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In Preparing CMS Web Graphics and Layouts Using Open-Source Tools, Jen Kramer shows how developers and graphic designers can collaborate to create a great site design that integrates with a content management system (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla!, all using open-source software. This workflow is based on two existing open-source design tools, KompoZer and GIMP. Jen shows how to modify web graphics and create slices with GIMP, and then place these in an HTML page integrated with CSS in KompoZer. Along the way, she discusses web design best practices and special challenges that might arise when designing for CMS software. Exercise files are included with this course.
Most content management systems will write their navigation bars out as an ordered list. Even if you want that navigation bar to go horizontally, you still have an unordered list or a bulleted list, as it's also called, to work with. So let's go ahead and set that up for our navigation. We'll get rid of our default text there and we'll put it in a bulleted list. So we'll have Home, we'll have About, we'll have Contact.
This may go on for a while. Site Map. I am not going to worry much that the links here match up exactly with the comp, because ultimately, this navigation bar is going to be coming from the content management system and the text that I am typing in right now is just a placeholder. It's going to get deleted. We're just sort of putting it here so that we can style it, so that when we transport this design over to the database in the content management system, we've at least done some of the work to getting that navigation bar looking good.
So there is our bulleted list. I've just put in four items. I am going to turn them all into links now. If you'll highlight the text and click the link icon. I am just going to type in a pound sign. That's enough to create a link. Obviously it doesn't go anywhere if you click it, but since this is placeholder text, that works just fine. And I am going to repeat the process for all four links here. Okay! So our first problem is we need to get this to not look quite so much like a bulleted list.
We're going to start by removing the bullets from the list itself, then we'll float our individual navigation items out horizontally and add a little padding, and then we'll go ahead and style them to be white and in the Georgia font and not underlined. All right, so of course all of that is CSS work, so I am going to click on the CSS icon and I am going to make a new style and that style is going to be #nav ul.
That's because I'm working with the unordered list that happens to live within the div with an ID of nav. If I was making a bulleted list in the content area, I'd probably really want the bullets. So this is an exception to the overall rules for the stylesheet. So we'll create that rule. One of the first things that we probably want to do is to get rid of the bullets. Under the Lists tab, we can set our List Style Type to none, which will get rid of all of the bullets.
Unordered lists also have either margin or padding built-in around them, and it depends on the browser as to which one it is. So in our Box we'll set our margins and our padding to 0 for the top and the right and the bottom and the left. So now you can see we have a list of links and they're all nice and tightly to the side of that navigation bar.
You may also want to sort these styles so that your #nav ul style is close with the nav style, just to make your stylesheet a little easier to read. So I am going to going to nudge that up the list. We're going to make another rule now. This one is going to be called #nav li. That's for the List Item itself and for the #nav li, which once again I'll move up just under the ul. I am going to set them to float left.
See how that puts all the links all smudged together on a single line? That's great! At least now it's going horizontally, but the spacing is all wrong as you can see. So let's put some padding along these. We'll put some left padding. Let's say it's 2 ems. That'll give us good separation between those links. Let's also give it a little bit of top padding. Let's call it 18 pixels and see what happens there. Now at least we have the links in the center of the navigation bar, so we're doing well.
Now I am going to create another style. This one is going to be called #nav a:link, #nav a:visited. So this tells me that for all links unvisited that are within the nav div and all visited links that are within the nav div, do the following. I could've just said #nav a for the generic A link.
However, sometimes that styling method doesn't necessarily work correctly in all browsers and in all situations. So I like to be a little bit more specific when creating nav link styling. And once again I am going to move that up the list. Now what we need to do is we need to make these links white, we need to make them Georgia, and we need to remove the underlines. So we can do all of that in the Text tab. So we're going to set these to be once again Georgia, Times and Serif, and we're going to set our color to be white. We'll turn off the underlines.
So that's looking pretty good. That's a pretty good match to the comp. We'll say okay and we'll save our page and let's put it in the web browser and see how we're doing. Note that we have our navigation bar and our links. Everything is looking great. One thing we might want to add is when we roll over with a link, maybe we want it to change color. That's a nice effect! So let's go ahead and add that. Back to our CSS box and we'll make a new rule.
This one will be called #nav a:hover. And I will go ahead and move that up with my other styles, and I am going to set this to turn green when we roll over it, so that color is 8aa635 and I'll say okay. Once again let's save. Let's put it in the browser and now when I roll over the links, they'll turn green.
So our page is looking really good. The top looks great, the nav bar is looking great, we have our columns in place, all the styling done. The only thing we're missing now is the footer, which is the next thing that we'll accomplish.
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ST. FRANCIS – Republic Services of Wisconsin has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle state claims under Wisconsin's air pollution and solid waste management laws for violations at the Kestrel Hawk Landfill in Racine and the Mallard Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility in Delavan, Wisconsin.
The complaint states that Kestrel Hawk and Mallard Ridge each operates a landfill gas collection system, and landfill gas generated by the decomposition of waste is flared on site or sold off site as boiler fuel or fuel for a turbine generator. The Department of Natural Resources regulates the non-methane organic compounds in the landfill gas. Non-methane organic compounds contain volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants, including benzene and vinyl chloride. Volatile organic compounds contribute to the formation of ozone, which can be harmful to human health.
Under Wisconsin law, Republic Services is required to obtain and follow air pollution control permits that control the emissions of air pollutants from the facilities. Wisconsin law also requires that Republic Services follow its landfill plans of operation.
According to the complaint, at the Kestrel Hawk and Mallard Ridge facilities in 2008 and 2009, Republic Services violated the facilities' air pollution control permits when it vented landfill gas when a flame was not present and failed to shut down valves within one hour resulting in the release of uncontrolled landfill gas emissions to the atmosphere, failed timely to notify the Department of Natural Resources of the flame outages, and failed to keep the gas system running smoothly and effectively. At the Kestrel Hawk facility in 2008, Republic Services also violated the facility's landfill plan of operation when it failed to seed the intermediate cover, failed to clean and maintain storm water drainage ditches and structures, and failed to properly train landfill personnel conducting load inspections.
