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The public debt management division of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development on Friday 8th February 2013 ended the Sierra Leone Medium Term Debt Strategy workshop at the ministry's conference room in Freetown.
The workshop was conducted in collaboration with the World Bank, IMF and the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Development (WAIFEM) from January 30th to February 8th 2013. A Medium Term Debt Strategy (MTDS) is a plan that the government intends to implement over the medium-term in order to achieve a desired composition of the government debt portfolio, which captures its preferences with regard to the cost-risk trade-off.
The objective of the MTDS workshop was to develop a comprehensive framework within which authorities can make informed choices on how government financing requirement could be met while taking due account of constraints and potential risks.
In his remarks, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, F.B.L. Mansaray, thanked the organizers of the workshop, particularly the consultants from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and WAIFEM for working tirelessly and diligently with the country officials for eight days to produce the first formal Medium Term Debt Strategy document for the country. He expressed delight on the presentation of the Sierra Leone-MTDS Document which he said has clearly proved the transfer of analytical capacity, especially in MTDS to the country.
The Minister of State stated that the government is faced with the enormous challenge of improving the standard of living of its people through the 'Agenda for Change', pointing out that very soon the government will launch the 3rd Poverty Reduction Strategy called the "Agenda for Prosperity" in which they would strategize the diversification of sources of growth in the country to include manufacturing, tourism and fisheries.
He said they will also accelerate human development with the aim of building on the gains made under the Agenda for Change by making sure that the free health care programme is expanded and sustained, access to quality education is improved, including adult education and ICT development. Mansaray further stated that government would promote international competitiveness of the country by making it more attractive to foreign direct investment through the improvement of the infrastructure for investment and promotion of competitive industries etc., while noting that meeting the above development aspirations would requirement enormous resources and that they would carefully mobilize external resources to supplement the available domestic resources.
The Minister of State stressed that maintenance of debt at sustainable level while achieving growth remains an important public financial management objective of the government, adding that as soon as the costing of the Agenda for Prosperity is finalized, they will incorporate it in the MTDS. He assured the consultants that government will look at their recommendations and circulate them to all stakeholders and that the final report will be forwarded to Cabinet for consideration and approval.
In his statement, Director of Financial Markets Department, Bank of Sierra Leone, Ibrahim K.Lamin, said public debt management in Sierra Leone is governed mainly by the Constitution and the Public Debt Management Act of 2011. He maintained that the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Sierra Leone work closely in the execution of the debt management function, namely loan negotiations, renegotiations, disbursement, amortizations and recording.
Lamin stated that while Ministry of Finance undertakes the policy function in terms of formulation of debt strategies, policies and implementation consistent with the macroeconomic and fiscal frame work of the country, the Bank of Sierra Leone acts as agent of government and manages domestic debt. He reiterated that the framework has contributed significantly to improve debt management in the country, stressing that the Public Debt Law requires annual production of debt management strategy which was designed to ensure that public debt remains sustainable in the country.
Mr.Lamin added that debt strategy is about how to develop the structure of the debt portfolio over time in a way that manages risk and the trade-off between cost and risk. The Bank of Sierra Leone, he noted, looks forward to receiving the final report on the Sierra Leone Medium Term Debt Strategy and that the Bank is ready to make additional input if necessary.
Ms. Eriko Togo, mission chief for the Medium Term Debt Strategy from the IMF, said debt management policy promotes countries' economy and also provides a clear framework and additional information from data on medium-term debt strategy decision-making. She called on the government of Sierra Leone to consider foreign investors to come, which she said will help boost and sustain the debt strategy.


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NEW ORLEANS – Becker's Healthcare has recognized Ochsner Health System on its 2014 list of "150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare."
Each year, Becker's Healthcare develops their top 150 list through research and nominations, organizations evaluated on their benefits, workplace culture, professional development opportunities and previous recognition for workplace excellence. The resulting list is a compilation of 150 healthcare organizations that go above and beyond for their employees and are great places to work.
In just the past year alone, Ochsner, which employs more than 14,000 employees, has implemented system-wide employee focused events and local employee recognition and engagement strategies at each campus, contributing to its employee and leader engagement scores surpassing the national healthcare industry average for percentage of employees and leaders "actively engaged." Ochsner's commitment to its employees has also been further demonstrated through its recognition of being named to the New Orleans CityBusiness "Best Places to Work" list every year since 2005, in addition to being named to the AARP's "Best Employers for Workers over 50" list for the fifth time in 2013.
Several other well-known organizations recognized on this list included the following:
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
- Cleveland Clinic
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore)
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
- MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.)
The full list can be read here: 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare.
Becker's Healthcare has also named Warner Thomas, CPA, MBA, FACHE, President and CEO of Ochsner Health System, a recipient of their 2014 Leadership Awards.
