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#TCPalmSocial review: From first course to dessert, Similan Thai in Stuart delivers
Similan Thai Cuisine
Address: 2891 S.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday; 4:30-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 4:30-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Phone: 772-266-8295
Alcohol: Beer and wine
Reservations: No
Handicap access: Yes
Online: Click here to go to the Similan Thai Facebook page
On our first visit to a Thai restaurant six months ago, we had to rely on suggestions from our server as to which dishes to order. On this visit to Similan Thai Cuisine, which opened three months ago in the Re/Max Plaza in Stuart, we went with friends who recommended some of their favorite Thai foods.
Similan Thai features fresh rolls and a variety of soups and salads. The curry, noodle and rice dishes, all served with varying degrees of heat and spices, are served with a choice of chicken, vegetables or tofu, but beef, pork or shrimp may be added for an additional charge.
The Similan sampler ($12.95) with chicken satay, an egg roll, crab rangoon, pot stickers, chicken shumai, fried tofu and a fried wonton was a good way to taste several appetizers with three kinds of dipping sauces. An order of crispy egg rolls ($6.95) with cabbage, glass noodles, carrots and mushrooms rounded out the selection.
We ordered four entrees to share, and our table was overflowing with beautifully presented platters of Thai delicacies. The massaman shrimp curry ($15.95) featured a Southern Thai curry with potatoes, green beans, carrots and onions sweetened with coconut milk and topped with large shrimp. This aromatic entree smelled and tasted divine.
The pork pad thai ($13.95) was a flavorful dish of stir-fried pork, carrots, bean sprouts and scallions over a bed of rice noodles and coated with a spicy peanut butter sauce.
Big pieces of chicken with mushrooms, pea pods, bell peppers, hot peppers and cashews adorned the truly love cashew entree ($12.95). Although house salads and white rice accompanied the dinners, we shared an order of traditional Thai fried rice with chicken, peas, carrots, tomatoes, green onion and cilantro ($11.95).
All of our entrees were so fresh that you could taste each ingredient, and the sauces enhanced the flavors rather than masking them.
We couldn't pass up the deep fried ice cream ($4.95) coated in a pastry crust, fried and topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream and a cherry, and an order of Thai doughnuts ($4.95) with powdered sugar.
Reasonably priced lunch specials ($7.95) are offered Monday through Friday and delivery is available at www.eatsdelivered.com.
A pleasant atmosphere, friendly staff and great food await diners at this new restaurant in Stuart.
Similan Thai Cuisine
Address: 2891 S.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday; 4:30-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 4:30-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Phone: 772-266-8295
Alcohol: Beer and wine
Reservations: No
Handicap access: Yes
Online: Click here to go to the Similan Thai Facebook page
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Hudson River Almanac October 22 - October 28, 2013
With just 0.02 inches of rain this week (less than 3.0 for the month), conditions were dry and measurable salinity remained above the Hudson Highlands. We continued through the various and predictable phases of autumn migration in the air, from broad-winged hawks to sharp-shinned hawks, and now turkey vultures. The first snow geese were passing as well.
10/28 - Kerhonkson, Ulster County, HRM 92: Several days ago I found eight monarch butterfly caterpillars. This is an extremely late date to find them still in New York. Most would have pupated, emerged, and already begun their long journey south to Mexico. For the past 25 summers I have raised (and set free) hundreds of monarchs. During late August this year, in a field where it is not unusual for me to find a dozen eggs and eighteen caterpillars each day, I found only one. My summer travels from Michigan to New Brunswick were almost completely devoid of butterflies of any species. By the end of August I had stopped looking for monarchs. You can imagine my delight and surprise when, at this late October date, I found monarch caterpillars. My soul is lifted by the thought that perhaps these eight caterpillars may make it to Mexico. Today each hangs in its own priceless chrysalis. Hopefully I can time it right so some children will watch them emerge with me. By that time, however, will it be too cold for the butterflies to fly to Mexico? I don't know.
- Betty Boomer
10/22 - Hyde Park, HRM 82: This was the fourteenth anniversary of the serendipitous discovery (no one was looking for it) of the Hyde Park mastodont. These are an extinct form of elephant that roamed the Hudson Valley in the Late Pleistocene during the time when it is believed that the first Native Americans arrived here and the Hudson River was becoming an estuary. The American mastodont (Mammut americanum) was part of a faunal community - many members of which are now extinct - that included American elk, ground sloth, woodland caribou, giant beaver, horse, flat-headed peccary, and stag-moose.
- Tom Lake
[An exact replica cast of the nearly 12,000 year-old Hyde Park mastodont is on permanent display at the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum in Poughkeepsie. The original animal stood ten feet high at the shoulder and weighed 10,000 lb. The 1999-2000 excavation was not unlike entering a time machine and the museum display gives us a great appreciation of the tremendous time-depth of our Hudson Valley region. Tom Lake.]
10/22 - Kowawese, HRM 59: It is hard to beat seining at sunrise on the west side of the river. In a season of migration, from fish to waterfowl, we can also observe sunrise migrating over a different hill each morning, always just a little farther south. It seems like a curtain closing on a theatrical event. Today it came up over Sugarloaf Mountain. A brisk south wind was pushing head-on into the last of the ebb tide and rollers were coming onto the beach. This created a high-energy zone of suspended food and confusing water just a few feet offshore. In this swash we caught five 20-inch-long channel catfish with bulging abdomens, as well as a score or more of large white perch. Among the smaller fishes, potential meals, were young-of-the-year striped bass 78-96 millimeters [mm] long, American shad (110-112 mm), and more channel catfish (55-75 mm). The salinity was 1.8 parts per thousand [ppt] and the water was 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Tom Lake, A. Danforth
10/22 - Wurtsboro, HRM 67: We got good looks at a cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) within 70 feet of the barn at the Camel Farm.
- Dick Riley, Adrienne Popko
[The newly recognized cackling goose is a smaller version of the Canada goose. Formerly considered the smallest subspecies of one variable species, recent work on genetic differences found the four smallest forms to be very different. These four races are now recognized as a full species: the cackling goose. It breeds farther northward and westward than does the Canada goose. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.]
10/22 - Bedford, HRM 35: A pre-frontal push of migrants (mostly turkey vultures and sharp-shinned hawks) at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch kept us entertained through midday, when activity sharply dropped off as a cold front began sweeping through the area. Overall, there was little-to-no evidence of thermals; even turkey vultures were expending energy to stay aloft. Also counted were two common ravens, a common loon, a red-throated loon, five eastern bluebirds, and 55 American robins. Current season totals of vultures: 819 turkey vultures, 29 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green, Gaelyn Ong
10/23 - Ulster County, HRM 97: This morning I woke up to a light frost, the first of the season. Maybe this will knock back the katydids! They were still singing at dusk last night.
- Scott Davis
10/23 - Poughkeepsie, HRM 76: During a lunchtime stroll along the Marist College waterfront, I walked down a boat launch ramp to see what might be swimming there. No swimmers were to be seen, but an unwelcome crawler was: a mitten crab with its long legs and rather small body (carapace two to two-and-a-half-inches across). It was in shallow water not far down the ramp, but as I moved to capture it the crab skittered away into the depths. [The previous mitten crab find in the estuary occurred in the Sawkill, HRM 98.5, on August 19.]