In 2004, Republic Services had settled another environmental lawsuit with the Wisconsin Department of Justice for $475,000.
"Republic Services worked cooperatively with the Department of Natural Resources to take the steps necessary to ensure future compliance with permit and plan approval requirements," said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. "The Wisconsin Department of Justice will continue to work with the DNR to ensure that Wisconsin's citizens and natural resources are protected through compliance with the law."
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Cajun Chicken Fettuccine Recipe
- 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine
- 1 large sweet onion, halved and sliced
- 1 medium green pepper, cut into 1/4-inch strips
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, cut into 1/4-inch strips
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 4 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 jar (15 ounces) Alfredo sauce
- 1/2 cup spaghetti sauce
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Cook fettuccine according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute onion and peppers in oil until tender. Add the chicken, Cajun seasoning and garlic; heat through. Transfer to a large bowl. Drain fettuccine; add to chicken mixture. Stir in Alfredo and spaghetti sauces.
- Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with cheeses. Cover and bake at 375° for 15 minutes. Uncover; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until golden brown. Yield: 8 servings.
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The best way to view President Obama's speech in Cairo is to understand the way Obama views himself and the rhetorical devices he employs. In this case, the key to unlocking Obama's speech may be Aristotle's golden mean, the search for a mid-point between extremes. Obama's rhetorical template is an increasingly familiar one: he gives voice to one side of a dispute and then the other. And Obama — our philosopher-king, the Voice of Reason in an unreasonable world — interprets and arbitrates these disputes, putting them in just the right context and arriving at just the right solution. Or so we are led to believe. The trouble is that Obama's approach at times distorts history and mistreats our closest allies.
The President's Cairo speech begins with a discussion of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world — "tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate." Each side holds responsibility for those tensions. But if you read Obama's text carefully, you will come away with the impression that one side in particular — the United States and the West — is much more at fault than the other. Tensions have been fed, according to Obama, by Western colonialism, the mistreatment of Muslim-majority countries during the Cold War, and by" the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization [which] led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam." Those missteps and injustices, Obama implies, all tilt the scales against America and the West.
On the other side of the scale there are mistakes for which the Muslim world is responsible. And here the blame lies with "violent extremists" who have exploited those (Western-created) tensions in "a small but potent minority of Muslims." This led to the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians. But even that eventually counts against America, at least in this respect: militant Islamic attacks "led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. This has bred more fear and mistrust."
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Original Performer and Song Title: He just released an album this year called Tempest. While recovering from a motorcycle accident this man took interest in the Bible and seems to have been inspired by the Book of Isaiah for this song.
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Chris Liebing had his first residency as a DJ in a small club called "Red Brick" 1991 in Giessen, near Frankfurt. Already in the beginning of 1995 the club had to close down and Chris began working for Eye-Q Records in Frankfurt. During that period, he met his friend and partner Andre Walter. Together they started to build up a studio and work on music. In November 1995, Chris had a chance to play at the OMEN in Frankfurt and shortly after became resident DJ. About a year later, influenced by his DJ'ing, he created "Fine Audio Recordings" together with Under Cover Music Group.
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Employees are almost always at the mercy of their employer. With the exception of a select few, people are often massaged into complacency and dismissed when deemed "necessary." The definition of "necessary" is flexible. At times, it refers to cost. At others, it describes the employers desire to shed unmanageable or undesirable staff members. Either […] [Read More]
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Life is a neverending series of changes. Weather. Time. Jobs. It seems the only constant is family, friends, and faith. I think the following piece is telling. Its author is someone who embodies the three aforementioned qualities. Enjoy! – Mario Someone recently posed an interesting question to me as I prepared for a change in […] [Read More]
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Toledo attorney leading effort to amend law that keeps disabled from suing airlinesWritten by Caitlin McGlade | | email@example.com
More than a year has passed since a US Airways official told Johnnie Tuitel he was too disabled to fly.
He said recovering from the humiliation took months. The motivational speaker — who has racked up half a million miles traveling across North America — balanced depression with countless media interviews. Speaking engagements dwindled because venues assumed he wouldn't be able to make the trip.
Simultaneously, he took calls from at least 70 families who had similar stories. A woman with a disability missed a job interview when officials took her off the flight from Wisconsin to Texas. A boy with a terminal blood disorder missed his last vacation because staff removed him from the plane. A family heard a pilot refer to their daughter as "a retard," complaining that he didn't want her on board.
Tuitel wondered, though, why he had not heard from a lawyer. When he met Toledo-based attorney Mark Skeldon he learned why. Tuitel can't sue.
The law
The Air Carrier Access Act, passed by Congress in 1986, was designed to protect people with disabilities. The law asserts, among other things, that carriers may not refuse to fly people based on disabilities and may not limit the number of people with disabilities on board.
Airlines may refuse to fly someone if officials deem the person a health or safety risk, or if the needs of that individual violate the Federal Aviation Administration or foreign government safety rules. For example, a quadriplegic who could not evacuate the plane in case of emergency might be considered a safety risk. These assessments are made on an individual basis, said Steve Lott, spokesperson for Airlines for America. The organization often speaks on behalf of a number of airlines, including Delta.
People with disabilities can file a complaint with the Department of Transportation if they feel discriminated against. The department reviews the complaints, often rolls them in with others and imposes a fine on the airline if officials determine the company violated the law. The money goes to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, said Bill Mosley, a spokesperson with the department.
But the law says nothing about the right to take private cause of action – or, to sue. Although there is no clause prohibiting private legal action, the last three district court rulings have concurred that the omission means individuals do not have that right.
The 11th Circuit Court ruled in a 2002 case that judges ought not imply that the right exists without a definitive mention in legislation.
"Without it, a cause of action does not exist and courts may not create one, no matter how desirable that might be as a policy matter, or how compatible with the statute," the court decision reads.
