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I have built analytics platforms from the ground up, managed web-scale data storage and processing, implemented cutting-edge machine learning technologies, worked with the best of the big data tools available, and delivered automated real-time actionable business analytics. I am a published non-linear and statistical physicist with an interest in big data analytics. Strong background in research and deep knowledge of mathematics and statistics with a focus in non-linear stochastic processes, probability models, Markov processes, and dynamic systems
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Birds communicate by singing. And now it's the turn of the machines. A new crop of businesses are now creating what's referred to as the Internet of Sound.
Birds communicate by singing. And now it's the turn of the machines. A new crop of businesses are now creating what's referred to as the Internet of Sound.
In the future ordinary devices will be sensor equipped and wifi-connected. But the Internet of Things might be missing a concept that is something like its inverse: Let's call it the Search Engine of Things. That is, a device or suite of devices that can identify and contextualize the objects that surround us in the physical world, from pills to trees to hamburgers.
Tor is the world's largest and most well-known "onion router" network. Tor offers a degree of anonymity that has made it a popular tool of journalists, dissidents, and everyday Internet users who are trying to avoid government or corporate censorship (as well as Internet drug lords and child pornographers). But one thing that it doesn't offer is speed.
Over then next five years, the ability to bring internet connection to almost every type of consumer device will be huge implications for the insurance industry. Insurers looking to cut costs, improve business practices, and better assess clients' risk levels, will increasingly invest in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Nearly 220,000 individual requests have been made to Google to selectively remove links to online information. Less than 5% of those requests concern criminals, politicians, and high-profile individuals, according the Guardian. More than 95% of the requests have come from everyday people.
Facebook's three AI labs are working on a way to understand exactly what you share so it can serve that content to people with matching interests. Continue Reading »
According to a recent paper published in the Portuguese academic journal, OBS, the single most striking element explaining the difficulty in the discovery and implementation of new business models for the media in the digital age, is the declining value of information in the networked society. Continue Reading »
A provisional deal on new rules governing open Internet (net neutrality) and the abolishment of roaming surcharges was reached in the wee hours of 30 June after marathon negotiations between the European Council, Commission and Parliament, led by the Latvian presidency of the Council. Continue Reading »
Analysts predict, with Netflix's popularity soaring around the world, it will have a larger audience than all the major broadcast networks within a year. Continue Reading »
According to a recent Duke University study, social media spending at companies, currently represents 9% of marketing budgets, and that's forecast to rise to nearly 25% within five years, but half of marketers interviewed said they couldn't show what impact social media had on their business – at all. Continue Reading »

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Guitarist Ken Navarro has released "Hope, Joy, Strength" a trilogy of 3 new songs. Uplifting and energetic beautiful contemporary jazz music from one of the genre's most gifted and successful recording artists. Top charting and award winning contemporary guitarist and composer Ken Navarro begins 2015 with positive and soulful new music.
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Possessing a solid musical background, dee has performed with artists such as Nate Harasim, Aretha Franklin, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Paul Taylor, Randy Scott, Michael Winans and Gail Jhonson, just to name a few.
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Blues fans all over the world continue to discover the incredible sounds of Memphis Gold. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955, Memphis Gold, Chester Chandler was the thirteenth child of fourteen. His father also a musician introduced his son to the guitar at the tender age of 4. By the age of 8, he was a regular on historic Beale Street in Memphis where he played the guitar and danced for pocket change from the crowd.
Following in the footsteps of his famous cousins, Grammy Award Winner, Denise Williams, and Author/Activist/Comedian, Dick Gregory, Memphis has come a long way on a journey that has lasted half a century. Having released four full length albums to date, he has shared the stage with such artists as Bernard Allison, David Banner, James Brown, R.L. Burnside, Barbara Carr, Big Lucky Carter, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic All Stars, Deborah Coleman, Shemikca Copeland, Robert Cray, Eddie Cusac, John Hammond, Little Jimmy King, Bettye Lavette, Johnny Lang, Kenny Neal, Taj Mahal, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Bobby Parker, Louisianna Red, Lil Jimmy Reed, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Guitar Shorty, Elder Utah Smith, Mavis Staples, Hubert Sumlin, Roomful of Blues, Sister Rosetta Tharpe , Otis Rush, The Temptations, Jimmy Vaughn, and many more.
