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Table Talk: Corn-on-the-cob season in high gear
NOTE: Following the recipes, some tips on how to cook corn-on-the-cob CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Devoted corn-on-the-cob lovers begin their search as soon the first local corn hits the market. They're looking for roadside stands where farmers hawk their just-picked ears of corn. There's nothing sweeter than properly prepared corn that was still on the stalk mere hours before.
That farm fresh corn called to my father each season. He'd drive the byways around Parkersburg in search of farmers with a trailer full of fresh corn. First came the much-anticipated corn from the riverside town of Reedsville, Ohio, where the farmers always seemed to harvest the first corn in the area.
Later in the season, he'd widen the net in search of his favorite Silver Queen corn, an all-white variety he considered unrivaled in sweetness and taste. He'd be sad to note that particular variety has been dethroned today. Most growers have switched to newer strains of sweet white corn.
The memory of summer lunches of hot corn on the cob slathered in butter and salt and pepper, slices of still warm tomatoes from my parents' garden alongside cottage cheese and creamy cool cucumber salad makes my mouth water.
Local corn is in season now. Find it at farmers markets or roadside stands. It seems everybody has a favorite way to cook corn on the cob -- boiling, grilling, roasting, baking, steaming.
Purists mostly insist that butter, salt and pepper are the only toppings appropriate for fresh corn on the cob. Chili Lime and Herbed Butter looked like pretty tame additions to me, but I'm not sure of some of the other topping suggestions I found. Guacamole, pesto and Parmesan, and hummus and peppers all sounded delicious, but I can't quite imagine the mess it would leave on my face.
Maybe it would work better if we cut the corn off the cob and mixed the other ingredients in. That's what we did with some leftover corn-on-the-cob during last week's dog days of no electricity. We mixed it with black and white beans, lime juice, peppers, tomatoes, cumin, onion and garlic for what would have been a healthy salad. Unfortunately, we scooped it up with corn chips.
The recipes below for gussied up corn-on-the-cob spreads make enough to reasonably dress six to eight ears of corn.
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Chili Lime Butter
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon lime zest
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon finely cracked black pepper
COMBINE butter, zest, chili powder, garlic, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
SERVE with warm, cooked corn on the cob.
Source: adapted from a recipe on www.foodnetwork.com
Fresh Herb Butter
Use any fresh herbs that appeal.
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
4 teaspoons chopped parsley
4 teaspoons chopped basil
4 teaspoons chopped oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon lemon zest
PLACE butter, herbs, salt and lemon zest in a bowl and mix together. Transfer to a piece of waxed or parchment paper and roll into a log or place in a small bowl and refrigerate until firm.
SLICE and serve with warm, cooked corn on the cob.
Butter maybe refrigerated for up to two days or frozen for a two weeks.
Source: www.countryliving.com
Parmesan Parsley Butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup butter
1 garlic clove, finely minced
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
1/2 teaspoon salt
HEAT the oil in a heavy small skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute until tender and fragrant, about 1 minute. Remove skillet from heat and add butter to pan to melt. Set aside 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan cheese and stir the rest into the garlic/butter mixture, along with the parsley and salt.
BRUSH the cheese mixture over the hot corn. Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons of cheese on top of the corn.
Caesar Butter
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons Caesar salad dressing
MIX butter, Parmesan cheese, parsley and Caesar dressing.
SERVE with warm, cooked corn on the cob.
Kettle Corn
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper
STIR butter, brown sugar, salt and cayenne pepper together until well combined.
SERVE with warm, cooked corn on the cob.
Other flavor suggestions
Curry Powder & Nuts
@recipedir:STIR curry powder and softened butter. Spread on corn. Sprinkle ears with chopped pistachios.
@recipehed:Pesto & Parmesan
MIX pesto sauce with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and softened butter. Spread mixture on hot, cooked ears of corn.
Hummus & Peppers
MIX hummus, chopped roasted red pepper and olive tapenade. Spread mixture on hot, cooked ears of corn.
MASH 1 ripe avocado and combine with 1 chopped Serrano chili, 1 clove minced garlic, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro and 1/2 tablespoon lime juice. Spread mixture on hot, cooked ears of corn.
Sunny Citrus
MIX grated lime, lemon and orange rind into softened butter. Add a squeeze of citrus juice and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes. Spread mixture on hot, cooked ears of corn.
Corn and Black Bean Salad
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 clove garlic, minced
2 cups fresh (cooked) or frozen (thawed) corn kernels
1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 (15-ounce) can white beans, rinsed and drained
1 red or green bell pepper, cored, seeded and chopped
2 jalapeno peppers, seeded, de-veined and finely chopped
1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, quartered
1/3 cup cilantro leaves, finely chopped
WHISK together vinegar, olive oil, lime juice, salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder and garlic in a large bowl to make a dressing. Add corn, onion, black beans, peppers and tomatoes and toss until just incorporated.
COVER and chill for about 2 hours.
ADD cilantro and toss again before serving.
Some ways to cook corn
Boiling: Clean and shuck corn and then place ears in a large pot. Cover with cold water. Top with a lid and bring to a boil. When the water is at a rolling boil, turn off the heat and sit for 1 or 2 minutes.
OR, bring large pot of water to a boil. Add cleaned corn. Top with a lid and cook for about 5 minutes.
Grilling: With husks or without? Here are two grilling methods recommended on www.about.com.
* In husk: Remove silk and all but a few layers of the husk. Leave stalk in place for a handle. Heat grill to medium high. Place ears on the grill and turn every two minutes 10 ten minutes. Remove from grill.
* Out of husk: Baste cleaned ears of corn with butter. Place on grill on medium high heat, turning every two minutes until kernels turn dark yellow. Remove immediately.
Oven roasting: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Pull husks back and remove silk. Pull husks back over ears. Place husks directly on the oven rack and roast for 30 minutes or until the kernels are soft. Peel down the husks and use as a handle when eating.
Steaming: HUSK and wash well under running water. Place the cobs in the steamer basket after water has been brought to a boil, cover with lid. Let steam for about 10 minutes until done.
Microwave: Husk and remove all the silk. Wash well with cool water. Do not dry ears. Place each ear on a piece of waxed paper. Rub with butter and sprinkle with salt. Roll up in the paper and twist closed each end. Microwave on high 2 minutes per cob.
Another microwave method suggested by a co-worker is to place the ear, husk, silk and all, in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes. He suggested adding 15 seconds cooking time per each additional ear. Warning: remove the hot ears with an oven mitt and cool slightly before cleaning to avoid burns.