Precedent makes it difficult for other lower courts to rule differently. And the U.S. Supreme Court would likely not take the case until another district court disagreed, Skeldon said.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was revised in 2009 to include a clause about private cause of action, said Nathan Facey, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's deputy chief of staff. But Tuitel can't invoke the ADA, because the Air Carriers Access Act usurps that on airplanes.
It's a policy problem that allows people with disabilities to fall through the cracks, Tuitel said.
"It bothers me that there is a law in which its purpose is to protect people with disabilities and it doesn't," Skeldon said. "Not as well as it should."
The fight
If Skeldon, Tuitel and his girlfriend Laura Folsom have anything to do about it — the law eventually will. Skeldon and Tuitel met in September and have been busy planting a grassroots campaign to convince legislators to put a clause about private cause of action on the books. Folsom and Tuitel are working on the blueprints for a nonprofit called the Disabilities Leadership Network that would promote their cause.
The clause's absence has forced disenfranchised airline clients to get crafty. Seventeen people with disabilities banded together against 10 airlines in 2004. de La O, Marko, Magolnick & Leyton, the Florida-based law firm representing the group sued the airlines under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination based on disability within programs that use federal dollars.
In 2001, airlines received a total of $15 billion in bailout grants and loan guarantees. This, the lawyers argued, made the airline industry a program that uses federal funding, said Charles Ferguson, an attorney in the law office.
But that didn't work, either. The District Court of Southern Florida ruled against them.
Tuitel said gaining the definitive right to sue isn't about money, but is about empowering individuals to hold airline officials accountable.
United Cerebral Palsy, an organization that educates and advocates for people with cerebral palsy, has heard all too often the trials of boarding an airplane with a disability.
"Removing a person with a disability from an airplane is both a basic civil rights issue and an equal opportunity issue," said Chris Thomson, vice president of corporate affairs, in an email. "There is no way our society can move forward if someone is considered 'too something' to travel on an airplane."
Making changes at the Congressional level could be tough. Congress could potentially amend the Air Carrier's Access Act while approving the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Bill. That is a bill that needs to be renewed every five years. However, Congress is two and a half years behind and there are so many contentions wrapped up in the legislation that a single congressperson bringing up the private clause amendment would likely go nowhere, Facey said.
Testifying before a committee would likely work best, he said.
Tuitel and Skeldon have been in contact with Kaptur's office.
Kaptur wrote in an email that it troubles her that the number of disability-related complaints have risen 23 percent in one year.
"We simply must do more to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities and allow those who have had their rights violated to seek redress from the offending airline," Kaptur wrote. "It is what is right and what is fair."
The penalties
The department of transportation fielded 21,001 disability-related complaints in 2010. According to complaint logs, airline employees refused to board 209 passengers based on an array of disabilities, with the bulk of these clients being oxygen-dependent and 20 of them wheelchair bound.
Other common complaints include the airline's failure to provide aid to customers who have trouble seeing or hearing, those who are quadriplegic, use a wheelchair or are mentally impaired.
Four airlines were slapped with fines in 2011. Delta Airlines had to pay the most — $2 million for a slew of "egregious" violations, as noted in the consent order. Atlantic Southeast Airlines was ordered to pay $200,000, Mesaba Aviation had to cough up $125,000 and Icelandair Group had to part with $30,000.
The Delta fine provoked the company to make some changes, including investing tens of millions of dollars to equip facilities to better accommodate people with disabilities, according to the mitigations in the consent order.
The unpredictable flight
New Hampshire resident Chris Dainiak is following Tuitel's pursuit for personal reasons. His 8-year-old son Nicholas was diagnosed with Batten Disease in 2008. That year, Chris and Heather Dainiak learned that this nervous system disorder would render their child weaker as he grew older, both physically and mentally. Nicholas didn't exhibit any signs of illness until he was 4 years old, when he started having seizures.
As the disease progressed, the young boy needed more help moving around. Now he uses a special car seat to maintain a comfortable posture because he cannot hold himself up well.
Flying had never been a problem before Dec. 23. That's when the family boarded their plane to head home after a trip to Disney World. After other passengers boarded, a flight attendant approached the Dainiaks and pointed out that Nicholas' seat was not FAA approved.
Dainiak said that a supervisor told his family that they had to either get off the plane or relinquish the car seat.
"So there were 130 passengers on there and everyone's witnessing this and they're delaying the flight for take-off," he said. "There was no other way to do this unless we physically (held) him up for three hours."
And that is what Chris and Heather did.
Because the family had flown to Disney World with the same airline and without problems, Dainiak sees this not as an airline company problem, but as an issue with a lack of streamlined policies issue. Flying with a disability has unpredictable outcomes, he said, with the right to stay on board left to the "whim" of the flight attendant and discretion of the pilot.
"If the airlines were aware that they would be held responsible in a court by a jury that would look at all the evidence and determine whether someone was wronged or not," he said. "Then they would have to look very carefully about the policies they put in place about arbitrary behavior."
Visit Tuitel's site at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Letem-all-fly/282421131816238?v=info
Visit Dainiak's site at: http://ourpromisetonicholas.com/
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Johnnie Tuitel, Marcy Kaptur, Mark Skeldon, US Airways


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In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for writing data into both a volatile portion and an erase block of a non-volatile portion of a storage device, and maintaining the data in the volatile portion until the data is successfully written to the erase block. In this way, enhanced data reliability is provided. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
1. A method comprising:
writing data into a volatile storage and an erase block of a non-volatile portion of a storage device; and
maintaining the data in the volatile storage until all portions of the erase block are successfully written.
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writing new data to the volatile storage after the invalidating the data; and
writing the new data from the volatile storage to a different erase block of the non-volatile portion.
7. An article comprising a machine-accessible medium including instructions that when executed cause a system to:
sequentially store data in a buffer and write the data in a respective page of an erase block of a non-volatile memory for each of multiple write operations; and
maintain the data in the buffer until the erase block is successfully completed.