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The talented songwriter will talk about creating and recording RED I.V.'s first self-titled YKM release, which is tentatively slated for an August 29th publication. Corey will also share his thoughts on today's music scene, as well as his path of progress within an extremely challenging and competitive industry.
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What's been Baylor's recruiting secret to get them to become a championship contender? #AskLoogs #AskLoogy #Loogy
— Mackenzie K (@MackNova) November 13, 2013
This answer is quite simple, in my opinion. Baylor has had the luxury of recruiting undercover. What I mean by this is we often hear about under-the-radar prospects, but Baylor has been able to recruit as an under-the-radar program. When you have had as many down years as Baylor had before Art Briles' arrival, you have very few expectations from just about everyone but the coaching staff.
With today's premier programs, they are all under such immense pressure to sign as many four and five-star players, and if you pursue players who don't fit into that mold, you are perceived to not be doing a good job. Baylor hasn't had to deal with this type of pressure …yet. Put it this way: If Texas would have signed LaMichael James, many of the Texas faithful at that time would have said, "Who?" However, Oregon comes in and signs him with much lower expectations from their fan base and less pressure in terms of people caring about who a guy is, instead of what he means for the program, and presto! A great player is born and helps build a program.
I could run down the roster of the Baylor Bears and point to 20 players like LaMichael James that have helped put this program on the map, but coming out of high school were likely undervalued. This has allowed Briles and the staff to focus on what is important. Getting the best player or perceived best player isn't always the same thing as getting the right player. Briles has predicated his blueprint in recruiting on making sure the player is the right fit, while at the same time developing and making accurate projections athletically. They haven't had to worry about pressure of what people think and oftentimes haven't even had to get into too many battles over lots of guys because Baylor might have been the best option for the prospect.
Here's a warning for Baylor fans and alumni: Don't screw this up. Let them be who they are, because it works. Expectations are now different and that is a good thing. It will only get tougher from here, but don't make it harder than it needs to be by all of a sudden requiring Baylor to start changing their process. If higher-profile guys are now open to Baylor who weren't before, great, but that doesn't mean they are necessarily the right player.
Let Briles make that call; he's done a darn good job so far.
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The Greenville Drive and its sponsor partners are proud to announce the next installment of the Just Drive Program. On Saturday, March 29th, six high school baseball teams from across Greenville County will take part in the 1st Annual Just Drive High School Baseball Invitational presented by Michelin, N.A., Verizon Wireless and Bradshaw Automotive.
The triple header begins at 11:00 AM with the Blue Ridge Fighting Tigers taking on the Greer Yellow Jackets. Game two will feature the Wade Hampton Generals and the Riverside Warriors at 2:00 PM, and the Greenville Red Raiders will take on the Berea Bulldogs in the final game of the day at 5:00 PM. All three games are seven innings.
The Main Street gate and concession stands will open at 10:30 AM. Tickets are $5 and are good for all three games on Saturday. Greenville County high school students who have already made the pledge to "Just Drive" or make the pledge on site will receive a complimentary ticket. Students must bring a valid school ID to receive their complimentary ticket. South Carolina High School League Passes will be accepted at the gate as well. For tickets, visit or call the Drive Box Office at (864)240-4528.
The Drive's Just Drive program is beginning its second year of educating high schoolers in Greenville County about the dangers of driving while distracted, be it talking on the phone, texting or eating while driving. With the help of sponsors Michelin, N.A., Verizon Wireless and Bradshaw Automotive, over 2,000 students have made the pledge to Just Drive! To make your pledge visit www.facebook.com/JustDrivePledge.
March 29th will be an exciting day filled with baseball and education, so be sure to come out and support these six Greenville County high school teams and the Greenville Drive's Just Drive Program!
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The Scent of Rain and Lightningby Nancy Pickard
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One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody's three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents' ranch could erase the pain caused by Billy Crosby on that catastrophic night.
