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An Army veteran from California is suing the federal government because she and her wife are being denied military benefits granted to heterosexual couples.
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Medical and Nursing Databases
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WSU Genetics Databases
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In those final, excruciating moments, Derek Jeter tried once more to maintain the myth. "Do not carry me," he told Joe Girardi. The Captain does not need to be lifted by others. The Captain projects strength, calm, leadership—almost an invincibility.
But by then it was too late. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, as Jeter rolled around on the infield dirt, unable to get up, the myth had already been shattered. The aura he had built over so many years had been lost.
Tigers 3, Yankees 0
Suddenly, he was just a 38-year-old guy with 18 years of major-league mileage on his body and a broken bone in his left ankle.
Maybe Jeter will be fine next year, as the Yankees expect. Maybe he and Mariano Rivera will be back here again next October, defying age and reason, an encore for "The Core." But this felt like the end of an era, or at the very least, the dawn of a new, uncertain one.
On Sunday afternoon, the Yankees played in a postseason game without Jeter or Rivera on their active roster for the first time since October 28, 1981. That was Game 6 of the World Series, which the Yankees lost to the Dodgers. A decade of futility and dysfunction followed.
Jeter and Rivera were not the only players to usher in an era of unrivaled prosperity, but they symbolized consistency more than any of their peers. They are as much a part of baseball's postseason as Santa Claus is part of Christmas. Only now, the playoffs go on without them.
"Eventually, this day was going to come," Joe Torre said, standing in a tunnel underneath Yankee Stadium. Jeter's old manager knows as well as anyone: Nothing lasts forever. But no one was ready for this. Not now.
Even as the Yankees spoke publicly about moving forward, Sunday felt like a funeral. Fans in the bleachers chanted Jeter's name, as if it were really him at shortstop instead of Jayson Nix. Old baseball men paid tribute to the departed.
"This is a tough story for baseball," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "What he has done in the postseason, what he means to the Yankees, what he means to baseball in general…"
Girardi marveled at how even members of the media seemed shaken.
"I don't know if I have ever seen that," he said. "I mean, I see people come into my office to do my interviews and they are down. And what would Derek say? 'I'm great, let's go.'"
The mood may have been less somber had Jeter appeared in public. No doubt, he would have projected confidence—in his own ability to recover and in the Yankees' ability to play on without him. But there was a certain finality to the image of Jeter being helped off the field by Girardi and a trainer.
He didn't speak to reporters after the game. A team employee gathered his clothes so he wouldn't have to dress in front of his locker. And when the Yankees reconvened for Game 2 of the ALCS, Jeter was nowhere in sight.
The Yankees said Jeter was not at the stadium and will not travel with the team to Detroit. He is walking on crutches and will visit a foot and ankle specialist in Charlotte in the coming days.
It was strange to try to picture him as a spectator Sunday, sitting on the couch in his apartment, his foot propped up on an ottoman, sipping from a bowl of chicken soup and shouting at the TV.
Jeter's tolerance for injuries is central to the mythology about him. He spent time on the disabled list last year with a calf strain. But the last time he appeared to be in serious pain was in 2003, when he dislocated his left shoulder on Opening Day. And even then, Torre said, "As he spun over, he said, 'I'll be in there tomorrow Mr. T.'"
Jeter has no such illusions this time. The Yankees' version of Achilles is down, feeling not all that different from a man shot in the heel by an arrow.
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Gomez Addams isn't a vampire or a ghost or a ghoul, but he is an ageless and indelible character. First rendered by the cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, Gomez, along with the rest of his comically macabre clan, got a TV show (and, for the first time, a first name) in 1964. Since then he's been a staple of TV sitcoms, variety shows and cartoons, Hollywood movies, video games and, most pertinent at the moment, a touring Broadway musical that visits Thousand Oaks beginning Tuesday.
Gomez always is passionate and debonair, charming despite his outré tastes. But depending on when you first made his acquaintance, you may think of him as looking like John Astin, or Raúl Juliá, or Tim Curry, or Nathan Lane.
Jesse Sharp doesn't bring such a familiar face to the role in this touring production, which is being presented by Theater Leauge, but he doesn't see that as any disadvantage.
"When the curtain goes up and people see us in character, they're just really excited to see the Addams Family. As long as we do justice to these characters, they're going to enjoy the show. So it's not so much about my interpretation of the character. It's more a matter of my performance and whether I'm bringing the right exuberance, playfulness and passion — and if my mustache looks good."
Sharp, who attended Santa Barbara City College, has performed in touring musicals before, but his background is more in rock 'n' roll, improv and straight theatrical acting. When he auditioned for "The Addams Family" musical, he'd been away from New York for a while and was instead back in his native Southern California or working at such regional outposts as the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
And, come to think of it, that might not be bad preparation for being Gomez.
"I've played a fair amount of Shakespearean clowns, as well as Shakespearean dramatic roles, and there is something about this character that benefits from that experience," Sharp says. "Gomez definitely is over-the-top, incredibly sincere, and he has no self-doubt. He's a lot more like a Shakespeare character than you'd imagine. He even runs around town with a sword!"
The roots of "The Addams Family" — in all its various incarnations — can be traced back to 1938. That was the year Addams introduced a series of single panel cartoons in The New Yorker that, on occasion, featured various macabre characters who, some 25 years later, would morph into television's oddest sitcom family.
These ghoulish folks depicted in his cartoons didn't even have names. It wasn't until the TV show moved into production that Addams was asked to provide a name and description for each character. Soon the world was introduced to Gomez Addams, the father; Morticia Addams, his wife; Wednesday and Pugsley, their creepy children; and Lurch, their hulking butler. There was the extended family, too: Uncle Fester, who could power a light bulb just by jamming it into his own mouth, and Grandma.