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Momocho was one of the first places in Cleveland that I had put on my list. I saw it on an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (apparently… because I just had to Google it to figure out where I had seen it…). It was a place that I hadn't been to for a couple reasons. First, it's on the west side of town and I live and work on the east. And while it is only 20 minutes away at best, it's still a bit of a haul. And second, I didn't have anyone to go with that would justify making that haul (same reason I haven't been to Lucky's Cafe). But, thanks to recent developments, I've since rectified the second excuse which in turn solved the first. So having no reason not to make the trek all the way to the west side…which is seriously maybe four more minutes than my commute home anyway…it was time to give Momocho a try. It helps that they have a happy hour that Ashley really likes…
To properly enjoy happy hour, I started by leaving work early…figuring that's part of the reason it's called happy hour. But I got there arguably too early, so we decided to stop and grab a beer at Market Garden Brewery. Of course we couldn't really decide what we wanted, so we just ordered the build your own sampler. You get to pick six of their beers, and they bring you a pour of each. It's a great way to try the variety that they offer for not too much money. The winner for me was the Wallace Tavern Scotch Ale, narrowly defeating the Pearl Street Wheat (which would have probably won on a hot summer day instead of a cool, cloudy spring one). After finishing our samples, and paying our tab we headed off to Momocho for some happy hour grub.
So why did it take me three paragraphs to finally get to Momocho? Because the moral of the story is don't be late to happy hour, especially if you want to sit in the bar. Turns out if you have good food and good drinks people will show up, and they aren't going to be in a hurry to leave. Who would have thought? We ordered a couple of margaritas and tried to loiter near the bar hoping that someone would leave before 6:30 so we could swoop in and grab a table or bar stool in enough time to order some of the half-priced taquitos. Didn't happen. But, undeterred, and faced with the option of multiple available seats at like 6:40, we decided to stick it out for the full price meal. I mean we were there and Eric Williams is in fact a James Beard award nominee. Seemed rude to go somewhere else…
The goal of the evening was taquitos, and that's where the attention went. I was drawn to the machaca (coffee and ancho beef brisket) and pibil (braised pork) while Ashley's eye wandered to the atun (tuna) and the pescado (mahi mahi). We ended up with beef and tuna options. But fearing that wouldn't be quite enough food, and hardly a fair sample of Chef Williams' cuisine, we decided to go for a chile relleno as well which actually came out first. Between the fact that we were hungry and the fact that it smelled so dang good, we were easily three bites in before it even dawned on me to take a picture…which is why you see a half eating chile (you have to pronounce it cheee – lay to get the full effect). The chile was stuffed with roasted vegetables, fried, topped with a melty, gooey, fantastic gouda and served on top of a slightly sweet, slightly spicy tomato sauce. It had a little bit of crunch and a little sweet heat, and was just fantastic. I barely had time to take the picture before we polished it off (and you may even be able to see a fork coming in for another bite…).
Now came the taquitos which couldn't have been more than five minutes behind. These weren't exactly what I was thinking when I heard taquitos. I was more of the mind of three rolled and fried, crunchy snacks. You were thinking that too, weren't you?? Don't lie… Instead what showed up was a bowl full of beef, onions and peppers, two sauces, and a whole container of warm corn tortillas. Literally, build your own little tacos. I started with a slather of guac, a heaping of beef and veggies, and topped it with a little salsa verde. As I took my first bite, with juice running down my hand, I realized why this was a favorite happy hour spot. The flavors were nice. The meat wasn't too over-spiced, the peppers and onions gave a nice bit of texture and a little acidity, and the guac was cool and creamy. The only drawback was that the meat was a bit dry (though this was remedied later as I got to the meat that had been sitting there soaking the braising juices at the bottom) and the salsa verde was a just a little bland.
After a couple taquitos, I finally remembered that I had company and she had something different that she was willing to let me try. So I made another taquito with a little bit of perfectly seared Ahi, some blood orange marmelada, and a little bit of guac. Now that was an awesome bite. The tuna was moist and meaty and cooked perfectly. It was completely balanced by the sweet from the marmelada and the creaminess of the guac. I have to admit, I was a little envious of her choice.
We pretty much made our way through both dishes before finally throwing in the towel. And while offered dessert, we declined in favor of heading out in the search for something different. I thoroughly enjoyed myself that evening. The food was good. The company was great. And I was very happy that I had skipped work and made the trek to check it out. I'm looking forward to the opportunity for a return to try the many different taquitos (the chicharones, pibil and pato are all high on the list) as well as the dish that initially landed it on my radar…the smoked trout guacamole.
Final Verdict – 4 Stars
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thx for the shout out + review / look forward to seeing you again soon on the west side / check out happy dog next time too / viva momocho!


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Single soon to be father here, my ex-wife decided to leave me for a guy back home. I'm stationed in San Diego and shes back in Iowa. She has gone off the grid and nobody will tell me whats going on with our son (just found out a couple days ago from a friend of a friend of a cousin of a mother on Face Book) and I have no idea what to do. My life has just shattered. I know this isn't really a question but I just need to get this off my chest. I guess im just looking for a little insight. I have read the Father To Be books a hundred times but nothing in there helps when it comes to raising a child alone. I'm just so lost...
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What was said to me is that All those books won't make you a better dad the fact that you Are actually reading the books does. Bottom line you care you are better than most. Sorry your wife sucks for lack of better terminology but that is still your son so don't let her snuff you out. Try to get family envolved to see your child so they can give you updates. Good luck and on a side note on behalf of my self and family thanks for doing what you do and allowing us to sleep a little better at night. Good luck.posted 05/08/2013 by kcoletta
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The new book of poetry that gave me the most pleasure this year is Azores, by David Yezzi. Yezzi writes with insight and elegance about the lives we actually lead—about the ironic balance between violent feeling and regulated behavior that defines adulthood. The book's title sequence describes a sailing trip across the Atlantic that is simultaneously a sexual adventure; like Hart Crane's "Voyages," "Azores" is suffused with the eroticism of the sea. But unlike Crane, Yezzi concludes by recognizing that "we are not suited to live long at sea," that our "lust for water" is countered by a "fidelity to land." The sophistication of Yezzi's language perfectly suits the sophistication of his understanding, and he displays a civilized mastery reminiscent of Philip Larkin and Donald Justice, which no poet of his generation can match.
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I'd never considered traveling to Nantan, Japan. It's far away. Also, I'd never heard of it. Same goes for Pretoria, South Africa, and Torres del Paine, Chile. But thanks to The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, I now have excellent reasons to visit each of these little-known locales: unusual, sometimes eerie, but always stunning modern buildings. In Pretoria, for example, there's House Steenkamp by Elmo Swart. Built to resemble a snail, the private home spirals out of the earth. I imagine that a decagenarian gnome lives there and that he likes to invite passers-by in for tea. Caveat emptor: If you purchase this atlas, you may need to reinforce the legs of your coffee table—it's 800 pages and weighs 14.5 pounds. It's well worth the heavy lifting, however, and the hefty price tag. With pithy descriptions and lavish photographs of 1,037 homes, hotels, museums, and stadiums in 89 countries, the atlas offers a comprehensive account of what starchitects and little-known firms alike have been up to since the year 2000. See you in Nantan.