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a volatile memory buffer to store incoming data;
a non-volatile memory array coupled to the volatile memory buffer, the non-volatile memory array including a plurality of erase blocks; and
a controller to maintain the incoming data in the volatile memory buffer at least until an erase block of the non-volatile memory array is successfully filled with the incoming data, the incoming data of multiple write operations.
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a processor to execute instructions of an operating system (OS);
a non-volatile storage coupled to the processor, the non-volatile storage including at least one non-volatile memory array and at least one volatile buffer, wherein the at least one volatile buffer is to store data of incoming write requests issued by the OS until an erase block of the non-volatile memory array has been successfully filled; and
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Today's computer systems provide for ever-increasing amounts of processing capabilities. Combined with these capabilities is a greater need for storage capacity. In addition to raw capacity, data must be efficiently retrieved in order to avoid slowing down the process of useful work in a processor of a system. Accordingly, various memory technologies have been proposed for use in a system to improve data capacity and also to accommodate greater bandwidth of data retrieval. Memory technologies including memories such as non-volatile memories such as semiconductor memories, polymer ferroelectric memories (PFEMs), magnetic memories, ovonics-based memories and other such memories have been developed or proposed for use in computer systems.
Certain of these memory technologies such as semiconductor memories including flash-based technologies may be arranged in a block-oriented manner. That is, a memory may be formed of a number of blocks. In certain memory technologies, before being able to write data to a block, the block must first be placed into a known state, i.e., an erased state. Accordingly, such technologies include blocks in the form of so-called erase blocks. One such memory technology is a NAND-based flash technology. While such memories are suitable for high speed write and read operations, errors can occur during these read and write operations, as well as during an erase operation to ready a block for writing. Such failures can lead to a loss of data. Given the high reliability requirements of systems, particularly enterprise-based systems, such errors are to be avoided if at all possible to provide a product that can meet stringent data stability requirements of various systems.
In various embodiments, techniques may be used to ensure accuracy of data being written to a memory device, particularly such a device arranged in a block-oriented manner. That is, various techniques may be used to store data being written to the memory in a buffered location and maintain that data in the buffered location until it is confirmed that all data written to a given block of the memory has been successfully written. By maintaining incoming data to the memory in a buffered location, data recovery measures can be performed if a write or other operation to a block of the memory fails. Such recovery techniques may be implemented whether a single page of the block suffers an error, or an error to a page causes an entire block to be compromised.
As will be described further below, particular embodiments may be implemented in a NAND-based non-volatile memory technology, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this regard. Such NAND-based memory devices may be used as storage products for various system types. For example, in some embodiments a solid state disk may be formed using the NAND-based memory technology. In other embodiments, a disk cache or other cache memory may be implemented using the NAND-based memory technology.
While variations are possible, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in a storage device that includes a non-volatile memory array and a volatile array. The non-volatile memory array may include a number of segments arranged as blocks. These blocks are referred to herein as erase blocks, since in a NAND-based technology before data can be written the block must be first erased (i.e., cells of the block are set to a logic zero level). These blocks each may be formed of a plurality of pages. In some embodiments, the volatile memory buffer associated with the non-volatile storage device may be the same or substantially the same size as a single erase block of the storage device. In this way, incoming data may be buffered in the volatile memory buffer and maintained until an entire erase block is successfully written. Embodiments may include further control logic, such as a controller or driver to enable read, write and other control operations to be performed on the storage device. Such a controller or driver may be implemented as hardware, firmware, software or combinations thereof, in various embodiments.
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In turn, the data may be copied from the buffer to a selected erase block of the non-volatile memory (block 30). Each erase block may include a plurality of individual pages, each of which may be written to individually. The copying of data from the buffer to the erase block may be performed sequentially as data is received by the buffer, or in some embodiments multiple writes may be written into the buffer and then at a later time the buffer contents may be copied to the erase block. Note that in other embodiments, blocks 20 and 30 may be performed in parallel and the data may be written both to the buffer and the erase block simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. Note that the copying over to the erase block typically may be performed on a page by page basis as write commands are received. However, erase block-sized transfers may occur for long data transfers, i.e., transfers larger than an erase block.
As described above, because errors can occur in writing to an erase block, protections may be taken to ensure that data is not corrupted or lost. More particularly, one possible failure mechanism is that a write to a single page of an erase block can cause a failure to not only that page, but to the entire erase block.
Accordingly, to protect data in such an event, method 10 may maintain data in the volatile buffer until all data is successfully written into the non-volatile memory array (block 40). That is, the buffer may maintain the data that is stored therein until an entire erase block is successfully written (i.e., filled). Note that if the erase block is not completely filled, the volatile buffer will lose its contents on powering off of the system. Then on a next power up, data may be written to the same erase block or a new erase block, depending on a given implementation. While described with this particular high-level methodology with regard to
Referring now to
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If instead at diamond 140 it is determined that the erase block is complete (i.e., is full), control passes to block 150. There, the buffer may be cleared and a new empty erase block may be selected (block 150). Thus because the previous erase block was successfully filled, the copy of the data in the buffer may be cleared. The clearing may take various forms. In one embodiment, all data in the buffer may be invalidated so that it may be overwritten. In another embodiment, the data may be erased. By selection of a new empty erase block, additional incoming data may be stored thereto. Thus while not shown for ease of illustration, method 100 may continue by returning from block 150 to block 110 for receipt of a next write command.
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To prevent a failure in a single page 215 from corrupting an entire erase block 210, a volatile buffer 220, which may be a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in some embodiments, may be present. Buffer 220 may be sized substantially the same as a given erase block 210. Accordingly, incoming data when being written to storage device 200 may be written into buffer 220 for buffering until an entire erase block 210 to which the incoming data is routed is successfully filled. Note that while buffer 220 is shown as part of memory device 200 in the embodiment of
Writing and control of buffer 220 and non-volatile memory array 205 may be under control of a controller and/or driver 230 (hereafter controller 230). In some embodiments, a driver may be present, while in other embodiments, a controller formed of control logic may be used to implement read and write operations within storage device 200. It is to be understood that controller 230 may be implemented using hardware, software, or firmware, or combinations thereof.