- Steve Stanne
[The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is native to the estuaries of China where it is highly regarded in the market. There is genetic evidence that the east coast mitten crabs arrived in the U.S. from Europe via commercial traffic, much like zebra mussels in 1988. Mitten crabs are catadromous, meaning that they spend much of their life in freshwater, then return to higher salinities in the lower estuary (15-20 ppt) to reproduce. The salinity gradients of east coast estuarine systems like the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and the Hudson River are nearly ideal for them. Adult mitten crabs have a carapace width of about 3", but six of its 8 legs are almost twice as long, giving them a spider crab "look." Unlike the native blue crab, a swimming crab, mitten crabs are burrowing crabs, similar to our mud crabs only many times larger. They have a generalist diet, varied in prey, and their potential ecological impact on east coast estuaries is still unknown.
If you catch a mitten crab, do not release it back to the water. Keep it and freeze it (preserve in alcohol if you can't freeze it). Note the date and location where caught (GPS coordinates preferred but pinpointed on a map is acceptable) and how you caught it. If possible, take close-up photos showing top and bottom views of the animal. You may e-mail photo to email@example.com for identification. The Mitten Crab Network, a partnership among several state, federal and research organizations, is collecting data to determine the status, abundance, and distribution of this species. The DEC's Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources has agreed to collect and hold specimens for genetics testing to determine the origin of individuals caught in the Hudson River. You may collect and hold mitten crabs for the sole purpose of turning the crab over to the Department, and - within 48 hours of collection - contact one of the following individuals:
Long Island Sound, New York Harbor and Hudson River below George Washington Bridge: Kim McKown, NYS DEC Division of Fish Wildlife and Marine Resources Crustacean Unit, 631-444-0454
Hudson River above George Washington Bridge: Sarah Fernald, NYS DEC Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, Hudson River Estuary Research Reserve, 845-889-4745.]
10/23 - Warwick, HRM 41: I was traveling in late afternoon as the sky filled with many hundreds of Canada geese. I was south of the village where there are a lot of wetlands. Geese were landing, taking off, literally flying in every direction and at all different altitudes. Some formations were so high that they were hard to see - just little specks.
- Cathy Rudy
10/23 - Bedford, HRM 35: We had a very relaxed flight at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch with no high-flyers. Several small turkey vulture kettles were seen late in the day. Most remarkable was a short-eared owl that flew at a very casual height above the tree canopy just south of the watch platform. This bird was intensively harassed by two common ravens. Also counted were about 1,200 common grackles (one flock) and 63 American robins. Current season totals of vultures: 858 turkey vultures, 29 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green
10/23 - Croton Point, HRM 35-34: The well-vegetated landfill was crawling with bird life. There were so many sparrows that keeping optics on just one took much willpower as dozens of other passed by. Most common were savannah, song, swamp, and chipping sparrows. More than just a few eastern meadowlarks were also glimpsed briefly before disappearing into the shrubbery. The river was 62 degrees F and the salinity 6.5 ppt.
- Tom Lake
[A half-mile south at the mouth of the Croton River, the water was much cooler - 57 degrees F - and the salinity much lower - 2.25 ppt. This was likely attributable to the cold, fresh water coming downstream from the Croton Reservoir. Tom Lake.]
10/23 - Manhattan, HRM 12.5 Near the north end of Inwood Hill Park, I noticed three large birds in flight. One broke off but two flew toward me. It wasn't clear if they were playing or harassing each other, but they twisted and turned, stalled and recovered, as they flew. Just as I was able to see that they were both eagles, an adult and an immature, I heard one of them calling. I've listened to recordings of eagle calls but this was the first time I heard them live. They continued the antics and calls as they passed overhead before turning north to disappear on the far side of Inwood Hill.
- Kaare Christian
10/24 - Bedford, HRM 35: Most of today's excellent turkey vulture flight at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch happened in the afternoon. Had there been more than one observer present, the count certainly would have been higher. Also counted were 161 Canada geese (eleven flocks), six wood ducks, and a monarch. Current season totals of vultures: 1,111 turkey vultures, 29 black vultures.
- Tait Johansson
10/24 - Piermont, HRM 25: I was walking back along the pier closer to dark than to dusk when a bird landed near a grassy shoulder thirty feet from me. I could just make out the silhouette through my binoculars: low to the ground with a very long bill. It was a woodcock. As I approached it took off with a twitter and landed a bit farther down the road. Eventually it left.
- Linda Pistolesi
10/25 - Albany, HRM 145: Fish tend to retreat from the Hudson's shallows as cold weather arrives, but repeated seine hauls at the Corning Preserve's boat launch netted a number of the usual suspects: four spottail shiners, six banded killifish, and a couple of bluegills. We did have one surprise, a tiny blue crab (15 mm carapace width). It's not unusual to find blue crabs in freshwater this far upriver, but to find one this small this late in the season seemed out of the ordinary. Blue crab larvae need salt water to develop; in the short time since it molted from its last larval stage into a miniature version of an adult, this crab had traveled 120-150 miles.
- Steve Stanne, Rebecca Houser, Chris Bowser
10/25 - Beacon, HRM 60: Fishing in Denning's Point bay I caught and released two carp, five channel catfish, and three brown bullheads. The largest carp measured 25 inches long (estimated weight: 8 lb.); the largest channel cat measured 22 inches (estimated weight: 3 lb.). I was standing for the entire five-hour session, with bite after bite, fishing two rods. The circle hooks I used really proved their value in hook-ups and safe release. Once the cooler weather gets rid of the water chestnut, the bay area becomes accessible and productive.
- Bill Greene
10/25 - Kowawese, HRM 59: The river finally fell below 60 degrees F here, making wading problematic. Catches from our seine hauls were sparse with perch (yellow perch and tessellated darters) most numerous. One delightful surprise was the several mummichogs (71-73 mm) we caught. The river was 58 degrees F and the salinity 1.8 ppt.
- Tom Lake, T.R. Jackson
[Mummichogs are killifish, but they are less common in most parts of the estuary than the banded killifish. Their name is a derivation, a phonetic representation, of an Algonquian (river Indian) word that means "fishes that go in crowds," an observation of their tendency to form large schools. Tom Lake.]
10/25 - Bedford, HRM 35: Another decent day at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch with turkey vultures and sharp-shinned hawks still occupying center stage, but with good overall species diversity including a juvenile northern goshawk. Also counted were four common ravens, about 800 common grackles (probably badly undercounted), a common loon, 114 snow goose (one flock), and 521 Canada geese (22 flocks). Current season totals of vultures: 1,162 turkey vultures, 32 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green, Gaylen Ong
10/26 - Beacon, HRM 61: We went for a late afternoon walk along the Fishkill Creek's Klara Sauer Trail. We got closeup sightings of pairs of both golden-crowned and ruby-crowned kinglets, along with a brown creeper, all foraging around the same tree. We were about to head back when out of nowhere an adult bald eagle silently glided into view fifteen feet above us. We watched as it steadily flew along the old railway line while being buffeted by the wind, looking around from side to side as it went - a real unexpected treat. The bird was banded but it was impossible to read any numbers.
- Jamie Collins, Leena Bjork
10/26 - Pollepel Island, HRM 58: I spotted a single great cormorant (an adult) in with a dozen double-crested cormorants on a navigation buoy next to Bannerman's (Pollepel) Island.
- Ken McDermott
10/26 - Warwick, HRM 41: The Edgar A. Mearns Bird Club walked the Liberty Marsh Loop Trail today and we spotted a Le Conte's sparrow. We watched it for an hour at a distance of only 25 feet, a look that you never get with this species.
