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Changes to svccfg import and delete
By Tom Whitten-Oracle on Feb 03, 2012
The behavior of svccfg import and svccfg delete fmri
has changed in S11 if the manifests are in SMF's standard locations.
standard locations
are /lib/svc/manifest and
/var/svc/manifest with /lib/svc/manifest being the preferred
If your manifest is stored under one of these two directories, you
shouldn't be using svccfg import at all.
You should only use svccfg delete fmri when you are prohibited
from removing the manifest for some reason and still want to
the service from the system.
Instead, the preferred action is:
# svcadm restart manifest-import
The reason is that in S11, SMF keeps the repository in sync with the files in the standard locations, and the manifest-import service is the mechanism for maintaining this synchronization. So instead of using svccfg import copy your manifest to a standard location and type:
# svcadm restart manifest-importInstead of using svccfg delete remove your manifest from its location and restart manifest-import.
In each case manifest-import will detect any changes in the standard directories and update the repository accordingly. Note that the manifest-import service runs asynchronously from the svcadm command, so it may take a short amount of time for the changes to take effect.
Also the manifest-import service not only detects file additions and removals. It also detects changes to manifests and profiles. If you are a service provider, this gives you an upgrade path if your manifest changes. Simply deposit your new manifest over the old one and make sure that manifest-import is restarted. Restarting of manifest-import is usually handled by the packaging service.
Let's look at some examples. First, let's get the manifest for our new service imported.
# cp mysvc.xml /lib/svc/manifest/site # svcadm restart manifest-import # svcs mysvc STATE STIME FMRI online 15:19:41 svc:/mysvc:defaultNow delete the service:
# rm /lib/svc/manifest/site/mysvc.xml # svcadm restart manifest-import # svcs mysvc svcs: Pattern 'mysvc' doesn't match any instances STATE STIME FMRI
Now let's look at what happens if you stray from this advice and use svccfg delete. First, reinstall the manifest just as we did before.
# cp mysvc.xml /lib/svc/manifest/site # svcadm restart manifest-import # svcs mysvc STATE STIME FMRI online 15:34:41 svc:/mysvc:defaultNow the fun begins.
# svccfg delete -f svc:/mysvc # svcs mysvc svcs: Pattern 'mysvc' doesn't match any instances STATE STIME FMRIIt looks as if the service has been removed from the repository, but it really hasn't been. Since the manifest file is still on the file system, the service is merely masked in the repository. This can lead to confusion. Even if you modify the manifest and restart manifest-import, svcs will not find the service. This is because the masking is done at the administrative layer (see Sean Wilcox's discussion of layers). The masking is not removed by changing the manifest, although manifest-import will record the changes in the repository.
How can we find a masked service.
# svccfg listcust -M | grep svc:/mysvc svc:/mysvc manifest MASKED svc:/mysvc:default manifest MASKEDThe first line of output shows that the service is masked. Masking a service also masks it instances which is why we see the second line.
So if you accidentally mask a service, how can you unmask it? We enter svccfg interactive mode, select the service and then use the delcust command.
# svccfg svc:> select mysvc svc:/mysvc> delcust Deleting customizations for service: mysvc svc:/mysvc> quit # svcs mysvc STATE STIME FMRI online 15:50:46 svc:/mysvc:defaultThe svcs command shows that the service is unmasked.


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A San Leandro podiatrist who was convicted of selling illegal prescriptions in 2008 has been charged with two new counts of the same offense, authorities said Friday.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said in a statement that Dr. Tan Nguyen, 62, had written more than 5,000 prescriptions -- mainly for addictive narcotic painkillers hydrocodone and oxycodone, the muscle relaxer carisoprodol and the anti-anxiety medication diazepam -- in the last year.
On June 17, an FBI agent posing as a patient called Nguyen's office; he picked up the phone himself, according to a probable cause statement.
"What kind of pills are you expecting to get?" he asked the agent, according to the statement. "If you want pills, all I can give you is Norco (a narcotic painkiller) ... no oxycodone."
When the agent arrived at the office two days later, Nguyen made a copy of her identification and told her, "I can only give you 100 Norco," according to the statement.
The agent then asked for another prescription for the controlled substance Soma, a muscle relaxer.
Nguyen agreed and told her to pay $65, according to the statement. After she paid, Nguyen, who had not examined her in anyway nor asked any medical questions, told her: "You have plantar fasciitis. Heel pain."
On Thursday, the agent returned to Nguyen's office, bringing a "friend" who was actually an undercover Alameda County Sheriff's deputy. Nguyen refused to give the agent a new prescription so soon after her first visit, but wrote the undercover deputy a prescription for 100 Norco and 50 Soma, again without any kind of medical exam.
As the pair left Nguyen's office, he followed them outside and told them to limp as they walked away from the building, according to the statement.
Nguyen was previously convicted of selling illegal narcotics prescriptions in 2008. He was sentenced to 65 days in jail and five years' probation, and had his medical license placed on probationary status for seven years, according to the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
O'Malley said that rates of prescription drug abuse and addiction are "alarmingly high" in Alameda County, as are the numbers of accidental overdoses due to the drugs.


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By Brandy Walleshauser from Notimemommy.com
Every time you visit Build-A-Bear Workshop® and buy a cuddly friend, your new furry friend goes home with a Cub Condo®. The question is what to do with the condo after you get home. Well, after having so many Cub Condos, my family came up with a few ways to reuse them.
1. First, there is the simple idea of using your Cub Condo as a home for your new Build-A-Bear Workshop furry friend.
2. Using it as a garage for your die-cast cars.
3. As a house for Barbie/Monster High dolls.
4. As a table for food.
5. Storage to hold all of your Build-A-Bear Workshop clothes and accessories.
There are so many other things you can use your Cub Condo for, kids can color the outside or just use it as a carrying case.
What other ways can you reuse your Cub Condo?
Please remember to recycle your Cub Condo.


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Answered those questions myself.
Have done the same and browsing now much faster (although I am still using V1.04) Even the first browse whilst caching was way faster so i think my DB must have become corrupt or something
I don't do any transcoding so nothing really pushing me to upgrade to later versions as yet.
I'm happy again


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Bills and Insurance
All patients should familiarize themselves with the terms of their insurance coverage. If there is a question concerning your insurance, you or your family may be contacted by a hospital representative to clarify the information. If you have questions regarding your hospital bill or need help interpreting financial policies and billing procedures, our Customer Service Representative may be reached by calling extension 5475, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
If You Have Health Insurance
You may need the insurance forms supplied by your employer or the insurance company. You have assigned benefits from the insurance company directly to the hospital.
If You Are a Member of an HMO or PPO
Your plan may have special requirements, such as a second surgical opinion or pre-certification for certain tests or procedures. It is your responsibility to make sure the requirements of your plan have been met. If your plan's requirements are not followed, you may be financially responsible for all or part of the services rendered in the hospital. Some physician specialists may not participate in your health care plan and their services may not be covered.
If You Are Covered by Medicare
We will need a copy of your Medicare card to verify eligibility and submit your Medicare claim. You should be aware that the Medicare program specifically excludes payment for certain items and services. Medicare does not pay the cost of a private room unless medically necessary. Deductibles and co-payments also are the responsibility of the patient.
If You Are Covered by Medicaid
We will need a copy of your Medicaid card. Medicaid also has payment limitations on a number of services and items. Medicaid does not pay for the cost of a private room unless medically necessary.
If You Have No Insurance
If necessary, a representative from the Business Office will discuss financial arrangements with you. A hospital representative who is a representative of the Division of Family Services is also available to assist you in applying for Medicaid or other government assistance programs. Please contact our Social Services Department at extension 5265 if you need assistance in these areas.
Your Hospital Bill
The hospital will submit your bills to your insurance company as a courtesy and will do everything possible to expedite your claim. You should remember that your policy is a contract between you and your insurance company and that you have the final responsibility for payment of your hospital bill. We have several payment options available to assist you in paying your bill.
Your Bill Reflects all of the Services you Received during your Stay
If you have certain tests or treatments in the hospital, you may receive bills from physicians you did not see in person. These bills are for professional services rendered by these doctors in diagnosing and interpreting test results while you were a patient. Pathologists, radiologists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and other specialists perform these services and submit separate bills. If you have questions about these bills, please call the number printed on the statement you receive directly from them.
Our commitment to uninsured and lower income patients.
Regional Medical Center is committed to serving the health care needs of our community. We realize that health care can be very expensive. To help you, RMC has discounts hospital bills for patients with no insurance and low incomes.
Effective March 1, 2006, patients without health insurance receive a discount on their hospital bill from RMC. We offer discounts and financial assistance to those patients with incomes below 400% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. These discounts range from 15% to 100% of the total bill. The actual amount of the discount depends on:
- Family income
- Number of eligible dependents. (number of dependents you are allowed to claim on you Federal Income Tax return)
If you feel you may qualify for financial assistance, please contact a Financial Counselor at (256) 235-5643.
Information that you will need to provide when applying for financial assistance can be found by using this link: Financial assistance documentation
We will be glad to assist you with the financial assistance application process or work with you to establish payment arrangements for any remaining balances you may have after discounts have been applied to your account.