And then, of course, there was the theme song, a finger-snapping ditty by composer Vic Mizzy that summed up the Addams Family's "creepy" and "kooky" appeal.
Addams' cartoons — even the ones that didn't feature members of the Addams Family — were decidedly kooky and off-kilter. In one panel, he draws a woman on a park bench with a bag of crumbs, tossing them out on the walk. Instead of the usual pigeons, a bevy of inch-tall men scoops up the food. In another cartoon, a man fishing through a hole on a frozen lake looks wide-eyed over his shoulder as a shark circles around him, using its fin to slice an even larger hole in the ice.
One December, Addams created a holiday cartoon depicting a merry band of carolers gathered in front of the Addams Family's front door. The family, however, wasn't listening. They were up on the roof of their gothic mansion, helping Lurch dump a caldron of hot water onto the singers.
"My cartoons don't have any particular slant," Addams told The Associated Press in 1982. "I'm not trying to say anything. I'm just trying to be funny."
Addams, who was 76 when he died Sept. 29, 1988, considered himself "a normal American boy." But that wasn't exactly true. He definitely had, shall we say, odd tastes.
It should come as no surprise that Gomez Addams would run around with a sword. Addams, you see, collected them.
During the '82 interview with The Associated Press, he showed a reporter his medieval armor collection. Seventeen crossbows covered one wall of his duplex apartment near the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Also displayed were maces, swords and a suit of armor.
"I'm sort of an escapist," he said. "I lose myself in arms and armor."
The 16th century, he said, was his favorite period. "It was probably a rotten time to live," he said. "Everyone was beheaded and they had a lot of plagues. But it's a romantic time that appeals to me."
Little about "The Addams Family" musical appealed to New York City critics when the show opened in the spring of 2010 at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Nathan Lane played Gomez, Bebe Neuwirth played Morticia, and Andrew Lippa ("The Wild Party") penned the music and lyrics. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who wrote "Jersey Boys," handled the book.
Despite the brilliant cast and creative team, Ben Brantley of The New York Times called the production a "tepid goulash of vaudeville song-and-dance routines, Borscht Belt jokes, stingless sitcom zingers and homey romantic plot lines that were mossy in the age of 'Father Knows Best.' " The New Yorker's John Lahr complained that the show missed the essence of Charles Addams' cartoons: an inversion of normalcy starring "a ghoulish tribe of sadists and malcontents, intended to tease the notion of American prosperity and the cult of the perfect nuclear family."
As Lahr put it "Addams family members believed that they were normal. That was the joke. From the first beats of the musical, however, the characters we see onstage know that they're not. They're in on the joke, and the joke is all there is: Most of the evening is spent on endless illustration of the family's evident pathological characteristics. This is vamping, not storytelling."
Yet, the show was a big seller and played for a year and a half on Broadway, wrapping up a 722-performance run Dec. 31, 2011. Not too shabby.
The musical's plot hinges on daughter Wednesday Addams who has — eeeek! — grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. "Sweet" and "respectable" are not terms her parents are comfortable with. But she confides in her father anyway and begs him not to tell her mother. Trouble awaits on the evening the Addams host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents. Blair Anderson, who graduated from Oak Park High School, plays Alice Beineke, the mother of the "normal" boy.
Sharp says the show gives audiences what they come for. "In our version, there's an acknowledgment that we do understand that we're not normal," he says. "Other than that, I think it plays very similar to the TV show.
"And it has evolved so much from when it was first staged in Chicago (in 2009) and even from when it was on Broadway. They've simplified the plot and made the production a little less about the effects. The first tour, with Douglas Sills as Gomez, got much better reviews around the country when it went out. And I know that when I signed on for this tour, I thought, 'This doesn't seem like the show I read about early on.'
"I think, ultimately, it is what it sets out to be. It's a crowd-pleasing musical. Its aim is to make people laugh and have fun."
'The Addams Family'
The musical, presented by Theater League, will be performed Tuesday through Dec. 8 in the Kavli Theatre at Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Dec. 6; 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 7; and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 8. Tickets, which start at $34, are available in person at the box office or via Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000. Call 449-2797 for information or visit http://theaterleague.com.
The musical also will be performed at 8 p.m. Dec. 10-11 at the Granada Theatre, 1214 State St, Santa Barbara. Tickets are $38-$88. Call 899-2222 or visit http://granadasb.org.
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Sweet Meets Savory...
Posted 06 September 2003 - 12:25 AM
I am in the planning stages of an exciting and challenging collaboration. Next month I will be teaming up with a chef to execute an eight course menu. Four ingredients will be chosen, and for each, the chef and I will create our own interpretation- his in the savory realm, and mine in the sweet one. As the seed for this concept was planted months ago on our very own eGullet, I thought it would be interesting to open it up and see what some of you might come up with on your own!
So, give me your ideas for ingredients or products with interesting potential for savory/pastry crossover. The only rule is that there are none. The only limits are those of the imagination, though for the sake of this exercise, realize that real guests will be paying to sample these dishes, so a sense of good taste is obligatory. Also mandatory is the willingness to think outside the box, or better yet, to ignore the box altogether. Rid yourselves of any preconceived notions of course progression. Set aside the conventions of what is or is not a typical pastry component or technique.
Truth be told, I've been making notes for over a week now, and I'll be submitting my initial list of ideas shortly. But don't let that discourage you from brainstorming with me!