- Ken McDermott
[Le Conte's sparrow has never been recorded for Orange County. This sighting occurred a couple of hundred yards into New Jersey. Although it was a great sighting, and the bird undoubtedly came through Orange County, it was still no record for us. This very secretive sparrow nests in prairies and grasslands of central and southern Canada and extreme north-central U.S., and winters in the lower Mississippi River basin and along the Gulf Coast. Curt McDermott, Steve Stanne.]
10/26 - Bedford, HRM 35: How fortunate to have a second peak turkey vulture day this season at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch! Within 50 minutes in midday, 139 of them moved through. Also spotted were nine red-winged blackbirds. Current season totals of vultures: 1,419 turkey vultures, 33 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green, Gaylen Ong
10/26 - Croton Bay, HRM 33.5: No fewer than 40 black ducks were trying to forage in the near-shore shallows at Crawbuckie while at the same time dealing with a strong southwest breeze that had the bay capped over. I wondered if their energy expenditure exceeded the calories they gained from foraging.
- Tom Lake
[Crawbuckie is a colloquial name used to describe the low-tide beach facing Croton Bay along a mile of shoreline between the mouth of the Croton River and Ossining (river miles 34-33). The origin of the name is hazy but it has been commonly used by local rivermen for well over a century. It became famous in the 1960s and 70s among striped bass anglers, when catching one of any size was big news. Tom Lake.]
10/27 - Papscanee Island, HRM 142: Two days later and a few miles south of the boat launch in Albany, we seined up another tiny blue crab, this one 17 millimeters across its shell (carapace).
- Steve Stanne, George Steele
10/27 - Fishkill, HRM 61: Most of the trees in my yard had lost their leaves, making the upper canopy in the woods very visible. High up in one tree laden with Virginia creeper berries was a large pileated woodpecker, clinging to the tree's trunk but stretching its neck far out to reach some of the berries. Meanwhile, several robins were waiting their turn at the available crop, until one brave, impatient robin chased the pileated woodpecker off to another tree across the road.
- Ed Spaeth
10/27 - Bedford, HRM 35: Yet another peak day of turkey vultures at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch with two distinct pushes of migrants in the morning and at the end of the count. It also seemed like we were starting to enter into peak red-shouldered hawk numbers (fifteen for the day; 67 for the season). Also counted were 78 American robins, 125 Atlantic brant, and a monarch. Current season totals of vultures: 1,530 turkey vultures, 37 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green, Gaylen Ong
10/28 - Crugers, HRM 39: I stepped out of my house this morning to discover a rufous-sided towhee in my fenced-in garden. I had not seen one of these for a while and I was wondering what it might have been eating (seeds from coneflower?). It had a little trouble negotiating the black mesh surrounding the area, but eventually found its way out and flew away.
- Susan Butterfass
10/28 - Bedford, HRM 35: Turkey vultures were still making up a good percentage of the count at the Chestnut Ridge hawkwatch. There were still very few kettles and most vulture migrants were exiting solo or as a stream of no more than eight. Highlight of the count was a sub-adult male northern harrier that flew over the tree line not far from the platform. Also counted were 1,186 Atlantic brant (five flocks, the largest of which was 480 birds), 285 snow geese (two flocks), and 51 Canada geese. Current season totals of vultures: 1605 turkey vultures, 38 black vultures.
- Arthur W. Green, Gaylen Ong
10/28 - Croton Point, HRM 35: We hauled our seine through a "collection basin" of a season's leaves. The autumn tides had pushed and pulled oak, ash, maple, box elder (ash-leaf maple), willow, locust, cottonwood, sycamore, and even some sassafras leaves into a small area beneath a northeast-facing breakwater. Our net caught mummichogs and banded killifish as well as small blue crabs and several excellent "barnacle sticks" with many fresh and healthy bay barnacles attached. A short distance away, nestled in some invasive Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), we caught northern pipefish (80-85 mm) and grass shrimp (Paleomonetes pugio; 45-50 mm). The water was 57 degrees F and, despite no recent rain, the salinity was down to 5.2 ppt.
- Tom Lake, T.R. Jackson
[Grass shrimp is a collective name for three species of small shrimp found in the salty and brackish waters of the lower Hudson River, including two species of shore shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) and (P. vulgaris), and sand shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa). "Grass" is a colloquial reference to their preferred habitat, submerged aquatic vegetation in the estuarine shallows. Tom Lake.

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Hi, again, I'm Tucker Hatfield, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team with another post on improvements for using pictures in documents in Office 2010. This time we're looking at the improvements to cropping pictures in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
When planning our new features for this version of Office, we did a lot of research to find out more about the common tasks people do with pictures in Office. Cropping was overwhelmingly the most-used bit of editing used on pictures, so one of the first things we started work on was making cropping an easier-to-use and more powerful tool.
First of all, we wanted crop to allow you to see both what you were keeping and what you'd cropped out of an image. As an example, let's say I wanted to insert this picture in my document, but I wanted to emphasize the flower by cropping out the leaves.
To do this, I would go to the Picture Tools contextual tab and select Crop to go into cropping mode.
In previous versions of Office, when you moved the crop handles anything outside of the crop rectangle became invisible, which can make it hard to quickly find the best cropping for a picture.
As you can see below, now when you move crop handles on a picture the full picture is shown with the portions outside of the crop area grayed out.
Positioning the crop area is easier now, too. You can click on the picture and "slide" it around behind the crop frame or grab the crop frame and move it around over the picture. This makes fine-tuning what you want to be visible much easier.
Normally when you go into cropping mode the cropping rectangle starts out the same size as the original picture. We realized that there are going to be times when you want to trim a picture to a specific ratio, so we added a drop-down menu to allow you to choose the initial proportions of the crop frame.
Choosing a size will make the original crop rectangle start out at that proportion, fitted to the bounds of the picture. Note that we've included 16:9 and 16:10 in the Landscape section, in order to make formatting pictures to fit widescreen easier.
Once you've chosen an aspect ratio, the crop rectangle can then be resized freely or you can press Shift while you resize from the corners to retain the aspect ratio. Below is an example where I've selected the 1:1 aspect ratio.
But what if you don't want a simple rectangle? You may know that you could apply a shape to a picture using Picture Shape in previous versions of Office. However, when you did, getting the shape oriented the way you wanted it relative to the picture was usually a matter of editing numbers by trial and error in crop section of the Size dialog.
In 2010 we've moved the shapes gallery to the Crop button, where making an image fit in a shape can done very easily visually by choosing Crop to Shape.
Since you can resize the shape and move the shape relative to the picture, getting exactly the result you want is now very easy.
Of course, then you can add shape effects to make the result really pop.
Another common source of frustration for our users occurs when they insert a shape and put a picture fill in it. The normal behavior is that when the picture is filled in the shape it gets squished down to fit inside the shape. We've preserved that as the default behavior because we know some customers rely on it not changing, but we've made fitting pictures in shapes easier by allowing you to use the crop mode on filled shapes, too. By going into crop mode you can manually resize the image to the proportions you want. To make things even easier we've added options to automatically Fill or Fit pictures into the shape. Simply click on one of these options and Fill will scale the picture to completely fill the shape while retaining the proportions of the original picture, while Fit will scale the picture so that it fits entirely within the shape. The examples below show the difference.