The awards recognize leaders nationwide who have made remarkable contributions that will leave an impact on their respective healthcare health systems, hospitals and communities for future generations. Award recipients will be recognized at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting held May 15-17 in Chicago.
The complete list of all 25 recipients includes leaders of well-known organizations such as Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
The full list of all recipients can be read here: 2014 Leadership Awards.
Ochsner Health System is southeast Louisiana's largest non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system. Driven by a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate, coordinated clinical and hospital patient care is provided across the region by 10 hospitals, both owned and managed, and more than 40 health centers in Louisiana. Ochsner is the only Louisiana hospital recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Hospital" across eight specialty categories. Ochsner employs more than 14,000 employees, over 900 physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties and conducts over 300 clinical research trials annually. Ochsner Health System is proud to be a tobacco-free environment. For more information, please visit ochsner.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.


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Colonize Revisited
11 Jul 2014 – 20 Jul 2014
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- 1st Floor Elevator Building
- 27 Parliament Street
- Liverpool
- United Kingdom
- www.arenastudiosgallery.com
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- 82 bus route - 2 minute walk
- Liverpool Central Station - 20 mins walk
Colonize Revisited by SCIBase
AboutAs part of their Liverpool Biennial programme, Arena Studios & Gallery presents Colonize Revisited A version of the highly successful recent exhibition by SCIBase artists in Jamestown, New York. Private view Thursday 10th July, 6pm 9pm. Exhibition open Friday 11th Sun 13th July 11 am 5pm And Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th July 11am 5pm. SCI are a branch of Soup Collective (SC) a long standing Liverpool Artists group. This exhibition is part of an ongoing series of events under the âSCIBase' moniker. This began in conjunction with Bruce Davies' BasementArtsProject, Leeds with the Stockholm Independent Art Fair Supermarket 2012 and in 2014 with an exhibition entitled COLONIZE that took place in 3rd on 3rd Gallery and DykemanYoung Galleries in Jamestown, New York, USA. Included in the list of National and International artists participating in this exhibition are Liverpool based artists Wendy Williams (founder of SCI) and Arena Artist & Director Carol Ramsay as well as Julie Dodd and Alan Dunn (2012 Liverpool Art Prize nominee), Bruce Davies, Andrew Crighton and Jacqueline F Kerr. Guest artists from near and far will also be exhibiting 'postcard' pieces alongside the SCIBase work. Join us at the Private view or pop along to any of the open days to see what is sure to be a fabulous exhibition. LINKS https://www.facebook.com/pages/SCI/170190669682733 http://sciartistprojects.wordpress.com http://basementartsproject.com Twitter - @basementartspro using #COLONIZE2014
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- Stanford Law School, J.D., 1992, Hilmer Oehlmann, Jr.
- Award, Lawrason Driscoll, Moot Court Award, Associate Editor, Stanford Law Review, President, Moot Court Board
- Yale College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1987
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Chong S. Park
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Chong S. Park is a partner in Steptoe's Washington office, where he is a member of the Antitrust & Competition Group. Mr. Park's practice focuses on antitrust litigation, representation of clients in governmental investigations, and complex civil litigation.
Mr. Park provides clients unique insights and broad representation as an antitrust counselor, litigator, and trial lawyer. He has successfully first-chaired bench and jury trials in federal and state courts and also has extensive ADR experience. Mr. Park served as the lead managing attorney and co-lead trial counsel in the Federal Trade Commission's Unocal standard-setting investigation and litigation. Following his federal government service, Mr. Park has represented companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in connection with antitrust lawsuits.
Mr. Park has substantial experience in cases involving the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law. He has litigated numerous cases involving issues of standards abuse and the alleged wrongful procurement and enforcement of patents for unfair competitive advantage. Mr. Park also has represented high technology companies in connection with investigations relating to the enforcement and licensing of standards-essential patents before the EU and US antitrust agencies. Mr. Park also has counseled high technology companies relating to patent pooling, licensing, and consortium activities.
Mr. Park maintains a varied and active pro bono practice and has represented individuals and non-profit organizations in cases relating to disability rights discrimination, wrongful death and civil rights violations, criminal proceedings and appeals, asylum proceedings, and immigration appeals. Mr. Park serves on the Board of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center and is active in the Asian Pacific American legal community.
Mr. Park holds a black belt in tae kwon do and competes on the local, state, and national levels.
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- Savant Systems, LLC v. Crestron Electronics, Inc., Case No. 10-cv-11622-EFH, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Counsel for defendant in pending antitrust litigation relating to electronic automation and control products.
