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TOUR TO SLOW FOOD SALONE DEL GUSTO AND LUCCA, ITALY 23 October – 1
Dinner cooked by Ann Meyer at Villa ITINERARY Buonvisi. Thursday 23 October Arrival at Hotel Victoria, Turin. Free afternoon at Slow Food Salone del Gusto. Book your own Taste Workshops on line at www.salonedelgusto.com. TOUR TO SLOW FOOD SALONE DEL GUSTO AND LUCCA, ITALY Dinner at dai Saletta where the Saletta 23 October – 1 November 2008 family will introduce you to the genuine Piemontese cuisine of past times. Personally escorted by Heather Jarman of Sapori e Saperi Gastronomic Adventures in Friday 24 October Lucca, Tuscany. In collaboration with Ann Free day at Slow Food Salone del Gusto. Meyer of Cooking with Meyer, Western Book your own Taste Workshops and Australia. dinner on line at Monday 27 October www.salonedelgusto.com. Take your olives to the frantoio (olive Together we will travel, taste, experience press), watch them being pressed and take and enjoy a journey from the Salone del Saturday 25 October away a bottle of your very own olive oil. Gusto in Turin (Piedmont) to Lucca and the Private tour of Turin's baroque Garfagnana in Tuscany, meeting the locals, architecture which sets it apart from the Next a wine tasting and tour of the cellars the artisans and Slow Food enthusiasts along majority of Italian Renaissance cities. Our at Fattoria Colleverde, producers of some of the way. guide Susan Orlando, a specialist of the best wines of the Colline Lucchesi. baroque music, shares her passion and knowledge of the elegant baroque A short walk to lunch at Il Vecchio Pazzo, an buildings of her city. old frantoio that has been converted into a rustic family restaurant. Depart by private luxury mini-bus for Villa Buonvisi, Lucca. Free afternoon to enjoy the tranquillity of Villa Buonvisi and dinner cooked by Ann. Sunday 26 October Pick olives on organic olive estate Azienda Tuesday 28 October 'Alle Camelie' in Pieve di Compito. Off to the Garfagnana and a small mediaeval hilltop village where we follow a woodland Lunch at the Azienda in collaboration with trail to Beppe's metato (chestnut drying Salone del Gusto (Courtesy of Slow Food Archive) Slow Food Compitese convivium. hut) and a herd of Cinta Senese belted pigs. bookings In the afternoon enjoy a scented olive oil Lunch at Il Vecchio Mulino in Castelnuovo, firstname.lastname@example.com massage (not included in fee) or explore where the tasting menu allows you to feast UK: +44 (0)7768 474610 the village, followed by a tea tasting at on an extraordinary array of the best Italy: +39 339 7636321 the experimental tea plantation. produce the Garfagnana has to offer. town of Lucca. His deep knowledge of the PRICE PER PERSON: EU 2,295 local cuisine combined with his lively (MINIMUM 8 PEOPLE) sense of humour make his lessons both fun and informative. Then relax with a glass SINGLE SUPPLEMENT : EU 290 of wine and enjoy the delicious meal you The Itinerary is subject to change if cooked. necessary due to weather or agricultural conditions or other events outside our Friday 31 October control. The morning is devoted to chocolate and INCLUDES cigars. We watch the meticulous ! Luxury accommodation for 9 nights craftsmanship of an artisan cioccolataio ! Local ground transportation for 9 days and then visit Lucca's tobacco factory, ! Daily breakfast, 5 lunches, 7 dinners where we witness the considerable skill ! Entrance to Salone del Gusto, olive Il Vecchio Mulino and knowledge required for fermenting picking and olive oil souvenir, wine the tobacco, rolling a cigar by hand and tasting, Villa Reale tour, cooking lesson, After lunch we visit a handloom cashmere aging it to perfection. guided visits with producers scarf factory that weaves scarves for the top fashion houses of Europe. Opportunity to buy DOES NOT INCLUDE Our farewell dinner will be at the at well below retail prices. ! Airfares Michelin-starred restaurant La Mora. After ! Travel and cancellation insurance dinner we check out the wood-fired bread We then wend our way to the picturesque (compulsory) bakery over the road. mediaeval town of Barga via the 'mechanical ! Entrance to Taste Workshops at Salone cow' and back to Villa Buonvisi for supper. del Gusto Saturday 1 November ! Wines and beverages, other than those Depart Lucca after breakfast. Transport Wednesday 29 October served with meals, additional meals will be provided to Pisa airport to meet A free day to explore the exquisite walled ! Personal expenses such as telephone, the earliest plane necessary. town of Lucca. Among its treasures are its mini-bar, etc. landscaped Renaissance walls, the amphitheatre still bearing traces of its Roman Accommodation and mediaeval origins, many churches, paintings and sculptures. Find your own lunch Hotel Victoria, Turin and dinner at one of the many cafés or 4-star boutique hotel located in historic restaurants. centre of Turin, with health centre and swimming pool available free to residents Thursday 30 October Villa Buonvisi, Fattoria Mansi Bernadini Private tour of the gardens at Villa Reale: a (Lucca) We have this whole traditional tapestry of baroque fantasies woven into an Tuscan villa to ourselves. All bedrooms English landscape park by Elisa Bonaparte, have en suite bathrooms. Private sister of Napoleon and ruler of Lucca from swimming pool and tennis courts. 