We've also enabled cropping for pictures in SmartArt graphics. If you've ever tried using pictures in a SmartArt graphic and been frustrated by the way the image fits, you'll find that fixing that is much easier now. You can resize and reposition the picture to make it look the way you want. Just to make sure you don't accidentally change the layout of the shapes in your SmartArt graphic, we lock the shape so it can't be moved when you're in cropping mode. You can still easily move or resize the picture shape when not in cropping mode, of course.
With all of these changes we've made the most common task you're likely to do with pictures easier as well as more powerful. We're confident that they will help you find new and more creative ways to include pictures in your documents, especially when you combine cropping with the many other improvements you'll find in Office 2010.
Until next time…
In the meantime, we'd love to hear any questions or comments on how these features are working for you. Please let us know if there are any specific topics you'd like to see us write about.
Tucker Hatfield, Program Manager, Office Graphics
Very nice feature. Thanks.
These are great! I haven't tried them out in the Beta release, but I look forward to doing so.
It looks like you can also resize WHILE seeing the crop edges. If so, that will be very useful.
I have been using this feature extensively to create e-Newsletters and to be able to quickly add a picture directly into a document and then do all of the editing and adjusting to fit is a big time savings. I find myself adding graphics to more documents now that it is fast and easy to edit photos.
I love the new cropping tool! Viewing the full picture while getting just the area you need is great. Moving the shapes dropdown is a real time saver and makes presentations realy stand out. Great job on Office 2010 best version ever made.
Hey Guys - this feature is really sweet and I have been using it alot. Just the basic Crop was a huge improvement, I did not even realize all these other options were available (Crop to shape, Fill etc).
Image handling plus effects like drop-shadow in Word and Outlook have been one of the most often used during the last 2 months.
Another great option for the Office 2010 user. This will help for PPT too.
Very nice feature. These new image/design tools are very impressive. Is there any plans to have these features in a standalone app as part of the office suite? Eg like the picture manager.
It would be good to have a small app that could open image files, have all the new image editor options, then let you resave the image.
Please restore the ability to crop without the mouse! I often need to crop by a specific number of points; it's much more accurate to enter this amount in a text field that get frustrated trying to move the border 3.25pt to the right.
It is still possible to crop without the mouse. Open the Format Object dialog (while the picture is selected, right-click and choose "Format Picture", or keyboard Alt+JP to select the picture tab, then press O). You can then either click on Crop or Tab and arrow key to the Crop portion of the Format Object Dialog. If you put the values into the fields for "Picture position" and "Crop position" you can control the size and position of the crop.
>>> It is still possible to crop without the mouse.
Please restore the ability to crop LEFT, TOP, RIGHT, and BOTTOM--for whatever reason, RIGHT and BOTTOM are no longer available.
Since you can now position the crop area freely relative to the picture, we define the crop area slightly differently. Previously, the Left, Top, Right and Bottom was needed because each specified how far in from those edges we cropped. Now you define the size of the area you want to keep (Width and Height) and how far from the upper left of the image the rectangle should be positioned (Left and Top. This makes the numbers in the Format Object dialog more closely resemple the manual process of cropping, since you can move the crop rectangle around the image from either the FOD or using the mouse.
Is it possible to crop an image by picking four separate points regardless of the shape that it generates?
In other words the shape oculd be approximately rectangular but not exactly.
While it isn't posible to move the corner points individually, there are actually a couple ways to get the result you're looking for.
First, you could use the Crop to Shape option to select a non-rectangular shape, such as the parallelagram or trapezoid. These shapes have a yellow "adjustment handle" that allows you to alter the shape to fine-tune it to the desired shape.
If you want to make a shape you can't get that way, try this: From the Insert dialog, add a shape that's close to what you want. Double-click it to bring up the Drawing Tools/Format tab. On the right you'll see the Edit Shape dropdown. Choose Edit Points and you can party on the shape until it's exactly what you wanted. Then from the Shape Fill dropdown near the center of that same tab you can choose Picture fill and add the picture you want. Then you can use the Crop option on the Picture Tools tab to get the exact results you want. (This works with the Scribble shape, too, as long as you draw a closed shape).
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Belgian Buttermilk Waffles with Glazed Bananas
IngredientsFor waffles
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups well-shaken buttermilk
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- Vegetable oil for waffle iron
For topping
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 firm-ripe large bananas, cut diagonally into 1/3-inch-thick slices
- 1 1/4 cups pure maple syrup
- Special equipment: a waffle iron (preferably Belgian-style)
- Accompaniment: sour cream or whipped cream
PreparationMake waffles:
Put oven rack in middle position and put a large metal cooling rack directly on it. Preheat oven to 250°F and preheat waffle iron.
Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
Whisk together buttermilk, melted butter, and eggs in another bowl, then whisk into flour mixture until just combined.
Brush hot waffle iron lightly with vegetable oil and pour a slightly rounded 1/2 cup of batter into each waffle mold (see cooks' note, below). Cook waffles according to manufacturer's instructions until golden and cooked through, about 3 minutes. Transfer as cooked to rack in oven to keep warm, keeping waffles in 1 layer to stay crisp. Make more waffles in same manner.
Make topping:
While last batch is cooking, heat butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then add banana slices in 1 layer and cook until golden, about 1 minute per side. Remove from heat and add syrup to skillet.
Spoon bananas over waffles, then drizzle with warm syrup before serving.
Cooks' note: If using a regular waffle iron (not Belgian), batter will yield about 14 waffles using 1/3 cup per waffle.
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How to Find Loose Change
You might not miss the occasional penny that drops out of your pocket, or the nickel or dime stashed in a forgotten corner. But when money is tight, those lost or forgotten cents add up. You won't get rich from picking up loose change, but each little bid adds up to stretch your budget until payday, fill a savings account, or even as a fun, money-making game for your kids.
1Make looking for loose change an everyday habit. Although there are some places you're most likely to find loose change, it could be anywhere. These tips can help you spot it.
- Loose change lying on the ground might be too dirty to glitter, but you can still spot it by the distinctive round shape.
- Take the time to casually peek into cracks and crevices if you can--loose change is more likely to accumulate in these harder-to-reach places.
- Scan gutters as you walk down the sidewalk.
- Keep an especially alert eye out as snow is melting and previously hard-to-recover coins become accessible.
2Scour likely places where loose change accumulates around the house. These include:
- Purses, wallets, pants or shirt pockets and coat pockets. Don't forget to check the out-of-season clothing and purses stashed in your closet.
- Anywhere you sit. Look between and underneath couch cushions, but also look beneath the furniture itself and behind it, where loose coins might have filtered out beneath the frame. Look in easy chairs, too, or entry-way benches.
- In and around the washing machine and clothes dryer.
- Kitchen and desk drawers where you might have stuffed a few stray coins for "safekeeping."
- Beneath the driver's and passenger seats of your car before you drive off.
3Keep a keen eye out for loose change when in public, too. Some likely hunting spots include:
- On the floor in a movie theater.
- Near parking meters.
- Bathroom stalls.
- In and just outside bars, also on the floor where drinks are served especially if it is a busy bar.
- Near the drive-through window of fast food restaurants.
- On the floor around cash register. Only coins on the floor are fair game; coins left in a small bowl near the register are meant for use only by those in need--not for a wholesale scoop and run.
- At sports arenas where loose change often falls out of people's pockets as they get up to cheer. Check the floors and seats. A discreet way to do this is to pretend you've lost something.
4Take a walk--driving probably isn't worth the cost of the gas you'd spend to find loose change--and scan for loose change in these likely areas:
- Bus, train and other public transit stops.
