lady ask the American people to visit JoiningForces.gov to find ways to honor and support our veterans and military families, and say that we must all come together, as we always do, to care for each other during this holiday season.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2006 Release M-51-06 CITY ANNOUNCES BEACHWALK EMERGENCY WASTEWATER BYPASS PLAN The City has activated an emergency design and construction team to build a temporary bypass line in the Mayor Mufi Hannemann said, "This project is a top priority for the City. The health and safety of our residents and visitors are most important, and we must do everything we can to prevent a sewage bypass such as the one we had in March. As I have said so many times, our infrastructure needs our attention and it needs it now." On March 24, 2006, after weeks of intense rain, the 42-year-old existing force main ruptured on The bypass will generally parallel the existing 42-inch force main. It will originate at the Beachwalk Wastewater Pump Station in Waikiki, be tunneled below ground along Kaiolu Street across the Ala Wai Canal to the mauka bank, then submerged on the Ala Wai Canal bottom to the Ala Moana Boulevard bridge, and terminate near the Diamond Head entry to Ala Moana Beach Park. The 7,200-foot line is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The bypass project will be constructed in two phases. The first phase will be the portion from the mauka bank of the The second phase will construct an underground pipe by launching a state-of-the-art microtunneling machine from a pit on the mauka side of the Ala Wai Canal about 1,000 feet along Kaiolu Street to the Beachwalk wastewater pump station makai of Kuhio Avenue. Traffic will be intermittently affected along On the mauka side, in the City's Because of the urgency of the situation, the City has asked the State to issue an emergency proclamation for the project and waive the lengthy process to obtain permits for construction. This will allow the City to proceed immediately. Mayor Hannemann asked for the cooperation of the community during several months of construction. "There will be inconvenience for some people in this area, but we ask for your patience. We believe the community understands the need for this work and wants it done quickly." The estimated cost of the Beachwalk Wastewater Emergency Bypass is $20 million. Of this amount, $2 million has already been spent for the repair work of the March 24 break and $3 million for environmental restoration which includes additional 'akulikuli plants in the Ala Wai Canal. "We are encouraging public input into this process, and we're going to extra lengths to keep the public informed about the project," said Hannemann. The project work includes a comprehensive community information process. Information will be available to the public through a website www.beachwalkbypass.com, and a project hotline 808-203-5777. Project team members are: Lead Agency: City Department of Design and Construction General Consultant: R. M. Towill Corporation Subconsultants: Yogi Kwong Engineers, Kai Hawaii Inc. General Contractor: Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company Subcontractors: Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc., Frank Coluccio Construction Company Construction Manager: M&E Pacific, Inc. -30- Contact: Bill Brennan, Mayor's Press Secretary, 527-6928 Jim McCoy, Hoakea Communications, 543-8374/c 282-3440 |
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Sonoma City Councilmembers Laurie Galian and Steve Barbose, along with Supervisor Susan Gorin, earned high grades from Sonoma County Conservation Action on its annual Environmental Report Card.
Each received a grade of A- for the period between the summer of 2012 and the fall of 2013.
"Assessment of the responsiveness and voting behavior of our elected officials between elections is a better gauge for the voting public to consider than a campaign flyer," said Bill Kortum, SCCA board president.
Voting grades for other Sonoma Councilmembers: Ken Brown, B; David Cook, C; and Tom Rouse, C-. Full grades and comments below.
Conservation Action is Sonoma County's largest environmental organization. It grades in two main categories: 1) On environmental voting on policy matters and projects that come before their Boards/Councils; and 2) On availability to the public and on their willingness to listen to citizen input on environmental issues.
"Assessment of the responsiveness and voting behavior of our elected officials between elections is a better gauge for the voting public to consider than a campaign flyer," said Bill Kortum, SCCA board president."
The watchdog function is designed to hold elected officials accountable for their actions regarding their voting and their general attitude towards the local environment, he said.
"Through our field poll to council watchers in each municipality, we have a real sense of how these elected leaders are behaving, both when it comes to voting and when it comes to listening to their constituents," said Dennis Rosatti, executive director of SCCA.
Started in 1991, Conservation Action is Sonoma County's largest environmental organization.