1805–1815. bookings In the afternoon use your own olive oil in a email@example.com hands-on cooking lesson with Gianluca UK: +44 (0)7768 474610 Pardini, who teaches in America and Japan as San Michele in Foro, Lucca Italy: +39 339 7636321 well as running his own school in his native
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Cavatelli with Roasted Broccoli Rabe and Harissa
Broccoli rabe rarely makes it into the oven; most cooks sauté or braise it instead. But roasting brings out its sweetness even more. Michael Natkin uses the smart technique for a fast pasta with cavatelli, smoked paprika and the Tunisian chile paste harissa.
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- 1.25 lb. broccoli rabe
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- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. In a bowl, toss the broccoli rabe with 2 tablespoons of the oil and season with salt and pepper. Arrange the broccoli rabe on 2 baking sheets and roast for 15 minutes, until crisp-tender, then chop.
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A method and apparatus for measuring the concentration of breath alcohol or other reactants is provided in which a breath sample is introduced to a fuel cell, wherein the number of electrons from the fuel cell resulting from oxidation of the alcohol in the breath rises to a peak and thereafter falls to a substantially steady minimum base to form a curve. The present method is based on the discovery that this curve, regardless of reactant concentration or age of fuel cell, is a log-normal distribution curve.
1. In the method of measuring the concentration of a reactant in a gaseous sample in which the sample is introduced to a fuel cell, the reactant is reacted at the fuel cell, and an electrical output from the fuel cell resulting from reaction of the reactant is measured, the output rising to a peak and thereafter falling to a substantially steady minimum base to form a curve, the improvement comprising fitting the electrical output to a log-normal curve, said method including a step of determining said peak of said curve, a step of determining a point on said curve between said peak and said minimum, and a step of calculating the entire area under the curve from the identification of said peak and said point.
2. The method of claim 1 including a step of establishing a fuel cell base line output of said cell at least once before samples are introduced to the fuel cell, thereafter a step of establishing a test base line before reaction of said reactant begins, and a step of calculating a correction factor from the fuel cell base line and the test base line, the correction factor representing the residual effect of a previous test.
3. The method of claim 2 including a step of making an initial area calculation relative to the fuel cell base line and subtracting the calculated correction factor.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the period between the step of determining said peak of said curve and the step of determining a point on said curve between said peak and said minimum is less than on the order of fifteen times the length of time between the beginning of said reaction and the reaching of a peak output.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the period between the step of determining said peak of said curve and the step of determining a point on said curve between said peak and said minimum is less than on the order of eight times the length of time between the beginning of said reaction and the reaching of a peak output.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the reaction is an oxidation of the reactant.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the reactant is ethanol, the method including a step of introducing a breath sample to the fuel cell.
8. The method of claim 1 further including a step of generating a signal representing concentration of said reactant as a function of said area.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein said output is an electric current.