I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
Posted 06 September 2003 - 12:32 AM
Edited by mikeycook, 06 September 2003 - 12:33 AM.
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Posted 06 September 2003 - 01:12 AM
Similarly butter and oils.
Also many fruits like lemons and limes, but also Raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants, grapes
Tomatoes, especially green tomatoes work for both sweet and savoury.
In fact, most carbohydrates and fats can be used for either
Protein is more difficult as a sweet component, apart from eggs and cream cheese, although mincemeat is a fine tradition, as are suet puddings.
Many spices, such as cinnamon or mace are used for both sweet and savoury.
Polish cookery uses a lot of sugar in othersise savoury dishes, as does some Moroccan, and of course sweet and sour dishes.
Posted 06 September 2003 - 07:10 AM
Sage leaves can be deep fried and dusted with powdered sugar. I've seen recipes that use various herbs as a flavoring element.
Many foods open themselves to candying and crossing the sweet/savory line: fennel, citrus peel, ginger, grapefruit rind. Personally I'd experiment with some less familiar ones.
Posted 06 September 2003 - 07:27 AM
Sweet corn
Acorn squash
Posted 06 September 2003 - 07:32 AM
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Posted 06 September 2003 - 07:58 AM
red beans
edible flowers
foie gras
Oops, sorry -- no idea how that last one slipped in there.
"A vasectomy might cost as much as a year's worth of ice cream, but that doesn't mean it's equally enjoyable." -Ezra Dyer, NY Times
Posted 06 September 2003 - 08:07 AM
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Posted 06 September 2003 - 09:27 AM
Cabbage: for the sweet side, cabbage strudel (Gale Gand demoed this on her FTV show recently; her grandma made it because they couldn't afford apples)
Sweet potatoes
Posted 06 September 2003 - 11:48 AM
Posted 06 September 2003 - 12:00 PM
How about lobster or crab in a dessert? Just because I can't think of a way to make it work, doesn't mean you can't
Taking more traditional dessert items and using them for savories is less problematic in that most have probably been used in one way or another as part of various savory dishes.
Where and when is this dinner likely to be presented? I would potentially be interested in critiquing it, if needed
"Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster."
- Ferran Adria on eGullet 12/16/2004.
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Posted 06 September 2003 - 12:10 PM
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Posted 07 September 2003 - 07:30 PM
I love the hot and cold on one plate deal and know others do.
Already mentioned this on ravi post : wild strawberry sorbet with cracked black pepper
Portobello/carmelized onion with marscapone/creamcheese
Michael, do you have an idea of what the savory chef has in mind?
"Sweet dreams are made of this" - Eurithmics
Posted 07 September 2003 - 07:53 PM
Posted 07 September 2003 - 08:23 PM
That was Paul Connors from Minneapolis (formerly of Radius, in Boston) and he demo'd his ice cream utilizing, I believe, 'cinnamon cap' mushrooms. Paul and the rest of us, along with a couple of new faces, will be teaming up for series of demos again at this year's IHMRS.
I was going to suggest candy button mushrooms. I can't remember the name of the chef from... Oregon? He did a demo at the IHMRS Show. Tiny caramelly smelling mushrooms? I think they were candy button....
Posted 07 September 2003 - 08:43 PM
Posted 07 September 2003 - 10:22 PM
I like mjc's idea of a true collaborative nature, on each dish, though geography and time constraints might be too limiting. And there are so many potential foodstuffs that it would be easier to compile those that might never work- it would certainly be a short list!
Some of your notes that mirrored some of my mine, include porcini mushrooms, truffles, sweet potato, cucumber (and melon, as when cooked it takes on a cucumber-like flavor), eggplant, bacon, chili peppers, olives, foie gras...
Remember also my initial reference to course progression. This menu will not necessarily conform to the conventional notion of starting from savory and progressing toward sweet. I believe the term 'rolling hills' has emerged as the underlying concept for this project. Thus, proteins begin to enter into the mix. We've mentioned bacon and foie gras, and I like docsconz's idea of crab and shellfish- I recall Heston Blumenthal's use of crab in dessert when he gave us a preview of works in progress during his eGullet Q&A. Other animal-derived thoughts crossing my mind include duck fat, sea urchin, dashi, marrow, caviar, and, perhaps only for the potential play on words, sweetbreads.
I am also keenly aware of this chef's progressive use of ingredients and flavors. Not only do I want to avoid repetition of concepts he has already explored (parsnips, pine, olives, jerusalem artichokes- to name just a few of many), but I do want to bring ideas into the discussion that will challenge him. The crossover does extend to his 'savory' interpretations as well as my 'sweet' ones, and I am very interested to see what we both might do with the following...
Celery root, cauliflower, licorice (root or candy), concord grapes, yuzu, sea vegetables, yogurt, beurre noisette, tamarind, tea and coffee, soy (either edamame, soy milk, or soy sauce), sesame, salt water, chestnut, dates, grains (barley, rice, amaranth, etc.), beer, 'curry', juniper, saffron, malt, quince, 'smoke', sake, banana, persimmon, shiso/oba, gingerbread...
...to name just a few.
So now I widen the scope of this discussion to call for techniques, cooking methods, or general concepts that may prove interesting in the context of this exercise. Let's see what you've got.
PS... For some background on this collaborative menu, it may be helpful to read an initial conversation which began here, and continued privately, as well as a discussion that briefly touches on putting this theory into practice.
Posted 07 September 2003 - 11:23 PM
Grant Achatz
Posted 07 September 2003 - 11:26 PM
How about lobster or crab in a dessert? Just because I can't think of a way to make it work, doesn't mean you can't
You need a job? I think you would fit in well here.