In operation, incoming data, e.g., provided via a driver associated with an OS may be provided to controller 230. Controller 230 may then provide the data to buffer 220. In some implementations, the data may be provided both to buffer 220 and a given erase block 210 directly from controller 230, e.g., simultaneously. If the data is only provided to buffer 220, an independent operation to copy the data from buffer 220 to a given erase block 210 may further be implemented by controller 230. Note that in some embodiments, additional structures may be present in storage device 200, such as address or hash tables such as a logical to physical address table, for example. While described with this particular implementation in the embodiment of
In some implementations, incoming data may be striped across multiple non-volatile memory arrays. For example, with reference still to
Still further, in some embodiments a non-volatile memory array may have multiple channels that operate independently. Because each channel is writing to a single erase block at a given time, a volatile buffer may be associated with each such channel. Note that in all these implementations, multiple buffers need not be present. Instead, a single volatile memory device (e.g., a DRAM) can have different regions dedicated to each such buffer.
Using embodiments of the present invention, a non-volatile memory device may thus meet an unrecoverable error specification in that errors occurring during write operations that impact either a single page or an entire erase block can be recovered. Embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in many different system types.
MCH 430 may also be coupled (e.g., via a hub link 438) to an input/output (I/O) controller hub (ICH) 440 that is coupled to a first bus 442 and a second bus 444. First bus 442 may be coupled to an I/O controller 446 that controls access to one or more I/O devices. As shown in
As further shown, a non-volatile memory 465, which may be a non-volatile memory in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, may further be coupled to second bus 444. In such embodiments, non-volatile memory 465 may act as a disk cache between disk drives 456 and 458 and processor 410. In other embodiments, instead of a disk cache, non-volatile memory 465 may take the place of disk drives 456 and 458. In this way, a solid state disk may be provided that can be used to maintain data with mechanisms to ensure compliance with an unrecoverable error specification. Note that in some embodiments, a solid state disk in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention may be coupled to system 400 via a Serial-Advanced Technology Attachment (S-ATA) protocol in accordance with the Serial ATA 1.0a Specification (published Feb. 4, 2003) or a so-called Fibre Channel protocol. Of course, such a device can be coupled to system 400 according to other protocols in other embodiments.
Embodiments may be implemented in code and may be stored on a machine-accessible medium such as a storage medium having stored thereon instructions which can be used to program a system to perform the instructions. The storage medium may include, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, compact disk read-only memories (CD-ROMs), compact disk rewritables (CD-RWs), and magneto-optical disks, semiconductor devices such as read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs) such as dynamic random access memories (DRAMs), static random access memories (SRAMs), erasable programmable read-only memories (EPROMs), flash memories, electrically erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs), magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions.
While the present invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate numerous modifications and variations therefrom. It is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of this present invention.
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CLAY — Ronnie Rich, 58, Clay, formerly of Sturgis, passed away Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at his residence.
He was a retired conservation officer with Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.
He was preceded in death by his father, Jim Rich.
Survivors include his wife, Irene Peak Rich; his mother, Martha Jean Rich of Sturgis; one daughter, Candice Rich of Corydon; one son, Byron Rich of Huntsville, Ala.; one sister, Linda Fabin of Henderson; one brother, Caroll Rich of St. Louis; and two grandchildren.
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The city of Pleasanton seeps racing tradition. It has the oldest one-mile track in the United States, the track where 1922 Kentucky Derby winner Morvich trained before heading east. The town was known for its horse farms before urban sprawl swallowed up land.
The people of Pleasanton, naturally, are excited about the Kentucky Derby, and on Saturday they will be able to relive a season when one of their own made a big impact on the Triple Crown.
Twenty-one years ago, Casual Lies, owned and trained by Shelley Riley, left his stall at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton on a Triple Crown adventure that included a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, third-place finish in the Preakness, and fifth-place finish in the Belmont.
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Riley has lost none of her self-effacing charm since 1992, when she became the first woman to train a Derby runner-up.
She's a storyteller and has plenty of stories about her $7,500 Lear Fan colt and his storybook Triple Crown adventure. The book does gloss over some of the controversies from Casual Lies's Triple Crown run, such as when she replaced regular rider Alan Patterson with Gary Stevens for the Derby.
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For almost one-quarter of the calories and one-eighth of the fat, dieters have a peanut butter substitute. Everyone else has a new peanut butter flavoring. Photography by Claire Freierman.
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CAPSULE SUMMARY: People who love peanut butter but can't have the fat have a new friend in PB2. It's peanut powder made from roasted peanuts that have been 75% defatted and ground into an aromatic and tasty powder. The powder reconstitutes with water to a homemade PB-like consistency; but has equal uses as powdered garnish/flavoring and a cooking/baking ingredient. Thus, it belongs in every kitchen. As a PB substitute, without all of peanut butter's natural oil and creamy mouthfeel, you won't mistake PB2 for the real thing, any more than fat-free milk can be mistaken for whole milk. But it's far superior in taste than other PB substitutes, and at 54 calories per 2 tablespoons and just 2.8g total fat, it saves calories and fat for those who can't have one or both and want their peanut butter. By analogy, fat-free milk is better than no milk at all, and can be quite enjoyable once you get used to it.
The country's most famous peanut farmer became the 39th president of the United States and won the Nobel Peace Prize. He doesn't have to worry about supporting his family. But not every peanut farmer is as successful as James Earl Carter, Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Navy engineer who grew up on the family peanut farm. Carter resigned his commission to manage the peanut farm after the death of his father. He ran it prosperously, back in the 1950s.