- Edwards, et al. v. National Milk Producers Federation, et al., Case No. 4:10-cv-4766; Robb, et al. v. National Milk Producers Federation, et al., Case No. 3:11-cv-4791; Boys and Girls Club, et al., Case No. 4:11-cv-5253, US District Court for the Northern District of California. Counsel for defendant National Milk Producers Federation in pending class action antitrust lawsuit.
- Cellular South, Inc., et al. v. AT&T, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:11-cv-01690-ESH, US District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented C-Spire (Cellular South) in antitrust action opposing proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
- In re Rembrandt Technologies Litigation, MDL Docket 07-mdl-1848 (GMS), US District Court for the District of Delaware. Represented CISCO, Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Arris Group, Thomson, Ambit Microsystems, and Netgear in connection with affirmative antitrust and unfair competition claims asserted against Rembrandt Technologies.
- Greenheck Fan Corp. v. Loren Cook Co., Case No. 3:08-cv-00335, US District Court for the Western District Court of Wisconsin. Represented Loren Cook Company in assertion of Walker Process antitrust counterclaims.
- In re Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation, Case Nos. 2:08-cv-2431, 2:08-cv-2433, US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Represented GSK in defending antitrust claims brought by proposed classes of direct and indirect purchasers.
- 02 Micro Int'l Ltd. v. Rohm Co., Ltd., Case No. 2-05CV-211, US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Represented Rohm in assertion of antitrust counterclaims.
- Telecheck International v. LML Payment Systems, Inc., Case No. 2:05-cv-00270, US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Represented LML Payment Systems in assertion of antitrust counterclaims.
- Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd. v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Civ No. 6:06-CV00154, US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Represented Samsung in the assertion of affirmative fraud and unfair competition claims.
- Federal Trade Commission Award for Superior Service, 2005
Select News & Events
- Global Competition Review Recommends Steptoe in DC Antitrust Survey
- "US Antitrust Presentation to Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission (DRC)," California State University, Long Beach, October 22, 2014
- Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front: Emerging Antitrust Regimes in Asia, November 17, 2011
- Law360 Quotes Chong Park in Competition Stories
- Steptoe's Antitrust Group Adds Partner Chong S. Park
- Antitrust and Administrative Law: The Pros and Cons of Antitrust Enforcement by the FTC, Summer 2010
- The Supreme Court Rediscovers Antitrust: Understanding Recent Decisions, Fall 2007
- Unresolved Questions at the Heart of the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine, Spring 2004
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- Chair, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice


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María-Elena Reyes from Carolina, PR
Nominated by Edna Delgado
When María-Elena Reyes learned about her Parkinson's Disease diagnosis, there wasn't much information available in Puerto Rico. María-Elena, her husband and her friends sought information from NPF. They translated, printed and distributed it through the city of Carolina, inviting people to a meeting.
Due to the response, María-Elena and her husband founded the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Parkinson, (1992), a non- profit organization, to help PD's patients and their families to attain better quality of life, regardless of Parkinson's.
Once she became aware that when the Parkinson's progresses, patients might feel depressed, hopeless and "disable" for community-activities, and tend to isolated, she established support-groups (8) through the Island to provide orientation, recreational activities, speech and physical therapies, and special sessions dealing with self-esteem and positive-thinking, to help the patients and their families to express their worries and stressors while receiving support from peers, as happened with Papi-Juan and my family. These activities strengthen us to face Parkinson's.
María-Elena published her book Parkinson… ¿y qué? (2006), (Parkinson… and so what?) as a testimony of how she "deals" with her PD's. Regardless her Parkinson's and her 75 years old (04-11-1937), she doesn't rest: so she hosts the radio-program ¿Quieres ser sano? (Do you want to be healing?), to encourage hope for PD's patients, and she writes for the Association's newsletter La Voz.
Because of her creative attitude facing the Parkinson Disease, and her devotion, selfless and courageous dedication to help PD's patients to achieve the best quality of life, MARÍA-ELENA IS OUR SUPERSTAR.
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Re: Sourdough Starter
Hi Les!
I agree with Faith, there is a lot going on in that bake... Where to start??? Well, a crumb shot would be helpful...
Okay, first a disclaimer, I do not have high altitude baking experience so all comments on such are second hand and ???
First comment is keep feeding your starter. High activity after a week or two is not a guarantee of a robust starter. I know it seems contradictory but young starters often seem to be really active and don't provide much lift and your loaves clearly did not.
I am going to guess you used AP. Per my reading, at elevation one needs to use stronger flour so probably will want to use BF or a blend of BF/AP for your loaves. The dough needs to be stronger because at lower pressure the gases will leak out faster in a weak dough. You probably need to develop the dough more also - longer mixing/kneading than those of us at lower altitudes.
You got some oven spring (particularly on the baguettes) and sticky baskets often diminish loaf volume as is evident on the boules so while I think you are a bit overproofed it is not too bad nor enough to explain the pale look. Given the level of oven spring there should have been enough sugar in the dough to give you a reasonable color.