SCCA grades and comments:
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Tom Rouse
Voting: C-
Listening: D
Follows a pro-business agenda. Disconnected from the community and frequently out-of-town on personal business.
Laurie Gallian
Voting: A-
Listening: B+
A good vote for the environment. Very responsive to constituent concerns. Public understanding of her positions would improve with better articulation.
David Cook
Voting: C
Listening: C+
Gets Ag. issues and sustainability concerns but tends to vote pro-business. Very amiable but doesn't always listen.
Ken Brown
Voting: B
Listening: B-
Generally good on environmental issues. Opposed Hotel Limitation Measure, favoring big money interests. Conflicting feedback on his willingness to listen.
Steve Barbose
Voting: A-
Listening: B+
A consistent vote for the environment. Responsive, but persistence needed.
First District Supervisor Susan Gorin
Voting: A-
Listening: A-
Newest Board member; already a solid environmental vote. Chair of Sonoma Clean Power (SCP) and leader on water issues. Approachable and extremely responsive to constituents concerns. Needs to lead on event centers.
Ratings are based on citizen input and are the opinion of SCCA, which is responsible for the contents of this report.


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Catalog and Student Handbook
The College is governed by policies set by the State Board for Community Colleges with support and advice from the Germanna Community College Board. Primary funding for the College is provided by the state, supplemented by contributions from seven counties and one city and by student tuition.
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Kitchen Equipment Essentials: Appliances
Trying to fill a new kitchen? Make sure these trusty appliances are on your shopping list. And don't forget to look for these must-have cookware products, knives, and bakeware products.
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All of these are useful, yet optional. After all, if you don't drink coffee, you don't need a brewer. Just the mere fact of owning a mixer is not going to turn you into a baker, nor will buying a blender lead you to make smoothies for breakfast. So be realistic about what you'll use and what you won't before you give up any of your precious counter space.
Brands to Consider
Low-priced: Hamilton Beach
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- Automatic Drip Coffeemaker (View our reviews of single-serve coffeemakers.)
- Blender: Indispensable for smoothies, pureed soups.
- Food processor: Helps you whiz through all kinds of food prep from mincing, chopping, slicing, and grating to preparing pie dough, salad dressing, and dips. But they're not small and have numerous parts to wash. They're a good investment for anyone who cooks large amounts from scratch often.
- Hand mixer: All you need for occasionally making cakes, whipped cream, even cookies.
- Stand mixer: Worth the money and the counter space if you're a frequent baker, especially if bread is in your repertoire.
- Toaster: If you like toast, you need a toaster. Need I say more? (View the results of our latest pop-up toaster tests.)
- Toaster oven: If in addition to toast you frequently reheat pizza, make open-faced cheese sandwiches, or bake small items, consider a versatile toaster oven...just don't expect it to toast as well or as fast as a pop-up toaster. (Check out the best toaster oven models.)
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Drinking Water Quality Report
As of Thursday January 30, 2015 Fort Wayne City Utilities' drinking water turbidity (water clarity) is 0.06 NTU. This is below the 0.3 NTU, which is the maximum established by the EPA.
The flavor profile analysis (taste and odor) is 4 FPN compared to our goal of 6 or less FPN.
The total hardness of Fort Wayne's drinking water is 140 parts per million, which is 8.18 grains per gallon.
The most recent tests for cryptosporidium and giardia found both to be non-detectable.
For more information on drinking water quality, please call City Utilities by dialing 311 or (260) 427-8311.
Annual Water Quality Report for 2013 -- published June 2014
Annual Water Quality Report for 2012 -- published June 2013
Annual Water Quality Report for 2011 -- published June 2012
River Water Quality Report
Testing is not done in the winter months.
Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) and other sources may contribute to river water quality degradation. Water quality is considered to be degraded if levels of bacteria are greater than the standard set by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. E. coli bacteria counts should not exceed 235 organisms per 100 mls. of water.
