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Madoff Trustee Reaches $625 Million Settlement, Sues Mets Owner
One of Bernard Madoff's first clients, along with 19 family members, settled potential lawsuits by agreeing to forfeit $625 million in profits from the con man's investment fraud.
Carl Shapiro, a Boston-based philanthropist, held an account with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC beginning in 1961. His son-in-law, Robert Jaffe, is the former vice president of Cohmad Securities Corp., a feeder fund that shared offices with Madoff's firm.
"This agreement represents a financially rewarding outcome and it is a strong example of the progress we are making in assembling the largest fund possible for the benefit of BLMIS customers with valid claims," Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of Madoff's firm, said yesterday in a statement.
With this settlement, Picard, who also yesterday sued the owners of the New York Mets baseball team for the return of profits earned from their Madoff investments, has recovered about $2.5 billion for victims of the fraud. Yesterday's actions come as Picard faces a Dec. 11 deadline to file claims for money to return to Madoff investors.
Under the Shapiro settlement, the family agreed to turn over $550 million to Picard for distribution to Madoff creditors. They will pay as much as $75 million more to the U.S. Justice Department, which appointed Picard as a special master to distribute those funds, New York prosecutors said yesterday in a statement.
'Substantial Funds'
"The Shapiro family is pleased to have concluded this settlement with the Department of Justice and the trustee," Stephen Fishbein, the family's lawyer, said in a statement. "The settlement will allow substantial funds to be distributed to those hurt most by Madoff's fraud."
The Shapiros have cooperated with the authorities investigating the Madoff fraud, Fishbein said. They don't admit any liability in the settlement.
The settlement resolves any civil claims that might have been made by Picard, U.S. prosecutors and Madoff creditors. It doesn't remove the possibility of criminal charges. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York approved the settlement yesterday.
The $625 million deal exceeds the net worth of Carl Shapiro and his wife, Ruth, according to prosecutors. Fishbein declined to say how much money the family will have after paying the settlement.
Cohmad Claim
Part of the settlement, $38 million, is full payment of Picard's claim against Jaffe in a claim the trustee filed against Cohmad in June 2009.
The Shapiro funds, held in accounts at JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, are traceable to money invested by victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, the largest in U.S. history, according to prosecutors.
Madoff, 72, pleaded guilty in March 2009 and is serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina. At the time of Madoff's arrest, his firm's account statements reflected 4,900 accounts with $65 billion in nonexistent investments. Investors lost about $20 billion in principal.
In a separate lawsuit filed under seal yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, Picard seeks the return of Madoff profits from Sterling Equities Inc., a real estate investment firm that is the owner of the Mets, Mets LP and Fred and Jeff Wilpon. The amount of money Picard is seeking in that case wasn't disclosed.
Settlement Talks
In an e-mailed statement, Sterling said yesterday that it and its co-defendants are in settlement negotiations with Picard. Picard confirmed the talks in a statement.
"The New York Mets will have all the necessary financial and operational resources to fully compete and win," Gregory Nero, general counsel for Sterling, said in the statement. "That is our commitment to our fans."
Picard has said in court papers that Mets LP invested $522.7 million in two accounts with Madoff and withdrew $570.5 million during an unspecified period. Yesterday's complaint names about 100 defendants connected to Sterling and the Wilpon family.
The trustee has rejected claims by the Sterling investors that their losses should be valued using the final account statements that Madoff sent customers in November 2008. Picard claims investors shouldn't be credited with nonexistent profits fabricated by Madoff.
Facing the Dec. 11 deadline for filing so-called clawback lawsuits, Picard has sued hundreds of investors that withdrew more from their accounts than they invested.
The cases are: U.S. v. $625,000,000 on Deposit at JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., 10-CIV-9116, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan); Picard v. Katz, 10-ap-5287, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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Another factor that seems to strongly help people persist is opportunities for interaction with peers and the instructor. This points to the need to design good social interactions. There's a host of writings about how to do this, especially in higher education discussion forums and the virtual classroom. I've written plenty of these myself so seek and ye shall find. But what about self-paced eLearning? These typically don't have social interactions! And we know that there are issues with persistence in self-paced eLearning. How do we help people persist there? I'm looking for gems in these articles that we can apply here.
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Perdue: I-40 slide an emergency
Governor signs declaration; businesses fear tourism losses
Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:58 p.m.
RALEIGH -- Gov. Beverly Perdue signed an emergency declaration Wednesday to help with cleanup from a rock slide that has blocked traffic on Interstate 40 near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
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It's the first step in seeking federal funds to help clear debris and repair the road, as it enables the state Department of Transportation to request funding assistance from the Federal Highway Administration.
Perdue, state Transportation Secretary Gene Conti and other officials toured the site on Wednesday.
"Not since 1997 has western North Carolina seen a slide of this magnitude -- longer than a football field and the width of a two-car garage," Perdue said in a statement released from her office Wednesday afternoon. "I want to reopen I-40 as quickly as possible with public safety our first goal."
Perdue said the landslide does not affect traffic coming to the mountains from the south, north or east. Travelers to and from the west are being rerouted along interstates 26 and 81. There are also routes through Cherokee and Franklin.
The rock slide occurred around 2 a.m. Sunday. The rock slide is completely blocking the westbound lane of I-40 at mile marker 3, with rocks littering the eastbound lane. Massive boulders, some as large as a small house and others the size of SUVs, are stacked 20 to 30 feet into the air.
Initial damage assessments from state transportation officials estimate the cleanup and repair will cost up to $9 million and take at least three months to complete.
State transportation officials have said clearing I-40 could take longer than first thought. The state doesn't have a precise timetable for clearing rocks from the slide.
Highway engineer Joel Setzer with the state Department of Transportation says the original estimate of three months probably is unrealistic.
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Drama Department
Rhodes University Drama Department offers an integrative approach to drama studies. We emphasise the body as expressive medium in locating and training unique, indigenous performance languages. Most of our teaching staff are practitioners themselves affording students an intensive interface between choreography, performance, theoretical and administrative studies. Our strong undergraduate programme prepares students for a comprehensive selection of eleven Honours papers. Our post graduates produce a variety of high quality works drawing from all disciplines and genres of performance.