Grant Achatz
Posted 08 September 2003 - 12:32 AM
I always wanted to do porcini caramel, because when sauteed, fresh porcini give off this wonderful, candy-like aroma...
lemon verbena sorbet served with a black truffle touille
carnarole and rolled oat "risotto/pudding"
"neopolitan" of balsamic, vanilla, and foie gras ice creams...
Edited by Bicycle Lee, 08 September 2003 - 12:34 AM.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 03:13 AM
Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll just have to content myself by visiting your place next time I'm in Chicagodocsconz:
How about lobster or crab in a dessert? Just because I can't think of a way to make it work, doesn't mean you can't
You need a job? I think you would fit in well here.
"Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster."
- Ferran Adria on eGullet 12/16/2004.
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Posted 08 September 2003 - 06:18 AM
with that in mind here are some interesting ingredients: rib-eye or merely its cap, veal feet, pigs head, hay, raw fish, cocoa nibs, garlic, salad burnett, wood sorrel, anise-hyssop, sea weed, dried shrimp, fermented black beans, rice noodles, matouks hot sauce, mayonaisse...do you want more
techniques: boil in a bag and its many derivatives
flash freezing and quick thawing, giving aroma to cold dishes a question I am trying to answer, fried ice cream savory and sweet mixed together on the same plate which is which does it matter which you try first or is the surprise the key, exploding cuisine such that while a dish may appear savory with a hidden surprise the dish is full tilt sweet
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Posted 08 September 2003 - 08:49 AM
ingredients, techniques, ideas are all interwoven such that with the deft hand savory is sweet, sweet is savory and depending on the position in the menu the dish works double duty or perhaps as merely a bridge with no affiliation.
Yes, that's exactly where we are with this.
With each layer of convention we peel away, we find ourselves with ever more possibilities. Coming up with the dishes themselves may be easier than figuring out where in the 'progression' we end up putting them. I also think it would be an interesting idea to not list whose dish was whose on the menu, to further add that element of surprise, though it may be obvious to those who are quite familiar with Grant's cooking and style.
And to the table I bring the recent experience of a similar guest chef dinner at Susur in Toronto, executed in his 'backward' style, though my desserts still found their place as a traditional ending. I'm still figuratively digesting that experience and concept. Perhaps merely inverting course progression doesn't move us anywhere at all.
I like sous vide, as it is surely a technique that has yet to be fully exploited by pastry chefs. The use of the freezer as a 'tool' is turning some wheels in my mind. I also appreciate your quest for adding aroma to cold dishes, and I've been considering the role of atomizers toward that end- and don't forget Grant's well-practiced 'vapor' technique.
As for your list of ingredients, you make some interesting suggestions... Hay came into my head along with sweetbreads (recalling an old Blumenthal dish I had seen ages ago), though I've never worked with it, nor tasted its effects. I see dried shrimp easily working its way into something; looking to the Japanese and other Asian cuisines, their snacks and 'junk food' alone offer a lot of inspiration. I love hyssop, and I thought of sorrel, but didn't include it as I associate it more as an early spring ingredient. And cocoa nibs- I can't believe I forgot that one!
Good stuff.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 02:00 PM
"Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster."
- Ferran Adria on eGullet 12/16/2004.
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Slow Food Saratoga Region - Co-Founder
Twitter - @docsconz
Posted 08 September 2003 - 03:01 PM
As a patron, I would be amused, in a boy-do-they-think-they're-clever way, by a meal that was strictly backwards, but I am intrigued by your "rolling hills" idea.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 03:13 PM
Good angle babyluck, and that's precisely why I've always enjoyed and been inspired by the work of Marcus Samuelsson at Aquavit.
I humbly suggest looking at Scandinavian menus. There is a lot of crossover...
...But I wonder whether it is the intellectual or the sensual effect you are going for (both, I guess). For example, is it important that they recognize the ingredient and know that it is being used differently?
And yes, I do think the featured ingredients may act as secondary players; many of the ingredients I threw out into the open would be best used in such a manner. Perhaps how either of us chooses not to use a particular ingredient, or rather downplay it, is just as valid as how we might choose to feature it.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 09:52 PM
Ingredient choices:
curry paste
fresh ginger root
This adventure seems like a jazz rift and something you can't really plan. I lean toward a harmony of sorts.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 11:55 PM
Avocado - I recently had avocado gelato that blew me away. Savory is easy. Sweet you could team it with another ingredient (or not) and do a sorbet or gelato.
Goat cheese (already suggested, but worth repeating) I've made a savory "cheesecake" that has a layer of pesto and a layer of sun-dried tomatoes in it. Yummy stuff.
Black pepper. Hot and Sour Soup for savory. Black Pepper gelato for sweet.
Mango. As the main component of a savory salsa. As the main component of a sweet dessert or sauce.
I'll think of others...
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Neighborhood news: Spring Creek Village
What is on your list of things to do this week?
Don't forget that it is your last chance to get the Forever Stamp for 46 cents if purchased by Jan. 26. Our kids and grandkids probably wonder why we'd bother but there are some of us that send real letters in envelopes and cards to wish someone Happy Birthday, Get Well, Happy Anniversary and Sympathy when needed. Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day wouldn't be the same if we didn't receive a "real" card from our loved ones. There is something missing when you only receive them on-line. Maybe we can sense the touch of the one who sent it and took time to address it and put that important stamp in the corner. The effort it takes to buy and send Get Well cards is appreciated by anyone who receives them. So don't forget, get those "cheap" stamps before they are "forever" 49 cents, that is, until the next increase.
