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Curried Shrimp Salad
15 Dec 2009
I never liked shrimp till I tied this Curried Shrimp Salad recipe. Since then I have become a fan of this Curried Shrimp Salad. This salad had terrific results!
|Large shrimp
|2 Pound
|6 Cup (96 tbs)
|1 Small
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Curry powder
|2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Lettuce leaves
1. Shell and devein shrimp. In 4-quart saucepan over high heat, heat water to boiling. Add shrimp; heat to boiling, stirring occasionally. Cook 1 minute or until shrimp are tender; drain. Cover and refrigerate shrimp until chilled, at least 1 hour.
2. Cut zucchini crosswise into thin slices; cut slices into thin strips. In medium-sized bowl, mix mayonnaise, lemon juice, curry powder, and salt. Stir in shrimp and zucchini.
3. Line platter with lettuce leaves
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The Knife have announced that they are to split at the end of their Shaking The Habitual tour that concludes in Reykjavik, Iceland on September 7th. 354 more words
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Posts Tagged 'style'
Wack Job
May 4, 2015 | by Sadie Stein
Nothing can make you feel older than thrift shopping. As you walk the aisles, thumbing through the racks, young you keeps up a running monologue: That 1940s square-dancing outfit is cool! Look at those Polynesian-print slacks and the matching vest! You'd look like an awesome fifties-pulp lesbian cover model if you wore this shirt and tie! Sure, that leather dress is totally unflattering—but it's neat! And five dollars! Have you ever worn your other five fake-fur chubbies? No, but maybe now's the time!
And time was, you'd have bought all these things. Each would have symbolized a you you might have been, or could have been for a day—an identity you could don or pretend you'd don. At the very least, the cheap thrill of the moment would have overridden any other concern. Who cared if your closet looked like it belonged to a hoarder pied piper? Anything was good enough for class, or for the existence of a creatively inclined, sensitive young person in the urban wild. Read More »
What About Bob
February 5, 2015 | by Sadie Stein
Bernice stood on the curb and looked at the sign, Sevier Barber-Shop. It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned non-chalantly against the first chair. He must have heard of her; he must have been waiting all week, smoking eternal cigarettes beside that portentous, too-often-mentioned first chair. Would they blind-fold her? No, but they would tie a white cloth round her neck lest any of her blood—nonsense—hair—should get on her clothes.
"All right, Bernice," said Warren quickly.
With her chin in the air she crossed the sidewalk, pushed open the swinging screen-door, and giving not a glance to the uproarious, riotous row that occupied the waiting bench, went up to the fat barber.
"I want you to bob my hair."
The first barber's mouth slid somewhat open. His cigarette dropped to the floor.
"My hair—bob it!"
Before I had nearly a foot of my hair shorn off, I reread F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." He based the story, which first ran in the May 1920 Saturday Evening Post, on a series of letters he exchanged with his younger sister. It was, appropriately, the kickoff to his iconic chronicling of the flapper era—when the story begins, the eponymous heroine is a dowdy wallflower, and everyone has long hair. Bernice becomes popular with an audacious "line": she entices boys with the prospect of daringly bobbing her hair while they watch. But when a rival calls her bluff, Bernice is forced to submit to the shears. And then, the brutal fallout. Read More »
Fleur's Flair
January 20, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
Flair Magazine existed for only one year and twelve issues, from February 1950 to January 1951. In that time, it published the likes of Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Swanson, John O'Hara, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, Gypsy Rose Lee, the Duchess of Windsor, Lucien Freud, Salvador Dalí, Colette, and Saul Steinberg, among others.
Fleur Cowles—who conceived of the magazine, edited it, and, perhaps most impressive, persuaded her husband to publish it, even when it meant losing his shirt, if not his whole wardrobe—would be 107 today. If that seems like a throwaway detail, bear in mind that she lived until she was 101. It's maybe best to let her describe her own accomplishments:
Few women have lived more multiple lives than I have: as editor: as that anomaly, an American president's personal representative, decorated by six governments; as a writer of thirteen books and contributor to six others; as a painter, with fifty-one one-man exhibitions throughout the world; patron of the arts and sciences, irrepressible traveller and, more importantly, friend-gatherer …
Fond as she was of bragging about her gifts as a friend, or even merely as a "friend-gatherer," her most enduring creation is Flair, a beautiful, high-minded cataclysm of a magazine that incorporated "cutouts, fold-outs, pop-ups, removable reproductions of artworks and a variety of paper stocks of different sizes and textures":
[Flair] was simply too expensive to produce … When Flair ceased publication, Mr. Cowles, who had financed it, estimated that it had lost $2.5 million … A spring issue featured the rose, a flower Ms. Cowles painted and extolled until her death. The issue was suffused with a rose fragrance, some four decades before scent strips became ubiquitous.