Each year the Rhodes Drama Department and resident company First Physical Theatre Company produce at least ten productions at the National Arts Festival with alumni featuring in over thirty. To date, we have produced four Young Artists Award winners, taught four of the six physical actors who auditioned for Cirque du Soleil (2008) and our staff have presented productions and conference papers in more than ten countries. Our alumni stretch from the Hollywood sublime (the Borg Queen) to the Boksburg ridiculous (Twakkie), to five of the ten South African university dance and drama departments. In recent years, graduates have won Arts and Culture Trust awards, Naledi awards, FNB Dance Umbrella awards, Gauteng MEC Dance and Choreography nominations, a SPAT award, a Daimler-Chrysler South African Choreography nomination and a KZN DanceLink nomination.
Rhodes University Drama Department Presents
Choreo/PLAY – MA CHOREOGRAPHY @ NAF 2016
30 June – 03 July 2016
Age recommendation - 16 + l Duration - 45 minutes max each
Enquiries | Katlego 046 603 8542 (Room 107 mornings only) | firstname.lastname@example.com
Rhodes University Drama department presents Choreo/PLAY, the MA Choreography as part of the National Arts Festival 2016 fringe programme. Curated by Gary Gordon, Choreo/PLAY will showcase Ga(y)me(n)Play by Kamogelo Molobye, I am ... Dedanizizwe by Lenin Shabalala and Finding Upright by Maipelo Gabang.
The current theatrical offerings propose to challenge audience perceptions and understandings of what dance and choreography might be in this shifting society. These new creative artists are embarking on a journey where representations of men, women, narrative and history move and disturb not only the bodies on stage but hopefully the bodies that come to view the performances:
Ga(y)me(n)Play, Choreographed by Kamogelo Molobye
In a time where manhood and masculinity lacks a language to fully realise and define itself, Ga(y)me(n)Play is a physical theatre performance that seeks to explore the nuanced images of a man through vulnerability and intimacy that challenges stereotypes of masculinities.
Ga(y)me(n)Play, Choreographed by Kamogelo Molobye
In a time where manhood and masculinity lacks a language to fully realise and define itself, Ga(y)me(n)Play is a physical theatre performance that seeks to explore the nuanced images of a man through vulnerability and intimacy that challenges stereotypes of masculinities.
I am Dedanisizwe, Choreographed by Lenin Shabalala
I am …. Dedanizizwe, explores the journey of one multifaceted, multifarious being immersed in life's exhilarating highs and depressing lows, an autobiographical choreographic portrait of self - discovery and expression through diverse movement, iconography, music and poetry. A contemporary – hip hop performance for the Rhodes Drama Department Masters Programme.
For more information, please see page 217 & 220 of the National Arts Festival 2016 Fringe programme.
Media contact | Katlego Gabashane | email@example.com
Rhodes University Drama Department Presents
Unzip your knowledge
11 – 15 April 2016
Rhodes Theatre
About the work | Upbeat, thought-provoking, visceral
Age recommendation | 16 +
Duration | one hour
Ticket prices | FREE
Contact | Katlego 046 603 8542 (mornings only) | email@example.com
Unzip Your Knowledge, commissioned by the Rhodes University Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) in collaboration with Ubom! Eastern Cape Company is back for its third run in April 2016!
The hugely popular show, based on Professor Chrissie Boughey's RULearning booklet focuses on "opening up the university game to first year students". The first of its kind in South African theatre, Unzip Your Knowledge explores the academic, political and socio-economic issues any student may face in the first year, and throughout their university career. Not only does the cast unpack academic problems and ambiguities, but it also highlights how socio-economic inequalities affect the academic life of a student, as well as the university as a whole.
Themes such as #FeesMustFall, #RhodesMustFall, #WhitePrivilege, as well as what a transformed and decolonised curriculum could be are all explored in an upbeat, visceral and galvanizing theatre style that Ubom! is known for. The singing and dancing will get the audiences hooked while uncomfortable questions are raised about the state of higher education in South Africa.
Unzip Your Knowledge opens on 11 April 2016 and runs until 15 April 2016. Free of charge. First year students get preference.
Media contact | Katlego Gabashane | firstname.lastname@example.com
Rhodes University Drama Department Presents
Teeth Show
5 February 2016
Rhodes Theatre
About the work | poetic, bitter-sweet, personal
Age recommendation | 12 +
Duration | one hour
Tickets available at | Theatre Administrator (Room 107) | 09:00 – 13:00 weekdays
Ticket prices | R40 Public | R25 Students | R20 Block
Contact | Katlego 046 603 8542 (mornings only) | firstname.lastname@example.com
The Rhodes Drama Department proudly presents a one-night only production of Teeth Show, by visiting artist Natasha Davis. Starting with teeth as a metaphor for roots, Teeth Show invites you on a poetic, medical, bitter-sweet and personal journey through surreal stories, original sound and film. The performance takes the autobiographical fact that wherever Natasha Davis migrated, she experienced an extraordinary tooth story.
The show explores complexities around democratic rights of the displaced body in a constant flux between breaking and repairing. It asks how crossing borders and living in exile impact on the rights of the body regarding its identity, citizenship and medical status. It is a mixed-media, playful and harrowing examination of who, and across what borders, may have access to beautiful and pain-free teeth. What options remain to those in precarious and transient situations and those who are left out? Created in collaboration with Lucy Cash (movement), Marty Langthorne (lighting) and Bob Karper (sound & media).
About the director |Natasha Davis
Natasha Davis is a performance artist who creates poetic and challenging interdisciplinary material exploring body, memory, identity and migration.
Born in Croatia and based in London – her work is coloured and defined by migration and displacement experiences. Her work focusses on crossing borders, migration, body and memory and is very interdisciplinary and political.
Natasha Davis has presented her performances, films and installations in the United Kingdom and internationally, in venues such as the National Theatre Studio London, Birmingham Rep, Barbican Plymouth, Playhouse Derry, Project Arts Centre Dublin (Ireland), Point Centre for Contemporary Art Nicosia (Cyprus), Mitchell Theatre Madison (Wisconsin, USA), Cummings Art Gallery Stanford (California, USA), El Patio Madrid (Spain), DDL Toronto (Canada), School of Arts at the University of Hyderabad (India) and many others.
