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Dustin Kensrue Announces Live Covers Album, Thoughts That Float On A Different Blood
Singer-songwriter Dustin Kensrue will be releasing his third solo album, Thoughts That Float On A Different Blood, on March 18, 2016. Comprised of ten tracks, the album serves as a follow up to 2015's Carry The Fire which Billboard hailed "tuneful, infectious…a folk framework with a rock backbone."
"For years I've peppered my solo sets with a variety of cover songs," notes Dustin. "Playing a cover song is a bit like stepping into someone else's skin for a moment, inhabiting a story that came from somewhere totally outside of your experience and even your imagination. The new record is a sampling of some of my favorites that I've tried on over the years. It's a challenge to find songs that will really shine when stripped to their bones and these have all proved their worth."
Thoughts That Float On A Different Blood showcases Dustin covering some of pop-culture's most important songs, both past and present, from artists such as Cold War Kids, Radiohead, Brand New, Leonard Cohen and The Counting Crows to name a few. Today, check out Dustin's take on Tom Waits' "Down There By The Train" below.
Thoughts That Float On A Different Blood Track List:
Hospital Beds
Buzzcut Season
Jesus Christ
Wrecking Ball
Cold As It Gets
Round Here
State Trooper
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Down There By The Train
Dustin Kensrue - Thoughts That Float On A Different Blood: iTunes | Amazon | CD & Vinyl
Dustin Kensrue on Latest Going Off Track Podcast
Dustin Kensrue recently recorded an interview on the latest Going Off Track podcast. Dustin discusses technology, Thrice, his solo work work and much more. Head HERE to check it out.
Dustin will be performing and recording a live covers album at The Constellation Room in Santa Ana, CA on December 15th and 16th. Grab tickets HERE.
Dustin Kensrue - Carry The Fire: iTunes | Amazon | Webstore
Dustin Kensrue Performs "Back To Back," Chats with MLB Entertainment
While on the road in Austin, Dustin Kensrue stopped for an acoustic performance and brief discussion with MLB Entertainment. In the video, Dustin discusses life as a traveling artist, what he wishes he would have known in his early days as a musician, and how he expresses his faith through his music. Catch the interview and performance of "Back To Back" HERE or watch below.
"Back To Back" appears on Carry The Fire which is available everywhere – iTunes | Amazon | Store/Physical
Dustin Kensrue Reveals "Of Crows and Crowns" Song + Video, New Tour Dates Announced
Dustin Kensrue has revealed a new song and video today for "Of Crows and Crowns" from his upcoming solo album, Carry The Fire. Directed by Vern Moen (Radiohead, Jack White, Cold War Kids), check out the beautifully shot black & white video below.
CarryThe Fire is set for release on April 21, 2015. Click HERE to pre-order on iTunes and receive instant downloads of both "Of Crows and Crowns" and "Back to Back."
This month Kensrue will kick off his spring touring schedule in support of CarryThe Fire with three shows in Austin, Texas during SXSW before beginning his previously announced co-headline dates with Andy Hull on April 21st in Chicago. New tour dates in the U.K. and additional headline U.S. dates along the west coast have also been announced today. Click HERE for all upcoming tour dates and ticket links.
Dustin Kensrue Premieres New Song, Carry The Fire Now Available for Pre-Order
Billboard has just premiered the first new song from Dustin Kensrue's forthcoming solo album Carry The Fire! Click HERE to listen to "Back to Back." The new album is the long anticipated follow-up to Dustin's 2007 solo debut, Please Come Home.
Kensrue, known for his dynamic solo performances and as frontman for Southern California rock band Thrice, engineered and produced Carry The Fire on his own while mixing duties were handled by Brian Eichelberger and the album was mastered by Howie Weinberg. The record is now available for pre-order ahead of its April 21st release with an instant download of "Back to Back."
Pre-order Carry The Fire: iTunes | Amazon | Webstore
Dustin also announced today several co-headline dates with Andy Hull in April. Ticket pre-sales are now live HERE before the general on-sale on Friday, February 13th at 12pm Eastern. Click HERE for all upcoming shows.
Dustin Kensrue To Release "Carry The Fire" This Spring
Dustin Kensrue has announced that he will be releasing a new solo record entitled Carry The Fire on April 21st, via Vagrant/Staple Records. The new album was engineered and produced by Dustin and is the long anticipated follow up to the Thrice front man's 2007 solo debut, Please Come Home.
Dustin's Christmas album This Good Night Is Still Everywhere was recently pressed on limited edition colored vinyl and can be purchased HERE.
Carry The Fire Track List:
Back to Back
There's Something Dark
Death or Glory
In the Darkness
Of Crows and Crowns
Juggernaut Reference
What Beautiful Things
Carry The Fire
Dustin Kensrue Enters the Studio to Record New Solo Album
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Dustin Kensrue has entered the studio and is currently recording the long anticipated follow-up to his 2007 solo debut, Please Come Home. The new album is expected to be released next spring on Staple Records/Vagrant Records. Kensrue, known for his dynamic solo performances and as frontman for Southern California rock band Thrice, is engineering and producing the record on his own.