Now Billy Crosby is free, thanks to the efforts of his son, Collin, a lawyer who has spent most of his life trying to prove his father's innocence. Despite their long history of carefully avoiding each other in such an insular community, Jody and Collin find that they share an exclusive sense of loss.
As Jody revisits old wounds, startling truths emerge about her family's tragic past. But even through struggle and hardship, she still dares to hope for a better future—and maybe even love.
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"[Nancy] Pickard writes richly textured fiction about families and relationships, about hatred and lust and love, about loyalty and betrayal, and most of all about the corrosive power of secrets."—The Boston Globe
"A novel that simultaneously qualifies as a gripping read, a master character study and as literary . . . exceedingly rare."—The Kansas City Star
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Chapter One
June 9, 2009
Until she was twenty-six, Jody Linder felt suspicious of happiness.
She hated that about herself, because it tended to sour some otherwise pretty damn fine moments, but this was Rose, Kansas, after all. Only the year before, a pencil tornado had dropped down and killed three people only a few miles from her hometown. A tornado, when the sun was shining! In the winter, there were ice storms. In the summer, there were grass fires. At all times, people she knew went bankrupt, lost their homes, their ranches, their jobs. Or, they died just when you least expected them to. A person could, for instance, belong to a nice family living an ordinary life in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and on some innocent Saturday night, violent men could drop in like those tornadoes and turn those nice people into the dead stars of a Truman Capote book. Such things happened. That wasn't paranoia. It was a terrible fact that Jody knew better than anybody--or at least better than anybody whose father had not been murdered when she was three years old and whose mother had not disappeared the same night.
Such things happened, and she was proof of it.
Therefore--the past having proved to her the unreliability of the present--happiness made Jody Linder anxious. Feelings of safety and security got her checking around corners, lifting lids off bins, and parting shower curtains for fear of what might be hiding there, because you just never knew. A killer could hide in the corner, bugs lurked in bins, spiders jumped out of bathtubs.
Happiness was fragile, precious, and suspect.
"No peak not followed by a fall," she believed, which explained her flutter of worry as she lay naked on top of her bed with Red Bosch in the middle of a suspiciously beautiful Kansas afternoon. The air smelled too good for such a hot day, the light penetrating her eyelet curtains looked too delicate for noon. Most foreboding of all, the sex with this man she didn't love had been too damned good to be trusted beyond the (admittedly fine) moments of her satisfaction and his. She'd kept her eyes open during the finale, which meant she'd caught Red smirking down at her, looking pleased with himself.
Don't flatter yourself, she'd nearly blurted, but then she thought, first of all, that wasn't kind and he didn't deserve it, and second of all, why shouldn't he flatter himself? Red was good at riding horses, rounding up cattle, baling hay, and this. She could hardly think of better talents in a man.
"Pretty girl," Red murmured, tracing a lazy finger down her sternum.
"Sweaty girl," Jody said, lifting his hand off and laying it back on his own damp belly.
He laughed, a self-satisfied growl, deep in his chest.
A hot, pollen-scented breeze blew through the open windows.
She smelled honeysuckle, which wasn't blooming yet, and lilac, which had already bloomed and gone. These things were impossible, they were all in her imagination, she knew, and they were just the sort of deceptions that the smallest feeling of contentment might spring on her.
She and Red lay sprawled on their backs like sated puppies who'd just had their bellies scratched for half an hour. Lying a few inches away from him, so their limbs couldn't touch and stick, Jody let out an irrepressible sigh of pleasure. Immediately, she wanted to take it back, suck the breath right back into her lungs, because God knew she couldn't let the universe be hearing any of that.
No peak not followed by a fall . . .
The sound of a vehicle turning onto her street made her turn her face toward the windows, alert to the possibility of unpleasant surprise.
"Did you hear that, Red?"
The sound of the single vehicle turned into the sound of a second truck and then another, which multiplied her alertness exponentially. Jody pressed her elbows into the bottom sheet and raised her head and shoulders to get a better listen. Traffic might not have been worth noticing in a place like Kansas City, 350 miles to the east, or in Denver, 250 miles to the west. But this was one of the quietest streets in a town so small she could hear people she knew start their cars in their garages on the other side of Main Street and know if they were late to work.