Her work has been funded by Arts Council England, British Council, Hosking Houses Trust, Humanities Research Fund, Transatlantic Fellowship and numerous commissions and residencies. Natasha teaches at the Masters in International Performance Research at the University of Warwick, UK and has delivered talks and workshops across the world, from Buffalo to Tokyo and Grenoble to New Delhi. Her practice and research have been included in several publications and a book about her recent work is available through Live Art Development Agency's Unbound. www.natashaproductions.com
Media contact | Katlego Gabashane | firstname.lastname@example.com
Rhodes University Drama Department Presents
Young Directors' Season 2015
9, 10, 11, 12 September 2015
Rhodes Box Theatre
Rhodes Theatre Recess
7:00pm and 7:45 pm
About the work | apocalyse, ambiguity, anarchy, accusations
Age recommendation | 13 +
Duration | 30 minutes each
Tickets available at | Theatre Administrator (Room 107) | 09:00 – 13:00 weekdays
Ticket prices | R40 Public | R25 Students | R20 Block
Contact | Katlego 046 603 8542 (mornings only) | firstname.lastname@example.com
The Rhodes Drama Department proudly presents their annual Young Directors' Season (YDS). This year the department showcases the work of four vibrant student directors; Ameera Najwa Mills, Sam Pennington, Mike da Silva and Thembela Madliki. In their final Honours' productions, the directors interrogate the effects of damaging social structures, each from their unique theatrical perspective.
Ameera Najwa Mills' Oleanna, written by acclaimed playwright David Mamet, is a story about the ambiguity of a student-lecturer relationship at a prestigious university, where nothing is ever black and white. The play has been called a "modern reprise of the Inquisition" where "Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault."
TWO is a devised visual theatre work directed by Sam Pennington, whichfollows the journey of an old man and his adventurous daughter surviving in post-apocalyptic South Africa. Each day they battle the savage weather above ground, and each night they wrestle with their own nightmares below it.
Mike da Silva directed his first play in the womb - it wasn't very good, but it was about fish. TANK is also about fish (kind of). We hope this one will be better. TANK deals with a dysfunctional family of clownfish as they navigate an aquarium of oppressive power structures, along with a vengeful anarchic panda bear.
Thembela Madliki directs Nyanga, a devised piece which investigates how the rumour of witchcraft infects a community, driving it to its demise. The play explores themes of othering, morality, desperation and betrayal in a South African context.
Programme A showcases Oleanna and TWO, on the 9th and 11th September, and Programme B will feature TANK and Nyanga, on the 10th and 12th.
YDS 2015 asks audiences to bring their dark side (#byds). Come to the Rhodes Drama Department this year to experience four powerful and evocative pieces of theatre created by these exciting new voices.
Africanism through the eyes of Mwenya Kabwe
Date Released: Mon, 25 May 2015 08:56 +0200
Theatre Maker, Performer and Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, introduced her acclaimed style of immersive theatre when she visited Grahamstown for the first time as a facilitator at the Rhodes University Drama Department and not as a performer for the Arts Festival. She spent the past five weeks directing her theatre production Astronautus Afrikanus which showed between 21 and 23 May 2015.
The idea of immersive theatre, which she describes as a form of theatre where the audience is fully engaged in the play, is one that is constantly embedded in her work and which she incorporated in her interaction with the students at the Drama Department.
Kabwe explained that in this production, she was invited to be a Director in Residence as well as to make work with second and third year Drama students at the university. However, unlike the conventional style of teaching and learning, she mentioned that hers was to create a collaborative exchange of knowledge between students, herself and the audience.
"In every work that I do, I try to develop a non-traditional relationship between the audience and the performer where we explore exactly what it means to be African," she said.
The theme on African identity and what constitutes an African is one that she admits has inspired and continues to inspire her work.
"This is a constant question and a personal one," she said. "It informs my teaching and helps to shape my work," she added.
Kabwe further mentioned that her interpretation of theatre is one that affords the audience some form of agency to travel and stimulate their curiosity to make sure that they never relinquish the process of asking questions. According to her, it is important that we all continue to ask questions about everything happening around us, touching on current issues such as xenophobia and the recent debate on transformation surrounding Rhodes University. The aim, she clarifies, is not to find answers, but to encourage more and more people to partake in these discussions.
The inspiration for her theme on African identity for this particular production was inspired by Zambian high school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso who, in the 1960s, had a dream of training the first African Astronauts through his Zambia National Academy of Science, Space, Research and Philosophy. Kabwe, therefore, uses him as a symbol of African knowledge and the way that people come to know about themselves and those around them
In doing so, she also challenges formal education and the main ways through which education came about and also seeks to problematise the perception that knowledge can only be gained through this type of education.
Second year drama student Kyle Prinsloo expressed his admiration for Mwenya's theatrical approach, calling her a "game changer."
"What I like about her is that she manipulates the space around her, I even got to see places in the Drama Department that I had never seen before," he explained.
When asked about her signature approach to facilitating theatre productions and performing, Kabwe indicated that she was quite reluctant to characterise her work under one as she is still in the process of learning and evolving in the world of theatre. Nonetheless, she did reveal that reoccurring features of her work are centred on ideas of migration and travel where she relinquishes the passive nature of audiences. Another one is her use of what she calls Afroisms where she attaches the prefix Afro to either the names of her characters, as she did in Astronautus Afrikanus, or the title of the production itself. Her element of promoting Africanism is so strong that she reveals how she had thought about compiling a dictionary of Afroisms that would allow her to express what being African is in a way that is fun, light and seeks to reclaim our African-ness in a way that English fails to do.
By Phiwokuhle Mandisa Dhlamini
Rhodes University Drama Department Presents
Astronautus Afrikanus
A new devised work directed by Mwenya Kabwe
21, 22 & 23 May 2014
Rhodes Theatre
About the work | dynamic, fantastical, fresh
Age recommendation | 12 +
Duration | one hour
Tickets available at | Theatre Administrator (Room 107) | 09:00 – 13:00 weekdays
Ticket prices | R40 Public | R25 Students | R20 Block
Contact | Katlego 046 603 8542 (mornings only) | firstname.lastname@example.com
The Rhodes Drama Department proudly presents Astronautus Afrikanus, a work devised by the cast under the direction of guest director Mwenya B. Kabwe in collaboration with Lieketso wa Thaluki and Illka Louw.