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Songful iPad App Turns You into an Instant Guitar Hero
There is no shortage of apps that mimic musical instruments, but Israel-based InstruMagic has created something a bit different from the rest. Songful is halfway between a guitar simulator and karaoke. Essentially, the player strums an iPad while the app changes chords. The result does not sound horrible, even with a beginner playing.
The €2.69 ($2.99) Songful app is based on the musical notation known as "tablature" which indicates guitar fingering. InstruMagic has a a partnered with Ultimate Guitar, a Russia-based site with tablature for 200,000 songs, although, according to PadGadget, the app "only" works with around 80,000 of them.
If you don't know how to play guitar, or just don't have one on-hand, you can still play the song. Hold your iPad as if it were a guitar and tap the big arrow on the left side with your left hand while strumming the guitar strings on the right side with your right hand…
You can also "Hit the deck," which means you can simulate the sound of tapping on an acoustic guitar for a rhythm sound… To give the song vibrato, shake your iPad after a strum. It will sound like you are using a Whammy Bar.
PadGadget: Play Your Favorite Songs Like A Guitar Pro, No Experience Necessary


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GlowWorm FW
Similar to Little Snitch in functionality.
GlowWorm FW Lite is a rule-based network security and monitoring application based on plugin-accessible framework. By defining rules based on a set of connection criteria including the addresses, ports, the relevant endpoint and protocol, as well as a specific application, one can effectively restrict network activity. A free registration code is necessary to use this program.
The developer is also working on a non-Lite shareware full version.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: firewall , monitor , network , internet , security
15 Opinions
Sorry for those who experienced Problems..
But I have to say I love this app!
GlowWorm really achieve my expectations!
This app really helps me to get home-calling-apps controlled.
Of cause there can be many alerts at the beginning.
But if you have set up your set of rules correctly everything is working fine and silent behind the scenes!
My OS: 10.4.11 (Macbook)
Should have read the comments before installing this Leopard-killer.
However, thanks to lukeskywalker, I brought it back to life.
Thank ye, good chap! :)
The cause of Leopard crashing is Application Enhancer, a toolkit that gets (silently) installed with this and other software. The problem is that it modifies the OS in ways that is not supported , which has caused lots of incompatibility problems when Leopard came out and is even a security hole . Even Apple recommends removing it in their support docs if you have trouble.
Personally I would stay far away from this and any other applications that use AE. At least people should uninstall AE before upgrading to Leopard to avoid problems.
completely screwed up my leopard. someone should mark this app as a real danger.
i just had leo for two weeks and give glowworm a try
i installed the app and started...
expose doesnt work
glowworm crashed and couldn´t closed-just freezed
finder and firefor freezed
then i reboot my iBook G4
and i became a BLUE SCREEN... i wait...then i reboot twice....BLUE SCREEN
after that i used google:
or the similar problem as the mac support describe it with the blue screen and the ApplicationEnhancer
just boot with apple and S
fsck -fy
mount -uw /
mv /system/library/Extensions/glowworm.kext /
this will help you
I used this app for some weeks until I noticed, that it freeces my system everytime I lose my internet connection.
So, I made now some really bad experiences about glow worm.
Since the release of the new Mac OS X, Leopard is running really smooth and fast on my MacBook. Every, really every App i was running without any problems under the new Loepard.
So I installed a lot of new versions of the whole Apps I´m using and then I didn´t knew whether install Glow Worm or not.
I decided to try it out. I installed it under Leopard and then Glow Worm freezed at starting. And not enough, a few seconds later it freezed my browser, my Finder and rellay the whole Leopard. I tried to shut Glow Worm down about 20 minutes and nothing worked. So I rebootet my MacBook and everything I got was a sick BlueScreen and Leopard dind´t showed up. (The same thing I got, when I installed Leopard the first time on my MacBook, but this was a general problem -> Apple wrote about that).
So, I had to reinstall my whole Leopard.
Now it´s running again, without any problems, but Glow Worm died for me.
There still is no new version, no update for Leopard or anything else.
And the old version which was running under my old Tiger had an extremely awfull interface. I just used it two times under Tiger and even there it was not a nice, smooth App.
So this "try out" was a big mistake I made.....
According to the changelog for the yet-to-be released beta 5, you will be able to bypass password verification, but only if you've paid.
Agree with kamikazow, it is really annoying to get asked on startup for passwords. I suspect it is because the author is using much more rigorous methods to trap network traffic than little snitch.
The user interface also needs a lot of work. For example, the menu bar interface cannot even call up the rules editor, one has to launch the other app manually, enter password, then open it which is incredibly unfriendly.
However, the core part of the app appears rock solid, the network monitor appears to be much more rigorous than little snitch.
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With early-season storms always a threat, slating an October disc golf tournament is a risky as a 30-foot putt to save par into the wind. But organizers of the Tahoe Mountain Sports sixth Annual Pro/Am Disc Golf Tournament appear to have good conditions this weekend.The North Tahoe Regional Park 18-hole disc golf course will draw professionals and amateurs from the region to compete this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13-14.The tournament, a PDGA Sanctioned B pro and am event, annually brings golfers from all over Northern California, Northern Nevada and as far away as Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Oregon to the Tahoe Vista course, and has helped drive the Tahoe region's growing interest in the sport of disc golf. Disc golf courses worldwide have more than doubled in the past 10 years and participation in the sport continues to grow.All skill levels are welcome to compete or folks can simply cheer and heckle golfers and learn more about this growing sport. Pros are competing for cash prizes, and amateur winners will receive Tahoe Mountain Sports gift certificates to use at the Kings Beach store or at TahoeMountainSports.com.Registration and check-in begins at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, and rounds begin at 9 a.m., with lunch provided. Round 2 begins after lunch, toss time TBA.Sunday's players' meeting is at 9 a.m. Round 3 begins at 9:30 a.m., with an awards ceremony one hour after the last group has finished. Barbecue grills provided, bring your own grilling items.Contact Dave Polivy at 530-546-7001 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The state has been losing thousands of people statewide for the past decade. While mid-Michigan didn't take too much of a hit, a quarter of Detroit's population is gone.
"Because of the population crater that happened to Detroit and a lot of downsizing, it created a perfect storm."
Christina Kuo, executive director of a government watchdog says districts will need to be adjusted and it could mean some big changes for the Motor City.
"I think you're going to see Detroit lose some clout, here in Lansing and also in D.C." said Kuo.
The decline is not so severe for Lansing, down just four percent, but with people leaving statewide that's pushed out Congressional representation.
"The implications for that are huge. Someone will lose their seat," said EPIC MRA political pollster John Cavanagh.
The question now is who?
"It isn't rocket science to figure out that when we lose a seat because of the redistricting and the way the census numbers have shaken out, a Democrat will lose his seat," said Cavanagh.
Governor Rick Snyder responded during a press conference on Tuesday: "I think this decline in population for the state really just re-emphasizes the issue that we're facing. We are in a crisis in this state and we need to take an attitude and an approach that says it's time to re-invent Michigan."
Regardless of how lines get re-drawn, analysts warn that it could end in a fight between long-time Democratic incumbent.
The re-districting committee will be meet and begin and that process will likely carry into the fall. But there's a group that wants to give lawmakers citizen input when it comes to re-drawing the lines.
There's a Michigan Re-districting competition that gives residents the chance to draw their own Congressional districts using new online software. The contest starts in April and goes until May. The winner of the competition will have his or her plan submitted to the committee for consideration.
For more information on the Census 2010 data and the contest just click on the hot button.