"Recording right now is for me the end of a long distilling process," said Kensrue. "I always have bits and pieces of songs that are bouncing around in my head. I usually record them and listen back later, and most of the time I can't remember why I even bothered to record them in the first place. But then there are the tunes that stick – the ones I find running over and over through my head, demanding to be finished. Begging for a home. The most persistent of these tunes from the past 8 years are what I'm busy recording right now, and there's nothing I'd rather be doing."
On November 26th, Kensrue will be performing at the 5th annual Thanksgiving concert, The Stuffing, in Atlanta, Georgia with Manchester Orchestra and O'Brother and more. Following that, the 2014 edition of the 'Where's The Band?' tour will kick off in mid-December. All dates and ticket links can be found HERE.
Kensrue has also recently been confirmed to perform at the 2015 South By Southwest Music and Media Festival in Austin, Texas next March.
Dustin Kensrue's "This Good Night Is Still Everywhere" is Available Now Digitally and on Limited Edition Colored Vinyl!
Click HERE to head to iTunes to purchase "This Good Night Is Still Everywhere" and click HERE to head to the Vagrant Store to purchase the album on limited edition green or red vinyl!
THE VINYL EDITION features two bonus tracks and is hand numbered and limited to 1,000 copies total (500 green and 500 red). The vinyl also features brand new artwork and liner notes with track descriptions written by Dustin himself, as well as a digital download card.
Dustin Kensrue LP and Ticket Giveaway Contest!
AbsolutePunk is giving away copies of Dustin Kensrue's holiday album, The Good Night is Still Everywhere, in a limited edition LP, along with tickets to the "Where's the Band?" Tour, featuring Dustin Kensrue, Matt Pryor, Chris Conley, and Anthony Raneri. Click here to get more details on how to enter to win! You can also buy the new LP right here.
Dustin Kensrue's This Good Night Is Still Everywhere to be released on limited edition vinyl!
Where's The Band? tour dates announced!
Dustin Kensrue's Christmas music album, This Good Night Is Still Everywhere, will be released for the first time on limited edition vinyl on November 9 through Vagrant Records. The solo, mostly –acoustic collection was originally issued as a digital-only release in 2008. This new vinyl edition features two bonus tracks, including a cover of mewithoutYou's "A Stick, A Carrot & String." For fans that previously purchased the digital album, the two additional songs will be available for individual download at all digital retailers.
Only 1,000 hand-numbered pieces of vinyl will be pressed and will be split in two colorways - 500 red and 500 green. The package features brand new artwork and liner notes with track descriptions written by Dustin himself and will include a digital download card.
Kensrue, who is also vocalist and guitarist for Southern California's Thrice, wrote, recorded, and produced This Good Night Is Still Everywhere, while mixing duties were handled by Thrice guitarist Teppei Teranishi.
It was also announced today that Kensrue will once again be joining Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams), Chris Conley (Saves The Day, Two Tongues) and Anthony Raneri (Bayside) for another Where's The Band? tour on the east coast in December (see dates below). For additional info and ticket information for the tour, check out myspace.com/wheresthebandtour.
This Good Night Is Still Everywhere track listing:
1. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
2. Christmas Blues
3. Blue Christmas
4. Fairytale of New York
5. This Good Night Is Still Everywhere
6. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
7. Come, O Come, Emmanuel
8. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
9. Holy Night
10. This Is War
11. A Stick, A Carrot & String
12. Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
Where's The Band? dates:
12/08 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
12/09 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
12/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
12/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
12/12 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom


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Teaching is not a passion of mine. In fact, if I never teach again, in a formal setting at least, after Rwanda, I won't be too upset. Maybe in a classroom with more than just a chalkboard and some 40+ students armed with a notebook and a pen, I would be able to enjoy it more. But chances are, I will never find out whether I would enjoy it more or not.
Being a secondary, volunteer teacher in Rwanda is probably the least amount of hours for any full-time job ever – 19 hours a week, with a day-off during the week and weekends. Of course, after school there are clubs and during school breaks there are camps, which makes the whole four hours I taught today all worth it. The time I spend outside of the classroom working to accomplish a goal, either at the school or not, is really why I joined the Peace Corps – to try to build something and maybe help someone along the way.
I recently visited home for the holidays. There's a moment during that trip home that very often pops into my mind, a quote from my brother, which I can't remember exactly because there was a shot of some cinnamonny liqueur that followed pretty quickly after. First he said something about how no one cares I am here, as all supportive big brothers do, but then he asked why am I teaching English to people who don't need to learn English. What will a group of Rwandan students use the English language for?
As I tried, very badly, to defend myself, I realized this is a question I tend to ask myself a lot. Out of the close to 200 students I teach, maybe there are 25 students who will absolutely NEED to use English in their daily life outside of school – those that will have the means to continue to university, and maybe find a job outside of their small village. The others will use it just for fun, which has its benefits, but did not pull me from my comfy American life to begin with.
So to leave my comfy American life yet again after my visit back home took a lot of personal reassurances and confidence in my job. And the fact that I had new projects to work on and other opportunities waiting for me here that I did not have the first year – things outside the classroom.
With a little grant money from World Connect, I have started to help a small Imigongo (the cow poop art) cooperative. Before, the cooperative operated out of a series of two or three houses, they had no market in the village that really let any passer-by know they were there. They had no sign on the road. They had no money to find a place to turn into a market.