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There are few clichés more clichéd than those associated with the inspirational sports story: the tough-as-nails coach, the down-on-its-luck town, the big showdown at the championship game. Jere Longman's The Hurricanes, an account of a southeast Louisiana high-school football team after Hurricane Katrina, both transcends this formula and capitalizes on its enduring appeal. The tale of a bunch of kids returning home to a sliver of land that's this close to falling into the Gulf of Mexico, shacking up in trailers, and christening their team the Hurricanes works well as a straight-ahead narrative of sports triumph. But it's the accretion of only-in-southeast-Louisiana detail—this is perhaps the year's only football book that includes a 10-page sketch of the life of Cambodian shrimp-boat captains—and Longman's devotion to his remarkable characters, particularly the manic, off-color, empathetic coach Cyril Crutchfield, that makes the story so memorable and haunting.
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor
Amid a flock of excellent legal books this year, two are really outstanding in my view. The first is Jane Mayer's The Dark Side. The second is my former law professor Richard Ford's The Race Card. Ford asks a simple question: How can claims of racism—in the courtroom, the media, and casual conversation—be so pervasive in America if so few of us are racists? His answers are provocative: Much of what we call racism is the result of racist decisions made decades ago with respect to housing, education, or urban planning. Cab drivers who refuse to pick up black men may be motivated by factors beyond racial hate—like not wanting to drop someone off in a bad part of town. The Race Card advances a debate that has been mired in reductive thinking for decades. You won't agree with Ford on everything. But you may find yourself thinking differently about everything. And that's my definition of a great book.
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Richard Price's Lush Life gave me more reading pleasure than any other book in 2008. The novel is a work both of fiction and of urban archaeology, exploring the three successive civilizations that inhabited Manhattan's Lower East Side during the past century and a half. These are, of course, the upwardly striving Jewish working class; the black and Hispanic underclass; and the youthful white urban pioneers who, in seeking Bohemia, created instead one more enclave of wealth and privilege. Price's conceit is that each successive civilization never fully supplants its predecessor and that the resulting stew of ghosts and living beings is beset by awful misunderstandings and outright violence. It's a wonderful book, teeming with authenticity, sadness, and dark wit.
Troy Patterson, television critic In the early chapters of Atmospheric Disturbances, her debut novel, Rivka Galchen makes like a hardened postmodernist. The narrator is unreliable, and a kind of skewed narratology, a sizing up of how stories shape perception, is the theme. Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a New York psychiatrist, believes that malign forces have replaced his wife with a "simulacrum." "She imitated Rema's Argentine accent perfectly, the halos around the vowels," Leo thinks. (Meanwhile, the novel, with its fantastical bent and philosophical air, evokes the Argentine accent of Borges.) Leo's pursuit of answers leads him to a meteorologist, an academic weatherman who in fact controls the weather and who shares the author's surname. Rather clever. Merely clever. But! But the author turns a structuralist exercise into an exciting workout. The book reads like a tense private-eye thriller set in a languorous, floating Wonderland. I read a couple of other first-rate first novels this year—Jonathan Miles'Dear American Airlines, Matthew Quick's The Silver Linings Playbook—but Galchen presented the most eye-catching calling card.
Robert Pinsky, poetry editor
John Keats had the most heartbreaking of careers. During his brief life, his unsurpassed poetry—as we now perceive it—earned him more scorn than recognition. He died in poverty, unappreciated by the scholars and critics of his time. All this the world well knows. But none has known well how to apprehend the significance of Keats, his discouragement in life, and his triumph in art, beyond the ordinary approaches of biography or literary criticism—until Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats. Plumly's passionate, informed understanding of Keats enlarges into a meditation on poetry and death, on a human lifespan and posterity, on the fiery energy of art and the swinish complacency of the world, on disaster and courage. In a world of ephemeral blah-blah, the poet Plumly has written a book to last: worthy of its subject and commensurate with both words of its title.
David Plotz, editor
When Will There Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson. The title is a joke: There will never be good news. This book is a peculiar experiment: Can you write a warm and fuzzy novel in which there is nothing but misery? Yes, you can! The novel opens with the horrific triple murder of a mother and her children, then graduates to a train wreck, arson, suicide, drowning, kidnapping, con games, and much worse. But Atkinson gives us characters who are so emotionally rich and so decent—despite the awfulness around them—that a story that should have been either blackly comic or heartbreaking is instead entirely heartwarming. Like her last two mysteries, Case Histories and One Good Turn, this book features the exhausted detective Jackson Brodie, but her greatest creation is Reggie Chase, an autodidact orphan teen with a perfect moral sense and a desperate need for family.
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The book that had the most profound effect on me this year was Susan Sontag's Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963, edited by her son, David Rieff. The journals are shocking and singular in both the intimacy of their brisk, notelike form and the astonishing personality they reveal. The imperial voice of Against Interpretation is here aimed at herself. The critic takes her own personality on as a subject and dissects, often unflatteringly, her own weaknesses. One has to admire the fierceness of will she shows in inventing, improving, and tinkering with herself. She has endless lists of books she should read, ways to improve her behavior. If there was any doubt, the notebooks confirm that the uncompromising intelligence, the unsparing honesty Sontag shows in her work is not a pose or affectation. Her entries give evidence that she is, to her core, as unrelenting and unironic a critic in life as she is in her work. One can't help coming out of these strange and brilliant notebooks with a sense of one's own laziness, one's slack acceptance of one's own comfortable existence.
Jody Rosen, music critic Some ethnomusicologists' scholarly quests lead them to remote Javanese villages. Roger Bennett and Josh Kun went to Boca Raton, Fla. Children of the 1980s who grew up steeped in pop, punk, and Jewish cultural ambiguity, Kun and Bennett spent eight years searching garage sales to recover a "lost kingdom of sound"—the Jewish pop that slipped between history's cracks: rock-opera Shabbat services, Israeli folkies, mambo pianists who brought Latin-Yiddish fusion to the Catskills and the cruise-ship circuit. The result, And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost, is the year's most enjoyable popular-music book and one of its most revelatory—part revisionist cultural history, part eye-popping coffee table anthology. Focusing on forgotten figures like Tom Jones-esque cantor Sol Zim, Bennet and Kun expand the narrative of Jewish-American music beyond the Tin Pan Alley-Brill Building axis. And the extraordinary LP cover reproductions remind you how much we're losing as record stores shutter and the music business dissolves into bytes. Has there ever been a more deranged, beautiful album cover than Topol's War Songs, in which the Israeli star is pictured crooning into a hand grenade perched atop a microphone stand?