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A celebrity photographer was struck and killed by a car Tuesday evening after trying to snap photos of singer Justin Bieber's Ferrari in Los Angeles.
Bieber wasn't in the car, which California Highway Patrol had pulled over for speeding on Interstate 405, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Cleon Joseph told Reuters. The photographer, whom TMZ identified as 29-year-old Chris Guerra, was ordered twice to return to his car. Guerra was hit by an oncoming car while trying to cross back over four lanes of traffic, Joseph said.
Bieber released a statement saying he hoped the incident "will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders and the photographers themselves."
TMZ reported that rapper Lil Twist was driving Bieber's Ferrari at the time of the accident.
TMZ also reported that Guerra had called a fellow photographer earlier in the evening to say he saw Bieber smoking marijuana while driving.
A rep for Bieber did not respond to that allegation, but did say in a statement, "It's really sad that people are trying to push a story without the facts so soon after this tragic accident. Justin was not present or involved in this incident and the focus should remain on honoring the memory of the victim."
Honoring the victim's memory wasn't exactly what singer/actress Miley Cyrus had in mind when she unleashed a series of blistering tweets after news of the accident.
"Paparazzi are dangerous! Wasn't Princess Di enough of a wake up call?!" she wrote. "It is unfair for anyone to put this on to Justin's conscious as well! This was bound to happen! Your mom teaches u when your a child not to play in the street!"
Julianne Hough talks about abuse as child
Julianne Hough reveals in the February issue of Cosmopolitan that she was abused as a child.
The abuse started when she was 10, after her parents divorced and she moved from Utah to London with her brother Derek to study dance at Italia Conti Academy of the Arts.
"While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she told the magazine. "I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer. I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love."
Hough, 24, declined to identify her abuser or abusers. "I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past."
Hough plays the survivor of domestic abuse in "Save Haven," which opens Feb. 14.
Fantasia Barrino says anti-gay post 'taken out of context'
"American Idol" champ Fantasia Barrino wants to be clear: She supports the gay community.
The seemingly anti-gay marriage rant she recently posted on her Instagram account was "taken far out of context," according to a statement released by her reps.
Controversy started flying fast and furious when the 28-year-old singer wrote on Instagram (via goodasyou.org): "I Rise ABOVE IT ALL!!! THE WORLD IS GONE MAD. KIDS, THE GOVERNMENT THE church House ... Everybody Trying!!!!!!! Its a lot that going on that the Bible speaks about we should Not be doing. Weed legal in some places, Gay Marriage Legal BUT YET IM JUDGED!!! I'm not doing Nothing for you ... My Life!!!!"
That post opened a floodgate of angry comments.
Her reps quickly released a statement, saying, "Ms. Barrino is not now, nor has she ever been an opponent of the LGBT community. She has supported and performed at numerous events that are sponsored by the LGBT community. Whether it's through a live performance or placement on social media, Ms. Barrino uses every opportunity to reach out and connect with her fans, all of her fans."
Which still raises the question: What did she really mean in her post?
Barrino didn't provide much clarity in a later post, except to make it clear she doesn't want to alienate a big part of her fan base.
"It has been brought to my attention that something I said was taken out of context," she wrote. "I, Fantasia Monique Barrino, don't judge anyone because I don't want to be judged. The gay community is one of my largest supporters. I support the gay community as they support me. Bloggers please stop misrepresenting the facts."
Sofia Vergara in New Year's Eve scuffle
Someone should have told Sofia Vergara that tossing her fiance Nick Loeb and ex-boyfriend Chris Paciello in the same room on New Year's Eve is like asking to detonate the fireworks early.
Paciello was hosting the "Modern Family" actress and her fiancé in the VIP section of Miami's Story when Loeb and Vergara got into a cursing showdown, prompting a pushing-and-shoving match with someone at a nearby table. A witness told the New York Post, "Sofia stepped in to try to calm the situation, but somehow she ended up getting pushed and shoved also. Her strapless dress was torn or pulled down in the melee, exposing her cleavage in front of other people."
That's the real shame, seeing a Michelle Mason-designed dress abused in such a manner.
Vergara's 20-year-old son, Manolo, was reportedly so offended that he left the club. Apparently, he knew good ol' Mom could fend for herself.
Security tossed Loeb from the club, with Vergara leaving close behind of her own free will. The couple reportedly kissed and made up outside the club, then returned to their hotel, The Delano, for a private party to ring in the new year.
Vergara and Loeb began dating in February 2010 and got engaged in July after a brief separation two months earlier.
Kris Allen breaks wrist, reveals wife's pregnancy
Season 8 "American Idol" winner Kris Allen broke his right wrist in a head-on car collision Tuesday and then dropped the news that he and wife Katy are expecting a baby.
Allen's mom, Kimberly, tweeted a picture of her son in the hospital and noted that he would have surgery Wednesday. She also wrote how granddog Zorro was fine — "Very shook up, but not injured."
She left the bigger news to her son, who tweeted hours later: "Thank you, @Ford, for equipping me with a car that kept my whole family and the little one we have on the way safe ... Yes, I got in a really bad wreck tonight, and yes, I'm having a lil baby."
And for those faithful Kris Allen fans who are alarmed by the broken wrist, have no fear. Allen assures that is "Out Alive tour is still on"
E! preps for baby Kardashian-West
Still six months to go until the birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's bundle of joy, but already E! network execs are rubbing their hands in giddy anticipation.
"Kim and Kanye are an incredibly dynamic couple, and their baby news is just so exciting," network president Suzanne Kolb said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
In other words, bring on the ratings boost.
"Like so many Kardashian fans, we love it when this close-knit family gets even bigger," Kolb added.
Exploitation equals money, right?
"We look forward to sharing the joy as they prepare for more diapers, more bottle and without a doubt, more fabulous baby wear."
Ah yes, you can never have too much of the Kardashians.
Hollywood Reporter also reports that the network "will continue to cover all aspects of Kim's life as it always has."
Does that mean cameras in the delivery room?
West announced Kardashian's pregnancy during his concert on Dec. 30. The couple has dated publicly since April, six months after Kardashian split from husband Kris Humphries. The Kardashian-Humphries divorce is still pending.
Today's history
Today is Thursday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2013. There are 362 days left in the year.
1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
1777: Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1861: More than two weeks before Georgia seceded from the Union, the state militia seized Fort Pulaski at the order of Gov. Joseph E. Brown. The Delaware House and Senate voted to oppose secession from the Union.
1868: The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1911: The first postal savings banks were opened by the U.S. Post Office. (The banks were abolished in 1966.)
1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.
1949: In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court said that states had the right to ban closed shops.
1959: Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation.
1961: President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the United States was formally terminating diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
1967: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1980: Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.
1990: Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.
1993: President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the START II missile-reduction treaty in Moscow. (However, the agreement ultimately fell apart.)
2003: Taking a brief timeout from his two-week vacation, President George W. Bush visited Fort Hood in Texas, where he rallied Army troops as the nation faced the prospect of war with Iraq. David Westerfield, the man who'd kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam, was sentenced to death by a judge in San Diego. No. 2 Ohio State won its first championship in 34 years, beating No. 1 Miami 31-24 in the Fiesta Bowl.
2008: Sen. Barack Obama won Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won Republican caucuses. After nearly 27 years in prison, Texas inmate Charles Chatman was set free by a judge because of new DNA evidence showing he'd been wrongly convicted of rape. Pop star Britney Spears was hospitalized after a child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline resulted in an hours-long standoff with police. The No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks won the Orange Bowl by defeating No. 5 Virginia Tech 24-21.
2012: The Iowa Republican Party held its caucuses; although Mitt Romney was originally considered the winner by an extremely narrow eight-vote margin, officials later said that Rick Santorum had in fact beaten Romney by 34 votes; however, the party refused to declare a winner, saying that eight precincts had never turned in certified results. In the Democratic caucuses, President Barack Obama ran unopposed.
Today's Birthdays
Record producer Sir George Martin (87), actor Robert Loggia (83), actor Dabney Coleman (81), journalist-author Betty Rollin (77), Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull (74), singer-songwriter-producer Van Dyke Parks (70), musician Stephen Stills (68), rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) (67), actress Victoria Principal (63), actor-director Mel Gibson (57), actress Shannon Sturges (45), jazz musician James Carter (44), contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman (41), actor Jason Marsden (38), actress Danica McKellar (38), actor Nicholas Gonzalez (37), singer Kimberley Locke ("American Idol") (35), NFL quarterback Eli Manning (32), pop musician Mark Pontius (Foster the People) (28), rhythm-and-blues singer Lloyd (27), pop-rock musician Nash Overstreet (Hot Chelle Rae) (27) and actor Alex D. Linz (24).