All this comes from Cowles's New York Times obit, which is a work of art itself: "Fleur Cowles, 101, Is Dead; Friend of the Elite and the Editor of a Magazine for Them." Take a step back and you can see the splotch of animus on that headline—"a Magazine for Them." That's what Flair was: their magazine. Never yours. It was designed to appear tantalizingly out of reach. That's a commonplace these days, when every publication aspires to be "aspirational," but Flair, with its peephole covers and almost farcically high production values, may have done more to further the concept than any other American magazine in history. Copies of The Best of Flair, a 1996 compilation, sold for $250 apiece. And is it any wonder? Just look at the covers: Read More »
Anne Hollander, 1930–2014
July 9, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Anne Hollander, whose acute writing on fashion, costume, and style infused those subjects with a new intellectual energy, died on Sunday at eighty-three. As the Times reports, "She argued that clothing revealed far more than it concealed—about art, about perceptions of the body and ourselves—and her interests spanned centuries and mediums."
Hollander conducted—or co-conducted; she shares the credit with John Marquand—The Paris Review's first Art of Theater interview, with Lillian Hellman, published in 1965. Back then, her contributor's note read modestly, "Anne Hollander designs costumes, paints, and translates occasionally."
A little more than a decade later, in 1978, she published her first book, the brilliant (and brilliantly named) Seeing Through Clothes, a history of clothing and a study of representations of the body in Western art. The book was full of offhand wisdom about what you could call our philosophy of dress: "People seem always actually to know," Hollander wrote, "with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden." The book took a while to find its audience, but, as one critic noted, it "pushes erudition to the point of originality. The thoroughness with which she examines Western art and clothes has precipitated a new subject: how painting, sculpture and photography mediate between bodily ideals and what we wear."
Over the next decades, her reputation grew and she published a succession of well-received books, including Moving Pictures and Sex in Suits; she wrote essays for a number of magazines, including The London Review of Books. Not much of Hollander's writing is available online, but she was, for a time in the late nineties, the fashion columnist for Slate, which has curiously yet to publish a remembrance. Her pieces there have aged well; a column from February 1997—"A Loss for Words: Why there's no good writing in fashion"—is just as true nearly twenty years later:
Fashion journalists and sensational fictioneers like Danielle Steele have co-opted the field, and other writers are scared off. Fashion now seems like a club with a private jargon that leaves no room for the play of sensitive literary exposition. And good critical writing about clothing hardly exists at all. There is no tradition of clothes criticism that includes serious analysis, or even of costume criticism among theater, ballet, and opera critics, who do have an august writerly heritage. This fact may be what makes the fashion journalist hate her job—the painful sense that real work cannot be done in this genre, that it would be better, more honorable, to be writing about something else.
But Hollander didn't write about something else, thankfully. She expanded the rhetoric and insight of criticism about style, engaging where most writers thought there was nothing to engage with.
The Aulds Have It
April 24, 2014 | by Charlotte Druckman
Jolie/Laide is a series that seeks the beautiful and the ugly in unexpected places.
Continue to present yourself as a woman of loveliness and dignity, a woman who feels good and knows she's looking her best. —Angela Lansbury, The Gentlewoman, Autumn/Winter 2012
When I was a little girl, I had no reason not to follow my parents' edict to respect my elders, especially when it came to my female elders. My mother was stunning. I'd watch, mesmerized, while she applied her makeup, spritzed her Chloe perfume, and put on her latest Valentino or Ungaro ensemble before an evening out with my father. I thought her mother, my grandmother, was the epitome of elegance in her Upper East Side tweed uniform. Flipping through my mother's latest issue of Vogue, I saw a photo of Sophia Loren in glasses. "This woman looks like mom when she wears her glasses," I announced. "I do not look like Sophia Loren, but I thank you for the compliment," my mom said.
At the time—the eighties—Sophia was in her early fifties. The mask of fright she now wears, courtesy of an aggressive plastic surgery regimen, had not yet been donned. During that period, I also saw pictures of Audrey Hepburn, who was ten years Loren's senior, and I thought she, too, was beautiful. Of plastic surgery, she once said, "I think it's a marvelous thing, done in small doses, very expertly, so that no one notices." Read More »
Winston Churchill, Man of Style
April 16, 2012 | by Jason Diamond
One could hardly call the area around Fifty-second Street, between Park and Madison Avenues in Manhattan, off the beaten path. The sleekly designed New York City Ferrari dealership sits two blocks away on Fifty-fifth, the Cartier American flagship store is one block down in a six-story neo-Renaissance style, and the archbishop of New York conducts holy business at Saint Patrick's Cathedral just a few skips down the road. Midtown West isn't exactly a destination for book shoppers—not flush with indie shops like Brooklyn, bereft of the used-paperback vendors who line the streets along various parts of Greenwich Village. But 55 East Fifty-second's marble lobby, inside the triangle-shaped office building with a Gotham-style green-glass facade, conceals an equitably valuable treasure in the world's only standing bookstore dedicated to the works of England's former prime minister, Winston Churchill—Chartwell Booksellers. And while the tiny bookstore might seem at odds with its location, it actually makes perfect sense that one of history's best-dressed leaders would have a store in one of the world's most upscale shopping districts.


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Jimmy Fallon talks new fatherhood
NEW YORK — It wasn't quite a royal proclamation, but Jimmy Fallon shared the name of his family's new addition: Winnie Rose.
Fallon joked in his "Late Night" monologue this week that he hasn't had a chance to respond to everyone's messages, "but let me just say — Yes, William and Kate, we'll definitely set up a play date."