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Could Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov have prevented the nation's economic collapse? The thought occurred to me when I learned of a new translation (by Marian Schwartz) of the classic 19th-century Russian novel—the beautiful, dreamy ode to indolence. The second one in two years. (The 2006 translation is by Stephen Pearl.) Whatever version you read, you can't help but be captivated by the "rapture" that Tolstoy spoke of when reading and re-reading it, the pure delight in ease and idleness the wastrel landowner Oblomov indulges in, the long-forgotten pleasures of a day spent not getting out of bed. It's the perfect corrective to the hyperactive, overdriven mentality that says one must not only have derivatives of collateralized mortgage obligations, but that one must drive oneself into a frenzy of making derivatives of derivatives of derivatives. All to inflate one's means beyond any capacity for human enjoyment and drive the economy to collapse in the process. If only these people had learned the pleasures of staying in bed that Oblomov offers. The point of pointlessness.


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Wednesday Dec 16 2009
Thunder Galleria gives 250 kids a special holiday
By: Amanda Calzada, Placer Herald Correspondent
It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas with toys in every "shop" for Rocklin High School. The school hosted its 10th annual Thunder Galleria Dec. 7, where the school cafeteria was transformed into a mall for 250 children of low-income families to come shop using Thunder Bucks. The festive event began as one senior's community service project years ago, and evolved into Rocklin High's signature service project to the community that continues to attract a large interest of student volunteers. More than 200 workers helped organize the event. Advised by Cindy Cutts of the College and Career Center at Rocklin High, a group of students known as the Thunder Galleria Board of Directors began planning the event in October. "There are a lot of things that have to go right," said senior Nick Schafer, who headed the board of directors. "There are elementary and high school kids. You have to control the chaos." Schafer also said the weather was a factor the board had to consider when they planned. Students who were not a part of the board of directors could help as shopkeepers or elves. Most "shops" were set up by school clubs and displayed merchandise ranging anywhere from books and games, to jewelry and father's gifts. A plethora of clubs and shopkeepers did not solicit businesses for donations, but rather collected gently-used or new items from the student body. The French Club set up a cookie-decorating station, while California Scholarship Federation organized a gift-wrapping station. The Global Awareness Club set up a card table. In addition to organizing an ornament-decorating station, the Art Club painted wintery designs on the cafeteria windows. Shoppers could have their picture taken with Mr. and Mrs. Claus, or Disney princes and princesses. Elves helped children select gifts for their family and friends from the variety of shops. Student elves took their children from shop to shop to help select a gift for family and friends. According to Cutts, this year's event was more organized than previous Gallerias because the elves were paired with their shoppers in the library. Last year, the elves were paired with their shoppers in the cafeteria, where the event takes place. Prior to Tuesday, elves received their "elf license." The two most important rules for elves included to not text during the shopping, and of course, to not lose their child. Bilingual elves were especially an asset to the event. "Thunder Galleria is a great way to help the kids during Christmas time and being an elf is an extremely rewarding experience," Rocklin High junior Safa Casim said. "Seeing the looks on the kids' faces just light up when they find the perfect gift for their family members; it just makes you so happy that you were able to do this for them."


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Anyone use RSS feed readers?
I found one the other day and I really like it. Times
If you are using one, how do you like it?
Anyone use RSS feed readers?
I found one the other day and I really like it. Times
If you are using one, how do you like it?
What is it exactly - I started seeing it when I had win2007 put on the work computer (obviously not on the ole fart home computer). I started to look into it and got busy on other things ....
Have an "explanation in a nutshell" kinda thought?
it's a tool that goes out and gets all the new information from the websites or blogs you tell it to.
For example, I read about 10 blogs daily and instead of checking for the updates throughout the day, I go to my reader and it is updated every 15 minutes from all of the blogs.
Hmmmm, I already bog the work computer down (couple years old) since I normally have a bunch of things open, including <cough> this forum, Word, Publisher, Excel, etc and am transferring stuff all the time and boy, having something automatically grab updates like that sounds like it would push me over the edge. Sounds interesting though.
We use FeedReader 3.11 at work and I use it at home, too. I like it so far.
Nah, never liked the RSS reader in Firefox, not to mention I shove all my wanna-see sites into a folder and middle click it when I open Firefox.


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You cannot underestimate role players.
The guys who make a significant contribution to a line or a hockey club, but don't get much praise on the stat sheet.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have an enormous amount of talent they can spread around their team, but the guy they chose to play right wing on Sidney Crosby's line has been Pascal Dupuis for four-plus seasons -- a rugged, second-tier winger who can get you 25 goals and is also a top penalty killer.
And now Dupuis is likely gone for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee.
Keeping Crosby happy, keeping the Pens' top line going, and keeping No. 87 atop the NHL scoring leaders is paramount to general manager Ray Shero.
So don't be surprise if he makes a run for Max Talbot.
Sure, Talbot has already been traded once but the fact remains, Talbot is not a very good fit on the ice with Colorado and would be a perfect fit in Pittsburgh.
And let's not forget, Sid and Max are best buds, too.
@tpanotchCSN I noticed Phillys 1st 2 road games are against teams which plays the night before and Philly is off. Take advantage of that.
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Surprisingly, however, we have seen other teams come into Philly and play with far more emotion and energy than the Flyers. It's not supposed to happen, but it does, especially if the opponent suspects the other team is thinking it will be easy. Minnesota gave the Flyers fits for one period the last homestand after playing the night before. Phoenix came into Philly and beat the Flyers earlier in the season playing back-to-back with a game in Detroit the previous night.
@tpanotchCSN if downie were to return.. would Raffl move to fourth line and re-shuffle would begin?
— Josh Kay (@JoshKayNHL) December 27, 2013
One of the "givens" in pro sports over the years was that an athlete should never lose his job to an injury. Yet it happens. Craig Berube said before the Flyers' current five-game road trip out west began that he didn't want to mess with the chemistry certain lines seemed to have in a very short period. Coaches are very leery about changing things after wins. And given the Flyers recent homestand, you could understand why he didn't want to mess with their good fortune. Downie was expected to be worked into the lineup with gradual increases in ice time. Also, the mix with Vinny Lecavalier on Sean Couturier's line was one that Berube liked a lot and didn't want to change right away.
"@tpanotchCSN: food for thought: youngest Oiler is Yakupov. Has 6 goals; Oldest Oiler is Smyth. Has 6 goals." At that rate I might starve...
— Gomero (@GomeroPaul) December 28, 2013
It's one of the many things wrong with the Edmonton Oilers this season. It's really bad when a 2012 first-overall draft pick, who is 20 and capable of lighting it up every night, has the same few number of goals as a 37-year-old who has been a lifetime Oiler with a few stops between before he came back to finish out his career in Edmonton. Shouldn't happen. Yakupov is minus-25, too. That shouldn't happen, either.
@tpanotchCSN and our captain is 25 yrs old and has the same number of goals as Matt Read who didn't make an NHL roster until he was 25
— Bob Mainello (@TTAPhilly) December 28, 2013
Except Claude Giroux struggled from the get-go this season because of that freak golf injury suffered over the summer and the general malaise that inflicted the entire club. I think you are going to see a very different Giroux in the second half.