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Pot Legalization Will Be on Ballot in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia moved one step closer Wednesday to potentially legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes, following in the footsteps of states Colorado and Washington.
The District's Board of Elections unanimously voted to place a voter initiative on the Nov. 4 ballot that would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for individuals above the age of 21 and allow individuals to grow up to six cannabis plants in their homes.
The Board of Elections' vote certified that activists, led by the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, had submitted more than the requisite number of signatures – about 57,000 in total – to qualify the measure for a vote. A Washington Post poll taken in January 2014 showed the initiative to enjoy broad support across Washington.
Malik Burnett, a doctor and leader of the D.C. Cannabis campaign, characterized Wednesday's decision as a victory for racial justice.
"This is a good day for Washington," Mr. Burnett said. "Washington, D.C., has been ground zero for the drug war nation-wide, and arrests have been placed disproportionately on the backs of African-American men."
Across the country, drug laws have come under fire, with critics saying they place too many people behind bars. These laws are also criticized for disproportionately impacting minority groups.
D.C. recently decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, reducing punishment for possession from a possible jail sentence to a $25 penalty.
Were the voter initiative to pass, it would legalize marijuana possession without putting in place any regulation or taxation structures. The D.C. Council would likely have to pass an additional law empowering the Mayor's office to regulate distributors, sellers and taxes.
Robert Capecchi, deputy director of state policy at the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group, said there is broad support within the council for a regulation model in D.C. that would resemble that in Colorado, with rule-labeling, advertisement and quality requirements,among others.
The leading candidates in the D.C. mayor race, Democrat Muriel Bowser and independent David Catania, said they would personally support the ballot measure in November and would study existing marijuana regulation models to craft their own in the District.
The legalization effort could hit additional snags in Congress, as the federal government has special authority over the District. Last month, Rep. Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican, attempted to defund D.C.'s decriminalization law by attaching an amendment to a House spending bill.
In a statement Wednesday, Mr. Harris said: "I will continue the fight against the legalization of marijuana through my role on the Appropriations Committee."


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30 August 2016
Figures show some NHS trusts are 10 times likelier than others to resort to an amputation, even though 80% could be preventable.
30 August 2016
Study finds people already suffering from heart problems are 37% less likely to die early if they eat a diet rich in vegetables, nuts and fish.
30 August 2016
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Sardines are full of hearty-healthy omega-3!
29 August 2016
A good veggie option for bank holiday BBQs!
29 August 2016
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PINEHURST — W. Battle Wall Jr, 89, of Pinehurst died November 8, 2012, at First Health Moore County Regional Hospital. Mr. Wall is survived by his wife, Bettye Braswell Wall; 2 sons, W. Battle Wall III of Charlotte and Arthur Wall of Wadesboro, N.C. He is also survived by five stepchildren, David Braswell and Dr. Laura Braswell, Atlanta, Ga., Robert Braswell Hickory, N.C., Anne Heldreth Charlottesville, Va., and John Braswell, Hendersonville, N.C.; eight grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and one sister, Bettie Elaine Davidson, Rockingham, N.C. Graveside services were held November 10, 2012, at Forestville Methodist Church in Lilesville, N.C.
Mr. Wall was a former resident of Hendersonville, N.C., and Longboat Key, Fla., prior to retiring in Pinehurst in 2005. He was in the timber business.
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Genetic evaluations are calculated 3 times per year for dairy cattle (April, August, and December). Evaluations for dairy goats are calculated semiannually for yield (July and November) and annually for type (November). Evaluations are available in ASCII format files, which may be downloaded, or through a public online query system. Summary reports are also updated triannually.
Data exchange
Information about the system for data exchange includes file format descriptions, instructions for use, schedules/deadlines, and animal identification information. An online query system is available to support data checking and to provide required animal information to industry cooperators (access requires industry log-in).
Documentation of the evaluation system for each trait is available. Changes to the system are also documented. Links to additional information sources are provided.


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
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Comics | You can't buy this kind of publicity: Before the comic has even debuted, the U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail eagerly reports Royal Descent is being "slammed" by critics for its depiction of a thinly disguised Royal Family forced to fight to the death in a Battle Royale- or Hunger Games-style tournament. Not content to let the book be "slammed" by anonymous "enthusiasts," writer John Farman joins in, saying, "I personally believe this is possibly the most controversial comic book to ever come out of the United Kingdom." How's that for hype? Royal Descent #1 arrives Nov. 6 from Edinburgh publisher Black Hearted Press. [Daily Mail]
Digital comics | Deb Aoki fleshes out some of the details of Crunchyroll's new streaming manga service, which will feature chapters of Kodansha manga the same day they are released in Japan, for free. The subscription service allows readers access to all chapters of the manga for a monthly fee, not unlike Marvel Unlimited. [Publishers Weekly]