What else is on your to-do list this week? How about going to Pot-luck on Wednesday and Coffee Hour on Saturday? The play "Assisted Living: The Musical" will be presented on Saturday evening at 7 p.m. so you still have time to get your tickets.
Louella Mosciski and I will be making a trip to the Amigos Center in Immokalee on Monday, Jan. 27, so drop off your donated items on Jan. 25 & 26. Call me if you need large items picked up.
Treat yourself to a Sunday afternoon of wonderful music played in the open air at Riverside Park on Old 41 in Bonita Springs. The Bonita Springs Concert Band will be performing from 2 to 4 p.m. Bring a comfortable chair to sit in and you might get there a little early to get a good parking place and place to sit.
One of the most important things on your "to-do" list is returning your ballot as soon as possible. If you are in the park you can drop them off in the office but if not, get those all-important stamps out and mail them. You have nine fine choices but can only vote for five. Read their resumes, talk to your neighbors and make informed choices and get the ballot back in. Be sure you follow the instructions regarding the envelopes or your vote might not count. They must be in before the Annual Members Meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3. You can bring your ballot to the meeting.
The following morning, on Feb. 4, Dick Ellingwood and his distinguished crew welcome you to join them at 8 a.m. for Pancakes and other delicious breakfast treats. He will provide the pancakes and coffee but you are asked to bring a breakfast type dish or beverage to share. You can kibitz with the other residents about who did or didn't win a board seat.
Tickets are available for the Fish Fry scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 8. Since the ladies fishing tournament begins early, there will be no coffee hour that day.
You say that cleaning out the drawers and closets is on this week's to-do list? Check out the list of items accepted for our annual Auction on March 1.
Phyllis Gidley will be hosting this year's Arts and Crafts Show from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, March 9, at The Club House. Phyllis recently had shoulder surgery but she is planning on being back within four weeks, the show will go on. Items will be for sale so here is something else to do this week. Painters and crafters, get your wares ready.
The annual variety show will be held on Saturday, March 8. Check with Jan Hoffman or Vicki Allen if you are interested in participating or helping in any way.
We had a good night at bingo last week and the winnings are increasing. Winnie Williams, Faye Ellingwood, Jackie Jerva, Ed Sabo, Colleen Ashby and Betty Edwards will attest to that. Jan Hoffman was my mystery winner of the Big Basket the week before.
The January Shuffleboard Tournament was held on a cool but sunny day with 15 teams participating. Marilyn McKay and Bud Williams took first place and Beverly Ferreira and Mark Weibe came in second. The Second Division winning team was Janet Bartley and Mel Hart. Phil Pearson grilled hot dogs for their lunch and Evelyn Norton and Millie Pearson supplied home-made cole slaw and baked beans and a delicious apple dessert. Join them next month on Feb. 19.
Bridge Players are filling the tables on Thursday night but gave up their place last week due to our Meet the Candidates Night. The previous week's winners were Pam Taylor, Betty Gardner, Dave Edwards and Marion Erstad and Marilyn McKay tied for fourth.
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I'm writing a book for O'Reilly, called Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
The problem of overly complex software is nothing new; it is almost as old as software itself. Over and over again, software systems become so complex that they become very difficult to maintain and very time-consuming and expensive to modify. Most developers hate working on such systems, yet nevertheless we keep creating new, overly complex systems all the time.
Much has been written about this, including classic papers by Fred Brooks (No Silver Bullet), and Ben Moseley and Peter Marks (Out of the Tar Pit). They are much more worth reading than this post, and it is presumptuous of me to think I could add anything significant to this debate. But I will try nevertheless.
Pretty much everyone agrees that if you have a choice between a simpler software design and a more complex design, all else being equal, that simpler is better. It is also widely thought to be worthwhile to deliberately invest in simplicity — for example, to spend effort refactoring existing code into a cleaner design — because the one-off cost of refactoring today is easily offset by the benefits of easier maintenance tomorrow. Also, much thought by many smart people has gone into finding ways of breaking down complex systems into manageable parts with manageable dependencies. I don't wish to dispute any of that.
But there is a subtlety that I have been missing in discussions about software complexity, that I feel somewhat ambivalent about, and that I think is worth discussing. It concerns the points where external humans (people outside of the team maintaining the system) touch the system — as developers using an API exposed by the system, or as end users interacting with a user interface. I will concentrate mostly on user interfaces, but much of this discussion applies to APIs too.
Let me first give a few examples, and then try to extract a pattern from them. They are examples of situations where, if you want, you can go to substantial engineering effort in order to make a user interface a little bit nicer. (Each example based on a true story!)
if statements based on the order parameters. So you go and build a natural language
grammar model for constructing emails based on sentence snippets (providing pluralisation,
agreement, declension in languages that have it, etc), in such a way that for any one out of 100
million possible parameter combinations, the resulting email is grammatically correct and easy to
We said above that simplicity is good. However, taking simplicity to an exaggerated extreme, you end up with software that does nothing. This implies that there are aspects of software complexity that are essential to the user's problem that is being solved. (Note that I don't mean complexity of the user interface, but complexity of the actual code that implements the solution to the user's problem.)
Unfortunately, there is a lot of additional complexity introduced by stuff that is not directly visible or useful to users: stuff that is only required to "grease the wheels", for example to make legacy components work or to improve performance. Moseley and Marks call this latter type accidental complexity, and argue that it should be removed or abstracted away as much as possible. (Other authors define essential and accidental complexity slightly differently, but the exact definition is not important for the purpose of this post.)