Fallon and his film-producer wife, Nancy Juvonen Fallon, welcomed their daughter Tuesday morning.
The 38-year-old Fallon takes over NBC's "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno next year after hosting "Late Night" since 2009.
Fallon thanked fans for their support on social networks and joked about chasing people down to show them pictures of his baby: "Now I understand why people are on Facebook. I get it now, I get it."
Univision says 'Piolin' agreed to leave show
LOS ANGELES — Univision Radio says Spanish-language talk show host Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo agreed to leave the network after a decade-long run that won him national fame.
Univision said in a statement recently that Sotelo broadcast his final show Monday. The program was syndicated nationally on more than 50 stations.
The statement comes after Sotelo was abruptly removed from the air, shocking loyal listeners of the Mexican-born disc jockey known for helping propel immigrant supporters into the streets in 2006 to protest against an anti-illegal immigration bill.
No reason was given for the decision.
Sotelo says in the statement that he had a great run on Univision. A message was left for Sotelo's manager Rudy Franco.
More performers for 2013 Voodoo Fest
NEW ORLEANS — More performers have been added to mark the 15th anniversary of Voodoo Fest.
Formally known as the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, the festival will be held Nov. 1-3 in New Orleans' City Park.
The Times-Picayune reports the newly announced acts include Matt & Kim, Dirty South, Beats Antique, New Found Glory, Savoy, Delta Rae, Moon Taxi, Allen Stone, Youngblood Hawke, GTA, ZZ Ward, Shovels & Rope, the Olms, Keys N Krates, G-Eazy, Hockey, A Silent Film, the Virginmarys, the Apache Relay, Those Darlins, Reignwolf, Ruby Amanfu, Roll the Tanks, the Purrs, Big History and Poof! The Pop Show with Carmine P. Filthy & A Boy Named Ruth.
The new names join a previously announced roster that features Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Paramore.
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Lorne Adrain acknowledges failing to keep governor informed on status of negotiations with unions at public colleges
PROVIDENCE -- In the face of a public rebuke from Governor Chafee, the chairman of the Board of Governors for Higher Education said Thursday that he could have done a better job of communicating with the governor the progress of contract negotiations with four unions at the public colleges.
Negotiators for the board recently reached tentative contract agreements with four unions, providing a 3-percent raise in each of three years. The unions represent the University of Rhode Island faculty, URI graduate students, and professional staff associations at Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island.
The compounded raises set a difficult precedent at a time when the director of administration, Richard A. Licht, is about to begin negotiations with unions representing thousands of state employees, said Stephen R. Hourahan, a top Chafee aide.
Chafee learned of the proposed raises on Wednesday and told Lorne Adrain, chairman of the Board of Governors, that they were unacceptable.
In a follow-up statement, Chafee said he strongly objected to the four contract proposals at a time when other state employees, taxpayers, and college students and their families are facing severe financial strain.
"It's not that these fine faculty and staff members don't deserve a raise, but when other state employees have seen their COLAs [cost- of-living adjustments] cut and their pensions altered, this is an issue of basic fairness and common sense," Chafee said.
"The Board of Governors should have been more mindful of the challenges facing the taxpayers and tuition payers who support our state colleges and university," Chafee said.
Adrain said, "The governor has a job to do, and we have a job to do.
"I could have done a better job of communicating to the governor's office every stage of the [negotiating] process," he said.
"The fact that I didn't do that contributed to where we are now. Clearly I didn't do enough," he said.
Echoing Chafee's statement, Hourahan said that "fairness and common sense" dictate that the state and the Board of Governors be consistent in their approach to labor negotiations. …


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Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard Have Baby Girl
The engaged couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, on Tuesday, Oct. 3 in
"Everyone is healthy and happy," says Gyllenhaal's rep, Amanda Silverman. The baby's name is Ramona.
Gyllenhaal, 28, and Sarsgaard, 35, have been together for four years and have been engaged since April.
Although they've both appeared in high-profile studio films, they've made the biggest splashes in indie movies. Gyllenhaal is the older sister of "Brokeback Mountain" star
Her other credits include "Adaptation," "Mona Lisa Smile,"
Sarsgaard may be more familiar to mainstream audiences. His recent studio films include "Jarhead," "Flightplan" and "The Skeleton Key." His other film credits include critically acclaimed roles in "Boys Don't Cry," "Shattered Glass," "Garden State" and "Kinsey." He's currently filming the upcoming adapation of Michael Chabon's novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh."


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1. In a large mixing bowl, add 3 cloves of minced garlic, 3 chopped green onions, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 1/3 cup water, 1 tablespoon sugar or honey and 3 tablespoons sesame oil and mix well with a wooden spoon.
2. Measure 100 grams of doljaban from the package.
3. Tear or crush the doljaban into small pieces with both hands and place it in the seasoning sauce in the bowl.
4. Mix it well until moisture is absorbed.
5. Sprinkle 2-3 tablespoon roasted sesame seeds and mix it together.
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Mexico midfielder Gerardo Torrado insists his team will "play to the death" to beat Argentina in Sunday's FIFA World Cup™ last-16 encounter at Soccer City in Johannesburg.