10. An apparatus for measuring a reactant in a gaseous sample by reacting the reactant in a fuel cell which produces an electrical signal, said signal rising in response to the presence of said reactant in contact with said fuel cell and falling again to a base level to establish a signal-time curve, the apparatus further comprising means for determining a peak of said curve, means for determining a second point on the curve, and means for extrapolating the area under the curve as a log-normal curve based on said peak and said second point.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising means for adjusting the area under the curve for the residual effect of a previous test.
12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the means for adjusting the area under the curve comprise means for storing a test base line before reaction of said reactant begins, and means for calculating a correction factor from the fuel cell base line.
13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the reactant is alcohol, the apparatus including means for introducing a breath sample to said fuel cell.
This invention relates to devices and methods for the quantitative determination of the concentration of a chemical constituent in a gaseous mixture. It has particular but not exclusive application to breath alcohol testing devices such as the ones sold by Intoximeters, Inc., 1901 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo., under the trademark ALCO-SENSOR, and especially to such devices equipped with fuel cells constructed as described in Wolf U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,487,055 and 4,770,026, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
In breath alcohol testing devices presently used commercially, in which fuel cells are employed, the conventional way of determining breath alcohol is to measure a peak voltage across a resistor due to the flow of electrons obtained from the oxidation of breath alcohol on the surface of the fuel cell. There are a number of problems. The peaks become temporarily lower with repeated exposure to alcohol. The peaks also vary with temperature. In order to produce a high peak voltage, it is customary to put across the output terminals of the fuel cell a high external resistance, on the order of a thousand ohms, but the use of such a high resistance produces a voltage curve which goes to the peak and remains on a high plateau for an unacceptably long time. To overcome that problem, present systems provide for shorting the terminals, which drops the voltage to zero while the short is across the terminals. However, it is still necessary to let the cell recover, because if the short is removed in less than one-half to two minutes after the initial peak time, for example, the voltage creeps up. Peak values for the same concentration of alcohol decline with repeated use whether the terminals are shorted or not, and require 15-25 hours to recover to their original values.
Individual fuel cells differ in their characteristics. All of them slump with repeated exposure to alcohol in quick succession. Over time, their sensitivity decreases to a point at which they must be re-calibrated or replaced. Presently, the cell is replaced when it peaks too slowly, when it returns too slowly to a base line output, when the output at the peak declines beyond practical calibration, or when the background voltage begins creeping excessively after the short is removed from the cell terminals.
Wolf, U.S. Pat. No. 4,770,026, provides an apparatus and method that provides a measure of breath alcohol that is largely free of the drawbacks previously encountered with the use of fuel cells for this purpose. However, it remains dependent on the characteristic changes in a fuel cell's response curve caused by repeated exposure to alcohol and age. These changes increase the time required to perform an analysis and increase the time between successive analyses.
The present invention enhances the analytical capabilities of the device described in Wolf U.S. Pat. No. 4,770,026 by providing a new method for determining the level of breath alcohol or other gaseous constituent of a mixture. The improvement is applicable to a wide variety of other electronic analysis circuits associated with fuel cell detectors and to instruments for measuring a wide variety of reactive volatiles.
One of the objects of this invention is to reduce the time required for determining the level of breath alcohol or other reactive gases.
Another object is to reduce the computational requirements for such analysis.
Another object is to reduce the length of time required between successive such analyses.
Another object is to eliminate any error in a breath alcohol determination created by the residual effects of a previous test.
Other objects will become apparent to those skilled in the art in the light of the following description and accompanying drawing.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, generally stated, an improved method of measuring breath alcohol concentration is provided in which a breath sample is introduced to a fuel cell, wherein the number of electrons from the fuel cell resulting from oxidation of the alcohol in the breath rises to a peak and thereafter falls to a substantially steady minimum base to form a curve. The present invention provides a greatly simplified method for determining the area under the curve to a high degree of accuracy.