This suggests that it is important to understand what user problem is being solved, and that's where things start getting tricky. When you say that something is essential because it fulfils a user requirement (as opposed to an implementation constraint or a performance optimisation), that presupposes a very utilitarian view of software. It assumes that the user is trying to get a job done, and that they are a rational actor. But what if, say, you are taking an emotional approach and optimising for user delight?
What if the user didn't know they had a problem, but you solve it anyway? If you introduce complexity in the system for the sake of making things a little nicer for the user (but without providing new core functionality), is that complexity really essential? What if you add a little detail that is surprising but delightful?
You can try to reduce an emotional decision down to a rational one — for example, you can say that when a user plays a game, it is solving the user's problem of boredom by providing distraction. Thus any feature which substantially contributes towards alleviating boredom may be considered essential. Such reductionism can sometimes provide useful angles of insight, but I think a lot would be lost by ignoring the emotional angle.
You can state categorically that "great user experience is an essential feature". But what does that mean? By itself, that statement is so general that could be used to argue for anything or nothing. User experience is subjective. What's preferable for one user may be an annoyance for another user, even if both users are in the application's target segment. Sometimes it just comes down to taste or fashion. User experience tends to have an emotional angle that makes it hard to fit into a rational reasoning framework.
What I am trying to get at: there are things in software that introduce a lot of complexity (and that we should consequently be wary of), and that can't be directly mapped to a bullet point on a list of user requirements, but that are nevertheless important and valuable. These things do not necessarily provide important functionality, but they contribute to how the user feels about the application. Their effect may be invisible or subconscious, but that doesn't make them any less essential.
Returning to the examples above: as an application developer, you can choose whether to take on substantial additional complexity in the software in order to simplify or improve the experience for the user. The increased software complexity actually reduces the complexity from the user's point of view. These examples also illustrate how user experience concerns are not just a matter of graphic design, but can also have a big impact on how things are engineered.
The features described above arguably do not contribute to the utility of the software — in the e-commerce example, orders will be fulfilled whether or not the confirmation emails are grammatical. In that sense, the complexity is unnecessary. But I would argue that these kind of user experience improvements are just as important as the utility of the product, because they determine how users feel about it. And how they feel ultimately determines whether they come back, and thus the success or failure of the product.
One could even argue that the utility of a product is a subset of its user experience: if the software doesn't do the job that it's supposed to, then that's one way of creating a pretty bad experience; however, there are also many other ways of creating a bad experience, while remaining fully functional from a utilitarian point of view.
The emotional side of user experience can be a difficult thing for organisations to grapple with, because it doesn't easily map to metrics. You can measure things like how long a user stayed on your site, how many things they clicked on, conversion rates, funnels, repeat purchase rates, lifetime values… but those numbers tell you very little about how happy you made a user. So you can take a "data-driven" approach to design decisions and say that a feature is worthwhile if and only if it makes the metrics go up — but I fear that an important side of the story is missed if you go solely by the numbers.
This is as far as my thinking has got: believing that a great user experience is essential for many products; and recognising that building a great UX is hard, can require substantial additional complexity in engineering, and can be hard to justify in terms of logical arguments and metrics. Which leaves me with some unanswered questions:
I suspect that the answers to the questions above are "it depends". More precisely, "how one thing is valued relative to another is an aspect of your particular organisation's culture, and there's no one right answer". That would imply that each of us should think about it; you should have your own personal answers for how you decide these things in your own projects, and be able to articulate them. But it's difficult — I don't think hard-and-fast rules have a chance of working here.
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Once a year, benefits eligible faculty and staff have the opportunity to re-assess benefit needs and revise coverage(s). Open Enrollment is the only time during the year (unless you have a qualifying life event — marriage, birth or adoption of a child, death, divorce or loss of spousal coverage) that benefits-eligible faculty and staff have the opportunity to:
- Elect, drop or switch medical plans
- Add eligible family members not presently covered
- Elect, drop or switch to a different dental plan
- Elect, drop or switch to a different vision plan
- Elect or re-enroll in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
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If you are not sure what plans you are enrolled in and/or how much you are currently paying, please go to Campus Web and click on "Pay Check Stub View" in the menu bar. You can also find a list of your plans under "My Family" in the menu bar.
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All changes made during Open Enrollment will be effective January 1, 2012.
- Current medical, dental and vision plans will remain in place unless you complete a new Enrollment/Change Request Form to cancel or change your enrollment.
- To enroll a spouse or dependent, please provide a copy of your marriage certificate or your child's birth certificate or adoption papers.
- Any enrollment changes will require the completion of a new Health Care Rate Sheet.
- You must complete a new enrollment form in order to participate in the Flexible Spending Account for 2012.
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Faculty and staff are invited to attend the Benefits Fair on Thursday, October 27 from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in the Carriage House. United Healthcare, Delta Dental, the Hartford (life, short and long term disability insurance), Spectera (vision), TIAA-CREF, New Jersey Manufacturer's (car and home insurance), CONCERN (employee assistance program) and Tri-Co (credit union) representatives will be there to provide information and answer questions. New this year – the Acorn Academy – will also be available to answer questions about our on-site child care program.
While you are at the Fair, you can have your blood pressure checked, get a flu shot (for a modest fee) and enjoy light refreshments. And, everyone who attends the Fair is eligible to enter the raffle for prizes offered by our vendors!
Dental Insurance
Dental insurance is offered through Delta Dental of NJ and there is one important change to the plan this year. Children Up to Age 26 are now eligible to enroll in Drew's dental plan! To enroll your child up to age 26 on your plan, please complete a Delta Dental Enrollment Application and attach a copy of your child's birth certificate or adoption papers. Enrollment forms can be found under Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site.