This immersive work uses the source story of a rather colourful character in Zambian history named Edward Mukuka Nkoloso who in the mid 1960's was convinced that Zambia was going to beat the Russians and Americans to space. So much so that he started a Zambian space programme a year before Zambia's independence from Britain in 1964, and started to train a group of young people to be his Afronauts. Inspired by this story this production is an immersive work that invites the audience to discover the nooks and crannies of the Rhodes Main Theatre.
Astronautus Afrikanus celebrates imagination, invention, intellectual and creative freedom and indigenous African Knowledge systems. It is an ode to African thinkers, philosophers, pavement intellectuals and poets whose genius is undervalued, unrecognized and even ridiculed.
The audience is invited to celebrate exploration and discovery by creating their own journey through a working space station. They are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes and bring their spirit of adventure!
Astronautus Afrikanus features the work of a fabulous group of creatives intellectuals:
Jake Nathane
Nani Sihlali
Justine Pickering
Mmatumisang Motisi
Ciko Sidzumo
Danielle O'Niel
Georgina Makhubele
Phelokazi Mbude
Danielle Van Der Merve
Carla Franco
Molopo Lipali
Tiisetso Mashifane
Gregory Peatfield
About the director | Mwenya Kabwe
Mwenya B. Kabwe is a Zambian theatre maker, performer, educator and mother. She has a Masters in Theatre and Performance with a focus on theatre making, from the University of Cape Town where she was a lecturer in the Drama Department for four years. She currently teaches performance studies and theatre making in the Drama Division of the Wits School of Arts.
Kabwe is a recipient of a number of awards including a Fleur du Cap, Naledi and the Handspring Award for Best Visual Theatre Production. Kabwe's original work has been showcased at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg (Please Do Not Leave Your Baggage Unattended, (2007), Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance (for nomads who have considered settling when the travel is enuf, (2007), 27 Windows, 4 Doors, 2 Taps, (2010), Migritude' Echo (2011) and the UNESCO Chair International Festival of Theatre Schools in Barcelona Spain (Afrocartography: traces of places and all points in between, 2008). Kabwe is also one of the seven 2007 Spier Contemporary winners for a collaborative performance work titled Unyawo Alunampumlo (The Foot Has No Nose) with Chuma Sopotela and Kemang Wa Lehulere. In 2013 she directed a site-specific version of her autobiographical choreopoem, Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between, in and around the Wits Theatre in Johannesburg. Later that year the production was reworked to feature at the Afrovibes 2013 Festival in Amsterdam. She has also been recently named one of 'Five female theatre makers in South Africa you should know', by AfriPop magazine:
Media contact | Katlego Gabashane
Dr Ameh AKOH (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dates: 23 Feb – 20 April
Osun State University, Nigeria
Theatre Arts
Dr Ameh Akoh
Lecture Presentation
45 minute presentation followed by discussion
"The Famished Young men": Nigerian Drama beyond Soyinka
27 March @ 14:30 in the Drama Lecture Theatre, RU Theatre Building
Drama staff will be in the RU Theatre foyer to take you to the venue.
Dr Ameh Akoh is a postdoctoral researcher in the drama department for the first term until 20 April. His is currently conducting research on the Nigerian dramatist, Femi Osofisan. This fellowship is part of the AFRICAN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME which includes 5 African countries and is funded by the Carnegie Corporation.
Through fellowship competitions, regional workshops, and peer networking, the African Humanities Program provides support to the humanities in five African countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The centerpiece of the program is the distribution of fellowships to African scholars in these countries for work on dissertations, research projects, and scholarly manuscripts … The program is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Information prepared by Professor Gary Gordon
19 March 2015
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Arts Gay + G.I. Joe
Today's Google search for "Gay + G.I. Joe" (yeah, so what?) yielded a ridiculous but funny cartoon.
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Careful, Cori. Ebaumsworld is evil. They steal their content from elsewhere. Google ebaumsworld ytmnd and see what happens. I wonder where they stole this one?
Find the other GI Joe cartoons on there, they're all brilliant.
Wow - here's an interesting history lesson on wikepedia. Thanks, toilet boy.
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I'm planning to a webapp where every guy using it would have a client that would run computations on its computer (because these computations can't be done on the server, too much load...), and then send results to the server.
I guess there will be lot of people interested in my application and that's why i'm wonder if my architecture is good and if i'll be able to handle thousands of people.
I'm planning to expose remote EJB through JNDI with Glassfish server, so 1000 people could use these EJB at the same time (i guess there could be 5-50 requests / second) to retrieve the data needed for local computation, and then to send the results...
Is it expensive to expose EJB to many clients? Would it be better to use webservices, rmi, another solution?
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Big Brothers Chicken Wings
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 10 mins
This is my favorite wing recipe. Lot's of great compliments from family and friends. As recipe is they are mild, more heat can be obtained by adding cayenne and or more hot sauce. The whole wheat flour give these a more crisp texture. I fix these at least twice a week.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 cup unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (concentrate)
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon whole wheat flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
- 1 dash cayenne pepper (only if you like them HOT)
- 1 teaspoon salt (I use kosher salt)
- 16 chicken wings, joints
- In a small bowl or zip lock bag mix together the flour, paprika, cayenne pepper (optional) and salt. Place chicken wings in a large nonporous glass bowl or zip lock bag and sprinkle flour mixture over them until they are evenly coated on all sides. Cover bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Combine the butter, hot sauce and lemon juice in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir together and heat until butter is melted and mixture is well blended. Remove from heat and reserve for serving.
- Heat oil in a deep fryer or fry daddy to 375° F the oil should be just enough to cover wings entirely, an inch or so deep.
- Fry coated wings in hot oil for about 8 minutes, or until they float up and wings turn golden brown. Drain and place wings in serving bowl, add hot sauce mixture and stir together. Serve with celery sticks and blue cheese or ranch dressing.
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This was fantastic! These made the crispest little wings. I ended up baking them off in the oven because I didn't have time to fry them up and it worked just fine, they were nice and crispy the flour really had a great flavor to it and it really made a difference in cooking of the wings. This was made for Fall PAC 2008.
Love them!!!!
These really are excellent wings! I didn't plan ahead far enough to let the wings rest for an hour before I cooked them, but they were great anyway.


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APH - Iceland - Open your heart by yurotschkaWatch
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Brilliant cosplay!! This Iceland looks so amazing!
wow! i just love how cold the photo feels. Good job.
loveing this so much right now
Lovely cosplay <3. The cosplayer looks so much like the actual Iceland!