The present method is based on the discovery that this curve, regardless of reactant (e.g. alcohol, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, or other chemical compound for which the fuel cell is designed to react), concentration of reactant, or age of fuel cell, is a log-normal distribution curve. In the present method, the entire area under the curve is determined by identifying two points on the curve and calculating the parameters that define the entire curve as well as the entire area under that curve, thereby providing a measure of substantially all of the electrons generated by the oxidation (or reduction) of the alcohol or other reactant, and an intelligible signal representing that area is generated. The preferred method includes two additional steps: first, a step of establishing an absolute base line output of the cell (if any) and identifying points on the curve relative to that base line, and second, a step of establishing a secondary base line output immediately previous to introducing a sample to the fuel cell in order to determine the presence of residual effects from a previous test (if any), the value of which is used to mathematically determine a correction value for the subsequent test. The correction value is preferably based on the square of the secondary base line valued to take into account the area under the tail of the previous curve.
Apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided for measuring a reactant in a gaseous sample by reacting the reactant in a fuel cell which produces a current that flows via output terminals through an external circuit. The current consists of those electrons generated at any point in time by the conversion of the substance to be analyzed, the current rising in response to the presence of the reactant in contact with the fuel cell and falling again to a base level to establish a current-time curve, the apparatus comprising means for calculating the parameters of the extrapolated log-normal curve, means for determining the area under the curve, means for adjusting for the residual effect of a previous test, and means for displaying a value indicating reactant concentration as a function of the area.
In the preferred apparatus of the present invention, an external resistor across the output terminals of the fuel cell has a resistance high enough to avoid bypassing significant current from the current amplifier, but low enough to maintain the stability of the cell between tests.
In the drawings, FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing one illustrative embodiment of circuit of this invention;
FIG. 2 is a graph showing the curve of current produced by the circuit of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the curve of current produced by a fuel cell which has been recently exposed to alcohol or has been in use for a long period of time.
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the curve of current produced by a fuel cell which has not recovered completely from a recent exposure to alcohol, and further showing correction for the residual effects of the prior test in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the curve of current produced by a fuel cell which has either passed its practical useful lifetime in a commercial alcohol breath testing instrument or is attached to a high external resistance.
FIG. 6 is a logic diagram of a computer program for carrying out the preferred method.
Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIG. 1, for a circuit illustrating one embodiment of apparatus of this invention, reference numeral i indicates a fuel cell with terminals 2, 3 and 4. Terminals 3 and 4 are output terminals and terminal 2 is a biasing electrode which may or may not be included depending on the type of fuel cell configuration, in accordance with well-known practice. A resistor 5 is connected across the terminals 3 and 4. The resistor 5 illustratively has a resistance of 1.5 ohms. In practical usage, this value may vary widely, say from 1.5 ohms to 1000 ohms. A capacitor 6 is also connected across terminals 3 and 4. The capacitor 6, in this embodiment, has a capacitance of 0.1 μfd. Terminal 3 is connected to the negative input of an operational amplifier (op amp) 7. Terminal 4 is connected to a common or ground 13 as is the positive input of the op amp. In this embodiment, a 25k ohm potentiometer 8 provides feedback for gain control and a 2.2 μfd. capacitor 7 provides smoothing of the output. In this embodiment a potentiometer 10 connects to the offset terminals of the op amp providing zero offset for the op amp output. The output of the op amp 9 is electrically connected to the input of an analog to digital converter 11. The output of the analog to digital converter 11 is then electrically connected to a peak point and second point detector 12.
In the present invention, as in Wolf, U.S. Pat. No. 4,770,026, an output value is generated indicating percentage of breath alcohol. This value is a function of the total area under the curve (FIGS. 2-5) as generated by the method described herein. Unlike the Wolf, U.S. Pat. No. 4,770,026, the value is derived from treating the curve as a log-normal curve and determining only the peak point and a point on the tail of the curve.
In practicing the method of this invention on the device described, a fuel cell base line current is determined by measuring the output of the fuel cell circuit with no alcohol present. The device is then calibrated by using a standard, because every fuel cell is likely to have slightly different characteristics. The calculated area obtained must be divided by a factor so that the result displayed is the blood alcohol equivalent of the breath standard used. The various methods of calculating and applying this factor will be obvious to those skilled in the art. In the present example, the following formulas are utilized.