Today, according to USDA figures, the average return for an American farmer is only about 0.95%—less than 1% of his total investment. Due to much lower costs of living in other countries, a farmer on the international market could potentially sell a commodity like peanuts for five times less than an American farmer. America has a peanut crop surplus of 1.2 billion pounds. Our farmers must find more efficient and profitable ways to grow and sell their crops. Bell Plantation, an agricultural research company, was established to help farmers make money. It took approximately 900 million pounds of the surplus peanuts to research and create new peanut-based consumer products.
One of the products to emerge is PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter. It's made by slow-roasting the peanuts and then pressing them to remove 75% of the fat. The remaining product is ground into a pretty, peanut-colored powder that is meant to be mixed with water into a reduced-fat peanut butter substitute.
If you read some of the comments posted to diet chat boards and elsewhere by PB2 fans, you'll see descriptors like "amazing" and "insanely delicious." These are words that professional food writers would not likely use to describe the finest artisan peanut butters. Nor should you believe postings—or the label of the package—that tell you that the product is indistinguishable from real peanut butter (the label says that "PB2 has the same consistency as full fat peanut butter with all of the natural roasted peanut flavor but with 75% less fat calories").
As you can see from the photos, it is distinguishable from real butter in appearance as well as in taste. The unctuousness, from the oil that gives body as well as mouthfeel and flavor, is gone. The mixed-up product also is not stable: When exposed to air for an hour, as happened in our photo shoot, PB2 darkens and the flavor alters, which does not happen with regular peanut butter. There is no food magic that allows us to remove 75% of the fat (or sugar, or whatever) from a product without noticing a difference. Don't believe a person who tries to tell you otherwise; if that person truly believes it, he is not tasting with an unbiased set of taste buds.
But PB2 is not just a peanut butter substitute for those who can't have the real thing. Powdered peanut butter is a good and versatile product that belongs in the kitchen of anyone who likes peanut butter. So let's take a look at it, and see where it fits into your life.
Using PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter
PB2 has three audiences: Dieters who want peanut butter flavor without peanut butter fat and calories, anyone who likes peanut butter flavor and wants to easily add it to a variety of foods as a sprinkle or mix-in, and cooks/bakers who want a peanut butter ingredient to play with.
PB2 For Dieters
We've provided nutritional information below, but here's a quick summary of two tablespoons of regular peanut butter, compared to PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter:
If you're counting your calories and/or your fat grams and must have peanut butter, there's no doubt which option makes sense for you.
*We used nutritional information from our current favorite plain peanut butter, Cream-Nut from Koeze.
You can experiment until the cows come home with powdered peanut butter. Here's some of what we played around with.
Pancakes and waffles, breakfast cereals, smoothies and milkshakes, plain milk, Chinese chicken salad, coatings for broiled and sautéed fish and chicken, whipped cream and a myriad of other foods are waiting to be PB2d. If they haven't already done so, Bell Plantation should give the powder to recipe developers who work on reduced fat products, to see what it can do for peanut butter cake, pie, cookies and other goodies.
Nutritional Information
What's in a two-tablespoon portion of PB2? The product is made from peanuts, sugar and salt. Two tablespoons of the powder have the following nutrients*:
*Percent Daily Value (DV) based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
The packaging is very basic and needs to be reworked. The product label (on a standard plastic jar) looks as if it were computer-generated by an administrative staff member in the Bell Plantation Office, not by professionals (see photo below). It will not help the product generate excitement on a retail shelf—and PB2 deserves better. But there are bigger issues.
We're also not sure what the phrase "Just Peanut Butter" is doing on the label. PB2 isn't "just peanut butter," it's peanut powder that can be mixed up into a reduced fat peanut butter-type product or used in other applications. Remember, it's not peanut butter that was powdered, it was the peanuts themselves.
Perhaps enough NIBBLE readers will buy PB2 for themselves and as gifts for friends, so that there will be a few dollars left over for a package design firm. Shop now!
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Featured Review: Mary Sprague: Rhinoceros! This gnarled and otherwise inelegant beast is rendered almost pyrotechnic in this exuberantly expressive series of drawings and paintings by local painter, printer and ceramicist Mary Sprague. With a palette reminiscent of the acid hues of Matta and a similar penchant for surreal abstraction, these pieces move in and out of their totem animal, becoming at once portraits of a vibrant state of being and compendiums of every nervous variety of gestural mark. A wry sense of absurdity underscores the work via titles such as Decorated Veteran, Out from the Spa and How Much Does a Rhino Charge. High art treads on hard ground here — where pure joy is experienced with abandon and a wise half-smirk. Through October 16 at Duane Reed Gallery, 4729 McPherson Avenue; 314-361-4100 or www.duanereedgallery.com. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. and by appointment.
Brandon Anschultz: Stick Around for Joy Compulsive exercises in the deconstruction of painting yield new forms of painterly pleasure in this year's Kranzberg exhibition, which features St. Louis-based painter, sculptor and printmaker Brandon Anschultz. Canvas is removed from the stretcher frame and wrapped into amorphous, folded sculptures; wall-hung canvases are flipped, revealing seeped-through imprints of paint; canvas is forgone altogether and replaced with fiberboard or plaster as the painting substrate, which then occasionally takes a sculptural shape; canvas is chewed into or severed in half by saw cuts. In the supreme act of creative desperation, piles of paintings on wood appear in a life-size bag after having been fed through a wood chipper. In challenging every method for taking apart and re-inventing the traditional parameters of painting, Anschultz illustrates both a capricious compendium of the medium's history and the peculiar plight of the artist at odds with his own expertise. An intense desire to unearth something both fundamental and fresh seems to lie at the heart of this exhibition. Whether that desire is fulfilled is not entirely the issue; rather, the rigorous and playful spirit that pervades the exhibit is its most rare discovery — and one made solely on the work's own terms. Through September 26 at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, Sunset Hills; 314-821-1209 or www.laumeier.com. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. (Outdoor grounds open daily from 8 a.m. to a half-hour past sunset).