But their art was beautiful. If you received Imigongo from me, it came from them (except Grandma and Grandpa.) They charge a good price and make a good painting. They are kind people, farmers mostly, who love Imigongo and wanted to share their art. I wrote a grant not really invested in the project because I really had no idea what I was doing. But I submitted it and through some miracle, received the money.
I still have no idea what I am doing as I have never tried to own or operate a business of any kind in English, let alone with a group of farmers who speak only Kinyarwanda. But so far, we've accomplished quite a lot (and I've had quite a bit of help along the way, most recently from a sector official named Jost.) We have a house – a year of rent paid for – with an awesome landlady who painted and fixed up all the problems within five days. We have a sign, on the road. We have a shelving unit half-made to display the art. And we have a great group of artists who have already started to make the Imigongo to sell at the market.
Next Friday is our opening day. And by some act of God or perhaps just Rwandans naturally good networking skills (knowing everyone, everywhere helps a lot), the mayor of the district might even be in attendance. There also might be a popular radio station DJ coming to help advertise. Jost is willing to help teach business to the new business owners, for free. And there is a need, actually a want, to learn English to expand the market to possibly even other countries.
While some of my days here are completely worthless in the great scheme of life, both mine and my students, the challenge about Peace Corps is to find the thing worth sticking around for –to find the reason to live 27 months in a developing country. For some volunteers, I'm sure teaching is their passion, and whether or not Rwandans are benefiting from their learning experience with us native speakers might not matter. For some volunteers, it is their personal relationships with their communities that keep them around.
But for me, while I love my students and my community, I left my family because I wanted to help one family who does not have what we have – bring an opportunity, or knowledge, or skills to a group of people who wanted it. And I think I have found that in cow poop.


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one of the tires have a small hole and is exposing a little of the inner tube when inflated but the tread is still good. Is there a way to save it? both tires have tiny cracks. I would hate to throw the tires away although they are old because I just bought it.
I would like larger tires.what is the largest width i can fit? speed is not an issue.In fact this was an impulse buy. was looking for a normal commuter and it seems to good to pass. I intend to change the handles to something more upright.
Should I change tires and buy new tubes and tires bearing in mind that this would cost over half the price of the bike or should I change the wheel set to 26 mtb type rims and run 26 x 1.5 tires as I already have them quite a bit.


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- 20:19 We missed it entirely and found out after the fact that a Vex robot system was the pick of the day on Woot tinyurl.com/vex-on-woot
- 20:51 The BBC looks for the robot of the future, and finds the Stanford Stair robot fetching a stapler... htinyurl.com/bbc-stair
- 21:00 The BBC gets HRP-3 demo, perhaps the world's most advanced humanoid, but things don't go as well as expected. tinyurl.com/bbc-hrp3
- 23:05 The guys over at Trossen have a really good sense of humor... <but unfortunately they seem to have moved the funny sign post that was linked here...>
- 09:55 Tilt your head, look left, right, & your robot can do the same. Checkout FreeTrack (tinyurl.com/free-track). Best of all, it's FREE!
- 10:07 Ever want to build an 84 DOF humanoid robot but couldn't find a controller? Problem solved (tinyurl.com/84-servo-controller)
- 10:17 Robots can be very effective in teaching AI concepts. Here's one example using the SRV-1: tinyurl.com/robot-as-ai-teaching-assistant
- 10:43 Promo for NHK BS2 TV special on robot development in the 50 years since Atom (Astroboy) was born. tinyurl.com/astroboy-atom-special
- 10:49 Here's the Japanese link for the NHK program just mentioned: tinyurl.com/astroboy-atom-film-info


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|Iowa Politics Roundup: Deadline Looms for Action on Budget, Traffic Fines, and Weapons Permit
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|Written by Lynn Campbell
|Friday, 23 April 2010 13:30
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Budget bills, an increase in traffic fines, and a bill that would take away the discretion of county sheriffs in issuing weapons permits are among key bills approved by the 2010 legislature that Governor Chet Culver must take action on before next Thursday's deadline.
By the end of this week, Culver will have already signed into law roughly 79 percent of the 196 bills approved this year, according to an IowaPolitics.com review of enrolled bills. Approximately 41 remain, including most of the budget bills, which Culver has the authority to line-item-veto.
Key bills yet to see action include:
∙ House File 2531, the $2.7-billion clean-up standings bill approved on the last day of session, which contains the all-important $2.5 billion in state aid for K-12 schools and also includes provisions for bicycle safety and Jermiah's Law, increasing penalties for motorists who run red lights;
∙ Senate File 2389, the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund bill, which also includes $150 million in bonds for the I-JOBS II infrastructure program;
∙ Senate File 2381, the transportation budget bill, which also includes the mandate that all children under 18 use a seat belt, even when in the back seat;
∙ Senate File 2379, a bill making Iowa a "shall issue" state and taking away sheriffs' discretion in issuing weapons permits;
∙ Senate File 2378, the justice-system-budget bill that also includes an increase in numerous traffic fines; and
∙ House File 2526, the state's largest budget bill -- a health and human-services budget that spends $954.34 million from the general fund in Fiscal Year 2011 and uses $187.8 million from the state's cash reserves.
"I've been given no indication that he's going to veto any piece of legislation," said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D-Des Moines).
Culver has declined to say whether he'll sign into law a bill making Iowa a "shall issue" state and a bill that would increase hundreds of traffic fines to raise an additional $9 million for he state.