The 31-year-old issued a rallying cry to the rest of the squad after they made it through Group A on goal difference despite losing to Uruguay. Mexico have a score to settle with Argentina as four years ago in Germany they were dumped out of the second round by a Maxi Rodriguez wonder goal in extra time.
However, Diego Maradona's side, who entered the tournament with doubts over their credentials after an unconvincing qualifying campaign, are a force to be reckoned with.
Three success victories in the group stage have elevated them back among the favourites to win the FIFA World Cup. By contrast, Mexico have impressed in parts but still have yet to consistently deliver.
Torrado is wary of the threat Argentina pose but is looking forward to the match. "We have an encounter ahead which we have to enjoy but we will play to the death to win it," he said.
"Against Uruguay we lacked determination but each squad has circumstances that make them unique. There are different factors. This game (against Argentina) is necessary to continue advancing and to follow our dream so we will not lack attitude."
Mexico are hopeful Arsenal striker Carlos Vela will be fit for the last-16 tie as he returned to training after missing the Uruguay defeat with an injury sustained in the victory over France a week ago.
The winners of the match will play the team which emerges victorious from England's tie against Germany, also on Sunday.


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Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment
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Authors: Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti
We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more broadly, the transformation of savings into future capital input. We find that this shock is the most important driver of U.S. business cycle fluctuations in the postwar period and that it is likely to proxy for more fundamental disturbances to the functioning of the financial sector. To corroborate this interpretation, we show that the shock correlates strongly with interest rate spreads and that it played a particularly important role in the recession of 2008.


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U.S. economy outlook not too rosy, some investors say
When it comes to what's going on in the U.S. economy, Fort Myers financial planner Darryll Bauchert likens it to an airplane ride.
"We get on the plane, then we have a smooth take off. Then we hit turbulence. Sometimes the turbulence is stronger than it is at other times," he said.
That sometimes is right now, with the outlook for the U.S. economy going from bad to worse.
On Wednesday, major banks slashed their forecasts for economic growth in the second quarter, based on reports of weaker inventories and softer international trade. Some banks cut their estimates for growth to less than 1.5 percent. Confirmation won't come until later this month when the next report on gross domestic product is due out by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
For the first three months of the year, the growth rate was 1.9 percent.
"The hope is that we are going to have a nice smooth landing at some point," said Bauchert, president of Columbus Financial Group.
He called the bad economic news "more of the same."
"We are just not on a progressive track," he said, adding there's just too much uncertainty in government.
The nation's debt, a lack of leadership in government and potential tax policy changes all create uncertainty in the U.S., on top of the financial turmoil in Europe that is "still hanging over our head," Bauchert said.
"It's very difficult to find a lot of positives," he said. "Many companies today – small businesses especially – don't know how much money they are going to have tomorrow because of all the uncertainty in the government and that is where our big job growth can be."
He tells his clients that using his company's research the objective is to keep their investments as stable as possible. He said the key is stability and diversification – and having a written investment plan to rely on, which can be adjusted.
Robert Matheson, president and owner of Matheson Financial in Estero, said high debt loads continue to drag down the economy.
"I don't think we ever had a recovery," he said. "I think we're still in a mess."
He foresees a stock market crash, like those that happened in 1987, 2000 and 2008.
"Everybody is going to see that we're on a collision course right now. We can't keep spending money we don't have," he said.
Matheson has been investing some of his clients' money in inverse funds that go up when the stock market goes down, and he's steered more of their money into fixed-rate annuities issued by select insurance companies.
With so much uncertainty, bonds are another alternative to consider, along with investments in gold and silver since prices have dropped, Matheson said.
"My concern is we're headed toward a deflationary depression, not another recession," he said. "It's worse than a recession."
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Garlic Roasted Lamb
|Shank half leg of lamb
|3 Pound
|8 Clove (40 gm), sliced in half lengthwise
|Fresh rosemary sprigs/2 teaspoons dried
|2 Large
|Olive oil/Canola oil
|2 Teaspoon
|Sweet potatoes
|4 Large, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
|6 , cut into 1-inch pieces
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
2. With a sharp meat knife or kitchen scissors, trim off all the fat and any cartilage from the lamb.
3. With the tip of a sharp knife, make 1 inch deep cut slashes all over the leg of lamb.
4. Season the lamb with salt and pepper.
5. Push a garlic half or a few rosemary leaves into each of the cuts. Set aside for the flavors to get inside the meat.
6. In a large roasting pan, toss the sweet potatoes, parsnips, and remaining garlic with oil.
7. Push the vegetables to the corners of the pan and arrange the lamb in the center.
8. Place in the preheated oven and roast the lamb and vegetables for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, turning the vegetables occasionally to cook evenly.
9. Check for doneness by inserting a meat thermometer into the center of the leg. It should read about 160°F for medium done meat .
10. Remove pan from the oven and using a slotted spoon, transfer the vegetables to a serving dish. Keep them warm.
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January 26, 2015
In part 2 of Equipment Editor Jim Park's test drive of the Detroit Assurance automatic safety systems, he explores the benefits of Intelligent Powertrain Managment, which helps the truck operate in the most fuel efficient manner possible.