"Somebody just pulled up outside."
She threw him a look.
Sometimes she wondered if Red was one post short of a fence.
"What?" he repeated, half laughing.
He was thirteen years older than she, but sometimes Jody felt as if she were the more mature one. Abandoning him as he lay naked and limp on her bed, she peeled herself off her new white sheets. She slid down off the high old walnut bed with its new pillows and mattress cover and its new mattress and box springs. Once her bare feet landed on the equally bare walnut floorboards that she had polished and buffed until they glowed in the sunshine, she bounded to the windows--much taller than her own five feet four inches, their panes shining and cleaned, their borders rimmed in polished walnut--to check what was up. A road crew? Unlikely, given that Rose barely had the budget to keep its half dozen traffic lights changing colors.
Jody peeked outside and got a shock that panicked her.
"Ohmygod. Red! Get up! Get dressed! You've got to leave now!"
What she saw from two stories up was the unnerving sight of her three uncles parking their pickup trucks in front of her parents' house, when she hadn't even known that two of the uncles were in town. She still called it her parents' house even though Hugh-Jay and Laurie Jo Linder had been gone almost all of her life. It was still their home to their only child--the descendent of a famous, violent night twenty-three years earlier--and it was still their home to everybody else in Henderson County, which was named for Jody's great-great-grandfather on her father's mother's side of the family.
"What is this fearsome thing I see?" she whispered at the high windows, mimicking Shakespeare. Her master's degree in English literature was a happy achievement, which, upon attainment, she had automatically shaded with doubts that she could ever find a job for teaching it.
"Who is it, your other boyfriend?"
Red's tone was joking, with an insecure edge to it.
"I don't have another one. I don't even have one."
That was blunt enough to be mean, and she immediately regretted it.
"What am I?" Red asked quietly.
Convenient was the adjective that popped into Jody's head but which she didn't say aloud. He was that, along with being the only available male for miles around who wasn't a child or a grandfather. Or a relative. She glanced back at her current lover-not-boyfriend, at his wiry cowboy self sprawled across her sheets. Her fingers knew that his long frame was checkered and slashed with scars, bruises, odd bumps where bones had healed awkwardly, and fresh little wounds. Red wasn't the most careful of cowboys. He tended to get bucked, bounced, and "rode over," more than your average rodeo rider, and he wasn't even one of those anymore, he was just an ordinary ranch hand. Maybe that's why she liked him, she sometimes thought, because that's all and everything Red was--just a cowboy, with no pretense of anything else, or more. It was also true that other men's bodies--the bodies of accountants, for instance, or lawyers, not that she'd ever been with such and really knew--were boring to her compared to the interesting terrain of cowboy skin.
"Well?" he challenged her.
She gave him an exasperated look--because the question irritated her and she couldn't think of any answer that was true without also being hurtful. She turned her bare back on him, returning her attention to the disturbing view from her window, hiding her naked self behind the new white eyelet curtains. The hot breeze coming through the open window blew dangerously around her, threatening to expose her nakedness to the street and to any uncle who happened to look up.
Jody sucked in her upper lip and held it between her teeth.
Red had sucked on a breath mint after lunch at the Rose Cafe, right before slipping into her house, her bedroom, and her. She could still taste peppermint in her own mouth, along with a tangy hint of hot sauce and an even tangier taste of him. She could still feel his callused touch on her skin, too, a feeling so real she would have sworn his rough hands had followed her to the window. They were not sensations she wanted to have with her uncles arriving.
They were also not activities the local high school had looked for on her resume when they hired her to be their new English teacher in two and a half months. She had whooped with joy upon landing that job, but immediately tamped down her exuberance, because who knew how long she could stay employed in such an iffy economy? And what if she wasn't a good teacher, or the kids hated her, or their parents objected to Catcher in the Rye? There were so many things that could go wrong after something went right.
Tense as fresh-strung barbed wire, she watched from the second floor.