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It has been almost a year since California began overhauling its overcrowded prison system. The goal: to shed more than 30,000 inmates from in-state prisons and cut the prison budget. But critics in law enforcement and elsewhere fear the reforms may lead to higher crime. As part of the KQED News series "Prison Break," we'll discuss the realignment program. How has it fared so far?
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October 29th...
October 29th...
I am going to make sure that no one forgets:
So the checkpoints are out for the Halloweekend Race on Saturday the 29th: La Calavera.
FDR Park (21st & East River)
Calvary Cemetery (Laurel Hill & 56th rd, Maspeth Queens)
DeWitt Clinton Park (52nd st & 11th ave)
St. Michael's Russian Byzantine Church (Jersey st & Mulberry st)
Sutton Place Park (58th st & Suttop pl)
Small Pox Infirmary (South Point Park Roosevelt Island)
First Shearith Israel Cemetery (55 St James st)
The Spot Park (11th ave btw 35th /36th)
Black Label Bike Kill (Willoughby & Sandford Brooklyn)
Farragut Houses Project (Gold st & Sands st, Brooklyn)
The Dakota (1 w 72nd st)
Second Shearith Israel Cemetery (76 w 11th st)
This is going to be a brutal race. Not for the faint of heart. We got some tricks up or sleaves to scare the treats outta ya'll.
So get prepared. Especially if your coming from outta town.
The website will have the most uptodate info. You can hit me up with any questions or a place to stay or whatever.
-Thanks for taking the time to read this.
one of the checkpoints for the calavera race:
Saturday October 29th at 12noon
@ Sanford & Willoughby, Red Hook BK
Saturday, October 29th- New Haven, Ct
DC Bike Pirates:
Halloween Haulass Hide-n-Seek
October 26, 8pm. Location to be announced.
emilymildew and chimbleysweep are organizing a scavenger hunt (see, the clues hide, and you have to seek them. get it?)
Teams of three or four, $5/person entry, winning team takes all.
What will you be finding? Clues in places, clues from your brain. Points awarded for costumes (the more outrageous the better).
More information to be posted.
will there ever be anything in philly?
This weekend is the east coast polo championships. There's an alleycat Saturday night connected to the weekend event. As far as I understand, registration will be at a local bar TBA Friday night. If there's no word to be found about the bar, the competition starts early Sat morning at TipTop Park, Front & Allen Sts. ~9am
hey, for anyone in the pacific northwest, mainly seattle i guess, we're having a halloween race in vancouver. it's on the 29th, downtown vancouver art gallery @ 3.30 pm. five bucks to enter, party afterwards.
what!?! a race in tallahassee??? woah that's just...wow.
anyone know if the nyc one is gonna have a fixed order for the checkpoints, or is it find your own way?
Tallahassee's fuking crazy we just went and represented at slay the dragon in Atlanta, and you all will be hearing from us sometime in the future hopefully.
For anybody in the MD/DC area. It appears that there is a ride in Georgetown this morning also. But if you happen to be in college park in the afternoon...
Madison, WI
DC Halloween Haulass Hide-n-Seek
14th and K NW (Sherwood!). Riding starts promptly at 8, so plan to arrive at 7:30 or thereabouts.
Bring some friends, a bag, a pen, and a costume.
any more info?Originally Posted by b-ride
no shout out for portland?!?!
cranksgiving. NYC.
I'm not the organizer, but I've been told that there will be an alleycat in New Brunswick NJ this coming Friday (10.29). Its only an hour by train from NYC, so if you're in town for Halloweekend but don't feel like losing a $100 come on down. Or if you're on your way to NYC (via train or car) stop by, race, see some cute college girls, and have a few drinks (way cheaper than NYC).
I believe the start/registration location is the top level of the "College Ave Parking Deck":
On this map, the parking deck is near the Northwest corner of campus, behind Brower Commons and adjacent to Financial Aid.
I believe race start time is 4pm-ish.
I know that this is pretty short notice, but I hope that some of you will be able to make it.
Feel free to PM me w/ questions. I'll know more concrete info from the organizer by tomorrow.
PS. New Brunswick is 5 minutes off of Exit 9 on the (in)famous NJ Turnpike. It is also a stop on the Northeast Corridor NJ Transit line. The station is only a 3 minute ride to the parking deck.
missed the boston one... I gotta check here more often. I wish I could make it to Bike Kill.
This weekend.Originally Posted by Devolution
Features a usual fun class and a winner take all "pro" classification with longer distances, and less bullsh*t.
Bicycle joisting on high bikes?? Hell yeah!!
Just got word from the organizer that he has pushed the race back 1 week to next Friday, November 4th to be specific.
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- Key-UH said...
Goooooooo Baltimore, I'm from NY and moved to Baltimore in 2001 to attend MORGAN STATE!!!! graduated, got married, and ended up staying! I'm in love with the entire outfit but now feel myself crafting up a special mission to find that skirt!
- November 6, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- Style4Curves said...
love it!!! I just rocked green and leopard recently too! I love the touch of fur!!
- November 6, 2012 at 8:16 AM
- Voluptuous Vixen said...
You look amazing! I've got a similar skirt and I never wear it because I have no idea how to. I honestly never thought of rocking it this way. You've done well, I'm loving all of this. And yes, clothes play a huge role in how you feel. Power dressing at work makes me feel like I can take over the world.
- November 6, 2012 at 8:29 AM
- La Pecosa Preciosa said...
Now I know why I liked you so much, you're a Scorpio like me!! Great outfit, as usual :o)
- November 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- grownandcurvywoman said...
Green is such a rich color! The leopard print blouse & coat are such classy touches to your outfit!
- November 6, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Fara said...
Loving the entire look...polished, professional with a punch of funk. You've inspired me to wear something similar at work this morning.
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- Erika aka Diva said...
Cute! LOVE the turquoise!
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Candice Glover Was Certain Kree Harrison Would Win American Idol 2013 — Interview
American Idol 2013 winner Candice Glover may have seemed cool and confident during her final performances on Season 12, but she was far from convinced she would win. In fact, during the final moments before the results were announced, she was certain Ryan Seacrest would be calling Kree Harrison's name as the winner.
In a post-finale press interview, Candice Glover talks about the shock of finding out she had won American Idol, the close bond between her and Kree, and the thrill of having music stars like Drake and Aretha Franklin praise her talents.
How does it feel to win?
I'm still trying to process it. I don't even know my name! Oh my gosh! I don't know what's happening! It feels amazing though to finally have gotten to this point after working so hard for so long.
What made you keep coming back and auditioning for the third time?
Well I actually have some friends that decided not to come back and stuff like that but I always knew for some reason that it would happen if I kept going. I even said at some point said you know, American Idol obviously doesn't want me why would I go back? But I found myself on the website looking at the auditions again. Just being determined. I just couldn't turn away because I knew that if I kept trying that it would happen.
Keith was saying you held your own against Jennifer Hudson...