- Near vending machines. You might find a few coins if you stick a finger in the coin return slot, too.
- Near payphones and in their coin-return slots, too--although the prevalence of cell phones might make this less common.
- Store parking lots.
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- Once you've found some loose change, don't let it get away again. Create a central collection point while you're on the go--for example, a deep, secure pocket the change won't fall out of if you sit down or bend over. Then transfer the coins to a collection jar at home.
- You can either count and roll the coins yourself for deposit in the bank, or use a coin counting machine (often available in supermarkets and at the bank). Note that all coin-counting machines and some banks will charge a percentage of the amount of money processed for handling loose, unrolled change. Some banks will even charge you a small fee for handling rolled coins. Note: Some banks will not accept rolled change--many banks require these deposits to be unrolled and counted to make sure they aren't filled with coin-shaped objects, foreign currency, or incorrect amounts of coin.
- If you don't need to use the spare change immediately, you can make periodic "withdrawals" from your collection jar--mixing a bit of change into each purchase won't attract as much attention as marching to the store with a bagful of pennies.
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Instead of plugging his products at meetings with his manufacturers' reps, Ed Muldoon, owner of Bivar, a $10-million electronics manufacturer in Irvine, Calif., tries to benefit from his reps' field experience. Prior to a recent two-day Bivar conference in Chicago, five longtime Bivar salespeople sent out surveys to fellow representatives, asking for input on product ideas and market analysis. At the conference, the group came up with responses and critiqued Bivar's sales-and-service support. Then the participants created a plan to put their ideas to work. Though the meeting was not cheap for Bivar, Muldoon claims it was worth it: Feedback was applied immediately, and the ideas will result in new products and marketing strategies.
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Service improvements designed to enhance on-time performance and provide faster connections between the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor areas are planned by the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (TheRide) to go into effect on Sunday, January 27. Routes 5, 16, and 17 will be effected.
Route 5
Winter maps/schedules available here.
Ridership on Route 5 is the fourth largest of TheRide's routes at 621,000 trips annually, with an increase of 35% over the past eight years.
The service improvements are intended to provide:
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· Less crowded trips
· More direct and faster service for riders
The number of buses on Route 5 will be increased from five to seven during morning and afternoon peak hours.
The segment of the route between downtown Ann Arbor and Packard/Stone School Roads will be increased from 4 to 6 trips per hour, and will continue to use the current routing.
Trip segments east of Packard/Stone School Roads will be divided into four variations:
· 5A trips will travel between downtown Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti via Packard Rd., Stone School Rd., Ellsworth Rd., and Platt Rd.
· 5B trips will travel between downtown Ann Arbor and Meijer via Packard Rd., Stone School Rd., and Ellsworth Rd.
· 5C trips will travel between downtown Ann Arbor and Meijer (Carpenter Rd.) via Packard Rd., Stone School Rd., Platt Rd., and Ellsworth Rd.
· NEW! - 5D trips will travel between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti directly via Buhr Park/Packard (with no service to Stone School Rd., Ellsworth Rd. or Platt Rd.).
Trips that are currently through-routed with route 3 will be disconnected. Passengers will now need to change buses to complete these transfers. Some trips that are currently through-routed with route 22 will be disconnected. Passengers should check with their driver to see if a bus change is needed.
Midday, evening, and weekend service will be unchanged.
Route 16
Adjustments will be made to multiple timepoints for the trip which currently leaves the Blake Transit Center at 7:03am.
Route 17
Routing will be revised to use Catherine St. instead of Huron St. Bus stops on Huron St., just west of State St. (in front of the Campus Inn), and on Division St., just north of Huron St., will no longer be serviced.
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My advisor has had the most impact on me so far. He really helped me set up my classes, transfer as many credits as possible, and boost my self-confidence in my linguistic abilities. The staff at Daemen is friendly, helpful, and ready to help you get where you need to be.
I actually found Daemen College in a computer program as a school that fit my preference of size, cost, region and major. It was the first school I found that had French education as one major, I liked the look of the classes it had, and it is near my mom's side of the family (not to mention Niagara Falls). We came to an open house where I fell in love. Everyone was so nice and helpful, and I thought the head of my department was awesome. Mostly, it just felt right.
Once I visited for Open House and knew I wanted to stay, I sent in my transcripts for a credit evaluation and started the application. It was important to stay in contact with my admissions counselor to know what needed to be done.
Yes; the transfer counselor was very helpful. He listened to me, explained what needed to get done and how it would work. He was there every step of the way to answer all of my questions and calm my fears.
I had 52 out of 54 credits transfer. My counselor was really good about fitting in extra credits due to differences between the schools so I could transfer as many as possible.
Start the process early and don't be afraid to ask questions. Visit the school for the Open House and the Experience Daemen Days. It really helps you get a feel for where things are, how the classes run, and what the students are like.
Faculty accompanied students to Mexico City and Cuernavaca for the January inter-semester term.
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merbs writes: Thus far, no other candidate has said they're going to make climate change their top priority. Martin O'Malley has not only done that, but he has outlined a plan that would enact emissions reductions in line with what scientists say is necessary to slow global climate change—worldwide emissions reductions of 40-70 percent by 2050. He's the only candidate to do that, too. His plan would phase out fossil-fueled power plants altogether, by midcentury.


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The Town of St. Marys offers a full range of services to its residents, businesses and visitors. Council places a high priority on building a "complete and healthy community" and as a result provides a host of active and passive recreation opportunities. From swimming to skating, tennis to t-ball, hiking trails to picnics, St. Marys offers many activities to the young and the young at heart. We take a leading role in raising our children, keep our seniors active and safeguarding our community. As a separated Town, St. Marys' complement of services is more complete than many municipalities in Ontario. Our team ensures that your garbage and recyclables are managed, basic services (water and waste water) are maintained and your public spaces kept clean.
The beautiful Thames River winds its way through 30 hectares of scenic trails, parkland and country roads, setting the stage for a truly memorable visit. Enjoy the small town experience of visiting our one-of-a kind cafés, antique shops and countryside inns. Explore the unique limestone architecture or refresh with a beverage at an old fashioned ice cream parlour. You can experience the flavour of the local heritage at the St. Marys Museum or Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, or take in one of the many festivals and events the town hosts each year.
Free guided walking trails are offered during the summer. Mid-November through December enjoy free horse-drawn wagon rides around Milt Dunnell Field to experience the magic of the winter holiday light display.
From sun up to sun down, the Town of St. Marys is always in season!
With a stable, educated workforce, competitive location costs and a strong telecommunications network, the Town of St. Marys is your ideal destination for business. As a prosperous and thriving community located in the heartland of South Western Ontario, we offer a wealth of competitive advantages including very low costs for land as well as the convenience of no industrial development charges.
Home to approximately 7,000 residents, St. Marys services a commuter shed of more than 1.6 million people and a labour force of almost 1 million. This labour force is highly skilled and will be continually fuelled by the graduates of Ontario's premier post-secondary education facilities located in close proximity to St. Marys (University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University, Fanshawe College and Conestoga College).
Council, while committed to building a balanced and creative community, is also working with Town staff and the business community to aggressively seek new investment that meets the needs and growth objectives of the Town. The Town of St. Marys offers a strong and diverse economic base and is well positioned to accommodate increased levels of industrial and commercial investment all within a location that balances work with an affordable and unique lifestyle.