Approximately 50 gun-rights advocates gathered on the west steps of the Capitol earlier this week, calling for fewer weapons restrictions and for Culver to sign the weapons-permit bill, which is backed by the National Rifle Association.
"It's the right thing to do," said Sean McClanahan -- president of Iowa Carry -- who said his group has members in Jasper, Emmett, and Dubuque counties who have had difficulty getting a permit. "This is not a Democratic-versus-Republican thing. This is a rights thing; this is a public safety thing."
House Minority Whip Linda Upmeyer (R-Garner) also said she hopes Culver signs the weapons-permit bill along with House File 2399, which could increase power rates by $15 million and allows MidAmerican Energy to undertake site-suitability studies for construction of a nuclear-power plant in Iowa.
Upmeyer also said some line-item vetoes by Culver in appropriations bill could curtail spending that Republicans say was excessive this year.
Meanwhile, traffic fines would increase in at least 180 areas if a portion of Senate File 2378, the justice-system appropriations bill, is signed into law. Increases would come in the areas of speeding, traffic violations, operating while intoxicated, open container, failure to obey a traffic-control device, failure to maintain control, and driving on the wrong side of a two-lane highway. The judicial branch would receive about $5.3 million -- the bulk of the proceeds.
Culver has hinted that he supports the fee increases, although he has the line-item-veto authority to strike it from the bill. "I think most Iowans would agree that criminals should pay if they break the law," he said. "And if you don't want to pay, you try not to break the law."
Other bills yet to see action include ones that would: require public schools and state agencies to use environmentally friendly cleaning products; deem it child abuse to expose a child to obscene materials; and require informed written consent for genetic tests and limit insurance companies from using that information to deny coverage. The stack of unsigned bills also contains several veterans bills, including one that would provide veterans a holiday for Veterans Day.
The 2010 Iowa legislature adjourned March 30 on the 79th day of session, making it the shortest session in nearly four decades. Sessions normally run 100 or 110 days; last year the legislature didn't adjourn until April 26. However, lawmakers managed to pass more bills this year: 185 bills were approved in the 2009 session, compared with 196 this year.
Branstad Tops Gubernatorial Candidates in Both Income and Donations
Republican gubernatorial candidate (and former Governor) Terry Branstad and his wife Christine had a 2009 adjusted gross income three times as much as Governor Chet Culver and his wife Mari, three times as much as state Representative Rod Roberts and his wife Trish, and nearly four times as much as Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats and his wife Darla, according to summaries of 2009 income-tax returns released this week. Roberts and Vander Plaats are also seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
Data released this week show Branstad and his wife had an adjusted gross income of $396,986 in 2009, which included a 10-month salary of $276,026 as president of the Des Moines University. Annualized, that would amount to about $331,231, compared to $130,000 he would earn if re-elected governor.
The Culvers' adjusted gross income was $126,745; the Robertses had an adjusted gross income of $136,488; and the Vander Plaatses reported an adjusted gross income of $103,562.
Branstad's gifts to charity totaled $41,178, or 10.4 percent of his adjusted gross income. The Vander Plaatses donated 5.5 percent of their adjusted gross income, the Robertses 4.2 percent, and the Culvers 2.2 percent.


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Footballer dies after collapsing on pitch
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A 40-year-old man has died after playing five-a-side football at a sports centre in Glasgow.
Staff at the Firhill Complex battled to save him after he collapsed on the pitch, according to an eyewitness.
Paramedics rushed to the centre near Garscube Road when the alarm was raised shortly after 8.30pm on Monday.
Paul McLaughlin, who was playing a match at the time, said: "We were on the park opposite and the next thing one of the guys shouted for anyone with first aid skills to go over.
"The man was being put into recovery position by his friends. There was panic as they tried to revive him.
"Staff came running over and a girl gave him mouth to mouth for about 15 minutes, until the paramedics arrived.
"It was pretty apparent quite early on that he was dead. We were in shock."
The man who died was part of a group of players who made a "regular booking", according to the centre manager, Gavin Duncan.
He said: "It's a tragic incident and we would like to pass on our condolences to his family.
"Everything that could have been done with what was available was done."
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed that they treated the man at the centre.
He added: "We sent a paramedic and an ambulance at 8.30pm to attend to a 40-year-old male who was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary."
peter.swindon@ eveningtimes.co.uk
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Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality
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The subject of homosexuality has occupied a central place in psychoanalytic thinking from the beginning. Although psychoanalysis has never absolutely decided what causes homosexuality--whether homosexuality is an emotional disturbance or even just what homosexuality really is--psychoanalytic theoreticians and clinicians have nevertheless made important contributions to such issues. The debates swirling around these complex questions continue to this day and have a history of their own, which, though long and convoluted, can be summarized in a few sentences. Freud never concluded whether homosexuality was a pathological condition or merely represented a variant of the many forms that mature adult sexuality might assume. But by the 1930s, psychoanalysts generally thought it was an emotional disturbance--either a perversion (classified with fetishism, sadism, pedophilia, and the like) or a stunting and blockage of a more "natural" heterosexuality. This view continued unchallenged until the 1970s, when analytically oriented clinicians again began to think of it as a variant. This is now the official position of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, but some, perhaps many, psychoanalysts still adhere to the older, more conservative view of it as pathology ( Lewes 1988). Recently, the most powerful argument for considering homosexuality an entirely "natural" condition comes from biologists, who argue for genetic, neurologic, or hormonal causes for that orientation. It is not yet clear how such arguments will ultimately affect psychoanalytic theories of homosexuality, but the relation between biological and psychoana-


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Creamed spinach is topped with a baked egg, then served with toast.