So, if that is right, the issue is steam. This bake is a great example of why I absolutely detest baking small batches in a WFO. (Now, there are people on this forum who manage somehow to make pretty bread in small batches in a WFO. I am not one of them! Well, I have but not consistently and I haven't worked at it for it is too easy in one of my three kitchen ovens! It is really hard in my experience to get enough steam in the WFO to give a proper and lovely crust if you don't load the oven with bread (say 12-15 pounds or more).
Cloches and cast iron dutch ovens work well because they have only a small volume of air above the loaf. As the water vapor leaves the dough the water vapor drives the air from the container and gives a very high humidity. Let's put this in perspective... A 1.5 pound loaf will lose about 10% of its weight in water while baking. As water vapor that .15 pounds will occupy about 3 cubic feet or almost 22 gallons of air space. That is far greater than the 2 or 3 quarts of empty space in the cloche or dutch oven. OTOH, the volume of your WFO is at least 7 cubic feet. You can't possibly get the oven loaded with steam to the level of the cloche unless you add a LOT of water. So...all in all I think the main problem you had was a dry oven.
WRT hydration, I don't see that as a problem other than sticking. Handling wet dough is a learned skill. If you have problems simply drop the hydration. You can make beautiful bread at 60 percent hydration and the dough will be far more manageable than 70. And you can add hydration as your handling skills improve. A lot of that lies in managing the skin of the loaf. You need enough flour to prevent sticking but as little as possible worked into the dough during forming.
There seem to be some sites that say altitude needs lower hydration. I don't know.
There are also sites that say yeast acts more quickly at elevation... I think that is a misdirection. I suspect it is about the same rate but that the dough will peak earlier because the dough will lose gas faster. Sort of the same effect but a different driver. And that is pertinent because the amount of gas created is a function of sugar consumed which is a function of the total yeast activity and if the gas leaks faster there should be MORE sugar left in the dough when the dough peaks as compared to lower elevations.
Net answer is try it again indoors, probably at a lower hydration, with a bit more mixing, and preferably using a cloche or dutch oven (though a baking stone and good steam generation is an alternative).
One last comment of yours troubles me. You say you heated for several hours but that the oven was "pretty much burned clean" and the hearth was only 750. When I burn my oven clears in 45 minutes or so and if I burn for several hours my hearth will be well over 850 to 900. Your oven may not have been loaded (as Faith and Bill imply). Leaving the door off allows heat to escape through the door and not flow deep into the refractory as you want for baking. You really want to close the oven and let the heat equalize before you load the bread (at least an hour) and then let it cool to a reasonable loading temp of 570 or so. Finding the right timing for all of this is one of the big challenges of WFO baking.
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I note that Les said he added steam...I'm curious as to how.
The reason I ask is because I have seen sites which advocate something like spraying a mist on the bricks once a few minutes before loading and then again immediately before loading....and that's it.
To me that seems laughable. I can't imagine that would do anything at all. There have been times I have sprayed a garden hose on my hearth to bring the temps down quickly and while a huge cloud of steam appears, it is all completely gone within a few seconds.
People forget that a hot wood fired oven (with the entry open) is "breathing". Even if there is no fire whatsoever, there is air being pullled in through the bottom half, circulating through the oven, and right up the chminey. If you don't believe me throw a handful of ash into the entry of a hot oven which has been completelty brushed and mopped. The air in the oven will be clear in four or five seconds due to the air flow caused by convection.
In my experience the only way to add steam in an oven is to put some kind of container in there with ice in it. Jay has advocated letting it drip over hot lava rocks. I modified that by stacking a jumble of firebrick scraps in a dutch oven, letting the oven and bricks geet good and hot, and then throwing a handful of ice cubes in the dutch oven immediately after putting the bread in. I would also throw four or five ice cubes directly on the hearth bricks (keeping the cubes at least six in ches away from the loaves). By doing that I would get little wisps of steam drifting out at the seal between door and entry bricks.
But, as Jay notes, using ice still doesn't compare to the steam generated in a fully loaded oven. When I load fifteen loaves at once (say twenty-plus pounds of dough) there are literally little jets of steam shooting out from around the door throughout virtually the entire bake.
So, if you are adding steam, I think it pays to make sure you are doing so effectively.
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You guy's are awesome.
Faith - I did a 70% hydration recommended by Jay (the ratio is in this thread)
Bill / Jay - The steam I added was obviously week. I mopped the floor a couple of times to clean. After I loaded the bread I sprayed a mist for about 10 seconds I need to find a solution other than loading the oven with dough because, to be honest, I wouldn't know what the hell to do with all the bread.