There is no increase in the premium for dental insurance for 2012; the cost for all three plans will remain the same as this year. If you are remaining in the same plan and are not changing your dependents, it is not necessary to re-enroll. If you are considering enrolling in the dental plan or if you are changing plans or covered dependents, please go to Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site for enrollment materials and rates.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
A flexible spending account is a voluntary tax-saving benefit program that allows you to put aside money on a pre-tax basis that can be used to cover un-reimbursed medical expenses and dependent care expenses. Regulated by the IRS, an FSA annual election must be made every year and by law is a "use it or lose it" program. Faculty and staff who enroll in the program are required to remain in the program for the entire year and cannot make any changes in their elections unless there is a qualifying life event (marriage, birth or adoption of a child, death, divorce or loss of spousal coverage). Those who choose to participate may realize significant tax savings.
United HealthCare will continue to administer the FSA program for Drew. Faculty and staff have the option of using a Consumer Account Card (CAC) — which functions much like a debit card — to pay for eligible health care expenses as well as the option of paper submissions. In addition, everything relating to your account is available on-line in real time. Information about the plan, a list of reimbursable FSA expenses and enrollment materials can be found under Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site.
Life Insurance
Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance is provided through the Hartford Life Insurance Company and is available to all full-time faculty and staff in an amount equal to two (2) times your base earnings. There is no increase in the cost; the cost is $0.19 per $1,000 of salary and the University funds 50% of the cost for this coverage. Enrollment information and forms are on the HR Intranet site under Open Enrollment.
Medical Insurance
Over the past several years we have experienced health care cost increases that exceed salary increases, and unfortunately this year is no exception. We know that any increase in medical premiums will be a hardship for some members of the faculty and staff and we will continue to explore every possible option for containing our costs in the future. We look forward to the comprehensive benefits and compensation review scheduled to take place in 2012 and anticipate that it will help us identify opportunities for savings in benefits in general, and health insurance in particular.
In the meantime, we urge you to make time to review your current medical plan, weigh your choices, and as needed, make changes to meet your current healthcare needs and financial concerns. It may help to review your actual expenses – are your doctors in- or out-of network, did you put enough money in a FSA to cover all out-of-pocket costs, have you considered generic drugs and are you taking full advantage of mail order prescriptions?
Plan Options
Medical insurance is offered through United Healthcare and there are three medical plans – Core, Base and Enhanced. The three plans all provide the same services and features, but each has different coinsurance, deductible, and out-of-pocket maximum amounts. These differences are reflected in the annual cost of the premium. We encourage you to carefully weigh these cost differentials when choosing a plan to ensure that you have selected the most cost effective plan for you and your family. For a summary of the plans, click on Summary of Medical Plans under Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site.
It is not necessary to re-enroll in medical unless you are changing plans or covered dependents. Please go to Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site for enrollment forms and this year's rates.
Medical Rates
The monthly rates for the medical plans are increasing this year. The Core Plan will increase by 9.6%, the Base plan will increase by 10% and the Enhanced Plan will increase by 10.3% over last year's rates. As mentioned above, HR will continue to work with experts in the field, as well as the soon to be announced compensation and benefits committee, to explore cost saving measures to reduce our overall expenses.
A complete list of medical rates is available under Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site.
Children Up to Age 26
Children up to age 26 continue to be eligible to enroll under your health insurance plan. To enroll your child in Drew's medical plan, please complete a United Healthcare Enrollment Application and attach a copy of your child's birth certificate or adoption papers. Enrollment forms can be found under Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site.
Prescriptions (Rx)
The co-pays for prescriptions are not increasing and remain as follows:
- $10 for a 30 day supply
- $20 for a 90-day supply
Brand named
- $25 for a 30-day supply
- $50 for a 90-day supply
- $40 for a 30-day supply
- $80 for a 90-day supply
Vision Insurance
The monthly rates for Spectera vision insurance are not increasing. The monthly premium will remain:
Employee $ 5.27
Employee+one $ 9.56
Family $16.19
It is not necessary to re-enroll in a vision plan unless you are changing plans or covered dependents. Please go to Open Enrollment on the HR Intranet site for enrollment materials.
How can we help reduce healthcare costs?
- Take the online health risk assessment offered through United Healthcare. Participate in health and wellness activities on campus.
- Familiarize yourself with your medical, dental and prescription plans. Become a partner with your healthcare provider — ask questions and participate in your health care.
- Educate yourself about any chronic condition you may have. Good health care practices can improve your condition and quality of life.
- Ask your physician if generic drugs are available and appropriate for your condition.
- Utilize mail order prescriptions for three-month supplies of maintenance drugs.
- Develop a healthier lifestyle by watching what you eat, increasing exercise and if you smoke – try to stop.
Helpful Websites
- Budgeting for health care www.familyhealthbudget.com
- Delta Dental www.deltadentalnj.com
- Flexible Spending Accounts www.myuhc.com
- Medco Health (Rx) www.medco.com
- Spectera http://www.uhcspecialtybenefits.com
- United Healthcare www.myuhc.com
- Changes made during Open Enrollment become effective January 1, 2012.
- Medical, dental and vision benefit elections will automatically roll over into 2012 unless you complete paperwork by November 4, 2011 to effect a change.
- Flexible spending accounts – including both medical and dependent care accounts — require that you re-enroll every year.
- Under IRS law, your benefit elections must remain in place for all of 2012 unless there is a qualifying event — marriage, birth or adoption of a child, death, divorce or loss of spousal coverage.