Very Good! I love it a lot
it is so awesome ;;u;;
this is really awsome!
That's... oh my god, this is so good. It's suprisingly hard to find good Iceland cosplayers...
Btw, did you wear blue contact lenses?
Btw, did you wear blue contact lenses?
Woah thank you very much >//<
I'm wearing purple contact lenses, so yep :3
I'm wearing purple contact lenses, so yep :3
WAAAAA! You are Iceland! I can't keep my eyes out of you!
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Uploads to web or something. I'dont have big enough inbox for dashboard.
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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Contributed by: Zaady
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.
Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
I had to set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
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Comprehensive Description
Dendrobium orchids are found throughout the western Pacific and east Asia from as far north as Japan to as far south as Tasmania and southern New Zealand, east to Tahiti and west to western India (Lavarack et al. 2000). The genus (as currently delineated) includes more than a thousand species found in widely varying habitats (Lavarack et al. 2000; Adams et al. 2006). Like most other epiphytes, Dendrobium orchids are restricted to areas of moderate to high rainfall (e.g., in tropical lowlands, annual rainfall of more than 150 cm and a dry season of less than 6 months; at higher elevations in the tropics, or in cooler temperate regions, drier conditions can be tolerated). Dendrobium are found from just above the treeline on the highest mountains to the branches of trees overhanging the ocean. They are absent from some of the drier forests and woodlands, deserts and semi-deserts, and alpine and other cold environments. They are mainly inhabitants of primary forest, especially the rainforests of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. Swamp forests (such as those dominated by Melaleuca species) and mangrove forests may also support large numbers of individuals and species. Relatively few Dendrobium species are found in monsoonal forests and woodlands, but populations of species that do occur in these habitats can be dense. The small number of species found in the subalpine shrubbery of tropical mountains are of particular interest in that most of them have brightly colored flowers. Some species are well adapted to disturbed habitats. (Lavarack et al. 2000)
As a consequence of the fact that the genus includes many species that are generally compact, fabulously colorful, and often easy to grow, Dendrobium are among the most horticulturally important orchids. Given the great range of habitats and altitudes at which various species grow, some appropriate species can be found for cultivation in most climates. Although there are many rare and endangered species, Dendrobium are common in both the wild and in gardens in southern Asia; the Malesian Islands (i.e., the islands to the east of Southeast Asia, including New Guinea), the Pacific Islands (the islands south and east of the Solomon Islands, the endemic-rich New Caledonia being the largest of these), and Australia. New Guinea has the greatest diversity of Dendrobium, both in number of species and in diversity per unit area. Lavarack et al. review the historical biogeography of Dendrobium. (Lavarack et al. 2000)
Dendrobium orchids vary in size from tiny creeping plants less than a centimeter high (e.g., D. toressae) to clumped bamboo-like plants several meters tall (e.g., D. discolor). Although most are epiphytes, some grow on rocks or on the ground. All Dendrobium (even the terrestrial species) have coarse, spreading root systems, unlike the tuberous root systems characteristic of terrestrial orchids from temperate regions. (Lavarack et al. 2000)
Dendrobium orchids typically produce large numbers of very small and easily dispersed seeds. These seeds contain almost no food reserves. Seedlings must quickly form mycorrhizal associations with appropriate fungi to supply them with needed nutrition as they develop. (Lavarack et al. 2000)
Perhaps a third of the 30,000 or so orchid species are deceptive, attracting pollinators but then failing to reward them with pollen or nectar. Many of these orchids imitate the scent of rewarding flowers or potential mates. However, one rewardless Dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium sinense, is pollinated by the hornet Vespa bicolor, which it apparently attracts by mimicking the alarm pheromone produced by honeybees, which hornets frequently hunt as food for their larvae (Brodmann et al. 2009).
Foodplant / spot causer
Cladosporium dematiaceous anamorph of Cladosporium orchidearum causes spots on live Dendrobium
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Wang et al. (2009) developed inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) genetic markers for diagnosing species and studying genetic diversity in Dendrobium. Xue et al. (2010) constructed genetic linkage maps for two Dendrobium species using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) markers. These maps, which cover 92.7% and 82.7% of the D. hercoglossum and D. officinale genomes, respectively, should facilitate mapping of horticultural and medicinal traits (around 40 Dendrobium species have been used in traditional Chinese medicine) and be useful for marker-assisted selection in Dendrobium breeding programs.
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
Specimen Records:1420
Specimens with Sequences:1344
Specimens with Barcodes:743
Species With Barcodes:190
Public Records:1334
Public Species:185
Public BINs:0
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Lavarack et al. (2000) review the history of orchid collecting and current conservation threats to orchids in the wild and discuss potential solutions to respond to these challenges.
Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
The pseudobulbs of D. canaliculatum and D. speciosum were used as food by the aboriginal Australians. Other Dendrobium species have been used for a range of culinary, medicinal, putative aphrodisiacs, and other purposes. Lavarack et al. (2000) review basic propagation techniques. (Lavarack et al. 2000)
List of Dendrobium species
Dendrobium is a genus of orchids (Orchidaceae), containing about 1,200 species.
Several former species of Dendrobium are placed elsewhere today; see below for these.
- Dendrobium jabiense
- Dendrobium jacobsonii – Jacobson's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium jenkinsii – Jenkins's dendrobium
- Dendrobium jennae
- Dendrobium jennyanum
- Dendrobium johannis – Johan's dendrobium
- Dendrobium johnsoniae F.Muell. – Johnson's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium jonesii
- Dendrobium jonesii var. jonesii
- Dendrobium jonesii var. magnificum
- Dendrobium jubatum
- Dendrobium judithiae
- Dendrobium junceum – Reed-leaved Dendrobium
- Dendrobium juncifolium
- Dendrobium juncoideum
- Dendrobium juniperinum
- Dendrobium quadrialatum[verification needed] J.J.Sm.