Crossing Paths A swarm of yellow-bellied finches pursues two gray foxes; a hippo is strangled by a python; a herd of deer is beset by predatory orangutans; a flock of black falcons pluck up a pack of warthogs. Brian Depauli executes this suite of large-scale landscape paintings, in which unlikely animal pairings confront one another on an otherwise placid field, with the kind of awkward expertise borne of prolonged intimacy with one's subject. Minute blades of grass and tufts of coarse fur articulate a world that's implausible without being a caricature, and oddly naturalistic without being anthropological. Nor is there any sustained sense of allegory for these strange spates of aggression, though the blue sky and hazy horizon line — steadfastly consistent from scene to scene — suggest that the subjects are secondary to more portentous weather. Coupled with Depauli's paintings is a series of small collages by Bevin Early. Tiny pedestrians, fastidiously cut from '60s- and '70s-era National Geographics, appear in mute isolation on single cubes of wood. Cubes dot the wall in a line, staggered like poetic stanzas; some bear images, others are blank. At the end of the line, in a corner alcove, the figures give way to cutouts of dappled light, producing an effect not unlike turning a corner and being struck by blinding sun. Like Depauli's vanishing distances, these works seem to murmur something about an alternative realm where more elemental states of being hold dominion, waxing far larger than their common lot as dismissible minutiae. Also showing — Nicole Stevens: Swelter, an installation in which a block of burnt candy melts on a plinth, keeping pace with the radical summer heat and perspiring passersby. Through October 2 at Snowflake/City Stock, 3156 Cherokee Street; www.snowflakecitystock.com. Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat.
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Bordeaux Red Blends from Barossa Valley, Australia
Winemaker's Notes
Deep red. The nose has some complex developed notes with roasted meats, aniseed and red capsicum. The palate is rich, full bodied and enticing with plums, roasted capsicum and vegemite notes. The maturation in French oak has led to some subtle spice lift and a lovely roundness and richness on the palate. There are some fleshy tannins which will make this wine an ideal match to rich dishes, especially red meats or game. The flavors linger in the mouth.
52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Malbec, 18% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Merlot.
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Australian Wine Companion - "It is nigh on certain that most - possibly all - of this estate-grown wine comes from the Eden Valley where three of the Clarke family vineyards are situated. Strong purple-crimson. This is yet another Thorn-Clarke wine with a glittering show record earned by prior vintages. It is an extremely powerful wine, laden with black fruits and firm tannins, and should prosper in bottle right up to its 20th birthday. "
Wine Spectator - "Polished, velvety and spicy, this is generous with its tobacco and loamy earth elements that surround a lithe core of dark berry and herb. Lingers softly. Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Shiraz. Drink now through 2015. 10,000 cases made."
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The Thorn-Clarke family already has a long history in the Barossa - six generations of involvement in the region's world famous wine industry. The name Thorn-Clarke derives literally from the relationship between two long time Barossa families. The winery owners are David and Cheryl Clarke (nee Thorn) and their son Sam is manager of the winery. Cheryl's brother, David Thorn manages the Mount Crawford and Kabininge vineyards for Thorn-Clarke Wines. Her father Ron Thorn has one of the oldest Shiraz vineyards in Australia and possibly the world on the Thorn family property 'Clifton' outside of Angaston. Earliest records show this old vineyard was in existence in 1854.
Husband and wife, David and Cheryl Clarke both have deep family roots in the Barossa. Cheryl Clarke's family, the Thorn's, have been grape growers in the Barossa since the 1870's.
David Clarke's family were pioneers in the Barossa as well but most famously in the mining of gold from the Barossa Goldfields. One of his ancestors was James Goddard who was the responsible for opening the Lady Alice gold mine in the Barossa goldfields and which was the largest gold mine in South Australia at the time. It has been David's love of the wine industry that saw the planting of the Kabininge vineyard outside of Tanunda in 1987. The planting of the Kabininge vineyard represented the start of a deeper involvement by the family in the Barossa wine industry. View all Thorn-Clarke Wines
About Barossa ValleyView a map of Barossa Valley wineries
The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.
Barossa ValleyBarossa is red-wine territory, with red grapes consisting of about two-thirds of the region's plantings. The reds, Shiraz in particular, are lauded for their rich, concentrated flavors and aging potential. Old vines of Shiraz and Grenache are popular, many up to 80 years old. The valley is home to some of the most famous vineyards of Australia - this is where the first Penfolds Grange was made. Whites are also found, mainly from the Semillon grape – these wines are as full-bodied as the reds although harder to find. Riesling and Chardonnay are also planted.
Eden ValleyRight next to Barossa Valley, but a bit higher in elevation, Eden Valley is an ideal neighbor. Many wineries source vineyards from both areas as the climate difference in Eden Valley leads to wines of a different character. Reds are still mainly Shiraz and Grenache, but the wines are often more restrained and less dense than those in the Barossa Valley. Whites are popular here too. Eden Valley Rieslings and Semillons are particularly excellent.
About AustraliaLike the United States, which is about the same size, Australia's winemaking regions are huddled into one or two pockets of the country. The state of South Australia, which produces about 60% of the country's wine, also has the most wineries and sub-regions, including McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and Barossa Valley. New South Wales is home to the Hunter Valley, while the smaller, southern state of Victoria is best known for theYarra Valley. Head way west to the very large state of Western Australia and you'll find the tiny region of Margaret River at the southern tip.
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MARE ISLAND, Calif. (AP) - In drought-stricken California, young Chinook salmon are hitting the road, not the river, to get to the Pacific Ocean.
Millions of six-month-old smolts are hitching rides in tanker trucks because California's historic drought has depleted rivers and streams, making the annual migration to the ocean too dangerous for juvenile salmon.
California has been trucking hatchery-raised salmon for years to bypass river dams and water diversion pumps.
But this year state and federal wildlife agencies are trucking nearly 27 million smolts, about 50 percent more than normal, because of the drought, officials said.
Trucking the smolts ensures a large number will survive and grow to be prized California king salmon. But skipping the river journey means the migratory fish won't know how to swim home to spawn in three years.