December 30, 2014
For trucking journalists and technology junkies, 2014 was a year that offered tantalizing glimpses of a sci-fi trucking future that may not be too far off. Deborah Lockridge looks at five reasons 2014 was "the year of the future" in trucking.
November 4, 2014
Many product choices means there's a roomy truck for every hauling and delivery need.
October 23, 2014
Daimler AG, the German parent of Daimler Trucks North America, has reported higher third quarter profit and revenue, with record Mercedes-Benz auto sales and a booming North American truck market being partially offset by lower sales in other parts of the world.
October 1, 2014
The IAA Commercial Vehicles event in Germany is running from Sept. 25 - Oct. 2 and trucks and technologies from all over the world are on display at the fairgrounds in Hanover. Our Equipment Editor Jim Park was in Germany, covering the event.
September 25, 2014
A slowdown in China's economy is likely to delay upgrades to Chinese trucking fleets according to a new report by Truck Industry Research and JSC Automotive.
September 22, 2014
When Daimler Trucks revealed to the world the first truly autonomous on-highway truck, it was digitally camouflaged to prevent anyone, including competitors, from getting a close look at it. In Hanover, Germany, the day before the official opening of the 2014 International Commercial Vehicle show (IAA), Daimler took the wraps of the truck and showed the worlds its vision of the future.
Daimler Trucks rolled back the curtain a little further on the autonomous commercial vehicle it revealed for the first time in July. The truck, and the self-driving concept, is being developed as part of Daimler Trucks' "Shaping Future Transportation" initiative to conserve resources, reduce emissions and to ensure traffic safety through vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications.
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Daimler Trucks on Thursday shared its vision of the future of trucking trucks that can drive themselves, saying they could help solve the driver shortage problem -- but not by taking drivers out of trucks altogether. The autonomous truck project, called Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025, was demonstrated on a section of the A14 Autobahn.
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May 19, 2014
United Auto Workers employees at Daimler Trucks North America's facilities located in Cleveland, Mt. Holly and Gastonia, North Carolina, have ratified a new four-year collective bargaining agreement.
April 30, 2014
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March 27, 2014
MATS, LOUISVILLE, KY -- Truck orders at Daimler Trucks North America over the past four months are up 30% over the previous year, so the company has been gradually ramping up production and expects a strong 2014. However, the involvement of the California Air Resources Board in writing the next round of federal emissions regulations has them concerned.
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February 12, 2014
Most large fleets have extensive experience with telematics: GPS location and mobile communications systems that collect data and communicate it back to a server where the fleet can access the information. As the amount and kind of data has increased in recent years, fleets have adopted tools to make sense of all that information and use it across their operation.
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The former head of Daimler Trucks, who was promoted nearly a year ago by parent Daimler AG to oversee production and purchasing of Mercedes Benz cars and vans, has abruptly left the company.
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Daimler Trucks North America announced that Mark Lampert, senior vice president of sales and marketing, will retire March 31. Richard Howard will assume the position of Daimler Trucks North America sales and marketing senior vice president on April 1.
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Passed Out In CO & Washed Up In UT!!! Big Bikes Conquer The Elements Of The West!!!
Hello Everyone! And Welcome to our Ride Report!:clap
This report covers the journey of 3 men :gdog, their bikes :dllama, I mean :ricky and 1 tiny dancer :jive as they ride through the back roads of Colorado and Utah hoping and praying for fair weather and fair conditions. :bow
Me, personally, I just wanted to stay on the bike and survive! More on that to come.
Ride Trails included:
With a stop in between at the KTM Rallly in Steamboat Springs, CO
*Thank you Backcountry Discovery Routes for your awesome services!
*Thank you Butler Maps for your awesome maps!
Total Ride Miles = approx. 2,000 +/-
Total Ride Days = 2 weeks
Lots of planning was done beforehand by and with Mike Z piecing it all together fitting in the stop at Steamboat.
We trailered the bikes on a marathon drive (16 hours between the 3 of us) from Santa Clara, CA to Cortez, CO.
We would later repeat the marathon drive on the way home. :loco
This is our Captain, Mike Z on his KTM 950. He put together all the routes incorporating feedback from everyone and made sure we stayed on the right routes.
*Jeremy's GPS was wacky and Russ had none. :fpalm
*Also, many thanks to Mike for letting me use his pics and vids as content for our RR!
This is Russ, Mike Z's cousin from Edmonton, Canada on his KTM 990 Dakar. He trailered his bike to Steamboat Springs, leaving his truck there for the Rally.
Then rode his bike to Telluride and joined up with us on our route.
This is Jeremy on his KTM 990R. He actually left his laptop behind this time around! :eek1 Well, actually, he brought it but then decided to leave it in Mike's trailer, in Cortez.
This is me, Prev! And I am a Pillion on Jeremy's bike. :D This is my/our first ever long range adventure ride, 2 up!
We had done a prep ride the weekend before this journey, but we were still learning along this ride and boy, did we learn FAST!
Oh yeah, it gets "interesting" along the way. :ear
GROUP PIC! :kumbaya
As this wall art piece says in the Branding Iron Restaurant in Buena Vista, CO...
I hope you enjoy our Ride Report!
Great Start!!:clap
I'm IN!!!
Bring it on! :thumb
this is going to be great.