- Dendrobium quadriferum
- Dendrobium quadrilobatum
- Dendrobium quadriquetrum
- Dendrobium quinquecaudatum
- Dendrobium quinquedentatum
- Dendrobium quinquelobatum
- Dendrobium quisumbingii
- Dendrobium uliginosum
- Dendrobium umbonatum
- Dendrobium uncatum
- Dendrobium undatialatum
- Dendrobium unicarinatum
- Dendrobium unicum – Unique dendrobium
- Dendrobium uniflorum – Single-flowered Dendrobium
- Dendrobium × usitae
- Dendrobium usterioides
- Dendrobium ustulatum
- Dendrobium utile[verification needed]
- Dendrobium xanthoacron
- Dendrobium xanthogenium
- Dendrobium xanthomeson
- Dendrobium xanthophlebium
- Dendrobium xanthothece
- Dendrobium xichouensis
- Dendrobium xiphophyllum
- Dendrobium xylophyllum
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Formerly included in Dendrobium[edit]
- Ceraia pseudoequitans (Fessel & Lückel) M.A.Clem (was Dendrobium pseudoequitans)
- Dipodium punctatum (was Dendrobium punctatum)
- Dockrillia, including
- Dockrillia calamiformis (was Dendrobium teretifolium var. fasciculatum)
- Dockrillia cucumerina – Cucumber Orchid (was Dendrobium cucumerinum)
- Dockrillia dolichophylla (was Dendrobium teretifolium var. aureum)
- Dockrillia fairfaxii (was Dendrobium teretifolium var. fairfaxii)
- Dockrillia linguiformis – Thumbnail Orchid, "tongue orchid" (was Dendrobium linguiforme, Dendrobium linguiforme var. huntianum)
- Dockrillia nugentii (was Dendrobium linguiforme var. nugentii)
- Dockrillia pugioniformis – Dagger Orchid (was Dendrobium pugioniforme)
- Dockrillia teretifolia – Bridal-veil Orchid, Clematis Orchid, "rattail orchid", "pencil orchid" (was Dendrobium teretifolium)
- Eurycaulis lucens (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem (was Dendrobium lucens)
- Winika cunninghamii – Winika, "Christmas orchid", "bamboo orchid" (was Dendrobium cunninghamii)
- For the mining town, see Dendrobium, New South Wales. For the Mobile Suit Gundam unit, see RX-78 GP-03 Dendrobium. For the hydroid genus, see Solanderiidae.
Dendrobium is a huge genus of orchids. It was established by Olof Swartz in 1799 and today contains about 1,200 species. The genus occurs in diverse habitats throughout much of south, east and southeast Asia, including China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Vietnam, and many of the islands of the Pacific.[1] The name is from the Greek dendron ("tree") and bios ("life"); it means "one who lives on trees", or, essentially, "epiphyte".
In 1981, Briegar reclassified all terete-leaved Dendrobiums from Australia and New Guinea into a new genus, Dockrillia. The Winika orchid from New Zealand was formerly D. cunninghamii, but has now been moved into a monotypic genus Winika. In 1989, Clements upgraded the D. speciosum complex into individual species;[2] similarly, the D. bigibbum complex (which contains the well-known Cooktown Orchid of Australia, D. phalaenopsis) has recently been split up. However, as an illustration of the current revisions in the taxonomy of Orchidaceae these 'splits' have now been reversed and the currently accepted species, natural nothospecies and synonyms are presented on Wikispecies Dendrobium. The site includes a list of references that help explain the contemporary taxonomy of Dendrobium Sw., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 82 (1799), nom. cons.
Dendrobium species are either epiphytic, or occasionally lithophytic. They have adapted to a wide variety of habitats, from the high altitudes in the Himalayan mountains to lowland tropical forests and even to the dry climate of the Australian desert.
This genus of sympodial orchids develop pseudobulbs, which vary in length from under a centimetre (e.g. Dendrobium leucocyanum) to several metres long (e.g. Dendrobium discolor), resembling canes. A few grow into long reedlike stems. Leaf bases form sheaths that completely envelope the stem. In the section Formosae (e.g. Dendrobium infundibulum), the sheaths and undersides of leaves are covered with fine short black hairs. Other species (e.g. Dendrobium senile), are covered with fine white hairs.
In selected species, the short, ovate leaves grow alternately over the whole length of the stems, in others, the leaves are bunched towards the apex of the stem (e.g. Dendrobium tetragonum). The axillary inflorescence vary in length from insignificant to 1m long, and can carry from a few (1-4) (e.g. Dendrobium nobile) to as many as 100 (e.g. Dendrobium speciosum) flowers. Deciduous species carry their leaves for one to two years then typically flower on leafless canes, while canes of evergreen species usually flower in the second year and can continue to flower for a number of years (e.g. Dendrobium densiflorum).
These orchids grow quickly throughout summer, but take a rest during winter. Dormant buds erupt into shoots from the base of the pseudobulb mainly in spring, and a few species in autumn. This is then followed by rapid growth of new roots. Reproduction is usually through seed, but a few species reproduce asexually through keikis produced along the stem, usually after flowering and sometimes as a result of injury to the growing tip.