A common definition of the log-normal distribution curve is:
Y=a* exp [-0.5*((ln(X/b))/c)2 ]
The formula for the area under this curve is:
Area=a*b*c*e.sup.(c.spsp.2/2) *(2π)1/2
The values of a and b are determined by using the device to measure the peak point on the curve. This is accomplished by regularly monitoring the output of the fuel cell and determining the maximum output of the fuel cell (adjusted for the fuel cell base line) (a) and the time from the beginning of analysis to the point at which the peak output occurred (b). The value of c can be derived from the values of a, b and the coordinates of another point on the curve. This point is chosen based on the desired speed of analysis and accuracy of analysis. By choosing a point at a later time (slower analysis) the accuracy of the area determination will be increased, and by choosing a point at an earlier time (faster analysis) the accuracy of the area determination will be decreased. The second point may be determined at a fixed time after the peak is detected, or it may be determined at a fixed value relative to the peak height, for example 0.66-0.06 times the peak height. The latter approach has the advantage that as the fuel cell ages, the accuracy of the device remains constant but the operator is warned to replace the cell when the analysis time becomes too long.
For any point on the curve after the peak point the value of c for the above area calculation can be derived from the formula:
u=X(time), and
v=Y(amps-base line)
A secondary base line current ("test base line") is determined during the two or three seconds before the alcohol sample is taken into the fuel cell. This value is used to determine the existence of and level of residual activity from a previous test. A correction factor representative of the area under the tail of the curve from a previous test (or tests) is estimated by the following formula:
Correction factor=X2 /K
X=the test base line current-the fuel cell base line current and
K=a constant value determined for a given fuel cell.
As shown in FIG. 4, the area under the curve 31 is determined by the above method and the area attributable to a previous test, indicated by the area under line 33, is subtracted from the total area. The resulting area is indicated by the area under the curve 35.
It has been found by experimentation that the shape of the actual output curve of the fuel cell in a commercial breath analyzer differs slightly from a true log-normal curve. It is believed that this difference is caused by such factors as the finite time required for pulling the sample into the fuel cell chamber. Nonetheless, it has been found that the area under the actual curve differs by only about 0.1% from the area under a true log-normal curve. Therefore, the accuracy of the present method is believed to be well within the tolerances of most analytical uses.
It can be seen that, once calibrated, the device will give an accurate measure of the total alcohol content of the sample regardless of the initial height of the peak or the parameters of the curve. Accordingly, variations in peak height as a result of repeated use or degradation of the fuel cell or as a result of different temperatures will have no effect upon the accuracy of the alcohol determination. In practice, with degradation of the cell over time, the effect is to lengthen the time within which the measurement is to be taken. If a measurement time of ninety seconds, for example, is taken as the longest practical time limit in field use, then the cell can be used for a long time without being replaced. If there is any question of calibration, the device can be tested against an alcohol standard.
Numerous variations in the construction of the apparatus and the practice of the method of this invention, within the scope of the appended claims, will occur to those skilled in the art in the light of the foregoing disclosure. Merely by way of illustration and not of limitation, the resistance of the resistor between the fuel cell output terminals of the preferred device can be increased or decreased somewhat from the value shown but will always be low as compared with the conventional fuel cell breath analyzer, in which the external resistance between the terminals is between 300 and 1,000 ohms. The voltage output of the cell may be measured across the external resistor in a more conventional breath analyzer by connecting the positive terminal of the fuel cell to the non-inverting input of an operational amplifier. This configuration results in a somewhat slower response, since the electron flow is impeded by the resistor. Although the invention has been described as applied to a breath ethanol analyzer, and has particular utility in such a device, it may also be applied to other instruments which utilize a fuel cell to make quantitative determinations of a volatile, reactive constituent of a gas. Examples of such devices are breath analyzers which discriminate volatiles in the breath, such as the device described in Chow, U.S. Pat. No. 5,048,321 for discriminating alcohols; oxygen consumption analyzers; blood constituent analyzers such as described in Yao, U.S. Pat. No. 3,994,799; formaldehyde sensors; carbon monoxide sensors, and hydrogen sulfide sensors. When used in instruments designed to detect multiple reactants in a single sample, the reactants may be discriminated by the method of Chow, U.S. Pat. No. 5,048,321 or by known methods for discriminating populations having a log-normal distribution, such as the method described in England, U.S. Pat. No. 4,128,884. These variations are merely illustrative.