I was so nervous backstage. I was like oh my gosh you cannot suck. This is Jennifer Hudson. Don't mess up. Practice. Get it together. I'm just so glad that I got the chance to even do that with her because I look up to her.
You were saying Kree's name over and over just before Ryan announced you as the winner.
I was saying her name because I was just certain he was going to say the name so I was like "oh yeah, Kree, Kree, Kree" and she was like "no. Candice, Candice, Candice." We are super supportive of each other and I know no matter what I'm going to be buying Kree's album. I think the whole world will.
Do you remember even singing your winning song?
I don't remember him saying my name. I do remember... singing. I wanted to laugh but I was crying and there was just so much happening in that one moment but it felt great.
What was your favorite song you performed?
I think it's pretty obvious that "Lovesong" Is probably my favorite one. And only because I was so connected to the lyrics and I knew what it felt like. And then for Keith Urban to start getting on his knees and bowing and Randy being here for 12 years and saying it was the best vocals of his whole 12 years on the show. It felt great because I didn't expect the reception that I got to be so big. And Mariah threw glitter at me! That was the best moment.
How nervous were you... and how did you feel about your performances?
I was really nervous because I had never performed in front of 7,000 people before but it also gave me that adrenaline that I needed, so I was really excited at the same time. I'm a perfectionist so I found something wrong with every performance, just a lot of things that I could've done better. But I'm glad it all worked out!
Was it weird when Aretha basically said that you won?
I don't know, I didn't really hear that, the fact that she even knows my name or knows who I was. But I love her so much; the whole night was just amazing!
When will you direct message Drake to be on your album?
Isn't it even crazy that I can do that though? That he even follows me on Twitter! I don't know, he knows that I want to talk to him because people have been tweeting him, and he did say that he was proud of me!
WP: When is the wedding?
I'll get back to you on that!
What was it like this season with Randy?
I got his final critique ever last night, I told him that I was so glad that I was able to experience this with him, he knows how long its been and wanting this so... I love Randy!
Did Nicki & Mariah say anything to you?
Nicki came up to me and said I was a superstar! She wanted to hug me! She was joking when she was saying 'can I hug the American Idol'? Every time I say that, I just can't believe it! She always tells me to have fun and be myself! I love Nicki and would love to collab with her to be honest! I didn't see Mariah and get to speak to her but I hope that I do.
What do you think you learned the most?
I think I've definitely learned how to be confident and how to be myself and to be okay with who I am. Because in previous seasons I was doing what I thought America wanted or what the judges or whoever wanted, but this year I just did whatever I wanted to do, hence I would do a rappers song on the show, or I would do the cure when nobody expected me to. In previous seasons I wouldn't have done any of that because I wasn't confident in who I was so I think that's the difference between now and the previous seasons.
What's the first conversation you had with Kree after you found out you won?
We tell each other we love each other probably 90,000 times a day but it really meant a lot for her to hug me and say I love you and I'm so happy for you. And I said the same to her. I'm so proud of her, and I don't know, I can't wait to see her again so we can have fun tonight.


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Interesting tour. It was very hot that day and very muggy and that made it a little harder to enjoy. Both the guide on the bus and the tour guide were very entertaining. I liked the fact that you were allowed to see the entire house. You just couldn't go past the ropes. The grounds were beautiful. One drawback was that there were two tour groups going on at once so it became a little difficult to know which group you were in (especially if you fell behind to take pictures - and they let you !). At the end of the tour you can try the Witches Brew, which is a strong rum concoction. You can choose one without alcohol if you like. The shopping afterward did not interest me but it was a pretty place to see. Our guide took us back through the Hip Strip and through a residential neighborhood so we could see a little more of Montego Bay. We did not take them up on it but they did offer to drop people off in town and pick them up for the standard fare ($5.00/pp per trip).Read Reinette's full Carnival Magic cruise review
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Refugee students attending English as a Second Language classes at the Church of Peace in Rock Island are now learning computer skills….thanks to a cooperation among local churches
Steele approached the Council of Church of Peace and asked the members if a room could be refigured as a computer lab. They agreed. Then she wrote to a neighboring church, Edwards Congregational Church in Davenport, to help fund this. It agreed to help. So, with $2,500 six Gateway computers and printers were purchased, and a wall was put up in an existing room to create the lab for the students at the Church of Peace. Steele says the lab is helping the students learn so much. "When all 6 computers have someone sitting at them, it is so much fun to watch the students' faces. They are usually working on Starfall.com website, and they are learning letters and numbers both. They enjoy being able to teach themselves, and find so much joy in using the mouse!"
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- Importation, or "imports" refers solely to the introduction of animals into the Member States from third Countries outside the European Union.
Everyday, many consignments of live animals are traded or imported in the European Union. In order that all such consignments can be moved safely avoiding the transmission of diseases to either the public or other animals, the EU has laid down a wide range of animal health requirements.
The general animal health requirements that are applicable to both imports and intra-Union trade are laid down in specific Council Directives.
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In addition to the general health requirements, in the event of a serious exotic disease outbreak within the Member States, specific requirements for trade in certain live animals may also be laid down in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
For imports, additional animal health requirements are set out in specific Commission Decisions. These lay down health certificates which must accompany all animal imports. In general these certificates must be signed by an official veterinarian of the competent authority of the exporting third country guaranteeing that the conditions for import into the EU have been met. On arrival in the EU, the animals and the accompanying certificates must be verified and checked by EU official veterinarians at a designated Border Inspection Post (BIP). Further checks on the animals may also be carried out at the final destination.
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The students, dressed in leis and Hawaiian shirts, waited patiently in the high school gymnasium.
The gym was decorated for the special event, decked out with red ribbons, hanging paper lanterns and a staged beach scene, which included lounge chairs and sand.
As the students softly whispered amongst themselves, Covington High School Principal Marcus Heaston excitedly gave last-minute directions.
Boston would be there soon.
On Tuesday, the school, in conjunction with Make-A-Wish, gave Boston a memory of a lifetime.
"If you haven't been affected by cancer yet, you will be," Heaston said to his students. "Someday someone you love will have it. This is our moment to be there for Boston."
Boston, a 15-year-old boy from Memphis, arrived, flanked by his parents and two sisters. He thought he was there to see an end of school choir performance.
Instead, the boy was gifted with a trip to Hawaii and a celebration created solely for him.
The choir performed several beach songs while members of the student council brought the family onto the floor to dance. Songs included the "Limbo," "Surfing USA" and "Summertime."
The program ended with Marcus Heaston reiterating that the event was entirely for Boston followed by a moving performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
This is the fourth year the school has given a child a wish. The students have fundraisers throughout the year to sponsor a child.


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May 4, 2016
Record high temperatures moved into Eastern North Carolina on Tuesday. Washington had a record high of 79 while New Bern reached a new record high of 78. Record high temperatures are expected again on Wednesday. In fact, some areas may reach the lower 80s during the afternoon. The heat will be broken by scattered showers and a possible thunderstorm on Wednesday night. Dry and seasonable conditions will return for Thursday into the weekend with highs in the 50s.