If this is what French food is like – I'm moving to France!
I wasn't even going to post this recipe today. My book is almost due at the library, so I've been trying to get ahead and cook up all the recipes from this book that I want to make before I have to return it. So I made these baked eggs last night. And I was still thinking about them this morning. I couldn't not post about them today. Let's just put it this way:
This was one of the best things that I have ever put into my mouth.
I always hesitate to make statements like that, because what if one of you try it and you are less than impressed, but I loved these eggs. I think that you'd have to be a fan of eggs with runny yolks to really appreciate this dish. But this recipe felt restaurant worthy to me. In fact, if I was served this at a restaurant, I would become a loyal customer. It's so simple, but the combination of the egg and the cream and the spinach and the toast – heaven.
While I was making this, I kept thinking what a pain it is to make it from fresh spinach. I was all prepared to tell you that you could take a shortcut and use frozen chopped spinach, but once I took my first bite, I knew that the extra work was worth it. If you make this – please use fresh spinach. The freshness really shines through and I just don't think this dish would be the same without it. Now – I need to run back to the grocery store to get more spinach – I want more!!
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- 1 pound fresh spinach
- ⅔ cup heavy cream
- salt
- pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 6 large eggs
- ½ cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano or grana padana
- 6 slices white bread, crusts removed, toasted and buttered, each slice cut into triangles
- Bring about 3 quarts of salted water to a rapid boil.
- Take the stems of the spinach leaves by pinching the leaf at the base between thumb and forefinger and pulling back the stem with the other hand so that you remove the stem where it runs up the center of the leaf instead of just breaking it off at the base. Wash the leaves thoroughly, plunge them in the boiling water, and simmer them until they "melt", about 30 seconds. Immediately drain in a colander and rinse with cold water. Gently squeeze the leaves in small bunches to get rid of excess water. Slice the small bunches into 2 or 3 pieces each, so the spinach ends up coarsely chopped.
- Bring ¼ cup of the cream to a simmer in a saute pan, season it with salt and pepper, and cook it down until it's so thick it looks almost like a paste. Stir in the fresh-cooked spinach for about 30 seconds then turn off the heat.
- Use a brush or your finger to smear the insides of 6 ramekins or custard cups with the softened butter. Distribute the creamed spinach among the ramekins and crack an egg into each ramekin. Spoon the rest of the cream, about 1 tablespoon per ramekin, over the eggs. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and the grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.
- Line the bottom of a lidded saute pan with a kitchen towel, (to keep the ramekins from moving around, arrange the ramekins in the pan), and pour in enough water to come about one-third of the way up the sides of the ramekins. Put the pan over high heat, and as soon as the water comes to the simmer, turn the heat down to low and cover the pan. Cook until the egg whites set but the yolks are still runny, 10 to 12 minutes. Because of the cream, the eggs may look runny on top, so judge doneness by quickly touching the egg white with your finger, not by how they look on top. Serve on little folded napkins set on small plates, with the toasts passed at the table or arranged around the rim of each plate.
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Oh. My. Gosh. I cannot WAIT to try this. I am loving baked eggs lately, and this just looks absolutely amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this today!
I'll make this for my husband soon. He loves eggs and spinach together. I do too.
How interesting that you put a towel in the pan. I've never done something like that before.
I absolutely love baked eggs and this recipe sounds AMAZING! I can't wait to try it, thank you!
Simple and amazing tasting!
This sounds really good to me! Love those runny eggs and with the spinach, I bet it's a winner!
If you gave it a 5 out of 5, this MUST be good! I love the sound of the spinachy creaminess…
You've inspired me to go out and buy the book because all the recipes you've posted from this have looked amazing.
9:00pm on a Friday night and I want to eat this!!
SOLD! i have to make this soon!
This was so delicios! Just made them for breakfast. A perfect start for a weekend. Thanks!
my goodness, what high praise! i've never been particularly enamored of french food in general, but it seems i need to give this a try–hellooo, heavy cream!!
I get my cookbooks from the library, too! I only buy the real good ones.
This looks really scrumptious and I hope to try it too!
This will definitely be breakfast tomorrow. Everything about this recipe sounds delicious- Thanks!
Sold. I love eggs SO very much.
So, I did make this….ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS 5 OUT OF 5 is true. Our Jamaican version is callaloo, but it tastes the same. I had this the other night (yes crazy) and for breakfast this morning! I love your blog, please check out mine! I'm new!