I'm loving it already.
I just checked my GPS odometer which was reset when we left and it shows we rode 1937 miles total. I'm already itching for another ride. Death Valley on the 530 sounds like just the ticket :nod I need to get wrenching and finish her up!
been waiting for this!
brung it....:clap
tuffy, jeremy and mike....nice meeting you at the rally. lots of fun. we all had a great time.
Howdy Frm GV
Hey Mike
Nice meeting you and your moto bros in SB. Looking fwd to your RR.
Stay in touch and lets put a ride together sometime.
Hiya DingWeed, MotoBoss & ClearwaterBMW! :wave
Thanks for tuning in and I will do my best to provide regular feeds. :norton
Hi StevefrmGV,
Mike will be chiming in here as well so will let him and the others respond to direct posts. Thanks for checking out our RR. I will try not to disappoint. :cob
In! :lurk
Passed Out In CO & Washed Up In UT! Big Bikes Conquer The Elements Of The West!
DAY 1 & 2: Getting to the "starting gates"
9/6/13 & 9/7/13
From Santa Clara to Cortez. 1,030 miles in 16 hours
*I promise to keep this one short & sweet :brow
Note for Ladybug0048. What I did on this trip is I utilized more ziploc bags to organized my "pantry", "kitchen", "bathroom", "bedroom" and "closet" supplies.
I also rolled up every single possible clothing I could and used a hair tie to hold them. This made my clothes packing more compact & I had extra hair ties!
I was able to pack my closet in one sack, and likewise for the other categories. I'll go into more detail in my blog soon on this and other topics.
I'll also be looking into the vacuum bag idea from jdrocks with re: to food items to bring along for camping.
We stuffed up our sacks the nights before and packed everything up onto the bike the morning of. Mike came to pick us up with his SUV and trailer and we were off! (9/6 @ 1pm)
Poor car, it was completely full, especially with the addition of me. The guys were used to being just the two of them. Fortunately, I'm tiny, so I didn't need that much room.
Note for Rainprincess. Thank you for the wrapter idea! Even though I braided my hair, I still used it. The combo of which kept my hair totally tangle free and smooth as satin. :toney
Since we would be driving and driving and driving for a looooooong time... I decided we needed a treat. We stopped at the Petro Stopping Station in Los Banos, CA.
I don't make it to truckstops often - but man, this place was nice! Theater, gym, restaurant... swanky!
I treated the guys to a milkshake, which was a great idea at the time with it being nearly 100 degrees!
But, oh boy, Mike and I felt the milk"shake" the rest of the trip. :arg Be forewarned, it was very yummy but very thick!
Along our route, we passed through Vegas.
Jeremy really wanted to drive through the strip, so we let him! Told him to take the wheel too! :lol2
He was always saying how he wanted to come back here someday since the last time he was here was over a decade ago and lots had changed.
Little did he know, I had already booked a weekend trip when we got back for his birthday to Vegas. :wink: :nod :raabia
We didn't really stop to eat properly along the way as we were still full from the milkshake and I brought plenty of snacks for the road trip there and back.
When we started seeing this type of scenery, we knew we were almost there!
I brought a diary with me to keep track of as many details as possible, useful or not.
As we neared our destination, I had no idea we'd be going in and out of different states, often! I started keeping track at first, then it just got too ridiculous!
And throw in the time zone flip-flops! Duuuuuuuude :dood, what was I thinking?! :dunno
Finally, we reached our destination! We checked out Four Corners Monument and got to stretch our tired bodies.
We ran into these group of nice Harley riders who shipped their bikes from New Zealand and were into 2 moths of a 3 months US tour. Nice meeting y'all and hope you made it through the rest of your trip safely!
We finally got to eat properly! So hungry! :dg:dg:dg:dg:dg
Fiesta Mexicana was uber-delicious! And Bonus, it was right next to the Days Inn where we crashed...
It was 9/7, 4pm and the guys decided to go to bed. I caught up on my diary and hit the sack at 7pm. We all needed solid sleep and be well rested for the first day of our ride!
It's a good thing these bikes couldn't drive themselves away if they knew what was about to come! :lol3
Hang in there and be patient with me everyone! I'm off to dinner then I'll be back to post, post, post! Cheers!
This looks like fun!!
Glad you finally got started.
Passed Out In CO & Washed Up In UT! Big Bikes Conquer The Elements Of The West!
DAY 3: Cortez to Telluride (COBDR)
Thank you Backcountry Discovery Routes for your awesome services!
Thank you Butler Maps for your awesome maps!
We woke up at 5:30am.
Well, well, well, the sun was actually out and somewhat shining. A bit overcast but otherwise, today we were going to start off with good weather! :clap
I admit, I've never stayed at a Days Inn before and their breakfast was pretty good!
Actually, this whole trip was going to be a whole new experience for me and I couldn't wait!
After a hearty meal @ 6:30am, we were excited and eager to get started! :happay
*Russ is not yet with us. He will join us once we get into Telluride.
So far, so good! We were riding along and finding our groove.
-Mike was checking out his GPS/routes and bike movement given the high elevation (I will let him chime in here for his take on his bike's performance)...