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March 7, 2000
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Different setting, same procedure.
The 10-member NCAA Division I men's basketball committee will convene at the Westin Hotel on Thursday to begin selecting 35 at-large teams, seeding them and the 29 automatic conference qualifiers and slotting all 64 teams in brackets for the 2000 NCAA Championships.
The committee conducted its deliberations the past 18 years in Kansas City, Mo. When the NCAA moved its headquarters to Indianapolis last summer, the selection site moved, too. The Final Four will be at the nearby RCA Dome on April 1-3.
"We'll keep it the same as much as possible," said Craig Thompson, commissioner of the Mountain West Conference and chairman of the 2000 selection committee. "I don't believe there's going to be anything different about this year's selection process other than the four new committee members."
The new members are athletic directors Jim Livengood of Arizona, Les Robinson of North Carolina State, Judy Rose of North Carolina-Charlotte, and Gene Smith of Iowa State.
They got their first taste of the selection procedure last month in a mock bracket exercise at the NCAA headquarters, and they are scheduled to arrive back in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
After dinner Wednesday night at a downtown restaurant, they'll take all other meals on the 15th floor of the Westin, where each of the members and the five NCAA staffers assigned to assist them has a room. The 15th floor will be secured, with limited telephone access, as will be other areas of the hotel where the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee is cloistered for its selection process.
The men's meeting convenes at 1 p.m. Thursday. One member will be assigned to each of the eight sub-regionals. The committee also will select 96 officials to work the first- and second-round games. Then the members will begin studying up to 30 criteria they'll use in seeding the teams and balancing the brackets.
They know no matter who they pick, some teams will feel slighted.
"You're always going to have a couple of teams saying, 'We should have been in. Why aren't we in?' " said Jack Kavancz, athletic director at George Washington and a second-year committee member. "I'm sure every single person in that room will do their absolute best to pick the best 64 teams. I left last year feeling we had done that."
The tournament field expanded to 32 teams in 1975, and to 64 in 1985. Seeding began in 1979. The NCAA last year signed a rights agreement with CBS Sports that will bring in at least $6 billion over 11 years, beginning in 2003.


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- Title
- Critical thinking: seven definitions in search of a concept
- Author(s)
- Moore, Tim
- Abstract
- The article reports a study that investigated ideas about critical thinking as held by academics working in three disciplines: history, philosophy and cultural studies. At least seven definitional strands were identified in the informants' commentaries, namely critical thinking: (i) as judgement; (ii) as skepticism; (iii) as a simple originality; (iv) as sensitive readings; (v) as rationality; (vi) as an activist engagement with knowledge; and (vii) as self-reflexivity. This multiplicity of meanings is thought to have important implications for university teaching and learning. The design of the study and the conclusions drawn from it draw heavily on Wittgenstein's idea of meaning as use.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale
- Source
- Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 38, no. 4 (2013), pp. 506-522
- Publication year
- 2013
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- 1301 Education Systems; 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
- Keyword(s)
- Critical thinking; Disciplines; Generic skills; Language; Learning; Teaching
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- Routledge
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Debbie Glasser, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker specializing in parenting and child development. She is past chairwoman of the National Parenting Education Network (NPEN). In her clinical work, she has developed programs and provided services on a variety of topics ranging from sleep challenges to single parenting.
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For ten years, she penned "Positive Parenting," a weekly column in The Miami Herald. Dr. Glasser served as consultant for Teach More/Love More, a monthly newsletter dedicated to improving the lives of families and children in Miami-Dade County, and has authored a chapter in The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years.
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I'm sure I saw someone that posted a base projection for this kind of map not long ago. I'd start there and also have a look at the tutorial forum.
I'm wondering if anyone knows how to create this in Photoshop:
The easy way, or the hard way - I don't care. Any tuts or advice? I really would like to make my own, but I don't know where to start.
And I would also like to learn how to make graticule like these. Am I doomed as a PS user? Or is this a quest only for the jaded and weathered software pro? I am also willing to use Inkscape (though I must say it scares me a little).
I'm sure I saw someone that posted a base projection for this kind of map not long ago. I'd start there and also have a look at the tutorial forum.
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I have two suggestions, one of which can be done entirely within Photoshop.
In Photoshop, assuming you have a recent version that includes the 3d functions:
Step 1: Create an equirectangular graticule. That is, an image that is twice as wide as it is tall including the grid lines that you want to see in your final image.
Step 2: Go to 3d > New Shape from Layer > 3d Panorama. You are now looking at the interior surface of a 3d sphere
Step 3: Select the 3D Pan Tool and dolly backward until you see the viewpoint pass through the front surface of the sphere. Then dolly forward to just inside that surface.
Step 4: Increase your canvas size dramatically until you can see both poles.
You should end up with something like this:
You could even draw your map in the equirectangular projection and use this technique to distort it, although you'll notice that it does introduce some perspective distortion as the image moves away from the center. Things get wider and blurrier as they approach the camera. If I were to use this technique, I'd probably make the graticule and the coastal outline, distort, and then redraw to correct the artifacts.
The other suggestion is to look up a piece of free software called g.projector. It's published by NASA and can convert projections from one to another. I've never used it, but several people in this community have.
Thanks for the mental exercise! Just what I needed to get my Sunday morning started!
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
Thank you! I'll look in to some different methods.
Anyone got any advice for the round border: the one marked within the red lines (the black/white/black/white 3 degree markings).
1. create guides where you want the center of the circle to be
2. use the circle marquee tool. draw from the center point holding option and shift. this draws from center and constrains it to a circle.
3. fill with black or whatever color you want the outer ring to be.
4. select->modify->contract enter the number of pixels you want the width of the outer circle to be. probably somewhere between 5 and 15 depending on the resolution of your file.
5. select->modify->smooth this makes sure the circle stays perfectly round. sometimes photoshop does weird things. 3 - 5 pixels should do the trick.
6. create a new layer and fill selection with white or whatever color you want
7. select->modify->contract enter the number of pixels you want the width of the inner circle to be. probably somewhere between 40 and 65.
8. select->modify->smooth this makes sure the circle stays perfectly round. sometimes photoshop does weird things. 3 - 5 pixels should do the trick.
if you want to do a solid inner line, create a new layer and fill with black, then repeat steps 4 - 6. you can adjust each layer to give them texture or gradient fills, etc. and then merge the layers, delete the center white circle and place over your map.
if you want to do the dashed line, i'd say get illustrator cuz it takes all of 5 seconds. if that's not an option though, here's the photoshop way. (if anyone knows an easier method, i would love to hear it!)
1. keeping your selection active, create a new layer on top. you should have 3 total now.
2. switch to the pencil tool (click and hold on the brush tool and you'll see it, or press shift-b) i used a 20px tip
3. under brush options click "brush tip shape" and adjust the spacing to somewhere between 150 and 200%. you'll want to play with both the size of the tip and the spacing depending on the look you're going for.