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WALEWSKI, COMTE ALEXANDRE ( 1810-1868), diplomat and politician; born at Walewice Castle ( Poland), 4 May 1810, the illegitimate son of Napoleon I and Countess Marie Walewska. On the death of her husband, who had assumed paternity, Marie Walewska married Marshal Philippe d'Ornano, but, following her own death a short time later, Walewski was raised in Poland by his mother's brother. The boy studied at Geneva and Warsaw. Affected by romantic nationalism, he escaped from Poland to France, returning to participate in the uprising of 1830-1831 against Russian rule, during which he was sent to London by the revolutionary government in an attempt to gain diplomatic support for the Polish cause. Stranded and destitute following the collapse of the insurrection, Walewski emigrated to France where he lived with his stepfather, became a naturalized citizen ( 17 July 1833), and served in the French army in Algeria. In 1837, however, he went on the inactive list (he resigned from the army in 1841), returning to Paris to make his fortune, for by this time he had spent his inheritance.
In the late 1830s, Walewski failed to establish himself in politics, journalism, and the theater (he may have collaborated with Alexandre Dumas fils in writing Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle in 1839, and his five-act comedy, L'école du monde ou la coquette sans savoir, played with no great success at the Théâtre Français in January 1840). He came, however, under the patronage of Adolphe Thiers and in 1840 began a diplomatic career. His three-year liaison with the celebrated tragedienne Rachel (a son was born in November 1844) had just ended in March 1846 when Walewski was sent as French minister to Florence. There he met and married (in May 1846) Marianne (Marie Anne) Ricci, the daughter of a Polish émigré family of aristocratic (Poniatowski) background. This second marriage ( Walewski's first wife, Caroline Montague, a daughter of the earl of Sandwich, had died in 1834), while it brought no great dowry, was to prove a very good one. On 28 February 1847 the young diplomat was sent to the tip of South America where the Argentine Confederation was just beginning to take shape. In September 1847 he returned to Paris, in time to experience the Revolution of 1848. That revolution revealed two significant characteristics of Walewski's


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I am completely nervous about applying to law school... I live in Ohio so I have limited choices on where I can go. My GPA is not the best; I messed up my 2nd year and it ruined my GPA (and ever since being on the Dean's List barely raised it). And I got in the low 150's on my LSAT. So given this, I pretty much should decide between Dayton and Capital. But I know both are ranked very low. I wanted so much to go to Case Western, but my 2nd year ruined that chance. Any advice on what I should do, or any other schools that I should consider (and that I have a chance of getting into)? Also, does applying for early decision help your chances? Someone told me that applying to Case as an early decision may increase my chances... And I am retaking my LSAT in Sep.
Why, pray tell, do you rely on the advice of annonymous bloggers who do not have a vested interest in your future? You've made some solid observations. Lesson 1 of law school: take the facts, analyze, and reach a conclusion. Instead of wasting your energy writing an exegesis on why a buffoon is a buffoon, pay attention to yourself, and your feelings on where is a better fit. The best thing I ever did was disregard the stupidity of the posturing on this board and enroll at the school whose modus operandi best jibed with mine. If I were to help prospectives, I'd yell this from the rooftop and get rid of useless "Which is a better school?" threads. You'll understand soon enough.
Good luck and congratulations on getting accepted!
Its not that im relying on any one persons information, but rather trying to expand my understanding by looking at others perspectives. I dont feel that I have wasted my time however, I genuinely had a good time exposing the weaknesses in his argument. Thank you for your advise, in the past, the people that have given me the best advise, have said exactly that.


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Lucia Peterson died peacefully in her home on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2013, at the age of 86.
A longtime resident of Cameron Park and recently of Davis, Lucia was born May 24, 1927.
She was preceded in death by her parents Franz and Francis Stockalper and her husband of more than 50 years, Ned Peterson. She is survived by her children David Peterson, Karen Goodell and Joan Keegan; her grandchildren: Sarah Markley, M.D., Thomas Keegan, Joel Keegan and Brian Keegan; and her great-grandchildren Jack, Lucia and Cora Markley.
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When: 7 p.m. today, 2:05 p.m. Saturday at Fluor Field in Greenville, 4 p.m. Sunday at Clemson
Now, the fun begins.
Arguably college baseball's premiere early season non-conference matchup every year, this weekend's version features South Carolina in elite company, ranked No. 3 in the nation, and Clemson sitting just outside the top 10 at No. 11. The only other comparable series in the country this weekend is Cal State Fullerton (No. 5) at Oregon (No. 9), so it's fair to say all eyes in the college baseball world will be on the Palmetto State this weekend.
What they'll be looking to see is whether the Gamecocks are for real or just riding high having feasted on patsies. The reason for the high ranking is not just because South Carolina is 7-0, which is still impressive because a lot of highly ranked teams (Indiana and Mississippi State, anyone?) stumbled out of the gate against teams they were supposed to crush.
No, what's caught everyone's attention are the five shutouts, the 51 scoreless innings. You don't do something that hasn't been done in 40 years of pretty standout baseball and go unnoticed.
Now, people want to see what this staff of ace Jordan Montgomery, rock-solid No. 2 Jack Wynkoop and freshman phenom Wil Crowe can do against sincere competition, not to mention a bullpen that's been superb behind them (the Gamecocks are first in the SEC in team ERA at 0.86).
Conversely, people want to see how this offense, which is hitting .319 as a team (second in the SEC) and has scored 57 runs in 56 innings can fare against elite pitching, which the Gamecocks will certainly see tonight.
As Chad Holbrook has said, pitching and defense win baseball games, and his team has pitched better than any in school history thus far and is playing defense as well as anyone in the country (.984, second in the SEC). Throw in some piping-hot bats - Kyle Martin leads the SEC with a .500 average while Connor Bright is third with a .444 average - and it's easy to see why practically no one in America is down on the Gamecocks right now.