Three truck doors slammed, bang, bang, bang, with the solid thud of well-built vehicles. Now her uncles were walking toward each other. What were they doing here, and why didn't she know anything about it? Uncle Chase was supposed to be in Colorado, running the family's ranch on the high plains east of the Rockies; Uncle Bobby was supposed to be in Nebraska, where he ran a third ranch the family owned, in the Sand Hills. Uncle Meryl was supposed to be at his law office in Henderson City, the county seat, twenty-five miles away.
"Hey," Red said, in the tone of a man feeling ignored.
From her hidden vantage point, she watched with growing alarm.
Now her uncles were meeting in a tall, wide-shouldered trio on the sidewalk in front of her porch, and now her uncle Chase was grinding out a cigarette on the cement, and now he picked it up and put it in his shirt pocket--not because he was so thoughtful, but because every rancher and farmer was wary of fire. And now her uncles were coming toward her front door together--big men dressed in cowboy boots, pressed pants, cotton shirts, and wearing their best straw cowboy hats for summer. The hats, alone, were a disturbing sign. The uncles usually wore their best hats only to weddings, funerals, and cattlemen conventions, preferring brimmed caps for everyday. Meryl even wore a bolo tie and one of the hideous plaid suit coats that her aunt Belle had never been able to excise from his wardrobe. He had matched it with a reddish-brown pair of polyester trousers that made Jody, even two stories up, wrinkle her nose. She knew what Meryl would say if she mocked his wardrobe: he'd say it fooled out-of-town lawyers into mistaking him for a bumpkin--to their sorrow and his clients' gain.
Their trucks also looked suspiciously clean, as for making formal calls.
They wouldn't have done all this for just any casual visit.
When her uncles went formal-visiting, they showered first and changed into clean clothes. Jody's grandmother, who was the mother of two of these men and a near-mother to the third one, wouldn't stand for any less. If a male in Jody's family stepped into somebody's house, he would, by God, smell of soap. Her uncle Bobby might be forty-one years old, her uncle Chase might be forty-four, and Uncle Meryl might be forty-six and have married into the family instead of being born into it, but they lived by the laws that all Linders lived by, the commandments that Jody's grandparents, Hugh Senior and Annabelle Linder, set down. You didn't show up in church dirty and smelling of horse. You didn't take your cow-shitty work boots into other people's nice living rooms. Most important of all, you didn't show up at somebody's house without calling ahead first, even if that somebody was only your niece.
They hadn't called first. She hadn't known they were coming.
And then they really scared her, because they rang her doorbell.
Only after that unprecedented announcement of their arrival did she hear her front door open, and a moment later her uncle Chase called out in his smoky baritone, "Josephus?"
It wasn't her name, which was Laurie Jo, after her mother.
Joe-see-fuss was her three uncles' nickname for her.
She clutched a fist to her naked breasts: had something happened at the ranch?
Was it her grandfather Hugh Senior, was it her grandmother Annabelle?
She didn't know what she would do without either of them; they had been the rocks of her life since her parents had gone.
"Jody?" Chase called, louder this time. "Honey? You home?"
He sounded tense, which wasn't like her coolest uncle.
In a flash Jody thought of their various wives and ex-wives, their assorted children and stepchildren who were her cousins and sort-of cousins. There were so many disasters that could happen on a cattle outfit. So many ways to get hurt, so many ways to end up in hospitals or funeral homes, so many ways to break hearts and families. She couldn't think of any minor calamities that would prompt her uncles to pay a special visit like this to her. They wouldn't do this unless there was something serious, something they couldn't just make a phone call to tell her, and worse--something that made them decide they had to tell her en masse.
"Jesus," she whispered, a half prayer, hurrying to pick up clothes to cover her naked body. She felt shocked, albeit without being surprised at all, since she believed that bad events followed good as inevitably as death followed life, and as frequently. The secret, she had decided when she was younger, was to try to anticipate it, so as to mitigate the blow. The problem with that philosophy was that it never worked; she was always surprised; no matter how far ahead she tried to look, bad news still hurt, shock still left her shaken. With a start, she realized she hadn't answered, so she yelled in a high voice, "I'm home, Uncle Chase! I'm upstairs, I'll be right there!"