In regard to altitude, I found this in The Bread Bible
1. It says to increase oven temp by 25 deg to compensate for faster rising and slower heating
2. Liquids - increase 2-3 TBL's for my altitude.
3. Flour - increase 2 TBL's for each cup.
Jay, this occurred to me after the fact but you are cooking using Cloches. They would obviously facilitate a wetter dough since it is unable to "run" out.
Here is a pic of one of the baguettes (I had to thaw it out to take this). As I said it tasted great and from my limited knowledge, it looks about right. I guess my real concern is the color of the boule's.
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500g starter at 100%
1220 four
780 water
That does work out to 70% hydration. The pictures that you provided is looking like 90% or higher.
Look at WJW's crumb shot it looks white and bread like. Now look at your crumb shot it's not as white and quite translucent with a strange crust like outer shell.
If you baked starter 100% hydration that is what you would get. I don't think the elevation issue would have that much effect on your bread...just some minor tweaking to adjust for elevation.
If that is the amounts you actually did ( no mistakes or miss-measured) then I would start to reduce the amount of water to the final dough.
That is where I would start.
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Looking at the picture it doesn't have the correct color? I took it with my Droid in ambient light - don't know if that was a factor. Also, wouldn't the flour come into play as well?
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I have this was no experience with altitude so what I'm saying could be totally off base.
That being said, if I were you I would seriously look at the possibility that you made an error in measurement. I have to agree with Faith that the color of your crust and crumb looks very strange and translucent.
I know that I have miscalulated on a couple of occasions, and have almost done so a bunch of times. Fortunately, I have always caught the mistakes early enough to do something about it. But that has mostly been dumb luck.
I can recall one time that I mixed up thirty-plus pounds of dough and it slowly became apparent that the dough was too slack and hydrated. Luckily for me, this was about my fifth or sixth bake so I was (just barely) able to recognize the problem as I was mixing the dough (before the salt addition). So I took a step back, mentally re-traced my steps, and realized that I had miscalculated the water to a very significant degree. (Can't remeber specifics, but based on feel it was probablly 90% or so). I was able to re-calculate the mix and re-incorporate a large (but measured) amount of flour into the dough. It wasn't easy, but I did salvage the bake.
The point of this story is that I barely had enough experience in handling dough to realize there was a problem. So I fixed it. Had this occurred one or two bakes earlier I would not have had sufficient experience to realize there was a problem, or know how to fix it. So it may be possible that you simply goofed. It happens.
That hypothisis aside, I tend to agree that there is more than one issue at work here. I am (by far) the least experienced observer chiming in here, but I've turned over three hundred and fifty pounds of flour (almost eight 50lb sacks) into sourdough bread over the last nine months and I think I am starting to get a feel for making sourdough batards in a WFO. (But I still can't make a baguette to save my life).
As Jay points out, I would look closely at temps and heat saturation. It may be that you are so wet in that dough that the correct temp would still result in that look, but your comments about burning for hours and being "mostly clear" and having temps at 750 seem off to me. If I burn for three hours the temp of my vault arch is 900 plus. The hearth temp is right about there as well. I have to rake out, mop out, leave the door open for an hour or so, and then let rest with the door on for at least another hour to equalize and end up with temps in the 570 range. Heat saturation for bread is vastly different than heat saturation for pizza. Apples and oranges in my opinion. The main reason I typically do a fire the night before a bake is that it allows me to fully saturate without having to do a big huge three hour burn the morning of the bake. Such big "day of bake" fires frequently result in surface temps over 1000 degrees with less than saturated interiors. Better to do a small burn right at bed time to load the oven with heat. The next morning the surface will be relatively cool (say 375) because the door was open all night, but the interior masonry will be 500 plus or better. A medium burn in the morning (while doing your bulk ferment) will bring up the surface temps and top off the saturation levels such that I end up with a fully heat loaded oven without having to heat my hearth to 1100 degrees.
My thoughts are that you should try a "do-over" with the same hydration you intended in the last bake...albeit adjusted a bit for altitude based on your recent research. Make sure you are totally heat saturated. Try a small "night before" fire. Introduce steam by using ice cubes over hot lava rock or firebrick which are inside of a hot dutch oven or pie plate. Changing too many of the variables will undoubtedly result in a different loaf...but you won't know what did what.
And don't forget...the journey is where the fun is. If the point were to simply end up with a great loaf of bread, you could just go to the best bakery in town and buy one.
Just my opinion.
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Hi Les!
My dough isn't that runny! such that the cloche provides much support... The noknead breads often are though for they are usually minimally mixed (the weak dough development can't tolerate handling once it has gas. With experience 70 to 75% hydration AP (11,5% protein) should be reasonably handleable with a modest dusting of external flour. But at your elevation BF may be preferable.
You have pretty nice crumb on the baguette. Looks like the temp is too low.