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It's hard to believe, but the annual Great Trail Festival is upon us again. To me, it always marks the end of the summer and the beginning of the beautiful fall season in the Atwood Lake Region of Ohio.
Two full weekends beginning today, Saturday, August 24 & 25 and continuing next Labor Day weekend. This festival represents early America and the frontier life. Quality crafters from Ohio and surrounding states, delicious kettle cooked foods, handcrafted gift items and great music and dance. There is also a large buffalo herd in addition to Tomahawk throwing contest and battle reenactments.
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About the Book
From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes romantic puzzler set in a near-future where everyone's life is seamlessly orchestrated by personal electronic devices. Imaginative and thrilling, this fast-paced story with two starred reviews is not to be missed.
Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is to follow what Lux recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux's recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore—a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.
Rory Vaughn: a brainy, introverted sixteen-year-old who has always felt like an outsider, although she can't put her finger on a reason why. When she is accepted into her dream school, Theden, she is shocked to find out that her mother, who died when she was born, also went there and dropped out just before graduation. This is a secret her father has kept for sixteen years.
Theden Academy: the only high school of its kind, Theden is an intense two-year liberal arts program for the strong willed and highly gifted. Students are designated by seven Greek numerical prefixes (the Hepta being the best). Rory is a Hepta.
North Pascal: a handsome, tattooed, coffee barista townie who can quote Milton and knows as much about philosophy as Rory's classmates. He was banned from Theden's campus for breaking and entering. This isn't North's only secret.Lux: the decision-making app that everyone uses. No longer caught up in the details of their everyday lives—all those endless decisions!—people are free to just enjoy themselves.
Akratic Personality Disorder (APD): a mental illness whose name comes from the Greek word akrasia, the term Plato used for those who act against their better judgment. See also the Doubt.
The Doubt: the colloquial name for the "whisper within" that children hear but adults are taught to ignore.
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Free To Fall By Lauren Miller
Critical Praise
Miller (Parallel) offers an intricately plotted, intellectually rich thriller that will please a range of readers, from those searching for a page-turner to those wishing to thoroughly engage the mind. — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Engaging and thought-provoking, Free to Fall should appeal to a variety of readers with its blend of action, secrecy, and romance, and it provides excellent discussion opportunities. — School Library Journal (starred review)
Miller smartly doesn't exchange strong, involving characters for nonstopaction—there's plenty of both. — Booklist
Praise for PARALLEL: "A fun, twisty novel about the paths you choose and the paths you don't…to follow your heart's desire. Deeply romantic and entertaining!" — Melissa de la Cruz, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of BLUE BLOODS and WITCHES OF EAST END
"Penetrating, jaw–dropping, and so real, PARALLEL had me turning pages at warp speed, hoping for the best tomorrow. Read this book." — Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of MY LIFE NEXT DOOR
"Best. Debut. Novel. Ever." — Lauren Barnholdt, author of TWO–WAY STREET
"PARALLEL beautifully tackles the universal themes of fate, destiny, and the search for a soulmate, proving that there are no wrong turns. Your heart will soar and you'll be cheering at the end." — Jordanna Fraiberg, author of IN YOUR ROOM
"Wildly inventive and wonderfully romantic, PARALLEL takes readers on a journey that will open their minds and their hearts." — Jennifer E. Smith, author of THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
"Thought–provoking, romantic, and so, so smart, PARALLEL is an absolute must–read for anyone and everyone who has ever wondered, What if?" — Anna Jarzab, author of ALL UNQUIET THINGS
"An intricately–woven story about free will, parallel universes, and cute boys. Miller nails the inner snark of the high school senior, as well as the confusion of figuring out just where your life is supposed to be headed." — Kat Zhang, author of WHAT'S LEFT OF ME
Product Details
- Imprint: HarperTeen
- On Sale: 05/13/2014
- Trimsize: 5.5 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.45 in (d)
- Pages: 480
- List Price: 17.99 USD
- BISAC1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction / General
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SANTA CLARA — Linebacker NaVorro Bowman tore the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee Sunday as the 49ers lost 23-17 at Seattle in the NFC Championship game, a league source said Monday.
A torn ACL indeed was the preliminary report coach Jim Harbaugh gave after the game. Bowman hasn't commented yet about his injury. He was seen briefly Monday walking on crutches to an awaiting car at the team facility, while the 49ers held their final team meeting.
If Bowman needs support as he recovers this offseason, cornerback Chris Culliver knows first-hand the challenges ahead that await the 49ers' star linebacker. "I'll be there every step of the way and help him out in anything he needs," said Culliver, who missed this season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in training camp.
Safety Eric Reid said Bowman was "surprisingly optimistic" on Sunday night's flight home. "He sacrificed his body for this team," Reid said. "He's our leader and arguably the best player that we have. To see him go down, it hurts."
Bowman won the team's most prestigious honor, the Len Eschmont Award, while making a team-high 192 tackles and career-high five sacks in the regular season. He also repeated on the AP All-Pro and NFC Pro Bowl teams.
"Prayers out to my brother (Bowman). Very tough guy so I know he will get through this like a champ," linebacker Darius Fleming tweeted. Fleming, Culliver, Tank Carradine, Mario Manningham and Marcus Lattimore all battled ACL injuries this season.
Culliver said he's recovered from his ACL tear and gauged that the process could take between nine months to a year, depending on the work put into it.
Staley sustained a compound dislocation of his right thumb in Sunday's first quarter. He needed four stitches to close the wound and played through the injury, missing only one snap.
Davis, despite making only one previous Pro Bowl, showed no interest in rushing to Hawaii to attend Tuesday's meetings. "That's too soon," Davis said. "I also have nicks and nags that I'm dealing with, and that's another reason." Brooks said Smith, Willis and Gore planned on skipping the Pro Bowl.
Strong safety Donte Whitner said he and his teammates are disappointed for more than the fact that they missed out on playing in the Super Bowl for the second straight year.
"It makes it a little worse, because I wanted to send those fans home crying," Whitner said of the Seahawks' fan base. "We all wanted to send those fans home crying. And we had an opportunity to do that on the last drive."
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Quiara Alegria Hudes moved away from Philadelphia a long time ago, but most of her plays are still rooted in the grim realities of life in North Philly. Poverty. War. Drugs.
"Water by the Spoonful" is the second in a trilogy of plays, the lyrical Elliot cycle, that spin around the haunted Ortiz family. The first, "Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the last play in the trilogy is titled "The Happiest Song Plays Last."
All of the plays are steeped in Hudes' own life and family so they resonate with a piercing intimacy. Of the cycle, she says, "The first is a little gem of voice. The second is an unwieldy grasp at redemption, at surrender. The third is my heart."
"Water by the Spoonful" is a drama about Iraq veterans, addiction and the need for human connection. Leslie Martinson directs the regional premiere of this searing drama playing through Sept. 14 at TheatreWorks. See the review on Page 72.
"The tragedy is borne out of the yearning and love these characters feel," says the playwright, who also wrote the book for the ebullient Tony-winning musical "In the Heights," "none of them is truly hopeless yet they lack the tools to get through the day unscathed."
Smart, funny and startling in its poignancy, this play explores the way the Internet can bind communities together across time and space even in a world as disconnected and fragmented as this one. It cements Hudes' status as one of one of the most important new voices in the American theater today. In her honor, here are 10 other hot new playwrights that should be on your radar.
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Annie Baker
Baker, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama for "The Flick," (total disclosure: this critic was part of that Pulitzer jury), has a stunning command of the form, refreshingly blending naturalism and a heightened sense of the eccentricities of language (the memorable ladder monologue, for instance) in her "Vermont" plays. A genius at subtext and the nuances of silence, she is known for the celebrated "Mirror Circle Transformation" at Marin Theatre Company, "Body Awareness" at the Aurora and the sublime "The Aliens" at the San Francisco Playhouse.
Will Eno
Strange, uncompromising and unforgettable are words that spring to mind when considering the plays of Eno. His acidly funny and deeply existential plays include the Pulitzer-nominated "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" and "Lady Grey (in ever lower light)" at San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater and the world premiere of "Tragedy: a tragedy" at Berkeley Rep in 2008. He's also known for "Gnit," his whimsical adaptation of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt."
Gina Gionfriddo
The playwright's savagely funny voice is also keenly insightful about women, feminism and power. In the rollicking farce, "Becky Shaw," (presented by SF Playhouse) and in the Chekhovian comedy "Rapture, Blister, Burn" (upcoming at Aurora Theatre Company) the Pulitzer-nominated Gionfriddo explores the notion that "women take pride in avoiding their mothers' disappointments only to disappoint themselves in new ways that will make the generation below them cringe." The edgy comedy "Rapture, Blister, Burn" runs Aug. 29-Sept. 28 at the Aurora and is directed by Desdemona Chiang.
Amy Herzog
A lack of artifice lies beneath the emotional power of Herzog's quietly resonant plays. She has a knack for understated characters facing everyday hurdles with equal parts pluck and self-destructiveness. In the beautiful "4000 Miles" (presented by American Conservatory Theater) and the thoughtful "After the Revolution" (at the Aurora), she examines families lost at the crossroads of past and present, personal and political.
Tracy Letts
Letts is an actor-playwright best known for "August: Osage County," a soap-operatic epic set at a bruising family gathering in an old Oklahoma homestead where Mom hides pills in her private parts, Dad drinks likes a fish and then disappears, and the rest of the clan explodes in screams and tears. The Pulitzer winner has been hailed as the greatest American play in ages, but Letts has also charmed theatergoers with thrillers such as "Bug," "Killer Joe" and "Superior Donuts," all of which have been staged locally.
Linda McLean
This Scottish playwright has a gift for unlocking the magic and horror lurking within the everyday, the way that life can turn from silly to shocking on a dime. That enigmatic power connects all her plays, from the sublime "Any Given Day" and the intriguing "Every Five Minutes," both of which were staged by the Magic, to the memorable jigsaw puzzle that was "Strangers, Babies," which was staged by Shotgun.
Lynn Nottage
A Pulitzer Prize winner for "Ruined," a powerful play about women broken by the savage civil war in the Congo that got an electric staging at Berkeley Rep in 2011, Nottage has a gift for unearthing lost pieces of culture, history and politics and forcing us to grapple with them. She has a long history locally, with "Las Meninas" making its world premiere at the now-defunct San Jose Rep in 2002 and "Intimate Apparel" being staged at TheatreWorks in 2005.
Sarah Ruhl
Long a favorite of Bay Area audiences, steeped in productions from "Eurydice" and "In the Next Room, Or the Vibrator Play" at Berkeley Rep to "The Clean House" at TheatreWorks and "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at SF Playhouse, Ruhl has been hailed for her delicious blend of the quirky, the surreal and the poetic. The Pulitzer-nominated playwright has an enchanting sense of language that is both unique and irresistible and a daring approach to narrative that leaps from the absurd to the heartbreaking.
Enda Walsh
This noted Irish writer burst onto the scene with the incendiary family drama "The Walworth Farce," which was presented locally by Cal Performances. His eerie command of language and ritual is also on display in "The New Electric Ballroom," which will get its regional premiere at Shotgun Players (Sept. 3-Oct. 5). But the playwright is perhaps best, and somewhat ironically, known for writing the book to the quirky hit musical "Once."
Naomi Wallace
Wallace combines a fearlessly poetic ear with a muscular sense of narrative, politics and history. Her eclectic plays grab you by the intellect as well as by the throat and run away with you, from "The Liquid Plain," which made its world premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival to "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek" (which got a lovely production at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre some time ago) and "One Flea Spare." Her edgy tale of segregated 1950s America, "And I and Silence," makes its West Coast premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre (Oct. 29-Nov. 23) directed by Loretta Greco.
See a review of "Water By the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegría Hudes on Page 72.