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MIAMI - LeBron James once carried a team to 66 wins. Ray Allen played for a club that won 19 consecutive games. Dwyane Wade led a team that finished with the Eastern Conference's best record.
Great Bend's Brit Spaugh Zoo offers teens a chance to learn about animal care and experience zoo careers as part of this year's Spring Break Zoo Crew. This program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, March 21-22. According to Danielle Ricklefs at the zoo, teens will work alongside zoo staff and will assist with the educational program and development.
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Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor scored their third consecutive Lime Rock Park race victory and Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas wrapped up their third consecutive Daytona Prototype championship in Saturday's Rolex Series season finale in the GRAND-AM Championship Weekend at Lime Rock Park presented by BMW.
Angelelli and Taylor combined to lead a race-high 92 laps in the No. 10 SunTrust Corvette DP, including the last 50 with Taylor at the wheel. The second-generation racer held off a late charge from Antonio Garcia, crossing the stripe 0.334 seconds ahead to score his and Angelelli's third victory of the season.
"We really transformed the car after qualifying," said Taylor. "I was sitting there at the beginning of the race hoping for a podium, to be honest. As soon as I saw Max on that restart at the beginning, and he was flying, at that point, I knew we had a car that could possibly win the race."
Second place went to Garcia and polesitter Richard Westbrook in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP, with Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty third in the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP.
The championship battle, meanwhile, went to Pruett and Rojas with a seventh-place result in the No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley. The teammates entered the race needing to finish ninth or better to clinch the DP driver championship, which they did by 12 points, 379-367, over Ryan Dalziel, who finished sixth. It was the fourth title for Rojas and a record-extending fifth DP championship for Pruett.
"It's great to be champions," Pruett said. "I just couldn't be happier for TELMEX and BMW and the whole Ganassi organization. It's just been an incredibly difficult and challenging season. We've had to really dig deep with all the experience on the team, knowing we didn't have the fastest car many times during this whole year but scrapped to get every point that we could in order to try and put ourselves in good position for the championship."
The No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates team picked up their sixth Daytona Prototype team championship. Chevrolet won the DP manufacturer championship in the first year of competition for the Corvette DP, and Riley earned the DP constructor championship.
While the GT team and driver championships were wrapped up at the previous round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca three weeks ago, the battle for the Lime Rock race victory came down to the final minutes.
One day after coming up just short in his bid to win the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner championship, Andy Lally suffered another heartbreak. With less than two minutes remaining, Lally surrendered the GT lead to Robin Liddell heading into Turn 1 and then Lally's No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche GT3 slowed dramatically, entering the pits at the conclusion of the lap.
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In an electric mixing bowl, whisk the yeast, sugar, water and lard together to make a paste. Add the flour and salt and mix, using a dough hook, until the dough comes away from the sides and crawls up the dough hook. Remove the dough from the bowl. Grease the bowl with olive oil and place the dough back in the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until double in size, about an hour. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide dough in half. Roll the dough into balls, cover and let the dough rest for 15 to 20 minutes. The dough is ready to be shaped.
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PANAMA CITY, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
On the 18th to the 20th of March 2013, the InterContinental Playa Bonita Resort & Spa, Panama, will bear witness to what promises to be the most disruptive event in the telecom industry next year - GDS International's highly anticipated seventh Next Generation Telecoms Latin America summit (NGT LA7).
Taking place over two-and-a-half days, the summit will incorporate roundtable meetings, working lunches, peer-led panel discussions, and vibrant workshops. In addition to these group-networking sessions, delegates will be given the opportunity to participate in more intimate one-on-one sessions to establish working relationships and discuss operational strategies at a more granular level.
The program has been specifically structured to cover contemporary, region-specific issues to help attendees determine strategies and solutions for the year ahead and beyond. Some of the topics scheduled for discussion at March's event include: How to Manage and Monetize Your Mobile Data Traffic; LTE (4G) Migration; Preparing for the Mobile Broadband Tidal Wave; ICT and Network Infrastructure: How Brazil Is Getting Ready; Customer Centricity; Converged and Real Time Billing and Charging; VAS for Mobile Telephony in Latin America; and Mobile Network Optimization - Addressing Network Challenges in the Mobile Internet Era.