The historic Town Hall, built in 1891, is the heart of St. Marys' municipal and administrative operations. This portion of the site offers resources related to St. Marys' Mayor, Council and Sub Committees that help guide the Town's operations. Information on the Clerks Office and Finance Department is also available as the lead for valuable information of municipal meeting agendas, minutes and reports, as well as, municipal Bylaws and budgets.
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The community museum for the Town of St. Marys is located in a lovely old home sitting on a hilltop overlooking the town. The house was constructed from locally quarried limestone in 1854 for George Tracy, one of the area's earliest settlers. When the house was built for the Tracy family, it was by far the largest home in the small village of log shanties. Almost immediately, it was nicknamed the Castle in the Bush.
Today, the Museum offers visitors both permanent and changing exhibits, two outbuildings containing a woodworking shop and displays of farm implements and a new archival wing that houses an excellent collection of historic photographs, local newspapers, maps and genealogical files. Visit the St. Marys Museum and discover the history of this beautiful part of Ontario!
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Green Leaf Lettuce with Grilled Chicken, Black Olives, Red Bell Pepper and Balsamic Vinaigrette
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon olive oil
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper
nonstick cooking spray
2 tablespoons sliced, large black olives
1/4 large red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and diced
1. Place the shallots and vinegar in a small mixing bowl and whisk to combine. Continue whisking and slowly add the olive oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
(This can be made in advance and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.)
For the grilled chicken:
1. Spray the grill grate with nonstick cooking spray and then preheat the grill to medium-high.
2. Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper.
3. Grill the chicken on both sides until it is cooked through, about 4 to 6 minutes per side depending on the thickness. Transfer the chicken breast to a cutting board and let cool.
(The chicken can be grilled in advance and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.)
For the green salad:
1. Slice the chicken breast into strips and place them in a mixing bowl. Add the black olives, red bell pepper and half of the balsamic vinaigrette.
2. Place the lettuce in a separate salad bowl and toss it with the remaining vinaigrette. Arrange the chicken, black olive and red bell pepper mixture on top and serve.
Serving Size: 1 chicken breast with salad
Number of Servings: 1
Per Serving
- Calories
- 225
- Carbohydrate
- 9 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Protein
- 29 g
- Saturated Fat
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 379 mg


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Wow! Judson, you surprise me. This article is the closest I have heard you come to saying anything that would make Newt look bad. If fact, it the closest that you have come to saying anything that would make Romney look good.
After all, Gingrich is the one candidate who is most openly in favor of amnesty for illegals and Romney is the one candidate who is most solidly opposed to anything even remotely resembling amnesty for illegals. In fact, Romney's stand on illegal aliens is one of the few positions he has never changed.
In all seriousness, Romney's consistent stand on strengthening our laws on illegal immigration is one of the things that gives me some solace, when thinking of Romney as our nominee. It reminds me that it could be worse. We could have Newt, who would grant amnesty to 90% of illegal aliens.
There are two things that could quickly turn this economy around, by creating millions of jobs and aggressively enforcing our laws on illegal immigration, including mandating e-Verify nationwide, is one of them. If we make it impossible for illegals to get a job, impound their vehicles, when they're ticketed for driving without a license, and take off the handcuffs that Dubyuh placed on the Border Patrol, the illegals would have no choice but to self deport, thus opening up millions of jobs for American citizens and legal residents and our economy would completely turn around within six months. On the subject of impounding the cars of those ticketed for driving without a license, the government would be able to then require evidence of citizenship or legal residence, before the vehicle could be released.
BTW, the other thing that could quickly turn around the economy is the FairTax. Unfortunately, none of the GOP candidates are concerned enough about cutting the size of government to get behind the FairTax, since its transparency would make people realize how much government has always cost them and they would demand serious reductions in government spending.
John. I could not have said this any better, thank you. You should run for office, you would have my vote.
Romney has the best chance of winning this election, not Paul, not Newt, not Santorum. If you say this,
you become the enemy of those supporting this candidate. We are all grown ups, can have a civil debate.
We should have a fairTax. Why should one person making 100K pay support services for everyone else? Is this considered fair? If you are successful, you must pay for everyone elses support services like teachers, parks, fireman, policeman, etc. Where in the Constitution that is says that the rich pay for the poor? That is what Churches are for and charity, not govenment. The rich pay for schools, teachers, government, etc while others, who use these services, pay nothing, get if free. Is this fair? How can you sustain a system where 50% dont pay for support services? If a person has 4 children going to public education and makes 25K a year, they pay nothing for teachers, school property, supplies, janitors, books, adminstration, etc. They get services while paying nothing. The producer must pay for these 4 children that are not his/hers, and also pay for their children going to school. He/she also is forced to pay for others support services. This person making 25K a year, paying no taxes gets to vote about raising the taxes on the rich fo more free services! Really! Thats insane, no that progressivism, that the USA where rich is evil and poor is entitlements and oppressive. G-d save us from immoralty and ignorance.
We are marking people from California who move here. Should things go South from here they will be politely asked to depart from us. Something they will be all too happy to comply with. Actually, nobody wants them now!
First off, AMEN to America needing leaders that pander to Illegal aliens to be removed from office. America should welcome those that desire above all to BE American and follow due process to earn the rights of a citizen. I heard talking of illegal Mexicans/Central Americans BRAGGING that they are here for money and TO HELL with Americans, in their words. How about that, the city of Los Angeles. You pander to them and they only lift a middle finger to you. Liberal L.A. politicians must be such attention whores that they don't mind the abuse.
Secondly, I'm now a happy Pennsylvanian. I left New Jersey and was happy to do so because of New Jersey's over legislated, over governed system. Lucky those left behind there have Chris Christie, seems he has ten years plus of work un-screwing the state of Democrat created horse dung, God bless the man. Sounds like California is in the same situation as New Jersey to me, sounds like they need a Christie of their own.
Not only is L.A. a sanctuary city, the City Council wants to abolish Freedom of Speech, and the Police Chief, has now decided recently ,that Police Chief Ray Kelly of New York, has it all wrong ,rousting Muslims would be wrong, unkind .He feels we must be more sympathetic to People whose Religion tells them to kill us.
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Kentrell Lafette Davis, 21, turned himself over to authorties Thursday night at the Richland County Jail.
Deputies say back on May 31, Davis and a 21-year-old female left Columbia's Five Points together and went to his apartment. At the apartment, officers say he had sex with her without her consent.
Davis did not play at all in 2011, but did see time as a defensive lineman in 2009 and 2010. Davis was informed in April that he was not having his scholarship renewed, and has not participated in any USC activities since then.


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As summer draws to an end, it's time to start getting the little ones ready for school. This new adventure can be a little scary for kids. What will they do at school? Will they make any friends? Will their teacher be nice? Help your child prepare for the first day of school with these new picture books.
Being the littlest Valkyrie in Asgard is a lot of fun, but sometimes Edda wonders what it would be like to be with kids her own age. Fortunately, Edda's papa knows just what to do in Edda: A Little Valkyrie's First Day of School, written and illustrated by Adam Auerbach. Flying down to earth for her first day of school, Edda is worried. She's never been away from Asgard and isn't sure that she will fit in. Things are a lot different at school on earth than they are in Asgard, but Edda is brave and, through a writing assignment, soon makes some new friends. Auerbach's simple pen and ink illustrations have been digitally colored and help tell this mythology-meets-real-life story.