And how could they be? In a series that, despite Clemson's lead, has flipped of late (sound familiar?), the Gamecocks have won 20 of 28 since 2007, and when those games have counted most, the Gamecocks have been at their best. Since 2002, USC is a perfect 6-0 in the postseason against the Tigers, including 4-0 in Omaha. Clemson hasn't won the season series against USC since 2006, and tonight's starter, ace Daniel Gossett, is 0-2 against South Carolina, losing his duel with Montgomery last season in Clemson.
Whatever happens, this is as good as college baseball gets. Forget Bucknell, forget Eastern Kentucky (if you haven't already). This is Clemson. This is The Rivalry, and unlike football or basketball, in this sport it takes a back seat to none other in America.
First pitch is set for 7 p.m. Where will you be when the fun begins?
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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) accredited Methodist Sleep Diagnostic Center of Oak Ridge in spring 2001. AASM is a professional membership organization dedicated to quality care for patients with sleep disorders, advancement of sleep research, and public and professional education.
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Cherridan Rambally, M.D. earned her medical degree from the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She completed a neurology residency at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont. While at UVM/Fletcher Allen Health Care she completed a sleep medicine fellowship. Dr. Rambally is double-boarded in both neurology and sleep medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Rambally has a special interest in sleep disorders, specific to women and children (ages 12 and older). She is proficient in Spanish.
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Dr. Rambally has been recognized for her participation and support of community programs. She has received awards from Operation Hope for "Outstanding Accomplishment" and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science for "Exemplary Leadership." Dr. Rambally also received the "Award for A Conscious Effort in the Community" from UCLA for commitment to Third World Communities of Los Angeles.
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Hop back inside your minivan and travel the short distance to the Sheikh Zayed center, where the late Sheikh's work is remembered. See memorabilia of the Shiekh including his hunting rifles and his vehicles. Also learn about how the Sheikh travelled around the world and formed the Emirates as we know them today.
Enjoy a break for lunch (own expense) before heading to Abu Dhabi Heritage Village, an open-air museum that showcases everyday life in the city prior to the discovery of oil. Stroll around at leisure and admire recreated souks and a traditional Bedouin camp complete with goat-hair tents.
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I've received a couple of emails asking when I would be writing about the changes in servicing in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The quick answer, when the product releases. However, to tide you over with some material on some of the changes, I wanted to make you aware of some of the material our product teams have released for the 8.1 Preview. The material is located here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251569.aspx
A couple of snippets that I'm sure will interest some of you include:
For fun, here's one of my machines at work running the preview. First, I analyzed the store on my machine and got the following results
Next, I ran the /StartComponentCleanup switch, which completed successfully and my new analysis reported:
So, my hard linked files didn't change and my backups directory went down about 15MB. There was no appreciable change in the cache. Lastly, I ran the /StartComponentCleanup with the /ResetBase command as well. Here are those results:
Again, size of the backups folder shrank by about 13MB. All in all, the reported explorer size of my component store went from 5.3GB when I started to 5.26GB when I was done. Obviously, these parameters will vary greatly as more and more updates, features, roles, etc are installed as there is the possibility of more files available to remove.
More on interpreting the /AnalyzeComponentStore output
Let's talk a little more about what is actually happening with the /AnalyzeComponentStore command when its run. As many of you are aware (or have commented here in the past), a very common complaint is regarding the size on disk of the component store. We've talked about it other posts regarding how hard links work, what explorer's doing, etc. Well if you wondered about this stuff in the past, this command was built for you.
I know many of you have used tools in the past that are hard link aware to tell me about how the true size of your component store was only fractionally smaller than what Explorer was reporting and asked why we bother mentioning hard links. The problem with those tools is they are only discounting "duplication" caused by hard links internal to the component store. That represents only a small portion of the misreporting due to hard links because it also needs to account for the files that are hard linked external to the component store. Those files make up Windows and are required with or without the component store.
Given that, when we look at the example below, here's how to read what /AnazlyeComponentStore is reporting back to you:
The green boxes above show that 100MB of files exist between the Windows Explorer reported size on disk and the actual component store size. This is what was being reported by the hard link aware tools that some of you ran on your systems (this accounts for the hard links internal to the component store). The orange box shows a "Shared with Windows" size of 4.69GB. This represents the files that would be part of Windows whether or not the component store existed (this accounts for the hard links external to the component store). The actual overhead of the component store is the sum of the Backups and Disabled Features and Cache and Temporary Data, or in this case ~480MB.
NOTE: The Backups and Disabled Features also includes component store metadata and true side by side components but that was a little too long to include in an output :)
Hope this is interesting, let me know if there are any questions.
What's exactly the difference between /StartComponentCleanup and /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase ???
And.... it looks like the .manifest files in WinSxS is now encrypted, how can I view the content of manifests for some manual analyzing ??
We cover that in the article: technet.microsoft.com/.../dn251565.aspx
Basically /resetbase removes all superseded components from the component store, similar to what we used to call 'pinning' for service packs. It makes it so that the fixes installed for a particular component cannot be rolled back.
As for the manifest encryption, they're no longer viewable.
Thank you for the reply, but forgive me for my ignorance, since I'm still not very clear about the difference.