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Raise minimum wage nowFebruary 19,2013President Barack Obama laid out a number of good ideas in his State of the Union address. Unfortunately, almost all of them would require spending money and given Republican control of the House of Representatives, its hard to imagine that happening.
One major proposal, however, wouldnt involve budget outlays: the presidents call for a rise in the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9, with subsequent increases in line with inflation. The question we need to ask is: Would this be good policy? And the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is a clear yes.
Why surprisingly? Well, Economics 101 tells us to be very cautious about attempts to legislate market outcomes. Every textbook mine included lays out the unintended consequences that flow from policies like rent controls or agricultural price supports. And even most liberal economists would, I suspect, agree that setting a minimum wage of, say, $20 an hour would create a lot of problems.
But thats not whats on the table. And there are strong reasons to believe that the kind of minimum wage increase the president is proposing would have overwhelmingly positive effects.
First of all, the current level of the minimum wage is very low by any reasonable standard. For about four decades, increases in the minimum wage have consistently fallen behind inflation, so that in real terms the minimum wage is substantially lower than it was in the 1960s. Meanwhile, worker productivity has doubled. Isnt it time for a raise?
Now, you might argue that even if the current minimum wage seems low, raising it would cost jobs. But theres evidence on that question lots and lots of evidence, because the minimum wage is one of the most studied issues in all of economics. U.S. experience, it turns out, offers many natural experiments here, in which one state raises its minimum wage while others do not. And while there are dissenters, as there always are, the great preponderance of the evidence from these natural experiments points to little if any negative effect of minimum wage increases on employment.
Why is this true? Thats a subject of continuing research, but one theme in all the explanations is that workers arent bushels of wheat or even Manhattan apartments; theyre human beings, and the human relationships involved in hiring and firing are inevitably more complex than markets for mere commodities. And one by-product of this human complexity seems to be that modest increases in wages for the least paid dont necessarily reduce the number of jobs.
What this means, in turn, is that the main effect of a rise in minimum wages is a rise in the incomes of hard-working but low-paid Americans which is, of course, what were trying to accomplish.
Finally, its important to understand how the minimum wage interacts with other policies aimed at helping lower-paid workers, in particular the earned-income tax credit, which helps low-income families who help themselves. The tax credit which has traditionally had bipartisan support, although that may be ending is also good policy. But it has a well-known defect: Some of its benefits end up flowing not to workers but to employers, in the form of lower wages. And guess what? An increase in the minimum wage helps correct this defect. It turns out that the tax credit and the minimum wage arent competing policies, theyre complementary policies that work best in tandem.
So Obamas wage proposal is good economics. Its also good politics: A wage increase is supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, including a strong majority of self-identified Republican women (but not men). Yet GOP leaders in Congress are opposed to any rise. Why? They say that theyre concerned about the people who might lose their jobs, never mind the evidence that this wont actually happen. But this isnt credible.
For todays Republican leaders clearly feel disdain for low-wage workers. Bear in mind that such workers, even if they work full time, by and large dont pay income taxes (although they pay plenty in payroll and sales taxes), while they may receive benefits like Medicaid and food stamps. And you know what this makes them, in the eyes of the GOP: takers, members of the contemptible 47 percent who, as Mitt Romney said to nods of approval, wont take responsibility for their own lives.
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, offered a perfect illustration of this disdain last Labor Day: He chose to commemorate a holiday dedicated to workers by sending out a message that said nothing at all about workers, but praised the efforts of business owners instead.
The good news is that not many Americans share that disdain; just about everyone except Republican men believes that the lowest-paid workers deserve a raise. And theyre right. We should raise the minimum wage, now.
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The young chefs were still cooking when I went to bed. I heard them leave for WCSH TV studio before 6 am. Mac was scheduled to present a plate on the morning show then off to SMCC kitchens to finish up his cooking for the competition. Once at Harvest on the Harbor event center, Mac, Dylan, and James busied themselves setting up for the show. The two chefs who presented before Mac did a superb job. I know how nerve wracking competition can be. You stand up there in front of a hungry audience feeling almost naked.
Let's face it, "everyone" is a food critic and the average person judges by taste and lacks the understanding of the nuances of texture, mouth feel, underlying flavors. Well basically, the untrained palette is very limited, which means in this type of culinary competition the chef must sell him or herself to the audience as well as their dish.
Finally onto the stage arrives Mac. All 6′4″, lanky and lean with a natural confidence. Described by one reporter as chatty, he mixed joking with the emcee and expounding on his choice of dish to describing the HPP process that is used by Shucks to process lobster. As he threw out "shout outs" to me, his mom, and quickly added the "Oops sorry Dad," his comic nature won the audience over. Laughter filled the room much more than once. I just put my hand to my head and thought, "Dear God, here we go."
As the samples of Mac's dish circulated the room, I watched reactions. Who would not appreciate having half a lobster tail placed in front of them at a lobster competition? Mac brought Dylan and James to the stage and introduced them. Showing off Dylan's pumpkin carving, he held up a bottle of a California Pinot Noir as a suggested wine to go with his dish, and talked a bit about the plight of the fishermen as well as impressing the audience with the importance of putting Maine lobster on their dinner tables often.
As the three chefs were called to the stage and Dane Somers announced Mac the Maine Lobster Chef of 2009, I did my best not to burst into tears. The urge quickly turned to a laugh as I heard my other son Sam whisper, "It figures, a monster has been created."
After many interviews and photos, I had a chance to talk with Mac for a minute alone. I reminded him that in this time when the lobstering industry is suffering and the fishermen are at times faced with choosing between making a boat payment or putting food on their family table, do not think of the title of Maine Lobster Chef of the Year as "celebrity." Instead see yourself as the culinary representative for the fishermen. Promote Maine lobster, develop recipes, do some personal appearances as a volunteer to help the industry.
In a time when such a noble profession as fishing is in trouble, no one is more deserving of "celebrity" than each and every guy or gal who is out there hauling a trap.
Margaret Salt McLellan is the 2008 Maine Lobster Chef of the Year.