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See the magic at Nicholls
Published: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 11:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 11:01 a.m.
The Louisiana Magic Weekend is coming to the Nicholls State University April 12-13.
Magicians include Michael Dardant, Doug Conn, Ken Scott, Harry Allen, Chad Long and Nathan Kranzo. There will also be a Las Vegas-style stage show at 7 p.m. April 13 in Peltier Auditorium.
Information: www.louisianamagicweekend.com.
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Perfect Day
Perfect Day broadens the scope of Scandinavian cuisine to encompass the delicacies and destinations of the entire Nordic region, including Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark — and even a brief foray to the Cognac region of France.
A rotating cast of Scandinavia's best-known cooking personalities guide viewers through each adventure. Newcomer and Finland native Sara La Fountain joins the all-star cast, which includes Norwegian food writer Andreas Viestad, Swedish cookbook author Tina Nordström and Danish author/gastronomic entrepreneur Claus Meyer.
These charming and enlightening hosts share the culinary highlights, history and unusual ingredients of Nordic cuisine. In each episode, one host embarks on a culinary adventure to intriguing locations in the Nordic countries and beyond before creating tantalizing recipes outdoors, against majestic backdrops. Sara discovers the fascinating local customs and the delicious local foods of Finland's eastern border. Andreas creates a traditional, yet exotic, Norwegian meal in his hometown of Oslo. Meyer prepares blinis, traditional Danish pancakes, in a lighthouse. Tina creates a delicious chilly sorbet atop a glacier in Northern Norway.
Perfect Day also highlights adventure and exploration. Tina, always one to embrace a challenge, plays beach volleyball for the first time and bikes through the streets of Copenhagen. Claus horseback rides through the Danish countryside, while Sara earns her stripes scuba-diving amid the shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea. Not to be outdone, Andreas boards an old sailing ship to uncover the true story behind the aquavit, the strong, clear, cask-aged liquor popular in Scandinavian countries.
Perfect Day is distributed in the USA by American Public Television.
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Claus MeyerClaus Meyer has published 14 cookbooks in Denmark and has hosted his own television series, Meyers Křkken (Meyer's Kitchen). He co-owns the gourmet restaurant Noma, runs a cooking school, and operates catering, fruit and chocolate supply companies.
Sara La FountainFinnish cooking sensation Sara La Fountain is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She lives in Finland where she runs a cooking school , serves as a food columnist for several newspapers, and designs a line of tableware.
Tina NordströmTina Nordström, crowned Sweden's "Most Popular Female TV Host," hosted the groundbreaking cooking show Mat (Food) With Tina Nordström. Tina has sold nearly one million copies of her three acclaimed cookbooks since 2001.
Fire and Ice - Lofoten, Norway
Episode #101 · Amid the fjords and glacier at Lofoten, a string of islands stretching from the northwestern Norway into the Atlantic, adventurous Tina Nordstrom hikes a glacier and prepares a chilly apple sorbet and drink. Later she visits a longbow house and Viking museum where she cooks without the benefit of modern-day appliances. Recipes: Storm Soup - Potato and Onion Soup with Horseradish and Ham Breadsticks; Fire- Cooked Salmon on Birch Wood with Caper and Grape Salad; Baked Apples with Cardamom and Vodka Sorbet; Apple Sorbet on Black Ice.
Among Lakes and Berries - Karelia, Finland
Episode #102 · Host Sara La Fountain hikes among the lakes, pine trees and hilltops in the heavily forested region of Karelia, near Finland's border with Russia. She makes porridge over an open fire and learns how to make the perfect stock. Recipes: Lingonberry Porridge; Wild Berry Kiesel; Granola; Flame-Broiled Lake Salmon and Wild Mushroom Salad; Kalevala Stew.
Noble Causes - Oslo, Norway
Episode #103 · In his hometown of Oslo, the capital of Norway and home of the Nobel Peace Prize, host Andreas Viestad prepares a homegrown, yet exotic, modern Norwegian meal. Recipes: Medieval Saffron and Cinnamon Chicken with Barley; Spicy Sponge Cake Roll with Berries; Tandoori-flavored Cod with Potato and Ginger Croquettes and Baked Tomatoes.
Smokey Flavors - Hvide Sande, Denmark
Episode #104 · Host Claus Meyer visits Hvide Sande on the windy coast of Jutland, in western Denmark, where fisheries and lighthouses dot the coastline. There, Meyer makes blinis (buckwheat pancakes) garnished with fresh roe and sour cream and later, barbecues spare ribs right on the wind-swept beach. Recipes: Lumpsucker Roe, Herbs and Skyr on Potato Blinis with Browned Butter; Split Yellow Pea Puree with Rutabaga, Crisp Rutabaga Crudites with Ramsons and Grilled Spareribs with Apple Mustard.
Helsinki on a Plate - Helsinki, Finland
Episode #105 · In Helsinki, the capital of Finland, host Sara La Fountain makes a traditional Finnish dish on a rooftop, visits an island fortress and then makes a "pink" picnic with shrimp sandwiches and strawberry rhubarb sorbet. Recipes: Vorschmack (various meats combined with pickled fish); Marinated Beets; Shrimp Sandwiches; Rhubarb-Strawberry Granita.
A Taste of the Island - Aland, Finland
Episode #106 · Aland, Finland's autonomous island in the Baltic Sea, offers an exciting backdrop for host Tina Nordstrom as she prepares delicious food on the deck of an historic ship, tries beach volleyball and introduces new host Sara La Fountain. Recipes: Wasabi-Marinated Melon with Norwegian Lobster Tempura; Dill Summer Vegetables with Browned Butter; Fresh Tomato, Perch and Chorizo Summer Soup.
Secrets of the Baltic Sea - Aland, Finland
Episode #107 · New host Sara La Fountain visits a local fisherman in #land, Finland's autonomous island in the Baltic Sea, before she prepares whitefish on board a large sailing ship. La Fountain also scuba dives among the shipwrecks in the area. Recipes: Pan-fried White Fish with Summer Potato Salad; #land Rack of Lamb with Dill Pesto and Tasty Couscous.
A Ship with High Spirits - Norway, Denmark
Episode #108 · Host Andreas Viestad follows in the footsteps of his ancestors by sailing between the capitals of Copenhagen, Denmark and Oslo, Norway. Aboard an old sailing ship, he makes Brazilian-style bohlinos and boccalinio from dried Norwegian stockfish fish, unveils the true story of the aquavit, crafts a cask-aged drink and presents a dinner banquet to the ship's hungry crew. Recipes: Bohlinhos de Bachalau; Spicy Poultry Fricassee; Aquavit Tapas; Double Fennel; Steamed Cabbage with Lamb Confit; Baked Parsley Root with Cumin and Salmon Roe; Vanilla-scented Turbot; Dill and Fennel Lamb Chops.
Green Paths - Mon, Denmark
Episode #109 · Host Claus Meyer visits the white-cliffed island of Mon, in the south of Denmark, on a crisp and clear winter day. There, he makes vitamin-packed juice and cooks codfish on the beach. Recipes: Raw Winter Vegetable Juice; Roast Leg of Goat with Blue Cheese, Herb Salad, Hazelnuts and Green Kale Dressing; Steamed Cod Fillet with Fried Cod Roe, Winter Leeks and Apples.
Strait Across - Sweden and Denmark
Episode #110 · Starting in the Oresund region, at the southern tip of Sweden, host Tina Nordstrom bikes to the Danish capital of Copenhagen, a city known for its open-faced sandwiches and smoked fish. Recipes: Shrimp Sandwiches; Summer Salad with Cumin and Mint; Pizza with Blue Castello Cheese; Smoked Monkfish with Mashed Potato, Egg and Anchovies.
Southern Comfort - Stavanger, Norway
Episode #111 · Host Andreas Viestad visits Stavanger, the culinary and cultural capital of Norway. Against this exciting backdrop, Andreas cooks delicious fish courses and a spectacular dessert prepared with fire. Recipes: Four Seasons Shrimp Salad; Shrimp Soup; Leg of Lamb with Sardine Sauce; Chili and Vinegar Herring with Potato Salad; Salmon Poached in Olive Oil with Pear and Leek Jam; Plum and Marshmallow Pie.
Sara's French Connection - Finland and France
Episode #112 · Host Sara La Fountain begins her journey in Finland's apple county, on the islands of Aland, and ends up in France. In the Cognac region, she samples the local specialty and then prepares seafood along a riverbank. Recipes: Alvados Apple Tart; Cognac Sour; Mussels a la Sara.
Deep Sea Harvest - Josenfjorden, Norway
Episode #113 · In Josenfjorden, on the southwestern shore of Norway, host Tina Nordstrom visits a fish farm, prepares a delicacy - the white halibut - and pampers herself at a local spa. Recipes: Stewed Lamb in Dill Sauce; Lemon-Marinated Halibut with Asparagus and Serrano Ham; Rhubarb with White Chocolate Mousse.