"You want us to come up?" he yelled back.
"No!" she screamed. God, no.
On the bed, Red had bolted up to a sitting position at the first sound of that voice, which was the voice of one of the members of his extended family of employers. He also heard the terrifying offer to climb the stairs, and now he was trying to scurry out of bed and get dressed fast and silently.
"Go down the back stairs!" she whispered to him, unnecessarily.
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Curse of the car crash strikes the Kennedy clan once more
Saturday 06 May 2006
According to police, the 38-year-old Congressman for Rhode Island crashed his Ford Mustang into a security barrier close to the Capitol building at 2.45am.
The report suggested Mr Kennedy was drunk, that his driving ability was impaired and that the car had been travelling at high speed. The Congressman's eyes were said to be red and watery, his speech slurred, and his balance unsure.
Yesterday, Mr Kennedy flatly denied he had been drinking, blaming his condition on two prescription drugs he was taking Phenergan, used to treat gastroenteritis, and the sleeping medication Ambien.
And on the steps of Capitol Hill last night he announced that he was immediately to seek treatment for addiction to prescription pain medication at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mr Kenndey was returning to the Capitol at that late hour, he said, because he thought he was required to take part in a vote. "I never asked for any preferential treatment, I am going to co-operate fully with the police."
But the police union has complained that supervisors called to the scene by the reporting officer had not allowed a more detailed investigation, including alcohol tests. A breath test "certainly would have showed he wasn't on anything, wouldn't it?" Lou Cannon, a police union official, toldThe Washington Post.
By common consent, Mr Kennedy has been an effective Congressman for Rhode Island, who has worked hard on mental health issues. But his past has seen troubled episodes, including a spell in drug rehabilitation in 1986, and he was once involved in a scuffle with a security guard at Los Angeles airport. By his own admission, he has also suffered from clinical depression.
The affair adds yet another footnote to the saga of a family that once was America's closest equivalent to royalty, as famous for its tragedies and troubles as for the political achievements of its members.
In political terms, the Kennedys have long since been eclipsed by the Bushes and the Clintons. The clan's last standard-bearer of real stature is 74-year-old Ted, a liberal lion of US politics who has represented Massachusetts in the Senate for 44 years. But he is equally remembered for his two murdered brothers John, the 35th president, and Robert, New York Senator and presidential candidate who was murdered in 1968.
Of course, Ted is also remembered for the car accident in 1969 that ended his own hopes of the presidency. The similarities with events this week are limited but hard to ignore. On 18 July 1969, after a party at Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy drove his car off a low unlit bridge into water. He escaped but the staffer travelling with him, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned.
That affair became the butt of cruel humour, and this new accident involving Patrick promises more of the same. "A Kennedy, a car accident, and no alcohol now that has never happened," Jay Leno joked on his NBC Tonight show.
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1-2-3-4 RubPosted on July 29th, 2015 No comments
Just a pinch of sugar can add a lot to a hunk o' meat. The chemical action will help to will help achieve the much sought after crisp crust and tender juicy meat.
This is a base rub, one can add other items, cumin, chili powder, herbs and other spices to create your own signature flavors.
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As with all events at the Bad Wolf Bar and Grille, Poker night would not be Poker night without food from the kitchen, and drinks from the bar.
On one such evening, I decided on an Indian flair, and made my first attempt at Samosa's. These were "passable", as in passable to starving wolves, with several libations in them. The TRUE star of the snack table was a mango chutney, I had thrown together on a whim.
Of course, having thrown this together on a whim, means no measuring, no recipe, no clue. (BAD ROGUECHEF!!!) Over the next several weeks, I made several attempts to recreate the chutney, and after many tries, and samples produced, tasted, and rejected, I managed to come very close to the original. And to make sure I DON'T have to do this again, I kept notes.
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Chutney is a loan word incorporated into English from Hindi-Urdu describing a pasty sauce in Indian[1] and other South Asian cuisines. It is a term for a class of spicy preparations used as an accompaniment for a main dish. Chutneys usually contain an idiosyncratic but complementary spice and vegetable mix.