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I was taking a walk and I saw Sora taking out the trash so we spoke a little. She had a soccer game today. Her team won. :) But it seems like she is SO busy latley. Well at least there won't be any soccer in the winter.... Oh, I'm being greedy again aren't I? Ooops. ^^;
Whew. No spending money for me. I need to save it. I want to take Sora to a concert and a convention.(As friends...) Because I feel like it and I don't like going to events by myself. I don't know if she can go the concert yet. (She can go to the convention if someone pays for it.. Which will end up being me because I am oh so generous... I just manage to be selfish at the same time.) The concert is on a school night. D: (Could be worse, could be the same day as the convention. X_X) But if she can that would rock. I'll ask her tomorrow.
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The number of breast cancer survivors is growing thanks to early detection and more effective treatments. There are now more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
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The unique care delivered through the Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic will help alleviate some of the stress many breast cancer survivors experience by providing the care each survivor deserves. This clinic will not replace the routine care each survivor receives from his or her oncologist or cancer team. It will simply complement this care at no extra cost.
The Breast Cancer Survivorship Program at The Sadie and Annabelle Garbar Breast Care Center provides breast cancer survivors with holistic follow-up treatment in a healing and nurturing environment.
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Australian senator challenges Nick Xenophon Malaysia entry ban
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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - An Australian lawmaker who has criticised Malaysia's electoral system as unfair said on Friday that he has launched a court challenge against an entry ban that saw him deported from the country.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon landed in Kuala Lumpur in February to study the electoral system of Malaysia - which is bracing for close polls next month - but was barred entry at the airport and deported.
An application in the Kuala Lumpur High Court challenging the entry ban was filed on Thursday, his Malaysian lawyer Ranjit Singh told AFP.
"The Malaysian Government's actions were surprising, extraordinary and unwarranted, that's why I am challenging the orders deporting and banning me," Mr Xenophon said in a statement.
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Solid 3 & Agility 3, disappointing specs
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OCZ has just officially announced the Solid 3 and Agility 3 SSDs that we recently announced here. These SSDs aim to be more affordable than the Vertex 3s and Vertex 3 MAX IOPS, using less expensive flash memory the origin of which is still unknown.
OCZ has put some stats on line regarding the performance of these new SSDs and we have taken the time to compile them and analyse them Here for example are the official OCZ stats for the 60 GB versions, compared to the Vertex 2 34nm 60 GB and Vertex 2 25nm 80 GB, OCZ not having yet published the numbers for the Vertex 2 25nm 60 GB or those using Hynix memory (
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While with highly compressible data the Solid 3s and Agility 3s have very good sequential speed scores, with incompressible data the performance levels are very disappointing and we can only salute OCZ for officially releasing these statistics. Read performance is divided by three and writes by 7.5x! This puts them down on the Vertex 2 34nm but they still have an advantage over the Vertex 2 25nm. When it comes to random 4K accesses, the level of performance for the Solid 3 isnt very good and the Agility 3 is only any better with writes.
You can see the same phenomenon on the 120 GB versions. Alls good with highly compressible data but in a more realistic context, with incompressible data, reads are down on the Vertex 2 34nm and writes are slightly lower (Solid 3) or the same (Agility 3). With random accesses theres a big improvement in reads which are double the performance with the 60 GB versions. Writes are equivalent to the scores with the 60 GB versions. Sure, in reads they dont compare to the Vertex 2 34nm or the Vertex 3 Max IOPS, but they are on a par with the Vertex 3 120.
While the arrival of more affordable SSDs based on SF-2000 generation SandForce controlers is a good thing, the Solid 3 and Agility 3 60 GB SSDs seem fairly limited. The 120 GB versions less so however and may well be worth a look. In both cases, unless they can count on maximum theoretical speeds, OCZ will have to position these SSDs pretty aggressively in comparison to the Crucial M4s they arent yet priced lower than the Crucials however. OCZs circumstances are not as good as Crucial or Intel however, as they dont produce their own flash memory and this is the main component in terms of the cost of an SSD. Lets hope however that OCZ will manage to move forward in spite of this handicap and that this new competition will bring prices down!