As with each and every event, there will be an unprecedented delegation of thought leaders attending, including: Carlos Raimar, CSO for Telefonica Vivo; Wesley Schwab, Head of Marketing Innovation for Telefonica Vivo; Marco Goncalves, Head of OSS for TIM Brazil; Virgilio Amarel, CTO for TVA; and Cecilia Pedraza, CTO for Cablemas. There will also be a selection of big-name sponsors at the event, including: Cognizant, Peer App, EMC, Oracle and Acme Packet.
Dan Acton, CTO/COO/Co-founder of Crown Interactive, was an attendee at last year's summit. He said: "The event has a very focused and a very time-efficient way of organizing workshops and meetings. At the same time, we have had the opportunity to delve into topics with those solution providers and service providers on some of the current topics of the day."
Agustin Muñoz was another attendee at last year's summit. In agreement, he says: "The event has been great - it's one of the best events I've ever been to of this kind. It's very important to us that we attend next year's summit as well."
Joseph DeForca, NG Telecoms LA 7 Project Director for GDS International, the global events company behind the event, says: "Latin America is currently an emerging market, and represents massive potential in the telecom sector. With this in mind, GDS International's NGT Latin America summit is set to utilize the wealth of opportunities on offer. We have an exceptional program lined up and some of the most influential delegates in the region scheduled for attendance - I believe this will be our best summit globally."
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The South Carolina Supreme Court sent the ethics complaint against House Speaker Bobby Harrell to the right place when it agreed unanimously that the state grand jury should investigate the matter. But the court's ruling was marred by its decision to keep all related proceedings under wraps.
The public should have a right to hear what transpires in the hearing preliminary to the case going to the grand jury. Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning will decide whether Attorney General Alan Wilson should serve as the prosecutor before the grand jury.
Indeed, that was the question initially before Judge Manning in May, and he opened the hearing to the public. The case went to the Supreme Court on another issue: Judge Manning's decision that the House Ethics Committee had jurisdiction.
Of course, grand jury proceedings are closed to the public, and there was no expectation of an exception in this case. But there was every expectation that the public would be allowed access to the hearing on Mr. Wilson's involvement.
Mr. Wilson is elected statewide to serve as the chief prosecutor of the state. If he is to be kept off the case the public should know why. That can't be done if the hearing is closed. Footnote No. 11 in last week's ruling states: "Due to the secrecy afforded state grand jury proceedings, future arguments regarding jurisdiction, or any other ancillary matter, should be held in camera," that is, behind closed doors.
And barring a revision of the footnote, or a change in the relevant law, that rule presumably will be effective for all "ancillary matters" related to future grand jury cases.
In this instance, Mr. Harrell says that the attorney general has a political motivation and shouldn't handle the case. His lawyers have recommended that one of the state's 16 local solicitors should get the job.
The public ought to be able to hear that argument, too.
The complaint against Mr. Harrell contends that he violated ethics rules by using campaign funds to defray the expense of operating his private aircraft. The complaint, filed by the S.C. Policy Council, also contends that Mr. Harrell used his office for personal gain.
Mr. Harrell says he has done nothing wrong, insisting that the complaint is the result of a personal and political vendetta.
There's been no secret about that complaint, or about the issues raised by the speaker regarding Mr. Wilson's involvement in the case.
During the June 24 hearing before the Supreme Court, however, Chief Justice Jean Toal was critical of Mr. Wilson for notifying the media about developments in the case, including that it was going to the grand jury.
But former attorney general Charles M. Condon says it has long been routine to make announcements about cases headed to the state grand jury to keep the public informed.
Mr. Condon says he thinks the court ought to revisit Footnote 11. There's no apparent reason, for example, to close the doors when the motion to recuse Mr. Wilson is heard, he said.
"There is a huge preference in our system for open courtrooms," he said.
Prior to the May hearing before Judge Manning, S.C. Press Association attorney Jay Bender cited the compelling interest in keeping apprised of Speaker Harrell's case "so that the public may have confidence that 'justice was done.' "
That was true then, and it's true now.
But if Footnote 11 is allowed to stand, there will be less confidence in the process.
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