Chutneys are wet or dry, having a coarse to fine texture. The Anglo-Indian loan word refers to fresh and pickled preparations indiscriminately, with preserves often sweetened. At least several Northern Indian languages use the word for fresh preparations only. A different word achār applies to preserves that often contain oil but are rarely sweet. Vinegar or citrus juice may be added as preservatives, or fermentation in the presence of salt may be used to create acid.
In the past, chutneys were ground with a mortar and pestle made of stone or an ammikkal (Tamil). Nowadays, electric blenders replace the stone implements. Various spices are added and ground, usually in a particular order; the wet paste thus made is sauteed in vegetable oil, usually gingelly or groundnut oil.
American and European styled chutneys are usually fruit, vinegar and sugar, cooked down to a reduction. Flavorings are always added to the mix. These may include sugar, salt, garlic, tamarind, onion, or ginger.
Thai Noodles with Herb PestoPosted on July 9th, 2014 No comments
The Bad Wolf herb garden is in full swing, providing Sweet Basil, Cilantro, Rosemary and many more succulent, fragrant herbs for enjoyment. The rain and heat have done wonders for them, but not so much for my willingness to cook.
We have a few peppers, chili and bell just beginning to bear. Young bell peppers have a mildly bitter taste that may go very well in my Asian balance for this dish.
Some salt, some palm sugar, garlic, ginger, chili's for a bit of heat and of course those lovely herbs for a Asian flair pesto.
Time to do a bit of that. But I really don't want to do too much involving heat, so perhaps Noodles or pasta as a "flavor carrier" to get that gorgeous fresh pesto into my mouth.
Peach CobblerPosted on June 3rd, 2014 No comments
Just another day in paradise…. Long Day, many crises, and rain as I wait at the taxi stand. But what is that smell, sweet and enticing, so familiar, but I can't place it..
Looking around, I see a fruit vendor, and on his cart are Peaches! The smell is wafting over, strangely made stronger by the rain… I had though a quick chopped BBQ sandwich for dinner, but now …. Hmmmmm, Peaches, Cobbler, Ice Cream …. I may just be a day in paradise after all..
Maybe I'll do the sandwich as well, but setup a nice little desert to go with coffee afterwards..
Deep-dish fruit desserts in which sweetened fruits (fresh berries or apples are the traditional choices) are topped with a biscuit dough before baking.
Varieties of cobbler include the Betty, the Grunt, the Slump, and the Buckle. Grunts, Pandowdy, and Slumps are a New England variety of cobbler, typically cooked on the stove-top or cooker in an iron skillet or pan with the dough on top in the shape of dumplings—they reportedly take their name from the grunting sound they make while cooking. A Buckle is made with yellow batter (like cake batter), with the filling mixed in with the batter.
In the matter of the Cobbler, the Betty, the Grunt, the Slump, and the Buckle, let the trumpets blare, the banners fly high, and the hosts assemble, for this may be the single most contested point in all of culinarium, hotly contested, many battles joined, but with no final victor..
All that said, I still think of a buckle when you say a cobbler. The difference in my mind is the fruit used and the time of the year your make it.
As for today's post I'll hazard the slings and arrows of culinary fortune and look at another early summer fruit.
When early summer fruit starts arriving, I have to make a cobbler. It is a simple and rustic dessert recipe, you can use any kind of fruit that is around, the ingredients are pantry staples and it freezes fabulously. When I make cobblers, I usually make two, one to serve and one to keep in the freezer for a quick thaw and serve desert. Blueberries, raspberries, cherries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, all are delicious in a buckle.
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Texas Style Chicken Fried SteakPosted on June 2nd, 2014 No comments
Being raised in Texas, and living in New York can be quite the challange for my taste buds, while I get to experience a whole world of flavor and taste sensations, I do get the cravings for the more simple fare of my youth. One all time favorite is Chicken Fried Steak with cream (sawmill) gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits.
From WikiPedia:
Chicken fried steak (also known as pan-fried steak, CFS or country fried steak) is a breaded cutlet dish consisting of a piece of steak (tenderized cube steak) coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is associated with Southern cuisine. The dish gets its name from the fact that the steak is cooked in oil that has already been used to fry chicken. Country fried steak is different in that it can be cooked with any kind of oil.