-Jeremy was feeling out the weight/balance of his bike now that he was riding 2up with extra 90 lbs of me and luggage, and checking our Sena headsets...
-I was practicing enjoying the scenery (so pretty & green!) and taking pics :D while assessing the comfort level of my Airhawk and various gripping/hold on tight options...
*Jeremy and I had done a prep ride the weekend before this trip and so we were just fine tuning and balancing our riding cadence.
And we're finally on the good stuff! :lurk:1drink
We're riding along and we encounter our first gate! So off the bike I go to tend to the gate! :D
I'm not really sure why I was excited about this - my first gate duty, :scratch I just was...
Thanks, Mike for helping me out on a couple of the gates along the way where the tension was too strong for me to work with solo. :clap
Back to riding! :lurk:1drink
So... remember the gate? Well, turns out, 10 minutes up the road was the exit gate!
Yeah, so no wonder there were riding tracks on the other side of the gate - more direct and bypass the gates. :lol2 Oh well, it was good practice.
So we're riding along and following Mike... :ricky
Next thing you know we... :muutt
What happened?
So... Mike got all swirly right about where he's standing & pointing in the below pic. He slid left right in front of us and we were about to make a perpendicular connection and run over him and his bike... :yikes
But... Mike managed to stay upright...
And... Jeremy was somehow able to slide away, avoid the disaster, come to a stop... which is when he, still getting used to the 2up thing, lost his balance and we... had our first tip over!
I don't know why I was excited about that either... I just was... :loco
Takeaway: Don't follow Mike, or anyone else, too closely, Jeremy! :deal :rofl
Phew! Now that we got through that mini-ordeal... back to riding! :lurk:1drink
Bonus! We made good time and it was only 12:30pm! So there was plenty of riding time left! :evil
The ride conditions thus far have been relatively pleasant with light sprinkles here and there. But overall, we were weather-lucky today.
I snapped this pic of a quirky Statue of Liberty art sculpture on someone's lawn along the rode near the Welcome sign...
While the guys determined the afternoon's plan of attack.
Umm, see the really tall mountain up ahead? That is Black Bear Pass.
Both guys pointed it out to me and Jeremy stated, "Yeah, we won't be going up that. Too dangerous." :rolleyes:rolleyes:rolleyes <-- You'll soon understand this...
Until then... I need to :snore:snore:snore:snore:snore
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Small Business Expo 2015 - San Francisco
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Business Funding Factory, Session Five
Business Funding Factory 2013-2014
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
Session Five guides participants through the different types of business entities, their benefits and challenges and tax implications of each. This session will feature a business legal expert, providing entrepreneurs a better understand the liability associated with each entity and the opportunities to solicit investments. Participants will also have the opportunity address any general business law questions.
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Is...is he advocating playing Hopper over Dunn?
He's getting there.
No Paul, relying on things like that is how you lose games consistently and win games occasionally. You win games consistently by getting on base and getting extra base hits on offense and preventing the opposition from doing the same.The Reds' future, should they choose to accept it, showed itself some Thursday. Norris Hopper doesn't get on base enough to lead off, but he had three hits and runs like the wind. Batting behind him, Jeff Keppinger showed he could control the bat. The pair rattled Dodgers reliever Joe Beimel sufficiently, he balked home Hopper in the seventh, to give the Reds a 4-3 lead. Phil Dumatrait survived a wobbly start to pitch six credible innings.
This is how you win games consistently. Not with lots of home runs. Credit Hopper and Keppinger with covering lots of ground in center and left field, too.
Who does Hopper play over? How about Kepp? Couter should be here over Stanton, no doubt. Votto should be here as Hatteberg and Conine get traded. Bobby Livington and Phil Dumatrait are simply younger versions of Santos. They should be here in his stead because they're cheaper -- not because they're any better. And Dunn..... forget it. Still clueless.Guys who've taken the audition and need to sit some or be traded: Stanton, Santos, Adam Dunn, Jeff Conine and Scott Hatteberg.
Guys who need to play: Hopper, Keppinger, Coutlangus, Dumatrait, Bobby Livingston and Votto
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Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
It's easy for PD to make statements like this - in reference to trading them - he's not the one having to try and find the right deal and work that trade. What would he do if the return being offered is pretty dismal, or teams don't want guys like Stanton, Santos, or Conine?Guys who've taken the audition and need to sit some or be traded: Stanton, Santos, Adam Dunn, Jeff Conine and Scott Hatteberg.
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
Good for him...glad someone had the testicular fortitude to say something.
I prefer to think that the private face of the club isn't saying "We're close." The public face says that to sell tickets. If the public face were to say "We'll get 'em next year," the average fan would reply "We'll see you next year."
Ah yes, the logic with trading your consistent #1 or #2 in runs created every year, who is as old as time itself at age 27 to play a Norris Hopper. That right there folks is quality baseball writing. Votto should be called up to play 1st and Keppinger should get sufficient time wherever they can find room for him, as long as it isn't at the expense of Encarnacion.Guys who've taken the audition and need to sit some or be traded: Stanton, Santos, Adam Dunn, Jeff Conine and Scott Hatteberg.
If this was 60 years ago, I would fear for Dunn literally being ran out of town on a rail.