The guidelines are a bit odd. Hotter might be good but...in a wfo you are heating the base by direct conduction. I don't get why it should be hotter but??? And adding both liquids and flour is ??? That doesn't change the hydration so much!
Main thing is to find a hydration you can work with and do it repeatedly. Get to know the dough. It is pretty important for the dough to not stick too much to the basket for if you take the top off it will definitely collapse. That said I made some really wet loaves about a month ago and with patience managed to get them out of the baskets in pretty good shape and they still showed good oven spring (though the crumb was a bit denser than norm). This last batch was really interesting. A bit of stick but not enough to hurt - and then the "puddle" on slashing but nice rise...
Your baguette looks to me more like a 72 to 76% hydration but... that can be really difficult to estimate. The crumb suggests good handling. But the color and crust are weird. Probably a hair overproofed and not enough steam. It takes a lot...
I tend to be a wetter is better guy - as long as you can handle the dough and avoid sticking and collapse.
Since I don't do small batches in my oven I am NOT an expert at this but with 15 pounds of dough, Bill is creating about 1.5 pounds of steam during baking. At ambient pressure that is close to 30 cubic feet - enough to fill the oven three or four times. One loaf creates only about 3 cubic feet - enough to half fill it!
My limited baking in the WFO in small batches says I want my oven to be about 575. The dough needs to be ready to load and NOT let out in the open to dry the crust. In dry areas (and you qualify on that) the dough can dry really fast - that may be more of a problem for you than the oven?? Spray some water in - not on the hearth - up toward the dome - preferably fine so you aren't wetting the refractory. Quickly mop the floor with a damp (not sopping mop). Those are to prehumidify the oven. If you put a pan of water in the oven put it in. Load the loaf quickly. Close the door leaving just enough room to insert the sprayer and spray for ten or twenty seconds. Close the door and seal and DO NOT OPEN for at least 20 minutes. That's about the best you can do for small batches in my experience. I can get "reasonable" color that way but not the look I want so I don't do it.
Hope that helps!
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Once everything was installed and working correctly, we put a few street miles on the new combo and headed to the track. Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville, Florida, prepped the dragstrip for us on a hot September day. Combined with the intermittent rain, the conditions weren't favorable, and it showed in our times. Out of the gate, we laid down a couple of high 12.80 passes. With a little work, and trying a few different things when it came to launching the car and locking the converter, we whittled out e.t.'s down to the mid-12.60s.
Later that week, we took the trip to Bradenton Motorsports Park, where the cooler air, and great track conditions yielded three passes between 12.26 and 12.28, all at 110 mph. Our 60-foot times are consistently in the 1.70-second zone, with a best of 1.69.
The best part of our new combo is the consistency. We roll in, lower the tire pressure, run four or five mid-12.20 passes, air the tires up, and head home. Did we mention the car is also pulling daily driver duty? While the new low times are not as quick as our previous best, we can now crank out time close to our best run after run. That is worth its weight in gold!
A Look Inside the Converter
There are three main elements that combine to transfer the power from the engine to the transmission: the pump, the turbine and the stator.
The converter is completely filled with fluid, which comes from the transmission. The fluid starts off its flow from the inside of the pump and then it is centrifugally pumped to the outside of the pump. The pump is welded to the front cover, which is bolted to the flex plate.
The engine rotates the pump and the fluid is pushed towards the turbine where the input shaft of the transmission connects. The fluid then flows to the stator and is redirected and the combined momentum of the fluid helps to spin the pump. This is how a torque converter can multiply the output power which is known as STR or stall-to-torque ratio.
The fluid then continues this movement as the turbine speed increases. Eventually, the turbine is spinning about 90-95-percent as fast as the pump. This is called the coupling phase, and the converter is simply transferring the engine power to the input shaft.
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The course offers the opportunity to develop a complete integrated microsystem, from inception to final test. Class meetings will be informal and will consist of two 80-minute lecture sessions per week plus one design/fabrication/test session. Students will work in interdisciplinary design teams of typically four people. Each team will design, fabricate, and test two multi-project chips: one using a bulk silicon-on-glass process to realize a number of MEMS transducers, and the other based on a silicon-gate LOCOS E/D NMOS process for signal processing circuitry and additional sensor interface. In order to accomplish this, the course is strongly supported by staff working in Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) and under the Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS).
After the devices are fabricated, students will test their own devices. Each group (four students per group) sign up for the test probe station and characterize their devices. GSI as well as WIMS staff will give basic training and facilitate all the required instruments that students may need for testing their devices.
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This course is a project-based class. Each project group (four students) will meet with an instructor to select their topic and review designs. Interdisciplinary team is encouraged and good team work is critical for the success of the project. We will have a formal presentation on the last day of the class and WIMS industry members will be invited to the presentation. The best projects will get a prize of total $2,500, sponsored by industry members.