In the article you linked, I found these two sentences:
/StartComponentCleanup: "previous versions of updated components will be immediately deleted"
/ResetBase: "removes all superseded versions of every component in the component store."
They sounds similiar to me. I mean, I think I know what /ResetBase does, but what exactly does /StartComponentCleanup do ? whats the diff between 'delete previous versions' and 'remove superseded versions' ??
Sorry maybe I'm too stupid :-(
The differentiation is updated vs. every. In the case of /resetbase, we do everything in the store, not just components that were previously updated. Updated isn't inclusive of every, whereas every == everything. Hope that clears things up.
And btw, you're not stupid, I agree its confusing verbiage. I'll see what we can do to make that more clear.
ah.... thank you very much ! now I get the diff ...... in theory.
unfortunately, I think maybe I'm really uninformed here, sorry, but under what circumstances a component is 'superseded' or 'updated' ? say I get a KBxxxx from Windows Update automatically, and it creates a new folder in WinSxS, is the old folder considered 'updated' or 'superseded' ? for example, now I have 3 folders:
in my Win 8 (not 8.1) WinSxS, and after I ran /StartComponentCleanup they are all still there, no one was deleted. in fact, no folder was deleted at all, but files in Backup and ManifestCache was cleaned, apparently.
I guess /ResetBase should delete the first 2 folders right ? but why they are not considered 'previously updated' component ??
ResetBase makes the last update as base for new updates. in your case it would remove the version 6.2.9200.16384 which is the RTM files. After doing this you can't uninstall the update which installs version 6.2.9200.16653 because this is now the base for all newer updates.


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Bone is one of the most fascinating materials that has evolved in nature. There are 206 bones in your body - did you know that a newborn has 350 bones but they fuse together as you grow? - more than half of them in your hands and feet. These bones not only protect your organs, support your body against gravity's pull and allow you to move but they also are living tissues that produce blood cells and store important minerals. Not only important for humans, bones are the essential part of the endoskeleton of all vertebrates. Bone is a composite material of the mineral calcium hydroxyapatite and tropocollagen molecules (the fragile and soluble form of collagen when first synthesized by fibroblasts). It forms an extremely tough, yet lightweight material and its properties and behavior are of great interest to scientists and materials engineers. For instance, very little is known about the fracture behavior of bone and all such studies have been conducted at scales much larger than the nanoscale that explicitly considers individual tropocollagen molecules and mineral particles. New research at MIT has discovered a previously unknown toughening mechanism of bone that operates at the nanoscale - the level of individual collagen molecules and nano-platelets of hydroxyapatite. This breakthrough work lays the foundation for new materials design that includes the nanostructure as a specific 'design variable' and may help engineers to design materials from the bottom up by including hierarchies as a design parameter.Posted: Jun 26th, 2007
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Large-scale and high-density semiconductor arrays with one-dimensional ("1D" - where one dimension of the structure is nanoscale) nanostructures have been extensively studied for their potential application in future electrooptical devices. Among them, zinc oxide (ZnO) is considered to be very attractive for high-efficiency short-wavelength optoelectronic nanodevices because of its large exciton binding energy of 60 meV and high mechanical and thermal stabilities. ZnO nanorod/ nanowire arrays have also been demonstrated to be highly versatile and proven to be quite effective in piezoelectric nanogenerators, dye-sensitized solar cells, photonic crystals, superhydrophobic surfaces, and even biodevices due to their biocompatibility. One of the issues researchers are still grappling with is the synthesis of ZnO nanowire arrays. On one hand, high-temperature techniques such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) have been widely employed and result in high quality nanostructures. However, these methods are energy-consuming and expensive. On the other hand, there are several advantages of growing semiconducting nanostructures directly on conducting metal substrates, for instance the formation of robust electrical contacts during the growth. Such wet chemical methods, which are appealing for their low temperature, facile manipulation, and potential for scale-up have recently been developed for the production of aligned ZnO nanostructures and so far the most successful route has been seeded growth on ZnO-nanoparticle-coated substrates. In these two-step processes the coating of the substrate for the formation of a nucleation layer remains complex and difficult/irreproducible. Therefore, large-scale, low-cost controllable growth of well-aligned ZnO 1D nanostructures on properly fitting substrates via a one-step synthetic approach is still crucially needed for novel applications to become practicable. Researchers in China now have demonstrated exactly such a highly effective solution by growing well-aligned ZnO 1D nanostructures on various inert metal substrates at low temperature on a large scale.Posted: Jun 18th, 2007
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You cut yourself in the finger - and a few days later your skin has completely healed again. Biological organisms have an amazing ability to automatically initiate self-healing and self-repair when they sustain damage. Materials engineers are dreaming about making materials that could do the same thing. Imagine self-repairing cars, planes, bridges or buildings. These materials could be of particular use in structures that are at present impractical or impossible to repair, such as electronic circuit boards, implanted medical devices or spacecraft. Self-repairing materials would have a massive impact on virtually all industries, lengthening product lifetimes, increasing safety, and lowering product costs by reducing maintenance requirements. Thanks to nanotechnology, these visions are coming closer to reality. One approach is the use of nanocontainers that possess the ability to release encapsulated active materials in a controlled way, leading to a new family of self-repairing coatings.Posted: Jun 13th, 2007