Selected species[edit]
- Dendrobium anosmum – Unscented Dendrobium - misnomer
- Dendrobium begaudii
- Dendrobium bilobum
- Dendrobium brevicaudum– Mount Finnigan orchid
- Dendrobium bukidnonensis– Bukidnon Dendrobium
- Dendrobium bullenianum – Bullen's Orange Dendrobium
- Dendrobium candidum
- Dendrobium cariniferum
- Dendrobium ceraula – Horned Dendrobium
- Dendrobium chameleon – Chameleon-like Dendrobium
- Dendrobium chrysanthum
- Dendrobium conanthum
- Dendrobium crispilinguum
- Dendrobium crumenatum – Pigeon Orchid, Sparrow Orchid, Bag-shaped Dendrobium, "dove orchid"
- Dendrobium cuthbertsonii – Cuthbertson's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium dearei – Deare's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium erosum
- Dendrobium epidendropsis from the Philippines
- Dendrobium euryanthum
- Dendrobium fairchildae – Fairchild's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium forbesii
- Dendrobium formosum
- Dendrobium gerlandianum
- Dendrobium gibsonii
- Dendrobium goldschmidtianum – Goldschmidt's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium guerreroi – Guerrero's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium hellwigianum
- Dendrobium hercoglossum
- Dendrobium heterocarpum – Different fruits Dendrobium
- Dendrobium hymenophyllum
- Dendrobium ionopus – Violet scented Dendrobium
- Dendrobium johnsoniae
- Dendrobium junceum Philippine endemic
- Dendrobium kingianum – Pink Rock Orchid, Captain King's Dendrobium, Pink Rock Lily (sometimes separated in Thelychiton)
- Dendrobium lindleyi – Lindley's Dendrobium (formerly D. aggregatum)
- Dendrobium lineale
- Dendrobium lituiflorum
- Dendrobium loddigesii – Loddiges' Dendrobium
- Dendrobium macrophyllum – Large leafed Dendrobium
- Dendrobium macropus
- Dendrobium macropus subsp. howeanum – Bush Orchid
- Dendrobium milaniae native of Mount Pangasugan in the Philippine
- Dendrobium mindanaense – Mindanao island Dendrobium
- Dendrobium miyasakii – Miyaki's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium nobile – Noble Dendrobium
- Dendrobium papilio – Butterfly Dendrobium
- Dendrobium parthenium
- Dendrobium pendulum
- Dendrobium pentapterum
- Dendrobium phalaenopsis – Cooktown Orchid (formerly D. bigibbum var. phalaenopsis, D. bigibbum var. superbum) - now classified as Vappodes phalaenopsis
- Dendrobium philippinensis– Philippine Dendrobium
- Dendrobium phillippsii – Phillips' Dendrobium
- Dendrobium platycaulon – Flat Cane Dendrobium
- Dendrobium polysema
- Dendrobium profusum – Profused' Dendrobium
- Dendrobium ramosii – Ramos' Dendrobium
- Dendrobium sanderae – Sander's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium sanguinolentum
- Dendrobium schuetzei – Schuetz's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium secundum
- Dendrobium seratilabium – Serrated Lip Dendrobium
- Dendrobium sinense
- Dendrobium speciosum – Outstanding Dendrobium, King Orchid, Rock Lily
- Dendrobium taurinum – Bulls Head Dendrobium
- Dendrobium thyrsiflorum
- Dendrobium thysanophorum
- Dendrobium uniflorum – Single flowered Dendrobium
- Dendrobium velutinalabrum
- Dendrobium victoriae-reginae – Queen Victoria's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium wangliangii – May 2006 by Liang Wang (Chinese: 王亮)
- Dendrobium wenzellii – Wenzell's Dendrobium
- Dendrobium yeagerei – Yeager's Dendrobium
In horticulture[edit]
Dendrobium is commonly abbreviated as Den in horticulture. Some species are in great demand by orchid lovers. This has resulted in numerous varieties and hybrids, such as the Noble Dendrobium (D. nobile) breeds, which have greatly extended the range of colors of the original plant from the Himalayas. The flowers of Cuthbertson's Dendrobium (D. cuthbertsonii) have been reported to last up to ten months each.
Many Dendrobium species are known to vigorously remove toluene and xylene from the air.[3]
Several hybrids in this genus have been registered and named after notable persons and institutions:
- Dendrobium Bae Yong-joon
- Dendrobium Sccci 100th Anniversary
- Dendrobium Margaret Thatcher
Pink Dendrobium densiflorum × farmeri hybrid
Dendrobium 'Mini Brown'[verification needed], a horticultural hybrid
Other uses by humans[edit]
Some Dendrobium species are grown as medical plants. The Noble Dendrobium (D. nobile) for example is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is known as shí hú (石斛) or shí hú lán (石斛兰).
Many species and cultivars of this genus are well-known floral emblems and have been figured in artwork. Among the former are:
- Dendrobium formosum (Beautiful giant-flowered dendrobium) – emblem of Ranong Province (Thailand)
- Dendrobium 'Kim il Sung' (Kimilsungia) – emblem of North Korea[4]
- Dendrobium moniliforme (Sekikoku) – emblem of Matsushima, Miyagi (Japan)
- Dendrobium nobile (Noble Dendrobium) – emblem of Sikkim (India)
- Dendrobium biggibum (Cooktown Orchid, anggrek larat) – emblem of Maluku province (Indonesia) and Queensland (Australia).
- Dendrobium utile[verification needed] (locally known as anggrek serat) – emblem of the Indonesian province of South East Sulawesi
The Cooktown Orchid was figured on Australian stamps in 1968 and 1998, and several Dendrobium cultivars are depicted on the obverse side of the Singapore Orchid Series currency notes issued between 1967 and 1976:
- Dendrobium Marjorie Ho – S$10 [1]
- Dendrobium Shangri-La – S$500 [2]
- Dendrobium Kimiyo Kondo – S$1000 [3]
The Golden-bow Dendrobium (D. chrysotoxum), colloquially called "Fried-egg Orchid" was one of the species grown by the fictional private detective and orchid fancier Nero Wolfe, and plays a role in The Final Deduction.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Clements (1989)
- ^ Wolverton (1996)
- ^ Soediono, Noes, Arditti, Joseph and Soediono, Rubismo. Kimilsungia: How an Indonesian Orchid Became a Revered Symbol in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea After Its Name was Changed. Plant Science Bulletin 75 3 pp. 103-113
- Clements, M.A. (1989): Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 1–62. PDF fulltext
- Wolverton, B.C. (1996): How to Grow Fresh Air. New York: Penguin Books.
- Lavarack, B., Harris, W., Stocker, G. (2006): Dendrobium and Its Relatives. Australia: Simon & Schuster Ltd.
- Burke, J.M., Bayly, M.J., Adams, P.B., Ladiges, P.Y.: (2008) Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Dendrobium (Orchidaceae), with emphasis on the Australian section Dendrocoryne, and implications for generic classification. Australian Systematic Botany 21: 1-14. Abstract
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Pedestrian deaths on the rise in Baltimore County
On May 1, a pedestrian was hit by a car and killed after an accident in Randallstown.
More than a month later, a drunk driver is behind bars after hitting a pedestrian in Middle River.
And this past Saturday, Rommy Parsley, 43, died after a car hit her and drove off just after midnight at the corner of North Point Road and Charlesmont Road in Dundalk.
In the last decade, Baltimore County police have noticed a significant uptick in the number of pedestrian related deaths and accidents.
The uptick has lead safety officials to re examine different ways to bring the number down.
"One death is too many," said Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. John Watcher. "The numbers of pedestrians killed in collisions with vehicles is going up."
Between 2011-2013, the number of pedestrians killed in collisions rose from 18 to 22.
So far this year, 11 pedestrian deaths have occurred.