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The Miller College of Business hosts Scott McCorkle, President, Technology and Strategy for ExactTarget as an Executive in Residence where he will also give a public lecture as part its Distinguished Lecture Series. Mr. McCorkle will present "The Internet Revolution: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!" where he will discuss the most significant phase of the internet revolution that's happening right now. A question and answer session will follow his presentation. Credit toward the Miller College of Business Advanced Professionalism Certificate will be given.
Scott is responsible for ExactTarget's product, technology, and services, where he ensures that customers have everything they need to run successful marketing campaigns. Prior to ExactTarget, Scott co-founded Mezzia, Inc., a company that provided on-demand software to manage the planning, budgeting, and execution of capital spending and project-based initiatives. Scott also served as Vice President of IBM's customer relationship management (CRM) product group and as a Vice President and General Manager for Software Artistry, a company acquired by IBM.
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Of course, works of art - like people - can age gracefully, and wrinkles on an old face can be very expressive. But dirt is a different matter (21 February, p 30), and it was the soot of centuries that had dulled the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.
When I saw them about 30 years ago I was saddened to see only dull hues. Now I can admire the restored frescoes with their original colours and shades. I am convinced that Michelangelo, had he seen the state the frescoes were in, would have done whatever he could to clean them and give them back the aspect he created.
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This is my first post, hopefully the pic will come out right. It is an un-shaded, un-inked drawing of batman and superman. Critiques are very welcome.
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welcome to the sketchbook section. I think you need to get some life drawing classes going. its nice seeing a piece where you are trying to do everything out of your head, but your proportions, anatomy, gesture, aforshortening all improvement. I think you should concetrate on drawing real people from pose books and leave comics alone for a little while, cause remember if you can draw real people, you can draw anything, and then your concepting skills will be pimp. Keep posting though man, i would deffinatly love to see more work from youl.
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Thanks for the critique, I'll keep that in mind.
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Afonso I (English Alphonzo or Alphonse), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques or also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), (Viseu, 1109, traditionally July 25 – Coimbra, 1185, December 6), also known as the Conqueror (Port. o Conquistador), was the first King of Portugal, declaring his independence from León.
At the end of the 11th century, the Iberian Peninsula political agenda was mostly concerned with the Reconquista, the driving out of the Muslim successor-states to the Caliphate of Córdoba after its collapse. With European military aristocracies focused on the Crusades, Alfonso VI called for the help of the French nobility to deal with the Moors. In exchange, he was to give the hands of his daughters in wedlock to the leaders of the expedition and bestow royal privileges to the others. Thus, the royal heiress Urraca of Castile wedded Raymond of Burgundy, younger son of the Count of Burgundy, and her half-sister, princess Teresa of León, wedded his cousin, another French crusader, Henry of Burgundy, younger brother of the Duke of Burgundy. Henry was made Count of Portugal, a burdensome county south of Galicia, where Moorish incursions and attacks were to be expected. With his wife Teresa as co-ruler of Portugal, Henry withstood the ordeal and held the lands for his father-in-law.
From this wedlock several sons were born, but only one, Afonso Henriques (meaning "Afonso son of Henry") thrived. The boy, probably born around 1109, followed his father as Count of Portugal in 1112, under the tutelage of his mother. The relations between Teresa and her son Afonso proved difficult. Only eleven years old, Afonso already had his own political ideas, greatly different from his mother's. In 1120, the young prince took the side of the archbishop of Braga, a political foe of Teresa, and both were exiled by her orders. Afonso spent the next years away from his own county, under the watch of the bishop. In 1122 Afonso became fourteen, the adult age in the 12th century. He made himself a knight on his own account in the Cathedral of Zamora, raised an army, and proceeded to take control of his lands. Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede (1128) he overcame the troops under his mother's lover and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, making her his prisoner and exiling her forever to a monastery in León. Thus the possibility of incorporating Portugal into a Kingdom of Galicia was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler (Duke of Portugal) after demands for independence from the county's people, church and nobles. He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León and Castile, another of his mother's allies, and thus freed the county from political dependence on the crown of León and Castile. On April 6, 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.
Afonso then turned his arms against the persistent problem of the Moors in the south. His campaigns were successful and, on July 26 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers. This meant that Portugal was no longer a vassal county of León-Castile, but an independent kingdom in its own right. That he then convened the first assembly of the estates-general at Lamego (wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm the independence) is likely to be a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.