Monsters love adventures, but with summer coming to an end, Blue must prepare to go on his biggest adventure of all in Monsters Love School, written and illustrated by Mike Austin. With the help of his monster friends, Blue makes sure he has all the supplies needed to start school. But why does he have to go to school? "I already know my ABGs and 413s and XYDs!" says Blue. Children will be able to relate to Blue's worries and cheer him on as he experiences all the wonders of his first day at school. Digitally enhanced illustrations with monsters reminiscent of Monsters Inc., Austin's book is sure to please your little monster.
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Riverside Theatre in the Park wraps up its 2013 seasons with performances of the 18th century English satire The School for Scandal at 7 p.m. Friday and Sunday at West High. In the mood for a tragedy instead? The final performance of Hamlet will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $30 to $40 for adults, $24 to $32 for college students and seniors and $18 for youth. For more information, go to www.riversidetheatre.org.
Brandi Carlile
With her signature mix of pop, folk and country music, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile has been recording albums and touring for nearly a decade. Carlile performs at 8 p.m. Friday at The Englert Theatre. Tickets are $32.50 in advance, $35 the day of the show. For more information, go to www.englert.org.
Arlo Guthrie
Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie is paying tribute to his father folk legend Woody Guthrie with stories and music in honor of what would be his 100th birthday. Guthrie performs his Here Comes the Kid tour in Iowa City at 8 p.m. Wednesday at The Englert Theatre. Tickets are $40 to $50. For more information, go to www.englert.org.
Zeta June
Iowa City-based rock band Zeta June takes the stage at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Iowa City Yacht Club. Reggae-meets-rock and roll band T.U.G.G. will open the show. Tickets are $5. For more information, go to www.iowacityyachtclub.org.
Firecracker 500 Garage Rock-N-Roll Festival
The four-day Firecracker 500 festival continues today at The Mill Restaurant and Friday and Saturday at The Blue Moose Tap House in Iowa City. The annual event brings together more than 25 bands from across the county. Nightly passes are $10. For a full lineup, go to www.firecracker500festival.com.
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While football season is still about seven months away, we began our countdown of the Atlantic Coast Conference's top 20 non-conference games for 2014. The list began with a countdown of numbers 20 through 16. Moving down the list, here are the next five as we go from 15 down to 11:
15. North Carolina at East Carolina
Saturday, September 20th
In what was by far North Carolina's most embarrassing loss of 2013, the Tar Heels were handled at home by East Carolina, 55-31. The Pirates went on to win 10 games while North Carolina managed to turn out a winning season after just a 1-5 start. Expect it to be another high-scoring affair this time around as quarterback Shane Carden returns for East Carolina as does Marquise Williams, who sparked the Tar Heels' turnaround last season.
14. UCLA at Virginia
Saturday, August 30th
Virginia will look to notch a second straight opening day victory at home, but the competition this time will be just a bit stiffer. UCLA could very well be a top 10 team to open 2014 and a victory by Virginia would go a long way toward reviving the program after just a 2-10 campaign in 2013. The Cavaliers will get an up-close look at one of the nation's premier dual-threat quarterbacks in Brett Hundley.
13. Georgia Tech at Georgia
Saturday, November 29th
The in-state rivalry known as "Clean, Old Fashioned Hate" has always been one for bragging rights, but of late, it has been dominated by Georgia. The Bulldogs have won five straight in the series and 12 of the last 13. Georgia won in double-overtime last season after erasing a 20-0 deficit. Depending on what the Yellow Jackets do throughout the course of the regular season, head coach Paul Johnson's job may ride on this contest.
12. Louisville at Notre Dame
Saturday, November 22nd
Great offensive minds will be pitted against one another as Bobby Petrino and Brian Kelly go head to head for the first time. This contest will conclude Notre Dame's slate of games against ACC schools in 2014 and will be the final home game of the season for the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame hasn't lost at home to an ACC school since 2007.
11. Iowa at Pittsburgh
Saturday, September 20th
The toughest game of the non-conference for Pittsburgh matches the Panthers against an 8-win Big Ten team from a season ago in Iowa. Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst is very familiar with the Hawkeyes after spending seven years as an assistant at Wisconsin. There will be no Heartland Trophy on the line this time around, but the early season match-up will give the ACC and Big Ten the opportunity to flex their muscles against one another.
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Remembering Blues Legend Johnny Winter
He was a Texas fireball, a flaming tumbleweed out of Beaumont who blazed a trail across the world with his incendiary blues. Johnny Winter passed away yesterday at the age of 70 in a hotel room near Zurich, Switzerland. It was a demise that some had predicted for decades. Winter lived hard, flirting with […]Continue Reading


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If you have a baseball cap and a bandanna, you can take a short piece of line and tie it to the corners of a bandanna and drape it over the bill of the cap so it can cover your neck and ears. Wetting it can help cool you when it is really hot. You can just put the bandanna on your head and put the cap on over it too. More space between your head and the top of the cap helps--- that is where peaked hats like a Tilley help. For a truly dorky look, a letter carrier's plastic sun helmet works great and makes a fantastic rain hat as well. There are plastic beekeeper's helmets wit more ventilation on the sides.
Sunday Afternoon Hat design is my favorite for sure. Bought several at flea markets in Hawaii a number of years ago for about $8 each. Friend recently looked for them there and couldn't find them.My wife said Home Depot had a bunch of them at the end of an aisle for about $20, They were gone by the time I got there.
Another enthusiastic vote for the SA Adventure Hat, which (as did Ray) I reviewed for BackpackGearTest.org. See http://tinyurl.com/77jeobc for some action photos.Richard
I was going to say that I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those dorky SA Adventure hats, but I wear a Tilley; obviously my judgement is severely compromised.There's nothing UL about my Tilley: it's cotton and overpriced and, frankly, kinda dorky too. But I've had it for 20 years and worn it all over and it makes me smile every time I read the dopey tag inside the crown. It's 162 grams of luxury to me.
The nylon Tilley hats are light. I have a nylon T3 that is just 4.1oz. I'd love to get one on the new breathable synthetic hats with a larger brim like the T5, but with prices hovering around $75 I'll remain content with what I have!They look less dorky if you are over 50 ;)
I have a Tilley, the kind with the snap-up sides (Aussie Style). I love how it looks, and how it performs in keeping rain and sun off me.But, am I the only one that finds them unbearably hot? Mine gets SOAKED with forehead sweat almost immediately, and feels like a little rainforest is forming atop my head. Granted, I'm on the East Coast and a huge amount of my warm weather hiking is done in very humid conditions. Basically every time I wear it, I end up fiddling with it too much (taking it off to let my head air out, wiping my brow, readjusting it).I really want to like it but compared to say, a Headsweats baseball cap, it just feels like a hot, damp washcloth on my head. Superficially though, I really like the Tilley over the ball cap, but I can forget the headsweats is even on, all day, never touching it.
I have an Outdoor Research 'Sombriolet' hat I like quite well. I got mine from, IIRC, SunnySports.com for like $25. It seems reasonably cool, though after a few Iraqi summers with a kevlar combat helmet on, everything is cool. FWIW, I wear mine doing yardwork in the 100F+ summer heat and have sometimes forgotten it's on my head. My other go-to is a 'runners hat' with a big square of a well-worn handkerchief tucked into the sides and back like a cape. I like Dale's idea of tying some thin cord to the corners and making a loop to drape over your head. I might try that. I've done this with a merino beanie too. It looks ridiculous, but cold, wind and sun are a triple-whammy at 13K ft plus.Check out the OR 'Sun Runner', it's basically a commercial version of the cap/cape.