- To enroll a spouse or dependent, please provide a copy of your marriage license or your child's birth certificate or adoption papers.
- Any enrollment changes will require the completion of a new Health Care Rate Sheet.
- Open Enrollment changes must be submitted by November 4, 2011. Applications received after the deadline cannot be accepted or processed.


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On July 15 members of BALA joined conservative legislators and other leaders in Washington, D.C. for a rally designed to send a strong signal that a core of Americans are standing against the immigration "reform" bill. Among the legislators speaking at the BALA-sponsored event were U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), U.S. Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), and former Congressman Allen West (R-Fla).
Rally organizer Leah Durant, founder of BALA, said that the purpose of the event,which drew an estimated 3,000 participants, was to demonstrate the strong opposition to the Senate-passed immigration bill, particularly among black leaders, who argue that giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens now in the United States will effectively flood the job market with a labor force that will take jobs that have traditionally been filled by low-skilled American workers, particularly those in the black community.
"It is our strong belief that now is not time to permit another amnesty that adds millions more workers to swamp our labor markets and dramatically increase competition for scare U.S. jobs," Durant told Breitbart News in an interview before the event. She added that those at the rally were concerned about "making sure that America's jobs are preserved for American workers at a time when nearly 22 million Americans are either out of work or underemployed."
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The Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers meet head to head for the fifth time this season in game one of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. Tip off at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH is at 3:00 ET on Saturday. TV coverage is provided by ABC.
Odds makers have been sharp as neither one of these two teams has been better over the other at the spread. Their respective at the spread victories have each come once at home and once away. The two teams met earlier this month in Chicago. The Bulls won 109-108, and Cleveland covered as 6.5 point underdogs.
Going into Saturday's game with a questionable Shaq, the Cavaliers are 11 point favorites. The total stands at 191 at most books. This season has been a sign that Shaq is more memories than material. Of course the world is watching LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers fight for another shot to be NBA champions.
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On the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States. ''The only visible sign of stress is that I'm chain-smoking,'' she said when I met with her recently. Forty-one and free on bail, she wore a red cotton shirt, shapeless khaki pants and battered white leather sneakers. With her casual manner, she could pass for an ordinary resident of Takoma Park, where ''War Is Not the Answer'' signs are available free at the local co-op.
Seated on the shady porch of her tumbledown cottage, overlooking a purple azalea bush, Lindauer was alternately pensive and bubbly as she talked about her encounter with the F.B.I. On her knees, she balanced a photo album, which contained photographs of her wild years in Alaska, where she grew up, and her time as an undergraduate at Smith College, where she majored in economics. She showed me pictures of her mother, Jackie, who died of cancer after Susan graduated from college, and her father, John, an academic economist who once ran on the Republican ticket for governor of Alaska. The youthful beauty of Susan's features in her early photographs has been transfigured over time into a middle-aged balance of beatitude and stubbornness. When she gets angry, a storm cloud passes over her face. When the storm cloud breaks, her expression becomes even and calm, like that of a child who has freshly emerged from a bath.
Having grown up in a household in which public policy was frequently the stuff of dinner-table conversation and impassioned family arguments, Lindauer wanted to help change the world. The way she chose to do so, however, was not by signing petitions or marching in demonstrations, but by engaging in the kinds of clandestine encounters that you read about in spy novels -- meeting foreign diplomats, passing along secret messages and engaging in other activities that would eventually lead to her arrest. ''I'm what they call a useful idiot,'' she said with a laugh. According to the federal charges filed against her by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lindauer repeatedly violated U.S. law beginning in 1999 by meeting with Iraqi diplomats at the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in New York and with agents of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Intelligence Service (I.I.S.). She was also indicted for accepting money from the Iraqis and traveling to Baghdad, where she met with Iraqi intelligence agents, in violation of federal law. ''From on or about Feb. 23, 2002, through on or about March 7, 2002,'' the indictment charged, ''Susan Lindauer, aka 'Symbol Susan,' met with several I.I.S. officers in Iraq, including at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, and received cash payments of approximately $5,000.00.'' The press was quick to identify Lindauer as an Iraqi spy.
''I'm an antiwar activist, and I'm innocent,'' Lindauer told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore. ''I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else.'' In a moment of crisis, it seemed, having just been fingerprinted and charged with betraying her country, Lindauer was acting the way a person might act in a dream, blurting out the constituent parts of her fractured reality into a waiting microphone.
The substance of the government's case against Susan Lindauer is contained in the indictment. Both the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on the case, and no date has been set for the trial. While Lindauer was not accused of espionage, as initial reports of her arrest suggested, the government did charge her with a serious crime, even if the charge itself may seem like a technicality. By failing to register herself formally as a lobbyist and by supposedly following instructions from Iraqi diplomats and intelligence agents at the United Nations, the government charged, Lindauer had been acting as ''an unregistered agent of a foreign government,'' a violation of federal law that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Lindauer acknowledges that the meetings detailed in the federal indictment took place, but denies acting as an agent of Iraq or any other country.
On paper, at least, there is little to distinguish Lindauer from hundreds of other bright young people who come to Washington in the hope of making a difference. She graduated from Smith in 1985 and then went to the London School of Economics, where she earned a master's degree and developed an interest in the Arab world. In 1990, she went to Washington, where she briefly worked as a journalist and then as a press secretary for liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, including Ron Wyden and Carol Moseley Braun. None of her jobs lasted more than a year. Her most recent job on Capitol Hill, as a press secretary for Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, ended in May 2002.


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