Independence, however, was not a thing a land could choose on its own. Portugal still had to be acknowledged by the neighbouring lands and, most importantly, by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. Afonso wed Mafalda of Savoy, daughter of Count Amadeo III of Savoy, and sent Ambassadors to Rome to negotiate with the Pope. In Portugal, he built several monasteries and convents and bestowed important privileges to religious orders. In 1143, he wrote to Pope Innocent II to declare himself and the kingdom servants of the Church, swearing to pursue driving the Moors out of the Iberian peninsula. Bypassing any king of Castile or León, Afonso declared himself the direct liege of the Papacy. Thus, Afonso continued to distinguish himself by his exploits against the Moors, from whom he wrested Santarém and Lisbon in 1147 (see Siege of Lisbon). He also conquered an important part of the land south of the Tagus River, although this was lost again to the Moors in the following years.
Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile (Afonso's cousin) regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel. Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years. Afonso became involved in a war, taking the side of the Aragonese king, an enemy of Castile. To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce Berenguer, sister of the Count of Barcelona, and princess of Aragon. Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of León that Portugal was an independent kingdom.
In 1169, Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León. Portugal was obliged to surrender as his ransom almost all the conquests Afonso had made in Galicia in the previous years.
In 1179 the privileges and favours given to the Roman Catholic Church were compensated. In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent land with the right to conquer lands from the Moors. With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a country and safe from any Leonese or Castilian attempts at annexation.
In 1184, in spite of his great age, he still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors. He died shortly after, on December 6, 1185.
The Portuguese revere him as a hero, both on account of his personal character and as the founder of their nation. There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.
|By Maud of Savoy (1125-1158; married in 1146)
|Infante Henrique (Henry)
|March 5, 1147
|Infanta Mafalda
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|Infanta Urraca
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|Queen of León by marriage to King Ferdinand II of León.
|Infante Sancho
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|Succeeded him as Sancho I, 2nd King of Portugal
|Infanta Teresa (Theresa)
|Countess consort of Flanders by marriage to Philip I of Flanders. Duchess consort of Burgundy by marriage to Eudes III of Burgundy.
|Infante João (John)
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|Infanta Sancha
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|c. 1160
|By Elvira Gálter
|Urraca Afonso
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|Natural daughter. Married Pedro Afonso Viegas. Lady of Aveiro.
|Other natural offspring
|Fernando Afonso
|c. 1172
|High-General of the Kingdom (Constable of Portugal)
|Pedro Afonso
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|A.k.a. Pedro Henriques. 1st Grand-Master of the Order of Aviz.
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|12th Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Rhodes (also known as the Knights Hospitaller).
|Teresa Afonso
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Peterson showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He was shackled, said "Good job" to his attorneys and was led off. Sentencing has been set for Nov. 26. Savio's family and supporters hugged and cried along with witnesses who testified for the state.
Nick Savio, Kathleen Savio's brother, choked up outside the courthouse as he called the verdict "bittersweet."
"It's better than a White Sox World Series win," he said, his face quivering with emotion. "This has been a very long time coming."
He read a brief statement from the Savio family saying Kathleen can "now rest in peace."
"We all love her and will never forget her," Nick Savio said. The family said they planned to visit Kathleen's grave Thursday and tell her the news.
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"I don't see you laughing now," he said.
The jury left the courthouse without speaking to the media. Ken Kaupas, deputy chief of the Will County Sheriff's Department, read a statement from the jurors: "We have taken the responsibility bestowed upon us with much solemnity and diligence...after much deliberation we have reached a decision that we believe is just."
Contacted at their homes, several jurors declined to speak . One juror said: "It was a tough decision. We had to do what we had to do but I think it was just." Asked about Peterson, the juror said: "He's a good father and he had good defense attorneys, but I think the decision speaks for itself." Peterson's defense team spoke to reporters outside the courtroom and said the conviction would be appealed.
The verdict came after five weeks of testimony at the courthouse in Joliet, where prosecutors tried to show circumstantial and hearsay evidence proved Peterson was guilty of killing Kathleen Savio. The defense team attempted to poke holes in the prosecution case and said Savio's death wasn't a murder at all, but a slip-and-fall accident.
Peterson's attorneys pointed to the lack of physical evidence, the inability by prosecutors to place Peterson at the scene, and conflicting opinions from forensic pathologists about how Savio, 40, died.
Savio was found drowned on March 1, 2004, in her dry Bolingbrook bathtub, and her death was ruled an accident. But three years later, when Peterson's 23-year-old fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared, Savio's body was exhumed and her death was ruled a homicide.
Defense attorney Ralph Meczyk said he believes the defense raised reasonable doubt in the case. He said Peterson was sad, but didn't say much after the guilty verdict was read.
Outside the courthouse, defense attorneys Joel Brodsky and Joe Lopez waved at the crowd and said: "We'll be back."
As they walked away the crowd began jeering them, singing "Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye "
Earlier, a crowd of about 75 people outside the courthouse started buzzing as word of the verdict spread. One person shouted, "Guilty!" and cheers erupted.
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