Z68: ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI
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The various motherboard manufacturers have taken the opportunity provided by the Intel Z68 Express release to launch various motherboard models. Heres whats coming:
- 3 ASRock
- 11 Gigabyte
Gigabyte has obviously been the most active and is bringing out lots of (too many?) models. They have in fact rolled out the whole standard P67 range as Z68 Express versions, without however including IGP connectivity. As they dont have Virtu either, the only advantage of these models is SSD Caching and you have to wonder what these motherboards really bring to the table given that the Gigabyte has announced that it wont be stopping P67 Express production either.
They have in any case taken the opportunity to boost the overall specs of their range a bit, with the UD3, UD4 and UD5 now getting a Marvell SATA 6G controller that only the UD7 had on the P67 range. FireWire has also been rolled out on the UD3 and UD4 in the Z68 range. On the P67 boards it was only included on the UD5 and UD7. Four other motherboards have video outs for the IGP, two ATXs and two micro ATXs.
ASUS has also chosen to bring out cards without video outs for the IGP two out of five in the Z68 range, but they do get Virtu for anyone wanting to use QuickSync. Only the P8Z68-V Pro is available immediately and well have to wait until the end of the month for the others, the specs for which arent therefore definitive. Note that two Maximus range motherboards are on the list, the first, a Micro ATX, will be affordable (169) but the Extreme-Z with its 4 PCI-Express x16 slots will cost 349.
ASRock is bringing out three cards, one of which is a Micro ATX. They all have the connectivity needed for direct IGP support. Lastly MSi seems the least convinced by the Z68, with just two models, which isnt necessarily a bad thing as long as they cover most of the bases, as they do with the high end Z68A-GD80 and the more limited and less expensive Z68MA-ED55. On this last model however its a shame that the second PCI-E x16 port is cabled at x4. If youre going to include two ports you might as well go for x8/x8!
Z68 Express, too much segmentation?
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While the LGA 1155 processors were universally well received at launch in January 2011, they marked a new stage in Intels segmentation strategy. On LGA 1156 you could overclock all CPUs via the bus whatever the chipset. On LGA 1155 however, only the P67 chipset and a processor with Turbo (Core i5/i7 but not i3), whats more in the K series, would enable processor-based overclocking (using the multiplier).
Impossible then to overclock on an H67 motherboard as you could with H55/H57. Indeed you absolutely had to choose between overclocking the CPU and using the IGP and this at a time when the IGP was becoming a more powerful piece of hardware with QuickSync, acceleration of H.264 transcoding.
Intel has now launched a chipset as part of the Intel Series 6 range, the Z68 Express which combines the qualities of the P67 and H67 Express, namely:
- P67: Overclocking CPU via multiplier
- P67: Option to use 2 PCI-E x16 (cabled at 2x8)
- H67: Access to the IGP (+ overclocking IGP)
As a way of really underling the enthusiast nature of the Z68 Express, Intel has allocated it the latest innovation introduced by the Intel Rapid Storage Technology 10.5 drivers, the Intel Smart Response Technology, which allows you to combine a hard drive and an SSD. Also rolled out on the mobile HM67 and QM67 chipsets, this technology isnt available on the rest of the range, which is a purely software limitation.
The principle is similar to the one used for hybrid hard drives. Smart Response analyses hard drive accesses so as to place the most frequently used data on the SSD. This data is therefore placed on a separate physical peripheral but the two (HDD and SSD) make up just one peripheral, the size of the hard drive, as far as the system is concerned.
The gains announced in practice are impressive and the level of performance is close to what you get on an SSD, but as is often the case with hybrid drives, the gains arent necessarily representative. Of course, when you launch the same test several times, the data is placed on the SSD and accessing it is then a good deal faster.
The only thing is that its objectively difficult to say what sort of performance a user will get in practice apart from that it will be somewhere in the interval separating HDD and SSD performance, closer to the first if youre processing a lot of data and closer to the second if youre not processing all that much. In that case it will make more sense to go straight for an SSD for the system and most used applications, especially as the secondary hard drive could then be kept in standby mode. The advantage of Intel SRT therefore seems questionable unless you already have a system SSD and a second SSD lying around unused which can then be recycled for this purpose, probably a pretty unusual situation.