Chicken fried steak resembles the Austrian dish Wiener Schnitzel and the Italian-Latin American dish Milanesa, which is a tenderized veal or pork cutlet, coated with flour, eggs, and bread crumbs, and then fried. It is also similar to the recipe for Scottish collops.
Now these folks talk about a tenderized cube steak, and given my tenancy to to avoid any processing I do not do myself, we'll look at this from a different point of view.
Let start with a chuck roast or round roast and cut slices with the grain to ~1/2 inch thick. Then get absolutely medieval with a meat tenderizer or the back of your chef's knife until the slices are ~1/4″ thick and limp as a wet noodle, or until your arms give out.
Now we have our tenderized steak, we can cook.
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Tea Eggs (Cha Ye Dan)Posted on May 27th, 2014 No comments
Here is a little number that has fascinated me for quite some time. I first experienced, these fantastic looking marbled eggs with a light fragrance and outstanding taste, in a surprising hole-in-the-wall in Chinatown, and they have been twisting my imagination ever since.
As the execrable advertisement said. "Quick… To the cloud!". Time to do some research..
Wikipedia says:
Tea egg is a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a pre-boiled egg is cracked and then boiled again in tea, sauce and/or spices. It is also known as marble egg because cracks in the egg shell create darkened lines with marble-like patterns. Commonly sold by street vendors or in night markets in most Chinese communities throughout the world, it is also commonly served in Asian restaurants. Although it originated from China and is traditionally associated with Chinese cuisine, other similar recipes and variations have been developed throughout Asia.
The process is, as all elegant things, fairly simple. Eggs are hard-boiled, then cracked, but not peeled, rested, then simmered in a steeping mixture. (I have so many side comments in the vein, of "A hard-boiled egg, please. Cracked, but not peeled… All in a Sean Connery brough)
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Sheriff Arpaio's office announced Wednesday that patrols began earlier this week at 59 schools in unincorporated areas and communities that are under his agency's jurisdiction. The patrols are uniformed volunteers driving patrol vehicles, but won't go onto school grounds unless they see a suspicious situation. They will not be stationary in one spot, and instead will patrol several schools on a driving route, according to an AP report.
"Why would people complain about my posse being in front of schools to act as prevention?" Arpaio asked. Critics say Arpaio's latest effort was done for publicity and won't last
The sheriff has the constitutional authority to swear in citizens to help the sheriff's office fight crime. Arpaio's volunteer "posse" has been in service at the malls for 19 years.
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It's the end of April, so that means that there's a new release of Ubuntu. Well, actually, no - it means that there are eight of them. Don't like standard Ubuntu's Mac-OS-X-like Unity desktop? Here's where to look.
There are umpteen "remixes" alongside the eponymous distro. These mostly differ by having a different desktop - and therefore overall look and feel - but also in some cases different preinstalled apps. There are more than one hundred - many moribund, very specialised or otherwise of little interest - but seven enjoy official recognition. I'm going to look at the "Big Four" - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME. All have a different interface from the standard distro, meaning something for everyone.
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Bottom line, the Zidoo X1 checks all the boxes when it comes to streaming and playing local media. The X1 is affordable with an MSRP of $59 USD and comes with a one year warranty. Despite its paltry specifications, the X1 was able to handle pretty much all movie files and streaming duties. The only concern would be how well Zidoo would continue to support the device via software updates. While this doesn't quite beat pricing from the likes of the Chromecast or the MK808B it does provide more features. While this is my first time with an true Android media box, I found that the experience as pretty seamless when it was all set up. While the X1 was able to stand up the challenge of 4K, the real question is: when will see more 4K UHD content that is easily accessible.
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"Thanks to our incredible fans, today the TNA Impact Wrestling YouTube channel has exceeded 500 million views, beating other popular YouTube channels such as UFC, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, MLS, WNBA, Marvel, CNN and Fox to the milestone."
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"We are not going to act, to do stupid things ... we want to give our partners the possibility of calming down," Lavrov said at a news conference during a visit to Chile.
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