"From the beginning of this year up to June 7, 9 of the 11 pedestrian deaths involved pedestrian error," he said.
The three most deadly roads for crahses include Liberty Road in Randallstown, York Road in Towson and Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk, police officials said.
Watcher said a significant portion of the accidents involved pedestrian error.
To address the uptick, police have partnered with other county agencies. One of the suggestions talked about has been to move bus stops near crosswalks.
In an effort to cut down on the 400 pedestrian-vehicle crashes reporter a year, police have also launched their safety initiative "Heads Up! Walk Safe," to educate pedestrians about motor laws.
"The best way we are going to bring the number down is through education," Watcher said.
Linda Grossman, president of the Gray Manor Community Association in Dundalk, said more sidewalks and speed bumps would make the roads of her neighborhood safer.
North Point Road, which runs through Gray Manor, is where Parsley was killed Saturday night.
"On a daily basis I see people walking to the Walmart," she said. "They're on the side of the road because there is no sidewalk to travel on."
Grossman said it's been hard to get the upgrades because many government agencies aren't claiming jurisdiction over North Point Road.
"Sometimes it's just hard to get transparency," she said.
Baltimore County Police are still investigating the the circumstances that lead to Parsley's death.
Del. John Olszewski Jr., D-Baltimore County, said that when he hears about an uptick of pedestrian deaths on certain roads in Dundalk, it's important to be proactive.
"We have to make sure our roads are as safe as possible," he said.


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Recipe Time
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Other: 10 Minutes
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Protein 23 g
Carbohydrate 86 g
Sugars 9 g
Fiber 8 g
Fat 26 g
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Cholesterol 10 mg
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1/2 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
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2 pounds garden peas in their pods (2 cups shelled)
6 scallions, trimmed and chopped
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For scan novices, LaserSoft's SilverFast may seem like a lot to learn, even the simplest SE version which I recommend for beginners. But it is sequentially logical and perceptually predictable to use, so a comfortable workflow and control of results can be acquired rapidly. And the LaserSoft website (www.silverfast.com) has a lot of video and instructional documents to support new users, as well as support for anyone with technical problems.
I have been using SilverFast for at least 15 years and the basic interface has remained consistent, and there are only minor differences between different scanners, so with the CanoScan 9000F I found I could control and refine the scans I made very effectively. In particular, I used LaserSoft's Archive Suite of scanner SilverFast SE or Ai 6 and SilverFast HDR Studio to efficiently batch scan 64-bit files, and even at an output size of 12x18" at 300ppi resolution this scanner is fast. Then I used SilverFast HDR Studio to efficiently clean the images with iSRD, and color correct and adjust each photo to an ideal finished printing file. This form of batch scanning and processing is so efficient that I am sure the total time for the entire process is half of doing the same thing conventionally.
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As I said in the beginning, the Canon CanoScan 9000F looks and feels like a really well designed and finely made machine. It is smooth, quiet, and quick, unlike many scanners I have used in the past. The scanner's self-initialization and calibration has been made extremely efficient, so little time is wasted between scans, and, depending on the file size of output, it scans very rapidly. I think a lot of photographers with film libraries have hoped for a flat-bed that will scan prints as well as both 120 and 35mm film that delivers results close to that of a dedicated film scanner. Well, the Canon CanoScan with SilverFast running it is just about there—the dream has been realized to a very large extent.
I did most of my testing with 35mm film images, including a lot I know are difficult to scan. The results are so close to those I have obtained with the Plustek OpticFilm 7600i that it is hard to tell which is better. But there are differences. Some odd and older films reveal that the Canon FARE 3 works best with newer E-6 and C-41 process films, but not as well with earlier process films, and of course not at all with silver-based black and white or Kodachrome. But then, no infrared cleaning sensor does.
Another flat-bed distinction is the unusual design of 12-line CCDs that produce a Raw file that requires two to four times as much software sharpening compared to a traditional three-line CCD sensor of a dedicated film scanner. Is this a problem? Mostly not, but it does create an image appearance that is a little different, though it can be an advantage because graininess is less apparent. In other words, I have encountered problems getting good scans with some films with both dedicated film scanners and this new CanoScan 9000F, no more or less, just a little different with each, as both have their advantages and disadvantages. The bottom line is that the CanoScan 9000F with SilverFast is a really good scanner, especially considering it does prints, medium format, and 35mm, and the total cost with SilverFast SE added is under $300. That's really good news in times like these.
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Description: The majority of studies concerning psychological sex and management style have indicated that people consider the masculine style of managing to be the most popular. However, such studies are out of date and/or were usually measuring the perceptions of surveyed college students. Few studies have focused on successful managers in successful organizations. A modified version of the Bern Sex Role Inventory was distributed to 52 managers in a Total Quality Management organization. This study hypothesized that successful managers would be androgynous managers. The results of the study indicated that successful managers are androgynous managers, and that there is no significant difference in the number of female and male androgynous managers.
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Enacting Racism: Clarence Thomas, George Bush, and the Construction of Social Reality
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Description: This study analyzes the confirmation hearings discourse of Clarence Thomas and George Bush. Language constructs social reality. The United States has a history of racism and this history manifests itself in our language. The discourse of Clarence Thomas and George Bush created a social reality that equated opposition to Thomas' confirmation with racism using rhetorical strategies that included metaphor and narrative construction.
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Purification Rhetoric: A Generic Analysis of Draft Card, Flag, and Cross Burning Cases
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Leadership Communication Among Kindergarten Children in a Structured Play Environment
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Creator: Giraud, Jeffrey B. (Jeffrey Brian)
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A Study of the Relationships Among Relational Maintenance Strategies, Sexual Communication Strategies and Romantic Relational Satisfaction
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Genre: All-Sex
This is a rather exemplary JP, right up there in the ranks with some of the series' best. The inspired glibness of the early ones pokes through repeatedly — e.g. Charming fretting over his dick being too big, and Masterson trying to prove he's not gay — and holy Toledo is the female lineup magnifique!
Alicia Angel alone makes this one a must-wank (she's who does the challenging of Masterson's heterosexuality), but there are five other scenes here that stack up equally high. And fans of anal will be thrilled, as it's in all but two of 'em (Angel's and Kline's).
Pre-nom for Best Anal Scene (Cummz & Gunn) and Best Gonzo Release.
Retailing: Jack's back, baby!