It's mind boggling that he can believe Dunn is something to just be discarded. I think Hopper and Keppinger are valuable pieces on this team; fabulous players to have on your bench, but they're not going to have the impact Adam Dunn can have. This place has become so dysfunctional.
I find it funny that he says Hopper doesn't get on base enough to bat leadoff, almost as if he understands OBP is a very good thing.... then says Dunn needs to go, which I don't exactly have a problem with given the right circumstances, but he frames it around Hopper needing to play.
Dunn is 27
Hopper is 28
Just sayin'
the reason it hurts is because it is light years from the truth.
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What an incredible piece of horsecrap that column was. Is the broadcast and print media in cincinnati made up of nothing but morons?
Adam Dunn is not a perfect player, and I expect he will decline rapidly once he gets into his thirties, but the idea that the key to winning is to discard him and play Hopper is so stupid that I am at a loss for words. How stupid can you be and still get paid to write such garbage?
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Take cake pops out of freezer and begin to coat them with the candy melt and then top with sprinkles. Place on styrofoam to dry or upside down on a cookie sheet. Repeat the process for all cake pops. (It is easier if you work in batches of 5 just to keep the cake cooler and easier to handle.) Enjoy!


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Remember that massive Dodgers TV deal with Time Warner that was locked in a few months ago? Looks as if it hit a snag. The plan is to carry all Dodger games on a new regional sports network named SportsNetLA. In the deal, the Dodgers are the product with Time Warner Cable taking care of the business operations side handling advertising, affiliate sales agent, and channel operations manager. So what's the problem? The deal hasn't been submitted to Major League Baseball for approval. The twist to that? The MLB wants to know exactly what its cut of the $7 billion, 25-year television deal will be. To summarize what's in dispute, the current collective bargaining agreement's base portion of the revenue-sharing plan calls on MLB teams to contribute 34% of net local revenue. But the way that figure gets calculated is becoming increasingly blurred by stuff like these regional sports networks and who owns them. The Dodgers' deal is even blurrier. So now everything from rights fees, naming rights, guaranteed carriage money, and other revenue expected to go into the owner/investment groups' wallet can be picked by MLB's revenue-sharing plan. Yikes! TV rights have been a gold mine for owners. Of course the MLB wants to ensure they get the most out of this scenario that they can. This is a business, never forget that.
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Sri Lanka Kandy
City Population: 125,400
Language: SINHALESE
Currency: RUPEE
Attractions: TEMPLES, BEACHES AND SURFING
Sri Lanka has something to appeal to everyone. Adrenaline junkies will love the world-class surf, trekking and rafting whilst animal-lovers can swim with dolphins, spot sperm and blue whales on annual migration, watch sea turtles laying their eggs and track wild elephants in the National Parks. Cultural types will find the UNESCO heritage temples and famous pilgrimage sites enlightening and foodies will love the spice-laden cuisine.
Kandy is the perfect base from which to explore. At 500m altitude it feels a world away from the hot, humid coastline and the views are stunning. Students usually group together to trawl the antique and jewel markets by the lake, watch a Kandyan dance show or visit the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth. At weekends travelling further afield to enjoy the rest of Sri Lanka. If you are here during July / August you will be lucky enough to witness the festival of Esala Perahera – one of Asia's biggest street parties complete with of dancing, drumming, fire-displays and elephant parades.
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In each of our destinations we have a large, secure Work the World house - your home for the duration of your placement. Our base in Kandy is modern and bright with stunning views over the beautiful lake around which the city is centred. Conveniently located within walking distance of the city centre, the house accommodates up to 36 students in comfortable, shared rooms, with large living rooms, outdoor verandas and a garden to relax in or brush up on the free Sinhala language classes.
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To make sure there is a bilateral benefit to our elective placements in Sri Lanka, and that the hospital staff working with out students are rewarded for their work, we make regular donations to departments on top of standard placement fees.
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In 2014, Work the World proudly donated over $350,000 to our partner hospitals around the globe.more about our global impact
Ayurvedic Medicine Experience
Whilst the Western world may see Ayurvedic medicine as a complementary "relaxing" therapy, in Sri Lanka it is highly esteemed and often the favoured approach when it comes to treatment. Anything from stomach upsets to broken bones or cancers can be attended to by an Ayurvedic practitioner and you are likely to find patients in the hospital who have either tried this first or are using it in conjunction with any care they receive from the hospital.
We have developed a unique Ayurvedic Medicine Experience to help you understand why traditional treatment plays such a key role in Sri Lanka, identify with patients cultural needs and perhaps even recognize the cause of unusual symptoms. You will live in a rural village, working alongside a venerated Ayurvedic doctor in an orthopaedic hospital, whilst also enjoying the cultural side of living in a small Sri Lankan community.More about the Ayurvedic Medicine Experience
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This is something I will never forget and probably never get to repeat in my own country.
Joanne Yates, University of Central Lancashire 2014Read More
Sri Lanka is a vibrant and welcoming country and I will definitely be coming back to visit in the future!
Grace Stevens, University of Central Lancashire 2014Read More
At the end of the day I walked back to the house feeling amazing because I had done something that I actually felt had made a difference
Emma Duckers, De Montfort University 2014Read More


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