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BEAUMONT, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team was unable to get the offense going, while the Lamar offense exploded for nine runs on 17 hits to take a 9-1 final in the series finale. The Islanders won the series with wins on Friday and Saturday, but were unable to complete the sweep on Sunday.
The team is on 23-28 on the season, and 14-16 in Southland Conference play. Lamar is now 20-29 this year, with a 12-18 mark in league games. The loss drops the Islanders into a tie for seventh place, with the top eight teams making the Southland Conference Tournament in two weeks.
For starter Adam Hoelscher, it was a rough day as he started the first and second innings well, but was unable to get the final out before runs scored in each one. He took the loss to fall to 6-6, pitching just 1.2 innings and giving up five runs on eight hits with no walks and one strikeout. He was the first of six Islanders pitchers that saw action in the game on Sunday.
In the bottom of the first, Lamar got three runs on four hits to take the early lead. It looked like Hoelscher would get out of it with minimal damage, as he appeared to make the final out at first base, but a controversial call extended the inning, with the Islanders starter getting rattled and hitting a batter before giving up a two-run single to make it a 3-0 score.
The Cardinals scored two more runs in the second inning to knock Hoelscher out of the game, as Tyler Schnuriger came on to get the final out of the inning with the Islanders trailing 5-0.
Lamar picked up single runs in the fourth and fifth innings, with two more coming in the sixth as they extended the lead to 9-0.
The Islanders had 12 hits in the game, but were unable to string together enough, scoring just one run in the ninth inning for a 9-1 final. After a pair of outs to start the ninth, Dan Sciantarelli and Omar Garcia each singled to put runners on first and second. Jordan Lee drove in Sciantarelli with a single to center that scored the only run of the game for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.
Lee did the bulk of the damage on offense for the Islanders, going 4-for-5 with the only RBI. Sciantarelli had two hits, while Eric Weiss, Jonathan Gonzales, Weston Montgomery, Brad Porras, Stafford Brantley and Garcia had one apiece.
The Islanders finish out the 2012 regular season with a road series against UT Arlington next weekend. Due to the early start of the Southland Conference Tournament the following week, the series will feature 6:30 games on Thursday and Friday, with a 2 p.m. start rounding out the weekend on Saturday.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball), follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Well congrats your comments with regard to the Jason Sanford article in the NY review of Science Fiction along with comment from Mr Sanford and Jonathan McCalmont at SF Diplomat made the Blogs review in The Guardian on 7th July 2007. Which is quite amusing given that these blogs got more space than the irregular review of SF books does in the same book section.ReplyDelete
This is the same book section which had "The Book of Dave" by Will Self, a "serious" author who appears to have gone over the same ground as Walter M. Miller. However Self would run a mile if anyone thought his work was SF.


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So I havent had the opportunity to play a course at night and a lot of people say it's something I definitely got to experience so....
I was thinking either friday September 12th or friday september 19th, at Shaver park. I was going to light up the pads and baskets and play a couple rounds.
I have a shopping list for all the glow sticks for the baskets and the bobber lights for the discs. Im thinkin ill put 2 to 3 glow sticks on all of the baskets and then probably 1 to 2 for each pad (front and back). I was also thinkning about doing some extra on hole 5. I found 36 premium glowsticks (last about 4 hours) for $25.00. and about 50 mini bobber glowsticks for bout $20.00 (if anyone knows of any place that has cheaper prices either that I can order or buy give me a heads up).
So yeah I was thinkin about a 8:30- 9pm start. This isnt going to be a tournament im poor and cant afford prizes and such.
But yeah Im really considering doing this (the two different dates are in case of rain or my work schedule).
If anyone has any suggestions or helpful insight let me know. Im not going to charge or anything anyone that wants to come out and throw a round or two and maybe drink some beers, then come on out.
I think this will be a lot of fun as long as I can keep it under $50.00.
So tell me what you think and if you can attend.
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How many triathlons can you do in a year?
You can do as many as your hearts desire. But it's best to have a peak, or an "A" race that you lead up to.
I know people who do at least one triathlon every weekend during the summer but I also know people who only participate in 1 or 2 a season. Generally, the older you are and more experienced you are in endurance sports, the better your body will handle the high stress of many races. As a newbie, start out with 2 to 4 races your first season and then gradually add until you feel comfortable. Remember to listen to your body and cut back if you think you are on the brink of getting injured...it's too easy to push yourself and pay for it later!
I would do as many as you can as long as you are enjoying it. A lot of times I'll use some of the shorter races as training for bigger races. If you are doing so many that you begin to dread races or its interfering with other activities you find more enjoyable than that's too many.
There is no correct answer here. You could do as many as you can get to, pay for, and recover from. As a practical matter, one or two long races (70.3 and 140.6) and a few Olympic and Sprint events works for most of us age group types. Julie Ann's answer about doing as many as you enjoy and using shorter ones as training for longer ones is helpful. Paying for race registrations, lodging, travel, etc. can add up quickly. Have fun.
Thats a tough question and it depends on you as an individual and also on your goals. If you are serious about training for longer distances, it is possible to peak twice.
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I sometimes race 15 times in a year. You just need to accept that not every race can be "A Priority" and also need to recover really well. Here's a good article on that:
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How many triathlons in a year? As many as I can afford. I live in an area where to go to triathlons is generally an overnight. Each sprint triathlon ends up costing around $200-250 all things considered. Longer distances cost more. So I have the choice of fewer, longer events, or more sprints. A combo of the two works best for me. I try to keep my triathlon budget around $2000-2500 a year not including equipment, nutrition,etc.
I've found that I can offset the cost of entry fees by volunteering at other races by the same organizer. I have friends who do this as well and rarely pay for their races, at least in cash. The more you do the more you can get free entries. I'm doing a 10K on Saturday for free because I'm helping at the registration desk and then doing the bike lead for a half marathon on Feb 12th.
The physical side of continual racing has been pretty well covered but I think the recovery side is worth my 2 cents. Pay attention to how you're feeling. My personal recovery times are about 10 days for a sprint, 16 days for an olympic, and 4 to 5 weeks for a half ironman. My olympic and half were part of a 3 race series last year with 4 weeks between each one. Throwing in training and a few half marathons made for a demanding summer and by the end I was getting some serious signals to lighten up from my muscles. The other half of it is how hard you push yourself at those events. If you're looking to do a sprint every weekend don't plan on going full speed unless you're already at Ironman fitness levels.
My personal record for sprint tri's in a summer is 7. Before starting though I was already running a 55 minute 10K and riding 3 hour metric centuries (100K / 62 miles) races on the bike. Your base fitness at the start of the season is the main determining factor, IMHO.
My adopted motto: Relentless Forward Motion
I would attempt 1 this year. You never know you may not like the training and you may not enjoy triathalon at all.
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Prep football roundup: Tigers rout Bishops
October 12, 2013
ZANESVILLE — Marietta churned out 366 rushing yards and six different players scored touchdowns as the Tigers routed Rosecrans 53-7 for their second win of the season Friday nigh....
"therise" 1st off it was a NON CONFRENCE game MORON....and 2nd they are about 3 divsions better then this*****poor zanesville catholic school...so before you run your trap about something you obviously know nuthing about keep your trap shut troll your a idiot
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Never liked name calling. Everyone us entitled to an opinion. Annonyously of course.
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Very funny comments. No chance to keep any score close.
Do you all ever check scores from the league. Zanesville, New Philly, Dover.
If we win the toss we should elect to call it a night.
I am not putting down our team. These three teams are tough. Not many teams have scored against them, let alone kept it close.
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RR-I figure Im just being optimistic.
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Baseball - not likely. New Philly by as much as the coach wants to let the kids score.
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Fudgelover- Nice name!
Bishop Rosecrans are in the league. I believe Rosecrans beat Marietta last year (maybe). Rosecrans are also a private catholic school and could and should recruit players. Rosecrans has not won a game yet this year so obviously they are having a poor season. Congrats to MHS and hopefully they can keep it close with New Philly next week.
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n. The league schedules all league games. Do a little research before you post something like that.
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The Tigers had to play this game, it was a league game. You Mor
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Global strategy for First Solar
By Gregg Gallager, Arnold Jee, David Lembo, Colleen Manley, Eric Moldabayev and Paola Torres
First Solar (FS) was originally founded as Solar Cells in 1984 by inventor and visionary Harold McMaster. McMaster with the help of Jim Nolan made the switch from amorphous silicon to Cadmium telluride (CdTe). This switch in thin film technology allowed Solar Cells to manufacture moderately efficient (7%) and low-cost thin film cells on a large scale.
In 1999, Solar Cells was purchased by True North Partners, LLC (an investment company of the Walton Family) and the name was then changed to First Solar. In 2006, FS became a publically traded company and released its IPO on the NASDAQ to become the first "pure play" renewable company listed on the S&P 500. Since its public offering, FS has never looked back as it ranked 10th in the Fortunes Fastest Growing Companies and sixth as the world's most innovative companies in 2010. Today FS has remained true to its innovative spirit by being an industry leader in the manufacturing of photovoltaic, thin film solar modules worldwide. As the leader of the solar energy industry, FS has dominated their competition as a result of their innovation in productivity, cost reduction measures, and implementation of environmentally friendly solutions.