It seems like Wal-Mart always has an odd assortment of cotton boonie style hats, I think they're mostly cotton. I did see some new button-up, nylon, fishing guide shirts that would be great for hiking, except for being short sleeve. I seem to recall some hats beside them, maybe just straw hats.
On the way to Detroit Airport earlier I stopped off in the Eddie Bauer Discount store and got a decent sun hat.Cheers all
I just switched over to my "summer" (read: "above 85 F") head gear. It's an $8 Rothco visor that weighs 2.5 oz and a cotton bandanna that weighs 1 oz. So, 3.5 oz for decent sun coverage with the best ventilation I've yet found. And it's modular, so that you can have the top of your head uncovered when you're in the shade for even better ventilation.You look a little dorky wearing it like the Foreign Legion (hopefully, I'm not out there "...to die."), but that's not something that really bothers me.The only thing I've found so far is that the sweatband on the visor could use a little more absorbtion factor (this could probably have been alleviated by buying a more expensive visor, but I was in an hurry for headgear). I think I might cannibalize one of my old athletic shirts for material to improve that at some point down the line.
I took the advice of another member a couple years ago and tried the Henschel Breezer. It can be found online for around $19.99. Before, I tried them all...ball cap, bandana, boonie. This hat has been the one for me. Mesh sides to keep cool and fairly crushable for the times I don't feel like wearing it. I treat it with some variant of Camp Dry and it works pretty good in the rain. Yes, water does come through the mesh but not as bad as one would think and much more comfortable/cooler than using the hood on my rain jacket. Just another option.....
I like my OR Sun Runner hat. Lots of good coverage from the sun.
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During Sundance -- the big-cheese film festival held every January in Park City, Utah -- the little town's hotel rooms are booked full, and its streets and theaters are claustrophobic with Hollywood crowds. But the ski hills at its in-town resorts -- Park City Mountain Resort and The Canyons -- are almost empty.
Personally, we've never been to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. We've been to Robert Redford's Sundance Resort and bombed some runs in a manner worthy of a ski film and eaten some of the finest food in ski country at the Tree Room. But the film festival? Nope. We always thought the on-slope crush of stargazers would be too much for us.
Surely you've noticed in the last decade or so that the number of local kids and domestic ski bums manning the chairlifts and ticket windows of America's ski resorts has declined, their roles taken over by Argentines and Kiwis. The reasons for this are debatable -- though we think it has to do with a generation of skiing parents eager to give their kids the ski-bum experience they never had. At any rate, we're about to see more locals in on-hill uniforms this season.
Park City is getting its own whiskey distillery. The best part? It's located near the base of Park City Mountain Resort's Town Lift. David Perkins and his business partner James Dumas will soon open the High West Distillery and Saloon on Park Avenue, in a historic old auto repair shop. An attached house will feature several dining rooms and a bar where patrons can sip Perkins's award-winning Rendevous Rye and dine on menus planned by Dumas, a local chef. Ski boots welcome.
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With the down economy, there are fewer major terrain expansions and new lifts being installed nationwide as most ski resorts focus on their core services, such as customer care and snow quality. Here are resort-by-resort improvements for next season compiled by Ski Utah.
What: Thanks to nearly eight feet of snow in the last 14 days and a 97-inch settled base depth, Park City Mountain Resort has extended its closing date to Sunday, April 19, 2009. The original closing day was Sunday, April 12. Beginning Monday, April 13, seven lifts are scheduled to continue operating including PayDay, Bonanza, Silverlode, Thaynes, Jupiter, First Time and Three Kings lifts.
Beginning Monday, April 13, full-day lift ticket pricing will be as follows:
Adult: $50
Senior: $35
Youth: $30
Take your right hand and make a fist, thumb-side up, like you're dropping rock in a game of rock-paper-scissors. That fist makes a rough map of a patch of Wasatch containing some of Utah's best skiing. Your index finger is Little Cottonwood Canyon, home to Alta and Snowbird. Wrapping around that is the thumb of Big Cottonwood, where Brighton and Solitude sit. Your thumb's knuckle is Park City Mountain Resort, its tip Deer Valley.
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Derek Boateng and his representatives are in London to hold showdown talks with Fulham over a possible move during the January transfer window.
The 29-year-old saw his move to the Craven Cottage collapsed on deadline day after his Ukrainian side Dnipro failed to reach an agreement with the Cottagers.
The Ghanaian international has seen limited action this season at Dnipro where he has featured only twice, culminating in his quest to seek a move away.
He has been angling for a move away from the club and will attempt to seal a deal with Fulham during the January transfer window.
Fulham manager Martin Jo is believed to be a huge admirer of the versatile player and has not hidden his desire to bring him to England, where he will cost the club around £2 million.
Boateng and his representatives held a meeting with Fulham officials at the west Londoners' Mostpur Park on Wednesday in a bid to seal the hugely anticipated move.
Boateng, who can play as a defensive midfielder or at center back, could help fill the void left by the likes of Dickson Etuhu, Mousa Dembele and Danny Murphy, who left the club this summer.
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CeBIT 2009: Intel Announces 32-Nanometer ChipMar 04, 2009
Intel's Christian Morales presented plans for production of their new 32-nanometer chip at the CeBIT 2009 in Hannover. The faster, smaller and more energy-efficient chip should secure U.S. jobs for some time to come.more »
Freescale Plans Reference Design for Linux ARM NetbooksFeb 26, 2009
When will power-saving and affordable ARM netbooks become available? Freescale Semiconductor has ventured into an advanced standard, albeit with their homegrown i.MX515 chip.more »
Dell challenges Psion's claim to NetbooksFeb 25, 2009
Since the end of 2008, Psion has actively defended its copyright of the term netbook, with some success. Now Dell has issued court papers disputing the claim.more »
Microsoft Loses $435 Million in NetbooksFeb 23, 2009
According to current figures from Netbookdigest.com, Microsoft has lost $435,000,000 over the last year in netbook sales.more »
Certified Ubuntu on HP ServerFeb 19, 2009
HP and Canonical are working together to get Ubuntu certified for HPs Proliant servers.more »
Xandros Unveils Linux for Freescale NetbooksFeb 16, 2009
Xandros has launched an ARM based Linux version for netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices at the Mobile World Congress in Spain's Barcelona.more »
NVIDIA Computer-on-a-Chip Runs AndroidFeb 16, 2009
Graphics specialist NVIDIA has unleashed the Android mobile platform on its Tegra computer-on-a-chip series.more »
French Department Oise Donates Laptops to SchoolsFeb 13, 2009
By 2011, the French Department Oise will supply 55.000 laptops free of charge to fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils, with teachers and libraries also benefiting.more »
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Kernel Developer Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel
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US Launches New Strategy for Broadband Access
Report focuses federal resources on achieving universal Internet access.
RC4 Finally Gets the Fork
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"When we watch you, you make us proud to be Egyptian." A working-class television chef has become a celebrity by building national pride with affordable regional recipes that applaud the new post-revolutionary Egyptian cultural identity.
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Could the concerns of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Berlin serve as a chance for "secular" Berliners to to examine their own identity? Guest contributor Brian Britt explores the role of history as a distraction challenging modern-day civility.
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Inspired by our show with Bill McKibben, a listener and law professor reflects on tuning in to nature's reality rather than anesthetizing from it.