Note that Intel has launched a new SSD for this technology, the 311 Series SSD. With a capacity of just 20 GB, it uses 34nm SLC flash which gives it excellent endurance and above all decent write speeds (115 MB/s) where a 320 Series 40 GB SSD will only give 45 MB/s. The only problem is it costs $110, which is what a 60-64 GB MLC SSD costs.
Underlining the high-end multifunction aspect of the Z68 Express, Intel is also highlighting its use of Lucid Logix Virtu technology. This additional software layer allows you to connect the screen to the IGP (i-Mode) or additional GPU (d-Mode) physically and move from one to the other on the fly, depending on the application, which allows you to benefit from the IGPs features ( such as QuickSync) without being limited by its 3D capacities.
Note that Virtu has a 5 to 10% impact on PU performance in 3D if youre using the IGP, an inevitable cost given that the rendering carried out in the IGP frame buffer has to be recopied before its displayed. Moreover, the application must have a profile in Virtu, otherwise it will run on the IGP! As this configuration doesnt really give any gain in terms of energy consumption, given that during 2D processing on the IGP the graphics card wont be completely turned off, it makes more sense to virtualise the IGP with the GPU for QuickSync encoding as the impact on performance is then negligeable and the encoding applications managing the MediaSDK less numerous than the games requiring a good GPU! d-Mode is also available in the absence of a graphics connector for the IGP on the motherboard, which will be the case for some models.
Whether they like it or not, motherboard manufactures, already heavily affected by the bug on B2 chipsets, will launch multiple Z68 Express motherboards. These cards will of course be more expensive than the existing P67 and H67 motherboards as the mark-up Intel is asking for on the Z68 will have to be added to the initial model price as well as costs linked to additional video connectivity as well as any charge for the Lucid Logix Virtu license and of course some margin to make up for the inherent launch costs. All said and done the Z68s are likely to cost 10 to 30 more than the H67s/P67s!
As youll have understood by now, our early feelings on the Z68 Express are pretty lukewarm. The old adage better late than never may come to mind but instead of simply correcting its abusive segmentation between plaforms, what Intel has done is add complexity to its range by positioning what is at the end of a day nothing more than an H67+ as the crème de la crème in Sandy Bridge chipsets. It would have been more elegant to release a new H67 chipset that allowed CPU overclocking and offer Smart Response Technology across all Intel Series 6 chipsets with a driver update.
Thankfully Intel seems to have decided to change its policy on the forthcoming Series 7 chipsets, codename Panther Point, slated for 2012. According to
the latest rumours
the three versions, H77, Z75 and Z77, should allow overclocking and benefit from IGP support, with the differentiations coming uniquely in terms of the Intel Smart Response Technology and the routing of the CPUs PCI-E 3.0 lanes between 1, 2 or 3 graphics ports. It remains to be seen if QuickSync 2 included in the forthcoming Ivy Bridges will be accessible without going via the IGP or a third party software layer such as Virtu, as this really would be a plus. In the meantime, well have to make do with the current state of affairs, which is far from satisfactory, and pay the not negligeable additional cost if you want to have access to the IGP for one reason or another at the same time as overclocking. Something worth thinking about and which means the standard P67 and H67 soluitions still have an important part to play!
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- (1) Perfect Neopolitan Pizza Dough, (portion)
- 1/2 cup(s) Perfect Pizza Sauce
- 1/4 pound(s) fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
- 10 leaves fresh basil
- Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, for grating
- Set a pizza stone on a rack in the top third of oven. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F for at least 45 minutes. Meanwhile, remove dough ball from refrigerator and let stand for 20 minutes.
- Working on a floured surface and using your fingers, press and stretch dough ball out to a 10-inch round, working from center toward edge; avoid pressing on outermost edge. Transfer dough to a lightly floured pizza peel. Spread pizza sauce onto dough, making sure to leave a 1-inch border around edge, and top with mozzarella cheese, basil leaves, a drizzle of the extra-virgin olive oil, and a light grating of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
- Turn oven to broil for 5 minutes, then return it to 500 degrees F. Slide pizza onto pizza stone, opening and closing oven door as quickly as possible. Bake until bottom is lightly charred and toppings are bubbling, about 6 minutes for a chewier crust and 8 minutes for a crispier one; avoid opening oven door during baking.
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