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Amanda Burnham makes drawings and drawing installations of her encounters with the city in ink and other water-based media on paper. She works on site, either out-of-doors or sitting in her car, interpreting the poetics of vacant lots, row houses, billboards, and signage. Pieced together fragmented drawings form collagelike constructions, alluding to the accumulations of the urban environment. Indications of the past crowd on top of one another in multiple layers. A mash-up of deteriorated buildings, vacant spaces, and old type enter into the gallery, accentuating the dislocation of narrative. Simple, individually drawn and displayed fragments combine into a chaotic installation. Burnham additionally employs paint, artificial turf, concrete, sand, and trash in the installation, resulting in a complex setting of real and imagined space. Burnham's environments recall the Dada tradition of the Merzbau by German artist Kurt Schwitters who also understood the lyrical significance of urban trash. However, Burnham's constructions differ in their specificity of descriptive detail supplied by the black and white drawings. Authentic materials such as sand and concrete further push the real world into her constructions, uniting ethereal paper constructions with tangible urban structure. The result of this amalgamation is a dramatic installation that both documents the natural rhythms of the city and whimsically analyzes its own aesthetic history. Burnham plays with the boundaries between drawing, sculpture, architecture, and urban design.
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Let me preface what I'm about to say with the following. I'm not saying Pep is a bad coach. But he has coached one team, and it was arguably the best team ever, even stronger argument for MOST TALENTED team ever.
Personally, I love Jupp Heynckes and wished he still had the drive in him, but unfortunately he doesn't and wants to call it quits after this season. Of the managers that are readily available, Pep is definitely the best option and I'm glad that Bayern was able to pull him, I just hope that he doesn't try to change too much because Bayern is fackin rolling right now. The only thing in their way is slight age at a few spots (Ribery, Robben, Schweini - but none of them are even 30 yet - 29, 28, 28) and injuries. Arjen Robben is known to be a glass figurine, but he's actually held up decently so far this year. Ribery gets the occasional knock because he is literally scared of taking on nobody. I don't think Schweinsteiger is 100% from the achilles injury he had last Spring that hampered him late in the season, especially in the CL Final. Mario Gomez got injured in the preseason and they've been treating him like a baby ever since, which isn't too costly because Mario Mandszukic is playing like a stud. And finally, Holger Badstuber, who MARK MY WORDS, will be the best defender in the world within 3 years (the kid is 23) f*cked his knee up back in October and is missing the rest of the season.
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Set I:
AC/DC Bag: Typical opener, full of high energy though.
Punch: I was surprised to see this one as the second song. I'd called it as the second set opener. Either way, a throughly pleasing Punch with a couple cool fakeout endings.
Bathtub Gin: You know you have a good show when this one shows up as the third song. Tasty playing from Page and Mike in particular. Wonderful solo from Trey taboot.
Taste: I have to be honest, this one doesn't do that much for me. It's too....busy. But, I still enjoyed the instrumental section with a sweet Trey solo.
Lawn Boy: Absolutely love this song. They should let Page sing lead more.
Mound: WOW! Second show and a Mound? I was pumped and shocked. Overall, they nailed the complex time/key/mood changes that have plagued this song in most of 3.0. Fantastic song.
Jibboo: Trey shined on this one with a solo that reminded me of the AC version. Pretty cool and tight return to the chorus before....
Reba: This was one of the first Phish songs I'd ever heard (first show I bought was 10/31/94). So, it was nice to have everything brought full circle. After a fairly short jam, I figured that that was the end of set one.
Fee: So, imagine my surprise when Fee started. My friend, Ellie, had been banking on this one. So, you can imagine her excitement when she saw Trey pull out the megaphone. Pretty typical Fee, until the end. After the final chorus, I saw Trey mouth something to Mike, and they started playing this pretty and ethereal melody. I was stunned. Combined with the sunset, I'm pretty sure that this was one of the prettiest moments I've ever witnessed.
BDTNL: Then, Number Line started. I love what they've been doing to this song this summer, and this one was no exception. Truly a great way to cap off set one.
Set II:
Carini: When Carini started, I immediately thought of my buddy Harry. He had decided to skip this show because he only knew 8 songs (I'm training him). This one was his favorite. Oh, the irony. Overall, nice hard-rocking Carini with a wonderful segue into Tweezer.
Tweezer: Best Tweezer of the tour so far. Mike owned his bass. Sweet little ambient section towards the end too. Blended into Free almost seamlessly. At the very least, seek this Tweezer out.
Free: You could just see this one coming. Nice, if standard Free. Had the whole crowd singing along.
Crosseyed: Another surprise. Boy, do they get funky here. They could play this song every show and I wouldn't mind. Whereas Free had everyone singing, Crosseyed had everyone dancing. The energy coming from everyone and the band (When did Fishman get so damned good?) was palpable.
Light: I like everything about this song besides the lyrics. Like BDTNL, I love where this song is going. Watch for this, BDTNL and KDF to become the next big jam vehicles. There was nice ambient esque jam that carried surprisingly into Boogie On. Somewhere this tour, Light is going to reach 20 minutes. You heard it here first.
Boogie On: Nice, funky and danceable Stevie Wonder cover. The dude next to me was pumped to hear it. I've never envied Mike so much as when he starts this song. I was hoping to hear that slow down trick that they did at Bethel, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.
Julius: Instead, we got Julius. I love it when Phish gets bluesy, and this Julius was no exception. There was a hot Trey solo and I figured that this would close out set 2.
YEM: Me and Ellie have never been more pleased to be wrong. I'd seen this one before, but she hadn't. This was the one song (besides Fee) that she wanted to hear since she first got into them. Wonderful funk groovin in this YEM, and they were the tightest that they'd been all night. Which is saying something. Spooky vocal jam followed (I've never been a big fan of vocal jams), which was perfect, except for some annoying drunk lady that actually tried to imitate Phish during the vocal jam. Of all the times to sing-a-long, this was not one of them.
Encore: The encore was pretty standard, but fun nonetheless. I enjoyed myself, and I'm in the process of begging my parents for Superball tickets.


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WASHINGTON (February 16, 2013)—Warnings about the loss of crucial government services will likely intensify over the next two weeks about looming across-the-board budget cuts, but not all of them would necessarily prove true.
President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans made no progress last week in heading off $85 billion in budget-wide cuts that automatically start taking effect March 1.
Lacking a bipartisan deal to avoid them, the administration has been offering stark details about the consequences including trimmed defense contracts, less secure U.S. embassies, and furloughed air traffic controllers.
Past administrations have played up how budget standoffs would wither federal programs the public values.
When a budget fight caused two government shutdowns, in 1995 and 1996, some threats came true, such as padlocked national parks.
Others, such as the end of feeding programs for the elderly, stayed afloat.