4. click on the paths tab and at the bottom, click "make work path from active selection". it should be the left most active button.
5. now click the second button from the left in the paths tab, "stroke path with brush". this will draw a dotted line on the path you just made from the selection.
6. unless you want dots, here's the pain in the ass part: click the 3rd button in the paths tab "load path as selection".
7. select->modify->contract this might take an adjustment or two since you want to have the new selection cut off about a quarter of your dots. i used 3 pixels.
8. select->modify->smooth whatever value you had in there should be fine.
9. hit delete!
10. select->modify->expand for this i used 7 pixels. it should be double what you just contracted the selection by.
11. select->modify->smooth whatever value you had in there should be fine.
12. select->inverse invert the selection
13. hit delete! and there you go.. one dashed line.
it is a whole lot easier to dashed lines when they are straight by using a square brush tip, but with circles, this is the only way i could think of off the top of my head.
also, with the values i used, the dashed line is not as thick as the outer line. if you want a thicker dashed line, just use a bigger brush. the other option would be to expand your white circle on layer two or shrink the outer circle layer.
hope this helps! let me know if this makes no sense at all.


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Follow me on Twitter I will follow back. My Twitter username is @mredwardperry
There is also a list of people who follow back in case you want to have many more followers too.
Since I started this thread (don't even know if in the right forum, lol), feel free to post your Twitter usernames too, I will follow them all provided you follow me back. Others will probably join into the fun too.


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Somebody should make this better. A LOT better.
Hey, changed the article totally.... please discuss the changed article now. how's it?
Not so good. Could do with a LOT more taste. This may not be your version though...
Actually i think the person who wants to change this article show shovel some very hot coals up their ass becaus ethis is proably the most accurate article in the whole website.
I think it's great and definitely accurate! I edited it just to add a mention of Ginny


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Debtors' Prison
How Republicans backed themselves into a corner in the debt debate.
Republicans have done well in the debt fight so far. For months they made sure the debate was on their terms: The debt vote was leverage to force Washington to embrace austerity. The McConnell gambit and the "hostage" charge—made by Michele Bachmann just a few hours before it was made by Lee—represent a rethink. This is dangerous stuff to debate. It's not good to be indifferent (or at least feign indifference) about a possible downgrade in America's credit rating, and then have Moody's come out and say it's got doubts about America's credit rating.
Republicans have a problem: You can't run the McConnell play and the Bachmann/Lee play at once. For weeks, conservatives have used the debt fight to garner support for a "Cut, Cap, and Balance" pledge, promising their votes for an increase only if those three verbs were taken seriously and forcefully. They're not concealing their fear that the McConnell punt takes away their leverage. When I asked Tea Party leaders about which plan they preferred, they all sided with Bachmann/Lee against McConnell.
"There's a cost/benefit analysis here," said Max Pappas, who runs FreedomWorks' PAC. FreedomWorks responded to the McConnell idea, within minutes, by asking supporters to melt Senate GOP phone lines with strangled cries of, "No!"; on Thursday, its members will haunt the offices of some Democratic members of Congress to work them over, too. "If they voted for this, they'd be voting to cede constitutionally granted power from Congress to the executive. I can't see that as something we'd look favorably on," Pappas said. "We don't care who owns what or which party's to blame for what."
Sal Russo, the political guru for the Tea Party Express, saw McConnell's point. "There is an appeal to putting the blame for a failure to address our skyrocketing national debt and excessive spending on Obama," he said. "But the situation is too critical to not take immediate steps to reign in this fiscal disaster. So we think cuts and spending limits should be addressed now."
"If Congress passed [McConnell's] proposal into law," said Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, the movement's umbrella group, "they would be abdicating their duty as prescribed in the Constitution. While there may be political advantages to one party or another with the maneuvering, proposals, and backroom deals, we are concerned with what is advantageous to Americans regardless of political party."
The Tea Party actually believes this—and if he were sufficiently devious, any Republican strategist should be able to see the position's merit. All of the debt ceiling compromises discussed so far are a horrible deal for Obama. They give him partial ownership of a plan that cuts both entitlements and any economic growth that was being spurred by government spending. McConnell actually admitted this in an interview with Laura Ingraham.
"They want to blame the economy on us," he said, explaining why he wanted to punt. "The reason that default is no better an idea today than when Newt Gingrich tried it in 1995 is that it destroys your brand and would give the president an opportunity to blame us for the bad economy. Look, he owns the economy. He's been in office nearly three years now. We refuse to let him entice us in to co-ownership of a bad economy."
It was of a piece with what John Boehner's been saying for months: that Republicans, who can and do stop whatever legislation they please, only control "one-half of one-third of the government." If you buy that, it's possible that the president really is holding America hostage over the debt ceiling. But why, at this point, would you buy it?


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The New Zealand dollar dropped as declining dairy prices raised concern about the country's biggest export commodity, and fuelled speculation the Reserve Bank might not hike interest rates as aggressively as expected.
The kiwi traded at 85.47 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 85.58 cents at 8am, down from 86.02 cents yesterday. The trade-weighted index dropped to 79.97 from 80.37 yesterday.
Traders are questioning whether the Reserve Bank will raise the official cash rate as quickly as anticipated this year after dairy prices extended their decline at yesterday's GlobalDairyTrade auction. The local currency has been trading above the central bank's March projections, and weaker dairy prices would lead to a decline in the nation's terms of trade, which is seen as a key indicator for the kiwi's direction.
"It puts pressure on the kiwi because people get the sense the Reserve Bank might scale back its rate hike programme," said Imre Speizer, market strategist at Westpac Banking Corp in Auckland. "The risk is the OCR track gets downgraded and the market knowing that is happy to sell the kiwi so some extent."
The European Central Bank will review monetary policy in Brussels on Thursday, and tame inflation in the euro-zone has sparked speculation the regulator may cut rates or add stimulus to the regional economy. The kiwi fell to 62.12 euro cents from 62.31 cents yesterday.
Westpac's Speizer said if the ECB does loosen policy, it would lead to "very heavy euro selling" and weigh on the kiwi dollar against the greenback.
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens told a business audience in Queensland today it was too early to say the transition to domestic-led growth from mining investment was smooth, though the early signs were positive. The kiwi declined to 92.69 Australian cents from 93.06 cents yesterday.
The local currency fell to 88.87 yen from 89.30 yen yesterday, and decreased to 51.37 British pence from 51.73 pence.
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Heather McDonald and her family spent their holiday vacation at Villa del Palmar Loreto in Loreto, Mexico recently.
Heather, along with husband Peter Dobias and their two sons enjoyed kayaking and paddle boarding around the resort's bay and hiked up the mountains surrounding Villa del Palmar Loreto. Heather and Peter also had relaxing couples massages at Sabila Spa and enjoyed a romantic dinner at the resort's Danzante restaurant.